Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 June 1940 — Page 8

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Give Liyht and ‘the Penple Will Find Their Own Way

SATURDAY, JUNE 8, 1940

TROUBLED DAYS AHEAD

(CERTAIN happenings i in Washington, i in the gt few days ¢ | might well contribute to public “uneasiness at, this crucial time. There is, first of all, the drive of Administration leaders to persuade Congress to finish its business and get out of town in two weeks. - The proposed deadline is June 22. It is pointed out that the Republican National Convention will open at Philadelphia two days thereafter. That might justify a recess, but not adjournment. : The men who operate the Government executive’s branch doubtless feel that they could cope more skillfully . with the emergencies that arise if unhindered by the conflicting counsel and restraints of the legislative branch. And maybe they could. But that is not the democratic, representative process under which our Government is ‘supposed to function. In more comfortable days the Presidént would have earned a laugh by his press-conference remark that Congress could serve no purpose by staying in session except to make speeches. But laughs have been coming hard in the last few weeks, and the future hardly offers a jocular countenance. Even with Congress in Washington, the executive branch has been putting some policies into effect without legislative concurrence. | n ” ” - | The surprise arrangement by which Army and Navy planes were made available to the Allies, for instance, was accomplished by dusting off an old law permitting the Government to turn planes back to the factory as a sort of down-payment on new models. The factory then, also acting legally, resells the planes to the Allies. Maybe that was the wise thing to do. The only point made here is that it was done without the knowledge or consent of Congress—and while Congress was in session. Moreover, it was done at a time when Congress, after several days’ urging, had failed to give its sanction to the Pepper resolution authorizing the Government to make direct sales of weapons to the Allies. One can’t help won- - dering what things might be done with Congress gone home. In the weeks and months ahead the Government will have to make some difficult and vital decisions, and make ~ them in the swirl of unpredictable events. The public will be more confident in those decisions if it knows they represent the composite judgment of all Government officials who are responsible to the people. The President and its subordinates in the executive branch are not the only ones the people hire by the year.

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HAIL TO THE CHIEF

A GREAT many flattering things will be said tonight at the dinner honoring F. O. Belzer for his 25 years of Boy Scout work in Indianapolis. But we suspect that no tribute can appraise in full measure all that he has accomplished among the boys of this city during the last quarter of a century. The man they call “Chief” picked for himself a unique career. At a time when almost every young man was setting his cap for wealth and position, F. O. Belzer was renouncing all hope of material gain. He elected a life far harder, far more trying than any business or industry. He chose to devote his life to boys. And it is probably true that his reward has been a far richer one than many another of his contemporaries. For ‘Chief Belzer can look around tonight and exchange understanding smiles with his own boys—the present leaders of a great and thriving community.

SOME NEWS IS GOOD

HE last few days have brought announcements from two great. American industries—Standard Oil of New Jersey and the B. F. Goodrich Co.—that they are ready to go into production of synthetic rubber. Both products are made from petroleum. now able to turn out from 500 te 1000 tires a week with its “Ameripol” displacing from 50 to 100 per cent of natural

rubber. Standard Oil's “butyl,” officials say, can meet the

country’s major rubber needs if it becomes necessary. There is also the du Pont’s “neophrene,” of which the basic raw materials are coal, limestone and salt. American industrial chemists, apparently, have at least matched, and perhaps beaten, the achievements of chemists in Germany and Russia. And the cost of synthetic rubbers though higher now than that of natural rubber, may be expected to decrease as production increases. ~ This country now uses more than half of all the natural rubber consumed in the world. “Without rubber, or a satisfactory substitute, life as we know it could not go on. Transportation and industry would be crippled. For natural |. rubber we are dependent on the East Indies, from which we get 90 per cent of our present supply. We hope that nothing will cut off that source—but the risk is too great to be ignored. : ° So, everything possible should be done to encourage large-scale production of the synthetics and also to foster a revival of natural rubber culture in the American tropics, to the end that the United States may never be deprived of adequate supplies of a material indispensable in peace or war.

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ET political considerations be what they may, it should be promptly pointed out that the appointment of Samuel D. Jackson as Attorney-General of Indiana is without any doubt a completely meritorious one. For Sam Jackson is one of the ranking laSeic of this state. If all political appointments met this same degree of fitness there would be few arguments indeed.

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By, Westbrook Pegler

Green Muffs Chance to Aid Labor By Taking Side of Crooked Leaders In Address at Movie Union Parley

were spoken to the rank and file of the American Federation of Labor than William Green's remarks at the Louisville reunion of the union of the Stagehands and Movie Employees. In that speech Green curled up and quit before the challenge of a few, contemptible crintingls in: this and other

unions. | The national president of a labor movement, which

is numerically the largest and should be the most effective in the world, gave notice to the rahk and file that the central body defaults its duty to protect them from the most defiant exploitation by crooks arising in their own ranks and by the most vicious rodents of the underworld of mobs, prostitution and rackets. Time was when the federation was a strong; respectable power in American life, but that time has gone. By Green’s admission the great federation which endured thropgh physical strife and poverty

honesty in their unions.

” I believably foul condition of this racket I was so amazed by my discoveries that at first I did not trust my own Aid Careful as I had been, I re-checked and cross-checked lest publication do injustice to the reputation | f .the union or some of the criminals themselves.’ I will admit, also, that I expected Green to snarl back, as a good union man would, but thought he would busy himself at once with the decent men of force remaining in the leadership to fumigate the temple of labor. It didn’t occur to me that the president of the A. F. of Lz would take the side of the crook against the rank and file by attacking the revelations themselves as anti-labor propaganda. But then| must have known all along the character of the criminals in question. It developed that he had subscribed the | prestige of the office intrusted to him to a petition for a Presidential pardon for George Scalise, a criminal and lifelong associate of gangsters who had muscled into control of a big union at the .head of a jail-bird mob and was robbing thousands of weary, ill- -paid rank-and-filers, women as well as mens 1

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T= Stage Hands and Movie Sidi park is one of the very bad unions in the A. F. of L., but not necessarily the worst. The Building Service Union of Scalise is just as bad, notwithstanding a recent fake reform—and it will be noted that Thomas E. Dewey, not Green, frightened the crooks into that pretense. The Bartenders’ Union may be sanitary in spots, but the reek of the bad spots outscores any decengy that may be in it. The poor, ignorant, strong-back slaves of the common laborers’ union are robbed by remorseless gorillas in disgraceful betrayal of the mission of the A. F. of L.

Inside Indianapolis Thomas D. Sheerin, Social Worker,

Businessman and No. | Tennis Fan

ROFILE of the week: Thomas D. Sheerin, who is probably the town’s No. 1 tennis fan. The head of the Thomas D. Sheerin Co. (investments and securities) plays tennis from eary summer to late fall on his own court at the Sheerin home up on Central Ave. He plays with his friends every Sunday morning in what Tom Sheerin calls “The Sheerin Tennis Club.” | But the! truth is that the games are known more for their wit than their skill and the matches are sensational only for the bon mots which pass back and forth across the net. In the winter months, Mr. Sheerin turns his athletic proclivities to handball and he keeps himself always in trim. Tom Sheerin is generally regarded as one of the city's real leaders in business, civic and social welfare activities. [He has been deeply interested in welfare work all his life and is a former president of the Community Fund. Mr. Sheerin is now just about 55; of average height and build. He wears silverrimmed eyeglasses which he wipes frequently— very frequently. He bears a striking resemblance to his friend, George L. Denny, and the two are often taken for leach other by persons who do not know them well,

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THE SHEERIN HOME is noted as .one of the most gracious and hospitable in town. Its conversation is always sparkling over thick, rare steaks, which is precisely the way Mr. Sheerin likes his beef. Mr. Sheerin smokes cigarettes, but he does not like to smoke at the dinner table and his friends follow his, example when they dine with him. One of his hobbies is words and he loves to trap his cronies into an argument over definitions. He knows his| dictionary so well that few of them can boast of ever having conquered him in such a debate. Tom Sheerin dislikes automobile travel so much that on some occasions when he and his family have gone vacationing, he has seen them off and then has met them at the destination after he has gotten off a train. He loves the mountains and likes to ride horseback. His favorite vacation spot is a e West. ho 8 nn ONE OF THE THINGS for which Tom Sheerin is most appreciated is a weekly business bulletin he publishes land which is sent to his customers and friends. In it Mr. Sheerin analyzes the business outlook, §lips in some rare humor and handles genie sarcasm like a master. Tom Sheerin is a well-read man and his conversation reflects it. He uses literary passages and quotations in just the right spots. He speaks clearly and steadily and he is a convincing talker. He has a grand sense of humor and he laughs whole-heartedly at stories on himself as well as on others. Mr. Sheerin was born here and went to school right here, except for college. He is a Purdue man. He went to work as a telephone engineer and then joined the Street Railway Co. as purchasing agent. He later becanfe affiliated with several banks and founded his own firm in 1917, . Tom Sheerin still has a soft spot for the old days when he was a youngster. As a matter of

fact, he still lives in the home which belonged

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A Woman’ S Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

“GoHooLs OUT!” With the happy shout from millions of young lips, Mr. and Mrs. America hear the call to domestic battle. The task of keeping youngsters from 5 to 18 busy, happy, and therefore out of mischief, is no easy one. It offers a ‘major challenge to adult ingenuity and wisdom. Holiday time has begun for Teacher, which means that Father and Mother must now take over. How many are reatly or equipped for that job? Yet if we aren't willing to" do our share three months of the year, we ican be almost sure that Young America will lose a good deal of valuable discipline and learning which it has taken the teachers nine months to im-

is: wast Summer plans for every family with children certainly| ought to incllide CO-0pera multitude of problems arise Junior and the car? How can r her drugstore dates be handled? ‘Will it be possible to keep 9-year-old Bill out of mischief through long. lazy afternoons? Many | well- 40s4d men and women get around these problems by shipping their children off to camp. But a good many other parents can't afford the expense of these junior dude ranches. The question of finance looms big in the majority of homes and, even if it did not, the opinion grows that maybe American parents ought to give more time to their children. Money spent to evade such responsibilities

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EW YORK, June 8.—No more dismal words ever.

is unable to guarantee its members even common |.

WILL admit now that when I exposed the un- |

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part. In this manner much of our educational money '

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LALALBURY

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‘The Hoosier Forum

1 wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

FAVORS MORE HELP FOR NEEDY OLD-AGED By Bryan Logsdon, Freetown As I have been reading about the expenditures of large sums. of money for various purposes and giving out white shirt jobs to de-

serving politicians, now what about the poor old soul who dies without means of a decent burial and is put away very cheaply by our officials which is now being dane in my county? I favor giving all people -a decent burial and putting * their bodies where they desire to be put and do it at public expense. I as a taxpayer don’t object to this. I also believe that County -Welfareboards should be compelled to pay old-age needy people a pension without signing of their last mite to so-called experts in order to get very slight assistance. I know an old lady nearly 81 years of age, very feeble and nearly blind, and never has drawn but $13 per month which we all know is not right, and others drawing more than this old lady and the Brown County Board so far has taken no further action but should be compelled by law to do so.

s ” FEARS CONSUMER WILL BE NEGLECTED By R. G. L., East Chicago

Tonight’s paper carries an item that “experts and Cabinet form a National Defense Council.” Each member pictured is to represent a field of interest. E. R. Stettinius is indeed a name to be conjured with in the steel industry, nor can William ' S. Knudsen be challenged as an authority in industrial production. = Sidney Hillman of Amalgamated Clothing Workers has a right to represent labor and so has Ralph Budd of the Burlington Railroad the right to speak for transportation. But Chester C. Davis, a member of the Federal Reserve Board is not a name connected with agriculture, so phat faith farmers can have in Mr. Davis to represent them adequately on farm products is a rather. moot question. Leon Hen-

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derson is generally regarded as a competent’ economist- and would probably be satisfactory as stabilizer of raw material prices. However both Henderson and Davis seem to have been Administrationites slipped into the Defense Council to keep it from being ‘too civilian.’ The ‘appointment I really question, however, is that of Miss Harriet Elliott, dean of women at the "University of North Carolina, as consumer representative. Miss Elliott may be a wonderful woman, but why couldn't a consumer authority such as Dexter Masters of Consumers Union, Persia Campbell of National Consumers League, or Frederick Schlink of Consumers Research have been appointed?

tional background may be well known among educators, but so far as consumer interests are concerned, she is unknown. In view of what we don’t know about her and her competence to speak on consumer matters, it seems extremely doubtful that the consumer is going to get much of a break from the Defense Council. 2 2 8

BLAMES FIFTH COLUMN ON LABOR OPPRESSION

By Mr. B. Frank While the Republicans are whispering the false contention of a dictatorship, if Roosevelt is re-elected, a Gary editor now writes that the U. Ssshould declare immediate war on Germany to prevent an invasion by a dictatorship. This country will never be ruled by a dictator, but I do think that capital enterprise should have a dictator over it to prevent labor oppression. I am employed by a mill here

Side Glances—By Galbraith

"Confi dentially, Tom, you old. walrus, we're going ta: send you . the, bilbfor. our new. gymnasium,

Miss Elliott, with a purely educa-|

£} |Greenland perhaps, J | vernacular, ‘with apologies to La ' | Post, get going and. on the general

which did not pay me last week all that I really earned. I drew a check for $13.88 when it should have been at least $15.75 or more. I did not complain, for I knew the attitude of the mill, as it has often been voiced through my department head, “If you don’t like it, you can quit.” During this writing there is. in

progress an investigation of & Fifth |.

Column activity in this country. The general question is: How did this influence ever gain a foothold in this country? The answer ‘is: “The attitude between capital and labor. Capital enterprise in this country has never been interested in paying a decent wage rate, one which would help to create spending and the proper circulation of money. I was a Republican up until and including the year 1932, but after I saw the difference that the change made I knew immediately from the change of conditions which party wasefor the people. I changed. o ” ” WANTS ALL HELP GIVEN ALLIES NOW By 8. F. Martin

We sent one and a half million men to France to put down another devil incarnate. "Our boys laid down /their lives freely to make this a better world for the future generations to live in. Is this generation too cowardly to help save that which those brave boys laid down their lives for? After they put down that other bloodthirsty tyrant our President went to France and helped write the Versailles ‘Treaty. He also helped partition Europe. He came back, got both Houses of Congress to ratify that which he helped to create, so we are just as duty bound to defend that which he helped to create as France and England is. Are we going to act the coward and let them stand the sledge hammer blows of those savage Huns by themselves? If we do not help stop them now we will have it to do single-handed later on. 8 ” 2 FINDS WAR ETIQUETTE A THING OF THE PAST By Liberiy

A declaration of war is no longer considered good form—ask

{Emily Post—so if we can spare

and fly. 1000 planes to Europe to turn ‘the tide of war, it would appear to the ordinary observer not only the correct thing to .do but in line with the Post edicts, the only thing to do not to say the least expensive in the long run. Fly them to'England and try to pick up some oil on the way, but ‘in the

setup in this country as well.,

PYGMALION By WILLIAM H, CHITWOOD

: Pygmalion, old legends state,

Once carved an image out of stone -

4 Portraying womanhood as. great

As any beauty. ever known. His aL for it became so. strong That Aphrodite gave it. life, : And then they say it wasn’t long Before he took “it” for his wife.

A pretty tale of love and. ‘youth! : Sons Jeet must have dreamed it S But, if you wish to know the’ truth, This. story should have been reversed, .

For, who is fool ‘enough to fall

In love with outward grace alone, Is apt to find, beneath it all, CA mistress merely made of stone.

DAILY THOUGHT

For wrath. killeth: the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.—J % 5: 3

_ ANGER: BEGINS in folly and| to in repentence.

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Military Drill Urged for All Young , Men, As Well As for the CCC, for Their Own’ and the Nation's Good INNEAPOLIS, June 8—It is timid nonsense to

propose, by law, “noncombatant” military training for the CCC. boys. What is noncombatant mili-

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‘tary service? It is a contradiction in terms—like talk-

ing about a two-legged quadruped or a grerbizded pair ‘of shears. A man may, as has been suggested, serve in the Army as cook, a truck driver or an oxy-acetylene welder and many such will be needed. But he is a soldier just the same and is ‘not recognized, at inter-

national or military law, as a noncombatant.

This column has long opposed drafting cco boys as such by any device. They are poor. Whatever form of military service we adopt must demand absolutely equal sacrifice regardless of wealth or poverty, race or religion, color or politics. But giving military training is not requiring military service. In times lke these it is a great boon to any boy who may later be called upon, under our democratic form of selective drafting, to do military service. ”n n 8 tie 3 N the first place, it may save his life or limbs. ‘If is: the “half-baked” recruit” who is slaughtered like sheep and who, as Kipling sang, “wonders because he is frequent deceased, ere ’e’s fit for to serve as a soldier.” In the second place, if oup bungling, blundering foreign and defense policies do get us into this bloody mess, the boy who has had sound military training before conscription starts will have a very | great advantage over his fellows in advancement, pay and comforts. My only boy has had about all the military instruc tion the Army gives to men his age and if I had another son who had none, I would consider the best thing I could do for him would be to see to it that he got an intensive course in military training. It is true that modern war requires specialists in almost every branch of human effort—but basic mili tary training is necessary in addition to any_special. civilian skill a boy may have. Gen, Marshall is reported to have said that the Army prefers to give these boys only ‘“noncombatant”’ training because it is” “inconvenient” to give combatant training in CCC camps. I hesitate to disagree with the Chief of Staff because we are fortunate to have in him at this hour oné of the best of the world’s professional soldiers, It is even hard for me to believe that he said that, because it is wrong to the point of absurdity. # 8 = UT Gen. Marshall is an official of this Administra«’ tion—and utterly loyal. The whole of Administration policy on defense has been politically timid and never frank. Training now is multiple insurance against: harm and danger, to the boy himself, to men later drafted raw from the streets that he may have to lead and train and, above all, to the nation which, if war comes, will find its very existence depending upon the degree of skill, strength and toughness of the men in armed. forces, CCC boys thus trained will be’ subject to cons seriptioh to exactly the same extent and to no greater degree than any ‘other young men of their age and condition as to health and dependency of others upon . them. Let’s not hobble ourselves with any such none sensical legal restrictions. ;

Business By John T. Flynn Differing Objectives on Defense

Tend to Confuse American People

EW YORK, June 8—Most of the confusion about the national defense program arises out of the wholly different objectives which: the various advocates of national defense have. .

One group believes that America may be im- :

perijed when this war is over through attacks upon’ this hemisphere by the totalitarian powers. | It Wishes * to prepare for that emergency should it -gome. ~ Another group believes that this is inevitable - that the best defense is offense and that we should - therefore act quickly to go to the aid of England ° and France in Europe with everything we have. This latter group is divided into two schools—those who: want to help with everything we have short of war® and those who want to help now by sending milie | tary aid to whatever extent we can. There are. many who “say frankly and honestly: “Is it not better. to fight the dictators in Europe rather than wait until they come here and have to fight them on our own soil? 3 You can argue this point with a man like that - ‘who discloses frankly. what he wants when he des mands that the country arm. He wants the kind of armament which enables us to send ships, planes, . guns to Europe, not as a merchant but as an ally’ of France and England. Many of those who urge . this do so out of a generous sympathy with England -

‘and France who, they say, are the victims of a

ruthless aggressor. But it is difficult to argue with the man whe yells for national defense, talks about the danger of invasion, sees planes swarming over our country from Greenland and Brazil and the West Indies, but, while talking that, is actually thinking about raising armaments to send to England and France,

Invasion or Aggression?

If we are planning to send naval and air and ‘munition aid to the Empire-allies, then we Pave to proceed along one course. If we are planning to pro=~ - tect ourselves in this hemisphere from a German invasion we have to follow a quite different course, : The American people are in sypmathy with the > Allies in this war, but they are more than 90 per cent : opposed to getting into the war.in any way. Those who are trying. to lead the country’ inte:

this war know that. They dare not come out and

advocate ‘joining this war and building armaments for it. But behind the screen of protecting ‘this continent they are attempting by war alarms and

terrors to hurry the people into a swift, panicky‘proe

gram of preparation which will be preparation’ not: - for what the peqgple think, but for something quite, different—something that they profoundly oppose. The question then arises—are the people “being honestly dealt with or are they being played upon? - Are they being subtly drawn Jane upon a course - which they oppose and is this Being done by ‘men ° who they now confidently believe are trying to keep them out of war instead of leading them into war? These leaders are piling up a terrible responsi= bility for themselves before the bar of history when the whole truth is seen. :

Watching Your Health

By Jane Stafford

rIDELY approved method for reviving’ a pérsoni “whose breathing has stopped, for example, in: drowning accidents, is the prone Pressure methed of artificial respiration. To do this, lay the patient on his belly ‘with ‘one arm extended directly overhead, the other bent at the ‘elbow’ with his- head resting on his forearm. The face should be turned out so the nose and mouth are free for breathing and the tongue must be pulled forward and kept there soit does not block the afr passages. » Kneel straddling the patient with the palms. ot your hands on the small of his back. Your little . fingers should just touch the lowest ribs, with thumbs and fingers in natural position and the’ finger. tps , just out: of sight around his body. ; With your arms held straight, y wire forward slows ly so that the whole weight of your body is gradually brought to bear on. the patient. Do not bend your elbows. At the end of the forward swing your shoulder should be over the heel of your hand. This forward swing, which should take about two seconds, forces the air out of the patient's lungs. Next immediately swing back, releasing the pres= sure. This allows the air to fill the patient's hie : again, After two seconds swing forward again. double swing should be repeated about 12 to 16 a : a minute. ; > While this artifical respiration is being given. dn assistant should loosen any tight clothing and-see to keeping the Jeter warm. Nothing, however, Interrupt. the regular forward and back & swings.

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