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MONDAY, MAY 15, 1939

‘NO REASON FOR WAR’

N one of his most conciliatory speeches Premier Mussolini yesterday told 250,000 Blackshirts in Turin that “there are no questions in Europe today to justify war.” Speaking not far from the French frontier, the Duce asked his listeners whether the world is “going toward peace or war.” He put the question, he said, because of the tremendous responsibility which will rest upon those who make the decision. For, he added, “there are not now actually in Europe any questions of such magnitude or acuteness as to justify a war which would logically develop into a world war.” True, as Mussolini said, “there are knots which must be untied.” But to untie them “it is not necessary to resort to the sword.” If we read his words right, they mean that Italy is unwilling to march on Poland over Danzig and the so-called Corridor. Or against France, if the “knots” complicating | relations between those two countries can be untied at a | council table. If the Duce is really holding out his hand toward | France and Britain, they must grasp it without losing i

time. There are indications that they could meet Italy's demands without loss of dignity. Both have recognized her conquest of Ethiopia. Access to Ethiopia via Djibouti and the railway from Djibouti and Addis Ababa, therefore, | should accompany that recognition. Nor is a voice on the board governing the Suez Canal unreasonable. The Nazi propaganda ministry in Berlin hastened to say that Mussolini's speech did not mean what it seemed to mean—that it was for home consumption. Maybe so. But London and Paris can very soon find out by offerina to meet him half way.

NORRIS KNOWS | “T KNEW a good many men in Congress in 1917 who wanted to vote against war, but their people demanded that they vote for it.” Thus Nebraska's veteran Senator George W. Norris explains why he lacks faith in Rep. Louis Ludlow’s proposed constitutional amendment which would require a national referendum before this country could engage in a war on foreign soil. “I can't help but think,” he adds, “that in the World War the country was worse than Congress.” Senator Norris speaks from what, to a less gentle and | philosophical man, would be bitter experience. He voted against entering the World War. And he remembers the storm of national wrath that broke over him and the few other’ men and the one woman who voted as he did. Many who now honor these members of Congress for their courage were denouncing them, 22 years ago, as craven traitors. We regard the war referendum proposal as impractical and unwise, and we share the doubt expressed by Senator Norris that it would aid materially in keeping the country out of war. We can barely imagine a Congress of men like | Norris of Nebraska, brave enough to oppose war when the people want it. Even less likely, it seems to us, is a Congress that would vote for war before evidence of the peo- | ple’s will to fight had become unmistakable and overwhelm- | ing, as it was in 1917.

HEARD HIM THE FIRST TIME N the last day of last September, Secretary of Agriculture ! Henry Wallace made one of his most important speeches to a gathering of farmers and others at Ft. Worth: Among other things, he said: “Unlike wheat, an outright export subsidy does not appear to be called for in the case of cotton. The reason is that none of the cotton-exporting countries competing with us is using this method, whereas in the case of wheat the use of this method by other countries has forced us to do likewise. If used on a large scale and over a period of time, export subsidies employed by competing countries are mutually self-defeating. They amount to an international price war that is bound to be destructive in the end. “I believe it is far better for the competing countries to get together and work out trade arrangements on a sensible and equitable basis. This old world has got to give up its policies of dog-eat-dog and learn to live and let live. [f consumption of American cotton is to be subsidized, the subsidies ought to be applied to domestic consumption rather than exports. Back in the ’20s, American loans to foreign countries which were never paid were in effect generous gifts of cotton and other farm products to those countries. But if any gifts of cotton are going to be made under the present Administration. our own people ought to come first. Why not, for once. give our own consumers and our own workers a break?” But Mr. Wallace sings a different tune now. He's for the export subsidy of cotton. He says it won't interfere with the Hull reciprocal trade agreements program; he says we must do something to recapture part of our foreign | markets for cotton; he believes it would be a step toward some sort of international stabilization agreement on cotton. | Well, for our part, we heard Mr. Wallace the first time. | His Ft. Worth speech is still, in our opinion, a watertight argument,

RADISHES YoU can say this for the radish. It is democratic. It is not adverse to sharing its bed | with other slower-growing vegetables. It is hardy and | requires no pampering. You can stick the seed into the |

ground as soon as the soil can be worked in the spring and | in about three weeks you'll have an adult radish ready for | the table. Radishes come in various shapes and there is an assortment of colors also. Some pecple prefer the turnip- | shaped ones. Others favor the variety shaped like parsnips. | There is little to choose between the two shapes, but the | pithy radish is an abomination. The season's first Indiana-grown outdoor radishes are now on the market. in view of the late spring, the initial truckloads at the public market must be regarded as a! triumph over obstacles which orfiy the radish could score.

| Dear Henry—

| are willing to set private business a good example.

| doing business on money borrowed from the people, |

By John T. Flynn

tion to deal with its terrible slum problem.

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Fair Enough

By Westbrook Pegler

George Spelvin, Average American, Seeks Fiscal Data From Uncle Sam Before Consenting to a ‘Loan.’

NEW YORK, May 15. Mr. Henry Morgenthau, Secretary of the Treasury, Washington, D. C.

HAVE just received your form letter in which you express a desire to borrow some money from me on your United States Saving Bonds. The proposition sounds interesting, but, as you know, the Government has laws nowadays whereby promoters and business firms are required to meet certain conditions and conform to certain standards, and I assume that you

In the sad days, after the great boom, we learned that some business houses squandered investors’ money on frivolous expenditures and that they pyramided issues until they were selling people bonds to pay the interest on previous issues. They aren't allowed to do that now. If a company goes to the public for money the Government should

see to it that the payrolls are not loaded with relatives and fraternity brothers of the management at high | salaries or even at medium salaries, because medium | salaries mount up, too. » = 2

BIG shot who owed somebody $50,000 could make a deal to put that creditor on the company’s | payroll a couple of years at $25,000 a year and make |

the investors pay off his private debt. |

I don't think the SEC would let a big corporation,

maintain one or more company yachts for the | pleasure of the executives, even though they pretended |

| to concentrate and work better at sea, away from the |

telephone and all. Before I decide whether to lend you some money on these savings bonds suppose you get yourself inspected according to the same requirements that are applied to private operators. Well, what about the payrolls of your concern? Are there any employees on the rolls there in Washington and in bureaus around the country who were taken on merely because they were related to somebody or worked for somebody's election or wrote flattering pieces about the Administration? What about your position at the time of proposing this loan? Are you running in the red, and if so to what extent and how long have you been running | behind and about when would you say vou will be | able to turn the corner, and what makes you think so? = on = ND what about that Florida canal? Here vou boys are talking about saving 20 millions by tightening up a few bureaus, but you still insist on | this canal thing at 200 millions. Do you think the | SEC would let a private company borrow from the |

| people for a comparable folly?

Your note said these bonds were the most widely heralded security in America, which may be true. but I notice that you didn’t say what you intended to do with the money. If you are intending to spend any of mine building that ditch for 200 millions, the answer is no | Let me hear from you on this, will you, Henry? | Sincerely, | GEORGE SPELVIN, Average American. | |

Business

Power to Condemn Part of New Private Housing Plan in Chicago.

HICAGO. May 15.—One of the disillusionments of ! the last six years is the failure of this great naThis is a disappointment because never before has the country had a seemingly bottomless bag of money to spend for the sake of spending. We have done almost with the money But we have done actually nothing about our slums. We have built a few palatial partment houses for the poor to live in. But the slum problem remains in all its virulence All this is apropos of an attempt that is being made in Chicago. It has gotten only as far as the planning and discussion stage. But it is being promoted by serious men. They started off with the proposition that slums had to be cleared away either by the Government or by private initiative. They concluded that inasmuch as the Government, after six vears of spending billions, had done nothing about it, nothing would be done unless private capital did it. They then adopted the following proposition— that slum clearance and low-cost housing were two problems and not one problem. Up to now in Chicago, as everywhere else, slum clearance has been looked upon merely as a phase of low-cost housing.

everything under the sun

One Thing at a Time

But these gentlemen decided that slum clearance was a problem all by itself; that it was the duty of cities to get rid of the slums; and that if the hovels which made the slums were destroyed, then the slum problem would be solved. Considered as two problems—slum clearance and housing—then at least one problem would be solved. The housing problem could then be considered without being mixed up with slum clearance, which actually holds back the housing problem. They then decided that if private capital were to do the job, it must be lured by the profit motive.

{ Therefore two things must be recognized as essential:

First, those who supply the money to wipe out the and build new buildings must not be constrained by limited-dividend laws. Second, they must have the power to condemn the slums. The power of condemnation may seem drastic in private hands. But they claim to have found legal precedent. They will agree to demolish the slum houses, will acquire 51 per cent of the prop-

| erty needed for their project and furnish evidence of

financial ability. Then, if the project is approved by the housing authority, they should be permitted to acquire by condemnation the remaining 94 per cent of the needed land from reluctant property owners. There is a plan worth thinking about.

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

OW much power do women have in shaping na- | tional policies? To that question we can now make a definite answer. They have a great deal of power. Maybe, after all, there's something to the old

Like men, women are divided in their allegiances |

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MONDAY, MAY 15, 1939

Gen. Johnson

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Administration May Have Had a Hand in Bringing Royalty Over as Step in Popularizing Foreign Policy.

ASHINGTON, May 15.—It isn't nice to be say= ing anything but “God Save the King” about the gracious visit of their Britannic Majesties to these erstwhile dominions of their ancestors. Certainly nobody would want to be rude or unkind to such gentla But it is appropriate to ask in a discreet whisper in the quiet of our own family circle: “What goes on here anyway?” One would think that in some of the most critical days in the whole of British history the boss-man Of course he doesn't make any of the real decisions, but he is a sort of symbol and standard of England—like the battle flag of a regiment. If the enemy is advancing, it isn't usual to send that back to the base of supplies. This isn’t for a moment to suggest that their majesLies are running out on a possible danger to the whole British people. That breed has never done that. But it is to suggest that there must have been some almost,

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

disagree with what you say, but will

WILL WORK HARDSHIPS By Erle A. Kightlinger On May 3 I wrote a letter to the Mayor of Indianapolis which is selfexplanatory and which reads: “Dear Mayor Sullivan: “On October last I appeared before the Board of Public Works on behalf of the individuals

who operate newsstands on the streets of Indianapolis . “Recently these individuals were presented with an order delivered by the Police Department and

FEARS NEWSSTAND RULING |

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15, and which was unsigned. that it would be necessary for them to procure permits and to modify the present types of stands which are now on the streets in the City of Indianapolis. “This whole situation does not raise a question in my mind of legalities, but it does raise a question of policies, and one which involves the question of whether or not those responsible for the administration of government in the City of Indianapolis are humanitarians. “Further, it would seem to be salutary to encourage even those individuals who are physically afflicted to make their own living in an honest fashion rather than to place such obstacles in their behalf as will inevitably lead them to become public charges. “Most of these individuals who are selling newspapers of various | descriptions on the stands in the City of Indianapolis are afflicted seriously in some particular. In many cases their sight is seriously impaired or there is a loss of limb or a situation of advanced age. In many of these cases these people have dependents other than them-| | selves, and I am wondering whether | | or not safety measures or any other| | consideration of sound policy dictate a course that will place in the paths of these people impediments to making a livelihood . “It is reported to me that the stand which is required would cost in the neighborhood of $65 and can be purchased from one company here in Indianapolis. Further, the stand as prescribed would not per‘mit a display of newspapers or periodicals, particularly in inclement | weather, and in order that these people can make sufficient money to make a living it is necessary for them to attract purchasers by reasonable display of their news-| papers and periodicals. Secondly, | this type of stand would remove all protection which is now had by many of these individuals on the| street corners of Indianapolis from | inclement weather, whether it be raining or snowing or below zero. “Many of them have little heaters in these stands at the present time. This problem is particularly acute in the winter months, and it

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|He plunges in the fairest flower

| as ve have spoken.—Amos 5:14.

one interested in real estate doesn't build a nice apartment house near Washington High School and these columns, religious con- |another one near the Hospital ~ i on) Awl | Center on W. Michigan St. I am troversies excluded. Make | sure they would be worthwhile inyour letter short, so all can | vestments.

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to express their views in

” 2 a UNITED STATES OF EUROPE FORECAST By H. L. Seeger War intensifies the trends of the times. War in Europe would more

have a chance. Letters must

be signed, but names will be withheld on request.)

would seem to me that if the City of Indianapolis finds it necessary to . | 'P y rapidly develop the trend toward a place their police officers on oor | onfederati f th tate f ners in shifts in order to give them on © t sass ©

' Euro into a United States of protection from subzero weather, | poo The division of the states that it would not be extending too there has outlived its usefulness, great a privilege to these people to just as State governments in these] permit them to have a little shelter ajisd ales of Americs have jog ; ; their significance in dealing with] . 9) | for the 12 to 14 hours they are on | oreat social and economic problems. | duty in the same sort of weather. | Europe is now compartmeanted into| “What real arguments necessitate small blocks of nations: even single | such action at this time? The mat- | ations there are no longer of great ter was not seriously pushed Prior iy hortance. The drift, or the trend, | to the last election, and I cannot |; toward union of the nations. conceive of the City of Indianapolis | g;yq)ry among these compartmented preventing these people from mak-|,, vo" of nations only drives them | 7 a Nelihood SpIy boy the toward the final goal. They simply | WS ANC any regues. « |cannot escape the consequences of a |

who may be competitors. : eh : national trend, precipitated by an “There is no real safety measure one p I y

: international necessity. involved as I see it, and I do be- I i : : y se n lieve that this matter should have| NO nation can live unto itself and

your serious attention, and I am | Survive. No group of hations can for | sure that vou will give it the con- long delay the inevitable internasideration it deserves.” tionalization of the world's rey ’ : sources. The forces of nature de- ” a 4 mand equality of opportunity for all URGES APARTMENTS nations. To try to stem this objec-| ON WEST SIDE tive only intensifies the speed by | ’ ia which the world travels toward uniBy Mrs. versal democracy in politics, ecoI have noticed that good rental|nomics, and equal rights for all. property on the West Side is be-|Briand’s dream may become reality I wonder why some- | soon, There is no escape.

” 2 » “WE DON'T NEED ADVICE” SAYS BINGO BOOSTER By Bingo Booster To James Kelt Brown, Columbus, its sweetness to his Ind.: I don’t like your satirical article which appeared in the Hoos- | ier Forum. Seventeen thousand

bingo fans don’t like it. I'm afraid, Mr. B.,, that you have let yourself in for quite a lot of | panning. What a busybody you| must be! You live in Columbus, so confine your interest to that city. | Be a citizen of Columbus. We, in Indianapolis, don’t need | or want your advice as to how our city should be run. We don’t need you to operate any poker games, lotteries, slot machines, etc. There | are plenty of these already with- | out an outsider stepping in. Why? | Because all of the smug, narrow | people aren't in Columbus. We meme have some in our own fair city. E who loves goodness harbors| By the way, have you ever | angels. reveres reverence, and plaved? Drive to Anderson some | lives with God.—Emerson, night. You might like it.

Nancy Pool

THE HONEY BEE By JAMES A. SPRAGUE

The honey-bee sure xnows his “biz,” He flies right where the honey is;

back bower; He fills the comb with nectar rare | Then vou and I his bounty share.

Bears

He is a benefactor true Who labors ail the through; He stores enough within the hive To keep a thousand bees alive; Then buzzing, says to you and me, “Just help yourself—my honey’s free.”

DAILY THOUGHT Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live, and so the Lord, the God of hosts, shall be with you,

summer

and have varied interests. |

On the question of keeping American boys out of | European wars, however, they present a united front. During the last several weeks I have met and talked with individuals and groups in the city and in the

country, and, diverse as their interests may be, on this |

subject they think as one.

Listening, you could never tell whether the speaker |

was a rich woman riding in a limousine or a poor one truncling a go-cart. The very old and the very young, the educated and the illiterate, the realists and the sentimentalists are of the same opinion—they don’t this country to become involved in another | foreign war. | Most of them are frankly ignorant of how the keeping out is to be accomplished. They know very little

| about neutrality acts, or the status of referendum

bills, or trade restrictions which often lead to conflict, and are content to let men attend to the details. Sometimes, too, their trust in masculine wisdom is touching and pathetic, for a good many are like children, who think that believing in a thing will some- | how make it come true. And who knows, perhaps it will. For we progress only by the compulsion of our highest heart's desire. At any rate, I am convinced that American women will not for a long time to come give their wholehearted approval to aggressive war. And may very well prove to be our best

THE STORY OF PERSONALITY. HO TRAVEL A GREAT

NEPEOPLE YI HAPPY

NOT the chronic travelers. Dr. Karen Horney brings this out in

a study of personality from the, vironment that can only come from standpoint of a peychoanglest. She a. harme

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y DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM |

NO, it is one of the worst. Science is a vastly better teacher. Has man’s experience with war taught him anything? No. Did he experience of man with his mental problems teach him anything about feeblemindedness, emotional balance, measurement of intelligence? No. All that man’s experience taught him about mental abnormalities was to burn witches, brutalize criminals and to go through incantations to stop epidemics. Even in economics and politics experience has taught man little if anything. | Political science and scientific eco- | nomics is just beginning to teach | 3 him a little. Man's only hope of solving social problems lies in ap-~| plying science to them as he has to his chemistry and machines. ” 8 ” |

PARTLY this, although it is usually rather unconscious. 3 Psychologists who have had experi- | ROSTY DEEPLY ence in marriage counseling believe | LOVED THEIR WIVES it is not so much to repair broken

pen [ISTH I, hearts as it is to repair broken LR FER ro

habits. Men who really love their YOUR OPIN /ON om

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wives—which investigation shows includes over 80 per cent of them— cannot realize until they are gone how much they have depended on them. Remarriage does not necessarily signify they have forgotten

of the emotions the first wife but that she herself nce of the enviro t up habits of life without which

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T wasn't a gesture to minimize England's danger, That is clear from the fact that plans to send the royal visitors on the battleship “Repulse” were

celed in favor of a trip on a chartered liner danger was so great that they couldn't spare battle-wagon, only the King and Queen, It is pretty clear that they come here as supreme propaganda for “hands across the sca’—the “‘solidare ity of the English speaking race against the world’ — the whisper of a hope for a Washington-London axis to offset the Rome-Berlin alliance Well, you can't blame anybody for trying. It is a cinch England needs to pull us in again quite as much as she needed it in 1917 and perhaps more than she needs any other single thing just now. It is up to the King to try for what England most needs. That is one side of this picture. But there is ane other side to which we should pay the greater ate tention, the American side. Our people don't want to get into this scrap, King or no King, charm or no charm.

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ERE is another slant. Even in times of perfect peace, Kings don't just wake up some morning and say: “Well, I guess I'll slip over and see Franklin for a day or two, take a gander at the U. 8S. A. and Grover Whalen.” Statesmen cook up these This junket could not have been planned In view of its plain

object, what does that spell about the real intent

| and policy of Washington on the question of horning

into or staying out of Europe? I think it spells the same thing that nearly all other recent official words and action spell. It wants to euchre this country into popular support for taking sides. It can’t take sides without popular support and this is the biggest piece of propaganda yet invented for that support We can’t blame England or the King for this, but we can ask again if the red-coats haven't slipped up and taken our Irish outpost in London and aren't moving on Washington with colors flying?

It Seems to Me

By Heywood Broun

Now Life Seems Better; Elliott Promises Advance Copies of Talks.

EW YORK, May 15—In the air vas a threat of rain. A friendly hen addled up for corn, and I cursed her savagely, although she had just laid an egg. But then the postman rang and on top of the seed catalogs he brought me a letter which made my entire day. It may even nave changed my whole life. For now, twice a week, I have something to which I can look forward. At the top of the missive was a chaste des sign in blue and gold reading “Texas State Network, Inc.—Elliott Roosevelt President.” From the emblem T. S. N. forked lightning was shooting in all directions. But it was less crackling and fearsome than the announcement contained on the first page—“to avoid any misinterpretation that might come to you thinugh necessarily abbreviated wire dispatches the Texas State Network in the future will mail you copies of Mr. Elliott Roosevelt's semi« weekly radio commentaries.” A house guest leaned out from a second-story wine dow to ask why I cavorted on the lawn and sang with such gaiety and abandon, I called to him. “Good News! Good News!” I have heen promised Mr. Elliott Roosevelt in the original. Twice every week I am to get Elliott entire. Until that moment I had not dreamed that these spare-room radio chats were ace tually premeditated. I thought the young man tossed them off in his stride, but it seems that they are set down coolly and after consultation. Unfortunately, Mr. E. Roosevelt is correct, and it will not be possible to reproduce his address in full.

This Gives You an Idea

This is as much as the house affords: *“Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Along about this time every Monday and Friday evening your come mentator goes on the air over the 23 stations of the Texas State Network to bring you bits of comment and political gossip gathered here and there through observation, reading and listening, . Your com= mentator has been roundly spanked concerning his observations of one particular Texan. (He refers to Garner. —Ed. note.) It was administered, verily laid on in large doses, by a group of watchdogs of the public trust known by most of us as Newspaper Columnists, but familiar to some as Calumnists. . , “One of the mos! sumptuous woodsheds your commentator has had the—shall we c#® it ‘pleasure’? — to visit was that of affable, paunchy, water-fearing Heywood Broun. . . . “Next Monday the Texas State Network will introduce a new program of interest to all of you entitied ‘Grandma Travels." . , . This is Elliott Roosevelt bid ding you all ‘Good Night'.” I intend to write to the Texas Network and tell them to send me Grandma every week instead of Elliott. And I'll throw in a southpaw pitcher, a utility infielder and $10 in cash to bind the bargain,

Watching Your Health

By Dr. Morris Fishbein

“V HAT happens to my body when I play 18 holes of golf?” “What is the actual effect on me when I do the family washing?” “What happens inside me—to my blood, heart, pulse, breathing—when I spend an afternoon on the tennis court, in the pool, cycling in the country or even mowing the lawn?” Those are the questions which you probably ask yourself frequently. And this is the first of “Family Doctor” columns to give you the correct answer: Conditions in this streamlined world have changed so much in the last two decades that exercise and your participation in it are vastly different than they were before the World War. Consider these facts: 1. In town and city, space for exercise is greatly limited. 2. Because of widespread adoption of labor-saving devices, you have less use for your muscles as you go about the routine business of living, 3. As an adult, your leisure time has increased; as a child it has been lessened. To children I cite this: Your problem is one of time and space. Your school term and hours have been lengthened, particularly in the cities, and cone centrated urban housing has forced you out of crowded playgrounds onto hazardous streets. And to the modern worker: Your problem is one of selectivity, With working hours sharply cut in the last decade, you have no! yet learned how to use your spare time, And to both of you: Don't forget that mammoth muscles went out of style with stickpins. Concentrate on developing yourself along firm but graceful lines and don’t try for bulging biceps. You'll find that well functioning muscles, capable of accomplishing your work with ease, are highly desirable, : k , ‘Fitness rather than power is the word of the day.”

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