Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 June 1939 — Page 14

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Cire Licht and the People YORI Find Their Own Way

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 14, 1938

83-CENT TRAFFIC FINES

SURVEY discloses that traffic fines in the Marion County Municipal Court averaged 83.47 cents a convic- © tion for Indianapolis cases during the period from Jan. 1 to + April 4. ¥ There were 6548 arrests, 4593 convictions and payment of $3834. s Traftic safety experts have long agreed that fines and accidents have a ditect relationship. No less an authority than Lieut. Frank Kreml, on one of his visits here, urged

this city to watch closely ite punishment of traffic violators

if it wished to reduce its accident toll. The tragic part of this whole business is that we are . dealing with offenses that lead to more killing and maiming “than any other law violation. And 83-cent fines are not "the solution!

- FLAG DAY

TODAY it Flag Day. It is the 162d anniversary of the designation of our * flag by the Continental Congress. It is far more than the routine observance of an historical event. More and more, the day is being set aside for a rededication to the American ideals of tolerance and freedom. It is not really important whether or not Betsy Ross designed and made the first American flag. The persisting tradition that she did is now regarded as of doubtful authenticity. it is important that the flag is the living symbol of the will to be free, and that we keep it such always. America has much to be grateful for at this year’s Flag Day celebration. The abiding faith of the vast majority of Americans in the traditions of self-government tops the list,

APPEASEMENT IN AFRICA?

HEN European spellbinders talk about colonies, rather than about territorial problems within their own | continent, we are tempted to enjoy a sigh of relief. But, in these cynical times, that is a temptation we had better

forgo.

are “forced to demand colonies, and we do not propose to

wait 20 or 30 years to get them.” Then Chamberlain told |

Commons he wag willing te discuss with Germany any “reasonable aspirations.” And now Lord Halifax says Britain is “not oniy willing but anxious to explore the whole problem of economic Lebensraum.”

Presumably Chamberlain and Halifax were talking |

about colonies, and not about the Polish Corridor. The

Chamberlain Government could hardly survive if it welshed, |

Munich-style, on the guarantee to Poland. But we are afraid all these hints about colonial settle-

ments are just so much whistling past the graveyard. Much | as we would like to think that Hitler's attention could be | permanently diverted from Danzig and the Corridor to the

steaming vistas of Togoland and Tanganyika, we can’t put “Mein Kampf” out of mind. For in “Mein Kampf” Hitler wrote that “the strength of our people should be founded not upon colonies but upon the goil of the European home,” and that “if we speak of new soil, we can but think first of Russia and her subject border states.” No, we don't think any amount of lebensraum in Africa would relieve the ardor of Herr Hitler to expand | in Europe—-so long as expansion in Europe appears possible, | And, until Soviet Russia makes up its mind about joining the Anglo-French line-up, almost anything may appear | possible to the Fuehrer. So, we skip the sigh of relief and keep our eyes on Moscow,

LINDBERGH'S ADVICE

OME weeks ago the House Appropriations Committee “saved” $4,000,000 by striking out an item for a proposed new aeronautics research center at Sunnyvale, Cal. Yesterday the same committee reported to the House a supplemental appropriation bill carrying $292,605,547 for the Army—most of it for the Air Corps. It is hard to avoid a feeling that the committee ig more | interested in quantity than in quality. It is willing oid eager to spend countless millions for airplanes—any old | airplanes—but it throws an economy fit over an expenditure | that might get us better planes for the same money. | Col. Lindbergh told the committee: “A few vears ago we led the world in both military and commercial aviatioh, but during the past five years the lead in military aviation | has been taken away from ug, so that today we stand far | from the top . . . in the field of applied and basie research, I feel that it will probably take us from three to five years to regain our leading position , . . we can gain strength by devoting more attention to the quality of our air corps than to the number of aircraft it contains. It seems to me that we should push our research as fast as we can.” | He indorsed the Air Corps expansion plan except to suggest that “a slight reduction in quantity” might be advisable if necessary to obtain an improvement in quality. | A new attempt to obtain funds for a Sunnyvale research center—supplementing the existing center at Langley Field, Virginia—will be made when hearings start in Washington next week on the third deficiency bill. We hope the Appropriations Committee takes the Colonel's advice to heart.

THE OLD CHANGE OF PACE

P to Friday we were perspiring and casting hopeful eyes toward a sky that gave no promise of relieving us from the heat. Saturday it finally started to rain. By nightfall we had a severe storm.

Yesterday we woke up with teeth chattering. Today |

the sun it shining and we're to have rain. Well, whatever else you might say, you've got to admit t Indiana weather is not motGtonous,

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Fair Enough

By Westbrook Pegler

King Scored in Calling Cotton Ed By His Nickname, but Some Others Would Net Be Happy if So Greeted.

EW YORK, June 14-—In greeting Senator Ellison D. Smith of South Caroline the King of | England smiled and inquired, “Cotton Bd Smith?® A recognition which pleased the Southern statesman so greatly that he remarked with pride, “That name has gone around the world.” The King, however, took a little risk in assuming | that celebrated Americans invariably respond kindly | to the use of the nicknames by which they are knowh to their fellow citizens, as I believe Mr. Jimmy Cox of Dayton, O. and Miami, Fla, will affirm out of his experience at the time he was running for President and came to an occasion during the campaigh which was adorned by the presence of the late John MeGraw. Mr. McGraw had been known for many years as { Muggsy, @ name which referred to his career with the | robustious Baltimore Orioles and his earlier and less | dignified seasons with the New York Giants, But as baseball took on gravity and he became conscious of the dignity of his position as a field executive and stockholder of a soulless corporation he determined | that “Muggsy” should be buried along the rough path | which he had trod to where he now found himself. ” = » | FERHERE may have been some announcement of this decision, but if so it was not made in carrying | tones, and Mr, Cox's etiquetticlan, or protocol officer, either did not know or forgot to inform him of the proprieties, with the embarrassing result that when the Democratic nominee, meaning to be pleasant, addressed Mr, MeGraw as Muggey in the presence of "a sea of fine, intelligent American faces, Mr, McGraw | was like to bust him right square on the shoot and forbore only as a sacrifice to the party of his loyal adherence, And his Majesty the King would have endangered that fine Anglo-American freéindship to which Mr, Roosevelt referred so feelingly had he met Mr, Bill | Klem, the National League umpire who, like the King, maintains that he can do no wrong, or, anyway, that he hasn't done so yet, and greeted him as Catfish. Perhaps Phil Scott, the retired heavyweight pugilist, being a loyal subject of His Majesty, would withhold a swipe across the royal features were the King, with his retentive ear for nicknames, to call him Fainting Phil to his face, but a man of lesser rank would not ve safe. ”

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NE never knows without the precaution of discreet inquiry whether the picturesque names by which Americans are known to their fellow citizens are even tolerable to the individuals concerned. Mr.

| does not receive his title kindly because it was con-

| ferred in derision to commemorate his role as genius

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Abe Singletooth Yeager, a pugilist’s agent, takes pleas- | ure in his descriptive nickname, but Mr. Honest Abe Attell, who would seem to have nothing to resent,

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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 14, 1939

The Incubator !—By Talburt

NOW JUST BE PATIENT

The Hoosier Forum

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

THINKS MILKING CONTEST HURT STATE'S DIGNITY

(Times readers are invited to express their views in

These are times when clear think-

Gen. Johnson Gayser

Fan Mail Shows an In Sensitiveness in Religious, Racial and Economic Matters.

ASHINGTON, June 14, —Fan mail is no sure= shot dope on fashions in public thinking, But when a lot of it points the same way, it is worth some study. Mine seems to show a growing sensitiveness in racial, religious and economic aroups. I wrote a piece suggesting, in his well-advertised crusade against political corruption, the new AttorneyGeneral also take a look at political corruption in the use of Federal “spending money” in relief, Came a good many dear-sir-you-cur letters charging that this could come only from a prejudice against the Roman Catholic Church because Mr, Murphy is of that faith, Gen, Moseley was pretty severely needled here for being taken for a sap by cheap Kluxer professional patrioteers, That drew a flock of almost identical letters saying that I am known to be “in the pay” of the “International Jews.” Earlier I had written a warm appreciation of the late Pope. The mail on that one said I had taken the “Road to Rome” under the influence of “two or three Catholic priests who are well known to have written many of your columns.”

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HAT about completes the cycle. I am both pro and anti-Catholic, Jews, Nazis, Communists and even non-Nazi Germans. None of that ig important. But what does seem significant is the heat and volume of these instantaneous responses to columns which in no single instance, except Nazis and Com-= munists, were attacks on any of these groups, In each case the “criticism” was inferred or deducted from words in which there was no shadow of such implication, These people were rushing to put on | shoes that did not fit them. This supersensitive class= consciousness is plainly prowing, It is a very evil thing. This Administration is not guiltless of speeding this tendeney and T am free to confess, neither are its eritios==ineluding this one, Tt is helped along by con= tests in picturesque nomenclature—not identifying in= dividuals but labeling whole groups as “the under= privileged,” “economic royalists,” “the ill-fed third,” “copper heads,’ “Southern feudalists,” “Communists,” “tories” and other devices designed to make one group or class distrust and even despise another, ” ” T has gone so far and been done so often that, as in the story told here, some people expect it always and rush to arms even without provocation. In a dangerous world where harmony is so essential we are splitting up into jumpy resentful groups, ready to fight each other at the drop of a hat, On the plain facts, there is less occasion here than ever for sentiment anti-Catholic, anti-Jew, anticap= ital, antilabor or anti any other group of Americans.

Increase

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ing Is imperative, Emotion will drive us to disaster.

In spite of surface political bickering and some ques= tions of major national policy as yet undecided by

of the fake that disgraced the World's Series of 1919. The late John F. Hylan, although proud of his

ruggedness and his Irishness, would not permit any- |

one to call him Red Mike, although he was so known, and not always without respect, Bath House John Coughlin of Chicago was proud to be known as The Bath. Huey Long not only permitted but himself

| used the title of Kingfish, and the Rev. Pussyfoot

Johnson's true name never was used, even by him, except perhaps, on legal papers. His Majesty tempted his luck and got away with ft

in the case of Cotton Bd Smith, but there was an in- |

[By Daniel Franeis Claney, Logansport, Ind.

| His Excellency, M. Clifford Townsend, Governor of the State of In- | diana, Lieut. Gov. Schricker and Dr. | Herman Morgan of the Indianapolis Health Board paraded through the | streets of the state capital Tuesday. [June 6, accompanied by a banner declaring, “We're going to the Big Milking Contest——Come on Along,” | —and a procession of bands and

these columns, religious cons troversies excluded. Make your letter short, so all can have a chance, Letters must be signed, but names will be withheld on request.)

countries subjected to a heavy Gers

our people, there is less real cause for group conflict and there is more unity on national aims than we | have known for a long time, Both the Communists stroy . ke out | Se Sup Halionsl unly io ke a | nd Nazi threats to this country are overpublicized dupes and the under-priviledged | bugaboos, Anti-Catholicism is played out. There ' g “I would be no anti-Semitism here if it were not for the

Er isl a drum-thumping of an infinitesimal screw-ball minor=its hold over the lives of the sub- | ity on the one hand and the too-sensitive and too

merged groups. Public responsi- much publicized resentment of it on the other, of

bility has been accepted by govern- | the two causes, the latter is [ar mere effective,

ment for the welfare of those who |

Munition makers coin blood into | profits; propagandists would de=|

| stant when the fate of nations might have trembled in the balance.

(dairy wagons en route to the State man pressure at the moment, Bolivia

House where, with three cows, one |

of the trio was to establish himself as champion milker, Preceded by many photographs

has tin, We need tin, Though we [don't smelt tin much right now, {there is no reason why we can't learn.

are without jobs, We live in the dark hours before the dawn, when industry shall be a public concern.

It Seems to Me

when idle machines will not be tolerated, or crops restricted to meet |

By Heywood Broun

The other day Goebbels said at Cologne that the Nazis

Business By John T. Flynn

Head of F. D. |. C. Gives a Timely Warning on Liberalizing Bank Loans.

EW YORK, June 14-—Leo T. Crowley, head of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp, hag lifted ' his voice against something which is beginning to

appear in our banking system. Everybody is interested in the banks of his town. Even if he has no deposit there himself his boss has. No man can dismiss the seriousness of a bank- | ing question merely because his own bank account is small. Out in Wisconsin, as everywhere else, lawmakers ‘and people generally are impatient of the fact that | the banks seem to be hoarding money. A lot of them think the bankers are to blame, A lot of others think the laws controlling the banks are too strict. And so there is a growing tendency to relax banking laws and protections in order to get things started. But one of these days we will all feel very sorry | for having ever dallled with this fatal illusion. In Wisconsin it is proposed to permit state banks to make loans up to $1600 without colateral or even | without a sworn financial statement, At present | no man is permitted to borrow from a bank more | than a small percentage of the bank's total capital | stock and surplus. But it is how proposed to change

and spaciolis reports of their jesting | and bantering comments in the. ; newspapers, two of the three par- | FEARS REyyaAL 0 ticipants appeared in costume, The BIGOTRY IN U. 8. Lieutenant Governor in overalls, red | By American bandahna and a straw hat; Dr.) with the election of a new Klan Morgan (substituting for Mayor jeader we face again the prospect Sullivan of Indianapolis) in averalls,|¢ mags hysteria, Fiery crosses ate boots, flowered vest, straw hat and {5 humm again on the hills, The

a false mustache, |Silver Shirts are whipping up the Moving amid the merriment, Gov- | jynatie fringe to put the Negro

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lernor Townsend must have smugly |i, his place as an outcast, and to

| URGES WISE EXPENDITURE

thought that the people of Indiana | put on en anti-Semitism drive in were approving—that the masses, America as Hitler has in Germany. present in spirit, were looking on| ‘he “grapes of wrath” are bloss with enjoyment. But, from my goming in this fair land, We borknowledge of the reaction, the|powed billions to stave off hunger people were turning away shaking and bloodshed from our people. their heads in disgust. |More than (he money, we borrowed Stately solemnity is inherent in| time to think clearly on the probe the office of Governor. A Governor lems that face us. Reaction would is elected as chief executive of three | drive us back into the misery of and one-half million people—as | the days before the New Deal, The titular leader of these people it Is | lunatie fringe would set class his task to personify the State of apainst class, race against race, Inflisna i Sisble dignity. [religion against religion, to obseure uch ridiculous and boorish ac- the causes of our present condition, tions as the one we are discussing, however, are graveely disgraceful to |

a market price, The technique to operate all our protiesssd equipment at full capacity must be developed now. How much better it would be to use [the democratic process in develop. ing the new era, than to wait until the wild beasts of intolerance are at our door. Those who hold property and power face respons sibility that is tremendous, not only to themselves but to all of us. ” ” »

LAUDS PEGLER FOR MOONEY ARTICLE

By Readers

We take The Times largely be cause of its fine editorial pages. We like Johnson and Pegler especially for their clear thinking fearlessness. They are real Americans, We wish to express our appreciation of Pegler's recent article on Tom Mooney. That expressed exe (actly what the thinking American [knows is true,

the reputation of the state Mr. | Townsend represents,

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this and permit a single individual to borrow as much as 30 per cent of the bank's total capital and surplus. Another proposal is to prohibit the banking commis sioner of the state from taking possession of the bank's affairs if its assets equal its liabilities,

U. S. Chief Offender

Mr, Crowley has warned Wisconsin that these would be backward steps. It is good to find this warning coming from Mr, Crowley. Because the Federal Government has been the chief offender in weakening banking protections and restraints, Une der the guise of “liberalizing” hanking laws, so many

of those restrictions against the tying up of bank

funds in long-term loans have been done away with. The old and sound disfavor in which real estate

| mortgages were held as bank collateral has been done

away with. Now it is being proposed to guarantee business loans up to 90 per cent of their face value. All these things seem to be efforts to start the low of investment funds, But this is a mistake. They will start a flow of speculative funds and of shaky investments. And the time will come when we will find our banks tn serious trouble again from a different set of weaknesses than those which shattered them in 1933,

A Woman's Viewpoint

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

UNE being the month of brides, let's talk about divorce. From the Superior Court of Vander-

burgh County, in Evansville, Ind, comes a pronounce- | ment by Judge Benjamin E. Buente, designating June

4 to 10 as "No Divoree Week."

Don't laugh. Think soberly for a minute and I believe you'll want to join me in saying, “Bravo, Judge!" At least one man is putting into action a

| desire latent in many of us--the desire to do some

thing about a danger which threatens the foundation of American civilization, “This observance in itself,” he says, “will not solve any problems connected with divorce, but its purpose is to call attention once more to the fact that the marriage relation is supposed to be permanent.” There the Judge ers, I believe, For a great many people suppose no such thing. On the contrary, they suppose and accept the idea that marriage is an agreement which need not be taken too seriously. This careless, slipshod attitude is partly respon= sible for the major part of our divorce problem. And our divorce problem shows that approximately 100,oe ehilafeh . Just are Made Visti of broken homes and are thus in danger o coming pa . inals or both. € pavers or eri No one wants to contend that divoree is not justifiable in many cases, or that it does not better some unhappy situations, Nor can we assert with truth that all children of broken homes are harmed. But it Is too evident that, where the well-to-do and eds te (an fre or a Oh ring ih any case, the I an erate canhot, and so the young a “ tims of adult selfishness YSUNS Ate ne At any rate, a close study of the rel

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OF WAR MATERIALS By W. 1.

The bill providing for purchase of £100,000.000 worth of strategic and essential war materials has been signed by President Roosevelt, It is possible to make every dollar of this fund work twice if it is wise« ly spent. It ean be made to bring one benefit by securing the United States against possible war<time shortages of essential materials. But it can be made to bring another if it is spent in friendly countries in need of American exchange with which to buy American products. Specifically, it can bring greatest benefits if spent in American countries now threatened with undue European commercial influences, Bolivia, for instance, is one of the

Side Glances—By Galbraith

New Books at the Library

BOOK OF SHORT STORIES, by Maxim Gorki (Henry Holt |& Co), is not one you'll be wanting

to pack along with the olives and pickles on your first family picnig this spring, There isn't a chuckle in {t. Mr, Gorki with his precise and vivid description likes to prod with his pen among things as they are in the lower strata of the “other half” and what he pictures is not always as pleasant as it is interesting. Mr, Gorki treats his characters with sympathy but never stops to moralize, If the reader wants to draw any conclusion of his own it probably will be that squalor and misery never can choke out coms

a ——— A ———

| without a candle do not. grope.

pletely the inherent good that per sists in people, The lowly to him are not always lowly in spirit and several of his creatures are heroic figures in their own, though often peculiar, ways.

That Once Were Men. Here is a group of ne'erdowells living at the Captain's doss-house with their only common bond a helpless rage against the world, from which most of them undoubtedly have skidded

without any real effort of resist]

ance, One of the finest characterizations in the book is that of the Hermit, Simple-minded though he is, Mr. Gorkl gives him the power to utter profound truths, which, if they came from a man with enough college degrees, might be termed philosophy. The Hermit, being a sinner as well as a saint, is easy to understand and he arouses admiration as he comforts those who call on him, The hook is edited by Abraham] Yarmolisnky and Baroness Moura | Budberg, Both are well equipped | for the task of translation, Mr. | Yarmolisnky has written several books on Russian literature and is in charge of books in the Slavonic language in the New York Public Library. Baroness Budberg long has been associated with Mr. Gorki and hig writings, There is a foreword by Aldous Huxley. The stories are arranged chronologioally as far as possible, covering the years from 1804 to 1024, (By G. 8)

CANDLE OF HOPE

By JAMES D. ROTH Fach Jovibg soul a candle burns, And watches its living flame; And each for health and honor yearns And plays with life a game,

And every one is high of hope, In the race for worldly fame,

The most somber tone of the book | {s found in his story of the Creatures |

Meeting Tom Mooney, 'the Symbol,’ Gives One a Pleasant Shock.

EW YORK. June 14.—~I was introduced to Tom Mooney, and he was nothing like the man of | whom I had read so much and concerning whom I | had often written, Once when he was in jail I spoke | to him on the telephone, but this was the first look at the man, Sight unseen my first word reaction to the name of Tom Mooney would have been “burly” or “embittered” or something like that. Your mind soaks in stuff from headlines and newspaper stories and even newspaper columns, though you may he skeptical about the items in question. Certainly through the years in which he was caged a popular impression | was created that Mooney was a sinister figure, Even | some of his supporters would say privately that he | was just a shade on the crochety side. At the very least I thought to find a man broken ‘and wasted from his ordeal. Of course, by now he's had an operation and recuperation and a chance to get out under the sun, It makes a difference, I suppose the new found sense of freedom adds some= thing to the smile of Mooney, which is as warm and friendly a grin as I ever received. You see, like a pood many other people, TI really had come to think of Tom Mooney as a symbol, He was a figure in a cartoon, heroic but, just the same, a shade unreal. Indeed, he almost moved into the realm of being the abstract image of all those who are borne down by oppression, That is no mean role, but it can obliterate the human attributes in an individual. And both those who were for Mooney as | well ag those who hated him did somehow collaborate to make him a statue rather than a person of flesh and blood.

' He Came Up Smiling

It was almost as if the iron and the masonry of | hig cell had somehow entered into his bodily composition. One could fancy almost any expression upon the face of the prisoner save a smile, It was difficult to think of his laughing at anything. In fact, there wasn't much call for merriment in San Quentin. But they didn't break his spirit, For more than 20 years he saved up his capacity to move again with joy in the world of freedom. Anybody who thinks of him as a blind and enraged Samson ready | to pull the roof of the world down on the heads of all, including himself, simply hasn't seen him face | to face, Of course, he's a fighter. He would still be behind bars if it were not for his extraordinary talent for leadership. There are plenty of forgotten men in prison. Mooney never gave in. They did not rob him of his life or break his spirit, He has fought his way out, and now I know that there are things injustice cannot do. They couldn't even take away the smile of

Tom forever,

Watching Your Health

By Dr. Morris Fishbein

ODERN science applies all sorts of new technics for determining the functions of the tissues within the human body. Just as soon as any new technic is discovered for measurement of motion or the passing of electric current, attempts are made to use that method for the diagnosis of disease. The X-Ray is an example of scientific investigations of appearances under the surface of\ the body. As far back as 1892 attempts were made to trace the pulsations of the arteries and veins. In 1887 it was discovered. that the human heart when it contracts produces electrical currents. In 1803 a German named Einthoven introduced a method of recording the passing of electrical currents devel. oped by the motion. of the heart. The tracings made by the apparatus developed for this purpose are known as the, electrocardiogram. By placing the cantact wires on different portions of the body as, for example, on the right and left hand, the right hand and the left foot, and the right foot and left hand, and the chest, it is possible to Jecard the changes in potential caused by the heart's These have been analyzed in relationship to defi. nite knowledge of the heart so that we now recognize a series of curves which represent a single beat from a normal heart, including the contraction of the auricle and the contraction of the ventricles of the

e new electrical devices haye not replaced the

of 't who has seen many hunof he disease or the ability. of ‘he use his eyes, his ears, his. hands termining changes thal have