Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 January 1940 — Page 12

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TUESDAY, JANUARY 30, 1940

THE BIRTHDAY BALLS "FP HE annual campaign of the National Foundation for In- ~ fantile Paralysis reaches a climax tonight with a series of President’s Birthday balls throughout the nation. In Indianapolis and elsewhere in Marion County, several events already have been held and more are scheduled. Fifty per cent of the proceeds remain in Marion County and will be distributed to Riley Hospital, the James E. Roberts School for Crippled Children, and other worthy institutions. : :

Through attendance at these dances or athletic events, |

or through cash donations, all of us are permitted to share in this fight. Part of the funds will help alleviate suffering now and the rest will. go into the constant search for means of controlling and eliminating the disease entirely. Let’s do our part.

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MEMO FOR COUGHLIN 5% rt 7 the Rev. Charles E. Coughlin, who has seemed from ~ time to time to draw his inspiration from Nazi sources, ‘we recommend a reading of the memorandum on Poland which the Vatican has just given out. 1 This document, the authenticity of which is vouched for by the Catholic Primate of Poland, makes you feel that the Finns, selling their lives dearly in fearful cold, are blessed by fortune. They are still free to fight and die; the Poles are free only to suffer and obey. : Fourteen priests shot to death; holy sacraments profaned; “priests closeted in a pigsty and beaten barbarously”; a priest “arrested on the street while about to give absolution to a dying person”; priests ‘“‘deported in cattle trains”; “dozens of imprisoned priésts humiliated, beaten

and maltreated” ; orgies celebrated” in a church; “sermons

permitted only in German”; priests “forced publicly to say a prayer for Hitler”; church funds stolen. Some of the ‘details are of a sort commonly considered too sordid for newspapers to print, : a2 . These things, according to the memorandum issued through the Vatican, are not’done by the Russians, whom Father Coughlin has so often reviled, but by the Vermin Gestapo, ara | x oy Berlin authorities have condoned the shooting of priests on the ground that they were snipers; that is, that they were Polish patriots as well as Roman priests. But surely neither Heaven nor Hell nor history can condone the sum total of the German enormities in Poland—the ruthless subjugation of a people, the transplantation of whole communities, the forced labor, the drumhead sentences, the profanation of the sacred. ; ~The story must make grim reading in Rumania and ‘Sweden and other lands in danger of being branded “lebensraum.” + : ;

5 YEARS, 9 MONTHS, 4 DAYS

ON April 20, 1934, union pickets began to trudge back and : forth in front of the Edgewater Beach Hotel at Chicago. Since then, most Chicagoans have forgotten the reason for the strike, : But for five years nine months and four days the pickets ‘continued to march, Day and night, in fair weather and

foul, singly and in pairs, they were always there. Guests.

‘and passersby ceased to notice them. They walked, a statistician estimated, about 38,000 miles. The unions they rep-

resented, according to an official, spent more than $200,000

to carry on the strike, i Well, the picketing, said by some unionists to be the longest in American labor history, finally has ended. A Joint statement from the unions and the hotel says: “The strike has been settled to everyone's satisfaction.” . The moral? Perhaps it is that a strike which could ‘be “settled to everyone's satisfaction” after nearly six years ‘might have been settled without all that waste .of human strength and good will and money and shoe-leather. | Labor has proved that it can maintain a picket line for five years, nine months and four days. Management has proved that it can resist the unign’s demands for that same period. Surely such energy and such determination could produce more satisfactory results if devoted to developing a ‘method that would adjust management-labor controversies without strikes. |

PENNY-WISE PRESSURE ; T the United Mine Workers’ convention in Columbus, Secretary Treasurer Thomas Kennedy denounced the

Hull reciprocal trade agreements program.

«i Before the Way and Means Committee in Washington,

John D. Battle, spokesman. for the coal mine owners, voiced similar sentiments, for] fi

n one point, it seems, the workers and the bosses ‘of

coal are agreed—that the Hull trade agreements are hurt“ing them. But what does the record show? Read the fig-

res Pn our country’s trade in coal since the Hull program gan: I

1934 sescnebisheus tints ras resioeh tans § 487,097 | shires ion, ceecsssioess.. 1,157,828 i EE Sess 0c ans Secs sssnsssestbinees 3,574,061 { eh sss Dl «oo 2,350,322 14,634,504 . 1939 (first 11 months) 2,128,298 19,045,998

It should be added that the spokesmen for coal’s employers and employees complain not only of the meager coal imports, but also of the imports of oil, a competitive fuel. Incidentally; the oil men are also yelping about this. So here are foreign trade statistics on petroleum and its by-products: :

Imports Exports $11,082,223 13,186,268 9,513,357 14,795,748

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1938 1939 (first 11 months) ; . 35,943,869 348,237,265 These figures indicate that what the coal and oil in«dustries gain by exports is about 10 times what they concelyably lose by imports. It would seem, therefore, that netead.: condem In A ? Sme a

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By Westbrook Pegler. * .

London Writer Tolls. His Paper U. S. Is Bound to Enter the War For Good Reasons of Its Own.

of Lord Beaverbrook’s London Express has written a candid article about the Americans which has been cabled back here by the London correspondent of the Chicago Tribune and New York Daily News.

advises his -countrymen to ignore American public effect, to continue to treat us rough lest the Americans

‘into their war: {i He is convinced that we are convinced that the United States must go into the war, anyway, and his report on the state of our mind adjures the English to give us no reason to think that in fighting on their side we would be doing them a favor which might call for a show of gratitude later on. It becomes more apparent that the English are not at all selfish about this war, but are willing to grant the United: States a big share of it, wars being the one article with which the English are generous to this nation. But for our own self-respect they want. us to think that it was rightfully our own and not a gift from them. i : It has succeeded in the past and appears to be operating well again, for the American Government, the political leaders of the opposition, the press and ‘public opinion are against England's enemies, and the nation as a whole is circling closer to the scuffie. ; #" # 8.

5 must be written now that no kick or swipe from England will be regarded as sufficient cause to take up arms . against England. Interference with our mails or ships will not’ arouse our emotions, because mails, merchandise and boats do not bleed or moan. Meanwhile the Germans with their unerring stupidity are starving and freezing the wretched Poles and degrading millions of captives into the status of Class B, C and D membhers of the human race, and the Jews into a sub-human classification, all to the great emotiohal distress of millions of Americans of Austrian, Czech, Polish and Jewish persuasion, and to the ominous alarm of our Scandinavians, who fore-

land. : : These' are the dramatic factors which will arouse the Americans to the point of war against England's enemies without their knowing or even suspecting that the American war interest lies not in Europe, but in collaboration with the British fh the Pacific. By measures short of war we have already struck a hard blow in that theater. ® ”

O it seems that Lord Beaverbrook’s correspondent is right and that the British already have us

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lies against the fate which makes it necessary to be comradely with a breed of people so bleak, selfish, and of themselves and their country, unimportant as the English. :

the English were by habit openly insulting toward everything American, and the change from a rather threatening nastiness to a cold and sneering superiority, has been due to no change of heart, but to a change in strength. . _ For American self-respect, then, let it.be understood that if we must enter the war in either theater we do so for practical reasons of our ‘own, and that it is not for love, but for military and political convenience that we collaborate with an ally with a heart notoriously too full of ‘greed to have any room for nobility, generosity, honesty or friendship.

Inside Indianapolis

The Complex Subject of Parking; And a Short Memo on Street Cars.

XY ERE is now going on a great deal of anguished backing and forthcoming concerning ‘the Safety Board faux pas on doing away with all-night parking, etc, etc. We say faux pas because that's just what it appears to be—shoddy handling of a ticklish matter. The: idea is sound and all that, but it was popped

out of the blue. The inside of the thing is that the ‘Safety Board should have called in everybody who knew anything about the subject, judges, prosecutors, City legal authorities et al. They should have discussed the problem right out in the open. But there is no record that even the City Legal Department was consulted. The order was just put out and the police went forth to do the job. Well, on the first batch of arrests the judge (Karabell) said no. He said they were apparently operating under a 1926 State Statute and that therefore. they had to make out affidavits and that the action must come from .the County Prosecutor, who is entrusted with handling State cases. What's more, he said, the 1926 statute was superceded by a 1939 Law. 2 No, replied the Safety Board, they were Workin under a City ordinance, based on the 1926 Statute (worded just the same, too). But now that: the City legal minds are at work on the subject, they're starting to shake their heads. - Which maybe proves that haste does. make waste. . - nA Gael 1 2 7-2 IT MIGHT INTEREST you to know that Judge Wilfred Bradshaw made 139 speeches during 1939. . « » Or roughly a speech every 2.6 days. ... A street car motorman told us a story that intrigues us.... A man got on his empty street car at the end of the line in Broad Ripple and handed him two tokens. . +» . The motorman tried to hand one back, but the man waved ‘it aside. . . . “This other token,” said the man, in effect, “is for my mother. She used to ride this line. You probably think it’s a little funny, but I'm sort of a spiritualist and my mother is riding with me now.” . .. We tried to find out if the motor-] man rang up two fares, but he said he didn’t remember, he was that confused. : 2.8 » THERE'S A NICE little vendetta going on right. now. It seems that the Indiana State Employment

ice started something. The head of one local private teacher employment agency called to say the thing was “Communistic”’ and that the I. S. E. 8. was noth- | ing but a bunch of “bolsheviks.” The Service is tak-

destroy all private initiative, but that if any of the private teacher agencies wants to start. something, they're ready. Sounded to us as if they were rolling up their sleeves so we left. It’s somebody else's private war, after all . ’

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson :

T'S hard sledding for peace groups these days. In A spite of our nation-wide declarations against participation in foreign troubles, militarism fills the air. The few scattered, scanty organizations which still stand for peace are enduring many tribulations. Their members are mostly women, and although these women fervently hug their ideals, their per~ plexity is pitiful since so few know what form their campaigns should take. . For this reason alone the new radio program begun Jan. 27 over the Columbia network ought to act as a hypodermic to our failing energies. A special commission headed by Dr. James Shotwell is trying «in these programs to awaken a livelier interest in the subject in smaller towns and cities, and to correlate student activities. D : : The average woman working with a peace group seems to feel herself a traitor to the cause if she veers ever so little from her main objective, She speaks largely in general terms because it is so hard to be specific about pacifism. Therefore she is in danger of slipping into a mental rut. She ‘talks, but talk is vague and her achievements are intangible. What she doesn’t always realize is that any comprehensive study of peace problems must include information about many other matters. :

are the result of bad trade balances, and rarely arise from religion or politics or pririciples. Therefore the advocate of peace must acquaint herself with the vital ‘economic issues which confront her nation,

EW YORK, Jan. 30.—The New York correspondent |

opinion in the matter of the mail seizures and, in|. be given to suspect the English are trying to woo us|

see the elaboration of the Stalin-Hitler war on Fin-| |

hooked, and the only possible objection on our par$+

When this nation was not so many years younger |:

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THINKS NEW MACHINES RETARD RECOVERY By Mel G. French, Edwardsport, Ind.

. « « The relief question will never be licked ‘as long as industry replaces manpower with machinery, knowing that said machinery is not’ capable of staple consumption; as long as big business seeks to maintain a high dividend level and cares little. about . the workers’ festive board, ‘and, as long as a diminishing body of union labor seeks higher wages and shorter hours without regard to industry’s ability to co-operate.

It will take more than bug-call-ing to set us right. Grinding out

column after column about relief

serves no useful purpose. About 20] per cent on the rolls are satisfied as is and don’t care a whoop what you say about them. This leaves 80 per cent, the real victims of a defunct body politic, who would trade their birthright for a real job. In behalf of these embarrassed citizens, I say it is poor politics. . . .

2 5 = SEES CONSUMER CHIEF GAINER UNDER CAPITALISM By Voice in the Crowd

.A sincere, well-written statement is Braddick’s, in the Forum of Jan. 19. It can be mentioned, however, that the competition: of our capitalistic economy is a race for customers’ favor. A continual struggle to. serve new products of higher quality to the consuming public. Business is not .the dog eat dog "affair that politicians. and reformers picture it. It is rather a survival of those who can give the customer the most wealth .or service. for the least exchange of his money. It is all in the consumer’s interest. This scramble for customers’ favor is the reason for a continually widened distribution of the real wealth and comforts of life. Th When I mention business I mean the production and distribution of real wealth. ' I do not include the get-rich speculative gentry, who profit only by the losses of others. These and the organized pressure groups are ‘a cancer on honest business. In our system of living it is only government that has become com-

last but not least].

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

plex, with its hodgepodge of bureaus, its cob. house of taxes and its

struggle to make spoilsmen’s jobs for the: boys that saved the precincts for dear old Dem-GOP. The success of our economy with a vastly widened distribution of wealth lies in streamlining the government, which has grown clear out of proportions as a burden on our labor. A courageous Administration backed by a courageous public opinion can do the job. Neither can do it alone. Contrary to misguided opinion, it is not business that must adjust itself to a more humane mankind. Our system of serving each other is what brings about a greater appreciation of human ‘values. One thing we need is a better understanding of business and what it has done for man. ; The battle today is not opposition to humanitarianism. It is between

could divide the wealth today and have paupers- tomorrow night, but if you unshackle business it will create more wealth for all, Lae eit. SAYS RUSSIA ACTED AS ANY NATION WOULD By W.F. W. > I must commend the writer of the letter published in the .Jan, 11 Forum, titled “Claims Finland Was First Fascist: Power” and signed by A Mother. : Any first-class power would have tried to rectify the situation regarding Finland if it were in Russia's place. If we permit this play for sympathy to be carried as far in this war as we did in the other war for Belgium, we will be in this war also. The result will most likely be that we will mess up European affairs again and regret it also. We helped recreate Poland which had been without national existence about 150 years. We also helped recreate - Finland which had been withdut - national existence more than 100 years. ; Why were these border states, including Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia

‘land Bessarabia created? It was out-

side powers trying to limit Russia as much as they dared.

the haves and the have nots. You

Thus new wars are made.

ROUND no other President of . the United States. has there ‘been: cast:such a smoke screen of obscuration as that which clouds the personality of Warren G. Harding. Samuel Hopking Adams in “Incredible Era” - (Houghton) explains the difficulty of examining authentic material: before posthumous scandal had touched him, Mrs. Harding had gathered together and burned the bulk of “his correspondence. Likewise, as no previously published biography could: be looked upon as authoritative, Mr. Adams had to seek first hand information from friends and relatives of the former

President.

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This incredible story begins with Harding ‘as a young chap of 19 interested in the town band .in which he played the altd horn. He acquired the Marion Star along with the mortgage and began his newspaper career. An habitue- of pool halls and saloons where he met “the boys” on an equal footing, Harding got along famously with the man on the street. Mrs. Harding tried hard to make him respectable, but even in the White House the beer hall atmosphere still prevailed. The political rise of such a man as Harding is nothing short of phenomenal. It was due, Adams writes, solely to Harry Daugherty, who took Harding out of the niche

“| with which he was familiar - and

thrust him into a totally unknown one, one to which he was in no way fitted. No sooner was Harding in Washington than the Ohio gang descended upon him. and, taking advantage of his ignorance and good

Through it all, we see this common man standing at the head of his Government, not quite knowing what it was all about and not knowing what to.do about it: - His death came at an opportune time, while he was still loved by his country and before scandal broke in waves over his head.’ For when it did -break, the country was stunned; and now, 16 years after his death, the echoes are still reverberating.

| JANUARY TELEVISION

By MARY P. DENNY Pictures shining in the sky January glories soaring high. Radio gleams of sleet and frost Gleaming where the meadows cross.

Shining crystals of the snow Gleaming bright in sunshine gold. Television of the winter a Pictures nature bright and fair,

Glowing in the frosted tree Shining in the snow flake free,

| All. things shine in crystal line {J | Television light divine.

Radio of the earth and sky

{In a wonder lifted high.

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nature, ‘ruthlessly exploited him for| ‘| their own profit.

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linois Farmers Showing Signs of Discontent With Idle Acres and This May Provide Help for G. 0. P,

OLUMBUS, O., Jan. 30.—Like New York, Illinois splits her politics between the metropolis and “down state’—“up state” in. New York. I have just spent®a little time in Chicago and among the farmer

from so short a trip and write a column about what people are th g .in Illinois, would be: something like those European essayists who make a round trip to New York and then write books about “America at the Crossroads.” But I was in business in that state for many years and “down-state” was the home of my parents’ families to, the third and fourth gene eration. . Chicago is now strongly Democratic.” It usually is in hard times. But times are not so hard in Chicago just now. Recently it had a real spurt in busi ness and employment. Its greatest industries—packing, steel and machinery—are going strong. New orders for steel are only about 50 per cent of what they were some weeks

is keeping the industry operating at capacity. Low prices for hogs coupled with increased consumption of pork due to re-employment keeps the packers busy, ”. » ” HE recent business movement sideways is not due. as some commentators have said, to an overstocking of inventories. On the contrary, the failure to develop a real boom is laid to the kind of hand-to-mouth buying that has developed. The air is thick with uncertainty. When is the European war going to drop its other shoe—if any? Will Mr. Roosevelt seek another “mandate” for himself and associates? New taxes? Inflation? Are we going .to be drawn into the war in Asia or in Europe? Real as are all these elements of doubt, suspense has a way of wearing itself out. There are at least the makings of a good year in Chicago. Contradictory as it may sound, better times and less relief and unemployment would be water on the Republican rather than on the Democratic wheel in Chicago. : The bulk of Illinois farmers have been congenital Republicans ever since the Civil War. The New Deal effort to help the farmer after years of Republican regret brought him over—with one eye on the ‘“benefit checks” and his tongue in his cheek. But some Illinois farmers don’t like Mr. Wallace's acreage restrictions. Two of my cousins, each of whom owns and operates a sizable farm, have been in that calling since boyhood. #2. 8 =» OTH became eloquent with figures to show that they would be better off free. They have the stock and the equipment to work their whole farms. They pay taxes on the whole acreage. They have nothing else to-do with their time. They figure that, with all their “benefits,” their restricted production pays them only 40 cents an hour for their part-time labor. 7 I couldn’t check the spread of this benefit in this particular area but I hear it wherever I go and .they assure me that it is fairly general in Illinois. On such advices, I believe that, if the Republicans, sticking to the New Deal principle of “parity prices” on domestic consumption of farm products, invent a simpler formula and nominate a candidate whom farmers can believe, they can retake Illinois® and some Midwestern farm states—especially if better times relieve distress in the cities—but not heir present sterility and stagnation of leadership and ideas.

Col. Fleming By Bruce Catton :

Red Tape Cut, Wage-Hour Act ' Now Functions With Smoothness.

TASHINGTON, Jan. 30.—One year ago the : wage-hour administration was the most troublee ridden of all New Deal agencies. It was under-staffed and under-financed. It had lots of enemies and it- was adding to them by its own shortcomings. Influential congressmen were whetting knives to have its heart out. Today everything looks different. There is a bige ger staff and more money. Congressional critics. are showing a willingness to hold off a while and give the new boss, Lieut. Col. Philip Fleming, a chance. And the administration itself has stopped falling over its own feet. Most of this ise¢due to the changes which Col, Fleming has introduced. Brought in as a troubleshooter after luckless Administrator Elmer Andrews was forced out, this smiling, gray-haired army officer has given the outfit a new atmosphere and a new system. : 3 { All kinds of things ailed the wage-hour admine , istration. Its organization was cumbersome. Ine spectors in the field were divorced from staff lawyers in the field. They lacked real authority; no case involving more than $1500, for instance, could be passed on by a field officer but had to go all the way to Washington. iia A It was even worse with complaints. The fleld man had’ to refer all complaints to Washington. As a result, complaints formed an ever-mounting snow-drift. Often enough it would take six months for a complaint to get action. TE dee

Authority Is Spread

On top of everything else, there wasn’t enough money to hire a staff. Andrews started out with 28 inspectors; the administration will have around 900 by next June, and says even that won't be too many, And to cap.the climax, there was rio clear direction from headquarters and a morale-wrecking brand of “office politics” resulted. : : ’ ' Fi was what Col. Fleming inherited. He moved ast. o : First he co-ordinated fleld inspectors and field attorneys. He next decentralized the administration, Regional officers were given full authority to handle all cases involving not more than $50,000. All come plaints were handled by men in the field. Pending cases were grouped by industries in the interests of speedier handling. . : The colonel squashed th ice-politicking over night, showed that he knéw how to make up his mind and stick to it, and restored the morale of his staff, Business men who got tangled ih the law found they could always get a fair, sympathetis hearing. > al As a result the

e-hour admini first time fa ministration for the

he future confidently.

Watching Your Health By Jane Stafford SAL

ENCOURAGEMENT for those who have lost their sight in adult life and would like to learn to read braille appears in a report by Madeleine Seymour Loomis, instructor of braille reading and writing at Teachers College, Columbia University. 0 Adults, she declares, can learn to read with their fingers the embossed writing or printing, called braille, which is being used more and more widely to bring the world’s literature, ancient and modern, within reach of the blind. By way of illustration she tells the story of a man who learned to read braille after he was 70 years old. He never had more than two

- lessons ‘a week, but his determination and daily

practice enabled him to succeed. Children learn braille more easily than adults, but, Miss Loomis points out. children also learn languages and many other things more easily and quickly than adults. This does not keep many adults from: learning foreign languages ur other skills, and it should not keep blind adults from learning braille, Slow progress should not discourage the adult

.| student of braille. He should remember that in any

study there are some persons who learn quickly and others, who learn more slowly. ye . Some practical hints are given by Miss Loomis in her report published by the American Foundation

for the Blind. She stresses the importance of :egular dally practice of an hour or more. This practice, she

-suggests, may be more valuable if done or _ Unt

Sit TUESDAY, JAN. 30, 1940 | Gen. Johnson

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branch of my family in central Illinois. To come back -

ago, but the backlog of orders plus this new business

with a teacher