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Give Light ana the People Will Fina Ther Own Way

WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 1940

BELIEVE IT OR NOT

“WNJOW my friends 1 have an additional statement to make on behalf of the President of the United States, “I and other close friends of the President have long known that he has no wish to be a candidate again, “We know, too, that in no way whatsoever has he exerted any influence in the selection of delegates or sought the opinions of delegates to this convention. “Tonight at the 'specific request and authorization of the President 1 am making this simple fact clear to the convention, “The President has never had and has not today a desire or purpose to continue as President, to be a candidate for that office, or to be nominated by the convention for that office. “He wishes in all earnestness and sincerity to make it clear that all of the delegates to this convention are free to vote for any candidate. “That is the message I bear to you from the President of the United States by authority of his word.” Senator Alben Barkley, Chicago, July 16, 1940.

HOOVER ISN'T RUNNING SOMEBODY seems to have been keeping a secret from the orators at Chicago. Attacking Herbert Hoover is easy, and safe, and when

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Fair Enough

By Westbrook Pegler

Former Bodyguard of Jim Colisime, Vice Lord, One of 'Distinguished' Hosts to Democratic Delegates

HICAGO, July 17—Of the many distinguished Chicagoans who served today as hosts to the party of humanity in a scene of unimaginable political and civic squalor, it seems conservative to state that none contributed a more robust individual smell to the genersl stench than Mr, Mike Carrozzo, | a noted leader of the American federation of Labor and a man of great power in the Chicago City Hall. Mr, Carrozzo is an old-time habitue of that historic acre of vice which existed for many years in the

done with the lung power of a Senator Barkley is still ealcu- | lated to bring forth some Democratic boos—a least the first 10 or 12 times. | 3ut it sheds remarkably little light on the issues of 1940-—because Hoover isn't running.

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south side district around 22d St. and which in its day was known as the levee or the line,

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

| Who Called This a ‘Windy City?’ ut

He was a bodyguard of the late Jim Colisimo, the

| immigrant who introduced chain-store methods to the

brothel industry in the United States, and in later | years he became an intimate of Al Capone and the | latter-day gorillas whose influence on the morals and | government of the second city is still predominant. n n ”n R. CARROZZO is now a prominent local statesman a prominent leader in the American Federation | of Labor, with the approval of William Green, and a | country gentleman with his own herds of blooded dairy | stock and swine and a stable of steeds which race under his colors in Saratoga and Miami when the criminal scum are there. He was once indicted for a murder of a comrade in the labor racket, but beat the rap as. indeed, he beat the gun-rap, wherein fit was shown that he was an honorary or nominal member of the fish and game department, on his way to inspect a theoretical mess of fish at hypothetical risk of his life. Mayor Edward Kelly has this in common with his | fellow humanitarian-—that he once was subjected to | the harassment of an indictment by forces which doubtless were opposed to his humane works. State indictments are trivial botherations in the politics of Chicago and Illinois, however, so, like Mr. Carrozzo. the Mayor easily beat the rap. The state's attorney withdrew the case. Mr, Carrozzo at present is under indictment again this time in connection with Thurman Arnold's attempt to break up collusion between crooked contractors, crooked politicians and labor racketeers in the paving industry in Chicago. Moreover, his affluence, as indicated by his relatively recent acquisition

tweaked the interest of the Internal Revenue Department, the more so because his economic rise coincided roughly with a great and sudden increase in the cost of paving at the expense of the American people through the WPA, on

R THAR oddly, Mr, Carrozzo did not become a citizen until July 6, 1937, after 31 years in the

country, most of them spent in rackets. Before that

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| although he was undisputed ruler over thousands of American toilers who were and still are compelled to gpgsg OMEN IN EXIT

SIGN AT CONVENTION

pay him $2 a month, plus $10 a year, for the right to work, whether or not there is work available for them, |

( his citizenship proceedings lagged

HE delegate’s lot indeed is not a happy one—in view of | the ring-in-the-nose nature of his assignment at | Chicago.

Citizen Carrozzo's devotion to the Democratic | Party is not to be measured by his formal contributions to the organization as such. He is a man of many good but quiet works in the organization, but

| his devotion to the party of humanity overcame his

But that doesn't mean that others who are working | in the vinevard are lying down on the job of spreading joy | around the Windy City. For example, credit Oliver A. Quayle Jr. with ingenuity, thoughtfulness and the open-hearted instinct. Quayle! is treasurer of the Democratic National Committee. Read this, appearing as a sort of foreword to the book of tickets | presented to those who rate the press gallery: “There are many Democrats from all over the country, | here in Chicago, who will be unable to obtain a book of | tickets. If you would be willing to give several such per- | sons from your state, a couple of tickets from your book, | for the sessions that you do not attend, instead of keeping | this book in your pocket, vou will help make possible the admission of a large number of good Democrats, who other- | wise could not be admitted—and at the same time vou will | be helping the national committee by assuring well attended | sessions at all times. “If we can assist vou in carrying out this plan, just | send such tickets by messenger in an envelope addressed to me at the National Committee Headquarters, Fourth Floor, Stevens Hotel, at least an hour before the opening of the | session. extended the privilege, with your compliments. “Your co-operation with this suggestion will make many a good Democrat happy indeed.” Which means that when the cut-and-dried show is so dull that even the reporters won't attend, nevertheless the sessions are packed with journalists-for-a-day and many a heart is made glad at having seen a national convention whose strings, 'tis true, are being pulled from far, far away, but whose bands are on the job and whose flags are waving.

“DEFENDERS” OF THE FLAG IGHT prisoners, working outside the county jail at Pottsville, Pa., overheard what they considered an unpatriotic remark by a man passing by. One of the prisoners demanded that the man salute the American flag on the court house staff. He, being a member of a religious sect which believes saluting the flag to be sinful image-worship, refused. The eight prisoners dragged him into the court house basement, beat him and daubed him with paint. Mobs of free citizens, here and there in the country, have been committing such outrages in the name of patriotism. But here was a mob of jailbirds—law-breakers being supported at public expense for the protection of society— undertaking to enforce their ideas of patriotism on & man

who, however misguided, violated no law by refusing to |

salute the flag. This, surely, must be almost the ultimate example of

how the flag and the ideals it represents can be desecrated by its “defenders.”

SHAKESPEARE SAID IT

HE scholarly Baltimore Evening Sun dusts off Shakespeare’s “Henry VI” for this timely and prophetic passage: ; Gloucester: Is Paris lost? Is Rouen yielded up? .., . Exeter: How were they lost? what treachery was used? Messenger : : No treachery, but want of men and money; Among the soldiers, this is muttered— That here you maintain several factions, And whilst a field should be despatch’d and fought, You are disputing of your generals. One would have ling’ring wars, with little cost: Another would fly swift, but wanteth wings: A third man thinks, without expense at all, By guileful fair words peace may be obtain’d. “Awake, awake, English mobility!

I will see to it that some deserving Democrat is |

modesty in 1936, when he was reported to the United States Congress as one of those humanitarians who | contributed £250 for a Democratic campaign book, | Not much given to reading. Mr, Carrozza, neverthe- | less, thought he positively ought to have a book.

Inside Indianapolis

Cheap Money, 'Cowboy' Dienhart And How Grief Came to the Pieman ORROWED any money lately?

ably paid something like 6 per cent maybe 12 or 18 per cent, depending on where you

If so, you probinterest—

| got it.

That's where the City of Indianapolis has it on you. The City just has borrowed $970,000 at an interest rate of only $.0035—only slightly more than a third of 1 per cent A hanker we know explains it thusly The banks have a lot of idle money in their vaults, money thev're afraid to risk in investments until the war situation blows over. The City of Indianapolis has ace-high credit. City securities are tax exempt Thus, when the City needs money for a short term, the banks can afford to loan it for next to nothing. | The clerical work is no more than for $100 loan and | the risk is infinitesimal, The return in interest is al- | most wholly profit. But, when it comes to loaning small sums to individuals, the clerical expense is relatively higher per dollar, and then there's the matter of risk. Bankers can’t remember when money was worth any less in the way of interest, but it's still pretty hard to get. ”

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The Hoosier Forum

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

By A Reader

When Mr. Willkie was nominated | Republicans, Roosevelt said, on being late for a press conference, been trouble with the electric ele- | vator. “I hope that isn’t significant,” |

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OFFERS CONSOLATION TO THE EDITORS By Cynthia Mullen, Terre Haute, Ind. Have vou ever (hardly ever praise editors? They are | ready to blame them, however, for the slightest mistake nephew down Mullen Center is editor of our town and I can

My young paper side.

Last week,

was a United Pr in The Times, which was pretty rot- I ten, but after all, why editor? He's only a human being. 1 lean think of a dozen excuses. For instance, he might have been sitting at his desk, looking at the U. P. ar[ticle and thinking to himself, “Well, lof all dumb things’—when, suddenTHE HORSE STILL has its place in the City’s [ly, he hears the fire engines. operations, such as pulling garbage wagons, but one rushes to the window, of course, and horse definitely was out of place Sunday when he [who wouldn't? Well, while he's gone,

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to have got the Democratic President's picture above an Electricians hurriedly sign. If the President likes to worry | omens, he might [wasn't significant. check lup the pre-convention issue of the Hoosier Sentinel, the official DemoIt

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ruthless regime the world has ever | seen. If defense means conscripting | Fora's factories, because forsooth, he does not want to sell to nations! fighting our battles, place him in the fifth column or any other of their activities, | And let, no candidate for office imagine he ean camouflage his in- | adequacy with “keeping America tout of war” political harangues

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wandered onto the landing field at Municipal Airport. [along comes the office boy or some-| WANTS OUR DEFENSE

Superintendent I. J. (Nish) Dienhart, standing in the Airport's control tower,ssaw the animal placidly grazing near a spot where a huge airliner was due to land, at something under 100 miles an hour, within a few minutes. Mr. Dienhart wasted no time. Instead of waiting to find someone to send aiter the horse, he skipped down the stairway, dashed out on the field and personally shooed the animal back into its pasture. Then he ordered an employee to see that it stayed there ”

A PIE TRUCK pulled into a restricted parking zone the other day and the driver went into a restaurant with a load of pies. When he returned, he found a policeman affixing a sticker. Arguments and pleas both failed. “I'm sorry to do this, buddy,” the officer replied, “but they're putting the heat on me and I have to do something.”

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A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

HE science of psychology has been a disrupting influence in several ways. Besides scaring mod- | ern mothers into nervous tremors, at a time when they need all their wits to cope with growing children, it | offers excuse for wrongdoing to every shiftless and | philandering person of either sex. | Now another proof of its serewiness has been dis- | closed by educators. It seems the psychological de- | partment of Princeton University has made tests of | 500 students and publicized the results with the pro- | nouncement that men actually understand women | better than women understand men. If it came from anyone but the professors, we'd call it a base lie. Tt upsets all our pet theories and refutes every evidence of our senses. | But let's be fair. Probably the professors are] merely understating the case. They may mean to say | that men have the mental equipment to comprehend the feminine character, and could easily do so. Well and good. We accept that. However, the po.nt we've been trying to make for years is this: Men behave as if they just don't give a darn. To ignere the masculine intellect would be extremely foolish. It is superior in many ways. Nevertheless, while a handful of students in Princeton show signs of alertness on the subject, we've encountered few men outside college who thought it was worth their while to make an effort to understand women, either in or out of their own families. About the best they ever do is study them as potential consumers of the goods men have to sell. On the other hand, from time immemorial women have used all their mental and physical energies learning to cater to the tastes of men not because they were noble, but simply because they had to eat. In this respect, life is a better educator than a Princeton professor. Modern men may understand

|body, grabs the article and rushes it to wherever (rushed. Back comes the editor with a crick in his neck from having his (head out of [tries to remember what he was doing, but can't—heing absent-minded | | like all successful editors—and is as {surprised as anybody [ridiculous thing in the paper. Can't

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I think they mostly muss their hair and throw things around a bit and countless

My sympathy is all with the edi- | they letters which are showered on them by unthem sign

In the midst of it all sits the proud, sensitive edi-

until might We could send I have thought of Suppose an editor should deleave something out and has nothing to What would be more space in| NOTHING ITO SAY, WE ARE AVOIDING A WORDY REPETITION TO THAT

meant by his, but will just send it along as

A distinct understanding should gates” should snap out the defense

Thus if a swift defense requires Hitler | carrying the war to other territory tration in a panic of fear and that that is where the fighting should If defense means convoying supplies to Allies, that is the imperative | coast thing to do, and without delay. No | jitters, is about in the same fix it | half-way measures will suffice in a was in 1933. struggle with the most murderous, |

|You can only fool some of the] people some of the time, to quote the immortal Lincoln, Let us be frank with ourselves and recognize eternal vigilance is |the price of Americanism.

n ” ” [HOLDS NEGROES PARTLY RESPONSIBLE FOR CONDITIONS | By Clarence F. Lafferty | To Johnie H. Walker: As far as, rate oppression is concerned that is| ‘pretty well divided between both the 'white and the colored race. There | a are some colored people who have have got.

|poistions, and are more lestablished for the rest of their lives | | thar many of my race. Your people | are not alone in suffering, and go-| ing inh want. | However, your people are partly] [responsible for the present conditions. They have lessened the value | lof the working class jobs by working | [for less than my people and under-

securely |

this mining a better wage standard for said, "Swell. to them to follow this method every day with the northeast

[all Now, if you and your race would | play ball with the rest of us, and] to demand our| wages, we could in getting

{organize with us rights and better wield a stronger arm 'what we want, » ” » FEARS U. §. HAS BAD CASE OF WAR JITTERS IBy Fdward ¥. Maddox “We the people of

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Every bill, request for power, or

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"How about calling inwyour junior G-Men pals to me locate |

| appropriation that comes up in the | name of national defense, and they all come in that category now Aas] they used to in the name of emergency, so no Congressman can | oppose any request for fear of being | unpatriotic, everything is Deing | “yes, vessed” again. | “National aerense is necessary, but | people who are in a panic of fear alwavs g0 to extremes. . . . | It is certain that we cannot pro-| seed in an orderly and effective defense program if we have a panicky and jittery Administration in power in Washington scaring Congress and the people into a state of war hysteria. . .

SNAKES By JOSEPHINE DUKE MOTLEY Are vou afraid of snakes? | For goodness sakes, | They can't compare With bombers in the air And Hitler's fiendish stare.

A snake's as gentle as a lamb And harmless as a ham.

I used to hate them, too.

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| sorry for himself

| than seven years.

| eral budget,

far more than a lot of white people | Many of your people have | cars, political jobs, and Government |

| of this campaign—war and

Gen. Johnson Says—

Smouldering Revolt May Take the

WEDNESDAY, JULY" 17, 1940

Form of Permitting Jim Farley .

To Name F. D. R.'s Running Mate

HICAGO, July 17-There is a faint odor, very faint, and a fainter sound of a sputtering fuse in this convention, Maybe it is just an illusion, or the atrocious see-gars smoked by the delegates in the mill« ing lobbies, Maybe, if it is really a lighted fuse, there is hothing but sawdust at the end of it. But one of twn things is quite certain. First is that Mr, Roosevelt will run and be nominated in a perfect replica of a Hitler plebiscite where the only possible vote is "ja." In that case, Mr. Farley certainly will he resighing, make plain in broad light what is alreadv so plainly true in the dark undercover shadows here--namelv that the Democratic Party is no longer being run bv Democrats, but by American “National Socialists” or political nondescripts who have 'Trojan-horsed their way into the center of all party controls-—-men like Harry Hopkins and Leon Henderson That is one thing that may happen, and by far the more likely thing. But there is a second po«sibility, however remote. That is where the sputtering [use comes in, There is one chance in a thousand of revolt, ® Ww nw HE delegations and their chairmen have followed Mr. Farley to two victories, the first a difficult and dangerous one. They have learned to trust and respect him and so has the whole party. They don't know Mr. Hopkins. ‘There is something in the strange, almost hypnotic influence that he seems to exercise over Mr. Roosevelt and more in his infrequent and subterranean and subtle appearances and rising power to suggest to some the monk Rasputin and Czar Nicholas the Last, Democrats don't like to see Mr. Parley betrayed at all, but they are shocked to see him shoved over to make places at the very head of the party for strange figures of such questionable political form. This resentment coupled with the shackles on their dignity, independence and freedom of action or choice which have been riveted on all delegates by Mr. Roosevelt's stubborn silence as to his own intentions have caused smouldering fires hourly to get hotter.

” ” ” T may all pass in the Hitler fashion with Mr. Farley making a statesmanlike farewell. Or the nomination of Mr. Roosevelt may pass under the erack of the Hopkins lash and then to register thei; resentment, fhe delegates may let Mr Farley name the Vice Presi-dent—-probably Jesse Jones, regardless of the wishes of either the White House or the janissariat, ‘That, may not, happen, but that feeling has gone sn far that

[| Mr. Roosevelt can no longer step aside and name a | stooge

These are all guesses, but one thing is no Riess, Swan song or no swan song Jim Farley will be the hero and idol of this convention. : Jim will not “take a walk,” pout, shivel or feel He believes with Ruby Bob Pitz.

simmons that champion must take it as well as

| give it and he will take his standing

It will mark him as one of the most admirable figures in our political life, but it isn't. going to dn Mr. Roosevelt and his new familiar spirits from the political twilight zone the least little bit of good

Business By John T. Flynn Democrats Have Duty to Offer

Real Recovery Plan or Admit Failure

EW YORK, July 17.-—The platform-makers at A Chicago have one clear obligation before them, The party they represent, has heen in office for more During that time, with more une limited power in their hands than any party has ever had and untold billions they have been seeking some means of ending the depression, returning 11 million unemployed to work and balancing the Fede In other words, they have been experi menting with the problem of recovery. This is, therefore, not a new subject, not reasonably say we will investigate further and in due time we will of creating recovery Now, after must say either that they know recoverv or that they do not know If they know how to bring back prosperity (ha people will be justified in asking—then why have von not done so. If you know how to put 11 million people now idle back to work, why do vou not do it? It will be very hard to answer that question There are only two wavs of putting these millions back to work. One wav is to revive private capital investment The other way is to do it by increasing public spending. There is no middle ground And so we have a right to ask--how do you plan to revive private investment If vou know how to do it, why have you not done so? Why is it that private capital investment is as dead now as it was in 1932? What is it you could have done and did not do which will bring about this result? That is a fair question. And the people have a right to a very definite answer,

Alternatives Are Serious

It is, of course, obvious that the Administration has no definite plag or it would have used it. Theres fore we can expect from it only what it has been doing-—public spending of borrowed money. But if that is the plan then spending at the rate which has been used in the past will not be enough. Three or four billion dollars a year has helped a lot of people, Buf it still leaves 11 million people out of work. Therefore if the plan is to be continued publie spending then we must concede that {t must be spending on a far greater scale than in the past, These are pretty serious alternatives. This cotihe try cannot continue to spend as we have been doing. Obviously it cannot increase spending Then we must fall back upon the proposition that spending is not a method of recovery at all. Tt is a method of producing a still graver disaster in the end. And so we recur to one of the two grave issues recovery. How long tha war issue will last no one can say. But nn candidate riinning for President this year can afford to be caught next October--when the war issue may be dead—without a real plan for recovery,

Watching Your Health

By Jane Stafford

127 LING, steaming hot days bring their own diet S problem, chiefly becatise of the effect they have on the appetite. If they stimulate a desire for crisp, cold salads, fruits and vegetables, it is probably a good thing, because most of us, nutrition authorities state, would fare better if we regularly ate more of these foods, The reason, as you know, is because the fruits and vegetables are good sources of vitamins and minerals that we need for good health It is important however, to remember thal eveh in hot weather youn need other foods besides fruits and vegetables. A vegetable salad and a glass of iced tea makes a refreshing lunch, but it does not contain many calories, The fatigue at the end of a hot afternoon may he due not only to the heat but to lack of enough energy-furnishing food at lunch for the afte ernoon’'s work or other activity. : The influence of warm weather on the amount of food required is commonly exaggerated, U. 8. Publie Health Service authorities point out. weather diet restriction they suggest is on fried foods’ and rich pastries, Foods of these types, it is ex= plained, tend to incremse heat production, but keep= ing cool depends mot so much on diminishing the amount of heat produced in the body as on getting rid of the heat. Sweating 1s a mechanism for cooling the skin and getting rid of heat. In hot weather, therefore, it is desirable to promote sweating and this can be done by increasing the amount of fluid taken into the body. Fresh sources of flulds, which adds. to their desirability as

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