Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 April 1940 — Page 14

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“THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 1040

SELF-CONFIDENCE | .

HE Scandinavian coup seems to be a token of self-con--

fidence rather than of desperation on the part of the Nazis. | E | That its early phases, at least, were carried out with marvelous efficiency as well as audacity is evident. The prestige won by the German armed forces in their lightning conquest of Poland was enhanced, for the moment anyway. Whether they can hold their gains is another story, and the nswer is hidden in the smoke and flame of naval and aerial ction. : Eo io ‘But the significant thing is that the Germans chose to ake this thrust at all, instead of sitting tight behind their all of iron while the Allies stewed in the juices of futility.

| What had the Nazis to gain? Denmark, to be sure, will give them the mountains of food she formerly sent to England—for a while, anyway. But the Danes can hardly maintain their present production, since they’ lean heavily on imported feed for their live stock—corn from the United States and Argentina, for instance—and these supplies are now cut off. oh A JT The Germans took control of the Norwegian port ahd railhead of Narvik, the principal transshipment point for Swedish iron ore. But with winter gone they could have got their ore safely via the Baltic, And as long as British warships plow the seas it will be rough going for oreships on the long haul between Nerv and the Reich—if, indeed, Narvik can be held. [ + 1 No, it does not seem credible made this move solely to [improv plies. It seems more logical tha not as an end but as a means—a stepping stone for airpower, for the all-out blitzkrieg against ritish ports and shipyards and air fields which the| German spokesmen have been threatening so loud and long. 3 That is why the fate of the Allies may hinge, in the end, on the outcome of Winston Churchill's efforts to blast the Nazis out of Norway and its lwaters.

# : that Germany should have e her food and ore supb Scandinavia is intended

TWOPOLICIES | | ok - YF Tom Girdler is gifted with normal hindsight, even he ~ must now feel some doubts as to the wisdom of the policy he and his Republic Steel Corp. followed in the “Little Steel” labor struggle of 1937. i There is no point in| discussing the merits of the case at this time. The National Labor Relations Board, having held that the jstrike resulted from unfair labor practices, ordered Republic to reinstate several thousand strikers with back pay. The Federal Circuit Court at Philadelphia upheld the board’s order, and the U. S. Supreme Court has refused to hear an appeal. . That adds up to a notable victory for the Labor Board and the C. I. O., and to a severe penalty, which may run to millions of dollars, for Republic. Mr. Girdler undoubtedly feels that justice has miscarried. But whether or not his policy caused the strike, there is impressive evidence that a different policy could have prevented the strike and all its cost in blood and money. | J At the time when trouble was developing in “Little Steel” the C. I. O. also undertook to organize “Big Steel.” Myron C. Taylor, then chairman of the U. S. Steel Corp. met John L. Lewis face to-face, discussed the situation and signed a contract with the C. I. O. which still continues in effect. Concerning that contract Mr. Taylor was able to tell his stockholders, a year later: | “The union has scrupuldusly followed the terms of its agreement and, in so far as I know, has ‘made no unfair effort to bring other employees into its ranks, while the corporation’s subsidiaries, during a very difficult period,

have been entirely free of labor disturbances of any kind.

The cost of a single strike—to the corporation, to the public and to the men—would have been incalculable.” And today there can’t be much question as to which was smarter in 1937—*“Little Steel” or “Big Steel,” Tom Girdler or Myron C. Taylor. il STILL UN-HATCHED

HE new Hatch bill has been kept in the House Judiciary ; Committee for what seems to be an unnecessarily long time, The measure is controversial, and its provisions and language require car ful study. There would appear to be nothing untoward in the delay if there were any indication as to when the Committee intends to take final action, But there is no such indication. : So it seems about time to call attention to the fact that the|Hateh bill, which was passed by the Senate March 18, is getting nowhere fast in the House Judiciary Committee, !

hose members are: : ‘De ocrats—Sumners of Texas, Celler of New York, : Weaver of North Carolina, Healey of Massachusetts, Walter of ennsylvania, McLaughlin of Nebraska, Hobbs. of Alabama, Murdock of Utah, Tolan of California, Creal of Kentucky, Byrne New York, Massingale of Oklahoma, Satterfield of Virginia, Barnes of Illinois and 'Gibbs of | .

Georgia. ' Rep ublicans—Guyer of Kansas, Hancock of New York, Michener of Michigan, Robsion of Kentucky, Reed of Illinois, Gwynne of Ip. Graham of Pennsylvania, Pierre of New York, Monkiewicz of Connecticut and Springer of

Indiana. *

FATHER | ROWDED though they are with ominous messages, the | cables have found room to bring us the news that a - 103-year-old resident of Ramsgate, England, is still supporting his five grown children. | We regret that the story does not mention this patriarch’s name. He deserves something more than the anonymous nomination which, pending further information, we hereby award him as Patron Saint of Father's Day.

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Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler Allied Propaganda ‘Unnecessary in

The Thing Germany Must Fear.

‘to decide whether the German nation of Adolf Hitler is an enemy to be fought openly or by measures short of war, but to me it is indecent to say that Hitler and the Allies are six of one and half a dozen

of the other. . : During the last few months the Allies have been accused of making propaganda in the United States, and even the most obvious truths have been discredited or discounted as propaganda. As a matter of fact, the truth shows how hateful and hostile to Americanism and American interests are the very spirit and all the actions of Hitler's Germany, It is recalled in this connection that in the last war the United States was flooded with propaganda,

and false, when the known facts are that the Germans had their own propaganda mills here, and their agents were caught plotting to blow up Amefican works. ~ ” ” ” ; 1T= stories of atrocities in Belgium are scoffed away as though they had been disproved, when | the contemporary reports show that the Kaiser's soldiers did slaughter civilians in Belgian villages, and in one instance picked men at random from the midst of their families as they emerged from church on a Sunday morning and shot them against the wall of the cemetery as a warning to others not to offer resistance. 7 In this war there are no charges of atrocities against the Allies, and vet the very truth about the Germans, which is prescribed in Hitler's own writings and substantiated by daily developments, is attacked as Allied propaganda. ; : It is Allied propaganda merely to mention that the Germans fell on a helpless democracy with the iron weight of a great machine and reduced a fine, free people to the sub-human status of robots in Praha, the home city of Karel Capek, the author of R. U. R. It is Allied propagand@ to recall that Adolf Hitler, the man who contains that which is called thé soul of the German nation, had pledged the German's honor only a short time before that he would seek no more territory. | > ) ” ” 8 I= is propaganda for the Allies to recall that Hitler expressed complete satisfaction with the relations between Germany and Poland, but soon discovered that the treacherous anti-Polish Germans in Poland, roughly corresponding to the members of the. antiAmerican Bund in this country, had been suffering terrible horrors for years and swept. in to rescue them without declaring war. That the Nazis then massacred whole companies of young Polish civilians, dropping them still kicking into pits, because they presumed to defend their mothers and sisters with such weapons as they could find, is Allied propaganda, too. The alliance between Naziism and Bolshevism is a piece of the same plot against the neutrality of the United States, and now! the capture of Denmark and the invasion of Norway are propaganda for the Allies. greatest propagandist for the Allied side and the only propaganda that the Germans need fear. Adolf Hitler's own book and the German record and their national, racial obsession of superiority over the rest of mankind are propaganda which makes neutrality not merely difficult for Americans, but, to many, shameful as well. ;

Inside Indianapolis The : Local ‘Housing Program; And Court House Dispositions

HE movement for a low-cost housing program I is just about to go into high gear. It has definitely spurted out of the planning and conferring stage and the backers of the movement are gaining a good deal of support. Leaders are circulating petitions asking the Mayor and the City Council to set up a local ‘housing authority. ‘This would be the first step toward a slum clearance program. About half a dozen, more or less, civic organizations are co-operating :in the drive, taking the view that failure to eradicate slums is a threat to good residential property values. But from where it sits now, the campaign will probably run into a brick wall. In the first place, the Mayor is not going to budge unless he’s positive the whole town wants it. The Council, for its part, is absolutely cold to the idea. Opposing the low-cost housing advocates are, mainly, the Real Estate Board and some le ding businessmen. Their argument is chiefly agains e subsidy part of the U. S. Housing Authority program. It hasn't been said out loud, but the opponents might take a compromise of a housing authority working hand-in-hand with private enterprise. Oddly enough, they might eventually get together. ’ 8 » ” * THAT CONFERENCE BETWEEN the Mayor and “the Governor yesterday is rumored to have something to do with a state senatorial candidate. . . . The whispering campaign has already placed Hizzoner the Mayor in the Governor's chair. . . . Maybe vou've noticed it, too. . . . Two candidates for office have had the bad fortune to get offices. two stories below a concern which advertises rubber stamps. . . . Then there's the sister of a Republican political candidate who is working hard for the Democrats. , . . Reason: She has a City Hall job.

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COMPLAINTS HAVE BEEN piling up around the Court House about the mounting delay in start-

‘| ing court. . . . The courts are supposed to get under

way at 9:30, but 10:30 is a more accurate way of putting it. . . . Speaking of the Court House, dispositions around that hall of justice and government are running a little ragged these days what with the primary ‘so. close up. . . . Officials up for re-election are eying old pals: with suspicion and everybody seems to be figuring that everybody else has something up his sleeve. . , . Well, maybe that’s what the public thinks about all. of ‘em. :

A Woman's Viewpoint By. Mrs. Walter Ferguson

you ever met one—is the world’s champion optimist. : Makes no difference how odd this year’s models are, to her they are more beautiful than they've ever been. She greets each seasonal change in style with the same enthusiasm. Invariably the new shipments are “stunning,” and this spring some of them certainly are! Evidently the designers will never get her ‘down; she has already lived through their most freakish fervors, and the more fantastic the models they send, the greater is her glee. i To hear her talk you'd believe her greatest. joy in life was finding a hat that doesn’t make me look like something out of a sideshow. And while she's search-

the beauty and the witchery of present styles." When I feel low in spirit I like to hang around her shop for a while." It's uplifting to listen.to her. The women file in and out, sit before the mirrors and try on and try on and try on—yet her enthusiasth never flags, her politeness does not waver. A little dose of her makes me realize that the world is a pretty nice place, and maybe when the hats are so haywire it’s a sign we women are dauntless and undefeatable. Every time I step out into the street, self-conscious in my newest purchdase, wondering what gives me the courage to venture forth

the women who wear them and where one can meet such genuing ladies selling things in stores and shops,

This War, the Truth liself Being|

EW YORK, April 11—1It is this country’s right|

as though that propaganda was all of British make|

So the sum of the record is that truth is the|

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ing, she carries on running comments upon the chic,|

in such a rig, I am moved to give thanks that we|. live in’ a land where the hats are always crazier than}

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CRITICIZES JURORS IN RELIEF CASE By Mrs. T. T. McLaughlin. : America the richest country in the world, the land of the blessed free with no dictator to tell us how we must live, but a true democracy for the people, of the people and ruled by the people, yet in this glorious land our own people betray the honest taxpayers’ trust in justice. | i I would like very much to write an open letter to the jurors on the relief trial, but I am afraid it would take asbestos paper to hold my indignant thoughts. : One report stated that 10 of the jurors were for a longer sentence yet they agreed on a six months’ sentence and a $50 fine. Why? : 2 8 8 RAPS TEACHERS, CLAIMS SCHOOLS TOO COSTLY - By a Taxpayer Our school teachers are now asking for a raise in wages and salaries as usual.’ I am a taxpayer of this city. I

suggest that our School Board note

the 11 full pages of tax delinquent properties recently advertised for sale. Please make a checkup and learn how many of these homes or properties belong to school teachers. I think you will find very few of their homes or properties are on the tax delinquent list. Also learn how many families and children will be made homeless if these tax sales are allowed to continue. It is far better that a child be out of sohool than out of a home, which is certain to result with these continued raises and tax sales. We must also remember that our teachers are not a family raising group. They are not a home building group nor are they much of a taxpaying group. To be plain they are a dead-end group. They leave but little posterity to follow them so why should they care what happens to the State or nation. . Therefore for the good of our State and nation it is our duty to strengthen and safeguard the wellbeing of the live-end group. The group that does raise families, build homes and leave posterity to perpetuate the nation. If our Govern-

(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.)

ment and educational institutions are going to destroy our homes and industries by excessive taxes, which is now a plain fact, then the only solution is to cut down the cost of both. As the American home is the first institution in our land, without the home we need neither of the others. .

I hope to see the teacher’s tenure repealed. Also I would like to see the schools discontinue a lot of the non-essential subjects and’ cut the costs about 50 per cent. And the other branches of our Government should do’ likewise. I have grandchildren in the city schools and hope to see them get an education but. I firmly believe that I attended a far better school 50’ years ago than my grandchildren attend now as “we studied only practical and essential subjects and were more thorough in those subjects. So far as music, art, domestic science, home economics, physical education, foreign languages and a few more are concerned, they are worth about as much to the average boy or girl as snake charming, water witching, fortune telling, tattooing and other subjects of about the same value. I have lived in part of three eras. Fifty years

honesty and toil. Since then we have had an era of education, extravagance and spoil and now we are in an era of leisure, laziness and crime. : s 8 = SAYS PRICE SYSTEM IS DESTROYING ITSELF By Proctor E. Dice y Our increasing use of power and ‘technology is more significant than most people realize. The average person, or economist, politician, or

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Side Glances—By Galbraith

"Well haye to. speak to Clara. Ever since she won that prize with her essay on 'My Carger' she won't even make her own bed,"

ago we were in an era of ignorance, |

financier does not deal with the realities of life—matter and energy; but deals instead with values expressed in terms of money—mere scraps of paper in most /instances. In all preceding human history, until within the last two decades, an increase in production was accompanied by an increase in the man-hours of human labor; today, we have reached the stage where an increase of production is accompanied by a decrease in man-hours. Business competition [forces the installation of more modern equipment and the use of more mechanical power in the place| of -human labor. Modernization means contraction; not expansion as soothsayers bellow. Although technology. and the ensuring purch yet we must continue nology to produce goods and services in sufficient quantities| to sustain the lives of this mass (of people— now millions greater [than when hand tool methods of production were used. Inasmuch as the price system is destroying itself because of its own defects, we are facing the most serious’ problem all history —the outcome of which means life or death.

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BRINGS COMMENT By One Who Knows. Well, I see that begun economizing again, just like the wife who spends $18.98 for her sixth spring hat and and saves $1.02 because it’s marked down from $20. ” ” PRESSURE GOVERNMENT TERMED TYRANNY By Claude Braddick { George Wolf, Democrat, of Peru, who is to oppose the incumbent, Forrest A. Harness of Kokomo, as representative in Congress from the Fifth Indiana District, is trying to steal the latter’s gic by flirting with the Townsendites. Only in Mr. Wolf’s case it is more than a mere flirtation, it is an open and shameless infatuation. Mr. Wolf's program begins @nd ends with Townsendism. It is his sole bid for consideration at all.| Now Townsendites of course have the rights of any minority—the rights of free expression, dnd to representation in Congress (if they can get it). But they already have that in the person of Mr. Harness. What of the conservative voter? What's he supposed to do in 4a situation like this, stay home on!election day and read a book or something? I wish to remind the psonle once more that government by minority pressure groups is not

Democracy and not Republicanism. |

It is a form of tyranny. Townsend spokesmen assail the New Deal bitterly for its prodigal spending, its “pump-priming” and other bizarre experiments; but. their criticism falls flat when they wish to substitute for these policies the fabulous Townsend Plan,

THE WINNER By VERNE S. MOORE Do Yu stand aside watching the

| Or march in the moving row, Do you hide from sight behind the Or strive with the ranks of the foe? [ Fre strife in the game And the winner is he who tries, Nor good, nor bad, nor joytul, nor

He plays the game yme manwise. - DAILY THOUGHT

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n. Johnson Says—

It's Early for Conclusions, buf

It's Obvious Both Sides Prepared "

Far Ahead for Norwegian Move.

ASHINGTON, April 11—Tt 1s too early to begin ‘V. §

drawing either military or political conclusions from the sudden outburst of action in Scandinavia, It was not anticipated in the writings of the military’ experts that I saw, but that the action taken | by both sides had been carefully planned and prepared’ for is obvious. boosr You can’t block up neutral by mine fields in three separate areas, the: extreme two of which are 500 miles apart, without plenty of preparation—or do it in a day. You can’t launch such an assault as has been made on Denmark, and Norway any more rapidly. 2-4 It is curious that the Allies would have so clearly’ invaded Norway's neutrality on the exterior .route when the disappearance of ice on the interior route

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fluous. There must have been another reason. : In other words,. while both preparations were kept secret from the world, they were not kept. secret from either belligerent to prevent the other from knowing and acting instantly upon their revelation, ’ | ee 5 15 is too early to blame Denmark for not resisting Hitler's “protective” invasion. On thé face of current reports, she could only have crucified her country—as Finland and Poland did—with no possibility that Allied aid could have prevented it and. with the only difference in the end of losing a lot of lives and devastating the countryside. Seizing Denmark doesn’t get the Germans any. closer by air to objectives in Britain than she is already but a seizure of Bergen in Norway does. If this push had been toward Holland, its object would have been much clearer. Air bases in Holland would threaten the whole west coast of England, But this move to the north does not of itself threaten Holland. Germany with a superior land and air force can probably afford a Scandinavian expeditionary force better than the Allies can and if it does not meet with too much -resistance, it at least protects a line of vital supply and, in the sense of grand strategy, protects her right flank even if it does not too seriously threaten the Allied left. 8 8 =

ROM a military point of view, it is thus far an ' obscure maneuver on both sides but from a political angle, it makes clear an outcome which ‘this column predicted since the first far-off rumble of this war. The rights of neutrals are only what they have the strength to make them. They will be ruthlessly violated by both sides to the full extent that they feel their necessities require and that they can get away with it. ; " ! The wisest thing we have done was to get off the ocean in areas where this death struggle is going on. The wisest thing for us in the future is to get ready to defend the minimum of ‘neutral or even sovereign rights which we are not willing to give up. That's the only way we can keep them.

Business By John T. Flynn

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Rising Hostility - to Regulation i

May Block Investment Trust Bill

EW YORK, April 11—The Banking and Currency Committee, which is considering a bill to

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regulate investment trusts, may well get side-tracked | .

in the rising tide of feeling against regulation. But | all the reasons urged by the “free enterprise” people

against further Government activity with respect to

business do not. apply here. " |

The investment trust. is an investment vehicle which is specially designed for the small investor, The average man does not know what stock to buy, how to manage it when he does buy it or when to sell it. Moreover he hasn’t enough funds to diversify his investments. By pooling his funds with others in

an investment trust he can get diversity and veg

managenfent — provided the investment trust . honestly organized.

: | We know that in the past great numbers of vents ment trusts have not been honestly. managed. So: many hundreds of millions were lost in these trusts that people are scary of them. And despite the shocks : ing revelations about them nothing thus far has been L done. Ta { Now many financiers, industrial managers and’ conservative groups generally contend that it is Goy=ernment regulation that is retarding recovery. - Res covery depends on investment. That is true. But it depends on investment by those who are willing .to take a risk—those who are willing to put their money into new enterprises, or into the expansion of old enterprises. What is desperately required is “risk money,” “venture capital.” | No Evidence of Reform f

But investment frusts are not established for investors with venture capital. They are very specially . formed for persons who are seeking safety. The watchword of trusts is generally the selection | £ standard stocks, stocks with long histories of good management and good yields. Nothing that may be done to make investment trusts safe will have ‘an / important bearing on venture capital. . Eo The idea that the investment trusts committed a, lot of sins back in the Twenties but have reformed is not true. The worst sins were committed after the 1929 collapse, and even worse ones were perpetrated on investors after the 1933 collapse. There seems no end to the ingenuity of adventurers in this field of finance. b ; ls The investment. trust is an excellent device for the small investor. | But|it is such an instrument only

when the crooks, the exploiters, the adventurers are | o

kept out of it.! Bankers and financiers themselves have been the foremost advocates of blue-sky laws to. cripple the rement wh untrustworthy adventurer. - There is no argument which can be used in favor of a. blue-sky law which does not apply with double validity. | to investment trusts. The investor in blue-sky stocks.: is usually some foolish person trying to make a lot of . money on a Sheguiatjoh. The investor in investment: trust shares is invatiably a saver who wants to pub

his money and his faith in the established industries |

of the country.s He ought to be protected.

Watching Your Health i

By Jane Stafford REAST cancer has been increasing within recent. years. In 1938 it killed 14,315 women. In 1920 it killed about eight out -of every 100,080 in the population, mortality figures show, while in 1930 the deathrate from breast cancer was more than nine per 100,000 population and in 1938 ii was more than 11 per 100,060, These figure of the wonien who die of cancer the disease originates in the breast, are challenging to every woman. They. should challenge her to a courageous, intelligent attitude toward cancer. Because the breast cancer deathrate should be sharply reduced, and part of the job of reducing it is.up to women themselves. When cancer of the breast is diagnosed and treats ment is begun while the disease is still local, that is,

before it-has spread from the breast to other parts

of the body, three out of four patients are being cured, the American Society for the Control of Cancer states. These figures indicate the good chance for - recovery for the woman who is brave enough and intelligent enough to recognize the possibility of certain symptoms meaning cancer, and to consult her physician and follow his advice without delay. s that may point to cancer of the breast usually painless; a sinking in or 1e nipple; an uneven enlargement of authorities teach. tment,” states the Soclety, “is by

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