Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 April 1940 — Page 13

|| TUESDAY, APRIL 9, 1940

~ Hoosier Vagabond

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. April 9—Here you are again today, I see, all ready to snoop around and read other people’s mail. If that’s the way you were brought up I guess it’s no affair of mine. certainly per=sonal enough for you. It is from a very distant relative of mine named Jake. I can’t tell whether it comes from Iowa or Ohio. It says: “Dear Ernest: I am your great-uncle Jake, the one they called Coon-Rod. I have just died, and left my entire fortune of $4,000,000 to you, because you have always been so ho est and upright. |Remember the Golden Rule. A|long life and:ja merry one.” 1 Thanks, Great-Uncle Jake. There have been a number| of letters from people who, like our little girl friend in El Paso, think of colors by number rather than name. A man in Cleveland not only visualizes olors by number, such as No. 3 being yellow and No, 4 being green, but numbers to him also have gender. The numbers 1, 4 and 7 are feminine; 2, 3, 5, 6, 8 and 9 are masculine, and No. 10 is neuter.

> 8 = 0% Here’s How It Works | Furthermore, numbers in his mind depi personalities.

ing on in the mind of America. 1—Fair maiden of the “Sweet Alice” type 2—A boy of stout heart and willing hand. 3—Trouble maker. Always-mad. 4_Tubby “mamma” type.::Kind that stands with hands folded under apron. :} 5—Florid, worldly type. Gdod-humored, 6—An arch, suave fellow. Bourbon type. 7—Woman of the world. Siren. About--35. 8—Paunchy businessman type. Morose.

Lower Price

WASHINGTON, April 9.—Lower prices, r ther than . higher wages or dividends, provide the way to put idle men and machines to work and prevent technology from glutting the capitalist system. These conclusions are drawn from the [Brookings Institution's latest study of “productivity, wages, and national income,” published ay. Financed by the Falk undation of Pittsburgh, the study was conducted by Dr. Spurgeon Ball. Distribution of income during the last two decades is examined in the four divisions [of manufacturing, mining, railroads, and electric light and power, which account for approximately 75 per cent of American| industrial wages and employment. ; : “The foregoing analysis suggests that the distribution of savings resulting from incredsing productivity either to employed labor or to capital is not desirable,” Dr. Bell concludes “Since wage and salary. workers and those who cu ntribute capital constitute the great bulk of the consuming population, the greater part of the gains resulting from price reductions, of course, automatically accrue to-them.” 2 8

High Wages and Employment

He disputes the popular theory that the solution - of technological unemployment is to raise money wages to the full extent of the savings from productive efficiency. | On the contrary he says thi unemployment by the following process: Total wage disbursements remain unchanged; the price level remains unchanged; the volume of output remains stationary; the national income remains unchanged: but the volunie of employment decreases. “All that has happened is that employed labor has . gained at|the expense of those displaced (unem7 ployed),” he says.

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NEW YORK, April 9.—Such are the curious ways of American politics that it comes to pass that the man who| now seems to be the nits or the Republican Presidential nomination is the| one whose real “views about national and international affairs are least known. Thomas E. Dewey has been lead man in the polls for months, and. the Wisconsin primary results appear to support the accuracy of the polls. [Still nobody knows much about Mr. Dewey's policies or whether (he has any deeply rooted convidtions. Probahly Mr. Dewey resents such a statement, and he may know where he stands, but I have had trouble im New York finding anyone else who knew. He is against defeatism and has indorsed loptiznien. Beyond that, it is mostly fog surrounded by words. Mr. Dewey has talked enough, but he has said little about his own policies. Some label him as progressive, others as conservative. Quite generally the feeling exists that he has not tipped his hand. Yet it doesn’t appear to matter. Mr.

Dewey apparently can get the votes without saying

anything. He has a wonderful radio voice. 8 8 =

Stand on Hull Pacts

Some | weeks ago Mr. Dewey was speaking approvingly of the Roosevelt foreign policy in general. But in Wisconsin the other day he said we must keep completely out of the affairs of | Europe, not only out of the war, but out of negotiations. When he returned to New York he was on the record as being about as isolationist as Senator | Vandenberg. Yet his close friends say with conviction that Mr. Dewey is not an isolationist and doesn’t want to be known as one, that he ® fetognizes American re-

© My Day

, ‘Cal, Monday—One of my most pena San Francisco experiences was p o'clock coffee with| Mr. Alexander Woollcott. He i s touring the West Coast in the play: “The Man Who Came to Dinner,” I wish I could have seen the performance, | but, unfortunately, we were rival performers during the evening hours. It was a privilege to see him and I [spent a very happy hour with him. Before the lecture, Mr. Paul Posz took us to |the Chinese restaurant, Cathay, for a real Chinese dinner. What delicious food and what a quiet atmosphere the quiet, attentive Chinese hosts create for their guests. On Friday morning I breskfasted with Miss Chaney, climbing many outside steps through attractive little porch gardens, finally fo reach here gpartment, from which we had an unobstructed view of the bay. I know of no other city where such individual and unusual apartments may be found. After a brief visit to a Japanese shop, we re urned to the hotel.

Miss Thompson, Miss Chaney and I attended a lunch at the San Francisco Press Club, where I received a silver life-membership card. [I felt greatly “honcred as well as pleased. I hope to have occasions on which I can use my membership and to have an opportunity to talk to the gentlemen of the fraternity, whom I found a most interesting group.

At 2 o'clock, the Chief Ranger of- the Yosemite

tional Park, Mr. Townsley, met us at the hotel and

increases

By Ernie Pyle

9—Villain type. About 45 and very smooth. 10—No personality reaction at all here. I'll bet you can guess right off who is No. 10. That's me. Our Cleveland friend says he is 27, and lays the whole thing to being a born introvert with a runaway imagination. “Being the dreamer type,” he says, “I naturally had to romanticize the hard concrete facts of arithmetic in order that my fairytale-populated brain would receive these strange newcomers with equanimity. Or something.” Then there is another one from a man in Toledo. He says the whole thing is as logical as pie. In fact, he goes into it with equations and logarithms, and proves ‘that it has a sound. mathematical basis. At least he says he proves it. He winds up: “Your little friend is peculiar, all right—peculiarly logical. Nature sometimes grows impatient of the process of teaching, and turns out a-scholar ready-made.”

Mrs. Berglund’s Book

Lots of people are writing in, wanting to know when Mrs. Berglund’s book is coming out. Mrs. Berglund, remember, is the woman trapper up in Alaska. The answer_is—I don’t know. Her last letter said she'd by have it done late this summer. She was sick fall, and then had to lay out her trap lines, so fre didn’t get much writing done. And after the manuscript comes out it will take at least another six months to get it published—if it is published. But don’t worry. We'll let you know. Last fall we had a column about Father Roger Aull, the priest who retired to the New Mexican mountains and has the world flocking to his isolated door for advice. I told how Father Aull ioves his pipes, and had scores of them stuck all over the house. So Arvhur W. Neal of Euclid, O.. whose hobby is working in wood, up and made Father a beautiful tobacco humidor, with a rack around it for 10 pipes. I consider that extremely nice of Mr. Neal. And in case any of you readers should ever hear of me, and happen to have a hobby along that line, I just love 110-foot, twin-Diesel, 14-passenger yachts. Just mail them in care of the paper.

By Ludwell Denny

Similarly, he denies that if all the savings from technological efficiency go to capital then purchasing power will be generated and output and employment maintained. Purchasing power remains essentially unchanged, capital getting the money taken from the displaced labor. But if—instead of giving any of the savings to either labor or capital—prices are reduced to the full extent of increased productivity, an inducement is offered consumers to buy more. That tends to ex-

- pand output and prevent displacement of labor.

On the basis of elaborate and exhaustive statistical studies, Dr. Bell draws the following ‘conclusions: “The long-run interests of the entire laboring population clearly depend upon the maintenance and the expansion of aggregate production and aggregate employment. . . . When the total volume of production increases, the wage share -expands, and when total production is declining the labor share declines. ” 2 2

Other Complex Factors

“Also the aggregate returns to capital rise and fall ~1ith the volume of production. A reduction of prices which stimulates an expansion of demand is conducive to the full employment of capital and to an increase in the demand for additional capital.” Of course, he points out that this method (of passing on the benefits of increasing productivity in the

. form of price cuts) will not always prevent unemploy-

ment. Besides the wage and price factors there are numerous other complex factors, such as national and international economic and political trends, outside the scope of the Bell investigation. The Bell statistics, comparing the two-year periods 1923-24 and 1936-37, show in all four industrial divisions a large increase %n productivity without a proportionate rise in total production.- Employment| declined 4 per cent and total man-hours 12 per cent. While hourly money wages rose 11 per cent, weekly wages fell 10 per cent and total wages dropped more than 13 per cent. Earnings on capital investment decreased nearly 8 per cent.

able to write a column today because of illness.)

By Raymond Clapper

sponsibility in world affairs and does not believe we should or could escape it.

He attacks the results of the Hull reciprocal treaties, but favors the principle—and then wants Senate ratification required, which is only a devious way of trying to kill the whole scheme.

Mr. Dewey made a devastating indictment of relief in his Chicago speech yet his friends say that the-#buses which Mr. Dewey singled out were largely those of local politicians and that conditions would have been worse without Federal control. They are positive that Mr. Dewey does not favor turning relief back to the states so long as Federal money must be spent. ”

Popular in Defeat

Mr. Dewey has been more fortunate than Senators Vandenberg and Taft. They have had to cast votes and take definite positions on many national questions. Mr. Dewey can leave large blank spaces in his personal platform. That is to be expected. Politicians generally follow the rule of avoiding commitments as much as they can. The less one says as a candidate, the fewer enemies he makes and the fewer inhibitions he has after assuming office. Success in politics is a mysterious process that obeys no formula. Coolidge and Roosevelt achieved success and they had nothing in common either in personality or methods.. Depression broke Hoover's popularity. Roosevelt has failed to eliminate the unemployment which he inherited from the repudiated Hoover, but Roosevelt remains popular. Mr. Dewey's popularity was not impaired, but enhanced when he was defeated for Governor of New York. Before he had said one word on national questions he was the popular choice for President of large numbers: of Republicans. Youth and inexperience made no difference. You can’t explain such

phetumens, It would be just like trying to explain

By Eleanor Roosevelt

I was very happy to see him again. Six years ago he gave me five perfect days of camping in the high country near Youngs Lakes and an unforgettable day in the valley. He has the kindliest face I know and

the most humorous, yet the eyes look you so straight in the face that I should hate to meet him if I wished to hide anything. He gives you a sense of strength and confidence, one of those men you would like to have with you in a tight place. We stopped on the way out to see Billy Nelson, who is now retired but who was one of the rangers who had been most kind to me when I was here in 1934. The last part of the drive as we approached the hills was lovely, but the court house at Mariposa, the first building of its kind erected here in 1854, is a landmark to remember. It looks exactly like a New England mez:ting house. . Yesterday we; woke to a view of the .sheer walls of rock which form the sides of the valley. There is plenty of green in the evergreen trees, but as yet the other trees are not even in bud, though a lovely pink flowering shrub appeared along our way yesterday. The waterfalls are beautiful, and the blue sky made our day in the open a great joy. Mariposa Grove, with its giant trees, was even more impressive than I remembered it, In the afternoon we celebrated the seventh anniversary of the founding of the CCC camp Wawona. The boys are largely from the South and so is their commanding officer, Mr. William Spencer Rockwell. This is a great opportunity for these boys and they are doing splendid -work. Superintendent and Mrs. Merriam, Chief Ranger Townsley and some of the park rangers were with us. To them we owe the planning of this Jetgrul day.

to have bombed Oslo.

BIDS ON STATE ROADS LIMITED

Dicus Says Only Two Firms Can Produce Asphalt As Requested.

T. A. Dicus, State Highway Commission chairman, today affirmed that the State Highway Department’s specifications for rock asphalt (blacktop) material for In-

diana roads permitted only two companies to submit bids. He said there are only two firms, the Kentucky Rock Asphalt Co. and the Ohio Valley Co., that produce natural rock asphalt in the Midwestern area. “All other companies that have offered to furnish the material, manufacture it synthetically by special processing,” Mr. Dicus said. “Engineering tests In our labo-| ratories show that the processed asphalt materials are inferior to the natural asphalt dug out of mines. Nature provides something in the mined! material that can’t be matched by synthetic substances,” he a Low (bids totaling $1,139,146, about $170, below the engineers’ estimates, were received by the Commission today for the paving and improvement of 24 miles of roads in nine counties: The largest project on the list is for paving seven miles on Road 13, south of Marion, Ind. a low bid of $233,920 was submitted by Roger Daoust. of Defiance, O. The Commission announced it will receive bids April 30 for construction of 12 new bridges and one grade separation at a cost of about $300,000.

TOOL AND DIE MAKER SHORTAGE REPORTED

Local employers need 250 more tool and die makers than can be located in Indianapolis, the local State Employment Service field officer reported today. “Requests for tool and die makers are still coming in faster than we can find men,” George J. Smith, office manager, said. The demand for precision machine workers is almost as great, he said. —— HIT BY AUTO; LEG BROKEN . John C. Kirch, 68, of 1633 Union St., was recovering in St. Francis Hospital today. from a broken left leg received yesterday when he was struck by an automobile in a garage at the rear of 27 E. Iowa St. The automobile was driven by Jacy b

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Rivers Rise in

Central N.Y.

SYRACUSE, N. Y,, April 9 (U. P.).—Central New York's rivers and creeks, fed by | heavy rains and melting snow, rose near record heights toaay for the third time in nine days. | Thousands of acres of lowlands

had already been inundated by the new rise and emergency crews battled to keep raging streams from sweeping into cities and villages with possible Toss of life and great damage. High temperatures and 24 hours of steady rain swelled streams out of their banks last night. Most streams were still rising - this morning and authorities said that further rains would prove disastrous to areas stricken with floods for more than a week. In Syracuse, scores of families in a 20 block South Side area were trapped in their homes during the night for the third time in nine Jays. |

HARTFORD, Con Conn. April 9 (U. P.)—The Connecticut and Housatonic Rivers, fed by heavy overnight rains, overflowed tributaries ‘and inundated some low sections of Connecticut today.

BRADSHAW TO SPEAK Juvenile: Court Judge Wilfred Bradshaw will speak at a meeting of the Workers Alliance at 8 p. m. today in the Auto W. Maryland St. President William Carroll of the Alliance will preside.

The Indianapolis Times

Theater of War Is Transferred to

The newest theater of ‘war voip Denmark| and the coast of Norway. The Germans Denmark was under German control.

TRACTION LINE REPORTS LOSS

P. S. C. Holds Hearing on Plea to Abandon Ft. Wayne Route.

Indiana Railroad officials testified before the Public Service Commission today that the IndianapolisFt. Wayne line had an operating

deficit of $24,129 last year. The hearing was being held on a recent; petition of the railroad’s receiver, Bowman Elder, to abandon interurban service between here and Ft. Wayne. Louis Rappeport, general auditor of the railroad, testified that the road showed a profit only one year in the last seven years—in 1936. “Even if business conditions should continue to improve, there would still be a loss,” he said. Protesting abandonment of the line was Martin Miller, represent-

ing the Brotherhood of Railway|

Trainmen, who said many men would lose their jobs if the petition is oats. A week ago a hearing was held on the company’s petition to substitute passenger busses and freight trucks on the IndianapolisFt. Wayne line. Several bus companies which now are operating in that territory protested the pro-

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The commission will take both petitions under advisement.

SECOND SECTION:

Scandinavias

landed troops at several Norwegian cities and are reported

Mauna Roaring: Hilo Fears Lava

HILO, Territory of Hawaii, April 9 (U. P). — Mauna Loa volcano belched forth a steady stream of fuming, red hot lava today and it was feared that the fire pit of Kilauea might break and turn a river of molten rock toward this city. Flames, smoke and steam roared from the volcano. Smoke and clouds created a 10,000 foot Wi. brella-shaped pillar. Thus far, the lava had flowed at the rate of two miles an hour away from Hilo over barren land. But Dr. Thomas Jaggar, famous volcanologist and observer at Kilauea, the second active Hawaiian. volcano, said its fire pit on the northeast rim facing Hilo might give way against underground pressure. Such a break wouid send a torrent of lava toward Hilo, 40 miles from the volcano.

DELAYS DECISION ON TEACHER PAY SCALE

No action will be taken at the School Board’s regular meeting tonight on 1940-41 teacher salaries, school officials said today. Only routine business will be discussed. “Decision on the salary schedule for the next school year probably will ‘be taken at a special meeting or at the regular meeting April 30, they said, since the law requires action before May 1. The Indianapolis Federation of Teachers has asked a restoration of pay to pre-depres-sion levels.

Rotarians Greet Far East Envoy

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Pederle, 69, owner of the garag - ‘police said,

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Meng, director of the China Institute in America, upon his arrival here today to Club were (left to right) Dr. Frank S, C. S. Dunham, :

Russell 8. Henry, Mr, Meng,

DECLARES CHINA HAS "76 SPIRIT

Director of Oriental Group in u. S. Describes Aims | ‘To Rotary Club.

The Chinese people are struggling for exactly the same thing the

American people struggled for in 1776, members of the Rotary Club were, told today by Chih Meng, director of the China Institute in America, Inc. Mr. Meng was a leader in the Student Patriotic. Movement in 1919, when the Chinese students in Peking started a campaign against the award of Chinese rights and territories in Shantung Province to Japan, at the Versailles Conference. He declared the Chinese people are fighting against great odds in the military sense as did the armies of Gen. Washington. “But the unity and determination| of the Chinese people,” he said, “are beginning to overcome the technical handicaps as did the forces of Washington during the years 1776-81. “In that great struggle, America not only had the sympathy of the French people, but also secured large loans and actual military aid from the French Government personified in the personality of GenLafayette. Undoubtedly assistance to China from friendly nations will help| shorten the struggle, but we do not expect actual military aid, not even from th 5

lowever, : a ‘a military Lafaye expect and covet a n oral Lafayette in thesense that this great republic 1 assert its moral Jealiersitis as it has consistent] couraging aggression ing to restore the wi 3

District Attorney| Val Nolan is scheduled to file answers tomorrow in Federal Court td charges made in a plea in abatement to the in-

banker, against Ar

murrer to cerfain pf the charges, Judge Robert C. Baltzell overruled the demurrer ‘Friday, necessitating the filing of answers charges. : | Others indicted in : Carl F. Kortepeter, Charles Jefler=