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LSCRIDS “HOWARD| : ind Their Own W win Fin won W THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 1940 7

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ich are pressing for the ap-

olis are pn the right track.

THIS is the season, which recurs in every

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Presidential

ear, wherein ‘the political experts start r nning ahead interference. | ding their analyses of what happene Tuesday in ‘Wisconsin and New York, we recognize the familiar impulse

to mal e a summer out of one swallow. to mix|a few metaphors, we can only plead i

(And if we!seem

extenuation

that the experts, also, are a trifle mixed.)

However, many of them profess to disce

, with vary-

ing degrees of satisfaction or alarm, a trend which would indicate a couple of: glamour boys going to fit next fall— Roos velt for a third term versus Dewey for| a/first. t is well, we believe, to keep in mind that it’s a Tong trend that has no turning; that, though the calendar I is gal-

) it’s still a long

, long rays to Tipperary, |

TEMPT OF COURT

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JY GE THOMAS J. ROWE of St. Louis has ruled that he aspersions against his judicia} conduct must

a expiated by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch with files and

erms.

Twenty days for an editorial writer; 10 days

cartoonist; fines totaling $2300.

The defendants will appeal.

And in a higher court

| the will be tried before a judge who is not also the plaintiff. | | |That is the trouble with contempt-of-court proceedings suc as this one just concluded before Judge Rowe. A judge | gets sore because a newspaper or a lawyer or somebody else

| picks on him, | Sitting as plaintiff, judge and jury, he tries them

He has the offenders haled into hp court. onvicts

. them, and fixes their punishment. What's fair about that? | There is the safety valve of appeal, to be sure, But it | would be much fairer, and it would subject judges to fewer | | charges of abusing their power, if contempt cases were i tried from the start in courts other than that of fhe com- | plaining jurist.

} It strikes us as interesting in this connection that the

| Supre e Court of the United States, which manages to | maintain a considerable dignity despite’ occasional out-

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bursts’ against it in the press and elsewhere, doesn’t find it necess ary % bother [id contempt citations.

TO REGULATE THE REGULATORS

oon for congressional show-down is al measure

mental as any in our time. Fundamental, be-

cause [it deals with’ that basic proposition of whether ours shall be a Government by law or by men. The problem, thought settled in the earlier and simpler days of our democracy, has grown as the complexities of modern life have grown. It is the problem of Bureaucracy |—of power delegated by lawmakers to boards and commis'sions—of the trend inherent in bureaucracy toward seizjure of more and more power—toward combining within the ‘bureaucratic function the authority of | prosecutor, jury ‘and judge—and t ereby toward breaking down the vital concept of checks and balances upon which our system

‘was founded.

The measure would set up a method of review that “would slow down the racing engine that | is bureaycracy. It is the Logan-Walter bill,

Eras of | Pureeratic| power seizure are myriad. The record of|the various quasi-judicial commissions .s

| dotted with the

Particularly flagrant has been the per-

formance of the National Labor Relations Board whose | high-wide-and-ha dsome edicts are now so much under fire.

One of the

ost spectacular of cases is the recent Fed-

| eral Communication Commission’s ruling on the marketing of television. In this, fhe bureau designed to allocate wave

f - i ‘lengths—an obvi usly | [necessary job since wave lengths are {

limited—arrogates to itself the authority to forbid mer- | chandising of re eiving’ sets on the contention that in his

new art the | sets

might too soon become obsolete. Under

that sort of governmental philosophy the automobile, the - electric light, aviation and radio would never have gotten

started.

The pressure for expansion’! of bureaucratic power is

nothing new and nothing unnatural.

It isn’t confined to

the New Deal, though in that hectic decade the fruition has

been most luxuriant.

The tendency will never restrain

itself. It must be checked by that body in which the orig- |’

inal responsibility for: law-making is reposed. That body is |

Congress.

And that is why the Logan-Walter bill, with an

airing of t e whole great subject, is so important.

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ONE of the most pertinent statements on the question

was ms years ago

House J ali 6 Con ot denne tails. We |

ide before the New Deal was ever heard of—15 hy Rep. Hatton Sumners, now chairman of the iary Committee.

ress,” said he, “will enact a general law and these bureaus the power to legislate as to detheir, enactments rules and regulations, But

in practical operation, in so far as the average citizen is Eat they are laws. Not only that, but there is given to these bureaus the power to construe the rules and regulations which they make and the power to enforce them—

. the three powers of Government.

Contrary to our tradi-

tions, to our ii of Government, contrary to all the

things we profess

believe and against all the warnings

of history, we are lacing the three powers of Government —legislati e, executive, and judicial —into the hands.of the same persc nnel, not onéof whom is elected a1 the people.’ "

Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

Dan'l Coughlin’ Brother-in-Law Of Al Capone, Is Revealed as Head of Miami Bartenders’ Union. EW YORK, April 4—Al Capone’s Miami home is on Palm Island, and the Miami City directory

lists Dan’l Coughlin ‘as caretaker at that address. Dan’l Coughlin is a brother-in-law of Capone and is

business agent of the local Bartenders’ and Waiters’|

Union of the American Federation of Labor. Like the Chicago Bartenders’ Union, this local is a racket of the new Capone mob which has now muscled into labor. There are thousands of ‘bartenders and waiters

in the Miamis during the winter, and Capone's brother-in-law and household guard, or caretaker,

endeavors to collect an initiation fee of $12 each|

from them and dues at $2 a month. They pay their initiation fees and their $2 a month each for the months that they work there, then vanish. If and when they return they must be initiated again, and the waiters have been hearing that the initiation fee will be raised to $25 next year. 2 8 2 HE area is not well organized, for the sentiment 11: the community is anti-union, and labor there is in desperate need of a decent organization. However, Danny Coughlin does all right, and Frank Nitti, the boss criminal or regent of the new Capone mob _in Chicago, now risen to considerable power in the Miamis, is doing very well, too. Nitti was the operations officer, so to speak, of the old mob and went to prison for income tax evasion, but he is now the dominant force in Tropical Park, the race track. on the outskirts of Miami, a fabulous political perquisite of metropolitan criminals. Nitti also deals in sparkling water, which is diligently shoved by the waiters and bartenders in the joints where Danny Coughlin has extended his racket. The organizer of the Building Service Employees Union, a department of the Chicago labor mafia dominated by criminals with records, has been sojourning in Miami Beach for some time and has run into a jurisdictional question, This racket tentatively claims jurisdiction over bartenders and waiters, but Danny Coughlin will not give over. The dispute probably will be settled amicably, because, after all, ‘both rackets are under the general supervision of the Capone mob.

The Bartenders’ Union is strangely coy or ‘modest :

about the distinction which it thus enjoys. A phone call to the headquarters revealed a certain demureness. “Is Danny Coughlin your business agent?” “What do you want to know for?” “Call it curiosity.” ” ” 2 1 speaker was Mr. Al Berlin, also of Chicago, also a business agent of the union, whose local citations include a fine of $25 and costs for slugging a Boy Scout in 1938. Mr. Berlin admitted under pressure that Mr. Coughlin still was a business agent of the union. And further delving disclosed that Mr. Coughlin usually tries to compel the employers to permit him to name the head waiter and head bartender, who, in turn, would have power to select the other waiters and bartenders. It is of interest to note that although the rank-and-file workers in the hotel and restaurant trades must submit to fingerprinting and are subject to deportation if they have police records, criminals are not similarly policed. Criminals who come as sojourners or to establish rackets are supposed to register, but Capone was excused and Nitti is not on the guest book, although he is, next to Capone, the most vicious criminal veteran of the hoodlum wars of Chicago.

Inside indianapolis

Our Doctors, Our Policemen, Our Fishermen And Our Census, Too

D® WILLIS GATCH, the eminent Indianapolis|| surgeon, looked at his appointment book and buzzed for his secretary, “Call Mrs. Gatch,” he said, “gnd tell her I'm sorry but I can’t get home to lunch.”

The RIA called Mrs. Gatch. Mrs. Gatch is]

an understanding woman. She just laughed. “Tell

the doctor,” she told the secretary in effect, “that he just left here after having lunch—and a big one, too. » Which reminded us about Dr. Thurman B. Rice and his class at the Indiana University Medical School. Every once in a while while Dr. Rice is lecturing some of the students will stick up their hands and wave two fingers at him. He always grins and switches the story because it’s just their way of telling him he’s repeating on atopic he’s already covered. 2 ‘” 2 IF YOU'VE EVER WONDERED how our downtown traffic policemen manage to slip into their black raincoats so quickly when it starts to rain, we'll let you in on the secret. . . . They keep them in the store on the corner where they’ re stationed. . . A lot of folks who drive north at night along Kessler Blvd. or Cold Sprihgs Rd. have been puzzled by the flashing red lights atop two giant towers. .. . Well, the lights are on the 330-feet transmitting towers of station WIRE and the reason they flash is to warn aircraft of the hazard. . . That's all there is to it, no more, no less. . Add signs of spring: The crowd of fishermen, both ‘young and old, who have descended on White River. .*. , You can always see them on these sunny days around the dams. 2 8 8 THE INDIANAPOLIS CENSUS was up against its first hurdle today. It seems that the census enumerators started on the job Tuesday without any “vacant-dwelling schedules” for listing unoccupied houses. W. A. Knight, the jarea manager here, put in an SOS to William L. Austin, director of the census. Mr. Austin said he’d send the schedules along pronto. Well, they came in yesterday, but about 50 enumerators had to go out again today without them because there weren't enough to go ‘round. As it was, those who got the schedules won't be able to list more than 30 empty houses apiece. So another SOS went to Washington today.

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

HE movement organized by Mrs, Dorothy Can-|

field Fisher, which would supply aid to the child victims of European and Asiatic wars by asking American schoolchildren to contribute as many pennies as they can afford, is commendable for two hig reasons. ‘While the money itself will be only a drop in ih always empty bucket, it may arouse a feeling for all unfortunates in the hearts of our own children. Hpmanitatian motives must be inculcated during infancy or not at. all. | It is only through this kind of training that we can hope to achieve a society in which the idea of the brotherhood of man exists. | Adults are often blind to the wants of their o countrymen. We possess the universal faculty of being able to close our eyes to that which is not pleasant to see, and to declare all things false which make us uncomfortable. For this reason it is usually easier: to start financial balls rolling in behalf of unfortunates abroad. We|do not have to suffer from the actual sight of their miseries, and at the same time we can feel noble by giving our odd change to help them. But we: can’t feel so noble when we Tegard certain aspects of our own poverty. In fact we can only feel debased and lashamed. We know that the curing of local misery is a large ord so large indeed that no individual nor any set of individuals can accomplish it. And so, a good of us salve our conscience with foreign charitable donations. ern ew

Children’s Crusade. We hope it helps to awaken a

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SYMPHONY SPEECH DRAWS CRITICISM By Florence Marquis

We're wondering Symphony booster also had in mind the coming November election when he made his speech appealing for aid for the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra to the audience of the Pop concert, when he referred to a previous census as “a census with some sense.” We hope we're wrong in thinking he was trying to convey the idea to a mixed audience that the present one is void of sense, and in a way, thereby, introducing in his speech a little partisan politics. It seems quite tactless to even so mitch as hint at politics in a speech| to an laudience with such varied views as [that of the Pop concerts must hold. | We would like, if it isn’t presumling, to recommend to the igentle- | man the editorial “You ahd ‘the | Census,” of April 1, in The Times.

8 un = | DOUBTS PURPLE MARTINS ARRIVED IN FEBRUARY | | By R. J. Dearborn

A published reference toy to the coming of the purple martins to University Heights -.and a {remark that North Side persons had seen them weeks ago, reminds me of a newspaper article on Feb. 14, stating that two male purple martins were in Fairview, cleaning out a bird box. Some martin lovers of the city took the matter as a joke, and passed it off that way. There are several evidences that no purple martins were in the city Feb. 14 nor at any other date in February. In the first place, martins cannot survive freezing weather. In the second place, male martins do not engage in nest building any more than male robins do. In the third place, Amos W. Butler of the Indiana Academy of Science, and many other bléssed. memories, left a most valuable | [record of the

migratory birds. That record was made in collaboration with many other members of the Academy and is the most valuable bird record ever published in this state. It dates back to 1882 and others have kept it up since Mr.

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comings and goings of Indiana's /| tiaticns between Germany on one

(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.)

Butler’s death. For almost 60 years there have been recordings of the martins’ comings and goings and there is no date recorded earlier than March 20, and that was in 1922. More often than otherwise, martins come to Indianapolis during the first few days of April. In view of the great interest of Boy Scouts and others in bird life, it is not fair to perpetrate jokes like this one. Some one might believe it, and doubtless sbme one already has believed it.

2. =n =» DOUBTS MINTON HURT BY HATCH ACT STAND By Reader, Morgantown, Indiana.

It is rather tirespme to read some of the statements that appear in newspapers today over the signatures of certain writers. I refer to a recent article in The Times written by Noble Reed. He says that a survey of Democratitc leaders shows that new Senatorial possibili-

ties have been started as the re-

sult of public reaction to Senator Minton’s fight against the Hatch Bill. Where does he get that stuff? The ordinary citizen has as many opportunities of knowing the feeling of Democrats on the subject of Senatorial candidates as Mr. Reed has. Why is if that no one else knows anything about this but Mr. Reed? I object also to the term “Hatch Clean Politics Act” as applied to] the Hatch Act.; Let us not assume that a man is dirty because he opposes this bill or that he is necessarily clean because he favors it. I'd like to wager Mr. Reed right now that Senator Minton will be the choice of the Democrats, that he will be neminated by acclamation and that he will. be elected this

fall, ”

. 2 = OPPOSES STALIN'S BRAND OF DEMOCRACY By Edward F. Maddox Well, well, so I am a persecutor of the Communists, am I? If it is persecution to tell the truth about communism’s evil deeds, then, as Patrick Henry said, “Make the most of it.” We may “need more democracy”

as Pro-Freedom says, but we need the kind Washington, Jefferson, Jackson and Lincoln practiced—not Joe Stalin's 20th Century Red brand, or as it is masked—*“Social

Democracy.” s

New Books

OR a ringside view of what happened after Munich, read “The

French Yellow Paper” (Reynal and Hitchcock), It is a collection of diplcmatic documents. of the French

Ministry of Foreign Affairs (19361939), relating to events and nego-

and and Poland, Great Britain nd France on the other. : Here are recorded the day by ay, even hour by hour, developments which led from that hopeful ptember of 1938 at Munich down

Side Glances—By Galbraith

Even so, no one can fail to commend this m SS0SIg of the Christian ideal in tian minds

4-4.

"All the follows at the office agree with me that the man should handle the family's income."

I welcome April every year

= ! to the despair of last September when the second World War began. Authentic to the final comma, the book nevertheless is as absorbing as a mystery novel and in many places proves that there are diplomats who can write with clarity | and vigor, ever though in the end the typewriter did not prove mightier than the sword. Particularly arresting is the section in which M. Francois-Poncet, French Ambassador to Berlin, describes his: visit to that eerie “Eagle’s Nest” and hideout of Adolf Hitler atop a mountain at Berchtesgaden and attempts a psychological peek into the mind of a man who tcday is one of the world’s puzzles. The book is basic and goes to the source of all that happened without any side trips to mysterious spokesmen. The reports jig-saw from capital to capital with the swift moving events but in their final completeness fit into a pattern which gives a satisfactory answer to all who still want to know what was behind last summer’s headlines. And therein lie many clues as to what lies behind the headlines of today and even those of tomorrow. |

APRIL TRIOLET By VERNE S. MOORE

For songs that come with every dawn From throats that burst with friendly cheer. = : I welcome April every year. ; With patch of sky and showers clear She wakes the pansies in my lawn. I welcome April every year For daw that come with every

[ DAILY THOUGHT

If there be among you a poor man of one of thy brethren with--in any of thy gates in thy land which | the Lord thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thine heart, nor shut thine hand from joy poor brother. ~Devieronomy 15:7. |

" WHAT WE DO fo for others while we have them, will be: precisely what will render their memory sweet to

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U, S.. Should ‘Profit From | fie Lessons of This War and Act at Once to Assure Self -Containment.

EW YORK, April 4—The argument of Mussolint $ ‘ ande Hitler that they are nof safe without an access to raw materials has been poph-poohed by their enemies abroad and our interventionists. This column i carries no torch for these dictators but that doesn't go to the point of saying that black is white. 7 If this war, and the World War} have proved anything, it was that the lack of s ch access at least © lays any nation open to an enemy| which can ‘control

such supply. While there remained any substance of the old doctrine of freedom of the seas and neutral rights under international law, this new development * did not have so much force to d

‘of the world. Those rights and freedoms are gone

with the wind. The World War demonstrated that economic war Ne is frequently more deadly than military war, Cut oft ‘a, nation’s imports and you can starve her to her knees. It was a great object lesson to all nations. It brought the post World War fren: ment.” No nation can afford to avs horses depend- * lent for any vital thing on any other powerful nation in peace because to do so would simply expose her heart to enemy daggers in war,

: - = 2 | ELF-CONTAINMENT, production by herself no

matter what the relative cost as compared with

imports, became national policy everywhere, Quotas and tariffs were built up‘to prohibit imports and force) domestic production wherever that was possible. This world influence, more than any other single

restricted pattern. We began to lose some foreign markets for wheat and cotton upon which ‘our great agricultural segment was vitally ‘dependent. The old free commerce of the world was being honeycombed into watertight trade compartments for both peace and war. This may. be the germ of the Whole post war disease of depression and unemployment, :

is 8 (8 : F the defensive | necessity for self-containment

needed any clarification after 1918, it needs none now. Apparently the Allies only effective weapon is

ply of iron, oil, rubber and food. They are going to cut it off with little if any regard to the rights of neutrals, including ourselves. _ There is no use bewailing it or blaming either side, The fact is that modern war has become more horrible and has to be fought horribly by every combatant, One lesson it carries to us is to keep out of it/ Even with too much ward sympathy and failure to seé both sides. An even more obvious lesson Is being fairly screamed across the ocean, self-containment for this hemisphere. We can’t afford to remain absolutely dependent on the other side of the world for rubber and tin. All'our needs can be produced in Latin America. We are suckers not to begin replacing Hash Indian sources immediately.

Business By John T. Flynn - Our Policy of Hoarding

NHICAGO, April 4—Here is a Hi on the Hull trade pacts which Congress has been struggling with: The object of these pacts is to bres down the barriers to trade between this country’ and others because of tariffs. That is a good thing. But you would suppose that those who are so vocal about ‘this would take a really serious look at. the whele: picture. At present. one of the things that operates as’ a powerful barrier against international ‘trade is the Government's gold-buying policy. Here is the way | it works: | The cheaper our dollar is, the easier it is in theory for other countries to buy here. If I have

American dollars with that pound, I|can use the dollars to buy four dollars’ worth of anything in the United States. But if dollars get cheaper, and

I can buy five dollars’ worth here. It has the effect of making things cheaper here to the. Englishman, But it has also the very opposite effect on our buying abroad. If it takes five of my dollars to buy a pound then I cannot buy as much in England with those five dollars as I ‘could if- I could buy a pound with four dollars. While in theory it seems to stimulate foreign buying here, it cuts off - aur buying abroad. And there must be buying hoth weys in order to have international trade. . But it also has the effect of draining away from foreign countries all of their gold. The only way

what they buy with gold or with goods. But :the more we drain away their gold the more aii it becomes for them to use gold to buy.

The Reason for Barter

They are reduced, therefore, fo: the a, necessity of buying only those things they can ply for with goods of their own. It is this, more than anything else, which has driven so many countries to barter. They cannot buy goods from us and pay us with their goods unless we buy from then, And the gold purchase plan with its high prige for gold makes it more difficult and expensive for us to buy from them, so we huy less." And thus this strange -policy has the effect, at once and for different reasons, of cutting down ofir purchasing power abroad and cutting down the purchasing power of foreign countries here. - | Therefore, to be making such a pother about thege Hull treaties on the ground that we want to stimulate foreign trade, while at the same time persisting in‘a gold policy which tends to stifle 4nternational tra is one of the prize contradictions of trade history.) a The reciprocal trade treaty is a good thing| tn itself, provided it is in the right hands (and tHe Department of State is the last place it should be, save for merely negotiating pacts) but |it is trivial its results for good or bad Sompared with the far more vital gold policy.

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By Jane Stafford

OOD cooks save the. vitamins in vegetables atid at the same time serve tastier, more attractive looking vegetables. Their secret of preparing appgtizing, palatable and healthful vegetables can 8 summed up in four simple rules for ve etable ‘C00 1. Use as little water as possible. 2. Have the water boiling when you put in tHe végetables_and then bring it back to the Simmer point as quickly as possible. -3. Stop cooking as soon as the vegetables of e tender. 4. Make use of the liquid from the cooked vegetables. — If only a small amount of water is used, last rule is easy to follow, because there. will be little water that it can be served with the vegeta If there is too much water for that, it can be in making cream soups or can be added to soup

tail before the meal. Vegetables gradually lose some of their vi when held in storage, so they should be used as as possible after harvesting. Keeping them in ‘a refrigerator or other cold place cuts ows this vitamin loss. Adding soda to the cookin “heightdn the color of green vegetables 8 water e loss of vitamins C and Bl, scientists have fo - ing and much stirring while the vege les are took may also increase vitamin a If you. are .planning to puree the vegetables for. the he re we soups and ih wait ge ch vegets bl : 01 because Sevie bua

the heart when we no longer have J thm.—Frederio Godet. :

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