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SATURDAY, JULY 8, 1939

99-CENT TRAFFIC FINES THE TIMES recently took the first three months of 1939 and balanced up the traffic books. It was found that average fine in the Municipal Courts was 83.4 cents per conviction. The same system was used to balance up the figures for the six-month period ending June 30. Traffic fines in our Municipal Courts now average 99 cents a conviction. Judge Karabell said that he had discussed the earlier survey with traffic experts and that all had agreed that fines should average from $3 to $5 for proper enforcement of the law. Well, 99 cents is still a long way from $3, not to mention $5.

MRS. ELLIOTT’S EXAMPLE HE Park Department has accepted a $125 donation from Mrs. Anna S. Elliott for a public concert in Garfield Park this summer. Mrs. Elliott read newspaper announcements that there would be only three concerts this summer, instead of 10 as last year, because the Park Board did not have sufficient funds. So Mrs. Elliott has raised the number to four. If the Park Board has no funds for this purpose, it should take the initiative in obtaining public subscription funds. Mrs. Elliott has set a fine example of civic consciousness and she richly deserves the thanks of the thousands of citizens who find these concerts their only summer recreation.

UNWISE AND DANGEROUS HOSE labor leaders who encourage the WPA strikes by asserting that the new relief bill's 130-hours-a-month provision is a deliberate blow at unions are doing an unwise and dangerous thing. It simply is not true that this provision was “railroaded” through Congress by “reactionary enemies of labor” to “destroy wage standards in private industry.” The record proves that it was adopted after careful consideration, at WPA’s own request, to correct a system shown by four years of experience to be inefficient and contrary to the proper purposes of the work-relief program. It is unfortunate that skilled workers on relief were permitted to become accustomed to earning more money for less work than the unskilled. But that special privilege did not become a right when it was unwisely extended to them. Their natural dislike for giving it up is not a reason why it should be restored, and in no way justifies the WPA strikes. It is, of course, their right to petition Congress to undo what has been done. But we believe the new rule is fairer and wiser than the old system, and will vastly improve the program. It is strongly supported by Administrator Harrington, and it represents the original idea of the President, who certainly cannot be justly accused of enmity for labor or of desire to lower private wage standards.

THE SENATORIAL MANIFESTO HIRTY-FOUR members of the U. S. Senate have proclaimed themselves ‘“unalterably opposed to the repeal or modification of the present Neutrality Law prohibiting the sale or exportation of arms, munitions or implements

| ernment has effected a plan to barter

of war to nations engaged in war.” (The present Neutrality Act contains no provision | limiting the shipment of raw materials to belligerents. Are the Senators satisfied with that omission? Do they think an arms ban will “keep us out of war” ?) Their statement went on: “We are against any discretion being lodged in the hands of any chief executive to

| plantations will have rubber to sell.

| arrangement—to heck with them. Let them worry

determine an aggressor or aggressors during any war | abroad.” (No such proposal was made in the Administration | Neutrality Bill, nor is such a proposal contained in the bill as amended and passed by the House. The Administration | bill would authorize the President to forbid export of any- | thing to any belligerent—not just the aggressor—until | title to the goods had passed out of American hands.)

And they concluded: “We are determined to maintain |

our position by every honorable and legitimate means at | our command.” (We wonder whether it would be “honorable and legiti- | mate” for a scant one-third of the Senate to block the will | of the majority by a filibuster.) |

ANOTHER LONG HAUL FACTOR WE called attention in this space the other day to a neglected section of the Dickerman report on the water company—the section dealing with the effect of cur- | rency inflation on future water rates. Judson Dickerman | emphasized correctly, it seems to us, the importance of this factor whether the City decides to purchase or not. Buried on Page 8 of the same report is another significant paragraph bearing on the possibility of future higher | rates. We call attention to this section only because it may have been overlooked. It follows: “The Company as a result of contesting the findings of the indiana Public Service Commission in 1932-33 as to a valuation for rate making purposes upon which it prescribed the rates now in force, has apparently won an important decision which would permit a higher rate base and possibly higher rates. Only at the expense of many tens of thousands of dollars can that possibility of higher rates be checked, which in the opinion of many ... is a distinct possibility. However, the immediate future prevalence of the existing rate levels may be assumed as assured.” Here, again, is a facet of the proposed water company purchase generally ignored. We mention it because, in a prolonged debate over price, we may lose sight of factors that over the long haul may be xore costly to taxpayers than the difference that separates the negotiators.

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| market last year—80,000000 bushels of it—dumped | it back on the market.

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Fair Enough

By Westbrook Pegler

American Youth Congress Linked To Soviet by Ex-Fellow Traveler Who Testified Before Dies Probers.

EW YORK, July 8.—The dissenting groups which walked out of the American Youth Congress in New York may have included some paper organizations and Nazi, Fascist and anti-Semitic bands, as charged by some of their opponents who remained to run the show. But the charge of those who withdrew that the Congress is dominated by Communists and is part of

the communistic united front is not answered by the evasive resolution which the Congress was forced to adopt condemning dictatorships, whether Communist, Nazi or Fascist. The resolution did not repudiate or condemn communism itself, and, while the Congress retains its present character, it can work for Moscow in the manner described by J. B. Matthews, the backslid fellow traveler, who testified before the Dies Committee last tall. Touching on the subject of an organization which Mrs. Roosevelt honored with her presence, thus again affirming the sympathy of the New Deal with organizations in which Communists are influential, Mr. Matthews wrote that the Young Communist League, in concert with leftwing Socialists, captured the Con-

gress in its infancy.

us HIS is made clear in Wolf Michal’s report to the sixth world congress of the Young Communist International,” Mr. Matthews wrote. “Writing of this capture, Wolf Michal said: ‘Thanks to the joint participation of the young American comrades with the

Socialist and other non-Fascist youth at the Congress, our Young Communist League helped te bring about the unity of several non-Fascist organizations with a membership of over a million. This is an example of how to influence the masses of youth instead of commanding them in a bureaucratic way.’ “At this point,” Mr. Matthews explained, “it is important to state that the Communists use so-called factions which they organize within such groups as churches, the Y. M. C. A. and trade unions to elect delegates to united front gatherings. Ostensibly a delegate may be an ordinary member of a union or the Y. M. C. A. but actually the delegate is a Communist or, better yet, a fellow-traveler in bourgeois disguise. “‘We want,’” he quoted from Comrade Kuusinen in his report to the seventh world congress, “‘to attack our class enemies in the rear when they start the war against the Soviet Union. But how can we do so if the majority of the toiling youth follow not us but. for instance, the Catholic priests or the liberal

chameleons?’ ”

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ONTINUING, Mr. Matthews wrote: “My testimony | J before the Dies Committee, in which I stated | that the World Youth Congress was a Communist | united front maneuver, was based on my extensive and intimate knowledge of the whole united front movement, upon my knowledge of the personnel of the organizers, with a number of wirom I have worked in united fronts, and upon my personal knowledge of the Communist views of many of the delegates.” It should be added that the American Youth Congress last fall was nost to the World Youth Congress at Vassar College, which Mrs. Roosevelt attended and

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COMES TO DEFENSE OF ROLLER DERBY By L. LW.

I see those people living out by the Butler Fieldhouse have prepared a bill to stop the Roller Derby. Of course Roller Derby isn't mentioned but rather athletic events of “strength and endurance” that run

{Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, religious controversies excluded. Make your letter short, so all can have a chance. Letters must

kept in mind that, although Mr. Matthews was fiercely abused and ridiculed with distorted and false versions of his testimony, he never was discredited. He knew his stuff. and he has condensed it in a mournful lit- | tle book called “Odyssev of a Fellow-Traveler,” from | which I have quoted the evidence here presented.

Business By John T. Flynn

Refusal of Governments to Look Ahead Balks Woerld Recovery.

EW YORK, July 8—The wheat farmer is in |

trouble again. And now, to help him, the Gov- | American |

wheat for British rubber. In the discussions of this arrangement the point | is made that it will not upset the ordmnary functioning of the economic system or of international trade because the two governments agree not to use the wheat and the rubber for several years. There is something extremely naive about this. But it is the outstanding characteristic of most of the economic arrangements of almost all the governments in the world at this time. That is the stubborn refusal to look ahead. Take this barter scheme. After all, what is a handful of vears in the life of a government? These few short years will pass swiftly and presently ‘he governments will be at liberty to use these large supplies of materials. But in those years American farmers will have wheat to sell—and British rubber What about Well, the answer is and must be in any such

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about it then.

What of Tomorrow

Last year the wheat belt had a large crop. The Government loaned the farmers large sums to enable them to hold part of that crop off the market. This year there is still too much wheat. The crop was smaller. But the carry-over from other years is so great that we have a billion bushels of wheat in sight and need for only 700 million. But this year, at a time when the price of wheat was higher by 10 cents, those farmers who held their wheat off the

'"hat loan helped last year. It looked good to farmers and statesmen who think a year ahead at a time. But this year those stored 80 millions hit the same farmers a wallop. It will be the same way with this American-English bartered wheat and rubber. There is good reason to suppose that if we could get our statesmen as well as our farmers and businessmen to think in terms of 10-year periods we would be spared many of the foolish plans which flourish in various parts of the world.

Woman's Viewpoint

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

A ISS AUDRIE LEAH BOBB, University of Tennessee graduate, offered her services to her country and has been turned down. She made the mistake of aspiring to be lieutenant of the United States Army Medical Corps. Having a brand new | degree in medicine, she was under the misapprehen- | sion that the Army might like a feminine recruit. It didnt! “Although Miss Bobb is commended for | her willingness to stand by in an emergency,” says the Adjutant General's office, “the United States is | not yet under the necessity of asking its women to | submit themselves to those dangers. The time may come,” it continues, “but it has not yet arrived. The men of this country are still able and willing to do the fighting.” Spoken like a real Colonel, suh! Nothing else could have been done with Miss Bobb's request under present circumstances, although we notice when the fighting starts the Army is glad to welcome Red Cross nurses to its side. If the records are straight, women saw plenty of grime and blood in the last war. They did what they have always done—went behind the armies, picking up the pieces of men that were left and working like demons or angels to put them back together again. And a question naturally pops up. If women can nurse, why can’t they operate? If they can belong to the Red Cross why not to the Medical Corps? Probably the Army plans to use their services where they will be most needed in the future—ecaring for the bombing casualties on the home terrain. The next war may be fought in the front yards of the civilian populations. The notion that the soldier now protects his home and family by marching off to battle is somewhat ludicrous these days, for before he turns the first corner, both ean be wiped out by air raiders. Male valor

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|do is form another party; one that| Across the bay was the province of |

be signed, but names will be for more than seven days. It looks ithheld like baseball would be doomed if| “i hheld on request.) this bill was passed by the City] Council and became a city ordi- B. S. E. would take off his hat to. nance. Otherwise the ordinance Well, they are the kind of Congresswould become discriminatory. {men that the people are going to reThere is not a ballplayer in the tire to private life. . . . land who will not tell you that it| gS 4 Sakae Prt to throw and bat a pgNIES TOWNSEND all and endurance to run the bases : “ " or chase batted balls. Also, it is aA 1S "ynANDISH well known fact that the home team By Another Reader will play from 14 to 20 or more, In answer to a Friday Hoosier games in a row, so the seven-day Forum letter on Townsendism, I run in the ordinance would hit want to say that anyone saying the tham, too. (bill calls for $200 pension doesn't On the average a ball game is know anything about it. played in an hour and 45 minutes.| I deny that it is an outlandish The Roller Derby performers, indi- proposition. And anyone who will vidually, will skate about an hour/say that it is demoralizing is ighorand 15 minutes during the evening ent of its principles or so narrowwith a 15-minute rest period after minded that he doesn't want to see. each 15-minute skating period—| I am a mother of eight children much like the innings of a balljend I am not old enough to receive game. The skaters do not work on the pension, but I'm 100 per cent Sunday; the ball plavers generally Townsendite because I can see what work double time on Sunday. (this plan will do for our children Well might the justice and legal- when it becomes a law, as it surely ity of such an ordinance be open Will. for question when aimed at one! ey. branch of athletics to the exclusion THINKS MONEY SPENT

of all others. ON FIREWORKS WASTED By Mrs. Edna Jett Crosley I have prayed for 25 years for a safe and sane Fourth of July. But

jthat is something none of us will be able to enjoy until folks, both old

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By Haze Hurd In reply to B. S. Es July 3 Forum

article calling the Townsend Plan a pipe dream, I wish to say that I am

and young, are forbidden to shoot’ fireworks, permanently—and no one| allowed to explode any and all kinds| of fireworks excepting the heads of | parks, picnics, etc, for the amuse-| ment of the visiting public or fun! lovers. I hope this will be the last insane Fourth of July that we ever go through. Then and only then will children, grownups and property be safe. Money wasted on fireworks could do lots of poor families a world of good. Why burn it up?| Let's give it away and save America. | ” n ” CLAIMS STALE BREAD SOLD TO CHILDREN By Mrs. F. J. Hansing

I think something should be done about grocers selling old bread as fresh bread. I think a grocer should give a child the same grade of goods he would an adult. On two different occasions I have sent my little girl to two different stores for bread, and both stores, sent me old bread. Yesterday I sent) her to an independent store for al loaf of rye bread. I asked for one| band, and they sent me another) which had been baked six days before. I thought the baker's band or marker on the wrapper was to tell the customer the day the bread was baked. I advise housewives to watch the marks on bread. 2 ” ® FURTHER COMMENT ON THE M'NUTT WELCOME

By Daniel Francis Clancy, Logansport, Ind.

After the recent Welcome Home demonstration you might say that McNutt was a McHale fellow well met,

not a member of any Townsend Club, but I think I will become one soon. I think it is the most wonderful plan vet presented by anyone and it is very plain to see that the

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Jan onity of ros people are sick and tired of a few telling all the rest what to do, and what is and what FAMOUS radio commentator, is not law. vacation bound, embarked

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the majority of the people want, | : then the only thing the people can | ened in the famous Bay or Fundy.

will do what elected. There were some Congressmen | elected on the promise that they and Rex Barton for a summer of would support the Townsend Plan, leisurely exploration, discovery, and and after being elected they went to| surprises. Congress and refused to do what| “In New Brunswick We'll Find It” they had agreed to de. I suppose | (Appleton-Century), written by the those are the kind of Congressmen |two in collaboration, is a highly en-

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tertaining blend of travelog and history. For New Brunswick has had an exciting past, dominated by such names as Esteban Gomez, Samuel de Champlain, Charles de la Tour, and Benedict Arnold. To St. John, now as then the metropolis of the province, there came in 1783 the “Loyalists” who left the American Colonies to continue as devoted subjects of George III in a new land. The Indian tribes who once roamed the wilderness have left a priceless legacy in old legends, superstitions, and jaw-breaking names of towns and rivers “scattered across the map from Madawaska to the Missaguash.” The authors discovered a city named St. Louis du Ha! Ha! exclamation marks and all. Quite as unique was Ronald McDonald, who, despite his name, was a French Osrayian youth who spoke no Engish. From the famous salmon rivers where great fish of amazing weight tax the skill and strength of enthusiastic anglers, to the lumber camps, farms, silver fox ranches and historic landmarks, the travelers found the province a vacationer’s paradise, a land of beauty and charm and variety. Its forests, rivers, hamlets, and cities offer a wealth of diversion to the lovers of the picturesque. If it's salmon fishing we want, or lumber camp anecdotes, forgotten old burial grounds, river ways, or superlatively good lobster dinners—‘we'll find it in New Brunswick.”

MY DOG

By KATHERYN MAY

He waits for me at evening time, And goes with me for the mail, I stop and pat his shaggy head And how he wags his tail! To some he’s just a dog, I know, But to me he is a friend, And I'm sure of having loyalty, From him right to the end.

DAILY THOUGHT

And the barbarous people shewed us no little kindness: for they kindled a fire, and received us every one, because of the present rain, and because of the cold. —The Acts 28:2.

N effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves. Child.

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Gen. Johnson Says—

It's Folly to Waste Time Over Arms Embargo Debate When So Many Things Clamor for Attention.

ASHINGTON, D. C, July 8.—I hate to harp on one string. I have already written several pieces on the neutrality debate. But I know this from personal experience. It is the hottest present topic. I can’t get out of mind what seems, at least to me, the folly of the insistence of an embargo on sales of weapons if we are to let everything else be bought by belligerents. : As I have repeatedly tried to prove, it is a matter of almost no importance because we have no real arms industry and what we have is soon to be overtaxed by our own armament program. Such being the case, it seems to be a shame to hold the business of government up and increase already ugly terisions in Washington. Of course, most of the opponents of the President's wishes are sincere. Among them are giants of the Senate, like Borah and Johnson. In some cases, the opposition is purely political. In this matter of international relations in so dangerous a world, that is inexcusable. That is not to say that men should give up their convictions on international policy even in the face of war. It is only to say that if they are not convictions, but only the use of an opportunity to plague the President, this is no place to practice that pastime. ” ” » ONSIDER a 75-mm. field gun. It consists of a very heavy delicately machined steel forging called the cradle, or recuperator. In that slides a gun tube with an elaborately designed breech block. The whole is mounted on a carriage which is either a form of tractor or a set of wheels. Under the proposed law we couldn't sell the assembled gun. But we could sell the tractor or carriage. We could certainly sell the cradle and tube forgings. The extent to which we could machine them before we shipped them might raise some hair-splitting questions but it wouldn't make much difference to France or England, They have plenty of machining capacity. All they lack is the forged steel and perhaps the motor equip= ment. : Exactly the same thing is true of shells and bombs, which are only machined cylindrical steel forgings. As for powder—explosives and propellants—we have no capacity for the finished product that we shall not ourselves need. Embargo or no embargo the practical issue here is nothing. But the ingredients of powder—cotton, toluol, ammonia, sodium and nitric, sulphuric and picric acic—these we produce or can produce and there is nothing in the proposed bill to embargo them. We need for ourselves our entire airplane plant. But even if we didn’t, airplanes—at least of the com= mercial type—and certainly all the components of war airplanes—engines, steel, aluminum and electrical equipment—none of these would be embargoed. Nor would food, cloth, leather and all the vast catalog of material for war. As for small arms—rifles and machine guns—we are in a process of complete replacement for our own army. We could not supply Europe. In the World War we sold Europe 12 billion dollars worth of stuff, but only about two to four billions could be classed as munitions and not half that class would be embargoed under this bill. Let's get realistic and pass the bill and get to work on business that really counts.

Aviation

By Maj. Al Williams

Plane Industry in Need of Men Who Insist on Finishing Their Jobs.

ASHINGTON, July 8.—An airplane manufacturer told me the other day that he had been combing the country for two crack salesmen-pilots. He said he could get pilots who knew nothing about salesmanship, and crack salesmen who were not safe in the air. That's a pretty picklement in a country where so many people are still out of work, Likewise there are all kinds of aviation mechanics available in the length and breadth of the land—all kinds with good and bad as only two major divisions. But first rate aviation techaaics are as scarce as hens’ teeth. And getting right down in the cockpits, there are thousands of pilots, holding responsible flying jobs, who think their sphere of influence and responsibil ities begins and ends in taking a ship off the ground, piloting it to a destination and landing there. Why? The general answer is simple. Aviation jobs come too easily to some people, and too many think jobs should come easy. The man who makes the flying industry his life work is the crackerjack like the dependable people in other industries who keep the world running righte-side-up. I find that I must read continuously to keep ine formed on new equipment, engines, planes, radios, instruments, propellers and the new methods of serve icing all this gear. Naturally, the technique of pilot ing is improving, and that takes reading also.

Rich in Opportunities

The possibilities and promises for steady and profitable careers in aviation for young industrious people, who count work as a privilege and technical qualifications as the currency for success, are une paraileled in any other industry. : How many reliable automobile mechanics do you know who never release a motorcar until a repair or service job is expertly completed? There are mil= lions of automobile mechanics in this country, thousands of schools to train them, and still it has been my good fortune to meet only a handful whom I would call good. The trouble is that too many pilots, mechanics and other aviation employees quit studying when they graduate from schools, The pilot extends more actual credit to his mechanic, when he takes off the ground, than any banker ever allowed a borrower of millions. The field is wide open in aviation, and there's a great premium for men with brains and industry—who insist on

finishing jobs.

Watching Your Health

By Jane Stafford

Mer of the frequent accidents that happen to children are not serious, but many of them

could be if not handled promptly and in the correct way. The U. S. Public Health Service has issued some instructions on treating these accidents, with the warning that unless the injury is very slight a doctor should be called. 3 In case of a sprained ankle or wrist, the Federal Health Service cautions against letting the child move about, thus rubbing the injured joint surfaces together. Quiet him, then elevate the injured part and apply heat. If the ankle is raised in this way less blood will come into the injured joint; the heat will contract the blood vessels and limit the escape of blood and serum. To heat the ankle use cloths wrung out of very hot water. Continue these hot applications until you can secure the services of a doctor. Strains are caused by over-stretching a muscle. In severe strains small blood vessels in the muscles are broken so that blood escapes into the tissues. Usually. there is swelling. The commonest strains are of the muscles of the back, shoulders, waists and ankles. Suppose your chiid has strained his back in a fall. Your first step, after discovering his ine jury, will be to see that he is given absolute rest, To deaden the pain rub gently with alcohol, arnica or witch hazel. Later rubbing may be harder to help absorption, and make the strained muscle more supple. When the pain and stiffness have lessened, let him practice gentle movement until both have disappeared. Bruises, “black and blue spots,” the commonest injuries of childhood, can be made less painful by hot applications of water, or equal parts of alcohol and water, arnica and water or witch hazel and water. This will contract the broken blood vessels and so prevent the escape of more blood and will also deaden the nerves slightly, relieving the pain.

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