Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 April 1940 — Page 20

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Give Light and the People will Find Their Own Way

| | a FRIDAY, APRIL 12, 1940 |

THE TRAFFIC CAMPAIGN HE Indianapolis Police Department has launched a vig4 orous traffic campaign. Scores of motorists have been rrested for violations of the law. | i This is all well and good. But the Police Department | uld recognize, too, that a large part of the problem rests iy the pedestrians. A job of pedestrian education is ne eded i in Indianapolis. Badly needed. There is entirely too De jaywalking and heedless crossing at dangerous rsections. A glance at the city’s death roll for 1940 is conclusive proof. Of the 20 killed here, 15 have ‘been pedestrians, 1: | Traffic control does not only mean rigid regulation of vehicular traffic, it also means regulat tion of pedestrian tr fle

BUREAUCRACY ON THE LOOS

OF the very essence of democracy (is the principle of OF i and co-ordinate powers, legislative, executive and judicial; that one power may. not encroach on the others; to the end that ours may be a Government of law and not

Of the very essence of i is centralization of

As our society has grown more ¢ mplex a trend has developed that is very dangerous to th principle of divided power. That trend is bureaucracy. Today there are 130 Federal agencies. | They function under authority delegated, too loosely we think, by Congress. Actually they ite their own rules and, actually, t ose rules operate as law—as if the rules had been passed by Congress itself. Hence a lopsidedngss, a breaking down of the three-way balance. It is an insidious process “so gradual that it escapes notice until it has all but raerit 2» Under it in innumerable cases the burden of proof is subtly switched. The defendant is presumed guilty unless he can prove innodence. The “buck” is passed to where, in : oes not belong. This vast thing called become of itself a: tremendous pressure up—eager to he perpetuated, avid for more authority. nd all appointed--not elected. Nearly a million troops in Tat salary of about two billion dollars. popular control that would inhere in the to be elected. That is a broad outline of what the Logan-Walter ill is attacking.| It would curb the cruising radius of the bureaucrats. |It would regulate the regulators. It is scheduled for congideration in the House next Monday. It should be passed by House and Senate and signed by the resident, that the U. S. A. may be made safer for democracy in a world where democracy is so Jebidly fading into government of men. This is no New Deal-Old Deal issue. It is a trend of long standing. As a trend unchecked and projected it ould lead us to [the kind of governmental philosophy exressed in a recent court of appeals decision in Breslau, ermany, which held: “Today’s constitution is dominated by the principle of litical leadership. The courts have, therefore, no right o decide upon the legal validity of political acts of the dministration.” It has happened in Ge , any. It can happen here. Bureaucracy| uncontrolled, through delegated appoinive power, becomes a Frankenstein’s monster.

RS. EVA E. CRAIG NDIANAPOLIS has lost a loyal and useful citizen in the death of Mrs. Eva Esther Craig, who died yesterday at the age of 76. Mrs. Craig was not only an able and respected business woman, but she was a Urdless and devoted worker in community life, The children who attended her Sunday setod) classes at the Woodruff Place Baptist Church will long remember her with deep affection. Those citizens who knew her will keep her in their hearts as a gracious woman who blended the old era and the new with singular success.

‘MORE PROFIT-SHARING

NEWEST firm to join the parade of profit-sharers is the International Harvester Co. Fifty thousand employees in the U. S. and Canada will share in 25 per cent of all profits after ‘common stockholders have been paid’ $3 a

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At present prices, this means about a 5 per cenit return for those who have invested money with the company. Those who have invested their time and abilities will get their regular pay, plus 25 per cent of profits above the $3 a share point. Had the plan been in effect in 1936 and 1937, some $7,000,000 would have been added to the employees’ remuneration. That's $70 a year for each employee not to be sniffed at. Thus, in America, the share and the stale of working people, their security and welfare, are being advanced little by little. It is the best answer to blueprint radicalism.

PASS THE GRASS

AAYBE Nebuchadnezzar wasn’t so nutty after all. They

laughed when he’'sat down to his meal of Babylonian grass, but now the news from the American Chemical Society’s meeting in Cincinnati indicates that the old king may only have been born 2500 years too soon. _ | Three St. Louis researchers have discovered that grass is incredibly rich in Vitamins A, B, B-1, C and E, and - also contains some substance which tends to prevent hair from turning gray. Since the stuff that flies from the lawnmower is not exactly palatable, they have developed a method of making grass powder, 12 pounds of which contain more vitamins than 340 pounds of fruit and vegetables. It is said to be just dandy in pancakes, breakfast foods, bread or candy. Science, as we think we ave observed before, is wonderful, Hereafter the soundest medical advice may be,

. “Go to grass!” And perhaps, before long, Presidential can-

] Sates will be campaigning with promises to provide free 8 Lon Al In. foal > g grow in the str

Fair Enough

By Westbrook Pegler

Despite Hitler's Threats Against|

Bolshevism, His War Is Being Waged Only Against Christian Peoples

EW YORK, April 12.—It may have been noticed

that anti-Semitism and anti-bolshevism have|*

now vanished from the list of urgent problems of Adolf Hitler's German nation, and that the actual war and the propaganda are being waged against only Christian peoples and plutocracy. There is no Jew=ish nation, but for years Hitler berated Soviet Russia as the enemy and attempted to show that bolshevism and Jewishness were identical. There was a slight inconsistency wherein he and (Goebbels ‘and Julius Streicher also insisted that the Jews were grasping capitalists, and they confused matters by enormous confiscations of property and money from German and Austrian (Jews whom they were villifying as Communists. Anti-bolshevism was dropped, however, when Hit- | ler and Josef Stalin made their alliance and, although the condition of the Jews under Hitler, whether Communists or capitalists, poor or rich, has not improved, they are no worse off than the captive Christians of Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland and, now, Denmark and Norway. .. ‘The Swedes obviously are next on the program, and the Swedes are not Communists or plutocrats. e captive Christian peoples are held to be subhuman, put on earth to toil for Hitler's chosen people, and they have no rights.or privileges. As the Nazi program develops, it’ becomes plain that every perfidy which Hitler charged against the Jews in his long propaganda was built into the German program. i 8 mn = i HEREAS he charged that the Jews were determined to disrupt, corrupt and conquer the other peoples of the earth, it is obvious that that is the revealed purpose of the Germans under Adolf Hitler. His methods were disclosed in Austria first, then in Sudeten country and next in Poland. In all of these

campaigns he began by organizing groups of traitors

under orders from Berlin. He assassinated patriotic

leaders and little people. | The United States has not escaped the activities of the German world-conquerors. Here the Nazi,

| anti-American Bund, has kindly volunteered to save

the country from .the same bolshevism, or Jewish bolshevism, as He calls it, with which Hitler has now made a military and economic alliance, andthe activities and propaganda of his chosen people follow the same course, up to a point, that was taken by his agents in Europe. 8 2 = . S for the mission of the Jews to destroy Christianity constantly attributed to them by Hitler and, more recently in this country by American dupes or knowing tools of Hitler, the experience of Christianity under the Fuehrer shows that Christians have ‘more to fear from the chosen people of Germany.

There is no excuse ‘for pretending to think, so as to evade a terrible decision, that the Nazis exclude the United States from their plan to conquer or dominate the peoples of the world. To say that a hundred million patriots will spring to arms to defeat them 'is to beg the question, because Hitler will not attack by arms until he has first disrupted and corrupted the victim. ; Why can it be hoped that a race who regards themselves as the chosen people will neglect to draw upon a land as rich as the United States for that higher living standard to which, by race, ey feel themselves entitled?

Inside ndianagdiis

That Battle About U. S. No. 31; And the Variety Club's Charities

HERE is a big fight going on about plans of the State Highway Commission to re-route U. S. Road 31 into Indianapolis from the south. The project would cut off Edgewood, Southport and Greenwood. There is nothing terribly mysterious about the proposal. The explanation is not unusual. It’s simply in keeping with practice all over the United States to route heavily traveled highways around cities, instead of through them, in the interests of safety and speed. Take Lafayette as an example. The new U. S. Road 52 cuts that city completely out. But at any rate, the local battle is on and we haven't heard the last of it by a long shout. The proposed new road would undoubtedly be faster. Probably save motorists all of five minutes.

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ONE SHOP OWNER just called and said that G. O. P. workers are approaching all local merchants asking them to hang out a flag the day Tom Dewey lis here. ... Well, get prepared for an outburst of |color, folks. . . . Gilbert K. Hewitt, the Gross Income Tax ‘Division director, has always made it a point to pay his tax on the first day of the new quarter. . . . Once or twice he forgot until the second. , .. But this time, with his installment due on April 15, he forgot to pay until the 8th of the month. . Slipping, eh? . .. The State Employment Service field office is now open one hour a day less so that they can do more work. . . . The hour between 4 and 5 p. m., which used to be given over to interviews with job applicants, is now given over to phone calls with prospective employers.

” ” ” ADD TO THE LIST OF large-scale charitable

movements the Variety Club's decision to contribute |.

equipment for the aid of underprivileged school children and to give funds for the establishment of a convalescent serum station. Truth is that the city school system has never had enough money to take care properly of abnormal or subnormal children or to conduct enough sight saving clinics. This will help turn part of the trick. The Indiana University Medical Center has agreed to accept the other share of the funds to set up the serum station, which eventually may lead to the establishment of an experimental blood bank. Shows you that the movie men are trying to even things up for those double bills.

; / o ° A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson T might be a good thing for democracy if city peo-

ple could be persuaded to take long trips into the country every vear and country people had the

chance to get into the less lovely urban spots where |.

the poor exist. There is something frightening in the lack of understanding between these two groups. They speak a different language, in spite of radio, movies and newspapers. A tug of war goes on hetween them and as the years pass the tug grows stronger, friendliness decreases, and it is not hard to imagine that the time may come when Government will again be

set up in walled cities—with country men barred out

as enemies. A long ride across couniry and what unpleasant questions present themselves! One sees the evidences of millions of dollars invested in highways and motor cars. They wind and weave through territory where the homes of the inhabitants don’t look so good. The heuses need paint and repairs; the fences are falling to bits; the barns sag: in many places the land seemed drained of vitality. Through all this the cars bowl over superfine highways and the hopeless farmers watch them pass, wondering whether there’ll he enough pasture to feed the stock and whether the crops can survive more drought and floods. The cities, too, big. and wonderful as many of them are, offer the same paradoxical view. Every gorgeous glittering one is edged with its deep ruffles of poverty, where tattered beings live in hovels sunk in a sort of voiceless despair. We seem to have gone a little mad on the subject of machines—and to have Dc that they should exist for one reason only —t0 benefit human beings. In the meanwhile who worries about what is happening to our own Good Earth? And who cares what becomes of the country man who must cultivate it? We are urbanites singing like grasshoppers in the

G adually the feels of America Jasses from |

B THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Traveling Man and Farmer's Daughter!

The Hoosier Forum

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

DOUBTS SUCCESS OF SMOKE CAMPAIGN By C. Ww. ) “City’s Experimental Smoke Campaign Reported Success” — Times, April 9th. That same evening one of the blackest of our “blackouts” occurred. May I: suggest that the “experimental” campaign (which certainly is nothing more) be continued, made permanent, and vigorously conducted during the coming summer months? | s 2 = FEELS CONFIDENT BRITISH NAVY WILL TRIUMPH By F. B. Knyvett In your paper at noon today, Wednesday, April | 10th, are the headlines, “British Lose Battle at Narvik,” followed by the Headlines, “Two Heavy Nazi Cruisers Sunk.” These headlines are an indication of how “phoney” first reports can be in war. In the first case, reading reports, as given by the United Press, of what happened at Narvik, a Norwegian port, is that there were three German cruisers in possession of that port, and they were attacked by four small British destroyers in an attempt to turn the tide, the result being that, for the moment, they failed. ! However, when you read what's happening around Norway, I think. the next two or three days will show that the British navy has more than taken the measure of the Germans. The only two real battleships they have, the 10,-000-ton Bleucher, and the 6,000-ton Karlsruhe, have both been sunk. Who knows what other German vessels ‘have been sunk? The tradition of the British navy for 1000 years has been to keep its mouth shut. I feel sure that when the end of this week’s story is told, that the old and much attenuated British lion will still be on deck. Wishful thinking never won a battle, nor helped anybody. For those of British, Norwegian, Norse or Scandinavian descent, these are troublesome times. If praying would help, I believe this is the time to

(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.)

pray. But, like the old trapper, when he was caught on top of the mountain, without arms, with a bear in front of him—hayving no religious ¢onvictions, Callathumpion or otherwise—he called on the Deity not to take sides, but to stand right by and he'd see one good scrap. In analogy, I believe that’s what any good American should do-—take no sides; keep out of this argument; both by word and deed; and stand right by, and you will see one good scrap, with—I feel sure—the old British Empire on deck. Meanwhile, while these apparently

are dark days, war is not made on

newspaper headlines, and I believe the sun will still shine on prosperity for America, while not eclipsing the British .Empire. I proudly identify myself with the land of my birth, Australia.

RESENTS OPPOSITION TO CIRCUS ON SUNDAY By Chas. F. Schlegel Jr. | A few days ago I noticed in the paper a few gentlemen who evidently have forgotten their boyhood days now want to be different and want to ban a circus performance

on Sunday. Is religion going crazy? Here is one of the cleanest enter-

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as well as a lot of grownups. And these fellows want to come along and keep the man who might work in a factory all week long from taking his family to a circus. I

they will lose their place in Heaven by going to a Sunday circus. ” ” 2 THINKS DIES PROBE WASTE OF MONEY By Donald Rase The Dies Committee was authorized by Congress to spend, I think, about $75,000 this year. All the information obtained by this committee this year could have been ob-

tained by merely writing a letter or two to the Communists who have avowed their principles by their writings and by every other method to the general public for years. The committee is wasting the taxpayers’

have two kiddies and I don’t caver

money simply for publicity purposes.

New Books at the Library

O those music lovers who regularly set aside a portion of each Sunday afternoon to listen to the broadcast of the New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra concerts, the cultured voice and keen comment of Deems Taylor need no introduction. Mr. Taylor has in ad-

|dition a very definite reputation as

a writer of no mean ability, and both listeners and readers will welcome the publication of his latest book, “The Well Tempered Listener” (Simon and Schuster).

This book, like its predecessor,

Side Glances—By Galbraith

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“Of Men and Music,” is based on the author’s radio talks, considerably edited and rewritten and augmented by contributions ‘which he has recently made to musical and literary periodicals. To give it: form, the book has been rather interestingly divided into three parts: “The Makers, which consists of discussions of music from the viewpoint of those who write it; “The Givers,” which refers particularly to the perforthers and interpreters; and “The Hearers,” which is obviously from the vantage point of those who listen to music. ~ Whether Mr. Taylor is writing

about the desecration of the classics.

by jazz bands, speculating upon the

kind of music Beethoven would be;

writing today, were he alive, explaining why there are so few women in symphony orchestras, or discussing the perfect technique of Heifetz, he is entirely at home, has something of value to say, and knows how to say it. He can write good prose as well as good music. The author's rather subtle and

enjoyable wit, his: fund of musical},

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information and experience, and his well tempered attitude toward listener, maker, and giver alike, combine to produce a desirable addition to any musical -library.

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GIFTS OF SPRING By MAUD COURTNEY WADDELL

Almost overnight, impulsive, lavish spring Has gaily laid upon the worn and withered earth A bright green carpet with lovely velvet sheen. Banked high along the sky, dark, slender trees Lend golden, wrinkled, tiny leaves— Soon to be unfolding upon a warm, seductive breeze, Blooming : with careless, natural grace, Yellow forsythia drapes its beauty Of glad sunlight gathered in an earthen vase.

DAILY THOUGHT

Whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man ~Genesis 9:6.

| for the gander.

FRIDAY, APRIL 12, 1940 2

Gen. Johnson 1

Says—

He Takes Exception io Reasoning

That Norwegian Invasien. Is Blaw |

‘To Stand of U. S.

ASHINGTON, April 12—The most cockeyed re=action to the outburst in Scandinavia is that it sets the “isolationists” "back on their heels, It doesn’t even bear on the question. I hate sloganeering labels, yet I would rather be called an “Americanist” than an “isolationist”—although I sincerely believe that they are the same thing and, if they are, “what’s in a name?” But what is sauce for the goose ought to be the same There are only two sides to this

Isolationists.

question. My suggestion is addressed to the amateur military kibitzers who insist in our taking partners in this dance of death and who call people of my opinion “jsolationists”’ because they believe in arming our own dugout to Whatever extent is necessary and staying in it. My suggestion is that these people proudly label themselves “intervéntionists’—and, since they glory in their opinions, be proud of the descriptive title which far more aptly distinguishes them than the word “isolationist” describes our train of thought.

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T is absolutely fair to label them as “intervention ists,” but maybe it isn’t fair without distinguishing between two clear classes of them. One group presses for American intervention purely idealistic grounds. They are the do-gooders. {They want to send other people or other mother’s sons or other people’s money into this bloody shambles to maintain “decency” on earth. Even that statement m ight, on the surface, seem to carry an element of unfairness. Some of them are willing to embark themselves and their own sons on such a crusade. But whatever unfairness springs from this is only superficial. There is ample opportunity to do this right now.- All they have to do is to go across the Canadian border and enlist. , But most do-gooders and ‘great liberals” ask a vicarious sacrifice. They want to make “Govern=ment” do it—whiech means to make everybody do it whether everybody agrees ‘with them or not. ” ® un

UT there is another and entirely different school of interventionists with whose reasoning I have full respect even if I can’t agree with their conclusions. They say, that we ought to get into this war on the Allied side to lick Hitler as the cheapest means of self-defense. I respect that approach | ‘because it is fundamentally + + American and realistic. But I question its amateur and deadly conclusion. It threatens to sprawl our military and naval defense all across the world and so to fritter and destroy our strength. If this war proves anything, it proves that no nation can depend on the alliance or protection of any other. All wars prove that dissemination of fronts and forces is fatal. Eyery military principle demands that we put ourselves in a position to defend ourselves on this hemisphere against any combination of enemies and get ‘out of the other hemisphere in both Europe and Asia. We can't do that on the policies df the interventionists of either class. ° They are both counsellors of evil and danger.

Business

By John T. Flynn

Slump Due to Man-Made Regulation, But by Business, Not Government EW YORK, April 12—Wendell Willkie has been analyzing our depression and telling us what to

do about it. He says that this is a man-made depression, that man throttled business by excessive

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Government regulation and thus brought about this -

depression. So far as the depression being man-made, that’ is true. But it is true only because all depressions are man-made. The 1929 depression wes certainly man-

| made and there is no doubt that the next one will be

too. Depressions are the result of certain acts, decisions and plans, and of follies and ignorance of man in carrying them out. . But what depression is Mr. Willkie talking about? Does he think this depression we are in now is a different depression from the 1929 one? It is the same old depression—we have never got out of the depression that started in 1929, And there is no doubt that that depression was the result of excessive regulation, * But it was not regulation and interference by the Government. The regulation came from business it=self. Those who cry out now against regulation cite the SEC and what it has done to the security markets. You would suppose the Stock Exchange had never been regulated before, But it was—it was regulated by the exchange and the brokers, and regulated in their interest. It was this kind of | “regulation” which brought about the crash in 1929. And as things sank|lower and lower and finally reached bottom in 1933, the same men who had carried on all this interference in business—the businessmen themselves—sold to Mr. Roosevelt the idea that what we needed was mors regulation. They sold him the NRA—the 8 eatest regulatory scheme in‘ history. ty

And Then Came NRA

Before this, when businessmen got together in trade associations to decide how much they sl produce, what they should charge for what they p duced, who should be permitted to enter their pote] fields of business and a hundred other thin, had to do so with one eye on the Anti-Trust Laws and on the natural resistance of a democratic people to this sort of thing. But with the NRA not only wers the Anti-Trust Laws suspended and businessmen per= mitted to get together to do all this—they were actually forced to do.it by the Government. All the business leaders hailed the new era of regulation. And business still wants regulation, It wants regulation by business, the kind of regulation which is stifling the Wuilding industry, the ind of regulation provided by a utility holding company owning plants in thousands of cities and dicta ating the terms on which they may operate. The depression’ is man-made all right—but the men who make it are the same who made it in the 90s and continue to do so now. The Government is at fault, but not because it has itself regulated too much. It is at fault because instead of trying to break the grip of these business-made regulations it has tried to increase them. It has encouraged them until it is too late fochrrect its terrible errors)

By Jang Stafford |

TT fight against tuberculosis has been catrisd on successfully in colleges and certain abe by

modern methods of detecting symptomiess tuberculosis and thus giving the: patients the benefit of early treatment before the disease has done much damage, These same methods, suggests Dr. H. E.| Klein= schmidt, of the National Tuberculosis Association, are practical for use in one’s own family. They consist of having the family doctor examine the members of the family, make the tuberculin test on the children, and, if this test is positive, have an X-ray ture made of the child's chest. Early diagnosis and treatment is now the“Keywora in the fight against tuberculosis, whether it is being carried on nationally or on an individual basis. Even better than having tuberculosis diagnosed and treatment started soon after symptoms appear is the ‘policy of intercepting tuberculosis while 1t is still in the symptomless stage. Patients who have WErculods in the contagious form do not necessarily appear ill, The old idea that tuberculosis could be predicted by a person’s general appearance has been overthrown by modern, science. The disease often develops in persons who are the verypicture of health and vitality. The tuberculin test and X-rays can ‘pick ous ‘the tuberculous among these healthy appearing people

and give them a hance for rapid recovety wh Bich they ‘not have if they waited until sy

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