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Ty l THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 140

SILVER TAKES A LICKING , | br | “QILVER,” according ‘to ex-Senator Gore, “has all the attributes of money—except value.” : : The A Banking and Currency Committee seems to have come around to Mr. Gore's view. Yesterday it voted,

14 to 4, to indorse Senator Townsend's bill ending our pur-

chases of foreign silver.’ And high time, say we. The Treasury at Washington has been shoveling out good American dollars in return for all the world’s silver — new silver out of the ground, old silver out of strongboxes -and jewel cases and rainy-day hoards. And it has been paying much more than the metal is worth. Ad Why? We don't need it. All Mr. Morgenthau does with this. foreign metal is bury it. He could never sell it, in a: free market, for anything like what it cost him. | True, this Santa Claus policy of ours is “good for foreign trade.” It would also be good for foreign trade if at intervals we simply gave away a billion dollars abroad, first come first served. ale 4 to To stop our foreign silver purchases will be to step on some toes. Mexico's, for instance. Mexico is the world’s biggest producer of silver. Under the law now facing repeal, we subsidize Mexico by buying the oil of its mines. And what does the good neighbor get in return? A kick in the pants. ci | el Chairman Eccles. of the Federal Reserve System==who comes from an important silver state, Utah—said a year ‘ago that “when you buy the world’s silver you tend to destroy the use of silver elsewhere in the world.” That is just what has happened. | | Mr. Eccles added: “The only use we have for the silver is to make more excesg reserves, which are already excessive, and more bank deposits, which also are already excessive.” : | | In other words, germ of inflation. It looks now as if for repeal is going to be a winner. We hope so.

the silver policy is a carrier for the

PANACEA SEASON—AGAIN | ; | NO day seems, complete without a new pension plan from \ that fertile hatchery of such schemes—Southern Cali-. fornia. To ab ; "Charles J. Husband, one of the foremost backers of the

late-unlaménted Thirty-Thursday proposition now hag an-|

other dandy.” A few months ago he was trying to convince California voters that stamp-bearin ‘warrants would be a marvelous source of ever ready money for old-age pensions. He turns to somewhat more tangible sources of revenue— to state-controlled liquor sales and the state’s “take” from horse race befingloe the wherewithal to finance his latest proposal. | || : : : "The money would be distributed to all needy Californians between 50 and 60 years of age, and to all over 60, whether needy or not. To handle all the details three new commissions would be created, of five members each at $8000 year

a yeol!.

-| spective pigeonholes. are relieved to find that the sentiments and proposals | taihed therein can be made -to work in these

Sénator Townsend's one-man crusade

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—————————— gq ® ° LN j Latin America Se ; oH Lo N By John Thompson | LN | Our Neighbors Ly oking Toward | Washington, Fearin | Wer They Will Be Sucked in Teo.

| (1a the first of & series of dispatches summariting the _ opsetvations made on & 10-week tout © Latii Ametica, Mr. Thompson deséribes below some of ths fears and Hopes ot (our southern neighbors in connection with the Buropean War) L bio ;

VV posed to being dragged into the war by any ac-

definitely with the Allies. The latin countries are attitude of the United States in this conflict. - They hope we will not ‘wade into the fight, lest by so doing we pull in all of Latin America with us. 2 "© Overwhelming opinion in Latin America is that the

wars, Washington has been kept fully informed on this score by the chancelleries of the Americas, pointed reference being made to existing mutual consultation pucts. > “The treaties and declarations made at the last ‘three Pan-American conferences, in Buenos Aires, Lima and Panama, have been taken out of their reOfficials in the Americas are

con strenucus war times. 8 ® 2

\QPECIAL stress is being laid +) clauses of these documents, qcah nations agree to consult each other whenever danger threatens any one of them.

any Arnerican nation, particularly the United States, from mixing up in the European brawl. Overwhelming opinion indicates that no American nation plunge into the European mess unless it be the United States, and Uncle Sam is admonished by the

hickory limb but not to%o near the war.”

wound up generally with the expression of hope that “the United States will not allow itself to be dragged into the war, as otherwise we will all be compelled to follow suit.” ih - | «Tell your people,” they would say, “that we are 100 per cent behind Washington’s Pan-American ‘policy, vis-a-vis the present war. However, pléase bear in miind| that democracies and war just cannot get along side by side. If the Western Hemisphere were to be mixed up in Europe's total war, the cause of democracy would receive a terrific setback. ~ “Some section of the world must be kept sane, and ‘if looks as if the Western Hemisphere is that place.” ® 8 = ,

ius is why that neutrality fence recently erected ‘A ‘by the Panama Conference thought of so highly in the Americas to the south. Europe may ridicule and ignore it, but to the Latin American mind this zone is vital and real. : i “Just give us time,” they say down there, and the zonie’ will be just as much a part of international usage as the Monroe Doctrine.” | Of course, they all depend on the power of the armed forces of the United States to maintain that posjsion, but a marked degree of arms consciousness has crept into the psychology of the Latin Americans of late. They are all looking to their arms as never before, in which activities they have the blessings of the United States. Fo} "os

(Westbrook Pegler is on vacation)

Inside Indianapolis Big Chains for the Campus Big Men; And What Goes Siw the Police.

FIRE going to let you in on a big thing today. It’s about the newest college boy fad, It all “came out at dinner the other evening when the person sifting next to Dr. J. C. Carter started talking about his own wild days at college. Dr. Carter thed and then unfolded the story about the watch A | I i It/ seems that somebody wrote a men’s fashion Jartifle| some time ago and said, in passing, that’ tH! chains were in vogue aghin. | The ‘college boys lave adopted: the idea with a vengeance. The fatter the watch ¢éhain the more fashionable the campus hero. Dr. Carter ought to ¥ certain relative of his got one that was Bs big as hig little finger. The watch thaf came with it looked! like-a turnip. : .

was that

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5 7 ASHINGTON, Match 21.~latin America is op-| tion of the United States, although its sympathies are

anxiously watching thel

Western Hemisphere should stay out of Europes)

upon tlie consultative hereby the Amer-|./

‘other American nations to “hang his clothes on -a ‘My recent discussions with Latin Arnerican leaders .

By Raymond H. Stone

should have one plank in particular. in its 1940 platform.

sides tO planks, except in case of]. ‘| This particular plank should have burned into one side the abandon-|. ment of the primary system and the resumption of the county, district and state convention system.

should have, painted on it the adoption o public audit of receipts and expenditures every three months. should be published in established newspapers in éach of the ties of Indiana.

then be effective vehicles cal action. Both are nece : : 8 J URGES SUPPORT FOR WPA WHITE COLLAR EXHIBIT By Arthur Middleton

Roosevelt declares: “Everywhere I

It’s Always Open Season on

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if U. S. Enters|

. Latin America expects to use that clause to deter| Eom

Chicken-Hawks!

/ QUICK | NOW= © GIVE. ’IM THE OTHER i BARRE

~ The Hoosier Forum 1 wholly disagrees with what you say, but will ah defend to the death your right to say it.—Voitare, FN

SUGGESTS PLANKS FOR

S F (Times readers are invited STATE REPUBLICANS ;

to express their views .in’ these columns, religious cons tréversies excluded. Make your letters short, so all can have & ¢hance. “Letters must be signed, but names will be withheld on request.)

_Fhe Indiana Republican Party s

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Lall that is required to enable you to énjoy a profitable hour. = = he workers are happy to have this opportunity to express their appreciationn to Indianapolis citizens who graciously co-operated in giving confidential information which in its finished, impersonal form’ will be so highly prized by the various civic and governmental organizations that are striving to make Indianapolis a bettef city in which to live and rear our families—all who understand and appreciate what the problem of housing #neans, how tinid investors demand facts instead of guesswork, how new jobs and better homes are thus created, how better health and morals dare enhanced by decent surroundings and how important facts really are

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the Two Per Cent vision which. woul

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of politisaty.

In The Times of March 14, Mrs.

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in planning the future development of Indianapolis.

could defeat Germany are not so sure about it now. Hitler and Chamberlain blaffed and blustered so much that they forced their nations into war, Now they both know that to carry the war to a finish means destruction for both. nations. Which is more important—to save their pride or save their countries? Chamberlain’s demands on Germany will never be conceded and he ought to

- | know it.

It's time for both Hitler and ‘Chamberlain to cool off and stop the schoolboy name - ¢alling and making foolish demands. The rest of the world should demand that the impossible and intolerable situation in: the world’s’ commerce shall be cleared up. Hitler and Chamberlain may be mad enough to wreck their own nations, slaughter their own people or even ruin thé whole world to save their pride, but they should not be allowed to do it. : 2 = a > PAYS TRIBUTE TO ORGANIZER OF WPA By Rose Bouse - WPA is a giant enterprise, born in the heart of one man for the

good of many.

__. THURSDAY, MARCH 21,

| Gen. Johnson

| realize that they can’t do it | of inefficiency ov ill-doing. ! : | cop and 100 per cent honest.| But there is always the

| following episode in Miami. | Shortly after the Pende City, the then Attorney General, Fr is 4 real glamour boy both in politi

1 Miami. That just about ru

tween state and Federal

\ exploit his r commercialize

_paigns. : columns, ‘But this kind of political assault on honest and efll-

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Says— Ear

J. Edgar Hoover's Efficiency and Honesty Conceded So| Enemies Try, Ridicule in Their Smear Campaign. .

ASHING'TON, March 21.—The political smear

artists who are out to [get chief G-Man Hoover = “any legitimate charges »

18 100. per cent

weapon of ridicule. So they call J.

ar Hoover. the “glamour boy of the beaches” That

$ based on the.

ap in Kansas Mutphy, who and among the gals, made a crack about cleaning up corruption in American cities, Egor : So he ordered Hoover and six G-Men to Florida and later announced that he had done so to cleanse ed Hoover's effectiveness there because it was an open warning to crooks in hiding. It warmed Florida's Senator Pepper into a lather. Lab Ld | : s 8

‘ . 8 ! T isn’t any part of the rogers Government's busi« ness to clean up local self-governments except as

Federal offenses are favolved. Mr. Hooyer well under-

| stands this. Far from crossing wires with local aue’

thorities, he has built up the best co-operation bee lice that has ever existed. His orders didn’t include local policing. |

14-1] Even if Senator Pepper couldn't agree, the Governor and the attorney general of Florida welcom Hoover. He interfered with no state functions. passed on to local police information gleaned in vestigating Federal offenses. This resulted in sever state proceedings. More than 50 individuals charg with Federal crimes were arrested. belly For some reason the New York News doesn’t see to approve of F. B. 1. as an agent, to stop. intersta white slavery. It has long been critical .of Mr. Hoover,

| When he went to Florida it repotted him as living

extravagantly in a costly shore place. Some comecommentators pictured him as lolling around wi

‘sand-plastered bathing. beauties on the beach.

glamour-boy smear-stuff, coupled with the ridicul

I'l charge of invading state rights, was the-worst possible

publicity.

It was part of the campaign to “get | Hoover.” | R |=

YPUT it was grossly unfair and entirely unwal

ranted. Not that it 1s anybody's business, butia - mutual acquaintance told me that - Hoover’ m rate was $12.50 a day. Because he W munificent Government allowed an expense account ot $5 a"day. So J. Edgar's extravagance per diem in Miami was $7.50. = = : 2 | He has turned down magnificent honoratiums to utation. He said that he could not: t. . The guy couldn’t be extravagant secauze he hasn't got the dough Even the present . character assassins who are or his trail would not = g dare charge any peculations agaifist him at any . time in his eareer—23 years on this work, Ls The whole uproar about Florida is pure smear. coupled with ex-Attorney General Murphy's inept: publicity about his own- personal city-cleaning came = f Hete, as in other charges discussed in earlier - no fair investigation can t Mr. Hoover.

cient law enforcement can hurt the country,

‘Break’ for NLRB : :

By Bruce Catton =

A. F. of L. Chiefs. Are. Friendlier Toward Board After Smith Report.

ASHINGTON, March 21.—Congressman Smith’s ‘Wagner act amendments have had one une , jooked-for effect: They've slid the A. F. of L. high command over to a' position where it is willing to co-operate—to a slight gxtent, at least—with the Labor Board. Ea [ola \ Before President Green issued his Se ; said he still thought the Wagner act needed amending, but that Smith went entirely too far—there were »

Before they took ce, something

some high-powered conferences among the A, F. of L. N ;

The only thing the good doctor deplored go I am hearing more SEES ONLY RUIN F ACING The organizer of WPA I consider| high command.

per member, one to ‘administer liquor sales, one to control letting and one to pass out the pensions. | Some of Mr. Husband's former Thirty-Thursday buddied seem determined not to,be outdone. They stick to the old fwarrant magic, but they now propose to pay $7 a week to all citizens under 21 and $20 to all over 50. - |My, my-my-my-my!” as Charley McCarthy would say. It must be lots of fun thinking up these nifty ways of giving awdy money. | And incidentally, mayhap, making fat jobs for the thinker-uppers? |

U. S. BALKANIZING MUST STOP,

country. I . : But if the. states keep on building trade barriers at their borders they're going to find people talking seriously about that very thing. In a choice between pros erity and political subdivisions, prosperity is apt to wn he most votes. \ E ~ The Monopoly Committee heard a solemn warning this week about ‘the danger of interstate barriers. It was told that they may be the first step toward degeneration of the United States into, the sort of place Europe has become. And the warning came from the man who knows more about this subject than anyone else, Dr. F. Eugene Melder, Clark

University economist.

Dr. Melder says the division of central Europe into small states, with diverse economic interests, led to depression and to downfall of democratic governments. The thing might have been checked, he thirks, if free exchange of goods over a wide area had been possible. 2] . He believes that if this country cuts up its national _ market info segments, with each segment trying to keep out imports from others, the market for mass-production goods will disappear, the cost of production will rise, the efficiency of industry will decline, and the thing that hap-

pened in central Europe may happen here. ag : The states should do this job, and some of them are starting; yet the business of extricating themselves from the mess they’ve gotten into is a difficult one and they need help. For this reason the suggestion of Dr. Frank Bane of the Council of State Governments that a permanent Federal committee be created to study the problem and co-ordinate efforts to Solve it is an excellent one. Pod Something must be done—and fast—and this seems a ood place to start. foot yi

YyNor: ” | E House of Representatives sliced the appropriation - the Bituminous Coal Division from $8,500,000 to ,187,800. Ln a Y Lh A saving of $2,812,200 is not to be sneezed at. But all the good the Guffey Coal Act—or its administration -accomplished, tire House might as well have made a

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the youngsters have started att all kinds of ‘ping afid doo-dads to their chains. They look like Mexican generals sometimes, he said | Well, a fellow has to do something to compete with those hats. | : 2 |

A woman hurried into Police Headquarters the other night about 10 o'clock and told the Desk |Sergeant that her sorority was putting on a “scavenger hunt” and she simply had to have a void sticker to make the thing a success. The Sergeant said, after due

‘| deliberation, that he didn’t have a void sticker, and

.couldn’t help. The woman left disappointed. All of which reminds us ofthe evening not so

; “| long ago when gd group of high school pupils charged WE don’t want to abolish state lines. Any such proposal would be resisted—properly—from all parts of the

into Headquarters at night bearing some hardboiled, colored eggs. They told the Sergeant they wanted Chief Morrissey’s autograph on them so as to make their “scavenger hunt” a success. ‘The Sergeant Hdd" a bright idea. He pointed to a reporter, saying: “Why, there’s the chief now!” Reporter Tiernan dutifully sighed Mr. Morrissey’s name to the eggs.. Never argue with the law, - 8 8 = . : MARTZ LEWIS over at the State, Employment Setyvice was dictating a letter the other day about the “format” of a new publication, . . . Sure as shooting it came up “floormat.”. . . Striding around the Oircle that very warm day before yesterday was a minister, garbéd in a black suit, black fedora ‘hat, turned collar and all. . . . And over it all he wore a raccoon coat. . . . Driving down Washington Blvd. yesterday a motorist spotted a sponge lying in the street. :, . ,”He stopped and got out to get it only. bo Bm a round hydrangea blossom crumble in his ancl. Le)

; : i : \ ] { 4 pe ° A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson HE letter from a Working Wife printed here some

time ago has filled the mail with comments from Teaders, many of whom have little compassion for her.

1{ Because they: prove s6 well how far we've come from

rugged individualism, I want to quote from a couple. First let's hear from Mrs. John Carlson of Covington, Ky., whose remarks are typical: = “We departed from the American way-of life when we allowed married women to take jobs while girls and single men were without them. I do not believe | married women make good workers; they are fussy neurotics, quarreling with their husbands and worrying over their children, : o | “In the office where my own daughter works. there are 25 girls; 17 are married and every one has a husband holding down a good job. Only two have children. I hope the woman whe wrote you will have to give up her job to live on what her husband makes;

on no salary at all. 5 ; “Maybe youll think this:is just another squeak from a guinea pig. Have you: stopped to consider that 1 we have a good many men columnists on our side, and big shots, too?” : ! Another reply is sent by a high-school graduate of Alby erque, N. M.. who has not teen ie to find emp om not t0 support their (wives and families? I am sure ple when 1 say we only ask a chance to prove what we tan do. So long as married women hold down all the jobs We can’t have that chance.” 1 through all the letters on both sides of this subject that have come ih, there runs thé ery of frus- : people bewildered by something { do not undersignd. American leaders wh

are in

i $ ’ | | 'EOUBLES OF THE POLICE DEPARTMENT: |

project: which the professional and service department of WPA is planning for the week of April 22d to 27th. They are hoping for 20 million visitors to their projects during that week.” 2 ° This is as it should be. People who pride themselves on being well informed have thé right to know

are actually accomplishing. The work of the laborers in public parks and buildings and on ‘highways is plain for all to see. But much of the work of thépwhite collar WPA worker is technical and abstract. To appreciate fully the value of such work, a few hours of teresting study is necessary. A few minutes

what the white collar WPA workers|

WARRING NATIONS By Edward F. Maddox ! Events seem to have moved to the point where people can begin to think straight and see more clearly ‘where evehis in Europe are leading. :

Many people who were 50 confident that English and France

no personal ax to grind. What does

he know about poverty or the problems of the poor? | He only Knows because of a kind heart and a great imagination. : The world needed him. The world still needs him. His job is not yet finished. \

New Books a) the Library,

is stifficient to .learn to| talk in-

vited to visit the Community House at Oliver and White River where the

‘valuable and useful information. A

Side Glances—By Galbraith

NHE title of George Soule’s biography of one of the most out standing personalities in today's labor movement—“Sidney Hillman, Labor -Statesmap” (Masmillan)— phrases briefly buf adequately the author’s conception of the role which Mr. Hillman has played in public Jife during the last 30 years. - Fleeing from Lithuania, then under the rule of Russia, when he was 20, Sidney Hillman came to Ametica, to Chicago, to find his first job at $8 a week with Sears, Roe-

telligently on subjects such as the Indianapolis Real Property iInvéntory. : Thus during the week of April 22d to 27th the public is earnestly in-

Indianapolis Real Property Inven. tory is housed. No doubt you have often wondered about the steps which the trained statistician takes in making unorganized facts yield

little of your intelligent curiosity is

perhaps that will teach her how some of us make out]

ent. “What are husbands for,” she asks, “iff 1 represent & majority of the unemployed young peo-|

trated ambition, hope deferred and the anguish of | frightful which they| &

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| ers.

: For in His mighty grateful way

buck & Co. A year later he became an apprentice in the factory of Hart, Schaffner & Marg, thus making his entry into the industry where he was to find his life work. o His life from then until now has coincided with the development of American labor into a well organlized, disciplined body. During that time working conditions have made great strides; and Sidney Hillman is one of those who have done the most to bring labor into this posi$ion. : This biography is not one of Hillman’s personal life, but of his life as a labor leader. First in Chicago | he became known for his successful handling of disputes between {employees and employers; so great was his success there that he was called to New York, eventually to become the leader of the Armalga+ mated Cldthing Workers of Amer= jea, knowl as one of the most pro-

"| gressive unions in America. Since 1933 his work has pecome wider in

scope, as he has been called upon to extend td other fields the. enlightened policies” which he has evolved in his own union. ot: It Mr. Soule apbligs to him the term “labor statesman” because he sees in him 'the statesmanlike qualities of vision, imagination, intelligence, reasonableness, and ability to make necessary compromises, His work, says the author is an exemplification of what organized labor may du to profit both itself and its employ-

HE AROSE | By ROBERT O. LEVELL Though cruelty had come to Him He proved to be the Holy One, ‘The Lord was seen on Easter Day; With arms. ascending up so high, He disappeared into the sky : The precious joy all Heaven knows

Revealed the day when Christ| Ing

one of the greatest men who ever lived. He was never poor. He had

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long, long timé: A. F. of L's General Counsel Padway had some friendly, co-operative chats with Labor Board staff people in regard to the matter. Point of it all is that whereas the C. I. O. doesn’t - swing many votes in Congress, the: A. F. of L. carries quite a bit of weight. If it should decide to go down

happened which hadn't occurred Gener in a

might be a good deal brighter. - | » 8 8 yn i |

Headache for the AAA oN

when it was shown that the biggest soil conservation -

payments have - been going to the. ins panies which hold vast farm acreages. ; panies got over $200,000 apiece in the last hand-out, | and €even more topped $100,000. 1 Even more surprising, however, is a comparison = of the conservation payments as a whole with the general situation in regard to rural poverty. The department recently published twos maps of the United States. On one map there is a black dot for each $20,000 paid out under the AAA program; on the other, a black dot for each group of 200 farms - which annually produce less than $1000 worth of Crops. ds ; The two maps don't mesh at all; ar where’ the dots are most nuifierous in the money-paid-out map are not the areas where theyre heaviest in the other map. In other words, ‘the bulk of the pay-. ments go principally to the farmers who need them

Watch Your Health

By Jane Stafford

= lt as I) n=-coLonep clothes are often said to be more practical than light unes, meaning that they do not show dirt as lightscolored clothes do and therefore need not be cleaned as often. health standpoint, this is not a good jdea. It is not even too practical, because the material of cl.thing is ‘damaged by being allowed to remain dirty. - The practical shopper selects clothes that will stand all the cleaning or laundering necessary to piotect the wearer's health ‘and thé material of the clothes” : 7 iy roy Ay Clothing should help to keep the skin clean and to protect it from ns. It sno. therefore, b2 kert clean itself for health ‘protection. . If dark clothes are becoming to yeu, wear them; but rememsber to have yofir clothes cleaned tly even if they do not show any dirt. Soiled clothing, itis believed, may account for much infection with germs and for much skin irritation. . ~ ¥ lect Underwear which comes next to needs even more frequent cleansing °

‘| ments. One purpose of underwear

moisture that is always exuding from thus to help the body with its temperate. : job. Once the underwear has become sa with moisture, however, it has a bad effect on both perature regulation and the skin. PERE AEE that has become

Unde! : : be worn: agaim until it has been laun 3 underwear or other clothes to al ee: "Shak undies esi | gérms, fior ‘odors. underwear grounds for a can causs Your grandmother's spring wardrobe preparations included underwear a the items to be bought or made. Yours, of course, feed ach Lebause | eop

to pro-

the line in defense of the board, the bbard's outlook .

The AAA people were mildly embarrassed recently =

From a.’

th skin of course arse