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FRIDAY, MARCH 24, 1939

LDREN FIRST, MR. SALLEE

)R some months there has been considerable talk of _ instituting a decent merit system for the selection of summer park employees. A. C. Sallee, superintendent of parks, has made no secret of the fact that the old system of selecting employees from-lists recommended by political leaders has led to many shameful incidents.

Now it develops suddenly that it has been left up t the Park Board and that group has reportedly decided to choose its workers from lists supplied by ‘the Democratic County erganization. In plain words, only “loyal party workers” need apply.

It is. disheartening to think that the ideal of a nonpartisan merit system is being kicked out of the window with just a shrug of the shoulder and the disgraceful method of the past retained.

. If there is one place where a decent merit system ‘should be in effect it is in the public parks, where children come under the supervision of the Park Board’s employees. Children should not be entrusted to the care of political hacks and undesirables.

We commend ‘the Park Board’s reported plan to the attention of the Parent-Teacher Associations for immediate attention.

THE ECCLES CHALLENGE : HE Eccles theory that the Government can create prosperity by spending borrowed money hasn't gone over with the country. Mr. Eccles, himself, seems to concede that. The Federal ‘Reserve Chairman still is convinced, he told a Congressional committee yesterday, that budgetbalancing retrenchment: under present. conditiohs would have “disastrous results.” But, this being a democracy, and since a majority of Congress appears to agree with a majority of businessmen that Government spending is retarding rather than promoting new enterprise, he challenged Congress to balance the budget “instantly.” Of course Mr. Eccles well knows that won't be done. Nobody, in or out of Congress, believes that the budget can be or should be balanced “instantly.” As a dope addict suddenly cut off from his drug might die, so an economic ‘system abruptly deprived of a stimulant upon which it has long been encouraged to depend would suffer terribly. But if treatment is not too long delayed, the dope habit can be broken by gradual steps and its victim can be restored to health. And the same thing is true of the economic system. © Congress can’t cut three or four billion dollars out of relief, public works and national defense. But Congress, with help from President Roosevelt and Mr. Eccles and others in the Administration, could make small savings in ‘every branch of the Government—small savings which, in the aggregate, would be very large. ~ And that is what is necessary—a simple but positive change of direction, away from the reckless extravagance encouraged by the Eccles theory, Business neither wants nor expects the budget to be balanced “instantly.” ance that the spending habit won’t be allowed to grow until it gets beyond all possiblity of control. Given that assurance business would take new heart. The economic system could begin to learn once more to rely upon its —own strength as the artificial props of Government deficit spending are withdrawn.

THE LAST LAP "TOMORROW night will see the crowning of Indiana's

1939 high school basketball champion, It is a fine thing’

that such a tremendous undertaking as a 779-team tourna-

ment can be handled with such smoothness and dispatch. .

Every game has been marked by clean sportsmanship. There has not been a single complaint. . . Tomorrow’s games, which bring together Bosse of “Evansville, Burris of Muncie, Frankfort and Franklin, _will be attended by more than 15,000 fans. There are many times that number of persons seeking tickets they ‘know are not available. : That in itself is possibly the best tribute Indiana basketball can have.

"OMENS ...BUT OF WHAT?

HEY say a drowning man catches at a straw. Possibly it is in that spirit that we write these lines. Nevertheless, we seem to be seeing certain hopeful signs in the European situation. ‘ In welcoming Memel into the fold, Hitler indicated ‘that the Reich’s expansion might be almost at an end. ‘Similarly, King Victor Emanuel in Rome, seemed to hint “that perhaps Italy’s quarrel with France could be resolved ‘short of war. Like Suggestions come from London and ‘Paris. ~ Unfortunately, the world has learned to its sorrow that Hitler's words cannot always be taken at face value. He . “has broken too many pledges. But the very logic of the present situation would seem to indicate that Hitler may at least give Europe and the world a breathing spell. Here’s why: © Since March, 1938, the Fuehrer has either annexed ily or otherwise brought within the German orbit, Ausi#ria; Czechoslovakia, Memel and Lithuania, Hungary and 3 lumania with an aggregate population of some 53,000,000. Last March the Reich had only 67,000,000 inhabitants. Today it dominates, in one way or another, an area inhabited by 120,000, 000 people, about 45 per cent of whom dislike it, some mildly, others violently. Assuming, therefore, that the Nazi Fuehrer contemplates further aggression the chances are that he would first wish to consolidate and “organize” his acquisitions of the last 13 months. War now, while the entire area from

Praha to the Black Sea is in a state of upheaval, militarily,

olitically, financially, economically and morally, would expse Germany to extreme danger, from within as well as hout. No prudent leader would embark upon so perilous ly sure that hi

Business does want some assur-|

S {ln ‘ashington By Raymond Clapper

U. S. Foreign Policy Marks Time

In Order to Give Fast Moving Events in Europe Time to Jell.

ASHINGTON, March 24.—Events are moving so fast in Europe that this Government is sitting tight for the moment until the situation jells. At present, no further action against Germany is in mind beyond the 25 per cent penalty customs duty on

goods from Germany. This measure, practically a

boycott, is to go into effect in April, Present interest here is in internal measures, chiefly driving ahead on the defense program, revising the Neutrality Act and opening up American yards for construction of naval vessels for South America, The Administration would like to see the whole Neutrality Act repealed. That being politically out of the question, prompt enactment of the Pittman changes is desired. These mainly would repeal the war-time embargo on arms, ammunition and implements of war, making them available to England and France in event of hostilities. . Opening up naval production for South American countries would stimulate our own building capacity, would be a bid to tie those countries more closely to us, and naval vessels so built would, in eventuaslities, add to total naval strength on this side of the Atlantic. : . 2 2 HERE is little more the United States can do in the European situation at the moment. England is having trouble fixing a united front. One trouble is with the Soviets. Moscow is suspicious: of the Chamberlain Government. Britain, on the other hand, regards the Soviets with suspicion, especially in view of the six-power cotiference proposal from Moscow. Another difficulty is with France which doesn’t want to make a final break with Mussolini until all possibilities of negotiations are exhausted. Mussolini has a secret worry which gives some hope to France. This is the paid propaganda which Hitler is conducting among the Croats in Jugoslavia, which lies across the Adriatic from Italy. It's another Hitler maneuver like the one that worked in Czechoslovakia—stirring up internal trouble by. financing pro-Nazi agitation,

crumbling the government from within and then |.

moving in, For Hitler to establish a protectorate over Jugoslavia would be fatal to Mussolini, as blow to his strength and prestige which would leave him definitely a weak second-rater. » os 2 USSOLINI may or may not be too far down the path with Hitler to retreat. The fact remains that he has put out feelers suggesting secret, unofficial negotiations with France. Daladier refused. The French dictator was willing to negotiate officially through ambassadors in Paris and Rome. But he was suspicious of secre dickers through unofficial agents, fearing an Italian trick. Unquestionably the French would like to negotiate a settlement with Italy and would make some concessions., Until this situation is cleared up, the British are compelled virtually to mark time in formation of an anti-Fascist front. Hitler’s intentions are only guessed at. If Mussolini steps out within the next few days with impossible demands on Prance, it will be taken here as a tip that Hitler is ready for a showdown—for war. He would then have Mussolini out in front where a runout would be impossible. If Mussolini doesn’t step out in that way, it will be an indication that Hitler wants to avoid war and is bent on keeping Mussolini quiet while continuing to pick up pieces of Europe the easier way.

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By John T. Flynn

Hungary Put Big Obstacle in Path Of Hitler by Seizure of Ruthenia.

EW YORK, March 24.—The most important phase of the latest Hitler coup has gotten the least attention. That is the adventure of the Hungarian army info Ruthenia or Carpatho-Ukrainia. In the absence of further details, and as it looks

Jow, it may turn out that this latest Hitler putsch

has an element of disaster in it and that he is a little worse off, so far as his ultimate objectives are concerned, than he was before he gobbled Bohemia, Moravia and Slovakia. - What has been overlooked are the relations of Hungary, Poland and Rumania to the whole situation. It must be recognized that these three countries together have a population of 61 million people, not very much less than Germany. Also they have their own plans and they are all “utterly realistic. There seems little doubt, whatever pretense Germany may affect, that Hungary stole into Ruthenia and grabbed that important strategic far eastern province of the old Czechoslovakia. Had Hitler gotten thaf he would have had a Ukrainian colony which he could have used as a platform and sounding board to stir up a Ukrainian nationalist movement. Poland has a deep interest in preventing this. Poland has 9,000,000 Ukrainians near the Ruthenian border who are already stirred up with _hationalist passions,

Races Economic Law

But if Hitler had succeeded in getting Ruthenia his problém would have been to find a way to negotiate the remaining hundred miles through Rumania to the Ukraine. But now he must find a way to go through both Hungary and Rumania, which makes his problem, not twice, but 10 times as hard. Poland has been striving to create a bloc of states directly across Germany's path to the East. Large public works, canals, bridges, military roads have been projected to make this effective. Jugoslavia and Bulgaria may conceivably come into this. With the capture of Ruthenia by Hungary this plan is made easier. At all events Hitler has now reached a point where there are to the East at least, since Munich, no more weak states like Bohemia and Slovakia. Anything he does now he is going to have to do by force and at tremendous cost, against a block of people who have armies and millions of good fighting men. The situation in Europe is of course at the mercy of explosive incidents and no man can predict what will happen. But there remains now the final crisis to be faced. And that crisis is a race between Hitler and economic law.

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

HATE housework,” says Jane, caged in domesticity, while she goes through the daily gestures which housework has always imposed upon women, “I hate office work,” says Martha, as she hurries to join the throngs of those who daily endure the equally tiresome gestures which office work demands of women, The tragedy of Jane and Martha is the tragedy of millions of their kind—people ‘who spend more

,energy in hating their. jobs than in doing them well.

The girl who dislikes her everyday task should look first of all for some flaw within herself. More often: than not, she will discover that she is bringing the wrong attitudes to her work. There are very few jobs which cannot be made interesting if the work ers use imagination as well as industry in their doing. Housewives often lack this quality, yet no other class needs it so much. All they see is the monotony of every-day's routine; the everlasting dishwashing, dusting, cooking and cleaning. They have no power to visualize what the results may be when, on some’ far-off day, they can look back and. say, “I have done all this and it is well.” For when their work is finally finished, that intangible something which we call “a good home” will show for it. From that home may have emerged one splendid individual, or perhaps several of them, and so the woman will know that out of her flesh and blood and toil and dreams she has mace the

most unreal and yet the most substantial thifig it is

possible for mortals to create—“a house not built with hands”—something everlasting, which np evil can utterly ‘destroy. will | be a home ‘that “has sheltered th

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

CHEAPER COKE URGED IN FIGHT ON SMOKE By A Taxpayer

fussing about smoke and smog in the city and last night I found at my front door the prettiest little book as to what the Gas Company has done for the taxpayers. If the Gas Company had told us why we have to pay $10 a ton for coke the book might be of interest.

If they had taken the cost of one or 50 tons of coal at the mines and told us what profit they got and what they sold the coke to the coal dealer for, and showed us that it is necessary for us to pay $10 a ton for coke, then we would have no kick. Somebody is getting too much for coke. So I think if that smoke committee wants to clean up Indianapolis, they had better get busy and get the price of coke down to where we can buy it.

gs 2 8 SEES-ULTIMATE TRIUMPH OF TRUTH AND JUSTICE

By Hiram Lackey Drama, imitating history, makes nothing more clear than that wrong cannot always triumph. In evil there is something so repulsive to man’s deepest nature that he sooner or later rejects it as foreign, or else its destructive potentialities destroy the infested man or organization. Therefore why should we become

us? Should we not be saved from hysteria by trust in the immutable laws of a moral universe? * Example: An honest man might become unduly concerned about the inaccuracies -in Westbrook Pegler’s column, his oft-repeated untruth that there is no difference between communism and Naziism or fascism; and the unfair advantage that such repeated propaganda has over true education. The difference between a peaceful international brotherhood of all races and Naziism should be apparent to all. Mr. Pegler’s statements contain just enough truth to make them sting. A falsehood is creative. The intent of a deceiver is not to state facts, but to change facts. The change is often the opposite of what the deceiver desires. There's the catch. Germany asks why she and Russia should destroy each other when they both need each other. Why not German technical ability unite with Russian natural resources?

wonderful market, and eventually the world, allowing England and France to become vassal states? Stalin asks why he should sac-

Almost every night The Times is|

overwrought about the evil around |.

Why not the two control China, her|

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rifice Russia to save a bunch of double-crossers? Why not exercise

diplomacy and wait for Germany to rid herself of Hitler and Nazi excesses? The power that effects these results is not. troubled with Americanitis, It is in no hurry. It has eternity in which to watch the triumph of truth and justice and the growth of their child—peace.

” / » 2 SEES PROFIT SYSTEM AT FAULT IN DEPRESSION By R. Sprunger : I agree with Industrial Economist that the desire to get something for nothing is the cause of the depres-

sion. Profits are something for nothing and so the capitalistic owners are the only ones who benefit by the profit system. When you take more wealth out of circulation than you put in somebody loses. The worker is always the loser because he has no control or voice in the present economic setup. If the workers paid more attention to what really makes progress

ANOTHER SPRING By ELEEZA HADIAN

The Earth Has given birth; ‘The Sun— Proud lover, . Fond parent— Is all aflutter Over the worthy infant; The Son— The Acacia is shedding gold! The bees Are celebrating The date; And the Heart— The Heart is calling, Calling to its mate.

DAILY THOUGHT

For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also the Greek.— Romans 1:16,

NOD writes the gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees, and flowers, and clouds, and stars.

—Luther,

and less to chasing depression quacks and political opportunists, they would soon find the solution to the present chaotic conditions. To me the present so-called Social Security is just an attempt to make poverty more bearable. It is not true Social Security because it does not solve our economic problem and still leaves fear of the future with us. Social and industrial democracy is a guarantee of security and if all the people had social and industrial security their minds would be free of fear of the future and they could then turn to each one developing his own individuality.

” » t 4 THINKS SQUAD CARS COULD BE IMPROVED By Roscoe L. Beedle : Our greatest safety hazard today is our police squad cars rushing through congested traffic with sirens that are hardly audible and red lights no larger than a fog light inconspicuously inclosed by the grillwork of the car. :

The ideal squad car with safety for officers and traffic is a car of universal type and color, painted white and displaying from above the center of the top a red light with lens not less than 10 inches in diameter and a siren placed on the outside front of the car of sufficient size to be clearly audible to a driver in a closed truck cab one square away. Another and most important thought to remember is that the officers demand the right-of-way only in case of an emergency, thus eliminating the possibility of unnecessary fatal tragedies like the one that happened at 16th and Northwestern Ave. not long ago.

o ® » LIKES DEWEY’S RECORD AS CRUSADER By Daniel Francis Clancy, Logansport It has been pointed out that Mr. Dewey, possible 1940 Republican Presidential candidate, has not taken a stand on national issues— that, boiled down, about the only thing the voters know about Dewey is that he is against criminals. Egad, what more can they ask! It’s not every day you get an American politician publicly to declare opposition

to crime. . .. : Headline: “Six Million Indiana Trees Distributed.” Fine. We can cut ’em down in 1940 and then

there'll be enough stumps for all the

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" In Europe Mayors wear a chain about their neck as a sign of their office. In America a lot of ‘em wear a chain around their ankle— with a ball on it—as a sign of what they did in office.

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mothers and housewives, are given the fullest possible opportunities to express all their abilities. But in a general way Mrs. Buck is right.

NEVER. They are always sure of themselves. ‘In the study of failure by Dr. Dorothy GandineStanton that I mentioned a few days ago, she says that while Hitler does not speak of any failures he has ever made—if any—yet he does say that failure in others is always due to “cowardice, laziness or incapacity.” But . Mussolini ‘is: more positive. = He ‘says, “I have always felt ‘a power over events and men. . I never had any feeling of uncertainty. The Grand Council has always succeeded. I preside over it.” says this. author, never feel failure. Obviously lunatics and dictators have personalities

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New Neutrality. Bil and Act Aimed: At War Profits Go Too Far and’ Might Bring Plenty of Mischief,

ASHINGTON, March 24—On a single day there. appeared in Congress, in slightly altered form, two well-known schemes to keep us out of war by “passing a law.” One is the bill to amend the Neu-" trality Act. The other is a bill to “tax the profits oul: of war.” The first makes it a crime to sell anything whate \ ever to a country which the President declares to be. at war, except for cash on the barrel-head at an American port. It also makes it a crime for an Amer ican ship to carry freight or passengers “directly or:

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ican ships or citizens to travel in zones declared by: the President to be combat areas if the President forbids. or to buy or even sell securities of a power at war, The tax bill confiscates by taxes all corporate ine" come of more than 6 per cent on declared- valuation and puts taxes ranging from 26 per cent to 98 per cent on individual incomes above $10,000 with much heavier taxes than at present on lower incomes of either corporations: or individuals. ® 8 =

HIS writer was among the first to suggest the principles of both these bills, but to no such radical extent as they are carried here. The purpose of the new Neutrality Act is to seo that we do not become involved in any war by reason of military or naval attempts to protect our foreign commerce, or by reason of having a money stake in either side in any war. The bill proposes to avoid, proieting ‘our commerce by surrendering it at theoutset But, if the sole object is to avoid war by refusing to protect our neutral rights at international law, why - not merely say we refuse and come to a full stop? Why make it a crime to take a risk in foreign come merce in time of war? It would be enough to serve notice on our people that if they want to engage inwar trade, they must do so at their own risk. Pree venting our capital from financing foreign wars ree quires a penal statute which should be enforced, but. this other business about trade is sheer suicidal nons: sense. Also, as the law is written, there is no way of" foreseeing the absurdities into which it might lead, » tJ ” AS for the tax bill, it is one thing to take taxes by the profits due to war. It is quite another thing in war to tax away all profits. Ours is a profits sys tem. It is profits that make industry go. In war, : we need industry going at top speed. A bill which. says, in effect, “in war we abolish the capitalist and profits systems” is a bill to adopt communism at the first gunfire of any war. It would paralyze produc- + tion, utterly demoralize our economic system, and’ deprive us of the greatest element of our defensive strength. A bill to tax away all war profits in excess of peace profits, to clamp a ceiling over prices to prevent war inflation and to levy additional taxes to the point of diminishing returns could be defended, but this, which is also suicidal nonsense, would not get the needed revenue because it would destroy the sources of revenue. It would not get us the revenue but it” would get us a Jicking—as well as bankruptcy. AY It is even urged that these half-baked brain-pies be bum’s-rushed through the Congress on the ground that war is near. If ever two doses of quack nostrumneeded a thorough airing, these are the two.

It Seems to Me By Heywood Broun

Vandenberg's Laurels in Jeopardy; Mr. Tydings Also a Classy Dresser.’

TAMFORD, Conn. March 24—Vandenberg of Michigan recently won ah award from a convention of tailors which named him not only as the best« dressed man in the Senate but as among the most perfectly groomed in the entire nation. Still, I should like to say that Tydings is hot upon. his heels. The gentleman from Maryland is always:

well turned out. Accordingly, it was a pretty sight the other day to see these two leaders engaged in’, friendly forensic rivalry. They spoke for the same cause, each, in His way, grew passionate about economy, and yet one sensed a duel between these two representatives of the people.

It was a costume contest. There was no clash . Fw. A. {

ideas. Both Vandenberg and Tydings have a comm. { feeling that the time has come for the man upon re ® lief to draw in his belt. Unfortunately, neither th. 'v Michigan Republican nor his Democratic confrere

from Maryland is in a position to put this precept r into practice. Naturally they both wear suspenders. £ ¢

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belt can never give as neat and compact a trouser line. : Senator Vandenberg wore a steel-blue business § 4

suit with white shirt and a dark blue tie. Tydings was * kod in fawn, with shirt to match, and his handkerchief | Se

was white, with a thin purple border.

Taft's Gallant Fight Senator Tydings employs a windmill gesture and

the effect is rather alarming to the spectator, since g

one. fears he may dislodge a button from his forme fitting coat. Vandenberg is more discreet, and even in - his most fiery speeches about the sufferings of those in the higher brackets he never gets his hand above his shoulder. Robert Taft, the new recruit from Ohio, hardly classes with the two leaders as a stylist. And yet in: one sense, he is the most painstaking orator on the floor in regard fo his personal appearance. Senator - Taft is a leader who is making a gallan’ fight against - increasing baldness. oo? One cannot get the full effect of the Taft coiffure. unless he sits in the front row of the Press Gallery. A bird’s-eye view is best. Mr. Taft has trained five locks to travel at right angles across the top of his head. The pattern suggests a blueprint of the East. River, the existing bridges and those which are still the nebular dreams of the engineers. It is an heroic. hirsute achievement. And, even so, I doubt that the Taft bridge will bear up under the heavy traffic of statesmanlike ideas. Sooner or later he will have to compromise on a subway.

Watching Your Health

By Dr. Morris Fishbein

O much has been said in recent years about "acidosis and the necessity for keeping the stomach : alkaline that many people have come to think all of: us have been off-side for a long time. ~ Actually the body is seldom on the acid side. If it were, the symptoms would be so severe that the person afflicted would know he was seriously sick. v In some diseases, as for example in chronic 0 fections of the kidney or in diabetes, the body may. actually develop. a serious state of excessive acid but, here again, ‘the person is seriously sick, and not likely’ to: be trying to treat himself for vague and ill-defined

By the juices of the citrus fruits were offered as a means of overcoming acidosis. Then it was found that 18 pounds of oranges, making quarts and quarts: of orange juice, would be required to change the body toward the alkaline side. . "There are those who warn people not to eat beef’ for fear that they will be on the acid side, yet the chemists have estimated that it would require four and

one-half pounds of lean beef in one meal to affect :

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