Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 January 1940 — Page 10

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TIMES ___ . MONDAY, JAN. 22, 1940

Gen. Johnson Says—

CCC as Branch of Army Again Being Agitated, But It Won't Get Very Far and Doesn't Deserve to.

ASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 22.—The question of’ using CCC as an Army reserve or pool of pos-. sible recruits in case of war is being agitated again, The projeét won’t gef far. : CCC was first conceived with some such idea in view. There were supposed to be nearly 700,000 homeless young people of both sexes hopelessly roaming our roads and woods at the depth of the depression. So many adults were unemployed that there were many hints of unrest and some fear of violence. ‘The idea was that if the CCC la battalions. were ore ganized, a double purpose might he served. . Wandering, jobless youth could be made comfort able and engaged in useful work. Under mild disci= pline it was thought that they could be given at least rudimentary military training and respect for author ity. If trouble came, there they would be organized in companies, housed in barracks and ready for quick

use with more training. Even though the subject was approached with the

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President Business Manager Parties Violate Rights of Those Forced to Join or Lose Jobs.

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EW YORK, Jan. 22.—It really does no good to argue with those who are devoted to the C.I.0, because they start from the premise that majority rule canes minority rights and that organized labor must ep age > politics. Anyone who does not concede these gs as a beginning is a Fascist. But 1 hold that even a standpat or reactionary Republican has rights and that if he is forced to join a C. I. O. union he ought not be compelled to con- |

tribute the tiniest fraction of his union dues to the support of the Democratic ticket. He should not be forced’ even to lend that much money for that

MONDAY, JANUARY 22, 1940 | x

ON SCHEDULE } 2 Ct T'S still running on schedule—the big talk about econo- ~~ mies and the do-nothing about taxes that always feature the early days of a Congress session. ;

urpose. Ta Pp The C. I. O. has no right to give or lend any money to any political party or movement unless there is entire unanimity in the whole organization. ‘It means, further, that the C. I. O. and its component unions A few days ago the House Appropriations Committee | have no right to indorse the New Deal, for examplo, got the headlines by reducing items in the Independent em €2¢s Plan a4 long as there 1s a Single

Offices Suppy Bill. And now the Senate has bid for its. * a

share of publicity by cutting down the deficiency appropriation for defense purposes. In the handling of fiscal affairs Congress always comes

Hl things by majority vote places no limit on the variety of things that may be indorsed in this way.

NYONE who maintains the right of the C. I. O. or any component union to indorse any of these

The majecrity could indorse the Communist ticket

greatest caution and no such purpose was announced, the first smell of it aroused a howl of protest from one end of the country to the other. Z 4 8 =n

HE complaint” was and still is: “Why should the

and contribute to the Communist campaign fund, thus forcing dissenters to support a movement which: they held to be traitorous. The C. I. O. has no right to declare for or against propositions which are matters of morals or religious or partisan faith while insisting on the right to compel people to join its ranks. If membership were optional the sky would be the limit. The majority then could indorse to their hearts’ content and give the entire union treasury to any cause favored by 51 per cent of the members. The minority could get out. Every man should be free to dissociate himself ‘from an organization which is striving for aims that

in like a lion, and goes out like a lamb. If the customary pattern is followed—and we predict it will be—the weeks immediately ahead will offer al lot of lusty swinging of the economy ax. But later, and with less fanfare, most of the items eliminated from the President’s budget will be reinstated, one by one. And then the pressure groups will get busy and Congress will add Ips which the President did not mention. Watch especially what happens when Congress gets around to voting money for rivers and harbors,

highways and farm parity payments. And be not sur- | violate his conscience. But membership is not opprised; this is election year. ; tional. Thus thousands of Americans are compelled : to join in order to obtain or hold jobs, and the C. I, O.

very poorest of our youth be put out first as cannon fodder?” The Administration dropped the military end of CCC as you would a hot poker. Secre= | tary of War Woodring got into trouble much later for some casual reference to CCC as a military asset. In some military posts where there is real CCC work to be done, soldiers are taken from-their neces sary training and duties to do’ it because even the subject is too hot to handle. The average CCC company knows hardly enough about military drill te fall in for roll-call. It does live in barracks under rules for hygiene, sanitation and cleanliness that approximate Army barrack life, but there the similarity ends with a bump. I think this policy is right. The manpower problem is the least of our military puzzles. Under the selective draft principle used in 1917-1918 we can get the very cream of our crop of youth with practically no delay whatever. By intensive training they can be taught in a few days more than the average CCC boy knows about military service. ”

And taxation—that too.is being handled according to | would force them to contribute their members in th 3 nl ti en’ : an organization at war with their beliefs. e usual routine, meaning that it isn’t being handled at all It isn’t necessary for the C. I. O. to take this as yet, The President warned that even if the total appro-| position at all. It could go back to its original and priations were kept inside the budget figure, Congress

only legitimate purposes, but it seems very unlikely would still have to levy $460,000,000 in new taxes to pre- »

UT the selective service idea won't work at all if

that it ever will, because the zealots in the movement control the policies. vent the Government from overreaching its 45-billion legal ] debt limit. Senator Harrison proposed the creation of a

T is a political movement, if not yet a party, which claims and, with the help of the National Gov-

its burdens do not bear with absolute fairness on every class of men within the draft ages. It was tried

. t : . 2 The Hoosier Forum 1 wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

in this country several times on another basis—and failed every time. It was only when rich and poor, favored and un favored, were treated with absolute equality and with no pull or favoritism of any kind that it proved an almost perfect success. It is the fairest system: of raising an army ever known but, after all; it is con-

special joint Senate-House committee on’ fiscal affairs, to explore matters of spending, taxing and borrowing and to lay down a policy for Congress to follow. The Harrison

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resolution was passed by the) Senate, then neatly tucked

ernment, enforces a legal right to compel citizens to join and pay or suffer economic ostracism. : In other words, the Government, by authority of the. Wagner Act and the Labor Board, conscripts citizens into a political movement and makes them pay a tax to a private organization.

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away in a pigeon hole in the House Rules Committee. Congress doesn’t want -even to discuss the painful sub‘ject yet. Itis inescapable—but, when the inevitable reckoning comes, next June or July,|say, and the lawmakers are all worn out from spending, and eager to depart for the party conventions—when that day arrives, then maybe someone will pull another rabl it out of the hat and they can vote another tax bill, without the bother of too much thinking. ' Yes, it’s the same old merry-go-round.

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JOKES IN JAPAN |

ARTIME scarcities, high es and enforced use of substitute materials are said to be inspiring many jests in Japan. A New York Times correspondent reports that such wisecracks as the following are widely current |

in Tokyo:

pulsion, the requirement that a citizen join a private

coercive power, the Government should defend more

join any organization except, in certain dire circumstances, the armed forces of the United States.

a question that causes almost homicidal wrangles hetween men.

choice is a Nash business coupe. . . is a careful driver. , , , He's never been known to

It takes no lawyer to realize that the first com-

organization, is wrong and a violation of the right of the individual. Far from guaranteeing the union's

vigorously the right of the individual citizen not to

That is the simplest and only honest solution of

Inside Indianapolis

The Mayor's New Auto, Jury Duty, And Our Cute Little Fieldhouse.

JIZZONER, the Mayor, has taken unto himself this Leap Year a new automobile. , . . His . Yes, Hizzoner

PLANS TO BUY LICENSE IN ANOTHER CITY By Karl Richards I am going to buy my car license

in some other city because of this night-parking ban. people should not be given stickers. Most people who are from out of town ignore police stickers. Many Indianapolis car owners have done this for years to escape stickers.

Out-of-town

Marion County will lose a lot of

gas tax when - Chief Morrissey passes out his stickers. Car owners have not forgotten our State Legislature and I hope they don’t forget these all-night-parking stickers.

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BLAMES SELFISHNESS ' | | FOR PRESENT CONDITIONS By Floyd McGuire

No humane person can consider

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theory of beastism, that man is related to the lower animals and has

no soul, plus the abandonment of the worship of God, neglect of the study of the Bible and the lukewarmness of the church which has produced the civilization that now is hard at work destroying itself by war, crime, selfishness and im-

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what can be done if Government is operated as a business instead of a gold rush. : The problem is to get business men appointed who will stay out of politics. The operation of Government is a business and anti-business politics have made a mess of it. 2 8» > SEEKS ENLIGHTENMENT ON PARKING BAN By O. Arnette I think you owe us readers a little co-operation in squashing this proposed enforcement of an all-night parking ban. What, if anything, is the use of having cars off the street for four hours from 2'a. m.? Is the city needing a little money, or what? But again I question the need for such a regulation. The rule de-

scription and this country won't swallow it except on that plan. Proposals now being discussed are not to require CCC hoys to join the Army but to encourage and to permit them to volunteer. They have that right anyway in peace, but if we have to raise a big Army for war we will have to have selective service. After that starts, volunteering must end. You cant’ have two classes —the “wents” and the “sents” under the selective system. It places one under ancient stigma “conscripted” unless all are treated exactly alike on the theory of equal and unavoidable obligations of all citizenship ‘in a democracy. : ,

Spy Stuff |

By Bruce Catton

~ U. S. Documents Photographed by Reds, Dies Investigators Say.

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manding a light be kept burning is 0. K., but we've been parking on the streets for years with apparently no ill effects. Will you please inform us as to why and wherefore of this ordinance?

the tragedy of the war now in progress without sympathy for the peoples involved. Why, in this enlightened age, should war, bankruptey and destruction face nearly

SAYS BUSINESSMEN NEEDED IN GOVERNMENT By Voice in the Crowd Your editorial on: Cincinnati's

“Thinner than a pure cotton handkerchief.” “With lightning abruptness, like a Hie in the price of tobacco.” “His fame rose as steadily as wartime prices.” “The medicine was as effective as the lot g-distance American aid to

go past the 35-mile-an-hour mark anywhere, anytime. . . . Albert Beveridge Jr. was serving on a Probate Court jury last Thursday. . . . He kept fidgeting, and glancing at his watch. . . , At 11:45 the jury was released and he dashed to a phone. . . . To learn that his third-born, a son, had arrived

ASHINGTON, Jan. 22.—Only the surface has been scratched in the Federal investigation of espionage by Communists, according to insiders here, Nicholas Dozenberg, one of the party big-shots who pleaded guilty to passport fraud in New York a week

Finland.” We have regarded the Japanese as capable of grim, if misguided, patriotic devotion and sacrifice. We have credited

at 11:41, . . . Mother and child are doing well. . . . The new arrival has been named Franklin Spencer . « From the Butler Collegian we learn that Theta Sigma Phi, honorary journalism sorority, is making arrangements for a dance in the Field-

Beveridge. .

richest of lands, are there extremes of wealth and poverty, many living in slums, almost starving? Why are millions unable to find work to earn their daily bread? Why this

every nation? Why, in this the manager plan was good. It shows

New Books

awful crime wave costing over 15]

ago, got his sentence deferred on agreement to help the Government in its probe. If he tells all he knows, it is believed here, he can help plenty. Dies Committee investigators have a full dossier on Dozenberg. They assert his espionage ring had agents in high Government departments and agencies

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house Feb. 23. . . . “The Fieldhouse,” says the Colhere, and that he was regularly getting photostatie

them with a talent for unintentional humor, typified by the general who reported that his Toe, advancing into China, were “met with aggression.” But this idea that they can see a funny side to their own present hardships is something new—something, we should think, for the war lords to ponder. Ee If the Japanese have a real sense of humor, it may yet dawn on them that their whole Chinese adventure of bloody conquest in the name of peace and civilization is a dreadful joke at the expense of the people cf both nations.

ONLY ONE STEP

BILL signed by President Roosevelt—the first measure to become law in this session of Congress—is intended to protect witnesses appearing before Congressional investigating committees and Government executive agencies. Penalties are provided for attempts to intimidate or coerce witnesses or otherwise interfere with investigations. This is desirable legislation. | But if witnesses need protection from persons interested] in impeding the work of Congressional committees they| also need, in too many cases, protection from excessive zeal and insufficient fairness on the part of the committees themselves. We believe there should befor all investigating committees of Congress, as there is for the courts of law, a standard code of procedure, designed to safeguard the rights of witnesses, maintain orderly hearings, govern the presentation of evidence and prevent the indiscriminate

legion, “will be decorated as a miniature newspaper office.” . of the year.

considers one of its most important pieces of historical fiction. and the author is Milton Steinberg, of the Beth-El Temple here, . ne widely known and liked in Indianapolis. . . now head of the Park Ave, Synagog in New York... Talking about books reminds us that the Mississippi Valley Press recently issued “Thomas Riley Marshall —Hoosier Statesman,” by Charles Marion Thomas. Hinkle’s two young daughters consider themselves the owners of the Butler basketball team . , . They have divvied up the players. .

strike up a trade any day now. . Sg the two most devoted basketball fans in the state. . be telling Papa how to win games.

Court House burst a gas line, the elevator was up at the fourth floor. . the operator stared out at a scene of hustling police-~ men and assorted confusion, . “I'm always missing the excitement. Is it too late or can I faint?” ,.. Yes, there is a new angle to the investigation of the Federal tax returns filed by McNutt lieutenants. . according to the latest gossip, is reported to have blurted out, in a disconsolate moment, that they haven't been able to find a thing. . .. It’s interesting because so many folks are talking about the thing. . . . Everybody has a pipeline and everybody knows

. . That will undoubtedly be the neatest trick o 2 =» BOBBS-MERRILL will release on Jan. 29 what it

. . . The title is “As a Driven Leaf”

. « Dr. Steinberg was . He is

We've been meaning to tell you that Tony

. . The younger at the moment owns Steiner, the older Neat. . .. They may . . Seriously, they're

. . And in just a few years they'll: probably

Alix = THE OTHER DAY when that explosion in the

» + When it arrived at main,

. . “Darn it,” said she,

.« One of the investigators,

billions yearly to combat and stead-| ily increasing. . . .

There is a disposition of. all of us

to “pass the buck,” excuse ourselves and blame others for our own shortcomings and failures. But the truth of the questions raised—our present plight—is due to selfishness and erroneous education. .

and conditions

-Most of us are so selfish we don’t

take the time to visit a sick friend or neighbor or deny ourselves a luxury to help the many unfortunate folk beaten to earth in the pitiless struggle to exist. . . .

Some men earn good wages, yet

their wives work and every child old enough to leave school. they wonder why there is a depression and poverty, why millions are unemployed and their taxes so high. ...

Yet

Yet money, houses and lands ac-

quired by selfish means at cost to others and thereafter used selfishly, are almost always used for exploitation and oppression. As to erroneous teaching, it was the superman teaching of Nietzsche which permeated every college and university of Germany (now of .the civilized world) which resulted in the last World War. And it is this

AYBE 50 million Frenchmen can be a wee bit wrong after all. Maybe. the same is true of other millions of Britons. That

question is raised by several of the 25 leaders of American thought in various fields of activity who give their views in the book “Common Sense Neutrality, Mobilizing for Peace,” edited by Paul Comly French (Hastings House), The great dissenter was the late Senator William E. Borah of Idaho. In his opinion common sense neutrality is what America doesn’t have. He regrets the .lifting of the embargo on arms shipments to belligerents, and believes it is inevitable that when guns and airplanes flow to Europe on battlefields American soldiers can’t be tar behind. Two of those who agree with this view are Senators Arthur H. Vandenberg of Michigan and Robert M. La Follette’ of Wisconsin. Among those who say that the present conflict is the result of power politics played by England and France is Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler. He denies any of the responsibility can be placed on America.

Virtually all of the 25 contributors agree with him, but not so vehemently. Another recurrent theme .is that probably best voiced by Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, namely that we can serve best by remaining aloof and keeping ourselves strong enough to do our part when the war ends. Others believe that the only hope of a material salvation is a spiritual revival. ‘This, they. declare, is necessary to protect America along with the rest of the warld and as Dr. Frank P. Graham, president of the University of North Carolina, contends, make the world “safe for differences.” Others who give their views are Raymond J. Kelly, National Commander of the American Legion; two of the Roosevelts, Eleanor and Elliott; Herbert Hoover; Rep. Jerry Voorhis of California; Sumner Welles, Norman Thomas, John L. Lewis, Dr. Rufus M. Jones, chairman of the American Friends Service Committee; the Most Rev. Bernard J. Sheil, Auxiliary Bishop of Chicago; Dr. Philip D. Bookstader, rabbi, Reform Temple Ohev Sholom, Harrisburg, Pa., the Rev. A. Herbert Haslam, Toledo, minister; Ernest 'T. Weir, chairman of the National Steel Corp.; Dr. Harry Elmer Barnes. Dr. Charles A. Beard, Mrs. Della Towne Blake, past national president of the American

copies of Govermental documents for transmission to Russia. Papers were photographed by miniature cameras; they say, and the films were sent overseas. They were working out a scheme to trap one of these agents in the act of getting films to Dozenberg when G-Men sprang their own trap and pinched him. You'll undoubtedly hear more about this when the Dies Committee gets its new appropriation, ” » »

Whenever there's a mine disaster, Bureau of Mines rushes a crew of trouble-shooters to the scene. Now the Social Security Board is playing the same game. Before all the bodies had been removed from the shaft at Bartley, W. Va., the board sent a field office manager, an attorney and a stenographer to the town, to see that widows of the victims get help in filing claims for benefits under the Social Security Act. The board doesn’t know yet how many of the victims had social security accounts, but figures the benefit payments will be a big item in relieving

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Inner Circle Still for F. D. R.

When you're figuring the mysterious third-term problem, don’t overlook this fact: The “inner circle” of New Dealers is still doing its best to persuade PF. D. R. to be a candidate. ' : : This group never liked McNutt and isn’t crazy about Huli; it goes for the new Attorney General, Robert Jackson, and is getting Presidential help in grooming him as a possibility. First and foremost, though, it wants Roosevelt to run. Incidentally, John Lewis’ recent indorsement of Senator Wheeler has this group puzzled. Some, thinking wishfully, say he’s just putting the heat on

JF. D. R. for later concessions; others, glummer, say

he’s off the reservation for good. Lewis, meanwhile,

Side Glances—By Galbraith

more about it than anybody else. . . . Except us

“smearing” of individuals or grotips of citizens. The bill which has just become law should be regarded as only a good first step. Congress can do a great deal more to increase the usefplness of its investigating committees by providing rules to insure that their methods shall be scrupulously fair.

IMPROBABLE

HE current annals of crime disclose some strange occurrences. A drug store burglar in North Carolina left the cash register untouched and stole six bottles of malaria medicine, 12 bottles of castor oil and a case of cough drops. Another, in New Jersey, got away with more valuable loot —then surrendered voluntarily, to face an arson charge, - when he read in the papers that he had dropped a lighted. . cigaret and set the store on fire. jan the New York police ~ are hunting three thieves said to have attended meetings, and walked out with expen-

posing as newspaper reporters, sive fur coats. | That last strains our credulity. Men wanting to appear the legitimate owners of expensive fur coats might pose as bankers or senators or movie magnates or utility tycoons—but not, surely, as newspaper reporters. : | YEAH? 1 THE Soviet Government announces that 3000 officers and men have been decorated for valor in the undeclared Finnish war. “Ah! So that’s the explanation of the abrupt depar re from Finland of so many Red soldiers. The heroes

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We don’t know anything.

A Woman's Viewpoint

campaign etiquet by Mrs. Hugh Butler of Washing-

. enough?), -

“Don’t wear brilliant-colored clothes or short skirts —they distract the audiences.” (But wouldn’t that be a good thing for the candidate sometimes? It might take their minds off his speech.) “Don’t try to tell

The candidates will soon be as thick as the grass- | hoppers were in 1937, and if they start bringing their women along to help wheedle out the votes there's no

- paign without speeches. So much : us all rattled. We can’t think for the talking, Fellows |

the Congressional incumbent or the discussing the issues, but, come June, and all their tribe every time he turns on his radio. and ¥ he political, landscape is to be cluttered up w e female relatives of men who are ru office—we! ¥ 'y r & oR n 3: a a >

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

HEAvEY help the hick voter in a time like this! We see that Congressmen’s wives and other | ladies with political tie-ups are being coached in

ton. Her course includes public speaking and general advice, and the very first bit is the old one about not letting your slip show. (What's the matter with: women? Can't they ever get their petticoats short

“Don’t wear radically designed hats,” continues Mrs. Butler. “The Farm Belt doesn’t go for them.” (Huh, that's all she knows about the farm belts!)

Jokes—women lack a sense of humor.” (Better no that out to the farmers’ wives). : 4 ie All in all, things look pretty bad for country folks.

telling how the forks of the creek will react, It makes us wish we could have just one cam- | oratory is getting

in the country used to be protected from argument—but things are different ae "Hired farmer could stay home if he didA’t want to hear || state chairman he’ll get them ||

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'|is Europe’s war, not ours.

Gold Star Mothers; Boake Carter, Dr. Mordecai M. Johnson and J. C. Hormel, president of the. George Hormel & Co., Austin, Minn, Virtually all of them insist that this These views do not necessarily mean that

{the book is anti-Ally. Instead, it

is so strongly pro-America that no

one is able to find the slightest ex-|

cuse for another generation of American Gold Star mothers. There are differences of opinion, but only on the question of the hest way to stay out. (G. 8S)

SYMPATHY = By ANNA E. YOUNG "Tis hard, so hard to understand This cup filled to the brim Why Heaven’s gale was opened wide And Jesus beckoned—him.:

He needed Bruce to help complete That Seraphic Holy band

| A place that only Bruce could fill

Where no one else could stand. He would bid you vision him at

peace : And calm—at God's right hand There he is free from earthly pain And there—sometime—we’ll understand!

DAILY THOUGHT

What thing soever I command _ you, observe to do it; thou shalt not add thereto, nor

pulls his eyebrows down and says nothing.

Watching Your Health:

By Jane Stafford

HE question of whether or not it is a good health practice to drink water with meals seems to be perennially discussed. The scienfific answer is: There is no reason why you should not drink some water with your meals, if—and the if is important—you do

not drink water to flush the food into your stomach

in order to avoid chewing it properly. Children should not be allowed to drink so much water or other liquid just before meals, or at the be= ginning of a meal, that they will be too full to eat the food they require. This is a point to consider if your child does not eat well. ; - How much water to drink during the-day is ane other question that is often asked. A specific answer

for all persons to follow cannot be given, because the amount of water you should drink depends on many ‘factors, such as climate, clothing, activity, and the water content of the food you eat. Many common foods, you know, are more than 50% water, and even

the ones thai seem dry contain some water. A man of average size loses about one and 'one~ half pints of water a day by evaporation from his skin. This is called “insensible perspiration.” Hot weather, hard work or other conditions causing sweating increase this water loss, of course. Another two to five pints are excreted daily by way of the kidneys and bowels. In the case of the average adult doing moderate work in a temperate climate the total daily

| water loss is probably roughly six pints.

About four pints of this daily, water loss is replenished at meals if he eats an appropriate amount of an ordinary mixed diet, including ordinary amounts “fluid such as the breakfast ‘of coffee. To