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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1889

THANK YOU, LUM °N’ ABNER WO big-hearted young men pitched in this week to help along the cause of the unfortunate children of Indianapolis. We mean Lum *n’ Abner of radio and stage fame. They contributed their bit to the Clothe-A-Child campaign with three broadcasts over station WEFBM. The Thdianapolis Times thanks Chester Lauck and Norris Goff in behalf of Clothe-A-Child.

DEWEY KICKS OFF HE country knows a great deal about Thomas E. Dewey's record as a prosecutor in New York, but very little about his views on national and international affairs. So, many people waited with more than ordinary interest for his first speech as an avowed candidate for the Repub-

lican Presidential nomination. That speech, delivered last night in Minneapolis, disappointed those who expected Mr. Dewey to solve all the problems at once. He made no attempt to deal with specific problems, but propounded the generality that this country’s best days are still ahead. This is & good generality. We share Mr. Dewey's impatience with the theory that there are no more frontiers; that this has become a land of dwindling opportunities, In the brains of inventors, in the capacity of businessmen, in the manpower and resourcas of the United States there are endless economic frontiers whose conquering can mean better times than we have ever known. And Mr. Dewey, himself accused of the crime of being young, is an effective defender of the doctrine that the country, too, is still young. But there are specific problems to be solved before the new frontiers are conquered. As Mr. Dewey said, they can’t De wished away by singing “Happy Days Are Here Again.” But neither can they be banished by exhorting the people to have faith in the future. They demand specific remedies, The campaign, of course, is only beginning. Mr. Dewey will make other speeches. In them we hope to hear him tell, not merely of the great things that may be done, but how he proposes to do them. That will call for more than eloquence, but that is what the people have a right to expect of any man who aspires to be President.

BENJAMIN W. DOUGLASS BENJAMIN WALLACE DOUGLASS knew that death was coming but he kept on living the way he wanted to live. Doctors had advised him to take it easy. But Ben Douglass wanted to walk over the hills of Brown County and enjoy them to the full. He did. Tt cost him his life at the age of 57. Life to Ben wouldn't have amounted to nearly as much as it did if he hadn't gone striding over those hills with his Great Dane. Mr. Douglass was a member of that small group in Shortridge High School, taught by the late Miss Rosseau McClellan, out of which came so many fine scientists. Mr. Douglass became one of the finest naturalists of his day. He was Indiana's first state entomologist,

He was a thorough Hoosier and each winter he was

made a virtual captive in his home in Treviac because winter made the roads impassable. But he loved it because he had his Brown County hills, his nature and his typewriter, Ben Douglass had a great many friends who will miss him more and more as the years pass,

SMOKESCREEN?

HE Indiana County and Township Officials’ Association, now in convention here, is preparing to deal some | resounding attacks on the conduct of county welfare | departments. That's fine. There are probably many practices in the welfare departments that need cleaning up. But if the fire that is to be leveled at these other offices is merely a smokescreen for the trustees to hide behind, there need hardly be a reminder to the public that there is a great deal of unfinished business in various trustees’ offices around the state.

COMMUNIST CATECHISM

Ir your heart sinks at the news from Helsingki-— If you grow angry at a now disproved rumor that the great Finnish composer Sibelius was killed by a Russian bomb ' ~ If you see anything incongruous in the Stalin-Hitler alliance— If you suspect that there may be other motives behind Soviet policy than the improvement of the common man’s lot If you so much as inquire whether maybe it was peally the Russians and not the Finns who started this fatest war Why, *the devil take you for a dirty reactionary Red Baiter.

UNDERSTATEMENT OF THE WEEK

A UNITED PRESS war correspondent in France sought out the celebrated Mademoiselle from Armentieres, now a grandmother, and reminisced with her about that yollicking World War ballad inspired by the then young and pretty waitress in an Armentieres cafe. “It was a very nice song when if was first written,” ghe remarked. “But I am told that several unauthorized versions came afterward.” . Madame, if you only knew the half of it your ears

| Judge, is an ardent tinfoil collector, . his friends for the wrappings from cigaret packages, | | ett oo

would be burning three shifts a day.

Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

Contrary to Existing Impression, He Thinks Dies Probe Showed Up Mrs. Roosevelt on Youth Congress.

YORK, Dec. 7—There is an impression that Mrs. Roosevelt showed up the Dies Committee by her conduct and her writings sympathetic to members of the American Youth Congress ih Washington last week. That she tried t© show up the Dies Committee can be conceded without a struggle, but that she succeeded inh doing so I don't agree. Tt is ‘my belief that the Committee showed up Mrs. Roosevelt instead, or, more correctly, that the Committee cre-

ated a situation in which she tipped her own hand. The question whether she is sympathetic with the Communists is & clumsy one and is not capable of absolute proof either way. Each person finds himself in the position of & juryman on that one, invited to reach his Own verdict on the evidence, and, in any case, the evidence is convincing. My most convincing authority on the history and character of the Youth Congress is J. B. Matthews, the backslid Bolo, who was & fellow traveler for years and who is now an examiner and research man for the Dies Committee. I wouldn't trust Matthews as far as I could sling an anvil by the horn. He admits that he saw the Ukraine famine with his dwn eyes, but refused to believe what he saw, and admits that long afterward he denounced as false, without reading them, & series of articles by another witness, describing those hor-

rors. B= the sequence, the substance and the citations in Matthews’ account of the history of the Youth Congress are such as to relieve me of any need for trusting his word. Matthews gives convincing evidence that the Communists did take over the Youth Congress, and, referring bhck to last summer, when

this Trojan horse bucked, whinnied and squealed in wild alarm over a resolution to denounce communism along with fascism and compromised by denouncing dictatorships instead, I am confident of my conviction. Mrs. Roosevelt's perturbation about the injustice that is inflicted on witnesses appearing before Congressional committees comes very late and not much better late than if it never had been expressed at all. It is a fact that citizens haled before the ingquisitors are not allowed counsel and that some examiners give them the old district attorney's treatment, but surely that isn't news to Mrs. Roosevelt.

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HT protest, raised only now and in these particular circumstances, suggests that it wasn't so

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much the treatment itself as the identity and char- | acter of the victims that aroused her sense of justice. |

She couldn't have thought of rushing to the defense of J. P. Morgan or of Mr. Hearst's telegrams, could she? Anyway, this youth movement, like all the others, is & phony, because not one of them is a4 genuine youth movement. They are all organized and directed by leaders of middle years who want to direct youth into some service, political, military or religious. They just think they are running their own shows. If not, then what is Mrs. Roosevelt doing in a youth movement?

Inside Indianapolis

District Attorney Is Really After

Big Game in This Relief Business. in.

AL NOLAN, Federal District Attorney, wasn't | better record. fooling when he told the jury Tuesday that if | Kortepeter and Derbyshire were found guilty he was | NEED FOR NATIONAL _. The inside story making [INDUSTRIAL PLAN CITED | the rounds is that the D. A. means business and By Thinker has & 10t of racts in his hands that may rock things As we 100k forward to the politi-

going after bigger game.

more than a little.

It all means that the township trustees MoOW IN (ae peared to an ECONOMY Of HCAT= convention here) may have a lot more to worry about | rv We are now in the 11th wine rolls [ian | tel around. . . . If anything more big breaks on the [yet ne real constr

before the 1941 session of the Tegislature handling of relief, the trustees’ wings are going to be CHpp . +» And clipped pretty closely. ublic officials as a rule are sort of canny in figuring out the voters’ reactions on things.

certainly have missed the boat on relfef.

methods for some time. . . . And that includes everything from Federal relief on down to township relief ... And the office holders have been asleep at the switch It's going to be hard to re-sell the people, ® & @» BOB EFROYMSON, the counselor, likes to go hunting. . . . But without a gun. .. . He joined a party of Indianapolis men last Saturday on a Brown County hunting jaunt. . . . Along about noon he tired of hunting by proxy and decided to hie himself back to Nashville. , . . He used the old thumb and got two

rides. , . . H. Nathan Swaim, State Supreme Court , » He duns all

He saves the tinfoil for an orphans’ home, which sells ft. . . . Lowell Patterson, member of the ABC, which controls the State's liquor problems, never takes a drink. » » ® A HOOSIER who went abroad to become an outstanding authority on France has come back home to do a specialty for Indiana's biggest publishing house. . +» He is Stanton B. Leeds, born in Richmond. . . . He is a nephew of William B. Leeds, founder of the American Tin Plate Co. . . . Mr. Leeds is doing a book for Bobbs-Merrill to be titled ‘These Rule France.” +» Mr, Leeds is a quiet, modest chap with that knack of knowing everything about a subject. . . As a matter of fact, he was granted the first authorized interview with the Duchess of Windsor after the abdication. . .. And Bobbs-Merrill printed his “Cards the Windsors Hold.”

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

AN you remember when vou belteved in Santa |

Claus, honest and truly? What a long time ago it was, and what wouldn't you give to be able to run back for just a little while to those happy days!

When you said your “Now I lay me” the home roof |

held all that was dear on earth-—father, mother, sister, brother; the firelight's flickering glow, and dreams of Santa Claus so vivid you couldn't tell whether you saw him waking or sleeping. Your baby knows the same still rapture, The oaly difference is that he lives in an age when the world intrudes itself more rudely into his little cirele of days. Therefore his delight iz shorter-lived, But let's think of him, since this is a time to give thought to children. The decorations are already up, Cols ored lights and cedar ribbons festoon the streets: the holiday spirit comes riding down the wind, For Christmas is just around the corner—bhut a different one from that which you knew, if you are old enough to have a family, The modern Christmas is commercialized, It ix the one searon when hard-pressed merchant: can count upon wiping out some or perhaps all of

the motives which have slowly

tivity into a season of hilarious celebration: no one is rash enough to suppose we ean return to the slow tempo which made those bygone Chrigtmaszes such times of peaceful happiness. But all intelligent mothers, I belteve, ought to fight the growing commerefalization of Santa himgelf. Tt seems to me it would not be too great a sacrifice by the Merchant Associations in our cities if they were asked to refrain from over-populating streets and stores with tatterdemalion Santas, many of whom are so obviously fakes that the moet trusting little ohild is disillusioned. This concession to romance would not harm trade. But it might keep the infant faith both in Santa Claus and parents aflame a little jonger,

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

. » But they trial plan. . THe | ctead public has been fed up on sloppy relief adMInSrative! | yee

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HOPES FOR BETTER | ELECTION RECORD | By Citizen Renominations for | Board of Election are soon to be made. Our last primary election gave Marion County a taster of dictatorship in the raw. The politicians, Republican | and Democratic, both committed | [election frauds. Our Sheriff came [through by the skin of hie teeth! | The politicians counted him out; | the people, by recount, counted him

(Times readers are invited to express their views in thesa columns, religious cons troversies excluded. Make your letter short, so all can have a chance, Letters must be signed, but names will be withheld on request.)

Yet that horrible, futile and stupid conflict probably did more to dis[courage war than any other event in 8 ‘history, Tt might fittingly be called | ‘the beginning of the end” of war as [an institution. True, this result has not derived from any high idealism, but from [the intensely human and much [more potent motives of common self-interest. And curiously enough, [this world-wide reluctance to war [has actually caureéd a half dozen minor conflicts, Certain “have not” [nations have heen quick to seize the advantage. After all, there is nothing in the “self-interest” motive to hinder a powerful nation from plundering a puny neighbor, though it [doer deter other and equally pow= [erful nations from attacking you | while you do it, The steadfast, almost fanatical

our County Commissioners |

Let's hope the new Board sets

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[cal sham battle of 1940, we ponder

[the “recovery policies” which still

of wholesale unemployment ctive measures have been taken to eliminate this [waste of our resources and manpower, We have no national indusWe depend on luck, inof directing our industrial sees,

The Hoosier Forum

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

| HOW long can we fool the farmer | [with subsidies, while the market | (prices of hogs go toboganning down? How long can we subsidize unemployment with relfef, without pay(ing the fiddler in inflation? How | (long can we bolster the bad debts (of business and continual deficit | (spending? How can we fnerease | | the waste of our income on enlarged | (armanient, and expect prosperity at [Tome or abroad? . How do we expect | | to enlarge our world trade if we do | 11ot propose to receive an equal volume of goods from other nations? | HOW can we mcorease our national | wealth if we do not provide the jobs [Tor our unemployed? | Ts our private property right =o [sacred that we cannot surrender a [part of it to promote our national, well-being intelligently? What ort | of program do the candidates who seek the Presidency offer to meet four problem? We have grave problems for rerious ghinking, before (We drift ito deep trouble (Glamorous candidates are | enough,

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oF 9 [HE'S FIRM BELIEVER IN PHONY’ WARE By Chulte Braddiiek, Kokomo, Tha.

| The first World War was often | called “a war to end wars,” and| time has made it a term of derision |

Side Glances—By

will of the people to remain aloof from war, =o evident here in America, is shared by the peoples of all the world! Known facts amply attest to that, No ater ncitements have ever existed, emotionally and economically, than exist in the world today: yet note how even the war-mad dictators shrink from the major conflict, And it is this same growing and healthy human reluctance to re-

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ITTY was one quarter Irish, That fact, perhaps, accounts for her loyalty, her uncomprising honesty, and her ability to “take it.” At any rate, she had a lot of that to do, because in her steady old Philadelphia of the 1911 she was born on the wrong side of the tracks, Pop, ex-professional cricket conch, whore flow of conversation wasn't exactly in the “main line” tradition, was the means, neverthelors, by which she met zome of the Rittenhoure Square “crowd,” among whom was one Wyn Strafford, hands rome scion of an old family, and

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enter the bath of blood, in whith everybody loses and nobody wins, that has chused some thoughtless persons to characterize this war ax “phony.” If this be true, then let us pray that each succeeding war becomes more and more ‘phony’ still until at last they fade from the earth altogether!

THURSDAY, DEC. 7, 1939

Gen. Johnson Says—

Breaking OF Relations With Russia 1s No Solution and Might Deprive Us of a Chance to Aid Finland,

ABHINGTON, Dee. 72aWhat would we gain for Finland or ourselves by breaking off diplomatic relations with Russia? Tf it is a step toward breaking off trade relations ft could be understood as Ah act of economic war, but merely withdrawing our agency for ob¥ervation and communication is a sort of petulant gesture. Tt would mean little of nothfg to the Polos and ft would handicap our own international relations, cutting off our national nose to spite our face, Tt fs true that an American Ambassador fn Mor. OW Means A Bolo Ambassador in Washington, but the IJatter 5 at beet a barely tolerated institution We haven't any secrets for him to discover that all the world dosen't know. Th spite of strong and continued efforts to obtain commercial credits here and A TECOMA of DAVIISAEE on the dob, Boviet Russia has never heen able to build any considerable trade on usual terms, About All the Boviet Ambasshdor has to transmit to his government is wews of continuing and fhcreasing detestation of this nation for every. thing Communistie, CE TE T fs sually true that ax an outpost of information our embassy in Ruskin 2 no great shakes, Our military observers in almost every other country know A great deal about what fs going on ih their line— but not in Russia, 1 venlize that thea remarks ¥eem to weaken the prifeipal suggertion aghinst withdrawing our Ambassador, but it isA't as bad ax that, =o long ax we ATE TEpreEEntad fh Russia, we do have a ticket to show even if it is way off in the Toft field bleachers, We hh get some underEtanding of developments, We can intervene to protect our own people, We can build up, At Teast on paper, our che for international decency We might even be in a position, through good offices, to Add something to a peace, The Russian Fmbassy here may have abused our hospitality to further Communist activities—hbut the actual output of the Communist Party as such doesn’t amount to much here, » 99 UR danger is crackpots fh high official positions who Beotn Any Soviet connections and are Corned by them, but whe harbor Communistie puts pores And chil them “liberal” The Russian bassy has Tess to 0 With that than the White House, The ciel, lying, bHruthl conduct of the Communists in Finland is dong more to affect Communism here and elsewhere in the world than anything either Fmbassy of our whole Government could do. It ix affecting it to its destruction. We have mo Ambassador fn Germany, We are talks ing about cepning trade Yelations with Japan. Becauss they have been absorbed, we have no diplomatic re Jations with Austria, Oechoslovakin, ADVEsings and Poland. Pretty soon, at this rate, hetwesn losing our reprerentation in the abeorbed countries and abandons ing it with the absorbers, our diplomatic ¢orps will have to go on relief, If that isn't isolationism, what iv it? And What do these turtle tactics gain for us or any other nation?

” ” » THINKS TOWNSENDITER BEING LED ASTRAY

1 IBY Reader |

When members of the Townsend |

movement are told that they are being deluded their inevitable reply [is to point out the various husiryens | land professional men who favor the | plan, , | I think that this i= very easy to explain, If a Towneendite got into (Tegal trouble it is only natural that | he would =eéek the advice of a Townsendite lawyer, The same goes for doctors, grocerymen, ete, The politicians whe boost the plan are after the votes and the doctors, IAwyers and merchants want the business of the thousands of Townrend Plan followers everywhere | Circumstances alter cases of course | and there may be cases of genuine | sincerity here and there, but common senwe would indicate that us| a whole the old folks are Being led astray by people who are not as MR | cere, perhaps I should say as “stupidly frank,” as the hobo who | went to the barbecus, Ax the story goes, this chap tied | to crash the gate at a political parbecue and was challenged at the entrance as to Ris politics. He 1 supposed to have replied, “I'll be anything to get some of that meat.”

destined to Hecome deeply attached to Kitty, Here we seem to have the perfect vetup for the standard plot. But the ineomparable Christopher Mor: lay, demonstrating again his vers tility, gives Kitty her head and allows het A her own racy and characteristic language to tell ber story, The novel he calls simply ay her name, “Kitty Foyle” (Lip: pineott). The result Is a vital thing, the carefully examined and recorded vears of A life, a piece of work whieh someone har called “a woman thinking” rom it emerges the portrait of a courageenr Woman in whom the wells of Rumor and joy in living bubble irresistibly, although | she spares hergelf u at all, either in the conduet of that life of In [the painstaking asateh for motives | and decisions Which have brought her at the last tO the crisis pefore which she stands, indecisive. There ia Jaughted on almost every page==a thiffe Rabelaisian, it is true: there 1s wit whith eries out to be quoted and a very real phils osophy; and too far underneath, there is a senge of tears for Kitty's pelfless sacrifice

LIL

SONNET OF DECEMBER

By MARY P. DENNY

Now December time is here, Glorious hour of all the year, All the world Keeps holiday Through a bright and shining way. Joy mongs though the aly are heard Like the rongs of sihging bird. Chorals from the starlit skies Through the silence softly rise Over the far radio of time.

Ringing in great joy sublime, Reaching out to every elime Over vast unbroken line Through a bright and shining way All the world keeps holiday. '

DAILY THOUGHT

When thou shalt vow a vow unto the Lord thy Ged, thou shalt not slack to pay it: for the Lord thy God will surely require it of thee and it would be in In thee, «peuteronomy 23:21.

AKE no vows to perform this OF that: It SHOWS NO grea

It Seems to Me

at and makes thee ride bes id hymen,

By Heywood Broun Pro Football Seems to Mave a Little Something on College Variety.

EW YORK, Dee 7-—Aftér watching the new York criants and the Washington Redskin: at the Polo Grounds it ¥e®ms to me that the professionals have pretty much tAken football away from the colleges, Not only do the pios DIAY A faster and a better game, hut they are eminently sucessful in giving Very Tah and thckle the old university try. Net sven the AYMYy and the Navy put on a better rough: Hours, When a man 1&8 slapped down, not only do Pix tedth Tattle, But ¥everal playsis who weren't really in the operation at all jump on the prostrate body just for luek, There is nothing lackadaisical about the efforts of the men Who are actuated by nothing more than the profit motive when they step out upon the gridiron. Possibly 1 do them wiong, and some of the venom which they put inte a dive mav be actuated by a fear that old Tim Mara may he beaten again by the students in the employ of MY Marshall Even the crowds come up to their assignments with all the enthusiasm of old grads. The man to my left confided that he was himself limited to a shot cateer in Tenth Avenue Prep, but ha rooted with the fury of one who Was ending Bull Karcis though Mara Beminary on an athletic seholarship After the final whistle blew a group of the edus cationally underprivileged tore down the goal posts with all the eciat of Princeton men Who had just trampled down the Orimson. And even In the Yala Bowl 1 have ¥en no greater number of hip fAasks oF freer usage of second-half stimulants

More Preelsion and Speed

Yer, the pro games have all the usual features of a college contest and many mere to hoot Ax far as the technical aspects of the pro game 26 the rooter notices chiefly the vast nerease of skillful forward passing Which comes with maturity and a living wage. THeT® ix MOIR Precision and greater speed in runs ning off playa, and WHR A MAR 13 Kurt ha comes out without tears oF argument and the game goes on I af WMOFe than ever convinesd that football is not A YOURE MARR game Bove are ton brittle at 19 pe exposed to such Hard contact. At Yale there are stil lads Whe ati] have that slightly open space at the top of the skull. Buch fAsdglings should net be PUM around on the head. . And In addition to everything else professional foothall 1h a great demoeratising mfuenes, The self: Made Man does Rot need th Walt tO get a vicarious tht by sending a son through one of the aloistered colleges, He can go out and root for Mara of May:

shall, and come Rome just as tight and tired as if he were a Colgate nd himself ’ Watching Your Health By Jane Stafford

P you have been having trouble getting your ehild to Bat, maybe it 1a Heeause YOU ate Worrying too Much about the problem. You KROW how you lose youd OWH appetite if you are wortied oF exeited oF angry of sad. The child's appetite may alse be affected by Hin fedlings. The small child MAY Rot seem te have ANY Probleme to Worry Him, But he Way get excited oF ARETY at meal time, Quite small ehildien can tell when thelr methers are anxious about how much and WHat foods they eat. The Mother's anxiety may make the child unPARY and #0 affect Ris appetite, of tha ohild may deliberately use the situation to gain attention or to show resistance to authority, Normal ehtldyen nn good Health ly eat what 18 put berore them. If seh A oR gota mito a “WOR't eat” Mond, it 1a probably beat th pay no ats tention to it. BROWING convern and trying to foree Rim to eat are only likely 9 exaggerate the rebellion, Example plays an Important part In the feeding problem. If other members of the family, oF a favors ite grown=up, refuse to eat certain foods, the ob: ERFVARt ehild 18 likely to refuse the same food. 1 know one father who overcame a lifelong vielent diss king for fruit In order to set a good example for his small daughter You May think you have the feeding problem settled only to have 1b revived when the children reach their teens. Food fads and reducing diets appeal at this age. Adoleseent rebellion againat parental dominance, healthy shough In itself, May be expressed by refusal to eat "what 18 good fer you” At this time alse, ohe authority points out, irregular habits and inereased social life may lead to between. Meal eating whieh resulta In lack of appetite at meal times, A, calm, unemotional attitude ia also advised for handling these older ehildren at meal times, Stormy soenes at the table are not good for the health of any member of the family,