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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1939

HUNGARY'S HUMANITY

A GAINST the background of the terror which both Communists and Nazis are scattering throughout Poland, Hungary's kindness to the refugees pouring across her frontier comes like a breath of good, clean air. Near where the Polish-Slovak-Hungarian boundaries

meet is the famed Uzsok pass through the Carpathians. | Through this lofty mountain gap for ages Poles and Hun- | garians have gone to each other's aid in time of trial. So | now, in Poland's bitterest hour, the Hungarians remain true to tradition. They have not forgotten. Thus as the long lines of hungry, beaten and hopeless soldiers and civilians stagger across the border, they are | finding a haven in -the land of their friends of old. , The Hungarians are welcoming them with warm food, clothing | and even funds. A good deed never shines so lustrously as in times like | these, when man’s inhumanity to man is so glaringly exemplified. Bravo, Hungary!

WHEN PROMISES MEAN LIVES

HE issue of Negro doctors and nurses at City Hospital | goes deeper than broken pledges to the Federal Gov- | ernment. If this City Administration were thinking in | positive terms about the future welfare and growth of | Indianapolis there would be no argument. There are approximately 48000 Negroes in Indianapolis. There is an acute shortage of well-trained Negro doctors and nurses. The original pledge of having resident Negro doctors and nurses at the hospital to care for persons | of their own race was predicated on the theory that these then would graduate into the community to treat | heal. Every succeeding year would mean more | and more nurses. The result would be better

persons and doctors health, Here are the reasons: Records of the State Division of Public Health show that the Negro death rate in Indiana in 1937 was 19.3 as | compared to the death rate of 11.6. This same ratio has held for several years. It is tragic to learn that the infant mortality rate among Negroes in 1937 was 85.5 as compared | to a white rate of 48.1, The tuberculosis death rate in the State for 1937 was 195.4 for Negroes and 43.1 for whites. The pneumonia death rate was 252.2 for Negroes and 95.1 for.whites. This shocking discrepancy is traceable in consider- | able part to the shortage of well-trained physicians and nurses in the Negro community. It is this City's duty to face the problem squarely in! terms of public health and advancement. Any other approach is merely begging the issue.

EXPLORER OF THE DARK

“"TTHERE must be some place in the world where freedom still exists,” said Sigmund Freud in 1938, when he fled from Nazified Austria and found refuge in England. Yet this man who yearned for freedom was the first, and perhaps the greatest, of a school of psychologists which teaches that no human being is free. “The conscious mind,” he once wrote, “may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of the subconscious from which it rises.” Exploring that subterranean pool, he discovered forces, strong and dark, which lurk there and control the thoughts and actions of men and women. The very words which have come to be associated with | Freudian theories—complex, inhibition, neurosis, psychosis, | repression—convey ideas that are the antithesis of freedom. | And many doubt that what he did through development of a science of psychoanalysis to help humanity in its struggle | with the subconscious has offset the harm done to those who, imperfectly understanding the theories, have confused | license with liberty. | Well, Dr. Freud is dead, at the age of 83. He left | unfinished, it is said, the chief work cf his last years--an | analysis of “the subconscious fears and wishes” of characters in the Bible. Much more useful to the world of today might have been his analysis of the subconscious fears and wishes controlling the conscious minds of those living men | who have persecuted his race, enslaved his native country and driven him out to die in exile.

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OUT TO STAY

N opinion by Attorney General Murphy holds that WPA has legal power to restore so-called prevailing wage scales for skilled project workers under certain circumstances. Handed to President Roosevelt on Aug. 28, this opinion has just been made public. But nothing in it could justify a demand by organized labor for wholesale restoration of prevailing wages. “The plain language” of the present Federal Relief Law, says Mr. Murphy, shows that “the purpose of Congress was to abolish the prevailing wage as a genera! practice on work projects.” Congress did authorize possible exemptions, to be granted at the discretion of WPA officials, but only on individual projects and only to meet conditions of genuine emergency. The fact that organized labor wants prevailing wages restored is not a reason for disregarding the will of Congress and granting broad exemptions. Nor is the claim that some local governments might find it easier to operate their WPA projects if prevailing wages were restored, The opinion makes these points clear. The decision of Congress to abolish the prevailing wage system was thoroughly wise. It was recommended by WPA and it has had the unmistakable approval of public opinion. There should be no thought of return to the system which extended to skilled relief workers the special privilege of drawing for 50 or 60 hours of work higher monthly pay than the unskilled get for 130 hours,

| to go out and get some more the same way.

| about

Fair Enough

By Westbrook Pegler

Political Parties, Churches, Labor Unions and Perhaps Some Charities Should Bear Part of Tax Burden.

EW YORK, Sept. 25.—If I were to say that the Communist Party should be compelled to pay an income tax an its revenues, which appear to have exceeded a million dollars a year, and you were to say that in that case churches and religious organizations and labor unions also should be compelled to pay, my answer would be, “Why not?” In fact, I would insist that real estate owned by whomsoever also should be taxed, except it be public property—as Central Park, for instance—and public highways, navy yards and forts. I would say that all private organizations whether political, religious or cooperative, except charities, should pay taxes on their income and properties. As to the revenues of .criminals, such as Tom Pendergast, I would write into the revenue act a provision that all illegal income shall be taxed 100 per cent. At present, if a criminal reports his income, he pays no more tax than an honest man pays on a like amount, and the internal revenue gladly becomes his accessory after the fact for the sake of a few dirty dollars, with an implied invitation to the crook That is not only immoral but an injustice to the square guy.

HE present revenue act and the state tax laws have encouraged the collection of vast amounts

| of money through dues, assessments, contributions and | bequests, and the accumulation of zreat holdings of

real estate which lean their weight all over the people who pav taxes on their homes or rick their savings in

| rental properties.

As to labor unions. why shouldn't the Government ask questions, inasmuch as organized labor is now

| acknowledged to be as big as organized capital or in-

dustry, which has to show its books and pay taxes? Our statesmen do not hestitate to ask questions

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES Der Dov e! —By Talburt

about the collections and disbursements of organiza-

tions of employers.

Nor do I admit that charities have a right to ex- | emption, especially inasmuch as the Government it- |

self has now become the greatest charitable institution in the land and private, or non-Government, organizations dump their overload onto the Treasury, anvwayv, If the Government is going to carry 90 per cent of the load, it might just as well carry it all, but my point here is that the exemption of charities is not a right but a special privilege.

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N return for this privilege institutions which are bashful about their good deeds their finances should be compelled to show what they do with monev acquired under a special license to beg. Obviously they should pay taxes

| on any part of it which is not applied to charitable | purposes.

I claim that any institution which enjoys an immunity from the tax on its income or its real estate is under an obligation to prove periodically to the public, and not merely to its own operators, that it deserves those exemptions. Incidentally, Ben Gitlow, the backslid Bolo. told the Dies Committee recently that a million-dollar

| fund for relief of the Russian famine in 1922 was |

stolen by the Communists for political works, and while such diversion may not be typical, there is no assurance that it is rare. We just don't know,

| but we have a right to know

Business

| By John T. Flynn

Manufacturer Fears War Boom;

Warns Against Repeal of Embargo. |

FASHINGTON, Sept. steel producers of the country walked into the office of a Senator the other day and said: “I have been a contributor to the Republican Party these last few vears in a pretty large way. But I warn you now that I wiil never contribute another cent if vou fellows fail to show some grit and surrender on this arms embargo. “I built a steel mill—many of them. I built them to produce steel, not to make war materials. I do not wish to be a manufacturer of war materials. Repeal the embargo and it will turn my plant into a munitions plant. It will get us into war and I will be more than ever an arms plant. I do not want that for good patriotic reasons. But I don't want it for sound business reasons. If I turn my plants into war plants it will ruin them for the purposes for which they were built. When the war is over I will not be

able to adjust my business to peace-time conditions |

without taking enormous losses. ‘But worse than that, at the first sound of war

| the generals will walk into my plant and tell me

how to run it down to the last little operation. We will pass under government regulations such as this country has never known before and such as exists in Europe today.

Adequate Debate Not Had

“And here is the worst part of it. That regulation will probably never come to an end. When the war is over it may be relaxed a little, but the freedom I have known in my business will never be known by me or any other producer again.

“1 know that repeal of the arms embargo is not |

for the purpose of keeping this country out of war. It is for the purpose of getting us mixed up in the

| war—mixed up on one side, in favor of one set of

nations. And when we take the first step, as sure as we live we will take the next.” Many people think that large manufacturers look forward to war prosperity. involved in war is very strong among them, There has been no full airing of this subject before the American people. The strategy of the Administration is to railroad its proposals through. Every kind of pressure has been put on Senators and Congressmen, while at the same time every effort has been made to silence opposition by branding those who oppose the neutrality repeal as “playing politics.” But the letters from the country are beginning to stream into Senators’ offices. In one Senator's office I saw at least 500 letters being opened in a single mail. The count against repeal of the arms embargo was 15 to 1. In another Senator's office it was about 10 to 1.

A Woman's Viewpoint

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson Te who are concerned with the question of

whether married women should work or stay at |

home will be interested in news from abroad. In each of Europe's warring nations a call has gone forth for wives to leave the domestic scene and lend a hand with men’s jobs. . As usual, when the soldiers begin to march, it's imperative for women to take up masculine occupations. For the sake of argument, just suppose the women don’t want to do it this time. That would mean concentration camps and perhaps the firing squad for them, of course, since the request comes under the head of what is known as a “war emergency.” To speak more plainly, it all adds up to this fact: According to public opinion, women ought to stay at home when theyre told and leave home when they're told—just like nice, obedient nincompoops. Once the fighting starts, nobody worries about whether it is easy or ethical for women to keep house, have babies and do war work at the same time. Not a bit! Every healthy female of a belligerent country is expected to accomplish all three without flinching, and maybe when her menfolk have been blown into bits she'll get a lovely medal as a reward. What she probably won't get, however, is equal industrial rights with men, no matter how nobly she performs her duties during emergency days, or how heroically she stands by in a time of crisis. Women have alwavs helped fight wars—although few have received decorations for it. And in view of their courage in times of emergencv and of their willingness to share in the suffering and poverty which attends and follows war, it seems that men’s gratitude ought to include equal economic opportunity and equal political rights afterward. Is that an excessive reward to ask for #ny 50-50 job of country saving?

25—-One of the leading |

But the fear of becoming |

MONDAY, SEPT. 25, 1939

Gen. Johnson Says—

President's Proposals on Giving Up Neutral Rights Goes Far but Does Not Cover All Danger Spots.

HICAGO, Sept. 25.-—Passing the question of }ifting the arms embargo, the main purposes of rest of the President's proposals have really nothing to do with the subject of neutrality-—except as they suggest that we give up many or our so-called rights as a so-called neutral at so-called international law, They are intended to reduce the number of possible cases in which our Government might have to take action to protect American lives or property ventured abroad in war time, They are good as far as they go, but let's not be fooled into thinking they go far.

Take the proposal to forbid American vessels to enter “danger zones.” The thought is that if a submarine should sink such a ship in violation of what used to be international law, we might be drawn into war to avenge her. Nine out of 10 laymen will tell you that this was a leading cause for our entry into the World War, As a matter of fact, only one American ship—the Gulflight—was sunk by German submarines in that way and only three American lives were so lost,

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E got into the war not because of attacks on American ships, but because we insisted that the ships of no nation be sunk without warning, where American lives or property were concerned. It is scrapped now. Everything that moves in commerce is contraband of war—and will be so regarded by both sides. Our rights on the ocean will be exactly what we can maintain by force or threat of force—and not one whit more, It is for this reason

| that this writer believes that the President is right in

asking Ovbngress to tell our people and the world right now exactly which of our old rights we are willing to give up for the sake of keeping out, and exactly what we will not give up. We are to give up our neutral right to lend money or extend credit to a belligerent—because that buys us a stake in the war. We are to keep our ships out of danger zones, have no property rights in goods in transit to belligerents, and forbid Americans to travel on belligerent ships. All this somewhat narrows ou zones of possible trouble, but it leaves plenty of dangerous ground,

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and mysterious |

The Hoosier Forum

1 wholly

defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire. | let the belligerents proclaim them.

disagree with what you say, but will

i SECRETARIES OF PEACE HELD WORLD NEED By M. R. S. | We need Secretaries of Peace to lend wars, and we need true lovers of peace to work for such a goal! now, 4 # SUPPORTS REPEAL OF NEUTRALITY ACT By E. R. Egan President Roosevelt was endcel) {accurate when he maintained the | {present Neutrality Act encouraged | militaristic nations to strike when they figured weaker nations could | scarcely obtain war supplies to defend themselves. Although naturally this was not the intention of the framers of the act, like other similar measures it operates to promote {what it sought to prevent. | It should be repealed without any |equivocation or delay upon the very | {apparent basis that nations whose lavowed national policies are based upon militarism, whose entire resources are devoted to armament, {make them a menace generally, place other nations having no ambitions of an aggressive trend en- | tirely at their mercy, without armament. { Profit or loss does not enter into; consideration so far as this legisla- | tion is concerned and has no place! {in such a discussion, | there must be. | do is to give these nations the break

| they are entitled to considering thev of expansion and abnormal ambi-| take care of results and are bearing the brunt of the on- tion alwavs did exist. slaught against the very foundations creased productivity and efficiency own government, which. of machinery under private owner- deaths and resulting loss of effi-| | among other attributes of our po- ship and contro! of buying and sell- ciency. . |

of our

| ® =» =» FAVORS M'NUTT IF 'F. D. R. DOESN'T RUN

By William Lemon

providing President

SEES PROFITS AT BOTTOM if discussion OF WORLD AGGRESSION The least we can By L. B. Hetrick, Elwood, Ind.

ing agencies, interest, rent and profits, hasten concentration of wealth which is the trade barrier in| {and between nations. This causes | |wars of aggression for the sake of [expansion and the meintenance of a system of exploitation which promotes abnermal ambitions seeking [power thus to rule others. | After war is once started hatred lis engendered until a civil settle[ment is next to impossible and might instead of rig’ = rules and car[ries with it the same evil cause of has qualified as a statesman, sol-| future wars which is trade barriers, dier and executive—far better quali- i, e, unearned incomes, interest,

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old but has just been here too long. tion of the great word of God as As far as his opponent is con- recorded in holy writ. cerned, all the Republicans have to! ry wn

offer is Senator Taft, and so far he cpAIMS WAR NO EXCUSE

is qualified as a 100 per cent Townsendite—but of course it has always! TO DROP LIQUOR FIGHT

been his party's habit to suffer a By H. S. Bonsib lapse of memory in regard to cam-| The war is on in Europe and the |

paign promises. They have always] a y Bis let the masses hold the bag so why | People there are war mad and wai In the end they will have to |

hesitate with the Townsendites. | crazy. A capitalistic boycott of labor still| settle it by arbitration so why not | leaves us the unempolvment situa- now. | tion to contend with, so why turn! The booze racketeers would be! back the wheels of progress to Re- o]aq to see the war racket kept up publican industrial slavery which and themselves left alone, but the | would destroy organized labor and dav of reckoning is coming and | leave us in the same old rut where nothing is settled until it is settled Hoover left us, "a ship without alright. The great statesman. Glad- | rudder.” | stone said that the liquor traffic had |done more damage than war, pestilence and famine combined. oi There is not a thing that can be said in favor of the liquor traffic, so ‘why licknse it? As for the revenue Wars of ajgression for the sake it pays, it costs from $10 to $15 to! attendant But the in- crime to every dollar it pays in—| not mentioning the heartaches.

fied than “Cactus Jack” who isn't so rent and profits which are in viola- | |

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New Books at the Library

(Fur- | portunity learning all he could of After |

ANNIBAL: CARAVAN" man), the new travel book by the strange life about him.

| Charles (Cannibal) Miller, is not receiving his education in Europe | [written for the squeamish or the he spent : |faint-hearted. | As far as a successor is concerned. | java. Charles Miller. while still a! He raced motoreycles, boats and | Roosevelt small child, was taken to live in automobiles; served during the war| | wishes to retire, we could not find New Guinea.

the next few years in|

Born in Samarang. various hazardous occupations.

Here, on a far-away | With the French flying service: and |

|a better man to succeed him than island, his family founded a town in spent some time in barnstorm flying |

| Paul V. McNutt. executive ability as Governor and | has first-hand

He has proved his the midst of the jungle.

information in re-'an adventurous life. | gard to our insular affairs. He un- old derstands international politics and jwandered the jungle at every op-

|before' he returned to New Guinea. | Young Charles seemed destined to |It was while he was leading an Until he was expedition ‘nto Duteh New Guinea school he that he met and married the society |girl who shares his adventures in |

enough for high

[this book. lo Mr. Miller undertook this trip in| rder to photograph the natives] throughout the country, and his

"Sure | can write a book about a wife and kid starving. | about it—youwe rejected my last three novelsl

book is profusely illustrated with 'his pictures. His expedition en-| countered every variety of danger and discomfort—from mosquitoes and leeches to head-hunting canni- | [bals. | On one occasion Cannibal [Miller led a tribe of natives in a (head-hunt; at which another time (he took part in a nose-boring fes(tival. “Cannibal Caravan” is per- | | feet entertainment for the reader [who likes adventure of the hair- | raising variety.

IN SEPTEMBER By MARY P. DENNY

Fall is shining, shining In a mist of gold and pearl, And in the forest shadows The autumn days unfurl. The wild beech leaves are falling, And the September winds are calling To the frost and cold of winter. In the trees the wild birds linger, September light is shining, shining All along the silver river Edged by gentian and by aster, Blooming in September weather Near the fields of purple heather,

DAILY THOUGHT

If ye forsake the Lord, and serve strange gods, then He will turn and do you hurt, and consume you, after that He hath done you good.--Joshua 24-20,

9-25 OD is on the side of virtue; for whoever dreads punishment suffers it, and whoever deserves it|

dreads it.—Colton,

| know all

| morale, you may ask. | is an important source of vitamin A, you can hardly

| siderable amounts of some fatty meat.

| set in.

HAT are we going to do about our ships sunk when not in a “danger zone,” or American lives and property, not consigned to a belligerent but lost in a neutral ship sunk in or outside of a ‘danger zone?” What are we going to do if Britain acts as she did in the World War-——practically blockades the port of New York and violates many others of our rights at international law not covered by these policies? These “danger zones” will be a problem. We can't Only our Government can-do that. An Administration not “neutral in thought” could so map them out as practically to blockade one nation's sources of supply, leaving open access to another. Pointing out these problems does nothing to solve them. I do it merely to emphasize the enormous powers of any Administration to involve us in war if it wants to—a power in which these neutrality proposals hardly make a dent.

‘War Profits

‘By Bruce Catton

Special Session*May Put Clamp on Excess Gains Due to Hostilities.

ASHINGTON, Sept. 25.—Although President

Roosevelt suggested that this session of Con=-

gress need not bother about anything besides neutrality legislation, there is a good chance that it will turn

serious attention to the proposition that war and profits ought to be divorced. Pending on the calendar as carry-overs from the last session are two bills designed to achieve that end-—the war-taxation bill, introduced by Senator Bone of Washington and sponsored by 49 other Sen=tors, and a war finance bill brought in by Senator Lee of Oklahoma. Senator Lee says flatly that he proposes to bring these two bills to the Senate's attention before the Neutrality Bill is passed, with the idea that the neutrality issue can be handled most intelligently if Congress first makes it clear to all parties that war. woud not mean profit to any American. Senator Lee supports President Roosevelt's plan for removing the arms embargo; but he says he is getting entirely too many letters from people who want the embargo removed on. the ground that the resulting trade will he good for business. The Bone bill is a drastic measure which would apply steeply graduated income taxes in time of war. These would start at 3 per cent on $2000 of net income and would run up to 98.9 per cent on $10,000,000

| incomes.

| Based on Munitions Probe

It is based pretty largely on the revelations the Senate Munitions Committee made a few years ago about World War profits. Senator Nye, who had a hand in putting it together, admits that it is an extremely drastic bill and says grimly, “We intended it to be.” In effect, its aim would be to confiscate all war profits. Senator Lee's hill, commonly called the “draft capital bill,” would pick up any loose change that

| the Bone bill chanced to miss. In its essentials, it

would do these things: Every citizen would fill out a schedule showing how much wealth he possessed. When the Government then began issuing bonds to finance its war activities, it would determine from these schedules exactly how many bonds each individual should buy —and each individual would buy that amount, with no ifs, ands or buts about it, The bonds would not be tax-exempt, and would pay 1 per cent interest. Senator Lee remarks that the Bone bill would take the profits made in war time by commerce and industry, and that his bill would take the profits formerly made by financiers.

Watching Your Health By Jane Stafford

ITING into vour buttered toast or breakfast roll as you read the war news in the morning newspaper, you may not realize that you are eating the precious stuff that will probably decide who wins the war, if it is a long drawn-out one. “It wasn't TNT, but lack of butter, that broke

| morale,” says one authority writing on the siege of

Barcelona. The Barcelonians had to endure 30 months of air raids, during which time about the same number of

| them were Killed by bombs as in street accidents.

lack of butter be so important to Even if you know that butter

Why should

believe warring people could have their moraiv broken by worrying over the fact that they were being skimped on this vitamin and were likely to suffer from night-blindness as a result—troublesome though that might be in a city darkened for protection against air raids. So far as morale gdbes, the thing about butter and other fats is that they give a pleasant feeling of

| satiety after a meal in which vou have eaten some of | them.

This is because they leave the stomach more

slowly than other kinds of foods. Foods in which fats

| are mixed with protein, such as bacon and eggs or | ham and eggs, leave the stomach even more slowly | than fats alone.

It may be six hours before the stomach is emptied after a meal which includes conA breakfast of toast and coffee, on the other hand, may leave the

| stomach in one hour.

When the stomach is emp'y, hunger contractions Many people in Europe during the World War, you may remember, had almost no fat in their diet, ° As a result they were distressed by feelings of hunger even though they might be getting enough other foods §0 as npt to lose weight.