Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 September 1939 — Page 16

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WHY ALL THE SHOOTING? BUSIN ESSMEN and New Dealers alike might study with profit an article in the current issue of the business magazine, Fortune. It's a report on a survey of business opinion, and it shows this— That business accepts the New Deal's major principles of reform. co "- Businessmen, large and small and medium, were asked to check a list of 11 important New. Deal measures and to say which of these measures, in their opinion, should be kept as they are, which modified and which repealed. The results seem to us illuminating: "The only measure which a maj

ority ‘of the businessmen wanted repealed outright was the undistributed profits tax —and that was repealed by Congress before the survey was completed. et : Eighty-five per cent favored keeping unchanged the law for Federal insurance of bank deposits; 78 per cent felt that way about the CCC; 65 per cent about the banking act to divorce security affiliates, and 57 per cent about the Federal Housing Administration. : Little seritiment was found for repeal of the Securities . Exchange Act, the Utility Holding Company Act, the Wagehour Law and the Social Security Act. From 24 to 441% per cent of the businessmen wanted these measures kept as they are, while from 84 to 58 per cent more wanted to keep them with modifications. Even the WPA and the Wagner Labor Relations Act seem to have more friends than enemies among businessmen. Twelve per cent of those questioned would keep WPA as it stands and another 42 per cent would keep it but modify it: Only 10 per cent thought the Wagner Act satisfactory at present, but 42 per cent more believed it should be modified and kept_on the statute books. All this doesn’t mean, as Fortune carefully points out, that businessmen like President Roosevelt. Nor does it mean, necessarily, that Mr. Roosevelt and other New Dealers could agree to all the changes businessmen might ask. But we think it does indicate clearly that business is not demanding repeal of the New Deal-—that business recognizes the need for most of the reforms, favors them in principle and asks only that they be made to work fairly in practice. ! If that is so—and we believe it is—businessmén would be wise to stop talking and acting as if they hate everything done by the New Deal and to center their criticism on the specific faults they want corrected. New Dealers would be wise to stop talking and acting as if they hate business and to examine criticism in a spirit of willinghess to do something about it if it is found to have real basis. There’s ‘war enough in the world without continuing a - domestic war when there’s so much ground upon which the two sides could get together. ~

CITY MANAGER COMMISSION THE appointment of | Clarence W. Efroymson, professor of history at Butler University; rounds out the ‘membership of the City Manager Study Commission authorized by the last Legislature. Other members named to this body include Prof. P. S. * Sykes of Indiana University; Virgil Shepard of the State Welfare Department; Eli Lilly, drug manufacturer; J. R. Esterline, manufacturer and long a student of the city manager form of government; Rep. Roy Harrison (R. Attica), and State Senator Alfred Randall (D, Ft. Wayne). | This is an excellent committee, it seems to us, and one fully competent to bring out recommendations that will furnish a clear chart for those who have\long been interested in opening’ the way for establishment of the city manager plan in Indiana cities. Its job will be to tell how a city may establish the manager plan, draft suggested legislation, and show how to stay clear of the legal pitfalls ‘that shrewd politicians have invoked heretofore to defeat ‘the plain desire of the people.

‘PRECIOUS TIME—USEIT ATTENDING to “first things first,” the House of Rep-

P- = 7 resentatives voted mileage allowances for the special "'session—20 cents a mile for each Congressman ‘each way— ‘and then recessed for another three days. Thus it is to be. On every third working day the House “will go through the formality of meeting and then recessing, indulging in a little talk maybe, but transacting no business. “Even committee work is tahoo. For no legislation except ‘the Neutrality Bill is to be considered at the special session. ‘And until the Senate can conclude debate and action on that “measure the House will mark time.

If passing one piece of legislation were all that is |.

‘heeded to keep the United States from getting involved in {Europe's war, then the Congressmen would certainly earn $heir pay and their mileage if they did that and npthing “more. 17 = Yet, as the war unfolds, we think it becomes daily more “evident that getting into or staying out of Europe's mess will not be determined alone by whether we sell arms or don’t, or whether we operate on & cash-and-carry or some pther basis. l i © Our best insurance against being dragged in is to make purselves so strong that no belligerent will dare do those #hings which might cause us to become an enemy. And Smany defense authorities have been saying of late “that ve possess no such military strength now. Some have feclared that our Army) is too small, ill-shaped and illrained. Others have pointed out that before this war is dover we may need a two-ocean Navy. i Congress should not adjourn this special session until #3 has examined our defenses and taken the necessary steps #fo strengthen them. “And what better time to start than a ow, when the committees of the House have nothing else p do? : HIT WAS WONDERFUL OOKING back a. little way, we're inclined to agree that £ Father Divine had the right i about peace,

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Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler Atheist Has Right te His Unbelief,

And It's Unfair of Some Crities|

To Lump | Him ‘With Communists.

NTEW YORK, Sept, 27.—Seme of our most promi- + V nerit citizens seem to have arrived at a thorough misunderstanding of the status’of atheists under the American form of government.

There is a careless or sometimes a deliberately dis-

atheists all atheists are Communists. And because the Communists are devoted to the purpose of de stroying the Government and to the suppression of religion by terror all atheists are lumped together as"enemies of the state and religion. i - The truth is, however, that some thorough Amerfcans, good citizens and honest traders, who have fought for the country in wap are either lackadaisical atheists or convinced unbelievers. Such persons are not hostile to those who do believe in God and feel no mission to combat religion or belittle the faith of their neighbors. They may be extremely tolerant by eontrast with

on the other side. Some of them get along on terms of warm personal friendship with enlightened and tolerant members of the clergy.

N atheist of my acquaintance who died not long A ago was a bosom friend of a noted Catholic priest. They spent many hours together and the priest’s persdnal admiration for the character, honesty and citizenship of his friend was such that he obtained special permission ta deliver at his bier a eulogy which was not religious. A statement or remindqy of the rights of atheists in the United States is not a defense of atheism itself, nor can it honestly be stoned as a sly act of hostility to religious belief. The right to believe and -worship

is established and respected, but among those who’

exercise that right there are individuals given to vio lent forms of expression, who appear not to understand that there is an equally sound right to. doubt. It should be emphasized that freedom of conscience can be abolished by coercion from either side and

tions which inhibit free decision are counterfeit. 8 » 8 ’

F it were true that persons who profess to believe in religion could therefore be relied upon for superior citizenship there would be a temptation te make some change. But, unhappily, profession and performance are not always consistent. Some men who are noted piety are notorious for their dishonesty in public affairs at a time when public officers have an unusually solemn duty to conduct themselves in a manner which will maintain popular confidence in the American form of Government. The atheist, just as an atheist, is not a churchburning, murdering terrorist. Some belong to societies for the propagation of their unbelief, but surely truth is not afraid to meet error in open conflict. My reason for these observations is that some

for themselves would like to impose on Americans the same compulsion to embrace religion that the Communists employ to compel the repudiation of their faith” by poor wretches who are not quite up to martyrdom. - Once concede that religious belief is a required condition of American citizenship snd the next step will he to single out a particular religion.

Business By John T. Flynn )

British Protested Attempt to Ban Arms After World War Started.

ASHINGTON, Sept. 27.—Nearly three years ago, when there was neo war, Congress adopted a policy of neutrality. That policy in essence was that in the event of war between any nations this country would remain neutral and, in pursuance of that policy, it would not sell arms to either belligerent. Certain other important policies were laid down, such as keeping Americans off of belligerent ships. Since then Japan and China have been at war, Italy and Ethiopia, and the warring factions of Spain. Now a new war has begun, The President now proposes to change this policy after the war has begun.. In 1514 Senator Hitchcock of Nebraska offered a bill not unlike our present Neutrality Law, prohibiting shipments of arms to any belligerent, Instantly Great Britain informed our State Department that any attempt to change our law affecting neutrality after the conflict had begun, and which would affect the status of either party with reference to trading with us, would ke a violation of neutrality. He added that the British Government would regard it as an unfriendly act. Secretary Bryan agreed with him, Now the President proposes to change the law after the war has begun. The effect of the change ill be to alter the status of one pf the belligerents with respect to trading with us. Without enlarging the power of one party to the combat to trade with us, it will enlarge the opportunity of the other party.

Rule Still Good

If the rule was good in 1914 it is good today. There is not the slightest doubt that a change in this law now will be a violation of neutrality. There is not the slightest doubt%n anybody's mind that the change is being proposed in order to aid one of the parties. And there is not the slightest doubt that Germany will assert, what England rightly asserted in 1914, that the action of Congress will be regarded as an unfriendly act. ‘ ; And if, after taking that position, Germany does not attack us it will be merely because she has not got the. means. But this will not alter the fact that we have exposed ourselves to attack. Perhaps Congress may decide to- change this law now—to permit the shipment of arms abroad to any belligerent. ‘ : A man might argue that the way to avoid military participation in the war later is to engage in economic participation new. That would he an honest argument. But to advance this proposal upon the assertion that this is neutrality—and “trie” neutrality at thdt—is a deliberate attempt te throw dust in-the Syes of the people upon a matter involving our. very ves.

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

PRG these sad times, it seems to me, every patriotic American ought to set aside a few min-

his “moral indignations.” . Lately I've heard mang. women talking about prayer. They believe, they say, in the efficacy of prayer to avert war panic. I agree, with reservations. For prayer includes the honest searching of one’s heart, and so I believe we ought to analyze quite fearlessly the extent of and reason for our indignant reactions to what now goes on in Europe. : The Bombing of Polish cities, in which defenseless women and children have been slaughtered in droves,

mad did we get when other mothers and babies were bombed in Spain’s two-year Gethsemane? Did we see red when the Japanese rained death upon Sore fre _nocents, using bombs of our own manufacture? * Moral indignation, if I remember, did not flame so ‘high when Italy's troops invaded helpless Ethiopia and when Count Ciano, II Duce’s son-in-law, e

{ poetically of his war reactions. “Like a bursting rose,”

he said, “the bombed bodies look from the bomber’s eerie.” ; : :

And so. if we want to he honest with ourselves; we |

must decide whether we are capable of moral indignation at all times, or only upon certain occasions— notably when a British ally suffers. And while we pray, let us also ask ourselves another pertinent question and perhaps God us to answer it honestly, What actually causes men who have once hee that query, there is but one reply. . Economic chaos,

Only that. : ht very well bring: eco!

honest assumption that becausé the Communists are |

the extreme intolerance of conspicuous individuals =

that conversions or professions obtained under condi- |

their communities for their apparent

men who are using religion to create political power:

‘taken one toward a firmer assurance

‘at fever heat of hate against the na-

utes each day to examine and, if possible, understand

is enough to make us mad clear through, But how:

will help |" free to accept a dictator? To

Seems to Have His Tail in the Wringer !—By Talburt

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URGES CHEAPER COKE TO END SMOKE NUISANCE By Cc. W. } The black clouds over Europe pa into insignificance when contrasted to that stifling pall of smoke constantly hovering over Indianapolis! If the coke manufacturers would open their eyes and lower their prices just below those of soft coal, the enormous increase in consumption would enable them te profit, eliminate a serious health menace and constitute a civie hoon eof inestimable value.

tort 3.8 8 8 OPPOSES CHANGE IN NEUTRALITY LAW Mrs. HM. Schmidt . In an effort to make every step

of peace, I believe we should not repeal our present :Neutrality Law.

That act represents, a positive movement toward -assuring- our staying out of war and was passed because the mental attitude of the lawmakers, and the nation, was one of a sincere desire for peace. Peace for the world if possible, but peace certainly for a country in a position to choose its stand. : Any negative action is a step backwards and must not be camouflaged as a marking time while things shape up in Europe. . . Is it not more worthwhile to meet the pressure of an economie depression now for the sake of peace than to put it off and live in the false security of profits gained through mass slaughter’ in other lands? For the hardships will surely eome later when our citizens abroad have suffered indignities, our ships have met cruel accidents, and with passions

tion we blame for these atrocities, we are drawn into the evils of war, Drawn in against our saner judgment that was so much wiser in time of peace. ~ Sf Once we favor any nation, however. slightly er indirectly or unintentionally we are bound to feel a reaction from the nation nat so favored. For nations at war are not fair and are not led by those who will reason fairly. And there are even those mad citizens in the nations our international policy will so unwittingly favor who will feel jus tified in willing mysterious accidents to befall our ships or citizens so

Glances—By Galbrai

(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, religious controversies - excluded. Make your letter short, so all can _have'a chance. Letters must be signed, but names will be withheld on request.)

that more. positive help from our country will be assured. If we could truly seek peace we

Jmust stick to the rules we have

made when our minds were not embittered by a war already raging. en & 8 = ASKS ABOUT CRITICS OF VERSAILLES TREATY By E. BR. Egan _ Where now are the baiters of the Versailles: Treaty—defending - the infamous demands of the brazen scoundrel whose proud boast is that he has destroyed it. Whatever he may call this interlude, he will noe doubt make overtures of peace upon the basis of the battle field as his predecessor did. Arming to rid the world of Bolshevism, the civilized world took him at his word and has seen him use Russia to further his own designs—and to prove the sound judgment of ‘Britain that neither of them could be trusted.' A treaty to either is a scrap of paper. . . .

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OPPOSES TU. S. IN SECOND FIDDLE ROLE By 8. L. It seems odd that America wants to play second fiddle te the two great imperialistic nations in their chess game of “power politics.” We got the “power politics” fever in the last World War, got a good burning out of it and have not learned enough to play ‘our ewn

game. ! War profits will seduce us to ease our way into this one. It looks like a sale down the river for democracy. The new world map looks like Russia and Germany as one economic empire, France and Britain in a farflung economic empire and Japan over Asia. A America’s new imperialism will stretch to Patagonia. We 'join in economic imperialistic power politics as a business. Democracy is on the way to the cemetery. . Ls 8 8 : URGES STAYING OUT SO WE CAN HELP AFTERWARD B -

y P. K. This farce about saving democracy in England and France by going to war is silly.” For no one is a victor in war, as was proven by the last war. Democracy would probably even be destroyed for all countries invelved would have a disastrous ' economic breakdown. People would be willing to accept communism, fascism, or naziism, as they did after the last war. So, let us stay out, so we can help the warring nations afterward.

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1 bS Cus: PRY didn’t mind \4 losing his job as a chemist. He thought industry owed a vacation anyhow. He had enough in the bank to keep him and Mary and little Michael for a time. He

took to napping on the bare floor |

behind the piano in the afternoon but found it dull doing nothing so consistently, “Asleep in the Afternoon.” That's the title of a new hook by, E. C. Large. (Henry Holt & Co.). Remember his first novel, “Sugar in the Air?” In Charles Pry’s daydreaming mind the characters of a book

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problem of boredom apd unemployment as well as leading him into a literary and artistic world which both amused and pleased him. “Asleep in the Afternoon” is a book within a book. Mr. Large gives you a glance of the thoroughly modern household in which Pry moves and beneath that a wittily satiric fantasy in the scene from Pry’s “masterpiece.” Hugo Boom, 'an ingenuous mathematician, invaded Pry’s daydreams and brought with him an invention to give the wearer the gentle gift of sleep, accompanied by pleasant visions. of course, it is a success and where there was success formidable Agatha Boom wouldn't leave her husband in undisputed possession. Through Pry’s movements the reader is carried along the various stages in ‘the Boogm’s domestic life and struggles with promoting Boom Sleep. | The hook follows no definite pattern, first relating scenes in the Pry household and just as suddenly flashing off into the fictitious Boom'’s, troubles. Bus it is done with charming dexterity. a ig ing oo a mechanic, draftsman, industrial designer and chemical research worker. He walked out on law school. His first literary attempt at 38 was ai essay “On Watching an Onion” which appeared in the Week-end Review and lead to vivid prose sketches published in the New English Weekly. Just now he has put fiction writing aside to do a book chemistry and populations.

————————————————— TO A SHUT-IN -_ By KATHERYN MAY You'll soe: be en the go,

iting friends and neighbors The folks who've missed you so.

So while youre convalescingRemember, don’t feel blue You'll soon-Pe up and singing And we'll all be happy, teo. —————————————————————————

DAILY THOUGHT Lift not up your horn on high:

ak not with a stiff neck.— >salms 75:5.

OTHING Bs %0 ‘credulous as vanity, or so ignorant of what

hook on the feeding of}: - (R. R)

Though you're “under the weather” |

Gen. Johnson Says—

Canada Is a Good Lesson for Us; She Has Barely Sampled War, Yet Democracy Has Been Put on Shelf. - HICAGO, Sept. 27—Canada today is a good pre-

view of what may happen to a great American, Anglo-Saxon democracy when it goes to war. Its de-

| mocracy is abandoned. It has barely sampled war,

but Magna Carta is already in the ash-can and the Bill of Rights is out the window. Freedom of speech, press and radio is gone. ‘Canadians aren’t going to bother with elections—so ‘representative government is gone., Manufacture and selling are being put under a license system. Taxes ' are automatically zooming—so property rights and liberty of contract are going. The Government is . getting ready to regulate practically all economic relations by dictatorial decree. : " 1t is too silly. Like us, Canada is 3000 miles from the battle lines. She is as yet not even fragmentarily engaged. We learnéd how to organize a nation for : war in 1918. We did as good a job as any. But we - didn’t do it by scrapping every principle for which this country stands, at the very outset. Referring to the necessity for unity in war, Woodrow Wilson said that at its “highest and best,” it is the “spontaneous co-operation of a free people.” :

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did the job but we gave way grudgingly to every threatened invasion of the Constitutional rights of our people. We treated concessions to autocricy on the principle of the right to kill in selfdefense—as much as was absolutely necessary and net one whit more. We engaged in no sheep-like stampede to give up our lives at the first gun-fire. Let's not let any of this European passion for regimentation . spread to us by way of Canada now. If we are not much farther than Canada from necessity for this kind of panicky surrender to dictatorial ballyhoo, somebody is lying. : : And yet Canada has laid ‘the horror in Europe on our very doorstep. She is going across the Ate lantic to fight Hitler. Canada is a sovereign nation. She isn’t threatened any more than we are—Wwhich is not at all. If she isn’t an “aggressor,” what is she? And where do we stand? If the enemy she has chosen to attack in Europe counter-attacks her here, hasn’t our President said that we would not “stand idly by?” That may not spell an “offensive-defensive” alliance but, from the ground of our interests, isn’t it something much worse? We haven't any engagement from Canada to defend us, but this sounds like . our engagement to defend her, no matter what her fault may be. The Monree Doctrine requires no such’ absurdity. . : ;

g 2 8 8 r ID Canada consult us on a course of war that might thus bring-us in, regardless of our wish or interest? Our people haven't heard about it, if she did. But is it conceivable that she would go to war in these circumstances without consulting our Government? If she did, what vas the answer? Who makes the decisions that raise our obligation ~ to fight? Is it Canada or the British Empire, or’ some impulsive promise of our President? Or anything at all, short of the Congress of the United States representing the will of a majority of 130,000,000 people? If we do not remain neutral, cautious and alert, it may be. The greatest applause the President got in his last masterly address to the Congress came when he said that he did not seek any new emergency powers. Thank God for that! :

Neutrality Mail ~ Most Letters Sent One Senator Spontaneous and Oppose Change.

By Bruce Catton

: TASHINGTON, Sept. 27.—Most of the keep-the-embargo letters which are swamping Senators and Congressmen these days are spontaneous and are not the product of any pressure group or radie’ spellbinder, if a sample check undertaken by this reporter means anything. > There never has been anything like the flood eof letters that have come in lately demanding that the Neutrality Law stand unchanged. The fate of the law may depend on what the average legislator decides about those letters. If he figures they really represent public sentiment back home, he is very likely to follow the line they lay down. If, on the other hand, he figures they are mostly- the product of a write-your-senator campaign he is apt to ignore them. ; So I spent several hours going through 529 letters which represented one morning’s mail in one Sena-'' tor’s office. - Of these 529 letters I studied, 37 demanded adop-" tion of the President’s program. The rest—492 in all’: —can be classified as follows: 1 Two hundred and seventy-four—more than half— seemed very clearly to be spontaneous. One hundred and twenty were at the other extreme; printed letters, unmistakably sent out because of a campaign put on by some organization. There were three varieties of printed letter in this bateh. |

Sore in Nature of Round-Robins.

Thirty-eight were individually written, but were equally obviously inspired. When you read a dozen letters, all saying “I want no change in the present neutrality law—ne war for the U. 8. A” witHout the slightest variation, you can be sure they aren’t spontaneous. ; : - Twenty-four letters demanded that this country - keep out of war, but made no specific mention of the Neutrality Law. ? : : Twenty were in the nature of round-robins, or petitions. ‘A few of these sounded very much- like the joint products of groups that had just listened to a radio broadcast. Most of them, however, came from organizations like men’s Bible classes, social elubs, and so. on, which had debated the issue and formally voted on it. : ; Six letters did not mention the Neutrality Law, but simply accused the President of trying to get the country into war: : Four were strongly anti-Semitic. a Three were form letters which clearly had not . peen written by the signers. Three were of the crack-pot type and just didn't make any sense. : .

Watching Your Health. By Jane Stafford a

TT jelly-making season is at its height in most parts of the country and even the kitchenette housekeeper is likely to be tempted, either by the array of fruits in market or by memories of her grandmother’s preserve cabinet, into putting up a few jars of some favorite jam or jelly. a In making jellies, jams and preserves, large. amounts of sugar must be added to the fruit to keep - it from spoiling. This makes the jellies and jams. high in fuel value. Consequently nutrition experts - advise using them in smsll amounts as accessories te the meal. ; i ‘Jams and Jellies have ha place, along with. pickles and condiments, in adc vayiety and appetite appeal to a meal. This was more important in our grandmothers’ and great-grandmothers’ time *han it is now, because in the old days there were few fresh fruits and vegetables available in winter and meals were apt to become monotonous. Jams and Joes have no place in a weight-redycing diet, but if you are trying to em weight, you might prefitaply include bread and jelly with your bed-time glass of milk. Utlike jellies, canned fruits can be used liberally in one's diet. They do not require as much sugar as jellies, and may be made without any. The vitamin. content may be somewhat impaired but much of it is. retained and the canned fruits are valuable for other nutritive elements such as iron and calcium. Commercial canning is now highly perfected and there is. ne. valid objection to tin cans as now used in comcial canning, authorities point out. y "Dried fruits, incidentally, are the pe am. of fruit available for winter use. They are high in. fuel value as well as containing minerals and vitamins. *

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