Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 August 1939 — Page 12
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Give Licht and the People Will Find Their Own Way
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 30, 1838
HERMAN P. LIEBER
"THE death of Herman P. Lieber, president and treasurer of the H. Lieber & Co., has cost Indianapolis one of its most useful and respected citizens. For more than half a century, the Lieber family has been outstanding in this city’s cultural, social and business life. Herman P. Lieber carried on that tradition devotedly and sincerely. Long before the Community Fund came into being he was active in social welfare work. After it was formed he worked tirelessly for its success. In 1931 he was named an honorary member of the Fund “for outstanding and unselfish service.” As a businessman he worked constantly for better
conditions. He served as president of the Merchants As-| sociation. He was interested in good government and he served his fellow citizens well in City Council. And all during this time he never ignored the artistic development of Indianapolis. He contributed much toward progress in that field. We join the many who knew him in expressing our deepest sympathy to the Lieber family.
NERVES
EACE or war, Adolf Hitler occupies a position less to be envied than that of any other human being in the world today. The German people are beginning to find him out. That is clear from their shocked reaction to the sudden, drastic rationing of food and other necessities. To millions of them the distribution of food cards came as the first real intimation that they might be on the verge of another war of starvation. For this must be remembered— The game Hitler has been playing depended not only on Lluffing the peoples of other nations and lying to them and exploiting their fear and hatred of war. It depended quite as much on lying to his own people, on keeping them both uninformed and misinformed. . » HE German people also fear and hate war, and with good reason. The adult population of Germany has known intimately all the agonies of one great war and its aftermath. They have heiled Hitler for his bloodless victories; but it is not to be imagined that, for the chance of grabbing another piece of real estate, they are eager to expose themselves and their children to the miseries and terrors of counter-invasion—to all the ghastly horrors of modern warfare.
And so Hitler, exercising rigorous control of press and | radio, has continuously assured Wis people of two things: | First, that their armies are invincible, their defenses im- | pregnable, their resources ample. Second, that the democratic nations are weak and cowardly and unprepared. It is the fact of dictatorship, as Hitler has boasted, that enabled him to do this. He could compel the German people to believe what it suited his purposes to have them believe, and he could prevent them from knowing what he did not want them to know. For democratic governments, which permit their citizens to learn the truth and to have a voice in the shaping of their own destinies, he has expressed unbounded contempt. \ Yet, as the “war of nerves” approaches its climax, it is the people of Britain and France who face the future, knowing how black it may be, calmly and resolutely. And it is the people of Germany who, jolted by the food rationing into abrupt suspicion that they have been deceived about their own strength and the weakness of their prospective opponents, show the signs of breaking morale. ® ” » ” = . EMOCRACY has its faults. But the world, we think, is now seeing it demonstrated that in a crucial test |
the nerves of people who are free and informed can stand | far more than the nerves of those who are enslaved and | jgnorant. And developments which Hitler understands but which most Germans are not yet permitted to know—the | evidence that Soviet Russia may be trying to squirm out of her bargain with the Nazis, the indications that Mussolini has no stomach for fighting Germany's battles, the fact that Japan has divorced herself from the Axis—must be sub- | jecting the Fuehrer’s own nervous system to a severe strain.
Whether Hitler will force Germany into war, or whether he will back away from his uncompromising stand, | we do not yet know. But in either event, we believe, the | day is coming when he will have to face a show-down with | the German people. And he is not likely to come through | that day as fortunately as did Kaiser Wilhelm, another man | who migled them to disaster.
MERCHANDISING HATE
WITH all the excitement abroad, perhaps the current work of the Dies Committee in Waghington has been getting less attention than it deserves. Thus far, the most interesting findings of the committee concern the “success story” of William Dudley Pelley. This Pelley is chief of an organization called the Silver Shirt Legion. He claims the distinction of being the first man in the United States openly to approve of Adolf Hitler's Nazi anti-Semitic program. The committee hasn't yet succeeded in serving a subpena on him, but through its investigators and the testimony of other witnesses it has developed a wealth of information about his activities, Pelley has organized racial hatred into a large and lucrative business. He has sold memberships in his antiSemitic organization. He has sold subscriptions to his Jewbaiting publications. And the money has rolled in—more than £200,000 in the last seven or eight years, according to records studied by the Dies Committee. One thing the committee ig still trying to learn is whether Pelley has paid income taxes on all the money. If he hasn't, he may be in for trouble with the Government. We don’t object to trouble, and plenty of it, for William Dudley ’
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Fair Enough
By Westbrook Pegler
General's Comment on Plattsburgh Maneuvers Indicates Uncle Sam's Land Forces Are Far Below Par.
EW YORK, Aug. 30.—The maneuvers of the First Army were a magnificent success, inasmuch as the true purpose of the demonstration was to show the people what a disgracefully elumsy, puny and illequipped military establishment they have and to frighten and shame them. About the best that Gen. Hugh Drum could say for his command was that the men rated “A” in health, effort and conduct. His critique runs into considerable wordage, with
compliments here and there to the intelligence and patriotism of the soldiers, but the sum of it is that as an army, this one was terrible and the exercise a flop. From the tone of his remarks one is given to suspect
that Gen. Drum spoke not in sudden alarm but with
the exultant note of one who has proved his point. And all this prompts a suggestion which a general on the active list probably would be afraid to make even if he wanted to, that peacetime conscription would solve many of the problems that showed up so glaringly in the fiasco at Plattsburg. Under the present method the National Guard is doing its country a patriotic favor above and beyond the minimum requirements of citizenship, and the proposal, sometimes heard, to make permanent the CCC and introduce military training into the corps is just about perfect, except that it is brutally undemocratic. 6 & &
F the CCC were converted into something on the order of Adolf Hitler's labor corps, whose members drilled with spades, the result would be that sons of the poor would be honored with the privilege of getting shot up in the early stages of the next war, if
| any, while other young men were being gathered up,
sorted, sifted and taught the rudiments. Although the National Guard in peacetime often is used to perform degrading political dirty work for the likes of Huey Long, these men seem a shade more patriotic than any other element in the country, because they are not soldiers by trade and serve only because they want to. If much of the present equipment is junk. as seems to be the case, and there isn't anywhere near enough of that to enable the existing numbers to go through the motions, that lag in modernization and quality would be taken up in a short time if military duty were made an even thing to all sound males. The term need not be longer than just enough to familiarize the men with the simpler facts of life in
the Army, and the turnover would establish a reserve
on a democratic basis.
. And the officers would get some practical training | in the kind of work which, from lack of experience |
due to lack of opportunity, they seem to have bungled at Plattsburg. = = = S to equipment, the U. S. A. may fumble along as usual and then, when the thing happens, go scurrying around trying to borrow shoes, drawers and other essential things. Gen. Drum says, “the shortage of essential manpower and modern combat equipment has been recognized in all our exercises,” and “I estimate that more than 50 per cent of the men in this exercise have never fired their weapons in a combat course of instruction. Aside from the question of efficient preparedness, such a state is deplorable, inexcusable and certainly unfair to this fine manhood who may have to face the crisis of war.” This critique is the real success of the maneuvers, and he leaves a question whether at some future time he will be forced to haul it out of his file and say, “I told you so.”
Business By John T. Flynn War Scare Offers No Excuse for
Ignoring Many Problems at Home. |
EW YORK, Aug, 30. — The great crisis in Europe was not 24 hours old when one of the inevitable consequences of such an event made its appearance. Young Mr. Elliot Roosevelt, speaking over the radio, warned us that in this hour of world
upheaval, we must put aside our differences, business |
must stop criticising the President and the Administration must stop climbing on business and generally we must get together and stand behind the President. Whatever else the war scare in Europe has done, one thing it has not done is to put back to work our 10 million unemployed, clarify our fiscal system, end
| our piling up debt or, generally, solve for us any of the
problems which vex our civilization. And, let us not forget, it is these problems which are the real threat to our democracy in America—not the war scare in Europe. And now, for some reason, we are all expected to forget all about these problems, we are supposed to wrap our opinions and our hopes about them in camphor and, no matter what the man in power thinks about them, stand behind him. War in Europe, of course, would be a terrible disaster. But the problems which endanger our own country are also terrible facts. They are not so drastic, to be sure. But they will, if we cannot find our
| way out, ruin us as completely as war would ruin
Germany.
Let's Try to Be Rational
We are not at war. At least we are not at war
| with Germany or Italy or Japan. But we are at war
with poverty and depression and debt and unemployAnd if there is one thing that is certain in this world it is that the President has not found the means of ending them. I do not say he has not honestly tried. No one will say he has not had the best will in the world. He has spent six years at the job
| and spent 20 billion dollars which we still owe. And
the unemployment is still here. And private investment is as far away as it was in March, 1933. It will be a good thing if we try to make our life as normal and rational as possible if war comes. Let businessmen attend to their business—the business they are in and not some illusive war business out of which they may think they can make money. Let statesmen and voters attend to the great issues which have got to be settled in this country. And let us keep out of the war. And above all, let us remember that this is still a democracy and that we will do well to continue to follow the processes of democracy.
A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson
ROOF that “love is woman's whole existence” still is offered by the large number of annual feminine suicides. cause they have lost love, or, perhaps, never found it.
Boy friends or husbands prove false and the next |
thing we know it's the ambulence and the mortuary. On the other hand, rare indeed are men who take their lives for passions sweet sake.
upon the ladies who have done them wrong.
Males who jump from high windows, or blow out |
their brains, or stuff up the kevhole and turn on the
gas usually are discouraged over the loss of money. |
Life seldom grows so dark it can’t be endured because a woman has jilted them. The chance to make another fortune nearly always compensates them for a broken heart. While girls have made some headway in the effort to overcome emotional unbalance, they've still a long way to go before they attain the masculine “don’t give a darn” attitude toward the subject. Probably the time will never come when they take affairs of the heart as casually as boys, and it would be a sad thing for the world if it should ever happen. Love is truly “woman's business,” and must ever be. Movies and novels spout oceans of gush on a topic which is vitally important to human happiness. Perhaps because they have a natural taste for it, girls allow themselves to be drowned in the flood. Their
belief in the permanence of desire is touching, and |
may be tragic. They have forgotten, or they never knew, that there is a time for romance and a time for reality; a time for passion and a time for its subsidence.
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
Most of these persons kill themselves be- |
; If they are in a | mood to kill, they usually commit mayhem or murder |
He Who Gets Slapped !—By Talburt
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I wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.
BELIEVES WAR AVERTED |BY HITLER-STALIN PACT By E. F. Maddox The desperate game being played {by Hitler and Stalin needs clarifyling. My opinion of the Communist, Nazi-Fascist war diplomacy is that both Hitler and Stalin are jockeying for time and that every move they make is designed to weaken and trick the other side. They ex|pect to fight later. | Let's analyze the non-aggression pact: Stalin's idea for negotiating be done again. If the 15 democrawith Hitler is to have an excuse for cies—the United States, Canada, the (backing out in any war involving the | United Kingdom (of England, ScotFascists with the democracies. Also!land and Wales), France, Ireland, to weaken the anti-Comintern pact. | Switzerland, Belgium, the NetherAnd one of his main objectives is to lands, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, encourage Hitler to the point of at- Finland, Australia, New Zealand tacking Poland or some other west- and the Union of South Africa — ern power. That is the hope of the would follow the example of the Soviet Union—that Germany, Italy, early Federalists, unite in a Federal France, England, Poland and other [union of peoples, resign national sov- | western powers will fight each other, |ereignty in matters of defense, | Then he hopes to defeat Japan. |trade, citizenship, communications, Stalin's non-aggression talks with currency and the postal system, but Germany may well prevent a war retain sovereignty
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sult of the colossal stupidity displayed by the leading capitalist nations in their attempt to hyphenate capitalism with nationalism. Capitalism requires a status of internationalism in trade. Capitalism is of necessity a world-wide system of production and distribution. It can only succeed if every nation is permitted to participate unreservedly in the processes of production. There can be no “capitalist blocks” of nations forming a coalition against other capitalist blocks to keep them from functioning effectively. There must be harmony and balance in capitalism if it is to survive,
» » ” FAVORS ADOPTING NEW CALENDAR By O. B. Since President Roosevelt is not adverse to upsetting tradition and
as autonomous | i strong for reform, why not a between the Western powers, for states in matters of internal policy, new calendar with the year begin-|
Poland, England and France will be this union would be so strong that ning at the Vernal Equinox?
influenced toward appeasement by no single aggressor nation or bloc the announcement and the result of of nations would dare attack it. (Stalin's diplomacy may well avert| If those who wish to save mana war which would destroy Western kind from the horror and the stupid civilization, | waste of another world conflict are | My opinion is that Poland will challenged by the practicality of this surrender former German territory idea, please communicate with me without war. It is a case of being at the address given above or wit forced to return to Germany terri-|the national headquarters of the tory taken by force. England and |Inter-Democracy Federal Unionist France won't fight to help Poland at Union House, 445 W. 23d St.,, New {keep part of Germany. Poland is York City. {another victim ot the Versailles | folly. | 4 & & | FAVORS WORLD UNION DEDICATED TO PEACE By D. §. Babcock, Ft. Benjamin Harrison The prospect for peace in our time {grows less, daily, as tension in Europe
4 8 8 CRISIS BLAMED ON CAPITALIST STUPIDITY By HL 8
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The new year to be divided into 13 months of four weeks, or 28 days. The first day of each year to be Sunday. The extra day at the end of each common year to be known as Near Day and every fourth year,
h 8 second extra day to be known as
Leap Day and these days to be permanently made holidays. In order to prevent confusion between our present or Gregorian calendar, the common years and leap vears of the new ca.endar to coincide therewith. The Vernal Equinox, 1841, thus would be the beginning of the Year 1 of the new calendar. The calendar should be of
nature. | considerable aid to the business These crises in Europe are the re-! world.
increases. It is a desperate moment in history, but the plan of Clarence K. Streit, former Geneva correspondent of the New York Times, for a Federal union of 15 democra-
New Books at the Library
cies—a union of people, not of Gov|ernments—offers a challenging and practical program of action to save {the world from catastrophe and | the account of a I strengthen peace as never before. | journey made by Basil This plan has the signal ad-| through southern France. vantage of having been tried and |scribed by this Englishman
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proved successful right here in the seems a beautiful, romantic dream seeks fresh air and sunshine;
United States 0 America. In 1789, come true. after tae weak government of the! The magic names of Provence, | Articles of Confederation had virtu- Languedoc, and the Rivera are here
|ally collapsed and after danger of —Carcassonne, Perpignan, Aix-en-|tact;
" O Meet the Spring” (Dodd) is place and the master of the kitchen casual |is a very important person who Collier | holds in his control the well-being As de- of everybody in the establishment.
In his wanderings this traveler he observes the scenery as though he were a painter and sizes up the people with whom he comes in conhe chats with a peasant
(civil strife loomed large as a result | Provence. Avignon, Cannes, and of | whose house the artist Cezanne used
|of the border warfare of the states course, Monte Carlo.
The authnr'to frequent; at Toulon, where the
and their restrictive trade policies, makes our mouths water with de- | waiters are on strike, he has to en.
13 political entities which were in- | scriptions of some of the
name agreed to unite in a great Fed- journ in this country. eral union to preserve the peace and | prosperity of all their citizens,
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"Now, remember, young man—no loop-the-loops!"
’ meals ter a cafe clandestinely dependent democracies in all but |served him during his leisurely sc-| Madame la Patronne’s bedroom in
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In England, he says, the hotel of molestation by the strikers; as 1 kitchen is carefully concealed, but to the political state of Europe, he What has been done once can in France it occupies an honorable comments that war is probably in-
evitable in Europe because “the Frenchman regards Teutonic bluster as absurd, the German finds Gallic narrowness contemptible and the having once been
condemned for his virtues and his
| vices.”
Though the climate of the south
of France is on the whole so de-
lightful that it is absurd to complain of an imperfect day, again and again he encounters the “mistral”"—that cold north wind blowing from the Mediterranean. Even when the author finds a gorgeous “tonic heat” in Provence he feels a longing for home, and he returns to meet the spring in Kent, with a gray sky and he early bluebells and a storm of rain.
SONNET By VIRGINIA VAE
There isn’t much a man can do For grass beneath a willow tree; I've tried all mixtures earnestly And gave it extra labor, too. But still it has a sickly hue. It's doubly worrisome to me Because it's in the front, you see I tried hard but it never grew. My backyard grass is thick and green But it is where it’s seldom seen.
DAILY THOUGHT
Jesus saith unto him, Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed. —John 20:29,
EMEMBER that what you believe will depend very much upon what you are.—Noah Porter.
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WEDNESDAY, AUG. 50, 1036"
Gen. Johnson Says —
The Time Would Seem Appropriate To Get Concessions From Japan Easing Our Problems in the Far East,
ASHINGTON, Aug. 30.—With half of Europe lining up against the other half and Germany’s threat lifted, for a moment at least, from Russia's back in the West, why wouldn't this be a good time to get some guarantee and concessions out of Japan that might make it less likely for us to get mixed up, in Asia as well as in Europe? : That isn't put out with much conviction. Guarantees and promises don't seem to be worth much
more than the paper on which they are written, Furthermore, we know so little about what is actually going on in these muddy waters that few if any moves can be made with much confidence. But regardless of our ignorance or lack of faith in promises, known facts still speak. The cuddling up of Hitler to Satlin certainly profoundly changes the strength of the Japanese position in Asia. The action of the Tokyo Cabinet makes it clear that they think so. Even before that, the Japanese Army was dangerously straddled out in hostile country, but it was rela=. tively so well armed and free from contact with equal hostile forces that it could at least maintain itself. “ $y ¥ =» ELIEF of Russia from fear along its Western front could change all that materially. She is in a geographical position completely to outflank the gradual seepage of Japanese forces into Mongolia and even to threaten Manchukuo and the great pool of Japanese seafood supply in the sea of Okhotsk. About one-fourth of the Japanese national diet is fish and a large part of it comes from there, : Not much is known about the actual strength and equipment of the Russian Army. Its constant liqui« dation of leading generals suggests that its morale is very low. But fighting in these zones is largely a mat« ter of transportation and supply and in a strategic sense Japan is getting farther and farther out on a limb in the direction of Russia. The bust-up of the anti-Comintern could be a catastrophe for Japan—especially if Western Europe does not go hog wild and precipitate a war over Danzig and the Polish Corridor. If that happened, the stresses would be so great and the striking power of Britain in the Far East so much reduced that Russia might not dare to get rough so far away.
UT if it doesn’t happen and hoth Russia and England are to have a breathing spell, they might have some very rude things to say to the Japanese about monopolizing Asia. Any way you look at it, and no matter what we decide to do about it, this great weakening of Japan was a break for both us and Britain in our Far East ern problems. We get nearly all our tin and rubber from areas that were threatened by Japan. These are indispensable to us and any menace of that kind-= not to mention the Philippines—is a danger to us: That threat was growing rapidly. It is far from being wholly removed, but it certainly has been weakened and delayed. In all the excitement about Europe, this develop=ment hasn't been frequently mentioned. important and should not he completely lost to sight, Of course, neither must it be lost to sight that all these dictators use double-crossing as a principal ine strument of diplomacy. Today's allies may be tomorrow’'s enemies. In the end we will have to count on ourselves alone. :
U. S. Roundup
By Bruce Catton
Business Good in Allentown, Pa; Shift Away From New Deal Noted.
(13th of a Series) LLENTOWN, Pa, Aug. 30.—For the immediate i present, at least, this particular corner of industrial Pennsylvania is feeling optimistic. Its people —those hardworking, self-reliant folk we dub “Pennsylvania Dutch’”—are confident their community can come back from the depression. It came back once before. The city used to be a | great textile center, but the mills migrated East and South. Yet the city rose again to become a retail market center of more than average importance. Building is booming and night-shifts are working on construction. Allentown is partly steel. It has its own plants, lies cheek-by=-jowl with Bethlehem, whose great fac tories are humming with Navy orders. It has a big factory of the Mack Motors Co. Its farmers are getting in a first-rate potato crop, in spite of a bad drought. The usual business indices are favorable. trade is «excellent. A good deal of residential construction is going on, and there is a substantial amount of store and office building construction, to= gether with a good deal of remodeling of downtown business properties. Relief rolls are substantially down. At the worst of the depression, the general assistance (direct relief)
to 1504, having risen a trifle lately due to WPA layoffs. In the business and professional community, there seems to be an all but unanimous feeling that the New Deal has outlived its usefulness,
Relief Groups Divided
Some shift of sentiment away from Roosevelt is reported even among the people who are on relief, An official of the relief bureau remarks that the long depression has divided the relief “veterans” into twaq groups. In one group are the people who are perfectly satisfied to remain on relief and who, for one reason or another, have small hope of ever getting off of it anyway. These people will be pro-Roosevelt just as long as they continue to feel that the New Deal stands for a liberal relief policy. The other group—much larger—is composed of those who want jobs and make every effort to get them. Among them, says this man, there is emerging a feeling which goes something like this: “Maybe we'd be better off if the New Deal was replaced by an Administration which would turn busi= ness loose and give it a chance to make jobs for us.” It would be a mistake to say that the working man in general has lost his confidence in Roosevelt. The confidence isn’t as strong as it was, probably, or as universal, but it still exists. A labor union leader says flatly that his members are as pro-Roosevelt as ever.
Watching Your Health
By Jane Stafford
ANY a child, and adult, too, who balks at drinke ing milk will take it when flavored with chocolate or cocoa. Ready prepared chocolate milk drinks have consequently become popular not only as special treats but as a regular part of the child's diet in many homes. Some guiding points on the proper use of this beverage were recently given by Prof. W. 8. Mueller of Massachusetts State College, at the meeting of the New York State Dietetic Association. First point to be considered about a chocolate milk drink is its sanitary quality. Most people now know that serious diseases such as tuberculosis, septic sore throat, scarlet fever, typhoid fever and undulant fever, can be carried by milk, and they are therefore careful about the sanitary quality of the milk they drink and give their children. Pasteurization destroys the germs of such diseases, which is why health authorities advise drinking pasteurized milk. Chocolate milk should also be pasteurized. Other points to be considered, as outlined by Prof, Mueller are: Does the chocolate milk introduce a harmful amount of habit-forming drugs? (It contains theobromine. caffeine and) other tannin-like substances.) Does it tend to replace milk? is the sweetening it requires undesirable? The pleasant sweet, taste may, for example, make the child lose interest in other needed foods. Chocolate milk of good sanitary quality is pro better than no milk at all and better ho eal of dubious sanitary quality. If made by adding choco. late to whole milk, it contains the vitamins, minerals and other nourishing qualities of the milk plus the
fat, sugar and protein of the chocolate and sweeten«
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