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MONDAY, JULY 3, 1930

ROUSSEAU MCLELLAN JNDIANAPOLIS has lost not only one of its greatest teachers with the death of Miss Rousseau McClellan, but also one of its finest women. To Miss McClellan, head of Shortridge High School's biology department, teaching came naturally. Alert and stimulating, she had a tremendous influence on the pupils who came under her guidance during the almost four decades she served at Shortridge. A list of her students reads like a “who's who" in the world of biology. One of the many attributes which made Miss McClellan $0 beloved a figure was her abiding interest in the progress of her former pupils, their marriages, their children and their lot in life. She was, in short, one of those who can never be replaced. We join thousands of her former pupils in mourning her,

THE SENATE AND HITLER

F war started tomorrow in Europe, under existing law the United States would find itself in this position: 1. The President (presuming he would “find that there exists a state of war”) would have to forbid the export of arms, ammunition and implements of war to the belligerents. 2. But, since the cash-and-carry section of the Neutrality Act expired May 1, Americans could deliver to the warring powers as much cotton, petroleum, steel, ides, foodstuffs and whatnot as they could sell. Would that “keep usoutof war”? Would German submarines, surface raiders and aircraft lay off our merchantmen just because they were carrying wheat or gasoline instead of machine guns? It doesn’t seem possible. There is talk in the Senate of doing nothing about neutrality legislation—of leaving us in the fix described above. We can't believe that the Senate will shirk its responsibility. We think the Senate should take prompt and positive action not only to help preserve our neutrality in the event of war, but also to help prevent war from starting at all. The bill just passed by the House would restore the come-and-get-it principle to our commerce with belligerents. To that extent it is desirable and necessary. But the House insisted, in a close vote, on entirely forbidding the exportation of arms and ammunition to belligerents, as under the existing law (except that the House omitted “implements of war” from the ban), Thus the House said, in effect, that Americans can sell everything needed to make guns and bullets, but not the finished product. It rejected the Administration's plea that such a provision might encourage Hitler to stir up a war. The situation in Europe is precarious, to say the least, vet, with Hitler psosibly teetering between a test of arms and the economic benefits he would certainly gain at a conference table, the House has formally refused to make the gesture that might crystallize his fears and turn Europe back from the brink of war, The Senate still has the opportunity to make the gesture. If it were to pass the House bill with the arms embargo amended out, there is a good chance that the House would yield and concur. That seems to us the least this country could do in defense of its own self-interest in world peace.

CHALLENGE ENATOR HATCH of New Mexico used plain and truthful language when, speaking of how the House Judiciary Committee had butchered his bill te take polities out of relief and Government employees out of politics, he said: “The action of the Committee presents an open, direct and positive challenge to the leadership of the Democratic Party. That leadership, having openly declared in favor of these objectives, is now confronted with the opportunity of writing its professed beliefs into law. The issue is clear cut. That issue cannot be met by any claim of defective language. Hiding behind so-called imperfections of language cannot excuse or justify the emasculation of the substance of the measure. “Shall Federal employees be permitted to engage in political activities? Shall they continue to control and dominate conventions? This is the issue. It is definitely drawn. The challenge must be met. Let it be met openly.

If the objectives are to be killed, let them die honorably. |

Let not faith in the purposes of Section 9 (that section, banning political activity by postmasters, Federal district attorneys, marshals, tax collectors and the like, which the House Committee slaughtered) be betrayed by supercilious objection to form of language or structure of words.” Senator Hatch, himself a Democrat, was talking to the chief of his party. . velt who said that he agrees with the Hatch bill's objectives but considers it poorly drafted. Will Mr. Roosevelt and his leaders in the House insist that the bill's language be improved, where and if necessary, but its objectives retained?

Or will they, by silence and inaction, abet the Judiciary Com- |

mittee in its plot to cut the heart out of the Hatch bill?

LIBRARIAN MACLEISH

THE 63 to 8 vote by which the U. S. Senate has confirmed the nomination of Archibald MacLeish as Librarian of Congress is an impressive tribute to that gentleman and scholar. The nomination was strenuously opposed by members of the American Library Association, who acknowledged Mr. MacLeish’s eminence as a poet but contended that President Roosevelt should have named an experienced library administrator.. The Senate must have given weight to protests from such a source, but evidently it agreed with the President that Mr. MacLeish possesses qualifications even more important than technical experience. And the Senate, we think, is right about that. Librarian MacLeish, in our opinion, brings to his new job not only a mind that can learn the details of administration but also a vision that will make the Library of Con-

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Fair Enough

By Westbrook Pegler

Illinois Weighing State Lottery, But It Would Net Pay as Well as Some Flourishing Private Ventures.

EW YORK, July 3.—The Senate of the State of Illinois, which has no state income tax, has passed a lottery act whereby multiple awards of $5000 each would be paid once a month out of a grab-bag raised at the rate of $2.50 a ticket for the laudable purpose of eradicating slums. If the bill becomes law, Illinois wiil be the first state to break through an ancient prejudice against this form of gambling under government auspices, but its capital prizes, although numerous, will, nevertheless, fall short of those awarded by at least one private drawing known as the Pressroom Monthly, which operates in San Francisco. The Pressroom Monthly, in its recent circulars, claims to have paid a capital prize of $7000 in May and an $8000 capital prise in June, and secondary prizes of five, three, two and one-thousand dollars in both of these months, followed, in each case, by a $500 prize and by many units of $100, $50 and $25, amounting to $16,000. The total distribution was more than $35,000 a month, which is not small money for an independent concern doing business at a dollar a ticket and doing it more or less confidentially, subject, no doubt, to the perils and exactions which usually beset a man who has his office behind a post. ® EL 8

HE tickets have an appearance of dignity and sincerity, being printed on watermarked stock

and serially numbered, and strongly suggest that the Pressroom Monthly is an institution of some standing

—although, perhaps, not legal standing—in San Fran-

cisco. Despite my efforts to proceed warily in the discussion of the many lotteries which, to my own diminishing surprise, already exist in this country, I have evoked a note from H. S. Ashcroft, secretary of Philipsburg, Pa. Lodge No. 1173 of the B. P. O. BE, who desires to say that his lodge never has run a lottery. The circular to which I referred in a previous number of these dispatches calls attention to a distribution known as the Elks’ Kiddie Sweep under the motto “In uplifting, get underneath with a dime for a kiddie ticket,” and bears an ¢‘k's head at the top, but the name Philipsburg is spelled with two “L's.” This one claims to pay a capital prize of $1000 and total awards of $3000 and is only one of many operating in New York, Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and California, mostly under the names of fraternal and veterans’ organizations. # # 8 HERE are three weekly sweeps in San Francisco, one paying $1800 as the capital prize, the others $1000 each, in addition to many secondary and consolation prizes ranging from $900 down to $10, and another, running twice a month, with a $1000 top. The extent of the popular interest may be estimated when it is considered that in some cases tickets sell for as little as a dime or three for a quarter. This patronage, at a dime a chance, doubtless represents poverty, but the dollar chances denote enthusiasm for the lottery traffic among those who have regular relations with the payrolls. The adoption of a lottery in Illinois, or any other state which now takes a regular cut out of every dollar wagered through parimutuels, would call for no sacrifice of principle. But Illinois has a highincome group comparable to New York's, and a state income tax would seem a more appropriate method of raising money to eradicate hovels.

Business

By John T. Flynn

Economics Are on Side of Senate in Money Battle With the President.

EW YORK, July 3.—The action of the Senate in ending the President's control over the dollar, temporarily at least, naturally gets public notice chiefly for its political significance. But it will be

well if its economic significance is not lost sight of. On its surface the action of the Senate is perhaps the most serious blow to the President vet delivered by Congress, unless perhaps we except the court defeat. Furthermore, it presages the lines upon which the President will be fought in the camnaign next year. The instability of his money policies will be made the basis of a powerful appeal to a large element in his own party and, of course, to the Republican Party. But the economic issue is, after all, the most important. There are several questions involved in this whoie problem. One is the question whether the power to devalue the dollar should ever be abdicated by Congress to the President. Another is whether, even if that ever were a wise course, Congress should put such a power into the hands of so volatile an executive as Mr. Roosevelt. The third question is whether or not the operation of a stabilization fund and policy requires essentially the devaluation mechanism. The fourth is whether a stabilization fund should be operated by the purchase of gold or merely, like the English fund, by dealings in international exchange.

Suggesting the Answers

Looking at these questions wholly apart from their political implications, I should say the sound answers would be as follows: 1. The right to fletermine the gold content of the dollar should be kept irrevocably in the hands of Congress. 2. But even if this were ever defensible, such a power should not be confided to the present executive. For after making all allowances for his good qualities, he is eminently without qualifications for exercise of this function. First of all, he is profoundly ignorant of the intricate and delicate questions involved in international finance. Secono. the same is true of his Secretary of the Treasury. Third, the Treasury is notoriously without qualified advisers in this field. 3. There is no reasen why a stabilization fund cannot be operated without the concommitant power to devalue the dollar. 4. It is a mistake to permit the stabilization fund to become the prime buyer of world gold at a pegged price. It should be limited to operations in international exchange.

A Woman's Viewpoint

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By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

ID you know there is a Woman's World Party and that, following the usual custom, it is holding a

| convention, at Geneva, Switzerland, where represen-

tative Americans are in attendance? The object of the organization, also a custom in feminine circles, is to give aid to the downtrodden. This time the recipients are the women of the Fascist states who now live in a condition of servitude and oppression that would have delighted the soul of Attla the Hun, who maybe wasn't such a mean old guy after all when we compare him with certain modern savages. Anyway, there's no lack of uplift business in central Europe and other points as everybody knows. Stories of what has happened to women in Germany under the Third Reich are enough to send us into fits of wrath, although in my rare saner moments such meddling in other people's affairs strikes me as being none of our business. We could use the help of our Woman's World Party right here at home, however, and it is to be hoped its members will not have such distant vision they fail to observe certain obvious trends in the democracies. For instance, they might do a little research in any sizable city to measure the extent of animosity which seems to be developing between the business girl and the Fone woman, The question of jobs is the knife which cuts their affection. Sex solidarity, which is one of the aims of the new organization, needs some strong hypodermics to make it function in many sections of the United States. The swiftness with which German women lose their

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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.

WPA WORKER RESENTS CRITICISM By R. E. Covrie Of those who write that WPA is not a way out of the depression, I wish to ask the following: Even if we all agree, is that a sound reason to abolish or cripple it now? How are we millions of the unemployed to pay rent, buy clothes and fuel, and eat?

You may know the way out of the depression, all right. But, while millions are waiting upon you to get | your way adopted and put into ef- | fect, what shall we do? We want to work and pay our way, believe it or not. So what do you objectors to WPA want us to do, anyhow? I hop you shall not suggest our doing as the Hoover Administration had us doing.

” ” ” DISPUTES FLYNN ON RECOVERY PLAN By Alma Bender, Zionsville, Ind. I enjoy reading John Flynn's articles on business economics. But he has one exceedingly blind spot when he looks at the business picture. For instance, in trying to!

analyze what would bring recovery, | he said recently that the period from 1923-1930 was the most prosperous period this country ever had.! You can feel that way about it only |

if you think the farm situation is| not an important part of the] economic situation. But that period | saw four million farmers lose their | farms through foreclosures. And| cities increased almost exactly four million at the same time. No! wonder it all led to grief! I'm glad Mr. Flynn has found out that bank deposits can go up during an unprosperous time, But I wonder about his conclusion that what we need for prosperity is “private investments.” As I get it, he thinks we could hasten recovery by investing in small factories, but not by buying, say, cows for all the Southern farmers whose children have never had any milk. Funny! Those children really need the milk, and we already have enough factories to make everything we would buy if we had the money to buy it! Well—maybe he’s right. Maybe private investment in something we don’t need would help more than public investment in something we do need. But the farmers are almost a third of the population of

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this country. Whoever can sée them going bankrupt and still call the country prosperous is missing too much of the picture. Do you really think his conclusions are to be trusted? ® ® = RESENTS CRITICISM OF TOWNSEND PLAN

By Edith Cagley I question the right of American Citizen to use that title as his signature over an article captioned “Sees Townsendism as Peril to U. 8.” Of course he might have intended U. S. to read “us.” We are definitely after the hide of the rotten politician. So, if he classes the farmer vote, the labor vote, the American Legion vote and the religious vote, all together, as a lesser threat to our Republic, then

prospect of Townsendites in action. But I cannot see his patriotic viewpoint, if the groups mentioned above

believe in saving our democracy without bloodshed. Why does he think we are a peril to the two old parties? The religious, farmer, labor, soldier groups are made up of men and women who have helped the U. 8. A. to be the great nation it is, irrespective of political parties which have devel-

have brought us to our present chaotic condition. I say ruthless rightly, because pot can't call kettle black between them. Let him remember—all those other groups including the Townsendites are voters. Many Townsendites are of the other groups and have only one vote. We all want our vote to count for the good of the general welfare of our entire population, whether young or old, voter or not. If the Republican machine politician can’t settle his differences with the Democratic machine politician without destroying the rest of the party membership on both sides, then let them suffer with the rest of us. ® 8 =» COMMENDS M'NELIS FOR JAIL STAND By K. McNear I want to take this opportunity to commend Judge McNelis in his stand on civil liberties in the Indianapolis Police Station. I am from Chicago and was arrested for misdemeanor two months ago and tried to call for a friend but it didn’t do any good. . . .

” ” » SOME COMMENT ON THE M'NUTT PARADE By Danicl Franeis Claney, Logansport, Ind. « « « There is so much fuss over the return of McNutt, says my friend Edward, that you'd think it was Columbus coming over again. . . . A fellow remarked to

me the other day that probably all of the bands in the McNutt Welcome Home demonstration would be made up of job holders. I commented that he was probably right—that job holders always have to beat the drum in this country.

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THE TEST

By MAIDA STECKELMAN My soul hangs high on a limb today, At the end of an olive branch, Bleached white by the spume from a raging sea Surrendering writ and wrench. Cast high on the hills of a timeless isle With the depth of Gethsemane, Dashed by the waves of a life long quest To a height called “Calvary.” My saviour must have tireless wings, A voice that carries far, And arms both strong and taunt with love * To reach my distant star.

DAILY THOUGHT

And he that doubteth is damned if he eat, because he eateth not of faith: for whatsoever is not of faith is sin.—~Romans 14:23.

EWARE of doubt—faith is the subtle chain that binds us to

only thing you take for breakfast.

Gen. Johnson Says—

New Dealers Mistaken if They Think Certain Pressure Groups Must Always Stay in Their Camp.

ASHINGTON, D. C., July 3.—~There is a too easy assumption in the strategy of the third termites that they can dominate the Democratic Party by threatening to pull out and take some pressure groups with them—organized labor, the farmers and the unemployed. Their formula on that is: “They have no place else to go.” Thus some, like Mr. Ickes, have said that if, on such a split, they were not elected in 1940 and the Republicans were, it

would insure their triumphant return in 1944. The bug under that chip is that these groups do have some place “else to go.”

publicans. Republicans have recently demonstrated an ability for out-promising even the third termites and have backed their promises with their votes in Congress. Also in these two gorups all is not unflagging enthusiasm for the fourth New Deal. On the contrary, in some places, there is ominous mure muring—‘“curses not loud but deep.” = 8 8 9 IKE it or not, it is the business of leaders in both groups to throw their political support where they can expect the most favorable attention to their class problems. If there develops a Democratic split and a situation in which men like John Lewis were asked to align their legions in a sacrificial walkout which would elect Republcans and leave their people in the wrong camp—such leaders would be suckers if they fell for it. They are there to pick and support winners and the thin and far-off hope of a 1944 triumph isn’t enough. In the developing battle array these groups are so important that they can probably write their own tickets in either party platform. Termites who think they can shove men like Mr, Lewis around in the off season on the ground that he will have “no place else to go” as the. election approaches, don’t know their men very well, A situation could arise here, with strength so evenly.divided, that he with his following, could almost decide the issue. A somewhat similar thing could happen for the farmers. Does anybody suppose that either group would willingly go down to dusty defeat to preserve the good wishes of the palace= guard steering committee of the Democratic Party? » ” ” PART from the common sense of the obvious an« swer to that question, dom's snppase thet all this is mere conjecture. It is being seriously discussed among some men in these groups who are of great influence in making their policies. The palace strategists answer is: “Oh, the Re=

publicans kicked these people around for so long thas i

nobody will believe them. They've got to believe us— look at our record.” If there were no kind of rift in the ranks of the Democrats, that might have more weight. But we are talking about a possible situation so close that the outcome is doubtful, In plain, blunt words, we are talking about a political deal that could surely win an election otherwise doubtful. Furthermore, it is the Republicans who have been kicked around in recent years—Ilargely by the action of groups they formerly kicked. If they haven't learned the lesson they didn’t know before, their leadership is bankrupt in brains, That lesson is that no party can continue to kick farmers and workers around any more and live.

Aviation By Maj. Al Williams Camouflage for Fighting Planes

A Problem Needing Attention Now.

ASHINGTON, July 3.—With all this air expansion going on, I have been patiently wait= ing to see what our people are going to do about camouflaging the new planes. This is not a task that can be fiddled with in a laboratory and waltzed into universal practice after war has broken out.

In the first place, our pilots should have the bene= :

fit of becoming accustomed to looking at camouflaged fighting ships and bombers. This can be accome

plished only in peacetime, A nice shiny airplane can be spotted from a dise tance. It's a target that our areial gunners are accus= tomed to. In spite of all the scientic gadgets and devices, there's still a tremendous premium on eyesight. Aiming a machine gun at a skillfully carnouflaged airplane presupposes the gunner is accustomed to deciphering the baffling splashes of colors and weird designs. If he sees them every day, they become fa= miliar sights. But I'd be willing to wager that, the first time an airman sees strange shapes and colors sailing around in the sky, he will be fascinated with the deception a clever camouflage artist can accom plish. I had a taste of this fascination during my flight in my Grumman single-seater fighter through Europe last summer, Time after time I passed over moving shapes below, confusing them with sunlight effects through a scattered cloud ceiling,

Practical Problems Involved

It was only after definite effort that I began te spot camouflaged bombers sliding along beneath my wings. Likewise, with the under surfaces of European fighters and bombers painted a sky blue, I found i§ difficult to locate the source of noise overhead. There are practical problems involved in camous= flaging fighting ships where speed and general performance are at a high premium. Camouflage is not just daubing and splashing funny crazy-quilt patterns on the wings and fuselage. Then, too, there's lots to learn about how to came ouflage a fighting airplane without affecting performance. The Germans have discovered that the roughening effect of paint on the skin of a superspeed bomber can result in increased wind resistance to the tune of about 15 miles per hour. In addition, paint means additional weight. There are vast problems ahead of our people in disguising our air fighters, and it's time we got along with the job.

Watching Your Health

By Jane Stafford

UTTING vitamins into each of the day's three P meals is not a difficult task. Starting with breakfast, you get most of the vitamins in the alphabet at this meal, if you follow the typical American menu. Fruits, fruit juice and tomato juice, for example, are excellent sources of Vitamin C, or ascorbic acid as it is coming to be known. This is the vitamin that protects against scurvy. Oatmeal, brown rice, whole wheat eaten as cereal, bread, toast or rolls, and eggs are good sources of Vitamin Bl or thiamin chloride, the vitamin that protects against beriberi and other serious nerve disorders. Eggs are an excellent source of the vitamin that prevents pellagra. Whole wheat is also a good food source of this vitamin. Eggs and the butter on your toast or rolls are excellent sources of Vitamin A, which children must have in order to grow normally, and which is needed by everyone to keep in good health. The lowly dried prune is also rated as an excellent source of this

vitamin. You don’t get any vitamins from coffee or.

tea, so don’t let these pleasant beverages be the

source of Vitamin A. Of the usual lunch foods, eggs, vegetables, salad

and whole wheat bread or rolls and butter are excel-

lent vitamin sources. Fresh vegetables are about as good as fruits for giving you Vitamin C. They also supply Vitamin A and to some extent the pellagrapreventing and beriberi-preventing vitamins. : At dinner, besides vegetables and bread, you prob-

ably eat meat or fish. From this, and especially from. liver and kidneys, you also get vitamins. If your dessert is made of fruit you are getting more vitamins.

Both the farmers and organized labor in the main are traditionally Re= ’

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