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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 hand. somest of all, though, was the Stutz Bearcat. Remember? The “Twenties” were big days in the automobile in-

dustry, too. But bad days came. And they started to dvop | One day we woke up to the fact that the Stutz was an |

off.

orphan in the automobile industry—a car out of produc.

tion.

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 wag being built in the old Stutz days

happy

plant, Perhaps

were coming back. But the Pak-Age

business finally went elsewhere and Stutz closed up again,

Now it

garage and warehouse quarters for L. & Ayres & Co.

This time it will serve as the The

is to reopen,

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 »f Tammany Hall, to succeed Jim Fare lev 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 hardIv fail to impress the country as a bad omen that the Roosevelt 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.

Farlev has built Thiz does not mean that Mr. Flynn will find it easy to

mto hig

fit

new post. He ig likely to have an extremely

difienlt time, as he acknowledges, trying to measure up to

Jim Farley,

However, he has shown himself locally to be a

skiliful mampulator, harmonizer and organizer. Mr, Flvnn 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

business for his own law firm and for his friends. ve shown a conspicuous confidence in his firm for ap-

ye

ha

pointment to fat receiverships.

Judges

He 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, indis-

tinguishable 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 con-

| NEY Siaerati

ms of political expediency such as those which led

te his seleetion.

DEATH, TOO, IS MOTORIZED

MARION County traffic accidents have taken a toll of T2 lives so far this vear, 18 more than for the same period

a Veéar ago.

This upward trend holds true also for the na-

tion, a thousand more lives having been snuffed out during the first half of the vear than in the first six months of 1939. Death, following the human lead, has also motorized his

battalions.

te is gradually forcing back the safety troops

which were for so long gradually reducing the toll of trafic.

June was the ninth consecutive month,

the National

Safety Council reports, to show an increase over the preced-

ing 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 ¥ per cent increase in auto mileage. Rut the Safety Council believes that the war also has had its effect in making people reckless and careless, The traffic toll 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 agaist death's motorized divisions ean not slacken.

MR. GREEN ACTS

HIS week William Green, president of the American

Federation of Labor, read a newspaper story saving | that Joseph (Joe Socks) Lanza, an ex |

record for

~convict with a long strong-arm racketeering, had been re-elected

some time ago as business agent of the United Seafood Workers’ Union, Local 16975, 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 serv

years in a

ing two 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

It may seem strange that Lanza should have been re. | © sa elected and that the A. F. of L. president's of the event should have come months later, and from a! newspaper story,

action, and we commend him for it. first knowledge

At least the episode suggests that news-

papers 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 | in on theif unions,

cooks who have muscled

Ne

Enough

By Westbrook Pegler

If Tax Cases Against Carrorzo Are Sustained, Mis Right to Hold Citizenship Should Be Reviewed

CATEW 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 Amer tan Federation of Labor in Chicago, it will then be

in order—in fact, mandatory—to inquire into the le-

gitimacy of his eitizenship. Citizen Carrozzo was haturalized 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 legiti- | mate 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. 20, 1987, and | granted on July 6 of that year.

i * = = E 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 | 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 seri. | ourly impugned. Proceedings to nullify it will then become the obvious duty of the Department of Justice That Mike, in his capacity of labor leader, could have acquired by means consistent with the pro- | fessed ideals of the American Federation of Labor a | sufficient income to deserve a deficit and penalty of | R241 088 in two years, to say nothing of the large | income which he did report for those years, is not to | | be considered.

i ® » » F COURSE, there is a difference between the | tight, legal proof of the exact dates on which | | Mike received his 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 la- | bor 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 dig- |

nity 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 distlusioned 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 unions ‘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 Ameri | can 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 pioportions developed the other day when a streetcar motorman who didn't know his law refused to let Miss Florence Daniels of 457 Arsenal Ave. and her seeing-eye dog ride on his car. It all proved very embarrassing for the Street Railway people. whose middie 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-eve dogs on any public vehicles, 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 you Knew there were oodles of State emplovees milling around, all talking about getting the motorman fired Anvway

the Street Railway bosses almost fell over themselves extending apologies They aid they thought all their motarmen knew the law and. by golly, all of them would bdefore another day was over Maybe that's why we noticed a motorman actually grinning at a pup this morning. Just to be safe, we suppose

» - » THE OTHER DAY the Union Trust Company's softball team. which just won the Majestic League pennant, was vited by Hiram MeKee to his country home to play a pick-up team Score: Pickups, 13. Union Trust, 2 Louis Schwitger Sr. president of Schwitzer-Cummings C0. owns an amphibian, which he keeps out at Municipal Airport They've taken it out to dust it off. , . | Louis is going fishing in the north woods and he'll just glide to a stop on some lake in the Northwest. open the door and throw out his line. . . . No Kidding!

» =» = 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. . . , Trying to be useful we called up C. R. Gutermuth of the Conservation Department and he said it couldn't be. . . . “Birds don’t do such funny things,” he said. , . . It must have been Boeings, Mary/Katherine. , . . The police radio dispatcher had the newspaper reporters half daffy vesterday. . . . He kept calling all ears 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 the police 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

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

FRIDAY, AUG. 2, 1940

Getting to Sleep on a Warm Summer Night

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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,

WILLKIE IN THE AIR

FEELS TRIUMPH FOR

By Disappointed Public opinion is something you feel in the air. I feel that Wire) is going to defeat Roosevelt so decisively that the New Deal will be | thrown to the scrap heap so strong that it will be shattered to pieces I fee] also that Roosevelt, if he is

elected, will soon resign and Henry

| Wallace will be the next President!

'T am a Democrat and

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 Government payroll. I don't want to see this country of ours get involved in the European 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 no good. MeNutt, McHale, Eider, Minton, Townsend, Bays—1I have had enough of their “leadership” and I want a change here in Indiana Democeracy requires change and it prohibits perpetuation in office as Roosevelt, the Great Third Termite. 18 NOW trying to do. And. mind vou, there are thousands of Democrats here like me » ~ ~

CITES REASONS FOR FAVORING ENGLAND By I. R. Gillespie I wish to reply to Mr. Guy Daugherty, who on July 29, expressed amazement that America’s sympathies 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 full equality, her non-English sub-

| jects to hold policy making positions

fall

| You. [It is natural for fomen to dream and hope and

tee lovely visions in their babies’ eves

You will be careful about his feeding. By the |

ime he is able to toddle vou 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 ®ndure a thousand worries for his sake and flinch al no sacrifice which promotes his welfare.

| more intently and prayerfully than any scientist ever | watched a laboratory experiment. | intellectual alertness will flood your being with pride.

| tears and hurts will rend your heart.

And as he grows, you will watch his development | Eaeh evidence of |

| His lawghter will be sweet music in your ears, and his |

Together you and his father will instill in him the |

moral precepts by which you live. He will be taught his “Now I Lay Me,” and to overcome selfishness, and to cultivate the arts of manliness and humanity. Because vou already know the anguish and patience that go into the creation of one little child

y

| But, if you | omit one important duty. fine human being vou will leave to others the task of looking after the affairs of a state and a world into which your child must one day go

and your baby? The answer is, everything . And so I

you will strive in every respect to be a good mother. | 'mble most good mothers, you will | In your ardor to mould a

What, you ask. can politics have ta do with vou |

pray vou, Gentle Soul, to consider what maternity |

means in {ts larger sense

of yours may not be abie to realize any of the dreams vou cherish for him. The word duty now has very wide implicatiops. For mothers who really care want to help build & good society as well as good homes for their children

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Unless all cur young mothert are willing to take | a little hime out from their personal tasks, that baby

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in her government in England and self-governing dominions-—ex- | amples: Disraeli, the Jew; Lloyd George, the Welshman; Ramsay MacDonald, the Scotsman, all of

| whom became Prime Ministers; Wil-

liam of Orange, the Dutchman and, the three German Georges of the

man i {who sought to break up the growing

(Times readers are invited to express their in theses columns, religious cons

views

troversies excluded. Make |

your letters short, so all can have a chance. Letters must be signed, but names will be

withheld on request.)

German House of Hanover are a

few of the non-English who became ing they were not on the bonfire started by this novice in setting up

a new Germany founded upon the

kings. Can Mr. Daugherty make a like list of non-Germans who ats] tained positions of leadership in the] German Government? I fail, off

hand. to remember one non-German the same, they can try out any sort

who was so favored. 3. It is pretty much a fact that Britain has been “de-empiring” for some time, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Afriea are self-governing, and as democratic as any nations in the world, They have their own monetary systems, and control of their foreign aflairs, Compare the treatment of the French in Quebec with the Poles and other non-Germans in the German empire, even belore Adolf I. 4. Against whom Patrick

Henry speaking when he said “Give me liberty or give me death?” Was it against Parliament or the GerHanoverian King George III

Was

democracy-—the Petition of Rights and the Bill of Rights—represented by the English Parliament? It is true the British Parliament was not very democratic at the time, largely because of the dictatorial ambitions and methods of George III. It was this German-bred and Germanschooled English king and his Hes- | sian (German) soldiers whom the! colonists fought. Can Mr. Daugherty mean that he is pro-Hitler in the present conflict | after Munich, Prague, Warsaw, Oslo, Copenhagen, Amsterdam and Ante werp? Or is he merely ant -British | without wishing Hitler any luck. { » i WANTS NAZI IDEAS CONFINED TO GERMANY By Liberty } Nazi propaganda to the effect that |

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British politics and was the force that impelled Chamberlain to stand up against Hitler, Again Labor has had its Prime Minister, and has no illusions as to various saviours of one sort or an-

[other, one of the chief reasons for |

the British Empire and the reason it shall prevail. If Naziism means barter as an economic foree it should take its textbooks and read up a bit, provid-

enthusiasm of youth en the march. But if Nagiism is minding its own business or any other ism doing

of political innovation their people

sancuion, but no other nation will

have it imposed upon them from without, and naturally will fight to prevent it.

As to Genmnany seeking redress

for reparations, it would be perti-| nent to remind them this country after the war closed bought various issues of German bonds. When it became apparent that the much vaunted German economic genius was another dud and they would never be repaid these great American suckers quit buying them and the some payments “in kind.” ete. Then to cap the climax they inflated the currency. and when it was worth about 50 cents a ton paid off their domestic bondholders and

so 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 the laughing stock of the world. ~ ” »

RAPS PLATFORM OF DEMOCRATIC PARTY By Arthur 8S. Mellinger. The public is beginning to realize that political platforms are made to run on, and not stand on after the election.

The platform of the New Deal |

was made of planks that have been worked so badly that they are unrecognizable, as for instance, the

reparations ceased except for

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 confusion seems to extend also to the very highest in the seats of the mighty. For 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.” on 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 Govern= mental 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— until 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 is 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 be a coalition for war—whicih our peopls won't want, wn 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 littls | before the horse. The guard is a skeletonized organ- | ization. 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 hum’'s-rush approach to a bungled conserintion 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, etc, 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 into being | & 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 ou! of work. For several years I have been calling attention to the folly of those foolish dreamers who talk at in= tervals ahout disarmament conferences; about per= suading nations like Germany and Italy and France and others to reduce their national defense industries. It would be to ask them to precipitate an economio crisis of the worst sort, Once the world builds its eco nomic 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,

they are liberating Britain is rare, 1932 platform of the Democratic | save perhaps farming, will surpass it in the number

inasmuch as the Labor Party in

Party. There has been talk of a third

employed. Along with this will go many things-- | things Americans dislike, even hate, and worst of all

England it a dominating force in party. We don't need a third party. | will go the ceaseless necessity of providing the answer

Side Glances—By Galbraith

a

|

We already have one. We have the Republicans. the Democrats and the New Deal Party. The latter is a sort of a hyphenated Communis-

tic affair, but it is not an Amer- |

ican product. ] More stress needs to be placed on the conduct in office, and the public should demand the party in power to fulfill its promises made during a campaign.

DAISIES By MAIDEN LEAH STECKELMAN

| They stand defenseless-—brave and

free— Billowing gently cross the lea Like waves of foam cast out to sea:

Then suddenly they merge and swell— For 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

and sweet for biter! Isaiah

HERE is nothi:

uly evil but

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| to those who want to reduce armaments and go back | to the old way. The answer will always he the same—fear of ag- | gression, 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 te the continuance of our | militaristic business. - |

‘Watching Your Health

By Jane Stafford

| MALL boys will soon be holding freckle contests, NZ 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 pro= tection 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 pig= ment 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 fact that the pigment or coloring matter is de ited so deep in the skin that it cannot be removed 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 auth el , &8 even these powa Ee

y to lo not reach deep pign BO ks Ah » i | 3

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