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| “WAL S have ears’ '—Tennyson. Cee | Modernized version: Walls have maps. | 1% es

n propaganda much of a of Sumner Welles in Paris sta map that allegedly showed Germany shrunk down to boy’s

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ter Allied war aims are attained. | © oral: Beware of ears, maps, dictogra hs, wire tap-

| pers land other pitfalls, including hosts.

Maybe the only safe thing for : a 2 diplom it nowadays is to stay in bed.

7 DAN HOAN TAKES THE COUNT DANIEL WEBSTER HOAN, a Socialist, has lost his job. But he ought to have no trouble finding new one. Dan Hoan has been mayor of Milwaukee for twentyfour. years.. He was elected six times. On his seventh try, this week, he was beaten by a 32-year-old prosecutor ‘with a good baritone. (It was a big day in Wisco in for singing prosecutors; ask Mr. Dewey). | Maybe the people just got tired of Dan Hoan and his good government; maybe the general reactio againgt leftist labels was what did it; whatever it was, 1 ilwaukee has voted out of office one of the greatest mayo? 8, by common consent, that this country has ever had. 15 | Milwaukee’ s police and fire department are acknowledged models of probity and efficiency; witness’ the city’s exceptionally low. fire insurance and burglary insurance rates. The city’ s per capita cost of government is among the lowest; so is its per capita debt. Its school, park and playground systems are famous. Ll | In pre-Hoan days it was corruption that made Milwaukee famous. In 1904-06. more than 200 Republican and ‘Democratic officials were indicted for graft. | F Hoan changed all that. He made Milw. ukee's government a criterion instead of a horrible example. BE If that be socialism, we could use a lot | £ it. But Milwaukee is no more socialistic than other

merican cities; Socialist Hoan has applied, not Marxism, bi t honesty. and skill and vision.

If his successor can do as well, he is a onder.

CHURCHILL UP

HERE is irony, a big and bitter dose o it in the new

authority - granted Winston Churchill. not only to be First Lord of the Admiralt presidé over the Joint sessions of England'5:4 sea. ministers. oF If Churchill's somber warnings of six and seven years ago—warnings that he reiterated in succeeding years—had been ‘heeded, there might have been no war. ‘But as far as the Baldwin and Chdmberlain regimes were concerned, he was just an old sea dog peving at the moon. They paid him no’ mind. me And when the time came to: pay the pir er for ‘the lls deception and irresolution of the gove ament, it was Churchill who was drafted for a top ass signment in the enormous and bewildering job of winning the war. Ini by the year Hitler took the reins, Churchill told England that “we are vulnerable as we have never been before.” He pleaded that “there is not an hour to lose.” He said: | ¥I cannot conceive how, in the present state of Europe, We can delay in establishing the principle of having an air fo ce at least as strong as that of any force that can get at us.

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reafter he is ro

any, Churchill great new fact y in Europe—in ther issues into

1, after a year of Nazi rule in Ge Germany is rearming. That is the

2 | | He predicted that if the German and British air-force programs ontinued at their current rates, {two years from now the German military air force will be nearly 50 per cent stronger and in 1937 nearly double” that of England. ‘ And he kept pounding away, while, England hemmed and hawed and vacillated and oy

Hitler| tore up Versailles, rearmed th Rhineland, enlisted Japan and Italy in the anti-Red pact, seized Austria, beckoned Chamberlain to bend the knee a erchtesgaden, Godesberg and Munich. And still Churchill wa an outsider, ters. But Munich did not content Hitler. took what was left of Czechoslovakia. He. took Memel| He looped the ideological loop and bedded down with Stalin, | He of se

Poland. 0 days later, on Sept. 3, France and gland | | \

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world, but 50 ridden to him

ar. And on the evening of Sept. 3 the to Eritish li at their far stations back. Toda this lisping Cicero is on-top of the

with viol nce and fs if England had earlier.

A SCAR Ie FAILED

F ROM 11 over the country come reporla that | the consis a are being welcomed hospit bly—are being slowed up, if at all, only by people eager id $i noss than the questionnaires ask. | Leas This s ple asing, but not surprising.

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‘anything to get rid of any of Woe three

‘other and not very palatable waything. Even if the union is run. by racketeers, the| - - -Green de=| --

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Fair Enough

By ‘Westbrook Pegler

Denies Saying Organized Labot Was +

A ‘Racket! in Taking lssie Again

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" Bringing. Home the Bacon!

with Mr. Green on Sundry fatters.|

NT YORK, April: Sil don’t Jernember ever having read a more patbetis attempt by an incompetent. official to evade and misrepresent issues than the recent series of articles by William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, in which he tried to shirk the blame for the degradation of that body during his term in office.

Green begins to hedge in his first count when hel i

says I charged’ ‘that “organized labor” was a racket.

I can’t let him get dway with that. ct. The ALF. ae

that the A. F. of L. had become a racket. of L., be it noted, is not “organized labor,” and slippery substitution of that term for the A. F. of %

shows at the very beginning that he can’t face thei:

argument. He tries to convert an attack on a’ guilty organization into an attack on labor. He says next that I have discovered only two men with criminal records holding positions of leadership

“in unions, when the fact is that I have named. three

and have offered to names hundred, For that matter Green fenainly must know more than I, but I call attention to the fact that he has not yet done notorious hoodlums. |

AT is| Mr. Green's. attitude: om criminals in positions of leadership in unions of the A: F. of L. I still am undecided whether to name 97 more leaders with criminal records. But if he insists in ‘hurting, the A. F. of L. by demanding that I prove my contention, ead of moving to get rid of these vermin, I can accommodate-Rim. He then proceeds to a discussion of the closed shop. “The closed shop or union shop,” says he, “is not a device to eompel ‘workers to join a union.” Well, let us see what the closed shop does. The

‘closed shop compels workers to abandon their jobs if

they refuse to join the unions, which is mesely an- - saying the same

“upstanding, independent” American, as scribes the worker, must pay initiation ee amount-

ing in some cases to as much as $3000 plus dues and} -

assessments or forfeit his right as an upstanding, inQopenident American to work at-his lawful occupation proudly ed as labor's magna charta, the Government will compel the upstanding. independent American to pay these amounts or abandon his career, even though the union be run by iL a

8 # 2 ps whether they are run by racketeers is poi complication, however. The fundamental wrong lies in the compulsion, even though the union, by some i iracle, prove to be honestly administered. Union dues, he says, are fixed by the members of the unions, to which I can only reply that Mr. Green is either unpardonably ignorant and ought to be fired for knowing so little about, his own business or is telling a deliberate lie. Unfon dues are fixed by the members only in theory and by the union politicians in fact, and in many cases of which I am not willing

to believe he is unaware, the dues and assessments|

are fixed by racketeers and collected by terror. The upstanding, independent American too often is afraid to open his mouth even to debate a harmless proposition in union meetings, and cunning crooks in Green’s organization have devised a class B or nonvoting type of membership whereby the crooks sell work permits to non-members but exclude them from participation in union affairs.

|Inside ndienanclic That North Side Zoning Matter; And How to Wed Free of Charge

coon part ‘of the Nott Side is in a gentle about’the Board's approval for a \ be t in the 8700 block of N. Meridian St. There’s isn in of a light touch to the present battling. The o only possibility is the fact that the scrap might erga reach the Supreme Court of the United Sites hat’s right. Seriously, what's happening behind the scenes now 1s a study of the law to determine if the Zoning Board can legally call a re-hearing and reverse itself. There s ms to be a chance that this can and will Ber Jt it di sn't, it appears ‘that the property owners on N. Meridian St. will take the fight to the courts. They can carry it all the way to the State Supreme Court’ and, if they could prove that their property was being damaged without due process of law (you know the legal phrase), they can take it all the way to what we used to call “The Nine i Men.” Don’t say we didn’t wam you.

THE HONORABLE ANDREW J. BRUCE, Justice of the Peace, was seated in ‘his office the other day. An attractive young couple entered, bearing the official license to wed, and inquiring as to the possibilities in Mr. Bruce's office. Mr. Bruce performed the ceremony with his. usual grace and aplomb. Finished, the young man tendered the Justice of the Feace a neat white envelope. Mr. Bruce smilingly accepted it, tendering his thanks. ww couple left. Mr. Bruce opened the. envelope. In it was a card.\ It Sos *Thatk You.”

ADD’ COINCIDENCES: Edward W. Harris, president of Hamilton-Harris, lives at 3510 Washington Blvd. and carries the telephone HA-3510. .. . A certain North Side gentleman lighted the rubbish in his incinerator the other night but it failed to catch fire, filling the house with smoke. . . . He called the Fire Department to explain his predicament but the fire laddies said they were sorry, the best they could do was to put out fires and that there wasn't a thing they could do about .smcke. . One of the most attractive sets of books in the city are those kept by U. S. Marshal Julius Wichser. . . Playing bascball at Purdue, he broke a finger and it’ spoiled his handwriting. | . . He determined to conjuer the handicap and the result is a Spencerian script with individual Wichser Fhdinge. . . . No typewriters are Pemitien on his bhoks, . He does it all by hand.

A Woman s Viewpoint

| 8. Mrs. Walter Ferguson HAT is a husband for if mot.to support his

Hl Lk Iran $04 ovis! this sentiment apve fe 8 ures, especially ‘in arguments against working a, : Pay 5 Now lthough men have generally been the main ops whole idea of marriage when we imply that it's up to them to assume full responsibility for the job. In every civilized age wives have helped feed, clothe and house the young of the race. g lapses q barbarism, they often -did- the whole job. Let's 2 a at nations are at war, and therefore a reversion > barb rism is imminent. And what do we see? tainly no pleasant picture of women and children 2 softly, protected in domestic security and fed their husbands and fathers. For when men

drer and keep up industry and agriculture as well. hen, if you please, glance into our own: historical backgrounds. The vision of the hard-working pioneer is as vivid as that of any toiling patriarch. For she too drudged to put food into herechildren’s mouths and clear up the wilderness, :. To be spécific, how much did your: own. grandHathet contribute to the family support? A great plutocr mother ow

helped to make-it such. : the only real difference Petes you ‘and your gr welfare The taken out of the home and are now a Big Busin and it is by Big Business that most of us live, nd so, it seems sensible to suppose, that wherever work is, there the worker must go. This is the reason why so many Wives are earning money outside the home. And the wisest man on sank Sant stop them from doing it, because the ordinary la

could always be made at home. Yours can’t.

family support, it seems to me we miss. the: look around our world, A majority of the| k

omen must bear, resr and support the chil-| a

_ daresay, unless you happen to belong to a tic tribe, in which case probably her. grand- a

mother is that her contribution to the family s which we call “women’s work” have been

can’t earn enough to suppert a mediymm-siged. tenis A pioneer fa

country. And, under the Wagner act, so] ~~

ed NEV YORK, "April 8.~That was a shrewd -

Gen Johnson

FRIDAY; APRIL 5, 1

Lewis Worried’ New Dealers by Shrewd Threat “to Call. Convention Representing All Grievance Groups.

thrust that John. Lewis made when lie said that if the demonewdeal party ‘doesn’t behave, he is goin to call a convention of the Negroes, ‘the unemployed, labor, farmers and the militant youth and oldpressure blocs. These are the. grievance grou discontented elements who are ‘political uni

ssaslly a ajeriive It consisted mainly | of the agri‘cultural South and West as a balance to the indus-

sure” bloc, but it was so great and inclusive amounted to a political party in the best \{ sense. It was organized not to exploit but fo exploitation. It sought to direct fundamental national policy rather than to force handouts from the Federal Treasury. Its foremost: slogan was: “Equal opporplty for all; special privileges’ for none. Dro 2 8 = HAT grouping in the first half of the last bs ebay ‘was almost unbeatable. Then the Civil War came. It split the West from the South and: poured so mush blood and bitterness into the wound ‘that, for two generations, Western farmers voted for Republican high tariffs against their own interests, largely because the South was against the tariff, That split made the Denfocrats a minority party until 1932 when the reunion of the West and South

of adequate farm relief; The Republicans had been leaning in that direction: too but they were not quick ShougH. Mr. Roosevelt swept the: prairies on. a: policy of rec

ting the: Majority South-and- West party of

| Jefferson and Jackson.

The Hoosier Forum

1 wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

THINKS MERE MAN Is PRETTY HOPELESS By Frank Lee Interesting specimen, ‘modern man.

He spends decades digging millions

in gold out of the ground, then turns around and digs a hole at Ft. Knox to put five billion back in.

8 2 = LINKS FARM APPEAL TO I. W. W. PHILOSOPHY By “Bull Mooser” - The poor farmer of today is in exactly the same situation as was the poor industrial worker a half century ago. Fifty years ago the inevitable course of centralization ‘and effici-

‘ency” ‘in industry set in. Small

factories began to-.be displaced by large factories, and large factories

. began to displace craftsmen: with

machines. The craftsmen looked into the future and saw the possibility of being disinherited from the jobs by Which: they had earned their living. The machines are taking our jobs,

they cried; the Government must

stop this. But the response of the Government ad public was that the establishment of machines marked the advance of - progress—it was efficiency and economy, and it low-

putin the price of the industrial outp

it was to be desired. The craftsmen were in the minority. ey responded as the minority usually respond. They became radical. | They formed the I. W. W, advocating Government ownership of industry and Government subsidy of their right to work and live. Today, the greatest momentum of centralization and: “efficiency” has set in agriculture. Already, half our farms have come to be owned by the insurance companies and) investment companies. And these farms are being run not in the old tradition of the horse, but in the new | tradition of the tractor, machine, | efficiency and economy. Millions of poor farmers disinher-

ited (from their land are ¢ to Grovernment for help.

the

(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.) -

| Wrath,” has presented the spectacle with all its propagandic appeal. And now, in sequel, the politicians are coining a phrase of strong propagandic appeal.- It is the phrase that “Every Man Has a Right to Own (i the Soil He Tills.” Watch that phrase. It’s in polities for some time to stay. And don’t forget: it means stopping the coutse of progress in agriculture. This philosophy that every man has a ri ght to own the soil he tills is the same as the I..-W. W. philoisophy that the workers have a right to own the factories, the clerks own the stores. The future prosperity of this nation depends upon “efficient bigness” in agriculture, the same as in the past it pas depended upon “efficient bigness” in industry. Let us stop

the politicians wr hg this new Farmer I. W. W. ’ = ® 2

SEES FINNISH SPIRIT FAR FROM CONQUERED

By ‘A. Bi C. | They're not moaning In Finland they're building. | Instead of consuming their energy in vituperative bitterness against Stalin and the -Soviets,! the Finns are going to erect four new cities and provide homes for 500,000 persons forced to abandon territory ceded to Russia, according to Alvar Aalto, noted Finnish architect, re-|. cently arrived in the Unite! States. What's more, the tremendous build- | ing program must be completed before the cold sets in next fall. No defeatism there.| You can’t lick a people with Via kind of spirit. 8 ” EJ ASKS IF UTILITIES | ARE FOR BRADFORD

By R. W. Weber Why are the utility. interests 80 interested in electing James Bradford to the chairmanship-of the Republican Party in Marion County? That is their purpose, or so I judge from looking at some of ithe names supporting Mr. Bradford.! Isn't that a valid deduction?

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New Books at the Library

ROM the memoirs of Margaret | Fuller Ossoli; from the letters : of Marianne Dwight Orvis, Henry Thoreau, George Curtis, Louisa Alcott; from the writings of Julian Hawthorne, Albert Brisbane, George Ripley, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Horace Greeley, Orestes Brownson, Julia Ward Howe; from the filos of the now vanished magazines. The Dial, The Harbinger, and The Phalanx, and from numerous other sources; Katherine Burton has col« lected the material for this story of the Boston Transcemdentalists and | their attempt, at B Farm, to

S

That bad dream, “Grapes of

es fablish. a way of life in consonance

de Glances—By Galbraith

with Christianity and their much debated ideals of social justice. The Brook Farm experiment was only one of numerous 19th century experiments. the world. over, to find

a better way of life—one whichis would lend dignity to labor, furn-|

ish opportunity for intellectual and spiritual growth to all, and eventually lead the way to the abolition of the evil agpects of capitalism. Miss Burton has not chosen her title “Paradise Planters” (Longmans) without an eye to the Fhuise ing as well as the heroic side of this venture: For these were human beings as well as poets and philesophers, and the friction of daily life did not fail to produce, even among

‘| these lofty spirits, | some of the usual

situations.

Their solemn diseuisions of the enfranchisement. of women, or upi-

‘tarianism, or the Hegelian philoso-

phy are here, and their ecstasies over Beethoven. But their hard work is here too—enclless hours in kitchen and barnyard, where the delicate hands of scholars, poets, .and musicians became rough and calloused. Theirs was a healthful, happy life; and its eventual failure was no discredit either to their

‘| hearts or their heads.

And “Paradise Planters” is not merely a history of one small group; it ‘epitomizes the seeking spirit of 19th. caniury Tumaniaziapism.

APRIL RAIN ] By MARY P. DENNY _ Rain, rain, rain, rain, In one glorious strain. . . : Ringing joy notes of the year In an anthem full and clear. Bringing hope to far and, near Of the harvest of the year.’ “Rain, rain, rain, rain Over mountain, valley, plain, "Soft againstithe window pane. Falling through the morning mist Jewels of soft amethyst. Glories of the day and night. . Coming from the cloudy height. « Herald of the sunrise bright. April rain in shining flight.

DAILY ‘THOUGHT

But whatsaever hath a blemish that shall ye not offer; for it shall not be acceptable for you—Leviticus 22:20. \

WHO GIVES s Tile monly 1

New advisers flocked: around. him. ‘Many were not: Democrats but they knew which side was up for them. They reasoned that Western agriculture alone was too weak a reed to lean upon-—that it was Republican by heredity and could be taken back by G. O, P, promises as it was taken away by. Democratic He Dropulses

2 = 8.

pe invented the idea of building u upon the. ‘basie Democratic minority, -especially the Solid South, by organizing and attracting through Federal handouts, every discontented group in the country. F. It is a strange collection whose divergent demands have created the. incredible inconsistencies of this Administration.. : | It is formidable while it can be kept in line but it is in no true sense. a, political party. It is a monstrous demagogic contraption, held in place’ with hairpins and haywire and stuck together with spit. Nobody knows this better than John Lewis. He didn't threaten a third party, He just threatened this ace in the hole of the demonewdea] party. It is a bulls-eye for his purposes, because there is barely sich a thing as John’s making a trade-for his pet social objectives with a “liberal” Republican -candidate and using his great influence to swing or divide Shete dissident groups, which could swing any e fection,

Business By John T. Flynn ~~ | . Lower Building Union Scale a Big

CcAco, April 5.—~The pounding which the buildw ing trades have been getting has- . apparently

The result—a widespread movement in the A. F. of L. building trades unions to cut wages on small homes. This is good. But it is only a step/in-the right direction. It will not make a tremendous difference in the volume of building: “And. Fe, ,Tepsons are ohvious. “In the first place, this subject: of ‘building cone struction may be viewed from two angles. There is the question of supplying Homes for people. - But there 4s also the question of economic: recovery. : Building bears a very special relation’ to the whole subject of recovery. And frem this point of view it does not make any difference whether the bi dings involved are home or office buildings ‘or theaters or hotels or industrial plants: The great object of build~

| ing ‘construction is to draw out of idleness the ime

mense mountains of idle funds which Joust be invested before we can have. Teorey The building-craft ons are fimiting their wage reductions to small home building, Which leaves all the rest of the building field—and by far the greatest of it—unaffected. From the point of view of recovery the dle building. construction industry ‘must come to life. In the next place, this move of A. F. of L. unions will not make very much difference even in the home-building field, Home building has been much the most active part of the building trades, and one reason for this is that builders have heen operating

| with non-union labor. Since much of it ‘has’ been in ‘suburban areas around large cities where the unions | .

were not so strong, the union scales have been ignored or circumvented. Union men who insisted on their craft scale have been left out in the cold)

Other Obstacles Cited

This move of the A. F. of L. Is dtetated by a desire of fhe unions to get eraployment for their men. If it becomes effective and unions decide, Jn their reduced rate, to stand on their union scales and fight for them, the actual result will be to ‘ificrease labor costs on small houses, which are now being built by labor working for scales well | below the union scale, even after the reduction. In. the third place, the actual wage scale of usiton men in building is not the chief elément of labor cost. The working conditions; the hours, the ‘reghla~ tions imposed by unions, the restrictions on: lower cost methods and lower-cost materials are far ‘Worse than the actual wage scales themselves. ~~ ~~ 7 In the fourth place, of eourse, the labor cost is ‘only a part of the whole problem of building cost. as terial costs, manufacturers’ combinations to hold up costs, and worst of all, subcontractors’ combinations among themselves .and with manufacturers ang labor leaders still remain to bedevil: this industry. | But the actioneof the building-union crafts is a sign of improvement, an encouragement to those who have been fighting to bring some sense to the leaders of the building indusiry—employer and employee alike—as the most. fmpertan; ep | toward recovery.

Watching Your Health

By Jane Stafford" = ey

TEAR and false modesty” are two feelings fhat | ‘unHortunately can ‘hinder the -anti-cancer fight be“cause they may keep patients from getting the treatment they need. Many a woman who. suspects that ‘the lump on her breast may be a cancer. is kept from going to a physician because of ‘this false modesty, or-if" she

breast, or whatever other part of the body may be

help her by her objection to. or him examine the It might help. such women to

affected by cancer. ‘know that physicians generally other woman attendant who : dress for the physical examination and covers “her with sheets arranged so that the physiciAn can make the examination with a “minimum of distress to the modest patient. : Pear acts as an ally of cancer when it Keeps people from learning about ‘cancer’s danger signal. Some are so terrified of the disease that they Will not Beat nor read anything about it and so may not know that the unusual bleeding or discharge from a body ‘ open _ing, the lump on the breast, the persistent tndigeation or the sore that does not heal normally may. be

| cancer and shouldbe the signal for an immediate

visit to the physician.. Other people know: these cardinal signs of possible cancer, but are so frightened at discovering any of them that they cannot summon up courage to consult thee physician. The pity of this is that in spme 3 Perey well person may live in ‘a tragic of on years, when a visit

ths and. * quickly

trial East. You could possibly call this also a Y'pres-

was accomplished largely on the Democratic Promise

Help, but Will Not Bring Recovery.

driven the labor unions at last to think things over,

goes to him, she may make it difficult for him to .

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