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Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way
RIley 5551
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 long period of years.
when starts, will run
ty, 3 cents a copy; delive | ered by carrier, 12 cents |
Your grandchildren will be helping pay off that $37,- |
021,303,409.05. This is not a charge against the. rich, although they It’s a charge against
For the
will have to bear their just share. the whole country. It's a charge against you.
which fall heaviest on the poor. And that is the reason why in every Congressional
{
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
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 | of Chinese |
the Government at Nanking on the subject 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 approximately 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. | | Chinese territory, trade, or both. | be pardoned if, in 1937, she is mildly skeptical about
There is still considerable relief and rescue work to be done among Americans in the Orient. In fact, the President 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 qualifications for belligerents, stipulates that for troops to be entitled to the special privilege attaching to belligerency, thev must conform to certain international usage. And one 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 thev are shooting, before they shoot. After all, they are supposed to be fighting cach other, not the noncombatants who are doing their best to get out of the way.
Ah! A Mate !'—By Herblock
By Dr. Harry Elmer Barnes
Review of Far Reveals Japan Has Good Reason For Doubting Western Altrusim.
| EW YORK, Aug. 31.—It annoys us to to run the Government and to start reducing that immense | N ? 3 :
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 Hence, Japan may
Dr. Barnes
the charitable attitude of Westerners. " u ” IRST came the Opium War of 1840-42 with Great 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, thus strengthening herself with the Chinese Government. In the meantime, Britain and France pried open six more Chinese ports and forced China to give additional guaranties of the safety of foreign traders in 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 {recbooters, seized the Shantung Peninsula to avenge the death of two German Catholic missionaries,
The strongly Lutheran Kaiser
The Liberal View
Government gets the bulk of its revenue from hidden taxes |
Eastern History |
Chinese Lullaby!
The Hoosier Forum
1 wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.=Voltaire.
WEIGHS RELIGIONS FATE IN SPANISH WAR [By 3. F. \. Mr. Pegler’s article Aug. 13 indi- | | rated the latest general outlook on | | the Spanish war-—neither side can | {lay claim to the highly prized word, | | democracy. In his remarks on Phe /
to ‘express
troversies
| Rebel sympathizers he observed that
(Times readers are invited their these columns, religious conexcluded. your letter short, so all can have a chance. be signed, but names will be withheld on request.)
of the city, which furthermore, de- [' mands it if we insist on styling the town the “Crossroads of America.” | Tf the City eannot do it all, the | State can and should help=there’s a surplus in the treasury. After that | we can worry about the losses a oliseum would net us.
views in
Make
Letters must
” on
WRITER SAYS PROPERTY
n
even if the Communists won, it {hardly would be possible for Chris- | tianity to be wiped out; hence why
| should they be so fearful of a Com- | cow=paths!
town driver, strange to our paved | He ean easily lose him-
OWNERS UNFAIR TO LABOR
By R. Sprunger
| munist victory? Especially since | Hitler, who in his spare time is
| quite handily persecuting Christians
in Germany, is backing the Rebels. |
| The answer to this can be [summed up shortly.
Communism in theory is againsi
query
[all religion; it ‘would destroy every | the length and breadth of the city,
{trace of this so-called “opium of | the people.” In practice it has carried out this principle to an effec- | tive degree=—see Russia and Mexico. Fascism isn’t utterly opposed to religion. Granted that Hitler has per-
self for hours hunting his destination. I understand originally there was some plan in laying out the city, but it looks like a hopeless mess to me, even on the map. As an example, I cite Chicago's boulevard system; by following one boulevard, one may drive through
| visit all its parks and beauty spots,
and incidentally obtain the most
{ flattering view of the city. Can you ldo that in Indianapolis?
secuted in Germany=-the fact still |
[remains that Mussolini has not in
| Ttaly. Tt all simmers down to a case |
lof will and might. If the Com- [ munists win, they will persecute; if
I'probably won't since both Franco |
{and Mussolini are partial to Chris- | tianity. This being the case, why {shouldn't the Rebel sympathizers | continue to be so? » py WW» WANTS COLISEUM SHELVED | FOR BOULEVARDS
| By Stephen Levan
10, give me a boy=-a wee little boy |
Now that the Chamber of Com- |
[merce Is looking for more | before okaying the motion to build
“light” |
{ a Coliseum, there is hope they'll de- |
| eide against it. Mavor Kern mav be pardoned for urging such a building=the temptation must be very | great to have one’s name cut in { stone for all future generations to see and admire. | But this project, in my estima- | tion, should be shelved for a number of vears vet. Conventions at- | tracted to Indianapolis should first be provided with a safe, efficient way of getting into, about, and [around the eity before woirying
| about where to convene them with |
{pomp and circumstance. For the time being, Cadle Tabernacle and
If we go seriously into the business of hosting at conventions, we had better build boulevards first so they can get here without getting lost; and a belt superhighway to aid
{and encourage the commercial life | | the Fascists win, they might, but | = =
ROLL BACKWARD, 0 YEARS By MAIDA STECKELMAN
With a ball and a shaggy pup, Who ’rouses the house with his shrill Little voice, long about sun=-up.
A wee little lad with a tousled head, Whose curls fit his scalp like a mold; Much finer than the silk on an ear of corn And just as cling-taffy gold.
Filling the day with his busy play, Running hither and von; Till you'd think his tired little feet Would break from the legs they're fastened on.
At last he crawls with a sleepy smile Into the sag of my lap, And squirms and twists and blinks his eyes, Reluctant to eall it a nap.
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 vou 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. 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, | crime on a rampage, and the majority deprived of owning property, how long are you going to remain in stupid lethargy? n THINKS PARTY DISSENSION BARED BY ITS DENAL [By D. XK. You ean tell when there is party dissension bv watching the leaders avise to deny it. . . . That Senate Agriculture Committee didn't need | to go on tour to learn that the | farmers like those Government | cheeks. . . . Paul V. McNutt has ¢ar= ried Indiana for the 1940 Presidency again. . . With the big guns pop- [ ping again, the best years for us to remember and profit by are 19141917.
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=-By Talburt
Washington
|
| Secretary
By Raymond Clapper
Public Opinion May Be Peace Force, But Half a Dozen Men Seem to Have Power to Launch a World Conflict,
(Heywood Broun Is on Vacation)
WW ASHINGTON, Aug. 31-=When you think how much daily business is done on faith, through charge accounts, telephone conversations, and by simple oral promises to pay or do something vou wonder whether
modern life could exist if human beings ine dividually broke their Just nine vears ago the great Kellogg-Briand Antiwar Pact by not. to resort to war as an instrrus ment of national policy. All majer nations subscribed to this pledge, including Italy, which has sinee foueht a in Ethiopia, and Japan which shortl hereafter proceeded to conquer Manchuria and has now set its bombing planes cruising over China hen must be that individuals and gov= ernment 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 i This war is being fought without any rules whatever except those that Japan makes as she goes along. All international law, all of the historie 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 ol caliing it a war. 1¢ is a kind of international riot.
word as nations do
powers signed tha
which they promised
war
Mr. is
Clapper
un ” =
ISCUSSING the ninth anniversary of the sighing
of the Kellogg=-Briand pact last week, Assistant of State Messersmith recalled that at the
| time of signing Frank B. Kellogg, then American Secs
retary of State, said that “the public conscience must
| be aroused against the utter horror and frightfulness
of war.” Mr. Messersmith added that despite the deteriorating international outlook, more and more people were clamoring for statesmen to insure the preservation of peace. He urged energetic building up of public opinion in that direction Fublic opinion in Democratic strong against wai exeept as an self<defense. France has accepted complete tearing up of the Treaty Germany. Britain only roused herself when she discovered that Mussolini was threatening her empire communications. We are engaged not in finding soms excuse for getting into the Chinese war, but in trying
countries 1s fairly ultimate means of the now almost of Versailles hy
had not been especia'ly fond of German Catholics at | buildings of the State Fair Grounds | So we rock and we dream=my arms to codee bullets and Bombs while getting our people
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 senti-
ment. These friends and would-be supporters of the President,
along with Governors Earle of Pennsylvania and Allred of |
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 vet has benefited a President, al- |
wavs 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, tive attack to correct things that are wrong with the Administration. But why encourage this hoary bogev-man and build up a blind hysteria?
A
HOOVER SPEAKING RITING 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.”
v
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. Cer-
tainly his party can get nowhere with the old carping tacties that led Mr. Landon to defeat. It meeds what Mr. Hoover ealls “affirmative purpose.” Without new leaders and new principles it is likely to vo the way the Federalists went as they built their program wg the single negative purpose of destroying Jefferson.
aye
a
Let's have construc- |
| provoked attack!
home, but he discerned in these slain missionary priests “his dear brothers in Christ.” u " o 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,
will hold convocations as they oceur.,
full of love, | CLAIMS ROBERT TAYLOR His, clutching his puppy dog, Fan. | PAYS AND PAYS
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 the city to another without passing through a congested business dis= trict or by way of narrow and often | labyrinthinan outer streets, some of them no wider than a respectable jalley. And woe be to the out-of-
my heart
all.
a mirror which
General Hugh Johnson Says—
Ghosts of 1914 Are Walking Again to Threaten United States’ Neutral | Stand on Far Eastern Conflict Between Japan and Neighboring China. |
ETHANY BEACH, Del, Aug. 31=There is forming rapidly a fierce feeling against Japan. Une Rape of a peaceful people! Dis regard of promises to protect what she is now destroying! may turn her guns on us! These slogans sound exactly like those we heard
1
Ruthless imperialism! Victorious in China, she
here in 1914 about Germany and Belgium. The latter | wound 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, u
u u
LREADY there is a good deal of criticism of the President and Secretary Hull for not
armed force, are dangerous and worse than worthless because, since the nation to whom they are simply courteously acknowledges and cynically files them, they are humiliating and this very flouting is an incitement to belated and unwise war,
| make Communists out of those 400,000,000 people.
It's all right for Uncle Sam to say to the God emperor: "Hey, you! Turn loose of that Chino's pig-
tail or I'll make vour 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 too-ripe tomato. would be that our joint national honors must then be
avenged.
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 It
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| was only because Russia was having some kind of
| trying it and the Japanese broke loose at all.
serious internal upheaval in her army that he stopped Other-
| wise, they might have had a couple of thousand in-
our |
cendiary Russian planes burning up the paper-built
| Japanese cities long before this
| making | “stronger diplomatic representations” to Japan. There | is one thing our people learn—it is that “strong repre- | | sentations,” if mot accompanied by both the power | and the purpose to move in and back them up with
made |
|
Our contribution to the defeat of Germany may | have been intended to make the world safe for de- |
mocracy, 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 Parley 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 sensc enough to redeem himself with his own hairy
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‘Td give=I'd give the last beat of |p,
f To call back that hour again.
DAILY THOUGHT
This is My commandment, That ye love one another as loved you==John 15, 12.
OVE one human and warmly, and you will love The heart in this heaven, like | the sun in its course, sees nothing, | man is paving and paving plenty from the dewdrop to the ocean, but | for whatever compensation he may
warms and fills.=Richter,
The Washington Merry- Go-Round
r is an i Then probably English propaganda | of the Rebel Gen. Franco.
Bruce Catton Virile males of the man’s man
| compassion into their feelings to- | ward Robert Taylor after seeing ac
New York, For any man who has to submit | to such questions as “Do you think you are beautiful,” “What do vou [think of the physical side of marriage” and “Do vou snore” from a throng of feminine adorers = that
I have | to
being purely
and | receive from the eminence of his
| position,
brightens,
| school should be able to read a little |
counts of the film star’s latest trip | | ‘make public opinion in their countries.
out. In none of these three countries is public opinion anxious for war. ” UT the difficulty was well described by one offfeial Adhere. Five or six men in the world have the power
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| in their own hands to determine whether there shall
These include Mussolini, Hitler, Staclique in Japan. They Their peoples hear only what the Governments want them to hear, Tt has been recently revealed that Mussolini decided to invade Ethiopia two vears before anyone in his own country, except one or two of his most trusted aids, had the faintest idea of such a thing, There wasn't any such thing as a public opinion on that policy until Mussolini decided to create it So it seems as if the official is correct in saying that it is not public opinion, but a handful of men that hold the decision,
be war or peace. lin and the small military
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State Department Investigating Self-Styled 'Ambassador’ of France; Court Bill Axers on Committee Which May Pack Puerto Rican Judiciary,
Bv Drew Pearson and Robert 8. Allen ASHINGTON, Aug. 31=The State Department is keeping it very shush=shush, but it is making an exhaustive investigation of the undercover active ities of certain Spanish supporters in this country
Under particular scrutiny is Juan de Cardenas, |
Cardenas
| ‘who resigned as Ambassador to the United States fol- | | lowing the outbreak of the Paseist revolt.
heads a group of Spaniards who call themselves the |
“Junta de Defensa Nacional.” quarters in a ritzy New York hotel and carry on an
They maintain head- |
extensive correspondence with American Fascist ele- |
ments.
Reason for the State Department's special interest | in Cardenas and his junta is the fact that they pro- |
claim themselves to be the representatives of Franco in the United States. What the State Department wants to know is exactly what this representation amounts to. The U. 8. Government does not recognize Franco and his Rebel regime. It does have official relations with the Loyalist Government, whose duly accredited Ambassador is Fernando de los Rios. The United States Code provides heavy penalties
| for representing a foreign government in this countr)
without the authorization of the State Department. Title 22 of the Code states, “. . sents himself as an agent of a foreign government
without prior notification of the Secretary of State |
shall be fined not more than $5000, or Imprisoned not more than five years, or both.” |
¥
ENATOR ASHURST, jest<loving New Deal chairs sJ 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 adds 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.
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A°® chairman of the Judiciary Committee it fell to Ashurst to name the investigators, Solemnly Burke, generalissimo of the
”
he appointed Senator
| fight against the President's court-packing bill: Sen=
ator Connally, one of the authors of the seathing
| Majority report against the measure; Senators King,
| VanNuys and Austin, signers of
. Anyone who repre- |
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the report, Burke accepted his selection with a Wry “This certainly puts us in a tough spot,” he remarked. “It would be funnv if we had to recoms mend the appointment of additional judges.” » “Maybe that was why Mr. Ashurst named vou a friend said “T wouldn't put it past Henry,” Burke laughed, “But he told me he put me on the committee so T would be in line for one of the jabs. I thought thak was very niee of him until I learned that they have a habit in Puerto Rico of shooting judges they don't ike.’
Mr, smile,