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THURSDAY, APRIL 20, 1939

HITLER TURNS FIFTY DAY Germany's motorized war-machine rumbles through Berlin while a frenzied populace heils Hitler. For this is Der Fuehrer’s 50th birthday. The fuehrer’s birthdays are always celebrated in this fashion. Nevertheless, this parade is different. Before another birthday the die probably will be cast. The man in whose honor the troops are marching will cast it. His word can give Europe peace or plunge it into war. Elsewhere, the forces working for peace are still active, Yesterday, in London, Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax voiced a plea for mutual understanding with Germany. Britain, he said, “would never wish to abandon any efforts that promise success” as long as there is any hope of winning a response from the other side. Whereupon he announced that the British Ambassador to Germany, Sir Nevile Henderson, would soon return to Berlin. Peoples everywhere will applaud the spirit behind these gestures. Indeed, we suspect that the American people would be glad to see Washington take a leaf out of Britain's notebook. ) ® s ” 8 ® #® LIKE the British Ambassador, our envoy to Berlin, Hugh Wilson, was recalled to Washington as a slap at the Nazis. While the rebuke was soundly deserved, we doubt that it did the slightest good. Apparently realizing that, the British are sending Sir Nevile back. We think Washington would be wise to follow suit. To have an Ambassador in a foreign capital does not necessarily mean approval of the regime in power. It is a business proposition, especially important in times when dangerous misunderstandings are likely, that we should have full and able representation in other countries. We have applauded President Roosevelt's dramatic peace message to Hitler and Mussolini. We hope it will accomplish its purpose. But it can hardly be denied that the President’s efforts are handicapped because high officials of his Administration have so frequently, and often so intemperately, denounced the men to whom the appeals were sent. We might swing the balance for peace by coming out openly as a partisan. We might do it by adopting the role of impartial arbiter. But if we attempt to mix the two methods, we run great risk of failure in both.

WHAT DEMOCRACY MEANS DEMOCRACY is a word that pops up on every front page these days. There are those abroad who torture its meaning, damn its intent. There are those at home who give it a glib and wishful definition. Perhaps it’s time to give a few moments to thinking just what “democracy” does mean. One of the finest definitions was drawn up a few years ago by British Liberals—a definition which Allan Nevins, the biographer, quotes in an article in The New York Times Magazine. Here it is: “Its essence is a love of liberty and a hatred of arbitrary power. It believes in the rights of all individuals, and of all natural and spentaneous groups, such as nations, churches, or trade unions, to pursue their own ideals in their own way, subject to such common regulations as may be necessary to secure the same rights for others. Common regulation becomes more necessary as our mutual dependence increases, and is as essential for nations as for individuals. It is the only safeguard for liberty against arbitrary power—against the brute force of arms, the power of wealth, the power of monopoly, the power of numbers, the power of elaborate organization.’ “Democracy believes that self-reliant individual energy is the source of all progress and its aim is to create the positive conditions which will enable every man and woman to make the most and best of their own powers. This aim is equally incompatible with a policy which aims at rigid regimentation of human activities under the control of the State, and with a policy dictated by deference to vested interests, to wealth, and to established privilege. “Democracy hates war, whether between nations or between classes, meaning by war not merely the clash of open conflict but thatedormant state of war in which nations or classes watch one another with jealous suspicion. It loves peace and ensues it, meaning by peace not the mere absence of open conflict, but the settled habit of solving differences either by friendly discussion and agreement, or by reference to some impartial tribunal.”

THE LIQUOR CLEAN UP TATE EXCISE Administrator Hugh A. Barnhart has given public notice that he is not unaware of the growing dealer complaints of unfair liquor trade practices. Charges of chiseling practices among dealers have been mounting for some time. The Administrator himself announces that many dealers have been giving illegal discounts and gifts and favors to promote business. The State Excise department has been growing more stringent about sales made on Sundays and after normal closing hours on other nights. More arrests were made last month than in any similar period. Now, Mr, Barnhart declares himself ready to take care of the dealer situation. “The time for leniency is over,” he says. If anything, the Administrator is guilty of understatement. As one close to the way Indiana voters think, he knows very well the dangers of what may happen unless the liquor situation is brought into hand.

THE GIRL SCOUT COOKIE SALE THE Girl Scouts of Indianapolis and Marion County are conducting their 14th annual cookie sale, The proceeds go to maintain Camp Dellwood, the organization’s all year round camp. Until a few years ago camps for girls were a luxury. Now, thanks to Dellwood and similar camps, girls are able to attend and enjoy their outing at a minimum cost. The cookies new being sold help make this possible. All Indianapolis wishes the Girl Scouts another successful

THE INDI

In Washington

By Raymond Clapper

Roosevelt's Decision to Address Retail Group Emphasizes Split With C. of C. and Manufacturers.

ASHINGTON, April 20.—Diplomatic relations between the Administration and organized business groups have shifted again and the new favorite is the American Retail Federation, before which President Roosevelt will make on May 22 what some New Deal insiders describe as his most important

economic speech of the year. That invitation was chosen rather than one from the United States Chamber of Commerce, which has its annual meeting here May 1. These relations between the Administration and business groups such as the Chamber of Commerce and the National Association of Manufacturers constitute a special sector on the political front and grow warm and cold amid intrigue and wire-pulling. When the Roosevelt Administration first came into office, the United States Chamber of Commerce was one of its strong allies. The then president of the Chamber, Henry Harriman, was active in formulation of NRA and AAA legislation. The violent criticism of the Administration came from the National Association of Manufacturers, which had been a puny and quite insignificant outfit. But N. A. M. hired a good press agent and its shrieks of indignation against the New Deal began to attract businessmen who were embittered toward Washington. # # = N time the Chamber of Commerce changed presidents and the tone of the organization became much move critical of policies at Washington. Roosevelt no longer addressed its annual meetings. Then some Administration friends began boring within the N. A. M, and by last winter had obtained enough control to force through a set of resolutions which were hailed as the product of enlightened 20th Century industrialism. When Harry Hopkins became Secretary of Commerce, he wanted to make his maiden appeasement speech before this enlightened N. A. M,, but conservative directors had regained control and they refused to invite Hopkins to speak except under humiliating conditions. Now the Administration is cultivating the retailers. Some officers of the Retail Federation are on close personal terms with New Deal officials here. The Administration offered full co-operation to the group in promoting the retailers’ national forum, at which

Roosevelt will speak. = » #

HIS will be construed by some as a rebuke by the Administration to the Chamber of Commerce and the N. A. M. But it is not so much that as it is an effort to encourage a business group which is primarily interested in increasing purchasing power. The Chamber of Commerce is specializing this year in cultivating Congress. Some 25 dinner meetings have been arranged in which businessmen and delegations in Congress will gather separately by states. While Hopkins has been invited to speak, the majority of the speakers will be men known for their opposition to the Administration. The whole situation adds up to the fact that despite the talking and the toting of olive branches back and forth, the relations between the Administration and the business community as a whole appear no better than before, and the big need, a unified drive for recovery, is seemingly as remote as ever.

(Mr. Pegler is on vacation)

Business By John T. Flynn

Barter Proposal Could Be Judged Better if Its Origin Were Known.

EW YORK, April 20—One of the oddest proposals that has appeared in Washington in a long time is the plan to barter wheat and cotton for tin and rubber and nickel.

It is perfectly obvious why Senators representing cotton and wheat farm states should see in this perhaps some means of ridding the country of the big surpluses which now vex both commodity markets. But it would also be interesting to know precisely where this proposal originated. A week ago Sunday the Presidential “spokesman,” spoke with alarm of the barter system being used by Germany, which was disrupting world trade. And just before that Mr. Hull made a vigorous denunciation of Germany’s barter system. However, on the heels of these two attacks, the President and the Secretary came out strongly for an extensive barter arrangement which, they insist, will be limited to countries not tied up with the totalitarian states. If we could know where this plan originated we could judge it better. But these facts are significant. We know that our Administration is bent on doing everything it can to give aid to Britain and France in the possible hostilities which threaten. England and France will want to buy iarge supplies from us in the event of war. As in the last war they will want credits. But under the Johnson Act no credits can be given them since both have defaulted on the debts they owe us from the last war.

Circumventing Johnson Act

But in the event of war Great Britain can buy as much tin or’ nickel or rubber as it wishes with funds raised by credits obtained within the empire, because the largest tin and nickel and rubber supplies are produced in the Malay States Federation, in Canada and in the Straits Settlements. Therefore Britain can use her own internal credits to buy tin and nickel and rubber. Now, if she can use the ‘tin and nickel and rubber to buy things in the United States, she will have found a most ingenious way to circumvent the Johnson Law. If we have cotton and wheat we do not want and England has tin and rubber she does not want, is there any reason why we should not swap? But in that case, we ought to be honest and rational and concede that Germany and Brazil and any other two nations have the same right. Also we ought to be careful that in making barter deals we do not actually run head-on into the principle of neutrality by anhouncing that we will barter only with Britain and her allies. At least all the aspects of this deal should be explored before we go into it.

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

Ir mother love is to be regulated by the glands, as a famous physician prophesies, let's hope we do not encourage any increase in the present over supply. By turning off the excess flow, however, as we turn water off by tap, we could gain many benefits, since multitudes of children would find life more pleasant and have a better chance to become useful men and women.

Casual contact with family groups prove that the child's greatest handicap to normal development Ee uch Father hen too little, mother love. It all over the place, and many rich children bogged down in it most of the time. us

The watchdog of cloying maternal affectio its stranglehold on them when they are too HO resist, and sometimes they never escape. To be sure the doting mothers also deserve our profound pity. They live in a world where apartment-house owners often prefer dogs to children, where four babies are regarded as a “big plenty” and six as a financial disaster, and where a great many eouples, after a regular supply of Scotch and automobiles, Compra ise Se infant, e strange new world women have 1 little of the ancient maternal instinct. It have -~ everywhere, taking many different forms, and it can gum up our noblest works. We call it by various names, but it is the same old possessive instinct which was loudly praised when the average man’s family numbered more than half a score. People who advocate stay-at-home mothers seldom Ey Site means Jo Youngsters, who are eath now ! to “bring them up.” BY [pestenng ETOVION fying Because we have an oversupply of mother love in the upper and middle classes of our society.

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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.

LAUDS REP. HARNESS’ ATTACK ON BERGDOLL By & Veteran Three cheers for Rep. Harness and his bill to bar arch-traitor Grover Cleveland Bergdoll from entering these United States. Speaking of downright gall, I have heard of nothing that can equal it. Here is a man, who thrived and amassed a huge fortune under the Stars and Stripes; then, in time of war, instead of assisting in protecting the country which generously provided for him, he turned tail and hid behind the skirts of the enemy, where he has remained in cowardly hiding for 19 years. Now that things have become a little too hot for him there, he desires to return to this country, do a short stretch, and again mingle with those he so cowardly deserted. The charge of draft evasion against Bergdoll is too light. His actions border more closely on treason, and he has no place in this country, not even. in our prisons. Al Capone and some of our other notables incarcerated there are better citizens and would probably object to his presence.

® #” # DEPLORES PLIGHT OF SPANISH LOYALISTS By Agapito Rey, Bloomington

With the end of hostilities in Spain interest in what is going on in this unfortunate country has abated. Fascist aggression in other parts of Europe Is now making the headlines. No one seems to care about the fate of the Spanish people. The pitiful plight of more than half a million people in French concentration camps does not elicit a word of sympathy from our editors or public men. A more revengeful and heartless spirit will be hard to find in modern history. Brutal repression has been intensified in all former republican territory. Some reports claim more than 5000 people were executed in Barcelona alone; others give details of many refugees who returned from France to be lined up against a cemetery wall at Fuenterrabia. Would that it were only propaganda! The Fascist terror that has taken an estimated total of 300,000 lives behind the lines is still in full swing with no end in sight. That this cleanup is thorough is clear from the reports of Franco's official press. According to the Diario Vasco, March 25, there were 80,000 Catalan prisoners held in eight concentration camps, of which 40,000 had already been classified. Fearing they may have missed someone the military police published statements in La Vanguardia of March 24 and 25 asking people to bring charges against municipal employees and the medical profession, including doctors, pharmacists, nurses, etc. On

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April 3, right after the taking of Madrid, 25,000 civil prisoners were

(held at the Chamartin foptball field alone. Two days later Franco | was telling the world he had 650,{000 men in concentration camps and as convict labor they would do the work of reconstruction. To make the Republicans pay for the damage of war and the wanton destruction wrought by the Italian and German air forces a Law of Political Responsibilities was decreed. This law provides penalties against all those who supported the Republican cause; those who organized or were members of political parties, [labor syndicates or Masonic lodges. | The law makes these “crimes” retroactive to 1934, two years before the rebellion broke out. The penalty will be confiscation of their property, banishment and hard labor in concentration camps. The new Fascist motto in Spain is “redemption through labor.” . . . Of course these sanctions will be imposed only on those who escape

AMERICA By JAMES A. SPRAGUE

In America we choose Men to represent our views; Men who have one thought in mind, The betterment of humankind.

They assemble in the name Of the people, whence they came; And they legislate the laws Of the common people's cause. That's what makes our country great, No one man decides our fate. No dictator on a throne, With a power all his own.

With a tyrant’s cruel hand, Waves a scepter o'er our land. Let them rule across the sea, But none of it for you and me.

DAILY THOUGHT

And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up: that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life—John 3:14, 15.

ONE but God can satisfy the longings of the immortal soul; as the heart was made for Him,

the firing squad. Victory has not decreased legal murder. » 8 »

THINKS PRESIDENT

IS INVITING WAR By Edward F. Maddox Despite overwhelming sentiment

against our nation taking part in

another European war, President Roosevelt is slowly but surely leading us into the conflict. I have expected such would be the case for a long time because Mr. Roosevelt is being unduly influenced by a leftwing element, and if he carries out the radical plan, we are certain to be sucked into the maelstrom. I would say that William C. Bullit and Sumner Welles are having too much to say about our foreign policy. And in the face of plain evidence that Mr. Roosevelt is determined to take us into foreign war, where is the wisdom in giving him any more power or discretion in the matter of neutrality? The left-wingers, who plainly now dominate our foreign policy, are “fellow travelers,” or sympathizers with communism. They wanted us to interfere in Spain and China and will want to help Russia. . . . It is our business to call a halt to the mud-slinging, war-mongering and baiting activities of our public servants, who are wantonly and maliciously involving our nation in European and Asiatic affairs against the wishes of a great majority of our people. Mr. Roosevelt has no mandate for war, We are glad he is not a dictator. We hope he never will be. 8 » » DOUBTS ROOSEVELT COULD WIN AGAIN By W. F. W. The President's opponents are afraid a war would perpetuate him for a third term. If their fears are justified that his political life depends on war, then we can be certain this country will not have war before the candidates are nominated because it is evidently not fated that F. D. R. be elected for a third term. I make this prediction even though prejudiced in his favor. It is my opinion the next President will be a Democrat (I should say the next two Presidents). He should be an old man and last about half his elected term and then a true New Dealer Vice President could carry on. As encouragement to the New Dealers for this temporary interruption I suggest it would be worse if, instead of a conservative old man, a clever younger one would gain power on the issue of old-age aggrandizement such as the Townsend Plan. In his recent Pan-American speech, -F. D. R. said: “Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.” This is an excellent sentiment.

He only can fill it.—Trench.

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LET'S EXPLORE YOUR MIND

By DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM.

room hot and humid and the bather finds it almost impossible to dry before going out with his pores all open—an Since

about such things. Yes, I heard you —I'm knocking on wood. » 2 ”

SOME of them are, but the vast majority think marriage is a job that will just run itself. Even love at times takes hard work and careful thought. It is not a perpetual motion affair by any means. It takes careful study and continuous attention. There are a lot of marriage, home and family problems’that both married and unmarried should study up on. I think it a duty for all public libraries to have books on such subjects. » n »

I DON'T often use that old gag, “There ought to be a law,” but I know of no other remedy for the deplorable humming and hawing and uh—uh—ing and stammering of college professors. They have to do more public speaking than any other persons in the world— three to six hours daily to their students—and yet they are just about the worst speakers in the world. They lose half the effect they wish to produce by their unpleasant, often positively disagreeable voices and speech mannerisms. Nearly all surveys conclude the reason college students learn so little is because they don’t study — but ule more if their

THURSDAY, APRIL 20, 1089 Gen. Johnson Says—

Startling Changes Being Made i Army Tactics and Arms These Days And Our Boys Must Have the Best.

ASHINGTON, April 20—Among my ‘telegraphic “dear-sir-you-cur,” souvenirs is this: “Your isolationism allies you with Hitler and GermanAmerican Bund in Germanic plan for world conquest. . +. Your attitude treason. You are selling out America and civilization.” This comes with rumors that,

from the very highest among the seats of the mighty,

there are assertions that those who think it is not necessary for us to threaten a new alliance of force with Britain and France against Hit and Muss are receiving great acclaim in the Axis countries and will be rewarded with statues in Berlin and Rome. All this is very reminiscent to me. It sounds just like late 1916 and early 1917. It makes one want to paw and snort about the descending twilight of free speech, I had a swell column all written about that which begins with some hot comebacks about statues in London to Joe Kennedy and Walter Hines Page. Then it occurred to me that, for days and even weeks, I have been writing about all this dangerous business in a shrill high pitch. Even though my deadline looms and I haven't prepared on much of anything else, I put that one aside to cool. If Hitler can wait a week, I can wait & day or two. ‘ 8 ” ” OT to get entirely out of this burning field, more people ought to read periodicals like the Ine fantry, Cavalry and Artillery journals just now. It is true that they are a kind of ‘trade paper” for soldiers, but they are well edited and have a lot of nontechnical stuff that would interest any layman at such a time. Above all, even if it is a trifle technical, anybody would be astonished at the revolutionary change that is going on in the equipment and tactics of the various branches of the service. Almost everybody is familiar with the appearance of the traditional rifle company of infantry in close order or parade formations. It is just a snappy series of ranks of men carrying rifles. It is hard for me to visualize how the new forma tions will look in the field. The old “squads west” goes out the window. So many men will be carrying parts of machine-guns, mortars, light cannon and ammunition that the appearance should be something like that of a gypsy caravan or a Cheyenne war party complete with squaws. 2 29 OU can’t study the armament or change of tactics without realizing that what is being accomplished is a tremendous increase and concentra=tion in fire-power ,with a great reduction both in manpower and exposure of soldiers to enemy fire. In the cavalry also, mechanization and motorization threatens to create technelogical unemployment in the trade of soldiering to an even greater extent than has occurred in industry, mining, transportation and agriculture. Fewer men do the work of many and do it better. More men are behind steel shields. Speed and mobility are being almost une believably increased. Reports on developments in foreign armies show similar trends. It is bewildering but it makes one conclusion stand out like a sore thumb. In the face of rapidly growing and terrible technical improvements in armament we can’t afford to let our boys take the field with less than the very best equipment in the world in whatever quantity they need.

It Seems to Me

By Heywood Broun Slow Starters Often Go Places— Witness Grant and Now Douglas,

EW YORK, April 20—William O. Douglas was sworn in Monday as a Justice of the United

States Supreme Court at the age of 40, and he was the youngest man to attain that high honor since a 32-year-old stripling named Joseph Story made the grade. And that very young man from Massachusetts received his appointment in 1812, the year the

British burned the Capitol. I was’ talking with a Connecticut friend of mine who studied under Douglas when he was Stanley Professor of Law at Yale. “He was somewhat on the dry side,” said the even younger barrister, “but we considered him a good teacher. Still, if we had thought about it at all I think that almost all of us would have agreed that he was an able fellow who wasn’t going anywhere in particular. He had no front.” That quality “front” has been vastly exaggerated in our native inspirational literature. Hundreds of thousands of mortals pay money to learn how to make friends end have some effect on people. It doesn’t make much difference. Perhaps it can be learned from a book, although I doubt it. Every schoclboy knows that Grant was a failure until his orbit happened to coincide with that of the Civil War, and research, as eloquently projected by Bob Sherwood’s play “Abe Lincoln in Illinois,” shows that the Emancipator was a slow starter who only came to greatness when he was called upon to go a distance.

And Then There’s Hitler

Nor is there any evidence in foreign lands, as well, that the race is always to the glib or that the college senior who is voted “the most likely to succeed” is actually an odds-on favorite. I trust that no one will think I am indicating an enthusiasm for Adolf Hitler if I make the grudging admission that he is, beyond denial, an influential person in the world today. And yet there is abundant evidence that he was a fifth-rate watercolor painter, and that in his youth even his friends fled, saying “Here comes that tiresome little paperhanger who hopes to be an artist.” It is still my notion that Hitler as a public orator is a ham devoted to many of the cheapest tricks of demagogery. As in the case of “Abie’s Irish Rose,” I feel extremely confident that he will not run forever. But I cannot contest the fact that at the moment he plays to standing room in Berlin and most of the cities of Central Europe. And he never took a lesson in his life, and possibly is not even acquainted with the name of Dale Carnegie.

Watching Your Health

By Dr. Morris Fishbein

T= most commorr and most important complica tion of scarlet fever is infection of the ear. Such infection occurs in about 12 per cent of all cases of scarlet fever. Sometimes this results in permanent hardness of hearing. Moreover, there is the possibility of subsequent infection of the mastoid and of the brain, and occasionally the basis for a serious infection of the entire body, resulting in death. When the infected material coming from the ear that has been attacked during scarlet fever is examined it is found to contain germs of the same type that are associated with the production of scarlet fever, The cases are not all equally severe; some are fairly

mild. This apparently depends to some extent on the virulence of the germ that produces the infection. It must be remembered that scarlet fever is sometimes so mild as to constitute only a brief illness, and in other cases it may be malignant in its severity, An abscess in the ear may occur at any time during scarlet fever, but in the majority of cases it occurs after the first week, most frequently between the 14th and 21st day. Incidentally, this is the period when other complications are likely to occur in scarlet fever, The other complications include infection of the kidneys, of the joints and of the heart. It is interesting to note that the number of patients with scarlet fever who develop infection in the ear constitutes 12 per cent not only in a study of some hundreds of thousands of cases in this country, but also in Sweden, Italy and elsewehere in the world.

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