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MONDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1939

THE PUPPET GAG

HALK up as latest in the already imposing list of insults to our intelligence the puppet-government transaction by which Russia has divided up Finland. Tt even rivals the | original lie about Russia being attacked, or the one about | President Roosevelt being the man actually responsible for | the bombing of Helsinki. A fellow named Otto Kuusinen is the Henry Pu Yi of this picture. It seems that Otto has been living in Moscow for the last 20 vears, having spent but one day in Finland | in that time. But under this modernized version of the | aged puppet act he is now President and Foreign Minister of Finland—having changed from Comrade Otto of the Russian Comintern to President Otto by a simple shift of official whiskers. So in Moscow a treaty is signed with Otto, ceding to Russia everything Russia has demanded— | new boundaries being defined and all the ponderous rigmarole performed, including preamble and everything that goes along with treaty making—with Stalin, Zhdanoff, | Voroshiloff and Molotov all in attendance and never crack- | ing a smile. Whereupon the Russian press and radio inform the Russian people that the Finnish people have overthrown their government. That this new government isn’t even | in Finland is conveniently omitted. Result, the Russians will believe the fake, though the rest of the world will not. In the meantime things haven't been going so well with | the Russian invaders, many of whom bit the snow of the little nation which already has proved itself no pushover. Of which. however, the Russian rank and file are kept in darkness. So. there is a new Finnish government—on paper, in Moscow,

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NO CASE FOR WRIST-TAPPING

X-PRESIDENT HOOVER urges that our Ambassador be withdrawn from Russia in protest against the attack on Finland—but suggests that a routine official be left to represent us in Moscow, We believe that if anything at all is done we should go | {the whole route—and break off diplomatic relations completely. Russians don’t respond to taps on the wrist or swats with a feather duster. They aren't sensitive. A diplomatic pile-driver is the only kind of instrument they | can feel, Thev very much did want recognition. They finally got it. And at once set out to violate the promises they made in return. Withdrawal of recognition therefore probwould he understood as something about which we didn’t smile when we said it. But anything less wouldn't register,

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CLOTHE A CHILD T was raining Saturday afternoon. A little boy—he was T or | perhaps—was walking down Washington St. He was watching other children with their mothers. Your children probably, and ours. They were laughing and | tugging at their mothers’ hands. They wanted to see Santa Claus, to tell him what they want for Christmas. A doll, a baby buggy, a train, oh, toys of all kinds. But the little boy wasn’t smiling. He wasn’t wearing an overcoat or a mackinaw. He had on just a thin little jacket. It was wet. Not as wet, though, as his feet must have been. Ilis shoes looked paper-thin. Ie probably had | a long way to walk, too. One would guess that there isn't | enough money in his family for streetcar fare. That little boy, and thousands of other little unfortunates, is the reason for The Indianapolis Times Clothe-A-Child campaign. For the 10th vear we have opened offices. It's a co-opertaive venture. We help each other to bring a little happiness into lives that have so little. We do it the simplest way we can. If vou want to clothe a child yourself, just call us up and make an | appointment. Just say what kind of child vou want. He | or she will be waiting for you at our office. If vou can't spare the time, we'll do the shopping for vou. There's a third way, too. Lodges, clubs, factory and office groups, sororities, all Kinds and types of organizations, have helped | in the past.

If you can, won't you help Clothe A Child?

EXAMPLE IN STEEL

BOUT the brightest business news tells how other steel producers are following the Carnegie-1llinois Co.'s lead | and holding prices—with few exceptions—at present levels | for at least the first quarter of 1910. Just as Carnegie-lllinois, the biggest subsidiary of United States Steel, is a bellwether of the steel industry. that industry itself is a bellwether of American business. | It sets a powerful example, and in the past that example | has not always heen a good one.

For the steel industry has been an adherent of “rigid” price policies, meaning policies followed without much regard to the usual laws of the market place. Tn dull times it | has refused to make price concessions for the purpose of stimulating buying; and in periods of business improvement it has raised prices, thereby—as in 1937—incurring criticism that helped to kill a promising recovery movement. | No another recovery movement, started before war | broke in Europe, has boosted steel production to the high- | est level in history. But steel prices have not been increased in 1939, and will not be before April, if then. That represents a significant and most hopeful change of attitude | on the industry's part. Steel is making a test of the theory that low prices will mean bigger sales volume. Steel's example, if generally followed, will encourage continued recovery and at the same time discourage the kind of price inflation that might pro- | duce & runaway war boom and a later disastrous bust.

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By Westbrook Peg

Annenberg Apparently Made the Mistake of Using Code, Thus Linking Race News to Lottery.

EW YORK, Dec. § —The Moe Annenberg case in the Federal Court in Chicago has received much less publicity that it really deserves, because Mr. Anneberg’s racing news service for poolrooms, otherwise known as horseparlors, throughout the United States, was the instrument of vast political corruption and was, in itself, corrupt and a racket. Mr. Annenberg would seem to have made a tacit admission that his business was corrupt and a racket when he agreed recently to cancel it, thus depriving the corrupt poolroom gambling trade of its breath of life Mr. Annenberg is less widely known than he should be and less well known than he wanted to be. Although he sought fame in the last few years as publisher of daily papers in Miami and Philadelphia. he did not strive to impress his public with the true nature of his business. As a publisher Moe went in for civic righteousness, reform and respectability. He is now under many layers of indictments in Chicago, and, although one | may hear from persons who profess to be well-in- | formed on politico-underworld affairs that some fix or compromise may be negotiated in Washington in consideration of his decision to abandon his racket, . Wil« liam ©. Campbell, the Federal District Attorney in Chicago, insists that he will make no bargain and will do his best to send Moe to prison.

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HE indictments charge income tax violations, conpiracy to defraud the United States, violations of the lottery laws and conspiracy to impede the administration of justice—this last, s6 the Government contends, by monkeving with a grand jury witness, Tt is not a violation of any law to send race results, prices and all such data, or even predictions, through the mails or over the wires, but Moe and his crowd outsmarted themselves by adopting code numbers to identify the horses instead of using their names. In the first place, they may have had a simple intention to prevent thieves from pirating their informa-

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security of those code numbers by selling sheets at 25 cents each to all the poolrooms on their circuits, Handling a program of sav, 40 races, that meant a tap of 40 quarters, or $10 a day, from each of thousands of poolrooms in the country. But the mob apparently stepped over the line into the field of the lottery as distinguished from the plain, honest distri- | bution of news, in using the code numbers in the operation of a gambling device,

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‘OF has been a fabulous figure in the horse business for vears, and it is not hard to believe that his income is one of the greatest in the United States or that he can lay his hands on more cash money at any time any other individual, not barring J, P. Morgan. | Chicago has been so rotten for vears that the town may seem to be abandoned and utterly without any will to turn square, but, for the first time in the modern history of the city, there are some stirrings of |

| conscience and civic decency just now

The poolrooms there, using Moe's information, have been the source of the big political graft but, now that they can't get the wire service, their political protec tion by the local government means nothing. Thus the graft from the poolrooms is stopped and the machine is beginning to shimmy and rattle about the same as the Pendergast thing did in Kansas City just before it flew to pieces.

Inside Indianapolis

Housing—A Subject That's Loaded For Almost Everybody In Town.

QUSING back in there's avanamite in city’s officials Keep

is . But . Some of avoiding the subject of . They won't even admit that we have some of the worst slums in the countir . ON the other side is a group of progressive-minded City officials working for a Federal slum-clearance

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too, for real estate panned for something Some of the real ‘estate men would just as soon pull down every slum in town But there are those who want to hold on to virtually worthless property the hope that someday it may become salable as industrial sites Some of the properties literally are not worth the powder to blow them up Tt is one of the town's major health problems Dr. Herman 'G. Morgan put it straight up to the community only Saturday It is certainly a black mark on our record But what's the answer? . Nohody knows for sure Federal projects are all right . . But are thev self-liquidat-ing? . . . Are we to subsidize the poor? . . . Is the Ft. Wayne project the answer? All this re- . . One thing is certain, however « + +» Something's got to happen soon. » » »

THE OTHER NIGHT when the relief indictments were handed down. Judge Dewey Mvers was in a . He had to go to a banquet at 6 tuxedo. . He was to be in ‘court at 7 or so There was no chance for a change so the judge came in tuxedo. . ‘Please bovs,' he said, “no photos in this get-up.” Add the judge, too, to newspapermen’s likes Speaking of corners and coroners. 38th ana Pennsvivania Sts No signal light And how thev go across there. | . Even the trackless trollevs have to fight then Wav across Dr. Norman Booher, deputy coroner, has his office right there » n

NEW AND ATTRACTIVE Christmas display: The big star set on the underside of Wasson's marquee on Meridian St Did vou know that Tndiana produces 9) per cent of the mint grown in the United States? . . . Tt does. . . . Wonder where Kentucky got that reputation from? . . . The argument around town over barber prices keeps going on and . Letters to the newspapers remind us of | the bingd matter. Frederick G. Matson, son of the Frederick E.'s, is hospitalized. . . . Minor |

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A Woman's Viewpoint

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

LARMED bv the number of organizations set up | to gather and distribute relief funds for foreign refugees, Mrs. Roosevelt recently suggested Herbert | Hoover to head a unified group which would Jhandle where it was most needed. | Nobody will want te denv the compelling moral obligation of the world refugee problem. That the United States will help is a foregone conclusion, since our people have never closed their hearts to universal distress. | Tt might be a good thing to remember, however, that right now our hearts are higger than our pocketbooks, which was not the case when Mr. Hoover played | To be specific, we've got a | pretty bad refugee problem here at home. Thousands of our poor roam from state to state and are shooed off by watchful sentinels. Many of them have nowhere to lay their heads | To be sure, ours is a rich country. People always | make that remark when the question of foreign | charity arises, and it is a fact we would not dispute All the more reason then for us to be ashamed of the | poverty which exists right under our noses. Add up. if you please, the amount of money asked for in our hundreds of Community Chest drivers, Through no fault of ours thousands of little chil- | dren are hungry and homeless in foreign lands: | through no fault of ours whole races are oppressed | and persecuted; through no fault of ours a sad pro-

| cession of boys shoulder arms and prepare to destroy

each other. But through some fault of ours, unem-

| ployment and distress exist in our own country. Until | we can be reasonably sure of alleviating the aches, |

pains and injustices of the whole world, doesn't plain | horse sense command us to pay attention to our |

woglected jobseat home?

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which vou have not heard. Tt might be that the retail grocer who has to refrigerate this product and put part of it out on credit has taken it on the chin so long he is] no longer able to register a protest | Ever since the conception of the

have a chance. Letters must be signed, but names will be

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tool in keeping the highways prosperity continually open so hat we as a social body may by our own work and worth reap the henefits of our unlimited natural resources. Anvthing that maintains prosperity for the whole p2ople, the social body, is sure to be a benefit to each individual or member of the body, so that each may have the means to live his own individual life, But trade barriers make panics and depressions, extremely dangerous economic conditions for all Democracy is a tool of great price,

“i hut unless we use, we lose it,

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SEES WORLD HARMED | By Tames M. Gates BY TRADE BARRIERS | For evervthing there 1s a season : > ; time, and now is the time to

| and By SB. Hetrick, Elwood, y answer I. David in the Forum. He Above the din of slaughter and seems to apply the reason that destruction of both social and pri- trustees are incompetent because vate property, we hear a word said | pay peceive only $3000 per annum now and then about economic ‘rade 1 would like to ask Mr. David if he barriers—a thing that forbids it-|eyer received so much, or if he ever

self to public view or a philosophical paid anyone $60 a week to work for inspection. Tt seeks darkness rather jim. >

than light because its deeds are, It is dollars te doughnuts the evil. |

a margin of 1'. cents per quart regarcless of the cost. At the present time that figures 13 7-11 per cent, subject to 1 per cent gross income tax. Under present conditions there is not a grocer in the city conducting his business on this small an overhead. Therefore he is actually losing money on every bottle of milk he sells. While the matter of profit is up, why not have this matter adjusted—or is the farm vote all thal matters to our politicians? Some organizations talk of having a milkless day. How about grocers discontinuing handling entirely until we can do so at profit?

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answer is no. The Trustee of Center | | Township is and always has been! | overpaid. Many get, double what [they ever earned at previous em- | plovment, and more easily. The trustees’ system is to take good care | {of the ward heelers.

| those they are supposed to aid-—re- | ceive second and third consideration. | The Township Trustee's office has I'the earmarks of the New Deal. Why not give the taxpayer and those on relief a square geal? A $2.50 order would go as far as $3.75 at a store of their choice. The super-markets and chain grocery stores get none of that business, I am told.

* % » URGES SPENDING ON INDUSTRY, NOT ARMS

By L. H. | As an alternative to wasting our |

national income on greater arma- | |ment, let me suggest that Congress) appropriate five billion dollars for expansion of our industries. The | expansion program would produce

| the stimulus te the capital goods [industries,

| Tt is the stagnation of capital expenditures that retards re-employ-ment. These new plants erected under this expansion program should be leased to private operators for a fixed production schedule. What we need is more production; more plant equipment and more real wealth for distribution. | Relief is the silliest way of all out |of depression. Let Government become the investor,

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MONDAY, DEC. 4, 1939

Gen. Johnson Says—

Highway System on Which Our Economic Life Depends imperiled By Diversion of Auto Tax Receipts,

HICAGO, Ill, Dec. 4 Next month Chicago is go

ing to have one of the biggest of its many cons ventions. Forty thousand persons interested in highe ways are coming from everywhere to talk about them, The rapid pounding to pieces of our 20-0dd billions of dollars worth of surfaced roads is a dangerous problem of which. the country is not sven aware. Automobiles and hard-surfaced roads have taken this country apart and put it together again. A study made 30 years ago concluded that “a farmer will go no more than seven miles for his daily supplies.” We were then a nation of 14-mile trade areas and hence of little villages and many stores Motors and hard roads completely changed this pattern. Trade areas are now 60 miles wide. Similar effects have been produced for city dwellers. Our whole pattern of daily living depends on the highe way net. »

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T had a miraculous growth but a creeping paralysis is working on it. An estimate before the House Roads Committee last year indicated that to put the present system in reasonable condition—without any new construction whatever--would cost 365 billion dollars. Engineers’ estimates from almost every state show that the money available for mere repair, main tenance and modernization is far below the proved rate of obsolescene and deterioration. What are we going te use for money? tolls? Recent studies seem to rule that out. Tt is impracticahle qn short runs. Less than 6 per cent of the trips outside of cities are longer than 50 miles and 90 per cent of highway traffic near cities is from the cities themselves, Higher taxes on road users? More than hall of family cars belongs to families of $1500 income or less, The present average value of these cars is about $197. The average total annual tax on them is $53-—-3'% per cent of all family income for motor taxes alone more than 25 per cent a year on the investment. That is tax enough.

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IGHER faxes on the heavier truck and bus traffie that occupies the greatest room on the roads That butts ints the fight between the railroads, which must build and maintain their own roads and pay a tax on them bhesides, and the heavier commercial automotive whe use and occupy the roads and pay only a small fraction of the cost of maintaining them. The econtraversy is a question of clouded fact that should and could be cleared but, while much higher taxes might be indicated here, the ultimate limit would not vield enough to solve this problem-—which must be solved. It is quite clear that if all the taxes now assessed peculiarly on highway users were used for highways, there would be ample money to maintain our highway system and attend to its necessary expansion te ft constantly growing use. Too much of these receipts goes ta other spending It is also clear that a better joint planning of locas

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| tion, type and use would result in less expenditure, And the unfortunate victims-- | Finally, more attention to economy would make total

available dollars go further It is a solvable problem but it isn't being solved.

G.O.P. Strategy

By Bruce Catton

Wisdom of Holding Convention in August to Be Weighed by Leaders.

ASHINGTON, Dec. 4 For the second time in history, one of the major political conventions may be held as late as August. Chairman John D. M. Hamilton of the Republican National Committee has pretty well sold the party high command on the idea that the Republican con= vention in 1940 ought to be held after the Democratio convention. Now the idea is being carried farther, in

| high Republican circles, and there is talk of holding

the convention late in July or August This will be one of the subjects discussed when the party's executive committee meets here Thursday. Those favoring a late date argue that there 18 always a letdown after a Presidential convention. Tha delegates go back home full of enthusiasm and energy, then have to wait a couple of months before they can really get to work. One suggestion being advanced is that it might be smart to make the Presidential campaign swing into high immediately after the convention, have the

| formal notification of the nominee as soon as Possi-

| Ble, and start the candidate out on his speech-making

Our forefathers brought to us here in the United States a declaration of fundamental principles,

the United States, which furnishes us a way of escape called democracy

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but the people don't know how to use it and to a representative it is HE apartment dweller who longs a tool without a handle because for a garden, the lover of plants without the aid of the people he and flowers who wishes to observe cannot accomplish the fulfillment of their growth more fully than is posdemocracy on an economic program. Sible in ordinary “dirt gardening,” We now have every trade, profes- will find, in ‘Chemical Gardening sion and calling necessary to fur- for the Amateur” (Wise) a guide tonish everyone physically and men- ward the fulfillment of their amtallv able to work, a modern stand- bitions ard of living. Thev know how to Dr. Charles H. Connors and Dr create good and useful things, but as Victor A. Tiedjens, both associated a social body they don't know why with the agriculture department of they can't trade one with another.| Rutgers University and with the They don't know how the institu- New Jersey Agriculture Experiment tion of trade barriers keeps them Station, are not among the writers ignorant as to how to use democracy, and scientists who foresee in chema knowledge of which is an essen-|ical gardening and agriculture an

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immediate revolution in these fields. I'm this volume they modestly direct | their information toward those to] (whom gardening Ix a pleasant hobby nat te those wha aspire to grow (their winter's supply of vegetables lin their kitchen window or think of establishing a watermelon patch in| [the sun perch | After some chapters devoted to the! structure of plants and the processes by which they convert chemicals inte food, they laanch into explana- | [tions cancerning the solutions to be used for growing the plants, the kind of vessels best adapted, the methods by which coarse sand or plants, and the question of the environment of the plants. | The authors show photographs of ‘small flowers springing from blotting | papers, of seedlings growing in sand, | ‘of the roots of tomato plants and | hydrangeas dangling intricately in| the clear nutrient solution, of Iux- | uriant crops of snapdragons, nasturtiums and carnations grown by chemiculture in commercial green- | houses. The possibilities discussed here are stimulating to professional and ama- | teur alike, Chemiculture, however, sav the authors, does not assure success. The flourishing garden still requires a gardener endowed with powers of observation, knowledge and love for growing things.

NIGHT Ry KATHERYN MAY Night comes and all is quiet. The clamor of industry Is over for a few hours. Barth's clothed in mystery.

Night comes and darkness falls Across the light of day. We close our eyes and sleep As tomorrow folds night away,

DAILY THOUGHT

Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.—Psalms 2:12.

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| calling for 25 per cent whey solids

This would keep tempo high all through the campaign.

Starting From Scratch

™n line with this idea, plans are being made to gel, as much as possible of the routine spade-work ot the camnaign out of the way before the convention. Th 1036, it is recalled, Mr. Hamilton took office an chairman and found --as new national chairmen usthat he had te start from scratch, No= body knew how much money was going to he available, where it was going to come from or who was going to get at If enough of this rautine work can be eliminated ahead of time, it is figured, the campaign can swing inte high right after the convention without any waste motion. The only national convention held in August was the Democratic convention of 1864, This was when the Civil War was on and the line the party took was going to be determined pretty largely by what happened in the field,

(My, Brouns’ regular column will apepar tomorrow.)

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Watching Your Health

By Jane Stafford

ITTLE MISS MUFFET of nursery rhyme fame would doubtless be surprised to learn that the whey which seemed to form 50 per cent of her diet

| has heen used to make a new Kind of dried pea soup,

caramels and fudge. These new foods, not vet on the market, have heen devised by the Federal Bureau of Dairy Industry in a search for wavs of utilizing whey and Skim milk as human food. Both whey and skim milk contain valuable nutrients, but because of long prejudice against them, they are either fed to the pigs or discarded en= tirely as waste, The candies, pea soup and a new skim milk wafer ta eat with the soup will get their try-outs on the Byrd Antarctic Expedition, but according to advance notices, stav-at-homes will find them welcome additions to the diet when they are available The soup is precooked dry powder which makes a complete soup when one can of powder is mixed with four cans of water and boiled. Tt contains 65 per cent split pea solids, 25 per cent whey solids and 10 per cent fat. The fat will not turn rancid for at least a vear when the canned soup powder is kept at room temperature or below. The soup wafers are made by drying or toasting a mixture of boiled potatoes, skim milk and salt. They are said to be like potato chips, but since they contain no fat, they do not turn rancid. The caramels and fudge were made from formulas They are said to

| be superior in food value to ordinary candy because | the whey solids displace some of the cane sugar and | edorn sirup. They also contain extra milk sugar, milk

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are slightly less sweet than ordinary candy. From the description, it seems that this might be a kind of candy which the doctor will tell mother she can let Johnny and Susie eat more freely than ordinary candy, although it is too soon for a medical opinion to be available,