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SATURDAY, MARCH 30, 1940 Ld

IT would be

HE WAR AND THE PEACE unfair to condemm Ambassadors Bullitt and

" Kennedy on the basis-pf the documents issued yesterday

in Berlin——do matic archive

uments purportedly dug out of Poland’s diplo-

” Forgery is an art that governments| have used before

~ NOW. Even

if the documents were authentic, there would

remain the possibility of wishful or distorted reporting by

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the Polish dip I! | Certainly if Mr. Bullitt conveyed the ‘Polish Ambassador Potocki, in that the United States “is ready, in event of war, pate actively jon the side of England and F talking through his | If Mr. Chamberlain and M. Daladier relied on any such “information” Jin coming to their fateful decision of last Sept. 3, thei: Similarl

—to “see sist upon - cash,” he was none

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omats involved. |] | impression to Washington 14 months ago, to partici-

rance,” he was | | hat—scandalously so, =|

sagacity has been grossly overrated. , if Joe Kennedy agreed—back before the war the Prime Minister and Lord Halifax and... inthe necessity of helping Poland immediately with was dangerously involved in an enterprise that of his business. I elves, we doubt that correctly. | 2 ® le le Sumner Welles comes home from a mission . Roosevelt's words, he carried out “with ex-. tact and understanding, and in accordance with erican diplomatic traditions.” ident took pains to emphasize that Mr. Welles

or Kennedy 1

either Bullitt

“was neither authorized to make, nor has he made, any ‘commitments States, nor was he empowered to offer, and he has not offered, any proposals in the name of! this Government.” It may | Mr. Bullitt authorized to make commitments. Under the Constitution, naturally, they could make none such as is

, involving the Government |of the United

be assumed that neither were Mr. Kennedy and

, but challenged by Secretary Hull and others. |

Hush-Hush Stuff By Ludwell Denny

E.D. R.'s Move in Clamping Secrecy On Commercial Plants Again Gives | Civil Liberties Group the Jitters. 1"

YASHINGTON, March 30.—Civil-liberty defenders are examining the Administration’s latest secrecy moves, made in the name of national security. In one of the most sweeping executive orders ever issued by a peacetime President, Mr. Roosevelt has clamped secrecy and censorship rules on hundreds of commercial plants making Army-Navy supplies, as well as on military places and objects. And next week Attorney General Jackson and U. S. District

Attorneys are to confer here on a proposal for secrecy at espionage trials. : On the surface 0 But union officials and civil-liberty groups have been suspicious of the Administration since it revived the discredited “subversive activity” spy system. under J. Edgar Hoover, and since Attorney General Jackson recommended modification of Federal anti-wire-tap-ping legislation. 32 : Following charges by Senator Norris and others that the FBI was guilty of improper and illegal | activities in the Detroit Spanish recruiting raids, and after a Senate move to investigate wire tapping, the Attorney General admitted that Mr. Hoover had been using wire tapping in exceptional cases. | : 2 2 = *

“HE Attorney General, after ordering his civil \ liberties division to investigate the Detroit arges against the Hoover men, made the FBI rules mply with the 1934 law against wire tapping. But at | the same time he proposed that “wire tapping should be authotized under some appropriate safeguard,” specifically in Kkidnaping, ettortion and racketeering cases. 1 . Indications that the new FBI emphasis on socalled plant protection and subversive-activity espionage is in line with White House policy, plus the Administration’s effort to modify the anti-wire-tap-ping law, have given many liberals the jitters. - They cannot forget the gress violations of ConSibutonat civil rights by the Justice Department during the last war hysteria—in the name of national defense and of preventing subversive activities. That Government tyranny was protested by leading lawyers such as Charles Evans Hughes and Felix Frankfurter, and the Hoover General Intelligence Division was later abolished as an abomination by Attorney General (now Supreme Court Justice) Harlan Stone. 2 #8 8 -

ABOR unions are particularly fearful of the “plant protection” activities of Mr. Hoover and his revived General Intelligence Division. Union leaders point out that the War and Navy Departments, under the industrial mobilization plan, have spread small “educational” orders among hundreds of commercial plants. : ! | They fear that under the new Roosevelt executive order and the Hoover plant-protection system, their

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will be violated; that their organizers will be intimidated and persecuted as “subversive agitators.” This fear does not concern real military secrets— for the unions have co-operated with the Government to detect actual spies. The chief danger of misuse of this Government power is said to be in industrial plants whose Federal orders are small or of no secret nature, but whose management is antilabor.

(Westbrook Pegler Is on Vacation)

these moves appear reasonable. |

right to protest bad working conditions and to strike |

I wholly

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disagree with what you

: ay, but will defend to the death your right to say Volians, or

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THINKS ONE BREADWINNER TO A FAMILY ENOUGH By Reader ; I have seen and admired the family group picture published on the

(Times readers are Intel "to express their views in ~ these columns, religious cons troversies excluded. Make

SAYS PUERTO RICAN INDUSTRY fS UNDULY BURDENED By Everett B. Wilson, Director of Puerto -

Rican Trade Council. Mr. Ludwell Denny's column,

|Gen. Johnson

. former.

- ruptey.

| losses, five, 10 or 20 years from now. . -

Says— LA ;

Wheeler Bill “to Reorganize the | Railroads Should Aid Recovery, but ity

‘subsidies, by increased taxes, debts and reg

burdehs, tends to ‘increase the cost of things as

‘or faster than it spreads the purchasing pow

consume them. The latter effect cancels out

Everybody renders lip-service to the self-ev truth that the only answer is increased jobs lowering costs and increasing private—rather | public—investment, employment and production almost every governmental action moves CA the reverse direction. : Recently more intelligence releasing one of the key logs construction. Another equally f the railroad mess. Many ra : ized until they cannot possibly eam enough to fair return on their securities. Others are in pe Neither class can attract private ce necessary to their upkeep and operation. | ® x =»

== has been so much decay and so ma provements in the railroad industry that i could get that capittal, the modernization ¢ railroad system would afford a very large re-ej ment. ; Lf | Senator Wheeler's bill for railroad reorganiza is among our most important pieces of legis It recognizes. that some railroad capital stry ctures must be “put through the wringer” by prompt and . realistic court action reducing obligations to pay for dead horses of past mistakes or on values of property beyond their reasonable power to earn. It therefore proposes to scale down the | apital values of railroads to a multiple of their past average earning power—regardless of past investment. That is good, but the bill as drawn omits one other vital principle without which it becomes simply a mandate to repeat past errors: ale gh # . » » ; T= bill does not consider the trends of fe labor costs, and rates to determine whether ! support even the reduced

future earning power can abso~ .

capital structures and, above all, finance the lutely necessary research and constant mod

} tion which are absolutely necessary to any

petitive enterprise in this rapidly changing age Regardless of the physical differences am several lines, it applied the same inflexible re zation rule to all, not considering thegfact requires a far greater investment in | “bricks mortar” to give necessary service to some sec our country than to others. "If the bill is not amended in this regar reorganized roads can’t attract capital from

investors now and even if others do—wheth

careful or foolish investors—the result is

be a new crop of railroad bankruptcies and investors

which appeared in The Times on Business :

have a chance” Letters must March 11, summarizing a forum on Joh T Fly / : | be signed; but names will be Puerto Rican affairs recently held By onn lo | ynn ©

: fx : here in Washington, painted a J | withheld on request.) | |gloomy and pessimistic picture of People of All Nations Favor : Go to War for Variety of Re

economic and social conditions in the territory, based on remarks of| ~~ certain speakers. = Unfortunately, Hioalio, Marl 80. -Ser Scag Tat : | a candidate e ; Mr. Denny apparently did not have| J0 or peace but he is afraid we may be led | access to the remarks of at least one| rt is|very nearly time for Mr. Taft to become “this, since he was one of the Senators who vo

front page of a recent Times issue your letters short so all can I admire and welcome that man who upon foreign soil is able to attain security and position denied his}. several « million adopted brothers. But I see no justice in any-system| which allows five persons in a fam- > i'y of six to hold jobs in a country| - oh op where millions of families have no fiew community to replace a 30 wage=-earner. ~~ |slum area is to be divided into two A large portion of families | sections, one for whites and one for ‘through no special merit or ability |eoloreq families. : not only live on an ever rising liv-| 1t will have its own parking lots,

-attributed in. Berlin to Mr. Bullitt. The principal job of Mr. Welles, who is a good listener, was to ask questions rather than answer them. The questions he put to European leaders elicited little that is hope- | ; | ful. Still, Mr. Roosevelt said— | | | Dr. Frank Wicks, This Town 's | “Even though there may be scant immediate prospect | | No. | CiviciMinded Minister for the establishment of any just, stable and lasting peace pi ot tiie wash DT Pra RN 5. C. Wicks who

Inside Indianapolis

"in Eurdpe, the information made available to this Govern- | I hds perhaps given more of his time to civic affairs han any other Indianapolis minister. So much so

other speaker who pointed out that

| ment as a result of Mr. Welles’ mission will undoubtedly be

of the grea ment of su

| But if ' mediate pr . can do mo peace come; And the Senate vote yesterday, defeating the amendrnent

open our

amendment

fest value when the time comes for the establishch a peace.” I 1 4 | 4] |

# = 2H | ul a.» | e can do little or nothing to improve the “imspect” in Europe, our nation is the one which t toward establishing conditions which, when

s, will help peace endure,

to the Hull Trade Agreements Act, kept wide gpportunity to make that contribution, The stipulating that no trade agreement should

become effective until ratified by a two-thirds vote of the Senate, would have meant|no more trade agreements. | If the United Stajes did not own most of the world’s

monetary

the richest little. But

gold, if it were not the leading creditor nation, of the “haves,” what we might do would matter occupying that pre-eminent position, we owe it

to the rest of the world to so conduct our own affairs and to

so lead in

-nations m

the trade

establishing world conditions that the “have-not” y gain peaceable access to the raw materials and

upon which they must depend to survive. For, as history ha

shown repeatedly, what the have-nots” cannot

gain pea eably, they will attempt to seize by the sword. | If Secretary Hull's program, permitting a reasonably

~ the biske

bedroom,

free flo tablished that the program,

may be averted.

Cb WATCH OUT TONIGHT

f commerce across political borders, had been est the end of the last war, it is altogether likely second world war would not have started. That s the outstanding hope that a third world war

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mile auto All If In for the 1 tonight— Or, i

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BALL takes off on a final nutty spree tas. be-

it bows out of the spotlight and leaves the field to such com

paratively sane and sober activities as the 5004 race, baseball, golf, fishing and the like. o | e can do is give you fair warning. iana skins the hides off the Kansas J ayhawkers ational basketball cha

f Lapel, the people’s choide, should squeeze through tball finals at Butler Fieldhouse tonight=- = | either should happen, then we warn you:

off the public streets, lock the children in the hide the cat in the kitchen oven and head for the

lar. It looks like a temporary blackout-until the

exciteme

STANDING IN THE NEED . .

dies down. |

HE country waits anxiously for a ruling by the Attorney |General of the United States on the grave Hat

Act qu chairma

ion just submitted to him by E. H. Birmingham, of the Democratic Party in Iowa:

Would it be pernicious political activity for the Rey.

D. Gwil watcim 1940 tinued | principl

‘We: hope Attorney General

Rev. Mr,

violating 1

Divine blessings upon

Roberts, a Presbyterian minister employed on an NYA project in Des Moines, to open the ocratic State Convention with a prayer “for conthe Democratic Party, its , policies, platform and candidates”? | Jackson will find that Roberts can deliver the proposed prayer without

the law. Failing that, prompt amendment of the

ct would seem in order. This is no time for obstacles, otherwise, in the way of any person who is willing oceasion to pray for any political party. | fio

Pittman ||

ionship at Kansas City |

the

that one of his parishioners once jokingly suggested that the Doctor join the church. . | Di. Frank Wicks is past 70 and is now pastorjemer tus of the All Souls Unitarian Church. There is a remarkably close friendship between Dr. Wicks and the Rev. E. Burdette Backus, his successor. Dr. iWicks sits in the family pew (second row, directly lin front of the altar) every Sunday and listens admir\ingly] to Mr. Backus. ‘have delivered sermons as good| as those he hears |now.| | % r. Wicks is an intensely human person. . He's a | manis man, medium height, square build, erect pos- | ture] gray hair, ruddy English face. He is usually ' seen| puffing away at-his pipe, a kindly, twinkling- | eyed, full-flavored man. |

"2 » 2 HAS BEEN CONNECTED with All Souls. for 35 years and he has been as close to his congregation minister could possibly be. He was frequently a guest in his parishioners’ homes, not merely as the pastor, but as one of the group. They never felt that they had to be careful in his presence. e has a huge collection: of neckties. Nobody s just how many. Most of them have been given by church members. Typically, he likes the t-colored ones best. ’ r. Wicks is known as a connoisseur of food. Up until recent years, he always ate ‘enthusiastically. He likes travel and has been all over Europe. The sport he likes best is baseball and for years he has been one of the Indians’ steadiest customers. When a -double-header was scheduled on Sunday, church pechices never were late in ending. Me |

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HE IS AN AVID READER and, although fond of his classics, he is always up to the minute on modern novels and biographies. Like a lot of other Harvard men he used to carry one of those little cloth bags used in Cambridge to carry books about the campus. He carried it wherever he went, pulling out a book or magazine to read in any spare moment. His idea of the church has always been that it was “a religious center with a civic circumference.” He always urged his members to express their religion by being active during the week for betterment of [civic affairs. He always has argued that religion was something people have to live, and not just talk about on Sundays. | Since the Rev. Mr. Backus has taken over All Souls, Dr. Wicks spends a lot more time with his civic affairs, He still laughs as heartily as ever nd he still loves a good joke. :

| : A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson 1 al

said by Mme. Marie Curie, discoverer of radium. Un- = you have heard her daughter Eve tell the story of

CAN wish nothing better for a girl than a simple family life and some work.that will interest her.” Perhaps you think those; words were spoken by neighborhood housewife. You are wrong. They were

b r mother’s simplicity and sincerity of purpose you

ave missed a moving experience. She brings to glowing life the woman who is only al name to most of us. Instead of just the learned scientist delving into mysteries incomprehensible to -the common man, Eve Curie shaws us the simpleJoatiea wife’ and mother as well. Slowly the story of the development takes place. First we see the ard-working, self-sacrificing girl determined to pursue her great love—science. Next the young wife ind mother absorbed in her family and her laboratory xperiments, and ‘then the celebrity trying to hide rom the curious and to keep her tranquil existence disturbed. i | Because the spoken word is always more vital than he written one, Miss Curie, by certain voice inflecions and the worshipping look on her fdce, manages o re-create for her hearers a more vivid picture of er mother than her book was able to give. | And what a simple lovely soul Marie Curie was! There, indeed was greatness of character as well as ius. A mind trained to find the most precious d elusive qualities in dead ore, knew also how to k out the precious things in |human existence. /And so she said, “I can wish nuthing better for a girl teres a simple family lifg and some: work that will interest her.” * b : How strange

And ea ents spoken about women by

He says he wishes he could]

that sounds amid the n~ise of our own| ! nrees agents building synthetic femininc careers!|

ing scale, but actually have money to loan to a debt-ridden government. An even larger portion not only see their living standard hit the bottom, but must help increase the public debt. ~. i I have yet to hear even a whisper from any politician which might attack the enterprising and careerbound ladies. But when that party comes along that will shout down the irate female voter and equalize this thing with an emergency one bread-winner regulation ‘for the whole nation the depression will practically disappear over night. There are contributing factors but this is the greatest, most selfish, unnecessary and least admitted of all. And sponsored from the back door of the White House.

= 2 EJ OFFERS [SUGGESTION ON HOUSING PROBLEM By Louis shock, Decatur, - IL. In recent months your Forum has

-| published more letters about poor

housing conditions in Indianapolis than on any other locdl issue. “V. A.” newlywed and unable to find decent quarters, concludes pathetically that “it would be better for poor people to stay single.” That seems to me a spiritless and unAmerican conclusion. ‘ May I offer instead the solution adopted here by the City of Decatur? Our Mayor: appointed a housing authority to study the community’s needs. . On the basis of that study, plans are now completed and a Federal 10an application is filed for a project of some 50 two-story buildings averaging about four dwelling units each,. to house 450 families now living in filthy, overcrowded shacks. This

administration building, play area, recreation and social center. All existing streets within the sevenblock area will be abandoned, the grounds | landscaped, with ding walks, and buildings orientated for vistas, light and air. The units ranging from 2% to 8% rooms will average $14 rent per month, including heat, light, gas, water and refrigeration, providing the healthiest and most substantial housing possible for families with incomes of $75 or less per month. Private contractors will do actual construction work. We as citizens and home-owners are proud to support Mayor Lee in this effort to bring better housing to our community and hope that V. A. and others in similar circumstances will buck up and urge their Mayor to do likewise. Ty

the economic situation in Puerto Rico would be far from hopeless if the island were permitted to develop its slender resources to the limit.

in favor of foreign countries.

|ably and Federal relief funds could the 8

- At the present time, Puerto Rico is severely handicapped by the sugar quota system, the wage-hour act and various tariff reductions made The heavy unemployment could be greatly reduced, the slender buying power could be increased consider-

be cut substantially if the island's industrids were freed from these burdensome restraints. At the present time every industry on the island of any impo ce is held down by these restrictions. Economic and social conditions can not be improved until Congress makes the necessary legislative changes.

New Books at the Librar

ERHAPS you are one of the 85 million Americans who “go to the movies” every week. In that case, Margaret Ferrand Thorp has written this slightly ironical, high-

dollar industry for you. In her book, “America at the Movies” (Yale University Press), Miss Thorp convinces us that no art has ever been so influenced by its audience. The box office is there to accept your approval. If you do not approve, ‘the most effective way of showing it is to stay at home.

After a thorough boiling down of

Miss Thorp’s discussion of movie

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Side Glances—By Galbraith:

ly diverting account of a billion

‘includes the “intellectual,” who, beginning to take the movie seriously, is demanding that situations be

| after counting up the expenses of production, distribution and exhibi-

| common body of knowl ‘fus. ‘And to their alrea ‘handling of apparatus, the movie

skill of handling ideas.

By MAUD COURTNEY WADDELL

| Fading old letters

| Then closing the 1d of the box

fans, it is clear that the movie industry has two types of persons in its audience to consider. ‘The first type is the “average citizen” who demands excitement, glamour and fun. He usually likes his movie permeated with the spirit of Ameri-

can nationalism. The second group

treated honestly from an: objective standpoint. His support: must be won, but not at the expense of boring the less exacting patron, The

average citizen is more important, 8 a ‘examine the roads by which a peaceful

because there are so many of them. In any case, the answer to the question, “What. movie | tonight?” nas been greatly predetermined by advertising. The movie industry,

tion, is determined to advertise and to advertise the type of picture that will “go.” ul 4 “/ The movie usually does “go,” and to such an extent that one may, says the author, draw one salient conclusion: The movies are here to stay. We cannot overlook the fact that the movies are furnishing a je to all of r masterly

people are adding a newly found

CIVIL WAR RELICS

The past hangs among the ribbons of dust, | Trailing a memory where the

muskets rust. | spill} forgotten tears, ie I hear the echo

And years.

deep pain _~ { memories stirred-- + aware, 1 As I softly

should learn,” says Dr. Elizabeth Ma

ot bygone) ‘parent

the President on amending and weakening trality Act. ! | . Of course, our people are for peace. But that is tru of all people. That is true of the German ple, the * Italian people, the British, the French, every ody. No leader could get anywhere by comi saying, “I am for war. I am against peace. | at the earliest possible moment or at the fir, tunity to lead you into war.” No\Jeader cou hours on such a platform—even in Italy. | No people is ever led directly into war. into war by being for things, policies, princi jects which they cannot have without war. which want to own colonies, particularly ; spread all over the map, are indulging in a luxury . which sooner or later brings them into war. | . | Nations which encourage their nationals in exploitive operations in distant countri the impression that they will be protected if vestments run afoul of thé policies of thi countries, are allowing themselves to be, no but for something which cannot be enjoyed the inevitable danger of war. | ry - Nations which want to make not textual, but spiritual and tacit alliances, with other natipns which . are engaged in empire building all over the worl must expect that their empire-building friep | tain to be dragged into war and they will Be in ger of being dragged in, too. |

History Points the Way

Nations which like to indulge in the heady being world saviors, defenders of “right,” w flecting that the right is not always easily ¢ or defensible, are not for war, but they are ciple which will draw them into war as s sun shines. : re Nations which want to enjoy the adolesce of displaying -vast military establishmer navies plowing the sea, great air armadas filiing t skies, must realize that while they are not for war they are for something which is defensible only beca there is danger of war. And, therefore, they keep up a continuous agitation about war da

drawn away from peace and into war. The old ones, well worn, well charted on the maps erty. They are militarism and navalism, im venture, alliances with empires, imperial dg dependence on armaments as the foundatiof nomic stability, posing as world policemen, les by gun-loving politicians. oo The way to keep out of war is to keep to of peace. J

Watching Your Health By Jane Stafford dean

VERY mother wants her child to be happy and to become a successful person when he is grown up. Many mothers, however, do not realize that childhood, instead of being & carefree, holiddy period must be devoted to training for successfull handling of grown-up responsibilities and problems. | “One of the most important lessons t Jougall, psy= chiatrist of the Illinois Research and Educational Hospital, “is that each day they must make their son or daughter less rather than more gependent on them, so that the inevitable departure from the family nest will be accomplished wits a minimunt of emotional strain on the part of both child and

All the labor-saving devices in modefn |

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