Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 July 1939 — Page 15

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Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way

FRIDAY, JULY 14, 1939

PREVIEW OF 1940? EWS Item—Paul V. McNutt, calling at the capitol to pay his respects to John N. Garner, finds the Vice Oresident fast asleep, enjoying an afternoon nap.

“MY FRIENDS...” “FROM the beginning I have believed that this automatic, inflexible embargo (on arms exports to belligerents) fs a great mistake; that it places the United States in a false position; that in the end it will prove dangerous to pur peace....’ “This act has automatically placed in the hands of foreign nations, some of them possibly our future enemies, the decision as to with whom this country shall carry on some of its trade and commerce . . .” “In case of an European war, we should see ourselves penalizing only the democracies. The only certain result would be an outburst of popular feeling, which would force Congress to drop the embargo . . . such a change of rules during the course of the war would almost inevitably mean our own involvement. . ..” “Tf wholesale attack were made upon women and children by the deliberate destruction of cities from the air, then the indignation of the American people could not be

restrained from action. ...” «I fear for America’s ability to stay out of a prolonged

War. . .. Is this President Roosevelt speaking? No. The quotations come from five Republicans, in the following order: Rep. James W. Wadsworth (R. N. Y.), former Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson, former Undersecretary of State William R. Castle, Herbert Hoover and Alf M. Landon.

Foreign policy is not a partisan issue.

TRAFFIC CONTROL SIGNIFICANT development in this city’s study of its traffic control problem is the unanimous decision of the Citizens’ Safety Committee favoring the installation of parking meters here. But perhaps even more important was the naming of a committee to confer with Chief Morrissey on his proposal to revise downtown speed limits. Dissatisfied with the operation of the signal light system, the Police Department recently instituted the “hand” method of moving downtown traffic during rush hours. It has helped considerably, but no one can lose sight of the fact that stationing policemen on corners and turning off the signal lights is not an economtcal solution. Most large cities have had considerable success with the “cascade” system on traffic lights, or, to put it more simply, timing the lights to permit traffic to move continuously at a given speed. Indianapolis, however, has had no such success, perhaps because we have never been able to set our light timing system up properly. If our traffic lights are poorly constructed we ought to know it. If they're not, surely they can be adjusted. We hope that the Citizens’ Safety Committee will add this to the list of things needed to improve traffic handling here.

MORE WPA JOBS FOR THE UNSKILLED E'RE glad to find William Green, on behalf of the American Federation of Labor, disclaiming responsibility for the WPA 130-hour-a-month strikes and indicating that he doesn’t favor their spread. When he predicted “strikes and strikes” in a New York speech, the other day, Mr. Green was talking about what he thinks will happen in private industry if employers cut wages because WPA now requires skilled and unskilled workers to put in the same hours on their jobs each month. We don’t believe private employers will do anything of the kind. The Government has provided labor with laws that can be used to hold wage levels up, but the relief law should not be considered one of them. Labor’s demand that the relief law should be used for that purpose—that WPA should pay skilled men the same hourly wages they would draw if they could get private jobs—has made the WPA program inefficient and unfair to unskilled workers and to the taxpayers. If the strikes continue, WPA can do nothing less than enforce strictly its policy of dropping strikers from the relief rolls. There are nearly a million persons in this country who have been certified for WPA—who are, presumably, quite as needy as those on the rolls—but who have not been able to get WPA jobs. The places of the strikers can be, and should be, filled from this waiting list. If skilled workers aren’t willing to put in 180 hours a month, plenty of unskilled workers are. And, since the skilled get higher monthly wages, each skilled man dropped makes room for more than one unskilled man, the result being that the available money is distributed among more needy people.

“FOR YOU I PINE” OHN F. FITZGERALD— “Honey Fitz’-—is famed as a former Mayor of Boston, as the father-in-law of Ambassador Joe Kennedy and as a singer of “Sweet Adeline.” He's sung it from coast to coast in this country and now, at the age of 76, aspires to an even wider audience. Informed that Walter Blaufuss, a Chicago song writer, has proposed “Sweet Adeline” as a world anthem, Mr. Fitzgerald said: “Tell them that if they want to send me as America’s agent to Europe, I'll sing it in German, French, English and [talian.” Well, that’s an idea, but something seems to tell us it should be examined carefully befere it’s adopted. Those who sing “Sweet Adeline,” in our experience, seldom sound as good as they think they do. Furthermore, in all too many cases, the stage of proceedings at which ‘‘Sweet Adeline” seemed most appropriate has proved to be precisely the stage when a fight was about to start. Certainly the world needs harmony, but perhaps not the kind of harmony that “Honey Fitz” has wWblunteered to introduce to Europe,

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Fair Enough

By Westbrook Pegler

NLRB Acceptance of Employers’ Rights Not Enough to Atone for Some Things Done in Labor's Name.

YORK, July 14.—It was awful nice of the Labor Relations Board to restore to American citizens who employ workmen their Constitutional right to “petition the Government for redress of grievances.” But a few more gracious concessions must be made before employers and workmen may consider themselves safe from the tyranny of the Board and the vicious dictatorships which the Board has fostered in labor unions. Employers still lack the right to speak freely—a right specifically granted by the Constitution but suspended by the Board with the casual high-handed-ness of a Soviet court deciding to knock off a handful of political dissenters—and Americans who prefer not to belong to labor unions and thus pay cash tribute out of their wages to the funds of the New Deal, the Spanish Communists or the Communists’ conspiracy against the United States, may be compelled to join up and pay or forfeit their right to work for a living. An alien with hatred in his heart and soul for everything that is American, by subscribing to union policies and contributing to union funds, which then vanish into activities that strike at the American form of government, may acquire the power to vote away a native American’s right to earn his living in a- land for which he can be compelled to fight while the alien sits it out. *'» 9 ND the board has done nothing noticeable as yet to curb acts of coercion by which a few labor leaders with a strike on their hands, even a strike manipulated solely for the extension of individual power, may terrorize the families of American citizens who stand on their right to retain their jobs. The employer may not even speak a word of sympathy to a persecuted American citizen who has the courage to oppose the union when a strike is on, for that would be a coercive attempt to influence the worker. But the union may throw rocks through the windows of his home, gang him on his way to and from work, beat his head off at the picket line, insult and maul his wife and terrorize his children, and, when the strike is won by such methods, may blackball him from his occupation for the rest of his life. The effrontery of the board in abolishing the employer’s right to discuss union matters with men in his employ on the ground that he might be trying to coerce them has never been sufficiently appreciated. Here was an outright abrogation by a sub-department of the Government of a right which the Government

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itself protects with the mad-eyed fury of an avenger

when the complaint comes from the saboteur. » » »

HE union, however, may circulate among the em- ||

ployees the most scurrilous libels and misrepresentations of the facts of a controversy. The fake cry that unioneers represent labor is accepted by the public with no really audible dissent, because those who refuse to join unions, or do join them under silent protest, have lacked a means of presenting their case. The employer and the labor faker can make themselves heard, but the persecuted individuals in the middle receive no hearing from the public and no respect from a Government board which was established for the frank purpose of assisting organized labor. These are a few little wrinkles in labor administration which might be ironed out before the Labor Board can sit back and sprinkle itself with praise for guarding the sacred rights of labor.

Business By John T. Flynn

Appointment of McNutt Injects Politics Into Social Security Setup.

EW YORK, July 14—One of the tragic aspects of relief up to the present time has been that it got mixed up in politics. The Social Security enterprise has not, so far as its national administration is concerned, been open to this objection, except insofar as the President made social security an excuse for extracting enormous payroll taxes from the workers. But now the 1040 Presidential campaign draws near. And almost the first important Government agency thrown into the campaign as a scrap of pork for a Presidential battle .is this great agency of the Government. It will be interesting to know what the liberals who have fought so long and so tirelessly for this great reform will think of this. When the President fought for his Reorganization Bill it was all on the ground of increasing Government efficiency. It was very difficult for honestminded men to object to that, though many did fear that the nearer these commissions were brought to Presidential management the nearer they would be to politics and the further away from efficiency. But now when the first appointments are being made, the one agency which is most in need of efficiency and the agency which is most in need of protection from politics becomes a mere pawn in the President's battle to control the next convention.

No Contact With Problems

Here was a post which called (1) for a man of executive ability of the highest order; (2) for one conversant, at least in some rudimentary way, with the intricate problems of social security; (3) one who can devote every minute of his waking hours to these important agencies, and finally (4) a man as far removed from politics as possible. Mr. McNutt is not merely a politiclan—he is all politician. He has had no contact whatever with the problems he has to deal with. And at the moment he is head over heels in the most absorbing and conruming pursuit in the world—-the pursuit of the Presidency. How will he find time to clear his mind for the job that needs to be done? One of the most sensitive political spots in this country right now is the field of old-age pensions around which such movements as the Townsend Plan have revolved, taxing the courage of politicians. What part will the security agency play to protect our society and the security system itself against these assaults if they are presided over by a man whose sole qualification for the job is that he is running for President?

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

“Y'M already 20 minutes behind schedule, and three more appointments to go.” Beauty Operator No. 6 dropped into a convenient chair as she confided her news to the manicurist. “Did she phone?” “Oh, sure. Said she'd be a little late. Looking for a dress, she said, and if she looks much longer I don't

see how I can get her in at all. It'll run me 45 minutes late.” Going out, T met the loitering lady face to face, and it was as I had expected. She is celebrated locally for her domestic virtues and never goes out without her expensive wrist watch. I also know her as 4 person of better than average intelligence and good character. But, because she lacks a sense of time, it’s easy to see why a good many people do not feel jubilant at news of her coming. In the social circle where she moves, guests who are asked for 7 o'clock dinner often do not appear until 7:30. Luncheons, committee meetings, dentist and doctor appointments, and sermons are all approached by her with the air of charming casualness. Generally speaking, her home is run in the same easy-going fashion. Meals are not served promptly and the servants are obliged to await the pleasure of a tardy family. : So during an ‘entire lifetime this homebody who prides herself upon her good biteding runs late without realizing what a thoroughly nasty habit it is. Although she may be moved to kind motives, to many working people ‘she manages to give an impression of being unkind. She is, in fact, a thief. For this good woman steals something every day that is TE a ney. She steals time. shemay be, | |

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

URGES CLOSING OF WATER CO. DEAL By Observer I agree with The Times that now is the time to purchase the water company if the price is “right.” It seems to ‘me that a compromise between the water company proposal and Mr. Dickerman’s suggestion

could easily be worked out. In other words prices mentioned so far are what one could expect from wo groups acting in good faith. It is reasonable to suppose that the Geist estate representatives did not cite their rock bottom figure. Mr. Dickerman’s suggestion that

(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 be signed, but names will be withheld ‘on request.)

ANSWERS CRITICISM OF TOWNSEND PLAN

By Edith Cagley If “A Reader” sees Townsendism as a blow to self-government, my I : ask if he thinks we have been selfthe “city would be justified” in pay- jo verned at any time since the ing more than $3,500,000 for the yang War? ® common stock brings thé two groups, 1 jead between the lines of his pretty much together. article inexperience on his part with Let's reach an agreement on price any other form of government than and get it over with. la totalitarian form and wish to reThere is no question at all dut ping him that he is now living in a that the city should own its water yaa] Christian democracy and we are supply. fighting those forces from within which are attempting to apply the ruthless iron heel of despotism to the principles of democracy. A well rounded democracy pro‘By A Citizen gresses on all sides at once. We

Democracy as a way of living is have too much faith in our public

|officials. They in turn have allowed Oh Siar. Wi CUPL) ie Wie. The operty rights to supersede human essence of democracy is government yghts—so our prosperity and progby the majority party of two or ress have become lopsided. more political parties. It thus top| Tie a of an .| American citizens, - TO NE NL ru turn to our democratic principles of depends upon the successful oo uernment and our constitutional functioning of the party system. rights. Unhappily our two major parties| Ne ug ons are woefully lacking in appreciation CLAIMS U. 8. PROLONGS of their responsibilities. A shocking WAR AGAINST CHINA example has just been furnished by |By Donald Perris the Republicans in Congress. In| In regard to the Sino-Japanese order to defeat their opponents they | war, I would like to present two sacrificed their principle of “hard

bb & & SEES DEMOCRACY ON TRIAL BEFORE WORLD

very interesting and significant facts: Economists ugree that if the United States place a strict embargo on the aggressor, Japan, the war could be ended within six weeks. : However, knowing the first fact, the United States has supplied Japan with 56 per cent of her imported war material. How can our noble politicians, who shout so loudly about fighting fascism, continue to aid and abet Japan in a merciless war of Fascist aggression? ® 8 0% BELIEVES GARNER ENTITLED TO NOMINATION By Edward F. Maddox By all the rules of precedent and political courtesy John N. Garner is entitled to the Democratic nomination for the Presidency in 1940. But do New Dealers ever show gratitude or courtesy toward a real Democrat if he is courageous enough to stand for his convictions and opposes some of their radical proposals? No, indeed. To enjoy the favor and support of the New Deal S8o0cialist crowd a Democrat must be a yes, yes man, like Stalin's Comin-

Gen. Johnson Says—

He Wonders What Businessmen Failures’ F. D. R. Had in Mind in Interview on McNutt Appointment,

ASHINGTON, July 14.-TIt is sweet to be as= : sured that there was no vile political angle whatever in the appointment of Mr. McNutt to be social security Poo-Bah, in one of the highest, high= pressure political areas. For a President to make a choice that affects so many political currents and yet has “no political angle whatever” is a miracle. About all that remains for Mr. Roosevelt to do to establish his supremacy in magic is to walk across to Virginia on the waters of the Potomac. Either that, or establish his apparent supremacy in another direction by solemnly averring that he has already done so. Let's swallow it and agree that Mr. McNutt was appointed solely for his great administrative ability. We are told that no great business executive was selected because the President thinks that the ap=pointment percentage of “successful” businessmen to Government posts has proved a larger percentage to “tragic failure” than where the appointees had had previous experience in public office, 8 ® » HAT raises the question: “Who was you alludin® at?” The President, himself, is not without business experience. He was associated with the fidelity and bail bond business, with the ill-fated “International Germanic Trust,” the “Sanitary Postage Service Corp.” and a company called Cameco which “held” stock in a lot of vending-machine companies. He was president of the “United Investors, Ltd.”—a concern organized in Canada. It was financed to speculate in German marks as they descended in value to zero. Most of these companies folded up and died. Perhaps that exempts Mr. Roosevelt from his own rule against businessmen. He banned only “successful” businesse men. But who could he have meant? Surely not Jessa Jones, superlatively successful in both business and Government. Could this be a dirty dig at Joe Ken= nedy? If so, where is the “tragic failure?” He couldn't mean the late Mr, Woodin—nor even Henry, Morgenthau. The President wasn't practicing that rule wher, he shoved aside Mr. Ickes in favor of John Carmody for a job bigger than Paul McNutt's. Mr. Ickes never before held important office, but he was successful enough in private life to corral a fortune and he was the best administrator in the New Deal. Mr. Care mody’'s pre-New Deal experience was in business and not in public office, 8 ” ” HERE is a suspicion that maybe Mr. Roosevelt was talking at this writer and the “tragic faile ure” of NRA. But no—because I had three times as many years in public office as in business, Maybe that was the matter with the darned thing.

So far as attaining their announced and pers manent ends is in question, the most tragic of all failures are AAA, WPA, NLRB and, for that matter, a very large part of Mr. Roosevelt's whole program, But that doesn’t prove his new rule because in gens eral, successful businessmen have been continuously in Mr. Roosevelt's dog house and none of them is ree sponsible for any of this tragic mess. On the contrary, in the few instances of efficient administration, mentioned earlier, “successful” busie nessmen deserve most of the credit in every case.

Aviation By Maj. Al Williams

Wooden Propeller, Once Replaced By Metal, Is on Its Way Back.

ASHINGTON, July 14=Wooden propellers are coming back again to compete with the metal props that shunted them out of the picture years ago, With higher powered engines our propellers need be bigger; and that means heavier. Three-bladed props (aluminum alloy), 16 feet in diameter, for the big engines are now posing weight problems that our engineers regarded with dismay. And, in the search for lighter materials, we are back where we started —in the wood. _ About three years ago, I returned from a survey, of European aviation and reported that the Gers mans had developed laminated wooden propellers which probably would scrap our metal props. Headed by the enterprising Henry Berliner, tha Engineering and Research Corp. of Riverdale, Md. is contributing to the re-establishment of the wooden

prop industry in this country. Our Army and Navy Air Services have ordered specimen wooden props.

tern or Hitler's Reich. The New Dealers’ methods, ideas, program and goal are copied after these dictators. That is the reason they do not want a genuine Democrat nominated in 1940. That is the reason they are against Garner—he has at long last caught on to the

socialist character of the New Deal “liberals.”

money” to join with the silver bloc. The Democrats by their scuttling of the Hatch Bill demonstrate equal lack of responsibility. By this insidious lack of party

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honor and responsibility our two major parties weaken the public's] faith in democracy. Such tactics ITH Trylon and Perisphere furnish ammunition for the foes of beckoning all conditions of our democratic form of life. No| women—to say nothing of men-—to convert to either communism or View the Fair's glittering attracfascism can be secured until the tions on the erstwhile flats of prospective convert has lost faith in| Flushing, Marjorie Hillis, of “Live democracy. Party leaders, city, state | Alone and Like It” fame, comes and national, should rededicate forth with another sophisticated themselves to that government “of volume which she calls “New York, the people, by the people and for Fair or No Fair” (Bobbs-Merrill). the people.” |She grants the Big Show but a

Side Glances—By Galbraith

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scant half dozen pages. Rather she fills her book chock-full of hints, really ‘‘musts,” on the best ways to see her town. “My own New York,” she begins, “Is a shining city with towers that point to opportunity.” And “I hope,” she ends her sparkling little opus, “you'll feel as 1 do about this amazing, fast-moving, exciting, beautiful, colorful, Arabian Nights city. I'm mad about New York.” By which panegyrics the reader gathers that she is being advised and guided by a true connoisseur of the big city—and right she is. Destined to grace many a hotel desk this summer, the guide gives the visitor to New York what she really wants; addresses, prices, detailed plans for sightseeing and shopping, and invaluable travel hints, all presented in an inimitable style. And how charming to know that at Saks-Fifth Avenue there are, within one’s means, clothes of simple elegance in a department called “Seventh Heaven”; or that lunching with Frank Case and his celebrities at the Algonquin on W. 44th St. is not too expensive, or that one doesn't wear white shoes, ever, on the streets of New York. Included too, is running comment on the chic, the gay, and the exciting, the location of beauty salons, buildings, churches, hotels, museums and galleries, restaurants, shops and theaters.

FORTRESS By HARRIETT SCOTTY OLINICK My heart has lost the path that And hg . t we The - self that once you gave 0 ‘me Is locked Within the ice chest of your mind.

DAILY THOUGHT It the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it ha you.=John 15:18.

ATRED

Our old type of wooden props was supplanted bw the thin metal props because wooden blades could not be built thin enough and, at the same time, sufficiently strong. But the new wood props are fabricated on an entirely new plan. The hub end is made of laminated strips of hardwood, impregnated with a phenol-formaldehyde resin, squeezed down to half ity thickness in a heated press.

Fifty Per Cent Lighter

The resin reacts chemically and the product bes comes a compressed wood with the wood fibres ime pregnated and maintained in position by bakelite, Many times the strength, it is only twice the weight of the original wood.

‘This product is then machined to circular form, threaded to accommodate a steel sleeve, and glued in place. This steel sleeve permits the blades to be mounted in controllable hubs, so that the blade angles can be changed while in flight. The outer half of the blade is then spliced with a lighter wood, alse treated with pressure and tempera« ture after being impregnated with the resin. The blade is then completely coverad with a heavy coating of reinforced cellulose-acetate sheet, with the leading edge armored by a narrow strip of metal to protect it against rain, sea water, dust or sand. The finished blade is said to be as strong as the aluminum alloy blade, and 50 per cent lighter. Furthermore, the wooden propeller absorbs vibration and makes fom smoother running engines.

Watching Your Health

By Jane Stafford

¥ the many things that can bring on sleeplesse ness—insomnia is another name for it—your feelings or emotions are among the most important, A mere slip of the tongue, an inadvertent slur, gome small error of judgment or action can upset the sensitive person. In the stillness of the night such an unimportant word or action becomes exage gerated. The sensitive person goes over and over the speech or incident until sleep is impossible, Other things can cause sleeplessness. Excitement over a game of cards, a dance, a book or a con= troversy can keep many a person from getting a sound night's sleep. An occasional sleepless night leaves you feeling miserable the next day but probably does not affect your health seriously. Continued loss of sleep, hows ever, is bad for mental and physical health. Such sleeplessness, like pain, is a sign or warning of the existence of a more serious underlying condition, the U. 8. Public Health Service points out, and calls for investigation by a competent physician, When the sleeplessness is induced by excessive smoking, late coffee drinking, exciting company, argu ment or reading of overstimulating books, tha remedies are of course obvious. You avoid these experfences, and in addition you might try such simple measures as a warm bath or a drink of warm milk before retiring. A pedative drug or sleeping medicine should only be taken on the advice and according to the direes tions of a physician. “When Wisely and rightly used the modern sedatives are not unduly toxic and not dangerously habit-forming,” the Federal HNealtn says, But some persons have become addicts after drugs to induce sleep. Purthermore, if the due to some organic disease or

lessniess condition, ft 1s Imp: t to detect and oor a don't : yoursel? sleeping medicines, :

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