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“Give Light and the Peopls Will Find Thew Own Way

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1939

WHY NOT JOE? "HE Nobel Peace Prize will not be awarded this year, it is officially announced at Oslo. Why not? What's the ‘matter with Josef (Butch) Stalin, who is serving the cause of peace so valiantly against the bully Finland?

AGAIN THE DRAGNET ANG onto your hats and burn your mail. Congress is getting out the dragnet again. According to Merle D. Vincent, president of the Washington chapter of the National Lawyers Guild, the records of the chapter have been subpenaed by the Smith 5 Committee of the House, investigating the National Labor Relations Board. The subpenas, according to Mr. Vincent, call for submission of all speeches and correspondence of officers and members of the chapter that have anything to do with the Wagner Act, the NLRB, the A. F. of L., the:C. L O,, or any of the various other organizations. The Smith Committee may have its reasons. But it would do well to lean over backward in avoiding intrusions on private rights. Such intrusions by the Labor Board itself are responsible to a degree for the criticism from which the investigation stems. :

“IN THE INTERESTS OF TRUTH”

HE country has learned to expect simplicity and directness from Mrs. Roosevelt, and will recognize these qualities in her statement of willingness to testify before the Dies Committee. A young New Yorker, Alfred M. Lilienthal, has charged that the American Youth Congress is controlled by Communists. Mrs. Roosevelt, an active friend of the Youth Congress, has said that she knows it is not so controlled. Mr. Lilienthal has urged the Dies Committee to call him and Mrs. Roosevelt as witnesses and give him opportunity to prove his charges. Asked how about that by reporters yesterday, Mrs. Roosevelt said: si “I would answer anyone’s questions in the interests = of truth. I would be glad to give any information of value before anyone who desires it.” Members of the committee, perhaps understandably, “seem reluctant to invite Mrs. Roosevelt to testify, though several say they would gladly hear any statement she cares to make. We think they should not stand on ceremony; should not place her in the position of having to ask for a hearing. - The spectacle of a President’s wife on the stand befors a committee of Congress would be unusual, certainly, and unconventional.”. But this President’s wife has no false dignity. She does things because she considers them right, not to be conventional. What she might say as to the Youth Congress would be of great interest. In fairness to that organization, the Dies Committee should ask her to give it the evidence upon which she bases her statement that the Youth Congress is not under Communist control.

WAR NEWS AN intelligent American public should be quick to note and understand the inevitable nature of much of the European war news that now reaches this country. “ Seo far as actual military operations are concerned, a rigid censorship has clamped down. Nor can war offices, when they issue official communiques, be expected to forego the old practice of magnifying successes and minimizing or even concealing reverses in the interest of larger strategy and national morale. Furthermore, much that now is being put out by the various governments in Europe is sheer propaganda, more or less disguised but nevertheless primarily aimed to intensify enthusiasm, sympathy or hatred, at home or abroad. gain the grim, remembered undertones of war, . ~~ All this puts a heavy burden upon American newspaper editors whose duty is to appraise war news and present it to American readers without misleading the latter as to its sources, motives and values. A similar duty devolves upon the reader to weigh, judge and discriminate when he reads and listens to war reports. Let his sympathies be where they may, the more resolute his refusal to be rushed into hasty conclusion or unreasoning passion the surer these United States will be to steer a calm course and keep out of the conflict.

FREE TRADE AT HOME FRADE barriers between: states cause much trouble now and are capable of causing a great deal more. We are glad, therefore, to see Secretary of Commerce Hopkins taking leadership in a movement to do something about these evils. He has asked other Federal departments to name representatives on a committee to study and co-ordinate Government efforts to combat this “serious threat to the economic life and business well-being of our nation.” This nation almost died in infancy because the 13 original ‘states erected tariff walls against each other.. Adoption. of the Federal Constitution stopped that practice, and for nearly 150 years we had genuine free trade among the American states. In recent years, however, many states . have found various ways of getting around the Constitutional provision which is supposed to give the Federal Government exclusive control over interstate commerce. Today innumerable motor vehicle laws, state use taxes, | d dairy, livestock and liquor laws, and laws giving preferences to contractors and manufacturers against their competitors in other states are operating to restore the dangerous riers. - We have seen how restrictions on commerce among the | curse ons of Burope have fostered commercial enmities lead.

; of eidiring peace on that continent, ‘ean’t afford them here. And any move. by! the

By Westbrook Pegler

Kansas: City Now Knows That| “Her City Manager's Poss of Rugged | Efficiency Was Only a Cruel Sham. |

YORK, Nov. 28.—Plain newspaper reparting made the first break in the fortress of graft and

general corruption. erected by Tom Pendergast, but}

for years the newspapers of Kansas City were either Fs

complacent. or deceived. Roy Roberts, the editorial boss of the Star, admits that he shared the popular

panies dealing in concrete and concrete pipe, his gaybage disposal company, his asphalt and paving interests and his liquor agency. Moreover, when Henry F. McElroy, a cunning and

picturesque little Towa real estate dealer, became city |

manager and announced that he would keep his own accounts according to” his own homespun, country store method, he received editorial acclaim. M died a few weeks ago after he had been indicted in the state courts and just as Maurice Milligan, the Federal District Attorney, was on the point of indicting him for evasion of income taxes. : When he fled from office he took along his primitive informal accounts as personal Lossessions,y but the official books reeked of fraud. The Federal ernment is now proceeding against his estate for taxes on unreported income, but he is understood to have divested himself of most of his personal wealth years ago by gifts to his family. £8 x 8

’ELROY, like Pendergast, took full advaniags of ‘the gullibility of press and public. - He was a bossy, officious little man who developed into an act, his’ pose of simple, direct efficiency. He refused to answer questions and for years the city’s books were as private as the financial. records of the state of Louisiana under Huey Long. Less than two years ago, when vice flourished in Kansas City under police protection, an important executive of the Journal-Post deprecated the Star's crusade against the ballot frauds on the ground that

| their importance was exaggerated to the detriment of

Kansas City. He didn’t know, and, at that time, neither did Roberts, what rottenness existed behind McElroy’s front of rugged independence and Pendergast’s fake reputation for generosity and kindness. 2 ”® ”

'ELROY pretended that good government and economy were a hobby with him and that he had made his pile and was now indifferent to profit. He let it be understood that he was doing Kansas City a favor and that it would be gross ingratitude to question him on money matters. He would arbitrarily cut the pay of the cops and other city employees for months at a time as a show of ruthless, non-politicial economy, and the public cheered, not knowing that the rolls, nevertheless, were padded with hundreds of

nominal duties or none at all. The roster has been reduced by 1400 head and

further pruned of Pendergast parasites in the near future. The unfortunate honest cops and other actual servants in the city administration had a miserable time, being robbed of earned pay so that McElroy could make a show of balancing a fake budget. The pay they lost in this manner was diverted to the political deadheads on the rolls and to such major robberies as a water leak inspection service whith cost $5000 a month for six years, almost all graft.

Inside Indianapolis

A Voice From the Jury Room, And a Few Notes on Business. THE FINE TURNOUTS for the legitimate theater

English’s, that business conditions are better all around. . . . He's always said that given good general business, the stage is good business. . ., . Incidentally, the stage folk like to play in English’s. . . . After some of the big auditoriums they have to play in, ‘it’s a relief to get back in a theater and have the audience right there, instead of half- a mile back. . ‘The arrival of one of the Santa Clauses af: Municipal Airport Saturday had the Eastern Airlines crew in a dither. . The kids swarmed out on the field in one big rush. . The prop blades were still turning. . And even though there was a brisk breeze, the airlines boys were perspiring. . . . Repair work on the Spink-Arms Hotel sign facing N. Meridian St. necessitated moving letters and rutting them back in. It resulted one morning in: “Pink-Arms Hotel. ” # ® » OVERHEARD from the Grand Jury room as Tom Quinn left yesterday after testifying: “He’s got a wonderful personality, hasn’t he?” . , . Incidentally, in talking about the Court House, have you heard how the County Commissioners are amusing themselves these days? . . . Well, they've rigged up some wires and explosive caps. . . « The newspaper boys come in, lean against a desk. « « « One, they get a shock; two, the caps go off. , . . Great fun in small places. . . . If anybody’s interested, they're playing bingo again around town. ... Three or four spots are going. . . . They've been “pretty careful, but they're starting to get bold now. . Just getting you prepared, folks. . Neatest display of the week: The

five sets of big bells in Block’s windows.

HAVE YOU EVER ‘wondered what would happen if a streetcar got stalled downtown at a busy time? «+ We had a curbstone view at 3:30 yesterday after-

noon on Illinois St, just south of Ohio . . . A streetcar got stuck. . . . Others lined up behind, waiting. . . Motorcycle Policeman John Bevan, cruising by, paused to see if he could help. . .. But Mr. Charles Chase’s boys had the situation well in hand. . . . They just trundled the next car close up, coupled ‘em together, and. off they went as a double-header, No. 2 pushing. . .. Another. business note: Christmas card sales are Ppieking up. . . . Lots of people, though, keep asking for funny ones. . . . Judge Russell. Ryan is fusing a sore back. . He pulled some ligaments loose. . . . Painful, but not ‘serous.

A Woman's Viewpoint

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

P= old Fritz Kuhn. The press buildup has plctured him. as an iron man with sinister powers, and he turns out to be no smarter than an adolescent schoolboy in the clutches of a blond. Publicity about his love life; during his trial on charges of theft of funds from the German-American Bund, is the healthiest thing that- could have come out of our courts. 1t is such publicity that gives women their perennial optimism. All is never lost so long as the Pe of the species can make a mush-and-milk lover out of some iron-fisted guy who believes he is destined to ‘boss millions. When such a person is shown up finally as a sentimentalist, we can draw an easy breath and say to ourselves: “So long as men are like that, women can manage them and the world is safe from tyrants.” Over and over history has proved it. Every Samson has his Delilah, and since fakirs as well as prophets are pliant in feminine hands, the Delilahs sometimes turn out to be public benefactors. Certainly in the their hearts both great if petty despots must cringe as they feel themselves shaped Hike e putty between the fingers of some. dull-witted

" “Bound by shackles o of . the flesh, imperious man is still a weakling. Cursed with Adam's frailty, he finds

Kuhn's “Golden Angel” has power from the Bundsfuehrer and he’ll never look quite the same again. Women, of course, aren't given medals for such services to political

up SE — Squality and fra e

belief that Pendergast was satisfied with the honest graft which he was known to receive from his com- |

Pendergast’s ward and precinct leaders with only

about a million dollars a year already and will be:

{aged needy just get crumbs from

offerings here mean to Vincent Burke, manager of |

the FBI, the following practice

‘stated that now he would let them

himself as burdened by nature’s mandate as Mother | |}. : Eve and. her progeny are welghted hy God's seriptural |

At any rate, Where ides and patriots failed; Fritz % is stripped the glamour and |

tical causes and hu-| Who now credits Marie Louise with stopping

Eos i. - : & i Sears Shange: That u,

Has Failed to Protest” ; tain’ Proposed Seizure of Nazi: ‘Exports.

+ ASHINGTON, Noy. 28.~No nation ever made as great, a sacrifice of international rights ag. have. . :

: ue. We got off the ocean: to A¥Hld, havigg to vindicate

our rights at sea. Did we do that altogether: bessuse: we didn}, wank.

< the ‘Germans raising” a cduse of: war: by ‘sinking ‘our.

ships in submarine warfare? Partly, but it ust be |

| repeated that, up to our severance of diplomatic rela-.. ; tions with Germany in the World War, only one Amer-.

ican ship had been attacked by submarines—and she ° was traveling in a British’ convoy. ‘She: wasn’t: ag’ this ‘column once stated in error, sunk. ‘ She. was the tanker‘ Gulflight and she is: still in service. * finland A principal reason for recent ‘American ‘abandons ment of rights was to avoid arguments with England, It was a handsome gesture. ‘The lifting of the arms: embargo is proving to be even more handsome. Even

| tually it is going to give the Allies supremacy in the

| | mir as our science, production and ingenuity begin to

DISLIKES EXPERTS IN RELIEF POSTS By Walker Hull, Freetown, Ind. I have been reading in your paper about the trustee’s relief investigation by the Marion County Grand Jury and also see there are forces

at work trying to have a law passed putting poor relief in charge of experts.

will be given by experts, one only has to watch the State Welfare Department and see what liberal oldage pensions they pay with their so-called expert investigators. The

the table and experts live “fat.” Beware of experts and leave poor relief where it belongs. : : ; 8. 8 8 RESENTS LACK OF FREE SPEECH IN. WPA CLASS By J. J. Among the recent investigations of WPA irregularities conducted by

should have been included: The WPA departments conduct in-service training classes and institutes for their workers at which open discussions are held—generally following lectures or. special reports —and where students may expound their opinions or give interpretations of the subject of ‘the lecture or report. It was at one of these classes recently that, following a lecture, ghe of the students gave a personal terpretation of a technical phase of the work in which the instructor had lectured. The instructor was a member of the administrative staff of this particular department of| WPA... . . Others presented their views and expressed their opinions and a very interesting and intelligent discussion ensued. This discussion tended to oppose statements made in, the lecture given by the instructor. . , . The instructor jumped to his feet and yelled to the entire class of adults ‘that: they were all dismissed, and that each would lose the remaining |. time for that day. . .. The student who opened the discussion, sensing what had happened, immediately stood and made an apology te the instructor. The instructor; his pride avenged, recalled the class and

stay, but that no more discussions would be held. . .. If one is to be denied his constitutional right. to freedom of expression, then it is high time that WPA workers stopped signing

Now, to see how much poor relief

land fully lived.

The Hoosier Forum

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

- (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.)

pledges of allegiance to the Constitution of the United States. Such happenings, great in number, are never known beyond the limitations of the class rooms, or the offices of the ‘administrative staff members, because the workers prefer to show their intelligence in passing up such : instances. . rather than to take. exceptions and receive a “403” which is a termination of photo and which, by the way, is constantly used as a threat when the administrators want to cover up a multitude of their shortcomings. 8s = = J. EDGAR HOOVER LAUDS ARTICLE ON G-MEN By J. Edgar Hoover, Director, Bureau of Investigation

I would like to take this opportunity to express my appreciation

Federal

for the article entitled “If You' re

Planning to Become a G-Man, Start Now, for Few Make the Grade,” which appeared in the Nov. 11 issue of The Indianapolis Times.

It.is indeed gratifying to learn of’

your interest: in the Federal Bureau of Investigation as expressed by this article. As you have clearly pointed out, applicants for positions in this Bureau necessarily must’ meet stringent requi.ements, and I am proud to say that the achievements of this Bureau can be credited. to the high type of the personnel of the FBI. » » USE OF HUMANE TRAPS IS URGED

By Adele Storck, President; Mrs. W. B.

Douglas, Seéretary, Indiana AtiStedl. ,

Trap League | . Now that the trapping season 3 open, we ‘of the Indiana Anti-Stéels Trap League wish to remind the public that. humane traps are on the market, . ... The League fis dedicated to the purpose of lega! substitution of the humane trap for the old type steel trap. : This is primarily a woman's

cause, for by the vanity of wothen is the cruelty of the steel trap perpetuated. We:urge the demand for fur that is humanely taken, such as sheep, goat, pony or seal, or that from fur farms... é

New Books at the Library

ISING from the sea four miles off the coast of Wales, ‘its 250 acres the home of thousands of birds, lies the island of Skokholm. Records of the 1300’s tell of’ human life there; doubtless before then it proved a haven for raiders sailing the seas which today lap its red cliffs. To this ‘gale-swept spot came a modern Crusoe, a lover of islands, of the sea, of birds, flowers, and animals, who had dreamed for years of a life of peace and solitude, which, however primitive; would be eagerly

The story of his ‘pioneering on Skokholm is told in “I Know ‘An Island” (Appleton) by R. M. Lockley. Using as ‘a nucléus for his home the old stone buildings which for centuries had been used intermittently by fshermen,: he brought his bride

Side Glances—By

Galbraith

N. h to world dictatorship, or Du Barry's | ernment: to help the states stop their growth [EE Fraternity 1

and a few \reasures from his. mainland farm. Although concerned chiefly with birds, he was ‘hardly less interested in wild flowers, in the

and in the island economy, not only of Skokholm but also of those others| which be explored, searching for rare birds and-vainly—for.a more perfect. spot than his beloved home. Here is romance aplenty for those who yearn for the far places. Treacherous seas, roaring winds, the

rush of a million wings, the almost human cry of ‘ seals, CONTIASt=Witi.

quiet hours by peat fires and' the safe shepherding -of domestic animals, He tells the story of migration, of bird traps in which hundreds of varieties are caught, banded and released,” of the slaughter at the great lights where migrants: dash’ themselves fo death. But he always comes. back, this lover. of islands—from the jutting} cliffs of the North, from the thrifty life of the Scottish isles, from the great fortress which is Helioland,

_|from those tiny bits of land which

support life only for little brown sheep—home to Skokholm.: So important has the work there: become

|that the island is known as a Bird

Observatory, supporting in’ favorable

-| weather not only the author and his

family but also groups of students who come to share the “Swiss Famity Robinson” existence. . REQUEST

' By ELEEZA HADIAN

- When the end is at hand

Let me leave this land Silently ‘and alone. reo! Let me face the unkfiown Without sad distraction ,. Of dear ‘ones’ devotion:

ocean which surrounded his domain, | .

‘| ample, among

provide more and better warplanes than the Germans

‘can produce. .

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’ B™ all this was apparently not. enough, to satisty

our British’ cousins. They have’ an undoubted right to stop‘one of our ships anywhere on the seven seas, to visit and search her and, if she carries contraband, to seize her. But they have no right to seize American ships, convoy them to her ports, rifle and‘ éensor the Uhited States mails and delay Yoyages une © til they become unprofitable. : ‘ ‘Neither has she any right to. demand. ag an alters. ‘ ‘native to this abuse of our rights, that American ships submit to her agents schedules of their sailings and manifestos of their cargoes, What that amounts to 15 an indirect blockade of our ports under threat of grossly unlawful action if we do not accede. | A hew question that requires odr SHERKOR is the British threat by “orders in .equncil” to seize on the "high seas goods of German origin, regardless-of owner-. ship, as an act of “reprisal” agains; ( German Sinkings by ‘submarines or mines. ® 2 8

; pes British “orders in council” regulating the.

commerce of the world and riding roughshod « ‘over neutral rights are acts ‘of ‘supremely arbitrary audacity. - We fought England in protest of ‘them’ once. There is‘no precedent in international law -for seizing enemy exports, possibly of neutral ownership,’ That isn't reprisal against an enemy. That is reprisal ‘ against neutrals—or such’ fake neutrals as ‘We have | been--“friends” to the ‘very liniit of the letter of the ‘law—with little regard for its spirit, It is a" kind ‘éf" disguised piracy to which other presumably neutrals haye ‘objected —but which we have swallowed without a word. Can it be supposed that ‘England would ever have . dared that kind of gross: affront without assurance . that we would not protest? Have we a.new Walter - Hines Page at ‘the Court of St. James’ and .a new; Lansing in Washington? Isn’t-this the road te war? . .. There is no question here ‘of how many of our goods are involved. It is solely a question of how many of ’ our rights are involved.” = '° Every time I write a piece ike this T am’ accused ey being pro-Hitler. ‘1 am’ not ner but: 1s time: / for somebody to be Fro-Avierean; » :

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It Seems to Me

By Heywood Broun ay Sm

“Pro Football Entitled” to ‘Credit > Fart Deflating the College Game.

EW YORK, Nov. 28. 18 an ever'a college: phot: N ident; which seenis’ most unlikely ‘at thei trios i ment, I would make’ Tim ‘Mata an’ honorary ‘doctor of something “or other. “I do not refer to the fact: that Mr. Mara majoréd in mathematics'in the ‘days when hé’ held his slate up’ af the race’ tracks; but‘ rather to Bisson In romogiy otis professional: to0t= + ball. The’ pfo game is rapidly thet pres« ently ‘the college. contest il be secondary | ‘in Jnter- -* est.. And that wi ¢ just dandy. ‘Once - froin Voll pe! realization ‘of thie "ict" that the undergtaduates are merely bush-leagiiers compared to the Glanis, be Green. Bay, Pag] IS, and nd the rest, the game ually have gon boys. Already the decline pf the East 'and’ Fo avy. eleven has lessened the. tension: A contes "betwen Yale and Harvard may stir Cambildge and New Have |

en, but the nation as a whole, As, able, 40 take this climax game, quite calmly. * Nyse BMT mad Things. were not: ever thus, for. some. 30 years ago: I knew a student who went “glinking’ ‘thmpugh the | yard even at nightfall, because he was known to all his fellows: as “the man who dropped the punt.” Some’ traces of the old tradition remain and crop out, as in the recent ‘speech of ‘Nir’ Ducky Pond, ois nounced” his Blue charges in, the press aft. Biter e Darte mouth: game. ‘But this was’ isipdsive god ceptional. :

Oratory Loses Its Hold -

ccordingly, one football riohory of Ca more or ay oe a great deal in the stream of’ \ existence. * It will all be forgotten. before, the next § ice age descends, upon us. I believe t ‘this more * intelligent point of view is known as pe ive and that undergraduates have at least laid a, on’ its *coattails.- >The boys don’t fall for ory as | they did in the’ thauve decade. A good goach a rom best ter of a century ago had to be a kind of ¢ be=; tween the ‘discus throw osther ; At a. practice. se 2~dine to pieces” with no more adjectives, and Pefcy Haughton brass hat who took over the vy i sergeant when it came to talk 0: § missed an assignment. Richard -Hatlowej lover, is milder in jhis mannet auf | 157s ; ‘for the most part, to, the plaintive tion, “Do’ 1t my way, dear boy.” B] gs ‘the pressure of both the scornful ‘ahd, tional’ approach Supimishs the C the stadia. ;

Watching Your Healh, +

By Jane Stafford” Te via YG

HE diabetic patient today no ‘nvalid; «By, far T the majority of persons with diabetes can lead'" ‘normal, useful lives, working and playing. like. their. neighbors: These isles: ave backed up by, Agures the records of c tn ERR cath LH ig the George F. Baker: Clinic’ in- Boston, for, exa group of *653 patients Bar ‘ages of 20 ang 8 ears, only. 3 er cent, of the m and- 6 per cent of the women. ! by the disease. Among:the-men, 63 pex. cent, they are able to do full-time work, cent ‘work about two-thirds of the time, 5 per cent work cn i hu Ca ‘of the ‘time, * n group; cenfissposted futons the weme time Tro their usual activities i

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