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Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1939
AN UNSEASONABLE QUIBBLE
N Christmas week it seems a pity that the White House should find it necessary to defend such an appropriate action as that of the President in naming a personal representative to assist the “parallel endeavors” of Pope Pius and himself “for peace and the alleviation of suffering.” A few off-key notes in the chorus of approval led the White House to explain that the designation of Myron C. Tavlor did not involve a re-establishment of formal diplo‘matic relations with the Vatican, abandoned these 72 years. It would be a miracle indeed if the President and the Pope, singly or in collaboration, persuaded the warring powers to make peace.
destruction and build anew” will, as the President says, “surely come.” To criticize the President for seeking to put himself, or his successor, in readiness against that day seems picavunish, And it is most certainly unseasonable. It is a quibble of the how-many-angels-can-stand-on-the-point-of-a-needle type. If the President found that he could strike a blow for peace by sending a personal envoy to the Lamaseries of Tibet, or to the godless Kremlin at Moscow, it seems to us that no Christian who reflects the words of Christ could condemn his action. Myron Taylor may never see anything come of his | efforts, But here is a man who could sit down with John L. Lewis and effect a peaceable agreement between a great
in Indiana, $3 a year; 65 |
Yet in this as in all other wars | the time for moving forward “on a specific plan to terminate |
corporation, long called anti-union, and a militant labor or- | ganization. That seemed impossible 24 hours before it happened. Perhaps world peace is also within closer reach than | we can see,
BLUNDERING ADOLF
T must make Hitler sick to see what is happening to the | Russian Army in Finland. | He rose to power as an opponent of communism and | his whole dream of living space for the German people was | directed eastward. His grabs of Austria and Czechoslo-! vakia, carried out at the risk of war, placed him in a posi- | tion to strike Russia. His mighty military machine was | headed toward the wheat fields of the Ukraine and the oil | basins of the Caucasus and Rumania. With those resources | Germany might have become impregnable. | But, at the psychological moment, Hitler switched | opponents, made Russia an ally and went to war with Britain | and France. | And now it develops that the vast Red army is a hol- | low shell, a leaderless mob, untrained, ill-equipped and: | demoralized. Despite the devastation being wrought in | Finland by air attacks and the bombardment of 23-mile | Rig Berthas, it is apparent that Russia, with her 180,000,000, hasn't got what it takes to wage a first-class war. For a whole month Finland, with 3,000,000 population, has been standing her off on all fronts.
It develops that Hitler could have moved on Russia | with perhaps the same speed and ease that he invaded | Poland—and with much of the rest of the world cheering, | rather than opposing him. The dreams of Mein Kampf | could have materialized even beyond the dreamer.
hopes of the |
Instead of an easy victory in the direction he first | planned, Hitler blundered. He chose a different war, the | tide of which is now definitely running against him. He! gave Russia half of Poland and control of the Baltic—prizes | she was too weak to win for herself. The Red Army turns | out to have been merely a false front, and the picture of | vast Russian resources to defeat the British blockade seems | to be a vain hope. Hitler is apt to go down in history as its greatest blunderer,
WAR AMONG THE STATES
"N° state shall, without the consent of Congress, lay any imposts or duties on imports or exports, except what may be absolutely necessary for executing its inspection laws.”—The Constitution. Oh, veah?
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In these days there is much talk of setting up at some | future Versailles a “United States of Europe” or at least a European customs union, in order to raze some of the | trade barriers which are blamed, by many students of the | fundamentals rather than the superficialities. for the death | of peace. Americans suggest, with some smugness, that | Europe take its cue from us. Well, the Constitution says we have free trade among | the states of the Union. But have we? For the answer we commend to you a series of articles by Miss Ruth | Finney, currently appearing in The Times. Before we do any preaching to Europe about the fu- | tility and danger of tariff retaliation and “Balkanization,” | it is apparent from Miss Finney's series that we have a job to do at home.
NO PLACE FOR FLAT WHEELS
BIRMINGHAM item reports that hostesses have been assigned to a couple of streetcars there and will serve |
indecorous limerick—
Those are wonderful trolleys in Birmingham, But here is a query concerning ‘em: If a jolt spills the pot When the Java is hot, Poor straphangers ! Who'll keep #& from burning them? .
| Well, | Christmas, we ought to mention that the Sate In- |
Fair Enough
By Westbrook Pegler
A Word of Defense Is Spoken in Behalf of an Alleged Slayer Killed In Border Feud 65 Years Ago.
N&v YORK, Dec. 27.—Last summer the editor of the Lamar Democrat of Lamar, Mo. dug deep into the old files of that outspoken rural journal and recalled a series of historic killings, two of them by lynching. A spinster, Miss Josie Norris, had died at the age of 86 and had been laid away after non-religious services at which Mrs. Helen Selvey, “Lamar’s sweet singer and generous helper at funerals,” sang “Evening Brings Us Home,” with Mrs. Dimple Mcore Haddock at the piano. This event prompted the editor to recall from the
files that Miss Josie had been the daughter of a distinguished local pioneer, Col. David Norris, late of the
Confederate Army; that Col. Norris had been foully | assassinated in 1884 by a shot in the back in an en- | counter with a neighbor, Francis Hieronymus. and one | William Dixon, and that Hieronymus was shot dead | by a person unknown that very night in the old jail. |
Dixon got away but was caught, and in his trial was acquitted, but his lawyer realized that he was in dan-
ger, and therefore drove him a two days’ journey by | buggy, into Arkansas, where, nevertheless, he, too, was | shot and killed in a schoolhouse where he was hiding. |
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HE Lamar Democrat of that time said the killing of Col. Norris was “the most cowardly and atrocious murder that has ever disgraced cur county,” but | Miss Alta Hieronymous of Talega, Ky., a grandniece | of Francis Hieronymus, now disputes this and other |
aspects of the Democrat's version of a tragedy of 65
years ago, insisting that Francis Hieronymus was a | heroic soldier of the Union Army, and, for that reason, | the victim of the prejudice and hatred in a border- | land dominated by demobilized soldiers of the Con- |
federacy.
“Sergt. Francis Hieronymus of D Company, Eighth |
Kentucky Regiment, was a brave and adventurous but
quiet and cautious man,” Miss Hieronymus writes, cit- | ing from the history of Kentucky regiments of the |
Civil War, by Capt. T. J. Wright.
“After Francis Hieronymus returned from the war | he bought a farm in the Ozark region of Missouri, and |
was a dealer in stock, taking cattle into the new
West.
his brother heard that he had been killed, and responsible people in the community wrote him that Francis
and his partner, Dixon, were driving cattle when they |
met. their neighbor, Col. Norris, who attacked them. Dixon shot the colonel in self-defense. ” ” ~ RANCIS HIERONYM got away, in jail. Dixon was returned.
of the country. We supposed the
This sweetheart was Jim Ward, an adventurous Confederate cavalrvman, who drifted to Mexico and fought for the Emperor Maxmilian, but returned to Lamar and paid court to the beautiful Josie. would not have him. however, and he died a bachelor in Mena, Ark., in 1897, This information is offered to the Lamar Democrat for what it may be worth in rounding out the story of a tragic incident in local history. The contemporary account cited by the editor last summer seems to take mueh for granted.
Inside Indianapolis
Concerning Gossip About Spies and What Uncle Sam Is Doing About It.
HERE has been some scattered conversation around town concerning spies in Indiana and the possibilities of sabotage. This. of course, is inevitable. Once a war starts a lot of people start seeing things under the bed and strange men prowling around factories. It's like the letter someone sent Anton Scherrer teiling him that the horse in front of -John Herron was full of explcsives. The German spies were all set to blew the thing up. Why, the writer didn't say. At any rate, we're pretty well protected. The F. B. I. won't say anything about it, but Uncle Sam's
| crack cops are keeping a policy of watchful waiting. | Sabotage during a war is always a danger and the | experience of the last
war was that sabotage was greatest before war. So the D. of J. outfit keeps an eye on anything that looks suspicious, even though they don't enter the cases officially As for those upstate bombings, there wasn't anvthing particularly sinister about them. used indicated some disgruntled person or persons. Towers were blasted or single electrical units put out of commission The damage wasn't terribly costly or serious. Electricity was rerouted and serv-
| ice restored within 20 minutes at the most.
So you can sleep peacefully without much worry. Just leave things to the F. B. 1. FJ on ” BUSINESS WAS as flourishing in the downtown stores vesterday as it was before Christmas. ‘ How the exchange counters worked. . And not all on holiday ties either. . . . Dick Heller was a bit irritated about the stories that he intended to resign because of friction with Fred Bays. . . . You can't exactly blame him because the funny part is that Heller and Bays are extraordinarily close personal friends. . . . Butler University is going to get a fullfledged U. S. postoffice next week. . . . Theyre going to call it Substation “B.”. . . For Butler, we presume. . . . This is the year when everybody starts distributing the new calendars. The airlines and railroads run a close race for the artistic honors. " = = EVERYBODY'S HOPING that the proposal for a new a‘rport road goes through. . . . Because if it does, it wili mean that the old, cock-eyed bridge over the Pennsy tracks will be torn down and a new one put up. . It's few motorists who get over that bridge who don’t thank their lucky stars. . . now that you're getting ready to pay for come Tax Division has just mailed out gross tax income forms. . . . One per cent on everything ahove $1000, folks, and due by Jan. 31. , . , Happy New Year!
A Woman's Viewpoint
By Mrs. Walter Ferguson N you guess what was the most popular Christ-
A C mas present this year? Babies. It's a fact. According to newspaper reports from various sections.
thousands of men and women gave themselves the !
best of all gifts for the home—a child. The adoption busiriess was so brisk that in many cities the supply ran out. “Suffer little children to come unto me” is one of the most beautiful and well-remembered sayings of Jesus, “for of such is the Kingdom of Heaven.” And of such, too, should be the Kingdom of Earth save for our shortsightedness and stupidity. Powerful as the urge for children is in individuals,
| as a nation we continue about the business of making | a world unfit for them.
One hundred million dollars, we read, will be asked in Congress immediately after we have finished celebrating the Christ Child's Birthday. And for what will this enormous sum be used? For destruction. When we should be rebuilding frantically to replace the losses of past wars, and to remedy. ills caused by
| the rape of our national resources, and to improve
our economic structure, we work instead to tax the
. i | poor for more money to wage more wars to bring on coffee to the passengers. There's real progress for you. | B .
But still, we wonder. To paraphrase an old and somewhat !
more destruction. When, in God's name, will men see that such wanton wastefulness cannot continue without the wholesale destruction of everything that benefits youth? When indeed will they begin tp act upon their chivalrous phrase, “women and children first.”
had better amend it to read “women and children Ast.” For when the only great nation situated to keep alive the peace creed, the only country that could by example rebuild confidence and spread good will, turns her gigantic efforts toward war—then there will be
no place safe upon the earth for children,
He wrote to his brother that he was having | trouble with ‘the Rebels,” as he called them. Later |
US was arrested, but Dixon | That same night Hieronymus was killed | He acknowledged the | shooting, but was acquitted and was armed by the | law for seif-protection, but was killed on his way out ! same dare-devil | {| sweetheart of Miss Josie Norris Killed both Hieronymus | and Dixon.”
She |
The methods |
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Today | that phrase is a hollow mockery. To be truthful we |
* THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES "oe Somebody Else at the Chimney!
The Hoosier Forum
I wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.
ASSAILS TRANSFER OF 92 TO COUNTY INFIRMARY 'By J. P. | On Friday Dec. 22, the Christmas
| spirit ran rampant for the 92 men |ordered from the Salvation Army! |Shelter to the County Infirmary— | just three days before Christmas (Day; just a few hours before the Marion County Grand Jury criticized conditions at the Infirmary. The printed notice reads: “The (the men to be transferred) will b given work to do.” That is correct |—they will be given plenty of work {to do—and nothing to eat!
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| I a day and was fed stewed raisins at 'meal time. May the Man who 2000 years ago walked the shores of Galilee walk with these men—they will ‘need His strength and His pity. » ” » AIRS GRIEVANCE AGAINST ‘THE WATER COMPANY By H. P. | I am just a newly married man {and have been housekeeping since July, My wife runs on a budget | [because of my low salary. Now, | ‘there are just two of us and we send | lour laundry out every two weeks. | |Our water hill never has been over |$1.25—that is the minimum. I got |a bill this month for $2.87—just for | |drinking water. I let the meter man look for leaks | Which he failed to find. Then I went to the water company myself and | |asked for an adjustment. The fel(low I talked to got very smart and | suggested I have my water turned off if T wasn't satisfied. | I think this kind of business is | (terrible, , , .
| ” » URGES EUROPEAN UNION UNDER WORLD COURT | By E. R. Egan
Russia defending herself against ( Finland is reminiscent of Germany {of the Kaiser defending herself in| | France. . . . There is not the slightest indi- | | cation that either Germany or] | Russia have the elements of any {kind of modern government within | | themselves and this stresses the! | imperative necessity of a world con-| | sciousness of responsibility toward | (less fortunately situated
| the independent co-operation of na- |
. | tions under the dictum of the World
| Court, as in civil life—each nation |
(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, religious conexcluded. Make your letter short, so all can have a chance. Letters must be signed, but names will ke
withheld on request.)
troversies
contributing its quota of police
oree. .. . Never has the world carried the
self incontestable evidence of general ineptitude of Central European government. The medievalism of Central Europe today, if the war
modern civilization because it has
not within itself the economic self-|
sufficiency to maintain responsible government, This is the case against militarists today. Militarism has no place in the modern world and will have to go. The lesson the world has to learn is the method and it has w
from the military headquarters. n ” n SEES SMOKE PROBLEM AS ONLY ONE SIDE OF STORY
By Henry Loschky
so bad he can hardly eat,
| bered. if hej
. WEDNESDAY, DEC. 27, 1939
Gen. Johnson Says—
Roosevelt Tries to Serve Cause of Peace and All Religions by Naming Special Representative to Pope.
ASHINGTON, Dec. 27.—1t is a pity that there should be any Protestant criticism of the | President's appointment of Myron Taylor as his personal representative to the Pope. Complaint is made that it violates the American rule against any union of church with state and recognizes the Holy | See as a temporal rather than a spiritual power. The American rule for keeping religion out of | politics is a good one but I, for one, can't see any |
| violation of it here. I doubt if the President's thought | was of the Pope as a Roman pontiff, half so much as that he is a voice for peace and religion generally, | which can speak with more effect to more people | than any other voice in the world. Mr, Roosevelt addressed Pope Pius as an old personal friend. I think that is how he thought of him. Nobody has criticized his similar letter to the head of the Federated Churches of Christ in America or to Rabbi Adler. ” O millions in the warring countries, the Pope is the high priest of the religion they learned at their mother’s knee—a faith that is threatened by tyrants in their own or other countries. Whether it were Judaism or Protestantism, we have another American rule that defends that—the constitutional
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nation. Mr. Roosevelt does not stand for Roman Catholicism and neither does Myron Taylor. But both do repre- | sent a country that does stand for freedom of | religion—as does the Pope and the Roman Catholic | Church itself. It is nat only peace that is at stake | in the world's present agony, it is religion itself — { at least as we know it. It is certainly freedom of | religion. A closer contact hetween the world’s leaders of opinions on those things is not political or tem= poral. It is spiritual in the highest and most realistie sense. | Surely no Protestant in the American meaning | of that word should object to that. If it can add one ounce to the pressure for peace, to the highest principles of all the old religions, to the fear and | love of God and, above all, to the religious freedom of the human mind-all that is of the very essence of Protestantism. It is for exactly this that Protes- | tantism was invented. . | y 0B | JT is significant that in appointing a personal representative to the Vatican, the President did not | name a Roman Catholic. Mr. Taylor is an | Episcopalian. The personal character and experience | of the former Cardinal Pacelli should also be rememHe is a very practical statesman who
has traveled in this country extensively and under-
really knows that the meat he has| Stands it thoroughly. He certainly will not misbetween his bread might have come | interpret the appointment of Mr. Taylor as an
from these same packing plants,
that the shoes he has on his feet!
and the gloves on his hands from those hides and skins; the soap he [used from the tallow these animals; also the pork chops, eggs and poultry he eats got fat on
and fats of
| American gesture toward any faith, or as an approval
of any temporal power of the Pope. Not to recognize the great personal influence of the Pope and use it merely because of remote or unintended secondary implications, would be little short of silly. { There is another healthful significance here. | There are important movements toward unification
the by-products he smells cooking.| among several Christian creess in this country. I
I wonder if he ever heard of St. | Joseph, Mo., Omaha, Chicago and | Kansas City, flourishing meat packing centers, whose industries rank high along with the automobile in- | dustries as tops, who hire people the
{ they make jobs and bring happiness to many a home,
| Show me a smoke stack that
[spread no farther, is a menace to| doesn't smoke and I'll show you a
| place that doesn’t hire labor. " ” un | FARM WOMAN PAYS | TRIBUTE TO BROUN By Mrs. B. R., Noblesville, Ind.
| Heywood Broun needs no eulogy
ith- | from a farm woman, but his death | in itself the ability to solve it, away comes as a distinct loss to all his between
readers. It was not the eloquence of
his words that endeared him to all of us, but the feeling that they came from a beautiful spirit.
He was the friend of the under-
| may never
| greater influence of religion. This is also a step in
result and need never result in uniformity of doctrine and dogma, but it is to the
| that direction and hence is wholly good.
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| : 3 a | o * {armaments it has today, and by the year around at a just and living! The writer of this letetr knows. same token never has the economic | salary. I think we should be proud | Q evision shoveled coal out there eight hours Stress been so acute. This is in it- of our meat packing industries, let | the them smell and let them smoke as
By Bruce Catton
Industry Must Continue to Finance Tests as Sale of Time Is Denied.
ASHINGTON, Dec, 27.—Television, that per= ennial entry in the race for new industries which always seems to be scratched before coming | to the post, has been shoved back into the stall once more, This time it is a little matter of disagreement the Federal Communications Commission and the radio manufacturers that appears to be ' holding up the show. | The Television Committee of the FCC has just | released a report that it considers television still too | immature to be considered a public service. It has | turned thumbs down on the plea of the Radio
The article carried in your paper Privileged and a “soldier of the| corp, owner of most of the television patents, that
a few days ago signed by W. J. M.
our smell and smoke problems only looks at pne side of the issue. 1 wonder if when this kind gentle-
{common good.” Life will be poorer
| who seems so much concerned about | Without his daily colum.
| I'm glad that Mr. Roosevelt honored him by reading one of his columns last year as a Christmas mes-
| man eats his lunch, and the smell is sage.
New Books at t
he Library
AR Without Violence; a Study
, pressors—but by non-violent action.
of Gandhi's Method and Its|It differs from pacifism in that its
Accomplishments” (Harcourt), by Shridharani, is a thrilling book. It is thrilling because it offers a new hope to an almost hopeless world. Specifically, it presents an exposition of a new technique for solving social conflict by a non-violent
|advocates believe that peace is only {a relative value’ and is not accept- | able unless combined with justice. Therefore they believe in resistance to oppression by direct action—bhy |nonco-operation with existing au-
|thorities (refusal to pay Government |
| it be allowed to finance further television experiments { by selling time to sponsors on television broadcasts. | The committee recommends that the radio industry continue to bear the costs of television development, already great, until technical problems have been further solved. RCA had argued that it could bring television programs to a broad public sooner if they could be financed by tooth paste or hair tonic manufacturers. But the FCC committee pointed out that although the British Government heavily subsidized television development there until the war cut off experimenta~ tion, only 14,000 Britishers had bought sets.
Sets Cost From $275 to $600
There are television receivers on the market costing from $275 to $600. Manufacturers say that in a year they will be cheaper. Many ordinary radios this year have television connections. Nineteen channels in the higher kilocycles have | been reserved for television broadcasts. Each television frequency band takes up 600 times more
method—known in India oy Gand- taxes, withdrawal from all Govern-| space than a channel for ordinary radio broadcasts.
hi's term “Satyagraha.” Satyagraha, meaning literally “in-
organized action on the part of a social group toward the end of obtaining social justice from its op-
Side Glances—By Galbraith
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ment offices, commercial boycotts,
etc.) and in sacrificing themselves
nations. sistence on truth,” involves in its without retaliation to the brutalities | | The most practical way would be|concept an elaborate program of of enforcement officials, even to the
|extent of allowing themselves to be | killed, and in doing kindness at every opportunity to their oppresSOT'S. Thus Satyagraha has, they believe, the superior ethical effect of changing the hearts of their oppres-
p ? > L__ com mm NEA SERVICE, INC, T. M. REG. U. 8. PAT. OFF.
"It's such a satisfaction to go shopping with you. = Creates a scene when | order a chocolate eclain,*
sors, of making them ashamed of| | their brutalities to the point where] they refuse to attack, whereas the! violence of war only breeds further violence. The author explains the emer-| gence of the idea of non-violence | from the religious traditions and] cultural background of the Hindus. Superficially, he admits, such a phi- | losophy seems alien to the aggressive nature of Western peoples. But he believes that among Occidentals the basic qualities of public spirit, self-sacrifice, and endurance are strong enough to enable them to wage successfully a war of non-vio-lent direct-action, once they are convinced that actual warfare is incapable of accomplishing its own aims.
LOSERS By JOSEPHINE DUKE MOTLEY
You're a queer and funny package Walking down the street, Not a very handsome face And rather awkward feet.
But those who pass you by in scorn Are losers young and old, Because beneath your wrappings there Resides a heart of gold.
DAILY THOUGHT
Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser; teach a just man, and he will increase In learning.—Proverbs 9:9.
F ever I am a teacher, it will be to learn more than to teach.— Madame Del
—an ite
My daughter
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| Only seven of the 19 channels are now in use, ‘and | you could receive no more than five of these if you had a television receiver today. Only about 1000 people have sets, mostly in New | York and other big cities. Three regular stations are now fulfilling FCC requirements of five hours a week of television pro= grams to hold their ether space reservation. Buf only those receivers who live near the point of broad- | cast can now receive the programs because there is as vet no television chain or relay system.
Watching Your Health
By Jane Stafford
ARSIGHTEDNESS is the second error in vision caused by failure of the light rays to focus exactly on the retina of the eye. It is just the opposite of near-sightedness. Objects at a distance can be seen fairly well, but those nearby are blurred. In order to read the farsighted person has to hold the page farther from the eyes than one with normal vision. Since the size of the type seems to grow smaller as it is moved farther from the eye, reading ordinary print or doing close work is a real strain on farsighted eyes. What actually happens is this. The eye lens does not concentrate the rays of light enough. In orden for them to come to a focus, they would have to pass right through the retina. The focal point, instead of being on the retina, is really behind it. Cause of tha condition may be faulty action of the lens, or it may be caused by the eyeball being too short, bringing the retina too close to the lens. The condition can be corrected by placing a convex lens in front of the eye. This bends the light rays part way before they enter the pupil. Then the eve lens is able to bend the rays the rest of the amount required to focus the image on the retina. The picture of a middle-aged man holding a newspaper at arm's length in an effort to read it, or of a woman trying to thread a needle at that distance, is familiar to most of us and has been the subject of many a joke. Such people are generally called farsighted, but eye specialists call their eye trouble pres byopia, from the Greek words for “old” and “eye.” In this condition, the crystalline lens of the eye has lost some of its elasticity with advancing age, and with loss of elasticity goes loss of some of it power to converge light rays so that they focus exactly on the retina. The condition is corrected by the same type of eyeglass lens used to correct farsightedness due to
shortness of the eyeball,
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