Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 January 1939 — Page 10

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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25, 1939

i BEAR BY THE TAR

SHE American Mining. Congress, speaking of gold, an- - nounces “a suggested plan for ‘maintaining the price fixed by the United States without adding to its gold holdings except when desir as would have Congress repeal the Bw which prohibits ownership of gold coin or gold bars by citizens. Then it would have the Government continue to buy gold, at $35 an ounce—but with the privilege of paying for it in $10 . or $20 gold pieces or in gold certificates. We're not trying now to pass on the merits of the plan, What interests us here is the way the American Mining Congress states the gold problem. This Government now holds nearly 415 ‘million ounces of monetary gold, worth at $35 an ounce, more than 1414 billion dollars. The rest of the world has less than 12 billion dollars worth. In the last five years this Government has bought the equivalent of all the new gold mined in the world, plus 50 million ounces of old gold. The only thing that makes gold worth $35 an ounce is _ the willingness of this Government to buy it-at that price. So we can’t stop buying at that price without lowering the value of our holdings and “precipitating a -major disturbance in world monetary and economic conditions.” But the more gold we buy, the more the stocks of other nations are depleted and the more remote becomes the possibility that the world will return to the use of gold as money. So, if we keep on buying gold and burying it, this metal may cease to be the foundation of money systems and become a mere commodity having “very little utilitarian value.” In other words, Uncle Sam has a golden bear by the tail.

A REAL WAGE-HOUR CASE

HE largest pecan-shelling company in the country said it couldn’t afford to pay its shellers the minimum wage of 25 cents an hour. It asked permission to hire 2500 to 8000 “learners” over a three-month period, at 15 cents an hour. An examiner of the Labor Department's wage-hour division conducted an investigé¥ion and hearing. He found: (1) that, far from being impoverished, this company

cleared $500,000 profit in a recent two-year period; (2)

that its shellers working on a contract piece-rate basis, had been earning from $2. 50 to $3.50 per "week, “under shocking living and working conditions” and had been required to depend upon publi¢ and private charity “to bridge the gap between their slender earnings and starvation”; (8) that the “learners” it intended to employ at the cut rate were these same experienced workers, and though machinery- was to be installed the sheller’s work would be

~ essentially the same, and (4) that an experienced hand

sheller can attain maximum efficiency. in a mechanized plant in a week or less. So. the ‘examiner recommended, in vigorous language,

L" that the company be denied permission to pay less than

the 25-cents-per-hour minimum. In this case we see’ the Wage-Hour Law accomplishing in a real way the real purpose for which it was enacted. The exploited . Mexican men, women -and children who shell pecans in San Antonio, are, because of the workings of this law, to be given an opportunity to earn a wage that will meet at least their minimum Pequirements of living.

. THE PRESIDENTS BIRTHDAY

ECAUSE a substantial amount of the money valved is * to be used for a permanent endowment for research in: infantile ‘paralysis, this. year’s celebration of the President’s birthday on Jan. 30 is more worthy than ever of ous continued and generous support. But local institutions engaged in orthopedic work will nok be skimped under the hew arrangement. Although the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, Inc., receives “half of thg funds raised locally, it will pass back a part of its share in the form of grants to such local institutions - as Riley Hospital for Crippled Children. Actually, therefore, Indianapolis will receive considerably more than half the funds raised here. Thus neither research nor care of those already afflicted by this crippling disease will be overlooked under the new and broadened program. We hope it receives the fine Support that it deserves.

MISCHA ELMAN

fISCHA ELMAN, who is a sure-fire sell-out attraction © and can n his own’ price, will play his violin in 25 concerts during the next three months, crossing the continent and swinging into Canada. And the entire proceeds of ~ all the concerts will be divided equally among Protestant, Catholic and Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany. Former ‘Governor Alfred E. Smith is national honorary chairman of the nonsectarian refugee committee Sponsoring the concerts. ‘ ~ It would be hard to imagine a more generous consecration’ of high talent to the relief of human suffering. We believe the public will want to know about it. The general admiration for Mischa Elman, the artist, will be re‘orced now by appreciation and honor for Mischa Elman, ‘humanitarian. . ’ :

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T. A. HEALTH CONFERENCE

of the most commendable activities of the Indianapolis Council of Parent-Teacher Associations is its nal health conference, in which Indiana’s leading phyians and health authorities bring directly to interested ar Setits valuable advice on children’s problems. We. are reminded of the Council’s fine work in this field : its. sixth annual confer is being held today. wish it 3 if cont! find ways to h an even greater

Fair Enough

By Westbrook Pegler

Nazis Blithely Borrow for Their|

Own Objectives Methods Which They Falsely Attribute to the Jews.

EW YORK, Jan. 25.—If you were to substitute the terms “international Nazi” for “international Jew” and {world Nazidom” for “world Jewry” in inany of the orations and writings which have come out of Germany these last few days and examine the attiude of the Nazi nation! it would be' clearly seen that the Nazi campaign closely follows the lines of the plot which the Nazis themselves attribute to the Jews.

There occurs in this material the same arrogant |

assumption of superiority and the same contempt for the rights and qualities of other peoples that the Nazis constantly impute to the Jews and denounce as a menace and insult, They hold themsélves fo be Ciod’s chosen people, with a private god of their own who detest all other peoples and rewards all acts which serve world Nazidom at the expense of the infidels of whatever race or nation. + That is the substance of one of their complaints against the Jews, and, having brooded on the case, they apparently were impressed by the merits of such a conspiracy if pressed with ruthless energy in their pil interest. The most aggressive Nazi thought on the subject of religion goes so far as to claim that a Nazi is himself divine, because the Nazi god is the state. 8 8 8 B® this process every faithful Nazi becomes a part of that god. “Nation and state are not identical,” says an item in a collection of Nazi papers on this subject conteined in a book called “The German Reich and Americans of German Origin,” published by the Oxford Press. “We sometimes’ have believed that only those belong to the Reich who live within the borders of the Reich, within the German state. We have assumed that nation and state were identical. “What would become of those who have gone to foreign countries in former years because of economic necessity and lust for adventure? They are, nationally speaking, our brothers, our racial comrades, even if they possess American citizenship. Folkdom is much greater than citizenship in a country. There= fore, we rightfully define as Germans all those of German descent and of German blood who live abroad.” : : s # = MERICANS of German blood and descent make their own answer to this atfitude toward their citizenship and American patriotism. There has been violent disagreement in cultural organizations here over the efforts of the Nazi missionaries to make international Nazis of American citizens, and the-insult-ing program has made little progress, thanks to the resentment of those Whom “it intended to win to treacherous activity. Still, examination of the Nazi declarations on the subject shows that the intention is to presuade decent American citizens, most of them natives and many ex-soldiers who fought against the Kaiser, to become international Nazis and betray their country in the manner which the Nazi propaganda constant ly charges against the Americans of Jewish faith or blood. All Nazi writings on the subject are alive with remainders that the Nazi is the superior of all other men and that the service of Nazidom justifies any betrayal of oath or trust, a common Nazi charge against the figure described as the “international Jew.” Their documents hold that such conduet is permissible, even holy, and sure to be rewarded by ‘the Nazi god in the Nazi heaven.

Business

By John T. Flynn

Many Things Must Be Done to Spur Revival of Long-Term Investment.

TEW YORK, Jan. 25—Since the point has been made that any cut in Federal expenditures must be accompanied by a program for the revival of investment, the. question arises: What can be done to reviye investment? The answer to that is not so difficult, though it may be difficult to put into practice. The answer is, first, that we should have, not just a slash at Government expenditures, but a program of revival of which reduction in expenditures, methods of providing them and methods of rehabilitating private industry are all merely parts. On the question of revival of investment, the first thing to remember is that the number of persons who initiate long-term investments is small. Every man who buys a newly built house ‘on a mortgage makes a long-term investment. e there are millions who do this, the number who initiate house building is comparatively small. The same thing is even more true ih the case of commercial and noriawelling construction. The other sources of long-term investment are the railroads, the utilities, the local governments, the Federal Government and private industry in the field of manufacture. If we want to know why there is no long-term investment, we must look and ask what is governing the conduct of the small number of people who must function in these investment areas.

Railroads Must Be Reorganized

A program of investment revival, therefore, will be directed at these spots—the railroads, the utilities, the construction industry and manufacturing industries. Also the local governments—state, county and city and the Federal Government. What is needed is a balanced program in these sections of investment. Thus it is a waste of breath to talk about any revivel in the railroad industry as a long-term investor and buyer until the roads have been reorganized. It raust begin at once. Every delay is a danger. In the field of construction, first there must be an overhauling of financing, material supply, contractor methods and labor’s methods. 1 am not outlining a program but merely indicating the method of approach and attack. In addition, a gr oup of measures of general import must be undertaken. These general measures must have in mind the introduction of a greater degree of certainty into the long-term outlook and into the money situation.

A Woman's Viewpoint

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

N the life of every wife and mother comes a time when she feels herself slipping into middle age. It is a dreadful sensation. She had said goodby to 35; in the distance the frightful forties will soon appear to claim her. The children if any, are probably in school, busy with their own affairs. Up to his neck in business, her] husband already has begun to take her as a matter of course. | : For her, therefore, life has slowed to a jog; existence is mere routine. She does the usual things— sees that the meals are ready on time, goes and comes at the heck of her family, serves on club committees and views the gray hairs and sagging muscles in her mirror with something faintly resembling despair in her heart. “What's to be done now?” is the question that multiplied thousands of women have asked themselves at this point. The answer, I think, is—Another Baby. - There's nothing that brings back the sparkle to a life gone flat like a brand new infant making its appearance upon a scene where babies are supposed to have bowed themselves permanently off the stage. The home bubbles with excitement. When there are older children, they welcome the newcomer with Joyful zest. Pushing a perambulator again causes every middle-aged father to! feel as chipper as a bridegroom, while the experience of motherhood coming in the late thirties or early forties literally rejuvenates a woman. Over and over again I've seen the miracle happen. For restoring youth to apathetic, weary hearted women, a new baby is better than cosmetics, per-

Gen. Johnson

Says— i

Fontibing’ © : Foreign P. Ce % to. Include an Aggressive Stand. on’ Open Door.’

EW YORK, Jan. 28.-Our policy an. the question N of a naval base at, Guam 1s said to be ee sug.

“ |gested by Walter Lippmann. As I read Mr. Lip " - | mann’s column on that point, Ht ‘proposed $hat we

‘| out of Guam depends on a

'|.& well-reasoned,’

[| make a gesture toward fortifying Gusm in the %épe | that, on the basis of this bluff, we can negotiate With

Japan and persuade her to stay on ‘her own side of the line in the: Pacific.. Like all of Mr. Liphmann's work; that column was

‘carefully prepared and persuasive to make a Gibraltar

essay. But the question of tr gle decision in anpther

“| field and on that decision the essay spoke little. The

: | question of fortifying Guaga resolves to this:

; | Philippines and a: foot 4 Door” in

1 naval base at Gu:

Is it our policy in the Pacific merely to poneel the defenses of the Americas or does it include a defense of the ‘in to keep the “Open Asid?. If it jg. iore than to defend the Western Hemisphere, then we need a strong air 2 na . If it iy not, then not not need that, butt the atternpt to create § oe is a source of weakness Yather than of srength, : eg ie» DISMISS the “bluff” and “basis for negotiation” . argument with a word. If anything Has become clear in recent international relations, it is that

bluffs don’t work unless it is perfectly plain that the bluffer is ready, willing and able to make the

4 bluff good. Ethiopia proved that, Austria proved it

: | and so did Munich. Does anybody suppose that this

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1 wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say Tolisha. ol

ASKS ENFORCEMENT OF STOP SIGN ORDINANCE

By R. Bolander, President North East 3 \Civie League e first of November : a large delegal tion of the members of the North East Civic League and ParentTeacher Association of School No. 69 called on the Board of Public Safety in regard to a stop-and-go sign at 38th St. and Keystone Ave. The Safety Board agreed to install a sign at this intersection providing they could have an ordinance passed causing interurban cars to come to a dead stop at Keystone. The Board introduced ordinance No. 86 to the City Council Nov. 7 and it was passed and signed by Mayor Boetcher on Nov. 25. We understand that after this procedure an ordinance becomes effective. We would like to khow when it will be enforced and why it is not being done now.

Editor's Note — Chief Morrissey said today he would investigate the above complaint. -

#2 8» THINKS ONLY TAX CUTS CAN AID BUSINESS By Voice in the Crowd

Continually in the Forum a sperson can see that one of the first

{things that would benefit recovery

is an arithmetic class composed of our 130 million people. This arithmetic class should study diligently until they know that a dollar is a dollar and that you can call it three dollars if you wish, but it still remains a dollar. This class should learn that if a wage earner earns a dollar he should have a dollar’s purchasing power, except that after the present day tax collector is through, the dollar that has been earned represents only 65 cents in purchasing power. Taxes take 35 cents of the wage earners’ dollar to pay for the things that the politicians have you believe to be free gifts from them. And the cost of Government is continually mounting. If a wage earner gave the tax collector a dime from his dollar and had ‘90 cents to spend instead of 65 cents as now, there would be: no unemployment. The only thing that can revive prosperity is for people tb buy goods. The only way wage earners can buy: goods is to establish governmental costs so that the tax collector cannot get any farther than your vest pocket. The present mode of supposedly reform type of government is charging three times as much to protect. ‘you from the mythical profiteers as the supposed=to-be-profiteers could take away from you

_ (Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, religious con troversies excluded. Make your letter short; so all can have a chance. Letters must be signed, but names will be ‘withheld on request.)

by the widest stretch of imagination, If the Constitution is amended again it should be to limit the cost of peacetime government except by voté of the 130 million people who have fo pay taxes. Government bonds are not newly created wealth, they are receipts to show that your grandchildren’s taxes have been spent in the “Gay Thirties” and that your grandchildren’s purchasing power will be sacrificed to pay our debts. * Study your arithmetic. Learn what the ‘governmental costs are doing to your earned dollars and you will know why lack of custo-

‘mers keeps private business on its

back. ' a : 8 8 8

DOUBTS U. S. DEBT WILL BE PAID By American Is the War Debt collectible? The President stresses our duty to pay the billion-dollar interest on the Federal debt. The interest rate has fallen from 3% per cent to 2% per cent on our Federal debt, while the debt has grown apace, and will con-

TWO WAYS By MAUD COURTNEY WADDELL

Anger and hate obliterates all The goodness and beauty And leaves in their stead a lonely

pall— Where even cold duty Loses its power To ease one hour.

While love and a smile bring cheer to all

Who know dark ways or light And leaves them priceless -gifts to recall : When lonely shadows fall. Love heals all grief— “And brings belief,

DAILY THOUGHT

And it came to pass; as soon as the kingdom was confirmed in his’ hand,-that he slew his servants which had slain the king his father—II Kings 14:5. °

ANE murder makes a villain; millions a hero; numbers sancsity the crime —Porteus,

(tinue to go up as. we Enter the armamerit race. The history of debt 5 that when the chance of collection. of the principal disappears, thén' the debt i of no value to the holder. Who will pay the war. debt? Our pub~ lic debt is but a bookkeeping operation which indicates the unbalanced bookkeepiig of private industry. What industry has failed to distribute in credits to achieve a full production program is made up by the use of public credit. If we expect the next generation to quit eating to pay these credits, we are just kidding ourselves. The Dawes plan and Young plan on the reparations are still on somebody’s book and ‘they will always stay there. The next generation won't give a hoot about the bookkeeping debt we are asking them to _.shoulder. ‘That bookKeeping . debt will either be wiped out by inflation or by default. Behind our recession, depression, oppression or obsession lies our cockeyed bookkeeping. We distribute credits one way or another to keep ourselves from fighting among ourselves. # #2 8 DEPLORES PLIGHT OF : * OUSTED SHARECROPPERS. By E. S. “An Iowa Farmer Wouldn't Treat Hogs This Way!” That was the heading on ah item which I clipped from the American Guardian telling of the plight of the sharecroppers in their Missouri road camps. The paper quoted as follows from an article by J. S. Russell of the Des Moines Register: “Families have suffered in their roadside shelters these last few nights in a plight probably as pitiful as anything that has occurred in the United States during this generation, “An Towa farmer who permitted his hogs or cattle to be expos to

rain, mud, snow and cold as

these refugees from the ruthless rule of King Cotton probably would be haled into court by the Sanity for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. “But local sentiment has been against doing anything to relieve

the distress of the sit-downers and

so virtually nothing has been done.” 8» 8 . yi HERE'S A PUZZLE FOR

CHECKERBOARD FANS

By James M. Gates ‘This may interest many of your readers. This is a chéckerboard puzzle. Move red, then black alternately until all - chaickers are off the back rows. Leave no opertings for a chance to’ jump. Test your knowlSeige. It is very easy after you learn

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LET'S EXPLORE YOUR MIND

By DR. ALBERY EDWARD WIGGAM-

A SEacHERS TRY TC mde

"YES OR NO —ae

PROBABLY NOT. Of course ?

- {dence before -teaching their

90 Per cent tie to environment, al-

-{ though some péople acquire it more

easily: and more deeply than others. nr ands Zi ’ i YES AND NO. Personally I would frankly let the young people knéw my own points of view. Otherwise they would regard me either as having no mind of my own or, ‘as coleealing something. 1 would also.ask them for criticisms of :my views. ‘I would not try to argue-them into my points of view,

but encourage them to make sure|

they had explored all available conclusions,” The teacher’s mdin func-

jiton is to t2ach them.how. to ul By : Joining

country would go to war for the right to make Guam impregnable? ‘The silliest part of the idea of bluff in this. case is this very publicity of the fact that we intend to bluff. Both the Philippines and Guam are what military

| strategists call salients—soinething like a nose or

thumb stuck into the enemy’s mouth where he can bite it off without much effort. Nobody who has ever made that long and tedious voyage to Guam—as I have--or seen’ its dfeary isolation can realize how distant and ‘detached it is. Furthermore, it is outr flanked by Japanese “mandated” islands. 2 8 = > I we have to fight Japan, it will be a naval war— principally 4&4 long-drawn destruction of oceans borne commerce, . To be forced by the necessity to defend either Guan or Manila to send our Navy so far away into those watets and leave our own coasts pap—one that no no ! suffer and that people would nét: in their, sober serise support. Pov’

| yet our possession: of 1 them is like a «hip on & schol

boys’ shoulder. = If they are kiocked” oft, our. flag ‘oapitired, Amer can ships. sunk and American soldiers killed, 1 will the popular reaction: be? Wat hysteria’ will, tainly follow. and we will be iri. a ‘bloody str ei the . Western Pacific. to the weakening of a ho 9 defenses. AR ‘I ‘hate to write: in this ‘veln' so soon - after appar : ently inspired Japanese newspapers have blasted so - threateningly at a proposal of our President. But the defense program is up for discussion. It is one of the most important questions before us. No intelliegnt decision whatever is possible without an earlier decision en foreign policy. Defense of this continent requires an entirely different equipment from that plus the defense of the Western Pacific and China Sea, We are simply up against it and we must de- ° cide now.

It Seems to Me By Heywood Broun

et

Finds Conservatives .and Radicals +: - Offer Odd’ Contrast These Days. -

EW YORK, Jan. 25. Tt is my ‘notion that most z

people are wholly mistaken about. the current oi

preoccupations of American radicals. Ever sifice the beginning of the new year, in accordance with a resolution, I have honestly endeavored to. be my own cross-section man, without relying upon the good offices of Dr, Gallup. ,And so in the course of & .

day or a week I contrive to run into a certain number =

‘of radical friends and an even greater number of cone servative acquaintances.

And the curious thing is that the conservatives 5 are. forever talking about the revolution and the pre-. . cise state of Russia at the moment, while the radicals’ . seeme to. be wholly concerned with some bill before . the State Legislature in Albany.or a measure pending before the Congre: In other words, my Republican friends are gazing or the most part across the waters,

while those to the left of them seem to be entirely. ’

engrossed in domestic problenis about relief, housing, peace in the labor movement and similar questions. Perhaps those friends of mine whom I call radical are not typical. . It may be that they are concealed reactionaries. And still I will maintain that any ine . quiring reporter will hear far more about the revolu-. tion in the pleasant hideaways of Park Ave. than he can now encounter in the talk of those WHO stem from Union Square.

It's Just an Impression

This is set down as an- impression and not & . definitive finding. - I am not qualified in any way - to speak as an authoriative spokesman of either-the.

extreme: left or the extreme right.” Naturally I have -

read many editorials and magazine. articles in which -. it is set forth that the purported enthusiasm of radical groups for the defense of democracy against Fas cism is just a false front to fool the naive and the sentimental. : All I-can say is that I must be among the gullible, for it seems to me that such radical authorities as

I know are ‘convincing in their insistence that they *~

are so engrossed in the questions of the here and’ ° now. that speculations as to what the future may ot ‘Hold have been definitely put aside.

I could be fooled, but I was once a dramatié critie, =

and I think I can tell the difference befween an

% act. and a performance by a player who feels frie part.

Watching Your Health

By Dr. Morris Fishbein

\INCE the Curies introduced radium into medical science, physicians have studied the element to Ceotetaie all of its possible effects on the human : body and its potential value In treating various forms of disease. 2 Annually the Medical Research Council of Grea Britain has been issuing reports on the uses of radium in various English centers where the product i8 -availablé. Each’ countty ‘has only a few locations: - with a sufficient supply of radium and a sufficient

number of competent workers associated with the .

product to. make it applicable to disease.. Among the chief questions yet to be determined is % In what ‘types of cancer i8 radium specifically indie cated? And how is radium ‘to be ‘used in connection with surgical operation? : In cancers ‘affecting the organs of women and asso ciated with- childbirth, various methods of treatment

= are posible: use of the high voltage X-ray, use-of ras | dium, and" use of ‘surgery, plus combinations of thess

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