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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1939

THE CHILDREN’S MUSEUM ROM modest beginnings the Children’s Museum has grown to occupy an important niche in the cultural and

educational life of Indianapolis. It was in December, 1925, that the idea for a museum

was conceived by Mrs. John N. Carey, Miss Florence H. Fitch, Miss Eliza Browning and Miss Faye Henley. In borrowed cases a small exhibit was set up in the old Propylacum barn at Delaware and 14th Sts. Later it was moved to the Garfield Park shelter house. But it was in April, 1927, that the museum really came into its own with the donation by Mrs. Carey of her formher home at

1150 N. Meridian St. where it has since been housed. | Today the museum has more than 50,000 catalogued | objects in its permanent exhibits and 11,000 separate items | for lending to schools through its extension department. The museum is observing its 14th anniversary and the 40th anniversary of the first children’s museum in America. We congratulate the far-sighted women who made our museum possible. We hope it enjoys many more years of deserved popularity.

DOUG T'S hard to believe the news of Douglas Fairbanks’ death. | Only the other day, it seems, he was performing his | prodigious feats on a thousand silver screens. Actually, his era of glory was very long ago, as time | is measured against the swift changes of the movie industry. He became a stage actor in 1901. He was among the few great stars of the films when America entered the World War. His marriage to Mary Pickford, creating almost as much excitement as another, later royal romance, was in 1920. He had seldom entered his studios since the “talkies” came in, and he was a senior of 56, with a son more than old enough for stardom in his own right, when death came to him at Santa Monica yesterday morning. But there are countless people, in many lands, to whom the memory of Douglas Fairbanks remains as vital as the man once was. He is mourned in Buenos Aires and Sydney | and Shanghai. Berlin and Paris took notice of his passing, and the story of his death crowded aside war news in the papers of London no less than in those of America. What gave him such appeal to millions who never saw | him save as a celluloid shadow? Perhaps it was that he, more than any other we can recall, typified the spirit of eternal, unconquerable youth. It would have been impossible to think of him as growing old and tired and feeble, and it is almost as difficult to realize that he finally met one enemy whom he could not overcome.

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JOB STILL TO DO ENATOR HATCH of New Mexico is not one to rest on | his laurels. Already back in Washington at work on legislation for the next session of Congress, the Senator is | preparing amendments to the Hatch Act passed last session, | forbidding political activities and coercion of Government | employees. The amendments would extend the same rules to state | employees whose salaries are paid in part by the Federal Government. “Our job won't be half finished until we can | reach down into these state machines,” says the Senator. | And of course he's right. Various state highway departments. for instance, are notoriously shot through with politics. So are the welfare departments in some states. The salaries of the employees in these state agencies are paid in part by Federal funds. Senator Hatch's proposed amendments would require the establishment of a nopolitics rule as a condition of receiving Federal aid. We hope the amendments will be adopted. And we think they will be. But even these proposals will not complete the job | which the original Hatch measure started, because they |

| tampering in the Sullivan regime. . .

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| zens. | the information that Indianapolis has a Caged Bird | Club for fanciers of canaries and such. . . . Which

Fair Enough

By Westbrook Pegler

Former Bolos Thought Stalinism O. K. for U. S., but Now Object to Bringing It to Finland and Poland.

ASHINGTON, Dec. 13.—Excuse, please, but I want to get the straight of this all-is-forgiven attitude toward those sneaks who not long ago were either comrades of Josef Stalin or fellow travelers, but had a sudden change of heart about the time of the Berlin-Moscow alliance. Some of our heavyduty thinkers seem to believe that they will be sadder, but wiser and much more reliable Americans from now on. I want to know what makes anyone think so, because so far as I know Stalin hasn't changed and his stuff is still the same.

Now, to be sure, Stalin did stab the Poles in the back while Hitler was mauling them around, but, after all, these Bolos of ours had always said communism was a blessing to any people whom it happened to infect, and it would seem that Stalin just delivered his part of Poland from the capitalistic oppressors. What wrong can any sincere Communist or traveler see in that? Similarly, what is the objection to the spread of this boon to Finland? Certainly it will be necessary to kill off a few hundred thousand or possibly upward of a million Poles and Finns before the great effort for human betterment really begins to show results, but that happened in Russia, and our Bolsheviks thought it was maybe not just all right, but at worst just something that couldn't be helped.

OREOVER, if you remember, they thought it would be a fine thing for the United States to have a revolution here, with a lot of shooting in the streets, a lot of factory fires and explosions and a lively program of lynchings and similar Soviet sports. That kind of thing was all right for the American nation, but the minute Comrade Stalin puts his beautiful scheme of deliverance into effect in Poland and throws a few bombs on the Finns indignation runs high among the American crummies, and they desert Stalin and want to be readmitted to American citizenship, so to speak. But they knew all along what Stalinism was, and in view of this fact they cannot have been surprised at his methods, and certainly have no ground to obJect to the spread of the lovely thing to other lands. In our own country they raised all the devilment they could in a thousand open and treacherous ways—all with the ultimate purpose of upsetting the power of the American Government so that at the psychological moment the Communists could rise and lead Americans against Americans. EJ

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nothing that they have said since the BerlinMoscow thing indicates that they have changed in the slightest degree. What is the matter? Is this beautiful bolshevism too good for the Poles and Finns? ered to be a wonderful thing for Americans? not, why not? S0 much as a paragraph or a phrase. All Stalin has done is to revise his political and military program, and if you want my version of it our Communists are sore at him only because he got them to commit themselves to certain plans and then

| crossed them up. Rather than admit that they had | no real important difference with Hitler, and that

they were all wrong about the program, they have picked up their marbles and come home. Well, do Americans want to play with them now?

Inside Indianapolis

No, It Seems That You Can't Get Those Stickers Fixed Anymore?

ON'T get the idea that just because one-fourth of the traffic stickers issued by the Police Department haven't been paid in the last six months you can get away with it. . . . The stickers haven't been paid YET. . . .The Police Department is apparently intending to see that they are paid.

The town's newspapermen, naturally suspicious

| after watching the wholesale “fix” under several city

administrations, are unable to find evidence ¥f any . The Mayor

And . . Because they've been the target

happens to feel strongly about the subject. . . SO do the cops. . for so long. There may be ways to “fix” a sticker. . . . But we haven't found out how yet. . . . The stickers are numbered serially and made out in triplicate. . . . They're collected at Police Headquarters and checked back at the City Clerk's office. . . . Seems an awful lot of trouble to go to to save two bucks. . . . Maybe

| some folks do get 'em fixed. . . . But we don't know |

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ONE OF THE Salvation Army solicitors on Washington St. is using rhymes to keep the pot boiling. . . . One of his phrases is ‘Roses are red, violets are blue, drop in a nickle and I'll thank you. . . . The elaborate displays of Southern beach wear make a startling contrast with our Christmas exhibits in the . . But Florida resort cities are reporting a number of arrivals of Indianapolis citi- . . . Yesterday's note about the owl has brought

reminds us that we also have a Persian Cat Club. . . . Dr. Thurman B. Rice is a columnist. . . . He writes a column called “Uncle Doc” for the “Indiana Parent-

will not affect state and local government employees whose | Teacher.” . . . It's popular, too.

salaries are paid in whole from state and local treasuries. To do this it will be necessary for Indiana and Indiana | cities to pass their own laws. That they should do. Tax- | pavers are entitled to the best non-partisan service which | public salaries can buy, and no part of any tax money, Fed- | eral, state or local, should be used to maintain any political ! machine.

“LANDLORDS”

TALIN, dropping bombs on the Finnish people, says through his spokesman that he wishes to “free them from their landlords.” This from one who is the biggest landlord in history, and the most tyrannical. For Stalin is “landlord” over more than eight million square miles, with 170,000,000 “tenants.” Under Landlord Stalin, anyone who keeps more than one cow so as to have one fresh when the other is dry may be suspected of trying to get rich and runs the risk of being “liquidated.” The thrifty Finns, on the other hand, encourage individual enterprise. They believe it is better to have many landlords than one. There is safety in numbers.

“HERE WE WORK!” N furtherance of Italy's “silence campaign,” the Rome Federation of Fascist Groups is distributing posters which say: “IN THIS OFFICE WE DO NOT DISCUSS HIGH POLITICS AND HIGH STRATEGY. HERE WE WORK!” There aren’t so many ideas we'd care to borrow from a dictatorship, but it might not be a bad notion to import a few of those posters for Government offices in the United States.

WORD OF CAUTION PSYCHIATRIST advises women to baby their husbands. This does not mean encouraging them to take

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THE SIDEWALK Superintendents’ Club picks up anywhere. . . . Newest spot is in the 700 block oi N. Illinois St. . . . One gentieman had a taxicab pull up yesterday afternoon so he could watch the steamshovel. . , . The Messrs. Morgenthaler and Shirley at the Merchants National Bank have an almost uncanny memory for faces. . . . They know and remember their customers. . membered one gentleman he hadn't seen for five vears. . . . Several of the city's riding clubs are praying for a white Christmas. . . . They want to have some old-fashioned sleighing parties. . Niftiest display of the week (pardon our pride): The Clothe-a-Child sign on N. Meridan St., opposite the Library.

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

HE feminine nose grows keener to smell out propaganda. As proof I.submit the following, sent in by a smart woman who recognizes nonsense when she sees it: “The present campaign to force women out of industry is propaganda by foreign elements which seek to destroy our Government. First they attack married women workers, and next they will begin on single girls. They hope to put us all back into the home, force all girls to marry or starve, or be taken care of by some man (which they claim will solve unemployment). It will follow naturally that women will be removed from our schools and next from the churches which they run—." Let's stop right there. The gal has something in that last line. For while we may not entirely agree that women run the churches, we do know no church could run long without them. In the average house of God, man does the preaching and woman does the work. The male renders splendid lip service to the Lord while the female looks after details which are lowlier but just as necessary. Congregations are preponderantly feminine, and in every community women trot their legs off giving rummage sales, special dinners, Christmas parties, bazars, book reviews, plays suppers and all for the excellent purpose of keeping the church solvent. These activities necessarily take them out of their homes for a good part of the time, but nobody minds because the man figures God will pay for that kind of labor; even those who express disapproval about feminine activity in politics, trade or the professions are quite reconciled to having their women do a major share of church work. Those individuals who contend women possess no economic talents ought to investigate some of their

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THINKS PLANT ODORS WORSE THAN SMOKE By W. J. M.

I have been very much interested in the interest the Smoke Committee has been taking in cleaning up the polluted air in our city, of which there is so much being said at the present time—but, “why strain at a gnat and swallow a camel?” It would be well for this committee to arrange a basket picnic and eat lunch over on W. Washington even to pay a 2-cent sales tax for St. and get a taste of the our support. (Notice I say most of polluted air that the residents in them.) that district have to contend with. | At our last election, Owen County I live on the North Side and find | (which is Democratic) was turned the smoke problem is nothing com-|wrong side in. Who did it? Townpared with the stench and filthy air |sendites did it and they will finally that comes from the meat packing do our state and nation the same district. Working over in that area|Way unless our Representatives get I carry my lunch and many times, their eyes open to the situation. {the odor has been so bad that I nn Wn |have not been able to eat and very DOUBTS FAMILIARITY

|often Pave had ® toe ve doors 0 WITH TOWNSEND PLAN UY REC Seed oul Vie smell {By S. D. D., Falmouth, Ind.

I believe the smoke committee is| |sincere in trying to make Indian-| Referring to my recent Forum apolis a cleaner place to live in, but letter, I am sorry it was taken as| |“why strain at a gnat and swallow an attack on George Maxwell. At la camel?” least he did, in his letter, propose a

(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.)

plan that “might work.” And I do | ® ® ®

not think he and I would ever have | | CLAIMS TOWNSENDITES

any serious disagreement. {WILL DECIDE ELECTIONS I want to say to ‘Voice in the | By Reader, Spencer, Ind.

Crowd” that I will admit my let- | ter proved nothing; and to “A Just a few reminders in regard to {the political situation in Indiana: The time has come when all can-

Reader” that from the wording of | {the three letters I doubt if any of |didates from the Governor down to | township trustees will have to

the writers is thoroughly conversant (reckon with the old folks or Town-

with the Townsend Plan. If not, |sendites—or else. There have been|

are they being entirely fair? I do not suppose we could be persufficient arguments for and against | {the Plan to satisfy the voters that

mitted to turn this Forum into a debating society. Just in case they| it will be a hot issue in the coming) {campaign—more so than it was in|

thoroughly, may I advise them to . read literature sent out from the national headquarters? I concede the right of anyone to disagree with me—if he is sure of his ground.

” ” 8 THINKS NEW BARBER RULES JUSTIFIED By Reader Mr. “Average Barber” works from four to six years before he is what you could call a finished product and some a great while longer.

Cheap competition has always been a problem for the better barber shops. Eighty per cent of the barbers make the law possible. A licensed barber may open a shop any time, any place. He can open later than 8 o'clock in the morning—not before—and he can charge more for his work than the set price —not less. Also he can close earlier —not later—than the time specified. Just because Mr. Public can't go home, read the paper, eat supper and visit with the family for an hour or two before he gets in the barber shop, it's just too bad. Maybe Mr. Barber has a family, too; had you thought of that? The real issue, as I see it, is just the increase in price. The 15 or 20 cents extra cost just breaks his heart. “I'll let my hair grow” and “I won't pay it,” are common expressions. Now do you really suppose this will happen? Most any form of business or labor or profession you can name is organized. Why? For their protection, of course. I just can't see why the poor barbers can’t organize too and statewide, since Indiana is kind enough to help them with a good law,

do not understand the O. A. R. P. four last campaign, which was a hot |

lone. The time has come to lay poli- | tics aside. | The Republicans know that by

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(selecting candidates who are favorable to a real old-age pension they |

can still be loyal to the party and| HEN the ‘Majestic” docked {yet draw many votes from the!

Democrats. This was fully demon-| in New York in June, 1033, strated in our last election. {among the passengers was the new The old folks are burned up with American correspondent of the

the idea of having to mortgage “Lo Ho Tw " % everything they have in order to ndon Daily Enbiess. 56 pe get a little loan. They are also nounced was his British accent that

burned up with welfare boards|taxi drivers were baffled when he ae rR are Cg more than| gave the name of his hotel. But ose ey serve. Know we are|_. sei iaflv called ignorant by our opposers, but | when he visited England briefly, |that is not the reason altogether. |two years later, C. V. R. Thompson {Most of them have a good living and | had become so “veddy, veddy Ameridon't carevenough for us old folks!can” in speech and manner that

Side Glances—By Galbraith

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"It you're so set on seeing Santa Claus, Mother, go ahead. [I'll

stay here and look at these chemistry sets."

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he was frequently mistaken for a Yankee. An entertaining blend of hilarity and satire, “I Lost My English Ascent” (Putman) is Mr. Thompson's own story of his six years in the United States and his gradual acclimavization to different, sometimes startling, customs. He records his naive surprise when he found New York policemen insufferably rude; Broadway a cheap, tawdry street by day; Miami no millionaire’s Paradise but merely “Coney Island in a Tuxedo”; Chicago no longer terrorized by gangsters, and the West long since denuded of its buffaloes and Indians. After his marriage to newspaperwoman Dixie Tighe, he bought a

country home next door to West- |

brook Pegler and began an amusing struggle with the servant problem. He “covered” the Hauptmann trial; was ordered to Munich

when the famous pact was signed; | accompanied the President on his |

campaign tour, and traveled with the King and Queen of England during their American trip. Interspersing “behind the scenes” revelations of all these journalistic scoops are running comments on varied phases of Americana—from bath tub gin of the Volstead era to Newport, dog hospitals, politics, and the lurid sensationalism of our criminal courts.

‘ETERNITY’

By ROBERT O. LEVELL The time when God shall close my eyes, I believe that will not be the end. I trust in God to bid me rise And with all my soul to live again.

I trust in Him to lead the way For my friend and joy when I am gone, When I am called upon the day To answer in the Great Beyond.

DAILY THOUGHT

He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.— St. Mark 16:16.

EMEMBER that what you believe will depend very much

WEDNESDAY, DEC. 13, 1939

Gen. Johnson Says—

British Restive Under Wartime Economic Control, but Wrinkles Probably Will Be Ironed Out Soon,

ASHINGTON, Dec. 13.—Pretty accurate infore mation about the British war effort on the economic side is beginning to become available. The World War caught all industrial nations flat-footed, Few even dimly imagined the extent to which eco=nomic warfare would go. None knew how to wage that kind of war. There was no precedent. The ree sult was a tremendous dislocation and failure of supe ply, a destructive inflation and grave risk of losing the war on the military side. As the war progressed, this art was partly learned in Britain, France and Germany. When we entered, we had made no preparation either, but we had the benefit of their experience and mistakes. It took us almost a year to get our economic controls working through the War Industries, War Trade and War Finance Boards, the Food, Fuel and Railroad Ade ministrations and the Capital Issues Committee. But we did do it finally and at the end it was the best administration of the war economy of a great nation in the world.

® ww » HE whole organization was promptly disbanded at the end of the war. But ever since, the War Department has conducted studies and made plans about what to do in the event of another war. That was what the ill-fated War Resources Board was set up to do. But the necessary plans and drafts of statutes for a practical economic dictatorship are all there down to the last comma. Precisely the same process went on in England. They were put into effect instantly and England be came a totalitarian state overnight. It isn't working so well. Spectator reports: “In no war has our initial ore ganization been so rapid and so effective.” But a “distinguished civil servant” adds “in the last war we were under-organized; in this war we are over-organe ized.” The Economist” comments: “The Governe ment is well on its way toward dominating at least one-half and possibly two-thirds of the entire ecoe nomic activity of the country.” »n ” ” T is unwise and a little unfair to draw ultimate cone clusions from these early dislocations. The cone trols are not yet co-ordinated as they were here by our War Industries Board. Once made, there may be a healthy readjustment of the whole economy to the new basic economic scheme, but that isn’t the trend today. ‘The Economist” says: ° . suspicion is slowly dawning that the direction of our new planned economy is almost wholly negative. Nearly every government department is engaged in stopping soma form of activity.” All of this will probably be worked out and taken care of as it was with us in 1918. When it was planned nobody could tell what kind of war it was going to be. If it continues the present static strategy of strangulation and exhaustion, no nation will need such a revolution in its economic system. There ig such a thing as being too darned smart—especially in national planning.

It Seems to Me

By Heywood Broun Attacks on Hitler Bad for Liver,

The Old Doctor Warns Columnists. g

EW YORK, Dec. 13.—The medical man thumbed me over with a somewhat disapproving eye. “T don’t like your bronchial tubes,” he said, and when his exploration had gone a little farther he also spoke disparagingly of my liver. This annoyed me some= what, since I had not entered either my lungs or my liver into any contest in which blue ribbons were to be awarded. Naturally I assumed that he would talk gloomily of hot whisky or hot rum, or the two in come= bination, with a little sugar and nutmeg so that I should wake in the morning bright as a lark. But this time the Doc said nothing about the medicinal values of alcohol. Instead, he remarked gloomily, “I don’t see how you can leave your bed for at least a week.” Of course, I gave him two to one on that, but he added. “You need a change of climate. I want you to

get to Florida and play a little mild golf and occasion *

ally take a flyer on the horses.” “That's very nice of you, Doc,” I told him. “But T doubt whether you could afford it. I play 60-to-1 shots, and they don’t come in very much. I suppose that's why they are 60-to-1 shots.” “What I had in mind,” continued the medical man, “was the assumption that as a columnist you could get your work done just as well from the clubhouse porch at Tropical Park as from a bed in Stamford, Conn.” I shook my head regretfully. “It can be done,” I admitted. “But it’s not the best way. As a physician yowrought to know that life is real and life is earnest and that this is no time for comedy. It isn’t even a good time for that old last year's model bedside man= ner of yours. Turn it in for a new one.”

Calumny, That's What It Is

The doctor took the tirade calmly and persisted, “But I do mention that in your case, as in the case of many newspaper columnists, this is a time for comedy, or at any rate, a time in which you should stop writing as if you were all-wise about the affairs of Europe. It's bad for the bronchial tubes and for the liver to start off every day setting down your hatred of Hitler. And in addition to driving yourselves a little unbalanced by constant pressure against your favorite diplomatic villains abroad every last one of you has begun to work with 2 dagger on some cone frere at home.”

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“That,” I cried indignantly, “is a libel. Columnists

may have a little spat from time to time, but under real pressure they stand as brothers in the bond. Don’t tell me that newspapermen haven't a deep and abiding sense of fellowship. Why, a iormer spores writer who lives down the lane almost gave me a crooked smile for my hirthday. You got it wrong, Doc.” The old Doc continued to shake his head. “I want to see you gay and spirited and carefree.” “Have it your way,” I agreed reluctantly. “Bub before I kick up heels you get the carbon out of my

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Watching Your Health -

By Jane Stafford

NY of you who remember the dread of diphtheria which hung over our grandparents every winter must rejoice in the knowledge that you need not face the prospect of having all your children killed by this disease. Such tragedies were not uncommon in the days before the discovery of a cure and pre ventive of diphtheria. Anti-toxin, as you probably know, is the cure. If it could be given in sufficient dose and early enough in all cases, the mortality from diphtheria would almost vanish, says the U. S. Public Health Service. Toxoid is the diphtheria preventive which health authorities advise giving young children between the ages of six months and six years. It protects them against diphtheria because it causes the manufacture, in the child's own body, of his own protective antitoxin to neutralize the diphtheria germ’s toxin or poison. The child who has had toxoid also develops the power to produce anti-toxin in larger quantities if later the diphtheria germs infect him.

While this protective treatment, properly given, «

will protect most children from contracting diphtheria, it unfortunately does not prevent them from being healthy carriers of diphtheria germs and thus being potential sources of danger to unprotected children. Healthy carriers, children or adults, are those seemingly well persons who harbor the germ in their bodies. Persoris who have been in contact with diphe theria patients are especially likely to be carriers,

but a certain percentage of the population of any a

community will be found harboring the diphtheria

germs although unaware of having been exposed to any diphtheria patient. The percentage of carriers varies, being greater when there is much diphtheria in the community. Most of the germs harbored by these carriers do not have the power or virulence to cause attacks of diphtheria, Some of them do, the person carrying them remaining well only if he

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