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MONDAY, MARCH 18, 1940

SAUCE FOR THE GANDER ‘HERE seems to be some question whether the Bankhead " amendment to the Hatch bill—outlawing individual campaign contributions larger than $5000—may not possibly open the gate for corporation gifts to political funds. Senator Bankhead says it does not do so. Certainly that was not his intention. But the language of the amendment to say the least, is confusing. And the point should be cleared up before the Senate takes its final vote on the Hatch bill, . “ The Corrupt Practices Act, for many yedrs a Federal T Situte forbids any corporation to make any political con- ~ tribution of any amount whatever. It is a good law, based ~ on the sound public policy that the officers of a corporation ~ should not be permitted to spend stockholders’ money for ~ political ends. That law should not be weakened. * And if the Bankhead amendment does weaken it—as has been - charged—to the extent of permitting corporation contributions up to $5000, then the amendment should be corrected. Moreover the same idea should be pressed to its logical conclusion by forbidding political contributions from laborunion treasuries. Just as a corporation’ s money is the . property of the stockholders, so does a labor union’s meney " belong to the dues-paying members. And union officers, no less than corporation officers,. should be restrained from - playing politics with other people’s money. Perhaps it is too late for the Senate to make that change. But we hope it*will be seriously considered when the House starts work on the Hatch bill.

DENTAL CENTENNIAL HE dentists of America are celebrating the 100th anniversary of their profession. Today, some 5000 of them will gather in Baltimore to commemorate the founding of the world’s first dental School-the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery. There are moments when we do not love our dentist, yet the world owes great gratitude to this century-old profession. Long before 1840, of course, dental surgery was practiced, but it was a pretty rude art. Teeth were pulled by main strength, without benefit of anesthetics. The artificial substitutes provided were awkward ‘and unsightly. The medical schools refused to give adequate instruction in dentistry, and many of its practitioners were little better than skilled blacksmiths. > Rapid changes for the better followed the establishment of the Baltimore school. In 1844 a dentist, Dr. Horace Wells, became the first man to make surgical use of an anesthetic, nitrous oxide. In 1846 another dentist, Dr. William T. G. Morton, demonstrated the value and use of ether. We could fill columns with bare mention of the achievements by members of this profession, through their researches, their societies and their publications. In 100

P years they have done more to prevent, relieve and cure the

ills to which human teeth are heir than had been done previously in all the centuries since Pliny advised those who would avoid toothache to eat two whole mice each week. Yes, we admire the dentists, and we're thankful for what the pioneers of their profession started in Baltimore.

WHAT LAW?

T may be argued reasonably, and we will agree, that New Hampshire's Senator Tobey is unwise in intimating that citizens should refuse to answer the family-income questions in the 1940 census. It is a very different thing for Secretary of Commerce Hopkins to call the Senator’s attitude “un-American” and for President Roosevelt to accuse Mr. Tobey of openly advising the people “to violate the law.” : 3 As the Senator asks, “What law? Fie Congress did not determine what specific questions should be asked in the census. It delegated authority to do that to the Census Bureau, providing only that questions

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must be restricted to certain subjects, including unemploy- |

ment. ‘Any reasonable person,” says Secretary Hopkins, “knows that wage income is the best possible measure of employment and unemployment.” That is Mr. Hopkins’ opinion, backing up the census Bureau’s opinion that the income questions are within the restrictions imposed by Congress and so must be answered, under penalty of law. And Mr. Hopkins is entitled to his opinion. : But so is Senator Tobey entitled to his dbinion that the income questions go beyond the restrictions imposed by ~ Congress; that in asking them the Census Bureau exceeds its legal authority, and that the law does not require citizens to answer them. We happen to agree with Mr. Hopkins that the. census questions are all right. But we don’t consider it un-American for Senator Tobey to disagree with Mr. Hopkins and with us. Indeed, his fight against what he considers an abuse ‘of bureaucratic authority seems more nearly in. the American tradition than the angry contention that an administrative ruling is law and must be obeyed because Mr. Hopkins and the Census Bureau believe that Congress gave them authority to make that ruling. ‘We think Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Hopkins can most effectively defend the census questions if they will stop attacking Senator Tobey’s Americanism and’ concentrate on answering his objections. ew

FARLEY AND THE SOUTH N an era when rogues the world over are making political capital out of religious bias, a contrary note is kind to the ear.

We see by Frederick William Wile’s. Washington column that Frank R. McNinch of North Carolina will support Jim Farley for the Presidency if Jim wins the Democratic nomination. The point is that in 1928 Mr. McNinch, a Presbyterian and a dry, led the revolt against Al Smith that put North Carolina in the Hoover column. . Mr. Farley's chances of nomination don’t look so hot at che ‘moment, but it’s a pleasure to hear a prominent SouthDemocrat put religious intolerapce i in its place,

Nazi Outlook By William Philip Simms Present Sit-Down . Tactics

- Germany, Former Berlin University Economist Now at Stanford, Says.

ASHINGTON, March 18—1t has been suggested by this correspondént that “the present brand of warfare is playing into the hands of Adolf Hitler.” Today a German expert corroborates that view. In the spring issue of “Foreign Affairs,” just published, Prof. Karl Brandt, formerly of the University

the present “sit-down” tactics in Europe favor the Nazis. Germany, says Dr. Brandt, iv blockade-proof for at least two years, if the present type of war continues.. And as a former professor of agricultural economics in Berlin he should be in a. position to know both the strength and the weakness of the Reich’s position under siege. . Here are some of his observations: Germany’s food problem is not as serious as generally believed. It is not as bad today as it was 1914. Farmers are producing more grain and grass, sugar beets, potatoes, milk and pork than ever before. Whereas only 75 per cent of Germany’s food requirements were produced at home at the outset of the World War, she is now producing 87 per cent. Foed “js the dictator’s least cause yi headache.” . » sURTHERMORE, “no Fiera financial dilemma will wreck the Nazi machine.” Those who expect Germany to go bankrupt are guilty of “complacent self-deception.” Though the national debt will prob-

one year’s national income,” it will not interfere with the Reich's ability to last out a long war. mans are accustomed to huge levies on wages in the form of “saving script,” the exchange of new bonds for old, and similar juggling of their fWhances. Economically and financially, Germany's weak points “are her import requirements and the means at. her disposal to pay for them.” Only 65 per cent of the raw materials which she needs are produced in territory under her dontrol. With the exception of copper—largely replaceable by aluminum—her European neighbors can supply her with most of the ores and metals required. With regard to cotton, wool and other fibres Germany’s production of artificial substitutes ‘has reached the point where, with careful rationing, she can do without imports from overseas. The same applies to rubber.

ERMANY’S most tical 2 vortage, Prof. Brandt continues, is in petroleum and its derivatives. Of the 8,000,000 tons consumed in the last year before the outbreak of the war, she produced a bare 3,500,000 tons, -including substitutes. The rest she had to import. If that was her peacetime basis, war on the 1917-18 scale would require from 12 to 20 million tons. And this, he indicates, would be difficult if not impossible to find. Russia, says Dr. Brandt, will not be much help. She can’t fill her own needs. Even were it otherwise, both her .own and Germany’s railway systems would be unable to handle tany such largesscale movement of oil. 3 Oil, then, Dr. Brandt suggests, may be the Nazis’ Achilles heel. The professor's conclusion is that much depends on the nature of the war in the months ahead. If the Allies play Germany's sit-down game, the cogflict may last a long time. Nevertheless, he adds, she will lose in the end. “In the third or fourth’ year the British and French Empires will be able to crush the Nazis by superior military power.” (Westbrook Pegler is on vacation)

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Inside Indianapolis The Communist Rale in Indiana; And the Coming Chefs and Bakers

HERE is a good deal of activity among several

Communist Party thrown off the State election ballot. Feeling:about the thing has gotten so high that last week a Communist sympathizer who attempted to get the floor at a club meeting was booed down. In 1936, the Indiana electiom figures showed: Democrats Roosevelt) ...ccvveveeeee. 934,974 Republicans (Li Landon) sivas seoneeess 591.570 Union (Lemke) \ 19.407 Socialist (Thomas) 3.856 Communist (Browder) 1,090 * In 1938, the Indiana election figures were: Democrats ‘(VanNuys) 2 Republicans (Willis) ....... Prohibition (Seegar) Socialist (Roebuck) Communist (Blansett) : Which might indicate, you see, that there are a great: many more people trying to get the Commu-

nists. ” ” ”

School, more than 60 are boys, who plan fo become hotel or restaurant cooks. . . . Ten of the boys are taking baking. . . . The girls, on their side, are taking such courses as printing and mechanical oven work. . . . Mrs. Merwyn G. Bridenstine, 520 Berkely Rd.,, has made the Congressional Record with an article she wrote for the League of Women Voters on “Indiana and the Trade Agreement Program,” . . » At 54th St. a sign says “sandwitches,”, on Massachusetts Ave. it’s “sanwiche,” and on lower Meridian St. we saw one saying “sandwhich. Mies «NOW we're confused. 8 8 8 A WELL-KNOWN LOCAL BOOKIE, put out of the business here by the gentleman called the G-Men, went to Florida to establish a tip” service for his Indianapolis clients. Each day he wired a “hot thing” to the inner circle. The admonition to “Get on heavy” appeared frequently in his messages. Late last week the tipster wired the inner .circle: “Please send me $100 to get home.” The inner circle couldn't help. You see, they had ‘been following - the “Get on heavy” signs and there wasn't $10 in ‘the crowd, not to mention $100. Just add to the hitchhikers.

A ‘Woman’ s Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

LAST word on the controversy about American vs. foreign women comes from Mrs. Paul Isbell of Denver. It's a letter so full of good sense I think

you'll enjoy it. .Here goes: “I am much interested in the general disagreement with the correspondent who finds American women infantile in their attitudes toward Ife. I don’t think our critic means that. Probably because of travel and study she has developed her ‘inner self’ far beyond her years, forgetting that America is young and that our women retain the youthful outlook. ‘ “Time, experience and suffering will wear down the rough edges of American womanhood.. Soon we shall have to turn from the ‘purely personal—the I, ‘me and mine’—existence to a more universal and impersonal. attitude. “I have known several English women—have been charmed by their reifnement,. their ‘quiet poise and their wholesome appreciation of the little things, which is very becoming to femininity. I am think-

| ing particularly of two English sisters, spinster ‘li-

brarians in en Alaskan port city, whose Sundays are occupied with a tramp through the island wooded

in which they seem to see all the beauty and completeness of a universe. They never miss the awe of an Alaskan sunset, the grace of a boat gliding into port, and their closest friends are the ‘philosophers and poets with whom many of us have only a nodding acquaintance, They find happy contentment

strife and turmoil of this ‘go-getter world’ of ours. “To me they are. two ‘of. the luckiest, richest women I know because they've learned the secret of quiet contentment, true inner living. “That is what we: American women are really searching for, although we do look for it sometimes in the darndest places. But Je are ‘young. ° We haven't soundeg our depths. ‘ a

Favor

of Berlin and now of Stanford University, writes that

ably reach “at least 80 billion marks, or just about| Ger-|

local groups at the moment aimed at getting the|

nists tossed off the ballot than there are Commu-|

WE'VE JUST DISCOVERED THAT of the 1493! pupils enrolled in home economics at Tech High|

country in search of flowering dogwood, ferns, etc.,|

in their work and seem utterly detached from the|

A "NICE PAIR OF SHOE STRINGS

The Hoosier Forum

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

LAUDS PRESIDENTIAL AMBITIONS OF M'NUTT By Geo. D. Smith

A number of correspondents and magazine writers seem to think it a

erime Paul V. McNutt decided when he was a boy that his goal was to be the office of President of the United States. I have always heard this was commendable in a young person, to aim high. Would that more of our young people had/ this ambition. ” 2 = CLAIMS LIBERAL POLICY ABANDONED BY TIMES By Henry K. Norton, Svilivan For nearly eight years I have paid a newsboy each week for your paper. From Roosevelt's first inauguration in March, 1933, up until about two years ago, you consistent-

ly fought the battles of the people. There was no taint of Liberty League, Union League or Wall Street in your editorials or articles. But about two years ago, your liberal subscribers were surprised to note a tone of Bourbonism and Toryism in your editorials. In place of Harry Elmer Barnes, you introduced Hugh Johnson and Westbrook Pegler. You lined up with Ernest T. Weir and Tom Girdler and William. Greén against Franklin D. Rooosevelt and Harold Ickes and

John L. Lewis.

You have joined Hoover as a high priest of rugged individualism. You condemn regimentation, forgetting ‘that in 1933 the United States: Chamber of Commerce recommended the regimentation of

‘the NRA to save the big industfial-

ists and the bankers and insurance companies. In your attacks. on the Labor Board which has been liberating labor from the cruel and greedy clutches of a despotic capital, you have left the high company of Senator Wagner and Senator Norris and joined the Dies-Smith-Cox-Hoffman-Starnes red-baiters whose patriotism consists of turning the clock back to the days of Mark Hanna, Boise Penrose. and Jim Watson. 3 Here in this coal-mining community, we went through the agonies of four years of Hoover, then. we felt the warm rays of the New Deal sun. But again we are feeling the blighting effects the

policy of retrenchment demgnded

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

by the Garner-Burke-Taft-Vanden-berg bloc. And we are sorry to see The Indianapolis Times on the side of the Gannetts, Hearsts, McCormicks and Annenbergs. ah : ” 2 2 : THINKS ROOSEVELT’S DEFEAT 18 CERTAIN By James M. Gates This is an answer to Mr. J. H. Wilson of Pittsboro. I realize it will take a united effort to stop Roosevelt; it will be done and this is no idle dream. Mr, Wilson thinks everybody is prosperous and happy under the New Deal. He is very badly mistaken. Roosevelt will be stopped like Bryan was on three different occasions; altheugh he had a crown of thorns and a cross of gold to work on, that is not all. He will be stopped by ballots of G. O.P. and thousands of loyal Democrats, who will put country above party, who are disgusted with waste and extravagance of the New Deal. Alfred E, Smith, -ex-Governor of New York, says, “He will ‘take a walk.” John Lewis of-the C, I. O. says, “He has been betrayed after putting several thousand dollars in the New Deal campaign fund.” Taxpayers and business will do their duty when the time com Farmers are not satisfied with a mere existence; many of their boys and girls work in the cities in order to make a living. Mr. Wilson says the - ‘people now pay their taxes. There are 12 to 15 newspaper pages of delinquent taxes every year for

Marion County. The low prices Mr.

Wilson quotes - under Hoover—we had the same vader Cleveland, only worse. Coolidge was right. He did not want a third term. He said; “I do not choose to run.” Both old parties have had one Roosevelt too many. Theodore Roosevelt of G. O., P. Franklin Delano Roosevelt of the New Deal.

Side Glances—By Galbraith

You think 3 you're y smart just bstavte: you road iq ty den’ t even know how, to pick nr H

FLAYS SECRET VOTE ON FINNISH AID By Lyle Bristow In theory we have & representative form of government, We elect politicians to Congress to legislate in the interests of the erican people. Instead, they reduce relief appropriations: under the guise of economy, and resort to the subterfuge of increasing the capital of the Export-Import Bank so money can be lent to China and Finland. Foreigners must be fed, but hungry Americans must tighten up their belts. And the politicians, notorious cowards that they are, refuse to take a record vote of their unAmerican legislation, knowing full

well that their actions are er]

ta the interests of the majority of their constituents. The political government of these United States stinks to high heaven. : 8 % 8

URGES PLAN TO SPUR °

MONEY CIRCULATION By a World War Vet Today we have a $100 limit of gold per person. - Why can’t we have a limit to savings of moneys and a limit to: wealth per person? This would circulate money and wealth. Money is the blood of the country. When your blood stops circulating you die. That's why this country is dying. This is supposed to be a free country. Money and wealth should not be tied up in the

hands of a few. It should be free|

to circulate. This would wipe out unemployment, depressions, crime and slums and give the 130 million people an equal chance to live, for today life is the cheapest thing on earth. The cause of the last war in Spain was that a few people had .lall the wealth and money and the rest starved as people are doing here. I think this is a better plan than we Townsend Plan. Isn't it sim-

2 2. = SUSPECTS CAMPAIGN HAS, BIPARTISAN CHARACTER By J. H. Baker - . Baymond Clapper in his travels around the country claims the rank and file pubiic is seeming to maintain a very indifferent attitude toward both the Democratic and Republican politicians being groomed and paraded before the national grandstand for approval. In the last campaign I heard on

1 all sides a strong undercurrent of

suspicion regarding the bipartisan character of the campaign. The little tweedle-dee and tweedle-dum infants of Andrew Jackson’s time have become the Roman gladiators of the economic royalists of the most monopolistic’ era in the world's history.

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SPRING CHEER By OLIVE INEZ DOWNING A flash of red in the topmast branch : Of a fuzzy-gowned- willow tree, As the earth awakes at the aureate dawn He warbles in sweet ecstasy. _ Merrily tilting ‘he sings with delight; In the soft wind he gently sways; He raises his beak to the heavens above; And carols his series of lays. Tis ch cardinal fair in ‘his crimson a Calls 10 one notes to trim mate, “So

+ He cunningly peeps from. his jaunty height And whistles—“Come here, Come, ere. ” This flame of vod fits gayly about; He trills his songs most sublime; To the ing world he is quite

attun He pernlis the notes of springtime.

DAILY THOUGHT "And they

- economics.

: Gen. Johnson a

Says—

It's Time U. S. Got Hardbailed, Even to the Suggestion That’ It Is Now Our Duty to Rebuild Finland.

ASHINGTON, March 18—Here are some, “harde

boiled thoughts, that are sure. to get a barrage of dead cats. The writer has accordingly retired to the ‘bomb-proof shelter of a hospitals .

The futile defense of Finland was as fine a chapter

as there is in either military or political history,. skill, valor, loyalty and fortitude—all were there at their highest and best—everything that is meant: by the motto of West Point, “duty, honor, country.”

This column insisted from the beginning that it was hopeless and that Finland would have been wiser. to have accepted Russia’s earlier and milder demands. A glance at thie map will show that the natural dee fenses of her front yard were in the hands of Finland. ' Resistance was hopeless because Finland ' could not overcome the mass of Russian power. Help as a practical matfer was impossible. It was impossible from the Allies for both political and military reasons, It was impossible from us by reason of sheer physical factors of time, space, supply and for the further and controlling reason that—notwithstanding our syme pathy and admiration—that European witches’ caule dron of selfishness, greed, double-crossing and deceit on all sides is and will remain none of our business,

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J NS voices of several great journalists are raised tp say that, since we did not rush in. with force .of arms to save Finland, we should now open the Fed~ -

eral Treasury to rebuild her ruins. That would be both Christian and kind. But, in doing all these noble things that cost billions, we must cut our coat to suit our cloth, There are many other acts of charity and mercy that we could do—if we had the dough. There. is still much suffering in our own country that we haven't cured for lack of

funds. There are many similar good works abroad. If

we have a duty to rebuild Finland, we have a like duty to rebuild shattered Poland and shattered China, That would cost more, but these bleeding hearts seem to think the deed so worthy that we should not count cost. The great generosity of some of them has already strained our debt and taxing power to a limit that has paralyzed the return of prosperity and weakened our defense. Yet that seems not to check the urge. to find other occasions and “obligations” to pour out more of our declining wealth. - EJ ® 8

ENEROSITY is godlike when it means sacrifice

of self for others. But this kind of generosity doesn’t mean that. “Taxes are paid in the sweat of every man who labors,” (Franklin D. Roosevelt). Even the most miserable among us, people on relief and dole are already nicked by hidden and other taxes of at least 20 per cent of all they get. These comfortably situated thinkers of great thoughts get credit for their humanitarian - solicitude, and the poor pay for it,

whether they are’ willing or not—and most of them - -

can’t afford to be willing, - That: suggests a great solution. Let those. whose generosity so burns their bleeding hearts raise the

necessary millions by voluntary .contributions. from .

those of like minds. This is hard-boiled. But if more people don’t get hard-boiled soon we are going to

get into this war not merely with sympathy but with

money, horse: foot, ships and: guns.

Sette] Plane’ Sales By Bruce Catton

Congressional Inquiry Is’ To Develop Sensations, Is. Claim,

ASHINGTON, March 18.—A first-class sensation. is very likely to develop out of the.coming cone .

gressional investigations into French and British pure chases of the U. S. military planes. ; Here are the ingredients, as visible in the capital today: - 1. A brand-new military plane, only recently cone

sidered too, “secret” to be sold abroad, is going to go

to the French in large numbers. The U. 8. Army, ine Sidentally, has net yet begun to get delivery on this plane 2. The French and British, at least up until the announcement of the inquiry, were prepared to spend

a billion on airplanes, although existence of a “bottles.

neck” in production has just been admitted by’ Ase sistant Secretary of War Johnson.

3. Many Army, and Navy officers strongly ‘oppose : -

the sales: but are overruled.. Deals are arranged via the White House. (The Army and Navy, it is reliably

- reported, do not now know. What planes will next be

sold abroad. 4. A hush-hush veil of secrecy has ‘hidden: the en= tire affair for over a year. - An interesting case is that of the Curtis P-40 pure suit ship. A year ago War Department spokesmen told a Senate committee that this ship, above all others, must not be sold abroad. Today Yast ship has been released for sale to the French,' .

Secret Accessories Removed Technically, it is not the P-40; it is to be sold

minus all of its secret accessories, and in that condition is officially known as the 81-A; but it is the same

plane, and it is being sold abroad before the U. S.

Army, for which it was designed, has been able to ge$

production on it. Now it is the secrecy under which the release of this plane was arranged, the fact that the White House can—and, according to reliable report did exercise the Presidential power as commander-in-chief to overrule any Army and Navy protests, and the abandonment of the old policy of keeping all new planes and weapons exclusively for U. S. use until the Army and Navy are thoroughly stocked with them, which has both congressional and military circles badly worried. The Allied purchasers are known to be anxious to get two particular pets of U. S. military aviation—the famous bomb-sight, which is the most prized military

secret on earth today, and the Bell Aircobra, powerful . rear-engined pursuit ship. Some. Army. officers and -

Congressmen are afraid that these two may. follow, the Curtiss fighter over the gangplank to Europe,

Watch Your Health

By Jane Stafford

ERE is a challenger to you ile—and men, too—

who are about to buy a new spring wardrobes “The market offers clothes that can contribute fo. health, but it takes intelligent selection to assemble a 100 per cent healthy wardrobe.” That statement was made recently by Prof. ‘Mure fel Brasie of Cornell University’s ‘college of home Most people, /Prof. Brasie finds, think the answer to how clothes affect health is “wearing your Yubbers when it rains. and ‘bundling when it is cold.” This is- only a partial answer. Clothing affects the Health in five important ways, one of them being through its effect on mental health, Fhe others are: 1—effect on the temperature of the body: 2—mechanical (pressure) effect; 3—effect on cl

and soundness of. the skin; 4—letting in or keeping

out sunlight. The intelligent person who is going to

assemble a 100 per cent healthy wardrobe . this

spring, and other ‘seasons, too, will keep all five points in mind Muring the ‘shopping expeditions. Clothing was probably first worn for -purposes of adornment. Rest 0 only a coat of war-paint or a few feathers.

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