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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1940

QUESTIONS FOR REPUBLICANS HE Republicans. have picked Philadelphia and the week of June 24 as the time and place to name their issue and their Presidential candidate. Several issués are being discussed—and several candidates—indicating that the Republicans, no less than the Democrats, "are divided and confused. . : Yet, barring immediate threat of involvement in war, there can be but one big issue. That issue, in its negative phase, is ready-made for the Republicans: After seven years of Democrats in power at least nine million Americans who want jobs still haven't got them. And the most logical nominee for the Republicans, will be the candidate who offers the best positive program to give those Americans jobs. : : It is not enough to shout that the Democrats have tried many experiments and doubled the national debt without solving this tragic human &nd economic problem. The people know that. They wait to hear what the Republicans propose to do about it. : For, short as political memory is, the people have not: forgotten that the last Republican Administration had no solution. The New Deal, with all its muddling and mistakes, can at least boast that it has given the American masses more than they had in 1931 and 1932, : The unemployed want something better than a career on WPA. The employed want something better than social security on the frail foundation of deficit financing. The farmers want something better than a program of subsidies. Business wants something better than pumppriming. : Have the Republicans something better to offer? They didn’t eight years ago and they didn’t four years ago. Various G. O. P. hopefuls, in their Lincoln Day speeches, dwelt on a fine and glittering phrase, “free enterprise.” It is apt to become something of a Republican slogan—and a good one, too, if they define it and if they show convincingly ‘that they will go all the way to establish it. #2 = = 2 8 = HEY make a good case when they charge that the Democrats have: stifled free enterprise by prolonged deficit financing, paralyzing taxation and too much bureaucracy. But what are they going to do? Talk won't balance the budget. Will they remove the taxes of which they complain? If so, will they obtain substitute revenue and mobilize effective public support for economy by a courageous program of direct taxes on a larger number of voting citizens? As for bureaucratic restraints on business—well, there are other restraints. Does the Republican goncept of “free enterprise” still include whatever tariff-vested interests ask, a la SmootHawley? Does it still mean the Government keeping its hands off conspitacies and combinations to raise prices and kill competition? If the answer to either question is “yes,” ~ the Republicans will be trying to sell a phrase as empty as the dinner pail of 1932. The Republican conception of “free enterprise” under Harding and Coolidge and Hoover left the country with, not nine million, but 14 million unemployed. And if that conception has been altered, why do Republicans in Congress continue to fight Secretary Hull's trade agreements while offering no other plan to demolish trade barriers? ‘Why have they given no support to this Administration’s anti-trust prosecutions—in the building industry, for instance? : Those questions, and many others that might be asked, bear vitally on whether, and how, the nine million still unemployed Americans are to find jobs. They stand squarely before the Republican best minds who want to travel the high road to Philadelphia and beyond.

BE IT RESOLVED— : RS. Roosevelt called attention the other day to the set " of good-will resolutions which the National Conference of Christians and Jews asks Americans of all faiths to adopt this coming week in “Brotherhood Week.” Though these resolutions have appeared in our columns, they seem to us so good they deserve repeating and faithful observance in every week of every year: : “I will repudiate the idea that those who disagree with me are not good Americans. ; “I will not allow racial or religious difference to determine my vote. - 4 “I will appreciate what others than my own group have done to make America great. : “T will try to understand the background of those of other religious loyalties. “I will help to create mutual respect and love between members of different religious and racial groups. “I will co-operate heartily with those of other faiths in work for the common good. “I will always protest when those of defamed. ) : “I will not be misled by false doctrines of race nor claim superiority to others on the ground of race alone. : “I will apply the Golden Rule to those of all races and religions and treat them as I should like to be treated. “I will pray for those of other faiths than my own and prize their prayers for myself.” = :

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“KIN-MOTHERS” : THE New York Mother-in-Law Association has adopted

“kin-mother” as a substitute for “mother-in-law.” It was selected by three judges, one of whom, Dr. Wilfred " Funk, has promised to put it into his dictionary. We sympathize with their dislike for unkind jokes about mothers-in-law, but we fear the ladies of what henceforth is to be known as the Kin-Mother Association are ‘misdirecting their efforts. Their search for a new name has itself stimulated some pretty dreatiful attempts at humor. Among suggestions rejected by the judges were #epsatz-mother” and “blitzkrieg-mother.” Mr. Shakespeare’s idea about what's in a name probably will be found to apply to mothers-in-law no less than to roses, - - -

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eT or Fair Enough’ By Westbrook Pegler ie It's Apparent Now That It Was * The Tunney Erudition That Caused

The Trouble ‘Back Down the Years.'|

EW YORK, Feb. 17.—Gene Tunney, ‘always an uplifting influence and now engaged in the manufacture and sale of nutritious, character-build-ing whisky, has reached the age at which a man looks back down the years.and writes his memoirs. The phrase’ “back down the years” is a sport-de-partment term used to indicate

Some celebrities resort to literary share-cropping in the preparation of their memoirs, turning - over their recollections to underprivileged peasants to be for the market on a percentage pasis. However, 1 would feel certain that Mr. Tunney does his own patch, if for no other reason

that the writer has “mellowed and grown friendly, usually in connection | with' reminiscent, dull-day topies. =~

than one sentence occurring in his article in the| :

Saturday Evening Post. “My blindness

in: the second Dempsey 1 scientiously believe, by a traumatic astigmatism. 3 > » 8 8 5 HAT’S the hallmark! . That's our boy, Gene!

to the melodramatic punch,” says| he, speaking of -the left hook that put him down| fight, “was caused, I con-

That's’ what caused the misunderstanding be-} a,

tween

down {he years. Our boy Gene was a one for You,

and people who had known him. around Greenwich Village back down the years used to blink, bat their ears and twitch their scalps in a baffled way and say they just couldn’t . nobody, just nobody,” who could account for his accent, which was a puzzling combination of stagedrawing room English, Harvardese and West Side, with occasional faint traces of shanty. -. *¢. Now, some of us thought this was an affectation and would try to stick red-head pins in his discussions to mark the spots at which he would for. get his accent. But he couldn’t be budged, because this was not a standard accent but a home-made one, and men who knew the speech of Oxford and Boston and the Sioux would come away saying Mr. Tunney’s dialect undoubtedly had in it something of many tongues but was no more Oxford than Ru-

manian is Italian and no more New England than| It was high-toned and refined, |

Yiddish is Hebrew. but .it was something of its very owt. : 8 8 8 !

oO% Gene would never speak about a busted hand |

put would lecture on the anatomy of the hand and send us journalists reeling away, our heads ringing with metacarpals and phalanges. One day when everyone was acting nice and avoiding any remark that might possibly: cause trouble he said Harry Greb had a sure case of periostitis if fie ever saw one. This seemed an uncalled-for remark, because, even if a man does pick up something, is that any reason to blab it around? Then, seeing that he

had made a scandalous impression, our’ Gene ex-|.

plained that this was an inflammation of the tissue covering the bone. : 3 Sie Uncle Will Gibson jumped off a Fifth Ave. bus one day and ran away from Gene. “I just happened to say that the gas. from the exhaust wouldn't do a guy any good if he got too much of it,” Mr, Gibson explained, “and he starts telling me about some sickness called thesis and the damnedest habeas corpus mandamus potatoes you ever heard. Sometimes you can’t understand a word he says.” : ! But it is just his way, and, looking back down the years, boy and man, I have learned to roll with his punches.

Inside Indianapolis John Esterline, the Man Who Has Never Stopped on City Manager ROFILE of the week: John Walter Esterline, the man who has never given up on getting the city manager form of government for Indianapolis. Mr, Esterline is now 65, still slight of stature, still working day and night after 40 years of the same thing. He is the head of Esterline-Angus Co., manu-

facturers of electrical equipment, consulting and ef-

ficiency engineers. 3 He put everything he had into the city manager fight several years ago and when the State Supreme Court voided -it after Indianapolis voted for it 5 to 1, he almost collapsed from disappointment. He went right back to the wars, however, and he’s still there. John Esterline isn’t interested in . instruments some other company makes, But when new instruments are needed for certain work, or if there is no firm making a good, old-type instrument, he jumps right in, His firm has been called in to help Henry Ford on mangetos. Saved ’em lots of mioney, too. 2 2 EJ

WHEN MR. ESTERLINE went to Purdue, his size wasn’t enough to keep him out of football. He was good. He wouldn't wear shinguards because they slowed him up and he usually had one pants leg up and the other down by the time they'd played 10 minutes or so. He was hard to catch once he got started goal-ward. : : Instead of wasting time after classes, he opened a small electrical shop of his own near the site of the

present stadium. He worked half the night at his!

shop and made it pay well! For some years after his graduation he was an instructor at Purdue in electrical design. A he He doesn’t waste time on expensive hobbies. He has. the good luck to pick something that usually makes money, Witness his Eagle Creek Nursery. He has every specimen of evergreen tree he’s ever heard of. If he hears of one someplace in the world that he doesn’t have he can’t rest until he’s get it. Procf is that he’s got more than 200 by now. ” ” #

A LARGE GENTLEMAN (about 6 fect 2) visited the scene of the Francis Smith murder (the gas station man) the night after the killing. . . . He told the neighborhood folks he was from the homicide squad. . . . The police never heard of him though, . . . . Mystery! . . . The Ku-Klux Klan, said Wizard Colescott the other day, isn’t even remotely interested in D. C. Stephenson. . . . There's a report (good authority, too) that a chap who was working on a job checking into violations of the 40-hour week quit because they were working him overtime, |

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson dh

ROM a certain Middlewestern city a significant incident is reported. It seems that a gentleman, somewhat befuddled by Scotch, sounded off during a lull in a lecture by a visiting celebrity, saying “Huh, I could write a better speech than that out of a Sears Roebuck catalogue.” ’

Although most audiences are too sober and polite

to speak up, these sentiments are widespread in many|.

localities which are now suffering from an epidemic of paid public addresses. g Didgemis Never has the lecture business been so flourishing. Most. of the lecturers are excellent, too, although their managers might well resolve not to work a good horse to death, The time approaches when a speaker has got to have something to say, and know how to say it well, whether he’s headed for Broadway or Bowlegs Okla. For even the backward hinterland is developing some caustic critics, car] We're not so backward, as a matter of fict. We've only ‘been spoon-fed so long on the sort of stuff peddled to us by the intellectual salesmen of the Atlantic Seaboard that we are hankering to pick our own fare. : Distance also lends erichantment to celebrities. When they come in a continuous procession, at $10 or more for a season, the feeling grows. thit most of them had better be good. Then there’s the mounting suspicion that the lecture bureaus are poking propaganda at us. The girls from the Forks of the Creek

who make up 90 per cent of lecture audiéjices aren't]

so gullible as their hats might lead you to lthink. “They can recognize the artistije temperament as bad manners a mile off. the way they've suffered from it in ought to cure them of any

r. Tunney and the Fourth Estate back there |”

explain him. And there was|

the betit thal polieness 1 & by-product]

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DON'T FORGET TC BRING AIM BACK

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° | : he Hoosier Forum 1 wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.=Voltaire.

URGES UNITED EFFORT TO STOP ROOSEVELT

By James M. Gates.

The past rises up before me like a|

dream. ‘ Be serious for my lesson is as melancholy as it is truthful. The object of this letter is to stop Roosevelt. I appeal to all taxpayers and businessmen to aid in this movement, then it will be as glorious for them.as it was for the dying thief who rejoiced to see that fountain in his day. aa se Roosevelt's qualifications for the Presidency were that he had been Governor of New York and had increased the state debt 300 million dollars. That should have disqualified him for the first term. Barnum was right; the American people like to be humbugged. He has increased the national debt 23 billion dollars, and the New Deal wants five billion more; and he thinks that should qualify him for a third and fourth term. He will pull the same stunt Wilson -did—keeping us out of war until after the election. Roosevelt has ruined the Democratic Party. The United States is not quite ruined, but is on the way. When the New Deal brought liquor back, it was to be more respectable than the old saloon. It is really worse, and some things purchased at taverns cost 300 per cent more. : You cannot tell if the New Deal is going or coming. It reminds me of the lightning bugs. They are brilliant, but they haven’t any mind; they stumble through existence and grope their way in darkness with their headlights on behind. : 2 8 8 TERMS FREE SPEECH . FREEDOM'S FOUNDATION By Voice In The Crowd Mr. Maddox surely does not wish to see the day when the expression of political théught is suppressed. The very foundation of our freedom is that we can speak, think and worship without fear of persecution. Our greatest need is unity through common understanding: We will have a better understanding if discussion is open, free and public. The

(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 will be withheld on request.)

rich and the poor, the small and the great, the pros and the antis, the whites and the blacks, must’ contribute to our common thought. We. have nothing to fear when we understand each other. The trouble now is that we do not understand and we are afraid of the darkness. Every city should have a meeting ground where anyone who wished could mount a city-owned soap box and express himseif fully. There should be cops there to keep the hot-headed apart. Nothing should be suppressed except conspiracy, violence and obscenity. You would be surprised how many people would change their minds after they had recited once, or found that in two minutes they had told all that they knew. i No one can doubt Mr. Maddox’s sincerity to American ideals, but he should not ask anyone to destroy the very foundation of freedom. It will be lost on the day that free speech is outiawed. !

ea THINKS PELLEY, TRIED TO DISCREDIT DIES: By J.JFF.M In regard: to William Dudley Pelley, Silver Shirt Legion leader— judging from his friends across the pond, he will praise any such committee as the Dies, that puts him on the spot,’ in order to discredit and embarrass the committee.

I hope the Dies Committee will

never be stopped until this country has cleaned its shores of all such disguised Americans and sends them back, where they came from in a boat without an oar. It is up to the voters who believe

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Side Glances—By Galbraith |

"| wouldn't marry him fot a million. He's an amateur radio fiend and sits up all night to hear somebody tell him it's *

| SAYS STATE PAYROLLERS

‘|as much about a las a palmist. . . .

in the Constitution of the United States to elect God-fearing men as public servants in the place of those politicians who work for special groups. When they fail to do their sworn duty to the United S'ates and its citizens, it is time then, without delay, to retire them from public offize forever—regardless of political party. Cigale LAUDS ROAD CLEARING BY STATE DEPARTMENT By H. L. 2

The State Highway Department has done an excellent job in keeping

‘the state highways clean and open|’

during this winter. It looks as if the Highway Department should take over these highways as they pass through villages, towns and cities. In practically every village, town and city, the local authorities are incompetent to deal with this important problem. It is not only a matter of public safety to clean off the snow but also a very important

economic factor in loss of time inj

transportation. The cost to traffic is

many times more than the cost of

cleaning off the snow. Let’s hope the Legislature author-

izes the Highway Department to re-

place the incompetent urban officials

in this matter. 2 » 2

WANTS BENEFITS FOR NEEDY AMERICANS

|By An American

Help the Finns! Help the Finns!

: | They give benefit dances and. vari|ous programs to raise money for

the Finns! Have you been to any

such affairs lately to help raise.

funds for needy American families? The “louse,” etr., that the writer from Attica calls all who have to accept help or our WPA workers

who live on next to nothing, are! never handed any of this “surplus”

that must be sent to Finland. That such is the case right here in America is shown in a recent issue of The Times—the picture of the mother with two sons who were to be given away because of lack of food. Why aren't they given this surplus? ; : As for Herbert ‘Hoover and his campaign to help the Finns, nothiing would suit me more than to

‘|see him and his clan along with

the Attica writer all sent bag and baggage over to Finland and let them stay. We would have more

lroom for the Americans who are

for America first.

MAKE BEST “PALMISTS”

recently consulted a palmist. It seems to me that Ameri-

|ean Governors—themselves of . all |people—would recognize that any

state payroller would know 10 times gubernatorial hand

A GOAL TO REACH By ROBERT O. LEVELL

When God is the longing of your

goal,

| Por Him to reach your hungry soul,

Needing Him to be confiding:

To ease and comfort heart's desire, With His great love that will inspire,

.| To make you happy as can be ;

When God has made you glad and free, :

‘DAILY THOUGHT Because the creature itself also

| shall be delivered from the bond-

age of corruption into the glori‘ous liberty éf the children of God. ~—Romans 8:21. :

CORRUPT influence i¢ itself the perennial spring of all prodigalits

calls it “a | protest of the

lation of proper food.

‘stomach is easily ‘moved from it.

‘the function of the nervous system,

Gen: Johnson

Ickes Seems to Be Going 'Sissy on Us, and It's Too Bad Because He Really Can Be Quite Entertaining. "EW YORK, Feb. 17.—In a debate wigh Ernie Wer, Harold Ickes said: “If anyone thinks that tonight

I am going to be the bull throwing himself around this ring, like my friend Hugh Johnson, let me remind

‘him that I have just seen a Disney picture. If there's

a bull fight tonight, I'm going to be Ferdinand sniffing the flowers.” So : I don’t know what's getting into Harold. The only

| reason why anyone could have feared that he was

going to be ferocious was that he built his reputation by being & combination whirling dervish, berserk savage and Moro juramentado. But in a recent radio: debate with me he was so sweet and gentle that I couldn’t be otherwise. It sounded more like a necking party than a robust combat. . And now this—“Ferdinand the Bull sniffing flowers!” This is the same sweet Ick who once argued that people who did not agree with him had “mental halitosis.” Of this very infirmity his own expressions were such forgetful symptoms in himself that if he had then “sniffed” any flowers, he could have wilted: them at 40 rods. He was the prize bull thrower in public life. Very happy matrimony of this lusty old sour-dough has worked such wonders that he seems to be going sissy on us. ; : i s = = ; ; “Tain’t right. His public will be sad to lose the rasp of his sandpaper tongue. It may not always have admired Mr. Ickes, but it couldn’t deny either his courage or his ability. : Mr. Ickes’ theme was that the hope of this country is a religious and unquestioning faith in Mr. Roose-. velt alone in all humanity and no matter what he does. There is no other possible salvation. It is true that there is no other possible salvation for Mr. Ickes, for most of the Cabinet and for the thousands of the President’s henchmen who are New Dealers without being Democrats. No matter who beside Mr. Roosevelt may be chosen—Republican or Democrat—they would be as far out of circulation.as Hagar in the wilderness. There are so many of these and there will be so many in commanding places in the convention that a third nomination of Mr. Roosevelt is certain—They could not permit it to be other-

wise. . =) . ® #

NCE, in trying graphically to visualize the utter isolation from the world’s affairs of men of. the ilk of 1ckes in any other outcome, I likened him to the classic figure of Buddha on a lotus leaf contemplating his navel and dreaming in ineffable peace—but not as Ferdinand the Bull sniffing flowers,. There is a dis-, tinction with a real difference here. ‘Mine was the: more accurate image. Ferdinand sat on a bumble bee and, in Spite of his flower-sniffing, was stung into such furious activity that scouts for the bull ring chose him above all others for savage ferocity. But Buddha never sat on any bee. He never returned from his perfect and absolute detachment from public. life’ —and neither would Mr. Ickes if Mr. Roosevelt is re=: jected for either the nomination or in the election. Of course, that hasn't happened yet. I think it. never will. But between now and the convention there. is plenty of time—plenty of bees for Ferdinand Ickes to sit on and forget his desire to sniff flowers.. For. the sake of campaign sprightiiness and comic relief, : let us hope that he sits on them all.

‘War Sales Dip

By Bruce Catton 2 Britain Cutting Down on Purchases, Especially. . Arms, Licenses Show.

ASHINGTON, Feb. 17—After all that has been" “said about England's dire need of American

‘munitions, export license figures show she is cutting

down on her purchases. # 238 During 1939, Britain took out licenses for American munitions (including airplanes) worth just ‘less: than - $21,000,000. : 7 : _ Actual exports during the year ran to $31,000,000 —much of this presumably, going on licenses taken ; in 1938. Just incidentally, licenses issued to Britain in 1938 amounted to $26,600,000, or better than five and one-half millions above the 1939 figure. In September and October the arms embargo was on, and no arms licenses were issued to Britain. In: November, Britain got $14,000,000 worth of them. But in December, the total fell to $66,840—about 1-47th of the total issued to Finland, which took $3,150,000, and a much smaller fraction of the French, December total of $15,000,000. (For the full year, France got $122,000,000 worth of licenses). - British purchases of American staples like cotton, tobacco, apples, and so on, have fallen heavily; com=mon explanation is that Britain has only so much cash to spend in America, and must put it all into munitions. So far, however, it hasn't shown up in the export license tables. . TE ] th ! 2 8 8

Farmer Taft and Wife i a Ohio's ‘Presidential candidate, Senator Robert A. Taft, is a bit of a farmer on the side; has 60 acres near Cincinnati, and ‘grows (among other things).

prize raspberries. : ? : = 2 Mrs. Taft is in on it; she raises prize dahlias,

remarks, “Bob takes care of the farm part—my job:

is the flowers.” Sincg dahlias do well in soil enw: riched by other crops, you're apt’ to find hers all over the farm; she doesn’t’ try to keep them in separate beds. : If abundant energy is a qualification for the First Lady’s job, Mrs. Taft can pass all of the tests. In his Senatorial campaign she stumped Ohio for him, visitiag all but three counties to organize: Repub-

“lican women. -

She has been active in leadership of the Girl Scouts, the National League of Women Voters, the Cincinnati . Children’s Hospital, and a civic group which collected supplies for the unemployed. She expects to go right on being busy. : She says: “I see no reason for a woman to change because her husband is President. If she is a homebody she will continue to be one; if she has been active, she will go on that way.” ;

Watch Your Health hi

'| By Jane Stafford | By Daniel Francis Clancy, Logansport, Ind. : | Governor Luren D. Dickinson of]. | Michigan

: GOOD many people have ‘the idea that indiges-

tion is a disease in itself and that they can cure themselves of it by diet; doses of bicarbonate of soda, or some other drug. Home remedies may make the

person with indigestion feel bettei, but anyone wha

has frequent attacks of indigestion should see his docs tor about them. They may be the sign of some seri= ous disorder demanding immediate attention. . Indigestion itself is not a disease. One physcian series of complairits on ‘the part of the digestive apparatus, these coniplaints really being a digestive apparatus to food taken.” The t may be made either because there is something the matter with the food or because. there is something the matter with the digestive which prevents normal reception, digestion and assimiThe trouble is not always in the stomach. In fact, people who have indigestion, it has been reliably estimated. Through its intricate system of nerves, mus< cles and glands, hewever, the normal action of the disturbed by other organs far re«

Excitement, nervousness, and worry are often causes of indigestion. But sometimes the nervousness is part of some disease of the digestive system. ~~ Most common locations outside the stomach of

disease that may cause indigestion symptoms are the of the appendix, the large bowel or colon, the and spinal cord, and the blood-making organs: Doctors today do not have to .guess about the causes of indigestion. When due to disturbances in of the trouble: can: be

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