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FRIDAY. APRIL 21, 1939

A RAY OF HOPE REMIER MUSSOLINI yesterday rejected President Roosevelt's world appeasement and arms-limitation proposal as an “absolutely unjust and unjustifiable attempt to place the nations of the (Rome-Berlin) axis on the seat of the accused.” However, there was one possible ray of hope from Il Duce. Speaking of the elaborate plans now under way for Rome's world fair in 1942, he said: “If we wished to light the fuse of an explosion, if we were planning threats and aggressive designs, we should not be dedicating ourselves to a work of such gigantic proportions.” In this, Fascist leaders—even Virginio Gayda, the editor who often is Mussolini's mouthpiece—professed to see “a guarantee of peace at least until 1943.” Well, maybe. Anyway, this anxious world may get a little comfort out of it while it waits to hear from Hitler, at the other end of the axis, a week from today.

THE STATE MANAGER IDEA AXPAYERS may get thoroughly fed up with their accumulated burdens one of these days and decide to apply a little “streamlining” to government as well as to automobiles, flatirons and toilet bowls.

In Washington By Raymond Clapper

Roésevelt Fears Hitler Aims at Destroying British Seapower and Hopes to Prevent Start of War.

ASHINGTON, April 21.—Many people want to know whether Roosevelt is trying to get us into a war. The chances are that the question does not appear to him in quite that form. The recent judgment of the Administration, based on the best information it can get, is that Hitler and Mussolini have been preparing for a rapid cleanup of Europe. It is suspected that the plan calls for overrunning of France from three sides—using Fascist Spain as one springboard for attack. The idea apparently is to try to break France and Britain at the same time by a military defeat on the continent. This may not seem to make a great deal of sense from Hitler's point of view. By using measures “short of war” he has picked up nearly everything that lies loose around Europe, and the few remaining fragments probably could be wangled without provoking a war. But it is the belief here that Hitler is driven by far more grandiose ambitions than the consolidation of Middle Europe. Hitler's real goal, it is suspected, is the overthrow of British sea power. Apparently Hitler has concluded that the quickest way to break it is by inflicting a military defeat on the Anglo-British alliance in a land war. 2 2 2 Pp ANTASTIC or not, that is thé picture of events which has inspired the thinking of some key officials in Washington. It was fear of a sudden break that caused President Roosevelt to make his peace proposal. Not that the chances of its being accepted were considered high—it was given not more than a 20 per cent chance. But the move did help force a clarification of the issue and it was counted upon to gain some time for the British and French. At the same time Roosevelt sent our fleet back to the Pacific—partly for the purpose of releasing the pres-

sure on the British in the Far East, making it easier for them to pull some strength back into the Mediter-

| ranean where the German and Italian naval forces

are assembling, Roosevelt is trying to prevent this war that he believes is so dangerously near. It isn’t so much a question of whether we can keep out. The Administration's first interest is to prevent the war at all. In

They may decide, as Clarence A. Dykstra, the former: city manager of Cincinnati, said the other night in dis- | cussing problems of government, to let “state managers” run the states just as some 480 cities now are headed by city managers. Well, why not? Look at Indiana! In this state, besides the State Government itself, we have 92 counties, 1015 townships, 428 towns, 102 cities and hundreds of school, drainage, road and sanitary districts. Tax authorities estimate the number | of these territorial units at nearly 3000, many with over- | lapping functions of government and each with a set of | public officials intent on perpetuating itself in office. Can there be any doubt that great savings are possible | through the elimination of waste, duplication, and inefficiency | in this expensive maze of taxing authorities? It is something to think about.

THE UNITED JEWISH APPEAL HREE HUNDRED volunteer workers today opened their | campaign among Indianapolis Jews to raise $123,400 for the United Jewish Appeal. The movement was given an inspired start with the address last night of the noted Dr. Stephen S, Wise of New York. The eminent rabbi described the misery of refugees | of all faiths in all parts of the world. He pointed out that | the.funds are necessary in the light of immigration restrie- | tions. He stood out against any lowering of our immigraton bars, declaring that “every need of America comes before every other need as far as I am concerned.” Indianapolis wishes the campaign the success it deserves. For every dollar means a little less misery in this | world.

TRUTH—AND NLRB HOULD an employer have the right to tell his employees, | truthfully, that a leader of a union which solicits their | membership is, say, a Communist?

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Most people, we suppose, would think an emplover does | have that right. Yet Chairman Madden of the National | Labor Relations Board asserts to a Senate Committee that an employer would violate the Wagner act by stating | with complete truth, but with intent to indicate his dis- | approval of a particular union, that its leader is a Communist, The Wagner act forbids coercion. An employer must | not order his employees to stay out of any union. He must | not make or imply threats that thev will be penalized, by | discharge or otherwise, if they join. That is clear and right. | But Mr. Madden, going far beyond that, interprets | the law to mean that an emplover must not inform his | employees of a fact vitally important to them and to him. By the same reasoning, of course, the employer would be compelled to stand silent while a racketeer, known to him as sucht undertook to organize his workers. Such reasoning, in our opinion, doesn’t make sense. Nor does Mr. Madden's defense of it. Pickets, he said, are constantly being enjoined from carrying placards stating that employers are “unfair to organized labor,” even though the charge is true. He would regard it as “gross class discrimination” to say to workers that they may not speak

the truth and yet to permit employers to “speak the truth |

at will.” In other words, Mr. Madden wants two wrongs to make a right. Our idea is that two rights are needed—that in this country of free speech both workers and employers should be permitted to speak the truth, and that neither courts nor Labor Board should presume to interfere. Mr. Madden appeared before the Senate Committee to defend the Labor Board's record and to oppose amendment of the Wagner act. Quite unintentionally, it seems to us, he revealed the bias which has subjected the Labo} Board and its rulings to so much criticism, and testified eloquently to the need for amendments that will place the Wagner act beyond this or any future board's power to twist its mean? ing to fit strange and unfair theories.

AN OLD FRIEND

THE news from Astoria, Ore, makes us feel better. Capt. Chris Anderson of the halibut schooner Argo reports a close-range meeting with a sea serpent—a monster with a 10-foot neck, a head like a camel's and eyes as big as hot cross buns. Skeptics may raise their eyebrows as they read Skipper Anderson's account of how this creature emerged from the Pacific, within 10 feet of the Argo’s hull, nodded gravely to the fishermen and proceeded to swallow a 20-pound halibut. But we choose to believe it, every word of it. Every day we are compelled to swallow facts that are much less palatable. And, considering the way human beings are behaving, it's a relief to have a nice, gentle gea serpent in which to place our faith.

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| that American material resources will be

| Europe. | will be a turnup in the stock market.

trying to prevent the war from being started, this

| Government has no faith in the efficacy of kind words.

It has sought to awe Hitler by conveying the idea thrown against him it the break comes, and on that Roosevelt is determined, S # #

TT Government is not thinking in terms of manpower aid in Europe, but it very likely would attempt to bring pressure to bear in the Pacific in order to hold Japan down while freeing the British for European concentration. Washington definitely considers the interests of this country bound up in the preservation of British sea power. It would not like to see the necessary

are now protected by the British fleet, fall under control of—well, Japan, or her partners. For that reason every effort is being made and will be made by this Administration to give the breaks to Great Britain, even though she is a trade rival.

(Mr. Pegler is on vacation)

Business By John T. Flynn Monopoly Probe

Drift Toward

‘Self-Rule in Industry’ Indicated.

EW YORK, April 21 —For the moment the war situation in Europe has diverted the vision of Americans from our problems at home to those of Europe. For instance, the stock market has gone down steadily and the business index has declined steadily since November. It is still declining.

It is a convenient explanation of this that the decline is due entirely to the war possibilities in If the European situation clears up there But this will be temporary. And then we shall be confronted with the question whether our declining trade is due to the European scare or to domestic factors. In the meantime, therefore, the movement toward the right in Washington, which has been under way, will come more and more into the spotlight. One spot that will come under scrutiny will be the monopoly investigation which is supposed to be exploring the economic effects of monopoly. When this investigation began this writer warned that the monopoly investigation would probably turn into an investigation of competition and that it might very well end. if not watched, as an effort to bring about “self-rule in business.” That was indignantly denied at the time. Then it was the Department of Commerce under Mr. Roper which was working to give the investigation this study. Leon Henderson has been stage-managing the investigation for the Administration and has watched its activities like a hawk to keep the word “monopoly” from being used in connection with it. Mr. Henderson was the chief economist or chief statistician or something of the sort for the NRA.

Vindication for F. D. R.?

But now, apparently, this drift of the investigation toward friendliness for monoply, toward “self-rule in industry,” becomes apparent to others. Thus John H. Crider of the New York Times reports that there is “ample evidence that several of the committee's outstanding members are thinking in terms of a new tvpe of industry-byv-industry regulation, a variation of the NRA idea, ete.” Curiously, this movement

is having its chief

| impetus in the same Department of Commerce, but

now is presided over not by Mr. Roper, but by Harry Hopkins, who cannot be dismissed as not in the { confidence of the President. : There is perhaps nothing the President would | feel more pleased at accomplishing than a return | to the NRA idea he supported so strongly and which | was so completely repudiated. It would be regarded by him as a vindication.

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

HREE 16-year-old boys, reading the list of high-est-salaried Americans, sighed gustily, Their eves popped with bright visions. Watching from the sidelines, I knew their dreams were golden. Someday (I guessed) each hoped he would be earning as much as the financial bigwigs. And Old Meddlesome Me breathed a silent prayer they might be spared the destiny they longed for. I've seen too many unhappy rich men. It’s better to be satisfied with less and escape the cares that come with money power. Yet I could imagine the boys would disagree with me. To them

all wealthy folk walk a glamorous way. As children do, they thought only of the crowds that trail the rich, the headlines they get in newspapers, and their sumptuous manner of living. Out of yachts, country estates and hovering servants, Bagdad romances were being woven. I was almost sure of that. What they could not see were the sycophants, beggars, false friends and shysters who go with these crowds and those headlines and that carpeted ease. Nor could they know the fears which gnaw at the hearts of certain rich people—fears for the safety of their children and the proper distribution of their treasures. Worst of all is the envy they incite. Also, it must be a special kind of torture for sensitive or conscientious individuals to possess a great deal when so many others around them have nothing. The burdens of poverty are terrible indeed, but those of super-wealth are also dreadful. And =o I breathed a wish that my longlegged son might find the only true good fortune—that which attends those who walk life's middle ,way. They are blessed, because they escape the extremes of both poverty and wealth: !

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supplies of rubber and tin in the East Indies, which [married women who have husbands

lhouse and lot, at a coming auction

Treasurer does not wipe out such

| Waiting for the Other Shoe to Drop

-—By Talburt

The

I wholly disagree with what you say,

Hoosier Forum

defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

but will

LAUDS UTILITIES RULING ON MARRIED WOMEN By A Citizen Two of the largest utility companies in Indiana have notified all

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

working they will be dismissed July 1. These companies are to be con: gratulated for this constructive move to help eliminate unemployment. It's not consistent with good sense for employers to view with alarm the fast growing army of unemployed, higher relief costs and higher taxes while their organigzations are full of married women (whose place is in the home), keep-

ting a quitclaim deed also from the original owner—the fee owner; and also all bidders that are known as “tax buyers’ and regularly buy at tax sales, are men who want ; : |good interest on their money and ing ir Joe A a peLen | ney are clever enough to pick out tive but to seek relief. while these only a very few (only one in 100 will

; | ? that t know will be married women hog all the good they touch) that they jobs and enjoy the luxuries of life | paid off during the two years known

’ Site en ee Ty sure many | by the mortgage holder. other large corporations will follow. ¥ #8 $ # # PLAN TO KILL AGED CLAIMS MISUNDERSTANDING [DRAWS ATTACK ON TAX SALE DEEDS By L. M. Lucas By George E. Stewart Kill all the poor over T0—sugI find that a great many people {gested and urged by Maj. Edward have been misinformed about tax IL. Dyer, U. S. Army, retired—as a sales and tax titles. Recent articles | solution to the relief problem. Also in your paper have given the im- he would kill several others, inpression that for $3 plus a couple of (cluding all first-degree murderers. vears’ taxes, you can buy a lot or a| Assuming Maj. Dyer would be

willing to press the button it seems to me he would be placing himself in position to face the firing squad

to be held by the County Treasurer. This is absurd and may cause a lot of folks the loss of the money that they pay in on such a sale or auction. Nearly all of the properties that will be offered in such sale have large Barretts on them, and the

verse.

‘my rights when I say “what is he?” | He probably never produced a dollar of wealth, and has been clothed, fed and paid out of the U. 8S. Treasury, and now retired on a fat pension, while many of those whom he would ruthlessly murder have given their lives to produce wealth for the na-

EYES, LIFT TO THE HILLS!

By KEN HUGHES Is there an end to waiting? Years move on more slow. Cdn the calm within us Regulate the blood’s flow? Yet, will the eyes lift To where spirit is reborn. Up to the hills In the promised morn!

DAILY THOUGHT

But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.—James 3:8.

WOUND from a tongue is worse a than a wound from a sword: for the latter affects only the body, the former the spirit—Pythagoras.

Barretts. Furthermore, thousands are already sold for taxes and are being resold against some former tax buyer. And lastly, a tax deed is not the same as a fee simple title. As a matter of fact, the deed that will be given two years hence, in event the fee simple owner (or any interested party such as a mortgage holtler) does not redeem. will be a tax deed and will not convey full title. The owner of a tax deed cannot possibly hope to sell to anyone other than the fee simple, or original, owner, and he actually is in the same position as a receiver. There are cases where the tax deed holder has had to deed the property back to the fee simple owner without compensation other than rents from the property sufficient to offset the sums paid out by the tax deed buyer. In conclusion, allow me to point out the following: No loan company or association will make any loans to anyone that has a tax deed; no attorney will allow any client to buy from a tax deed owner without get-

tion, but who through reverses have become destitute. The wealth they produced is still within the U. S. A. and they are as much within their rights in demanding a pension as is Maj. Dyer, retired, since he has ceased to produce, even in the army—though still | pulls on the Treasury. Hence, we suggest that Maj. Dyer, retired, be deported to meet his euthanasia amongst the head hunters of Bor-

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companies | 8S the redemption period, probably |

as the arch murderer of the uni- |

I feel that T speak wholly within]

neo, where in our opinion he be- | longs. From one who, though past still producing.

#8 BN WANTS ALL TAXES ON LIQUOR REMOVED By Anonymous Twenty-five per cent of the country will be dry again this year, As a stockholder in the Government distillery in the Virgin Islands, I want all taxes on liquor removed. Taxes are a burden on the consumption of liquor, and if we “lit tle businessmen” want customers to buy more liquor, it will have to be cheaper. More liquor sales would improve a lot of businesses. It would help the undertakers, hospitals, garage men, new car factories, and provide a larger group which would require more barmaids, liquor storerooms and police. It would also require {more boys and girls from American | families as victims of the alcohol habit. It would provide more in- | mates of new prisons, which would require more guards. Liquor would restore a market for the farmers’ grain, make us indus- | {trious, thrifty and capable of solving | |our problem of unemployment. Why

tax liquor and not soap?

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” ” ” PRAISES MINTON'S | SUPPORT OF F. D. R. By Kenneth M. Farthing, Kennard When a man is a candidate for office and promises the people a certain number of things he is going to do for them and acts just the opposite once he is in office, you can hear on all sides people saying, “I told you so! You can’t believe anything a politician says.” Now on the other hand, when a man does keep his promise to the people, that officeholder, whoever he may be, should be looked up to by the voters of all parties, regardless of race, creed or color. Right here at home in Indiana we have a man who has kept his promise to the people. He campaigned in 1936 with the slogan, “Back Roosevelt,” and he’s done that very thing from A to Z. Good luck to you in 1940, Senator iMnton. Indiana needs more men

like you.

LET'S EXPLORE YOUR

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MEN AGED 20 oR AGED 30° TO BETTER MACHINES | YOUR OPINION rr. mp MGS SOS, ETC

1 ACCORDING to a Cuban maga- acter and mature emotions they gine, men love more intensely | grow more tender, more under at 20 but make better lovers at 30. standing and actually develop a This doesn’t go far enough. Men beauty and sweetness in their love ought to become better lovers everythat younger men know nothing year, I think the beet are men above about.

80. If they ate men of sound char-L All that young men think

By DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM. >

MIND

intensity—older men have this, too, but coupled with an emotional depth and power that younger men simply cannot achieve. As Louis Stevenson said when he married the mature widow, Fanny Osborne, he wanted “a woman who had served some apprenticeship in love.” ” ” » THE ONLY WAY 1 know of is the way I got it. I worked nearly a year on a newspaper as cub reporter taking all and any kind of assignments and hunting for my own news for nothing and glad of the chance, I was everjoyed at the end of that time to be hired at $12 a week. And I've been a reporter ever since. Young people spend 12 to 20 years without pay—indeed they pay--going to school. Why should they object to working another year or so to get real education for their jobs? 8 2 =»

PARTLY due to these, of course, but authorities think it is chiefly due to the education of the driver. Highways and machines improved somewhat during 1037 but nothing like enough to account for this gratifying decrease in fatal accidents. It must have been due

chiefly to the training of the brain nd emotions of the drivers.

| requires something close to genius.

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Gen. Johnson

Says—

Excellent Work Being Done Tor the Blind, but They Need Better Retail Outlets for Product of Their Toil,

1, 2NoasrER, Pd., April 21.—Blindness is one of the worst of human afflictions, Yet, like sufferers from infantile paralysis, the blind seem to be more patient, brave and cheerful than the average of those who are whole. I came to Lancaster, Pa., to deliver a lecture in aid of the local Lions Club which has ase sumed a duty of helping the work of the Pennsylvania Association for the Blind, The remarkable aspect of this work is the great

deal that is done with the pathetically little money there is to do it. Whatever is done here for several hundred blind has to be done with about $100 a year for each, I am not talking about the pensions and allowances, from which those who can’t see get a bare subsistence—about a dollar a day. This work attempts to let the blind take part in human life instead of sitting helpless in darkness.

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T = are many handicrafts which they can be taught. These can produce a modest living. Buc they can do much more than that. They convince blind people that they are contributing something to the life in which they Jive. That is almost everything for them. I never saw among creative workers—artisans or artists—such enthusiastic pride as those people take in their work—whether it was the girl at the telephone desk who called numbers out of a Braille directory, which she has made herself, and typed notes on a Braille typewriter; or women doing delicate needle work, or men making furniture, mats and baskets. There is a human value in this work—the greatness of which is almost impossible to convey in words. It must be preserved and it could and ought to be vastly extended. : Of course, the most fascinating part of it is the marvel of the ‘seeing eye” dogs. Combining the sharpened senses of the blind with the excellent vision, instinct, loyalty and intelligence of magnificent dogs, wholly helpless people are made free again to walk the earth, I know of no single small thing that would add so much to the sum of human happiness as a multiplied expansion of all this work, Why isn’t it done?

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JTRS is the difficulty of finding markets for the output of these workshops of the blind. It is cheap for excellent handwork, but cannot compete with machine-made products. I asked why all the great department store, chain store and other modern merchandising systems couldn't be induced to install one counter for these products. This was answered by an indulgent smile: “We've vainly tried that. They say that it would take sales away from the regular products and so amount to a contribu= tion.” Well, why not? It would take only a smattering of sales to two thin classes—those who are willing to pay more for handwork, and those who want to help this kind of effort at very small cost. A general open=ing of this kind of retail distribution would solve most of the problem of the workshops for the blind. There are not 1 per cent of needed dogs.

Ir The training must be perfect.

It takes 18 months and Money could solve that problem too. That means big money. But I know of no place where money could go further or do more good. :

It Seems to Me By Heywood Broun

Some Anti-New Dealers Seem Bent On Writing a Rejection for Hitler,

N= YORK, April 21.—The peoples of practically all the nations of the world have hailed with enthusiasm the efforts of President Roosevelt to promote world peace. His message has had its effects. even upon the citizens of Japan and the men and women ruled by Hitlet and Mussolini. But there is opposition. It has been loud, strident and bitter, and though some of the most contentious critics have ex= pressed a pious hope that the President may succeed in saving civilization from carnage, they are doing everything within their power to balk the effort. Indeed, some of them, at any rate, are writing Hitler's reply for the Reich in advance, And who are these people? They are Americans. Some, curiously enough, call themselves pacifists. The group is motley. Some are sincere and foolish. Some are not sincere, A certain number of those who stand out against the rest of the world and ‘decry peace proposals are men who would rather actually see the entire earth go up in smoke and flame than have any additional prestige added to the leadership of Roosevelt. And in the ranks are a few semipro Cassandras, who will be disappointed and chagrined if history proves them minor league scothsayers., So often have they cried out that war was inevitable and that the President was hurrying us into it that they will be miffed when their prediction misses.

The Doomsday Prophet

Some years ago in Patchogue, L, I, there was a man who announced the end of the world and named the day and hour. He proceeded to sit on the roof with his family about him and wailed and moaned about the impending doom. The zero hour came and passed and the earth ticked on as usual. At the end of several hours the prophet of gloom was forced to admit that the delay was not merely some minor mis= hap along the track of destiny. Reporters were wait= ing to get his first words upon his discovering that he and his fellow-men were not to be extinguished, They expected him to be jubilant, On the contrary, he was sore as a pup. And so it is likely to be with some of the newse paper columnists who have insisted that all hope of averting European war is gone and that America can and should do nothing to prevent if. In fact, if Hitler were shrewd enough, he could frame a rejection to peace using nothing but edie torials from American anti-New Deal papers and exe cerpts from the speeches of native self-styled pacifists. But we are not dealing with a local issue or even an international one. Mankind faces a cosmic problem. . Here and now we must decide to dedicate ourselves. to that divinity which is within us or to compound and magnify the sin of Adam.

Watching Your Health

By Dr. Morris Fishbein

ORE than a hundred years ago doctors recoge nized that people who partake not wisely but”. too well of alcoholic liquors are likely to develop : symptoms in which they have mental and physical - disturbances associated with convulsions. 3

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i Seventy-five per cent of all people who have

delirium tremens develop the attack while they are: drinking. It is, therefore, ridiculous to give such

people more alcohol with the idea that more alcohol.” 4

will stop the symptoms. x One of the largest clinics in the country devoted

to the care of alcoholic addicts is in the Bellevue © Hospital in New York City. In that institution & series of 10 principles has been set up for the treat«: ment of those with alcoholic delirium which seems?

to have been most successful.

oc. The first step is to withdraw alcohol immediately

from the patient. Next, sedatives are given in order . to keep Se patient quiet. Third, mechanical restraintg.. are avoided unless they are absolutely necessary. Fourth, a large amount of carbohydrate food, such = as sugar or glucose solution, is given to help sustain. the patient. Fifth, salt is given in an attempt to. combat the loss of water from the body. = Sixth, a diet that is rich in vitamins and high in< calories is provided. Seventh, plenty of water is. given. Eighth, whenever it is necessary in order. to make certain of the diagnosis, a spinal puncture.® is attempted and the spinal fluid is examined. $i Ninth, all complications such as fractures, ine. juries, bruises, etc. are treated with special mi i as required. Tenth, the mental side of the patient ig: studied carefully in order to determine what diffi-'« culties in his life may be responsible for causing

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