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THE iB ROBIN a RESIDENT ROOSEVELT - 4nd des State’

: have handled the early stages of the Robin Moor inci-

: deit with. admirable restraint. : This is a sign of ‘strengthhot of weakness, which hysteria comes. It recalls the firm but quiet manner in; - the President dealt with the explosive ‘Panay inUpon the first separa of the sinking of the American freighter i in the South Atlantic, the White House requested the public to withhold judgment. Yesterday Undersecre-

tary of State Welles, in giving out the first brief consular | report that a German submarine “undoubtedly” sank the |

ship, -again emphasized that our Government: would await a full report. * As the details grow, they look worse. It appears that this American ship, en route from New York to South Africa, was not in a-combat or effective blockade zone; that ‘she carried no military cargo; that the survivors are convinced the submarine and her commander were German; that the commander “was fully aware that the vessel was American,” and that nevertheless he gave the passengers and crew half an hour to abandon ship and then blew her out of the water. : In the facé of such apparent facts ~and bearing in mind that other such Incidents may be just over the horizon— the need is evident for the kind of restraint that the President and the State Department have manifested—the kind of leadership that will cause the people to use their heads instead: ‘of merely their emotions.

HARLAN FISKE STONE. \ THE wheel has made: a full turn: sifics ‘the era when “Holmes, Brandeis and Stone dissenting” was a commonplace on decision Mondays in the Supreme Court. Today Holmes is gone and Brandeis isin retirement. But many of the doctrines. ‘set forth* in’ ‘their minority evail,- and now their: younger col-

opinions have come to preva league in nonconformit flan Fiske Stone, is nominated

to be Chief Justice. Mr. Roosevelt has well. ghrved the. ‘interests of ftional

unity by going over the ‘heads of all the New: Deal's legal galaxy to tap the broad shoulder of a Coolidge-nated Republican who owes him no personal or political fealty—but whose devotion to real liberalism is writ large.in the record. It was Justice Stone, indeed, who last year read a lec-

ture in liberalism. to the five Roosevelt appointees on the “5 his boy friends almost got away With in the e fo

bench. These New judges had decreed, in ‘an opinion written by Justice Frankfurter, that. a certain pair of schoolchildren must saluté the: flag, in violation of their religion, or, else, forego their education. Justice Stone, dissenting, called the decision “a surrender of the Contsitutional protection of the liberty of small minorities.” In the troubled times. that lie ahead, it may be that patriotic fervor: will tend: to boil over into a brutalizing hysteria of the 1917-18 ‘sort or worse. If so, we will have a restraining influence in the new Chief Justice.

» . 8: Y "8 2 8 So much for civil liberties. It was,in another field, in the > struggle of social and economic forces against a status quo defended by the court majority, that Justice Stone really laid about him with a prophetic bludgeon of dissent. When his colleagues knocked out the New York MinimiumWage Law; he accused them of interpreting, not the Con. stitution, but their own “personal economic predilections.” When the first Agricultural Adjustment Act was. outlawed, hé ealled the decision “a tortured construction’ of the Con: stitution.” * The lawbooks are brimming today with statutes that his former colleagues used to hold invalid. intment--because they had feared the naming of a fofessional New. Daaler.

aren unity. = i Justice Stone: dogs not ‘have Cardozo’ s gift for withien) uence; he is too good a mixer to rival the austerity of hes; he lacks’ ‘the colorof a Holmes. - But he is learned inthe law, hie'is abreast of ‘what goes on in the world, and hé is profoundly ‘conscious: of the Couit’s once forgotten dity to leave the legislating 1 ‘to, Congress. The President filled the two remaining vacancies on the with two loyal: lieutenants, Attorney General Jackson a Senator Byres, ; They are able men.

any years of agitation for tariffs, |

TH when we Sedo hink of foreign trade at all we are glined to think mostly of:imports. And there are large ‘powerful pressure: groups in the country which look upon imports as.an. unmitigated evil, 5 That fring explain why a ‘Cuban committee on foreign w. months. ‘has undertaken a publicity ) hten ‘the self-interest which : groups have in the: Cuban-

ports that Cuba is buying more

of everyiing from ‘the United States—that in the" first | and de months of this year she bought petroleum, eoal, coke, |.

flour, lard, apples, ‘pears, anions, potatoes, beans, peas,

eat, oats, cheese, meats, soybeans, chemicals, lumber, omobiles, machinery, structural iron, steel, paper, tex- | I; } other commodities—to astatalof] Lud

Tes num L 4,640 tons, and val oof $25,776,000 ; r » And where does Ciba get the dollars to buy these.

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Nevertheless, even die-hard Bourbons will applaud the |

And New Dealers can scarcely |} fuss about the elevation of a:man who has fought so many || of their battles in the private cloisters of the court. That| isiwhy we think .the Stone appointment serves the cause, ;

this, the Government may find f{

“prices of materials,

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| s | Fair 1 Enough i By Westbrook Pegler "Me Takes Over for Mr. Cudahy and |

Tosses Some Barbs at ickes for

His Criticism of the Hitler ion |

EW YORK, June 13.—John ‘Cudahy, our form!

wigging from Harold Ic Goebbels and Hitler, and, even an “Sequainiance

Ho ece if But he nail

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ot nome, and Bot Much sie. 8. 8

i : tis ose thinks this was naive of Cudahy, but 1 read ¢

the piece and I didn't gather that Cudahy believed him. Instead, I thought, he was: just: passing the word along for Americans to Helieve or not, on the basis of past experience with Hitler's assurances and declarations as compared with his performances. A professional reporter would have put more questions and would have pressed the questions, . But I notice that first the President took a pep at Mr. Cudahy for turning in, to the best of his ability, a job of journalism, and that soon after Ickes

was turned loose on him to .finish him off: That |

makes it look as though they have taken the attitude that our people haven't sense enough to shrug off Hitler's propaganda and that a journalist who lands 20 istayw with him is guilty of something pretty a That would be a new wrinkle, because our country, is not ofclally at war with Germany and no reporte with any sense would turn down a chance to intervi Adolf Hitler. If Hitler tells the reporters a lot of lies,

those are not the reporter’s lies but Hitler's.” The re- | :

porter isn't there to tell Hitler what to say, but to draw

- him out on important subjects and give his answers, °

which then may be debated and picked to pieces by our editorialists and political orators at their leisure. Itkes is a fine one to be talking about propaganda and deceit, anyway. When did Ickes ever. sound off oh ‘the iniquities of the Wagner Act and the labor policy of the Ad part for more than eight years, 4s a result of which, and for no other reason; it is now necessary to call out the Army to protect: American’ i 4 threatened by mobs of Communist ls » 8-8 a ND didn’t Mr. Ickes come out with a proposal that a whole colony of refugees from Spain be imported to the Virgin Islands in the zone of our most important defense, regardless of the well-known fact - that such a mass importation would be sure to in<

clude a lot of Communists and, probably, the Tegular

proportion of Nazi spies and saboteurs? ‘He is the one, too, who was always mal

‘speeches to the Lawyers’ Guild and the'like, wh

are known to be heavily infested with Communists and dominated by them, and if you can" find anywhere in his stuff a condemnation of the manufac tured {amines and the massacres ‘of people in Russia which equals in vehemence his denunciations of Hitler and Nazism you can gét something for it, because that would be as great a' rarity as those ‘synthetic philatelic rarities of great value which he and some

days of the New Deal, - Mr. Ickes is the official sic ‘em of the. Administra-

tion, pe if you watch you will notice that he barks.

to orders: in certain situations: such .as the Cudshy case,

The only fault I found with Cudahy's story was

‘that it was a punk job of journalism. ‘ Its propaganda

content immediately called up the memory of similar declarations by Hitler in other- cases ‘and. defeated: itself, but. Ickes seems-to- think - the American people can’t be trusted to- discriminate between propaganda’

and news. ganda for years; he is oniitled to-an opinion on that.

Business

By John T. Flynn

Ceiling on Wages and Prices Would Have Prevented Plane Strike Mess.

NE" YORK, June 13 ~The ugly iness at the North American Aviation plant was a product—~and only one of the early products--of the initial refusal to deal realistically with the economic problem repre sented by the defense program. Ong way to deal with strikes—we are told-—is.to have the Government take over the plant. But having done that, the strike problem may still persist. The Government can take plants, but it may find great difficulty forcing workers to go back to work. greatly, complica hy the fact that today the ernment needs trained workévs; skilled and semiskilled. It is no hdrd problem for the worker to leave his struck job and go to another plant and get

tself confronted by ‘the necessity of adopting nieasures from which it may recoil and which it capnot use without imperiling’ the public attitude toward: the whole program, This is all’ the more serious when we reflect that the economic disturbance phase Prices re Suogram only in its first stage. .As prices e ding for labor becomes more intense, as employers are more and more put to it to find men, tne Janor troubles are going to become more. serious. T ernment had at the very outset recognized the problem, taken'a glance ahead at the probabilities, foreseen all this—which was easy—and. then created the

proper mental attitude toward the whole Sublest.. by 1

putting a ceiling over Jrices and wages.

AD the worker been *given t¢ understand’ that he was just one of a whole nation of men and. ‘women whose share in the financial rewards of prepartdness was settled for the mo t—that neither ‘material, men nor highly paid going to run away with the prizes of the defense job —it would have been a very much: easier problem to deal with labor. -

It must be remembered that factory dakor is stimu- ||

lated to quarrel with its share, not merely by. the profits of the employer, real or imaginary, and the ut by the the rich pickings of the highly skilled men. Wages of these men gone up without any serious a, {rom "their ar-. ganized groups. ne Yui Scarcity The lower-paid trained get their share of the termined

et too la and

It is not “down the pric

later every day. It is

have been six mong 3 the worse it will be.

Administration of Which he has been a |]

Well,-as one who has been making propa- |

|Bramss COAST UNREST ON. REAL ESTATE RACKET

Most of this could have been ayerted if the Gove

workers were |

.where they are and so must the

py if he did not e

“maritime unions, ' including

“ Strike Creskdas Populer. : Bub i "Leaves an Uneasy Feeling po . Should Point to a Valuable Lesson,

NID; Oka, June 13 —~No recent, ction of Gove

: oo of union 1 & 1. O., and sometimes them. Now the ton side C.

leadership itse only : ory aaron ab ; R from under, blames the .W. ih ? , trouble on these Reds. = : That would seem ‘to. make the

: unanimous, but it doesn't cure the evil remain. The

such cells union leaders who now condemn them when a real conflict with a

Government breaks. ' Harry Bridges, C. I. O. West Coast leader, eer, the aviation tel and who is at least associated with tHe extreme pink wing, called the settlement of that strike a “strategic retreat, but not a defeat.” In some of a those connected By ocean communications, transportation and ding of shivs are danger Spoxs. Mr. Bridges a leader e de angerous Fanares general strike of 1934. dy Sap 8 = 8 HAT has been revealed by: these sinister diss closures concerning C. I O. unions and ‘the successful prosecutions of thieves, crooks and racket

| eers in A, J of I. unions is that the overwhelming

Fa

1 wholly

Seton to the

"The Hoosier Fora

thedea with what you say, but will eath your rvight to say itmmYoltalre,

MENTAL HEALTH "ALSO NEEDED TO AID VITAMINS 8y G. 8. KH, Indianapolis

The President recently called a conference of nutritional experts whose the public on the value of different foods, so that Americans could maintain normal health during these critica! times. I find no objection to: the dissemination of diet ary information, but I think that too much emphasis is placed on vitamins and not enough on those Sings gs that involve the spiritial life Q an this. respect self-disclp 1s, very important. ‘Without vitamins ‘do ‘only ‘half the job: Good food - is : beneficial “only: when aécompanied by good mental health. Even in sickness, as in normal 1iving, a fighting heart, a disciplined soul, is just as necessary as nourish= ing food or drugs. And to meet. the. numerous problems which. . confront our nation that. quality must ‘he remembered. ‘Everything depends upon How we conduct ourselves. -

By W. NH. Edwards, Indianapolis

We read 4n the papers that there’ is something wrong with the Pacific Coast where so many disastrous strikes are occurring. Many of the editorials lay all of the blame on Harty Bridges. They don't sitet out what condi Wo that made southern Bios fertile region for Harry Bridges pr his Communist brethren to work in, nor do the papers mention Joe Beck, the labor gverlord of the Pacific Northwest and the unofficial mayor of Seattle.

Back of the terrorism of ‘Bridges and Beck is a condition. with: which:

This phase of the problem » the National Government ' cannot

well deal, because it doesn't come. under the head of interstate busi-| ness; it is real estate speculation’

ocal gover

re-employed quickly. To deal with |goverr than they are interested in the eco- [reasons

nomic health. of their local ‘ comunities

urpose it was to inform|

ne wild, a condition that only} b:

Times ‘readers ‘are invited fo -express their . views: in these columns, religious con_troversies = excluded: - Make your letters short, so all can have a chance. Letters must ‘be.signed)

things like labor and business are built up on those two basic foundations. If either farms or city real estate developments are allowed to be controlled by real. estate racket speculators, prices. on all other com« modities. are bound: to rise; Tenty are raised until labor. must get ex tremely high wages in order * meet the increased cost of living, It is -in:such: unhealthy economic conditions that Harry Bridges. and Joe Beck grow: into vicious power, and if Bridges is deported, which seems unlikely, others like him will fise to take his place unless some. thing is done to halt the real estate

| racket. “| Indianapolis is not fee of the _jreal estate ‘and rental racket. Any

close observer ' can ‘see many unHealthy signs of real “estate and

checked right here. Human greed | sometimes smashes the goose that lays the golden egg, then the eggs the public gets are oo rotten, : : 2 8 4 $ : OFFERING A DISSENT TO PEGLER COMMENT By Dr. Frank J, Wricht, vost w. Wash. ington St. Westbrook: Pegler 1s right m every article except once in 1000. At least I am willing to admit he is usually right: However, in a recent article he evidently is suffering a severe headache and. unable ‘to reason clearly. He sayk: “Our :task is to

- ! under standing Lha we sre fighting (or about to. ‘fight

m - Real’ ‘estate is, like agriculture, basic Sommadity iF sr all other

Side Glancts — By Galbraith

Germany. Decalise Hitler has Jumped

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rental” speculation going on un-|

1 EDR 18 CONGRESS" s | By Daniel Francis Claney, Loganiport; Ind.

on small, weak nations and forced his form of government on them, without their consent and sgamst their wislies and we, the U. firstly, ready to battle for their

do that every nation should have the form of government it may wish, being careful .to make it plain that ours shall not he forced upon them. Secondly to protect ourseives from the tyranny ot Hitler and become 8 vassal nation to Germany, servile to German domination as other na-|' tions have been forced to become: That we were guilty of tyranny fn our treatment of the South directly after the Civil War is true, mit’ there it no reason for your | claim “of similarity to Garman cton«quest. © The South had - rebelled against her own governirent—she had started the shooting, brought on the war. No such may be said of any country Hitler has overrun and made: servile ‘to his form of government. It is ours to regret, the treatment of the South and it is, or should be the regret of the treatment accordod Germany - by -England ‘and I*rance . after Germany lost the former war. If the U. 8. sits in at the peace conference again with (Germany defeated, a more just peacd will be had-—our government will not sit idly by—it must and shall be a just peace this Hime, 5

I a COLUMBUS POTENTATE EXPRESSES THANKS

[By Neath O. Jones, Potentate, Aten

Temple, Columbus, Ohio On behalf of Aladdin Temple of

the people’ of ‘Indianapolis for the fine hospitality accorded the Shriners during :this. meeting of the Imperial Council of the Shrine, one of the mest suclesstul in’ ita lang history. Speaking for my own Temple, represented here by a delegation of

| approximately 400, I personally éx"tend sincere thanks to the legion of

friendly folk of this fine city for the hospitality and courtesies extended to Aladdin Shriners, and, as we all well know, also accorded all other visiting Shriners. . . . Friday, at 000, Aladdin's delegation leaves for home, bearing

with it Tacalecons of ‘a mast happy sojourn

Ya

«My friend Stephen ana I were

discussing ‘the. shift of. power from

the legislative ‘to: the executive

coh branch of. a national government.

cary; objected

thar Roosevelt it not a: gest: man. “Well, if it comes'to that,” I coun-

fered; “10s at a great Congress.”

rights as. a nation, believing as wef

Columbus, O., T wish to congratulate |}

-aspirations and in

the. friendly city of In-| | anapsiis= a. memcty of hich, wil

majority of decent patriotic. citizens in Am labor unions do not seem to have the power to: their very leadership of. uences which; if they: do not threaten to make the very institution: of organized: labor a menace, at least discredit and weaken it in popular favor and opinion, Mr, Bridges also announced. that he thought the aviation strike was . “justified in view of the hugs

. war-profits of the airplane industry.” That is the

argument most frequently advanced for these dee fense stoppages. That approach is also dangerous, “As profits go up, wages must. go up,” and it eh. be added “prices Will go’ up, profits will go up,” and, sO then; end, not ‘in a circle, but in an ascending Spi *" You can’t make profits Tn a war industry a cast= : iron rule to measure wages in that industry. Wages at be kept relaivly do hie | in all employment in cular locality high wages in one industry tend to ate herdilg iid industries, or, in a’ labor

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WLC cannot be ‘tolerated, but fantastically high wages is not the answer. It is up to the Government to prevent any undue profits by reason of war work. Con g taxes on war industries ‘to prevent high profits is not the answer, That simply sends all prices higher and higher and, again, it is the great mass of our civilian population het, gets no benefits at all, but bears most of the "The place to prevent profiteering is in the n otia~ tion and administration of war contracts. negot. is. altogether the Government's own responsibility and, Judging from the present: ey Li of all iL peices res

soar into inflation, it iS hard to the Government is Soltig that job. There dre great dangers here in the failure of labor to purge its own leadership of bad men and the apparent complacency of Government to inflationary ra Fr Be ee Se A rics 3 as carefully as the fields of actual eanfijet + Rano

Editor's Note: The views crprtised by edlomnists in this newspaper are. their own: = They are sol necessarily those! of The- o:lnainnanelis Times.

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A Woman's S Viewpoint

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

VERYONE is getting ready to “defend demode cracy.” We read Jat the girls of Steph

Te Sant te emai en bilities. ‘defenders: The president-general of ‘the D. A.*

whether :she is hongenite. A xii ‘ine; dustrial worker. 1 aives-us at intikhe ower of one; individual Sve as the gave themselves,

tler's hands: Now, don't shout. at me that our Seiden and: Hitler are as far a as the poles in their natures, tons; 1. w that. I believe:

But, honestly, it seems fo. me the ent of. this measure into a law would mean that we might as well kiss democracy goodby, for neithei: its f * nor its spirit would remain in this land.

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