Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 February 1939 — Page 12

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ACTION OR LOCAL OPTION EF nothing else will, perhaps the growing strength of “the “local: option’ group—the ultra-drys—will end the partisan squabbling which so far has prevented legislative action on needed reforms in the Indiana Liquor Law. - It is increasingly evident that if there is no agreement soon between the Republicans and Democrats the abovementioned group will take control of the situation. And once that happens Hoosiers will see great sections of. this state dry up with a rapidity that will take politicians’ breath away. . This need not happen. And it won't if our legislators will forget the 1940 elections, sit down and weed out the major defects of the present law. We are convinced the people of Indiana want control of liquor taken away from the politicians. We know there is widespread dissatisfaction with the beer import licensing system under which favored politicians get a legalized rakeoff. We know there is strong sentiment for a general tightening up of the whole system. And we know, too, that failure to act now can only give new impetus to the prohibition movement in Indiana.

PIUS XI'S SUCCESSOR “HE last i impressive rites ended, the body of Pope Pius XI was laid yesterday in the crypt and vault in St. Peter's which he had chosen as his last resting place. Meanwhile, absent Cardinals sped toward Rome from distant lands. Some time before March 1, these Princes of the Church, together with those already at the Vatican, will constitute the Sacred College and name the 262d successor to the Throne of St. Peter. Until then time will, in effect, stand still in the capitol of Catholicism.. When a. temporal ruler passes it is a case of “the King i is dead, long live the King.” But when a Pope dies; matters of state comesto a halt in the Vatican until a new Pope is chosen. During this interim, the civilized world will await the election with an interest seldom surpassed. Pius XI was an extraordinary man as well as a great religious leader. He came to the Papacy at a time when communism and fascism were rising—when the world seemed suddenly possesed of a ‘devil as ruthless ideologies gained power in hostility to religion and to peace. ‘Yet such was his courage that never for a moment did he hesitate to challenge these forces of evil, and it is no exaggeration to say that he gave his life to the crusade. Today an uneasy civilization is praying—each man in his. own way—for. another like him. For so great is the Papal‘influence that much may depend upon a continuance of the same unwavering courage in the Holy See. So wide and great, in fact, is the influence emanating from the successor to the Prince of the Apostles that few events in recent times have held more meaning to the earth’s peoples than the forthcoming meeting of the Sacred College in the Holy City. °

TOO MUCH ORATORY?

HE Republicans in Congress are using smart tactics. They’re still far in the minority. But they are attending to business, discouraging the type of oratory which runs to mere carping at the New Deal, uniting on definite policies, and generally beginning to function as an effective, intelligent opposition. . We wonder whether other Republicans are being as smart. Whether party leaders outside Congress aren’t negating the efforts of those inside by what they say and "do on such occasions as the Lincoln Day dinners. The relief of Republicans, as the elephant shows some signs of returning life, is understandable. So is their de- - sire Yo lisplay their state governors, now that they have enough to make a showing. And Mr. Hoover delivered some telling blows at the “school of budgetary magic” maintained by the Administration. ‘But ‘a great deal of the Lincoln Day exultation was, to say the least, premature. Much of the spellbinding was painfully reminiscent of the dismal campaign of 1936. It may be none of our business, but we think the Republicans might have done better with less oratory and more attention to the sober truth that they have a lot of hard and earnest work ahead ‘if they are to make their party wonthy. to win in 1940, or in any year. . Listening to them, we were reminded of another occasion when victory was hoped for, but far from assured. The eloquent Edward Everett Hale made a supreme effort ' and spoke for more than two hours, dwelling in detail on every phase of the struggle then in progress. His oration was soon forgotten. Nothing said that day at Gettysburg survived to exert permanent influence on the American people, save the 270 simple words that were spoken from the humble heart of Abraham Lincoln.

SUWANNEE BELLS

~HIS winter is expected to see the veglbming: of a new memorial to Stephen Collins Foster. It is to be built in north Florida on the banks of the Suwannee River near White Springs, 60 miles west of ‘Jacksonville, and is planned to include an amphitheater and carillon tower. : Pittsburgh, his native city, has a $500,000 shrine which houses among other things the famous J. K. Lilly eollection of Fosteriana. Many Indianapolis people viewed these 'mementoes when they were housed here before Mr. Lilly donated the collection to the Pittsburgh museum. They included many -original manuscripts, Mr, Fosters melodeon and other treasured souvenirs. . In a world which is lionizing men of force and violence, it is certainly no bad thing to build one more

memorial to the man who wrote the simple songs to which

|Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

Daily Worker Critical of ‘Corporate’ Press Yet Refused to Print Paid Ad Giving A. & P. Side in Tax Case.

ALTIMORE, Feb. 15.—We have heard much about the relation between our press and the public and our press and the advertiser. Some of the top-loftiest scorn has been sounded by the Communists and their fellow-travelers. The charge runs that our press is the corporate press, that it doesn’t give oppesing opin-

“} ion a square rattle and that it helps exploiters rob the

‘ peopie.. In a recent incident, of which a minor scandal was made in the radical press, a New York paper was accused of editing an advertisement for a book. The paper answered that the ad was edited to eliminate libel for which the publisher could have been held responsible. Well, what about the Communist press? How does the Daily Worker, the Communist organ in New York, obscrve the code which the Communists and their fel-low-travelers lay down for others. The Daily Worker recently was haled into court for failure to comply with the state law requiring publication of the names of the responsible officers of newspapers and, under this compulsion, complied.

# 8» : HE State Attorney General's office complained that persons who wanted to sue the paper

qualified to receive notice of a suit. Not long ago the Atlantic & Pacific Stores, placed a big ad in many daily papers, presenting its argument against the Patman Bill which intended to abolish chain stores by taxing them to death. A representative of the Daily Worker sought the ad and Paris & Peart, the advertising agents, were directed to send the copy down to the Daily Worker. Paris & Peart then received a letter signed by Nat Wein, inclosing an editorial which had heen published by the Worker denouncing the A. & P., and

be a breach of propriety to be remunerated for publishing something ‘which is contrary to the views expressed in the editorial page.”

“WE assure you,” Mr. Wein wrote Paris & Peart, “that we are always more than happy to insert the regular advertising of the A. & P., because we are convinced that we.can thereby render the A, & P. unusual service in the way of accelerating the sales of their products and developing an increased number of | saushied and permanent customers.” Now, mark that preceding paragraph and cast your eye back over it as you read the following quotations and indirect qugtes from the Worker’s editorial on the A, & P, which is slugged “The Fight to Protect the Corner Grocery Man.” The editorial says the A. & P. ‘picks the pockets of the public every day, and “dares to speak as a friend of the farmers it cheats and bulldozes year in and ‘year out.” “The big chains use their tremendous power to cut prices only as long as they are fighting to crush this or that small merchant,” it says. “When he is crushed or absorbed prices go up again.” Now go back and read again of the happiness it gives the Communist newspaper to accelerate sales for this ruthless monopoly and “develop an increased number of satisfied” but, obviously, victimized and beWorke customers among the readers of the Daily Worker.

Business

By John T. Flynn

Hitler's Next Move Toward East, But Not, This Year, Writer Says.

EW YORK, Feb. 15—The suggestion that the next violent’ world-shaking incident in Europe ous result from Herr Hitler's plans for conquest of the East, is supported by the opinions of Henry C. Woelfe, an American newspaperman who has watched the troubles of Southeastern Europe at close quarters for many years. He does not think, however, that the blow will come soon. His conviction that the move will be to the East is based, of course, upon Herr Hitler's own oft-repeated statements, buttressed by Dr. Alfred Rosenberg’s assurances to him, His belief that the blow will be delayed is founded upon the belief that the vast plans of the Nazis for pressing on through Czechoslovakia are too extensive. to be gotten into shape this summer, The occupation of Austria and the entry into Sudetenland has confronted the Fuehrer with a collection of economic problems so complex and difficult that he must bring them along to some kind of order. before he can undertake another putsch. He has projected a series of canals, motor roads and even railroad enterprises to facilitate the movement of goods and arms and men toward Rumania and the Ukraine.

South America Seems Safe

Furthermore Mr. Wolfe believes that the diplomatic problems are too great to be satisfactorily arranged before the summer is over. The group of Balkan countries with which he must cope are small and are comparatively weak measured singly against Germany. But their statesmen are able and Mr. Wolfe does not feel that Herr Hitler can establish with all these countries the relations he requires in’ time to undertake a military adventure this year. His case ‘is plausible. Theve is, however, one weak spot in it. |The population of ‘the Reich, he argues, affer the immense excitement and the great sacrifices preceding the Munich incident, now needs a rest, a breathing spell. That is true in one sense. But in another sense it dare not rest. Or at least Herr Hitler dare not permit it to rest. His whole economic and political program now is based upon ceaseless war preparations and expenditures and this, in turn, means ceaseless excitation, endless war scares. Rest would mean the end of the regime. One other point is raised by Mr. Wolfe. These vast plans, the presence of eager and suspicious enemies all around him,.the necessity for keeping his fleet in the Baltic, and his armies near home makes it completely impossible for him to think of any military or semimilitary aggressions as far away from home as South America.

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A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

O long as a man refrains from mayhem he has a legal right to slap his wife. Such is the verdict of a Chicago jurist, which verifies our suspicions that Cook County, Ill, is a backward community. “Within the meaning of the law,” says Judge

to endanger life. A man has the right to slap his wife as hard as he wants, if he doesn’t kill her, and if more husbands slapped their wives there would be fewer divorces.” That last remark sounds like wishful thinking. Probably the judge has met so many feminine clients he wanted to slap that he has allowed himself to indulge in daydreams. No doubt there are many occasions when a man is moved by the desire to use physical chastisement ‘upon his spouse. And he may be justified in his indignation. Women, especially married ones, are often exasperating and there are plenty who might be improved by a sound spanking at intervals. However, we should like to remind Mr. Finnegan

that ‘a good end never justifies evil means. While a |

lower divorce rate would unquestionably be an excellent thing for the country, any resort to wholesale wife-beating makes the curse worse than the disease. Also we are sure the women outside of Chicago would never stand for it. And we feel, too, that if the custom became widespread the sweet nature of | the American husband, who has earned such an enviable reputation for his many virtues and’ his | sllens 5 lone suffering, would be harmed.

could not find anyone who would admit that he was

refusing to accept the ad on the ground that “it would :

‘jeconsumer

Finnegan, “cruelty consists of violence great enough

Bas Jpken 1s Centey © ao: lusbands of

° Hon The Hoosier Forum 1 wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

PLANNED ECONOMY SEEN AS SOLUTION By U. T, L

We must plan industrial expansion. If the Government would underwrite a program of complete utilization of all our productive resources, and insure all producers who co-operate in such a program against loss from such production,

program of relief, deficit spending, and petty politics. . There can be no valid excuse for a democracy endowed with abundant natural and human resources failing to utilize these to maintain a rational economic program. : A revival of NRA among the basic industries, by which government, labor and consumer representatives would agree on yearly expansion programs, to: insure - producers against loss, labor - against layoffs, against rising prices, would provide us real national prosperity. There can be no security for our businessmen if they must face uncertainty of a market for their goods. We can remove this uncertainty not by peanut politics, but by economic statesmanship. That calls for economic planning by business and government, in conference. If agricultural planning is possible, then industrial planning is even more so. If wartime planning is necessary, then peacetime planning is the test of democracy. We could excel all other planned economies if we used the democratic process in our program. - 2 2 ” SEES END OF ERA OF MUST LEGISLATION By Charles M. Means

The worm is slowly turning, indicating that it was not trampled upon by poppycock legislation enacted at Washington and elsewhere during the last six years. This does not imply that all the new laws are bad, as some were very good, others with good intentions, but unworkable, and ' a few having absolutely: no merit whatever. No longer do we hear of dictated “must” legislation. The present Congress is not in a subservient mood with respect to executive demands but is trying to do those things best suited for the American people to whom responsibility is now recognized. : The heyday of indiscriminate Government spending is on its way out and ere long will be replaced by industrial expansion and increased employment as we knew it in other ‘and: more prosperous days. The fear of a dictatorship is lessening. in the minds of men and confidence is slowly returning. All is not well but a start is being made in the proper direction and, unless ‘some untoward condition, arises, the hum of industry at work will once again be heard throughout the land. It is becoming more and more apparent that this country is a real democracy

we -could dispense with the inane|

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where the people rule through their accredited op Draeniatives. Long live the 3.8

OFFERS S GGESTION IN JUDICIAL POINTMENTS By W.T. How great a general principle lies behind the controversy that has been whipped up between Senator Glass and the President remains to be seen. The Constitution says, in naming the powers of the President: “He shall nominate and by and with the advice and consent of the Senate shall appoint ambassadors, other public ministers: and consuls, judges of the Supreme Court, and all other officers of the United States whose appointments are not otherwise herein provided for, and which shall be established by law; but the Congress may by law vest the appointment of such inferior officers as they think proper in the President alone, in the courts of law, or in fhe heads of departments.” That means simply: The President picks out the man he wants for the job, after Senators have made their suggestions. If they don’t like the nominee they may reject him. In short, both the President and Senator Glass are entirely within their rights as defined by the Con-

REMINISCENT MOOD

By ANNA E. YOUNG Comme, let us tarry down memory ane : : And tread that magic highway Where one need not seek nor search in vain For some ne'er forgotten byway.

One path turns off ’mid tangled maze But you see a pathway—still And if carries you back to bygone

days And a schoolhouse on the hill

So clearly comes the peaceful chime Of Sunday mornings past When the little church bell pealed the time Yes—years—do travel fast!

DAILY THOUGHT

But when the husbandmen saw the son, they said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and let us seize on his inheritance.—Matthew 21:38.

LOOD, though it sleep a time,

yet never T dies—Chapman,

stitution, The President must listen to the advice of Senators in making his nominations, but he need not heed it. He may nominate whom he pleases, for any reasons that seem to him good. And the Senate in turn may accept or reject the nomination for any reasons that seem good to the Senate. So much for the rights of the situation. But what about the wisdom of it? Certainly the intent of the Constitution, or of any governmental instrument, is to get the best man for the job. That is why the. Senate is given power to advise, because it is presumed that no President can find without help men .in every State fitted for jobs. That is why the Senate is given the power to reject, because an unscrupulous ‘President might fill appointive. offices with men of obvious unfitness. : In the Roberts case in. Virginia, it is difficult to see how either the Presiden’ or the Senate acted on the kind of high principles that ought to govern in high places. Did President Rcosevelt ncminate Mr. Roberts simply to annoy Senator Glass and to give intiuente to a party element in the state more friendly to himself than to Senator Glass? Then he was wrong. Did Senator Glass kill Judge Roberts’ confirmation simply out of pique because hjs man was not named, and without regard to the fitness of Mr. Roberts for the job? Then he, too, was wrong. The solution of this sort of thing is the ncmination and confirmation of a judge tied to neither . party faction, and of so obvious fitness that the Senate will not dare reject him. The country has a right to expect that judicial appointments be placed ane kept on that plane.

ANIMALS SEEM “To "HAVE THE RIGHT 1DEA By A. B. ©.

Domestic animals seldom suffer or die of heart disease. Dr. E. H. Dukes, professor of veterinary physiology at Cornell University, has found that “because they live more naturally than humans,” such disorders are far more | rare among animals than among men.’ . The enimal heart, Dr. Dukes notes, “is not subjected to the unnatural stresses and strains that man has built up for himself through civilization.” It looks as though Dr. Dukes has got something there. Most dogs, for example, can lie down, relax completely, and even sleep at the slightest oppcrtunity. They do it, too. But there is something about modern life that demands that men keep at a piano-wire tension all the time, whether they are doing anything or not. As w2 learn to conquer the diseases that. conquered our grandfathers, we create new tensions, strains, worries, complications, that will in furn kill us. It just doesn’t

make sense.

B5 TWO PEOPLE FALL OUT OF LOVE, CN THEY ALL IN Ach? | YE6 0RNO_—

CERTAINLY, although it isn’t’

“happy : has

LET S EXPLORE YOUR MIND

By DE. ALBERT ED{NVARD WIGGAM.

WEEE o PLODDER OR E UP-AND- COMING Corea

YOUR OPINION eine down. near the frost line, but if it

as easy. ' In Ph ae all the has ever been real love it will soon

) to normal. After all,

tween two people who have ever been really in love, a vacation off to themselves or even a day at

|Coney Island or an extra bouquet

of roses will set. it going again. 2 = 8 YES, the tendency is very very strong for them to do so. Under tae pressure of attorneys and of the courtroom audience—(witnesses cught to be examined quietly in private and not in public) most people become confused enough on moral issues to squirm and dodge and hunt for some loophole to keep from telling a damaging truth until they get into such a mental tangle the easiest way

‘jout is to lie their way out. Truth--|ful people often do this when they .|fully intended to tell the truth.

/ 8 2 8 A FAPPINESS TEST by which on2 can estimate and compare his happiness with the general mine run of human beings has been devised by Dr. Goodwin Watson of Columbia University and he finds that there is not much difference in the happiness scores of the con-| tented plodder and the go-getter.

jEisppiness Seems fo he tus 59 other

there's an idea there.” I think

| Watching Your Health

Gen. Johnson Says—

Brandeis One 5 Greatest Judges Produced by U. S. or English Law; Great Intellect as’ Keen as_ Ever.

YORK, Feb. 15. N is (sad to see Justice ‘Brandeis retire. He came to the bench in a storm of protest. He leaves it in a calm of universal affection and approval. He is one of the greatest judges produced in either English or American Jaw. In spite of his advanced age his’ mind is as keen as ever and his experience on the bench and elsewhere seasoned even his great judgment more every year. As a practicing lawyer he took a new approach to the presentation of cases to the courts. He took it for granted that the judges knew the law. - His briefs carried as much law as the case required but -principally they presented .the economic’ or philosophical background that seemed to distinguish and. decide

every ‘great cause he advanced.

Both as a lawyer and as a judge, he turned. ‘his face against legalism. This had much to do in reforming the legal profession in this’ regard, even though that reform has not gone nearly far. enough,

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HEN he ascended the supreme hench “he retired into no sanctified vacuum where only law. is known. I doubt if any judge-ever kept himself bet ter informed about what was going on not: only in government but in the country at ‘large. Supreme Court judges can’t go about’ “mixing” like a Rotary organizer. But Judge Brandeis. does not have to go to people. They come- to him. -He usually empties them of their thoughts and information - in return for clarifying advice. Above all, he knows business. as. well as the. greatest of our captains of industry, In his law practice his advice was sought as much as.an industrial expert as for his legal training. He distrusts bigness in busie ness but this springs from no business-baiting prejue dice. He thinks that there are-very definite and not very wide limits to the capacity of even the best hue man mind to manage organizations well. I can claim no close acquaintance with the great judge but at two highly critical moments for mée— once in the World War draft and once in NRA—I went to him for help and advice and he ge it. freely and gladly. : i ; Le. ne N the first case, a rash and bigoted subordinate had slipped something into a published regulation which was insulting and highly prejudicial to: the Jewish people. In the second, NRA was just begin= ning to get into difficulties that finally. killed it.. I followed his advice in the first case ‘and got out of the toughest spot in the draft. I couldn't follow it in the second even though I knew it was right. In connection with this second case, it never oce curred to me that it would cause any criticism to re= late the fact and I did so in a speech. Immediately the tom-toms began to beat— a Supreme Court judge had given advice on a legal matter. Of course that was utter nonsense as I tried to make plain, Neither time that I went to Judge Brandeis was any legal matter whatever involved. Had there been any such question, I would not have consulted him and he would not have listened. Both were pure ques= tions of administration. I went to him, as I have just said, as many industrialists ‘went before he bee came a judge—to consult one of the best minds in the country on a question of common sense. It is a pity that this great intellect is gone from government. It will be impossible to Feplave him.

It Seems to Me By Heywood Broun

In Talk With Bartender He Gets Idea of What Mexico ls. After,

ONTERREY, Mexico, Feb. 15—We had breakfast at Pop Lane’s Place before heading back for the border. My friend the bartender was on the job and said that the sympathetic strike for the school teachers was still in process of negotiation. “Maybe we go out this afternoon,” he said, “or maybe tomorrow morning.” I looked -at him in some surprise because Pop Lane, the proprietor, was sitting .with us. “Oh, it doesn’t make any difference if he knows about it,” the bartender told. me, “becatise you . sea when we go out he can’t put anybody in our place, That’s the law in Mexico.” «If they close up for a day or an hour ’ said Pop savagely, “I'll never open the saloon again. “Don’t pay any attention,” remarked the bartender, “He'll open again as soon as we get the school teach ers salaries adjusted. If he didn’t, he wouldn’t have any place to play dominoes or. sit around with Amere icans and complain about Roosevelt.” “Roosevelt’s our President,” snapped Pop Lane, “You keep your Mexican nose out. of our politics, We 1 do the worrying about the New Deal, and you can worry about Cardenas and communism.” “Pop,” the bartender explained, “is a little cone fused about political and economic ideology. Cardenas isn’t a Communist or a Fascist, and he has no truck with Trotsky. What we've got in Mexico is a kind of creeping Socialism. It'll go faster before it goes

lower. 5 ts the trouble with the. saloon business in

Mexico,” Pop remarked sourly. “The bartenders read : books.” The Paper Was Generous

Floyd McGowan, the young interpreter, came in, “We got a long interview in El Porven ,? said McGowan. “It runs about three columns.” «I don’t remember that I got in more than a

hundred words edgewise,” I objected. As we were leaving the bartender drew me into a corner and handed me half a sheet of note paper. “I have tried to put down in a poem for muddled Americans what Mexico'is after.” I read: © “One wants land “And one wants Lupe “But every man, “Must have soupee.” “It's rough,” said the i Lo 1 think there

By Dr. Morris Fishbein -

d food EAS people in an older day consume principally to derive energy for the activities of the body, nowadays we recognize the impo Sanoe of certain ingredients in the diet which are req ire for building tissue .and .for maintaining it in. a 8

of health. Nevertheless, we still use our muscles to some exe

tent and we still burn carbohydrate food to provide us with energy. The total amount of such energy ret quired is much less than'it used to be; the co ing the motorcar, the elevator, and machines of bdr us types has taken from the muscles much of the en that they used to bear. : There seems to be as of little importance. Nevertheless, any great emergency experts in nutrition th food for sustaining the ener o niall - baby does: not en mu energ; rod food as the active . : of i of age needs about ' 500 calories in 24

onths, 610 calories; of 5° ‘months, 750 calories; of 10 months, 900 calories; of 12 months, 1000 and of 24 months, 1200 calories per day. - After : time, however. the child begins activities which crease greatly the demand for energy food. the last 50 years attempts have been ma to set up standards of food requirement for of various ages. The calories required increase ily with age, reaching a peak at the age of | It must be remembered that for energy of the body it is the carbohydrate f important, In car : but also all