Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 July 1939 — Page 10

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Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way

SATURDAY, JULY 22, 1939 'A SOUND STEP o die THE decision of the Works Board authorizing the lease "of industrial sites at Municipal Airport is'a sound step for two reasons. |

One is that it may encourage the coming of sound aviation enterprises to this area, particularly if they can locate near what is undoubtedly one of the finest natural commercial fields in the United States. The second is that, if such enterprises do locate at the field, it will place the airport on a self-sustaining basis. If that occurs, Indianapolis will have one of the few municipal fields that operate in the “black.” : | \ Both the City and the Government now have a substantial investment in this development. It seems to us the time is nearing when the City, at least, should begin to get a dollars and cents return on its investment. ,

CONGRATULATIONS— Senator Carl Hatch of New Mexico, who long ago made up his mind that it was not right to coerce free citizens and ‘use relief money and the Government payroll for political purposes, who patiently hammered at that one idea, whose convincing reasonableness Jn argument and readiness to fight when necessary, earried his reform from: one victory to another. | To Rep. Jack Dempsey of New Mexico, who took his colleague’s bill and nursed it through the House, beating off the enemies who tried to dismember it, refusing to be discouraged or compromised by formidable opposition. To Senator Sheppard of Texas, whose expose of politics "in relief dramatized the need for reform. To Rep. Joe Martin of Massachusetts, minority floor leader, who had the vision to recognize the Hatch Bill as "a real issue and the ability to keep his followers lined up solidly behind it. To Vice President John Garner, who several weeks ago gave new life to what seemed a lost cause by saying, “You can write that that bill will be law”; and who was on hand in the Senate yesterday to wield a lusty gavel toward making that prophecy come true. Fa To the thousands of Government employees, who, when the Hatch Bill becomes law, will be| freed to devote their full time to their official duties, and who thenceforth will be legally excluded from serving as patronage henchmen. ° To the millions of citizens dependent upon WPA and other relief jobs, who, under the Hatch Bill, will be protected by law in their right to vote and talk as they please, without fearing the reprisals of political straw bosses.

“UNETHICAL?” ef J LMER ANDREWS has done a pretty good job as Federal Administrator of the Wage-Hour Law. One thing he did, after several months of administering the law, was to say to a committee of Congress that by experience he had found it administratively cumbersome to apply the hour-limits and overtime provisions to highersalaried white-collar workers. He recommended that Congress exempt employees receiving $200 a month or more. That would leave his agency more time to devote to the primary purpose of the Wage-Hour Law, protecting the masses of poorly paid and overworked, seeing to it that no employer paid his employees less than $11 for 44. hours per week. Now we read that at a press conference Mr. Andrews was asked if he still favored the $200 exemption. And that ~ he replied: : : “No sir! I put that in as a thing to make the act administratively easier. It was opposed by organized labor and now that organized labor has done such a swell job in helping me fight my battles I, think it would be unethical for me to press for that amendment if they object tol it.” This most amazing statement naturally gives rise to two questions: Is it possible that Mr. Andrews was accurately quoted? If so, for whom does Mr. Andrews think he works?

MORGENTHAU ON “SPLENDING”

HicH regard for Secretary Morgenthau makes it impossible for us to doubt his sincerity in urging prompt approval by Congress of President Roosevelt's $2,760,000, 000 “splending” plan. : ? : But we think that Mr. Morgenthau, in advocating the bill for so-called self-liquidating loans, hopes to forestall something that, from the viewpoint of a Treasury now nearly 41 billion dollars in the hole, would be very much worse. That, however, does not remove the necessity for considering the “splending” plan on its ‘own merits. And, considered on its own merits, we still believe it’s a bad plan. : We don’t believe it is necessary to make a choice between “splending” and more outright spending. ' The Treasury has just issued figures on the first 15 days of the new fiscal year. These, compared with figures for the same period last year, show:

This Year | Expenses se9sssessscstessnesesnons $481 ,469,973 ) {i Receipts ...cc...... ... 146,079,474 148,932,806 | Deficit .overcececroacnencncnnn.es wo 335,390,499 201,742,974

Expenses up, receipts down, deficit- bigger. Spending going on at the rate of 1114 billion dollars a year. What this country needs is neither “splending’” nor more spending, but assurance that the national deficit is not going to grow and grow until it-brings disaster. ii

THE NEW GOLF CHAMPION MESS HARRIETT RANDALL, 21-year-old Hillcrest Country Club player, is the new State Women’s golf champion. She won the title yesterday by defeating Miss Elizabeth Dunn, the defending champion who has won the tournament eight times. ‘The young champion deserved her victory. She played sub-par golf on the last 18 holes against one of the greatest competitive players this state has ever produced. Indianapolis can well be proud of both of these young women. In temperament and attitude, they are very much alike—quiet, pleasant, personable, generous toward op-

Last Year $440,675,781

Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler ~ Let Britain and France Lick

Nazis With Our Tools, He Says, and We. Win Even if They Do Default.

EW YORK, July 22.—There is a good deal of what might be called honest, sincere hypocrisy in the belief that this country should slap an impartial embargo on war materials in the event of war in Europe. : ~The truth is that Germany and Italy are enemies of this country, not particularly as the United States, although they do hate us by name, but as a nonfascist, non-axis nation. They have declared their contempt ani’ hatred for all countries outside the axis and their intention to expand by intimidation and, when intimidation fails by war, at the expense of those nations, except Russia. They are mysterious about Russia. They have repeatedly affirmed their conviction that they are chosen peoples, destined to rule the

earth and dominate, enslave or exterminate the weak-

lings. We are included among the weaklings because we are a democracy and as such have no right to exist, except in a subdued condition, subject to their discipline and for their purposes. Czechoslovakia was a weakling, . Tan : #

T is in the cards that when the ruin of the Civil |

War has been tidied up, fascisi, axis Spain will

begin to fling at this country her equivalent of |

‘the Italian cry of “Tunisia! Corsica! Savoy!” And an axis which had disposed of Great Britain and France, thanks in part to this country’s boycott in a fime of military need, would support (Generalissimo Franco or his successor in a noble ambition to “right historic wrongs” on this side of the world and restore to Spain her former possessions and power in the Americas. Precisely the same formula that has been followed by Germany and Italy would be followed by Spain. ; But with Spain still combing brick dust and mortar out of her hair and heretics out of her cellars it is a little difficult for Americans to picture a situation in which that nation would be actually and formidably truculent toward the United States. The more immediate threat has been uttered by Germany and Italy, and we are included only by inference. ” ” f 4

OMINATION of the world by the chosen, selfacknowledged superior peoples of Germany and

‘Italy is the proclaimed purpose of the axis. And if

they are not stopped by Great Britain and France or deterred from causing war by the knowledge that the United States would help Britain and Prance by measures “short of war,” this country’s turn must come to fight them alone. These are unfortunate, unpleasant facts, but they can be read in a thousdnd books and state speeches by Hitler and Mussolini and their subordinates and in their relations with other countries. ; It is my contention that the United States should offer to sell not only nonmilitary goods but arms, explosives, anything at all, impartially to belligerents in this war, if any, knowing that the Germans and Italians couldn't come and get them and that the British and- French could, because thed¥British and French would use them to this country’s advantage. - Many Americans who sincerely vow that they would acknowledge no enemy until he invaded American soil forget that France was invaded last time and that in Germany not a divot was taken in four years of brawling. If Britain and France fight this war using our Is and lick the chosen peoples who have notified the world that the United States. is third on their list, we get a bargain even though they should default their debts again.

Business By John T. Flynn

Don't Confuse the Issues and ‘Put the Blame on WPA Workers.

EW YORK, July 22.—It begins to look as if the WPA were about to command more than its share of public attention. It would be well if Americans kept the issues involved straight. There is

| more than one issue and it would be easy to fall

into the mistake of settling one issue with reasons and arguments which belong wholly to another. Last week we had the flare-up of the building trades because of the new rule requiring 130 hours of work a month of each worker. But this week we have an entirely different issue—the dismissal of a vast army of WPA workers to comply with certain other rules laid down by Congress. The building trades lost, as they deserved to lose, because they have insisted on the payment to building trades workers of the prevailing wage-—a wage based on entirely different principles in the building trades as distinguished from other trades. It is quite amazing how utterly lacking was public support for the building trades strike. But the dismissal of workers now under way to reduce the WPA: rolls is an entirely different issue.

The Jobs Do Not Exist

One of the rules being complied with now is that all persons who have been on the rolls for 1&8 months or more must be dismissed. The theory back of that is that in 18 months these workers ought to have found jobs, and now- they are let out, thus forcing them, it is supposed, to find jobs. This would be perfectly sound reasoning if the jobs existed for workers to find. But everybocly knows that they do not exist. There are less than three million people on WPA, but there are twice that many people not on WPA who are out of work. : _ Too many seem to feel that people are on WP. by choice. There are, of course, some who find this

‘road the easiest, but by and large the WPA is made

up to people who remain on it because there is no other way. It is idle and inhuman to blame men because they do not find jobs in a world which has so many million more workers than jobs. : It is also wrong to assess against the unfortunate WPA workers any part -of the blame which: belongs to politicians who have used it for their own ends.

The lay-offs come at a singularly bad time, just at a

moment when the business index falls so abruptly that most of the gains of the last four months are cancelled .in a few weeks. These lay-offs may well act as a boomerang against the critics of WPA.

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson a

rOTHING is more proverbially “woman’s work” ' than cooking. In the late Nineties, little girls were brought up to believe that God had instilled into every good woman'a desire to do active kitchen work. : In the village of Boggy, Depot, where I was born, there were a number of men whe had no passion for plowing or raising hogs or splitting rails, but every female was supposed to cleave to the kitchen as faithfully “as she stuck to her husband. Since then I have found out that certain women are born with the cooking touch, just as certain others are born with second sight or a hare lip. And I am heartily in favor of these fortunate individuals practicing the art. to their hearts’ content, so long as they don’t insist that every other woman should do likewise, . If the need arises, any girl with a second-gradé education or a Phi Beta Kappa key can prepare a decent meal, for the country is flooded with excellent Insivyctions for cooking. One needs only to be able read. : 1 Which brings us right back around to where we

started. One of .the most interesting changes that

has occurred in an infinitely interesting world since my Boggy Depot days is the way cooking has moved from the amateur into the professional class. Ardent kitchen experts no longer use their talents to satisfy the appetites of one man or one family, as my mother and her neighbors were forced. to do. Instead, like the laborefs in other fields, they become specialists and reap the specialist’s rewards. Thousands of modern women are not only making a good living: but a fortune, by compiling best-seller cook

books, or inventing kitchen gadgets, or working out |

recipes that take the country by storm. : Cooks are no longer confined to the home kitchen.

Their noble but lowly calling has become a great

—— TE ALAR

The Hoos

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

POSES QUESTION

ON WATER COMPANY By R. W. Weber:

I understand that C. H. Geist, owner of the water company, took an annual profit of $500,000 out of this City. Why shouldn’t the City do the same by buying it?

” ”n 2 IN DEFENSE OF THE SOCIALIST PHILOSOPHY By R. Sprunger x E. F. Maddox has become so hopelessly entangled in his own inconsistency that it leads him to make

wild ; ... . statements. Evidently L. PF. got “under the skin” of Mr.

| Maddox to cause his last . . . .

remarks to the Forum. : “As far as communism, naziism and fascism are concerned, there isn’t much difference; they all lead to dictatorship. : The Socialists in this country are just as democratic and American, or probably more so, than Mr. Maddox. If the Socialists are subversive, they are only subversive to capitalism, the enemy of democratic justice. Mr. Maddox has decried the treatment of old-age pensioners. What else can he expect from this “noble” economic system that has bitterly fought such measures as old-age pensions? Let me remind Mr. Maddox that the Socialists advocated old-age pensions long before he or I was ever heard of. The present system of toryism and capitalism isn’t doing anything for the benefit of the people unless forced to by insistent demands of progressive people. Then the political stooges of capitalism see to it that the demands are not fully complied with and old-age pensions are miserable pittances.

» 2 =» A FEW QUESTIONS ABOUT PARKING METERS By W. C. Gulick ° Will parking meters show as

much revenue as traffic fines? I}

think not. 1. I believe the ' general . public will steer clear of the localities where parking meters. are placed and park elsewhere. Perhaps trade elsewhere also. : 2. How can overtime meter parking be collected? When you pay a fee or rent for space, this most certainly is a civil contract. Suppose I pay 5 cents for an hour

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and stay five hours instead. I then owe. an additional 20 cents. How will this be collected if I do not voluntarily pay? In order to enforce a civil contract, as I understand it, one must sue on the contract in Municipal Court. Is there any difference between the city’s renting space on the street and the renting of a building or home? Surely there is no. legal difference as far as the contract is concerned. The only difference will be in the amount of money involved. " A parking lot cannot arrest you and throw you in jail if you park longer than the time for which you pay. Can the police do this if the city makes a parking lot.of the streets? Even if they can and do, will it be possible to collect other than the few nickels balance? . ‘I am not a lawyer, only a layman, so maybe someone knows all these answers and I am all wet.

2 8 8s PRAISE FOR PRESIDENTS WPA STRIKE STAND By -E. F. Maddox ; Mr. Roosevelt's pronouncement that you cannot strike against the Government is one of the most important statements of policy ever made by any President and should become permanent. . It struck a

vital blow at the subversive movements in this country. Some of Mr. Roosevelt's appointees and their assistants have been giving the Communists so much aid and comfort that they have come to the conclusion that they can get by with open rebellion against Congressional duthority. That is exactly what the Workers Alliance WPA strike amounted to— rebellion against an act of Congress. Now if Mr. Roosevelt would only invoke the discarded principle of the Monroe Doctrine: “That we regard any attempt on their (foreign nations) part to extend their system to any portion of this hemisphere as dangerous to. our peace and safety,” and order the dissolution of all foreign-sponsored political organizations such as Communists, Socialists, Nazis and Fascists, he would go down in history as one of our great Presidents. .. . - The President’s strike policy was a good pull toward the good solid ground . of Constitutional law and order and there are many real Americans and Democrats who hope he will row right on out of the revolutionary whirlpool and plant his feet on good, solid American soil, stand firm for the preservation of Constitutional government and kick the left-wingers out. 2 = 2 : SUGGESTS THEORISTS PITCH WOO WITH BRAIN CELLS By T. F. M. Lt I get awful weary of this pseudoCommunist, pseudo-Socialist theory which many of your contributors express. I'm for Voice. in the Crowd, who has something really American in his makeup and philosophy. If the half-baked theorists who never have come closer to business operation than a pay check

would try to woo a brain: cell, might be well.

New Books at the Library

~O anyone anticipiating a visit to the New York World’s Fair on Flushing Meadow at one tip of Long Island, William Oliver Stevens’ (Dodd) will provide informative material and should lure the touris farther afield on the island. : Sixty years ago a group of young artists made a sketching trip to Long Island because ‘no one ever went there.” Today the people who

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“Discovering - Long Island”

cross the bridges regard Long Island merely as a suburb of New York, forgetting that its lakes, woods, and seashore have been set aside as the world’s greatest public park. Mr. Stevens writes his travelog from the viewpoint of the tourist traveling by automobile from New York by way.of the Grand Central Parkway: Long. Island’s picturesque history, filled with Dutoh Patroons, English Puritans, Rebels, Tories, free verse poets, pirates, and whaling captains, forms an interesting background for the equally diverse inhabitants ‘of its crowded cities, huge estates, and fishermen'’s shacks

1 | of today.

Sports fans will find in the chapter on’ tennis, polo, golf, automobile and horse racing, all of which have

. | flourished on the flat lands of the

island, an interesting story of the development of these sports. Brooklyn, the north and south shores, Montauk, and the products of the island are thoroughly treated before the author turns to the “World of Tomorrow,” “which is described in

“magnificent, pendous.” “Discovering ‘Long Island” is an excellent reference work and readable guide book. ; .

TREE AFTER STORM ~ By KATHERYN MAY The rain beat through her branches, And left them dripping wet, . : And out against.a darkened sky She formed a silhouette.

colossa 1 and -stu-

Her fruit dropped to the earth, Wind lashed each leafy bough, But now the storm is over And she looks refreshed somehow!

DAILY THOUGHT And they left the house of the Lord God of their fathers, and and served groves and idols; and wrath camé upon Judah an . Jerusalem for this their tr o —Chronicles 24:18. :

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-| depends upon for mowing ’em down. : Lina to their official an- -~

the words of Anthony Eden as

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The Arguments Being Made for “i

Self - Liquidating Pump Priming Are Incohérent Nonsense to Him.

ASHINGTON, July 22.—Here are a few gems from the press reports of the testimony of Secretary Morgenthau urging the Steagall bill to give the President a new blank check of three billion dollars on the public treasury to spend for “self-liqui--dating” projects. “ . A Mentioning huge sums of idle money in the banks. and low interest rates he said: “In times like the presen it therefore becomes the Government’s func-

— tion to act as a catalytic agent to bring together

investors who are willing. to lend their savings at rates of interest low enough and borrowers who are , able and willing to employ funds for productive pur-' poses. A low rate of interest, if effectively utilized, constitutes one of the most potent weapons our economic system has develbped for stimulating business

. activity—the Gavernment—creates the additional in-

centive for leaders to lend and for the borrowers to ’ borrow by giving the ‘stamp of approval and admin- - istrative assistance to useful and paying enterprises Which otherwise would not be undertaken at e.” S 5 ‘ It would be difficult to compress more incoherent nonsense in so short a statement. : : ‘nn : PF low interest rates agent” to bring lenders and borrowers together to stimulate business activity, we ought to be able to

start a bounding boom tomorrow by simply reducing :

interest rates to zero. They have been gradually

approaching that magic point for a long time. But .

they haven't “stimulated business activity”’—they have helped to paralyze it. They haven't acted as a cata- -

Interest rates are the wage rates of capital. It is as silly to say that starvation interest rates stimulate money to work, as it would be to say that starvation - labor rates stimulate men to work. We will have no «stimulated business activity” until both men and * money go to work and men can’t go back to work unti! money goes back to work. Ae People lend ther money freely for two reasons— a reasonable hope of reward and what they regard as reasonable security. Let the Government provide those two influences and there would be no difficulty about stimulating business activity.

. ” # # T= whole idea of this Administration is just the reverse of- that. It provides insecurity of investment and as. Secretary Morgenthau has just shown, insufficiency of return. It condemns “savings.” Mr. Eccles’ testimony favoring the same bill suggests more taxing of the income which produces sav- : ings to force savings to work. We don’t force savings : to work under our system. We persuade them. This Administration plumps for low interest ‘rates and - “production for use and not for profit.” It dilutes the - very gas that makes. our economic engine go and - then wrings its hands in wonderment because that - motor is stalled. ht isn

lytic agent, but as a cataleptic agent.

With this kind of destructive and revolutionary -

economic philosophy of the Steagall bill so clearly and shockingly admitted, the strategy of its presentation seems all the more questionable. It was deliber- * ately held back until the approach of summer and the pressure for adjournmeht made careful study and debate impossible. Advantage of that is being taken now to bum’s-rush it to enactment before either Con- ,

gress or the country can be made aware of what is k

being put over.

Aviation By Maj. Al Williams es : A Few Groans Over the Tendancy - Of Military Minds to Fossilize.

N= YORK, July 22.—The Munich affair is just far enough away for the Army and particularly the Navy lads to be talking big again, all over the . world. Theyre the fellows who supply our grins, - when they take each new advance in the effecitve- . ness of airpower as heresy and sacrilege. "But now they are back selling bigger battleships and such—Ilike iron forts—selling them to the people - who pay for them, namely, the man-in-the-street. Oh, yes, they're going to shoot down all the airplanes that fly. Sure they are—duck soup.

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n are the “weapon” or “catalytic

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- Well, here’s a news item that speaks for itself, and

tells a funny story on the antiaircraft gunnery of

the British. And the story about the Briitsh anti- ©

aircraft gunners’ marksmanship is also the story 3 about all naval antiaircraft gunnery. bel

Of recent date, three British battle-wagons—the

Nelson, Sheffield, and the Ark Royal—took an afternoon off and fired 509 rounds of ammunition at one of those Queen Bee radio-controlled target airplanes, and the Queen Bee was completely

It’s Sort of Funny 11

\undamaged. A" clean record—509 misses out of 509 shots.

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What's wrong with that picture? Simple. The °

British Navy explains that the ammunition used was of a special type designed not to hurt the expensive little Queen Bees. That satisfies everybody .ex- _ cept those who do their own thinking. >

If, by special ammunition, the British Navy means .

shells or shrapnel not loaded to explode. in the air,

then we grin a bit, because the only real effective- ~

ness of antiaircraft ammunition is the area coverage.

Direct hits are not counted on.” It’s the shrapnel ;

spread and the fire pattern that antiaircraft gunnery With .the British, according nouncements, expending more ‘than 10 million dollars .- 4 week on developing effectiveness in the air, would -

attack with the latest ammunition—just to

a : ’ here they are getting with all this uproar?

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~ For years, foreign nations have been experiment-

ing with live, radio-controlled target airplanes for: the.

training of antiaircraft gunnery. I, personally, have been trying to push our Navy and Army shooters into .

I not be sensible to stage a few real defenses against J

see <9

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trying their skill on a few of these targets. Lately, I _ understand, the move has been started to provide a * few radio target airplanes for our antiaircraft crews... Any national defense system faces its greatest

hazard, not from hostile attack, but in the deadly .

tendency of the military and naval mind to fossilize. -

Watching Your Health i

By Jane Stafford

F all the foods you are likely to eat, cereals rank

first as the most important potential sources of 2 .beriberi-preventing vitamine Bl, or thiamin as it is 3 ! xy

now called by scientists. ! : J If you think you need not bother about this.

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vitamin, on the grounds that beriberi is a strange . disease that only occurs in Oriental countri€s, you are : ,

wrong. It can occur anywhere if this vitamin is left out of the diet, and doctors see a number of patients right here in America who are suffering from this or allied afflictions of the neuritis type which they find

come from poor diet. The word “poor” réfers to the quality of the diet, not necessarily to the amount of

money. spent for: it. Fresh evidence

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cially oatmeal and whole wheat cereal, has just beet: 4 furnished by two Government scientists, Elizabeth ¥ Aughey and Esther Peterson Daniel of the Depart- -

| ment of Agriculture’s Bureau of Home Economics. .

These scientists studied the effect of cooking on | _

or vitamin Bl. About one-fourth to one-fifth of the vitarnin was destroyed in boiling spinach, potatoes and snap beans, they found. No appreciable 'de-:

various foods known to be good sources of thiamin ~¥

struction of the vitamin occurred during the cooking -¢

of carrots either by boiling of by the pressure cooker .:

method. added to green beans to preserve color caused {almost 60 per cent destruction of the sting pork loin destroyed cent of the vitamin. ia 3 go 7 . Double boiler cooking of cereals (rolled oats and whole wheat) up to two hours, on the other hand, did not change their vitamin Bl content. Baking whole wheat as bread caused 15 per cent loss of the vitamin. of course, contains a high amount.

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