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Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way FRIDAY, NOVEMBER -15, 1940

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“COUNT THE DEAD

SINDIANAPOLIS and Marion County will wind up this year with one of the worst traffic records in history. 2 Already 128 persons have been killed by automobiles in 4Marion County, 80 of them in the city. Last year only 83

¢ were killed in all of Marion County.

b- Why this sudden increase in slaughter on our. streets and highways? What is wrong with our system? We think we know some of the answers. ¢ 3 e are miles behind in traffic education. There are #too many|{people who drive automobiles without any thought “of anybody's safety—including their own—and too many pedestria s completely oblivious of traffic hazards.

# 2: Traffic in Indianapolis is constantly snarled up in

' bottlenecks, thanks to ,an antiquated traffic signal system.

‘We need a traffic engineer to start putting sound engineering knowledge into traffic control so that we may free po- : licemen for some other duties—like saving lives, perhaps. s 3: ere are too many narrow, hazardous, two-way "streets i Indianapolis. Too many of us are unwilling to “admit that this is a large city and that twoeway traffic on a “narrow street with cars parked on both sides is unfeasible, : impracticable, and dangerous. £ 4: There is far too much bickering between Municipal the Police Department over petty personal polivtics. People are coming to have less respect daily for both 3 judges. It’s time we grew up and considered

We don’t want a traffic engineer because he will be “guperior in rank. ; We don’t want parking prohibited on our street because it will mean we'll have to put the car in a garage. © We don’t want to admit that anyone else is right be{cause it would hurt our vanity. And while the arguments go on, people are dying on ‘our streets in increasing numbers. : = So fa , 123 killed in Marion County, 80 in Indianapolis, ‘and the end not yet in sight. Think that over.

| 7 TOO PROUD TO REGISTER

TRY as we may, we can muster up no sympathy for those .™ eight divinity students who have just been sentenced to a year [in jail for refusing to register for the draft. : Thex| knew perfectly well that, once registered, they would be given full opportunity to claim exemption from ‘military service as conscientious objectors. But even when jthe court offered them a last-minute opportunity to reconsider and make a belated registration, they preferred “martyrdom.” The pulpits of the country can probably struggle along for a year without the services of these young men in their self-imposed hair shirts,

DR. MILLIS i

T is reported that President Roosevelt will appointy Hoosier-born Harry A. Millis, Chicago University economist and veteran arbiter of labor disputes, to the troublesome chairmanship of the National Labor Relations Board. Dr. Millis’ record is one that encourages hope of a happier future for the NLRB. He was a member of the previous labor board, which functioned more effectively than the present one. He has handled a great many employeremployee disputes, and at present is the umpire of all disagreements arising between General Motors and the United Automobile Workers. On the NLRB, Dr. Millis may be expected to join with Dr. William S.. Leiserson in the too-long-delayed job of revising Labor Board policies and cleaning: out the cabal of monkey-wrench-throwing subordinates who have done so much to promote discord between employers and employees. For many months Dr. Leiserson was the minority member, outvoted by the Madden-Smith combination. Since Mr. Madden's term expired, the board has been practically at a stalemate due to the inability of Dr. Leiserson and Edwin S. Smith to agree on fundamental policy and interpretation of the law. Mr. Smith has seemed to be possessed with a

- zeal to save the world with his own pet brand of unionism. |.

Dr. Le:iserson has seemed to be more interested in protecting the right of workers to join unions.of their own choice, and in keeping industry’s wheels turning and pay envelopes flowing. And that, on his record, will be Dr. Millis’ primary interest. : : - The Board is months behind in its work. We hope President Roosevelt will not delay in making this appointment. Dr. Millis and Dr. Leiserson will have a big opportunity to build industrial unity through just law enforcement, wihch in turh will contribute to what this country so greatly needs at this time—productive efficiency.

HENRY'’S LESSONS COME IN HANDY

IT WAS a happy thought that prompted President Roosevelt to select Henry Wallace to represent. him at the forthcoming inaugural ceremonies in Mexico City. Our Vice President-to--be is very popular south of the Rio Grande. For one thing he has taken the trouble to

EH ,_#“learn the Spanish language, and according to those who are

supposed to know he speaks it with fluency. He is the only really high official of our Government in recent times— excepting of course career diplomats—who has mastered the tongue of our southern neighbors.

TO SIGNOR MUSSOLINI:

BEWARE of Greeks bearing rifles.

Fair Enough By ‘Westbrook Pegler

Honest Union Leaders" Tolerance of Crooks Based on Antedated Fear Of Giving Labor Cause a Bad Name

EW YORK, Nov. 15—There is a temptation to discuss the C. I. O. convention in Atlantic City, at which John L. Lewis apparently intends to draft himself for another term as president over the shrill protests of rivals who lately defended the same conduct by President Roosevelt. This doubtless will prove to be a fine demonstration of the political cynicism of the men of both groups of the C. I. O. in their fight for factional and personal power, and of the strength of the Communists behind John Lewis, However, the American Federation of Labor has been my specialty for more than a year, Therefore, I direct attention to the convention of the A. F\. of L. in New Orleans, at which David Dubinsky, the president of - the Garment Workers, will echo the old traditional ery of the newly elected district attorney the country over: “Crime must go!” ‘ : I do not doubt that Dubinsky means what he says. For one thing crime has become so notorious in the unions of the A. F, of L. that its cost in prestige now equals or exceeds the returns in cash and numerical power, : : 8 8 =

TROR another reason, Dubinsky, in raising this cry, gains an advantage over all the veterans of the national organization who were so startled to hear crime challenged as an unfair union practice that they couldn't take the initiative.

‘They had associated with these men so “long that they were beyond realizing that this sort of leadership was unbecoming. They were thoroughly at ease in the company of that sterling character, George Browne, of the Theatrical and Movie Employees Union, in the executive council of the A, F. of L., and

. they had a practical, political understanding that no

leader should ever challenge another as a crook or a stooge of crooks for fear of political reprisals and embarrassing counter-accusations, As an example of this silent tolerance I would cite the reaction of a powerful New York local leader whose devotion to the labor movement amounts to fanaticism. I mentioned to him a spectacular crook who runs the Chicago local of the same parent organization. My New York friend shrugged like a waiter in a six-bit table d’hote reporting that the camembert is ploo and said: “Oh, him! Well, he runs his local his own way, and I run mine my way. I have nothing to say about him.” :

FF the record, he admitted that his colleague’s scandalous activities over many years had amounted to a great reproach to the labor movement and a detriment to the rank and file. Nevertheless, for publication, he would not speak a word concerning matters beyond the jurisdiction of his own local. These men have a code by which they restrain themselves from criticizing evil practice in others, They never, or rarely, knock a brother. They habitually violate their duty as citizens, to say nothing of their duty to the labor movement and to the rank and file as human beings, by refraining from reporting criminal acts of their colleagues to the police or prosecutors. Their atitude is anti-social and even anti-labor in this respect. But it must be admitted that some of them have a conscientious, if mistaken, conviction that to cause the prosecution of crooks and thus raise scandal would be to give the labor movement a bad name, This fear dates back to a time when any effort to organize workers was called anarchy, and gool men were framed and bad men were deliberately planted in the unions to discredit the movement. But this atitude has become the protection of the crook today when an honest labor leader has nothing to fear from public opinion, the press, the police or the politicians.

Business

By John T. Flynn

Money in Circulation at New High, Hinting Many Harbor Foolish Fears

EW YORK, Nov. 15.—If it would make anyone feel better, here is a report for the money-minded. It is from the Treasury and it tells us that the amount of money in circulation in the United States has reached an all-time high. By money I mean Government money—paper money and coins. Going from hand to cash registers and from cash registers to pockets is $8,299,000,000. The feature of this which interests us is that itis almost a billion dollars more than last year and three and a half billion dollars more than in the prosperous days of 1929. This time last year there was Just $55.84 in circulation for every person in this country, Today there is $62.66. That means $6.82 more per capita. Now it is popularly supposed that the more money in circulation the larger will be our income and the greater our business activity. But this is not so. At the very top.of our enormous business activity in 1929 we got along with just about $40 each. But as soon as the depression came, the circulation of money rose. At the bottom of the depression it was a good deal highe1 than during the period of prosperity and it has never go so high as during the general collapse in .

Why circulation of money is at a record high now is a bit of a mystery. When business is active the people are spending. Money moves around from hand to hand quickly or remains in the banks so that one dollar travels further, When business is very bad and people are troubled they will hold on to their money. The money moves more slowly. Some savers keep cash in their houses. The stock of money in actual ‘motion becomes inadequate and the Government has to print and mint more. :

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UCH facts as we have lead to the tentative conclusion at least that about $40 per capita is enough cash money to. be in. circulation to take care of our needs—certainly $45 would be enough. Why, then, has circulation risen to more than $62 a person? And why is the amount in circulation increasing practically every month? Why has it increased nearly a billion dollars in a year? Is it due to hoarding? .Are people frightened by the war? Are they afraid of our financial institutions? "It'is difficult to say but it seems reasonable that the hoarding of currency and coins is the chief cause of the expansion. It is, however, foolish to hoard money against a fear of inflation. Paper money and subsidiary coins are the things—along with bonds— which lose their purchasing power during inflation. Hoarding of such money is a completley ineffectual device. As for fear of our financial institutions, that is a wholly unsound fear. There will be no bank failures and no life-insurance-company failures as matters now stand.

So They Say—

WE IN AMERICA have played our part in building the kind of .world where war is inevitable.—Rev. Dr. John Sutherland, New York minister, - » *

IN MANY RESPECTS the corporal of today requires the leadership qualities of the lieutenant of yesterday.—Lieut. Gen, Hugh A. Drum. de » Ww * AS LONG AS there is a Finland, the help America has given will be remembered and blessed.—Kaarlo E. Kuusamo, Finish consul in New York, + * * *» *

THE ELECTION MEANS unity with Canada and South America. It means a new balance of power in the world —Tom Corcoran, administration adviser, announcing his retirement from public life, i . * .

THERE 18 NO question that “flesh-and-blood” drama is staging, successfully, a comeback with a vengeance.—FPhilip W, Rice, dramatist,

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

‘PROUDER OF WILLKIE’ NOW THAN EVER

° By J. C. T.

I was one of the millions who went down to defeat with Wendell Willkie but I can truthfully say I never was prouder of him than I am today. ; His speech the other night thrilled me and I presume was. likewise pleasing to the millions of others like myself who supported him. In his straight-from-the-shoulder talk he certainly outlined a program that we can follow as good citizens and good ‘Americans. Such a program certainly should strengthen the party and make certain that ultimately the principles he so gallantly espoused will one day be accepted overwhelmingly.... America is indeed fortunate in having such an unselfish leader.... : » » ~ GETS A LAUGH FROM DEMOCRATIC PROMISES By Angelo Mathus In the Nov. 12. issue of The Times we readers were amused at an article stressing the efforts to be used in wiping out the Democratic defeat in the 1942 elections and mentioning Mayor Sullivan as a modern Joan D’Arc leading us on to victory. We are to have garbage collection. Eureka—mine has been waiting ten days. Streets are to be swept and garnished. Courtesy to be shown at the City Hall. Mayhap it could be extended to the Court House and State House. There's a painful dearth of it there. Then, too, that embarrassing little matter of a $350,000 deficit. . . . Surely something more is required in public office than a few empty promises when defeat looms. ys JUST A FAMILY FEUD HE SAYS OF ELECTION. By M. E. Clark, Noblesville, Ind. People are still trying to interpret the election, which was more likely a family feud. Mr. Willkie called it a crusade. He called himself the standard bearer of the opposition party, which is pretty well named, more appropriate than Republican, Blows delivered below the belt made scars which may be slow healing. For political expediency Mr. Willkie opposed about everything he dared, but the results of the election showed they were false issues. i If farm program relief and WPA were issues for Mr. Roosevelt to

(Times readers are 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.)

gain votes, we Democrats might have carried old Hamilton County, but the vote didn't show that the voters accepted that as an issue. We were asked to maintain that

sacred tradition of no third term and asked at the same time to break that tradition older and more sacred than the Presidency. We were asked to send a man to the Presidency who didn’t have the governmental experience. We shattered one and saved the other,

» » » TAKING A DIG AT WILLKIE'S ‘SUGAR-COATED’ SPEECH By A. F. R., Columbus, Ind.

I listened to Windy Willkie's sugar-coated speech Monday night. For two and a half months he tore up and down the country with his hair tousled shouting himself hoarse, denouncing the President, never addressing him except as the Third Term President, the Indispensable Man, the whispering campaign, etc. Now he has slicked his hair down, modified his voice and thinks President Roosevelt should let him tell him how to run things in Washington. Of the People of A-MER-I-CA, quoting Mr. Willkie, had wanted him in Washington they would have put him there. Since they never voted him in, if I were him I would let the one that was voted in run things. He has pleased millions of people for almost eight years, and is plenty capable of pleasing them four more; My advice to Mr. Willkie is to go to Rushville, learn to farm and train his voice to call hogs. w ® » A SCOLDING FOR THE DEPUTY COUNTY CLERK By E. R. C. It would seem that our chief deputy clerk left his and Mr. Ettinger’s defense wide open, by his admissions when offering rebuttal to The Times editorial. So Mr. Ettinger instructed 341 inspectors NOT to

Side Glances—By Galbraith

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"| heard your story and the deer did, too——s0 we might as well go homel" |.

do not feel right.—Hauzlitt,

call for paper ballots until 900 had been voted. Very, very enlightening! . With approximately 1300 votes cast in the precinct in question, this is better than 100 per hour, and during the early rush hours this total undoubtedly ran as high as 150 to 200 per hour. We wonder if Mr. Ettinger intended using an airplane to get those paper ballots out before the last 99 could vote on the machine, or perhaps he had motorcycle escorts waiting with motors warmed up so as not to disfranchise any of the electorate. Obviously the Democratic inspector at the precinct in question, being an honest and fair-minded individual, realized the speed at which votes were being registered, and that he also realized the “speed” of deputy election commissioners in the delivery of ballots, which accounted for his violating our election commissioners’ mandate, and taking an unwarranted liberty in calling for ballots. at such an unreasonably early hour, It is also very well to misinform the public that 340 other precincts must receive equal consideration, but speaking as a past precinct committeeman, inspector, judge, clerk and general flunky, we wish to inform this same. public that we will undoubtedly be guilty of gross exaggeration to state that not to

exceed 25 pretincts needed paper| & ballots. However, let us agree that| &= 340 other precincts did need this|§

same service. Then why, Mr. Ettinger, these paper ballots not distributed

at the same time as in our pri-/ &

mary elections os ” . BEWARE OF STALIN, HE COUNSELS AMERICA

By E. F. Maddox The news that our State Department is unusually friendly toward Soviet Russia at present is a point which should be closely examined. Tt has been stated many times that the Communist strategy is to bait the other nations and trick them into war, wait until they exhaust each other and then move in and take possession and thus establish Communism as ruler. of all the world. . That is something to think about. Stalin’s trickery and treachery is credited with starting the war In both Europe and Asia. The more nations drawn in the better for the plans of the Communists. The next great Communist trick would be to involve the United States and Japan. The Communists and fellow travelers will leave no scheme untried to trick this nation and Japan into war on each other, so watch out! If Stalin can fool the Japanese by some kind of pact and trick them into acts which will lead to war with the United States, he will feel a lot safer. ‘We must be careful. Well, are the Japanese and Americans silly? Can't they see the handwriting on the wall? ;

'MAN’S BEST FRIEND By H. D. SWIGGETT

He sits by the fire from dawn till|

night, Has ne'er a care nor ne’re a fright, He licks his wounds and says his

prayers, O’er the tethered rocking chairs. Every many is his friend, All tried and true, A man’s best friend is a dog to you.

DAILY THOUGHT

And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes between your brethren, and judge righteously between every man and hi§ brother, and the stranger that is with him.—Deuteronomy 1:16.

THE SEAT OF knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart.

Gen. Johnso

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Saytm Recognition of -Comacho's Election

In Line With Good Neighbor Policy And Should Help Mexican Relations

ASHINGTON, Nov. 15.—Tnis Administration has just recognized the election and governmext of Gen. Comacho in Mexico. It could not have properly done otherwise. "A great many people believe that Gen, Almazan had a majority in the election, but it isn’t our business to judge the le= gality of a Mexican election, although for some time it was not our policy to recognize Latin American elections, or at least changes of government “achieved through force.” It worked pretty well to decide “the incumbency of Mexican presi= dents, but it did not work to ce= ment good feeling across tne bor= der. It didn’t fit with the Presi« dent's good neighbor policy=-which is among his best. It resulted in a lot of secret diplomacy, both here and abroad, the reasons and results of which have never yet been made clear, It also resulted in our engaging in two “undeclared wars” on & neighbor —Funston’s expedition at Vera Cruz and Pershing'’s punitive - expedition into Chihuahua. Both were fiascos. \ I was in the latter as Gen, Pershing's law officer, During our long period of idleness and frustration during that Washington-directed flop, in which we made a great show of mysterious National Guard mo= bilization on the frontier, I was directed by Gen. Pershing to make a study of what Mexican Govern=

"ment and politics were all about. Coupled with seven

years’ service along the border, including a somewhat similar mobilization by President Taft, during the Madero revolution, I. think I learned a little about Mexico—but frankly, not enough in detail to speak with much confidence.

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OILING it all down to a couple of ultimate results of which I do feel confident, I believe two things —that Mr. Roosevelt, is right in keeping our nose out of there and that tne Mexican situation is too different from ours and too complex to be judged by any American rule of thumb, ; Mexicans are largely Indians. Their traditions go back not to years of Anglo-Saxon traditions, but to an Aztec tradition as old and, in many ways, as well= proved and satisfactory to them. They believe in common ownership of property. Not in the Russian sense—not personal property—but in the waters, mins erals and even the land. What is at the bottom of American opposition to the Hull policy today? Because he represents the Indian tradition. American dismay. at the election of Comacho is partly because he represents the In= dian tradition. Hull's position admitted the right of expropriation of the oil properties, -but insisted on compensation. Mexico admitted that duty. The great oil companies with Mexican wells split on the settlement offered. One great group opposed it, and tried to monopolize the negotiation for compensation. It appointed the negotiator, but being dissatisfied with the result, and believing that our Government could be persuaded to interferé, broke off negotiations. The other group, learning of this, broke the so-called “united front,” sent its own negotiator and arrived at an amicable settlement satisfactory to it. : ;

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HE other group's strategy, which came within a hair of success, introduced a bill in Congress, It almost passed. It ap= parently emanated from sources somewhere in the State Department, but it was contrary to Mr, Hull's wishes and might have wrecked Mr, Roosevelt's good neighbor policy. The principal argument for that bill was that we have a domestic pro-ration policy on production pure« ly for conservation, and that importations from Mex« ico would wreck it. Those importations are very small, Just as was vainly attempted with the NRA oil code, the truth is that both pro-ration and this Mexican incident are not being used for conservation but for price-fixing. How could any foreign importa~ tions interfere with American conservation? From both the angles of foreign and domestic policy this obscure situation needs a thorough airing.

A Woman's Viewpoint

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

CCORDING to reports, neither Mrs. Roosevelt nor Mrs. Willkie wanted her husband to be elected President in 1040. [This attitude is easy to understand. ‘Although the office is the highest in the land it is also the most gruelling, and takes the deadliest toll of energy and health, In a more limited way all wom= en married to prominent men pay for their share of such prominence by certain acts of self-sacrifice. They have less satisfactory home lives; often they see little of their families. = Their existence is a roudd of demands upon their energy, ingenuity and disposition. They are also under the ceaseless strain of “keeping up with their husbands”—oh fearful phrase! For a living up to it is sometimes a large order. : Wives of notable men must know how to entertain and be entertaining. They must exercise tact whether they feel tactful or not. They are obliged to keep up with the fashions in dress and social customs besides showing an eager interest in scores of civic, state and national causes. - They have to be on their physical and mental toes every minute, and a good many are saddled with the additional job of keeping their men out of the: danger (zones wnere predatory females infest the social waters as man-eating sharks infest the seas. There’s a lot to be said for the simple life, and in the matter of marriage it is by far the best way of life for women. When your John comes home in the evening all petered out from a hard day’s work in office, factory or field, and sits down at your side for a com=fortable after-dinner snooze—say, Lady, maybe you don’t know it, but you've got happiness by the tail feathers. No need for you to be envying women who are married to Presidents or Senators or other big shots. A great deal of this circus-parade stuff which seems té hold such allure ends just about like a circus parade too—in the lots back behind the side-show tents. For happiness isn’t a question of sitting in a grand« stand box—it's a matter of gefting all the joy from companionship and home and every-day routines that we can grab. } :

Watching Your Health

By Jane Stafford

IMPLE measures for avoiding colds this winter have just been announced by the Illinois State Medical Society. Colds, as you know, are caused by germs which pass directly from person to person. If you could keep away from everyone who had a cold, you might be able to avoid getting any yourself. This is so obviously imparctical that it is not even mentioned by the medical society. Responsibility for cutting the chain that passes a cold from one person to another should rest with the person who has the cold. Sometimes you may fail to get a cold even when everyone around you has colds. This is probably be= causé you have developed enough resistance to withstand the onslaught of the cold germs. The medical society’s measures for avoiding colds this winter are

‘designed to build up resistance.

Get enough rest and avoid fatigue from overwork, is the first measure advised. Most adults require at

"least seven or eight hours of sleep every night.

Avoid sudden changes in temperature and wet feet. Colds aré more frequent during the sun-less months of winter and early spring. When the sun does shine, take advantage of it to'get’ some of its healthful ultraviolet rays onto your skin. , Diet is important in developing resistance. Remember to eat the protective foods, such as milk, eggs, fresh fruits and vegetables and glandular foods such as liver, sweetbreads and kidneys. Any focus of infection constitutes a reservoir of bacteria or Jeans and serves as the greatest handicap | yesistances : i: 0 hang

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