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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1940

VINDICATION ON the night of Oct. 1, 1937, Justice Hugo L. Black spoke “over the radio in self-defense against criticism of his then recent appointment ‘to the Supreme Court. He admitted having been a member of the Ku-Klux Klan. He said he quit the Klan before going to the Senate and never rejoined. “I believe,” he said, “that my record as a Senator refutes every implication of racial or religious intolerance.” He also said: “I number among my friends many members of the colored race. I have watched the progress of its members with-sympathy and admiration. Certainly they are entitled to the full measure of protection accorded to the citizenship of our country by our Constitution and our laws.” : : ‘That was Hugo L. Black speaking for himself. Yesterday he spoke in similar terms on behalf of the entire ‘Supreme Court.

- Chief Justice Hughes did a gracious thing when he singled out Justice Black to write the Court’s opinion in the case of four Florida Negroes sentenced to death for murder. The Court found that the conviction had been based on a confession wrung by torture from these four “ignorant young colored tenant farmers.” It reversed the Florida Supreme’ Court, which had sustained the conviction. * It must have been a satisfaction to the former Alabama Klansman, long since come of age, to point out on behalf of a unanimous bench that while civil liberties in many lands are perishing by the sword, in this country even the lowliest may look to the Constitution for asylum when the law stoops to outlawry. ei ey “Under our .constitutional system,” said Justice Black, “courts stand against any winds that blow as havens of refuge for those who might otherwise suffer because they are helpless, weak, outnumbered, or because they are nonconforming victims of prejudice and public excitement.” “"° That simple statement of what should be a commonplace to all Americans will be over the heads of people like Pelley. Will it also be incomprehensible to the courts and legislators and prosecutors of Florida, where racketeers sometimes seem more welcome than the Bill of Rights?

MR.-VANDIVIER'S PLEA

N a statement issued yesterday urging Republicans and Independents to register at once for the May primaries, Carl Vandivier, Republican county chairman, made the

following significant statement: DE ane Gh “One éf the surest ways to get hotiest, efficient .and capable public officers is to have an interested and well informed citizenry to vote in our primary elections.” -* Which is just another way of saying that the indifference of citizens to primary elections, whether Democratic or Republican, is what plays directly into the hands of party bosses and machine politics. For it is in primary elections that the candidates are selected who will be voted on in November. - It naturally follows that if vast numbers of citizens ignore the primaries the majority of voters will be ‘ party workers. The candidates they will vote for will be those approved only by the party organization. “Obviously the only way to have a more enlightened selection of candidates will be for enough voters to turn out in the primaries to prevent dictation by the machines. That is the time the vote will be most important—not in November as so many believe. | ~~ And that is why Mr. Vandivier’s statement is important. It is a tribute to his honesty and to his enlightened point of view. . = : + We hope Marion County voters—both Republicans and Democrats—heed his advice. :

"WE HOPE WE'RE WRONG : : AT this writing Congress tentatively has sliced $159,- =" -000,000- off the President’s budget. (Don’t forget that word “tentatively.”) ~~ ~The goal-is economies totaling $460,000,000—t0 avoid the election-year embarrassment of levying that amount in new taxes. The President said that such new revenue would have to be raised, or else the public debt would go beyond the legal limit of 45 billions. . Keep these figures in mind, and your eyes open. For ‘the pressure boys are getting up steam. The farm lobby is telling the lawmakers that they had better vote two or three or four hundred millions in parity payments and other benefits for rural ‘constituents. Chambers of Commerce and other civic booster groups back home are crying for a like total of pork in new river and harbor projects. ~ We repeat our skeptical prophecy: When it’s all-over, the Congressmen will have erased their early-session paper economies and will have voted appropriations totaling not less but more than the President recommended.’ They nearly always do. .

NICE SAMPLE, MR. ARMINGTON HEN, the sun came out Sunday and yesterday we almost. felt like exclaiming: “Hello there, stranger!” ~ «It was a pleasure to be out in spring-like warmth and to recognize familiar faces and places again. There were moments, you remember, during the recent snows and smogs when we weren't quite sure whether we were

going to land downtown or in Louisville, :

Just in case J. H. Armington, our meteorologist, has any doubts about our feelings on yesterday's sample of sunshine, we want him to know that we will take a lot more of the same. : = i

“MAGIC” a A COLORED man in Brooklyn, N. Y., has heen sent to ~~ prison for two and a half years for selling “magic.” Selling magic seems to be a pretty serious crime-—unless, of

Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler Having Seen Mr. Disney's Latest, He Borrows a Word of Praise From Silver-Tongued * Joe Humphreys.

EW YORE, Feb. 13.—All my superlatives were used up on Walt Disney's last picture, the Snow White show, so that this one, Pinocchio, catches me without symbols fit far the occasion. Perhaps I

| should make up some as the late Joo Humphreys used

to do in some of his orations from the Garden ring or borrow ong of his. One night when Timmany Hall had appointed one of the faithful to an important patronage job in Madison Square Garden, a beef-steak and beer brawl was flung to solemnize the occasion in the private room designed for the relaxation and segregation of i millionaires.

Tammany affair which is not to be confused with a racket. An affair is where you got to get invited or you can't gei it, whereas a racket is where anybody can get in just

‘tickets how would you like a broken leg? ”ts =»

utterly unprovoked flight of adulation of that greatest little pal that God ever made, that greatest little

fistiana where clean-limbed young Americans irregardless of creed or color, develop their character and self-reliance, with face and fortune hanging in the balance, that world’s champion of wonderful pals through sunshine or sorrow, James J. Walker, who wasn’t even there. 5 The mention of Mr. Walker's name evoked prolonged cheers, attended by the throwing of hardshell rolls and olives and banging of steins. At the lower end of the table a noted jury fixer got into a fight with a blackmailer over the deadly but obviously imponderable issue of which one knew Mayo* Walker better and loved him more. Ignoring this diversion, Mr. Humphreys continued to soar in the rare, pure atmosphere of his own admiration for Mr. Walker until presently, as was his wont sometimes, when common language proved inadequate, he began to gibber in sports. isn

HE gibberish, flung to the world unexpectedly amid i a context of moe or less standard English, was too elusive in sound and too soon gone to be transcribed, which is a pity, for there was a beauty beyond the poor power of book words. They were precious sounds, rather than mere words, appropriate only to the emotion of the particular instant in the ‘whole length of time, and once uttered, were gone. Mr. Disney's Snow White put me in a state two years ago, and my praise, written in an emotional condititn, was the only document of the kind of which I have never felt a willingness to retract at least a little. Vet, on seeing Pinocchio I have a sense that the same terms applied to this marvelously beautiful and nimble creation would seem surly. Only one of Mr. Humphrey's improvised words ever remained with me. It was not one of his very best, but it may give you an idea. At the climax of his eulogy Mr. Humphreys declared that Mr. Walker was not only noble, generous, brave, kind, wise, honest and loyal to the last gasp, but was positively infidictimous. My friends, for Pinocchio that goes double.

Inside Indianapolis What Frank J. Haight Was Doing

All Those Nights He Worked Late.

Uy about 18 months ago, Frank J. Haight never worked nights. It wasn't surprising ‘be-

| cause he was a devoted family man. But then

Frank Haight started working two or three nights a week. It puzzled his whole family. Last September, they threw a big party on his 63d birthday. They

: t ts. And then Frank Haight gave him a lot of presen all his nights’

presented them with the results of labors. : i It was a book. Yessir, a real-for-sure book, entitled “I. Remember.” It was beautifully printed, bound in red leather. And on the cover of.each book was the name of the person to whom it was being given, Some of the girls were so touched they broke into tears. ; CThat book, a story of his life, from childhood, through school days, courting days, marriage, earning a living, efc., was: just like you'd expect Frank Haight to be. To him life is fun. And that book reads like it. If you don’t believe it borrow a copy from young Brad Haight. : About .5 feet, 10 inches tall, Mr. Haight weigas about 150 pounds. He’s now bald. He's one of the nattiest dressers in town. He’s an excellent horseman and his hobby is buying green colts, training them, selling them and then starting all over again. He's a consulting actuary and he has his own firm, Haight, Davis & Haight, Inc. He used to be a great detective story fan. Maybe the reason he isn’t anymore is because Mrs. Haight picks out all his books nowadays. - But we'll bet they're not as much fun as his own 2 ” 2 THE 14 PUPPIES in Ward’s Pet Shop window drew quite an audience yesterday, including Ferdinand Schaefer, conductor-emeritus of the Symphony. . . . The amount of Presidential campaign literature coming to newspaper desks is picking up... . . The latest. deluge comes from Gannett headquarters. . . . Says one .of the news services in identifying a photo: “George Ade, English writer.” . . . We suppose we ought to write ‘a letter saying Brook is still in Indiana. . . . One of the newsreels has Paul McNutt making a short speech on security. . . . And in it he lisps badly. . . . Why, Paul! . . . Some of the boys had a big argument yesterday about whether Indiana’s basketball team was “hot” or not Saturday when it made 25 per cent of its shots against Purdue. . . . Well, the I. U. boys ended the argument last night. . .". They got nearly a third of all their shots, °, . . But best story is the one about that

announced. . . . The news was greeted in dead silence except for an interloper who broke out clapping. . . . The spy! :

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

ID you waken this morning with a feeling of hopelessness? Are you ridden with fears about the ultimate destruction of all compassion and kindness upon our lovely earth? I daresay éveryone has had this despair at times,

even amid wars we have constant proof that our enemies: are working for our good; a tie binds us to those we are told to hate. This has always been so and must always be so. Above the brawls of the earthbound, certain men recognize each other as brothers, and from people we are taught to curse we sometimes accept the boon of life itself. .- ‘We in the United States have accepted the drug sulfanilimide from ‘its German discoverer, Gerhard Domagk. And we will undoubtedly accept with equal gratitude its compahion drug zephiram, which if it proves successful will be the answer to our problem of pieventing tooth decay: ' e some men who deal death strut for a little time in vainglory, infinitely better men labor only for the good of all, and what they create and find they give.to all ungrudgingly. Nt ‘There are ro national boundaries which can keep

manity, and they themselves would be the last to have it otherwise. : TE : For such men belong to the world. It is so with the great of every nation. Washington, Lincoln and Lee are Americans only in the narrowest sense, for

-have become heroes. This communion of the great is

coutse, it’s political magic, in which case the successful

so they buy a ticket, and if you don't buy plenty of}

N the occasion I now recall, Mr. Humphreys, with- . out warning, took off into space on a joyous and|

mayor and friend of the wonderful, manly sport of}

Purdue dinner Saturday night when the score was!

A Woman's Viewpoint

for the news is filled with spitefulness and gloom. Yet| §

-Gutenberg’s invention or Wagner's music or Goethe's| poetry or Domagk’s medicines from belonging to hu-|

| they tower so high that men everywhere can acclaim| them benefactors. To small boys the world over they|.

al 1 le. always going on. Nationalism cannot separate lofty

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

WOMAN WANTS CHANCE TO SUPPORT CHILDREN

By Reader "I agree with The Times reader, “Justice for - AIL” have families to take care of had the investigators’ positions in the Trustee's office, it would be much more pleasant for all. My husband, who is several years my senior, is outlawed on account. of his age and also because the building business is monopolized by the big building and loan associations. We ‘ have five children and I should have a chance at some of this investigation work so we might have a little luk-

ury. It just doesn’t seem fair for some to have it all, I feel I am just as capable and efficient as they. I agree with this reader that the investigation be carried farther. They are taking bread away from children because of a few unscrupu= lous ones. It is a shame this thing is not carried out with the same intentions it was started with. I am from a family of New Dealers that believes in a square deal. 8 2» ~ i WIDOW COMPLAINS OF WORKING WIVES By V. S. I agree with “Justice for All” that there has been a very important matter overlooked, namely, married women working in the Trustee's office or any other business place. There are many; to my knowledge, holding positions wliose husbands are amply able to support them. What are we widows supposed to do between the ages of 30 to 45— housework for these working mayried women for $3 a week, or hibernate until 65? : Why do they have the upper hand over us? We are just as intelligent and as young as the majority. Give us a chance to live comfortably too. # ” ” LAUDS G. O. P. STAND ON YOUTH CONGRESS

By Harrison White «

I am in accord with John Hamil-

ton, Chairman of the Republican ‘National Committee, for refusing to send a representative of the Republican Party to attend a session of the so-called “American: Youth Congress,” because of its failure to expel communistic elements and communistic Front organizations. It is my opinion, and I believe in being frank in the matter; that the whole setup and aim of the

If women whoj

(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.) -

American Youth Congress, inside a thin layer of democracy as camouflage, is communistic. In headlines in The Times of Nov. 14, I read: “Schools Cited as Defenders of Démocracy,” over a speech of Aubrey W. Willlams, National Director of the NYA who attended the session of the ‘Youth Congress in a big way, according to press accounts. Mr. Williams at Bloomington Nov. 14 said, “A democracy must offer continuing arrangements, whereby we maintain our self-respect: The youth of America must have goals to which they.can work. They must have leadership whom. they . can trust. As an individual in the past every American youth chose his own goal as his American right and the sky was his only limit; this idea of making goals for the youth of America confines the youth within the bounds of the goal selected for him by someone whom he can trust. The American youth enslaved within a plan finds his ultimate in regi-

the leader, whom he can trust— his dictator. This - thing of plannng for the youth, the farmer, or for the doctors, is ‘a terrible thing for me as an American to contemplate and I say the CCC, the NYA and -the

- | American Youth Congress should be

‘done ‘away with and set free the minds and aspirations of the American youth. ’ 2 8 = FORECASTS MAJOR SOCIAL CHANGE IN U. 8S. By Donald Hale ' The events that are going to occur in America within the near future are not going to be respecters of human likes or dislikes. The problem of operating any existing complex of industrial equipment is not and cannot be solved by a democratic social organization. A major change is: inevitable else we perish. ‘With the greatest array of productive equipment on the earth’s surface, with the lion’s share of the earth’s natural resources and with the largest technically trained and

existence, - this continent stands ready to move from ap economy of scarcity and poverty into an era of peace and plenty. Technology throws people out of work. It is wiping the bottom out of all values. Therefore, distribution to the entire population can only be effected on the basis of energy conversion. Technocracy is the extension of science to build a civilization worthy of the intelligence of man. Technocracy is an American

mentation, a slave of the plan and

solution.

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Side Glances—By Galbraith

Guiana, or Surinam, on a scientific expedition. of animals, as well as the study of these strange creatures in their native environment, and the noting, on the spot, of significant findings, was the purpose of the trip. Sanderson, although an eminent zoologist (his : illustrations, self drawn, are a joy, having a posterish quality, each odd creature appearing with a bit of its natural background) combines with his scientific enthusiasm and erudition the rare gifts of sympathy, humor, and a" little strain of sentimentality which one finds most appealing. Moreover he can write. ? Thus the reader finds himself fairly: taken by the hand and led through the never, never land, into the bat-hung caves of Trinidad, to hastily built camps on jungle rivers, up creeper-hung giant trees of virgin forest, over mud flats made brilliant with strange birds, ever alert to the peering, savage eye, the scurry of fearful feet, the whirr, the slither, the croak or hiss which herald the presence of our wild and

-§ |furtive brother of the bush by whose

small bodies the scientists reads life back to its beginnings.

MOTHER'S PICTURE By FRANCES RICHMOND Her picture hangs upon my wall, A face so young it brings a tear. I look at it, and wonder why God Sook her home, and left m ere.

Not even the memory of a caress, No gentle words do I recall, No loving arms can I remember, Just a picture; that is all.

Some day I hope to meet my

DAILY THOUGHT likewise, ye younger, submit

yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all : of you be subject one to another,

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F. D. R. Unbeatable When _ Feeling In ‘Pink but Recent Remarks Indicate He Needs a Vacation,

IW YORK, Feb. 13.—Mr. Roosevelt needs a rest, For a long time it has been easy to see that this 1940 campaign is going to be a sizzler. It is steams ing up even before it gets started. Franklin Roose« velt will be the center of contention—whether he’is a candidate or not. i . os As an issue, there is no New Deal except the President. He has not permitted any other figure in his official family to rise knee-high to his own stature.

He, more than any policy or association .of his, will be the object of attack—especially if he runs for a

third term. ; : wis Franklin can give a good account of himself in any battle, so long as he has the upper hand and is in his usual mental and physical pink of condition. These latter qualifications are important. In his fighting record as President, except for setbacks on issues not involving his own defeat, he has always had the upper hand and from that position Joushs was far more cautious and timid. 5s, a. 8 8 2

VV ETHER he will enter this new battle, as in 1936, with the enemy on the run is too early

| to tell. We don’t know what the opposing champion

and platform will look like, and that is of utmost inportancs in judging the quality of the coming ght. The second factor in judging this quality has ale ready. been mentioned—Mr, Roosevelt’s physical and mental condition. He seems to keep in excellent bodily shape. He has the arms and chest of a stroke« oar on a varsity crew. He also has a philosophy that protects him from the mental strains of that killing office which has laid many Presidents low. It is that, in every minute of his working time, he gives all and the best of what he has to give to his job, that angels could do no more and therefore that he is not going to toss on a sleepless bed worry ing about the result. : With some men that is a sort of golden text which they admire but can’t practice. He has actually made it a law of his nature. It is one of his stronge est traits. But that is not the whole story of Mr, Roosevelt's complete fitness for the coming fight. # 8 ® E needs and ought to take long and frequent vacations. Under too long a strain he tends to become fretful and snappish. It leads him to exe tremes of expression and biting impatience with ope posing views. 3 Never has this been so apparent as in recent weeks --his resentment of perfectly reasonable inquiries: by newspapermen about’ his- third term intentions, the increasing acidity .of his press conferences, - the astonishing absurdity of his debt statement and, as a climax, his speech to the Youth Congress. A There he laid himself open to his enemies of bitter and untrue statements about the past prosperity of the United States, the accomplishments of his own Administration and the right of assemblies to pass resolutions on things they “don’t know anything about.” His own views are “simple facts.” Opposing opinions are “unadulterated twaddle.” It gave John Lewis an opportunity to take him apart just as the debt statement put a dynamite bomb in the hands of Tom Dewey. He may hurt himself worse if he repeats in public some of the astonishing things he has said in private about his own infallibility. He needs a rest.

Third Term By Bruce Catton Big State Bosses and [nner Circle Lead Clamor for F. D. R. to Run,

ASHINGTON, Feb. 13.—When you stop to add'f up, the growing “demand” that Roosevelt be a candidate for a third -term comes chiefly from two sources . . . and an oddly teamed pair of sources they are. : Gian 0: These are, first, the big party bosses in states like Illinois and Pennsylvania; and, second, the so-called inner circle of New Dealers here in Washington. Take Senator Guffey, who is up for re-election this year. By present indications, Pennsylvania ‘is lost to the Democrats unless President Roosevelt -is in the race. Is it any wonder that Guffey insists the President ought to run? ws Take Illinois, where Chicago's Mayor Kelly prace tically has the President nominated already. Win or lose, the President would run like a houseafire in Mayor Kelly's .bailiwick, thus causing the election of a lot of deserving Democrats who might otherwise get licked. ; i And the New Deal Group here .. . when ideals, economics and social beliefs, and so on, are all added up, there remains with that group the same motive of self-preservation as there is with the political bosses, in an even more acute form. Practically any other Democrat now mentioned for the nomination would behead this group, en bloc, with great glee, once he got in the White House. 2

To. 8» Conflict on Spending

New Deal agency and department heads must have read Mr. Roosevelt's latest homily on governe ment spending with mixed emotions. The President said those who advocate drastic cuts in government expenditures court a return of the business recession of late 1937. . : That is the old New Deal doctrine, of course. What makes it interesting is the fact that some of the best New Dealers in town have been wondering how long it would be before the President remembered it. the simple fact is that the reduced budget the President tossed at Congress this winter spread some« thing like dismay in the breasts of New Dealers. | Privately, some of them have been predicting a great deal of trouble on the ground that the Presie dent cut too much." That some New Deal economists forecast the danger which the President touched on the other day is shown by the fact that in mid-autumn, 1939, a number of them drew up a colossal (though purely tentative) spend-lend plan for use in the next depression—and then. figured they ought to have it ready for presentation this year, on the ground that the economy wave was going to stop the industrial

boom which at that moment was going along’ nicely.

Watch Your Health By Jane Stafford oh Eh

OUR skin may be giving you trouble at this season of the year. The cold dry air outdoors and the warm dry air indoors, ‘plus the extra washing to need because of the extra

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