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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1936

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EDWARD AND THE PEOPLE HISTORY has no exact parallel for Britain’s empire- . rocking romance that Mencken calls the biggest news . story since the resurrection. But if it’s true that Edward may take his affair of the heart to the people in a general . election, over the heads of the government, the ashes of the . past will be raked for precedent. .

Often in the olden days kings fought with the church ‘and the nobility. Sometimes for their ladyes fayre and sometimes in behalf of the masses. But those were times when kings were kings, possessed of much greater official power than the symbol kings of our century. Certain it is that King Edward is up against powerful forces—a prime minister, holding the second biggest job in the world, the church and much of the press. Practically ‘ every person high in the social and financial life of England and the empire, including what are known on this side of : the water as economic royalists and stuffed shirts, appears “to be opposing him.

Should he fight and should he win, it would not be . because of his position as King but because of his strength as a man. And many who know him well think he has “ plenty of strength; a strength greatly augmented by a real -and true feeling for the masses of his people, feeling which those whose masses sense and love. That his comments on slum conditions, and his visits to the black areas of the “Welsh coal towns, for example, are not merely showoff stuff . to curry favor with the people but rather come from the heart—such is the opinion of many of the closest students of English affairs and nearest acquaintances of the King ‘himself. Last night’s cables describing Yow a crowd marched

in front of Buckingham Palace and No. 10 Downing Street “and the Duke of York’s residence, crying “We want Ed-

“ward; Edward is our King,” lend color to this view that the

. working people may line up with their sovereign.

Long before the Simpson case became an issue, the’

¢ King had given many evidences of wanting to quit the =puppet role, to get out of the window-dressing business and “be himself. It is said that he does not personally care to +live a life confined to yachts and horses and castles and s pomp and leisure, provided by the British people at great expense in order that a symbol may be preserved. Rather “he is interested in matters more active than being a human “emblem of England’s changeless dignity, power and glory. *Those traits of independence seemingly inherent in his makeup were already causing protest in certain charmed 4and influential circles before the Baltimore divorcee came 7into the picture. And those traits would indeed be a potent “source of strength in a contest with one of the: mightiest v'of all forces—British tradition. e So it looks like going up against Goliath. But they sdidn’t think that other and earlier David had a chance, «€ither. ww Public sentiment in a democracy is, in final analysis, “the real ruler. It is sometimes slow to form and slow to ~act. But once aroused it sweeps everything. And so the “answer, if the King does decide to stay in and pitch, will “be given by the great rank and file as yet scarcely heard xT on the Simpson affair.

MEDICINE, LAW AND CRIME

HE first Indiana medico-legal conference, closing here yesterday, brought doctors, lawyers, police officials and .Jaymen together in a scientific approsch to the problems » » of crime. Suggestions coming from the conference include im- _ provement of the coroner system and use of medical ex- *. aminers, chemical tests for intoxication in fixing accident * responsibility, expert medical testimony, standardizing of * sanity tests in criminal cases, improvement of Indiana's * change of venue law and scientific laboratories devoted to medico-legal and criminal investigation. "Goal of the con‘ference was, “The application of expert medical knowledge + and of scientific evidence to the needs of law and justice.” ; Much of the program was technical and dealt with the ©. immediate problem of apprehending criminals and getting ~ evidence to convict them. a Even ‘more important was the emphasis given the social, economic and mental phases of a long-range effort to eradicate the causes of crime and juvenile delinquency. “ Sponsors of the conferemce—the Indiana University School of Medicine, the Indiana Committee, the Indiana State Police and the Indiana University Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology—deserve much credit for bringing together the professions of law and medicine to combat ‘crime and improve the administration of justice.

"LEWIS TAYLOR J EWIS TAYLOR'S 18 years of service to Hoosier farmers : ended today when the Indiana Farm Bureau president f died at Pasadena, Cal, where he was attending the Amer-

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: Since Mr. Taylor helped organize the Indiana Bureau 8 years ago, he has been secretary, treasurer, legislative ector and president of the organization. He also was ctive in affairs of the national bureau. Re-elected state

president recently, Mr. Taylor was preparing a legislative gram for the 1937 General Assembly at the time of his

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Hoosier farmers have lost a devoted leader and friend.

IE ETERNAL MYSTERY S we read of King Edward defying the real rulers of his empire to do their

worst, we are reminded of the | 8 of Agr, son of dakeh, Ward sesturies 830: snd

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Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

No Comfort to Find the London Times Blaming American Press for Situation Caused by Royal Romance.

EW YORK, Dec. 5.—In a world going crazy it is no comfort to read that the London Times, in a childish attempt to blame some foreign culprit for the national embarrassment caused by the British King’s

romance with Mrs. Simpson, has picked the American press out of the line-up. Not that the American press has anything to regret, because we only recognized and hopped to a great historical event

while the British papers tried to revoke the truth by suppressing the news of it. The regret and the shame are all theirs, for they shirked a plain obligation of a free press, and the explanation of Lord Beaverbrook and others that they were silenced by law and the facts of the Simpson case looks. very pathetic now. The law and the facts of the case are the same today as they were when the British papers ignored history. } However stuffy and pompous the London Times, however roundabout its language, The Old Thunderer did represent intelligence, character and courage and generally spoke sense. But its'editorial attributing to the American press and public the present dangerous trouble sounds like something from the pen of Josef Goebbels, the Nazi minister of propaganda. As the mouthpiece of a nation whose people are compelled by law to believe the most idiotic denials: of plain truth. Goebbels has ceased to shock that diminishing portion of the world where reason still exists.

Mr. Pegler

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T= London Times editorial conveys an unhappy

suggestion that the-bugs may be carried on the wind. There is no press on earth more attentive

to personal news than the British papers in their routine dealings with the royal family, and no people with as keen an appetite for journalistic smut. If the King had selected for his bride a royal princess, whether from Greece, Holland or Bulgaria, however bad that female’s blood, the British press would have been full to suffocation of fulsome special essays by broken-down social figures, eager to exploit their connections for a few quid, and the formal royal announcement would have been preceded by much ‘circumstantial tattle, All such copy would, of course, be complimentary in the peculiar cap-touching technique which is reserved for royal affairs, but that is not to say that all personal news in the British press is hygienic. 2 2 ® - "| HE British are one of the few big nations who have kept their sanity amid the imbecile gibberings of countries which exhort their people to breed like animals, and put little muskets in the hands of children 6 years old. It will be a lonesome world for the United States if now, they, too, go haywire, but the Times of London speaks for England, and that editorial is not reassuring. The London Times must know as well as we do that the King long ago showed a preferefice for night club life, that he is personally obstreperous, and, finally, that this present trouble, whatever the merits of the case, was his own doing. If it be dangerous to the monarch and the Empire that he marry an American twice divorced, that is an affair in which the American press and the personal curiosity of the American people had no

initiative. Our papers merely foresaw the dangerous |

and historical complications which have now developed, and our people have shown no more interest

in this deeply personal affair than the British will.

now that the lid is off.

The Hoosier Forum

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

NOBEL PEACE AWARDS DRAW PRAISE

By Peace Lover

A committee of Norway's Parljament has just awarded the Nobel peace prizes for 1935 and 1936 fo two eminent peacemakers—Carl von Ossietzky, a German pacifist, and Saavedra Lamas, Argentine states-

‘Iman, foreign minister and treaty

maker.

The common libel that pacifists are all cowards is answered by the life of von Ossietzky. .This brave soul was only recently liberated from a German pi for having allegedly slandered the Nazi military forces. He is now in a Berlin hospital, a victim of tuberculosis. He waged peace in a nation that is little better than an armed camp, and apparently he paid the price. Lamas’ selection will be quite as universally hailed and as justly deserved. Like Cordell Hull he had not been in office two years before he had ‘negotiated trade pacts with Great Britain and neighbor Latin American countries. He was prime negotiator of the anti-war pact of 1934 between the republics of the Americas, and next year he called the peace conference that ended the sanguinary Chaco war between Bolivia and Paraguay. These two will take seats of honor in a growing company of men and women who have devoted their lives to ending war, among them our own three Nobel prize winners—Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, Frank Kellogg and Jane Addams. Some day their names may glitter on history’s pages with greater luster than those of the war heroes whose statues rise in many lands. For blessed are the peacemakers.

# 2 8 CHILD'S FEAR OF BOOKS MAY BE DUE TO DEFECT By Donald A. Barnie May I be allowed to take issue with certain statements by your feature writer, Olive Roberts Barton, in her article on “School Book Fear.”

While I do not refute her contentions, yet it seems unbelievable to me for children not to want to read, hence my. question, may there not be a cause for this apparent difficulty? From my own Sxperience I know this to be a fact. Mayhap some other child can be helped to overcome an inherent handicap. My son, age 7, was kept back at promotion time and a continual flow of reports that he would not learn to read were sent home with him. He appeared to be mentally bright and normal for his age, but in spite of this, after two years of preliminary school work, he had not even memorized the alphabet. His mother and I took him in hand, made him sit and read. We lost our patience and hysterically shouted at him for his evident unwillingness to learn. The outcome of our pagan complete nervous breakdown for the child and he had to be taken out of school. His mother, being a registered

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fact that he was dumb, but took him

to doctors who advised that he be

taken to a child behaviorist. From

{the behaviorist we were advised to

take him to a psychiatric institution.

There a large room filled with games and mechanical contraptions was placed at the boy’s disposal and for ‘three weeks he was allowed to roam at will and do whatever he desired while a lady student at a desk covered every move he made. Their analysis was that the child was abnormally bright, his I. Q. placing him three years ahead of

“his age.

A case history was taken of the parents and grandparents, and from these tendency was found. After much further study and scientific experiments with the boy, his case was diagnosed as “mirrored vision.” In other words, such letters as B, D, E, F, K, L, P and R were being seen backwards, causing great confusion in the child’s mind. : The first corrective step was to gain the confidence of the boy. This was done by taking him sightseeing and making him feel that instead of teachers, his instructors were friends. His school was asked to co-operate, which it did, fully. His schooling was commenced again, scientifically this . He was taught to read by sight, sound and touch. Today, three years later, books hole ie tne fog and in addition to school books, he gets about one book a week from the library. Volumes have been written covering his case, and it is offen referred to in scientific circles. In conclusion, I would say that this fear may be caused by some defect, and not laziness. ” ” 8 READER MOURNS UNBORN MILLION By T. E. A poignant note creeps into a statistical EE made by two Univer-

YOUR HIGHNESS

BY MARY WARD

An eerie’loock comes to your eyes As shadows trail the And sunsef, fades from wintry skies, d we group round the hearth— ad 4 you 4 thoughts seem so far from

In or transcendent flight, And I am still as can be, dear— A mouse in the firelight.

DAILY THOUGHT

If ye shall ask anything in My name, I will do it—St. John 14: 14.

EVER think tha That God's delays God’s denials, True pei E lilt what it something iter. ~ Toon,

‘nurse, would not accept the obvious wards

statements ‘a left-handed

sity of Chicago sociologists, Samuel Stouffer and Lyle M. Spencer. Estimating that 748,000 American couples who might have married if the last six years had been prosperous, did not marry, they add that as a result “as many as 1,000,000 potential American children went unborn. ”» I have heard much of depression’ s malign effects upon the living. What of those who were deprived even of the opportunity to enter life? Perhaps we should not grieve for them. Many of them, certainly, have been spared poverty, hunger, misery. But who can say what wealth the nation sacrificed, what leaders toward a better future may have been lost

among those babies that might have

been? 2 ” » 8 KINDLY LANDLORD AID TO APARTMENT HUNTERS By a Landlord = In an era when apartment hunting parents encounter numerous rebuffs, not to mention such signs as “No Children or Dogs Allowed,” it is refreshing to read of a certain

landlord in a Midwestern city.

Back in 1927, this kindly man made an agreement with his tenants. To the first child born to any of them, he promised to give a $5 gold piece. On each successive baby, he agreed, the amount would be

doubled. It was a rather risky thing to do. If, for instance, a stork derby were launched in his community and one of his tenants bore 16 children, he would be faced with the necessity

of dishing out some $1,300,000 in.

gold. His pledge, however, has cost him but $40 thus far. Nevertheless, his example should rid many people of the illusion that the average landlord is a crabbed old. Scrooge. ” 2 s CCC AID TO WILD LIFE, CLAIM By J. H. 8. One of the valuable byproducts of the CCC program seems to have been a great gain in the campaign to conserve wild life resources of America. Director Robert Fechner reports that the CCC work actually has helped the conservation program to such extent that certain species cf migratory birds, supposedly doomed to extinction, now are expected to survive and’ increase in numbers, The CCC, for instance, has helped the United States Biological Survey to expand and develop a nationwide system of wild life refuges. It has helped other government services to set aside wilderness areas for game. It had aided in Federal wild life censuses, has improved fishing

birds in cold weather and, by its reforesting activities, has provided 2 vast amount of much-needed cover for wild life. i Just one more reason for writing | the CCC down as one of the very best of the New Deal experiments!

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It Seems to Me By Heywood Broun

J. Edgar Hoover Confesses G-Men Lost Way After Capturing Karpis And Bandit's Girl Directed Them.

NEW YORK, Dec. 5.—I ran into J. Edgar’ Hoover in a restaurant the other night and made a confession to him. I didn’t quite come clean and tell all, but I did admit that 1 very nearly made a gross error in timing a column about him. The column was never published, or even written, but it was one of those things which had taken considerable form in my

mind. I could have typed it in a couple of hours.

. This particular essay was to have been a bitter attack on Mr." Hoover as a publicity seeker and an official far too intent upon his scrapbook of press ‘notices. -A congressional committee was working on him at the time, and so I waited for a day or two to’ watch developments. | That was the particular time Mr. Hoover chose to dart into New Orleans and ‘arrest’ Karpis. “Pubelic Enemy No. 1.” The phrase sounds ‘a little archaic. ‘That in itself is a tribute to the efficiency: of Mr. Hoover's bureau. And if h#: is a publicity hound I'm hardly“ the one to throw the first stone, or even the twentieth:In telling him of the way in which he had squelched my unfriendly intention I added, “You certainly moved fast in that capture of Karpis.” ) . Ue ” ” . ya E grinned and answered: “In one respect we moved too blamed fast. I'll tell you a little inci~ dent about that arrest. We'd caught Karpis and had him in the car in the back seat handcuffed to a” couple of G-men. There was another G-man’ driving, and I was sitting next to Karpis’ girl friend—a young lady no, better than she should be.: I noticed that we'd been driving for quite a while and that we didn’t seem to. be getting anywhere. We wanted the old postoffice. That was where we had our headquarters. I spoke to the driver, and he said he didn’t know where it was. “Karpis chimed in and asked: ' ‘What do you want—the old postoffice or the new postoffice?. If it’s the new postoffice I can direct you. I know’ where it is. In fact, I was planning to rob it.’ - But he was of no help at all about the old postoffice, His girl came to our aid. She knew its location, And so, although we figured the arrest was a vice ‘tory for us, we did roll up to headquarters undet the direction of Karpis’ little girl friend.” A certain amount of remorse assailed me. ‘I wom dered why I had been so intent on roasting J. Ed-" gar Hoover as a publicity seeker. After all, he was sitting there serving, so far as I was concerned, a useful purpose—that of the columnist’s friend. “Go on talking,” I Suggested. n ” ELL, 1 think vod wrote a column once about the Constitution,” said Hoover. “This ep may amuse you: ‘One of our men recently arrested a. bank: robber down in the Southwest. ‘You can’t. arrest me,’ the robber said. ‘I only robbed a state bank. You're a Federal man. You can’t touch me. It’s against the law.’ The G-man explained to him that the law had been changed and that Federal: ‘men can make arrests in cases where the state bank is the custodian of United States funds. THe bank robber was very much chagrined. ‘I didn’t: know that,’ he said. ‘I.wish some one had told me ‘about it.” ’ “Evidently,” 1 suggested, “he was a strict constructionist who stood shoulder to shoulder with Carter Glass in his firm belief in the- sanctity ofstates’ rights and the very letter of the ancient in<. strument.” And, as a matter of fact, that isn’t exactly a joke, Even those who fight most bitterly against any

Mr. Broun

General Hugh Johnson Says—

Figures Released by National Industrial Conference Board Show There Been 500,000 Factory Jobs if NRA Had Been Retained.

Would Have

WW Smaox, Dec. 5—~The New York Times in a recent. editorial commenting on a

sui [The Washington Merry-Go-Round

One of Big Behind-The-Scenes Scandals of New Deal Which Concerned The Contractors for Boulder Dam Has Just Been Deflated Quietly.

By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen

r ASHINGTON, Dec. 5—One of the big behind‘Whestenes scandals of the New Deal has, Jus;