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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1840

FIRST THINGS FIRST

HERBERT HOOVER'S Finnish relief drive has raised one and a quarter million dollars—and it's just beginning. Finland has on hand enough supplies to provision her civil population until May.

But many more millions of dollars will have to be raised in this country and elsewhere to provide food, clothing and other things that will be needed from May until the harvest —if, indeed, the beleaguered Finns will have an opportunity to till their fields. : ‘That Americans are ready to do their share has been demonstrated, we think, in the opening weeks of Mr. Hoover’s drive. But a threat to its continued success has now appeared in the form of a competing campaign. Gen. John F. O'Ryan, of New York, and others, have launched “Fighting-Funds for Finland, Inc.” Its purpose is to provide not civilian necessities but guns and planes. With that hard-boiled purpose most Americans are in accord. That the Finns need weapons and bullets cannot be denied. But that this is the best way to provide them can -be questioned. So, too, can the assumption that a dollar given for bread is a less effective contribution to Finland's - cause. Money raised to fill the needs of civilians will release other Finnish funds for munitioning troops.

At the present time, Finland's efforts to purchase weapons are not stopped by her Government's lack of immediate cash to make the purchases, but by Finland’s inability to get her orders filled. France, England and our own Gov- . ernment have prior-contracts with the factories. The pressing need here is to work out some plan whereby the Allied governments, and our own, will step aside and let the Finns have the planes and other equipment already under ‘order. Gen. O’Ryan’s Fighting-Funds for Finland, Inc., can’t solve that problem. A competing campaign for volunteer contributions may result only in confusing people who want to help. Finland will be served best by doing “first things first” —by adjusting the priority of war orders to provide her the weapons she needs—and by concentrating on the moneyraising drive which Mr. Hoover is now getting into high gear.

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WHOSE VICTORY?

] OBBYISTS who make a living manufacturing scares about foreign imports are in high glee because the Administration has been forced to call off its trade-agree-ment negotiations with Argentina. They claim a great victory for the American cattle raisers, because the breakdown in negotiations, they say, means there will be no reduction in the tariff on canned beef. But what about the American housewives who can’t afford to pay the price of choice cuts of steak, and who because of the excessive tariff must continue to pay more for canned beef than it is worth? (American packers don’t can much beef; they use that sort of meat for frankfurters, hamburgers, etc.). ~ And what about the workers in American automobile factories, rubber tire plants and auto gadget shops, who are not going to get more wages producing more goods to be sold in Argentina? : : And what about the producers of rice and potatoes and apples and prunes and tobacco and cigarets and cotton textiles and lumber and paper and oil and iron and steel and tinplate and wire and nails and bolts and safety-razor blades and electrical machinery and radios and industrial machinery and sewing machines and cash registers and typewriters and plows and harvesters and tractors and windmills and airplanes and chemicals—and a multitude of other products which Argentina buys from us in large quantities, and which she would buy in still larger quantities if she could only sell us more of her goods and thereby get the dollar credits with which to buy? And what about the/unemployed who are not going to get jobs because Argentinians are not going to get enough dollar credits to buy the American products as they want? A victory for some lobbyists and protected interests, yes, but a defeat for the great body of American customers and producers, who can lift themselves to higher living standards only through trade and still more trade. : KILLED BY A DELUSION HE American League for Peace and Democracy has been disbanded by its National Board of Directors. It died, in our opinion, of the delusion that Communists are liberals. The league claimed 14,000 members. Most of them were not Communists. Most of them once believed that the active Communist minority of the membership would work sincerely with the non-Communist majority. to further the cause of peace and democracy. hs But most of them, we think, are now convinced that the Communist minority worked to destroy peace and defeat democracy, and that its activity poisoned the whole organization. Communists are interested only in following the party line. When the party line required them to defend Soviet Russia’s pact with Nazi Germany and to cheer Stalin’s brutal assault on Finland, real believers in democracy and peace could no longer stomach the company they had been keeping. : : “The coming of the war,” says a statement from the league’s directors, “has created a situation in which a different program and type of organization are needed to preserve democratic rights in wartime and thereby help keep the United States out of war.” True. The program needed can show no sympathy for either type of bloody dictatorship. The organization needed can not welcome Communist members. The peace that

Communists seek is the peace of death for democracy. - When they masquerade as liberals,

| around from the New Deal group. The game was sort

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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES __

Speaking About a Wa

By Bruce Catton : Ex-Governor Only Smiles at the Constant Battering by New Dealers; Ohio Relief Veto Is Severe Blow. ASHINGTON, Feb. 3.—The most interesting political question here right now is: How long is Paul V. McNutt going to go on taking it?

For weeks the silver-haired Federal Security Administrator has had to stand for a rare shoving-

of unofficial, so to speak, until President Roosevelt vetoed the Jenkins bill to reimburse Ohio pension

funds from the Federal Treasury. That vetoing was|-

done in such a way as to give McNutt about. as

notable a slap as an official of cabinet rank ever|

got from a president. The fun began a couple of months ago, when Secretary Ickes announced that McNutt was no liberal and that the real New Dealers would never| rally behind his banner, Since it was known that the “inner circle” group here dislikes McNutt, and since this was followed by strong hints from the White House that Secretary Hull was the favored candidate, this almost (though not quite) added up to definite repudiation of McNutt by FDR. : : . 2 8 8 T= the half-billion-dollar Wagner health program was deflated by the President, and a modest little hospital-building scheme was put up in its place. This was a hard pill for Senator Wagner, but equally tough for McNutt, who was building high hopes for this program. Shortly after that it became known that Internal Revenue agents were looking into the income tax affairs of McNutt and his political associates in Indiana. : As a matter of fact, evidence that was brought to the Treasury left no choice but to make an investigation; nevertheless, there were plenty of people to interpret the action as an Administrationapproved attempt to smear McNutt. : There were little things, too; things that don’t get into the papers, but that indicate that someone in Washington is out to damage the man . . . like the banquet of the supper club a few days ago, where all the supposed or avowed candidates were. present and were subjected to razzing. ” ” 8 HE razzing was good-natured and harmless—for| everybody except McNutt, who had to sit and smile while an orator poked fun at his name and begged the crowd to think how ridiculous Washington and Lincoln would have been if they had to carry that -name around. Then came the Jenkins bill veto. It wasn’t the fact that the President vetoed this bill; it was the way he left McNutt out on a limb. McNutt approved the bill, talked with Roosevelt about it, and thought Roosevelt approved it too. Not until the veto message became ‘public did McNutt know that Roosevelt had rejected his advice and taken, - instead, the advice of a man technically McNutt’s subordinate—Chairman Altmeyer of the Social Security Board. He spite of all this, not a peep has come out of

cNutt, either publicly or privately. He grins and remarks, “In politics you have to learn to take it.”

(Mr. Pegler’s regular column will appear Monday.)

Inside Indianapolis

Ferdinand Schaefer — He Earned Every Handclap Bestowed On Him

Pras of the week: Ferdinand Schaefer, the °

recipient. of that remarkable spontaneous ovation Thursday night at the giant music appreciation dinner. In a way it was a little dramatic. The con-ductor-emeritus of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra grew red and embarrassed. Truth is, though, he deserved every handclap given him. It was the town's way of showing a venerable gentleman that it hasn’t forgotten that it was he who built the Symphony and that it appreciates it. Ferdinand Schaefer must now be about 80, but he certainly doesn't look it. With his white imperial and pink cheeks, he cuts a handsome figure. 2 He came to Indianapolis about 35 years ago, directly from his native Liepzig. There he had been first violinist in the famous Gewendhaus Orchestra. He had played under Brahms, Richard Straus and Siegfried Wagner. He founded the local orchestra, nursed it through ‘its swaddling days. When the banks closed back in the dark days, it" was Ferdinand Schaefer who took the money out of -his own pocket to pay the musicians. ; He has his little private philanthropies, although he never mentions them. He is not a rich man, nor even a well-to-do one. He has a nice sense of humor. He still carries a healthy, unaffected German accent.

years. He likes to walk and when he goes abroad in the summer (he may not for a time now), takes long hikes in the mountains. He smokes cigarets. His first and only love has been music. Perhaps that’s why he has remained a bachelor. ” » » THE DETECTIVE OFFICES at Police Headquarters now have automatic locks. . . . Somebody has to let you in and then you can’t get out unless some detective comes along to help. . . . We don’t know the. point yet. . . . Speaking about police reminds us of a Louis Johnson bon mot: “To ride a motorcycle,” quoth he, “you have to have a talent—in the seat of your pants.” . .. The reason for all the hustle-and-bustle to find WPA projects so that 3500 men can be put to work is that Indiana officials have to find the projects, or let the money go to another state. # ” 8 TO THOSE WHO know Judge Russell Ryan his fining of a gambler $350 yesterday comes as no surprise. . . . Judge Ryan is an eminently forthright gentlemen who packs a wallop. . . . Tommy Dorsey, who is blowing that mean trombone at the Lyric this week, told a group of high school jitterbug girls yesterday that he has some test records coming in. . . . And that if they're “any good” he'll let ’em hear them. . . . If you didn't know it, you've got to be good to play a trombone, . , . Takes a good lip and a good ear. ;

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

OW and then events force one to the conclusion that our greatest affront to common sense in’ this age is our habit of treating serious matters with flippancy and unimportant ones with seriousness. Love, marriage and morality, for example, are targets for jokesters, while demagogs, radio crooners and gossip columnists are regarded as seers and prophets. Our social habits are influenced largely by metropolitan night-club habitues, our concept of love comes from Hollywood, and our current vocabulary, | especially as heard on the New York stage, evidently originated in the livery stable. While our generation has been responsible for taking sex out of the closet and putting it in the parlor, it has also kept it at a pretty low level of nastiness. A good many young people these days are ashamed to stand.up for decency for fear they'll be laughed at as “innocents.” The sickly grins one sees now and then, when a super-colossal dirty story goes the rounds, give mute evidence that although modesty has taken a terrible beating, she still breathes. Mrs. J. M. Rebeck of Buffalo, whose pen name is! Caldwell Taylor, expresses it much better in her fine novel, “The Eagles Gather,” when she says: “If we acknowledge the lie that man is only a beast, like other beasts, then we must know that the things we call law and civilization and progress, which restrain man and prevent him from enjoying the fullness of his beasthood, are bad, and must be destroyed. There is nothing so realistic as a Jungle monkey. He has no illustions that he is destined to be an angel or has a mission to save other monkeys. He does not believe in the dignity of the nkey at all. He has never heard of prayer or beauty or gentleness or mercy for all these exist only in the minds of the innocent and the idealists. Whenever you are faced with the sight of monkey realism and are frightened and confused by it you must just ask yourself one simple question: ‘Is this monkey realism more valuable than the foolishness of a Jesus? Does it make ‘existence more profound, more beautiful, more endurables Does it give you dignity, or does it

HE'S YOUR

PAL : GO ON UPAND GIVE HIM AN

ROPE

r of Nerves!

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

TARIFF TERMED BAR TO RECOVERY By L. B. Hetrick, Elwood, Ind. If we will do away with our tariff

restrictions between producer and consumer here in the United States

it will have a natural tendency to|

kzcn the medium of exchange in ‘ation which of course means purchasing power, which . give the law of supply and nd a chance to function. tooductivity would increase as

purchasing power of the masses increased until all here had more than

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

alone shoulders the burden and horrors of war... . If ever she grasps

they needed or could consume. Then What lies behind the glory and her the surplus could be shipped to for- sorrow, the slogans of shrewd rulers eign countries to the needy—free if | and her social- burden, her moral

they didn’t have anything we wanted to trade, : As it is under the present regime, products of any kind shipped to Europe under the pretext of help-. ing the noncombatants adds fuel to’ the fires and this will prolong suffering instead of ending it. All that is sold or contributed to the European countries is lost to the American people who must pay directly or indirectly the cost of production and distribution. There are just two: things that will stop war: Famine over the face of the earth or refusal by the soldiers themselves to fight one another. = 2 = SEES WOMEN GREATEST SUFFERERS IN WAR By L. V. In Russia and in Germany during the past decade, rulers have pulled the strings of the workers with a pipe organ full of tricks. These rulers have pointed with pride to the comfort of the workers, old-age pensions, minimum wage regulations, maternal benefits, and various other material benefits that have only become a means of inspiring bigger. and ‘better armies for the Fatherland, England’s strongest appeal, aside from her dole and pension list, seems to be a phase of liberty guaranteed her subjects within her empire. France loaded with a pension roll leans on the idealism of democracy. : ; Behind these slogans and shibboleths carved from the working people for the use of militarists is woman, suffocated beneath that iron heel of militarism. She must bring more healthy babies into the world with breeches on -if possible s0 they may grow up into manBood to die for the iron will of their rulers. :

_War strikes woman hardest. She

force shall be unchained, loosening the dynamic power of woman's nature. She will take war in hand, reason the human perspective and stop ‘the act of human slaughter just that quick. She will starve it, by refusing to reproduce human be-

ings to be made cannon fodder. . ..

: ” ” » UNFINISHED STORY; WHO KNOWS THE ANSWER? By the Sage of Main St., Kokomo, Ind. You've heard of the unfinished symphony, and O. Henry's unfinished story. Now here is an unfinished letter. Fame and fortune and immense satisfaction await anyone who can finish it. This country, it seems, is blessed with abundant resources. Nature produces lavishly. In fact it has often been stated that Texas alone, if need be. could feed the United States. Qur industries, too, are capable of enormous expansion—can

double or triple their output, almost overnight. Yet this vast pro-

ductive capacity, wth its wealth of potential employment, stands idle and unused, while thousands who would gladly buy these products go about in threadbare clothes, vainly seeking a job. Why? (Now you go on from there.)

2 = t-4 PUTS RAILROADS IN MONOPOLY CLASS By Subscriber Speaking of regimentation, who has done any more than the monopolistic beast, the railroads, created 75 years ago by an act of Congress (No. 666, U. S. Statutes)? The act has served its three score and ten years. How can free competition exist under a corporate state with its charter granting and appealing laws regardless of the individual? Where was the survival of the fittest in the early Thirties after the crash—on its knees begging the politicians or political statesmen for its God of Gold. » » ” CLAIMS NUMBERS GAME IN OPERATION HERE By C. Eubanks Talking about Wow or Bingo, why don’t they stop the numbers racket on the Avenue? They are robbing the poor Negro here just like they did in New York until Dewey broke it up. I have come to the conclusion that the Police stop Bingo just to fool the church people and make them think they are trying to stop

gambling. :

New Books at the Library

E great - grandaughter of Charles Dickens, tired of the usual social whirl, determined to earn her own living. After giving up the stage, because she couldn’t act (in fact, she was so bad they practically threw her out of the dramatic school) she surveyed tlie possibilities of other employment and decided to become a cook. To be sure, though she had learned in a French school how to concoct Homard Thermidor and Crepes Suzettes good enough to make Nero Wolfe bow low in hom-

braith

Side Glances—By Gal

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‘standing of the servant-and-em-

| |At her feet gems sparkle upon the

age, she had yet to learn the sober facts concerning boiled potatoes and cooked custard. Her lack of experience, however, did not deter her from taking on as her first job the cooking and serving of a special dinner for 10-peo-ple. (Her employer, Miss Cattermole, did not ask her to stay permanently.) Succeeding jobs took her into the home of a newly married couple; into the country with a lovable, kindly, and rather scatterbrained family; to the hectic household of Martin Parrish, who turned out to be not so kindly as he appeared. She became familiar with that mysterious life which goes on “below stairs” in English households, she grew to know the milkmen, the grocer boys, and the plumbers who ocasionally had a cup of tea with her in the kitchen; she learned the idiosyncrasies of charwomen, butlers, children’s nurses and parlor-maids, and learned to nold her own against them with verve and aplomb. Inheriting from her famous forebear his ability to present a stiuation dramatically, as well as his zest for life, Monica Dickens shows in “One Pair of Hands” (Harper) unforced enjoyment of her 18 months’ experience with numerous employers and also a penetrating under-

ployer problem.

COLD PRIDE By MAUD COURTNEY WADDELL I have learned to know cold winter is proud— : Relentless her might, in her ermine shroud. ;

snow ; And the silver moon wears a wide halo.

The twinkling stars are scattered Jewels wrung From a diamond necklace that came unstrung,

DAILY THOUGHT

As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of

the youth.—Psalm 127:4.

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SATURDAY, FEB. 3, 1940

Gen. Johnson

1Says—

President's Hospital Plan Has Merit, but Eventually May Turn Out to Be Very Costly Experiment.

TEW YORK, Feb. 3.—It is hard to write a word unfavorable to the President’s plan to have the Federal Government begin building small “experjmental” hospitals in ns that do not have such service. I have lived in such towns myself. Even in larger towns which have had such hospitals, I have been made personally and painfully aware of the backwardness of some doctors who do not or cannot keep in touch with the rapidly improving and developing medical profession. : It is desirable to have hospitals in places where they are not. So are many other things desirable, It would be swell for every family to have an income of $2400 a year, for every boy and girl to go to college and for all ill or undernourished people to be taken care of and restored to health. But there are limits to what the Federal Government—or any state or city government—can undertake or do. This is a request for a maximum of only 10 million dollars to build experimental hospitals. But what is there “experimentally” about small hospitals? ‘The Government has hundreds of them at army posts

‘or on naval vessels,

AYP if it is just and proper for the Government LX to favor one small community by building a hospital for it, how can it refuse to build one in every town in similar circumstances? That wouldn't be a matter of 10 million dollars. It would be

undertaking by Government of a complete new field of spending that might run into billions of dollars. Furthermore, the mere building of a hospital is only a beginning. The cost of maintaining it is continous and very high. News reports of the President’s proposal say nothing ahout provision for that, except that they do say that the Government will own the hospitals. If it owns them it will be responsible for them. The expense of running them plus their original cost could run into staggering figures. - : If it had been only a matter of providing buildings, the billions that have gone through WPA into some far less worthy projects could probably have built. all the hospitals that are needed—especially in the old Federal and Civil Works Adminisirations, where billions appropriated in part for national defense went for raking leaves. ; 2 o 2 : ARD-BOILED as any criticism of this project must seep Congress owes a positive and pressing duty to examine in all its implications before it opens any more expanding spigots into the Federal Treasury. It is true that this proposal doesn’t go as far as Senator Wagner's great liberal generosity with taxpayers’ money and propose universally socialized medicine at whatever the cost. It doesn’t go as far as Dr. Townsend would like to go to maintain the third of us past middle age at the expense of the third of us who are working and producing to support and prepare the third of us who haven't started. But it goes in the same direction as both of these suggested kindly benefits. There are plenty of people who are devoting their great hearts and talents to devising ways and means to spend the public and private treasure of others. It is a pity that there is not just as great an effort and imagination think up schemes to get the money in any other way than borrowing it to increase the already staggering public debt.

Aviation By Maj. Al-Williams Air Force Chieftains Should Take

Personal Command During Battle.

T is my belief that the final data of this strange war will result in the development of air fleets quite along the“lines of sea fleets. For centuries sea fleets have been sent out to effect general .objectives that were named in a general war policy, but the commandants of those fleets have always had authority to handle their forces to fit immediate enemy operations. | No one would think of sending a modern fleet to sea with an admiral who has only enough command to issue routine orders. spot must alter original orders or create new ones, depending upon the position in which he finds the enemy. hr That is accepted in naval warfare, but we are still treating the bombing plane as if it were the same old crate that waddled in 1918. The high commander sits at home while his bombing forma tlons fly hundreds of miles to their objectives. Hundreds of thousands of men were killed in the last war because they were operating under orders drawn up by men who could not see what was going oh in the immediate sectors, and hence could not issue orders changing the original scheme of battle, The air-force commander holds his job because of, or in spite of, the fact that he is supposed to be best equipped through training and experience. Why should he sit at home while his forces are meeting conditions that can not be judged by anyone excep

an air leader right on the location? ) Conditions Change Rapidly |

The speed and lengthening range of modern aircraft and aircraft operations ‘necessitate | the presence of a commander who can alter, call o divert his attack from. the original objective more important one. - No group of air ste

changing rapidly. Of course there are officers in charge of

these men are not empowered to make decisions as the reshaping of tactics. Assume that Air Headquarters has been app: of enemy aircraft concentration in ‘a certain se and orders an attack in a far-removed objec During the night the enemy may have concentrated in defense of the named objective. What to! do? Wireless home and ask for orders? | Jellicoe. was in command at the Battle of Jute land, and the top commander of an air force should be on the wing in the event of a major air battle,

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Watching Your Health

By Jane Stafford

HE vast amount of mental and nervous sickness or disorder throughout the world is giving great concern to medical and health authorities who are searching continuously for better methods of treating

and preventing such mental disease. On the preven-.

tive side, it is hoped that much can be done by gi

attention to the child's mental as well as physical de-

velopment. Parents should not only teach children to eat the proper foods, to go to bed at regular and suitably early hours, to wash their hands before eating and to brush their teeth after, but also should train children according to the principles of mental hygiene. The old adage, “One thing at a time and that well done,” is a fair expression of one of these principles, if it is taken to mean that the child should concen=trate on the thing in hand, If you have ever watched ehildren, you know that they do this naturally. Parents should take advantage of this and make it the rule of their children to give eomplete attention to a game, a lesson or a chore, with no dawdling, though the period of complete attention may need to be short. Children should also be helped to form habits of orderly association, and of giving attention to the present situation. If their tasks are ‘simple and

definite and instructions are given clearly and in con-

crete terms, it will be easier for them to develop such habits and thus to avoid mental conflict apd worry, The inefficiency and worrisomeness of many an adult

can probably be traced to his having failed in child.

hood to develop his natural power of concentra to have formed the hat