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: ~ THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 33, 1939 PIPE DOWN! penta og NOTHER Roosevelt coined a phrase which we think could be applied with benign results today. / : “Speak softly and carry a big stick,” said Teddy. That ‘was a time when Monroe Doctrine trouble and war threats were blooming up. A possible invasion of Latin America from abroad became the issue. The international = skies then, as now, looked dark. The slogan expressed Theodore Roosevelt's technique in dealing with foreign affairs. The ‘crisis was averted.

a Today there is little sentiment in this country against |

“the big stick. But the speak-softly business isn’t doing so ‘well. More and more, belligerent shouting fills the air. Latest is the radio address by the chairman of the : powerful Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Seldom if ever have we heard or read a more inflammatory speech than that by Key Pittman. It roared and sizzled around

the globe, took in all the territory there is, attacked both fT A re ts cl a

our friends and our enemies, and crackled with such stuff as this: “The policy of appeasement has not only been unsuc“cessful and ultimately destructive, but has been immoral. “Jt is evident that no person can die but once, and the period ‘of life is limited, and that it is far better to die a few days “earlier for Christianity, justice and liberty ‘than to live a little longer in cowardice and degeneracy.” The net effect of which is just one thing—a war buildup. To paraphrase a recent remark of Westbrook Pegler, somebody better not blow a bugle. ‘Despite the overwhelming sentiment for adequate armament in this nation, we don’t want war. We want to avoid war... We want peace. We are willing to pay for whatever armament is required to maintain peace. But we want no part in any international melee which, on top of. our already vast burden of domestic trouble, might be the end of America as we know it. So we think it’s time for those who love to view with alarm to pipe down; to speak softly. And the sofver the speech, the bigger will be the stick.

IT’S UP TO THE SENATE

WE discovered—too late to correct the mistake—that we had erred in blaming Senate Judiciary “A”

Committee for holding up action on the joint city manager |

resolution. We sincerely regret the error and the false light in which it placed the chairman of the committee, Senator Weiss. As it turns out, the Senate as a whole is responsible for not having expedited action on the resolution. The resolution, which proposes a commission to investigate the best method ‘of making the city manager plan available to Indiana cities, was introduced in the Senate on Jan. 27 and was’ passed by a voice vote. Later it was discovered the measure was never sent to the House for its concurrence. It was held in the upper chamber when Senator McBride filed a written notice with the Senate

“clerk which automatically withholds a bill until Bs is:

recalled to the Senate floor. Meanwhile, an identical resolution was {ritiodiesd in the House, was reported out of committee, approved by the House, and early this week sent to the Senate. Senate Judiciary “A” Committee now has before it the House measure which is the twin of the resolution introduced and passed in the Senate on Jan. 27. Friends of the city manager resolution are deeply concerned over this long delay in the Senate. Now, however, the House measure is before a committee whose chairman says he is friendly to it. We, therefore, hope the committee acts promptly and that he will personally lead the fight for its speedy passage when it reaches the floor of the Senate.

MURPHY AND THE BENCH

TTORNEY GENERAL MURPHY wants to improve the Federal judiciary. He not only says so, but he goes far to prove it by recommending such nominations as those to the Circuit Courts in New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio —nonpolitical nominations made, in two cases, against the wishes of Democratic Senators. But Mr. Murphy is tackling a tough job. Politics has been potent in making many judges under the- Roosevelt Administration and, despite the new Attorney General's efforts to date, still is. For instance: ; The President has named Shackleford Miller Jr., counsel for the Reconstruction Finance Corp. at Louisville, to be a district judge in Kentucky. Mr. Miller is thus rewarded for managing the re-election campaign of “Dear Alben” Barkley, Administration leader in the Senate. Yet only last August another RFC counsel, E. B. Dunlop of Georgia, was fired for activity in the campaign of Senator Walter F, George. Furthermore, to clear the way for Mr. Miller, Kentucky's other Senator, M. M. Logan, was persuaded to withdraw his candidate, who, being past 60, was held. too old to become a judge under Mr. Roosevelt's rules. Yet Rep. T. A. Goldsborough of Maryland, who aided the President in the unsuccessful “purge” attempt in that State, has just been named judge at the age of 61. Pressure for more political appointments is strong. In Louisiana, the political heirs of Huey Long are demanding a judgeship for Governor Richard W. Leche. They have already obtained a judgeship for Gaston Porterie, who when state Attorney General was expelled by the Louisiana Bar Association on charges of protecting Long henchmen from prosecution for election frauds.

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In New Jersey, ‘Mayor Frank ‘Hague, vice chairthan

of the Democratic National ‘Committee, - is trying to get a ‘state judge, Thomas Glynn Walker, appointed to the Fed«eral Court which will supervise enforcement of the injunction ordering Mr. Hague to respect civil rights.

We do not believe that Mr. Murphy favors ‘such appointments. - We hope he will fight to free the bench from:

he influence of politics and to give the country judges lected solely because Shey are Food en, well qualified.

MARK FERREE

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‘not as bad as it might be

GOMETINES our zed

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES -

By Westbrook Pegler

Two Peas and Communists Are Inconsistent iin Attacks on Hitler.

‘thing, and it seems a great pity that our Com-

munists should picket a

between them is a mer matter of precedence and vanity. 4 After all, the Commu ists and Nazis have every-

| thing in common, and {Herr Hitler made a great |:

gesture of appeasement | last week when he ordered all the citizens of German The Communists cannot reasonably ask more of & man, but so stiff-necked are they that they refuse to give Herr Hitler credit for his bolshevism merely because he insists on' re jung the leadership of his own Bolshevik country, at is unreasonable. What more do the mmunists want of Hitler, anyway? He has abolished private business and capital and expropriated factories and other means of production according to the Russian requirement. True, ‘he did

ey tried to do it in great, brutal grabs and met r : istance from the owners. » pe s. UT Hitler came along] ‘and said, “Boys, let me protect you from theseibolsheviks,” and when they trusted him he took the ceeded by cunning and kidding, where the Russians. had made an awful failure of direct action, but the point is that he succeeded. The Russian bolsheviks acknowledge his achieve~

the Russian Bolsheviks,

ments for bolshevism, ‘Herr Hitler was so clever that he kept expert, experienced management in charge of industries, whereas the Russians would have killed such talent.

- Our own bolsheviks who criticize the anti-American Bund so harshly have admit when cornered that Hitler has abolished freedom of speech and the press as effectively as the Russians did and under worse

far greater degree of freedom than the Russians. What did the press ever mean to the Russians? How many of them could read? As far as religion is concernéd, there, too, Hitler is coming along fast. He had an obstinate situation which wouldn’t be conquered suddenly. The attempt of the Russian-style bolsheviks to abolish religion was one of the reasons why they failed so badly in Germany. Hitler, however, started with the Jews and has been progressing to the latholics and other Christian churches by degrees, meanwhile establishing a pagan state religion to interest the young. 2 8 = UR bolsheviks, if they were honest and good sports, would admire the leaders of the antiAmerican Bund for their tactics in this country. The Nazis kiss the flag, indorse the Constitution, embrace George Washington and vow that they will save us from bolshevism—which is nice of them, to be sure—by giving us Naziism. The Communists also kiss the flag, indorse the Constitution and embrace Lincoln, "not caring much for Washington. And they are going to save us from Naziism by giving us communism. From the selfish standpoint the Americans may be thankful that the rivalry keeps the two types of bolsheviks—Stalin’s and Hitler's—apart. With each standing off the other our position in the middle is if they combined.

Business

By John T. Flynn U. S. Should Remember Democracy Not a Factor in Paris-Rome Feud.

EW YORK, Feb. 23—Before France and Italy square off for possible hostilities and before Americans allow themselves to become too highly ex-

- | cited e¥er the struggle, it would be well for them to

know just what the two, Mediterranean nations are quarreling about. As it happens, the controversy between the two has nothing to do with democracy. It is about some very practical things. ‘Perhaps the chief pr pblem concerns Tunisia, an African province lying on the Mediterranean and wedged in between Italy's colony Libya and France's colony Algiers. It is not French territory and not Italian territory. It is peopled chiefly by a mixture of Arabs and Berbers—Mohammedans—who have been there for centuries. Neitlier France’ nor Haly have any. rights there

1 save by the assertion of force. France holds it for

economic reasons and Italy wants it for economic and strategic reasons. As 'a matter of fact, there are more Italians than Frenchmen in Tunisia—about 90,000 Italians to 75,000 Frenchmen. . But there jare ‘two million Arabs and Berbers. - France came into possession of it in 1878: When Italy went into the World War she signed a secret treaty with Britain and France in which she was guaranteed a share in the carving up of the German colonies and the adjustment of certain boundary claims with respect to a and Somaliland. This document is one of the shameful episodes of the war. When the war ended the Italians claimed they were not given the consideration they were promised. It is generally believed they were not.

Rich in: Phosphates

"The value of Tunisia to Italy is twofold. One is economic. It is the richest country in the world in phosphates, a thing of great importance to the heavily worked land of Italy. It has iron and great possibilities for cattle raising and some wheat and it lies only a stone’s throw from Sicily and Italy’s island of Sardinia. Secondly, Mussolini is determined if he can to control the Mediterranean. If Italy could control Tunisia she would have possession of a& bottleneck in the Mediterranean one-third the way from Gibraltar to Suez. Incidentally Tunisia and Corsica are the two convenient spots close to Italy from which France could operate raiding planes, while close by the very much smaller island of ‘Malta offers a similar taking-off place for the British. Thus Tunisia, Malta, Algiers,

.| Corsica’ make’ a ring of plane landing fields menacing

Italy.. If Mussolini could get Corsica and Tunisia he would eliminate two of Hem,

A Woman's Viewpoint

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By Mrs. Walter Fer uson

E for reform leads us into peculiar situations.

face if a bill’ recently

our newspapers tell us juvenile -associations, would make it compulsory to jail the parents when dren misbehave. The intention behind| the deed may be commendable, but to enforce su greater grief. Suppose

is jailed for six months, doesn’t that leave his other dependents in a dreadful predicament? With the

length of time, other and worse delinquencies could very well arise in the

.|' mothers sometimes are,

need their services, which can’t be given by thought transmission while the woman languishes in hoosegow,

people to jail. We can’t ignore the increase of irresponsibility of men and, women, or deny that mar of the increase in juvenile crime.

never do it by passing mare laws. Society should and must hold parents responsible for the sins of their children. But politicians, public grafters and moral leaders, whose actions give the

tain responsibilities to the young in general. It is true that homes influence soc iy, but the misdemeanors oie

society also influ

‘Naziism - Bolshievistn Alike as

y into a state of slavery. |3

it gradually, but that was where he was smarter than |

over by degrees. He suc- p

‘Such as the one we would troduced in the Oklahoma Legislature ever became] law. This measure, which! the support of all state}

a law might. bring us fo e father of a delinquent lad

breadwinner removed id the payroll for such a.

It sometimes seems we are much too eager to send

lie to their fine words, cannot be released from cer-

THURSDAY, FEB. 23, 1939

Bringing It to a Boil3y. Rollin Kirby.

EW YORK, Feb. 28 — False pride is a terrible (¢

nd say unkind things about |i our anti-American or Nazi’ Bund when all that stands |

—

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

UNEMPLOYMENT NOTHING NEW, ‘IS REMINDER : By S. H. L. How can industrial expansion be achieved? Is there adequate recuperative power in our business system to assure us of the complete absorption of all employable idle labor? Is it really new rules of the business game as set up by the New Deal that is blocking business expansion? ,

. We had 3 per cent unemployment during the war and 21 per cent in the period right after the war. After the 1920-21 depression we rose to new heights of prosperity on the wings of a building boom, and heavy exports to Europe of both capital and goods. From 1922 to

'1929 we shipped eight billion dol-

lars of goods to Europe, all of it paid for by money we loaned. We also extended home buying power with nine billion of installment

sales.

There were no New Deal rules in 1929. Yet we paid through the nose for violating sound business rules. Let’s be practical, Regardless of our own follies, we still must put these idle 10 millions to work or witness the collapse of our system of business. War armament prosperity is a mirage that leads to collapse. The way out is to show that we can use the democratic process instead of the dictatorial process to plan reemployment of idle labor. . A natiofial conference of labar, farmer, business and finance should ke called by the President to map an immediate program for complete utilization of all our resources and manpower. : ” 2 ” DOUBTS PEACE SLOGAN WON. FOR WILSON

By “Kokomo”

slogan in 1916 re-elect President

dence. Though he owed his election in 1912 to iy fact that the Republican

his ' policies soon - proved pleasing,

to the “Progressives.” himself immediately in instituting reforms—for ‘which these elements had clamored—and in otherwise fulfilling his pre-election promises. Business, too; was good. In fact I have never heard anyone say that

tion was not on the whole a good one. Did he sweep the country,

The Republican Party was again ostensibly a unit, though much bitterness lingered. It is not possible to heal a breach like that in the space of four years. This, too, of course, was in the President’s favor. Yet here is what actually happened: He lost New York and New England, including his home state, New Jersey; cérrying only New Hampshire | by: a Paper-thin ‘majority. He lost,

“He kept us out of war.” Did that :

Wilson? Let us consider the evi-|’

Party was split into two factions,|

both to liberal Democrats and also] He busied]

Woodrow Wilson's first Administra-|

then, in the election of 1016? Let|

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Indiana, Illinois and ‘Michigan, of the pivotal states; carrying only Ohio. for days, before it’ was definitely learned that Mr. Wilson had won by scarcely a handful of votes, in the state of California. Why? Because somebody had snubbed Mr. Hiram Johnson, an unreconstructed Bull Mooser, who was then the state’s Governor. There is theaevidence and you are the jury. Was President Wilson re-elected because of the slogan, “He kept us out of war,” or was he elected in spite of it?

8 2 8 MISS PERKINS ERRS IN BRIDGES CASE, 18 CLAIM

‘By Mary Ta Marston

A reader in. this column recently expressed the opinion that those wishing to impeach Miss Perkins represent the radical group. In my opinion, quite the contrary is true. Miss Perkins’ defense of radicalism and un-Americsnism, in the person of Harry Bridges, is an invidious effrontery to every patriotic American. Her only contention seems to be that it has not been definitely - established that Mr. Bridges is a member of the Communist Party. That point is irrelevant. Whether or not he is a member of any subversive group has

ENLIGHTENMENT

By RUBY STAINBROOK BUTLER

A cardinal on vivid wing flashed past my door And settled in a tree to sing. I thrilled to every golden note That poured from his fiery, feathered throat. In a song the Great Composer wrote.

He flew away into the woods, and

left behind One who but dimly understood And pondered, humbled, by his

bowe Why. ne Rave to “birds, not men, the power ; To sing in His own. Immortal Choir.

DAILY THOUGHT

And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes between your brethren, and judge righteously between every man and his brother, and the stranger that is with him.—Deuteronomy 1:16.

NE man’s word is no man’s word; we should quietly hear both sides.—Goethe. i

The Republicans celebrated:

nothing whatever to do with the reasons Why he should be considered an undesirable alien and accordingly deported. . . . His own country, Australia, openly admitted he is not welcome there. Why must we in America tolerate one whose only concern is to enrich himself and injure the United States? : . 2 8 PUZZLED BY CRITICISM OF OUR FOREIGN POLICY By a Republican I am a little puzzled and startled by the storm of abuse that has suddenly centered on the President for his handling of foreign affairs. Naturally, I think many of the President’s acts are unwise. I think his domestic policy is almost ruinous. But in foreign affairs, what can any country do? The rise of fascism has brought many perils. You can only fight fire with fire. Pacifistic groups may pass their resolutions. man pacifists, you know, have wound up in concentration camps. It is too bad that the ravings of the German and Italian press are having some, influence on American thought. For once, President Roosevelt is on the right track and they're after his hide. What funny people, these Democrats! s ” 8 PLEADS CAUSE OF NEWSSTAND DEALERS By Stanley S. Carter Since I am in no sense iterested. personally, in the profits of downtown street corner newsstands, may I speak a word in defense of these

in winter and roasted in summer in their desperate efforts to serve us and escape charity? First, the drug store owners are not interested in keeping open after 11:30 p. m. : Second, newsboys, during a couple

The Ger-

handicapped men who are chilled|

or three hours, while the final editions are out, chisel in on the corners of handicapped men who: have stood there all day fo serve. Selling newspapers is splendid business training for boys, but selling or serving is one thing and Shigeling is quite another. ® = = ATTACK BY NAZIS TERMED HONOR By EK. Sprunger ' A group suffering from Nazi mania held a meeting in New York

City. No doubt Fritz Kuhn’s denun-| ciations ,of some prominent people in public life warmed the hearts of many of our Tories. It was no surprise to me to see the list of names praised by America’s No. 1 Nazi. In my opinion it is an honor to be denounced by. the Fascists and their cohorts, and. a dishonor to be praised by. them, To our “Red Hunters,” I say look out the Fascists don’t get you before, you Bet the “Reds.”

such parents are the cause| &%¢ Even so, if we| can’t improve men and women by education, we'll

LET'S EXPLORE YOUR MIND

By DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM

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_ | therefore his greater sppreciation. of | consequences. i : IF 80 this would be a dull world —a

and, often, that is Just what one does not .get in Uaveling,

| CERTAINLY. Moral conduct is largely a. matter of education.

A child often injures a playmate or

The same is true as we go up the scale of age and intelligence. However, mere book education does not always mean education in doing right. In general, if a college. graduate commits fraud :or robbery or murder, the crime is greater because of his greater knowledge and

| can be done.

Watching Yor Fe Health

Gen. Johnson

Says—

‘Most Midwest Businessmen Seem Skeptical Their Lot Will Improve Despite Comment by President.

KRON, O., Féb. 23.—Here in Akron, in Kansas City and Chicago, I had an unusual opportunity to talk with businessmen, mostly little ones. It was especially. interesting because into it came the Presi< dent’s remarkable business benediction as he sailed for tropic seas—that taxes would not be increased, that business has no longer any reason to be alarmed because there aren’t going to be any further Federal power developments and because So many companies

| have registered with SEC and finally, that newspaper.

commentators are not military experts and therefore

| news and other stories on military subjects are “bunk.”

The President may not have said all tliese things, or may nui have said or meant them in just this way. Yet, while he gets very angry if he is “misinterpreted.” that is the sense of what I read. That is the sense in which it was taken by all with whom I have - ‘talked. It was all plainly on the right side. It was cone structive. Taken with Harry Hopkins’ reported atti

| tude toward business and his job and the TVA'’s agree-

ment to buy Mr. Willkie’s Southern Power properties without confiscating them, it speaks so much of a change of heart that should be highly encouraging to business that, in other circumstances, it was enough by itself to form a forward movement.

UT these are not “other circumstances.” It is a painful thing to say and it is not said critically

| but as a straight reporting of a reaction gathered

over a considerable cross-section of businessmen of Poth political faiths, but they either doubt it frankly or don’t believe it. They ask: “If there are to be no new power dee velopments, why is Quoddy being revived? And why is the development of the lower St. Lawrence being pressed—it is more for power than for navigation. If ‘there are to be no more taxes, how are increasing farm benefits under AAA going to be paid? And how. is the budget to be balanced?” They snort at the rhetorical question: “For what has business to be appeased?” And answer: “For being kicked all over the lot and treated as a barely tolerated or quasi-criminal occupation.” That many utilities have registered under the holding company act seems to them to be no marriage of minds—except as a shotgun wedding. 8 ” = UITE apart from all this specification in detail, "is a more general reply: “We've heard the same sort of thing time and time again since 1933. almost every case before the echoes of the promise died, business got & new and more resounding kick in the pants. We're from Missouri, see.” It is a national misfortune, especially at a time of threatened war, when people are unwilling to accept outright declarations of the head of their Government. But that is how it is. Lean over backward as far as you will to avoid saying it, every informed observer knows that most people are unwilling to accept these declarations and that, with extreme ree luctance, they have become unwilling because of the clear record of the last six years. Note for Harry Hopkins. Better pipe down on promises in your first inaugural. The world is waite ing to see what you can do—not to hear what you can say. It knows about that.

It Seems to Me

By Heywood Broun

Best Way to Ban War Is to Resolve To Fight for Things We Believe In,

EW YORK, Feb. 23.—There is much talk about rearmament by America, and some of the cone troversy arises from the fact that none of the terms is nailed down. For instance, a very considerable group agrees that, of course, we should rearm, but it must be “for defense only.” Now, even before the technical experts come in we should decide just what we are going to defend, The system of defense which might be adequate for Illinois would not. precisely prevail in regard to Alaska. Sone frankly say that here and now we ought to offer the Philippines over to anybody who wants them. On that point I am willing to admit the possibility of debate, but I wonder whether this abe stention from any kind of responsibility should also incluce Puerto Rico, Hawali and the Panama Canal,

I am, by no means, 100 per cent nn that the

Monroe Doctrine is a system of American procedure where we should wholly follow tradition without take ing into account new forces and influences. But I. do feel strongly that there is a common interest between the United States and Canada and between the United States and :Mexico. And, anyhow, who am I to close the argument? 3 Quite frankly I take little comfort in that balm of the isolationists that the Atlantic and the Pacific are very wide oceans. They grow much narrower as airplanes begin to cruise farther and farther. And even beyond the range of the bomber is the potential cruising radius of the propagandist who’ can, and has already, penetrated even into remote American towns and hamlets. :

‘The Only Way Out

* As much as any man I am against the notion that America: should send its young to die again in ‘Flanders’ fields. But neither am I enthusiastic about seeing our youth consumed in defense of Flatbush meadows. I cannot agree that there is great hope of peace: in the pronouncements of those who keep saying at the top of their voices, “Let us keep silent on all issues of international morality until they come over ‘and fight us here.” 3 War, in any case, is an evil thing. It is not good for any American to yield his life upon some edge of a foreign shore. But it is not admirable, either, that our biood and our aspirations and ideals should. be put to the test in battle here on our home ground. Let's outlaw war, and the way, the only way, in which this can be done is to resolve that nw wid fight if ‘need be. If our resolution is ‘made’ p enough, that is the chance, the best and only

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