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‘WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1940

BUTLER’S BIRTHDAY ODAY is an important one in the life of Butler University, Her 90th anniversary was marked by tributes to the founder and by the inauguration of a distinguished son, Dr, Daniel S. Robinson, as the 14th president. Indianapolis has reason to be proud of Butler University, for they have grown and prospered together. When founded in 1850 by the Disciples of Christ as Northwestern Christian University, Indianapolis was a comparatively small city. The first building, a three-story

+ structure with two towers which graced 25 acres at 13th

St. and College Ave., then the “outskirts” of the city, was hailed far and wide as an architectural triumph. : As the city grew, the college found new locations to provide for her own expanding needs. In 1875 the university moved to Irvington and the name was changed to honor Ovid Butler, the founder, who had donated the original campus. In 1928 it occupied the beautiful structure and spacious grounds at the present location. These 90 years witnessed some of the most stirring events in the life of the nation. Great wars, depressions, good and indifferent times have come and gone. And Butler, growing stronger with the years, turned out her fair share of distinguished citizens. Thousands of our ewn sons and daughters and those of other states have received a sound education within her halls,

Her many friends are confident that at the ripe old |

age of 90 Butler has every reason to look forward to many more years of useful service.

THE REAL THUMB ON LABOR HIRTEEN corporations and 43 individuals, including businessmen and labor union officials, were fined in Federal Court at Pittsburgh yesterday. They had pleaded “no defense” to charges of conspiracy to defraud the Federal Government through collusive bidding on public works. The fines, totaling $51,150, seem moderate in view of the prosecution’s statement that the Government had been cheated of “at least $500,000.” More important, however,

-are the prospect of future savings and revelations of how,

in one city and one industry, an unfair business-labor alli-

ance worked to: destroy competition and increase costs.

Bids were rigged through an association of electrical contractors who agreed to employ none but members of a local union of electrical workers. The local union in turn, agreed to supply men only to members of the association. This system, the Justice Department asserted, made the union’s business agent ‘‘complete dictator of the electrical industry” in Pittsburgh. In many instances such systems defraud, not the Federal Government, but the public—private citizens who build homes and factories and business structures or who are prevented from building these things because costs are inordinately high. The American Federation of Labor, harping on its contention that labor is immune from anti-trust prosecution, accuses the Justice Department of a “deliberate nationwide drive to place the labor movement under the thumb of the Federal Government.” That, we think, is bosh. The Justice Department is trying to clean up a situation that has hurt labor badly.

THE NAVY AND FOREIGN POLICY FAMILIAR argument against naval expansion is put forward again by Frederick J. Libby of the National Council for Prevention of War. We should not spend enormous sums on warships, he told a Congressional committee, until the Navy’s job is defined. He demanded creation of a joint Senate-House Com-

‘mittee to consider the question of what the Navy is to be

used for, - : : : It is not as simple as that. ® Obviously it would be a great advantage to the Navy's strategists and planners—and to the taxpayers—to know just what duties our foreign policy might require of the Navy. But foreign policy is not an exercise in arithmetic. It is not a static, measurable or even predictable thing. Especially with world politics in such a state of flux as exists today, it would take a reckless statesman, to attempt to cut a pattern for our foreign policy for the next 20 years—or the next four, even, and it takes a good four years to build a battleship. Who will win in Europe? will Russia join with Japan?

* Will Japan grab for the Dutch Indies? If England should

lose the war, what would happen to her Navy? Would Germany try to muscle in on Latin America? These and other questions, for which the answers are not available, prevent the making of hard-and-fast commitments about our future policy. And Mr. Libby probably realizes it. _' “He is sounder when he deplores vast immediate expenditures on ‘capital ships on the ground that we should await the lessons of the current war. “Why should we go on spending from $75,000,000 to $100,000,000 on a single battleship,” he asks, “if we are not sure that this battleship can even protect itself from a $10,000 torpedo fired by an inexpensive submarine?” ‘But if we wait until the war is over, we may find ourselves dangerously outclassed on the seas. We have got to build, and build now, for safety’s sake. As the lessons of the current war come along, the Navy can revise and adapt its designs to meet new problems,

A VITAL ISSUE SETTLED THE dictionary makers, who must have a hard time occasionally in deciding on the preferred pronunciation

for a word, should take a tip from the House Ways and Means Committee in Washington. :

The Committee, in a facetious interlude, decided by majority vote that a certain three-syllable delicacy should be called to-may-to, not to-mah-to. ‘The Webster and Funk & Wagnalls people might merge Dg allup before getting wut their next editions,

Fair Enough

Business Manager

By Westbrook Pegler

Hoover Could Have Included Some|

A. F. of L. Leaders in Comment on Criminals . Descending on Miami.

EW YORK, Feb. 7.—The news from Miami informs us that the executive council of the Amer-

ican Federation of Labor has been. meeting there.}

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This comes coincidentally with J. Edgar Hoover's}: °

recent announcement that a good many criminals were there again. for the iwi social and i sional season.

Does this mean that 1 intend to. identify some |

members of the ‘American’ Federation of Labor with

| the criminal element?

What else could I mean? Lest thers be any doubt about it, perhaps I should say in so many words that there are some criminals. holding office in the American Federation of Labor and many subsidiary offices. I might point out, too, that, although the executive council in the current session has had much to say about the faults of the National Government and other matters, it has thus far taken no notice of the activities of criminals in its own affairs. If the American Federation of Labor had any objections to criminals it would have taken occasion a long time ago, and certainly could have found no more effective occasion than the present meeting, to issue some expression against known criminals in the labor movement. This would require no revision of the federation’s constitution, but it would require a drastic revision of the federation’s policy and morals. The constitution does not forbid resolutions on any topic, but the policy and morality do, and thus the executive coun-

cil’s silence on one subject is much more resounding|

and expressive of the federation’s character than all of the official utterances which have come forth.

. » ” 2 LTHOUGH no news has come through regarding any activity of Mr. George Scalese, the ' distinguished president of one of the big international unions of the federation, it may be assumed that he has been giving the labor movement, as represented by the A. F. of L., the benefit of -his -wisdom and

character. For it was announced in Chicago, just after Mr. Scalese received a vote of confidence from his own executive group, that he was boarding a plane at once ‘to bear him to Miami. There were snows and cold winds in New York, and it was not necessary. for Mr. Scalese to return home. ‘He has thousands of scrubwomen who toil on their knees in the office buildings at night; thousands of Scandinavign window washers who dangle on straps in the high winds on tall buildings; thousands of elevator men and porters all working to provide him with the means to dally in the land of the sun, and the Chicago vote of confidence was intended to confirm his right to their contributions. On the job in New York to enforce the collections and allot, or sell, the jobs he has an alert and able staff, including some more criminals. 2 8 8 R. HOOVER, had he cared to, might have let ~the householders and other visitors know who their neighbors were, including not only their street numbers but the numbers of their Tecords in the FBI files. The Miamas are strangely sluggish in this phase of their publicity by contrast with other resorts which always get up lists of their noted sojourners’ with a

paragraph or more on the background of each. Of course, it is important to. know how the execu-

| tive council of the American Federation of Labor

stands on the New Deal, the Labor Relations Board, industry and recovery, and perhaps it is unnecessary to make any statement of policy on the subject of known criminals. The roster of union officials in and under the A. F. of L. provides the answer.

Inside Indianapolis Concerning William C. Griffith,

The Community Fund's New Boss.

ILLIAM C. GRIFFITH, new president of the Community Fund, wouldn't suspect it for a second (that’s how skillful his family is) but he is the kingpin, the master and the hero of his family. Mrs. Griffith, William Jr., 15; Perry, 12, and Walter S., 10, are all too nice to say anything like “My pop can whip yours” but you can’t blame them for thinking it. Mr. Griffith looks like a Minnesota tackle. He's about 6 feet tall, about 200 pounds and he has just about the broadest shoulders in town. He's around 45 or 46, but he looks 39 or 40. To him the world begins and ends with his family. They do everything together—baseball games, golf, sailboaling. Interesting, too, how he got. into Community Fund work. After Shortridge, he went to the U. of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Finance and Commerce.

. A classmate was Harold B. West, who has just re-

tired as president of the.Fund. They graduated in ’14. . Their paths didn’t cross again for 15 years. Mr. West was soliciting for the Fund. He walked into Mr. Griffith's office and almost keeled over when he recognized his old friend. --Mr. Griffith got to asking questions about the Fund, got interested and went to work, He’s been working at it for 11 years.. He is not a dynamic, arm- waving executive-type of gentleman. He's a quiet, determined; doer-of-things. He has never accepted a responsibility that he hasn’t followed through on. Typical of him is the fact that when the newspapermen started to interview him, he failed to mention that he'd just been elected president of the Indianapolis alumni of the U. of P. We found out though. .

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THE MOST STRIKING footgear of the current slushy spell belongs to Judge Smiley Chambers. . . . He came downtown yesterday in a pair of Alaskan leather moccasin boots. . . . Fur-lined and everything. . . . The girl involved in the brother-sister marriage business is going to write her side of the story for one of those magazines. Says she’s going to use the money to help her husband dig up proof that they're not related. . One of the girls in the Prosecutor’s office couldn’t get to Florida so she tried the sunlamp method. , . , She’s recovering from burns.

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

N Columbus, O., bachelors and husbands have been|

enjoying a friendly little newspaper tiff, and to

my prejudiced eye the married men have had the best |

of the argument.

Any defense of single life for either men or women|

is nine-tenths sophistry—a sort of curdled cleverness designed to mislead seekers after truth. For the wisest comment ever made on that subject was uttered 8 very long time ago: “It is not good for man to be alone.” The average spinster, although she may be content with her work and find life enjoyable, is ready to admit she would have preferred marriage if circumstances had made it possible. She doesn’t whine, but neither does she pretend she has been too smart to get caught in the matrimonial net. The gentlemen are never so candid. They would have us believe they have escaped marriage because of their superior powers of caution. They -have, so

they boast, resisted the assaults of massed femininity

against their well-being and freedom.

Yet no matter how bright our bachelor friend may| be, we cannot consider him an authority since he He only observes;

speaks from abysmal ignorance. marriage; he hasn’t experienced it.

Probably all of us would display more good sense|

it we ceased thinking about it as an institution which

‘| can assure happiness to both husband and wife 365

days in the year. Human rewards and disappoint-

ments in any situation spring more often from our|

inner being than from-any outer circumstance.

Perhaps marriage will always remain man’s noblest] *t

experiment, as it has ever been woman's best safeguard. Bu Sty we are evading the

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OPPOSES WIVES WORKING IN TRUSTEE’S OFFICE

By Justice for All During the investigation of the Center Township Trustee's office, I notice as have many others, that one very important matter has been entirely overlooked —' namely, the large number of married women employed in this office whose husband are also earning very good incomes. The majority of these positions are very remunerative and could be well filled by capable single or widowed women who are in dire need of employment.

I understand that on the new ap-

plications which the employees were asked to- fill out, one question was

“Where is your husband employed?” | but to date nothing seems to have

been. done regarding the situation! The matter -is well worth looking into and may eliminate the paying out of hard-earned taxpayers’ money to enable some families to be living in the height of luxury. Why not complete the investigation? Much can be accomplished yet.

» ” 2 FAVORS OUTLAWING OF ALL “ISMS” By Edward F. Maddox

The suicidal policy of our Government, which legalizes, condones and gives aid and comfort to. alien revolutionary political organizations — Socialists, Communists, Fascists and Nazis—is rapidly leading our people toward trouble. I quote from an article in a national magazine on “Father Coughlin”: “You stroll ‘down most any block in mid-Manhattan and stop at the corner. There will be some-

body there with a bundle of Father |.

Coughlin’s literature under one arm and a copy extended in his right hand. Listen to him for a moment. ‘Here you are. Right off the press.

The real fruth about Communism.

The only man in America that dares to tell the truth about the Reds.’ “Wherever there is a man, or a woman, or a boy: selling Father|'

Coughlin’s propaganda there is a|

man, woman or boy 20 feet or so away selling Communist or Socialist propaganda. And wherever the two of them are, there is a policeman put there to keep order.” That statement means that Europe’s fight between Fascism and Socialism -Communism is going on in New York and other American cities. It takes a policeman now to

Side Glances—By Galbraith

‘By Walker Hull, Freetown, Ind, |

| Nutt for President and also

(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.)

“keep order” and before long it will take an army. My opinion is that

Father Coughlin is at least pro-

Fascist—Mussolini-Franco style. He has just as much right to organize a Fascist movement as the Socialists and Communists: have to their Red revolutionary political parties. ‘All are equally un-Amer-ican; all are dangerous to our peace and saftey. All are violating the Monroe Doctrine. All" are inimical to the general welfare. We cannot legalize Communism by giving it a place on our ballot, and allow Red agitators and organizers free speech, press and assembly and deny the same privileges to Fascism, Naziism and every other ism under the sun and call ourselves anything but hypocrites. The only safe, sane, sensible American way to save our American democracy from destruction [by the alien isms is to outlaw all of them.

8. 8 ‘wm CLAIMS M’HALE ONLY BOOSTER FOR M'NUTT .

I read in The Times where John L. Lewis was opposing Paul V. Mcwhere one speaker said McNutt's candidacy was on the wane. Well, now, I have seen but one

romote

was Mr. McHale. I see no reason why any Hoosier should boost him. He fathered Indiana’s old-age pension law (which present-day whitecollared so-called experts now call assistance and which is the biggest fake and joker that ever was on In-

Coy had made a complete failure as director of the “pension law,” Mr. McNutt promoted him te high office with him in the Philippines. McNutt’s record at ‘the time of the Terre Haute strike speaks for itself. Isn't that enough to elect- any man President of the United States?

8 = ” THINKS TECHNOCRACY WILL HELP AMERICA: By Proctor E. Dice Technology is doing many strange things. The technological application of physical science on this

continent is creating a potential] abundance of goods and services with less and less human effort. Old Man Scarcity is on his last legs. For, lo and behold, the technological im-~ pact on this price system is producing the most unexpected and most unwelcome result of all, an abundance of capital. Or, if you like it ‘better; an abundance of credit. a Technocracy, Inc.,, realizes only too well that no political government has either the courage or the structural facility to use this abundance of credit for the production and distribution of an abundance of goods and services for our citizens. - Democracy supplies the nations of Europe—to kill. Technocracy will supply the citizens of America—to live. The natural resources of America should be used by Ameri-

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New : Books

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HE Sacramento, River of = . (Farrar) is the newest of the popular “Rivers of America” “Other rivers,” says Julian Dana, the author, “made and recorded i history with a certain order. not the river of gold. American history began latest and ran fastest along the Sacramento.” From its fount at Big Springs, near Mt. Shasta, it flows southward

several hundred miles through the

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| venturers but vacationers; | migrant camps flourish along the

Great Valley, merging at last, with the blue Pacific beyond San Fran-

| cisco’s famous Golden Gate. Discov-

ered, so legends say, in 1520 by two of Cortez’ men, exploration began two centuries later ‘with the coming of missionaries, trappers, traders and empire builders. Dispossessing the Indians, they in turn, were routed by American dominion, In 1839 John Sutter, a Swiss'immigrant, arrived in the Great Valley with dreams of a personal empire to be built from lavish crops of grain. Sutter won his empire—but the discovery of gold, in 1849, heralded his downfall in the deadly rivalry between farming and mining. Gold was king for only a decade, but the fierce story of mines and machines

exciting dramas into the river country’s history. ~ Vineyards and orchards have long| since succeeded the grain fields; the still virgin beauty of forest, mountains and river is sought not by adtoday

river. banks. “But the tempo ‘still exists, a virility that will continue

{ | for a long time.”

The Sacramento appears frequently in the movies, “nine times out of ten, doubling for sister rivers, the ‘Ohio, the Mississippi, the Columbia, ‘the Yangtze. In a few pictures, she has played herself, reliving some of her spectacular past. She is one star

i who remains eternally lovely. »”

THE DAWN OF DAY By ROBERT O. LEVELL

Morning brings a hope all new A welcome real and bright.

: More inspiration then to do

More things with all your might.

| There's a joy to see the light

_ A guide for all the way.

| Glad when lived throughout the night

To greet the aawn. of day.

DAILY ‘THOUGHT But he perceived their craftiness, and said unto them, Why. tempt.ye. me?—St, —St. Luke 20:23,

‘IF THERE were r no evil in ‘our-

booster for McNutt so far—and that]

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WEDNESDAY, FEB. 7, 1940

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Stepping Up: Output of Tin and Rubber in South America Would Solve Far Eastern Problem for U.S.

TASHINGTON, Feb. 7.—A principal argument for - our taking a strong military and naval position in the Western Pacific is our present dependence ‘on the Orient- for rubber and tin. If Japan can seize and organize China, using its great manpower and resources, she. can oust England and Holland “from

‘| the Far East. She will then take their possessions

there, including vast resources of tin, rubber and petroleum. She may then cut off our vital necessities While England is. so seriously occupied in Europe, it. is therefore to our best interests to check Japan. So runs the argument. Skip the remarks that this assumes a great deal that is most unlikely, that, to cdo all this, Japan would have to spread herself too thin everywhere to stay strong anywhere, and that any such organization and development would take many years. Let's look solely at the argument about tin and rubber. How many billions of dollars worth of armament and how much risk of a war so many thousand miles away are we willing to undertake to secure that supply?

8 = # E use more than 50 per cent of the world’s

rubber and tin production and we have used as high as 73 per cent of all rubber. No matter what nation in the future owns the present production of rubber and tin in the Far East, it is not likely to throw away half its market—except during an actual war with us. But wouldn’t it be better for us to see if there isn’t some way to insure. our supplies that wouldn't cost as much as preparing an armament strong enough to block Japan and maintain Great Britain in the Orient? . w While the bulk of all crude rubber is produced in these regions, the rubber plant isn’t native there. Columbus found it on his second voyage to South America. It is a tree of the Amazon Valley. The Far Eastern growths are originally all from South : American seeds. It isn’t very clear why the Americas made no effort to compete with what eventually became one of the world’s greatest industries—transplanted from their shores. Recently an effort has been made by Americans to recapture it by Starling plantations in South America, 8 u's HE tin problem is different. Bolivia, the second largest producer, mines 18 to 20 per cent of the world output. She is capable of producing much more with such organization, support and financing as. this country could give. Whether it could produce our requirements is not certain, but it has produced an amount almost equal to two-thirds of them. There is no shortage of tin production. On the contrary, it is under a cartel of producing countries to jimmy up prices and reduce production. Since we have almost no tin and consume more than half of it, we are the international goat in this fenagling. Similar monopolistic tactics have been practiced in rubber. Thus the indications are strong that instead of getting . all heated up and belligerent. about a problematic war situation in the Orient, it might be better to do some realistic trading and constructive economic planning on our own side of the earth. .. It would be right down the alley of our ‘good neighbor” and “Western Hemisphere” policy in both trade and defense. It would take Uncle Sam's eco= nomic and military whiskers out of a very dangerous wringer thousands of myles: away.

Public Power

By Bruce Catton ee Private Utilities Best Customers Despite: Feuding Between the Two.

ASHINGTON, Feb. 7.—Although this administration has gone in for public power production on a big scale, it finds its best customers in the ranks of big business—including the very power companies with whom it is popularly supposed to be competing. Prize example is the Aluminum Company of America, which buys slightly more than a third of TVA’'s power and recently signed a. $10,000,000, 20-year contract for power from Bonneville Dam. Bonneville, in fact, might as ‘well be a flop if dt were not for sales to industry. It will presently sign a 20-year contract with a firm which is to put up a steel mill and which will take some 30,000 kilowatts. This will be followed by other similar sales, which will group a new set of heavy industries in the Bonneville area. Then there is Boulder Dam. Boulder Dam virtually saved the life of Southern California Edison this last summer, when drought cut that utility's hydro-electric supply. With the Nevada-Califoirnia Electric’ Corp., this firm buys 9 per cent of Boulder’s total output, and operates two of its 82,500-kilowatt generators. :

Reclamation Power Sold ihn The state of Nevada is allotted 18 per cent- of

| Boulder’s power. It resells to private industries, prin=

cipally - the - Pioche Copper Co. - Arizona also. gets 18 per cent of Boulders power, - Since the state has not yet ratified the compact, this is sold to individuals, chief of which is the Central Arizona Power Co," The government's ‘Reclamation Service has been producing electric power for 30 years, and finds thie utilities its best customers. Seminoe Dam in Wy ing, for instance, sells most of its output to two aitility companies in the vicinity of Casper and Cheyenne, Yuma Dam, in Arizona, sells its total output to Southern Sierra Power Co. Minidoka Dam, in Idaho, has a brotherly arrangement with the Idaho Power Co., by which government and private companies sell power to each other in case of need. Private utility companies are already asking for power from the huge Grand Coulee project, which won't be in operation for four years. They are also getting ready to ask for power from Shasta and Friant Dams in California, which won't be ready for five ‘years. :

Watch Your Health

‘By Jane Stafford

OOD cooking is a science these days as well as an art. It is as. important.-as ever to give food appetite appeal by skilful cooking and attractive service. In fact, with the reduced food budgets many families operate on, it is more importaht than ever. that the cook should understand her—or his=art, so as to cre- - ate tasty meals with the cheaper cuts of meat gnd the more plebeian vegetables: ‘In’ addition to this, the gock should know how to preserve. the vitamins in Ss. ‘sy The oxygen in the air acts on the vitamins in foods, under certain conditions, so that the vitamins, which are after all chemical substances, are changed into other chemicals that lack the health and life protecting properties of vitamins. This change in vitamin chemistry is speeded by heat. It is also speeded by stirring air into food while they are cooking, - Much of the vitamin loss that takes place when foods are cooked can be prevented. To help the cook save vitamins, nutritionists of the U. S. Department

| of Agriculture have made the following suggestions:

1. Don't stir air into foods while cooking, 2. Don’t put them through a sieve while still hot. 3. Don’t: use soda in cooking green vegetables. “4. In boiling foods, raise the temperature to the boiling point as rapidly as possible. ~ 5. Use as little water as possible. : ‘6. Don’t -use long cooking processes such as ‘stews ne when: shorter methods are feasible. ~~ 7. Don’t throw away the water in which" vegetables have been ‘cooked. Use it in making gravies, sauces and soups. °8. Don’t fry foods valuable for. their content of vitamins A, Bor C. | ; ds Just ee ‘Prepare shopped fruit and Yegiabe, salad "before serving. Se A Start’ cooking :