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FRIDAY, APRIL 19, 1940

NEW KINDS OF WAR | hs THE war colleges of the world had better spring-clean their curricula. New wrinkles in conquest are’coming to light—and we don’t refer to magnetic mines, parachute troops or cannon-firing airplanes. Pg be Take the matter of atrocity stories, Twenty-five years ago the fashion was to accuse the enemy of ruthlessness “and inhumanity. That's old stuff now. The method has been reversed. Today the Germans pridefully unreel for nervous neighbors a filmed record of their Polish grab, an exercise in frightfulness if there ever was one. : Or take the landing operation at Oslo. Of course there . was nothing brand-new in the soliciting’ of treason; the 30-pieces-of-silver tactic has a long history. But when an invading army mesmerizes the invaded citizenry into inaction

with the strains of “Roll Out the Barrel,” played by a little |

soldier band in a public park, it’s time for the generals to re-examine their manuals on landing-party technique. Maybe that “new weapon” Hitler bragged about is a saxophone. :

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EVEN many supporters of the Logan-Walter Bill were surprised by the nearly three-to-one vote which the House gave it yesterday. : Since the Democratic leadership had fought the bill, it is highly significant that 128 Democrats voted for and only 95 against it. That should impress a few Democrats in the Senate who, professing to believe that the measure would destroy the usefulness of New Deal agencies, have talked of obstructing it there. The overwhelming House vote proves, we think, that there is great public support for the principle of the LoganWalter Bill—the principle that the Government's administrative agencies, whether created under the New Deal or before it, shall have their usefulness increased by adequate safeguards against abuse of their power. We believe that sentiment in the Senate also is strongly for the bill. Most Senators, like most Representatives, realize the danger in an unchecked bureaucracy. And, after this House victory, those few Senators who would use parliamentary tactics in an attempt to prevent a vote on the bill are not likely to succeed. : ;

THE EASIEST WAY

SKING Congress to vote $975,000,000 for WPA. workrelief in the fiscal year beginning July 1, President Roosevelt also asks authority to spend that amount in the first eight months if “absolutely necessary.” There probably is not a Congressman who doubts that it will be found “absolutely necessary” to spend the $975, 000,000 in eight months, or that by next February Congress will be asked to vote something like half a billion more for the last four months. y . In short, Congress knows that the President's plan will mean a WPA expenditure in the next fiscal year, as in the present one, of approximately a billion and a half dbllars. If Congress believes that much money should be spent, the right and courageous course would be to appropriate the entire amount now, at the same time voting additional taxes to prevent this and other expenditures in excess of the President’s budget from pushing the public debt beyond the 45-billion-dollar legal limit. But, this being an election year, we predict regretfully that Congress will jump at the “out” proposed by Mr. Roosevelt, thus escaping from an immediate hard choice between WPA economy or new taxes and postponing the evil but inevitable day of reckoning.

SOMEBODY IS STALLING

T has been nearly a month since the House Judiciary Conimittee took the new Hatch Bill within its not-so-tender embrace. : Admittedly this is controversial legislation. But it is pertinent that the subcommittee which made a special study of the bill, and which was charged with the responsibility of ironing out its kinks, completed«its work in six days— and that was time enough for a measure which had been carefully prepared by a Senate committee and had gone through intensive debate on the Senate floor. Three weeks have elapsed since the subcommittee recommended unanimously that the bill be passed. In that time the full Judiciary Committee has met twice weekly, and twice weekly has failed to act. The committee met again Tuesday and, so far as can be learned, devoted nearly all its time to discussing amendments whose only and obvious purpose was to scuttle the legislation. : In our opinion a majority of the members of the House Judiciary Committee do not wish either to defeat or pigeonhole the Hatch Bill. But thus far the majority has proved ineffective against the dilatory tactics of the minority. The committee will meet again today. Its members include Rep. R. S. Springer (R) of Indiana.

THE GENTLER SEX

MES. NORA BOWEN, with her husband and their three children, lived all winter in a cave near Beauty, Ky. Everything was fine, she says, except that the family’s fire thawed out a hibernating rattlesnake and two copperheads, which Mrs. Bowen killed with a broomstick. Mrs. Betty Dunn, ordered by Magistrate Bell of Philadelphia to kiss and make up with her husband, replied, “I'd rather kiss you, Judge.” And three young women pickets, arrested for throwing eggs at a laundry wagon driver in North Bellmore, N. Y., pleaded not guilty, one of them explaining: “They were pretty good eggs—grade A, gs a matter of fact.”

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Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler =

An Open Letter to Building Service ~ Employees Stresses Wide Powers Mr. Scalise Has Over Their Money

Building Service Employees’ International Union

Your international president, George Scalise, has recently bought a country mansion far from the crowded slums in which most of you live. He paid $22,500 for ‘this home, and his expenditures on the same up to this point amount to about $35,000, all of

your international president does not like to use checks, and neither does he like to be known as the owner of a mansion; wherefore he formed a holding company to disguise his ownership. PE Many of you—that is, the chamhermaids among you—are caring for upward of 20 rooms:every day in hotels ranging in character from mediocre to bad, for wages of $13 to $20 a week, Out of this you pay your initiation fees and dues, plus occasional fines for such offenses as speaking disrespectfully of your union officers. oe : #" ” » z OME of you who may have failed to read the provisions of the international constitution dealing with the duties and privileges of your president, may be interested to read as follows: . : © «The president shall submit to the annual meeting of the general executive board a statement of the activities of his office and the amount expended since the last meeting of thé general executive board. He shall draw vouchers on the general secretary-treasurer for such sums as his activities require, and the same shall be paid by the geneal secretary-treasurer.” Another provision ‘of the constitution says that all vouchers shall be submitted to your international president for approval and signature. so Now, your president boasts that there are 100,000 in good standing, which is to say that you are paid up, and it is a faet that the international treasury receives 35 cents a month from each of you, which would come to $35,000 a month, or $420,000 a year.

of you

the annual income of the international treasury is just $400,000 even. 7 ;

ELL, from the wording of those constitutional provisions it is plain enough that - you are kicking together a fund of $400,000 a year out of your pay and giving George Scalise permission to help himself. Because it just says that he shall submit a statement of the amount expended and that he shall draw vouchers for such sums as his activities require and that the general secretary-treasurer shall honor them with your money. d : : How do you like that and how do you like the further provision which gives him, personally, the power to allow to his fellow-officers of your union, including the ex-convicts among them, the sums which they may need or to withhold legitimate funds from any officers who happen to be legitimate? You realize, don’t you, that you never elected Scalise to the presidency of your union with free permission to dip into your annual contributions of $400,000? You never even voted on the presidency. You were just unionized under a charter issued by the A. F of L. If you can get a day off some time and get enough of you together you might hire a bus and drive up to see the mansion. Just drive by: don’t go in. He might be entertaining his friend, Little Augie, the old anti-labor racketeer who gave him his start.

Inside Indianapolis

Nazi Propaganda, Our Baseball Troubles and a Note From China.

W J ONDROUS are the ways of propaganda. The latest samples of German jibes at Great Britain to arrive in Indianapolis come from, of all places, Tokyo. . We can’t understand it and you'll have to figure it out for yourself. : Hayes Bros. Inc., 236 W. Vermont St, was one of the firms which received the latest supply, including three cartoons which besides being anti British are likewise anti-Semitic. Also in the mailing is a photographic defense of Adolf Hitler's Christmas Day program. fei The foreign powers spend a great deal of money trying to influence America. And, since Germany surely knows that the chances of the United States coming in with her are pretty remote, the best guess is that the money is being spent to neutralize pro-Allied spirit. 2 8 =, r AS FAR AS THE Governor and Mayor are concerned it was ‘no game, cold” at the Stadium yesterday. Came the pre-opening game ceremonies and the two dignitaries doffed their overcoats. . . Hizzoner was scheduled to pitch the first ball, the Gov= ernor was to try to catch it. They shivered through the presentations. The Governor even collected .a few “boos” when he was introduced. Then the crowd around home plate broke up. . . . There stood Hizzoner and the Governor, almost as frozen as that cigaret girl’s smile. Nothing happened. , . . They conferred, turned and walked to their boxes at opposite sides of the field. Finally a photographer coaxed the Mayor out of his box for: a feeble toss to pitcher Logan. : 2 2 ” MRS. URBAN HAAG, 1510 S. East St., has just re-. ceived a letter from an Indianapolis priest now in China. The priest, Fr. Theodoric Kernel, writes in a calm manner which lends emphasis to what he says. “During that trip,” he writes, “I was astounded at the number of béggars all over. ' Last year there was a drought and what the dry spell left, the locusts and caterpillers got. . . . In some places the people were selling their children at market hoping thus to get a little money to buy some food for themselves and hoping to get a home for their children. You have no idea of the misery of these people. How to help them is a problem. If you give them either money or grain, the robbers will be sure to take that away, and besides it’s really hard to find out who are the deserving poor and who are not. About the only solution would be to take the children and old people into our compounds and feed them ourselves. In that way at least we could save the next generation and prepare the old people for death. If this year is bad too, it’s hard telling what might happen over here. Pray for the best.” And we say things are hard over here.

! . : . A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

FTER detailed investigation into home work legislation in New York State, Miss Ruth Shallcross has published her findings. : readable book entitled “Industrial Homework” which should appeal to all those interested in economics sa in women. : i . os ere, too, is a different phase of the workingwife question, one which does not often come to public attention. It it did, we probably would be even more confused about the problem. And just how big that problem is can be discovered only by the individual who studies it honestly, and. therefore sees it, not as a panacea for present distress, but as a mojement which will affect every group of American society. : : > Only the laziest thinking can accept the t that married women ought to turn their ee o Single gifls snd men, This may be a very good settle a roblem; it ? Sooomie one. ? vou sip our owever, let us assume for the sake of argument that every married woman can be ousted from her job.. ‘Even then a terrifically unjust “situation for unemployed men would exist. For there would remain multitudes of working wives occupying positions in the business world: that might just as well be filled by girls and heads of families. ~~ . I speak, of course, of those women who. toil like

bands ‘get ahead in small businesses, ° They are married, they are wo also holding jobs that might be filled by men who could ask union wages for ‘the same labor. What would the little American business man say, I wonder, it the long legislative arm reached into his tiny ‘struggling establishment to remove his best, most dependable 8d cheapest employ his wife,

\TEW YORK, April 19.—To the members of the |

of the American ‘Federation of Labor: Greetings: |,

it in currency. Investigation shows for some reason |

But, allowing for a few delinquencies, let us say that |

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“galley slaves for no pay in order to help their hus- | | king, and they are |.

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

PROTESTS WIDENING OF TALBOTT AVE. By Mrs. A. C. Pebworth Without consulting the resident property-owners nor letting their scheme be known to those most affected, two business firms we t be-

fore the Board of Public Works and asked permission to widen the 2100 block of Talbott Ave. | Neither is a resident of the street, but the request was granted, these firms promising to guarantee the costs: This permit was granted over the protest of every resident propertyowner, they having learned by accident of the project. ay These property-owner that the wheels of progress cannot move without grinding someone beneath and that it would 'e selfish indeed to stand in the way of any great good to a great number. There is grave doubt, however, whether anyone will really be benefitted by this underhanded deal In spite of the seeming generosity of these business firms, let no one be deceived into thinking there is anything altruistic in their motives. Our property will be damaged, our beautiful trees destroyed and we will be subjected to the annoyance of loud talking and motors starting under our bedroom windows. As only one block is to be widened, and a bottle-neck created at one end of the block, another traffic hazard will pe added, Since the costs to be borne by these firms will be in the neighborhood of $3000, it can readily be seen that enormous profits will have to be realized on all sales in order to break even. In view of all this one wonders if anyone will really gain. The residents of this block are indignant, not so much because of the property loss involved but because they have been victimized.

CLAIMS MR. DEWEY FORGETS HOOVER ERA

By W. Scott Taylor

Mr. Dewey’s speech picturing the future movements of the G. O. P. mastodon will help us to forget. The picture was as lifelike as Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. It was a triumph of the imagination in which America was free from the limitations of world conditions, markets, and events such as Mr. Hoover says wrecked the country, ; Listening to Mr. Dewey, there was no Hoover administration. It was non-existent—only the Hoover principles were eternal. ‘Restore those

realize

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principles of Government and never again will there be such wholesale destruction of businesses and savings, as is alleged to have oc-

curred. | ; Glenn Frank is less imaginative and much more practical than Mr. Dewey. Mr. Frank says that, since the prospect of regaining foreign markets “is none too bright,” therefore we must “by sheer act of will” forget it, and turn. our attention to our domestic market. Mr. Frank’s solution for that, as applied to the farmer, can be explained in terms of stomachs, To take the place of lost foreign stomachs, Mr. Frank would contract the stomachs of the poor by repealing the wage-hour law and lowering wage scales, cutting relief appropriations, etc. and expand the stomachs of the rich in proportion to their increased incomes to make up the difference. The difference between Mr, Dewey and Mr. Frank is that one seems to be the philosopher of the non-existent—the other the philosopher of the impossible.

THINKS DEWEY FAILS TO OFFER A CURE By Wm. Lemon. Mr. Dewey admits that Uncle Sam is a convalescent but offers no cure except that given unsuccessfully by a former President. Rugged individualism will not feed, clothe nor house the unemployed and previous and up to 1933 many small merchants were forced to close their doors and the banks were insolvent, yet our former fail~ ures prescribe the same old medicine that is bitter and hard to take. If you are out of work and broke a dose of WPA may not effect a cure but it is sure a relief for undernourishment and bill collectors. Roosevelt's prescriptions may not be perfect but they do’ satisfy an appetite that Hoover tried to satisfy and failed. | ! 2 8 » CONTRASTS MORTGAGE WITH LOAN INTEREST By Citizen. ’ On April 16 Marion County officials negotiated a $200,000 loan at a rate of 3 of 1 per cent. Home owners pay from 4 to 7 per cent in-

terest on their mortgages. What a grand free and glorious country this

is for our financial wizards.

New Books at the Library

'N “Only Yesterday” Frederick Lewis Allen told the story of the roaring twenties from the Armistice

to the Wall Street collapse of 1929, an absorbing chronicle which clothed the skeleton of historical facts with the warm flesh of what people were coincidentally wearing, reading, applauding, singing, following. “Since Yesterday” (Harper) summarizes, similarly, the thirties. Beginning Sept. 3, 1929, when the Bull Market reached its peak, it ends 10 years later with Chamberlain’s announcement of the new European War, Ushered in under the black cloud of economic collapse, the thirties were foredoomed as the dismal decade of suffering and tragedy for at least “one-third of a nation.” Unlike the hysterical post-war twenties,

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Side Glances—By

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preoccupied mostly with the - great three-ring circus of crime, sex, and sport, national attention centered about New Deal recovery, stalemate, economic and political experiments. We are still toe close to all this to view it objectively; only time can verify the author’s sociological interpretations. To most of us the highlights of those years are comparatively recent:™ The Lindbergh kidnaping; F. D. R.; repeal; the New Deal; Hugh S. Johnson; Huey Long; the Townsend Plan; the Dionnes; the World’s Fair. Symbolic of changing public tastes were the popularity of Amos 'n’ Andy, Shirley Temple, Charlie McCarthy, Mickey Mouse, Snow-White, ‘plays like “Tobacco Road” and “Victoria Regina,” romantic novels like “Anthony Adverse” and “Gone With the Wind.” Still memorable are the Hindenburg disaster, Hugh Black’s Supreme Court appointment, the romance of Edward VIII and Mrs. Simpson, the Dust Bowl storms, the C. I. O. and automobile strikes, the Royal Visit and the “Grapes of Wrath.” All those events, trivial and great, which made up the facetiously labeled “threadbare thirties,” Mr. Allen blends into a swift - moving, chronicle.

LIFES EVENTIDE By ELEEZA HADIAN

‘Pale light of sun

—Going and done— Caught by a cloud: Magnificence unfurled, thrown out

-And all joyous world can behold

Splendor of unknown gold! Wealth of colors, beauty unseen Held in bondage, prisoned within The dying rays, invade the sky Because a cloud sailed by.

Oh, heart, Watch over path Where weary men Trudge on, Patrol that road Not in black cloth— The reflector J ; Of dark despair—buf gossamer, Propitious cloud:

‘Release spectra and flash to all

Hidden glory of ayguished soul,

DAILY THOUGHT

Gen. : Johns on i

With Venture Capital in Hiding Government Should Take a Hand In Developing . Worthy Patents.

J AsHmaTon, April 19.—Of all the tens of thousands of patent applications that'flood the Government, about one out-of a hundred is worth the paper on which it is written. But in" the infini. tesimal minority among inventors, there’ comes now and then a Whitney, Howe, Fulton, McCormick, Bell, Morse, Edison, Marconi, Wright or DeForest. Perhaps other men with ideas ‘as valuable were never able to make them click. The worth of an invention is only in part its conception. Hardly any gadget works on the first riffle. It has to have its unsuspected defects worked out. It must be adspted to practical commercial use. These processes are as tedious as the invention, They usually involve more time, delay, disappointment and much more money than the conception. : on i That takes what you call “venture capital,” which is a short way of saying a long purse, an idealistic

] | vision and the gambling spirit of a Champagne

Charley. Our governmental attitude and taxing syse tem have squeezed this kind of “Bet-a-Million-Gates” almost out of existence. Yet, he was as necessary a

| cog in our machine of progress as the inventors.

E was a combination of practical hard sense, restless ambition and commercial experience and aptitude. His replacement is an absolute necessity to our continued improvement. I would prefer some such return to our traditional principles as would restore him to our national life. Since that does not seem likely, we ought to provide a synthetic’ substi tute to avoid stagnation. 3 i I haven't checked ‘this except from certain seconde hand experiences, but my information is that the French republic has done this with some success. The idea is a commission to examine inventions that

| | seem to warrant development. Within modest limits

this is financed by a governmental revolving fund that is reimbursed in the event of success by:a share in any resulting royalties and written off in. case of failure to be recovered by a larger share of later .and more successful inventions—each going frée of government claims when it has repaid all advances for the greater glory of France.

Y recollection is also that the University of Wise consin had a variation of this plan in respect of the remarkable output of inventions by its progrese sive faculty. If we had an adequate compact commission come posed of an expert engineer like Kettering, an: induse trial expert, commercial and industrial manager like Knudsen, a practical economist like John Flynn, to meet occasionally and look over the grist of a mill ground out by younger and less experienced men and approve . experimental development at reimbursable government expense, we might get further on our economic unbalance and unemployment problems. The object of such governmentally financed ef forts could be reduction of our cost of living, replace~ ment of lost foreign markets, development of substi= tutes for such imported materials as tin, rubber, silk, linen, jute (and all bast fibers) vegetable fats and oils, cheaper rustless steel—chromium and other steel —alloy products. The potential field is unlimited.

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Business By John T. Flynn

Carolina Wheat Mill May Pojnt Way to Solution of Farm Problem

EW YORK, April 19.—In the hills of northern South Carolina I found a small flour mill which is figuratively, as old as the hills. It is a simple, primitive mill which for many years has been grinding wheat for the farmers in this section. But for a long time it had been grinding very little because very little was grown. But in the last half dozen years South Carolina farmers have turned to planting wheat on a part of their farms. In 1930 they raised about 200,000 bushels. Today they produce about two million. On the face of it, this looks like a sort of calamity for those who have been trying to get farmers in the grea’ wheat states to raise less wheat. x But this wheat—or at least not much of it—never makes it way to the market. The farmers bring it to this little mill, have it ground into flour and give the ilies one-eighth of the product as his pay for the WOrkK. » Ry The farmers take the flour home, make bread and eat it. No money passes. But farmers who did not eat much bread before are now doing so because they are producing it by their own labor. And this little mill has 2500 farmer patrons. ! 3 The flour does not get into competition with the great flour mills of the Northwest. It doesn’t complicate the wheat situation at all. To the farmers who raise the wheat it doesn’t make any difference whether wheat is selling for 50 cents or $2 a bushel. 1

Fear American Peasantry

This looks like as positive and substantial a farm gain as could be imagined. Suppose, now, these farm« ers added a cow to the wheat field in a corner of their farms. There are:57,000 farms in South Carolina that do not have cows. Of course, if they had cows they would not buy milk from the dairies. But they do not buy milk as it is. Probably no children get less milk than these farm ¢hildren who could have it for & little extra labor on their own land. S¥es These farms in these fertile lands under this genial . and blessed climate could produce perhaps 65 per cent of all the absolute necessities'of the farm family, leave ing the farmer to get the balance out of a small money crop. But the farmers over a generation hsve been systematically taught to pin their hopes upon a single money crop—cotton or tobacco. a : They must produce a crop that they can sell fo someone for money in order to buy so many of the Sings they can produce as natural income for thems selves. = wl So many men shrink from urging this kind of farm reform because they would be charged with attempting to create an American peasantry. Thus arguments and men and movements can be combatted with frightening words. But the more I see of this whole tarm problem and the apparent impossibility of solv ing it, the more I am convinced that this is the way out. dA

Waiching Your Health

By Jane Stafford

ANY Americans do not yet appreciate the nue tritive values of cheese, nutritionists believe, Cheese is a real food and could find a more impore tant place on the menu than as a tangy bite with crackers or pie at the end of the meal. Made from milk, cheese contains almost all of the constituents of milk, including milk’s share of vitamins, and to many persons is a more appetizing food an milk. It is gh exnalient source of protein and sihce it is cheaper meat, can be frequently served as a meat substitute for the main course, if the house= wife's food budget is limited. Cheese is a very concentrated food and a good. source of energy. A one and one-half-inch cube of American cheese furnishes 100 calories. ha v= re Cheese is about one-third water, onesiliird fat and one-third protein. . The harder Shecsg} jeontain less water and the softer ones contain’ more. Cream cheese has a higher fat content than most other eties and cottage cheese, which is made fr milk, has a very low fat content. It :