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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1940

USEFUL GOODS VS. USELESS GOLD HE Foreign Policy Association reports that “only a bare beginning has been made toward the full realization of Western Hemisphere economic potentialities.” In the three-year period, 1936-39, the United States bought a total of $86,000,000 more goods from Latin America than were sold there. Yet in the same period U. S. citizens realized an income of $677,000,000 on investments in Latin, America. To have balanced accounts for the three years the United States would have had to purchase almost $600,000,000 more of Latin-American goods. This evidence of the lop-sidedness of our trade and financial deals with our neighbors of the Western Hemisphere underlines the statement of Rep. Bruce Barton of New York that the United States is a creditor nation but has never learned to behave as such. Mr. Barton is one Republican Congressman who does not suffer from a SmootHawley mentality. “I cannot agree,” he said, “with the wisdom of a policy under which our useful and usable products would be increasingly exchanged, not for products similarly useful to us, but for a metal of which we already have too much and for which other countries will have a desperate need in the future if they are to continue to be our good customers . .. “We need to export in order to keep our economic machine running at a maximum efficiency. It is a"matter of common sense that we should take useful goods—rather than, to us, useless gold—in exchange for our exports. “We are a creditor nation and we can collect the debts owing to us only if we take goods from abroad. Yet we behave like a debtor nation, which must give goods to others in satisfaction of its debts.” 45 : If another underline is needed for that statement we cite the announcement by the U. S. Rubber Co. of plans to build a plant at Buenos Aires to manufacture rubber tires and footwear. Hitherto the company has manufactured those products in this country and exported them to the Argentinians. But high Argentine tariffs have made, such exports unprofitable. So now, instead, the company} will export a factory—and jobs. This might have been averted had Secretary Hull been able to negotiate a trade agreement with Argentina. He was unable to persuade Argentina to cut tariffs on the goods ‘we sell to her, because political opposition in this country ~ prevented him from offering a satisfactory bargain in the form of lower tariffs on the goods which Argentina wants to sell to us. : Today the bill to continue the Hull Trade Treaty program comes up for a vote in the House. We know it will pass— and we hope it will pass by such an overwhelming majority that the next time Trader Hull negotiates with Argentina or any other customer he will feel free to make a real give-and-take bargain. - Incidentally it might be a good idea for American rubber workers to organize a strong lobby of their own. - The canned-beef lobby has had its way long enough.

PAUL'S BIG IDEA "THIRTY-FIVE years ago today a Chicago lawyer, Paul P. Harris, called together a little group of his acquaintances—a printer, a coal dealer, a tailor and a few others— ‘and organized a club. : His idea was simply that men of differing occupations by learning to know each other better, could serve each other and their community. He suggested that meetings should be held in rotation at the offices or business places of the various members. That suggested the name, Rotary Club. - Fes Well, Paul (as, of course, the first-name-using Rotarians all call him) should be a proud man today. His idea has grown amazingly. It is the basis of a host of friendships, national and international as well as local. There are 5000 Rotary Clubs, with more than 210,000 members. They are found in almost every country. And many other “service clubs” have developed along similar lines. One, Kiwanis, celebrated its 25th birthday last month, with 2060 branches and 100,000 members. Sinclair Lewis, H. L. Mencken and other smart people have poked a lot of fun at Rotarians—their back-slapping, their weekly luncheons to hear speakers with a message, their lusty but not too tuneful singing, their alleged general “Babbittry.” But Rotary continues to. flourish and will continue, despite all the efforts to make it appear that busi‘nessmen who talk of “service” and of “ethical standards” are comical figures. For Rotarians do serve, as many a crippled child, for instance, has good reason to know. In almost any community they will be found among the most active, most generous and most useful supporters of every worthy cause. Paul’s 4dea was right, and is eternally right. If there {s to be understanding and goodwill, if there ever is to be international peace, men of all countries and all occupations . must learn to know each other better.

CAMPAIGN WATCHDOGS

VICE PRESIDENT GARNER has appointed, as members of the 1940 Senatorial Campaign Investigating Committee, the following Senators: Guy M. Gillette, Democrat, of Iowa. John E. Miller, Democrat, of Arkansas. Lister Hill, Democrat, of Alabama. Clyde M. Reed, Republican, of Kansas. Charles W. Tobey, Republican, of New Hampshire. The similar committee of 1938, headed by Senator Morris Sheppard of Texas, did singularly uséful work. Its courage in exposing -political abuses of WPA, in Kentucky ‘and other states, was in large measure responsible for adoption of the Hatch Act, forbidding political activity by employees of Government departments and agencies,

The new committee will have more ground to cover:

: than the Sheppard Committee did. We hope it will be as alert, as brave and as outspoken against dirty politics in any State and either party, . in

Fair Enough

By Westbrook Pegler

ltalian Paper Justified in Razzing Us on Foreign Service Appointments, But It's Superior to Fascist System.

YEW YORK, Feb. 23.—It were futile to challenge the Popolo di Roma's version of the method by

which American diplomatic representatives are. se-|. lected, but still that system, with all its vulgar faults,|

may be preferred to the Italian way. That is, Americans may .prefer it while wishing, nevertheless, for improvement. There is. no way of learning, however, what the Italian people think about anything, including their Count Ciano, who married into his job.

The Popolo di Roma says that this country givesf

preference to enriched greengrocers who have been generous to the campaign funds of the party in power, and that is approximately right. Some of the green grocers are newspaper publishers, some are mer=chants and some are packers, but it would be dishonest to quibble. For a general term, greengrocers will do, and it may be agreed, also, that, they go to their posts untrained and, as a rule, are withdrawn to make room for other greengrocers as soon as they have begun to get the hang of things.

However, there is comfort for our pride in a com- :

parison of the American way with the Italian way. For we begin with the fact that Italian ambassadors and ministers must be members of the Fascist Party, which means that they must be rackefeers at heart and probably by practice. . # n o

E know that in the rising days of fascism in Ttaly “it was customary for dead-beats and

crooks of various kinds to join the party and denounce as enemies of the regime those whom they wished to put out .of the way. The man who owed another man an honest debt would put the finger cn him and have him shipped away to a prison camp or killed. Of course, not all members of the party were active or positive crooks. - But membership in the party bespoke a very hardy tolerance for the most unspeakable treachery, dishonesty and criminality. What fascism did was to substitute the Mafia system for the more enlightened but more difficult sémidemocratic system. This just proved that the Italian nation, for all its culture and heredity, lacked the ability of the crude American people. They had to resort to gangsterism on a national scale, and the distinguished Fascists of the present who ‘came through the unsettled days when the racket was bei g

imposed on their nation were hoodluras of extraordi-|

nary talent. 2 8 8 : = cut themselves in for commissions and concessions of all sorts, planted their relatives in jobs which paid well and called for no particular ability, and those whose conduct proved them to be the least. honest rose to the top. For this was a system. which placed the highest value on the lowest traits. Racketeering was not wiped out, but was made a party monopoly. ) ‘ Now it may be that this produces the best kind of diplomats for Italian purposes, inasmuch as diplomacy, in the Italian, German and Russian system, is an elegant form of safe-blowing, porch-climbing and eavesdropping. And it may be admiited that our system does not produce the best kind for American purposes. | ; : But if we were to adopt the Italian way we would now be represented in Rome by Mr. Al Capone, and it is doubtful, even so, that we should get much better than an even break there, for Capone was a genius only by comparison with the rest of us in the United States. In Italy, the native land of the racket, he might be only a punk, and they might steal his shirt. |

Inside Indianapolis

Al Feeney and the Job of Being Ye Sheriff

UIETLY, Al Feeney hss been changing over the Q Sheriff's office and the setup is quite different now from what it used to be. For: one thing, all the deputies are now uniformed and all the Sheriff's

cars are equipped with sirens, red lights, first aid

kits, portable radios, ete. Feeney has made his deputies take the Red Cross tests. On top of that, he has changed jail conditions. Inmates are now permitted to send out and receive as many messages as they desire. The old offenders are separated from youngsters. Showers

| have been added to the receiving room, making the

jail a little cleaner place to be. A photographic darkroom has been installed -in the basement and all accidents. are photographed Feeney has been shooting at a reduction in juvenile delinquency. With the close supervision he’s been giving the problem, he is starting to get results. The Sheriff's office is beginning to be a force to be reckoned with. 2

And best of .all perhaps is the fact that Feeney

and Morrissey have an honest respect and admiration for each other and the. two departments work as smoothly as silk. : PEE I TALKING ABOUT THE Sheriff's photographic department reminds us that Clarence Sparrow, the photographer deputy, has been experimenting with infra-red beams. .°. . He and Feeney hope soon to be able to equip some chicken coop with his beam apparatus designed to take a picture of the thief. . » . You've probably wondered where great Negro artists stop when they're playing in town... . Well, Bill Robinson and his troupe are boarding out in prominent Negroes’ homes. , . . Marion Anderson, though, stayed at one of the big downtown hotels

when she was here. . 2 ” ”

IT LOOKS AS IF the girls won't have to worry henceforth about smearing their cigarets with lipstick. of cigarets which has a brilliant red tip about the size of a cork tip. . . . Remember our telling you

about the new postal substation “B” at Butler. . . . . . Only

It's been going since the. first of the year. ., excitement was when somebody stole the bell used to call the postoffice assistant. . . . It’s probably a trophy now ‘in some fraternity house.

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

“ LKS who never do any more than they get paid. for, never get pail for any more than

they do.”

This is one of the épigrams uttered by a man| named Elbert Hubbard who lived in the Gay Nineties and became famous overnight for writing his “Message to Garcia,” which sold more than 40 million

copies. He:went to his death on the Lusitania.

I was glad to get my hands on the new Hubbard (Frederick A.

biography - by David Arnold Balch Stokes), not only because it is entertaining reading but because it remincds one how quickly the neargreat pass from national memory. Elbert Hubbard skirted the edge of greatness but its spark was missing from his make-up. He lived wholly within his own time, and no genius ever does that. Viewed against the background of events which have taken place since 1915, it is clear he was no more than a gifted person who made the most of his opportunities: and frequently enjoyed flashes

1 of real inspiration. :

But is that not enough to make him a character study? It seems so to me, and certainly a great deal of his advice is as pertinent to our day as it was to

Due perhaps to our increased mechanical power, or to growing labor-union agitation, there is abroad in the land a sentiment which is poisoncus to ambitious youth—the sentiment that somebody owes us a living and had better hand it over quick. Tools are dropped on the stroke of the quitting hour; the workman hired to do a small job would rather die than lift his finger in an extra movement. The Hubbard philosophy ‘was one of efficiency, initiative, self-reliance, patience, industry and: good cheer. He was an advocate of common sense in every

situation, and many .of his words hold truth for us |

even as they did ‘for the mien of

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‘THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES ____ ih Who Said Clothes Make the Man?

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I wholly disagree with what you say,

The Hoosier Forum

defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

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CLAIMS OUTSIDE TAXES INCLUDED IN REPORT

By Subscriver. ~-

The report of the Detroit Bureau of Research, listing taxes paid in Cincinnati as $15.95, while the taxes paid in Indianapolis are given as $24.08, failed to state that the figures quoted did not represent City taxes only, but were a summation of all taxes levied in the State, payable at the court houses in the cities cited. The totals given in the list represent state, county, township, school,

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

worse off than dead.. You would

_|laborers?

of Marion County.

... The I. A C. just received a shipment

city, etc, taxes combined. Shorn of the “outside” taxes over which the City has no control, which it did not levy and from which it receives no material benefit, Indianapolis City tax is $9.75, and not $24.08 as many people seem to think. 8.8 #8 SEES OWNERSHIP AS RQOT OF LIBERTY By Voice in the Crowd Unhappy must be the man of the Douglas school, who lives in bitterness against . those who by effort, knowledge and the accept“ance of responsibility have acquired ownership. Sorry indeed is the man who believes that America is divided into classes and that one class oppresses another. That. is not a fact and we should all understand it is not so. If it were not for the freedom of acquiring something that we can own outright so long as we shall live, we should have no cause to love and cherish America. There would be no cause to defend its honor with our blood, no reason to take pride in its supremacy or ‘worry about its future. No reason to try to prepare our children to progress. further with America than we have progressed. It would be futile to develop talent or skill, that we might serve our nation by serv-

which belongs to everyone is the responsibility and pride of no one, and if America was like that it would not be fit for Americans. There is one country on the face of the globe where the property is owned “by all of the people” (?). In that country class is more defined than in any other. The large lower class is told what it can think or say or do. It is told where to work, how many hours, and how many units to produce. And you do it and like it, or you may be

ing each other for a reward. That

not dare to talk about ruling class in that country, because one man is the master of every soul and body in it and it is bad for you if you incur his wrath. He might even make you drop behind the Finnish lines with a parachute,

It is pitiful that we find fault with those who, because of their initiative, create a little wealth as a reward for service to all. Most men lose it before they die and none of them take it with them. Who would be better off if Henry Ford had not existed? If. River Rouge was still a swamp and lacking his influence in the industry we would still be building 1920 automobiles. Certainly not, the more than two million people who di-

rectly or indirectly make their liv-

ing because of his enterprise. 2 2 8 = ASKS WHO'S GOING TO STOP ROOSEVELT By J. H. Wilson, Pittsboro, Ind. I noticed an article in the Hoosier Forum by James M. Gates urging a united effort to stop Roosevelt. This is true to form. I wonder, Mr. ‘Gates, just what you propose to stop him with. So far in this “noble experiment” the leaders of the opposition agree with Mr, Gates—

but they don’t agree on what or who will stop him. Mr. Gates says the past rises up before him like a dream, but something must have awakened him before he dreamed enough. Did he

‘|dream about what condition the

Coolidge and Hoover Administrations left the country with — 14 millions of unemployed? Did he dream of the helpless and hopeless bankers, business men, farmers and Did he dream about 6 cent cotton, 10 cent corn, 30 cent wheat, and so on, down the line? Did his vision conjure up the chaos which we were facing? ... The farmers are not going to stop him and go back to a. high tariff that ruined them. The laborers are not going to stop him and go back to soup lines. Business is not going to stop him and go back to conditions that faced it in 1933. The taxpayers will not stop him when they remember they can pay their taxes now and couldn’t before. . «+

t-4 » ® CLAIMS YOUTHS IDEAS KEEP COUNTRY GOING By Pat Staudt ; - Tuesday night you printed an article saying that youths who have

communistic ideas cannot call themselves Americans. I wholeheartedly disagree with this. It is the expression of the ideas of youth that makes” America what it is. It stands for the Constitution of the United States of America, “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” If people could only understand that it is the new ideas that youth presents that keeps America going— In the youth meetings, all over the country, the future Presidents discuss the ideas of their comrades. In this way they will know how to lead their country into an economic and militaristic peace and keep it.

New Books at the Library

EADERS interested in the war between the states will find a fund of information upon the subject, much of it new or little known, and never before ‘so completely covered, in Burton J. Hendrick’s “Statesmen 0° the Lost Cause” (Little).

Side Glances—By Galbraith

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| COPR. 1940 BY NEA SERVICE. INC. T. M. REC. U. 8. PAT. OFF.

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The author deals almost exclusively with the political phases of that tragic period in United States history, with no mention of its military events or even of its military leaders, except indirectly. The discussion centers around Jefferson Davis and the members of his cabinet, with accounts of his foreign agents and the complicated and futile diplomacy of the Confederacy. «Tt is fair to say,” states the author, “that the proportion of Northern to Southern men available for svar service stood about two to one.” Yet, “the courage and ability of the Southern armies aroused the admi-

{ration of their foes; that Southern

generalship, at least in the first two years, surpassed that of the North, stands upon the surface; facts other than the inferiority in military strength must therefore hqld the secret of Confederate fail- .. The Confederacy failed largely because it produced no statesmen such as the South had

erward. The purpose of the present volume i§ to study the statesmanship and diplomacy of this new Southern generation and to study it in the biographies of .the characters

jca’s most tragic crisis.” The facts presented are based on scholarly and extensive research in authoritative sources, and presented in a style that is not only precise and. lucid, but so entertaining that the reader becames delightfully abtorbed and is loath to lay the book uside. : : ;

THE MAGINOT LINE By DANIEL FRANCIS CLANCY I wouldn't object if they would clot All those who pronounce it Mag-i-not.

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FRIDAY, FEB. 2, 1940 1Gen. Johnson

Says

Most Democrats Oppose 3d Term But They Are Sure to Renominate F. D. R. and He Will Be Re-elected.

ASHINGTON, Feb. 23.—I believe Mr. Roosevelt will be nominated and elected for a third term.

Every time I say it publicly, I get a lot of indignant fan letters from people who agree with ms—at least in being very much opposed to a third term for any man. The complaint is that this is “defeatism”— almost treason in the sense of “adhering to the enemy, giving him aid and comfort.” I can’t answer each of these kicks separately, so this is an attempt at a blanket reply. ' In the first place, to be either a “defeatist” or a “traitor,” you have to owe somebody an allegiance for which you are fighting. I shall fight as hard as I can against a third term for Mr. Roosevelt. In this view it is neither “defeatism” nor “treason” to say that I believe Mr. Roosevelt will be our next President—if that is my opinion—which it is.

” = ® S to his nomination—does a majority of the Democratic Party desire it? Decidedly not. In Dixie there are curses not loud but deep. Southern democracy has been the step-child of the New Deal, It threatens white political supremacy. It has taken the South’s two-third rule away from the nomination. Its farm policy is ruining the foreign market for cotton. The South has received the lowest per capita

handout for “recovery and relief.” But the politicians of the South have been drageconed by New Deal pap, purge and power. They are now only a minority without a veto in the convention. They must get on any bandwagon that really starts to roll, or read themselves into the outer dark. In the election, the South will vote Democratic as usual. The tradition against a third term and the trend away from the President among . Democratic politicians—in their hearts—is almost as strong in the North. What do politicos like Frank Hague in New Jersey and Chicago’s Boss Nash care about Mr. Roosevelt and his New Deal? They care principally for its handouts—but that is enough. Less powerful politicians are somewhat in the same category. You could count the realiy convinced and zealous New Dealers in the Senate on the fingers of one hand. If you were Siamese twins you could count all there ara in both houses of Congress on your fingers and toes. But here again the vast New Deal political and patronage machine controls political attitudes if not political thinking. : ss a =» HESE are the gents who decide on the delegates and pick men of their own type. Whether or not

he raises a finger, or even permits his name to bs -

used, most of these men will not vote against Mr. Roosevelt. Some boy orator will arise at sometime in the convention with a Cross of Gold and Crown of Thorns speech and it will be all over except the shouting—which will last for two hours. In the election, there will be on the side of the President (1) the normal Democratic minority; (2) a majority of the Jewish people; (3) the farmers as long as they are sure of “benefit” checks; (4) the unemployed on relief; (5) most of the Negro race; (6) most of organized labor; (7, 8, 9 and 10) ‘Republican ineptitude, disunion and lack of either a program or a sufficiently popular candidate—allee samee 1936. Figure out a way to beat that if you can. I can’t.

C.1O- Red Issue

By Bruce Catton . |

Row Brewing Over Lewis' Failure To Remove Communist Influence.

ASHINGTON, Feb. 23.—Urder the surface, a stormy situation is developing within the high command of the C. I. O. . At the C. I. O. convention last fall; John L. Lewis averted a threatened split by promising Sidney Hillman, influential head of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers, that he would: 1. Eliminate Communist influence in the C. I. O. 9. Make a real effort for peace with the A. F. of L. 3. Support the New Deal.

- None of these things has been done. A gesture toward eliminating the Communists was made: Harry Bridges’ wings were clipped, left-winger Joe Curran was denied a vice presidency, and Allan Haywood, stout foe of Communists, was made director of or-

ganization. Beyond that, nothing happened.

Beginning with his Labor Day speech in Ogden, Utah, Lewis has been conforming to a clear pattern in his public statements. He has been demanding: isolation from the war; he has been asserting that the Administration is neglecting domestic problems and taking an undue interest in the war; he has been attacking the New Deal for “retreating.” It came to a crescendo in his speech before the United Mine Workers convention, in which he predicted that President Roosevelt would be beaten if he ran for a third term. In all of this there is a remarkable similarity to the Communist Party line, as revised since the Hitler-Stalin treaty.

Hillman Reported Indignant

Note these things, too: The official C. I. O. News, which used to plug manfully for collective security, has since September been calling for isolation. Addressing the National Youth Congress, Lewis emphasized. that the U. M. W. convention had voted against military aid for Finland—neglecting to add that it had also passed a resolution of sympathy for the Finns and had heard John Brophy denounce Russia. : > No one on the inside thinks Lewis is or has been a Communist. He has not even been especially sympathetic to communism. Yet somehow the party line has had pretty good adherence from him during the last four and one-half months. Hillman is known to be extremely indignant over this turn of affairs. The situation is bound to come to a head sooner or later; when it does, there is likely to be quite a ruction.

Watch Your Health

By Jane Stafford

Cozasa Y few persons today engage in much physical activity. They ride to work, sit sit in theater, at the ‘bridge table, or reading or watching an athletic contest in their free time. The idea of exercising to gain strength and to avoid fatigue probably never occurs to. them because their work and daily adtivities do not: demand unusually strong muscles. - These sedentary persons, however, likely to suffer from fatigue. Even lig of sitting at their desks may prove very tiring and any unusual exertion may ‘cause so much fatigue that they cannot continue with the day's: work. Such people should know that they need enough exercise to keep their muscles reasonably strong and well trained, even though they need not be veritable Samsons. Even if a person has enough to

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uscular power him strength for his daily activities, he should try to gain some extra strength so he will have a rein dangerous Sneygencies and will 0 W ther than usual. yd just to stand and walk y all the large

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