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Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1936.

AMERICA MOBILIZES LITICS and selfishness will be sent on vacations this fall as America plans its “1936 Mobilization for Human Needs.” ; i The mobilization, as you know, has grown into an annual pooling of good will behind the local Community Chest drives. The season's mobilization was launched this week at a conference in Washington, and will directly benefit 330 Community Chest campaigns this autumn and winter. One may get an idea of the nonpartisan nature of the gathering from the fact that Gerard Swope, chairman ‘of the mobilization, presided, i and that speakers included Charles P. Taft, Mrs. Roosevelt, Newton Baker, Dorothy Thompson and others of various political faiths. They have one common interest—the nation’s needy. Because times are better some givers may be inclined to skimp on their contributions. It would be a tragic mistake to think that the needs are lessened. Distress is - cumulative, Only the trained social workers of the com- ~ munities know what havoc seven years of depression have wrought upon the health, solvency and morale of millions of families, especially children. They will tell you moving stories of malmutrition, sickness, broken homes, discouragement. It is to mitigate sonie of these more or less hidden miseries that the community chests will devote their dollars in expert services. The Federal government assumes the task of providing jobs for the employable jobless. The localities care for the physical needs of the unemployables. The great and patient work of human salvage and rebuilding remains for these institutions that for years: have provided trained and personal services for such purposes. Today 10,000,000-odd unemployed and other millions living on the borderland of subsistence need more than ever the help of hospital, clinic, nursing, training, recreational and character-buliding services. The people do not live by bread alone,

THE G. Y.P. A PROMINENT G. O. P. organ of New York leads its editorial column with a hopeful piece hailing a “na-tion-wide movement” to turn the Republican Party “over to the younger generation.” For proof of this regeneration it cites the recent senatorial nomination of Massachusetts’ Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., age 34, and New Hampshire's Gov. Bridges, 39. Then to complete the generalization it recalls

- that it is ‘not altogether chance that” Landon is five"

“years younger than Roosevelt. : We would like to be able to re-dub the Grand Old ‘Party the Grand Young Party. But, alas, three swallows do not make a springtime. We can’t help remembering - that the sinews of war against the New Deal aré coming from such elderly veterans as Rockefeller, Mellon, Morgan, - the du Ponts and others, or the difficulty of snatching, - and keeping, the reins of political control from the practiced hands of such grand old men as Messrs. Hilles and Snell of New York, Roraback of Connecticut, Townsend of Delaware, Hale of Maine, Grundy of Pennsylvania, Hoover of California, and the rest. Strange that the party which has boasted of its ex- - perience in governing and attacked the New Deal as a nest of impetuous young brain trusters now should want new glands, instead of trying to be its age.

THE NEW IMPERIALISM . DESPITE everything, French labor is persisting in its efforts to force Premier Blum to abandon his laudable policy of strict neutrality in Spain's orgy of blood, and rush to the aid of the Popular Front regime at Madrid. With it, French communism is marching hand in hand. Beyond question the world is face to face with a profoundly disquieting phenomenon. It is nothing less than -a brand of imperialism. The imperialism of ancient Rome took the form of extending control over alien territory. The new imperialism seks to extend its sway over alien social

systems. And the one is every whit as perilous to peace as |

: the other. - Thus the present mad meddling in which this and that

social or political conception in indulging, is laden with | The tendencies of |

"TNT of the most destructive variety. naziism, communism, fascism and other isms to propagate - themselves, if needs be by force, beyond their own frontiers, constitute the most highly explosive phenomena the world _ has seen in many a day. It has been, and is, increasingly apparent that Europe, if not the world, at this moment is “very close to a collision between naziism and communism.

= ET us not, however, be misunderstood. among the last anywhere to advocate freezing the

social status quo. Politically speaking, man is just be- . ginning to crawl, let alone walk. The widest liberty of

“ thought and of achievement is imperative to human ad-.

: vancement., But the bloodiest struggles of all time have - grown out of attempts on the part of some to impose their * thoughts out of season upon others. Nor has it seemed

to matter, at the moment, whether these thoughts were

good or bad.

: x There will never be peace in this world until we all

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4 learn well how to mind our own business. Mutual respect

Nor others, and tolerance among all peoples, races and cults, No national ism needs to.be rammed down the throats of other nations. If it is good, nothing can prevent ~ its spread. The best propaganda is the good example. : In that direction alone lies the road of peaceful progress.

OF course Gov. Landon is too pleasant a person to suggest it, but we wonder if he doesn’t look wistfully toward the —if the G. 0. P. wins—the Senate rules will perforce form the very vocal Col. Knox from an

We would be | General Hugh Johnson Says——

Why then do these’gentlemen remain active, loyal Why is there such a thing as an important Landon following? Disturbing as Mr. Landon’'s performances are to my friends, yet, from their

aspiring Throt-

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THE COUNTRY 1S GOING TO THE DoCS!

C.& N. W. President

eclares Road

‘Eyes Left!” —By Herblock

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Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

American Legion's Convention at Cleveland Next Week to Refrain From Its Usual Furniture Tossing

NEW YORK, Sept. 18.—The American Legion has decided to abstain from furniture throwing and trapeze work on the high chandeliers in the eighteenth annual convention in Cleveland next week. This

change of custom will evoke a resolution of relief from the hotel keepers and it should have a sedative effect on the conduct of all conventioneers. The American Legion’s national conventions set the pace for other meetings of fraternal and business organizations and its magnificent challenges to prohibition in Boston and Detroit were heartening incidents in .the long and painful protest: against the amendment. The Legion, as such, refrained from political action against the scourge, but its actions spoke louder than formal resolutions could have. . . The convention is an American custom. Hundreds of thousands

‘of Americans spend millions of

dollars every year traveling up Mr. Pegler and down the country to meet and, ostensibly, to exchange ideas and promote their interests. But during prohibition many of these meetings became straight “souse” parties which produced no intelligible results but served to keep alive the rebellion. The hotel industry suffered heavily in ruined carpets, burned bedding, shattered dishware and glasses, chairs torn limb from limb and tossed out the windows. 2 » ”

N the early years of the great American drought, |

the New York hosts who entertained the out-of-town trade at the annual convention of the Newspaper Publishers’ Association looked forward to convention week with dread. They put in large stocks of bathtub scotch and gin, collecting it for weeks, a bottle or a case at a time, according to the state of the market, and storing it in the office safe while they went into training against the ordeal of making horribly merry far into the night for a whole long, terrible week. No American city saw a greater variety of funny hats and costumes and delirious antics than Atlantic

City, where the conventions followed one another in|

solid procession from spring to late autumn. .

The hotel people there did consider the possibility of using rubber furniture and waxed paper glasses to cut down the toll of destruction. ” = = HERE was the star performance of the Legionnaires in their Boston convention, which probably was the high point of their career. In the Boston convention, one of the Legionnaires drove a midget automobile into the lobby of a big hotel, marked out a speedwa¥y for himself and tore around the room, not only scattering human life before him, but loading the atmosphere with exhaust fumes. The Legion used to be. rather sensitive about the -notoriety which followed its foolishness at the annual meetings, but now that the boys are older and less able to go without food and sleep, they may take some

pride in the fact that they were important, if not the foremost, leaders in the long campaign to make men Iree.

ETHANY BEACH, Del. Sept. 18.—Nearly all staid journals insist that present political discussions should be approached from a sort of Wateau shepherdess attitude—as a delicate and stately political minuet. This correspondent has been admonished by sincere, devotc® and disinterested friends to touch issues delicately with perfumed gloves. Nearly all leaders or important followers in business and finance are for Landon. In off-record talks with old and intimate friends in this class, I have yet to hear one who does not really and immediately admit, that both as a candidate, and as material for the greatest executive position in the world he has turned aut to be a complete washout. Without a single exception, they wish the Republicans had chosen a passably typical example of American thinking and leadership. Such men as these friends don't try to kid their intimates with partisan enthusiasms that in their hearts they can not feel.

They admit error.

TE theory that they can win solely on votes to be + cast against Roosevelt through hate, without

bothering about votes to be cast for somebofly else

through convicition—just isn't working out. On the other hand, if they had to depend on intelligent votes won by their candidate—whether on his personality, leadership, words or action, it would be simply no contest.. A worse je could not have been

ANGLO

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The Hoosier Forum

I wholly disagree with what you say, but will - defend to the.death your right to say it—Voltaire.

READER BACKS LEMKE ON MONEY POLICY By A. J. McKinnon 3 I feel that Hugh S. Johnson expects that Father Coughlin may take another slap at him, but he

can rest assured that Father Cough- |

lin ‘would not attempt to answer Hugh's joke on the money question. Hugh will have to get schooled on

the money question and make a better attempt at some future time. Hugh Johnson ought to look up some history on Andrew Jackson, who in his day gave the government control of coinage and the regulation of the value and credit of money. There is one thing, Mr. Johnson, that stands out plainly in that picture. There was no deluge on the people. Here is a real proof, Mr. Johnson, against your cry that if that great monster, the private reserve banks, do not continue to control our money there will be a great deluge upon us. The deluge is heré and has been for a number of years, and will still be with us until Lemke is

. President of the United States.

Yes, Mr. Johnson, Mr. Lemke possibly will print thirty billion in greenbacks, but not before Congress takes control of the money. The present government can not do that because it has not control of the greenback or of the gold. The private Federal banks have control. The bankers know that control of the money means political control. Therefore, they have Landon and Roosevelt. Take your choice. Lemke for President has no strings tied to him, and no brain trusters attached to him to tell him how to run our country.

: 2 a» FASCISM. COMMUNISM MISUNDERSTOOD, CLAIMS

By James C. Barnett

The other day Mark Sullivan interrupted his marvelously sustained and mediocre drivel long enough to state an interesting thought. It was that fascism always seems to rise in a country to counter a wave of communism. Here in democratic America we have no adequate definition of communism. That both are un-American and undemocratic is proved ‘by the fact that Americans schooled in the philosophy of democracy can’t define either fascism or communism adequately. There are some who believe that the Old Guard element of the Republican Party is the American counterpart of fascism and who be-

lieve that a wave of communism’

is TFascist-inspired. Without the wave of communism, ‘fascism remains unborn and formless. The fact that the Old Guard element of the Republican Party calls President Roosevelt a Communist stamps them as Fascists, I believe. That their assertion is wishful rather than factual no intelligent person can deny. Even Mark Sullivan

even hopeful?

The. very reverse is true.

(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, religious controversies excluded. Make your letter short, so all can have a chance. Letters must be signed, but names will be withheld on request.)

doubts that the President is a Communist. As every one knows, Mussolini is the father of modern fascism. Any encyclopedia will disclose the fact

that Mussolini was originally a Communist, and that he was expelled both from Switzerland and from Austria for his Marxist activities. : Later he was ag big-wig in the Italian Communist Party and disseminated Communist propaganda in Italy. Having got communism started, he swapped horses and became a Fascist. Playing on the fears of the people who didn’t want another Paris Commune after the fashion of Robespierre, Marat and Danton, nor a Red Terror after the fashion of Lenin and Trotzky, he gained power, and modern fascism was born. Its pattern of ascendancy remains the same. Fascism must get communism started before it can come to life. For example, in the platform of the Republican Party, the collection of war debts is urged. After the war, the American government, of which President Roosevelt was then a member, made loans totaling $22,287,530 to Rumania, Finland, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, and Poland. : = These were buffer states separating capitalist Europe from Red Russia. The new states had to be brought to life to furnish an eastern boundary for modern capitalism. The United States, with a Demo-

BLUES

BY DOROTHY F. TUCKER _ Sometimes I would like to be A thousand miles out at sea, So that the waves of cobalt blue Would part me from the world I knew. :

The desert seemingly holds -out Surcease from an eternal doubt. Perhaps ’tis there I'll choose to go And leave behind pretense and ow.

And then a friend drops in to stay And chat a moment of the day. "Tis funny but when she did leave

AILY THOUGHT

For if a man thinks himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself. —Galatians 6:3. et!

F he could only %ee how small a vacancy his death would leave, the proud man would think less of the place he occupies in his life-

time.—Legouve.

It seemed I. could no longer grieve.’

cratic Administration in power, rendered this necessary service to capitalism. In addition, expeditionary forces were sent to Archangel and Vladivostok to oppose the Reds, the cost of which action is not easily ascertainable. Now the Republicans want the money. If these buffer states should suddenly have to pay their debts it probably would mean bankruptey, and they would fall an easy prey to the Red Russian bear. Already Red Russia and the idea it represents has the remainder of the world sweating with fear. The gollection of the war debts and the inevitable collapse of the small capitalistic buffer states on Russia's border would give terrific impetus to communism, and it would be felt |. around the world. A real wave of communism might start in the United States. Does the Republican Party want communism given further impetus so it can come to life as fascism? For what other reason does it want to collect :the war debts? ® ”n ”

URGES ‘MINUTE MEN’ FIGHT COMMUNISM By Alden R. Bracewell, Shirley Florida's Gov. Scholtz, as national president of the B. P. O. E., informs the nation that: communism is at our very door. “There are three types in America today,” he announces, “Americans, Communists, and those on the fence. We have no room for the last two. Communists we must run out. As for the others they will have to fish or cut bait.” He grows still more alarming as he relates where all this terror originates. “Many churches, with their insipid international peace and disarmament programs,” he says, “have become hotbeds of communism. The same is true of our schools.” ‘ The shame of it all! That the church and .school should be infested with crackpots seeking to spread their false doctriné of international good-will and their horrible idea of world peace! Could anything be so un-American? In fact, the situation is so desperate that we can no longer rely upon the police force, the regular army, or the national guard to protect us. They would assuredly be overcome by the Red horde of schoolteachers and clergymen. So Mr. Scholtz proposes an organization of “minutemen,” who, will help stem the tide. With other patriotic organizations contributing several million more men, we may eventually hope to sleep peacefully, without fear of being massacred in our beds by Bolsheviks. So long as these protectors of liberty stand ready to “run out” or otherwise dispose of all who doubt, the usefulness of war or the sanctity of capitalism, we may be assured that our “great heritage” of freedom shall not perish! Adolf Hitler, look to your laurels. These 100 per cent Americans will show you some real patriotism.

18.—That- breath-taking

‘came to blows because of their signed stories.

point of view, more disturbing still is the possibility of Mr, Roosevelt's re-election. They comfort themselves with the reflection that “Landon can be guided,” and their unspoken certainty that they and theirs are the lads who will do the guiding.

For them, all this taken together is still enough to

. keep them wearing sunflowers, and the effective con-

sideration is their fear of Roosevelt. oR :

HAT is the fear? Regimentation? Interference with the American way of life? Hate of the NRA, and love of the Sherman anti-trust acts? A new depression? Ncnsense. : They: are all sure that no matter who is elected, we are in for a considerable period of rapidly increas“ing prosperity. They wouldn't even try to talk to me about regimentation and endangered American institutions, because they are aware thal we both know the truth on that subject. # = What then is the answer? They are afraid that Roosevelt is going to take away more of their money, and more seriously intérfere with their making more money than would Mr, Landon under That is reason No. 1.

Reason No. 2 is that they are

their guidance.

the Rev. Gerald Smith—has gone the way of all flesh. The ace rabble-rousers no longer feel that way about each other any more. The rootin’-tootin’ Sith and the aged pensionscheme czar are still buddies, but the Detroit radio priest has cut loose from the combination. He took: his walk quietly, but unmistakably, ; Coughlin has made it clear to his one-time collaborators that from now on he desires to star alone. No hard feelings, he will be glad to co-operate with them if. the opportunity arises, but he plans to sparkle in his own orbit and with no competition. was" his uneasiness about the bitter scrapping within the Townsend crganization. The second was of a more personal nature. He is jealous and fearful of the ebullient Gerald Smith's forensic talents. 3 ; The younger and much more flamboyant man is the priest's superior as a rabble-rouser. Before a crowd, Smith can make the priest, who is no slouch himself, apgear a mere amateur. gv It was this jealousy of Sniith ; to relegate Gerald to the tag-end of his Union for

thi

Coughlin’s walkout. One > ‘Knowledge of his collages. Also, of Signing Jetteqs a ht d 4 ‘and other documents awaiting signature of the

that caused Coughlin

It Seems to Me

By Heywood Broun

Ban of Soviets on Ghost Writing Regarded as Error. Let Politicians Take Advantage of Writers' Help

NEW YORK, Sept. 18.—A cablegram from Moscow says nq ghost writing is permitted in Soviet officialdom. I think that the Russians are making a mistake. To me it has never seemed a serious

charge to make against a man running for office that he did not write all his own speeches. Of course, I do think he ought to add some phrase or word of his own on occasion, and the orator of tha

evening should in every cas2 familiarize himself with the manuscri before arising -to state his views. Failure to follow this rule has resulted in some tragic conse- # quences. Once upon a time there ~~ was a city official in New York who not only had his utterances prepared for him but also had the words spelled out phonetically to keep him from going wrong. And yet he erred one evening when - attempting to make a patriotic address because he lifted up his head and said, “What this coun- , try needs is more of the spirit of one, seven, seven, six.”

. ’ No, I would let the politicians make such arrangements as they can with the more gifted writers, but I would have tradition quash the articulate lefthander, lightweight and backstroke swimmer.

If any of the athletes is able to tell a coherent and interesting story I think there is no great harm in letting some literate person assemble the miaterial for him or her. But the practice has grown - up of hiring names, and then not even going to the Hovile of introducing the ostensible author to ‘Ais ghost.

Mr. Broun

hn un HE world’s series is almost on us, and the necessites of newspapers are such that many a pitcher will still be in the locker room taking off his uniform at the time when his own story of How he won the game is shooting over the wires to all the country=side. : In Philadelphia many seasons ago two pitchers Ons of them had his name upon an essay in which he severely critised a teammate for gerving up an inside curve to Home Run Baker. The author was astonished when his confrere walked up to him in the clubhouse the next day and punched him right in the nose. After they had been torn apart, and the cause of the quarrel set forth to him, he explained that he had never seen a word of his own stuff from the beginning of the series, that he did not know the name of his ghost, and that he had talked with no one except the syndicate manager, £ ’ = ” ®

F course, there are those who come to identify themselves with their ghosts. A friend of mine once did a series for a football céach. The coach gave him a little material to start with, but it soen ran out, and the ghost had to proceed on his own. After several weeks he managed to catch up with his principal. “Fred,” said the writing wraith, “your next piece is going to be on tackle play. Cam you give me a little dope?” \ TE The, coach was in a hurry to catcH his train. “Bill,” he replied, “I've got to run, but if you'll look back over my last article I think youll find I've

covered that adequately.”

The Washington Merry-Go-Round

By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen

4 ASHINGTON, Sept. ‘brother-in-armg act of those three musketeers { of the stumpbox—Father Coughlin, Dr. Townsend and

HILE the 3000 American and foréis to the Third World Power forth in Washington, one of the of the Administration was trying to hush up a sharp internal wrangle in the Federal Power Commission. Cause of the disturbance was personal friction between Chairman Frank R. McNinch and Vice Chairman Basil Manly, 2 ? Both men are able, liberal .and strong supporters of the President’s water power policies. , But temperamentally McNinch and Manly are

poles apart. ; a more aggressive and hard-

ore delegates Conference held power strongholds

McNinch, the older, is

‘hitting. Manly, on the other hand, is more ambi=

tious personally. Some of his critics inthe commis. sion say he wants to be chairman. 3

' They accuse him of conferring with the President Cs of the commission, without the

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