Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 August 1939 — Page 10

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MONDAY, AUGUST 28, 1939

NIPPON’'S DILEMMA HILE Europe is swirling toward a denouement which will spell peace or war, the impact of the crisis upon the Far East may well change the whole course of events in that quarter of the globe. But whether for better or for worse remains to be seen. That the Moscow-Berlin deal was as much of a bombshell to Japan as it was to the Western world is daily becoming more evident. Precisely as the democracies were betrayed by the communists, Japan was sold down the river by the Nazis. As a result the cabinet of Premier Baron Kiichiro Hiranuma resigned today and the Emperor is getting together a new government. True friends of Japan will have to exercise considerable self-restraint to keep from saying: “I told you so.” Ever since 1981, when the wild-eyed younger element of the Army began to get the upper hand and started to reach for the moon. these friends have repeatedly warned Nippon that she was riding for a fall. And now it has happened. ” ® ~ ” . » HE chief Japanese dupes of Berlin, of course, are the voung officer group in the Army. The older and wiser heads both in Army and civil life, together with pretty much all the Navy crowd, all along have opposed the tooambitious policy of Far Eastern and world conquest. But, as in certain other countries, the majority have been swept along despite themselves by a bolder, more active and less scrupulous minority who have not hesitated to resort even to mutder and. terror to gain their ends. Theirs was the idea to strip British and other Western men and women naked before snickering, jeering coolies, realizing that such public humiliation and degradation would lose more face for the Western powers than defeat in a major battle. Such a policy was clearly ill advised. Its sponsors completely overlooked the fact that Germany herself is not only an occidental power, but equally fanatical on the subject of racial superiority—Nordic superiority. They forgot, too, that Germany “must export or die,” according to Herr Hitler, hence regards the Far East—where almost half the population of the globe are congregated—as potentially the most promising trading area in the world. It should have been clear from the outset that Germany would not deliberately turn the entire Orient over to Japan. 2 2 ” " = ” OW, Japan is looking for some place to go. It will not be easy to find. Her best friends all along have been Britain and America and moves toward some sort of rapprochement with these may be expected. But this, also, will be difficult. But Japan, if she will, can make a start. She can put her barbaric young hot-heads back in their place and restore within her shores some of that old chivalry and culture which we used to think of as peculiarly Japanese. If she refuses, her sun may soon begin to set.

MISGUIDED PATRIOTS

FTER the sensible people of San Antonio think it over, we believe—at least, we hope—they will register their disapproval of the talk now current about an attempt to recall Mayor Maury Maverick because he permitted and tried to protect a meeting of Communists in the Municipal Auditorium. Undoubtedly Mayor Maverick defied a large body of opinion in the Texas city when he authorized the Communists to use the auditorium and when he detailed policemen and firemen to stand guard. But he was right. He was upholding the sound American principle that freedom of assembly and speech should be accorded not only to the politically orthodox but also, and most importantly, to those whose doctrines are hateful to the majority. The several thousand self-styled patriots who broke up the Communist meeting, storming the auditorium with stones and clubs, were in fact attacking democracy. American Communists, especially since they have undertaken to explain and defend the new alliance between Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany, have been doing a first class job of making themselves ridiculous. The more they are permitted to talk, the more likely it is that they will get themselves laughed into impotence. It is when they are silenced by force that they are enabled to pose as martyrs and to surround their cause with a certain false dignity. A false dignity, of course, it is. It is absurdly inconsistent for Texas Communists leaders to appeal, as they have, for Federal protection of their civil liberties—the same liberties which are most ruthlessly suppréssed in their beloved Russia. But it is worse than inconsistent, it is profoundly dangerous, for Americans to believe and act on the assumption that patriotism can be served by adopting the tactics of Hitler and Stalin and by attacking an official who, like Mayor Maverick, dares attempt to enforce the Bill of Rights.

ONE DANGER REMAINS

UTOMOBILES are being built safer and safer each year. Roads are better designed, so as to eliminate hazards. Next year's automobiles will probably be mostly equipped with a new “sealed-beam” headlamp which will tend to eliminate road glare. This invention, which is expected to rank with four-wheel brakes, safety glass, and all-steel bodies as a safety feature, was developed jointly by the lamp and motor manufacturers who pooled their krowledge and experience to produce it. An excellent example of co-operation, by the way. A new type of safety glass which eliminates side-win-dow distortion and undue eyestrain is also to be introduced by one company, and new bodies partly made of transparent plastics are to be introduced. Yes, automobiles are being made safer each year. The one safety factor that seems hardest of all to improve is the fool behild the wheel. | | |

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Fair Enough

By Westbrook Pegler

Good Citizens of Saratoga Up in Arms Over 'Un-American' Prosecutor Who Has Clamped Lid on Gambling.

ARATOGA SPRINGS, Aug. 28.—There is a dangerous undercurrent to civic indignation in Saratoga as the racing season goes into its last week and the gambling rooms of the region remain dark due to the sinster influence of the District Attorney, a Republican by the name of Alfred Simon. This is the second successive summer that Mr. Simon has placed Saratoga under a scourge of strict law enforcement, and he still has one year to go, unless he can be removed from office for his flagrantly un-American conduct or be enjoined by some combination of bad government leagues and societies, The local public is aroused, because gambling is one of the principle industries of Saratoga, and never before has the law been enforced for one summer in succession, much less than two. Mr. Simon, however, has taken the law into his own hands, as you might say, and has been riding roughshod over the very well-springs of Saratoga's sacred

heritage, for which the founding fathers shed their blood on the battlefields beyond the city a long time

ago. He has raided some fine old institutions in the

outskirts, and a detective has been suspended from the local force because somehow some gambling tools, including three wheels and a bird-cage, became lost or mislaid in transit to the local police station.

N view of the fact that such tools usually become lost or mislaid in such circumstances, not only here but everywhere else in the United States, this procedure has come to have the force of legal custom. Moreover, the citizens are particularly sensitive, because this is the 75th, or diamond, jubilee of -the racing and gambling industries in Saratoga and they feel that he has gone out of his way to show contempt for some fine old 100 per cent American traditions. Last year, after two weeks of Mr. Simon's tyranny, the taxicab drivers held a protest parade demanding that he be restrained from interfering with an industry which provided them and many other townsmen with milk for their innocent babies. Stickers were printed and pasted around town reading “we want action in August, not relief in December,” and labels bearing some protest were attached to loaves of bread and other groceries.

R. SIMON was accused of starving little children, and feeling ran so high that it was thought that surely he would respect the decent opinion of the community this year. But this year he has been more un-American than ever. He is a terrible embarrassment to the Republican Party, too, and oldtime regular Republicans, steeped in Americanism, privately disown him and insist that he probably is a secret New Dealer. Mr. Simon, on his part, just says he is enforcing the law according to his oath and his campaign

promises and refuses to admit that his own interpre- | tation of the law, his oath and his promises is con- | trary to the spirit of true Americanism. This only |

makes the honest citizens of Saratoga wilder, because it is a plain implication that their own brand of Americanism is not the authentic type. It is felt that he double-crossed the electorate in his campaign because in repeating the ancient slogan “crime must go!” he did not say “positively.”

Business By John T. Flynn

European Crisis Proves Congress Right, F. D. R. Wrong on Neutrality.

EW YORK, Aug. 28.—The present situation makes fairly clear the wisdom of Congress in not passing the so-called neutrality law which the President wanted. Instead it left on the books the old neutrality law, somewhat impaired by the expiration of some of its provisions. The neutrality law as it stands is certainly no prize package. It is not the neutrality law which the advocates of such a law wanted. These neutrality advocates framed a law which was designed to be a real neutrality law. But the Administration wanted

a law which, while being called a neutrality law, was |

in fact the very opposite, a law to put into the President's hands the power to put us on one side or the other of any war which might arise. The best evidence of this is the President's statement after the law he asked for was denied. He said the action of Congress tied his hands, that he now was unable to fire a third “shot” for peace. His shot for peace was a plan to put the energies of this gov-

ernment as far as he could, short of war, on the side of England and France and Poland. That might be a proper thing to do. Perhaps the people would want that. But that is not neutrality.

A Decision for Congress

The failure of Congress to give him these powers left the old law on the books with the cash-and-carry provision left out because it expired. Defective as the law is as it now stands, it has one virtue. It prevents the President from taking sides in this quarrel. This does not mean that we should not take sides. Perhaps we should. My own view is that we should not. But the great point is that if we are to take sides the people of America through their Congressional representatives should have the chance to say so. It ought not to be done secretly, and on the judgment of one man. Conducting the ordinary foreign affairs of the state is the business of the executive. But even these, however minor, he cannot carry to the point of agreements and treaties without the approval of the Senate. When it comes to putting the nation into a war, either with soldiers or with our economic strength, that should be, not an executive, but a legislative and executive function. So it stands today. The President must now call Congress into session if he wishes to throw the resources and energies of this country into the war on the side of Poland or England and France. That is a fortunate circumstance and if that is the case we owe it to the neutrality act, defective as it may be.

A Woman's Viewpoint

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

DON'T mind telling you there are moments when E. Roosevelt loses some of her glamour and becomes a thorn in the feminine flesh. I've just known one of them. “My Day” has spoiled my day. It was vacations that began it. For two weeks I'd worked overtime getting ready to head out for a fortnight's jaunt into the woods. When I think of the items I'd looked after, the details that had my attention, to say nothing of the regular daily stints, with an advance supply thrown in, I felt all set up with myself. “Not bad,” I said, “for an Old Girl.” The strawberry jam and grape jelly were out of way; the yard man had his instructions; the rugs were up and the curtains down, ready for the cleaner; the letters were answered, the bills paid and the children settled so they could manage without Mother, Knowing, then, that no detail had been overlooked, I rose in the morning filled with a sense of righteousness. My self-esteem was inflated, but not for long. Only until I picked up my favorite newspaper, scanned the column, “My Day,” and found that the President's wife had been going through the same shenanigans. She had everything done, too, and beside her feats of energy and foresight, mine looked like the ineffectual dawdlings of an amiable turtle. “I've begun on my Christmas list,” wrote the First Lady, in that casual tone she adopts to announce some of her most remarkable feats. “Oh, she has, has she!” I snarled at my coffee cup. “Well, she'd better quit telling us about it in August when the thermometer is up around 104.” It's those little things that turn lempered wom into shrews”

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MONDAY, AUG. 28, 1939

The Hoosier Forum

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

REPLIES TO YOUTH'S QUERIES ABOUT WAR By M. L. M.

In response to young Ralph Wall's query as to why 76 per cent of the American people feel that this country’s involvement in the next war is inevitable, I should like to give him my viewpoint. A nation cannot remain isolated and live any more than an individual can.

We entered the World War, not to save democracy—which was rallying slogan and an ideal toward which to work—but because the continuous German sabotage within our borders and their unscrupulous destruction of our merchant ships, gave us no alternative. The burning of flour mills, bombing of munition plants, poisoning of cattle cost this Government three times the amount of sending our troops to France. I heard Baron von Neurath an{nounce in Stuttgart in 1937 that ithe Nazi Government was carrying lon an intensive and extensive propaganda campaign in the United | States and this Government dared not interfere. The State Department voiced no protest and in less than a year we became aware of Nazi {raining camps from coast to coast. A defeated England would mean Germany in Canada, in the West Indies, at the entrance to the Panama Canal. It is a question of vital interest to every American. Are we going to remain apathetic and allow this to happen? ” n 2 THINKS GERMANY JUSTIFIED IN DEMANDS

By H. S. Germany may be wrong in demanding a return of the territory taken from her by the Treaty of Versailles. It was taken by the “victors,” who are like the king who can do no wrong. It would be nice if Adolf would quietly accept the decree of thie democracies as to the permanence of the status quo. The world will be kept in an uproar as long as the Allies insist on holding stolen goods. They may save money by sitting around the table with Adolf, and peaceably giv-

al

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ing back what is in the grab bag, including the African colonies.

» » ” OPPOSES HELP FOR BRITAIN AND FRANCE |By T. J. Wright, Martinsville

| There is much speculation at {home and abroad as to what part [the U. 8. will play in the world war now making in Europe. We, the people, through our gov'ernmental representatives, should {serve notice that we are not going {to be pulled into any foreign con[flict, but will stay at home and mind our own business—we haven't | forgotten the sacrifice made to make the “World Safe for Democ|racy.” Let England and France {fight their own battles—we should remind them of the balance due on money loaned to them during and after the last war, and sacrifice of our brave soldiers. If any of our ships are sunk, we should be sure what nation's submarine does it-—not guess it is a German submarine, when in fact it may be an English submarine, seeking to drag us into war to pull their

Koglant's chestnuts out of the re. Probably sentiment in America favors England and her allies, but let that be as it may, we do not need to become involved in her fights. Let the United States strengthen their army, navy, and aerial fleet with new recruits, build all kinds of equipments essential in war, until we are amply able to defend ourselves against all world aggressors, then we will be a safe democracy— a peaceful and prosperous nation, setting an example that will do more to bring about “peace on earth, good will to man” than all the political grand standing and meddling into others’ affairs that can be engineered by foxy diplomats abroad, and cheap politicians at home, When Enland, France and their Allies realize they must fight their battles without the aid of the U. S., and buckle into the job as brave soldiers should in defending their own firesides, they can and will win, Every American—every true American is proud of our country, our flag and all she symbolizes and will give his last drop of blood in defense of Old Glory when any aggressor sets foot on American soil or drops a bomb on our most obscure village. ~ ” ” GIVES DEFINITION OF

EUROPEAN SITUATION

By E. R. Following is a definition of the present world situation: England is willing to fight to the last French soldier for the interest of the Polish landlords.

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Gen. Johnson Says —

England and France Have Blundered Into Near Disaster, but Why Should We Get Into It to Rescue Them?

ASHINGTON, Aug. 28—There is respectable opinion that if war comes now, the whole of

| the British and French Empires will be at stake and

that we cannot afford to see a German victory that would give the Nazis footholds in British and French possessions in the Caribbean, South America, the Pacific and let them command our supply of tin and rubber from the Straits Settlements and the East Indies. This seems to me a little far-fetched. It covers too much territory. But let us suppose it is true. The obvious conclusion is that we must prepare to support the British and French with resources, certainly—with money, probably, and with men and arms possibly. Let us say that all this is also true. But let us not blink at the facts when we say it. For this is war. It is war whether we send troops abroad or not. When we have become a base of supplies for belligerents we have bought a ticket to a massacre. Let us say that even this is advisable and necessary right now, If it is, then when or whether we get into war or not depends not on any wish or policy of ours but solely on what Britain or France—and

Hitler—may do. ” » ” E cannot control or influence Hitler. He is hostile. But if our peace and perhaps our fate is to be decided on the policies and statesmanship of Britain and France—or, as now, Poland—and we have not even a word in the matter, we certainly are in a bad fix. The history of diplomacy may show some more boneheaded blundering than that recently of France and England, but the instances are few and far between. Consider the present jam in which they find theme selves. They are pledged to help Poland against Ger=many. Take one look at the map and ask yourself how? They have no land access for armies and supplies to Poland except through Rumania and Bulgaria which are supposedly neutral. An expedition to Poland by land or sea would have to move on exterioe lines at impossible distances—constantly flanked. Even the British Navy has a serious problem. n it strikes through the Baltic, it exposes the Mediter= ranean and conversely, the highly fortified lines on both sides of the Western front are almost certain to insure stalemates and a freezing of vast armies in inactivity. ” N air war of great destructiveness might follow A put it is almost certain that it couldn't save Poland and Poland, just now, is the sole subject of dispute—or rather that subject is Danzig and a part of Poland. That is relatively unimportant territory deep in the heart of Europe, which has changed hands many times. The existence of neither Great Britain nor France depends on Danzig and the Corridor and certainly ours does not. The dictatorships are taking paths that lead straight to a world war which we may not be able to avoid, but let's have some say on when, where and for what we will fight. Let's run our own war policy and not turn it over to Mr. Chamberlain. In spite of all the ballyhoo we are not ready for any war— not remotely ready and neither is England and France. Hitler is. If we assent to or encourage or engage in a fight let's choose an occasion that cone cerns us and a time when we have at least a Chinae man’s chance. - y

U. S. Roundup

By Bruce Catton

Significance Is Seen in Tieup of C. I. O. and Farmers in Milk Strike.

(Eleventh of a Series)

ICA, N. Y., Aug. 28.—The significant thing about the recently-ended milk strike was neither the violence that accompanied it nor the success which the embattled farmers won. Those were the things that made the headlines; but the really important development was a little farther under the surface—the fact that this strike saw the American farmer working hand in hand with the C. I. O. For a long time, leaders of the C. I. O. have reale

ized that one of the biggest obstacles in their path was the almost universal fear and distrust which the average farmer had for their organization. It has been a reflection of this motion, as much as anything, which was responsible for the C. I. O.'s reverses in

this last session of Congress; and nothing has seemed

much more important to the C. I. O. high command than the effort to find some way, somewhere, some« how, to make some sort of tieup with a bona fide farm group. That finally happened in the New York milk strike. Part of that was due to Archie Wright, leader of the Dairy Farmers’ Union. Born on a farm and now a farmer himself, Wright roved far and wide in his younger days, and for a long time carried a card in the Maritime Union. He was one farm leader who did not need to be “sold” on the C. I. O. Another factor was the appearance on the scene of capable William Gandali, hard-bitten representative of the Transport Workers’ Union in New York City, who was “loaned” t6 the Farmers’ Union by the state C. 1. O. authorities.

Added ‘Professional’ Touch

Gandall acted as Wright's executive officer. Une questionably a good part of the success of the strike was due to the “professional touch” with which Gandall was able to infuse it. To watch him give ing instructions to a set of picket-squad leaders—e the crisp, citified labor leader and the overalled, sunburned farmers—was a liberal education, Admittedly, taking C. I. O. help was a hard pill for some of the farmers to swallow. But they did manage to get it down. Sam Schau, dairy farmer who was strike leader for Chenango county, estimates that when the strike began all but a handful of the 1100 strikers in his county were very dubious about taking C. I. O. help. Before the strike ended, however, he says, only a few score of them had any remaining doubts. It will be interesting, incidentally, to see what the

|tarmer-labor picture is like today farther west, where

it has been a definite political factor.

Watching Your Health

By Jane Stafford

AS the vacation season draws to a close, thousands of families will be trying to rush home in motor cars driven as swiftly as crowded highways permit. Unfortunately, there are likely to be many accidents. If you know what to do in such an emergency, you may save someone's life, or shorten the recovery time of a person injured in such an accident. Insurance company’s doctors have drawn up several rules for your guidance on such occasions. 1. Switch off the ignition of any car that has Been involved in an accident. If there is a smell of leaking gasoline, keep smokers away. 2. Don’t move the victim unless the accident has left him where he is exposed to further injury. Moving victims often causes a fractured bone to jam through the flesh, causing much graver injury. ‘ 3. If the victim is not breathing, use artificial respiration at once. 4, Cover victim with coats or blankets and keep him warm. Crash injuries are nearly always accoms panied by shock, which calls for warmth, and a position with the head lower than the feet. 5. If there is severe bleeding, apply a pad of the cleanest material available, with pressure enough to check bleeding. If bleeding is from a cut on a limb, a tourniquet may be used instead, between the wound and the heart. 6. Send somebody to summon a policeman or highway patrolman at once, while you call the nearest doctor; if no doctor is immediately available and injuries seem serious, phone the nearest emergency hos-

pital for an ambulance. i d not to transport victim in a private