Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 October 1941 — Page 8

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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1041

THATS CO-ORDINATION! : ELL, the week did produce one shining example of teamwork in the defense effort. Mr, La Guardia proclaimed it “no false alarms week,” and Mr. Ickes called off his gasoline shortage.

E'S ALWAYS A RAINY DAY HE congratulations of all Indianapolis go out to the _ | officials and workers of the Community Fund, who ave just guided the 1941 campaign drive over the top. The campaign apparently will wind up approximately $11,000 "over the goal. We hope that the officials of the Fund will promptly “put these excess funds to one side. Times are better at the moment and more persons feel that they can help the Fund - @ little more, ? But there always comes a “rainy day.” Might we suggest. that these excess funds would prove a blessing in such an‘event? >| And we would like to repeat: everybody. It was a grand job.

Congratulations to

_THRILLS—PAST AND PRESENT

. SHADES of Blondin and Steve Brodie, and all the other breath-takers of the past—Blondin, who walked the ~ tightrope over Niagara, and Brodie, “who took a chance” and dived off Brooklyn bridge to become an immortal symbol "of daring. They dominated the front pages of a quieter though ~~ gensation-hungry era; were great figures in the public . prints until they died, as we recall, in bed. : Now comes a man named Starnes, unheralded and unsung. We first read about him in an obscure little item “in the paper. As a matter of fact while we were writing this about what he was going to do, he did it. ; With almost no publicity build-up. (a fact that would have broken P. T. Barnum'’s heart), Starnes jumped from ~ a plane over five miles up and didn’t pull the cord of his parachute until he was 1500 feet from the ground. One - radio announcer called him Barnes. * Starnes landed safely, witnessed by a small crowd, mostly observers from two nearby universities. The object was to prove very important things, primarily that long . drops before opening the parachute make for greater safety in aerial combat. And that you don’t suffocate or otherwise expire on the downswing. To prove it, we can all now look at the record. Starnes _ carried with him and operated on his quick voyage to mother earth 85 pounds of instruments, everything it seems from a clinical thermometer and a camera to a cardiograph. 8 ® o » 8 » EMEMBER, back before the Orville Wright days, how you were told by the teachers that the speed of a fall- _ ing body was 32 feet one second, .64 the next, etc? And * that any living being falling as much as 1000 feet would not only be unconscious but plumb dead before he struck ~ the ground? Well, that “law” was siended by the flying machine. * And Mr. Starnes apparently has repealed it. And remember the loop-the-loop in the circus, the fellow “who went over Niagara Falls in a barrel, and reading in . your school days the “dream fugue” by De Quincey in * which he stood your hair on end with his description of the ‘ ‘terror of riding atop an English mail coach at the horren- ‘ dous speed of 15 miles an hour? Thrills, we guess, are like all other things—relative. + “But they have been so multiplying.in our generation that we could stand a let-up for a while. In fact we shouldn’t mind a reversion to the days when the pacer, Dan Patch, was achieving a mile in two minutes . at the county fair, and our hearts stood still as we watched "the man on the flying trapeze. After all, enough is enough.

PIE COUNTER RUSH IN REVERSE a AML those people falling out of political plum trees these

days are not being pushed. No indeed. Some of them

are jumping intentionally. No less an authority on the ‘subject than the International City Managers’ Association

‘reveals that many municipalities face a serious problem in |

‘the scramble of city employees for better salaried defense jobs. : In contrast to that good old 100 per cent American political custom of pushing up to the pie counter, such

+ scatteréd cities as Dayton, O., Kansas City, Mo., and Dur- |

ham, N. C., report the defense industries are raiding their city halls with salary offers as much as three times greater than the municipal checks. This may be tough on the cities but it may also relieve unemployment among ward ‘heelers, sidewalk states‘men and precinct patriots who have been getting the boot “heavily and with regularity in the better governed com-

iin SELF COMES SECOND ~~ 0 many scoundrelly and’ bloody deeds going on in the

world; so few, obscure and little recognized fine and |

381 ack acts! Soit is a doubled pleasure to. record this one:

: Three faculty members of the Western Reserve Uni- , : versity Medical School were awarded a $1000 prize’ for | having made the most important contribution to the study | Journal in | wg, first half of 1941. ‘Dr. Harry Goldblatt, Dr. Joseph R. | n, and Dr. Harry Weinsteitt were given the award by |

f high blood pressure published in any medical

‘poll of physicians all over the country.

They promptly ordered. the check for the award made to the u oe tr pho. sr only |

Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

standardized and meaningless praise always use on the bosses of the unions, she outs with her razor and drew gore from their liverish jowls as you will see.

"The Public Responsibility’

SAID SHE, IN PART, sald she: “A great change has taken place in the status of

| trade-unionism in America. Today everyone expects

that trade-unions will participate in the councils of our Government along with employers, farmers ard other groups. The advice of labor is sought not only on questions of wages and working conditions but on the broad econo and social problems of the national life. Most of the important parts of American life are conducted by groups, privately organized, but taking public responsibility.” Here she mentioned the religious bodies, the Bar Association, the American Medical Association, and so forth, as “real institutions” which determine “policy and ethic$ within their field.” of this general character, she said, had lost public confidence and this loss has resulted in regulation of the railroads, which she described as “private enterprisé fraught with public interest,” the telephone and telegraph, the stock exchanges and banks, . “Trade-unionism,” she then said, “has accepted social responsibilities and its policies in the future must be predicated not only on the welfare of its own members but on the welfare of all the people.”

She Needs Some Training

I AM QUOTING selectively but without impairing the sense of Mrs. Perkins’ remarks and I find as I go along that I must be sparing with direct quote and condense because she is so long-winded. She should have had some training Ring cables at twobits a word, as I did. “Labor’s struggle for the right. to organize practically over,” Mrs. Perkins said, and this a Jrotection gives trade-unionism a “great responsi-

“It has placed labor in the same exposed position as many of the other great American private associations charged with public responsibilities; responsibilities to the whole people for ‘sound, intelligent, economic, social and moral practices and for the selection of leaders who can be trusted not only by their members but by the Government, the employers and the people, and responsibilities to avoid excesses of action and to regard the rights of others consid: erately, whether they agree or not. “The public attitudes and private methods of unions are today matters of public interest and significance,”. she said. Trade-unionism must expect to be judged as other institutions are judged, and will “now be kept constantly under what we may term social surveillance. The public demands certain standards. First and foremosf, the public expects its service institutions to exercise the utmost order and exemplary procedure in handling other people’s money. The scrupuloiis account for moriey, regular, independent and public audits of all moneys, including insurance funds, dues, assessments and so forth is bound to be expected and should be done voluntarily rather than under compulsion.”

The First Warning!

AT THIS POINT the Hod-Carriers, the Movie Employees and a spy from Wrong John Lewis’ United Mine Workers of the C. I. O. collapsed in piteous, heaps.

. “The public expects,” Mrs, Perkins muttered on, “that unions will be operated in a parliamentary way; expects the officers fo be chosen in the fairest and most open way. and believes those unions have been wise who have required American citizenship of their officers. “There are a certain number of individuals who are nonjoiners by nature, but these people are also human beings with the rights and dignity of human personality. Provision must be made for toleration and flexibility for just those groups. I agree that unions make a mistake in insisting on a closed shop where it cannot be won as a matter of relatively comTortanle agreement between employers and the ons.” This, my friends, was historic talk, the first warning by the New Deal Government that the political weather-takers of the Administration sensed abrewing in the land a hurricane of fury.

Editor's Note: The views expressed by columnists in this newspaper are their own. They are not necessarily those of The Indianapolis Times,

Indiana Politics By Vern Boxell

FOR SEVERAL MONTHS now, Senator VanNuys has been telling one and all that when his term expired in 1944, he would not be a candidate for re-election. Only a few weeks ago, he told the local . press that because of his health, and for other reasons, he would stand by his “no third term”

the 1944 convention rolls around.

At the French Lick party rally recently, where he | received a discreet “cold shoulder” from Democratic |.

leaders who passed two resolutions indorsing Presi-

dent Roosevelt's foreign policy, the Senator is re- |

ported to.have told Personal friends that “the people are demanding that I run again.” Looking back on Senator VanNuys’ trip from

Washington for the editors’ pow-wow, one party :

leader said: “A major reason why he came all th ‘way out here and stood for all the abuse was wants to be re-elected.”

Schricker Still in the Race

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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,

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LAUDS PLAN FOR ROOKIES TO WALK BEATS By J. F. 8., Indianapolis. Michael Morrissey has made us a good chief of police, and his plan to have rookies walking beats in plain clothes is the best yet: Women in all parts of town are afraid to be out after dark, and small wonder. This was not true when police walked beats, before "the “young Dillingers” took control. of the streets, Let some of his rookies walk down Oliver Ave. not only after 9 p. m,, but even after midnight any night, they will find plenty to do. If the chief will enforce the cur-

and gratitude of most Indianapolis citizens. # o 5 CONSIDERS MR. WHITE A ‘GERMANY FIRSTER’ By N. C., Indianapolis $ After reading Harrison White's article in today’s paper, I wonder if a “Germany Firster” might not be a better name for him. As an American, I am in sympathy with the countries that*our Government is aiding. As an American, I could not. be willing to aid, even morally a country tas: our Government would give lois to see its rulers crushed. When Mr, White says that " Hitler does not stop Communism in Europe, -it will devolve upon’ the American people to do that job here at home, for the sake of America,” he talks as though Hitler is person-

logical, isn’t it? However, the same thing might be said the other way round, and if Naziism isn’t stopped in Europe, it will devolve updn the American people to do the Job here at home. In my opinion, Naziism is as great a danger to Christianity as Communism, and I have no use for either one. Our country is not pretending to be friends with Russia other than aiding Russia and England to crush a common foe, which threatens to destroy every vestige of civilization, common decency, Christianity or anything else worthwhile, I don’t understand how anyone can gloat over victories, which have been accomplished due to the cruel-

few law, he will have the support]

ally ‘doing Uncle Sam a favor, Very].

(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, religious cone troversies - excluded. Make your letters short, so all can have a chance. Letters must be signed.) :

ty and meanness of which Hitler is an evil genius. As to Germany's not being dealt with fairly after the World War, in my-poor opinion if they. had not been dealt with as generously as they had been, they would not have risen again to cause so much misery and suffering in the

world,

8:2 8 : ‘WHY DEFENSE STUFF 80 -

HIGH IN INDIANAPOLIS? By W. A. Jones, Toronto, Canada At Indianapolis Oct." 20 I paid 14 cents per quart for milk. In Ohio same day I paid 11 cents per quart. In a grocery store at Detroit next day I paid 8 cents per quart. This 8. m. in Toronto I paid 12 cents per quart, Why is the defense stuff so high in Indianapolis? I think something should be said about it. ; _» » » ‘OUR ANCESTORS SAME GANGSTERS AS EUROPE'S!’. By Robin Adair, Indianapolis - Mr, Clay continues his nationalistic ritual. He sets the world up in two camps—those that are Americans and those that are not. He delves into the heredities of. the Europeans to prove them “gangsters + « » minds dominated by greed, revenge, and hate.” I would remind him that if he will but trade thé American heredity back only a few hundred years he will no doubt be alarmed to find it merging with that of Europe. Our ancestors are the same gangsters as theirs, fighting right alongside theirs in the wars of greed, revenge and hate. No race is inherently evil. The Germans, the British, the French, the Russians, none have a corner on hate and greed. If, as Mr, Clay avers, these nationalities possess all the traits of gangland, then we Americans are a sort of mongrel

‘breed of gangsters, for we are a na-

tion bred of them all. Adolf. Hitler soared to power on

Side Glances -By Galbraith

the doctrine: Mr, Clay is preaching— racial superiority. Hitler avowed that the rest of the world was just a little beneath Germany. Clay says the rest. of the world is just a little below America. Caesar liked the doctrine; Napoleon doted on it—in fact, Mr. Clay, most of your Buropeon wars (as listed in your encyclopedia) are traceable at their source to your doctrine of racial superiority. I am democratic’ enough to believe that a German peasant is basically as good as an American farmer. Given an equal opportunity he will display as many virtues as his Yankee counterpart. But the| peoples of Europe have had nothing like the opportunity offered Americans. What I advocate is simply] that. America lead the way in showthem new opportunities, a new freedom. But’ that cannot be done until Naziism, Fascism, and Nationalism are wiped, not only from the Europeon continent, but from our own as well. : v 8.» o ; ‘WOMEN SHOULD LOOK AFTER THEIR HOMES’ By Mrs. W. E. N.,, Indianapol ¢ I was very much pleased with what Catherine Shirk Beatty wrote in- the Hoosier Forum shout “meddlesome women.” Everything she said is quite true. I'll admit I did find fault with daylight savings as I rise at 4 o'clock every morning and it was a little hard to lose one hour of rest at that hour of the day. However, 1 lived through it and am no worse off than before. I am probably a much older woman than Catherine and can look back a good many years and I know that times have never been so well since women started to vote. Women should look after their homes and families and| even women who have to work could | stay out of politics and let the men run the business end. t 4 » » ‘WHY ARE WE yuo LOVE PEACE CALLED NAMES? | By Mrs. Lola Boots, 2028 Spruce St.

I just read Clyde P. Miller's letter of what's the matter with Ameri-

training camp. I taught my son since he was small to not hurt others by word or deed. Why should I tell

we Who love (God and. peace. called names.

As I said before I brought my boy up to respect others and not harm

Janene. and. Ta rather lay him in}.

" tofore, i“ ‘has been

| alene. tonnage, usability, use and effectiveness of the muni

and all sorts ner osama ‘Perhaps President Wood's cans, I'm a mother of a boy in}

him now it's right to kill. Why are|

Mr. Miller calls Lindbergh, Wheel- |

moral convictions now; they peed the

year and that, therefore, nus " pent 75a high-; “handed ‘h ~pocus. Here ocus - generally

‘national income was

still can’t 1st yourself by Your own. bootstraps. ‘There's an Economic Side to It’

O. K., SKIP THAT. Go on to the next, says that 50 billions - of war

nge too fast. But what is the “gen directive?” There isn’t any and that is why it seems so absurd to budget expenditures beyond human precedent for a purpose not ed. Of course the answer is: “We must do our atmost, We are not doing it. Therefore, we outline this great program as proof that we are doing all we can.” But just spending money is not effective defense. It may be the precise geverse of that. It may be effective destruction. Also, as has been remarked here before, you can’t defense in dollars It isn’t sold by the yard, It is a question of

tions produced. Types of: , tanks, munitions and, above all, of planes are in "constant state of flux and change. Our job is: to hulld up: our productive ' capacity on a flexible basis and then be prepared to produce and deliver what is wanted, Nhen and where it is wanted to produce the best result

‘No Worthwhile Thought Given’

ALMOST NO THOUGHT is being given to these principles. The emphasis seems to be on breathfaking statistics. of present and prospective expendiures. No. worthwhile - thought at all seems to be given to the effect of this kind of avalanche

on the economic structure of our country—employ~ 1

ment, employers, the great mass of our civ population—or on our post-war future. Obviously this situation needs some kind of gen« eral staff of grand strategy-—economie, military, na and financial, That doesn’t mean any Austrian Aulic Council with which Napoleon I had so much fun, Under our Lysiem, the President is the one commander~chie

But, whether or not he decides to take the pubis

into his confidence more definitely than to about “arsenals of democracy” or “the four reo he ought to be willing to tell his aims to such a staff, ask them to study the problem and Jepont how best to achieve them and not leave it to the sporadic outbursts of such Senvlemen as Mr. Stacy May, statistician of OPM, . William Batt and others who, in their ular may. be the best we have, but who in the field of armed operations are complete yros.

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Waller Ferguson

ON NOV. 6 A three-day forum beging at Stephens College, Cor lumbia, Mo. James M. Wood; . president of the college, who has made himself a leader in the field

of feminine education, has mus-

‘ tered an imposing list of con- . sultants, If Mr. Wood's major argument is correct-—that women, iar more than men, will determine we world of the future-~then it is surely time to act upon the idea, Think it over, at any rate, Do you believe women will have more power than men to shape history? I can’t quite accept the notion, pleasant as it may. be to fondle. Anyone wh some doubts. One of the popular slogans of my childhood Was that old saw, re Tana aoa Tots od ras UD And found ther tes. ete mw mati wie oun WO “ Jusien, to Snvironment. we i ery mother can instill certain moral into her children, but the minute those ral principles counter to the opinions of her social group the son or daughter becomes a misfit in that group and, according to the standards of our times, a Taflure,

Must Learn to Adjust INFANTS MUST LEARN to

their : society. This u tie 10st Drinipe of et education, and we have estab lished nursery sch of wideln to make it possible,

Os ventuie forward movement in re-construc wii be a "Cet

tainly he is right when he ‘that American women are more conscious of their privileges than of their responsibilities. However, the same goes for men.

omen do not need me courage

stand up for and live by those th oy Sisesdy ave

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