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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1939

"WHAT'S HER HURRY?

HE Bremen’s dash from Murmansk to Germany raises some interesting questions. One, of course, concerns the failure of a British submarine to attack after sighting her. The Germans say their escort planes forced the sub to run; the British say the sub was observing the London naval treaty provision forbidding warships to sink merchantmen without adequate warning. (To this some Englishmen are said to be retorting, “It is cricket, but is it war?”’) “A more important question, possibly, is this: Why did Germany risk this $20,000,000 liner in hostile seas instead of leaving her at Murmansk, safe from Allied attack? Perhaps Germany can make good use of the Bremen. She could be equipped with 5 or 6-inch guns and sent out as a commerce raider. But that’s a lot of ship for such a purpose. And to say that she would be vulnerable to Allied attack is understating the case. Maybe there was another reason for the flight from Murmansk. Maybe Hitler's faith in his burly friend Stalin is failing. Maybe he was afraid Joe might grab the Bremen for himself.

BETTER THAN 1939 LITTLE better than 1939 is the way Col. Leonard Ayres, nationally known economist, has forecast business in 1940. Unexpected developments in the way of war and peace, or haywire politics in the Presidential campaign, might queer his guesses, Col. Ayres points out. His predictions for 1939 came true almost exactly. These had been qualified in the event of war. The war came, and the predictions came true anyhow, in spite of the war or maybe because of it. About 5 per cent more industrial production in 1940 is Col. Ayres’ prediction; 2 or 8 per cent more national income; railroad freight loadings higher by not more than 10 per cent; iron and steel production within 12 per cent of 1939; automobile production within 10 per cent. And SO on. A moderate improvement, but improvement probable in almost all lines. In some lines, not so good a year as 1937. In a few things—petroleum refining, electric power, tobacco and airplanes—tops for all time. Throughout his address to the Chamber of Commerce, Col. Ayres stressed the point that the only way to recovery is through resumption of investment. Normally, he said, it takes new investment equal to 50 per cent of the country’s business payments in bond interest and dividends, to keep the economic machine going in high. Money invested in capital goods is high-powered money, Col. Ayres pointed out. New employment resulting from capital expenditures causes the employment of three men outside for every two men employed directly through the first expenditure. Pump-priming money, he said, is lowpowered money. It takes little new capital investment to furnish the consumer's goods purchased with pump-prim-ing funds. It is the political campaign, Col. Ayres indicates, that will show us before the end of 1940 whether the “flow of new funds that is required to keep our economy from stagnating is to come in the years ahead from Government subsidies or from private investments.” To date, this cauntry’s recovery record is the worst of 22 countries, except that of France, Col. Ayres reported. Some have done better through collective control of everything. Some have done better through the encouragement of private initiative. The compromise half-and-half solution in this country and France, Col. Ayres implies, is economically the least effective of all.

BUT GIVE

T is unfortunate if it is true, as Raymond Clapper reports in his column elsewhere in the paper, that unpleasantness has grown up between the American Red Cross and the organization headed by Herbert Hoover over the appeal for Finnish relief funds. Personalities have no rightful place in that picture, and we are glad President Roosevelt took occasion to say that he knows of no reason for friction and that he understands the two organizations are co-operating. There is every reason why they should. But after all, how money is collected to aid the gallant people of Finland is not so important. What is important is that funds shall be collected, quickly and in large amounts, for the need is urgent and the cause as worthy as has ever been presented. Nobody should be deterred from giving by the fact that there are two ways to give. You can contribute through the Hoover organization, through the Red Cross, or through both, in any case being certain that your money will be handled efficiently and will do great good.

PROHIBITION AGAIN?

NOTHER war is still going on—the war to make America dry again. Eyes centered on economic and now international problems, most people have forgotten that the dry forces have never accepted as final the decision of 1933. Mrs. Ida B. Wise Smith, national president of the W. C. T. U.,, told its convention at Rochester that of 9000 local option elections since repeal, 7000 had been won by the drys. She and her’ persistent co-workers are not forecasting just when national prohibition will come again, but they are perfectly certain on this one point: “It will come.” No issue is more persistent than this one. It took 50 years and a World War to achieve national prohibition, and 14 years to rescind it. For six years now the battle has gone on to bring about its return. This seems to be one war in which there is no armistice and no treaty of peace, a war in which captured territory remains forever “irredenta,” subject to siege and recapture at any time.

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Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

Contrasting Personalities of Red And Finn Envoys Accurately Bare Difference Between Their Nations.

WY Asso, Dec. 14—The dignity of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is personified in the United States by Constantine Umansky, a former journalist propagandist and press censor and occasional interpreter for Josef Stalin. He is small and may be described as prepossessing only at a ruthless sacrifice of candor. For contrast he may be compared to Hjalmar Procope, the Finnish Minisfer—a tall, handsome man of around 40 years, with a brave, manly bearing and a following in Washington which amounts to a menace to American neutrality on the present stage of the Second World War. They personify their respective countries so accurately. Mr. Umansky's personality is not endearing, and his reputation has been heightened not only by the memoirs of those who knew him as a pushful, opportunist clerk in Moscow, but also by events parallel to his services here. The mere sight or mention of his excellency—a title which suggests more of sarcasm than of ceremony—stirs recollection of his former chief and predecessor, Alexander Troyanovsky, once an officer in the tzar's cavalry, =» = s

ROYANOVSKY was recalled to Russia, and, although he has not yet been shot, his status apparently amounts to open arrest. Doubtless Umansky himself will be yankeq back one day and, not unthinkably, stood against a wall, like so many of his late colleagues in the service of the new tsar, For that is the tradition of the corps which he adorns. As for Troyanovsky, though he did have charm and something which, for lack of a more precise word, may be set down as decency, it can only be said that his removal and such further reverses as may have befallen him in Moscow serve him right. A man of his intelligence must have known that he was slumming and must expect treachery. He once appeared at a formal dinner in white tie and tails, while Comrade Earl Browder, seated down the board, wore a common business suit and bounced out before the meal was over in exasperation over remarks flung at him by Norman Thomas, one chair removed. Good manners are a serious deviation from the party line, and Troyanovsky not only behaved acceptably in Washington but gave scandal by associating with the bourgeoisie in Sarasota, Fla, in winter. o EJ ” OMRADE UMANSKY runs less risk of deviation In the same manner, but there are other fields in which one may be guilty of grave—indeed, even fatal —error in the Soviet foreign service. One may be guilty of a racial fault, as the new German comrades of the Moscow Government would put it, and many of those who have been liquidated in the last few years were guilty of that. Comrade Umansky’s closest colleague, in the political sense, nowadays is Comrade Thomsen of the Nazi Embassy, but if he should prove racially unacceptable to Comrade Thomsen no mere personal considerations or regard for distinguished service in the peculiar ways of Soviet diplomacy would be allowed to stand in the way of harmonious efficiency. Irresistibly the thought of his excellency Umansky and Dr. Procope of Finland conjures the spectacle of Umansky’s country assaulting Procope’s. And this, in turn, suggests a mental picture of a more intimate conflict—a personal one between Umansky and the manly, honest, clean-scrubbed Finn. That is a beautiful picture, suitable for framing.

Inside Indianapolis

Just What's Actually Behind the Current Crackdown on Liquor.

OT so very long ago we got to talking about the liquor situation and said that the tightening down was just starting. . . . Proof of that comes with the A. B. C.s decision to keep the bars closed on New Year's Day... . But from the looks of things there is a real crackdown in the offing. High Democratic Party officials have begun to stay awake nights about the liquor situation. . . All the gossip that goes the rounds may be strictly untrue but the repetition doesn't help the party much. + + . And with Paul V. hoping for brighter spots, a gossipy liquor situation is certaily an A-1 handicap. We're not going to repeat any of the stories here. . . . We have no proof they're true. . . . But it should suffice to say that if they're true even to a degree, the party had better start cleaning up. . « Fast, too. . . . If theyre not true, the party ought to come out in {ie open and challenge the whisperers. 2 = ” THE POLAR BEAR CLUB at the I. A. C. has invented a new game. . . . It's played in the pool with a net stretched across. . . . It's something like volley ball and they use a balloon. . . . The Polar Bears call it “Tiddy Ball.”. . . The Polar Bears, if you don’t know, are a group of business meg who like to swim. . . . They meet for luncheon at the edge of the pool every day. . . . They cavort in the water and then eat. . . . Paul Starrett is the president. . . . And surprising as it may seem, the whole shindig takes no more than an hour and a half each day. . . . Maybe you heard the local radio announcer get all crossed up with the weather yesterday morning. . . . When instead of saying “snow flurries” he got off “snurr flowies.” ” ” =

JUDGE EMMERT of Shelbyville is running for Governor. . . . Maybe the judge would like to know he’s being boosted for President, too, . . . Dan Kidney in Washington told us so. . . . Albert J. Beveridge Jr. visiting in the Capital, said that “Judge Emmert looks a lot like Lincoln and if he is elected Governor I hope to see him so successful that it will eventually mean his nomination for President.” . «+ Albert himself is going to run for the State Senate. . . . Wish the Lincoln would put us straight. . . . The big electric sign on top of the building says “Lincoln Hotel.” . . . All the other signs say “Hotel Lincoln.”. , , It's not important, mind you, but it is puzzling.

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

HAT price glamour? There's a question the American woman ought tb ask herself frequently, and if she were really smart she would also analyze the propaganda which floods the country and which is designed mainly to release man from most of his matrimonial responsibilities. Newspaper columnists, magazine writers, even wives themselves have kept up a constant barrage of advice to young women, and from what one hears and reads nowadays there seems to exist a general notion that husbands are in no way responsible for the success of marriage. When divorce pops up it is invariably the wife who has failed. She either neglected her looks or her culinary duties or she didn’t know how to apply soft soap to masculine vanity. Neither does the fact that she may have several small children exonerate her. For motherhood no longer releases a woman from the necessity of keeping her mate charmed and ardent. Savages realize that maternity requires all woman's physical and mental powers, and is the noblest work of our sex, but we are civilized—aren't we?—and so have long since departed from such primitive theories. Therefore the American woman is urged to become spiritually ambidextrous. She must hold onto her husband with one hand and bring up the children with the other. Even after she has grown old and tired from the unequal struggle, she still bears the blame if her man deserts her for a younger face and a prettier figure, or her children drop her because she can’t go at their pace. In 25 years our entire concept of marriage has changed, and for the worse. It is no longer a 50-50 proposition. Instead it has become a feminine career —and what a deceptive phrase that is, since marriage can never rightfully be called a career because it is merely a way of living. The philandering husband has existed since the

world began, but seldom has he been so pamperedsas in this, our Great Glamour Age,

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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES i Postscript to News From Abroad

The Hoosier Forum

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

LAUDS EXPOSURES BY REP. DIES

By Charles Norris

After Congress pulled that old Judas - and-the-thirty-pieces-of-sil-ver act, the lifting of the arms embargo when the people voted against it, the chief duty of the President of these United States is to see that we do not side with any foreign country in any way. Why this country should be afraid of hurting the feelings of England and France is something I cannot understand.

They are certainly no friends of]

ours, and never have been, Twenty-eight hundred Communists on the payroll of the United States and eight million undesirables inside our borders—and what is being done about it? These same people who do not believe in our form of government and take their orders from Moscow are not ashamed to admit it in public. Why should we tolerate this condition?

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

of one human being is equal to the life of another, In fact we must rely upon each other for our very livelihood. For instance, the farmer provides me with foodstuffs; the tailor with clothing; the shoemaker with shoes, etc. Therefore it is impossible to live as a lone individual in a nation sweeping us toward cooperation. 8 8 »

THINKS M'NUTT WISE TO KEEP SILENT

I think that every real American should thank God for having a real 100 per cent American, Mr. Dies of | Texas, and for the splendid work he is doing in exposing these people. May his good work continue! even if he is not being supported by Mr. Roosevelt or Mrs. Roasevelt. We common people want this great work to continue. America is for Americans. 8 8 @

THINKS ALL SHOULD SHARE

SOCIAL LIFE EQUALLY By L. V.

To Voice in the Crowd: There is a man’s name at the top of this column whom I hold in very high esteem, I think it was Voltaire, Diderot, and that small handful of critics back there in the early 18th Century who derided “the best possible of all possible worlds” until the very barriers of feudalism were hurdled, giving us what freedom of conscience we now have. They were materialists, the most| DIopressive and far-seeing of their | ay. For that reason I do not believe our political system to be strictly Beplicen. It is too progressive for that . ... I do not believe we are living in an absolute democracy. For there is no such thing, as you have stated, as social equality. Let's forget the drunks and pleasure seekers for the moment. That word equality carries great social significance. I know individuals have varying values. Nevertheless each should have an equal share in social life, and | that is only just, because the life]

By W. H. Brennen I wonder if others see it as I do in Secretary Ickes’ fight against McNutt and all the rest of the candidates. It seems he is “hitting too low,” as often happens when a man sees he is losing. McNutt seems to hold his fire, but it’s almost a sure thing Ickes is out to make McNutt tell if he looks for Roosevelt to make a statement that he is not to run. But anyway, when did these President-makers get our

permission to select for us? No nan can become President on being selected by a couple of men not of his party. So far McNutt hasn‘t said a word and that's best. Ickes and Norris are better qualified to select for the Republicans.

» n ” INCONSISTENCY SEEN IN STAND ON RUSSIA By J. C. Johnson, Crawfordsville, Ind.

I see a sudden burst of demands for severance of relations with Russia by such men as Hoover and Vandenburg and others. I agree with them, if at the same time we sever relationship on equal terms with Germany. Hitler and Stalin are equally culpable.. Hitler bombed defenseless women and children in Spanish and Polish cities to an extent not yet faintly approached by Russia in Finland. Finland and parts of Poland were controlled by Russia prior to the World War. Parts of Poland were in the possession of Germany prior thereto. To that extent they both in their own minds hold some color of title. But as to Czechoslovakia, Germany at no time possessed or even controlled that country, therefore held not the slightest claim, moral or legal. So strictly on the record to date Germany is the principal aggressor . « « Understand, this 1s not a brief for Stalin, I would like to see and further the crushing of both Russia and Germany,

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UMORS of an organization opposed to Adolf Hitler and naziism are substantiated in “Men Against Hitler” (Bobbs-Merril) by Fritz Max Cahen, formerly personal and confidential aid to Count Brock-doff-Rantzau, head of the German Peace Delegation at Versailles. Mr. Cahen, an exile in America since the fall of Czechoslovakia, calls himself a revolutionist against the savagery of Europe and the “right of might.” He was high in pre-Nazi German Government circles, acting as head of a secret German propaganda bureau to counteract the Treaty of Versailles. He prepared the speeches and press interviews of BrockdoffRantzau when he was Foreign Minister, besides acting as his liaison officer with the secret service. He tells of his life in Denmark. Of particular interest is his story of the

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brilliant war pilot, Hermann Goering, who lived as an exile in Denmark by giving exhibition flights until he was expelled, and who later was sent to a Stockholm sanitarium as a drug addict. When he saw the rise of the Nazi Party and blindness of German statesmen in power, who refused to take it seriously, Herr Cahen retired to a village across the Czech border to write and to lay the groundwork for a secret opposition called the German Vanguard, which built up a secret spy and news system inside Germany, disseminating propaganda by handbills and secret radio broadcasts. The secret party became an open opposition later by a coalition of several opposition parties and was then known as the Social Populist Movement, which dissolved later through a lack of solidarity and the varying viewpoints of its component parties. The author attacks the statesmen of other countries so absorbed in the Bolshevist menace as to fail to see the menace of naziism. He sees the future need for security in Europe, provided by an European Federation of States, proposed at Versailles, but discarded in favor of the harsh treaty for Germany which has resulted in all the trouble that Europe has subsequently undergone.

AN ARTIST

By DOROTHEA ALLANSON From my window I see the world

go by, As each picture passes, I strain my eye To glimpse the expression on each face, And these characters on my canvas trace.

One small red riding hood; A reverend father, doing good; Stately dames, their steps so slow; Lo, a princess passes her cheeks aglow.

They pass, but, though I long to be free, Must sit, immobile, like a rooted tree, Working only with mind and hands While my heart with envy expands.

DAILY THOUGHT

Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take it; yea, let him tread down my life upon the earth, and lay mine honour in the dust.—Psalms 7:5.

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. THURSDAY, DEC. 14, 1939

Gen. Johnson Says—

Sharp Dissent Is Expressed to Claims of Kennedy and Davies on 'Indispensability’ of Mr. Roosevelt,

EW YORK, Dec. 14—Homing Ambassadors Ken nedy and Davies didn't tell the country much about European conditions in the places where they are appointed to watch them—except to suggest that they are too terrible to talk about. Both were strong with advice about this country from which they have been long absent. They think that Mr. Roosevelt is indispensable—in spite of the third term tradition.

I don't know why they shouldn't think that for the same reason that Mr. Ickes thinks it—it is some= thing like saying that they themselves are indispen=sable. None of the three will be there any more if Mr. Roosevelt doesn't stay. It is O. K. for both of them to think it and say it—but that is no reason why anybody has to agree with them or even regard their opinions as particularly important on this point, The argument is: “The world is on fire and so it is necessary to keep this great fire-putter-out on the job to keep us from getting burned.” = n sn

B= since the war flamed and in spite of protesta= tion, even in spite of recent official action, this Administration seems to me to be tense with painful self-repression of an acute inward desire to stick a finger into the war pie of the world. The self-repres= sion is, I believe, a result of realizing the overwhelme ing popular American determination against getting into a new world war. As long as that popular opinion remains, I think that there will be no dane gerous move. But if popular thinking should give even the appearance of change, it wouldn't find its government lagging back an inch. It isn’t easy to blue-print the basis of this belief. It stems in part from personal contacts and cone versations, but also from significant public words and actions—the Chicago “quarantine” speech in which the President proposed that we engage in economic war against the “aggressor” nations—that well-known official impatience under the “Neutrality” Acts and the obvious desire of the Administration to be per mitted to apply economic sanctions in its own dis cretion—the Presidential talk about “measures more than mere words, but less than war” in disputes which are literally none of our business. o n »

HAT some people do not seem to understand is that economic war has become even more deadely than military war in this sly, finessing era when it is called clever to wage war without declaring it. We have contributed our part by taking advantage of a failure to declare war to do things on the economic side that would be a flagrant belligerent act if war had been declared. We are doing it in Finland. We have done it in Asia. 2 On this kind of thinking, I doubt the advertisee ment of Ambassadors Davies and Kennedy of Mr, Roosevelt as an indispensable fire-putter-out. In ade dition, I can't forget that we have domestic fires which Mr. Roosevelt was elected to extinguish—the problems of labor, agriculture, unemployment, Federal finance and recovery. After seven years and billions lost, have they been dampened? Either here or abroad, I can't see the President as a fire-escape.

It Seems to Me By Heywood Broun

Being Snowbound Recalls Story of Goat and the Telegraph Operator.

EW YORK, Dec. 14—There are many things wrong with snow. It gets down the back of your neck and, besides, it's escape stuff. Probably no other substance in the world carries on such a doublebarreled function of comforting and irritating with the self-same flakes. Every now and then some aue thor goes away on the ice to ruminate and hit upon a great philosophy. But what happens is merely hibernation. : After all, even if you work your fingers to the bone during a blizzard, the whole thing is likely to turn out just another “Snow-Bound.” It always discourages me when I cannot follow my copy clear through to its practically final rendezvous in the composing room. Once I sent a newspaper essay by carrier pigeon and neither of us had any job in the collaboration. As I remember, it was a piece written in favor of the five-day 40-hour week and the bird gave me a dirty look as if to say that its own working standards were less equitable. At any rate, it finally made a forced landing in the Hudson just off Tarrytown, and so the whole experiment had to be set down as a failure, A man is a fool, of course, if he remains unsatisfied when some kind neighbor offers to mush his copy out and take it to the telegraph office. Moreover, hot or cold, I have one complaint against telegraph operators. Not for the world would I empha= size it too much, since these boys of the bulldog breed have frequently saved both my life and my reputation.

Airing an Old Grievance

Indeed, it was under the golden dome of the Morning World that one such episode occurred. I was ree porting a fire in the city room just outside my office when I suddenly remembered a formal dinner party to which I had been bidden. Terry, with the aid of his faithful “Bug,” was already sending a prodigious amount, of copy to the outside world. - Terry,” I told him. “I'm late for dinner, but I think this lead will suffice. Of course, if Swope jumps, that ought to be mentioned in the fifth or sixth paragraph. But do it in your own way and you can sign my name to it.” . And when I got the award that year Terry was just as proud and happy as if he'd done the entire job himseif. . But I started off to complain of a matter in which operators may mar your copy. I remember now. They're against puns. Once I wired a story of the manner in which I threw a rock at a goat in a menagerie so that the animal scrambled to its feet. I inquired of my readers what popular song was brought to mind by the incident. The pun was ruined in transmission. It should have been “Mighty Yak Arose.”

Watching Your Health

By Jane Stafford

ITAMIN A, the first in the vitamin alphabet, is necessary for good nutrition at all ages. Failure to eat enough of it may not cause any startling symptoms immediately, but the bad effects of this vitamin deficiency, including xerophthalmia, serious eye disease, will appear sooner or later. This vitamin is found in five different food sources. Richest vitamin A foods are the livers of various ani« mals, especially fish. Whole milk and cream, butter, eggs yolks, and cheese made from whole milk or cream contain substantial amounts. Besides these animal foods which provide vitamin A itself, there are four different pigments or coloring materials in plant and animal foods which can be changed in the body inta vitamin A. In vegetables, green and yellow are often the sign of these pigments that turn into vitamin A after you eat them. Green leafy vegetables like kale, spinach and turnip greens, are vitamin A sources, Sao are cabbage and lettuce, the outer, greener leaves containing more potential vitamin A than the blanched inner leaves. The yellow sign of vitamin A source is seen in carrots, yellow-fleshed sweet potatoes, yellow fleshed apricots and peaches. Ripe tomatoes are another good vitamin A source, though they do not always show the yellow sign. : As to the amounts of these foods for supplying a liberal daily ration of vitamin A, the following are recommended by Dr. Lela E. Booher of the U. §, Bue reau of Home Economics: . For children from 2 to 14 years, 1 quart of whole milk in addition to an egg or egg yolk, servings of green leafy vegetables and of butter suiled to the size of the child, and a teaspoonful of cod liver oil:-or its equivalent in other fresh liver oils. For normal adults, one pint of whole milk, one egg, two ordinary sized pats of butter and an average serve ing of a leafy green or a yellow vegetable. These are daily rations. It is not necessary; Dr, Booher points out, to eat exactly these articles of food, since many other foods rated as excellent sources of vitamin A will contribute comparable 0