Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 February 1939 — Page 10

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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1939

‘WHEREIN WE DODGE E want to take no part in this scrap, but merely to remark that F. D. R., who hates war, is doggone lucky

to be on his way to the Caribbean. : : For an act of his just before he left may involve conflict at home more deadly than the male. We don’t understand all the nuances. But we do know that hair is about to fly, and that therefore it seems to be a case of gangway, and every man for himself. It all comes from the fact that Miss Doris Stevens has been fired from a job and that Miss Mary Winslow has been appointed thereto, that the action stems right back to the White House, that Mrs. Roosevelt and Miss Perkins and Mary Dewson and Senator Guffey’s sister are all mixed up in it, that the President had his mind on fishing and didn’t quite understand what he was doing, and that the best thing for all nonparticipants is to hit for cover. One commentator says it’s going to be even a worse storm than the one which raged when the good-neighbor policy blew up in the days of Dolly Gann and Alice Roosevelt. -All we know is that Miss Stevens, prominent feminist, is out, and Miss Winslow, another prominent feminist, is in, as U. S. member of the Inter-American Commission of Women. ; ; Now, that, in itself, doesn’t sound so terrifying, or the . subject so familiar. But it appears that in the background “is ‘a long-standing controversy between two feminine groups—one which thinks that there should be no hatremoving in elevators, that women are literally entitled to equal rights and nothing more; and the other which espouses a have-your-cake-and-eat-it ideology, believing in protective legislation for the so-called weaker sex. What this has to do directly with Latin America isn’t so easy to follow: And the danger is, if you go into too much research you’ll get mixed up in the trouble yourself. So all we say is that a buzz-saw has been set in motion, and, in the words of a famous movie producer, you can include us out of it.

INSURANCE QUESTIONS . JNTERESTING information about insurance companies is being developed by the monopoly committee at Washington. One fact brought out is that some companies: do much business with other interests with which their directors are connected. For instance, former Governor Al Smith, being chairman of a fuel-oil concern and a director of New York Life, solicited a chance to sell oil to the insur‘ance company and was permitted to meet a competitor's low bid. =f ; . Insurance executives contend this is proper. Price and quality being equal or better, they consider it good practice to give business to, and receive business from, their directors’ other interests. A great deal of American business is done on that basis. If the monopoly committee decides that it’s wrong in the case of insurance companies, and that the Government should do something about it, the ~_committee’s duty will be to make recommendations in due y But we think a more vital question concerning insurance and the Government just now in millions of minds . is this: Will the dollars in which our policies are paid, ,~ five, 10 or 20 years hence, be worth as much as the dollars we're paying in premiums? : That question can’t be answered by the insurance companies or the monopoly committee. A man anxious to know whether a thousand dollars of insurance will provide his family with what he considers a thousand dollars’ worth of security must look elsewhere—to the Government and _ its fiscal policy. A sound fiscal policy, one designed to safe- ¢ guard Government credit and prevent the disaster of inflation, would be the most reassuring answer he could have.

2 DEATH OF A CRUSADER hl READIN G of the death of Dr. Clarence True Wilson, we : thought back to the time when his title—General - Secretary of the Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohi(bition and Public Morals—-was as formidable in fact as in |i length. {Those days seem very far away and long ago. It’s hard to realize that Dr. Wilson survived only five years {i beyond the end of his era of power. He and Bishop Can- , non and the late Wayne B. Wheeler were dominant figures in political life and national affairs. Presidents deferred }: to them, Congressmen obeyed them. From his headquarters in the Methodist Building at Washington, just across . the way from the Capitol, Dr. Wilson helped direct the # ‘winning fight to put prohibition into the Constitution and = then, as public sentiment changed in the way that American public sentiment always does change toward extreme reforms, the losing fight to keep it there. : Dr. Wilson was one of the few remaining leaders of ‘the group that regarded prohibition as the supreme national issue in this country.

360 MILLION DOLLARS ME: CHAIRMAN, the total carried in this Independent ~~ Offices Appropriation Bill is the largest that has ever been carried by such a bill. Taking all items into consideration, it is well over $2,300,000,000. “Leaving deficiency items out of the picture, the totals rried by this bill in recent years have been substantially follows: 1935 s.iecececnnncineieenned..§ 617,000,000 : 777,000,000 - A937 sueeseesisecncienncnseenes. 880,000,000 3938 Vevesenersrrecenrioennai... 958,000,000 1939 ....ccoiiiiiiiiiinneniane.. 1,596,000,000 +1940 the bill under consideration. . . 2,360,485,000 _ “There is available to all a copy of the hearings on the The hearings are four or five inches thick, If my metic is correct, if someone will paste a million dollars ach one of the pages of the hearings we. shall have Just t enough money available to meet the appropriations ed in the bil.”—Rep R. B. Wigglesworth (R. Mass.) onal Record, fia

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In Washington By Raymond Clapper

Sending Richberg to Mexico City To Negotiate on Oil Seizures Seems ‘Sensible Attempt to End Deadlock.

ASHINGTON, Feb. 18.—The policy of making faces over the back fence was getting neither

side anywhere in the long impasse over the seizure of

So both sides have decided to try to negotiate a working arrangement. ) Neither side would consider any proposition that the other was willing to advance. Continuing for months, this situation has cast a heavy shadow over the good-neighbor policy of the United States at a

getting very little out of them. The result was that except principles.

involved, which include Standard of New Jersey and California and Sinclair, plus the British interests represented in Dutch Shell, now have agreed to send Donald R. Richberg, former head of NRA, to Mexico City with authority to negotiate with the Mexican Government. : After a short business trip to California, Mr. Richberg will go to Mexico, arriving there about March 1. The Cardenas Government invited him and in addition, he has the blessing of the Administration here.

# 8 2 > OT only the State Department but Mr. Roosevelt himself is anxious to end the impasse. Mexico’s seizure of the oil properties made the United States look like, not a good neighbor, but an easy sucker. Yet strong-arm action by this Government, such as Secretary Hull sometimes feels would be justified, would backfire all over Latin America. Mexico has had difficult going since seizing these

foreign oil properties nearly a year ago. The British Government treats the oil out of Mexico as stolen goods. Normal markets have been closed to the Mexican Government, which has been forced to peddle it mostly through barter deals with the hard-

pressed dictator countries. Without American technicians to operate the properties, the Mexicans have imported some German engineers. That has been expensive, as has been the loss of taxes and payrolls from the American companies. Internal difficulties are increasing in anticipation of the Presidential election in Mexico next year. The Mexican Government can’t, or won't, for political reasons, return the oil properties outright to their former owners. American companies have refused to recognize the confiscation by accepting promises of compensation, knowing anyway that Mexico cannot, as the properties are now operated, make good on any real compensation, even if it were possible to arrive at any fair valuation of the properties, which is doubtful. : # 8 = R. RICHBERG'S job—and wangling ‘through an NRA code was sandpile play compared with the job of bringing the Mexican Government and the oil companies into agreement on anything—will be to find an operating formula that will [forget about the conflicting principles and proceed to deal practically with the realities of the situation, which are: 1. The Mexican Government, has the properties but is drawing little from them except trouble. 2. The foreign oil companies have lost their properties and are getting nothing out of them. 3. When one side has the properties but doesn’t know how to run them, and the other side doesn’t have the properties but does know how to run them, then the practical thing to do is to strike a bargain which will yield something to both sides.

Business By John T. Flynn

Latest Statistics on Cotton Bare Sorry Plight of That Industry.

: EW YORK, Feb. 18 —Probably the sorriest statis- - tical figure that has made its way to the public is the report on the cotton which we sell abroad. The great cotton growing industry of the South, which depends for its health upon its sale in foreign countries, in the last six months of 1938 sold less cotton abroad than it has done since 1880. One has to go back nearly 60 years to reach a year: where our cotton exports were so low. There is a profound lesson in these figures. The United States and the South has to make up its mind whether it wants to sell abroad or not. If it wishes to sell abroad, then it must recognize the fact that Europe and Asia are broke, so far as their power to buy from other countries is concerned. That being so, their ability to buy our cotton is greatly reduced. The next thing we have to recognize is that the

-higher the price for our cotton, the more difficult

and even impossible it becomes for these hard-pressed European customers to buy it. That being so we must see very.clearly that every time we add either by natural or artificial means to the price of cotton the less we will sell. : The price of cotton at the bottom of the depression sank to the most disastrous levels, . To help these farmers the Government embarked upon a policy of raising prices, by making Government loans on cotton to enable farmers to keep it off the market. :

Bad Problem Made Worse

As a result there has piled up in Government warehouses, either as collateral for Government loans or as the outright property of the Government through defaulted loans, more than 11 million bales of cotton. In other words, cotton, instead of going abroad, has been going into the hands of the Government. How much this is so you will see from this faci: That this season the country probably will not ship abroad more than four million bales. This policy has resulted in better’ prices for cotton. Bug it has also resulted in killing off our export trade. Prices above the world market prices result in loss of exports. But they also had the effect of stimulating the sale abroad of other textile fabrics. It is now a serious question whether we may not have forever killed off our cotton market abroad. In other words,

instead of solving the cotton problem we have actually made it worse,

A Woman's Viewpoint

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

T= New York Association has chosen the ideal mother-in-law. She is Mrs. Lorna Doone Mitchell, and while we're making our salaams we may as well examine the excellent requirements she set up for herself. Here they are: Don’t meddle; stand by for help. Don't argue. Maintain a give-and-take attitude, and keep your sense of humor.” Sounds ‘simple, doesn’t it? Just the same, let’s not Sump to conclusions, for being a good anything isn’t always as easy as it looks on the surface. However, the woman who can live up to Mrs. Mitchell's last rule need not worry about the others. A sense of humor plays its part in every successful

that a person has the ability to get the proper per-

importance. And that, you'll takes hunk of humor. You Be ® large The reason so many women fail as mothers-in-law —and as mothers, for that matter—is that they take

that failing. Behind the error in judgment is a t during which large doses of Side tosh nin fed to the womenfolk of several generations by men who must have been shamefaced, or they could never have thought up so many sugarcoated platitudes.

that motherhood endows you with some near-divine virtue, and that having borne a child you can walk among men wearing a halo of goodness, well—you come mighty near to believing the tripe yourself. : The first lesso mother in-1 Nn goes

American oil properties by the Mexican Government.

most embarrassing time. The oil companies had lost: their properties and the Mexican Government was |.

not much was being salvaged out of the situation

After long hesitation, the American oil companies. |

feat of living. Reduced to its simplest terms, it means |

spective on herself. She learns to minimize her own.

themselves too seriously. Force of habit lies back of

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The Hoosier Forum

1 wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to'the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

LAUDS BRANDEIS FOR HIS CONSISTENCY By W. T. : Among the gravest necessities of government at the moment is the finding of a successor to Justice Brandeis on the U. S. Supreme Court who can approximately fill his shoes. In integrity, in steadfast adherence to fundamental principles, Justice Brandeis has stood for more than 20 years like a great lighthouse unmoved by the currents-and tides of American life which swirled about his feet. That is not to say that Mr. Brandeis was aloof from life. It is merely to say that the current of American legal thought has passed alternately to the right and left of Mr. Brandeis’ position, which has always remained grounded unshakably on the rock of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. Choosing Mr. Brandeis was one of Woodrow Wilson’s best public acts. To choose a worthy successore¢s one of Franklin Roosevelt’s most pressing duties. ” ® PUTS LIQUOR IN CLASS WITH DOPE By H. S. Bonsib

When will the lawmakers get down to business and quit protecting the liquor business and forever settle it by dealing with it like they do with dope, cocaine and opium? The liquor traffic can and must be killed. oh ” ” a THINKS SALOON BETTER UNDER NICHOLSON LAW

By Claude Braddick : The perennial liquor problem is again a bone of contention. Debates in the Legislature on local option remind me poignantly that “this is where I came in.” We have run the whole gamut, from unrestrained license to national prohibition. There is nothing new to try. We can only choose which of our previous experiments has‘ given best results. - The years just prior to national prohibition, under Indiana’s socalled Nicholson law, was the golden age of temperance. The Nicholson law envisioned for every saloon an almost club-like atmosphere. Under its all-seeing provisions there could be no gaming devices, mechanical music, or other enticements to enter; nor anything screening the

the street. If occasional ribald guffaws arose, remember the guffaws were always unmixed with any feminine tittering, and no one was there who did not look as if he were.

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repute, something apologetic. Then came prohibition and made of drinking a fad. Human nature cannot be changed by statute; and as long as this is true, stringent regulations will always prove more practical than outright prohibition.

SEES FORUM SERVING HIGH PURPOSE By One of Them : Ever since the inception of the Gallup polls, expressions of public, opinion are being listened to and weighed. If things aren’t run to the liking of citizens, we should let it be known. No evils are remedied of themselves. And if the Forum doesn’t read as subscribers would like, it is up to the readers to contribute what material they consider would mold it nearer their desires. For as I get it, the space is reserved for readers with the editors sitting only as referees. The possibilities of the Forum are numerous. Recently in browsing

‘NOBODY’ . By HELEN ECK

(This poem was written after the story of the Jewish baby born in a trench, and the people were so harried and preoccupied with their eviction that the baby’s sex was not even determined. They named him ‘Niemand” which is “nobody” in English.)

Poor Jittle Niemand, the Jewish -babe Born in a trench of an alien glade. “No downy pillow,” just his mother’s cold breast At night when she lays her baby to rest.

Just over the boundary; miles from the home ; He never will know, cursed forever to roam, : If he survives—what tragic fate Wii, fo like Love and so much a

DAILY THOUGHT

So Saul took a sword, and fell upon it.—I Chronicles 10:4.

GAINST self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.—Shakespeare. ~~

LET'S EXPLORE YOUR MIND

By DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM

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DOES EVERY ONE HAVE CREATIVE silgiolz

CERTAINLY. Every one can f=! create something if it is only a

in a book shop I thumbed through a volume on hobbies and found that contributing to newspapers was considered an excellent one for amateur writers. But I think the best reason for contributing is that it indicates what we're thinking about. A visitor from Los Angeles, China or Mars, in looking over the newspaper, could come to a fairly accurate conclusion of the community’s interests and state of mind. A sort of mental show window. So there can be a dignity to the column contributor if we work it right. : : 2 2 2 COMMENTS ON PLIGHT OF LOW-WAGE EARNER By Times Reader

Just now the Wage and Hour Law is what interests me the most. The minimum wage is 25 cents an hour and 44 hours a week. Will some one tell me how a man with a family of say four or five children and wife can support them on a wage like that? He has, we will say, $10 a month to pay for rent; then there is fuel, food and clothes to buy, and if sickness comes, as it is sure to in ‘ every ' family, what about the doctor’s bill? I have failed so far to see any bill in Congress to put foodstuff and clothing down to compare with wages and I find that almost all the factories and places where a man can work have cut the wages as low as they daze. Men are leaving their farms and taking the work away from the man that has no farm and if you ask him to rent you an acre to plant potatoes to ferd your family, he won't rent it to you. So I say what is the man with the family going to do? ® a 5 : OPPOSES PENSIONS FOR GOVERNORS’ WIDOWS By James M. Gates

Much has been said about pensions in the last few months. The latest proposal is to pension six Governors’ widows. My impression is that/none is in need of it. If they are/in need it would be more like common sense to pay them $35 a month instead of $250. > 2 2 &» BINGO ROBBERY, IS VIEW OF PLAYER By a Player This Bingo is robbery. Talk about marble games and slot machines— they are small potatoes beside the Bingo business. I have tried the game for more than three years and have not won one-tenth of what I put into it. It’s time to stop it. I have sat beside players who said if they didn’t win they wouldn't eat over Sunday. Somebody is getting rich.

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I hope the Legislature stops it.

the creative imagination of businessmen and their findings to date strongly indicate—although not yet conclusively—that the reason why some men dnd women succeed in business far more than others of equal general intelligence and education is that they have more of this power fo create possible solutions of questions and problems in their imagination. Anyhow an active imagination that is ruled by in-

“| telligence is a great social and busi-

ness asset. 2 2 8

A NEGRO boy in the Southern hill country told me - recently he was studying “geometry, ancient history and French.” A boy in the

New York City school told me he|:

was studying “geometry, chemistry Of all things! Of all the studies in our public schocls I think the most useless, aside from Latin, are first, geometry and,

.| second, foreign languages. Psycholo-

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Corcoran Excepted, ‘Many Think Best Way to Land an Appointment ls to Recommend Someone Else.

| NJEW YORK. Feb. 18—It is natural that capital

dopester and tipster correspondents should speculate ou the President's choice to replace ‘the great Brandeis. Washington is such a whispering gallery and so full of interior pressure groups that you can hear anything. But the truth is that “no man knoweth the mind of the king.” The President delights so in surprises and puckish departures from what dopesters prophesy that the very fact that one “candidate” seems prominent in the news might be the very reason why he would be rejected. " Sa sophisti

I think Sénator Bennett Clark and other cated Congressmen are right when. they refuse to recommend anybody because “the President pays no attention to recommendations.” But they are less than half accurate. Frequently he pays a reverse attention. In many cases a good rule for Senators would be to recommend the opposite of what they want. : It may be different with Tommy Corcoran who is reported to have telephoned from a hospital that his candidate for the Supreme Court is W. O. Douglas. Mr. Corcoran is the author of the purge—or it might nat, be too much to say—of every principal policy that has split the Democratic Party into its. present dangerous disunity. : of #8 = Ra HATEVER he recommends is likely to be in Y ¥ the principle of the purge and of “hit ’em in

the jugular.” ; If he wants Mr. Douglas, it must be because he feels confident that William on the Supreme Court would both purge ’em and hit ’em in the jugular, There is a good deal of support for this idea in both Mr. Douglas’ utterances and his actions. He is a partisan of the Fourth New Deal. : But is it the business of a judge and especially a Supreme Court Justice to be a partisan purger and a political assassin via the jugular? Isn’t it the business of a judge to be judicial and unbiased and fair? Aren’t there plenty of seasoned and .experienced judges on the various District, Circuit and State benches whose entire records prove that they are that above everything? Shouldn’t some recognition be given to that and to judicial experience in appointe ments to the Supreme, bench? Lb Stes

2 8 8 a Tor CORCORAN is supposed to be a lawyer for the Reconstruction Financé Corp. Others in similar positions have been disciplined for political activity in merely minor state elections. Of course there are responsible ‘administrative offices, such as the Attorney General, traditionally charged with a responsibility to recommend men for the Supreme Court—but Mr. Corcoran doesn’t occupy .one of those offices. > : : . Of course this is all silly. A President or. any other high administrative officer is entitled to: call out of “the vasty deep” any familiar spirits he desires to sit in his kitchen cabinet and give him whatever destructive advice he is willing to hear. i In view of the tragedy and futility of Mr. Roosee velt’s second Administration, due to following precisely such advice, it is a pity that he persists on hearing it. But that is how it is .to such an extent that it has become clearly unwise to criticize it because his sensitiveness to amy criticism could easily drive him into the very course criticized.

It Seems to Me By Heywood Broun ain G. O.P. Slumber Hour Needs Toning Up if a Sponsor Is to Be Found.

EW YORK, Feb. 18.—There is grave doubt, I believe, as to whether the Republican Slumber Hour will find a sponsor. It is insufficiently informative to rank as an educational program, and the laughs are few and far between. This last fact is not altogether a fault for at least one listener finds Herbert Hoover easier to take since he quit his recent efforts to function as a gag man. For the most part Mr. Hoover piayed straight man in his role of m. c. Some commentators had voiced the theory that the ex-President might use the occasion to launch a 1940 boom for himself. As to that I do not know, although it may be significant that in his long address the only two Republicans he mentioned by name were Abraham Lincoln and Herbert Clark Hoover. They received approximately equal attention. ; : : The five Governors constituted a hill-billy band. It was shocking that an evening dedicated to America’s greatest speaker and finest practitioner in Engelish prose should have contained so much of downright illiteracy in oratory, ecenomics, history and even grammar, ; : 3

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Herbert Hoover referred to a series of college courses as “curricular,” and John. D. Mi Hamilton spoke of Connecticut’s “Chartered Oak.” It was a sad night for any Nutmeg listeners. Even the most bitter political foes of Dean Cross never denied that he spoke invariably with ease and grace and felicity, His successor, young Mr. Ray Baldwin, apparently suffered from mike fright. : He got so snarled up in the last few moments of his Hrief address that he seemed to feel he was a phrasemaker as soon as he said “the American way.” He used it five times in four sentences before it was possible to warm up another Governor on the bench. - - None of the Governors seemed to be a _profound student of the'-man whose memory was honored. “Yau can fool some of the people all the time,” seemed to be about as far as any of the executives had: gone in his homework. 2 Bn Governor Baldwin, for instance, pictured Lincoln as a President who was passionate in his belief in unabridged States’ rights. Mr. Carr, of Colorado, made the extraordinary statement, “Lincoln knew. little of the science of government.” And Harlan J. Bushfield, of South Dakota, at least implied that the Great Emancipator believed in peace at any price. a It would be an excellent idea if every orator on the Republican Slumber Hour were assigned to see Robert E. Sherwood’s “Abe Lincoln in Illinois” before ever again attempting to interpret publicly the name and

fame of our greatest President,

| Watching Your Health @

By Dr. Morris Fishbein

PpAETicuLarLy common as a complication of colds and coughs and other winter diseases is pleurisy, an inflammation of the membranes which line the walls of the chest. Pleurisy is practically ale ways associated with infection. Other conditions, however, such as fracture of the ribs, gangrene of . the lung, tumors, or any injury to the tissues may be complicated by secondary infection and inflammation of this lining membrane. 3 neue Typical of pleurisy is the severe pain-in the side! of the chest, which is usually worse when the pati coughs or breaths deeply. Sometimes the pain is at the actual spot of the inflammation, but in ¢

| cases may be referred to the shoulder or.

domen. For example, when there is serious. pleurisy complicating pneumonia, patients sometimes fe in the area of the appendix. If the infe inflammation are sufficient, there will be fever and a general feeling of illness. The doctor determines the presence by using the simple methods of physical e which are traditional. He listens with his st over the spot where the pain is felt, and is present, he is likely to hear a rubb ing sound, which is typical of that finds also that there are changes in sounds and in the sound of the spoken due to the associated inflammation. taps the chest he will hear a chi over the area in which there is fla swelling beneath the skin, muscles constitute the walls of the chest.

Obviously pleurisy itself is not isa ow