Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 January 1940 — Page 8

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. Give Light and the Pepple Will Find Ther Own Way

SATURDAY] JANUARY’ 27, 1940 WHERE HONOR IS DUE > JAPIANAPOLIS has every right to consider its business record a remarkable one. To be able to honor 235 concerns for being in business continuously 50 years or longer is something to be proud of. But it is likewise remarkable that a city can boast that it still has 14 men active in community life who were prominent in civic: life half a century ago. It is indeed appropriate that the Chamber of Commerce, in celebrating its 50th birthday, should single out these 14 for special tributes. | Before thousands of our citizens were born these 14 men were busy working for the community good. And although their‘ children and their grandchildren have grown up to help in the job, these 14 men are still “doing their bit.” Indianapolis i is proud of them,

THINKING—AND WAITING T the United Mine Workers’ convention yesterday the ‘committee on appeals and grievances brought in a report that no grievances had been submitted, and that hence there were none to be decided. Said John L, Lewis: “I commend this report to the special attention of . . .- the Scripps-Howard Newspapers and other publications . . . which have been utterly convinced that the terrible and ruthless John L. Lewis was totally inconsiderate of the rights of his membership. Let them think ‘this over.” | Okay, John, we're thinking. And meanwhile we're | waiting for a report from whatever committee it is that has : taken under consideration that resolution from the U. M. A. Local at Holden, W. Va., asking that the union’s executive ' board be forbidden to take “our money to finance political | campaigns, Tegmrdioss of what political faction he may be‘long to.”

WE SURRENDER, TOO HE movie version of “Gone With The Wind” has captured Indianapolis as it has other cities where it has been shown. The fact that more than 2000 stood in line in below-zero weather waiting for the doors to open for the morning performance and that thousands more attended the other two performances on the opening fap is ample evidence of that. The Civil War thriller as a movie apparently is threatening to outdo the unusual popularity it enjoyed as a book. The novel dressed up a stirring periéd in our history with a superb story and the movie brings these characters to life. Such interest is a healthy commentary on the calm demeanor of our people who, in the face of distressing events at home and abroad, still are able to find relaxation and enjoyment in a movie,

DEWEY HAS REAL ISSUE

IN raising the question of who pays for the New Deal, we think Thomas E. Dewey has found a real issue. We hope he keeps riding it. The following, from his speech at Boston

the other night, cannot be lightly brushed aside:

If your car cost $700, $20 was Federal tax. If you are _ listening in on a radio which cost $33, the Government took $3 of the price you paid. Now, take out a package of cigarets. That stamp means that out of the 10 to 15 cents you pay for an ordinary pack of cigarets 6 cents goes to the Federal Government. These taxes are in the price of almost everything you buy. If your refrigerator cost $150, the tax was $7.15. On gasoline the Federal tax is a cent a gallon plus 2 to 7 cents in State taxes. The Federal tax alone is 4.cents a gallon on lubricating oil. It is one-half cent a pound for every pound of sugar you buy; 2%, cents a pound on every tire you buy for your car. The New Deal is digging its hand into your pocket every time you turn around. If you want to telephone your mother, it takes at least 10 cents on every telephone call that costs more than 50 cents. It .takes 1 cent out of every 10 from every movie admission over 40 cents., All these and similar taxes on your daily needs mount up to more than two billion dollars a year for the Federal Government, They come out of the pockets of every one of you, whether you can afford it or not.

AND WE PAY THE BILL

T would be interesting to know how much of the expense of running the Government in Washington is incurred by reason of the fact that the offices of 96 Senators and 435 Representatives are constantly phoning and writing to ask favors of the executive departments. The salaries alone of the employees assigned to the chore of keeping Congressmen happy must run into real money. Much of this correspondence and conversation is phony. A constituentswalks into a Congressman’s office and asks for a job. The Congressman calls the office of some bureau chief and announces that his dear friend so-and-so, an exceptionally able fellow, is coming right over to ask about a job. So he gets rid of his visitor, whom he had never seen or heard of before and who bored him to death. But the poor bureau chief has to go through the motions of discussing the possibilities of.a job, even though there is no job. The same thing goes for innumerable other sorts of requests from constituents. Often the Congressman is not satisfied with talking to an underling, but must speak to the head man himself. Now comes Rep. Joseph W. Byrns of Tennessee, and announces in the House that a WPA official for the District of Columbia is “insolent” and “arrogant”’—all because the official's secretary told the Congressman’s secretary that the official was tied up and couldn’t see him. Mr. Byrns wanted to talk to him about a job for a jobless Tennessean, : We weren't listening i in on this telephone conversation, so we don’t know whether there actually was any impudence or arrogance, or if so on which end of the line. But this is an example of why businessmen who try working for the Government often get sick and tired of it. Congress’ is hired to legislate. The executive departments are hired to execute. They would get along more cheaply and more efficiently if the Congtessinion shinnied on their own side. ¥

Imeks is as good

Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

Having Urged a Pardon for Scalese, Green, Should Reveal Findings on

Which He Based Recommendation.|

EW YORK, Jan. 27.—I understand .that Will

Green, the president of the American federation of Labor, and Joseph Padway, its’ general counsel, | have indorsed the application for a Presidential] pardon filed by George Scalese, the president of the International Union,|

Building Service Employees’ who served four years in Atlanta for a fob of white slavery. Green advised the: Desartmiont of Justice that

Scalese’s conduct as president of the union had been|

good, and Padway thought-Scalese was a fine man

' | who had lived an honorable life since his offense.

Waiving none of the objections to the presence of criminals in official positions in the labor movement, expressed by Senator Norris the other day, I suggest that this would be a good opportunity for Green and Padway to make character, as they say in the courtsmartial, for their friend, Mr. Scalese. ‘Perhaps they would be willing to give a public

accounting of the manner in which this non-work-|-

ing member of a Brooklyn gang became Internsiiopal president of an A. F. of L. union. ; 2 2 [a

we did George Scalese ever work as a janitor,

window-washer, porter or “elevator. operator;

by what grades did he rise to the office of interna-|

tional president; what have the New York police and

District Attorney Tom Dewey’s investigators to say as|

to his activities in the last 10 or 15 years; who are his associates, and what has been done with the

| money collected from the rank and file workers in

the form of initiation fees, dues and assessments? What other unions have been organized by Scalese and his colleagues in Brooklyn and Chicago; how much money have they collected; what have they

done with it? I don’t see how Green and Padway|'

can decline to make a full presentation of all these matters to justify their approval of the request for a Presidential pardon. If they can prove that Scalese has gone straight, that he rose to the presidency of the union by decent, democratic methods and that the funds of this and other unions in which he has been interested are

all on hand ‘or honestly accounted for, they have a|

good case for a pardon. If an open, impartial investigation shows otherwise, however, Green and Padway will have to admit either that they knowingly indorsed a crook or that they knowingly gave their indorsement without making sufficient inquiry. ” ” ® °

Ter should not object to & public hearing of|

all the facts, because they obviously must believe that such a hearing would vindicate their action.and

restore their man’s citizenship and hener after long

suspension. ' Possibly the Messrs. Green and Badwiy do rot

‘realize how important it is that the president of

this particular union be a man of high character and good associations. The huilding. service employees are, in some respects, guardians of the lives, safety and property of vast numbers of ordinary citizens. The burden of proof is en Green and Padway because Mr. Green said only a few days ago that criminals should be eliminated from the A. F. of L., knowing at the time that the president of one of his big international unions was forbidden by law to run for scavenger in the public elections or even to vote for a nominee for the office of scavenger. .

Inside Indianapolis :

What We, of All People, Would Run Into at -a Civic ‘Banquet. HERE were some things at the Chamber of Commerce’s 50th birthday affair last night that not all the folk saw. First was when Mayor Sullivan walked into the Florentine Room to say hello to distinguished visitors. Hizzoner was coaxed into taking a sip. : Just as he picked it up, Clarence Jackson of the Gross Income Tax Division charged up. “Why don’t you pay your Gross Income, Reggie?” he demanded. Hizzoner looked confused as all get-out. As if everybody didn’t know that the City was trying to dodge the State. Everybody applauded the pretty xylophone player but we found what she left behind when ‘the music stopped. It was an envelope with a bunch of song names on it. Second on the list was “O! Johnny!” After it she'd written “C—Eb.” On her envelope was included “Harvest Moon.” But .there wasn’t any sign of “Happy Birthday to You.” Maybe that’s why we missed it. 2 2 2 SE SIGNS OF THE TIMES: A sign stuck ih. the lawn at the sidewalk’s edge at 46th St. and Washington Blvd.—“Garages for Rent, $3.” , . , Charley Ettinger, our County Clerk, has returned to work after being forced to the sidelines with an- ear infection. , . . Charley found new linoleum on the office floor and a gate and railing to keep out stragglers. ... The gate has one of those trick locks, too, that would baffle even a safecracker. . . . There's. a nice article in the January issue of National Sportsman by Carol A. Klinger entitled “Some Call ’em ‘Doodles’.” . . . It pleases us because Mr. Klinger happens to be super-

visor of the information service at the Gross Income

Tax Division. » ” un : . THEY WERE DOING a land-office business on this week’s issue of Life yesterday because of the 10-page spread on Paul V. . . . Outsize stacks of the magazine, topped by copies opened at the McNutt physiognomy, were melting away under the warm demand of McNutt-for-President Headquarters attaches. ... . We forgot to tell you about the phone call. , Well, it happened at a private little party at the Lincoln the other evening. . .. Just as things were getting started, one of the boys decided to telephone his girl in Geneva, Switzerland. . . . It took about 30 minutes but he got her. . .. It was about 4 in the morning over there. . . . versation. . . . It cost him $39.30.

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

M=. JUDD COLLIER, a little woman from a big

state, expressed herself .on the Board of the

THE. INDIANAPOLIS 1 Open Season!

‘standing = each other? ‘United States Government promised |

He had a nice con-

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‘The Hoosier Forum

1 wholly disagree ‘with what you say; but will . defend to the death your. right to say it.—Voltaire.. ey

FEARS U. S. MAY YET

BE INVOLVED IN WAR

By Irene Martin, Carbon. Ind.

“. . Is the war between Russia

and little Finland really another

‘war or just a part of the same one].

with Germany and Russia under-

old England to come in as soon as

she can get the people lined up? Are we going to allow ourselves to

be so lined up? Surely once is eriough for a great nation like the United States to be made a monkey of. : : ” 2 ‘» SEES WPA UPHOLDING

CHRISTIAN IDEALS

By JW; In reply to Mr. ‘Braddick, of Kokomo, let me say I am in hearty agreement with the opening sentence of his letter in the Jan. 17 Times, in which he says: “The whole question of public relief is becoming more insistent.” Christian philosophy (if any childhood Sunday School lessons]. were properly conveyed to me) is one of giving, rather than receiving—whether the gift be alms or a U. 8S. Treasury check is not important. It is important that people like Mr. Braddick think before they speak, lest they alsp be pointed out as shamelessly demoralizing the character of their fellow citizens. - It is uncommon to hear such phrases as “preserve Christian ideals: in America” spoken in the

| same breath with “the demoraliz-

ing effect of these handouts on the

"character of the recipients.”

Mr. Braddick’s letter, however, did not mention “Christian ideals.” I assume, therefore, that the “staggering cost” of relief is a more impor-|. tant problem to him than the preservation of Christian ideals. He may be right. I simply want to. keep, the record straight. It isn’t rabble-rousers who set class against class with inflammatory ufterances—money does it, very quietly. ‘I accept my WPA “alms” even more “shamelessly” than 95 per cent of the WPA workers, because I am hired on a non-relief basis. I get more money; I don't have to be “investigated” to see if I need the job, and I enjoy other little privileges which place me in the WPA aristocracy, so to speak. And now, Mr. Braddick, speaking to you man to man as it were, I

must say that the future of the|

United States will not depend on the

Side Glances—By Galbraith

Has the].

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

liquidation of WPA so much as it will on whether - or not you cry “shame” at the WPA heirs of today

- .|in their none too promising future.

I quite agree with you and your hometown philosopher that, it is perfectly right’ (and -certainly more

i sanitary) that'we “all have a thew

—of our own tobacco.” I also think

it is right, and certainly moré con-|

ducive to the future well-being of our nation, if ‘ve all have a taste of our own America. 3-HOUR PARKING: ‘BAN HELD NO SOLUTION By George Spencer - Everett S. Brown's chief ° com: plaint - against all-night parking seems to. be that someone parks where he wants to.- I agree with him that all-night -parking is ‘a losing proposition, bus: only for.-the parking lot and garage owners: The proposed ban will be a paying proposition , for them, and for the police. department. Perhaps Mr. Brown has unwittingly blundéred upon the answer to the whole thing. Surely no citizen Yclear thinking

‘1and good, " as he modestly describes | himself, could bélieve that a park-

‘I money. from the already - over-

‘| COMMUNISTS’ NEXT MOVE.

the Fascist forces of Franco. |

[stopping them is a shame. -Why

ing ban of three hours out of 24 could correct any. of ‘his vague and unproved hazards. - It will, - however; : extort more

burdened car owner; and fatten the: pocketbooks of a favored few,

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HAS HIM GUESSING By LY Wonder where the Communists will turn next? In the .beginning their vibrations resounded from the walls . of, .capitalism. + Next they formet a United" Front with capitalism against “their arch. enemy Fascism, culminating with. the war in Spain and ultimate victory for

And, at present, in the European | struggle they are aligned with their old enemy Fascism. What is the

.{meaning of all this political shift-|

ing? ‘They had better be careful over there—socialism may slip up on every nation involved in thel| present war when peace does come ; Leow 8 DEPLORES SUPPRESSION ni OF | Wow AND DARTO By Times Reader = _ . About Wow and Darto—I think

don’t they get after some of the dance. halls’ and . taverns that are running wild, with young boys and girls getting drunk and going wrong?

New Books ot the Goo

HERE is nothing | like the quest of gems, at their source, which will throw a man into the whirl-

pool of adventure, and—if he has

eyes to see it—into the arms of romance itself. Adventure and -rorance are the stuff of memories, and memories studded with gems are worth having indeed.” So says Louis Kornitzer, = internationally known gem trader, who began his career in Vienna, where his mother was a shrewd dealer in precious stones. An, amethyst, to be paid _or in termé of spinach, was his first col-

General Federation of Women’s Clubs, in Washington, | | £

on the matter of high freight rates. : And when Mrs. Collier, who is president of the

Federation's Fourth Texas District, says that economi-|

cally speaking the United States lies. east of the Mississippi and north of the Ohio, she’s spouting ‘gospel. Figures on the subject are almost unbelievable. And the results of our chuckle-headed transportation tangles are disastrous and often tragic. Thousands of tons of good food are destroyed each year because producers can’t afford to ship it to consumers in other parts of the country. . The crops at one side of the state rot while the inhabitants of the other side languish for their lack. These facts make our boasts about progress, and our delight in streamlined trains and airplanes, seem childish. What will it profit us to move individuals about quickly, if we cannot think up an equally quick way of getting goods from Maine to Texas, or from California to Virginia, without busting a corporation bank account? Maybe in matters of such moment two heads will be better than one, and so the feminine brain might

as well set itself to thinking about the problem, since!

it affects the welfare of women and children to an exiraordinary degree And especially since the men are not showing noticeable alertness in solving it. Being tribe-conscious still, they would rather see their locality thrive momentarily ‘at no matter what expense to other communities, than to worry about a remedy which might benefit’ the entire country. It has long been our desire to see the General Federation of Women’s Clubs leave noble abstractions to fackle a major concrete problem, The frei

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ard |

"| sociations. -

‘| long-lost turquoises and of the Chi-

Jury, the author asserts. Now a Lon- .| changing the ledgers and balances | lie with sgas masks instead: {laces and rings.

1 are part of the stock. Gems sym-

| ultimate fate of his trade” =

judgment, then=the judges may . judge them;

| demn the wicked. ~Dejsrogtmy

~ |said ;will be measured by a wrong

lector’s item.: Gibtorations of Kor‘nitzers have been gem merchants; the author states that he is but one of 47 members of the present generation who have: inherited “the world of gems.” “Gem Trader” (Sheridan House) spans half a century of Louis Kornitzer’s life, “a ‘bridge ‘of gems across the stream of years,” trom Vierina to Paris, London, Antwerp, Amsterdam, Sulu and China, bartering diamonds, rubies, sapphires, emeralds, pearls and. jade. To him, jewels are the essence of romance; he remembers’ vividly those with poignant, dramatic or amusing asThere are the cases of “the Nun’s’ ruby,” of Madam X's nese dowager’s black-spotted diamond. Gem trading ° is so ‘much a gamble that the majority of traders alternate between prosperity dnd pen-

don resident, he is, temporarily, ex-

of the gem merchant for the badge of an air warden, ‘fitting the pub:

: But “patience and ability: ; wait

bolize man’s virtues and aspirations; they are beautiful, and ey of a’ place in the best of worlds. dealer: need. have no fear for he

THUS IT GOES By MAUD COURTNEY WADDELL

The sun melts the crystal ice; Rain dissolves sthe winter snow.

‘smiles melt the eye's cold “glance; : Tears dissolve the griet we. know.

DAILY THOU GHP

~ If there be a. sontroversy ‘be-: tween men, and they come unto.

Our

then they Shall, justify the righteous, and’ con-.

3:1. Say 4 i

TIN FORMING a a judgment, Yay your hearts void of fore-takén opinions; else, whatsoever is done’ or

“I rule;

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Gen. Johnson Says— !

Cessation of Trade Treaty With %

Japan Amounts to Economic War And May Bring Dangerous Situation, HICAGO, Ill, Jan. 27.—Anglo-French strategy in

the European war is to starve Germany, just as it was German strategy in both the World War. and this one tp starve England. This is economic | war which can be more deadly than military wat, °

‘especially to: women, children, the sick and the aged, - ‘Here in Chicago, the President, speaking of Japan,

threatened to “quarantine \the aggressor nations”

That raised such a storm of protest that it ‘wag

‘| soft-pedaled. Nevertheless, we seem now to be about ..

tc wage economic war on Japan. By letting the

‘Japanese trade treaty lapse, the Administration has - created a condition in which, by use of other executive

powers, it can wage economic war. to a remarkable extent.

popular opinion such as it would have to have to engage in military war.: This is ‘doubtful. price-raising policy it has already ‘ destroyed part of the American export market for ‘cotton. If it actually opens up a broadside of economic reprisals against Japan that might destroy one of our greatest remaining cotton markets. It will raise a howl from

able populer opinion,

UR trade in China is _chicken-feed compared with our trade with Japan. It may not be in great:

danger, it is not worth a war.

We bellow against “self-containment” of nations .

and “keeping alive the trade of the world” and then

give this object lesson how no nation. can afford .. to be dependent for supplies on another.. There is ..

an important question of ethics in permitting a

relationship and dependence to grow up and then ‘| using the threat suddenly to cut it off for purposes -. . ° of coercion in the political field. In view of the- -, damage such action can do, it can be as much

cause for resentment by the dependent. nation -as bombardment of her coasts.

It is for the latter reason that no nation can geé | very far down the road of economic war withouf -- reaching a place where military war can’t be avoided.

In this very situation we are creating a condition

Tt assumes that; in this, it represents overwhelming By its

"| the Solid South that will not sound much like favor- ih

which has already involved a serious military problem. :-

Japan does not now threaten us to any such extent as demands a vast addition to our navy. But we can’t thus hack at her lifelines without creating a

resentment that already has required very extensive :

naval preparaijons to back it ups. 2 = ”

HY are we doing it? We are told that it 14" not for the trade of China but for our love

of China. China is a big country. Part of it is

Communist and all of it may be. Shifts the

Far Eastern line-up are unpredictable. Just when we -

must closely watch-a dangerous conflagration in our

front yard, we seem to be building a bonfire on our ::

own back doorstep. Some authorities say we .are doing it to protect the British economic position in Eastern Asia—a thing she refused to do with us in Manchukuo. If that is

so, we are. reaping a rich -reward in the British a

interference with our exports, imports and mails and:

their disregard of ‘what remains of our neutral Tights: %

.on the high seas. = Why can't we ‘mind our own Business, including

insistence that other -nations respect our rights—' | insistence backed by force if necessary, but not by:

economic - fenagling.

Air Monopoly

By Bruce Catton

CAA to Decide on Permitling oo

Competition in Atlantic Service,

FJASHINGTON, Jan, 27.—Sometime this winter the Civil Aeronautics Authority gwill make &

decision of vast importance to Ametica’s nn du

Atlantic flying service. In deciding whether to grant the new American Export Airlines’ plea wi a ‘permit to operate an air

.service to Rome, CAA will in effect determine whether Pan-American Airlines is to retain a virtual monopoly in the trans-Atlantic field.

This outfit’s big argument is that it has the money, “°° the equipment, the experience and the ‘personnel te -:

give the nation all the service it needs. American

Export argues that competition has been. a good

thing for domestic air service and would be equally ; 5

good in the trans-Atlantic field.

Whichever way the decision goes, an ‘expansion of > 3

air service .to Europe is coming. |

Pan-American is in with a petition to boost dts ‘i:

schedule to six trans-Atlantic flights a week and is

shopping for $6,000,000 worth of new planes. American - 1

Export has .contracted for three new :four-motor Y planes which can fly to Europe non-stop with loads =: double those now carried by transcontinental ‘Sleeper’ 3a

planes.

next and final step is hi 4 CAS

Planning Board Disliked

There was more than a simple desire for economy back of the House’s refusal to ‘give any money: to the ‘National Resources Planning Board. ° The board wasn’t liked by Congressmen, who ace: cused it of egging on folks back home to demand . expensive public works, They also didn’t like its general brain-trust aura. The NRPB is a key New Deal agency, ‘and P.D: R: will fight to get its money back—but the fight will be tough. :

Red Tape and Rubber Gloves: What red tape is like is illustrated in the case

avy

of the Securities and Exchange ‘Commission and its ~~

$12 worth of rubber gloves. i Some time ago SEC workers found the special inks they use hurt their hands. SEC bought ‘em rubber gloves, but the -controller general ruled out the purchase as illegal - unless specifically authorized . - by Congress.

For a while SEC officials. simply contributed the 25 ‘money out of their own pockets. This year, however, : - they got a $12 rubber glove item in ‘their - “approprias » i N

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Waiching Your ¢ Health

epidemic form, there fs { sure-fire preventive or, at Unfortunately, neither: of these can; ' 8 present. Although anti-influenza vaocl prepared, results .in early trials have mot be ciently conclusive as yet to warrant # leased for general use Xf One thing about re iinn ‘which i is the importance of taking good care of ing and after an attack. Influenza | being a “treacherous and misleading mal other Efetions or germ diseases, it vital structures as the heart, kidneys . sels. The damage may. seem quite

of proportion . to the attack itself. If you have ever had an attack, were only. lok.

of influenza, you know that even if y and feverish for 48 hours; you had ti rag” feeling: for weeks afterwards. ‘authorities state, is. one of the -obvio n of influenzaFbut more important are the cc

J£hat may unnoticed at the damage ss heart, and so on.

To avoid such damage and the da

your doctor will undoubtedly advise. yo %o stay. in. bed, 3% for several days I. ‘The'smart

or at least .to stay home from: 1 after your temperature is back to non thing is to follow this advice. Smart people also go to bed at the first sign of an influenza attack. If more persons did ‘in bed until the physician approved, the influenza Jeath rate would be much -U. S. Public Heal ice states. Tt kee mn ‘their

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