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FRIDAY, JANUARY 5, 1940

TAKE IN MORE; PUT OUT LESS IT's the 11th consecutive budget to be written in red ink. One virtue is that it requires a little less of that garish writing fluid than have most of its predecessors, which since 1931 have added some 27 billion dollars to the national debt.

Another virtue is that it dramatically places the re-.

onsibility where it belongs—with Congress. Heretofore the executive department has supplied ost of the borrow-and-spend initiative, and Congress has jone through the motions of reluctantly acquiescing. But this time Congress is on the spot—and in an elecion year. For the new budget makes heavy cuts in all ose pork-barrel items, such as rivers-and-harbors and ighways, and in such other items as relief and farm subidies which Congressmen like to talk about in a year when oters go to the polls. It provides only one important increase—for national defense—and it recommends that Congress immediately levy $460,000,000 in new taxes to pay the extra defense bills. And—here is the rub—Congress cannot appropriate more than the President recommends, nor tax less, or else the Government's debt will go beyond the 45-billion-dollar legal limit. Clearly the time has arrived when Congress must pay _ the fiddler. It will no longer suffice to be in favor of God, mother, home and the more abundant life in theory, and against war, debt, taxes and extravagance in principle. It’s .too bad the showdown has come in an election year. But that could have been avoided had Congress long ago recognized the realities and started taking in more and putting out less.

ON THE VICE VERSA FRONT

HE new decade starts as topsy-turvy as the old—a tax collector in Kenilworth, N. J., killed a man.

MURPHY, JACKSON AND BIDDLE

THREE excellent appointments—Murphy; to the Supreme Court; Jackson, Attorney General; Biddle, Solicitor General. bracket where education, experience and physical energy work at the maximum. All liberals in the broader interpretation of that too-nebulous word. As for Robert Jackson—many important governmental posts blaze his trail to the very top of his profession. Anyone who has seen that brilliant lawyer perform will feel confident that judicial appointments for the recommendation of which he will be responsible will be of the highest character; that no Mantons will creep in under his jurisdiction; and that the Pendergasts will be chased by him to their rock-pile rewards with the same neatness and dispatch as Murphy displayed. Few of us realize the full scope of the Attorney General’s job. Or the power for good or evil that is inherent in it. That power will be exerted only for good under Jackson, unless we miss our guess, and under his Solicitor General, Francis Biddle, whose record in legal practice and on the bench more than measures up to what it takes if a high and non-political concept of justice is to be maintained. : Until Frank Murphy was named Attorney General just ahout a year ago he was thought of nationally as an executive rather than in terms of the legal profession—although his legal training had been broad and thorough. Chiefly he was known as a Governor who had faced one of the toughest of dilemmas, the sit-down strikes in Michigan. He was much criticized and much praised, after the fact, for his handling of that crisis. But while the crisis was actually on, few if any of his critics-by-hindsight would have wanted “to be in his place. He chose to prevent bloodshed, and did, by not being too legalistic. We have always felt that the spot was so hot that the questions involved added up to a case of “judge not that ye be not judged.” Anyway, it all helped defeat Murphy in his second race for the Michigan governorship, and to kick him upstairs to a place .on the Supreme bench. In his short term as Attorney General he energized the Justice Department. The positions he took on civil liberties, the spoils system and the Hatch Act, anti-trust, including labor’s part therein, judicial appointments, prosejons without fear or favor of the Pendergasts and the boteurs—all made up a fast-moving picture of justice fuhctioning on high. He stuck his neck out politically time time again as many a lesser man in that position would néver have done. If you are in the least doubt of the soundness of his philosophy we suggest you read “In Defense of Democracy,” written by him, with introduction by Charles A. Beard, and issued by the American Association for Economic Freedom, Washington, D. C. You will feel better about the future of our country in these distorted times. We only wish we had space to print every word of the booklet here. Murphy, Jackson and Biddle we think area great triple-

play.

NOTHING NEW IN WAR JAMES WARNER BELLAH, who did a lot of flying in the World War, has an article in Harper's entitled “Bombing Cities Won’t Win the War.” He discusses the “Douhet theory” that sudden aerial frightfulness can break the back of enemy resistance, and comments: “But it just doesn’t work. Moreover, it makes civilians agile, angry and utterly war-conscious. It puts them on the team instead of on the substitute’s bench. , . . Kill a soldier's wife at home in the dark—or his mother or his children—and watch out for him. He will mind his bayonet from now on.” : And Mr. Bellah concludes that: “There won't be anything really new in this’ war—not even war in the air. ITIL all bog down presently into a lot of dirty infantrymen facing one another across a hundred yards of hell-churned blood-mud, and it will go on until the , money for wheat gives out—and then it will stop and no | one will have won because everyone will have lost again and in the cemeteries will be fal of dead youth 0 once mere, and f

tell them what boat to catch.

Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

Illinois Senator Operating a Race Tip Sheet Cited to Show Link Between Politicians and Gambling.

EW YORK, Jan. 5.—Daniel A. Serritella of Chicago is a Republican member of the Illinois State Senate whose official position may be cited to prove the actual connection between Government and the race betting interests in that city and state. To the people of Chicago and Illinois it may seem naive to labor the point that the ‘gambling fraternity participates in their Government. Few of them can remember when they did not accept this fact as the

normal condition in American life. Natives of Chicago who grow up and spend their lives there may be compared to children born and raised in some horrible waterfront slum, who know the vice from their earliest flicker of intelligence and never realize that things are different elsewhere. Although he is a Republican, Serritella is a political a of the ruling Democratic clique which has subsisted largely on the graft taken from a big syndicate of horse-gambling rooms. This Democratic gang does not oppose Serritella, and he plays along with the gang.

In 1937 Serritella and the Moe Annenberg syndi-

cate brought out a scratch sheet in opposition to one |

published by the Bulletin Record Publishing Co. The Bulletin Record crowd brought suit against these rivals in Federal Court, charging infringement and monopoly. A scratch sheet is a gambler’s trade journal dealing in betting information and predictions regarding the races. i 2 8 =» N Chicago the citizens are encouraged to bet on the races in poolrooms run by criminals. There were until recently about 650 such rooms in Chicago and 350 in Cook County outside the city limits. The more money the people bet the more money the political machine collects for “protection” or “ice,” and the more poolroom jobs there.are for minor hoodlums belonging to the organization. ‘Everything was going along ‘efficiently until last fall, when Moe Annenberg, facing indictment on tax evasion charges, discovered that he had outsmarted himself several years ago by pleading that an estranged business partner could not sue him because they were both engaged in an illegal business. So Moe abruptly abandoned his nation-wide horse-wire and subsidiary activities and quit cold. ” 8 s

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UT Senator Serritella did not quit. On Dec. 6 he

demanded that the State Commerce Commission compel the telephone company to continue to provide telephone service for his scratch sheet. Courtney had warned the telephone company to suspend this service. Serritella apparently forgot, however, that he, too, like Annenberg, on a previous occasion, when it suited his legal convenience to do so, had admitted, in effect, that his business was illegal. In the Bulletin Record case he asked tnat his adversary’s petition be thrown out of court, and the judge, in dismissing the action, held that Serritella, as well as the plaintiff, had been in an unlawful undertaking. But he is still at it. A state Senator, a powerful member of the Government operating an important accessory to. the chief racket of the ruling machine, now demands that a State Commission compel the telephone company to furnish service for the furtherance of a vice that has poisoned the very blood of

All highly capable, and each within the age PAmerican Government in the second city of the

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Inside Indianapolis

In Answer to All the Questions

About Censorship and Propaganda.

NE of the questions most frequently asked about town is “How much censorship is there in the news from Europe?” _- [Another Popular query concerns propaganda. Well, at the moment, Britain, France and Russia are the only countries in which outbound dispatches must pass a censor before they are filed. Surprisingly enough, Germany “has no strict censorship of this sort. In Berlin a correspondent. is sometimes taken to task for the messages he has sent out but he does not have to submit them to a censor before turning them louse. Both in Paris and in London the incoming messages also are censored. On some occasions, for instance, the United Press office in New York has asked its London bureau for stories the British government wanted’ suppressed. The usual reply has been: “Sorry cannot reply.” As far as propaganda is concerned, nothing hj bad has been passed through, unless you want to count in some of the fanciful official communiques. The newspapermen on the job in Europe are getting better acquainted with the job of covering a war and can usually spot a phony pretty rapidly. One of the toughest jobs they have, however, is in moving around. For example, the U. P. wanted to move Webb Miller from the Western Front to Finland. It was a major diplomatic task and when it was done the trip to Helsinki by way of London, Amsterdam and Copenhagen took so many identification documents he had to carry a second brief case. ” ” oy SPEAKING OF WAR, French nationals in Indianapolis are all upset. . . . They've been getting letters from Paris by registered mail ordering them to report for immediate war duty. . . . The letters even These nationals have been converging on the Naturalization Office.

‘here, saying they’ have wives and kids and don’t

want to fight.’. . . Nice thing is tRat if they've already filed intentions “of becoming U. 8S. citizens they can go tell the French Government to jump in the Seine. . Community outrage: Some New Year's celebrant tipped over the L. Strauss scale. .... I¢ busted and it had to be sent off to be fixed. ..How will all the downtown stenographers know "when they've eaten too much? 2 a =

APARTMENT DWELLERS have started muttering about the proposal to abolish all-night parking.- . Just’ tipping off the Safety Board, that’s all. A 37-year-old Negro was picked up early yesterday on a vagrancy charge. . . . The police found on him 126 pairs of dice, all sizes, all colors, and all well worn. . . . Detectives haven't figured it out yet.

A Wome s Viewpoint

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

AR and the Verities,” by Ellsworth Barnard in,

the January Harpers, .is an answer to isolationists and pacifists, and a remarkably good one, foo, even to an isolationist and pacifist like myself. Point: by: point he builds up: his arguments upon the major premise of his themne—that war is a knight errant. That is to say, he believes that modern warfare can be a noble enterprise when fought by Americans at the other side of the earth, for the good end of preserving liberty for other races. It is at this point we part company. For many of us cannot conceive war to be anything but a gangster, using gangster methods. When we urge restraint from armed force, says Mr. Barnard, we are committed to a false and vicious dogma because we are placing undue emphasis upon physical well-being—peace, in other words—and so are Prelaniing that only. the physical world has any realit In refutation we must insist that war involves a great deal more than offering one’s life for a principle; it involves the taking of other lives, which is a moral item often overlooked by those who defend pitched battles. During the course of human history many thousands of men and women have willingly died for their principles, and in the-only way which can ever make such a sacrifice effective—by abstaining from brute force and at the same time facing degradation and death with courage. We call them martyrs, and it is interesting to note that martyr. causes are the ones which survive; those of the warrior usually end in defeat. : Within one half-century war has degenerated froma hand-to-hand combat, demanding genuine physical courage, to become =m furtive ignoble, monstrous enter

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES x see be

A STRAIGHT - COURSE

u , > o i | : is The Hoosier Forum I wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to tee death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

NEW DEAL II LAUDED BY YOUTH By Voice of Youth, Jamestown, Ind. Three cheers for Voice in the Crowd!

in our little Forum for quite a while,

what a more youthful mind has to say on affairs of today. Well, I'm not nearly as experienced a critic as V. I. C,, but I might say I know my history and to me his ideas on this New Deal just suit me fine. ” 2 »

VIERECK REPLIES TO ATTACK BY JOHNSON By George Sylvester Viereck, New York, I admire the keenness of Gen. Johnson’s rapier, even when it is turned against me. However, in the present instance the friendship he avows for Mr. Bernard M. Baruch impairs his fact-finding faculties. In his column of Dec. 22 he brands

my confribution to “The Inside Story”—a volume by members of the Overseas Press Club shortly to be published—on the break between Woodrow Wilson and my friend, the late Col. House as “the most ghoulish piece of muckraking of recent time.” I would not have released the secret of Col. House, although I had his sanction to publish what he told me after his death, except for the malicious attack upon the Colonel in a recent biographical volume. There is nothing “ghoulish” in my attack. Wilson and House are historical characters; their lives are pertinent material for the student, no matter how unflattering his conclusion may be. But’ there is not one unkind word about Wilson or House in my story. I reveal the contents of my conversation with Col. House of Oct. 13, 1930, in which he -adduced as the three reasons for the break of his friendship with President Wilson, Mrs, Wilson, Admiral Grayson and Bernard M. Baruch. Of the three persons ‘thus indicted, only Grayson is dead. I speak of him, as House did, with the utmost consideration. Both Mrs. Wilson and Mr. Baruch are alive. Neither is tongue-tied.

I have been reading what]! V. I. C. and other people have to say| |

and have always had an urge to teil|

(Times readers are L livited . 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.) *

Both have capable spokesmen, like Gen. Johnson, who are able to protect them from “ghouls.” -But. do they ‘need such protection? - Gen. Johnson can discover from

|the newspaper columns of the period [the veracity of my statement that

Baruch appeared in public as Wil-

'son’s spokesman, although he pre-

ferred as a rule to stay behind the scenes. For whom was he presuming to speak, if not for the stricken President, when he confided to the

press that Col. House had. “broken

the President's heart” by conferring with Senator Lodge?

‘Is it fair of Gen. Johnson to ig-

nore my intimacy with Col. House |

and the fact that I quote, not from memory, but from notes? Much of what I Teveal today was foreshadowed in my book, “The Strangest Friendship in History—Woodrow Wilson and Col. House” (New York and London, 1932) . , , It is here that I first made the assertion that the President of the United

States was held practically incom-

'municado for six and one-half

months, and that a woman was

President of the United States for

that period. My statement is buttressed by

facts, documents, and by the testi-

mony of Mr. Wilson's friends, including members of his Cabinet. (See pages 293-349). If the general will weigh my evidence, he will discover that it is not “on the face of the record a preposterous untruth.” Mr. Wilson was. incapacitated in the sense of the Constitution after his stroke from fulfilling the functions of his office. The Vice President was not called upon. The Cabinet had no access to him except through Mrs. Wilson and Admiral Grayson. ; ” t #

OPPOSES HOOVER AS

FINNISH RELIEF CHIEF By C. Barnes I have read The Times for years and this is the first time I have tried to express my opinion. I agree with U. S. Veteran in the Forum, Dec. 30. Hoover, of all people to be at the head of Finnish relief! . « Soup lines, degradation, shame, hunger and lost hope are found among thousands of Americans who are loyal to. Uncle Sam, who would fight communism or anything else if .called upon. Hoover overlooks these. He always did and always will. I say charity begins at home. Help share croppers, jobless, Cleveland sufferers first. Then help others.

New Books at the Library

EDICATED to her brother, whom _she calls “s champion for the animals of the wilderness,” “Wild Animals” (Macmillan), compiled .by Frances E. Clarke, is a book to delight the lover of animals and of the wilderness to which they belong. These stories, from stich diverse pens as James Oliver Curwood, William Beebe, Laurence Housman, Edward O. Preble, Dallas Lore Sharp, are the stories of the creatures which once peopled in profusion the forests, streams and Snowy Northern

Side Glancss By Galbraith

{on two feet.

wastes, but many of which, now, under the menacing shadow of their enemy, Man, have all but disappeared from our land. There are tales, too, of the great elephants of India, of the kangaroo and wombat of Australia, the monkey, the old captive lion who had been born.in the jungle. The cunning of beasts great and small, their ‘sure instincts /in the face of danger, the mighty sacrificial love of the mother for her young, the wonder of the world as it unfolds itself before the eyes of the newborn cub, are she themes of these stories. Some of them are the faithful reports of naturalists who have lovingly observed the wild life of meadow and woods. Some are pleas for the conservation of this vanishing life. And some are stories— and who can say how much truth and how much fancy?—of four-foot-ed beings who feel and think and speak as do those who walk upright All are’ written by men and women who love and respect the beautiful furred denizens of the world.

‘LILACS’ By MARY R. WHITE

.(By Special Request) A dainty, sweet, visitor That comes with the May, Her welcome is certain, “Though not long her stay. S6 dainty, so lovely, And filling the air With a sweet scented fragrance = 4} And a beauty, that’s rare.

Sweet flower of springtime, Sweet flower of May, So gay and so graceful How. I wish you could stay. Nothing ever more lovely From a great painter’s brush Than the beauty in springtime, Of my lilac bush.

DAILY THOUGHT

Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not 80 to be —James 3: es 3:10.

HAVE heard 1t sa it said that a curse was like a stone flung up 10 the} vens, and 1

FRIDAY, JAN. 5, 1940 Gen. Joh en. Jonnson Says— 1 Annual Paralysis Drive en Again; Campaign Is Now Organized and in Time This Great Evil Will Be Licked.

ASHINGTON, Jan. 5—The annual drive starts again for money for the Infantile Paralysis Foundation. Last year, I was chairman of the effort for Greater New York. We hung up some kind of a record for total contr ibutions and for low percentage ‘of expense. For that result just one thing was responsible. . I called for help from all my columnist and editorial and radio colleagues, the generous craft

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| of mummers—the ine sible and moving picture pro-

fession—and from the athletes. It hurts to think that one voice that joined our chorus can't do it again—is stilled’ forever—Heywood Broun. In spite of all his.brave and maniy words, my eyes grow moist when I think of another who got in there and fought wherever I could find a place for him—Lou Gehrig. And then ‘he didn’t know that the very thing he was trying to pin on its ¢gvil back already had taken his splendid body in & hold so deadly that he would never be able to swing a bat again, = | ‘8 8 = TT year, T ‘am only honorary chairman of the Greater New York effort—which doesn’t mean a thing-—except a few words on paper. But I do hope that my friend, George Riley, who is actual chairman, gets the same kind of mobilization of . newspaper, theatrical and athletic talent that I had. We can lick infantile paralysis. We have already licked yellow fever, typhoid, smallpox—and are on the way tq licking isyphillis, tuberculosis and cancer.’ This winter, my ‘84-year-old mother got pneumonia. A year ago that would have been certain death for a woman of that age. “I got a great internist, Dr. Goodman of Tulsa, Okla. to go many miles to try this new sulfapyradine treatment on her. She is now alive, well, and kicking about the expense—which is a sure sign of her complete recovery. The way most of this conquest of devastat disease was done was to organize the battle aga it. Hitherto the fight against infantile paralysis is been sporadic. Last year, moneys raised were put into a permanent foundation—like those against can-

cer and tuberculosis. | my effort in New York City last year, I ran into prejudices and fetishes that would have disgraced the dark ages. It was all sent to Warm Springs where the cost of treatments were prohibitive. The whole idea of centering it about the birthday balls was pure political propaganda. There never has been any accounting. I.think that almost all this scum has been drained off. Every nickel of the New’ York fund has been scientifically audited and reported and so, I am told, have all contributions. Warm Springs is only one of hundreds of hospitals which receives assistance and it has no preference. The Foundation iund is administered by foremost citizens, many of whom are opposed to Mr. Roosevelt. The cruellest cut of all is the political charge. Franklin Roosevelt makes no capital of his infirmity. On the contrary, I have never seen or heard of a man who went through such suffering to | minimize it. He takes it to a point of martyrdom. But if he carried it a step beyond to the point of not permitting his splendid example to aid and encourage other sufferers, in order to avoid the political criticism, he would be a coward. And that at least is a charge that can never be laid to him,

Aviation By Maj. Al Williams Italian Air Force Hos Proved Its,

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HE Italian Air Force is one of the best in the world. Within the past few years it has shown its ability in two wars—and.is now Peporien engaged in a third. In the Abyssinian Campaign the Ttalian Air Force was largely instrumental, in kicking the predictions of Europe's military experts into a. cocked hat. They

said the Italians could not conquer Abyssinia within four years. The Italian land army did the job, of course, but without the scouting, advance groundstrafing and bombing of enemy concentrations, selection of marching routes in an unmapped country, and - transportation of food, medical supplies and! ammunition, the Italian Army would still be banging away there.

In the Spanish War the Italian Air Force again proved its efficiency. Fighting against all kinds of French and Russian war planes, the Italian equipment and air tactics demonstrated that ‘Italian air power must be considered among the most powerful military instruments in Europe. -

Unlike most other countries, the Italian dir leaders studied and coolly interpreted the lessons they had, learned in that campaign. Chief among these was the necessity for consolidating the complete autonomy of the Air Force.

Profited by Spanish War

The Italian Air Force is on a par with the Italian Army and Navy. There's no squabbling between admirals, generals, and air leaders. ‘The Army tends to its knitting. The Navy sticks to the sea. And the Air Force has complete responsibility for con-| trolling the air over and around Italy, along with the administration of whatever ground organizations are necessary to maintain that air control.

Out of the Spanish experience the Italian Air Force developed the Squadra Aerea. The Squadra Aerea is a major operating division of the Italian Air Force —devoted to combat purposes, and freed from ground; organization duties, such as the establishment and maintenance of air bases, supplies of fuel, spare engines, and field repairs. The. ground duties are delegated to the divisions of the Air Force known as the Air Zones,

This is the first systematic provision for regimenting and subdividing an air force into units comparable to the scheme of a land army. In fact, the| Italian Air-Force is an army of the air, and independent—when occasion demands-+of the Army or the Navy.

Watching Your Health By Jane Stafford |

ITAMIN K has proved an exciting newcomer to the vitamin family. First obtained from alfalfa and ‘showing its significance in studies of chicks, it has since been hailed as a life-saver in certain human illnesses featured by dangerous bisecting which the vitamin checks. ’ Because of its dramatic value in such cases, vitamin K has been called the anti-bleeding vitamin. This is somewhat’ misleading. It is only effective in controllidg hemorrhage in certain cases and under certain conditions of use. It does not, for example, affect the hemorrhagic tendency of persons with hemo‘philia, hereditary bleeding disease. What vitamin K does is to promote the formation of - prothrombin. This substance is one of the factors necessary in blood coagulation. One of the exciting things about vitamin K is pthe speed with which scientists, following the original discovery of its impprtance in the diet of chicks, ginal learnie its value in human illnesses, have identified Shomyeally, and have prepared synthetic chemicals to. the vitamin which can be used in ‘treating eS sick patients. Fortunately, you do not, have to worry about whether you are getting. enough of this vitamin your diet. In the first place, it is believed that it 5 so widely distributed that one can hardly fail to get some of it in the diet. In the second place, the difficulty in cases of patients who do lack this vitamin

| seems. to be chiefly one of absorption of it from the

food. Of course, if they get so sick that they cannot eat, the deficiency grows worse. That is why having it available in the form of a chemical is so valuable. The chemical can either be injected into the patient's vein or given in small, concentrated doses by mouth, along with: bile salts to help him absorb the vitamin. Conditions um voich it is used to nt 1 a)

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