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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1939

THE LEGISLATURE a T is now clear that the Legislature is heading for a major jam in its closing sessions. There is always a jam of some proportions at the close of any session. But this one is different. It has the appear“ance of being deliberately created to catch almost all major ‘legislation before this General Assembly. ; Evidence of what is taking place is too plentiful to permit any other conclusion. Although only 10 working days remain, hardly a single important bill outside the field of public health has reached the Governor's desk Both houses are dawdling away time. Sessions start late and close eariy. Some committees are not, even meeting. Noncontroversial bills receive the “go” signal while major ones are carefully held back. Some jockeying for favor in 1940 is inevitable in a General Assembly in which the lower House is controlled. by Republicans and the Senate by Demacrats. But the present maneuvering is trickier than that. It seems to be guided by politicians who want the city manager resolution, the merit bills, the gross income tax reduction measures and others dropped along the wayside as painlessly as possible. At the same time, in the confusion and trading.that always surrounds the closing hours of a session, these same politicians hope to patch up the liquor reform bill and do a little fast work on lowering auto licenses and raising gasoline taxes. : : : ; * Indiana has had too many bitter experiences with lastminute legislating to welcome another dose. If important legislation like liquor law reform does not clear'both houses in the next few days, then watch out!

A GOOD LOOK AT NAZIISM (From the New York World-Telegram) . OR more than three hours Monday night an audience of about 20,000 at Madison Square Garden had drummed into its ears the steady tom-tom of hatred. ; They were gripped by the rhythmic appeal of compe tent speakers, practicing upon them the settled Nazi formula—whatever is wrong, curse the Jew for it. It was a revolting exhibition to eyes and ears bred in the tolerance of American tradition. It was a complete desecration, chanting this hate with American flags for a background and ceiling-high picture of George Washington looking down on the stage. It was a perfectly shocking appeal to the most degrading poisons in the human temper. One speaker achieved a special depth of had taste in combining hate of Jews and hate of President Roosevelt into the single shopworn slur, “Franklin Rosenfeld,” spoken with a ham-like leer at the crowd. He was greeted by the loudest approval of the evening except that given the name of Father Coughlin, . Here in New York was Naziism full blast. - Here were Nazi salutes and the strong-arm Nazi boys in uniform itching to swing into action. Democracy furnished the rope, and it seemed to us this weird, malignant mummery rushed pell-mell to hang itself. The Nazis staged their show and had their say. No New Yorker can pretend now that he doesn’t know it. The more we see, the less we want. Naziism revealed its face, «and Germany is welcome to it. ... :

It couldn't have happened in Berlin, Tokyo, Rome ory

Moscow, but today New York has seen the bogey man. And an army of policemen who could be. trusted almost unanimously to loathe the meeting itself did a splendid. job. of preserving: order and upholding rights for those who wish to deny them. : : The crowning irony was the studied effort of these hate-spreaders to wrap .themselves in the vestments of Americanism. Believe it or not, this was billed as a “proAmerican rally.”

ANOTHER NEW MACHINE NOW an “eagle-eye” machine, developed in the General Electric laboratories, makes it possible to complete the finishing process in manufacturing cotton goods in about a fourth the time formerly required. Light rays scan the woven fabric at the rate of more than three miles an hour, detecting places where the cross threads need to he set straight with the lengthwise threads. The machine then makes the necessary adjustments. We marvel at such a device. Anything that speeds up the production of so important a commodity as cotton goods should be a blessing to humanity, for millions of pegple need more cloth. : : But is it? The new machine, we suppose, will displace a certain number of human inspectors and workers. They will have less money with which to buy cotton shirts, and sheets and gingham dresses. The cotton growers of the South will lose a little more of their shrinking market. There will be a trifle worse prospect of getting rid of the 14,000,000-bale surplus. And so, in some degree, the cotton growers also will be less able to buy shirts, and sheets and gingham. ; es It js not our idea that the development of faster, hetter machines can be prevented, or should be. What is ~ needed also is the development of faster, better ways to consume cotton goods. Only so, only by getting the cloth opto more of the backs and the beds where it js needed, can the machine be made the blessing it should be, Ie We refuse to believe that the human mind, which i§ capable of setting electric eyes and fingers at the task of

of distribution.

finishing cotton goods, is incapable of solying the problem i

INDIANA'S OWN aad Hp NATIONAL RAINBOW ASSOCIATION is in ses- * sion here, just 21 years to the day that Indiana’s 150th Field Artillery moved into the front linedrenches in France. At the Athletic Club tonight, the national association will pay tribute to two Indianapolis men—Daniel I. Glossbrenner, national president, and Maj. Gen. Robert H. Tyn-'

industry had felt the thrill of orders.

Fair Enou By Westbrook Pegler .

Communist Riot Leaders Did Their ~ Best to Provoke Disorder at Nazi Rally, but Were Balked by Police,

NEW YORK, Feb. 22—1It was interesting to watch +N the Communist, viet leaders perform in the crowds around Madison Square Garden during the meeting of Hitler's anti-Americans, lves hold meetings of , this was Hitler's night to howl, so they turned out to picket, as they say, Picketing is their preparation for rioting, but they failed because the police were syperb and the crowds were, in the , tial, ittle resentful against both camps he Crowes may Pn been and disgusted because their country must endure brawling between foreign armies or give up its own feedom. ds In 48th St. a chant began, “We demand the right

and presently perhaps as many as 50. The mounted police let them yell until the riot leaders an to press the crowd toward Eighth Ave. and the At a certain point the police moved against them, firmly but without tempers, and those in front had to give way. That started pressure toward the rear, and there was some bumping and stumbling gs the people ran. A riot leader in a leather jacket ran a short way with the rest, then sensed the pressure ‘had eased and pulled up. 5 TE IKE a quarterback in a huddle, he passed. the #4 word, “The workers demand the right to the streeis. Everybody vell, ‘The workers demand the right right to the streets’ Come on, now.” And then, in a lead Jolee, “The workers demand the right = the The police were elastic. They let them advane little, 4s moved them back. The police ener

really charged, the people in the rear, and women everywhere in the crowd, might have heen trodden down like Mussolini's invincible Black Shirts in their immortal advance to the rear in Spain. = The news pictures of these things, although authentic, give an exaggerted idea of the ferocity. of the struggle, If you poke a policeman and he can reach you to poke you back, you prohabiy will go down. Some people fall just from losing their footing in a mass movement. That happens in football crowds somemes. The Communist riot leaders affect the leather or cloth zipper-jacket and hatlessness. That is their uniform. An overcoat would encumber a riot leader in running away after promoting a fatal mixup. His mission is only to start the riot, to cue off his squad on their various chants and —ushes. Sn ” » "

HE innocent bystanders, or the rank and file in . the forward rows, then: take the hullets or the blows of the nightstick if the police are undisciplined and panicky, like the Chicago cops at the steel mill. The police of New York receive little credit for their efficiency and composure under conditions that woyld goad undisciplined men to bloody reprisals. The Communists knew that if the police should withdraw abruptly and say, “All right, you want to fight the Nazis, so help yourself,” there would be terrible disorder, with killing on both sides. : : They didn’t want to fight the Nazis, and they relied on the police to keep them apart. But still they boged the cops and yelled about their rights under a Constitution which they and Hitler's Bolsheviks both are trying to destroy. : But the Americans kept their shirts on, so the riot flopped. Somebody is going to catch a scolding from Moscow about this. Tr pe

Business | By John T. Flynn

There Is Plenty of Evidence That War Boom Is Getting Under Way in U. S.

EW YORK, Feb. 22.—In July, 1937, I ventured to ¥ predict in an article In Harper's Magazine the rise of a war boom. Then the hoom was well under way in Europe and there were present many evidences that it was spreading to this country. At that time Eurgpean munitions makers were increasing their orders here. And it seemed reasonable to predict that sooner or later the war spirit would flame here. : : Indeed, our Government already had increased. its preparation expenditures by $333,000,000 a year. And the Navy had pointed out how. much good this would do us in a husiness way. It got out a folder showing

how products from all of the 48 States went into the building of ships.

Speculation in certain war materials already had WNeveloped. The price of tungsten had shot up 100 per cent. Leather prices had risen 25 per cent. Glycerin was selling for 34 cents, up from 14%. Copper had been boosted. And already the aviation j But greatest 9 all, the scrap iron business had enjoyed a real oom. It seems fairly ohvious that the people who were. getting this business in this country would like it and think it good. And it seemed equally clear that as Europe moved closer to war a corresponding junker spirit would he developed here. How far it would go would depend on how far the Government would encourage it. As matters have turned out the Government itself had backed it. , :

Now They Talk in Billions

And now we have gotten around to talk of billions. Rep. Allen T. Treadway of the House Appropriations Committee, tells the House that “only the "heavy export of war materials is saving the United States from showing an unfavorable balance of trade.” The reports of the Department of Commerce read: Exports ‘of a number of manufactured ‘articles for Which demand in foreign countries had greatly increased in 1937—partly as a resuit of armament proSale sonlinued to expand during 1038” =~ © _Qraers Tor hundreds of aircraft come from Fr A nun reds of millions of Oollare ne S. we are going in fo hundret of Billions, even billions, Frpnin mars hundreds 4ne power companies hail the plan of : : ernment to lend them a billion or Hs to a thels facilities for “defense purposes.” ‘Does any sane man doubt that a war boom is getting under way? :

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4 / °° ‘o A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

nw OMEBODY—I think it is Marjorie Greenbie— S — about budgets. And budgets, as i Ee are nyisances that we can’t ignore if we want to Keep Off the relief rolls. The intelligent modern woman keeps a strict account of her expendiiures, ‘and it has heen ‘suggested that beside the rows of figures she

writes down, she should keep a parall ~ isfactions she derives from i ? Ble gat ofr sal These satisfactions are offen iniangible, buyer must take them intq consideration as FE, Si Sa nee sides estimating its worth in terms of its beco Ang usability Jong

but the as she does it becom: 13) ns ( comingness Ang durability and price, ould also figure th pleasure she will got in its ens § sige fers We Will she be able to remember and treasure occasions. when she it on?" If she knows how to value in=~ tangible Joys and to crea e some of her own boil Will." In the folds of that dress, long after it has ecome an old gown in her wardrobe, there will linger for her certain faint sweet memories of the past.

: Qne sn’t need very much money to get the Bh oe of -life—byt one does need ability .

apprecidte all the blessings God gives us for nothing.’ _ There gre many women with heaps of cash who de not get a nickel’s worth of pleasure out of their purchases. They have not learned the poet's recipe of buying joy for a penny. All they get from their vast expenditures is dissatisfaction and The salespeople insult them; the merchants swin them—indeed, to hear them tel] it, evervhody is p ting new injuries to heap upon their heads.

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Crop Outlook Is Poor, Flying Soil Poses Threat, but it's a Good Bet ... Kansans Will Work Out a Solution. ANSAS CITY, Mo, Feb. 32—Yesterdsy I drove

“out: westward from Kansas City, Kas. Within a few miles the air was filled with a dirty yellow haze.

‘It thickened gs we drove farther until visibility was less than a q

8 quarter of a mile. It was dust, or the tailend of a dust storm mare than a hundred miles gway It was nothing like the dense black clouds that filled the air when the cover was being lifted off the

dust bowl a couple of years ago and the conclusion was

being reached that that stricken country was being

{ ruined forever. But it was enough dust to remind one

that something is happening tn this part of the country. Tis soil surface seems tq be taking wings and

On all the uplands the larger and older trees are

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SANDPILES URGED AS SAFETY MEASURE By Arthur 8. Mellinger We are all interested in safety, especially when it concerns children. Being a building contractor, I have heen impressed by the universal attraction a pile of sand has upon the kiddies of the neighbor-

the children are there is a few

| minutes. This fact gave me an ides.

Why not give them sandpiles in playgrounds, parks, vacant lots, and their own yards this summer? All you need is sand; the children will do the rest. They will play for hours, left to their own devices. There is the problem of children staying too long in the swimming pools. If each pool had a large sandpile near it the children could play and get the sunshine. A hose before going back into the pool. Civic hodies In the neighborhood could help put sandpiles in vacant lots and individuals could put some in thelr own backyards. I think if we would do this it would help materially in keep) 1g the smaller children off the streets. I have always provided sandpiles for my own children and have never had the problems with children that many parents have, : # 8 2 DISCQUNTS STRENGTH OF PARTY ORGANIZATION

By Mysing Some Democratic official recent-

in 1940 because, as he pointed out, the Democrats had a smgoth organization and the Republicans will not be able to perfect an organization in time. Odd, but I seem to recall that the Republicans once had a very superslick organization and in 1932 the

of the same that the election landslide left them surprise. © : . And now that the Democrals are aying more attention to prganization than they are to performance in office in some localities, history may repeat itself with the Republicans topside. fe s » » OPPOSES CESSATION OF TRACTION LINE

By EF. M. Stacy ; The Indiana Railrogd’s proposal to substitute busses and trucks on its Indianapolis-Terre Haute and Seymour-Louisville interurban lines can only result in a step backward in transportation. Wh pes he Zndignapalis-pe Sik © -truck substitu or interurban service last gine: m— — or Ce a

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hes decreased, the bus schedules are slower in many cases, and the trucks egnnot handle many classes of freight formerly handled by rail. Few people prefer riding in a Fay SETS lh | angerous highway to riding o) roomy, comfortable interurban car in perfect safety. ... The electric railroad pays many hundreds of dollars taxes yearly, and abandonment will mean that those taxes will have to be made up by the eople. If the Indiana Railroad were required to pay its proper share for the use of the highways by busses and trucks, it would find it much cheaper to continue railroad operation, - gg. 8 8

THINKS PUNISHMENT . SHOULD FIT CRIME :

By Pat Hogan, Columbus, Ind. A poor farmer with a wife and five hungry kids, frustrated by two years of drought and pests, lifted a half dozen chickens from a barn-lot fence and sold them for $5. He got a year at hard work in Michigan City. The same day a Hammond

BUSY DAY By VELMA M. FRAME Two little boys to shoo away to

school, : / Playthipss to be picked up from thie floor C

Tiny clothes to wash and iron and ; mend; > My day is just chore,

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Yet, each day I reap a grand re-

war When little arms entwine my neck, ; And little voices whisper in my ear, “We Jove you, mom, a bushel and a peck!” ;

DAILY THOUGHT And whatsoever shall s to thee, and to thy brethren, | do with the rest of the silver and the gold, that do after the will of your God —Fme 9:1. , ¥ doing good with his money,

a man, as it were, stamps the image of God upon it, and makes

it pass current for the merchandise of heaven.—J. Rutledge.

EXPLORE YOUR MIND

—Hy PR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM

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official went South with $5000 of the public funds and got three months to soak up the heat and beans at the penal farm. : The next week g cashier of an insurance company made off with $150,000 and got two years to lavish his charming personality and talent on the bookkeeping department in the State prison. Now a banker is 0 blest, boiled-to-death, but: never-to-be-forgotten prunes for one to five years because of the confessed embezzlement of $23,000. . Instead of so much effort and money for fancy theories'to prevent crime, and still more money to build

guard prisoners, why not overhaul the laws and make it unattractive to play for big stakes. If the boys kpew in advance they would pay in proportion to the luckless farmer—about 75 days for every dollay ~ stolen—the ' pmbezzlement game would fold up for lack of customers. : : g 8 8 UBGES TRIAL FOR PLANNED ECONOMY By W. B. Edwards, Spepcer There seems fg be a great deal of interest taken in the subject of a planned. economy. It is a good sign of a growing interest of the general public to have them discuss thoroughly a matter in which we are all vitally interested. For out of such discussion may develop some workable plan py which we as a nation can be freed from these recurring depressions that have so frequently cursed our economic life and have caused millions of our people to go without sufficient food, clothing and shelter. But a planned economy without a better planned financial system ‘than we now have would be doomed from the start. Our present financial system calls for immediate returns on money invested vhereas it might take years for even the best planned economy to begin: yielding cash dividends, although ' yielding immediate dividends in human welfare. : he A well-planned, nonpolitically managed economic advancement ‘would correct the many evils which now beset both gur economic and litical life. But there seems little hope for any sustained ecopomic advancement until there is a better understanding among the general public of what money really is and what it can do. gF = ¢ FAVORS DESTRUCTION OF SLOT MACHINES Py Mrs. W. C. Batchelor Sr What do you mean by your headline: “Slot Machines Wait Fate in

Folice Property Room?” I'd like to see a picture of those same ma-

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gither as the characteristics. you possess which “interest and influence other people’ or as the interest and influence you arouse in De 2 rs 80 MANY MEN DO. One of fhe best (or worst) wa to fail to tell her you love her in so words.

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ground-water table for them to-live and that, because of repeated dry seasons, has steadily sunk until the trees can no longer reach it. This winter has been another dry one. Winter wheat shows no life and business as well as agriculture is bad.

: I a . Yim prophet of disaster should sell. the great plains country short. These le will find way to meet anything. Take this dust bowl jpusifigss

| Even experts were saying as late as 1936 that its fer. >

tility had been blown away, that people couldn't live or farm there any more and that it would take many years for it to be restored—if ever, . It is a curious gqutcome that in all this flat stretch: of country the only area that is doing weil just now is) this same dust bowl and it is as good as it ever was. ' Partly this is a result of a little more moisture than the other land has had, but mostly it is because farmers learned or were taught different methods of tillage and the use of that land to preserve it, and get: the most out of it. : That is one of the jobs of the Department of Agriculture that no one can criticize—except that if all . farmers followed the most advanced methods it has worked out and advocated, crop yields would be multiplied and ihe troublesome farm surplus would hecome more troublesome still. ce # = = : S g result of Mr. Wallace's own personal work LA with hybrid corn seed, yields of corn per gcre have been doubled gr even trehled. This kind of thing— better seed and better methods of tillage and cultivation—coupled with the rapidly increasing use of power implements, makes our future problems, both in agriculture and economics generally, unpredictable. It may he possible gs some one has said, that, if Kansas alone, for example, were just one hig farm, run as a modern corporation is run, it could produce five times as much as it. now produces using one-tenth the manpower- and at a fraction of the cost. Fine. But what would become: of the 60 per cent to 70 per cent of the population thus displaced? rl - There is such a thing as being too smart. We may not have gotten that way yet, but in almost any direction you look—industry, mining, transportation and now agriculture—we seem to be headed in that direction—producing more things with fewer people and not finding gnything for the rest to do.” ~~

It Seems fo Me By Heywood Broyn Si

Let's Relax a Bit, Mere Noise Upon a Platform Nothing to Worry About.

TAMFORD, Conn., Feb. 22.—The rooster welcomes us home by waking me at 7 a. m., but I didn’t mind much, because this is the first rooster I have ever owned. Up to now I've done my own crowing. And I find something sedative to the human spirit: in having a voice around the place, other than your own, to do the sounding off. . ” The world is beginning to take loud veices much, too seriously. -It is true that certain strident speakers here and abroad are really menacing. But in recognizing this fact there is the danger that puhlic opinion may go too far. It is a mistake to assume that leadership will always go to the loudest Sar a Even liberals begin to have some doubts about free speech, because they feel that it is overly sentimental to confer favors upon persons whose ‘doctrines gre . wholly obnoxious. But it is well to remember that in certain instances the privilege of being heard may. be a pitfall rather than a boon. Men have betrayed themselves io their enemies by writing books, and the cruel and chuckle-headed may slink down from the platform in much poorer estate than when they began their utterances. Unless we are to lose faith utterly in man as a rational being we will be unwise tq say,

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“This you can hear and this you cannot.”

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The creed of fascism is a shabby thing and ful] of rags and patches. . 8 =~ a The pitiful nature of its Philosophy may become more apparent if the garment is held up to the light rather than limited to some dark closet. A fool or a knave can hang himself with too much time on the air just as neatly as with enough rope. I say: “Let him puff out his cheeks and blow like. the winter wind so that the whole world may know his notes are sour.” = : ih For instance, in fighting the doctrines of Hitler I. can think of no more distinctly educational process; than placing a record of his Sports Palace speech ‘in’ every American home. I do nat see how any person. of intelligence could listen to those wild words with out saying, “That is a man and a message against, which I commit myself heait and soul.” It should not even win him g majority among the morens. ; It is not good to allow lies and misinterpretations. to be passed about unchallenged, but prejudice of all ~ sorts prospers best in whispering campaigns, because in such cases it is difficult or impossible to ascertain: the source upon which respansibility may he pinned. d his hand is dangerous. Let us insist in every case that he cease mumbling: and speak out. We wan} to see the faces of those who whisper in the dark. Lei them stand up and be grynted. It is the snake and not the rooster who can 1Ure Us.

Waiching Your Health

By Dr. Morris Fishbein [A GAIN and again the courts of the United States

and of other countries have been asked to pass on the paternity of a child whose mother is known. For many years physicians were compelled fo say that there was no known method by which any really scientific, light could be cast on this problem. - Buk the gradual development of our knowledge of the go-called blood groups has led us to a point at which the expert is able to provide a considerable ‘of important information. SASS “Of course the anthiropologist by studying the shape of the skull, the measurements of the Body, the e ears and the forma of. ‘evidence that is useful, Howevidence is not as certain as that provided by a study of the groups within the blood. Briefly, the evidence now available indicates that in every human being there are in the red blood

d| cells aifferent combinations of certain specific sub loses| stances which have the power to clump Together 3he

red blood cells of ofher . individuals. Se Subs. stances are present at birth and are constant in the individual concerned. ST ~ There are other’ substances of this type Sich are also present at birth: but which tend to musk . has ‘been established by the experts in by tendency to nd

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