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TUESDAY, AUG. 10, 1937

NIPPON’S WOOING OF CHINA APAN'S courtship of China reminds us of one of those impossible, old-fashioned, “ten, twent’ and thirt’ 7” melodramas. The black-mustachioed villain of the piece would pursue the heroine through four acts of the most diabolical persecution imaginable. He would tie her to the railroad track so the fast mail might run over her. He would bring her to the carriage of the old sawmill so she might be sawed in two. He would put knockout drops in her coffee and throw her off Brooklyn Bridge. Then, in the last act, dagger in hand, he would hiss: “Now, me proud beauty, will vou mary me?” and somehow he always seemed astounded when she replied no, | she preferred her rags and her virtue to becoming the |

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plaything of such as he. » » » » » N HE soldiers of Nippon, in full war kit, have just marched into Peiping to take over this ancient Chinese capital. Overhead roared their battleplanes. But this time, instead of bombs, they dropped mashnotes. “The Japanese Army has driven out your rulers,” the raining pamphlets proclaimed. “And it will keep them out. destructive war, do not be afraid. The Japanese Army will protect you.” There is something magnificently and breathtakingly naive about all this. If you didnt know otherwise, it would sound as if the Japanese were indulging in a bit of subtle, iT grim, humor. But such is far from the case. earnest. >

And yet, whenever the Chinese offer mild objection to | this “protection,” the Japanese give them a burst of artil- |

lery and machine-gun fire. At the same time they solemnly assure the world of their sad regret over having to resort to such harsh measures. “You see,” they explain, “the Chinese are not sincere. They can’t De trusted.” All of which would De funny indeed were it not so terribly tragic.

SIGNS OF LIFE WELCOME JERBERT HOOVER may not be the ideal leader for a Republican revival campaign-—the matter of leader ship being one to be settled within the party-—but it seems to us the country ought to greet with cheers, rather than Jeers, any move by any prominent Republican to bring the Grand Old Party back to life. We hope, then, that—Dbarring a better proposal by someone else——the members of the party will give serious

1938 and 19490.

Mere activity, of course, won't eam t iblicans | : ty, of “ vo arn the Reput Tiean | United Mme Workers alone contributed $500,000 to

his last campaign, and ditterly resents the President's |

any title deed to a bigger representation in Congress next year or to the Presidency three years hence. They will

have to offer the country something a great deal better

than they have been offering. But it would be good to see them at least trying once more. Our system of government functions best with twe

and careless. And here lately the Democrats, with the Republicans lying down on their job, have taken to fighting each other.

If the Republicans can put new life into their party the |

Democrats will have to tighten up their lines. That will be

fortunate for both parties, and most fortunate of all for |

the country.

INTERSTATE DRIVER CONTROL

FORETASTE of what the uncontrolled traffic accident |

HEARD IN CONGRESS—

problem may bring is seen in the bill before Congress to prohibit operation of motor vehicles in interstate traffic by unlicensed drivers. The proposed legislation, already favorably reported by a Senate committee, would hold within state borders all vehicles in states which do not license drivers following an examination testing eyesight, ability to read and under stand traffic signs and signals, and proper driving ability. It also would impose an age limit of 16 years and require state provision for revocation and suspension of licenses. While the legislation would not take effect for four vears—giving states time to enact proper laws-—it behooves

[ndiana and other “safety delinquent” states to put their

houses in order without waiting for compulsory measures, More than half the states, including Indiana, would be affected by the proposed law, he recent Legislature dodged the real safety issue when it failed to require examination of license applicants. The next Legislature must face the issue squarely,

ADVISING ALL AUTHORS LOS ANGELES man recently won fame of sorts by writing a novel in which he did not once use the letter “e.” A Georgia author has rivaled this achievement hy producing a book in which every word begins with the letter *'s.” ! It has been suggested that, still more remarkable, some newspaper columnist ought to try turning out a day’s production without employing the capital “I.” That, probably, is too much to expect. Indeed, we are constrained to offer a few words of advice to writers who may be inspired by the feats of the Los Angeles literateur and the Georgia genius: Such striving seems stupid, strained, superfluous.

Sedulous scribes should show sanity, soundness, sobriety;

should select suitable subjects, syllables, sentences; should seldom sacrifice sense seeking sensational satiety. Scorn sibilant scintillation! Stop silly stunting! JSomething! 2

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Fair Enough

Although Nanking is prepared to wage a |

They are in deadly |

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Start saying

By Westbrook Pegler

C. I. O. "Administrator Spokesman’ |

Arouses Suspicion That He May Be Nowe Other Than Lewis Himself.

NEW YORK, Aug. 10.—Paul Anderson, | who does Washington for the St. Louis |

Post-Dispatch, recently had an important interview with one who, from certain indications, may be visualized ag a man with bushy eyebrows and prognothous chin. “Availing himself of the precedent established by the President himself in laying down the regulation for his press conterences,” Mr. Anderson wrote, “This

executive took the role of ‘administrator spokesman’ for the C. I. O.” This suggests that the “administrator spokesman” occupies in the C. I. O. a position equal to hat of Mr. Roosevelt in the Administration, and the total authority of his remarks gives me strongly to suspect that the state= met accurately presents the sentiments of John I. Lewis. S06 I have read the salty truths the “administrator spokesman” of the C. I. O. ac= Knowledging a serious breach be= tween John IL. Lewis and President Roosevelt, and further find

Mr. Pegler

[| it impossible to imagine anyone who could commit consideration to Mr. Hoover's plan for a big national Re- | publican battle rally next winter and for other activity n= | tended to make the party a real factor in the elections of |

John I. Lewis to this position but John L. Lewis himself. That, however, is mere deduction. The “administrator spokesman” who, in the ab-

sence of absolute identification, will be referred to as “John L. Dee” reminds the President that the

refusal, after long temporizing with the riots of the C. I. O. to indorse these methods.

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HE interview bespeaks a belief on the part of |

John L. Doe that in return for the $500,000 and

h : : . | the ©. I. Os votes, the President should have helped strong parties, each keeping the other on its mettle. Since |

1932 the Republican Party has provided such feeble oppo- |

sition that the Democratic Party has grown overconfident | | panies have murdered 18 of our men, and not one

Mr. Doe to bulldoze unwilling Americans inte the ranks of the C. I. O. Mr. Doe said, “the mercenaries of the steel coms

word of condemnation has been uttered from those sources from which we would naturally expect it. It

may be true that murder is not an offense against |

the Federal Government, but it is a moral offense under any government.”

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HIS salty truth assumes, however, that the Chis cago police force, which killed 10 of the 18, is a mercenary arm of a steel company, and that a workman driving to work was a murderer when he got a brick through his windshield, lost control of his Gar and ran down a picket.

Rep. Vinson (OD. Ky): Our genial fiend from

| Pennsylvania (Rep. Rich) uses a stereotyped express

sion, “rubber stamp,” as applicable to Democratic members of Congress. I wonder how many of us were here and had the opportunity of observing the attitude of the gentleman from Pennsylvania while the Imterior Department appropriation bill was pends ing, when he made a very splendid speech in behalf of a certain appropriation included in that bill, in

| fact, stood in With the subcommittee with respect

to that. Then the distinguished minority leader came down and first smiled at the gentleman and then pulled

his eyes down, the gentleman from Pennsylvania did |

not vote the way he talked.

ETHANY BEACH, Del, Aug. 10.-—-The Senate wants a census of the unemployed. For two and

| a half years this column has plugged for that.

For two and a half years, while we dished out $8,000,000,000 to cure an 11 we hadn't even diagnosed, the New Deal said no dice on an attempt to find out what the problem was. The President favored it, but none of the palace Janizaries would go along. Uncle Danny Roper was willing, if they would give him $30,000,000 and let him rake the count on the United States census model half a year of doorbell pulling to take the count and half another year at the adding machines to total it up. Except as a historical document, it wouldn't be worth the taking. » » » HE suggestion of this column was to repeat what this writer actually did during the war. We passed a law requiring men between 18 and 45 to register at precinct polling places, exactly as for elections, The suggestion served as an ocoaston for Dr. Dotty, Prof. Sap and Comrade Cockeye, departmental pundits who hadn't done it and couldn't do it theme oes to say in solemn counsel that it never could be one, This “expert” advice reflected only position to any rewelation of the facts,

easier to get billions to spend on a guess that “ones

The Hoosier Forum

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

TRUCK DRIVER PRAISES SPEED LIMIT STGNS By R. W. Ade I am a tank truek driver. As you

long, and T want to compliment our

| Chief of Police Morrissey on his

| latest move to curb fast, reckless driving on our city streets. The signs along the streets indicating speed | permitted are doing more good than anything that ever has been done. Let's have more of them, as in Chis cago. No matter what streets you travel, there is a sign that tells you | how fast to drive.

| But our Chief is overlooking one of the greatest perils—our kids on bicycles. They ride two, four and six abreast. Blow your horn at them,

| and they just stay put, blocking the

street. They alse run through red stop lights and preferential streets. Now is the time to teach these kids to respect these regulations, because they will be tha motors ists of the future. I suggest that police impound the bicycles of those | caught violating a traffic rule ror 30 days. I believe this will teach them to respect traffic rules. All police should ve detailed to watch traffic violators. I saw two boys on a bicycle run a red light, | and a squad car was sitting rearby | with two police in it, but they did | | nothing about correcting the boys | for their dangerous practice,

Dick Heller, executive secretary bo | | Governor Townsend, in a recent ad- | dress openly denounced the renomi- | nation of Senator VanNuys, accus[ing him of disloyalty to the President and his party, insisting that Democratic officials must “obey the | mandate of the people.” Not doubting Mr. Heller's sincerity | of purpose or his qualification as a | Democrat, it is obvious that his | political fortunes will gain more momentum if his respect for the intelli | gent reasoning of average voters is [elevated to a higher standard. The mandate of the people in the last election approved the first Ade | ministration of President Roosevelt. | Our senior Senator gave sincere and | intelligent support to this program. The Court bill. however, was pres | sented later. With no existing mandate that this bill become a law, it] was our Senator's constitutional duty to use his better judgment for the interest of the people he served. Senator VanNuys’' fidelity to the Democratic Party will endure any equitable analysis. He was, in the | fruitless years, vigorously dererte | the principles of Jefferson and Jacks | son when some of the present nota- | bles were school teachers who probe | i ably felt political assertions undiplo= | | matic. Others were debating to | which party to align themselves, The hour has arrived for courage lous Democrats to fight for the re- |

General Hugh Johnson Says—

Giving Perkins, Roper and Hopkins Power on Census of Unemployed Is Like Turning Little Goodie Two-Shoes Over to the Three Bears.

third of the workers are jobless,” than on proof that

know, I travel the streets all day |

{ Bright butterflies

(Times readers ara 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.)

tention of a courageous Senator in Washington, Opportunity presents itself for citizens of our State to defend a worthy and able executive, # ” COMMENDS VANNUYS FOR COURT STAND BY X. ¥. 2. Patriotic people should commend Senator VanNuys for his stand on the Supreme Court bill. We need men like him who will stand up for constitutional government regards less of what party dictators advise. We need men at all times who are loyal to duty, We need no time =ervers who are ready to obey when Simon says “thumbs up” to them. We need statesmen at all times. ” » » WANTS MERRY:-GO:ROUND TO JOIN BROUN, BARNES By Hiram Lackey The Merry-Go-Round

tells us

that the real reason Congressmen |

want to go home is political cows ardice. It, is not the heat but the lack of courage to face the issues.

| Now if we can persuade the Mertys

Go=Round to join Broun Barnes ye stop so much backs sliding, iT we can encourage the Merry-Go-Round to continue to tell the truth, perhaps we can dedicate a portion of the right-hand side of The Times editorial page to education. This light will dispel

SUMMER TIME By RUTH E. MULRYAN The song of a bird at early morn,

[Gold sun Kissing the tasseled comm, Clover fields wafting oders sweet, | AR

the rippling rivulet wends in

cool retreat.

The soft rush of a summer breeze, Low distant hum of the honev=bees, Soft white clowds drifting idly by High overhead in a placid sky.

| Dewdrops sparkle on the flaming

rose,

pause in sweet repose, Fragrance and beauty of flower and vine, All render their eharm to summers

time,

AILY THOUGHT

But if ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do all these commandments. Leviticus 26:14.

HEREVER there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience Haliburton,

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By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen

| CONGRATULATES DEMOCRATS FOR PLAN TO PURGE PARTY By W. Seott Taylor Progressive Republicans who bes lieve that a better distribution of purchasing power is necessary to employ the idle, reduce the relief load, balance the budget and pre= serve and enlarge the middle class in this eountry, congratulate the | Democrats of Indiana for their | courage and enterprise in proposing | to clean out the Democratic Party.

It will make it unnecessary for | the progressives to vote for an Old | | Guard Republican for Senator for | no other purpose than to show the rest of the country that the men | for whom they vote cannot knife the President with impunity.

There should be no fear about] the result. If there were enough | | conservative Republicans and Dem | ocrats in Indiana to win at the polls, President Roosevelt never | would have been reselected. As for | the Court battle, anybody who reads | the letters indorsing Senator Vans Nuys can see that the writers are | saturated with Old Guard Repub- | lican propaganda. The letters long | | since have given the writers away, | and it is too late for them to pre-| tend to be anything else. | The Democrats should have even | less fear if Senator VanNuys runs (as an Independent. He would split | the conservative vote, weaken the | | Republicans and insure the election | of a Demoerat pledged to support | the President beyond the possibility of a doubt.

| While the Democrats are cleaning | [ up, why not make it a complete job. | building for the future? What about | the Congresstnan who won such | hearty praise from Republican ex | | Senator Watson? Who was Mr. | | Watson referring to when he said: | “Republicans can have no quarrel [with the comparatively few Demos |crats who voted against the New | | Deal?” Why overlook the Congressman | { who voted with the Old Guard for the Power Trust on the Holding Company Bill? While the Democrats are eleaning up why should they overlook the Congressman of whom it eould be said--everybody is for peace and | | everybody is for humanity, but not | | for starving the destitute, or for the | | Power Trust, or for knifing the President ?

It Seems to Me

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By Heywood Broun

Copeland Seems to Find Weather Too Mot for Congress, but Not For Pushing Own Political Ball,

EW YORK, Aug. 10.—Royal 8S. Copes land, the nose and throat solon, told his lay colleagues in the Senate that they should adjourn, because politics constituted a medical risk in summer weather, And vet the good doctor has thrown hig health to tha" wind in order to serve his country and save New York City for the Republican Party, IT he were consistent he would be nibbling a litte

lettuce now, sitting in a eodl place and rigorously eschewing all excitement and alcoholic bevs erages. Instead he is about to plunge into two or more primaries at the risk of both his political and his private life. The nation needs him, and that is all he needs to know This column is not written with any intention of assailing him, On the contrary, I hope the other Senators will follow his example and enlist for duration rather than run home to coolness and to cover, I am well aware of the fact that it ix very het in Washington, but I imagine thas quite a few of the textile mills are not air-condis tioned. And if women and children are to work maximum hours for minimum pay until winter comea I think the sacrifice they make to eruel economia necessity will be no less than that which the nas tional legislators should assume.

"HE Wages and Hours Bill ig certainly far less than ideal, but the only way to make a bes ginning is to begin. Grave are my doubts as io whether things now put aside would be promptly taken up at the next session, What, for instance: has become of the fervor of those In Congress an out who were all for liberalizimg the Constitution if only it were done by the amendment method? Where are their amendments now? Where will they be a year or 10 years from now? The answer, I'm afraid, is smack in the middle of Limbo Still more startling than the plea that the Sense ators are too tired to go on is (he ery of comments ing columnists that the workers in the mille muss wait their turn until these writers have had a chance to think the issues over a little longer, Thuf Dorothy Thompson writes in her syndicated plecs which she must deliver three times a week in spite of wind and weather, "This column is itself written under far too great pressure, The public has no tima’ to think things through.” y

This confusion between the individual columnist and the public {8 not uneemmon ameng all members of the craft, but what I am wondering is whether Miss Thompson seriously suggests that the affairs of the country must come to a complete halt until sha has had time to ecateh up with her home work and make up her mind? It is my notion that the milla still grind.

Mr. Broun

JA NOTHIR devoted liberal who has recently been articulate against haste in many legislative matters 1s Oswald Garrison Villard, and yet on ona issue Mr, Villard is s0 premature that he has already enlisted for a war which has not yet been declared.In his weekly sermon in the Nation, Mr. Villard makes A courageous commitment. He says that if Franklin Roosevelt should run for a third term, “I for one should expect to campaign against him by day and by night as for the very life of the republie.® Mr. Villard, I assume, would constitute himself a piliar of fire by night, but just now his violence about an issue which has not arisen is more in the shapes

I of a cloud of dust by day,

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ashington Merry-Go-Round

Urban States Needing Housing Paid Big Share of Rural Project Costs: Maritime Commission's Registry Reads Like Who's Who of Lobbyists,

it is only onestenth. For this reason the boy billion broadcasters in WPA thought it was poison. Muddom Perkins seemed to be the chief assassin. She didn’t want to face a record of how many uns authorized aliens she had let in and not deported,

and how many we are supporting. » ® »

NCLE DANNY objected to the terrible implica= tions of proof that you can take a census in 1 per cent of the time at 2 per cent of the cost of his way of doing it. But now we are to have a census, It is to be

the bitter opIt is 50 much

complete by April—which proves that it is to be a self-registration project, Essential direction is to be in the hands of a com. mittee on which Uncle Danny, Muddom Perkins and Harry Hopkins run the show. That's just like putting Little Goodie Two 8hoes in the hands of a committee composed of the Three Bears, Rumpelstiltskin and the Big Bad Wolf. When they get through it will be established conclusively either that self-registration won't work or that there are no unauthorized aliens, that instead of 5,000,000 unemployed the number is really 15,000,000 and that Mr. Hopkins should be put immediately in exclusive charge of the Treasury with WPA attached as a new Treasury Bureau of the

complete evacuation of all pujgie funds.

| JASHINGTON, Aug, 10. —All the Senate talk about New York State getting chief benefits under the Wagner Housimg Bill overlooked the fact that New York, and other densely populated Eastern states, have been paying a large part of the West's agricultural and reclamation bills, For instance, no member of Congress has been more successful in getting appropriation bills benefit ing his state thah Rep. Jack Dempsey of New Mexico, That state now has a population of only 400,000, but Rep. Dempsey put through a total of 10 measures this session authorizing or appropriating funds for the benefit of New Mexico, Among these was a $6,000,000 reclamation project and a $4,000,000 project for the canalization of the Rio Grande River, "8 ® O some of the politicos in the House, principle, apparently, 1s one thing and consistency another, After a protracted struggle, the ban against simule taneous job-holding by husbands and wives was repealed, When the ban was adopted in 1033 some 3000 husbands and wives were dismissed, and a number of divorces and unwed relationships were directly attrib uted to it. , The House voted for repeal by a large margin,

Among those who spouted “nay” were:

Rep. Lewis L. Boyer (D. Ill), whose is on hig Congressional payroll, Rep. Raymond 8. McKeough (D. 111), whose daughe ter, Catherine T', is on his Congressional payroll, Rep. Andrew J, May (D. Ky.), whose wife, Julia Qa, is on his Congressional payroll . Rep. John M, O'Connell (D. R. 1). whose son, John M, Jr, is on his Congressional payroll, Rep. Maleolm ©, Tarver (D, Ga.), whose son, Mals colm C. Jr, is on his Congressional payroll,

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rene all the howl on Capitol Hill about lobby ists, it has taken the new Maritime Commission to crack down on the buttonhole boys, The Phipping lcbby has been notorious in Washe ington for decades, But now the commission has ree quired all lobbyists to furnish statements telling everything about their connections, fees and expense ace counts, and moreover to fille them every month, The rule has been in operation only two months. but 310 lobbyists have registered, ' ; As a result, the commission's registry reads like a! lobbyist Who's Who, Among the names are some that: haye figured prominently in sensational Congressional . investigations, f In contrast, the SEC has been decidedly luke-warm: in enforcing its antilobbying authority. . Judging from the few registrations—20 at present the high-pressure gentry are taking full advantage.

son, John Ly