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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 1940 ||

LAUGHTER ON THE HOM E FRONT : QEVENTEEN dead in traffic in the first 90 days of 1940. My Almost twice as many as last year. That is the sorry gafety record Indianapolis has |set already, with the slaughter destined apparently to continue. It is a record which gives the lie to any pretense we ght hold that ours is a’ sents and well ordered community. | The Maginot Line is safer than our streets.

THAT ZONING VARIANC HERE are ‘apparently a good many injured feelings and [ some bewilderment at the Zoning Board’s complete about-face in granting a zoning variance to permit a restaurant to be built in the 3700 bl ck of N. Meridian St. | The Zoning Board may have had excellent reasons for ith that which we do not

would be a little less bef arlother City board had not Jace the restaurant pwner. | It is undoubtedly a ‘transaction without blemish, But it is just a trifle. unseemly. | | Don’t you think so, too, Mr. Joseph? |

1 OX POPULI . 'l TABLE absence of p blic excitement seems to have eeted the news that John L. Lewis may form a third mere machine politics are the voice of the people

this land.” © There is, we think, no lack of dislike for machine poliics | of desire that the voice of the people shall prevail. 1 he rouble may possibly be that quite a few citizens do share Mr. Lewis’ apparent ¢ nviction that the voice of

people is the voice of John

i NEUTRALS E millstones between which the European neutrals perch are drawing closer together. The early days of the war saw three Baltic neutrals lsurrender much of their sovereignty to Russia. Finland resisted, but she, too, had to give in. Germany has been sinking Scandinavian merchantmen by the score, with [heavy loss of life. Rumania is an economic dueling ground, as are the other Balkan states in varying degrees. England violated Norwegian neutrality to free British captives from | Ithe prison-ship Altmark. Belgium, the Netherlands, Switz||lerland; and other states are arming and taxing. as if they were at war instead of only on its edge. |It is generally agreed that if Germany could be cut off | from the minerals and foodstuffs of the European neutrals, | the either in the field or on the Conversely, many be‘lieve that Germany can thumb her nose indefinitely at the

“When we are asked to 1o as a matter of course interpretations of neutrality which give all the advantages the aggressor nd inflict all the disadvantages upon the enders of freedom, I recall a saying of the late Lord four: ‘This is a singularly mtisiod world but not so ontrived as that.” And now Mr. Chamberlain] takes the same tack: “The blem which Germany has raised of a double. standard neutrality is one which we and the neutrals now have

face.”

st be brushed aside where necessary to curb (German

ports. It is a decision that Germany will hardly take’ Ces

Sooner or later—whether in the north or the southeast or the low countries—it looks as if the economic tug-of-war must give way to a war of men and guns, with the neutra | ca ght in between.

SOMETHING TO CELEBRATE X7HEN the Amalgamated Clothing Workers’ Union was |" organized 25 years ago, sweatshop conditions were bad throughout the East and Middle West. With a small but enthusiastic nucleus of members, the union set out to militate against this evil. Its success drew an ever-increasing ‘n aber of members, and the union developed into what it is today—one of the strongest, most progressive labor organizations in the United States. ' Marking this quarter-century of the Amalgamated’s history the first of a series of silver anniversary celebrations ‘was held the other night in Cleveland. Executives of many Cleveland garment-making firms were present as guests and a principal speaker was Paul Feiss, head of the largest such company in that city. : . In other cities where similar ealebrations are to be held, pther ‘employers will take an active part. This evidence of management’s high regard for a labor union is encouraging, and its explanation is not hard to find.

The Amalgamated goes further than most unions in |

seeking to avert strikes. It bases its demands on intensive ‘surveys. In many cases, the union’s own experts have aided employers in reducing operating costs. It operates two banks, which sometimes make loans to employers. i had an unemployment insurance system before t vancement was even widely discussed as a has taken part in a large housing venture for| working people The cultural and recreational program | of its locals have been outstanding. Sidney Hillman, president of the Amalgamat from its beginning, must have been proud of the fine things said about his union by the employers at that Cleyeland celebration. Fe i544 tight foe %

"of Theatrical Stage Employees aiid Mov Operators, is dominated by two crooks - nominal presidency of a stooge.

In short, the Allies have decided that the law of nations 3

Fair Enough

By Westbrook Pegler

Gang Formerly Connected With Capone Mob Now the Leaders in * Some of the Big A. F. of L. Unions.

YORK, April 3.—In this essay and in others I will sketch the outline of the criminal ‘mafia which is operating under charters from the American Federation of Labor. This is a gang descended from the old Capone mob, and its connection with the new Capone gang will be inferred rather than demonstrated. : The PF. B. I could fill in the. picture, but Government bureaus are afraid to engage in operations which might offend either the ‘A. F. of L. or the C.1.0., and the defails will not be produced out of the Government files until some committee of Congress demands them. It has already been shown that the labor racket in the amusement industry, the International Alliance Picture inder the

These criminals are Willie Bioff, the iy Capone gangster, and Nick Circella, another Chicag hoodlum, both of whom were appointed to their jobs by George Browne, the international president, who high in the councils of the national body of the A. F'. of L. 2 ® * | | NCIDENTALLY, to the foul record of Bioff, the vice-monger, may now be added the fact that the tickets for a de luxe cruise on the Normandie which he enjoyed in the winter of 1938, price $3700, were paid for by a man with whom Bioff conducted negotiations ostensibly on behalf of the rank and file. The story of the Bioff-Circella-Browne union in Chicago is one of bombings, extortion, oppression and murder. The crooks rose to power by methods reminiscent of Mussolini, Hitler and Capone, without any vote by the union rank and file. They just muscled in. Many union members have written me letters and some personal acquaintances among the membership have told me confidentially that they just pay and rarely go to meetings, and on those rare occasions

sit quiet, because they know that if they protest they will be outlawed from their occupations and, not im-

probably, beaten up or murdered.

The Building Service Employees’ Union, another Chicago racket with an international charter from the A. F. of L., is dominated by George Scalise of Brooklyn, an old prohibition mobster and pander, Scalise is an/ associate of little Augie Carfano, alias Pisano, who, in turn, is ‘related by marriage to the Tammany politician known as Jimmy Kelly or Elephant Ears. 2 8 8 Qos did four years under the Mann Act for pandering. He muscled into his job as president

| of the union at $20,000 a- year, plus unlimited ex-

penses, out of an annual income, or lug, of approximately $300,000. He may draw down the entire $300,000 for personal expenses. And, recently, when he

went down to Miami to confer with William Green|

he paid $20 a day out of the union treasury for his room in a hotel where one of his organizers discovered that chambermaids were caring for upward of 20 rooms a day for $13 a week. Chambermaids are among the toilers whose initiation fees, dues and assessments provide Scalise with his $20,000 a year and unlimited expenses. Scalise’s locals in New York are postively crawling with criminals in many of the key positions. I have checked a dozen myself by the laborious process of going to court records. The F. B. I. probably could reveal other criminals in the official list.

Inside Indianapolis

Order Pie .and Save 5 Minutes; And 3 Hard Way to Make a Living

ID you “know “there was a time saving element in D the serving of pie for dessert? Well, there is. We have the word of no less an authority than Wilbur Gruber, assistant secretary and dynamo of the Indianapolis Rotary Club. ' It all came out yesterday when Mr. Gruber was discussing next week’s Rotary meeting with Dr. Russell S. Henry, the club's first vice president. Dr. Henry wanted more time for his speaker, a distinguished Chinese. “Well,” said Mr. Gruber thoughtBully, “we’d better serve pie then. It will save us five minutes.” “What's that?” asked a surprised eavesdropper. “That's right,” answered Mr. Gruber, “five minutes every time when you serve pie instead of ice cream or sherbert. I've got it down to a fine point by this time. » . 2 8 8 ! PERHAPS YOU'VE SEEN the itinerant magician and eavesdropper who's been operating around the Court House. He makes about a quarter on every show and he puts them on all day long. He starts out by putting a half-dollar in a soft drink bottle and then getting it out. We assume it's’ a sleight-of-hand trick, but he does it neatly and by the-time he’s finished he has a pretty good crowd. Show we saw even had two or three judges standing over the rail watching. Then the chap has chains put this way and that way around him until he’s securely tied. He keeps up a running chatter until he’s completely loose. The way he gets his money is when folks toss it in to him. It’s a hard way to make a living. 2 2 8 THEY'VE DISMISSED THE only pretty girl juror called in a long time. . . . She sat on the Anderson jury about two hours and then just after she powdered her nose, she was excused. . . . We've got a report of a new high in salesmanship from a chap who went into a drug store to buy some liquor. ... When he asked for a moderate-priced brand, the clerk looked at him aghast. , . . “You don’t want to drink it, do you?” he said, “I tried some the other day. It’s terrible!” . . . Although they're working as hard as they can, it doesn’t look as if the municipal golf courses are going to be open before April 15th. e soft ground has been delaying a good deal of the ork’ and A. C. Sallee, superintendent of parks, isn't sure himself when everything will be ready.

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson |

TC young voices in the adjoining beauty-parlor |

booth brought fragments of philosophical discussion even though they talked about nothing more startling than the wants of women. “I'm dying for some new furniture,” went.the first complaint. “Gee, I'd like to talk Ed into letting me get everything fixed up at once—we could pay for it a little at a time, I tell him. Everybody does. But he won't hear to it. Says we can’t afford to take any chances this spring.” “Ed’s right, Kid,” and even though she was only a working girl she spoke with the wisdom of Confucius. “Ed’s right. Besides, it’s no fun getting things in a bunch that way. You'll get more of a thrill by picking up a little piece here and a little piece there. Why, Bill and me get the biggest kick out of nosing around trying to find a new table or chair—exactly the kind we like. There's no feeling like you have when you've waited a long while for something you wanted very much and wake up in the morning and see it right there in your own house and know it’s yours and all paid for. What’s the good in gulping your fun. When you go.slow you get the taste of things better.” How right she was! Half of us never get the taste of enjoyment because we want so much and we want it all at once. We take no time to savor pleasure or happiness but go running about searching for thrills, which are gone before we realize we have had them.

And what is true about buying furniture is true|

about love and life. Today dawns, for us, beautiful and Sunshiny, but we can’t pleasure ourselves in it because we're dreaming so eagerly of all the wonderful things we expect to have tomorrow. Too many of us are like . the

young woman who wanted all her furniture new and|

at once. | Yet when we think about it, we know that most of [the fun of living is the slow accumulation

of our t oi or Fi Hen. they be treasures of the household or

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URGES MAYOR START LOW | COST HOUSING PROJECT By Citizen i The housing solution adopted. by the City of Decatur deserves consideration here. in having a public spirited Mayor who is proud of his city. He could leave no better monument to his civic work than an adequate, prac-| tical low cost housing project. : 8s 8 = POLITICAL MONOPOLY CHIEF PERIL, IS CLAIM By Voice in the Crowd Hetrick of Elwood seems to have missed the point in my claim that we would become enslaved to the political powers that be, if fe Government is to run business. | that

article I pointed out that newspapers were Government owned we would be fed any kind of tripe the politicians wished to gi In that article I asked |if there was any reason to believe that politicians were any more pure and unselfish than the people who operate private business today. still ask that question and since Hetrick is the one to disagree with me, I ask it of him. “government” operates anything it has politics in it, and when a thing has politics in it, it is operated by politicians. they are no better nor mo unselfish than anyone else To you fellows who talk about “monopolies” I will say that there was never a monopoly on| the face to the political monopoly that has existed during the last seven years. You are about to see that onopoly spend, throw away, ld waste billiens of the taxpayers’ dollars in order that it can retain its power as a monopoly. If you want to talk about a monopoly, why not talk about a big one. Talk about a political machine that can legally destroy business and jobs by taxation and persecution, and can lay untold debt and distress on the poor by giving them tomorrow's breakfast today, hoping within themselves that when tomorrow comes another set of politicians will be in office to take the rap. * Organized power is bad, and it is un-American, be it business, politics or one of the pressure groups. The only organization that is hard to

pure or

We are fortunate] _

litics that is in power—it is judge, jury and rule maker, all in one. Self preservation is a rigid law of nature and holds good even in political machines,

3 8 8 = SEES GREAT DEBT AS FORM OF SLAVERY By Observer

{The 60 or more Congressmen who ve constituted themselves as an ndependent committee to investigate the cause of continued unemployment in spite of all the relief and New Deal policies, should study the privately owned money system that controls all our industries and Government.

We are living under a form of slavery that is just as vicious as| chattel slavery. That slavery is debt | slavery. Until it is abolished there) can be no real prosperity, no balanced budget or recuction of unemployment. Whoever owns the money system| owns the Government. A privately| owned money system such as we have under the misnamed Federal Reserve System will not only wreck! every industry in the nation but 1t will eventually wreck the Government of the nation. The Govern-|

| force?

be no solution found in the borrowing money creation system for nu-

another emancipation proclamation by our Government that will take

over the entire money and credit |

creation power out of private hands

and place that sovereign power | where it belongs in the Government |

alone. 2 ” 2 DOUBTS U. S. NEEDS BIG AIR FORCE By Curious I remember that as far back as 10 years ago the late Arthur Brisbane kept hammering away in his editorial column that the U. S. A. had a seriously deficient. air force and

now I see that Maj. Al Williams is|

itelling us the same thing, and in-

| cidentally, in very plain words, too.

But why do we need an air It will be absolutely idiotic for us to go “over there” again and

to my knewledge there isn’t a first rate military expert in our military,

service who will sign a statement that North America can be success-

fully attacked by any one or group

of foreign nations. It just can’t be done and what

ment could keep on borrowing until it had created a 450-billion-dollar

European power would be crazy enough to try it in the first place?

New Books at the Library

T= 19th century in Europe was an era of striking contrasts: Magnificence and poverty, despotic, if charming monarchs, enormously wealthy nobility and wretched serfs, wildly extravagant courts, revolutionary movements, and race persecutions. Nowhere were these contrasts more intense than in Russia, the background for the. lives of two of the world’s greatest and best loved pianists, Anton and Nicholas Rubinstein, whom Catherine Drinker Bowen describes so effectively in “Free Artist” (Random House). The author tells the story of the two brothers from the baptism of Anton into the Christian faith in order that he might become a Russian citizen, and from the birth of Nicholas in Moscow. Their mu-

break .-up, however, is organized

sical education was begun by their

Side Glances—By Galbraith

"Our son and daughter-in-law live in that apartment, but Pa and | can't get up pur nerve to call on them—the doorman scares us to death,

gifted. mother Kaleria and carried on by Villoing, the best music|: teacher in Moscow. They both had the same phenomenal fingers and the same technical methods, yet each developed - into® a completely individual and original artist. Anton, endowed with superlative pianistic equipment with which to conquer the world, was always the perfect virtuoso, joyous, fiery, intelligent, healthy, and with tremendous personal magnetism.. He had a rare quality of creative playing, a magic singing tone, unequalled power and ‘passion, and his life was an endless succession of pensions, palaces and platforms. : Nicholas, good-natured, attractive, and the more human of the two, played and taught in Moscow, where he founded the Moscow Conservatory. Miss Bowen is successful in recreating the atmosphere of that amazing period which produced so many great musicians, artists and writers and in making these brillian contemporaries of the Rubinstein’s human beings rather than shadowy figures of the past.

SPRING DELIGHT

. By OLIVE INEZ DOWNING

Where have you been, little vaga- : bond? . Fishing in waters of Grassy pond? Trudging along with happy air In overalls with plump feet bare.

Your old straw hat with ragged rim There beams beneath your dimpled chin, I see two twinkling eyes of blue And rosy cheeks of ruddy hue.

In chubby hands’ I glimpse your

“catch, Four ra bow trout for dinner

bate. : With fishing rod you stroll along Whistling a merry school-time

song.

And old “dog, King, close to your heels : Tracks your way through lane | and fields, What plea if we all could find Your great content and peace of mind.

DAILY THOUGHT And if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he ‘die under his hand: he shall be.

surely pul ed. —Exodus 21:20.

EVERY unpunished murder takes away something from the security

OR Svery: 0's life.—

Daniel ‘Web-

Gen Johnson Says—

'Our Turn Next,’ Dangerous toon, But the Fact Is Fighting Powers Will Be Exhausted by This War,

EW| YORK, April 3.—We were sloganeered into the last war—at least as a partial cause. “If England and France are licked our turn is next.” That one pulled heavily. “This is a world war of

democracy against autocracy. Our place is on the side

of the | democracies—they are fighting our pee J Boiled down to “Make the World Safe for Democracy” | that was a honey. |

There is a good deal of doubt as te whethe they were fighting our war but there is none whateve: that we fought theirs and did it in time to win it. | Then we paid a lot for it. We asked for nothing apa got considerably less than that. About the only difference between the sl ing approach in that war and this is that th time it is working three times as fast. “Fighting Our War” was what Jimmy Cr said to Canada and, while he got an official spanking, no small part of the press on the Eastern seaboard said he| spoke the truth, or at least what most |Amer-

icans think. I DOUBT if he spoke the truth. West of the AlleA ghanies at least, it has been my observation that ‘most Americans think no such thing. i be next” is a variation of the “democracy” theme of “fighting our war” but it packs more weight. It slants toward the strategy of “self-defense” which is something most Americans would fight for-if they the need existed. Our sympathies are all with the Allies but stand‘ing alone they wouldn’t pull us in. It becomes very necessary then to study this “our turn next” business. from whom?” The World War and everything that has happened since shows that it takes a great super-jority—-maybe as much as 3 to 1 in men and conclusively to smash the enemy. Remember that Germany was never defeated in battle—and neither ‘was Finland. 8 ® o 2 HERE was nothing approaching any such superiority on either side in this war—neither in beHod nor in prospect. Whether this becomes a bloody war of movement ‘or action or a white war of nerves and strangulation, ‘neither side has much hope of coming out of it either |with total victory or with enough strength deft to ‘tackle us in 20 years—especially not if we arm on the plan we have adopted. | It would be a lot safer, and “cheaper for us in blood [and money, count on these things. to avoid its being “our turn next” than to keep repeating that ‘we are sure it will be until we sloganeer ourselves into another terrible trimming and make it our turn,

not only next but now, by self-hypnosis.

Business

national debt, and still there would | By John T. Flynn

employment. We shall have to have ||

Booms Rare and Hard to Gauge; We Haven't Had One in 10 Years.

HICAGO, April 3.—From time to time we are informed by prognosticators that the “boom” is about to begin or that the “boom” has ended or is about to end. But if we will look back over the last 10 years we will see that we have had no booms, but merely a group of secondary swings in our business cycle. There was a sudden rise in stock prices in 1933 following the first inflationary measure—the Thomas amendment to the agricultural bill—which lasted from May to July. But it was not attended by any important expansion of productive business. There was another gradual expansion of eneral business through 1935 and 1936 which tapered off in 1937. Buf it was far from being a boom. There was a rise last fall extending up to Christmas which has now flattened out and this too was hailed as a boom. It would not’be a bad idea to understand the difference between a boom and these moderate expansions, as well as the difference ‘in thelr causes and in the influences which end them. Whether a boom is a good thing or not, we will not see one in this country until there is a large increase in the flow of investment money into business. But in the meantime, we have these swells of activity followed by descents into relative inactivity. And these arise from causes wholly unconnected with the flooding of new capital into the market from private business. They begin with the exercise of two forces. One of these is the ordinary rythmic movement of business orders and inventories. Merchants’ shelves become pretty well cleared out and manufacturers get rid of their surplus inventories. Business is then in a posture for a. rise if it can get a little boost. That boost may come from an expansion of Government spending, a sudden burst of (foreign buying or, perhaps, some news or fear or hope which leads businessmen to suppose that prices will rise. When that sparks, manufacturers, sensing improvement, buy raw materials, and retailers begin to increase their orders. This puts people back to work—creates purchasing power which promptly manifests itself in retail stores which make further increases in orders and so on.

Retail Sales Watched |

It usually explodeséin the same way. People watch retail sales as the signaling instrument for the fall. But |actually retail sales are by no means the first to decline. The decline invariably begins either with retail dealers curtailing their orders from manufacturers or with jobbers reducing their operations. They do this because, for one reason or another, they sense the falling off of purchasing power before it actually occurs. The moment they act on this forecast, that is the moment retail stores curtail their orders, manufacturers reduce their employment rolls, making an immediate cut in purchasing power, which also promptly expresses itself in the retail stores, which curtail their orders more, which results in further manufacturing cuts and a consequent recession. We have seen a succession of these secondary or subsidiary swings up and down. But they are wholly unconnected with those major movements which take their rise and fall in great investment expansions and contractions. We have seen no sign of this major force since 1922. It is for this reason that the index of production becomes a good forecasting index rather than the capital investment index which has been relatively stationary for years:

Watching Your Health

By Jane Stafford

OR many hay fever sufferers, this is the time to [start treatment so as to ‘be ready to- withstand the summer pollen onslaught. , As you probably know, the spring, summer and fall hay fever victims owe their sneezing, sniffling misery to their supersensitiveness to the pollens of certain plants or trees, There are all-year-round hay feverites, too, but their trouble is generally due to some other substance such as feathers, horse dander, house dust or the like. Pollen victims are usually treated by a process of , desensitization. rst, the physician makes careful tests to determine just which pollen or pollens cause the trouble. Then the patient is given a tiny dose of the offending substance and at regular intervals thereafter increasingly large doses until he is able to tolerate the large amounts of pollen blown on spring and summer breezes. Details of the treatment, of course, must be planned by the physician who will also give advice on general health measures and will prescribe drops for nose and eyes if necessary. Desensitization treatment can be given during the hay. fever season, but is said to be more comfortable and about 20 per cent more efficient if given before the hay fever season starts. A patient whose symptoms usually begin about May 20 is generally advised to start treatment March 1 and others are advised to start correspondingly two months before their particular season. Hay fever Sroatment. is important not only for re-

Heving th this ‘ailment but-for preventing en asia tha develop 1 more than Bal the aes.