Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 April 1940 — Page 12
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24, 1940
THE PARTY SKELETON
Y now, we suspect, most Indiana Democrats would like |
to haul the Two Per Cent Club out to a deserted cow pasture and bury it in the dead of night. It is like the family skeleton, except that it is more awkward to dispose of, If ever a slick and cagy scheme has come to plague its inventors and supporters, it is this one. And it should.
“CRIMES OF A WHOLE PEOPLE” HE crimes of Germany are “the crimes of a whole people,” says Alfred Duff Cooper, former First Lord of the British Admiralty. “We must accept no soft words or specious promises as we did when they came whining and groveling to Versailles. We must defeat the German people in battle.” : . And after they are defeated, no doubt Mr. Duff Cooper will want the whole German people interned, or at least partitioned among the more pious powers, without right or franchise or self-determination.
Every r k 8 r German who objects he | erybody knows that any German who objects to t | Poland. aad the simies Of the two dictators met as
If the demo- |
Nazi regime is putting his neck in a noose.
6 detest communism but insist, nevertheless, that the
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ing war delighted to taunt the British cowardice in
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cratic process had been functioning in Germany in the last |
seven years, if the German people today were supporting the Government deliberately and without duress, then it might be truly said that all Germany is guilty of making this war. But the will of the people is a thing of no account to Hitler; he despises it. Under such circumstances it is unfair and absurd to accuse all Germans of complicity in Hitler's erimes. Heretofore British spokesmen have said the Allies ware warring against aggression and totalitarianism—that Hitlerism must go. On such a platform they have won the sympathy of most Americans. But if the war is to become a crusade to enslave a whole nation of 80,000,000 people— to right Hitler's wrongs by creating new ones as a breedingground for future wars—sentiment in this country may turn more neutral than it is today. If the Allies can put the squeeze on Hitler and hold it long enough, the German people may eventually find ways of showing that they are not all Nazis. British propaganda machine is ill-served by such wavers of the bloody shirt as Mr. Duff Cooper.
MR. MINTON’S MISTAKES
| German war aim is only to redress the Treaty of | Versailles and to live thereafter at peace. The obvious
| and the familiar sight of steel helmets and weapons
Fair Enough
By Westbrook Pegler
Allies Criticized in This Country And Yet They Fight Only for the Things Americans Would Fight for.
EW YORK, April 24 —It is difficult to under‘stand the contention of those Americans who
British and French have only themselves to blame for the Second World War, and that their defeat would be of no consequence to the United States. The almost sameness of communism and Hitlerism has been demonstrated consistently, and has been acknowledged by both Hitler and Stalin in their mili-
tary alliance and military co-operation. That the British and French were the war-makers seems too false on the face of things for serious consideration. Hitler had armed Germany to such an extent that he felt that this great advantage over the Allies would intimidate them, and Chamberlain, who is sometimes called a war-monger, was humiliated and his nation ridiculed the world over because he tried so desperately to appease Hitler and avoid war. The same people who now accuse Britain of seek-
submitting to Hitler, Chamberlain carried an absurd umbrella when he flew to plead for peace, and the German orators and their press made the most of his personal physical frailty and his rather rusty appearance by contrast with the muscularity of their leaders
in their country. ” 2 »
VEN now the British and French are still far short of the German might in military preparation. and their economy is creakily adjusting itself to the attempt to cope with a state which is controlled by one man and one idea. They were not prepared for war. It was not the Allies who fell on Czechoslovakia and Poland, and, to the confusion of those who doggedly regard Hitlerism as the foe of bolshevism or Jewishness, the fact stands out that the nations which
Hitler and Stalin collaborated in the extinction of
friends. And, again, when Stalin made his moves in the Baltic and attacked the Finns the Nazis made no move to rescue Christian, non-Bolshevik peoples. On the contrary, Hitler held off those who might have helped them. ‘ ” ” ” N the face of the most obvious truth, many Amerjeans still believe, or pretend to believe, that the
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES Too Much Hocus-Pocus for the Customers!
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| truth is that Hitlerism is bolshevism, a revolution |
| very life of all nations which, like this one, prefer de- |
Meanwhile, the |
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SENATOR SHERMAN MINTON is within his rights when |
he attempts to protect bureaucracy from the checks and balances proposed by the Logan-Walter Bill. Even Senator Minton, however, ought to stick to facts in fighting this measure. Yet he has just told the Senate that: 1. The Senate Judiciary Committee, which unanimously recommended passage of the bill, “did not think enough of its importance to hold any hearings on it.” 2. The consideration given it was “so scant” that “the report of the committee carried the glaringly erroneous statement that the bill would set up a court to determine administrative problems.” The Senator who sponsored the bill and wrote the committee report could not reply to Mr. Minton. He was M. M. Logan of Kentucky, who died a few months ago. But the record amply acquits his memory of these charges that he tried to put through inadequately studied legislation which even he did not understand. What are the facts? 1. A judiciary sub-committee, headed by Senator Logan, discussed the bill frequently and thoroughly.
against capitalism and against possessions and the
mocracy and freedom.
The British and French are fighting for their own |
lives and freedom, and yet they are reproached for
that, as though it were wicked unselfishness to fight |
<uch motives, by Americans who, nevertheless, say
they would fight for nothing else. The British and French are fighting for the same things that Americans would fight for, and the plain fact is that the Germans are fighting against every thing that Americanism is.
Inside Indianapolis
That Restaurant Again, Toy Autos,
Those Letters and the Park Board. | B=: guess of the week: That the Zoning Board |
will sustain its vote in favor of that N. Merestaurant whenever it holds the rehearing. There has been a great deal already said about the subject, but from the way the winds are blowing at the moment, it appears that the rehearing will find just about enough members present for a quorum
| and voting to uphold the variance.
Throughout |
il, 1938, this sub-c i 3 April, 1938, this sub-committee held extended hearings on |.» kicked over the party traces and walked into
another measure proposing a special court to act on appeals |
from Federal administrative agencies. In these hearings
the alternative proposal, now known as the Logan-Walter |
Bill, was considered at length. that it would provide a better check against bureaucratic abuses. judiciary committee favored the Logan-Walter Bill. 2. Nowhere in the committee report by Senator Logan appears any statement that the Logan-Walter Bill would “set up a court to handle administrative problems.” So, Mr. Minton is, shall we say, mistaken about these matters.
LABOR HELPS MANAGEMENT
DETAILS of a system which enabled a steel mill to avoid bankruptey by reducing its operating costs $166,000 in a year were described the other evening at a meeting of management experts in New York.
Many witnesses testified |
| After that will probably come the court skirmish- |
ing. ” ” 4
WE SUPPOSE WE OUGHT to tell you that the |
Coroner's office is waiting for somebody to donate three toy automobiles for use at inquests. You knew, the kind you can move about to show just how an accident happened. The cars only cost a dime apiece and all we can figure is that the County just can't afford that kind of money this year. » =o ” ’
THE “BRASS HATS” OF THE County's Democratic Party machine are in the unusual position of trving to explain away that odd matter of the numbered envelopes which they sent to over 700 ward chairmen and nrecinet committeemen. True to the spirit of democracy, the letters went out for secret balloting. Enclosed was a simple envelope addressed to the County Committee. To save everybody trouble and expense, the envelopes had a stamp on them. Somebody happened to notice a torn edge and pried it up to see what was there. It was a penciled number. County Chairman Ira Haymaker says he hasn't the slightest idea how the numbers got there. Truth of the matter is that one voung gentle
a particularly important race. A lot of people are for him. So the party bosses decided to find out just who were for him. Maybe to do a little convinecing,. Who knows? 2 = ” TALKING ABOUT SQUABBLES, we suppose vou
| ought to be warned that there is going to be one
As a result, the sub-committee and later the entire |
sooner or later in the Park Board, One of the
| newer members of the Board is anxious to get a
| WPA recreation
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| wasn't held the other day.
official H. W. Middlesworth. sistant.
appointed as assistant to Mr. M. doesn’t want that as Several of the Board members are inclined So is the Mayor. But, anyway, the movement has been going on and it's the why of taat so-called secret session which It's due to crop out at
| the meeting table one of these days and then the
| *Y AM convinced that if there ig to be a return to a |
The unusual thing is that the speaker was a labor |
leader—Clinton S. Golden, regional director of the C. I. O. Steel Workers Organizing Committee. a union committee, in return for assurances that no jobs
: . : | would be lost through installation of improvements, sug- |
production and at the same time decrease expenses. No doubt about it, thé men who work in mills and shops often know more than their bosses about the possibility of such methods. If they don’t tell their bosses what they know, it is because of fear that the savings would be made at labor's expense. But, Mr. Golden said, where there is secure union status and real collective bargaining, a union efficiency committee can enjoy the full confidence of both workers and managers. The workers have no reason to fear that the company will take advantage of them, and so are glad to offer suggestions to help the business prosper. Here is one hopeful glimpse beyond the present turmoil
of industrial relations, toward a time when intelligent labor | munity—and wisely used, it is real power—to ostra-
and intelligent management will stop fighting and start working together for mutual profit.
SPEAKING OF ATROCITIES! PITY the poor sailor on a night like this, With almost all ports subject to blockade, he is without a single sweet- <
Mr. Golden told how |
fireworks will pop.
A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson
better life women must lead the wav.” This not-too-surprising sentiment is to be found
in the summing up of a shocking book by John H. |
Laval, "Marriage, Morals and Mothballs.”
After what he claims was a searching investiga- |
| tion to get the truth about our social trends, the au-
thor decides we have gone thoroughly pagan; that
8 anne me replaced sacrifice; that promiscuity | . uh : | rather than chastity is eed : gested methods by which the mill's managers could increase | Do OME greed and. Ws Mas
especially is a bad egg. At any rate, these conclusions run true to form.
| In every attempt to incite the natives to moral cru- | sades it's Mama who is called upon to lead the pro-
cession. Maybe the man is right at that, Perhaps women were meant to be the torch-bearers of decency in every society, with Papa eternally backsliding and eternally being yanked into good behavior by the feminine arm. Let me quote another passage: “Women must re turn to the mother role that has been theirs through the centuries, a tradition more beautiful than any we have known. First, woman must herself return to the home, leaving wherever possible competition with men and the single standard behind in preference for the virtues and ideals of companionship, affection, loyalty and sacrifice. “The woman must bring the family back to the home. She must exercise her power in the come
cize the married playgirls, the divorcees and the unmoral blase crowds who coax her family from the hearth.” It is our author's notion that middle-class American women should make respectability a positive instead of a negative virtue. If this could happen— and how we wish it might—one wonders how men would respond to the movement. Would Dad stay home with his respectable wife or break his braces to go night clubbing with the une |
trying to get out moral blase crowds?
The Hoosier Forum
I wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire,
FAVORS REROUTING OF ROAD 31 By Rural South Sider I'd like to have it
known that |
{along with many more South Side |
{rural residents, I am absolutely in | favor of
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re-routing Road 31. 1}
{have driven in many states, but |
have never encountered a | treacherous strip of highway than Road 31 between Indianapolis and Greenwood, especially at night. Rerouting would divide the traffic and relieve congestion and as for high school pupils, they are surely able to cross a street. Safety lis begun in the 1B. As for businesses in the towns, the safety of
the majority cannot be ignored to! ration. (9) We would be better off whatsoever?
favor a few individuals.
way to avoid Road 31 and I sincerelv hope to see a new route started soon, = ” ” ANSWERS QUESTIONS ASKED BY V. 1. C.
By Henry K. Norton, Sullivan
| Sometime ago, Voice in the Crowd | asked these questions: (1) Suppose (we said, “All men are equal,” would | they be—mentally, morally, physi[ecally? (2) Who would enforce the law or would there be law? (3) Who | would say what to produce and how much? 4) Who would distribute the goods and would it be equal? (5) Would the politicians get a little extra? (6) Who would supervise and who would work in the | fields and shops? (7) Then would you have one class, or two or three? | (8) Could you or your children rise | from the ranks? (9) Then after the | political leaders, for whom you had {worked hard all day, gave you vour cakes and coffee and a bed, would you reelly be as well off as now? As one of the “men of little faith” in Wall Street capitalism, let me lanswer your questions: (1) No, but what is more important, they would {be equal politically and economi{cally. (2) Our duly chosen officers.
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‘and shops. This would be tough on 14 suffer the loss of $500 worth could get used to it. | Americans.
When going south I go out of the ‘not be in deadly fear of another s na
THINKS JURY LENIENT IN RELIEF CASES By Readers
(Times readers are invited express their these columns, religious con
to views in
| tional manpower. | Wild Bill suggests, that wider use of machinery will
A few months ago a street car was held up and a young man was | sentenced to 10 years at the State | Prison. . . He didn't have a| chance to prove his innocence, I
am sure that the street car com{pany could suffer the loss of $21 Imuch easier than those little babies
troversies excluded. Make your letters short, so all can have a chance. Letters must be signed, but names will be withheld on request.)
the stuffed shirts, but possibly they of milk. (7) No class! J. Barton Griffin was given a at all—we would all be democratic sentence of four months, yet they i |say no leniency was given. 5) Yes by proving our] How could those other men plead worth to the nation, not to a corpo-|aectitute and expect any mercy Has Mr. Webster
for two reasons: First, we would changed the definition of leniency?
Hoover panic which you admit iS| FAILS TO ENTHUSE bound to come; second, we would | ’ not worry about war because with | OVER JOB STATISTICS the end of capitalistic imperialism, By Voice From Labor we will seek to co-operate with| The population of the United over Asiioliy, ok Jo crush Therm. e| States is 120,000,000. A writer to (ou say. S the Forum crows that, after all, loudest against our system of free gince only one-third of the nation enterprise we hey whic NRCUAN ill fed, ill clothed and ill housed, Je JOBS A or Sg ue that leaves the other two-thirds World vou say that Charles a.|YDO et along somehow prety well. Beard, leading American historian: | 1b Seems to him trivial and TREC *) Herbert Agar, who won the Pulitzer Sequential that 40.000,000 Americans prize with his “The People's are admittedly ill fed, ill clothed | Choice”; the late Edward A. Filene, 20d ill housed. tier Sirens Boston philanthropist and philoso-| Such a reasoner—1i that be reapher: Harry Pratt Fairchild, Stuart Son—would say, “What of it if there Chase and Louis D. Brandeis, for- are 10 millions of unemployed | mer Supreme Court judge, each of | Americans, think of the 20 million whom sees that our system of free Who are employed.” Or, millions enterprise is driving us headlong to- | of dollars idle capital Lespeak nothward Fascism or Communism, never ing to him, because just see the milheard of the American Revolution? lions that are not idle!
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STRANGE, lovely little girl,]and she sang a sad little song,
playing alone in the winter
sion who would operate on a fact-| twilight of Central Park, attracted finding basis. (4) We would name the attention of a young artist one (the distributors and our share evening late In 1938. Attired in would be determined by the work quaint, old-fashioned dress of years |we did and its importance to the long past, the child amused and (test of us. (5) We hope not but perplexed Eben Adams with her odd | certainly not any more than they speech and behavior as she accomtake now. (6) This would be de- panied him through the park. | termined by experts chosen by us.| Her name, she said, was Jennie, (Possibly, all of us would have to she had just started to school, her ‘take our turn working in the fields parents were rope-juggling actors,
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“Where I came from nobody knows, and where I'm going everything goes.” Eben, penniless, unsuccessful landscape painter, had no premoni-
tion that through Jennie he would achieve success, fame, wealth; that his masterpiece, a portrait of Jennie in her early teens (“Girl in a Black Dress”) would someday be a priceless possession of the Metropolitan Museum. : Robert Nathan's rare ability to blend fantasy and realism makes “Portrait of Jennie” (Knopf) an idvll of love in a timeless setting. For Eben, the narrator-hero, soon discovers that Jennie dwells in a fourth dimensional relativity where time is non-existent. At intervals she visits him briefly in his studio; each time she is a few years older, until, the summer after their first meeting, she is a young lady leaving for schooling in France. “We'll always be together somewhere,” she tells Eben; and weeks later in his reckoning of time, years later in hers, in the wild fury of a Cape
Cod Hurricane, their love reaches
its tragic and inevitable climax. The reader may conclude, if he| wishes, that Jennie was a wraith or a day dream. A most appealing and lovable heroine, her story has all the exquisite perfection and beauty of a flawlessly cut, delicately colored cameo.
APRIL ON THE AIR
By MARY P. DENNY
April is on the air Shining bright and fair. The waters sparkle in the pool They mirror fantasies of old. Every one cries “April fool!” Dandelions in shining gold Bloom beside the cottage wall. From the beech straight and tall Sounds the song of chickadee For April days are on the air Everything shines bright and fair.
DAILY THOUGHT
Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.—Matthew 5:3.
POVERTY IS THE test of civility
the touchstone of friendship.—
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24, 1940
Gen. Johnson Says—
Col. Donovan May Be Pleading Own Case, But Offers Sound Logic in Urging Older Men Be Sent to War.
HICAGO, April 24.—Wild Bill Donovan, the able lawyer, who turned out to be a whizz-bang soldier, a fighting fool and a medal of honor man in the World War, is advocating something new in raising. armies. He wants us to stops sending our kids first to war. He says that the only excuse for it was that. they have greater endurance in a sudden spurt of speed, though not in long steady pulls. Since today's soldiers are going to war on wheels and pulling me-
chanical levers instead of clubbing muskets, he thinks men up to 50—and even older—could do just as well. I know what is eating Wild Bill. I have felt it gnawing me, He is reaching the age where, if. we don't’ pass a law or something, he might have to stay out of any possible shindy himself. Seriously, Bill's got something there. Boys scarcely more than children fight wars. There are more reasons for this than Col. Donovan gives. One is that, where there is any element of volunteering, they are more impulsive and rush first to the recruiting sergeant, ” n n YOUTH has fewer responsibilities—io a family, a farm, a business, or a job. Also, governments have encouraged this. Peace-time Army regulations permit enlistments only between the ages of 18 and 45. Our first World War draft limits were 21 and 30° —Ilater extended to 18 and 45. In our Army the physical standards at the outset were so high as to require practical perfection and this is much more likely to be found in young men than even those approaching their late 20s. A result in the World War draft was that we were skimming off the very cream of our physicial crop and taking it from a field that impaired our national future without greatly aiding our present. A principal reason for the policy of taking only young physical perfection is that it is supposed to lessen the likelihood of claims for pensions afterward, It wouldn't if any physical disqualification at the time: of enlistment were carefully noted and no pension: paid for those, but only for additional injury or im= pairment due to service. ” » ” EN in actual combat service are only a fraction. of the troops used in war. Supply and other auxiliary services require more soldiers than does: fighting. There is no sense in culling out a physically perfect kid and setting him to rolling pills in a med=ical supply department in Kalamazoo. Furthermore, if we impose no arbitrary age limits, but only limits of physical fitness, even for combat service, we shall be using greater common sense and be getting far greater economy in the use of our naIt is becoming increasingly true, as
require, on the ground at least, an older and more experienced type of soldier-mechanic. "ob It is too serious a matter of national policy to be settled by a couple of newspaper articles, but by the’ same token it is too serious a precedent and practice to follow without some responsible study—with the world what it is and all
Business
By John T. Flynn
Investment Has Several Meanings, Committee of Congress Reminded,
EW YORK, April 24—A committee of Congress discusses investment trusts and, of course, the ’ word “investment” gets kicked around. The investment trusts do not want to be regulated, Various objections are offered. This has to do with but one of those objections. It is that the country needs investment and that there is already sufficient restraint upon investment. The country needs investment. But the kind of investment the country needs and the kind of invest ment made in investment trusts are two different things. This is not to say that investment in a sound investment trust is not proper. It is merely to say that here, as is so often the case, we get into confusions and errors by using one word in two or more different meanings. re The country needs investment. By this we mean - that it is important that men who have money shall use it to build buildings, buy machinery, expand plants, ete. The importance of this lies in the fact that this investment will do two things—it will bring _ savings money out of hiding into work, setting people to building and producing. This is economic investment. Now, having said this, we subtly change the mean= ing of this word investment. It can be used in many - senses. For instance, the man who does a kind act for another may be making a good “investment’—an investment in good will. But it is easy to see this is an entirely different kind of an investment.
Here's Another Example
To press this a little further—A invests a thous sand dollars by buying stock in a corporation. He buys the stock from the corporation which uses the money to build a new plant. This is an economic investment. B, however, instead of buying newly issued stock, buys an old share which belongs to . some investor. The money goes to the old stocks holder, not to the corporation. The old stockholder may use it to buy another share he likes better or an existing bond. All this is quite proper and useful, and it is investment. But it puts no new money into business. This is the kind of investing that is done by ine vestment trusts. A man invests a thousand dollars in an investment trust. The investment trust uses the thousand to buy shares which are already on the market, usially old, seasored shares. The money does not go into actual production or building. This is investment but it is a very different form of in« vestment than that which goes directly into produce - tion and building. This is all not an argument against investment ’ trusts. But it is an answer to the argument that ine - vestment trusts play any important part in producing . the sort of investment we are most in need of,
Watching Your Health
By Jane Stafford
OST persons probably think of occupationaltherapy as weaving, basket-making or similar - handicraft carried on by patients in hospitals or other large institutions. Mothers with sick children in the home, however, often have to practice occu= pational therapy, though they are not likely to think of it in such terms. Their main object, generally, is to keep the sick or convalescing child amused and - quiet. This, the occupational part of occupational’ therapy, can be combined with the therapy or treatement part, to the benefit of the child. The treatment can achieve several ends. It may keep the child from developing habits or self-pity and selfishness. It may help to re-train the child or adult for future social usefulness, particularly if the illness’ is likely to leave him with some lasting disability, In some cases, where muscles need to be re-edus-cated, it provides part of the cure. Finally, it can build up self-confidence. The child who has been sick for some time may well feel timid when ree Joining his playmates who have meanwhile been oute stripping him in skill at games and athletics, unless he has kept up his self-confidence through acquisie tion of some new skill of his own. Since occupational therapy is after all treatment, the mother should consult her child's physician be fore attempting it. He will tell her if her plans are too ambitious for her child's strength or age. He. will also advise as to the amount of time and the: period of the day that should be given over to such activities, and warn against the danger of overwork and fatigue, Because sick children are impatient, the work must be varied and stopped at the first sign of reste lessness or boredom. One authority points out that.
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