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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1939

MILK PRICES 3 EGINNING today, milk prices will be up 1 cent in In- ~ dianapolis. That increase, along with the others that have been

made since the milk law was passed in 1935, makes the.

“price of milk an important item in a family budget. It may be worthwhile to see what other cities are doing fo provide cheaper milk. New York City companies, for ex- * ample, are now delivering milk in two-quart fiber containers. These “milk boxes” are easier for the milkman to handle and can be thrown away when emptied, whereas bottles : involve the expense of collection and washing as well as breakage loss. The price? Two quarts of milk in one of the new con_tainers cost three cents less Shan the same quantity in two - glass bottles. : This is no complete solution for the cost of the milk problem which vexes every city. It doesn’t help families which find it necessary to buy one quart at a time. But it does show that distribution economies can be worked out. And distribution is the field that almost everybody. * agrees needs attention, since the farmers are always con- * tending that they get too little and the consumers that they pay too much. <

MUST BE SOME MISTAKE THE following quotation is from an official statement of the Maritime Commission, prepared for the Senate Commerce Committee and dated Oct. 12, 1939: “The policy of the United States with respect to its merchant marine . . . provides . . . that the American mer- ' chant marine should be owned and operated under our flag ‘by our citizens.”

No, the error is not typographical. Maritime Commis-

sion is correct. The same commission that now proposes to approve the transfer of American-owned vessels to Panama

* registry in order to get around the Neutrality Act.

. THE COST OF PEACE JR'STIMATES prepared for Congress by President Roose- ; velt call for emergency appropriations of $271,200,000 ~ to the Army, the Navy, the Coast Guard and the anti- ~ espionage work of the G-Men, bringing this fiscal year’s “defense budget to $1,835,631,000. . That’s a lot of money—not much less than the total expenditures of the entire Government in fiscal 1917, Jinclud-,

Xe ing three months of actual participation in the World War. |

Let’s see how the defense budget stacks up against the

~ according to one informed estimate, are spending for war

purposes nearly 100 million dollars a day—more every three

weeks than we will spend on defense and neutrality in this entire fiscal year.

Thé National Economy League asserts that the direct

a cost of the World War to the United States was about 42

million dollars a day, or a total of $24,135,000,000. It places our total cost for that war to date, including the Allies unpaid debts, payments to veterans and other hang-over ex-

i ‘ penses, at 55 Billion dollars.

Big as the defense budget is, and bigger as it will be, it is tiny when compared with what a war budget would call for. But there are two things that those who spend it should never forget: * keep them out of war. And that they want every dollar used wisely, because neither for defense nor for anything else can this Government afford to waste its resources:

JEFFERSON ON WAR

Y repay, at Washington, President Roosevelt laid ~~ the cornerstone of the Jefferson Memorial, which is to form the fourth point of the great cross of which the center ~ in the Washington Monument and the other points are the White House, the Capitol and the Lincoln Memorial.

“The President and his literary amanuenses iat have done worse than commandeer old Thomas Jefferson himself as ghost-writer for the occasion. For Jeflerson said: © “Our difficulties are indeed great, if we consider ourgelves alone. But when viewed in comparison to those of Europe, they are the joys of paradise. “In the eternal revolution of ages, the destinies have _ placed our portion of existence amidst such scenes of tu-

had presented. . . . A conqueror roaming over the earth

ith havoc and destruction; a pirate spreading misery and Tuin over the face of the ocean. Indeed, ours is a bed of “And the system of government which shall keep us afloat amidst the wreck of the world will be immortalized in istory. We have, to be sure, our petty-squabbles and burnings, and we haye something of the blue devils at times as to these rawheads and bloody bones who are eating op other nations. ... “I am so far from believing that our reputation will be ished by our not having mixed in the made contests of e rest of the world, that, setting aside the ravings of epper-pot politicians, of whom there are enough in every ge and country, I believe it will place us high in the le of wisdom to have preserved our country tranquil and gperous during a contest which prostrated the honor, ar, independence, laws and property of every counizy on Sher side of the Atlantic.”

ADVANCE, FRIEND! oN ~LARENCE L. FRIEND, an amateur astronomer. of Es-

condido, Cal, has discovered a new comet which, says je announcement from Harvard Observatory, “probably ] bear his name.” a

ine’ . Hereafter, when tefpted to conclude wh e universe is tainted by the hostility man ed up on his little planet, we can remember that SoltigWhere through the cold reaches of space is a

Germany, France and the British Empire, .

That the people expect this money to

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Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

San Antonio Rumpus Just a Local Political Fight Which Drew Notice

listening, I have discovered what is wrong with the big story of Maury Mavericks fight against the

powers of intrenched greed, indifference and all

like that, in San Antonio. The trouble is’ that it is just another smali-time local political” fight: which would not have been heard of beyond the county limits but for Maverick’s national reputation as a

New Dealer. Maverick was a New Deal Congressman for two terms, but was knocked off the last time around. He was beaten by a fellow townsman named Paul Kilday, but came hack as a candidate for Mayor and was elected, whereupon he started a lower-case New Deal of his own. The first holdover whom he fired was Owen Kilday, the Chief of Police, a brother of the man who licked him in the Congressional election. Just lately, a picture magazine published a story by Maverick, broken up into paragraphs, or cut lines as. we call them in the newspaper business, and one of these pictures showed Owen Kilday asleep in a chair, It was one of those dirty-pool pictures conveying a suggestion that Kilday was always asleep on the job. The cut line didn’t say that, when the picture was taken, Kilday had just done 48 hours of continuous duty in an emergency, but friends of Kilday insist that such was the case. » # » AVERICK tore the police department apart. It does appear to have been a terrible police force and, incidentally, typical of the police work in so many minor league cities where cops are political appointees and neither intelligence, training nor aptitude is considered. Maverick got together a board, and 68 cops out of the 248 were fired. He says that in the I. Q. Tests the marks actually hit zero in seven or eight cases. ; The average age of those Who were fired, or, if you prefer a nicer word, retired, was above 60 years. But, of course, they aren’t actually retired at all, because retirement ordinarily implies a pension and the pension plan of the San Antonio police department fell apart a long time ago. They are just old men tossed out of their jobs.

Roosevelt's. He brought in a bright young college= taught police executive named Ray Ashworth, a. damned Yankee, what's worse, and made him chief, and Ashworth set up a police academy in which a lot of young, snappy cadets studied radio, fingerprinting, evidence; gist of the modern stuff that Edgar Hoaver’s men learn in Washington.

» 2 2 SHWORTH is a picture cop of the new type, a

played football and basketball in some Quaker school, the name of which is lost somewhere among my notes, and learned police work in Wichita. You see the similarity of Maverick’s method to President Roosevelt's. He goes out of his way to humiliate those whom he has defeated and he can’t resist the temptation to pop off with unnecessary rough remarks which hit whole groups of elements of the population and their loyalty. Like Mr. Roosevelt, he has a subtle way of suggesting that “respectability,” as the term has always been understood by Americans, is in some way predatory and disreputable.

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Business By John T. Flynn

Study of Capitalism Must Precede Recovery Under That System.

EW YORK, Nov. 16.—It is generally conceded that the great job which confronts the American people is recovery. And it is also generally conceded that recovery means setting our economic system in motion in such a way as to assure for all, or almost all, the necessities of life.

There are men who insist that this cannot be done under our present capitalist system, but there are few who think that any party or any statésmen will be permitted by the people, for many years to come, to attempt to do it in any other way. Therefore when ‘we talk about recovery we talk about recovery within the framework of the capitalist system, and whoever brings forward a means of recovery must offer one which conforms to the peculiar laws and character of capitalism—and by capitalism I mean a system of production and distribution under the institution of private property and private profit. Certain left-wing groups demand that the public shall immediately take over the railroads, the utilities, our basic industries (mines and forests), and the banks. That would certainly constitute a huge chunk of our economic system brought under Socialist control. But there would remain still unsocialized and operating under’ the system of private property and profit all the farms, all our stores, practically all of the industries manufacturing food and clothing and furniture, luxuries, our amusements.

still have to make that capitalist portion of it work Successfully. This means that part of it would have: to be operated with an eye upon the laws which apply to the capitalist system.

Let's Make Up Our Minds

This being so, does it not become of the first. importance that those charged with the operation of this immense economic machine must know first of all something of its structure? Is it not about time we made up our minds definitely just what system of economics we wish to live under and is it not equally important that, if we decide to make a go of the present system,” we recognize that there are certain kinds of reforms and <ertain devices of control which are uiterly impossible under it? Obvious as this statement seems, it is yet almost universally disregarded, for do we not see plans to control trades by businessmen, schemes to regulate the system by special interests, proposals for subsidies ‘and pensioms, plans to raise profits and wages of particular groups, systems for redeeming the farmers—all designed unwittingly, however, to stifle and paralyze the very economic system they are desed to aid

A Woman's Viewpoint

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

PpEnnars we are foo close to Eleanor Roosevelt to appraise her justly, but it is almost certain history will write her down as America’s first great

term as President a large part of credit must be given to his wife.

feminine composite of Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson and Abe Lincoln, with a heavy dash of Uncle Teddy’s cayenne temperament mixed in for ,good measure. In a country where democracy is talked. about, but where snobs are quite generally honored, she puts its principles into practice. Hobnobbing as she does with the bigwigs of every locality, she always takes time out to visit with the classes who have heretofore seen their First Ladies

enter; no woman too poor but she is made conscious of her kinship with the highest in the land. In this way’ Mrs. Roosevelt spreads something more valuable than smiles and charm upon her journeyings. She managers also to impress upon every plain citizen that he is a vital part of his nation

portant to the general welfare as that of the Presi. dent or the President's Lady. Men stand straighter after Eleanor has passed by, and women are filled with gratitude and a kind of startled wonder because they are made aware of the privilege of being: Americans and of their good fortune in breathing the air of : democracy, ‘Where leaders listen and serve as well as command. Certainly Mrs. Roosevelt listens and. serves. She

3nd Iote Jhan any other womah, ‘and wha

Because of Maverick's Prominence. | AN ANTONIO, Tex. Nov. 16.—After three days of |

Maverick's New Deal follows the pattern of Mr..

in all, a compact’ paraphrase or |.

great big, lean, athletic fellow about 34. He

If we wished to make our society work we would.

woman democrat. And if her husband wins a third ]

The present mistress of the White House is a =

only from afar off. No home is too lowly for her to |

and that his job whatever it may be, is quite as im- |

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Lr Trade With Japan Inconsistent in Yow of Our Stand Toward Mexico.

i So is X sep tian $100,000

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

PREFERS HOLLAND'S NEUTRALITY TO OURS By Reader “We do not wish to become an extension of British measures against Germany, nor .do we wish the opposite.” This from brave little Holland

armed invasion is neutrality in the true sense and meaning of the word. If Holland is forced to fight, her statesmen at least can stand before their people blameless of the consequences. How different is this attitude from that of our own leaders: with their so-called neutral policy of “How dare you, sir!” toward one combatant and “We will assist you? toward another. . 8 8 = SEES /IRONY IN ARMAMENT PROGRAM By H L. 8S. The proposal of the President to establish peace with a program of enlarged armament while we pray for peace is ironical. The -price of peace is stupendous. Clemenceau at the conference of the Big Four at Versailles asked the Premiers and Wilson if a lasting peace was desir:d. He asked, “Then you are willing to pay the costs of peace?” After some hesitation the reply was “What costs?’ “Well,” said Clemenceau, “if we are to end all future wars, if we are to prevent war, we must give up our empire and all thought of empire; “We can travel to other countries, but as tourists, traders, travelers. We cannot any more govern them, or exploit them or have the inside track. in them. We cannot possess the keys to trade routes or spheres of influence. Aud we shall have to

.|tear down our tariff walis and open

the whole world to free trade and traffic. These are some of the costs of permanent peace. “There are other. sacrifices we, the dominant powers,” would have to make, It is a very expensive. peace. We French are willing, but are you gentlemen willing to pay the price, all these costs, of no more wai?” The Premiers and Wilson protest ed they did not mean all that; that it was not necessary—not all at once. Then said Clemenceau, “You don’t

dwelling in the constant shadow of |

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mean peace, you mean war. Get ready for the next war.” Peace rests on equality of nations. Does Roosevelt seek the road to lasting peace, or is it all talk? ® 8 = CLAIMS GOVERNMENT IS NOT DEMOCRATIC

{By Curious, Bloomington, Ind.’

To R. Sprunger: | Economic dictatorship, ves, 1. beHeve that, but I have a better

name for it. I call it capitalistic imperialism. It is a fact that I used to be so dense as to think this Government was ruled by a democratic setup; but after browsing in the encyclopedia and reading a little about economics I find that this Government is about as democratic as the one that Czar Nick used to operate in Eastern Europe. Another point is I. hope that stupid Dies Committee continues to exist, because it makes curious people like me investigate and when enough of us learn the truth it will set us free. But it will not be according to his plans.

DOUBTS ‘DARKY STORIES’ - : SERVE USEFUL PURPOSE By Indianapolis Negro Mothers In reference - to: your, editorial, “Mutual Assistance,” of Nov. 2, I should like to say that American culture would not suffer very much from the loss of the too often quoted “darky stories.” ‘In {ruth most of them aré not . essentially amusing. Certainly they are not} amusing to the 50,000, or more, Negro citizens: of Indianapolis and to the other Negroes of this country: at ‘whose ‘expense. they. are quoted. Such stories are not only an ‘insult to .a sensitive people, who already suffer too much from a feeling of racial inferiority, but they are also an offense to good taste and sports-

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THINKS NAZIS IN ON BEER. HALL BOMBING By F. V. +» It’s too bad Hitler was not 10 minutes late in ending his speech. Things like that don’t happen. Not

among the Nazis. They are too alert. |

Take the Reichstag fire of a few years ago. Van der Tubbe, an unemployed Hollander roaming through Germany at the time, was picked up by the Gestapo, convicted and executed for a crime that Goer-

ing never has denied., Now that's a fact. Just how stupid can a nation

7f people become?

New Books at the Library a

I: a new novel of epic proportions, Francis Brett Young's saga of South African history, begun in “They Seek a Country” is carried forward the years of expansion and gold rush mania to ‘he eve of the Boer War. .“The City of Gold” (Reynal) is: Johannesburg, transformed, almost overnight, from a treeless waste on the great lonely .veldt to: a Faw; bustling “boom to the mecca. of th ] of gold seekers trekking ac the Trans-

vaal by: covered wagon or on horse-

Side Glances—By Galbraith 5

probably Ws more about America than most men

“Africa for the British Em

1 world in the colorful making, A ee

Back. Over ‘that #rest trek ‘hovered the shadow of past conflicts ‘and bloodshed, and the darker shadow of bloodier warfare to come. : Through the experiences of the Grafton family, the turbulent colonization of their country becomes a dramatic pageant, somewhat paralleling America's pioneering surge toward new frontiers, Three of John Grafton's sons play parts of varying importance in the firm struggle of the sturdy Dutch farmers to protect their ‘farm lands against the diamond and gold hunters and the hated “dreamers of. empire” who covet South Africa's richness for England. Adrian is a Boer, hostile to the invaders. Piet amasses a fortune through shifting allegiance to either faction which is uppermost at the moment. Janse is a gold seeker whose star of good fortune rises with Johannesburg. To their sister Maria, tragedy comes when the young English soldier to whom she is betrothed is slain in a quick Boer uprising. A dominant personality of the .book is. Cecil Rhodes, the in-

| | valid ‘who went to Africa to hunt &2€” - |diamonds and remained to make

history as the great protasenist of | Here, thrillingly told, with reverBerations of booming guns and the forward march of pionee is the epi

© PASSING OF A FRIEND By MAUDE COURTNEY | WADDELL

wets all overt . || They are gone] Sine, 0 y | stinied are the lips— fs Et Closed the oe nat wi never

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ee ‘as any psychiatrist will tell you. ev 8 good dea to get enjoyment. out of

flout SNON 3 yet.

1 cotton: of 4 whi | Japan takes a big slice. Cotton oo Fig

problem for the South. To save that Chinese $100,

| 000,000 might cost Squthern aii. alons.amnien .~ | more ) mig i. £08 Su srl Chinese, ius

Those who own the vestment, could stand the loss much } etter.

American rights are being kic _else-

| where. In Mexico they amount to alist $003

—already battered down from almost Japan doesn’t seize American properties, she just restricts American business. Mexico does . It is part of our policy to build up our - tine American trade. Much of this fruitful white man’s country is just as capable of amazing ‘development, as our own was in its virgin state. Our, country grew. so amazingly because floods of foreign capital came here for-investment. : It came because we Fespected. fotelgn righty and paid our dents,

o o » AH UR Government's plan to put ‘a pilots. on : th

’ lazy economics of Latin-America is to. procure the investment of large sums of American private—

‘possibly - public—capital to develop these marvelous

countries. But how can private capital venture or the political trustees of public capital risk it in countries that do not respect foreign: Tights and da not pay their debts? | It is utterly impossible. - All Latin-American coune tries do not confiscate property as Mexico does, but: all are invited to do so if our Government is not as insistent as it is in China that foreign rights: be respected.” Some Latin-American countries pay their debts, but why should they if our Government doesn't insist on that too as an incident of trade? = If Pan-American development is our principal policy why should we get so tough with and threaten to sacrifice so much for a relatively insig= nificant interest in China and do almost nothing on ° what appears to be our principal stake and brightest

| hope of all the Americas in the Western Homisphicses :

Is it possible that the gesture toward Japan isn really a matter of trade at all—that it is really some» thing that we are doing in our apparent silent parte nership with Great Britain and that it has 1 more to

| do with war than commerce?

8 E seem to have gone into the sacrifice business in a big way. We are willing to sacrifice sev< eral hundred thousand tons of American shipping in . the Atlantic Ocean to avoid diplomatic disputes over the freedom of the seas when we could avoid them equally well without sd much sacrifice. We ‘wou make an annual sacrifice of $500,000,000 in’ our Japaas nese trade to save our $100,000,000 stake in ‘China.’ = This business of- foreign trade is of deadly ine portance. It is the only certain way of putting our millions of unemployed back to work and sustaining markets for our vast and unmanageable agricultura; . There are methods less than war but more than mere words to persuade Mexico too. It is ons necessary to .withdraw active American ‘support of the Cardenas Government.

It Seems to Me

By Heywood Broun .

Kuhn on Trial as The Great Gover . Rather Than for Bund Activities,

EW YORK, Now; 16.~-At no time have 1 been a partisan of Mr. Fritz Kuhn, I am not for him now. And yet I regret to see his trial developing into an examination of his love life rather than an ine quiry. into ‘the basic facts of Nazi ‘propaganda in erica.

I am aware of the fact that he! is being tried neither asa Talleyrand nor as a Casanova, but on the plain and simple charge of whether or not he acted loosely with the funds of the Bund. = I would corfimend Judge James G. Wallace for ail the efforts which he had made to keep the issue down to the case in hand. But once the f writers and the photographers:come in m tried and convicted on extraneous issues. And I cannot deny that whatever the court rules some of the irrelevant issues are of interest to the reading public. I have seen Fritz Kuhn engaged in oratory, and in my opinion, He is not a prepossessing person aside from his ideas, which seem to me deplorable. To my possibly jaundiced eye he looks like a second assists. ant delicatessen clerk emeritus. And so I am startled to find that he is charged with sending to personable young ladies signed kisses—PFritz 2 But. not “only the factual but the findamental issue will go astray if 12 good men and true are to be called upon to decide whether or. . not Frits ever jumped over the fence.

The Charming Mr. Franklin :

On the whole, the philosophy of Der Fuehrer ih foo Spartan by at least 50 per cent. It has been said that Hitler is inhibited and that if he would only get tight some night or wander away on a great commotion we might have a world more peaceful and less cruel. One of the chief complaints seainst the severity of Russian communism may lie in the fact that few. of the leaders had any capacity whatsoever for kicke ing up their heels. * Portunately, our own ‘ational ‘tradition has Pere mitted quite a generous allowance of time off. Benja« min Pranklin, perhaps the most charming of all Amere ican heroes, wowed the ladies when he, became our Ambassador to France, and neither Washington nor Jefferson was a teetotaler in all respects. As a moralist I strongly disapprove of any un sanctified conduct in the life of Pritz Kuhn or any other ‘man who is old enough to know bettef, ‘This goes for Napoleon and Hannibal. But :as one who hates the Nazi propaganda I resent any furnishing of proof that Kuhn. or any of his kind, could provide fun even on a party. = 4

Watching Your Health

By Jane Stafford

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WER has set in’ ‘and you probably want ta spend your spare: time by the fire—or radiator —reading or. pl laying cards; but you know you should get some exercise to keep in trim, so you considef such things as walking home oftener, or doing set« ting-up- exercises regularly or joining a ——

jar of these are good, but the 2ysiage person d not .get much fun out of them. fun is as portant. - Getting enjoyment out of pg physical recreation is good for your. mental h So. while ‘you. exercising your body for the sake of health, it | iy, 8ls0 Tor