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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 31, 1940

“GOD WILL BE SATISFIED”! : “HE only thing we see of special significance in Hitlar’s ~ speech is the bracketing of France with England. Heretofore the Nazi oratorical line has been to single out England as the arch-enemy and to pretend that Germany has no quarrel with her neighbor across the Rhine. Apparently despairing of efforts to propagandize the French into signing a separate peace, the Fuehrer declared that it is now “England’s turn to see what war is like”; that if the French want war “they, too, will have war”; that both countries will get a taste of “the fight which they invited.” He sneered at “democratic ideals” and Britain's “wonderful war aims” and Chamberlain’s sanctimoniousness, alluded as usual to the crimes of Versailles and the German misery of pre-Nazi days and bragged of wiping Poland “off the map in 18 days.” One passage will be of special interest to Poles. He told how “the Bible-reading Chamberlain attempted to reach an agreement with the atheist Stalin,” and how “I succeeded where he failed. As a result we have nothing to worry about from the east.” Then— : “I think God will be satisfied that battle was avoided

on one big front.”

SAFETY FIRST TE note that the Safety Board is to test a unique type of safety island at Market and Illinois Sts. This is described as a device, which among other things, deflects autos striking it back into the traffic lane.

Now if someone will only come up with a robot chauffeur”

maybe we'll really get some place in this campaign for traffic safety. .

IT’S NO GO, FIORELLO HE Mayor of New York isn’t the man one would expect to be homesick for the good old days. But now we find him hungering for the pre-horse-and-buggy reasoning of Chief Justice John Marshall. Mr. La Guardia says, in effect, that Mr. Marshall was right in proclaiming that “the power to tax involves the power to destroy,” and that therefore Congress has no ~ “power to lay an income tax on the salaries of New York City employees. He advises city workers to pay the tax only under protest, pending a test suit. We commend to Fiorello the decisions of the Supreme Court in the Gerhardt and O'Keefe cases (1938 and 1939), © which demolished the hoary doctrine of reciprocal tax immunity for governmental salaries even before Congress passed the Public Salary Tax Act of 1939. That law ordered the Federal income tax applied to state and local govern®niental employees. : a 7 As Justice Frankfurter said, Mr. Marshall's “seductive cliche” was just “an unfortunate remark” delivered “partly as a flourish of rhetoric and partly because the intellectual fashion of the times indulged a free use of absolutes.” Yet for decades thereafter “this dictum was treated as if it were a constitutional mandate.” ~ It was a case to prove the epigram that precedents are “mistakes grown old.” : Old Justice Holmes made the classic retort to the shade of John Marshall when he said (in a dissent some years ago) that “the power to tax is not the power to destroy while this court sits.” The Holmes dissent is now the majority view. : Today the notion that public servants are not also citizens, liable for their due share of the costs of government, is as dead as a doornail. And the next step, we hope, will be abolition of tax immunity on the income from governmental®bonds.

BALKAN PAPERS PLEASE COPY

OTOR Vehicle Commissioner Finney is to confer in Chicago with Wisconsin officials on a reciprocal agreement on trucks. Indiana police recently arrested some Wisconsin drivers and Wisconsin threatened to retaliate. From last accounts both states were part of the Union, but you would never know it from reading the papers.

- THEY DO IT EVERY TIME

HE ax-wielders of the House Appropriations Committee

have sliced another $154,000,000 off President Roose-:

velt’s budget—this time from the politically ‘explosive agriculture supply bill. We still think these early-in-the-session economy gestures mean nothing. Already they have saved (on paper) $302,000,000—nearly two-thirds of the $460,000,000 which the President asked Congress to raise by new taxes in order to keep the national debt under the legal limit. This is an election year and the Congressmen naturally don’t want to vote new taxes. They are now going through the motions of proving that new taxes aren't necessary. As long as they make these gestures they can postpone a showdown. If we hadn't witnessed similar performances last year and the year before—indeed nearly every year since the Government started spending beyond its income—we might now be cheering. Congress for its bold efforts. But on the basis of experience we think it safe to predict that by the time the boys get ready to adjourn next June or July all these paper savings will have gone with the wind. After final action is taken on all the regular appropriation bills, and on the first, the second, the third and perhaps the fourth deficiency bills, total appropriations once again will exceed the total of the Preésident’s estimates. : : Then somebody will jump up and say that something must be done about taxes. Congress won’t have time, energy or political courage to enact a good revenue measure. There will be another bum’s rush on another slap-dash tax _ bill—or maybe a committee will be appointed to investigate —and the lawmakers will trudge wearily home to the

“Gone With the Wind.” . . . Their seats

Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler As an Expert on Foreign Affairs

He Agrees That Poor Old U. S. Is Just a Part of British Empire.

EW YORK, Jan. 31.—I suppose some people have been wondering where I learn so much about the military situation in the Far East. ‘What I do is listen to speeches, read books and

magazines and newspaper articles and talk up the ;

subject among my friends. This scares the daylights out of me, and I write a piece about it so that other

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the-worry plan. It is the same about the military situation in Europe, but my information is strictly first class, because it is compounded of all the best thoughts and fears on this subject. ; Anyone who wants to become an authority may do. so by listening to a few lectures, reading a few essays bearing such titles as “Whither French-Indo China?” or “What Price Italo-Balkan Isolationism?” Interviewing some officers of the Army and Navy, preferably retired, and provoking casual discussions with non-professional friends. } How does a person become an acrobat? The novice

will take some terrible falls in learning, but polish}

comes with practice and I took some myself in the field of foreign policy before I became an expert. :- 2 =» = Tor OW, however, I am pretty good, and anybody wh says I am not pretty good is low-rating not only me but some of the greatest experts in the world, because it is from them that I have learned my stuff. They are likely to be pretty wolfish, however, resenting the effrontery of any new man in hanging out his sign as an expert, And I called one of them good one day. I expressed an opinion about something, and he gave me a look and said, “That is the most dangerous fallacy that is deluding our public today.”

“That certainly is funny, coming from you,” I said,|

“because I got it out of your book.” Did that slay him! As a general practitioner in the field of wisdom I

find this phase of the work the least attractive of all, |

and just as some doctors turn over certain unpleasant jobs to specialists, except in emergencies, I avoid international affairs as much as I can without losing my license. You have to do a certain number of pieces on this topic every year, or things will change so much you will find yourself going on about Hitlerism versus bolshevism, which would be like a doctor

bleeding a patient for the flu.

/ ” 2 2 HE reason why it is so objectionable to me is that

no matter where you start, or what line you fol- |

low, you wind up with this country in the arms of the English or, more rarely, vice versa. That is to say, that any war of England’s is inescapably our war, because the British fleet is our defense against vanquishment at the hands of any power which conquers England. It means that a free republic which had to fight England twice—first to be born and then to live—has now re-entered the empire full-grown, subject. however, to such insults, ingratitude and imposition as England would never dare offer to the countries which actually belong to her empire. For example,

the English wouldn't dare treat New Zealand or]

Canada as she treats the United States. There must be some better conclusion,’ but science is slow and we experts haven't yet discovered what it is.

Inside Indianapolis

There's Nothing Like Drilling ‘Em Under Actual Fighting Conditions.

HE main boiler at the Armory went out of commission Monday night ‘while the National Guard was drilling. . . . And the troops went on performing under sort of Finnish conditions. , . Speaking

of soldiers, the picture “The Fighting 69th” made quite a hit with old soldiers around town. . . . It even impressed Gen. Robert H. Tyndall, whose 150th Field Artillery (Indiana’s own), backed up the 69th in every engagement it had. . . . The Chamber of Commerce athletic committee met yesterday noon for luncheon at the 1. A. C.. . . But they balked at starting to eat with only 13 persons there. . . . So they inveigled a photographer into sitting down for a few minutes. . . . A chap we know (Leck by name) got on a street car sort of absent-mindedly yesterday, tossed his token out the open door and blandly proferred his cigaret to the motorman.

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WE TIP OUR HAT to Freda I. Bridenstine for contributing an exceedingly well-done study of the Reciprocal Trade policy to the current issue of the Indiana Women Voter. . . . From a Liederkranz invitation to its Grand Mask Ball: “. . , , well-oiled orchestra will play extra hot music.”, . . Latest political word is that the Hillis headquarters won't be near the regular G. O. P. headquarters. . . . Reason: Hillis backers object to what they call the “pi-partisan atmosphere” around regular quarters. . . . Choicest tid-bit on the McNutt side comes from Washington, where it's being said that Paul V. offered Treasury agents the keys fo his bank lockbox if they were sincere in wanting to investigate income and such, but that the sleuths declined. 2 Look Magazine, you know, says that Paul and Garner may be the only serious contenders by the time the national convention meets.

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OSCAR HAGEMEIER, the counsellor, is in Michigan City today, trying to trade off his old boat on a newer and bigger-one. . . . He wants, of all things, a 32-footer. . . . That means yacht to us, O. H. .. . Bloor Schleppey has a nice, new tow-rocpe, forced on him by a motorist stranded on the Michigan Road, and whom Bloor helped out of a ditch. . . . Two young ladies went to Loew's the other evening to see ere in the center, far back, and they sighed, but prepared to make the best of things. . . . When up walked two other young women to inquire if they would trade. . . . Their seats ‘were sixth row, center, a little too close for them. . . . The rapid-change act, they say, would have made you dizzy. . . . Which reminds us that the critics are doing the rave over Hollywood's newest, “The Grapes of Wrath.”. Mildest word we've heard is “wonderful.”.., . What it isn’t colossal! :

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

READER in Denver writes:

: “I know a girl who works at a lunch counter serving from 100 fo 150 people a day. Those who eat at the counter as a rule are not able to tip, as most of them do not like to give less than a dime and they can’t afford that, and so give nothing. If the public could be made to understand that even a penny tip would mean at least a dollar a day to a girl they would be glad to give it, and by this dollar the worker could be independent and perhaps remain decent besides. Owing to the sales tax we all have pennies in our pockets but most of us are ashamed to give them for tips. ; : “I will be glad for you to write something that could put this idea over, for I want to see these Sis beiped, I know most of them deserve a better A “Mr. Gentleman” signs this letter, and one can see that he does not betray the implications of his name. Probably his humane little scheme could be made to work, and until something better turns up perhaps we could follow his suggestions. However, concentrating. on an increase or de-

crease in the size of tips is rather like a man whol

worries about the amount of fuel in the kitchen range after the house is on fire.

The force of the American mind needs to bel

turned upon the matter of wages, not of tips; wages

‘and the training of all workers so that whatever| | their employers pay they can feel they are getting| |

value for their money. In some way an effort should be made to distribute our vast wealth so that all

the people may benefit a. little. It doesn’t speak well for our social order when

! working peofle beg for an increase in tips, vA

Corridor!

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

SAYS MALLORY WORKERS IMPERILLED BY TRAFFIC By R. P. : If a member of the “Safety Committee” would stand on the corner of Gray and Washington Sts. at 11:30 to 12 noon, during the lunch hours of the P. R. Mallory Ca,, he would see the employees taking their

lives into their own hands, attempt-| ing to cross Washington St.

Several persons have been injured at this intersection, but still nothing has been done except to erect “Stop” signs on these corners. What Gray and Washington Sts. needs is a Stop and Go signal to handle the traffic that is unusually heavy in the mornings, noon and evenings. Let’s protect these employees who play an important part in Indianapolis industry, and others who must put up with this menace. 2 2 2 CLAIMS WORKING WIVES, MACHINES BALK RECOVERY By R. S. Fi The manufacturer and his machines are the ruination of the country today. The sooner we get rid of these modern machines, the better off we all will be. . ., And another thing that is just as bad, or maybe worse, is for a married woman to work when it is not necessary. I know of several families where the husband and wife both work when it is not necessary. From my viewpoint I don’t think the husband should even permit his wife to work, if he thinks much of himself. As' soon as these two things are corrected we will be 100 per cent better off. - ” ” ” ANOTHER DEFINITION OF

PARASITE OFFERED

By Voice of Labor To be sure Mr. Meitzler has found the definition of the word “parasite.” It is quite easy to turn to Webster. But to apply and relate the word to this or that economic grouping of the country is hardly so simple. To express merely the taxpayer's yearning falls short of covering the connotation of the word. Labor produces all value. Labor is prior to capital. Labor produces wealth. Without labor there would have been

Side Glances—By Galbraith

(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.)

no capital, no. dividends, no rich people. All derive their living, in the last analysis, from labor. : Must we not decide that the parasites are that class of people who practice the skinning of labor? This is enough said, for everybody knows who they are. ” ” ” THINKS FAVORITISM SHOWN COMMUNISTS By Edward F. Maddox Well, it looks like Earl Browder, the Communist leader, is going to get a good whitewashing, just like Harry Bridges did. Every time a Communist or a communistic organization gets caught in some subversive activities, or exposed by the Dies Committee investigating un-

American actiivties, there is always plenty of sympathy and plenty of defenders to rush to their aid and protect them from paying the penalty for their sedition and treason. I wonder why. And there are invitations to speak in colleges and at luncheons for. the Communists who get caught violating our laws or controllin youth organizations and cor rupting American children’s morals and principles. Communists get plenty of aid and comfort. It’s a fine thing to seize the Nazi Bund r..:ds and prosecute and convict Fritz Kuhn, and to arrest any and all plotters against our Government. And any reasonable and unbiased official would do the same thing for Browder, Bridges and the 47 varieties of Communist organizations which are well known to be plotting a conspiracy to overthrow our Government. Somebody is playing favorites ‘with the Communists... , The Communists are teaching our people to hate their employers, to hate their representatives in Congress, to desp®e and discard morality, honesty and patriotism. That is the quickest and surest way to cause

jfevolution and destroy our American system.

New Books

«rg~HOMAS RILEY MARSHALL, Hoosier Statesman,” (Mississippi Valley Press) by Charles Marion Thomas, of the faculty at Ohio State University, is a carefully documented recital of the leading events in the life of this genial statesman. In this book there is not much that is new for the story of Tom Marshall's life, in his own “Recollections” and in the published biographies and autobiographies cf his colleagues, especially of his Washington days, has been pretty thoroughly covered. : Still this account loses nothing in the retelling and Hoosiers, especially, will find much to refresh their recollections of one of their own who grows in esteem and stature year by year.

Prof. Thomas skips the Marshall boyhood and his early years as a country lawyer in Columbia City but delves deeply into Marshall's career as Governor and Vice President. : While Mr. Marshall was classed among the Conservatives at his death, the bock reminds us that much progressive legislation in the field of labor, public accounting and in the conduct of elections, was enacted during his regime in the State House. : The respect which he won in the Senate, the pre-war years when he was solidly entrenched as a Pacifist, the World War days when he was not, and the tragic months that followed Wilson’s breakdown in

health are retold with vividness and sympathy. No story of Marshall could be told, of course, without reference to the famed Marshall humor and there is a liberal .sprinkling of anecdote. £28 Indianapolis readers will find amusement in the reference, toward the close, to Mr. Marshall's determination to write his “Recollections” so that he could get enough money to go South in the winter to get away from “the everlasting winter smoke of the bituminous coal burning Indianapolis.” He complained that it gave him a

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"It's so sweet of you to buy'me fis purple handbag! I'll have to

run downtown tomorrow and buy

a dress, hat and shoes to match.” Lo

hacking cough. But the friend in whom he confided suspected that it was the “never-absent” cigar and not the smoke which was responsible.

. TWO LOVERS"

' By DANIEL FRANCIS CLANCY

Sitting by the radio I watch you hold hands and stare Into each other's eyes As music comes o’er the air,

Frowning, I Turn back to reading my book And think that Were I giving such a look I surely would be self-consciously

Wondering what expression my face

was disclosing. DAILY THOUGHT

Absalom said moreover, Oh that I were made judge in the _land, that every man hath any suit or cause might come unto me, and I would do him justice. —II Samuel 15:4.

BE JUST and fear not; let all the ends thou aimest at be thy country’s, thy God's and truth’s—

| of his blast for the purpose, as

BSD Gen. Johnson Says— Miners’ Meeting Tops in Efficiency: Like Pure Democracy in Action;

Lewis Thinks Labor Got Runaround.

OLUMBUS, O., Jan. 31.—The United Mine Work= ers convention this year in Columbus marks half a century of that organization's progress. .Thetre are nearly 300 locals and 2400 delegates. Each delegate. seems to be an orator in his own right. There is com= ‘plete freedom of speech. Under the rules, no coms . plaint or grievance can be shushed in committee. Any miner can get his squawk taken to the convention floor. The session is a leisurely one which cone

| tinues until it has finished all business.

All this sounds simple enough, but to me it seems a marvel. Imagine a house of representatives with 3000 members. It would be next to.impossible to do business. This system is close to pure democracy, but it has become as highly efficient as any totalitarian state claims to be. The miners union Is the largest in the world. I have seen the workings of several other union groups. I doubt if it has an equal. I am sure it has no superior. Compare it with some of the newer C. I. O, unions and you can see a difference between a gov ernment and a mob. 8 ® ”

F course, the reason for this is easy to see. I% comes with age—experienced leadership and a disciplined and loyal organization. Running a union is no job for amateurs. The new unions were put together in haste. Hot-headed and oratorical young= sters or men that were experienced in labor politics rather than labor administration were most apt to be.

elected to leadership. :

The result “of such a condition is likely to be .in- . stability and irresponsibility. This explains much of the bitterness and turmoil in newly organized in-.. dustries. It is a fault that only time and experience

can cure—as they have cured it in the United Mine .

Workers. You can hear Mr. Lewis and some of his C. I. O. unions damned by management in industry from one ‘end of the country. to the other, but there is precious little of this among the coal operators. Most of them regard their union contracts as a source of strength. All of them know that they are dependable.

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R. LEWIS’ recent explosions against a third term for Mr. Roosevelt and his warning to the Democratic Party, have created a. considerable excitement, but they are nothing new in labor policy. It was principle No. 1, of the veteran Samuel Gompers, that organized labor should never be sewed up in the sack of any political party. . Mr. Lewis believes that exactly this was happening in the preconvention indorsement by some unions, not only of the New Deal, but of a third term for the President. He feels that in Mr. Roosevelt's second term, labor has been neglected if not given an actual run-around. : He deliberately timed the occasion and character he said, of “jarring . both parties” by a declaration of labor’s political independence. In a preconvention month of a Presi. dential year before either the platform of the candidates or of either party are known, his idea was that, in making their choice of either principles or principals, both parties should be reminded that organized labor is to be considered and will not get aboard any political bandwagon in mass without knewing what its -destination is. I can’t see much the matter with that. : ;

Ax for Cohen?

By Bruce Catton

Job Not Created by Congress, So : Move Is Planned to Deny" Funds.

ASHINGTON, Jan. 31.—The cruelest blow yet launched at the famous Brain Trust is about to be swung by Congressman Dudley White, Ohio Re= publican, who aims to do half of the Corcoran-Cohen team out of its job. Ben Cohen’s official position is general counsel to the National Power Policy Committee, which was organized under authority of letters from the President to the Secretary of the Interior. White’s point is that since the job wasn’t set up by Congress, Congress can’t legally vote money for it; so he is going to raise a point of order against the $68,000 which is allotted it in the pending Interior Depart=. ment Appropriation Bill. : i Lang The same point of order killed appropriations for the National Resources Planning Board and the Office . of Government Reports a few days ago. If it's upheld again. Cohen’s job is gone. rae 30m works for RFO,

Tommy Corcoran is safer. He which was set up by Congress. 2 ” ”

Peace Societies Mournful : : : This war has put a terrible crimp in the doings of world peace societies. : "Dorothy Detzer, head of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, returned recently from a meeting of the league's executive com . mittee in Geneva with the remark that only members from England, France, Switzerland and America were able to attend—and even the French members had to - sneak out of their country to get there. urn The skeletonized committee couldn't do much, Chiefly, it considered the idea of transferring international headquarters to the United States. It finally agreed to hold off a while and see whether the war

spreads.

F. D. R. Speaks of ‘Successor’ We Even if you could listen to President Roosevelt's most intimate conversations, you still might not know if he plans to run for a third term. The other day he was talking over some Government problem with a close associate. He said he'd postpone action for one year, and added, “I'll leave that one, for my successor.” = ia But because of the impish way the President cocked his head and grinned, the associate hasn't the faintest idea whether the remark really meant some thing or was just tagged on for the fun of it.

Watching Your Health By Jane Stafford

PF a child complains of “growing pains,” or sore joints, he should be taken to a physician for an examination. The pains may not mean anything serious, but such pains are one sign of rheumatic fever which is a very serious and disabling ailment. and often a fatal one. It is responsible for some 20,000 to 30,000 deaths each -year in the United States, according to best available estimates. The serious feature of this disease is the cffect it has on the heart. The painful joint involvement seldom results in permanent stiffness or disability, but rheumatic fever is a crippling disease in that its victims are crippled in the heart. ° Ti The cause of rheumatic fever is not known. Some authorities believe it is caused by a streptococcus germ, others believe it is caused by another kind of germ, and still others ascribe it to nutritional defects. It has the appearance of a germ-caused disease, but it does not spread in epidemics the way many other germ diseases do. The disease is much more common among children . of the poor than among those who are better off, it is more common in the cities than in the countries, and i8 much more common in the North than in the far South. Winter and spring are seasons when agute attacks are apt to occur. : "This heart-crippling disease usually first makes its appearance in children between the ages of -5 and 15 years, and further attacks occur at intervals thereafter. The patient's heart is probably damaged to some extent during every one ‘of ‘these acute: attacks, although the damage may be slight, in which case the patient may recover completely. = Hope of recovery from rheumatic fever, .U, 8, Public Health Service officials point out; depends largely on the extent to which rest in bed can be carried out. Even after the acute attack is over, he

needs to be protected against undue exposure and

no,