Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 May 1939 — Page 22
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Give Light and the People Wili Find Their Own Way
FRIDAY, MAY 12, 1939
OUR HOUSING ISSUE ATHAN STRAUS, adminstrator of the United States | Housing Authority, stopped yesterday afternoon during his tour of this city’s neglected districts and pointed. “Any city,” he said, permits human beings to live like this cannot call itself civilized.” In the few hours that followed Mr. Straus pointed the path for Indianapolis. First, a city housing authority; second, a survey to prove the need; third, the plans; fourth, a loan from the U. S. H. A.; fifth, construction by private industry. The Administrator not only with whom he came into contact, he vital, alert, shirt-sleeve operator American into a decent home. He made it clear that the U. S a public grant plan. It does not entail any financing on the part of the city or state. All that is required is a city housing authority, a proved need, and a program. The U. S. H. A. will provide the technical assistance, the general supervision and loan us the money. The project becomes the property of the City Housing Authority from the day construction starts. It holds it forever. It is a local program from start to finish.
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There is no doubt about the need. Housing conditions in the sections of Indianapolis Mr. Straus visited are disgraceful. There are equally bad conditions in other spots. There is the seed of a program here, both in the minds of City Councilmen and construction experts. We need a City
Housing Authority.
THE FUEL CRISIS ENDS HE mine whistles will blow aga men will go back underground out the coal which the country
qs BE TRO ~ & 134 sot 5 ~ SAY must have to keep its industries going
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to g To the public that is the all-important item of news emanating from the negotiations in New York where the United Mine Workers apparently have driven a bargain with a majority of the bituminous coal operators. Had the deadlock continued a few days longer the scarcity of fuel would have forced the closing of thousands es and the curtailment of services upon which the depends, with the consequent suffering of millions n remotely in the coal dispute. future trouble are great in the mining regions where the minority ope 1 to surrender to the erms of John L. Lewis’ union. And it is not possible now to mea that
ministration played
of factori public involved The potentialities foi closed shop tf re the Adconquer be on the Adthe latter's strongest A. F. of L. com- ¢ coal industry. Nor
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W n efforts to bring about peace between the O., that foreclosed against nt of th vhat it means in terms of future applicatio Act, is based on the of majority rule of workers, and the right of employees of any employer to select representatives or join a union of their own choosing. But we can carry those worries and problems over into the tomorrows. Today we are thankful that coal is to be mined, that ample supplies of fuel are to be provided.
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REORGANIZATION NO. 2 HE President’s Reorganization Plan No. sonable and desirable. Tt save a great deal of money—that would be expecting too much, we suppose— but it should promote efficiency. The passing of the National Bit
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11 seven $10,000-a-year commissioners who have been osten-
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appears rea-
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sion will be hardly anvbody, unless be the blize the soft-coal industry that Council,
sibly toiling for two years to sta b
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hed nothing is visible.
The National Emergency also abolished, long since ceased to be a council, nor hag it an emergency Its functions have been chiefly those of imformation for the Governn .y >on Wa aha dy s 5 a. | ~ " J 1 1 ing mformation to the public. These duties will be taken -” h ’ 14 Ts 5 yy a J a r over by the White House and the Office of Education
who have accompnsne
aspect any longer,
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Logic supports the transfer of the important foreign- | service activities of the Commerce and Agriculture Depart- |
ments to the State Department. This move was long blocked by the tender sensibilities of Daniel Rover while he was Secretary of Commerce. Now that Uncle Dan is working for the State Department, he probably won't complain.
dependent, fits naturally into the Agriculture Department: the Bureau of Lighthouses into the Coast Guard: the War Department's Bureau of Insular Affairs (which handles Philippines matters) into the Interior Department's Division of Territories and Island Possessions, and so on. It will be hard for oppositionists to make much of a case against the plan,
THE GARDEN TOUR
in the fifth annual Park School Mothers’ Club Garden Tour tomorrow and Sunday. Ten of the city’s loveliest
gardens will be open from 11 a. m. to 6 p. m. both davs. |
The Garden Tour serves a dual purpose. Not only should these beautifully kept grounds arouse a desire for
better gardens and tend to make ours a more attractive |
city, but there is a direct benefit in that proceeds from the Tour go to provide scholarships to Park School. The Park School Mothers’ Club is justified in looking upon the event as a civic enterprise. It is a tribute to
to build an idea into an undertaking as laree as this one. Appreciation is likewise due the owners of the gardens for opening their grounds to the Tour. Theirs is only the satisfaction of sharing their delights with other garden lovers. ~~ Indiunapolis wishes the Garden Tour a full measure bf success.
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Fair Enough
By Westbrook Pegler
New Dealers Tough Toward Bund, But Tolerant Treatment of the Communists Is Hard to Explain.
EW YORK, May 12 —It is often said that Red baiters exaggerate the menace of communism
vote and because there are, practically speaking, ncne them in communitics between the seaboards, which are made up of native Americans. These arguments are true, but they defeat their own purpose, because no group so small and unrepresentative of American sentiment deserves the disproportionate influence which ‘Communists possess in the National Government If the Communists are as weak in numbers as they angrily insist they are it is a betrayal of the Americans who did elect the New Deal to permit any of them to hold influential positions in the 'Government. Thay received no indorsement from the voters. They have no more standing than members of the Nazi Anti-American Bund, with whom they have evervthing in common but a label, and the leaders of the Administration have a ‘duty to discredit and repel them as vigorously as they would a representative of the Hitler sedition and sabotage. o Ed u E is. therefore, not the number of Communists, avowed and furtive, which requires frequent reminders. but the friendly and encouraging attitude of the Government toward so small and treacherous a a minority. It must be observed that communism and Communists never are rebuked by anyone speaking for | the Administration and that Mr. Ickes, on two occa-
the
organizations which troubled by
g are conspicuously communistic disturbances in their ranks. It is easy to believe that Mr. Ickes is not in great demand as a guest of genuinely American groups, but even that famous frugality which twice impelled him to become a semicharity case in a Government hospital while drawing $15,000 a year and perquisites would not entirely explain his ‘eagerness to tear meat with members of the Stalin conspiracy. He would not be a gracious guest of an organization containing a Nazi unit, although he might show up for the sake of the meal, but he can manage to be cordial in the
company of Communists. 5 T= of the Secretary is, in round num- | bers, the attitude of the whole Washington Administration toward the Nazis and the Communists, respectively. Tt indicates a preference or tolerance for communism by Government which was elected on | the Democratic, not the ‘Communist, ticket. It need not be said that if the Nazi Bund were to |
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| start an organization of WPA workers, demanding a |
their
the
tithe of Ww for a Hitler Fund to be used | American form of government, the New | kick the conspiracy to pieces in a week. On the basis of performances to date the New Deal might break off diplomatic relations with Germany and deport or imprison the Fuehrer of the anti- | but 1t must be noted that when the | Communists do this there is no official displeasure. Indeed leasure falls upon those Americans who have the temerity to expose the plot, and the very act of exposing a conspiracy against the American | form of Government by some to be an act of | sabotage against the New Deal
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By John T. Flynn
War, if It Comes, Must Be Financed By Taxes on 'Pay as You Go' Basis.
HICAGO. May 12—The latest proposal to fix | things up in the United States in the event of | our going to war is a plan to float forced loans. sen- | ator Lee of Oklahoma feels that the Government will | need money to fight the war and that, therefore, the | way to get it is to compel evervhody to lend to the | Government according to his means. | The plan is doubtless inspired by a patriotic im- | pul But thosa who have spent any time on the | question of war finance or war economy feel that the | plan is a nro d mistake If there is one thing the United States must do in event of war it is to protect our own ‘economic life while we fight war. And the most important element in at problem is the manner in which we
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War financing is generally carried on by means of loans. But this is the profoundest mistake that any nation can make. It is the pumping of vast floods of credit into the economic system which produces the war inflation. This boosts prices, makes the war cost
war efforts itself, poisons the whole social system,
| creates the hatreds of profits and, when the war is
over, leaves the economic system in a state of collapse That collapse was serious last time. It will be very much more next time
serious
Important Precaution Ignored |
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ly way to protect the economic svstem is to fought and out of taxes. | plan ignores this enormously imporsIt starts off with the assumption |
we will pay for the war out of borrowed funds
pay war as it is Senator Lee's precaution that
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agall | | Tt is an unnecessary piece of legislation for another reason. If the Government does decide to bor- | row to pay for a war, it will have no cifficulty geting | money When the war fever is on the money will pour in the way it did in the last wai The Senator is worrying about something he does t have to worty about-—namely, raising borrowed 1 That the easiest thing in the world and 1s why it is so dangerous | hat is not easy is to get the cash through taxes. | 1 it is on that problem the Senate should focus its attention. Let Congress notify this country now that | the next war will not be a picnic, will not be a boom | with profits and high wages for everybody.
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A Woman's Viewpoint
The Rural Electrification Administration, hitherto in- |
By Mrs. Walter Ferguson
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young people make mistakes in marriage these days, it A steady stream of | pours from American typewriters—favorite courtshin, matrimony, sex and home: One of the best of recent publications is the Good Housekeeping Marriage Book. Joyfully I add my voice to the chorus of praise in its behalf, for it contains all necessary information on an important
'S No fault of writers
topics being
| Subject and presents it in a clear, readable style.
A PPROXIMATELY 1000 garden lovers will participate |
Such books fascinate me. They so increase my feeling of pride in the achievements of my generation. For more than 25 years I was a wife—and a very happy one—and to begin our marriage we had net a fraction of the learning now available to modern voungsters. We just muddled through somehow, and often I believe that is exactly what our children and our children’s children will have to do. It's true that psychology has opened up a vast source of new knowledge. We know most of the right
| answers now to all the puzzling questions, but the
whole thing resembles the dilemma of the countryman | who had tackled the Ten Commandments for the first time, “They're easy to learn,” he said, “but durned
: : | hard to keep.” the mothers’ skill and energy that thev have been able!
Nothing counts more in marriage than character You can't take a spoiled baby of a girl and, by teach ing a few rules, expect her to become a success ml wife, The dimwit, who doesn't act intellicently on other matters, will not use intellicence in her home life Boys with selfish, unstable natures do not | make good husbands, no matter how many mare
her
| riage courses they take in college.
That's why hope that pretty soon we will abandon this gathering ot gal h Jendling out of questionnaires and evolving of theories about marriage and substi-
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THINKS OLD DEMOCRAT
| from being a Democratic state and
equal right.
PULLED HIS PUNCHES By G. Cleveland Baker { these columns reliaious eon Hurrah for L. W.s Forum letter | Sy bills ol 3 a Mal on the grievance of an old Demo-| ' Oversies TRE eo: \ avo erat. But he did not go far enough.| Your letter short, so all can Prior to the election of 1032 there! have a chance. Letters must were no Democrats. Most voters) be sighed, but names will be were ashamed to admit they were.| | uhbhald on request.) But there were some stalwarts who | —— iin went to the polls time and time not dead, but only unused because again and “voted her straight,” with chivalry meant to be extended to nothing in sight but defeat. the weaker, the less privileged lots of tt land women are no longer in that After 1932 ey So 0 Se a state. They prefer to open their es its igi own os and keep their hands . an B % . unkissed. they were either retained in their | . appointive offices or young fellows| ___ A: PEAKS 4 took their place. When an old Dem- TAXES SEEN AS NECESSARY ocrat was up he was told very EVIL UNDER CAPITALISM plainly that he was too old. | Investigate the state appointments ni mE and you will find old Democrats are Voice in the Crowd attempl as scarce as hens’ teeth. Yet the old [Shift the profit system's guilt fellows were the ones who kept the taxes reminds me of the pickpocket party alive, Their wisdom and their who in order to shift blame from BE Bure. et have himself, joined the crowd in runit has become noticeable. It was| ning and shouting “stop thief.” very perceptible in last fall's elec-| Under capitalism taxes are tion, | necessary evil to operate GovernThe old Democrats simply were ment. V. I. C's figures on taxes re ug Lk, £78 on paper bub tht i B OI : far as it goes, igh or low taxes, and useless to hold places, then we capitalists get Che profits are too old to vote the ticket.” The gerore the crash of 1929 Big Busi-
result was shown at that election. SPRING RAIN
Indiana is yet a long, long way By HATTIE G. SNYDER
Sweet Springtime is here again! The steady beat of soft rain on the roof Tapping a lullaby Brings dreams of wild flowers And babbling brooks The flowers peeping out of the ground Are drinking deep Of this life-giving fluid Sent from Heaven to them. The trees-— Enjoying a
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the party cannot afford to ostracize these voters. A house divided | against itself cannot stand. 5 ” ” BELIEVES WOMEN'S RIGHTS CARRIED TOO FAR By Yohn P. Shepard Ever since women have gained | equality on legal and political basis, | they have put themselves into new positions, competing with men in! elections, business and other fields I am glad that this has come about and, Woman or man, each has an | Lire ieee branches in But this has gone too Birds flying far, for women still expect the ad-| Selecting their summer abode, vantages thev rightfully possessed | Rocks in the garden when they were truly the weaker| JAKing on a brighter tone Sox. Isn't Springtime wonderful!
Now they can only claim custom 3 to support their demands for, say, | DAILY THOUGHT streetcar seats, Why, in the name Confess your faults one to anof equality in a democracy, has a other, and pray one for another, woman the nerve to write indig=- | that ve man be healed. The efnantly about the male who refuses fectual fervent praver of a rightto give up his seat? | eous man availeth much.—James Women demand our jobs if they | 5.18 can get them first, so they should | wa—, demand our seats only if they get | E prayeth best who loveth best them first. The age of chivalry is | . Coleridge,
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| ness had its own way in everything | and was receiving refunds in taxes on the grounds the Hoover Admin- | istration had discovered some “mis | | | takes.” Even with everything their own way, the capitalists could not | prevent the crash of 1920 and now [we enter the tenth year of that | ‘temporary’ depression, Profit is the margin between the] cost of labor and the price of the| output. Capitalists naturally buy, labor as cheap as possible and sell | the output as high as possible. This | leads to making the income of labor | barely sufficient to generate some energy to keep at work. Also it leads [to greater monopolization and in| { creased mechanization for the sake {of greater profits, Under capitalism | has become a curse because it displaces labor and creates hordes of unemployed. These unemployed have to be fed and when capitalists throw these humans on the scrap heap and the government has to feed them, why squawk about taxes if you wish to] | keep capitalism? | | Under democratic collective owns ership and distribution, mechaniza« tion would be labor saving and a blessing where all the people would benefit, and not a curse, Fr oo = | CLATMS ROOSEVELT ERRS IN TECHNIQUE HL Ss Roosevelt popularity, whether it [goes up or down, has no definite re« | lationship to a solution of the une | | 1 [employment problem. He no doubt means well with his program of relief, since he, like Hoover, still] | 1 regards unemployment as a tempos | | |
mechanization | on humanity |
By
{rary problem, Despite his good in= | tentions, his technique in working out a solution is defective,
No one can get a photo of the | work relief project on White River above 30th St. and claim that relief money is getting the taxpayer any- | where near full value for his money It is the inane approach to unems=| ployment that forces WPA to use| pnand labor to do work that mas=| chines should perform more eco-| nomically, problem by foreing production | Democracy ignores at its peril the dangers of continued widespread [unemployment, The solution is | making jobs in productive enterprise [on a wholesale scale by intelligent [planning of production. to avoid fu [ ture coercion. Our system is jeopardized by our failure to provide real jobs. We must lact to save ourselves from crisis,
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young people send in such stim- ally ulating questions. This one cannot voices, Of course sometimes you res
to have characters look and act but actus soe them and hear their
lief is that you more ®rom a life, but th Y think, is tory oh the screen or stage because |cause in
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By DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM
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PARTY. Al children who ecannot pass drop out, of course, |and this includes about one-half lof all children up to the eighth (grade. But Dr. Leta Hollingworth, authority on gifted children, has [found that the parents of gifted [children are usually very bright and are more likely to be able to support ‘their children through school. Hows ever two psychologists, Stoke and | Lehman, found that a majority of [the brilliant seniors of Ohio Uni versity come from homes with ine comes—=prior to the depression-=of less than $2000, So there must be a vast number of gifted parents who cannot send their children through
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FRIDAY, MAY 12, 1939
Gen. Johnson
Says—
Polls on U. S. Sentiment Toward War and Aid to Ex-Allies Tread Dangerous Ground, in His Opinion.
ASHINGTON, May 12=Dr. George Gallup speaking: “If the American attitude could be summarized in a few words, it would be: ‘Help Enge land and France but stay out of war ourselves.’ Build up America's national defense-~the whole attitude of the American people is heightened, moreover, by the fact that a majority of them expects a European war to come before the end of 1939 and by the fear that America will be drawn in eventually if war does come --in view of America's sympathies, it is likely that Herbert Hoover was not overstating the case when he said recently that an aerial bombardment of London or Paris by Field Marshal Goering'’s air force would Re ih all inclinations to neutrality in this counry = Now I do not for a moment question either the sincerity or the great value of the Gallup polls in an effort to measure and report trends of public opinion I have some (but not complete) faith in their accuracy in reporting what samplings of selected groups show about the momentary popularity of Mr. A, Mr. B. or Mr. C, as potential candidates for President. » » » UT the answer to a question whether there will ba a European war, or whether we will be forced into it, or whether we ought to help England and France, requires those assets which are possessed by few, It is my sole business to get all the information on these subjects that I possibly can. I do have some technical knowledge gained by actual experience in war. Yet any answer, more than argument, that I would be rash enough to venture on these questions wouldn't be worth anything. One conclusion reported by Dr. Gallup is positively quaint that we should “help England and France but stay out of war ourselves.” If England and France were at war with Germany and Italy, how could we help them and not be in war ourselves? ” » »
UT there is, IT think, a greater objection to these assertions of Dr, Gallup. This was a discussion complete with conclusions as to what are “the Amerjean attitude” and “all inclinations to neutrality in this country” based on guesses as to some possible future event. It wasn't a simple job of reporting that so and 50 many people in such and such classes were asked such and such a question and answered it in such and such a fashion, That sort of reporting is extremely interesting and, I think very valuable, especially if it i# reported at intervals, The reader can take it for what it is worth and draw his own conclusions, But when,
| as here, the director of a poll, giving no figures or de-
tails begins to say dogmatically what the American * opinion or attitude is on a complex, dangerous, diffis cult, obscure and technical question, he seems to me to be on dangerous ground. There is a sheep-like tendency in this or any other country. The excellent record of the Gallup polls on simpler questions of elections gives Dr, Gallup a bell whether quality which he ought to use with the ute most care on such deadly matters as these--especially in a field in which his method has had no test at all for accuracy-=and can have none,
It Seems to Me
By Heywood Broun
British Democracy Not Helped by Censoring Duke's Moving Speech,
EW YORK, May 12.=In spite of manifold warns ings as to the vast shrewdness and subtlety of British and French propaganda I am not very much impressed. It seems to me that the head men in both countries do not know enough to come in out of the rain. Of course, Chamberlain has an umbrella, but that is an insufficient excuse, First, France claps a censorship on its press, and then England bans the radio speech of the Duke of Windsor from the air of the United Kingdom, even though it was freely printed in the newspapers of the realm. Britons who were unable to tune in missed a good speech delivered with greal skill and eloquence 1 have not the slightest notion whether or not the late monarch is a man of high mental attainments, Rumor says not, Just the same he is one of the best broads casters to whom I have ever listened. On the impors tant themes of love and war, which are the only subjects on which I have heard him talk, he has been magnificent. Some of the isolationists profess to find comfort in Windsor's warning against propaganda from any source, It seems to me that they missed the high gpot in his address, which concerned international thinking and action. As a man who saw fighting and he was no cotton wool prince during the big war Windsor had a right to speak against war from a soldier's point of view. Only a few would protest against his heart-warming words about the horror and the degradation of conflict, He spoke of something with which he had first<hand acquaintance,
Citizens of the World
But most certainly he did not see a solution in any ywoeess of various nations sliding into their own caverns and saving, “Let the rest of the world, cats of a different breed, fight it out, because it is nothing to us in what manner they slaughter each other.” On the contrary, he said advigedly, “No, it is in A arger spirit than that of personal or purely national interests that peace should be pursued. The states men who set themselves to restore international security and confidence must act as good citizens of the world and not only as good Frenchmen, Ifaliang, Germans, Americans or Britons, The benefit to their own nation must be sought through the benefit of tha wider community of which we all are members.” I say amen and amen to that, And if any isola= tionist can take comfort out of this plea for world fellowship I will not plague him. It is of such action of whieh believers in co-operation have been talking from the very beginning.
Watching Your Health
By Dr. Morris Fishbein
N 1038 one of our leading air transport lines set up . a medieal department to make complete studies of the health of all of their pilots The examination of a pilot requires an entire working day. Then two additional hours are required for rechecking all of the examinations, Such studies should indicate the importance of a complete physical examination of everyone who Is under any considerable stress or who bears any ree gpongibility for the lives of others, The test of a pilot includes not only all of the usual examinations as to the heart, lungs, eyes and ears, but also a number of other special tests which are necessary because of the character of the pilot's work. These tests include basal metabolism tests to measure the rate of body chemistry; studies of the blood to determine the presence of anemia or the presence of various infectious diseases; X-ray studies of the heart, lungs and other parts of the body; complete tests of the hearing (using the audiometer); tests with well at night: Lg Slood Jhb
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