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FRIDAY, AUGUST 2, 1940

THE DAYS OF THE STUTZ

HE first World War was just getting under way when Harry C. Stutz put up the first of the buildings that were to house Stutz Motors. Those were the days of big, handsome automobiles. There was the Cole, the Chalmers, Chandler, Apperson, Hupmobile, Paige. One of the handsomest of all, though, was the Stutz Bearcat. Remember? The “Twenties” were big days in the automobile industry, too. But bad days came. And they started to drop off. One day we woke up to the fact that the Stutz was an orphan in the automobile industry—a car out of production.

Price in Marion Couns

By Westbrook Pegler

If Tax Cases Against Carrozzo Are Sustained, His Right to Hold Citizenship ‘Should Be Reviewed

| EW YORK, Aug: 2.—Should success attend the | efforts of the Federal Government in its various | proceedings against Mike Carrozzo, the gunman and racketeer who operates under the charter of the American Federation of Labor in Chicago, it will then be in order—in fact, mandatory—+to inquire inte the legitimacy of his citizenship. Citizen Carrozzo was naturalized on July 6, 1937, after two previous applications had been withdrawn on the strength of warnings that if he pursued them he would be blackballed. He came to the United States from Italy in 1906, and did not apply for citizenship until Nov. 17, 1926. In July 1927, he withdrew this application—in which, incidentally, he gave his address as the Drake Hotel, Chicago, an expensive house which would have been beyond the means of a legitimate leader of a union of day laborers, Carrozzo next applied in August, 1927, barely a month after the withdrawal of his first dttempt, and withdrew this petition on Sept. 27, 1928. His third and successful petition was filed on Jan, 29, 1937, and granted on July 6 of that year.

» n » HE current Sherman Act indictment against him and the pending income-tax case, in which the old habitue of the Chicago vice district has posted securities of $277,251 to lift a lien of $241,088 from his country estate, concern a period which antedates the

Many of us who drove past the Stutz plant felt twinges of sadness as we glanced at the familiar insignia on Capitol | Avenue—"The Car That Made Good In a Day.” We felt a little flicker when we learned that the Pak-

Age Car was being built in the old Stutz plant. Perhaps happy davs were coming back. But the Pak-Age

business finally went elsewhere and Stutz closed up again, Now it is to reopen. This time it will serve as the] garage and warehouse quarters for L. 8 Ayres & Co. The old day has come to an end. A new one starts, | . |

CHAIRMAN FLYNN HE selection of Edward J. Flynn, county boss of the Bronx branch of Tammany Hall, to succeed Jim Farlev as Chairman of the Democratic National Committee was | an act of political expediency, designed to upset the fewest |

possible balances and adjustments. | Aside from this short-range consideration, it can hard- | Iv fail to impress the country as a bad omen that the Roose- | velt regime has turned to Tammany for its political leadership. ' Mr. Flynn is a man of unusual personal suavity, con- | genial to the President and since 1933 the Administration's closest link with the New York City local party machinery. He is an insider in the national organization which Mr. | Farley has built. This does not mean that Mr, Flynn will find it easy to | He 1g likely to have an extremely |

fit into his new difficult time, as he acknowledges, trying to measure up to | Jim Farley. However, he has shown himself locally to be a | skillful manipulator, harmonizer and organizer. Mr. Flynn has been Sheriff and City Chamberlain, and later New York's Secretary of State. His period as an officeholder has been a time of exceptionally profitable legal | husiness for his own law firm and for his friends. Judges | have shown a conspicuous confidence in his firm for appointment to fat receiverships. Ile was counsel to the State Title & Mortgage Co. at the same time he was City Chamberlain, and the rash investment of trust funds then | made in state title “guaranteed” mortgages later proved disastrous to many small owners. Local party candidates and officeholders in the Bronx, under Mr. Flynn's long leadership, have not as a class been notable for excellence. They have been, in general, indistinguigshable from the Tammanyites of Manhattan. Unless Mr. Flynn displays sudden and unusual capacity for growth, his chairmanship is likely in our opinion to be marked chiefly by fidelity to spoils standards and to considerations of political expediency such as those which led to his selection,

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DEATH, TOO, IS MOTORIZED ARION County traffic accidents have taken a toll of 72 lives go far this year, 18 more than for the same period | a vear ago. This upward trend holds true also for the nation, a thousand more lives having heen snuffed out during the first half of the year than in the first six months of 1959. Death, following the human lead, has also motorized his battalions. le is gradually forcing back the safety troops | which were for so long gradually reducing the toll of traific. June was the ninth consecutive month, the National Safety Council! reports, to show an increase over the preceding vear. And 14,740 people have been mown down since | Jan. 1, as compared with 13,700 in the first six months of |

last vear. The 8 per cent increase almost exactly coincides with a 7 per cent increase in auto mileage. But the Safety Council believes that the war also has had its effect in making people |

reckless and careless, The traffic {oll, began to rise almost | exactly when the war started last September, and reached | its peak in June, when France surrendered, | This is a war without end, without armistice. The fight | against death's motorized divisions can not slacken. |

MR. GREEN ACTS HIS week William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, read a newspaper story saying that Joseph (Joe Socks) Lanza, an ex-convict with a long record for strong-arm racketeering, had been re-elected some time ago as business agent of the United Seafood Workers’ Union, Local 16,975, New York City. The story appeared in the Scripps-Howard Newspapers. Mr. Green promptly revoked the local union's charter. When Lanza was released last year, after serving two | years in a Federal prison, Mr. Green ordered the union not to restore him to his former job as business agent. That order having been disobeyed, Mr. Green has taken the only appropriate action, and we commend him for it. It may seem strange that Lanza should have been reelected and that the A. F. of L. president’s first knowledge of the event should have come months later, and from a newspaper story. At least the episode suggests that newspapers which print facts about men with criminal records holding official positions in A. F. of L. unions are doing Mr. Green a more valuable service than he has sometimes ap- | peared willing to acknowldge.

At any rate, the Seripps-Howard Newspapers intend to | continue the publication of such facts, not only to keep Mr. Green informed about what is going on in the branches of his big organization, but as a service to honest rank-and-file members now being victimized by cmoks who have muscled in on theif unions,

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granting of his citizenship. If it should be shown that Mike was engaged in illegal activities within five years before his petition finally was granted, his naturalization will be seriously impugned. Proceedings to nullify it will then hecome the obvious duty of the Department of Justice,

That Mike, in his capacity of labor leader, could |

have acquired by means consistent with the professed ideals of the American Federation of Labor a

| sufficient income to deserve a deficit and penalty of { $241,088 in two years, to say nothing of the large

income which he did report for those years, is not to be considered.

» 8 » OF COURSE, there is a difference hetween the tight, legal proof of the exact dates on which Mike received hig various items of income and the nature of the services involved and his notorious character as a gunman and racketeer. He has always been an associate of criminals of the Capone and labor rackets in Chicago, and the fact that the court permitted him to become naturalized at all, after the withdrawal of two previous applications, adds no dignity to American citizenship.

For almost 20 years he had been a notorious char- |

acter in Chicago, where he took up residence in the brothel district within a year after his arrival, and humble, honest immigrants, aspiring to citizenship as a great honor and privilege, are likely to be disillusioned on hearing that a Mike Carrozzo could obtain the same certificate,

In a moment of anger recently, when his activities |

were being questioned, Mike, speaking, it is hoped, only for himself and not as an official of many union of the American Federation of Labor, exclaimed, “What this country needs is a Mussolini!” There are those who dissent from that view, but more would agree that what this country doesn't need is Mike Carrozzo, gunman, racketeer, a disgrace to the American Federation of Labor and a reproach to American citizenship

Inside Indianapolis

Streetcars and Seeing-Eye Dogs, A Softball Game and Wild Geese

TEMPEST of teapot proportions developed the other day when a streetcar motorman who didn't Know his law refused to let Miss Florence Daniels of

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| 457 Arsenal Ave. and her seeing-eye dog ride on his

car, It all proved very embarrassing for the Street Railway people, whose middle name under its boss, Charles W. Chase, is courtesy and service. Miss Daniels got on this particular streetcar and told the motorman the law provided that blind persons could take their seeing-cyve dogs on any public vehicle, The Motorman insisted there was no such law and Miss Daniels had to get off. The next day, Mrs. Cora Daniels. mother of the blind girl, went to check the law at the State House.

| Her story spread about the building and first thing

oodles of talking about

were all

vou knew there milling around, torman fired Anyway, the Street Railway bosses almost fell over themselves extending apologies. They said they thought all their motermen knew the law and. by golly, all of them would before another day was over Maybe that's why we noticed a motorman actually grinning at a pup this morning. Just to be safe suppose,

n » » THE OTHER DAY the Union Trust Company's softball team, which just won the Majestic League pennant, was ivvited hy Hiram MeKee to his country home to play a pick-up team Score: Pickups, Louis Schwitger Sr, president of Schwitzer-Cummings ©€06., owns an amphibian which he keeps out at Municipal Airport . They've taken it out to dust it off. , . . Louis is going fishing

State employees getting the mo-

in the north woods and he'll just glide to a stop on |

some lake in throw out his line. , .

the Northwest, open the door and

. No kidding! n n ” NINE-YEAR-OLD Mary Katherine Brown of 2245

| N. Ritter Ave. has called us twice now to say she's | seen wild geese fiving south. . | we called up C. R. Gutermuth of the Conservation

. » Trying to be useful

. “Birds . It must . . . The police

Department and he said it couldn't be. . . don’t do such funny things,” he said. , . have been Boeings, Mary/Katherine.

| radio dispatcher had the newspaper reporters half

daffy yesterday. . . . He kept calling all cars asking their whereabouts and the newspaper laddies ran their legs off chasing false alarms. . . . The dispatcher was merely demonstrating to 81 pop-eved Washington County 4-H clubbers how

| radio works.

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

ES. he's a beautiful baby, so sturdy. winning and

- Intelligent. No doubt he is a veritable wonder to |

vou. [It is natural for women to dream and hope and

| see lovely visions in their babies’ eyes

You will he careful about his feeding. By the time he is able to toddle you will have mastered the details of his diet and the name and function of every vitamin will be as familiar as ABC. Every little chang: of formula, every alteration of schedule, will be studied as if it were a major problem of the universe—and for you it should be. You will also study psychology hooks, so that he may grow up mentally as well as physically fit. You will endure a thousand worries for his sake and flinch at no sacrifice which promotes his welfare. And as he grows, you will watch his development more intently and prayerfully than any scientist ever watched a laboratory experiment. Eaeh evidence of intellectual alertness will flood your being with pride. His lawghter will be sweet music in your ears, and his tears and hurts will rend your heart. Together you and his father will instill in him the moral precepts by which you live. He will be taught to say his “Now I Lay Me,” and to overcome selfishness, and to cultivate the arts of manliness and humanity. Because you already know the anguish and patience that go into the creation of one little child you will strive in_every respect to be a good mother. But, if you emble most good mothers, you will omit one important duty.

What, you ask, can politics have to do with vou The answer is, everything . And so I pray vou, Gentle Soul, to consider what ‘maternity | means in its larger sense | Unless all our young mothere are willing to take | a little time out from their personal tasks, that baby of yours may not be able to realize any of the dreams you cherish for him. The word duty now has very wide implicatiogs. For mother who really care want to help build &# good society as well as good hom for their children

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the police |

In your ardor to mould a | fine human being you will leave to others the task of | looking after the affairs of a state and a world into | which yeur child must one day go. i

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES Getting to Sleep on a Warm Summer Night

FRIDAY, AUG. 2, 1940

I wholly

The Hoosier Forum

defend to the death your right to say it.—Vollaire.

disagree with what you say, but will

FEELS TRIUMPH FOR | WILLKIE IN THE AIR By Disappointed Public opinion is something you feel in the air. I feel that Willkie 1s going to defeat Roosevelt so de-

cisively that the New Deal will be| thrown te the scrap heap so strong |

that it will be shattered to pieces. 1 feel also that Roosevelt, if he is

elected, will soon resign and Henry | German House of Hanover are a|textbooks and read up a bit, provid[few of the non-English who became | ing they were not on the bonfire

| Wallace will be the next President! What a grand slam would it be for

the country if Wallace gets to be the Chief Executive. There are too many of the Eastern philosophers, theorists, slickers and others with a lot of nonAmerican and un-American ideas | surrounding Roosevelt, and I want

| to see most of them retired to their |

|own devices and away from the Jovernment payroll. I don't want to see this country |of ours get involved in the Euro- | pean war, and I feel that Roosevell is already fighting the Nazis and the Italians in behalf of Britain | with tongue lashings that will do us Ino good. McNutt, McHale, Elder, Minton, Townsend, Bays—I have had enough |of their “leadership” and TI want a change here in Indiana De- | moeracy requires change and it prohibits perpetuation in office as | Roosevelt, the Great Third Termite, 15 now trying to do. And. mind vou, [I am a Democrat and there are thousands of Democrats here like me ! « » » CITES REASONS FOR FAVORING ENGLAND

By I. R. Gillespie

I wish to reply to Mr. Guy Daugh-

jerty, who on July 29, expressed amazement that America's sympa'thies should be with Britain rather than Hitler. Perhaps these reasons will help Mr. Daugherty understand why Americans prefer Britain to Hitler. At least they influenced this 50-50 Scotch-German. 1. Our law, language. democracy. and even most of our culture came from England.

2. Britain permits, on a basis of | her non-English sub-|

| full equality, | jects to hold policy making positions

in her government in England and | self-governing dominions—ex- | Lloyd | Ramsay

[all | amples: | George,

Disraeli, the Jew; the Welshman; MacDonald, the Scotsman. all of liam of Orange, the Dutchman and the three German Georges of the

| like list of non-Germans

| democracy—the Petition of Rights! and the Bill of Rights—represented

tions and methods of George ITI. It |

By Liberty

whom became Prime Ministers; Wil- |

British politics and was the force

(Times readers are invited that impelled Chamberlain to stand

to express their views in these columns. rehaious: con up against Hitler. 5 ( $ ell . - ! DUNIRY gion Again Lahor has had its Prime troversies excluded. Make

Minister, and has no illusions as to various saviours of one sort or another, one of the chief reasons for the British Empire and the reason

it shall prevail. If Naziism means economic force it should

your letters short, so all can have a chance. Letters must be signed, but names will be thhel st. withheld on request.) Barter: gs: an take its

Can Mr. Daugherty make a | Started by this novice in setting up ho ate? new Germany founded upon the vw 0 Al*lanthusiasm of youth en the march. tained positions of leadership in the | But if Naziism is minding its own German Government? I fail, off business or any other ism doing hand, to remember one non-German the same, they can try out any sort ho was so favored of political innovation their people WI yay ; sanction, but no other nation will 3. It is pretty much a fact thal pave it imposed upon them from Britain has been “de-empiring” without, and naturally will fight to for some time. Canada, Australia,

| prevent it. New Zealand and South Afriea are| AS to Germany seeking redress self-governing, and as democratic as

for reparations, it would be pertinent to remind them this country

kings.

any nations in the world. They giter the war closed bought various have their own monetary systems, issues of German bonds. When it ‘and control of their foreign affairs, became apparent that the much Compare the treatment of the vaunted German economic genius French in Quebec with the Poles was another dud and they would never be repaid these great Amerand other non-Germans in the jean suckers quit buying them and German empire, even before the reparations ceased except for Adolf I. some payments “in kind,” ete. 4. Against whom was Patrick, Then to cap the climax they in-

flated the currency, and when it

Henry speaking when he said “Give was worth about 50 cents a ton paid

me liberty or give me death?” Was oh it against Parliament or the Gey. Off their domestic Witghoiders and man Hanoverian King George IIT 50 Worked the general ruin they at-

tributed te the Jews. Is it any wonder no nation would make peace with a regime that has so little sense? Its word is worth nothing unless imposed upon them. The German propagandist had better set himself to the task of how to prevent Germany from becoming was this German-bred and German- [the laughing stock of the world. schooled English king and his Hes- | r Fa sian (German) soldiers whom the colonists fought. RAPS PLATFORM OF Can Mr. Daugherty mean that he DEMOCRATIC PARTY is pro-Hitler in the present conflict | : after Munich, PI Waa Oslo, {Y AT S Mlguger. Copenhagen, Amsterdam and Ant-| The public is beginning tao realize werp? Or is he merely anti-Britisa|thau political platforms are made without wishing Hitler any luck. to run on, and not stand on after

| the election.

who sought to break up the growing |

by the English Parliament? It is true the British Parliament was not very democratic at the time, largely | because of the dictatorial ambi-

» WANTS NAZI IDEAS CONFINED TO GERMANY

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|worked so badly that they are unNazi propaganda to the effect that | recognizable, as for instance, the |

they are liberating Britain is rare,|1932 platform of the Democratic |

inasmuch as the Labor Party in Party. 1s dominat for | There has been talk of a third] England i& a dominating force in party. We don't need a third party. |

"Yes, but you should see the:

Side Glances—By Galbraith

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S00, 130 mY ea shave, we'Y MEG, U8 PAT, 008,

big muscles he h

We already have one. We have the Republicans. the Democrats and the New Deal Party. The latter is] a sort of a hyphenated Communis[tie affair, but it is not an American product. ' | More stress needs to be placed lon the conduct in office, and the | public should demand the party in| power to fulfill its promises made | | ening a campaign.

DAISIES

| Then suddenly they merge and | | | [ swell— | | Por what—for why-—they never tell Nor know ye why this quickened spell Like soldiers swarming to the fore, A million strong and many more To obey some silent hidden lore—

Once more secure, they blow again And do not fear the slashing rain, And neither heed the swift cold

pain, ’ But lift their faces, calm, serene; With simple faith in the great, Un- ' seen.

DAMY THOUGHT

Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for iy and sweet for biter! Isaiah 5:20.

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Gen. Johnson Says— :

President's Avoidance of Direct O. K. of Draft Bill Justified Because It Needs Lots of Smoothing Out

ASHINGTON, Aug. 2—I can't see much the * matter with the President's avoidance of a direct indorsement of the Burke-Wadsworth Conscription Bill in its present form. He has at least twice indicated his belief in the principles of selective service, THis particular bill is right in principle, but; it needs promptly much more study, debate and correction than it has yet had. It is essential, too, that the public learn a lot more about this subject. My

mail indicated remarkably complete confusion. That confusipn seems to extend also to the very highest in the seats of the mighty. Tor example, the very alert and intelligent Senator Byrnes is reported to have remarked: “The Government might be taking, on a lot of additional expense if we began right now to register men over 45... . We ought to register only those we need.” ” n ” F the registration js conducted in the completely successful way it was in 1917 and 1918, the cost of registration is utterly negligible. You simply use the existing local machinery for registration for elections. The service is voluntary and uncompensated. The only expense is for forms, stationery, postal and telegraph bills, That will have to be borne whatever the age limits, and the additional cost for registering men up to 64 would hardly equal that of Governmental political handouts for one day. How can you ‘register only those you need?” Registration isn't selection for service. You can't tell what you need-—or rather what you ought to take— unril you see what you've got. The Burke-Wadsworth Bill is confusing and out of that confusion is growing a distinct, heart-sickening political approach to this subject. This column 1s not in the least in favor of any “coalition” departure from the two-party system, It certainly would oppose any such attempt to get unofficial bi-partisan agreements on such acts of war as furnishing Great Britain our Government rifles, guns, destroyers and airplanes, That. would he a coalition for war—whicin our peopls won't want,

© 8B UT this selective service business is absolutely necessary for defense—which our people do want, It would be patriotic statesmanship on both sides if conferees for the President and Mr, Willkie could agree on the principles of a much simpler selective service law which they could both approve and recommend to Congress. That would stop this beginning political clap-trap. The Senate Military Committee's approval of calling out the National Guard for training before this question is settled, is putting the cart a littla before the horse. The guard is a skeletonized organization. To get the best results in training and for defense it ought to be recruited to war strength, Gen. Marshall says that can't be done without the selective draft. He is unquestionably correct, Speed is essential all along the line but a hasty bum’'s-rush approach to a bungled conscrintion bill is not real speed on the one hand and it does, as is now apparent, open the door to the most dangerous and despicable form of partisan politics on the other,

Business By John T. Flynn

Nation Based on Armed Economy Likely Offshoot of Draft Bill

EW YORK, Aug. 2.—One of the grave features of th? universal military training plan is almost wholly economic. The citizen, induced to believe that Hitler will come here, is willing to rush into the fallacy of a huge conscript army. He thinks of defense. He does not put much emphasis on the economic consequences of this step. He is told there is a crisis,in the world, | that it is a crisis of force, that to meet it we must raise a great army which of course he hopes we can dissolve when the crisis is past. But, so far as this army is concerned, this is a crisis that will never pass, and that is the point which must be kept in mind. The Government plans an army of around two | million men. These men will account for a payroll | and maintenance budget of a billion dollars a year. They will have to be provided with guns, clothes, munitions, trucks, tanks, barracks, ete., all of which will mean the employment of perhaps another million men and the expenditure of several billions. When | this gets under way we will have brought inte being | a new industry—the national defense industry—which will account, for more employment than any other | great industry. Having established this, having provided for the employment of at least three million men, having | set into motion an industry which accounts for seve | eral billions a year in national income, what will | happen when someone proposes that we demobilize it?

Answer Always the Same

It must be borne in mind that the proponents of this plan have no intention of demobilizing it. They are talking about a permanent peace-time institution. But when the heavy costs begin to bear down on the shoulders of the taxpayers, and men begin to talk about cutting out the conscript army, what must be the reaction? It will mean throwing millions of men out of work. For several years I have been calling attention to the folly of those foolish (reamers who talk at intervals about disarmament conferences; about persuading nations like Germany and Italy and France and others to reduce their national defense industries.

The platform of the New Deal | was made of planks that have been |

It would be to ask them to precipitate an economic crisis of the worst sort, Once the world builds its economic structure on an arms economy, all talk of disarmament and peace becomes a childish dream. Now we are preparing to build our own-economio life upon the arms industry. For no other industry, save perhaps farming, will surpass it in the number employed. Along with this will go many things— things Americans dislike, even hate, and worst of all will go the ceaseless necessity of providing the answer to those who want to reduce armaments and go back to the old way. The answer will always be the same—fear of aggression, fear of one country today and some other country tomorrow, manufactured war scares, power politics, the production of enemies, for enemies will be absolutely necessary to the continuance of our militaristic business.

Watching Your Health

By Jane Stafford

MALL boys will soon be holding freckle contests, A? while older sisters will be busy applying lemon juice or other remedies in an effort to remove from their own fair skins the freckles acquired during sume mer outings. Freckling, like tanning, is a mechanism for protection against the burning power of the sun's rays. It depends on the presence in the deep layers of the skin of pigment or coloring matter called melanin. Natives of the tropics are naturally endowed with a more generous supply of this pigment, their darker skins giving them the protection they need from the almost continuous bright sunshine. White persons with rather dark skins, evidence of a liberal supply of’melanin, tan more easily and quickly than blonds. ‘Those who have very white skins, the kind that usually goes with red hair, have so little of this pigment that they never tan and get very bad sunburns from even short exposure to the sun’s rays. Some skins do not produce the pigment in all parts and on exposure to sunlight these skins freckle instead of tanning. ~ The difficulty in getting rid of freckles is due to the fact that the pigment or coloring matter is deposited so deep in the skin that it cannot be removed by any bleach that is safe. Powerful alkaline bleaches sometimes offered as freckle removers or skin peels remove the upper layers of the skin and may cause serious inflammation, but the bleaching effect is said by one authority to be temporary, as even

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