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SATURDAY, APRIL 8, 1939

RUSSIA’S BIG CHANCE

N their effort to block Hitler's scheme of conquest, Britain, France and Poland have burned their bridges behind them. [It is no longer figure of speech to say that peace is hanging in the balance. Much depends upon the nature of the support these powers may be able to win during the next few days or weeks. Hungary is being courted, as is Rumania, Jugoslavia, Greece and Turkey also are possible recruits. But, so far as the democracies are concerned, it will remain a touch-and-go proposition for some time to come. Meanwhile where is Russia? The Soviet Union has the biggest army in the world. It is backed by inexhaustible reserves in manpower, raw materials and food stuffs. And, according to Marshal Voroshilov, Red Commissar of National Defense, it can out-shoot, out-fly and out-fight any other army or group of armies. > » = noon S Now over here, in America, Communists and their fellow travelers never tire of telling us how much they believe in democracy. Indeed, they seem to think they are the only real friends of democracy. Throughout Spain’s civil war they chided the United States, England and France in brutal terms for not intervening “to save democracy.” They kept up their drumfire of irony and sarcasm throughout the episodes of Ethiopia, Austria, Sudetenland, Czechoslovakia and Memel. Back in the winter of 1917-18, these same democracies — the United States, Great Britain and France—-stood with their backs to the wall, facing the same teutonic foe. Then, as now, Russia had an opportunity to help save the democracies. But she made a separate peace, at BrestLitovsk, and left them to do or die alone. Afterward, some offered the explanation that they were war-weary, lacked equipment, and so on. » 5 » » Today they have no such excuse. They boast of being the greatest military power on the globe and raring to go. But, Dictator Stalin said in his Moscow speech of March 10, he doesn’t propose to be dragged into conflict with Germany as “a cat’s paw” to pull British and French chestnuts out of the fire. That is as lame a reason for not taking sides in the present erisis as was Lenin's in 1917. The Fuehrer’s watchword is drang nach osten—on to the East—in the direction of Russia’s Ukraine and beyond. Russia is right in Hitler's line of march—not Britain and France. The menace to the Soviet Union is direct; to the others, largely by ricochet. One firmly spoken word from Moscow to Berlin— assuming she is as powerful and as ready as she claims— and the fog of fear now enveloping Europe might disappear.

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GOOD HOUSEKEEPING

HIO'S new Republican Governor, John W. Bricker, seems to be making the most of his opportunities for large-scale economies. Taking over after the extremely lavish administration of Martin Davey, the tree surgeon, Governor Bricker has found it possible to divorce 3000 persons from the State payroll in three months. Fully as significant, however, is the way Governor Bricker is going in for small savings. For instance, new bids have been demanded on supplies for State institutions. Quality and quantity of pur chases remain the same, but there is a saving of $210 a month on tobacco, $670 on milk, $810 on flour. The State Highway Department's printing costs have been reduced 30 per cent. The contract price for trucking coal to one institution has been shaved from $1.11 a ton to 90 cents.

| a small incident indicates.

| company. Since this Government is sinking millions

| any other nation in whatever we undertake, but this

Six hundred automobiles, not needed for the State's business, have been taken out of service and stored. Economies ranging from a few thousand dollars on | individual items no longer seem very impressive, with | national, state and city budgets of the size to which this | country has become accustomed. Yet, largely by just such | economies, Governor Bricker has reduced the overhead cost | of Ohio's Government nearly three million dollars a year. We think he is setting a good example for the Federal Government, The too prevalent tendency in Washington is | to regard small wastes and minor extravagances as not worth bothering about, although it is obvious that they exist in every bureau and department. Good governmental housekeeping would justify hope that eventually the outflow of billions can be brought under control.

THOSE BIG SALARIES

E read with envious eyes the list of those big Hollywood salaries. Then it occurred to us that merely listing a salary didn’t tell the whole story. So we got hold of a Federal income tax blank and did some figuring. For example, Louis B. Mayer is named as the one who raked in the country’s largest salary in 1937—$1,206 508. But the Federal income tax on that salary, assuming Mr. Mayer had no other income, doubtless a faulty assumption, was $907,326.31. So it would be fairer all around to say that Loew's, Inc, and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer paid the Federal Government $907,326.31 for the privilege of paying Mr. Mayer $389,176.69. And that still more of what was left of

that salary went to pay Mr. Mayer's state income tax and other taxes.

And there’s Carole Lombard, the beautiful movie actress who not long ago made the front pages by telling how much she really enjoyed paying large income taxes. She should be happy. Out of her $314,000, the Federal Government took $171,994, leaving her $142,008 for other taxes and other purposes. We're not feeling sorry for Mr. Mayer or Miss Lombard —not a bit. They have plenty left over for luxurious living.

They manage to do quite well for themselevs. But it seems only fair to remark that, at the same time, they also do quite well by the Federal

Treasury, not to mention the state

ln Washington By Raymond Clapper

We're Pals of British, but Still Their Chief Trade Rivals as Incident Involving Ship Movie Indicates.

ASHINGTON, April 8. —Almost completely lost in the surge of Anglo-American solidarity against Hitler's grab for power is the fact that Britain is our chief International competitor, Germany is a menace to Britain's trade empire, but we are frankly encouraging Britain and boxing Germany’s ears at

every ‘opportunity. On the surface it may not seem to make sense,

but the fact is that we consider it to our interest

in the long run, We would rather have Britain for a competitor than Hitler. Britain plays the game according to rules which we use. Hitler is viewed as a cutthroat competitor. Yet all of this does not prevent us from going ahead with our competitive game with the British, as

Word reached some officials here that a certain American motion picture concern was preparing a movie romanticizing the history of the Cunard Line, the great British shipping combine. A Government official, in his private capacity, wrote a banker friend who happened to be a dictator of the moticn picture

into subsidies for our own merchant marine, the argument was that it would be helpful to give the movie buildup to our merchant marine instead of to our British competitor. ® 8 8 HE banker forwarded the suggestion to Hollywood, but the reply came back that the produger thought American movie audiences would be more interested in the story of Cunard. Besides, he added, the company had to consider the fact that its pictures were shown to audiences all over the world. In other words, no sale. So the Government official began digging into the records and discovered that British insurance companies, closely tied in with British shipping interests, had bought into the American picture company. With that he turned to a rival movie producer, who now has under consideration an outline that would picture the early glories of the American merchant marine. The Yankee Clipper era.

It is instinctive in us to try to build bigger than

temptation has been resisted in the case of fancy ocean liners. France with the Normandie, Germany with the Bremen, and England with the Queen Mary have engaged in a most expensive race of bigness. ® 8 @

HE United States undertook an extravagant ven ture in trying to operate the Leviathan, which had been seized from Germany, as a luxury liner, It was a sorry experience. We have been much smarter since then, for the two chief American flag liners, the Washington and the Manhattan are of moderate size, less expensive to operate and come out very well indeed on the books. A third liner, slightly larger, is under construction.

But we have a long way to go. We haven't begun to meet our merchant marine opportunity. Iess than 30 per cent of our foreign trade is carried under the American flag. No wonder American officials, seeing that this is all we are getting for our efforts, are trying to plug the American merchant marine in the movies—so much of the business depends on good will, personal contacts, friendships, business alliances. For most of the rates are standard, fixed in conferences participated in by lines of all flags. You get the business not by lower rates but by having all of your own nationals pulling for you.

(Mr. Pegler is on a brief vacation.)

Business

By John T. Flynn

LitHe Business Needs Help, but Cash Aid Alone Is Not Solution.

NE YORK, April 8.—Hary Hopkins has now decided to make a study of the little businessman and find out what is holding him back. Before the investigation even gets started, Mr. Hopkins seems to have his remedy ready to hand. And it is the remedy which characterizes all New Deal approaches to our problems. The little businessman is to be supplied with data and advice and, if necessary, money, One of the things which seems to disturb My. Hop= kins is the number of failures among little businessmen. And here again is an old approach to the prob lem of business. That approach is the ceaseless effort to operate business upon some plan which will enable everybody to succeed. Failure seems to be the one great demon of the system, But, as a matter of fact, this is not so. After all, this is the capitalist, profit system, And one of the reasons why so many men fail is because so many men go into business for themselves, And one of the reasons why things are so bad is because not enough men are going into business for themselves or branching out into new lines of business, One of the great virtues of this system is that it leaves wide open--or used to leave wide open—the door of opportunity for a man to go into business tor himself. Thus every man had his chance—his chance to be an independent proprietor. But there is no guarantee in the system that every man can succeed.

A Channel for Savings

The most important single function in the capitalist profit system is the routing of savings into investment. Going into business is one way of getting ine vestment funds back into the stream of spenaing. When men go into business their savings become active. Also the savings of others from whom they bor row become active. If this stops, the capitalist system cracks up and we have prolonged depressions.

A hundred men go into business. A fifth of them fail the first year. Perhaps in the end only a handful | survive as permanent concerns with the element of | growth in them. | The failure of some men makes room for others | to have their chances. And thus the opportunity for | investment is kept open. | What the Government ought to do is to find out | if there is anything in our system which the Gove ernment has been doing and which organized business has been doing to prevent little men from starting in business. It will find plenty up that alley.

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

BUSY friend of mine, to whom every day offers an infinite variety of diversions, is making ready a guest room for Mr. and Mrs. Mocking Bird. For several years they nested in the honeysuckle vines outside her kitchen window. Then last spring, before she realized what had happened, a couple of impudent sparrows had taken over the leafy nook and raised a big family. The sparrow is a cunning little bunch of feathers, but a nuisance. If you don't watch carefully, hell oe over every appropriate nesting cranny on the At my friends house, however, Papa and Mama Mocking Bird are back looking over the premises and signs are favorable for a nesting boom. The

intrusive sparrows are shooed away daily, while every |

inducement is offered for the return of the former tenants. If you've never made yourself godmother to some baby birds, you don’t know what fun you've ae ho mocker 1d you better than 08 use he pays you n daily serenades. While his mate broods, Papa struts about exactly like a man who would have you know that Old Doc Stork will soon be coming to his house. And how he does sing! After the babies come, there are such goings on as you ean’t imagine! Papa carols less then, because he has more to do getting food for so many. The whole household is in a perpetual stew. And when the babies are old enough to fly, Mama goes into perfect fits of rage. She fusses and sulks and scolds when the blundering efforts of ner little ones try her patience too much. hard

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

SATURDAY, APRIL 8 1939

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Easter Should Mean a Fresh Star¥ And if Powers Would Only Try It We May Yet Save Our Civilization, -

ILADELPHIA, Pa. April 8.—My learned friends tell me that, among nearly all ancient races, since the beginning of history, there was a festival much like Easter at about this time of the year—the vernal equinox or the beginning of spring. All wers much alike. People cleaned up their home, lit old fires anew and changed worn clothes to bright fresh garments. What Mrs. 1939 will do this Easter, Mrs, Neantherthal was doing 20 thousand years ago.

It is not human beings alone who do it. All life: does it. Animals and reptiles shed their dingy winter coats d come out in new and shining raiment. The whole earth does it—trees, grass, birds and flowers. It is a clean fresh start for everybody and everything, It is no wonder that men from the start have followed nature in this annual renovation. But it is a pity that, generally speaking, this new blossoming in humanity at Easter is only skin-deep. At Christmas most people really do bathe in brotherly love for a few days. Of course, all that usually wears off with the New Year's headaches. But it is good while it lasts, Easter rarely produces anything but surface sweetness. Most wars have started shortly after the spring bonnets have had their day. ” ” 1 J

F ever there was a time in this generation when it would have been well for the world to burn its old garments of hatred, suspicion, unfairness, greed and inhumanity=—this is that time. If we could only do as all life is doing now and take a fresh start, we might yet save what is left of civilization, In Europe, the issues now seem so clear that more

| could be gained by negotiation than by war, This is E | certainly true because nothing but | gained by war and if the nations could sit down to=-

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The Hoosier Forum

I wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Vollaire.

FAVORS GENEROUS

BUDGET FOR FOOD By Irene Siegroth On a radio questions-and-answers program, a question was asked by a perplexed woman who has a family of four children besides her huspand and self. No matter how she tried she could not keep her grocery bill less than $16 a week and she wanted advice. Well, 1 wonder at the future of this nation if all the people would take the attitude of those who were at the studio and were asked their opinion as to whether this woman was spending too much. Almost to a person they agreed. One man in particular said he fed seven on just half the amount. Well, I am not blind to the fact that there are thousands who do have to feed on such small amounts, but mercy, they do not eat, they just fill an empty space. I sympathize with them but not if they go out and voice their pride in their achievement of feeding seven on $8 per week. There has been times when I, too, have had to do the same thing, but I did not feel good about it. In fact, I felt repellious because I had to feed my family on such bulk when I saw those good steaks and cheeses and fruits and vegetables that our stores display to tease our appetites. People should demand a living wage so that they may also have some of the nice things of life and not sit back and see how little they can get by with on as little money as possible. e » THINKS WE SHOULD MIND OUR OWN BUSINESS By Mrs. Rose Fantetti It seems to me that we Americans are guilty of sticking our noses too much into other people’s affairs and trying to impose upon them our sys tems and beliefs regardless whether other folks like it or not. In other words, we haven't learned yet to mind our own business and the housecleaning of our own govern= mental household and putting it into respectable condition should keep us too busy to meddle into our neighbors’ affairs. I say this because it seems some have taken exception to Mr. Roy

Howard's article about Italy and fascism. To me it appears Mr. How

lard didn’t stand up for or against

fascism, but tried to give his reads ers a clear picture of the situation in Italy. Now if, as he says, the Italians

(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, religious cons troversies excluded. Make yout letter short, so all can have a chance, Letters must be signed, but rames will be withheld on request.)

are sold upon it mnd satisfied with the conditions in Italy or at least the majority are, then that's all there is to it. Long live America with full justice and friendship to all nations worthy of it. ® ® =» CLAIMS AMERICAN ELMS FACE EXTINCTION By Ww. © 6G The elms of America are being threatened by an imported fungus disease known as the Dutch elm disease, At the present time there is still hope that the disease can be eradicated, the area of infection being rather localized, but unless the control measures are expedited there is every indication that the disease will spread and that our fine old elms will meet the same fate as did our American chestnut. The American elm ig one of the most valuable of our native trees. Millions of these elms are growing in our parks, along our roadways and on college campuses and home grounds. The loss of these ornamental elms would in itself be a sad plight, but that is not all for

EASTER LIGHT By M. P. D, A ray of light In radiance bright; To you and me A glory free. Life evermore On Heavenly shore. Life and peace That will never cease, Through all of time, A light sublime.

DAILY THOUGHT

And He saith unto them, Be not affrighted: Ye seek Jesus of Nazareth, which was erucified; He is risen; He is not here; behold the place where they laid him.-Mark 16:6.

UR Lord has written the proms= ise of the resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime Luther,

in our forests there are billions of valuable timber producing elm trees. If the American elm is to be saved at all sufficient funds must be available to the United States Department of Agriculture to carry on the work of eradicating the dis case, In a recent letter to mem bers of the American Forestry Ase sociation attention is brought to the facet that this is not likely to be done unless Congress is so persuaded by the publie, “An increase of $600,000 to be immediately available is essential to put the eradication project on an efficient basis—or the work may have to be abandoned and the elms left to the ravages of the disease,” the letter points out. All tree lovers should immediately rally to this cause and support the American Forestry Association in its effort to have Congress appropriate sufficient funds to enable the department adequately to cope with the situation, If you cherish this noble tree tell your Senators and Representatives at once that the amount of money recommended by the American Forestry Association should be made available for Duteh elm disease control. It means life or death to all of our American elms, 8 ” »

ASSAILS SUGGESTION ROOSEVELT RESIGN By Maxwell Pruitt Publisher Frank Gannett asks our President to resign. Mr. Gannett’s professed reason for demanding Mr. Roosevelt's resignation is, “crushing taxes, stagnated business, lower standard of living, killed incentive,” ete. Like many of my fellow Americans, I suspect Mr. Gannett’s

outbursts are motivated by the desire for the good old days of crushing privileges, cutthroat businesses, and a double standard of living that would kill the economic freedom of the toiling classes. Apparently, Mr, Gannett is not aware of the fact that the conditions of whieh he laments, are not the fault of Mr. Roosevelt, but rather of those who have done all in their power to circumvent Mr, Roosevelt's objectives and who pine and fret for the day when once again the economic illiterates and social infidels can swarm all over the country and ravage our homes, our farms, our businesses, and our pay envelopes—if we have any. If Mr. Roosevelt were to abdicate, it would be the beginning of a long day of sorrow for Mr. Gannett as well as for the rest of us.

LET'S EXPLORE YOUR MIND

By DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM

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usually in his or her love letters, it might pay you to get them back occasiomally—just in case some publisher would discover you were a genius—at least, when you are in love, ® » @ IT DEPENDS. If you are of a higher social station than your mate, as J. K. Folsom, sociologist, brings out, the differences in social station may enrich your marriage, provided the differences are not too great and are accepted in the right spirit. As he says, often a woman of high social station marries an able man of lower station and he values immensely the wider contacts to which she can introduce him, It depends mainly on the spirit of each pariner, ; ® ® YES. This is one of the strange contradictions of human personality, One of the questions in the standard personality inventories is, “Do you often feel lonely when you are with other people?” People self personalities do

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Some say, “this is no time to do it--the ‘democ= racies’ are not sufficiently armed.” That is precisely to say that there will never be a time to do it and that a peaceful outcome is impossible. It is to admit that the whole European conflict is between a determination on the one side to preserve all present boundaries and, on the other, to readjust them, and that the “have” nations will not negotiate with the “have-not” nations until they are strong enough to resist any change—which means that they will not

negotiate at all. » » “

HANK GOD, there is some Easter spirit in this country, Marian Anderson, a Negro, perhaps the

world’s greatest contralto, was denied permission to ..,

sing in a Washington auditorium. Yes, she is a Negro—our Negro. I met her on a train yesterday. America can be proud of this modest cultured Amer» ican. The nation so resented that meanness that, on Easter Sunday, she will sing from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial to the greatest seen and unseen audience that ever listened to a woman. She couldn't have selected a more appropriate program—"My Country Tis of Thee,” Schubert's “Ava Maria,” an operatic aria and three Negro spirituals. There is at least some Easter renovation of a coun try’s conscience there.

It Seems to Me

By Heywood Broun Suggests Pope and Roosevelt Join In Calling World Peace Conference.

EW YORK, April 8.—Woodrow Wilson's name 18 used frequently of late, and mostly as a horrible. example. The story is retold of how he promised to’ keep us out of war and then dragged us into conflict. The latter half of the statement is far from being wholly accurate. The causation was rather more com= plicated, But it is convenient in the popular mind to simplify all things into the terms of individuals. Thus the Kaiser started the war, and Wilson ended it bringing in America. ‘ Who won the war has always of discussicn, But it is my notion that the Fourteen Points Won the war. They set a goal which was acceptable and desired by so many that the fighting seemed futile, Still, if Woodrow Wilson won the war it can hardly be denied that he lost the Peace Conference. Here, however, I would give an assist to Borah and John=son and any other remaining stalwarts who killed the League of Nations, , And in all fairness to Woodrow Wilson it must be admitted that even though he made mistakes of judgment at Versailles, the meeting was marred by-

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a fault which was fundamental. The same flaw has’ 3

shaken the sense out of all meetings of the sort from the beginning of tirhe. Peace conferences come only after wars, and wars consume both judgment and mercy. Accordingly, a peace conference under such. circumstances never brings about peace. It hands down, instead, the hanging verdict of a victor. There is no reason why the world should make this same mistake twice within a generation. Accordingly, the palpable and proper time for a peace conference is here and now.

The Time Is Now : No single man and no single country can be effec tive in calling all to the council table, It seems to me that a most logical collaboration would be for the Vatican and the White House to join in an in=vitation to the nations to pool their hopes and fears and aspirations into common discussion. The plan is not visionary, since the call would come from the: leader of the country which is, at Juss DORN: » most powerful of all in its material resources. She Pope lw speak as the spiritual head of the. largest organized Church in the world, A call from the Pope and the President would surely enlist the support of many nations, though it might quite possibly meet some rebuffs as well, Yet even that contingency would not altogether destroy” the usefulness of such a gathering. We should then have a clearcut differentiation between the leaders who work for peace and the rulers intent upon war. The time is now, Let's shoot the works for peace

pefore the guns begin to roar.

Watching Your Health

By Dr. Morris Fishbein

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» Af the chief difficulties associated with grow-

ing old are changes in the circulation of the blood in the legs. These changes may be due to many

causes, First, there may be hardening of the walls of the blood vessels, which diminishes their caliber and kes circulation of the blood more difficult. . Ti a small piece may break off a blood clot’ somewhere in the body and flow in the blood stream until it reaches a vessel from which there is no outlet. Here it will block & vessel and interfere with the flow of blood. Third, a clot may form in any of the blood vesselsdue to inflammation in the wall or from some other cause, and this also will interfere seriously with cire culation. In most cases the reduction of the flow of blood is gradual, However, just as soon as a lack of a sufficient supply of blood begins, serious changes take place in the tissues. The tissues feel cold because it is the blood that keeps them warm, Next, the lack’

of nutrition for the tissues may cause them to break

down so that simple ulcers or even severe gangrene may occur, Whenever there is a lack of blood supply in a muscle, it is likely to be subjected to cramp-like pains. Many times the first sign that we get that something is wrong with the circulation of the blood in the legs

is the frequent occurrence of such cramp-like pains, The doctor by making a careful investigation can de- *®

termine the extent to which the circulation of the blood is adequate and can then provide suitable treat-

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