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PLAY BALL! Fo THE Indianapolis baseball team will go into action against “+ St. Paul at Perry Stadium tomorrow. afternoon. ~~ Bob Logan; the veteran left hander, will do the pitching “for the Indians. The St. Paul team probably will start Art Herring, who always has been at his best against In{'dianapolis. | i: gun EL The Indians are starting theieason with what is ap‘parently a strong outfield and a promising infield. There is ‘some concern about the pitching “staff, which needs strengthening. Sar "Here's hoping our Indians make a winning start. And _ continue on that trail, too.

THE NAVY - ii THE Navy is pressing Congress for still more warships * than those already authorized, which are numerous and increasingly expensive. The public debt being what it is, that is a tough problem for even defense-minded lawmakers. os Nobody can show any immediate danger of a naval expedition against American shores, or any likelihood of an American naval expedition overseas. The fact remains, and it is demonstrable in recent history, that the nation which permits its defenses to lag in proportion to those of other powers is inviting a pushing around. The United States isn’t Norway; our risks are not immediate, and our geographical defenses are imposing. Nevertheless, considering what Hitler has done with German military strength in seven years, and what Japan has been doing with her Navy since the Washington treaty and “5.5.3” were washed out three years ago, it is a complacent seer who will say that five years hence we will still be 80 cozy. : < Fie Even if you count out the possibility of an eventual imperialist thrust into the Western Hemisphere, the United “States is hardly ready to accept the status of a second-rate power, with a voice unheeded by militant nations. At least until world events shake down into some more discernible pattern, we had better take no chances. It requires a good four years to build a battleship. And as Admiral Stark says, “To wait for the fire to appear next door and then determine the kind and size of fire apparatu to build will not serve the need,” : : We think the Navy should have what it considers necessary, however— ; We ought to pay as we go. . For every new warship we build, we ought to levy taxes — at least enough taxes to amortize the cost, if not pay it outright. | 54, . Nobody wants more taxes. Nobody wants national insecurity. But Congress ought to make the choice, and not adopt an attitude of eat-our-cake-and-have-it by ordering cruisers on credit.

REACTIONARY “LIBERALS” N the light of American history it is a strange thing that the principles of the Logan-Walter Bill should be attacked by those who call themselves liberals. AE Yet the debate in Congress is producing just such attacks on this proposal to safeguard and make uniform the exercise of legislative and judicial powers by Federal administrative agencies. It is argued that these agencies must be left free to attain desirable ends; that to subject them to the checks and balances provided by the bill would hamper their efficiency. It amounts to saying that agencies created by Congress, and manned by appointed officials, .must have more concentrated and unrestricted power than ‘Congress itself, | : This is reactionary doctrine—the doctrine rejected by true American liberals who saw clearly that bureaucracy could not be trusted to work only toward. desirable ends but must be controlled if liberty was to survive. To those who ‘oppose the Logan-Walter Bill in the name of liberalism we - commend the words of Thomas Jefferson: = “Ih a free country every power is dangerous which is not bound up by general rules . . . it is not by consolidation ‘or concentration of powers, but by their distribution, that good government is effected . , . consolidation is but toryism in disguise.”

INTELLECTUAL BLACKOUT

HE University of Warsaw has ceased to exist. The entire Polish faculty of the University of Cracow is in a concentration camp. The University of Praha has been shut by the German Government. The University of Strasbourg has been torn from its site. More than half the Universities of Germany are closed. The institutions of the University of London have been . uprooted and scattered over a wide area in southern England. The 20,000 student population of the University of Paris has shrunk to 5000. Such casualties as these justify the statement of Raymond B. Fosdick, president of the Rockefeller Foundation, that “perhaps the most frightening aspect of modern war is the intellectuak-blackout which it creates. “No human ‘precaution can protect a nation from the sacrifices which war levies upon future talent—the undiscovered scientists, the gifted minds, the intellectual spiritual leaders upon whom each generation must build the hope and the promise of the generation to come.... - “Certainly the night in Europe cannot be long continued without the sacrifice of cultural values on so vast a

scale that the chance of an enlightened ‘and gracious life,

alone for this generation in Europe, but for the children

grandchildren of this generation, will be. irretrievably |

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Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

George Scalise, Who Muscled In ‘As Head of Building Service Union,

Buys a Connecticut Mansion.| NTEW YORK, April 17—George Scalise, the Brook-"|

“lyn labor racketeer who muscled into the presi~ dency of the Building Service Employees’ .International Union, has acquired a mansion of 27 rooms on the shores of Lake Mamanasco, at Ridgefield, Conn,

a region much favored by rich refugees from the |

New York state income tax. g Mr. Scalise is now refitting the place for occupancy, and two servants, or caretakers, are in residence, while tree surgeons leap from bough to bough amid the maples, oaks and beeches, amputating limbs which were damaged in the great sleet storm of six weeks ago. Plumbers and masons also are on the job. So far Mr. Scalise has spent about $7000 on rehabilitation of his country estate. He pays cash and is regarded as an excellent client. \ About two weeks ago William Green, the president of the American Federation of Labor, in defending Scalise advised the public that Mr. Scalise lived modestly in a humble cottage in Brooklyn. That appears to be correct, although Mr. Scalise need not live modestly, for he and his fellow officers of the union voted him a salary of $20,000 a year, plus an unlimited expense acceunt out of the union treasury, which has an income of $420,000 a year, according to his own figures. ® 8 8

A TEMAREARLE proportion of Mr. Scalise’s fellow officers of the union have criminal records, and he reached the presidency. by private arrangement with the officers and without any vote of the rank and file chambermaids, charwomen, window cleaners, janitors and other toilers. : Mr. Green probably was sincere in his mention

of the cottage, for Scalise has taken pains to disguise the fact that he has bought the mansion. It was bought in the name of Anna Scalise on Sept. 22, 1939, and sold by her to the Felice Holding Co., a Connecticut corporation, on Nov. 9. One union

colleague of Mr. Scalise says that Anna Scalise is’

the wife of the union president, but another insists that the Anna Scalise who bought and sold the property is the daughter. The relationship does not appear in the documents on file inthe town hall. There are three stockholders in the Felice Holding Co.—George and Anthony Scalise, who own one share each, and Harry A. Rose, who owns 248 shares. However, George is president and treasurer and Anthony is secretary, and Rose holds no office and appears to

be a dummy. A MAN who is qualified to speak from inside LN knowledge said that Scalise felt that he was getting to be a big man in labor affairs and wanted a nice place because of his standing “and all that,” but thought it wise to hold the property in the name of the holding company, “because he didn’t want anyone to know he had all that money.” Hoa The ‘mansion was built about 35 years ago by Courtland Dixon, a rich New Yorker. There are 10 master bedrooms, with five baths, and five servants’ rooms, with two baths, on the second and third floors. a 5 There is a seven-car garage with steam-heated quarters for the chauffeur and family, and hovering over-all is a mortgage of $12,500. The purchase price was $22,500, marked down from $150,000. : At the lower end of the property, across the state road, stands the Ridgefield Town Poor House.

Inside Indianapolis

Moral: Look Before You Shake; And About Saving a Man's Life.

T'S true because John K. Ruckelshaus, the promiA nent young Republican worker and attorney, told it on himself at yesterday's Dewey breakfast at the Columbia Club. John was saying that he guessed he wasn’t particularly suited for the life of a politician. It seems he got on an elevator the other day in one of our downtown buildings. A man standing there had his hand out. John glanced at his face, but he didn’t recognize the gentleman. So he turned away. He felt a bit odd about it and a couple of floors down he turned to look at the man again. The man smiled. The hand was still out there. John smiled back, reached out and pumped the man’s hand. “Ouch!” shouted the gentleman. “That arm’s broken!” 2 8 = : : SPEAKING OF MR. DEWEY'S visit you may have been one of those persons who eyed that big gun atop the truck in front of the Columbia Club yesterday. It was made for a moving picture and sent

out here as a promotional affair. Mr. Dewey was going to sight through the 22-foot, 400-pound business for the photogs. . Time: 11:55 a. m. Came 11:55, 12:00, 12:05. The truck was ready, black velvet had been laid down, the crowd had become fourdeep. At that moment, a motorcycle officer roared to a stop. “What's up?” inquired the theater man. “We're off to Union Station,” said the .gentleman, “and Mr. Dewey's running behind schedule. No picture.” The truck moved off slowly, just another one of life’s little tragedies ta the press agent.

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DAY BEFORE YESTERDAY at 4 o'clock the State Employment Service got a call from a man-

for a maid. What for, the service wanted to know.

“It’s like this,” said the man, “I've just got a call from my wife. She’s been out of town. She’s com=ing home tomorrow and this.house has got to be spic and span when she gets here.” Yesterday morning the maid reported back to the service. She had finished a five-hour job, including the hauling out of two bushel baskets full of bottles. But the house was spic and span. Another man’s life saved.

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

LTHOUGH we feel a desire to shy away from them, hospitals are actually modern miracle spots. Everyday life surges around them, but its ripples and storm waves touch lightly that which goes on ‘inside. And inside is a whole new world—a world of realities. For pain and death and life and love there reach their fulfillment. ; ‘ j You don’t walk into a hospital—you plunge. It's as if you were taking a nose dive into an alien element. Only by coming up frequently for air can you survive the change of tempo and sensation. As everybody knows, the nicest place of all is the floor where Life begins. Its atmosphere is charged

with anticipation and happiness. Occasionally one |

will happen upon a man who looks .as if he had been dragged through the mangle, but it’s a sure thing he’ll be a changed and rejuvenated being in a few hours. He's merely another expectant. father, the butt of tiresome jokes, used to backslappings and neglect and bills. In short, he’s the person who keeps the place on its financial feet. Nobody worries about him in the midst of the general excitement. How quickly the baskets are filled with their human fruit—red faced, squirming little bits of flesh. 2 Low happy laughter comes from doors ajar, the deep undertones of men mingling with the higher

voices of women—all members of a family who are |:

approaching or have passed some date on their calendar which will be kept sacred forever after, £m

I always like to watch the people who work in the |

places I go, and for that reason the nurses interest me most. : : : How worn out they must get with pestering hysterical relatives. They juggle the babies with magic

skill. They speak soothingly to the fathers and han- |

dle the tides of incoming friends with diplomatic ease. Only now and then one does surprise a strange look on their faces—the same look a mother wears when she’s being tried almost beyond endurance by ifrepressil can guess the thoughts

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

RAISES QUESTION ON BASEBALL TICKETS By a Bingo Fan A few weeks ago our Mayor made a speech of how we must keep our city free of “gambling as it hurts business. Well, why then does he not rid our city of these pesky baseball tickets which run into thousands of dollars every week, winter or summer. Stove league or baseball tickets are sold in almost every pool hall or saloon. Why are they allowed to be manufactured? If bingo can’t run why is this game of chance allowed? Why do our police raid a small place and when presented in court the case is discharged? Why raid a place at all unless you are going to stop this business for all time, just like bingo? ” ” 2

HOLDS NORWEGIAN INVASION JUSTIFIED By a Trojan-Horseman Curious of Bloomington must not feel alone with his thoughts in what he stated in his letter to the Forum and I want him to stahd by his colors and not retreat from what he asserts. A rebuff from Mr. Bull Mooser of Crawfordsville is to be expected but he can be pictured as one in a’ position to sit back in profited luxury. Or another Hoover whose interest is to save capitalistic and aristocratic interests in Europe at the cost of American unemployed blood. Hoover wailed, “Save - Europe. Send them relief,” but he has never given a thought to America’s unemployment problem. No! But he probably stands ready to ration foodstuffs like he did during the last World War, or was it the World War? Whatever happens America must stay out of the war! Our sympathies are to be extended to France, whose blood will be sacrificed for the British cause, but she should have stayed out. ’ It is true that Germany’s hand was forced into doing what they did in the Norwegian and Denmark situation, and it was forced by the British blockade and Germany's disadvantage to attack that block-

(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.)

ade. Strategy must be used by any belligerent if they want to win a

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I want to extend my sympathy to France .again, but I say, “Let the British Empire fall!” a ” - DOUBTS TAXPAYERS’ DUTY TO SUPPORT STRIKERS By James R. Meitzler, Attica We call the attention of those who preach the capacity. of wage labor, as exemplified in labor unions, to improve conditions if given the power, to the strike at the Showers Bros. Furniture Co. at Bloomington. Instead of showing any capability of improvement the strikers run to the Township Trustees asking that the taxpayers be forced to feed them. The trustees so far have rightly refused. It is not the taxpayers’ duty to finance the strikes of labor: unions. : They claim capitalism has failed because an alleged one-third of the population is ill-fed, ill-clothed, ill-

housed, proving on their own showing that at least two-thirds are well off, a 66% per cent success. If the labor unions have the ability to produce 4 100 per cent Utopia why .do they run begging to the taxpayer, broke the minute they stop work? It shows their lack of self-control, thrift and the financlal intelligence required to run even a peanut stand,

11et alone the nation’s factories.

Before union labor destroys capitalism and takes over the Government let them buy and operate successfully a few dozen factories as an object lesson to the two-thirds who are prosperous. They will have to do better than beg for bread. SAYS TOWNSEND PLAN WILL ASSURE RECOVERY By Reader E45 If Mr. Claude Braddick would buy some Townsend literature and’ read them he would educate himself and then he would know the principle of the recovery plan and what it will do for this nation. ' We want this country to be brought back to: prosperity, Mr. Braddick. We Townsendites are going to the polls in May to vote for the men that. our:leader, Dr. Francis E. Townsend indorses. All of the people at the age of 60 and over will receive this annuity. It will bring about a buying power and will put millions of people back to work again. That is what this Townsend ‘Recovery Plan is for, to

bring back prosperity.

New Books at the Blbrary

OSEPHINE LAWRENCE, who can take a social problem and,

concealing it in the guise of fiction, fashion a story to break your heart, has repeated her success of “If I Have Four Apples” in her new Bove, “But You Are Young” (Lite) . Kelsie was an appealing little figure, beautifully coiffed and manicured, necessary adornment for the the girls who worked in the big department store beauty shop. But right there her luxuries stopped. Mom and Dad; Matt, the big brother who had never earned a week’s

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wages; the family’s “Depression baby,” Dory; pathetically cocky, blond young Loria, and cheerful old Grandma, who owned the shabby house but who had to have help on the taxes—these made up noisy, messy family who ate in the kitchen, meagerly, it is true, and then sat in the kitchen because they couldn’t afford heat, complaining each 0f his own grievance, But they loved and depended on each other, particularly on Kelsie, who bore the burden; for her $16, and tips, helped the family along, if they could be said to progress, through this dreary world. That there were older children, well able to help; that Kelsie wanted to get married, and there was, finally, a boy who loved her; that she wished for a home and four children, craved pretty clothes and a life without the burden of. poverty, only has served to identify her with those thousands of her sisters throughout the land who struggle, aspire and finally despair,

<hrough their short youth into a

barren, middle age. : But, unlike so many of those others to whom. no hope is ever

| vouchsafed, Kelsié saw a loophole.

How she meets her challenge to life makes the reader rise and cheer, although he has a vague foreboding that the end is’not yet. will ensue, let it suffice. ar

HOLD THAT LINE By JAMES D. ROTH Hold those words with anger fraught: Fig

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Gen. Johnson . Saye 1

Service Doctors, by Developing Wat Injury Relief Facilities Keep Pace With Progress of Fellow Medicos.

ASHINGTON, April 17—If the astonishing dee velopments in medicine continue at their recent rate, many will have to be shot on Judgment Day. There is a professional prejudice against laythen discussing these developments, The most cruel de- | ceptions have resulted from ignorant ballyhoo ‘of quack cures. The medical profession has suffered so much on the rebound that any popular publicity touches its most sensitive spots. :

The resulting caution has leaned so far over backe ward as to raise a suspicion of medieval mysticism, There was a time when the legal profession was sub~ ject to this charge. Judicial language was so obscured by law Latin that the average client was kept in blinking awe about his rights, which in plain English

‘| were simple. .

It was mumbo-jumbo of a racket as old as the priestly mysticism of Egypt, but it worked like the old darky preacher’s answer to a question from his flock as to the incident of the fall of man, when the serpent was condemned to crawl on his belly: “Flow did he navigate before?” “Dat,” said the preacher, “is a question dat can only be answered in Latin— ixeri, ipsi, dixum, doxit—dat’s de answer, honey, bud you'se too young to understan’.” - ay - 8 8 !

T= lawyers have shuffled off most of that priestly

something of both Latin and Greek, nobody can understand a treatise on boils, bunions, or billiousriess.

. Yet the doctors haven't that protective coloration to perpetuate voodoo. Recent developments are mare velous—the control of many types of pneumonia and one of the most stubborn social diseases by sulfapyridine—the still experimental five-day cure for syphillis —the checking of the anemia of old age—these are but an acceleration of the improvement in four decades which saw the conquest of typhoid, typhus, yellow fever and several tropical diseases. : ok _ Surgery does not lag. In a recent minor siege with it myself, I ran across & professional paper of ‘which a co-author with a’ Navy surgeon is one:of our most distinguished Army medicos. The service group has lagged behind mone in ‘its contribution fo this revolution which is revising the mortality tables by amazingly extending the years of our. lives. Feed, Corgas, Keller, Grayson, Metcalf, Mages, McIntyre— they are the peers of any. . Si Ay , : 8 s 8

ATOvn this paper is a public document, such is the modesty and reticence of that tribe tha$ I was urged not to mention its authorship and cau

.tioned not to attempt a layman’s interpretation. The thing in this paper that would astonish anys body and which I: myself have seen and felt is the tremendous advance in anesthesia (another mystio word) and battlefield surgery. : © Army surgeons‘ have so advanced the surgical facilities and preventatives of pain and shock right up to the front line that, wherever the equipment they have invented can be available, battle. agony will be reduced by half. If there is a greater service to humanity, I don’t-know it.- os It is of a piece with other remarkable improvements in the whole healing art. ‘The only drawback is that while available to the very rich or the very poor, it is beyond the purse of the middle class.

Business | By John T. Flynn Et Period of Destruction = Qpens Real - Economic Test for Reich,

NEY YORK, April 17—The war now shifts from ‘LN the period of preparation and ‘accumulation to ‘the period of battle and destruction. Up to now both ‘sides have been piling up munitions, planes, supplies arms. Now they begin to use these things—to consume them. apts ? 2h «At the beginning of this struggle many persons pre= dicted that Germany would lose—the victim of: economic law. Few hazarded a guess as to how long it would take before Germany's economic limitations would bring her to her knees. But it was pretty generally agreed that she could not last as long 8s she did in the Great War. The writer ventured the impression that she might last a year but ‘not much longer. : All these views were based upon the assumption that the war would be a war of action—that the armies and plane fleets would engage in battles. But up to now, aside from the swift and easy seizure of Poland, there has been no war of battles. There has been no pouring of men and machines and explosives into ‘the voracious mouth of war. wT “Instead there has been a stalemate—armies camped in comparative peace and security along the frone tiers, while the combatants strained feverishly to build up their arms and fill their warehouses ' with. food, fuel, fats, chemicals and all those things which they lacked. Hence all have been producing more than they consumed—all have been accumulating surpluses,

Facing New. Problems

That phase of the war may be at an end—at least so it seems. If the fighting which began at Oslo and has spread to Norway and the seas around it should continue to spread and to develop into wide and exe tensive battle lines, then we will see these warring nae tions consuming more than they produce. Af least. the problem will change from one of accumulation te barely keeping up with the daily demands ‘of cannon, battle fleets, plane engines, trucks and tanks. Now the armies and navies will begin to use up munitions, planes, ships, fuel, clothes and food and many, other things. : en Ce Se PS The various warring nations will now be faced with the task of not merely supplying the needs of their civilian populations but of -armies and: Bavies which destroy that which is supplied them as fast as they get it. The conditions upon which the firs economic assumptions about the war were based brought into being. pa od Two months ago many foreign correspondepité said that the odds had shifted against the empires. What are the odds now? Has the thrust into Norway helped Germany or harmed her? It is certainly too soon to tell. i = =

Watching Your Health By Jane Stafford as ae Tan,

‘has chalked up another vies conquest of the industrial was not to the men who wear the collars nor to the men.or women who launder them, but to the workers in factories where these tollars are made. : "In the manufacture of these col called mithyl cellusolve is used. .

NDUSTRIAL hygiene tory to its credit: The health hazard of

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mummery, but the doctors havent. Without