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ZL MONDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1940

PLAY THE DOUBLE O. J rh HOSE among the candidates who may be addicted to the * superstitions of roulette will ‘be impressed by Senator ‘Ashurst’s observation that the double o’s have been coming up with great regularity in Presidential politics. He cites Woodrow, Hoover, Coolidge, Roosevelt. | While it wouldn’t be so easy for all mentioned to make the double o adaptation, these suggestions occur—Garnoor,

Vandenboorg, Tafoot, Wheeloor, Foorley, Hool, Moorphy, McNoot, Doowey. And, after all why not Ashoorst?

CAN TALK WIN THE WAR?

WYATT EARP was a famous and efficient frontier marshal in the really tough days of the Southwest. Once Ike Clanton, outlaw and very much of a braggart, got the drop on Earp. The bandit’s gun was pointed directly at _the marshal’s-middle, but Earp successfully handled the situation my looking the outlaw in the eye and saying: “Go on home, Ike. You talk too much for a fighting

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man. : For some reason or other that story recalled itself as we listened to Hitler's one hour me-and-God-and-Providence speech from Munich. =~ : | AGAIN—JIMMY GOT IT ] JIuMyY ROOSEVELT’S papa had William G. McAdoo appointed to the $25,000 job as head of the American President steamship line. 2 i And Mr. McAdoo had the line give its insurance business to Jimmy's firm, Roosevelt & Sargent, Inc. If you were to ask Jimmy's papa why he selected Mr. McAdoo, he might say that he considered “Mac” the best of all possible shipping operators. Maybe he is. Certainly he was a man of large experience in other affairs—for instance he had been a promoter, a - corporation. lawyer, a Secretary of the Treasury, and had boarded F. D. R.s bandwagon at Chicago at precisely the right moment, all before he got and later lost his job as a New Deal Senator. : If you were to ask Mr. McAdoo why he gave the insur‘ance account to Jimmy's firm he might say that Jimmy's firm writes the best of all possible insurance policies. It must be a good policy to make Mr. McAdoo, whose headquarters are in. Chicago, ‘go all the way to Boston, headquarters of Roosevelt & Sargent, Inc. pe Thm Of course this is none of our business, except for some slight indirect - interest deriving from the fact that we are citizens and taxpayers and the U. S. Government owns 90 per cent of the common stock of this shipping company and the RFC lent it $4,500,000 and the U. S. Maritime Commission gave it a subsidy of $8,000,000. - fee And of course there is nothing illegal about it. It's only a question of taste—and smell. :

HIGH WAGES AND TRADE

REP JOHN W. BOEHNE of Evansville is serving his ** fifth term in Congress. Last week he made his second speech of those 10 years. The following few excerpts from that speech, we think, testify that while Mr, Boehne has kept his mouth closed he has been profitably. keeping his eyes, ears and mind open: ; ; “In the field of tariff, no more than anywhere else, can one get something for nothing. If some producers are encouraged. by governmental subsidies . . . others are discouraged . . . with tariffs it (the discouragement) comes from higher prices paid by the public, and a restriction of the markets, both here and abroad, for those products which are produced more cheaply here than abroad, and which would ordinarily be exported. | : “You will hear much during these debates about tariff and the American standard of livirg. . . . This specter of a reduction of the American standard of living through a lowering of the tariff . . . is held constantly before our citizens. There is no denying that this is a very effective appeal. : : © “High wages or a high standard of living . . . cannot be produced by the politician as the magician produces rabbits out of a hat. High wages can only result from a large amount of production per capita. It is the general standard of productivity that sets the wage level. If the

‘American standard should be $5 a day for workers of given |

skill and training, that wage level is the result, in large * part, of rich natural resources and our facilities for machine production. It-is not based upon what Americans can do embroidering, making cutlery, or growing sugar beets or alligator pears. tn oH Jaen rhant “Most of the confusion arises from a failure to distinguish between the prosperity of groups and the prosperity of the whole nation. No one can deny that a high tariff enables some producers to make more money than they ~ otherwise would. . . . The point is whether the whole * nation has a higher standard of living as a result. ... “In spite .of our high wage level, we export more goods than any country in the world. All of these goods go to countries with standards of living lower than our own. We even sell to the Chinese and to the Japanese. These purchases, by countries which are occasionally called pauperlabor countries, of goods made in our high wage country would not be possible unless the relation between productivity and wages were substantially as I stated them a moment ago.” » Mr. Boehne was speaking for passage of the bill to extend the Hull trade-agréements program. Opponents of the Hull plan, who afew weeks ago thought they had the Secretary of State on the run, may wonder why the program today is gaining rather than losing in popularity as was indicated by its approval in the House. Maybe the answer is that there are others who, like Mr. Boehne, haven't talked

| one church or. another under the Coughlin system of

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Fair Enough

By Westbrook Pegler ~Forewarned by Father Coughlin, He _ Will Resurrect His Commission as a ~~ 'Bishop' ‘and Start His Own Church. EW YORK, Feb. 26.—There is.no telling how far the Rev. Father Coughlin may go, so. just to play safe I am going to dig up my credentials as-a bishop of .some church in Colorado, the name of which escapes ‘me at the moment, ‘and protect my in-

terests. I. am. just anticipating ithe day when it is established that everyone in this country must go to

government. ok ; When people mus} go-to: church or go to jail a great mass of ciitzens who’ are now non-church-goers will be in the market fof a nice, convenient church connection, and that is where my bishop's license will come in handy. In order to prove that they belong to a church and go to it people will have to possess

church cards, and they will have to get them punched |

like a meal ticket or get a stamp every Sunday or oftener. I am not bothering my head about what Father Coughlin thinks would be a fair initiation fee into a legal American church or what he has in mind as weekly dues or assessments, but I will guarantee this: Nobody will undercut me, because I am to have me a great big plant, short services and a system of fees,

dues and assessments so small that they will defy|

competition. : 8 = 3 N California the Ham ’n’ Eggs’ racket was a great success on a penny a day, but I am no pig for money, and I probably will be able to get the collection down to a penny a week in my place, and still do very well for Bishop Pegler by running a fast grind. My services will be only about. three or four minutes,

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES _ Tower of Babel!

just long enough for my congregation to ‘get their]

church cards punched or stamped, so that they can’t be picked up by the Brown Shirts during the ensuing week and ‘tossed into a coricentration camp as atheists. tei | : Under this system of we will have, in a manner of speaking, -a religious closed shop, and those who refuse to consider this seriously seem to me to-be taking an awful chance. I say that because we now have & law which compels a man to join a labor union and pay initiation fees, dues and assessments whether he wants to or not. Therefore, I foresee that we might easily come to adopt a sort of religious Wagner Act, whereby all Americans must belong to some church and pay whatever fees; dues and so forth that church demands. hh 2 8 = le : WILL have to ask the head man of my church if my credentials are still fresh. I forget his name, but I think it is Wright or Rice, and I never. saw him, but he bishoped me several years ‘ago as a publicity bishop. My warrant is stamped “press” across the face of it, meaning that it is. complimentary, but it is legal, all right, under the law of Colorado, The usual

charge is $25. : * Just after repeal the smart and lucky ones who jumped in and gof saloon licenses discovered that they had something really worth while, because the number of liéenses was limited, and I figure that it will be about the same with church franchises when churchgoing becomes compulsory. They will limit: the number of churches and, boy. will we clean up! - Do you think I am nuts? = Well, if you do just analyze the Rev. Father Coughlin’s proposition about religion and atheism and you will realize that Bishop Pegler is one smart dummy. ~~ i

Inside Indianapolis 3 ‘We. Guess It. Is Hard to Make the 2 Punishment Really Fit the. Crime.

I" happened in traffic court. Four or five chaps were up before the judge for making left turns on

no-left-turn streets and running lights, etc. ‘One gave |

an excuse.about & sick wife and another about going to a hospital and still another brought up mother-in-law trouble. : Sif : I Then up walked the gentleman :charged with making a left turn at Meridian and Washington Sts. The Judge looked startled. He wanted to know all “well, what were you thinking about?” he asked sternly. “I guess I wasn’t thinking,” The Judge teetered back and forth for a few seconds. “This is the second sich case,” he said finally, “in 15,000 cases. Just imagine! Making a left turn at the crossroads of the nation. The last time I ‘couldn’t think up a punishment suitable to the crime so I had to let him go. I guess I'll have to do the ‘same with you.” ? : : Sg s 8 8 .

WE GOT A TELEGRAM from Ft. Wayne today. It said: : | “Re Your Inside Indianapolis ‘column February twenty-first why was name of David Hogg omitted

from “Republican gubernaiorial -eandidate list stop You have’ printed his address and will be printing the name of this Ft. Wayne attorney and former Congressman many times after January first nineteen forty-one, : “Hogg For Governor Club.” We just forgot. ; | | : #2 8 8 A GANG OF BLACKMAIL artists has been oper ating lately in a downtown spot notorious for its unwholesome hangers-on. . . . The latest trick is inveigling persons into a trap and. then having the blackmailers pose as police officers. . . . One gentleman gave up $5000 to escape the shame of arrest. . . . They're going to do a little remodeling at Police Headquarters. . . . The press room is to be moved to make way for @ hallway. . . . It’s probably all to the good that a lot of dubious art treasures will have to disappear. . . . The apartment dwellers at 3720 N. Penn. seem to think they have everything in the way of tenants. . , A G-man, a pro golfer, a small loan banker, the postmaster’s 'son, a song writer, some school teachers, the family of a Byrd expedition member, the wife of a late national commander of the Legion, the Democratic ward chairman and a newspapérman.... . The last disillusioned us. |

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

LMA LUTZ, writing for the Equal. Rights Maga- |

_ zine; says women “do not need

. : 2 specialized feminine edycation,” and adds: ; :

“They need to be left free to turn to homemaking, or whatever seems to foe | -

think that when -it comes to} | }

architecture, law or teaching be their field. “I am inclined to education for home life and marriage, we had better begin on-the men. Women have had more than their share. . © “Adjustment to life is a mental process. It does not require husbands, children or careers but’ selfknowledge and self-discipline. Nor is the stay-at-home housewife necessarily more to be admired for devotion to husband and children than the one who cares enough to earn for them.” I

It seems to me these are wise words... We've grown| |:

so used to patting the “wife-mother” individual on the back that we lose sight of the fact that many Nomen hide behind marriage to evade their responsies. Many of us who stay home aren't brave souls at all, but whining incompetents. We ‘hope and believe, of course, that such women are in the minority and that most of us do the best we can in our domestic

setting. But we also know that it is hard to relish compli-

ments when one is hungry. Poor homemaking can’t| |:

eat fine words, nor feed their children on them. Therefore, no matter how noble the- homemaker’s ca-

reer may be, it leaves far too many wémen out in the| |

economic cold after a well-done job. We have ceme to a time when the her husband finds herself in financial strai

‘he has left her a large sum o ney. For a m

‘government, as I foresee it,

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FAVORS FREE SPEECH FOR PATRIOTS ONLY By Edward F. Maddox

Therefore let me remind him that

I. certainly do advocate the outlawing and suppressing of all alien inspired political parties and organiizations in this nation. V. I. C. says:

‘cept conspiracy, . violence and obscenity.” Now let me remind him ‘that these alien isms are all engaged lin a conspiracy to destroy our na/tional institutions . . . . I certainly advocate free speech for every genuine patriotic American citizen who wishes to perpetuate our free and independent republic, but for those who have renounced their allegiance to our flag, our Constitution and have joined themselves to any alien-connected political movement like the Communist, Fascist, Nazi or Socialist parties, I say they are engaged in a treasonable conspiracy to destroy our freedom and our independence and are. working to regiment us under a foreign inspired dictatorship. + « 2 Freedom, libérty and indepen-

| dence in ‘these United States hinges | upon . good - citizenship. Criminals,

conspirators, -seditionists and traitors renounce ‘and forfeit many rights and privileges and must be controlled by laws or we will all lose our liberty ‘eo = . . + prea ‘#8 = TERMS DISTRIBUTION OUR BIGGEST PROBLEM By Independent : - Here is a problem for Dewey. Your editorial on smoking out the G. O. P. candidates on plans for reemployment of our 10 million idle ‘workers went straight to a question of supreme importance to America. We just can not turn up our nose to this problem. ; : Either we solve it in the democratic way, or we will face the fate of the countries at war who have met it by decree. It would be fine if we could depend upon the initiative of our economic ruling class to reorganize the system so that the gears would mesh. Let's not kid

| I assume that Voice in the Crowd | is a sensible and reasonable man.|

“Nothing should ‘be suppressed. ex- |.

Side Glances—By Galbraith

The Hoosier Forum [rex : 1 wholly disagree with what you say, but will = defend to the death your right to say«t.—Voltaire.

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

ourselves into believing that we can forever do deficit spending, to keep 40 million at work, and 10 million on permanent vacation. Govern-

ment aid to business and fo agriculture can only give us time to do a real job of reorganizing the system so it will stand on its own legs. The center of the whole problem is distribution. Production has been reasonably solved. We can make all we need. We must learn how to distribute it. In that field is . the solution for unemployment. The terrific waste we endure there is unbearable and destructive. As Hassil Schenck says, “The farmer cannot sell on one level and buy on another.” Neither can the workers buy back the products of their labor when markups on the goods between

producer and consumer amount to 2-3-5 or 10 times the cost of pro-. duction. It cannot work that way. 2 =» : CLAIMS COMMUNISM IS LIKE CHRISTIANITY By. Curious, Bloomington, Ind. : I read the hewspapers and they all say Communism is bad and to stay away from it but they do not explain what it is. The consensus of opinicn is that it is just somethir awful. Then I go to the library and read about it there. I only want to know what the newspapers and magazines are talking about. But the Communism in the big books is not the same as it is in the newspapers so ‘I conclude that the newspapers are really not talking about Communism, or if they are it is a brand of their own invention. The Communism in the books is something like Christianity in that it is more blessed to give than to receive; and to rob and steal from one’s fellowman is unfair. And I still wonder what they are talking about in the newspapers because that kind of "stuff isn’t in the big

books. Where is truth—sick today?

New Books at the Library

AY back in 1807, a 7-year-old girl of Washington, D. C,, was given the role of Little Lord Fauntleroy in a stock production, and to the surprise of every one except her ‘mother proved ‘herself a born actress. Two years later, Mrs. Catherine Hayes Brown and daughter Helen were in New York, where Lew Fields presented the 9-year-old with a $50-a-week contract. The transition of child actress Helen Hayes into the great character actress of recent years is told by her mother, Mrs. Brown, in “Letters to Mary” (Random House.) To 10-year-old Mary, daughter of Helen Hayes and Charles MacArthur, the grandmother ~~ addresses these sprightly memoirs of three decades

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of her daughter’s professional life. Despite her fine capabilities, the reader may wonder how far Miss Hayes would have gone without her mother’s constant; vigilant supervision, her criticism and business acumen. : : i

Helen, she says, would frequently have played a coveted role for nothing; it was always her mother who arranged contracts and salaries.

As a child actress Helen was intimate with many “great names” of the stage, from the Frohmans to Vernon Castle, In her ‘teens, she toured the country in “Pollyanna,” playing one-night stands; at 19, her name appeared in marquee lights for the first time. Again on“Broadway, she played Barrie and Tarkington and dreamed of playing Shaw’s Cleopatra; she -progressed from flapper and ingenue roles to drama, and fell in love with-Charles MacArthur over the strenuous objections of her mother. “Brownie’s lifework,” says MacArthur in an appreciative foreword, “was the hoging and watering Helen Hayes until she came to flower.” . © ‘The letters reveal Helen Hayes as she is to-her family and friends, a great personality to whom Hollywood could not do justice in her several pictures, but whose mag-

nificeht performance as “Mary .of

Scotland” and “Victoria: Regina” rank her indisputably as a beloved First Lady of the American theater.

ECSTACY BY ROSE MARIE CRUZAN Smell g the cedar is now in the air. s : Red and green holly wreaths everywhere. Silver and gold tinsel from wall

to wall. : Soft glow of candles at night in the hall.

| Aromatic orange peel, citron and

spice - Glorious sunshine glittering in

ice. Snow in the atmosphere brings us the chill

- the branches shrill,

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MONDAY, FEB. 2, 140° Says—

Railroads Down But Are Not Out: New Rock Island Train Shows What - Can Be Done to Regain Popularity.

EORIA, Ill, Feb. 26.—Are the railroads being driven out by air, motor and water competition? It would be a pity: in both sentiment and practice, Maybe a railroad train ripping through the night isn't - ‘as romantic to everybody as the “way of a ship on: the sea”—but it is to me. That may be a holdover from boyhood. - To kids in my generation, before the automobiles and airplanes, a steam locomotive was the fastest and most powerful thing that moved. If there was any boy of that time who didn’t sometime dream of being a railroadman, I didn’t meet him. A good deal of that remains. The most popular boys’ toy ‘1s an electric train. Its principal drawback for the kid frequently is that his father plays with it too much to permit its full enjoyment. Apparently railroads still rate romantically with the youngsters. In practice there is nothing in sight to replace the railroad network. It is an absolute necessity to our national defense as well as to our economic fe. The competition of automobiles, trucks, busses and aire planes and water is an annoyance to the railroads. To the extent that it is over-subsidized by taxpayers’ money it is unfair. But it has scarcely disturbed the bulk of railroad traffic and it is not at all certain that the railroads cannot recover much of what they

have lost. I HAVE just repeated a trip from Chicago to Peoria, Il, on the Rock Island. I have often made this trip. It took four hours, one change of trains and a lot of bumping stuffiness. This time it took two hours and 40 minutes straight through in comfort and smoothness and conveniences equal to those of a well appointed yacht. : Of course, I am talking about one of those new light streamlined, rubber-cushioned, air-conditioned, Diesel-engined super trains. Enough has been written in praise of these new comforts, in this and other columns and that isn’t the point of this piece. 2 What I didn’t know until Mr. Farrington, chief of Rock Island operations, told me yesterday is, that in spite of original cost of all this streamlined stuff, these trains are all gold mines as money-makers. Direct operating costs are cut in half. That is only the beginning of advantage. With increased speed and far superior comfort at present low fares, they are not only increasing total travel but also recapturing much if not all _the traffic lost to busses, trucks and the use of private automobiles,

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7 is this kind of development that makes me think the railroads may be coming out of their long illness stronger than ever. : It is a peculiar satisfaction to me, because I helped write the report of the Coolidge National Transportation Committee in 1933. That report recommended ‘exactly this development and prophesied exactly this result. It recommended several other things, some of which are in process. Some are not. It urged— elimination of all duplicate and obsolete facilities, of roundabout hauling, and of attempts to compete with other forms of transportation in fields where

| they are better suited, reorganization of impossible || financial structures and, above all, equalization of tax

burdens, subsidy benefits and labor regulations: If these recommendations could be put into effect, the railroads would be as sound as any industry in America. ads ’ : oe

|G.0.P. Outlook

By Bruce Catton

Majority of Delegates Likely to Be Uninstructed at .Convention Time,

ASHINGTON, Feb. 26—Unless there is a big change this spring, no candidate will go to the Republican national convention with enough delegates in his pockét to take charge. ; It looks now as if a huge proportion of the delegates—perhaps even a majority—will be uninstructed,

This is entirely to the liking of most of the national committeemen. They are hopeful about next fall but not cocky. They think they can win if they pick the best man, but they don’t think it is one of those years when “you could elect a Chinaman.” By «convention times there will have been enough primary contests to give a fair line on the vote-get= ting qualities of the leading candidates. This one may #have queered himself by some blunder; that one may have hit upon a popular note, No one will be ‘way out in front. : 5 That, at any rate, is the picture obtained by talks with the committeemen as they gathered for their ‘Washington. meeting. x The picture can change. Senator Taft might conceivably change it. His campaign is well financed and smartly directed, and he is quietly picking up con-

| siderable. numbers. of Southern .delegates. He might

get up enough speed to upset all present calculations. Mr. Dewey might, by demonstrating strength at the

polls. : It is a situation full of appealing possibilities for dark horses. :

Gannett Strategy Revealed

That explains the tactics being followed by Frank Gannett, the New York publisher.’ Mr. Gannett is going to end up a major speaking tour in Los Angeles, He is in close touch with poli ticians and rank-and-file voters all across the country. Jim Wadsworth, one of the shrewdest of Congressmen, is working with him. Yet Mr. Gannett is entering no primary contest and seeking no pledges. His entire effort is based on the belief that the nominee will finally be chosen by a convention which is perfectly free to go in any direction it pleases. That also explains why the stock of Governor Bricker of Ohio is still on the up grade. Governor Bricker will go to the convention as a Taft supporter. But if the three leaders—Taft, Dewey and Vandenberg—get deadlocked, Governor Bricker will have enough good friends to start a formidable move in his favor. Don’t forget that the situation offers a fine chance for ex-President Hoover, too. : Taner A number of the committeemen feel that the course of events may yet make Mr. Hoover the logical choice. The excellent. publicity he is getting in the present Finnish relief campaign is by no means lost on them.

Watch Your. Health By Jane Stafford 5 a | T= day when a cancer patient may have to travel thousands of miles to the clinics of a big. city for diagnosis and treatment is soon coming to an end.

The life-saving facilities and expert knowledge of the big city clinics are now reaching farther and farther

into the country, I HE An example of this is the unique experiment just

| 1aunched in Oklahoma, soon probably to be carried

into other states. Into Oklahoma has gone a young Crusader against cancer, Dr. J. Samuel Binkley of Memorial Hospital, world-renowned center in New York City for cancer research and for training experts in cancer diagnosis and treatment. Dr. Binkley is going to teach the people of Oklahoma how to fight cancer themselves in their own communities. He is going to share with the doctors of Oklahoma the knowledge Memorial Hospital's staff has gained through years of research and experience in diagnosing cancer and in treating it, with surgery, X-ray or radium. Where facilities permit, he will see patients in consultation with their physicians at special ‘clinics, besides giving lectures to doctors in the evening. . ah : SE Early diagnosis and treatment is the best hope of saving canger-threatened lives. Cancers of the skin, amenable to treatment and cure because they are‘easy | getat... Pe a : Dr. Binkley’s Crusade has been planned to reach

homa. It is sponsored by the Oklahoma State Medical American Society for the Control of Can-

the breast, the mouth and the uterus are particularly |

89 per cent of the territory and population of Okla-