Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 April 1939 — Page 10

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- MONDAY, APRIL 10, 1939

THANK THE D. A. R. HE nation can thank the D. A. R. for Easter Sunday’s

In ashington By Raymond Clapper

Hope of Peace in Europe Seems Remote but a Final Showdown May Be Delayed for Some Time.

ASHINGTON, April 10.—We can only guess where events in Europe are leading but it seems a reasonable guess that hope of a peaceful solution now is extremely remote. We can all wish that this guess may prove to be incorrect. Yet in shaping our own policy—which now is under reconsideration in Congress and in public discussion—it behooves us to weigh the probabilities and to be guided by them. The chances seem to me to be against an imme-

diate outbreak of general war. In occupying Albania, Mussolini apparently is acting in preparation for further domination of the Rome-Berlin axis over the whole Balkan peninsula. Although ultimately this

Marian Anderson concert in its dramatic Lincoln Memorial setting. If it hadn’t been for the intolerance of that | organization the recital would not have occurred and countless thousands ‘would have been denied the thrill of hearing probably the greatest voice of this century. Bigotry is its own reward.

LET'S COUNT OUR MERCIES

HE constant drumming of war news from abroad has

would impinge severely on the British life-line through the Mediterranean, dispatches from London indicate that the occupation of Albania will not be

| resisted by Great Britain.

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HIS action by Mussolini is in violation of an agreement with Great Britain to preserve the status quo in the Mediterranean exactly as Hitler's recent continental moves were in violation of the Munich agreement. It seems to remove the last lingering hope of France and Great Britain that Italy could be pried away from Hitler. Furthermore it again demonstrates, as did Hitler's recent actions, the futility of checking the Rome-Berlin combination by

got this country into a state of suspense that we think is much out of focus. Business, already bad because of do- | mestic reasons, is getting rapidly worse because of the | foreign crises. The stock market keeps dropping, trade | is off, and a general condition of timidity seems to be grow- | ing. A sort of “it’s inevitable and we're bound to get into | it” psychology has developed, defeatist and dangerous. We | are getting ourselves into the condition of ‘the nervous man who couldn’t go to sleep until the person in the room above dropped the other shoe. While all this is evolving we ought instead to be going | ahead and selling our waffle irons. Certainly, if inter- | national trouble should come, nothing could be worse than | for us all to be caught with economic anemia. A recovered prosperity, combined with a reasonable degree of harmony | among all elements in our country, would constitute a weapon of defense bigger than the biggest navy we could | build. Those should be our immediate and our constant | aims. This of all times is not one for weak stomachs. » ” 5 5 2 HE best cure for our jitters is, we believe, for all of us | to step back from the international picture and acquire some perspective. Forbidding though the picture “over | there” is at the moment, if we will do that we will auto- | matically cheer up and be a bit ashamed of ourselves at | the same time. Apparently we have forgotten that more than 3000 miles of ocean still separates us from invasion: that, with all our depression troubles, we are yet the richest nation | in the world and the best equipped, with natural resources, |

manpower, inventive genius and productive capacity, to

take care of ourselves in any sort of clinch. It would do

us all good if we could spend a few days in London, for

example, among the gas masks and the bomb shelters and |

the trenches they have dug in the parks, and see what |

really is to have something to be scared about. As compared with any other country in Europe we are as safe!

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as a log under water is free from fire. |

When the blizzards would howl in the way-below-zero | winter and the house would creak and the windows rattle | in the old lonely farm home, mother would tuck in the children at night and never fail to remark on how lucky | we were to have firewood, food to eat, and warm covers |

and beds to sleep in. “Count your mercies.” she would say. | That's what we need to do—very much need—today.

We need to look on the bright side of things, and | buck up.

REPEAL THE PRESS SUBSIDY

HE Government's tariff subsidies to manufacturers con- | tributed to the shrivelling of foreign markets for | American farm products. And that in turn is forcing | the Government to pay still more subsidies to farmers. So | it goes. One calls two. And each new subsidy swells the | national budget, deficit and debt. Over the years this newspaper has criticized the sub- | sidies in general and subsidies in particular. Yet each | time we point to the mote in the other fellow’s eve, we have to remind ourselves of the beam in our own. For the publishing business has a pet subsidy which | is just as indefensible as any other. The following table, from the Postoffice Department's operations of 1938, tells the story:

COST OF HANDLING $15,567,293.34

Publications exempt from zone rates on REVENUE advertising portion .... $1,997,695.89 Zone Rate Publications— Daily newspapers......

DEFICIT $13,569.597.45

8,281,747.33 36,696,510.93 28,414,763.60

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agreements. Will Rome and Berlin be satisfied with domination of all Europe, including the Balkans? The answer probably is in the negative. For having achieved that. the combination still would be dependent upon overseas sources for sufficient supplies of iron ore, copper, nickel, manganese, chrome, aluminum, tin, sulphur, mercury, tungsten, and for those three great necessaries of modern life—wool, cotton and rubber. Germany and Italy can reach those supplies only over trade routes controlled by the British fleet. Does it seem reascnable that Hitler and Mussolini, having come this far, will be content to leave such vital raw materials dependent upon the permission of the British Empire? That is the real issue. Present expansion on the continent probably is preliminary to a challenge of British sea power,

» EJ 2 TT challenge, however, is likely to be some time in arriving. From the point of view of Hitler and Mussolini, the logical course would be to push continental expansion just as far as possible short of provoking a general war. That has been the policy thus far, to strain up to. but Just short of, forcing war. Why should Hitler and Mussolini want a continental war when the without it? this course while preparing for the day when British sea power would be challenged. The issue could, of course time by the British and Fr disposition seems to be to wait, mi to check Germany by bringing pressure through Poland and, if possible, through Soviet Russia. Britain is not particularly wel] situated to conduct a land war, and is not likely to force the issue. With the continental aspects of this situation, the United States has only remote concern. It is in

| connection with sea power that we have a direct in-

terest. for as one of the first naval powers, we could not be indifferent to a drastic shift of naval control from Britain to Germany.

(Mr. Pegler is on vacation)

Business By John T. Flynn

Government Cotton Plans Blamed For Loss of Our Export Markets.

EW YORK, April 10.—It would be difficult to imagine a Government project which has been a more complete failure than the Government's efforts to save the cotton farmer. It might almost be called a plan to ruin the cotton farmer. If it were just a failure it would be bad enough. Tt is worse, for it ole collection of new prob-

lems in the cotton field. If the Government's plan had merely failed to help the cotton farmer one might condone the collapse of the program as an honest effort which went awry. ng the farmer here, has just about destroyed the foreign market for American cotton. The United States regularly before 1933 used to export from eight to 10 million bales of cotton a year. Now our exports have been cut in half. While we have been cutting down the export of our greatest export commodity. India, China. Brazil. Uganda and

other countries have been Increasing their production. | make if there were not almost ex-

Our foreign cotton trade i y forever, |2Ctly the same number of unemFn Se Is probably ome hii ployed in this country?

And the cotton plans of the Govern thanked. The cotton trade has always suffered from its large surplus—its heavy carry-overs. From five to nine million bales a year carry-over tended to ruin the price. But under the present plan the Government has beer. encouraging the farmer to hold his cotton. It bas made loans to him, taking his cotton as collatzral. Consequently the farmer's surplus cotton which ordips for foreign markets, has ment warehouses.

Definition of Dumping

been going into Govern

an amazing proposal. He suggests that cotton exporters be given a subsidy of 2 or 3 cents a pound for all the cotton they can sell abroad. This ought to enable them to sell the cotton abroad at a lower price. Government warehouses as

the farmers. Of course this is precisely, in essence, what Ger-

has been denouncing her for—dumping supported by

Newspapers, other than daily All other publications... Free in county, all publications ............

12,598,824.00 27.079.177.20

3,403,464.73 9,461,878.80

16,002,288.73 36,541,056.00

8,115,069.74 8,115,069.74

Total publishers, 2d class..$23,144,786.75 $112,92221874 $89,777,431.99 The Postoffice Department showed a loss of about $47,000,000 in its 1938 operations. If it hadn't been for the deficit of nearly $90,000,000 which the department says it suffered in the handling of newspapers, magazines and other | periodicals—the figures above are the department’s own, of course—then the postal service last year would have shown a handsome profit. The accuracy of the figures may be open to debate. We can’t understand, for instance, how it is possible to compute that the cost of free delivery inside the county of

subsidy. The President says that what he proposes is not dumping. The classical definition of dumping is “selling goods abroad for less than at home or in one country for less than in another.” The objection to dumping is that it is hard to get away with and it produces effects usually worse than the disease it is

| supposed to cure.

A Woman's Viewpoint

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson § By best hostess is the one who has a swell time at her own party. And measured by such a yardstick, how few really good hostesses there are. Yet women, we believe, should excel in the art of entertaining. Upon the wives of successful men fall the tasks of looking after the family social obligations. All ovér the land every day innumerable luncheons, teas and dinners are in progress, and a

publication—the particular boon of small town dailies and weeklies—was exactly $8,115,069.74. Rural mail carriers have to make their rounds anyway. Yet it is only fair to assume that the department has a dependable formula for assessing the costs of its various services. And whatever formula was used to require a 3-cent stamp for a first class letter, a 6-cent stamp for an airmail letter and the graduated charges for parcel post mailings—for the purpose of making each of those services self-supporting—should be applied to newspapers and magazines for the same purpose. . Speaking for ourselves, The Indianapolis Times and the Scripps-Howard organization of which it is a member, want no free ride at the taxpayers’ expense. We are will-

very large percentage of them, I'm sorry to say, are washouts. Dull, boring, functions lack t —spontaneity.

creaky in every joint, these social he one thing needful ‘for enjoyment Even the cocktails cannot always lend just the right zest to the occasion, mainly because the hostess, who is expected to set the tone, doesn’t know the true secret of entertaining—that the happiest guest is the one who is left to his own devices. Instead, the ladies seam bent upon managing everybody. They flutter about like hens keeping a flock of chickens in line. If a couple of friends are enjoying conversation in a corner, they feel it their duty to break it up, and I've seén men who looked as if they suffered unlimited tortures at the hand of over-zealous ladies so anxious to make them FO they succeeded in making them miserable. The atmosphere of their houses is permeated with worry—worry for fear the salad will collapse or the

ing to pay the costs of distributing our newspapers. And we should like to see other newspapers and magazines join in asking for abolition of this Government subsidy. Those who refuse need not be surprised if their editorial utterances against the Government's other borrow-and-spend

dessert melt or the rolls be heavy. They apologize for items in the household equipment which the company never would have noticed otherwise. They are in such a jittery state that every guest becomes jittery, too. The most charming people on earth are those who

gratuities fail to convince, .

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y are advancing steadily | Their game would seem to be to pursue |

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To get rid of this surplus, the President has made | thé unemployed it would abolish

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But since there is no cotto : in (Men, the great navy, the fuel adon ut ae a ministration, food administration,

loans, the exporters will have to get the cotton from the railroad administration and

8. This is the thing the President | °OnSidered prolonging them indefi-

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|By H. E. Cory

The Hoosier Forum

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

THINKS UMPIRE ROLE BEST FOR GOVERNMENT By John Elder There are four public policies competing for the support of the voter today. One is that the Treasury play the role of international banker at the expense of the taxpayer. The second might be called the ostrich act. It gives a few morsels of public funds to the foreign nations and a bucket or two of relief WARNS AGAINST to folks in domestic affairs, The third is now being trotted ALLIANCE WITH RUSSIA out for the public gaze. It is best By Edward F. Maddox described as “patched pants.” It is| It will be well for the people of a two-in-one policy made up of an the United States to remember that international banker with a relief left-wingers, Communists and their check in one hand and a crusader’ “fellow travelers,” are working night torch in the other. [and day in this and all other naThe fourth and best policy is that tions to draw the capitaiist democof umpire. It is founded on the racies into an alliance with Russia. belief that private enterprise should | They want us to “pull their chestbe defended by strong, short-range nuts out of the fire.” defense against foreign foes with| japan Germany and Italy are the Federal Government acting as qjowly, but surely, isolating Russia umpire instead of partner in money from outside help. If England and and labor matters. France wouldn't fight to save the .. 5» @ Czechs, who is so simple to think OPPOSES EMPLOYMENT they would fight to protect Russia?

MEN My opinion is that there is little OY MarRlD WOME danger of a war between England

According to figures from a re- OF France with Germany and Italy

cent conference at Northwestern Pecause they all fear the awful con-

University, there are 10,750,000 mar. | ny is not likely to attack

ried women working. What social | . : |either Poland or Rumania because or economic difference would it they are more valuable as friends. {Both Hitler and Mussolini have continually emphasized that their fight is against bolshevism. And I Most people who discuss this think as long as the axis dictators

married women were the dives ro. |CONfine their aggressive movements sult of the labor emergency created |282iDst bolshevism and leave the hat emer. |democracies alone, they will have | by the World War. But tha nothing to fear from France and | gency has long Since passed and 8 lpvoigng. Mr. Stars on oro] new one has arisen. These 10,750,-

« li ] 000 married women should realize about “pulling chestnuts out of the

Y .|fire” was a fatal blunder. | that their employers are not paying The treaty of Brest-Litovsk gave their salaries, but that the taxpay- the Ukraine to German ers of the country are paying them. ommunists can allow If these women are substituted by g

SEINE PRAYER

By Dorothea Allanson Lord, suffer me to catch a fish So large that even I, When talking of it afterward, May have no need to lie.

(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.)

y so the | Hitler to

direct poor relief, WPA, CCC and NYA which are all childréen of the unemployment monster. The wartime army of millions of

DAILY THOUGHT

He answereth and saith unto them, He that hath two coats, let him impart to him that hath none, and he that hath meat, let him do likewise. —Luke 3:11.

many other agencies were wartime emergencies. but no one seriously

nitely after the armistice was | signed. These were all big, important factors in the winning of the war, but apparently an inconsequential act such as a married ee woman “doing her bit” has grown E are rich only through what into a monster which is strangling we give: and poor only the social and economic life of 130,- [through what we refuse and keep.—

take it without fighting by admitting that it was already ceded to Germany. England and France know all of these things and they also know that if Germany can’t expand to the east, she is almost certain to demand a return of her former colonies. They have to choose between

many back her colonies, or fight. "My opinion is Hitler will march to the East.

» ” 2 SUGGESTS MEN AND WOMEN SWAP JOBS By John Willis In the last few years new inven-

[tions and machinery have been tak- |

ing the place of labor, so naturally [that has put more than half the |workers of America out of jobs.

{ There is no way of stopping inven- |

tion, so there is only one way to put {the people back to work without ‘war, and that is for men to change | places with women. Instead of men going out and (working at mills, factories, offices, [truck driving, ete. let the women |do it and the men do the housework and caring for the children. /On every one man’s job, it will take two or three women and that will put twice as many people to work. | If that is O. K. with the women, I'm sure it will suit the men.

” x » SUGGESTS WAY TO PAY DEBTS OWED U. S.

By R. E. Tinsley

Our country has been trying to find a solution to the war debt problem. These debts are composed of loans to other nations during the World War and the reconstruction after the war, the amounts due us from unbalanced world trade and unpaid interest on all these debts. Most of these countries cannot or will not pay these debts. The people of these nations don’t feel any obligation to us over these debts. Most of them even oppose “token” interest payments! At this time several of the largest debtor nations own territory in this hemisphere. Some is very close to our shores. It would be very advantageous for our country to own or control many of these possessions. in time of war it would be a serious threat to our safety and the safety of the South American countries to have any of these possessions controlled by any unfriendly nation. I believe a plan could be prepared whereby we would acquire some of these possessions in exchange for the monies these countries owe us. This would be a solution to an old

000,000 people. Mad. Swetchine.

; and bothersome problem.

LET'S EXPLORE YOUR

FETE Gann opr te THAN WHEN YOU ARE SORRY p YOUR OPINION wssussn ie SO ARTHUR MURRAY con- to carry the melody in order to

1 tends, and he has taught more|dance—all you need to do is te keep everyday people to dance than any- | time with your feet. If you can beat

By DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAMe

MIND

—Yyou do not dance to the tune but to the time.

® 2 a v/ SCARCELY anything is more effective in influencing other people than to be able to use the right word at the right time, and the more words one knows the more effectively he can express his personality, Indeed, the more thoughts he will have—the better he can

think. A fine way to increase your vocabulary is to mark every new word you run on to. Memorize at least two of these each day and watch for a chance to “ring them in” where you can do it without your listener catching you at it.

2 & =» 3 DRS. FAIRBANKS AND PRONOVOST, psychologists, have experimented extensively on the pitch of the voice in different emotions and have found that in rage or fear the voice goes up a full octave above the level for expressing sorrow, contempt or grief. Also, a person's voice has a much greater

range in anger—often running through two octaves while one oc-

body in the world. You dg. have!a bass drum, you can learn to dance

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Neutrality Hearings Really Debate - As t6 Whether U. S. Will Be Drawn Into War to Save ‘Democracies.

ASHINGTON, April 10.—The hearings before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee are the most important single happening in this country today. They are called hearings on the “Neutrality Act.” They are far more than that. They are the beginning of the great debate as to whether the United States is again going to war to make the world safe for—not “democracy” this time—but the . “democracies.”

Anybody who doesn’t think that this is the real question at issue hasn't followed the course of recent events very closely—or doesn’t realize the great. strength or volume of the propaganda that has been going on for over a year to suck us into some European alliance, Ever since President Roosevelt's famous “quarantine” speech, there have been many other utterances which show that, so far as the Administration is concerned, it has already decided to support those countries. It talks of measures less than war but more than words—meaning quarantining or strangling | unfavored nations by embargoes or other trade or financial restrictions. But that in itself is economic war and not even the proponents of that will deny that if it fails to win its objects, military war is the certain next step. ® » » F we are going to war, we ought to know what we are going to fight for. We are told the “democra~ cies” and so we prepare to defend countries of the Western Hemisphere and to rely on arming them and an alliance with them, and we draw closer and closer to association with Britain and France. I earnestly believe in getting ready to defend this hemisphere, But to call that, or this general trend, a defense of “the democracies” is just cynically, cruel, hypocritical sloganeering—precisely the same slicker stuff that drew us into the tragic blunder of 1917. England is now in alliance with Poland. Poland is a dictatorship. Of 25 Latin-American countries, at least 20 are dictatorships or communes and one— Santo Domingo—is about the bloodiest, most savage and vicious dictatorship in the world. And if the coming alliance includes Russia—wouldn’t that be the nuts? No dictatorship in the world is so ruthless and deadly or farther from democracy. In any such lineup as is imagined, there would be many more dictatorships on our side than on the other. If we are going to get into a war let's not be kidded, or sloganeered into it as we were 22 years ago. ” » =

ELL, if it isn’t to defend democracy, what is it for? Obviously it is to maintain the existing pattern of empire, trade areas and territorial boundar- | ies. Why not say so? Because not so many Amer- | icans would be willing for us to fight to preserve Tue nisia for France, for example, as ‘for democracy.” We would have to fight to preserve the borders of the 20 American dictatorships from Hitler—not for “democracy” because they are not democracies—hbut to defend our own.democracy. But why should we fight

Germany and Russia or give Ger- |

to preserve boundary lines in Europe or Africa or Asia about which, as Roy Howard said: “We know little or nothing and care less.” If we are to be drawn into this let us know very clearly what we are going to fight for and why we have to do it.

It Seems to Me

By Heywood Broun

Doubts Dr. Moley Created Literary Masterpiece in Garner Profile.

EW YORK, April 10.—I am afraid that Dr. Moley did not major in journalism at Columbia. In | the current issue of Newsweek his smashing lead runs, | “I have been asked not to write this piece by a couple | of experienced politicians.” Perhaps they were not | politicians. Maybe they were the professor's guardian angels come to earth in a disguise. One person who might have asked the good gray doctor to keep away from the typewriter would possibly be any member of the English department of the university. The Lions of Morningside Heights are hardly likely to roar admiration for such sentence structure as the fole owing: “They say that if I, a frequent critic of Roosevelt's | policies during the past two years, write about Vice | President Garner, it will injure his chances of getting the Democratic nomination in 1940, because it will suggest that I am ‘supporting’ Mr. Garner in my role of critic of Mr. Roosevelt.” Another person who might have asked Dr. Moley not to write the article would be some pupil who had studied geography in grammar school. The Doctor of Letters refers to Uvalde, Tex. as being “out in the foothills of the Rockies.” However, there can be no denying that the original head of the Brain Trust must have done considerable research in preparing his profile of John Nance Garne er. There are plums here and there in the suet which must have required days and nights of delving. Con= sider, for instance, this startling revelation: “He smokes cigars because he likes cigars.” Moreover, Dr. Moley has discovered that “he goes hunting be cause he likes to hunt.”

He Grows Warmer

By now I must admit that the professor is growe ing a little warmer. Quite a number of editors— and writers as well—are engaged in the business of building up the Vice President for the Democratic nomination in 1940. But I think there ought to be a clearing house for the product. At the moment the boys are playing both sides of the street. One friend will make much of the

rugged simplicity of Mr. Garner and dwell lovingly on the assertion that he always goes to bed by 9 and arises at some equally >jreposterous hour. : But the next day another well-wisher will treat the more ‘convivial side of Cactus Jack and say that you would just die laughing if you could only hear, first hand, one of the old gentleman's stag stories. Well, I don’t see how a candidate can both have his kitty and also put her outside at sune down. Surely the poker prowess of J. N. Garner could hardly have been obtained in any game in which the last round of roodles ended at the stroks of i

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is sufficient to cover less vio-

Watching Your Health

By Dr. Morris Fishbein

I =mROUAOSTS, once captain of the men of death, has now been superseded by several other leading causes, yet it still remains the greatest killer of youth. The germs that cause tuberculosis frequently get into the body without the slightest notion on the part of the person concerned that he has been exe posed. The vast majority of tuberculosis (particue larly in childhood) is spread to the children from adults who have the disease. In the early stages of tuberculosis there are few of the symptoms about which most people know, Severe cough, spitting of blood, constant pain in the chest and profuse sweating at night are signs of a profound and severe infection and do not appear in the early stages. However, the feeling of always being tired, and persistent loss of weight, a lack of appetite, and cough or a cold that hangs on and on, are symp- ° toms which mean that there is something seriously wrong, which might be tuberculosis. These signs are a warning of the need of an immediate examination, The reason for going to the doctor for an ime mediate examination rests in the ability of the: physician by the use of the X-ray and the tuberculin test to find tuberculosis early. It has been said that “early tuberculosis can often be seen with the eye of the X-ray before it can be heard by the ear of the physician.” ; The tuberculin test is a harmless, safe skin test which indicates whether or not a person has been subjected to infection. The physician merely makes a scratch on the skin into which he puts a very . small amount of a special material. If the test is

positive, a red spot appears, whereas if the test is | negativ skin heals. I ii :