Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 June 1936 — Page 15

1t Seems to Me

bu JEW YORK, June 4.—On the first page = 7 vof the afternoon paper which lies before me I see a story pointing out that the War Department is asking for the adoption of a series of bills which would in effect

set-up a dictatorship in the event that this

country were engaged in a conflict. The opposition to these measures seems to lie largely in the socalled liberal or radical blocs in Congress. - On the first page of the second section of the same newspaper 1 find the conservative Senator Dickinson saying with commendable frankness, “I do not favor an amendment to the Constitution which will permit the Federal government to deal with economic or social problems.” This seems to me a most curious philosophy of government. Exponents of this point of view appear to favor two ‘mutually exclusive theories. In time of peace they would have no Federal government of any conseHeywood Broun quence at all. I submit that if Senator Dickinson's statement of no dealing’ with social or economic problems is to be taken at its face value the Senator himself becomes a person of rather less authority than an usher in Radio City who can at least seat and unseat patrons and warn them against whispering in study hour. It is extremely difficult to think of any sort of Federal statute which does not touch social or economic problems. Of course, what the Senator really means is that he does not favor a constitutional amendment which would permit Congress to roll its hoops in any area beyond the tiny courtyard to which it is at present restricted by the nine old men.

. yo R The Court’s Best Chance

UT the very same people who ask for the strictest. kind of construction of the Constitution are among the first to accept dictatorial provisions in the event of war, The only logical position seems to me the reverse. 1 think there is much to be said for the arguments that the power of the Supreme Court should not be curbed in the manner suggested by many revisionists who want unanimous votes or at the very least would throw out any decision which did not get a majority as big as six to three. The Supreme Court ought to do its best work in time of war. It ought to be at that very time a barrier against the kind of mass hysteria which sweeps people into all kinds of violations of civil liberties. The Court could remind the Congress that certain prices are too high to be paid even for the winning of the war. ; Of course, I will grant that I am talking as a theorist. I know very well that during the gresit war the Supreme Court was just as much carried away by the bugle calls and drumbeats as almost everybody else. The Court (aiied to prevent the violation of the free speech rigiits of Eugene V. Debs. It winked at the complete tearing up of the Bill of Rights. That, after all, is one of the chief complaints which can be made against the reputation of the men in black.

” ” The Good Gray City

EING temporarily in the big city again after a rather protracted visit to the farm, I find that I am pretty enthusiastic about New York all over= again. It is much more neighborly than Hunting Ridge and far quieter. I stepped into a taxicab in front of a Broadway hotel last night and gave the name of a theater. The driver didn’t know where it was. He apologized and said: “I used to know, but somehow or other I can’t keep anything in my mind just now because I'm so excited.” : I had noticed that quality inhis driving, and so F asked him with pardonable curiosity what it was which had stirred him. “Well, vou see,” he explained, “TI became the father of a baby girl just half an hour ago.” And so- we talked about children all the way down Broadway, and we missed the theater by several blocks, but there was no hard feeling, and he said. “Thank you very much,” when we settled. That's what I like about New York. It’s so frank and open and neighborly. I don’t know anything about new babies along Hunting Ridge. Still a thought from my old cynical past im Manhattan assails me. Can it be possible that this particular taximan always becomes the recent father of a haby girl every time he gets one of us rustics into his cab? Perish the thought! I see I must get home to the green: fields

before the suspicions of the big city undermine me. (Copyright. 1936) :

Republicans Argue on Tariff Question

: BY RAYMOND CLAPPER : ASHINGTON, June 4.—Since Gov. Landon has the Republican presidential nomination reasonably well nailed own, there is little likelihood that the national convention at Cleveland will fly off on a tangent with regard to the ticket. But there is serious danger with regard to the platform, particularly the tariff, Old-fathioned extreme Republican protectionism is making a desperate struggle for survival. Midgestern Republican national committee headquarters~has beer propagandizing the farm belt against the reciprocal tariff program. This question lends itself to political hokum. It is easy to tell the farmer that he is being ruined by imported foodstuffs. Herbert Hoover, despite his long international experience, has resorted to this trick appeal. Even such an astute man as Senator Vandenberg, who has shown more intelligent leadership at Washington than any other Republican this year, falls back on tariff hokum and denounces the Administration reciprocal trade program as “some swivel chair theory of international commerce.” © Well, a defense witness comes forward who isn't a swivel chair thinker nor an internationalist, but a hard-headed business man. ; He is Winthrop W. Aldrich, chairman of Chase National Bank. Not only that. He is a son of the late Senator Aldrich, the great Republican protectionist leader during the previous generation.

= » » = x E made a little speech a few days ago which

ought to be read by every delegate at the convention for the reason that while

‘His argument, condensed, is this: Exports can be paid for oniy by imports. We must consider the millions of cotton raisers, the 10 or more different

Second Section

BY MAJOR AL WILLIAMS

VW HATEVER else the history of man may disclose, his cour-

age is the one characteristic that stands out above all others. With his puny hands and his great brain he destroyed or subdued all other members of the animal kingdom. He realized from the start that he was no match for the rest of the world as far as strength and brawn

were concerned. To combat huge

paws and claws and jaws his nimble wits taught him to throw stones with deadly effect by means of a sling. And later he found that he had to put a point on his missle. And he did so with the discovery of the bow and arrow. And so on down the ages he has marched swaggering and challenging any force that stood in his way. An ever flaming curiosity backed and reinforced by curiosity and the will to conquer drove him on. When he had finished with the other animals and the might of other men and had tested the half-hidden forces of nature he found himself still facing the only obstacle that he had ever really feared, and had feared from the beginning, and that was the “unknown.” Ignorance always stopped him dead in his tracks. But with each gleam of intelligence and knowledge he is always ready to make a fresh sally. As long as he did not know he “dug in” or retreated. Facing the “unknown” he surrendered to fear. ” ” 2 . OR thousands of years man dreamed of flying. And when he finally succeeded, he did so with fear and trembling. The generation of the Wright brothers had no more courage than billions of men of other generations. > Back in the early days of Army and Navy aviation, we faced the same situation that the commercial flying business is facing today. At almost regular intervals there were indignant protestations about the recurrence of the crashes and deaths of military and naval pilots. These

Maj. Al Williams, erstwhile daredevil flier, who pleads - for light on the cause of airplane accidents, is shown at the right above. ‘At the left—the tragic end of a flight. What caused it? Maj. Williams wants the truth made public, if it’s known. :

.sequent time-wasting ;

protestations always led to a super-critical attitude toward the scale of pay for the flying man. Aviators in the Army and Navy received a base pay of 50 per cent additional to offset the hazards of flight duty. There was nothing exclusive or prohibitive about being designated for flight duty, except that the candidate had to qualify physically and mentally. Among those who either could not qualify or had no stomach for the duty, there were always just enough individuals who followed their complaints about each military or naval air fatality with criticisms of the extra 50 per cent pay that the flying men were receiving, and everything connected with service aviation. ” ” 2 FTER a time their complaints assumed a routine form and they promoted investigations and efforts to cHange the law and deprive the aviators of the extra hazard compensation. There was no logic in the psychological attitude of the nonflying complainant. A We dreaded the subgations and

| ‘airline crash.

The: official report of a fatality and the loss of service aircraft was reported to the chiefs of the parent services with hesitancy and trepidation. At that time Admiral William A. Moffett was Chief of thé Bureau of Aeronautics and I was acting as his unofficial aid. One day I suggested to him that instead of treating our casualties in a mannor that was almost apologetic that we set up a system of cold analytical reports for

. the newspapers and the parent services

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just that and the atmosphere cleared im-

" mediately.

Our nonflying seniors learned something of the real problems we were facing. And with that knowledge and after studying the problems, they quickly realized that they could not improve upon our methods for operating aircraft. Superstition,

prejudice, fear and stagnation are all | rooted and anchored in ignorance. Sm, a TOR $

OF VIATION is bound to have its accidents and fatalities in common’ with all other transportation operations. Let us recognize this fact frankly and start all over to meet the insistent query of the man in. the street about airplane crashes. : ; I don’t mean to imply or. infer ‘that any agency involved in the present-day crash investigations, either airlines or the department, attempts to hide evidence. They are doing the best they can, but a

clear, concise picture before the man in the street immediately as to how and why that is possible today. - The railroads went through this same situation years ago when: their executives decided that the public could not digest or swallow the true story of a railroad accident and still continue to ride on trains. A gleam of common sense cleared this

situation when they planned wo.puly all the

cards on the-<table.” And in ord this job done efficiently and promptly, they provided a suitable’ orzanization to handle the task.

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HERE is only one solution for airline

and commercial aviation leaders at this stage of selling the flying business to the man in the street. The public must know all the facts just as soon as they learn them after every airplane accident. The method of arriving at a solution is unmistakably clear. Exhibiting unusual

this country recently organized the Air Transportation Association of America. This is the central body that should create a competent committee whose sole purpose should be to investigate every airline crash and formulate the complete report for public information.

By this move they pooled their interests

in designating the type of transport they would all operate, thereby eliminating a wasteful duplication of design and development and reducing ihe purchase price of

“the new equipment.

These great, safe ships can carn a dividend only if people ride in them. So let them pcol their interests again and meet the public with an educational: and con-fidence-building program and policy for explaining casualties. : » ” »

AN is still courageous. Buf he is: much

y more intelligent today than he ever was. Give the public a ‘break’ on the true

causes for each crash, and men will fly.

A clean breast of it, "letting the chips fall where they may, will strip the apparent mystery from aviation accidents. Such a courageous method may temporarily hurt the prestige of an individual airline now and then. But the general result will be to develop a sound public understanding, and permit each person to check risks against the character and trustworthiness of the operations of airlines. We have the men and the job will be done in just that fashion some day. I have no ground for such prophecy but horse sense always has prevailed and it will -in this case, too.

covering each one of our crashes. We did

LET'S EXPLORE YOUR MIND

BY DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM %

IF You

OLNES, MILK, Fi6H AND OTHER FdoDa |} Io THE AVERSION

I NATERAL DR, | YOUR ANSWER A =e

WHEN You TELL THE OER FELLOW "1 4EE NOUR ROINTOF VIEWS

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To JupeE A ANG

BY Kio MANNER-

c ING IN DANCING THAN Tio A ®? YES OR NO

SO ARTHUR MURRAY, authority on dancing, claims in a penetrating article, “You Can't Hide Behind Your Feet,” in the American Magazine. He says it

is much easier to tell a man’s characteristics by his dancing because the rhythm lulls him more

THE HIGH probability in J most cases is that it is -aecquired. I knew a boy who was pauseated at the very sight of milk. Within three days a psychologist had him enjoying his milk. Semetimes the boy had been tired or nervous or had re-

cently had a “snack” of sweets and | jnnibitions and. since he is the

better method must be arrived at to get a

into stepping out from behind his:

vision and common sense, the airlines of

Washington Merry-Go-Round

BY DREW PEARSON AND ROBERT S. ALLEN

ASHINGTON, June 4.—The ~ Rust brothers, inventors of the cotton-picking machine which may bring social and economic revolution to the South, have found financial angels. No one would ever guess it, but

they are Alfred Bingham, son of"

the reactionary Connecticut exSenator, and Sherman and Eliot Pratt, scions of the Standard Oil Pratts. All three are wealthy . young men with liberal, if not socialistic,

leanings. Alfred Bingham, despite.

the reactionary views of his father, is the publisher of Common Sense, a radical news magazine. The Rust brothers, who also hold Socialist views, have announced the intention to develop

| their machine in such a way that it will not throw Southern ten-

ant farmers and laborers out of work. : Although “unable to fill orders” from Argentina and Brazil, one of the Rust brothers is going to Russia, probably in the fall, to demonstrate two machines to the Soviet government. . 2 = = Ch R. FRANCIS E. TOWNSEND “has a new headache. On the heels of the congressional investigation comes word of a factional rift in his organization, which threatens to dry up his sources of of revenue. ; ba

OT much has been said about the Supreme Court split on the Municipal Bankruptcy - Act, but the inside word is that even

the imperturbable Chief Justice -

threw up his hands in disgust when his conservative colleagues

“insisted ofl declaring the act un-

constitutional. " In previous hotly debated cases, Hughes has worked against such a wide-open split, but this time he abandoned all pretense. " There were two considerations which agitated the liberal justices profoundly.

First, was the fact that the holders of municipal bonds and the municipalities themselves favored this Act. What the holders of the bonds are up against is

the difficulty of getting all of their

scattered numbers to agree. A small minority ean hold out, demand to be bought off before it comes into the agreement. This is going to be the chief

outcome of the Court’s decision— the hold-outs will demand their price. The voluntary provision in the Act had avoided this. : ” ” ” ECOND, is the fact that the voiding of the Bankruptcy Act plays directly into the hands of inflationists. - The only other way a municipality or govern-

ment body can- scale down its .

debt is by printing cheap money. That is what happened in Germany. : If municipalities are not able

voluntarily to reduce their debts,

there will be increasing pressure for inflation. : Note—Section 8, Article 1, of the Constitution reads:

“The . Congress shall have the power . . . to establish . . . uniform laws on the subject of bank-

-ruptcies throughout the United | States.”

(Copyright. 1936, by United Feature

Syndicate, Inc.)

GRIN AND BEAR IT + + by Lichty

at mealtime he did not want his milk but his mother had scolded

and ridiculed him and made him |

drink it. Probably some aversions are inborn, but most of them are probably due to wrong mental and emotional habits. » » » NOT UNLESS you are a psychologist or psychiatrist or

have specially trained yourself.

What you really mean is, you see his point of view from your point of view. It is only after you have trained yourself to consider with-

out bias the other fellow’s life and background that you actually see

things as li¢ sees them. Any one can train himself to do this and, as one psychologist says, when you

leader in the dance, his real self comes out more clearly. A woman, he says, follows the lead of the man and dances the way he wants her to dance. =

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Fair Lough ; WESTBROOK PEGLER

NEW YORK, June 4.—A small row has been kicked up because Hans Luther, the Nazi ambassador to the United States, was not invited to the Long Island Tercentenary. Some regard this omission as a slap in the face of every American of German descent.

This is one way of looking at it. Viewed from another angle, however, it would be a slap in the face of every American of German descent to include the ambassador of the present German government in any celebration wherein the memory of a man who fought for the freedom of the American colonies might be honored. Because, whatever his motives may have been, and they were not necessarily altrustic or democratic, Von Steuben earned his place in American history against tyranny. If Von Stenben og in that war ° or the- which Dr. Luther Pegler represents, Americans of what- Westbrook ever descent wquld gather not to honor him, but to burn him in effigy. Dr. Luther represents a government which massacres patriotic Germans at home or throws them into prison for believing in the principles that Von Steuben fought for. He speaks for a high regime which surpasses freedom of speech, the press and religion, which has abolished the right to a fair trial and substituted a form of lynching, polluted education, destroyed the right of the German people to vote for their representatives, stamped out labor organizations and declared itself the enemy to every thing that Americans regard as right. .

» » » Jews Not Only Victims

BEcAvsE the Jews came first on the hate-list of the Nazis and were slugged and terrorized by mobs under the direction of Dr. Luther's govern ment 1t is generally believed in this country that the

Jews are the only victims of the regime. And there is a latent feeling of anti-Semitism which has moved a certain proportion of Americans to say that they™. probably had it coming. What few Americans appreciate, however, is that the Catholics, the Protestants, the Masons, every German whose religious belief or fraternal tie extends beyond the borders of the Nazi state, embracing human beings in other nations, likewise finds himself in the dog-house under Adolf Hitler whom Dr. Luther has the honor to represent in Washington.

The principle is simple and clearly defined by old Gen. Ludendorftf and other leaders of Nazi thought. The Catholic is punished because his religion is something common with the Italian or French or American Catholic. He is therefore an internationalist, like the sinister Communist. The Protestant Christian, is a brother in Christ of the French or English or American Protestant. They have Christ in common and Christ unfortunately neglected to = that he was partial to the Nazi state and Adolf itler. ; Therefore, Protestants are internationalists, too. However, the Nazi government has organized a Nazi state church under a political pope, rewritten the Christian religion to make it a private Nazi Christianity, bounded by geographicai limits, revised the ‘hymns and offered the German people as “ersatz” Christianity, exclusively for Nazi Germans.

= ” » Reason for Rejoicing

T= religion is desighed to provide indorsement for every atrocity that Adolf Hitler may perpetrate and to cohdemn in the name of Jesus Christ any German who may disagree or any nation which Hitler may decide to attack. The German Mason obviously is an enemy of the Nazi state. He is brother to the American Mason, the French Mason and to all members of the Masonic Order everywhere and therefore internaonal. : Moreover, he is a member of a secret society and in the country which Dr. Luther does not have the honor to represent at the Tercentenary there is only one lodge or club. That is the Nazi party.

Of course, most civilized people will feel honored to be assured that they have nothing in common with the Nazi element in Germany who do not include the entire population by any means, but merely an organized terrorism ruling by massacre, conspiracy, mock-trial and mock-election.

Those Americans of German descent who really are Americans may be unhappy to observe the degradation of the nation from which their fathers came, most of them in flight from a form of tyranny which Was preiey Jad. ui which seems a motherly governmen y com n with the savage that Dr. Luther represents. : SEE

New Books

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AMONG recent publications for young people, YOUNG WALTER SCOTT, by Elizabeth Janet Gray (Viking, $2), ranks high. It is an absorbing’ story of the youth of the great writer, and paints in vivid words his struggle against ill health ness, his love for Scottish tales and flights of imagination and his earliest the deld of literature. Edinburgh and its of the late eighteenth century, from who refought ancient battles in the city streets to homes of the learned where the Walter was to meet Bobbie Burns, are in the setting of the book. :