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FRIDAY, AUGUST 11,1939

F. D. R. SENDS A HEAT WAVE NE sentence in President Roosevelt’s message to the young Democrats: will be quoted many times between now: and the party’s nominating convention next summer: “If we nominate conservative candidates, or lip-service candidates, ‘on a straddlebug platform, 1 personally, for my own self-respect and because of my long service to, and belief in, liberal democracy, will find it impossible to have any active part in such an unfortunate suicide of the old Democratic Party.” = pe All of which is Franklin D. Roosevelt's colorful though involved way of saying what Al Smith put in his terse: “I'll take a walk.” il so _In the months to come Mr. Roosevelt's sentence will be taken apart, phrase by phrase, word by word. It will be interpreted, reinterpreted, misinterpreted. It will be applied to this candidate, and that one, and to every plank in the prospective platform. Sc? But will it not be a bootless pursuit? For how can the experts guess the meaning of that sentence without knowing what is in Mr. Roosevelt's mind? We suspect that even F. D. R., himself, doesn’t yet know whom he will want to be the party’s standard bearers, nor exactly what he will want the platform to say. : ) But the boys will have their fun, so in the spirit of service we do our part to help the controversy along by contributing the dictionary’s definition of a straddlebug: “Long-legged beetle, as a tumblebug.” :

SOME PORTENTS OF PEACE : RESH from a tete-a-tete with Adolf Hitler, Nazi Albert Forster proclaimed in Danzig last night that reunion with Germany was inevitable. : But it is noteworthy that he did not threaten a forcible anschluss. He did not say how or when the “homecoming” would be accomplished. He only said that Danzigers were “absolutely, clearly and firmly convinced that the hour of liberation is coming.” h So the rickety door to peace remains open. | Today’s meeting at Salzburg between Foreign Ministers Von Ribbentropp and Ciano may have an important bearing on peace prospects. Count Ciano’s father-in-law, Musso-

lini, is reported to have no stomach for a war over Danzig.

Ciano may have brought a word of caution. Jugoslavia, meanwhile, is reported to have said “no” to demands that she become an economic vassal of the Axis, in case of war. From Burgos, William Philip Simms cables that all signs point to Spanish neutrality if war comes. In Moscow, the staff talks among Soviet, British and French officers are an omen, if not proof positive, of Russian adherence to the anti-Axis bloc. = . - ah : These things, on top of the new solidarity and resolution of the British and French, the militancy of Poland, the bolt of strategic Turkey, might be enough to temper the confidence of Hitler in the invincibility of his arms. © It was over-confidence that led from Austerlitz to St. Helena, and from Potsdam to Doorn. x

THE COURTS AND SAFETY

AERGT. KENNETH DICKINSON of Evanston, one of ~ the nation’s foremost traffic safety authorities, has added his voice to the pleas for stricter punishment of traffic offenders in the Indianapolis municipal courts. To Sergt. Dickinson’s contention that the local courts are the chief weakness in this city’s drive for traffic safety, Judge John McNelis has taken exception. Judge McNelis implies that if the traffic expert were to sit in Municipal Court one day he would change his mind. We prefer to think that Judge McNelis spoke hastily. The Indianapolis Times conducted a survey for the first quarter of 1939 which disclosed that traffic offenders in the two Municipal Courts paid an average of 83.4 cents a conviction. The Times repeated this survey for the first six months of the year and found that the average fine had risen to 99 cents.

We do not think such a system of fines can be defended. |

The way to safety is enforcement of the law-—by the police on the one hand, and by the courts on the other. The importance of this subject is best illustrated by the fact that 58 persons have been kilied in Marion County thus far this year. ;

C. FOR THE P. OF THE B. N.

CLUB for the Preservation of the Buffalo Nickel has been organized, appropriately, in Buffalo, N. Y. That’s one club started for a good purpose. The new Jefferson nickel may be-all right, but we regard the Buffalo nickel, with. its bison add its Indian head, as the most artistic and the most truly American coin the mints have ever -turned out. Ee :

We always have thought that dimes, rather than five-

cent pieces, should have been coined in honor of Thomas

Jefferson. He, in'a manner of speaking, was the father of

the dime, for he helped to give us the decimal money system of which it has been a part since the beginning. But he never heard of nickels, for there were none until long dfter his death. - : | _ Anyway, a great many people who don’t live in Buffalo, N. Y., will be pleased if the C. for the P. of the B. N. achieves its objective. ! BANNING BOOZE IN BOMBAY EWS of the big binge in Bombay, ushering in prohibition for that city as the first successful step in Mahatma Gandhi's campaign to make all India dry, has a reminiscent flavor to American readers. We, too, knew a night when people tried to drink all the liquor in sight, on the theory that there never would be any more.

. . The greatest difference in the two noble experiments, jerhaps, is represented by Bombay's: thousand volunteer prohibition guards” who, according to their motto, are arder than a diamond, yet softer than a flower.” We had

r prohibition agénts and snoopers, paid and voluntary, t we remember mighty few of them who could be comto.a flower—that is, withoutlibeling the flower. :

: Indianapolis Times

Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler ~~ Claims Communist: Publication

Demands Employees Belong and Contribute to Support of. Party.

ATEW YORK, Aug. 11—I would like to call the ; attention of the Labor Board, the Civil Liberties Union and the Communists to a flagrant violation of political and religious freedom by an employer. This employer discriminates against Americans on political and religious grounds, excluding {rom employment all persons who are not members of a cer tain political party. He alse requires that those who do qualify under these coercive conditions contribute a portion of their earnings to the party funds. ¥ “This latter result is accomplished by an indirect and evasive method, the catch being the employees cannot belong to the party unless they contribute and can’t get or keep jobs if they don’t belong to the party. “That is a mere dodge, however, and I am sure that the Labor Relations Board would give the employer a most violent tossing around and probably send: someone to prison if the employer were Republic Steel and the party were the Republican Party. But the employer is a Communist publication, and the party to which the employees must belong and contribute is the Cemmunist Party, and that seems to make the difference, although I don’t see Why it shoulda. ® 2 #

R contrast, let us assume that Mr. Tom Girdler, the well-known horrible example, has decreed that all of his employees must join the Republican Party and contribute a portion of their pay, on a graduated, income tax basis, to the party's chest. He also re-

quires that they attend all party meetings, take a personal part in all party demonstrations. and refrain from writing or uttering remarks derogatory to the party’s leader or contrary to the Republican platform or line. For violation of any of these requirements they

may be dismissed from the party and consequently

from their jobs. We assume that for the purpose of evasion Mr. Girdler takes on, provisionally, an occasional employee who is not an openly avowed member, but a Republican fellow-traveler or promising probationer. - So there is a great explosion against Mr. Girdler, who, to observe the parallel further, sets up two defenses. First, he says he doesn’t police the politics of his employees or demand that they scorn God. He says it just happens that most of them feel that way about politics and adds that, anyway, his fellowtravelers and probationary Republicans are living disroof. : ss = = this the examiner replies that employees are free men and women with human rights, including that of conscience and don’t have to harmonize. All they have to do is a certain minimum of work for established rates of pay. They can wear party buttons of groups opposed to the Republican Party, denounce Landon, Hoover and Hamilton if they want to, and go to church every night in the week and all day Sunday. The examiner gives him a terrible going-over and, 1 think, gets him put away in jail, and it is agreed that it serves Mr. Girdler right, because who does he think he is? But that is carrying the parallel a couple of steps too far. There is no explosion against the Communist publication, nobody is cited or prosecuted, and a man or woman still must belong and contribute to the Communist Party and repudiate God to get a job in the first place and keep it thereafter.

Business By John T. Flynn

It's Difficult to Say Whether Market Is Going Up or Down.

EW YORK, Aug. 11.—Is the stock market going up or down? By this question I mean, are we now actually in an upswing or a downswing? ‘The long downswing which began in 1937 came to

an end at the beginning of April, 1938. Then the market started up. Of course the market never goes up. It rises, sinks a little, rises higher, alternating its declines and rises, but with each rise topping the

‘last one until the movement. is at an end.

“This rising ‘movement continued until the second week of November of last year. Then the market started down and very definitely held to this general downward swing until April. Since April there has been a notion that the market has been rising. But an examination of the tops throws some doubt on this. In November the market declined slightly and then rose until the first week in January. The top in November was 111. After a slight decline and another rise the market lifted itself to 109 in the first week of January. It sank again and recovered, this time to 108. It sank again and has lifted itself to 104. Thus Wwe see that each: succeeding top since November has been lower than the last one—111, 109, 108 and 104. The general tendency has been up since April but the upward movement came to an end at a top below the top of March.

Spending Funds Still Ample

Now here is a chance for the market to reveal what its optimism, if any, is based on. Is it, so far as it is optimistic, based on the expected wholesale’ spending from the New De=al, or is it based on the reversal of New Deal spending and the dawn perhaps of an era of tapering off? My own belief is that the mild optimism which sent the market up in April was due largely to the belief that the Administration was going to move Heaven and earth to increase its spending resources because of the approach of the 1940 elections. The next question is—has there really been a reversal of the spending policy? The lending program was killed, but the Administration still has in its possession the largest appropriation ever made by any Congress in peace-time. If the .\dministration

. wishes to be generous and spend heavily it can dig

deeply into the appropriations before next January and then ask Congress for more money when the present generous supply shrinks. On the other side

| is this problem—that the spending of government

money in great chunks is not now so easy. Getting available projects is difficult and it will be even more difficult to get states and cities to put up their share for projects.

A Woman's Viewpoint

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

DEPARTMENT store display of old photographs moved me almost to boohooing the other day. There were faded tintypes, large family groups, maidens with long crinkly hair hanging over their shoulders, and little girls in ruffled hoods, and naked

babies, and stern men with beards, and boys with Fakish hats, and brides and grooms in their wedding ery.

One, more than all the others, sounded a little bell in my heart. A woman of the indeterminate gge |

which marks individuals of her generation—probably she was no more than 35—sat in a cane chair with a small barefoot boy standing rigidly beside her. By its brim he clutched a wide straw hat and his toes were clamped upon the floor as if he feared his feet might take out from under him, should he cease his vigilance over them. His right hand was posed

upon his mother’s shoulder and her hands were folded | F

quietly in a voluminous velvet lap, looking as still as

only the hands of very busy women can look. =~ = |

The eyes of both gazed steadfastly into the camera the mother’s serene as a lake at sunset, the boy’s showing signs of recent turbulence. One could imagine how she had fetched the lad in from play and scrubbed behind his ears for the ordeal. : What a funny old picture, we said! people who had brought in photographs confessed that they were of long dead relatives, whose names had even been forgotten. Perhaps that is what gave

them that hauntingly sad look. Nobody remembers |

anymore. They have no meaning, except as otographie exhibits, and yet how fiercely they were e loved. a ie : =: It's rather a pity, I think, that we do not put identification marks upon our family photographs

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DOUBTS PROHIBITION IS ON WAY BACK. By J. E. Hurst In reply to H. S. B. who states that prohibition is coming back, permit me to state a few pertinent facts. fis In 1919 states which were very wet in sentiment voted for national prohibition. any of these states were normally wet. In 1933 when the repeal amendment was submitted, many states normally dry voted for repeal. If prohibition was a good thing, why did the dry states assist in repeal of the good law? Prohibition is not coming back. A different generation is now in power. Prohibition may be ideal in theory, but it is not practical. From my observation, not from hearsay, I believe that the average tavern keeper is obeying the law. For instance, a minor will not be served, neither will an: intoxicated person. We may always expect some objections to the conduct of civil affairs, especially where the economic interest of some is affected. Let H. S. B. make a personal tour of the taverns in Indianapolis and then he will be in position to make proper suggestions. Personally I am for liberty to the individual consistent with the general welfare.

8 2 2 CRITICIZES PEGLER FOR ‘OLD HATTIE’ ARTICLE By Observer

Maybe Pegler thinks his sarcastic article on Old Hattie and the housemaids’ union quite cute. I think it plain: cheap and contemptible. Probably few hired girls have heard of such a union. If it does exist its influence and membership are small. - ; Domestic help continues to be the most exploited and underpaid group in the country. The help-wanted columns still call for Old Hatties “more for a home than wages,” meaning old women who will work 12. or 14 hours a day for two or three dollars a week. 2 And even then the great majority of the hired girls are fearful of unions, even if it means bettering their conditions. The article, like a trip to Mars, If on $8 a week, Old Hattie saved up some $3000, she deserves a lot of credit. According to reports, Pegler and some of his squawking fellow columnists could save that much a month from their salary and -still live in what Old Hat would consider luxury, even on her exorbitant salary of $12 a week. . After all, I imagine there are quite a few George Spelvins who, if forced

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

to a choice, would find even & unionized hired girl less distasteful than a certain type of crabbing columnist. ” 8 t 4 | DENIES SHELBYVILLE HAS PROSPERITY . | By Mrs. M. G., Shelbyville, Ind. I have been a subscriber of The Indianapolis Times since 1910. I

read that Shelbyville is back to

prosperity. I would like it to be that

way, but you should be down here and see all the able-bodied men who

are begging for work with no workf

to be had. I have a husband and son who have nearly run their legs off and it is the same old story—nothing doing. Why doesn’t our Chamber. of Commerce do something for this city? Let our Mayor live up to his promise that he made in the fall of 1038. Let the men work who do not want relief. 4 2 MARATHONER’S FATHER INDORSES CONTEST By John D. Wilson

As a board member of Indiana Boys’ Town, an organization whose sole interest is the welfare of boys, and a father of two sons who participated in the bicycle marathon. I indorse this latest fad of boys 100 per cent. 2 I see it as a harmless, exciting and healthful sport which gave the boys an outlet for clean sport enthusiasm

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taught them by our present-day school system. : * As long as the boys do not create disturbing noises and do not become a traffic hazard, I sée no reason why anyone would object to these hardy boys continuing this

‘| harmless’ sport which originated in

the brilliant mind of an American

” » » THINKS MOTORISTS SHOULD CO-OPERATE By Observer ia 8 It is to be hoped that motorists

will take warning from traffic ex-| ‘| pert. Dickinson’s. criticism that our

courts have been too lenient. We wouldn't be a bit surprised, now, to see the judges crack down on the careless driver. y Here's hopin’. ” = » LAYOFF PROTESTED BY WPA WORKER By WPA Worker, Martinsville, Ind. I live in the country. I have a family of wife, two girls and one boy. I am honest and want to earn a living for my family. There is not much to work at in Martinsville —only WPA. I am one of those 18 months workers and now I see our good old U. S. A. has turned down 18 months workers. There is not much to look ahead to but going back to the county trustee and receiving about

$2 a week. And still they try to teach our children in schoal to honor

‘and uphold the laws of our nation. Our country was founded on the]

laws of God, but as I see it, and as every other man can see it, there is not much of God’s ways left in law

lany more. Raise money for the

needy and then turn around and make layoffs and put more hours on them. But our time will come some day. J

New Books at the Library

“HS life began in obscurity on a small island; ‘it ended on another small island, but with the

eyes of the world centered upon;

him.” Another book on Napoleon? s one sums up his cpmplex personality for the general reader or for the college student looking for something “different,” with ' many quotations: from Napoleon's writings and those of his contempo-

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might be called a “series of studies which attempts’ to review certain aspects and characteristics of the man and his work.” George Gordon Andrews discusses Napoleon as a maker of history, as a writer of history, and as manager of men. Goethe once said, “To make an epoch in the world two conditions are notoriously essential —a good head and a great inheritance. Napoleon inherited the French Revolution.” He was both a child of the Revolution and a child of chance. 3 ? «Of all the experiences of life, man has about the least control over his parentage and the time and

place of his birth. Yet, in the case|

of Napoleoh, these were the first

| ‘breaks’ that came in his favor,

Although the life of a soldier is one of peril, he was never lacking in

J {courage. Napoleon thought of him-|.

self as the creature of circumstance. Perhaps no other person has

{been so dammed and deified. “Na-

poleon in Review” (Knopf) gives the reasons. His contemporaries viewed him with mingled feelings of

|antagonism and admiration. There

is no likelihood that agreement concerning him will ever be reached, but he will continue to captivate the imagination of mankind.

AUGUST FLOWERS By MARY P. DENNY The dandelion and the sunflower The zinnia and the marigold Their yellow light unfold, In beauty a=d in glory Beyond all written story. In molten gold and shining light

{The flowers of August shine

A beauty far like stars divine,

| In beauty glowing everywhere.

DAILY THOUGHT Also"Judah kept not the commandments of the Lord their God, but walked in the statutes of ~ Israel ‘which they made. .—Kings

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£2 : ; t § 42 7) Oddly Enough, Great Numbers of ‘Men Now Under Arms May Act as Guarantee Against War in Europe. ASHINGTON, Aug. 11.—More men are march--V ing under arms in the world this month than

ever before in a time of so-called peace. How many? Nobody really knows but, counting the more or less

mysterious massing in Russia, maybe 11 million. -

Before the World War, military experts would have

‘called this incredible. It was only then that the art ‘of handling so many men was learned. It is because,

at the end of that war, preponderance of manpower became decisive that so many commentators regard these summer mass mobilizations as certain signs of war before snow falls. But that was after two years of stalemate when only mass could win. Before war starts or battle lines become stabilized, the number of men mobilized by both sides ‘or even the mere numerical superiority of one over the other may not make for the outbreak of war. In fact there are imaginable circumstances

‘in which they could have a reverse effect. :

ULERS don’t start war unless they feel practically sure they can win and modern dictators don’t

start modern war unless they are convinced they can win quickly. To feel sure of either they must believe that there is a state of unbalanced strength and that

they are on the long side of it. ts Now either balance or unbalance is just as likely to occur, when both sides have relatively small numbers as when both sides have millions under arms. . Indeed the hope of winning a war quickly is much greater with small numbers on both sides. Combat hetween great masses is almost certain to fall into slow and tedious deadlock. If we went no further than these principles, the great August mobilizations are a sign of armed peace rather than a sign of sudden war. ° Of course, there are other principles. Numerical superiority is only one element and often not the most important. The others are: First, the skill, quality, training and temper of the troops; second, the efficiency of their equipment, transportation and supplies; third, their geographical and strategical placement. c ” » #

E know that, regardless of the number of men at arms, the British and French navies are incomparably stronger than any probable combination against them. We know that Russian equipment and

-industry are certainly inferior—that Germany's cenh-

tral position gives her an advantage—“interior lines” —against France and Poland which it would take many divisions to offset and that our own barriers of seawater can’t be crossed if we properly man them —no matter how many millions of men march in Europe. ri Finally, we know that, in spite of a smaller population, France has more highly trained reserves than

‘Germany, a better corps of professional officers’ and

non-commissioned officers and that Germany and Italy are already starving for war materials and in an impossible condition to sustain another war of long-drawn national siege.’ 5 My guess is that all this adds up to such a state

‘of balance that this universal massing and matching

of strength, instead of insuring war this year, is a fairly good safeguard against it. 3 At least, I can’t see or can't learn of any such unbalance of strength or advantage as would tempt me to dare to risk my life reputation and the existence of my country by starting war in Europe now-—if I werel Adolf Hitler. 3

It Seems to Me By Heywood Broun

He Fears This Moral Re-Armament Has Failed to Improve His Morals.

~AN FRANCISCO, Aug. 11.—I'm up to my neck in Moral Re-Armament. Dr. Buchman himself and

hundreds of his followers buzz about the hotel lobby. All the young men look precisely like Bunny Austin, and the outsider has a fear and a foreboding that the whole lot may suddenly appear in shorts and begin to volley. The Oxford accent is extremely thick, and it is difficult to get past the desk without a punt or a canoe. I must admit that the sight of the dedi~ cated young men has in no way improved my own morals. ; ; | : Of course, it would be an excellent thing if all the peoples of the world were to become men and women of good will. I: would be for spiritual and religious revival, but it is a little tough to take morals from men who wear them across:their stomachs like gold watch chains. It will do the world good to get on its knees and pray, but these prayers should not be addressed to pompous men whose only claim to divinity is that they happen to be well-heeled in financial or business positions.

Rewriting a Famous Story

It seems to me that essentially M. R. A. is attempting to rewrite the famous story of a certain rich young man who went to a great Teacher almost two thousand | years ago. Dr. Buchman’s precept seems to be that the poor should give their goods to the rich and let them be administered by the benevolent. I have a certain amount of respect for various aberrant forms of spiritual enthusiasm, even when the fervor leads to absurd and curious antics. But I prefer to take my Holy Rollers straight rather than in the streamline form which has been set by the Oxford Movement. The adage that confession is good for the soul has been accepted by men and women of various beliefs, and there may be a certain profit in self-criticism; even aside from the religious angle. And yet I cannot be convinced that the house. party method of the Buchmanites, in which experiences are swapped within the group, can be a healthful process. Every starry-eyed young man I see about the lobby seems intent upon finding six or seven others'so that he may say, “And now let me tell you all that happened to me.” Certainly there must be some line between confession and sheer exhibitionism. ‘The flanneled fervents seem ready to tell all at the drop of Dr. Buchman’s right eyebrow. They can tell me nothing. I know what it’s all about. This is just & slick device to corrupt and - undermine the labor movement. : :

Watching Your Health By Jane Stafford .

OR under $10 a week a family of four can be adequately nourished if the minimum cost diet plan suggested by Government home economists is followed. At the time the diet plan was made up the actual weekly cost at city retail prices for a family of four, including two growing children, was $0.15. For two in the family, the cost was $4.85, and for a family of seven, about $15.50. The prices may vary according to the region where you live, the size of your town and the season. ti Cereal products and milk form the basis of this diet plan. The milk allowance is one quart daily for each young child, to drink or in cooked foods, threefourths of a quart daily for each older child, and one pint daily for each adult. : Vegetables and fruits: Eight to nine servings 's week of potatoes and sweet potatoes (one daily, same= times twice); two or three servings a week of tomatoes (or of citrus fruits in season) for eack adult

‘and child over 4 years; four to six tablespoons. of

orange juice for each child under 4; five to six serve ings a week of leafy, green or yellow vegetables; two to three servings a week of dried beans, peas or pea= on one, serving daily of fruit or an additional veg~ .; ” — : Eggs: Two to three a week for adults; four or Meat or fish: Three to four times a week (more frequently if the meat dish is a meat and. cereal coms bination). or : : A cereal dish once a day, sometimes twice.

- Bread at every meal. : ; - Desserts about once a day, if desired, such as cereal oaks, shortcake and: inex-