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THURSDAY, APRIL 27, 1939

- COL. LINDBERGH'S VISIT

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OL. CHARLES A. LINDBERGH is doing an important job for this country—surveying the aviation facilities

3 in the United States in the light of his intimate knowledge

of aerial armaments abroad. He was in Indianapolis for that

© purpose yesterday.

Here he had an opportunity to inspect the powerful liquid-cooled aircraft motor being perfected by the Allison

: Engineering Co., the experimental blind landing laboratory

: being built at Municipal Airport and developments at the

: airport itself.

Outside of aeronautical and military circles it is not

> generally known that the Allison motor is, at present, this - country’s principal challenge to overseas powers in the field --of high performance military motors. As such, it is only "natural that Col. Lindbergh should include it as a major “item in his survey. All of us will hear much more of this motor before many more months pass.

But aside from the military importance of his visit, we welcome him personally. We are happy to see him back

. in this country, happy to see him doing work that he has

loved since he first began tinkering with planes back in the early 20's.

CURTSIES ARE OUT

NE grave international question, at least, has been settled. American women who meet the King and Queen of Great Britain in this country do not need to curtsy to the royal visitors. We rejoice that the State Department’s protocol officials, after earnest consideration, have reached this conclusion. The correct form will be for our citizens to shake hands with the King or Queen, as the case may be, say “How do you do, Your Majesty,” and thereafter in conversation, if there is any opportunity for it, use the ordinary “Sir” and “Ma'am.” This has the advantage of democratic simplicity. And | it has another, perhaps even greater advantage. American | women won't need to make fools of themselves, and George and Mary will be spared the temptation to smile at the spectacle of plump matrons and angular dowagers essaying the unfamiliar curtsy.

DRAFTING TOMMY ATKINS

F anything further were needed to impress upon the world the gravity of the hour, the epochal decision in London to conscript an army of Tommy Atkinses should remove the last doubt. Nothing goes more against the grain of the AngloSaxon than compulsory military service. se regards it as an inroad upon his dearly bought liberties. Even during

the World War, Britain clung to voluntary enlistment until

far into the conflict. And less than seven months ago Prime Minister Chamberlain promised the House of Commons that compulsory service “will not be introduced by this Government in peacetime.” But events forced his hand. Britain and the empire probably never stood in greater peril. So the British are now being asked to abandon their historic stand on the draft. It is reported that the opposition in Parliament will fight the measure. Mr. Chamberlain, it is charged, has violated his pledge. But has he? He said yesterday that “no one can contend that this is peacetime.” It seems to us that he was well within the truth. It may not be war, but with 2,500,000 German and Italian troops mobilized at strategic points, it certainly isn’t peace. Accompanying his move for conscription—and very properly, we think—Mr. Chamberlain pledged the nation that wartime profiteering would be barred. Meantime, much depends upon the nature of Hitler's reply to President Roosevelt tomorrow. The President proposed peace. So the biggest boost British conscription could possibly be given right now would be a table-thumping rejection from Der Fuehrer.

TAXING FOR RECOVERY

R more than a year it has been known that this Cons gress would have to pass some kind of tax bill. This it true because one and three-quarters billion dollars in sales, nuisance and corporation income taxes will expire automatically unless a new revenue law is written.

But through the months that Congress has been in session, the leaders of the two tax committees have been waiting for the Administration to say what it wanted. And the Administration? Well, Secretary Morgenthau says he has been waiting all this time for Congrestional committees to invite him to testify, and “I am still ready for the invic tation.” Meanwhile, up in Canada, where similar problems afflict the Government, statesmen are taking positive steps to promote recovery and revenue. Finance Minister Dunhns ing announced the removal of a long list of excise taxes to reduce the cost of raw materjals for manufacturers, and

- an allowance of 10 per cent tax eredit on corporate income

spent in plant construction. Both are steps designed to bolster business profits and expansion.

A passage in Mr. Dunhing’s announcement ig well

~ worth repeating here:

“The savings of the people must be increasingly eon:

- verted into tangible productive capital in order to expand

the national incothe, restore normal business activity and

solve the problem of unemployment.

“We cannot have full employment or true prosperity until private initiative takes the lead in expanding capital

- works. Labor is unemployed because capital ig hibernating. . This lethargy of capital must be ended so that our ability . and willingness to produce shall not be frustrated and al-

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lowed to stand in wasteful idleness.” That is worth repeating because it applies with equal orce to what's wrong in our own country-—and it emphaneed for our awh statesme

In Washington

By Raymond Clapper

Garner Backers Trying to Offset Anti-Roosevelt Tinge to Campaign To Put Texan in White House.

(Mr. Pegler is on vacation)

X . ASHINGTON, April 27—The candidate who talks all the time doesn’t have nearly the advantage that is enjoyed by the noiseless runner like Jack Garner. The Vice President has scarcely spoken above a whisper since 1936, when he accepted renomination on the ticket with Roosevelt. From that day to this, his public commitments have consisted of nothing more than an occasional beetling of his celebrated eyeprows. That has left him free to be offered to the country in any role—or all of them, which is more like it at the moment. Within the last year Garner has acquired a réputation as the hero of the anti-Roosevelt Democrats. They slip in and out of his office. When any of them wishes to take a pot shot at the Administration, it usually is slyly hinted that some of the credit really ought to go to Garner. 2 2 NLY a few days ago, Garner's reputation as an anti-Roosevelt man brought him a clean bill of health from the Republican National Committeeman for Texas, R. B. Creager. Speaking at a luncheon of businessmen in Dallas, Creager said that while he thought Roosevelt would run for a third term, he wanted to say that if the conservative Democrats should win out and nominate Garner, it would be all right with him. “I agree with him in all his fundamental beliefs,” said this veteran conservative Republican. “I feel the country would be safe either way the eléction went, with Garner and a conservative Republican nominated, and I might be compelled to go fishing on election day.” That was an overstrong dose that couldn't do Garner any good where he needed it. A few more indorsements like that and he could kiss his chances goodby. So the word has keén put around Washington that Garner isn’t undermining Roosevelt. It was stated that he had refused to become the leader of the antiRoosevelt Senators. He wanted to keep hands off in the fight between Roosevelt and conservative Democrats in Congress. ® 8 = “J HAT Garner has heén giving aid and comfort to anti-Administration Senators has beén understood around Washington for months. But now there is a desire to get out from under that impression, par-

ticularly since Roosevelt, a few days ago, fired another volley at conservative Democrats. In his message to the young Democrats, Roosevelt said the Democratic Party would commit suicide by abandoning thé policies which brought it into power. If the country wants a conservative, Roosevelt said, it will go to the Republican Party to find him. The picture of Garner as thé conservative antiNew Dealer, which now is generally held by the country, makes an odd contrast to that which Garner left bv his speech in accepting thé 1936 Vice Presidential nomination at Philadelphia when he said: “In Franklin Delano Roosevelt the hopes of the nation have been rebern. Despair has given way to confidence. Despondency and gloom have made way for happiness. There must be no return to the old conceptions denounced as the old deal. Franklin Delano Roosevelt is my leader, my commander-in-chief. In this presence, before this multitude and with the stars of heaven to bear witness to my covenant, I renew the pledge of fealty I gave four years ago.”

Business By John T. Flynn

Despite Housing Fanfare, Nothing Is Being Dene for Low-Wage Groups.

EW YORK, April 27 —Perhaps one of the greatest disappointments of the last six years has been the old but persistently futile crusade to get houses built for people in the very low income brackets. So much is printed in the news columns, and so many speeches are made about housing and all that is being done, that it is very easy for the casual observer to suppose that some great strides have been made. To understand this it is necessary to keep in mind that the housing problém of the nation divides itself sharply into two distinct problems. One is the problem of getting houses built for those who are able to pay reasonable profits to the agencies which supply housing. The other is the problem of providing houses for those people who are not ablé to pay a profitable rent on their homes. The first group should include those who can afford to live in homes costing more than $3500 to erect. The second group might be roughly classified as including all those who can live in dwelling quarters costing not more than $3500 to build. The dwellers in the first group of houses would have to pay rental of around $26 to $30 a month and more with incomes ranging from $100 a month and up. The second group would include people with incomes of less than $100 a month.

Both Problems Ignored

The first type of housé has always been provided by private investors. The second type has not been provided by anybody. The problem, therefore, has been to find out why houses ‘costing more than $3500 cannot be built any more at a profit by private industry and to bring about the necessary corrections in those conditions. The probiém for the second type of house is to organize a Government-financed and directed administration to provide houses in thése lower<cost brackets. It is not missing thé mark to say that neither of these problems has been dealt with. All the ¥hany abuses of the building industry which make >rivate residential building an unprofitable business remain untouchéd. Indeed, with the exception of some of the methods of financing, they are worse today than ever. As for the low-cost construction field, nothing at all has been done. A limited number of houses and apartments has been built under the direction or the g of the Government at costs running around t this ‘has no bearing on low-cost housing.

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

HE test of civilization is the estimate of woman.” Realizing the deep truth of the statement, the Business & Professional Women's Clubs of America have outlined a challenging program for the coming year. ‘Their 70.000 members will be urged to Study cer tain fundamental principles of democracy and to apply those principles to their own locals industrial problems. The rights and privileges of the individual in a democracy will also be ¢ ered from a legisla= tive and humane standpoint. : No group could possibly have a finer objective. Like the average citizens, however, business and fessional women sometimes take the easiest road. Our meetings degenerate into mere routine matters of the organization; we become Smug, sét in our ways, uUREUHOUS and Apathetic. And When We do, the World MOVES on and leaves us Behind=—with our chances to improve and help, where improvement and help ate most needed, gone forever. Being a member myself, T ean speak critically as ohe sister to another, and it seems to me regrettable that so many of us behave as if & faint interest in demestic arts and eareful attention to details of dress prove our feminine attitude, Yet in a majority of in= stances we are tely dominated in our thinking by the opinions of men. Bh hE a community LY OR ky

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

WANTS LID CLAMPED ON POKER GAMES By Times Reader If I were Mayor Sullivan, I wouldn't have the nerve to put in the paper as he did April 21 how delighted he is since the lid is so tight on bingo, and let the poker games run as long as 72 hours and perhaps longer without even stopping in pool rooms. When the police make a raid, play is resumed as soon as they are gone. Why don’t they guard the pool rooms like they did the bingo halls? I'm sure if he sees business is so much improved sincé bingo is stopped, he will see Indianapolis booming if he would put just as tight a lid on the poker games. ® 8 » LAUDS EDITORIALS ON DEMOCRACY AND WAR PERIL By Voice in the Crowd I earnestly commend The Times for two editorial masterpieces carried during the past week. They both bear repeating. It seems that the redescription of Democracy should appear at least on Washington's birthday and on the 4th of July in every paper in the land. Perhaps it would lead the school of thought that Jasper Douglas expresses in the Forum from time to time to know that we do have a democracy and that America is a fit place in which to live. The fittest place of all. The other editorial, “If Hitler Insists on War,” should be printed monthly in case world war starts, in order that people could meditate on what follows if democracy fails to win. You certainly have not exaggérated the picture and you may have been too conservative.

§ & =» STRICT NEUTRALITY FOR U. S. DEMANDED

By T. R. J. To our Congressmen and Senators: Twenty vears after, and again when all the world has the jitters. there is coming up a bill for your votes, one of the most important pieces of legislation in that 20 years. In the destroying of civilization, we must keep neutral at all cost. 1t is up to you; you will be held responsible by the people who elected you to office. You c¢annect afford to sell thém out. In this country today there are 10 million people unemployed— many going hungry, without enough clothes. Although cold and hungry, there isn't one that wouldn't give

(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.)

his life if we were attacked, but who isn’t willing to go ‘thousands of miles to be slaughtered for something that is none of his business. We must have a neutrality bill to

unemployment? Let us keep our hands clean. If you, the men who run our Government, would put half as much energy and attention to our troubles here at home as you do to those abroad and let Europe take care of itself, we could settle down and have a few years of prosperity.

" wn» OPPOSES RETURNING ENVOY TO BERLIN By World War Veteran

In your April 20 editorial, you comment on the return of Britain’s ambassador to Berlin and recommend the United States do likewise. 1 can't agree with you because,

treat all nations alike. We must sell to all or none. It must not give too much power to one man. Somé day in the near future that man might take full advantage of the power. The next war will not be to save demoeracy but to right the wrongs of the last one. When we can say we still have our civilization intact,

after the old world has been ruined as it will be in the next war, and have not spent billions and billions of dollars to help ruin that civilization, we will have done something for both democracy and civilization. The foreign investments that are owned by Americans are not enough to go to war over. Why should we fight for the capitalist who, by hav= ing his investments in Europe, saves on labor and export taxes. Is he not responsible for a large part of our

GROWING OLD

By VELMA M. FRAME At last when I've grown old and

. gray With naught to do but dream and pray, I want my dreams to be pleasant dreams Of roses and smiles and bright moonbeams.

I'll give my thanks to Him above For the bitterness as well as love; "Tis tragedy mixed in with the sweet That after all makes life complete. »

I'll put my best into each day, I'll laugh and love, sing and pray, Then when I've grown old at last I'll rock and dream of all that’s past.

DAILY THOUGHT For this God is our God for ever and ever: he will be our guide even unto death.—Psalms 48:14,

E who always waits upon God, is ready whensoever He calls. =Feltham.

las you state, we withdrew our am- | bassador as a slap at the underhanded methods of Hitler. I am in favor of doing even more slapping than we are at présent. Of course it hurts the feelings of the Nazis to have our Government disagree with their methods. They claim they are the only ones who are right and all the rest of the world is wrong. When they took Austria did they consider the feelings of a happy, independent people? The Austrians were satisfied with thelr form of government. So were the Czechs. Just why should we mollycoddle anyone like that? It's a known fact that if given a chance, Hitler will rule the world. That is his aim. And if pressure is not put on him to hold him down he has a fine chance of controlling and dominating all of Europe. I favor breaking off all relations with aggressor nations and leaving them broken off until they come crawling to us on their knees proms= ising to be good. If any nation should gain control of Europe (it isn’t impossible) it could in a few years take over the Americas with very little trouble. We don't want to fool ourselves into believing that 3000 miles of ocean is a guarantee of protection against invasion of this hemisphere. We could not hope to hold out against the rest of the world. Far be it from me to advocate jumping into another war unless it is possible that the other democracies are going to lose. It would be better to fight over there than to

Jhave our beautiful country de-

stroyed. If some of these dyed-in-the=wool pacifists could have seen the desolation and destruction inflicted in France during the last war, I am afraid they would change their minds just a little. I hate war, but I don't want to wait until we are whipped to begin to fight—=because if we wait until the enemy comes over here, we will not be strong enough to hold our own,

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LET'S EXPLORE YOUR MIND

By DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM

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sales managers are pretty low in humor. ® 8&8 » I. SCHULZ, author, thinks it a very unwise thing to train people; especially children, not to be afraid of a lot of things. She thinks we should have an intelligent fear, especially of ill health, and go to the doctor and ask questions if we feel queer pains and aches we don’t understand. Chronic fears, especially the fear of failure, are bad and terribly wearing. » ” »

MARIE BEYNON RAY, author, who tells in one of her books “how never to get tired and how always to have energy to burn,” maintains that all human problems that ever can arise have been met and solved successfully by someone. I imagine that is true. Surely every problem you can possibly have in your life has existed and been solved in the life of someone among the billions who have gone before or among the two billion living now. It

seems a pity that we do not have a card index of all these problems

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THURSDAY, APRIL 27, 1939

Gen. Johnson Says—

League of Nations’ Friends Seen As Working Up American Emotions In Attempt to Repeat Folly of 1917,

EW YORK, April 27—Well, here we go again. I quote from a distinguished colleague of great reportorial accuracy: “American friends of the League of Nations have brought together a cross-section com=mittee for concerted peace efforts. The week from April 26 to May 3 has been designated as Peace and Security Week, with Donald R. Richberg as national

chairman and Mrs. Lucretia Grady as vice chairman.” (This is a committee for a week—the week of Hitler's

reply to Roosevelt. Its object is a week of public clamor if that reply is unsatisfactory.) “Mass meetings are being arranged for Friday when Hitler speaks in reply to Mr. Roosevelt's peace proposal. . . . American sentiment has not rallied behind that opportunity as strongly as it could” (maybe it didn’t want to) . . . “hence the timely importance of the mass meetings. . . . Such mass propaganda must be conducted with the greatest care and intelligence. . . . It is not going to help anybody in this situation to harangue the American public about how the good democracies must gang up on the wicked dictatorships—mnot unless Hitler slams the door shut next Friday. Then it will be time enough.” Then our “good democracy” can gang up with 23 dictatorships including the bloody despotism of Russia and make everything all right—and there will be the committee all ready to ballyhoo that. But to continue the quotation, “those who would make American opinion vocal say” ete. td » » HAT last one is the payoff. There isn’t any cone siderable American opinion for “friends of the League of Nations.” We had a “great and solemn referendum” on that question once and since then the League has proved its futility. There isn't any American opinion whatever, for “ganging up” on one side or the other in Europe or for getting into a general European war before it starts. There are no such opinions to be made vocal. This isn’t any attempt to make anybody vocal except some volunteers like the Seven Tailors of Tooley Street, who called themselves “We, the people of England.” It isn’t a move to vocalize existing opinion. It is an attempt to manufacture American emotion rather than opinion for repeating the tragic folly of 1917, and to make it by the immemorial savage incitements of mass meetings, war dances, red fire and tom-tom beating. Raymond Clapper, from whose account I quote, does well to call it “mass propaganda.” But how can the voo-doo rites of mass propaganda be conducted with “the greatest care and intelligence?” : = mn » HERE is an attempt to justify this primitive proposal by calling it “peace propaganda”—peace by taking sides in possible war! And it is “nonpartisan and nonpolitical!” Mebbeso. Mrs. Grady isn’t hard to tag as a partisan politician. But Mr. Richberg is. He has been a Republican, a Bull Mooser and, at about the close of the World War, a whatzit. The Peace and Security Week Committee says: “The United States must promote economic justice and the redress of grievances between nations . . . world institutions to accomplish these objectives must be developed.” That is what the League of Nations proposed, but it is not what the Monroe Doctrine says.

It says that it does not comport with our policy to take part in European wars. .

It Seems to Me

By Heywood Broun Hitler Got No More Than 50-50 Split

In His Answers From Small Nations.

EW YORK, April 27.—The villain in the famous story, which you certainly remember, tied Nellie to a railroad track in the first act, locked her in a burning building in the second, attempted to throw her off the Brooklyn Bridge in the third, and in the final scene asked plaintively, “Nellie, why do you fear me?” The play was called “Nellie, the Beautiful Cloak Model,” and I think it was written by Owen Davis. The probabilities seem to be that Adolf Hitler never attended a performance, and so his plagiarism in the case of the inquiry to small nations is wholly unconscious. His plan has been roughed up a little around the edges by the fact that Rumania apparently has ane swered, “Of course we are frightened, and why shouldn't we be?” Most of the others have played ball, but with certain reservations. When a small nation replies that it has no fear of invasion by the Reich and that it trusts in the integrity of its military armament I think that the most Hitler can claim is a 50-50 diplo« matic victory.

More and Merrier

There is something pitiful and tragic in the ase sertions of self-sufficiency by little lands like Dene mark, Belgium, Switzerland and Holland. A world in which the threat of war does not lurk just outside the door is by no means visionary. It is an old chestnut to talk about the unfortified border between the United States and Canada. And yet there it is. What two countries have been able to establish 20 or 30 can. There ought to be some sort of cone ference just as soon as possible. Meanwhile the problem which faces all peobles is what to do until the doctor comes. I know a negative answer. Just about the worst thing that can be done is to have men and women with leave to print or speak rushing around saying, “War is inevitable.” I think it is a mistake to do that here in America. Some of the many hereabouts who are expending all their emotions and energy on the campaign. to keep America out of the war could do a much more useful service for peace if they would only combine to make it certain that there will not be any war to keep out of.

Watching Your Health

By Dr. Morris Fishbein

STRANGE létter, almost like a voice from the past, has just reached the conductor of this cole umn, A girl from Massachusetts writes: “Will you please tell me what conditions, foods, ete, tend to give rosy cheeks.” In these days of widely advertised cosmetic preparations it is almost a shock and certainly a great sure prise to receive a question of this character. It would be very easy to say to the young lady that all that is necessary is for her to get in touch with a corer drugstore, where a tremendous number of rougés will be found available at a price to suit any hs eéks are an indication of two important facts: First, that there is plenty of good circulation of bloed in the skin and, second, that the blood contains a large amount of the hemoglobin or the red coloring matter which supplies a reddish ap-

pearance. The circulation of the blood in the skin depends, of course, to some extent on the blood vessels that are present. It is now well established, however, that eirculation can be improved by the use of massage and heat and the alternating application of hot and cold water, Before anything is done, however, to increase the hemoglobin or red coloring matter in the blood, it is desirable to know exactly how much of such material is present. This can be determined by having a mt doctor make a blood count.

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