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WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 1940

The Gallup Poll Shows—

VOTERS BELIEVE PRESS RIGHT RAP JUDGES ot Job Because Employer

| Needed a Man to Do 75% in Missouri,

| The Impossible. Where | By JOE COLLIER Paper Was Fined, Join Years ago they tried, in his native G ae Germany, to make a lawyer out of eneral Opinion. (Horst Smolenski. For two years he studied and did court work. Other Direct], PR. GEORGE GALLUP

{members in his family had achieved American Institute pinion

ot Public high standing in the legal profesPRIN . sion. x OETON. N. J. May 1] Today Mr. Smolensk recalls bie 4 newspapers be allowed to|terly that those two years were the Criticize the decisions of court Most futile of his life. What he was Judges? (taught, he says, “went in one ear is ‘ {and out the other.” a ISsue is stirring wide debate] “If there is anything I hate,” he oughout Missouri and other parts said today, “it is law. To think that Of the country in the wake of the | Vasieg two years of my life with (that s sentence imposed on the St. Louis| After Mr. Smolenski kicked over Post-Dispatch for the family traces he went back to contempt of court college and studied horticulture, in in criticizing a St which he got a degree. But horticulLouis circuititure was so much more important Judge. The news- to him than the degree, as such, he Paper, fighting misplaced it and all the credentials the sentence on|that prove it.

appeal, tl S Dpea, lhreatens Now Needs Legal Knowledge

to take to the U S. Supreme Court] Now, it so happens, he really could Issue of the use the proof of that degree, and

AMERICAN INSTITUTE

PUBLICTOPTNION

the en bs Criticize judicial decisions he is becoming involved in a proj- . fect that makes knowiedge of the A Special survey conducted in(law valuable. Missouri Indicates that, in the view| Horst Smolenski is emploved by] of the court of public opinion, |J. A. Goodman, and for 10 vears has newspapers should remain free to|fondly developed the gardens of the criticize judges’ decisions if they | Goodman estate on Kessler Blvd. Wish to. An overwhelming majority] “I: keep forgetting they aren't of Missouri voters—more than seven mine,” Smolenski says as he wanders in every 10—take this view in the about looking at the many plants survey, and a similar study through-|he has gathered, raised from imout the country shows that the rest ported seed, or acquired and planted of the nation shares this attitude. |in other ways. The issue put to voters in Mis. | He got the Goodman job when gouri and elsewhere by the Amer-/Mr. Goodman called Col. Richard Ican Institute of Public Opinion was| Lieber, then head of the State Conas follows: (servation Department, and said: RRL & “Do you know of an exceptional Which do ¥ | : : 5S ; port sd you think is more | horticulturist available? I don't’ died soil chemistry in colleges (A) That newspapers should be |v nt Just & good one. I want one... iat eave him a basic knowl.

Pe (who can do the impossible.” iRiAR allowed to criticize the decisions Mr. Lieber ta the specifica- | *42® o} lhat science. of judges, or

tions to his co-worker, Frank N.! He never IorEeis anyining When (B) That judges should be free

from such criticism?” | Wallace said: in Germany, there was a small mensaid: : The vote of those with opinions| “Sure. I know just the man. Horst tion of the potomagaton plant was: [ Smolenski.” | Which grows in river beds and MISSOURI VOTERS Horst had come to this country Sometimes clogs them. The lecPapers Should be Allowed {for two reasons. The depression in ag Wai te Elkhart River, to Criticize Judges .. ... (Germany was very bad indeed. In IN i PY U. O. A Was 2A espe Judges Should be Free from |addition, he heard through Felatives| cil y ovo exampe of It. Criticism 2 (that E. G. Hill, Richmond, Ind. | oars Bier, the Conservation DeNATION'S V {grower, wanted someone who knew partment was very excited about & N'S VOTERS {something about European diseases|the condition of the Elkhart River Papers Should be Allowed to lof roses, Mr. Smolenski knew some-|but could not determine what the Criticize Judges ....... ... 73% [thing and came on in 1923 to take plant was that was choking it. AecJudges Should Be Free from

es & |the job Criticism {sent for his wife and children. |

! In Missouri only about one voter|

Horst Smolenski . .. ‘To think that

Once he became interested in marine vegetation, and that led him into the microscopic field. He

tioned the problem to Mr. Smolenski He promptly recalled those few

Lost Own Business {words of his lecturer and solved the

Horst Smolenski, Gardener for Goodman, ‘Kicked Law in Face' to Follow First Love

| Wallace, state entomologist, and Mr. Was studying horticulture back

A year and half later, he cidentally, one of the members men- |

C. I. 0. BECOMES KLAN TARGET IN SOUTH CAROLINA

Stokes Cites Reports That Mill Owners Encourage Night Riders.

(Third of a series)

Victory Is Second in Row by | Narrow Margin for Vir= ginia Armstrong. |

Virginia Armstrong, Shortridge | High School senior, still holds the title of Marion County’s healthiest! : 4-H Club girl. ; Just as in last year's contest Miss | Armstrong won by only a narrow margin over Miss Mary Mowry of i Warren Central High School. Third place and the mark for the greatest improvement in the contest | went to Florence Kennedy of Ben]. Davis High School. Margaret Apel |: of Franklin Township High School |! won fourth honors. The four girls were chosen as an honor group after the county contest a week ago, and |: doctors gave them a second exami-|: nation yesterday. >

All Are ‘City Girls’

By THOMAS L. STOKES Times Special Writer ANDERSON, 8S. C, May 1—-Or-(ganization of workers in South Carolina’s Piedmont textile mill region {has gone forward gradually under {the Wagner Act with its guaran{tees of collective bargaining, per‘haps more successfully than in any other southern state. The union campaign has been (conducted by the Textile Workers {Organizing Committee, a C. I. O. laffiliate. Consequently, the C. I. O. {has become the target of attack in {this state where mill owners are {influential in politics. Now it develops. from evidence in secret records seized here, that high | officials of the revived Ku-Klux [Klan are planning to use the or- " . aid : lganization in South Carolina to|tables,” they said yesterday. All of

. : : [them are fond of outdoor sports, fight further union advances and] : b oh pl possible, to supplant C. I. O./ Particularly basketball and bicycl-

: i: , : ing. . HIiONS with compshy unions, Miss Armstrong, who was the| C. I. O. Foe Heads Klan State’s “Milk Girl” in Dairy Week Reports are current in labor cir-|Celebration here last year, lives at cles, DE and in neighboring Geor-|9920 Ewing St. She had a score gia, that mill owners have encour-|0f more than 97 per cent in the laged this Klan objective; but labor| State 4-H health contest at Purleaders are unable to offer any spe-| due last year. She also won the cific proof of such an alliance. |4-H Club county canning contest Head man of the Klan in this last week-end. state—the Grand Dragon—is Ben | Graded High on Posture Adams, a candidate for Governor| Miss Mowry lives at 38th St. and | two years ago. and known as an|Emerson Ave. Miss Kennedy lives | opponent of the C. I. O. His chief | at Flackville and Miss Apel - lives lieutenant, who sometimes callsiat New Bethel.

| Miss Kennedy and Miss Apel would | §

crown next year. They are only 16 vears old and both the two highest | scorers are 17. None of the four girls lives on a farm, but all of them drink a great

I wasted two years

with that stuff.

chemistry, and he may now be on

Shortridge Senior, 17, Named Healthiest Girl in County

Miss Janice Berlin, county home | 3 demonstration agent, predicted that | §

(be even stronger contenders for the J

deal of milk and eat “lots of vege-|

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hated law comes in handy here. {the state. |tone and her clear skin, Miss Berhouses his laboratory there is a letter in which Grand Klokard | wing that houses the greenhouse, |Johnson wrote Grand Dragon | where Mr. Smolenski keeps a large | Adams that he was ready to launch KELLY T0 ADDRESS In fact, he has more hobbies than it C. I. O. drive and would contact | LOCAL BAR GROUP is possible to accurately enumerate, | mill officials. | | and he works at them all. { Three months earlier, as revealed] Raymond J. Kelly, national com- | believes he looks older. He ex-| Imperial Wizard, Dr. James A. Cole-| wil] address a dinner meeting of plains this by saying he went scott, had sent instructions to every| the Indianapolis Bar Association in through four years of war, and local Klan in the country for|the Columbia Club at 6:15 pb: m. Butler University horticulturists | Alliance, C. I. O. or A. F. L. to try| “Liberty, License and Law” will tell vou, if you ask them, that|!0 Seize control of these organiza-| pe his subject. Horst Smolenski is the best prac-| tions Guests will

will

include Alvin M.

FIREWORKS BAN PUT IN EFFECT

Starting Today, Displays Must Be in Charge of Licensed Operators.

The State-wide ban against ine discrimmate use of fireworks became effective today. The 1939 Legislature, urged by public opinion, enacted the law which allows only licensed opera= tors to take part in displays. Permits for displays will be under jurisdiction of State Fire Marshall Clem Smith who this week will distribute permit applications to fire chiefs and county sheriffs. When the anti-fireworks bill was first introduced in the General Assembly it called for an immediate ban but after consideration the Legislature postponed the effective date of the law until today so that dealers who had fireworks in stock could have a chance to sell them. According to the law any violator can be fined an amount not to exceed $100 or sentenced to 90 days lin the County jail, or both: It is believed by supporters of the measure that the law will make this July Fourth an “entirely” safe

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In addition to a wing that| Illuminating are excerpts from a lin said. collection of cacti, a hobby of his.|a campaign against a reported new Mr. Smolenski is 43 years old and in previous dispatches, the Klan's mander of the American Legion, that that ages any man. Klansmen members of the Workers today. ticing horticulturist in this state. Pledges Anti-Union Fight

Others at—

Owsley, a past national commander

In every 14 (7 per cent) expressed |

Anyone of his friends will tell] “The Greenville Piedmont (news- of

the Legion. The program coms= |

no opinion on the issue, while for! the nation as a whole approximately one in every eight had no opinion Other surveys by the Institute in past years have shown that the American public has great respect for the judicial system and opposes! any basic change in the structure of the courts, as for example, the President's Supreme Court enlargement plan But it is also true, as today's

America, he started out in a busi- | So horticulture led Mr. Smolenski ness of his own, was caught short,|{to chemistry, and a study of marine managed to get out without a debt life led to microscopic work. Mr hanging over him, and then the Goodman's business — the manuGoodman job came facture of silk hose—led Mr. SmoThe Goodman gardens are a sort lenski to the realization that anyof horticultural laboratory for Mr. one who could produce an emulsion

larges them with all manner of make money |tasteful plants, some native and| He started to work on the problem some exotic, but he studies them. [years ago with his microscope and

Shortly before the depression in| problem. |

Smolenski. He not only fondly en- that would protect fabrics ought to|

vou he is one of the cleverest machinists, and a very good chemist in his field. And new academic honors may come to him if he can| somehow get those credentials that show he has a horticultural degree | from Germany

'paper) of Monday carried the state-| mittee includes Harvey Elam, | ment that a new director of the| George Barnard, Albert Stump,

study shows, that the public does not look upon the courts as sacrosanct or above criticism and reproach. ‘Errors Should Be Exposed’

On the contrary, it apparently| feels that the democratic principle} of free criticism of public institu-! tions should apply as much to the courts as to other institutions This attitude is well reflected in the comments and remarks made by voters in discussing the issue with interviewers in the survey. The comments typical of the ma-| Jority were that “judges are no! more perfect than other officials.” that “judicial errors should be exposed, otherwise trials might be held in secret,” and that “it is healthy to have all branches of government open to criticism.”

Physical Exams for Adults |

Adults should take part in Child Health Day, observed today throughout the nation, by making

inations of parents, school teachers. domestic servants, trained nurses, practical nurses and nursemaids. sure they do not have communic-|and all those whose work brings able diseases which migiit be passed | them intimately in contact with (on to children, the Indiana State children Medical Association said today. | “Tuberculosis, syphilis. gonorrhea The association outlined its ad- [tvphoid, respiratory infection and vice in a pamphlet, “Pertinent Skin diseases are among those Facts on Contact Infection of Sometimes transmitted to children Children,” which was prepared by |by infected adults,” the pamphlet the American Academy of Pediat- states. rics. “Periodic health examinations of adults will help prevent children

| diseases Primary tuberculosis in (early childhood is of potential |danger later in the life of a child.” In discussing physical examina'tions of teachers the bulletin states: “While the school teacher has not more tuberculosis than the average (adult, next to the family she pro{vides the greatest opportunity for lclose, prolonged contact with the {school child.” |

HOTEL BANDITS ROB GUESTS AND CLERK

Three hotel bandits robbed two guests and a night clerk at the

Grand Hotel, 138 S. Illinois, of valuables and money totaling almost $200 early today. Registered as guests, the three men stepped from a corridor about

{ Pr {3 a. m., as Mr. and Mrs. Louis

For sheer brilliance and | Mitchell of St. Louis, Mo. were

beauty this sparkling set is = : about to register. They took $10

unsurpassed . . . and they Ci To gi and a $20 gold watch from Mr.

are remarkable values at this low price. Charge , Account | Mitchell, $85 from Mrs. Mitchell's | purse and forced Bernard Reidiman, {night clerk, to hand over $72 from | the cash drawer. | The bandits forced their victims into the hotel basement and fled.

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C. I. O. in this district is replacing G. R. Redding and Howard Cough- | Mr. Coop, who has been in charge ran. Indiana Legion members have since Miss Hawes left,” Mr. Johnson | been invited. wrote to the Grand Dragon last| January. | “The next great invention,” hel “The article Se (oe BURGLARS GET GEMS avs.” wi e 8 t drive to organize the textile plants| oe oe 30 a A in this section. I shall send you, IN APARTMENT RAID 'waste so much time sleeping.” {or bring with me Monday the news- : \ i | paper clipping, I am going to stay| Burglars ransacked the apartbehind this matter and shall have ment of John Kitchen at 3433 the Greenville Klan ready to launch| Central Ave. near midnight last a campaign against the drive if the night, taking an emerald ring, a | {C. I. O. starts anything. | pearl necklace and other jewelry, | WATER | “I have been too busy to contact he reported to police today. | mill officials at Greenville, but in-| Mr. Kitchen said he had returned tend to do so within a few days to to find the lock on the door broken | | Francis Chapin, Chicago water get their support for you in the and his apartment in disorder. Incolorist, has been engaged by the splendid campaign you are waging vestigating, police found the burJohn Herron Art School to conduct along. I have lots to discuss with glars also had tried to force the a class in water color landscape yoy while we are together, but shall door of the apartment of Mrs. Ruth painting from Monday until May 31. not attempt to mention anything Ann Tinzie but had failed. { | The class will meet on Monday, | further in this already long letter.” | — . —————— Tuesday, Thursday and Friday| A few days earlier on Jan. 14, in| mornings each week from 9 a. m.! letters to every member of the | | until noon, | Greenville Klan—one of the most | { The class is open to all persons active in night-riding activities— | [not enrolled in the regular school | Mr. Johnson urged attendance at a land will be open to beginners as meeting on the night of Jan, 17.! well as the advanced artist. Reg- | These letters said: istration, however, will be limited| "The Klan is going into an in-| to 40 persons. | tensive campaign (these two words | Mr. Chapin was on the jury fo Were underlined) against the C. 1 0. the Indiana Artists Exhibition in} and all other organizations and]

| 1939, He has taught at the Chicago | forces that are anti-American, Art Institute and the Saugatuck] Plan Enlargement {Summer School for many years. His! " ) prizes include the Tuthill Purchase An enlargement campaign Prize at the Chicago International throughout the realm of South| |in 1929, the Logan Medal in 1933, Carolina is about to begin and we the National Academy's Hallgarten | Plan to build the Klan in this realm Prize in 1938 and in 1939 the Jennie StYONger than it has ever been.

: " z , ‘olumbia Sesnan Medal at the Pennsylvania The State mestng at Oo ; | Academy of Fine Arts, which was postponed in December,

will be held in the very near future according to information from the

(office of the Grand Dragon. Plans GARY MILK DEALERS { will be made for this new program {of actions (these four words were

| {emphasized) in co-operation with | CONSIDER PRICE CUT oe program of the Klan through- | jout the nation, as recently outlined

by the imperial Wizard.” Following a Klan night-ride at Fountain Inn, S. C., a man in that section wrote to Grand Klokard (Johnson: “We farmers have found a better attitude already among common labor.” This letter was among the Klan records seized by

| Times Special

| GARY, Ind, May 1—Gary milk dealers today considered a cent and one-half reduction in the home-de-livered price of milk per quart following the signing of a new econtract in Hammond between dairy emplovees and dealers which pro-

. flicials here. vides for a $7.50 per week wage cut | y i i and a 10-cent milk rate to go in| Typical of much comment in this

. [state is an item printed about that fe Lore began ne otiations | me. Ins paper called “The News,” ‘with union representativ Soka | Published briefly at Anderson, S. C., | rt presentatives yester-| and regarded as a Ku-Klux Klan supporter: “No one would deny that the Klan and its leaders are against the Communists, and if the C. I. O. is being dominated at the top by Communists it is natural that the Klan would be found fighting it, accord{ing to a spokesman for the organ{ization.”

| “Competition and overlapping of | {the business of dairies in the cities {of northern Lake County make a (uniform price essential for Ham{mond, Gary, East Chicago and | Whiting,” one dairy official said.

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| O. R. Rasigo, 622 DeQuincy st.,| > SPECIAL

|store manager, told police the sate] (was gone when he opened the store! (at 6 a. m. Also missing was a large | c supply of cigarettes and liquor,| -omplete | valued at more than $100. $ SO win a Police said that an iron door at | Reg. $3.75 Value Guaranteed by Experts No Appointment Necessar = ! Service From 8:30 A.M. to 5 P. M.

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| burglars might have been hiding | inside the store, since the burglar alarm did not go off while the in|truders were at work looting the | store and removing the sate.

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