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Give Liykt ana the People Will Fina Their Own Way
SATURDAY, MAY 4, 1940
FOR THE HOUSE
HE bed-sheet size ballots voters will be handed next Tuesday will carry the names of 47 Republican candidates for the House of Representatives, and 32 Democratic |
. . . i that its autogiros (28 of them) had been dismantled. | candidates. That's quite a flock of candidates for voters to
comb through and to reduce to the 11 of their choice.
There appear to be quite a number of able, sincere and | intelligent persons on each ticket. We have tried to seek them out, but, if our list is somewhat ‘short of a full one, it is simply because we were unable to accumulate enough information about the doubtful] to make additional unqualified recommendations. The next legislative session will be of especial importance. Grave problems are coming to a head, especially in taxation and financing, that call for an abler delegation than Marion County has sent to the State Capitol for many vears. It is to aid in the selection of such candidates that we present the following partial lists: There are five candidates who, in our judgment, stand | out among the Democrats. They are Roberta West Nichol- | son, who has had previous legislative experience; Robert C. | Stith, a business man; Mercer M. Mance, a man of fine intellectual capacity; Robert Allison, realtor, and Maurice T. Harrell, attorney. On the Republican side, there are six whose records indicate they would make satisfactory representatives. They are Victor Jose Jr., a young attorney; J. Otto Lee, a printer ;. Emsley Johnson Jr., attorney ; Thomas E. Grinslade, realtor; Hoyt Moore, a farmer, and Mrs. Nelle B. Downey, long prominent in civic affairs. To summarize our preferences on each ticket in convenient form, they are: FOR STATE REPRESENTATIVE Democratic Republican Roberta West Nicholson Victor Jose Jr. Robert C. Stith J. Otto dee Mercer M. Mance Emsley Johnson Jr. Robert Allison Thomas E. Grinslade Maurice T. Harrell Hovt Moore Mrs. Nelle B. Downey
DIME-AN-HOUR DEFEAT | HE House of Representatives, in its inexplicable wisdom, has spent seven days approving one amendment after another to the Wage-Hour Act and then voting them all | down at one clip. The whole matter has now been returned | to the House Labor Committee for private burial without | flowers, It is too bad, in a way. Certain amendments—particu- | larly those exempting Puerto Rico and dropping the over- | time requirements for high-salaried workers—are badly | needed. But “friends of the farmer” insisted on exempting | the employers of hundreds of thousands of industrial work- | ers, mostly in farm processing industries, from the 30-cents-an-hour minimum which is the keystone of the act. So the bill, when finally “perfected,” was a fearful hodge-
podge of reasonable legislation and special-interest chisel- |
ing. The sum total was too much for the House to swallow. Wage-Hour Administrator Fleming now faces the unpleasant prospect of continuing to enforce an act which in some respects is unenforceable. But eyen that is better than surrender by Congress to the dime-an-hour bloc.
IN 1915 IT LOOKED BAD TOO
THE Allies’ situation does not look bright. In Norway, too late and too little, they marched up the hill and down again. In the Mediterranean, goaded by Mussolini's “anneutral non-belligerency,” the British have ordered their merchantmen to seek safer and slower routes outside Mussolini's “Mare Nostrum.” German diplomats seem to be holding their own in Balkan power politics. The Reich is in no danger of early starvation. been mauled, but British sea power is not daring to molest German waters or the Baltic. No wonder Mr. Chamberlain wears cn air of anxiety and fatigue. And yet—look back 25 years. At this stage in the World War—35 weeks from the start—these things had happened:
The German army had overrun Belgium, pulverizing |
its massive fortresses with hammer blows, and swept on across eastern France toward Paris, Only the mistakes
of Moltke and Kluck and the well-timed counter-attack at |
the Marne had saved the capital. England’s landing party to reinforce the Belgium defense of Antwerp had been too meager, and the fall of Antwerp doomed the other Belgium seaports. Then came the German drive through Flanders against the French coastal cities, but here England’s “contemptible little army” showed its bulldog teeth at Ypres, and the war of maneuver came to a standstill on the Western Front. In the east, meanwhile, Hindenburg and Ludendorff had smashed the Russians at Tannenberg and the Masurian
Lakes, and then joined the faltering Austrians to take Pryz- | Turkey had joined up with
emysl and invest Warsaw. Germany, tying up large Russian and British forces in the Caucasus area. A British naval force was beaten ‘off in an effort, the first of several, to force the Dardanelles. Zeppelins were already raiding England. And much more bad mews was to come—poison gas, introduced by Germany at second Ypres in 1915; Bulgaria's entry alongside Germany, followed by the conquest of Serbia and Rumania; the Irish rebellion; unrestricted U-boat warfare; Russia's collapse, and Brest-Litovsk; an endless stream of casualty lists. ; But in the end Germany lost. She may lose again, but it will be a long story in the telling.
PROBABLY ACUTE, TOO
JH EADLINE says candidate taken ill with “digestive disorder” while campaigning. Probably someone forcing him to eat his words. »
| used by the German Air Force in Norway.
| spoken about his convictions. | spoke right out against the Klan even though one of | his listeners might be a member. ,
Her midget navy has |
Slow Planes
MARK FERREL By Mai. Al Williams
Craft That Can Land and Take Off on Relatively Small Area Likely To Decide Supremacy of the Air.
this era of pressure for blinding speeds, additional evidence day by day confirms my long-held belief | that “the nation that first masters the art of flying | slowly will rule the air.” Bombers, fighters and interceptors flying between | 300 and 400 miles an hour are also landing too fast to | explore the suitability of newly-captured or emergency | airdromes, This is a job for craft that can touch | wheels to the ground at landing speeds of 25 or 35 |
miles an hour. Such an girplane is deficient in top | speed and of little fighting value, but of great value to an air force operating on a war front. In Germany, in 1938, I saw and flew such an air-
the Storch could take off with a ground run of about 50 feet and a landing roll of less than 20 feet. The German Air Force was so well sold on the Storch ”
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THE INDIANAPOLIS
Scuttled!
plane, the Storch. Fitted with wing-slots and flaps, |
HEN Gen. Ernst Udet was selecting a plane to | send to the National Air Races in 1938, I urged | him to send the Storch instead of an aerobatic ma-
chine
engineers of the Army and commercial aviation went over it thoroughly. Today, our Air Corps is buying airplanes from the Stinson and Ryan Aircraft Companies with performance comparable to that of the Storch. In the Polish campaign, the German Air Force depended upon Storch pilots to reconnoitre advanced emergency landing areas behind the Polish lines. The plane would land in a pasture or petato patch, and soon German military trucks would arrive and put
| down metal grids on which faster fighting aireraft
could land without sinking into the soft earth. » » n
TRPOWER was making its own airdromes. to meet its own tactical needs, so overcoming one of its greatest restrictions—of being compelled to use only those airdromes captured from the enemy. While there is no definite evidence that the Storch, or a type developed from this original model. is being
paign, the requirements thére for additional landing
| facilities are even more pressing than in Poland.
When the Storch performed over here, American
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| used for similar purposes in the Scandinavian cam- |
There are only six major airdromes that could be |
Two or three dozen emergency landing fields are required.
(Westbrook Pegler's regular column will appear Monday.)
Inside Indianapolis
Fred C. Gause, the Man Who Knows |
More About Elections Than Anyone ROFILE of the week: Fred C. Gause, Republican
member of the State Election Commission and | | who is conceded to know more about Indiana's election | | laws than any other one man. Fred Gause is just | 60, tall, well-built (he weighs about 185), and in his
younger days his hair was sandy blond. Now silver hairs outnumber the blond ones. : He is even-tempered, pleasant and jovial. He has high principles and a lot of courage. He is plain-
In the Klan days, he
He is an ardent radio fan (Lum and Abner are prime favorites with him) and it has almost broadened him into a short wave amateur fan. It's all because his granddaughter, Mollie Bray, 4, is one of the biggest interests in his life. Mollie's mother, Katherine, is the only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gause. The Brays live in Fresno, Cal. Son-in-law Henry Bray is a licensed radio ham.
| One night he picked up a Speedway City ham on his
short wave set and they got acquainted. Since then, the local operator made Mr. Gause's acquaintance and now Mr. Gause goes to the Speedway City ham's home almost once a week to talk with his son-in-law, daughter and Mollie via radio.
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MR. GAUSE WAS BORN IN Greens Fork, Tnd., | where his father was a physician. Later they moved to Newcastle. where Fred attended school and later went to I. U. He was admitted to the bar in 1900. | At I. U. he joined Beta Theta Pi (same as Messrs. | McNutt and Willkie), Successful as an attorney, he was elected Henry | County Circuit Court judge, serving nine years, until he was appointed to the State Supreme Court to fill a | vacancy. He served on the high bench for two years, but declined to seek re-election and went back into | practice. In 1936, he was president of the State Bar Association. He has been on the State Election Board | for a number of years. Old timers in Newcastle recall him as a precocious vouth, with a keen interest in public questions. When | he was 17, he was standing on street corners arguing | about Bryan's 16-to-1 silver plan. Even at that age | they say he had a remarkable grasp of the question | and was listened to with respect.
| » ” ” HIS WIFE HAS ALWAYS picked out his neckties because he happens to be color blind on certain hues. | He likes to drive his car on pleasure trips. He reads | quite a lot, mostly historical literature, but he also is | fond of mystery stories. He's a cigar smoker and he
| always says he started smoking as a boy—with corn |
| silk, Fred Gause has the real lawyer's love of a good | argument. He eats lunch daily with the same set | of cronies at the Columbia Club and they stage som® great debates over current events and politics. He has a store of anecdotes and one his friends | recall with relich concerns the time when he was | judge. He sent a lawyer to jail for a short term (probably | for contempt of court). | went to Gause and thanked him profusely. was puzzled. The attorney smiled. “I picked up more clients,” he said, “while I was | in there than I ever had before.” Fred Gause himself still chuckles over that one.
The judge
A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson
T'S an ill wind that blows nobody good. And so, even the war in Europe may serve to make Americans more conscious of the beauty, wealth and romance of their own country. Perhaps you've heard the story of the woman who visited in Boston. Somebody asked her where she lived. The answer was “Idaho.” A little silence fell over the group and thn a kindly faced neighbor patted her tenderly on the shoulder and said, “I'm
pronounce it Ohio.”
Easterners about the middle and western portions of the United States are as appalling as they are funny. Talk about the hicks who aren't up on their Broadway stuff! They are shining lights of learning compared to some of the bright boys and girls who have never been west of the Hudson or who, when they deo go, make sallies into the hinterland as an e visits savage tribes in order to study their habits and manners, At the moment, American attention is riveted on Europe where momentous and exciting th go on. But we've got a Presidential campaign coming up and vacation is just around time's next corner, may benefit us and Europe. We shall have to spend most of our vacation money at home this year, which ought to give business a boost, And maybe there will result a of Americanism. What a vast, marvelous country we possess and Tow Sversitieq are Ju Deopier Tp wttun PL we know so little about one another. East a st, North and South ought to get better acquainted, for each has sectional thoughts and problems. It would mark a new high in patriotism if every a vacation this summer would dedicate it of his na and his neighbors,
When the lawyer got out, he |
sure you won't take offense, my dear, but here we
The anecdote may be slightly exaggerated but its | implications are truthful. The ignorance of certain |
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SATURDAY, MAY 4, 1940
The Hoosier Forum
I wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—V oltaire.
HOLDS PUBLIC TIRED OF POLITICAL CORRUPTION By The Watchman Is politics a racket? ticians corrupt? There is a familiar argument that there are no honest politicians. The man in the street says that if an honest man is elected to office he will soon be a crook. They cite | the: fact that many candidates fer public office spend many times {more than they expect to receive in salary for campaign purposes. | They contend that these politicians expect to get their money back | through graft. | Some citizens express contempt | for all political parties saying that (they are all crooked and corrupt. | Many people are disgusted and say | they don't care to vote. And there is a reason. Politicians who violate | State and Federal laws are white- | washed, or freed, or fined about as | much as a man who parks on the | wrong side of the street. No won{der the rank and file of voters are | growing cynical. A recount vote | reveals that voters are denied a fair and just and correct count of ballots. Ts that democracy? People on relief are threatened with arrest if they get out and earn a few extra doliars to pay rent or buy clothes and do not report te their investigators. | The people are getting fed up on things like that. From what I | hear and know there is going to be {a change in the tactics of poli- | ticians or there is going to be a housecleaning. People are tired of | political corruption. They are tired | of dishonesty in public officials.
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i ” ” * | HOPES FOR DESTRUCTION | OF GREAT EMPIRES By James LL. Zerface, Lafayette
An honest confession that bubbles | from the heart of our fellowmen | often ‘does a lot of good. Person- | ally and most sincerely I do believe | that the true rights and salvation {of American democracy lie in the {complete and utter defeat of what I call | pioned by the English and French Empires. Communism and Nobility ride | hand in hana (as history will | prove) destroying all things which
Are all poli- |
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we true democratic nations do so dearly love and cherish (peace, liberty and equal rights). If perchance we have in our midst any so-called Americans so desirous of drawing this great country Nobleman’s Communistic war such as 1s raging in Europe today, let us give to them a free passport to
London, Paris or Berlin where they
can show their true colors and fighting spirit in that good oldfashioned European way. The greedy Noblemen and land
of ours into a
| DOUBTS ONE-THIRD LIVING. IN POVERTY
| By James R. Meitzler, Attica
| Those who use President Roose-
| velt's declaration that one-third of the people are |ill-housed, to . bolster
| the nation should adopt scheme of dividing up all property through common ownership and thus create a 100 per cent prosperity will have to produce more proof of failure than this exaggerated statement and more evidence of their ability to deliver the goods than mere promises of plenty. Our slum clearance commissions spent from $5000 to $7500 to house a single family, but that does not prove all whose homes cost less are ill-housed. my neighbors’ cost $5000. We could
be called ill-fed and ill-clothed by |
[| One is the war.
| will the third term tradition.
| in 193€. They haven't as yet shown that better thing.
ill-fed, ill-clothed, | their claim [that capitalism is a failure and that | their |
My house nor none of |
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European Nobleism ¢ham- |
grabbers of England and France are without a question of doubt facing their Waterloo.
the same extravagant standards.! Forty million is a lot of people. | When we look around to find every third family ragged and starving in [hovels we look in vain, The sob | sisters of socialism will have to prow [duce that tattered and famished {40 million before we believe capitalism’s percentage of success is as Latest revelation of science ow as 66 2-3. that ‘mosquitos prefer the flesh of | And more proof of communisms’ | pigs to that of humans. The smart prosperity than Russia's diet of picnicker, then, will take along an horse meat, black bread and eabextra pork sandwich, | bage soup.
> & '% OFFERS A HELPFUL HINT TO PICNICKERS
By Frank Lee
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New Books at the Library
HE many readers of Alice Tis-|so well. Under tutelage one dis- | dale Hobart’s “Oil for the covers that America and China are Lamps of China” will welcome her not so different fundamentally: newest novel, “Their Own Country” Stephen finds the tactics which he | (Bobbs-Merrill), In this sequel Mrs. | Hobart has brought Stephen and Hester Chase home from China to America and follows them through sheir trials in the American busi=ness world. The author displays a familiarity with and an understanding of America equal to the knowledge of China which she evinced in her former book. It is to her great credit that she can portray two such entirely different civilizations
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used with the workers in China to be just as useful in dealing with| American labor, In “Their Own Country” we find Stephen, dismissed by the oil com- | pany in pursuit of their policy of | retrenchment, - returning te New | York with Hester and their little | son, Tim. He discovers that it is difficult for even an experienced | and intelligent man to find a po- | sition in American cut-throat com- | petition.
Side Glances—By Galbraith
| After an unfortunate interlude | with a wholesale grocery company, [where his business ability and in|tegrity are discounted, he obtains
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lan agreeable and worthy position as manager of a Kansas enterprise. | How this capable couple weather [the financial stress of the depres|sion, all the while upholding their | |ideals, is a realistic picture of a ‘necessary adjustment familiar to us | all. Mrs. Hobart has been able to show a way out of their dilemma | through personal integrity and faith [in mankind. | She has succeeded in portraying | her characters and situations with | | simplicity and realism, and through | it all we find ourselves becoming | better and better friends with the Chases and their associates.
TO WILL ROGERS By CLARA LIGHT I'm sure Will heard the tributes That were paid to him that night, I'm sure that Will was listening in With countenance alight— “Suppose they mean me?” (His voice was gruff.) “They said Will Rogers, sure enough. I never did the things they said, mie not great—just did my stuffy, And made folks laugh when things
were . If they mean me, I'm glad to know Just how folks love me there beow.”
DAILY THOUGHT
Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that thou mayest be wise in thy latter end Prove
"What's that s
illy canary so cheerful about? Didn't | 20 bucks on the Kentucky Rerby?"
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just drop IS ONE PERSON that is
Gen. Johnson Says—
G. O. P. Chances Look Good Now, But Convention Action May Change Trend as It Did in 1936 Campaign
ASHINGTON, May 4-—Some of the most exe perienced political observers of the press, like Frank Kent and Mark Sullivan, are beginning to talk about trends and surges in popular opinion. These are slow long term cycles which they believe finally decide Presidential elections without much regard to candidates, platforms or fireside chats. For example, the downfall of the Democrats in the “great and solemn referendum” of 1920 was forecast
by the mid-term Congressional election in 1918 turns ing against the unprecedented prestige of a victorious war-time President, who was then the idol of the world. Similarly, the end of the post-war Repub= lican dynasty in 1932 was foreshadowed in the Cons gressional elections of 1930. There are several such | instances in our history and these political philoso= phers make their argument by pointing to the Republican gains in 1938 in electing governors and congressmen and almost all “by-elections” since. ” » ~
T is a good point, but it doesn't consider every thing. There was such a surge against the Democrats in the spring of 1936. Maybe it doesn’t fall within the class of slower and more mysterious change of which these gentlemen are talking. Perhaps it was just a momentary impatience. But it was very real. It was real enough to fool the harde bitten Henry Mencken into saying that the Repube licans could beat Roosevelt with a Chinaman. Democratic doldrums deepened, right up to the moment of the dumbell Republican convention. That was the turning point. Maybe the Republicans would have done better to have followed Mr, Mencken's advice and nominated a Chinaman. There was no blunder that anybody could imagine that they did not make. They didn't know whether they were progressive or reactionary-—whether they were headed right, left or center. ” EVER did a surge proceed to unsurge in so short a time or so unmistakably. The Republicans’ treasury dried up and the Democrats’ war chest overflowed. I traveled a good deal also in that campaign and the reverse of the earlier trend was equally plain, All of which may mean something or nothing. I think it means that we can’t judge about this “surge” business until we see what the Republicans put up in the way of a candidate, a platform and a campaign, Surge or no surge, I still maintain that you can't beat something with nothing, much less with nothing plus a handicap. There are new and special elements this year, If Mr. Roosevelt continues his inters ventionist trend, it will be a handicap to him and so If he reverses that trend, he can use the stale baloney of “kept us out of war,” and “don’t change horses.” He isn’t likely to reverse it. In that case, these handicaps will favor the Republicans. Bui they can’t count on that alone. They must have something far better than they had They still have to bhgat four billion dollars.
Business
By John T. Flynn
Post War Currency Adjustments Bound to Have Influence in U. S,
EW YORK, May 4—-—Two authorities talk to us about “after the war.” The Guaranty Trust Co, says we are certain to have inflation. Dr. Paul Van Zeeland, former Belgian Premier, says the United States will have to check the chaos which will follow the peace. It is a bit sad, but it is true, that there will be both inflation and chaos. At the beginning of our depression various econ= omists in this country warned that we would have inflation. That prophecy has or has not been fule filled according to the meaning attached to the word “inflation.” Men like Prof. Kemmerer thought of it in devastat« ing terms, a wild disorderly and enveloping flood of fiat money which would cripple our system. That has not come about, Others—the writer among them-—
| thought of inflation as a pumping into the system | of credit unrelated to the production of goods.
That inflation has taken place, and as a result we have supported the price structure and created a vast nas tional debt which will sooner or later seriously bedevil us. Now, however, the phophecy of inflation appears again. It is impossible to suppose that a country like
| England, with a debt proportionately 150 per cent
greater than ours, can pump another 15 billions of credit into her system without first crushing herself under the burden of debt, losing much of her gold and
| much of her foreign trade.
When the war is over England must face the al-
| ternative of either muddling along while inflation
seizes her and spins her on her head or acting with dispatch and making a drastic currency devaluation quickly effective.
| Keeping Our Eyes Open
We on our side will be gravely affected by these currency adjustments abroad. It will be of the very first importance that we have in power men who know what they are doing and cannot be swerved by
| sudden gusts of sentimental fancy.
We, too, will be called upon either to muddle along or to take the situation in hand. Under the circums stances we may be driven to make a swift and defini~ tive devaluation, to produce the effects quickly and get them over with and to limit them, rather than to let them hang on while we debate what to do until the situation gets out of hand. As for Mi. Van Zeeland’s forecast that we will he asked to check the chaos, it is beyond doubt that Europe will fix her eyes upon that vast gold hoard which we have coaxed away from her with our fantastie gold-purchasing policy. That America should refuse to help a stricken Europe is unthinkable. But the help must be intelligent, constructive and thought through, not imspulsive, jerky, spectacular. It must be done to help Europe and to help America and not to furnish a dramatic setting for the performances of some per former,
‘Watching Your Health
By Jane Stafford
F you are among the many who at this season are moving into a new home, you have doubtless been thinking of the health angles of the house or aparts ment you are selecting, Light, heat, ventilation, play space for the children and adequate sleeping quarters for all are among the factors to be considered. Some practical pointers on windows appeared in a recent U. S. Public Health Service survey, Casement windows which open outward, for example, are said to be preferable to the more common double type because the ultra-violet light can be transmitted into the room without the expense of special glass that allows the health-giving radiation of the sun to pass. From the standpoint of heating and comfort, win. dows should be placed so as to allow maximum suns light in winter and minimum in summer, This can be accomplished best by facing the windows 25 degrees west of south, For illumination, both by day and night, a minimum level of six-foot-candles for ordinary work and ten foot-candles for fine work such as reading shonld be provided, as a minmum standard, A room will be adequately lighted by day if the window area, includ ing sashes and frames, i$ equal to 17 per cent of the floor area of the room. If you have a choice, select high windows rather than broad ones because the high ones give a greater amount of illumination for the same area. The higher a window is placed in the wall the better, for the reason that light entering from below eye level is fatiguing to the eye. On the matter of night time illumination, the report states that the use of frosted bulbs without opal glass globes takes care of glare elimination all right,
wiser than anybody, and that is everybody. —Talleyrand,
although the use of the globes is desirable where possible,’