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‘THURSDAY, JANUARY 4, 1940.

omar MESSAGE

[ORE than any other address, except his first adgural President Roosevelt's yesterday, we think, SEpressed the temper of the times. There are occasions when an individual, or a nation, ‘needs a stimulant, and others when a sedative is called for. “The net effect of the address was sedative. It rose splen“didly above the political bickerings that entertain us in Cainer ‘weather and said, in net, “keep cool, for we are

Sa with a storm that is a storm, so all hands on

Yet there x was nothing i in the appeal for national unity | |

to suggest suspension of the due processes of democracy, or a recess of debate on the issues upon which the President touched. But it stressed most eloquently the need for all the people, in office and out, to realize that in ratio to the strain there is strength in unity. That strength was never more needed than now, in this world of war neurosis, if | sa “those “three great concepts” expressed in “one magnificent phrase” of our Constitution are to live—‘‘common defense, general welfare and domestic tranquillity.”

May the tone the President struck be sustained as long |

as he is leader of the orchestra. And may he and his successors, and all of us, by no means excepting newspaper editors, cling to these words as to gospel: “Overstatement, bitterness, vituperation, and the beating of drums, have contributed mightily. to ill-feeling and wars between nations. If these unnecessary and unpleasant actions are harmful in the international field, they .are also ‘hurtful in the domestic scene. Peace among ourselves would seem to have some of the advantage of peace between us and other nations. And in the long run history amply demonstrates that angry. controversy surely wins less than calm discussion.” And as for the “borers from within,” this: : “Doctrines which set group against group, faith against faith, race against race, class against class, fanning the fires of hatred in men too despondent, too desperate to think for themselves, were used as rabble-rousing slogans on which dictators could ride to power. And once in power they could saddle their tyrannies on whole nations, and on their weaker neighbors. “This is the danger to which we in America must bei to be more alert. For the apologists for foreign aggressors, and equally those selfish and partisan groups at home who wrap themselves in a false mantle of Americanism to promote their own economic, financial or political advantage,

are now trying European tricks upon us, seeking to muddy |

the stream of our national thinking; weakening us in the face of danger, by trying to set our own people to fighting among themselves. Such tactics are what have helped to plunge Europe into war. We must combat them, as we would the plague.” :

BOSS CRUMP AND THE GUILD

[HE tendency of pelitical bosses to adopt the feudal attitude toward their. communities is once more demonstrated by what may be described as I'affaire Crump. It . smacks of his fellow craftsman, Hague. Long continuity in power evidently develops a Grand Khan complex in which the head man gets to thinking of a whole city or a whole state as his. By invitation of the newspapermen and women of Memphis, the American Newspaper Guild selected Memphis - as the place for its next annual convention. Of that municipality Edward H. Crump has been the Pooh-Bah for lo these 30 years. Crump doesn’t like the C.10 The Newspaper Guild is ‘affiliated with the C. I. O. So Mr. Crump, becoming Mayor for a day for purposes of political realignment, em: ‘ploys the occasion to rescind an invitation issued to the Guild by Crump’s predecessor with-whom Crump had fallen out. : Seca ra mi iar Cn a In this situation, unlike similar ones in Jersey City, the incident apparently has died at birth—for no talk is heard of building a levee of no-welcome mats to keep the visitors out. Merely an expression of Southern inhospitality on the part of the Fuehrer. = * So, since the trains will be running and the hotels open for business the Guild will proceed as per schedule. in pursuing in its convention the interests of a profession quite as honorable and quite as Imports as S politics. aud that will be that. : i 3

NOTE TO COOKS THE potato, peering from its Argus eyes, is seeing hard times. - And it’s the fault of civilization, sciording to - the Agriculture Department. Twenty-five years or so back, the average Ameridan disposed of 2.95 bushels of potatoes a year. In more recent years the consumer has consumed only 2.32 bushels. Harry Henderson of the Agriculture Department explains: “Potatoes are an energy-producing food.’ Thei i high starch content makes them almost indispensable i ! people doing hard physical labor, But this is a machine age. Machinery is more and more replacing the work for- . merly done by hand. Since energy-producing foods are no ‘ longer so necessary in the daily diet, there has been a

| gradual trend to other types of foods.”

That sounds logical. Still, an Institute for Preserva-

tion of the Potato from Extinction might reverse the spud’s

i trend: if it could only convince a few hundr

housand restaurant cooks that those thick and SogEY [listie Ie labeled “French fried pera are. neither French,

| OR : RABBIT HASH, KY.

JOMEEODY'S always trying to police up our language, usually without success. We'd like to bet that rar bo-Hell, in Louisiana, will continue to flaunt that picaresque and peremptory label despite the decree of the 'S. Board on Geographical Names that the proper title

MARK ys - Business’ Manager

- Price in-Marion -Coun- |

but the holders.

raising thunder. . .

Fair Enough By Westbrook ‘Pegler .

Business Was ~lllegal in a Suit

Brought by. Partner 5 Years Ago. ol

EW YORK, Jan. 4.—Moe ‘Annenberg, the millionaire publisher, who is soon to go to trial in the Federal Court: in Chicago, or plead guilty, accord-

ing to his choice, . in an -embarrassing situation; a

branded himself by his own pleadings in. court in

Annenberg Admitted Race News Er

1934. Mr. Annenberg denies that he is a racketeer,| \

and ‘there has been some. informal discussion in

Washington and Chicago of the fact that, as a Re-| publican ne spaper publisher in’ Philadelphia, where |:

he fought the New. Deal, he incurred the political displeasure of the Roosevelt Administration. Mention is made of this by way of suggesting that he ‘might be a victim of political persecufion, but the fact remains that after a long and incredibly prosperous career in the illegal horse-room gambling racket, Mr.

Annenberg now stands accused of wifibiolging about.

five million dollars in income taxes. That figure is the result of an incomplete audit and represents only his personal income. The amount may grow when the tax accountants of the Treasury

ments, and ‘vades the field of the crimin gangsters of the foulest type. 8: ” »

part ana or control.

politicians an

R. ANNE] . business in a motion which his attorneys filed in

the Circuit Court of Cook County, Ill, on Dec. 14,

1934. In that case he and others had been sued by John J. Lynch, their partner, for an accounting and division of the profits of the General News Bureau, which furnished race results to gambling rooms.

In his reply, made by the Chicago law firm of Ri Rand, Fleming, Green & Martin, Mr. Annenberg. 2

sai Se appears on the face of ‘the bill of complaint that the subject matter of the lawsuit is a division

of the profits made by supplying gamblers and hand- |

book operators with ‘certain essentials which are necessary in ‘the. conduct of said gambling or handbook business. Equity will not take jurisdiction or order an accounting between participants in an illegal

business, n in: an illegal business to obtain from others his fair

share of the profits resulting from said business. 2

The suit was settled out of court, #2 8 =

T= defense came back to. plague ‘Mr. Annenberg last ‘November, when William J. Campbell, the

Federal District Attorney, and Thomas J. Courtney, the Cook County Prosecutor, asked for an -injunetion to forbid the telephbne and telegraph companies from providing wire facilities for the operation of Mr. Annenberg's race news service, Annenberg asked relief ‘in ‘the Federal Court. ‘Mr. Campbell was ready for him. He was ready to cite ‘against him Moe's own contention that an illegal business had no standing in court, and, moreover, he had assembled in town Police Commissioner Valentine of New. York, the Attorney General of Cali-

and half a dozen other officials to swear that the

| wire facilities were to be ‘used in the operation of an

illegal business. '. At this point Mr. Annenberg agreed to give up an illegal business which had brought him millions and helped crooked politicians and police to maintain an alliance between Government and the criminal

underworld.

The Postoffice Pens and the Way

Folks Keep Taking Holders and All.

VERY once in.a while you hear someone say that a pen “isn’t any better than a postoffice pen.” That seems like a gross libel because the Postoffice

pens apparently are pretty good. So good, in fact, that

folks keep walking off with not only the penpoints There's nothing like a satisfied customer! The Postoffice has.12 upright desks in the lobby. There are three pers on each desk—a total of 36 pens. The night watchman changes every ‘penpoint each night so that when: morning comes each pen has a spanking ‘new point. Charles Clift, the assistant’ custodian’ at the Federal Building, says they use 9000 penpoints a year.

He doesn’t know how many pen holders are used beé-

cause every time they find a few missing, they just requisition a new batch: This taking of the holders is sort of ‘a mystery because they're really not distinguished in any way, shape, or form. They're plain, black, tapered wooden holders. They don’t cost very

much We suppose it’s Just a theory folks have of getting

their money's worth out of taxes.

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H. BERT OYLER, the amateur weatherman who tells the weather by the direction the wind was blowing when the sun ‘crossed the Equator, called yesterday to remind us that he had said in November that this ‘would be. the coldest winter in the last four years. . . . He said when the wind*is in the north‘west quarter things are pretty tough. ... He doesn’t see any letup for at least. a month. . Add signs of the times: They've started taking down the holiday decorations on the. Circle. . That Pot-of-Gold program the other night went plank right in the middle of one of Mr. Heidt’s musical numbers. . . You'd think that thousands of folks waiting to hear their phones ring would jump to phones and start . But the station here says . Gosh, we're calm people.

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SONJA HENIE and her troupe are eoiite to town for a session at the Coliseum. . . . Starting date is Feb. 6. . We'll have a lot of distinguished company around then. . .. The eminent Miss Helen Hayes will be here Feb. 8 and four days after that, on Feh. 12, will come the celebrated Mr. Maurice Evans. . .. The three H's, if you pronounce the last name like the English do. . . . Speaking of' visitors, we had Mickey Rooney for 32 minutes yesterday. .. . Or at least the Airport did. . . ; He was on his way to Florida from Chicago.

they didn't. .

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

LITTLE bulletin from Houston informs me of Aq

the activities of the Youth Service group, organ-

ized in 1938 to study and fight syphilis and other" 4

health foes in the community. Reading of their accomplishments and plans, I was overwhelmed once more with- admiration, : -and

with regref that my generation was not so wise |’ about life’s realities. When one considers that move- | |

ERG admitted that he was in illegal ¢

nor will equity aid and abet anyone engaged |

Mr.

lone avs \T WONT BE HALE SO eon

I wholly

defend to the death your rig

The Hoosier Forum

disagree with what you say,

htt to say it,—Voltaire,

but will:

: KE PRID fornia, the chief constable of the Dominion of Canada’ SAYS SOME TAKE E

IN BEING WRONG By J. B. P. To Voice in the Crowd: Of course you're right. But what's

the use? There is a breed of dude|

in these United States which . . . doesn’t know and won't learn—and

- | they take a deliberate pride in being ‘|wrong .-. .

Inside Indianapolis

So. what's the use? 8 8 8

|HOLDS JOB INVESTMENT

HANDICAP TO CAPITALISM By Times Reader ‘The iron and steel industry now informs us that $10,000 is required for every job in the steel industry. You know what follows: Capital should be encouraged, taxes should be reduced (on the big boys), labor curbed; we should return to fundamental principles, etc. Just walk around a city block and you can find plenty of businesses that support jobs, and good ones, at

.|less than the ten grand per invest-

ment. If it takes that much to maintain a job in the steel industry, then technological improvement has been advancing at an amazing and -dangerous pace in that field. You then have a sound argument for. the Government to take a greatSh riot less—hand in our economic e : . A couple of years ago the familiar figure was around six or seven thousand * investment per job. If the ante is rising at that rate, our unemployment problem is getting greater and greater, and then the greater the need for governmental interference. But take the ten

as representative of business and industry generally. There are said to be ten million unemployed. At that rate it would take a hundred billion dollars to take care of our unemployment problem. Isn't that too big a job for private capital? ‘8 2 #

FAVORS RELIEF TO AMERICANS FIRST By Forum Reader I hope _you ‘will print my ideas of Fred W.. Ramsey, the City Welfare Director ‘of a Ames O. I can’t

think of him as| American who let things get so critical as the papers state and let the people go hungry

thousand figure at its face value, and;

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

and cold while he makes his next study. I know it is no worse than to let Herbert Hoover take up moneys for the Finnish Government. If Hoover has the spirit, he would want to help at home first. We all know he hasn’t yet and now would be a real time when our people are just as bad off as the Finns. I hope the President, will not permit Hoover or anyone else) to use money: that is needed at home. And I hope to see the day that our American - home is guarded by Americans, . 2 8 = SEES CAPITALISM DOOMED WHEN TRUTH IS KNOWN By Curious, Bloomington, Ind.

I have been reading and studying scientific socialism, Karl Marx and communism for -over g year now, thanks to the American Bill of Rights, and I would now like to read

“| some good economics in favor of

capitalism. By reading and learn-

ling to recognize the difference between communism and capitalism

I am becoming a better capitalist. I am going to be a capitalist too

as long as it lasts-and that will be

only until all the American people learn. the true cause of -it. Then

{they will throw it so far out that it

can never come back again. I am

| going to try to stay on the “gravy train” as long as.it runs. I am nol

idealist; I am atiempting to be a materialistic monist. .

® 2 = SEES U. S. ON SPOT IN JAPANESE STAND By Citizen Once again the ' United States finds herself ‘forced to make a decision to aid: either peace or. war. We are justly helping Finland in her desperate fight against dictator nation Russia... What policy will we follow toward -Qictaior : hation Japan?. ; Our, commercial tosis. enpives Jan. 26. If ‘we do not renew it Japan will beso handicapped that her war: against China cannot long continue. Not to renew the treaty means loss of revenue for us. To renew it means the triumph of

money advantages over moral considerations. We as a ‘nation are

definitely on the ‘spot.

New Books at the thoy

ITH 1940 elections drawing steadily nearer, and with speculation rife on the subject of the Presidential nomination in both the Republican, and Democratic conventions, Willis Thornton’s “The Third Term Issue” (Greenberg) makes a timely appearance. As the author says, the matter of a third term for the .President is indeed the “hot potato of American polit; Unwittingly, he says, George Washington set a precedent

1when .he refused to be President a

third time—because he was old and tired and wanted to go home, and indeed had never wished to be President at all. the same refusal, on principle, Since then, the length of the Presidential term and the matter of second ang my terms has sporadically come

Side Glances—By Galbraith |

ments of a similar sort are working in many parts| | =

‘of the nation, one feels a sense of relief and of hope,

in the knowledge that tomorrow's citizens will be armed with a wisdom which yesterday's lacked. - “Upon finding,” says the bulletin,” that of the eStimated 6,500,000 persons in the United States suffering from syphilis, three-fourths are between the ages of 16 and 30, the Youth Committee felt that a program of education to reach as many young ‘people as possible was the first necessary step.”

Although they did not say so, I imagine these] | leaders also .know that the second nesesary step |"

cover up|

is battle the pt prudes Who prefer to : unpleasant sights -and go whistlin “God's Heaven; all's right with the No i in His

This desire to bring knowledge to Places darkened. :

by ignorance, and tp open the doors of the mind to

truth, is definitely modern and in my opinion defi- |

| nitely good. The young people of today seem to be filled with a zest for

unlike their elders they act more than they talk, det 2

has brought unmeasured misery th ; 1 its [realest Javages = among hike youl A

information; they are not content with half-truths. And more important still, they are eager to do something to improve conditions, Their organ- | izations are models of energy and efficiency, and |

Jefferson made.

'|Stre. never ‘wandered from

to the fore, to be ‘oti debated in

the light -of both principle and expediency. The author points out that, although no President has ever actually served for a third term, more than one has been a candidate for the third time, or has been considered as a candidate, and has been rejected or. defeated on entirely other grounds. He also notes,-in answer to the fear that breaking the precedent would be. a first step toward the ‘establishment of a dictatorship, that none of the presentday dictatorships has come as a result of election and re-election of any man to any office. : As for the question of the re-elec-tion of President Roosevelt in 1940, Mr. Thornton writes: - “The. appeal to sheer tradition as such is untrue to the best American spirit. Betfer is the appeal to reason, the calm determination .to survey an existing situation and inquire of the proposed course of action, rot ‘Has this been done before?’ but simply ‘Is this wise?”

HER HOMESTEAD By FLORENCE MARIE TAYLOR She never saw the palm leaves sway Over a lagoon;

Nor glimpsed a mountain- capped

with snow ‘Under a cold, white moon.

She never saw in Ttaly Cathedral - window panes, - Through which the sun made white Chiist’s image And red His blood’s stains.

“Ivet fas heheld a skyline flaming

From the setting’ sun,

- | The horses, sheep and cattle homing

When the day is done.,

| And that sweet hour at" “twilight,

Tea edi like a prayer, 5 er homestead, ; But has found beauty there there.

DAILY THOUGHT Thus saith’ the Lord God; Let it - suffice you, O princes of Israel; remove violence anc spoil, and

executive . judgment and justice, take away your exactions from

my people, 3atth the: Lord od ~ Ezekiel 45:9.

) R with violence ;

| prompt diagnosis and now known. By

. THURSDAY, JAN, 4, 1940

wa 1 1Gen. Johnson"

Breathing Spel Likely During the Winter, But Signs Point to Fierce Aerial: Warfare Starting in Spring.

ASHINGTON, Jan, 4.—~The expereince ot winter war in Finland does not indicate a likelilvaod of any immediate change from .the present strange ‘standstill war anywhere. Few great offensives have ever been begun in winter and few great “battles

“| fought." It is true that the disadvantage of. ‘bad

weather is usually equal on. both, but no general. likes to start a fight under conditions in which he cannot use his maximum ‘of force and speed. - : Modern mechanized and motorized warfare is even more impeded by winter than .were old armies. Its essence is swift movement of ‘smaller numbers and intense concentration of fire. _ The world. is almost sure to have a breathing spell,

but the coming of spring threatens terrible things. I

don’t believe that Goering was bluffing in his new year message. Nobody ought to prophesy, but how can the spring of 1940 be anything other than now-or-never for the little handful of scoundrels at the head of the ‘Nazi Party and Government? .. In a war purely of economic, strangulation, they cannot possibly win, Furthermore, their gradual relative weakening and their constant inaction makes léss and less likely any kind of negotiated ‘peace that politically, they could afford’ to sign. hE ; ‘sn » TORIES _coming out of Germany are all of come J plete self-confidence on the ‘part of German pros ional soldiers. While some of them are said to de= ore the war itself and especially the timing’ of it, all, n am told, feel sure of winning it. '. It is to be noted that Goering laid his principal stress on aerial war. Of all the puzzles ‘of this conflict, the relative inactivity aloft is the hardest W unQerstand. The Germans are ‘generally believed to have a very matked superiority-in the air—both in manpower and

|. machinery. According to stories—not of Germans but | of returning Americans--German plane production is

far outstripping that: of the Allies—including that available from the United States. Even if the initial | wastage and loss should: prove terrific—as it' surely ‘would—all this fragmentary information, if true, spells a situation that, by all the rules of war, calls for a determined attack in mass, 8s = 8 HAT has happened in the air thus far is ike the old “feeling out”; by -thin patrols ‘of: skit mishers of enemy positions from both sides before the battle is ‘joined. Ina. ‘military sense there "has simply been “no contest.” Yet, such a contest is inevitable and it is ‘almost sure to ‘precede any smash on land at the Western Front—whether ‘straight ‘at . the Maginot Lihé or around either or both flanks’ through Holland “or Switzerland—or all or either’ in ‘combination. i . The only thing that I can think of that will avert a terrible ordeal in ‘the air no later than April is séirething that could happen within Germany ‘to ‘change its government. That there may be a ‘popular uprising against the Hitler-Goering gang, I'am told: is riost unlikely, But; the life of no tyrant or group of tyrants is ever secure. A matter of minutes prevented ‘the erasure of most of the Nazi-nest’ at one stroke’ by tie Munich bomb. :

Dies Committee

By Bruce Catton

Battle Likely Over Continiing Probe, But Texan Will Frabably Get Bading

(Last of a of a Series)

[ASHINGTON, Jan. . 4—The. Dies Committee nd * its activities may well become a-national issue as the winter session of Congress decides -whether- to provide the money. to Keep up the work. The Come mittee summed up its findings to date in a 15, 000word report. ta Congress yesterday. Extension. of the Committee's work . last - winter provided a lot of fireworks, with. the | Administration opposing... Without new 'authorizat on and more money, the Committee would go-out of existernce: this winter, . And the fight will be hotter than that of a year ago.. For 1940 is an election year. - ‘Dies has brought out a lot of testimony about Communism in and near the New Deal,: and.says he has a lot more. - The thought of this sort of :hot: stuff coming out in the: middle of a Lr campaign gives some of the New Dealers & cold sweat ane

Murphy May Steal ‘Spotlight

Communists and thelr activity have’ never ‘been | poptilar in the House, and they are less so. since. the invasion of Finland. . Legislation .is.apt: to ‘be: pro‘posed this winter. which would, in effect, drive the

| Communist’ Party out .of existence in .the U.8. a bill, requiring . any

. Dies was working this fall political party affiliated . with an. ifiternational, arganization (in this case .the Comintern)..to file periodic statements with ‘the Secretary of. State. giving. the true names of all officers. and members, and a financial accounting. Such a. bill. might. well go. through the House. It .might-have ‘harder’. s Senate, but if recent rumors are true that = a ministration would be quietly satisfied to see such a law passed, it might have little trouble. Attorney-General Murphy's grand jury investigation of foreign agents might, however, steal the spotlight in the meantime and cripple Dies’ chances of another large appropriation. If the Murphy investigation should turn yp with a ‘nice assortment of head lines and a fat sheaf of indictments, Administration leaders could argue that the job had been done except - for prosecution—a job for the Department of Justice, ahd one that would require no further public hearings by the Dies Cammittee, ‘ Best bet at. the moment, however, is that Dies will get just about what he wants in the ay. vl auioily and money.

Watching Your Health

By Jane “Stafford HE ¢

_ the National Cancer Institute at Bethesda, Md., and of Memorial Hospital for the Treatment of Cancer and Allied, Diseases, in New York City, were judged among the. most important ‘advances in medical sciences during, the ‘year that has just closed. The réason is not hard to. find. The new Memorial Haspital buildings provide facilities for treat ing more cancer patients and also: for training more | young physicians in expert diagnosis and treatment of cancer, ‘This is expected to spread the benefits ‘of modern cancer-fighting far beyont Memorial Hos pital’s home territory. Surge Xeravs and radium are the modern scien= tific’ Weapons. against cancer. Neutron rays:.from the cyclotron are also being tried as cancer-fighters, with Shoouragine. results,. i the. work has not gone far beyond 1 Hospital's: home territory; -. - Surgery, X-rays and radium are -the - modern seientific | | weapons’ ‘against cancer. Neutron rays from the cyclotron are also being: tried ‘as capritfighters, with en results, but ‘the work-has not: gone far Enough yet for these very new weapons ‘to be added to the others. . .Cancer. fighters, however, have not stopped searching for better weapons, and they hope, of -course, tolearn enough’ about the ‘causes of ‘cancer: to be able to prevent the disease. Rese ‘of this nature are going forward at many “centers, and

Sn and secupation’ by ‘stg staff - ‘of

notably at the National: Cancer Institute, where

facilities are provided skilled ‘scientists for investigation" of any phase of this problem that seems prom.

Meanwhile, ‘each of us can do our own cancers taking a brave, intelligent attitude about this disease, Reports who have been cured of cancer encourage doctors to believe that many more lives can be saved treatment wi with He. Je you not to“‘let fear nor seeking a doctor’s advice if danger signals that may mean:

es A in the 5 “Amp be bieast

of increasing numbers of patients

early, |

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