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Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way

MONDAY, MAY 6, 1940

MAJOR PRIMARY ISSUE

HIS has been a depressing primary campaign from many points of view. There was a lot of dirty campaigning, as was to be expected. There was a dearth of good candidates. And, far more important than those, there was little light thrown out on some of the most important issues at stake. We wish the oratory of this campaign had been directed more effectively, for example, to illumining all that is at stake in the fight for the Republican county chairmanship. This is not merely a struggle between the present chairman, Carl Vandivier, and an ambitious opponent. It is more significant than that. It is decency vs. the plunder boys. It is Coffinism trying to make a comeback, with James Bradford, Mr. Vandivier’s opponent, merely a figurehead for more influential forces behind the scenes. Indeed, one of the suspicious features about the Bradford movement is the fact that few know all the people behind the scenes. Mr. Vandivier has made his mistakes. He has done things that more adroit and experienced politicians. probably would have avoided. But the worst that can be charged against him is that he is honest and decent and that he came to the party's rescue when it was in such bad odor in the community that only a man of outstandingly good reputation could save it. Carl Vandivier was the man the decent elements turned to to restore the party to respectability in the community. And now that he has done the cleanup job with reasonable success, the elements that tore the party down are trying to unseat him. That, it seems to us, is one of the major issues at tomorrow’s primary. : If thoughtful Republicans donot turn out in large numbers to retain the gains they have made, they will lose far | more than they now realize in November.

TO LET THE PEOPLE KNOW [FOURTEEN members of the House Judiciary Committee have told Scripps-Howard reporters that in the secret committee ballot of last Tuesday they voted against tabling the Hatch bill. Two additional members—who did not so confide to our reporters—have told Rep. Dempsey that they also voted against tabling. One other member, known to be a stanch friend of the Hatch bill, was not present at last Tuesday’s meeting. There are only 26 members of the Judiciary Committee, so these 17 Congressmen constitute an easy majority. If they are sincere in what they have said they will demon- | strate their sincerity when the committee meets again to- | morrow, by taking the bill off the table and reporting it | to the House. Meanwhile, to make sure that the bill is brought to the floor for a roll-call vote by the whole House membership, despite all the funny business of the Judiciary Committee, other Congressmen have recourse to the discharge petition. The signatures on this petition constitute a roll of honor. The people know how President Roosevelt stands on this bill—he has repeatedly asked for its passage. They know how their Senators stand—the Senate passed the bill by a margin of better than 2 to 1. The people have a right | to know how their Congressmen stand.

» » » » S for the Indiana congressional delegation, we are glad | to report that three promptly announced they would | sign the discharge petition and are now on record. They | are Louis Ludlow (D.) of Indianapolis; Gerald W. Landis (R.), Linton, and Gedrge W. Gillie (R.), Ft. Wayne. Two others—Raymond S. Springer (R.) and Noble J. Johnson (R.)—have indicated their willingness to sign. There are several who said they were unable to make up their minds. This group included Reps. Forest A. Harness (R.), Robert A. Grant (R.) and William H. Larrabee

(D.) We urge the voters of these districts to help the latter

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Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

He Steps Into Delicate International Situation With a Word of Advice On the Tulip, Its Foibles and Fables.

EW YORK, May 6.—Our Park Department has been having a small fuss over the conduct of 900,000 tulip bulbs which were presented to th#& City of New York by the Netherlands Government, most of which have failed to tulip this spring. The Park Department ¥ays the bulbs got too hot or too cold on the way over, and the Dutch growers will have it that they were planted improperly. With the world in its present state this is no time to complicate relations between this country and The Netherlands over such a matter and this is once that your correspondent feels able to help. The fact is that tulips aren’t supposed to bloom. That is, your own tulips. Other people’s tulips, yes. Yours, no! If one of your own tulips does bloom, that is just so much gravy. Your own are always planted upside down or the moles got them or the ground was too soggy or too dry or you put them in too early or too late or the frost reached them. # = 5 HE tulip is a fairly reliable plant in the sense that you can put it in the ground and feel confident that when spring comes it will just stick up some twisted, greenish-brown leaves and then put out a stem with a little knob on the end which presently just falls over and doesn’t do a thing. The Hollanders make an industry of tulips, but not for the blooms. They sell bulbs to the Americans, and they harvest the leaves and sell them to their neighbors, the Germans. Anybody who has ever smoked a German cigar knows what the Germans use the leaves for, just as anybody who has ever smoked a French cigaret knows what the thrifty French do with their hair combings.

This isn't the first time that the relations of |

Holland with another country have been embarrassed by the tulip. There was a period a long time ago when the whole world went crazy over tulip bulbs, which became a medium of speculation that led to a crash comparable to the collapse of the Florida boom or the panic of 1929. They sold bulbs for as much as $25,000 apiece, and companies were formed to buy one bulb. A book tells of a disastrous incident in which an English sailor, sent ashore to deliver a present from his master to a Dutch merchant and, being given a herring for his trouble, casually filched from the counter an object which he took to be an onion to eat with the herring. It was half gone when the merchant discovered his loss, and I don’t just remem-

ber, but I think the ship owner lost a big lawsuit and |

the sailor got life.

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UT, even so, if the bulb had been planted, the |

odds are a hundred to one that it would have

been put in upside down or the frost or moles or |

the damp would have got it, or it would have run all to German cigar leaf. Tulips do no harm. world, but they are not in the habit of blooming

any more than a wisteria which your correspondent |

mentioned a year so ago. Tulips keep commerce going between Holland and other countries, and if you think it is wrong to sell bulbs which do not give tulips, then what would you say about color-movie films which give hundreds of feet of realistic views of the inside of a cos! mine at midnight in the dark of the moon when aimed at tropical scenes in Florida? These films also cost money, but nobody ever expects them to produce color movies, except now and again a chance shot, just as the tulip, sometimes, unexpectedly gives a tulip.

Inside Indianapolis A Few Tips About Voting Tomorrow; Just Ballot the Way You Want te.

LOT of people are always making mistakes when they get to their voting places and, sure as shoot-

ing, it will happen again tomorrow when we vote in

the Primary.

Don’t let any pompous precinct leader tell you that |

you cant have a Democratic ballot or a Republican ballot because you are “registered” as a Democrat or Republican. You are NOT registered as a partisan, You are registered as a voter. If you want to vote the Republican ballot you can even if you've voted a Democratic ballot all your life. And vice versa. Don’t let anybody try to hustle you through your ballot in the space of a minute. You have five minutes. You can take every second of it if you need it. To vote intelligently, you ought to make up your mind tonight what party ballot you want and you ought to make up your mind who you are going to vote for. Just remember that you do not have to vote for a man vou know nothing about. If it says “Vote for Four” or "Vote for Eleven” remember that you can vote for one or two or three or none at all.

# & IF YOU ARE NOT REGISTERED, you can't vote.

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If you are, you vote in your neighborhood. It is easy |

to find out where the polling place is. You can call the Election Commissioners at the Court House, or you can telephone The Times (RIley 5551). The polls will be open at 6 tomorrow morning and they'll close at 6 in the evening. If it’s inconvenient for you transportation-wise, remember that both parties have fleets of autos hauling folks to the polling places. Either party will haul you to the polls. They'll take the gamble that you wouldn't call them if you weren't intending to vote their ticket.

They have their place in the |

group make up their minds. Write or wire them—today.

THE NAVY’S SOFT SPOT ECRETARY of the Navy Edison rev:als that in his opinjon airplanes now have a ‘temporary advantage” over warships, and that changes in basic design are therefore necessary. Since the Navy has sometimes shown a tendency to pooh-pooh the effectiveness of aircraft against seacraft, this is a remarkably frank admission, and a healthy one. Presumably Mr. Edison is basing his views on eonfidential reports of recent engagements between British warships and German planes. His reaction seems to explain why the British navy has been unable to sever German sea communications with Norway through the Skagerrak.

Score one for Maj. Al Williams, the tireless champion |

of air power against sea power,

GIVE HIM A BONUS

JUST after Dr. Charles J. Wells, a candidate for Congress, had made a campaign speech at Dundalk, Md., his loudspeaker truck disappeared. Now the truck has been vecovered in New Jersey, and police there want to know what to do with its abductor. Well, if they care for our opinion, it is that any man who even temporarily removes a sound-truck from a political campaign ought to be suitably rewarded as a public benefactor.

PLENOCRACY Q IX officers of the Universal Order of Plenocrats have been indicted by a Chicago Federal Grand Jury for alleged mail fraud. The Government charges that they obtained a million dollars from people who were told that profits as great as 50% might be reaped by investing in land to be farmed under “the plan of Plenocracy,” which is deseribed as “fruitful production of crops under all conditions.”

Well, there's one crop to which “the plan of Plenocracy” |

certainly does seem to apply—the erop which, according to Mr. Barnum, ig produced at the rate of one a minute.

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INCIDENTALLY, THERE IS NOTHING econfusing about the central count. In past years, what happened was that when the polls closed at 6 p. m. the | precinct workers settled down to count the ballots. | Naturally, in a lot of places some odd shenanigans went on. Under central counting, the boxes are sealed when the polls close and theyre hauled down to Tomlinson Hall and checked in with the Election Board. Then somebody else counts the ballots in full | view of everybody. It ought to be a big improvement. But. do remember not to let anybody bulldoze you | into anything. If you are properly registered, you're | a qualified voter and you can vote anyway you please. | You're the boss. |

a » . A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson | § RouaNe about town, one comes upon many

sights to stir the heart and move the imagination.

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work is done; a fat robin and a blue jay quarreling over a crumb—scores of little dramas played by human, animal or bird actors. The world is indeed a stage for one who takes a slow saunter down any street. And how pleasant it is to go on these mild adventures! Yesterday, halt a block ahead of me walked an old man leading his tiny granddaughter by the hand. They moved into the sunset where the horizon flared red and gold, making a magnificent frame for their strangely contrasted figures. As if they loved giving shelter, the trees arched protectingly over them. It was the hour just before twilight—the very loveliest of the day.

The old man and the baby girl went slowly, hold= ing hands, talking confidentially about something important to them. Carefully he suited his footsteps to hers. They were alone in their universe—Youth and Age together, touching each other's lives at the only time such contacts can be made, when the old per= gon is resigned to his years and the young one has not yet departed from the land of infancy. The old man's feet had not far to go, I thought; they faltered a little, as if they knew somehow they were soon to find the grave. But the child's feet— | where might they not travel? | Very far, perhaps, from this quiet street.

corner then. The shadows swallowed them; their | voices were lost in the distance. Out of sight, out of mind! Just an ordinary old man and an ordinary little girl, of course, but the glimpse of them together had sweetened the day's end for me,

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An old woman gathering supper greens along | the river bank; a boy romping with his dog: men | proudly surveying their lawns after the day's office |

But | —happy thought—never so far to get away from the | influence of her grandfather's love. They turned the |

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| SUGGESTS 2 P. C. FUNDS

{HELP PAY U. S. DEBT | | By Elmer Murphy | I notice one of your correspond|ents, a Mr. William Lemon, in de(fending the Democratic Club, seems {to be under the impression that the

[Two Per Cent Club is not subject]

|to any restrictions. Let the Democrats use their Two

Per Cent surplus cash to help pay

| off a part of the National debt and J that way, give their great-grand- | children a chance to earn an honjest living and not a mortgaged life {due to silly ancestors with spend- | thrift ideas.

| 2 THINKS REP. LUDLOW MERITS ANOTHER TERM | By Albert Sahm

| At the threshold of the biennial | primary election to select nominees for offices, to be voted for in the {ensuing November election, let us

not be unmindful of the duty now|

confronting all voters of our prime obligation as ‘‘good neighbors,” i. e. to participate. In some instances owing to an avalanche of candidates for certain |offices, an intelligent choice becomes more or less arduous, while on the ‘other hand—due to reverse condi[tions the task is correspondingly |easy, especially so when among the aspirants there are those who are now serving and who have, for con[tinuous terms successfully and sat= |isfactorily served in positions they (aspire to be re-elected to.

|fice of “The Representative in Congress—for the 12th District”: Now land for years past held by Louis | Ludlow, and to which there are six aspirants — i. e. two bent) and four Republicans. Mr. Ludlow not only knows what |to do—but what is more to the |point—"he knows just how to do {it,” all as a result of years of serv= lice cheerfully rendered and in full |est, broadest sense met and measlured up to. And I think it can be said without fear of successful con= | tradiction too, that no one ever {called upon him in vain; that he lis always at the beck and call of {his constituency, and that, figura- | tively speaking—“he brings home | the bacon,” i. e. “gets results.”

“He is a servant who serves”; |

Let us take for instance—the of-|

Democrats | | (Which includes the present ineums=|

concentrated wealth, cut off pur-|

(Times readers are invited chasing power which brought on all |

to express their Ww: | these columns, religious cons troversies excluded. Make your letters short, so all can have a chance. Letters must be signed, but names will be withheld on request.)

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employment, relief, ete. The income tax was designed to

decentralize wealth back into circulation. This attempt met with stern opposition until the Government was compelled to borrow it back into circulation which meant | [just what we got—public debts. The Dr. Townsend sales tax was always on the job. . . . It Is sald|yeant to keep money in ecircula-

that “Republics are ungrateful,” tion without borrowing it and it

but T don’t think so—and confident is a good movement in that it ly look forward to his deserved caused people to think, is educa[triumphant renomination at the | tional and the biggest and loudest impending primary election, the an- ” med Bus. Tr aures ome on oo, a done good and ,ie to become pension minded that | | : never would have taken an interest | |in such problems. The rich always |did draw pension called incomes all | | the way from thousands to hundreds |OLD AS COMMERCIALISM (of thousands of dollars which al-| By L. B. Hetrick ways was and is yet collected | Some people think that the sales | through sales tax on everything tax was invented by advocates of Pousht and sold. Everybody ought |

the Dr. Townsend old age pension to know these facts, plan when in fact the sales tax] . =» PRESIDENT'S TRIP

has been in practice ever since coms= ‘mercialism was practiced as a RAISES A QUERY

‘mechanism of distribution, There BY A. B. CG. simply had to be a sales tax to pay] The President announces a na-

(taxes on TD to Jay interes? | tion-wide tour in the interests of jon money invested in business, an » to pay rent on buildings used for | CORServation. ‘Whether it's his job business and to pay profits on in= | Or the nation’s foliage that is to

vestments in business which finally! be conserved, is not quite clear,

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CLAIMS SALES TAXES AS

New Books at the Library

ITH an unfamiliar setting, a|graphical. One can hardly believe | hut on the South Cornish |it otherwise, or think that the cot-| coast, situated in a valley at the tage on which so0 much care was) ‘head of a tidal creek, and characters | lavished did not really exist. who are not just like any that we| Throughout the writing of our

kinds of bad disorder such as un-| t

{have known before, Leo Walmsley’s |novel, “Love in the Sun,” (Double= (day), achieves an amazing illusion |of realicy. It is a simple tale of a young man, transplanted, penniless land in debt, from a fishing village in | Yorkshire, of the girl he most un=

hero's three novels the reader him-| self lives vicariously in the little | house: but although that labor of love so eagerly attacked and most | necessary, for Dain and her baby | had some needs impossible to be supplied by the busy and capable)

| hands of the young father, the writ- | ling was somewhat incidental to the | other activities of the couple. There were the rehabilitation of | the house, the embellishment of the |

|eceremoniously marries, of their |ehild whom they adore, of love and

work and gaiety. Perhaps the story

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little family to live well on almost

Side Glances—By Galbraith re mo eames

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“Tom writes that he's going to flunk ecanamics, but not to warry== he's just made the university band!"

| nothing, in their little paradise. The book is dominated by the | sea, its sounds, its smells, its | largesse, by the love of a man for a | | woman, and of both for their child. | | Swimming, eruising in the boat they had miraculously acquired, long (days in the sun and evenings snug (and warm before their driftwood | fire, toiling, scheming, laughing, | loving, made up an existence which | |seems a cross between that of the | Garden of Eden and life on Robins | son Crusoe’'s Isle, What happens next is our immediate concern. The author cans not conceivably withhold another chapter!

RECOMPENSE

By ANNA E. YOUNG

Oue of every wrong will come a right Eventually=my dear: "Tis not for us to read ahead The outcome of a year.

As sure as stars gleam in the sky True as morning light brings day To each true heart comes recom-

pense For that—is God's own way.

DAILY THOUGHT

And if he smite him with an instrument of iron, so that he die, | he is a murderer: the murderer | shall surely be put to death— Numbers 35:16.

ONE MURDER maker a villain;

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| war if it is not ended some other way.

millions, a hero; numbers sanctify the crime. —Porteus,

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PNONDAY MAY 5 10 Gen. Johnson

Says—

Like the Sheriff of Nottingham, Mr. Roosevelt Makes Mistakes But Refuses to Admit Them.

ASHINGTON, May 6.—“I never yet made one mistake, I'd like to for variety's sake” so sang the Sheriff of Nottingham in De Koven's opera, “Robin Hood.” The sheriff had pulled so many boners in his feud with Robin that his errors became part of the English folklore. He made them—but he didn't admit them. Our President also makes mistakes and doesn’t admit them. Unlike the sheriff, he doesn’t just sing about them, He crams them down the throats of his critics regardless. One of his prize mistakes occurred when he sent down to Congress an executive order transferring control of civilian aviation back to the Department of Commerce. It was there formerly under the supervision of one of the worst executive flops in this Ad ministration, Assistant Secretary J. Monroe (Rowse boat) Johnson. # » » HILE it was there, it was uniformly marked by a sickening record of air disasters (many trace= able to regulatory blunders) and a stench of political and other monkey-business that shocked the country. An astonishing reversal of form occurred when, at the President's own suggestion, an independent administration was set up. Disasters and fatalities ceased. Without warning, this control was ordered back to the reeking place from whence it came. Public reaction in condemnation was swift and overwhelming, but the President had his dutch up and his jaw set. Because of the malodorous previous administration of the airways by Assistant Secretary Johnson, the boss did as he had done with Harry Hopkins when he got WPA into the stench zone. Rowboat was kicked upstairs to the Interstate Come merce Commission, * That left a place in which Mr. Hinckley, Chairs man of the Civil Aeronautics Authority could be fitted. This gentleman had every reason to stand by the pilots and the air-traveling public and oppose this shift. But the President sent for Hinckley and he came out for the change. ” ” ”

T= the Attorney-General was wheeled into line with an opinion that legally the authority could be put under the Department of Commerce and not be under it-=that it can escape the editing, super= vision and influence of its Secretary. That hair splitting legal sophistry and practical absurdity is just too raw to need comment. The President must have been very angry or he

| would not have said that this widespread opposition | of pilots and the public is spinach-—personal or po=

litical. It is neither. It is just a reasonable and justifiable apprehension for the safety and kK cone venience of travel by air and their own confidence

| in it.

The proposal will be vetoed by the Senate. The

| House is more susceptible to the White House whipe | lash. It is in momentary disgrace because of the

hocus=pocus of its Judiciary Committee on the Hatch Bill. For the sake of public confidence, let us hope hat it shows more courage on this second attempted

outrage to decency.

Business

By John T. Flynn

He Sticks to Pre-War Forecast: Nazi Economic System Will Break Down.

EW YORK, May 6A correspondent writes to ask a very proper question. “You said long be~ fore the war,” he submits, “that Germany's economie system would break down even if no war came. Now it has been submitted to the strain of war and not only has not broken down but the Germans seem to be winning the war. What about it?” 1 said a number of times that the German eco=nomic system under fascism would collapse. I also said many times that the system was kept afloat by government expenditures on war preparations and that ultimately this would break down. It was for this reason that I hoped—perhaps against hope—that no war would come, It seemed to me that the most useful demonstration of the fal lacy of the Nazi system would be a collapse from its own internal weakness. 1 believed—and still do—that the very desperateness of Germany's economy was revealed in the fact that government expenditures were focused on war preparations. Because, when things get bad enough, that is the only kind of government expenditure which will meet the minimum of resistance because it can be supported and stimulated by war scares. Now Germany is at war. I did not believe—nor did anyone, so far as I knew=that the moment war hit this already weakened economic system it would crumble. In fact, it is a well-known historical fact that when the economic system gets to its most des= perate pass the only way a dictator can prolong it--and himself with it--is to provoke war, unite the country in a sacrificial temper and force those sacrifices which people will not permit in peace.

Crackup Seems Inevitable

But as certain as we live, while the war may well prolong an economic system by making possible a continuation of fantastic borrowing and spending, in the end the system will go down under it. How long Germany can last I do not know. At the outset of the war I hazarded the guess that Germany could not possibly hold out as long as she did in the last war, I thought—=though I did not say so publicly =that a year would b2 a good guess. That, however, was based upon the prospect of an active war in whieh her resources would be used up. A war of inaction, like the present one up to recently, would of course be far less destructive. That was, also, before Russia shifted her support to Germany and Kept that frontier and that trade

en, Despite these things, I am still eonvinced that Germany's economic system must erack up, I think it will do so during the war and thus help to end the And I think that, even if the war ends before the crack-up, with the dawn of peace that crack-up will come.

Watching Your Health

By Jane Stafford

O much is heard these days about new members of the vitamin B group and about the new antibleeding vitamin K, not to mention the new use of the fertility vitamin E for treatment of certain dise eases of nerve degeneration and muscle weakness, that vitamins A, C and D seem somewhat neglected. The normal healthy person who wants to stay healthy cannot afford to forget these vitamins in planning his meals. A and D are particularly impor= tant for children, Vitamin D, you know, is the rickets preventing vitamin of cod liver oil and sunshine, That is, the action of the sun's ultraviolet light cone verts ergosterol, a chemical in the skin, to vitamin D. Since babies and children in Northern and temsperate regions do not get much ultraviolet light from the sun, they must be given cod liver oil or some other source of vitamin D to protect them against rickets with its bulging forehead, bow legs and other deformities. The amount and kind of vitamin D to give babies and children should be prescribed by the doctor, Green leafy vegetables and such yellow colored foods as carrots, butter and egg yolk are good sources of vitamin A, as is also liver. This vitamin is necessary for normal growth in children, but adults also need it to stay healthy. Lack of it leads to eye dis orders such as night blindness, Modern babies at a very young age are given a daily drink of orange juice or tomato juice to supply them with the scurvy=preventing vitamin ©, Fresh eitrus fruits and tomatoes are not the only source of this vitamin, however, It is found in many other fresh fruits and vegetables, from strawberries to cab