Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 February 1939 — Page 18

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Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1939

CONGRESS AND GUAM i ¥ a special message to Congress on March 2, 1934, President Roosevelt urged the abandonment of all military ~ bases in the Philippines. | : Three weeks later Congress passed by an overwhelm‘ing majority the Tydings-McDuffie Independence Act, contdining that provision. Thus we gave the lie to Far Eastern charges that we harbored imperialistic ambitions * in that quarter of the globe. On Wednesday, by a vote of 14 to. 5, the House Committee on Naval Affairs approved an expenditure of $5,000,000 for the so-called “fortification” of Guam, a flyspeck of an island 5400 miles west of San Francisco and

: more than 3300 miles west of Hawaii, our nearest naval base.

These things don’t jibe. With one hand Congress yanks us out of the Far East, partly, at least, because Army and Navy officers say we could not successfully defend the Philippines in case of war with Japan, while with the other it shoves us right back. Only, in doing so it leaves us incomparably weaker out there than we were to begin with. For defense purposes, Guam is a liability, not an asset, $y ; :

ALLISON LEADS THE WAY AJOR AL WILLIAMS, aviation writer for The Times * and ohe of the nation’s outstanding air authorities, yesterday prophesied America’s true performance in the air rested on a new liquid-cooled aviation motor being built in Indianapolis. ’ He was referring, of course, to the engine produced by the Allison Engineering Corp., the only motor in this coun-

try rivaling the performance of the finest developed in |

Europe. No one has hammered on this need more consistently ‘than the Major. Until we scrap the blunt-nosed air-cooled motors and replace them with streamlined liquid-cooled engines this country will lag behind European nations. in fast military craft, Maj. Williams has insisted. He would add that the air-cooled motor has its place, but that place is not in the nose of a modern pursuit plane. Indianapolis may well be proud that a home industry is producing the engine that will make the aircraft of this country second to none in the world.

ON TREASURE ISLAND oe HE eyes of America will turn westward tomorrow, to“ward that 400-acre man-made island in San Francisco Bay where the Golden Gate International Exposition will be opened to the world. : “San Francisco knows how,” they say out there. And so it does, whether the enterprise at hand is to rebuild a city, or to erect two of the world’s greatest bridges, or to entertain guests with a lavish hospitality that makes them want to stay. We'd be certain, even if we hadn’t seen the pictures, that the show prepared on Treasure Island is one of surpassing beauty and interest. : In April, on the other edge of the continent, New York City will open her World’s Fair. Far be it from us to attempt comparison of the two.. We'll stick to caution—and truth—and say only that each will be wonderful, each distinctive, each different not only from the other but from anything else the world has seen. More Americans will ‘have greater incentive than ever before to travel from Coast to Coast this year, incidentally taking in the wonders of the permanent exposition known as the U. S. A. It occurs to us that there must be a lot of vitality, courage and hopefulness in a country which can stage two such shows in one season. May they both be successful beyond the fondest expectations of the two great communities that will be the hosts. ;

YOU ARE THE JUDGE INCE Mr. Ickes has made the subject of newspapermaking rather live just now we want to take this occasion

to restate what our news and editorial-page conceptions.

-are: As for news columns, they should contain facts, un--colored by editorial opinions. Whether a newspaper editor likes a man in public life, or not, is no reason for not telling about his goings and comings, reporting what he says, and “presenting without bias his acts—as news. As for editorial opinion, we repeat the creed under which we have operated and one which has seemed to call

for no change. In the first issue of a Scripps-Howard |

Newspaper, the Cleveland Press, Nov. 2, 1878, E. W. Scripps, the founder, expressed it as follows, in response to a citizen who had inquired, “What are your politics ?” .The reply: : “We have no politics—that is, in the sense of the word as commonly used. We are not Republican, not Democrat, ‘not Greenback, and not Prohibitionist. We simply intend to support good men and condemn bad ones, support good measures and condemn bad ones, no matter what party they ‘belong to. We shall tell no lies about persons or ‘policies for love, malice or money. It is no part of a newspaper's business to array itself on the side of this or that party or fight, lie, or wrangle for it.” yo CEE In those days most newspapers were party organs. The Scripps idea was that the time had come to break away from wheelhonse journalism. “i : i And so now, as then, we merely want to say that we aren’t running for any office. We are not disciples, When

we think Mr. Ickes, for example, is right we will say 0,"

as we have on many occasions. Or, if wrong, say so. Independence doesn’t mean being a professiohal liberal, onservative, reactionary, radical, or being left, right, enter, Tory, or Whig. It just means being ourselves and letting the reader judge as to our intelligence, or lack hereof. : : 3 : - We refuse to belong to any movement on the Stephen

tur gheory of right or wrong, regardless. W 3) .C 4

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By Westbrook Pegler

Bus Boy's Suit Against Rudy Vallee Stresses Great Value We Place on Our Human Rights and Such Things.

EW YORK, Feb. 17.—There was a little backstairs fuss between two members of the help in a night club in Miami. Rudy Vallee was charged with assaulting Rodney Dillard Borden, Mr. Borden is a bus boy. - Everybody knows who Mr, Vallee is. b Mr. Vallee was acquitted. Mr. Borden, 17, said Mr.

The dispatch said that, notwithstanding the

bodily harm, shock and the‘indignity of it all.. A boy of 17 receives bruises in football and in disputes with other boys and thinks nothing of them. So apparently most of the $10,000 damage occurred to the young man’s dignity and he is well within his right in demending reparation. 3 But I am circling for an opening of the subject of our colossal, incalculable, aggregate treasure as a nation in good repute, dignity, sensitive feelings, physical well-being, inalienable rights, peace of mind and love, Let us assume, just to obtain a figure, that Mr. Borden, age 17, a bus boy, actually was damaged $10,000 worth, According to my estimates, the bruise would be scheduled at not more than 6 cents, the nominal figure. That would leave a balance of $9,999.94 to cover the invisible wounds to Mr. Borden's spirit and rights. : % : : 8 8 8 have 120,000,000 people, so the American nation possesses well over 12 trillion dollars in feclings and the human right not to be pushed except with just provocation. And that is the minimum figure, because this victim is just a young boy and the incident, at worst, was only- a trifling affair. And, obviously, if Mr. Vallee had kicked the living daylights out of him and sworn twice as load and long his damage would have been much worse possibly $100,000.

To those who would sell America short, I present this note of rebuke and cheer. To them, also, I cite the fact that the average asking price for a reputation which has been damaged by incorrect statement in print or on the air is $100,000 per incident, which

1 signifies that we possess among us at least 120 trillion

dollars of wealth in that department. Certain precious feelings and rights overlap slightly on the various legal fronts. They are exposed to risk in physical assault, libelous statement and again in the realm of love, except that in dealing with the cash value of love we must reduce the rights by half, because only ladies may be legally damaged in this field. ” o 8

© O the population must be reckoned at only 60 million in estimating this item. The customary price is $100,000 for each offense, but it must be added that a lady may be jilted again and again. Then we Lave the matter of collateral or referred sufferings—that which parents sue for when their little boy tries to turn a neighbor's dog inside out and is nipped slightly on the hand. It generally amounts to about $15,000 per parent.

the figures, but this rough draft -should convince anyone that even when Mr. Roosevelt has spent all the money and all the deficit and all the tangible property of the nation the United States will still be rich beyond figures in treasures which are imperisnable and inexhaustible,

Business

By John T. Flynn

Justice Brandeis. Among the First To See Need for Economic Reform.

EW YORK, Feb. 17.—Justice Brandeis, who went upon the Supreme Court bench 23 years ago amid a shower of brickbats, leaves it amid a shower of roses, and strangely, the people who now throw the roses are those who threw the bricks. ,- One of the wonders of the conservative mind is that, century after century, year after year, it goes along committing the same mistake on the same set of facts. Bsa When Justice Brahdeis was appointed by Woodrow Wilson on Jan. 28, 1916, the New York Sun spoke of it as a “ridiculously unfit appointment” and as an effort of Mr. Wilson “to weaken rather than strengthen the bench.” The New York Press said it was “a shock to the American people and to the members of the Supreme

| Court itself it might well be regarded as an insult.”

The New York Times spoke in restrained terms of caution and misgiving and the Tribune hoped—but obviously a little hopelessly—that he would not carry “to the Supreme Bench the narrow and mistaken attitudes which he took when he was serving as adviser to the Interstate Commerce Commission.” Now the great Justice has retired. The Times says: “A great judge goes, and it will be easier to thank him than to replace him.” The Tribune says: “There are few who doubt today that he ranks with the great American jurists.” . ;

Opposed to Bigness

The peculiar service of Justice Brandeis was that he was among the first of his profession to realize that this is an economic world and that those great battles for human freedom which had been fought by Jefferson and Samuel Adams on the political field Jag now to be fought over again on the economic eld. : The lawyers of his day, as a whole, and the editorial writers of his day did not understand the lan-

1 guage he spoke. They did not understand then what

has become so poignantly obvious 1.ow, that the only salvation of what men like to call the American way of life—the way of democracy and human freedom

the reign of economic justice. : Justice Brandeis has stood unfalteringly for an other ideal. He has stood against the mania for “bigness” in business and for the opportunity for the “Httle man” to find his place of leadership. Now that he has put aside the robes of the Court and the restraints upon his pen which belonged to them, it would be of singular interest to hear from him on huis subject which he has always continued to meditate upon. : .

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson’

f: FRIEND of mine who conducts a family-relations course in the public schools tells me that the groups of women she works with are bewildered because they do not know how to co-ordinate their jobs. In the first place they are mothers and homemakers, and feel they must perfect themselves in those arts.

can mothers do to be good citizens?

A great many people evade the issue by saying that when a woman brings up a bunch of nice, mannered children, she is a good citizen. I

ered don't think so—and these other women don’t either. ;

‘are communities: where the howling wolves of graft and crime prey’ upon the innocent. They know. that they are going into a world where international relations: are settled’ a to the codes of the barbarians instead of by civilized ethics. They know that brothels, gambling: houses, narcotic and liquor salesmen surround them and that unless they can be fortifled against the temptations by their mothers, these children will ‘be suckers. So all the good work a woman may have done in 18 long years to produce one decent boy can be undone in a couple of months by vicious influences over which she has no control. She could have some control over them, of course if she exercised her citizenship rights to good purpose.’ {Modern motherhood has got to be militant, if it hopes ne ;

It is no longer possible for: us to sit

Vallee hit him on the arm, bruising him, and swore at |

acquittal, Mr. Borden contemplated suit against Mr. | Vallee for $10,000. That, I assume, would be for|

This is my actuary’s day off, so I cannot foot up-

and a decent livelihood for all—is to bring about |

In the second ‘place they are citizens and they want | to be good ones. The questions they ask, then, is the biggest question before American women today—what |

well- i

Why? Simply because they know that the com-| || ‘munities into which they .are' sending Feel children | (1.

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AGAINY

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yt ; s ‘ ; ® ; . The Hoosier Forum I wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

FRIENDS SUPPORT NEW MARRIAGE BILL

By Errol T. Elliott, Minister, First Friends Church of Indianapolis

The news coming to us through the local press recently has indicated that members of the Society

of Friends (or Quakers) are to be given exemption from medical tests in the present marriage bill that is now pending in the Indiana Legislature. As a member of Friends I believe I can express the mind of our denomination when I say that we do not wish any such exemption. Personally, I am heartily in favor of the proposed medical tests and I am sure that any of our young people contemplating marriage should not, or would not, object to the medical requirements which others have to pass. The facts are, that all of our young people are securing marriage licenses and not using the exemption which was given Friends in ‘the early days when they had a different attitude

{toward civil and religious functions

in regard to marriage. I strongly protest the placing of Friends inthe light of asking for this exemption from me 1 tests on religious grounds. I think that Friends generally in the State of Indiana would be glad to have the law state that Quaker young people are required to have a license for marriage and thereby bring them under the same requirements with other people. ”

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| FAVORS BILL BANNING

STOPPING OF TRUCKS By W. B. 7

I note with interest the bill prethe stopping of trucks on the highway a felony. This is a just and reasonable weapon against senseless tactics. This could be amended. to include streets and still: be fair. While the great majority of truck drivers and terminal employees is intelligent and loyal both to ‘their employers. and to : the idea of peaceful collective bargaining, the so-called “business .agents” are something else. : - Business agents who can approach a question fairly and intelligently and who know the value of courtesy in any transaction between men would make it unnecessary to waste the time of our Legislators with such bills as this one. . 2 a 8 FAVORS SUPREME COURT

RULE OVER BAR

By Paul A. Dickey

I note in reading Clell Maple’s Feb. 14 Forum letter that he doesn’t

of Indiana lawyers to the Bar ‘Association and the Supreme Court. | | I think this bill would be O. K. if it gave control to the Supreme Court and nobody else. Almost two years ago I went to the chairman of the

|and themselves:

sented in the Legislature making|-

-A glorious change I will confess

like ‘the Integrated Bar Bill very| strongly because it gives full control}

(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.)

grievance committee of the Bar Association and filled a complaint against an attorney. This chairman gave me a letter to a board member saying he thought my case was a case of malpractice and for him to investigate this thoroughly. It seems to me they should have my case investigated by now. I wonder what the reason is for the delay. Give the Supreme Court full control over the bar so when we have a complaint against an attorney the Supreme. Court can investigate the charges and disbar him. if the charges are substantiated. g's 8 CRITICIZES WIVES WHO WORK FOR LUXURIES By Observer : I had to laugh at the statement that men who earn more than $100 a week should not allow their wives to work. I get around and I know men qualified to earn that much who would be tickled to death to get a job at $100 a month to sup-

port a couple of children, a wife And they cannot

"THE SILVER LINING

By EDNA JETT CROSLEY Oh, how bright this day shall be Although without ‘tis dreary. : The grounds are wet as you can see, The storm has left me weary.

Yet though the sky be overcast, I found the silver lining.

.I ‘turned dark clouds wrong side

out, : To where the sun is shining.

Took place within my heart. A smiling friend brought happiness, A light. shone in the dark.

Let raindrops fall, let skies grow

ark; With all things put together ri have nsught but sunshine in my

. eart In any kind of weather,

DAILY THOUGHT

And there was no more war unto the five and thirtieth year of ihe reign of Asa.—II Chronicles +1519, :

P we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.—Rochefoucauld.

|would now be a fortune to them.

“'|to some man walking the streets

| penced in that direction.

find a job. Fifty dollars a week

These poor unfortunate job hunters can find no work because some wives who are not actually in need hold the jobs. ‘I sgy to the bosses: Don't hire a woman or girl who does not have to eafn her living.” Give that job

begging for a job that will pay him enough to keep his family fed and warm. He is not asking for luxury; he wants only the chance to keep their bodies and souls together. I have no quarrel with women or girls who work because they have to support themselves and perhaps help support some other member of the family. I am all for their working—but these chiseling wives even keep them out of jobs so they may have luxury. And luxury at a time like this is a crime. : 2 » = ) CLAIMS SPORTS MATCH FANS IGNORE PARKING LAWS By Just 3 I noticed in your issue of Feb. 14 that Chief Morrissey had sent letters to ministers of some 14 churches, asking them to caution their congregations to be observant of parking and traffic laws while attending church on Sundays. I might suggest that the recipients of those letters write and ask Chief Morrissey if he ever took time to write even one letter of admonition to the promoters of the wrestling and boxing matches held twice weekly, Tuesday and Friday, at the Armory on N. Pennsylvania St. Pgirons not only fail to observe parking and traffic laws but actually flaunt their violations by parking not only too near fire-plugs, but right against them, in yellowpainted safety zones, one-way alleys, ete. In short, they park as catch-as-catch-can as the matches they attend, yet motorcycle officer after officer goes by there, and not a sticker, not even a glance, is ex-

2 2-8 DOL/BTS PEGLER’S CRITIC COULD. FILL POST By Joe Green In answer to Claude Braddick’s letter about taking Mr. Pegler’s job for a fraction of his salary—well, tha’ statement really takes the cake!

I couldn't resist answering this letter. He :said the man is bored wit]: - the glamorous job. ‘I wonder whet Mfr. Braddick would write about day in and day out, year after year? a Sa, he would work for a fraction of Pegler's salary. Well, if he ever

get. any part of it, so help ‘me Th Times will lose a customer, i

Imm WOMEN AS IN MEN?

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LET'S EXPLORE YOUR MIND

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worth and fight as hard as men do to get ahead of others.

# NO. If one tries to do every4 thing well that is worth doing he will wind up by getting nothing dor.e well. Life is too full of things tha’ need to.be done to perfection for one to undertake to do every-

thirig that comes along to’ perfec-|

tior—from paying perfect attention to his mother~in-law’s story of: hér insomnia to writing .a® perfect

leitar to his customer. One has to] rigidly select the very few things

he can do well and stick to them or. he will wear out his nerves and

“y YES, on most of the major

pi¢ple dispute the Ten Commandkeeps all of them to the letter.

many moral questions. One psy chologist submitted this problem,

with 10 different solutions, to! a} usband

great many people: “A hi 1 discovers his wife is in love with a friend, and her love is returned; what should he do?” There was no ; ; : have

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Neutrality Act Need Not Commit Us to Inaction, but We Should Give Careful Study to Proposed Change. EW YORK, Feb. 17—Tt is riow proposed hy Sene

+N ator Thomas of Utah that the so-called “Neue trality Act” be amended to permit this Government to

| decide which is an “aggressor” nation in any foreign

war’ and to prevent it from buying munitions here while we permit its “victim” to do so. : Neutrality means “taking no part in any war be-

J tween two other nations.” I do not oppose this pro-

posal. But it is not “neutrality.” As has so often been said, the economic front of modern war is frequently

- | the decisive front. ‘To favor one embattled nation on

the economic front is taking sides almost as effec tively as taking sides on the military front. : In case of any war between foreign nations, there are three broad courses we could follow. (1) We could refuse to sell munitions to either side. (2) We could sell munitions to either. Both of these courses, since neither discriminates, could be called neutrality. (3) We could, as is proposed in the Thomas amendment, de= cide which is the righteous side and sell to it and not to the other. This is not neutrality. :

efit “neutrality act”. We could sell only to the side that could: “come and get it” in their own ships and pay “cash on the barrel head”—the so-called

1 “cash and carry” policy. This was not intended pri

marily as a “neutrality” policy. Theoretically it is

{ “neutral,” since it treats both sides alike. Frequently,

in practice, it favors the side with the longest purse and the strongest naval and merchant marine. The idea was that if American money did not become involved in a war through credits to a belligerent and American ships did not enter danger ous waters carrying contraband of war, the chances of our getting into a foreign war would be greatly

reduced. lio x : But this idea has come under eriticism. Why? China, without ships and money cannot buy as easily as Japan. We favor China.. ‘The Spanish Rebels could buy more easily. than the. Spanish Loyalists. The Rebels are allied with Germany and Italy and;

we do not favor them. Easily understandable— it is not neutrality. ca y : : i

‘ 8 8 T= argument ‘immediately arises—we must supe port the democracies against ‘the dictatorships. If the dictatorships overcome France, England and China, the balance of power in the world will be upset. We shall be. the next victims of Japan on the West and the Rome-Berlin axis on the East, All this is merely to make the issues clear and not in opposition to the Thomas amendment which does not provide that the President alone can thus declare economic war by discriminating in the sale

of munitions against an “aggressor” nation. It proposes that the President with the approval of Cone gress can do that. This is mere surplusage. Ree gardless of the Neutrality Act, or the’ Thomas amendment, Congress and the President could do this at any time they desired just as they could declare military war, It does not necessarily commit us to action. It boils down to a mere assertion that the Neutrality Act does not necessarily commit us to inaction. In this troubled world that seems wise. The important

thing is that we ‘see clearly what we are doing, ’

It Seems to Me By Heywood Broun |

Vandenberg on 'Best Dressed" Lists Even Jealous Colleagues Rejoice,

: ASHINGTON, : Feb. 17.—Vandenberg . made ‘ it”. This happy cry still echoes up and down “the Hill.” By tradition politicians are jealous, but at the moment none has expressed envy of the modest man from Michigan Who has been honored before all his fellows in the Congress. : The National Association of Merchant Tailors has voted Senator Vandenberg one of “the 20 best-dressed men in America.” . According to the old adage, it takes nine tailors to make a man, but a far greater number were repre= sented in the:body which has just passed a vote of confidence in Arthur. Lucius Beebe and 18 other distinguished citizens. With great tact the merchants have explained that each member of ‘the fortunate fraternity was chosen “for some special item of appeal rather than superior magnificence in all clothes.” I suppose one cannot reasonably expect as much candor from stylists as from statesmen. Tailors are inclined to equivocate in a manner which would be shocking to a Senator. But, though the choice be difficult, the general public cannot avoid a curiosity as to which one among the 20 is really Mr. America. And I suggest that Senator: Vandenberg might press his sartorial claims under the snappy slogan “Hold that togal® 298 die

Maybe It Will Be an Issue

“Just put yourself in the place of Arthur H, Vane denberg,” said one of his newspaper admirers. “The telephone rings at noon, and the frightened voice of a G. O. P. whip exclaims that the New Deal forces are attempting a sudden Treasury raid in favor of the needy. In such a spot can the Senator be expected to pause and cogitate as to just which precise pastel shade will best. express his political convictions? Obviously, no. When the clear call comes that now is the time for all gobd men to come to the aid of the party Vandenberg pulls on his pants and gallops to the rescue. .. . . , : : Se “You and the Beebe set may sneer if you please, but. Arthur H..Vandenbérg, of Michigan, is the finest ‘dressed political fireman who ever slid down a brass pole to check a holocaust within the higher brackets.” Some hold that the honor which has just come té Mr. Vandenberg may enhance his political ambitions, and others think that a trouser crease could be some thing less than the paramount issue in the next came paign. ‘But agreement is general that if the welldressed gentleman from Michigan captures the Republican nomination and wins the election he will restore to the White House an elegance which has not been seen since the days of Martin Van Buren. !

| Watching Your Health

By Dr. Morris Fishbein

N most American homes there are electrical devices - such .as radios, vacuum cleaners, lights and even washing machines, mangles, toasters, coffee percoe lators, flat irons, and innumerable other electrical gadgets. ; iit If a human being gets between two. poles. of elecs trical current: or touches one pole and the ground at the same time, he becomes a part of the electrical cire cuit. It will not take him long to realize that this has happened. ‘All.of us have occasionally had this- exe perience. ; i os Fe .. Whereas the danger is not exceedingly great when one deals with'the ordinary house current; it is multiplied tremendously when high-tension currents of thousands: of volts are concerned. Under these cir» ‘cumstances the shock jg sbmetintes sufficient to kill in

‘The effects of electrical shock on the body concern first, and of less importance, the electrical burn, a second, the effects of the electric shock, particular on the nerves and muscles. The sudden powerful in fluence of ‘an electric current on the entire body | manifested by spasm and rigidity of the muscles, ir cluding those by which we breathe and the muscles ~The muscles of the heart may be thrown into.rapid, sudden: vibration. They may be paralyzed and as |

{result ‘the heart stops. The danger depends on the.

nature of the circuit with which contact’ first rule is to get the person concerned a current either by turning off the powe