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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10, 1840

ENGLAND'S MOVE il

1 HITLER has scored again. Some military men suspect

that he has overstepped himself this time, by opening ) up a new front which will let the Allies get at him. But | that will not be easy; the Germans “got there fustest with ‘the mostest,” and it is safe to guess that they are losing ' no time digging in. Dislodging them will be no tea party. And what if: they are not dislodged? - Norwegian airports will become springboards for Nazi bombers against English shipping and English ports. Sweden will be trapped in a iravian mbreha nutcracker. Enormous tonnages of

' Scandinavian merchant shipping, now engaged in supplying’

will have to answer German orders. That recent off-the-record remark of a military man

"in Washington that the odds were 55 to 45 against an Allied _ victory gains plausibility, 7

But the Scandinavian situation is too new and uncertain

| to justify guessing by laymen. We must wait and see.

In the meantime, what about the United States? * President Roosevelt properly got to work at once on enlarging the combat-zone boundaries beyond which Amerjcan merchantmen cannot venture. The success of this feature of the neutrality act has long since been proved; while the ships of other neutrals have been sunk by the score, with heavy loss of life, our vessels have escaped harm— and all or nearly all of the American bottoms displaced from their normal trade routes have found employment else-

where. That is a real accomplishment toward keeping us

out of war. . As Mr. Roosevelt says, questions as to the future of Iceland and Greenland—which owe allegiance to the Danish crown—are premature since Denmark’s status under German occupation is as yet vague. It may be taken for granted ‘that this country would not permit the Nazi flag to rise in

the Western Hemisphere.

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A more immediate matter is that of our national defense. Congress, while’ filtering hundreds of millions

through its fingers for unbudgeted subsidies of various

sorts, has been chipping corners off the defense program. The news from northern Europe ought to put a stop to that. In fact, the Senate Appropriations Committee took one look at the newspapers yesterday and restored. to a War Department bill the $15,000,000 fund for starting a third set of Panama Canal locks—an item which the House had dropped. | “As Gen. Marshall, the Chief of staff, says: “We must.

put our house in order before the sparks (from Europe)

reach the Western Hemisphere.” Maybe the sparks won't start any fires over here, but do you want to take the chance? | | And while on the Subject of putting our house in order— | | 1 In January the President submitted a budget which called for $460,000,000 in new taxes to cover emergency additions to the defenses. | : Congress has not tied a hand ‘toward preparing a tax bill. | | | Meanwhile, the $45,000,000,000 debt limit is just around the corner. Hi Congress shows no intention of raising that] | 1 | Where is the money coming from? | Congress will have to answer. But we'll bet: it won't be the Congress now sitting. |

BLOCKING THE REAL REMEDY

HE four Wagner Act amendnients now offered by the House Labor Committee represent a grudging concession to the overwhelming demand for change, but an obvious attempt to head off what must needs to be done. _ | One of them would enlarge the three-man National Labor Relations Board to five members. The only thing sure to be accomplished by that would be the creation of a couple more $10,000 salaries. | : -Another—a gesture to the A. F. of L.—is designed to protect craft unions in collective-bargaining elections with industrial unions. It seems to have won William Green’s approval for the Labor Committee program. | A third would give employers, as well as unions, the

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should be guaranteed by law, not left for the board to grant —or, as it did for a long time—to deny. Tl. The fourth would prevent employer-employee contracts, once approved by the board, from being upset within less than one year by changes in union affiliations. That should tend to stabilize industrial relations. The last two of these proposals are desirable, but the first-is jotally inadequate. | : The Labor Committee, hoping to prevent consideration of any changes recommended by the Smith committee, wants to employ parliamentary tactics that would limit de- - bate on its own proposals and prohibit any amendment of them. Fortunately, these tactics are not likely to succeed. We believe the House will insist on full and free debate. And we hope the result will be action by Congress going to the root of most of the troyble with the Wagner Act— namely the mistakes, the zealotry and the bias of its administrators. . |

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NS | FE CONNOR of Madisonville, Tex., has got hold of a real campaign issue. “The greatest injustice oh the face of ‘the earth,” he proclaims boldly, “is runs in silk stockings.” And he promises, if elected county clerk, to do something to stop ’em. Just what is not precisely clear, and we wait breathlessly for more information ‘about the Connor plan. I : | .But Rufe is wasting his promising talent on a mere race for county clerk. Think of the vast following—all ‘the women who wear silk stockings, plus all the men whose wives are always saying, “Darn! There goes another - al as a candidate for Presi‘dent & 4 |

‘any honest New York lieutenant and 20 decent plain-

| pack rooms for games. of chance. They would seize

Fair Enough

By: Westbrook Pegler

Old-Fashioned Police Methods Would ‘Clear Miami ‘of Criminals in

EW YORK, April 10—The problem of policing AN the two Miamis, correctly described as the winter quarters of the criminal scum is so simple that

clothesmen would be able to clean up the whole district in about a week and keep it clean. It I were that New York police lieutenant, I would ‘meet all, trains, planes and boats and establish a sort of immigration station on the highway at the city line and pick up every known criminal on sight. 1 would expect some to slip through and, therefore, I would keep a detail of men at the horse and dog tracks ‘and work a’ shift around the night,

clubs. X I would take my captives into a quiet, secluded

swift kick in the trousers.

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t Pe not wanted in the Miamis. deportees or refugees themselves hesitate to return, but their friends to the North would cancel their reservations and decide to rough it through the winter on their home grounds. N ’ ” » # x : : KNOW that this (kind of police work is frowned upon now, but my men wouldn’t make mistakes,

and the cry of “wrong guy” would never arise, for I would limit my treatment to men known personally to me or my detectives as criminal no-goods. My men would give them lumps and, arrived back North, they would give Miami a terrible reputation in. ‘the

underworld. \ In between receptions for in the quiet, secluded room my ‘men would prowl the

all ‘gambling tools discovered in operation and lug them down to some prominent spot, where we would smash this expensive furniture to kindling, douse it with gasoline and set it afire. The proprietors, dealers and all would be taken down to the. reception room and admonished, but the dealers would get off without lumps, because they are only employees and, on the average, not bad fellows. But the gorillas attached jo these parlors would meet with some accidents. 2 8 =

4 T the horse and dog yards my men would humiliate the criminal scum by giving them the bum’s rush through the crowds. The scum are extremely vain, and public embarrassment hurts them almost as mitch as lumps, and when you consider that they would get their lumps, too, you total up the treatment to something very effective. My men would have met Al Capone on his arrival and tossed .him around with great abandon, and our judges, assuming in my naive way that judges really wanted to clean up the Miamis, would have thrown his lawyers out of court when they asked for an injunction—as, of course, they would have. My men would frisk the crgdentials of premises selling liquor, and our courts would revoke the licenses of all. scum, even though they were operating through dummies. I would make life so unpleasant for the scum that the Miamis would be as clean as fire. . The truth is there is nothing in the criminal scu problem of the Miamis that could not be cured within a week by 20 feet of garden hose cut into one-foot lengths. ,

Inside Indianapolis An Allison Man Goes Abroad; And the Safety Board's Problems

T'S supposed to be a deep, dark secret but one of the officials of the Allison Engineering Co. is now

aboard the Rex, somewhere in the Atlantic, bqund for Europe—and maybe for some nice fat contracts with some foreign governments for Allison motors. © It's such a secret that nobody here even knows the official’s name. In New York, though, and in Washington all the embassies know a whole lot more than

maybe even the War Department. At any rate, the official was supposed to take the Clipper a week ago today but he had passport trouble and had to delay until the Rex sailed Saturday. It is the first trip abroad for an Allison man—all made possible by the order permitting Allison to export its motors. Sh-h-h-h! . 2

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too. . . . St. Margaret's Guild had H. V. Kaltenborn scheduled for April 18. ... But yesterday the Guild got a wire saying Mr. Kaltenborn was taking off for Europe to cover the present shindig in Norway and that the date was off. . . . There is an automobile horn in town that plays “In My Merry Oldsmobile.” . Speaking of rapt attention, the Circus let 400 children from the Deaf School into the Coliseum free the other afternoon. ... And when clowns climbed over the railing to greet them the kids quietly went ga-ga. . . . The phone company has a girl over there making a list of people who haven't got a January directory. . . . The girl is pleasant, as all get-out, but the phone company is getting worried because there is no-January directory and they don’t know who the girl is. . . . Maybe this will help all concerned.

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THE SAFETY BOARD has a dual problem—the pigeons and doodling. The pigeons are always present and they seem to bill and coo more than ever on Tuesday mornings when the Board meets. Everybody notices it but nobody ever says anything. Once in a while a Board member will get up and look out of the window but he’ll never say anything. Board member Frank B. Ross is the champion doodler. Miss Edna Allen the Board secretary, always puts out clean paper and sharpened pencils at meeting time. LeRoy

he never sees the paper. Donald Morris folds his arms and listens moodily. But Mr. Ross goes right te work on his tridngle filled with “36's.” Pretty, too.

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

UTSIDE my window the clean-limbed trees glisten after the rain; their boughs, covered with swelling buds and tiny leaves, wave like pale green veils across the face of the sky. Something is happening in that outside world. One senses a stirring deep down below the plant roots, and every little blade of venturesome grass quivers with life. For Old Mother Nature is beginning her spring cleaning, and every housewife in the land longs to

season: of the year. Whatever disastrous events’ may be taking place, we women know that the simple homely tasks of life must go on and that we are the ones appointéd to do them. In millions of American homes the same force that moves in the trees moves also in women’s beings. A pleasant stir of activity goes on. Curtains come down to be laundered; dingy chairs are sent off to the upholsterers; wallpaper and paint are slapped upon the walls; closets are aired and old things discarded to make room for new.

houses and our hearts. We thrill to something sweet and unexplainable—something human everlasting. : . a The earth turns and the warming sun comes nearer. It is good to know that no matter how long and hard the winter may be, Nature is forever concerned with ‘her immemorial business of creating beauty and health and ‘sustenance for man. And

tion man may become, or how persistently he destroys those things he should preserve, there will always be this renewal of the life force when spring comes, and that somewhere, in certain places upon the surface of the earth, women are always about

Short Order if Officials Desired It. |

room and work over ‘them in the old fashioned way, | and then face them out of town finally with a good |

this Southern hospital- | the word would spread that the criminal scum | Not only would the |

the criminal no-goods 1

SPEAKING OF THE WAR, it is being felt here, |

Keach usually has so many documents in front of him |

be up and about the same business. The feminine | heart sings its own special little tunes of joy at this|

The fresh clean air of spring blows through our).

we know too that no matter how mad with destruc- |

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Baseball

* Should Be a Big Year for

I'LL BE GLAD WHEN I CAN WATCH A GAME WHERE I KNOW - WHAT THE

The Hoosier Forum

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

ASKS WHAT HAPPENED TO SUMNER WELLES \

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there arises the question, became of Sumner

news, “Whatever Welles?”

» 2 ” PLIGHT OF UNEMPLOYED BLAMED ON G. O. P. By George W. Benson, Sullivan

Says Voice in the Crowd: “Born under the Constitution, we are guaranteed equal rights and equal opportunity. No one can tell me different. I have been a pauper twice, and may hit the bottom again, but it won’t be the Constitution’s fault. When you see a boy that won't go to school, or a fellow who would rather play pool than eat, or a fellow who doesn’t want to do his thinking until tomorrow, you are ‘seeing opportunity that was equal being destroyed.” All right, V. I. C., you have been a pauper twice. The first time, I suppose, it was because you didn’t go to school, and the second time it was because you played pool or did your thinking tomorrow. Do you seriously contend that it is the fault of the millions of unemployed that they are idle? Why, where have you been? Don’t’ you know they have tramped the country over, they have cried on their pillows at night, they have been ashamed to come home and face their wives and children because they couldn't find work? Yet, it is their fault in a way, because they were suckers enough from 1920 to 1932 to listen to Repubiican soft-soap and to vote for “Back to Normalcy” with Harding, “Keep Cool with Coolidge” and “Two Chickens in Every Pot” with Hoover. You say: “One reason. we have a depression is that people don’t want to give thought to tomorrow until tomorrow comes.” Again you are dead wrong, as usual. The reason we have a depression is that people didn’t think at all. If they had, they - wouldn't have continued for 12 vears to vote for Harding, Coolidge and Hoover and a system under which the already rich continued to pile up their millions and multi-

nothing left to buy the automobiles, ‘radios, electric refrigerators, clothing, shoes, foodstuffs, etc., manufactured by those same millionaires. Then the factories stopped and the market collapsed and: the Plutocrats begged Roosevelt to save them.

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millions until the rest of us had]

(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, religious con\troversies excluded. Make your letters short, so all can have a chance. [Letters must be signed, but names will be withheld on request.)

He did save them and the minute they were safe, they turned on him and began to undermine him. But the people stood by him in 1936, 46 states to two. The coming election will decide whether we go back to Hooverism and another depression or go forward, at least a step, on the long road toward economic justice, Of course, : x z= QUOTES DEFINITION OF PROPAGANDA By Frank Lee 5 : We hear a great deal about foreign propaganda these days. We will hear a great deal more. certain committees of Congress have heard about it.

There is no general agreement on what is propaganda But with sly

Irish humor, a certain writer in the

Dublin Opinion has set forth a definition which seems fit to stand for all time It is: : Propaganda is the other side’s

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case put so convincingly that it annoys you. The next time we hear the cry of “Propaganda!” it might be a good idea to repeat that incisive little definition - For a certain hu‘mor is always the .best defense against being unduly influenced by propaganda, the other fellow’s, or even our own.

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HOPES GERMANY DEFEATS BRITAIN By Curious, Bloomington. ° ’

According to the editorial section of this paper I gather that the bottom of Great Britain's pot is blackler ‘than Germany's. Germany, it seems to me, wants only to live without the oppression of the ruling class. of Great Britain. And Great Britain wants to continue to rule most of the world without the interference of Germany. Great Britain rules now and has ruled by force in one form or another since her influence spread be-

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kingdom. I hope three things: 1. We stay out of war both with men and the materials that the Allies want. 2. A United states of Europe comes cut of this chaos. 3. Germany wins this war and destroys the aristocratic ruling class of Great Britain, putting the borders of England within the limits of the seas which surround her, thus. making the world safe for cemocracy and not

for unjust Great Britain democracy.

New Books at the Library

r “Testament of Youth,” published in 1933, Vera Brittain wrote glowingly of her beloved friend, Winifred Holtby, poet, journalist and novelist, “a radiant golden creature,” already doomed, through incurably high blood pressure, to early death. Their friendship, which began at Oxford in 1919, continued “unbrcken and unspoilt, for 16 incomparable years,” until Winifred died in 1935. “Testament of Friendship” (Macmillan) is Vera Brittain’s superb memorial to a lovable, versatile genius whose greater fame was posthumous. In England, Winifred’s early novels were moderately successful; in America, they were failures. A brilliant journalist, she

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placed “Time and Tide” among ondon weeklies; a South African our in 1926 intensified her disaproval of England's imperialism, and for the rest of her life she labored untiringly for the betterment of Africa’s blacks. | From her childhood in a Yorkshire village, through the war years o Oxford and the London literary world afterward, Miss Brittain recreates vividly the generous, noble personality who lived for others rather than herself; whose books ‘were written in “odd moments left over from the interests of other people.” Winifred still shared Vera's ‘home after the latter's marriage, ‘adored and adoring “Auntie” of her \friend’s children. The unhappy frustration of Winifred’s emotional life was reflected in her novels; for years she loved a childhood playmate whom the war had made an irresponsible, aimless drifter. She died at 37, not yet at the

| zenith of her creative powers. Even |in her brilliant last novels, “Man-

doa, Mandoa!” and “South- Riding,” Miss Brittain sees, not final achievements, but rather the promise of glorious ‘achievements to come. But the international success of posthumous “South Riding,” written as she ‘battled the agony of ‘her fatal disease, made secure Winifred Holtby’s niche beside other Yorkshire novelists—J. B, Priestley;- Phyllis

Brontes.

APRIL SPEAKS

By MARY P. DENNY April speaks through the microphone : Of the spring air and rain In a soft deep strain. April speaks in the tone Of blue bird song.

And in the anthem strong Of the winds of April day Over the far country way.

April speaks in the thunder crash ter the lightning flash. And in the sway of the tree By the great river free. April speaks in the bird's flight. And in all life’ and earth light.

DAILY THOUGHT

Behold, happy is the man whom God hath correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty.—Job 5:17.

CRITICISM ‘is the handmaid of reflection. ‘It works by censure, and

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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10, 1940

; Gen. Johnson

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Willkie or La Guardia, or Both, Would Give F. D. R. a Real Race.

ASHINGTON, April 10.—Having generously : provided the Democrats with wholly unsolicited and gratuitous opinions as to how to run their show, it seems no less than fair to do an equally unsought service for the Republicans. Doctor Johnson's diagnosis here is based entirely on his fiidings on the Democrats—that Mr. Roosevelt will

in the opposition. This is important because if something should

interfere with that probability, this bet is off. But if Mr. Roosevelt runs, it is probable that he could lick any of the present foremost contenders for the Republican crown—singly or in any possible permutation of pairs. ’ i He could lick them because he would run rings around them in the campaign. He and his accomplished battery of ghost writers would simply outargue, outwit and out-charm them before the voting public. .- I Perhaps it is a little premature to assay Mr. Dewey’s position on national problems because, as Raymond Clapper has so sharply pointed out, he hasn’t defined it. He did a magnificent job of generalization in his first speech and has well presented the argument for the prosecution. But that Isn't enough. be | 5 ® 2 8 | «=f EVE if he should begin to lay down a program for ~ I's national salvation, a doubt- would arise as te whether it were not just a sort of high school sophomore thesis in the second semester in civics—or trying “to teach his grandfather to suck eggs.” I think Mr. Roosevelt would make a monkey out of him. Senator Vandenberg has had to take forthright positions. He is on record on everything. But he is recorded on so many sides of so many questions that Mr. Roosevelt's ghost manned speech factory would go to work on him with whoops of glee. Senator Taft just isn’t sufficiently articulate. His principal asset is a name and, while it was the name of a very great man, it wasn’t the name of a very great President, and. the Senator seems to be a chip off the old block. Against Mr. Roosevelt he would-be out of his class. There are two candidates available to the Republicans who could take care of themselves with Mr, Roosevelt on their feet in any ring in the country— with no holds barred. ; ” » 8 I ox is Mayor LaGuardia of New York, who has a mind like a steel trap, can speak masterfully on any public question at a moment's notice and has hung up the best comparative record in the country— bar none—not only as a vote-getter but as an able, honest, conservative and effective chief executive in the second hardest job of the kind in the nation. The other is Wendell Willkie. You can’t dismiss him because he runs a public utility any more than you can . dismiss LaGuardia because he is called “radical.” I try,to visualize these men as candidates or Presidents, rather than by thoughtless label. | Willkie would make a campaign asset out of his supposed ‘liability. His record in that job is amazing —in. the ‘interests of the consumer and the public. With either or, better, both of these men on a Republican ticket, we shall see a real race. The way matters seem to be trending now, it will be just 1936 over again. |

Business By John T. Flynn U. S. Needs President With Sound

Plan for Solving Relief Problem.

EW YORK, April 10—Here we are again with the same old routine—the request for more money for relief. . : i A First of all, is it needed? The answer must be— yes. That is the serious part of it.

forecast of brighter days. The little war boom which got under way last August had risen and been advertised and promoted. By December it looked good to the soothsayers. But, of course, there was nothing in it and since January there has been a continyous decline in business activity and in employment. | : Col. Harrington says the outlook for industrial expansion is unfavorable. That is true. More than a million men, to estimate it modestly, have been laid

is faced with the necessity of laying off 600,000 men from WPA rolls in the coming three months—20,000 a month. | ia Thus the situation is being aggravated. Now what is the most important conclusion to be drawn from this? Beyond a doubt it is that the Government has in its possession no plans, no ideas for handling this serious problem save to continue to borrow money and spend it on relief. if | Obviously it does not take a wizard to do that. That is the easiest and the oldest device of Government in all history. If we are looking for a President these coming four years, we certainly do not need: to ask for any great endowment of brains or courage or statesmanship if our only defense against depression i$ this. Any small-bore, county courthouse mechanic can think up this idea.

Election Year Complications

Who can ‘think up a better one? That's the big point now. The next point to be remembered is that this is an election year. Elections are not fought in Washington, not even in the states, but in cities and counties. And in cities and counties all over the union are corrupt city-hall and courthouse gangs who know how to turn these vast Government expenditur<s to their uses. If there is to be an additional appropriation for relief—and I do not see how it can be escaped “the greatest care should be taken in Congress to safeguard it from the hand of the politician. It will be used for politics as sure as the sun shines. These various courthouse and city hall groups are fighting a desperate battle and all bars will be down when the battle begins. ; : : The alternative to Government expenditure on relief now is a severe recession. The only thing that can avert that—other than heavy relief spending—is big war. orders from Europe. That is why the Government is * anxious to speed these war orders—to do the very thing it so deprecated in 193 get busi-

dent called it then.

Watching Your Health By Jane Stafford : | a

ITH the iced tea and fced coffee season just around the corner comes a timely reminder of the need for sanitary precautions in preparing these and similar drinks that are chilled by putting ice into them. | I ising An epidemic of dysentery, involving 60 .persons in one hospital, has just been reported to the American Medical Association by Drs. E. J. Godfrey of Water bury, Conn., and M. A. Pond of New Haven. Internes, nurses, orderlies, housekeepers, maids, and office employees of the hospital and one visiting physician were the patients in this epidemic. i Dysentery is caused by germs which get into the body through contaminated food or beverages and leave the body with its wastes. 'A lumber ‘of possible sources of the'germs in the hospital o investigated. Since the hospital's pati involved, suspicion was directed to the foo served the nurses, iriternes and hospits ) The ice used for drinking water in the nurses’ and | it was discovered, was handled Although. made lated, it was was dumped

in a slovenly, insanitary manner. from city water, which was not cont kept in tubs that were not kept clean a | by hand into pitchers or glasses for the tables, One of the pantry maids who handled the ice turned ou to be the first patient in the dysentery outbreak. 8! was not very sick and so continued to work in the pantry during her attack. She was probably the cause

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ness by inviting war profits, “fool's gold,” the Presi-

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