Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 October 1941 — Page 12

MARK FERREE ‘Business Mansger’} (A Somers. HOWARD NEWSPAPER) ie ; 2

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Give Light and the Pope Will Pind Their Own Woy ESSAY, OGRCRE ht

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HIS is the season of fhe year when most of Indians is .enjoying the beauty of autumn woods. It is also ‘the time when any one these autumn excursionists by carelessly tossed match or cigaret can cause millions of ollars worth of damage. | . Enjoy Nature, but don’t get so familiar as to try to give her a hot-foot. i

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‘THIS, TOO, WILL PASS the earlier days of our country business was puny, capital was scarce, and so governmental help was given. Result, protective tariff for infant industries—special privilege for business.

. The infants grew and grew and grew. Grateful at first, ‘they finally became powerful and arrogant. The nation went into an era of expansion and exploitation and corruption. Business pretty much ran the Government. Finally the Government had to crack down.

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industry was thus swelling oaids its comeuppance, labor got short shrift.’ It was weak and lr a and fighting a hard, uphill battle. Because labor, as business had been before, was puny, Government, in turn, moved in to assist. Special legislation, special privilege, in turn were accorded to labor. There came the Sherman and the Clayton Acts, the anti-injunction acts, and the Wagner Act. ‘By the end of the '80s labor found itsélf possessed of the same sort of particular protection as had gone to capital 2 & » ® 8 »

Now it happens that § in this life human beings are very Y much alike. Power corrupts the possessor, whether the possessor be capital, labor, or what have you. It's the way of all flesh. : Accordingly we now see labor on top, capital tamed, and the Government kowtowing to labor today as it once kowtowed to business. The pendulum has swung. And we see labor indulging in the same sort of excesses as did the Jay Goulds and the Jubilee Jim Fiskes and the \stock exchanges of other days. ~ Now, this doesn’t mean that all who were in business or all who labor—or all who lead—weére or are prehensile

and piratical. It merely means that there are enough. Jay |

Goulds and George Scalises—and enough leaders who énjoy the delusion of grandeur—in any division of life to take advantage of special privilege and abuse power as long a8 they can get away with it. It just chances that now, the wheel having turned, labor leadership, as did once the leadership of capital, has grown too big for its pants. And it is headed for the same sort of retribution. Of course the labor leadership doesn’t believe it. But neither did Richard Whitney. Or, to project the comparison, neither did Wayne B. Wheeler, who such a few short years ago was the most powerful of all political forces, riding Prohibition to its tall. And we might add to the citations by mentioning the Klan, and the kleagles who strutted their brief hour upon the

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AMERICA i glow to boil. But it has a way of taking : of the big boys when they grow too great. At the nt we witness a display of highhandedness in labor that rivals the performances of those other and earlier power groups. |. Jurisdictional strikes, having not a thing to do with labor's right to collective bargaining, not a thing to do ‘with wages, hours and working conditions—tying up usands in war plants while labor leaders battle for tion. _ ' Union leaders refusing to abide by the rulings of the ery Labor Board for the establishment of which they

. Working men being socked for extortichate union iation fees, refused the right to work unless they can pay; and if they do pay, frequently fired soon Seventies “to make way for more initiation fees. - Dues-collection strikes, one of the latest writikles, aralyzing vast war work as the labor leadership, unable sell that leadership to all of its own members, seeks to it on the heat while the whole defense plant and the yernment stand by; with no issue between employer and ployee; just between the labor leaders and those who en’t kicked in. Strikes and boycotts to tunel the employment of unsary men, or to force those who are employed from one ot of their own thoosing” ‘into another they didn’t The st gots longer oy day, and over it all hover ‘politicians, dreading to take the plunge, fearful as in days of the Anti-Saloon League; but now in an immeas ly move critical time, with war the stake, lend-lease, , sailors and fliers waiting while supplies lag in the of labor. : “But don’t think it wil last. This, too, will pass away, Jay Gould, and Richard Whitney, and Wayne Wheeler, | Hiram Evans—and all the other little despots who ruled ] e and were then run over by the mighty wave of public

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‘Marquis greatest of all ving | ee wroté the Pulitzer Prize winning “Life o Jackson,” Bae ad hE dT lll inside story of the du Pont family and out it comes a monumental] work, “Alfred I. du Pont: The Family Rebel.” Alfred I. du Pont was the man who saved the du Pont empire from going into the hands of outsiders. He was its dynamo on all fronts. And yet for the last two decades of his life, he had nothing whatever to do with the company, except that he was its second largest stockholder. He had become the family outcast.

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comes dramatic and exciting reading in his hands. Alfred du Pont turns out to be a remarkable character. He had an advanced social philosophy, believed his employees deserved a share in profits, and personally kept on his individual payroll throughout his life the men he had worked with in the powder shops when he was a youth, He was musical (once conducted an orchestra), he wrote Verse, 7 jd youngsters by the score through school, carried on a constant dence with Danaled O53 confuant, Suir carried on wide charitable works— and, in the twilight of his career, played a dominant role in the rebirth of Florida's

A Masterpiece of the Trade

HE WAS FOR many years a power in Delaware politics. A power in the line you could expect him to be—he was the opponent of any du Pont who ever sought office! And they feared him far more than any other living man, Yes, this biography will go down as one of the masterpieces of the trade. Sr. James has done a beautiful Job. When you are through, you get the ‘feel” and the “picture” of the whole du Pont clan ~the good and the bad, the great and the mediocre, the power-hungry and the social-conscibus. And, more important, you get to know one of the most delightful characters in modern American history: The du Pont who built a nine-foot wall around his Bs S0p-atte home it 3 this pungent remark: “Tha 's keep ou ders, Maiply name of du Pont.” hy the

ALFRED I. DU PORT: “The Family Rebel. James. Bobbs-Merrill, Indianapolis. $4.50. notes, index and 47 illustrations,

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No Sense In It! By Leland Stowe

The Hoosier Forum I wholly disagree with what you say, dut will defend ta the death your right to soy it~Voltaire. :

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‘HELP TO BRITAIN IS OUR DUTY NOW’ By Myra Carey Morgan, 6668 Bellefoniaine Who is our neighbor? In talking

Jto a friend some time ago our talk] drifted to the subject, Bundles for|-

‘Britain, and then the question arose, who is our neighbor? Are not those

«| folks across the sea who are keeping

SAIGON, Indo-China, Oct. 15. What is the journey like from Jangkok in-Thailand to Saigon at he peak of the rainy season? Well, once you've ‘bog-hopped hose 600 miles, by way of Aranys wd: Angkor, you understand why he Japanese will at least not at« empt. to invade Thailand from mdo-China $0 long as the rains ast—which means until some time ates lage ) November, ; 'S en five whole s for me to cover those 600 miles. I rarely saw days tor earth except in the scattered towns and villages and on the roadbed which stands up, like a dyke, some six feet above the endless square of floating landscape. Imagine nine-tenths of Illinois, Indiana and Ohio wider one to 10 feet of water, with bushes and palm tries fringing the edges of farmlands and pastun:s. Imagine laborers crossing the corn fieids in flat-bot-tomed boats, boys and men fishing between the rice shoots iff less than two feet of water, and endless ditches and pools filled with yellow, muddy quid Imagine youngsters and adults ey qua in that water. Water hiffalo sloshing across the .vast rice paddies . . + 8 blinding sun one moment, and the next a downpour of rain. The rickety old autobus is jammed with 30-odd Cambodians plus a roof full

of baggage and maiibags, crawling along for 10 hours, n the day.

t's a Queer World

THE WAY ACROSS Cambodia and Cochin-China is Tobacco Road on stilts. The native huts, masses of bamboo and thatch stuck eight feet into the air on simply stand marooned in stagnant ‘ponds. The trip began with a crawl in 4 pint-sized railway carriage, eastward from Bangkok— 10 hours to cover the 170 miles as far as Aranya, the old Thailand frontier. Only twice did I see water which the human eye could pierce. I never knew before how wonderful clean water can be. What can these people drink? How can they ever feel washed? - Imaginie spending . Yow life surrounded by dirt, bugs, moaquitoes and muddy ‘water. That's how millions of people who grow fice: and care for it

painstakingly spend their entire lives.

Somehow the people of the Belgian Conse seemed cleaner and strongér than the natives of and Cambodia. The Africans had splendid 3 Sue and Mdrvelos graceful Fhythin of move- " ere young seem esca, 1 blight, Thai and Cam BA itis al sical i their teeth black, making their biter appear toothHi Rl Hamp, Mary adit stew tebe Jonves ing A ambodia’s Tobacco Road skies - not relieve the Honctony of the of the landscape nor

the cramped sameness Imagine, once cS fhals: 1 t the rt Ey gt

San another war some day

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the 16D oF the dykes through here. It deta see |

Sovran, 104, Aled The dai Times abd the

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up a brave fight for freedom our neighbors? Our help to them is 8) Smart, duty now. Who could harbor the thought that we of this free Ameri<| qq £8 be 80 self-centered: as to oppose this help? “ee : » ” ® wsHES VIERECK COULD HAVE SOLD HIS POETRY

ByW.T. “Spreading. Germs of Hate.” ‘That is & good title. I borrowed it from George Sylester Viereck. He used it on a book published in 1030 in which she told with high good humor of his Frofagunda efforts on behalf of Germany in days of World War I. He began that book by saying that the World War had’ lured him away from a promising literary career and caused him to give up 10 years of his creative life “to be a footnote in | history.” Since then’ Viereck has given up 10 more years of his “creative life” in apparent determination to ex-

file in history's appendix. His active ities: during the past 10 years have borne little relationship to his early career in poetry which brought him less recognition and decidedly less money than writing pleces in the interest of Germany, imperial and Nazi. Now I see that Viereck is under

ing been quite candid with the State Department when he registered as a foreign agent, and of having en. gaged in various activities not contemplated in his registry, Whether he will be convicted or not remains to be seen. I do not

d | propose to convict him in type, but

a 20-year record as a propagandist makes him well worth looking into.

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indictment, charged: with not have]

(Times readers are ihvited to express their views in these columns, religious controversies excluded. Make your letters short, so ell can have a chance, Letters must be signed.)

Siar}, engaging, ‘humorous, Viereck file S1Ways Seen extremely cagey in oe was hung ot him during the World War for he took the line then, as he does now, that he is simply an American citizen engaged in trying to prevent trouble between

It is too bad thal mors people didn’t buy the postcards Hitler col-

audiences more appreciative, and the world might have been saved a tidal wave of blood by enduring a few innoctious pictures. It is too bad that an unfeeling world never climbed to the heights

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As the Christmas season nears, we shall hear again over the air and in the air all the sweet carols which Hhve come to us from Britain; we will listen to the story of Bob Oratehitt and Tiny Tim, and the re-

generation of Mr. Ebenezer Scrooge. All the British customs which we

Side Glances—By Galbraith 1

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head, peaceful hearths and happy laughter—all of these fine old British traditions will make us think even more unhappily of Christmas in Britain this year. Of the thousands of little British boys and girls, bombed out of their Homes, living among strangers in emergency billets, with no prospect of anything like a Merfy Christmas. We in America, if we a¢t at once, can give these homeless British Joungaters the happy Origins which they do not now expect. British War Relief Society, 780 Fifth

Ave, New York, is appealing for| .

gifts to send ‘of American toys and sweets on a ship leaving New York harbor before Nov. 1. A contribution of $1 will buy a Christmas parcel for one British child. This is. a magnificent opportunity

for lovers of children to be generous|

in the immemorial spirit of Christ-

descriptive “shades, shadows and linear perspective” which is a curious bypath of the Bight a. It ree

Bold, Impressive—and Wrong

ONE OF THE TRICK final examination problems wis to find the “bright point” on a glass sphere, given the light coming from a certain angle, size, and angle of observation. You know what I mean. In

| photography I think they call it “halation” a single

brilliant point. It wasn’t ‘hard, but it was intricate and Paul didn’t know ‘where to start, how to p to finish. In addition, it was June wee to recite before the West Point “Board of

draftsman, He. covered that board w various colors, making angles from all and they didn’t mean a thing. | But when called upon, he “about faced bravely” and said in the mane ner of a specialist a a clinié: “I am ree quired to find the bright spot on! this sphere. Dise tinguished guests, professor, captain. After due dee liberation and great consideration, L have determined that this, gentlemen, is the t spot.” And he slatted ‘the end of his pointer at random a that drawing-=no proof, no explanation, no a He didn’t have anything. It was so bold, so

then Homeric Jioup ang ughter. But that time Paul didn’t get away with it. He got “found.”

And Now to Mr. Lippmann IT

ih advocating piéce-tnenl price control things and not wages and farm prices an wrong

about ‘the controlling factors of the problem than Paul knew about descriptive geometry. But that doesn’t change his style or stance any more than it changed Paul's.

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It reminds me of Mr. Stacy May ponderously tells

ing us in the same majestarial manner of just how much we have to increase production nd Yoguce civilian usts in order to beat Hitler in when he admittedly doesn’t know what 19, lve a ments are, what are the Rsources, $9 meet Sham op. what trend the war will tak: It reminds me of on Aver] Harriman saying thas Russia, Will stand ‘With! oar. Dell when 1 aocary know anything more about military principles, the actual condition of the eastern campaign, or our: ability to furnish supplies than Mr. Lippmann knows about war price control or than Mr. May about mili tary requirements and our resources or than Caded Paul Henry Clark knew about the precise mathee “ 4nd linear perspective.” But in far different fiel Sey are four of a kind--

mas, a Yeal chance to send your per-| they

sonal greeting to Tiny Tim in his bleak little billet.

” ” FJ URGES DRAFT DEFERMENT FOR COLLEGE STUDENTS By V. R. C. Second ‘only to the buniing question of our country’s place in the world’s conflict, is the discussion about draft deferment for the. college student. During the past| month at the bridge table, at the

n| club; at the office, T have heard re-

tions of the insecurity and eolsion felt by college students their familes about draft deferment, : We should certainly be very sensitive to the tremendous and taxing job to which our local draft boards have been assigned. Perhaps among these board members there has been | a feeling that such deferment might | bring the criticism that favoritism is being shown the college student.

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A Woman’ 5 Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

ONE on THE CRIMES eentury is the Slaughter

a usge. Wu each kill logical thinking More d t. 3 gig Reading and writing are the fundamentals of education: when you get right down to Dhfvors isis ioral Therefore it Intreasingly ful. o Walch Sur ishguage J to pieces while its JHE" &

ie al ial Ommetcal Goodb. In time paver.5y move vs 10 gallant deeds wil he gant The . current “National Defense” offers per good, example. It stands for high sentiments and

inspite us. to Sacrificial actions, yet, 1t 1a used ftom puts :

should hourly for all sorts of promotion schemes, ting over political a) roma to selling laxatives. .

She Wants Plain Grammar I'M SICK of the word “aid”—“help” 1§ better it

“cross the street, but ore helps a man who has |

into the clutches of ‘robbers—so “Help for Bp would be be the more honest term. Also, I'm tired of ne with such sent Guarding ou places which are

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