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TUESDAY, AUG. 31, 1937

YOU OWE $284.62 VERY man, woman and child—rich or poor, sick or well, on relief or off—every bootblack and yacht owner, every ditchdigger and gold digger, every clerk and every storekeeper, every farmer and every factory worker would be called upon to ante up $284.62 to the Federal Government if the gross national debt were to be retired today. For the gross national debt has attained the enormous total of $37,021,303,409.05. That extra nickel makes the sum look familiar, but adds nothing to the comprehension of such an astronomical figure. Dividing that $37,021,303,409.05 by the approximately 130,000,000 population of this country does more than reduce the number of digits from 13 to five. For we all know what $284.62 means to each of us. To most of us it means a lot more than we have to spare. National debt retirement, it slowly over a leng period of years.

when

Your grandchildren will be helping pay off that $37,~ |

021,303,409.05.

This is not a charge against the. rich, although they | Se ; = gi The Liberal View

‘By Dr. Harry Elmer Barnes

will have to bear their just share. It's a charge against the whole country. It's a charge against you. For the Government gets the bulk of its revenue from hidden taxes which fall heaviest on the poor. And that is the reason why in every Congressional

starts, will run |

district of this country, between now and the reconvening |

of Congress, the people should let their Congressmen know that the time for large-scale and wasteful spending is over, and that the time has come for imposition of taxes adequate to run the Government and to start reducing that immense mortgage on our country’s future.

CHINESE BOMBERS HILE Britain is reading the riot act to Japan for machine-gunning her ambassador to China, it might not be amiss for Washington to speak a few plain words to

the Government at Nanking on the subject of Chinese |

bombers.

Coming as it does on the heels of the Shanghai incident |

in which Chinese airmen dropped bombs in Nanking Road

and Avenue Edouard VIII, killing hundreds and wounding |

thousands—including Americans and other foreigners— the bombing of the American liner President Hoover is more than irksome.

The President Hoover is a merchant ship of approxi- |

mately 22,000 tons. She is well known in Chinese waters. Her markings are distinctive.

The time may come when all American shipping will | be warned away from the war zone. But that time is not yet. |

There is still considerable relief and rescue work to be done | In fact, the President |

among Americans in the Orient. Hoover was off the mouth of the Yangtze, 50 miles below Shanghai, on just such a mission. The Hague Convention of 1907, dealing with the quali-

fications for belligerents, stipulates that for troops to be | entitled to the special privilege attaching to belligerency, |

they must conform to certain international usage. And one | | ditional guaranties of the safety of foreign traders in

of the most important of the rules is that “all regular, militia or volunteer forces shall be commanded by persons responsible for the acts of their men.” Both China and Japan should have this and other rules forcefully called to their attention by every interested power. Those in command could and should issue the strictest orders to their men to make sure at whom, or what they are shooting, before they shoot. After all, they are

supposed to be fighting each other, not the noncombatants |

who are doing their best to get out of the way.

THIRD TERM TWADDLE OVERNOR BENSON of Minnesota told interviewers recently that he favored a third term for President Roosevelt, and Governor Murphy of Michigan the same afternoon said he had found an “appreciable” third-term sentiment. These friends and would-be supporters of the President, along with Governors Earle of Pennsylvania and Allred of

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Texas, who indulge in the same brand of talk, impress us as | rendering the New Deal and its leaders just about the worst |

possible service.

Third-term talk never yet has benefited a President, al- |

ways has been used to his disadvantage, always is pounced |

upon gleefully by his enemies.

Talk of a third term for the President today merely sets |

up a straw man for opponents to kick.

It is easy to see |

Mark Sullivan viewing it with alarm, but hard to imagine |

Governor Murphy taking it seriously. Let's have constructive attack to correct things that are wrong with the Administration. But why encourage this hoary bogey-man and build up a blind hysteria?

HOOVER SPEAKING WRITING in Atlantic Monthly, Herbert Hoover dwells on his familiar theme—the issue of personal freedom against what he calls the New Deal's “coercive, planned economy’ and “promises of delivered happiness.” But there is less of common scolding, more of honest party selfsearching here than usual. . The Democrats sell $250 books autographed by F. D. R. to big corporations, but on the other hand, Mr. Hoover observes pointedly, the Republicans in 1936 “secured nearly a half million dollars from the individual members of one large corporation.” We wish Mr. Hoover well as he hits the sawdust trail. We believe, however, that a real revival, such as he calls for, awaits some new and younger Republican leaders. Certainly his party can get nowhere with the old carping tacties that led Mr. Landon to defeat. It needs what Mr. Hoover ealls “affirmative purpose.” Without new leaders and new principles it is likely to go the way the Federalists went as they built their program with the single negative purpose of destroying Jefferson.

Review of Far Eastern History Reveals Japan Has Good Reason For Doubting Western Altrusim.

NEW YORK, Aug. 31.—It annoys us to see Japan insist upon handling the Chinese crisis just as she wishes and demanding that all other states keep their hands off. Yet, it is hard to study Far Eastern history and deny that Japan has pretty good grounds for doubting the altruism of the Western nations who now seem so solicitous about the peace and

integrity of China. Japan is about in the position of a man who has watched a sick neighbor receive a procession of sympathetic visitors. After one Good Samaritan left, the ailing neighbor missed his choice cutglass vase. Another's departure was signalized by the disappearance of his wife's diamond neckJace. The third took a fancy to a rare old first edition. And so on. It has been the privilege of Japan to observe the intervention

| of Europe for the “good” of China

for a century now. But every benevolent gesture to the Yellow giant has been accompanied by generous helpings to Chinese territory, trade, or both. Hence, Japan may be pardoned if, in 1937, she is mildly skeptical about the charitable attitude of Westerners. » ” ” IRST came the Opium War of 1840-42 with Great

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

Washington

By Raymond Clapper Public Opinion May Be Peace Force,

WEIGHS RELIGION’S FATE IN SPANISH WAR By J.FF M.

Mr. Pegler’s article Aug. 13 indirated the latest general outlook on the Spanish war—neither side can lay claim to the highly prized word, democracy. In his remarks on the Rebel sympathizers he observed that even if the Communists won, it | hardly would be possible for Chris- |

(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.)

tianity to be wiped out; hence why | town driver, strange to our paved |

should they be so fearful of a Com- cow-paths! He can easily lose himmunist victory? Especially Hitler, who in his spare time is tion. quite handily persecuting Christians in Germany, is backing the Rebels.

I understand originally there

| city, but it looks like a hopeless

| The answer to this query can be | mess to me, even on the map.

| summed up shortly. { Communism in theory is against | boulevard system; by following one |

As an example, I cite Chicago's

|all religion; it would destroy every | boulevard, one may drive through [trace of this so-called “opium of | the length and breadth of the city,

the people.” In practice it has car- | Visit all its parks and beauty spots, |

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Britain. As a result of her victory, Great Britain |

| forced China to open four more important ports to

British trade. Britain then helped to put down the Tai-Ping rebellion between 1853 and 1864, strengthening herself with the Chinese Government. In the meantime, Britain and France pried open six more Chinese ports and forced China to give ad-

China. There was the particularly bitter pill of the Chi-nese-Japanese war of 1894-5. The western powers would not let the Japanese keep their spoils of war, but pocketed most of the Japanese winnings themselves, Many dependencies were lopped off China, France took Indo-China between 1862 and 1885. Britain grabbed Burma in 1885, and Tibet between 1904 and 1914. Russia swooped down on Manchuria and Mongolia. In 1898, Germany, who got to China after the British and French frechbooters, seized the Shantung Peninsula to avenze the death of two German Catholic missionaries, The strongly Lutheran Kaiser had not been especially fond of German Catholics at home, but he discerned in these slain missionary priests “his dear brothers in Christ.” Ed n zn ' HE foreigners not only seized territory and trading concessions, but also insisted upon extra territoriality—the right to be tried in their own courts. This made it all but impossible for the Chinese to preserve law and order or protect their citizens from foreigners. It was natural that the Chinese would fail to see the humor in all this, and they rose in the Boxer Revolt of 1900 to kick out the foreigners. But the foreigners proved too strong, and China sank deeper still in the slough of despond and foreign tutelage. I, for one, will rejoice in the day when the Chinese will rise up and clear every Jap out of Chinese territory. But a little knowledge of history will explain why the Japs now wish to keep the pilfering show all to themselves.

General Hugh Johnson Says—

Ghosts of 1914 Are Walking Again to Threaten United States’ Neutral

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| ing—the temptation must be very | | great to have one's name cut

| see and admire.

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ligion. Granted that Hitler has per-| If we go seriously into the busi-

secuted in Germany—the fact still | ness of hosting at conventions, we { had better build boulevards tirst so |

remains that Mussolini has not in | € E Italy. It all simmers down to a case | they can get here without getting of will and might. If the Com- | lost; and a belt superhighway to aid munists win, they will persecute; if | and encourage the commercial life the Fascists win, they might, but | probably won’t. since both Franco > and Mussolini are partial to Chris- | ROLL BACKWARD, 0 tianity. This being the case, why | YEARS shouldn’t the Rebel Sympatiisess By MAIDA STECKELMAN lo, give me a boy—a wee little boy With a ball and a shaggy pup,

continue to be so? " ” ” Who ’rouses the house with his shrill Little voice, long about sun-up.

WANTS COLISEUM SHELVED FOR BOULEVARDS

By Stephen LeVan May Ary ee a | A wee little lad with a tousled head, § . : before okaying the motion to build | ou 1s At his scalp like a a Coliseum, there is hope they'll de- | Much finer than the silk on an ear

cide against it. Mayor Kern may be | of “Gon

pardoned for urging such a build- | And just as cling-taffy gold.

N fipves : stone for all future generations to Fling the day with his busy play, Running hither and yon; But this project, in my estima- | Till you'd think his tired little feet tion, should be shelved for a num- Would break from the legs they're ber of vears yet. Conventions at- | fastened on. tracted to Indianapolis should first | be provided with a safe, efficient | At last he crawls with a sleepy smile of getting into, about, and! Into the sag of my lap, around the city before worrying! And squirms and twists and blinks about where to convene them with | his eyes, pomp and circumstance, For the | Reluctant to call it a nap. time being, Cadle Tabernacle and |

buildings of the State Fair Grounds |So we rock and we dream—my arms |

full of love, His, clutching his puppy dog, Fan. I'd give—I'd give the last beat of my heart To call back that hour again.

DAILY THOUGHT

This is My commandment, That ye love one another as I have loved you.—John 15, 12,

will hold convocations as they | occur. { Indianapolis needs, and needs | sadly, a belt superhighway and | some system of boulevards. A superhighway for trucks to get into and out of town without traveling a tortuous maze of streets, which is inefficient for the trucks, noisy and unsafe for the residents along the route, and costly to the City in wear and tear on pavements. We need a | boulevard system for motorists so | that they can get from one side of | Lx one human being purely the city to another without passing | and warmly, and you will love through a congested business dis-| all. The heart in this heaven, like trict or by way of narrow and often the sun in its course, sees nothing, labyrinthinan outer streets, some of | from the dewdrop to the ocean, but them no wider than a respectable | a mirror which it brightens, and alley. And woe be to the out-of- warms and fills.—Richter,

Stand on Far Eastern Conflict Between Japan and Neighboring China. |

ETHANY BEACH, Del, Aug. 31.—There is form- | ing rapidly a fierce feeling against Japan. Un- | provoked attack! Rape of a peaceful people! Dis- | regard of promises to protect what she is now destroy- | ing! Ruthless imperialism! Victorious in China, she may turn her guns on us! These slogans sound exactly like those we heard here in 1914 about Germany and Belgium. The latter weund up in 1917 in our armed crusade to make the world safe for democracy—a venture that cost us 50 billion dollars and our impregnable solvency and brought the depression. There are other 1914 symptoms. Great Britain's toes are being stepped on. We hear a lot about our common interest with the mother land. Machine gunning of the British ambassador raised great indignation here. Blood is thicker than water—all the old 1914 stuff regurgitating. Our national resentment is a righteous one. sympathies are solely those of the heart.

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LREADY there is a good deal of criticism of the | President and Secretary Hull for not making | “stronger diplomatic representations” to Japan. There is one thing our people learn—it is that “strong representations,” if not accompanied by both the power | and the purpose to move in and back them up with armed force, are dangerous and worse than worthless because, since the nation to whom they are made simply courteously acknowledges and cynically files them, they are humiliating and this very flouting is an incitement to belated and unwise war.

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It’s all right for Uncle Sam to say to the God emperor: “Hey, you! Turn loose of that Chino's pig- | taii or I'll make your backside ring like a bell”—if the fleet is all steamed up and munitioned and ready to do it. But if it isn’t, and it most certainly is not— all Uncle Sam would get is a sock in the eye with a Then probably English propaganda would be that our joint national honors must then be | avenged. n n ” LSO, we would have another little playmate in our rough party—Communist Russia. Joe Stalin doesn’t want the Japanese in China. He wants to make Communists out of those 400,000,000 people. It was only because Russia was having some kind of serious internal upheaval in her army that he stopped trying it and the Japanese broke loose at all. Otherwise, they might have had a couple of thousand incendiary Russian planes burning up the paper-built Japanese cities long before this. Our contribution to the defeat of Germany may have been intended to make the world safe for democracy, but what it actually did was to make Russia safe for communism, Germany and Italy secure for fascism, and God knows where we are headed ourselves just now if Jim Farley is right that the people are for the President's policy “whatever it is.” Oh well, we'll probably bull right into it and Jim is probably right because, as a people, we are the world's worst suckers since Esau bought his mess of red, red pottage and didn’t have sense enough to redeem himself with his own hairy *aands,

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By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen k ASHINGTON, Aug. 31.—The State Department is keeping it very shush-shush, but it is making | an exhaustive investigation of the undercover activities of certain Spanish supporters in this country |

of the Rebel Gen. Franco. Under particular scrutiny is Juan de Cardenas, | who resigned as Ambassador to the United States following the outbreak of the Fascist revolt. vheads a group of Spaniards who call themselves the

“Junta de Defensa Nacional.” quarters in a ritzy New York hotel and carry on an | extensive correspondence with American Fascist ele- |

Reason for the State Department’s special interest |

in the United States. wants to know is exactly what this representation

The U. S. Government does not recognize Franco and his Rebel regime. with the Loyalist Government, whose duly accredited Ambassador is Fernando de los Rios. The United States Code provides heavy penalties for representing a fereign government in this country without the authorization of the State Department. | Title 22 of the Code states, “. .

without prior notification of the Secretary of State | shall be fined not more than $5000, or Imprisoned not more than five years, or both.”

But Half a Dozen Men Seem to Have Power to Launch a World Conflict,

(Heywood Broun Is on Vacation)

of the city, which furthermore, de- | mands it if we insist on styling the town the “Crossroads of America.” | If the City cannot do it all, the | | State can and should help—therc’s |

| n surplus in the treasury. After that a | we can worry about the losses a | \W/ ASHINGTON, Aug. 31.—When you | Coliseum would net us. . : ; . | think how much daily business is done | on faith, through charge accounts, telephone conversations, and by simple oral promises . to pay or do something you wonder whether ' modern life could exist if human beings individually broke their word as nations do Just nine years ago the great Kellogg-Briand Antiwar Pact by which they promised not to resort to war as an instru ment of national policy. All major nations subscribed io this pledge, including Italy, which has since fought a war in Ethiopia, and Japan which shortly thereafter proceeded to conquer Manchuria and has now set its bombing planes cruising over China, must be that individuals and government are different. A nation's word is only as good as its bomb. Japan is laying some kind of blockade against China but our Government is having difficulty finding out just what it is. This war is being fought without any rules whatever except those that Japan makes as she goes along. All international law, all of the historic usage by which neutral nations knew what they could and could not do, has been scrapped. Japan won't even co-operate to the extent of calling it a war. It is a kind of international riot.

” 2 | WRITER SAYS PROPERTY OWNERS UNFAIR TO LABOR

R. Sprunger As long as one class is made to labor to provide a life of ease for another because they own the tools of production, we are not a “land of the free.” We are just wage slaves treated like a machine until the privileged class has no further use for us and tosses us on the scrap heap to get along the best we can. When you are on this heap it is called “lack of initiative” by the “cultured class.” When organized labor strikes for better conditions, this class has the nerve to talk about the ‘right to work,” but what do they say when | you are laid off from work? | | Then we have a class who do | | nothing but talk about alien | theories, patriotism, and such stuff. | [ am not interested in such stuff. | i When a new idea is advanced the | { main thing to look at is this: Is it | | human, democratic, will it do justice | [to the majority? { With unemployment increasing, | erime on a rampage, and the ma- | | jority deprived of owning property, | how long are you going to remain | in stupid lethargy?

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Mr. Clapper

ISCUSSING the ninth anniversary of the sighing of the Kellogg-Briand pact last week, Assistant | . ey Secretary of State Messersmith recalled that at the THINKS PARTY DISSENSION | time of signing Frank B. Kellogg, then American SecBARED BY ITS DENAL | retary of State, said that “the public conscience must | be aroused against the utter horror and frightfulness [BY BK { ‘of 'war.” | You can tell when there is party Mr. Messersmith added that despite the deteriorat= | dissension by watching the leaders | ing international outlook, more and more people were arise to deny it. . . . That Senate | clamoring for statesmen to insure the preservation Agriculture Committee didn't need | of peace. He urged energetic building up of public to go on tour to learn that the | opinion in that direction. | farmers like those Government | Fublic opinion in Democratic countries is fairly [ checks. ... Paul V. McNutt has car- | strong against wai except as an ultimate means of | ried Indiana for the 1940 Presidency | self-defense. France has accepted the now almost again. , . With the big guns pop- | complete tearing up of the Treaty of Versailles by [ ping again, the best years for us to | Germany. Britain only roused herself when she dis- | remember and profit by are 1914- | covered that Mussolini was threatening her empire 1917. communications. We are engaged not in finding some excuse for getting inte the Chinese war, but in trying to dodge bulicts and bombs while getting our people out. In none of these three countries is public opinion anxious for war.

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” n | CLAIMS ROBERT TAYLOR | PAYS AND PAYS By Bruce Catton

Virile males of the man’s man | school should be able to read a little | compassion into their feelings to-

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UT the difficulty was well described by one official here. Five or six men in the world have the power in their own hands to determine whether there shall ward Robert Taylor after seeing ac- | be war or peace. These include Mussolini, Hitler, Stacounts of the film star’s latest trip | lin and the small military clique in Japan. They to New York. | make public opinion in their countries. Their peoples | For any man who has to submit | hear only what the Governments want them to hear. | to such questions as “Do you think | It has been recently revealed that Mussolini decided (you are beautiful,” “What do you | to invade Ethiopia two years before anyone in his [think of the physical side of mar-| own country, except one or two of his most trusted riage” and “Do you snore” from a aids, had the faintest idea of such a thing. There | throng of feminine adorers — that | wasn't any such thing as a public opinion on that Iman is paying and paying plenty | policy until Mussolini decided to create it. | for whatever compensation he may So it seems as if the official is correct in saying | receive from the eminence of his | that it is not public opinion, but a handful of men | position. that hold the decision.

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State Department Investigating Self-Styled 'Ambassador' of France; Court Bill Axers on Committee Which May Pack Puerto Rican Judiciary.

ENATOR ASHURST, jest-loving New Deal chaire man of the Senate Judiciary Committee, pulled a fast one on a group of anti-Administration colleagues. Two of the five members of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico are reported incapacitated, but {hey have | refused to resign. This has greatly impaired the work | of the court, and the local bar recently petitioned the | Justice Department for relief. As there is no way to force the two men to quit, the only solution is to “pack” the Court with addis Cardenas | tional judges. Attorney General Cummings put the | matter up to the Judiciary Committee. It decided to send a committee to the island to make a first hand investigation and report at the next session.

They maintain head-

S chairman of the Judiciary Committee it fell to Ashurst to name the investigators. Solemnly he appointed Senator Burke, generalissimo of the fight against the President's court-packing bill; Sen= | ator Connally, one of the authors of the scathing | majority report against the measure; Senators King, | VanNuys and Austin, signers of the report. Mr. Burke accepted his selection with a wry | smile. “This certainly puts us in a tough spot,” he | remarked. “It would be funny if we had to recoms= mend the appointment of additional judges.” " “Maybe that was why Mr. Ashurst named vou,” a friend said. “I wouldn't put it past Henry,” Burke laughed, “But he told me he put me on the committee s6 T would be in line for one of the jobs. I thought thak was very nice of him until I learned that they have a Rabi in Puerto Rico of shooting judges they don't e,”

his junta is the fact that they proto be the representatives of Franco What the State Department

It does have official relations

. anyone who reprean agent of a foreign government