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bi SATURDAY, MARCH 23, 1940

OUR BOMB SIGHT

FPHE U. S. Army Air Corps is supposed to possess

~ sight that is far and away superior to

of | month. | |

A RILEY 8551

* Way

a bomb any other in

® Perhaps it can’t “drop a bomb in a barrel from

_ five miles up,” but it is reputedly a marvel of precision. Its * design is a dead secret, even to aviators who have worked

| be less complex. Drivi

| APPROVED WEAPON

ration of Labor contention that

finance

‘with it. hs | ,

That the Allies need that bomb sight badly is indicated

by the reports of American newspapermen who toured the

‘German island of Sylt after a seven-hour bombing by Brit- |

ish raiders. The British bombs apparently did little damage

E ". ‘except to sand dunes.

: ~ When and if the air war starts in a big way, we are ~ liable to 4 a lot about that instrument. ‘So

Roosevelt. is emphatic in saying that none of vices far warplanes are

far, President | our secret de- |

being made available for export,

although late-model planes are being released. But every-

body knows that the President is just as p ‘reprimanded Jimmy Cromwell, and he might go further if the Allies were ever backed to ‘superior German air force. | Ttseems to us that this whole question

ro-Ally as the be tempted to the wall by a

of sharing or

withholding our airplanes and airplane devices is one on which Congress should speak up. No one man, not even Mr. Roosevelt, should bear the responsibility either for handing over major assets of our national defense to one side in a foreign war, or for playing dog-in-the-manger toward the nations that have our moral support.

" mit them as silent partners of the Allies.

TURN THE CLOCK BACK?

«1IGNESS”—bigness in the sense of great

The people themselves, through Congress, should de- / termine how far they want to let.the Administration com-

absentee

’ landlords and bankers and merchants whose principal

habitat is the East—has always been a target of Western |

and Southwestern politicians ; particularly, in recent years,

of Texans. | _ | Sam Rayburn of Texas and Burt Wheel sponsored most of the legislation under w now has power to regulate many of the grea

er of Montana hich the SEC t aggregations

of capital. Even Jack Garner; has in the past been a “radical” in Wall Street eyes, because of that native Texas hatred of Eastern bigness. Out of the West came Bryan, to blame the | ills of mankind on Wall Street's “cross of » gold,” and later Elmer Thomas with his inflationary panacea. The Western baiting of Eastern capital is as old

as the prairie schooner. A Now comes ‘Rep. Wright Patman of T

exas with his

chain store tax, on which hearings start in Washington Wednesday. This tax would destroy—not regulate, or restrain, or burden, mind you, but destroy utterly—the great store chains as we know then today. It is not designed

to raise revenue, but to gress into a guillotine.

* small chain operating within a single state. If Mr. Patman’s infatuation with the “little man” were

‘ ing indystry would create.

convert the taxing power of ConIt would return the business of | merchandising to the ijl independent merchant and the

{ile

d, it would tax away the right of

Ford and Chrysler and G| M. to sell their gars in more than one state—which would mean that only a millionaire could afford an automobile. It would tax away the right of the tobacco companies to sell their wares from coast to coast— |

and only the rich could smoke “tailor-made’

’ cigarets. It

would break up the big railroads and air lines—and force

travelers to change trains or

town gristmill, our news| from the town cri a horse is easier] than driving an automobile. As far as we are concerned, however,

grocery chains, the five-and-ten stores, the

re-bought clothes in economy - for which

automobiles and the sto the one-horse, two-holer to yearn, hs

THE American Fede

planes at state lines.

Maybe Patman is right. Maybe we would be happier | if our shoes came from the local cobbler, on

flour from the

r. Life might

on the nerves

we'll take the assembly-line preference to Patman seems

unions have complete immunity from anti-trust prose-

cution falls flat in view of what is happening

in Pittsburgh.

There the Federal District Court, through a series of

uncontested injunctions ment, is outlawing one businessmen and unionists whith have kept

The! latest injuncti labor combination whic ing prices(@nd-prevented use of prefabricati Others have aholished similar or the heating and venti and tile (industries.

ting, sand and

e gravel, and marble

obtained by the Justice Depart-. by one the arrangements between

building costs

on, just signed, ends the businesshas controlled plastering and lath-

d building marestraints in

is significant that both the labor defendants and

the business getedenil have agreed to these injunctions.well as business organizations are

It means that unions a

avoiding court trials nd the possibility of fines hy admitting (1) That they have been violating the Anti-Trust Laws, and (2) that the Government has authority to make them stop. These things now being admitted, unions. in every city ought now to withdraw voluntarily from all trade-restraining combinations, without waiting to be compelled by the Gov-

. That would

a real service to the public which

ecause the I indugtry—-a key to recovery— yzed by exorbitant prices. And a real service to

bers who ne

LAND OF LIBERTY QOME citizens still insist they will refuse to - of fhe census que contend,

company.

the jobs that revival of the build-

answer certain

tions. Their personal affairs, they are matters strictly between themselves and the

Latin

| Czech and Polish invasions and the local plots in

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America By John Thompson:

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To. South ‘of Us While That ‘of

| (Third of a Series)

uv. S. Prestige Soars. in Lande |

Germany ‘Has Dipped Sharply.

MAT ARE”

"YY and prestige have been deflated in Latin Amer-| ~ ¢

ica. Britain and France are sympathized with and

tary reputation is at a low ebb in those parts. Italy is still on trial, with the balance slightly in its favor stand. Japan is - distrusted ‘in some parts and re-|

gained enormously in stature

fluence in all of Latin America.

a result of the European war. ; Every nation |is attempting to improve and its position in Latin America by means of sorts of propa trips and all so

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led to suspect that a Jot of work done by the E peans and’ by Japan is just as much directed ag the prepontierans position of the Latin America as it is on behalf of lar interests. Gl 2.8 =

wiz most of the news broadcasts from F are colored by national interests, the Unit States sticks to its programd of giving factual stuff, straight news, something which Latin Americgns greatly appreciate, Even the Argentinians admit Ww are doing a good :job of it. We have refrained from such activities as giving out free news services to local newspapers and from making any other official “cultural” efforts. : = .The story of the decline and fall of German inflyence in Latin America is interesting. While Hi was clamoring for the rights of the Germans to live

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the last vestiges of the Versailles Treaty, 3 had the full sympathy of Latin America. Germany efforts in Europe. were ably backed by clever pro ganda in the Americas and everything looked ros for the Nazis there. 2 8 8 OWEVER, the Germans themselves destro) their own structure through a- series of ra moves in both Europe and in: Latin America. 1] rape of Czechoslovakia and the destruction of Pol proved definite setbacks to German prestige in Americas. Nazi uprisings were staged in Chile and in Brazil, and a Nazi plan was discovered.in Argentina by which Patagonia was to have been detached from the motherland. To top it all off, Hitler made deal with Stalin, ’

Latin America who could or would defend the mans. The Nazis had committed a triple blunder in the Americas—political, cultural and religious. e

South America were political blunders. The tierup with Soviet Russia was both a cultural and a religil us blunder. All classes of society and the church: rose against the Nazi menace. The Latin American nations envisioned themselves as neighbors of the Nazis and shuddered at the idea: All the Nazi propaganda to the contrary, they couldn’t shake that feeling of repugnance. If that was a sample of Nazi culture, Latin America yants none of it.

(Westbrook Pegler is on vacation) -

Inside Indianapolis Fred Hoke Who, One Easter, Had to * Wear Silk Hat, Frock Coat and Spats

ROFILE of the week: Fred Hoke, who is'a refreshing example of a top businessman in. politics. A Democrat, Fred Hoke is certainly not a politician: © He is regarded widely as one of -the-state’s outstanding “non-political” office holders. Fred Hoke's one great passion is helping other people. From the very start of the Community Fund, ‘he has been a dominant figure. In 1933 he was named state relief chfirman by Mr. McNutt. . Later he became president of the State Welfare Board and only recently was reappointed by Governor Townsend. Mr. Hoke is no rubber stamp as head of the Welfare Board. He takes the job seriously and he works at it. The result is that the Welfare Department is regarded as the most efficient branch of the State Government. i

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MR. HOKE IS JUST PAST 70 but you'd never guess it. One reason is the care he takes to keep his waistline just so. Up until about 10 or 12 years ago he used to puff on one big black cigar after another. He decided one day they might hurt him so he just quit. He can tell you when it was right down to the hour and minute. His family describes him as an ardent prohibitionist. ‘He enjoys public speaking and he has the gift He is perfectly at home in front of a crowd and makes his best speeches extemporaneously. No one else is more in demand around town as a toast-

or so has excused hixaself often from such appear-

He is slightly “below medium height and always appears trim and poised. He has sandy -gray hair and his eyes sparkle constantly. When. he makes speeches, a wisp| of hair keeps falling across his ‘brow and he keeps brushing it back. N\

ot IN

2 ” are his business (Holcomb & Hoke Manufacturing Co.) and his family. For a hobby he has a farm near Avon. He is an enthusiastic grandfather to Nancy Hoke (10), and Perry (16). and Fred (14) Lesh. He likes to take them to circuses and on trips. He likes motoring. He drives his own car (license Na Junn, The Lesh family car has license No. He has taught a class of young married people ,at North Methodist Church for years. Once he promised that if they would get a certain number to show up, he would appear at Easter services in top hat, spats, and frock coat. : They did and he did.

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

N Denver they've organized a Poor Persons’ Pooch Society to protest against the dog tax, which is considered much too high for poorer families who also love their pets. I've been invited to join.

lad in the land would have his dog tax-free and BB shots would nip the first guy who came along to drag any beloved mongrel off to the pound. Which is the sentimental point of view-and puts butter on nobody's bread. For that matter, if I had my druthers there would not be a hungry, poorly clad or unhappy child in te United States. i . ile we can sympathize with the tender attitude of the P. P. P 8, the fact remains that it costs money -to feed animals, and in citfes where dogs are allowed to roam unmolested through alleys and streets there are sure tn be certain mean-spirited citizens who dis-. like having their garbage pails overturned’ or their flower beds ruffled. Such individuals always make trouble for little boys’ pets. ] ! Probably the most tragic aspect of modern society can be traced to the faet that men and women long for country joys and city conveniences at the same time. Now the ‘dog is definitely a country joy. He isn’t happy in the city and wouldn't endure the life ifs it were not that he has an inordinate and incomprehensible affection for humankind. Nature created him with the urge to race and romp out of doors. Even in the eyes of his most degencrate kind—the pooch—one can see a sad expression which is undoubtedly’ the reflection of a primordial desire to dig up smelly old bones.

of dog nature as love for small boys. So m are wrong with our society. All children dogs; all dogs can’t have old bones; and worst of all, very many ‘nice hungry little boys can’t share the good witamin-filled foods

on account of its uncompromising anti-Bolshevik|

This briefly gives the picture of the relative posi-| . tion of the world’s great powers in Latin America 88, ;

: it ¥ da. Newspapers, radio, schools, = 3 of cultural angles are being em-| ployed in this battle for good will. However, one is|-

United States in|

under one government, and endeavoring to, destroy}

‘As.a result of these happenings, no one was left in|

BESIDES HIS PUBLIC AFFAIRS, his interests). '| Side G

As the little boys say, if I had my druthers every|

And the love for smelly old bones and some good { moist earth in which to bury them is as much a part

locked upon as potential customers, but their mili- TO

garded as a potential customer i others, The United| = | States alone has

URGES GIVING SURPLUSES TO NEEDY AMERICANS By American Patriot : “I will feed hungry people anytime, anywhere, regardless of race, color or nationality,” announces Herbert Hoover as he stumps the country, tincup in hand, in the organized shakedown for foreign relief. This is the same Herbert Hoover, overwhelmingly repudiated in 1932, who refuses ) lift a finger from 1929 to 1933 to feed mil’ - of hungry Americans, reduced to starvation and the status of scavengers by the inane do-nothing policies of his Administration. This is the same Hoover who said it was un- - American to give charity to Americans and who insisted upon nature taking its course when he was con--front.d with the most appalling economic collapse in all history. A. A. Berle, Assistant Secretary of State, sa’! in connection with snipping American food to Europe at the close of this war, “We shall be sendhg goods which we produce in abundance to places where they are reeded. We may hope that we shall be paid for them sometime, and no doubt will; but we shall know that, paid or not, human suffering must be relieved.” The abundance that we produce

perfectly logical to give it to foreigners. This is the tripe that is given a red, white and blue sugar coaving and rammed down the rullet of the sucker American public with the oily admonition that “any economic system using any other meth-

| cd of distributicn i{to- Americans)

than the presen: one would be unAmerican.” The political leaders of this generation are one part Czech, one part Pole, ene part Finn, three parts Brifish and no part American. : ” # ” SAYS CAPITAL AND LABOR PROSPER TOGETHER By Voice in the Crowd One (thing I like about “Voice from Labor” is that he does not sign “Voice of Labor.” e is a difference in that middle word.

cannot be.sold to Americans because they lack the price, but it is.

Most labor, both independent and

= : . / — 3 ~ lie ® y : 2 he Hoosier Forum 1 wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.— Voltaire,

(T'mes_ 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.)

organized, has knowledge. that s0called capital and labor prosper together, neither can prosper alone, nor can one function without the

other. I may be old-fashioned, but I know as facts those things of which I preach. I have learned a lot from our depression and of one thing I am |cerfain—that those who cry the loudest against our system of free men and free enterprise are they who | understand - the” least the political despotism from which our fathers freed us, and into which we will return if we believe our heritage is out of date. I challenge “Voice from Labor,” and all men of little faith, to answer these questions: oe : Suppose we Said, “All men are equal,” would they be—mentally, morally, physically? Who would enforce the law or would there be law? Who would say what to pro-

GEvEN * million individuals employed, 200,000 work-projects established at a cost of more than eight billion dollars — staggering sums contributing to the bread ang butter, mostly without jam, shelter, and a minimum of clothing for

.|about 27 million people—that, ac-

cording to Grace Adams, is’ WPA, arid the end is not yet. Into the spate of words concerning this most controversial and complicated social experiment she projects Jiet book “Workers on Relief” (Yale University Press).

| | thousands of city dogs.

‘which are fed these days to

lances—By Galbraith

2—and you “are making

duce and how much? Who would distribute the g and would it be equal? . Would the politicians get a little extra? Who would supervise and who would workin the flelds and in the

three? Could you or your children rise from the ranks? | Then after the political leaders, for whom you had worked hard all d y, gave you your “cakes and coffee? and a bed, would, you really be. as well off as now? Bear this in mind—the people of any nation must wor to live. If we cannot work and tolerate each other under the system of free enterprise we must wotk more and more for the political state, which becomes more and more arrogant as it is given more power. : #2 8 8 DEPLORES REFUSAL TO HEAR COMMUNIST By Pro-Freedom

America is no longer American when a women’s club, bent on denying the Communist Party a place on the Indiana ballot, refuses to allow a Communist representative defend her party. We don’t want to hear

New Books at the Library

these club women prate about freedom of speech, democracy, Ameri-

i canism, etc., because we're sure they

don’t know what these terms really -mean. :

This study asks pertinent questions: Is it relief work? Has it all been worth while? What effect has this work relief upon those who must accept its standards? How much actual benefit to the nation in the form of public works has accrued? : An explanatory chapter on the establishment fof WPA as a logical growth from her preceding sister organizations, TERA, FERA, CWA, etc., is thilowedr by a Series of case histories| which try to explain in terms of human life and needs the and strength of WPA. The author doesn’t attempt to solve problems. She simply tells us s: Of Joe, the skilled elecho soon became reconciled to his job of leading school children about the city to points of interest; of young Ben, the engineer, choosing between pride and starvation; of the old bookkeeper and his wife; of Tony and Nicky, the pert young radical, and {he ex-countess who wanted to teach English but instead ran a puppet show. : " Discouraging tales, in the main; but not exactly heart breaking, A . man’s pride wears down rather quickly under grinding poverty—he can't tear his hair indefinitely. No,

‘| dear reader, you won't want to go

out and slay any dragons—you wili just feel puzzled, and helpless, and a trifle ick. ® : ’

"EASTER DAY By MARY P. DENNY

A beam of light radiance bright.

and good will O'er plain and hill. God's gift of love | Heaven above. | Christ arose ‘His truths unclose. On Easter day ‘His holy’ way fay Shines clear and true | Prom skies of blue. Christ's gift of life Above all strife.

| DAILY THOUGHT Humble yourselves in the sight

filled by the

J to follow a particular bias,

1 tent men for a quasi-judicial board.

of review to insure, justice.

Aviation

‘| 'about your cosmetics being non-injurious.

‘créam, for example, may increase its a

of the Lord, and He shall lift you |

Proposal of House | Committee To Enlarge the Labor Board Falls Far Short of Offering Fair. Solytion.

yy Aeon, March 23—The.- Holise Labor - Committee proposal, to fumigate the stench in the National Labor Relations Board is of itself a stench. A quasi-judicial body has discredited itself by becoming riot at all judicial but biased, prejudiced, partisant and unfair. ‘How can that scandal be relieved by creating two additional vacancies to be same authority that appointed the first one? fret lel gi Shade lg. The proposal on. its very face and of itself admits’ the charge that the Board is devoted to partisanship ansatisfactory to all three principal interested parties —employers and poth sides of the divided house ot organized labor. On only one possible theory can: this partisanship be reversed—the selection and appointe ment of men who can be relied upon in every case, or at least a majority of cases, to follow a contrary pias. But men who can be relied upon in any case, or in most cases in which they are sitting as judges, are not judicially minded or even just men. They are either obstinate zealots or rubber stamps. . In neither case are they compe This is the very vice of court-packing, ju rigging and all similar schemes for paying lip service to principles of democracy and justice and betraying them at heart. : Gn i : 2 = = ee ; F two, or even one, of the new appointees {turn out to be of like mind with the members who have smirched and perverted the purposes of ‘the labor .act, this proposal can only keep its shocking injustices intact or at best make them worse. . And what chance is there that any number of additional judges would change this situation? There remains the philosophy of whatever reigning influ=

1 ence worded the law. It still defends the board it at

tempted to shield from investigation. After the board’s conviction upon the facts and at the bar of public opinion, it is still unwilling freely to acknowledge its errors and offers only this futile and tricky clever little scheme to calm the public clamor. | It is difficult to see why Senator Wagner’s opinion is to be greatly considered in this matter. He did fiot originate the Labor Board. That was done by NRA - in 1933 while he was abroad, The idea of that board was of a strictly unprejudiced umpire to decide controversies in the application of the provisions of NIRA for collective bargaining, independent labor ‘repre= sentation and maximum hours and um wages. ” td ”

B%: it was under the Senator's administration that the idea of a strictly impartial tribunal was

| scrapped and the hoard became a government pres- | sure bureau to organize industry, not in whatever

form workers might select, but in particular forms favored by the Board.~ That new policy is at the root of the bad repute of NLRB. I fear that Senator Wagner, under whose administration it was born, still favors that ruinous policy. ~~: | °° ’ With some clarification of the statute, there was nothing much the matter with the Wagner Act. With fair and judicial minded men, it would have proved a boon from the beginning. With the evil precedents now in the record, I teas it is too late even with a completely new:panel to recover the lost ground. There should be a single administrator to do the executive work and a rigidly fprareal board

By Maj. Al Williams | Test of Fuel in a. Shot:Down Nazi Bomber Reveals High-Type Gasoline, ~~HE No. 1 enigma.of this war is Germany's petroleum resources—and what are they? I tag it an enigma because none of the experts agree.

The British recently shot down a German reconnaissance bomber, and got enough. fuel from its

leak-proof tanks to analyze for grade and quality.

Those tests indicated that the gasoline was of 87 octane, with = four cubic centimeters of tetraethyl lead per gallon—and comparable with, if not better. than, that ordinarily used in military fighting engines throughout the world. x : I don’t believe that anyone outside the topside of the German Government knows how Germany stands on petroleum. hat The world has known that the Germans have been extracting petroleum from lignite, brown coal. —younger by a few; million years than black: coal, The quantities are unknown. The quality was une - known until gas taken from captured bombers’ tanks was ‘analyzed. Rag ; a hark in Experts also said that fuel manufactured from coal was inferior. If this had been true, the Germans would hdve been. forced to use more than 4 cc's of lead per gallon. The amount of lead per gallon is a direct tip that the base gasoline was equal to the best available. a i

Misled by the Experts

. ~ Likewise, if the Germans were feeling the pres sure of decreasing petroleum stocks, the gasoline tested would have disclosed a much higher content of - tetraethyl lead. The reason for this is that, feeling - the pressure, they would have diluted their aviation grade of fuel with that ordinarily used in ‘motor cars and truck engines, in order to increase the quantity available. If the British had discovered. 6 or 7 cc’s of lead in that captured gasoline, we would have had evidence that the German petroleum stocks were running low. | : The experts misled lots of us into believing that the Germans had no tetraethyl lead. Investigation discloses that this chemical— so vital for raising anti-knock values of gasolijpe used in high-compres= sion fighting engines—is composed of bromine and other cheaper ingredients. . The bromine is, however, - the material the Germans were supposed to be lacks.’ ing. Bromin€ is derived from chemically processed seawater and seaweed, and it is.silly to assume ‘the: Germans have forgotten chemical formulae and -

.processes known to the rest of the world for years.

It is my suspicion that Germany .is today indee pendent of petroleum imports, and that what.they - obtain from Poland, Russia and Rumania merely relieves the home production load. : ; :

T= spring wardrobe may be 100 per cent on health | but it is not complete, for the majority of women, uatess it includes some new cosmetics. You may noe. | itice, when you come to this part of your spring shopei ping, that the labels on some of your old favorites have changed considerably. The reason for the change may have been to make them meet the requirer ts of the new Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act. Aad ' Because of this new act, you can feel much safer eX ample, consider. the dye used So.give your new lipstick its luscious shade." It is probably made from coal tar, and if it is, the manufacturer has had to certify that it is non-injurious. All coal tar dyes for use in foods, drugs and cosmetics. must now be certified, whereas before the new law, such certification was

voluntary on the part of the manufacturer. There

are now 95 coal tar colors certified for use in’ drugs and cosmetics besides the 18 for foods. Dyes are im-

| portant in cosmetics for other reasons: than col :

rouge and lipsticks, you know. A pink tint in Certification of the coal tar dyes used in cosmetics, | and food, too, for that matter, does not; guarantee that an occasional user of the product will not have

| trouble from it. You may have heard of some women -

who had hadly swollen lips and a nasty skin eruption following the use of a particular brand of

berries. In the case of cosmetics, it may be the dye | or some other rou y : !

f lipstick, ‘Such cases are due to allergy and are like those in = ‘| which people get hives or swellings from eating straws =