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nd the North Sea. And i may be years before the precise truth can be, set down. |

ately after that g Germans “were concealing some of their heevy losses: To-

light. There is an axiom about Jutland that is worth mentioning in connection with the mystifying goings-on off Norway: Then, as now, the destruction of the British fleet would have lost the war for the Allies. When nightfall at Jutland hid from Row the German High Seas Fleet, with which the British Grand Fleet had been trading broadsides since Diafigon, Admiral Sir John Jellicoe could not take chances. Given daylight, is overwhelming preponderance of ships and guns were. reasonable insurance against real catastrophe—although if is said that if Jellicoe, at 6:15 p. m. on that day, had deployed ‘his fleet to starbog rd instead of to port, “irretrievable disaster might have followed.” But in darkness the risks of surprise, of mines and torpedoes, were too great to permit a venture into the enemy’s own aters—with the British Empi¥e literally at stake. So Admiral Scheer was able to escape. Today the German ss is far less formidable than 6. But there is the Gp Air Force,

sattleships, it may well be that nany of their first-line craft in theow bombers by the hundred

e to put six jor eight British capion, the Aled prospects would be

b Winston Churchill, hiinselt | one nd, would hesitate a long time— is—to giDose the main British Fleet to mortal | | Some sigh consideration may | fexpiain the seemingly limited nature of the British naval collaboration with the ynhappy Norwegians, and the reported continued presence of German warships in the North Sea and the Skagerrak.

STILL UN-HATCHED—II

GAIN the House Judiciary Committee has postponed action on the new Hatch bill, It is well known that some of the members of the committee ‘want to sabotage this legislation. | We don’t believe that a majority of the it is obvious that the minority j bong as that is true all members

Weaver of Nort Caroline] Healey of Massachusetts, Walter of Pennsylvania, McLaughlin of Nebraska, Hobbs of Alabama, Murdock of Utah, Tolan of California, Creal of Kentucky, Byrne of New York, Massingale of Oklahoma, Satterfield of Virginia, Barnes of Illinois and Gibbs of Georgia. - Republicans—Guyer of Kansas, Hancock of New York, Michener of Michigan, Robsion of Kentucky, Reed of Illinois, Gwynne of Iowa, Graham of Pennsylvania, Pierce of New ~ York, Monkiewicz of Connécticut and Springer of Indiana.

FARM ITEM |

HE Department of Agriculture promises that checks for almost $60,000,000 in balances dye on 1989 soil conservation payments will be mailed to farmers as soon as possible. Congressmen have urged that the payments be speeded up to facilitate spring planting. The hope is entertained .in some quarters, though not so openly expressed, that they may also facilitate fall harvesting ] f ballots.

MEXICO IS ANGRY | |

DISPATCHES from below the Rio Grande tell how all the | newspapers and all political factions of Mexico have joined together to express resentment foward Secretary Hips note on the oil expropriations. | | For more than two years now the politicos who are running the Mexican Government have Sh telling the people that President Roosevelt and the New Deal Administration in {Washington were in complete sympathy with the oil property seizures. Of course that never was true. Finally Mr. Hull has made our Government’s position pililie, and in language which cannot be misunderstood, has called for an end to the delays and evasions of Mexican officials in meeting the issue of providing adequate compensation to American citizens whose properties have been taken from them. In suggesting “immediate arbitration 2

he has followed the only peaceful course left open. = | 1

. In the controversies that follow, we think the Mexic people will not be slow to grasp the one outstanding fac

E that Senors: Cairdenas, Toledano, et al, in claiming comrade

ship with the Washington New Deal, have not been telli i

the -whole truth. And it will soon become apparent ths i hy

owing to their conduct of affairs, their country’s economic conditions, already bad—because of the scarcity of capits], | decline of exports find rise of living costs—must inevitabl I become worse. When: that prospect dawns, it is not lik ol that the Mexican people will direct all their resentmelt

sty the United Bisten & and" "Cordell Hull,

‘hair.

Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler ‘Wherein He Lists Five More in

1 T h “Tail Tk hat Wags t the Donkey!

‘Labor Ranké ‘Who * Have Records | Hi

Bik or Promises to Name Some More.

EW YORK, April 13.—Albert Miller recently was sentenced to six months in the workhouse on his plea of guilty to a charge of fraudulent voting in Manhattan.” Miller's probation. “report showed that he was secretary and treasurer of a local of the Bowling and Billiard Academy ‘Employees Union, a subsidiary of the’ Building ‘Service Employees International Union. The official list of the B. 8. E. 1. U.

is heavily infested with men with criminal records

and veteran racketeers of the Lucky Luciano and Little Augie mobs. Miller's police and criminal records date back to 1930, when he was arfested for smuggling in Philadelphia. They include a term of two and one-half years in the New Jersey State Prison and the Rahway Reformatory for robbery in Camden and three months in jail on a similar charge of “disorderly conduct and suspicion” in Meérchantville, N. J. s » 2 y22Y SCHWARTZ, organizer of local 32-J of the Building Service Employees Union and international representative, by appointment, of George Scalise, the Brooklyn labor racketeer, was indicted recently, accused of attempting to extort money. Izzy's record, in the files of District Attorney Thomas E.

Dewey, reports a previous conviction on a morals charge and a sentence of 11 months. - . The president of another local of the Building Service Union has a record of a prison term in Atlanta and Lewisburg, Pa., on a charge of possessing and attempting to pass money- orders which had been

stolen in the robbery of a postal substation in Wor-.

cester, Mass. There is a conviction on a charge of conspiracy in the record of still another local official of the B. S. E. I. U. in New York whose present duties give him authority to sign jobs in rotation to union members and opportunities to sell those jobs. The conspiracy consisted of a plot with other employees of an office in the government of New York County whereby certain fees were misappropriated and book entries were falsified. The man served a term in prison. The names of these latter two are withheld on the ground that they appear not to be professional hoodlums or associates of hoodlums, but William Green, the President of the American Federation of Labor, may have the identifications on request. tJ » ®

ZZY SCHWARTZ, on the other hand, is an old colleague of Scalise and appears to have been the strong character who shoved Scalise to the fore in New York affairs of the union, from which position of prominence he was selected by the Chicago mob for the presidency.

Albert Manganaro, secretary-treasurer of Local 202 of the Commission Chauffeurs and Drivers of the Teamsters Union, recently was sentenced to from three and one-half to seven years in prison and warned tc remain out of union activities on his release, with the admonition that his next conviction would result in a term of from 15 to 30 years. Manganaro began his criminal career as a thief in 1933, when he stole some bags of coffee by just loading them on his truck and driving off. Thus five more criminals or ex-convicts are added to the A. F. of L. rogues gallery of 100 promised to Mr. Greén. They are no giants, but the rank and file do not deal with the giants of the international unions. They deal with the local officers. I will give Mr. Green some giants soon.

Inside Indianapolis

Maj. Gen. Tyndall, Businessman, Soldier .- . And Mystery Story Fan

ROFILE of the week: Maj. Gen. Robert Henry Tyndall, who is busy getting ready for his last big Army maneuvers in the field before he retires in May, 1941. Gen. Tyndall will be 63 on May 2d. He is one of the Army's few major generals who didn’t come up through West Point, As a matter of fact, he quit school in the fifth grade to help support. the family. He's been doing, pretty well ever since.

He keeps surprising friends when they're discussing some particular business by remarking casually that he used to be in that business himself. He was, too. He's been a grocer’s clerk, a milkman, a salesman, a partner in a tailoring firm, operator of a clothing business, a merchandise brokerag: firm, a real estate man, a banker, a window trimmer and a participant in perhaps a dozen other types of business enterprises. 8 2 GEN. TYNDALL is just about average height, slightly on the stocky side, but nevertheless trim. He's careful about his figure. He has a close-clipped military mustache, black eyebrows and. light. gray. He looks every inch the soldier. In uniform, he looks severe and stern, but he’s not that way inside. Truth is he probably never bawled out a green private although he. is known as a strict disciplinarian. He entered soldiering in 97 when he enlisted for the war with Spain. He was back in the Army for the Mexican rumpus and then went to France for the big blowup. Over there, he was known as Fighting Bob. His friends call him Bob. The general is an ardent Republican. Some New Deal policies make him: appear mildly apoplectic when he starts talking about them. His family’s political leanings disturb him and family gatherings are usually bombastic affairs.

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HE HAS DECIDED OPINIONS and he doesn’t hesitate to express them. He may take a glance at a newspaper and if he disapproves of a political story, give anyone Sianding near his vociferous unsolicited opinion. He dislikes people tying up telephones in desultory conversation. Phones are for: business, he says. He dislikes indecision and four-flushing and at etl is almost a court-martial offense

He loves soup and will take three bowls at a sitting

without blinking. He. is an avid reader of news- |

papers and magazines. He loves detectives stories— the more terrifying the better. Mrs, Tyndall, though, won't let him put them on the library table. He is fond of all kinds of animals, including the wooden horse he keeps at his Zionsville farm to fool visitors. Right now his chief interest is Wailing to become a grandfather.

A Woman's Viewpoint

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

gy spring -comes a morning when I lift my eyes irom work and catch my breath with jo For the delicate pattern of my redbud tree is 0 Joy: in pink amid the new greens and old browns of the woods that edge the river. It isn’t really my redbud, since it stands on the grontid x 8 neighbor across the street. But it'is mine y right of service and because its beaut - cessible to my vision. Uys 9a It is mine for another reason. Every April it ‘becomes a red badge of courage. Its Jot. Ara reminds me of something I must never forget. It is a very important something. There was a day four years ago when nothing mattered very much any

more. There seemed no sense in living. There seemed |

no Jelise 20 saylne, And it was on that particular day, so well rememsbered for its pain, that the redbud became more than a small tree growing beside many taller and stronger

trees. Suddenly and miraculously it breathed a mes-

sage of hope to one who was badly in need of it. The sense of a voice speaking was strong; it seemed to say, “You can get through today; don’t think about tomorrow or all the other tomorrows. Do your work only for this one hour.” It’s hard to talk of these experiences of the spirit

We can’t explain them; we can only feel that they :

are true because they have happened to us and beSause they Jeave their pesmanen; Impressions on our

| mess was at its: malodorous worst.

pected defeat.

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If We Can Get a Better Horse There's No Reason Why We Can't ' Make That Change in Midstream

ASHINGTON, April 13 Never swap: horses while crossing a stream.” “In the case of a continued serious jnternational situation we would have to keep F. D. R” These are typical of the sort of. capsuled wisdom that passes for thinking and carries conviction to many people, ; The “horse-swapping” precedent was popularized ? in Lincoln's second campaign but that election did poh hinge on ‘that. It turned on the simple Isso. of whether or not to stop the Civil War without a plete Federal conquest. Carl Sandburg calls Agu 1864, the darkest month of ‘the war. Washington’ itself had been threatened. "The conscriptive draft Many in the Lincoln himself exe’

North were weary of the war.

Then the tide turned. The North began to favor. Lincoln who stood for victory and not McClellan who represented the earlier overwhelming sentiment for 8 negotiated peace. The question was not “Lincoln or McClellan” or. anything about & horse. It was “victory or coms: promise” and victory was becoming more clearly visible every day. ” » ” 5 WE began to hear about that Hotse again in 1918, But the question was not nearly so much of the choice between Wilson and Hughes, as of &

policy now called “isolationist.” Mr. Wilson won by -

the skin of his teeth and beyond a shadow of a doub$. because of the slogan: “He kept us out. of war.”

The stream-crossing slogan is silly on its face anyway. Why shouldn't you swap horses while cross=: ing a stream—especially if you get a better horse. for stream-crossing purposes? : If Mr. Roosevelt's election is to be taken as cer= tain if the war continues to spread and flare if: must be either because of some definite policy toward it that will be placed in issue in the election or be-.. cause he has conwinced:the country that he would: be the best war President because of skill and ex="

N - | perience.

EK BL a rT

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

QUOTES DANIEL WEBSTER ON CLAMOR GROUP By Voice in the Crowd This is a bit of Daniel Webster's speech to the United States Senate in 1838, over 100 years ago. This is for the benefit of a party who now partially quotes Jefferson. “There are persons who constantly clamor.; They complain of oppression, speculation and the pernicious influence of accumulated wealth. They cry out loudly against

means by which small capitalists become united in order to produce important | and beneficial results. They carry on mad hostility against all established institutions. They would choke the fountain of dug. try and dry all streams. “In a country of borirides liberty, they clamor against oppression. In a country of perfect equality they would move heaven and earth against privilege and .monopoly. In a country where property is more evenly divided than anyMise else, they rend the air shoutagrarian doctrines. In a country where wages of labor are high beyond parallel they would teach the laborer he is but an oppressed slave. “Sir, what can such men want? What do they mean? They can want nothing, sir, but to enjoy ‘the fruits of other men’s labor. They can mean nothing but disturbance and disorder, the diffusion of corrupt principles and the destruction of the moral sentiments and moral habits of society.”

: » t 4 ” SPEAKS GOOD WORD FOR TRAILER FOLK By Zeman Goddard

tion? They are just a result of capital versus labor, the age-old controversy—together with the blood of adventure bequeathed to us from

all banks and corporations, and allf

Why belittle our trailer popula-|

our immigrant and race mixtures.

(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.)

After all, the heighth of all civilization is developed in the mixed race civilization. Our frusts and corporations of one kind and another, have foreclosed thousands and thousands of mortgages on homes, the heart or hub of our civilization. These people|S just can’t commit mass suicide. They ‘have to be some place after being put in thé financial gutter. Let us place the blame where it|belongs; - the greed of capital has

helped bring on this roving section|

of America. Capital has also done much for the good of the masses, for which we. are grateful. Good will eventually come from menacing situations which are brought before

the public eye and homes of secur-|! ity should and will be had by Mr. P

Average Citizen of U. S. A. some me, we hope.

a ” ” BLAMES TOO RIGID LAWS FOR IDLE BANK FUNDS. By L. RH. Mr. John T. Flynn cites the huge idle. funds in our banks as a prob-t

“lem that baffles solution. Well,

banks in 1933 did not have huge blocks of idle capital, their money was out on good, bad and indifferent loans. Now the problem is how

to get good loans. Loans are made on security of some sort. Either you have to put up Government bonds or their equal to get bank loans or leave your right eye and left leg

Side Glances—By Galbraith

: "Now | I know why Monk tells me.

to o pit my / hand over r my “mouth; |

when |'yawn,"

loves the poor. James. R

to get a loan. Then these loans are short term loans anyway. Thirty, 60 or 90-day loans are the rule, and such loans are only for quick turnover business. There is not enough of this type of business to take up the huge bank funds looking for a Job, ..'ii. as All our faws forbid banks and savings banks from investing in income property direct. Banks are compelled to loan to someone who thinks he can make money out of a loan in the loan time limit, and pay back interést and capital. That bars these huge idle funds from .investment in new -business enterprise in the form of capital shares of stock. That bars business development except with funds held by in-

dividuals who are willing to take a fing at profits from production of

bonds or san Bn r. Flynn suggest a way to money out on money earning property direct from banks. This same contin existed in Germany prior Hitler's rise to power. Idle money and idle men. Can we escape their fate? ‘ ” » SAYS OPE RESTS IN CO] STITUTION By L. B. Hetrick, Elwood If Voice in the Crowd is right in his analysis that labor is incapable of self Jovernment thn we had just as well close all the doors tight, and turn on the gas. If the people don’t know how, or for any reason won’t use the Constitution of the United States, which furnishes us every means whereby we may transcend our present state of economic instability, the only thing a man can do that has sense enough left to be conscious of danger /is to dig out or dig in—but where? . . . Are we to assume that the neces-

: sary formulas are bottled up, corked

and sealed -in' the archives of our educational institutions so that the people cannot learn the simple economic way out of their predica-

‘| ment? Or don't want to know the

way out? . .. : There is a righteous, scientific economic plan that will bring a never ending prosperity to the inhabitants ‘of the earth, regardless of race, color or creed whenever the people are ready for such a change.

TODAY I FOUND—

By RUTH E. STEFFEY Just a little robin Sitting in a tree, Tilting his head Looking at me.

Yonder was a fragile Butterfly so gay, Balancing there— Now: on: his way.

And I'm’ sure. 1 found them,

Weaving webs for me.

DAILY THOUGHT

Six days may work be done; but in the seventh is the sabbath of rest, holy to the Lord: whosoever doeth any work in the sabbath day, he shall surely be put fo death .~Exodus 5; 31] 15. :

‘HE WHO ofdaimed the Sasha

"Mr. Roosevelt has as vet announced no definite. war policy, but this much it. is fair to say: thing he has said or done is consistent with a policy:

l. of participation in war on the side of the Allies;

nothing he has said or done is ‘inconsistent there with. : ” * e ¢an’t enter the 1940 campaign without: Jovesting some glimpse of his policy. If, as seems quite clear from the circumstances, it is outright intervention, he is going to get licked. There remains what is taken for granted by many commentators—that he is best qualified to handle ine’ ternational war relations and our domestic problems, But where are the supporting facts? Almost all of | his principal policies regarding our domestic problems are proved and ruinous failures—in agriculture, labor and recovery. It is astonishing that a man could fall so fer and so consistently and still maintain that myth. I ‘As for the foreign policy and performance, # has been one of ever-increasing involvement, of an army wholly unprepared although full authority and. . funds to prepare it were given seven years ago, of greatly . impaired financial strength and Sine failure to get our industrial defensive machinery back ©. w into gear.

Business | By John T. Flynn

EW YORK, April 13.—This is the season when N ‘candidates come forward with programs. Never. in history has there been such an eruption of pros,

grams, however, as in the last 10 or 12 years. Ever: since 1928, statesmen—or’ those who go by that name’ —have been telling us how to achieve plenty for all. The inflationists—the managed-currency men and. : reserve-note. issuers—were at it in| the first year. of

Hoover's Administration. The social-credit advocates, .

with their social dividends to bring plenty to all, had their day. There was Howard Scott with his Technocracy that so frightened the big shots with its big words and its scientific jargon and its promises of an income of $25.000 a year for everybody.

Then there was President Roosevelt himself, who, .

intoxicated by the swift, but transient effects of his‘ first months of repair, talked about abundance and -

the good life for everyone. We have had Dr. Towns.

send, with his transactions tax, who would give allthe old people $200 a month, and the more modest “ham-and-eggers” who offered Californfans—and the :

rest of us who would imitate them—$30 every Thurs= - 4)

day. And, of course, there were the most extravagant -

promisers of all—the -Republicans who were going ta.

put a car in every garage and a chicken in every pots: ie

some reports have it two chickens, which is more -:

generous than ham and eggs. Let’s Be Reasonable

After 10 years of that we ought to be a little x

humble in the presence of 10 million out of work *

and an economic system stalled on dead center and ’’ the promisers of abundance with no plan left save to: ii

borrow money and run into debt.

Is it possible that out of: this may come a breath of sanity—sanity born of humility in the presence ofr

a problem which is still a little too big for woodshed

economists and hot-stove statesmen? He

Candidates for the Presidency might keep this in: mind. They might well note the fact that no song |. among the old tunes is quite so de

Days Are Here Again.” What is wanted now is a

program based upon a recognition of the grim facto

that we do not yet know how to produce abundance. for all. We do know how to produce enough for | everyone. But we do not yet know how to make the

money - economy work to get that abundance dis= i

tributed. We ought to be able to do better than we have.’ If we can better it and in the meantime take care of those who are left out of the distribution, that will be a gain as we seek means to better it some more. But caring for those who are left out must be, done by us out of our own substance and not out- - of the substance of the future generations by piling’. up further huge loans to bedevil o prolong our depression forever into

Watching Your | By Jane Stafford

“HE physicians of America, and means your own family ‘doctor

future.

At the annual meeting of the Ameri

Physicians, Capt. Harry Armstrong of the U, said that “aviation medicine is no ;

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of interest and importance to the ivi fession as well.” | Capt. Armstrong believes it will not

medicine along with anatomy and bac

rest of the medical curriculum. Medi

Germany and some other foreign give courses in aviation medicine American university, George Wa School of Medicine, has made a

aviation medicine. ’ v7 The general vsician, your Bi mily © to know about aviation medicine so t his patients whether. it is safe for t or with their heart trouble or other His patients also want him to advise i special precautions , Whether to take the baby on a trip | flying has oh ears and he

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