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Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way

TUESDAY, MARCH 5, 1940

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ANOTHER DAY'S DELAY

SENATOR BARKLEY told how good the New Deal had : been for the last seven years, Senator Austin replied telling how bad .it had been, and then Elmer Thomas of Oklahoma talked about money. So the Senate didn’t start work on the proposed Hatch act amendment yesterday. It will start today—provided there is a lull in oratory. ‘One man did raise his voice in dissent. He may be ex"pected to repeat today. He is Senator Minton—the Indiana Two Per Cent Club’s gift to the nation. Mr. Minton has reasons for not wanting this amendment to pass. He is up for re-election this year. And if the measure passes it will mean that Indiana’s highway workers, its old-age pensioners and its employees in the Division of Unemployment Compensation—all of whose salaries are paid in. whole or in part by Federal funds—cannot be compelled to get out and hustle votes for Mr. Minton or be coerced into giving ~ 2 per cent of their salaries to the campaign war chest. We may be wrong, but our guess is that every time Mr. Minton opens his mouth against the Hatch proposal he loses a thousand non-partisan votes in Indiana, and that he can be counted on to open it often enough to talk himself right back into private life.

LORD HAW-HAW T used to be that an Englishman convicted of high treason was not only hanged but also drawn and quartered. Things are different now. One of the most spectacular traitors of all time, the socalled “Lord Haw-Haw” who broadcasts in English from Hamburg each night, is honored by the attentive ears of an . estimated 90 per cent of British radio listeners. : It has just been officially revealed in London that “Lord Haw-Haw” is William Joyce, a University of London grad- * uate who used to be chief propagandist for the British Union . of Fascists. - He skipped off to Germany a few days before the war. Lord Haw-Haw is amusing—hence his atidiente. He - is also devastating, when it comes to pin-pricking Britannia’s caste system, her colonial policies, her unemployment, her “muddling through.” And England can’t retaliate.

It’s against the law for

Germans to listen to foreign broadcasts, but Mr. Chamber- |.

lain would hardly dare to bind the ears of Englishmen. Anyway if Haw-Haw can induce some honest soulsearching among Englishmen, it should do more good than harm. He would have to be a wizard indeed; to persuade : them that Hitlerism is a better system. ry a.

WRONG DIRECTION : Pe TTACKING Communists and “fake Hberals,” Fepube lican Congressman Frank B. Keefe of Wisconsin said * that the time has come “when we may well consider a reappraisal of the Bill of Rights.” The gentleman, we think, is Sigzeiting an excursion in the wrong direction. The Bill of Rights, as it stands, is this country’s best safeguard against the perils he and ~ others seem to fear. - The Communists say and print things that affront ~ the intelligence and stir the anger of many Americans. ‘ The impulse to shut them up, to deny or restrict their freedom of speech and press, is perhaps inevitable. But to yield to it would be a great mistake. Because Communists are free to run for ofics and io vote, we know that as a political party they are weak. Having no chance to win elections, they seek to advance their cause by other methods. We need to know what those methods are. Because they are free to speak and write, we do know. : We do not need to “reappraise” the Bill of Rights. We - need to reaffirm it.

THE DOCTORS AND THE CARDENTERS: 4

THE doctors and the carpenters seem to be in the same boat. They are discovering that they are “persons.” And the Clayton Anti-Trust Act forbids “any person” to engage in a conspiracy in restraint of trade. More than a year ago Thurman Arnold, Assistant Attorney General and the busiest trust-buster in a generation, got an anti-trust indictment against the District of Columbia Medical Society, the American Medical Association, two other medical groups and certain individual doctors—on the ground that they had conspired to discriminate against physicians employed by the group health association, a nonprofit concern which provides. medical care in Washington | on an insurance basis. : . “The medicos went to court and arated that they could] riot be dealt with like common tradesmen. The court threw out the indictment. But the Government appealed, and now the circuit court has upheld the indictment. The next step, presumably, will be either an appeal to the Supreme Court or a trial of the case on its merits. ’ In the meantime the carpenters and the other building- | trade unions in the A. F. of L. are moving heaven and earth to force Mr. Arnold to lay off their cozy little arrangements with employers whereby building costs are put up and kept up—out of reach of millions who might otherwise build homes. z Mr. Arnold’s prosecutions in this field are described by Joseph Padway, chief counsel of the A, F. of L., as “ruthless, brutal, inconsistent, damaging and destructive of the principles of organized labor.” If he had made it “principals” — leaders — instead of “principles” he would have been closer to the truth. It is the intrenched bureauts of the building-trades ‘unions, not the men with; the saw and the hod, whose toes Mr. Arnold is stepping on. | * The ‘circuit court’s unanimous decision ‘upholding Mr. nold in the case of the doctors will bring no cheeyg to Mr. way, Mr. Big Bill Hutcheson of the carpenters, or any er of the vested-interest gang in the A. F. of L. But g should be good news to the unemployed or seldom emlo artisan, and to the prospective home builder, _and

of us who have a stake | in p gperity.

" would be incomparably the stronger power.

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Duce’ s Dilemma

By William Philip Simms Mussolini Shrewdly Weighs Promises

Against Hitler's Past Performances|

And Hesitates Over Extending Aid

- y ASHINGTON, March 5.—When Adol! Hitler, in effect, told Undersecretary of State Sumner Welles that Germany's war aim is to destroy the British Empire, diplomatists who know him say he was not bluffing.

In fact, they assert, there reason to believe he §

has already promised Mussolini an empire in Africa, |

plus control of the Suez Canal, in exchange for Italian aid. But, they add, the Duce knows the Fuehrer too well to accept the bait readily. Hitler is reported to have told Welles that Britain's hold on key positions throughout the world must be broken. - She must get out of Gibraltar, Malta, Suez, Aden, Singapore and other strategic places in addi-

tion to yielding up some of her colonies— particularly fF

the former German colonies. Should Mussolini cast his lot with Germany,

therefore, Hitler could well afford to “give” Italy|

Corsica and all of East Africa from Tunisia to |Tanganyika—including the Sudan, British and French Somaliland, Uganda and Kenya. The rest of Africa and Gibraltar would remain at Germany's disposal. 1 Lee Sal : IBRALTAR would probably be occupied by Ger--

many herself, “for the good of a long-suffering |

world.” . Also: French Morocco and British Aden,

| where—along with the Italians installed in Prance’s

Djibouti—she would control Bab el Mandeb, the| E

eastern approach to the Mediterranean. Should Hitler dictate the peace, he could. easily afford to give these handouts to Italy. The Reich He would

almost certainly compel the Duce to give him Trieste| §

by way of exchange so Germany might have an outlet on the Mediterranean. This outlet, with

‘Gibraltar and Aden, would enable Germany to bottle

up Italy whenever she liked, quite as effectively as Britain and France might do it at present. Which, of course, she would do if Italy ever failed to jump through the hoop when told.

At present, the indications are that Mussolini has|

not yet been taken in by Hitler's vision of the promised land. More and more he reveals himself as one of the shrewdest statesmen of the times. Chafe as he now does at being “the prisoner of the Mediterranean,” he knows his stuff too well not to see that if Germany won the war Italy would remain “prisoner” as much as ever. She would merely have changed jailers. 8 2 s

r= the Duce is reliably reported to entertain a secret fear that such a change would be for the worse, instead of better. He knows that Italy now has little or nothing to fear from France or Britain— unless she, herself, "declares war against them— whereas there is no telling what Germany would do

once Hitler became master of Europe. He knows Hitler’s promises mean absolutely nothing. Unquestionably Italy has more to gain by way of loot from: a German victory than from an Allfed victory. That is to say, she would have if Hitler could be trusted. But Mussolini has never wholly trusted his Axis partner. Since Hitler’s territorial seizures and diplomatic double-crossings, the Duce’s suspicions no doubt have increased. Nevertheless, Ttaly’s future course remains to be seen and Anglo-French diplomacy has 3 be job on its hands in the region of the Eternal y.

(Westbrook Pegler is on vacation.)

Inside Indianapolis The Works Board and the Bid Problem: And About Calling 'Mr. Extension.’

HE Works Board is pondering the possibility of making some changes in the system of tabulating bids. And all because somebody told Hizzoner the Mayor that some automobile bids. had been tampered with before they were opened.

According to the story (as we got it) the person who told Hizzoner hadn't even been in City Hall when the bids were opened and he was repeating some-

thing somebody else said somebody else saw. The

Works Board got all upset about Hizzoner’s complaint and devoted part of yesterday to figuring out some method of keeping everybody happy. #2 8 = : THE OTHER DAY the Indiana State Employment Service called up a job applicant and left word for him to call “Extension 227,”. . . He called up all right, for “Mr. Extension.” . . . Sometimes the phone girl over there routs calls for “Mr. Chaos” or “Mr. Haymouse” to Mr. Fred Hayoz. . . . Army and Navy recruiting subalterns here say there won’t be many Indiana enlistments until the basketball season is over. . . . The Army doesn’t care; it has. only one vacancy left for this month and only eight for next . The Columbia Club has on its bulletin board under glass a letter from Thomas Jefferson to the North Carolina Legislature in which he refused North Carolina’s votes for a third term.

ADD EFFECTS OF the European war on In- . The Bavarian beer advertisements in Stegemeier’s windows have been replaced by cards advertising “Klaver Beer, from Holland.”. . . The Barber Board's order rescinding of its price order ' came right on the heels of the arrival of The Times in which Inside Indianapolis made so hold as to mention the gentleman who had been listening at the partition. . . . Add sights on the Circle: The portly gentleman who had been imbibing and who strode down the street talking about “Good old Indiana” and’ “the grand old Republican party”. . . We couldn't figure out which one. he considered more important.

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

T seems there is a campus organization in New York City called “The Future Wives of America” —what won’t they think up next? And the Future Wives have begun a campaign to lower the age of consent for girls from 18 to 17. Nine good reasons are given. Of these space allows us to select only four: 1. “Girls of 17, being more romantic, can start married life with something more exciting than practical sense.” 2. “They would have a better opportunity to grow up J their children.” 3. “Because the average age of a high-school graduate is 17 she should be given the advantage of choosing immediately between work, marriage or .college instead of being forced to dangle for a year.” 4. “The opportunity to marry should come early since it may be sweethearts will be called to war, in which case there’d be no chance for marriage at all with many girls.” Perhaps you are inclined to sneer at these reasons

or to set them down as ramblings from the jejune'

mind. But isn’t there a kernel of sound sense there, after all? Also a catch. How is the 17-year-old going to coax a man able to support a family to tie himself up with a youngster? This seems to be the hardest ‘question. Boys and girls reach the romantic age ghout the same time. They fall desperately in love while they are on’ the edge of their 205. Unfortunately, “however, boys in the romantic age haven't usually got

enough ‘money to support a wife, while men who can

maintain a household in even moderate style are well past the heartthrob era. This is why we feel like echoing the cry of distress.

‘publicity, etc. the project dies.

3 | as it seems, both Ohio and Illinois

The

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

SUGGESTION OFFERED TO BINGO PLAYERS By V. M. K. ; I understand there are thousands of citizens who do not like it be-

cause they cannot play Bingo or donate a small amount for charity

to a game called Wow. Now the|

good men whom these citizens, taxpayers and voters have. elected to these law-enforcing offices know these games are gambling and are illegal, nd these law-enforcing officials cannot permit anyihing like that in our City. So why don’t these people stop crying and spend their money in innocent, legal sports such as weekly pool tickets, daily baseball tickets,

slot machines (in clubs) or public|

bridge parties where one may play cards and win lovely prizes by donating a ‘very small amount of money. After all, these officeholders were elected by these people and the poor souls are merely doing their duty by enforcing the laws as they have sworn to do. 2 2 2 HOLDS CROSSROADS FORUMS OUTDATED By C. L. Vincent, Franklin, Ind. Some time ago The Times carried an article about the public forums which were being sponsored

around the State by Indiana Uni-

versity. It was suggested that this was one plank of President Wells’ vlatform of carrying “culture to the crossroads.”

Now "I am most enthusiastic

about President - Wells’ philosophy of includinig the whole State within the University’s circle, and I venture that 95 per cent of the people of the State are,.but I am wonder-

ing about the forum as a method| -of-doing it It seems to me to be an

18th. Century, horse-and-buggy institution that should not be perpetuated by one of the most progres sive universities in the nation. I am told that the National Office of Education has been sinking thousands of dollars in’ this project with practically no results, and that just as soon as the Government|: withdraws money for the director, It dies of course because the old “town meeting” has no place in modern society, and I do not think our university should p®t time and effort into it. 1 should like to make an alternative suggestion.. I would suggest

THINKS WELLES SHOULD

{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.)

that the University's efforts be directed to. some: good radio, programs

which might. be heard by the whole

State, rather than by a few at some “town meeting” down at Washington or elsewhere. That. is the modern forum. =. ; # 8 =a WARN : MILITARISTS ° By E. R. Egan What Sumner Welles should be

instructed to say to the miliiarists

of . Europe would be something like this: No matter ‘what kind of an

leconomic jam they are in at’ the * close of the war, if they keep up {this lunacy for which there ‘is not

the slightest pretext, until. the

work of centuries is destroyed, to-

gether with surplus food, not one cent will be forthcoming from this country to rehabilitate their defrauded peoples. . And that this nation will be prepared. to: take on

any of them’ collectively or individually. - . Now this would not be dictating. It would be sound’ economic sense of which’ there is a great political scarcity today as world politics is ample proof.. ~~ And-at the same time they might be analyzing the possibilities ‘for their own advantage. 6f an international agency--which is provided for in the World Court and League of Nations—for an .equalization .of commerce and culture. Education must be international in’ character, ‘thus bringing ‘world ‘Politics up: to date with science... 8 2 2 2. RAILROAD . PENSIONER GRATEFUL TO’ FDR ° By H. J. 'H.

I am. one ‘expressing’ my. eindere =

thanks as a Republican—and everyone, regardless of politics, I -feel

‘ |should feel thie same way—for the

Railroad Pension, which we receive | because of the strenuous efforts of our noble President Franklin ° D. Roosevelt to get the Act signed and and a law before adjournment. Thousands. upon ‘thousands: have benefited by this grand act for old rajlroad pensioners.’ ‘I say we should, ‘man to man, support him who also has done so much: for fabor and other acts for mankind. ‘As I see it all should join hands and give him a larger’ majority than in the two previous elections, should he choose to rum. I am for Franklin HD, all the way. a

New Books at t the brary

HAT. the public does sick Sider stand parole is the conviction, of many “criminologists ‘and . ‘penologists: ‘Many laymen distrust it as “a form of leniency based upon

| sentimentalism,” not realizing that

its purpose is- to safeguard society from further depredations of -released convicts by rehabilitating them into useful citizens. . Wilbur LaRoe Jr., a distinguished lawyer of Washington, D.C, is an advocate. of prison reform and: improved parole. As chairman of the| District of: Columbia Parole Board he writes with authority of the system. “Parole With Honor” (Princeton University Press) clarifies the method by which the paroled are restricted by. Specified

Side Glances—By. Galbraith -

which sounds c:zarly above the academic pronounce | i

ment—the cry which was voiced once. a time by William Shakespeare: “The times are of, And indeed they are. Tot an ug the kids married off when

SO Dural SL wih Hel dsb vay

| supervision. The ’ ‘systems of .|are glaringly. weak. John Dillinger is discussed by ‘Mr. LaRoe ‘as al’ | disastrous example of faulty prison

Lo, the mocking bird is singing

with you; bat. | wan you,

rules of conduct from further wrongdoing. Abolishing parole would not prevent prisoners (except those serving life or very long sentences) from eventual -rélease. Each year American prisons return to freedom more than 60,000 men. Mr. LaRoe. compares the status of the parolee and ot the prisoner liberated after serving his. full sentence. The latter, unsupervisel;

often friendless, homeless, and job-| -

less, may be thrust back into a life of crime. The former, in a state equipped with adequate. parole rules, will be under ‘constant super‘vision of the Board, -which finds

him a job, sees that he works at it’

and steers clear: of undesirable associates, ‘and, in ‘short, keeps a tight rein on him until he is satis- | factorily regenerated.

Unfortunately, at present only

‘| eight states and the Federal Gov- |:

ernment maintain efficient parole fers

administration. “Parole’s greatest]

| problem is to lay the foundation, ‘| through proper training within

prison, for future work and useful-|

| ness to contihue the process of Te= | habilitation ‘after release.” 6

“THE MOCKING i] By ORA VAN HOESEN he swings ‘on ‘a’ twig

3f the Matrimony bush. And why is he 50 happy?

Skies are bine, his - little mate is|

true, And he Just must express himself;

As ne wings his way along, Tale. ‘Here and there, so. small, so free:

From care, that his. little heart’ is : bursting - With an avalatiche of ov, for his © world ; 1s flied wilh gladness. Bo we love|

| Little Mocking Bird, and we leave

: 0 i til sing op a wig | @ 1101 the Matrimony Bush. A

DAILY “THOUGHT For the poor | ‘always ye have ee. haye not -al-

WE SHOULD r 0 much es-

: convince the farmers that they really,

“1 or less degree is every other tax. ‘| revenue is from sales taxes—sppasent of bidden.

G n. Tohasor Says y

If G. O. P. Wants to Ca Farm Issue It Couldn't’ Stronger Candidate Th

ASHINGTON, March 5.—The cans ’ lot is not a hopeless one. They could win in ‘the coming election, but they cant do it a nothing

Torte Name a McNary

| and, as has so often been said, they can't beat

somebody with nobody. Their job is to recapture some of the great groups the New Det took away. The biggest of these is the farm population of the Midwestern states, especially ‘Ohio, Ind , Tlinois, Iowa and possibly Nebraska. That is not as hard distinctly lican victory two things— ate who. can mean it. y A winning farm program is comparatively easy— a direct and simple subsidy on domes consumption aus 8 tax and coupled with a | [oe of FeEInERiS:Ion a tag ) - ater es, 4 processing tax is a sales The bulk of Federal

doubtful now. But to make a Repu certain in those states they must hav ‘a ‘definite farm program, and a cance

‘8 8 °® FES, consumers will Kick, but what | difference Yoon -it make to them whether they pay a higher price for farm products engineered by Mr, ‘Wallace's’ destructive and artificially created shortages of produce tion, gigantic stored surplus and lost Export markets, or pay the same price part in cost ¢r part in tax? After trying and failing with ev other farm - scheme known to man, the fourth New Deal thinkers are probably aware that this is the only practical

it openly, not only because they did not devise it but have opposed it in faver of others which promised greater political regimentation and control. : It therefore remains available as a Republican weapon in the farm belt, but those ret open spaces have been fooled so often by Republican promises of “equality for agriculture” that the G. O. P. would need an automatic convinger] to be sure, of selling them. Although it isn’t my business to be nominating Republican Presidential candidates, I have offered the crown to several, including Bruce Barton, Fiorello. ‘La Guardia and Wendell Willkie—who used to be a Democrat—so maybe I can risk anointing another, » 8-8 |! 2 .

OR, this particular strategy the; blicans have a ready-made candidate in Senator Charlie McNary. For 12 years hé led the farm fight for the McNary-Haugen bill, which would have worked” for wheat, at least dt the time he proposed it—even though it wouldn't work now. It didn't win, but that fight. made the election of Mr. Roosevelt possible, made the country conscious of the farm problem ang the farmers conscious of Senator M¢Nary. © He wouldn't need any selling to agriculture. They would know that whatever he proposed he would fight for with bulldog tenacity. Otherwise, he is a veteran public speaker, a charming personality and a.good speaker. Senator Taft stuck his neck out on this problem and so far revealed his lack of familiarity with ‘it

| that even so halting a talker as Henry Wallace eould

and did make him look: like ‘an amateur. ‘Mer. Dewey would have as much trouble convincing: Midwestern farmers that he knows what makes them tick as ‘Al Smith did. From this particular angle at least, Senator McNary is a napural

Boonerang? By Bruce Catton

‘Hatch Scanning. Ballo} Nisitive in MeKellar's Probe of Park Official

ASHINGTON, March Studion ‘McKelldr of Tennessee may presently find that he thrust his finger into a hornet’s nest when he tried to put it on ‘Ross Eakin, superintendent a, Great Smoky National Park. McKellar, who keeps a jealous. eye ‘on ‘Federal patronage in his state, sought Eakin’s removal charge ing (a) that there were irregularities in his accounts, and (b) that Eakin voted for Landon in 1938, The latter charge was based on a:claim- ‘that local election officials had marked Eakin’s ballot for identification. McKellar got the Senate to voteian investigation; but the investigation is being tun by a sub-committee headed by Senator Carl Hatch, wit has no love at all for patronage-addicts. ‘Hatch has a firm of public accountants going into‘ Eakins accounts (which ne terior Department previotily announced were okay) gad or he doesn’t give a hoot how Eakin voted “I am much more concerned, » He says; “with the

| charge that an election official marked his ballot.”

So he proposes to go into that part of it thor oughly . . . which wasn’t what Senator McKellar ‘was after. ; 1 4 8 2 i No ? ‘Spying’ Allowed - ge vy Department takes seriously its order to bar Ho public. from naval stations, , docks and other property; order was issued when the European war began as an’ anti-spy precau hn, The’ other night a young woman decided to observatory here and bum a" lock through the telescope at the planets—and found that the anti-spy order applies to observatories = “telescopes as well as to pastiesibe, : »

Delegate Control Lacking

. When you hear Republican Whoozis’ campaign manager say are already pledged remember this; a score of the thousand-odd Selepates vene at the Philadelphia conven actually been elected. “Candidate Whoozis may have. or 3 delegates b to him, but until the primaries and state conven are held, he won’t know ‘how many are going tosh in there balloting for him. Tis The way things look right now, a majority of |

delegates will arrive in Pr without | instructions. i

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Watch Your Health

By Jane Stafford -

ANY: a home is ‘made miser le of 4 family martyr, | tive person: whose fi A ¢

_-| makes family life difficult. | members ate constantly qua

chiatels Association at ther annua, | renting 4 We. take our democracy and 0 ‘much for granted, he said: W for granted, there is no lon spect among the members attitudes develop and increase: & all - the hurts or allege |

are tore likely to do them ental pressure. .

“This sort of den

approach of the farm problem, but won't advocate '