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FRIDAY, APRIL 7, 1039

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EASTER HE Carol Sunrige Service on Monument Circle has come to be a significant contribution to the city’s observance of Easter. Spongored by the Ogden Junior Chorale, organized by Mrs. James M. Ogden and conceived as a memorial to her voung son, the service firet wag given in 1022, Bach year it has grown more popular until last year an estimated 50,000 persons participated. The 17th service will be given Sunday, starting at 6:30 a. m., and with good weather the spongorg expect another great outpouring of worshippers come to honor the Risen Christ. Services such ag this, and the “Way of the Cross” devotions spongored by the Knights of Columbus and other downtown services on Good Friday, testify to a healthy, profoundly religious attitude deep-rooted in the community.

GARNER NE sure sign that a man ig out in front is when the columnists start turning their microscopes on him. John Nance Garner ig now on the table. In the last month or so there hag been a mass movement of attention toward him. Which, even though the columng are not all laudatory, ig nevertheless a tribute indeed to one who be came Vice President about the time the Vietor Moore Throttlebottom concept pained the peak of ite popularity. Six years in the office have proved the Texan to be no mere pigeon-feeder in the parks of the nation’s eapital, Apart from the fact that My». Garner possesses unusual political savvy, a rugged and homespun personal quality that appeals to common folk of whatever persuasion, a vast experience bred of long continuity in office, and the friend: ship of his associates, whether they agree with him or not —Demoeratie, New Deal and Republican—he ig digtinetive in two other and most unugual ways. He makes no gpeeches and issues ne statements, and he can out-eyebrow John L. Lewis. Too, he symbolizes, in manner and appearance, the breeze of Texas. A trip to Texas does something to you, and for you. It snaps you out of the gloom which, with recurring depressions, hag encircled the industrial and financial North and Eagt., It puts air in your lungs, courage in your soul, and a song in your heart, Mr. Garner, in dress, word and action, typifies Texas. So, not the least of the factors explaining why he ig now out in front is the environment from which he springs. Whether he will stay in front is a question only for Elishas to deal with—ag ig the cage of Mr. Dewey on the Republican side. He, too, ig in the lead, but hag yet to prove whether he can do the mile or ig just a quarter horse. But certain it is that Cactus Jack from Texas and Mr, Dewey of Owosso and New York are favorites at the moment in the 1940 betting.

POLAND'S HISTORIC STAND

T would be difficult to over-estimate the importance of the Polish-British mutual defense agreement announced officially yesterday. It is hardly too much to say that upon it may pivot the whole issue of peace or war, It should be recognized that Poland's decision to side with the democracies is perhaps the most courageous act performed by any nation since Adolf Hitler began his butchering on the map of Europe. This is go because Poland occupies probably the most dangerously exposed position. Frowning down along her eastern frontier is the powerful, but hard-to-get-along-with, Soviet Union. On the west, north and south lies Germany, one of whose chief ambitions has long been to wipe out the Polish Corridor and annex Danzig. Accordingly, she has had to tread a precarious path of neutrality between the two, Since Munich, Poland hag been more than ever ime periled. As a result of the Reich's absorption of Czechos slovakia and Memel and the strengthening of German ine fluence over Rumania, she now finds hergelf in the same predicament Czechoslovakia was in a year ago following the annexation of Austria. That is to say, not only her head but most of her body are now literally inside the jaws of the Nazi wolf, whose appetite seems to grow with eating. Poland defied the wolf to bite in the full knowledge that Britain can give her little, if any, help on land or in the air. She also knew that France's legions might find themselves walled off to the west of the strongly fortified Rhineland. Likewise, she was aware of Germany's ain supremacy over Britain, France and Poland combined. By her act, Poland may bring the whole European crisis to an early showdown, Certainly the logic of the situation is to force the Fuehrer's hand. From this distance, it looks as if he must decide to strike soon-—perhaps against Poland herself——in an attempt to smash the “peace bloe” encirclement before it hag time to jell, else recognize the wisdom of making peace with his neighbors. We can only hope that Poland's bold step in defiance of Berlin's thinly veiled threats will reap the one reward worthy of it, namely a just and lasting peace.

NO BUND HERE

OX the whole Indiana seems to fare well in the report of the Federal Bureau of Investigation on German American Bund activities. An embryonic organization wag found to be function ing in South Bend, with weak offshoots in Hammond and Gary. Indianapolis and the rest of the state, we are glad to note, are almost entirely free of Bund activities, It would be surprising if it were otherwise. The Ger-man-Americans in Indianapolis represent the finest tradi tions of the old Germany. Substantial, decent, industrious and liberty-loving, no group has made greater contributions to the growth and culture of this community than these fine old families. It would be incredible if they did not loathe

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Washington

By Raymond Clapper

Denial of Concert Hall Will Give Mise Anderson Chance to Be Heard By Milliens Before Lincoln Shrine.

ASHINGTON, April 7—Out of the narrowminded mixture of red tape and prejudice which has kept Marian Anderson, the great Negro cone tralto, from the concert stage in this capital of demoeracy is growing as if with divine justice one of the most notable tributes of recoghition ever accorded a member of this long-suffering race. ghe wasn't allowed to sing in the D. A. R. Hall not in the public school auditoriums. But on Easter Sun

day she will sing at the foot of the noble statue of the Emancipator of her race, oh the steps of Lincoln Me morial. Her audience will humber millions of high and low. Chief Justice Hughes, and Associate Justice Black. who was charged with membership in the Klan, have accepted places of honor on the Lineolh Mes morial steps to heat her sing. Vice President Garner has been invited to be present but had not, up to this writing, accepted the invitation, However, many other officials will be present. Thousands of Nugiigas will come from cities throughout the Bast ih p igtimage for the occasion. The three radio networks will broad

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TT through the actions which dented America’s owh Marian Anderson the ordinary concert stages here, available at faney prices to a steady procession of foreign artists, her voice will now be heard by millions who otherwise might have lived out their lives without ever having heard her. The nice people who found rules to deny her the hearing that Russians, Germans, Itallans, Poles, Jews and all other races of the earth receive on the concert stage in Washington, have unwittingly played into the hands of the professional organizations of Negroes. Walter White, Secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the chief lobbyist for the Negto cause, who, when ih Washington, stays at one of the most soclally correct iokels is RSME reves to make the Raster unday pilgr go ; But the affair has become much larger than Walter White and his organization. The Administration has geiged upon the affair to demonstrate the tolerance which it ie felt properly belonge to & democratic nation. ® 8» HE idea for having Marian Anderson sing on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial came from a Southern<born Administration official, Oscar Chap than, Assistant Secretary of the Interior. He sold the idea to his chief, Secretary Ickes. The White House is sympathetie, Mrs. Roosevelt having brought the whole affair to national attention by her resignation of protest from the D. A. R. What does the color of Marian Anderson's skin have to do with her ability ag an artist? What is the difference between the Nazis diving opera sing ers off the & because they are Jewish, and Amer feang inh Washington closing their concert halls to a recognized artist because she is of the Negro race? The difference is this: We don't expect anything petter in Germany now. But in Washington we have a shrine for Abraham Lincoln. In the long run, we ean be proud that this shrine has been made avails able for thiz Easter Sunday gusure of race tolerance, It's the principle of the thing, and it won't even matter much if Martin turne up with laryngitis,

(Mr. Pegler it on a brief vacation.)

Business

By John T. Flynn

Sensitiveness of Market Due to Use of Newly Devised Systems.

EW YORK, April 7.--The excessive sensitiveness of the stock market and the more or less rhythmic movement is one of those things which exe cites the curiosity of those who follow these moves ments. Of course the pukroiapces of Europe have been suftictently disturbing to create repercussions in the markets of the world, But for a long while the market has gone up and down in a way which would be difficult to explain by the mere economic data present at the time, It is merely a suspicion, but it is worth exploring, that the market is under the dominion of formalised schemes or theories for playing it. Never hag the stock market been subjected to such extensive and vigorous serutiny and analysis. * Never have there been 0 many counselors giving advice to speculators and investors, What must be the fate of the market when any considerable number of experts send out to thelr clients the signal to sell of to buy and what must be the effect when most, if not all of them, hit upon the same signal at the same time? There is no doubt that many persons are playing the market now on certain wellsknown formulas, Aes cording to these formulas when a certain ret of facts appear in the markets at the same time, the devotee of the formula must buy, Similarly, when a different get of facts appear, the follower of the formula must sell,

A New Factor Enters

There is a good deal of reason to believe, from watching the behavior of the market and paralleling its movements with these formulas, that there are enough people following these theories or systems to gend the market up or down when the approved signals appear in the financial skies, The market is, of coursy, a sufficiently variable and unpredictable thing and ig at the mercy of enough disturbing factors. But now a new one appears. The very people who seek to solve the laws underlying the market do, by virtue of the fact that they act in un= conscious unigon upon the appearance of a given fact, become themselves a law controlling the market, Now to play the market, the next theorist will have to devise some scheme for discovering the number and vigor of the different svstem-groups and will have to learn how to combine the facts upon which the differs ent groups operate in order to know what phenomenon will flow from their concerted action, When this new school arises it will have the effect of canceling the effects of the existing theorists, And that will bring Joy to the hearts of the old<time Wall Street operators.

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

joe the last few weeks we've been house hunting, and every woman knows what fun that is. It's the sort of sport, however, that must be taken in small doses, for if pursued too long it can easily bee come a nightmare, Our case was complicated, because we wanted both a large and a small place. Usually, it's the kitchen that gets you down. Most of the old, and many of the new ones, are enough to drive any housewife nuts. The tall woman finds a sink that would bring on curvature of the spine for evidently the architecs tural designers for rental houses believe that women come in job lots, all under five feet, Sometimes an almost perfect apartment will show up with a cooking cranny just about as big as a fair-sized phone booth and equally dark, without the ald of electricity, And room arrangement is often SO queer as to be fantastic. In many of the higher priced places, when the doors were ajar, the visitor found herself gazing directly at the least pleasant item of bathroom furniture. Altogether, this recent spree proved two things to my mind, First, that houses ought never to be built without a woman consultant to attend to detalls; and second, that the tendency to eram ours selves into rabbit warrens is evidences of present day madness,

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ADMIRERS ROY HOWARD'S WRITING STYLE Ry Glande Braddiek, Kokomo Mr, Roy W. Howard's coms mentaries on the ever<changing trends of popular opinion abroad are extremely interesting and une

doubtedly important, I was imrested most of all, however, by the aunty and exactitude with whieh Mr, Howard expresses himself, Here, at least, {8 one newspaperman who does not believe that style cons sciousness is old-fashioned and Yeorny,” and who evidently does be lieve that written prose can delight the esthetic senses as well as in« gtruet and amuse, On Washington's Birthday last, The Timex printed a short coms position from the pen of Thomas Jefferson--an appraisal of Washington's character, While loging noth fg, apparently, of subject matter or clearness, the writer had managed to instill in that letter a sheer poetic beauty. It stood out from the page like a gorgeous flower in a dark swamp, his constant striving toward beauty, as well as utility in proge, characterized not only Jeffers son's writings, but those of Franklin and 1rving, and all others who wrote in that stirring period, This was because they all worshiped at the feet of Joseph Addison,

. * LEST WE FORGET! OLD WAR DERTS STILL DUE

Ry a Reader Now when 50 much talk of war is heard we should remember that s00n the payments on the loans we made to the same countries now suggesting we come over and help them again are due, As usual we will eolleet nothing, not even interest, At one time when we tried to collect we were told we were a bunch of money grabbers and that the war could have been won without our aid anyhow, Perhaps=but at any rate, now Jeane a good time to let them prove

® =» » OPPORES NAZI CAMP IN SOUTH BEND Ry Vernon G. LeFeber

Na Nee in The Ties that the agi Bund is planning a camp in South Bend, Ind. I am a World War veteran and may it please our Maker that American youth never again be called upon to serve ‘over there But, unless we stop these un« American organizations within our own borders, we are going to have American youth, middle-aged and old-aged men fighting the enemy right here at home. If we will but reread our newspapers of less than

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one year ago, we will realize that it was the Nagi propaganda that resulted in the quick and easy sur= render of two neighboring countries to Germany, According to a report by G-Men there are now between 6600 and 8300 Bund members in the United States, Are we going to twiddle our thurabs and let them conquer the U, 8, from within? If our government cannot or will not take steps to stop these hotbeds of un-Amerieanism, then it is time the citizens asserted thems selves, Send the Nasig back to Hitler,

gy & u FORECASTS ULTIMATE DOWNFALL OF HITLER Ry Ram Day, Crawfordsville

The arrogant and self-confident Hitler of today will be the doomed and disappointed Hitler of tomor= row, Every move and aotion of his oruel and defiant nature brings him nearer the day of his fate, All right=thinking and libertyloving people throughout the «world stand in unison against the leader ship of such a brutal and coldblooded aggressor, His mind is clouded with visions of conquest and the glory of world supremacy, The people of Germany are banded together through fear to idolize and be loyal to the man who exercises his right of authority through the

WEEPING HEART By ALBERTA DUNCAN STIER

Weeping heart Why do the teardrops come? “I weep For winter snows long gone, And oh how strange,

I weep For springs and April rains. I weep For remembered memories, And through Juliing tears 1 gage On life and love golden Yesterdays.”

DAILY THOUGHT

Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whose soever gins ye retain, they are retained.--John 20:23,

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command of a firing squad and the eveoutioner's ax, The itolgvg of hundreds of years of history teaches us that such conditions cannot endure,

CI I URGES 3-POINT PROGRAM FOR G. O, P, BUCCESS By John Elder The Republican Party has had three periods of existence, The first was from Lincoln to Grant, The

second was from Grant to 1028, Since then it has been a tramp steamer, Slavery, hard money and protective tariff were its three issues be fore the collapse at Kansas City in Today the Republican Party is adrift, Until it will vigorously de= clare {tself for three things it will be anybody's tramp steamer, Those three are a fixed standard of money payable in specie to citizens as well aa foreigners, pensions for World War veterans on basis of age and straight pensions without bureaus oratio ehicanery to the aged,

e 2 0» CLAIMS G. O. P. PROMISES MADE TO BE BROKEN By Willlam Lemon At the last election many Republican candidates owed their success to the votes oast by the followers of Dy, Townsend on promises of a revolving pension law, They knew when making these promises that they would be placed in the category of Republican “roken promises, along with the ancient “full dinner pail” promise, The successful days of the Republicans were built on patronage and promises—playing the voters as suckers and hoping they would noon forget, The idea of these economic royalists is rule or ruin, and to keep labor in industrial slavery, But President Roosevelt is like a uore thumb to them == they are always bumping it.

8 ” THINKS POLITICAL CROP OUTLOOK NOT SO GOOD By Daniel Franeis Claney, Logansport Headline: “Crop Outlook Found Bright.” That surely doesn't refer

to the crop of political candidates, , . . Under a recent photo of the statue of Dame Justice on the State House grounds, The Times asks what happened to her blindfold and scales, Well, I imagine that our politicians have long ago decided that the blindfold would be of more service if draped on the voters, The soales have probably gone into use in the distribution of patronage.

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A WISE STATEMENT and one that is fundamental in the present disturbed state of the world, Had the mouths of Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin been as completely shut as they are now shutting the mouths —and minds—of their people, they would never have been heard of or climbed to the power they now exert, Dictators cannot live amid either free minds or free speech, This is our one and only safeguard in the democratic countries, When free speech is gone, everything worth living for goes with it,

FE A | 3 THIS is the advice which that brilliant woman, Marjorie Hillis, gives to her fellow women. Nothing could be safer and saner. For a young woman to grow up planning that if she does not marry she will still be able to stand on her own feet and make her way, not only strengthens her ives her the practical EE Shh $

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FRIDAY, APRIL 7, 1989.

Gen. Johnson Says—

Seven Bills Proposed to Amend Neutrality Act and Most of Them Probably Would Get Us Into War,

ABHINGTON, April 7.—Before the Senate Fore eign Affairs Committee there are now seven separate proposals to amend the “neutrality” laws, Benator Pittman’s bill abolishes the present diatinoe tion between arms—which now cannot be shipped to any belligerent—and other supplies—which can now be shipped on the “eash and carry” plan, Bene ator Pittman proposes that nations which can send hoi own ships and pay cash, taking complete title Nn our ports, ean buy anything they want here— warships to bread and Ps .y fot Senator Nye's bill continues the present distinction between arma and other goods, Both of these bills treat all belligerents alike. Senator Nye has another bill which exempta the American nations from these restriotions in any war with non-American nations. The effect of a bill by Senator Thomas of Utah would be to give the President power to apply the ban on any kind of shipments to aggressor nations and to exempt their victims, Hia colleague, Senator King, wants to repeal all the neutrality acts, Senator Lewis wants Congress to chuck the whole question of controlling shipments to belligerents and 1 Jews tie Wiiote qubjess ja the hands of the Presiun authorit Co aH ity over our export » » ” ENATOR SHEPPARD'S bill requests the Secretary of State to secure treaties with other countries regulating the manufacture and sale of munitions of war, Just now, this is something like trying to get an Agreement from a cageful of hungry royal bengal tigers not to eat a haunch of raw horse meat, But apart from Senator King's bill, this is the only true neutrality measure in the lot, Senator Pittman's bill comes nearest neutrality bee cause it treats all nations alike, but he himself seems to recognize that it is not very near because it, in effect, repeals the present “neutrality” act and calls itself “the peace mct of 1039” That is adroit but hardly more acourate, It is really a “war” act, All this attempted “neutrality” or “peace” legisla= tion springs not from a popular demand for ‘neue trality”=which is a highly technical doctrine under= stood by few, It comes from an overwhelming popular clamor “to keep us out of war,” None of these pro= posals tend to “keep us out of war,” Most of them directly tend to get us into war, » n »

HE economic side of modern war is its principal side, Consider a nation which has been ace customed to look to us as a source of supply for some necessity, If, at the moment the misfortune of war overtakes her, we restrict that supply, that nation won't consider us “neutral,” Neutrality is “taking no pars in war between two other powers,” This might e taking the deciding part, In faot, it is so intended by most of these bills, Some openly propose that we favor one nation in shipments and discriminate against another. That, is outright economic war, This whole idea of getting us into European war on the economic side is based on an idea that if there is such a war, we can't keep out of it on the military side and thus that the way to keep out of war is to prevent it by threatening one side or the other on the economic side, To me, it seems wrong that we’ can't keep out of it on the military side, If that ie true, we have no business to get into it on the economic side,

It Seems to Me By Heywood Broun

Democracies Learn Bitter Lesson; Fascism Itself a Kind of Warfare.

EW YORK, April 7-~The chief European exponent of isolation has now definitely and probably irretrievably abandoned that policy for one of collective security, History is being written so rapidly that it would be foolish to make any dogmatic predictions as to the end results of Mr, Chamberlain's complete rightabout face, It is worth noting, however, that in abandoning appeasement the British Prime Minister is not dealing wholly with theory but, for the most part, with recorded fact, There are many who believe now and have always believed that the present policy should have been adopted at least two years ago or earlier, The world faces a far stronger Fascist bloc than it would have been compelled to deal with before the surrender of the rights of Ethiopia, But if Chamberlain erred he can at least defend himself upon the ground that he now stands as the spokesman of a nation which is wholly united. There seems to be not a single voice left in the House of Cemmons to defend the theory that mastery might be achieved through drift, Progressives in all lands insisted that the Munich Pact was no peace at all but merely a creeping sort of warfare, It is a tragic and a terrifying thing to face the threat of alr raids, Their menace is real, and their power of destruction can hardly be overs estimated, But England has found that there may be even greater torture in living through a series of crigses, It has not found peace or any ease of mind in living night and day under the shadow of a mon=ster saber in the sky,

A Time-Honored Trick

It has been said many times, and truly said, that fascism is itself a form of warfare, To make peace with Hitler is to grasp a nettle, Tacitly, Neville Chamberlain and his most conserve ative supporters must admit that Hitler fooled them with a time-honored trick. In effect he kept crying, “Look over there at the menace of communism!” and as they looked in the direction to which he had pointed he sneaked up behind them. England has had a laboratory test, And one phase of the findings ought to be carefully considered here. Among us are many who, through ignorance or de sign, are whipped up day by day by all kinds of nonsense about “the Red menace,” And while people try to tune their ears to the sound of a very distant drum they fail to hear the footsteps of fascism which is right behind their backs, One thing at a time. Right now the threat te democracy lies in the armed aggression of Hitler, Mussolini, Franco and Japan,

Watching Your Health

By Dr. Morris Fishbein

FP A MAN is over 40, he has one chance in eight or 10 of succumbing to cancer. In women over 40 the chance is even more serious. This does not mean that cancer is increasing. It merely means that more of us are living longer, and that cancer is essentially a disease of advanced years, First, remember that false modesty may the prompt reporting of personal symptoms w. intimate. ; Second, make up your mind to have an examina-* tion at least once each year“after you have passed 40, Third, make up your mind to know more about cancer, If you do not have easy access to information, write to the American Society for the Control of Cancer in New York City at 350 Madison Ave. This society has material freely available for all who are interested enough to ask for it. : Concerning prevention of cancer, Dr. Clarence O, Little has summarized a few simple rules: : 1, Form and maintain habits of mouth hygiene, - Remove or correct jagged teeth, Correct all artificial » denture that presses, rubs or chafes., If smoking irri tates your lip or tongue, stop it temporarily or permae

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essary. 2. Discuss with moving warts or moles, 3. Keep the skin clean and protected from undue or excessively prolonged exposure to sun and wind. - 4. Avoid extremely hot food, overeating or any type ot food or drink that causes distress, 5. Avoid constipation, 4 6. Avoid tight’ clothing. : 7. If a woman has borne children,

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