Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 September 1940 — Page 13

MONDAY,

SEPT. 23, 1940

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The Indianapolis Times

SECOND SECTION

Hoosier Vagabond

NEW YORK, Sept. 23.—There still are a couple of items about that boat trip I want to get told, One night one of our fellow passengers overheard a meeting of sailors on the deck just outside his Window. It seems the unions have special men on the crew who call meetings and lead long. discussions. What impressed this passenger was that they got to discussing the conscription bill (this was before it passed). And then they took a vote on it. And the sailors voted 100 per cent for conscription. Another night, aboard ship, we got to talking to a newly-made friend who was Jewish. We got off on to the.war of course, and then around to Hitler’s persecution of the Jews. And this man, a Jew himself, speaking in what I know to be absolute sincerity, made the most tolerant statement I've ever heard. He said: “There are nearly two billion people in the world. Only a little more than 15,000,000 of us are Jews—

hardly a drop in the bucket compared to the whole"

population. So if the Jews are the kernel of all this trouble—whether the blame is right or wrong— then I say let the Jews be exterminated. There aren’t many of us, and it wouldn’t make much difference. If that would stop all the trouble, it would be worth it.” I don’t agree in the slightest .with what he said, but I was terribly impressed by hearing him say it.

‘It's a Small World

The other night I went to the Rivoli Theater to a movie. It was packed, and I had to go clear to the gallery. When the picture ended and the intermission—lights came on, I heard someone call my name. And there, right behind me, sat two old friends I hadn't seen for three years. Fritz and Priscilla Silber. We all “Well, I'll be darned!” for a minute, then climbed over the seats and sat together. “Do you remember where we saw each other last?”

By Ernie Pyle

Fritz asked. Sure I did. It was in Seattle in 1937, just after the Silbers had got back from Japan, and I had returned from Alaska. We all tcok a sightseeing bus trip around Seattle that time. . New York is a long way from Seattle. New York has hundreds of theaters, and thousands of seats, and there are many minutes in the day. Yet we people, completely out of touch for more than three years, had to come at a certain moment and sit down within two seats of each other. I swore I wouldn't say it, but I knew Fritz would sooner or later. He did. He laughed and said, “Well, it's a small world after all, isn’t it?”

News From Alaska

A friend just back from a cruise to Alaska tells us a couple of funny things. For one, he went up from Vancouver on a Canadian boat. On board, they had picture postcards of the ship, which was the Princess Marguerite. And what struck him as being so odd in these days of war hatreds was that, on the back of each card, in the French language, were the words, “Printed in| Germany.” The other thing was something he observed on a train trip up through Yukon Territory (Canadian) from Skagway to White Horse. He saw painted on the side of a cliff, in letters 10 feet high, way up there in the wilds, a sign urging the world to vote for Willkie, But when our friend mentioned it to the conductor, he said. “Oh, that doesn’t mean anything. We're all for Rodsevelt up here.” ; I'm getting so sick of seeing almost every day in the papers a story of police and firemen “rescuing” somebody from committing suicide by jumping off a ledge. Hardly a day passes but that they have to risk their lives coaxing some maybe-would-be-suicide off a ledge somewhere in New York. It has got to be practically a fad. I think the police and firemen should just line up solidly along the street, fold their arms, look steadfastly mn the opposite direction, and pretty soon the center of no attraction would crawl back in the window where he came from.

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Inside Indianapolis (And “Our Town”)

THEY'VE BEEN having some labor trouble out at one of our local plants and Sheriff Al Feeney has been beset with difficulties ever since it started. One of them -was. the demand that he send out some

deputies to see that nobody got into fights and t that no property was damaged. The sheriff replied that he didn’t have any money available to hire any extra deputies. The plant head finally told the Sheriff that what he ought to do was deputize the first half dozen citizens he saw. The Hon. Mr. Feeney contemplated the proposal at length, finally walged into a board meeting where all the friends of the plant head were gathered. “I'm going to take that advice,” said the Sheriff. So, picking out the various board members, he proceeded to deputize them—assighing a vice president wo ‘the back gate from midnight to 6 a. m.” a businessmandirector to the fronf gate, etc. The directors were literally quaking while Mr. Feeney went rambling on, his face straight. ° When he thought they'd had enough,

them off. That Chicken Affair

he let

About

“Dear Inside: Excerpt from Friday's ramblings: ‘Come to think of it, how do you kill a chicken without chopping off its head?’ “Answer—Tie it to a perch head down. Then slit the roof of its moiith and let it bleed to death. This is the system used by poultry houses. vou poor misinformed thing. BIDDY.”

Washington

WASHINGTON, Sept. 23.—An American woman living in| Berlin a few years ago inherited, througn the death of her father a small parcel of real estate

in this country. formed that any property received by persons living n Germany, even though they were foreigners, was the property: of the Reich and that she should nform the German Government of her inheritance. She protested but was advised 3 that unless she reported it she : would be subject to severe penal- € ties, but that if she complied with the regulations, the German Gov= ernment undoubtedly would return her property as it could have no interest in doing otherwise. The American woman filled out the papers surrendering her property in America to the German Government. The Government official then courteously told her that the Reich was not interested in keeping her property and title was transferred back to her. .

Totalitarian Trade Methods

Chly through such incidents does one begin to see the vast difference between the totalitarian economy and our own free economy. It is important that we begin to understand these differences because after the fighting stops, we will be confronted with the tack of carrying on commercial relations probably with ‘a Europe operating almost entirely under totalitarian methods. Certainly in foreign trade even a surviving Britain will be compelled to maintain Government controls. Our most important customers will be operating under controlled systems. When farm products are wanted, foreign Governments will buy them. In the case of Germany certainly the prospect is that such deals will have to be barter or clearing deals. The German Government, for instance, will offer to buy a billion dollars in farm products over a period of a year. But the products would be paid for in blocked marks. In other words we would have to take it out in trade, in purchase of such German manufactures as the German Government wished to

HYDE PARK, Sunday.—Last Friday was a long day. I started for Philadelphia and, before I reached

there, a young reporter boarded the train. I ex-

plained to her, as I did to those who met me when I got out at the station, that all I was doing was to meet the President to see him receive a degree, and, therefore, was not news for the day.

Col. Starling had arranged for me to be taken in a Go to the Navy Yard and the President had arranged for luncheon in his private car at the station. Mrs. Curtin Winsor and our grandson, Bill Roosevelt, together with Ambassador Bullitt and Ambassador and Mrs. Biddle, joined us. One little remark of Mr. Biddie's illuminated me as to what they had been through. He said: “I used to pray every morning that I would be so busy until I went to bed at nighit that I could not stop to think. If you had: nothing to do, the sights you saw were too overwhelming.” After lunch we drove to the municipal auditorium and the exercises which closed the bicentennial celebration of the University of Pennsylvania were

In settling the estate she was in-

Harmony in Politics

WE HEAR THAT Charles Ettinger, head of the County Election Board, isn’t ‘on speaking terms these days with Hendricks Kenworthy, his Democratic colleague on the Board, and that, as a result, the Republican member, Bob ‘Smith, is kept busy being the go-between. He even carries notes from one to the other.

As we get it, the whole affair revolves around ithe support of County Chairman Ira Haymdker. The way it's shaping up, the G. O. P. may get an excellent break in the appointment .of election workers. ?

“Galloping Br eakfasts”

ONE OF OUR North Side ‘churches has a class which conducts what it calls “galloping breakfasts.” The committee in charge sends people out in cars eary in the morning. They rush into the houses and take th2 class members to breakfast just as they are. Naturaily, it results in some odd appearances. . . The town, we're told, has gone completely “that way” over records and business in the music discs is certainly booming. . . . Down Capitol Ave. today went a collegian’s automobile bedecked with three Willkie signs, two Roosevelt signs, a Hillis sticker and ‘a Schricker banner. . You know how they name summer cottages like “Duckinn” ‘and “Bide-a-While. © Well, out in. Rocky Ripple they've really named one. It's “It Suits Us.” . . Lately they've been driving so fast on Arlington Ave. from 10th St. north that it sounds just like the Speedway during May and one of the folks who lives out there walked out on his porch the other morning to find a mail box sitting up there. Some “car had skidded, hit

the box and sent it flying. One of these days more

than a mail box is going to go flying.

By Raymond Clapper

sell. In that kind of dealing with the German Government, we probably would have to operate Yorotigh a Government corporation.

So there you have it. That is what our Government people expect. It is what Herbert Hoover anticipated in his speech a few days ago at the University of Pennsylvania: Our Government. trading with foreign governments. Either that or no export business. Such operations are bound to affect our ways of doing business. We can’t, as Hoover ‘said, fence ourselves off and not do business with the whole continent of Turope because it operates under state-con-trolled miethods of trade. Neither can individual American businessmen, trading alone, operate in deals of that kind. !

The Study Stage

No one pretends to be able yet to visualize the situation in detail and with the British blockade cutting us off from all trade with Europe except to England the question still is in what Roosevelt would cail the study stage. But it is not top early to begin realizing that changes are in prospect. Particularly it is not too early for Congress and public officials and candidates to be thinking of the changes that may have to take place. It is getting very late @or the Republican Party tc be acting as if such questions were not just around the corner. We have a situation already existing in South America where the blockade of Europe has wrecked half of the regular export trade, and created acute conditions in almost every country. But the Republicans in Congress did their best to push those countries toward the Axis by voting almost solidly against allowing the Export-Import Bank 500 million dollars with which to ease some of those critical situations. Willkie went through the Southwest needling the Arggqntine meat situation which has alienated that major South American country .to the point where she has been discriminating against our trade and has now, either because of necessity or as a bargaining club, slapped an embargo on all imports from the United States. That attitude does: not prepare us very well for competing in a manipulated trade world.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

dignified and extremely interpstifig. Academic robes are so often black that to find two brilliantly colored ones on the platform was a décided novelty. | I enjoyed the band and all the speeches, but at the close I had to make a dash for my train. I stepped into a car and left ahead of the President and soon realized that any car which did not contain him seemed a disappointment to the crowds. 1 made my 5 o'clock train and was in my apartment in New, York City in plenty of time to dress, dine and be at the movie theater for the opening there -of “Pastor Hall.” It seemed strange to see my son’s name blinking at me from the front of a Broadway theater and it seemed even stranger to see myself announced at the beginning of a feature picture. I can’t say that I like myself on the screen, but I do hope people will go to see the picture and remember the lesson it carries. Hate and force cannot be abroad in such a great part of the world without having an effect on the rest. of it. Just as this little village was changed by the new spirit which came into it, the world has Jeen changed. If ever we are to win back a world ‘of peace and good-will, force and hatred must be crushed. If is important for us to see what a system can doe to human being when it brings out all that is worst in them,

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Our Turn if English Lose, Gallup Told

By Dr. George Gallup

PRINCETON, . N. J., Sept. 23.—Which is more important for America—to keep out of the European war, or to help England win, even at the risk of. becoming involved ? Month by month this summer, while Great Britain has been warding off the blows of Nazi Germany, an increasing number of Americans have come to the conclusion that it is more important to help England win— even at considerable risk of war— than to concentrate entirely on “keeping out.” That fact is revesled today in nation-wide studies reported for the first time by the American’ Institute of Public Opinion. Ever since the outbreak of the European war 12 months ago, American policy and public opinion alike have tried to balance those two principles—to help the Allies, but to keep out of war ourselves. In an effort to establish which of the two principles seemed the more important to the average American voter, the In-. stitute has conducted a special series of studies in which men and women in every state have been asked:. “Which of these two things do

you think is the more important for the United States to try to do—to keep out of the war ourselves, or, to help England win, even at the risk of getting into the war?” As of today—with Britain facing the threat of imminent invasion— slightly more than half the voters with definite opinions on -the question in the Institute survey (52%) say that America’s greatest need is to help England win, even at the risk of becoming involved. “If England wins, we won't have to fight. If she goes down, it may be our turn next’—-that is the way the typical American in this group feels about the question, the survey found.

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HREE months ago, only a little more than one voter in three| (36%) took this position. The trend as shown in succes-

EIGHT DEAD IN

Local Woman Is Killed Road 37; Four of One Family Die.

Eight Hoosiers lost their lives in Indiana in week-gn dtraffic. One was a resident of Indianapolis and four were members of the same family. No fatal accidents were reported in Indianapolis or Marion County. The dead are: MISS IRENE REEVES MOORE, 37, of 2108 N. Meridian St., operator of the Moore Agency, Pythian Building, was killed when a car in which she was a passenger overturned yesterday on State Road 37. JACQUELIN RICKETTS, 13-year-old Hillsboro High School freshman, killed last night when two cars collided near Veedersburg at the junction on Roads 34 and 41. HERBERT ELLINGWOOD, 27, Fairmount, burned fatally Saturday when his tractor overturned near his home. Gasoline which spilled on his body was ignited. JAMES BECKMAN, 20, Cloverdale, struck by a hit-and-run driver yesterday on Road 43 near his home. MATHEW KLIMCZAK, 57, his wife, MRS. HELEN KLIMCZAK, and their sons, THOMAS, 27, and FLOYD, 21, ‘all of Gary, killed when their car was siruck by a train at a crossing rear Pennville, Saturday. Miss Moore was riding with Miss

and Gordon Parnell, all of Indianapolis. They received only minor injuries. State Police said they have learned that Miss Moore had no close relatives in Indianapolis.

HEALTH HELD KEY FOR SCHOLARSHIP

MONTGOMERY, Ala, Sept. 23 (U. P.).—Dr. J. N. Baker, Alabama state health officer, believes that improper health conditions are a vital factor in causing studen:s to fail in school. In a special report, he said that such conditions were “one of the important causes” why 40 per cent of all Alabama first-grade pupils are repeaters. | Other causes he listed as inade-{v quately trained teachers, lack of textbooks and shortened school terms.

Pointing out that absence from school retards learning, Dr. Baker said that “a very large percentage of total absentees charged to the average pupil, would, if investigated, be shown to be due to ill health of one kind or another.” The state health officer recommended physical examinations of

pupils before starting school.

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THE GALLUP POLL: which of these two things do you think is the more important for the United States to try to do---to keep out of war ourselves, or, to help England win, evenat the risk of getting into the war?

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A small number of voters, ranging’ from 4 to 7 per cent of those interviewed over the! last four months, have been undecided or without opinions. In| the latest survey 5 per cent (or one person

‘in 20) said he was uncertain or without an opinion on the- question. To those Americans who would go even farther, and who favor a declaration of war against Germany immediately, this striking

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Our America

AUTHOR OF THERE'S ONLY ONE”

(Thirteenth of a series of articles by 24 authors)

Trend of Survey Opinion

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trend in American thinking may lead to wishful thinking, ‘But it cannot be too strongly emphasized that the sentiment reported above is not sentiment for war. On the contrary, the Institute's nation-wide studies on how many Americans would favor a declaration pf war have shown only 14 per cent favoring entering the war. The great- majority—86 per cent—said they would oppose U. S. entrance. But the present surveys do help to explain the nation's popular approval of such steps as the sale of 50 over-age destroyers to Britain, the transfer of several hundred Army planes to the British earlier in the summer, and the turning over of American plants

in many cases for the production:

of war materials for Great

Britain.

We Must Say 'No' to Some Questions About U. S.

By SOPHIE KERR

AT.” etc.

“BIG-HEARTED HEREERT,” “FINE TO LOOK

Mr. and Mrs. America, to make up our minds about what we want in this country, we must also make up our minds about what we don’t want. To discard is the first step in selection. Therefore let us ask ourselves some plain questions. We have four basic, freedoms here, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, freedom of religious worship and fr eedom of the press. Do we want to give up freedom of speech? NO! i Do we want ! to give up free.dom of assembly? NO! Do we want to give up. freedom of religious worship? NO! “Do: we want to give up freedom of the Sophie Kerr NO! Beside these basic freedoms we have our long-established form of government, which has three branches, executive, | legislative

SEEK ADJOURNMENT

BY SATURDAY: NIGHT

WASHINGTON, Sept. 23 (U, P.). —Congress enters today what may

be the final week of a momentous, nine-month sessiol. Senators and Rrepresentatives, eager to get home to begin election

campaigning, hoped to adjourn by

Saturday night.

Biggest obstacle to those plans is a Senate dispute over the Houseapproved Logan-Walter subject rulings by administrative It has

Bill to

agencies to court review. been pending on the Senate's cal-

endar for months, and its supporters said they would insist that it be er ‘on this week:

epublican leaders are demanding that Congress stay in continuous session for the duration of the war, ——————— i ————— PULP HUB IN PENSACOLA - PENSACOLA, Fla. Sept. 23 (U. P.).—Pensacola will be the site of the latest expansion of the Southern paper industry. A Savannah, Ga., concern has announced plans for constructing a $3,000.000 plant here to manufacture white book and wrapping paper, i

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and judicial, acting as check and balance to extreme power in any one. : : Do we want to give up ajgovernment which combines executive, legislative and judicial powers, working together | cooperatively? : i NO! ! We have a two-party system, which ensures each citizen the right to express his will by ballot as to the persons who shall govern him. Do we want to give up this twoparty system, guaranteeing our personal participation in our igovernment? NO! Do we want to endow {any branch or individual in our government with exceptional authority which would parallel dictatorship? NO! Do we want to submit to supevtaxation which can be used against the will of the majority of the people?" No! Do we want rulers with power to make war, conscript citizens, seize property, crush opposition with fines and prison sentences and set their will about our law —as in the totalitarian Siptes today? NO! Do we want America to be atiything but free and strong and forward-looking, offering her people constant opportunity for decent living, and national peace to give this living stability and permanence? NO! Mr. and Mrs. America, we, you and I and all of us, are the people! We are part of America’s government and responsible tp it as it is responsible to us. Our responsibility begins in our town and county elections and goes on to our State and Federal elections. We have the right to be heard, we have the right to act. Only our own apathy and carelessness can give us bad government. Will we forget that this government is ours to make or spoil? Will we forget that in our own hands lies our welfare and the welfare of those who shall come after us? And will we forget that the time to think .., to speak .., to act , . . is NOW? The answer, Mr. and Mrs. America, is ours to make. It is NO!

The United States cannot be compared to any other country, past or present; it is something new in the world, writes Stuart Chase in the next article of this series on “Our Country.”

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Further Institute studies on the question will be conducted at intervals during the fall and winter, .as well as on the question of entering the war. : ” ® t- 3 HE present surveys reveal important - differences between major sections of -the coun=try. In the East, the South and the Far West, fdr instance, majorities say that it is more important for America to help Britain win, even at considerable risk to our own peace. In the states between the Chio River and the Rockies, however, majorities’ say it is more important to “keep out.” Some of their typical comments are: - “England doesn’t need our men, and we can supply materials without going to

LIST STASSEN ON FORUM HERE

‘Junior C. of C. Series on

Executive Leadership Opens Oct. 3.

Governor’ Harold E. Stassen -of Minnesota will be one of the speakers of the Indianapolis Junior Chamber of Commerce executive leadership forum, which starts Oct. 3 at the Indianapolis Athletic Club. The forum will meet Thursdays at 7:30 p. m. until Dec. 6. Lectures and will be followed by open discussion: Speakers include: : W. Rowland Allen of Indianapolis, on “The Individual in the Personnel Program’); George Hodge of Chicago, on “Problems in Colv lective Bargaining”; Dr. George T. Harding of Ohio State University, on “Psychiatry and the Business-| man,” and Charles P. McCormick | of Baltimore, Md. on. “Muitipie Management.” Edwin S.>Smith of the NLRB at Washington, on ‘The National Labor Relations Ac¢t and its Administration”; Dr. John R. Steelman of the Labor Department at Washington, on ‘“Cd¢-operation and the Conference Table”; Prof. Russell James Greenly of Purdue University, on “Training for Industrial Leadership”; Paul G. Hofiman,| Studebaker Corp. president, South | Bend, on “Free Enterprise vs. Feudalism,” and Gov, .Stassen, on “Executive Leadership for 1941.” The series was announced by Berkley W. Duck Jr, Junior Chamber president. The executive council for the forum includes Edward J. Green, director; William J. Stout, associate director; Harry T. Ice, program; George J. Smith, arrangements; William E. Williams, registration; James R..Herdrich, finance, and William M. Ransdell, publicity.

SHELBYVILLE CROWD BEATS WITNESSES

SHELBYVILLE, Ind., Sept. 23 (U. P.).—Peace had been restored here today after a visit by Jehovak’'s Witnesses - yesterday | resulted in a near riot. Approximately 100 Witnesses, believed to have been from Indianapolis, drove into town and began their house-to-house distribution of cult literature. A group started after them to drive them from the town. The Witnesses appealed to local police and the police advised them that, although they ivere not breaking it would be advisable for them to leave town. : As they left the police station, several of the men were beaten by

(the crowd thaf had followed them.

Fifteen State Police officers were summoned to aid local | police in

controlling the crowd. %

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N 7g - war.” . .. “We must consider the United States first. If we're attacked from either the |Atlantie or the Pacific we’ll want} all ou planes and ships for our ow use. . , . “If Germany can't ge across the English Channel wi ought to be safe here.” The sectional vote is: |

More Importantte Aid

More Imortant tv Today {eep Out

New England .. 48%," Mid-Atlantic .. 48 East Central .. 52 West Central .. 57 South . «30 / 46 54

Comparison with las|t May shows sectional gains for the “aid” group ranging from 10 points in the traditionally isolationist West Central states, to 10 points in the West and 20 points in the South,

Father of 5 Nazi Victims to Enlist

LONDON, Sept. 23 (U.P.).— Forty-two-year-old James Grimmond, a laborer who served as a machine gunner in the last war, said today that he was gping to join up again. Five of his children had been - killed in the torpedoing |of the refugee liner whose Survivors were landed at a northern pot yesterday. ‘He, his. wife and" five surviving children are refugees here.| Their home was wrecked by a (herman in the mass] raids. Five of the children were kent to be cared for in Canada—the five who were killed. The other five, in a rest shelter here, were ,told last night that their brothgrs’ and sisters were dead. “Hitler is not going to| break our spirit,” said Mrs. Grimmond. “We are going to see it thyough.”

ARGENTINE ANNOYED BY IMPORTS CRITICS

BUENOS AIRES, Sept. 23 4U.P.), |—Argentine official quarters ex= | pressed annoyance today at \Ameri= can press interpgetations that the ‘action of the Argentine Exchange - Control Bpard in delaying requests for dollar exchange was tantamount to restricting imports from the _ United States. A Treasury official explained that the control commission [merely ' asked certain solicitants for dollars to return two weeks later, while the commission studied adjustments deemed necessary in ArgentineUnited States trade. After this study is completed, decision will be made of the imports for which permits will Pe granted. !

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—Do fish breathe under water? 2—Woodrow Wilson's father was a blacksmith, clergyman or |dens tist? 3—Was Vermont one of the 1 iginal states? 4—Name the three Fates, 5—Pago- Pago is the capita which U. S. possession? 6—Does a 5-cent. piece or a pg contain the most copper? 7—When and where was the | Monday in September first ¢ brated as Labor Day in United States?

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1—Yes. 2—Clergyman, 3—No. 4—Atropos, Lachesis and Clothg. 5—American Samoa. 6—Five-cent piece. 7—In 1882 in New York by Knights of Labor.

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