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FRIDAY, JANUARY, 20, 1037

WE DECLARE WAR SOMETHING of what William James called He oral equivalent of war Is being fought along Nature's frontier from Cairo south to New Orleans. It is a war to save humans, not to kill them; to salvage property, not to destroy it. Who will say that this war of the U. S. A. against the floods is less thrilling than any martial adventure? The generals of three Army Corps areas, under coms mand of Maj. Gen. Malin Craig, ave prepared for the enemy wd 61-foot crest of yellow (lood moving southward, with the deadly inexorability of the Kaiger's army marching through Belgium, between the earthen fortresses men have built

againgt it. Will the levees hold? No one knows, but the

Army ie ready, should the levees break, to move the | menaced families to places of safety far back from the |

river bank. Imagine evacuating 500,000 people, as many humans as there are in all of Montana or Utah, from the enemy's path! The military evacuation of Madrid's eivilians would be no more stirring than this orderly mass movement of river-bottom dwellers. Into the devastated regions of the Ohio Valley, over which the enemy has passed, the faithful Red Cross has moved quickly, There in 179 counties of 11 states it is operating relief stations, refugee camps, medical services and a half-hundred hospitals,

Some day when sanguinary wars have become a thing | of history, nations will maintain standing armies of engi |

‘By Westbrook Pegler

neers, doctors, nurses and other helpful specialists for just such merciful purposes as this. Always there will be enemies

and fights to call men forth to patriotic service. fighting instinet will be “sublimated” into useful acts and

the wars will be fought to help humanity instead of de- |

stroying it.

HISTORY IN THE MAKING "TOMORROW —Saturday, Jan, 30, 1937-——may become a very important date in European history. Tomorrow ig the fourth anniversary of Adolf Iitler's

summoned his absentee Reichstag to convene and serve as a sounding board for a speech he will make.

and not by coincidence. One was the speech which Britain's Foreign Minister

“Germany has it in her power to influence a choice which will decide not only her own fate but that of Europe,” and

added that Britain was willing to help Germany, but “on | | Is $0 apparent as to be a little

| surprising.

one condition—economice collaboration and political ap-

peasement must go hand in hand.”

at Lyons five days later, in which he said that France, too, was willing to make many sacrifices in exchange for German good will, but “this possibility depends essentially on Germany.” So tomorrow the people of Europe turn toward Berlin for Hitler's answer—the answer which may decide whether Jan. 30, 1937, shall go down in history as the date when Hitler grasped the outstretched hands, or the date when he turned his back on peace.

TRANSIENT FARMERS

N a country that is striving for economic and social

security for individual human beings and society as a | whole, serious attention should be given to the problem |

| surfboat, which already had disappeared around a bend. The Coast Guards heard them and came to |

which Secretary Wallace outlines.

He tells of the life led by the 2,800,000 farm tenant | families who comprise nearly half our rural population. The |

average tenant family moves every third or fourth year. Many move every year.

What to do about it is the big question. Obviously, as

the Secretary says, the Government cannot provide possibly | | Ing water and even pasteurized milk must be boiled, | that men are going about with serub-brush whiskers

enough credit to buy a farm for every one of the 2,800,000 tenants.

seems to be essential.

getting the job done on a satisfactory scale.

First is the need of checking the speculative rise and |

fall in the prices of farm products and farm lands, which so rapidly and for so long has been working to dispossess

farmers of their land, forcing them to become tenants, and |

in turn dispossess them of their livestock and equipment, forcing them to become croppers and laborers, Second is the need of changes in our tenancy system to give greater security of tenure, to enable the tenants to sink their human roots into the soil, that they may have more incentive to care for the farms they occupy and may better strive to lift themselves into the owner class, 5

Third is the need of a well-developed credit and re- |

habilitation policy, to the end that tenants may be helped to |

improve their farming practices and business-management | SOR Sh a lie Sesto TINY ine dite,

abilities and thereby become qualified to make good use of Government financial aid. :

24,000 LIVES es

TATES having standard driver's license laws have made steady reductions in automobile accident deaths.

If the national trend had kept pace with this life |

saving, 24,000 deaths and nearly a million injuries would

have been avoided, the National Safety Council reports, |

Indiana, having no such standard law, was one of the leaders in accident increase.

More than a third of the motorists who seek driver's licenses in Pennsylvania are found unfit to drive on their first test. Then they begin seriously to learn to drive— and most of them pass. A standard license law would mean etter drivers in Indiana. ~

$3 a year; |

But the |

! | business district is out of water,

den made before the House of Commons, in which he said | tonal | able and share the calm unconcern | which

V . " . | water and with cruisers and surf I'he other was the speech of France's Premier Blum, | | in the front yard of the McCurdy | Hotel, normally about 45 feet above the river, the

’ : : | in the faces of the pe And even if the Government had that much credit and | v Jleople:

did that, what long-range good would be accomplished ? | A many-pronged program and a step-by-step procedure | Ireland has been working for 60 | years converting tenants into landowners, and at last is |

| Lewis, whom she kept stewing for nine hours in an

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at Stoicism of Evansville Citizens Over Flood; Attitude Minimizes Disaster. VANSVILLE, Ind., Jan. 20.1 am sorry to be casual about the great calamity which is sweeping the Ohio River but the

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| demeanor of this town is such that heroics or drama would arouse the contempt of the

: a | locals. The flood is almost at the crest now rise to power, and in celebration thereof Der Fuehrer has |

narrow strip through the center of the The Ohio is ahmost 35 miles wide at this point and backwaters from the

and only a

Sout + . | Indiana hills are inching up from Within the last few days two things have happened-— | | Sewers are bubbling up through

the rear to join the main flood.

the dirty brown sea in some of the business streets and young Nae Guardsmen stroll their posts. They are generally agrees is the spirit of the community. Perhaps unconcern is not the exact word but lack of alarm

With thousands of homes under

boats of the Coast Guard anchored Me. Pegler

principal topic of conversation at relief headquarters

A lasting European peace was possible, he said, | last night was the unhappy adventure of two Red

Cross officials during the afternoon. Paul Schmidt, Red Cross chairman, and Philip Drachman, in charge of disaster relief, went out in a surfboat to take a look at the river. 'There were several photographers with them. After a time, Mr. Schmidt and Mr. Drachman hailed a passing skiff With an outboard motor and asked the water man to put them ashore so they could attend a meeting. They were late and Mr. Schmidt asked the skipper to give the engine a little more gas.

¥ 4 » T this point they hit an eddy in the river and the skiff disintegrated, dropping them into the flood. Mr. Schmidt caught the gutter of a submerged house; Mr. Drachman grabbed a tree and the water man clutched a floating object and all yelled for the

the rescue but with the photographers sighting their cameras at Mr, Schmidt and yelling “Give us the profile. The full face is lousy.” Mr. Schmidt was back at work in the evening. Mr, Drachman, exhausted from an almost sleepless week and chilled by immersion, was in the hospital but was aid to be doing all right. It is commonplace of course. to say that all drink

for lack of shaving water, that great fatigue shows

total population of about 120,000 remain here in defiance of the most gruesome possibilities. ” ” ” HERE is no heat in the McCurdy Hotel and neither heat nor elevator service in the Vendome The elevator chains of the MeCurdy can be heard churning the water in the pit and there are sandbags at the door and skiffs afloat in the dark street. Evansville is overstocked with food and. like the old-fashe ioned bartender, would rather have the money.

Somewhere in town a couple of men are standing |

watch in a well 50 feet below the water level, running a pump connected with the power system and a crew of 50 in the main power plant have bricked up the doors and windows, closing out the water, but closing themselves in.

But about 85,000 of the

EXPRESSES OPINION ON SIT-DOWN STRIKE

By Paul Masters, Anderson

Are the sit<down strikers justi« fied? According to some labor agitators, this form of strike has been legalized by legislation jammed through Congress at the command {of John L. Lewis. According to Mr. Lewis, his sole interest in the past political campaign was to place the President under obligation to hime self so that he, John L. Lewis, might become the supreme dicator of labor. Will bow to the

Mr, Roosevelt

how we stood politically we must all admit that the President is far too big a man to allow any radical to tell him what he must do. Mr.

| Roosevelt knows that the votes of

the workers put him in office and

| that the majority of workers are not | behind the General Motors strike,

He knows that the workers were

| receiving better wages than before

he first took oath of office and that their wages will today give them more of the finer things of life than at any time in the history of organized labor, He also knows that working conditions in General Motors plants are above reproach, Of course, the employees have to work, They are expected, and right fully so. to make every minute count. The time will never come when employers will pay high wages to workers who sit around and dis cuss the latest motion pictures, If the workers cannot produce, the companies cannot pay their wages. The workers should realize that this present strike is not justified and is hurting no one but themselves. General Motors is doing what it can to protect its workers, their jobs, families and even their lives. The heads of this corporation realize that they are dealing with one of the worst of agitators , . . , ” on ” VETERAN ATTACKS FEDERAL

PENSION POLICY By H. E. Thixton The writer, an infantry veteran of five major engagements includ(ing the historic Chateau Thierry (and Marne salient, has been repeat | edly declared ineligible for pension. |My aggregate disabilities total 75 per cent and are of a nature that could not be construed as an asset [in the modern game of life. | Civil War soldiers who were never {called for duty and their widows | were granted liberal pensions, Span- | Ish War veterans who never engaged [in battle are at the age of 60 auto(matically entitled to the same gene |erosity. Many World War veterans {who visited no foreign shores and | suffered only the monotony of camp (life, are with a service connection | and thus are compensated. The combat veteran endured all | of the hardships and privations that are inherent in war. His was a weird and ghastly duty, laboring incessantly against the ever-present | specter of death. Only by the aid

The Hoosier Forum

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

(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.)

of divine guidance could he have hoped to escape injury. It seems most incredible that the indelible records of the Government will astertain the shameful fact that the welfare of the veterans of such distinction has been subverted in the

{ interest of the less deserving. wishes of such a man? No matter

* Ww = READER SEEKS ANSWERS TO STRIKE QUESTIONS By W. L. Ballard, Syracuse

What is the difference between Mr. Sloan of General Motors and King John of England? John told his people: “I will rule our kingdom.” Mr. Sloan said to his employees, “We officials will run the company.” Does mere size of enterprise make a difference? Or are they just alike, except that John's was governmen=tal absolutism and Sloan's is economic absolutism? If a republic is democratic in government, what would constitute democracy in economics, and do we want it? Is truth in economics the same as it is in government? Speaking of larger concepts, why do people say another great war would destroy civilization? Is that practical? What is a civilization? Is it a single, definite thing that one generation has more or less of than another generation-—like gold, iron or food? May it not be true that different degrees of progress create different things; different civilization? , .. ” » » TAKES STAND AGAINST TRANSPORT REPEAL By Ralph B. Ross, Muncie

What next? The effervescent labor leader from the well-known “melting pot” in Lake County wants to repeal the law which makes it a

BELIEVE ME, BELIEVE ME NOT

By JOSEPHINE D, MOTLEY Yes, I conformed with all the rules: Obedience and pride; I told you that I loved you not, And now I know I lied.

This little smile I try to wear Is really but a mask, Come back, my love, believe me not. Hear, that is all I ask.

DAILY THOUGHT

And she spake out with a loud voice, and said, “Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb."—Luke 1:42.

Unhappy is the man for whom his own mother has not made all other mothers venerable ~Richter,

felony to stop trucks transporting dairy products, We might as well repeal laws against hijacking and robbery, then shut up government and let a small body of union organizers run the

State and administer their own laws. | Why, I ask, should any man be |

allowed to stop any truck, train or vehicle carrying anything, unless he is a representative of the law of the State and authorized to act? What if companies would send their men out to stop the workers’ automobiles on a public highway and search them for labor literature or anything favoring unions? Wouldn't this labor leader kick? Certainly he would, and yell loudly about property rights. un ” n REGRETS OLD-AGE PENSION CUTS By a Reader, Newcastle

Many old-age pensioners are disappointed and discouraged in some counties where Welfare Boards did not co-operate with Federal and State Welfare Boards, but instead cut down old-age allowances to as much as half of $30 a month, This is unfortunate for needy ones who live in cut-rate counties. The Federal and State Governments pay most of the money and should have the last say about the amount of pension. The candidates who spoke out for adequate old-age pensions were elected and it is hoped that they will make it mandatory for old-age pensioners to be paid adequate sums. on ”n on LINCOLN'S STATEMENT ON LABOR CITED By Reader How many Americuns have considered what Abraham Lincoln would think of the capital vs. labor struggle of today? Very few have, I imagine. I give you a quotation from one of Lincoln's speeches to Congress in December, 1861. He said: “Labor is prior to and independent of capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.” Lincoln's attitude can be clearly gained from the above statement. During the last Presidential race the many persons who made statements that they were firm believers in Lincoln evidently had never read the above statement. LJ ” ” ANTIKIDNAPING GROUP AMONG BANKS SOUGHT By W. W. It may be most effective to form an antikidnaping organization which would prevent dealing with kidnapers. It would have members within all banks. I make this suggestion because I believe there will be kidnapers as long as it is possible to deal with them and it seems improbable that a law will be passed making it

illegal to deal with kidnapers.

It Seems to Me

‘By Heywood Broun

Attacks Critical Reviewing the Author Rather Than Work He Has Produced. EW YORK, Jan. 29.—No man has a right to neglect a godchild. This is particu larly true if the godchild came into being because of some suggestion on the part of the foster parent. I believe the usual custom

is to send a silver mug, but in this case the child seems more in need of a sawed-off shotgun with which to tickle the feathers of a passing critic, I cannot profess to be neutral when the child

is publicly spanked even though the chastisement is administered by an old friend. I am put in a pretty pickle by a controversy which now rages between Morris Ernst and John Corbin, since both are acquaintances of very long standing, Indeed, I might almost say that I studied the art of crit icism at John Corbin's knee in the days when the century turned, From him I learned that dise passionate and nonpartisan attie tude which should be the approach of every man who undertakes a reSiow. on the other hand, “The imate Power,” by Morri § pean the dedication, “To Heywood Boi, is Bens I wish the making of vital books was alw easy. I mean on my part. On numerous a casions I have waved a wand and no palace or princess forthwith appeared. Nor have I ever dise Played the power of turning mice into men or vice versa, But once, a year or S50 ago, I said to Ernst, I think somebody ought to write a book for laymen about the Constitution of the United States. It's silly tha} the discussion should be left entirely to lawyers » nd just the other day the book was put in my lands by the author, who said, “Here's your baby,”

n » ” B® having admitted a paternity once removed, it oy Ww ond be unbecoming for me to praise this foster a a would war against the delicate impar« Yap ch is becoming to a critic. Still, it is diffi- : or me to remain wholly silent when a colleague picks up handfuls of sticks and stones and hurls them at the baby. Mr. Corbin of the New York Times see dru a Cn type of reviewing which raises se » ns having i Testis 3 Saving nothing on earth to do with In this style of criticism the critic tosses t out the window as a preliminary and 5 to Yok review the author. John Corbin began his piece The Ultimate Power’ achieves importance by virtue of the fact that Mr. Ernst is a brilliant if somewhat, slapdash and haphazard writer and a crusading lawyer who has been engaged by the Administration to defend the Wagner Labor Bill before the Supreme

Court.” » ”n ” AS a matter of fact, Morris Ernst has not been engaged by the Administration to defend the Wagner act, but that is just a detail in the life of a somewhat slapdash critic, I am not wholly out of sympathy with the theory that men think and write out of their social and economic background. It would be pertinent to have some idea of an author's financial interests if he undertook to write a book against the Child Labor Amendment, let us say. But if the holdings of each writer are to be put in a box at the beginning of each review our present crop of critics may have to resign and give way to expert accountants. I feel that it would be cruel to make such short shifts of veterans like Mr. Corbin and myself, since we are too old at the game to learn accounting, not alone experting.

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Mr. Broun

Genera | Hugh Johnson Says —

Blunders by G. M. Officials, John Lewis and Madam Perkins Have Put Strike Situation in Such a Mess That Final Results May Be Dire.

EW YORK, Jan. 20.—The General Motors shindy has generated into such a three-cornered blunder

Management started with statements that it would deal with representatives of any of its employees, but with none for all and only plant by plant—never as 4 company—which was in contempt of Federal law. It sought legal process to eject its employees by force and appealed to a financially interested judge. Suddenly it reversed all these positions and shifted So suddenly into sense as to draw a gasp of admiration from this column. Then its heart went bad again. It launched an expensive propaganda raid, even using its advertising radio amusement hour to do some Liberty League quaking about the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.

Its chief sachems did attend a pow-wow in the |

long house of Princess Perkins, but,

when she suggested passing the peace=pipe :

to Big Chief John

anteroom, they all became heap Ib walked out on her—and so did hi Indians ang - » »

R. LEWIS’ blunders began with calling the

at this time, it, disre

strike I think headlong lieutenants did ding him, and then called him in to bail . A second strategic error was strike

Motors’ competitors also.

Finally Mr, Lewis’ explosive demand on the President for his political so of flesh might have ruined his public support if the company had not immediately rescued him from the

liberals are

By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen ASHINGTON, Jan, 29.-—Laborites and Senate

The Washington Merry-Go-Round

Report That Donald Richberg Is First in Line for Appointment To Supreme Court Agitates Labor Leaders and ‘Senate Liberals.

agitated over an authoritative re-

blunder by making the bigger blun | Administration, = Ser oF flovsing: the But the biggest blundering is yet to tell and it in- | duced several of the others just described. In the beginning, Assistant Secretary of Labor Edward Mc~ Grady had been quietly conferring with both sides. putting nobody under the attitude-forcing spotlight of publicity, preventing or patching up the effects of such errors as are here described, and generally soft- | ening the whole situation up for a solution, | ” nn

UDDENLY Madam Secretary, intensely nettled by the public approval which has attended her assistant’s many triumphs, slipped in and literally locked him out. Precisely then all the real trouble began.

| Mr. McGrady is unquestionably the best labor media-

tor we Juve. Nata BRsruLTy is assuredly the worst. Having engineered the two-sided blowup, writing epistolary ultimatums. wap, she begen The net result of this calendar of inepti naving stuffed a dangerous situation ay ade 18 hat,

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port that Donald R. Richberg. one-time NRA boss and “Assistant President,” has the inside track for appointment to the first vacancy that occurs on the Supreme Court. Intimations that Mr. Richberg’s name heads the Presidert's list of Supreme Court possibilities have been current for some time, But because of his pronounced unpopularity with Senate liberals and labor, the reports at first were not taken seriously. With these two powerful groups aligned against him, it was considered unlikely that the President would risk a vitriolic Senate debate by naming him, ” » » IX the last week, however, confirmation of the feport has come from an inner White House source whose reliability is beyond question. Labor hostility toward Mr. Richberg goes back to his scuttling of Section TA, the famous collective barning provision of the NRA. For this labor jor assailed

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given President Roosevelt that if he names Mr. Richberg to a vacancy on the Court, Senate confirmation will be fought tooth and nail,

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Or" the nine members of the Supreme Court, Jus tice James Clark McReynolds is chiefly noted for his churlish disposition, He refuses to lunch with his colleagues, and when Justice Cardozo was sworn into office, Justice McReynolds ostentatiously read a newspaper. On another occasion, Justice Stone was so offended at a remark made by Justice McReynolds that he left the room. Justice McReynolds also entertains no great love for Chief Justice Hughes, and while playing golf the other day, a companion remarked to him that it was odd there had been no new picture of the Supreme Court for several years. To this the justice smiled and replied: “Shortly after we moved into the new building, the Chief Justice thought we ought to have a group pice ture made of the entire Court seated in the new quare ters, You know, he loves to see his picture in the

paper. __ “However, I didn’t say anything, and he

went

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