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SATURDAY, JULY 20, 1940

WORDS—AND ACTS

KE ARLIER this week a titanic struggle was waged in the “ Democratic National Convention's Committee on Reso- | futions. | Senator Wheeler of Montana, Senator Clark of Mis- |

souri and other members of the so-called isolationist bloc |

were battling for a platform plank that would curb what | they have regarded as the dangerously belligerent tenden- | cies of President Roosevelt. Senator Pepper of Florida, the President's loyal sup- | porter and the Senate's most vociferous advocate of “Stop | Hitler now,” was resisting their demands. Well, the isolationists were appeased by being per- | mitted to win a victory in the committee, and the platform | as reported out and adopted by the convention contained this pledge: “We will not participate in foreign wars and we will not send our army, naval or air forces to fight in foreign | lands outside of the Americas except in case of attack.” The next night Mr. Roosevelt, addressing the convention by radio to accept the third-term “draft,” outlined the foreign policy he has pursued in an effort, as he said, | to prevent war and to awaken this country to the menace of aggression. This, of course, is the identical policy which | Senator Wheeler, et al, have viewed with alarm—the one which they have feared would involve the United States in Said Mr. Roosevelt: “So long as I am President I will do all I can to insure hat foreign policy remain our foreign policy.” We do not say that Mr. Roosevelt intends to participate in foreign wars. We say only that the hours spent by the resolutions committee in wrangling over the lan- | guage of an anti-war plank were hours of shadow-boxing. The victory won by the isolationists was a victory of words. | The President has made it clear that he will continue to | oct as he thinks best.

war.

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The Chicago convention went through the motions of | adopting a platform. But, as we have said before, the real | platform of the Democratic Party is not that document. It! is Franklin D. Roosevelt, |

JIM FARLEY

“HE Democratic National Convention closed not to the swing of “Happy Days Are Here Again,” but to that melodious tune, “When Irish Eyes Are Smiling.” No greater tribute has been paid to a politician than was given freely to Jim Farley, in Chicago. The delegates |

Fair Enou

By Westbrook Pegler

Governor Jones Who Did a Real Job in Cleaning Up Louisiana An Unsung Hero at Convention.

HICAGO, July 20.—While the Democrats were mocking the spirit of democracy under the social auspices of the politico-underworld local branch of the party of humanity, a miracle-worker was surveying the proceedings with a cold and knowing eye. We had in our midst here this week Sam Houston Jones, the man who beat Huey Long's brother, Earl, for the Governorship of Louisiana and whose first legis-

lature has just repealed most of the worst of the late Huey’s ‘dictatorial laws. The notorious Louisiana highway police have been reorganized and deprived of the powers by which Huey converted them into a state O. G. P. U.

| abolished. The Governor reports that | of the gang in the legislature have surrendered, so

| that even | officers have shown a tendency to turn square.

| quickly, ana in the best of times, and in times such as these |

| out good news from down yonder. | portant basie reforms, but other reforms and retribu- |

Huey's national guard law, pushed through one of the many special sessions of the gang of menials which served as a legislature, also has been wiped off

| the books, and the state troops ‘now may be called

out only in the presence of a legitimate emergency. n n ” UEY called out the soldiers on one occasion to intimidate his political opposition at the state capitol in Baton Rouge and mounted a machine gun in front of a local hotel. Another time Huey ordered his adjutant general to proceed with a force of men to the office of the New Orleans Times-Picayune, the paper which eventually destroyed the surviving power of his crooked and ruthless dictatorship, seize the plant and install an officer as editor because he was displeased with an editorial. Huey was drunk at the time, and some of his subordinates shut him in the bathroom of his hotel quarters, doused his head in cold water and talked him out of his intention The law which permitted him to call the soldiers

| into service for the suppression of American liberties,

including their own, of course, was probably the most dangerous of all innovations, and it may be noted that at no time during Huey's reign or after did any

| of the bleeding heart New Dealers, who were so sensi-

tive about the civil liberties of the C. I. O. Communists

| in Jersey City, express any interest in the civil lib=

erties of the Louisiana people. =” ” n

NDER Governor Jones’ urging, although he had only a minority of the lower house of the legislature, about 70 of the dictatorial laws have been repealed and, of almost equal importance, 176 state commissions and boards, which Huey established to provide thousands of mock or nominal jobs for members of his gang, have been consolidated into 20 or the survivors

to speak, to a new public opinion in the state, and Huey's crooked judges and state legal

The reforms have proceeded quietly, although

Publicity must fight its way out of Louisi-

the clang of national politics and world affairs drowns They are im-

tion seem to be on the way.

Inside Indianapolis

Humorous, Kindly Chris Coleman

Is Bridge and Flower Enthusiast.

ROFILE OF THE WEEK: Christopher Bush Coleman, who is not only one of Indiana's best known

| historfans, but one of the most enthusiastic bridge | plavers in captivity.

With Edward W. Harris, Lee Burns, Herbert Foltz and Frank B. McKibbin, Mr. Coleman has been playing duplicate bridge almost every Saturday night for the last 135 vears. And aithough “Chris” Coleman

| takes his bridge seriously, he is not quite so avid that

he doesn't get a big kick out of it. Now in his 60's, Mr. Coleman is nearly 6 feet tall,

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES Mrs. O'Leary's Cow

|the United States? If the two persons named above ides to in the last two months as will confine their remarks to this he made his daily trips to Indian-| racy is laughable. The British arissubject, let them take any position |apolis from his home in Anderson. |

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~The Hoosier Forum

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

OGLE TERMS CRITICS’ ‘REMARKS IRRELEVANT

| By Kenneth Ogle

(Times readers are invited to express their in these columns, religious con troversies excluded. Make your letters short, so all can have a chance. Letters must be signed, but names will be withheld on request.)

views

| T must remind Mr. Vickery, the {person signing himself G. L, and others that the issue is not and never has been a crusade to rescue (France and England. The issue at (this time, relating to the British | Empire, is solely this: How important is it in the general defense plan of

000. This is desirable as the more people, the less work each one would need to do, and the greater our defense. The national debt per capita would also be reduced. ” " " DENIES BRITAIN DEFENDS DEMOCRACY

By O. E. Pentz, 1st Sergt, Co. “C” 11th Inf, Ft. Harrison. Mr. Ogle’s claim that the British Government is fighting for democ-

tocrats aren't any more fighting for

they like.

At least, they will keep | Those

hitchhikers had cast their|

democracy than Germany or Rus-

Gen. Johnson Says—

Wallace's Nomination Distasteful To Many But Squares With Custom On the Selection of Running Mates

HICAGO, July 20.—As was painfully evident at the convention, a lot of people actively dislike Henry Wallace and a lot more dislike the way he was rammed down the throat of the party by the Presi dent. On the first point—not liking Mr. Wallace—you'va got to know a man to make that choice and Henry isn't easy to know. He is shy, not very articulate, and has as little political oomph as anybody in the Fourth

New Deal. But if, as has been my privilege, you get really close to Mr, Wallace, you will discover a very fine specimen of what John L. Lewis oratorically calls the “genus homo.” He is simple, honest, studious and kindly, There is no side or pretense in his make-up. He has a good mind, if not a brilliant one. He is incapable of the clever little schemes that have so characterized and discredited many acts of the Fourth New Deal, I disagree with almost every angle of his philosophy and program and I doubt if he has the qualities of leader ship appropriate to a great crisis, but I would trust his sincerity of purpose as far as that of any man I know in Government, ” ” ~ HE spectacle of a President so openly forcing his own choice for Vice President of his party, especially in such dangerous times as these, is highly distasteful, but the effect if not the particular methods here used, seems to have become a custom, Mr. Gare ner was Mr, Roosevelt's choice in 1932 and 1936. It is true that the fir§t time it was by reason of a trade, without which Mr. Roosevelt himself could not possi« bly have been nominated, but it is also true that Mr. Roosevelt's delegates, at his bidding, made good that bargain, It is no secret that Mr. Willkie was consulted about his choice for a running mate, that he selected Charlie McNary, and that the Senator didn't want the job and could not have been nominated without Mr. Willkie's backing. Thus, however hateful the method used to put Mr, Wallace across, it can hardly be used to attack this nomination, unless pots are to be per mitted to call kettles black. ” ” » TER, all, there was an element of courage and an avoidance of the usual skullduggery in nom:nating Mr. Wallace, He is doctor newi newee new of all the New Dealers. Not all Democrats are New Dealers by a long shot. That rift was not never more apparent than at Chicago. Great rips and wounds in party solidarity were made. An obvious strategy for the healing of these fissures would have been to nominate at least one Democrat on the Democratis ticket. Mr. Roosevelt certainly is not one. Mr. Wallace is even farther away. His nomination puts the whole New Deal theory of spending ourselves rich right in the spotlight as the unfuzzed issue in this fight. Adding it all up, while I can’t applaud either the

| candidacy or the method that made it, I can respecs

or at least understand both.

Business

By John T. Flynn

A Tip to Politicians: Compulsory Training Sure to Prove a Headache

EW YORK, July 20.—Regardless makers the issue of militarism is on our door= step. The President has recommended universal military training and industrial training—and of the compulsory variety. And various Republican leaders are flirting with the same subject. But these gentlemen are gambling with just about the hottest potato in a political sense that has appeared in some time. The politician who tried to play that hand will get pretty sick of it before he is done. Up to now only

of the platform

the militarists—the compulsory service boosters—have been heard from. But as the debate wears on the anti-militarists will have their inning. The potential areas of opposition, and of bitter

keeps a vouthful figure and walks with a springy | step. His reddish brown hair is starting to thin and gray a little Born in Illinois, he was ordained to the ministry as

focused on the only issue that|votes and this was the result, 35 counts and not permit like or dis- to 8 in favor of a third term. {like of other peoples to tempt them ! To me this shows only one thing, into irrelevant remarks. that the youth of America, persons

sia. They are fighting for the bil[lions they got invested all over the world. If they are fighting for democracy, why in the name of de-

gave him everything but their votes; it was too much to expect that men in politics for what they can get out of |

it would let sentiment or conviction stand in the way of | No one knows better than Jim what makes a politician tick, so he gave the delegates free rein by an“I never ask any man to de anything for me he doesn’t want to do.”

self-interest.

nouncing,

And cynical newspaper correspondents, who had seen many national chairmen come and go, gave Jim a farewell testimonial party that brought mist to eyes long dry. Remember eight years ago, when F. D. R. and the bright young men around him were hailed as white-plumed idealists, and there was much shaking of heads at the thought that they were handicapped by the grubby materialism of “Jobmaster” Farley?

| instead.

| years later to become director torical

| course, Central Ave, has a well cared semi-formal garden in |

| of tobacco

a young man, but decided to devote his life to history, | He came to Indianapolis in 1900 as a youth- |

ful professor at Butler and 12 years later became vice president of that institution. In 1920. he left to go to Allegheny College, but came bouncing back four of the Indiana Hisand secretary of And that's where he's been ever since,

Bureau torical Society. happy as can be. » aside from history, of 4314

n » HIS FAVORITE HOBBY, is his garden. The Coleman home at

its spacious back yard, a garden that is the delight of both Colemans. It contains manv rare, imported species, but “Chris” Coleman likes the common garden flowers just about as well as the fancy ones. He is an inveterate pipe smoker and a connoisseur His cronies say that he treats his exten-

| sive collection of pipes “like babies.”

With the suns tnat have risen and set, and the water | that has flowed down the rivers, skeptics have learned more and more about that smart young man who talked idealism while reaching out for more personal power, and have learned more and more about unpretentious gum-

chewing Jim Farley, who never boasted a doetor’s degree |

nor a thesis on the nebular hypothesis nor presumed that

his code of ethics was higher than that of any other honor- |

able man. Jim has scarcely any hair on his head, but the bright young boys got into «t. They poached on his preserve, muscled in on his domain, underm'ned his chief's confidence m mor

[louse look mn. By the time the curtain fell, the Pll. D.’s of high and noble purpose had been revealed as men of greedy ambitions, and Jim Farley was no longer called “jobmaster,” but “Mr. Postmaster General,” the most efficient head of the postal service since Benjamin Franklin, and “Jim,” the poli-

tictan who never broke his word, who never failed a friend.

And he made his last stand on the simple democratic prin. | ciple that in a nation of free men, and in a party dedicated | to liberalism, delegates should vote, each according to their |

A Woman's Viewpoint

whi conscience,

NOW IT'S UNANIMOUS

yo \ FRY one of the 48 states now has a state law enforce-

ment agency, a poiice force or highway patrol. Creation |

~ 3 vi neh { SUCH

SUC omplete, the International Association of Police Chiefs

Yotes,

the pieneer of the “auto-age” forces. back to 1929. Interstate transport and travel by road, as well as the increasing traffic problem on all rural roads which followed the universal use of tne auto made this inevitable, Generally speaking, state forces of this Kind have been effective because free from the local influences that hamper city police. Again the state as laboratory is evident, the svstem wherehy other states may profit hy the experience of one, adopting such measures as have been found good in some neighboring state. Thus, slowly and without central compulsion, we arrive at as much unity of procedure among the states as seems desirable and good.

Indiana's force dates

and finally ieft Jim on the outside of the White !

La force in Wisconsin makes the roll-call of states |

He is what might be called a “conservative” eater. He likes to find little, out-of-the-way restaurants where he can eat lightly and then sit comfortably puffing away on his pipe He likes people and he gets real pleasure out of simply talking to folk. Some of his friends say you can sit with “Chris” Coleman for hours without either saying a word and without being self-conscious about it. ” n n ONE OF HIS ENTHUSIASMS is the tulip poplar, the state tree. He is one of the leaders in an incipient movement to have tulip poplars planted in every county in the state. Mr. Coleman envisions the day, a half century hence, when Indiana will be as distinetive for its tulip poplars as has been Holland for its tulips. He has a calm, philosophical frame of mind and seldom lets anything upset

body doing something which he considers not quite cricket, Then he’s outspoken, His colleagues know him as a man who interests himself in their aflairs, he will go to no end of trouble to assist them when they are in need. - They know him, too, for his dry sense of humor. One day one of his fellow workers placed on his desk an advertisement for “Burke's Peerage.” Mr Coleman glanced at it, tossed it into the waste basket, remarking, straight-faced: “I guess I can't use this. So far as I know, I have no peers.”

‘By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

HE American Association of University Women has begun a campaign among its members to place in their homes the children of British Federation of University Women for the war's duration. This is in line with the general effort now being made to cut the red tape of our immigration laws in order to permit wholesale acceptance of England's

i ™h a h > . | bomb afflicted babies. The first was the famous Texas Rangers, organized 103 | b aftlicted babies

vears ago to combat cattle rustlers and alien-smuggling. | Pennsylvania's state police, organized in 1903, was really |

As usual the cry for help is addressed to women— who seem unable to stop war, but are always expected to lead the work of picking up the pieces. | When such appeals come, however, one is proud to | belong to the sex which furnishes the inspiration and the action for these humanitarian endeavors. However, here is another project which should make us resolve to keep tab on our temperatures. I believe with my whole heart that the United | States should open its doors to democracy's infants out unless home conditions are perfect, it would be better to shelter them in groups. The evacuation of children from one continent to another is the most appalling event in human history, | the most horrible man-made catastrophe. These piti- | ful waifs of war, whether they come to us or not, offer | Living testimony that we are not merely moving into | 8 period of barbarism; we are already there. | Surely the cries of these little ones will rise contingously to Heaven, indicating Hitler and all his Kind--that is to say, the men and women who, moved by greed and ambition, encourage hate rather than love, and instil strife within the hearts of common men.

the Indiana His- |

| his affable disposition. | About the only thing that ever disturbs him is some-

He likes to help others and |

” n » | WARNS GALLUP WATCH HITCHHIKING VOTE By Clarence DeHaven

You've heard of the various types IN WILLKIE'S CABINET of polls, well here is a new one for | the register, one that might very By B. 8. Lott well serve notice: to Dr. Gallup to] keep a wary eye on hig results les he be proven wrong. . At present I am an unemployed | bookkeeper and recently while hitchhiking back from an unsuccessful attempt to find a job in Detroit 4 was given a ride by a very interesting fellow. . . . I found that only recently he had gradujated from college and was now em{ployed by the Democratic State] [Committee. He continued on enthusiastically to declare himself a Democrat and his interest in the party's ideals and principles was evident. He wouldn't have had to have given me this information be(cause I could readily see as much. | Outside the car, above each license plate, there were additional |plates bearing the caption “An{other American for Roosevelt.” Inside, on each sun visor, there were | banners displaying the picture of { McNutt and his name, Below each | {banner there was a card attached, {one of which read “For Roosevelt,” | the other inscribed “Against Roosevelt.” The figures onl the card gave Roosevelt 35 and against him eight, The fellow explained to me that these figures represented the | number of hitchhikers he had given

as the older generation, good thing when they see it. » » ” [WANTS ROOSEVELT

greatest America

ever known.

prosperity

the understanding that he

that he has nicely handled problems of foreign nations. of State,

of Secretary

their same the

administration.

positions in Hoover,

themselves to be very able and merit Cabinet positions.

never gone before. becoming ideal our would undoubtedly increase. the added

stimulus to our

like this same young man, as well] Know a

Politics never interested me much Je side of Britain she will he (but now I feel that with a few | holding the sack like Norway and minor changes we could have the | France. has | This seems to be the | Mr. Churchill sound off about how age of coalitions and mergers, so|the British are fighting for democI suggest we elect Wendell Willkie racy after the way the British Army President of the United States with scurried back will | frightened rabbits on a number of make certain cabinet appointments. | occasions and let the French bleed Franklin Roosevelt has failed mis- | themselves erably in solving our own economic problems but nearly everyone agrees the | (military sagas is the British term This | for qualifies him for the Cabinet post|brag about it. Stimson and Knox, already being coalition- | gj) ce 1912, was a captain of inists, would be drafted to serve in| new | it Landon, | Farley and McNutt have proved |. men

Side Glances—By Galbraith

7-20

COPR. 1940 BY NEA SERVICE, INC. T.M.REC.U. 8 PAY. OFF.

"Quick! Let's put our hat and coat on and pretend we're just + leaving"

cency didn't they fight in Norway and France, where they had all the chances in the world to prove their contentions instead of taking a runout powder and let’ Norway and France hold the sack? It is my firm conviction that if U. S gets into this war again

It is positively nauseating to hear

to their boats like

to death, holding the | Germans back to allow the British | Army to execute glorious retreats

that sort of thing) and then

I have been in the U. S. Army

fantry during the World War and is my conception that running away and leaving a friend in the at the same time running laround in the world crying for help and sympathy, is nothing to be

proud of.

Carl Forsythe

opposition, are very numerous: Farmers, parents, the youths themselves, to start with. But if we actually do drain off a couple of million men into gun and shovel armies and business should pick up and the demand for labor should grow, grave shortages will appear in various localities and then the employers will begin to howl about a Government that competes with them for labor—hiring it cheap while they must pay. There will be religious groups which will begin to find their voice on this soon, particularly since in= dustrial camps may be used for instruction in whate ever isms may be popular with the party in power, Then to support a vast military machine thers will have to be innumerable army camps. Localities will compete for the camps and the result will be that they will be scattered everywhere, Those who wish to know the political problems involved in the presence of army camps near every population center will do well to consult the history of France, Germany

and Italy. » ” »

Enthusiasm Dying Down

Then, as the conscription starts, will come the problem of exemption—and as this will be in time of peace, not war, there will be a political snarl in this that will make politicians wish they had never been born. The problem of large Negro battalions will plague the South. The problem of worker shortages will plague the industrial centers—the most populous voting centers, The problem of bureaucracy in so vast an establishment will play havoe with govern= ment. The immense cost will compel the Government to economize on all sorts of social welfare activities and the edge of the opposition of social welfare groups will become ever sharper. The eagerness for this un-American monstrosity

Why is it whenever a new tax is| [passed on the people of our coun-| try, a certain few have to put out) their hands and benefit for themselves? For instance we don't mind giving the extra three cents every time we go to the movies to help our Government re-arm, but we see red when our neighborhood theaters decide it’s a good chance for them to get two cents on each admission .nd give us pictures that have played in downtown theaters as long as eight vears ago. I for one will stay away before I'll give them anything more than their old price.

MIDSUMMER By OLIVE INEZ DOWNING

The skies are cloudless, of azure blue, The brilliant sunshine spreads golden | hue Sibyllic softness of wind’s mild glees | Whispers through boughs of the stirring trees, There is the purple of distant hills— The song of the lark, the far valley fills And fields are agleam with fullripened wheat, Alfalfa, red clover show dress so elite— When hollyhocks lean o'er the garden wall, And nod and beckon about it all— When at nightfall the firefly meteors glow, Then enchantments of fair July we know.

DAILY THOUGHT

Whoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven.—Matthew 18:4.

EVERY CHILD born into the world is a new thought of God, an ever-fresh and radiant possibility — te Douglas Wiggin,

has already abated. It will continue to do so. At the moment—aside from a very few—it is supported chiefly by those who want an answer to the statement that America has no men to help Britain even if she wanted to. These will lose their appetite for this scheme when the present crisis passes and with it the hysteria they have whipped up.

Watching Your Health

By Jane Stafford

OTHERS of young babies no longer dread the summer because of its threat to baby's life. The reason is because they have learned to guard againshk the germs which killed so. many babies of an earlier generation in summer, the deaths. being ascribed to “summer complaint” or “summer diarrhea.” They know that baby's food and drinking water must be cept cold and clean and protected from flies or other insects that can carry disease germs. Development of pure water and milk supplies have been an enormous aid for mothers and babies living in cities. In the country, mothers themselves may have to take measures to insure the purity of water and milk for baby. The state or other health department can give advice as to the safety of a particular well or other water supply. If there is any doubt about it, however, for example, when traveling with a baby, the water should be boiled. For very small babies, many doctors recommend boiling the drinking water anyway, The mother who nurses her baby can be sure that she is giving him germ-free milk. For babies who do not get breast milk, canned milk is advised by many doctors because, among other advantages, it also i® germ-free. The question of whether baby is to be fed canned milk or pasteurized milk from the dairy should be settled on the advice of the doctor. Once the can of milk is opened, however, it should be kept covered and cold, just as fresh milk should be, The reason for emphasizing care of baby’s food in summer is that during warm weather food of all Kinds spoils more easily and there are more chances of germs to get into it, if left uncovered, when doors and windows are open and dust and flies are about. Another summer health hazard to babies and young children is the heat itself. Babies cannot readily adapt themselves to hot weather, so they should wear very light clothing, although they should be protected from drafts and from chilling at night.