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Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1940

SOLUTION IN REVERSE

HE two fastest growing states in the last 10 years were: California, 21.1 per cent gain. Florida, 27.9 per cent gain. The gain for the nation as a whole was 7 per cent, the smallest in any decade of U. S. history. Indiana’s population increased by 177,649 persons, 5.5 per cent above the 1930 population of 3,238,503. Even so it surrendered 11th place in the standing of states to North Carolina, which had a 12.4 per cent gain for the decade. But all states showing an increase were far outstripped by the District of Columbia, for which the census shows a population increase ‘of 86.2 per cent since 1930. The City of Washington now has more residents than South or North Dakota, Montana, Utah, New Mexico, Idaho, Arizona, New Hampshire or Vermont—more than Delaw ah Wyoming and Nevada all put together. These are disturbing statistics. They seem to indicate that the main trend of American population movement is search of salubrious climates and toward Washington in quest of Government And, of the two forms of pleasant living, Government jobs appear to have a growing advantage. We certainly aren’t rash enough to predict that the Federal payroll will cease to expand. But it begins to seem possible that Government offices will spread through Maryland and Virginia, and then extend into Delaware, Nevada, Arizona, New Hampshire and other states, thus eventually redistributing the population which now displays an alarming tendency to concentrate in the District of Columbia.

HOME WORK FOR BOSSES

OSS FLYNN of the Bronx is managing President Roosevelt's campaign for re-election, and Boss Hague of Jersey City is one of the most ardent advocates of a third term. But let it not be supposed that the devotion of these gentlemen to the lofty principles proclaimed by the New Deal is causing them to neglect their home-work. Mr. Roosevelt has warned of the dangers of government by “a few.” Messrs. Flynn and Hague, however, are doing their best to perpetuate that machine control of jobs and votes which makes possible government by—and for the benefit of—a few bosses. ; Boss Hague is fighting election reforms and voting machines, provided in bills which have been passed by the Republican majority in the New Jersey Legislature. And, across the Hudson River, Boss Flynn is fighting Propozsiend] representation and county reform.

MADDEN AND THE SENATE

HE term of J. Warren Madden as chairman of the National Labor Relations Board expired a month ago. The vacancy has not yet been filled. President Roosevelt is said to be disposed to reappoint Mr. Madden—but to do it only

“after Congress adjourns.

If named while Congress is in session, Mr.-Madden

would have to go before the Senate for confirmation.

believe that his record disqualifies him. He and Edwin S. Smith are the board members responsible for permitting zealotry and inefficiency to mess up administration of the National Labor Relations Act. A recess reappointment, however, would allow Mr.

Madden to resume his duties, and deprive the Senate of op-

portunity to pass on him until after the ele¢tion. It would at least until Congress meets again the MaddenSmith domination of the NLRB. And it would be an undeserved slap at William M. Leiserson, the fair-minded man whom the President named to the board last year for the purpose of cleaning up a bad administrative and personnel situation. Dr. Leiserson’s efforts to do that job have been balked by the other two members. ‘We still hope that Mr. Roosevelt will not reappoint Mr. Madden. There is profound truth in Wendell Willkie’s observation that the principal need of the laLor act is— “. ... To be administered by persons who are impartial and neutral and fair toward both sides in a collective bargaining dispute and who believe that the prosperity of both sides is essential to the prosperity of the country. We need administrators in. Washington who do not hate business and do not hate labor and do not hate any part of the people.”

GERMAN BLOOD LOYAL TO AMERICA

HE Carl Schurz Foundation, well-known and highly respected older group of German-Americans, has issued a timely statement deploring the Hitler “suppression of the old cultures in the German Fatherland,” denouncing the “prutality” of Hitler methods which have culminated in the attacks on London and declaring that “with but a relatively few unhappy exceptions,”. Americans of German descent “are and will continue to be thoroughly in accord with American thought and opinion in the present crisis.”

-Not only in this country but in Germany itself there

must be many Germans of an older generation whose souls are profoundly saddened and sickened by what Hitler has done to their homeland. In Germany such Germans must be silent for the uke of their families. Here they can at least speak their sorrow

—and all understanding Americans should regard them |

with sympathy and be quick to exclude them from suspicion.

LET THERE BE LIGHT

HERM GOERING is reported taking persnbnl charge of the Nazi air force. A blinding flash over London, unac~companied by -a loud report, would be the reflection of Herm’ s medals.

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He | might be turned down—and he should be: Many Senators

Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

Candidate's Denial of Acting as Counsel for Scalise's Group Clashes With 'Greetings' to Union Journal.

HICAGO, Sept. 26.—I have never met a more 4 authentic specimen of the type who fattens on organized labor in the role of political patron than Oscar F. Nelson, a judge of the Superior Court of Cook County, who has the effrontery not only to sit in judgment of the fate and fortunes

of other men but to present him- |

self as a candidate for the office of Public Prosecutor. I write not on hearsay but on information. I interviewed this

judge for almost two hours in an|.

office which he. occupies in the suite of the law firm which still holds the account of the flat janitors’ union, a subsidiary of the International Union of Building Service Employees. He formerly was a partner in this firm, but claims that he has dissociated himself for the duration of his term on the bench. I hope he is more truthful in that statement than in other declarations which he made to me. One statement I have already disposed of, that his

firm got’ only a little more than $10,000 a year from |

the janitors during the 12-year period, from 1923 to 1935, when he represented these toilers officially. The proposition’ that this relatively small union required even that much legal service, including service of its individual members, if the union and the members were reasonably well-behaved, I need not discuss. It is his proposition and I will leave it lay.

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UT, confronted the next day with the fact that this union regularly collected an assessment of $2 per member per quarter for legal services, Judge Nelson admitted that this had been so, that his firm got “part” of this kitty, amounting, “at times” to $30,000 a year, and that one year the firm's rakeoff was $42.600. In the same interview Judge Nelson denied to me that his secretary had taken the minutes of the executive meeting in 1937, at which a mob of New York and Chicago hoodlums took over the presidency of the Building Service Employees by electing to that office George Scalise—the white slaver who recently was convicted of robbing the union treasury. He admitted that the minutes were taken by a young woman em-: ployed by the law firm, but said she was not his

secretary .any more and was not his secretary at the

time she took the minutes. Yet twice in the course of our conversation, this person entered the room where we were sitting and performed secretarial duties for him. Judge Nelson also denied that he had served as counsel for the Building Service Union and said he knew Bcalisy only slightly.

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N Sept. 7 the Chicago Tribune quoted him as saying he never received a single fee from Scalise's union, which would suggest that he never represented the organization, and on Sept. 20, the Chicago Daily News said he flatly denied that he ‘ever was connected with the building service employees. By way of comment on the truth of his statements I now quote from a greeting from Judge Nelson published in the official ballyhoo journal of the Scalise group ‘in its first issue, Aug. 1, 1938: “+ “I hasten to extend my greetings. congratulations and good wishes to general president Scalise, to his | fellow officers of the international union and to the | new journal,” Judge Nelson wrote. And, again recalling his denial that he ever was

counsel for the international note this closing sentence |

of his greeting: “Because of the many years that I served as the | attorney for the Building Service Employees’ Interna- | tional Union and the part I had in its beginning, I shall always be particularly interested.” | This frcm the man who says he would “drive out all the undesirables who seek to fasten themselves upon labor organizations.”

Business By John T. Flynn

Arms Industries May Spur Housing Crusade Like That of World War |.

EW YORK, Sept. 26.—Soldiers must have places to eat and sleep. So $338,000,000 is appropy iated for barracks—as a beginner. But not only must soldiers sleep and eat indoors. So must workers in munitions plants. Which means

that the next phase of our defense progfam will be the appearance of the housing program for workers. When this happens, it is almost as certain as life that no one will

bother his head to take a look at

the history of housing in the last war. ; Because this business of housing is closely related to business, it is apt to become a very popular idea the moment we get around to considering it seriously. The making of war materials, as it happens, gets pretty well centered around certain spots. As soon as the war industries get fully under way there will be a flocking of labor to the towns, neighborhoods and cities where these industries are located. In most of such places, because of the long lay-off in building, there is already a shortage of proper housing facilities. And, at the moment any sort of additional pressure is put on the demand for houses, rents are going to go up and the shortage is going to be serious. The moment this happens there is going to be a demand for a Government housing program for these workers. Now it must he remembered this will not be a mere low-cost housing program ior underpaid workers. It will be a demand for houses for the well-paid workers of the munitions industries.

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HIS is what happened in the last war. And, of course, immediately there came into being a committee or commission to build such houses.. And lots of such houses were built. Some of them cost 10 and 15 thousand deilars per dwelling unit. Contractors and material men did nobly by themselves. And as soon as the war ended, and the munitions plants. began to disgorge their

workers and the workers began to drift back home to | other greener fields, the Government naturally lost in- | | terest in the houses, finished and unfinished, which it

was maintaining at an immense loss.

And all the lovely houses wound up at bargain |

prices in.the hands of real estate men, where they are today. A little thing like this might involve no more than a trifling sum like, say, a hundred million, which seems hardly. worth talking about. Yet it is worth keeping an eye on.

Words of Gold

ANY pages in The Congressional Record—the printing of which costs the taxpayers about $50 a page—are being filled, these campaign days, with political material having nothing to do with business before Congress. On Friday, Sept. 20, the folowing members of Congress put into The Record the material described below, at a cost approximately as stated: Senator Barkley (D. Ky.), excerpts from speeches by President Roosevelt, $170. Senator Minton (D. Ind.), speech before the Southern Indiana Labor Day Assn. $100. Senator Mead (D., N. Y.), campaign speech by Solicitor General Biddle at Seattle, Wash., $200. Senator Gillette (D, Ta., Wallace, $48. Senator Wagner (D., N., Y.). voting record on labor measures of Senator Maloney (D. Conn.), a candidate for re-election, $185. Senator Burke (D. Neb.), $32.50. Total cost to taxpayers, $735.50—enough to buy gasoline for an hour's flying by 320 Army training planes,

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{one great point in its favor:

Side Glances—By Galbraith

article praising Henry |

anti-third term article,

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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Back at the Old Rice Bowl!

The Hoosier Forum

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

| NOTES STATE EMPLOYEES * { AMONG WILLKIE CRITICS | By W. { In. a letter to the Hoosier Forum, Mr. Morris Epstein advises Mr, | Willkie to stop making speeches.

Far be it from me to insinuate that | Mr, Epstein has any personal inter{est, but IT do think his advice might bear a little more weight if he were not, a political worker in the employ of a State department.

Incidentally, it is interesting to note, on checking up, how many of the letters in the Hoosier Forum | flaying Mr. Willkie turn out to be written by Deputy this-or-that or assistant this-or-that in the State House or the Court House. If vou! doubt this, look them up in the City | Directory. | 2 ” ”

| DEMANDS CHANGE

{TO SAVE AMERICA

By Sideline Sittin’ Lil You who prate of the danger of changing horses in midstream | kindly observe England. Where would she be now if she had not taken a new, vigorous mount in midstream? Probably on Adolf's knee! We had better exchange the ass|

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steed soon, or we will find our necks under the heel of some native ggosestepper! We have such a candidate coming up now! Mr. R,, in his Philadelphia speech | said he favored Collectivism as a} doctrine of Government, thereby justifying Joe Stalin's statement that President Roosevelt was the first Communist President of the United States. Isn't that just ducky? And Eleanor with her N. Y. A. makes it unanimous. Why don’t we impeach this unAmerican President while we still have a voice (which is growing weaker every day) in our affairs of State? ” ” 2

WARNS AGAINST DANGER OF: INCREASING DEBT By Claude Braddick, Kokomo, Ind. I have written so many things| against the Townsend plan that I!

feel .I should call attention to the| Iti

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

| proposes to finance itself on a pay-as-you-go basis.

This provision is both its strength | Surveys have!

and its weakness. shown that a majority of voters favor copious Government aid to the needy; but when these same voters were asked if they still would favor “it if -it meant higher taxes for themselves, or higher costs, or both, most of them answered “no”!

An economy based upon debt is

a false economy, because it cannot perpetuate itself. Debts can be disposed of in one of two ways only —by paying them, which is painful, or by repudiating them, which is Inot only painful to your creditors, {but calamitous to your future ‘credit. A Government can pay its debts only by levying taxes; and taxes, even if levied only against the rich, have a ‘way of spreading themselves, directly or indirectly, throughout the whole population. It seems to me that the average American is {much less concerned than he should be about the alarming overgrowth of the national debt. E-3 n ” QUESTIONS METHOD OF ACQUIRING AIR BASES By Helen McCoy I can’t understand Jesse W. Wil= cox referring to the 50 destroyers we traded to England as “ships we don’t need.” Surely if those boats are good enough for England who is now in active war, they should be good enough for us. The President is rushing armament and conscription all he can and yet he trades our boats which will take years to replace. I do agree we need those air i bases, but why not have cancelled

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England's war debt for the islands? We probably will never get the debt anyway. . . Paul V, McNutt doesn’t seem to be any better at speech-making than Mr. Wallace. In a recent speech he said, “you can’t frighten a dictator by rumpling your hair and making wise-cracks.” This is the first time a close New Dealer has made such a statement about President Roosevelt. Especially one who has been treated so ‘“wonderfully” by the President. ” 2 ” FEARS AMERICANS GIVING AWAY FREEDOM By A. M. S.

Eleanor Roosevelt’s column is a pretty good barometer—first I read where ‘4t’s a beautiful autumn day, and a joy to see so many smiling faces” in the White House. Then my eyes fall upon the Gallup Poll {further up on the page, and 1 understand. What I don’t quite understand is, what has come over the American people—we who were once so pround of being free and self-reliant and strong? Is it possible that we have come to like being fooled—that we are charmed by clever words and a soothing voice to the extent that we no longer know or care what becomes of a goodly heritage? Men have died for this freedom of ours, and I never expected to live to see Americans give it away so easily! My vote helped put F. D. R. in office. - I felt he should have a second term, but not a third or fourth or fifth. More and more power, millions of controlled votes —history warns us ‘that’s the road to dictatorship. I say these things now because four years from now I may not dare—as it is, I lost my job a week ago when the boss learned I wasn’t -voting for Roosevelt a third time. It can happen here. 2 » 2

LINKS U. S. CREDIT POWER TO BRITISH CROWN

By Raymond H. Stone

The French revolution was influenced by the American revolution. Today the European upheaval is playing on the upheaval America. In England for a decade has been what is called a capitalistic State. The British Crown has been the custodian of the basic source of { credit. For seven years in America ithe combination of the _ British | Crown and the Presidency of the

| United States have been the source

{ of credit.

A monarchy or a military dictator i can operate a capitalistic state. A

representative constitutional republican form of government cannot survive in al capitalistic state. We will have to choose in the end between our representative consti-

| tutional republican form of gov(ernment in| a responsible private | capitalistic state and surrendering {our form of government in order to | continue the present ®apitalistic

state now maintained by the combination of | the credit powers of the British Crown and the Presidency of the United States. Between the two I choose to preserve and defend our representative constitutional republic in a responsible private| capitalistic state.

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By VERNE S. MOORE It’s easy enough to say yes To oscillate to and fro; Reacting to pressure and pelf.

| But the world needs a man who

can say “no,”

Who can think things out for him-

self, Who does not collapse in duress.

DAILY THOUGHT

O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is good; for His mercy endureth for ever.—Psalm 107:1.

PRAISE is the best auxiliary to prayer—H. Melville,

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- TENRETIAY. PT 2 1940 Gen. Johnson Says—

Elliott Roosevelt's Enlistment for

Soft Job in Air Corps Thoughtless and May Bring Draft Into Disfavor,

ASHINGTON, Sept. 26.—“Fairly and without fear or favor.” That is how the President told the Cevernors that the Selective Service Law must be administered. Right. It must be done that way or the scheme won’t work. Nobody must be allowed to put over any “clever little schemes” to get one boy out of the draft while another, with no more reason not to serve, is taken, That is unfair. It is doubly despicable, because, for every boy who escapes his proper turn another mother's son is pushed up before his turn to serve and perhaps to die. It'is a deadly serious business. Our draft law if properly and honestly and justly administered, is the best system for service ever invented. If unfairly administered and used for politics or any other kind of “fear or favor,” it can become one of the most hateful and un-American systems of oppression -and. in justice ever invented. Not only must its. ‘fairness be an unimpeachable

-| fact—the whole country must be' convinced of it.

1t must be above suspicion.. The poorest mother of the least. favored son must be serene in her confidence that he will be treated -on exactly the same footing as the son of the most powerful man in the nafion, or of men in all lower grades down to her own, 8 # 2

N the very day the President was making all this clear, his own son Elliott was commissioned and calied to service as a captain in the Air Corps. As a flier? No. A young man has to work and train Elliott goes in as a bird without wings. He didn’t apply to any recruiting office. The head. of the Army Air Corps, Gen. Arnold, himself, assigned him from the *‘specialists reserve” to a job in “procurement’—which means| something to dg with buying supplies. When asked what kind of a specialist Elliott claimed to be, the officials said that was “confidential.” As a captain, he will draw $200

-a month, plus allowances that may be as high at $118

a month. At his selective draft pool. ject to serve, as Woodrow Wilson said, place that will most pleasure. him but where it shall best serve the common good to call him.” He might have served in some ‘“specialty’—but that would have been decided not by him but by his qualifications in fair competition with all other boys —as also would the place and condition of his service. His compensation would have been $30 and not $200 “a month. He would have been honored by having to weas the uniform and not “privileged” as is reported in the press of ins new captain to wear civilian clothes.

age of 30, he would have been in the There he would have been sub“not in that

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OW the President's second son won't even have to register for the draft and take his place on a footing of equality with all other young Americans of his age. Without any discernible military training, preparation or qualification, and without any known preparation for “procurement,” he is made a “captain by the scratch of a pen and an officer and a gentleman by act of Congress.” It is so raw that I am very sure of one thing—the President eith#r didn’t know about it, or else didn't give a thought to the implications. I doubt if Elliott did either, The only real trouble with that. boy is that he ‘has no inferiority complexes. Guilt less as I believe this act was at heart, it ought to be undone just as quickly as it was performed.

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

) AD news from the American Medical Association, A sharp rise has been noted in minor but dise abling illnesses due to nervous fear, brougin on by world-shattering events. In simple words—we’ re afraid. And many people

who hug fears take refuge in ill ness. They actually “get sick.” Yet certainly this is no time for the people of the United States to be ill. While it is perfectly natural to feel anxiety for the future, it is stupid to let our anxieties get us down. For fear is a subversive force more danger= ous to our security than foreign foes. : So.let’s be realistic, ladies, and ask ourselves a plain question. To whom does the family look firsu : for calm when trouble brews? To mother, of course. Mother is the person who quiets father;. soothes the children’s unrest, and sees that everybody is well fed and comfortable and therefore fortified for the battles of life. Any home worth the name is held together by some woman whose courage and serenity combined create the aimosphere which manufactures strength. When a nation gets the jitters it seems to mae the same sort of feminine soothing syrup is neces= sary. Unfortunately, however, a good many Amer= ican women are not calm. creatures. They've taken to cigarets and cocktails’ and night life. Or they belong to so many clubs, serve on so many coms= mittees, and’ are active in so many matters, that they're all tuckered out by the time they get around to home affairs. This is no way to face a crisis. And, in my opinion,

| women will do little to advance the national defense

by practicing sharp-shooting, organizing new groups in an already over-organized society, or offering themselves to Army recruiters. Our prin.ary job now requires some sessions with self while we attempt to clarify our own beliefs, which are suffering from propaganda and its attending con=fusions. Second, we should do enough physical work to tire our’ bodies. This is a fine ‘time to wash the woodwork, practicé up on pie crust and plan next spring's’ gardens. Above all, we ought to pray, remembering always that ‘prayer is not a ritual only but a complete surrender of one’s thought to high and beautiful things —a way of rediscovering the meaning of our faith.

Watching Your Health

By Jane Stafford

NFLAMMATION of the skin, called dermatitis by the docter, is said to be by far the most frequent industrial disease. With industry speeded up for defense, it may become even more prevalent unless care is taken to guard against it. 'In some cases skin inflammation is Sie to irrita= ° tion of the ‘skin from strong acids, strong alkalis, metallic salts and strong soaps. These substances are likely to affect all exposed workers equally. Another

kind of skin inflammation develops through the skin: becoming supersensitive to a particular substance, even in weak concentration. Substances particularly likely to cause such sensitization are analine dyes and intermediates; chromium compounds, explosives, fore maldehyde, lacquers, nickel, resins and turpentine: Prevention of these conditions depends on many things, among them ventilating systems to catch and remove irritating dusts and fumes, the use of gloves, aprons and. protecting skin creams, and the substitution wherever possible of non-irritating for irritating substances" in industrial processes. Cleanliness also plays a role ®nd, in fact, uncleanlineess of the skin is said to be the greatest Clean, dust-free lockers in which work and street clothes can be kept separate, the use of clean work clothes, frequent. washing’ of the skin and showers before and after work are therefore recommended. For washing, bland soaps or cleansers should be used. Gasoline, turpen= tine, fat solvents, and strong alkali or abrasive soaps should not be used for cleaning up after work. Any skin irritation, no matter how slight, should be seen, and treated promptly by an experienced doctor, since early treatment will help to reduce the extent and disapliity of the dermatitis.