Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 March 1940 — Page 12
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| FEDER MARCH 20, 1940
r JUST SLIGHTLY PREJ UDICED JfoosER basketball followers will have a good chance to] dge how teams from other sections play their favo. rite game when four college fives compete this week-end in - the N. C. A. A. Eastern regional tournament at Butler Fieldhou: e. ’ Duc esne, Wetter State Teachers of Kéntucky, Springfi 1d, Mass., and Indiana University are the competitors. We’ d like to say something like “Welcome” and “Good Luck” and that sort .of thing, but we'll have to admit to a slight bit of bias. / Yes, we'd like fo, see Indiana win.
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| Ero is making no “inroads on Germany by Bnd, but at least She f ean still say that. “Britannia rules the waves.” | | Yes, but how / long will she rule them? | Some of the military experts are pointing out, certain. Interesting possibilities. The situation shapes up like this: “England had 15 battleships when the war started. A U-boat sank one at pa ‘Flow. Two others were damaged elsewhere and are laid up. That leaves 12.. And of these only three. are fast in the modern sense; i. e., capable of 30 knots. | | | . | France has seven battleships, but only two fast ones. ' | [That gives the’ Iles, together, five capital ships of the |speediest type~—Britain’s Hood, Repulse and Renown, and |France’s | unkerque and Strasbourg. | 1 When the war [started Germany had two battleships (aside from the three “pocket battleships” of which one, the Spee, was) scut led off Montevideo). These two were _ ultra-modern, fast ships of "26,000 tons—the Scharnhorst Gnei enat: This year, possibly: this spring, Ger-
even two Toke in this class. imum, that would give Germany six fast new
| Of cours Sn is building too. Five. Tost new battle: ships: will be ready “in the near future,” says Winston Churchill. nd France’s powerful Richelieu is fleating completion. | | But, iti is suggested, what if Germany turned up with a full-fledged fleet of six crack battleships before the new Allied vessels were ready? Theoretically, such an aggregation might be able to cope with almost anything: England could spare from her convoys to send against it. to be sure, didn’t work out in the case of the Graf Spee, “which was chopped down to size by the lesser guns of British , -eruisers). 5 The more interesting speculation, though, is this: Why, when the Germans know that new British battleships are . being rushed to completion. at Glasgow and on the Tyne, do the Nazis’ vaunted bombers not have a go at them? ! why do British raiders not try-to interrupt the Fompletion ‘of Germany’s new dreadnaughts? ~ Those are some of the puzzles of a puzzling war.
FINE SAMPLES
R-some weeks we firmly believed we had some of the |”T orneriest, cussednest, meanest and most cantankerous . breed of weather on earth.:- ‘ Actually it was no worse than many another city has experienced this winter. We had simply gotten tired of dark, dank, dreary days. How tired we did not realize until we got some fine samples of sunshine Sunday and yesterday and saw our morale lift like the price of wheat | in a drought year. We'll take a lot more of the same, Mr. Armington! i - LATE > J HATEVER may be said against the Labor Act amendments proposed by Rep. Smith’s investigating committee, they have me one important thing. | They have jolted a little better judgment into those | whom Senator Wagner calls the “true friends” of this law '| | —the only ones, according to the Senator, who are qualified
| to perfect it, but the ones who heretofore have resisted
36 wall call Donald Stiver and ‘brace him | full force {| ‘with: the awful The House Labor Committee, after many months of Bj Sy.
all suggestions for change.
ling, now consents to make a “bona fide” effort to rert out something in the way of amendments for action
this session of Congress. And Senator Wagner, while de-
nouncing the Smith committee’s proposals, concedes that ere have. been defects in administration and bias and i directed zeal on the part of some Labor Board employees, d announces that he is Willing to see two new members A ded to the board.
' This enlargement of the board, we: o tuspett; is what t 0 Administration will offer as a substitute for the Smith pmmittee amendments.
| If control of the board’s policies had peed shifted from J. Warren Maddén and Edwin S. Smith to three men as fair-minded as William M. Leiserson, justice might have overcome zealotry and the labor act might have fulfiliéd its | promise to promote industrial peace through Orderly collective bargaining.
But many will feel that it is too Ite now for that to
be enough. A five-member board, including Messrs. Madden L fo Sm ight do what is needed. Therg is no assurance that it would. So there is still great force to the contention that the act itself should be mheried to: make fair administration | ‘mandatory.
. And why enlarge the board ® nullify the influence of the two members who are Dares The direct; certain way to accomplish that is to do what the Smith committee recommends: Abolish the present board and have a complete in which these two members, on their records, could ve e no part. ; 9
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The Key Man
By. William Philip Simms
That Would Be Italy s Mussalinil: Who Shrewdly -Bided His Time and|
Now Holds the Balance of Power.
+ ASHINGTON, March 20. —Whatever else may or . may not have taken: place at thé rendezvous between Mussolini: and Hitler in Brenner ‘Pass, one thing is fairly certain: The Duce emergéd a key man, ‘if not the key man of Europe. With the dazzling rise of the Naz Pueher's star, the Italian leader went into something of an eclipse. From thie moment the Germans invaded Austria, he began to fade into the background. When Hitler snuffed out Czechoslovakia, Il Duce had little to say And after the war started, he lapsed into a long and
profound silence. Now times have changed. It was the Nazi Foreign Minister, Joachim von Ribbentrop, who last week hurried down to Rome to. confer with dignitaries “there. rather than the other way round. And it was the Nazi all highest himself who traveled all night to meet the Duce at Brennero, on the Italian side of the famous moi tain pass. 2 8 8 [ods HREWDLA , Mussolini has bided ‘his time. From the first
Allies almost “inevitably would reach a stalemate and that Italy would hold a balance of power. And as Mussolini is Italy, he, personally, may hold the- fate | of Europe in his hand.
For years Mussolini has been warning Britain and France that they ‘would have to play ball with him sooner or later or there would be trouble. He has even gone so far as to indicate what he wants—
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Ababa, in Ethiopia, and the French port.at Djibouti; Dijibouti, itself, Ethiopia’s natural outlet td the sea; a share in the control of Suez Canal; a new deal for Italians in Tunisia, and “security” in the ranean, To date, these claims bave fallen on deaf ears. What Mussolini will do now remains to be seen. Berlin keeps saying that a new and startling surprise is about to be sprung. Not even Stalin is in a, position to wield as much power as the Duce in the present crisis. For while Russia is the biggest one-piece nation on earth, with a population’ of 180 million people, Stalin fears to become involved in a major Euro] pean war in the Far East, or that Britain might hur! her Indians at the Saqviet frontier halfway between.
~ 8 ® ”» HAT Mussolini will actually join in, the war on either side at this time is exon gy witniemeny ical. The indications—which admittedly y change at any moment-—are that he ‘will not. /He may decide to stay on the sidelines until he sees a'chance to intervene and decide the war, perhaps without firing a shot. There are reports, in fact, that he is toying with
some such idea right now. There are rumors that Hitler's meeting with the Duce had to do with peace
and that Sumner Welles, who sails from Naples today, | | will bring an “‘offer’” from Rome and Berlin along
| with him.
That the United States will join with Germany and Italy in any premature peace terms, as rumored ‘in London and Paris, is completely discounted here. The President has clearly indicated that he will have nothing whatever to do with any peace which in any way resembles that of Munich. No other kind of peace seems at all likely in the near future.
(Westirook Pegler is on vacation)
Inside Indianapolis
The Hotter It Gets the ‘Hotter ‘The Argument About Air Cooling
RANK WALLACE'S warning (made yesterday to the Garden Club) that Indianapolis might have
to build a ‘plant to handle the pure water used in
going to be one of this city’s hottest. this summer. Ever, since air conditioning came into - vogue, the use of -private’ wells has caused heated arguments.
Each year it has become a little more heated. This summer will find a peak load with more than 200 air conditioning systems in use. What’s going to happen can almost be ‘predicted with certainty: 1. ‘The City Engineer’s office is going to recommend a tax on air conditioning units. . 2. The City Engineer’s office will urgently request that dll air conditioning units be turned off during showers to relieve the load on the downtown sewers. 3. The Works Board will consider a proposed ban on the drilling of new wells. 4. The Geology Division of the State Conservation Department will report a grave shrinkage in the state-wide ground water levels and refer to In‘dianapolis as a ‘danger spot.” Just wait and see.
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THE CITY'S PARK officials are worried: about how they're going to get the golf courses in shape by the April 1 opening date. It seems that play on two of the municipal courses last week-end partially wrecked at least one green apd damaged several others. A. C. Sallee, the parks superintendent, says that the ground is still pretty soft and that irons in the hands of a rusty divot digger can do a lot of damage. | Right now, theyre busy replacing the sod. , Maybe! that’s what got into City -Council the other night when they started talking about'chuckholes. 8 8 = 1] THE PRESENCE DAY AFTER DAY of a State Police car around a certain local hospital has had a lot of people excited. The story was that the hospital was being guarded. The reasoning Was that some very, very big name was there: One young newspaperman even oni so far as to check surreptiously the whole patient list, Baffled, weary and perturbed he finally thought he might
Sure, said ‘Mr. Stiver, tege was ‘a State trooper up around there. He happens to live in the vicinity. And Ne has to have someplace’ to park his car, doesn’t e
A Woman's Niewoolint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson
HE most essential part of a masculine conven-+ - tion is the feminine fluff. At least so I am told by a man who has attended a good many conventions, political, “business and otherwise. You'll be a sissy to the boys if you resent or ignore the presence of the fairer element, I deduce from his | conversation, though he tried hard to cover. up the worst from an inquisitive female—meaning me. Funny what such a weak little word can do to a big strong man, isn’t it? For the term “sissy” is more powerful that an army with banners. verbal Hitler, cracking the autocratic whip over the minds of thousands of decent persons. “Here, take another little drink!” coaxés the fiveletter tyrant. “Be a sport. Don’t worry about your ‘wife. She’ll never find out, anyway. Besides, what will the boys say? Aw, come on! sissy.” = Under” the awful threat many - well-intentioned ‘young men take one drink too many. and others betray lo the wives who love them in order to avoid the scorn of men they inwardly despise. For that’s the way We moderns are made. Curious? indeed that we should be so ashamed of our virtues and so proud of our vices. Sometimes we wear our sense of honor at. a crooked angle, too. And strangely twisted our values have become when we find something comical in encouraging the shattering of another's illusions or
“Don’t be a sissy.”
The Allies need Italy as much as Germany needs
among other things the French railway between Addis |
editer-|
‘He is afraid -Japan might attack’ Russia|
It's a little
You can’t be a|
in breaking a heart. -So, many a nice young man, by | persuading himself that his manliness can bé proved | only by turning his back upon convictions which |. have sustained him half a lifetime, falls for the line|
And the bigger the sissy, the harder he falls. ad : 1
The Hoosier , Forum
1 wholly disagree with what yor, say, but will defend to the death your right to say it. — Voltaire.
URGES CANDIDACY BASED ON ABOLITION OF ig
By Citizen
Why doesn’t one of our r Republican or Democratic county treasurer candidates campaign for abolition of the fee system? ; He conld even tell the relief voters and harassed taxpayers that he has found a way to live on a paltry $15,000 a year.
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CITES PRESS AS EXAMPLE
OF PRIVATE OWNERSHIP By Voice in the Crowd:
To H. L. S. and his denunciation of private ownership I would say —you are reading the product of a privately owned enterprise. It is a molder of public opinion and a reporter of news. It gives both sides of all questions and jits reporting is accurate as humanly possible. When you buy one of its papers you certainly get! your money’s worth. Everyone connected with this paper is well paid, it probably makes a profit and is entitled to it. If its stockholders make a profit they must spend the profits for goods or service, or invest the money in other ways that give work to labor: The newspaper is a very important link in our economic! and social organism. Would you like to see it publicly owned so :that you would get one side of the news? Would you wish the men in Washington who are also human, writing its editorials just as they would have you believe them? Would you believe that the owners of a newspaper-are “selfish and ignorant” if they resented political operation or competition or undue regulation of their honest, privately | owne¢l enterprise? Is there any reason to believe that public ownership and public management would insure .more purity and unselfishness of purpose if the politicians . performed the function of management against the present competitive system, which automatically demotes to those who do not adhere to décent ethics? I do not believe so.” I do not see why only
| politicians, can be considered pure
enough to render unselfish service, if no one else can do it. .If as you say. “the selfish .are ignorant,” the words can be reversed with the? same meaning, If a man can run a business success-
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fully today he is surely not ignorant, and from my viewpoint the men who are trying it are unselfish to a high degree. ; # a 8 | FAVORS LENDING CASH - TO WARRING NATIONS
‘By Earache
The American people have a keen sense of justice in international affairs. They are apt to overlook their
own interest to uphold this dogma.)
They feel that the individual should pay his debts to the point of €xhausting: his own resources, not including things necessary to. ‘meintain a home. They feel the same way about a nation. There is evidence of an industrial boom in 1940 along some lines. Paradoxically, there ds no such prospect for farm commodities. It still takes about $800 to buy a low-priced car of family size, and good bacon is selling in’ some markets for 10 cents per pound—an unfair parity between industrial and agricultural prices. It appears that warring nations are going hungry in grder to
New Books at the Library
{buy munitions; because -they have
seems to be based on things
“| made with Wis, some of the warring
no assurance of getting loans from us if they are caught short in a long war. At the end of last February, there were about 1 billion 86 million dollars of earmarked gold in this nation; but little is expected to. go} into commodities.’ : *n this nation, political economy right
(as an American would see .it) and things expedient. The Johnson law, prohibiting loans to certain nations, from an American viewpoint, is based on right—that every nation should pay its debt before another loan is made. The expedient thing would be for{ Congress to repeal the Johnson law, with a feeling that loans could be
nations might divert enough of the earmarkéd gold into lard, bacon, apples’ and other staples, reducing our surpluses and increasing prices of ‘rural products. This might as-
tory values. With an increase in the buying power of the farms, industry could maintain its present high level of labor cost onfull time. ” = 3» THINKS RUSSIA. IS
INVITING TROUBLE
By a Reader f | According to the headlines i ‘your | paper after Russia made peace with Finland, they let Sweden and Norway make a military alliance against Russia when she attacks later on. Obviously, Russia wants to be flattered into fighting a bigger oppo-
nent than Finland
HE elegant new hotel opened with 9000 ‘cuspidors, 8800 “side” dishes, 2000 silver plated, ivory handled knives, and other elaborate equipment suitable to the gilded San Francisco of 1875. The Palace, was the world’s largest and costliest caravansary. Four million dollars had been lavished on the building, and another half million on the turnishings. There were 150 waiters; five assistants carried out the orders of the chef. In addition there were three special cooks; a chief confectiorler from Milan, a chief baker
Side Glances—By Galbraith’
1.
Let $ got out of here—| have a ‘fosing this floor i is going to cave’ in any ‘minute! #
+ the lobby, the banquet halls, mount-
| Now I'm a heartless creature, people
from Vienna, and an old Negro, Muffin Tom, whose specialty was corn bread and - hot egg muffins. The first manager was Warren Leland, pleasant, suave, smiling, whom Ambrose Bierce promptly nicknamed “Blandlord” Leland. Famous guests, used to delicacies of every kind, soon found their way to America’s first luxury hotel. Patti was serenaded in the grand court of the Palace. Lily Langtry came, and Scotti, Sarah Bernhardt, Henry Irving, Ellen Terry, Caruso (he sang in “Carmen! -the night before the earthquake). Through failure—it was nearly two decades before San Francisco became able to support such a magnificent enterprise—the Sharon | scandal, and success it remained the symbol of the city’s spectacular growth. Appropriately, this story by Oscar Lewis and Carroll D. Hall | is called “Bonanza Inn” (Knopf). For 30 years-this hotel:challenged the attention of the world. Then in April, 1906, “the last, sinister guest, trailing his scarlet robe, began stalking through the corridors,
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ing stairways. entering the hundreds of rocms. » - The building ‘was enveloped in flames; only one thing remained<-a flag waving on a pole above the Market Street side. “At last one leaping tongue, higher than the others, shot up the pole and closed about the flag itsel 3 ” ~
By JOSEPHINE DUKE MOTLEY -Of all the folks a know, you somehow fill | . A destiny a In bandit dy and with am You stole my heart.
say— A cruel piece, it’s true. r How could it be another way? . 5 My) heart's. with you. - ~-
. DAILY THOUGHT
| Sanetity them ‘through thy “truth: thy word is truth.—St. - John 17:17. : :
MUCH OF THE ¢ glory and sublimity of truth is connected with its. mystery. To understand
sure parity between farm and fac-|
we must be as God.—Tyron ] rds.
i chief G-man Hoove:! || of || by any Federal | that Mr. Hc
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| J. . Edga Hoover i the leer tn This’ Wire Tapping * Busine $s wa d Jackson | Supports f Him | | Loyal ys
ASHINGTON, - March 20Attorne Ge: Jackson is ste nding loyally by his associ He issued an order hie © fect ro ent wire tapping in criming ; | eau. In doing so he m
er opposed and forbade Wi ordered by a former Attorh
which is to
FBI, unti
to use: that method under close personal extreme cases.
FH] Yet. in view of the row gicked up by .Senator Norris’ indictment of FBI, ang the proposed Sena ution for an investigation of wire tapping, this
er may look like a retirement under fire from an
evil practice in FBI, in the ery “obvio
Hoover” campaign that is going
Neither in Senator Noss’ Sector nor in
resolution, was there any intimation what
com, righ
laint by anybody of any FBI invasion of by tapping wires. On the contra Senator |
Green has denied that the Senate resolutic intimates any, such thing and added: “As a matter of fact,
this investigation into wire-tapping' practi
a
. was partte result of evidence ‘uncovered by. FBI in my . an R. HOOVER has contintiously’ protest d and pre~ vented wire-tapping. It is well kno through- \ [FBI that it is worth any agent’s job to tap a wire ny case not specifically authorized by the chief self and that has never been done e3 ‘where ‘human life was at stake ar at the cli the
cleanup of some Dillinger-like gang. /
’t mean that plenty of wires have not | ped by other departments of F ent, by state and local police and |i rows such as the one hinted by Soh
spe ker of the California H : instances and not any action of FBI ars responsible forthe proposed Senate action.
Ho ver is: politicos that they had better get him bé
| Edgar walking the | [plank
et, one of the catch phrases in the push to gét “He has so much on so many prominent fore he gets This is good enough to make ¢ good many shot$ squirm and not suffer at the ¥ ought of J, =
BI doesn’t keep records on anybody : doesn’t investigate anybody except
special orders and has never used tra ping or
tapping methods on either Congressmen
pr other pib-
lic officials.
secreted a microphone in another's ¢ into Woodrdw Wilson's doghouse alm | of dismissal. During prohibition whens were violated hy Federal enforcement) ¢ tapping was widely practiced and uphel Mr. Ickes. is said to orately cross-wiréd when he was h: inP
During the World War a very high | fice—and got | t| to the point i |
civil rights | * §
by the caurts, |
to have had his de N ent elab- |
WA. In such a state of affairs, Mr. H
continuous opposition to such practices I think he is so far in the clear on that any fair investigation will greatly But, in such a political year as this is sje be, Jarnass is apt to take a holigay. £
Pa nama Defen: By Bruce Catton -
VY AsamaTon, March gb shat
Fone a chance to. spot. som” Jory
been rushed to Panama by plane at the whole layout. had passed along some of his findings
up for_study. Another brand new air field. on the he
the cession by | the, more square miles provide room for augm ted defenses,
is
California to settle the row in Party there, which had pro-Roosevelt delegates
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southern waters apparently Ss deficiencies | the Panama canal’s defenses. Y,
At any rate, a special’ House subifommittee has |
¢ have a look | - t was sent | % The matter of that third set of locks is one item of locating a i. It has even seek| several
1d e in’ order to although | this|
considered i less| likely.
Ickes made [4
two factions ine slates of, in the presidential primary. was soon announced that he had piad
Secretary of Interior
that the row was over; advices to ears Californians here say difterent, howey
is worse than ever.
| SYD= yz
G.' McAdoo, head of one faction, and |Governar ie
leader of the other; trouble is, nei
er man really
controls his faction, and: some of the key figures weren't seen by Ickes. at all. iis |
Gains Unexpected ‘support | !
Senator Theodore Green of Rh
the engaging position of a mian wt 0 swung at the
private detective agencies dnd, hit a month ago brought in a probe of wire-tapping, prompted ther >: by complaints —in his own state, and others—thz agencies were using this means of dig kinds of dirt. than he antici
hie I. Green resoluti on for a Senate . various private
His resolution is goi ted, and is being b oadened to ine
clude a study of the FBI's activities in that field.
General Jackson presently made
prising it Attorney
Incidentally, it would not be 8 an investigation of
his own. The FBI's recent: activities in compiling
lists of “suspects” of subversive ac
vitles have irked
him: he told a friend not long ago! that he didn’s.
like it and proposed to do someétl
Watch Your He ;
By Jane Stafford
NN ns this spring, you
have much trouble with i because of their mechanical effe Action-back and action-sleeve d allow for free movement of These are not only comfortable fo duties and spring gardening, but k
g a it.
tity Jed-for-health nately will not are unbygienic on the body. esses arg made to and: shoulders. ° sports, household githful as well,
you are buying you
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Clothing - that limits activity by
tight or too heavy is mot health I Your ches 3 hi should fit so that they .do not ms ie it difficult BE
impossible for you to m sitting and standing. Jit
but many may make
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Few women today ear tight cersets ‘or girc es, © A
that push the shioningl organs do
of
girdle may fit snugly around the ‘hips; not extend much above the waistlin ne. :
girdle or garter belt, “the back gs justed more tightly than the the ¢
supporting them -at their no * position. but’ it should , §
ro is ves of the lower back may be:
point that is both unhealthful a pearance.
new clothes is
Another health angle to cons : is whether) they
the sunlight. You know, of many health-giving qualities, | | The ; rays pass more freelysthrough some Kinds of materials
than others. If you want to g as possible, choose thin: materia] S ones, open weaves, undyed Jn ter linen‘o 2: OF clothing -| rays, but none get clo wear
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, much of these ther Ber than ick rayon rather than silk o; oh Solan, usually lets through & ome through t!
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