Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 November 1939 — Page 20

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Give lAght end the Peoples Will Find Their Own Way

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1939

M'NUTT'S CLASSMATE THE Class of 1913 at Indiana University is threatening to become, like Ohio and Virginia, a mother of Presidents. - For many months the country has been kept aware of the Presidential availability of Paul V. McNutt, and now . Gen. Hugh S. Johnson rises to place in nomination Wendell L. Willkie, who like Mr. McNutt is a Hoosier, a Democrat, a lawyer, and an alumnus of I. U., Class of "13. It isn’t the first time that the makings of a Presidential candidate ‘have been discerned in Mr. Willkie. Arthur Krock and David Lawrence, among other Washington seers, have suggested him as a dark-horse possibility—but on the Republican ticket, although Mr. Willkie has been enough of a Democrat to serve as an anti-McAdoo delegate to the Democratic National Convention at the Garden in 1924. - That was long before his feud with a Democratic Administration in Washington over TVA, in his capacity as president of the billion-dollar Commonwealth & Southern Corp., and most utility men might think he has had ample reason for turning Repubilcan. But while Mr. Willkie has nothing in common with the _ New Deal on the public-power issue, his record in some other fields is strictly Jeffersonian. He fought the Ku-Klux Klan in Indiana when Klan-baiting was dangerous business, Just recently he jumped all over the Dies Committee for em-

or ploying methods “undermining the democratic process” and

said that “there is no more cruel way of destroying the reputation of a man than by publicity, by inference and by innuendo.” : Whatever you think of his attitude in the TVA fight, this grandson of four German immigrants and son of an Indiana lawyer, is an able and articulate man of proven leadership, and he is only 47. If a call should arise next year, or in '44 or 48, for a “businessman President,” he would be a-man for the slate-makers to think about.

THE CLASS STRUGGLE : BITUMINOUS COAL RESEARCH, INC. has released a "list of names of Class A and Class B directors. We don’t know much about the organization, but)\obviously it is anti-Marxist and not doing its part to bring about the classless world.

“AT THE FOUNDATION”

. and magazines.

HESE persons were arrested: : Kim Young, a Korean student, for distributing on Los Angeles sidewalks handbills announcing a meeting at which left-wing speakers would discuss the civil war in Spain. La Harold F. Snyder, for passing out handbills while he and others were picketing a Milwaukee meat market during a strike. Elmira Nichols and Pauline Thompson, for distributing leaflets advertising a protest meeting at Worcester, Mass., against administration of the State Unemployment-Insur-ance Law. a Clara Schneider, a minister of the Jehovah's Witnesses sect, for calling from house to house in Irvington, N. J. leaving religious tracts and asking for contributions, without having obtained a canvasser’s permit from the police chief. ; » # 2 o ” 2

~~ The Supreme Court of the United States, in a decision coming appropriately at Thanksgiving time, has held that the rights of free press and free speech, guaranteed to all by the Constitution,” were violated by the four city ordinances under which these persons were arrested and convicted. The vote of the Court was 7 to 1, Mr. Justice Mc Reynolds alone dissenting. : The notable majority opinion, written by Mr. Justice

~ Roberts, establishes more firmly than ever before the prin-

~ ciple that distribution of information or opinion in printed form must not be forbidden. : Persons who disturb the peace, or throw litter into the . streets, or stop traffic, or trespass on the property of others, or distribute libelous or indecent matter, or solicit money by fraudulent methods, may be punished for these offenses. But desire to keep the streets free of litter does not * justify a city in adopting an ordinance prohibiting the hand- _ ing of literature to those willing to receive it. Nor does desire to protect residents against fraud, or to restrict commercial canvassing to reasonable methods, justify an ordinance imposing police censorship on those who wish to go - from house to house advocating causes or spreading ideas - by means of pamphlets. : » # # = 2 # Once more *he Suprema Court has made it clear tha - freedom of the press is not a right guaranteed for the special benefit of those who own and publish newspapers

It is guaranteed also to Kim Young, Harold Snyder,

_ Elmira Nichols, Pauline Thompson and Clara Schneider—

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to every one who desires to convey opinion or information, whether he owns a million dollars’ worth of printing ma- . chinery, whether he pays 50 cents to have a few handbills * struck off or whether he prepared his message on a type- - writer or with pen or pencil. For, as Mr. Justice Roberts says, freedom of speech and press are “fundamental personal rights” and their exercise “lies at the foundation of free government by free men.” We are thankful to be reminded of that at this time, when in so many parts of the world freedom of opinion is being throttled. i

SUPPRESSED DESIRE SAYS Secretary Ickes: “I have promised some day to give myself the pleasure of driving down a truckjested road in the biggest armored tank that I can find

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Panama Ships By Bruce Catton

Cheapness - of Operation Under Her Flag Makes Tiny Nation One

Of Fastest Growing Sea Powers. |

ASHINGTON, Nov. 24.—~The projected transfer .¥ to Panamanian registry of those United States Line steamships may have fallen through, but the fact remains that the merchant marine of little Panama is proportionately the fastest growing in the world. & Although Panama, is a nation of only 33,000 square miles and some 476,000 inhabitants; her merchant ma-

rine today comprises 158 ships and runs to 715,528 |

tons, according to Lloyds’ Register. Ye It is larger than that of any other Latin-American nation. And its amazing growth is not due tothe war in Europe. Four years aBo, according to Lloyds’, Panama's registered merchant tonnage stood at 136,859. The factors which have enabled it to multiply that tonnage by nearly seven in four years were operating full

steam long before Hitler's troops marched into Poland. |

By the middle of 1938, for instance, Lloyds’ reveals that 611,000 tons of steamers and motorships had obtained registry under the Panama flag.

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HESE,. factors are largely economic. Steamship :

men here point out that Panama does not require that the owners or officers and crew of ships registered under her flag be citizens of Panama. She has practically no “safety” legislation governing her merchant marine, nor has she any maritime labor legislation. Consequently it is much cheaper to operate a vessel under the Panamanian flag than it is to sail under the flag of a country like the United States. Examination of a recent listing of the Panamanian merchant marine shows only eight out of the 155 ships there registered give Panama as their home port. Fifty-two give American cities as their home pérts, 28 list Oslo, and 26 list London. Seven are listed as from Hongkong. { A large number of vessels under the Panama flag are tankers. Of the Scandinavian-owned vessels flying that flag, many are steam whalers and their consorts. Largest vessel under the Panama flag is the Vestfold of Oslo, a whaler of some 8Q00 tons.

O rapid has been the growth of the Panama merchant fleet that some maritime experts here predict it will before long rank with the world’s leaders. Others hold such predictions to be optimistic. The U. S. merchant marine is given in Lloyds’ as 11,515,258 tons for 1938, while Great Britain's in the same year was given as 20,819,000. This indicates that the Panamanians have a good way to go. Yet their merchant service today is nearly half that of as good a sea-faring nation as Sweden, more than half as large as Denmark’s, and a quarter the size of France's. Whether any more U. S. ships are transferred to Panamanian registry because of the war may be doubtful, in view of the Administration's action on the proposed United States Lines transfers.

(Westbrook Pegler’s regular column will appear tomorrow.) ’

Inside Indianapolis

The Real Lowdown on - Hunting; And a Note on Louise McNutt.

Hwa has become a big business in Indiana. 4 Bet you didn’t know that more than half a million people hold hunting licenses . . . 450,000 hold resident licenses. . . . Another 40,000 from out of the state have 14-0ay licenses. . . . And 15,000 more from out of the state have annuals. . . . Count ‘em up . .. 505,000. 5h 3 Game is pretty abundant this year. ... In spite of tularemia scares, rabbits are the most popular shooting. . . . The rabbit season runs from Nov. 10 to Jan. 10. . . . There is plenty of quail, too. . . . Popular this year is Hungarian partridge. . , . It's a big bird. . . . And sporty shooting. . . . The young. ones are nice and tender.-, . , But the big ones are sort of on the ‘tough side. . , . Season on quail and partridge runs from Nov. 10 to Dec. 20. While we're on the subject, we might mention that trapping is a business ‘ that runs into the hundreds of thousands of dollars a year in the state. . . . Muskrat is the chief fur animal. . , , But there's also lots of raccoon. Don’t mention conservationism. . . . Col. Richard Lieber says there’s no such word. = 2 2 ' IF YOU'VE THOUGHT IT strange that there's been nothing in the public prints about pretty Louise McNutt and her career at Indiana University, it’s all part of a plot. . . . ‘Paul and the Mrs. decided that Louise was not the candidate. . . . And that it would be just as well for her to stay in the backs. ground. . . . They're doing a good job of it... , Paul, by the way, will be in Bloomington tomorrow for the I. U.-Purdue game. . . . It’s a “date” with daughter. . . . And speaking of children, two of the cutest in town are the Dr. K. K. Chen's pair. . , .. Tao-Yuan, 5, and Mej-Fong, who'll be having a second birthday in just about a week or so. . .. Tao-Yuan

rest of the boys. THE M. Ps (military police, you landlubbers) at Ft. Ben Harrison, it seems, started playing rummy after guard duty. ... Arriving late to dinner, . , . And then getting special food because of pleading with an unsuspecting mess sergeant that they’d been “on duty.” . , ., But it happened a couple of t too many. . . . The mess sergeant investigated. . « « Next night the M P.'s went hungry. .. . Latest report is that the rummy gameés are on the decline. +» It's a little late now but it deserves mention. . « . The grocer on 38th St. who had a big sign out saying: “Come in and let's talk Turkey.” ” = s THEY SAY THAT the attendance at the annual Two Per Cent Club affairs is dropping. . . . The reason given, by the boys who-ought-to-know, is that the parties are now very, very dry. ... In more ways than one, folks.

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

ACCENT on feminine youth in business proves that our knowledge of both is slight. The boss who hires charm for the office may get what he pays for but it doesn’t make sense when he yells about being cheated because his work is neglected. Older woman are invariably more dependable, for two reasons. They've been married or have given up hope of being married. Whatever their past has been, by the time they reach 40 they have learned .to put their work first and to depend upon it for their deepest happiness. ! The old. remark about God and Mammon is still as true as it ever was. That's why no young girl can serve a corporation and Cupid at the same time and expect to get a raise every six months. Although she may punch the time clock at the proper hours, she is never a full-time worker, since her mind is partly occupied with other ‘matters. For a certain number of minutes every day she will ponder the possibility of a date with Johnnie, or wonder whether she can induce Jim to take her to the movies Saturday night. @* , There's nothing astonishing or alarming about this. Getting married has been woman’s i ‘business ever since civilization began. 1 think it is still and always will be her most important mortal assignment and that consequently there's nothing disgraceful in her digression from a fixed industrial routine to accomplish the p * -- And for this reason it is sores to berate the girls because they run to the beauty parlors every whipstitch to get their locks brushed upward, or moon at their desks, or bécause so few of them seem fired with the ambition to beé private secretary to the

president wouldn't appeal to most of he word success

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

URGES CALM VIEW TOWARD THE WAR By Mrs. Myra Morgan { A vast number of people have be‘come very much upset over the war across the way. Many people have sowed a lot of hate for Hitler and his followers.

This is a time when all of us must watch and pray — in other words, keep our thoughts right amidst the news in the papers and on the radio, instead of being upset and in a panic over the war. Stop for a moment and realize at times like this we have the biggest opportunity in our daily life to prove that ‘perfect love “casteth out fear.”

Hate and sense of wrong to our fellowmen and women ‘should* go. We should live realizing the situation: That it is now high time to rouse ourselves from sleep.

2 8 a SAYS HARNESS ALSO ’ BACKED TOWNSEND BILL By Clande Braddick, Kokomo, Ind.

Chairman John D. M. Hamilton, of the Republican National Committee, denounces pension recovery plans as “fantastic” and “crack-pot panaceas.” And this is mot surprising, in view of his earlier remark that “the bark of the Townsendites is worse than their bite.” A staff writer in Saturday's Times observes that the chairman’s attitude will prove émbarrassing to “at least three of Indiana's G. O. P. Congressmen, who received support from the Townsend groups in the 1938 elections.” He names Reps. Gerald Landis, Raymond Springer and Noble Johnson. Now I doubt very much that Rep. Forrest A. Harness, of the 5th Congressional district, will be much chagrined at seeing his name omitted. Nevertheless in the spirit of fairness, I think it should be included, since he went all the way and voted for the Townsend bill on its presentation in Congress. In fact it is common knowledge that each of thé State's G. O. P. Congressmen, chosen in the last election, 'solicited—and got—the solid support of this faction. Moreover, all of them did so—with the notable exception of Gerald Landis—with an air of shame-faced furtiveriess that was eloquent of insincerity. In any case, however, it seems a mighty poor way to start a political career. How can these men expect the continued Support and lasting respect of the people, when they smirch their records at the very beginning with a political subterfuge so cheap and obvious. that thousands who otherwise might vote

for them will turn away in disgust?

(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.)

Every opponent in évery campaign henceforth will certainly use it against them-—a tool of their own making!—and what defense can they offer? If this is the sort of thing one must do to become a member of Congress, then thank God for the alternate privilege of private citizenship! ag 2 Ea DEFENDS ACTIVITIES OF DIES COMMITTEE = By W. H. Edwards, Spencer, Ind. It is evident that the editor ‘of The Times has not informed himself of the true conditions in this country, or he would not have inserted “Not Cricket” in the editorial page. ; - The Dies Committee has been and is yet exposing the activities of as ruthless an organization as“this nation ever had to contend with, and because that committee has been fearless enough to reach into high places it is receiving condemnation

from some people who are afraid to have facts brought to light. There are hardly any cities of over 5000 people in the land that are not infested with undercover Communists. The question is: Will we allow the Dies Committee: to be strangled and thus have the "termites” continue to undermine the foundations of our Government? People, like the one who wrote that condemnation of the Dies Committee, are playing directly into the

‘hands of the “termites” that are

boring from within to destroy the American way, and if we should be forced into war those destructive forces will be as dangerous to us from behind the linés as the external enemy is to us from the outside.

» ” 8 SETS OWN. DATE

|FOR THANKSGIVING

By Arthur S. Melliriger “wo + « As there has been a lot of confusion by changing the Thanksgiving day, we have decided in our family to celebrate ours on the last Sunday of the month. It is not convenient for us to get together so. it makes no difference to us whether others do the same. The main thing I am thankful for is that so far we have had sense enough to stay out of the “European Brawl.” If we mend our internal ways, there will be no invasion. No country falls by outside forces alone,

The internal structure is weak in|.

every case.

New Books at the Library

REDERIC PROKOSCH is a young American author who, until now, has never written about his own country or people. The exotic, flashing foreign backgrounds and characters of his previous hooks, notably “The Seven Who Fled,” which wi r's annual $7500 prize awar 1937, were ‘inspired by many years’ residence and travel in Europe and Asia. For his first novel of America he chooses the familiar but. inexhaustible theme of the vast army of homeless nomads who wander about the country without destination and without hope. “The Night of the. Poor” (Harpers) is the story of a 17-year-old boy’s trek from his uncle’s farm in

Wisconsin back to his parents’ home

in Texas. As Tom journeys by foot, rowboat and “hitched” rides through Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky. Ten-

them, for the simple Season that

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Side Glances—By Galbraith

[But as I gazed there, alone,

: a ’ 3 .}{ What a home it must have been, | Standing proudly erect, with every-

nessee, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas, he is a part of the dirty, tattered tribe of woeful men and women who drift haplessly from one “hobo” jungle to another, starving, often crazed, decayed derelicts in an uncaring world. : In the easy comradeship of the road’ he “teams up” with other itinerants—Pete, an amorous giant; Lucy, a beautiful and consumptive girl-tramp; Tony, a foreign youth with an old deg, Daivy; Uncle Waldo, a gentle old man with his sick, starved little grandson. Vividly presented through the unsav experiences of an impressionable boy is all the misery of road life—its degeneracy and- filth, its depravity and cruelty, climaxed, for Tom, in the lynching of a Negro man and woman. The rich, glowing, ever-changing panorama of the American landscape is the only home these unfor-

‘|tunate drifters know; Tom, young

and homeward bound, is only temporarily a “bum.” The others, the author implies, constitute a problem to which saciologists have as yet, no solution.

SOMETIMES “By ANNA E. YOUNG I first thought it an ugly old house; Twas so terribly tumbledown

choked with weeds And the fence most all on the ground. :

With the grass grown high and

came

thing new, : “It must have ‘been lovely, then.

‘And I looked right into those rooms,

Beyond the cobwebs and dust; Heard music and laughter of

| sure to fail. The slaughter would be,

| dication of purposes, especially Hitler's purpose.

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Air etracked, | War. Is Deadlocked With Neither Side Willing to Risk Land Attack,

EW YORK CITY, Nov. 24.—There may be some +N doubt about whether Hitler will make a massed assault on the Western Allles—straight through the center or around the ends through Switzerland or Belgium and Holland. He probahly won't. There is far less doubt about what the Allies will do in the direction of a bleody advance. They can't buck p the center. They won't try the ends. ~~ °° Either side risking the land offensive is almost

beyond anything the world has seen or imagined. The - of success are far too thin to risk it. = oh There is another possibility much considered earlier —hardly mentionéd today—a clash of air-armadas, To the extent that aircraft has ‘replaced cavalry for screening, observation and distant. raids, it might be assumed that jis strategical use would be similar,

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IR forces are so much more powerful than cave alry that if either side should lose control of ‘the air there would be a great shift of advantage to the other. On this theory many military observers expected a terrific clash in the sky long before this.’ The fact that it hasn't happened may give some ine That t step in a

Air

sort of strategy ‘would have been the

| war of movement. If he had ever intended to attack $on land, the probabilities are strong that he would

have started in the air long ago. : , This is the more likely in view of the fact that the Allied air force, with American additions is getting stronger faster than his own. If no great moving thrust is in prospect, command of the air won by a destructive collision isn’t half so important. Fixed ground defenses against aerial ate - tack have been clearly effective beyond expectation, A decisive mass battle in the air seems less and less

| likely. The growing equality of air strength and the

surprising performance of ground defense and detece tion have also lessened the probability. of destructive bombing raids on great centers of population and “industry. There seems to be a sort of mutual recognie tion that the destruction of enemy assets is certain to be ofiset by destruction of home values. :

2 2 ” what does this all add up? To a gamble on the German side of being able to strangle the

"|| Allies by destruction of commerce. To a hope on the

Allied side of revolution in Germany. : ‘ The German “strangulation” strategy isn’t works ing very well. The Allies have much to qoneder bee fore they destroy Germany by mutiny. e contae gious disease of communism has advanced to her: very boundaries. Through Hitler's blundering trade with Stalin it more closely threatens both Baltic and Balkan states. 1 . a Neither the Allies nor the rest of the world can ‘consider the collapse and communization of Germany as any bargain. 3 L Britain and France say—not very frankly=that their aim is to destroy Hitlerism. As matters have worked out and Hitler has blundered, he will probably destroy himself. It is not too early to begin to wonder what will replace him. ' It could be worse than Hitler himself. : nh A That is a principal reason why war aims should be plainly stated. Germans should be shown that if they kick Hitler out it would be to their advantage,

It Seems to Me By Heywood’ Broun® J

EINE > isi ‘Will Newsreel Doom Dictators? Duce Draws Laughs Nowadays. 3 pie fe TEW YORK, Nov. 24.—1t is possible that in’ the course of time all dictators will be ‘destroyed, not by conflict but by the newsreels. No man can have his picture taken over and over again without feeling and looking a little foolish. ? . This is prompted by the report of a friend who has Just returned from Italy. He says that the Italians are beginning to laugh at Mussolini in the cinema theaters. Benito has played up virility for a number of years, and the performance does improve as the years roll along. The hairs on his ¢ are numbered. One of his favorite devices moves over from the heroic to the farcical. Over and over again Mussolini has sent himself out in cans with a short reel in which he is first captured at the top of his oratorical bent and then fades out by ascending a steep stairway. And it has been the practioe of the great man to amaze the peasants by taking the incline: three steps at ‘a e

It is a good trick when you can do it, but by now the sound track catches:a wheeze which is not wind . in the willows but the protest of bellows which are growing older. According to my informant, this is the precise point where the Italian audiences begin to say “Ha! Ha!” instead of “Viva! Viva!” For my own part I regard staircases as a nuisance, and even when I might have been a shade more alert I took the steps one‘at a time and mever strained myself,

President Eliot’s Farewell 1

But once I saw and heard a man who applied the t to himself with an eloquence which was moving. I was in Harvard when President Eliot decided that the time had come for him to move out of the leader ship of the university. We gathered around his house and cheered and yelled, and the old New Englander who spoke with never an oratorical note or a single gesture did unbend a little, despite himself. “Matthew Arnold once said,” he began, “that no man should remain as head of an English public school after he could no longer go up the stairs three steps at a time.” And then this gentleman, who was pure Plymouth Rock from heel to the top of his white head, indulged himself in a touch of sentimentality, “I am retiring as president of Harvard,” he continued, and paused. And in the pause hé betrayed Plymouth Rock, because 1t was sheer showmanship. “But,” said President Eliot, “I can still go up stairs three steps at a time.” And with that he turned and left us. = I'm sure he could, and very much better than

Benito. We did Bot laugh. : Watching Your Health IF, our hitherto docile little daughter or quiet, obs.

By Jane Stafford dient son turns rebellious and shows flaming youth

tendencies at the age of 13 or 14, you may take come fort from the knowledge that these teen-age rebellions

are healthy. wisi a Of course, they. may lead from the health stahdpoint, if

children; ; He It must have been grand, it must} from dangers,

It isn’t always we see the fulness

Then, I thought, as I gazed, how| ¢ alike