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JUNE 3, 1939

SATURDAY,

THE INDIANS NE of the big pieces of news is the way the Indians are starting to go places. appears that our baseball team is determined not to let the Western clubs run away with the race. Baseball is a great game. And it's a great feeling when the home town club is on the winning path.

SO HOME AND TO BED’

around Indianapolis today It now

EVENTY thousand men have been out in a 12-day Michi- |

gan auto strike. Uncountable ripples of unemployment have flown from that, down through the whole pool of auto trade, sales and service. Other thousands are idle in an Eastern steamship tieup during the height season along the Atlantic Coast from Nova Scotia to Virginia. Labor itself is split about AR Numerically, the vote was 2 to 1 against strikBut, by departments, 2 to 1 for. So ships aren't sailing and sev ry thousand shore workers have just been laid off, in addition to those on strike. To compute fully the losses in such a conflict is impossible. There are too many ramifications. Washington dispatches sav it is likely that Congress won't get around to doing anything about the capital-labor situation before adjournment.

of the busy

ing.

Which raises once again the question which so frequently puzzles the mind of the average citizen—what, after all, is Congress for? It is hired by the vear. 1t doesn't have to adjourn. It is supposed to deal with problems vital to the nation, in the order of their importance. Certainly no need is greater than to bring about peace and continuity of industrial operation at a time when the country is so sore beset by unemployment, mounting debt, and general business fatigue. A mediation system, for example, which would do for all industry what the Railway Mediation Act has done f the railwavs and the airlines might very well be the thing which would bring prosperity back. That, coupled with certain alterations in the Wagner Labor Act and the administration thereof to make collective bargaining and mediation dovetail might such losses as those described. The great need of “lesalized mediation” is said to have been stressed to President Roosevelt by a group of friendly business leaders who dined af White House the other night. Such action would hearten. as perhaps no other legislation could, industrial investment with accompanying increase

for

stop

the

and expansion, its of employment and decrease in public relief, It would restore in tremendous measure that elusive “confidence.”

lack of which the nation so long has suffered.

private

for the But it seems that Congress has set a goal for quitting. And it's getting So, ho, hum! And to home! And leave undone that which go obviousl <hould

hot in Washington.

be done.

MIXED The Gen

the Maj Horn Committee, charging a Jewish-Communist plot to overthrow the Government,

handwrit wall clear ax

George Van

ing on 13 as From

to the Dies

3 bell

Moseley zs statement

other words, the general is sure he smells a rat and

But most of us are inclined to think that he has discovered a mare's should be taken with a grain of salt.

wants to nip it in the bud. nest which

POWDER PUFF DISCIPLINE AST caught red-handed mixing politics Harry Hopkins could do, in respect to the two WPA-ers whose guilt he finally admitted, was to announce publicly that they had been admonished not to repeat such practices.

WPA and relief, the best

summer; when the Kentucky bosses were

Mr. Hopkins seems to have set a new fashion for discipline in Government. Consider the R. L. Griffin, County Agent in Alabama, who circularized farmers in his county, soliciting them to pay 82 a year dues to the Farm Bureau Federation. arguing that for every £2 they invest in dues to this lohbyv outfit they are getting in return an average of 2250 in AAA benefit checks. “There is only one way to continue to receive {hose pave ments,” Agent Griffin the farmers, “That through membership in an organization which is strong enough to tell Congress what vou want.” Ag County Agent, Mr. Griffin gets his salary part from state funds and part from Federal funds. In writing that letter he obviously was serving some master other than the taxpavers. One might expect, under the circumstances, that Dr. C. W. Warburton, head of the Federal Extension Service, would show some indignation. But Dr. Warburton merely clucked some remark to the effect that it was too bad Mr. Griffin had “done something that was contrary to publie policy,” and added that the agent manded and I am sure it won't happen again.’

case of

wrote to i

“had been repri-

To that gentle tap on the wrist was added one more—

the Postoffice Department, which became involved because Mr. Griffin added insult to injury lobby-pressure letters in franked envelopes. Charles Davidson, Postoffice Department official, spoke right out. Said he: “It's clearly bevond the Government franking privilege. We'll investigate the case and if we find that the facts are as bad ag they look, we'll have to collect the postage chargeable to those letters.” If you'll look in the upper right-hand corner of a franked envelope, where a postage stamp would be hut isn't, you may read this inscription: “Penalty for private use to avoid payment of postage, £300." But Mr, Davidson doesn’t want 8300. He'll be satisfied with 3 cents. One might think that even if it isn't interested in abuse of privilege and violation of law, the Postoffice Department would be a little concerned about its own deficit, And £300

by mailing his

for every franked letter illegally used for private purposes |

could go a long ways toward putting the postal service in the black. But perhaps such mercenary thoughts have no place in our “new moral climate,” ¢

Business Manager |

Price in Marion Coun- |

Mail subscription rates

65 | miles an hour to 469 miles, T have been thinking back

| funds to continue high speed research,

| for

' had designed and built. | that, while money is cheap. time is not for sale.

| power, | Curtiss Navy

— THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Aviation By Maj. Al Williams

Precious Time Has Been Wasted In Airplane Motor Research Since U. S. Won Speed Record in 1923.

Wy SH June 3.—-Ever since the Germans boosted the Italian world's speed record of 440

to the sleek little Curtiss Racer I flew in 1923, the

last time the United States held the world’s speed record—266.6 miles per hour. I think also of the men who were the bosses of aviation in 1923, who blithely told me, when I sought

was all the speed we would need. At the end of 1923, we had the world by speed in the air. Europe came to our and purchased our famous Curtiss D-12 motors, metal propellers and oui wing radiators. Smart as they always are. those fellows came right over here and laid money on the barrelhead to take home with them all that made our little Navy Racer flv so fast. They knew they conld duplicate what we But thev smartly recognized And they knew that if they waited until they could produce engines and equipment to speed up their own ships, they would waste time. » » HE case I have set out in this instance planned as an indictment of the air leaders who failed us; rather, it is a cry from the heart of one

doorstep

5 is not

| who knew vears ago that this day of plaving second

and sometimes third fiddle in the realm of speed in the air eventually would come for us. I still cherish the wind tunnel model of that 1923 racer—a beautifully streamlined job that spoke speed in every smoothly curved line. Its streamlined motor delivered 510 horsepower. That job invaluable, vet all its research was dumped over the side as we started on a crusade to build a big round engine, aircooled, Eight years passed before we could build another ship around the air-cooled type of motor (800 horseby the way) to beat the little biue and gold racer. Anger and bitter resentment? Of course! But anger and resentment become thin and hazv in the light of the bright speed dreams that could have been materialized by American-built speed planes if we had but stuck to our Curtiss D-12 engine and refined it.”

is

» » ”

{ IFTEEN vears of concentrated effort would have brought that little 510-horsepower engine up to The original Wright Cvelone air-cooled engine started out as a 325 job. Today Cyclones deliver about 1100 It's a need so

1000

1939 version of the 1923 Curtiss D=12 we badly todav in our new air rearmament program. The air-cooled engine manufacturers meet this by claiming that cur air-cooled engines are as good as anv in the world. They're right. But where 1s our 1939 version of the liquid-cooled D-12? To that question thev dare not answer Unless we get our air affairs straightened out so that range planning will care for the future we'll toss away another dozen vears or more. It can happen again, unless our government air efforts take a definite compass course.

long

(Mr. Pegler did not write a column for today.)

Business By John T. Flynn

All Debts Can't Be Paid, Which Is Why Gevernments Employ Inflation. EW YORK

the

-There is one final point in palicy the President perhaps, of critical im-

June 3 i announced about national debt which is. portance It is to be found

newt af

one vital difference between private and national debt There is no doubt that the borrowing of monev gives a powerful impetus to trade, whether it is private horrowing or Government borrowing. The prosperity of the 1820s was due to this But after

m

great

the mionev was borrowed it ceased to he credit; it became debt It ceased to be a dvhamic force; it became a burden to those agencies which had done the borrowing Now it is the well-known history of the capitalist money economy that society can never pay all its debts. Great sums of debts contracted bv railroads public utilities, industrial eerporations. builders and property owners go into default. This i= unfortunate for those who default. but jt is the wav of the svstem and these defaults, bad as they mayv be for the individuals, are not without their economic advantages for the economic society as a whole.

An Important Difference

But here

is where the difference between public and private debt becomes important. Private debts can be extinguished by default. If the railroad can= not meet its bonds, sooner or later it goes into receivership or bankruptcy and the debts are wiped out. Then the raiiroad, revamped, freed of its burden, reorganized, goes forward again, with credit restored But Government debts cannot way, particularly national Government debts. can become so burdensonie to a city that city pay its bills, its teachers, It cannot progress with its growth. The same is true of a state These internal debits are all domestic and are all owned right here in the United States Americans owe the bonds: An'ericans own them. But this does not prevent the owning agencv—ihe city or state— from becoming crushed under the weight of the debt. This ean be true of the Federal Government. These debts cannot be wiped by default or lezal bankruptcy But the same thing takes place The state must get rid of its debts either by repudiation or devaluation. The bes! way would be repudia= tion because that would injure the economic society least. But this is looked upon hv rulers as too brazen an of perfidy. So thev resort to repudiation by inflation, which not only wines out the state's debts but large gobs of private debts as well and generally dislocates the economic system. It is to the petie) of Mr. Roosevelt would lead us,

its

be wiped out that If debts cannot

ont

act

for

this

vears

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson THY don't

\ R the question well answered by a recent issue of Independent Woman. With com= mendable frankness, the author accuses the older group of wishing to stifle independent thinking on the part of the younger, charging also that when thinking gets out of hand the latter are suspected by their leaders of cominunistic notions. From observation, I'd say grain of truth to the charge. tire youngsters from running off on tangents, members often assume high and mignty attitudes which repulse newcomers, This factionalism, however, iz not the worst of our sins. For it seems to me the higgest deterrent to the club movement is the cumbersome organization mas chinery which we set up to clog its progress Haven't vou ever sat in a meeting anda felt yours self slowly choking on the red tane? A goad many organizations lack spontaneity and enthusiasm. too, he= cause there was once a fellow named Mr. Roberts who wrote a book called "Riles of Order.” I sometimes wickedly wish he had swallowed his baby rattle in ine fancy and so saved us some boring hours. These cut and dried parliamentary codes are an excellent guide for (he business of lares conventions, but they certainly kill the spirit in smaller groups, Young women are cencerned with where they are geing, while the older groups worry about how they shall move to get there. The girls want to think for themselves and the elderly ladies, I am ashamed to say, prefer to think for them.

join elubs?” is Viola Ilma in

more roung women

there is more than e In our effort to prevent

What the elderly ladies ought to remember is that | Portland, Me, when she started for Skinner,

ho organization lives without periodie transfusions of |

young bioady

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SATURDAY, JUNE 3, 1939

Journey’s End!—By Talburt

that 266 miles

the tail |

our |

[ing Westbrook Pegler's

| was:

build schools or |

such |

leanings and subversive !

staider |

| them, The absurdity of his | to seize this Government by

| glare of his day in the limelight. | Dies

Gen. Johnson Says—

Army People Resent Inference That Gen. Moseley's Ghost Stories Reflect Attitude of the Service.

EW YORK, June 3.-—Gen, Moseley has heen sees ing things under the bed and making all the front-page headlines with his about tale of a Communist plot force doesn't lessen the

The actions of the Committee, “investigating” him—heckling and threatening to suppress him—is just water under his

ghost stories

| wheel,

Frequent report that the War Department is gums=

shoeing his recent activities suggests a meneral court=

martial for his rash utterances. That would complete his martyrdom and fill his cup ef joy to overflowing. If it were not for the adverse effect of his publicity capers on other people, the General's little side-show would be a howling joke. Anybody who has a chance to observe the activities of the actual Communists in this country knows that they are just fooling fol-de= rol. Only one other current performance compares with them in unimportance. That is the heiling and posturing of the Nazi-Fascist monkey show which Gen. Moseley applauds. n

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S concerns the General personally, it is a pity, In his military service he was a bold go-getter who consistently rendered invaluable service to his country, especially in the terrible supply problem of our armies in France. I have served with him for more years than I like to remember, beginning as shave-tails in Texas. He was always a cutter of red tape—an Army realist who got results—a sincere, in-

| tense and loyal soldier,

His being taken for a sucker by bum professional patrioteers of the absurd Ku-Klux variety is simply an instance of the innocence and ignorance of the civilian pressures which attend the cloistered life of the average Army officer intent upon his own highly specialized profession, His stuff carries an implication that it represents the Army point of view, that even the Chief of Staff is sympathetically attentive, and that the Army thinks it could and should move in to regulate political

| thinking, action and expression in this country,

| I haven't | from these eager

The Hoosier Forum

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

but will

AGREES WITH PEGLER ON ZIONIST ARTICLE By a Jewish-American The letter Louis Levy article on|

(Times readers are invited

to express their views in

these columns, religious cone Make so all Letters

be signed, but names will be

by criticiz- ; ded.

short,

troversies exclu

aur letter

Zionism seems to me to be perfect] can

i ‘a 1 proof of the sanity of Mr. Pegler's stand. What Pegler said, in effect, Zionism is all right for thos withheld on request.) who believe in it, but they have no ———o 2 right to demand that it the views of all Jews in America, or even to infer it. Mr. Levy expresses a viewpoint that thousands of loval Americans— Jews bv religion—object to violently He refers to "the ignorance of the large group of American Jewry to the heroic efforts to rebuild Palestine.” May we not. on our part in a land of free speech. refer to the Zionists as “ignorant” without inviting a storm of protest. I fear not. The Zionists, in their fervor, are as intolerant of opposition as the Nazis themselves.

| i have a chance. must

represent simply except perhaps by Sherman, who left no doubt “T will not run if nominated and I will not serve if elected.” Coyness has become the tradition. Coolidge’'s “I do not choose to run” the subject

with his

of reams of comexactly Now Senator Vandenberg has added another expression which may go ringing down beside that of Coolidge: “If there are responsibilities of a broader nature (than the senatorship) I shall meet them to the best of my ability,” said he Neat, modest, and carrving the properly coy note for the tradition iz this phrase of the Michigan Senator. Translated, it means, “Sure, I'l run!”

was

ment essaving to interpret

what he meant,

» ” » POINTS TO EQUALITY UNDER DEMOCRACY Br Social Democrat What a difference line between Canada and the United States makes. On the Canadian side the King and Queen meet their subjects. On the American side they will meet their equals. Here we have 130 million roval sovereigns. every man a king. every woman a queen. Our royal Americans do not curtsy to their fellow sovereigns. We are roval blood. rulers of our destiny without pomp and ceremony. We acknowledge no superiors among us. We pay no tribute to crowned heads. We acclaim democracy with equality for all before the law. We are not subjects, but equal sovereigns.

he houndary : » ~ »

SEES BETTER ROADS AS VITAL NEED By W. T. If there is one thing which the United States likes to pride herself, it is our magnificent system of hard roads.

It perfectly proper {hat we should do so. There is no question that the United States has more and

DID YOU KNOW By DOROTHEA ALLANSON Your laugh can bolster my weary soul, My heart, in your presence, Your sentiments I treasure, Your company's my pleasure, Please, don't take your friend:hip away.

on

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® ” ” THINKS CANDIDATES SHOULD SPEAK OUT By a Citizen Some day man is going to be approached with the idea of running dency. And run!”

is gay,

some American statess

DAILY THOUGHT For sin, taking occasion by commandment, deceived me, Just like that. And his question. | by it slew me.—~Romans 7:11. er will fall in a dead faint. for a w———— great American precedent will have E thal falls into sin is A man. been broken H that grieves at it ix a saint, This is one question and that boasteth of it is a devil. never heen answer Fuller.

for the Presi-

he will say, “Sure, I'll the

and

has and

which ed directly

than any other country |

[better roads in the world. But it is one thing to congratulate oneself on past achievements,

and another to turn smug, relax, and fall behind. And that is what we are in danger of doing in the matter of our roads. It has been estimated, for instance, that 97 per cent of the surfaced highway now laid down is of the two-lane, 20-foot variety which is after all nothing but a horse-and-buggy road surfaced. It is not a motor road at all, The American Association of State Highway Officials studied the matter in 1937 and concluded that there were then about 4704 miles of three-lane, 3082 miles of four-lane, and 221 miles of six-lane pavement, In other words, in 1937 there were only about 8000 miles of multiplelane highways in the country, Only such highways can be considered motor roads modern sense, Our job is there. It is one more answer to those who say, "America is all built—there is nothing left to do.”

really in the

{ the story of

» » » SOCIAL CONSCIENTIOUSNESS AND OUR PROFIT SYSTEM By Observer How much social conscientiousness is possible under a profit system? The commonest argument against

the present system is that all men are driven by springs of the hope of personal profit, and that all such social benefits as result are purely an incidental by-product. Those who argue for socialization believe that under a social system it would be completely the other way—all motivation would be social. To any sensible man both view- | points are nonsensical, In both cases there is a mixture, perhaps a conflict. It is all a matter of degree. John C. Parker, Consolidated Edison (N. Y.) vice president, | recently told an assembly of electrical engineers that “This profession is social to the core. We need not worry whether a device needs to be set up to socialize us.” Perhaps that is too optimistic, but encouraging talk. Against it must be set the practical workings of the only socialist state, where similarly placed people are already coagulating into a specially privileged group with vested interests to contend against their purely social view. Here is a typical case where all the cats are gray, and neither black nor white,

| be given carte blanche

it is

LET'S EXPLORE YOUR MIND

By DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM

S a Sa Tana POPULAR NOTION 16 THAT GUTTER MONGREL DOGS ARE BRIGHTER AND LEARN MORE~ TRICKS THAN HIGH= BRED PEDIGREED

@AN YOU JUDGE A PERSON BY THE OPENING SENTENCES

OF 5 E PrERS

3 YOUR OPNIONS

HAE Eotee one puer R sAe Ch. THIN ory PORE THE FRE AS WELS AS WELL Fedele YOUR CANON NO. I have traveled for 35 first road map in the world—a road years and never yet met

woman who could read railroad in 1895. [time tables without landing

But when it comes to pok-

that women lack the dis-

| Prescott, Ariz. As to road maps I | tinction, harmony and composure |

|can't say, although I published the.of the grand manner, especially of

{

a map of Colorado for bicycle riders,

in ing the fire it seems to me, Miss]

who grew

lus men of the old school, up poking fires, ” » ” I THINK NOT. No careful research has ever been done on this problem but my impression is that this belief is partly inspired by jour sentiments for the under-dog.| Dogs have never been bred for general intelligence hut always for particular kinds of intelligence—such as pointers, setters, retrievers, | bloodhounds, ete. It is possible that | {when these dogs are crossed the | offspring might inherit both types of intelligence and thus do more | | tricks than the pure-bred. But this | is only a guess and might not work out in practical breeding. | ” » YOU can judge a "lot. If he be-| gins “Your favor of recent date | received and contents noted,” or| “Replying to yours of” or “As per your request,” etc, you know he has learned nothing of the modern, scientific letter writing. The same (if he cioses, “We beg to remain’ and that old-time palaver. Also if he writes in the come-across—pay-up-now-or-be-sued style you know he does not know the best ways to collect money by mail. As described | by Milton Hall, a course in effec-| tive letter-writing is now being [given by the Farm Credit Adminis[tration in Washington. Vast numJbers of businessmen need it,

| than 1

| specific cross-examination of the General.

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HE reverse is the fact, I conducted my annual lecture-and-forum stunt at West Point last week. The first question of those alert kids was about Mose~ ley and it came sizzling with evident het disapproval. talked with any kind of Army officer— young military apprentices to general officers of the highest grade—who did not feel that Moseley was not only off on a crazy tangent, personally, buf also that he is letting down the reputation of the service for loyalty. Men do not give up their rights of opinion when they enter the Army, but it is a part of their profession that they accept and execute the final decision of responsible authority as loyally as though it were their own-—whether they agree with it or net. If that were not so, we couldn't have any democratio government by majority rule, When a man finishes his service and goes on the retired list, he has a right to as wide a freedom of expression as any civilian. But he is certainly offside, if either by design or accident, he represents the Army as taking, or wishing to take any part in politi= cal decisions,

It Seems to Me By Heywood Broun

n

Moseley Testimony Entertaining; He'd Like a Complete Transcript.

EW YORK, June 3—During the Hauptmann trial and on several other occasions my own per= sonal feeling has been that the newspapers printed more question and answer stuff than anybody could possibly digest, Probably I am wrong I my research assistants say that the public ate it un to the last “ves” and “no” on even the dullest days. But. now, like Oliver Twist, I want much mora have been able to find in the public prints, I am eager to see a complete transerint of the testis mony of Gen. George Van Moseley hefore the Diea Committee, This is the most {fantastic and engrossing tale I have encountered since as a child I read “Sindbad the Sailor.” could wish for a more searching and It is my impression that he has stated that the Army should to wipe out Communism In America, and Gen. Moseley seems not only willing but intent to write his own definition of what constitutes Communism. He said bluntly Felix Frankfurter was a Red. And sel should have hauled him up as to his specific pro= gram, Does Moseley mean that under his governs mental philosophy a squad of marines should be sent to Washington to escort the former Harvard professor from the High Bench and leave a vacancy to be filled by the chief intelligence officer of our armed forces? This would follow logically from the brospectus of the retired Major General, and I might say mildly that I think any such procedure would not be wholly in accord with democratic practices.

A Limit to Everything

The fine old song states that old soldiers never, never die, but that is no reason why they should fill the public ear with subversive and silly statements. I haven't a doubt in the world that Gen. George Van Horn Moseley is utterly sincere and devoted to the views which he puts upon the record. But that is no excuse. That simply intensifies the gravity of the indictment. Generals have not been barred from public office in America. Any such rule would have robbed us of the valuable services of a number of American patriots. But even the martinets who moved into civil life had the sense and good judgment to take their spurs off before they assumed office, There are many national problems to he solved in America today, and a difference of opinion is entirely reasonable, but I doubt that half of one per cent

nr

I certainly

before the Dies committee that there the coun-

| of our voters want any part of those problems to be

solved by Gen, Moseley riding into the situation on a white charger. I do not even think they want any part of Moseleyv—or of his horse, for that matter,

Watching Your Health

By Dr. Morris Fishbein

HE quiz for this week deals with the structure of the human body, Again there are five questions to which 20 points each may be assigned. If you are well informed, vou will have at least a score of 60, 1. The skin of the human body weighs, for a man of 150 pounds, a total of (a), 10 pcunds; (b), 20 pounds; (c), 8 pounds; (d), 6 pounds, or (e), 23 pounds. 2. There are in the body of a man 40 years old the following number of bones: 100; (b), 150; (ce), 175; (d), 206; (e), 270. 3. The heart of the average man is as big as (a), grapefruit; (b), an English walnut; (c), a football; (d), an apple; (e), his head. 4. The kidneys are in the (a), stomach; (¢), abdomen: (d), back; re), buttocks. 5. The thymus is a (a), geographical structure: (hb), a musical instrument; (c). a gland concerned with growth; (d), a game; (e), an article of wearing apparel.

(ar,

(h), chest;

Answers:

1. The skin of a human being makes a surface 20 feet square and weighs about six pounds. 2. A man, 40 years old, has 206 hones in his body, A baby at birth has 270 bones. As it grows these combine to make eventually a total of 2086. 3. The average man's heart is about the size of the average man's fist, 4. The kidneys are located in the abdomen. 5. The thymus is a gland which is present in young children and disappears as they grow older, It is believed tq be concerned with growth, .