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Give Light and the People win Find Their Own Way

TUESDAY, AUGUST 1, 1939

INCIDENTALLY, MR. ROOSEVELT

(CONCERNING the complaint that'the Hatch Bill, having : active politics to those holding Government patronage jobs, would infringe upon the individual liberties of those

_ employees, we think the following is an interesting com-

mentary—— The Civil Service Commission’s last annual report, covering the conduct of more than 500,000 classified employees who are under its jurisdiction and no-politics rule, lists only 112 complaints of political activity. Yet it lists

not a single complaint from anygzone of those half million |

employees that his individual liberty has heen restrained.

THE CLEVELAND RIOTS "OU get into a bewildering maze when you try to form *" an impartial opinion concerning the merits of the strike which resulted yesterday in savage rioting at the General Motors Fisher Body Plant in Cleveland, and in less serious disorders at other plants in Detroit. "| One thing involved is the feud of labor against labor. The original C. I. O. United Auto Workers Union has split, its president and part of ‘its members going over to the A. F. of L. More than a month ago General Motors asked the National Labor Relations Board for an election to determine which of the rival unions, if either, represents its employees. The Labor Board has not yet acted on this petition. Te ‘The present strike of tool and die workers was called by the C. I. O. Union, in an effort to obtain a supplemental agreement to the existing contract with General Motors. Among other demands, this union wants a wage increase for the tool and die workers. The strike affects the Cleveland plant and 11 other plants ‘in the Detroit area. The company has contended that it cannot legally grant the demands of the C. I. O. Union because the Labor Board has not yet determined whether that union or the A. F. of L. union represents its employees under the Wagner Act. ~ . So there are many complications. But yesterday’s rioting raised a question which is not at all complicated. That is whether strikers and their sympathizers, whatever the merits of their strike, shall be permitted to turn the streets of an American city into a battleground. The resort to violence at Cleveland, the stone-throwing, the head-busting, the turning over of automobiles, was in our opinion completely inexcusable. That is no way to settle any issue in this country.

M’NUTT LAYS IT ON THE LINE YY HaTRVER else his critics may say of Paul V. McNutt, he is not conducting his Presidential campaign on the fost that the less the voters know about his policies the etter. This week at Cleveland Mr. McNutt made a forthright speech on foreign policy, in which he expounded and indorsed the Roosevelt-Hull doctrine of co-operation with other non-aggressive nations in the interest of peace. ~~ “Those-countries,” he said, “which take the same view of peace as we do—those countries whose interest likewise is to avoid a world conflict—happen to have for the moment an interest which helps us. “In asking any country to defend the peace, or in assisting it to do so by exerting a steady influence in favor of non-war-like powers, we are not assisting that other country as much as we are assisting ourselves.” For, as Mr. McNutt said, if war comes it “necessarily will affect the United States economically, if indeed we can avoid being embroiled in actual military conflict.” As to the alternative policy of isolation, he said real isolation means “at least trebling our present navy,” it means “maintaining a military establishment capable of putting, a protective expeditionary force into any part of the new world,” it. means “abandoning many markets for our agricultural products” and “putting two-thirds of the cotton-producing states out of action,” and it means “stagnation in many, if Tot all, of our i a in the industrial East.” So, he said: “We ‘do not have the simple question of ‘minding our own business. I wish we did. We have the question of whether we will keep quiet while other people ‘Mind and mold our business for us.” Thus Mr. McNutt repudiated these statesmen who

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a Storm threatens. : It may be that foreign policy will become the paragout: issue of the 1940 campaign. If so, one of the possible - headliners on the Democratic ticket has made his position ‘in good. time. On this question, at least, we think he bias left To ‘doubt.as to ‘his position.

} Guan SHOW ON EARTH

BUDCET BALANCERS might take a tip from the report = that’ an enterprising. fellow in Washington has been addling cards of admission to the White House at a dollar Be. A If folks will pay a dollar just to peek at the East Room, wi hout a single Roosevelt in it, the Treasury ought to get me real box-office money for Such Washington attracms as these: = Knotholes ‘through which 5 hear Jim Farley’ S unvidged opinion of Paul McNutt. “Ringside seats, ‘with . appropriate refreshments, to

SF = watch. Jaek Garner “strike a blow for liberty.”

Wiretapping accommodations, * for eavesdropping on

: ‘Harold Ickes’ private comments about almost anybody.

‘Amplifiers and telescopes with which to follow the mysterious conversations #hd movements of Tom Corcoran d Ben Cohen. on : Bleacher seats in the Congressional cloakrooms, where the bombast of the floor is abandoned for the plain talk t makes the wheels go around. But let Mr. Morgenthau think up his own ideas. There's 8 ions in it!

NT BLUFF US _ Fol soa : QUISIANA staff shuffled by: Yong, says a Hibadline. No : Hatter, ‘the public has already; Srv the joker,

in Indiana, $3 a rears |]

Fair Enough By: Westbrook Pegler

This Censorship ‘Business Looks © Suspicious i in View of Some Earlier

+ Happenings in State of Louisiana. =

EW YORK; «Aug. 1A strange story appears in

‘the New York Times under the signature of Ray- |.

mond ‘Daniell and a New ‘Orleans date line. Mr. Daxiell,: an expert on political corruption in Louisi-

ana, reports that Rene Viosca, the Federal District | Attorney, warned reporters that ‘they would be cited |

for. contempt if they published the names of any more witnesses. called before the Federal Grand Jury in the National Government's investigation’ of political

‘| thievery. Some of them, at least, already had pub-

lished the fact of ex-Governor Dick Leche’s appear ance, and, I believe, in so doing, had violated a censorship established some time before, ostensibly in the public interest. “The reason given for the censorship,” Mr. Daniell says, “was that publication of the names of witnesses might help guilty persons cover up their tracks.”

He added, however, that “in spite of the failure of |

the newspapers to report that subpenas had struck in high places, the corridors of the city ‘hall and the lobbies of hotels buzzed with the news. whispered on the street corners and in the bars” and

“one newsboy shouted the names of two witnesses, al- Es

though the papers he was selling were barren of any Information about it.” ® ” 8 ”

N Vow of the fact that Federal District Atiormeys

and judges are political appointees, in view of the

bad past record of the New Deal on corruption in

Louisiana and, again, in view of the fact that this |

present expose involving political allies of the ‘Federal Administration was started by newspaper initiative, does anyone feel obliged to believe “that this censorship ‘is imposed in the public interest? Aside from the legality of the order, which is questionable and should be challenged by an overt act by some newspaper for the purpose of a test, the claim that it was made in the public interest should be weighed against the obvious fact that it could have been made for a reason exactly opposite. Secrecy and censorship also have been used to enable guilty persons to cover up their tracks, and Mr. Viosca and

Frank Murphy, himself, may be reminded that the |

record of the Department of Justice in previous charges against at least one individual involved in the present affair, is not so hot, containing as it dogs, the explanation that indictments were dismissed use of “a change of atmosphere.”

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HE record of the newspapers, on the other hand, is pretty good. What were the Department of

Justice and the Interior Department doing about all |

this up to the time that the newspapers smelled out this dead mule and told them where to find it? And certainly Mr. Murphy deceived himself if he thinks that he, a New Deal politician, repudiated by his own electorate and appointed to his present job for political reasons, is above a suspicion of political interest in a case involving men who have been New Dealers, too, in their own crude, larcenous way, since that remarkable “change of atmosphere.” Murphy, the Department of Justice and every other official and Government department connected with this case, not excepting Honest Harold Ickes, the house dick, will be watched this time and there is no obligation on anyone to accept any professed motives for smothering information. °

Business By John T. Flynn

New Lending Program Is the Same Rabbit Out of the Same Old Hat.

EW YORK, Aug. 1.—While we are debating the question of a new borrowing-lending program as distinguished from a. borrowing-spending program, it is’ well :to keep in mind that this is not something: new." TRE This kind of thing was inaugurated under President: Hoover with the R. F. C. It was Hoover who first used the expression “self-liquidating” projects. There was then a demand for a Government spending program. And Hoover finally came around to the point of at least tentatively considering the policy of “investing” Government funds, that is, spending Government money for recovery purposes but only where care was exercised to get the money back. That policy was continued under President Roosevelt. And already enormous sums of money have been put out and various agencies formed for this very purpose. As a matter of fact, there is outstanding at the present time investments of one sort or another, loans to railroads, banks, business, farmers, home ownmers, in Government projects like the Tennessee Valley Authority, houses, etc., amounting to 1212 billion dollars. There are 36 agencies making loans and investments.

Where Does It All Come From?

Where has all this money come from? It has come from bonds issued by various agencies—some of them guaranteed by the United States and some of them not guaranteed and from funds supplied by the Government out.of the huge borrowing for recovery. As a matter of fact, this is an important point to keep in mind when considering the public debt. If you look at the daily Treasury report you will see the, public debt put down (as of ‘July 17) at $40,615,000,000. But this leaves out all the bonds of the various lending and spending agencies which the Government has guaranteed. These amount to $5,441,000,000. In he words the debt of the country is the $40,615,000,000 jt owes directly" and the $5,441,000,000 it owes indirectly a total of over 46 billion dollars®

Now of the five and a half billion in bonds guaranteed by the Government, how much this will the Government be stuck for? No one c tell yet. Nearly three billion is secured by mortgages on homes —very poor risks, by the way—taken over by the H. O. L. C. and another $1,300,000,000 is secured by mortgages on farms. Foreclosures on homes have already been heavy. From the beginning I predicted that at least half of this money would be lost. I still think that a moderate estimate. This new lending program is being touted as if it were a new rabbit. But it is nothing of the kind. It is merely a plan to add another three billion in dubious lending to the twelve billion already made.

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

HE other night I was one of a vast crowd who sat

outdoors listening to a 72-piece orchestra. A good many people enjoy symphonic music, although a great many more in this country prefer baseball. We can pick no real quarrel with the latter

group, only I wonder sometimes whether we actually %

know what we are missing.

Do you remember how certain tunes carry you |.

back to some almost forgotten incident of childhood or youth; how songs evoke the faces of friends, long since gone from earth; and how moods can be relived When old familiar melodies are heard? . That feeling is as deep-seated and as universal as:

our racial instincts. And we all know that its music |

tells, better than words, the story of a nation’s past. Has it been happy? Has it been tragic? Songs’ will give the answer. -

Musicians (say that the only true ‘American music |

has been created by our Negroes, whose spirituals and syncopations ‘and soft minors relate the whole sad saga of an alien people in a strange land. At any rate, so long as we measure our wealth by our knowledge and our capacity: for enjoyment, we

must admit that the richest among us are those who |

understand best the great arts. n it comes to music, I am but an outsider trying to peep in at the window. But-I envy with my whole heart the person who tinderstands the language of Bach and Debussy, who: is at home with Wagner and walks at ease in those cathedrals where the inSompatable Bagthoven trod. envy because I know he lives in a beautiful and splendid world I shall. never enter—unless I am smart enough to push my way longing and a love for its glories,

into it by cultivating a el

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The Hoosier Forum

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

CLAIMS WATER CO. PRICE 9 MILLIONS TOO HIGH

By E. S. Brown The paramount Issue today with the property owners and taxpayers is: Are we as such to allow ourselves to be bull-dozed and humbugged into letting the Mayor and the City Council contract for a public utility that is not worth a red cent more that its tax value of $15,000,000? Major Sullivan and his water

company purchase proponents have not offered a single laudable reason why the City should acquire another over-valued utility—thereby hamstringing the water users in offering protests against inferior service and impure water because of political influence in the utility operation. Public. ownership is a joke of the rankest- quality. We have an ‘example in the Citizens Gas & Coke Utility. I am a taxpayer in Indianapolis and am opposed to any such transactions as the purchase of a privately-owned public utility. - If the C. H. Geist heirs can sell their over-valued water company property to private parties, let them sell it. Why should we obligate our-. selves to pay at least $9,000,000 tribute for the sake of owning or controlling another white elephant? . I am a Democrat and believe in the principles of true democracy. We'll soon start an open fight against any proposed increase in our present tax rate. By eliminating unnecessary overhead in all branches of our City, County and State government, our tax rate can be appreciably cut—enough so that it will be an inducement for new industries to locate in Indianapolis and Marion County.

2 nn 8 RESENTS EARLY CLOSING FOR RESTAURANTS By Jack Sachs, Bloomfield, Ind.

Now the Indiana Liquor Industry, | in its four-point clean-up program,

is considering having all restaur-

ants and cafes which do not have beer or liquor licenses: close the same hours that taverns and beer Joints are forced to observe. This is advocated on the alleged grounds that these cafes, etc., allow liquor to be self-served and even furnish the setup. v This is an insult to the restaurant

and cafe owners of the State who.

have kept their business free from liquor and beer and who have been put to the trouble of keeping out drunks “who' stagger in. and ‘demand it.

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

making any money in the liquor and beer business they do as the cafe owner—close up. . . . It will not | be necessary to worry much longer, for there will be plenty of liquor control under a Setup ‘that they may not prefer. . 8 2 = THINKS SYMPATHY WASTED ON WPA By The Observer All of - this maudlin sympathy for the WPA workers is out of place. If

‘they were ordered to work for a dol-

lar a day, they would submit without a murmur. It is impossible to organize them or get them to act in unison about anything. The . Administration cannot be .| blamed for everything. Men have to show some inclination to help themseives and help each other. This latter trait seems to be absolutely lacking in the average American. Do not ‘waste too much sentiment on the WPA ‘worker. If he doesn’t know what it is all about, he will . . . this winter.

Soning to Mr. Spengler, in his “De-

And, ac

cline of the West,” ‘we are now in the final stages of collapse for this particular era, so why worry about anything? 2 8 = | IS SHOE ON OTHER FOOT? AN INTERESTING QUERY By Francis ‘Evans A few short years ago Roosevelt confounded his critics by declaring in a fireside chat: “Our opponents say they dre in favor of the aims of the bill, but do not approve of our methods. Don’t let them fool you. They would say that about any method.” 1 notice now that Mr. Roosevelt,

.| referring to the Hatch Bill, said he

was “absolutely” in favor of the bill's aims, but was doubtful as to the methods—this, he explained, being a grave question over: its consti. tionality. . . 1s the shoe on the other foot?

t 4 ® » NOT SO MUCH FOR LEWIS . BUT ‘AGIN’ GIRNER - : By T. Ww. I've just read John L. Lewis’ attack on John Nance Garner, -My estimation of Mr. Lewis, heretofore pretty low, goes up five or six notches. In my opinion, the present Vice President of the United States is the lowest form of politician I have ever heard of. He is an unscrupulous behind-the-scenes manipulator. The American system calls for the] ‘cards on the table. But Mr. Garner deals ‘em out of his sleeves . -and under the table.

I'm for Lewis in this deal.

New Books at the Library

ASHINGTON IRVING paint-' y V ed the Adirondacks as being so peaceful that any of his readers may: have wanted to try Rip Van Winkle’s trick. In “Adirondack Tales” (Little), ‘Eleanor Early pictures the.same country as one with

far too: “interesting a background to’

let any visitor sleep for more ‘than’

to make the trip compleis. Saratoga still remembers the dinner. Diamond ‘Jim Brady gave, at which the souvenirs were diamond-

studded stop watches for the men|

I suggest that if they are notand a .diamond brooch for each

Side Glances—By Galbraith

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BY NEA J. M. REC. U. 8. PAY. OFF.

jit you, Tom—but it gay “durin 0

I {1 still love moonlight promenades’ :

{All of 20 paces. : If you will help me’ start a’

1 ‘With links-of lve soft spoken.

lady. Six miles away General Grant, an invalid, wrote his “Memoirs” and died. And Fort Ticonderoga is haunted by the ghosts of ‘Ethan Allen and his Green Mountain Boys. The : Catholic Summé School at "Cliff Haven has drawn enrollments ‘from -South*’ America, | ‘Honolulu,

are on the guest ™¥

‘that Joyce Kilmer wrote these lines,

“Poems are ‘made by fools like me, “But only ‘God can. make: a tree.” Lake Placid Club was founded by Melvil Dewey as his home because, he and his wife had hay fever. In the beginning it was patronized by professional folk: none of them drank, no used ‘profanity, and the ladies never smoked. It is said that a glamour girl is as safe as a nun at Placid. An indoor skating rink brings winter sport to the Club in summer and a toboggan slide with 26 turns provides thrills for winter carnivalgoers. Eleanor Early creates interest in the hills for their land and water

tops, and for the spots that sum-

{mon memories of past. events.

HELP WANTED

‘By MAIDA L. STECKELMAN

I must find another dream, My last one ‘has been broken: O,.help me find ancther’ dream To hold this salvaged. token:

{I .still have warmth within my heart

And ‘sparkle in my eyes—

‘And laughing’ quips upon my lips

To flaunt to lowering. skies.

‘And beauty's filmy graces; = ‘Can éven read a neon sign i

Before ‘my song lies broken 1 promise one in rainbow hues

—— - DAILY. THOUGHT

"And ye shall ‘keep my statutes, and do them: I am the Lord Win iid you. — Leviticus

45 Fain tiought To.tlee trem the “work that God appoints us, for

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Gen. Johnson

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He Tums to Riiyme to Put the Heat on Corcoran and Cohen For Recent New Deal Reverses.

Wi emeration” D. c, Aug. 1—An impossible conversation to the tune ot Gallagher and

Shea: Mr. Cohen! Oh, Mr. Cohen! What has happened in this Congress to our own? All the bills you wrote are ditched : All our policies are switched 2 }

| Is it our fault, Mr. Corcoran?

Almost wholly, Mr. Cohen, 2 = = : Why; Mr. Corcoran! ‘Why, Mr. Corcoran! Let's not become, discouraged or despair What with Franklin’ ’s charming touch And 10 thousand million bucks We can buy another mandate With a Jot of votes to spare. 2 = 8 Why Mr. Cohen! Say Mr. Cohen! Do you realize the hot spot that we're on? The party's split in two, And it looks like Franklin’s through - Every bust was our invention, We're calamity Cork and Cohen. EJ 2 #» y Oh, Mr. Corcoran, oh, Mr. Corcoran, You don’t talk about, the great deeds that we've In a spirit of clean sport, : We have packed the Supreme Court, And every key-job in the setup With a yes-man of our’own. Ne ” 8 Yes, Mr. Cohen, yes, Benny Cohen, That is only a small part of what we've done. We have capital on the run . We've put business on the bum ‘We've stalled the whole machinery And it’s been a lot of fun. 3. #2 8 True, Mr. Corcoran! True, Mr. Corcoran, There’s much more that we can call our own. We've emptied Uncle’s sock: And we've put old Sam in hock

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And it’s only just begun. : 2. 8 8 Oh, Mr. Corcoran! ‘Oh, Mr. Corcoran! I still don’t see the clouds above the throne. Just turn on a fire-side chat

Show the Tories where they're at. Mr. Roosevelt's still an idol.

Not with Congress, Mr. Cohen. : ® 8 2 Why, Mr. Cohen! Oh, Mr. Cohen! Let’s pray to see those rubber stamps go home. They stamped “yes” two years ago But now all they stamp: is “no.” Cork, we still haye our positions. In the dog-house, Mr. Cohen. in hk 8 = =» Oh, Mr. Corcoran! Oh, Mr. Corcoran! If what you say is true we ought to roam. We have jimmied up the jobs For party, selves and boss. Yes, none could do it better. You said it, Mr. Cohen. 2 8 =» And, Mr. Cohen! Oh, Mr. Cohen! When the boss wakes up to what to him we've done, I would rather take a chance With evil old John Nance Upon whom we sicked John Lewis THan with Franklin, Mr. Cohen.

Aviation By Maj Al Williams -

United's Order for New Teaniport J Harbinger of the Future.

TEW YORK, Aug. 1.—The big planes are coming into service, all right—four engined, 42-passenger, weighing 66,000 pounds, and costing $500,000 each. - W. A. Patterson; president of United® Air Lines, so notified the executives of Eastern Air Lines, American Airlines, Pan American, and TWA, all of whom are parties with United Air Lines to a contract with the Douglas Aircraft Co. for construction of an experimental plane of this type, on which tests have recently been completed. The new transport giants are the DC-4’ , and the decision to purchase six of them is based upon a careful analysis of the air traffic market. United's coast-to-coast passenger business this year i552 per cent ahead of last year's figures. | There's operating economy in staying aloft for long flights if you can get a. profitable payload. Frequent landings for gas and oil, withr through coast-to-passengers on board, is too expensive. Short jauls—short for sir transvortation, such as between New York and Chicago—will be covered by DC-3’s, 14-passenger Ships. Frequency of service is still at a premium. The reported ‘top speed of the DC-4's is 237 miles an hour; cruising speed about 190. At 190 miles, with 42 passengers plus 3000 pounds of baggage and mail, the DC-4’s “will be good for 1425 miles—about half the air distance across the countrysin one jump.

What Tomorrow. Holds

The crew will consist of a captain, a first officer (co-pilot), a flight engineer, a stewardess and a steward. The addition of ‘a flight engineer is significant, in that his presence is necessitated by the big job of caring for four engines. A pilot and a co-pilot can take care of two engines and - attend to flight control.” But watching

. fuel-flow gauges, heat control to carburetors, cutting

in and cutting out of any series of the eight gas tanks, regulation of temperature control, and “supervising general engine operation, ‘ plus walking ‘out in the wings to atténd to his engine charges as: required, is a full-time job for a smart engineering officer. = - These air giants are mighty impressive. It’s easy to understand why thin-winged airplanes fly, but there is always a catch in my mental breath: when I realize that the same air-flow principle to develop lift applies to wings several feet thick. : And we are only scratching the surface of what is to come. With the mew 2000-horsepower engines, we'll have a lot of giant twin-motored airplanes:

(Heywood Broun is on Yacation,)

Watching Your Health

By Jane Stafford

'AMINS from foods are important for health

and normal growth, as most people now know.

but there are other things which affect growth. A

‘| powerful influence is exerted byfeertain of the glands

of the

The glands achieve their effect through the chemthey produce, Insulin, the diabetes remedy, and adrenalin are familiar hor mones. Both the glands and their hormones vonstis tute a closely interrelated system acting more or less * action and sometimes, the teamwor, Ks e gland | or ‘its ‘hormone acting ‘mntagonist ; : The glands . chiefly :

~ | pituitary, small gland at the ol ot Ro "| the large U-shaped thyroid.

‘gland in the Ww when enlarged, is'r ‘a8 a goiter, 7 - The pituitary gland makes two hormones: which , called the growth hor morie, -has been successf ly to: treat Children. wha showed signs .of being dwarfs. The pituitary gland also makes one or’ {probably two hormones which affect sexual development, and so in'a way affect growth. These hormones, however, are antagonistic to’ the growth hormone from the

‘same gland. Patients with the pituitary gland disorder of seromegaly. for. example, grow as big as

nts. While the pitui rowth hormone stimu] general growth, the “hormone affects differently through ard Coin of the bodys s utilization Retaneek Growth in height is

d hormone, but so are-other

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