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: WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6, 1040”

SENATOR MILLER LOOKS ‘BACKWARD

So of our political leaders want to' go forward ‘with | clean government. They want no more. of ‘the scandals of the recent past. One of these leaders is President Rovsavelt, who Jesterday indorsed extension of the Hatch law principles. He said that since Federal Government employees are now barred from active political campaigning the same prohibition logically should be extended to state. employees paid in whole or in part with Federal funds. He wants to make 8 good law broader and better. : 8 8 8 88 8 "Another who is looking forward is Senator Happy Chandler of Kentucky. He spoke from experience when he told the Senate that the people are weary of Government officials—state as well as Federal—who spend the faspayers’ money to get themselves: elected. “The money we are spending,” he said, “ig the money collected from the taxpayers of America who new pay every year more than they can afford, and they need the money to be used for the purposes for which they pay taxes and that is not to perpetuate anybody in office. If you mistake the temper of the people and do not see that they are determined, the time will come when they will ferret you out.” Happy ought to know. He was a principal in the Kentucky campaign of 1938. His opponent, Senator Barkley, was backed by the Federal WPA machine. WPA foremen passed out Barkley buttons, made workers sign Barkley pledges. WPA payrollers, on Government time and in WPA offices, prepared voters’ lists under the direction of Barkley managers. The Chandler machine, meanwhile, rode herd on state payrollers; it collected more than $70,000-in 2 per cent assessments against the salaries of the employees of four state agencies, three of which were financed in part with Federal funds. Chandler lost. And Chandler learned. He is now ready to vote for extension of the Hatch law to make it impossible for any state machine to do those things his machine did in 1938. 7 » » : Ls » 8.8 But others ar.-looking backward. One is Senator John E. Miller of Arkansas. Instead of wanting to expand and improve the Hatch act, he proposes to cut its heart out. He proposes to repeal Section 9 of the original act. That is the section which forbids Government em- : ployees to take active part in political management or in npaigns. With that part reljaied the Jaw woul be only a cadav : Senator Miller has forgotten what happened in Ken * tucky in 1938, or he ddesn’t care. He has forgotten what - happened in Pennsylvania—where women on WPA sewing projects were told to change their registration and vote ‘accordingly, where work-relief checks were passed out to school children to buy their parents’ votes, where truck

: drivers were shaken down for $100 campaign contributions.

Senator Miller has forgotten those things which, as ~ Senator Chandler observed, have made the people profoundly weary. Senator Miller is one of those in power. And appar“ently he thinks he has an inherent right to make use of taxpayers’ money, and of lesser officeholders, to keep him-

THE FOOD STAMP PLAN I ounarous will be trying no half-baked scheme if - it adopts the Federal stamp plan for distributing surplus food commodities. The plan already is in force in more than 50 ition and ~ by July 1 will have been extended to an additional 75. Its application is truly nation-wide. Of all the New Deal devices for dealing with the dual problems of relief and surplus commodities it is the most simple and practicable. Adoption here will be the equivalent of & pay raise to direct relief clients, who will be able to buy about 50 per cent more food than at present. To retail grocers it will |. mean an estimated increase of approximately $200,000 a Ee month in business. And to WPA workers and Government _ welfare recipients it means more foed. The benefits of the plan are so obvious, both for client and businessman, that nothing should be allowed to stand in the way of its establishment in Marion County.

CENSUS OF THE GRASSROOTS

HE invasion-of-privacy protest which has so -suddenly flared up in connection with the 1940 census presents this curious but very human aspect. The issue seems to - stem not from the higher but the lower income groups, and there is a lot of Sinclair Lewis small-town material in the picture. 1 The big busiriessman long since has become resigned to

‘answering questions coming from an ever increasingly in-

quisitive Government, village of, say, Stringtown on the Pikes «qT ~The citizenry there for some} 3 : with, and envious of, the large salaries ‘and commissions reported by big-city big shots—information- pried out by New Deal ‘edict for the enlightenment of all who get Tess. That was all right. But now, in Stringfown, Joe Zilch, _ fellow-townsman, has been named census-taker, and sud- _ denly. put into a position to know all and see all. He bears with him the majesty of the law and the threat of the jailhouse. Soon he will knock on the door of Mr. and Mrs. ~ John Smith and demand to look at their tonsils. + ~~ Well, that's different. And besides, despite all the inhibitions against tattling prescribed in the census law,

a in 2 Coun- | ered by Samer, 13 cents ps

‘caused relations’ between the United States and Great

‘Britain to become dangerously strained. _There arel Gogh leare &5 taken| |

signs that history may repeat unless. to prevent it.

Their mission, it is said, will be one of clarification

matic procedure, ‘ Looking back, many observers are convinced that

ppinion—a mistake that almost led to tragedy. Fo 2 ‘8 & ‘his memoirs, Viscount Grey of Fallodon (then Sir Edward Grey, British Foreign Miinster), paid high tribute to Ambassador Page. ‘For the most part

without so intending, it served to throw a powerful light on one of the causes, perhaps the chief cause, of American resentment against certain phases of the

British blockade. “One inciden’ in particular,” Viscount Grey. wrote.

American Ambassador was “helpful.” “Page,” explained, “came to see me at the Foreign Office a day and produced a long dispatch from Washington contesting our claim to act as we were in stopping contraband going to neutral ports. ‘I am instructed, he said, ‘to read this dispatch fo you.’ He read and 1 listened. . He then said, ‘I have now read the dispatch, but. I do not agree with it; now let us consider how it should be answered!’ ” “From the first,” Viscount Cirey said at another place in his memoirs, “he (Ambassador Page) considered that the United States could be brought into the

rightly presented . . . 2 8 = ! ODAY, apparently, neither the British nor the French Government intends to take chances. Nor does this reflect in the slightest degree on any of the ambassadors concerned. When the very existence of nations and empires is at stake, governments can never be too careful. There is no such thing as too much first-hand information, . Already there is friction, especially as between the United States and Great Britain, And there is ample reason to believe that the blockade is to be drastically tightened rather than eased. - If Britain and France go about it in the right way and refrain from needless abuses, they will doubtless be able to make the blockade effective with a minimum of friction. Both niembers of the Allied mission are well known as intelligent men. They have had wide experience and both know America and

| Americans well.

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(Westbrook Pegler is on vacation.)

Inside Indianapolis - Business at the ‘Traveler's Aid’ And an Anticipated Building ‘Boom’.

9 USINESS, said the very pretty young woman at her desk in Union Station, is very good indeed. Why, she added, it was averaging between 80 and 100 calls a ‘month. = “Lots more than you'd think,” she said as an afterthought. : The business she was talking about was “Traveler’'s Aid.” It's the service that helps stranded travelers, checking up with relatives in other cities, for instance, or finding relatives here. In emergeney cases they even put folks up pvernight. - It’s supported by the Community Fund and the Union Station desk is the Traveler's Aid’s only headquarters. The young woman said they ought to have a spot at the bus terminal, too, but that they couldn’t afford it. Inside Indianapolis had to leave just then because the young lady looked like she suspected she was talking to & stranded traveler. Y ” ” = Lo”

THERE IS A GOOD deal of conversation locally about an expected building “boom.” Discussions of such possibilities are usually regarded as dangerous. But real estate men here have been saying for weeks now that as soon as the spring thaw comes, they will be “going to town! Tilustrative of this is tite fact that $275000 in variance petitions alone are scheduled to come before the Zoning Board on Monday. Variance petitions usually constitute a very small part of the actual amount of building done. It will ‘be the largest amount to be considered in the last five or ‘six months. 2 8 a

THE LONG-MISSING scale at L. Strauss’ is due back next week. . They say that Simone Simon,

one of Hollywood's best poker players. . includes the menfolks, too. . . . It happened recently’ during a local band music or ogram ovér one of our radio stations. . The announcer said: “Now we will salute the South.’ And the band struck up “Marching Though Georgia. ” . . . One young woman we know drove her car downtown lust Friday (March 1), the day the police were starting to impound cars bearing 1939 plates. . . . On her car were '39 plates and when she returned from shopping to find a sticker on the windshield, her heart sank, But the officer who had filled out the card hadn't paid any attention to the year problem and had simply made out the ticket for overiime parking. . Which serves to remind us of the traffic officer at Market and Alabama when asked: “Can I make a left turn?” retorts “I don’t know whether you can or not, You may. ”

A Woman S Viewpoint

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson:

HE. current Harper’s has an article by Elizabeth Cushman, “Office Wonien and Sex Antagonism,” waich presents the American businessman in a very

Working downtown in the first place. Something she

licalls our genetic ‘conscience holds us back. As she puts it, “We think we're doing pretty swell in getting|

one portion of the male population to let us work for them so we can help support the other portion.” : She may be right. Jus; the same and in spite of loud talk to the contrary, business would collapse flat as a pancake if women d * their jobs. Even though it could be done, nol sult; the men least of all, I suspect. Let's imagine that all our antagonistic males could get their wish, thus clearing the business scene of petticoats. What then would happen? ‘Well, first and

might all become bald with worry ove at, whilé the details of office affairs would be hopelessly muddled. Besides it isn't likely men would enjoy supporting a lot eo! extra females. The majority of businessmen way be quite as black as Miss Cushman has painted them, too. . Having the upper hand, they mean to keep it,” which seems a na atfitude when we recall how long they've given orders to the other sex. 34 Taking everything into consideration it seems to

| In point of historical time | into their pet

much of the friction between the United Stetes and| ‘Great Britain in the World War was caused by Lon-| i don's belief that the American Ambassador, Walter| I$ Hines Page, represented a cross-section of American H

war early on the side of the Allies if the: issues were

who's in town with the new Hoagy Carmichael play, isi . » And that]

unflattering light-—as a miniature Mussolini, in fact.| }' Yet careful re-reading also finds the author saying! | i's ‘all women's fault because they've no business| |:

“would like the re-|

me they” oe been pretty decent about the Et thing. | :

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British and French: ‘Mission — E Tamed, To Prevent Any Misunderstanding| | ‘Growing Out of Ship Searches. Ee

ASHINGTON, ‘March /8.~The arrival here of lou , Frank Trelawney ‘Arthur: Ashton-Gwatkin and | 1/// Prof, Charles Rist, respectively advisérs to the British |- | and Prench blockade ministers, raay ‘prove to be an | ‘event of importance. During fhe World War thei Nil “Allied blockade—especially the British = blockade— a

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| Mr. Ashton-Giwatiin and Prof. Bist are said to] Wil have been: sent to this country for that purpose: |

than the British and French Ambassadors, whose con-| | tacts are limited by the rules laid down for diplo- 1

the tribute was thoroughly deserved. Nevertheless,| §

remained in his memory as an example of the way the ¥

@ out for any whip-sawing by N “cduse he accepted a. ps, ‘ Republican: Commit

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understand why Mr. Weir should be singled Deal columnists bee

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“The Hoosier Forum

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

HOLDS LOCAL HOUSING AUTHORITY BADLY NEEDED

By Let's Be Consistent

The head of the local Real Estate Board certainly “stuck his neck out™ when he-asserted at Wednesday’s meeting of the Citizens’ Housing Committee that private industry could and was providing new decent housing for people able to pay $15 a month. If they can do it, then why aren't they doing it on a large scale? Thousands of families are living in shamefully deteriorated property on which the owners claim to be losing money. Certainly the taxpayers are losing money, for such property yields little in the

way of taxes, while its unsanitary |

condition swells our bill for public medical service. The tenants lose too, so why don’t they jump at these - wonderful

Here's the catch.

When the forgotten man who: averages $15 a week investigates, he finds all sorts of additional charges, which, when the cost of utilities is added, brings that $15 up out, of reach. When he seeks

a loan to finance such a house, the!

private lending agencies turn him down cold. He isn’t a good risk. So he's back where he started. : The only way to help the. decent but low-income family is through

| & municipal housing program, with

the initiative, planning, ownership and operation all in the hands of a local authority. Here’s one taxpayer who supports a local housing authority wholeheartedly!

2 x 2 JOBS GUARANTEED BY CONSTITUTION, IS CLAIM By Walker Hull, Freetown, Ind.According to . . . the Constitu~

tion, each and every American-born citizen has a birthright to enjoy the

abundance of luxuries that this land also guarantees us the right of gainful

affords. That ‘Constitution pursuits. Each and every man has a right to gainful employment. Certain forces have said a man

past 45 is too old to work. Is that -constitutional?

I believe . . . only in Americanism . . . and I stand for equal rights and a free counfry, lower taxes, a 25-cent haircut and the privilege of getting married if you care to without permission from anyone. ‘Now the country is in a mess and

the Democrats have nothing to.crow|-

about—only nine million of idle people. How long is this going to last?

I "hope next November the. voters, 'SAYS TOWNSEND TAX

opportunities? |

appreciate each of

(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.)

will remove their smoked glasses and see with & clear vision and vote for those only who favor freedom in its broadest terms. , , . ERE Te. FAN MAKES PLEA FOR KNOT-HOLE BAND = By Seasoned Ball Fan This is in protest against the Indianapolis Musicians’ Union . boycotting Perry Stadium if the Knot-~ Hole Band composed of children is permitted to play for the ball games this coming summer. The youngsters are getting experience with this band. In return for their playing. they: see the

games free. Show me a band of musicians who would play Sunday

.| several years ago.

afternoons for no pay except seeing the game free. At least the parents know where their children are when the band is playing or rehearsing. Tell the Indianapolis Musicians’ Union ‘to lay off these kids. There

never were any musicians played for bal games before these kids started I want to hear the Knot-Hole Band tooting away

this summer when the season opens. :

. 8» WOULD NOT BE HIGH By. Wright’ Cash

Very few persons know what the

Townsend Plan means. In the first| ‘place, & 2 per cent transaction tax| doesn’t hurt anyone as we are all|

paying from 20 to 30 per cent trans-

‘{action taxes on gasoline and oil| | alone and nobody kicks about that

but: big fellows. -. In the second place, the. Townsend Plan doesn’t mean. $200 :a month but actually what it takes in and in the third place it. would not hurt anyone but would make more business for everybody. J We old have made good money and, spent it which meant business for everybody and all who oppose the Plan have hoarded their money ‘which did nobody any good.

New Books at the. Library

TEE fine art of: parenthood has passed through ‘a variety of stages in its evolution. The father and mother of a century ago were primarily concerned with the health

and physical well-being of their|

children. Now that medical and sanitary advances have greatly reduced the health hazards for children, there has developed a new attitude in parents. “Parents of today are seeking for ways to live with, not for, their children. They are searching for Mm ways in which the older and the |m younger can more deeply enjoy and J? Smaller families and a more complex social life are two factors which have contributed to the need -for developing the child toward a better ad-

Justment in his social relations. While some educators have gone

to extremeés in advocating a psy-

chological study of children, the

foremost, buying would fall off so fast the merchants| |

Side Glances—By Galbraith

basic idea remains 8 “Hood one, One of the most sensible and conservative studies of this problem is Sidonie Matsner Gruenberg’s “We, the ‘Parents’ (Harper). According to Mrs. Gruenberg, discipline should be a positive rather than a negative. force; she recommends a system of “guided freedom” as opposed fo the two extremes of “too rigid control and complete lack of restraint.” Tactful, . friendly. control which leaves the child feeling thet he has his own choice in a situation es for a better relationship beens parents and children and at the same ‘time develops the child’s reeling of responsibility for his own actions. Mrs. Gruenberg feels. that the greatest fault of most ‘parents is not a lack of interest or of sympathy but is, rather, the tendency toward too much protection. - The

welfare of a child is furthered byt

training toward independence and responsibility. Above all, the author

- | warns us that, contrary Wn the ideas] lof many parents, “adolescent boys |and girls do not want their parents [to be pals. They want them to be

young enough to talk to but old

enough to turn to.” Parenthood,

| judged by this standard, becomes

not merely a question of spinach and cod-liver . oil, of ° %do’s” and

(“don’t’s; it is a vocation, worthy of

the greatest effort and Teh in re-. ward.

oY QUEST By ANNA E. YOUNG

a urn ie, way

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money or credit to =F until some individual

‘which is 0, k. and ahove criticis: - forming their poli cal offices

| different ground.

| Deal, and especially NRA,

‘the recent national commi

‘post in 1928, but he * end of the party effort.

cats in both 1932 an —e

1 no potential pauper. : : | had them and ‘they hadn’t

ha didn’t’ have Rr e for the candidate

buy radio of ‘his. own Boekel.

paid it a) A Sy lm Fe : : HE New Dealers, may kick ‘sich. men Sound in the spotlight for. the: benefit cf the audience— but they don’t do itm the ‘wings. “Such leading’ lights as the Ambassadors to France, England, the Vatican and lately Poland and Belgium belong to thelr “sixty families.” They may mar theth, but they also marry

them The royal “family itselr is copsgietiously overlooking no opportunities to get into the fat cat class. All of , but it doesn’ t justify

erent political’ beliefs for pere ground that they: e far fro

of citizens on the being on WPA relief, Of course, the attack on as 'irst, that he

Weir’ slides off into that W

opposed collective pe once said r nothing; third, that he once resisted in the courts a work ‘election Songucted by the old NRA Labor Relations] pd. & % ae ; 2 & : & ent is true He appealed. to the by. that board—and

cracks at men of .

bargaining; second

HE latter staf courts against illegal acti won his case. Since when is that a disqualification? The other two statements are 1 untrue. When the New h its crusade for better then crustacean steel

e supporter than at, even if some

labor relations, especially in the industry, they had no more si Mr, Weir. The President knd of his associates don’t. His own labor relations were goad. His was one of the first great comipatiies voluntarily to seek an elece tion supervised by Government to determine the quese

tion. of majority representation.

/ The board held a hearing and agreed with the company and its employees on the rules for this elec tion. Mr. Weir went back to Weirton to ‘qut the agreement. ‘On the eve of 2 ‘election an officious young lawyer of the later or janissariat type of fourth New Dealer appeared fo supery and announced a radically different procedure’ rom’ that ‘formally and regularly decreed by the board.- Mr, We ‘refused to accept this new ukase and was up urt. From that time on he got the worst running around and series of kicks in the’ pants ( of ¢ in those times. a 1

Joe Martin.

By Bruce Catton: ;

eh Shek Solin 5 ‘National Comm

‘as Republican

chusetts, the capital general] i 80 ‘to strip dor’ ‘motion. in A

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That habpens not to be Ae a otiy Leader in the House, Martin is just too ‘busy to keep the national committee post devote his time to settling local party squabbles... He recently told a caller, “The only job I want is Speaker of the House,” and he means it. He'll get that job if the Republicans

get a majority in the next Congress, and he is

working hard toward that end. Meanwhile, the odd fact is that ‘Martin is working harder to keep from getting delegates. than some of the avowed candidates are working * to: get them, He jis immensely popular wit , party workers; during

ingin, Washington, party leaders in several states offered. fo.:climb on his band-wagon and. urged him to let his. ‘mame be entered in their Presidential rimaries; “Martin turned down all offers on the grovny that he hasp't got any band-wagan,: is

Friends Smoothing Pai h

Nevertheless, while he is sthoaie in saying he 1s not a candidate, it is also true that: ‘some. effective work. is being «done in his behalf by a self-appointed. group of friendly = Republican Con; essmen. “These

‘men for weeks have quietly been contacting “Repub

Hean leaders around the country and: “putting in 8

good word for Joe.” They. ate not ask for. delegni: or for: firste ballot votes; just try to make ‘sure that if’ the leading contenders i each other off ‘and ‘the cone vention looks for a dark hots, there'll .be plenty of influential delegates present ready’ to go for Martin, Like Martin himself, the n of unofficial committee have actually had ‘more; ‘trouble turning down offers of support than gel will do between now and partly, ‘however, on what happens to the avowed candidates. As one member of the group says: “If in a month we see that the leaders aren't really getting anywhere, we can come: og in: ‘the open and really go after d Slogans. a

Waich. Your Health

By Jane Stafford |

ISH, which appears gently on. menus ‘during "this Lenten season, is nutritionally much like _ meat or other flesh foods. | Like Meat, fish: supplies the body with protein whic} Lis ‘needed’ fo! healt, ergy and tissue building 4 ind. Jopair. It - ‘low in

I will search for something of value ¢| author