Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 October 1939 — Page 8

~

PAGE 8

Y

~The Indianapolis Times (A SCRIPPS-HOWARD NEWSPAPER) ROY i w HOWARD RALPH BURKHOLDER MARK FERREE

Editor Business Manager

Price in Marion County, 3 cents a copy; delivered by carrier, 12 cents a week.

Mall gubscription rates in Indiana, $3 a year; outside of Indiana, 65 cents a month.

Owned and published . daily (except Sunday) by The Indianapolis Tim Pub Co, 214 W.

Maryland’ St,

Member of United Press, Scripps - Howard News- E paper Alliance, NEA Service, and Audit Bu- 5 reau of Circulation. =

) ‘Give Light and the People Will Find Their Oton Way

[

=~

6 SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1939

POWER POLITICS—1764 A HAT most distinguished daily, the Hartford Courant, is celebrating its 175th anniversary—the allttime record in this country for newspaper publication. We have before us a reproduction of the first issue, dated Oct. 29, 1764. ‘And we observe this item which, we think, should remove all doubts—if any exist—as to whether power politics in Europe is something new: “Paris, Aug. 10 (1764). —Within these last three days no less than 18 different couriers have been dispatched to Madrid. All is hurry and confusion at Versailles: Expresses are ‘every moment sent td\the different seaports; and if some whispers are to be credited we are on the eve of a new rupture with the most formidable of our neighbors. This, and the distractions which are but too justly apprehended in Poland threaten to deluge Europe afresh with blood, and throw an uncommon air of dejection over this metropolis, which was just beginning tp recruit from the miseries of the late war.” ~ 8

POWER POLITICS—1939 FROM a press association account of a debate in the House of Lords: . : .. “Lord Listowel urged the recognition of Russian occu- ~ pation of eastern Poland as not too high a price ‘for the goodwill of ‘a first-class power in wartime’.”

THE SIMPLE LIFE ; AN estimated 25,000 persons gathered on a farm at Li erty, Ind., yesterday to watch, not ‘a world’s heavyweight title fight, nor a championship football game, but the state cornhusking tournament. The winner among the 16 competitors: was rewarded with cash, a medal and the right to represent Indiana in the national contest. Nobody has ever bothered to count the fans who flock annually to this latter event, the ‘Corn Belt Derby,” but estimates have run as high as 130,000. No other type of contest has ever attracted as many people. The size of the cornhusking following becomes even more remarkable when it is considered that the tournament ‘is held away from metropolitan centers. ; It is refreshing, in a frenzied world, to sit back for a moment and consider this enthusiasm for a simple sport. A little more of this could do no harm. The world needs more cornhusking contests, more spelling bees, more hog calling tournaments—it needs to laugh, and to cull joy from sports much simpler than those involving 37-millmeter guns and 500-ton-death-spitting tanks. :

" WHAT WOULD HAWLEY SAY TO SMOOT?

F there is any doubt about Col. Frank Knox having abandoned all ambitions for public office it.should. be dispelled by his advocacy, repeated recently, of free trade with South America. : From the way certain members of Congress act, it would seem almost impossible for a man of such views to pick tip any delegates from any:state having enough cattlemen to send a telegram to Washington. Only the other day, at the hearing on the proposed U. S.-Argentine trade treaty, lawmakers from the open spaces went by the score to protest that the inflow of even a little more canned beef would be regarded as an unpatriotic assault on the great American steer. Definitely the Colonel is no longer a Re- | publican politician; he has become a statesman. \ We had a lively commerce with Latin America until “ithe Republicans erected the Smoot-Hawley tariff. Comes now one of the most stalwart of all the G. O. P. guard, blowing his trumpet before walls which we fear will prove more enduring than those of Jericho. ;

‘MADE IN GERMANY y THE 1939 Nobel Prize in Medicine has been awarded to Dr. Gerhard Domagk, the man chiefly responsible for the fact that tens of thousands of lives have been saved by sulfanilamide and its related chemical compounds. : On Feb. 15, 1935, Dr. Domagk gave the world the news of his experiments with prontosil, a red dye, which when. administered to mice protected them from streptococcus infection. That report led rapidly to the development of other remedies in the sulfanilamide group and their almost miraculous victories over childbed fever and other desgly “strep” infections, pneumonia, meningitis, gonorrhea and other diseases of human beings, = People in every land, we ‘think, will hail this award— the more so because Dr. Domagk’s experiments were made in Germany. He is a research worker for I G. Farbenindustrie, the great German chemical and dye combine. His Nobel prize is a symbol of hope for the coming of that day when German genius will be turned again from the uses of war and destruction to the service of humanity.

SONGS IN DOWNING STREET

MEMBERS of Neville Chamberlain’s household have dis- = closed that, for relaxation, the British Prime Minister ‘sings Negro spirituals, learned on a trip to the Bahamas. Mr. Chamberlain, the story adds, is a baritone. What, we wonder, are the favorites of the statesman with the umbrella? “Standin’ in de need of prayer,” perhaps. Or “Joshua fit de battle of Jericho.” on which the Prime Minister might really go to town, it seems to us, is “Nobody knows de trouble I've seen.”

PAYROLL CITY AN organization called the Citizens Public Expenditure =" Survey has figured out that there are in New York - State 98,045 Federal employees, 95,455 teachers and 263,868 other employees of the stafe and local governments. That makes a total of 457,368 New Yorkers on Government payrolls, not counting the people on relief. If all of them were concentrated in one city, says the survey, that city would be, next to New York and Buffalo, the third largest in the State, ’ < :

&

Fair Enough By- Westbrook Pegler

. Despite Her Foibles, Reno Is Just As Sanitary as Other Cities Her Sige And Her Hospitality Is O. K., Too.

ENO, Nev., Oct. 28.—Inasmuch as the Mayor took me for a ride, the Lieutenant Governor bought me a drink, the Chamber of Commerce gave me a lot

lethal chamber at the prison and a man condemned to go about Thanksgiving, I feel an obligation to say that the air here is bracing, the sunshine glorious on the golden autumn trees and that the moral conditions apparently are as sanitary as those of any other

city of equal size. The Lieutenant Governor, Mr. Sullivan, is a lawyer who deals in divorce and holds that counsel this line sometimes prevents grievous crime and saves life, citing in support remarks by distraught ladies to the effect that if they couldn't divorce. their husbands they would shoot their way out of wedlock. I was received, too, with courfesy by the Governor, Mr. Carvill, an alumnus of Notre Dame, class of ’09, who has fortunately escaped the somber duty of deciding whether the bad but amazingly brave man in the death house might live in prison until God’s own time or must die by gas in a room behind ice box doors

sunny-hours of his last days on earth swatting flies. 8 8. = ; GAMBLING house dealer by trade, this victim of his own rage met his estranged wife attended by another man at a country dance, killed her and two others, affirmed his conviction that he had only done something which required doing, and, when offered a chance to spend the rest of his life in unrelieved idleness, resolutely elected to die and have

done with it. He thus spared Governor Carvill the most painful trial’ of soul that befalls a man in American public life short of the duty to vote for or agains war in Congress. ; This civility disposed of, I proceed to report that aside from her normal commerce with lrer sister states, Nevada has developed a unique practice, in part a sly and cynical racket but not altogether so. Nevada solicits the divorce business of those who must divorce, brazenly invites Californians up to evade—and substantially violate—the requirements of the marriage laws of their own state, and even more boldly tempts Californians and others to establish legal but fictitious residence within her borders to escape paying their taxes, which Mr. Roosevelt once described as the price

of civilization. 2 f 4 2

self-respect Nevada insists that, conceding everything, her laws of convenience and subterfuge are nevertheless a redress of impositions on the individual by the laws of other states. There is something to that, although Nevada's motives are not samaritan. Ill-matched persons may divorce easily, in privacy and with no more expense than they can afford. The rich pay high, the poor pay low, and a scioness from Palm Beach, biding her time in Reno, may be served at table or manicured by a sister in trouble temporarily employed at the minimum wage of $3 a day, whose own divorce signed by the same judge will be as good as one that costs $10,000 in counsel fees. The Negro chauffeur of a rich divorcing man from Hollywood, putting in six weeks with the boss, decided

But the one

that he would get divorced, too, seeing that he was on the ground, and got his decree the same day.

Business By John T. Flyin Asks if Arms Industry Is Planned ~ As Means of Restoring Prosperity.

HICAGO, Oct. 28.—As matters stand, the neutrality legislation probably will be out of the way in a week or so. This will bring us into November. The regular session of Congress, even if the special session adjourns—which may be unlikely— will be less than two months away. What is the Government, what is Congress talking about with reference to our domestic problems? It has not been forgotten, surely, in the welter of European discussions, that we still have not solved the problem we set out to deal with nearly seven years ago—or better still, 10 years ago. We still have 11 million people out of work. Private investment is still in a state of complete lethargy. We are still under the necessity of plunging the Government deeper and deeper into debt. - Have we just become weary of the problem? Have we just decided to let it slide and go right on with the way which is so. easy now—Government deficits? There is mo discussion anywhere of these pressing questions of domestic economy. The Government has succeeded completely in taking our minds off our own diseases without taking our diseases out of our system. But no government can make deficits year after year without finding a reason for them. = It was easy enough while we were being promised that the deficits would prime the pump and set the

amount of the public debt became a menace. It was’ easy as long as the Government found ready to hand Soh wols to build, roads, parks, other peace-time u es. ;

Local Credit Exhausted

But all this is no longer possible. States and cities cannot borrow their share any more. Resistance to further expenditures grows daily. What reason can be given to keep up public deficits? There is still one potent one—national defense. If the people can be frightened by the possibility of astack by Hitler or somebody else, they will submit to borrowing to build ships, guns, forts, etc. . Is this what the Government is leading us to? Is it planning to create in the United States that needed new industry—an armament industry? There is no large, important armament industry in the United States. The Government is planning to create one. And having created it we will, as doés Europe, have to keep it alive forever. We will then have all

. the things that go with an armament industry. And

we will have recovery by armament—like Germany and Italy. : : : It might be a good idea to think that over before we go further.

A~Woman'’s Viewpoint

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

dormitory for married students. Thus higher education shows signs of leaving the adolescent for the adult stage of its development. : It is heartening at least to find a college giving encouragement not only to learning, but to marriage, which is unquestionably as important to American progress. There is dire need for closer intellectual companionship between husband and wife, a’ fact which schools cannot afford to overlook.

on the subject that we are in danger of forgetting that the mental side of matrimony is at least half as important as its physical side. Therefore, when it is financially feasible, a young husband and wife might derive many benefits from the experience of spending a year or two in college together.

years by the demands of sex and by romantic yearnings. They can’t become intérested in their lessons because they are too much interested in love—which ought not to startle us. For this reason it happens, sometimes, that these precious school years slip by with little gained and with regrets to follow. ; Our educational system seemed topsy~turvy in several respects. How many times you have heard middle aged men and women exclaim, “Oh, if I could only go to college now! I could learfi so much more, and I would appreciate the privilege I used to disregard.” :

tunately education is at present regarded as a lifetime enrolling in college. However, for a great many. this

is impossible. [Educational opportunity does not often knock at our door after 30, po

of booklets and a Deputy ‘Warden showed: me the | .

S a sop to her conscience and a pin to hold up her"

system in motion. It was simple enough until the

HE University of Minnesota has opened a new |

So much sloppy sentimentalism has been set forth.

Many. boys and girls are troubled during college -

Most of us feel that way about it although for- | process and nobody snickers at the sight of gray heads

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES _

not six feet from the cell in which he whiles away the | =

~ Just Asking for Trou

— o '

wnt Ae

"The Hoosier Forum

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

SEES U. S. UNDER | INFUENCE OF DICTATORS By M. 8. : It seems to me that the dictators have already partly conquered the United States. To argue-that the United States cannot make purely neutral laws because they may lead to war means that our neutrality is subject to a foreign influence, the fear of displeasing Adolf Hitler.

: ” = 8 INSTITUTE OF FACTS

FOR AMERICANS URGED By J. M. C. : Our nation was founded on the precept of freedom of the people; in speech, in religious belief, and in personal affairs. Our form of government, called a democracy, is a representative form of government with the election of government officials in the hands of the people. As human beings with the ability to think and reason, with the thought of liberty uppermost in our minds, do we realize the responsibiilty that rests on our shoulders? When our nation was young the individual was able to let the candidate for office know of his personal opinions and desires by speaking up in public meetings. Today, with the population many times larger this method is impossible. While the successful candidate’s own idezs and thoughts may differ from those of most of us, the only way he can outline his official policies is by the fact the majority. of votes put him in office solely on his pre-election promises. This method of knowing how the people think is worthless. The Constitution and laws are supposed to be the guideposts for the conduct of government policy. On the other hand conditions will arise that tax to the utmost the abilities and intelligence of government officials. : There should be some way in which we can let our Government know what our ideas and desires are regarding certain governmental policies. While the Gallup Instijute of Public Opinion is a step in the right direction, I don’t think it is thorough and accurate. What we should have is an Institute of Facts ‘where the “man in the street” could go for information accurate enough to base some form of opinion. Then the Institute of Public Opinion could check the “man in the street” for public opinion which would be more accurate than it is now. Let the radio and the newspapers give

us true facts instead of men like'

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

Lindbergh and Father Coughlin who confuse the issue by distorting the facts for a minority who have an ax to grind. After all, there isn’t anything wrong with our form of government. If our educational institutions and mediums of publicity give us true facts concerning government business we can educate ourselves to think and reason things out which is, after all, the true meaning of liberty; the antithesis of totalitarinism.

® 8 = CLAIMS CAPITALISM ADDS TO PUBLIC DEBT

By R. Sprunger Shades of medievalism! Voice in the Crowd suggest that we lower our already .low standard of living to pay the public debt. Plain sense should tell him that conditions would only be attempting to pay the public et under capitalism which is impossible. Capitalism has and is adding to the public debt in such ways as causing rising unemployment and as the unemployed have to be fed the Government has to.do the job. In an attempt toc control crime caused mainly by unemployment, misery and poverty, the Government spends. billions of dollars yearly for prisons and other so-called crimefighting units’ making a list too Jengthy to name here. The Government is also insuring about 85

per cent of the banks so that depositors have some protection for their savings. Altogether the Government is spending huge sums placing “props’ to hold up the insane scarcity economics of capitalism. . - Let V. I.-C. prove, if he can, how the public debt can be paid under capitalism with millions of unemployed and business being done on about a 90 per cent credit basis and do so without causing any more suffering and misery.to the masses. s ” f J OPPOSES HITLER,

BUT LIKES GERMANS

By Chester O. Teegarden, Ind.

Everyone in the U. 8. A. is in

Bloomington,

favor of England and France whip-|

ping Germany, says you. I'm not! I would like to see Adolf Hitler tried and found guilty of first degree murder and executed but I am not in favor of seeing Germany ruined again. ; The Allies say their goal is the destruction of Hitler and Hitlerism. Well and good—but what do they intend doing with Germany after Hitler and his friends are destroyed? Make it a Brit protectorate? Of course it is not our war, but let us be very careful in the future to prevent its becoming our war. I have three sharpshooter medals from U. S. Army training, but I also have friends in Germany from the Olympic games of 1932 and 1936, Rudi Ismayr, Josef Manger, George Leipsch, Fritz Hala, Hanns Seitz and others. I will not go to France or anywhere else and shoot at one of these Germans because it might be one of my friends and I might hit him. Whose war is this anyway, and who does the fighting? Just like a college football game, the guys that bring .in the big dough don’t get it.

New Books at the Library

INNER-TABLE discussions of the best way to kill a dictator always end by someone’s suggesting a long range gun with a telescopic sight. The hero and narrator of the novel “Rogue Male” (Little), by Geoffrey-Household, chooses to stalk his game, a dictator who is never named but not hard to recognize, in

his well guarded mountain retreat. The story begins at the moment

a

Side Glances—By Galbraith

“Where's that shiny suit with the frayed cuffs? I have a feeling

"=~ your brother is going to drop into the office today ; SI bes. fra " :

than alive, in such circumstances

when he has sighted his game and aimed but is felled by a guard before he fires the fatal shot. He tries to convince himself and his captors that he never intended to pull the trigger but, as a world-famous game hunter, was interested only in proving to himself that he could track down , this biggest game of his career. He succeeds only in con-f vincing his judges that it would not: be expedient for a man of his reputation to disappear without a trace; so they leave him, far more dead

that his injuries and death will be explained naturally, All his hunting skill, bot h psychological and practical, is none too much when he in turn becomes the hunted, when by the most painful exercise of the will-to-live he escapes to England, pursued relentlessly by spies, secret agents, and all the forces of fascism. « The tense atmosphere of the chase is heightened by the fact that most of the drama of pursuit and flight takes place within a very few square miles of peaceful, somnolent English country-side, and by the calm, objective way in which his terrible suffering and hair-raising escapes are related. : It is a masterpiece of story-tell-ing, and the end, which finds him on his way back to Europe to finish the job, seems the only logical one.

RAINBOW By ROBERT O. LEVELL I saw a bright rainbow Away up in the sky,

Heaven filled it all with glow And made it shine so high.

Glowing away up there The joy so real and bright Told me God’s own love and care, Were there with grand delight. -

DAILY THOUGHT

Love worketh no ill to his neigh- ' por; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.—Romans 13:10.

UR love's the gift ‘which God

“he gets

: SATURDAY, OCT. 2, 1989 is Gen. Johnson ays— i | War-Industry-Minded Canada Now |

Ready to O. K. St. Lawrence Pact Largely at the Expense of the U.S.

ITTSBURGH, Oct. 286—In Detroit, I heard much

|4L talk of an industrial war boom in Canada. The

British plan is said to be to spend armament money there instead of here and the figure mentioned is three and one-half billion dollars. Of course, this could be done only after a considerable expansion of Canadian industrial plants. . Ser : As part of this plan, Canada is said at last to be ready to ratify the proposed treaty creating the St. Lawrence-Great Lakes Seaway. This will cost us 400 million dollars as a first step—to improve part of its lower reaches—and a very large additional sum for lake and harbor improvements before it is complete. It is being sold to our Midwest as a great project which will- “put Chicago, Duluth and other lake ports on the Atlantic Ocean.” Seagoing ships will steam clear up the head of Lake Superior. 2) It wouldn't be sold to’ Canada on that basis. There are too many question marks on the economy and ' practicability of any such navigation arrangement— no. matter how many hundreds of millions we spend, But Canada recognizes—as we should also—that this isn’t primarily a-havigation project at all. ; This is primarily a power project. In our case th cost of the installment for power will be written off against “navigation” and “national defense,” as is being done in TVA. Then the Government can go into “competition” with private industry without having to charge very much in costs for plant investment. . - ” ” ” : ANADA never fell for that great power installa« tion befor n though it was to be partly at our expense, pecauggiine had plenty of cheap power for any likely indust¥ial use. But if the war is going to present her with a vast industrialization largely at ‘British expense she can use more power, largely at American expense, So she feels more receptive to the treaty. ; : in : Our Government is sugaring the bait with another

| nifty—at American expense. Many years ago when

the Chicago Sanitary Canal was constructed to ree

1 lieve an intolerable sewage problem, the United States

made a treaty with Canada about these boundary was ters. Canadian hydroelectric interests wanted to di vert a lot of water from Niagara Falls to create power, Chicago wanted to divert 10/000 cubic feet per second

| from Lake Michigan to avoid dumping her raw sewage

into the still Lake Michigan pool of her drinking wae ter—her only possible supply. So that treaty permitted the diversion of 10,000 C. S. F. by us in} ex‘change for a. much larger Canadian diversion at’ Niagara. : . ” ” ”» y EARS later, as a result of a Supreme. Court de= cision, Chicago was enjoined from diverting more than 1500 cubic square feet. In the proposed new sea= way treaty our right to divert the full 10,000 C. S. F. is to be given up. . Sinden y Whether Chicago could get along and remain healthful with 1500 C. 8. F. was a technical conjecture, If it proved wrong, the Supreme Court could ys relax the restriction. But not, if we now barter away, our right to divert by a new treaty. rod : I have been in Chicago several times recently. The 1500 C. S. F. diversion isn’t working out. It is creating a great open sewer clear down to the Illinois River. The health of millions of our own people is more important than any pet power project.

It Seems to Me By Heywood Broun ae Attacks on Browder Show Tendency To Mix Melodrama With Our Justice.

EW YORK, Oct. 28.—Just about the worst way of achieving justice is to throw in trumpets and riding boots while everybody sings “Ahunting we will go.” Under those circumstances anything that moves becomes- a fox and subject to suspicion. Neither hounds nor human beings judge the nature of their objective very clearly once they have worked theme selves into a lather. ; i Of course, I have the Browder case partly in mind, Earl Browder is under indictment and has ‘ been charged with using a fraudulent passport. ‘He should be tried on that issue. Judging from some editorial comment, there is a disposition to take him over the jumps for the death of the Czar, the Ukraine famine and the Russo-German pact. ? : I am amazed and puzzled by the fact that when one of my Connecticut. neighbors put up bail for Browder she was immediately summoned before the Grand Jury. I trust that: furnishing bail has not yet become a crime. 2 i nessa There used to be a society for aviators called the Quiet Birdmen. I suppose there's no such thing any more, and so I would like to have the title turned over to some group within the machinery of law. enforce ment. I would like to see a club of Quiet Lawyers on" an association of judges who never made a wisecrack from the bench in the hope of earning a headline in the newspapers. The latter society might find it ad visable to shrink its title somewhat. But the thought remains. When law and melodrama mingle justice jumps out of the window. ra Sy

Remember the War Years

Surely the years from 10814 through 1918 should have taught us a lesson.. Some of the gentlemen who were harried as Reds in those days have now become pillars of respectability. Things went so far that even Republicans like young Col. Roosevelt took up the defense of ‘the embattled radicals. And the spy stuff got completely cockeyed. Amateur sleuths turned in the names of people for nothing more than:coming home erly in the morning and “talking mysteriously.” . The trouble with the volunteers is that they.get in . ; way of serious work. There are spies, but it doesn’t help if we choose a slogan such as “Watch

4

-

\your neighbor!” :

\ It seems to me that we have been losing ground while everybody has been. going around saying, “Let's keep out of the war.” We all agree on that. Let's

gerous. But there is something more dangerous. Leét us live in America beyond the shadow of that sort of secret police which forms the very spine of dictatorship.

Watching Your Health By Jane Stafford . ;

REVENTING skin diseases. from afflicting workers who are exposed to injurious or irritating chemicals calls for team work between the boss and the . worker. The boss does his part by providing all possible means of protection. In modern factories, for example, the construction and equipment is: such that the worker need not come in contact with any of the chemicals used in the manufacturing process from beginning to end. In other factories this may not be possible. The worker must then be protected by suit able clothing such as rubber gloves, aprons, masks and goggles. The boss provides these and facilities, such as shower baths for keeping clean, and the worker does his part by using them. : " Of prime importance in preventing occupational skin diseases is cleanliness. This is stressed by Drs. Louis Schwartz of the U. S. Public Health Service and Louis Tulipan of New York University College of Medicine in a textbook they have just published for medical and public health men. This means cleanli=. ness of floors and walls of workrooms, all machinery and equipment, and a cleanliness on the part of the worker. In factories where there is a special skin hazard, the workers should not only take showers when they quit work, but each should have a clean set of work clothes each day, and double locker rooms, one where he leaves his street clothes and gets them after the Showge at.the end of the day, and another where e clean work clothes in the morning and deposits the soiled ones at the end of the day. ; Rubber gloves, these authors point out, should be elbow length and should be tucked under the shirt sleeves, the sleeves to be buttoned or Usd Seny over

~L hath given, to man alone be-

neath. the hea: |

the gloves,at- the wrists so that the irri get - 84QY ab i

agree on something else. Spies and sabotage are dan- .