Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 October 1940 — Page 13

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(5) Who was it that O. K.ed the Plan Jo wast the. youth but termed > 0 ustry an att “to Sovietize Pini Sromnpt 6 Who was it that headed a utility company which hired labor -Spies and bought tear gas? (7 Do you remember the following extract from an editorial in The Times in the 1936 campaign which hey criticized the Republican 0 play, “Li is y berty at the Cross The Times said: “Liberty at the Cross Roads” goes in heavily for dramatizing scenes from history. at’s to keep the Democrats from re-enacting the events of July 28, 1932 in Washington; the march of ‘infantry, cavalry and tanks down Pennsylvania Ave. for the bayonet and gas attack on veterans .encamped near the Capitol, the burning of the bonus army’s shacks, the flight of parents with their children, the death of veterans and of the undernourished baby who couldn’t survive the gas?” (8) Well, “How'd We Get That way?”

language and rude of . Presidential cal-

: #2 # =» ‘ASKS SOME QUESTIONS CONCERNING THE ELECTION

By Mrs. Gertrude O’Brien, Terre Haute, Ind. Do you honestly believe that if President Roosevelt is re-elected in November that he will become a dictator? Do you honestly believe that the nomination of Willkie was an uprising of the people, instead of a smooth deal engineered by utilities investment brokers and big advertising men? Do you honestly believe Willkie is friendly to labor when he is backed by Tom Girdler and Ernest T. Wier and Alfred Sloan and Henry Ford? Do you honestly believe the man who was big enough to stop the Hoover depression and, at least, set - us on the road to recovery is incompetent to handle our national defenses? Do you honestly believe Willkie, the public utility holding company lawyer, is another Abe Lincoln, a man of destiny, who will give us a “new world”? Since it requires intelligence and sound judgment to be editor of a paper like The Indianapolis Times, do you honestly believe you are convincing your independent readers when you attempt to persuade us that your answer to the foregoing question is “yes”? :

2 8 = CHARGES DUPLICITY TO THE PRESIDENT By “Shellhouse”

The moral let-down in our country is terrific. There was a time when Americans respected such things as honesty and sincerity of purpose, but today those in our high places set an example of contradictions so openly brazen that it seems futile to hope for further high ideals or principles in our coming generation. To say one thing and do another has become the fashion in the New Deal. Mr. Roosevelt says he preferred to retire from active politics, but controlled by private wire from the White House his own “draft” as well as the appointment of his running mate in the un-Democratic convention at Chicago. Mr. Roosevelt praises democracy while at the same time demanding Congress give him dictatorial powers. As a Governor he defended States’ Rights, and as President he seeks to control all things from Washington. His expressed desire to assist the elderly Supreme Court Justices was a cloak hiding his purpose of forcing the Court to his will. The many emergencies he has declared have invariably proved to be an administrative trick to put over his particular plan of the moment. His denial, to Congress and the press, of current deals already consummated with foreign agents cannot but cause thinking people to lose faith in him as a leader. We live in constant fear of what he will spring upon us next. : The duplicity grows. Now we are expected to accept a campaign tour at taxpayers’-expense (in violation of the Hatch Act) in the guise of an inspection tour to speed up defense industries. And the most alarming thing about it all is the fact that enough of our people have allowed themselves to become so accustomed to these fake exhibitions in government that they will accept the continued control in office of political bosses who out-Hitler Hitler while at the same time talking grandly of “free elections.” ! . I have in mind an old saying which never applied more truly than . to the New Deal, “What you do soeaks so loudly I can’t hear what you say!” : ” ” ” RAILROADER TELLS WHY HE'S FOR ROOSEVELT By Chas. Cook

Why I am voting for Roosevelt. When labor calls at the White House they get a square deal, and are not shot down by bullets. I was raised a Republican and have voted that ticket. I have worked on a railroad 37 years. We got the 16hour law, the 8-hour day, time and a half for overtipgne, and several increases in wages all under the Democrat Party. All I ever got under the Republican Party was a cut in wages. The Democrat Party got in, and gave us ‘back the cut in wages we got under the Republican Party, and also an increase in wages, and the pension

law. Why vote for Windy Willkie and get our wages cut again? ” s ”

OPPOSES REMOVAL OF SAFETY ZONES By A. L. Thompson As a taxpayer, I am very much opposed to the Safety Board ordering the removal of the safety zones in tHe downtown district. It is the worst idea I ever heard of. We are trying to cut down accidents, not to increase them. This is the only protection that pedestrians have from being hurt. i 2 8 2 WANTS THE PRESS TO REMAIN IMPARTIAL . By Arthur R. Donovan

“ mmis is the first letter I ever — to. a paper but it seems a

porting one candidate rather than remaining impartial. I believe newspapers will-suffer in reputation and value -if .they insist on attempting to form public opinion.

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BETS HE DOESN'T GET THE WILLKIE WILLIES By R. C. Ridge, Crawfordsville, Ind. Nuts to all who rat and knock the New Dealers. I had Hooverites five years and I don’t ask for as much as one month of Willkie

Willies. And I won't have them either, I betcha. Carry on you true Demos. Let the back-sliding Dem0s go.

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FIRST LADY’S TRAVELS HAVE WEARIED HER By D. R. V. I thank Mrs. Ferguson for writing her column, wishing ‘Eleanor” to rest herself. I have wished many times that instead of having the “First Lady of the Land,” we might have the “First Lady” in the White House. : Mrs. Ferguson writes a good, wholesome column. Eleanor writes too. We who read her column learn of her travels, lunches, teas, style parades, swims, horse show appearance, etc., besides hearing, of “Jimmie” and “Franklin” and “my son, John,” also Elliott but never a thing. about his romance. Not “weary of Mrs. Roosevelt's welldoing,” just weary of the tramping.

” » » SHE'LL BE SURPRISED IF WILLKIE WINS By Mrs. S. S. E. Even if you did publish William Lemon’s letter, Willkie’'s election

would still be a big surprise to most of us. I think the Republicans,

| knowing they were defeated before

they started, is the reason they stuck Willkie in as Republican candidate. Whether Democrats: or Republicans are in office, there are always a few lucky people with soft jobs. J. N. Willingham must envy them. Don’t we all? . Admiring Mrs. Roosevelt doesn’t mean we all have to pattern our lives after her even if we were intelligent enough, which few women are. Mrs. Roosevelt is capabls of doing more for her family in onetenth the time other women can’t accomplish full time. Besides, her family is raised. Maybe you don’t realize Mrs. Roosevelt turns all the money she gets from her good work over to. charity. It is a shame Indianapolis doesn’t have one paper that will support an honest man such as PF. D. R. who has done more for humanity and labor than a hundred Republican presidents in 400 years.

#8 8 HE'D PUT THE WAR ON THE BACK PAGES By A. J. Schneider

Your newspaper, as well as others of the Scripps-Howard group, and all the leading. straight shooting publications, have declared for the Republican candidate for President. But in my humble opinion, yours has been merely a declaration, with no punch behind it. With the campaign heading into the last stretch, you are filling your front page, the most effective and valuable sheet, with all the pap the New Deal is trying to shove down our throats to perpetuate them in office. The European War and international relations are being used by the New Deal to focus’ attention away from the real issues—and you fall for it. Why don’t you concentrate on the domestic issues as expounded by your chosen candidate, on the front page; and relegate the New.Deal War and internationalism to the 10th or 12th page where it belongs? No one is really interested in the foreign wars except as a trumped up charge to distract attention. In fact the public has unequivocally registered its intention to have nothing to do with that war, which indicates that it is not of the prime importance that demands front page position.* Also, I'd like te see just one newspaper take a realistic view of the campaign for a moment. If we come down out of the clouds for a few moments, to consider the Vice Presidential candidates, as likely to some day to fall heir to the reins of our Government, I wonder how many of those clamoring for a third term for Mr. Eleanor, father of draft-dodger No. 1, would feel entirely at ease with “Hybrid Corn” (Corny) Wallace at the helm. Furthermore, what will a successful third-termer do with a Congress with a Republican majority, which seems to be assured? 0» = ” INDORSES STAND OF

DEFENSE COMMITTEE By Coen Pierson, Greencastle, Ind.

The following statement of the Indiana Committee for National Defense receives my unqualified indorsement: “We cannot afford to have the totalitarian powers win this war, and our foreign policy must therefore be arranged accordingly. This can only mean we must do all in our power to insure a complete defeat of Germany and her allies.” > In my opinion the following actions. are imperative to the protection of cur national interests: We should accelerate our national defense to a tempo comparable to that which we would inevitably reach if in an active state of war. We should give all aid necessary to Great Britain and to the other nations of the British Commonwealth as our first line of defense. To this aid there - should be no limit other than retention of materials absolutely vital to our continental defense. When and if necessary, we should repeal the Johnson Act. We must build up a stronger national psychology: Confidence in the political, social and economic traditions of the American way, which is akin to that of the whole English-speaking world, and a patriotic desire to defend American institutions. To many of us life could not go on under totalitarian ways. These conclusions are not hysterical reactions arrived at recently, but are judgments reached deliberately and slowly since September, 1938, and now justified in the face of the triple alliance of totalitarian powers directed, in my opinion, at the

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ELECTION TINE JOB PLAN HITS COUNCIL SNAG

Republican Members Block $10,000 Transfer; Bus Action Delayed.

By RICHARD LEWIS

The proposed $10,000 Park Department transfer for the employment of temporary labor on boulevards this fall faded out of the election picture today. If cannot legally be made in time. City Council’s Republican members saw to that last night. They blocked an aftempt to rush the transfer through by refusing to

suspend the rules, which can be|

done only by unanimous consent. Members also refrained from taking final action on the Indianapolis Railways, Inc., petition to sub-

stitute trackless trolley service on |}

E. 10th St. for the present motor bus. > It was the only subject on which they agreed. The balance of the meeting was given over to squabbles on municipal issues including the purchase of a two-ton street sweeper to the rebuilding of the Indiana Ave. bridge.

Mayor Doubts Legality

For the second fime in a fortnight, the Park Department's $10, 000 was tossed in City Council's collective lap, this time hy the veto power of Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan. Council two weeks ago approved the transfer under suspension of the rules. But the Mayor vetoed ‘the measure in the belief that its legality was doubtful, inasmuch as it had never been advertised for public hearing. Fully advertised according to law, the transfer ordinance was brought up for public discussion by President Joseph G. Wood last night. But no citizen appeared to discuss it and the debate on the measure came only from Councilmen. Although they had approved the transfer two weeks ago, Republican minority members set - themselves against it, asserting the money “might be used for political purposes.” “That's ridiculous,” snapped Alpert O. Deluse, Democratic finance committee chairman. “If there had been anything political about it, Mayor Sullivan would never have vetoed it.” “Well, maybe,” replied Dr. Walter E. Hemphill, Republican. “Maybe that’s why he did veto it.”

Snorts and Grins

Democrats collectively snorted and Republicans collectively grinned. The measure was slated for second and third reading next meeting following the usual procedure of ordinances. : During the discussion, members frequently digressed to other matters. Harmon A. Campbell, Republican, recalled the City’s $1,000,000 budget error and the Indiana Ave. bridge which has been out for more than a year. He also disagreed with the Works Board's selection of a street sweeper on grounds that it was too expensive. : Reviewing the railway company petition, members heard additional pros and cons from Arthur Gillion, Railway attorney, R. O. Blair, East Side Civic league representative, who argued for the trackless trolley, and from Ernst Heberlein of the N. Irvington Civic League who opposed it. The company proposes to extend the E. 10th St. trackless trolley with its 7-cent fare east from Olney to Arlington Ave,

* Held in Plot

Edward DeRoulbac Blount, 30- - year-old Census Bureau employee, is pictured in Washington where he was held in $5000 bail after he recently pleaded guilty to charges that he intended to kill President Roosevelt. A search of Blount’s yacht revealed bundles of Nazi propaganda.

NEW SALES TAX STUMPS BRITISH

Flower Bowl Costs Vary, Depending on Use That’s Made of It.

LONDON, Oct. 22 (U. P.).—Great Britain's shoppers and salespeople had a groggy look today. They were trying to figure out the new sales tax. The purchase of a flower bowl, or a mouse trap, or a petticoat is no longer simple. you want to buy a glass bowl for cake mixing, the law provides a 16 per cent tax. But if you want to use the bowl for flowers the tax is 33 per cent. If you wanted to use the bowl for “sanitary purposes,” there is no tax at all. : Such problems confronted buyers and sellers of virtually every article. The uses to which the article will be put generally determine the tax. Librarians and stamp collectors, for instance, were hit by the tax on transparent adhesive tape. The nontransparent type is tax free. Camphor bought as a toilet preparation rates a 332 per cent tax while camphor bought to combat moths is fax free. Shoebrushes are exempt but a clothes brush gets the highest rate because it is a “toilet article.” Lip-

sticks are taxed 33!'z per cent.

B Ernest K. Lindley

Biographer of President Roosevelt

Pleas of Lesser Candidates Force F. D. R. To Take Stump

HE President's decision to make five outright political speeches before election obviously was precipitated by the signs that Willkie is gaining strength. It wouldibe wrong to say that it reflects anxiety

about the net result of the election.

The President and the top-ranking

politicians who are active in the campaign seem genuinely confident that he will be re-elected. But the difference between re-election by a

narrow majority of the electoral college and re-election by a sweep, is important to his prestige and power during a third term. The differ-" ence is even more important to the Demo-= cratic candidates for the Senate and House and the. governorships, and for thousands of lesser offices. Roosevelt remains stronger Mr. Lindley than his party and, with possibly a small handful of local exceptions, stronger than any other Democratic candidate. Roosevelt can be re-elected without Ohio, or Michigan, or Indiana, or sev=eral other states which are now doubtful. But the other Democratic candidates in those states need the full advantage of his campaigning ability. For weeks they have been importuning him to get, out on the stump. - In support of their plea, state and local Democratic leaders have set forth three arguments beyond the usual purpose of putting pep into party workers. The first was that the voters were not convinced that the President was too busy to campaign: His inspection tours of arsenals and defense projects were too obviously political in character. The second was that a great many voters like to be asked for their votes: They feel slighted when their support is not solicited. Both arguments are rooted in the American characteristic of preferring directness and frankness to indirection and " subtlety. 2 5 =

“HE third, and clinching argument was that the President had been able to supply no one else to reply effectively to the charges and insinuations of Willkie. Wallace has been reasonably successful before small audiences, but he has not been able to muster much nation-wide publicity. Hull has remained quiet because he did not wish to em-. broil foreign policy in the campaign—especially since Willkie had gone a long way toward tak-

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ing foreign policy out of the cam=paign. Hull will speak on foreign policy on Oct. 26, but he carefully chose a thoroughly nonpartisan (or omni-partisan) audience: The National Press Club. Two of the Cabinet members— Knox and Stimson—are Republicans who were enlisted by appeals to their patriotism and could not be expected to take the stump. Morgenthau, as usual, is silent. Jackson, one of the most effective spokesmen for the New Deal, is not in great demand—perhaps chiefly because he permitted himself to be identified too closely with the “purge” and the other activities of the Corcoran clique. Ickes has been eager to stump the country, but there have been few requests for him. His projected tour of the West had to be canceled on account of the protests of the regular Democratic factions in that section. The Democratic organization in Portland sent word that it would not even pay for the rent for a hall for a speech by Ickes.

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HE brunt of the campaign speaking, excepting Wallace, has been borne by Paul V, Mc-

Nutt. McNutt’s popularity with the Democratic politicians—which came as a stunning surprise to many of the Roosevelt aids at the Chicago Convention—seems to be still on the upgrade. While his speeches have received little national publicity, they have piled up a great and generally favorable mass of local publicity, and the urgent demands for his services at political rallies are several times greater than he has been able to fill. LaGuardia has been helpful, but many of the Democratic politicians, who organize political meetings, regard him as an outsider. : The upshot is that Democratic state and local politicians have been clamoring for the active help of Roosevelt. After all, he is the candidate, as well as the party’s most effective spokesman. In speaking for himself he is thoroughly in accord with American political tradition—more so than if he had half-pretended to the end that he was indifferent to the - result of the election.

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STREET" BACK IN NEWS

Zoning Board Seeks to Get Land for Widening Catherwood St.

For more than 20 years, Catherwood St. just north of E. Washington St. has been known to East Side

residents as the “trick street.” They call it that because it’s only half a street. From Washington St. 200 feet north, it’s 12 feet wide. Beyond, it widens suddenly. into a fullsized, 20-foot thoroughfare.

half of Catherwood St. Says He Is Willing Now

Catherwood St. Mr. Creighton,

street.

the right-of-way.” + Recalls 20-Year Fight ;

property owner, he said, who blocking completion of the street.

street. haven’t got the street.”

Other Pleas Granted

Also approved were:

and Pleasant Run Blvd.;

Linwoot and i3th Sts.

MARINE REGIMENT

of foreign service

Somparatvely envy of the nese and Dutch soldiers.

Their ornate club is

about $160,000.

The story of the “trick street” is the story of years of litigation in which the City has unsuccessfully tried to force. property owners to yield right-of-way for the missing

Another chapter in ‘battle for right-of-way was enacted at the Zoning Board meeting yesterday. Board members unanimously denied the petition of Samuel S. Creighton to build a double house at 30-32 N.

Board members said, had originally opposed the dedication of the right-of-way from his property for completion of the

Ear] C. Townsend, 21 N. Catherwood St., representing residents remonstrating against the petition, asked the Board to reject the petition “until Mr. Creighton dedicates

Mr. Creighton asserted. he is no longer opposed to granting . the right-of-wayl as far as his property is concerned. There is another is

“Twenty years ago,” Mr. Townsend told Mr. Creighton, “we stood here, you and I, and you told me I would get gray before I got that Well, I'm gray now and I

The Board approved the petition of F. C. Cash for a permit to build four single houses costing a total of $70,000 at 4435-57 N, Meridian St.

A filling station addition at the northeast corner of Madison Ave. a single house. at 4120 Shelby St.; a single| house at 3446 W. North St.; a double house at 4583-85 N. Illinois St.: an office building at the northeast corner of the Brookville Rd. and Shermégn Dr.; a double house at 5235-37 E. Market St., and a two-way double house at the southwest corner of

LOSES ORNATE CLUB

SHANGHAI, Oct. 22 (U. P.) —The Fourth Marine Regiment, stationed in Shanghai, lost its clubhouse, one of the most luxurious in the Orient. The marines are the most popular { men among Shanghai’s fair sex. The high rate of exchange between the Chinese yuan and the dollar makes them wealthy men, to the French, British, Japa-

known throughout the Far East. Today they found the place had been sold from beneath them to the Shanghai Jewish Racing Club for 1,000,000 yuana,

DEATH CAR DRIVER GETS 1T0 10 YEARS

—In one of the shortest trials in the history of Allen County, Harry Byers, 24, of near Ft. Wayne, faced Circuit Judge Harry H. Hilgemann yesterday, pleaded guilty to three counts of involuntary manslaughter and was sentenced to 1 to 10 years in prison. : Byers was charged with the hit and run death of Carol Rudolph, 13-year-old New Haven, Ind., school

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SOUTH BEND, Ind., Oct. 22 (U. P.).—Sale of birth certificates by county and city health officers was attacked before the St. Joseph County Board of Commissioners yesterday * by’ County _ Attorney George Sands, who said that the certificates would not be accepted in'court proceedings. - Dr. Morris Balla, County Health

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PARIS, (via Berlin) Oct. 22 (U. P.).—The Americam Embassy is ne=gotiating with local German author= ities for the release of Elizabeth Lewis, an American photographer. She was arrested while taking pie~. tures as a possible spy and was held incommunicado in: “the Fresnes . Women’s Prison here. : It also was reported that at least

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