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Give Light and the People Will Find Thetr Own Way

MONDAY, JULY 22, 1940

THE NEW HATCH LAW RESIDENT Roosevelt showed what we regard as no | more than proper consideration for the sensibilities of fellow Democrats when he refrained from signing the new | Hatch law until after the Chicago convention had adjourned. Had he put his signature to the measure a couple of days | earlier it might have embarrassed a number of state highway commissioners and others who were delegates at the convention—an activity which the new law forbids. Anyhow, we are glad that the bill has become law and | that the Presidential nominees of the two major parties | have gone on record for its principles. | Before Congress acted on the measure Wendell Willkie voluntarily put one of its provisions into effect so far as his party was concerned; he put a limit of $5000 on contributions to his campaign. The Republicans also had cleaned house in another respect; they discontinued the campaign book. The Democrats, however, are still working on their “book of 1940,” which, it is reported, will as usual be lush with high-priced advertisements of breweries, distilleries and other business organizations that come under Federal regulation, and of corporations which sell materials to the Government. The Democrats, of course, may argue that they will be | guilty of no technical violation, since the advertising con- | tracts were signed before the Hatch law was. But that | method of shaking down corporations not only violates | the spirit of the new Ilatch law, but also the spirit of the old Corrupt Practices Act, which forbids direct contributions by corporations to political campaigns. The Democrats also have the argument that they have already gone to considerable expense for type and engravings, not to mention the travail of literary composition. Yet, even if they are guilty of no technical violation, | when the unpopular reaction to this method of campaignfund raising is considered, the Democrats may find that | it is cheaper to junk the type and the engravings, refund the money to the corporations and charge off the expense | to bad judgment.

PRECEDENT SKED whether he intends to resign as Secretary of | Agriculture, now that he is the Democratic nominee for Vice President, Henry A. Wallace said at Des Moines, | Iowa: | “I believe Herbert IHoover remained in the Cabinet | when he was campaigning for the Presidency, didn’t he?” No doubt there are people who would have admired Mr. Wallace if he had retired from the Cabinet, saying | that, as a candidate, he would prefer not to occupy a posi- | tion which might seem to give him undue opportunity to | influence the votes of the Agriculture Department's tens | of thousands of employees and its vastly larger number of cash beneficiaries. Such niceties, however, are regarded | as superfluous under the “new moral climate” which the New Deal has creatad in Washington. | And, with the head of his ticket seeking to shatter the strongest tradition in American politics, some may be reassured to discover that there is at least one precedent which Mr. Wallace reveres. It is, perhaps, a trifle quaint that he should have gone | to Herbert Hoover for that precedent—Mr. Hoover being | the man who, according to the orators at the convention | which nominated Secretary Wallace, never did anything | that was right.

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OUTWORN PATIENCE

OYS will be boys. But we refuse to believe that the subservient party line rubber stamps in the American Youth Congress meeting, recently held in Wisconsin, are truly representative of the great millions of American boys and girls. We have a higher opinion of the intelligence, | sympathies and independent spirit of today’s young people! | The Congress was presented with a resolution con- | demning violations of civii liberties under the totalitarian governments of Germany, Italy, Russia and Spain. The majority balked. Not if Russia were called by name! A resolution was prepared refusing ever as Americans | to be led by “a political dictator, as are Germany, Italy, Russia, Japan or Spain.” No! No! The majority insisted on terms that were vague and general, leaving Russia out of it. The catch all the way through was Soviet Russia. As one delegate grumbled, “We never can attack the sacred cow of Russia or of Communism.” After the past vear, with Russia's jackaling at the body of Poland, its stickup of Finland and swiping of Bessarabia, persons young or old who won't ery “Stop thief!” certainly are giving a definition of their own principles. | The whole session, with its woozy attitudes on such other issues as military training and national defense, established a record which we believe will be as damaging to the organization's future standing as it must be disillusioning to past hopeful well-wishers. |

BACK TO THE FARM

HE “back to the farm” movement has gone past a mere fad and become a definite population trend. During the past 10 years ahout two million people have returned to rural living, and the 1940 farm population is estimated at 32,245,000, the highest in 24 years and very close to the all-time high reached in 1916. Part of this increase is due to the excess of births over deaths among farm people, which is higher than in the cities. Urban unemployment also has decreased the urge to leave the farm to go and “make good in the city.” But another factor is the increasing attractiveness of farm life. Under modern conditions, with good roads, electrification, and labor-saving machinery, there is less and less difference between the living standard in the country and in the city. We are on the way toward a new kind | of living which will combine as never before the best things of both country and city life, v

' wholly

| by other reporters from many cities.

| journalist whom I did not

| himself spoke off the record in a manner which | could not heighten the company’s admiration but | made them wish he might be quoted so the public | might fully enjoy knowing Jim.

| which he has suffered, and, inasmuch as he has

| idealists, who made a show of holding their noses

i their hands to create a spoils system much more | dangerous and ruthless,

| meself,

| ence on “the Avenue.”

| sumed with curiosity over what it's doing there but ! no one can find out who owns it. ,

‘A Woman's Viewpoint

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Fair Enough

By Westbrook Pegler

Farley, Honored by Newspapermen, Enjoys Rare Spectacle of Hearing Personal Eulogies at His Own 'Wake'

HICAGO, July 22.—It is not given to every man to listen to the eulogies of his own wake, but Jim Farley has enjoyed that experience here. Testimonial dinners, as a rule, are tawdry travesties on friendship arranged by pushful satellites with themselves with the guest of In known cases, the promoters have taken

pots of praiseful saying and put them aside to serve the same purpose again. The little ceremonies for Mr. Farley were arranged and almost devoutly in his honor by the Journalists, men and women, of the Washington corps who have known him since 1932 and were attended

Walter Trohan, Turner Catledge and some lady recognize made little speeches in presenting him with unpretentious gifts which were not reclaimed as he went’ out, and James

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OT by any word or sign from Mr. Farley has the public learned of" the shabby treatment

not indicated hurt or resentment, even by the subtle

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Starting Out Under a Bit of a Handicap!

sign of the rolling eye of the martyr, I will not spoil the party. He does not want to be pitied or to exploit the ingratitude which has been shown him, to the | detriment of the Democratic Party, which still ranks about third in his loyalties, after God and country | and just in front of the American League. Jim was the biggest man in Chicago, and it is | unfortunate that I have bound myself not to be mean, because only by standing him alongside others | would it be possible to show the size of him. He has persorified the best qualities of the IrishAmerican in politics, and his conduct and character

| should be an example and warning, as I know they | will not, to others of the same persuasion.

It has been said that just as Jim made President ! Roosevelt eight years ago, the President last week, by a negative process, made Jim, and that is not

| acrimony. It was his clean deportment under these

conditions which suddenly made the convention realize that the finest man in the party was being driven out of its councils, | = » » T has been only a few years since the term “Farleyism” was used to describe the spoils system, because Jim was the job-master of the new Admin-

| istration, as though spoils were something which he | had just invented. Farley took it without flinching, | although he was just carrying the target for the |

entire party. And political prigs, calling themselves at the sordidness of Farleyism, later exploited the want of the destitute and the money-power placed in

It is too bad that Mr. Joe Tumulty and Gene Buck were not here to rock in their chairs and moan ochone and wurra for Jim. Mr. Tumulty and Mr. Buck can hold wake and weep like a water-pitcher on the merest mention of any deceased Dorsey or

They would have had a beautiful time God-resting

. the soul of Jim Farley and him around and about to | hear it all.

Pass me the bothel, Mike, I'll be sitting up a while

LIKENS DEMOCRATIC PARLEY TO REICHSTAG

| last week's sessions of the Demo-

| Both act as dummies with the pro-

unwritten law.

The Hoosier Forum

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

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

views By A Citizen The similarity between the meetings of the German Reichstag and

cratic National Convention is too startling to dismiss as a coincidence.

cedure, action and result typed ahead of time. Both break, at command, precedence and written or| Both ignore with |gejf.

Do we have a British-Amer-

'nonchalance the danger of the end jean Bund? I have been to Britain

s ‘of freedom. land have never | Clancy, or even a Protestant or a Guinsberg, if the | | wind is off the sea with a taste of fog in it.

heard the term It can’t happen here? If you Uncle Shylock used in relation to think so, take another look. For this country. the first time in our history, a faun-| Mr. Vickrey states that Britain ing group of politicians dares to say won the war. Maybe so but she got to America: “To hell with the ad- a little bit of African territory and

| monitions of Washington and Jeff- a million and a half dead men to

erson and with one of the most prove she got a bargain out of the cherished traditions of the Repub- whole dirty mess. After that Mr. lic. We want our man elected three! Vickrey! debts are cynicism, not

| times, perhaps four or five times, slurs as you put it.

* . : . Boo : Inside Ind Ia na pol IS Ile falls, God bless America and our When we go to the movies for a de-

Indiana Ave., Jimmy Doolittle's New | Camera and a Courthouse Mystery

about Indiana Avenue will lead to. The situation

has too many political implications for anyone to sav opinions through the medium of the definitely that this may be the start of a real press, but I think Mr. Vickrev's

clean-up. The situation hasn't been a pleasant one for 30 years. And that, don’t forget, has been under both Democratic and Republican administrations. Some of our biggest political figures have made themselves powers—and kept that way—by reason of their influ-

All this, of course, has been disgusting to the responsible Negro leaders of the Negro community,

' SPEAKS A GOOD WORD FOR BRITAIN | JT'S pretty hard to say yet what all the commotion 'By Gilbert Dunn

Even if the repub-| We are paying a nickel extra | fense fund against who? Certainly not Britain. Why? Because the British Navy may go down in defeat, It is going to take an 11-bil-lion-dollar armament bill to take the place of that navy. Who has { been getting protection for an awful {long time? As much as we hate {war — French mothers, German 4 i : | mothers, British mothers are just need a little clarification. las allergic to getting their sons shot It also is not my intention to an- up as our own. People fight because tagonize or criticize Mr. Vickrey, but | they want peace so very much. I do think he could explain fighting| There are some who lie down and

perpetuation in office!”

It is seldom that I too express my

war in 1917, not 1916 as the case | would have to be. It does seem a

They have made plea after plea for co-operation. | poor excuse to dislike someone or|jittle bit of credit coming his way,

All they have ever received has been evasive promises.

ties of any situation.

‘country that you have to go back a | And all because the powers-that-be always keep hundred years for a reason. Are we a weather eye cocked on the vote-casting possibili- | supposed to dislike the South be{cause of Gettysburg, Vicksburg, etc.

| enemy and the battle is half won,

Ed ” »

These facts Mr. Vickrey can check. DEMANDS ACTION ON

MAJ. JIMMY DOOLITTLE, the former Army | There were 39,000 American boys INDIANA AVE. CONDITIONS speed king and now Army liaison officer at the Killed but there were also 24,000 NeW | Marion County W. C. T. U

‘scarcely more than a quarter inch square. He car-

ries three spare rolls of films, 16 exposures to the roll,

| Allison plant, is proudly displaying a unique camera millionaires. Britain owed the Unit- | given him by a friend. Made in Lithuania, it's less ed States four billion dollars. Of this | than an inch square, five or six inches long, and has she has paid back two billion. This|W a square lense the same size as its films, which is indebtedness was incurred by the]

hen the citizens of Indianapolis

must take a stand for the right or be classed with the “Let George do it” crowd. The recent death of a young colored man in a drinking place in Indiana Ave, after closing hours should arouse the thinking class of this city to the fact that it is up to someone to do something!

A meeting to be held at the Mt. Zion Baptist Church, 12th and| Fayette Sts. tonight at 8 o'clock should be largely attended by think-/ ing people. The Woman's Christian Temper-

not criticism. Recognize your true

ance Union of Marion County | wishes to go on record as being 100 [per cent with these fellow citizens lin trying to find a way to compel | tavern keepers, etc. to comply with | the law. = ” = | CLAIMS OPPORTUNITIES

| merous jobs only the white man can |

possible attain?

Our utilities companies, our larg-|

| est canning companies, as well as

| numerous mac |

hine shops are not ‘open to the Negro race in any“large |

| degree. Even so where can the Ne-|

|two years for the British with the take it rather than give a little fight| 8r0 youth obtain the training to go A. E. F. when it has always been|__for these we have little more than | into a machine shop, an industrial | ‘my understanding that we declared |contempt. But for the guy that| plant such as we have on our city| stands up for his little home and bit | suburbs, or to learn the better) of happiness I think he has just a {rades as tool and diemakers?

These questions should be con- | sidered before we jump to the con- | clusion that in unity we, the poorer | class of people can conquer the] world, or demand and receive just what we ask for. We as a people have learned through the years to take less,

{ work harder for mcre and give] It seems that the time has come | praise for what little we do receive and be thankful.

purchase for the Allies as the United States would not give credit to the

in an ordinary aspirin tin, so we're told. So if you other Allied nations, consequently | New Books at the Libra ry

see the major pointing what looks scmething like a Britain really acted as a clearing

straighten your tie. » = ” | THERE'S A BIC MYSTERY over at the County | Clerk's office. Hanging neatly on a coat hanger is, of all things, a cork life jacket. Everybody is con-

. . Secretary of State Jim Tucker says he hasn't felt so good years. Jim, the only Republican officeholder in the State House, you know, savs the recent Democratic National Convention ought to make “millions of Republican votes this fall.”

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

| square fountain pen at you, you'd better hurry up and {house and guarantor for the Allied [nations who were not good business

| risks.

| NE summer evening 12 years ago & man nd his |

wife attended the opening of a children’s wad- |

ing pool in their community. The sight of the happy youngsters splashing in the cool water gave joy to them because they loved children. But wait!—aside and apart, stood one little boy crying. His tears were the resigned tears of those who know their wishes can never come true. Perhaps it

was that hopeless attitude quite as much as the sobs, !

which moved the lady in our story to inquire into the causes of the infant grief. No bathing suit. One small boy yearning to splash, too, couldn't do so because in the family bud-

| get there was not enough extra money to buy one | flimsy postage stamp size garment.

And so, the tears—and so, the miracle! right on this spot tomorrow morning,” said the lady to the little boy. “and you shall have a suit.” Next day both kept the appointment—and from that appointment grew a charitable project which has kept Mrs. Kate Ransom of Tulsa busy and I daresay heartened for many years. Fate decided that a generous couple and a needy boy should meet, and at the precise moment, many poor little children yet unborn were assured of certain moments of happiness. If one little boy lacked a bathing suit, argued the generous couple, there must be plenty of other little boys and girls who suffered the same woeful want. They were right. Anyway, the inspiration was there, and the first summer 17 outgrown suits were distributed by Mrs. Ransom to eager recipients. Next year, helped by publicity and radio and newspaper the number rose to 170. This year, a grand total of 1635 suits were handed over to needy parents after the gathered-up garments had been remodeled and | mended by the WPA group. I think this is a good story. Not only because it | testifies to the charitable impulses of one woman— | and calls attention to a worthwhile project in a single community—but mainly because it proves that the person who keeps her eyes open can find something fine for her willing heart and hands to do.

“Meet me |

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| YF you have a garcen-—as small as Believe it or not Mr, Vickrey, If a window box in the city, or as France, Belgium and the other jarge as an estate in the country

| Allied nations paid their debts to —you will enjoy “Green Grows the | Britain, Britain could have paid the City” (Harcourt) by Beverly Nichols. | 'U. S. twice over, not including the At long last Mr. Nichols has written | she a triangle story, but his plot is not | that of the eternal triangle as we | It isi | —who is yet to prove herself hostile| concerned with the shape of a plot |

German reparations which never got,

We have a good neighbor—Canada | know it in modern fiction.

and she is as close as Britain her-|of ground from which the author,

Side Glances—By Galbraith

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COPR. 1940 BY NEA SERVICE. INC. T. M. REG. U. S. PAT. OFF.

"Don’t worry, Miss Kelch—everybody in Wilsonburg welcome you home again, same as if you did make good in Hollywood."

‘with his neighbor, Mrs. Heckmond-

| See only good and best intent

who has led his readers “Down the | Garden Path” and in and out of |

| “The Thatched Cottage” in other)

books, now wrests his garden. He has bought a house and with | it a desolate pie-shaped strip of) ground in the London suburbs. “Green Grows the City” is an enter- | taining narrative of Mr. Nichols’| struggle to transform this ugly bit of land into a beautiful garden, of his construction of a greenhouse and fernery, and of his planning for a cactus collection and rock garden. Not the least amusing part of the book is the story of his quarrels

wycke, who disapproves heartily of every gardening activity of Mr. Nichols, who in turn disapproves just as strenuously of Mrs. H. There are many reasons for his disdain, the principal one being that she is a gardening cheat — she makes a quantity of holes in the paving of her garden and sets out pot-plants already in bloom, pots and all. Beverly Nichols is one of these wholly unreasonable gardeners whom every other gardener loves to redd about. It has been said of him that if there is a choice between brilliance and veracity, he chooses brilliance every time. This book, certainly, is brilliant. It may be truthful.

THEN— By ANNA E. YOUNG God grant to me when I grow old A heart that will not cease To see the truth in everything And be—content—with peace.

Grant, may I look with keen insight And see each heart within

See naught at all—of sin.

DAILY THOUGHT

The Lord is long-suffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation.—Numbers 14:18.

A GOD ALL MERCY, were a God unjust.—Young.

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| even days.

MONDAY, JULY 22, 1940

Gen. Johnson Says—

Rumor Ax Is Out for Louis Johnsen Adds Another Chapter to Story of Men Sacrificed by the New Deal,

ASHINGTON, July 22.—It should be a relief * after covering two conventions to get the odor of intense politics out of your nostrils. It is bad enough in any convention—bad enough at Philae delphia, superlatively bad at Chicago. The thing that caused both my hackles and my gorge to rise there was the wholesale crucifixion of loyalty. Men, some the best of friends, who have fought unfailingly for the President, sometimes against their dearest convictions, were coldly liquidated by their own commanded action. There are, in Congress, no finer gentlemen (in the homely American sense), sweeter characters or truer men (in any sense), than Senators Byrnes and Barkley and Speaker Bankhead. They have loyally fought every fight for the President. They were highly entitled to his utmost loyalty in return. Any of them could have been nominated for the Presidency or Vice Presidency. Any was entitled to it. For first place, none ever had a chance. For the Vice Presidency all had to take their death sentences in favor of a New Deal Repub lican at the hand of a New Deal Socialist. " un ”

HEY took their deprivation of the essential right of every American bravely, faithfully and with a smile—and so did Jim Farley, to whom Mr. Roosevelt owes more than to any human beings except his mother and his wife. Sickened, I returned to Washington for surcease, only to find a new rumor coming from so many informed sources as to give it credence. It was that the new tory Republican Secretary of War had asked his vigorous assistant, Louis Johnson, to get out of there, I have not always seen eye to eve with Mr, Johnson. At first I thought he was politicalizing and New Dealizing the Army. My criticism was well-informed but it proved premature. That job differs from any other sub-cabinet posie tion. It is charged by statute with industrial mobiliza« tion of the whole nation in an emergency. My observation was that Mr. Johnson did not fully appre= ciate this vast problem in the beginning. He certainly

! does now. His work here is not paralleled elsewhere

in Government. ” ” » T is no task for an amateur. Mr. Johnson has been educated. It would take a new man a year even to get the feel of it. We have no years to spare—not

In 1937, the President recognized this. He per suaded Louis Johnson to remain tby a forthright promise to make him Secretary of War. At Chicago, American Legion leaders started to stage a cyclonic drive to make Johnson Vice President, He was hastily recalled to Washington. Immediately afterward, Secretary Stimson, with his new chair hardly warm, got out the ax. He would not have moved so boldly with no suggestion from the President. Politics marches on—ruthlessly, respecting noth ing, sparing nothing. I would like to go to Tahiti or San Juan de boc boc. I have been at the latter place. It has a romantic name but it stinks of sour

copra, muddy hogs and wet carabao. It is a vale of. a

cashmere compared with this atmosphere.

Business By John T. Flynn

Wilson and Party Sincerely for Peace During 1916 Convention

EW YORK, July 22.—Twenty-four years ago a Democratic convention met in St. Louis to nominate Woodrow Wilson for a second term. This was in June, 1916. A war raged in Europe. American sympathies were deeply stirred for the Allies. There were then—as there are now-—small but powerful financial groups and powerful Anglophile groups working and spending millions to involve America in the war. At the convention a platform plank was adopted on foreign affairs. “The Democratic Party,” it declared, “has throughout the war scrupulously and successfully held to the old paths of neutrality and of peaceful pursuits of the legitimate objects of our national life.” There were groups insistent on the party declaring for greater aid to the Allies. But the platform said nothing of Allies. It said merely: “It is the duty of the United States to use its power not only to make itself safe at home but also to secure its just interests throughout the world and both for this end and in the interest of humanity to assist the world in securing settled peace and justice.” There was a plank condemning fifth-columnists, But then they were called “hyphenates.” A hyphenate was a person of German-American blood working to keep Americans from getting into the war on the side of England. A British-American working to push America into the war was not called a hyphenate,

But All to No Avail

At this convention many Eastern leaders, then as now working to! involve us, thought the convention would go in for what they called “militant American« ism,” by which, of course, they meant a militant internationalism. They got a strong plank declaring for adequate national defense. But they got a rude shock when Martin H. Glynn, ex-Governor of New York, the temporary chairman, made his keynote speech. Mr. Glynn set off a frenzied outburst when he said that Wilson had kept us out of war, that the American way was to settle disputes by negotiation, not war, that Wilson should be given the chance to do this, that the Democratic Party was for preparedness, but—and he emphasized the “but”—it was for preparedness strictly for defense. That campaign was fought on that note. Wil« son himself was a man of great intellectual sobriety who was as noted for never changing his mind as our present President is for changing his. And yet less than a year after that platform, that oratory, that peace convention and that peace campaign we were at war. Political platforms, convention oratory means nothing. The record and mind of the man nome inated is everything. The man who wants to “quar= antine aggressors,” which means war; who wants to send our ships, guns, planes to England, which is war; who wants secretly to collaborate in every way with England, is the platform of the Democratic Party. Its platform is not in the empty words of its war plank.

Watching Your Health

By Jane Stafford

NE of the things you want to guard against on your vacation, especially if you go on camping and hiking trips into the country, is the serious and often deadly disease, Rocky Mountain spotted fever. Guarding against the disease really means guard ing against ticks, because these ‘blood-suckers carry the virus of the disease, passing it along to any une lucky person they may bite. Not all ticks are ine fected with the virus, but since you cannot tell about that by looking at them it is best to take no chances. Infected ticks do not usually transmit the infection until from two to eight hours after they attach themselves to the body, so if you are alert to watch for and remove them, you may save yourself from the ailments. Use a tweezers or piece of paper, not bare fingers, to remove the ticks, because you could get the disease from handling crushed, infected ticks. If possible, stay out of tick-infested regions. If you must go into them, wear high leather boots or socks outside of trousers (men as well as women) to

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keep the ticks from getting a foothold and crawling up

the clothing to the neck or arms. Do not depend on feeling the tick crawling on you, health authorities warn. Ticks are especially apt to fasten themselves on the back of the neck and along the hairline, They have even been found in the ear canal. bodies and clothing of yourself and your children at least twice daily, if you are in tick-infested areas, Watch pet dogs for ticks, also. Fewer cases have been reported so far this year than by the same time last year. Health officers believe this is because of the unusually long, cold spring,

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