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THURSDAY, MAY 25, 1939

THE SQUALUS

HE sea, at once man's slave and master, levied its periodic tribute in the sinking of the Squalus. But this time its claim was disputed by human ingenuity, and today men are alive who under similar circumstances a dozen years ago would almost certainly have been doomed. The deaths aboard the Squalus are a tragic reminder of the fallibility of man and his machines, but the rescues —and the proof that rescues will be possible in future submarine mishaps—provide a powerful solace. To the men of the Navy who perfected the rescue bell, and to those who organized the rescue work so expeditiously, our gratitude belongs.

DON'T FORGET THE HATCH BILL [ETS talk about the Hatch Bill again, : That bill, designed to make Government officials stop plaving politics on Government time, was passed by the Senate April 13, without a dissenting vote. Since that date, it has been tied up in the House Judiciary Committee. And certain House leaders appear determined to smother it there, ' Evervbody who pays taxes, meaning all of us, and evervbody who believes in clean government, meaning most | of us, has a stake in enactment of this bill. Kor it strikes at the vicious and growing practice of using public funds and public authority for selfish political ends. Primarily, the drive for this legislation arose from a desire to take politics out of relief—to prevent a repetition of the malodorous practices uncovered in Kentucky, Tennessee, Pennsylvania and other states in the 1938 campaign. | The Congressmen who are trying quietly to scuttle the bill complain privately that it does much more than forbid WPA executives to exert their influence in elections—that it also forbids such activity on the part of other Federal officials in administrative or supervisory capacity, including postmasters, internal revenue collectors, district attorneys and | U. S. marshals. : Well, what of it? Some Congressmen insist—off the record, of course— | that these are patronage office holders, and should be left free to devote their time, and the Government’s time, to working for the re-election of the Congressmen who got them their jobs. It is high time, we think, for ordinary citizens, whose taxes pay the salaries of these officeholders, to declare loudly and publicly that— Postmasters are hired to handle the mails. Internal revenue collectors are hired to collect taxes. | District attorneys are hired to prosecute the violators of Federal laws, Marshals are hired to enforce the orders of Federal Courts. And a measure such as the Hatch Bill, which will make them work at their jobs instead of at politics, is legislation | in the public interest. |

OUR DISTINGUISHED GUEST Indianapolis today has distinguished company in the | person of Anastasio Somoza, President of Nicaragua. President Somoza may be assured that Indianapolis is | happy to welcome him. We wish our guest a pleasant | time during his stay among us, confident that he will find | Hoosier hospitality functioning at its best.

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WHAT MOSELEY NEEDS INCE his retirement from the Army last Sept. 30, Maj. | Gen. George Van Horn Moseley has— Proclaimed that the Army is “the one stable element in an unstable and shifting domestic scene.” Criticized Secretary Ickes for his verbal abuse of dictatorships. Charged that “fear and hysteria” are “being engendered among the American people for the political purpose” of justifying “enormous expenditures under the guise of national defense.” Charged that the New Deal “gives aid and comfort to our enemies who are operating within our gates under a definite mission to destroy our present form of government.” Urged that America sterilize its unfit, “who we know should not be allowed to breed.” Said that “if both New York and Washington were burned down tonight it would not cause a ripple in the America that I am thinking about.” Said that “the most serious problem confronting America today is just this problem of the Jew and how to get rid | of his influence definitelv—locally, nationally and internationally.” Warned a friend that “if the Jews bump me off, be | sure to see that they get the credit for it from coast to! coast. It will help our cause.” | Maybe somebody ought to start a fund to buy Gen. Moseley a set of toy soldiers, including a toy general on a | white horse, with which to while away his declining years.

A NOTE IN AUTARCHIA HE efficiency of the dictatorships is a wonderful thing. The trains run on time. The unemployed are given jobs. Marvelous highways are built. The skies are dark with new planes, the seas furrowed by new fleets, the

land studded with new pillboxes. The captious and cynical | are silenced, and no unpleasant news assails the ear. If more land is needed, it is taken. If more money is needed, it is created. Why, the millennium appears to have bee achieved. So we are puzzled to read that the Fascist Party has ordered Italians to quit drinking coffee, or at least reduce their coffee-drinking “to a minimum.” For what avails all this vaunted perfection to the man whose dinner is no dinner at all unless topped off with a cup of coffee? The new slogan in Rome seems to be “Let em drink lemonade!” We recall some such talk in this country, between the years 1920 and 1934, but somehow it never | caught pn. Maybe Benito ought to catch up on his - American history.

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| their mouths in repose? | aggerations.)

Fair Enough

By Westbrook Pegler

Communist's Assurance That U. S. Would Not Need a Transitional Dictatorship Leaves Him Dubious.

EW YORK, May Ba Communist who deplores the ignorance of those who see only external differences between his “ism” and the Axis disease writes, in surprisingly gentle vein, to assure me that in Russia political dictatorship is a purely transitional measure which this country, with its long experience of democracy and parliamentary institutions, would be spared entirely. He adds a belief that I have been outrageously

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

THURSDAY, MAY 25, 1939

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alienated by the methods and fanaticism of com- |

munism, as though the methods and fanaticism were

only slight irritations, when the fact is that they in- |

clude lying and suppression of truth and opinion, the wholesale slaughter and deportation of dissenters and the most vicious abuse by aliens and Americans under alien inspiration of Americans who resist these methods and that fanaticism.

It seems nice to be assured that in this country gentle methods would be used to dispossess Americans of their homes and farms and corner stores, to place political appointees in charge of all the factories and seize all the properties of religious and patriotic groups if communism inevitably must be. But there is room for misgiving where he fails to explain by what magic the methods and fanaticism will be moderated to achieve these ends when the Americans go into the street to fight. For I think it must be anticipated that the Americans will not ac-

cept these slight adjustments in a docile spirit.

AM compelled to assume that there would be considerable resistance and that then, under the ex-

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! cuse of miscalculation and unforeseen, necessity, the

Communist minority would suspend the promise of no dictatorship and treat the Americans rough. This would happen immediately, and if the Communists won the result would be the abolition of the American democracy for an indefinite period, which, in this country, would be much longer than the 22 years which Russia has spent under the terror. My correspondent submits that the dictatorship in

| Russia was necessitated by the fact that the people

had spent their past under the tyranny of the Tsars, and this argument, a familiar one, always moves me to inquire why a people so dumb and bovine, so long

| accustomed to oppression, needed more of the same

by way of schooling for freedom.

No Tsar or Tsars ever shed as much blood inside |

Russia in an equal time as the Bolsheviks in their

transitional period, and all the riots and border wars |

together which have marked the progress of

the |

United States under the republic, including the Civil | War, cost fewer lives than this long and bloody school- |

ing of the docile Russian.

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F the ignorant, spiritless Russian required such coercion it must be anticipated that the Americans would need even harsher preparation for the blessings

of communism, because, with their vastly superior in- | telligence they would fight much harder. Unfortunately for the Communist propaganda in the methods and fanaticism of the |

this country, Bolos have created deep distrust of their word and have discredited the promise that if the Americans will yield quietly there will be no dictatorship. Naturally, Americans are outrageously alienated by the methods and fanaticism of the Communists and so by communism itself. Those methods and

| fanaticism are communism and Hitlerism and@ fascism,

too.

Business

By John T. Flynn

General Electric's Start Contains a Lesson Today.

EW YORK, May 25.—In his testimony before the Monopoly Commitiee in Washington, Owen D.

Modest for

| Young told the story of the origin and development

of the General Electric Corp. There is food for thought in it. The foundation of this business was laid in 1879. And it was begun when business was far from good. It was started by two young high school teachers who had learned how to make a good dynamo and a friend who put up a few doilars, enough to build one

in a small bakery in Philadelphia.

The men who did it were not worrying about the | umns of The Times, and as a reader laughed at the fears of the com- | | future of the country or of the world.

been told that the world was going to come to an end in a few years they would have gone on just the

| same. They had an idea. It needed a little money.

They started. If they had waited to raise a million dollars and sell shares on an exchange the company would not be started yet. Later the small company, having difficulties, was bought up by a small group of shoe manufacturers in Lynn, one of whom was Charles A. Coffin. Thev did not put much money into it. They subscribed the capital themselves, their chief idea being to bring a new industry to their town.

Rescued Industry in 90's

As you run through the success of this great company and its start, as revealed by Mr. Young, you can=

| not escape the feeling that it could be started because | a man with an idea could start a venture with a small It takes more

amount of money and in a small way, money now to start a filling station. Why did industry come back in the nineties? Then

| there had been a long and serious setback. Why was | that setback not greater? Because by this time the | electrical industry, thus founded in a small way, was | beginning to transform the face of the country | Young pointed out how in 1891 there were 151 roads | operating by electricity and two years later there were The electrical industry was remaking the country |

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just as the automobile industry was remaking it again in the twenties. Is there any business now with small capital? which may change over the face of the nation? I think there are two, or maybe they constitute one. One of them is the synthetic materials business which

in which men can start

is only now making itself felt and the other is the |

building of small houses. Here is a spot for the young man with imagination, energy. capacity and access to

a small amount of money wha is not waiting for some- | |

one else to invent a job for him.

A Woman's Viewpoint

' By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

RANTED that the quest for beauty is a vital need in women's lives, can’t we take it with bigger

| dashes of humor? There's a kind of deadly stodginess

about our streamlining roulines—a forced, cut-and-dried formula that often makes our artificial good

| looks less atractive than our natural homeliness. Most women are very, very serious about this busi- | | ness of growing old—or staying young, if you prefer | to put it so. We often speak of how gracefully we're

doing it, but sometimes I suspect that is just another way we have of whistling down our fears.

Learning how to laugh ought to be the first lesson | | for every beauty seeker.

The very intensity of our efforts to stave off the pushing years keeps us taut and strained, and such If you don’t believe this, the next time you find vourself in a roomful of women study their mouths in repose. (A certain man I know tells me it can’t be done, because he says women never stop talking, so how can vou get He is much given to ex-

Carved as if in marble is the story of our dispositions—the tale of our petty hates, our secret malices and our nagging fears. Only laughter that comes from the innermost part of us can smooth those lines away. We are obliged also to remember that laughter, to be beneficial, must arise from wholesome sources and be directed as readily against one’s self as against others. Unless we have the ability to laugh at our own mishaps and apprehensions there's not much sense in laughing at all, because our hilarity will spring from the hidden fountains of our malice. From general ob-

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the retailers.

Gen. Johnson Says

F. D. R. Made Best Effort, but

New Dealers’ Recent Defense of Spending Seemed Pretty Weak.

ASHINGTON, May 25.— National Debt Week,” which as the President suggests sounds a little silly, was potent enough to start the 1940 skirmishing. Three Administration guns—Mr, Roosevelt, Mr. Hop= kins and Senator Minton—were unlimbering and a counterbarrage laid down. . It was pretty light artillery. Harry Hopkins’ speech told more in what it did not say than in what it said. Harry had “thundered in the index” in his Des Moines

inaugural. The country expected new economic leadership in the Department of Commerce where Uncle Danny Roper had done nothing so perfectly for so long. But somebody seems to have equipped Harry with a maxim silencer. His blast was a puny “ping.” It told about the great statistical services of the De= partment of Commerce. Harry read it with all the enthusiasm of a little boy taking a big dose of castor oil. Senator Minton argued that debt is a darned good thing and anyway we haven't got much debt when you count the two-billion-dollar gold “profit” we hijacked from its owners and all the debts due from farmers, homeowners, business and banks. And furthermore, why shouldn't we get us a nice big debt when England has a bigger one? If that kind of ammunition 1s all the big-debt boys have in their caissons, they had bet=ter go rolling along. » n ” HE President did one of his greatest jobs of sete ting them up and bowling them over. His best stuffed straw-man is the anonvmous “White House visitor.” He is dragged out and pushed over several times a year. Usually he is a big business baron. He comes blustering into the White House like a wild Texas longhorn. He begins to bellow his demands and arguments, Then the President reasons with him gently. Pretty soon, completely dehorned, he slinks out like a whipped punpv. He certainly got his in the President's speech to He had to admit that the present rate of spending can't be cut, after the President asked him to tell how to cut any single item. He was shown

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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.

| | WANTS FOUNTAINS WORKING | ON MEMORIAL DAY | By E. A. Miles | Last year our great Soldiers’ Mon- | | ument and the War Memorial Mon- | ument looked rather discouraging | as memorials to the soldiers without the fountains running. I wonder why this was? Those fountains are | an essential and beautiful part of| these great memorials and thou- | sands of people will be seeing them, {many of them for the first time. It could all sit on the Government's | seems to me it is a great mistake jap Mr. Roosevelt has tried to let ‘not to have the fountains running them do it. Washington, Lincoln or on Memorial Day. | Cleveland would probably have adIf these monuments are to he seen vised them that “You cannot help ‘on that day as memorials to our', seqpje by lending them their own martyred dead, why should it not! ..anev with which to buy bread.” be in their most beautiful aspect? |g hope that any time The Times Let us have both fountains run= | nds public officials in error that (ning next Tuesday if possible. that they will honestly do their duty.

| (Times readers are invited | to express their 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.)

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» » | EDITORIAL STAND ON OBJECTS TO METHOD NEW DEAL UPHELD OF FINANCING WPA | By Voice in the Crowd By FE. C., Seymour In defense of the editorial col-| The other night our President

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If they had of every editorial printed by The mon people over the huge national | editorial of May 20.

| Times that is of national scope, I debt. He intimated it would be (fail to understand why Affectator |good for the coming generations | takes offense at a May 6 editorial. to be saddled with so much public |I have never seen anything in The debt and that we have nothing to | Times that would condemn the New | fear because 95 per cent of the WPA Deal in toto, and I believe that The projects are profitable to the counTimes has leaned backward during try. Mr. Roosevelt's Administration to| We believe in the WPA projects { praise him in his efforts to do things but we object to the method of | that they felt were of a sound na-| [ture. The Times is an American daily’ and would not deserve the FORMER FRIENDS name if it accepted all issues with- | By JAMES A. SPRAGUE out salt | : A fellow walked into the store | It may as well be known now that | : (NOW - [MP hogsevelt is human and that as | A rierd whom 1 nad known be |all humans he makes mistakes. A | : : ; | : .*'T cashed for him a little check— | newspaper that does not recognize 1 know him better now, by heck!

| mistakes is not a good one. {Just after that a man came in

History will record mistakes of the [New Deal, and they have been many.| xr y ili rin: | The greatest reform that Mr. |y Who iy Son mile Bing | Roosevelt could have made he| But never saw that man again | missed, and that would have been to gain, jput a foot flat down on all | pressure groups that were after | special privilege at the feed bag in| Washington. There is only one good way to measure the actions of the New | Deal, and that is, “Has it put men back to work?” History undoubtedly will record that Social Security, the Wagner Act and the Wage and| many times shall I adjure thee Hour law have actually restricted] that thou say nothing but the employment. | truth to me in the name of the Mr. Roosevelt does not deserve all| Lord?—II Chronicles 18:15. praise nor all blame. He came into! rs office in a confused land, with 130 NE of the sublimest things in million people who thought they! the world is truth.—Bulwer,

And now IT find it to be true, That fellows whom I never knew, Are much more likely to be square, And of my friends (?) I must beware,

DAILY THOUGHT And the king said to him, How

financing them. We people are the Government and we ohject to pay{ing even one cent of interest to |idlers for the privilege of using | what is our own currency. If it | were not for the moral worth of {our population which is offered as (security by our officials to the | money hogs, the Government would {have no collateral to offer for the (use of this money borrowed for [these projects. We are made to (pay by the nose for a bare sub|sistence, instead of being given a chance ta earn by she sweat of our brow the good things of real prosperity. We ask that the Congress of the United States be ordered to create

[money to finance these projects in- |

|stead of issuing bonds on which we must pay interest. Congress is the only body having the right to coin | money and regulate its value, Why [not work constitutionally? ! ” ” on | THINKS PROHIBITION |IS ON WAY BACK | By H. 8. Bonsib

I would be pleased to reply fo your You say the Prohibition, has again reappeared. You are mistaken, . . . The silent, patient and long-suffering public is rolling up a mighty avalanche which will roll down an unjust liquor traffic and forever annihilate it.

“forgotten face,”

millionaire. statement! | guilty ones, not prohibition. It was

What an unwarranted

square deal.

never had. The corrupt politicians did all

If we had a Prohibition Party in

ises and stands condemned before

gent people know that the saloon, under a different name, and many times worse, has come back. They |said, “We believe in moderation.” Yes, and now they are teaching temperance and moderation to our young people with appalling results. Your editorial will prove a boomig for prohibition. Look out for

| LET'S EXPLORE YOU

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@AN A WOMAN BE MORE SUCCESSFUL THAN HER HUSBAND

IF TWO PEOPLE MARRY WHEN THE GOING 1S ROUGH ARE THEY MORE LIKELY TO STICK | sedd HER PROSPER COMES P YES ORNO___.°

&HOULD YOUNG PEOPLE TRY TO 6ET A START IN A SMALL TOWN OR Ble cIivP YOUR OPINION —— ,

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® I THINK they are unless they blamed her husband for “not being become embittered by the hard- successful in business” they were

By DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM.

R MIND

meet prosperity if it comes with mutual joy and continued affection. ” ” n

| YES. Of course a lot depends on whether either one is still an adult chiid—that is a person who is grown up physically but is still a |child emotionally. It is these adult |children who get jealous because, lin nine cases out of 10, jealousy is a purely childish emotion. Persons who are mature and well balanced in their emotions do not feel it, unless there be great provocation. They meet the situation as they meet any other problem—with intelligence and common sense—and forget about it. Certainly a successful woman with an adult child for a husband—a rather common type— is in a tough position. ” ” =

ACCORDING to Life-Begins-at-Forty Pitkin, the small town | wins seven times out of 10. He points out that for every chance for la lawyer in the big city there are 150 in small cities and the same for doctors and even engineers. As to business, the trend is away from the big cities to the smaller cities and

It was not prohibition as you say | that brought corruption, racketeer- | ing, hi-jacking and poison liquor blindness; that made “jake-itis” a! common disease and Al Capone a |

Both old parties are the

they could to make the law a joke. ! | power we would not have exsaloon- | ‘keepers and distillers to enforce it. | Repeal has broken all its prom-

an intelligent people. . ., . All intelli-

to be selfish about it too. The only cuts he wanted | were those which would not affect his property,

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HE President got his budget palaver from a chap named Hoover who made exactly the same “how” argument, about his measly little four-billion-dollar budget time after time. Another fellow named Roose- | velt answered: “The way to economize is to be eco- | nomical” and sailed in and cut Mr. Koover's budget | by 25 per cent by the simple process of trying to do | what is necessary as cheaply as possible rather than | as extravagantly as possible. F. D, R. wasn't then | anybody's White House visitor, The man who wants to balance the budget this | year or next and the guy who wants to let the hungry | starve—they got theirs too and, although neither ex- | ists, it was a splendid job. The retailers were as=- | sured that 50 per cent of all relief dollars pass through | their tills and Mr. Roosevelt emerged as the champion | in shining armor of the little fellow, the “old people” | and the hungry. 0. K. It was good politics. It was brilliantly and | temperately done. But it doesn’t touch the nation’s | great problem which is to ease the burden and threat of debt and taxes, restore the flow of private spending and investment, and let people go back to work,

It Seems to Me

By Heywood Broun

Takes Issue With Claim That One Can Grow a New Personality.

EW YORK, May 25.—The Rev. Christian PF. Reisner said in a sermon, “Everybody in America should gladly recognize that he can grow a useful personality.” I have no intention of belittling the advantage of | my homeland, but I gravely doubt that the Reverend | is correct. Indeed, I am of the opinion that it may | be just as difficult to grow a new personality as to | add a cubit to one’s stature or to develop a third eye. | I'm not talking about character, That can be changed. At least I hope so. | The bars and highways of the town are infested | by the maimed victims of courses in how to win | friends. When some complete stranger almost breaks | your knuckles with his hearty handshake you can { depend upon it that he has a book. He would be much less offensive if he had gone along quietly with that personality to which it pleased Providence to | call him. Worst of all in the matter of the welfare of the community is the frantic effort being made by mail and invigorating tonics to induce every shy person to endeavor to condition himself in such a way as to | become the life of the party. It is quite painful to | be shy and diffident. I used to be like that myself. | And in that estate I suffered profoundly. Now it is | the listeners who suffer, and I am not much better off from the course I took in learning how to be a social success.

The Man Grew Older

It is quite true that in recent years I have debated much more in private brawl and publie battle than in my adolescent years. There have even | been moments when I was under the impression that | all those around about were enraptured by my conversation. Rut 'n the cold gray dawn of the morning after it all evens up. At such times I say wistfully, “How can I ever capture that shyness and reticence which were once mine when I used to sit in the corner and listen to my somewhat tiresome elders?” There is a great personal shock in facing the fact that vou yourself have become an elder and are undoubtedly just as boresome as the stuffed shirts to whom you listened in the days when you were very young, Whether one has a good, a medium or a perfectly terrible personality is largely a matter of luck. On the whole I think it is better for each one of us to look over his equipment as a social animal, and face the facts quite frankly. It isn't easy, but it is { still the beginning of wisdom,

‘Watching Your Health

| By Dr. Morris Fishbein

OW much do you know about health? Here's a chance to test yourself and at the same time | acquire some valuable knowledge.

Read these flve questions and try to answer them, | Credit yourself with 20 points for every one you | answer correctly. 1. The increase in the number of deaths from cancer is due to: (a) the coming of the motor car; (b) the use of cosmetics; (c) people are living longer; | (d) too many tall buildings; le) it is contagious. 2. Meat is an unsatisfactory food because: (a) it makes people savage; (b) it is indigestible; (e¢) it is | frequently infected; (d) it is hard to digest; (e) it contains no vitamins. 3. A healthy office worker should eat per day: (a) 8000 calories; (b) 5000 calories; (c) 3000 calories; (d) 1000 calories; (e) 500 calories. | 4. When you have a cold, you should: (a) go to a movie; (b) drink lots of alcohol; (¢) take a long walk; (d) ask the druggist for something; (e) go to bed. 5. If you snore loudly, you are (a) sleeping in a | bed that is too soft; (b) drinking too much water; (¢) plunging in the stock market; (d) suffering with enlarged adenoids; (e) sleeping on your back. Here are the answers: | 1. People are living longer. 2. All wrong. Meat is rich in proteins, phosphorus and iron. 3. Por an office worker 3000 calories is correct, For heavy work, one may require as much as 6000 | or 7000 calories. It is almost impossible to get the

ships, and especially if one comes to | mostly among the unhappy couples. | towns along the highways, from the| essential substances for health and life with much blame the other. The epoch-making|If they both take it on the chin|department store, hotel and garage less than 1200 calories.

servation, I'd say there's nothing much funnier to |study of marriage by Stanfdrc Uni-|and keep sweet about it— sometimes | of the town of 5000 to 10,000 down to

laugh at than the solemnity most women bring to the Job of simonizing the old chassis. Sa

versity, about which I recently|a frightfully hard thing to

do—it| the wrote, showed that where a wife|tends to draw them together and to/at t

gas station and hot dog stand

4. The best advice is to go to bed and call a doctor, 5. Probably suffering with obstruction in your breathing tract and sleeping on your back. wh