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TUESDAY, JANUARY 23, 1940

'BROWDER IS GUILTY, |

- [EARL BROWDER deserves what he got yesterday when tS a New York Federal Court jury found him guilty of “passport fraud and a judge sentenced him to serve four years in prison and pay a $2000 fine. a "If ‘ever a defendant had the benefit of legal technicalities, Browder did.., The Russian system, which he so ‘admires, has a different method of dealing with dissidents. It liquidates them without public hearing, without delay ‘and without mercy. America has given Browder a fair trial and the fullest possible opportunity. to defend himself. It will still give him the privilege of appeal to higher courts. It will not even deny him the right to pose as a political martyr, absurd and impertinent as that pose must appear to most American citizens. :

CAVEAT EMPTOR : NGLAND is at war. Her life is threatened. But England has a way of using an ill wind to belly a sail. Her blockade strategy extends far beyond barricading Germany’s sea approaches. In order to diminish ‘Hitler's

supplies from accessible neutrals, she is buying from those neutrals every commodity she can induce them to sell. If she can get a barrel of oil from Rumania or a cord of wood from Russia or a ton of copper from Yugoslavia, then those particular supplies won't reach Germany. So, England (that means France as well) would rather spend her money elsewhere than in the United States.

That doesn’t go for airplanes, of course. Those can’t be bought elsewhere in the quantity or quality that we offer. Consequently the American aircraft people are swimming in prosperity. But what about the rest of industry? se “Importation of U. S. tobacco is forbidden by Great Britain,” says a headline. England is expected to use Turkish and Balkan tobaccos. Lumber exporters are in the dumps. England is buying other people’s trees. Beef? The Argentine will get the business, and buy British in return. Cotton? The empire will be favored, naturally. lo, . : And so on. You can’t blame England. She must use every weapon available. But when the war is over, what then? It will be no simple matter for the United States to regain markets forfeited in wartime. Meanwhile England, thumbing her nose at the supposed sanctity of our mails, is almost literally staking her life on American plane factories.

To put it brutally, we have the drop on her. We amended the Neutrality Act to let her get those planes. We can always un-amend it.

Far—very far—be it from us to advocate any such thing. But for the record we should like to suggest that if England uses this war as a means of undermining American foreign trade—even if only as a by-product of military experience—by applying the barter formula that Hitler made famous, we shall not be grateful.

It may be that England anticipates that if American in‘dustries begin to languish they will soon shout for repeal of the Johnson Act and amendment of the Neutrality Act so that we may lend money to England with which to buy AmeHcan goods. : :

. Watch out for that. And remember that the Allies have plenty of dollar assets available, without any loans. Anglo-French net resources in this country were estimated last April, by one authority, at 914 to 12 billion dollars.

BROTHERHOOD WEEK

: S part of a national observance of Brotherhood Week, i an inter-religious mass meeting is to be held here on “Feb. 29, sponsored by such prominent lay organizations as the Y. M. C. A, the Knights of Columbus and the B’nai B'rith. : There is no finer way of showing our unity of purpose ‘than by encouraging and supporting such assemblages.

J Recent events in Europe have made Americans more “keenly aware than ever of the wisdom of our heritage of religious freedom.

We can hope, too, that such meetings will-not only survive this period of world crisis but be continued as a permanent activity of our national life,

PUZZLE FOR FINLAND?

EXPORT figures indicate that Russia is buying more than 300,000 barrels of gasoline from United States producers each month, purchases having greatly increased : since the outbreak of hostilities in Europe. -A great deal of this gasoline, beyond doubt, fuels Soviet planes that bomb Finland's cities and Soviet tanks that assail Finland's defenders... - 1 _ Many Americans are unhappy that an American prod‘uct should serve such purposes, and would like to.place it ‘under “moral embargo.” . But, no, others argue. We might. ‘endanger our neutrality by stopping shipments to a nation which our Government has not declared the aggressor in ‘an undeclared war. How, then, about lending Finland money to buy arms for self-defense? Again, no. We - might endanger our neutrality by thus helping a nation which our Government has not declared the victim of aggression. : : Despise Russia, pour out our vials of moral indigna- . tion against her—but don’t be so un-neutrhl as to cut her off from American gasoline which she can use to murder Finns. :Admire Finland, assure her of our unbounded sympathy, ‘urge her to stay right in there fighting against overwhelm‘ing odds—but don’t be so un-neutral as to give her the effective aid for which she pleads. Perhaps this all makes must be a trifle difficult for the Finns to under-

sense, but it

Fair Enough

By Westbrook Pegler

. Challenges Green Prove Charge : He Accepted 'Anti-Labor Retainer’ For Exposing Bioff and Scalese.

EW YORK, Jan, 23 —William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, has made a strange reply to prove that the bosses of two of his most powerful international unions are not vicious crimirfals. - These two are Willie Bioff, the dictator of the theatrical and. movie trades, and George Scalese, president of the Building Service Employees’ International Union. : They are known to the police of their respective home towns—Chicago and Brooklyn—as racketeers and alumni of the old Capone mob of terrorists. Mr. Green knows ‘all about them, and yet’ when proof isspresented to the rank and file of the A. F. of L. and the public of the character of his two respective colleagues in the higher councils of the A. F. of L. his answer is that “hireling propaganda-mon-

labor’s schism to “smear the labor movemen >

- 8 os 2 I going to let him get away with it. The disclosures regarding Bioff and Scalese were made in these lofty essays, and Mr. Green's reply suggests that I have a secret retainer from some mysterious anti-labor force to discredit unionism. 1It is a sneak answer, because he resorts to insinuation. But I won’t hold out for a

produce evidence that I have been hired by enemies of labor to smear the movement. Under what bridge at what time of what night did what enemies of labor pay me how much to smear the movement, and if Mr. Green has the slightest evidence to support his in,sinuation why he is neglecting his duty to bat my ears down? He is paid to protect labor from its enemies, isn’t he? : The truth is that I have done a service for organized labor in exposing vicious conditions in some unions. Mr. Green knows that, revolting as these disclosures are, they are only a suggestion-of the whole state of affairs, and he has become jumpy waiting for

I am a centipede. I can keep on dropping shoes until Mr. Green gives some evidence of a sense of responsibility to the dues-paying workers and the public. ” ” ” HAT old stall of Mr. Green’s that the constitution of the A. F. of L. forbids interference with the autonomy of the subsidiary unions has been used to cover the. development in the United States of a system of brigandage and extortion closely akin to the Italian Mafia under which career men of the crime. business prey on employees as well as employers. They form conspiracies with employers to limit competition, and they rob the union members through extortionate dues, assessments and initiation fees and the practice of job-selling and the autonomy gag is used by the parent organization to shirk- the unpleasant duty of fighting notorious racketeers in the subsidiary unions. Mr. Green called on the national, state and local authorities to enforce the public laws against union officials who abuse their power, knowing, however, that union members are forbidden to appeal to the public authorities except in desperation, and that in many cases in such situations the victim runs the risk of being waylaid by murderers and beaten to death with a ball-bat. There are many precedents for that.

Inside Indianapolis How Musicians Get Straight Dope; And About Nice Letter Writing.

QYMPHONY soloists long ago learned that it’s useless to figure out how good they've been from the crowds who flock backstage after an appearance. . . . The visitors are invariably filled with that “so-so divine” feeling. . . Bomar Cramer finally got his chance though last Friday afternoon... . One of his backstage visitors was a pupil of his, a tad of 8. . . . They shook hands in stony silence. . . . “Well,” Bomar finally said, “how’d you like it?”, . . The lad thought a moment, then answered with a grin: “I think you did O. K.”. . . Bomar sighed deeply. . . . “Well, if you think it’s okay,” he said, “I'm sure it’s okay. That's all I wanted to know.” . . . Speaking of concerts brings to mind the very nice old lady at the Marian Ander-. son recital ‘Sunday.’. . . Midway in the concert she turned to a gentleman in the row behind. . . . “If I walked up and took one of those unoccupied seats up there, do you think it would be cheeky. of me?” . . . The gentleman assured her he did not think it would be cheeky. ... She got up, then turned for a moment. . . . “If somebody does come I can always say I was just confused,” she said. ; , ® » 2 THE STATE WELFARE Department hasn't figured out yet whether it was a wrestler or a snake charmer who wrote a letter to the department beginning: “Sir—I take the liberty of writhing to you once more.”. . . Dr. J. D. Hull, Methodist Hospital interne and his: wife, a Convalescent Home nurse,/] went shopping Saturday for ice skates. . . . She could find none to fit her and she returned to the hospital. He kept on shopping and found a pair that fits her perfectly. . . . All because his size 7 is small for a man and her size 7 large for a woman. . .. Last week the lights on the minute hand of the' American States Insurance Co. clock on N. Meridian St. went out. « . . Only the hour hand kept on going. . . . Now the whole works has stopped. . . . Which practically. paralyzes everybody on their way down to work in the morning. : » t 4 t-4 ’ A YOUNG NORTH SIDE matron and her maid kept ‘sniffing around, their house one day late last week. . . . They were sure they smelled smoke. . .-. Finally, she went to the phone and called the Fire Department. . . . Carefully she explained the situation, wondered if the department couldn’t send someone out to check up and reassure their minds. . . . “Certainly, said the Department, anything to oblige. In three minutes, bells and sirens were clanging all over Carrollton Ave... . Three trucks, 20 firemen, came to investigate no fire. . . , She’s been busy explaining to friends ever since.

’ o o A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson : MAT vomaiLy speaking, women seem to be

crying for husbands and the old ones who are crying to get rid of them.

and then, and wonders just what it is wives want these days, since far too many make impossible demands on the men they marry. 35 ow If they have good providers, they weep for romance.

viders.

reaching for the moon. Their demands upon men and marriage are so unreasonable you know that whatever is given them they will only ask for more. Contentment is not one of the major feminine virtues in our time. This is what we feel in our pessimistic moods; happily they never last long. For there's another side to the dismal picture. When women are up against real. trouble, and seem caught in a trap from which nothing can extricate them, they often react in the heroic manner, : oi Par of It makes us ponder whether the feminine sex is not geared naturally to travel the trouble road—we seem to enjoy it-so much. Under the stress of com-

courageous than men, with a hard situation would do credit to a bulldog. They will die in their tracks rather than take the easy detour. In short, when a crisis comes they seem

vine courage. : ir ly But how they crack under everyday monotony!

today—millions strong—whining over trifies, sniffling for romance. And how many are content. with one love affairs, however perfect or ecstatic? Mighty f

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TAKE it that Mr. Green means me, and I am not |

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munity strain or family woe, women are far more |. ‘ Their tenacity at wrestling |. } “#2

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

YOUNG MARRIED MAN TELLS OF JOB QUEST By W. A. A. I am a 20-year-old man, married, with a wife and a mother to support. I was working at one of the leading dairies in town but got laid off because there was no work avail-’ able for me. That was Dec. 29. Since then I have been seeking .employment at various places but every place I go I am “too young, too tall, too skinny, too inexperienced” or —e are laying some of our help 0 n

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What I would like to know is how does a manufacturer expect to sell his product and have a profitable business if he lays men off- everytime there is a slump season. Another thing — the manufacturer wants a young man, but he must be experienced. #They must expect you to get to this world experienced. How did they get their experience? Someone gave them jobs and taught them how to do them. Why don’t these manufacturers give us young men a chance so we can lead a normal American life instead of a life of crime. And as for being too young, I don’t see what difference your age should make as long as you realize the responsibility the job demands of you.

y ® ® ® DOUBTS DANGER IN NIGHT-TIME PARKING By W. C. Evidently Mr. Everett S. Brown’s ideas concerning the night parking ban are strictly his own and very few other people share his ideas.

I'll agree that some people do park their cars on the opposite side of the street from their homes, but the majority of these people live on streets that are marked for parking on one side of the street only. There is not a single reason for anyone being involved in an accident with a parked car if he uses his head and exercises a little care in driving. Every street in Indianapolis is sufficiently wide for cars to be parked on at least one side and still permit traffic to move in each direction. : Evidently Mr. Brown has a garage at home and hasn't had to worry about trying to find one. Perhaps he can offer a suggestion to my problem since he is so well informed on police activities, I live in a district where there is not a single garage available. I know because I have made a house-

(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.)

to-house canvass for six blocks in every direction. > Please tell me what people are going to do with their cars if they live in places which have no garages? -Should we try to find a garage somewhere on the other side of the city so we can waste about an hour’s time every time we want to get our cars out or park them for the night? Perhaps Mr. Brown doesn’t know that there is one garage in Indianapolis for each two and one-half cars. ; 2 8 8 SEES UNFAIRNESS IN NIGHT PARKING RULE By E. E. H. What is wrong with the Police Department? Have they run into some financial difficulty and can’t get enough money other than giving stickers for overnight parking? Why not work out a system charging so much a month for use of the

streets? o . I don’t believe the street cleaners

(should kick, especially ‘about the

parking in our neighborhood. They may get around to cleaning the streets once or twice a year. I agree there may be a reason to prohibit overnight parking in downtown districts, but to bar all streets regardless of location is unquestionably unfair. What are we to do? Ask our rental offices to

build us a garage when there’s no space for one? We might drive our cars up into front yards. Shall we rent a garage even if we have to get up in the morning and catch a streetcar to where it is located or let the cars be hauled in by the police? ’ ® 8 = SEES DISCRIMINATION IN

OLD AGE ASSISTANCE ACT By John A. Thomas, Madison, Ind.

Do you know if you raise a fam-|

ily and one remains single and obtains a job, you get no old age assistance? If you don’t rear children, you get assistance. If you have a 10-cent insurance policy, so the county won't have to bury you, you have to give it to the authorities, or you get no assistance. If you have no policy and expect the county to bury you, you can get assistance. So you should have no children and should not practice thrift, and then when you get too old to work you will be able to get assistance.

New Books at the Library

TENNA in the 19th Century, with its gay enthusiasm for music, excellent food, and wines and almost a mania for dancing, afforded a perfect setting in which the Strausses flourished—that extraordinarily gifted family whose destiny if was to set the entire world waltzing and who captured the imaginations and hearts of all. In “Johann Strauss, Father and Son” (Greystone Press) Heinrich Jacob, in a translation by Marguerite Wolff, tells of the rise and extent of power of the Strauss dynasty; skilfully shows the relationship of their esthetic history to the political and social conditions of the time; and through it all gives

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the. history of ballroom dancing and its music from the aristocratic 18th Century minuet to American jazz. The author describes in detail the dramatic lives, romances, and domestic difficulties of the illustrious family. | The first Johann, attractive violin virtuoso with a gypsy temperament, rose from the masses to rule them with his music; organized and conducted his own orchestra; and, with amazing powers of invention, wrote the waltzes which achieved popularity all over the world. His son Johann, truly the Waltz King, whose career was less astonishing but longer and richer, wrote not only the lovely waltzes which he played everywhere, but also excellent operettas. Even his brothers, Josef and Eduard, composed waltzes and carried good orchestral music to the ends of the earth. ? This romantic epoch of the waltz ended forever in 1914, With the beginning of the war, the advent of John Philip Sousa and his band, and the coming of American jazz, the familiar forms 6f European dance music were forgotten. The author feels, however, that this eclipse is purely temporary. He is sure that the inevitable change will come after some great political turning point; for he believes that it is in the light music of the people that a reflection of the life and times will always be found. ; :

WAY IN THE NIGHT

By RUTH E. STEFFEY Way in the night, Lord, I met my

sin, Saw what it was, Lord, ugly and

thin, N’er did I think, Lord, that a thing small have tripped my soul and made it fall.

Gather what's left, Lord, up in thy old, Warm up my heart, Lord, that’s been so cold. Let me just stand, Lord, close to thy side, : Then frantic, that sin will slink ‘off and hide.

DAILY THOUGHT

Charity suffereth long, and is / kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up~I Corinthians 13:4.

DEFER not charities until death . liberal of

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Gen. Johnson

Says— Country Needs Men Like Borah: 'The Great Disagreer’ Served U. S. With Great Ability and Sincerity.

\ ASHINGTON, Jan, 23—This country, as never before, needs men like Senator Borah. You can count his like on the fingers of one hand. ~ He and I have had disagreements. He was a great disagreer. You couldn’t have a whole Senate of Borahs and still have either party organization or much cohesion in the Senate itself. Out motoring, Calvin Coolidge once saw the Senator riding

Cal remarked after a few minutes rumination, “he and the horse are going in the same direction.” But we need a quota of such men. It is the antidote for personalized power. Like Thomas Jefferson, he had sworn eternal hostility toward any form of domination over the mind of man. He voted and acted as he thought and believed—and he always thought and believed sincerely. © Alone with such a few veterans as Carter Glass, he simply did not play in the pork-barrel game of political patronage. He was so strongly intrenched in the good-will and confidence of the people of his state that there was no necesity to do that. Even if there had been any necessity, he wouldn't have done it. - ; : » ® 8 : ’ Y disagreements with him were official but they never made any difference in our personal relations which were always kindly. I have looked

‘| up to him as a model since I was very young and,

in later years, regarded him so deeply as a friend that his going wrenches me personally as severely as though he were an elder member of my own family. In private life he was as gentle as a woman. In debate he could and sometimes did wield either a rapier or a cudgel. The galleries filled when he spoke on any subject, He was alert to the last. : In testifying on the Neutrality Act before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee of which both he and Senator Hiram Johnson were members, I recalled to Senator Borah how he ‘and Hiram had gone to thé country in the League of Nations issue and defeated it by their own speeches almost alone. I deplored the fact that they were not crusading any mere and softly suggested advancing age as a reason. “Yes,” said Mr. Borah, with a kind of twinkle, “Senator Johnson does show his years but I go on

forever.” I THINK a great sorrow in his life was his disape pointment over the Smoot-Hawley Tariff. He was for the farmer and not very strong for Mr. Hoover. He wanted to preserve by tariffs every American market which our agriculture could supply—either di rectly or by a substitute. He understood that Mr, Hoover agreed. | Al Smith went West and pledged to the farmers’ demand for some such action as Mr. Roosevelt took later. It swept the prairies. But Senator Borah swept them back and practically swung the farm states in the election by a single speech ridiculing Al and selling Hoover. . His reward was the Smoot Hawley tariff which gave the farmer nothing in his .own field but crucified him on a cross of increased industrial rates. : But Senator Borah was by that time a veteran and now, “the death wound in his gallant breast the last of many scars,” it neither imbittered nor embroiled him, He has served his country with ability, faith and courage through crisis after crisis,

thou into the joy of thy lord.”

Wagner Adt

By Bruce Catton Si,

Changes, if Any, fo Be Aimed at Board Personnel, Not the Law,

ASHINGTON, Jan. 23—It is possible now to get a pretty clear idea of the changes which critics of the Wagner act and the Labor Board will demand at this session of Congress. : These changes are apt to be much less “destruce tive” and sweeping than has been expected. Accqrde ing to one of the most prominent and influential of be board’s foes in Congress, they will probably ine clude: Creation of a five-man board in place of the press ent board of three, with some provision for geoe graphical representation in naming members, Requirement that the board follow established rules of evidence as followed by the Federal Courts. Definition of the method of procedure, removing the board’s power to fake its own rules and specifically requiring certain changes such as the right of

| petition by employers.

In other words—present personnel and practices of the board will be assailed, but not the basic principles of the Wagner act. 2 =» = : { It’s very odd, but Congresspnan Jerry Voorhis of California is in very bad with New Dealers these days, although he’s as devoted a New Dealer as there is in - Congress. - His crime: toning down the Dies commit« tee report. | Argument is that if he had let the report ride as originally written it would have been so wild and exaggerated ‘that New Dealers could have fought the committee’s appropriation successfully in Congress. The report as Voorhis fixed it is sane and factual and restrained, no good fighting points were left. The New Dealers ought to be thanking him for it, and probably will some day. ai 2 8»

Where Is Dummy? : 4

If you know a Southern worker named Dummy, the Social Security Board would be glad to hear from you. : : “Dummy” is the prize sample of faulty returns that get into the board’s old-age insurance accounts. His boss sent his name in that way—just Dummy, no first name or initials—and forgot to give, his card number. When a board official tried to check up, Dummy had left his job and couldn’t be found. Meanwhile his card is on file; some day he may have money coming to him which he won’t be able to collect. The board has between 700,000 and 800,000 similar cases—workers who have paid the old-age insurance tax for a while but who can’t be found now, or whose account riumbers are missing. 3

Watching Your Health By Jane Stafford | | pL,

CHALAZION is al strange condition and, to the . one who suffers from it, an unpleasant and dis= couraging condition, that afflicts the eye lid. It is a lump on the eye lid which is sometimes painless, but which may become infected with pus germs, which make it tender, painful and red. - The condition is a disturbance of the oil glands f the eye lid. The gland becomes inflamed and fills ‘up with secretion which cannot escape, and the hard lump which then appears is the chalazion. If this be comes infected, it may break through the skin or the lining of the eye lid, allowing the pus to discharge, but the chalazion seldom completely disappears of its own accord. Eye strain and prolonged chemical and mechanical irritation, from dust, smoke and chemical vapors, are said to be the causes of this distressing: and somewhat disfiguring condition. : In most cases, the only way to get rid of a chala= zion is to have an eye doctor cut it out. Chalazions, unfortunately, tend to recur. After one has been cut out, another may soon appear, and

been discovered. A Canadian physician, Dr. 8. Gold of Montreal suggests, a a report: to the Canadian Medical Association Jo , that there is a-connec- | tion between chalazions and an oily condition of the scalp. He recommends drying treatments to the scalp as 3 means of checking the condition. The drying is accomplished by rubbing the scalp with common. table salt, followed by a shampaeo with tincture of green

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