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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 12, 1939
“THERE'LL BE NO WAR. .."—BEAVERBROOK
HE British are famed for their bulldoggedness. Prime Minister Chamberlain is reported tobe seeking a “last minute” understanding with Premier Mussolini in the hope of averting war, Accordingly, Mr. Chamberlain is in for a new barrage of derision from various parts of the world. Among us there are those who, though safely remote from Europe's
potential battlefields, never tire of jeering at Britain and |
France for not rushing into war against Germany and Italy. We do not share in this sport. Patently, the situa-
understanding can still be reached—an understanding which will leave the democracies and the Fascists free to live according to their, own desires.
reasons. One is that war would leave the world a shambles | in which our own democracy might be trampled along with | the rest. Another is that with peace there ought to come a new surge of prosperity, which itself would do more to! advance democracy and retard totalitarianism than any | other one thing we could mention. 1 “With peace,” Lord Beaverbrook told Roy W. Howard in Paris, “there must be a wave of prosperity.” Thus we find British leaders, right up under the guns, talking and working for peace and prosperity while we, over | here, are letting the jitters get us down. It is worth noting that Lord Beaverbrook gave it as his opinion that | “there isn't going to be any war” just now, while we, on this side of the Atlantic, are acting as if the day of judg- | ment were already upon us. . | For our own good, we should try to be as plucky and as optimistic “over here” as the exposed Britons are “over there.” This does not mean that we should blind ourselves | to realities. It does mean, however, that neither should | we spend our time in a torture chamber of fear—fear of | tomorrow's terrors which may never come. During the World War the British had a slogan: | “Business as usual.” They are endeavoring to live up to it | now, though within 90 minutes of Herr Hitler's bombers. | With 3000 miles of salt-water between us and Europe, we | ought to do as much.
HAROLD TAKES ON SOME STEADY WORK
UOTING from the Congressional Directory—that section which lists the duties of the Secretary of the Interior: | “The Secretary of the Interior is charged with the | supervision of public business relating to the General Land | Office, Bureau of Reclamation, Geological Survey, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Office of Education, National Park Service, | Bureau of Mines, Division of Grazing Control, Division of | Investigations, and Division of Territories and Island | Possessions . . . the United States Housing Authority . . .! the Bonneville Project . . . the Commission to Investigate | the Financial, Economic, and Other Conditions of the Vari- | ous United States and Indian Reclamation Projects... and | certain hospitals and eleemosynary institutions in the Dis- | trict of Columbia. ...” For reasons of space we'll have to stop quoting at this point—although the above constitutes only about one-sixth | of the text listing the Interior Secretary's duties. The other five-sixths continues in the same tempo, showing that | his responsibility ranges from running the railroad in Alaska and curbing “hot oil” in Texas to directing public | works in the U. S. and reconstruction in Puerto Rico. But “Honest Harold” Ickes is not one to be confined to | the grubby routine of any job or combination of jobs. His | restless spirit is ever scanning new horizons, seeking new | worlds to conquer. Much of his spare time for extra-curri- | cular activity, of late, has been devoted to dressing down | the dictators in Europe and the newspapers over here. All this we had noted. But not until he made that |
speech in New York last night, taking on the whole clan of | newspaper columnists, collectively and separately, did we comprehend the limitless scope of “Honest Harold's” ambi- | tion. Far be it from us to rush to the defense of those whom “Honest Harold” describes as the “calumnists.” They have space of their own, We wish only to hail the redoubtable Mr. Ickes’ entry into a new field of endeavor. It should help relieve his boredom, at least until the President reorganizes the Government and gives him some real employment for his idle hours,
INDIANS VS. BLUES MORROW afternoon we can rest crisis-worn nerves while we give ourselves over completely and enthusiastically to the latest edition of the Indianapolis Indians. We don’t know much about the new team that Manager Schalk has assembled. There are a lot of new faces around the infield and on the pitching staff. The one thing we can be sure of is that, under Schalk, the team will be full of
fight.
And that makes opening day tomorrow all the more interesting. A new and unknown team representing In-
dianapolis opening the season against Kansas City, the |
favorites for the pennant. We'll see you at the Stadium.
NO CARS IN ANY GARAGE ERHAPS there's some sort of moral for our hectic civilization in the stout refusal of the Assembly in the British island of Bermuda to permit its governor an autamobile. Gov. Sir Reginald T. J. Hildyard has resigned in disgust, after trying twice to persuade the Assembly to yield. He is going home to England, where a man can enjoy a fog and a motor car. Bermuda allows no automobiles on its soil. It is still a horse-and-buggy land (unless you are poor, as most Bermudans are, and use a bicycle). But the governor wanted to be different. We like the convenience of our car, but sometimes after a day in traffic we feel as if a place like Bermuda would be paradise indeed. Hence we say: Bravo Bermuda!
~ And Sir Reginald, here's your
tion is critical. But we cling to the hope that an honorable | and that Hitler may carry his program to America.
In Washington
Busines Manager | By Raymond Clapper
Japan Would Be Delighted if We Turned Our Backs on Pacific In Order to Help Former Allies.
! \ ASHINGTON, April 12.—Well, this can’t be such | a bad country to live in after all. Marian | Anderson, the Negro contraltc, is going to sing in the White House for the King and Queen of England. Grover Cleveland Bergdoll wants to come back to America and serve his Sentence for draft dodging. Prison in the United States is more inviting than the kind of freedom they offer in Germany. The more we see, the less we like what happens
when Germany and Italy take people “under their protection.” But no more salesmanship is needed on that point. Perhaps there is too much now. There is danger of whipping up American sentiment to the point where we may lose our balance. In the urge to go over and help Britain and France, it needs to be remembered that Japan is part | of the Rome-Berlin combination now and that she | would be happy to have us turn our backs on the Pa- | cific—throw the whole fleet into the Atlantic and | allow her free hand to raid the East Indies—where’ | oil, rubber and tin are provided for the world.
| 2 x = I: you read the newspaper dispatches from Warm | Springs during President Roosevelt's stay there, | you may have observed how persistently a feeling of | alarm over Europe is being cultivated. The general theme is that Germany aspires to world domination
This theme is repeated in news dispatches as com- | ing from “sources close to the White House” or from
| “friends of President Roosevelt” or from “inspired We hope Mr. Chamberlain can find a way out, for many | of armen eneoachn Ohi qishaten relied he fear
of German encroachment in. America and said it was told to newspaper correspondents “with undoubted Presidential sanction.” Those roundabout phrases are used to conceal the fact that the President is saying it. One dispatch referred tc “an authorized White House spokesman.” That takes us back to Coolidge, who developed the mythical “White House spokesman”
{| whenever he was overcome with a passion for anonym-
itv and had something he wanted to publish without taking direct responsibility. » = » HEN Mr. Roosevelt took office, he boldly discarded these anonymous subterfuges and spoke
either for attribution or else completely off the record, which meant there was to be no speculation whatever.
Although Hitler and Mussolini have stripped for- |
eign affairs of every vestige of restraint and international good manners, responsible statesmen in other countries, including our own, still attempt to observe some delicacy in discussing international affairs. Hence the Presidert does not always feel free to say publicly what he thinks. The best rule under such circumstances is silence. Through the “anonymous spokesman” we are now being given something that is neither public statement nor silence, but a murmur in between. Without the President taking responsibility, newspapers are fed with alarming interpretations of events which when read by the general public have the natural effect of creating anxiety. Conditions are serious and we are all more or less bewildered and hence susceptible to alarms. Therefore it seems the better part of valor for statesmanship to withhold its fire until it is clear what we want to shoot at and then shoot—not wildly in the air, but at the target.
(Mr. Pegler is on vacation)
Business By John T. Flynn
Accumulation of Gold Reserves Not Doing Us Any Goed, Is Claim.
EW YORK, April 12—When Americans read that we have 15 billion dollars of gold they perhaps feel a thrill of patriotic pride. But is all this gold good for us? If anyone’ wishes to see the catch-phrase, “have-and-have-not” nations illustrated he has but to look at our gold and Germany's. March 1, this year, we had 15 billion dollars of gold. Germany had 28 million. For every dollar Germany had, we had $535 in gold. There are some who think this is why Germany sprang her surprise
| seizure of Czechoslovakia last month. She was des-
perate for gold. She got 83 million by raiding Bohemia. It was a sort of bank robbery. In 1934 we had $7.856.000,000 of gold (new valuation). Today we have more than 15 billion. In 1934 we had about 40 per cent of the world’s gold reserves. Now we have about 60 per cent. Out of every $10 of monetary gold in the world we have six. Other nations have a hard time holding on to their gold. It flows inte us in an immense stream. Last month Senator Wagner of New York asked
| the Secretary of the Treasury why so much gold came
here and was it because we are paying $35 an ounce for it. The Secretary said it came to settle trade balances and because foreigners think their gold is safer here. He denied it came here because we pay $35 an ounce for it. But the Secretary hardly told the whole story. He said that while we pay $35 an ounce other countries also pay as much when they want gold. Of course
| they do. They have to in order to get it. How It's Paid For
How do we pay for it? We have paid for it with Treasury gold certificates. We just print a piece of paper which says that this paper reoresents so much
| gold behind the paper in the possession of the Treasury.
The paper is in the banks. It tends to expand the gold reserves of the banks. About half a billion of the gold has been bought with funds borrowed from the banks. Is this gold-buying policy responsible for any lack of business confidence? Is there any danger in this whole gold policy? The Secretary says no. But I think he is wrong. This whole gold-buying policy and its implications
| has filled businessmen and investors with a feeling | that the President is not yet through fiddling with
money. Moreover, the presence of this vast geld hoard they | believe to be pregnant with possibilities of inflation. The fear of inflation always is a deadening influence | upon long-term investment. The paralysis of long- | term investment is the chief cause of the long-delayed | arrival of sound recovery.
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A Woman's Viewpoint | By Mrs. Walter Ferguson
SHORT but glorious life has ended. Inez Ensign is dead. Although she was born with a crooked | back, she made a long shadow over the places where | she trod. Can you imagine what it means to a woman these days to know she is destined to go all her days carrying about a burden of physical malformation? Probably not, if you are young, strong, vital and filled with dreams. Inez was also filled with dreams, but they were different dreams from those most young women hold. They were dreams of doing good. No doubt deep within her something sobbed and wailed, when she grew old enough to realize she would never walk upright and that her body must always battle weakness and ill health. But deep in her heart, also, valiance held a citadel. : When she was old enough to go her way alone she began working with the Young Women’s Christian Association, and there she found at once what she sought—the opportunity to merge her own troubles in the great surging sorrows of humanity. She worked hard, but she did something even more important. She carried with her the banner of true beauty. Although I have met her only four or five times and some of those were casual meetings, her memory is as vivid as flame. I remember well the first time I ever saw her. She held in her hand a long string of beads of various shapes and colors— her poetry chain, she called it. For every bead upon | that chain represented a poem she had memorized. Within her frail body lived a great spirit—of the | sort to which we give too little homage nowadays. With her string of glass beads,
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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES Spring Tonic! —By Talburt
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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.—Voltaire.
URGES DIVIDING UP OF GOVERNMENT WORK By William Lemon If the State, County and City
would establish a 40-hour® week at 50 cents an hour, then divide this work into 20-hour shifts it would double the amount of employment, lessen the county trustees’ load and reduce taxes. It would give each governmental employee a $10 weekly pay check and no one would complain except a few fakirs on the public payroll. If a man can live on a $1.45 grocery order, rent and coal, he can live, buy coal and pay rent with a $10 weekly pay check. It would also set an example to private employers. If they followed this example, it would soon reduce | unemployment and put more men {and money to work. It takes no brains or training to do this public work—only a strong back and a willing mind. Of course they would not be able to contribute much to a campaign fund, and at present it looks like Indiana will need a substantial fund next election. » »
THINKS GREECE COULD CONQUER DUCE’'S ARMY By Farry D. Hantzis I left here in 1912, fought for Greece in the Balkan War in 1912 and 1913 when Greece drove the Turks off Eperius and Albania and Macedonia and back to Asia Minor. I was through all of those countries in 1914. Albania at that time wanted to stay with Greece, but Italy wanted Albania to be neutral. Greece suspected they wanted Albania neutral, so they could reach Greece easily. I hope there will be no war, but if there should be Greece will take care of Mussolini's Army over the nills. If Great Britain really protects Greece on the water then Greece will take care of Mussolini on land.
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BLAMES ROOSEVELT
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FOR “WAR JITTERS” | By Wilbur A. Royse
In your editorial entitled “Let's {Count Our Mercies” you very cor- | rectly point out that “The constant | drumming of war news from abroad has got this country into a state of | suspense that we think is much out of focus.” As you state this is having a detrimental effect on business. The foolhardy docirine that “we're bound to get in it” has afflicted us with a very serious case of jitteritis. This is a serious malady—it can be relieved and cured only when the real cause of the condition is properly diagnosed. A cursory examination of the history of the patient will in this case
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disclose the cause. It is the President of the United States. Ever since his Chicago speech in 193%, the President has been inflaming our people with his attacks on certain European governments. He has prated much about the threat to alleged democracies. On page one of your April 10 issue, he is quoted as saying to the people of Warm Springs, “I'll be back in the fall if we don’t have a war.” Is it any wonder that we are in a state of suspense? Our tragic experience of 20 years ago in “making the world safe for democracy” is still fresh in our minds. With that record before us, is it any wonder that the President’s outbursts have seriously upset us? How can we as you suggest “step back and acquire some perspective” when the President and his spokesmen are keeping us in a constant state of furore? As you so ably point out we have nothing to fear from any European nation. We have no right to interfere in their arguments. This is their battle. The President and his official family could very easily provide the remedy for our jitters by adhering to the traditional American policy of “friendly relations with all nations, entangling alliances with none.”
SPRING SONG
By DOROTHEA ALLANSON
The rampant hues of autumn, Are pleasant to the eye. Summer skies of dainty blue Are oft admired; and I Thrill with the’ crispness of winter, A hearth fire’s gentle roar. But spring! Blessed release Of all earth’s natural store, Brings life and breath so fragrant, An enchanting world of duty. Where flowers, birds and heavens sing Their spring beauty.
DAILY THOUGHT
For whosoever shall give you a cup of water to drink in My name, because ye belong to Christ, verily I say unto you, he shall not lose his reward. —Mark 9:41.
INDNESS is the golden chain ; by which society is bound to-
gether.—Gogthe.
song of richest
RELIGION URGED AS SOLUTION TO PROBLEMS By M. P. R. In my opinion the world turmoil will not come to an end by further rearming, name-calling, bluffing, etc. We should delve deeper into the cause of the conditions as they now exist. In my opinion the basic cause is a breakdown in moral values and a disintegration of human ethics. Force supersedes reason and life itself has become a “pawn” in the hands of dictators, war-mongers and politicians. My plea is for a return to religioh. The soul of man needs a transfusion of faith, charity and justice. While billions are spent in armaments religious leaders of all faiths are receiving little co-operation and small pay compared to the good they perform. When will people begin to enter a temple of worship for the sole purpose of spiritual uplift? When will they realize that all that is noble, serene and, uplifting can be obtained for a very small sum? When will they begin to dismantle the robe of lust, greed and selfishness for charity and service to his fellowman and justice? Let every individual throw aside for a little time each day the thoughts of vain mundane gains and think of brotherly love. It is time to realize that our strength lies in God, not in war and discord. True religion is the only solution to all of our human ills. » ” RESENTS SEIZURE OF PET PUPPY
By Daily Reader About a week ago the dog wagon picked up my youngster’s pet pup and took it to the dog pound and we had to pay to get him out. Now in the first place, why do they pick up little pups when they aren’t bothering anyone? What else will they think up here in Indianapolis to get what little money poor people have? We pay enough taxes. Why don’t they let people have a rest and quit snooping around picking on baby pups? s x =» INDORSES HOOVER'S FOREIGN POLICY By Reader
I did not care much about Herbert Hoover as President, but I do think that every good American should agree with his views in regard to this country’s foreign policy.
LET'S EXPLORE YOUR
By DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM-—
MIND
| 11 think a woman has a perfect right
to try to get the man she wants— provided neither she2'nor he is under previous obligations. ” » = DR. CRILE says, “We fear not in our hearts alone, not in our brains alone, not in our viscera alone—fear influences every organ and tissue.” The experiments of the physiologist Cannon and of Pavlof, the Russian scientist, and many others confirm this. They show that fear is a great destroyer —not only of peace of mind, but all bodily and mental efficiency. ® =
study of several
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If We Get Into a European War By Thanksgiving Fault Will With Our Own Tom:Tom Beaters.
ASHINGTON, April 12—Is it possible that we are much too jittery about what is going on in Eurcpe? It is shocking, degenerate and cruel. It can arouse nothing but disapproval and disgust in such a country as ours. But it is our first business to mind our own business and, unless we are threatened, we have 'no ticket to that unholy show. The too-easy assumption that we are so tied in with the world that we are threatened if some other nation is threatened is voiced by our very highest anthorities. That can have no other effect than to ine crease the jitters of the whole population. When the President says on leaving Warm Springs that he will return for Thanksgiving if we don’t have a war, he might mean that there is at least sz considerable possibility that we will have a war before Thanksgiving. Such a hint is enough to chill the average layman into goose-pimples. » » EJ F we “have a war” before Thanksgiving, it will be because we start it. Military strength on both sides of the possible European lineup is so nearly equal as to give either all it can tackle without taking us on at the same time. Much about this situation is in a fog of uncertainty but that statement surely is not. Hitler and Mussolini would be idiots to do anything that would bring us in. They may be psychopathics or maniacs but they are not idiots. ' There is hardly anyone in this country who does not agree that, with such madmen loose in the world, we must prepare to defend ourselves against any event. In such agreement there is no need to heat up a war fever to get us ready for the long pull. Some of the tom-tom beaters understand this well. Their purpose is to excite us not to defend ourselves, but to attack others. They are succeeding to the extent of creating fear and gloom in which business is going to the dogs and people are more miserable and unhappy than the occasion requires.
” » » F we get properly ready—as we are doing—we are in very small danger of getting into war. War may come in Europe but, as has been remarked here before, on all past experience that would result in a business boom if we remain neutral. We don’t want our prosperity by that route but it would come just the same. I have never been able to understand why the general list of the stock market slumps on Euro= pean war scares. I can only puzzle over whether the
| present business hesitation does not come from the | fear caused by these persuasive prophets of disaster
who insist that both war in Europe and our taking part are certain. They are performing no publio service. One of the principal reasons why we have so many millions unemployed is fear or lack of business con= fidence. It has been a very large by-product of much Administration policy. Hitherto that stagnating insecurity has come from economic and financial actions and attitudes. That was unintended, indirect and, perhaps, unavoidable. But »>fficial hints ef war and our participation in it move directly as a cause to effect the same kind of uncertainty—or worse. We all want the hard facts at such a dangerous time but putting too gloomy or awful a face on a fact is just as dangerous as glossing over ugly ones. i
It Seems to Me
By Heywood Broun
Question Is Not Shall We Go to War, but How Can We Stop It?
EW YORK, April 12.—There is a disposition to divide all articulate Americans into the “peace group” and the “war group.” These labels are used loosely. Indeed, it seems to me that a more just ap=proximation might be reached by shifting the tags. Most so-called isolationists hold to the view tnat a general European war is inevitable, and that there is nothing we can do to prevent it. Indeed, they seem to feel that no American, in authority or out, should even make a try. Their entire program appears to be to “say nothing and do nothing.” And a few go to
the definite length of becoming pseudo-apologists for Hitler by the ardor of their criticism against all who would discourage aggression by any means whatsoever, In a recent. column called “Peace in Our Own Time” Walter Lippmann wrote truly and eloquently. “Senator Borah and his associates talk as if the issue before Congress were whether the United States will go into or stay out of the next war, That is not the issue. The issue is whether there is or is not going to be another world war. That is the question before us. The question is whether the power and influence of this nation can be used now, now before it is too late, to prevent the war, to prevent the hideous conse=quences of a war, to prevent our having to make the horrible choice which will confront us if war breaks out, the choice which will haunt us as long as it lasts.”
Not a Pleasant Prospect
If there is a general European war we may be able to stay out as far as physical participation goes. And that may well be the wisest course left open to us. But make no mistake in assuming that we can remain wholly untouched by the brutal spectacle. well for any nation to say, “It is naught te us what happens across the water.” There are no caves in which men can hide when their fellows cry out in agony. BO eaking in Cleveland, Bertrand Russell predicted a general war, but added that if America remained aloof -the United States would be the dictator of the world after the conflict. “America will have all the capital,” he said, “and every nation in Europe will be ruined. Europe will have to have money to rebuild, and can get it in America only on such conditions as America imposes.” To me it is a goulish picture. every dictate of heart amd head.
It wars against
Human fellowship is a blessing, and it is also a
responsibility. We must do our part to save, not just one corner of the globe but the whole world from the drums of death and destruction. We must be heard at once. vy
Watching Your Health
By Dr. Morris Fishbein
R more than 20 years physicians have heen ex=perimenting with various vaccines in an attempt t6 find some method of inoculation which would have reasonable certainty in helping to prevent whooping cough. This is one of the main problems that confronts medicine today. Whooping cough is a widespread disease far more serious, in fact, for the growing child than either measles or scarlet fever. The most that could be done to prevent the spread of whooping cough was to isolate children who became infected so that well children could not come in contact with them. However, many children apparently go on coughing after they are well and act as carriers of the germs. During the years that have passed, physicians have studied more carefully the different germs that might be involved. The most recent evidence indicates that there are varieties of the germs and that it becomes necessary, therefore, to prepare vaccines with relationship to the different types of organisms. In various parts of the country different vaccines have been used—using different types of dosage. There now seems to be good evidence that a vaccine properly used will confer complete protection on many children and partial protection on others. In some instahces it seems to be desirable to vac3 the children each year as long as they are
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 12, 1939
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