Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 November 1939 — Page 10

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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 127, 1839

ANOTHER GREAT RUSSIAN EXPERIMENT

AFIER several days of comparative silence, Russia now. demands through its controlled press, that the present Finnish Government resign because that government hasnt seen fit to yield to the Russian holdup. ‘Russia's object is to take over certain strategic Finnish territory that would assure complete Russian domination of the Baltic. From time to time, since the war ‘started and since the Soviet-Nazi marriage of convenience, Russia has spoken sneeringly of Finland. ‘But this is the first time Russia has gone so far as to threaten the existing and duly elected management of her little and democratic neighbor. For sheer crust, Russia’s whole policy toward Finland has set a world’s record in a game of power politics wherein great gall is no novelty. Finland has developed about the cleanest and most admirable country on the globe. Small, poor, as nations go, - it nevertheless has acquired by reason of its square dealing more claim to self-respect than most of the larger and more powerful countries. To Finland a debt still means -a debt; a contract a contract; one’s word, one’s bond. That, in a world growne cynical and unashamed through “tearing up scraps of paper.” Should Finland be torn apart and destroyed, it will take more faith than we could muster at such a moment to believe that there is any such thing left as justice.

y BRICKS 3 OVERNMENT" agents are hunting a gang of New Mexico swindlers who sold silver bricks for more than they are worth. Silly swindlers! They should have played safe and gent their bricks to the United States Treasury which, thanks to the efforts of silver state Senators, makes a business of buying silver for more than it is worth.

UNBELIEVABLE—IN PART

THIS & is the time of year when the news from Washington is full of statements about how the Government is going to economize and how there will be no need for Congress to increase taxes. If you haven't already seen them, you will soon read reports that Senator Hoozit is demanding budget cuts; that Rep. Whatzat proposes to organize an economy ‘bloc to slash all appropriations by 10 or 15 per cent—remember 2—25 per-cent; that various officials, encouraged by: business improvement, think present tax rates will bring in enough money to reduce the Federal deficit materially. This is the time of year when Congressmen confer with the President and come out of the White House hinting that great savings are in store. And we notice in a New York Times account of one such conference the following ~ sentence? “Senator King, in his talk with reporters, coupled a strong recommendation for economy with a. description of how he had urged on Mr. Roosevelt the provision of ‘very liberal estimates in the budget’ for reclamation work to be paid for by the Federal Treasury in sections of the West, including his home state of Utah.” There you have the reason why stories of economy demands by Congressmen should be taken with a big helping of salt. Sure, every Congressman believes in economy— except in his district and on his pet projects. . But, skeptical as we are concerning what will result from all the talk about economy, we find. it easy enough to believe that the coming Congress will not revise Federal taxes upward. Not because tax revision is aidesirable; it is 5 wrgeritly desirable to broaden the income-tax base, increase middlebracket rates and get rid of some of the hidden consumer taxes, thus making more cities tax-conscious and ‘insistent on economy. Not because. the. Government doesn’t need additional revenue; even if some expenditures are reduced there will be greatly increased spending on national defense which should be financed by taxes, especially on profits from war business. But because 1940 is just ahead and because political courage isn’t equal to the task ‘of increasing taxes, no matter how necessary the increase, in a national" election year. : : :

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ABOLISHING ARMY CASTE i THE forced enlistment of masses of men through the draft which modern warfare has brought means less liberty. But it means more democracy in the Army. Great Britain in the present war has taken two steps forward abolishing army caste. . The ban against officers associating with enlisted men when off duty has been lifted. Officers may now be chosen from the ranks. These changes should remind us that our own Army and Navy were copied from the British model. - We bécame

_ independent of Britain in 1776 but not of the British tradi- |

tion that officers were “gentlemen” and-soldiers just men. We, too, have taken steps recently toward long overdue democratization. But much of the snobbishness still lingers. It has no more place in the military service than in biisiness, from which the boss who stood on a false dignity has long ago been displaced, due to the demands of efficiency, by an unassuming executive who gets results Hirough the respect and affection he i inspires, rather than fear. -

DR. COOK ON EXPLORATION uit AYBE Dr. Frederick A. Cook didn’t discover the North "= Pole, as he said he did 30 years ago, but the old gentleman—he is 73 now—has the right idea about tthe ture of exploration. fe “Most of all,” he said in New York the’ other ‘day ing a conversation with Sir Hubert Wilkins, “we ‘have #0 explore the area that lies back of the eyes and sen the ears. When that tania! sphere i fully explored.

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yourselves, -boys.

Fair Enough By: Westbrook Pegler Insurance Grab Bared Pendergast

A a Grasping Individual Who |

Cared for No One but Himself,

(This 0's. continuation” oF The series on fhe ahakeus 18.

Kansas City which leg 10 the doyussll 91 Yom Pendprsant,’

political boss.) 1 i HICAGO, Nov. 27. By an an interesting coincidence returns, stumbled on the clue that was to wreck Tom

‘Pendergast's machine and send him to. prison just about the time he was receiving the greatest evi

~ | chunk of graft that he collected in all his thie

career. In March, 1936, Pepdergast got $250,000 in currency for ordering his State Superintendent of Insur-

| ance to compromise in favor of a number of fire | - insurance companies and to the detriment of the

policyholders, a rate case involving the distribution of more than nine million dollars in sequestered premiums. Within a month the iricome. tax men,

the Treasury men, who. comb the income tax |

inquiring. about an item in ‘the accounts of a Chicago | .

law firm gast's affairs, picked up a lead that ruined him.

Up to this time the Government's chief interest in Pendergast was that concerning the vote frauds: in Kansas City. Maurice Milligan, the District’ At-

torney, was nagging away at Pendergast’s gang, but the boys had been assured that these offenses were not the business of the Federal Government: and that any. convictions would surely be. reversed. In the

state courts they could pack the juries, so they |

felt safe. 2 2 8

UT as’Mr. Milligan obtairied convictions that did stick, the Treasury men were quietly tracing payments of big money and reconstructing the conspiracy by which Pendergast robbed hundreds: of thousands of little people, the type who voted his way and kept him in luxury. The income tax indictm@ht was the one on which he was finally sent to prison, and although it is

possible that he’ would have been .nailed in the vote |

frauds, a guilty connection with that phase of his criminal life would have been Wvery hard to prove. Moreover, ‘the people of Kansas City were not very angry about the vote frauds. . The insurance deal, however, showed them what a black-hearted, greedy old rascal he was by contrast with his popular reputation for open-handed. generosity and kindness: to the street-car type of citizen. 2 =» = E not only took, all told, $315,000 of their money in bribes from the insurance.companies as his share of their millions, but he initiated a crime that ruined a subordinate politician, Robert Emmett

| O’Malley, the insurance superintendent. O’Malley got

only one year in prison, so he deserves no sympathy,

| but the operation goes to show that Pendergast had

no thought of anybody but himself. He was horsecrazy and money-crazy; he robbed his own cops and precinct workers of their paltry little pay; drove one poor, servile slave to suicide; dragged others to prison cuffed to his own wrists, and when cornered turned yellow in court with a whine for mercy on the ground

. that he was sick and a victim of an irresistible pas-

sion for betting on the races. - Pendergast pleaded guilty, but only because he was nailed and knew it. And he didn’t plead guilty until he had done all he could to obstruct the investigation, and he is now in the same prison with men and boys who got more time. for possessing a few doped cigarets or driving a stolen car across a state line, a : : :

Inside Indianapolis “Trouble Brewing About Liquor; Santa Clauses Cheap This Year.

HERE is trouble brewing in town about. the liquor |.

situation. . . . And tavern sales to. minors and inebriates is only a side issue. .-. istration is very much aware of a

against abuses. .

- militancy.

consciousness by their statements they are. going - 40 go after some of the violators. : You knew it's common talk about town on Sunday sales. . . . They say you can buy beer -in scores of taverns oni ‘Sundays. . . . But only one well-known brand. . .. . Only Saturday night one ‘prominent hostelry refused to ‘serve a girl. . = The boss intimated he’d have to have a birth certificate before he’d budge. Maybe you hadn't realized it, but there are just about 100 communities in Indiana without a tavern of any kind. . .. That's not a guess. .”. . ABC's own statement. /. . And then some folks say local option is out of the question. . , . Don’t fool

® 2 =» | Ni THE CURRENT QUOTATION on the services of Santa Clauses, plump and experienced, is $15 a Week. . The North Side’s Eli Kahn for more than 35 years has kept a scrap book of clippings :about his friends. « v-» They range from mailmen to financiers. . . . Martha Raye, the film star, now at the Circle in person, looks in person exactly -as she does on the screen. . , . But she acts differently. v3» « Shes quieter. . . You'll ‘be hearing about it. . A lot. of people have been “cussing” the stop-and-go ‘signal at Market and Delaware Sts. . . . It works so fast you haven't got a chance. . . . Ray Milholland, who lives up on Winthrop Ave. and whose “Splinter Fleet” sailed the screen as “Submarine Patrol,” the American Magazine on Paul McNutt. . . . Speaking of the changing landscape, a local restaurant-tavern which formerly boasted of its fine German foods has changed hands and its illuminated legend now is plain “Muggsie’s.” 2 2 tJ

HERBERT E. JENKINS, a furniture salesman and

‘war veteran, has composed a melody, “You Are Only

Fooling.” . . . It has been sung on local radio programs several times. . + « Many of his friends have had records made of it for themselves. . . . Oddly enough,

there was another Herbert Jenkins, also a war veteran,

who ‘also wrote songs. . .. He died recently. . . . And

still more oddly, there is a third Herbert Jenkins

here who is likewise a..war veteran and active. in Rainbow Division activities. .". .-Laugh of the week among the bright lights boys: “There is a very pretty waitress in one of the better known local establishments who likes to put on airs and talks about her *‘awnt” in Florida. . . . Says she: “Why she lives in the cutest French vanilla. » :

A Woman's Viewpoint

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

T was Mrs. O'Leary’s cow, we've been bald, that started the great. Chicago fire. Maybe Dr. Paul

O'Leary, skin specialist ofthe Mayo Clinic, is a dis- | |

tant relative—of the lady, I mean. At any rate, by his thoughtless warning against too frequent ‘bathing,

he has started a conflagration which threatens to | f

harm more homes than the big blaze ever did. Mine has suffered. And to make matters worse, the O'Leary blow came during a lull in a ‘series of

domestic storms which are familiar in. every family | sky. The natural boyish repugnance to water seemed | | -

almost overcome. After: bouts of materna, ‘nagging, the last Ferguson offspring had shown signs. of washing.

One by one each child was coaxed through the arid period. All but the youngest had:been brought to a realization that moisture is not harmful and can even be pleasant to ‘the epidermis. This struggle had covered half a life time, and so I knew. that

‘becoming reconciled to

1 when my last-born son marched voluntarily: and without ros to the bathtub, I could lay down |

and with no interest whatever in Pender-|'

. The City Admin- |! DEAWS' CRITICISM

. And Chief: Morrissey . and Sheriff. Feeney are ‘not ‘simply paying, lip service to civic.|

It's the ing,

. There’s romance .in the air at City Hall..

has penned a piece for

The Hoosier Forum 1 wholly disagree with what you say, but will = defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

SEES SHERIFF. FACING MAN-SIZED JOB

-| By Citizen

The’ Sheriff will find cleaning up our taverns a man-sized job. Some cities have laws limiting taverns to

one for each 2000 inhabitants . Indianapolis has 800 for approximately

zens. ‘To survive and pay high tieonde fees, some of these tavern keepers resort to shady practices. These include selling to minors, baseball tickets, and other forms of gambling. . . . Thus the tavern evil like many othérs in -this city and state traces back to- political Breed for money. - 2 8 =

BARBERSHOP RULING

By Baldy

In these days of constant’ iis to ' safeguard our principles. of Americanism, it may not be amiss to consider the real nature of the law which has just forced the barbers to be regimented into vassals of trade unionism. When * the day comes that our courts: uphold the constitutionality of such meastres which’ have the plain stamp of Red

it is indeed time for a real awakén-

If a man in business wishes to affiliate with a union so that his interests will be more secure and a greater profit aecrue, that is his right. But under the same code. it is- also right if his neighbor in the same business wishes to remain independent, as did both of their forefathers that gave this. country: the hearty roots of: democracy of which we are so rightfully proud. ‘When legislation can be passed and upheld: ‘by: the courts which takes away that portion of the Bill of Rights which guarantees the “rights to liberty and the pursuit of happiness” is it out of order to.ask

ment of, by and for: the people?” ‘Are not such attempts as this bar-

expect to “try out”. the. charity of the American people toward dic-

. |tator principles?.. Bly things: have

small beginnings. - ; LAGI a A. GOOD, ‘WORD FOR WORKING WIVES By Mrs. A. H. © .I have read a number of letters regarding the - subject of working wives, but seldom do any of these same working wives express them-

selves.” They. do not have time to write even necessary letters after

270,000 people, one for each 338 clits

Russia or the dictates of Naziism,

how near we are to losing “govern-|

ber law the very methods we 5 bar ight of a comm

(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 roger!)

ving given ‘of the best of their strength and attention to their jobs each day, getting the evening meal,

then dec which of the many things to do at home can be done -1in the time. in which they have. ‘Part of the work must be done each evening so that at the end of the week there are not too. many

Sd 2 | things left over fo. be taken: care of

on Saturday’ afternoon and Sunday. I have worked ‘off and on for 15 years in offices, factories and one institution: ang ‘you can believe me not many working wives have a bed of roses. Furthermore, wives who work for pin money are as scarce as hen’s teeth. They may tell you that they. don’t have to work, but that is: to save’ ‘their pride.

. =, 0% THINKS SOCIALISM WOULD BE SLAVERY By Voice in ‘the: Crowd Appreciative of L. V.’s comments, I cannot see how nature changes. An island may disappear in the sea or ‘a mountain top may fall, but such changes do not change nature. The sun will always rise in the

east, spring will always return after winter, the. leaves will fall in au-

tumn, water will always run down-

hill, and if we would only relinquish pur freedom as slowly as changes take place in nature, then individual liberty would be on our soil forever. . : The great Charles Kettering states that there is not much difference between theory and practice, except: that in practice you do not dare to leave out ‘any facts. And thus it ‘is with the beautiful theory of socialism—when it is put

into practice and. all of the facts

are brought into the picture, it is no longer a dream but something very much different and Americans could not stand it. It isn’t anything new, it is slavery all over again. I wish. some of you Socialists would come out with some answers. If you had ‘your way’

men were equal—would - they be? Mentally, morally, physically? Who |- would be in supreme command? Who would enforce: the law, or would there be any law? Who would say what to produce and how much? Who would distribute the

goods and would it be equal? Would: .| the. politicians ‘get a ‘little extra? {Who would .- supervise and who

would work in the fields and shops? Then would you have one class?

| Two: or three? Then after the gov-

ernment you had worked hard for all day gave you your cakes and coffee and a bed, how would you be so well off? Could your children rise from thé ranks? I am one of those who have faith in ‘America.’ I believe our danger will pass, but why not have a dress rehearsal and- give us mental mid-

gets some facts? We'll be listening.

New Books

"éver’- your childhood heart

athy for the worm, you'll understand :what Charles G. Finney is getting at’ in “Past the End of the Pavement ” (Henry Holt & Co.).

quaked in ‘sym

{IE you. ever ‘were bitten with remorse

over “a dead dog; you may under-

‘Istand what so disgusted the young

Farrier boys when a farm lad wanted to kill a black puff-adder (a most|, harmless snake, you ‘must know). What Mr. Finney has written is not a novel, nor a sermon. Nor is it strictly a nature book. It has no hidden motive and it: tries to correct no worldly wrongs. It simply. is the account of Willie and Tom Farrier, aged 10 and 8,

Side Glances—By Galbraith

one of the burdens of ‘maternity, But no—just as| | 4

I was glimpsing daylight, what does Dr." O but gallop onto the front pages with all that stuff about too much bathing being bad for the skin! The doctors are always pulling such tricks. The same thing happened about spinach, I remember.

‘For years I had toiled to bring the family to a belief that |- a certain amount of spinach‘ “intake” every ‘week was necessary for general health. All my hard work | was wasted, of course, when some rebel from medical | ranks gave out an interview-saying that as a food, | |

spinach was overrated.

do} |

Physicians should think twice before they pe : 2 :

these carefully built-up thsaies I daresay Dr. O'Leary ‘meant well but he has in

in the first chapter. It describes in simple language ‘ the. manner in

which the two Farriers fed an un-

usual“ curiosity ‘about wild life in

1 and growls had all faded to sickly grins—half

and wey scrapped our: republican form of | government; and we ‘said that "all

im Side Could dB, Fit na ‘Weuld Be a Gain. for: Humanity,

Ba ‘Nov. 2-11 Great: Britain and. France will accept a Christmas truce; Germany. . should, Neither side. hag anything to; lose By Jt-Ad there are some ‘human lives and limbs to gain. - During ‘the World ‘Wat, any Kind. of truce or "rab ernizing” was forbidden. Both sides were so: wedded - to the fierce doctrine of the offensive that. the train« - ing of every soldier was to make him “ferocious” By had to learn to hate the men he was fighting. ; This was especally emphasized In traning in the

| use of the bayonet. Before the war; our: | at least was a sort of minuet—‘one-two-

-heel-and-toe,” frequently performed to. musi by ne "The Germans taught us realism: and ‘we. were oh

| pupils. Toward the end, men stood in a ring: with

their bayonets at “guard” snarling and growling: like

| hyenas over a carcass—taught to do that. ‘The best:

instructor in my division: was an lex-actor—a. og bul of an officer. : »

M= got so. excited that he wanted to- pragiice on each other with bare bayonets.: The idea was-to :

LS or

| create an actual sadistic yearning to plunge: that biade, ;

into an enemy.

That idea went through all training. fle trouble

With our boys, brought up to believe: in spo:

rtsmanship in all kinds of physical contest and to hate stabbing: and cutting; was: that it was pretty hard to get them to

| put any conviction into condemned holds. in wrestling,”

into knifing other men, into eye-gouging, groin-knee«: ing and various other forms of animalistic combat. That was what they had to go up against 80. thay: was what they had to be taught. In the Eighth Dis vision the bayonetters could be keyed to a frenzy. The. Armistice caught them en route to France at a poit of embarkation. I have never seen siich a completé deflation as the bayonet drill the next day. The snarls aq et ful. The synthetic ferocity had instantly become Such a farce that it wasn’t worth continuing. The normal soldier does not truly hate the man in: the enemy trench who is trying to kill him as a matter. of duty and by command. . Only. 4 the Slaysaihume di fa rectors do that. SER hw ee

THEE argument against a Christmas truce is that w 2 may make the troops léss frightful afterward, That is silly dogma. Troops, when permitted,” have always - fraternized in lulls. There is a spring on’ the field of

-Gettysburg where, by common consent ‘and’ without" -

injury, in the hottest of the fight; ‘water carriers from

about the progress of the battle. : Hitler may not care anything about Chitin, But 2 the German people do. As we know it, they inverited - most of it—sparkling trees, toys and the’ gentle gener= ous customs of gifts and goodwill. i There wouldn’t have to be any “fraternizing”. for the : purpose of a cessation of slaughter in a short season when, if ever, there should be peace on earth and. goods : will toward men. The peace might he only homens. -- tary. There might be. no goodwill whatever among . the opposing statesmen and nations. - But as between, : the poor devils who do the fighting and: the dying on : -the battle lines, Socawill is never very far away,

It Seems to Me

By Heywood Broun

Thanksgiving Net’ ‘What # Und To Be—Especially in. New: England; 1

EW YORK, Nov.: 27.—The Connecticut. house: ‘which I live has stood: only about a ‘century, but the foundations are older; and outside=the: door: is a big maple; at ‘least two and a half times as’; ancient, which was ‘planted by :the first setiler...So ™ on these premises there must have ‘been’ clebrations®. of the old-fashioned Thanksgiving. 1 have always been curious to kmow Just’ wil kind of ‘parties the Puritans threw A man down the road found some old papers in his attic and ‘boasts that he is maintaining a tradi tion, since an account book of the early 18th century shows that the current owner bought & quart of gin.. from the general store every other day. 1 have: \ pointed out to him that this proves practically hoth« . % ing, since the Mather or Wigglesworth in: ‘question: may have been ‘in the habit of setting up cocktails .: for fhe neighbors. After all, there's nothing like: nl Martini in the morning to keep the Indians. out of oh your hair. ‘2 Around here they were Pequots, but they: ave, >> gone; leaving almost no trace of their ‘culture. And sometimes I wonder whether all:the: decisions of nature in regard to survival. are :wholly I'd swap a whole handful of my neighbors and: ] in a lefthanded pitcher in exchange for p Still I suppose the land belongs to us a os. BS) vase we not only. outsmarted but outworked the ans.

Ah, the Good Old Days di ras The forests were more beautiful vefore we ‘laid the 5 ax upon them, and'I have some vegrets when I és member that the very srot where Yale University -< £ now stands was once a howling wilderness.’ Time ® marches on, and every Sitting Bull must move over to make room for Gene Tunney snd Billy Phelps, But I think that the absence of the Indians quite possibly has taken ihe edge. off the modern Thanke-

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the lands surrounding a Missouri ‘giving.

town. . The Farriers' like to go in hunt. of bugs and animals just to see how the latter operate and what they: like. in the way of food. ! ‘Mrs. Farrier is a patient widow trying to rear her boys “in the proper manner.” But her life is made weary—though adventuresome at times—by the captive inhabitants of her wash tub and woodshed and by bills that demand more money than is usually on hand. Finally, through the persistent environment furnished by her family, she becomes an animal admirer—though she’ll never quite confess it. First of her boys’ exploits is {he capture of a great horde of water beetles. But a little neighbor girl

‘| dumps them out of the Farrier wash 1tub and the boys’ counter-offensive

kicks up quite a rumpus. Then come tadpoles, frogs, a fear-

| tul Muscovy drake that commits an

‘unspeakable outrage on a poor rabbit, this. followed by turtles, screech owls and ’possums. But what nearly’ sends old Miss Kathy Oldwage skittering to her grave are two long and beautiful snakes. (A Say’s king

{snake and a pilot black Toe ) The

Farriers almost had to move ere this matter was righted with their terrified ‘neighbor.

“But in the end a big hognose|

r brings the “Farriers more

creepe happiness than you - _ probably ever|. iagineg.

Y a In the old days there was always something: to a After the demi-tasse and brandy some a would be sure to say, “Who's for a little uridine?” 2ud the head of the house would stretch and Jawa and remark, “I guess I need a breather. “I'll wander over to the north meadow : and knock over & coup >: of Indians.” RENE "And before the sun went, down the patriarch would 4 be back with his trophig¢s’ and a good story abauf.. the size of the brave he . “I think, Ma,” he:might add, “I could doXwith another drumstick.”? % f Somebody would summon the bundlers, Yale fave 2 ing scored, as usual, a moral victory. The clink of ice. in the shaker would be heard once again, and- the old- ~fashioned Thanksgiving. would go into the second round.

Watching Your Health

By Jane Stafford =~ +

CNE, the “skin disease charactestand. by heads. blackheads and pimples, Ei! to make life miserable for generation after ration of - boys and girls in their late teens. The case of ‘condition “remains obscure,” says: Dr, Francis Lynch of the University of Minnesota. rt Dr. Lynch has studied the records of thousands students at the university in an effort to pierce

could "be credited to * giants

1 1 you, 100, ‘have Jost anit with! 4 1the world beyond . | “Past the End. of the. Ri el

the city. Mmits,

may serve as. & introduction. = .. :

“WONDERFUL A AMERICA” | Rye Da

.By ROBERT O. LEVELL

"Of all the places’T night go

On land or oer the sea, ~ It’s America the land I know That means so much to me.

DAILY THOUGHT And the Lord said unto him,

| Zones be unto. thee; fear not: | 1 It die—Judges 6:23 «

| routine treatment of acne in a ‘that euch’ treatment is not unive