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FRIDAY, JANUARY 1, 1937

1937 " / It is pleasant to think of the New Year as a great book of 365 fair white pages on which we shall be free to write what we please. In truth, our freedom is limited. The hand of the past reaches over our shoulders to guide the pen or blot the record. Good resolutions yield to the tug of bad habits. In a world becoming yearly more interdependent no individual, no nation, can wholly escape the influence of others’ actions. Nor may any finite mind foresee the acts of a Providence which can upset all human calculations. Yet surely it is a worthy impulse that drives us, subject as we are to forces beyond our comprehension or control to hope and plan that each New Year shall be better than’ ‘the last. And certainly we in America, on the first day of 1937, have firmer basis for our plans and hopes than we have had on other recent New Year Days. ” ” ” 8 ” ” J,CON OMICALLY, we are on an upward road. Politically, the vitality of our democracy has been proved by a bitter contest that ended without leaving permanent scars. Socially, we have made notable progress toward greater security for the wage-earners, the dependent and the aged, The New Year seems to offer us opportunity to consolidatd pastygains and move on to new achievements. Unhappily, the fairness of that prospect is overcast by dread of what may happen abroad. Americans, united as seldom before in determination to live in harmony with all their neighbors, watch the march of events in Europe and Asia with justified apprehension. Our foremost wish for ' 1937 should be that it may bring peace to the world, and to us no temptation to join in foreign conflict, no need to con‘tend with the problem of remaining neutral among warring nations. For we require all our time and strength to go ahead with the task that has been well begun, but only just begun. We must find a way to control returning prosperity and save it from becoming another disaster. We must learn what to do about the unemployment and want that remain in spite of increasing business and industrial activity. We must search for a fairer method of adjusting differences between workers and employers. We must devise means to encourage individual initiative without permitting the

greed of a few to override the welfare of the many.

| When another New Year Day dawns, may it' find us

suffering trom no hangover of regret for opportunities lost or wasted in 1937. And today, as we start off together on another great adventure into another twelvemonth, The : Times extends to all of its readers its heartfelt wishes for— A Happy New Year. .

THE STATES GET TOGETHER | REAT strides have been made in recent years toward interstate co-operation on mutual problems, and Indiana has taken a leading part in the movement. . More history in the field of regional government will be written Jan. 21 when the Council of State Governments, third general assembly opens in. Washington. Gov. McNutt, as council president, calied the assembly. Social security, taxatjon, conservation, floor control | and many other questions involving co-operative action by the states with each other and with the Federal government will be discussed. The council acts as a clearing house for Legislators’ associations, Attorneys General, Secretaries of State, conservation officials and others. Better machinery is being developed to expedite the operation of compacts and other interstate accords which already have proved successful. Indiana should continue its active work on what has been called this “problem of devising a working compromise between the tyranny of centralization on one side and the anarchy of decentralization on the other.’

NEUTRALITY

“HERETOFORE neutrality has consisted chiefly of a demand that our rights in profitable foreign trade should not be impaired by these wars. The new conception subordinates trade to peace and proposes so far as possible to keep out of wars’ way! The old conception subordinated peace to trade. The new conception may be tough on our cash fegisters. But it will be far easier on our sons.” Thus did Senator Vandenberg dramatically define one issue which is shaping up as Congress prepares to draft permanent neutrality legislation. His remarkably clear statement pointed the lessons of history—that blind insist ence on our traditional palicy of freedom of the seas would most certainly again involve us, against our wishes, in a war, and that prosperity based on war trade is a false prosperity for which the penalty is blood and suffering. Quite as clearly also did the Senator define the issue of whether Congress should|lay down our neutrality rules in advance of war, or trust [the President to make the rules after war starts. He thinks the policies embodied in the temporary neutrality law—automatically banning loans and credits and shipments of munitions to{ any and all belligerents, without discrimination—should be {continued in force. “The new rules must |be as definite and as positive as possible,” he said. “lt will not do to leave large neutrality decisions to the discretion of the President. This is ho reflection on the President} It is a reflection of the simple fact that the exercise of discretion after war has started inevitably invites an unneutral interpretation by any belligerent which is curtailed or offended by the decision. Furthermore, a President is not himself a free agent among his own people—as Mr. Wilson discovered to his sorrow-—-when once a large and profitable war trade has started to enrich large numbers of our own people.” We are glad to see the scrappy Michigan Senator take such a vigorous lead in.outlining what we hope will be the absolute minimum in the minority party’s neutrality pro- _ gram in the coming Congress. It is a program that will

: appeal to large numbers of {the majority.

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By Westbrook Pegler

Mr. Pegler Describes an Audience With Pope Pius XI That Was an Uplifting Spiritual Experience.

EW YORK, Jan. 1.—I was a member of a large party which was received by the Pope, who is now very ill, during a visit to Rome in 1930. Dave Darrah, the correspondent of the Chicago Tribune, who later was expelled from Italy by Mussolini, made the arrangements through some connection of his at the Vatican and we were advised to wear dinner Jackets, although the recéption was to be at 10 in the

morning, My companion was ® # Methodist and the son of a famous Methodist revivalist. - Ha took his Methodism very.seriously, but was a student of history and a born

. sightseer. He had visited castles

and tombs and volcanoes diligently for 10 days, and it was he who promoted the visit to the Vatican, even though he was told that if he went he would be required to kneel on both knees and kiss the Pontiff’s ring. Mr. Darrah informed us that it was [customary to Kiss the ring at these receptions and that it was best to do so genuinely or remain away altogether. Because if one did not kiss it, the Pope would stand still, instead of passing quietly on, and repeat the gesture with his hands until the individual actually did touch the ring with his lips. My Methodist friend was slightly perplexed, because his instinct resisted, but he said he would comply with all the customs of the occasion, and at 9:30 of a cold, rainy morning we were ready in the incongruous dress required by the etiquette of fhe ceremony. We spoke no Italian, and my friend tried to impress the taxi driver by yelling “Va-ti-can” in a loud voice, and then “Pope” and “vou take-a me Vaticana.” The driver finally nodded and drove rapidly through squalid streets, pulling up with a broad smile in front of a fish store

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. ” ” UR time was getting short and there was another harangue, and this time the driver shut us back in the gab and delivered us to the Vatican, ‘where a Swiss Guard; standing with either a pike or a battleax, poifjted to a flight of stone stairs. We climbed one long flight vo :a room where the men were legving their hats and overcoats. After all our rush and anxiety, we now waited 45 minutes, and were then beckoned, a selected dozen or so of us, into a smaller room. Presently there was a faint tinkling and a thin, old man backed through the door into our room wearing a formal uniform such as ambassadors wear, and holding a dress sword.

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HE Pope was only a few steps away, his eyes half closed, as he recited a prayer and proceeded slowly around the group who had knelt and bowed their heads at his appearance. Although we bowed, I was eager to see the Pope's face, so I took a chance and looked up obliquely when he was still a little way off to see a face so human that it startled me. Then I looked down and concentrated my gaze on the Pope's small, pink slippers, inclosing feet which

“in his youth had climbed dangerous Alpine peaks.

My Methodist friend conducted himself most politely ‘and his: comment and description when he got home were strangely dignified. We were, I think, lifted from ‘reality into a detached, spiritual condition for a moment or two, but this soon passed. We then found our coats and hats

exactly as we had left them and returned to the~

hotel, not saying much.

The Hoosier Forum

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

CONTENDS PEOPLE HAVE CHECK ON SUPREME COURT By Charles M. Knight, Morgantown My attention was attracted by two recent letters in the Hoosier Forum. Each writer seems to. think that the United States Supreme Court has too much liberty in giving decisions. One blames the

court for declaring laws unconstitutional after they have been in operation for a long time. I would like to suggest that if Congress and the President were more careful to .adopt laws that conform to the Constitution there would be no necessity for the court to set them aside. Because no government department can overule Supreme Court decisions the other letter to which I refer assumes that there is..no yardstick to. “measure the justice of decisions.” To correct this situation he suggests a “constitutional court” of. nine lawyers connected

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“to advise on the constitutionality of laws before they are enacted.” This writer ignores the fact that the most important part of our government does the checking on the Supreme Court decisions. If enough voters do not like the interpretation placed on. the Constitution they can change it to any extent they like. If Congress feels that the Supreme Court has erred, all they have to do is put it to a vote of the people and the Supreme Court may be overruled. Congress and

the President check on each other,

the Supreme Court checks on them and the people check on the court. If the latter power is given to any other department it must be taken from the people. Where, may I ask, is there a more desirable place for the final checking power to be lodged than with the people?

$ a 2 LAUDS N. ¥ LAW ON FLOWER SEEDS By T. Evans

Yappy are the amateur flower gardeners of New York State as they look forward to 1937. An amendment effective Jan. 1 puts flower seeds under the same law that now applies to other seeds. Those who sell them will face penalties if they advertise them untruthfully, which means that the flowers produced must look like the pictures on the seed packets or in the garden catalogs. That, now, really is something. What marvels the flower beds of New York should bear next summer, what prodigies of size, what miracles of form and color! If the law can compel seeds to grow into flowers that look like those pictures—well, Mr. Roosevelt should adopt this reform into the New Deal and make it nation-wide. And let the Supreme Court take warning. That's

General Hugh Johnson Says—:

When President Asked for and Got Power to Regulate Gold Content Of Dollar, He Got Most Power Over Wealth Ever Given One Man.

OBCAW, 8S. C., Jan. 1—It is safe to say that not one person in 100,000 knows what “stabilization of currencies in international trade” means. When Mr. Roosevelt asked for and got the power to regulate the gold content of the dollar, he procured a greater and more arbitrary power over the

wealth and property of everybody than ever was:

held by any man. When he used it to cut that gold content more than 40 per cent he, at one stroke: (1) Nearly doubled the expenses of any American who wants to go or live abroad; (2) reduced by nearly half the burden of every foreign debtor who owed anything to anybody in America, and increased to nearly double the burden of every American who owed a debt abroad; cost nearly double their former cost to American consumers, and made what we sell abroad cost for=

eign consumers about half what they formerly cost.

) 7 o os HE effect was to enable an Englishman, for example, to buy a share of stock at a 40 per cent discount under the cost to an American. The world took advantage of it to buy, largely into ownership of our industries. If anybody had introduced a bill to give any such power to the President in terms of its effects as just stated, it would have shocked he country. But the bills granting these powers passed with a a whoop, because these effects were o

indifference to the whole

The reason is simple.

"To use round but inaccurate figures, if today an Englishman has to send 20 shillings here to buy $5 worth of American

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one law it would never, never do to declare unconstitutional.

8 sn PREFERS COMMUNISM TO SYSTEM OF NAZIS By H. L. : Westbrook Pegler. in The Times, recently argued! that the Spanish government, backed by Russia, is no more entitled” to the. sympathy of a democratic people than are the rebels who are backed by Mussolini and Hitler. It is unfortunate that in all parts of the civilized, world so much propaganda for or against communism has been inflicted upon people that it is almost impossible to persuade them to believe the facts involved, much less to think clearly on the subject. It throws light on ‘the controversy for modern Christians to recall that primitive Christianity was for centuries as unpopular as in communism in America today amd that the insistence of both upon justice to the poor was and|is largely at the bottom of this unpopularity. This very popularity of modern Christianity in an unjust world should

THE CHRIST OF CHRISTMAS

BY ROBERT O. LEVELL

Oh, what a joy on Christmas day, Knowing that God has cheered the way, A star in the east shined so bright, Twinkling down with a brilliant light. Telling the world that Christ was here; A message filled with mighty cheer, For on thiseday we greet again, Mankind received a precious friend.

Our ever-faithful friend is He, rn with the power to makes men free, We feel His spirit from above Our joy and light and Sacred Love, Our hope and courgge all along The heart and soul is filled with song. Earth and heavenly joys increase, With Christ the King, the Prince of Peace.

DAILY THOUGHT

For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.—Galatians 3:10.

Law and equity are two things that God hath joined together, but which man has put asunder.—Colton.

"and prejudices,

enable educated Christians to see how far they have strayed from the

‘path of duty and why lop-sided, un-

scientific communistic minds, not trained in making fine distinctions that separate the good from the bad, make the blunder of fighting spirituality. Russian communism is concerned with building and giving justice to the world-wide brotherhood of man. It seeks to destroy all racial hatreds Stalin - would be glad te help the working masses in Italy, Germany and Japan. Hitler's interests are confined to Germany and what he defines as the Aryan race. He inspires racial

hatreds and prejudices. World peace

and unity can never] come from fascism. It carries the of its own destruction. If Hitler ahd Mussolini were not united by tie eir common hatred of communism, they would ®e at dagger points over their opposing interests. Stalin seeks to educate the masses to prepare them for industrial| and political democracy. If Mr. Pegler could see that political citizenship without industrial citizenship is the mote in the eye of our semidemocracy, he could more clearly see how to remove the motes from

the eyes of Stalin and the Spanish

Socialist government. . The rebels are more to blame than are the government socialists because, for centuries, they had [the power to establish justice and peace for all. For years America bitterly condemned Stalin for using his iron hand, but by studying the leniency amounting to weakness of Spanish socialists, we can imagine the blood that was saved by the virile strength |. and determination of Stalin. ince the idealism of Stalin stabs the dogs of war; communism is a greater ally to civilization than is the narrow, selfish Nazi system, #2 2 =» REVEALS MEN OF AFFAIRS SHOW NEW CIVIC DUTY By Bruce Catton In an Oklahoma courtroom recently, a high-salaried oil company executive sat with 11 other jurors, at $3 a day to hear a chickenstealing case. And a court official of the city points out that such attention to a civic duty is becoming less unusual. “A few years ago,” he reveals, “men of large affairs avoided jury service, bub in recent months we have had a number of prominent men on juries.” If this trend is noticeable in other cities, it would be interesting to learn just what is responsible. It is

possible. that in hectic boom days |

these men subordinated their duties as citizens to the pursuit of profits; and that the common struggle through hard times revived their sense of responsibility to fellow citizens. In any event, the trend is, as the official pointed out, “a healthy sign of revived interest in government, and an excellent example for the community. ”

' gree of tension.

It Seems to Me By Heywood Broun Nobody Asked Our Mr. Broun to

The Gridiron Dinner, But He Writes Quite a Piece About It Anyway

(CORAL GABLES, Jan. 1.—Nobody asked me to the Gridiron dinner. Perhaps that was because I went to a previous one in a dinner coat instead of tails. But at this distance one gains a little in perspective, and I hope an outsider will be pardoned if he gives some advice to members of the club. Newspaper men ought to realize that there are certain utterances which are too interesting to the

general public to be kept off the: record. Originally there may have been a reasonable notion that the President -of the United States and

some distinguished adversary would | speak with more ease-if assured. |

that their remarks were not to be reported. But there is such a thing as word-of-mouth communication. The English goverfiment has recently found that out.Certainly it is a little prepos= terous to gather together in a large hall the best-known nhéwspaper men in America, the heads of radio chains and the high officials of press associations and then say, “Of course, all this is strictly private.” If is a little as if one should whisper an anecdote to Walter Winchell with the postscript. ‘You understand I'm telling you this because I don’t want it to go any further.” The press reveals that the last Gridiron dinner was

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a great success and that the mood of Gov. Landon, °

who spoke just before the President, was happy in its spontaneity and sportsmanship. It has also been given out to the public that Mr. Chief Justice Hughes allowéd a smile to cross his face when the Supreme Court was satirized as a group of warring Santa Clauses deadlocked on.decisions about the toys to be delivered. Although.T should think it would be hard to tell just when Mr. Hughes is smiling, still, the whole affair seems to have moved along without treading on the toes of any one, or if a toé was stweaked no indication of pain was given by its ‘6wner,

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BY: things have not always been like this. The Gridiron dinner to which I went came some few months before the election. There was -a high deIt did not seem to me as if either of the speakers regarded his task as nothing more than an obligation to be jolly. Indeed, Mr. Roosevelt read his remarks from typewritten sheets. Of course, what he said has never been quoted from that day to this. But certain newspaper colume nar commentators were guilty of writing pieces which decidedly constituted leaks.

«n insufficient number of facts in hand to tell whether or not i was true that Mr, Roosevelt had gone out of his way to smear the press. The situation was de= cidedly one in which more light was needed.

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There was a deal of con- | ‘troversy growing out of the President's speech. It - was all a little puzzling to the public, which had

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to working newspaper men stationed in Washington, Informality flies out the window when visiting celebriv ties come in through the door.

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captiousness and curiosity of one who didn’t make the party. Any dinner which you miss sounds delightful when somebody comes home and tells you about it, The coffee which was not served to > you 1s slviyy sizzling hot.

The Washington Merry- Go- Round.

Balancing Budget in 1937 Is Revealed by Morry-Go-Roum) President Roosevelt's Confidential ‘Resolution for the Ney

By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen ASHINGTON, Jan.

1~The Merry-Go-Round

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wheat, or cotton or securities, or phy his dollar debt to an American, and tomorrow the President issues a ukase that $5 of American money is worth only 10 shillings—not' 20—every one of the effects just discussed happens automatically. 2 o ” GOMETHING else happens. much gold. There was a lot. of silver elsewhere! This particular policy pretty nearly doubled the price of gold and more than doubled the price of silver in American goods and dollars. We got a lot of gold and silver that we did not need, and we paid for it in good American cotton, automobiles and gadgets. Well, maybe it was necessary. At the time we did it, many other nations had preceded us in that course. Since our first bold dive, the pound, the franc and the dollar have been kept in fairly stable relation. The point is, where do we go from here? The President can again devalue or revalue the dollar, with the same or reverse effects. How can there be any solid international trade, or. borrowing, or lending, and how can anybody plan any long-term business, or invest, or adventure into the in any such

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herewith presents the confidential New Year resolutions of sbme of Washington's leading personages:

President Roosevelt: “I will balance the

budget in 1937.”

Mrs. Eléanor Roosevelt: “I will spend at least one week-end in the White House J. Edgar Hoover: “I will keep out of the limelight and stage no more moving-picture captures of gangsters.” Secretary Cordell Hull: “I will learn to swear in Spanish as well as I do in English.” Harry Hopkins: “I will send a bouquet of cactus each day to my good friend and boon companion, Harold Ickes.” Attorney General Homer Cummings: “I will pass out a better brand of cigars at my press con’erences.” : .ouett Shouse: “I will stage no more milliondollar anti-New Deal banquets.” Justice James C. McReynolds: “I will vote to . uphold all New Deal acts that come before me.” - The Merry-Go-Rounders: “We promise not 0 do this AEain- wl | nest New Year.”

YEAR'S EVE “is the big night of the year for consumption, wish Christmas Eve a

2 the nae tion’s habits are revealed by a series of charts comp Commission,

This and other interesting facts about

biled by engineers of the Federal Power The New Year's Eve chart records a tremendous jump in power consumption between the hours of 8 p. m. and 4 a. m, with the yearly high for night load between 11 p. m. and 1 a. m. After 2 o/ the load begins to drop off, until by 4 a, m. it down to normal for that early hour. New Year's Day does not show an upturn ordinary days. The load pick-up does nf

‘until around 4 p. m., indicating that mes

Year revelers do not arise until well - in the noon.

Wink running a close second to New Yours Eve, Christmas Eve's peak load is two hours shorter. The chart shows that most people retire that night by 2 a. m. However, they rise earlier the following day, the load chart showing an abrupt jump in power consumption around 6 a. m. = The charts also disclose that Detroit’s’ auto-malk.

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factoryless Washington has a. different power load | from any other city in the-country. . Unlike people in other large cities, with indus trial and commercial areas, Washington residents.

close | do not arise until after 7 a. m. load dr Ply after