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TUBESDAY, MAY 14, 1940
LETS LOOK TO OUR ARMS— T may be mere coincidence that the first proposal for a full-dress inquiry into our national defenses is sponsored by Senator Lodge of Massachusetts, who may be young enough to fight if there is a next time.
Fair Enough
By Westbrook Pegler
He Presumes "Stink Bombings" by | Rival Groups Will Be a Feature of | Movie Unions’ Louisville Parley
EW YORK, May 14 —Great excitement prevails in the Stage Hands’ and Movie Employees’ Union as the day approaches for the opening of the union's international convention in Louisville. Although that date, June 3, is still some time away, the stink-bomb teams representing Chicago, New York, St. Louis and Southern California are in a high state of competitive Zeal as they face the blue-ribbon or championship test for the John P. Nick trophy, one of the largest baubles in the realm of labor racketeering. The John P. Nick trophy is an artistic work of ex= traordinary merit and graphic symbolism. It depicts an American mother and two little children lying in the aisle of a moving picture theater overcome by the fumes of a stink-bomb in the ventilating system and trampled in the ensuing panic, the group upheld by a huge, golden gorilla. It was named for John P. Nick of St. Louis, who was kicked out of the leadership of Projectors’ Local 143 ot that city by a court order and indicted on two
It surely is no coincidence that among those who have rallied quickly to the idea were two Senators—Tydings of | Maryviand and Clark of Missouri—who served overseas and | who know what happens to men who take the field inade- | quately trained and poorly equipped. | Senator Lodge is on the right track. This country is | more ready than ever before to spend whatever is required | for defense, but it needs to find out why, no matter how many billions are turned over to the admirals and generals, | we seem forever unprepared; why, each time a new war | front develops, our military authorities seem surprised by | new methods and implements of war, We must learn— Why, though for years our national defense plan has | called for putting an army of 400,000 into immediate action, we are now said to have modern equipment for only 75,000 | men. Why, though air power has gained in importance for | a quarter-century, this greatest industrial nation is still | short of trained pilots and mechanics, of latest-type planes and anti-aircraft guns. Why our Navy turns out topheavy destroyers, and cruisers that roll unduly—and if the new battleships will have proper armor.
Whether all that is necessary is being done to protect | ing the Nick trophy, and one member of the New
the Caribbean approaches to the Panama Canal.
Why, after years of warnings that a war might dry up |
the supply of essential raw materials like rubber and tin, we still go along with a few weeks’ carryover of stuff that would be more precious in an emergency than all the gold buried at Ft. Knox. What immediate steps should be taken to bring our defenses up to scratch. The problem is too pressing, too vital, to permit working at cross-purposes. The need is for energetic co-opera-tion by legislative, executive and industrial leaders. There ig, you can bet your life, no pulling and hauling under Hitler,
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—AND TO OUR CREDIT HE President this week will send Congress a rush order for more defense monev—maybe a half-billion dollars,
on top of the two billions already asked—in the face of a |
public debt crowding the 45-billion legal limit and with the thoughts of Congress turned to home and the hustings. At this session's start Mr. Roosevelt asked Congress to levy $460,000,000 in special defense taxes. The lawmakers simply shirked that disagreeable duty. Instead,
while talking loudly about economies, each time a pressure |
group put on the heat they voted larger sums than the budget specified.
How far they have gone down that vote-buying path |
was shown yesterday when the House passed, by 247 to 31, a hil to pension the dependent widows, orphans and parents of World War veterans—not veterans who were disabled in service, their dependents being already provided for, but veterans who came out of the war sound and whole, For more than a decade we have been using borrowed money to pay for past wars, to prepare for future ones and to run the Government. Is this generation so flabby that it is unwilling to pay its own upkeep? Congress, apparently, thinks so. We do not. Rather than go home and brag about the money it spent, Congress had better stay in Washington and attend to the common defense and the general welfare-—which includes levying taxes to pay at least some of the unpaid bills.
LETS NOT FORGET THE HATCH BILL
I the House Judiciary Committee fails to take action on
the Hatch Bill today, the only logical conclusion will be that the enemies of the bill, inside the committee, are under taking to sabotage the measure by delay. They know they can’t defeat the bill by arguments on its merits.
members if the legislation gets to the floor. think they can serve the state political machines which fat-
ten on Federal tax funds by keeping the bill bottled up in |
committee. One way for the majority in Congress to make sure that legislative processes will not thus be thwarted is to gigh Rep. Dempsey’s discharge petition. There were 138 names on the petition at the beginning of today’s session, one of the latest to sign being William H. Larrabee of the 11th District. Five other Indiana Congressmen (Ludlow,
Johngon, Grant, Landis and Gillie) have added to their
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INDIANA'S ROLE IN ART )R the fourth consecutive year, a student from the John Herron Art School of Indianapolis hag won the coveted Prix de Rome Fellowship, calling for two years of study and travel and valued at about $3000 a year. Only the Yale University Art School has won this prize as many times as the Indianapolis institution, This year's winner ig 27-year-old Loven Fisher. Coupled with the announcement of this famous award is another that Harry Davig Jr, the 1938 winner, has just been awarded a third year of study and travel, an honor given only those who do exceptional work, And to add to this is the announcement that another Herron student, Frank Engle, is one of six finalists in the competition for the Parig Chaloner Prize, which last also was awarded another Indianapolis student. The Herron Art School's record in prize competition is more than an impressive one. It is striking evidence that Indiana has become one of this country’s greatest art
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| proved the sound effect of the movie industry, they |
They know that overwhelming public senti- | ment for its passage will be reflected by the votes of House | But they may |
charges of extortion, but acquitted on one charge after three mistrials, through a famous directed verdict which culminated in the Post-Dispatch contempt case. ” = 2
R. NICK received his original appointment from George Browne, the international president, who also personally selected Willie Bioff, the old pander, as one of his personal representatives, ang Nick Circella, a Chicago stickup man and Capone gangster, as another. Thus, it will be seen, Mr. Nick is an illustrious | figure and an inspiration to the minor leaders who will attend the reunion. The art of stink-bombing has been developed to a | high degree in recent years, but no group has more | reason to He proud of its progress in the specialty | than the gorillas of stage hands and movie employees’ group. As the technicians of Hollywood have im=-
have matched them, stride for stride, or smell for smell, with new chemicals, the most notable being a secret formula known as buzzard’s breath, invented in Chicago, which is expected to make a strong bid for the championship in the Louisville tournament. = ” ”
HE New York stink-bomb team has been working a recipe based on an old stench formerly used in the dry-cleaning racket, but greatly improved. and | known as the Knickerbocker reek, and the Southern | | California team promises some powerful competition | | with a liquid called cheval mort.
The team may ex- | aggerate slightly, but all the entrants in the stink- | bomb competition claim that after one treatment it is | hecessary not merely to renovate a theater but to tear it down. . | Still, all entrants profess to be confident of win-
York team expressed the optimism of his group in the | words, “We will stink them bums out of town.” The competition for the Tommy Maloy memorial | late president of the Chicago branch of the mob. was | demised abruptly by a shotgun or blast furnace in 1935, and his memory is revered because he was one | of the most successful gorillas in the union's history and remains a model. The Tommy Maloy memorial blast furnace is a solid gold, 12-gauge sawed-off fur- | nace capable of shooting a heavy charge of bolts, bed- | springs and used motor parts, and is highly coveted | for business purposes.
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Ins Messrs. Willkie and Hannagan; And Some Other Political Fodder.
HAT with Mr. Wendell Willkie, the eminent farmer from Elwood parts, arriving tomorrow, | you might be interested in the report we just picked up that Mr. Willkie's supporters have just hired | another Hoosier who has been getting around | places. Its strictly a political report and so you'll | have to take it that way, but they say that My.
| Steve Hannagan, the Lafayette boy who is now one
| of the nation’s top publicists, is going to handle the | Willkie publicity. We cant hold out any hope for you that the political front is going to be any more quiet after Mr | Willkie leaves us, because theres the little matter |of the Democratic and Republican State Conven- | tions coming up.
| dip is that Mr. Hillis of Kokomo has the inside rail xm the Republican governorship race, and that Mr. Peters of Ft. Wayne is top man on the Democratic side. Next in order on the G. O. P. side Jenner in the No. 2 spot and Judge Emmert, riding | three and not weakening. On the Democratic side, | Lieut. Governor Sehricker is called the No. 2 man | with Mayor Sullivan a very distantly dark No. 3. Were sorry, but thats the best we can do for | you at the moment. * & & | INDIANAPOLIS FOLK may protest that theyre | not superstitious, but wed like to know why every= | one has been skirting wide of the painters’ lads | ders on the Washington St. side of the Claypool. |. «+ Its back again, people, that chain letter busi= ness. « Only this time, theyre doing it with dollar-bills and not dimes and promising $1024 | to the chaps whose names get on top. . . . Who's got a dollar just after tax time? + The No. 1 | Sunday attraction in Indianapolis is still Muniei= | pal Airport. « There must | 20,000 cars in and out on Sunday. . « « What would | happen if we had a 200?
4. ££ 4 SOMEBODY PICKED THE wrong time to go to work on a N. Meridian St. stoplight today. . . The
8 o'clock rush of south-bound traffic was backed ap |
for blocks by the Gamewell truck. . . © Tsk, tsk. . . . They * finally figured out the cost per ballot in the primary at V1 cents a ballot. . . That's not counts ing the wear and tear on nerves, either. . . . The | story about the possibility of putting in machines for
| . The chances are mighty slim because the ma« | chines cost money and nobody seems (0 have much of that. . . . Except for incompetent help.
‘A Woman's Viewpoint ‘By Mrs. Walter Ferguson
| NEW high in foolishness is reached in current | ! arguments about which suffers more from war, | i
the man of the woman. As if the question could | ever be settled, or as if settling it would make a big | iene in the sum total of human happinéss! We had better use our brains figuring out some y to save both from the results of their folly, which now seems limitless,
chief sufferers because they make the wars, and surely no one will want to debate that point with me. But the pity is that women love men and so. however stupid their enterprises may be, we cone tinue to help with them since most of us think it is | better to be witless than disloyal. A few encouraging facts do bod up now and then, however, which point to new and perhaps significant trends. One is that we live in a time when women and children are included in official lists of war sufferers, and whsh woman-power as well as man-power is counted among national assets, Of course the historians have not got around to ene larging upon these items in their books, but signs are reassuring—they will soon-<they'll have to, | For war has grown to such deadly proportions it is now a feminine as well as a masculine enterprise | In any country that wages it. Before we became so | highly civilized and invented such marvelous weapons
| for killing each other, war was regarded as a purely | Like business, it was earried on | without women's meddling. The wives and mothers |
male occupation,
cheered and wept and their sacrifices were grates fully accepted, but their chief duty was to act as excuses for the fighting. They were precious value ables the men went soldiering to protect. Remember? Now we're singing a different tune, It's interesting to see .the blandishments and threats used to excite feminine interest in the various martial projects
Right now, for your private information, the gos- |
is Mr. |
have been at least |
the next primary is the customary primary followup, | despotism.
If universal justice prevailed, men would be the |
TUESDAY, MAY 14, 1940
E INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
The Hoosier Forum
{I wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.— Voltaire.
DOWN ‘SUCKER ST. | By W. Seott Tayler |
“In Europe they name a street af-| ter you and then chase you down | it” says Bugs Baer. In America, it's different—the name of our street is | Sucker Street and we chase our-| | selves down it. Extending from Loan | Street in Suckerdom to the Mora=| | torium in Martyrdom, it's our pri=| | vate, exclusive, one-way, straight[away speedway. | Being downhill all the way, all we have to do is shove off in ow Model T. jaloppy for a triple=somer= fault ski=jump was the four steam rollers at the bottom arranged by the dead-end Kids from Tokio, Moscow, Rome and Berlin. It will be loaded down as before with cheering erusaders whose emo- | tions can't be restrained, who fear nothing but the taxes necessary to repair the jalopy, who hate nothing but a government that spends its money at home, and sing nothing
blast furnace also will be hotly contested. Mr. Maloy, |
TELLS OF MERRY CHASE income tax. How much less would that plan have yielded than the former? This year’s plan, still carrying its $200 “joker” phrase, exempts incomes of less than $3000. | How much would this plan yield— [$5 monthly, or $10, or what? Per haps when the answer is known, and compared with the Social Security outlook, we shall be able to prove that persons who are crossing party lines to support Townsend advocates are selling their birthrights, as it were, for a mess of pottage!
(Times readers are invited to express their in these columns, religious cons troversies excluded. Make your letiers short, so all can have a chance. Letters must be signed, but names will be withheld on request.)
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SEES TOWNSEND PLAN REJECTED AT POLLS
By Claude Braddick . & 2 I fail to find any evidence that TWINKS PIONEER LEADERS
the Townsend Plan issue has ma- MANAGED THINGS BETTER
terially affected any Congressional BY & Pioneer Offspring race. On the whole, the recent pri-| 1 am wondering if our great leadmary Was an amazing show of ©r's of the past were to return to
weakness on the part of Townsend Our midst today if their reaction supporters. It is extremely un- would not be one of utter disgust likely, now, that the new Townsend, With their offsprings’ feeble attempts or “Joker,” bill will be brought to a to give to all of the people a homebut "God Save the King. vote in Congress, or that Townsend=|jang for pursuit of life, liberty and ism will be a major issue in the
deondll coming campaign. All of which is happiness,
FROM AMERICANISM | I have called the new Townsend perpetual quibbling and patting of ‘measure a “joker” bill because of hacks by business leaders and razz. Evidently from the squeal of the We vas, hii? WT for | VE. the Oiner fellow, . “ "a3 C AS Foworas r ecl,| They Ww th reat y Tories the “com-moo-nists” shot| gion occurs in it. The original Veen gM yy jo into the “bushwackers’ brush” hit plan provided that the proceeds of wealthy) and move their activities the mark. |a 2 per cent transactions tax be out to the midst of the problems Its rather amusing to see the distributed equally among all per- and quit (as some so-called business Tories fall back on the stupid Sons age 60 or over, "up to and not leaders say) hog washing and get method of naming everybody a exceeding $200 monthly.” The tax back to the only solution to our Communist who sees the fraud in Should have yielded, under present problems, namely, work! capitalism's bourgeouis democracy | conditions, about $60 a month, | In other words, roll up your sleeves, disguised as the “American system.”| Last years plan, defeated in the forget politics, make jobs and your No one need be loyal to capitalism | House, was based upon a 2 per cent. troubles and ours are over,
to be a loyal American, Progress=| sives are loyal Americans, too. They are loyal to the ideal the “ragamuffing” of *76 and other characters of social spiritual strength had n= tended this country to be. Exploitation of the people by the social and economic parasites of capitalism is not that ideal. These parasites are completely bankrupt in social spirit and serve only their selfish lust for power over others.
By R. Spranger
ks at the Library
New Boo
HE Overseas Press Club is an)items of the past, the information organization of American jour-|is so different from the accepted nalists and correspondents who have facts Hint the result is history In (seen long service abroad. At their Sh DE nstarice. is Peggy Hull's Yes, dear worker, you take in meetings (whenever a few of them account of Villa's raid on Columbus, washings but the capitalist Who pappen to be on U. 8. soil) they N. M, in 1916 in “Twenty Died at |does nothing to earn it takes the swap yarns, tell “off the record Dawn” and Carol Weld's inside in- | benefit and graciously hands you stories” and discuss the news be-| formation on the abdication of Edthe dirty water for your share. hind the news. jward VIII in “King Bites Dog.” As long as one person's means of | Twenty of them have contributed George Viereck's “Behind the learning a living is owned by an< each his favorite tale to the book|House=Wilson Break” reveals for the ‘other, as long as there is one un- “Inside Story” (Prentice-Hall) edit-| first time what brought to an end [employed and in want of the nee- ed by Robert Spiers Benjamin, Here one of the strangest friendships in |essities of life, we are not free but indeed are stories that will make history and helped to doom the slaves of an economic system of the reader sit up and take notice, peace hopes of Europe, [for though many deal with news, “Stalin's Counter Revolution” by | Eugene Lyons goes far in explaining why Hitler and Stalin have been able to fraternize recently, and the Communist menace in Mexico is vividly described by Thomas Curtin [in “Sickles and Hammers for Latin | America.” H., V, Kaltenborn's story [of his experiences as a “neutral” radio commentator; Cornelius Vanderbilt’s tale of gambling sharks; and an hilarious account of Ford's Peace Ship by Burnet Hershey are other inside stories, These and other stories take the reader to Asia, Africa, Europe, and back home. They move from the | past to predictions for the future. They provide the reader with much that is fascinating, Some are more; they are startling.
FROM THE SKY By MAUD COURTNEY WADDELL | From the figment of man's mind Skilled hands have built a great design— Made wings to drone high in the sky.
Side Glances—By Galbraith
The glory of achievement won, Holds a power the world may shun Earthly hate now rides the sky.
Those who first designed the plane Scarcely visioned as its aim— World destruction from the sky.
DAILY THOUGHT
And they shall fight against thee; but they shall not prevail against thee; for I am with thee, saith the Lord, to deliver thee — Jeremiah 1:19,
AMID ALL THE WAR AND contest and variety of human opinion, you will find one consenting conviction in every land, that there is one God, the King and Father of
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Gen. Johnson Says—
President Assured of Full Support on National Defense But He Should Speak Clearly and Less Belligerently
EW YORK, May 14.—A digest of those “thousands of telegrams” drawn by the President's Pan-American speech on Hitler's latest blitzkrieg world be valuable. Ninety per cent of them were reported by Secretary Early to approve and the other 10 per cent to be from “peace-at-any-pricers.” An analysis would be valuable because I can't seg how you can approve a speech when you don’t know what it means. I have discussed this speech with
several informed people. They don’t know what it means—and I don't, From its condemnation of treacherous brutality of Hitler the approval should have been 100 per cent and also for its plea for Pan-American unity in defense. This unity the President called “Our solution.” But then he said: “Is this solution—our solution—permanent or safe if it is solved for us alone? . I think not!” What does that mean? It may seem a slight phrase to be quibbling about, but no utterance by a President of the United States on our future course in a world at war is a “slight” phrase. This one wasn't intended to be slight. .
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T was coupled with an assertion that too many of us have been deceived by the “false teaching of geography” into impacts of attacks on civilization elsewhere, I don’t know what that means but it sounds like “our frontier is in France.” The statement identifying airplane timetables with the pace of conquering armies or from the point of view of conquest is utterly misleading—almost as misleading as it would be to say that the speed of a race horse compares with that of a telegram, An airplane can go from Africa to South’ America in a few hours, But an army can’t, It can't go at all if our Navy and air force are efficient and afloat and not chasing boogeymen in the East Pacific.
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T creates an occasion to repeat the quotations from Lloyd George's speech that upset Chamberlain, “The nation is ready as long as its leadership is right, as long as you say clearly what you are aiming at, as long as you give confidence to them that their leaders are doing their best for them.” The President does the deliberate reverse of “sayeing clearly what he is aiming at.” His carefully guarded exterior seems to be full to the bursting point with some Kind of interior content he doesn’t often reveal but every time a new pressure comes, a little of it squirts out—like “frontiers in France” and “quarantine the aggressors.” The whole country is behind him at any cost or effort to prepare this country for defense of this continent, It is 90 per cent against any attempt at “defending” America by attacking in Europe or Asia—with either men, money or materials. It would be a political—as well as naval and military--catastrophe. . If Mr. Roosevelt would talk less belligerently and prepare more effectively we would be far safer from dangers he so sensationally parades.
Business By John T. Flynn
Tugwell Solves 3d Term Enigma; Holds Professional President Needed
EW YORK, May 14.—Rexford Guy Tugwell has come forward and supplied the final, crowning, clinching reason for giving Mr. Roosevelt a third term —and by the same token, a fourth, It seems, Mr. Tugwell tells us in the New Re-' public, that what the country needs is a professional President. The big business interests and other sinister persons who want to keep the Government weak, for their own purposes, have hit upon a way to do this. They can keep the Government weak by keeping “amateurs” in the White House. Of course, if we have to have professionals, we will run into some difficulty. Where, for instance, can we look for a professional President? Usually the man in the White House is one of only a few that are available, At present we have only two professionals in the country—Roosevelt and Hoover, There are seldom more than that. On that basis the problem of the two conventions this summer will be simple. The Democrats will name their professional--Roosevelt. The Republicans will name their professional-—Hoover. Mr. Tugwell may be right about the opposition to the third term being cooked up by sinister interests. Yet it somehow doesn't seem plausible. Washington refused a third term, though he seemed to have no hide-bound objection to it in case of emergency. Tha real inventor of the idea, as a principle, was that sinister big businessman, Thomas Jefferson. And, somehow, the darned thing has held on to its vitality ever since. However, it has been tried in other places. Mexico had a professional President once, It took a revolu= tion to get him out, And I think we may assume that it will always take a revolution—or a serious threat of one—to get rid of these professionals.
South America’s Experience
South America has been a wonderful training ground for professional Presidents, If you have professional Presidents you will have to make some pro= vision for retiring them at 70. In South America, to be sure, they have solved the retirement problem by shooting them or chasing them over the border. If Mr. Roosevelt is made President again on the ground that he is a professional and we can't trust an amateur during a war, his third term will take him up to the age of 63. By that time we will be in the throes of the postwar adjustments and obviously we will not dare trust the rearrangement of the world to a mere amateur President, Moreover Roosevelt will be even more of a professional. So the obvious thing to do will be to elect him for a fourth term. After that, he will be absolutely indispensable, since he will have a wealth of experience no other man has ever had. And at the end of his fourth term he will be just 67. Another term will take him neatly and nicely past the retirement age of 70. But by that time Mr. Hoover will be nearly 80. There will not be an eligible professional left. So we will have to go back on an amateur basis.
Watching Your Health
By Jane Stafford
NE very important part of the housewife's job in protecting her family's health has to do with the care of the family's food supply. It is not enough to plan and cook nutritionally correct meals. She
‘must also see to it that the food is kept clean and
otherwise properly cared for so that it comes to the table uncontaminated by germs. This means, of course, scrupulous cleanliness of dishes, eating utensils, cooking pans, kitchens, pantries, refrigerators, and towels and dish cloths, A good sign that such things are clean is the absence or visible dirt or bits of food, absence of odors and {freedom from grease, Spoons, forks or other implements should he used as much as possible in preparing foods, and hands should touch the food as little as possible, Before starting to prepare a meal or to cook even a single dish, the cook should wash her hands with hot water and soap and clean her fingernails, The spoon or fork used to taste food should be washed thoroughly before it is used again, or germs from the taster's mouth will be carried back into the food. If germs such as those of typhoid fever, influenza or even the common cold get into food, or onto plates and eating utensils, people eating the food or using such plates or utensils may get sick. Food poisoning,. which used to be called ptomaine poisoning, is also’ due to germs, generally the very common staphylococel. Even if the cook is perfectly well, she is likely, as is everyone else, to have some of these germs on her hands. Besides trying to keep these germs out of the food by keeping it very clean, she must not let the food stand. for any length of time. in a warm room which provides. the tempera favorable for growth of these germs,