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TUESDAY, JULY 6, 1937

AMELIA EARHART OWLAND ISLAND is only a pinpoint on the map of the Pacific. Looking at that map, we get an almost overpowering sense of the difficulties confronting those who are searching for Amelia Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, It is possible that their waterlogged plane is still afloat, or even that they have landed on some unknown reef. But calculations have differed widely as to the point of origin of the radio signals which Miss Earhart is believed to have been sending—as to its distance and direction from How‘land Island. And flashes seen in the sky, at first believed by hopeful searchers to have been rockets fired from the lost plane, are now thought to have been meteors. Obviously, ships and airplanes might cruise for weeks without sighting so small an object as the missing plane. Yet hope persists that the two aviators will be found alive, perhaps this hope grows chiefly from a feeling that a personality as vital and courageous as Amelia Earhart’s must somehow survive this hazard, as it has survived so many others. Illogical as that feeling may be, it is itself a tribute. It is easy lo say that she took needless chances; that even this attempted flight around the world would have proved nothing now if it had been successful. The fact remains that she dared greatly, living life to the fullest and taking her triumphs with simplicity. If, now, she has been overcome by final disaster her millions of admirers will be certain that she met it with the same gallantry of spirit.

TRAFFIC AND FIREWORKS ACCIDENTS

HE week-end record of children burned and holidays spoiled is sufficient proof that the City Council should dig up the fireworks control measure which was rejected last year, and pass it. Much more serious, however, is the problem of automobile deaths, which again reached an appalling total this Fourth. The National Safety Council reports: 14,270 traflic fatalities in the country for the first five months of 1937, a 17 per cent increase over the same period last year. The figures for different cities suggest some pertinent questions. Why were there more traffic deaths in Indianapolis than in some larger cities; why more in Chicago than in New York? Why did Rochester, N. Y., have a traffic death rate of only 9.4 per 100,000 residents while other cities of the same size or even smaller had rates much higher? Why were there only three traffic deaths in five months among the 120,000 people of Wichita, Kas., and about 15 times that number of fatalities in Indianapolis? Why were there no auto deaths at all in Quincy, Mass., (population 80,000), and in Hoboken, N. J. (population 60,000) ? The answer seems clear. Indianapolis is a more dangerous city than many others, and the degree of safety is not determined by the size of the cities. If the traffic death list can be kept low in certain other cities—and the figures prove that it can—is it not reasonable to believe that it can be kept low in Indianapolis?

MRS. EMMA SCHMIDT PANTZER MES. EMMA SCHMIDT PANTZER, wife of the late Dr. Hugo O. Pantzer, brought to Indianapolis from her native Germany the musical training and tradition of her early environment. During the 46 years she lived here, Mrs. Pantzer, a talented pianist, was a sponsor or patroness of many musical ventures and an active member of the Matinee Musicale. The community loses a cultural asset in her death.

A TWO-LETTER WORD

N the fall of 1927, when the country was wondering whether President Coolidge would be a candidate for a third term, he announced: “I do not choose to run.” That ambiguous reply puzzled the American people and caused no end of speculation as to just what he meant. The other day a reporter asked President Roosevelt whether he would seek re-election. Governor Earle of Pennsylvania had been agitating for a third term for Roosevelt, and the question was a legitimate one. But the President’s reply was quite as unsatisfactory as Mr. Coolidge’s. He told the reporter to put a dunce cap on his head and stand face to the wall in a corner, Now, there is a simple little two-letter word in the English language that both Coolidge and Roosevelt could have used—and even a “dunce” could have understood. : That word is “no.”

STOP, LOOK AND LISTEN!

ROM Chicago came news that the general chairmen of five railway brotherhoods had ordered strike votes by their 300,000 members. Previously 40,000 employees of the Railway Express Agency had taken such a vote and authorized their leaders to call a strike if advisable. Now, we are not given to prophesy, but we venture to predict that when this smoke blows over it will disclose the trains on their tracks in running order and uninterrupted by any major strike. Why? Not because these railroading men aren’t in earnest, for they are. But we believe there will be no rail strike because railway management-labor relations operate under a law and a psychology that seems to have made strikes practically unnecessary. The law spells out four prestrike steps—negotiation between union and management; Government mediation, if negotiations fail; arbitration if mediation fails; a Presidential emergency board—if everything else fails—to investigate and make its findings public. Just as the railroads have avoided disastrous strikes by their stop-look-listen law and their live-and-let-live psychology, so, we believe, other American industries can avoid { such scenes as now darken the steel States. |

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The Liberal View

By Dr. Harry Elmer Barnes

Characteristics and Differences Between Capitalistic Theories and Other Political 'Isms' Are Explained.

VV ASHINGTON, July 6.—Summarizing the meanings of and the differences between capitalism, fascism, socialism and communism is not so easy as it seems. There is no agreement among capitalists, Fascists, Socialists and Communists as to what exactly each system means. But it will be possible to bring out clearly essential characteristics and differences.

Capitalism has been in existence mainly since 1500. It is based on (1) movable goods, as distinct from purely landed wealth; (2) unlimited private property; (3) an elaborate money and credit structure; (4) “laissez faire”—free competition and automatic regulation of economic institutions; (5) private profits; (6) repudiation of responsibility for economic disaster-—and hence repudiation of responsibility for relief. ‘These six points pay be suinmarized as follows: Capitalism is based on a desire for private profits without any particular regard for the personal needs of the individual or his consumptive powers. With this goes the axiom that free competition automatically brings about the greatest social benefits. In practice the system comes down to an effort to sell the largest. possible volume of the lowest marketable quality of goods at the highest possible price. Recently there have been some theoretical modifications of capitalism which insist on (1) higher wages for laborers so that purchasing power can be sustained; (2) industrial planning so that the boom-and-crash cycle might be avoided, (3) curtailment of profits in the interest of mass purchasing power.

ASCISM technically began in Italy. It is usually associated with an antidemocratic dictatorship. For all practical purposes fascism is in its origins the political dictatorship of groups organized to preserve the interests of private property. These interests may chiefly be capitalistic, as in italy; or mainly agrarian, as in Hungary. In all cases fascism makes a vigorous effort to link private property with patriotic devotion. But it may in the end seriously curb private property in the interest of state capitalism. Of the types of Socialists there are no end— Utopian, Transitional, Marxian, Revisionist, Guild, State, Christian and others. Marxian socialism aims for the state's absorption of the economic system. The means of producing and distributing wealth are to be owned collectively. Marxfan socialism refuses to compromise with capitalism. It wants nothing less than the destruction of the capitalistic system.

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EVISIONIST socialism was practiced in a modcrate form in Republican Germany. Today the British Labor Party is its outstanding advocate. It is willing to accept piecemeal reforms of capitalism in the direction of collective ownership of wealth. Communism, as understood today, is simply Marxian socialism put into practice. The goal of Russian communism may be defined as complete collectivization—common ownership—of industry under state control.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES Just Another Bottle Baby !—By Talburt

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Let Us Consider the U. S. Public Debt—By Herblock

IF ALL THE TAX~ PAYERS IN THE COUNTRY WERE STOOD ON END, ENOUGH LOOSE CHANGE WOULD ROLL OUT TO REDUCE THE DEBT A LITTLE. J

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IF 36,000,000,000 DOLLARS WERE STACKED ONE ON TOP OF ANOTHER, THAT WOULD BE A PRETTY EXPENSIVE PROJECT TOO.

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

APPRENTICE SHORTAGE CALLED DANGEROUS By M. 8S.

For a number of reasons certain American industries face a shortage of skilled labor. And ong of the reasons is that the training of apprentices has fallen far behind normal, particularly in the past seven years.

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by the same token, as the employer whose workers most desperately needed the protection of union organization. If Mr. Bassham has had a change of heart, I congratulate him. And if he has only changed his ways, I congratulate the La Follette Committee.

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The situation is anomaloys, in view of the millions of men still jobless. It is also dangerous. Economists warn that if “bottlenecks”—that is, shortages of labor or materials | in any key industry—are allowed to develop, they may stimulate price rises that might start the whole tragic business of a general costprice spiral and the inevitable dive to the bottom. The recent rises in construction costs indicate that such a bottleneck may be retarding what otherwise would be a building boom. To forestall the shortage of apprentices two things suggest themselves. One is a program of training that will protect the learners from exploitation; another is a changed attitude on the part of young men toward manual work.

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Reichstag, by having President Hindenburg issue governmental decrees under authority of a certain clause of the WeiMar Constitution. When in June, 1932, Chancellor Bruening

more decrees the old President refused and demanded a new chancellor, precipitating the crisis that let in Herr Hitler. Herr Bruening compromised with autocracy. Now, it is true that many other causes had led Germany to the brink of dictatorship. that had the German people really loved liberty and democracy not even a demagngue usurped their power.

IRWIN NOT SO ‘INSANE’ UNTIL CAUGHT, VIEW By B. C.

Once in every six months or so there pops up a murder case to illustrate how cockeyed our system of handling the “insanity defense” really is. The most recent exhibit is Robert Irwin, who confessed to a triple murder in New York and remarked confidentially, “I'll just be sent to an asylum for life.” Irwin may well be found insane within the meaning of that term as laid down by our criminal law; yet it would be a broad-minded person indeed who did not see something extremely peculiar in the situation. Here is a young man who was at

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people more often give away their liberties than have them stolen. But when these precious liberties, without which life is akin to that of the ox, are lost, often it is through

Rep. William Fitzgerald (D. Conn.), has a bill before the House providing for Government supervision of apprentice-training programs in industry. The Labor Department would set up standards and enforce them through state labor departments and advisory committees in each industry. Whereas Canada is spending $1,000,000 for an apprentice training program the Fitzgerald bill calls for only $37,000. Too many young Americans look upon manual skill as unworthy. The result is that while whitecollar opportunities are depressingly scarce and underpaid, more secure skilled-work jobs at higher wages go begging. For instance last year head janitors of city schools averaged 25 per cent more in wages than elementary teachers and 5 per cent more in salaries than high-school teachers. Rep. Fitzgerald estimates that there is room for at least %00.000 apprentices in industry. To fill that hole would ease our relief burden, insure industry against dangerous skilled-labor shortages and bring security to thousands of homes.

such as the Bruening decrees. It is the little foxes that spoil the vines. The peoples of the world are in difficult times and tasks. They are trying to win economic security without losing political liberty. Some nations have failed, even making boast of their failure. Can America succeed? ” = ”

HARLAN COUNTY MINE SIGNS CONTRACT By E. E.

The Harlan-Wallins Coal Co. Harlan County, Ky. has signed a wage-and-hour agreement with the United Mine Workers. The owner of the Harlan-Wallins company is Pearl Bassham, whose own testimony before the La Follette Civil Liberties Committee revealed him as the bitterest enemy

SUMMER STORM By HARRIETT S. OLINICK

small and well-intentioned larcenies

of union labor in the county—and,

least smart enough to get away from the police, to stay away, and to support himself in comfort. When, at last, an accident tripped him up, he was smart enough to surrender to a newspaper instead of to the police, and. to lay the groundwork very cannily for an attempt to prove, in court, that he is not responsible for his acts. I may be pardoned for remarking that that sort of thing does not look so frightfully insane,

a 8 un SUGGEST GEN. JOHNSON PAY VISIT TO F. D. R. By E. F. Maddox

General Johnson is doing his best to absolve President Roosevelt from any responsibility for the “revolutionary” laws which originated among the President's official advisers, were introduced to Congress by a speech from the President, and were recommended by the nation’s Chief Executive as part of his New Deal program. All of which indicates that Mr. Johnson seems to think Mr. Roosevelt doesn’t understand the nature of the legislative program he has presented to Congress. . . .

BELIEVES BRUENING GAVE HITLER OPPORTUNITY

By Wondering Ex-Chancellor Heinrich Bruening, now lecturing in the free air of Oxford, was the last great democratic statesman of Germany. While rejoicing that this fine soul escaped the wrath of the Nazi gangsters many will wonder whether a more militant champion of parliamentarism might not have saved the German people from their curse of dictatorship. Herr Bruening it was who managed at times to do without the

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General Hugh Johnson Says —

Oklahoma Was Settled by Poor Families Who Made State Prosperous Without Help of Relief Agencies, Which Sometimes Retard Prosperity.

ULSA, Okla, July 6.—My introduction to this Oklahoma came to me as a very small boy in the midst of a depression so severe as to make the late unpleasantness seem like a brewer's picnic. I was in the race that opened part of it. Tens of thousands of busted families, victims of the great slump of the early 1890s, were lined up like race horses at a barrier, along a large part of the South Kansas line in the early autumn. At high noon the starting pistols e¢racked and they were off to the greatest race for the greatest stakes in the world. Every known form of conveyance was used from race horses to cow-ponies. from trotting sulkies to four line teams, “from shank’s mare to railroad trains— and one man drove an ostrich. The first person to reach and stake any particular quarter-section was

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RE was almost no money. They were on the verge of winter. The land could produce nothing for almost a year. Somehow they survived. Within three years it was a fairly prosperous community. That was the western part of the state—old Oklahoma. The story of the eastern part-—old Indian territory—is different. The writer also saw the beginning of that. Here civilization didn't race in like a flood on a single day. It slowly seeped in as white

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it was just a jumble of Negro-Indian huts. Sapulpa was a hox-car and Tulsa a trading station. Regardless of the difference in beginning of the two halves of Oklahoma, the outcome is the same. It stands farther ahead in improvement than other states which have been at the job much longer. Its depression is over. It is in robust health.

The point of all this is, no “economic planning” or PWA, WPA, NRA, AAA, HOLC, RA, SSA, NYA, FDIC, or RFC had anything to do with the making of this state out of nothing by depression-busted people. The only alphabet they had was guts and gimp. Their pit of despair was just as deep, farm prices just as low, markets just as restricted, johs scarcer, suffering greater, ways to self-help harder, and absolutely no Harry Hopkins with eight billions to burn. ” ” » HERE may be “no more frontiers,” but there is JA plenty of undeveloped country within old frontiers—country as rich in possibility as any yet de-

veloped. we don't need Henry Wallace and Harry Hopkins to “resettle” any Americans who haven't hook-worm. Relief is necessary, but a lot of the Wallace-Hopkins variety is just an anodyne to ambition—which is a four-dollar way of saying that it is hook-worm of itself —officially concocted and deliberately that it is

The night is torn with mighty birth; The wrenching free from fibrous

earth, The golden body of a flower To bloom an evanescent hour

DAILY THOUGHT

And whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant.—Matthew 20:27.

ET thy servants be such as thou mayest command, and entertain none about thee but those to whom thou givest wages.—Sir Wal«

The General says he does not absolve the President “with his tongue in his cheek.” He must have it between his teeth. . . . Mr. Johnsan’s whole strategy is to convince the electorate that the President doesn’t know what it is all about. If that is the case, the President is being either wheedled or deceived into indorsing what Mr. Johnson calls an attempt to undermine and change our whole form of government. I suggest that Mr. Johnson,,g0 over to the White House and explain the whole situation to Mr. Roosevelt.

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It Seems to Me

By Heywood Broun

Harsh Words Are Recommended as Best Prescription for Treatment in Cases Termed 'Mother-in-Law Boils.’

STAMFORD, Conn., July 6.—Only the other day I was hazarding the opinion that sometimes important news stories appear in truncated form. Yesterday I read the following press association dispatch: “A case of mother-in-law boils was re ported today to the United States Public Health Serv ice. Dr. Karl A. Menninger, of Topeka, Kas. said that he had recently treated a young married woman

who broke out with severe boils every time her mother-in-law came to see her. They disappeared immediately after she left, Le added.” 3 This very important medical finding received a prominent position in the papers, but frivolous headlines were assigned to it. That is unfortunate. While oye should not attempt to build any complete medical theory simply on the basis of a young married woman in Topeka, this particular case history will undoubtedly give aid and comfort to those who feel that physicians make an insufficient allowance for the effect of mind over matter. Mental states can effect actual tissue change. ” ” ”

AR the case of Mrs. X has implications even . A beyond its medical aspects. It confirms me in the theory I have long held that few of us hate as well as we ought to. Or, at any rate, we are insufficiently articulate in expressing our dislike. I am assuming, of course, that the Mrs. X of Topeka, insisted that she loved her mother-in-law and offered the naive testimony that there had never been a cross word between them. At this point I trust that Dr. Karl A. Menninger departed from dermatology, and gave the young woman a brief lecture at the usual space rates on the life and times of Dr. Freud, with Particular attention to the theory of suppressed desires. And in conclusion the good doctor may well have said, “It’s as plain as the lump on the end of your nose, madam, that you must choose between harsh words and skin eruptions. If you are good natured with your mother-in-law you will have a bad come plexion. When she stays a week-end you get boils, If she lives with you I cannot promise that you will not develop leprosy or seven years’ itch at the very

least, Get those poisons out of your system. Bawl out the old lady good and proper.”

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T= kindly hedier might also have quoted Scripe ture for his purpose. PRerhaps he told her in his own words something about the life of Job who shared her cutaneous condition. To be sure, the physician might have felt compelled to put a new interpretation upon that philosophic drama. Job has gone down into the language as the perfect symbol of long-suffering patience in spite of boils and other afflictions, and, indeed, it is written in the Bible, “So the Lord blessed the later end of Job more than his beginning.” Among his blessings were seven sons and three daughters and 6000 camels. It is written that when he died he was “old and full of days.” I forgot his exact age, but is was something over 140 years. But I insist that he might well have attained a riper maturity if it had not been for the fact thas at times he swallowed his emotions. :

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Suspicious Nazi-Japanese Acts Arouse Fear of War Coming This Year, German Fleet Moved Into Baltic to Menace Russia Before Amur Affair,

By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen

ASHINGTON, July 6.-—It is difficult to gauge an intricate European-Asiatic snarl at this dis-

tance, but certain military maneuvers have convinced

some official observers that closely allied Germany and Japan are determined to precipitate war on Russia this year, First significant maneuver was the sending of the German fleet from the Mediterranean to the Baltic, where it could strike at Russia. Sixteen German warships steamed north, passing through the English Channel on the same day the Japanese bombarded the Russians in Siberia. They left the Mediterranean two days before the bombardment started, and at the specific moment Hitler had been screaming about naval reprisals against the Spanish. Second, the Japanese bombarded and sank a Russian warship in the Amur River after the Soviet Foreign Office had given assurances that Russian troops would be withdrawn, (When the Germans marched into the Rhineland one year ago last March, the Japanese military and naval attaches in Washington knew about it five days in advance). :

make this the psychological time for Germany and Japan to strike: 1. Wholesale Soviet executions indicate something is gravely wrong in Russia. Eight of the Soviets’ ablest generals have been shot. 2. Frafice, chief Russian ally, is in the throes of severe financial, economic crises. 3. Britain has been served notice at the recent Ime perial Conference that the Dominions, although Supm porting the mother country in western Europe or the Pacific, will not aid her in case of war in central or eastern Europe. 4. At the last elections, the Japanese military sufe fered their most overwhelming political defeat. What they want is a good flag-waving campaign, especially against their traditional foe in Siberia,

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T is quite possible that the Japanese military proe voked the Amur River incident despite opposite instructions from the Japanese Foreign Office, They repeatedly ignored orders from home during the ine vasion of Manchuria in 1931-2, Whether war comes now or not, it seems certain that the above factors, plus two nations which seem pens on bloodshed, will bring major trouble sooner or ter. \

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in 1922, can state that the islands in dispute are d-banks, and no more worth figh :

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