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" 8 TUESDAY, MARCH ho, 1940
EXERCISE EIN GUESSWORK |
(QscIaNGE not being one of our editorial tools, we
will not try to tell you what Hitler ya to Mussolini, or vice versa. But since the constitutional right of guessing is not: confined. to the columnists, we may at least draw: a.straw, | : IF Our guess is that there wast mui ‘peace on that railroad car at Brenn _ peace as a very eventual matter, or of offer as a propaganda device. | Lx Hitler must know that any peace on his terms— | recognition of the new territorial status quo in ‘Europe, and = on to Germany of various areas and privileges out-~ side Europ e—is unthinkable to the Allied governments or Surely he did not rush down to Italy to peddle any
such hop e to 11 Duce.
sarfons talk } of xcept perhaps of impossible pesce
It doe n’t seem likely, either, that Hitler was trying to]
coax Mus lini to come into the war. The Fuehrer is not fool enough to regard Il Duce as a fool. He must know that
Mussolini would net relish commanding a reluctant people
Hl Ttaly may | warring taly, consuming her meager. resources against
to. fight for the STTAnS, ‘whom they: dislike and’ distrust, very 1 well Sve Hitler’s purposes better than a
powers to| which she would be much more exposed and vul-
a nerable than is
. ward Germany—can help ease some of the crucial shortages
factory output and to strangle German exports |
A be evolently neutral | Ttaly—benevolent, that is, to-
that must eventually plague Hitler in any long war. And
that, we may be permitted to guess, was one topic at Bren-
nero. For the Allies have been trying to monopolize Italy’s Ttaly, in order to crack the Axis economically. So the two Caesars may have talked about rape tion and exchange. They als may have had some words about i e Balkéns, where German, Russian, Italian, Turkish and Allied influences and aspirations clash. And on this our guess is that Mussolini not underwrite any German coup upsetting
the delicate political balance’ along and below the Danube.
_ *ANOTHER BATTLE WON
CHAT 58-t0-28 vote by which the Senate passed the new Hatch hill was, | we think, fairly Pepresentatifs of public opinion on this measure.” It was somewhat surprising that the final roll call should show a ratio of better than 2 to 1—especially since several Senators who were on the right side at the windup had been on the wrong side in various votes in the last two weeks on amendments designed to cripple the measure. .And we trust that the same evolutionary process will mark consideration of the bill*in the other House of Congress. Right now some of the wise guys are betting that the bill will never pass the House, even betting that the bill will be pigeonholed in the House Judiciary Committee and never reach the House floor. The so-called wise money
was similarly wagered in respect to the original Hatch | measure last year. But in the end the House passed a bill | 1 ~ stronger than the one the Senate had approved. There is
need for strengthening this bill which the Senate passed. Through all the years we can remember there has been _much talk about the evils of spoils ‘politics. And recently | there has been a tremendous growth of public apprehension
| over: the building - ‘of political machines with public funds.
Now at last, through the Hatch act of last year and this
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| new v bill, Congress is actually doing something to correct
those ‘evils.and quiet that Sfpichelisin, -
IT'S WON DERFUL : AVIN G traveled post haste from Washington to ‘Caliria, Secretary. Ickes has made peace between two
: x factions of pro-Roosevelt Democrats in that state,
; After this we are prepared to believe almost anything. : Mr: Ickes has played many roles, but that of carrier of the
~ olive branch is a brand-new one for him, and those who have
fe “long considered him Donald Duck’s ablest rival may need a
little time to get used to thinking of him as Just, a cooing dove of peace. |
MESSAGE TO INDUSTRY THREE hundred WPA workers in New York City bought * newspaper advertising space the other day lo address ¥a message to private industry.” : “Our salaries are paid by your taxes, but we would refer employment direct by you,” the message said. “Unortupately, there seems to he some misunderstanding about this. . Most of us have found, through bitter experience in | seeking private’ work, [that a record of employment with [the WPA is often construed to indicate lack of character, ability, Initiative or intelligence. | “We believe it is time something was done to dispel this
belief . . . we are unanimously willing and anxious to secure
private employment. We believe that among us you can find the man or woman to fill, to your complete satisfaction, ‘any job which you may have to offer. All we ask
fs
1s
I . | that you give us a chance.”
' Certainly that statement indicates reserve of ch . ‘ability, initiative and intelligence among the men and women who made it. It should, and it probably will,
bring any offers of private jobs to their unofficial “WRA
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employees Placement Association.” We hope it will help to overcome the widespread prejudice against hire Pp Y= sons who have been on WPA. ~ There is bitter irony in the fact that wea, dedica ed to keeping the unemployed fit and ready to return|to| private industry, so often closes the door it is meant| to pry open. |Part of the blame can be-laid to the management of WPA, part. to the cruel jokes about shovelleaners, part to the presence on the rolls of many who are content to egard work relief as a career. But there are any ore who are ‘as eager to get off WPA as any tax‘be to get them off, and an plea for a chance 2s the, paslive, Sympatistis a mtion of private
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4 and eggs, etc. .
Another Munich? |
By William Philip Simms Hitler's Plan May Force Allies Into - Choice Between Attack on
ASHINGTON, March 19. —When Sumner turns his back on the Eternal City this after his journeying to Rome, Berlin, Paris and - don, he will be the bearer of two Sets of war aims
conceive: ~ One set is from Adolf. Hitler.’ It calls 100 a
ating Munich. The other set, from the Allies, i that Hitlerism must go, that the downtrodden states must be restored and a new European system created to insure against similar aggression” in future.
formed diplomats here. For Mr. Welles is keepin his own counsel until he reports back to President velt next week, and the President: is saying noth: ‘Mussolini expected to alter the outlook greatly. On the contrary, some are convinced that Hitler is moving heaven and earth to confront the Allies with
terms or else fighting him when and where the advantages would be on his side. RH so, they say, his
efforts will be in vain. | ar) 2 = » =
four-power bloc composed of ‘Germany, Italy, Russia and Japan. There are rumors that Russia may yet double-cross China as twice before, she dou-ble-crossed the Allies; and come to an understanding with Japan. And there is no longer any doubt that Hitler is bringing new pressure to bear on his Axis partner at Rome. . What it all adds up to is this: Pinland and Scandinavia are already eliminated from thé immediate picture as a battlefield. Germany-can now count o ‘iron ‘ore dnd other supplies” from the north. If Russia get a green light fro Japan—and she probably can if she will withdraw her support from Generali Chiang Kai-shek at Chungking—she will be able to confine her attention to the basin of the Black Sea, A especially the oil fields of Transcaucasia and the grain "belt of thé Ukraine. This would make it hazardous for Turkey to attack. in. the Near East, and if Italy and Russia between them “guaranteed” the Balkans! as well as the; Black Sea region into the war, it would be equally, hazardous for he Allies to go to Turkey's aid. 2» tJ
HE only other way, for the Allies to get at Germany would be via the West Wall But they quite naturally shrink from attacking those supposedly ‘impregnable fortifications. Hitler, therefore, may: be deliberately planning to keep the war the siege it has been from the start. ‘Both military experts and economists say the present
lines laid down at Munich. ” (Westbrook Pegler i is on Visttion)
bloody offensive and a a: peace al
fice here that the (Qleary. family was going to: be creased ‘on none ether than 3t. Patrick’s “Day, that, sure, it would a boy, and, 3 turally enough, would be named Patrick. The town’s movie men turned on the anvil cho and Mr. Tim Cleary has had the “divil of a time of it” this past, few months. We know youll be interested to know that the first St. Patrick's Day baby born at St. Vincent's Hospital came at 5: 49 a. m. The name: Patrick Cleary. 2
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a = . NN ‘ONE OF THE ILLINOIS ST. “stores
. Sunday’s s 3 bells, the bunnies and chicks were & deed. . Overheard near the Odd Fellows cute, 4-year-old, blond, weeping copiously, big traffic officer was giving Mama a sticker for overtime parking. . . . And at a big downtown bank, a woman who couldn’t write making a via the fingerprint method. 2 2 = 3 “DEAR INSIDE,” said the letter, “You might tell that bookstore friend that The Story of Rex, ‘the dog that had diabetes’ is to’ be’ found in| our Stag Lines—The Anthology of Virile Verse. . , ’ Maxwell Droke. ”. . . See, we always find out. . .|. At the Court House: Mr. Otto Ray, | talking earnestly to somebody €lse: “If that guy can get 1200 signatures in two days, I can get 15,000 in two hours.”. . They say Mr. Ray is after ol ther the 8 eriff’s job or Ye Treasurer’s post. 2 { ONE HOUSEWIFE HAS BECOME perturbed by the amount of speeding in her block, 5900 Winthrop. . So lately once or twice she’s walked out into the street and flagged down speeding trucks. .|. are children playing around here,” she down.”, . . August Souchon, the I. A. Cs “chef, is in Bloomington. today, delivering-an address to the Exchange Club there, “Food is’ my business.”. ... At a sneak preview, August produced some elegant crepes suzettes, the meantime singing the “Marseilles” in French. . Quite a show, too. .|. . Spotted on Delaware St: Two new -gray-green Buicks parked’ end. to end and the owner of one of them unable to
A Woman's View oint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson
smile, “the stars keep their hait sowearing out lots of brushes.” - That's all it takes to start me off on another gallop. with Father Time. "With the new * to-give-sheen-to-graying locks” brush, the nightly torture begins. - One hundred slow, even strokes. Arms aching, head sore, “let’s not bother about ing now,” whispers the inner woman and off to bed I go. But next day a new kind of unguent is sure to come to hand—it may be cleansing oil or beauty balm
ways the same. “Nothing can possibly do any good,” coo the dispensers, “unless you use it regularly.” L promise. For weeks not an evening passes that doesn’t see me as greasy “as buttered toast. ‘Then there’s the waistline; quite bulky, the mirror . shows it. So exercises are certainly in order. “And what about your hands?” demands the manicurist. “You uld really have some of this new lotion, After a ‘week youll see a wonderful improvement.”
uty columnist. “The lines of age under your chin Sanus disguised, no matter how unwrinkled the face ma ” i “You're telling us” retorts my reflection.. And tak-
tions. “Stand in front of your mirror. Look before you leave. Get yourself pulled together and then sally forth armied with self-confidence and urance”—is
know. But it doesn’t work' in my case. One long look into the mirror and Bfsanes & Jaks wings. ' The blandishments of the San real’ balm in Gilead. | heart with dreams. ‘And the wrote that “Hope springs ‘eternal . breast” must: have ‘been touched by of holding the forts
11 the feminine t who once the human Ie rophetic visions
‘West Wall or a Negotiated Pea el
in the| Such, at any rate, is the ‘unqualified opinion of in-|
Nor is the sensational meeting between -Hitler end
‘now :
a choice between accepting peace virtually on his own| .
peer of his! plan is said to be the formation of al,
om being dragged)
type of sniping or “sit-down” war is to her advantage. |
| nopoly| capitalisn
“YN Hollywood,” said the salesman with a beguiling : autiful by
ranteed-|
Id cream-| .
-or rose-petal paste—and . complexion worries start| again.. The directions with these palliatives are al-|
“Don’t neglect your neck,” warns my favorite|'
ing a deep breath, the oldish-looking person in the! looking glass and myself make new and better resolu- |
the cheering promise of the women. who claim to| }
en are the.
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AMomply’ io She Fhe Would Indicate That, 5 z
chief G-Man Hoover.
A signed column by W. K. Hute
“| directly quotes
"The Hoosier Forum
1 wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right t to say it.—Voltaire,
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SEES HATRED FOREIGN =| TO AMERICAN IDEALS By Mrs. W. A. Collins > The Easter season should bring peace, joy and contentment to all people. ; How can any mam serch his conscience and find peace who preaches or teaches hatred of any creed or race when God, taught only love? “Love thy Lord, love Thy neighbor, love Thy enemy.” These United States were built on that principle, uhdersianding, faith and love. How many teaching these “isms? would willingly go to Russia. Germany, Italy or any other foreign nation to build a permanent home? I'd stake my life on their answer. Not one. Still they preach and teach their rotten, worn out, darkage | doctrines to people who pro-
fess to be intelligent.
Social Justice, Christian Fronts, Bunds, Nazi, Silver Shirts, Ku-Klux
‘Klan .or any other dastardly organ-
ization making attacks on the nation or people who gave the . freedom should be rebuked. s/ nation and people God has blessed abundantly because we lived like brothers regardless of creed or color. I pledge myself to combat all principles not in accord with American ideas; to help keep the Constitution the most noble and intelligent document ever written, and to keep the Stars and Stripes waving over a nation God has blessed imetstiarly in heim and peace.
SAYS VOICE OF CROWD’ S
LABOR VIEW ANTIQUATED By Voice from Labor Voice the Crowd sounds like “Voice From the Caves.” Certainly, such antiquated views do not typify the “Crowd” of today. The attributes which he ascribes to capitalism apply to capitalism of days gone by. ‘There has been a free competitive capitalism which, by exploitation of labor, turned out its Rockefellers, Guggenheims, Morg and eventually the Tops, Chyryslers: and Girdlers. However, this period of capitalism} has been outlived, which From the Caves’ has not yet discovered. Capitalism of today is mo- : The basic resources and indu stries of the earth are held by menopoly capitalists. The owners own them, generally, by. virtue of the leds of inheritance of
“Voice
(Thmes| 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.)
private property. Caves” brags on capitalism because it made a Ford, implying that. we are all potential Fords under the blessings of capitalism. He completely omits to mention certain other. quite conspicuaqus things which capitalism has brought in its wake. For instance, the seeming endless sit-down strike of a large portion of capital itself, the 10 millions of unemployed during 10 years to date, thousands of evicted farm families, the insecure small businessman and the homicidal wars among capitalist nations. le we
THINKS DOOM OF CAPITALISM IS NEAR By James V. Kent Jr. \ The capitalist system is dying and with a 25-billion-dollar shot in the arm has failed to revive. is is a foredrawn conclusion whic any honest, open-minded student economic facts finds in our p
situation of today. The ond o “the epoch: of the
ent,
New Books at the Library
“Voice From the
{of the present
capitalist system which is about 500 years of old shows its end is near at hand, and that the uppér class, as
well as the masses are too confused
to comprehend or admit what is
going to happen in the near future.
Those who do admit the fact do not realize the magnitude of its conse-
quences. The fatal degeneracy of all societies that are founded on the apis system of production, interest, rent, profit and. the privilege law to the few to exploit, enslave the masses, and the rise of another system of carrying on human life in a humane w ay are the two sides question, confronting the American people today, which I doubt the poli itical ability of the American voter to comprehend. But I will say the death of the capitalist system and the birth of another economic system in its place will have a marked effect on all classes of American. life. The whole | of human, knowledge. of science, art, education, iterature and religion will be: quickly and radically changed :to meet the economic structure of the new: system, whether it be socialist or technocracy. The question of the change in a orderly and peaceful way confronts: the American statesmen of today: Can the change be brought about in
the next 20 years? Or will there|
have to be born statesmen from among the common masses, ~to f| effect the change in our economic system as Lincoln ‘did [to abolish| black feudalism in the Southern states? ]
HIRTY years ago, her admirers in England were - calling Ella Wheeler Wilcox “American poet laureate, a great consolation to the “poetess of passion” whom critics of her own country ignored as a “low-brow vulgarian.” =
._ She was, she protested, a _popu-
lar poet because she loved God, life and people; undeniably, millions respond to her commonplace. bub comfort. philosophies and showered upon her the adulation which Edgar Guest and Dorothy Dix would divide in a later day. Her career,
says biographer Jenny Ballou, is a
decid hich was his and ti ecide which wa Sig tis kel on A, Side Glances—By Galbraith
graves, mo ammmusms a
hi think er really serious this time. She’ ' dong thi Lp
ne for ne
early two weeks."
‘| her,
Houses are faithful friends:
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“Period Piece” (Hough ns of vanished America. i
Born in 1855, she followed in her | S
life span of six decades the dazzling “rags to riches’ formula of our democracy. At 14| her’ poetry
began to sell, facilitdting her escape |-
from an impoverished Wisconsin farm home to the b er horizons of Milwaukee and Chicago. “Poems of Passion” brought accusations of immorality from outraged Victorians, though her contacts with men. were few and exceedingly. tame. Her marriage to Robert Wilcox ‘was idyllic, marred only by: the death of their ‘child; stout, bald Mr. Wilcox was al-
ways a “lover” in his wifé’s poems. |
Between world, travels they lived in Connecticut, with New York celebrities journeying down for Ella’s famous musicales. As they grew older, both became spirituaiists, and Ella advancingly eccentric in dress and ‘behavior. From the “daring” age of the: bicycle, bloomers and women’s rights to Theodore Roosevelt's Administration, the World War, and her death in 1919, Ella Wilcox was the brightest star
jin’ W. R. Hearst’s galaxy.
She was, as Miss Ballou pictures 8 passionately: inconsistent woman, 8 paradoxical , ‘mixture of the admirable and the ridiculous, not a good minor post but a ‘bad
Ԥ | major one.
—————— HOUSES
By VERNE S. MOORE How| ne sad an old house seems Its inmates gone, with sagging ' roof and fallen sill. vague Ye membrie. uf youthful tifne
g {Rong the place and fill The mind with 1 conjectures of its forgotten p A house oe reverie long as its | timbers last. :
DAILY THOUGHT
( And the Lord commanded us. to ‘do all these statutes; to fear the Lord our God; for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as i, = at this day.—Deu-
'} their political beliefs. } Communists. uit]
: Study Stand on Labor i i i
in 1883] |
dreams since fulfilled, cangeal about ¢
saying “a small group of New Dea, brain-trusters have turned the character assassins © for the express p life. They are led : : I can’t vouch for that, but f been’ Communist strategy to get |
y Tommy Corcoran.”
Some. me, EU
liberal Senator’ George Norris. oo has been complaining that FBI i§ is somewhat quaint, considering ‘that: the origin OGPU is a Communist invention and ractice; 2 - Senator Norris’ charges are similar-and arise from the same incident that excites th *Comrnumist’s Daily Worker and the “Review” published by the Young Communist League—tHe arrest Detroit of several individuals and in Milwaukee of one. ‘Senator Norris’ letter at least intimates that they had not been charged with crime—‘“they were not charged with ‘an offense that had any odium attached to it . . the activities of the FBI should be confined to the apprehension and arrest of persons charged with crime.” The intimation is that these people were arrested: for Several were active leading
# * » : ! | | ZT. LL thesé¢ intimations are false and obviously in-
indictment by a Federal Grand Jury. ‘Maybe there is
“no odium attached to it” but the ‘maximum statu-
tory puniishmen on conviction would have been five years. This group was accused not of being Communists but of recruiting, examining and forwarding men to fight with the Communist forces in Spain. It is for-,
ing force that is not an ally or associate of the United | States in war. The history of the case is not pretty, but-it is the action of the U. S. Attorneys General and not of. the) that’ needs “explanation. FBI was ordered’ by’ Ad ney General Cummings to investigate this activity—and then ordered by him to drop it. As soon as Frank Murphy becime Attorney General, he ordered: FBI to go ahead. These arrests were a result, As soon as Mr. Jackson became the boss he ordered
religion and Red influence throughout, but 35 nowhere | touches the FBI. e : os » 8 3; : : | ICTURES were published showing some of ‘these. defendants handcuffed and chained together. | This was done after FBI was clear out of the case and by the local U.S. Marshal. yo It was complained that the arrests were ‘made ial the middle of the night “ransacking 11: homes.” | It was a*®onspiracy case. As is known and acted upon, by police everywhere, all conspiracy suspects must be arrested at the same moment—otherwise some’ wil “escape. Considering the haurs of. og ent of these people, this could only be done troit a 5 a. m.—which was 4 a. m. in Milwauk pee, Third degree methods weré FE ay They have never been used by FBI. Consultation with counsel was freely permitted during the few hours FBI held these persons. This particular aT [to smear the G-Men will prove a complete dud. will discuss the others in Sui da columns, 4 l
Cheap Farm Homes
i. ir By Bruce Catton |
FSA Officials Jubilan a F Building Family Units at Cost’ rs $1300.
ASHINGTON, March: 19. officials of the Farm Security Administration; are. quietly proud .of’ the yay they've cut farm home ‘building ic costs. On their ‘newest resettlement prdjects, they're putting up four and five-room ’dobe-and-wood “dpartment houses” at a cost less thar $1300 per family. If they'd been able to build ‘that way from the start the history of the resettlement projects would
| : at the homes built were too fancy, ‘hence too costly; ef reason for that: (though yowll never get: anyone | to admit it) was the interest taken in the projects hy | Mrs. Roosevelt. She got behind | the movement: in its early days and plugged so hard for ‘bathrooms,’ full basements, central: ‘heating and other : ‘refinements that the \whole business got off to: a more. expensive start th an had been figuredon, | Y
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Republican Congressmen eaucused the other’ ‘even ning and decided to delay taking a'stand on the Smith amendments to the: Wagner act until me bers had had more time to study th em. Interest e back-stage discussion ‘o e labor in |. .O P's a itude to it.
n regard to the
touched, ‘or mustn’t.
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. Os P. Fights Hatch Aot
ntled Democrats ‘have charged th pidstige Hatch act extension will ‘hand the/next elec" e Republicans, since the dominant state) ‘poines—which the bill ‘would wreck~-a Senate Repuiisas 1 ns\ have, blog. are in charge} and” Ohi He on n Cople / Hill are beginning to get loud cries of protest fro yack home, the complaint being that the law would handicap the party and won’ you Plesse} get smart and: Yole t?
Watch Your Health
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By Jane Stafford
F your new spring wardrobe is going to sate 100 per | cent on health as well as style, you ‘should con= | ‘sider the materials and fits of your new clothes for = their temperature regulating effect as well gs for their appearance.- Men need to consider this as well as women, because men’s clothes: are generally warmer and heavier’ than women’s, and, being too warm is not conducive to good health, - Clothes should help, not hamper; the efforts: the body’ Soran makes to produce heat in cold weather ay ool off in hot weather. Clothing keeps you Not by profiveing heat but by retaining heat oe body. terials that are poor conductors of ‘est, ‘such as Hy silks and. furs, are therefore gen- | erally warmer than cotton, linen and such as rayon, which are relatively good conductors of | heat. Warm materials may be cool, and cook me. sJerials warm, however, depending on their weave. Cot« | blankets. feel warmer than sheets made of the ' same amount of cotton because of the way the cotton is woven. Silk jersey feels warmer than silk crepe, ‘again because of the weave. The reason for this ig that loosely woven material holds a good deal is within its meshes and dry air is a poor condu heat. The reason two layers of material are ois than. one—lined coats, for example—is that a certain amount of air is held between the layers and this " keeps some heat from escaping. from the body. ! Materials that give off ‘moisture rapid “cotton, linen or silk, feel cooler ‘than 1 sorbs much moisture and lets it.
a. ; Lonely fitting clothés are cooler than ones, so if your spring suit has a tight-fi ble for chilly days
t] it will be more suita
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tentionally so. The arrests. were ‘made after
bidden by Federal law to recruit here for any: fight-%-
be considerably different. Big trouble ‘there has been |
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