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FRIDAY, JULY %, 193%

AN ENCOURAGING SIGN

T is heartening to note that new building for the first |

six months of 1939 represents the highest figure reached in Indianapolis since 1929. The amount announced by the City Building Commission was $8.239.271, higher than last year's figure for the same period by $3,824,957. Residential building here was more than double last year's construction during the first six months of the

vear, $3,201,078 for 1939 as against $1,533,691 for last | vear. But even more significant was the increase in indus | trial building activity from the 1938 figure of $390,175 to |

£363,140, a jump of $172,965.

There are few healthier signs than a community's |

building, especially in the industrial field. We hope that the figures for the next six months show the same upward

trend.

A VOTE TO WATCH HE much-amended and devitalized Hatch hill will be brought to the House floor for a showdown vote sometime next week or the week following. People who are interested in cleaning politics out of relief and in having public servants devote their time to the public service, rather than to political activity, will want to watch how their Congressmen vote on this measure. The real test will come when Rep. Dempsey (D. N. Mex.) proposes an amendment restoring those vital provisions to the Hatch bill. So watch how your Congressman votes on the Dempsey amendment. If he votes “aye” you will know he places his country above politics, and if he votes “no” that he places politics first.

UNIVERSITY “BUILDER”

HIS country has seen many strange things in recent

years, but the spectacle of a university president being |

returned under arrest from Canada to face charges of embezzlement surely is one of the strangest. Whether Dr. James Monroe Smith will be able to explain away the accusation that he speculated with, and lost, hundreds of thousands of dollars belonging to Louisiana State University remains to be seen. Meanwhile he has done the cause of higher education a service which, though unintentional, may prove very real. In 1930, Huey Long, angry because he failed to receive an honorary degree from Tulane, determined to build Louisiana State into an institution which would dwarf Tulane. He selected Dr. Smith to do the building, explaining that “he has a hide as thick as an elephant’s.” Dr. Smith was Huey Long's man. Did a student newspaper criticize Huey's attempt to appoint a football plaver to the state Senate? pended other students whe signed a protest petition.

ball team that money can buy Louisiana State received funds for a marvelous expansion. In less than a decade, enrollment increased from 2000 to 8000. New buildings sprang up—at a total cost of $18,500,000. Huey Long passed to his reward, but Dr. Smith, as he boasted, knew how to “get along” with the politicians. He continued to build a university rich in everything but character and intellectual freedom. Then, hetween suns, he resigned and left the school to face the worst financial scandal in the history of American education.

Dr. Smith's service to the cause of education is this: |

He has provided a perfect example of how not to succeed as a university president. It is an example that may be studied with profit by other men who, envving Louisiana State's sudden growth, may have been tempted to “build” their own institutions by adopting jazz methods, supressing freedom of thought and getting along with the politicians.

GUFFEY'S RUMBLE-SEAT

HEN Senator Joseph Guffey of Pennsylvania looks |

around for a coat-tail he is not of the sort to be satisfied with a thin and precarious thing flapping in the wind.

What he wants is a well-upholstered convevance fashioned That, no doubt, accounts |

in the manner of & rumble-seat.

for the extreme to which he goes in insisting on Franklin | D. Roosevelt for a third term—to run, be it noted, simul- |

taneously with Guffey’'s campaign for re-election to the Senate in 1940.

Guffey sees America destroyed if any other than Roose- |

velt is made President; this “last, great, free democracy” done to death. Actually, he declares, F. D. R. hasn't served any term yet, having been cheated out of his first by the courts, and of his second by the “ingrates and the middle-of-the-roaders.”

All of which gags us; and is no great treat, we suspect, |

to Roosevelt himself, who is wise enough to know that many a man in public life has been sunk by overstatement and adulation. That only one in 13 million is capable of being President is certainly a defeatist theory in a democracy) For when we arrive at a stage where a single heart-beat separates our nation from chaos we are in a bad fix, indeed. So we are glad that all who issue statements are not Guffeys. We are impressed, for example, by what Senator Johnson (D. Cal.) says about Burton K. Wheeler. Johnson thinks Wheeler should be considered; pointing to Wheeler as a liberal of record unchallenged, so liberal in fact that he ran for Vice President with the elder La Follette when F. D. R. was campaigning for John W. Davis. While we aren’t herewith making a nominating speech for Wheeler we do believe the chaos of which Guffey warms would not overtake us if Wheeler should happen to land in the White House. We believe that the country will survive if Wheeler should be made President, or any other of several score who have made their mark—Democrats or Republicans. : In a century and a half, plus, this nation has developed quite a lot of talent. And the healthiest thing that would happen right about now would be to get our goods out on the counter and look over all offerings, rather than to confine our shopping to any one or two bolts of cloth.

la. We might be surprised,

Dr. Smith fired the editor and sus- | Did | Huey decree that Louisiana State must have “the best foot- | Dr. Smith attended to it. |

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Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

Sharp Practice and Cheap Politics In the Shadow of L. S. U. Couldn't Have Done Students Any Good.

EW YORK, July 7. —Whatever else may be said of the educational standards of Louisiana State University, it cannot be denied that that section of American youth which had the privilege of attending school there has been given a thorough 100k at political extortion, embezzlement and the cruder methods of graft. And, from the absence of any protest audible pevond the campus limits, it may be assumed that vouth, as represented by the student body of L. S. U,, studied these practical devices, not with the pious ab | horrence due sin, but with the avidity of restless and | inspired adolescents eager to go and do likewise. Huey Long built big, and his successors have extended the physical development of the school which he called “my university,” just as he called the coffee colored Mississippi flowing past Baton Rouge “my river.” And it is said that in the matter of routine book learning the university has a very respectable rating. But all this time the students have been exposed to the example of elders and direct superiors, both in the state capitol! and in the university itself, who made corruption attractive by mocking the very name of decency. > % » N all the time since Huey took over the school just one feeble vip of protest has been heard from among | 'the thousands of students who saw graft legalized

| and even ennobled and the courts and other arms of | government reduced to the level of rackets, In this

case a handful of amateurs in the journalism branch | were expelled for printing a protest | paper against one of Huey's less flagrant excesses and | were deserted bv their fellow students in the face of | Huey's threat to expel a thousand of the [ Megittmates, as he called them, in a short and uglier word, if they dared dispute his will. He put in a censor at the newspaper plant, and the remaining stu- | dents closed ranks and went on as before, but com- | mitted, now that the issue had been raised and dis- | posed of, to the rule of a dictator and to passive tol- | eration of any viliainy done in his name by any mem- | ber of his machine in the university, He bought them out with band music, football | trips and, it must be added, the opportunity to re- [ ceive an education, but an education corrupted bv daily observation of political conduct which sneered at their citizenship. They learned politics in intimate study of the ort in & state capitol that was a house

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» » OME of these men wore an which was likely to make sin rather attractive to penniless country vouth at the university, for the machine included many prosperous individuals whe held

| denim of the downtrodden claveater in whose name they ran the state, but store clothes from the city, Tt is not a wonder that vouth fell at L. 8. U., but

with voulth speaking up so bright and bold on public |

| matters just now it is to be wondered what morals and | principles this particular group of American youth | will bring to bear on public life and private citizenship. | A Tuture Governor of Louisiana, taken for extortion | or plain thievery in office, might verv plausibly plead | that he was guilty of no wrong in his own mind | because he was carrying out the lessons which he had observed while at his alma mater, 1. 8. U

Business ‘By John T. Flynn

Borrower Leary, Not the Banks, So Insured Loans Won't Help.

EW YORK, July 97.-—Senator Mead-—the New Deal Senator from New York—has a plan to | bring about prosperity. His plan is to have the Gov- | ernment insure loans made by But now Mr. Jesse Jones—the New Deal chief of al Government lending operations-—has delivered what Iooks Tike a death blow ta Senator Meads plan. Everybody agrees that what is needed to produce recovery is a resumption of investment which in turn means borrowing at the banks. The banks are not making loans. The New Deal thinks that they are | not making loans because the banks are afraid.

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The Hoosier Forum

I wholly disagree with what wou Say,

defend to the death your »ight to say it.=Voltaire,

but will

IDAY, JULY 7, wll Gen. Johnson Says—

Neutrality Debete Over Weapon Useless Because We Could Not Supply Needs of Allies, Anyway.

ASHINGTON, July ~The fzht over the “neutrality” bill waxes more pitter, It threatens to keep Congress in session throuBout the “heated season.” Tt opens wider the breach Mween Congress and the President. It takes the atteition of the country off far more important things. The very terms of the fight itself shoWwow pers fectly ridiculous it is to call it a “neatralit™wn. mr, Roosevelt wants no embargo on arms because x ges sire is=not to be neutral—but to aid Britalang France. His criticism of any embargo is thag i would “aid” Hitler and Mussolini, The attitudes | the reverse of neutrality, Nevertheless I testified before the Senate commite | tee in favor of the general principles of the Pitman | bill at this point=that is to say, in favor of Mr. Roose» velt's and Mr. Hull's wish that there be no embargo | on arms, I did not do so because 1 believe there is here any contribution to neutrality, or to preventing war in Europe, or keeping us out of war, I did so because I am convinced that the whole discussion is & tempest in a tea pot. » = 4 F we are not going to place an automatic embargo on general shipments to nations at war, the idea of debating all summer whether we are to put an em= bargo on actual weapons is nothing short of silly, It springs from an idea that both sides would be de= pendent on us for weapon: and only the so-called | democracies could get them because they command the seas, This is supposed to have been proved by our World War experience. I have just been geinz over some actual figures in my World War files, Prior to 1914, there were two private ordnance works in this country. In spite of our supply of weapons to the Allies between then and 1917. when we entered the war, thers were about 20, Ta show how far short this fell of being an “arms in= dustry,” when we got our arms program under way, there were 8000 plants working on ordnance contracts, Tt took us 18 months to build up this capacity and then, except for small arms and ammunition, it was not vet effective and had delivered practically nothing in France. That industry was dizmantled right after the war, Th spite of some War Department bhallyhoo, it is still dismantled. If any European nation is dependant sn us for actual weapons thev are sadly out of luek. Again we have no capacity sufficient for our own needs==let alone their's, »

N the other hand, the arms producing capacity of England and France is, as it+was then, far su= perior ta ours, Right at the worst of the World War, they supplied us with artillery and artillery ammuni= tion—and kept up their own supply as well.

CLAIMS REQUEST FOR JOB BRINGS LAUGHS By Morgan County WPA Worker I read in your paper ahout giving the WPA workers a 30-day lay-off to look for work. Well, here in Mar. | tinsville, Tnd., where one could get | work the employees are worked about a day and a half a week, don't work over 12 men and the boss puts me in mind of an old hen and 12 on the basis of the amount of wealth

(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, religious cons troversies excluded. Make your letter short, to all can have a chance, Letters must be signed, but names will be withheld on request.)

cash business with? 9. Da you think that the employe:

employee does?

and labor? » » » PROTESTS BLASTING ON THE SABBATH

By B. In,

chickens, he creates, who pays those who pro-

And to go around to some of these duce no wealth, but render services?

make fun of you, and ask Why It pe run at a financial Joss, how can

been interested in the

[vas you were Mot trying to geL ON yy pay (he nonproducers (policemen, tion or opinion that appears.

banks to business. |

lin looking for work. 1 say let these

Therefore, Senator Mead plans to remedy this by |

| having the Government guarantee the loans as it

is guaranteeing home loan mortgages and farm mort- |

| gages, { But Jesse Jones told the Senate Banking Commit | tee that Senator Mead's plan won't work. Mr. Jones | then put his finger on what seems to be the fly in the omtment. The trouble is not with the banks but with the borrowers. Mr. Jones told the Committee that any deserving | borrower who would be reasonably expected to repay | his loan can obtain all the funds he needs now. |

Writes His Own Ticket

If he can't get them from the banks he oan get them from the R. FP. C. by merely applying. At the | present time a man who needs money and is cone sidered & good risk can go to the R. F. ©. and write | his own ticket for a five-or-10-year loan, and Mr. | Jones went so far as to say that Government loans | have been made on plants that couldn't be sold for | junk and that the Governmen | gambles on a man's success. And he intimated that the Government had made loans to men who had shown continuous losses | their business over a period of year | time the loan was made. All this makes pretty plain the fact that the | trouble in the credit jar lies not with the lenders but with the borrowers. Enterprises with a fairly ype hope of repaying loans are not asking for They can get loans now if they want them. But | You cannot stimulate loans hy guaranteeing the loans when people do not want to borrow. The trouble lies, as has heen urged continuously here, in other fundamental economic factors. Senator Mead's bill for guaranteeing loans will not reach them | and Jesse Jones' disapproval of the bill and his un- | answerable arguments about it will probably sound its death-knell in the Senate. :

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A Woman's Viewpoint | By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

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OULD you like to serve on a jury, Mrs. Housewife? And how about you, Miss Business Girl? | What is your pleasure in the matter? | 1 daresay if you put the question to every woman | You met in a week's journey, only a few would answer, | “Yes.” But that is no reason to scoff at the efforts | of the National League of Women Voters to awaken our sex to its citizenship responsibilities and break down legal barriers that keep us from jury service. You might ask men the same question and get a similar reply from most. It seems they, too, dodge this task consistently, and those who oppose women’s help with it are often the most artful of all dodgers, Probably justice will be no better served when every jury box is half filled with petticoats, but women ought to derive great benefit from the experience, individually and collectively, The sheltered, domestic type needs a few eye openers about what goes on in the big bad world. And, although we are accustomed to thinking of the business girl as an inhabitant of a land of wide horizons,

it is still true that many of her kind live in narrow spheres. Sometimes her universe is bounded only by the four walls of an office. In fact, most of us exist in snug little ruts. Women engaged in the task of bringing up tomorrow’s citizens often remain their whole lifetime in dense ignorance of the temptations which their children will have ‘to meet. They know poverty exists, but are completely unaware it can and does incite most of the crime in the country. In short, they are not ahle to associate deeds of violence with their causes, Perhaps jury service would citizens, as I am almost certain it |

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[nates from the earth in the form of | raw material and is made valuable | t has been taking these only by human effort, is he who or- | breakfast, grab quick lunch in a bridge ref ! | ganized and planned the processing | crowded restaurant, and then go measure. One of the nicest things 0 on Lretum or share in the finished ment with the appetite and desire the work-plan included for each product? | for a good dinner but not too much

capitalist system?

[sell the finished article in order to | ; ‘pay wages, should he sell at cost, “The Working Girl Must Bat» time to clean

WPA instead of trying to get work where they have laid all their help off. TI have heen on WPA work more wealth? than 18 months and all the time I have been on I have tried every way |

firemen, legislators, ete) without |

big men that are trying to Qown tories and stores taken over sine

poor men who want a living for 1920, and who got them? Who sics vy I refer to is beside a main. | their families. make it so the WPA one labor union against another— traveled road. No one is sent out to

watch the road and stop people Tt is very dangarous

workers can have work. who loses-—~who gains? Let them put their heaps of riches they have locked up to work. due? Ts there actually enough) And maybe then we little poor WPA money in the country te pay it? If | workers can leave WPA for good not, how can it be paid? and live from the labor of the rich | | men’s money at jobs it made tor billion dollar a year business on the WPA workers. [strength of five or 10 billion dollars

» » » ASKS SOME QUESTIONS ON ECONOMIC PROBLEMS By Curious

Knox? 8. If we have ta do a credit busi ness, owing to an insufficient sup-

6. To whom is the national debt from passing.

Now I am wondering if there is ‘making & profit off the creators of not somewhere in the statutes a law

to protect the Sabbath from being

5. If the employer is all-powerful desecrated by dynamite blasts in why were more than 250,000 fac- quarries and also blasting at night,

even as late as 9 o'clock. The guar

as rocks fly in all directions.

far from it here,

a chance to rest at might, I wish

in gold said to be buried at Ft. someone would tell me through The | Forum what oan be done to stop this |

Sabbath desecration and night plasting which is endangering lives,

Will some of you prize students of economics please answer a few | questions for one who has observed | this raging battle between and] among those ‘fer and agin” the |

New Books at

the Library

1. Seeing as how all wealth origi- ! tech HERE are thousands of girls in|

every city who have a sketchy |

f this raw material entitled to a home at 5 o'clock to a small aparttime or energy to prepare it.

2. Tnasmuch as this planner must | | For them Hazel Young has written |

or at more than cost? Can a man | (Little). The book is planned, writ- |

[pay himself wages?

| ten, and arranged especially for her 3. Is a storekeeper or a farmer a |-the girl whe has too much pride | capitalist? Does the farmer expect| to depend entirely upon a cans to reap only the amount that he|opener, and who has too much com= |

sows? Does the storekeeper handle | mon sense to slight the one sub-| [goods and make them convenient to | stantial meal of the day.

the public for nothing?

Menus are given for 100 simple, | 4. If the worker is to receive pay appetizing, and inexpensive dinners |

Side Glances—By Galbraith

with suggestions for a few special

Sunday breakfasts, late suppers, and |

reshments added for good about this attractive ¢ook=book is

meal. the right time and the proper order in which to prepare each item; the the celery, make the salad, or set the table varies ac cording to the meal being cooked. Tf the work-plan is followed every= thing will be ready at once, and thus is solved the biggest problem confronting an amateur cook.

Most of the menus and recipes are |

very simple; a few, however, are deliberately on the sophisticated side with anchovy paste, sweetbreads, and artichokes figuring among the ingredients for the perfect meal. These are for the moment when for some reason you wish to impress a friend with your profound knowledge of cookery. Entirely aside from menus are wise little comments at the head of each page on the fine art of cook~ ery in general, about seasonings,

ment, Since food has so important a place in life, why not have good meals?

SUBMISSION By JAMES A, SPRAGUE They were so kind, their love was real, They tried so hard to make me feel That God, in wisdom, could make no mistake; That He knew best and He could see What I could not, so I should be Submissive to his His will for her dear sake,

So I am striving every day When veiled my yes to see the way, To a and though my vision is so m; I'm looking for the happy time When in a brighter, better clime, Tope we shall ever live with m.

DAILY THOUGHT

I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. 8o then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin ~Romans 7:25,

ROM obedience and submission

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spring all other virtues, as all sin does from self-opinion and self-

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ply of money, why is it not possible ta make enough for everybody to do likes hard times any better than an

10. Who has throttled both capital

I have been a reader of The Times for a long time and have always Hoosier places and ask for work, they would As any government must necessarily Forum, There always seems to bo someone to answer whatever ques-

This is a detailed guide to

about left-overs, and about equip-|

It Berlin and Rome are hopping up and down with joy on account of any smbargo by us on weapons-—— paving all other supplies free to “come-and-get=it= cash-and=carry '=—they are grossly misinformed, which we know they are not. Whether or not we embargo weapons makes little difference——certainly not enough for all this dispute, | If we embargo nothing else, we can be of as great aid to England and France on the economic side as when that aid won the war

| we were in 1918

Aviation By Maj. Al Williams Fliers Just Folks, and Not Subject

To Queer Reactions as Many Think,

ASHINGTON, July 7-Every time I pick up an article. technical or otherwise, devoted to re=searching the psychological phenomena of what goes on in the mind of the ordinary work=-a=day flying man, I see red. Neuroses, aero and otherwise, are discovered daily. We have known for vears that deprivation of oxygen at altitude is an unnatural and unhealthy condition, depriving the blood of having its impurities washed out. Baseball pitchers and golf players have lost cham» pionship events because of personal or financial wor= ries, Why shouldn't a flying man react in much the same manner? For the sensation writer who doesn’t know the difference between psvchology and psychiatry, or the slight variance between a gizzard and a duodenum, we have no time. But to the articulate medico who sees shadows of winged diseases behind every blood corpuscle, we say BOO! An airman's fatigue differs from the fatigue of a ball player, a tennis or golf addict, Those fellows | exercise their muscles and breathe deeply as a conse= | quence. The airman's fatigue is traceable to the burning of nervous energy, without the benefit of physical exertion. Violent physical exercise is not a safety valve for one who is nervously exhausted, It's in the indulgence of interesting hobbies, such as music or reading, or perhaps bright companionship, that the tired airman finds a way to taper off tension | incidental to his work,

No Mystery About It

I have staged two intensive aerchatic demonstra= tions, at widely separated points, in a single afternoon, That evening would be devoted to playing the piano, a movie, reading a book, or writing. Likewise, it has been my Int to fly 1300 miles and deliver a two-hour lecture or speech. Naturally, at the end of such a day, 1 was weary and ready for bed, And just as naturally, I arranged to turn in early, not Jater than 10 o'clock. I've played baseball all my life, and I fail to see any difference between keeping fit for that game and keeping fit to fly. A great deal depends upon whether a pilot has a rubbery, shock-absorbing temperament, which ean tighten and relax, If a pilot has that, he flies withe out undue strain, nervous or otherwise, | ¥or those who love to get into the air, far above this annoying mud puddle where millions live and sweat, flving is a relaxation, It ix not a mystery, and those of us who flv are just folks, after all.

Watching Your Health

By Jane Stafford

| OU hear a lot about allergy these days, and no wonder. In very nearly one-half the families of the nation there is at least one person who suffers from some form of allergy, according to one estimate, The condition itself is not new, although its name is relatively new and it is getting an increasing amount of attention and new facts about it are con= stantly being discovered. Man probably has been sub= ject to allergy, one authority believes, ever since hia advent upon the earth, and before that time allergy may have existed in animals. Allergy is a condition which may show itself in a | great many different ways. Asthma and hay fever are the chief allergy ailments, but hives, some forms of eczema, migraine or sick headache, and even one form of constipation may be due to allergy. The name comes from the Greek and means altered energy or altered activity or altered reactivity, The person who has an allergy reacts differently to cer= tain stimuli with which he comes in contact. What is harmless for the nonallergic person causes severe symptoms in the allergic person. The list of things that can cause symptoms of allergy is huge and siill growing. It includes pollens, house dust, feathers, horse hair, cat hair, many foods, rotogravure ink, silk, tobacco, and a number of drugs, The relation between food and hives has long been known. You probably have heard someone in your grandparents’ generation speak of a rash or hives from strawberries or tomatoes or shellfish. Wheat, eges and milk can also cause allergic symptoms, but this relation has been discovered more recently. Allergy runs in families and the tendency to it is inherited. Fortunately, allergies are not fatal dise eases. Even asthma is rarely a cause of death. But the allergies cause great misery and suffering and much disability. The thing to do for an allergy is to discover the Sin Jo then ig it or become desensitized ‘to it, possible, Many doctors now specialize in diagnosing ald. Wealing, allergy. {