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THURSDAY, AUGUST 22, 1940

THE RCA EXPANSION

NDIANAPOLIS has every right to be elated by the announcement that the RCA Manufacturing Co. will m- | mediately expand its operations here, adding 1000 employees | and increasing the local payroll by $1,000,000 a year. A thousand more jobs and a million dollars a year mean that much more flowing through the channels of commerce | in this city. It means more business activity for every one. | But Indianapolis will be feeling the effect of the RCA expansion long before those 1000 jobs materialize. For the | construction job that goes before means just as much. RCA | does not yet know how much will be spent in the construc- | tion of the four plants that are to be erected but it can | be assumed that factories with floor areas of more than 100,000 square feet also run into the millions. That money will go into the building trades and Indianapolis will be benefiting from the very start. Aside from those simple facts on economics, however, there is an additional reason for pride in RCA’s selection | of Indianapolis for its expansion. It puts the spotlight on our growth as an important industrial center. Ours is a growing city.

ANOTHER AUTUMN APPROACHES

PRING has departed and now summer is passing since | our Government decided it must undertake a gigantic | rearmament program. There was tall talk of a 50,000plane air force, and Henry Ford said his plant alone could | turn out 1000 a day. Yet the admirals and the generals are still telling Con- | gressional committees that they are having a hard time | placing orders for aircraft, anti-aircraft guns, armor plate, | etc. Navy representatives say that industries find Navy business unattractive, because of the 8 per cent profit limit, and have been devoting their plants to capacity production on orders for the Army and the British, which are free from the profit limit and the red tape incident thereto. | Army spokesmen report that some companies refuse | to bid, saying they can’t risk big investments for necessary | plant expansions until they know what the Government is going to do about allowing for amortization. Others won't bid because they can’t persuade subcontractors to do busi- | ness on the terms and the uncertainties which the Govern-! ment imposes. Congress is debating a bill to conscript manpower for defense. Will it permit long to continue a situation under | which corporations fail to take orders for and produce the | arms and munitions with which these conscripted men must | be equipped? One would think not. Yet the blame rests | primarily with Congress. Congress writes the rules under which industry does | business with the Government, and then levies taxes against the profits from that business, if there are any profits. But Congress has not yet made even a good start toward fixing | the rules for the big rearmament deals. Instead the various government purchasing agencies are operating under | assorted and conflicting rules. And as for taxes—the ex-! cess profits levy is the subject of violent dispute, and prob- | ably «will continue so for weeks, maybe months, to come. | Congress waits also to consider, as a part of the same | tax legislation, any changes it might make in the conflicting Army and Navy purchase regulation. And Congress and the Administration haven't even begun to consider any enforceable system of priorities in contracts, under which the armed forces could get the armaments they need in the order they are needed. Why this temporizing ? THE WAY OF RUSSIAN FLESH

Kill. And so Leon Trotsky goes to the

ON'T argue.

| luck than to have them send Ickes after me. | of a week you would read that Mr. Ickes had been

| Ickes

| ately bound | mitted to know anything about what was going on.

Fair Enough

By Westbrook Pegler

Maybe He Can't Lick Everybody, But He's Sure One Guy Is His Meat —And That One Is Harold L. Ickes!

EW YORK. Aug. 22.—When I was writing sports back in the era of wonderful nonsense we had a muscle-bound middleweight with a nose like a summer squash who called himself Johnny Wilson and who couldnt lick anybody but the champion of the world. “I may be a lousy fighter,” he used to say, “but I can lick Mike O'Dowd,” and the fact is that he was and he could. That is the way I feel about Harold Ickes. I may not be so hot when you put me in with some of those main-event ideology blokes and fancy-dan economists, but give me Ickes any time. He was made for me. Santa Claus brought him for me. In this world every guy has a sign on at least one other guy, and Ickes is my guy. I murdered him out in Chicago during the Democratic convention when the party of Roosevelt and humanity renominated the great indispensable under the social and political auspices of a gang of political porch-climbers and who else but Harold the Pure in Heart? It was like catching a parson in a raid and hearing the parson explain that believe it or not, he was just waiting for a streetcar.

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ERE was the great reformer messing around, and even getting his picture taken, with Ed Kelly, the Mayor, whom he himself had denounced as a gang politician of the worst type. Harold's weakness is his own kind of stuff. He likes to rip and tear and try to pull your arms off,

| and if you stand back and try to box him fancy he

will knock your head through the skylight. But tear into nim before he can get out of his corner and bat him a couple, then pull him and bull him around a

| little, and he will start to look for the gate, yelling

“foul!” I know my guy from experience, I don’t wish I was running for President, but I tell you one thing—if I were I couldn't ask for sweeter Inside

compelled to drop out of the campaign and put himself away in the U. S. Naval Hospital in Washington, his favorite rest cure, at $3.25 a day. I wouldn't quit reminding the citizens that when Mr. Ickes gets sick or wants a rest he muscles into the Naval Hospital, where he has no legal right to put himself. not merely because he considers himself too good and precious to take a chance in the regular

| civilian hospital. as the taxpayers must, but because

the service is practically free. = = ” HEN he pulled that crack on Wendell Willkie

about how Willkie made his money and about | his residence on Fifth Ave. I wanted to ask. and now |

I do ask. how Ickes first got into the chips and how he compares his own residence in the dude country

| north of Chicago, where he has lived much longer

than Willkie has lived on Fifth Ave. and his present country mansion outside Washington, with Willkie's Fifth Ave. apartment, Go ahead, Harold; give us a tell.

A long time ago my guy Harold got fresh. He said

| I had been a sports writer and that, after all, what | The |

could one expect? Do you know the answer? answer is that he was a sports writer himself under the same boss in Chicago years ago. but such a punk that he never made the grade, whereas, anyway, I was a major leaguer for 15 years and quit of my own

| accord.

Yes, chums, I may be a bum, but I can lick Harold

too. There is another one I can lick. were made for me.

Inside Indianapolis

Conscription, Basketball,

And About the Voice's Accident! |

Ione was a big meeting over at the State House vesterday but the chances are you won't be able

| to find much about it in the news columns of the | newspapers.

What happened is that at least a dozen

| district leaders from the Indiana County Clerks’ As-

sociation met with Col. Hitchcock to formulate plans

| for how the state is going to handle the conscription | problem

Reporters trying to cover the story were immedi“In confidence” before they were per-

The whole thing is a “hush-hush” proposition

until after Congress passes the present selective serv- |

ice bill. After the bill is passed, good old official

Indiana will be ready with all kinds of announce- |

ments, etc

But don't pass this along, please. The public isn't |

supposed to know these things. = x

IF YOU'VE MISSED the Accident Prevention squad's loud (and sassy) speaker car lately, you'll be

| Interested to learn that it's been out of service since

Aug. 13. It's going back on duty tomorrow, It had an accident! Yessir On the afternoon of Aug. 13, Patrolman Harry Yarbrough was driving south on Martindale Ave. in the 2200 block. Police records say a tire blew out. Chief Morrissey said that what actually happened was that the tires caught in the car track. Anyway, the Accident Prevention car was the aggressor against a parked car. Both machines were damaged. Meantime, our pedestrians have been having to get along without any advice on how to avoid acci-

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

{they want to go and do not hesitate

And you can throw in that Charlie Michelson, | make up their mind

kind | i i That kind jcab and commercial truck drivers

Horns | So let's have more praise for

THURSDAY, AUG. 22, 1940

The Hoosier Forum

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

LAUDS CAB DRIVERS FOR THEIR COURTESY By Mrs. George Hath I wish to write a few lines in praise of our cab drivers. I've never seen one who took so-called chances or was discourteous toward other arivers. They seem to know where

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

in the middle of traffic while they

If all drivers would drive like our of what Willkie would do but say very little about the Republican | Party and what it might do. We all know why this is so. If elected, Willkie will be the recognized leader of the party and the principles for which it stands. Will the Republican Party and its deepest principles give way to Willkie, or will Willkie confirm and conform to the party and its principles? What is the answer? Will it be another case of Taft in 1908?

then we should really know genuine courtesy on our streets and highways. I shall always be grateful for the kindness and thoughtful consideration I have received from both cab {and truck drivers.

{such courtesy. un 2 Ld . FEARS CONSERVATIVES WOULD CONTROL WILLKIE ¥ 8 0» By N. G. SEES BIRTH CONTROL It would not be out of the way for MENACE TO NATION one to meet his neighbor on the!g. pura J. Kimbley (street and say, “Where goest thou,| 1 hope you can help mothers as

fellow American, and who is leading | well as fathers begin to realize that vou?” Remember these are the days the of intense propaganda and inde- . . a thinking os very essential, Practiced in the United States at In stressing their point some |tDe present time can gradually | people assume much. The Voice in undermine the very foundation of the Crowd says all true Americans | were to go to Elwood. Since millions {of us did not go to Elwood in body. | or in spirit, this assumes that we

of The Times under date of Aug. 7th, you printed an announcement by the U. P. from Vichy, France,

methods of birth control as]

our great nation. On the front page

TERMS OUR DRAFT ARGUMENT UN-AMERICAN

By Floyd P. Tye, Detachment Quartermaster Corps, Ft. Harrison Allow me to quote an excerpt from a Times editorial, “The Draft Debate.” (Friday, Aug. 9): “Furthermore, the volunteer system would give us an Army predominantly drawn from among the unemployed and underprivileged— instead of the truly democratic Army that comes from a universal draft.” I do not condemn your stand on the conscription issue, but the argument you have presented in its | behalf is the most un-American, | class-conscious statement I have ever read in a reputedly patriotic American newspaper.

a 4 9 PROTESTS BEING DUNNED TO HELP WILLKIE By Mrs. E. M. Ewing You had so much space to ridicule the Democrats, and to charge them with violation of the so-called

Hatch Bill, that I wonder if vou could spare the space (a tiny bit) (to reprint this letter of Wendell Willkie Clubs. We received two in our mail box with eight cards asking for a dollar for each card sent. I imagine they will get several dollars that way; but of course they | are not violating any law,

2 =n = DEFENDS VANNUYS,

that now the girls of France will|g} pOSES CONSCRIPTION

are not good Americans, but of some inferior breed. This is near to ego- | tism, and I am sure the “Voice” has {no monopoly upon either brains or patriotism. | But I have a problem here for the “Voice” or any other “Stalwart,” which if answered sensibly will re|lieve many of us who will stay at | home, | Our Government is based upon {the party system, whereby those grouped together with certain be-

|liefs shall, through their leaders.

[conduct the Government according {to their party principles. Everyone knows that the conservative back- |

have as their chief role in life the) | bearing of future citizens of France,|By A Times Reader to quote, “that France may grow| TI wish to say to Warren A. Beneagain.” dict Jr. that he is the only person | I trust the young mothers and/I know of who is ashamed of athers here in Indiana who read| Senator VanNuys. Indiana should that will begin to think seriously of be proud of Senator VanNuys. He the duty as well as privilege that is| behaves himself like a gentleman. theirs to give to our dear nation|If we want to be ashamed of any | more and better future citizens than | Senator it should be Senator Minhave been born in the past years|ton, he gets angry and calls other that birth control has become sojSenators names on the Senate widely advocated in the United floor. States. Surely with the defeat and, Mr. Willkie proved to be a “flop” misery of France now vividly| when he did not take a stand brought to mind in the last few against conscription. The real weeks, our young healthy mothers, “Hope of our Country” and now

Gen. Johnson Says—

Roosevelt Owes Duty to People to Debate the Issues Even if He Is Busy With the Battle of Britain,

ASHINGTON, Aug. 22.—~The New Deal came paign against Willkie started with a barrage of gas, mud and fireworks which reveals nearly all its weapons and ammunition in one triple blast—Bullitt, Flynn and Ickes. The Germans are coming right now. Willkie was nominated, not hy a spontaneous popular outburst, but by an old guard business conspiracy. This plus a 30-minute spray of" typical Ickiness was the odoriferous offering. In the imeantime, as Mr. Ickes implies, Willkie's real oppopént, the New Deal candidate for a third term, is tao-busy with the Battle of Britain to debate the most vital issues that ever concerned his own country. He, says the Ick, can't go barnstorming around the country “after the pre-radio fashion.” That would make him a mountebank and open him to the charge of “cheap bravado.” on » on OY, howdy! Radio or no radio. Mr. Roosevelt has been the busiest and most effective barnstormer in our history. He may have done some low and lofty mountebanking in thé process, but not in simply following the sturdiest of our political precedents and meeting both the people and his adversary in robust conflict. Mr. Roosevelt can't satisfy the country by offering as an excuse that he is too busy with the affairs of Britain to attend to our own. He can't dispose of Mr, Willkie by sicking the Ick on him or turning loose any other hatchet-men, character assassins and wardrum beaters unless they meet the issues. tell the truth and satisfy the growing fears and doubts of millions of people. Even then, with all respect for the burdens on the President, he must either make their utterances his own by outright indorsement—a horrible prospect—or speak his own piece—as Mr. Willkie suggests “take the American people into his confidence.” This is no time to approach a war, and elect a possible war President or complete dictator sight-unseen or withe out a pretty clear showing of what he is doing and intends, ” ” ” OBODY but the New Deal candidate for a third term can do that for us. Neither the hatchetmen nor Mr, Wallace can do it because they are not responsible. Their most earnest representations cannot bind the President—any more than mine could, He can avoid them all by simple silence, Adolf says that a lie is a good and fair weapon if it is often repeated. Maybe that is true when it can’t be answered and with a people who can't get facts. But Mr, Ickes must know in his heart today that he could not have been as effectively answered by hours of oratory as by Mr. Willkie's 150-word telegram to Congressman Martin forbidding the waste of scant Republican money to answer Mr. Ickes. For, as the telegram proved, honest Harold had been careless with the truth on each of the four heads of attack which he seems to think most deadly. I know that Mr. Ickes would not deliberately lie, But he should have known that whether Mr. Willkie belonged to Tammany, whether he had not opposed Insull, whether he opposed LaGuardia, whether he is still head of any utility, are cold statements of fact easily checked by anybody. By failure to check them, Mr, Ickes said the thing that ig not.

Business By John T. Flynn

SEC Must Share the Blame for Delays in Holding Act Reform.

EW YORK, Aug. 22.—The Securities & Exchange Commission is jumping on some big utility companies because they are dilly-dallying in their alleged effort to comply with the Utility Holding Company Act. The jam into which enforcement of this act has gotten is a perfect example of what can happen to a perfectly good policy in the wrong hands. The Utility Holding Company Act was, in. its obe Jectives, one of the best pieces of legislation passed by the New Deal. It is not an act designed to do away with holding company ownership of utility companies, Congress might well have gone much further and put an end to utility holding company control altogether. But it did not. It passed a very mild act that was intended to demobilize those huge super-holding com= panies that could not be defended on either geographic or economic lines. Having done this, the President made two crucial blunders. First, the law provided that the SEC should complete the job of reintegrating these utility groups by some time after 1940. In the second place, he ap= pointed to the Commission to handle the administra= tion of this act a man who, whatever his other qualie ties. was utterly unfitted to discharge this service. The act was passed in 1935. There was no reason why so long a time should have heen devoted to its enforcement. It was wrong from every point of view, It gave the SEC the feeling that it could dawdle along at its leisure in forcing these reorganizations. Second, the tardiness of enforcement left the whole utility industry in a state of uncertainty nad confusion, when what was needed was a swift and defini« tive rearrangement of those holding companies afe fected by the act so that the new companies could get about the business of expansion and financing.

Look to Election Finally, it rendered inevitable a policy of postpone=

ment by the utilities as soon as the eni of the Roose« velt Administration approached, with the hope of see ing the whole act wiped out by a succeeding Adminis tration. And this, of course, is precisely what has happened. The Commission at first was subjected to delays by attacks on the constitutionality of the act by the

great beyond. It will be charged that Joseph Stalin | dents.

laid him low, or, rather, had it done. But there may be a dispute over that. Because the third internationale now seems to be all mixed up with the fourth.

$ » and fathers will think it an honor the only hope Tor oun ty. Rie ¥ & 5 oh : (opposed most all the philosophy of | to have more than one or two chil-| such Senators as VanNuys, eeloy OF HE TIMES: The kids at 32d St. and |the New Deal, and that in contrast.|dren to call a family. fer, Vandenberg, Taft and others : western Ave. have put up a brand new net |jts candidate. Willkie, has indorsed| Let them have every encourage-| Who are fighting this unreasonable

'much of the New Deal ideals. Now | ment. I hope from all who love our conscription bill in Washington.

on their basketball board and are already shooting ! cet about inane folks up at 29th and Capitol are up- |i; Willkie is elected, will he conform | country and think of its future wel-| The majority of Indiana Con

bone of the Republican Party has

Anyway, Trotsky, who once lived by the sword, died by the pickaxe. The former general of all the Russian armies was the victim of no weapon of modern mechanization, but of a simple and primitive instrument. A tremendous figure in the history of our time, his passing adds another name to the already long list of Russians who have met their death because their ideas differed. | It’s not our way—except among the Capones and the | Dutch Schultzes. And may violence never call cloture on the freedom of our expression. °

THE CERTAIN WAY

HE term of J. Warren Madden, chairman of the Na-| tional Labor Relations Board, will expire on Aug. 27. President Roosevelt is being urged, from some directions, to re-appoint Mr. Madden. We hope the President will not do that. Sixteen months | ago, Mr. Roosevelt made good use of another vacancy occurring on the Labor Board to appoint Dr. William M. Leiserson, who had demonstrated his fairness and ability as a member of the National Mediation Board which preserves | peace between the railroads and their employees. It was hoped that Dr. Leiserson would be abie to pull the Labor Board out of the morass of unfairness and incompetence into which it had sunk. Dr. Leiserson has made valiant efforts, but they have been blocked by the other two members, Chairman Madden and Edwin S. Smith, These two men are responsible for the misguided zealotry which has brought the Labor Board into disrepute, infected its entire organization, and warped the National Labor Relations Act into an instrument of industrial disruption. If the President will appoint a new member, as able and as fair-minded as Dr. Leiserson, the board will then be controlled by a majority determined and competent to protect the rights of labor and to make the labor act serve the fine purposes that inspired it.

| the nominee's press representative yesterday. looked a | o'clock, but if vou print anything, for gosh sakes. Ba the Police Department, tco, will you?” | did.

| gone, loved ones may be dead and dear

| set. about the beep-beep horn salesman nearby who | demonstrates for every prospect. . | it

X r . . The only song Knows Is “Yankee Doodle.” ... “What time is Willkie coming to the airpert?” newspapermen asked : . + «+ He little bit he said: “Six

hesitant when

«++ We

| ’ . . A Woman's Viewpoint | By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

GET Loss of Life and Property as Hurricane Smashes South Atlantic Area.’

Usually she behaves toward derly maternal in her treatment. unscrew a valve to let off steam—whew!

No matter how well man plays his cards, Nature |

always has command of the trumps. She can lash

| and destroy, and in an hour bring to ruins that which | he has spent decades in building.

A hurricane roars in from the sea: a cyclone whirls over the plain; a tidal wave rises; a flood descends; a

{ drought scorches the land, and the work of millions

of hands. heads and hearts is as if it had never been. The wealth we counted, the dreams we dreamed, are

1e; spots, sacred to memory, laid waste.

Yet in spite of these periodic reverses man con- | tinues to build new homes and cities where the old |

ones stood. His defiance of Fate and Nature is the most admirable of his qualities. Still, T think it should be a source of great pride to us, when we see how successful most of these defiant gestures are. Travel over a country as young even as ours, and see your fill of the giant dams which harness raging rivers; at the immense desert reclamation projects; at the laboratories where scientists fight ceaselessly to destroy the insect pests which eat our unreaped harvests. We have built miles of beautiful highways over our highest mountains, bridged the deepest gorges, and flung light and power lines across a wide continent. For man comes of a gallant breed and his possibilities are limitless—except for one fact. He still uses the best of his powers, not to subdue Nature but to destroy himself. Two-thirds of his energy is utilized in an effort to commit race suicide, through wag. Thus does not his stupidity match his ingenuity? :

Such head- | lines make us aware of the power of Mother Nature. | us with gentleness. ten- | But when she does

to the party system and to the deep seated principles for which his newly adopted party stands? I have noticed many writers, especially Thomas Stokes, speak much

Side Glances—By Galbraith

fare. More power to you, I say, to 8ressmen are against this bill. ‘find the solution that is needed to|Certainly am very grateful to them [help young Americans to get the for every effort they use to Kill

wages needed to raise larger fami-| this conscription bill. Have you lies | readers all written our Congress-

men and Senators? They will be glad to hear from you.

a 5 9 CHLLLENGING OUR USE

| |

OF EDEN AS ‘LEGEND’ By Grace Book

“legendary.” . ..

THORNS AND ROSES By ANNA E. YOUNG Sometimes our path is strewn with roses Lovely petals drifting down

Forming perfumed velvet carpets For our feet to tread upon.

Then again the pathway narrows Thorny briars reach out—to stay We must steadily press onward Thrusting hindering brush away.

Life—is just so spiced and seasoned Thorns and roses—both—my dear Else how could we know and treasure Perfect days without the tear!

DAILY THOUGHT

The Lord therefore be judge, and judge between me and thee, and see, and plead my cause, and deliver me out of thine hand.— Samuel 24:15.

MEN'S JUDGMENTS are a par-

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"Wind up the window, dear—I| have a few quaint expressions J want to get out.of my system!"

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cel of their fortunes; and things | outward do draw the inward quality after them.—Shakespeare. y % ' : cai

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a protest of the use of that word |

utilities. The utilities were responsible for this policy, But even if the Commission had not been delayed by the utilities it supplied plenty of delay itself through its sheer inertness. Now the Roosevelt Administration has but four months more to go. The utilities naturally are gamb« ling on its defeat at the polls in November. The SEC is now getting impatient and is putting on the pres= sure for action. It should have put on this pressure four years ago. It should have been impatient four years ago Of course the utilities must be criticized for delays. But the SEC must bear its full share of the blame.

Watching Your Health

By Jane Stafford

ARENTS sometimes expect school to make over an unruly youngster and enforce discipline that the parents have neglected. This is a mistake, If Junior has been extremely unruly, sullen, or given to temper tantrums, or if Sister has been an overly docile child with no playmates nor interest in children's games, the advice of a doctor, a psychiatrist or a child guidance clinic should be sought. Such abnormal behavior is a sign of emotional difficulty that needs correcting just as much as poor hearing or eyesight. If the trouble is serious and deep-seated, school routine and discipline are not likely to correct it. Instead, the child may turn truant from school and get into trouble. Much of the responsibility for the child's ability to handle emotional problems, or lack of such ability, rests on the parents, the way they train the child during his early years, and the home environment they provide for him, Schools also have some responsibility In seeing that the needs of the child, especially the teen-age child, are met, When a child revolts against school authority and discipline, however, it may be a sign of some deepseated difficulty which has its roots in his past or in his home environment. “If he comes from a home shadowed by misery and destitution, he will probably come to school hungry in body and insecure and fearful in his mental and emotional life,” Miss Katherine F. Lenroot, chief of the U. S. Children's Bureau, warns, “If he has been over-protected by too anxious parents, or neglected by too busy ones, or misunderstood by parents who are careless of his needs, he may have serious difficulty in adjusting in school.”