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MONDAY, AUG. 16, 1937

BITTER LESSONS IN CHINA IKE Bernard Shaw's plays, editorials may be classified as pleasant and unpleasant. This one is unpleasant. It is about China and Japan. Diplomacy’s inadequacy in a still primitive world, and the disagreeable, hence unwelcome, lessons suggested by the shocking events in the Far East. If the world had been prepared to enforce the covenant of the League of Nations, the one constructive result of the World War, none of the wars which have happened since could have happened. No nation would have dared start anything. Japan would not have invaded Manchuria in 1931. She would not now be battering away at Shanghai and carving up North China. If the nations which in 1922 signed the Nine-Power Treaty to safeguard China had performed halfway as they were in honor bound to perform, Eastern Asia would not now be ablaze. If the nations had honored their signatures to the Kellogg pact outlawing aggressive war—a promise they took so solemnly at Paris nine years ago this month— Nippon would not now be dismembering China. If Great Britain in 1931 had honored the spirit of any one of her several pledges and stood firmly with the United States and by the League, Japan's encroachments in China almost certainly would have stopped far short of where they now seem to be leading. = » n = UT they didn't. And why they didn’t is altogether too apparent. Whiie certain forward-looking statesmen were able to evolve plans to make the world safe against international outlawry, the world as a whole has simply

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not yet developed to the point where it will live up to any |

such ideal.

The League, the Kellogg pact and the Nine-Power | China Treaty all broke down because their members or |

signatories did not feel their own particular interests were sufficiently at stake. Pacts or no pacts, the world is not yet ready to make any real sacrifice for the sake of peace in the abstract. People are still too selfish. This may sound cynical. unpleasant as the proposition itself.

So What |_By Talburt

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By Westbrook Pegler

Roosevelt Has His Faults, Writer

Declares, But He Has No Equal as a

Social and Political Liver-Shaker

NEW YORK, Aug. 16.—That Mr. Roose- |

velt has his faults your correspondent

would be among the first to admit under | very little pressure, but, as a social and po- | litical liver-shaker, he has had no equal in | our time 1n this country.

But the corollary is just as | For the corollary is |

that, like it or not, the security of any nation depends |

solely upon its own forces or upon its friends or allies who share common interests.

other powers are afraid to attack them.

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Ornery, tricky, stubborn, strong as a bull, he has bucked, wheeled, kicked, walked on his hind legs,

tried to mash us against the barn and scrape our |

heads off under the door in more years of continuous

{ plunging, and he apparently isn't il it . | even breathing hard yet. Britain and France, for instance, are fairly safe because |

Tiny Belgium is |

likewise relatively secure because the country that attacks | | promise of a few surprises, but all

her will have to lick Britain and France. China has 450,000,000 inhabitants. 000. If China were anything like as strong as her manpower suggests, little Nippon would not now be engaged in cutting herself another slice. = = » Y the foregoing we do not mean we believe that the futility of diplomacy in the realm of international peace is final. On the contrary, its efforts should be redoubled. For if mankind; as a whole today, remains too primitive to follow the road to collective peace, it means there is still a huge educational job to be done. Meanwhile, we must not put the cart before the horse, China fashion. Until the law carried security to our frontiers, men carried guns at their belt. When the law came, the guns disappeared. World armaments can ouly go the same way. The nation that tries the other way courts the

fate of China. ON ITS FACE

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He looked nice and dressy back there in 1933. That business about the Forgotten Man and the New Deal was interesting and gave

| candidates except your consum-

Japan has 70,000,- |

mate Landons and John Davises have their little catch-phrases, and we had developed a habit of forgetting all such after inauguration. However, he went into his dance in March, 1933, and before anyone knew what had happened he was lashing out with his heels and shaking us all over the place. NRA, TVA, AAA, CCC, he sprung on us before we could catch a fair hold, and while the world was still spinning he started lending people Federal money to mend a leaky sink or buy a new mule; building tailor-made towns in Eastport and Knoxville and

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| digging a ditch across Florida and building a dam to | harness the tides of Fundy.

INE Democratic Congressmen, members of the House |

3 : e | < n investigation of the : Rules Committee, have blocked an investig | hitch that comes to mind, and expects to be used the

loyalty which |

oe > \ : Ne . | actuates the members of the Rules Committee—a concep | for an instant, but in spite of all this he has eo.

Democratic National Committee's bookselling racket.

{to defend that racket.

defend it. And the conception of party

tion which we believe to be false and wrong—demanded that |

they should protect from investigation those who were responsible for that racket. The bill of charges presented by Republican Leader Snell is unanswerable. It contains its own proof that the sale to corporations of Democratic convention books at $250 each skirted the edges of illegality if it did not actually cross the line; that the President’s own autograph was misused to give these books a fictitious pretense of value; and that some of the solicitors who peddled them for the Democratic Committee used grossly improper threats and promises in their high-pressure campaign to make the corporations buy. We have not often agreed with Mr. Snell. But we do agree with him that the Democratic book sale, on its face and in spite of the refusal to investigate, is a disgraceful and demoralizing example of political racketeering. In our own back yard, the Indiana Democratic organization’s fund-raising book is another malodorous scheme. We cannot believe Governor Townsend sanctioned this ven ture but he owes it to himself to disclaim and denounce it.

WHY NOT NOW? WHILE the House works on the Administration program Y. -the Senate marks time with minor legislation. Seo why isn’t this a good time for the Senate to pass the Wag-per-VanNuys-Gavagan Antilynching Bill?

This long-needed measure passed the House in April, |

977 to 119. The Senate Judiciary Committee reported it favorably, 12 to 3. Since Congress convened in January there have been six authenticated lynchings and five disappearances with the color of mob action. Records show that lynchings increase when threat of Federal action is removed. Eventually America will have a Federal antilynching law. Delay will only add to the grisly record now being written by lawless mohs. \

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E tells us that one-third of the population is illhoused, ill-fed and ill-clothed, which may be true or an exaggeration.” He wants to dictate wages and hours and wipe out the rights of the states, which are largely fictitious or abandoned: he wants to put a roof over every family and a little money in the bank for everyone, and he has jogged the South into a realization at last that the Negro is the white man’s enemy only because the white employer uses the Negro to depress pay and living conditions. He is also showing himself to be a tremendously tough, rough-and-tumble fighter, who will use any

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ELL, he is still wild in many of his methods, and he is not to be trusted with a loose rein

complished some reforms and. much more important, he has stirred .the whole nation for once into an appreciation of the real problems of poverty, unequal distribution, unequal opportunity, dictatorship and the rights and obligations of the states.

Never in our time have people been se conscious of the burden they carry in taxes, of the meanness which a complacent upper class will practice on the help, and of the Government's duty to do something real and personal for the assistance of those who are so far down that they can't help themselves.

He needs to be fought all the time for he has an |

enormous appreciation of himself, and of any idea which he happens to approve, but if the country doesn't go absolutely broke in his time it will be a more intelligent and a better country after him.

The Hoosier Forum

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

SEEKS TO ROUSE INTEREST IN OLD-AGE BENEFITS By W. H. M.

| On Jan. 1 of this year we initiated {one of the greatest financial un-

| dertakings of all times, the old-age

perhaps because it was not clear to

| them, And this is something that | should be remedied immediately. | Without going into higher mathe- | matics and insurance statistics, it | should be possible to educate the | “man in the street” to appreciate | the important details of the oldage benefit system, and thereby | arouse and keep aroused public interest in its affairs. With a Congress only too willing to appropriate borrowed money for al kinds of purposes—some of them necessities—and with a Federal

(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, reiigious con- | troversies excluded. Make your letter shert, so all can | have a chance. Letters must | be signed, but names will | be withheld on request.)

| easily, and for once she is 100 per {cent correct. | Now that Mrs. German has turned

{to the man he replaced. Can anybody in the State of Indiana ever | forget “Lil Arthur”? | The Times accurately stated the i situation when it gave us the Wash- | ington opinion: “The man who would be missed least.” Indeed, Indiana has cause for re- | Joicing because it is ably repre- | sented in Washington. Senator Min- | ton honestly represents The People: Senator VanNuys represents himself

[and Economic Royalty.

| 2 ” ” | NEW DEAL SOCIALISM | CHARGE DENIED | By One of the Masses

The reading matter in the Hoosier Forum might show improvement if two or three journalist entrepre-

Treasury right now listing pay- | neurs, who habitually contribute, ments under the new law-—suppos- | would consult Webster, Britannica, edly insurance premiums—as reve- | or other authoritative source to find nue “in line with income taxes, in- out what they are talking about. heritance taxes and other nuisance | po; instance, there is the persist-

taxes,” we need a critical public interest in the details of the system, (now and forever. We cannot allow {it to die out, because the minute | we do, the reserve fund. if indeed | it ever comes into actual existence, i will be subject to the pork-barrel | philosophy of Congress. And remember, it is our money, yours and | mine, taken out of our paV enve- | lopes and paid in our names.

! ” ” ” | VANNUYS CALLED BETTER | THAN PREDECESSOR | By Pat Hogan! Columbus

The Hoosier Forum, clearing house | for the wise and otherwise, overjoyed and disgruntled, has become the most interesting section of The

| Times. You may bring your pet plan |

| here and openly worship it for a {day and see it trampled in the dust | tomorrow. Every week brings a new crop of | budding authors, but a few of the veterans hang on year after year [and continue in the face of sarcasm ‘and stupid abuse, to give construc- | tive criticism. Hiram Lackey, dean of the class, always | graphs which drive home his logic with sledge hammer force.

has a few pungent para- |

Mable German is fighting to the]

ent charge that the Roosevelt Ad- | ministration has violated the man- | date of the people by inaugurating socialism. If that were so, Morgan, | Rocketeller, du Pont, Ford, Mellon { and the rest of the 59 denominated | by Gerard as the rulers of America, are no longer capitalists, as their

NIGHT VISITOR By EDNA JETT CROSLEY

| There is a star that shines so bright | Through my window every night. [It is a friend of mine, I know, | The way he lingers, before he goes. [Tt lights the lamp within my soul, | It soothes the ache my heart enfolds And soon that tightening in my | throat | Slips away like a vibrant toll. And in its stead a peace descends And quiet reigns, and shadows bend. |My eye-lids close and dreams begin | As I faintly hear the cock crow then, | AILY THOUGHT { And Jesus answering said unto | them, The children of this world | marry, and are given in marriage. —Luke 20:34.

any such

| twitterings heard in the 1936 elec- |

| tions, ” ” ” ‘WALK WITH AL SMITH’ | SUGGESTED FOR VANNUYS By J. E. P. Since Mr.

Roosevelt has been in

| time to write. But since I have just | read where Senator VanNuys says | he will be a candidate for the next

| term, I feel that I must do my part. | Since he doesn't say whether he will

| be a Democratic candidate or not, I

feel that he is about to line up with

{ the G. O. P.

i I didn't take time to scratch Mr. | VanNuys. I didn’t expect him to do |

| anything of any good to the people, but thought possibly he wouldn't do any harm. Rut by co-operating with President Roosevelt and Senator Minton, he would not have gotten much publicity. He would rather do a little bucking and get in the iimelight. But the people won't forget this at the next election. If he runs on the Democratic ticket again, I shall take time to scratch him. I think it is about time for Mr. VanNuys to fold up with his little antilynching bill and take a walk with Al Smith.

n ” o | CLAIMS DEMOCRAT OLD GUARD IS IN SADDLE | By E. F. Maddox

| Well, the New Deal revolutionists | have had their inning and now the |

counter-revolutionists have the ball. The quarterback made a

lat the Supreme Court, and now he

the Old Line Democrats from making a goal. { When Jack Garner calls the play,

[the “Old Guard” moves forward in | la solid phalanx before which. the | | wild-eyed radicals retreat in defeat |

| and dismay. Wa are not merely

getting back to the horse-and-buggy

rolling days.

tatorial political

the brave.” You can lead or drive you can't make it swallow a courtpacking plan to circumvent Constitution.

strangely |

“faux | __ | pas” when he made a flying tackle |

Congress to the horse trough, but |

the | | enthusiastic about being paid less than the men and In fact, we are in a real rebellion. A rebellion against alien theories of |

{last ditch to exterminate the New | Deal, Roosevelt, and Minton. Her | {last lecture informs us that the] "American people do not

General Hugh Johnson Says—

After Four Years of Fumbling, Resolutions to Count Jobless and Take Inventory of Costs Indicate That Road to Progress Has Been Found.

ETHANY BEACH, Del, Aug. 16.—By request, I quote in full the little bit of St. Luke I used recently: “For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first and counteth the cost?” Here, I interrupted to answer, “the New Deal’— referring to the little inquiry on which we have spent $10,000,000,000 and on which legislation is being bum’srushed through Congress. We are launched on a program of which nobody knows the cost.

Maury Maverick in the House have determined to find out what it is all about. They are co-operating

on resolutions for a Congressional inquiry on the | | whole range of unemployment and relief problems.

These two legislators will bear watching. When

Mr. Maverick wishes he could make Senator Black | the Supreme Court chief justice, one could wistfully | wish that the “wild and woolly and full of fleas” |

might at least sometimes “be curried below the

knees.” as there always has been with Senator Byrnes.

= Re. HE action of Joe Kennedy is significant. He has authority to shoot close to half a billion dollars to restore the American merchant flag to its Clipper

Jimmy Byrnes in the Senate and |

But there is legislative independence here, |

glory on the seven seas—a chance for superlative ballyhoo. Instead of Hopkinsing blindly ahead, he has just announced that he won't spend a nickel until he has exhaustively examined the whole subject. And now the Senate is going to authorize a count of the unemployed. Glory be! Yet here in my own

family a Times editorial said that a count is no good— either a census count, taking a year, or a self-regis-tration recommended by this column, taking a day— because it would be only a useless record of dead yesterday. What we want, said the editorial, is a con-

stant running record. n

HAVE exhausted patience trying to make that very | point. As all my readers—except apparently the . editor—know. I proposed a self-registration every 90 days—a continuous picture. The editorial suggestion that a nasional re-employ-ment service—strengthened, perhaps—is enough, is answered adversely in my experience. I tried to use it in organizing WPA in New York City, to put 120,000 men in jobs, and it just couldn’'t—and wouldn’t— function. When I made a documented report proving that to this Administration, it suppressed the report. But all that seems to be water over the dam. After

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four years of fumbling, weuseem to be on our way.

OU cannot weld cake dough to cast iron, nor a girl to an old | watch those Southern Democrats forget man.—Austin O'Malley.

government such as socialism, comunion and fascism. And just

"stand up and fight. . . .

It Seems to Me

‘By Heywood Broun

Nomination of Black for High Court Hailed as Extremely Sound Politics Linked With Good Statesmanship.

NEW YORK, Aug. 16.—I think that Presi dent Roosevelt made an excellent selec tion when he sent the name of Senator Black in for confirmation as a Supreme Court

Justice. Moreover, Mr. Roosevelt has succeeded in confounding those critics who have expressed the belief that his political acumen has been worn away

to nothing. The choice of Senator Black is not only good statesmanship but extremely sound politics, and there is no reason why the two things should not go hand in hand. The gentleman from Ala~ bama has an excellent and une broken record as a progressive, and yet it will be rather difficult for conservative colleagues who come from his section of the country to offer active opposition, Just the same, there is enough dynamite in the nomination to blow some of the concealed torch out of the liberal togas inn which they have been parading. Sen ator Johnson already stands revealed as a legislator whose liberalism constitutes little more than a hate band. This should not surprise anybody, for his reputation as a progressive rested only on the fact that he once ran for Vice President on the Bull Moose ticket, and it is just as well to remember that Mr. Munsey was one of the most vociferous of all the Moose and by far the most lavish in his campaign contributions. ” ” o T the moment it seems as if the reactionaries of the Senate are going to be compelled to accept a real progressive and pretend to like it. Those who fight against Senator Black will be forced into the position of making public admission that they oppose him because of his activity in striving for the better ment of working conditions. . Up to this point the move of Franklin Roosevelt remains pretty clearly in the field of shrewd political judgments. Statesmanship enters the picture because

Mr. Broun

is going to have hard work to keep | Of the potential effect which the confirmation of Mr,

Black may well have upon the entire South. It is a political and an economic tragedy that the South is solid. National administrations would be far more representative of the wishes of the entire nation in many years if it were not for the fact that certain States will vote for anybody at all if he happens to ba on a Democratic ticket. It is not sound that great and important offices should depend whoily upon the primary and that the actual election should be rothe ing more than a matter of form. ” n ” ARTY machinery being what it is, the South has sent to both the House and the Senate many men who were in no true sense actually representative of their communities. The South is no longer predomi= nantly conservative. The growth of industrialism has brought to the fore the same eccnomic issues which stir the men and women of Northern states. The ancient tradition of wage differentials is ona which is dear to the hearts of Southern employers, but it hardly seems likely that Southern workers are

women who do precisely the same jobs in New York or Massachusetts. And in spite of Cotton Ed Smith's declaration that God has been so bountiful to the Southland that the pay envelope is a matter of no importance I still believe that he speaks rather for

| himself than for the masses.

The Washington Merry-Go-Round

Ire at Southern Conservatives Declared Motive for Nominating Blacks Their Axing of Wage-Hour Bill Seen Last Straw Roosevelt Could Take.

By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen

ASHINGTON, Aug. 16.—Senator Black's nomination to the Supreme Court was intended to be exactly what it appeared to be—a declaration of war on the conservative Southerners who have been raising so much hob with the President. The Alabaman is the outstanding New Dealer of the South. He is antiutility, prolabor, and has gone down the line 100 per cent for the President. As a vehicle for serving notice of defiance and battle, he was made to order. It was this factor alone that weighted the balance in Senator Black's favor. The President did not seri-

ously consider naming him until the Southern coterie on the House Rules Committee threw a wrench into the Wage-Hour Bill.

Mr. Roosevelt's ire against the conservative South- | erners had been rising for months. Their bitter blasts |

against him during the Supreme Court struggle, their fight against the election of Senator Barkley as Floor Leader, their near-successful efforts to shelve the Wage-Hour Bill in the Senate, and their mutilation of the Housing Bill gradually developed in him a smoldering rage. The Rules Committee rebuff was the last straw, » ” » O Senate cronies Vice President Garner, whose undercover axing of the President's measures has been a very potentefactor in the Southern opposition,

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voiced frank admiration of the political astuteness of the appointment, Whatever else he may be, Mr. Gar- ~ ner is a master politician, and the President's move struck a responsive chord. “You've got to hand it to the President,” he told his intimates; “he put over a 10-strike. Hugo is an excellent lawyer, he is young, he is a Senator and the geography is right. You can’t beat that combination,” n n HE President .will sign the bill making a few changes in lower court procedure that Congress passed in place of his Supreme Court reorganization plan. But there will be a stringer attached to his signature. He plans to issue a statement declaring that the legislation does not satisfy him and that he has not abandoned his determination to infuse new blood into the Federal judiciary. couched in temperate language, but its tone of ree buke and challenge will be clear. The President and his advisers are firmly cone vinced that the majority opinion of the country is with him on the issue. a special committee to “study” the Federal Courts. The Administration views this action as conclusive evidence that they are worried over their stand and are trying to protect themselves against its adverse’ political effects by this placating gesture.

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