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SATURDAY, APRIL 20, 1940

"NOTHING NEW UNDER THE SUN

« A CONQUEROR, like a cannonball, must go on. If he rebounds, ‘his career is over.” \ : The Duke of Wellington said that about Napoleon. It might be said with equal truth about Hitler—which is why _the Netherlands, Sweden, Rumania and others are not sleeping soundly. =~

“COURTING TROUBLE “THE rules committee of the House has voted, 9 to 1, to . let all the pending Wagner Act amendments go before

‘the House for debate. This is a blow to the Administration forces which have - schemed to block consideration of any amendments except “the weak and unsatisfactory ones grudgingly offered by the “House Labor Committee, and let even those come up only on ‘condition that they be adopted or rejected without debate

“or change. : Now the House not only can debate and alter the labor

~ committee’s amendments. If it sees fit, it can substitute

the rfluch more drastic amendments proposed by the Smith committee whichis investigating the Wagner Act and the ‘National Labor Relations Board. We think some of the Smith proposals are too far-reaching, and we hope none of them will be adopted without further discussion, - But here is another example of the trouble the Administration brings on itself by obstructing moderate suggestions for improvement of New Deal agencies. One such example was the landslide vote by which the House has just

- passed the Logan-Walter Bill to curb abuse, of bureaucratic

powers. In the case of the Wagner Act, resentment against Labor Board maladministration has been piling higher and higher for months, but those who call themselves friends of the Wagner Act have stubbornly refused to consider any remedy. c= ; If the Rules Committee's 9-to-1 vote indicates the temper of Congress—and we suspect it does—many of the Smith amendments may be adopted. If that happens, the Wagner Act’s self-styled friends can thank their own folly.

THE EAST INDIES

HE Dutch East Indies are about as far from the United States as a runaway could get. So far that it doesn’t make much difference whether you take an eastbound or a westbound boat to get there. And yet— When you drive downtown you are rolling on East Indies rubber. When you open a can of beans or beer, likely as not: it’s lined with East Indies tin. If you'vé: ever had malaria, you were almost certainly dosed with East Indies quinine. : So when Secretary Hull, seconded by President Roosevelt, serves notice that any muscling-in by Japan on those tropical treasure-houses would be frowned on by Washing‘ton, he isn't talking about anything so remote from our daily life as Antarctica. : Tokyo has been hinting that if Holland is pushed into the European war Japan may have to do something to save the Netherlands Indies from unfriendly hands. Meaning, of course, that Japan would like to put her oh-so-friendly “hands on them as a “protector,” German-style. If she did, and succeeded, she would have under her own control, in Borneo and Sumatra, all the oil she needs— to replace the oil she now imports from us, and which we might shut off if goaded too far. Also, if Japan ruled the Dutch Indies she could, if she liked, shut off our rubber, tin, etc., from those sources— and possibly even prevent shipments of the same commodities from British and French possessions in that part of the world. ) Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Hull have solid reasons, it can be seen, aside from their natural objection to treaty-break-

ing and aggression, for their close interest in Holland's prosperous empire.

“HELPING THE FARMER”

HE Barden amendments to the Wage-Hour Act, now expected to be brought up in the House of Representatives next week, have been represented frequently as a boon to the farmers. - - | That may be true—in the case of corporate farmers

who operate their own canneries and packing plants.

It is certainly not true in the case of a bona-fide dirt farmer. The reverse is nearer the fact. If the Barden amendments are enacted, and .the protections of the Wage-Hour Act are removed from more than a million low-paid workers, their ability to buy farm products will be diminished. That certainly will do farm prices ‘no good. on 00 : The proposed exemptions have nothing to do with

® farm labor, which of course has never been covered by the

-Wage-Hour Act. Ty The pretenses of some of the cannery lobbyists, saw-

- mill lobbyists, cheese lobbyists, tobacco lobbyists, etc., who'

profess to Be crusading in the interests of the hardpressed American farmer, are a little sickening. . ~~ Senator Murray of Montana said the other day in attacking the Barden amendments: | “1 come ‘from a. great agricultural state and have supported every proper farm hill of the Administration, but 1 submit to your common sense that we cannot help the farmer by decreasing the wages of those who: buy his products. Every economist knows this.” We hope most Congressmen know it.

OLD STORY

A GREEK papyrus, written in 689 A. D. and discovered in “Palestine four years ago, has just been translated by - Prof. Casper J. Kraemer Jr. of New York University. It proves to have been a call for a demonstration of protest “on Monday in Gaga by men who are unable to bear the burden of such taxation.” This shows that Gaga taxes are nothing new. And neither are protests against them.

‘| various specialties rejoice and give thanks to the

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Fair Enough

By Westbrook Pegler

‘Crime Must Go Week' in Miamis Being What It Is No One's Surprised At 'Exoneration' of Capone's Pals.

N= YORK, April 20.—G. A. Worley, the State N Attorney of Dade County, Florida, which includes the two Miamis, has just celebrated “crime must go week” with considerable eclat and official whitewash of the bartendets and waiters’ union racket operated’ by Danny Coughlin, a brother-in-law and bodyguard of Al Capone. ] Mr. A. Berlin, a character man whose role is that of tough guy and who made his reputation by slugging a Boy Scout, is president of the racket. Capone’s

captain of the guard is the business agent, and the pair of them, Coughlin and Berlin, operate under a warrant or charter issued by the American Federation

of Labor, » » 8

“CRME MUST GO WEEK” in the Miamis is an |

annual celebration corresponding to the Mardi Gras in New Orleans, the Cotton Carnival in Memphis and various watermelon, apple, cherry, strawberry and spinach festivals. It is believed to be pagan in origin. The politicians and racketeers of

devil for the bounties of the season. In the Miamis, at this time of year, the criminal scum have reaped their harvest, and the term “crime must go,” as applied to the celebration, which usually takes the form of a searching probe, attended by great publicity, means that the criminal scum really must be moving on to other fields. Mr. Worley began the carnival about two weeks ago, touched off by the disclosure in these dispatches of the fact, that Coughlin and Berlin were shaking down waiters and bartenders, who are the most numerous single employee group in Dade County, for $25 each, an initation fee, or work-license, plus $2 per month per head, plus various assessments decided on by the racket. Mr. Worley’s investigation showed that Mr. Coughlin was indeed the union business agent and captain of the guard at the Capone Castle. It showed that Mr. Frank Nitti, also of Chicago, who is outranked only by Capone in American crime, is engaged in the wholesale beverage business in the Miamis. » ® 8

R. WORLEY could have started his investigation on his own initiative at the height of the season, but that would have violated a venerable local tradition which holds that the “crime must go” ceremonies shall be prompted by some destructive critic from the outside, who is then on his way elsewhere, and that the fearless investigation shall result in an indignant vindication of the fair name of Dade County. Mr. Worley examined 50 witnesses and failed to find substantiation of the fact that waiters and bartenders exploited by the racket are engaged in pushing the beverages sold by Mr. Nitti. He failed to dis cover evidence that waiters and bartenders are compelled to kick back part of their pay to the racket for preferred jobs or any jobs at all. . : But Mr. Worley need not consider himself a failure at his mission. Any public official so naive as to believe that defenseless individuals wouid goon record against a member of the household of the vilest and most bloodthirsty criminal in American history, with no more protection than Mr. Worley can provide, is an ideal personage for the king of “crime must go” carnival. :

Inside Indianapolis

Reginald H. Sullivan, Who Knows How to Keep Questioners Guessing.

ROFILE of the week: Mayor of Indianapolis, who now is being discussed in inner political circles as a possible ‘“compromise candidate” for Governor. But nobody knows what Reg Sullivan thinks about all the gossip. You can talk to-him for hours and then go away realizing that you had a pleasant chat but that you don’t know any more than when you started. The Mayor never lists his age. Even “Who's Who” simply lists him as having been born in Indianapolis. But, anyway, he’s in his early sixties, a tall, broadshouldered, ruddy-faced man with keen eyes. :He wears glasses and his sandy gray hair is starting to thin. : ’ His outstanding characteristic is that he is the complete master of his expression. He always looks cherubicly unperturbed even in" the\ hottest of situations. When he's worried, he paces the floor of his office. When he interviews visitors he never permits the slightest trace of annoyance to cross his face. Even politicians who know him well try to pump friends about what he thinks of this or that. ! > 2 8 » TO MANY PERSONS, Reg Sullivan is the symbol of Indianapolis. He comes from a pioneer family. Indeed, the city’s name was selected by one of his ancestors. His father was Mayor and 40 years before Reg became Mayor himself (1930) he witnessed his father’s inauguration. ° _ He lived most of his life in his father’s old-fash-ioned gas-lighted homestead at 401 N. Capitol. When, in 1938, the old house was finally sold and razed, Mr. Sullivan took some of the old furniture with him to his bachelor apartment. It makes him feel at home. It is completely and comfortably disorderly. The Mayor was captain of the Wabash College foothull team for two years, but his first love was baseball. It still is. He talks baseball whenever he can. His recreations are simple. He likes night baseball, an occasional movie show, and reading. He thinks he smokes too much but he never does very much about it. He puffs cigars and a pipe. 2 » ” THE MAYOR IS A TOLERANT MAN. He pretends never to potice little human failings. He is intensely loyal to his friends. He will never make up his mind quickly. He prefers to let things rock along a little bit. Typical is the time a city employee was tired for all-round no-goodness. The employee asked the Mayor to override his superior and put him back. The Mayor refused. For months, the man stationed himself just outside the Mayor's office and haunted him, It made Reg Sullivan unhappy, but he never ordered the man away and the chap finally gave up. He dislikes having his photo taken and freezes up the moment he sees a camera. “Can’t help it,” he says simply. He attends a lot of civic functions and always. makes a graceful and dignified appearance. He makes a nice little speech. Reg ‘Sullivan once summed himself up perfectly, although he was unaware of it. He said: 3 ~ “I don’t kriow enough about music to know why I like it or why I don’t. It's the same way with art. A picture I like may be no good and a picture I don’t like may be that’s all.”

A Woman's Viewpoint |

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

R “MEMBER the line of that old poem which pic tures people as “ships that pass in the night and each other in passing.” A happy figure of speech indeed! for most of us touch each others’ lives

For that reason, it’s wonderfully refreshing to get a gay greeting from one whose lights are all agleam. Far off, their glow shines for a brief moment upon my own craft, which bobs half a continent away. ' Via U. 8. mail comes the code of Mrs. M. C. Hermane 1, Alene g (al, wao speaiis proualy ¢f nerself

as a Happy Wife at home.

“It makes me sick to hear women say they bored at home; and haven't enough to do. :

graduate nurse and have been asked by sicians office jobs with doctors. I couldn't take them My conscience would bother me. Too many unemployed nurses. sis ; *T have a four-r~m hnuse. 3 lovelv narden. tak?

in free lectures and good musicals (as my budget |

does not permit much for recreation) but I' find many worthwhile things to do. I have no children and often

care for those of my friends while they shop or ate

tend parties. ; “We can express ourselves in many interesting ways without taking bread from those who need it and ‘believe me I could use more money; we live on a strict

budget.” : : Good luck, little ship! Hail and farewell! May

Reginald H. Sullivan, |

very valuable. I know what I like,

5. INDIANAPOLIS TIME | Taking It Off

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

ANYWAY BREATHING IS FREE—SO FAR

By A. B. C. Every time you draw a breath, the Government spends $1000. But don’t try holding your breath, as the spending goes on anyway. l ® 2 » ‘CLAIMS U. 8S. WEALTH [SHARED BY MILLIONS By Voice in the Crewd

When a man says, “whoever owns the money owns the government,” he either does not mean it or hes does not understand the pringiple of free people self-gov-erned by representation. In the first place, the real wealth of this country is not in money, and it is not in the hands of a few, and it is in the hands of the people. More than onefifth of our wealth belongs to more than 60 million policyholders. More than half of oir wealth is in the form of homes, farms and factories owned in full or in part by millions of people. These people do not own the Government, they are only a part of it and have no moze voting power than anyone se. There ‘is only one form of debt that is slavery, and that is public debt. Public debt must be paid

erties, property rights and purchasing power. It is now the millstone on the neck of the consumer who should be buying goods and real wealth that would make real jobs. Private debt is not slavery. In the first place, you don’t have to get into it if you do not want to assume the responsibility of ownership and greater freedom. For instance, if a man wants a home he can go ‘into debt and eventual ly own his home with little more effort than paying rent. There is no slavery about that. Why should we forsake the private banking system? The money belongs to the people who earn and save it. It does not belong to the Government at all. Why then shouldn’t people put their money in private banks, trust funds, insurance policies or any private en-

|terprise. that they please? All’ of

the private institutions into which people put money either for investment or safekeeping, give a strict, readable account of where that money is and what is being done

with it.

at a sacrifice of individual lib-|

(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, religious ¢ontroversies excluded. Make your letters short, so all can have a chance. Letters must be signed, but names will be withheld on request.) :

Does the Government do that? -Just try to find out. The Federal Government has a banking system in RFC and several other agencies. They are no

Jmore lenient in foreclosure - and

replevin than private agencies. The neads of RFC have stated that they are afraid to announce their losses through bad loans. The national debt may therefore exceed 456 billion.

Business can borrow - from the

RFC if they have assets to cover |

the loan, providing they meet the requirements of the NLRB and promise not to cross John Lewis or get shaved after 6 o'clock. What is the lure that leads people to want to go further into the stuffy control of bureaucracy and away from the freedom and sunshine of a free people? If we could settle that the rest would be easy. #

2 = POINTS TO WAR'S AWFUL DESTRUCTION

By Frank Lee : Often ‘we hear the thoughtless words: “Wait until the war gets really going, think of the destruction!” : “But the destruction has already begun. Every time we read a headline saying that a bomber has been

shot down, it means that a $150,000 ship, product of the finest ingenuity and materials, has become junk. It means death or removal from action of a pilot it cost $30,000 to train. All these material losses, outside the priceless lives, mean the skill and labor of men gone for nothing. Instead of going to serve men and make their lives easier, this skill

4and labor has gone to drag them

down, lower their standard of living. That is the effect of all the destruction of war, and already it has

gone a long way in Europe, with|

the end.not in sight. 8 8 » SAYS HITLER'S DEFEAT WILL NOT CURE ILLS By Curious

Defeating Hitler will not cure our|’

ills. He is not the cause, it is a. well

| known fact that he is one of the

effects of our ills. a He arose. after this depression started and defeat of his regime will not cure it. We must go deeper. Just like having a headache. An aspirin will not cure it. The headache is ncs the cause of the ill feeling, it is the effect. The cause, which we do not feel, is in the abnormal condition of the body. Taking an aspirin, like having a war, only numbs us and puts off the cure of the ill temporarily. The cause of our bad conditfon is right here at home and we just have not got gump.ion enough to recognize it, then do something constructive to change it. And who ever defined war as being constructive? > There are plenty of our citizens who know the cause of war but they would rather take a long shot chance on making another ten thousand a year. , . . - 2

New Books at the Library

UBBY WINDRUSH is likable even as & rather self-satisfied young English army officer. He is handsome, gallant, conventional, slated for military success and promotion. Our hero takes life as it comes, enjoys it to the utmost and gives little time to any serious thoughts as to the why and where-

fore of all things.

| to- take cases for them and also have a Sicians hy

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"When we first. came down this

your lights never be dimmed,

Side Glances—By Galbraith

OOPR. 143 BY NEA SER/ICS, INC. ___ a lane we had to play hooky from schoolpthen from our wives and bo

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work—but now nobody cares.”

lh ‘ a : At. the height of one of the most

he is riding" a superb horse in a winning: race--an accident occurs. Tubby spends the next months in hospitals—days and nights filled with agonizing pain, in which he seems only an infinitesimal speck floating in 4 mammoth universe. Sammy, Tubby's major, the quiet philosopher; Lydia, wealthy and independent, at first only mildly in-

‘ |terested in Tubby; and Daddy, his|- ‘| cynical fellow - officer—these three

set off a train of deep thought, a profound observation and evalua-

{tion of life, and Tubby really st

to. grow mentally. io Maj. Robert Henriques writes

| with a vividness that startles, it is

so real. : You actually feel a persona growth and developments as. you’ follow Tubby’s search for an understanding of life, to his emergence as a thoroughly rounded-out character, and his discovery that he nas “No Arms, No Armour” (Liter-

ary Guild of América) against his _ | pbrother, his life, or his fate.

« SAND DUNES

| By JOSEPHINE DUKE MOTLEY ‘| Like a caravan of camels

The sand dunes arch their backs Between the land and water, And all the picture lacks Is the setting of a desert For the oasis is there— Lake Michigan—the azuré pool Draws travelers everywhere; * And those who quench their thirst Beside the beauty of its shore Wish they, like that vast caravan,

| Might stay for evermore.

DAILY THOUGHT

Let the Heaven and earth praise him, the seas, and every thing that moveth therein.— Psalm 60:34. ey v THERE IS A GOD in science, A God in history, and a God in

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thrilling experiences of his life— |

.explanation can be made of fairs in Rumania unless it be the weakened condition

grade ‘of hamburg sold in high class meat

conscience, and these three are one. | seph Cook. prevented

Johnson

With Nearby Russia a Threaf, Congress Is Inviting Trouble by" Paring Alaskan Defense Items. ASHINGTON, April 20.—A glance at the map : of the North Pacific will show that we are

closer to Russia than any other good neighbor except Canada and Mexico. At Bering Straits, Siberia and

Alaska almpst touch. That is under the Arctic Circle and is not a dangerous menace. But, far to

the south of that, our Aleutian Islands lie like step= ping stones on the way to Kamchatka. The outlying Russian islands of Komandorski and Bering seem to

be a mere extension of the Aleutian Archipelago and are within a féw miles of the American Near islands. The Russians have naval and military air sta tions on these islands and no less than five stations on nearby Kamchatka. Expert German naval persone nel are reported to be present advising on the exe tension and strengthening of these bases and outposts. Submarines are being built or assembled on the Amur River behind Kamchatka and German technical missions are known to be at Vladivostok. ‘ss ® =» WE are told that the Germans are therq to advise the . Russians .in defensive . works against

Japan but the activity at Komandorski—which sticks out like a sore thumb toward Alaska at Russia's most

‘eastward point in the sub-Arctic, North Pscific—is

not located against Japan. ob We have no fortification or air bases in the Aleutians, notwithstanding that they skirt the shortest of the great circle routes: between Seattle and either Japan or the Siberian coagts and that enemy air bases there could threaten the whole north Pacific ard our main defensive line—Alaska, Hawaii and Panama, It is a threatening and dangerous situation. I know .of no professional authority that does not ° agree that, purely for defensive purposes, we must guard this flank. The Army has authority for an auxiliary air base at Fairbanks, Alaska, but the pro

{| posed main operating air base is at Anchorage at the

head of Cook Inlet. This will require $14,000,000 to complete and urgently and immediately demands $4,000,000 to start. os : ? 8 » » Sk HE strategists of the House Appropriations Come mittee “economized” heére, while refusing to do so . on millions of vote-getting handouts. They blacked= out the Anchorage. They “economized” alsa on ree serve airplanes for the Army, cutting the number asked from 476 to 57. Part of this cut the War . Department approved in view of the increased fore eign purchases of military types, but it did not do so as to 166 planes of a type the need for which was not lessened by expanded airplane production’ cae

Finally, due to the increased tempo of the war and

the fact that previous limited production plans de

not promise enough equipment in rifles, guns, ams munition and tanks for a very minimum American protective force in less than two years, the Army asked for $39,000,000 not included in the ‘budget—a budget ruthlessly slashed by the Budget Bureau against military advice before it even got to Congress. That $39,000,000 bids fair to be denied. In view of the present dangerdus world conditions, this kind of stupid or careless trifling with national security may yet write these spendthrifts of political billions and cheese-parers of defensive necessities . down as architects of national ruin.

Business

By John T. Flynn Rumanian Ban May Indicate Nazi Foreign Credits ‘Near Exhaustion,

EW YORK, April. 20.—The most significant news -

; that has come out of Europe in some time is the news from Rumania. What has happened in Norway is, of course, the most dramatic, But the reasons behind it remain obscure. But the news from Rumania seems to be filled with portent. Germany had been getting great quantities of her cil and grain from Rumania. But now has embargoed all shipments

to her powerful neighbor. What is strangest of all is ~

that Germany speaks ‘softly, woos Rumania K with - arguments rather than threat.

First of all, why has Rumania refused further - shipments to Germany? A line here and there in the news informs us that Rumania has been having difficulty collecting for her shipments—that the German banks are weeks and in some cases months behind in their remittances. ; Germany has sent her economic agents to Rue mania to make the most extraordinary request—de- - mand it was, at first. She wants Rumania to Alter . her currency, to devalue. it so that Germany can buy larger sums of Rumanian curréncy for her sake," This Rumania has refused to do. | . 1t was inevitable that Germany would run into

difficulties with her external purchases. It is simply .impossible to keep up a flow of goods from any coun-

try to another unless the latter country: can stand a drain of gold to pay for & large part of them or unless it has large credits, which Germany has not. Even rich and powerful England with her vast . external credits is already drawing heavily on them. .

Seizure the Next Step?

Germany hag already pretty well exhausted her external credits based on foreign securities. She must be desperately pressed on this score. And if the ’ news from Rumania means that Germany can no longer buy from King Carol's people the oil and grain she needs in the quantities: she: requires and pay for - them, then she has oly one means of meeting the crisis. -She must seize*Rumania, or lose her oil and wheat as she lost the Swedish iron ore which. flows through Norway. a These facts lend further color to the theory thdé the Norwegian episode is a desperate gamble to re< lieve the pressure upon Germany's shrinking external resources. lin All this, of course, is- mere speculation. But what the sudden turn of afe

of Germany's purchasing power abroad? Of course the facts are disputed. It is said that only shipments of cereals have been stopped and that Rumania will permit her nationals to carry out all existing contracts and that the embargo is on

future * contracts* only. does not alter the implications; it merely changes :

the time factor. ; =

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Watching Your Hea

“By Jane Stafford wl SG PrEEasarion of foods by quick-freezing has

ons in recent years, quick-frozen foods are although retailing - experimental pack is go . fauply

grown to enormous proj About 500,000,000 pounds: of now being produced annually, and of frozen foods is said to be still in the stage, more than one-half of the annual ing to the retail trade and finding its way to dinner tables throughout the country. Health and nutritional angles of frozen foods were recently reviewed Swartz Rose, of Teachers College, sity, for the American Medical Associa The 'quick-freezing process greatly re number of germs in food, she states. I 1 and stored hamburg steak, for example, sistently lower numbers of bacteria than

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one group of researchers found. No er trichinosis. germs in raw pork, from botulism vegetables, nor from other varieties of gems ‘that’ may get into food appears in the frozen foods If they are properly handled before and .d the freezing process. The number of germs 10Tease rapidly, however, when the foods are thawed, so the housewife to cook

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