Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 July 1940 — Page 10
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Give Light and the Pegpte Will Find Thety Own Way
TUESDAY, JULY 30, 13940
CALLING OUT THE GUARD RESIDENT ROOSEVELT has asked Congress for authority to call out the National Guard at once for extended training.
Price in Marion County. 3 cents a copy; deliv- |
Mail subscription rates in Indiana, $3 a year; ! Indiana, 65 for | thought somewhat 5551 |
| going to youth meetings to make speeches or vote
That is going to upset the lives of a lot of men. Some |
of them may be sore about it, although the President of the National Guard Association, Brig. Gen. Walter A. Delamater, resents any such suggestion.
ldo I know what goes on at these youth meetings,
He says the guard |
“stands ready and willing” for service “today, tomorrow, or |
at any time the President sees fit.”
Willing though they be, it is a certainty that many | S
guardsmen will make a severe personal sacrifice in leaving |
their jobs for a period of months. But most of thera will recognize that we are in an emergency, even if no hestile fleets or bomber squadrons are pounding at dur gates. business. If England falls, who will prophesy with what Hitler will do or not do next, especially if a large part of the British Navy should fall into his hands? It is easy to say that he will be too busy organizing a German-
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| affair and not something you do by making speeches
And emergencies are the guard's | | vou have got a lot of money or you just nickel your | way confidence |
icized Europe to risk an overseas war—but are you willing |
to rest on such an assumption? If world conquest is his dream, will he give us time to carry out our preparedness program in a leisurely way, or will he strike while our regular army is admitted'y incapable of putting into the field an equipped force of more than 75,000 men?
{ go after,
The Selective-Draft Bill will soon be voted on by Con- | | you go with and you can say they aren't Communists,
gress, and passage seems assured. Registration, and selection of the men to be trained, will follow quickly. But who is to train them? That's where the guard may be needed. And the guard
itself can stand a lot of training in the field before turning |
tutor. The success of the draft plan may depend in large measure on the efficiency and morale of these state troops. In this connection, it is noteworthy that both industry and the Government are trying to ease the financial shock to guardsmen who must leave their jobs. The War Department is said to be preparing legislation whereby the Government would underwrite the life-insur-
| your
Enough
By Westbrook Pegler
Mrs. Spelvin Opines She Needs No Help From Youth Groups on How Her Children Should Be Raised.
EW YORK, July 30.—Walking down to the chain stcre to buy bread, eggs, soap, cigarets and gin ths family, Mrs. George Spelvin, American, as follows: Well, fun fun, sister, but I don't remember reading where you ever got elected to anything, so if you don't mind 1 will politely ask you to politely keep out of my affairs like raising my kids, they just happen to be my own kids, and they may not be so hot, but they are not as dumb as some, either, and anyway I will ask you to politely mind | own business. Because, after all, it seems to me I know quite a lot of kids around our neighborhood, and so far as I know I never heard any of them talking about
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about this and that and, sister, I am going to tell you I would rather do my own raising. Because, after all, I am the one who gets the headaches and how
and I nctice they are very partial to going out in the country, and to be very practical about it, sister, I wasn’t born yesterday, so how do I know they don’t chcose up sides—if you know what I mean? ” O I will prefer to keep mine home as long as I can provide the necessities of life and maybe we aren't modern, and you may have the right idea and maybe I am just a dope, but I always think that when it comes to raising kids that is a family
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and passing resolutions in meetings. And if it comes to that it isn't always whether
along from week to week with the bare necessities and a few cigarets and once in a while a tom collins. If children don't get the right kind of character and raising in their home whether it is rich or poor they certainly don’t figure to get it in meetings where they meet ali kinds, and how do I know what kind they are meeting in these meetings or where they | especially with these Communists telling them it isn't modern to stay decent any more and your parents are a lot of dumb monkeys to interfere with whether you don't stay decent, if you get What I mean.
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because |
ND while T am on the subject, IT will be frank
to say frankly it is all right with me whoever
| but that is your story and I would be the last person | | on earth to interfere about your friends, but as far |
as I am concerned a lot of them certainly look like
| Communists to me and moreover, like I said, I am |
| not going to farm my responsibility over to any vouth
crowd no matter who says so.
| anybody ever finished high school, and all I read is |
ance and home-mortgage liabilities of draftees, and presum- |
of guardsmen. Certainly protect these citizen-soldiers sacrifice is worth doing. “THE PUBLIC INTEREST” MAN named Julius Emspak has written an indignant letter to Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins, demanding the immediate recall of Dan W. Tracy's appointment as Second Assistant Secretary of Labor. This appointment, says Mr. Emspak,
ably
from too great a personal
“can be explained
only on the grounds that politics are being given prefer-
ence over the public interest.” The reason for Mr. Emspak’'s bitterness is obvious.
He is secretary-treasurer of a C. I. O. union of electrical |
workers, while Mr. Tracy is a former president of an A. F. of L. union of electrical workers. ing in the other direction, accounted for the angry protest
evervthing that can reasonably be done to
| We can’t vouch for it personally,
The same reason, operat- |
from Matthew Woll, vice president of the A. F. of L., when | Sidney Hillman, vice-chairman of the C. I. O., was appointed | by President Roosevelt to the National Defense Advisory |
Commission. Mr. Emspak’s portance as Mr. Woll’s, which had practically none. no longer news that the leaders of organized labor's factions hate each other. It does, however, for them to assert, when they drag their hatred out before the public, that they are inspired by regard for “the public interest.” A decent regard for the public interest—and for the
It is
rival |
require gall | a = | business has
interest of labor's rank and file—would impel C. I. O. and |
- A. F. of L. officials to conceal their jealousies, their personal ambitions for power and permit public business to go forward, unhampered by their squabbles.
SECOND HELPING ROM all accounts, W. Lee O’Daniel has been about as poor a Governor as Texas ever had, which is saying a good deal. The record shows that practically none of the
submerge |
| 12-year-olds,
promises he made two years ago has been kept, that the | state’s business has been woefully managed, and that he |
is singularly devoid of ideas about how problems.
He can, however,
to solve public |
play the guitar, conduct a hill-billy |
| seat with another elderly woman
| anything left except some $25 and $30 fans, and even these were moving pretty fast
band and write and croon such campaign songs as “Pass the
Biscuits, Pappy.” These accomplishments won him his first election in 1938, and now have assured him a second term : The campaign, it is said, was apatheic, many Texans being too interested in European war developments to pay much attention to office-seekers at home. We can think of a slightly shorter adjective to describe the outcome, meaning as it does a second helping of Governor O'Daniel’s non-existent political biscuits. As nourishment for Democratic ideals in a great American state, it is pathetic.
THE WATER-RAT
HIS is the season when every living thing with the opportunity and the aptitude likes to get into the water. It’s perfectly natural, and should be encouraged. But summer aquatics always bring their share of tragedy. The inadequate swimmer, the sudden cramp, the unéxpected sink-hole, the tricky tide or drownings. The water is nc place for practical joking. guards and all bathers will do well to keep an eye out for the waler-joker these days, and to correct summarily his warped sense of humor. victims without human aid.
| ways and municipal parks which are havens of love- | Cities, little and big, country |
| liness all testify to that towns, farm homes, have responded to the inspiration |
the headlines and the funnies and sometimes a love story in the magazines if I get tie time, but we have to get along with what brains we have got and we positively don’t go around trying to raise other people’s kids for them. So, like I was saying, we may be all wrong, but it
| is the best we can do, and say 10 years from now
when the results are in I will be glad to compare
| results with anybody else's results, and if T have made | a mess of my job I will hear plenty about it from
God. Bread, eggs, soap, cigarets and gin.
Inside Indianapolis
An Elderly Lady Traveler and Her $100; Fur Coats and the Fan Boom
HERE'S a storv making the rounds which, even though a bit belated, still is good for a chuckle. but a friend does. It's the story of an elderly Indianapolis woman whose son gave her for Christmas a round-trip train ticket to Chicago and a $100 bill to pay for a vacation. On the train, the woman left her purse on the sharing her seat, When she returned, the other woman left her seat for a few minutes. Looking in her purse, the Indianapolis woman found her $100 bill missing. She
| peeked in the other woman's purse and found a $100 |
bill which she promptly and indignantly confiscated. Upon her return home, the Indianapolis woman was | greeted by her son with: “How on earth did you get along without any money, Mother? wrong purse and left your $100 bill here. The son still is trying to locate the other woman | to return the $100 which his mother took from her | purse. n 5 ” |
DID YOU NOTICE how the department stores | picked the hottest weather of the year to load their |
You took id
Some of the windows, with soapflakes and mirrors | representing snow and ice, actually make you feel cooler if you let your imagination run riot. n
SPEAKING OF THE weather, the electric fan been keeping pace with the mercury The extended heat wave has caught the dealers unprepared and it's pretty hard now to find a low or medium priced fan One dealer said he didn’t have
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whose band iz appearing at the being accompanied on his tour by | his wife and daughter, Dorothy. Dorothy, like most | has become interested in cosmetics Recently she clipped coupons from newspapers and magazines and sent away for scads of free samples. That was all right with Mrs. Nichols, but she put her foot down the other day when the majlman arrived with a load of samples addressed to Mrs. Red Nichols. It seems that Dorothy decided she could get twice as many samples if she mailed coupons in both her name and that of her mother,
~ » | RED NICHOLS Lyric this week, 1s
A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson
Because between us |
| In our whole family up to our kids there never was | SINKING REMINDER OF |
| COLLEONT STATUE HERE | By Myron W.
| meo Colleoni in front of the Herron |
|after whom was named the Italian
{ eruption of ill will,
| of government.
| of this observation in the coming | Presidential campaign
| givable sin will be charged against | President Roosevelt,
| called sacred tradition against seek|ing a third term. {Can you not already see the open | cracks of danger in the walls of our
fore.
| lawful or unconstitutional—but be-
| whom shall not.
| display windows with, of all things, women's fur coats? |S political history on this score.
outburst has just about as much im- |
| As I understand it, ‘has the membership of the Su|preme Court been
| especial clamor or charge of revolu-
lislation and public sentiment, | power
| executive action was not considered | as
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1 wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.
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to express their views in
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religious conNote that the statue of Bartolo-| : | troversies Make
your letters short, so all can have a chance. Letters must be signed, but names will be | withheld on request.)
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Art Museum is that of the man
cruiser that was sunk by the Aus-| tralian cruiser Sydney in the Med-| iterranean two weeks ago. #2 8 = DEPLORE NEGLECT OF FUNDAMENTAL ISSUES By E. B. Historically speaking, the severest conflicts of political discussions and tend to center on minor questions of custom and
conventional practice, rather than upon any fundamental institution
{any criminal act to charge against {your enemy-—why manufacture one. |All my life I have disliked fabrica- | tors, Pharisees and Tories. | public can be influenced by tradifused a third term and Roosevelt | did not—Glory be! There is a grand issue with which to go before the people. The long list in the reform of age-old abuses; of ameliorating the hard conditions of our lower strata of society: these seem to count for nothing in the scale, as against the unpardonable offense of flouting some sentimentally sacred
We are likely to witness the truth
It is likely, as 1s now forecast, that the unfor-
having and so
in his broken with an unwritten,
Just think of it! makes it sacred. It 1s surprising how men can find political edifice? Justification and argument for any Such tugging at the pillars of [the temple of government by this | modern Samson was never seen beAnd all this uproar—not because to run for third term 1s un-
they wish to pillory. It is most surprising also to find how often their real reason has been hidden and some rabble rousing catch word reason is substituted therefor; such a nice substitute is provided by the third-term issue particularly as it rings in the revered name of Washington. So it comes about that our political campaigns are now larly fought over the difference be{tween tweedledum and tweedledee: to the serious neglect of fundamental questions in the field of human! rights.
| cause our revered first President re- | fused the honor. But even in matters of tradition it makes all the difference as to whom shall break with it and Let us review our
several times
increased by the past, with no 2 = * SHE WINS A BET ON THE “LITTLE PIGS” ISSUE
By Cynthia Mullen, Terre Hante
I am deeply indebted to a Forum contributor for a crisp. ten-dollar bill. I won it on a bet in this wise My nephew and I were having an after breakfast chat, which naturally turned on campaign issues. We were speculating on what sort of tales the Hate-Roosevelts would push to the fore this summer. “About the first thing to be giver an airing will be the ‘little pigs’ story,” 1 said. “They simply couldn’t resist that, with Wallace in the run-| ining.” “The trouble with you, Aunt,” said, “is you have no imagination.
Presidents in tion; but when President Roosevelt sought to increase its membership. with the idea of keeping the court abreast of our other progressive leg- | then became an abuse of executive over our courts and was called dictatorship. Such previous
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unconstitutional or dictatorial but as a prerogative of the executive when done to liberalize the Court, so that progressive legisla(tion would not be called unconstitutional—but when done by a “communistic” New Dealer—then it becomes despotic. It makes a difference whose ox is gored. If you cannot discover
Side Glances—By Galbraith
O job is more important than the creation of beauty. Garden Club members can claim to have produced more visible results from their labors
than any other feminine group. Wherever one travels || evidence of their thought and toil can be |
nowadays, found; flowers, greensward, lily pools, tree-lined high-
of one group of women who, loving beauty, pledged themselves to promote it in its most natural forms
However, one cannot justly give all praise for the |
movement to women, since thousands upon thou-
sands of men also dote upon flower culture
| the preservation of sanity in times of stress can he
| traced to that
current, take their toll of |
|
Beach |
| 85 we do our blossoms. | kind of garden;
The water itself takes enough |
strange tie which binds mortals to their soil. Over and over again man has seen his dream castles tumble, watched his grandiose schemes fade, and said farewell to his most glowing hopes, only to find heart's ease in Adam's old profession— delving into the good earth. The rise of the Garden Club movement in the United States has been astonishing, and except when it carries the individual member to fanatical extremes it can have only worthy results. But because gardening does offer an escape from the pressing problems of business and social life, and from the horrors of international strife, it can easily become a drug which stupefies our sense of civic responsibility. To garden desperately while the nation burns, and while other nations die, is just about as stupid a procedure as sensible women could pursue. Let us resolve then to keep our grass green and our flowers blooming, but at the same time let us cultivate our political sense at least half as assiduously The political landscape is a what we sow there today we will be sure to reap upon some not too distant tomorrow. Every housewife should realize that eternal vigilance 1s the price of decent government, just as it has always been the price af a nicely growing garden, ”
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"Oh, stop your whimpering, Helen—this is the way | made a man out of your husband”
But the defenders of privilege frequently take heart as they find the |
tion in that George Washington re- |
tradition—though I don’t know what |
political reason for hating someone |
regu- |
My nephew laughed at that. | he |
The ‘little pigs’ are played out as campaign material. You've got to
common sense.” “Nevertheless,” I replied,
will be reincarnated before the, campaign is ended.” My nephew | reluctantly took the bet. He hated, he said,
poor little animals were, at that very moment, being groomed for a re-entry, grunting, just around the] corner, so to speak. When I picked up my paper tonight, there they (were!
2 2 =» SEES TECHNOLOGY AS ONLY FRONTIER IBy Proctor E. Dice With knowledge and efficiency in-| creasing, our people should have |
TUESDAY, JULY 30, 1940
Gen. Johnson Says—
Conscription Firmly Grounded in Democratic Tradition and Is Not A Device Invented by Dictators,
ASHINGTON, July 30.—Can democracy prepare for war or carry it on well and quickly enough to compete with the total powers of a dictator? We had better think fast on that one, One of thas “explanations” now seeping back from abroad about | the incredible French collapse is that because French | political leaders thought that the answer to that ques | tion is “no,” they pushed their country into that whirlpool of destruction—knowing she was both une willing and unready. : | Their argument was something like this. “Our | people are not ready and not willing to make the extreme effort and sacrifice to get ready. They mush be brought to that willingness. It can’t be done with France at peace. Only under pressure of war can we get dictatorial powers and a popular acceptance of them, which are absolutely necessary both to get ready and to fight. Behind our present defense, we believe we can hold Hitler back long enough to do both.” That “belief” proved disastrously wrong. Are we being pushed to the line of thinking on which it was based—that only dictatorial powers can cope with a dictator and that in this crisis democracy must first be put to sleep by being pushed nearer war? ” n ” . T is not true that democracies can’t cope with dic« tatorships. I sat in the center of things in 1917 and 1918 and saw this democracy prove that it is not. true—prove it on all three fronts—industrial, mane power and on the battlefields. But to beat dictators, democracies have got to show | the power to see as clearly and efficiently and be as willing to serve and sacrifice any of their potential enemies. A case in point is the new Selective Service Bill, Fully 9¢ per cent of our people are ardently in favor of “adequate defense.” Thus far, therefore, democracy is working for de« fense as well as any form of government can work, But, when it goes to conscriptive methods for raising the army, the welkin rings with every sort of con=fusion of counsel that defeats democracy or drives it to dictatorship. There are several provisions of the service bill that I think I can prove wrong in principle, but in the main the bill is necessary and sufficient. Failure to enact it promptly may lead to something worse, n ”
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NE objection is that we can rely on volunteering to get more than a million men. Both the Worid War and our Civil War prove that to be hightly doubt ful. We can’t take chances, The other principle objection is that it is an une American, undemocratic device of dictatorship invented by Napoleon. On one form or another, it ia as old as the hebraic exodus, and was implicit in the
| earliest Saxon laws in feudalism. Thus, we inherited
give the opposition credit for some |
| SE. “I'l bet| TOF,
you ten dollars that those same pigs |
| Thus, for very reason of efficiency, necessity,
to take advantage of me.| Little did I imagine that those
better homes, higher health stand-| |
the Since
income for America
ards and pleasure, reached its population has leveled off, ony frontier is more technology.
more has its territorial growth and | the
| But modern technology is more efficient than the equipment it dis-|
places, and production rises while man-hours decline. Wages and salaries are based on the number of hours worked and therefore in a
(high energy society sufficient pur-|
chasing power cannot be maintained by private enterprises. The Government is forced to aid, thereby jeopardizing its own financial structure.
Technocracy proposes that the
North American Continent be op-|
erated as a self-contained functional
junit under a technological admin-|
istration. Production and distri{bution facilities to be efficiently op{erated to supply the goods and {services demanded by the population; purchasing power to be dis[tributed on the basis of energy con{version and therefore commensurate with production. | This will achieve a high standard of living, equality of income ans economic security, {working hours to everv adult inhabitant. The young people will then have ample means for living (and to acquire an education.
” ” n SEES BIG SHIFT IN PARTY PRINCIPLES By Claude Braddick | It is asserted, with the color of
‘truth, that the Democratic Party,
as such, no longer exists. It might be asserted, with equal truth, that
the Republican Party is likewise defunct.
| If Wendell Willkie and Sen. Me- | then what |
Nary are Republicans, [are Jim Watson | Hoover? | The truth is that the Democratic
Party has moved so far to the left as to be enmeshed with socialism,
and Herbert
| while the Republican Fy ose |
always has been than lead the trends of | public sentiment-—-has abandoned | |its traditional conservatism and | | taken a position far to the lett of {that occupied by the Democrats | prior to the advent of the New Deal
| policy rather
Lo follow |
GALAXY By ROSE CRUZAN
I entered my room one night in June,
But how could I insult the moon, It shone so brightly, looked so kind.
Instead, I raised it ceiling high, Revealing moonbeams through the trees; Above, stars twinkled in the sky, Below, the shadows of the leaves.
DAILY THOUGHT
I know that the Lord will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and the right of the poor.—Psalms 140.12.
OD has so ordered that men, being in need of each other, should learn to love each other, and bear each other's burdens,—Sala,
at a mimmimum of |
it from both religious and racial antiquity and wrote universal liability to service into our constitutional law. So did the French revolution before Napoleon The two revolutionary democracies regarded it as an essential part of their new doctrine that de= mocracy itself is universal equality of obligation a® well as opportunity. tra= ditional and constitutional democracy and national defense, a proper selective service bill should pass at once,
Business
By John T. Flynn
Shift to Spending for Defense Carries Out Prophecy Made in '37,
"EW YORK, July 30.—Here is a prophecy made in 1937, It was made hefore the President's “quar antine the aggressors’ speech in Chicago in October of that year. This prophecy ran thus. Depressions are as old as history. When they become severe, with unemployement widespread, profits gone, farmers in distress, mortgages in default, always the same phenomenon appears. The Government—whether kingdom, empire, republic or dictatorship—suddenly becomes interested in the masses. It always does two things: First, it adopts wel« fare laws to improve the condition of the poor, of la= bor, of debtors. Second, it borrows money to the limit of its powers and spends it to put income into circu= lation. This has happened over and over. But in time this spending, if not very wisely man« aged, tends to jam the economic system further, Be cause in a depression caused by the discontinuance of investment, this private investment tends to freeze further and the spending, if carried on recklessly, adds to the fears of the investor. The next phase is for opposition to the spending to grow in vigor and power until it is not possible to continue spending. But spending cannot he discontinued, because the economic system has been shifted to a government credit base. It is then necessary to find some way to spend that the people with money will not resist, And always there is only one kind of spending they will not resist—spending and borrowing on national defense, spending and borrowing to create armies, produce armaments,
What of the Next Phase?
This gives the worried statesman a new leaze on if he can get away with it, because he can summon a great army that will take a great block of ths unemployed off the market and he can create a great industry that will put other tiiousands to work, But the ruler can do this only if he can create a war scare, And so, this prophecy ran (in 1937), ws will soon see a powerful resistance to spending and, since the world is jittery about war, we will see war | scares unloosed upon our people and then we will see | the emphasis on spending in this country shifted to | military projects instead of peacetime projects. Now I ask: Has not the prophecy been abundant« ly fulfilled? The revolt against spending began in 1938, and by the end of 1939 was sweeping the country. When Congress met in January it was in an ate mosphere of economy. And now we see them appropriating billions to establish an army of two million men, a two-ocean navy to repel an invasion by Hitler, and newspapers | triumphantly advertising the rise of military indus- | tries and—to make all complete—the most conserva= tive journals leading the clamor for spending. History tells us what the next phase of this will be also,
Watching Your Health
By Jane Stafford
EOPLE who earn their living at white collar of | A other jobs in cities pay, on the average, $34 a year | to doctors and dentists for the family. figures come
life,
piled by the U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics show.
Intending to draw down the blind! |
‘The total medical bill for a city wage earner’s family for the year comes to a little more than $59 on the average. Of this sum, about $13 go to the family doctor; about $11 for dental service, and about $10 are spent for medicines and drugs. Almost $6 are spent for hospital expenses. The remaining $19 are spent for eyeglasses, accident and health insurance, and miscellaneous medical expenses. “The aggregate expenditures for health protection, says the Bureau, “represent an average of $16 for each member of the family. This sum is not within hailing distance of the $76 per person which has been estimated by competent authorities as the cost of ade= quate medical care on a fee-for-service basis.” Family expenditures for medical and dental care g0 up on a dollars-and-cents basis as the family income goes up, but “the drain on the family purse is roughly the same at all economic levels,” the survey showed. Families in the $2700 to $3000 income group average $109 per year for health protection. Those with ine comes of $3000 and over spend $115. At the other ex. treme, families with incomes of $500 to $600 average
= per year for medical and dental care,