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TUESDAY, MAY 2, 1939.

TOM STOKES, REPORTER

HE work and talents of many men and women go into the production of a daily newspaper. Each with his special skill contributes—theater critics and book reviewers, cartoonists and comic strip artists, photographers and copyreaders, the various editors who direct the gathering and assembling of the day’s grist of news, the columnists and editorial writers who compose the answers to the squeak of the swivel chair. Compositors, photo-engravers, stereotypers, pressmen —and we're not forgetting the circulators and advertising solicitors.

But the bone and sinew of any newspaper organization is its staff of reporters. The reporter furnishes the raw material from which the newspaper is fashioned. He is the one whose job it is to be on the scene when things happen, to see what happens, to understand what happens, to write what happens—the why, the where, the when, the how. His job is often portrayed in fiction and on stage and screen. But the workaday realities of his job are a different story. With every 10 per cent of glamour and adventure goes 90 per cent of toil. For reporting is a ceaseless quest for facts. All that is by way of leading up to the remark that we feel a special pride in the Pulitzer Prize award to Thomas L. Stokes, of the Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau. It is the highest honor that can be won by any American reporter.

A news article by one of Tom’s colleagues, E. A. Evans, appearing elsewhere in this issue, tells how Tom won the . award, with what painstaking diligence he checked and | double-checked the irregularities in the Kentucky Senatorial election, with what reluctance he spelled out the sordid story of politics played with the taxpayers’ money, how he was “ganged” by certain “friends” of the New Deal for having dared to uncover and report the truth, and how later his findings were officially affirmed and Congress passed laws against the unsavory practices he reported. We think Tom had the Pulitzer Prize coming to him.

THE POLISH CORRIDOR

HE fate of Europe may well be determined by what happens in and around Danzig. Adolf Hitler has made it plain that his ambitions lie in the general direction of Russia, the Black Sea and the Ukraine. Further progress along that road will be difficult if not impossible as long as Poland bars the way. So Hitler now is trying to maneuver Poland out of his path. Not only does he want Danzig but, it is reported, he must have a 15-mile strip of territory across the Polish Corridor as well. Such a strip would put Germany’s hand forever at Poland’s throat. Whenever Germany wanted anything from Poland, she would have only to squeeze hard enough and Poland would have to yield or die. Poland is fully aware of all these potentialities. So, as was declared yesterday by Count Jerzy Potocki, Polish Ambassador to the United States, she will fight any Nazi attempt to take Danzig. She realizes that a line must be drawn somewhere against Nazi aggression and it might as well be there as anywhere. Better to fight now, if necessary, than to purchase a temporary and humiliating peace at the eventual price of her independence. So reasons Poland. The crisis over Danzig and the corridor, however, is not merely Poland’s. It is a European, perhaps even a world, crisis. For Hitler does not particularly need Danzig or the Corridor. He is playing for bigger stakes. Poland, occupying the very center of the territory Hitler wants, refuses to play Der Fuehrer’s game. So a way must be found to march across or around her—not an easy thing to do as matters stand. But by closing the Corridor, and cutting her off from the sea, Hitler could soon reduce Poland to the status of a German dependency. What happens to Poland in the near future, therefore, is of prime importance to the rest of Europe.

PUT IT IN THE LAW

HE appointment of William M. Leiserson, much as it will strengthen and improve the National Labor Relations Board, does not in our opinion alter the need for corrective amendments to the Wagner Act which this Board administers. : It is, of course, only an NLRB rule which deprives an employer, caught in the middle of a fight between rival unions, of the right to appeal to the board for a plant election to settle the controversy. But Dr. Leiserson’s appointment, unfortunately, does not insure that this unfair rule will be changed. In the first place, he will be only one of three members. In the second, in at least one public statement he has indicated his belief that employers have no need for such a right to appeal. Experience, we think, proves otherwise. Many employers have seen their businesses hurt unjustly by jurisdictional labor disputes. An employer who is willing to bargain collectively with his employees—to deal with the union which a majority of them prefer—should have access to the legal machinery that can determine which union that is. He should have it as a matter of law, written into the Wagner Act by amendment, not left for the Labor Board to permit or deny.

HEAD CHEESE?

HE halls of Congress rang lately with a panegyric to cheese, delivered by Wisconsin’s Senator Wiley. Now the Senator, outdoing that effort, has presented to Mrs. \ John Nance Garner a 60-pound bust of the Vice President sculped tastefully (appropriate word) in Wisconsin cheese. What, we wonder, will Mrs. Garner do with this masterpiece? Its desirability as a household ornament would seem, at best, temporary. We can hardly imagine her serving up that noble likeness sliced, toasted or done into rarebits. And is Cactus Jack flattered by the unique tribute from Wisconsin? To be sure, many people credit Mr. Garner with high ambitions; but no statesman in our exyearned to be remembered by posterity as a

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Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

Mr. Justice Douglas Entitled to No Medals for Being Born in Minnesota or for Riding Freights.

EW YORK, May 2.—It would not be fair to hold william O. (Call Me Bill) Douglas responsible for all the politico-Hollywood trash that has been written about him since he was nominated for the United States Supreme Court. « The tone of this biographical matter evokes a half-forgotten writing of Eugene Field: — “Father calls me William; Sister calls me Will; Mother calls me Willie, But the fellers call me Bill.” I recall this because I had to recite it before Mrs. Benton’s class in Excelsior, Minn., about the same time that Mr. Justice (Call Me Bill) Douglas is sup~ posed to have been living on snowballs up in the God-How-the-Wind-Blew country. Mr, Justice (Call Me Bill) Douglas’ pappy was a preacher, but we had two preachers in our town, each with a family, and we never found any starving preachers’ children frozen in the drifts. The Reverends weren't our worst-paid citizens, either. The least paid, I suppose, was little old Johnny Shoemaker, a mover, but he got along all right and our family also got along all right one very hard winter on $18 a week, some weeks, when my old man, the best reporter they ever had in the Twin Cities, got caught in a newspaper consolidation and had to go to work for the Minneapolis Daily News. ” t ” EANS were cheap and liver was free, as cat meat, about the time Mr. Douglas was a one-gallus boy in Minnesota, and I don’t want to hear any more about his pioneer childhood there because a little further provocation will goad me to say that it wasn’t as tough as all that. So all right, our New Deal campus hero was born in Minnesota, a feat for which no medals are awarded, and early moved to California, which isn't hard to take, and from there to the State of Washington, which was thoroughly housebroken by then. One biographer exclaimed that there, in Washington State, Mr. Douglas “engaged literally in manual toil,” and another reports that when he was bound for one of his spells in college he bummed it on the freights. Well, now there are still many boys in this country who pump milk out of cows by hand, “literally,” and tidy up cows boudoirs and bring them their salad and cereal by hand. And the only difference between bumming one’s way on the freights and thumbing it on the motor highways, as the studybums do today, is one of period and custom. s ” 2 BY beyond his boyhood, Mr. Douglas burrowed into college and never since has he taken a lead off the safe and easy base of the elm-and-ivy existence of the campus and the public payroll. I intend one day write a resounding article about that class of New Deal chimney suckers who attach themselves to ivied walls in youth and, from sheer love of easy and noncompetitive living become professional educators and sneer at better men who also started from scratch but had the gumption to become champions in the world of business which provides the wages that they live on. I read also that Mr. Justice Douglas swears freely. That would be a pathetic boast, and I will guarantee to pick out of any county jail or city clink a bum who, on that basis, would out-qualify him for the job of Justice of the Supreme Court of the U. S. A.

Aviation

By Maj. Al Williams

Separate Airports for Private and Commercial Planes Will Be Needed.

IE won't be long before the private plane owner and the commercial airline will be operated from different airports. Airline and private plane operations are two distinctly different breeds. In airline work, everything is standardized—takeoffs, landings, reporting to ground stations. . But private plane operation varies with the individual. And “varies” puts it as softly as possible. Every automobile driver has his own idea about handling his car. If you want to check and see why all motorists drive their own distinctive ways, watch people walk down the street. Some stick to a given compass course, remaining in the traffic line that’s pointing the way they are headed. Others specialize in open field running and depend upon heavyfooted dodging. And the rest just walk, checking horizon and direction by some mysterious blind flying instruments they think they possess. Likewise the private plane pilot. The sky is wide open. When he wants to climb or descend, the rate is determined by the capacity of the engine and the ability of his ship to stay together. Landings? Well, walking habits cover that operation, and the oniy gold standard is the mental make-up of the pilot.

Sky Not Yet Crowded

In short, airline and private flying activities must be separated, just as railroads and motor traffic are restricted to their own roadbeds.

The sky is not yet crowded. But there are so many more planes of all types and descriptions in the air today than a few years ago, that we can sensibly prepare for making the division. The air along the Federal Airways is still wide open, but around airports we find bottle-neck problems. Airline pilots now get all the attention from the ground controls, while the private pilot boils with rage when his radio messages are ignored. The private pilot is accorded last take-off and landing privileges. It’s kind of hard on us private pilots, but we've got to take it because we are serving a decided minority of public interests. The greatest good of the greatest number is the rule in the air also. Considering everything, I think we are getting along pretty well where private plane and commercial airline operators are forced to use the same airports. And for every hardship, there are dozens of split-second compromises in handling landing and take-off privileges.

A Woman's Viewpoint

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

HE Wisconsin Assembly, we read in “The Independent Woman,” has killed the ban on working

wives. But the vote was close—45 to 50. In Utah, the Legislature dropped the hot potato into the hands of the employing public officials, calling upon them to adopt the measure voluntarily without benefit of a law. In Connecticut, where it has been proposed to oust married women from jobs and also to prohibit them from taking civil service examinations, the bill is hanging fire. But add Nebraska and Minnesota to the long list of states where such measures are presented. : Women in close touch with these goings-on report their mounting fear. Is it any wonder? For while the few fight, the many remain apathetic, unaware of the spread of an insidious disease which put German and Italian women into the low positions they now occupy. “It can happen here,” said Sinclair Lew, Sure it can—it is happening! ponents of such legislation have done good In several states, notably Ohio and Oklahoma. Toe include members of such organizations as the Business and Professional Women, the League of Women Voters and the legislative group of the American Association of University Women, But we would be naive and fatuous to believe the danger is over. It will never pass so long as there remain politically at large any creatures. with the dispositions and minds of petty dictators. Those of us who are concerned about these evil trends should take a long view of the matter. Where the monster of fascism has reared its ugly head, eatin, sult Eioke fue position 3)

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The Hoosier Forum

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

WAR MOTHER SURE U. 8S. CAN AVOID WAR By Anti-Foreign War Mother You say in your editorial of April 22, “If war breaks out in Europe, the whole future of the U. S. and of every man, woman and child in it will pe at stake from the first shot. That will be so whether we have a neutrality law or not.”

Why should it be changed—because certain interests wish to make money or some to achieve a momentary prestige? Did our forefathers not come to this country for that specific reason, to get away from the turmoils of Europe? Washington and Jefferson both warned us to keep out of foreign entanglements. Suppose we have to spend billions (as you say) to strengthen our defense. Would not that be better than sending our sons to bleach their bones on foreign fields? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign soil?

Suppose we should have to have a big fleet in the Atlantic and another in the Pacific at a cost of 400 million dollars a year. It would be preferable to CCCs and PWAs and there would be plenty of work back home to help support them to do away with unempioyment.

And as to the danger of invasion increasing—after their war cver there, it would be many, many years before they would be able to invade anybody, and in all probability they would have enough of war that the future generations would be glad to pursue peace.

. » 9 CLAIMS PROFITS CRIPPLE BUYING POWER

By R. Sprunger

When one admits he does not study social and industrial democracy, he makes himself ridiculous by stating that it would be led by a political contingent and a replica of capitalism. Of course when one’s sense of justice is warped by the selfish profit motive, he fails to see that capitalism is economic dictatorship

Often the confused individual places managers, technicians, etc., in the same category with capitalistic owners and controllers. This is fallacy as they are workers of the brain and are hired. by the capitalists the same as common labor. It is said business does not dare cripple buying power—but it has done that just the same because in its blindness and zeal for profits it cannot see it is undermining its

and incompatible with democracy.

own system. Workers cannot buy back all they produce because of | —Whately.

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

profits taken by capitalistic controllers. Why defend capitalism and then complain of its evils? Let us have true democratic Americanism and not the cloak and sham that the hypocrisy of capitalism is making of it. ” ” ” FAVOR BOYCOTT AS WAY TO STOP HITLER By Saul C. Koby, Boycott Chairman, Indianapolis Post 114, Jewish War Veterans of U. S. Hitler's invasions of Czechoslovakia, Austria and the Sudetenland should clear up doubts in the minds of the most skeptical as to the ultimate intentions of the Nazi ruler. The world is at the crossroads and

must decide whether we want to go to war with these jungle beasts, or stop them through the only alternative, an economic boycott.

Six years ago, after numerous American protests had been received by Nazi derision with atrocities increasing, the Jewish War Veterans of the United States decided that the only way, short of war, to stop the Nazi fanatics, was through the boycott of Nazi goods and services.

Upon its original publication of this decision, six years ago, the policy of the Jewish War Veterans was met with almost unanimous opposition by both Jews and Christians. Jews at that time felt “appeasement” was the proper procedure, while non-Jews in general

PEAR TREE IN BLOOM By KEN HUGHES Today there is a bridal veil Upon the lawn, Young beauty has eloped Or she has gone,

There lay design delicate And white More lovely and luminous Than light!

DAILY THOUGHT For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.—James 2:26.

S the flower is before the fruit so is faith before good works.

felt that the Nazi persecutions were strictly a Jewish question. It is unfortunate and regrettable that Americans did not join the boycott six years ago. We might have avoided the persecution of Catholics and Protestants and labor unions and Masons and others; and Germany, Austria, Sudetenland and Czechoslovakia might still be autonomous and the people of the world would not be in their present jittery state. However, it may not be too late.

The boycott has been eminently successfui, both in reducing by

| millions of dollars the annual im{ports of the United States, and in |its moral effect on the German

people, who know and regret the consequences of their immoral government but dare not protest. Last January Hitler confessed “Germany must export or die.” We appeal to all Americans to join in this boycott movement, since it is still the only effective way that people of this country can show their protest against the violation of every principle which Americans hold dear. ” » 2 SEES REPUBLICAN PRESS SPONSORING GARNER By J. W. McEntire

Why are the Republican newspapers so grossly interested in having Vice President Garner as the candidate on the Democratic ticket for President in 1940? Any old man with a glass eye and a peg leg can answer that question. They think that because Mr. Garner has turned his back to F. D. R. that Republican newspapers can ballyhoo Mr. Garner into the 1940 Democratic convention and pull him out the Democrats’ choice for President. That will cause a split in the Democratic Party and the Republicans will elect their candidate; balderdash. There is not going to be such an animal as split in the Democrat Party in 1940. I hold no brief whatever against Mr. Garner, I believe that he is a capable man and splendidly equipped to fill the office of President of the U. S. A. But if Mr. Garner is going to depend on the Republican newspapers and the cactus plants of Texas to secure his nomination, he is heading his head hellbent for the badlands and it will be his last round-up on the political reservations of the Democrat Party. The Republican newspapers had better stay at home and clean up their own mess. Their delegates are not going to be carried into their convention on flowery beds of ease. There is going to be a lot of slams hurled before they find a name for their candidate but it doesn’t matter, however, what his name is, the Democrat is going to lick him any-

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By Raymond Clapper

U. S. Opinion on Foreign Affairs To Be More Sharply Divided Than Ever as Result. of Hitler's Talk.

ASHINGTON, May 2—For the immediate future, it seems as if American sentiment regarding foreign policy is likely to be more sharply divided rather than unified. On one side you have the “interventionists”—rang= ing in various degrees, but mainly following Roose=velt’s policy, which is that by measures short of war we should throw such help as we can to Britain and France and such obstacles as we can against Gere many, Italy and Japan. Hitler is in no mood to sit down at a conference table and work out a settlement. He prefers to continue his present strategy of keeping Europe in tur=moil, keeping Britain and France confused and indecisive, and, under cover of this confusion, pursuing his conquests bloodlessly, pressing to a point barely short of war. Unless Britain and France stop him, eventually we will be facing similar trouble. So why not, the interventionists argue, take time by the forelock and contribute supplies to help? ” 2 2

1= others, the isolationists, find their hand strengthened by Hitler's speech. They have been alarmed over Roosevelt's interference in Europe, have been saying that he was taking us down the path to war. But they have been told in reply that on the contrary Roosevelt's policy was the surest way of preventing war, that a strong stand now would tame Hitler. The strong stand has been made, but Hitler wouldn't tame, ; Therefore, say the 1solationists, it is just as we warned—Roosevelt is getting us mixed up in Europe so that when the war comes we'll be in it. They are likely to press their case hard. Hitler's speech was skilfully designed to play to this group, and to play upon the fears of the isolationists. It was so skilful that some have wondered whether Hitler did not have the benefit of the assistance of Hans Dieckhoff, German Ambassador to Washington, ho was withdrawn a few months ago and who is now in Germany. He knows America well. : In just one respect Hitler failed to make the most of his opportunity. He threw into his remarks advice that Roosevelt shut down on the American press. That passage made his remarks less appealing to journalistic critics of Roosevelt's policy than they might otherwise have been. » ” ”

UT what, in all of this, should our policy be? Bo can say with complete confidence? In my own thinking, I come back to two considerations which have heen emphasized here before. First, protection of the Western Hemisphere. That is imperative, and subject to no qualifications. Second, we derive considerable benefit from the existence of British sea power. In other parts of the world it operates to our advantage. It is a better world for us, with the British patrolling the rest of the world, than it might be with a combination Ger-_man-Italian-Japanese fleet in command. : . The question then arises, how much is this advantage worth? It is worth something. It seems easily worth our throwing materials, airplanes, foodstuffs, ammunition or whatever is wanted, to the British and their allies. That, up to now, is as much as anybody in a position of responsibility in this country is ready to offer.

It Seems to Me

By Heywood Broun

Hitler's Speech Seemed Directed at Isolationists of All Countries.

EW YORK, May 2—Hitler’s speech gave ample N evidence that a general European war can be avoided. I am even optimistic enough to believe that there was much in the oration which indicated that the spread of fascism can be checked without armed conflict. But this can only be achieved by co-operation

among the nations. The address of Der Fuehrer was definitely for for= eign consumption. In it he attempted to rally to his support the isolationists in all countries. Quite evi dently he regards them as vital auxiliaries to his dream of world dominion. {a He expended much effort to create a rift among the citizens of America and to render moral judg= ment confused and feeble, On many occasions American politicians and publicists have said that there is nothing we can do short of war to be effective in checking aggression. Adolf Hitler testified, either con= sciously and unconsciously, on the opposite side, and made the extraordinary demand that President Roose= velt should stifle all criticism of naziism in the Amer ican press. I have begun to fear Hitler’s words more than his battleships or bombers. Even though one may gag at his philosophy and his technique, it is foolish to underestimate the power of his propaganda. Immedie ately after the end of his speech a small group of Representatives and Senators gave brief comment over the air. Almost without exception they declared that foreign affairs were of no concern or interest to us.

A Bit of Inconsistency This seemed a little curious, because the announcer had noted that the statesmen had arisen at 5a. min order to listen to Der Fuehrer at first hand. The only criticism of Hitler on the part of the ase sembled Congressional delegation was a mild disapproval of Der Fuehrer’s scornful reference to the President of the United States and our history and institutions. In this respect I would defend Hitler, He did not go nearly as far as Senator Bob Taft has done on many occasions in attacking Roosevelt, and’ his analysis of America as an aggressor nation might’ have been lifted bodily out of the column of Boake Carter or any one of several other commentators. It is my fear that many American politicians will now say that we have had our answer and that we should shut our eyes and make no comment, either officially or unofficially, on the conduct of Germany. In that event Hitler's epistle to the isolationists must be marked down as a great triumph for him.

Watching Your Health

By Dr. Morris Fishbein

PEHIS is the time of year when pet and domestic animals are released from winter seclusion. AS

a result rabies or hydrophobia begins to appear more

frequently. : The dog is the animal most frequently attacked by this disease although any animal may be infected. In association with ais investigations of this disease Pasteur achieved his great repute. Most people think that the dog with hydrophobia runs wildly through the streets, snapping and biting at every human being who crosses his path. But not every animal with rabies or hydrophobia

bites a human being. Some of them are merely irri= table and restless. :

_ In the final stages of the disease, the infected ‘animal will howl, snap at people and at other ani« mals, run and bite. Gradually, of course, this disease ‘will destroy an animal as it destroys a man.

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