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SATURDAY. FEBRUARY A 1330 IT CAN HAPPEN HERE IF you have read Sinclair Lewis’ "It Can't Happen Here'—and you should—you will remember how secure Editor Doremus Jessup felt against danger of a Fascist coup in this free American republic. And then, rather suddenly, such a coup pounced on him Bnd other freemen and enslaved them under a brutal and vulgar dictatorship. Fascism came to America, in the book, through a false sense of security. Things are happening right about us today that should jar that sense. For instance— The discovery in Washington of an organization calling Itself “The American Union Men,” lobbying for a bill in Congress to put all labor unions under a commission of high ranking officers—an incredible proposal but seriously broached by its Fascist-minded backprs; Passage by the United States Senate of the Tyd-ings-McCormack bill, which would make a felon of any one who criticised the Army or Navy; Propaganda being stirred behind that other illfavored measure, the Kramer bill, a Federal antisedition bill as dangerous to liberty as the notorious alien and sedition acts of 1798; The Blanton rider to the District of Columbia appropriation bill, requiring all teachers to swear every month they have not discussed Communism; The invasion of schools and colleges by patricteering and journalistic red-baiters bent on terrorising teachers and crushing free and liberal thought.; general strikes; race-hating movements; vigilante rule; lynchings and other outbreaks of lawlessness. Some of these things will be laughed at as ridiculous. They seem ridiculous, but so was Mussolini before he organized his march on Home. So was Herr Hitler, when he began his ill-fated Munich beerputsch. So was Huey Long when he started out to seize a free commonwealth and put it under his capricious rule. Yes, it can happen here. The germs of Fascism are scattered wide. Unless those who love liberty put themselves on guard, the germs will spread. Some day we may wake up. as Doremus Jessup did. to find the enemy in pow r er. THE JOHN L. LEWIS SALARY 'T'WENTY-FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS a year is A smaller salary than many fourth-rate corporations pay to each of a flock of window-dressing vice presidents. In 1934 Mae West got $399,166 for her sex appeal, Mickey Cochrane $30,000 for guiding the Detroit Tigers, and Joe Penner $75,000 for being a clown. In that same year, 51 o ficers and employes of the du Pont companies drew down an average of $43,000 each. Yet it was regarded by some people as grotesque when the United Mine Workers of America, in convention in Washington, voted to boost the salary of their president. John L. Lewis, from $12,000 to $25,000 a year. As if being the head of a union of 500,000 men. the largest and strongest union in the country, required any less ability as an executive and organizer than is required to fill the shoes of Charles M. Schwab of Bethlehem Steel, who gets $250,000, or George W. Hill of the American Tobacco Cos., who gets $137,126. No one who knows Mr. Lewis’ ability doubts that, had he dedicated his life to making money instead of leading men, he would be in the top income bracket. We didn't think it was grotesque. Yet, w-e believe Mr. Lewis gave further proof of his stature as a leader of men when he refused to accept the increase. So did Philip Murray and Thomas Kennedy, respectfully vice president and secretary-treasurer, when they refused to accept increases from S9OOO to SIB,OOO which the miners had voted.

THOSE RED FLANNELS \ S we had suspected. A1 Smith's story that the New Dealers caught the Socialists in swimming and stole their red flannels isn’t true at all. Socialism's Number One Man, Norman Thomas, not only publicly absolves Mr. Roosevelt's ‘Brain Trusters" of larceny, but counters with a much more serious charge against them from his viewpoint. This is that they're trying to salvage the capitalist system that he hates. The Roosevelt emergency program. Mr. Tnomas admits, might be "good reformism," but it's the opposite of Socialism. "There is nothing Socialist about trying to regulate or reform Wall Street," he says. "Socialism wants to abolish the system of which Wall Street is an appropriate symbol. "There is nothing Socialist about trying to break up great holding companies. We Socialists would prefer to acquire holding companies in order to socialize the utilities now subject to them. "There was no Socialism at all about taking over all the banks which fell into Uncle Sam's lap. putting them on their feet again, and turning them back to the bankers to see if they could bring them once more to ruin. "There was no Socialism at all about putting in a co-ordinator to see if he could make the bankrupt railroad systems profitable so they could be more expensive for the government to acquire as. sooner or later, even a Republican Party government, under capitalism, must.” And so on down the list Mr. Thomas goes slashing. AAA subsidized scarcity. TWA is a fair flower to grow among weeds. Social security is inadequate for essential security. All these attempts "to curb rampant and arrogant capitalism” are just so much "bread and circuses to keep the people quiet" as they watch "a dying social order" die. If you like labels Mr. Thomas has one too. It’s Slate Capitalism toward which we re going. And, he warns, this points more toward Berlin than toward Moscow. We think Mr. Thomas is right in saying the only way the Roosevelt Administration has carried out the Socialist platform is "on a stretcher." We believe he’s wrong in warning that it is moving toward Fascism. BALLOTS VS. COURTS DOCTRINE contained in the Supreme Court minority’s dissent in the AAA case was the law of. the land just 60 years ago. ’ Justices Stone. Braadets and Cardoso sard, m dia*

Renting from the ruling of their colleagues: “For the removal of unwise laws from the statute books appeal lies not to the courts, but to the ballot and the processes of democratic government.” In 1876 a majority of the Supreme Court said: “For protection against abuses by Legislatures, the people must resort to the polls, not the courts.” The sentence occurred in a ruling in the Granger cases. Local authorities had been attempting to regulate the rates of railways and grain warehouses. These industries raised constitutional objection, but the court rejected their arguments. LITTLE VS. BIG has begun another attempt to fill one of the holes left by the death of NRA. Hearings are being held before a group of House judiciary committee members on a series of bills designed to prevent price discriminations in wholesale trade. Coal men, the first scheduled witnesses, are to be followed by spokesmen for grocery and drug groups, manufacturers, wholesalers and brokers. Soon after NRA was declared unconstitutional, last spring, various bills were introduced attempting to get at various phases of the price problem and to equalize differences between large and small businesses. A judiciary subcommittee, headed by Rep. Utterback <D., la.), was appointed to handle them and has been studying the situation since. Asa result Rep. Utterback has framed a bill of his own, now pending before the committee. It would amend the Clayton anti-trust act in a number of important respects. It would place a specific ban on basing-point price systems. It would forbid price discrimination in intrastate commerce. It would provide strict regulation of quantity discounts, and would forbid payment of brokerage commissions and allowances except in a very limited number of specific cases. tt tt tt “O UP. UTTERBACK denies his bill is aimed at big business and says instead that his intention is simply "to put all business on a basis of equality by preventing price discriminations.” He believes a number of large manufacturers, where they are not controlled by a pool or monopoly, would like to be freed of pressure constantly brought on them to grant rebates and other allowances. In a sense, however, the hearings will be a continuation of the long battle waged between bigness and littleness in business. It began with the Sherman Act, passed in the Cleveland Administration, but quickly amended to inocuous form. Next came the passage in 1918 of the Clayton Act, made useless in a number of respects by subsequent SupremeCourt decisions. The battle continued under NRA, with foes of monopoly gradually swinging around to the point of view that price-cutting as w'ell as price-control can be used as a weapon against small independents. Under the Utterback bill the Federal Trade Commission would be given the task of enforcing the ban on discriminatory price schedules. Other legislation pending in Congress would give the commission a freer hand in dealing with deceptive acts and practices as well as unfair competition. In the Senate, Senator Borah is backing the most sweeping measure yet proposed on the subject. It would forbid a person to quote lower prices in one place than he offers in others or to quote "unreasonably low prices” anywhere. This measure would prevent any price variation based on differences in selling expense, transportation cost or competitive conditions. MASS HOUSING jyjOST nearly right, we believe, in its approach to the many-sided problem of housing, is the Department of Labor's Consumer Division. Its latest bulletin points out the waste and inefficienry that surround home-building and the imperative need that construction be brought into step with the machine age. It predicts that when the technique for mass production of houses in factories is perfected then and then only will mass rehousing begin. Eight of the nine factors which make housing so costly at present could be eliminated by factorymade houses, the bulletin suggests. It lists them as follows: Complicated craft organizations as applied to both laborers and employers, perpetuation of archaic craft methods, waste of material due to existing methods of fabrication at the site, inappropriate use of materials and appliances, lack of skill in planning both land and buildings, high cost of materials and their distribution, lack of reasonable assurance in market forecasting, and seasonal character of employment. Millions of dollars in profits await private industry if it can find out how to supply good homes to Americans at S2OOO and S3OOO. But unless it acts fast, government may have to take the lead, for a heavy proportion of the unemployed come from the building industry and the unemployment problem can't drag on forever unsolved.

A WOMAN’S VIEWPOINT By Mrs. Walter Ferguson 'T'HE widow of Huey Long has been “honored" by -*• an appointment to the United States Senate to fill out her husband's unexpired term. This is a gesture which the women and the country at large could very well dispense with. The Senate of the United States holds the fate of our nation and perhaps of the world in its hands. It should never be converted into a drawing room for the display of courtly manners. To send there even for a little while a woman who is without experience, and who claims no qualifications for statesmanship, merely because she happens to have been married to a former member, is the kind of gallantry which should enrage the women of the nation and the people of Louisiana. So-called chivalry, most of which is designed at all times to make women feel inferior by fulsome flattery, can go to no greater lengths and work no greater harm. If Huey Long had the qualities of a good Senator and was a power among men, then by ail rules of logic his wife would possess no such characteristics. Two autocrats never live in the same house. If they did the roof would fall. And men like Huey Long do not remain married to women who exhibit any particular aggressiveness or determination. Obviously. then Mrs. Long is not the type of person who should be in the Senate. She is there to work the will of a political machine or to feed the vanity of certain types of men who love to drink toasts to "the ladies —God bless ’em"—but who like them better the dumber they are. I am strongly in favor of more women sitting in the Senate, but as long as w*e enter by post-mortem back doors our chances for obtaining honorable places for thosr members of the sex who are capable of serving their country are lessened. These sops of political gravy are nauseous to discriminating feminine palates. Senators should resent these slurs upon their dignity and women should refuse such crumbs unless they wish to live on them forever. < k v t )

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A NICE old lady in Boone County was approached the other day by a committee of the local Townsend Old-Age Revolving Pension Plan Club, and asked to become a member. She seemed quite interested, until she was to’d that tile dues would be 25 cents a month. Then she balked. Nothing, she said, doing. “I’ve known Cliff Townsend all his life,” she said with some haughtiness, “and I don't need to belong to a club and pay dues just to vote for him.” The committee left, a little older than when it came. tt tt a T)AUL WHITE, one of our youngA men-about-town, had cold. He bought fleece-lined gloves and they didn't help. He bought fur gloves and they didn't help. His paddies got cold no matter what the did. He got mad. One day when he wras driving downtown with cold hands, he stopped at a traffic intersection. A policeman was there. He said: “How do you keep your hands warm?” It was an ask-the-policeman theory and it worked. The policeman said: “Get mittens. When your fingers are together they give each other heat. When they are in gloves they are separated from each other and get cold.” Mr. White got mittens and today is a contented mittens user. tt o tt A LADI was riding into a local garage on a truck on which was mounted a badly bruised auto. She was calm. She said she had been in the car when a k ~uck rammed it side-on. She and her husband had been saved from death by the stui ’y framework. “See if you can fix it,” she told the garage men. They immediately said they couldn’t, and asked her about how she and her husband escaped alive, and how. she was so calm. “Why,” said one garage man, “I have a friend. He’s six feet four inches tall, and weighs nearly 300 pounds. He was in an accident'and wasn’t hurt. But he got hysterical. “He insisted upon being taken to a hospital. When he got there, they gave him sedatives, but they did no good. They gave him an anesthetic, but it did no good. “They finally had to X-ray him from head to foot. When showed him the pictures, and he realized nothing was wrong wich him, he got better. “In five minutes he was up and about.” * tt 'T'HE Catholic Supply Store here does a good business selling St. Christopher medals to travelers. Attaches there say they sell hundreds of them, almost as many to Protestants as to Catholics. They are in all sizes and in the background, faintly, is seen an auto—about a 1929 Pierce-Arrow, it looks to be. St. Christopher, I hear, was the giant who, probably self-conscious about his size in a pygmy world, got surly with people and was banished to a river bank. In expiation of his sins, he was required to carry, piggy-back, all travelers across the stream. Thus he is the patron saint of the traveler. And his medal has a welldeserved place on the instrument board of the traveler's auto.

OTHER OPINION What Jackson Said (Lafayette Journal and Courier} The birthday of Andrew Jackson was celebrated this year with a lot of eclat. One notable Jackson banquet was enjoyed at SSO per plate. There were comparisons of modern statesmanship with the ruggedness of Jackson. This adds interest to some quotations from "Old Hickory” himself. Jackson, for example, said: "I shall keep steadily in view the limitations as well as the extent of the executive power, trusting thereby to discharge the functions of my office without transcending its authority. "Advantage must result from the observance of a strict and faithful economy. This I shall aim at the more anxiously, both because it will facilitate the extinguishment of the national debt, and because it will counteract that tendency to public and private profligacy which a profuse expenditure of money by the government is too apt to engender.” And again in President Jackson’s “Farewell Address,” these words: "Our Constitution is no longer a doubtful experiment, and at the end of nearly half a century we find it has preserved unimpaired the liberties of the people and secured the rights of property. "There have always been those amongst us who wish to enlarge the powers of the general government. Every attempt to exercise power beyond the constitutional limit should be promptly and firmly opposed, for one evil attempt will lead to other measures still more mischievous. "Congress lias no right, under the Constitution, to take money from the people, unless it is required to execute some of the specific powers entrusted to the government. "You will find there is a constant effort to induce the general government to go beyond the limits of its using powers.”

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(Times realers are invited to express their views in these columns, religious controversies excluded. Make l tour letters short, so all can have a chance. Limit, them to SiO words or less. Your letter must he sioned, but names will be withheld on rcoucst.) tt tt tt FEELS DISGRACED BY STATE MILITIA By Ex-Soldier and Union Man, Westfield Every local union and the American Federation of Labor as a whole should thank Gen. Smedley T. Butler for telling the truth about the state militia, better known as “tin soldiers” or “scab herders.” It is a disgrace to the United States Army that state militiamen are allowed to wear the same uniform. tt tt tt REPRIEVE OF HAUPTMANN JUSTIFIED, HE SAYS By F. S. Caprio, M. D. A man who is willing to face political suicide, become the target of national criticism, shoulder the tremendous responsibility of a lastminute decision, must without question, command sufficient grounds and confidence in his beliefs to justify his Action. A surgeon, prior to performing a major operation, studies his patient thoroughly, takes every factor into consideration, calls in consultants if necessary, makes his diagnosis as accurately as possible and then exerts every effort to carry his patient to recovery. It is the duty of the Governor of New Jersey as legislative consultant, to see to it that the state exhaust every possible means of arriving at a satisfactory solution of the 'Lindbergh kidnaping before executing a major procedure from which there is no recovery. I attended the trial In Flemington, N. J. It appeared evident that the defense counsels’ battle against the prejudiced prosecution of the state was futile. I believe that the evidence as presented by the prosecuting attorney definitely established Hauptmann's implication in the crime. He deserves the maximum penalty of the law. However, appeasing the impulsive sentiment of the mass in no way constitutes the final solution of the crime. The Governor’s reprieve is justi-

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fiable and humanitarian if he prevents the state from electrocuting Hauptmann until such time as undisclosed evidence is known. tt u tt BELIEVES TOWNSEND FLAN WORTH WHILE By Arthur E. Woods. Clayton My age is 50. I think the Townsend plan with its 2 per cent sales tax is worth working for and cheap insurance for the young man. I believe in helping the other fellow to get a job. I believe this is the only way to permanent prosperity. I hope every one will study this plan. We need more money revolving. How can we put 20,000.000 men to work permanently without this plan? Let’s work for good times for all. n u n FORESAW DEATH FOR WPA WORKER By E’Claire We read in The Times of the “avoidable accidentaldeath” of a WPA W'orker, William Locke. I warned you of this in a letter to your paper Jan. 15, which has not been printed yet. The body was sent to the city morgue and, of course, there will be no investigation to find out if the foremen have men undermine banks wffiile other gangs come along to cut them off. And also if the safety men go along the banks and don’t see or say anything about it. Mr. Locke was just another victim (among the many) of our government of oppression for the poor. I am sure the family and relatives have the deepest sympathy of all of us WPA workers. tt tt u U. S. FINANCIAL POLICY SEEMS ABSURD By H. L. Seegar Your editorial of Jan. 30 on the "Government in Business” shows through the record of the Reconstruction Finance Corp. how inadequately our present economic structure meets our public needs. The precariousness of our privately owmed and operated financial structure is demonstrated by the loans made to financial institutions.

Q —How old is Clark Gable? A—He was born Feb. I,' 1901. Q —How may mercury be removed from a gold ring? A—ls the ring is gently heated the mercury will be volatilized. The vapors are poisonous and should not be inhaled. Hold the ring on an iron wire well above a gas, candle, or lamp flame. If there is much mercury’, there is some danger that the amalgam w’ill melt when heated. If there are stones in the ring they may crack. It is always best to have the work done by a competent jeweler. Q —What are the symbols of forty-fifth, fiftieth, sixtieth and seventy-fifth wedding anniversaries? A—Forty-fifth, ruby: fiftieth, gold; sixtieth and seventy-fifth, diamond. Q—What is the name of the theme music of the motion picture, “One Way Passage?” A—The music was written especially for the picture by a staff composer in the studio, and has not been published. Q_What are “blind alley” jobs? A—The term generally refers to occupations or positions in which there is no chance for advancement. Q —Does the former Crown Prince of Germany live with his wife, or are they divorced? A—They are not divorced. He is living with his wife and four of his children at Cecilienhof Castle, Potsdam. Germany. His oldest son, Prince Wilhelm, lives at Bonn, Germany. and a daughter. Princess Alexandrine, lives at lona, Sophienhohe. Germany. Q —Has the merchant fleet of Holland a greater gross tonnage than that of Greece? A-Yes. a £

Some 4590 banks received nearly one and one-quarter billion dollars. Nearly another billion was lent to other banks to pay off depositors. Purchases of capital notes, preferred stock and bonds from 6100 banks amounted to more than another billion dollars. Loans to railroads were one-half billion, and to mortgage loan companies nearly a quarter billion. Insurance companies got nearly 90 millions. Is this the sturdy giant upon whom the American people have placed their economic hope and fate? Here was rugged individualism in the nth degree. Have Smith, Hoover, Talmadge and Landon resurrected this ghost? The sorry thing about the W’hole situation is not the cry of those who benefited from this injection of government credit into private business. It is that nothing has been done to prevent a recurrence of the situation, and that no basic reconstruction of our economic structure has taken place to assure abundance for consumers. The whole program of government credit to private business has aimed at maintaining an economy of scarcity. We have had producers’ money profits as our our chief concern. We should have striven for consumer profits through increased production and consumption. The whole policy is absurdly unsound. DESPAIR BY POLLY LOIS NORTON The gates of heaven may open portal-w’ide. Or hell itself gap hungry, endlessly: I shall not care tc set a foot inside When death has claimed this dismal part of me. Heaven or hell would just be further terms; This one’s enough. Learn here I know I must, Still I shall choose at last the kiss of quiet worms. Caress of groping roots around my dust. DAILY THOUGHT And he said unto her, Thy sins are forgiven.—St. Luke vii, 48. A MORE glorious victory can not be gained over another man, than this, that when the injury began on his part, the kindness should begin on ours.—Tillotson.

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Your... Health By DR. morris fishbein

WHEN your baby fails to gain weight, the malnutrition indicated may be due to insufficient amounts of food, or to inability of his body to absorb food. Remember that the body musthave materials for energy output and for growth, and that it will burn up its own tissues if it docs not get enough food. This failure of nutrition may co on to a point where it is impossible for a baby to survive. Moreover, the baby that is insufficiently or Inadequately nourished is likely to develop various infections, to which, in a state of malnutrition, it will readily succumb. Failure to gain weight is. therefore, a most serious condition. Doctors estimate that from onefourth to one-third of all the children in the United States today are undernourished. Children who are overactive because of irritable nervous systems are likely to be undernourished. Many of them hurry to get out to play when they have not eaten enough. Some play so much that they become exhausted, and do not care for food. ts tt tt OBVIOUSLY, the way to overcome malnutrition is to give your child more food, but you can also benefit him a great deal by choasing and emphasizing the light kind of food. The food selected should include the right amount of carbohydrates and plenty of vitamins. It is wise also to take the necessary steps to correct the irritability of your child’s nervous system and to control his tendency toward too much play. Make certain, also, that he does not eat between meals. A piece of candy or a glass of milk, taken just before a meal, will kill the appetite for food. Sometimes undernourished children will eat better if they get more sleep. The irritable and restless child should stay in bed until at least 10 a. m. and take a long nap in the afternoon. This serves the double purpose of lessening the demand for fuel to use in supplying energy of quieting the nervous system. It is particularly important to remove any infections that are disturbing and destroying the body of the child.

TODAY’S SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ

ASTRONOMERS today are not only studying the stars, but what is between the stars. This recent interest in interstellar space is well justified for calculations show that the stars occupy only a tiny fraction of space. "A photograph of a rich star field or a star cluster is very apt to give the impression that space is about as well filled with stars as the air is with raindrops in an average shower.” Dr. J. A. Anderson of the Mount Wilson Observatory, says. "A very little consideration shows thatthis impression is quite erroneous.” Calculations, Dr. Anderson says, reveal that there is 10 billion timf'S a billion (that is one, followed by 19 ciphers) more empty space than stars within our own galaxy or Milky Way. "Raindrops one-eighth of an inch in diameter would have to be on the average four miles apart in order to furnish a reasonable comparison," he says. Our own galaxy Is just one of some millions of galaxies distributed in space. The average, distance between any two external galaxies or spiral nebulae as they are better known, is about 10 million lightyears. (A light year is six trillion miles.) ana SINCE the stars within these spirals are distributed about as far from each other as the stars within our own galaxy, Dr. Anderson concluded that in the known universe as a whole the amount of space is 10 million times a billion times a billion (that is, 1 followed by 25 ciphers) greater than the stars. Dr. Anderson gives an illustration which serves to heighten the meaning of this fact. The number of stars in our galaxy is approximately 100 billion. The average external galaxy is smaller than this and so probably contains fewer stars. But each galaxy probably contains more than 10 billion stars. The total number of galaxies within reach of the 100-inch telescope is now believed to be about a billion.

By George Clark