Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 May 1939 — Page 6

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MONDAY, MAY 29, 193%

THOUGHT FOR TOMORROW

HOUSANDS of Hoosiers will drive automobiles on to- | Thirty-three professionals, on the

morrow’s holiday.

big race track here, will have a legitimate reason to drive

as fast as they possibly can. The rest of us can't equal

their speed, and will do well not to try.

and sanely we may live to celebrate future Memorial Days |

instead of filling more graves to be decorated.

HOW TO SAVE STRIKE LOSSES

BITTERNESS generated in the violent “Little Steel” strike of 1937 is being revived by the legal claims and counter-claims through which the opposing forces now seek to inflict financial wounds, each on the other. The C. 1. O. demands that Republic Steel pay $7,500,000 to some 6000 strikers, ordered reinstated by the National

Labor Relations Board on the ground that they were |

discharged illegallv. Republic sues for $7,500,000 from the C. I. O. and 700 of its union officers and members,

asking triple damages under the antitrust laws from what |

it contends was a conspiracy to cause the strike. Congress, in our opinion, never meant the antitrust

laws to restrict labor's rights. But at least the huge figures | named in these claims and counter-claims emphasize an

important truth—that a strike means frightful loss to all concerned. There was loss of wages, loss of business, loss of good will, loss of 16 lives in the Memorial Day “massacre” a thousands of persons who had no direct interest in the controversy. Isn't there some way for workers and employers to get along without strikes and lockouts, the losses they cause to their participants and to innocent bystanders, and the bitterness that follows them?

There is such a wav—the way of mediation, which

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works so well for the railroads and the air lines. Republic |

Steel and its emplovees would be far better off today if there had been mediation machinery two vears ago to help them settle their differences without a fight and without stopping work. The country might have been spared a costly, bloody conflict. Dr. Wilham M. Leiseron, mew member of the Labor Board, has told Congress what is needed to prevent such conflicts in the future—a Federal mediation svstem large enough and strong enough to serve all who work and all who hire,

STILL SADLY TRUE

MUCH has happened since 1904, when Secretary of State !

John Hav was distressed because St. Louis World's Fair officials had invited many members of Europe's roval families to attend that show.

But what Mr. Hay said remains true. Writing to

Ambassador Choate in London, he told what had been

done to discourage royal would-be visitors, including the King of the Belgians, “who finally had to be treated with some brutality.” Roosevelt had neither authority nor appropriations from Congress to entertain foreign rulers, he added: “We are a great people with some noble and even charming qualities, but our forte does not lie, . , in the entertainment of foreigners of distinction.” Today the King and Queen of England are in their Dominion of Canada and soon will visit the United States. And some citizens of this democratic republic seem deter-

mined to make fools of themselves. Washington “society” |

is divided. A small minority is smugly proud of inclusion in the groups that will meet Their Majesties, or at least see them at close range. A large majority is bitterly critical of the arrangements that leave it out. Professional Anglophobes are sounding warnings that George VI probably will try to raid our Treasury or hoodwink us into war to save the British Empire. Britain's Foreign Office and our State Department are said to be ‘privately exchanging the melancholy observation that the idea of the King and Queen visiting America at this time was a blunder.”

Most Americans wish that the visit of George and Elizabeth could be treated simply, as a matter of course, !

not as an occasion for display of bad taste. Unfortunately, as in John Hay's day, we have our full quota of snobs and

sneerers, bent on proving that entertainment of royalty

still is not “our forte.”

GETTING RID OF THE BODY

T is about a year now since there was intense excitement

about WPA in Kentucky politics—and reposing today in |

a House committee is the Hatch Bill, already unanimously passed by the Senate. Apathy is the word used to describe the attitude of the House leaders toward the measure which

would outlaw such practices as those which were revealed | in the summer of 1938 —use of relief money to line up votes. |

The practice, in the meanwhile, has been thoroughly damned, first by Tom Stokes, Scripps-Howard reporter who won a Pulitzer Prize because of his Kentucky expose, and

later by the Sheppard committee which confirmed the ex- |

pose. But perhaps the most convincing and convicting of all the evidence has just come out.

George H. Goodman was Kentucky WPA Director a | It is now disclosed that he wrote to one of his supervisors in | June, 1938, advising that anything in the supervisor's files |

vear ago. He still is. The storm somehow missed him.

which “would even appear to an uninformed person to involve us in politics be destroyed.” Maybe the destruction is why Mr. Goodman is still on the job. And why apathy is getting in its work. For there's nothing like removing the corpus delicti. That is, unless vou get caught at it. Which is what seems to have happened to Mr. Goodman. And which we hope may have the effect of blasting out the apathy and getting the Hatch Bill before the House as it was brought before je Senate.

MARK FERREE |

By driving safely |

South Chicago, and these losses affected

Pointing out that President (Theodore) |

rr. nT: Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

Sees American Jews Indifferent to Palestine and Resenting Inference They Desire Another Homeland.

N=¥ YORK, May 298.—It is my belief that most American Jews not only have no interest in Palestine but resent the insinuation inherent in the case that they desire some other homeland than the United States. The agitation of the problem in this country, including representations to the American State Department on behalf of the Palestine community by certain prominent Jews who call themselves leaders, puts other American Jews in a false position, and gives undeserved aid and comfort to a band of Hitlerized American terrorists who allege that all Jews withhold devotion to the land of their birth. Men and women who were born in this country and who are utterly loval to their native land thus are made to suffer suspicion and other penalties | for sentiments of which they are innocent. Regardless of the legal, political and diplomatic | facts of the problem, the American people will not | sympathize with an effort to create a homeland for people who are citizens of other countries, = = ”

MERICAN Methodists, Baptists and Catholics are content with this as their homeland and will ask themselves why American Jews should not only want another but call on other nations to guarantee and protect it, instead of fighting out their own | problems. The fact is that comparatively few American Jews are active in this agitation, the vast majority of them being either indifferent to the movement or opposed to it on the ground that it suggests some weakness or | division in their own love of the United States. The so-called Jewish homeland is an artificial creation attempted as the result of a bargain which the British agreed to in violation of another bargain at a | time when they would have promised anybody anything. It hasn't worked up to now, and the British are in | a terrible sweat as they weasel around in the manner | of a county court shyvster trying to prove that they promised less than they did. But that is their prob- | lem, and the problem of the Arabs and some Jews, but not the problem of the American Jews, except those | who voluntarily and formally declare themselves in on it.

F those concerned can work it out, that will be fine, but the American people will not commission their | Government to take any responsibility for the fulfill | ment of a British promise or the protection of any | other homeland than this one, always excepting the | Monroe Doctrine. This document commits us to the job of protecting

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much British and French property on this side of the |

| water, and protecting certain South American coun-

| tries from their own folly, should they decide to throw | in with a new Spanish Fascist empire under Gen. |

| Franco. The hyphenism of the Nazis is popularly detested and openly rebuked here, but it is just as reasonable | to ask the American nation to help the Germans re- | capture Danzig as it is for certain Jews of American | nationality to press the Government or people for any official aid for this so-called homeland. Those Jews who do cherish the idea and the hope of its fulfillment, and want to give their ability and money for it, have a legal right to do so. But there | should be some means by which the American who regards this as his only homeland, and resents any suggestion that he wants another, could disassociate himself from the propaganda.

Business By John T. Flynn

Failure to Put Idle Money to Work Recognized as Our Chief Problem. YORK, May

29 —The failure of the banks i and those who hold monev in hanks to put that money to work has aeveloped into the great national problem. This writer has been caliing at-

| tention to this for several vears. Now, however, that

the situation has dawned upon the public and upon | business, a good many misapprehensions are current |

concerning it, For one thing, the popular explanation of | very serious phenomenon in Wall Street is that it is due to the debilitating effect upon industry of Government spending. Of course that is not true. | there would be no such vast | dollars in the banks if it were not | spending. In 1933, when the bank holiday was called, bank deposits were down near to the lowest level at which they stood in 1923. Between 1923 arid 1929 bank de- | posits had risen many billions, These billions of new deposits were the result of private borrowing i rowing by people to invest in business, to build houses | and all sorts of buildings and to buy stocks. It was a disastrous policy and it collapsed Between 1933 and 1939 bank deposits | in the same amount as they did between 1928. In other words, in period of depression the deposits in banks have grown as rapidly as they did in the period of prosperity. The idle dollars now in the banks were created by Government borrowing and spending. Fvery banker who understands the economics of banking knows this.

What Should Be Done

The thing to do is to get them back to work. To do this we have to be as reasonable as anv businessman looking at his affairs. Businessmen will have to stop fretting about Mr. Roosevelt and get down to business. Several things must be done. First and most important is to survey the various methods of investment—railroads, utilities, building construction. Find out why people will not put their money into these industries. The reasons are plain. Then correct these conditions. Next. adopt a reasonable and sensible tax policy. Third, put an end ruthlessly to every kind of combination in restraint of trade—price fixing, production control, etc. Fourth, adjust the Government spending program to the situation, namely, end borrowing for relief. Pay Government relief costs out of tax funds. Fifth, put an end to war fears.

As a matter of fact, motionless sea of idle

have risen

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A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

OMEBODY always saves the dav—or, to be more specific—the column. This morning as I was casting ahout for a subject, from Cincinnati came a letter extolling the advantages of free love over con-

ventional marriage. Here are a few sample arguments: “If you old-fashioned folks would let go fears and help young people to a natural expression of sex, all sorts of wild behavior would be eliminated. Marriage, as you have established it, simply does not

rious and wasteful economically. want from men is love. | them for money. | should be free.” This letter carries an undertone of vouth, flushed with illusions, and it is quite natural I suppose that,

Love makes the world go round. It

It takes a good deal of living to prove that free

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The Hoosier Forum

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

HOLDS PARK BOARD ACTION FAR FROM ADEQUATE |By Deacon I am glad to see The Times con-

tinuing its fight for petent personnel in the city parks.

a more com- |

The action of the Park Board in transferring its volice to the juris-|

diction of Chief Morrissey was un- | doubtedly the result of your ingistence on imoroved conditions The case of the Butler student indicated that some firings might more properly have been in order but this action is at least a concession. Mavbe the Chief will get laround to the necessary elimina{tions In due course, Meanwhile it sider the board's latest { meet necessary reforms. the transfer of several matrons from one park to another on the ground that they failed to develop good will and were unahle to ‘get along” with the public. The question naturally arises if these women could not get along in one park what sssurance is there they will get along in another? This is begging the question. People are |either competent or incompetent. They either get along or they don't get along and the best criterion on that is their prior conduct. It strikes me, that either these people are being made the “goats” in this whole business and are the victims of injustice, or they should have been fired outright.

attempt to I refer to

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CONVINCED PROHIBITION IS COMING BACK

By Paul W. Cox

ridicule of the opening statement of your editorial, “Prohibition Again.” I think that it was unique in being the most perfect example of “opposite statements of fact” that I have ever seen in print. Briefly analyzing the editorial: | “Prohibition brought corruption, racketeering, etc . . .” Do vou mean that a law forbidding “that which does much damage” brings all these evil things? Would a sane jury vote that as a worthy statement? Again: the experiment so thoroughly weighed and found so fatally wanting . . .” Would any intelligent person say that it was thoroughly weighed when its enforcement was in the hands of those who did not want it enforced —those engaged in the liquor business? It never was weighed at all. “Fatally wanting. . . .” Statistics will show that liquor drinking was decreased to a very minimum. If

is amusing to con-

Passing the unprecedented cheap!

| lisher you are “selfishly” (by adver- | | tising) participating in the business. | | To sum up those two statements, |by your own admission you are a| great evildoer and hence not com- | petent to be credited by a thinking | people, Again may I say that in my judg(ment your editorial was the most | flagrant misstatement of facts that [1 have ever seen in print? Yes, prohibition is coming back, Your very editorial voices the fear of a fright- | as much liquor was consumed under ened nefarious traffic. prohibition, then why did the liquor | > 9 interests spend millions of dollars POINTS TO U. S. ROLE AS to bring repeal? Please answer TRADITIONAL HAVEN that [By Arthur Seott Again: “With the crisis of wars—| wav 1 put in & word for the Germust we again wrestle with an issue man refugees who are the victims | so positively decided? .,.” That is| of Nazi persecution. Our country | Just the point. The “crisis of War” js traditionally reputed throughout in 1917 was just what brought peo- the world as the haven and refuge ple to sane thinking as to the eco- for the oppressed. Other democratic nomic waste and degeneration of .: Y tod manpower. It will do it again. countries are doing their bit to pro“Positively decided. Have | Vide homes to these persecuted chil- | you taken the trouble to inform dren. Must we, under the excuse yourself as to the actual percentage |of being “hard up” suddenly dis-| of the possible voters who actually continue our historic practice, which | voted for repeal? In one breath has made us beloved by all freedom |

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you are generous enough to admit loving peoples of the earth? that liquor drinking “does do much| The unemployment plea will not damage,” in another that as a pub- solve that. Give them a chance to

— A I. come here and maybe they can hel GUARDIAN ANGEL :

{us put our house in order, Many By MAIDA LEAH STECKELMAN of us, perhaps some of these very objectors, are here because this tl : : 9 le ‘anteroom ‘of great and rich land provided a

haven and refuge for the oppressed. |

I stood within Heaven, had never known rapturous bliss; a breath go by Heaven, And knew it for an angel's gossamer Kiss.

1 such utter |

| ”n on ” | me Into THINKS ENTIRE WORLD | |S ‘UPSIDE DOWN’ | A little 9-vear-old girl in South | Africa has a curious eve disturbance Where tears of ‘earthmen paled | Which cauces her to see everything | the lily's bloom, (upside down through her left eye. | But T knew beyond the glory there Physicians call it amblyopia. in Heaven, It is a disease commoner than the An angel brewed the tears Into | physicians suppose. Many of 1s perfume. |see the world upside down. So, many, in fact, that it leads one to | (auspect that perhaps it is upside | down.

I felt

| By Observer

I gazed bevond the portals there in| Heaven,

Behold then, as TI gazed back into Heaven, I saw the angel's face, ethereal, | There 1s poverty amid plenty: | fine, there are the losers of 1d | PA SOY the World | And I knew then, why I lirigered war, now winners: there are Com- | outside Heaven, munists who act like Fascists, and |

y | The angel, and the flowing tears, pacoists who act like Communists: were mine,

so Hdet Gh there are conservative Democrats N and radical Republicans; there are DAILY THOUGHT (radicals demanding a bigger army, | But he that shall endure unto |and conservatives demanding isola- | the end, the same shall be saved. (tion; there are governments which | —Matthew 24:13. {used to send free seeds to farmers, | {now paving to cut down crops. E Say, doctor! Are vou sure that little girl's eye is upside down?

conquers who endures.—

Persius,

LET'S EXPLORE YOUR MIND

your

work. The family isolation idea is extremely preca- | All women should | It’s a shame to have to ask |

to its writer, people who believe in self-control and a | standard of moral behavior should be old-fashioned.

love is just about the most expensive of all acquisi- |

Headstrong, sex-driven young people are often the |

| victims of their own wishful thinking. They love. They want no rules for that love to follow and thev honestly believe it will endure. When it doesn’t they imagine the error was a mistake of judgment and that | the next venture in sex will prove the right one. | And on they go down the road which leads. if not to ruin, at least to emptiness and sometimes to despair.

For they have not vet found out that the strongest

force in human nature—stronger even than sex itself la habit. And it is hardly necessarv to point out that the habit of self-indulgence is easier to cultivate than the habit of self-control.

YES. They are, at least during, and Hatch, biologists of California the earlier years of married life. | University, To what degree marriage and child good looking and beautiful college

bearing and rearing may cause this beauty to decline in time has not |been adequately studied.

By DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM—

beautiful women are married at the | | average age of 22.7 vears, while the | less favored are not married until] average age 26 vears. He adds, “The average degree of beauty of unmar- | ried women is lower than the aver-| age degree of beauty of married | women.” He does not give the ages at which this comparison in beauty was made.

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"THIS is the creed of a magnifi- | cent loafer—the grandest creed | in the world, if only you can scrape | up the money for the upkeep. We would all like to stand aside from the rush of life and its turmoil, its | passion to outdo others, to climb up| the social scale and to amass wealth, and, thus, to survey the human struggle with the calm vision of a philosopher, But how on earth are | we average folks going to make a| living and do all this grand loafing. | ” n »

NO. A prolonged study by the Mellon Institute — and other | studies—show that no amount of| cutting, shaving or singeing of the hair will cause it to grow either faster or thicker, Many women are warned not to shave the annoving | hair from their legs or faces as it will become worse—but while they | may worry about their legs or faces | for other reasons they need not on score, |

HAIR-RAISING TION: DOE cut GHA SN THE HAR MAKE. |T GROW FASE ER OR THICKER P

YOUR OPINION ae

(Prstested Ww John V. DE On)

have shown that the

women marry earlier than those less]

favored. A study of Italian women

| columnist’'s beer,

MONDAY, MAY 29, 1989

Gen. Johnson Says—

Reserves Right to Call 'Em as He

Sees 'Em Despite Protests Over His Praise of Secretary Ickes.

ASHINGTON, May 29.—This column talked the other day about Harold Ickes’ appointment to take over the bituminous coal tangle—and approved it. That drew a barrage of dead cats in my mail like nothing I have seen since NRA. Am I trying to curry favor with this Administra« tion to get some office? Am 1 going soft and noble on the customers? Don't 1 know that I can't blow hot and cold out of the same mouth? How can a column knock Mr, Ickes one week and praise him before the month is out? Don't T know that I can't keep an audience interested in inconsistency? Why don't 1 take a stand and stick to it? The idea of some fans seems to be that a columnist must be a political tom-tom beater and that everye thing he writes should be down one alley. A publia character must be played up as all bad or all good

all the time. n

CAN'T agree. I am not running for anything. Tt may be poor salesmanship for this column not to do just that. It might be better for its circulation to cultivate all those who hate this Administration, or make a specialty of titillating all those who think

it's all good. But it has always seemed to me to be my job to whack whatever seemed wrong and to supe port whatever looked right regardless of who does it, If a column has to be in the position of lambasting either this Administration or any individual in it on a basis of prejudice and regardless of quality or sc= tion, I don't want to be in the business of writing one, I can well realize that a constant political advo= cate of a particular point of view isn't called upon to make all the arguments on the other side anv more than is a lawyer advocating one side of a case. There is nothing unfair about that. The other side has its advocate with exactly similar duties, The protagonist is entitled to “Let. the opposition bring out its own points, We admit nothing and concede nohing.” But a columnist's job seems different, There are some who are forthright advocates in the sense just discussed. They may be right. The field 13 new and 1 don’t Know, But as I understand the job, it is, ace cording to your lights, to call 'em as you ses ‘em no matter which side is at bat, on ” 5

HIS T have tried to do. Nobody has got more . cracks out of the column than Mr. Ickes, But if this column is to be worth anything to its readers, it. should tell the other side of the story also. In all its engagements with Mr. Ickes, it never suggested that he is not a good administrator, I think he is one of the best. Surely there is a certain magisterial and pontifical ponderosity about assuming to pass such judgments every day. That is the biggest coackroach in any I am also well aware that I like some people more than any journalist should and dis=

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| like some more than any truly objective commentator

ought to indulge his personal feelings, But I do really try to be fair at least, I see no virtue whatever in consistency in writing only adverse comment about either men or parties, If that isn't good enough all the customers have to do is to read some other columnist. We have enough of them and some are never inconsistent in this regard,

It Seems to Me

By Heywood Broun

Those Inclined to Laugh OF Deatherage Forget About Hitler,

EW YORK, May 29.-—I'm afraid people will fafl if they attempt to blow Deatherage out of the window with nothing but raucous laughter, In all logic that ought to work. The man seems disarmingly sillv, but of late the world has suffered much from those sinister things which can come out of sheer stupidity. Lucifer remains in the background, and the field work is done by the dumbest of the demons. Possibly that is the very danger in the case of demagogs who seem wholly fantastic fictional crea= tions and who most obviously burlesque themselves. Brighter folk in camouflaged hideouts pull the strings and all the time the crowd roars at the antics

| of some dancing doll the way of destruction is being

prepared around them, Hitler was an object lesson in point. He seemed a clown from whom no real harm could come in the be« ginning. In his meek days in Munich, when he was trying to interest painters in his dim and conven-

| tional water colors, it seemed inconceivable that here

was the man who could destroy the culture of a great people and threaten that of all the world, But it

happened. And so I do not think it will be well for Amers

ifcans to commit themselves to a complete hysteria in the case of Deatherage., He is no more ridiculous than der Fuehrer in the days of his incubation.

Wanted: Another Lardner

But just not should be set as a

that weapon,

humor It

think useful

the same 1 do aside utterly

| has a bad name right now with serious-minded peopls,

You will hear that humor is the coward’s livery and

| that anvhody who cracks a joke or coins an epigram

is betraving freedom and the good life into the hands

of the Fascists. But, it is quite possible that the fault lies not in the blade but in the practitioners who have attempt-

| ed to wield fit.

the Ku-Klux Klan was I'm not sure that's true, and punishing cartoons

Thev used to say that laughed out of existence. but there were wisecracks which didn't do it any good

A joke can have teeth in it. Humor is by no

means invariably an escape from reality. So instead of taking crack at wit and humor as an institution we ought to be more critical of the work of the wits

and humorists We need another Mark Twain or Ring Lardner, or Bernard Shaw with 20 vears shaved off. These are not things to be obtained in any short-order lunchroom But I firmly believe that somewhere there is being prepared a young man who can use satire with all the deadly accuracy of a young David,

Watching Your Health

By Dr. Morris Fishbein

HE rise in popularity of chocolate beverages is a matter which interests every mother. School children like chocolate. There is no reason for dis claiming the statement that children will drink more milk when it is flavored with chocolate than without, Dietitians M. D. Paige and M. C. Kelly have made a study of this subject for the Annual Conference of Food Service Directors. They found all sorts of chocs olate flavored drinks. Some are made by adding powdered chocolate, chocolate syrup, or cocoa to milk, Sometimes whole milk is used; sometimes skimmed milk. Sometimes the flavor is added before, and sometimes after the milk is pasteurized. Sometimes sugar is added; sometimes tapioca, starch, or gelatin is added to hold the chocolate in solution. In some instances, the chocolate milk beverage 1s enriched by the addition of vitamin D. Sometimes the vitamin D is in the milk before the chocolate is

added. In the preparation of this study, information was sought from school dietitians all over the country as to the type, cost and selling price of chocolate bever« ages. In some instances such beverages had been excluded from school lunchrooms, but it was found throughout the country generally, that the sales of chocolate milk exceeded those of milk without the chocolate, It is important to recognize that the addition of the flavor should not permit the sale of milk that is « substandard in the quantity of butterfat or in the method of pasteurization, or in any other way. The

same control chocolate, general,

rt of regulations should milk as control milk in