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“MIDSUMMER MADNESS”

REAT BRITAIN’S abandonment of sanctions against Italy brings our teetering old world up against another major crisis in which Americans, in common with the rest of mankind, have something vital af’ stake. The World War cost 37,000,000 dead, wounded and other casualties, not to mention oceans of human misery and unpaid and unpayable billions of money. And the one consolation we have had has been that out of the welter there might appear a new order —a world peace organization which might save us from another cataclysm. Now that hope is fading. The admitted collapse of sanctions spells the doom of the League of Nations as now organized. And unless world states-

men can find a way to save something from the wreck, the whole post-war system of collective se-

curity will go by the boards. That means a return to the pre-1914 order with its balances of power, its defensive and offensive alliances, its bigger and more burdensome armaments, plus the certain prospect of a new and bloodier debacle. Mere lip-service to the League as now organized will not help much. The League is only a group of individual nations. It can be no stronger than the average of its combined wills, and its members have now clearly demonstrated that they can not be counted upon to make any very heavy sacrifices unless and until their own national interests are directly involved. Accordingly, the League was unable to prevent the Italo-Ethiopian war. It was unable to stop the war after it got started. Today, it is unable to restore Ethiopia to the King of Kings, throneless and in exile,, Sanctions have been a failure and the policy of threats, manifest by the presence of Britain’s fleet in the Mediterranean, did more harm than good. It almost set Europe ablaze.

» ” ” (JP masany though they may be to some, there are at least two lessons for us and for the world in all this. It should teach us that the price of our own peace is eternal vigilance. We were very close,

at one phase of the African conflict, to getting ahead °

of the League. Had we done so we would now be out on a limb. The lesson for the world is that the road % peace is even less easy than we had |thought. We know ncw that few, if any, nations are willing to risk becoming involved in war for tMe sake of peace in the abstract. National interest still controls the policies of nations. Finally, we have learned by startling experience that it would take precious little even for peace-makers to turn a little war into an Arma‘geddon. Nevertheless, the world still yearns for peace. The search for an antidote for war must go on. It msy very well be, as Britain's Neville Chamberlain says, the “very midsummer of madness” to continue sanctions against I1 Duce, but it would be even worse to admit total defeat and sit back and do nothing. For war is mankind's supremest folly, midsummer ot otherwise. Perhaps the next move in the fight against this greatest of man’s insanities will be to reform the League in line with the realities. Such a plan is explained in an article by William Philip Simms, printed elsewhere in this newspaper. The prospect may prove unwelcome to some, but we should not forget that the world is what it is, not what we would have it be.

YOUTH FOUNDATION HE natural, matter-of-course way in which Columbus, Ind., has taken 1500 boys and girls and tied them into a successful youth program makes the Columbus Foundation for Youth, Inc, a landmark among movements of this kind. Eighty per cent of the town's population between the ages of 8 and 21 is making use of the clubhouse, camp and cabin: facilities furnished by local citizens and clubs.\ A $35,000 WPA grant for labor is speeding the building of a 75-acre preserve and 8 14-acre lake in the hills of Bartholomew County.

‘The keynote of the program, as described by

Arch Steinel in his articles in The Times this week, is: “All children are privileged.”

There are no class distinctions. Rich, medium

class and poor all are alike in the Boys’ and Girls’ Clubs. And youth is not made to feel it is under rigid rules. ‘There are no “must nots.” Columbus business men sponsoring this movement do not preach of morals nor do they boast of character building and youth saving, The results tell the story. Juvenile Court, instead of holding weekly or monthly sessions, meets but three or four times a year. The court has not had a new juvenile case on the docket for two years. Commitments to correctional institutions have almost been eliminated.

Here is a common sense solution of the youth .

problem that is working—a program that other communities could follow with success.

PLATFORM AND PERFORMANCE

TT Republican platform, adopted at Cleveland, calls for “a prompt determination of the facts concerning relief and unemployment.” Yesterday

Senator Murray of Montana asked for a vote on

_ his resolution “Providing for the appointment of a

§et these facts and report them to the next Confloor

-livery stable and the little red - schoolhouse.

here last night, fp ig

stead projects to dramatize the need for better living

conditions in America. : She did not defend the projects as a successful

‘solution of the entire housing problem. “They are

meant only as experiments to point the way to better living conditions,” she said. The cost may have

‘| been too high, she admitted.

| But'she-added that if people fully understood the post. of bad hpusing and poor living conditions in

terms of insane asylums, hospitals, prisons, “children’s homes and homes for the _blind, “we wotildn't question what it costs to find out what is needed.”.

“It is not enough to shrug our shoulders and 4et some one else take the responsibility or to, let the government meet the problem,” said Mrs. Roosevelt. “Make it your own business to see how your fellow citizens are living.” The nation’s First Lady again shows her wide acquaintance with and deep interest in human probleths. If, as she predicts, these homestead projects point the way to better living conditions, they will more than prove their worth.

SPIT AND WHITTLE CLUB OU know,” says Congressman Jack Nichols of Eufaula, Okla. “there is a certain sentiment and romance about the crossroads grocery store. There formerly and there now exists the Spit and Whittle Club. You know, where the boys gather

around the stove in the winter, sit around its red-

hot fire, chew tobacco, spit on the bowl, listen to it sizzle, and settle the problems bt the nation and the community.”

Yes, we know about these humble temples of free speech. If we haven't taken part in the arguments ourselves or listened in as we ate a nickels worth of trackers and cheese, we've read about them in David Harum. They are the American: heirs of the old Athenian agora and the Roman: Forum. Abraham Lincoln, who worked in a grocery in Salem, Ill, gave to and took much of his wisdom and humor from these cracker-basrel philosophers.

The crossroads groceries are threatened by twen-

tieth century efficiency moving upon them ‘in the .

shape of the chain store. Pending in Congress is the Patman bill directed against these up-and-com-ing distributors. From the economic’ point’ sof view we doubt the wisdom of halting the spread of anything that tends legitimately toward cheaper retail distribution. But on the sentimental side we could easily get a bit maudlin about the old-fashioned store with 1ts stove and its cracker-barrel joining in oblivion with the village blacksmith shop, the For in its time the crossroads store has dispensed things even more important than groceries.

A PROMOTION EARNED

HE Roosevelt Administration has its quota of visionaries, men with big ideas, but with fumbling fingers when it comes to putting .those ideas into effect. Also, quite as much as previous Administration, this one has a fair share of unspectacular administrators who don’t gé in much for big ideas, but who, nevertheless, can get the routine chores done.

But .all too rare in any Administration is the

man who combines statesmanlike vision with ca-

pacity for practical administration.

Restoring our farm population to economic parity with our urban population was a big idea which had been kicked around in Washington evar since the post-war loss of foreign markets. This idea

and many others were written into law. But while - many .other good ideas went aglimmering, due to this particular one was

administrative bungling, advanced a long way toward realization, largely because it was administered by a man who knew

“how to get the chores done.

Chester C. Davis, whose able direction’ Kept the farm program from becoming just another good experiment gone wrong, has been promoted to a position on the Federal Reserve Board. He earned the promotion. His broad grasp .of our national economy, his understanding of agriculture’s problems and needs and his executive ability will help to make the reserve board a stronger financial agency.

THE SNEEZE VOTE

FTER\ all, the fact remains that the Roosevelt Administration hasn't done all it might have done to improve America. With all its CCC workers and its WPA workers it would have beén a simple matter for it to eradicate that malignant curse of mankind—ragweed—thus ending misery of at least three-fourths -of those wretches who suffer from hay fever in: August and September.

As: At is, projects have: come and gone by the score, - “but ragweed remains. And ‘very soon- after the hay fever season comes election, i We submit to both political parties that they give this matter serious consideration.

A WOMAN'S VIEWPOINT + By Mrs. Walter Ferguson OMEN "are running true to form in Texas— feminine as well as political form, we mean. Certain ladies of the G. QO. P. are openly advocating “subtle little remarks, something neither definite nor indefinite, but which conveys the idea,” as campaign tactics against the New Deal. Plainly speaking, of course, they mean gossip. ” While we have never thought women had a monopoly on this unpleasant commodity we dislike seeing them put their stamp of approval on it, for by such a gesture they may be held responsible for the output in their locality.

Politicians have resorted to some mighty low-.

down tricks in the past and the very worst is the

whispering campaign which has often been waged against the exemplary ‘candidate. For the establishment of this ignoble custom, men, who fathered our present political system, must take the blame. They have peddled dirt in a really big way. Mere barber shop tid-bits on their tongues have become vicious

scandals and no less a person than Abraham Lin-

coln suffered vilification from the male gossips of his

day. However, it is useless to deny that the scurrilous |

scalawags of our will have some excellent aids

when they ask women to join forces with them in

this filthy business. It is a widely known fact that we are masters at the arts of innuendo, the ugly hint, the half truth. None can excel us in the

Shreadiing of the Kind of new Which 1s neither defi:

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ANTON SCHERRER

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surprises me every onee in- a while to find how much of the world’s beauty lies within the compass of my daily walks. Grant me the dusk of an Indiana evening and a location anywhere on Market-st east of the monument, and I can capture what people go to Europe for. A look toward the west is all that is necessary. A moonlight night in Lee Burns’ backyard and a glimpse - through his row of poplars in the direction of St. Joan's campanile gives me

the glamour of Lombardy. The &

trees in the Plaza promise the

splendor of Versailles and a sharp|

perspective down New Jersey-st, with the A ground and St. Mary's in the. réar

has the lure of Germany's picture

towns. It really seems that eveivihing 1 have gone in search of in the past lies along the meridian of my home.

Sometimes, to be sure, I miss the mountains, but that is because my eye sees only what it has in itself the power of seeing. Tomorrow, who knows, I may stumble on to a range of mountains.

All of which is by way of saying that I am reconciled to spending my vacation at home. » » 8 Y=, a comfort this week to find the fishermen in control of things. The pity is that, knowing what we do, we don’t let them run things the year round. It would be a better world if we did—at any rate; a more pleasant and profitable world and more like" the one Izaak Walton conceived and created for himself. oo People don’t read Izaak Walton the way they once did—and, least of all, the fishermen. It doesn’t worry me to find that fishermen don’t because I suspect that they know a lot about Ike’s philosophy without being told about it. They are born with the gift of seeing things the way Ike saw them and the proof of it lies in the fact that they all look the part. Else why is'it that they all look as if they had read “The Complete Angler”? I have no way of knowing, for instance, whether Luther Dickerson, Evans Woollen Jr. and Dr, Daniel Layman have ever read “The. Complete Angler” all the way through (200 pp.) and I don't much care because as long as they look as if they had—and they do—it’s as good as if they had.

The anglers, therefore, don’t

worry me. It’s the non-anglers who |*

haven't read Izaak Walton that do. # & ‘= HEY worry me because they are the ones that keep this world from being what it could be—a world of good talk, good manners, good song, good books and good eating, for to the ever-lasting credit of Izaak Walton let it be said that he ate for flavors and not for vitamins. : I don’t know what to do about it If every non-angler ‘could be persuaded to read “The Complete Angler” through just once this would ve 2 quieter, sweeter, more friendly and just as useful a world. It might even turn out to be the kind of world Charles Lamb had in mind when he wrote to Coleridge: “Among all your readings did you ever light upon Walton’s ‘Complete Angler?’ It breathes the very spirit of innocence ‘and simplicity of heart.” And then came this breath“It would christianize every discord and angry pas-

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'DOLLAR-A-HEAD CLUB

ALWAYS HAS FAILED : By W. S.. 8.

The Reptiblicans' ped the Democrats in hiring a brain trust and in announcing a convention nomination acceptance plan.

And now the Democrats ape the Republicans with a scheme to swell the campaign chest by: soliciting one dollar contributions from a million rank and file party members. The imitation goes so far as to include a certificate for each contributor.

Concerning the proposed non-ex-¢lusive. Democratic society of “Roosevelt Nominators,” we feel constrained to comment somewhat as we did when the Republicans wned their dollar-a-head club: ’s a. good idea if it’works, but it never has. ‘Every election year both of the major parties cook up e plan to try to get the common run of voters

Your Health

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN | ONG hefore doctors had any idea of the special virtues of cod

liver oil in preventing rickets, fishermen on the Baltic and North seas used it as a convenient remedy for all sorts of diseases. Before the time of modern scientific medicine, cod liver oil was prescribed for rheumatism, tuberculosis, and other wasting disorders. - Today we use the oil with far more understanding of its real merits. All sorts of oils now are used in the human body in prevention and control of disease. Most conspicuous are cod liver and mineral oils, but there are also purgative variety, such as castor oil and certain special types, such as cflaulmoogra oil, which is used in leprosy. The difference between cod liver oil and mineral oil is, essentially, that the former provides important nutrient substances, whereas the latter is valuable simply for lubrication. Cod liver oil is used primarily for its content of vitamins A and D, and for treatment of the disease called rickets. In rickets, there is ‘softening of the bones due to a failure of the body to use properly the mineral substances, calcium ‘and phosphorus. Vitamin D apparently is the substance which controls this: utilization. As has been explained, vitamin D is created by the human body when : it is exposed to the ultra-violet rays of the sun. Strangely, rickets did not appear prominently. among human beings until the evelopment of window glass. Ordinary window

glass does not permit ‘the ultra- |

violet rays to pass.

There was a time when rickets af- |:

fected as many as 50 to 80 per cent

‘of all children. “Their long bones

did not grow properly. Their muscles were flabby and they developed characteristic pot-belly. Along the

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to kick in for campaign expenses. Yet the highest mark ever set was in 1916 when 170,000 citizens cons tributed money to help re-elect Woodrow Wilson because “he kept us out of war,” and the second highest was in 1928 when = 140,000 shelled out for Herbert Hoover and “two cars in every garage.” There are no records in either case on how many citizens asked for their money back. Such mass solicitations generally end up by costing more than they produce. But they do provide a smoke screen behind which party solicitors get the real money from big contributors who expect some-: thing in return. : Though skeptical, we still can: hope that both .dollar-initiation clubs fill the million-membership quota. Campaign contributors become the controlling stockholders of a political party and draw dividends for themselves when the party gets into power. When only those with special interests contribute, this process turns a government of equal rights into one of special privileges. To The. people are entitled to complete democracy, but they will not get it until they are willing to pay for it. ” ” ” DOGS OF INDIANAPOLIS INSPIRE POEM By Mary Austin The ‘Dogs of Indianapolis, so cheerfully they bark When I'm about to go to bed and all is nice and dark; I have worked hard downtown. all ay, In dust and sweat and din When: now I lay me down to sleep These canine howls begin.

Again at faintest streak of dawn, When first bird notes are swelling, From east and west and north. and south, There sounds this fegrsome yelling. They love to bark in' symphony, The small ones start the pace, The bigger ones join in their notes, The bulldog bellows base.

Poor Dog of Indianapolis, So hampered with a chain, I've watched you trying to get free, I've seen you twist and strain. You're made to swim and run and leap, To caper through the land, Not to be led on city streets By string in woman’s hand.

s 2 8 SUPREME COURT GUARDS

LIBERTY, SAYS REED By James A. Reed, Missouri ‘ 1 unhesitatingly say that’ our march away from constitutional

| other industries. The time

bling, which made all my bones to

government and toward the swamps

and morasses of Communism, Bol- |

shevism and Fascism, from liberty to tyranny, has been more rapid than similar revolutions in ‘Russia, in Germany and in Italy. Between that crimson flood and the liberties of the American people, standing on guard as did Horatius, Lartius and Herminius at the bridge, are the nine venerable justices of the Supreme Court of the United States. How long will nature spare them and if it does happily so keep them with us, how long will it be until the present Admin- | istration if continued in power will pack the Supreme Court with additional judges, all of them New Dealers? That, I assert, is in contemplation; that, I assert, has been threatened. I call upon American citizens to awaken to the dangers of this hour and to employ the constitutional weapon placed in their hands—the ballots of free men. ” 4 2 ) BELIEVES IT TIME FOR LOWER UTILITY RATES By Morris L. Cooke, Washington Popular criticism of the utility industry in its treatment of the public may be divided into two phases. First, there are countless ways in which the utilities have successfully evaded regulation and exacted undue gains that are ultimately paid as higher charges by the electricity consumer or sufferell as losses by the investor in utility securities. The second point of irritation is the economic philosophy of high unit charges and low customer consumption’ which has pervaded raté making for domestic and small commercial pow-| er.. This theory may have been justifiable in the experimental period when risk was relatively high. But such theory is now untenable in an industry which has acquired a stability and security of income which is paralleled by few, if any,

come when in the interest of the public welfare the converse theory —low unit charges and high customer consumption—must be put into practice. :

DAILY THOUGHT Fear came upon me, and tremshake.—Job 4:14. 4

OOD men have the fewest fears. He who fears to do wrong has but one great fear; he has a thousand who has overcome it. —Bovee.

SIDE GLANCES

By George Clark

[Vagabond

Indiana

EDITOR'S NOTE—This roving reporter for The Times goes where he pleases, when he pleases, in search of odd stories about this and that.

KLAHOMA CITY, June 17. — Younce Boles has never done anything in his life but drill oil wells, Like all drillers, he makes" good money. He has made as high" as $1150 in one month, just in wages, drilling oil wells. “I ought to be able to retire,” he says. “But look at me. I'm ragged. Haven't got a cent.” That isn’t literally true. What he means is that he hasn't any. thing saved up And the Don? It’s the old, old He's had oil fever all hisEvery cent Younce Bolescould wring out of the oil derricks. on salary, he has socked back into places where he thought there was oil. And there wasn't any. For 20 years he has been drilling wells for other men, and taking his pay and trying to make a hit for himself on the side. In just a couple more months he’s going back down to Texas and start on a place he’s known about for 12

| years. Maybe he’ll hit ant maybe

he won't. 8 ” ®

OUNCE BOLES is a Heavy, smooth-faced, jovial man. He acts big and talk big and is big. He has a quick temper and a generoussoul. He started working in the oil

fields when he was 19. Within 18 months he was a driller, He hag. never been out of work. : He's known in the boom. fields in four states—Kansas, = Oklahoma, Texas, Louisiana. He was born in Texas. He has never been. outside those four: states. Drilling is dangerous work. .The_ oil iy are filled with pitiful crip-. ples, and the memories of dead men. But Boles has never had anything worse than mashed fingers. . In 19 years, only one man under. his command has been killed, He has seen friends go, all around him, on other wells. Once, after a big fire, he went to the joint funeral of. 12 men, and five of them were his personal friends. Boles says oil field workers. are a prodigal lot. They make big.money, . and it’s easy come easy go. He says about a third of the drillers in the business spend their. money, like himself, trying to make a hit. Once in a while one of them does hit, but . most of the time they don't. iid

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OLES was married the sanie year he started in the oil fields, when he was 19. He has a boy. almost ready to graduate from junior high school. He's sort of deaf in one ear, just from the terrific noise of the ma-, chinery around a drilling rig. He doesn’t know how much Jdonger he’s. good for. He’s only 38 now, but he says he’s an old man in the drilling

| business.

Everybody in the oil fields likes Younce Boles. Even in spite of the fact’ that ‘he writes poetry. He. writes oil field stuff, and gets itpublished once in a while, too. But he never keeps any clippings. Oh, yes. He thinks Rooszvelt is wonderful. He says Roosevelt saved his ‘father’s hame, and, raised his’ own wages from $9 for 12 hours work to $15 for 8 hours. -

Today's Samet.

BY SCIENCE SERVICE,

UNE brings its annual crop of college graduates moving toward the rostrum to receive their diplomas. On that rostrum sit the faculty which has guided them through four crucial years of their life. Did you know that many of those faculty members would not: be permitted to teach in the public schools of many states? Such an amazing situation is no

has | reflection on the teaching ability or"

proved merit of the university faculty, but is indicative of a recent trend in education wherein more stress-is placed on the mechanics of. teaching - than upon knowledge. ofthe subject matter. For many high school positions it is now. more imt to have passed “Teaching I-I1” and “The -Psychology. of Teaching” than it is to. have passed

taken by a committee of the Ameri= can Chemical Society, which charges that + the “professional teacher training” group among educators has secured a monopoly of the education machinery, What is the result of the alleged

| monopoly? Science and mathemat-

ics professors in the colleges now