Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 March 1940 — Page 12

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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13, 1940

FINLAND LOSES; HITLER WINS “THERE is no denying the fact: It is a German victory. ~~ The peace treaty signed in Moscow at 2:30 o'clock this morning, ending the war in which Russia and Finland had been locked for a hundred days, is a blow to.the hopes and ‘prestige of the Allies. A ag Gone is the chance to cfeate a northern front and strike at the lifeline of Hitler's foundries—the rail-and-sea route from Sweden's iron mines to the Reich. Yoel TN Gone is the opportunity to prolong the drain on Russia's resources, which now may become, in time, a vast backlog for “blockaded” Germany. ~ Perhaps not gone, but certainly diminished, is the Allied hope of winning over Mussolini. The.Duce likes a winner. ”

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: i Whose fault is it? Well, you might blame geography. You can hardly blame Finland. Hers was a brave-fight that will not soon be forgotten. You can hardly condemn Sweden and Norway for not offering themselves up as the battleground of the European war, G. You can't lightly accuse the Allies of failing to strike when the iron was hot. y ~~ Should they have made war on Russia, with a powerful Germany already on their hands? - And if so, were they to breach the neutrality of the Scandinavians in order to reach the Reds? Or ship a great expedition to the Arctic ports of Petsamo and Murmansk and convey it hundreds of miles southward through a land of meager communications? No, it seems to us that geography won this northern war for Stalin—and Hitler—by forcing the Allies to default. 2 8 #2 What happens now? Finland can bury her dead—her men and boys who died defending the soil she now relinquishes. She can rebuild her ruined homes and cities—if she has the men and material to do it. And she can feed her survivors, if she has the food. : The United States did little enough to help the Finns while they were fighting. The fear that our neutrality might be compromised was too strong. ~ Little Sweden contributed sources of millions of dollars ~in fighting funds-~to Finland. The Finns asked us for a _ stone—and we offered them bread, and little enough of that. “Now. is the time to back up with dollars—with a lot more *dollars than Congress has seen fit to advance through Jesse - Jones—our esteem for this nation whose probity has been’ _ proved in blood and fire, Whether by private loans or’ through act of Congress, there should be no hesitation. Finland's credit rating still stands A-1 in the world’s ledgers.

WIRE TAPPING : SENATOR WHEELER has asked the Senate for authority —- to investigate wire tapping. He wants to find whether *a spy system conducted by Government police” —the Federal Bureau of Investigation—is gathering information by wire tapping, dictographing or “other reprehensible methods.” : Bs The investigation would be broad enough to deal also ‘with use of such methods by or against Government officials; by private interests and private detectives; by poltical parties; in business competition; in labor espionage, or in detection of crime. : We believe the investigation is essential and that Sen.ator Wheeler and his fellow-members of the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee would direct it fairly. The investigation of wire tapping should disclose to what extent, if any, the FBI has abused its power and invaded civil rights. That is something which the American people have a right to know—something they must know in order that their liberties may be secure, ~ And they need to know about the use of wire tapping’ ~ and similar devices in any field and for any purpose, public or private. Wire tapping has been outlawed by Congress and condemned ,by the Supreme Court. Wherever it is going on, in or outside the Government, it should be exposed and stopped.

AND WOULDN'T THAT BE AWFUL? : GENATOR PEPPER of Florida, in making what he thought was an argument against continuing and enlarging the Hatch Act, uttered this ominous warning:

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_/ “If the argument made by the proponents of this legis- |

lation prevails, and we pass it, we had just as well get ready

~ the greatest curtailment and restriction of Federal exten- _ sion that we have seen in a long time in this country.” ~ (Congressional Record, March 7, 1940,)

AFTER 111 YEARS MANY a Presidential candidate’s wife has suffered from the malicious tongues of her husband’s enemies, and none more bitterly than did Rachel Donelson Jackson. When she married Andrew Jackson in 1791 they believed that her first husband, a Captain Robards, had divorced her in Virginia, The Virginia Legislature, however, had not acted to make the decree final. When it did act) two years later, Andrew and Rachel were married a second time. That was the sole basis for the ugly slurs against Rachel's character which grieved the devoted couple all their lives, which caused the fiery Jackson to fight a duel with one of her detractors and which burst into slanderous fury in the Presidential campaign of 1828. Her death in December of that year was hastened by distress over the As a measure of belated recognition, Democratic womof Tennessee are petitioning Congress to let them place a ait of Rachel Jackson, paid for by popular subscription, ong those of the First Ladies in the White House galleries.

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British Business zz (By William Philip Simms Business Manager : :

| ~~ Trade by Demanding Dellars for

| dem, when selling ruooer, tin, jute, whisky and a

to buy a large order of American automobiles, type-

- dealers, he now faces the necessity of cancelling or

England Aims Another Blow at U. S.

Goods Sold to the Latin Americas.

= 7 ASHINGTON, March 13.—Despite the Neutrality Act and our 300-mile no-war belt, backlashes|

off our hides with exasperating frequency. ' These backlashes are not all accidental or even incidental. Some are the result of deliberate policy. And, to date, one of the chief offenders happens to be Great Britain, on whose side public opinion in this country has been rooting from the outset. : Her latest is to cut the ground from under Amer ican trade in Latin America by insisting on being paid in dollars for certain British commodities imported by the Latin nations, thus reducing a supply already far too small to take care of American

imports. Here is the way it works. A skort time ago-I was

in Lima, Peru. An American mission was down there for the purpose of modernizing Peru’s naval establishment. The plans called for expenditure of several million dollars for electrical equipment and other machinery—American machinery. But the whole thing had to be sidetracked and partially abandoned because Peru simply could not get hold of enough dollar exchange.

ss a 8 z O a greater or lesser degree, the same thing is true in each of the 20 republics below the Rio Grande. There is a big demand for American goods, but nowhere is there enough exchange. Now Great Britain has acted to complicate the situatign still further. A new order stipulates that on and after March 25 all exporters in the United King-

whole list of things to the Americas, whether North or South, must demand payment in dollars. Presumably payment could also be made in Swiss francs, belgas or other free currencies, but these exist in Latin America only in dribbles. Dollars will bear the brunt. If Senor Don Antonio of Rio de Janerio, wants

writers, agricultural! implements and what not, alse some much-needed rubber, jute and tin from British

reducing his American purchases. He cannot find enough dollar exchange to pay for both. In some cases American holders of South American bonds are not being paid either interest or principal for similar reasons. # ” 8

HE purpose ef the dragnet now being thrown out L to haul in the dollars is twofold. First, Britain needs all the sound money she can get to fight the war. Second-—but 3 mighty close second--she intends to keep her peacetime trade going as near normal as possible. | Thi$ is not the first time Britain’s trade measures have hurt the United States. One of her first acts was to cut down imports eof American tobacco, seriously erippling the/ growers’ of this country, in order te buy more from Turkey. Similarly, she is buying more cotton from Brazil. Fruit and other American produets have been hit. The United States is subsidizing the British war effort by numerous indirections. Washington buys all the gold offered by the British Empire at $35 an ounce. Meanwhile the Bank of England still carries her stock at $20.67 an ounce, and the cost of producing it averages far below that. While American sympathy is overwhelmingly proAlly, it could turn sour under sufijcient provocation.

$ (Westbrook Pegler is on vacation)

Inside Indianapolis The Status of H. S. Basketball:

And the Horowitz Practice Session

HAT with all the excitement about the state high school basketball tourneys, it’s only fair ‘to remind those of you who haven't peen watching glosely that this year’s shindig doesn’t wind up until Mareh 30th.. They're to hold four ‘semi-final tournaments this week-end. There are 16 teams left in competition. The four tournaments are in Muncie, Vincennes, An-

derson and Logansport. The experts say it's between Bouth Side of Ft. Wayne and Kokomo at Muncie and between Washington and Lynnville at Vincennes. At Anderson, they say Rushville snd North Vernon have all the class. And at Logansport, they think Logan has the edge. They all play in the afternoon (two games in each city) and then the two winners play at night. That will leave only four teams and then all they have to do until the 30th is practice for the big windup in Butler's Fieldhouse. -

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VLADIMIR HOROWITZ, Toscanini’s favorite pianist and, incidentally, son-in-law, chose to play two Debussy Etudes for his Indianapolis audience the other evening. . . , It’s satire on five-finger exercises. . . . He was doing very well, too, when the lady sitting behind our Mr. Thrasher blurted out: “Why, he’s only practicing!”, . . Speaking of musie, Bomar Cramer asked his pupils to select some pieces from a list of 191 compositions. . . . One 8-year-old boy took “The Bumble Bee,” “The Little White Donkey,” and “Gold Fish.”. . , And, typically enough, the boy's, 15-year-old sister chose “Charleston,” “Tango,” and “Minuet.”. . . It just goes to show you the problems you have in keeping the youngsters happy. s 8 = ; TWO MEMBERS OF THE CUSTODIAN'S staff at the Federal Building spend their whole time cleaning the 2300 lamp globes in the building. . . . month they start the business all over. . . . Latest of the big weekly magazines to devote some space to Mr. McNutt is the Saturday Evening Post. . . . Mr. Alva Johnston does the job, saying: “Every student of civics admits that the Hoosiers excel all others in political genius, yet Indiana has had only one President. The trouble seems to be. that, ih the time an Indiana statesman wins national ention, he is worn out by Indiana polities.”. . Yes, Mr, Johnston's y Te

article can critical. article can he called slightly

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson i

‘Ji VER since I can remember I've heard it said tha every mother ought -to teach her daughters to be good homemakers. The preachers remind us, too, that every Christian should observe the Ten Commandments; we know it, only nobody keeps them, The same goes for this mother-daughter homemaking business. Only about one mother in ten thou. sand succeeds in handing over a pluperfect wife to a husband's arms. The best that most of us can do is to hope our words and lessons will take effect at the proper time; that some miracle will happen so that Bertha or Helen or Mary 8 passable housekeeper. Which she generally does—if she keep. For that is where the rub comes in, Most girls aren't any too sure that homemaking is their| RINE. In ‘other ware cg Se coer other ways, competition is fierce in the business world vs I believe, in training themselves To be 8

“Old Hickory” might have been too proud to ask it, but

may develop finally into|

The Hoosier Forum

I wholly disagree with what you say, but will

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

‘CLAIMS LACK OF GOOD LOW-PRICED HOUSES By V. A. I have just read a ‘letter captioned “Let's Be Consistent.” If there ever

‘was real unbiased truth, it was writ-'

ten by the author of that letter. We are newlyweds, yet my husband’s salary is small. We would like a decent home with conveniences as well as anyone, but how can we ever gét to first base when there are no decent low-priced houses? It just can’t be done. Oh, well. I guess it would be better for poor people to stay single. 2 8 =

SAYS WAGE LABOR IS LEAST IMPORTANT By James R. Meitzler, Attica, Ind. If those who present the formula that labor produces all, by labor mean wage labor, they should so qualify the term and thus clarify their position. For there are many other forms of labor and wage labor in the lower brackets is the least important of all. Mr. Haupt in his elaboration of workmen A and B outlined correct ly the making of a capitalist, and, on his own presentation, that capitalist’s labor and capital was a far more impertant item in the creation of wealth than all the wage workers he Spleyen Without him to manage and his saved labor in the form of tools and material, there would be neither jobs, wages nor wealth created. Furthermore, the capitalist could go on living on his own labor and capital but the poor wage worker could not exist without some capitalist to provide for him. r Nor does Government create wealth without capital. It borrows capital or confiscates it by taxation, The assessors appraise property and a percentage is ordered paid in. The sales tax takes a percentage of our capital when we buy gasoline. Our incomes, potential capital, are mulcted by taxes of from % to 79 per cent. Soviet Russia simply killed the capitalists and took their property. And that plainly is the intention of those who to justify their act claim they

‘are the sole and only producers of

wealth. : But when they have taken over the factories, farms, stores, where will they get the brains or industry to operate them? Not out of the 10,000,000 that for

10 years have proved themselves|opini

helpless to produce even one good

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meal and have existed all that time on the commodities provided by the good-for-nothing capitalists ” & # HAS KIND WORD FOR HORSE AND BUGGY DAYS By Harrison White

We today are inclined to puff ourselves because of our modern egotism and discount the so-called “horse and buggy days,” not realizing and giving credit for all the good things that we have from that era, the days when people generally were Living in the height of Chris. tian morals. The mind is like a radio in that it will receive only in the pitch in which it vibrates. In the horse and buggy days the people vibrated in waltz time—“In Old Vienna,” “The Blue Danube,” “The Merry Widow” and all popular songs in waltz time. And to show how the people's lives of the future are governed by suggestions of ‘the past, it was then someone wrote a song “Let the Women Do the Work.” So we are relinquishing our horse and buggy day advancement, inven-

now swing: And you turn on your radio and hear beautiful old hyms played to “swing” . . . There is now onjy one step to the tom-toms and paint. 5 :

2 5" SAYS JOHNSON FORGETS HIS “DICTATOR” DAYS

By Fussy eh I read all the columns in The Times and regard them all as interesting. One column I always read with special interest is Gen, Johnson's. He can go back in history and gather .interest from politics that is “colorful.” And he can look ahead into our political future and tell us who our next President will be. He can give us a complete reproduction. of the Roosevelt Adainistration, with emphasis on its failures and curses on the “ism” department of the U. 8. But I have yet to find a golumn in which he denounces the onetime administrator of the NRA, Gen. H. 8. Johnson. He was in Akron about a year and a half ago to make a speech titled '‘Dictatorship.” He vigorously denounced all dictators and their systems. But Hugh 8, had forgotton the time he was nursing the NRA baby, When he called all the millionaires together and told (tried to tell) them what they, had to do, and when to do it. When they thumbed their noses at him he perspired and became angry at them for defying their “dictator.” He has been building rose (trellises around - our No. 1 dictator, John Lewis, Two of 8 kind. They don't believe in dictatorships, unless, of course, they theme lves happen to be the great. a

tive genius and Christian morals—| gictator

for what? . . the “Cake Walk” came out in the Nineties and how the folks fell for it? Then came “The Rag.” It was then they sang “Everybody’s doing

. Remember when|

Johnson thinks Roosevelt should be defeated but knows he will win. Well, this is a democracy and the mandate of the people rules, so if

it, doing™, doing it.” ‘Then jazz;

the majority of the people want Roosevelt, why not? » ;

New Books at the Library ;

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Y\/2ETHER they look upon us with admiration, contempt,

envy, disapproval or merely amuse-| things

ment, we Americans welcome this opportunity to learn about ourselves as seen by 15 foreign correspondents representing leading publicain Europe, Latin America, China and Japan. “You Ameri~ (Funk), edited by B. P. Adams, is the compilation of these

_ The sum of their impressions is

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that the real America is “sll kinds of Americans living in all sorts of ; the most thrilling pageant yet created on this t.” One observer thinks that “Americans gs : She Jost Unplediciapis unreand unexp e people in the world.” = ® perp i Obviously, ' America cannot impress Mira Gavrilovitch, Jugoslav feminist leader, as it does Pete Stanstol, ex-boxer from Oslo, The opinions of our critics are as varied as the backgrounds from which they come. One gentleman of the press claims that “there is nothing uniform about the country save a common language and the same flag,” ro ot rae st detects the “feel” a ed people in AmerAnd again, where one journalist writes that apparent] ican woman is “either divorced or about to be divorced,” another declares, “Actually, of all that I have observed of your ways nothing has touched me more deeply than the love and happiness, the mutual consideration and the spirit of sacrifice which one finds in the average American family.” The editor was wise in knowing that a thinking people invites the criticism of other nations and can laugh with them at its own sbsurdities. = THE THINGS THAT STAY By ROBERT O. LEVELL Some

By Bruce Catton : :

1 rush of a generafion ago. Millions Seek U. S. Jobs

Watch Your Health

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Hatch Act Extension, Labor Board § Reform and Bill Aimed at One-Man * Rule Top Congressional ‘Musts', £9 ASHINGTON, March 13.—There are. three hot potatoes in this Congress . . . (1) the Hatch bill extensions to prevent political activity in State administrative departments disbursing funds... (2) the Smith committee's sug n to get rid of the present National Labor Re 3 Board, d, appoint a new one, prevent it from being both prosecutor and judge and make it impartial rather than a pressure

bureau to force a particular form of organization on

labor whether it wants it or not . . . (3) the WalterLogan bill to give quick, easy and in ve relief from fsarism J $he growing maze eo governments by ing them ce constitutional EY authority without the ne-

cessity of long and prohibitively expensive court procedure. : Sn RL S150 All three need attention. This is so clear that even

| their opponents hardly question it. The direction of

the abuses in all three cases trend toward political coercion and perpetuation of the party in power, toward arbitrary personalized government away from the stability of government by law and toward the caprice and tyranny of government by men with few statutory limits on their discretion. 15 ss 8 8 An T is true that a part of the opposition is from the minority party and fo that extent sounds like building up campaign material: and is tinged with

| partisanship. But that sound and taint are com-

pletely offset by the fact that standing alone that

group is so far in the minority as to be futile. In every case, the sponsors and the strength of the sup porters are Democrats. . ; But they are Democrats who, for the most part, are not radical and extreme New Dealers. There are notable exceptions, but the latter clique in Congress is almost a unit in rabid and uncompromising opposi=

tion. ; i It isn’t a pretty picture. This is largely the bunch that clamors for a third term for Mr. Roosevelt and who are so out of touch with their own party that they could hardly expect to survive in politics: if he doesn’t get it. They are the clique which has claqued for extreme donations of power to the executive at the expense of Congress, the courts and the states. ; 2 nn 8 : 5 pre generally they are men who, from their actions, seem to be dissatisfied with our tradi« tional form of government and want to take it apart and put it together again on some model more in the direction of the personalized governments of Europe than in that of democracy we have known in this country. SA a : Opposition to the two other me ‘gre difficult enough to defend from the traditi American viewpoint but the fight against Senator Hawhs proposal plainly boils down to this—that they to be able to crack down through expenditure of Federal money in the states to influence elections in accordance with their own views and to take advantage of their incumbency in office, thus to perpetuate themselves or their associates. is can't possibly be-described as anything less than evil, Nothing has done more credit to Mr. Roosevelt-than his support of the principles of Senator Hatch's proposals, {0 : It is different in degree and detail, but the opposition to the other two to end the tyrannical

partisanship of the Labor Board and to regulate personalized government in the bureaus—is cut from the ‘same cloth, decency.

Grand Coulee

All three are proposals for political

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Plans Being Worked Out to Settle 500,000 in Reclaimed Western Area.

VN ASHINGTON, Match 13.~-Although it will be more than two years before anybody moves in, elaborate preparations for a vast migration of peoples to the Grand Coulee basin are being made now. Eventually, the area made fertile by Grand Coylee water will provide homes for half a million. What is going on now is a huge study to make sure that the settlement will be orderly and will be handled in the wisest possible manner. nets : : The study is being made by a committee sponsored by the Bureau of Reclamation. In it are all sorts of public and private agencies—represeritatives of the Department of Agriculture, of the Army engineers, of the Washington State Planning Council and state college, of local chambers of coimnmerce; irrigation dis. tricts, highway commissions, and so. ef. Big point the committee agrees on is that there'll be no rush about the job; the whole thing likely will take 30 years, maybe longer. Probability is that the area will be developed in blocks, a little at a time; there'll be nothing resembling the Oklahoms land

majority of the

President Roosevelt has said &

| settlers ought to come from the Dust Bowl migrants.

Whatever is done about that, only about a third of the 500,000 inhabitants will be on farms; past experience on reclamation projects indicates that when one family takes up a farm, two other families get oppor tunities in city and town. ~~... Incidentally, past experience in settling Dust Bowl migrants in Western reclamation areas is being gone over with a fine-tooth comb so mistakes can be avo. er CAN es i & . 8 8 SIRT ‘Civil Service Commissioners are beginning to wonder if the whole population wants to work fop Uncle Sam. During the past yesr they have received approximately 2,500,000 letters inquiring gbout jobs~not work relief; real civil service jobs. "One queer angle

is the number of letters from women who figure a

® war is coming and say they'd be glad to take the jon

of the young postman,

for instance, so as to release

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By Jane Stafford Tai NE of the. ailments which doctors now believe is due to lack of vitamin A in the diet is the skin condition called “gqose-skin” or “toad-skin.” Dryness of the skin and ‘some itching accompany the condition, which affects the calves and thighs of the legs particularly. It is likely to be found fairly frequently in Umder-privileged school children, Drs. Edward Lehman and Howard G. Rapaport, of New York City, believe asa result of their experience with several cases reported to the American Medical

Association. zl 1a Vitamin A is the vitamin associated with yellowcolored foods, because its chemical ancestor is the pigment, carotene, which gives the yellow color to many plants. Carrots and butter are two yellow foods that are especially rich in vitamin A content. Other yellow vegetables, and green ones, too, contain fhe Viana and liver is another good food source Children with “toad-skin” recover completely

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‘almost completely when treated with doses of- vitamin:

A and nothing else, the New York doctors report. This constitutes convincing proof, they point out, that lack of the vitamin is the cause :