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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1939
INDIANA CORN It is not without a touch of gloating that we comment on | the winning of the world's corn crown by C. E. Troyer of Lafontaine, Ind. the awarding of the “corn duke” honors to Floyd Hiner of Lewisville and the naming of G. M. Fross of Camden as reserve champion to -Mr. Hiner. Indiana has played a dominant role in the Inter-
national Livestock, Hay and Grain Exposition for many | laws.
| years. Championship after championship are annually won | by Hoosiers. We're not only very glad. We're very proud.
| CHRISTMAS SEALS | THE bright little Christmas seals which provide funds to carry on a continuous campaign against tuberculosis
have gone on sale. The first seals were sold in 1907 and since that time | the death rate from tuberculosis has been reduced by nearly two-thirds. The disease is still, however, the most universal of all diseases and the leading cause of death in certain age groups. | Medical authorities know the cause of tuberculosis. They know how to control it. It takes funds to, put this knowledge to work and the gaily colored seals help provide these funds both for the work being done in Indianapolis and elsewhere. The seals should be attached to Christmas gift packages and Christmas letters where it is at all possible.
ORDERS OBEYED JOR the first time in its history the WPA now nears a mid-winter without having over-spent its appropriation and without preparing to ask Congress for more money to carry it through the fiscal year. This time. to be sure, WPA was strictly enjoined by Congress to budget its spending and make its funds last a full twelvemonth. And business improvement throughout the fall season has forestalled at least part of the increased relief demand that, in other years, has come with cold weather. Yet, after years of seeing the Federal relief administration run short of money at this season, it is something new to find WPA announcing that it won't need a deficiency appropriation. Col. F. C. Harrington, the present admin. istrator, did not agree with all the restrictions placed on WPA operations by Congress, in its attempt to get spending under better control. But he says he is following these restrictions to the letter, and for that he deserves much credit.
THE PROS HAVE IT
HAT was said to be the largest crowd at that place since the troops returned from France assembled Sunday night in Washington's Union Station plaza—not to greet the President, not to see a visiting dignitary from abroad, but to welcome home a defeated football team. it was a professional football team, called by sportswriting wags in other cities, because its c ener also is a laundry proprietor, the “Washing-Done” Redskins. And, in the nation’s capital, interest in Europe's troubles was eclipsed by arguments over whether the Redskins had been robbed by the referee in their game with the New York Giants. | There are those who consider pro football a bad thing. There are. obviously, many who think it's swell. The purpose of this piece is neither to view with alarm nor to point with pride, but merely to note the fact that professional football is here in a large way. The American people have a great capacity for sudden, brief enthusiasms, and the pro football craze may be just one of those things. We don’t know. But we do know that it's fine, just now, to live in a country where folks have time and opportunity to get excited over a game instead of a war.
“A COW IS A CAT” | R ELUCTANTLY we confess Phat never till now have we fully appreciated the poetry of Gertrude Stein. "A | rose is a rose is a rose” left us somewhat cold. “Pigeons | on the grass alas alas!” seemed less than satisfying. But after glancing through Miss Stein's new book for | children, “The World Is Round,” we are revising our opinion. It's about two children—Rose (is a rose, etc.) and Willie—and it has 67 pages of verses like this:
A hill is a mountain, a cow is a cat, A fever is heating, and where is she at. She is climbing the mountain a chair in her arms and always around her she is full of alarms. Why not, a chair is something but not to talk to when it is too cold to be bold too hot to be cold a lot too white to be blue too red to be wed. Oh Willie she said and there was no Willie but there was a simple noise just a noise and with a noise there were%eyes and with the eyes there was a tail and then from Rose there was a wail, 1 wish 1 was not dead said Rose but if 1 am | will have torn my clothes, blueberries are black and blueberries are blue strawberries are red and so are you, said Rose to Rose and it was all true.
For the benefit of parents who wish to read the book | aloud to their children, the publishers offer this advice:
“Don’t bother about the commas which aren't there, read | for men and deserved no life or happiness unless they | contributed to it.
the words. Don’t bother about the sense that is there, read
the words faster. If you have any trouble, read faster and | but the fact remains that woman has been held in a |
| regards as a rather harmless impostor, there is little | that the authorities can cdo to interfere with his busi-
| discovered that almost any cult called a reiigion may
| stand for that.
| to toss upon the drum while in the throes
| Lauck and he's 37. | are on the West
| “Chet.” + .
| notes. | torture he’s in. .
| that the wife was a possession of the husband, in the
| sense, a whole generation of females hugged the idea
Fair Enough
By Westbrook Pegler
Doc Robinson, Psychiana Founder, Looks With Tolerance on Rivals; Says He's the Genuine God Man.
EW YORK, Dec. 6.—Doc Robinson of Moscow, | Ida., who says he talked with God and got rich | in almost no time, is not perturbed by insinuations that he came by his title by working as a clerk in a Moscow drug store. He replies that he got a D. D. from the College of Divine Metaphysics of Indian-
But that’s nothing. The Docs religious philosophy. known as Psychiana. on sale at $20 for
the eleven-month course, payable in easy installments, has a wider charter. so he says, than the University of Idaho He says the university can’t give Ph. D.’s, but that he can. If he wanted to he could append to his own name enough letters to spell anti-totalitarianism. But he doesn’t want to. Doc is title enough for him. Nor is he envious of other current operators in the God business. His trade is growing, and the others merely amuse him, except when they crib his stuff. And. as he himself said in discussing a rival whom he
ness if a man is ordinarily prudent and knows the
» » sn NUMBER of smart individuals have canvassed the opportunities and the legal conditions and have
enjoy immunity from intrusion, molestation and most taxes. Otherwise vou would have religious persecution in a free country, and public opinion would never *
The joiners are mostly subdued persons beyond middle age, with some accumulation or inheritance of wealth, perhaps the insurance on a departed spouse, | It works | out very nicely. Of Father Divine he spoke in a tone of professional admiration. . “That fellow,” he said, “is the king pin of them all. But I don't get his stuff. I just don't get it at all.” You will note that he spoke of the others as “them.” He didn't say "us all.” He doesn't regard himself as one of “them.” He is the genuige god man, the one who talked with God, “actually and literally.” 2 ”n n HE Doc is jovial, but he is no victim of gentle
sentiment in dealing with disciples who are deadbeats or slow pay. He will not be gypped by gyps. Not the Doc. Last February a delinquent Psychiana student got a letter from a collection agency in Wilmington, Del., |
| Which said:
“Dear Madam: The school has just reported your | payment of $3.50, which reduces this balance to $3. We want that balance no later than March 4. Frankly, |
| it is immaterial whether you settle with us or with the | school’s attorney, but a lawsuit will mean both unpleasantness and expense to you.
For your own protection, therefore, have the balance here by the date mentioned.” That was telling her where to get off. And if the manner sounds uncharitable and not quite divine, after all, Psychiana is Doc Robinson's own stuff. He got it up. It is his property. and he turns delinquents over | to the agency in the routine course of business, as any sound businessman would.
Inside Indianapolis
Lum and Abner—Add Their Names To the First Citizens of Indianapolis.
HE most completely natural pair of people to hit Indianapolis in vears . That's Lum and Abner, the radio team which has been appearing on the stage here this week . A couple of boys from Arkansas. thev've bounced into the big time and don’t know it yet. . They won over every single person they met in town But theyre just being themselves Lum is the tail one . His . His wife Coast.
name is Chester and two children . There's another little Abner calls him just plain . Abner is a bit on the short side. . . . He is Norris Goff and his wife and two kids also are on the West Coast. . . . Lum calls him “Tuffy” with a great deal of affection. . . . Abner is 34. On the stage they keep trying to throw each other off stride. . . . In person they're simple, lovable, friendly. Theyre awed a bit by big names, seeming to forget that they are big names themselves. They pitched in to help the Clothe-a-Child campaign and worked like Trojans to put it over. . . They kept talking about how many children had been clothed. When they weren't talking about that they were talking about the big show they plan to put on in Hollywood Christmas eve for underprivileged children. . . . They've got Clark Gable. Carole Lombard, Jack Benny. Bob Taylor. Barbara Stanwyck, etc, etc, to appear. . . . Personally, we prefer
one in the offing.
Lum and Abner.
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HOWARD INTERMILL is entertaining in Hunters Lodge at the Marott tomorrow with a dinner of venison and bear. . . . Confidentially, he brought it back with him from a hunting trip in Michigan Mrs. John A. MacDonald. the newly elected Community Fund director. bought two turkeys for Thanksgiving and then got two unexpected gifts of turkeys One of the turkevs was alive » + He was white, with a red ribbon around his neck. . Mrs MacDonald didn't have the heart to have the turkey Killed . Too pretty, you know. , . . They put him down in the coal bin. Next day he wasn't so pretty . So they ate him for Thanksgiving George Saas, publicity man for the
Gas company. has been afflicted with laryngitis lately.
. He's been wearing out pad after pad writing If you know George, you know what . . Business Note: Ayres’ and Block's put up elaborate toyland displays in their corner windows. Strictly for the kiddies, you know. . There's a big “but.” however. . . The kids haven't had a chance. . . . All the grownups have cribbaged on to the choice spots on both corners. ... Well, life begins at 40.
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By Mrs. Walter Ferguson
ERHAPS the most popular of recipes for success is the one that reads. “Cultivate respect for the other person's opinions.” It | seems to me a fine admonition for sbme men, but at | the moment when women are only just emerging into |
a world where they are permitted to have opinions, is | it not a most pernicious dose to ask them to swailow? Respect for the other person's opinions. especially’ when the other person wore trousers, has kept women in hot water or subjugation since the birth of the race. When we glance into the past we observe that our sex has forced itself to accept a good many asinine doctrines, only because those doctrines were advanced by men whose notions we had been taught to venerate. Any feminine rebel against such doctrines was to rare that she cither got herself into world news or was hanged along with the few obstreperous males. Men told us to believe them—and so we accepted, successively, the theory that women nad no soul, that having been cursed by God, all Eve's daughters must henceforth be subject unto their earthly lords;
Dale Carnegie’s |
A Woman's Viewpoint
same category as his ox or his gun. And later, though it opposed every tenet of experience and ~cmmon
that they were created as objects of sensual enjoyment
| alleys so dirty? { high tax rate. cannot we have clean | streets, gutters and alleys from city | Why is it the Board of Health doesn’t do anything about it?
| Saturday
two
There have been dissenters in every age, to be sure,
faster until you don’t.” | dependent and inferior state largely because she was
Or, if you still have trouble, we suggest you try reading | the little ones a column or so of the news from Europe. | After that, they—and you—will conclude, as we have, that |
Miss Stein's poetry is eminently sensible.
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| trained to cultivate respect for men's opinion and
none for her own. | In a time when regimentation is on the increase. 1 think the Carnegie slogan would make uniore sense if |
chances are they are quite as good as the other person's and maybe better,”
v
it read. “Cultivate respect for your own opinions; rt |
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
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WEDNESDAY, DEC. 6, 1939
We Can’t Forget Who Let Him Loose!
Gen. Johnson Says—
Roosevelt's 'Moral Embarge' on Arms to Russia Widely Approved But Should Have Some Basis in Law.
EW YORK. Dec. 6.—Not a voice will be heard in opposition to the morality of the President's em bargo on export of air weapons to the nations that use them against civilians—meaning Russia. The last time it meant Japan. At this moment the ends seem to justify the means. The cynical, brutal and bloody atrocity in Finland shocks and infuriates this whole country. But that doesn't prove that the action should pass with no comment at all. The action was good. But is the principle good? Under strong public pressure, we passed a law which declared not merely a ‘moral’ embargo but a statutory embargo against the export of man-Kkilling weapons to any warring nation. Excellent arguments were made against that blanket ban. At the instance of the Administration it was changed to permit the export of deadly weapons to any nation that could pay for them in cash on the barrelhead and carry them away. That expressed the policy of Congress and the sentiment of a majority of the people after exhaustive debate. ‘The law to sell to all comers cash-and-carry was a mandate of neutrality in the strictest sense—to treat warring nations on a cold basis of exact equality —to take no part directly or indirectly in the neverending struggle abroad. ” ” ” HAT is a law of this union and the President has a vow registered in heaven to execute it faithfully. At the President's instance, we have an embargo on air weapons against both Japan and Russia. But we have none against any nation of the British commonwealth or the French Republic and of its possessions. I am not saying that this is not exactly as it should be in faith and morals. It must give any American a sense of comfort to know that it is so just now. But 1 am asking if this is a faithful execution of the laws, Obviously it is not. In amending the Neutrality Acts it is well known that the Administration would have preferred a provision permitting the President to discriminate against warring nations in the sale of lethal weapons or, indeed, in the sale of anything. There was no chance
The Hoosier Forum
I wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.
CLAIMS OUR STREETS NEED CLEANING UP By J. W. McF.
Why are our streets, gutters and . Why, at our|
limit to city limit? .
At the tax rates of
4-8 8 FAVORS SATURDAYS HOLIDAY OBSERVANCE
By Pat Hogan, Columbus, Ind.
Anna Belle Lovelace Sa vast {5 have a New Year holiday. should be thankful for a ones ambition, frugality and industry, | citizens of the U. S. A.—regardless
truth when she writes
food, clothing, and that
of the day.
But the matter of holidays has nuisance that' disrupts] “". 5 =» business and industry, with loss to, WARNS V. I. C. ON millions of workers and inconveni- DEFINITION OF CAPITALISM neve ence to other millions. Every holiday we observe could as well be slated By Claude Braddick, Kokomo, Ind.
become a
for Saturday.
Decoration Day was set aside to be appreciative of Voice honor our war dead. It was first a Crowd's definition of capitalism. as circumstances alter cases. Are we day of parades, spirited horses, brass 1 was. bands, etc. It has just about faded cjarifying.
out, The last would bring
Saturday the same
today should have the finest street cleaning department in America. Can you in pay and less inconvenience to that of course is true. give me any excuse whatever for our the public. streets and alleys being so filthy?
FOR
in
reverence.
we
| that “the righteousness of the sys[tem is not altered if 600 thousand people own a single large business” [will immediately be challenged. 1 warn him of that. The Socialists are sure to want to know whethel the righteousness of the system would still be unaltered if 120 mlilion people owned the large busi- | ness The writer states further that he believes my definition of a statesman to be a “little severe.” And That definiI have never witnessed tion was made in jest, and a sorry a rush on the stores or banks on | jest it was. I am too prone to do Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday that, Seriously, I agree absolutemornings. ly with Voice in the Crowd's own Thanksgiving could as well be ob- gefinition of statesmanship. served the last Saturday in October; » 8 Nn | Curisumas the last Saturday in De- t > |cember. There is no sane excuse, IHINKS FINLAND'S The CASE IS DIFFERENT better be started with By critie ,
We kept our shirts on while Japan rather than an excuse for thou-|pedquced China and Manchuria to sands to idle, get drunk and make | puppets, while Italy took over Abysfools of themselves. sinia and Albania, and Germany took over Poland, Austria and Czechoslovakia. All were so-cailed | wanton attacks on free states. We net withdrawn diplomatic recognition. But then they were not
(Times readers are invited
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troversies excluded.
have a chance. Letters must be signed, but names will be
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year might
paying ebtors to us. Finland's cause is dif-
I'm sure most Times readers will d the ferent, is it not? David Harum said
in
It was comprehensive and going into witch burning at home However, his statement and abroad?
July 4th was at first a day to turn]
in July well.
Labor Day was inaugurated when | people worked six or seven days a week, 10 hours a day, and afforded Project, representing the life stories to of men and women in all walks of | parade their stuff in pomp and life in the South, have been chosen The five-day week, with!33 holidays each week-end
radical laborites splendor.
outmoded thi~ nuisance.
must have a day on the calendar, sons September volume entitled “These Are Our
the first Saturday in
| should satisfy it. Besides these holidays, the banks lina Press). and schools have still others. Many | times the banks are closed on pay- who work in the textile mills and v days at the factories and this up- shoe factories. Here we read the life UP & Larkin order, the collector for schedule. and philosophy of country doctor,| their burial insurance. Banks and stores easily can arrange truck driver, bootblack, small-town : | their affairs so that employees have merchant, deputy sheriff. Here are 2Nd the recurring hope for the new loss young and old who are “on relief”
sets the entire business
sufficient iecreation with
the nation into pandemonium with the loss of hundreds of lives, countless eyes, ears and fingers. The first] would serve as
opportunity
no
has Tennessee, and Georgia. If Labor stories told in the words of the per-
New Books at the Library
ROM more than 400 stories pre- or who, though destitute, still try to pared by the Federal Writers’ keep themselves alive and their families together. And here we see the Southern tenant farmer and share-cropper. as well as the owners of farms both large and small, black and white alike. These are real people, largely without education, sometimes wise through experience mostly kindly 'and warm-hearted in spite of {cramped lives of poverty. We see them in their homes. We see their neighbors, the friend who is “getting
from North Carolina, Their life
stories,
themselves, make up the
Lives” (University of North Caro-
Here speak the men and women
We see the disappointment of youthful hopes,
|sire to be busy with useful work, to
Side Glances—By Galbraith
be secure in the knowledge of a home to live in, decent clothes, and fenough to eat.
"The doctor's wite will be in today. He says she's depressed and is & good prospect for a new hat."
BY hin? ah COPR. 1999 BY NEA SERVICE NC. TM. REG. U.S. PAT, OFF. -
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| “These Are Our Lives” furnishes a living cross section of life in this region. These stories, written with understanding and self-effacement, |constitute a rich source of human [lore for the social worker and a (fruitful contact with humanity for the general reader. BEAUTIFUL SNOW | By OLIVE INEZ DOWNING When leaden clouds feathery snowflakes release,’ | We say, “The old woman is picking her geese.” Down they come tumbling on coun- | try and town, To mantle he earth | softest of down, Lai house and .he barn roofs have
with
cloaks of e. mine, | The trees bear their festoons from tall oak to pine, {All fence posts and gables wear snow peak- for hats, {Each doorstep is covered with fluffy, white mats— |And when fair sun arises with { radiance so bright, |It beams on a dazzling and marvelous sight, With diamonds and emeralds untold, jewelled snow blanket earth doth enfold.
DAILY THOUGHT Be ve
rubies and
This the
; therefore merciful, as Wy, your father also is merciful. — 4 | Luke 6:36.
HE greatest attribute of heaven is mercy.- Beaumont and Fletcher,
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generation. And we see a great de-|
the |
of his getting it. It would have been power in the executive, independent of Congress, to wage, if not to declare, economic war, | ” td o T= Constitution reserves to Congress the right to declare war. It is true that the gangster nations do not declare war any more—they just wage it without mentioning it. But this nation has condemned that as an outlaw procedure. No President should | ever be entrusted with the terribly fateful power either | to wage war without declaring it or practice economic | war. If it is the will and law of this nation that we | shall sell deadly weapons to one belligerant and refuse | to sell them to another, it should be written in the | Statute books—especially since the proposal that it | should be so written was made and rejected. | In this case the whole country will approve today { but if it can be done in this case, it can be done in another. Furthermore, we have no string: on weapons once sold to a nation at war. If one side in Europe | bombs civilians, then, as sure as the sun rises, the other will retaliate. Then where will our principle be? It is our business to stay out of this mess no matter where our sympathies lie.
It Seems to Me By Heywood Broun
| Stalin's Class Conscious Bomb More
Amazing Than Hitler's Magnetic Mine
EW YORK, Dec. 6.—Hitler's magnetic mine is a { weapon both wonderful and fearsome, but Sta- | iin's magnetic new device seems even more amazing. The pure scientists of the Soviet have invented the class-conscious bomb. It is well known, of course, that Josef in Moscow is animated only by his love for the toilers in all countries. Repeatedly he has de- | clared himself the friend of peace and the patron of the proletariat in every land. When it became | necessary for him to protect his empire against the menace of the fiendish Finns a dilemma was laid upon his doorstep. | To casual commentors, who are all confused, it did appear that the preliminary steps were modeled precisely after the precedents set by the Nazis in the case of Poland. It is true that the bombs dropped by the Soviet fliers did wreck schools and hospitals and fell into public square and residential quarters. But, unlike the blood shed by the Nazis in Poland, each Russian bomb was discriminate. By a delicate device every missile was made in such a manner that it would not explode unless it fell in the neighborhood of a landlord or some rich exploiter. Neutral observers, all in the pay of Chamberlain, have reported that when the rain of death came suddenly to Helsinki there were some among the dismembered, dead and maimed who looked very much like workers and peasants.
A Strange Peace Indeed
But this is no more than propaganda of those old | enemies of Stalin—the international bankers. The | man who looked like a peasant to the biased corre- | spondent in reality was a kulak who would have to be liquidated sooner or later. The dead toiler was in actuality a Trotskyite and deserving of death. As for the dismembered, even if any mistake was | made in the mechanism of the class-conscious bomb | it can easily be remedied. It will merely be necessary | for a few of the comrades to fly over those streets | or fields where the detonations were most terrific and cry out to the bones and shattered bodies, “Workers | of the world, unite!” After all, if their arms and legs are gone so are their chains. The whole thing has been a neat surgical operation. “Underneath the red star flag communize them with a Krag.” Much blood has been spilled, and more still to be shed. Wet grounds will prevent the Olympic games. But it is the peace of Stalin. It passes understanding.
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‘Watching Your Health
' By Jane Stafford
HE kitchen sink, important to the family’s health because of sanitary reasons, has a special bearing on the health and happiness of the housewife. If the sink, table and other working surfaces are too high or too low, it will make the housewife’'s job harder and more tiring, as she well knows. Fatigue is not the only adverse health factor of a sink or table that is the wrong height. “Spinal curva- | tures, round shoulders and crowded lungs” are among the evils which may result from prolonged working at the wrong height surface, in the opinion of Miss Greta Gray, associate professor of home economics at | the University of California at Los Angeles, These conditions “may be initiated by the stooped position into which the worker is forced at a work surface which is too low or by the unnatural lifting of the shoulders at one which is too high,” Miss Gray recently reported. i It is hardly possible for the average housewife to | have her sink, stove and work table at exactly the right height for herself, and if she is lucky enough to achieve this, other members of the family may not be | suited by the heights that are right for her. The best that can be done, in most cases, is to make | kitchen equipment the height that suits the largest proportion of women. A recent survey showed that three-fourths of the women preferred a sink height between 31 and 34 inches. The average of preferred heights for dish- | washing was 323 inches. For beating it was 31.6 | inches. and for rolling, 33.7 inches. While Miss Gray's report concerned chiefly the height of working surfaces in the kitchen, the principle doubtless applies elsewhere as well. Schools within recent vears have recognized the importance of having desks and seats properly fitted to the | children who must use them day after day. If there is a child or adult in your home who must spend much time at a desk, it would be well to see whether this ' working surface is the best height for health, comfort and efficiency.
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