Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 February 1939 — Page 18

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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1939

AIRPLANES AND SECRECY AKEN as an issue entirely as it relates to our own national aviation program, sale of planes to France on a barrelhead basis classifies as plain common sense. But it should be borne in mind that it: is one thing to sell planes for cash and quite another to make commitments or give assurances which may involve us in the European situation. | ; The one commercial danger from such trade might be

the building up of a large foreign volume which might suddenly be cut off, causing sharp depression in the airplane industry at home. But as to that our own plans act as insurance. : Our program calls for 321 millions for Army and Navy aviation, in addition to regular appropriations. Fifty millions is asked for immediately. Obsolescence is lightning swift in airplane construction. The ship of today is out-of-date tomorrow, so quickly come the| new inventions. . It’s not like making chairs— and there is no antique market. But on our capacity to produce quickly in mass depends our strength. Orders we get from abroad add to our skill, help share the laboratory cost, and aid in keeping up our plant capacity. In view of our defense plans, charted as they are over several years, nothing could be better than a lot of such orders—sp-long as we get cash for them—our own program acting as shock absorber against a sudden cessation of such orders. Aviation is still a trial-and-error operation, highly mercurial, involving many different types, by no means standardized as yet. And ability to replace is as important as ability to make in the first place. Looked at as a business proposition a cash foreign market is a boon to our own nation, already round-shoul-dered with debt, but faced with the necessity for a great armament increase. o » 8 » 8 8 ut it would be a mistake to consider this French airplane episode as the only or most important factor of the De critical scene. We think in fact that it has been given more emphasis than it should have had. It was the oh of that historic call to the White House of the Senate Military Affairs Committee. * Because of that, public vision was thrown somewhat out of focus. : We don’t like the stress that was put on secrecy. Nor the smugness with which Mr. Ickes gives bland and blanket assurance that there is no danger of our becoming involved in a war “under this Administration.” There is too much of the “let-papa-fix” about the way things are going. We hope Congress insists on an end to the hush-hush. This is a democracy. As such, public opinion is the ultimate judge. A foreign policy that is not founded on informed public confidence cannot be stable. |The people, not understanding it, will not support it. Prevalence of an impression that foreign policy is being changed secretly and mysteriously is dangerous. I Turn on the light.

THE BAR AND CIVIL LIBERTIES

SINCE the time the. American Bar Association recommended that local bar associations form strong committees to safeguard and maintain basic American liberties, several cities and states have established effective working organizations. We are glad to see the Indianapolis Bar Association become the third large city to line up with this worthwhile movement. Le . The purpose of the newly formed “Committee on the Bill of Rights” is clearly summarized in the first paragraph of the resolution setting out its duties: | “1. To take cognizance of any meritorious claim of a violation in the State or City of the State Constitution and the Federal Constitution, in respect to basic rights, such as freedom of the press, speech, assembly and petition, or unreasonable searches and seizures or other fundamental rights; and if the complainant cannot otherwise obtain competent adviee, to see tc it that proper representation is secured.” A committee zealous to protect these rights and to aid those who cannot afford .competent advice is sorely needed in any community. And there is no more appropriate body to lead the defense of these basic rights than the bar association of the. land. od

BOOST THE INDIANS

ASEBALL is 100 years old this year and appropriate celebrations are to be held throughout the nation. We are glad to note that the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce is to mark the occasion by a civic dinner Feb. 17 honoring Leo T. Miller, new president of the Indianapolis Indians, and field manager Ray Schalk. The Indians this year have a player agreement with the Cincinnati Reds and have given other indications of a determined effort to put a winning team in the American Association race. Indianapolis supporters of the team have _a chance to show their appreciation of the rebuilding efforts to date by attending this banquet. If appreciation early will help their final standing, we'll be happy to attend several banquets. : :

GIRLS GET A BREAK

RODUCER BILLY ROSE has abandoned his plan for a historical pageant at the New York World's Fair. Instead, he’s going to put on a $500,000 “girl show,” starring Eleanor Holm and including a lake full of swimmers and divers and an-island full of dancers. It’s a wise change. Mr. Rose could hardly hope to compete with the historical pageant now being staged on a world-wide scale with all of us in the cast, even if we ‘don’t like the plot. People are living history these days so constantly that they're getting tired of it, not to say alarmed about it. But, as Artemus Ward well said, “the female woman is one of the greatest institooshuns of

Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

Well Maybe We Are Unduly Scared, But if So, Semeone Ought to Say Just What Hitler's Intentions Are.

N= YORK, Feb. 3.—Most Americans today are groping for some safe and reasonably decent way to keep out of any war that may break in Europe, but finding only reasons why it couldn’t be done. It isn’t that this. nation has any illusions about the nobility of Britain and France, whose many perfidies in many parts of the world have been freely discussed, or that Americans owe a duty to prevent Italy from stealing country stolen by France and administered by her with the peculiar French gift for corruption in government plus the French selfishness, And certainly nobody regards England as the mother country of the United States or feels any affection for the unlovable English people or obligation to help them defend their holdings and their lives. The grievances and the fears which chill the heart are our own, and the whole nation would welcome any sign that Herr Hitler and Germany, the aggressors, were willing to call it off, reduce armament, let us alone and live in peace. Should war come this country cannot permit Germany or Italy to lick Canada and then impose the sort of peace which the Kaiser's Germany intended to inflict had he won the great 'war and which the Allies instead imposed on Germany and- Austria. : 2 2 2 NERMANY and Italy would be dangerous neighbors in Bermuda and the West Indies, and with Britain and France out of the way and, perhaps, even turned’ against us :in resentment, the United States would be a setup. It is one thing to read that the German press ridicules our apprehension and scoffs at the nervousness of a people protected by wide oceans. There is something very mysterious about the Russian phase of this. for always, up to a year or less ago, it was Russia and the Bolsheviks whom Hitler hated, but lately there have been queer signs. Russia under Stalin has imitated Hitlerism, and Hitler himself, step by step, has been forced to adopt for the German people the very form of government which he promised to save them from. : France, Britain and, in a deferred position on the list, this country, the contemptible democracies are now the subjects of his hatred. 8 ® ”

HERE are many in this country who minimize the danger and prefer to suspect that President

ments on the home political and economic front. That is a painful accusation and one which gives aid and comfort to Hitler, but it deserves a hearing and cannot be dismissed as un-American or unpatriotic, If persons of that mind have information or arguments to dissolve the threats which others think they see in the state of things and the portents, they may save the country from a terrible folly, and one man’s reputation or place in history is not worth a war. Meanwhile, be it observed, ihe President is making the decisions which commit the country to the job of bottle-holder in the democratic corner, should war come, and almost certainly to active help should things go badly in that corner. The people of the country read and hear about armaments and see the leaders choosing up sides and have not been consulted and have no way of expressing themselves. War they certainly do not want, but nobody has been able to get the floor for them. |

Business

By John T. Flynn

Plane Incident Recalls Sale of U. S. Submarine to Austria Before War.

EW YORK, Feb. 3.—Some of the resentment in Congress over the President’s reported display of airplane secrets to a French mission is founded on recollections of one of the first important incidents revealed by the Senate Munitions Committee a few years ago.

One of the big submarine manufacturers of America sold a submarine to Austria. This submarine contained a very large number—60 I believe—of secret American submarine developments and one of the most important was a device which enabled these undersea craft to cruise for long distances. This was before the World War. Nothing at the time seemed so little likely as a war between the United States and Austria.

However, when Germany and Austria went to war with England and France and the submarine became of importance to Germany, the German Admiralty obtained from the Austrian Government complete access to this American underseas boat. From that information Germany began making her long-cruising subs. In time, one of these boats, manufactured from plans of an American craft, sank the Lusitania and some American vessels, thus bringing the United States into the war. : After the war the American manufacturer sued the German Government for $20,000,000 for invasion of its patent rights. It got something, but it could not undo the war into which we had been drawn.

Czechoslovakia Case in Point At this moment France seems to be as far removed

from being an enemy of ours as any country in the

world. Therefore it probably seemed all right to the sident to expose American plane secrets to the French. But it is entirely possible that a year ago a similar conclusion might have been reached about Czechoslovakia. American sympathy was wholeheartedly for that little country, but today that country has fallen into the hands of pro-German elements and anything we might have given it would be in German hand§ now. - ; Nations have no right to make too violent assumptions as to who their next enemies will be. In the last war Italy, bound by treaty to the Central Powers, yet fought on the side of the Allies, and now will be found with the Central Powers again. There is no living man who can tell with any assurance how the various European powers will line up in the event of a war in the spring. Asmatters stand France would fight against Germany, but France is now surrounded by Fascist countries and there is a large Fascist party and even a large Fascist sentiment in France. Who can say that republican France may not fall into the hands of French Fascists even though she may not be invaded and conquered by Germany?

a ' / ° ° : A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson | the following. paragraph philosopher Will Durant

has said what should be repeated over again: \ “The Institution of Marriage is on the way out unless the economic usefulness of women again becomes a prime reason for a man to marry.” He urges women to keep their jobs after marriage so that bachelors will not think of them as “an expensive ornament for the satisfaction of sexual needs.” These are wise words. Unless marriage can be set up and kept going as a joint partnership, with the wife as well as the husband contributing to the support of the home, there is no sense in going on with

the farce. Built upon any other basis, marriage is worse than a farce—it is a fiasco. :

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set, she was an economic necessity. A man could not leave the parental roof to set up a home for himself without the help of a woman, and for that reason

tions. They earned the profound respect they received, because they actually created 50 per cent of the family income; not in cash, of course, but in goods and provisions. : On the other hand, in our social order, a wife is very often a definite liability and every ‘child she bears adds an additional one. This is neither her fault nor her husband's, but must be attributed to the industrial revolution which has built millions of two-by-four apartments and moved people from off the

which *this land can boste,” and producers long after

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Roosevelt has created a war scare to blur embarrass- |

In. every good society the wife was not only an as-

wives were held in high esteem in all pioneer civiliza- |

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| . : ~The Hoosier Forum I wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

me |_By Talburt

RAPS SENATORS FOR BACKING WPA SLASH By D. L., Monticello Have they ever been hungry or cold—those Senators so jubilant because successful in putting 150,000 men out of jobs and thereby cutting off the resources of probably 600,000 persons? . Only 150,000? But sup-

pose you are one of that insignificant number? | : Will these patriotic ones, so proud of their achievement, be as considerate of the budget when asked to tax their own splendid salaries, as when cutting off a comparative pittance to their less fortunate fellowmen? They rejoice in tying the hands of our humane President who has concentrated every effort to raise the standard of living of the masses to “let live” as well as live; to make a better nation for every class ‘of people, If that type of Congressman has his way we shall soon have another figurehead in the President’s chair waiting majestically for prosperity to get “around the corner.” Then—again, a stream of embarrassed jobless men will be coming “around the corner” to our back doors begging for food because they pave no alternative except starvaiom:

» » ” THINKS ROOSEVELT WILL BE REMEMBERED By O. Leonard The question H. M. Phillips asked in a recent issue of The Times is hard to answer. | We can only guess if “the younger generation will revere or revile the memory of Roosevelt 20 or 30 or 40 years from now.” People can forget a lot in that many years. Look how much some have forgotten jn six years. Why, there are lots of people who have already forgotten soup lines. But some have better memories. Especially those who saw their children go hungry. Thank God for President Roosevelt. If we didn’t have a man like him many of us wouldn't be here to help pay “the bill” 20 or 30 or 40 years from now.

2 2 2 , THINKS FRANCO OWES DEBT TO ITALY By R. Sprunger : I dispute the. claim of “Alfonso Franco” that Gen. Franco of Rebel Spain doesn’t owe Italy money. His “pay as you fight” statement is most laughable. If a country like the U. S. couldn't do it 20 years ago,

how do you expect Gen. Franco to do it when he hasn't the ma-

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

jortiy: of the Spanish people with m? - If Gen. Franco had the majority of the Spaniards with him why did he continuously ask for more Italian troops to assure his victory? 2 8 = ATTEMPT TO BAN: NEWSSTANDS RAPPED By 8. C. M. "An article in the Jan. 20 Times told of a move to abolish newsstands on street corners. These stands have been in this city for years as well as in all larger cities. They provide a livelihood for

crippled and blind men, who otherwise would have to be on relief. While the newsboy is not out in the storms and snows.all the time, nor is he about at 5a. m. till'1 p. m,, still the person catching a bus or

SHALL WE TALK?

By RUTH KISSEL

If speech is silver and silence gold, Is it henge the story were never old? ..

Gossips spreads like fire in the

wind, A : But if gossip must have its say; The speech of song and laughter will undo its ill And go merrily on the way.

Word's silver will outshine The gold of hoarding silence. If we measure our silver in smiles And our gold in tears and cares.

For a listener will a burden share And ease the pain with words of cheer. : As your load is lightened, your face is brightened, LOTS And a smile travels over the sphere.

Though speech be but silver and silence be gold, Tis better to have the story told.

DAILY THOUGHT

So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared: for Mordecai. Then was the king's wrath pacified. —Esther 7:10. ' --

GoPs mill grinds slow but sure. —Herbert. die

train any time and desiring a newspaper or magazine can always be supplied by the corner newsstand. There are certain influential business concerns in this city who desire a monopoly of the magazine trade, and due to the fact that the newsstands deprive them of a part of this trade, the stands may be abolished, regardless of the benefit they are to the public. I, as well as many other Indianapolis citizens, sincerely hope the Public Works Board will give. this full consideration before depriving these afflicted persons of the means of making an honorable living, » » » LAUDS STOREKELPER WHO BALKED HOLDUP. By John Fulton { “The recent incident where an In-’ dianapolis grocer resisted a daring young bandit, by wresting away his gun, and critically wounding him, is an example of what one law-abid-ing and determined citizen has done to help curb our crime wave. Many ideas have been propounded by law-enforcing bodies in an effort to clamp down oi) the . habitual criminal, and consequently make living a safer proposition for the people. It is my contention that grocers, pharmacist, filling station operators, merchants and -all other persons who serve the public and hence .are subject to constant danger from some foolhardy gunman, should be so equipped that they can offer resistance. : 5 If the storekeepers here would install alarms and maintain guns for ready use, each establishment would be a stumbling block for the gunman. He would realize that death would be his lot if he chances to meet a more determined man than himself, !

2 8 = ANSWERS CRITICISM OF TOWNSEND PLAN | By William Duncan I noticed an article in the Forum Jan. 25 by Mr. Braddick criticizing the Townsend National Recovery Plan. He seems to think if everyone quits work we would soon have nothing but money. That is true, but the

Townsend Plan does not contemplate that everyone shall quit work. It would only retire aged persons. It is estimated that there are .eight million persons over 60 at present, four million of them working. That would give four million work who are now unemployed. Increased

_| production would result and in time

would: make work for everyone, We need a setup that will tax the mil-

lions that are in tax-exempt bonds.

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Cine TGELF INTO MexTOMERT? | S. ES QR NO cee 1 Jor MANY of them do. If they did there is no reason why we would hot have national baseball

LET'S EXPLORE YOUR MIND

By DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM

men friends oF enjoy the club assoclations or show their pretty sport

S——— © "NOT A CENT, although if you were asked the question in the above form you would answer “yes,” and think you were telling the truth. But you'd be lying, even to yourself. Prof. Walter Pitkin put the same question in this way “What: would you B&penc. it for?” 200 women and 150 men made out long lists of what they would spend it for — houses, furniture, autos, travel, dresses, jewelry, everything on earth—but only six women and four men mentioned a single penny

|for self-improvement or education.

3 8. 2 HE CAN become considerably more extraverted but probably

will never be quite as objectiveminded as the simon pure extravert.

| His best method is to try to become

genuinely interestec| in other people because his chief concern is with

himself, when he is not absorbed in|

his work. The world could not get along well without both its introverts and extraverts. The introvert is

‘|usually the better planner, and the jextravert the better one to execute

worst offenders ae 8 45 minutes,

‘the plans. Corporations would do well to have both types of

~ Someone Ought to Tell Horr Hitler Ickes Should Not Be Taken Seriously;

Lb _ Perkins Impeachment Move Silly.

Ickes because Herr Hitler slammed him and Secretary Perkins because she is up for impeachment. ‘The essential principles of Mr. Ickes ‘Speeches are incredible. They are apparently more intended to give fantastical offense rather than for any particue

. | lar argument—like his saying that some of his adver-

saries have “mental halitosis.” He delights in a sort ¢ of verbal clowning which is usually pretty poor. You have -gof to take him for what he is worth as the official Federal harlequin—not because he is any good, but because he is Secretary of the Interior. On , his own merits in a circus he couldn't qualify in the clown class but, clad in his robes as a Cabinet minister, his antics seem to be sufficiently front page news to make Herr Hitler jump up and down. _ Either Adolf cught to have more sense or his Min- ® ister of Propaganda should tell him that nobody over here takes Harold very seriously. He just likes to deliver dialectic bronx cheers and other rude noises. Thinking back over his six years of oratory, I can't , remember one single thought that he ever expressed, although I can remember many ingenious epithets. Herr Hitler has tilted at a windmill—or rather at a windbag. fo 8 8 = . ) HE threat to impeach Secretary Perkins, is equally silly. Grant that she is the worst Secretary of Labor since we began to have them—admit that she has the confidence of neither of the two divided camps of labor nor industry—concede that she is so inept in conference that her very manner is an affront—yet none of these is cause for im-* peachment. : Until an executive officer is guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors, the President, if he so desires,

and incompetent people he can discover. “<{¥ With a few exceptions, this one ‘has doné“that. The Senatorial power to advise and consent can

peachment was intended to remove crooks or usurpers —not merely official misfits. : Certainly if a Cabinet officer set out to defy ana pervert the law, the Senate, on the complaint of the House, could bring him to book. But the power of ¢ impeachment was not intended to submit the execu= tive to the legislative branch of government. » 2 2

HE charge is that Secretary Perkins has violated

the law she is sworn to enforce, by not deport ing Harry Bridges as a Communist. Whether the law requires or even permits that is about to be ? decided by the Supreme Court. I agree with little that she has done in the last six years, but I think she is right in waiting for a determination by the highest court before she begins to exercise an uncertaine executive power of banishment. If she could banish at will, I certainly would be on my way to Tahiti or San Juan be Bac Bac tomorrow. I want to stick around inh my own country. fn I hold no brief for Harry Bridges but there are ® many signs that he is becoming a far more reasonable and constructive labor leader than he was in the beginning and there is no doubt that he has done much for maritime labor that was sadly ine need of doing. Mr. Ickes has sat on the lid of Federal spending. The name “Honest Harold” is a kind of a reproach but it is a source of confidence that there has been no suspicion of graft in this vast outlay.” If ® Harold would make fewer low-comedy appearances, his. stature would rise. There are hopes for Harold. There are few for Secretary’ Perkins.

Aviation | By Maj. Al Williams

Generals and Admirals Insist on The Status Quo Despite Munich,

(Heywood Broun Is on Vacation)

Tome are two huge and politically powerful groups in this country which insist that our national defense shall remain “as is” forever. I refer to our War and Navy Departments. Both of them have things pretty much their own way, and when-

ever their petty privileges clash they bewail the fact that the public should know of it. Both these organizations need to be shaken up.’ Whatever they recommend always amounts to the same thing; namely, more of the tools they now have. It never occurs fo either organization that in a world which is tossing overboard inefficient overhead charges and remodeling for a faster future, neither our Army or Navy needs overhauling. » \ Sure they are both “for” the air, but only as much of it as they can keep under their control. Air power is a dread phrase to admirals and generals. They try to think that aviation, like themselves, will always be the same. Aviation must remain auxiliary toa ground army or a sea navy.

They Recover Their Voices

Their propaganda ignores Munich and its lessons. More battleships and bigger land armies, with air forces only for scouting, might have been all right before 1914, : But they serve it up again, having missed all the signals of the out-and-out air war that is to come. Where were the French and British floating iron forts, cruisers, and salt-water whatnots when air 9 power bid for command on several occasions in the | last three years? : With Munich in the logbook, British admirals are | making themselves heard again. During the real European crisis not a peep was heard out of them. “And the British admirals are typical of all old-line | Army and Navy dyed-in-the-wool generals and ad=mirals the world over. - Ey These may seem like hard words, but if each letter @ of each word was pointed steel, they are soft and con= siderate compared to the fearful drone of an enemy bombardment squadron. : tr

Watching Your H By Dr. Morris Fishbein

‘that certain foods are much more likely to disagree with healthy people than are others. The veg tables of the cabbage family are among the leaders-in this list. Garlic, onions and chocolate are y associated. - When 1000 healthy the foods which disagreed with them, ast jority stated that cabbage was responsible. ‘cooked cabbage and raw cabbage have been blam Some of the people said that the: e respo was overcooked, fia i + From a scientific point of view it ‘has been that the strong flavor of cabbage, ulifiower; turnips is probably due to the settin ] compounds by the ferments. Long tables in the cabbage family fends ! agreeable flavors and od velopment of an increased When the vegetables cold or tepid water, the, will decompose the sulp If the vegetables are uncovered kettle and time to produce tenderness, 1 Investigajors in the Divis of Ohio Stdte University flower and cabbages on that 95 per cent were & ; of preparing cabbage and caulilo ‘Vegetables cooked for

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