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WEDNESDAY, JULY 21, 1937

DOCTOR GARNER

HAT is happening in Washington today is an everlasting refutation of the throttlebottom conception of the Vice Presidency. It is also a striking commentary on * the much mooted question of youth versus experience. Quite obviously there is much more for the Vice President to do than to sit in the park and feed the pigeons. And equally apparent it is that those adolescent strategists who have been advising the President how to handle Congress have been sidetracked in favor of one who definitely knows. Or, in a manner of speaking, the second-year medicos who have been doing anything but improve a very sick patient have been put aside so that the old family doctor may see what he can do. The patient being the Democratic Party. No man today is quite so important in the situation, not even the President, as John Nance Garner, who left in a huff for Uvalde and his fishing rod, and has now been summoned back in a hurry. He didn’t like the way New Deal things were going. But evidently scant attention was paid to his views at the time of his departure. That, however, was before the fever passed 104. Now he is busy at the bedside. Once we heard Jack Garner say— ‘Remember, boys, there is nothing so important as continuity in office.” We trust that the skill of this healer proves to be in ratio to the length of time he has been practicing. For, we repeat, this is no case for sophomores. We want to see the Democratic Party get well. For while we have no sinister thoughts about another very sick patient, as between the two, we should not want at this particular time to see the elephant grow robust while the donkey languishes.

THE NEXT GREAT PLAGUE TO GO

N Page 13 of this issue readers will find another article in the series on the dread scourge of syphilis. The Times has joined in this nation-wide fight in the belief that only by lifting the taboo against discussion of venereal diseases can these maladies be controlled. Syphilis and gonorrhea are not nice parlor words, yet these diseases represent a menace to every man, woman and child. Today the prudery that made people shudder when social diseases were mentioned—and made millions suffer just because the diseases were ignored—is disappearing. We quote from Dr. Charles W. Myers, City Hospital superintendent: “The ravages of syphilis scarcely can be appreciated by the average layman, but if he will only remember that a large portion of all patients admitted to the Indianapolis City Hospital are suffering from disabilities either directly or indirectly the result, he can readily appreciate that yearly syphilis is making invalids of many thousands, at a cost of millions of dollars to the community.” Dr. Verne K. Harvey, State Health Board director, says syphilis “costs the State of Indiana many millions of dollars each year and causes premature deaths in literally thousands of its citizens. Every effort should be made to apply the instruments of eradication which are all ready to be used.” Syphilis is preventable and it is curable. Medical science has provided the weapons to fight the battle. A program of public education, if given the proper moral and financial support, can minimize the horrible price we now pay for venereal disease in insanity, physical deterioration and death. As Dr. Harvey says, “This should be the next great plague to go.”

PAROLE COMPACTS

NDIANA signed with Michigan the first compact permit-, ting one state to follow a paroled prisoner into another state and supervise his conduct. Since then 20 states have followed that lead, so Indiana will have a special interest in the meeting of the Interstate Commission on Crime to be held in Kansas City, Sept. 24, at which the Governors of these 20 states are scheduled to sign an interstate uniform parolee compact. Explaining its aims, the Commission says: “The prime purpose of probation and parole is to aid in the rehabilitation of those convicted of crime. Cases constantly arise where, due to the existence of their family in another state, better opportunity for employment there, or similar reasons, such rehabilitation would be facilitated by transfer. But supervision in such other state is essential for the safety of not only the individual, but society as well.” The proposed pact, under which each state under certain conditions would agree to supervise parolees from other states, is another step toward scientific supervision and toward curbing of crime.

CITIZEN OF THE WORLD

“NTOTHING can be labeled impossible. search might change everything.” Until his last day of life, Guglielmo Marconi held to “thet creed. And, holding to it, he accomplished so much “that it seems almost incredible that he was only 63 when “death came to him yesterday. Because of his inventions, ships navigate the seas and planes the air more safely. By them innumerable lives “have been preserved. Through them the remotest parts of the world have been brought close together, and advan“tages once enjoyed only by a limited few have been made ‘freely available to hundreds of millions. In life, this gentle scientist received highest honors from his beloved Italy and from many other nations. In "death, he is mourned by the ‘whole world. For he was, in the truest sense, a citizen of the world. On the list of - ‘those ‘who have served all peoples usefully and well, few

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Burning Deck !—By Tatburt

WEDNESDAY, JULY 21, 1987

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Washington

By Raymond Clapper

At Risk of Receiving a Dunce Cap, Writer Brings Up Third Term Again After Farley Turns Noncommittal.

ASHINGTON, July 21.—At the risk of being awarded one of President Roosevelt’s dunce caps for bringing up the thirdterm matter again, see what Jim Farley says about it.

He was cornered in Denver the other day

and a reporter asked him about a Roosevelt third term. Mr. Farley replied: “I may have my own

ideas about those things, but there is only one man

who can answer that question and that man, of course, is Fresident Roosevelt.” When the man who managed Mr. Roosevelt's two Presidential campaigns, and is supposed to be against a third term, is unable to commit himself, when the President himself ducks questions about it.by telling inquiring reporters that they ought to put on dunce caps, when any number of persons in Washington are confident that Mr. Roosevelt is maneuvering for a third term, the possibility must be faced. If, as this writer has believed, Mr. Roosevelt intends to retire at the end of this term, it seems foolish and costly for him to leave any doubt about it. Inspired word is being passed around that the reason Mr. Roosevelt does not want to say anything final now is that some crisis, foreign or domestic, might arise which would compel him to remain in office. If that is all that is needed to bring about a third term then we probably will get it because in Washington you can make a crisis every day in the week. Any time you are having trouble getting what you want, it is a crisis.

Mr. Clapper

” » ” NOTHER reason offered by friends of the President to explain his silence is that if he announced he would not accept renomination’ he would precipitate a fight within the party for control, as if there were no fight now. And a fight which feeds on

the fear of Mr. Roosevelt's getting too much power. Instead of creating an internal fight, a conviction that Mr. Roosevelt has set rigid limits to his own ambitions would do more than anything else just now to restore confidence in his leadership and to end the fight that is going on. Furthermore, unless he does close the door himself, it is likely that the day will “ome when a more embarrassing fight than this one will take place in Congress, when somebody brings out the antithirdterm resolution which was passed against Grant, and d again a few years ago when it was suspected that Coolidge was angling for renomination.

OME of his friends who would acquiesce in a third term say that it might be necessary to enable Mr. Roosevelt to complete his pregram. If a President, elected twice by terrific majorities, commanding more than a two-thirds majority in both houses of Congress, cannot do the things he wants to do in eight years, he is not likely to be able to get them done in 12 or 16 or 20 years. You might as well make him President for life, and be done with it. This controversy over whether Mr. Roosevelt is planning to run again is having its poisonous effect upon Washington affairs. It is a corroding influence which will increase as long as the answer remains in doubt. And the longer White House silence continues, the more it will be believed that Mr. Roosevelt ‘wants

The Hoosier Forum

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

‘CITES PRINCIPLE OF BALANCE OF POWERS By New Dealer I honor J. T. Adams as a historian, but for an authority on political institutions I should prefer

men more of the caliber of Charles Beard. Adams’ sincerity, of course, I do not question, but I disagree with his definition of subserviency as pertains to the Supreme Court. The founding fathers created this Government, I take it, not on the principle of judicial, any more than Congressional or executive, supremacy; it was founded rather upon the principle of checks and balances. Each division—that means legislative and executive as well as judicial—was to be independent of the others; but that independence was not intended to allow one branch to overstep its bounds and force or foil the activities of the other two branches. There were to be three equal and separate divisions of government. None was to be supreme. Yet nine men of the judicial division have nullified three successive and increasingly overwhelming mandates from the people. That, to me, is not democracy, or checks and balances, or “independent departments of government.” It is not a question of the supremacy or the subserviency of the courts, but one of equality with the other two branches. The judiciary has thwarted the will of the people and two branches of the Government since 1993. It is no wonder that the New Deal's enemies defend the autocratic power with which they wish to. invest the Supreme Court.

” ” HITS TOWNSEND, LAUDS VANNUYS By Mrs. Mont Newby

What's the matter with the Governor of Indiana? He sallies forth to Washington, D. C., to get his head with the President’s and says we in Indiana must not reelect Senator VanNuys. Former Governor McNutt along with Jim Farley and President Roosevelt said we must not re-elect Senator Arthur Robinson. He must go. So now we have a right to voice our protest - against the Governor telling us we must not vote for Senator VanNuys because he is refusing to satisfy the whims of President Roosevelt by agreeing to pass a bill to pack the U. S. Supreme Court. Be so kind as to advise Governor Townsend that we will re-elect Senator VanNuys. We like fighters like him. v

» ” » "QUESTIONS CHAILLAUX'S ‘RED’ CHARGES By Franklin Coleman, Linton

I noticed a letter of this column written by a lady in regard to

a third terms.

Homer Chaillaux’s speech and ex-

General Hugh Johnson Says—

American Financial Move Not Only Broke the Depression's Backbone, but Has Kept Germany and Italy in Line and May Be the Formula for Peace.

EHOBOTH, Del, July 21.—Our Treasury bought gold from the world until it had a kind of “corner.” Just before it started to buy, it arbitrarily boosted the price it must pay by 7 per cent. That sounds screwy. It was this high price that sucked gold out of

holes in the ground everywhere to put it in one in the ground in Kentucky. That also sounds crazy.

What happened? Every foreigner who had the dough to do it, began to send gold to New York to take advantage of the special cut rates in American debts, stocks, bonds and manufactures. By reason of all this buying all American prices began to rise, our exports, which seemed to be vanishing, increased. It cost this country several billions in exported securities, but it blew back into the value of everybody's property here many times as many billions, It automatically and arithmetically nearly doubled the price of export farm products and sympathetically increased the price of all farm products. = » ” ORE than any other single influence it broke the back of the depression. It was the most brilliant single act of Mr. Roosevelt's career. Who's crazy now? But, as the yellow billions piled up in the Kentucky till, the Calamity Janes again began to chant, “suckers and sack-holders, the world will sell you all its gold - money. It will be good for and filling teeth.”

(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.)

positions of “Red movements.” She seems to take for granted that he is a menace to the peace movements of America. To me there is a question, Communism has been presented

to me through the daily press as terrorism and anarchy, but Mr. Chaillaux tells us that “most peace movements are Communist organizations and several religious movements are the same.” This comes from a man of high moral standing and in a key position to teach Americanism, I was raised by Christian parents and belong to a religious organization. I was taught to despise war and to pray and work for peace. “Peace on earth; good will toward men,” is a message from the Prince of Peace, and I always felt myself a Christian in upholding this principle. I did not know that it was communism. The minister who denounces the horrors of war and preaches the blessings of peace was always a Christian to me. I have never called him a Communist. , , .

” » on | SEES CHANCE FOR SNAPPY | HIGH COURT OPINIONS By D. K.

How about putting General Johnson on the Supreme Court and getting some really snappy opinions?

” SUGGESTS PURGE FOR UNITED STATES

By Daniel Francis Clancy, Logansport

Dispatch from Moscow: ‘The Russian Government is executing anyone speculating in bread, tampering with the lumber industry, delaying motorcar production, wrecking locomotives, adhering to Trotzky . . Comrade Blanksy was denounced for failing to provide immigrants at Khabarovsk with living quarters.” And they're executing “enemies of the people.” I think that I may call this, without being styled an alarmist—a purge. So what? So I propose that we

PRELUDE FOR WAR

By KEN HUGHES Today a small boy brought To earth a robin which ought To have been singing free and wild But a rock and life at end—a child!

Today there are scars which heal Because one mother may teach a child To feel The pulse of a living world.

Recent Meso-

start cleaning up the republic a bit, too. Let's tear all rustic poets away from their plows and ship them to Newyorksky or Chicagograd. Let's make it illegal to wear red-white-and-blue shirts, to utter the words, “How're the Cubs doin’ in the seventh?” and let's compel all Dayghters of This-and-That War to read a chapter of Mencken daily. Furthermore, let's liquidate all baseball players and fans, editorial writers and would-be organizers of new fraternal organizations. And let's build fences around Maine and Vermont—gather up all of the would-be collectors of the war debts, Isolationists, Prohibitionists, admirers of Patsy Kelly, listeners to barn dances, and Anglophobes who assassinate English sparrows with air guns—shove them in-—and close the gates! And now I think that I'd better stop, or there won't be anyone left in the other 46 states but myself! » ” ” DEMOCRATIC ‘REPRISAL ON VANNUYS QUESTIONED From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch From a talk which Governor Townsend of Indiana had with reporters at Washington, it appears that the Indiana State Democratic organization, of which the Governor is the head, had its knife out for Senator VanNuys because of his opposition to the Court-packing plan. The Governor indicated, in the language of the news dispatches, that the organization would not “forgive” Senator VanNuys, but

would withhold its support when he comes up for renomination next

year. This is the frankest avowal we have heard, from a responsible political source, of an intention on the part of a Democratic organization to punish a Democratic Senator for refusing to scrap his convictions against the packing scheme and go along with the President. What price the Democratic Party if reprisals of this character become the rule?

> % Ww REPORTS STATISTICS ON LYNCHINGS IN U. 8S.

By F. D. Patterson, President of Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, Alabama

I send you the following information concerning lynchings for the first six months of this year. I find, according to the records compiled at Tuskegee Institute in the Department of Records and Research, that in the first six months of 1937 there were four lynchings. This is the same number as for the first six months of 1935 and 1936, and two less than the number for the first six months of 1934, All of the persons lynched were Negroes. The offenses charged were: Murder, 3; rape, 1. The states in which lynchings occurred and the number in each state are as follows: Alabama, 1; Georgia, 1; Mississippi, 2.

It Seems to Me

By Heywood Broun

Presidential Bee Sting Results in A Serious Affliction for Wheeler, According to Liberal's Diagnosis,

VV ASHINGTON, July 21.—“Don’t-Fight« God” Burt Wheeler, the bounding basker from Montana, is covering a lot of terri. tory during these hot days in the nation’s Capitol. The Senator has warned the Presi-

dent not to defy the will of the Creator as he, Mr. Wheeler, sees it expressed in the death of Joe Robinson. A few observers round about have been inclined to question Burt's claim to stand as one of America’s leading liberals. Ap parently he feels that he has already crossed that hurdle, and right now he is prepared to try to well himself as one of the authentic apostles. Be that as it may, Burt is sufe fering from a common Washington ailment, but in his case the attack is even more virulent than i usual, Senators are perculiarly prone to the sting of the Presidential bee, but in many cases the bite of the noxious insect produces nothing more than a slight giddiness which often passes away in a year or two. Tt must be Mr. Wheeler's glands which are at fault, for beyond other victims he is swollen to monstrous proportions. So acute is this condition that he peers out at the world through apertures which have been reduced to narrow slits.

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” NDEED, there is a fear that in this instance the effects of the sting may prove to be chronic, One of the chief symptoms of the complaint is a kind of galloping morality which seizes the Senator at odd moments and makes him shake all over. A few

months ago he launched a bitter attack on John Collier and the Indian Bureau because that Government agency has undertaken to preserve and protect the tribal dances of the aborigines. It is said that the Hopi Indians, when the spirit moves them, twine rattlers around their necks and indulge in other quaint and bizarre departures from the good oldfashioned waltz. “Don’t-Fight-God” Burt Wheeler would have each last Sioux and Crow and Blackfoot tuck im his shirt and take up the quieter phases of the Virginia reel. Nor is this the end of Mr. Wheeler's campaign for the establishment of the higher morality. Since he has already declared it to be his belief that God struck Senator Robinson down for daring to suggest a liberal court, he feels that he shéuld make Soma payment in kind to his allies in the fight to preserve the status quo, and among those who have accepted his leadership he would undoubtedly number Boake Carter and the Herald Tribune,

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=> no man say that Bounding Burt is without gratitude. As his part of the deal he is sponsoring a bill which would prohibit the transmission across state lines of any information which would facilitate gambling. Tn other words, if Mr. Wheeler's measure passes no citizen of Detroit may learn on a late Tuesday afternoon which horses are to run at Belmont Park on Wednesday. It is the Senator's fond hope that when the next Democratic convention rolls around a still small voice will interrupt the calling of the roll and announce, “Heaven, under the unit rule, casts one billion nine hundred and ninety million votes for the favorite son

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of Paradise and Montana.”

The Washington Merry-Go-Round

President Greatly Worried That Sino-Japanese Conflict Will Spread; Sol Bloom, George Washington's Sponsor, Now Glorifies Constitution,

when the leopard changes his spots. potamian excavations of the world’s oldest town--6000 years—reveal gold as the symbol of wealth. It has been that ever since. Now, in the universal threat of war, every country that can is reaching for gold. You can’t fight a for-

eign ‘war without it. The lack of it has kept Germany in line and will continue to keep Italy in line.

NGLAND has coralled relatively as much new gold as we, and London now is buying from us. ‘We are selling it to China and Brazil. The China deal is not a good one for us—selling gold, which is not apt to change in price, for silver pegged at much more than its real value by our own silly silver policy which we adopted for no other reason than to subsidize our “silver producing states at the expense of everybody else. It trades a thousand-dollar dog for a hundreddollar cat. But the China trade was to help the most populous nation on earth back to a gold basis. Relative to the cost of our other spending follies since 1914, the expense of this is nothing and the returns in good will and material trade may, like those of the 1933 policy, be many times the cost. The great English and American hoards used in some such fashion as this to redistribute stability to the international financial structure may yet be the formula humanity is seeking to restore peace and

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By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen ASHINGTON, July 21.—There has been no exaggeration about reports that the President is worried over the Japanese-Chinese conflict. In private talk with his State Department advisers he has indicated that he is more worried about this than any other problems facing him—including the Supreme Court fight. Chief factors which cause worry are: 1. Fear that war between Japan and China will spread to the rest of the world. Should Russia come into the fray against her traditional enemy, Japan, then Japan's ally Germany would immediately follow, and the fat would be in the fire. 2. More immediate is necessity of the United States declaring an arms embargo against both Japan and China under the Neutrality Act. This would mean a tremendous handicap to China and none at all to Japan. Among the President's advisers it is felt that this advantage should not be thrown to Japan if there is any way to get around it. » ” » AMMANY CONGRESSMAN SOL BLOOM, jocular, diamond-sporting ex-theatrical te, has been known in the past as “the Man Who Made George Washington Famous.” But ‘how it looks as if he ‘would become “the Man Who Preserved the Constitution.” A few years ago he grabbed several hundred

tennial Commission. There were other members on the Commission, but Sol ran the show and dished out the jobs. The Commission lasted several years and cost taxpayers more than $500,000, including the cost of 5000 ‘plaster casts of The Father of His Country at $4.50 each, which Sol distributed. Last year Sol had a new idea, the U. 8. Consti« tution Sesquicentennial Commission. As Commission chairman, Sol lobbied through Congress a $200,000 grant to finance preparations for celebrating in September the 150th anniversary of the signing of the Constitution. With this cozy nest-egg he swung into action and in a short time had rented 10 offices, assembled a staff of 46 em=ployees, all selected by himself. He even published under his personal copyright 250,000 copies of a booklet entitled “The Story of the Constitution.” Two hundred thousands dollars is a lot of money, but when Sol comes to the aid of the Constitution he spares no expense.

BCENTLY he informed Congress that the 1936 appropriation was about exhausted and that another $150,000 would be necessary to complete arrangements. The House went him one better. On a motion by Rep. Charles Kramer, ardent Los Angeles patrioteer, it added $125,000 to the $150,000 in order to supply” Every ER and Congressman with 2500 free copies of Sol

mphlet.