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Te Re — SIT.DOWNS OUT ROSPECTS for industrial peace have been improved, we believe, by the U. S. Supreme Court’s three decisions yesterday setting aside rulings of the National Labor Relations Board. "The Fansteel case declaration, that the sit-down strike is an illegal weapon discrediting the claims of labor to protection against an employer charged with unfair practices, is of outstanding importance. But all three decisions were warnings to the Labor Board to stay within the law it was created to enforce-—warnings which, if heeded, may enable

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the Board to regain much of the public confidence it has |

forfeited by its arbitrary and biased attitude. It is not surprising that the Supreme Court counter-

';manded the NLRB order that the Fansteel Corp. rust reemploy workers who took part in a sit-down strike. What"

is difficult to realize is that only two years agd many people, including some in very high places, regarded it as a debatable question whether “sit-downs Were wrong. ‘That state of mind seems almost fantastic now. But it grew, of course, from a widéspread feeling that labor might be justified in using extreme measures against employers charged with extremes of unfair opposition to organization and collective bargaining. _. So it should be remembered that what the Supreme Court has held is that two wrongs don’t make a right—

“that labor must not resort to illegal tactics becatise em-

partial reversal in the Consolidated Edison case.

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LEAVEN WHEN Dr. Goebbels offered prizes for examples of Ger- |

ployers do. The Court has not upheld employers in defying the National Labor Relations Act. And it has not, we think, destroyed any part of that law's effectiveness or of the Labor Board’s power to enforce it by rezsonable methods. These are the first major Supreme Court decisions that have -gone against the Labor Board, except the recent [ But employers will be most unwise if they take them as a signal for renewed opposition to labor organization. They should avoid doing anything which would tend to revive the state of mind that was willing to condone sit-down strikes. Self-interest, if nothing more, should impel them to make the most of the opportunity which the court presents. That opportunity is to be fair to labor, to co-operate with labor, to give voluntary obedience to the law which guarantees the right of collective bargaining, and so to assist the concerted effort for recovery which the Administration is trying to encourage.

CRIPPLING AMENDMENT

AX ill-considered amendment written into the model hygienic marriage bill by the Senate threatens seriousfy to impair this otherwise fine measure. This amendment provides that only Indiana physicians may make the physical examinations required under the bill. The League of Women Voters points out this provision would work such a hardship on out-of-state persons and make the law so unpopular that “it will be repealed in a year.” |The League's fears are fully shared by Dz. Verne K. Harvey, State Health Director. It is inconceivable that any legislator would insist on a provision of this kind when its only likely effect would be to cripple and eventually to destroy completely a measure whose enactment is hailed as the greatest forward step in many generations i in the fight against social diseases. This bill is ready for passage in the Senate, - possibly today. It should not be approved, however, except in the form in which it was received from the House. - MRS. ROOSEVELT RESIGNS

MF: ROOSEVELT refuses to name .the organizatisn from which, after thought, she has decided to resign. However, there’s not much doubt that the organization is the Daughters of the American Revolution, and that the reason for the resignation is the refusal of the Daughters to permit use of their Constitution Hall in Washington for: a concert by the. celebrated Negro contralto, Marian Anderson. Tn most cases it is best, as Mrs. Roosevelt said i in her column yesterday, not to quit an organization “because of disagreement over policies without first making an effort to get ‘the policies changed. But persuading the D. A. R. - change a policy—even one as manifestly absurd: and snobbish as the one involved here—would be a tough job. Mrs. Roosevelt's remarkable energy seems equal to almost any demand, but we don’t blame her—we admire her—for refusing to waste any of it on an attempt to convert the Daughters to the revolutionary idea that discrimination because pt race is an ugly, un-American thing,

man humor, that seemed, itself, a cruel jest. It’s hard to believe that,anything like true humor can have survived in Germany. Yet it has survived, if we may judge’ by some of the bootlegged jokes which have filtered: “across the Nazi borders and been printed in London.: Here are samples: “What is "the difference between Germany and 34s sia?” “The weather in Russia is a little colder.” “Why can’t the Sudeten Germans wear standard gas masks? 2” “Because their faces are ® $00 long § since they took Hitler for their master.” . Dr. Goebbels will award no prizes for those jokes. Their authors, for the sake of safety, will remain aronymous. Buf in the midst of the terror and cruelty the healthy leven of humor is at work, and we're glad to kno w it.

‘BLOW COLD, BLOW HOT

WEEK ago’ Sunday it seemed that spring had come to © stay. In midweek it got nippy. Then Sunday we woke to find 4 seven-inch snowfall on the ground. Last night it rained. Today it’s the big thaw. It looks like spring as come to stay.

Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

Well, Maybe 'Russian- Experiment

It Hasn't Gotten Around to It Yet,

N= YORK, Feb. 28.—It is all too frequently held that there is no difference between communism and fascism,” writes Harry Elmer Barnes, who could" be thinking of these dispatches which have said as much e time or two to the picturesque wrath of both sides. “They may be equally un-American,” says he,

"1 “and equally to be resisted, but certainly there is a

difference. In the Soviet Union the benefits of dicta-

| torial rule are conferred primarily on the masses.

Stalin indulges in no such lavish extravagance and Roman holidays as do the Nazi hierarchy in Germany. “Further, they differ in their attitude toward liberty. The Fascists regard liberty as a permanent fiuisance, never to be tolerated. The Communists at least pretend to regard liberty as an important human value which has to be temporarily put into cold storage

Whether the Communists ever will render more than lip service to democracy and liberty remains to seen, but the Fascists do not even give lip service.” 2 8 8 yUT earlier in the same piece Mr. Barnes nates that the Trotzky Communists and other schismatics, all elaiming-to be true Marxian fundamentalists, contemptuously refer to the governing party in Russia and its accredited American branch as Stalin Fascists, and he could have quoted from their arguments to the. distress of his cwn contention, For the Trotzky Communists, though they may be read out. of the party or shot for dissenting, make out a strong case of similarity.

© He concedes that they are both dictatorial, and I think the matter of Hitler's extravagance in bunting, courts of honor and &ll such circus work may be re=duced to a petty difference hardly worth the mention by & Ph, D. There was a time when the Russians also rolled out the red carpet, beat the drums and blew the trumpets to hop up the spirit and imagination of the clods. = 2 2 R. BARNES suggests a belief that in Germany M-=. the benefits of the dictatorial rule are conferred not or the masses, as in Russia, but on the rich and middle class. There is a trap in that. You are asked to concede that the masses do receive the benefits of the dictatorial rule in Russia before proceeding to inquire who receives them in Germany. But the testimony does not agree that the faceless people primarily receive the material benefits of the Russian system. Much of it holds, on the contrary, that they went through years of sacrifice and woe and that now, when there are a few spare shoes, there are also classes in Russia. It may hurt to admit it, but the Germen masses have profited as much or more in material things.

But the kernel of the discussion is the wishful distinction between the Fascist repudiation of liberty and the pretense of the Russian dictatorship that liberty has been suspended only temporarily. For the time. being, then, as to liberty, there is nothing to choose between communism and Hitler’s bolshevism and Dr. Barnes places greater store by lip service to liberty than.one would expect of a man so highly learned. Experience has it that people get liberty only by killing those who deprive them of it. He doesn’t know, for he says it remains to be seen, whether Communists will ever render more than lip service to liberty.

Business By John T. Flynn

Attack Against SEC Forecast as Country Shows Drift to the Right.

EW YORK, Feb. 28.--Wall Street and all the little Wall Streets all over the country are preparing for an assault on the Securities Exchange Act and the Securities Act of 1933—the two acts which regulate stock exchanges and provide for registration and publieity of security issues.

Nc one can mistake the very marked turn to the right which is evident all over the country.- No one need doubt that we shall now see a general attack upon the measures of the Administration—good and bad. Unfortunately the good will come in for its share of hostility with the bad. Up to a short time ago it was generally admitted that of all the New Deal medsures, the SEC was the must widely approved. Even at this date there is no disposition anywhere to do away with it. But there has been long brewing an attack by investment bankers against the act on the ground that it is holding up new security issues. The great cost, the difficulcies, the time, the burdens, etc., have all been emphasized as reasons why men will not do any financing. Now, with. the undoubted rise of the drift to the right, these enemies of the act are growing bolder. Friends of the SEC fear that unless a determined resistance is made there will be a successful effort to draw out of the act its most effective teeth. The argument that the SEC is blocking new investment will hardly hold water. First of all the requirements of the act haye not prevented billions of refunding operations, much of it not mandatory. And the very existence of the act and the feeling of security it has given investors made most of this refunding easier.

What Should Be Done

It is easy to say that these regulations bar new investinent. But the real obstacle is to be found in entirely different quarters. When men invest money they invest in specific industries. And the obstacles to new investment are to be found in the industries themselves. No amount of changes in the SEC will encourage men to put their money into railroads in their present state, for instance. If we want new investment the thing to do is to direct our ajtention to those causes which prevent investment and not distract attention from them by focusing attention upon nonessential issues. The real attack on the SEC comes from corporation directors who do not like their salaries and stock opeiations exposed to public view, from bankers and promoters who find their styles cramped by the protective features of this act. There is plenty in the New Deal that needs either abolition or correction. But the SEC is not among | these. : ;

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

EAR Mrs. Ferguson,” postcards Jane Hartford from San Francisco, “I would ask you why every woman has to housebreak her mate, if I didn't know the answer, which is that while mothers make an attempt to civilize their daughters, they are either: too indulgent or too discouraged in the case of their sons.” © From the look of several things these days, Td say it’s doubtful whether we've done much civilizing of either. However, Miss—or more likely it’s Mrs.— Hartford hits the nail on the head when she mentions the word indulger.ce.

Dumb mothers expect nothing of either their boys or their girls. Rather they demand ‘that life hand thefi its finest gifts on a silver salver, Intelligent mothers—and we do have a few of them—invariably

sons. There's no justice in the attitude, but we ask our girls, whether we’ve taught them or not, to be neater around the house, more considerate of our feelings, politer to our guests, and to display certain tender humane qualities which are often lacking in their: brothers. Whether our boys are courageous or hot, ‘we wang our daughters to be docile and patient. We forgive schoolboy pranks more easily than schoolgirl escapaces. Most of us will acquiesce in the statement that a great deal of the trouble of our time may be charged to the easygoing attitude of women toward their menfolk. Even very small boys often assume that their . motliers possess inferior intellects and less then no judgment -about anything except ‘domestic:

concerns, In so far as parents lend Spproval to Bhi ! ; ,

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during the struggle to stabilize the Soviet Union. |-

show less consideration to their daughters than their |

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

TERMS GROSS INCOME TAX CLASS LEGISLATION By Clarence E. Benadum, Muncie Since the day the Gross Income Tax was enacted into law, I have contended that it was and is class legislation- of the very worst order; that it opened the avenue for class strife. About all we hear now is “tax, tax.” it. The more taxes we collect the

_{ more public officers we put upon the

payrolls., Were the Gross Income Tax to Ye abolished, almost one thousand persons would be thrown out of jobs. I dare say that a sufficient amount of tax has been collected from |{ liquor, beers and wines to pay every school teacher in the State of Indiana a good salary. And I do not contend that our school teachers are overpaid. They have never: been overpaid. As a matter of fact they are not sufficiently paid for the work which they do and perform for and on behalf of our society and civilization. .But I would not have them paid from taxes received by and through the medium of a class law which almost brought civil war to our state on the- afternoon of February 23d 1939. The battle began on the lower floor of the State House at about the hour of 2 o'clock, when the little businessmen of Indiana met certain groups of school teachers and Farm Bureau members. Both classes were there in great numbers, arrayed against each other. There was much hissing, some cheering, much cursing and a great deal of backbiting. God save the ‘people of Indiana from another scene of thi§ character. It was nothing short of a disgrace, pitting the farmer against the little merchant, classes which, previous to the enactment of the Gross

loyal friends and neighbors. ln 2 ” o OPPOSES CENSORSHIP FOR BROADCASTS By Subscriber I see in Gen. Johnson’s column

‘that steps are being taken to censor

radio programs. Why have anyone censor a radio program when you have a dial and switch with which you can be your own censor? You can turn off any or all programs at will. We have laws (perhaps too many) to protect the public from offenses along this line. Censorship goes with the ax that needs grinding and it is usually used on the public's neck. Let’s keep it dull. . » ” ” LEGISLATIVE ACTION DRAWS CRITICISM By Disgusted

I would very much like to know

There seems to be no end to

Income Tax Law, were close and]

(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.)

what has become of the tax group which collected so many names protesting any raise in taxes last fall. All that was deducted has been Yadded by the Legislature in session now. The legislature can and does pass any kind of a bill it pleases to add on to the taxpayers, and you do not hear one protest against it. When the people awaken from | their Rip Van Winkle sleep long| enough to realize what their representatives “are doing, then maybe they will demand a change. » 2 = LEGISLATURE STALLING, VOTER COMPLAINS By R. T. As a Marion County voter I would like to have my say in protest to the

dilly-dallying tactics of our State Legislature. They have done nothing that would benefit the average person. Several of our State Senators and Representatives got elected by back-

~ AMERICA’S WINGS By ELMER ROWLAND When the American eagles take “to wing They carry our banner high, With spinning prop and motors atune . They're the masters of the sky.

So swift end strong they streak: along

Ever into the blue Each performing his duty For the love of country, too Eternal in their vigilance Over land and. sea America’s wings will guard her brood

‘Preserving freedom for you and me.

DAILY THOUGHT

Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful. — ' Luke 6:36.

HE greatest attribute of heaven

is mercy. — Beaumont and Fletcher, |

ing the Tuwnsend Old-age Pension Plan arid what did they do about it? Nothing. They railroaded it through the same as they did with the Milk Control Board. . The only difference was they passed the Milk Control Board Bill and killed the pension plan. But. of course you could not expect much more. The Milk Con-

trol Board collects from 5 to 6 cents from every 100 pounds of milk the farmers send to Indianapolis and as there are from 15 to 19 million pounds of milk sent to Indianapolis

000 per month that the milk pool collects from the farmer. ? I notice now that they are arguing the liquor bill but I suppose they will in the end 90 - nothing about that either. ” ” 8 DESIRES CAPITALISM THAT WILL WORK By Kenneth Van Cleave I wish to compliment Mr. John T. Flynn for his article in The Times Feb. 14. This article should be enlarged and hung where the taxpayers and rugged individualists could read it. You did not have to be a college graduate to grasp the common sense in it; it was plain

{ truth.

- The writer has always had the view Mr. Flynn has: Capitalism will fail unless there is some revision made in it. If private industry cannot absorb the unemployed, the Government will have to do it regardless of what anyone of our industrialists say. It has got to be done for the sake of humanity. I still believe in the “American System” but changes must be made to make it work for the good of all.

» » ® SEES DRINKING FOUNTAINS AS SOURCE OF FLU By a Foundry Employee If the same situation. prevails in many shops in the city that does in the one I work in, there’s no wonder this flu epidemic has spread so extensively.

In one department in this shop, about 100 per cent of its employees were sick with the flu in about 10 days’ time, causing each employee to lose on the average of two days’ work, One water fountain supplies from 150 to 200 men their drinking water.

| This one fountain to my knowledge

hasn't been. cleaned in since early last fall. Aren’t there health laws to cor-

any way

rect this?

LET'S EXPLORE YOUR MIND

By DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM

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NO. Recent surveys of young people have brought out the fact very forcibly that they believe marriage is a fine, old institution and they are strongly in favor of it. Most of them desire a home and from one to three children. From my very wide contacts with high school and college. students .I don’t get at all het-up. over the notion that young people of today are going to wreck our morals or our social life and institutions. I tell them it is up to them to build a moral world in which they can be | 8S intelligently happy and most of them I find are,in many ways more old-fashioned than some of\ the more bumptious oldsters. 2 8 =» * FAR MORE SO. Never in the world’s history has propaganda for all sorts of isms so filled the very air about us. The writer, Edward

‘| Hunter, after ‘having spent 15 years

abroad stu foreign affairs, found on coming back to America that most people here thought they could tell him more than he had learned. They agreed he had “not penetrated beneath the surface.”

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Says— ; * Des Moines Speech Found Hopkins | In Strange Role, but He Seemed

Sincere and Is Entitled to Chance., *

V7 ASHINGTON, Feb. 28.—Tt would be easy to say’ a

lot of smeary things about Harry Hopkins’ Des 9

Moines speech. It carried an odor of political dem= agoguery—appeals to the uremployed, to labor, to farmers and, above all, an effort to dig back into the rich, deep, rugged Western soil of Iowa. On the commercial side—the problems of the utile: ities, the railroads and of business, it was very: plainly: the pronouncement of a man who not only doesn’t’

know what he is talking about—but doesn’t. even suse: pect anything. He was clearly mouthing words put: into his mouth by other men on subjects of which he. is wholly ignorant. What is there in Mr. Hopkins’ career that qualifies him to discuss the problems of.

the railroads, the utilities and of business—either big’ vi

or little? And he made the mistake of appealing

especially to “little” business ‘which is far more res. . 1 &

actionary than any big business in this country.

There is nothing in Harry's life that entitles. him thus to preach on these subjects and there is much in. his previous performance, utterances and associations. that completely disqualifies him and contradicts every. word he said at Des Moines.

o » 8 : Wis these few words as a prelude, 1 am \ abot. §

to. commit one of my famous inconsistencies #

and plug for Harry Hopkins—and if he gets away: with his job and restores recovery to the United States—a continuous plug from now on. :

- As several commentators have pointed out, 1 1 quite apparent that, with a political 1940 in view, this Administration, at last, has come to the coheclusion that it can live only if it succeeds in re-

has done s0 much to destroy—that a man, by

storing the dynamo of the capitalist system which it he

own efforts, can make a reasonable profit and. keep Fi

a reasonable part. of it. That is all that this column. has been contending for through several years.

On that issue alone, its conductor broke with this

associations of many years. What is now being:

Administration in 1937 and severed friendships and

belatedly done is what has been advocated here for 8

months and months—perhaps with too much bitter<

ness, but always with a devotion to a particulary

philosophy of government and economics to which’ I have devoted my whole life. crow. It may all be a mirage. 2 8 = r is_ of minor importance to ask what particular men shall carry forward the purposes of this coun: try. With some lag, any political officer must advo, cate what this democratic country plainly demands. The only important question. is whether, when the de-

mands are clear, will officials carry them through with: . ;

determination and edficiency or blunderingly and. ine effectively. K

I think Mr. Hopkins has done enough to show that whatever he does will be accomplished with a stream=' lined punch. If he really is commissioned to restore . American business activity, I have more than a hunch® he will do it. There is naturally a question mark on Mr. Hopkins. His best friends wish that he would cease his amateur: ] Presidential political antics—if for no other reason than that it is a lot too early. But this man’s heart and mind are in the right places. He is entitled to his’ chance—and he is on the hottest spot in the Whale, New Deal.

It Seams lo Me

By Heywood Broun

Liberals Make Good ‘Shack Treops, But Seem to Lack Staying Powers.

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IN" YORE. eh. 28 ~—Organizations of crafts, pro-. '

fessions and the arts ought to make no barriers, on account of race or creed or color. And it seems to,

me equally important that they should not draw t 9 :

political and economic lines. After all, when a man is having his portrait painted, as an emergency operation, the patient would be foolish to interrupt the practitioner and cross-ques-

tion him about his religion. I do not even think that

cne should demand from an associate a lively faith in the future of the capitalist system as long as there is an immediate issue uppermost in the common interest; of both parties to the bond. But the modes and manners of right-wing liberals put a severe strain upon the theory of membership _ open to all of good will and common purpose. Your. liberal is the real splitter. His policy is rule or ruin,

His philosophic passion or addiction for rugged indi-

vidualism is so great that he chafes under the rules of democratic procedure. As long as things go his way he can present lively, exciting and even sHicient leadership.

Some Notable Examples

The liberal is, among other things, a good showman. In him are blended the traditions of both the stump and the stage. Bit in either case the liberal must have top billing and the star’s dressing room.

| And I have known servants of the public weal in. whom.

I thought the strain of Joseph Jefferson was even:

stronger than that of Thomas. Most of the-l leaders of the world are strays from the ranks E “liberalism.” They cannot see without their limelig As field marshals and major generals they may. be superb, but not as top sergeants or buck privates. = There is the case of Homer Martin of the Automo-

bile Workers Union; of Prof. Counts among the teachs,

ers, and of Walsh and Pecora in the Lawyers Guild, The rugged individualist’ is not only useful but he is reluctant tp learn the le$son that, in the long run, the mass in any movement must be more important than any single man. : Liberals are good shock troops, but they 1 hold a trench over Jour or week-ends. ‘At the end ff any great fight it is not uncommon to find all 2 liherals back home sitting in front of the fire com" plaining that they were not appreciated by their

crowd. Indeed, disagreement is often erred ag 4

the dashing cavaliers as a sign of ingratitude.

Watching Your Health

By Dr. Morris Fishbein =

cee difference between the common cold and kind of influenza that has hit the Midwest is infectious character ‘of influenza. Almost anyone is exposed to influenza comes down with the dis This is not true of the common cold. The early sy toms of both are about the same. In influenza, ever, the patient is likely to be a little sicker; suffe with flashes of heat and fever, with congestion in larynx associated with a harsh, dry, metallic cough. ‘There is a feeling of compression and, pai in th chest and in a typical attack a tremendous g sneezing. The sneezing is caused by cong membrances of the nose. The eyeballs also become gested, so that there is pain, redness and a Frequently also there is conge the eardrums accompanied by pain. The bs that occurs may be a reflection of inflammation in tissues around dhe kidney, and of the muscles spine. The first thing to do is to get to bed: If you fever, amounting even to only one degree, possible place is bed. Since the disease is

not use the same towels, napkins, drink utensils used by the rest of the family As soon as the patient goes to bed [ne should the attention of a competent doctor. Patients with this condition do not have good appetite and there is no necessity foo WY them with food. As they begin to recover, they should have plenty of : fresh fruits,

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