Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 May 1939 — Page 10
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WHY NOT ARBITRATE? |
JFOR eight weeks the coal negotiators in New York have been growling, the able Dr. Steelman, head concilator of the Labor Department, has been doing his best to mediate the dispute. | Yet, with all details as to wages and hours and working conditions settled. the United Mine Workers and the Bituminous Coal Operators continue in deadlock. Even the urgent appeal of the President of the United States has failed to make an impression on the one point of difference that remaing. That point ig the U. M. W. demand for either a closed shop, as a protection against A. F. of L. efforts to expand a rival coal union, or, failing that, freedom to repel the rival union by strategic strikes, regardless of contracts, Meanwhile, nearly 500,000 miners are out of work: less than 20 days’ coal supply remains above ground, and it is poorly distributed: essential public services are curtailed, and thousands of factories, employing millions of men, face the threat of shutdowns for lack of fuel The situation plainly is one that calls for direct and immediate action, lest the country’s economic recovery on which the Government has spent billions be wrecked, lest | the armament program on which it is spending more bil- | lions bog down, and lest an already crippled bituminous in. dustry destroy itself. Negotiation has failed. Mediation likewise seems doomed to failure, despite the President's personal appeal. The only remaining solution, it seems to us, is arbitration. If Dr. Steelman's mediation efforts fail to bear fruit in the next day or two, we hope President Roosevelt calls upon the two sides to submit their differences to a neutral arbiter, agreeing in advance to abide by his decision. Neither side, in our opinion, could refuse arbitration. For to do so would be to thumb its nose at public opinion. And in the matter of a fuel supply to keep the country’s wheels turning, the public's interest, as the President said, “is paramount and above that of any group.”
THE ROME-BERLIN ALLIANCE ITLER and Mussolini sprang another nasty week-end | © surprise last night by announcing that the Rome-Berlin | understanding has been converted into a formal military alliance, Presumably, it means that in his virtual ultimatum to Warsaw to vield Danzig and a part of the Polish Corridor, Hitler can now count on the full support of the Italian Army, Navy and Air Force. Similarly the Duce, in his demands on France in the Mediterranean and elsewhere, will now have the German military machine to back him up. | That ig certainly not encouraging. However, there is alwavs the possibility that the dietators may be bluffing. If they are, the military-alliance announcement ig a logical step to aggravate the anxiety of the French-British-Polish bloc, Clearly Britain is not expecting conflict in the next six weeks. Otherwise the visit of King George and Queen Elizabeth—today on the Atlantic bound for America—would have been called off, If war broke out the King would have to be brought back home across 3000 miles of U-boat-and-raider-infested sea, and that would require extraordinary precautions. For | nothing could do greater injury to the Empire's prestige | than the capture or sinking of the royal ship in midocean. | So the British must be pretty confident. Moreover, we | are still of the opinion that, military alliance or no military alliance, not even the peoples of Germany or Italy want war. And even the most powerful dictators do not dare push the | popular will too far or too long. CUTTING DOWN “FREE” MAIL F you believe that Government departments have been mailing out too much stuff from Washington in recent | years, you are correct. Rep. Louis Ludlow (D. Ind.) has made the figures on it public. In 1928 the Postoffice carried free, under the franking privilege, Government department mail that would have cost | SR 537,730 at regular postage rates. In 1938, the figure had increased to $35,690,807. In the same 10 years, the volume | of mail sent out by Senators and Representatives under their franks fell from 909.864 to $779.369 (which fact surprises and pleases us). Obviously, as Mr. Ludlow says, the departments and bureaus have been “running wild” in their mailing. And, | also obviously, the increase has been due largely to blanket | distribution under the New Deal of what some people call | “information” and others call “propaganda.” So we're glad | that the House has acted, in line with a Senate suggestion, to cut off part of the outflow. The measure adopted will permit the departments to | use the mails, as before, in connection with regular and necessary business, But books, pamphlets, reports and other | publications can be mailed free only to persons who ask | for them. That has three advantages, Citizens won't get | guch quantities of unwanted mail matter from the | Government. The Postoffice will save a lot of money. And | perhaps the departments and bureaus won't print so many | booklets, pamphlets, ete, which should save a great deal more money. Another great loss to the Postoffice is caused by the subsidy under which newspapers and magazines are carried free or at much less than actual cost. Mr. Farley says it amounts to about $90,000,000 a year. As we've said before, we don’t believe that newspapers and magazines §hould be subsidized by the Government, at the taxpayers’ expense, and we'd like to see Congress continue its good work by | changing that system. too.
POLITICAL NOTE
FE see that Minnesota's young Republican Governor, Harold Stassen, has been down to Washington, telling | the newspapermen that the West ig getting tited of Roose: velt policills and asking more WPA for his state.
| it will mildew and get thrown out.
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Fair Enough
By Westbrook Pegler
Tour of Deep South Convinces Him Many Live in Squalor That Disgraces This Great Nation.
ONTGOMERY, Ala, May 8-1 have a feeling that I ought to be making foreign policy these days instead of just doing-around in small domestic affairs. but if I don't use up this batch of batter now
Moreover, the condition that meets the eye in certain areas behind the pleasure coast of Forida and in Southern Georgia and Alabama is such that any American who has ever talked down to Europeans about the degradation of their unwashed acorn-eaters is bound to regret that he raised the subject. It would be interesting to hear what an Italian, a Spanjard, a Russian or even an Albanian goatherd would have to say about the vaunted American standard of living after observing the foul poverty of so many Americans, white and black, and the wretched, swaypacked, windowless cabins in which they live and
There are shacks inhabited by Americans in small, veiled clearings in the jungle on the edges of Lake Okeechobee, Fla that fabulously rich and fertile land —in which an Albanian leper would not keep his dog. g & 4 T is no secret that in most large cities the distance between luxury and the most degraded poverty is only 20 cents by taxi, but there, at least, the public conscience has always tried to do something, though the net result may be only social and economic puttering. But it was only recently that the country dis-
covered the plight of the rural slum-dweller, whom Mr. Roosevelt called one-third of the nation, and it may be observed that a guilty conscience has attempted to moek it off with a new vein of humor known as hillbilly stuff hey may not foot up to one-third of the nation,
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES Nice Place to Hang Yourself, Adolf!-By Talburt
cven when added to the mill town, metropolitan and |
backwoods poor of other sections, but there are so many of them that they deeply wound the smug and
fatuous pride of anyone who has been so reckless and | fgnorant as to reflect, as I have, that, after all, the | poorest Americans live better than the average clods |
in certain foreign lands. iF &§& 4 HE truth is that they don't and that even if they did possess some hairline advantage over the side-hill dodgers of some neglected Balkan hollow their condition would still be a disgrace to a country as rich as this one and as proud of its standards
It is stunning to realize that the homes of so many American families are no better than the tin shanties
| which housed the bums of eity dumps in the early
days of the long panic, with only wooden shutters to keep the weather out, some of them without any doors
| patched with strips of old cans and fragments of
board Beaten down until now, they haven't the intiative or energy to raise the Kinds of food which they need or the skill or gumption to repair leaks in their wretched hovels Thousands of members of Mr Roosevelt's third drag on in such a state of life that a sentence to the Florida State Prison, at Ratlford, may be regarded not as a misfortune but as a break of luek, for the prison is a Beautiful, clean world of security, comfort and plenty by comparison with the existence which they know outside |
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Business By John T. Flynn
Alabama Housing Project Costlier | Than in Higher Valued N. Y. Area.
EW YORK, Mav 8-—I have heen following efforts and movements toward low-cost housing for 20 years and in that time I have found every effort toward building low-cost homes for the poor
blocked by the architects who tell us that vou cannot build dwellings for the poor at economic prices At the present time we have the following spectacle In a Southern state, where wages are low, a housing
| project financed by the Government produced houses |
at a cost of $4945 per unit on land that cost only $454. There will be no taxation on this property. It is built with Federal funds with a low interest rate And for the next 60 years the Federal Government will make a contribution of about $180 a year toward the general cost of maintaining this investment Yet not far from where I live in Long Island, in New York City, where land values are many times higher than in Alabama, private builders are putting up and selling separate dwellings for $3390 each. This is on much more costly land the builders, and promotion costs and the much higher wages of New York City. These houses will be sold to people who will pay their own way, people with fairly good incomes. They will have no tax exemption and the taxes are about the highest to be tound
| anywhere,
It Seems Incredible
I refuse to believe that a corporation with access to Government funds, with low interest rates operating on a large scale cannot do better than erect in Alabama for the under-privileged poor houses that cost $5000 each or 60% more than houses built by private operators in New York City to be sold to emploved and well-paid white collar workers and who will have to pay taxes and bear themselves all the costs of the operation, while the governments, state and federal, will forego taxes on the 85000
{ houses in the South and make an annual cash con-
tributions of 8180 a vear to the investment
There is something wrong here. Let us assume
i that the houses in New York are less well built, That
defect could be remedied with the addition of another
[ $500 to the job. But it is a mere assuniption that
the New York houses are less well built than the Alabama houses There will be no low-cost housing in this country as long as the prima donnas and the impractical social welfare experts and the esthetic architects insist on giving to the poor beauties which they cannot pay for with the result that the poor get nothing and go on living for generation after generation in hovels of squalor. There will be no low-cost housing someone at the top of the Government gets enough interested in this great and crying need of the nation to put into it the energy and enthusiasm that has been wasted on innumerable less worthy causes
A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson
“Y¥ IFT again the Grail of Righteousness” ig the challenge to American women by one of their leaders—Miss Lena Madesin Phillips, international | president of the Business & Professional Women's Clubs. And a timely challenge it is, if we are ready to
accept the words as something more than the parts of a pretty platitude
It includes profit for |
MONDAY, MAY 8, 1939
The Hoosier Forum
I wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it. Voltaire.
CLAIMS ONLY ‘YES MEN’ ON WATER COMMITTEE
By A. E. Evans The Mavor's committee to confer with the owners of the water company has been hand-picked, coached and instructed by His Honor. They are all good and true yes men thoroughly versed in waterworks practice I notice the absence of the name of George P. Marott, who always refuses to be instructed. There is something about this water company deal that smells to high heaven vy & # FEELS CERTAIN F. D. R. WILL RUN AGAIN By EE BD
There seems to be quite a bit of
‘speculation lately among the poli
ticians and newspaper writers as to
[whether Mr Roosevelt is going to
[run for a third term or not, To [this writer all this speculation seems to be the bunk, When convention time around in 1940 Mr. Roosevelt will (be a candidate if he has to run third party ticket of his own. He [has never had any other thoughts in his mind since he first went [into office in 1933 and will stay there as long as the gullible publie will vote for him or votes can be bought by using the taxpayers money for that purpose The clever propaganda being put out now about his running for a third term if the people demand it is a lot of hooey. He will run whether the people demand it or not if he thinks he has a ghost of (a chance to win. wo
SEES GREAT POSSIBILITIES IF BINGO BAN IS LIFTED By James Kelt Brown, Columbus, Ind,
I am much interested in the news item carried in your paper, "Ban the Ban, Boosters Beg.” It is a rather remarkable, if not a refreshing incident, to have 17000 good citizens take so much interest in influencing their law enforcement | officers to excuse their violation of | the gambling laws of the State | I am not sure, but I shall be willing to try to get 25000 signers in [Marion County to a petition to excuse me in operating a “high class” amusement hall in downtown Indianapolis, where we would keep evervthing nice and quiet, but allow the people who patronize the place {to have nice, quiet games of poker, fand try their luck at the various other popular games of chance including their favorite slot machines, | ete —and, yes, to be sure, a welll regulated lottery, operated on the square, would not be out of place I am sure that if your officers allow one group to operate its favorite
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[“sport,” they will, most certainly, not object to my group's having the same liberty, | I think it is a good idea, The ( hard working officers can have re{lief from the worry of doing their [duties, if the various groups organize and sign a long list of names (asking that they be allowed the liberty to indulge in the more desire
able violations of the criminal laws|
of the State There would be a petition for each of the more trouble some laws, Grant the petition, re tire from enforcement, and, there you are—law enforcement solved | Be sure to make big news of how the matter turns out. If our 17,000 unabashed “good scouts” are sue cessful, TI shall at once prepare my petition, take the next train to Ine dianapolis, organize my waiting co« horts, and get in early for the best places, gy & FEARS REFUGEES [WILL BURDEN GOVERNMENT By Mrs, EE. T We deeply sympathize with oppressed people of other nations, but we must not allow our sympathy to
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| CONSOLATION By HAZEL TROUTMAN HORICK I walked amid the dewy flowers of spring; Their sweet perfume came rushing up to meet [The sunbeams as they rose in merry ring
get the better of our judgment, “Charity begins at home.” American mothers are not willing [to see our country accept 20000 Eus [ropean children, because each of these children will some day be [supported by our Government or [holding a job that rightfully belongs [to our American children, The argument that times will be better in the future is foolish, for no one knows where several million new fobs are going to be made, True we have many worthy citizens who |were refugees, Once we could welleome immigrants, but things are [different now, " PAYS TRIBUTE TO ALF LANDON
By WT. | Few men have had a worse lick-
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ling in a Presidential race, taken it ‘with better grace, and looked betIter afterward, than Alf Landon of | Kansas, | Speaking purely of the political race, one might almost say of Alf Landon as Shakespeare said, "Noth ing tn his life became him like the leaving of it. Nothing of Lansdon's splendid record as Governor became him quite so much as his admirable spirit since his defeat for the Presidency in 1036, The real innate caliber of the man has been amply shown by his complete lack of any “grudge spirit,” and his obvious and simple devotion to his country, even ‘though his one<time rival, with many of whose policies he does not agree, is running it, Landon accepted with real grace his appointment as a delegate to the Pan-American Conference, and corved without rancor, making [friends for the United States, and commanding the admiration of those who met him, His recent statement on foreign policy, even though he does not completely
agree with the President, is ans other evidence of his admirable de votion to our common country, A posy for Alf Landon, a man They filled my troubled soul with| Whom defeat could not sour, in To thoughts of bliss whom disappointment could only As from my heart there came a song bring out more strongly his many complete admirable qualities, »
Which fluttered nn the breese and . . through the mist INSISTS AGED PERSONS
I open wide my eyes the sight to greet; The wonders were divine and very sweet,
O'er laughing rills and shady woods MUST BE CARED FOR
By Eloise Quenrry
3 The old ple of 70 or over have DAILY THOUGHT served Fe oan as bravely as Jesus saith unto him, Thomas, (Maj. Dyer. ‘They have earned because thou hast seen me, thou (money by the sweat of their brow hast believed: blessed are they [and paid it for taxes and raising that have not seen, and yet have [their families, believed John 20:20 The way times are now, how can - their children be expected to support E that will believe only what parents? he can fully comprehend, must | Those old people paid taxes bes have a very long head or a very fore Maj Dyer. Now let them be short creed —Colton, taken care of.
their lips to kiss,
So long as men show an eagerness to die for sweet
slogans, women ought to be willing to live by one.
Miss Phillips believes, and rightly I think, that it |
will devolve upon American women to help bring | about world recovery, Being a part of what is now the most influential and powerful nation on earth, we can hardly duck some of that responsibility.
Speaking recently to a very large gathering of her | sex, Miss Phillips told us we were much given to fol | lowing red herrings, and that it is time to take stock |
of our own attitudes and begin to solve our own prob-
lems, as they are disassociated from those which the i
foreign situation brings up.
Not that Miss Phillips belongs to the ostrich group. | She isn't the sort of person who would be likely to |
hide her head in sand in order to avoid observing the Besides that, she’s in close touch with Euros pean women, because she knows so many of them No one can be unmoved when old friends are in trouble or danger, least of all a woman of Miss Phils lips’ sort. But she does insist that the very best help we could give to the people cover there would be to settle our problems over here, and so be a shining example to dictators and downtrodden that our kind of democracy works, | For our own , also, this would seem to be neces ip 83 Phillips reminds us, “Millions of
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LET'S EXPLORE YOUR MIND
By DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM
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technique for winning a woman's love is getting her to understand herself, her own motives and real inner desires, Most people don't know what they want until they can see their real selves, » ». ” NO. As a rule they are merely snooping from selfish curiosity, and are always happy when they find something derogatory, Of course many fine people are inter ested in their neighbors with a (genuine view of being of service to them, but in general it is only "emo« tional adolescents’ '-=adult children ~who wish to know more than the obvious things about their neighborg’ private affairs. An honest desire to keep your nose out of other people's business is one of the surest signs of real culture, . ” ” TO SOME EXTENT every | trait we have is inborn, Some |persons naturally learn words more | easily, think of more things to talk fabout, express themselves more ‘easily than others; but a high ef|fleieney in the art of conversation | can be acquired by anyone. One way is to learn to tell funny stories—not reason she has not found this out is|too many, Another way is to note R yim:
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Gen. Johnson Says—
Considering Staggering Cost of Last War, a New One Probably Would Mean Financial Collapse for U. S.
ASHINGTON, May 8-Jdf we get into a new world war we shall start in a far worse finan« clal condition than in 1017. Then we had prac tically no debt. Now our debt approaches 40 billions and even the most radical observers admit that at some point between that and 100 billion we shall have a financial collapse, If war comes and the past is any gauge of tha future, all the annual New Deal spending will appear as chicken fend to what will happen immediately—espe« cially If, an some ars now urging, we undertake to supply the anti-Axis powers On April 8 1017, we declared war, Fve days afterward there was Introduced into the House of Repressntatives a bill authorizing a bond issue of five billion dnliars of which three billion dollars was authorized tn be sxtanded as credits to the associated powers, ‘This was the first of the Liberty Loan acts, under the terms of which our country was eventually to become a oreditor to war associates in an amount which, by Nov. 15, 1027 had reached the tremendous total of nearly 12 billion dollars. » " ”
HIS is more than a quarter of the entire direct cost of the whole war to either Germany or Great Britain, It is alse more than a quarter of the AgRregate cost of all the Allied powers up to the day of our declaration. It is over half the cost of governs ment of the United States from its inception through the year 1013, including the direct and continuing costs of all wars America ever fought, A glance at those days will reveal also the drunken sailor recklessness with which that spending was done in the hysteria of war. The votes in the committees in the House and Senate were all unanimous. To the suggestion, in debate, that bonds of some of our associated powers were selling at far below par and that money should be advanced on the basis of the market price for these bonds, the answer was: "All the more necessity for us to loan them this money at the lowest possible rate of interest.” wy wr »
HE totals spent here are almost inconceivable, In the fiscal years 1017 to 1028 our actual payments on account of that war passed the unprecedented total of more than $49,000,000,000. Deducting from this certain receipts, such as interest accrued on the debts and proceeds from the sale of surplus war material and certain assets on hand--principally obliga tions funded and due from Allied or associated powers «we find a net war cost of $36,360,232,063.08 as of June 30, 1028,
The Armistice came as something of a surprise. Treasury plans were to spend 24 billions in the fiscal year 1910. But in view of the increasing military programs, Mr, B. M, Baruch, chairman of the War In« dustries Board, estimated that the spending would have been for that year “nearer 35 billions than 24 billions.” Even with the Armistice, we actually did spend in that year 18'y billions, Had the war lasted for another year the total cost would have been un-predictable-80 billions to 100 billions, If we enter another war which lasts as long or longer with a 40 billion debt at the beginning, wheres will we be at the end? In complete economic and fis cal collapse, That is a cinch,
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By Heywood Broun
Agrees Caddying Hazardous Work; Compensation Veto Draws Praise.
EW YORK, May 8-Governor Lehman quite properly has vetoed a bill which would have exempted caddies from the protection of workmen's compensation laws, “The occupation of a caddy is a somewhat hazardous one,” wrote the Governor, “and there is no Justification for depriving these employees of the benefits of workmen's compensation law, This bill is disapproved.” The best legislation of all would be to make the craft of caddying one open only to adults. And naturally I feel the same way about newsboys and carriers, In respect to "the little merchants” it has been said that association with the newspaper indus try in even the humblest capacity serves to build character, Newsboys, we are told, get to be Presi. dents, However, there must be something wrong with the theory, because reporters don't. And the only editor in the White House was less than a howling success, In the case of caddies it is admitted that the henefits are largely physical, It keeps the lads out in the open air. But that's good for adults, too, Carrying a heavy golf bag over a championship course is too tough a job for a growing boy. And I think the Governor put it all too mildly when he speaks of the occupation as ‘somewhat hazardous,” There are those who venture forth upon the links as dangerous as any hammer thrower. Getting out of the line of the drive of such a one is purely impossible,
Some Other Objections
And caddies do not build character. Where on earth would they get it? Surely not from the average member, Save in the case of the highly talented, man does not appear at his best upon a golf course. The ninety and nine play the game very badly and take their ineptitude with malice toward all, including themselves, A ld-year-old boy fiom a good home will learn many words and phrases he never knew before by hanging around the sandtraps. The niblick is an instrument designed by Old Nick hime self to tear human passion into tatters, It would seem to me that the caddying craft would produce inferiority complexes in the young. Still, I do know a naturalist who says that he owes every thing that he is to his early training as a caddy. “Ours was a heavily wooded course,” he explains, “and the players mostly terrible, At the end of every round I came back to the caddy house only after long coms= munion with the birds and flowers.”
Watching Your Health
By Dr. Morris Fishbein
ANY people, as they get older, tend to develop excess hair in the nose and in the canal of the ear, as well as on other portions of the body. One case is on record of a family in which the growth of hair on the ears was tremendous, There wae a dark growth of long hair which still remained black even at the age of 81 in one member of the family, It covered all of the front of the ear, as well as the lower portion of the back of the ear and presented a remarkable appearance. The excess hair began to grow in this family at the age of 18 or 19, and every boy in the family was affected, except two who were too young at the time of the examination. None of the women in the family had this condition, When a study of the family was made, it was found that the great-great-grandfather had had this type of hairiness. In the next generation, three boys in another family had this condition, and in the next generation all of the boys developed the condition, except those who were too young. ere are many families in which there is a ten: dency toward excessively thick eyebrows and lon thick eyelashes, Sometimes the styles favor thie eyebrows and long, thick eyelashes. On other occasions, as at present, the styles favor thin eyebrows and excessively long, thick eyelashes, 80 that the damsels of Hollywood pluck their eye, brows and wear artificial eyelashes, ' In many families there is a pecullar distribution
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