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Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1940

“WRONG METHOD | “OTT is bad public policy for the President of the United BAL ‘States to let Congressi bnal investigating committees i inspect income tax returns, It endangers the rights of “citizens. : ; The. American Civil Liberties Union said that when “Treasury tax records were opened to committees, of some ! of which it did not approve. Now, to its credit, it says that again when these records are opened to Senator La = Follette’s Civil Liberties Committee, of which it approves _ heartily. fig > “%* As the A. C. L. U. says in a protest to President Roosevelt, no matter how good a committee’s purpose, “this method of obtaining information is itself objectionable.” “A committee that wants to inspect tax returns should .subpena them from the persons or firms under investiga- . tion. - That, “while a bit more laborious, will at least give citizens the chance to test in the courts the seizure of any ‘material they regard as unauthorized.” : Sound, consistent reasoning, that. Committee fishing expeditions through Treasury tax records, for good pur- ~ poses or bad, should be stopped. :

SUPREME COURT WARNS THE STATES

"THE Supreme Court’s 5-3 decision this week sustaining New York City’s sales tax, as applied to goods delivered from another state, is no great triumph for the dangerous trend toward interstate trade barriers. :

The sharp dissent of Chief Justice Hughes—one of his very. rare dissents—in which Justices McReynolds and Roberts joined, was a healthy warning against infringement of the constitutional immunity of interstate commerce _ from state and local interference. “That immunity,” said the Chief Justice, “still remains an essential buttress of the Union.” a The majority emphasized that New York City’s tax "does not discriminate against goods bought from out of state; that “equality is its theme.” The Chief Justice insisted that the mere fact of non-discrimination did not permit “extending state power into what has hitherto been regarded as a forbidden field.”

Here the judges are contesting in a legal shadowland. Whatever the merits of the smaller issue, the Supreme Court showed no disposition to sanction such flagrant barriers to commerce as some of our states have erected in recent years. : 8

YOUNG MUSICIANS’ CONTEST ! JT is encouraging to note that 32 persons have entered the Young Musicians’ Contest sponsored by the Indiana State Symphony Society. Rigid requirements had been set up and the society expected that no more than 10 would compete. :

‘Semi-final auditions are to be held at Caleb Mills Hall Saturday when four finalists will be selected for an appear--~-ance before Director Fabien Sevitzky on Feb. 22. Reward for the winner will be an appearance with the Symphony ~-Orchestra at a popular concert March 10.

The State Symphony Society is demonstrating . its ~ cultural value to Indiana. Not only has it brought us ~~ great music, but through these contests offers recognition “to those of our young people who seek the opportunity to determine whether they are fitted for a musical career.

~ PRIVATE LOANS TO FINLAND = A PROPOSAL that Finland be invited and helped to sell ~~" bonds to American private citizens, using the proceeds “to buy war materials, comes from Senator Pat Harrison, = Others in Congress are said to favor it. A leading ‘Republican, Col. Frank Knox, approved it yesterday. The "Administration itself, according to reports in Washington, may encourage this proposal. We hope the reports have foundation. Finland desper- : ately needs fighting equipment. Without that, her leaders .. say, she is doomed. The skill and courage which have won _-her America’s unbounded admiration cannot prevail against : Russia's overwhelming advantage in manpower and re- © Sources. ; oo Considerations of foreign and domestic policy are raised “against a United States Government war loan to Finland. These objections would not apply to a loan subscribed pri--vately. The argument we do hear against the Harrison proposal is that private investors might be unwilling to risk their money in Finland's bonds. a i+ That argument does no credit to the American people. They have praised Finland for paying previous debts. They lave cheered Finland on to resist Russia’s brutal assault. =We believe that many wealthy Americans, and many not so swealthy, would gladly risk mere dollars where the Finns are - gisking their lives. a The wealthy, especially, should consider Finland’s bonds <R good investment in the best prospect that the westward {izpush of communism ‘may be stopped before it becomes a ii=greater menace to our own country. And from a purely :. material aspect, as Senator Harrison points out, even eventual defeat of Finland would not mean total loss to Americans who lend her private funds, since if the bonds became worthless a “bad debt” deduction could be made in income tax returns. : If adequately assisted Finland will not lose—and if Finland doesn’t neither will her creditors.

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Adolf ang Joe have moved in as their neighbors.

‘don’t think she lives.”

Fair Enough

By Westbrook, Pegler

Scalese's Claim of Efforts to Aid|

'Humankind' Clashes With Fight

To Oust Union Leader on Coast.|

EW YORK, Feb. 1.—The executive board of the Building Service Employees’ International Union has refused to .accept the resignation of ‘George Scalese, who muscled into the presidency of this organization after repeal diverted the survivors of the Capone mob from bootlegging to labor racketeering. : : This vote of forgiveness and confidence followed the disclosure that William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, indorsed a petition for a Presidential pardon for Scalese. Scalese reproved those who revealed the fact that he had served four years in Atlanta for the crime

white slavery and said he had put in 27 years 4 labor in an endeavor to “attain success not only

himself but for humankind.” ; for Ion judge who sentenced Scalese to prison for

[ exploiting a young girl for money said the testimony

was nauseating and gave him an unusually long sentence for that reason, but the reference to Scalese’s endeavors “for humankind” is no less revolting. Scalese has not been a laborer; he has been

an associate of gangsters and bootleggers, and he

is now engaged in an attempt to muscle out of the union the president of an old established local in San Francisco, Charles Hardy, Jr., on the ground, among others, that Hardy disseminated “false, malicious propaganda” castigating officers of the international. . The propaganda described as false and malicious consisted of the same information that has been proved against Scalese, namely, that he was convicted of pandering.

” t 4 ” ARDY denies that he was responsible for the distribution of the pedigree of the racketeer, but that makes, no difference. The fact remains that Scalese had the gall to attempt to remove a man on such grounds from the presidency of a local union of which he was one of the founders. The propaganda was not false and the question whether it was malicious is debatable, because it is not unreasonable to argue that the person who brought Scalese’s character into question before the union members had the decent motive of driving ou racketeers. Instead of doing anything to rebuke this dic-

tatorial attempt to destroy dissenters Mr. Green has.

given the weight and prestige of his office to an attempt to increase Scalese’s power. 8 2 ” HE other charges against Hardy have to do with the financial affairs of his union, but even on that score it would be much mere pertinent to provide a full, thorough accounting of the funds .of the international. Hardy insists that no accounting has ever been made since Scalese muscled in and that Scalese refused even to tell members of the locals how much salary he draws as president. The Federal Bureau of Investigation has information on Scalese, and the police of New York, particularly. those of Brooklyn, and the Chicago police are well acquainted with him and his associates. So Mr. Green now has an excellent opportunity to call for a public hearing as to the worthiness of Scalese to rule a big labor union, with the power to expel from office and permanently blackball from employment men who have the temerity to recall his criminal past. Having convinced himself of Scalese’s character, Mr.. Green should not merely consent to but, for labor's own sake, to which he is always so touchingly loyal, should demand an examination of Scalese’s. career since he finished his prison term. :

Inside Indianapolis

A Few Notes on Skating and a Few Words About Merely This and That.

OLKS around town continue to receive unordered merchandise in various forms with the request for return remittance. . . . One of the neatest responses came from a doctor who received some neckties. . . . Instead of returning them, he sent a package of pills to the company, saying they were an excellent treatment for gall and that he would like to have them remit for the pills, . . . He never heard from them again. . . . Youll be interested in knowing that the Coliseum is practically sold out on reserved seats for Thursday, Friday and Saturday of next week when Miss Sonja Henie will be around town. . .. They've still got some for Tuesday and Wednesday, they admit. . . . As a matter of fact, they're building parquet boxes to take care of the crowds. . . . They're going to put 1500 general admission tickets ($1.10) on sale every evening. «+ « «+ Quit pushing, you bum. 88 TALKING ABOUT SKATING, the fancy ones are running into tough luck. . . , They won't let ‘em stunt at the Coliseum... .. And now, Lake Sullivan has put the squeeze on figure-eights and spins. . +» Latest to get run off at Sullivan was the cute little girl in green velvet. , . . Jack Cejnar, the American Legion publicity man who used to smoke two packages of cigarets a day, smoked his second cigaret of the year the other day. . . . Best bet of the week: That Loew’s will figure some way to hold “Gone” for a third week. .: , They put on A preview of “Abe Lincoln In Illinois” at the Cinema Tuesday morning. . . . Everybody knows, we'd assume, the tragic story of Honest Abe and Ann Rutledge. . . . But just as the picture was getting into the saddest moments of the romance one young woman was heard to murmur apprehensively: “I

2 8 ” WELL, THE WILL 'O THE WISP investigators reported to be probing the tax returns of McNutt organization leaders have made a formal call upon Mr. Val Nolan. . . . You know, the D. A. . . . They didn’t look particularly happy and the D. A. said he didn’t know anything particularly good (or bad) so we guess the gossip mills ‘can go on grinding. - +» . The first two of the 35 stamps in the new Famous American Series went on sale yesterday at the Post Office. . . . First two are of James Fenimore Cooper and Washington Irving. . . . We've heard that there's nothing like a philatelist for cutting a swath through a crowd. . . . But if there was a philatelist in the house yesterday, he had no crowd to push through. . .. Only stamps folks wanted were to put on letters to the Gross Income Tax Division.

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

A THOUGHTFUL woman who has lived nine years in Europe sends us an intelligent criticism which we must believe is made in good faith, “I am alarmed and dismayed at conditions in America,” she says. “I find myself much more in sympathy with women elsewhere who have not achieved this superficial, sterotyped society in which our clubwomen and socialites revel. come to the conclusion that the American woman is

in a sort of infantile state, or even yet unborn--abid-

ing in the chrysalis”stage, “It must be so, I tell myself, for she i satisfied with the most absurd things—pink finger. nails, hotel luncheons, clubs, and her name in the paper, or the amazing and ever-changing fashion trends. Sometimes I actually wonder whether she has any real entity. And although I feel sorrowful to

say it, when in the United States I find that the rare |

being: who shows signs of intelligent thinki - eign born. The peasant women of Europe nh Sih common sense and ability than our better classes.. “I come of good. decent stock, had a fine mother and grandmother, but I belong to this age, not to theirs, and I want to know what women are doing Now, fo Jans their influence felt, to better ons. Is it not true that their atte Imos Wholly Sesupied with trivialities? tions area : “Believing as I do that the innermost urge to br things into working order must come ine am alarmed at so much mechanized living and at such devotion to stupid routines.” :

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TERMS PARKING IN

STREET PUBLIC NUISANCE By Taxpayer I make this protest against automobiles using the curbs for free parking places and free garages, for the following reasons: : . 1. Because they block my property to the extent that I cannot get in or out of my place without walking an extra distance—even in rain or snow and ice, causing a hazard fo me. Surely, I may claim the right of ingress and egress on my own.property! © Fat 2. The disturbance of their —both night and day. : 3. Because friends or a doctor would have trouble to get to my place, in case of illness, or even to see the number of my house. : 4, Causing great inconvenience to those delivering packages and groceries to my place. 5. Because I am an elderly person with heart trouble and neuritis, and I consider the above reasons a public nuisance and an imposition on my rights as a taxpayer and citizen. 6. Cluttering the gutter with rags and papers. . . . The streets were made to travel upon and not to be used for free parking and free garages. I make this plea for justice against this intolerable nuisance—not only for myself but for all the unfortunate people who happen to live on the side’ of the street selected for free curb parking and free garages!

” ” 2 DISPUTES CONTENTION ON MACHINES AND JOBS By Old Timer No. 2

Voice in the Crowd’s . . . latest contention, that machinery is not responsible for some of our present day unemployment, is certainly debatable, and will provoke a challenge from many thinking persons. Several well-known columnists have diametrically opposite views on that subject. 1 The fact that we have many comforts now that we did not have in 1900—all attributable, by V. I. C, to machinery—in no way touches the subject of unemployment. Innovations and improvements are the results of experience, and are in no manner dependent upon the number of people employed. We had comforts in 1900 that we did not

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(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 willbe withheld on request.):

have in 1878; also many imptovements in living conditions in 1878

lived in 1840; and these comparisons could be carried back to the aawn of civilization. While innovations create new jobs, in most instances they ‘merely replace the old. °

V. I C.s claim that machirery is

depriving them of it runs counter fo the facts as we face them today. If his contention is true that the more machines’ in use, the more

the fact that, at a time when production is close to peak figures, there are still approximately ten million people unemployed? He should know the percentage of un-

that were unknown to . those: who

giving men employment instead of

employment, how can he explain

employment is greater today than it was in 1900, the year selected by him for comparison. ; : 8 = » CLAIM WOW GIVES HARMLESS RELAXATION By Eileen O'Dwyer, Rose Gaits, Anna Rosina, Josephine Miceli and Margaret O'Neill, ; : Concerning the game of Wow, we wish to. inquire the reason for such an uproar against a quiet and inoffensive game enjoyed by thousands of men and women who like to gather together and meet old friends. These people have never grumbled about the treatment they have received. To them it means .a few hours of relaxation away from home drudgery. In the afternoon they are served tea and cookies, and in the evening doughnuts and coffee. : If the President of the Safety Board and the Police Chief wish to clean up rackets, why not stop the sale of lottery tickets, buck eucher and gambling games in private clubs and leave the decent games that people enjoy alone?

New Books oi the Library

HE pressure boys are lobbyists. They are hired hands of special groups, and they infest state capitals and Washington to protect their employers’ interests, which range from publie utilities to patent medicine. “The Pressure Boys: the Inside Story of Lobbying in America” (Messner), by Kenneth G. Crawford, defines lobbying as an attempt, often successful, to impose the will of the few upon the many by intimidating the people’s representatives. : Mr. Crawford discusses such lobbies as those of big business and banking, munitions, shipping, railroads, sugar, agriculture, labor, the movie industry—"the supercolossal lobby.” He names the principal lobbyists in Washington, giving their methods of operation and the

sources of their incomes. :

Side Glances—By Galbraith

"It's obvious you're goi

fo have to choose between your rollicking friends and a crew.”

Jof manual workers,

all mankind must dged to death and hell by doom

Although the people are more or less represented through labor and agriculture, it is big business which, because of its solidarity and preponderance of wealth and influence, is most consistently successful in having its way with the lawmakers. Thus democracy is being constantly perverted and the laws of the nation do not reflect the will of the people. “Without the lobby, its force of hired agents in Washington , . . property would have been unable to hold on this long to its plenty in the midst of want and to justify the American paradox.

A law to force lobbyiste to register and reveal sources of their income would bring the racket out into the open, but the author does not believe this will suffice. The solution he sees rather in a more enlightened people. The increase in white-collar unions and their co-operation with unions ! and an increased circulation of an intelligent labor press, are hopeful signs. “But no great progress can be made until the hard-pressed middle classes learn that. their .destiny. is bound up with the welfare of fellow workers at the bottom.”

THE TRAIL BLAZER By VERNE S. MOORE ' I honor him, who in some dim. for gotten age, : First stood erect and called himself a man. I honor in the primitive beast, courage : That bade him stay and fight be . fore he ran.

I honor faith in men and genius, too, That breaks the shackles of the ignorant past And shows the paths that lead from old to new— I stand in wonderment—amazed, aghast. ;

The. heroes of our silent youth I

praise : . .I honor all the dead of feeble wars But him, I honor most who first . shall blaze ! Ah A pathway to the now-forbidden . stars. gl

DAILY THOUGHT

. , Jesus answered and said unto him: Verily, verily, 1 say unto thee, except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom .of God.—8t. John. 3:3; :

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Gen. Johnson Says—

Disagreeing With Clapper He Finds Midwest Thinking of 1940 Race and With Mr. Roosevelt Far in. Front,

EW YORK, Feb. 1.—In the word-saving, per sonalized, punch-laden diction, which it has injected into the American: language, Time Magazine says: “Roundshouldered Columnist Raymond: Clap the ‘mildest interest’ in the Presidential -race.” Lr Well, paunchy, red-faced columnist Johnson doesn’t agree with round shoudered Ray. He has Just been travelling the native Western pastures or both of us, and so have I—in a more limited jo : :

don’t know Mr. Clapper’s method, but mine is a legture or speech to about 20 minutes and | then invite leading questions from all kinds of audiences. I also try to talk privately to local bankers, editors, labor leaders and, above all, to ‘working newspapermen. But it is my idea that questions in the rough that all kinds of people ask in public are far more revealing of their thoughts than snap answers to questions you ask prima-donnas in private, If that is right, I got a completely different ree action from roundshouldered Ray's. I would never call him that. He is just a well set-up sturdy figure and one of the country’s ablest commentators. But I am trying out the time short-cut reportorial formula, <i By far the number of questions asked me were on the Presidential possibilities, :

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QT TAKING reportorially and, (so far as the Lord AJ will help me), without bias, the opinion seems to me to be general that, by some quirk, smiling, charming, mellifluous Franklin Roosevelt will be nominated—without himself raising a finger—and elected by a great majority. ; Toothy, grinning able but amateur Tom Dewey isn’t clicking in the great open spaces. Slow, roly= poly, inarticulate Robert Taft is having a: great play. with apparent money behind it ‘but, in spite of his masterful build-up by Time itself—expertly making a virtue of some of his short-comings—midwest opinions are that he hasn't enough on the ball, Pleasant, banjo-eyed, facile Senator Vandenberg has been on too many sides of too many questions to capture Western imagination. : Fone A lot of farmers recognize a friend and kindred spirit in the evil old “poker-playing, labor-baiting, whisky-drinking, V. P.” Even John Lewis caught one. If Mr. Garner were nominated, he could make a good fight buf I saw nobody who expects that. : a 2 2

har part of the country simply does not know about brilliant, fluent, handsome Bob Jackson ~or pants-wrinkled, hair-ruffled, -cigaret-smoking and profane William Douglas. Platinum haired, two per cent dictatorial Paul McNutt, doesn’t fill the Midwestern bill. They know genial, hand-shaking, bald-headed Jim Farley. But they wrongly write him off as just a New York ward-heeler. They know slew-footed, buck-toothed, brushmaned Henry Wallace, but “a prophet is not without honor save in his own country.” Slow-speaking, de-

liberate, old-fashioned Cordell Hull is respected but not acclaimed. : : The truth is that, the spectacular, “It"—purveye ing, Mr. Roosevelt's constant performance. and ‘ine Sees on the sole [L051 ton in the center of the melig as erased the pre-campai opulari any candidate but himself. | palin bx P v

Dies "Not Out’

By Bruce Catton

Story Texan Was to Resign Called A ‘Plant’ by Committee Members,

YY moron, Feb. 1.—The story that Martin I Dies was going to resign from the Dies Committee and give the chairmanship to Joe Starnes of Alabama was a “plant,” according. to members of the committee, started by someone who wanted tq slip. the skids under the turbulent Texan. BY As a matter of fact, Dies will be back here in a fe days ready to take the helm again. % As another matter of fact, even if the change did take place it would not make much difference. Starnes has been Dies’ right-hand man on the committees, sees pretty much eye-to-eye with him, and ran things last fall during Dies’ absence. A Starnes committee would go in the same direction as a Dies Committee and would get there in much the same style. Starnes himself is a slim, friendly chap of 40-odd who believes devoutly in the value of the committee's work but is quite willing to admit the committee has

.made mistakes.

“We're not the smartest guys in Congress, or a bunch of supermen,” he says. “I do say, though, that i made fewer mistakes last year than the year beore.” ? Lr : He lacks the bull-in-a-chinashop brusqueness of Dies but has a good share of combativeness,. (He served in the A.E.F.) : Lira Fritz Kuhn barked back at him, while testifying, and Starnes offered to erase the Bund leader then and there with bare hands, That tickled his constituents; a number of them tried to send him brass knuckles in token of their appreciation, but couldn't get ‘em through the mails. One mountaineer carved a set out of hardwood and sent it in; Starnes uses it as a papere weight in his office. j hs : Among other things, Starnes serves as a sort of liaison man between Dies and Jerry Voorhis, the com. mittee’s lonely left-winger. Dies finds it hard to be pally with a man he disagrees with; Starnes doesn’t, and is friendly with Voorhis despite frequent clashes.

8 2 2 ; Ambassador to Berlin?

There may have been extra significance behind the speed with which Majority Leader Sam Rayburn took the House floor to combat Hamilton Fish’s assertion that the nation ought not to have an ambassador in Berlin, The report is that F.D.R. will presently appoint a new ambassador to Germany, and that he wants :one there in order to lay the groundwork for a peace move.. .

Watching Your Health By Jane Stafford

OSEBLEED' ¢an be caused by a number of . different conditions, from- injury, such as a blow, to hemophilia, the so-called bleeder’s disease. In itself, nosebleed is not a disease but a symptom, The rich supply of blood to the tissues in the nose, and the delicacy of these tissues themselves, is the reason why the nose bleeds from so many different causes. Excitement, physical or mental, which sude denly raises the blood pressure, may cause nosebleed. In hemophilia and purpura, the condition of the blood and its deficiency in clotting "ability - cause frequent bleeding from the nose ‘and elsewhere. Nosebleed is also. likely to occur in severe infections or germ diseases, and in scurvy, which is due to lack of vitamin-C. Patients who are very anemic are likely to have nosebleed. .So are persons who have hardening of the arteries with exceedingly high blood pressure. In these cases a small blood vessel in the nose ruptures and severe bleeding follows. The bleed ing and loss of blood lower the blood pressure. 5 The person with nosebleed should lie down, so that the blood pressure is lowered. Ice water or hot water can be applied to the nose, but in cases of ordinary nosebleed. the bleeding will stop promptly after the patient is in a horizontal or recumbent. position. : : % _ If the nosebleed lasts more than ghout 10 minutes, Eo acu the Hong thi Ct ay Be to some serious ¢ ‘which should not be nege

condition bleeding itself! probably will not stop