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Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way

FUESDAY, JUNE 1, 1937

way VICTORY E have been unable to count the broken records at the Speedway yesterday, there were so many—broken eed records, broken competition records, broken heat rds, or attendance records, broken good time 3 ny .

Many will receive well-earned congratulations tonight |

at the Speedway’s 25th anniversary drivers’ dinner, including the home town victor, Wilbur Shaw, often a favorite but never before a winner. But the greatest achievement of all was this: Despite the increased hazards there was no death.

OUR SIDE ' A DISPATCH from the Basque front the other day told of an exchange of prisoners, the Loyalists giving up three Germans and a Swiss and in.return the Rebels surrendering two Russians, a Frenchman and a Spaniard. The war in Spain never has been a civil conflict. From the day Gen. Franco's forces took the field it has been a general European scramble on Spanish soil and in Spanish waters. Munitions and men have been recruited from all Europe. It has been a conflict of imperial ambitions and of political creeds. Rich mineral deposits in Spain and Spanish Morocco have been a part of the stake. Supremacy in the Mediterranean has been another part. The issue has not been what Spaniards shall rule Spain, but what European powers shall control the Spaniards who rule Spain. And the big peace efforts of Europe's diplomats have been directed at keeping this! general European war _ confined to Spanish soil and waters. » : Your guess is as good as anyone’s as to whether the ‘bombing of the German battleship Deutschland by Loyalist ‘planes and the retaliatory bombardment of the Loyalist ‘port Almeria by the Germans wil lead to another general ‘war. Suffice it to say that the sparks fr om pain are white hot, and that the powder spread over Europe is abundant and dry. The task. of Europe’s diplomats is made aver ‘more difficult by the abrupt withdrawal of Germany and Italy from the European Nonintervention Committee, which had ufidertaken to confine hositilities to the Spanish area. All eyes now are turned to London. What will Britain do? She is still smarting from the setback received when Mussolini called her bluff in the Ethiopian incident and is only getting started in her huge rearmament program. For ‘months Britain has been trying to drive a dge between Hitler and Mussolini. Now overnight the German taian alliance is made more solid than ever." | With France and Russia, Britain has the common purpose of maintaining the territorial status quo in Europe and preventing the spread of fascism. But of these, Britain's ‘stake is greatest of all. The lifeline of her empire is in danger through the length of the Mediterranean, from Gibraltar to Suez. Can Britain postpone a’showdown until she shall be stronger? Or is the rush of events overtaking her? ; ~ What concerns us most in this crisis is not Whither Europe, but whither America. Three days ago the United States Government sent routine notices to 12 defaulting European nations that '$1,520,159,863 in current and unpaid installments will be due on June 15. That is one hangover from the last world war. Two days ago we were reminded of another. In cemeteries throughout our land, veterans’ organizations and citizens gathered for memorial services honoring the dead, including the boys-who came back from “over there” in coffins. And on the same day Americans in France, headed by Gen. Pershing and Ambassador Bullitt, went to A. E. F. cemeteries to attend ceremonies honoring the 30,000 Amerboys who did not ¢ome back. We agree with Senator Borah, who says: “From: all reports, it appears an act of war has been committed. We should apply our neutrality law to all participants. It is our duty to remain completely aloof, We should keep! entirely out of all controversies.’ If war is to spread over Europe, we cannot stop it. And the only side for the United States to be on is this side ‘of the Atlantic.

A TABOO VANISHES P until about a year ago it was a rare thing for any public official to mention or for any newspaper to publish information about venereal diseases. Then U. 8. Surgeon General Parran, before a national convention of state health officers in Washington, started a crusade against syphilis. Newspapers, magazines, physicians, health officers and public-spirited leaders generally ie d in. In a few months the public learned that an estied 12,000,008 American men, women and children— es 1 out of 11 of our population—are afflicted by this disease; that an estimated 3,000,000 new cases a year should, be given treatment, But that only about toy 00C cafes are receiving treatment; that although syphilis. is one absolutely controllable disease, its spread continues because of public ignorance and lack of facilities for free treatment of millions of sufferers who lack the money to buy the cure; that syphjlis ranks with tuberculosis and cancer as a major cause of death, causes untold misery, denies many married couples the privilege of parenthood, causes helpless children to be born blind or deaf and cripples and finally drives insane many of its victinis.

Recently the American Institute of Public Opting

undertook to find oyt what the people wanted to do about it. Of those polled, {nine out of 10 voted in favor of compulsory venereal disease tests for couples applying for mar-

riage certificates, nine out of 10 voted for free public clinies |

and eight out of 10 voted approval of’a proposed $25,000,000 - Last week we had a demonstration of what the younger “generation thinks of this problem when 600 students of the ‘Oklahoma A. and M. College petitioned the college council of deans.to establish the Wasserman test for syphilis as a -. part of the students’ regular physical examination. “Give Bigat 2 and the people wilf find their own way”

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TUESDAY, TUNE 1 1937

18 Alarm i in the Economic ii Talburt

The Liberal View

By Dr. Harry Elmer Barnes Trained Scientists and Engineers Would Be Invaluable in Service Of Our Vast, Complex Government

EW YORK, June 1.—We are prone to get -absorbed in the immediate details of the public picture. It isa good thing to back off now and then and get a more general view of the social and political setup. This is particularly true of the problems of democratic government in our complicated urban and industrial’ world civilization. Is ‘the political method of majority rule capable of dealing with the complicated issues of our. generaoften so technical as to baffle experts? Democracy had its origin in the New England town meeting a couple of centuries back, when problems were local and relatively simple. ~ Majority rule worked fairly well in those days. Now we have vast states with highly complex problems such as international finance, state ownership, social security, central banking and the like. These public issues are so difficult of solution that to ask the people to vote on them intelligently is about like asking them to decide the validity of Dr. Einstein's theory of relativity. Politicians are baffled by these problems, and the unsatisfactory. results of political control are mainly due. to the daze in which politicians find, themselves when [confronted by the problems of our age. Yet many of these problems which are so staggering to the untutored politicians would be easy and simple of solution to the trained scientist and engineer. | If our economic problems were turned over to engineers as a mafter’ of public service they could introduce the economy of abundance within a year.

Dr. Barnes

8 = \HE issues involved are well ‘summed up by the distinguished physicist, Prof. Arthur H. Compton, in an article, “Can Science Point the Way?” in the Forum. Prof. Compton holds that the only way out of our present morass is for the universities to devote themselves'courageously to the quest for information which will increase the ‘welfare of man here on earth. Universities must furnish us with saving information. “Would it be too much to suggest that each department of our Government should have associated with it a permanent nonpolitical group of investigators, who, acting in an advisory capacity, would keep the department administrators informed regarding possible and desirable courses of action? a a =a : HE effectivenesseof organized research in opening the world té our understanding, in guiding the de-

of such a measure. “The power of the scientific method is established. The procedure for its effective application is well understood. Utopia, led by rulers guided by reliable knowledge. May we not find in a more adequate extension of scientific - Sur of human problems the way to approach that goal?” That sounds promising until we recall that over 50 years ago Lester F, Ward made exactly the same proposal. If we let another half century go by without doing something about it there may be neither government nor research.

W 7 ASHINGTON, June 1.—Having stood closely by and carefully observed, this column gets utmost pain out of the almost daily public romping by somebody, somewhere, on the plump but stately structure of James Aloysius Farley. In “The Prince and the Pauper,” the little Prince Edward was served by a whipping boy. The idea was that since rio lowly tutor could raise his hand to chastise royalty, and because in that ancient pedagogy somebody had to be spanked for every lesson badly learned, the Prince had attached to his person a poor lad who took the lash whenever his liege lord faltered. There is a lot of similarity in Jim’s position, standing between his chief anfl 4. petulant public. As . never before in our-history, the President is boss of this Government, of his Cabinet, and his party.

More than any President, he has an all-seeing eye: i - for everything that moves, an® what he doesn't see,

he senses. memory. dependent power and he is working all . the time.

In other words, he is responsible for nearly all that -happens. .

; He has also a’ microscopic and retentive

8 8 o i Jo is a loyal soldier and a faithful carrier-out of | orders. His only disqualification for his secondman Jor 3 that he Is Joo frank and guileless. Despite a at is said, that isn’t written sarc It is the literal truth. beh 10 Sarcasm} No matter gvho gave the orn brilliant Prince who. gets swatt

‘| agency is shifting to the Govern-

| cies, operating on ‘limited (budgets, ‘usually make every effort to secure | trained personnel. onable to insist, then, as citizens of

+ the citizens of Indiana.

velopment of our great industries and in shaping the | ‘attack on disease can leave no doubt about the value

as seen by Plato, was a world -

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oosier Forum

isagree with what you say, but will

defend to [lie death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

CLAIMS TRAINED WELFARE WORKERS NEEDED By Mrs. S. N. Campbell

The idea of trained personnel has run like a thread of color through the fabric of many of the talks that were given last week by speakers on the program of the National Conference of Social Work. - i Miss Edith Abbott, as The Times reported, in her opening 'address, emphasized the need for ! trained personnel “selected on a basis of merit, in the administration of social work. William Hodson, Commissioner of Public Welfare in New York, and many others speaking at some of the 300 or more. meetings of the conference, expressed the same idea:

The work of the private welfare

ment as the Social Security program develops. The private agen-

Is it not reas-

Indiana, that the practice of securing” the best qualified and trained workers also shift to all the Government agencies engaged in welfare work? ” ”n ”

HOLDS MERIT SYSTEM NOT UNDERSTOOD By Vivian S. Smith

In Governor Townsend's speech to the. National Conference of Social Work last week, his use of the phrase, “unrecallable society of office holders,” indicates that he shares with many others a lack of understanding of model merit systems which always provide. for removal of appointed employees when they fail to reach or maintain a record of efficiency or when for other sufficient reasons their work is ne longer of value to the state. Party responsibility is a muchused but little comprehended term and the public has a right to cemand a more tangible and- standardized method for control of appointive employment in state Serveice. Delegates to the Dethorratic State Convention in 1936 adopted a platform containing a merits system plan. The candidates who ran on this platform and were subsequently elected certainly made a promise to |

» ” ” STRONG PRESIDENT HELD BENEFIT TO NATION By Bull Mooser : An editorial in a Republican newspaper asks the question: “If it is high-handed proceeding for the Supreme Court to defeat the will>of the people's elected Representatives in Congress, why is it not the same for the President (through his veto) to. take such action?” We Americans should not be led to forget that the President is an

General Hugh Johnson Says— Jim Farley in Many Respects Bears Similarity to Whipping Boy In ‘The Prince and the Pauper'—He Takes the Heat for Roosevelt.

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

elected representative. In| fact, he is the one elected representative whom Americans regard scrupulously before they cast their vote for him. He -symbolizes the party platform. He is the one whom Americans hold responsible to see that the promises of the party platform are carried out. Who else could Americans hold responsible to see that the promises of the party. platform are carried out?. Certainly not the Supreme Court. That is why our forefathers, in the Constitution, gave the check power of legislative veto to the President. They voted down four times in their convention the suggestion that this check power of legislation be given to the Supreme Court.

Furthermore, a survey of American history shows that Administrations most nearly fulfilled their ‘! platform promises to the people when there was a strong President who did not hesitate to use his constitutional power. Call it “using the whip,” dictatorship or what you wish, it has proved itself to be the most powerful factor in American politics toward holding the Government responsible to the will of the people. ” ” 2 ILLITERACY PROJECT WORTH COST, CLAIM By Bruce Catton The Government work relief program has resulted in the completion of a good deal of work whose value—aside from the fact that it enabled jobless men to earn a living—is extremely doubtful. 3 There is one field, however, in which the value of the program is entirely beyond doubt. That is in the field of adult eclucation. During the last four years, according to announcement by Administrator Harry L. Hopkins, the

BRIGHT TOMORROW

By KEN HUGHES You gave me this: ‘Intensity of life—a Kiss Before you wen€f. . . . And now, I am alone—content To know your image stays | Within my brain like days— Bright intervals beneath cool skies.

DAILY THOUGHT

And the Lord said unto ‘him, Peace be unto thee; fear not: thou shalt not die.—Judges 6:23.

IS death to me, to be at en-

\is the greatest possible

o thinks about.

mity; I hate it, and desire all good men’s love. —Shakespeare.

WPA and FERA programs have taught more than 700,000 American adults to read and write, thus reducing our shockingly high illiteracy figure by at least one-sixth. This work cosf.some $20,000.000, and no one can deny that it is worth every cent it cost. Illiteracy Blight on demacracy. “That 700,000 men and women have been set free frora it is something of which Mr, Hopkins and his coworkers can be lextremely proud. a \, 8 ” n LAUDS ROOSEVELT FOR HIS ACCOMPLISIMENTS By William Lemon Government of the betDR for the people and by the people almost perished from the. land up until March 4 1933. Since then, it is being cetiimet in a piecemeal fashion—the only peaceful way under our present laws. If a sit-down strike had occurred previous to this, the strikers would

have been routed out with tear gas,

bayonets and maybe machine guns, as the bonus army was in Washington. This is a fact, for Powers Hapgood and other C. I. O. organizers now are serving sentences in a Maine jail, one of the last strongholds of the capitalistic-controlled Republican Party. Labor had been exploited so long that it was afraid to protest or offer any resistance, but when faced with starvation it awakened to the fact that it must stand on its own feet. For the fitst time in history it voted as its conscience dictated, for the “full dinner pail” had become a relic of the past. The right to organize had been refused. It was a case of take“it or leave it. But now President Roosevelt has thrown the case into reverse and has accomplished what was once thought to be impossible. = ” ” - PROPOSES UNION FOR LOCAL CUSTODIANS

By Another Custodian

To Mr. Disgusted Custodian: Yes, I agree with you—a janitor’s

salary is the last thing an employer He raises rent: and has more business than he has had ! for 10 years, making more work and longer hours for custodians, | but do they get a “thank you” for | their extra work and time?

I work nine hours one day and |

16 the next, averaging 365 hours per month. get a place to live that could not be rented and a measly $15 a week. Well, what we need is to get together and form a union. There are enough in the city.” All other cities have them, why not us? Then we can work and ‘live like human beings.

It Seems to Me By Heywood Broun

' What About Another Peace Ship To Bring Light to Dark Places Around Henry Ford's Ft. Dearborn?

EW YORK, June 1. — Whatever became of & man named Ford who hired a ship and went to Europe in order to get the boys out of the trenches by Christmas? Is there anyone today who would have the temerity

to charter a peace ship and risk a run up the River Rouge past the grim battlements of Ft. Dear-

born? '

Pilgrims of industrial peace and progress on such a perilous mission might well sing that fine old hymn, “One More River to Cross,” and some might even . emulate old Joshua, who commanded the children to shout and blow upon trumpets: of -rams=- ' horn, for it is recorded that the walls came tumbling down that morning. I say the journey might well . be periloug, for I have been reading an account of the attack and the explanation given by the Dearborn Chief of Police. “First, FFrankensteen was held by each arm while other men kicked him in the stomach and groin,” said the Rev. Raymond Prior Sanford, “after which an increasing number of men fell upon him and finally knocked him down on his back. While he was lying on his back sluggers took him by either foot and spread his legs apart while others kicked him in the groin. Others hit him on the head and shoulders. One put his heel in Frankensteen's abdomen and put his full weight on it.” i ” 8 08 UT when 1aquiry was made of Carl A. Brooks as to, why the police had played a passive role and failed to interfere with the attack upon the union men, the chief replied, “The fighting was on private property. All of these people were liable to arrest for trespassing, but no-one has seen fit to make a complaint against them. Our men were out to prevent trouble, and they did.” In other words, the police chief seems to think that it was generous of the Ford employees merely to maul and maim the men and women and make no complaint against them. According to his philosophy, there's never a law of God or man which Juns north of the company line.

.The Dearborn Chief of Police was out to prevent trouble, and it seemed to be no trouble at all for a band of private police to kick a man who lay on the ground. And, after all, the victim had committed the unforgivable sin—the sin against Henry Ford,

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ND so I think that men and women of good heart and spirit should sign up with a peace ship and attempt to bring the light to dark places. In the past American missionaries have gone to other savage tribes and succeeding in winning them away from the worship of tribal deities demanding blood sacrifices. Who'll be a witness for my Lord? It took many years to make America and push its boundaries forward into the wilderness. And there were always forces which tried to check the stream and stem the tide. There are such forces today. We must take on again the eourage which is our heritage and break down any imperial islands which are set up within the limits of our republic. And we mus insist that no man or men can stay or deny hum rights by setting up a marker inscribed, “Company Line.” , The peace ship’s on the tide.

Mr. Broun

The Washington Merry-Go-Round

If Robinson Gets Court Post,

It will Be Because He Combines a

Capacity for Hard Work With Fair Amount of Ability and Great Loyalty.

e permits precious little delegation of in- |

alike if it turns out sour. Both through respect and a little through fear, few commentators like to draw a bead directly on the Boss. But. faithful Jim is always: in there leading with his chin and taking

| it double—first, because he is the official whipping

boy and, second, because he is always guilelessly sticking his neck out like the African dodger at the county fair.

Compared with some of his Republican prede-*

cessors in the dual role of party second-man and Postmaster General, Jim's actual record is a shining scroll. The only difference is that he tells the world, what he is about to do, what he is doing ang when it is finished, what he has done. 8 = ” OES anybody suppose that if Presidents Harding, Coolidge or Hoover; or, yes, even Lincoln or Wilson or Cleveland had any such fight on their hands as Mr. Roosevelt's court battle, they would not have had their close associates playing all the political favors or disfavors they had at their command to secure Senate votes? Does anybody assume that will Hays just sat in his office and counted the postage stamps, or that

gents like Doc Work, Claudius Huston or Postmaster || ence to the Court, but he will certainly know ail the

General Brown didn’ t use any political pressure available for any political purpose necessary? Of course they did, of they wouldn’t have kept their jobs. This isn’t to imply that the flower of Jim's politi-

cal genius, as cohpared with his predecessors’, is any

sweet-scented geranium, It is only to suggest that

‘office during 37 years out of the 65 years which have

two years as a state legislator and a few weeks as

By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen

ASHINGTON, June 1.—Senator Joe T. Robinson’s probable elevation to the Supreme Court should be conclusive proof that a plodding disposition, a fair amount of ability and complete loyalty will take a man a long way.

Joe has used that formula to keep himself in

elapsed since he saw the light of day in Lonoke, Ark. To date he has used it to serve 10 years in the House of Representatives, 25 years in the Senate.

Governor. In addition to all this, Joe has been Democratic Floor Leader 14 years—longer than anyone else in the history of the Senate; three times permanent chairman of the Democratic National Committee; an American ' delegate to the |London Naval Conference; three times permanent chairman of Democratic national conventions. and in 1928 was vice presidential candidate on Al Smith's ill-fated ticket. No wonder that one of his Senatorial colleagues slyly remarked: “Joe won't bring much’legal erudition or experi-

political answers.”

OE ROBINSON'S Iife- pr is that of the farm ‘boy who climbs ine ladder to fame and fortune.

He was the you of 10 children, the son of an

The Robinson family was not poor, but Joe worked his way through college by part-time teaching. While still in knee breeches he gained local fame as a boy orator, and at 15 won a debating contest, By the time he put on his first long pants, Joe was knee deep in politics.

Joe never went to law school. He read Blacke

‘stone in the law office of a local judge who was a

friend of the family. : 8 # 8 GHEOBTLY thereafter Joe skyrockefed into legal fame when seven Negroes, accused of murder, Finally they apHe

had difficulty getting a lawyer. pealed to young Robinson, offering him $100.

‘took the case and so successfully harangued tHe jury that, much to the astonishment of everyone in

town—including the jury—the seven were acquitted. Next year, being only 22, he was elected to the Legislature, but got fed up after one term, and re= turned to his jury pleading.

With his reputation as a stump sbidler. igevitable that Joe should. run for Congress. 1902 he did so at the age of 29, and won. Joe served 10 years in the House. He was no whirlwind, but, as now, dependable, hard-working and destined for bigger things. In 1912 he started after them. He ran for Governor, won easily, and a few weeks

it was In

later saw a chance to go to the Senate. Senator Jeff ‘Davis, of. Ar

, died suddenly. Joe resigned from