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| Give Light and the People Will Find Thefr Own Way | FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1936

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O us, quite naturally, since we are daily in the work of publishing newspapers, the press phase of the Simpcase has been most interesting. And we think it also is most important as it relates to the working of a democracy. ' For months, while public events were developing which now rock the British Empire, no printed reference was made in England. And now, as the New York Times puts it, “Upon the utterly astounded country there has burst a constitutional crisis, involving the possible abdication of the King and the succession of the Duke of York to the ~ throne.” Threats of a cabinet resignation, of calling off a coroMation, of another bitter battle between church and state, of a disruption of the usual and orderly processes of an empire on which the sun never sets, and at a time when warlike forces are stirring in Europe and around the globe -—those things are revealed out of the blue after months of silence and of darkness. If ever history was in the making, here it is. If ever © affairs of “great pith and moment” have been ignored by those agencies that are supposed to inform the people about what is going on, such affairs have been ignored by the British newspapers. © Until now, at last, when the situation has reached a stage wherein the whole official structure of the empire is vibrating, those papers flash the crisis upon an “utterly ~ astounded country.” ir Is that good journalism? Is that a proper functioning of the press in a democracy? We think not. And in so ‘expressing ourselves we hope to ayoid the appearance of "& holier-than-thou attitude toward our fellows across the ‘sea. Rather, we desire to confess a feeling of humility about a journalism in America that has been running at a low ebb; a journalism whose faults are myriad; to admit that much which has happened in the Lindbergh case, for example, and in the recent campaign, has given reason for public revulsion. We want to admit our share of the faults, and to get “on with the theme, which has to do with the proper congeption of a press in a democracy. Now it just happens that the press is the medium by * which public information is most widely distributed. Were the medium of another sort the question would be the same. ‘Should the disseminator of information, in a society designed on the principle of letting the people rule, arrogate to itself the decision of saying what the people should know? Should it dictate what is good for the people who collectively are supposed to be wiser than any individual or group or class? Should it presume to hold back such events as ultimately come to a head as the Simpson case has come? Should it let the people who are the supreme power stay in the #Bhadow of ignorance and half-truth and gossip.until such a stress is generated as to cause the publishers, in their self-constituted omniscience, belatedly to tell that supreme power what has been occurring? Again we say, we think not. We should hate to face such a responsibility—of breaking to our readers a com-

k parable story, after all these months of suppression. And-

. we. believe ‘the British journalists, who will not have to search far to find plenty of motes in our eyes, will never-

theless ultimately and as a matter of hindsight conclude

. that their experiment i in giving the public what the publishers thought was good for the public was, as the saying goes = not so good. -

WHERE DO YOU LIVE? 3 an dark, a stranger often has difficulty finding his 2277 Way. about in Indianapolis. Many residents complain LF the same trouble, particularly when trying to find a fouse number. The confusion is great because of inade- ' uate street and residential signs. - But when street name duplications run into the hunIreds, and a person sometimes doesn't know ‘where he is in the daytime, this confusion becomes a major nuisance. An important step to eliminate more than 500 such Japlications) in Marion County is planned. . A year’s WPA survey under the City Plan Commission, now being comsleted, shows that errors in street naming, duplicating and Similarity of sound date back 40 years, New names are seing selected with an attempt at system. An ‘ordinance ‘must be adopted to change city street names, while those outside corporate limits must be changed by County Commissioners. In surrounding towns, town boards must act. ~ Plan Commission officials say it will take 10 years to gomplete the job. It should go forward systematically, with the’ full co-operation of those citizens who, for senti‘mental or other reasons, might be inclined to oppose the of a duplicating street name..

HOLDER CONVICTED ERAL COURT jury has convicted Paul D. Peach

town marshal of Earle, Ark., on a charge of holding very sid Negroes whom he had arrested and cornNC on his farm.

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By Westbrook Pegler

Mrs. Helen Coyimzoglu's Suit Against Ex-Utility Czar Insull Should Interest: Frugal People.

EW YORK, Dec. 4.—The impending suit of Mrs. Helen Coyimzoglu against Mr. “Sobbing Sam’ Insull of Chicago should interest people without much money who strive to get the most out of a dollar. Mrs. Coyim-

zoglu, hereinafter known as Mrs. Coy for short, is a Greek lady who claims to have befriended Mr. Insull when he was away on his long outing in Europe a few years ago, oblivious to some indictments

in Chicago. When he did go to ‘trial, Mr. Insull made a practice, not to say a public ceremony, of riding toand from court on the ordinary 10cent bus and the humble poverty of the old gentleman who, with other members of his family, had once possessed $100,000,000, aroused great sympathy among the citi-

.zens. The jury let him go but, be-

ing free, Mr. Insull has since felt no obligation to:let his fellowmen in on the secret of that remarkable frugality which enabled him to tour Europe, stop at a first-class hotel in Athens and, finally, hire an ocean steamship for his own use all on a pocket allowanee of $16 a week from a relative. - This has been regarded as the greatest feat of its kind since the purchase of Manhattan Island for $24 and there were those who have wished to let bygones be bygones and put Mr, -Insull in the Treasury Department where his genius could do most good. He did say, when pressed for particulars one day during

Mr. Pegler

“the long trial, “Oh, I had my friends, you know,” but

when asked why the same friends didn’t now provide the price of a taxi to and from the court or send «around the family ear to fetch him, he wasn’t specific. ” 8 8 ONSEQUENTLY there were some cynical enough to think that maybe Mr. Insull rode the 10-cent bus under instructions from some press-agent. " Perhaps the achievement on $16 a week is too good to be true. change $16 seems hardly likely to have achieved the apparent miracles of the grand tour and the solitary

voyage on the good ship Maiotis. It might have been possible in Germany during the great inflation but that was over and done 10 years earlier and anyway, this wasn’t Germany, but France and’ Greece, where things are cheap in dollars when the exchange is right but where they pile on the extras, such as

-bread, butter, salt, napkins and the air you breathe ‘| and run the bills up nevertheless.’

” 2 ” RS. COY of Athens now threatens to sue Mr. Insull for $40,000 as the value of some jewelry given her in gratitude for friendly assistance over there but given back, as she says, to avoid trouble.

And he is said to have admitted that he did promise the. lady some jewelry which is in a vault in Paris, though not $40,000 worth. But persons who, during

the trial, discussed with Mr. Insull his daily bus rides |

at 10-cents a hop are positive that he did not men--tion any jewelry in a vault in Paris at that time. Had he thought to mention this little cache, it might have been suggested that he hock the jewels and ride to court in a taxi or even buy a car of his unfortunate effect True, the conventional riding to court w was ic r is: that any of them had any jewelry put away in Paris at the time. They

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

FEARS NAZIS TO AVENGE PEACE PRIZE AWARD $C By L. W. K. The award of the Nobel peace prize to Carl von Ossietzky, who has spent three years in a German concentration camp, shows Nazi Germany what the outside world thinks of its little ways. And the official Nazi reaction to the award ought to show the outside world that. the world’s attitude is quite correct. Understandably enough, the Nazis are furious, A government spokesman made a rather sinister remark

about the case: “If disruptive elements wish’ to rally behind the name of Von Ossietzky, we shall have to reconsider our position in regard to him.” Consider the facts for a moment.

‘Von Ossietzky spent three mortal

years in prison and came out with his health ruined. He is now struggling to recover in a Berlin hospital. But, say the all-powerful if the outside world is going to make too much fuss about him, we shall get even. We shall throw him right back into prison! It is a terrible thing to see the government of a great nation actuated by the motives of a schoolyard bully. rg i RISING WAGE LEVEL HELD NECESSARY. By Max Stern Is American industry plowing back enough of its earnings into the honife market in the form of wage increases? < The American Federation of Labor thinks not. In its November Survey of Business the federation warns that, while recent wage increases are “in the right direction,” this country “must plan for a progressively rising wage level”—first for a minimum health standard and, next, for a “capacity production” level. Today, the A. F. of L. says, “between 10 and 15 million American families” are living below the minimum health standard. Based on estimates by Prof. Paul Nystrom of Columbia, and brought up to present prices by the Labor Department cost-of-living index, an American city family of four requires a breadwinner: working 40 hours a week steadily through the year and earning 73 cents an hour, or about $1500 a year. That’ is the health

that Brookings Institution found 7% million city workers’ families getting

less than $1500 a year in so-called

prosperous 1929. On a basis of incomplete data the the federation finds that the average wage in the summer of 1936 was 58 cefits an hour, or 15 cents below the health minimum. In ‘the year

1934, when. NRA, was operaiing, the |° average was 56 cents, or only 1%

minimum. It will be remembered |’ Your. birthday wish from

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there “was hardly any increases in average hourly wages.”

This counfry will be in full eco-

nomic health ‘when wages are high enough to allow consumption of the output of our existing productive plant. A “capacity production” living level at today’s prices, the federation says, calls for an income .of $3625 for all American families. Such a universal family income not only would solve the unemployment problem and start the industrial plant going at full capacity, but, accord-

ing to Dr. Mordecai Ezekiel of the.

Agriculture Department, would solve the farm problem by bring into pro-

duction 50 million new acres of land,

We are far from that ideal. The $3625 family income means a wage of $1.77 an hour at steady work for 40 hours a week for all city: wageearning breadwinners., A few skilled

workers get that, but the great bulk |

of unskilled are still struggling toward the goal of the health and efficiency minimum of 73 ts an hour. The unhealthy gap betwe purchasing power and the capacity of our land and has yet to be bridged. “We hope,” says the f tion, “that industrial executives will be wise enough to see that wage increases must not stop with the few efforts featured in the press. Only by large and continuing increases can we create a market great enough for capacity production and full em=

ployment.” EIGHTEEN

BY VIRGINIA KIDWELL

0, lassie, young and innocent, You have so much to learn,

mass ctive

And by your eyes I see you're meant

For hopeless things to yearn.

And by your lips I can foretell You'll. love too many men— Too often and perhaps too well - And suffer for it then.

And all too soon you'll learn, alas! That men get all the breaks, ; That love with men will always

pass— It’s woman’s heart that aches, o, lassie, just 18 today, 7 .

Is, love 8s often as you may, 8, But never

DAILY THOUGHT

| The way of the just is uprightness: ghu, most a, dost weigh the path of the just— Isaiah 26:7. SE

cents below. the necessary level, |an

which then was 70 cents. Since then, while living costs have risen

General Hugh Johnson Says—

President Roosevelt's Speech at Buenos Aires Was Almost 100 po : Fo 3 2

Performance; Did More for Good Fedity Than Anything for € Cs

ASHINGTOK, D4 = Bein Sites seen a long

f he Club in Chicago the other day that |

MEDIATION MACHINERY URGED FOR SHIPPING

By M. S. After two months of strife 500

strikers against ‘the Louisiana,: Ar kansas & Texas Railway have returned to their jobs with practically all of their demands granted by a stubborn management. The

strike cost seven lives, two serious |

wrecks, many injured and a money

loss of hundreds of thousands of |

dollars.

But this rail strike was significant ‘as the exception that proved a rule.

Since passage of the Railway Labor Act 10 years ago there has been not one strike on a major railroad line in the United States. There have been differences, serious ones sonie~ times; between the unions and mans agement. Last year 11 strike votes were taken by rail unions, but ‘none of them resulted in interruption of rail traffic.

is is because under the Railway :

Labor Act an orderly mediation sys-=

tem is set up which seems to’ work. |

It gives time for both sides to “cool off,” and enables the government as an interested party to work ‘with facts as well as persuasion. Industrial peace on America’s railways, emphasized by this small and single exception on the L. A. & T. contrasts with the present Sontinusl chaos of the seaways. recognition ‘of ship owners of tabor's rights to bargain collectively, by unions of their contractual obligations and by the government of its duties to the public, the same sort of peace could reign in the shipping industry. ‘Next: Congress will see a serious move fo set up a Federal ‘mediation system for -shipping. If it succeeds, I predict that soon a maritime strike like the gone now tearing the heart out of commercé on the Pacific Coast also will

‘Ibe He exception instead of the rule.

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BROOKINGS CHIEF HAS

RE Y FOR JOBLESS By LV. S. If} e want to see a boom such as we only | to set our industrial plant to

| work to make ‘up the production de-

es of the seven years of deon. This is on the word of y Dr. Harold G. Moulton, gs Institution president. Dr. Moulton - told the - Executive

ficier

to make up for the deficiency in

.| durable . goods: .alene, upward of additiona] workers would be wii

8,000

kept busy for at: least five years.

| Nearly 4,000,000. more would be re: | ? {quire fo a similar period to make | up’ the deficiency in

non-durable

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By Heywood Broun

Substitution of Radio Jor St Bernards to Aid Lost Alpina Travelers Makes Columnist Sad;

NEW YORK, Dec. 4,—Cables from thy Austrian Alps seem to me profoundly disturbing. I refer to dispatches which announce that from now on guides are to be equipped with two-way radio sets.

This new arrangement may quite possibly promote efficiency but.it spells the death of romance in the mountains. In the olden days, according to the stories, St. Bernard dogs came bounding through

the. drifts; bringing to ‘the tiréd traveler rum which was contained in a little oak cask hung arourid the neck of each faithful animal, Indeed, I am informed that at the height of the tourist seasan the equipment was broadened to include cracked. ice, a dash of. Sa grenadine, a twist of orange pekl a uae canape of caviar. 3

vi 8 has od thrust into his hands, and ‘before he can gasp out thankfulness for deliverance from an i¢y fate he’ is. likely to find himself POR by an Alpine master of ceremonies who will say, “The voice of the next victim of the blizzard will come- to you through the courtesy of the National Helvetia Chocolate Cg. broadcasting on a wave ‘length of 770 kilocycles on Tuesdays, Thursdays and’ Saturdays. Do not tune off after you have heard the ‘thrilling. adventure: of the snowbound traveler, but ‘wait to hear our pe prize offer for all who send in: 100 wrappers f Helvetia chocolate.” “The dogs may have been dumb, but: at: the. sade time they were man's ‘best friends, and. ash 3a every one of them was a ‘simon pure amateur: Théy nozzled through the sow with -na hope .of. re . They did not even.expect the wayfarer incased 1 icicles to say, “Let's make a loving cup of: this>

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HE dogs sittrendered readily a sion’ more ene ticing than marrow bones or any prepared puppy food. It was-the usual custom for the hitherto fre into the neafést mom; hard upon the heels of the faithful St. Bernards, afid in most, cases both men and beasts would be barking. If an ancient custom now has been part of the blame ‘must fall upon the Foygsers of the pass who became by far too greedy. the days. ‘whin ee dogs roamed the Alps it} Cingcnpor adolescents in the mountain villages 2 of those about to be lost in’ Ds of the In fact, the local temperance societies were wont roy post in: their free windows the slogan, FB ware of the dog!” ° § The animals pressed into the | / Samaritan savhe ‘were trained never to ask questions -or ‘make’ comhments. There is no record that any’ 8). Bernard ever wi “Go a little easy on that rum. I wou; pu whll

Sie Martinis witisls you had dow fr Yie'unlley” # 4 Bos riever ooh iy privilege tobe dngwikand In Beneflis & ar Tne otis i rat to te hat ole u -

ary line between life and: might: wake up for rum more readily than for the - tt a ae jot

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