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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1989

THE RAPE OF FINLAN D HE Moscow radio was heard all night heaping abuse “= on the Finns. Soldiers from the Leningrad district were at the microphone, calling the Finns dirty dogs,” ete. That news dispatch tells merely a small part of the ‘hate buildup against the little nation to Russia's west. : The Russian people have been getting only the infor-

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‘mation, or misinformation, that is handed them through |

_ ¢ontrolled speech and controlled press. For them the rest |

of the world is out. Therefore the emotion-whipping that | has been going on is a very real and very sinister process— the victims being not only the Finns but the Russian rank

and file. Under a dictatorship black can be made white by

merely never mentioning black. So’what we have been witnessing is a systematic rabble-rousing directed at 180,000,000 people who are in no shape to learn the other side. All, of course, merely preliminary to the subjugation of a small, efficient, self-supporting, self-respecting, bath-taking and debt-paying country by an elephantine neighbor which for so many years up to now has been piously prating against imperialism. The latest is that Russia has attacked Finland. It may rival the ravishment of Belgium | in its repercussions throughout the world.

TAX DOLLARS AND TRUSTEES

SIDE by side in yesterday's late editions were two news stories. One concerned the appointment of Henry Mueller, chief deputy sheriff, as the new trustee of Center Township. The other story was about the city’s new tax rate of $3.28, 7 cents higher than this year. At first glance it might seem that there is no very close The truth, of course, is that poor relief and welfare expenditures are almost wholly responsible for the increase. Which, in turn, goes back to the expensive and partisan and wasteful administration of relief by our last two township trustees. It is little wonder that Center Township taxpayers are aroused when they note how directly they have been bearing the cost of taking care of a great many party workers. Waste, extravagance, favoritism and worse can now be computed in cold dollars and cents.

A AND B—THEN WHY NOT C?

WE have been delighted of late to observe signs of thrift stirring in the bosom of our President. Having his budget director fly to Warm Springs, then using that blue pencil of song and story on this and that, and even discussing a delayed 1940 national convention in the interest of his party’s‘pocketbook—all are heartening to taxpayers in a nation 42 billion dollars under water. That the President didn’t spend a long time on the paring process is of course a fact. His labor with the figures was more in the nature of a gesture. But he did set an example and sound a pitch when he said it was a good |. thing to prune even though the amount in dollars and cents is small. He was able, for example, to take only $3000 out of one bureau which costs $300,000 yearly to run. But every little bit helps, as the old lady said when she emptied an eyecup into the ocean. #” ” » t 8-8 But we don’t feel so serene about the President’s A and B Budget scheme. As we get it, normal and emergency

‘defense items would be segregated, normal being called A,

emergency B. That smacks of the same self-delusion that from the start has characterized pump-priming, deficitfinancing and spending-to-save. It might mean made-work for some bookkeepers. Otherwise, since outgo is outgo and income is income, any way you slice it, we fear this latest white rabbit is thickly coated with grime. The New Deal already has done a lot of things for, and to, the alphabet. We trust that in thus trotting out the first two letters again it’s not starting all over.

JAPAN AND THE U. S. JAPAN apparently plans to do nothing toward improving her relations with the United States until she has set up a marionette government in Central China, on the Manchukuo model, under Chiang Kai-Shek’s turncoat colleague Wang Ching-Wei. Just how she expects the Wag government to make matters easier is not clear. In the first place, Washington is not going to recognize any such Charlie McCarthy regime. In the second, there is a strong suspicion that Japan, acting through Wang, will attempt to abolish the British, French and other foreign concessions in Chinese ports— eoncessions in which American. businessmen have large

interests. If the Manchukuo pattern is followed, occidental J

Jousinessmen will be rapidly squeezed clear off the China coast by various discriminatory practices. ~ If Japan wants to reduce the danger ofan American embargo and boycott, she will do well to give some positive assurances that she—and her puppet Wang—intend to respect American rights and treaties. Once Wang starts pushing us around at Shanghai and elsewhere, it is going to be hard to prevent economic retaliation by a Congress which séems even less neutral in thought concerning Asia than it is concerning Europe.

HENRY 8S. BON SIB 0 the many Hoosiers who fought for Prohibition, the

. It was typical of the career of a man who earned the

nickname of “The Flying Dutchman” by pedaling over the

country on a high-wheeled bicycle in the crusade to dry up

g America that he should have suggested the topic of his own

funeral sermon. It was, appropriately, “I Fought the Good

Fight”

As a frequent contributor to our forum column, in

which his undeviating theme was his attacks on the evils |:

gf drink, we knew Mr. Bonsib well. Rarely did we see eye 0 eye on his favorite subject, but never for a moment did

MARK FERREE :

=. cause had few more colorful advocates than Hemy S. : Bonsib, who died here Tuesday at 82.

Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

With Pendergast Discredited, the Kansas City Police Under New Chief, A Former G-Man, Regain Morale.

EW YORK, Nov. 30.—To return now to Kansas City, I can report that the Pendergast gang is

lice, Lear B. Reed, a former G-man, is so tough that even newspaper Tepotiers can’t get away with traffic “violations. : Reed is a_ Georgia man; about 40 years old; one

and corruption. He is not a green hand in the crim-

there in the service of the F. B. 1., and thus was able ‘to scan'the dirty alliance between Pendergast’s police department under Otto Higgins, the boss’ police diFactor, an and the gambling and vice trades.

sulted oo a term of two years in Leaven tentiary, Maurice Milligan, the Federal District Attorney, said he had evidence to show that Otto had been receiving $10,000 a month from Charles.

of the administration of underworld affairs ss = & . “ist AROLLO got eight years on three ehatges-. per jury, mail fraud and tax dodging—and the matter of his deportation is in abeyance. Carollo had access to Higgins’ office at all times, but I think Milligan wandered off-line when he said, in demanding sentence on Higgins, that Otto’s acceptance of money, derived from almost every possible form of violation of civil and moral law, revealed a depth of corruption in public office almost without parallel in the history of Kansas City. After all, Higgins was just a stooge, and the boss crook of them all was the mealy old thief and hypocrite, Tom Pendergast himself, who was supposed to have tossed around vast amounts of stolen money in private benefactions, but couldn't prove up in court, and he got 15 months for the. income tax things. Reed is so tough that he has fired about 200 cops— one-third of Otto's force—already, and has announced

tions to any machine will be canned outright. The poor cops were more. sinned against than sinning.

bad crooks were brought into the police department. But the rank and file were just ill-paid victims of the system. They not only had to endure pay reductions by old Henry McElroy, the city manager, so that he could make a phony show of ruthless econ-: omy, but had to shower down contributions out of their reduced pay to Pendergast’s political funds. ‘8 ” » | § was no wonder that some men so hard up and beset with petty temptations took a few dollars here and there, especially in view of the rotten example. However, the ordinary cop had little chance to graft for himself, because the gamblers, brothel keepers and all were doing business with Carollo, who did business with Higgins. The underworld didn’t have to take any nonsense from common policemen. Only last week Reed made all the remaining mem--bers of Pendergast’s force swear to questionnaires stating exactly how much money was extorted from their pay for the old man’s campaign funds, club dues and freewill offerings. The amounts ranged between $50 and $350 a year. The cops are glad to be protected against these thievings from their pay, and the morale of the department is up for other reasons, too. They can be men now, beholden to no 0 dirty ‘criminal or precinct grafter.

Inside Indianapolis About Paul MeNutt's New Photo And Get Your Shopping In Early.

“HERE has been a lot of talk about how the Paul McNutt advisers decided to change the handsome Hoosier from a glamour-boy type to the earnest ,seri-ous-faced businessman. . . . And how hard they worked to get the campaign photograph that would do the trick. ... Well, we've got the inside story for you. Paul came here about six or seven weeks ago and during his visit stopped in to have Noble Bretzman, the photographer, make a new portrait stdy.. .. Incidentally, it was:the first time Mr. Bretzman had ever seen the famous McNutt profile face to face. . At any rate, Mr. B. peered at Mr. M. first this way and then that way. + Finally he took one from an angle. that suited him. The proofs went to Mrs. McNutt: and she liked them very much. . So did Paul. . "About three

-weeks later, Mr. Frank McHale, pausing in Wash-

ington, saw the photo. . .. Post-haste, Mr. McHale dashed back to Indianapolis, calling’ for more copies from Mr. Bretzman. Mr. B. has been getting a laugh out of the pundits from Washington. . . . Personally, he says it was an accident. , . . Well, that's political master-minding for you, te * ® » » IT'S BEGINNING to look as if a lot of people are going to get trampled on the last few shopping days before Christmas. . No kidding. ... There

.are- crowds downtown, traffic in the stores is heavy,

but people are holding off their buying. . . . And now it looks like the usual late Christmas rush. + «+» What with the -early Thanksgiving everybody anticipated a bustling season earlier. . If :you value your hide (or your corns) you'd better grab that ball now. Talking about business, the Canary Cottage is getting a new coat of white paint.... And the Power & Light Co. is putting up a big illuminated greeting sign. . . . The Lincoln‘ Hotel ought to be all done with its "renovating job in the Mirabar by Dec. 10. . Ludwell Denny is “hospitalized in Washington with an undiagnosed infection. ... He's out of danger. . . . His column will be missing for a few days. ’ » ” IF ‘YOU GO to: tonight's Rockey game, you'll be interested to know that the light bulbs will ou lower than they have been. ... The bulbs originally were placed so close to the metal reflectors that the heat caused the reflectors to melt. . . . Fred Bates Johnson prides himself on his. campfire steak roasting talents. . . . His specialty is rare steaks. . . . Yes, rare. . And by the by, somebody ought to put a new white flag on the. pole at Monument Circle. . . . The white one is now so dirty it looks like the black one.

A Woman's Viewpoint

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

“WE do not think it is necessary for oi to wait up if we come ‘home late,” is the edict

girls, Although we can be sure it will meet with disapproval from most mothers, it seems to me a very sensible conclusion. “Waiting up until the children are home” is a

maternal hearts. It is a beautiful habit, of course, but one which is designed to make mother feel like a Christian martyr and daughter like a cad, when the latter isn’t in on the dot. There is one point in mother’s favor, a point which

not been tucked in. From experience I know the sense of release from strain as the last member of the family tiptoes to bed. Then comes the moment —and what a lovely one it ist—when the lights are all out and the house is still, In the first place, early. ‘morning is -scoldings, and any curtain lectures ought to be kept until daylight. ‘Then again, the waiting-mother atti= tude seems to prove that we do not really trust our children. but only pretend to do so. T believe the

and find the vulnerable spot there.

handbook for parents called “The Questions Girls Ask,” in- which she Joins out a few of our shortcomings’ as she has them by talking with young people. their ehildzen, and were ready to. talk them "o maria problems, instead service to mortality as

1 his Sineetity 1 in 2 cause {0 > Which he devoted 50 | be no n

absolutely discredited and that. the new chief of po-

of the new. type lawyer-cops, and is tough on So =

inal affairs of Kansas City, for he was stationed income tax case against Higgins, which reworth Peni-

Vv. ‘Carollo, ; the unnaturalized Sicilian who had d gederal charge |

that any policeman caught paying political contribu- |

Of course, under such an administration some very:

handed down by a group ‘of Cleveland high school |

concept of behavior which has long been dear to |

children ‘will never understand until they have sons 3 23 and daughters of their own. : It is this. The average | woman finds it hard to sleep so long as one chick has | |

no “time for

quick minds of the young always Pierce our armor, / Helen Welshimer has just published a fine little |

| regard to markets and supplies of raw ma | labor, transportation facilities and

Ft. Wayne. Ind. Anothon Excollont Eee of Industrial Balance Due To Local and National Planning. NT. ‘WAYNE; Ind., Nov. 30.—Many years ago, when

I was a kind of lance-corporal among the afore time captains of industry, I saw two very careful nae

tional industrial surveys made independently for two -, | of ‘our greatest industrial companies—International | Harvester and General Electric. The: ‘purpose was to + | discover the ideal situation for: large new. | In both of them the bright. spot was: | The, margin was so great that there » choices worth mentioning.

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

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URGES A TRIAL FOR PRODUCTION FOR USE

By George Maxwell : : Unless we adopt the Townsend Plan, 8S. D. D. asks me, what would I suggest as a remedy for our coun= try’s ills?

cerity and without any animosity such as his letter indicated, I answer: duction for use and not for profit. And I'm frank to say that I am not sure that will work but I believe it offers our vest nope:

COMPETITION BLAMED FOR TAVERN ABUSES By Daniel M. Barton.

1 have been following. your editorials in your paper for the past several days relative to the “clean up” drive on taverns.. I make my livelihood in a tavern. ' During the years since liquor sales became legal, the unavoidable financial qualm has followed. The manufacturer and wholesaler were ‘able to become strongly organized through legisla-| tive aid and. enforcement of this legislation in their field. : The tavern man was also broug ht under the scope of this legislation] but the enforcement was lacking.| The result was cut-throat competition among taverns. This competition bfoke many tavern owners and forced others to -use illegal means to survive. .

to study the liquor situation in the city before you begin knocking a group of men who. are {down’ both

respect of the public as a whole. The papers are supposed to uproot and correct unsavory conditions, but your paper seems to be satisfied with the uprooting end only. . . . There will always be people in every walk ‘of life that will continue to evade the law, but when conditions become so bad that honest business men are forced to step |= outside the law because of intoler-| able conditions, then is the time to| seek the root of the evil, for if you cut limbs off a tree and leave the

to grow, 2 2 8 FORECASTS BETTER TIMES UNDER M'NUTT By W. H. Brennen McNutt leaped to the front just as soon as he started talking to Parent-Teachers, Politics did not boost him. Now it looks like even Garner will be for a McNutt and Garner ticket. This will give us a “Good Era

In a spirit of fairness’ and sin-|

Socialism or a system of pro-|-

_|shows the people tire of politics.

' Perhaps it would be well for ¥oii.

in a financial way and are losing the

roots intact, the tree will continue ; | Stella Benson. But the fairy world

Side Glances—By. Galbraith

(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.)

Time” like long ago, because politics gives way to school talk and

When McNutt cried out in his Chicago speech against schools withholding truth, followed by Mr. Williams and his charge of “teachers. being. gagged,” his stock went to the top. Indiana seems destined to furnish the next Presidént. In just a little while all opposition will fold up. McNutt and Garner will be the choice in plenty of time

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politics, . . . y ® & = THINKS $67 WEEKLY | ADEQUATE FOR TRUSTEE By the Sage of Main Street, Kokomo, Ind.

“LL. David, a Forum writer, contends that corruption and inefficiency are often the direct result of underpaid public officials. And I agree in part.. A city the size of Kokomo, for instance, will pay its Mayors $2000 a year, and expect about $10,000 worth of honest administrative: ability. It just isn’t possible to hire a paragon of ‘virtue and mental giant, all ‘rolled into one, for: $2000 a year. If you 'get the paragon of virtue— as in the present local city admin

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istration—you’ll be short on the giant part, and if you get the giant —as in the last preceding city administration—you’ re apt to be short on virtue. 1 disagree with Mr. David, however, in the specific instance cited. It should be possible to hire 'a competent and reasonably honest trustee, ‘even in Indianapolis, for $60 a week. After all, $60 is not exactly hay! . 8g ” SAYS MIDDLE MAN TAKES FARMERS’ PROFIT

By C. Leonard I read B. L.s etter in the Nov. 20 Forum. Why don’t they give the farmer a chance? Farmers have to raise the feed and then feed the cows and chickens, and milk the cows and gather the eggs. And the middle man gets the profit. The middle man does not have any part in feeding or raising animals or

I think it would be wise*for people to try to stick" together. Let's Indianapolis = the = Courtesy Crossroads and treat everyone as a guest and see if we can’t break up the snobbish: ayiiude Indianapolis has. eww SEES STATESMANSHIP IN AH’S COMMENT By The Sage of ‘Main Street, Kokomo, Ind. . and then there's the remarkable remark of Senator William E. Borah of Idaho. “The independent voter,” said the Senator; “is the real

salvation of decent: politics in’ this}:

country!” A public man saying that and meaning it—of whatever party or faction — is more. than a mere

-| politician. He 'is a statesman, vo

N a tiny Asiatic lsland, deserted ‘but for a few graves, there has lain, since December, 1933, all that is mortal. of the genius who was

which she created, “which is quick to ‘our vision when we see. her name,” and- the picture -of herself which she unconsciously projected. into her stories, novels, travel books: and poems, the ‘delicacy of her touch, - her : sensitivity, combined with the rare brand of humor and a lightning satire, will ever afford the lovers of beauty in literatuse the purest pleasure. Typically English, Stella Ben-

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41—was destined to be accomplished | -

in- places far removed from her beloved home, - Miserable health dogged her footsteps: but her necessary exile in China—her husband was a customs official—where she hall the most amazing and exotic adventures with smugglers, bandits and bizarre living conditions, and her years of seeking the sun over Furope and America, found her inimitable courage: undismayed. This complex, appealing, sensitive, despairing, “lonely and vulnerable thing called me,” which we are privileged to glimpse and to understand in part through her work comes more keenly alive under the pen of her friend and critic, R. Ellis Roberts, who presents “Portrait of Stella Benson” (Macmillan). This is a book which will be pored over by those who wish more light on a life which was so eagerly lived but so fretted by the divine discontent of genius. In this study of an artist is inand loveerself addressed to her mother - and her friends, rich in that intimate human charm one has come to identify with

“| | Emily Dickinson, perhaps, or Kath- | |erine Mansfield, Rupert Booke, {H. Lawrence and other intgnsely | subjective writers who have lived

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and exulted, suffered, fought frustration ‘and despair, and died with their work ‘gloriously done. A” RAINY. AFTERNOON-

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1 For the love of money is the | root of all evil: which while some ‘coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and eg them- | 1 . selves through: ih. many, Sosrows. C Timothy 6:10. : iP

| balance as between various kinds of in | among industry; agriculture and merc]

facture.

tive Umbalance;

industries’ and

‘in th tributary trade areas. ’ In both of these surveys; Ft. Wayne dei to he just what ‘the doctor ordered. Maybe: ‘this is too technical for my kind .of column, but I’ ‘Am ‘such a

'bug on this sort of stuff that I can’t help being en-

thused in coming back here after almost 20 years to find how excellently well this kind of pastoral plane ning” by. private enterprise has Chcked, » ” » Ain HE curse of our country, is “one-industy” towns and too much centralization of ‘quantity manue We are still suffering from old-time mass importation of alien “cheap labor” This may sound

conjectural and technical but it is true gnd it is a “| principal cause of our feast-and-famine economy

and some of our depression miseries.

I have sought out and written columns on shining instances of its: avoidance. Mayfield, Ky., Richmond

| and now Ft. Wayne. All ‘these towns have suffered

from depression but in nothing like the degree of centers. where these ‘principles have been neglected, The civic leaders here have deliberately discouraged undue expansion by single industries. They have successfully sought diversification. The statistical service of the Chamber of Commerce is the promptest and best that I have seen. At the end of every month that central planning’ body knows exactly the Bpmber of’ employed, unemployed, possible-flelds of re-employe« ment and the last word on immediate Prospects,

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e bulk of the population is Gere ous: groups are divided’ among “and the other wo hos

among C. ‘I. O. and A. " unjons—with labor trouble in any group conspicuous by its complete absence. The “WPA load has varied from 1500 to. 6000— which in such an industrial grouping is. remarkably low. The state and district takes care of its uneme ployables: by ‘a special tax.’ The recent industrial spurt is rapidly increasing snivioyments I found the local: WPA headman, alone in Ft. ‘Wayne, ree luctant to give me any facts. “It wasn't necessary to'my more generaliged point in this piece, which is the example that could be taken by industry itself from this kind of intelligent placing of factories and careful local guiding sgalney destruce

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lt Seems to Me By jin Broun ory “Soom oi Unless or ik i Defense. Against Mines,

EW YORK, Nov, 30—The so-called phony war has moved more quickly into erisis than the cone

flict of 1914. The next few months will tell the glory.

| The magnetic mine is the most m ‘which has heen produced in modern timeg, and

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the Allies can find a defense against i Hitler. is ho.

‘tain to come out as ‘the victor.

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“This has nothing to do with my sympa ad 8:

emotions or anybody's wishful thinking. “The I

| tonnage of the last few days would" tnking. 1 certainly | starve out: England if the ratio could be continued.

But though the present status of the war can hardly be cheering for any of us who hope for the defeat of Nazi forces and Nazi philosophy, it i§ a good deal less than hopeless. In all history each new ine vention of an attacking device has promptly been neu« tralized in whole or in part by some defensive

mechanism.

When Chamberlain said that methods would be found to meet the threat he might have already had

‘some messages of reassurance from the laboratories

or he may have been merely buoyed up by the ‘hope

‘that every Merrimac must find its Monitor.

A familiar theory voiced in America for many months by all the peace groups has been the fear that

{if a German victory seemed at all possible the Tuling

wers here would push us in. But, on the con t seems to me that American participation likely now: than it has ever been: sipice, the be

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if ‘any attack comes now it would ‘bean’ Allied effort, but even in spite of the. ‘against their forces it. is unlikely that they will ; ® the attempt. However, some things are Ly more clearly now than they have been before. Such speakers as Stand up to say that Chamberlain and Daladier are waging an aggressive war on poor, strangulated ny are talking stuff and nonsense. England. ‘France are fighting now for their very lives. ( Hitler has made much of the stupidities and ine equities ‘of the. Versailles Treaty. He has maferial with which to. work. But anybody who | the Fuehrer will himself give | SenIous 4 terms, in le ven of victory hardly knows his There is more reason than ever for ui § 10 agree that . we will send no boys abroad, but, likewise, I ‘think there is ample catise for all who love. democragy. to pray that the hand ‘of Hitler may be: Stayed, and withered at: the root. : Sb hs

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Watching Your Health

By Jane Stafford." Gul 3

HE problem of how to dress for health ad ‘com fort in winter must be settled a — ‘toly our

Sor helps keep you oy you | “know it retards loss of heat from your body. The way it does this is by inclosing layers of air between théigare ments and even in the mesh of the fabric between

close alr withisy the meshes.and ound:

smooth vers of solion and sik do not retain : readily, although woolen" fibers may be reduce their warmth and cotton and Wi ~ocitn clothes. eos ook

| come saturated with uth hours.

Then all the spaces formerly Lon filled with water, making the 4 good conductor of heat, When the worker into the cold air, the heat rapidly leaves h comes chiller. For this reason Jight | warm coats for outdoors. ! bber raincoats