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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1935

THE PRICE OF NEUTRALITY A MONTH ago. quoting from an article by Ernest Angf'll entitled ‘Can We Stay Out of War?” in September Harper’s, we printed this: ' Can not one picture the patriotic oratois ringing the changes on the ‘inalienable right to trade’ and tiie historical ‘freedom of the seas,’ calling the embargo laws the ‘yellow belly laws,’ and asking how long Congress proposes to make every American citizen wear the white feather of cowardice? The farmers, the mill and shop hands, the manufacturers, anew band of would-be exporters and Wall Street would-be bedfellows, united as by no other possible issue in a spontaneous drive upon Congress to force the amendment or outright repeal of any sweeping embargo which stood between them and the natural profits of a potentially immease boom in business.” When that was published the vote to ‘‘stay out of it.” seemed unanimous. Everybody said ‘‘of course” to the idea of neutrality. But now less than a week after the invasion of Ethiopia and following the President's proclamations under the neutrality act we find this happening: ‘‘Your discretionary act in banning all trade with Italy and Ethiopia,” says a statement from the conference on port development of the City of New York, “is considered a serious blow to commerce of this country and port, and is premature and illadvised. Urge you to rescind same.” That was in a radiogram to the President. a a a OING on m the protest we read such lines as these: ‘‘The conference can not countenance Mr. Roosevelts notice virtually abandoning America's traditional insistence on neutral trading rights and freedom of the seas at thus early stage. Thus very vitally affects the interests of this port. ‘Our exports to Italy have exceeded those of other nations and they are now at stake unnecessarily. Italy offers us n margin for our surplus and she buys more than she sells us on balance.’ And from Arkansas comes this from Gov. J. M. Fulrell: ‘ Business conditions in our nation could be better and why shouldn't we profit by the conflict? Sales of supplies might reduce the unemployment and eare our present depression.” Apart from proving the prophetic quality of Mr. Angcll s article, the two protests quoted are quick proof of a fact taught by history, but easily forgotten—that neutrality comes at a price, and is not free. While the complaints registered up to now do not rise to the name-calling heights of ‘‘yellow bell: ” language, they nevertheless sound a note that appears to be inevitable upon the outbreak of any war. B B B pocketbook nerve has been hit and the squawk follows immediately. There will be more of this, and more and more in rising volume as we see opportunities for trade negated by our efforts to ‘‘stay out.” And whether we are ultimately dragged in will be determined altogether by what public sentiment does about those who, in the interest of commerce, turn against thw nation's efforts to remain neutral. The pressure will be powerful. Make no mistake about that. It will be powerful because the temptation will be great. That temptation in the course of time may lure every one of us, because war, with freedom of the seas in full sw’ing, does help business and business hasn’t been so good. Therefore, it will be up to all of us to make the final decision. Can we stand the economic gaff? Or will we ultimately send our boys again across the sea to death or mutilation in order that business may thrive? KENTUCKY LIQUOR KENTUCKY votes on liquor Nov. 12, and the vote may prove the most significant of the year. It has both wets and drys nervous. At present drys seem to be in the majority. If they win, it will be their first victory in a state where sale of liquor has been tried—the first recession of the wet tide that has been sweeping over the country since 1933. Kentucky's constitution prohibits liquor, but for two years it has been sold anyway under a Law making every man his own physician, where liquor is concerned, and allowing him to prescribe any amount for himself at a restaurant, bar, or store. This fall, after having had its cake and eaten it too, the state is voting on repeal of the constitutional prohibition. If it votes dry the state Supreme Court is expected to find the prescription law unconstitutional. The fight is becoming bitter. Kentucky has been traditionally dry. Before prohibition 115 of its 200 counties were dry, and 61 counties voted dry in 1933 despite the state's 150,000 majority for repeal that year. At the same time, Kentucky has a $100,000,000 distilling industry at stake, which helps line up the cities in the wet column against the dry country. Drys have been saying they can discern a revulsion against liquor in various pans of the country. Sen. Capper, from dry Kansas, is predicting that the next Congress will reinstate prohibition in the District of Columbia. Drys have their eyes also on North Ctrolina, where the constitutionality of liquor laws enacted this spring will be decided soon by state courts. On the other hand, wets have registered notable victories in the past year. The most recent was in Texas, only six weeks ago. A year ago liquor had been legalized in only 29 states. Today it is legal in all or parts of 41 states. A 42d state North Dakota, adopted a law early in the year permitting municipal-owned package stores, but a referendum petition has postponed final decision on the question until June 1936. The only state voting to retain prohibition during the year have been Kansas, Alabama and Georgia, and in Georgia the drys had a margin of less than 1000 votes. Kansas and Oklahoma are the only states left, aside from Kentucky, with constitutional bans on liquor. Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, North Dakota and Tennessee are dry by statute only. While the Methodist Board of Prohibition. Temperance and Public Morals warns that drinking is increasing pad that crime, bootlegging and motor fatalities are becoming worse under repeal, antiprohibition organizations have become almost as ardent advocates of temperance because of their fear of a revulsion of feeling.

PASSING THE BUCK JT is such an event for a conservative Republican leader in these times to admit the possibility of improving the Constitution that our first impulse is to find something good to say for the proposal of vouthful Gov. Hoffman of New Jersey. His suggested amendment, requiring the Supreme Court to pass on the constitutionality of all Federal laws before they become effective, seems on its face a reasonable way to eliminate the troublous period of uncertainty which sometimes extends for months and years between enactment of a law and the final edict, of the Supreme Court. Also such a plan might serve to cause Congress to legislate with more deliberation. But would it do either? The Supreme Court itself frequently changes its mind, it might hold a freshly passed law constitutional, not foreseeing how the law would work out, and then years later rule otherwise on appeal of a specific case. Wouldn’t we still have uncertainty? Under the present system, Congress enacts legislation knowing it will be the law- of the land at least until it can be carried up to the high court by a litigant. Would congressmen be more careful if relieved of that responsibility? Or would they habitually pass the buck to the court? In the last two and one-half years, according to a check-up by President Harper Sibley of the United States Chamber of Commerce, Congress has passed more than 900 laws. It would be a sizeable job for nine elderly justices to examine the constitutional aspects of that many laws in that length of time. But, you may say, they would examine only those laws against which constitutional objections were raised. That would mean every law any one happened to oppose. AT THE EBB OF LIFE (From The Elizabeth City (N. C.) Independent) V7'OUTH and. middle age laugh at a little group of old men who gather in Old Man Garrett’s wheelwright shop every week day morning and afternoon. Youth and middle age wonder at a a pathetically small group of elderly men who meet every morning for a brief prayer service in the Y. M. C. A. building. Presently youth and middle age will grow old; and then, suddenly, some day a realization will dawn upon the one grow’n old that death has slowly but surely reduced his once large company of friends to a small circle that is narrowing year by year. Youth and middle age can make new acquaintances, form new contacts, find new human interests from day to day. But one grows old and it is too late to find new friends, make new contacts, develop new interests. The new generation is in a hurry and has little time to pause and converse with an old codger who speaks the language of another era and is wedded to a homespun philosophy that is archaic. And so, when late in years a man slows down and begins to reflect upon the few human ties left to bind him to this uncertain life, his heart hungers for companionship and he draws closer and closer to the remaining few who understand him and can sympathize with his point of view. The few old men who gather in Old Man Garrett’s wheelwright shop in the mornings and afternoons are not subjects for youthful and middle age mirth; nor the few old men who haltingly climb the Y. M. C. A. steps every morning for a brief half hour of song and prayer. They are hungry souls who see life and all its former meanings slipping away from them, as the shore slips away from a castaway on a raft drifting toward an inscrutable horizon where the sun is going down.

A WOMAN’S VIEWPOINT By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

/i 21-YEAR-OLD GIRL writes: “My mother is opposed to the attentions of a young man who is coming regularly to see me and whom I like very much. She reminds me that I have always depended upon her advice and her judgment, and warns me that unless I do in this case I’ll probably regret it. Do you think she is right?” I daresay she is, my dear. If a girl of 21 has ne\ er been allowed to make her own selections in minor matters, there's no reason to think she'll know how to decide wisely in the matter of a husband. The selection of a dress is far less important. The person who can’t do that without mama's help will be in a terrible muddle when she has to weigh the qualifications of a prospective life partner. Good judgment is a quality which is not picked up at a moment's notice. This kind of situation makes me boil. It's the sort of thing thousands of girls are up against. From the day they are born, mama has guided them. She supervises their play, picks their playmates, selects their school, arranges their social activities. Isn't it only, natural she wants some say-so when the time comes for choosing a husband? The position of the girl is tragic, of course. For although she may rebel at authority, she can't change one fact. If she selects the right man it will be merely a streak of luck. The only thing she has to go by is her emotional reaction to the man—and this, as mama well knows, can be utterly deceptive. Sooner or later, every mother-daughter closed corporation hits this snag. Then both are to be pitied, for both will suffer. “Oh, please let me have this one, mother.” That's a cry you hear every day in department stores and shops. Generally the reply will be: “Mother knows best.” That mother-knows-best stuff is bad medicine for children. Even if mother does know best she's got to prove it by letting the youngsters make bad selections once in a while. Before they will be convinced she is right, they must be convinced they can be wrong. There has been nothing fundamentally new in crime in the last thousand years. The only newness is in the methods employed.—Austin H. Mac Cormack, Commissioner of Correction, New York. All our Congresses and Legislatures are not worth shucks if they can not make this land safe for people to live in.—Chief Judge F. E. Crane, New York Court of Appeals. It does no good to say that the actual deficit is a billion less than the President fancied nine months ago. It is like a man going into debt SSOO to buy an auto and telling us he saved S3OO because he did not go into debt sßoo.—Henry H, Curran, director, National Economy League. Color rules our lives. Sixty-five per cent of cur knowledge conies through our eyes. And our eyes take in color.—Leroy Scarlett, color psychologist. Some people mock the possibilities of Fascist growth here. They are the same people who dismissed Hitler as "silly” 10 years ago.—Harvey O'Connor, speaking before Anti-Nazi Ifederation in Pittsburgh.

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(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, reliqious controversies excluded. Make uottr letters short, so all can have a chance. Limit them to 2,',0 words.or less. Your letter must be sinned, but names will be withheld on reauest.) a a a WAR IS CALLED GRAND CLIMAX TO LIVING By Times Booster The war drama now being staged by the white race of Europe, in conquest of the unattached portion of the black race, is a fitting sequel to the “war to end war,” and to make the world “safe for democracy” and international financiers. War is a necessary and unavoidable concomitant of our capitalistic system of production for profit. War is not determined by propganda or stayed by peace resolutions of pacifist organizations. War is the natural road for capitalism, determined by the monetary gain to be obtained, either as supplier of goods, credit, or as participant in the murder struggle for land, resources or trade. In our own country, the struggle for personal gain at the expense of the more scrupulous and ignorant people breeds crime, slums, poverty, disease, and great so-called depressions. due to failure of proper distribution of social income. Our distinguished citizens, who are advertising the building of “precept on precept” to insure character building in the homes of today, can expect little change in youth's attitude toward man-made law while the best parents succeed in wringing profits from the unfortunate in violation of God’s law of love and brotherhood. We may have the outer earmarks of civilization, but scratch the skin and we still find the savage ready to kill, steal, bribe, cheat, deceive, and gloss over iniquity. Our religion acts as an opium to encourage us to drive on mercilessly over those whom we force into economic degradation. We climb to fame and fortune over the corpses and wrecks of our fellow men and under-privileged children. So why hesitate about war? It is the grand climax of our living. u u u HIGH HOG PRICES GET A RISE FROM LAWRENCE By Victor Volmer, Lawrence. What is the most important topic of today—hog prices, the ItalianEthiopian row or the soldiers’ bonus? I have come to the conclusion that the housewives’ war against the high cost of food is the most important topic of today in the United States. As far as the war in Ethiopia is concerned we’re out of it. Where there is a dictator you can always expect war. The country is not even concerned with defense formalities which, as a rule, goes along with the Geneva peace conferences. The bonus topic is gradually fadTo Venus BY JOSEPHINE DUKE MOTLEY Oh. matchless morning star. What beauty lingers in your gleam, A haunting ecstacy afar To glow while mortals dream. A lonely watch you keep Between the hours of night and day, Bright'ning a where revelers sleep Or waste the time away. You do not shine for me. Great man-el of the eastern sky, And yet, I glean tranquillity From you—l wonder why.

We Are Lucky at That

By a Baseball Fan Whatever else you may say about us Americans, you will have to admit that we are very lucxy. A good part of our luck consists of the Atlantic Ocean. It sure cuts us off from the greatest headaches that afflict this old world. We may get some of the after-effects, but we don't get them right between the eyes the way the Europeans do. A beautiful example of our luck occurred on the day when Mussolini called 10.000,000 Italians together and made a blood-and-thunder speech. This speech was rebroadcast in the United States. It was in Italian, and we American citizens who sat at our radios waited patiently for the gentleman to finish so that studio commentators could read translations and let the people know what it was all about. At last Mussolini got through and the translators got to work. But there was an interruption. Up in Detroit the World Series baseball game was about to start.

ing out, except when the Legion boys come to town. Our country is all right, even though Hoover claims we are going to the dogs and losing everything. Mr. Roosevelt is not as bad as all that. I think everything will come cut all right except for the hog prices. We have to eat, even if we are having a little depression. The only people who can get over

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With sighs the broadcasters gave up. The radio stations climbed on the Detroit hookup—and we got baseball instead of Mussolini. And if the broadcasters had kept on with the speech instead of going to the Tigers’ ball park, I would have torn my radio out by the roots. But that's just the point. Here in America we still feel that way. Mussolini is at war, the British fleet is closing in on the sea lanes. Europe is watching the horizon with strained anxiety, but the Alantic is wide and deep, and we are on this side of it, and we can afford to put war threats out of our minds and listen to an afternoon of baseball. We do not live under the tension that torments Europe. We do not have to wait before our radios to hear some dictator pronounce the words that will change the course of all our lives. We can cut him off, before we know what he said, and tune in on the World Series. We are very lucky.

this situation is the fellow who can afford the price, such as Baer and Joe Louis, and the fellows who live on the West Coast, for they can always catch fish for a substitute for hog-meat. Someone in the Brain Trust family ought to work out some other article for the high price cost game. For instance, they can pick on the tuna fish.

is occasionally visited for the gathering of the cocoanut crop. Washington, 3’i by l'i miles, with a population of 60; and Fanning, 9H by 4 miles, with a population of 447, are of much greater importance, both having for many years been more or less successfully cultivated by Europeans employing labor imported from the Gilbert Islands. Fanning, since 1902, has been a Pacific Cable station with a large staff of employes. Q—How old is Janet Gaynor? A—She is 29. Q—Who wrote the novels "Blood and Sand” and “Mare Nostrum?” A—Vicente Biasco Ibanez. Q—Name the Secretary of State of New Jersey. A—Thomas A. Mathis. Q—Name the Socialist nominees for President of the United States in 1892, 1896 and 1900. A—ln 1892, Simon Wing; 1896, Charles H. Matchett; 1900, Eugene V. Debs. Q—What is the Constitutional age minimum for a President of the United States? Who was the youngest man ever to be President? A—The Constitution prescribes 35 years as the minimum age at which a person may occupy the office of President. Theodore Roosevelt was the youngest President. He was 42 when he succeeded President McKinley. Q—How many votes did the Communist nominee for President of the United States poll in 1928 and 1932?. A—William Z. Foster, the Communist nominee, . polled 48.770 votes in 1928 and 102,991 in 1932.

VAN SWERINGEN TURN AMAZES STUDENTS By Puzzled These Van Sweringen brothers probably will go down in history books as twin phenomena to puzzle and disturb the students of American life a century hence. They built themselves up during the boom until they owned a giant railway empire. They did it all through using other people's money; from first to last, the part that their own savings played in the erection of the vast pile was unimportant. Then came the depression, and they went into debt. To clear the debt, their creditors auctioned off the brtohers’ holdings; and the brothers bought them back again for less than a tenth of the amount of the debt and came out into the clear again, debt-free and masters of their domain—using, once more, money that was in large part put up by someone. else. It’s hard enough to understand right now. What won’t it be for the students of the future? B B B HUEY LONG ARTICLES LAUDED BY READER By A Reader Congratulations on Earl Sparling’s fine life story of Huey P. Long. I followed Mr. Sparling's articles every day and was amazed to learn of the corruption that goes on in our government. May I express my satisfaction that I am a reader of a paper that strives to bring the truth to its readers. Daily Thought Lord, Thou wilt ordain peace for us: for Thou also has wrought all our works in us—lsaiah xii, 27. PEACE is rarely denied to the peaceful.—Schiller.

SIDE GLANCES By George Clark

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“Y/s, sir, this same gang has been meeting every week for 15 years.”

OCT. 9, 1935

Washington Merry-Go-Round

Bv DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S. ALLEN TTTASHINGTON. Oct. 9.—While ’ * Mussolini, chief protector cf ’-ustria from the bogey of Naziism. ns been busy in Africa, Hitler has making a lot of quiet headway. Confidential reports by the American Legation in Vienna indicate that Hitler has adopted the strategy of peaceful infiltration rather than forceful seizure. To this end Col. Von Papen, former German chancellor, now German minister to Austria, has informed Austrian authorities that pro-Nazi Austrians must be appointed to key positions in the Vienna government. In return, he promised that Hitler would forego armed invasion. On one occasion Von Papen called on Chancellor Schuschnigg and handed him a list of Austrian Nazis whose appointments were necessary. The appointments were made. BBS FRIENDS of PWA Harold Ickes are not worried over a clash with his wPA rival. Harry Hopkins, while both are aboard the Houston. The encounter they worry about is between Ickes and the sea. He is an easy prov to seasickness, usually avoids the sea. Once before, when invited to accompany the President, he declined emphatically: “I will give my life for my President. but I will not get seasick for him!” B B B ONE big thing worrying the French and their Little Entente allies right now is the age of their armament. Ever since 1929 they have been busy arming, with the result that a lot of their weapons are pretty well outmoded. Ranee, for instance, has the biggest airplane force in Europe. But out of her total of 2890 planes, only about 1000 are modern and of any real military value. On the other hand, the Germans, who were held back by the Versailles Treaty, have been building the most modern and up-to-date fighting planes in the world. The German force, despite its size, is effectively superior to the French. The same is true of German tanks. At the recent German maneuvers in Nuremberg, new Nazi tanks came bowling across a rough terrain at 60 miles an hour. t b a b friends of Gov. Alfred U < Landon say they know the Kansan will capture the Republican presidential nomination. They relate the following story as the rea- ; son why. One day his mother observed him sitting motionless in the broiling sun of the farmyard holding a hen in his lap. Astonished at the extraordinary performance, she asked: “Boy, what are you doing? Is there something wrong with the hen?” ‘ Nope. But I need another egg to make a dozen and I'm going to get it from her.” “You are going to get it from I her?” j "Yep, this is her day to lay.” ‘‘But, Alfred, you can’t force a I hen to lay. You ought to know that.” “I don't care. This is her day to lay and she is going to lay.” Landon’s mother, amused at the dogged persistence of her son, returned to the house. Several hours later he rushed in. Ho was streaming perspiration, but triumphant. In his hand was a newly laid egg. According to Landon's friends. 1936 is the year the G. O. P. will lay. B B B TVA construction is on schedule, and flooding has begun. Total number of families who had to be moved from the reservoir area is 4000. . . . Washington’s two most active peace organizations—National Council for Prevention of War, and Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom—have headquarters in a building of historic military importance. In 1865 it was the headquarters of General U. S. Grant. . . . The United States Patent Office has allo-wed patent rights to a device “to guard against undue familiarity on the part of rude and flirtatious men and youths who frequently avail themselves of the crowded conditions of cars to annoy and insult ladies next to whom they may be seated.” The device is an ingenious concealed pin which automatically jabs the masher when he makes advances. (Copyright, 1935, by United Featur# Syndicate. Inc.i