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| THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 1940
UNWISE OPPOSITION : ! : HOUSE passage of the Logan-Walter Bill, expected today, will show the attitude of that branch of Congress which __since all its members must face the voters in a few _months—is the more sensitive to public opinion. ; We are glad the House has taken time to debate amendments, especially those relating to. the bill's proposal that a number of the Federal administrative agencies should be exempted from its provisions. Our opinion is that exemptions, if any, should be exceedingly few. There should be none except for unassailable reasons; certainly none for the purpose of sparing pet agencies of influential Congressmen. Opponents of the bill, conceding that the House will pass it, will try to block it by delay tactics in the Senate and, as a last resort, hope that President Roosevelt would veto it. We think they are most unwise. If this bill is obstructed by Democratic Senators, or vetoed by the President, the Republicans will be handed one of the most potent campaign issues they could hope to have. And a likely result, in the next session of Congress, would be legislation actually destroying the usefulness of agencies which opponents of the present measure are misguidedly trying to keep free from wholesome checks and balances on bureaucratic powers.
KEYNOTER STASSEN >
‘HE Republicans have chosen Governor Harold E. Stassen of Minnesota as keynoter for their national convention. Mr. Stassen has many admirable qualities as a speaker, as an administrator and as a person. But there is one attribute with which nature endowed him which must have commended him mightily to all of the Republican hopefuls now striving so hard for delegates. We mean—he won't be 35 (the Presidential minimum) until 1942. :
NO RETREAT ON AVIATION
RESIDENT ROOSEVELT is too busy to give personal attention to all details of the Government reorganization plans which are prepared for him to submit to Congress. The latest of these plans proposes one change which we hope does not represent the President’s own idea and which, in any event, should not be carried out.
It would return the Civil Aeronautics Authority to its
former status as a bureau under the Department. of Com- |
nierce.
As an independent agency the CAA has operated with nonpartisan competence and to the general satisfaction of the aviation industry and the public. The most dramatic evidence of its efficiency is that in more than a year not a single passenger or employee on the great commercial transport lines which it supervises has been killed. or seriously injured. Its fairness is attested by the fact that none of its decisions has been appealed to the courts. ’ : On the other hand, the record of attempts to regulate -aviation through a Commerce Department bureau was filled with evidence of politics, incompetence and general dissatisfaction. : :
Congress has authority under the Reorganization Act
to disapprove the President’s proposals. In this case, where |
the proposal is to retreat from a method which has proved
good to a method which proved bad, Congress certainly should use that authority.
NEWS TO US
THE training of operators in the independent branch of ~~ the telephone industry requires a learning period of 320 hours at 25 cents an hour. So the Federal Wage and Hour Division announces after hearing much testimony, including that of the traffic supervisor for an independent telephone association in Illinois, who said: ; “Most girls have rigid jaws, stiff lips and lazy tongues.”
This may be a fact—but, if so, it is one that has
escaped our observation,
BRITAIN AND OUR RIGHTS
N January we wrote an editorial reproving a great English newspaper, The Manchester Guardian, for an alleged assertion that it was reasonable for England to “ask tolerance” from Americans “if our fight for our existence, and theirs, subjects them against our desire to serious inconvenience.” : We had picked up the quotation from a press cable. Now we have received from England a copy of what The Guardian actually said. It appears that our source was in error. The Guardian was referring, not to America, but to “the small European countries,” and it was the tolerance of these little neutrals that it was invoking. Except—it went ontosay:
“It is still more reasonable to ask tolerance regarding
the search of mails from the United States, which is not |
under the duress of German intimidation; her protest can surely only be formal, since there is evidence of ‘an organized traffic in contraband—from the United States to Germany—through the mail,’ and only by the British search can it be stopped.” As ; We ask The Guardian to accept these amends for misquotation. “But at the same time we suggest that the United States has already gone far—much farther than many Americans like—in favoring the ‘Allies. Witness the pro-Ally revision of the Neutrality Act. Witness the greasing of the way for advanced-type combat planes. And we ask The Guardian not to count too much on further tolerance of British interference with American rights, whether postal rights or what not, even if respect for our rights is inconvenient to the prosecution of the war. iit We know it is hard for Englishmen to understand, but
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Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler
Nazis Hypnotized Norway Subjection and There's Evidence
EW YORK, April 18.—I have never been able to confirm this, because the performers refuse to
that birds sometimes become hypnotized or fascinated by snakes and, with wings to fly, are unable to stir. They just twitter their silly heads off until a certain psychological moment when they become all unbutfrom sudden realization of the horrible thing that is about to befall them. And then it happens. Although I never have seen this, I am willing to believe that it can and does happen, because it has nappened recently in Europe, and the early stages of the same phenomenon are now proceeding in the United States. The Norwegians knew that the Ger‘man reptile was the natursl enemy of all peoples other than the German, snd they understood that to be conquered by the Nazis meant subjugation and the destruction of their civilization, But, even know-
twitiered, and in the final hours were struck
ments of their nation actually helped the monster to devour them. \
8-8 8 2 HIS is happening in the United States. There are many Americans who, like the Norwegians in the presence of the Nazis, still insist that the Ger=mans mean ho harm to those who do not attack them, when it ‘is written throughout Hitler's book
hideous revolutionary machine, that the Germans are selected by the German god to conquer all others by treachery and cunning. If it is to be argued—and if is argued—that the Norwegian had permitted the British to violate their neutrality and had thus invited attack or “pacification,” surely it will not be claimed that Czechoslovakia was a victim of the same error. i Many Americans are casting about for reasons not to believe their own intelligence. England conquered the Boers, England persecufed Ireland and England twice made war on the United States, but none of these truths alters the fact that in the last few months the Nazis first poisoned and then devoured independent nations of better spiritual and intellectual quality than the Germans. If the British conduct was so bad, by what process is the German conduct found ‘ excusable? : i 8 = Te was no act of provocation by the little nations, no declaration of war by Germany, and those who miserably excuse their wish to disbelieve their own intelligence by blaming the iniquities of the Versailles Treaty by the same method would justify horrors utterly unprovoked and immeasurably more frightful. : The Nazi war against the civilized world is the war ‘of bolshevism under the swastika. Every American objection to the hated Communist applies to the Nazi, and every alarm that has been raised by the Nazis and their agents and dupes in the United States ‘against the Jews applies to the ambitions of Hitler's followers, who have proclaimed their mission and their right to reduce all other peoples to sub-human status and to rule the world, 4 The snake is hissing and weaving, and the bird is beginning to think the monster has been misunderstood and maligned. That is what the Norwegians thought. =
Inside Indianapolis
The Works Board and Its Bids; And About Mother's Little Helper.
1 rr of the City hoards fo get into hot water is the Works Board, which yesterday threw out alow bid for three alley improvements without giving a reason. The Board members suggested vaguely that “maybe” the specifications were off, but beyond that they wouldn't budge, either on or off the record. How they're going to explain it to the Mayor is the biggest mystery of all. You see, the real season for vesterday’s unusual action is not a secret at all and the newspapermen know it. ,- Pivei firms bid on three alley improvements. The low bid was from 2 to 10 cents a lineal foot under anything else. A little external pressure made the ‘Board members uncomfortable and they've decided ‘to advertise for new bids. . We'd give almost anything to hear 'em try to convince the Mayor. :
cf ” » THE REAL ESTATE AGENT was showing the couple through the house. He was pointing out its features. The little girl of the house (5%) combed her hair and rushed to join the party. She was determined to help the agent. In one of the upstairs rooms, the couple nodded and started to back out. “Right up
there,” came the little girl’s voice as clear as a bell, “is where it’s been fixed three times. But it still rains in.” »”
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the counties in Indiana except two-—Kosciusko and Tipton. ... And Mrs. Essie M. Burke, who is in charge of the newspaper division doesn’t understand it. . . . She says the library has tried but ‘that the counties don’t seem to care... . Every time there has been a hearing in the House of Representatives chamber recently a. workman has come in with a hammer to go to work on the paneling.... And they've had to stop the hearing and chase him out.
... A job application from a chap seeking farm labor: “I can milk and operate a tractor.”
A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson
WISH there were some way of compelling men to read the women’s pages their newspapers. Because men are a little ty about that. A great many imagine themselves too smart to bother with any detailed accounts of female foolishness. The description doesn’t exactly fit, as any one knows who follows the woman's pages consistently. For they contain a daily record of modern feminine
doings, and therefore ought to be classified as “must” reading for men. : That particular section of your paper presents a minute by minute account of women’s activities, and how amazingly varied fhey are! What enterprises
| they record and what yeasty churnings of strange
new forces can be felt beneath the words relating them!
ber ‘of organizations whose business makes typical reading on the women’s page of your paper. If not, you're in for a big surpise, for they are so numerous they give a sense of breathlessness, You will probably want to ask yourself: “What are all these women about? Where are they headed? Do they know what they want?” . ; ’ A good many do not know. That's to be taken for granted. Thousands are only aimless wanderers on the social scene. But all of them know they want something. They would like to see some changes around them. And though, like the general in the old joke, they may seem to be galloping off in all directions, you can be assured headed in the same one. : , Year in and year out, these club activities go on. And year after year, if you follow the papers, the aims of organization change a little. Feminine
groups are getting together to work for some big A ferment goes on. :
1t is, I think, the gradual drawing together of - women. Some day, when
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hold still in. my presence, but I have read, and believe, |
: this, and with the tragic examples of Austria, BS and Poland to warn them, Bey 2 | and helpless. They couldn’t even stir, and some ele- |
and his speeches, and all the propaganda of his |:
THE STATE LIBRARY GETS PAPERS from all |
Mr. Average Man, have you ever counted the num- |
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thought is beginning to crystallize. More and more |
of them have learned
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
Speaking of Coat-Tail Riders!
The Hoosier Forum
1 wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—V oltaire.
DISPUTES DEWEY'S STAND ON NEW DEAL By Leah Miles Young Mr. Dewey is trying to
convince Americans that he is bet-|
ter able to direct our country affairs than our experienced President. He advocates dropping the entire New Deal and refers to the last seven years as ‘lean years.” That alone should disqualify him as a nominee. 2 If he calls the last seven years. lean—what would he call the seven years before that? Those years when bread lines were long and threatened revolution; when factory smokestacks were smokeless; when hogs were 3 cents and corn only 104 and 15 cents; when houses went unpainted; a building under construction was an unusual sight; electrical advertising was cut down to almost nothing; social and service clubs vere disbanded; few bankers were able to keep their banks open until President Roosevelt came along to save them. Show houses were closed —entertainers were out of work. I could go on enumerating conditions like these in many lines—but, is it necessary? - ” o »
QUOTES M'MURRAY ON NEED FOR ENDING SLUMS By K. Lashbrook
A recent statement by Mr. Floyd I. McMurray, State Superintendent of Public Instructoin, furnishes the
‘most significant answer yet offered
to the let-our-slums-alone sentiments currently voiced by slumowning real estate operators. This far-sighted educator said: : “We are all doubtless in favor of conserving America’s natural resources in’ forests, soil, minerals, water power. But what about our most important ‘natural resources’ —the men, women and children of our country? These, it seems to me, should be first in our consideration and materials secondary. ; “Those who have lived in slums— cramped for room both physically and spiritually—or who have spent some time helping to educate the cross-section of privileged and under-privileged children to tk found in any typical American public school should readily understand what’ the public housing progra means for education. : “At present a certain proportion of the taxpayers money spent for public education is spent in an uyphill fight; trying to build up, during
a few _hours each day, bodies and
(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.)
minds and character that an unwholesome physical and social environment—which. means, in part, substandard housing—is subtly undermining most of the other hours of the: day. » “Slums are breeders of disease. Teachers as well as doctors know that all groups of children in a school-—not merely those who come from the slums are endangered by the spread of disease. We must get children out of the darkness of miserable hovels and into the sunlight, with room to live and grow. “The providing of homes by private enterprise is often incidental to the business’ investment; where no profit is likely to result, few homes are built, We can see here ir. Indianapolis, as in almost any city, that in fact, private enterprise has not built and cannot build, adequate homes for a large preportion of our people. Americans have a way of taking hold and doing 2 job efficiently and rapidly once they are convinced about it. When the. people learn the facts and see living examples of the slum clearance and low-rent. housing program, I believe they are going to do a spectacular job—the kind of job Americans like to do!” 1 have quoted this courageous public official at some length because I believe he echoe$ the sentiments of most mothers who have the welfare of children at heart— not their own only, but all children.
LISTS PILLARS UNDER GOVERNMENT BENEFITS By Raymond H. Stone ~The benefits paid by Federal or State = governments to individual citizens from the proceeds of taxation or sale of Government securities are primarily dependent for their continuance upon three pillars. One pillar is the oppertunity to create wealth, both tangible and intangible. : Another supporting pillars armed Torce. The third pillar is a figed standard of currency payable in gold or silver upon demand, Without these, benefits provided by the statutes are a mirage.
3 8 » = WANTS G. O. P. ADOPT ANTI-WAR SLOGAN By Bull Mooser
“Roosevelt got us into war,” should be the Republican slogan for 1940, and Gerald Nye should be the man to carry the slogan through to a Republican victory. Certainly, there is no issue more important to the American people today than staying out of the war. And certainly, there is no longer any room to doubt that the munition makers and the sordid duplicity of the PF. D. R.-Hull foreign policy has made us a belligerent in the war. Neither Republican nor New Dealer any longer trusts Mr. Roosevelt on foreign policy. There have been too many cases of dishonesty with the public on the part of the Presjdent. He has shown his hand, and certainly it is an enviable time to call his hand.
select as President and trust him to keep us out of the war? I say:
Gerald Nye!
New Books at the Library
GERMAN Aryan, Heinrich Hauser, novelist, and now resident of the United States, believes that Hitler is leading his people 10 destruction. - He considered it his duty to write a book on the subject, and for that purpose went to-Ger-many in the early months of 1939. Even though the author’s conclusions are his own, and perhaps
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biased, his survey of the Germany of 1939 is not biased. The German scene is reported fairly and ac-1 curately in “Battle Against Time” (Scribner), completed just before the beginning of the war. His findings may be summarized as follows: , The desperation of a disorganized and poverty stricken people paved the way for Naziism. The Nazis are politically corrupt, but they have been economically effective, Industrialists complained bitterly of so much government supervision—but they were making money.
the German army officers or National Socialist Youth Movement will rebel against the strong leadership of Hitler, but rather rank and file of the German people themselves who still love liberty and freedom, whose spirit of “Gemutlichkeit” 1s not yet dead.
- SONNET OF APRIL By MARY P. DENNY
Flowers of purple and old gold Where the April breezes blow, 8 zephyrs of the skies
hining | Where the lovely lilies rise.
Beauty now is everywhere In the glowing April air, Hues of violet and of blue Through the glow of shining light, Robins in homeward flight Reaching to the dreamy height. Dandelions of gleaming gold, All the flowers in light unfold. Beauty shines through all the day Over the far country way Shining to the month of May.
DAILY THOUGHT Then Job answered the Lord, and said, 1 know that thou canst do every thing, and that no thought can be helen from thee.—~Job42:1, :
LIVE NEAR TO GOD, and so all
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An Old Army Man Studies the War Reports and Then Simply Refuses to Guess What's Actually Going On
ASHINGTON, April 18—This is -an open season YY on military experts. Some who have recently blossomed from obscure professional beginnings have gotten far out on a limb that has later on been sawed off behind them by the progress of events. Although the Government has tried to pound into me soms military education, by the expenditure of a good many dollars and the gift of a considerable experie ence, I still fear to rush where angels do .not fread. In the military art, the “fog of war” is supposed
who at least has the measured, deliberate and expert: reports of his own military information organization, Our so-called military experts do not have these advantages. They have only censored press dispatches, what can be picked out of the air from lucky con* tacts with fugitive short-wave radio and propaganda
I study these also, sit up nights, sticking pins in maps and fooling with radio receiving sets. I also get professional reports so “confidential” that I cane not use them. I am getting very leary. ” 8 2 ®
T least one thing is quite clear. They may be fighting but reports from both Berlin and London are surely lying. The maps that come out, based on British reports, showing the Skagerrak, Kaitegas, large areas of the Norwegian and Baltic coast inters dicted by mine barrages couldn't possibly be true. Woodrow Wilson was the great advocate of the World War North Sea mine barrage. Our navy and our industry helped put it down. I have forgotten how long the actual laying of .it took. My recollection is three months. But I know very well thatiit took even more months of industrial and naval prepara~ tion and production, Present reports of mined areas show a much wider distribution. If we are to believe press reports, they were completely mined in a few days. It just isn’t in the cards. The_ earlier reports ‘of British invasion | of . the Skagerrak, Kattegat and Baltic intimated tha ee i 1 aj its force and swept those channels clean of erman transport and naval craft. I wrote a column whoop# ing with admiration. Yo fo A 8 5.5. = HEN ‘I stopped to think of the utter inadaptabil= ity of modern battleship fleets to narrow waters and I tore that up. The British are apparently doing all their brave naval stuff in the old and noble tradi tion, But the technical impossible just doesn’t haps pen. That doesn’t mean that the day may not coma when the British baitle fleet will steam into the Bals tic and dominate it. It only means that Mr. Winston Churehill is not: going to risk his right arm—his only. arm—in a bear trap until he is reasonably sure that: it won't be bitten off by mines, submarines, shor® batteries and aireraft. : 5 The situation in Norway, the Baltic, the North Seg and connecting waters is obscure to the nth degree. On all the cards as yet revealed, I pass. i: I”
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Business . . By John T. Flynn
Norwegian Invasion. May Indicate Serious Economic Crisis in Reich
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EW YORK, April 18.—In gauging the economic effect of Germany’s new adventure in Scandi navia we have to remember that we know as yet very little of what has happened. s ! gs The military aspects of this new attack I leave to the military experts. They are perhaps not yet quite clear. But the economic phase is sufficiently obvious: Up to now the war has been, on Germany’s side, &, gigantic effort to provide herself with all the neces= sities of war while on. the side of the empires it has been a race, first, to build up their armed strengtiy
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and, second, to plug all the holes through which sup=, plies have been flowing to Germany. oe * “One of those holes, of course, has been the low countries and the Scandinavian countries. ‘The most, exposed of these was Norway and on ‘this England: had gone to work. : i But this was, seemingly the least serious part of: that problem. Germany gets about 40 per cent of het. low grade ores from the Scandinavian peninsula and’ immense supplies of fats and timber. For these she has had to pay either in goods, gold or credit. She has no credit, cannot afford to send gold and is being progressively embarrassed in the exchange of goods. Besides, England has been slowly constricting her by. outbidding her for what she needs and paying cash, - +
Advantages and Dangers :
i - ah If Germany can take and hold on to Norway and’ Denmark and incorporate them in the Reich the ad? vantage are immediately obvious, Most important, she can use German marks to pay for her purchases by including these new countries in the Reich curs rency system; she can pay for what she buys just as, she pays for what she buys in Berlin, She can. guar the transport of it with her own forces. She ¢an pre vent the English from competing with her in thes: markets for goods. : : 3 She also gains, of course, tages, but she exposes herself to certail military perils while at the same time she precipitates the era. of actual warfare and its attendant de tion of. supplies. But there is every evidence that Germany's economic situation calls for drastic measures. 4 3 The most serious danger which she s is th loss of her iron shipments. For now En d can d what she could not do before. She can enter Norway She can go into Norwegian ports. She can cut completely rail and sea shipments of ore to Ge so far as Norway is concerned. | It is this fact which lends color to i
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