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MONDAY, APRIL 1, 1940

AND THE CENSUS ‘HAPS tomorrow, certainly within the next two weeks, an agen! of the Government will come to your door anding .pexsonal information: about you and your ily. / <i v 3! : : | Be'tha kful that you live in a country where the pros‘pect of this visit need cause no fear. There are many coun‘tries where it would not be sq. . Our Government seeks this il be. used against any of us,

ormation about us, not to : t to be used for all of us. The census takers are our

servants, not the spies of ou masters.

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America is like a motion picture on a screen so vast, so crowded with action and counter-action that human eyes nnot comprehend it all. The census, like a still camera, ill take a single snap-shot. When it is completed we shall

ve a photogra nanent record to be studied and analyzed and compared vith others of the past. From it we shall learn more than n be discovered by any other method about the signifiance of all the action. Efforts have been made to create suspicion of the census. The motives of those who make them may have en sincere or otherwise. The important thing is that the efforts have had little success. The great majority of the people understand the useful purpose of the questions to be asked, and understand, too, that no individual need fear to give free and truthful answers. | The Government agent who will come to" your door will bring you an opportunity—the opportunity to do your part toward making the great record complete and accurate. Welcome him, help him with this work, for in so doing you will be privileged to help yourself and your country. i 3IG STEEL'S LIVING JRJAVING given a lift to business hopes and the stock market through an unexpected common stock dividend, the United States Steel Corp. has made more news by i$suing a most unusual annual report. i This report is written in everyday language. It describes the vast corporation’s 1939 -operations in simple terms. It includes pictures and charts designed to make understanding easy. Copies of it have been sent to each of the 224,000 employees as well as the 217,000 stockholders. ‘hey can get from it, without the aid of expert accountants, a clear idea of how the business functions—in the report’s ‘own, words, of “How the Corporation Earned Its Living.”

We hope no reader will miss one paragraph in'the in

troduction by Chairman Stettinius: - “In the latter part of the year the course of business was influen ed by the outbreak of war in Europe. It seems appropriate|to state that, quite aside from the humanitarian and moral i su , war orders represent only a fleeting prosperity and war business is certain to result in a disruptive shifting of our economy. War is certain to cause a destrucon/of capital that cannot be replaced for years and of lives than can never be replaced. The management of the United States Steel Corp. is convinced that the first requisite for the attainment of a lasting prosperity is peace and the prospect of enduring peace.” : : ‘Sound doctrine, that, not only for Big Steel, but for every corporation and every citizen that wants to continue earning a living. |

OUR COUNTRY

Shen is the sweep and

h magnitude of the U. S. A. On | the map this gigantic slab of earth confronts us with

Nere a thumb thrust toward the warm Caribbean, and

there a fist reaching for icebergs in the North Atlantic. Here is the cool loveliness of velvet lawns in New England, and here a black-shadowed date grove in Phoenix under a sun that burns like mustard plaster. Here are palms. tossing on the Louisiana shore, and here the high Sierras with their snowy crests floating like swans in the tall blue sky. Here is New York at night, hell-red with Neon, and here is a lone rider herding sheep on an empty Wyoming plateau. " Here is the whole lavish land, so vast its horizons exhaust fhe eye, so t rbulent with beauty, ugliness, terror, and hope that it wears a thousand faces and speaks with 10,000 jongues.”. om Readers Digest, condensation of Fortune gazine’s “ e U.S.A” 2 |

SEC NEEDS SUCH MEN EORGE C. MATHEWS, a member of the Securities and = Exchange Commission since its beginning, will leave that Government agency on| April 15 to become vice president of a Middle-Western power company. We regret to see him go from public service. ' The Wall Street Journal describes Mr. Mathews as the SEC’s “most consistent and able conservative spokesman.” Conservative he may be; as contrasted with some of the other members. Able he certainly is. A Wisconsin Re‘publican, he has not always agreed with New Deal views as to the Commission policies, and business has considered him a steadying influence. 1 ti | »| Yet President Roosevelt speaks in appreciation of his work, while’ Chairman Frank refers to him as “the soundest

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financial analyst I have ever met” and “a bulwark of tech-.

nical expertness and highly intelligent business judgment which can best be described as good old American horse: sense.” And Mr. Mathews, in his statement of resignation, aff he SEC, warns that they should not be weakened ‘or detroyed by revision “undertaken in the heat of political conoversy,” and urges the utility holding companiés—by one of which he will soon be employed—to co-operate with the Commission in the task of reorganizing their $14,000,000,-

000 industry.

+ Mr. Mathews’ successor, under the law, must also be 4

Republican. We hope the President can find one as sympa-

etic to the fine purposes of the SEC legislation and with. s much sound judgment about how those purposes should

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XX 7ASHINGTON, April 1.—Cordell Hull is coming out of the Senate fight over his trade-agree-ment system a stronger political figure than before. Having defeated the amendment requiring Senate confirmation of such pacts by a two-thirds vote, he would not be greatly injured by an amendment requiring majority ratification—still a possibility. - It was the name of Hull, along with efficient parliamentary work by the Harrison-Administration forces, which blocked the amendment to revert in

éffect to the old logrolling tariff system. Just as defeat in this battle would have virtually

eliminated Mr. Hull as the leading compromise possi-| °

bility in the Democratic. Presidential "convention, so victory has multiplied his chances of nomination. For better or worse the President made the Hull program a test/ political issue, and the Republicans accepted it as such. : But it would be a mistake to assume from all this that Mr. Hull is to be the nominee. Though he is the best bet at the moment, it|is far from a certainty. The political situation is completely in flux, even more so than a month ago. There will be many shifts in the three and a half months before the Democratic politicians gather in Chicago. 11 2s (22 | T= third-term possibility will not be deninitely disposed of until the convention. Even a flat esident would not

statement of withdrawal by the settle the matter. | : The “draft” movement, which started out as a phony, is now very real. ‘Many of the state and city Democratic bosses, wha haye little love for the President and less for the Netw Deal, steve he is the best vote getter in sight; This judgment is confirmed in some (céses by objective political wa have

So far as the President himself is concerned, the widespread guess in Washington does not want a third term and would consent to run only under extreme pressure. ersonally, he has everything to lose and nothing to gain by such a gamble. 2 : Assuming that the President does not run, he cer-

tainly will have veto power over any other candidate|

though he probably cannot name his favorite, Attor-

‘ney General Jackson.

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HE strength and the weakness of Mr. Hull in a convention deadlock between New Dealers and

the Garner-Farley group, are both fairly clear. As Secretary of State he has been| nominally but not actually part of the New Deal and its domestic disputes, and is thus theoretically the perfect compromise. The President could not, veto him, and Jim Farley would not. His name probably carries more respect

among independent voters than that of any other Democratic politician. He has long| experience. He has intelligence, integrity and courage, - His weakness is that he does not want the nomination enough to fight for it. His age is a definite handicap. He is not particularly| strong with the labor, Negro or farm vote. And if there should be a sudden shift ot public ‘pinion against Administration foreign policy between the convention and election, he could become a liability candidate. _ The net is that one of| the finest and ablest statesman of this generation has only one chance of being nominated—namely, as a default candidate. They will name him only if they can agree on no other. So far they have not been able to agree pn anybody.

(Westbrook Pegler Is on Vacation)

Inside Indianapolis

Hs Selmi setts | | About Thote Who Pay Personally!

And About the Chap Who Lost.|

VERYBODY gets bills and dered every once in a while how many folks pay by mail and how many personally. We got to wondering about it and we just| picked the Citizens Gas & Coke Utility as .a| fair ‘guinea. pig. i Well, last month 4he gas company sent out 88,756 bills.

youve probably won-

And youll be surprised [to know that just about 65,009 came in to pay them personally. Most people, they say, like to pay their bills on the first or 15th of the month. Normally, the busy days are Saturdays and Mondays but if either of those days falls on a first or 15th, the gas comvany clerks find it hard to live with each other. They even have to hire extra help. ‘Incidentally, the gas company has model kitchens around the office and a food shelf. Of the 65,000 who [came in to pay their bills, 12,000 took recipes home with them. Funny part Wu that one of those 88,756 bills went to the gas company itself. Sure, for the gas the model kitchens use. - The company paid its bill on time, said Mr. George Saas of the Gas Co. proudly. They'd better.

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OUR MR. J. E. O'BRIEN, the sports writer, got a check in the mail Saturday for $10 frcm one Joseph J. Hunteman of Oldenburg, Ind. . . . It seems that when Messrs. O’Brien and Hunteman were sophomores at Indiana University they made a bet on which | would marry first. . . . Mr. Hunteman, obviously, lost. . ... Mr. O’'B confided that there was andother $10 on which wculd be a grandpa first, too. ... The Y..W. C. A. on N. Penn. has this sign on its bulletin board: “Our home-made pie and cake is delicious.”. |. * They is, is they?. .'. A young chap walked brightly into the office just now and handed us. this: : : R “I think it’s probably All winter I shared a With a girl. We’d never spoken. Today we both smiled.”

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. THE RAPID-TALKING CHAP you may have heard broadcasting the basketball finals for WIRE is Luke Walton, now connected with WBOW of Terre Haute. . . . Officials of the local station said that Walton, who is about 30, holds “some kind of a record” for going so fast. . + . A Bnutler| Collegian columnist writes: “The Bachelor (Wabash), a combination newspaper and razz sheet, resents DePauw and Butler! because ‘both are masquerading as universities.’” They should cry—after raising only $166.85 of their first Junior- Prom which cost $397.95.”, , . Boy, that’s answering ‘em! | : :

V ’ | ° ° 4 A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson VE CURIE is as intelligent as her last name and as charming as her first. A quick, vivid, vital per-

son, her mind seems to flash from one subject to another, touching light things lightly yet bringing

1 a scientific approach to major /problems. ; Like most ‘Frenchwomen- she is not séntimental.|

For Eve Curie Jaughs when she reminds us that the women of Her country do not have the vote. “It’s a bit silly that they shouldn't,” she says, “and yet, so far as their influence ‘on national ‘affairs is concerned, it doesn’t really matter,” Perhaps this sounds odd to American women who have put such emphasis on the right of suffrage and who often use it so badly, At any rate, Miss Curie

- ‘sums up the problem with one apt phrase: “It seems

so much more important to be able to earn a living than to go to the polls and vote every now and then.”

The right of Frenchwomen to earn a living has|

never been questioned. They have long possessed the kind of equality with men | to many of our people—tk them to be real partners in domesticity and in busi. ness. Frenchmen are keenly interested in their homes, , judgment and prac-

tical sense of their wives to seem fantastic or weak to the average American husband. ' ; : This saplains, of course, why Frenchwomen have already

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CLAIMS RHODES SCHOLARS ARE BRITISH PROPAGANDISTS

By “Bull Mooser™

To Curious, Bloomington, Ind.: Don’t be dismayed if at times your reading and thinking leads you to believe you might be a Communist. Probably, it is-only a slight case of political indigestion — and, heaven knows, there is enough moronic going on in politics today to make any learned man sick at his stomach. : . But even if you do. become an avowed Communist, worse. You might become a cannibal or a Rhodes Scholar. My Chinese laundryman was telling me the other day about these Rhodes Scholars. He said that Brit-

| ain had played the same trick on us

with Rhodes Scholarships that the U. &. pulled on China with the Boxer Indemnity Scholarships. As a result of the Boxer Indemnity Scholarships, he said, China had been infiltrated with’ American-edu-

‘cated Chinese propagandists work-

r the cause of U. S. big business in China. It has proved fo have beenn| a cunning investment for American Big! Business, he said. In the same manner, he said, the Rhodes Scholarship has filled our American colleges and universities with British-educated preaching the glory of the |British Empire and the necessity of keeping that empire intact. He said that his (Chinese) boy in one of our American colleges had been branded a Communist because he had disagreed with one of the Scholar professors who

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must, if necessary, go to war to save the British Empire. \ So don’t worry if some one brands you a Communist. It might be the man with the branding-iron is of even a lower order. ‘He might be a war-mongering Rhodes Scholar. ,

#.8 8% DENIES WE HAVE DUTY TO HEAR COMMUNISTS.

By Mrs. W. A. Collins

To Imogene Patton: Your recent letter in The Times was very amusing. It reminded me of the little boy who ate too much rhubarb pie. The bites were too large, so you could not swallow a good old American raspberry. ; Americans, thank God, can still turn off the radio when a broadcast grates on their nerves. You asked sensible, intelligent women to hear you defend Communism. Why? Because you realize 'as well as I do that it would

need a build-up and high powered !

it might be

(Times 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.)

salesman to sell itdgers. of trial in Russia, the re of your pet ghost, the peasant still lives in shacks, with leaking roofs, no windows or lace curtains, Their lives are more shackled than our slaves were. | The foundation or backbone of any nation is its marriage laws. Russia has none ngr does it have any morals, either. “The children belong to the state and their women to any man that asks for them. Every man and woman is.a spy, ready to turn in their brothers or sisters or neighbor to save their own miserable lives. Whole communities have faced firing squads on trumped-up charges. [It is the lowest type of murder any nation could ever dream of. : Shame on you for trying to break an American custom by compelling the people to listen to rabble. We are not in Russia | Germany, thank God, and are not made a part of the force used in those couptries. 2 2 8 CLAIMS INTOLERANCE CAN'T BE CONTROLLED By Pro-Freedom : I took quite a beating from our

Forum friend, Mr. Maddox, the!

After years.

that I insist I am not a Communist; I will defend their civil liberties to the best of my ability. Denying the Communist Party a place on the Indiana ballot is not in keeping with our democratic heritage. Contrary to what Mr, Maddox or the women’s clubs may believe, it

America, but more of it. Go ahead, persecute. the Communists, ‘Mr. Maddox. It is but a step further to the persecution of aliens. Then, all means, follow the general pattern persecute Jews and Negroes. When these groups are disposed of,

persecute them. (Mr. Maddox will find plenty of people in America willing to subscribe to all of the above.) 3 By this time we are properly in the frame of mind to deny religious liberties to all groups. There may be the heads of the capitalists to crack; the poor will already have lost all vestiges of human rights. If, by this time, Mr. Maddox’s liberties are left unharmed, it will only be because Mr. Maddox himself is doing=the persecuting. All this may seem fanciful, but we have only to refer to contemporary history to find precedents. |

8 2 2 8 THINKS LIMIT ON CAMPAIGN FUNDS O. K. By Observer With only three million’ dollars each to spend on campaigns, the political parties may have to resort to Democratic methods of electing a President. :

New Books at the Library

TS the professional deborator, the salesman of decorative objects, the writer on decorative topics, and the clubwgman who is studying the cultural and practic: arts, “Decoratively Speaking,” -(Doubleday) by Gladys Miller, will be a handbook. To students of the subject it may be a text. And other readers it will help in the decoration of their homes and in the appreciation of that decoration. Miss: Miller traces the historical development of architecture and furnishings, foreign ‘and domestic,

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4stood. It can ] history and the reading of litera-| subservient to international policies which few are

stressing particularly the chronological succession of the English and French periods and showing the modern. agspisiions. Fabrics, floor coverings, and ssories are illustrated by photographs. Line drawings make possible a visual approach to the period furniture. Each chapter is followed by an outline summary of historical dates and events, influential personalities, and even costume detail. The author has included examples to illustrate the motif of each period. In her words, “knowing and appreciating the history of decorating can make painting, sculpture and architecture more easily undermake the study of

ture more vivid as the background, the period’ and locale presented by the author may be visualized.” “Detoratively. Speaking” surveys the field of ihterior - decoration, combining facts with study and the author’s practical experience.

_ CRAVING SATISFIED By RUTH KISSEL

Have you yearned to see- the : Amazon, In the Southern Hemisphere; Or to have a glimpse of the North- - ern Lights, In the springtime of the year; The fjords of Scandinavia, Or Gibraltar Rock in Spain; But have failed to know the man next door, Then stop and think again.

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‘DAILY THOUGHT | Whose soever sins ye remit, -W. soever ye re tain, are retained. —Jobn 20:23,

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‘| promised to clear the mess. . There has

‘| accused—even while they try to hang him.

| President of all the people. It is no job for

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oliver aveniti. It isn’t in apology|

is not less democracy we eed in.

the Catholics may give trouble, so

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MONDA Yan 1, 1940

Gen. Johnson

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Tom Dewey Uses the Prosecutor's Language ‘but Defense Offered for the New Deal Is Far From op 7 ASHINGTON, April 1—This column is no preVY ¥ convention booster of the candidacy of Mr. Dewey. His bid rests largely on his reputation as a

| brilliant criminal prosecutor. To that, all hilt! Neither

do I carry any torch for Mr. Roosevelt's ird=term candidacy. Yet, I believe that the smash against the ‘backwash of filth and corruption of the prohibition

| era was sparked by the President himself. Certainly

the ending of the efa was his alone. | : He laid the job out in his 1932 campaign. He been no let-up. I hate some of the methods. Of the result there can be no question—kidnaping is ‘almost ‘out, gangsterism is on the run, judicial peculation and low ethics at the

‘| bar have become too dangerous to practice—much.

However that may be, there is splendid credit enough for all and there is no occasion t balance moerits. But, as a lawyer, I don’t believe that the mental attitude of A-1 public prosecutors is a proper one for Presidents. : wii 3 s 8 =

NOWING the sincere talents of their legal opposi~ . tion, they would not be realistic to respect toc much the juridical theory that they are there to pro. tect the constitutional or common law rights of the | e gangster’'s mouthpieces can be relief upon to do more than enough of that. The D. A’s are there to get convictions. If they don't get them, they go. It is, perhaps, nowadays, a necessary evil but it is hardly an obx jective attitude toward any kind of opposition. Every opponent is an enemy and most enemies are Crooks. However far we may have departed from the official idea, any American President is still supposed to be a prose«

‘cutor. * All this leads

up to Mr. Dewey's St. Louis and Chi«

cago ‘speeches. They are clearly arguments for the

prosecution and they are nothing more. Most of the indictment is a true bill but I must say : No Republican candidate is going to get by first base on criticism—especially of the superheated prosecutor type—without constructive sugges= tions. If Mr. Dewey has offered anything important of the latter nature, I have yet to read it. # ® » Fy HE only things hat give me a greater pain are~ New Deal defenders who hear and cannot con«

test that obviously true bill of continuous and cynical tration for elementary truth

respect for promise Aubrey Williams, Legn Henderson, Secretary Perking and others haven't stolen any money or taken any bribes—as Secretary did. foo For the sake of a healthy opposition, I pray for a more constructive Republican campaign but, for the sake of an endurable Democratic defense, I hope it contains something more than assertions that New Dealers never stole pennies from dead paupers, never robbed the tin cups of blind beggars, or throttled any orphafis to take away their candy. - There has been sinned a blacker sin. I

Business By John T. Flynn | Ts \ | Hull Pacts Shouid Be Continued; Importance of Policy Over-

HICAGQ, April 1.—The fight on Secretary . réciprocity ‘treaties may go off on i wholly aside from the question of the reciproca policy itself. Jy ry ‘There cannot be any sound objection to the prgposal for a plan which is designated to break dawn the barriers to international trade. Even the strong protectionist Republicans have recognized the wisdom of the principle. William McKinley, the patron saint of protection, was the outstanding champion of reciprocity. 2 i fruit But there are two points involved in this coniroversy which are very .important. The reciprocity treaties are not terribly important,’ They have been exaggerated out of all proportion by their foes and their defenders. Secretary Hull, with whom free trade is a kind of religion, fondly imagines that they can save the world. They are a good thing, but they will not make even a little dent in the world. The critics insist they do great harm to certain American groups, especially farmers.. But this, too, is overdone. Some groups are injured slightly, some aided slightly. That is the most you can say for them. - | , _/ ‘But what may be more important than ‘the treaties are two principles involved in the present plan. One is the point raised by Senator Pittman that the whole idea of putting into the hands of the President the power to make treaties without the. collab« oration of the Senate is fundamentally wrong-headed.

Money Powers Abdicated Yo

The whole tendency of Congress during the last seven years to concentrate more and more power in the hands of the Executive is looked upon with the gravest| alarm by those who believe ‘that, however well-intentioned an Executive may, be, this kind: of thing paves the way for still further’ encroachment by some Executive who may not be well-intentioned. Perhaps the gravest blunder ever committed by Congress was its abdication of its power over money when it began voting blanket sums of billions to the President and then found it had to go crawling on its knees to him for money, which is p ly the reverse of the original plan of this Government, | But there is a second objection. The whole ques tion of reciprocal trade agreements is tied up with the question of national oo omic policy. It is not possible to make wise trade treaties without having also other economic policies with ‘which they sought to

conform. : bo a Now the last place in the world to lodge the power to determine trade policies is the State Department. It is not organized for such a purpose. Its<personnel is not chosen for that kind of service and ‘never will be. It is absorbed in international ‘relationships and, never more than now, ‘disposed to make: all things

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Watching You

By Jane Stafford

OST people realize that children: need to drink milk every day, but sometimes the grown-ups forget to give themselves a daily ration of milk, They should have some even if they do hot need as much

r Health

One of the valuable elements milk supplies is galcium and another is phosphorus. These two minerals’ are needed for formation of teeth and bones, as well as for other purposes. Along with them, the -child must have vitamin D, from sunlight, cod liver oil, or other source, so that the calcium and. phosphorus from his milk and other food will be used pro; for building strong bones and teeth. ri mbt Bone and tooth building, with the aid of cal¢tum, phosphorus and vitamin D, goes on mos rapidly during the period of growth. Once a person is ‘grown up, as size is concerned, but the process by which erals along with other materials: are converted intg bone and tooth tissue continues, though at a slower pace. So adults must continue to get some um and phosphorus to, keep their bones and teeth strong and still have a supply of these minerals for other purposes. 3 ‘A man, it has been cal to eat thirds of a gram of cal , and

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