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Give Light and the Pcople Will Find Their Own Way

THURSDAY, JANUARY 11, 1940

FINNISH SLOGAN Fo A DIVISION a day keeps the Russians away.

NEW ALTITUDES FOR AVIATION

THE war and our own expanding defenses have given the aviation industry a terrific stimulus. But aviation is by no means just a war baby. Entirely aside from the military angle, aviation has been doing all right. > The ‘Civil Aeronautics Authority, in its first an report to Congress, has just revealed that the domestic air lines are handling, in comparison to a year ago— : 45.9 per cent more passenger traffic. 49.7 per cent more express. 12.5 per cent more mail. , : As for the overseas trade, officials of Pan American Airways recently pointed out that their trans-Atlantic Clippers, carrying mail at 30 cents a half ounce, were more than earning their “subsidies” from the Postoffice Department. The Pan American is preparing to order some superClippers far and away bigger than the present giants; big enough and fast epough to carry 50 passengers—in individual sleeping gompartments—from New York to France in 12 hours. woe The last few days saw hundreds upon hundreds of light private planes—‘“putt-putts,” as Maj. Al Williams affectionately calls them—swarming to Florida for a sportive get-together. And the CAA predicts that by the end of August there will be 40,000 certified civilian pilots in the United States. a Aviation, one industry in which even the sky isn’t the limit, is going places. And we're glad Indianapolis has a growing part in its development. :

THAT NOISE AGAIN

HE tariff issue is smoking up Washington again. So we

may as well brace ourselves for the siren shrieks of the |

lobbyists who will go before the House Ways and Means Committee, and later before the Senate Finance Committee, and demand that Secretary Hull's reciprocal trade agreements program be abandoned. This program is not popular with lobbyists. Back in the days of Smoot-Hawley and Fordney-McCumber and Payne-Aldrich, tariff making was almost the exclusive ‘ province of lobbyists skilled in applying pressure on Con.gressmen, masters of back-scratching and logrolling. The Hull idea of having the trade experts of our Government get together with the trade experts of some other Government and arrive at an agreement for the mutual benefit of both countries is directly opposite to the lobbyists’ idea of the way to do business. To fortify ourselves against the Jeremiads to the effect that Mr. Hull’s foreign-trade revival threatens destruction of American living standards, etc., we should bear in mind that special-interest lobbyists have only one thing in common with most of the rest of us—they think they have to live. And to get the fees which pay for the rich foods and gravies of the Washington hotels they think they have to make a lot of noise to impress the clients back home. They don’t always know what they are talking about, and they don’t always represent the people they say they represent. These are things to bear in mind as the tariff fight swings inte crescendo in Washington. It will help the rest of us to remain more or less calm if we remember that most of the commotion is supplied by lobbyists singing for their supper,

EXTENDING THE HATCH ACT

N many states, beginning five or six weeks before election day, battalions of weedchoppers mysteriously appear along the roadsides, and then just as mysteriously disappear the day after election. But there is a chance that history may not repeat this election year. For Senator Hatch (D. N. M.) is introducing amendments to his “no politics” law which Congress enacted last summer. The Hatch Act, passed after disclosure of a multitude of political abuses in the WPA and other government agencies, forbids Federal employees to take active part in political campaigns or to use their official positions to coerce other citizens into voting for or against any candidate or party. The amendments now proposed would extend the same regulations to employees of state agencies which are supported in whole or in part by Federal - funds. : : i : Among such agencies are the state highway departments, notorious in many states for their political activity. More often than not the head of the department is the state boss, or the lieutenant of the boss, and around election time he considers that his primary duty is not to build roads but to mobilize the vote. The biennial weedchopping is just one method of using road money to round up ballots. | Other state agencies maintained in part by Federal funds include the welfare bureaus which distribute old-age pensions and aid to dependent mothers and the needy blind, and whose officials have the cruel power to pay or withhold - these pittances. Beginning Jan. 1, the Federal Social Security Board invoked rules paralleling the Hatch Act regulations, but the Senator's amendments are needed to provide double insurance against political abuses in this field. Congress should adopt these amendments, and we think it will. Then still more should be done to stop vicious political practices in the public service. There will remain hundreds of thousands of employees of state, county and municipal governments who will not be covered by the Hatch Act or the amendments. Because their salaries are derived wholly from local tax funds, their conduct can be regulated only by state legislatures, municipal councils and other local governing bodies. : Citizens who think tax money should be used only for public purposes, and who would like to see their schoolteachers, policemen, firemen and other local officials and employees freed from subservience to political bosses, should tart now insisting that the Hatch Act principle be extended gll down the line. ; ee o

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Indianapolis Times

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“would call on one member of the squad to tell what

By Westbrook Pegler

Too Much Heavy Thinking a Menace, He Thinks, Citing European Schools And Doom of Football at Chicago U.

: EW YORK, Jan. 11.—We-all baby-havin’, ‘tatorhoin’, God-fearin’ Americans are not a-goin’ to take kindly to the abandonment of intercollegiate football, and this decision to haul down the grand old flag, so to speak, looks like .the work of the munists. 1 would not be surprised to.learn that it was in-

who seduced that illustrious, ‘stali-walking, - intellec~ tual alumnus of the Midway, Mr. James Vincent Sheean, to sign a manifesto exculpating Moscow, just before Joself Stalin took a full swing at Finland and missed. ; (Speaking of Finland, the adjectives “brave,” ‘poor” and “glorious” are to be taken for granted. I call Finland Finland for short only to save telegraph tolls.) ! The trouble with the University of Chicago is that the students have gone in too much for high-pressure thinking. I once sat in on an evening of mental scrimmage there under the direction of Head Coach Robert M. Hutchins, the grand old man of ratiocination, and it was easy to see that this was a killing game for young and immature minds. They would read a passage cut of an old thought-book, and the. grand old man, or wizard mentor, of ratiocination

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: | Thar was not so bad. That was just straightaway thinking. But then they would ask the | student to tell what it meant sidewise, backward and upside down, and before the poor kid was excused for his*shower and rub they would have him doing halfgainers, spinners and standing-sitting jack-knives over some proposition that never should have been given a second thought. So : The thinking squad staggered out of the room groggy, and it is no wonder that so many letter-men and women of the thinking squad left U. of C. with cerebral trick-knees and thought with a decided limp in after life, especially on rainy days. Some veterans of intercollegiate football write an annual magazine piece, usually entitled “Was It Worth It?” in which they take occasion to remind a forgetful public that they really were <All-Americag long ago. They then dig up all the old cases of. charley horses,” twig-fracture and cauliflowered cerebellum that have occurred in football in a quartercentury and cry “no” a thousand times. 2 ” 8

pees were young and dumb at the time, and they thought the glory, the varsity letters and clippings which they accumulated were worth the risks and hurts. Now, however, they are wiser, and so they decry football, but they nevertheless preserve as priceless trophies to be handed on to their sons, if any, the dusty helmets and cracked old football shoes which they wore on the varsity and their football letters and scrapbooks. They do this in the identical spirit of those retired brigadiers whose only distinction was earned in war and who delighted in war but now decry it as a beastly business, yet cherish their medals and brittle old citations from the commanding officer. Much that passes for college thinking in reality is nothing but worrying, and the graduates of the schools which produce good football teams are quite as happy and as useful for all practical and spiritual purposes as the furrowed and thought-scarred veterans who are emerging from the University of Chicago. The European schools have always emphasized thinking, and the result is told not in progress of happiness but in the war news today. ;

Inside Indianapolis

The City and Its Gross Income Tal} And the Ravenswood Situation, Too.

\ S is customary this time of the year there is much mumbling and grumbling about meeting ‘Gross Income tax playments but the funniest of all the mumblings is the one concerning the City’s debt to-the State. The City owes in gross income taxes roughly upwards of af couple of thousands dollars. Our City

officials are, for publication, stunned by the realization that there are no provisions in the City’s budget for gross income taxes. This is a deplorable situation since there is some legal opinion to the effect that the City can’t pay anything that isn’t provided for in the budget. : It is actually funny because the truth of the matter is that they left the gross income tax provision out of thé budget because they didn’t want to pay it anyway. : ” ” ” - THE CALL to “man the boats” is about due in Ravenswood. You can always bet your bottom dol-

lar that as soon as the flood warnings are posted,

| Ravenswood will have a flood.

Reason is that most of the houses out there sit right on the river bank. A lot of ’em have wharves and all. The folks out there like living on the river. They wouldn't move for all the cotton in Alabama. But they do want flood control. The flood control officials here have brooded over the situation for a long time. Only one thing stops them. They don’t know yet how to have your wharf and dry it. ” ” 2

SCOOP: THE assistant to the chief counsel of the Bureau of Internal Revenue of the U. S. Department of the Treasury, Washington, D. C. (whew!) is in town with a special staff. . . , They've been talking to some interesting folks, too. . .. Joe Tynan became the proud papa of an eight-pound boy Sunday. . . . And so his colleagues in the County Recorder's office rigged up a clothes line in the office. . , . Just to remind him. . . . And then there's the motorman on one of the early (very early) morning College Ave. streetcars who, when he reaches the end of the line, announces in a resigned voice: “Washington ang Penn. : You just pick ’em up and then ‘you have to put ’em down.” .

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

WE get ready for war very much .as we get ready _for marriage. To the couple participating, the joining up is preceded by purely romantic preludes. A delightful commotion takes place. We plan clothes, refreshments, parties; congratulations, presents and attentions are heaped upon the initiates. But no one sits down to draw a diagram of what will happen to them afterward. Friends never give them recipes for staying in the same romantic frame of. mind when the milkman wants his pay and there’s no cash in the house. Precisely the same. thing takes place when a

now doing. You don’t believe it? Well watch your Washington news; it confirms the fact. The word “glamour” has crept at last into the Army vocabulary, and this month sees the start of a gigantic sales campaign designed to speed up recruiting and whip up a good strong desire for military splendor. For the first time in our history commercial spon-

present the romantic side of Army life. We can be sure glamour will be spread thick over all this salesmanship trickery and talk, We shall see .pictures of soldiers working in laboratories, adven-

merry picnic. - It's a safe bet there will be no sketches of corpses dangling on barbed wire in no man’s land; no scenes | of hospital interiors where the maimed endure a living death; no sight of asylum wards in which exist those who were crazed by war's horrors. Once they also tasted glamour. : ; Yes, the Big Circus is about to start. Already the sound of the calliopes can be heard. Come, all ye Hicks and Rubes and Oafs—right this way to get your ticket for the Greatest Show on Earth—the Bi Three-Ringed¥ Circus of ir, Glory Gore

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country gets ready for war—as the United States is:

sors—“in the interests of national defense,” of course —are to pay for magazine advertisements which will

turing aloft in planes, or even having fun doing K, P, duty. War will be presented as if it were a merry,

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DEPLORES CRITICISM OF U. S. RELIEFERS By Disgusted Reader | cn I would like to answer Mr. Meitzler’s Jan, 8 letter. He was answering a letter of a War Veteran who was voicing his views on helping the Finns. I wonder what Mr. Meitzler terms himself—a gentleman of breeding, or what? He terms all reliefers parasites. And just because a War Veteran, who, we will say, served his tountry in time of war and because he can’t help it has to ask for food and relief, he is a “louse” or a “parasite.” , . . Wg pay taxes to our Government. I think also we can voice our opinions about how our money is spent. It is terrible to think of our own children starving that we may send money to some country that might not need it as much as our nation does. . . . ” 2 8 CLAIMS FINLAND WAS FIRST FACIST POWER By a Mother I have never been on relief but I cannot think of anything more “lousy” than James B. Meitzler’s statement in the Forum that every reliefer is a louse. Rather I agree with the U. S. Veteran that charity begins at home. Any family “living” on $15 a week is suffering slow starvation. Finnish relief funds should go to help relieve our own people. . . . we Let's look at the record. Finland was just as much a part of Russia as Texas:is of the United States. In 1917. the Finnish people had elected a Red majority in parliament. They supported the Russian revolutions of 1917. Mannerheim, a Cezarist general and still the big shot in Finland, tried to put down the revolution and failed. Then the Kaiser furnished him German soldiers and supplies and with this foreign help he finally succeeded in crushing the revolution with bloody terror. “Some 15,000 men, women and children were slaughtered,” according to the Encyclopedia Britannica. Thus Finland introduced the world to fascism which explains Mussolini’'s help to “democratic” Finland. The present Finnish Government was put in power not by the Finnish people but by foreign bayonets. These are the historic facts. Anything else is propaganda to put us into the second World War on the side of Finland who does not pay her debts. To talk of “demo-

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

cratic” Finland is the sheerest kind of balderdash.

When the Allies won the war England [continued to maintain Czarist General ‘Mannerheim in power for two reasons. First, as a jumping off place for a future attack on Russia. Just look at your

map. Second, to maintain her world |

monopoly of nickel. Finland has one of the lowes: standards of living in Europe. Mannerheim and his clique have forced the Finnish people into a war they cannot hope to win. Even with their Mannerheim Line they will lose sooner or later. Therefore it is absolutely necessary that food be sent to keep the Finnish people from revolting and writing finish to the last of the Czarist generals, Mannerheim and his suicidal war.

" This Finnish stuff is, like the Belgium atrocity stories of 20 years ago,

RAPS PROPOSED BAN

ON NIGHT PARKING By George Spencer. . Now the Downtown Dictators say that we can’t park our cars in the streets from 2 to 6 a. m. beginning Jan. 23. : Whose streets are they? Why can’t the car owners, the most heavily’ taxed group in the city, park their cars in front of their own homes, on the streets that; they have paid for? Where I live there are no garages available. Does this mean we must move or sell our cars? Where I work we must park in the street. Does this mean the entire night force must either quit working, or not drive their cars? Most of this loss froma thievery that Chief Morrissey talks about is from cars parked in the downtown area during shopping and theater hours, not from cars parked in front of our homes. A car is safer from theft when it is parked on the street than it is in the average garage, where, out' of sight, it may be strioped at leisure. :

vise that we move our homes out in the country because house burglaries also are increasing? The Street Cleaning Department tries to excuse the -filthy condition of our streets by stating that the taxpay-

just propaganda to make suckers of us again, to put us into the second World War and again pull John Bull's chestnuts out of the fire. . . . How many World Wars do we have to go through before we learn to mind our own business?

ers actually use them to park their

cars! Maybe we are supposed to all

become “honorary members,” so we

‘can park when and where we please.

And maybe that crowd has been in office so long that they have forgotten who pays the bills.

New Books at the Library

O mere literary device, but a truly personal record, is the diary of a two-year trip around the world entitled, “Fun Where I've Found It” (Appleton-Centruy), by Francis Woodworth. ‘Recently graduated from Yale, Francis Woodworth decided that the soft berth in his father’s real estate office, where he’d been working for several months, was not for him. He wanted to write, preferably fiction, and believed that the experience of globe-trotting on his own was indicated as his next step. He planned to go round the world, to write, to work at whatever he could get to do, to see the places he had always wanted to see, especially China and

Russia—and, as the author himself

said, who could tell what might happen! The diary begins in Horolulu late in 1929 when Francis Woodworth, down to his last cent and actually hungry, secures a ‘job ag a timekeeper in a commercial hotel. For the first time in his life he learns about money: that as long as one has even a little he cannot imagine being without it, that, béing without it, he cannot imagine ever having had any or that he ever will again. But with the first pay check life becomes more normal and secure. He takes a course at the University of

much to his taste, and saves money enough to push. on after. a few months to Japan and China. Mr. Woodworth remained in Shanghai for almost a year and taught English in St. John's University. It was in Shanghai that he met

-1 la beautiful Russian girl ‘whom he

called Marguerite. The author records how difficult it was to leave Marguerite and the congenial work at St. John’s, but his plan and purpose he could not abandon. From Moscow he went on tc Warsaw, and to read what the author says of a happy, clean, prosperous Warsaw is hearthreaking in view of recent events. After visits to several other European cities, which were amazingly, “like cities everywhere the world over,” Francis Woodworth finally worked his passage back to New York on an American freighter out of Valencia, Spain. He was glad to be back in the U. S. A.! Here the diary ends, but it is the hope of the reader that he’ll go right on and write another one.

- ‘STRENGTH’

By ROBERT O. LEVELL I thank you God so much today For joy so rich and great and true, I've been so glad to know the way How I could be so blessed by you.

You've made me glad as I could be My faith has proven You for my friend, |

In all the Strength you've given me To live and be so glad again. *

DAILY THOUGHT

Naked and ye clothed me; I was sick, and ye visited me; I was in prison, and ye came unto me.—Matthew 25:36.

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‘Hull’ Pacts. Have Brought General Benefits, but Figures Can Be Cited * To Prove Either Side of Argument. ASHINGTON, Jan. 11.—The tariff is the prickli= est and most dangerous subject in politics, It.

Is also among the trickiest and most dangerous subjects to write about. It is dangerous in politics be-

| cause, if a party boosts the tariff up, it increases the’

cost of living to all the voters and the party will hear . about it in the next.election, Yet, if it even suggests

| putting the tariff down, it raises an even more powers

ful and hostile opposition separately from every ore ganized econbmic group that is affected, or thinks itis. + - - ; 2% a It is tricky and dangerous to write about because the argument all ruhs to figures. That would be the ‘cleanest kind of argument if the figures clearly proved anything. But they don’t. They sometimes strongly indicate trends and effects, but there are so many influences other than tariffs that it is never possible to work out a two-plus-four formula. Furthermore, in such a situation, any adroit figure shark can marshal regiments of statistics that seem to prove his point and, by omitting any mention of figures that disproves it, make a knock-down and drag-out argument which,

| if studied by itself, is enough to convince anyone,

H=E is an example. Trade agreements reduced 1 the Smoot-Hawley tariff on flat glass by 30 per cent to 330 per cent. During part of 1937 imports of glass rose more sharply than domestic production, Figures showing this make what seems to be a cone vincing case for the high-tariff glass boys. But they don’t show that the: rates promptly righted theme selves, that during the period of slight lag in domestia production there was a paralyzing strike in part of the glass industry, or that for the year as a whole production was the highest in years. Pity Similarly, figures are used to show that exports of flat glass were only 1.7 per cent of production in 1937, That is true, but the trade agreements broke down : several barriers against our automobile exports. which promptly rose sharply carrying with them an esti« mated 15 million square feet of plate glass (7.6 per: cent of production) and brought out total exports of glass to 9.3 per cent of domestic production. pode 2 =» = : % HE whole controversy is shot full of that kind of confusion, But the essence of this quarrel is -. clear enough. The Smoot-Hawley tariff was in many parts simply a bill to hijack the American consumer, It is still on the books because it seemed befter trad= ing to get from other nations a lower tariff on our imports than just to lower our barriers hoping that they would go big-hearted, too, and lower theirs out of Christian charity. : ; Without getting into detail on these tricky figures, they show that our exports have increased abreast of our imports and that our exports to countries in which we have trade agreements have increased much faster and farther than others. They do not show great harm to any important group in agriculture, industry or labor but show a great good to all groups, to all consumers, to re-employment and the country as a whole. : : 5 So what’s all the shooting for? Obviously it is . either to protect the awful Smoot-Hawley schedules, or it is an effort, in a new high-carnival of old-time log-rolling lobbying, to soak the consumer with even ° higher rates. ; ;

Joe Martin By Bruce Catton

Friends Asking Support for Minority, : Leader in Event of GOP Deadlock.

XX 7ASHINGTON, Jan. 11.—Unofficial but effective work is being done to land the Republican Presidential nomination. for Congressman Joe Martin . of Massachusetts, Minority Leader in the House. = Martin is not a candidate, active or passive, has no “organization” and is not lifting a finger. Nevere theless the work is being done. : . A group of Republican Congressmen have taken it upon themselves to see to it that if the Republican convention choose a dark horse, Martin will get a break, They are quietly contacting supporters of the active Presidential candidates and saying: = “When the convention comes, if your candidate is stopped and you have no other commitments, will .. you give Joe Martin some votes?” : This group has not -formally organized and can’t bé spoken of as a committee at all. The fact that it came into being on a. spontaneous-combustion basis is a tribute to the liking and respect which Martin's, Republican colleagues in the House have for him. Incidentally, to cate the group hasn’t had a single

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McNutt Booster Peeved

OSCAR R. EWING, eastern campaign manager for the McNutt Presidential organization, has a peeve, One of the ultra-liberal weekly magazines recently referred to him; sneeringly, as “a conservative corporation lawyer.” He's sore about it.

He does come from a high-up-the-ladder law firm . .. but he was an ardent and outspoken supporter of President Roosevelt's plan to enlarge the Supremes Court, and he figures that ought to make him permanently ineligible for the title of conservative,

: ; » » ” Rescue for Schwellenbach?

If President Roosevelt does as expected and ape points Senator Lewis B. Schwellenbach of Washinge ton to a Federal judgeship, he may be saving the poe litical’ life of one of the most loyal New Dealers.

Senator Schwellenbach is up for re-election this -year, and he faces extremely hard sledding. Between himself and the other senator from Washington, Homer Bone, there is bitter enmity. General under standing in Washington 1s that Bone is out to beat Schwellenbach and has the cards to do it. :

Watching Your Health By Jane Stafford 5

INUS trouble, said to be the most common | dise ease in America today, is not by any means a new complaint. The ancient Greeks had it, too. Certain .accounts \written by Hippocrates, the Greek physician of the fitth-eentury B. C., who is known as the Father. of Medicine, show. pretty clearly that some of his Greek patients had sinus trouble, according to a statement from the Illinois State Medical Society. Sinus disease or sinusitis, however, gets its name. from a Latin word meaning cavity or hollow space. The ones concerned in sinusitis are the air cavities in the facial bones of the skull. These cavities are connected with the nasal passages and their walls are lined with the same membrane. . Most cases of sinus trouble are said to be due to head colds, although sudden changes in temperature dlso cause a great: deal of sinus trouble. Avoiding colds is the key to prevention of sinus trouble. This means keeping away from people with colds, getting enough sleep and outdoor exercise, and following die rules about fresh vegetables and fruits, milk, water and whole grain cereals or breads. The temperature and humidity of home and ‘workplace also have a bearing on susceptibility to sinus trouble... >. The stubborn cold that lasts for weeks with pere sistent nasal discharge may pe due to a sinus infece tion. A stuffy nose, , cough and sore throat, : or constant dropping of the nasal discharge into the throat are other symptoms of sinus trouble. Many sinus sufferers have severe headaches. ; Most sinus infections can be cured, often with quite simple treatment, but if they are neglected they y ond i us oy

to become chronic. This may prove a seriou