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. MONDAY, JULY 31, 1939

~ BUT DON'T FORGET 1940 , HE House of Representatives 1s expected to choose this week -among three sets of amendments to the Wage-

: Hour Act. One is the Norton Bill, most of the provisions of which have been‘recommended by Wage-Hour Adminis-

trator Andrews. ‘One is the Ramspeck Bill, which goes

somewhat further. And one is the Barden Bill, which would

strip the 25-cents-an-hour protection of the Wage-Hour

Act. from more than a million workers, most of them engaged in processing farm products. : : A. week or two ago it looked as if the dime-an-hour crusaders who were behind the Barden amendments had decided to retreat. : 3 : ~ - Since then, two things have happened: : 1. Administrator ‘Andrews, in an unfortunate pressconference remark, said he no longer favored the plan to exempt from the overtime provisions 'all workers earning $200 a month or more—because “organized labor” opposed it and “organized labor has done such a swell job of fight-

ing my battle for me.”

2. John L. Lewis, in testifying against the Barden

amendments,

Garner,

made a sensational attack on Vice President

The Andrews and Lewis statements played into the hands of the men who think $11 for 44 hours of work in a-canning plant is more than the American system can tolerate. The House Rules Committee, dominated by conservatives, quickly decreed that the House should have a chance to vote on the Barden amendments.

The Wage-Hour division and the House Labor Com- * mittee had been fighting to avert such a test on the floor,

because they were afraid the Barden Bill would win. This

newspaper, while it regards the hill as a scandalous assault on a measure Qf far-reaching potentialities for the public

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By Westbrook Pegler

John L. Lewis May Very Well

Have Repudiated Some of His Best Pals in His Garner Attack.

ANTEW YORK, July 31—In calling Mr. Garner a poker-playing, whisky-drinking, evil old man,

‘John L, Lewis was completely ambiguous until he ex-

plained that his remarks were intended as a personal attack. Up to then they might have been construed as

a boost, even as the prelude to an indorsement of |

Mr. Garner for President in 1940, for some of Mr. ‘Lewis’ best friends have been poker players. and whisky drinkers, even gamblers and drunkards, and

he has never declared any marked aversion, social or 3

political, for individuals whose private character, measured by performance,” seemed no prettier than that of the cactus Coolidge.

Mr. Garner is a 9 o'clock man who has ‘been : | married to his No. 1 wife for 44 years, and if he is

notorious at all it is for his domesticity. In this

respect, he might be called ‘a rank reactionary, but it |

‘would seem unwise to go before the country on that issue. ‘ o v ; It was no secret, even before Mr. Lewis cut loose with his personalities, that Mr. Garner played perhaps the best hand of poker in Washington since the

death of Indian Charlie Curtis, the old prairie jockey,

and his tomato tan was the envy of many a parched and envious hypocrite in the days of prohibition and the Wayne B. Wheeler terror. ¥ » ” ”

R. LEWIS would do’ well to ponder whether, in attempting to discredit the Vice President, he has not repudiated some of his own best friends and as far as Mr. Garner is concerned, publicized rather endearing private traits which his backers could not gracefully mention. y rE ~As to the charge of labor baiting, inspection of the .case will reveal a contention that John L. Lewis is Labor, that others claiming to represent workmen are counterfeits, and that workmen who decline to yield their liberties to him and pay him an income tax, or submit under pressure, to the ‘detriment of their rights, are either enemies of Labor or faceless nonentities who don’t know what is best for them and need his benign coercion. Only on that premise is it evil to oppose Mr. Lewis and his ambitions, an evil now attributed to Mr. Garner. Mr. Lewis’ ambition is to recruit or coerce into the C. I. O. every working man and woman in the United States and to collect from the earnings of all

those millions by legalized extortion, in the shape of ¢

check-off, an annual tribute comparable to the Treas-

ury’s collections for the phantom fund for Social | Security.

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IS organization, starting with a concealed purpose, now openly aspires ‘to conditions which could censor out of the entire press all material hostile to the C. I. O. and suppress all books and pamphlets unfriendly to his personal leadership and the C. 1. O. as labor. With the money obtained by the income tax on the earnings of every employee in the country, the C. I. O., without assuming the obligations of government, or a

’t Work So Well!—By Talburt

. | neutrality.

The Hoosier Forum I wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

WANTS ISM ARGUMENT CONTINUED GOOD-NATUREDLY

(Times readers are invited

AN ATTACK ON PLACING

|OF ORPHANED CHILDREN

Gen. Johnson He. Looks on Denunciation of Japanese Treaty as the Last Step Short of Declaring War. ASHINGTON, July 31.—There is a general ap Y proval of our action in giving six months notice,

that we wish fo terminate the treaty in which we promisedl not to discriminate against Japan in trade.

| It was within our rights as provided by the treaty

itself. It is generally supposed that this action means that, at the end of six months, we will “quarantine” Japan, just as the President proposed at Chicago— a proposal’ which he later soft-pedalled under a ‘storm of public protest. i ; Sa That would require an act. of Congress. If the time comes to. pass that act, the country will doubtless realize that it will be an act of war—even though this notice "isn’t. » 5 There 4s a curious mixup in public opinion here. The nation-wide demand for the Neutrality Act was

| not clamor to take sides or get into war. It was an

almost unanimous demand that we take no sides whatever in foreign wars. Teno Rl aap “Neutrality” means precisely that—not taking sides. Mr. Hull’s notice to Japan is not taking sides but, if it is to lead to an embargo on Japan, it will be the last step before taking sides—which isto say the last step short of war. It is the precise reverse of

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HIS Administration doesn’t want to be neutral or to treat both sides alike. ‘To be honest and realistic, it wants to take sides in the war in China. That is obvious because if it didn’t want to take sides and yet did want -to relieve its conscience of the charge of shipping man-killing weapons abroad, it wouldn't have to go around this Robin Hood’s barn. It could just apply the Neutrality Act and proclaim the most obvious fact on earth—that there is a war in China. Then, it would automatically become unlawful to export “arms, ammunition, or implements of war.” - Why didn’t it do that frank and honest thing? Because. then we couldn’t haVe shipped instruments of - death to China either. We wanted to help kill Japs

| but not Chinamen. Also, that wouldn’t have stopped

shipments of food and other raw materials. Our purpose is to go even further. We want a strangle= hold on Japan’s jugular vein by restricting supplies even to her civilian population. There are goed military reasons. for that, but it is alsc economic war

on innocent noncombatants. Starvation of women and children is also part of modern war. : 8 = fie Yule Tovaro Europe our policy is precisely the reverse _ of this. There the Administration wants the authority to ‘embargo munitions to both sides—well knowing that in those peculiar circumstances this would also favor one side and hurt the other because the favored side controls the sea in the Atlantic but not in the Pacific. All these inconsistencies are very clever—but not very honest. 2 . It takes both houses of Congress and the President to declare war. But the President alone can apparently repeal a treaty—even though it may be the last step short of war. It was somewhat silly to oppose

good, cannot honestly concur in the widespread regret at the Rules Committee's action. The House is supposed | to legislate. If a majority of the members of that body deem it wise to support the Barden Bill, let them vote for it. But let them also look forward to 1940, and reflect that their opponents will inevitably plague them with that “dime-an-hour” tag. a Or, toput iton a higher plane than that of vote-getting, let them explain how real prosperity is going to return to this country unless purchasing power is spread a little thicker in the lower brackets.

to express their views in these columns, religious controversies excluded. = Make your letter short, so ail can have a chance. Letters must be signed, but names will be withheld on request.)

mandate to govern, would seek the power which Father Coughlin strove for a few years ago when he revealed a purpose of dictating to the government. This aim is constructively revealed in the activities and propaganda of C. I. O. members and it is just possible that there are some Americans who think Mr. Garner is guilty of no evil, nor of labor-baiting, either, but only of patriotism, in anything that he may legally do to thwart the man who could be dictator. . ; Being a severely righteous man, John L. Lewis, risen to full power, could be expected to punish such evildoers, somehow. The method would be a mere matter of detail. Hitler uses the ax and Stalin the rifle.

By Times Reader There seems to be a good deal of discussion in the Forum column about Americanism, foreign ‘fisms,” capitalism and socialism. Some contributors apparently suffer a severe rise in temperature in such discussion, while others get wearied and wish an end of it. maintain a decent standard of livI cast my vote for its continuance ing,

|—not to foist one’s belief on others, but to help clear one’s own thinking. We ought to have plenty of open discussion of problems facing

Senator Pittman’s bill for fear. it gave the President - power to get us into war. This incident suggests that he has it anyway. . The object of this column is not to criticize this action. It appears to be bold, smart and even safe horse-trading. The purpose here is to consider the next step and to comment on certain obscure aspects of what js being done. If our people want a commerce-destroying naval war in the Pacific to protest less than half a billion of private investment in Japan and China at the loss of nearly as much annually in trade and of billions more in blood and treasure, let’s go to it. We have very little to gain from it. After we are in it up to our eyes what will Hit and Muss be doing in our South American backyard? What will England and Prance do except to-laugh? “I am a

By a Reader : B Will 45,000 Negroes sleep while Rome burns? You no doubt have

read of the great saving of $43,000 by the Marion County Welfare Department. And you have read of crime and delinquency being twofold as compdred to 1938. If you could see some of the houses condemned by the City and formerly used by the township trustee who removed relief families from these homes, you could not feel very much is being accomplished. Children are taken from a steam-heated home and placed in

® 2 = MR. BOBBITT’S CHARGES VIGOROUSLY DEFENDED

THE RED.

YES—BUT?

REMEMBER, Mr. President, the scorn you heaped upon the “yes-but men”? * 22] = 0 Remember how you held up to public ridicule, derision and contempt, those who said that “yes” they favored the

humanitarian objectives of your New Deal, and then were forever adding a “but” in criticizing the methods employed

to attain those objectives?

Mr. President, you are now reported to be trying to.

make up your mind whether to sign the Hatch Bill. You

ajready have said. that, yes, you favor wholeheartedly the

objectives of abolishing pernicious political activities. Yet you have indicated that you do not think the language of|

the Hatch Bill is quite as precise and clear as it might be,

though the disputed language is virtually the same as that

which the Civil Service Commission has applied in policing the political activities of. the Government's merit system employees for more than half a century. si * * And the language is the best that Congress could draft

additional -

troversy.

after the months Senator Sheppard’s committee spent uncovering political scandals in the WPA and through the months’ of committee study, debate and con-

“yes-but” (veto? Senator Hatch and Senator Norris, who

have fought scores of your New Deal battles for you, say and they are confident. you will not make that mistake.

OR THE BALD?

ACH day brings its problems, but here is a new one for

Aviation

|By Mai. Al Williams

How Speeds of Almost 470'Miles an Hour Are Measured and Recorded.

EW YORK, July 31.—The new world’s speed rec- \_ cord. of approximately 469 miles an hour, recently -established by a:modified. German single-seater fighting plane, has more than one interesting angle. How is such speed—of free flight in the air—measured, and how are the results recorded? | The regulations covering attempts at establishing world’s straightaway speed records require that the racing plane shall be flown over an electrically-timed and photographic speed course, in level flight, and not higher than 75 meters (approximately 250 feet). The length of the course is three kilometers (about 9900 feet). At no time after the racer has left the grcund for the record attempt shall it attain a greater altitude than 400 meters (a little more than 1300 feet). Before entering the course proper, the.plane must be in level flight at about 250 feet—or not higher than 75 meters—for a distance of 500 meters.

How the Evidence Is Obtained

The documentary evidence is obtained in this fashion: At each end of the speed course (carefully surveyed, and survey attested to), a series of poles is erected. Cameras and electrical-timing apparatus are set to line up these poles. . The pole nearest the camera is the sighting pole, and farther away are two poles a very little distance apart. - The camera is set up so that the nearest pole is sighted between the two poles, and when the nose of the plane cuts this sight line, its flight time is measured until it cuts a similar camera sight line at the other end of the course. Both ends of the course are electrically connected. : : "Thus the airplane, the front pole, and the two distance poles are recorded in each frame of the film running through the camera. Electrically connected

|room table or with printer’s ink in

low earnings of Southern share-

our generation—whether it be “chewing the rag” over the dining

newspaper columns. My only suggestion is that discussion remain good-natured. : : Our times are crucial. Those competent to make the statement say politics today is “transition politics”. and the New Deal is a crisis government. Should it be sabotaged in its aims by the oligarchy of economic royalists now ruling, we are in danger of becoming a Fascist state. The writer who suggested that government should belong to the elite exclusively because as Hamil-. ton said, “Your public, sir, is a great beast” may be due for a shock when he learns that the public is endowed with a good deal of common sense. Just give it the unadulterated facts and afl opportunity to be heard.

” 2 ” NORTH'S PAY NOT SO HIGH, THIS WORKER CONTENDS By George Maxwell

Last Tuesday evening I was called « « «+ » hotel where I was offered a job at dishwashing, which I accepted. When I asked the man who hired me what the wages would be he said he didn’t know exactly, but that they wouldn't be particularly high. I took some heart when he seemed to emphasize the word “particularly.” According to the time card I started work at 6:59 p. m. and quit at 2:15 a. m. Allowing 30 minutes for lunch, this gave me 6 hours 46 minutes, for which I received the sum of $1.50. There has been not a little critfeism in the North of the pitifully

croppers. It might be of interest to

By R. W. L. Rial ~ This is to answer the Forum article of F. C. P. on July 27. Iam also speaking for myself and believe I know what I am talking about. I don’t think PF. C. P. knows what he is talking about. because in the first place, Mr. Arch Bobbitt didn’t say anything about the unemployment fund. He referred to the dishonorable 2 Per Cent Club funds which were levied on the WPA workers and which 2 Per Cent Club was originated by and operated by the Hon. Paul V. McNutt. I think F. C. P. had better wake up. as thousands upon thousands of people are doing. I myself voted for McNutt and the New (rotten) Deal but won't be fooled anymore. F. C. P. will have to admit that there has been more fraud, corruption and crookedness gone on under the four years of the McNutt Administration and the seven years of the New Deal than in all the past

homes : without - any comforts. In one condemned -house are five children with little income except. the board of these children. - Would you imagine social workers with human -hearts taking advantage of orphans to save a few. paltry dollars and sacrifice the future of these poor children? . . . There are too many persons. interested in humanity to have reputations made at the expense of helpless children. - . -|

“ss GIVES UP THE BATTLE

good neighbor.” But am I not sometimes a big sap?

Losing That Grip—

By Bruce Catton = =.

New Dealers Failing to Hold Rules - Commi ee—Which They Need.

ASHINGTON, July 31.—To understand the reason for much of the grief the New Deal has

OVER ‘AMERICANISM’

By Norman Fletcher

the matter any further. The gentle-

ever to walk the face of the earth. against the Reds. Mr. Maddox’ bel-

puzzled for a while. But I'm

years of the history of the United States. Smoke this in your pipe.

through now. He's a Nazi. hear no more from me.

I've got Maddox all figured out now and I see no use of pressing

man is just plain Nazi-minded. He thinks Hitler is the greatest gent

And he copies Herr Adolf’s rantings lowing about Americanism had me You'll

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OR years life for the Willows family revolved about the room

where William Willows, a helpless invalid, lay slowly and painfully dying. He, gallant and uncomplaining, his wife Hester, and their three children, held a high and special Place in the affection of Coveriey. Practically all the inhabitants of that staid little village expected

been merely good friends. Hester,

bors, and when Rosemary married Lionel Fletcher, the disapproving villagers called her a heartless jilt and pitied Crispin despite his protests that he and Rosemary had

after William's death, transformed his room into a music

run into in Congress this summer it is necessary to know something about the strategic spot which the House Rules Committee occupies. : As a general thing, a bill gets before the House for discussion and voting only if the rules. committee says so. Which means, of course, that it is all important for any administration to have a firm grip on the rules committee. - i - Such g grip the New Deal does not have. The committee chairman, Adolph J. Sabath of Illinois, ds a devout New Dealer—but real control of the committee has pretty largely passed to Eugene Cox of Georgia and Howard Smith of Virginia. And certain key New Deal policies, particularly those relating to labor, are anathema to these two congressmen, All of which comes to a head in the current fight over amendments to the wage-hour law. Ell ey

The Barden Amendments

The House Labor Committee, headed by Mary Norton of New Jersey, drew up ‘a set of amendments which more or less embodied Administration wishes. has ; ; They did not go far. enough for the conservative group, however,’ and Congressman. Barden of ‘North Carolina brought in a set of amendments which were - much broader. In. due time, both the Barden and - Norton bills got, before the rules committee. hon» 2 If the New Deal had-a firm grip on the House organization, the Norton bill would have come oui promptly and the Barden bill: would not have come:

room, gay and cheerful. But with Rosemary married, David, the son,

out at all. But it hasn’t worked that way.

The Norton bill got stymied. The rules committee

in America, and Penny, the younger daughter, away at school, the music room was used only when Crispin strolled over to indulge his love for piano playing. Shortly before Penny was to return home, Hester scandalized the village by taking a “pay-ing-guest,” a beautiful and mysterious Mrs. Hereford. : I Alice Grant Rosman in “William's Room” (Putnam) writes delightfully of a placid English village in drowsy summer setting and of gra--tcious lives suddenly and dramatically quickened to romance and unexpected happiness.. As if his splendid personality still lingered there, William’s room played an important part in two momentous events—the| : slow-blossoming love affair of CrisRin and Mrs. Hereford, and the strengthening of Penny’s secret ambition to become a dramatist. To Hester's deep satisfaction, Penny, caught midway between adolescence and young womanhood,

every American to toss over on his bed tonight—how ¢éan the country get along with the national chairmen of both the Democratic and Republican Parties absent from its sheres? Mr. Farley and Mr. Hamilton both have sailed for Europe. The United States hasn't been left at such loose ends, with no chairman at all to guide it, for many a long year. :

¢ - But even that problem is eclipsed by a greater one—

these critics to learn that some of their own richest oncerns are paying wages so low that no one could

Rosemary, the elder daughter, to marry. Crispin Brentwood, musical son of the Willows’ next-door neigh-

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to the cameras are oscillograpns, and to the latter, chronometers. The cameras operate at 50 frames a second. : The electrically synchronized chronometers indi cate the full seconds on the film, and the oscillograph records the subdivisions of full seconds into thousandths. Two flights are made in each direction, and the mean of the four measurements is taken as the final result, : +7

meanwhile prepared to bring out the Barden bill. The row over this brought from Cox a threat that if the Barden bill didn’t come out, no other legislation would be brought before Congress during the rest of the session, He said this in the heat of argument, and later withdrew it; but the fact that the threat could be made testifies to the committee's power.

(Heywood Broun is on vacation.)

Watching Your Health . By Jane Stafford Low N important ‘index of heaith ls found in the skin. 42 Changes in its color or texture or the appear‘ance of skin. eruptions may be the signs of disease or of faulty eating and living habits. Pale skin color may be due to anemia or some other disorder. -A. thick, dry skin may be a sign of glandular deficiency. A serious disease may be in the background when the

becam skin is yellow, darkened or blotchy. Often an apparPloy he ang je hes ently ie skin disorder serves as early warning of a more serious general illness... This being the case, it .

mother’s , thanks, largely, ot ciclo Bae pn Ap apne leg Rl dege Ry ’, —— . : condition and get proper care for it. As the U. 8. CLOUDS Public Health Service points out, “under these circum- : od : stances, the physician is more likely to be of service: EMI dIIIL | Mmm dene a pA Pa bein . “No real fault can J re of 1 ee loved lo see 10 XY ed people to appear attractive, vigorous and healthy, the s0 high, Federal health authorities state, but they emphasize: To Sway them and look and see | Teall sine Lom A adn ot Te How really glad they seem to be, Buon the conditions 2 hich sxe fonts eftects They tem ‘so T'd like to "| upon the skin, through | ne ‘effects “upon Up Let a all ih 8 8% general health, are fresh air, efficient veniiladon, un extend Sos et! shine, adequate rest and preper food. A halen inoed Across the Heaven far and low| diet including plenty of fresh green vegetables, ‘To see and be near all of them.

milk, water and a due proportion of bulky foods is a . "DAILY. THOUGHT

definite: aid to general well-being. =~ Cleanliness-is important for skin health and for a Thou. shalt not curse the deaf, nor put a stumbling block before

sense of bodily and mental well-being, Insufficient bathing allows the secretions from the sweat and fat | the blind, but shalt fear thy God; | ¥ : h 1esS I am the Lord.—Leviticus 19:14. -encourages such skin infections as ringworm and itch RN he and also. vermin. Bathing, however, can be carried

Side Glances—By

, Bow ‘will the two get along with each other? : :

p For both Mr. Farley and Mr. Hamilton are on the sam Boat, the Manhattan; on the same deck, A deck; on the

A Woman's Viewpoini By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

“FTHE medical schools do not pay enough attention to marriage,” says a well known physician, who is in favor of pre-marital psychological, as well as | physical, tests for any disease germs that might bring on. divorce in later yea:s. : : Even though John and Mary show up as perfect physical specimens, he thinks the family doctor’s work is only half done when he applies the Wasserman and other tests. Certain probings into. the mind and | soul should also be.made to discover whether Mary will be a compatible mate for John, or whether John will be able to adjust-himself to the husband role after

his years of single life. on : [ we can imagine our future groom saying, “and get his professional O. K. ;

game side of the ship. | ; : How does the ship get along with them? Which one ~ 8its at the Captains right hand? Has politics been ad- ~ journed, or does partisanship divide between the red head and the bald head? . It all makes a complication. - Which’ll it be boys? The lion and the lamb, Stalin and Trotsky or 8: couple of brother Elks? - oh

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medical laboratory would turn out any better than SR the one made in Heaven. Somewhere between the two ; extremes, men and women must always muddle through to whatever ‘happiness they are destined this earth, Sa EAN 5 =

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