Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 May 1940 — Page 20

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a FRIDAY, MAY 8, 108 FOR THE INDIANA SENATE

HERE are 108 candidates for the Legislature in Marion |

County. On either ticket, therefore, the voters at next Tuesday's primary will have great difficulty in making a selection. This imposes on all agencies of public opinion an obliga. tion to give the voter such help as is possible under the cir cumstances.

newspaper has better sources of information than most

individuals. Because the field is smaller, the task of selection is somewhat easier -for the State Senate than for the House of Representatives. There are seven candidates on the Democratic side and 13 on the Republican. For the nomination for joint State Senator there are two Democratic and four Republican candidates. In the following choices, we have attempted to name

only those we feel should receive special consideration by |

voters. In our opinion, the outstanding candidate on the Demo cratic side is E. Curtis White. le has served six terms in the Legislature, and while frankly & candidate of organized labor, was interested and effective in all legislative questions. He is the only Democratic candidate, we regret to say, to whom we can give an unqualified indorsement at this time. On the Republican side, the task is somewhat easier. The two candidates whose records impress us most favor. ably are Harry O. Chamberlin, the former Circuit Judge, and John W, Atherton, secretary and treasurer of Butler University. There are other able candidates in the field. For the office of joint State Senator we prefer Gideon W. Blain, attorney, over John Bright Webb on the Democratic side. On the Republican side, there are two good candidates in Edward J. Green and Charles M. Clark. Our preference is for Mr. Green. To summarize briefly, we favor: For State Senator

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REPURLICAN Harry O. Chamberlin John W. Atherton For Joint State Senator Gideon W. Blain Edward J. Green

DEMOCRATIC E. Curtis White

THE KEY T0 SAFETY

HE Police Department's report to the Safety Board yes- | terday provides Indianapolis with an extremely valu |

able key in ite search for traffic safety. confirms the often repeated contention that arrests and convictiong are the answer to safety. To sum it up, the report compared the first three months of 193% with the first three months of 1940. There was a 15 per cent decrease in arrests and a 65 per tent drop in convictions. The result: A 47 per cent jump in accidents, Here is the story: 193% Y a2 17

1940 121 13 579

Accidents Deaths ¢ 361 Total Injured .. 180 . Pedestrians Injured ....... 205 It needs no expert to draw conclusions. The goal of proper enforcement by the police and proper punishment by the courts must be reached before Indianapolis’ men, women and children will be safe.

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THE JEWISH FUND DRIVE

THE Indianapolis Jewish Welfare Fund today launches its campaign to raise funds for its wide-flung activities.

Not only will the money be used to aid the local units as- |

sociated with the Community Fund, but to provide relief for refugees in war-torn Europe.

MARR FERRELL

But it is not an easy task even though a

The report again |

Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

Recalling Fame Enjoyed by Poe for Similar Feat, He Urges Reporter Be Honored for Famed Joy-Boat Moax

EW YORK, Nav $.—The name of Sanford Jar ll over a Small fetion story in the New York Daily News recalls a mischievous expioft of tong age, ANA prompts me to suppest that the author of the Noax has suffered too much for a feat the like of which committed by Pagar Allan Poe has been hone red with & place in American Hteratare, On Aug. 16 1924, the New York Herald Tribune Published in the Toad position an exclusive story about A mysterious joy-boat of 15000 tons which was lying | about 15 miles off Fire TSIand, aboard which Long Is. and millionaires and ot the Heh were @rin | comporting thems | Might. Tt Was an eyewitness who had been assigned th Hee 1h Oh W0 itt I. > Who after two Gays’ search along the coast cone firmed the report. Desoribing the ship as “a playground of the rich | and Fast” Nm. Jarrell went on to say that, although the vessel's name on how and stern been painted out, per silverware and (men were marked with the name | of the Friedrich Der Grosse, a former North German Llayaer.

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|» A NEGRO jars orchestra” said he, “furnishes the | 4X music to which millionaires, fappers and chorus gis out of work whirl oh & waxed floor with the tang | Of salt air in their > | Nm, Jarrell pro a follow-up story which was | ratiyer pallid by comparison, for he had given his all

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Old Vesuvius!

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story by Sanford Jarrell,

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| United States Coast Guard was assigned to hunt the | vessel @own. Nreantime Nr. Jimmy Sinnott, on the Moming Telegraph, had been writing a hilarious satire on the | voax, and after one week the Herald Tribune, with | great piety and a tone of outrage, washed its hands | of Nir. Jarrell and his exclusive story. | Nm Jarrell was dismissed and went his way. He | hae been wearing that albatross suspended from his | peck ever since. He is heard of now here now there, | and the Sanford Jarrell whose little fiction story ap- | peared in the Daily News is living in San Francisco. & 4 4 AY Tsay that Mb. Jarrell Mvention was ho mere | fake, but something bigger and grander, and eal | attention to the fact that when a prank of this kind pecomes a hoax it acquires a dignity and merit of its (OWN? Nir. Pots fraud about the balloon which crossed the Atlantic was perpetuated under much less difficult conditions, for there was no instantaneous communication over long distance then, but it is kept Nn the jewel case of literary journalism as a wort of Em, and the world has thought no less of Poe. Other hoaxes of journalism are praserved ang repected, including one about a trip to the moon and another about the escape of all the wild animals from the New York 2oo, but this one, because it occurred | i & time when hoaxing was out of fashion, was much more worthy. It was historic in New York. As a fiotioneer, Nir, Jarrell, it this be the same who noaxed the Herald Tribune, should do well, and this is | By way of proposing that if he be the same the San | Francisco Press Club look him up and, as is their wont, honor him with one of those dinners by which | they generously recognize extraordinary feats by members of the craft.

Inside Indianapolis

Head For the Cyclone Cellar, Boys! They're About to Get Real Rough.

LECTION day is just around the corner now and its time to put on the old gas mask and rubber | gloves. Sad experience has taught us that the last few Gays before an election are always the worst. The War propaganda front will be as nothing compared to whats going to be flung about in Indianapolis the | pext few days. The politicos alwayt wait until the very last moment to jerk out their worst stories so that their rivals cant possibly have enough time to answer. Meantime, of course, poor old John Public has to | wade knee-deep through the mire. Tomorrows just about the time for the little | sheetlets to start appearing telling about what an axial gent so-and-so if that wifecbeating is his | hobby, that he hates kids, and that if you vote for him yvouYe voting for corruption and chaos Personally, it's all chaos.

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WEVE JUST HEARD THAT Val Nolan Jr Is on his way to setting a scholastic record at mn. diana Umiversity If young Val continues to get the marks he has the last five semesters through | RIS next three semesters, he will graduate I. UO. with the highest average in that schools history. . . . A ot of folks touring around the Circle yesterday sensed something wiong. . . . The place looked bare and lonely. . . . John Longs at the Power | Company finally figured it out: The Columbia Club's | familiar canopy wasn't there. | . . We've been means ing to mention that a certain candidate for office has lost himself a Jot of votes. . . . His bovs have been slapping stickers on a lot of shiny windshields and the owners are, let us say, irritated. ® » »

GENE PULLIAM, the WIRE president, is going

| to be host at a Wendell Willkie press luncheon on |be paving. If taxes were levied on|iu an incinerator, where it is burned |and unusual, must be acquired,

May 15th. . . « If Mr. Willkie is any more enters

FRIDAY, MAY 3, 1940

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Gen. Johnson Says—

British Move Hints Next Scene of

Action Will Be in Mediterranean Providing Hitler Gets Italy's Help

ASHINGTON, May 3.—The British surrender of the Mediterranean route under threat of Italy

| the news from Norway is very discouraging.

Available facts are so few and forces hanging in the balance of indecision so great that I have been very | chary of comfent on this unknown war. This piece is no prophecy. It is just bewildered conjecture. How can the British abandon the Mediterranean”? That would be to abandon France whose lifeline ana

| link with her African colonies ib is. It would be 0

| be to abandon Turkey and leave the mess in

| abandon the great Anglo-French Near-Eastern Army, | which is yapidly being assembled as a threat % the | totalitarian left flank.

To abandon the Mediterranean to Italy would also

south to the extent tha! some kind of trade and Stalin.

sastern Europe in Hitler's hands, ne conld divide up the spoils by XK | petween the supposed enemies, Mussolini

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UCH results are Impossible for England and oer S tainly for France to contemplate. Therefore, 1b | seems pretty clear that England is not leaving the Mediterranean with anything except her ordinary commercial traffic usually routed through the Suez Canal. She ig just getting her rich argosies promptly aut of an area of danger from a sudden possible clash of aerial and maritime navies in those waters. : If that warfare opens up, the affair in Norway will | Just be a sideshow and that raises my principal con- | jecture. Hitler has two choices in grand strategy. He | oan concentrate on the British Empire by striking af | its heart in western Europe or, if ie has the armed | assistance of Italy, he can attempt to eut it in pieces in detail and strengthen his own economie, it not military, position by operation in southeastern Europe and the Mediterranean. He can do either, but he can't do both at the ame time,

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ONQUEST of England, or great impairment of c British seapower, even if he holds Scandinavia, soome most unlikely. It is true that Hitler is rapidly revising all appraisals of him by co-called military experts by the astonishing speed, accuracy and efficiency of his operations, They reveal also an unsuspected amount of unreadiness, poor staff work, poor leader ship and ack of imagination on the other side, Never theless. the Nazis are still very far from easy striking distance of England. ; It seems to me that the eritical element just now is not $0 mueh what has disastrously happened in Nor=

The Hoosier Forum

{| wholly disagree with what yon say, but will defend to the death your might to say it.=Voltaire,

SEES INCONSISTENCY IN TEDDY'S FOLLOWERS | By Clade Braddon. It strikes me as curious that our strongest isolationists are former Bull Moosers, followers of Theodore Roosevelt, the boldest interventionist who ever occupied the Presi. dency! » . » FAVORS ALL TAXATION ON ABILITY TO PAY By A Home Owner Noticed some comments on your editorial page of April 29, 1940. captioned “We all pay for it.” This had to do with property taxes and stated that those who do not own homes pay taxes through utility bills, groceries, rents, ote. That seems like a very thin excuse or statement cone cerning taxation. After all the little fellow buving a home, paving 5 to | 7 per cent interest on borrowed | money also has to eat, pay utility | Bills, ete, and still pay exorbitant taxes on the home he does not own Sure we have to have taxes to keep our Government going, every

body realizes this, but I for one be-|

litve our présent system of taxation on homesteads is an antique Taxation should always be based on an individual's ability to pay, that is, his income. If the small home [was fully exempt from taxation and the taxes levied on the individuals | income, then the fellow who earns | fairly good wages or salary and lives in an apartment, club or hotel would pay his share of this local

government's expense, As it is, the

| property owner or buyer is carrying | this load for the fellow who should

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problems 16 meet each individual's ability to pay? » » » URGES INVESTIGATION OF MOTHERS’ AID CASES By Child Lover I am wondering if the “Mother's Aid” has investigators? If so, why aren't they on their job finding out where this money goes? In our neighborhood there are two families supported by Mothers Aid. One family has five children and the other has one girl age 13. Neither of these cases send their children to school regularly and both homes are visited regularly by men. These mothers buy cigarets for themselves and men friends and one of the mothers practically lives

in a tavern, The other ease the mother has her men friends live in the home supported by Mother's) Aid. I'm interested in the young girls in these cases. I think its | time some one got Busy on cases like these, » » »

AGREES WITH SHAW ON EVIL OF EMPIRES By Curions | | I agree with that Irish wit and | playwright, George Bernard Shaw, | who said: “The greatest good that came out of the first World Wai ‘was the destruction of the German,

| Austro-Hungarian, Russian and Turkish Empires. The greatest good | that can come out of this war is the destruction of the British Empire.” He says that and he is a subject of that government. I, a citizen of the United States of America, second that motion bes cause I have a great fear that Great Britain, a monarchy, who ealls herself a democracy and ig not, will eventually use every effort, both above and beneath board, to suck us into this war, Germany can not suek us into nt and will be (00 weak to attack us after it Is over even if she does win. We must stay out!

New Books at the Library |

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N “How They Make a Movie” (Crowell) Ray Hoadley has [traced the life history of a film

{from its birth as an idea to its end

carefully. The players, from lead[ing actors to minep characters, must (be chosen, Costumes are designed land fitted, “Props,” sometimes rare

At last the actual filming is be-

way. as what may soon happen in the Mediterranean | I doubt if even Hitler knows yet which course he will | take. | A seeund conjecture grows out of the first, If the | European war points West, it points toward us. That is a principal point in sincere interventionist reasoning. But if it shoots off toward the Southeast, a new map of Rumania and the Balkans, a partial dismemperment of the British and French empires, coupled with possible Allied air and naval disaster—-will those who think we can best protect our home by mixing in abroad, still say the Allies are fighting our war?

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Business

By John T. Flynn

Frank Plan for Risk-Taking Finance Company Needs Thorough Study

EW YORK, May 3—Chairman Frank of the Securities & Exchange Commission came out recently for a form of finance company which would specialize in what are called risk-taking investments.’ He is on solid ground in this, But it is importa petore any sort of action is taken on such a sug gestion, that there be no confusion about what i3 meant. When Chairman Frank talks about risk capital he it thinking of something which derives its virtue not merely from being risky but from certain other factors as well, New enterprises must be started, and this inescapably means risks, All new enterprises cannot succeed. AM cannot succeed to the same degree, Many will fail, Therefore whoever puts his money ito a new enterprise accepts the possibility of losing it. But a man may take riaks without putiing his money into a new enterprise. He can go into the stock marke! and buy stoek in an old company. He may do = in the hope that the shares will rize to a big profit, He may make a big profit. But also he may loge his money. Now when we sy risk-bearing capital is essential to keeping the capitalist system going, we mean risk bearing capital invested in new enterprises or new expansion of old enterprises, Risk taking on oldline stocks, whether it be good or bad, is not essential to the support and continuance of the economis

| system,

This will give us a clue to the thing Chairman Frank is talking about, To many people who have money to invest the first object is complete safety. Such people can invest in government bonds or the very prime bonds of the best corporations, The re-

| turn will be small but the safety will be maximum,

Can't Have It Both Ways

Then there are people who want safety but also want larger returns, They are willing to accept a slight diminution of the safety element in order to

The goal this year is far greater than it has ever been, [the income, the fellow who is get so that from its ashes the silver]

may be recovered and sold and used gun! Scenes are not “shot” in the

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. acclaim of American citizens weary of the scandals of pay-

but the leaders of the drive are confident that the donors will contribute enough to put the campaign over the top. The entire community wishes the Jewish Welfare Fund the suecess it deserves,

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WHO'S NOT AFRAID T0 VOTE? |

EP. DEMPSEY'S petition to bring the Hatch Rill out onto the floor for a roll-call vote is being filed this after noon in the House of Representatives, Every member of Congress who it willing to do the public's business in public should sign this discharge

petition. | | 8 they look around the world, do vou suppose it EVR Docurs to our statesmen that a few more |

The Judiciary Committee hag made a farce of the

legislative process—and It has done so in a skulking way, |

hy secret ballot in secret session. Some members of the committee are still showing bad faith. The announced vote by which the Hatch Bill was tabled was 14 to 10. Yet in yesponse to questions of newspaper reporters, 13 members have said they voted against the tabling motion—and only four have admitted voting for it. You can draw any one of several conclusions That only 10 out of 13 Congressmen have told the truth to the press; Or that the tellers miscounted those slips of paper dropped into Judge Sumners’ hat; or that some of the members didn’t know how they voted. None of these conclusions reflects credit on the Judiciary Committee. Here is a bill which was passed by the Senate after serious and exhaustive debate, and with the overwhelming

voll politics, vote-herding, and two-per-cent shakedowns. Ry every rule of rational legislative procedure, this bill "je entitled to go to the floor of the House and be voted up or down by a record roll-call, The discharge petition requires 218 signatures. The names of the signers will be published daily in this news. paper. That list will be, as Rep. Dempsey has called it, a “voll of honor.” For the Congressmen who sign the petition thereby demonstrate that they are not afraid to east an

taining “off the record” than he is on, it ought to be royal fun. : . . Talking about off-the-record fun. one political leader was laughingly telling recently | about the last election. . . . “We got out and hauled | om to the polls,” he chuckled, “but when we sounted the votes later we found we'd been haniing about 25 per cent of the other party's voters!™ . . And while theyre guessing about what the Indianapolis census figure is going to be (they run anywhere from "2. 000 to 455000) were going to toss in our guess . . TUS 414752. . . . Theres nothing like being specific.

'A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

women might be a help in their business? | The feminine touch is evident elsewhere. There it hardly a concern of any size that doesn't employ | women to keep its official machinery running smooth Iv. And Washington itself is congested with pettic coats, But with all this excess of femininity, do we really have much of a say-so about political policies? Not unless you count the letters to Congressmen, For 1940 sees the same old gush spouting. Keep Wom poss Sehind hy throne! As a cons see an hh the high intelligence of Mrs. Roosevelt pussyfooting around issues, being pleasingly diplomatic lest she overstep her bounds—but as fer actually assuming any power in formulating policies, national or international, Heaven forbid! Such, at least, is her own apd the general opinion, and I'd like to Riow why. women are an important part of this country. Our grandmothers, quite as bravely as our tly. he I — Ray Taxes; we vote: we own 8% cent of fits th; we most of its goods; we bear on its hutute A Ry y Doesn't all this entitle us to half the responsibil In running it? If it doesnt, it should. ny The world today would be a thousand times better off if more women in the past had been allowed to manage and regulate its affairs. And tomorrow's world is going to be more of a mess than it need be because men have assumed full control for creating it. In those parts where things are at their worst, they b have hogged all authority, and the mischief they have done and are doing is immeasurable. The old “How Wonderful you are!” line is fetehing In some terrible results. The time is here for us 10 adopt & new one. “Youre wonderful, Papa, but I'm almost as good,” would provide flattery for the insatiable masculine ego. Public opinion that frowns upon women of the United States holding half its major political offices

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open vote on the Hatch Bill %

is a stupid , I think, a dangerous evidence of Preputiced Unhiing.

[ting older and whose income is de |ereasing would benefit as he should, | whereby the young who are making the larger wages or salary would as sume the larger part of the taxes Under the present system if a {man lived to be 100 years old he would still have to pay property {taxes and in all probability have no Income whatever, Why cant we

: (have some representatives of the [people see this and revise our tax ang sets are built, accurately and “movies,

Side Glances—By Galbraith

again, (sequence in which they are seen | In the production of a screen play on the screen, The finished rolls the actual filming is only a detail.|of film are sent to the editor, who Before its start there have been | decides which scenes are best and weeks, months, and sometimes even | fits the sound track to the film and years of work and preparation. puts all together to form a com[First comes the dream, the idea, pleted whole, And at last the piewhich is worked into a seript by ture is released to be shown in from skilled writers and approved by 2000 to 12,000, theaters, producers and directors, Scenery Resides discussing the making of Mr. Hoadley includes a © (chapter on the making of animated [cartoons and also one on newsreels, | Written in non-technical language

and illustrated at every point by

explanatory photographs, this book [furnishes a clear picture of the (problems and processes peculiar to the movie industry,

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A PLEA TO OLD GLORY By SUE FREEMAN CHAPMAN

Old Glory, stay home; We would not have you roam, From ay dear old land of the ree,

the sea. Pleage, Old Glory, stay home,

Your stripes, so bright, stand for Justice and right, With stars in your heaven ef blue, Wherever you may go you'd be followed we know, By brave men loyal and true, So please, Old Glory, stay home,

Old Glory we plead, unless in dire need

You stay on our own native shore; Long may you wave o'er homes of the brave, And our land be at peace ever

more, We beg you, Old Glory, stay home,

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DAILY THOUGHT

The meek shall eat and be sat. fsfied; they shall praise the Lord that seek him: your heart shall live for ever.—Psalms 22:26,

SELFISH MEN MAY possess the earth; it is the meek-only who in-

“Do you knew you're spending an

ever since

+ Dudiey said you had a perfect dental arch?"

herit it from the Heavenly Father, free from all defilements and per-

hour a day in front of that mirror piexities of unrighteousness.—Wwoolman

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To that war torn country across

get a better return, Such people will invest in good common stocks. But they need advice. They must buy at the right time, select the soundest stocks, know when to get rid of them, Such people stand in need of institutions like investment trusts, wisely and honeftly managed. Then there are people who are willing to ad- | venture their capital in risks. They are willing to | put their money either into highly speculative stocks | or into some new enterprise in the hope that it will | grow and make them rich. There ought to be in- | 8titutions which will supply this service, affording a | means of making intelligent speculative investmonts after adequate examination and expert investigation, But sue institutions should never be operated under the guise of investment trusts, No one should. | be under any misapprehension as to their true character, No one should be deceived inta pulting | money into them under the belief that they are gets ing “big profits” and “safety.” You cannot get hoth,

Watching Your Health

By Jane Stafford

Bu SHORTAGE of vegetables and other vitamin- + A containing foods has given rise to malnutrition problems, especially among children,” states a current American Red Cross report on Finnish relief problems, Finnish children have undoubtedly been on short rations as a result of the war with Russia, The fact that they are already showing, in only four months of short rations, the results of a deficiency of vitamin containing foods should serve as a tragic reminder to all of us of the importance of eating vitamin-contain-ing foods every day if possible, Vitamin C, for example, the vitamin that prevents sourvy, is not stored in the body. It must be eaten every day to insure an adequate amount of good health, This is the vitamin in oranges and other citrus fruits, tomatoes, raw cabbage and other fresh, uncooked fruits and vetetables, Signs of vitamin C deficiency may appear fairly quickly if foods containing it are left out of the diet. Signs of other vitamin deficiences may develop more slowly, after a longer period of eating a deficient diet, Many persons eat a sufficiently varied diet to get some vitamins, enough to keep them from developing acute fliness from vitamin lack, The modern idea about health and nutrition, however, is that health is not mere absence of sickness and that many who are not sick would be much healthier if they ate more of the vitamin containing foods. These foods are fresh vegetables and fruits, fresh meat, milk, butter, eggs and whole grain cereals and bread, Familiss with quite limited food budgets can manage t@supply themselves adequately with foods if

the housewife exercises her ingenuity and shops wisely,

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