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WEDNESDAY, OCT. 13, 1937
THE PRESIDENT’S SPECIAL CALL
THEN he generalizes, no other man in our time is gifted with so much inspirational quality as is Franklin D. Roosevelt. generalizations—a broad statement of ideals, of his hopes
for the country not only for today but for generations to | As such it carried the usual thrill and commanded |
come, the customary respect. His view of agriculture, as a problem which, like the
problem of industry, must yield to the same law of supply |
and demand as does industry, to the same principle of ad-
justment of production against the dangers of oversupply— | His conception of land use, land control and land con- |
servation— His vision of a national economy that will produce “a balanced abundance without waste,” for labor, agriculture and industry— His advocacy of the reduction of domestic as well as foreign trade barriers by a better earning power for those consuming groups which do not now make enough to maintain a “decent standard of living or to buy the food, clothes and other articles necessary to keep our factories and farms fully running” — His remarks on the dangers of monopoly as a deterrent to increased business volume— And finally what he had to say about war, and of peace being dependent upon acceptance by nations of certain fundamental decencies in their relations with each other— All that was an expression of far-sighted statesmanship in its truest and best form. = = 5 on u un WE are glad that the extra six-week Congressional start has been provided by this call by the President. For we think that the time factor has been the greatest single obstacle to the actual fruition of the ideals which Mr. Roosevelt now expresses and has expressed before. There has been too much bum’s-rush legislation. much of what “I'd Rather Be Right,” the new ‘George Kaufman comedy, pictures in the cabinet scene when the President turns to the Attorney General and orders, “Cummings, take down a law!” Too much surprise. Too many dramatics. surplus of hurry-hurry. Too little chance for study and dehate on the part of those who, after all, are the lawmakers. Too much “Here she is, pass ‘er quick,” as, for example, with tax legislation in recent sessions, and with the Wagaes-and-Hours bill. thrown hurriedly into the hopper late in May of a Congress already nearly six months old and already grown hot and tired and peeved. May the Congress that is to convene be no longer under the sway of the go-getter philosophy expressed in another Kaufman play—“That we'll show 'em we can get a lot of things done around here without wasting any time “thinking.” Instead may it approach its tremendous task of writing into law the ideals of the President with a thoroughness and a sincerity and an efficiency that will bring forth not confusion of tongues and of language, but clarity and wisdom and lasting results.
LET THE 200 DO IT
THE C. 1. O's proposal for a peace conference with the A. FE. of L. is wise. We hope that the A. F. of L. will show equal wisdom by accepting that proposal. If 100 picked men from each of these rival labor organizations do meet, it will be a lively session—perhaps the fightingest peace conference on record. But if their differences can be talked out and settled, that will be a most fortunate thing for labor and a fine thing for the country. The only alternative seems to be open warfare, a widespread continuance of jurisdictional strikes, with each faetion doing its utmost to hurt the other, and with the public getting punishment from both sides. The public won't stand for many more months of that.
HARD TO PLEASE
AS has been said before, there's no pleasing the ladies. There's Virginia Owvershiner, a heauty contest winner of Peoria, who took one Richard Raymond-her eighth matrimonial experiment—for better or worse, and a few days later asked a divorce because she says he slapped her on their wedding night. And there's Eleanor Bailey, a Hollywood movie chorus girl, who is suing Director Eddie Fay for divorce. He was “too polite and considerate,” she complains. “We got on each other's nerves. It was too perfect.” Sir Walter Scott was right when he sang—
O Woman! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made . . .
MOBS AND MEN R ECENTLY near Ft. Walton, Fla., a group of armed and hooded men halted a sheriff, seized his 30-year-old Negio prisoner on the eve of his trial and riddled him with buckshot. It was Florida's third, the South's eighth, lynching this year. From Villa Rica, Ga., comes another kind of story. Three men—one white and two Negroes—were in a rail road water tank 30 feet deep, painting the walls with tar. Suddenly there was a crackle of flame which spread with the rapidity of an explosion. A narrow, one-man ladder led to the top of the tank and safety. F. L. Hill, white foreman for the Southern Railroad, stood back and ordered his Negro assistants up the ladder. They got out without injury. Foreman Hill was overcome by fumes and burned to death. : There is a vast difference between men in mobs and men as individuals. As mobs they are emotional, brutal, cowardly; as individuals they act like F. L. Hill, hero. That is why this country must have antilynching and other laws to punish mob anarchy. If ever this democracy is destroyed it will be by mobs, =
His fireside talk last night was another of his |
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| party against Tammany and, if not against outright | New Deal support of his opponent, at least against |
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By Westbrook Pegler
Duke of Windsor Is Of to Poor Start if He Is Sincere in Making True Study of Labor and Housing.
NEW YORK, Oct. 18.—The Duke of Wind- | sor has gone to Germany to study the condition of the working man, and he plans | to come here later to inspect housing. On | his first day in Berlin he was taken in tow | by Robert Ley, head man of the Nazi labor | front, the Hitler government's house union, and | shown through a machine works. There, as the scene was reported by Fred Oechsner of the United Press, |
Doktor Ley in a jocular mood, slapped workmen on the back and exclaimed, “Well, how goes it? Are you happy here? Do you like your work?” The workers grinned and said, “Yes,” and Doktor Ley turned to the Duke and said, “See? We have here only happy, smiling 3 : faces.” Foy But it is not necessary to won- $d der what would have happened if a ORE these workers had said, “It goes £ I terrible here and we are not happy. NAY
Mr. Pegler
not enough to keep our families decently, food is scarce and we
| would like the right to quit our jobs or refuse to works; | but we know that if we did that we would be beaten | | and locked up.”
If anvone had said that, Doktor Ley would have | rushed the Duke around a corner and the worker who |
| ‘made these tactless replies would have been yanked
off to prison at once. on » "
HE Duke surely cannot be dumb enough not to that, and he undoubtedly makes allow- | But what can he possibly expect | to learn about the condition of labor while he is being led around by the hand by a Government minister? Some of our people have been wishfully thinking of the Duke as a man who might become a great reformer here and in his own country in the belief | that abdication and ‘marriage had made a new man | of him. Much emphasis is placed on his trips to the |
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| ‘mines when he was still Prince of Wales, but it seems
to be forgotten that his record of achievement there | | don't know
amounts to one famous utterance, “Something must | be done,” and that after these expeditions he invari-
| ‘ably backslid into the diversion of the night club.
He could be very useful if, after the unavoidable social flubdub immediately following his arrival in the United States, he should dissociate himself from the |
| sort of companions with whom he ran when he was |
here before, and afterward in London, and become an earnest worker for the reforms he is said to have at
heart. 5 Ww % |
UT he starts on the wrong foot in Germany, and | if he continues oh the same course here he will find himself inspecting new dams and bridges and a few model apartments like any visiting fireman. In Germany, of course, the problem was different. They put a ring in his nose and treated him as a Here, if he wants to, he can
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work for reforms.
The Hoosier Forum
1 wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.=Voltaire.
MOTORIST TOLD MECHANICS CAN'T REPAIR CHILDREN
By George Malcolm-Smith in “The Travelers Protection.”
to ‘express
troversies
(Times readers are invited their these columns, religious con- | excluded.
tion of the property interests of a | few | This is but the thought of an { humble citizen, American of the
views ih
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of poor boys dying for the protec- |
| in the sfreet.
| and made many sacrifices to make | | ‘him healthy and happy.
Open letter to a motorist who | drives too fast through our street: | I saw you barely miss a little boy on a tricycle this afternoon and heard you yell, “Get the hell | out of the way. Don't you know any befter than to ride in the street?” He didn't answer bec use he hasn't ‘learned to talk yet. So I'm going to answer for him. No, the little boy doesn't
know |
your letter short, so all can have a chance. Letters must be signed, but names will be withheld on request.)
fo live among a people that our counfry refuses to admit. These men have been warned and told to leave
the danger zone, but on account of |
their investments there they refuse
| to ‘do so.
| any better than to ride his tricycle | He has been warned | | ‘not to, but little boys don’t always
heed warnings. Some adults don't, especially traffic warnings; for example, the one limiting the speed of automobiles in city streets I'm going to tell vou something | about that little boy: He has a mother who endured considerable inconvenience, anxiety and suffering to bring him into the world. He | has a father who has worked hard |
The supreme purpose of their lives is to have their little boy grow up to be a useful and prosperous man. Now stop a ‘minute and think. I know your minutes are valuable and I know it will be hard for you to think. But try. If you should kill
{ a ‘child, how would vou feel facing | its ‘parents?
What excuse could vou give them for having robbed them of their dearest possession? More important: What excuse could vou possibly offer Him whose Kingdom is made up of little children?
Children, ‘my hasty friend, were
| ‘here long before you or your auto- |
mobile were ever thought of. Ali the automobiles on earth are not worth the life of one little boy on a tricycle. Any competent mechanic can put a car together, however badly it's smashed, but nobody on | earth can put a child together once its life has been crushed out. We what that little boy | may some day be. But we know what you are, and it's unimportant ‘We could get along without you, but we can't spare a single little boy on | this street. * B® %» EASY TO AVOID WAR, PRESIDENT TOLD By W. H. Richards An open letter to the President of | the United States: I heard your eloquent speech in Chicago and I am one of possibly | 100 ‘million who were horrified at | your plain assertion that it is im- | possible for us to keep out of war. | I can hardly believe that you know no better and yet I would hesitate | to accuse you of prevarication. | If we go to war, it will be for no other purpose than to protect | property and money of men who left the country of their nativity |
| marines should be ordered Cut loose entirely from the fighting | | nations.
| reception.
[100 ‘million
There is one way to avoid this country getting into war. Let our Government notify Americans in China and Japan that our ships are there to ring them home and
[that the Government will reimburse
them for any monetary loss they sustain. If they then refuse to leave, they will be left to take what they get. All war ships, soldiers and home,
Permit nothing to be shipped from this country to either belligerent, and if any individual
loans money to help carry on their |
war, imprison him for life. Inform the whole world that we will have nothing to do with the squabbles of Europe and if any of them want us to fight, let them come over here and meet a hot With all our ships at home to guard our coasts, it is not likely we will be invaded, and if we were it would be a war of short duration for we have 40 ‘million
voung ‘men who would rush to de- |
fend our country. It would take probably 20 million dollars to bring our citizens home and reimburse them, but if it be it would be cheaper than war, to say nothing of millions
ONLY DREAMS By VIRGINIA POTTER
| A pair of eves that say, “I care,” | And lips that speak sincere, | Arms that held me in ‘embrace,
{ feel, yet they're not here.
“Only dreams,” if they were real, And vou were near to say, The things vou whispered long ago, Or was it==yesterday?
| Though you are gone and I'm alone | Yet somehow it seems | I live my life from day to day,
Because of “only dreams.”
By the word of thy lips I have kept me from the paths of the destrover.—Psalm 17:4.
O MAN has a prosperity so high or firm, but that two or three words can dishearten it; and there
fourth generation, but so long as property is considered more sacred (than human life, there is, indeed, no other way to insure peace by % % TAKES UNION SIDE IN MILK DISPUTE | | By Subscriber | In The Times regarding the milk strike and on the front page, 1
| found a quotation by Mr. Hunt as |
| follows: “The strike is neither authorized nor legal. Fifteen per cent of the drivers are trying to control all of Indianapolis’ milk plants to gain outrageous demands.” Further
along the column it says that they want 48-hour work week and $30 a week minimum. This is truly outrageous, 62'2 cents an hour for a service vital to our needs, and they |mot ‘only have to deliver the milk, they have to come around and colject (in their spare time). 1 believe that somebody is making money on this milk, and ‘question is, who? I have two small children on milk, but I would rath-
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ler go after it than have a man de- |
liver it for $18 a week, including his salary and collection fees. Thirty
dollars and 48 hours is outrageous! |
Don't make us laugh. o ” “ MILK TTEUP JUST ANOTHER OLD DODGE, READER SAYS By ©. J.
| thing that does not flourish in our [ fair city. -All ‘over our nation, the spirit of get-together
| exists, but here, spirit seems to dominate, to rule or ruin;
i gardless of the consequences,
It Seems to Me
By Heywood Broun
Fate of Feminist Movement Hung In Balance 100 Years Ago When First Coed Was Asked to Recite.
NEW YORK, Oct. 13.—Oberlin College has dedicated a memorial to the first Amer ican coeds. Just a century ago four pioneer girls sat down in the same classes with the men to receive instruction. I wonder whether any witness wrote an account of that historic occasion. If not I recommend the theme to some enterprising author whose imagination ‘might recreate the scene Still there is a danger in that. No story writer of any ‘capacity whatsoever could fail to fetch up with something which would be fodder for Hollywood. Almost I can see in the neon light some such title as “Angels Tread,” and the whole thing would be done in the spirit of moonlight and honeysuckle. I ‘doubt very much if that the spirit of the first coeds. They must have felt strongly seme spirit of ‘dedication and they ‘may well have had an inkling of the his= torical importance of their expedi« tionary force Certainly the original announcement in the c¢ol« lege catalog did not constitute an invitation to the prom.
was
Mr. Broun
* » =» N the contrary, it was couched in forbidding lane guage. “Young ladies of good minds, unblems= ished morals and respectable attainments aie received into this department and placed under the superine
| tendence of a judicious lady whose duty it is te cote
It seems as if progress is sonie- |
state and |
rect their habits and mold the female character.” The important and epoch-making factor in tha Oberlin experiment was the fact that the first coeds studied in the same classes with the young gentlemen. Again there ought to be some record of the first 1edi= tation by one of the newcomers in these strange sure
| roundings. to solve the differences that develop |
between employers and employees |
the old Bourbon |
to ignore public welfare, r1e- | ap- |
‘pears to be the policy adopted by |
some of the dairies.
| A strike is ‘on in three of the
| ‘man any day in the week as
| dairies delivering milk in the city, | | vet like a bolt from a clear sky, all |
dairies | warning, no notice is given. [ Tt is just another of the old | dodges 80 often used, to avoid a calm and sane discussion of indus- | trial problems. 4 » u EVEN BUMPER CROP [WAS ITS HEADACHE | By D. K. A 17-million=-bale cotton crop al- | most persuades Agricultural Depaitment experts to wish they hadn't exterminated the boll weevil
stop delivering milk=no |
| The ‘peace groups’ are fighting |
lagain! .
licity director of the
Road to war: The pub= | National |
is no calamity which right words Council for Prevention of War quit |
will not begin to redress.=Emerson. land got married.
General Hugh Johnson Says—
New York Mayoralty Race Mas Grown Beyond Confines of Local Issues; It's Case of Good Government Standing Opposed to Political 'Bossism'.
Mayor La ‘Guardia is running without a combined
| the Administration's local bosses, Jim Farley, Ed Flynn
and Christy Sullivan. Tf he licks all that, it will be |
| a national noise—a slam at all “bossism” from Tweed | to Tom Pendergast.
Why? Because good government is the only issue
| and Fiorello is not an abstraction. For once a can-
didate simply can point to his record and not say another word. In the worst time to run any city, he
| ran the biggest and the hardest, and he ran it best.
» ” » E found an aldermanic board of 65 Charlie MeCarthys who sat around a table once a week and
| voted the way their various Eddie Bergens told them | to. He first denatured that system and then kicked it
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| out in favor of proportional representation.
political picking. At a time when many more millions were being spent than ever—more loosely and for pur= poses new and strange, when graft would have been a cinch—he requced it to remote and petty pilfering= if any.
ASHINGTON, Oct. 13.—As has been said here | before, the election of a New York Mavor is |
When he | any is smelly. took over, graft was considered an almost legitimate |
| of
He gave the city its most businesslike administra~ | When other governments, notably the national | one, were spending Niagaras of money and running | ‘Grand Canyon deficits, he had the fiscal sense and | the political courage to slap on the most unpopular of |
tion.
taxes and keep the city's credit clean. Best of all, he did not use his great administrative power and popularity to bolster any man or party. » % =» . E has supported men who were doing the best jobs regardless of party. He stands as strong
with and for Republican Robert Moses, with whom
he has had some jovous collisions, as with Thomas Dewey, whose hands he has always upheld. There are no reprisals for old differences of opinion in Fiorello’s philosophy.
Several things are hard to understand. Why should |
there be any real contest? There is only one issue==
decency in government. opponent, is a fine and upright man, but his com=It's the same old Tammany The whole country now knows La Guardia=and also Tammany. Nobody's nose knows the difference better than the Administration. How can a sacrosanct New Deal permit its stand to remain doubtful for so clear a case of decency against so plain a case stench? '
If she stammered a little in her answer there was good reason for nervousness, because in a sense, tha whole feminist movement hung upon her answer, Would she meekly mutter “unprepared,” or in soma other way fluff the opportunity, or would she in a
cool, clear voice indicate that a woman is as goad as a long as she behaves herself? » # ~
T is my guess that the young lady in question was perfect. 1 seem to see the stern old professor of Latin turn toward her suddenly and say, “And now Miss Janet Rudd, will you please tell us into how many parts all Gaul is divided?” Miss Rudd gulped once and then in a still small voice she answered, “Three, Professor.” The stars sang in their courses. Tn various trundls beds throughout the land girl babies cooed, assurad that women would eventually vote and develop a pull ishing forehand. And so last week a bobbed-haired junior in % tailored dress stepped forward to unveil the monus ment on which her great-grandmother’s name is inscribed. And if I seem to jest in the heavy-handed
way which is traditional among men, it is not in a spirit of mockery, for it seems to me that the emanci« pation of women is the very corherstone of freedom
The Washington Merry-Go-Round
Mr. Hull Still Skeptical of British Co-Operation in Far Eastern Crisis Nye, Anti-New Dealer Facing Re-Election, Rushes to Greet Roosevelt,
By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen
ASHINGTON, Oct. 13.=While U. 8. officials were | delighted with Prime Minister Neville Cham=
perlain’s speech pledging Far Easterh co-operation, |
behind the scenes they still are skeptical. In the past
the British have made t00 many glowing pronounce= |
ments of hands-across-the-sea and then failed to pro= | | goodby.
| duce the goods.
Past British policy regarding the Far East has been to pat the State Department on the back, say | in effect, “You're doing a great job against the Japa= | nese, old man,” and leave the United States out on |
a limb. Behind the scenes during the last few weeks, Sec retary Hull has been extremely irritated with the British. Much as he was aroused against the brazen=
ness of the Japanese invasion of China, he was al= | most more aroused against the immobility of British |
diplomacy. The British may have changed their tactics,
the British again be edging toward their old trick
| of letting, the United States pull their chestnuts out
of the Far Eastern fire.
» u “ A stop at Grand Forks, N. D., was a straw show= ing how the political winds are blowing in that part of the country. One of the hottest Administration oritics last
put |
ab : st 8 's crossed lest Jerry Mahoney, the Mayor's | the State Department still has its fingers S
| Nye's seat, and repeatedly LITTLE episode occurring during the President's
session was Senator Gerald P. Nye. In votes and speeches the North Dakotan blasted the New Deal, particularly the National Labor Relations Board, Yet, when the President's train rolled in early one morning, Mr. Nye was waiting on the depot platfommi.
An hour later, when the President pulled out for
| a run through North Dakota, Mr. Nye was standing
by his side on the back platform bowing and waving
At Grand Forks the official welcoming committee, headed by Governor Bill Langer, Mr. Nye's bitter political foe, started into the President's private car, Mr. Nye dashed away from the reporters and buttons holed White House Secretary Marvin Mcintyre “Can I go in to see the President, Mac?” he ins quired. “Is it okay to go in with the others?” Courteously but firmly Mr. Mcintyre barred Mr. Nye's way, said he would have to wait until later to shake hands with the President.
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R. NYE faces a tough re-election fight next year =and knows it. Although the campaign is 12 montis off. he already is busy electioneering for ail he is worth. Governor Langer has his ambitious eye on Mr. hag demonstrated that when it comes to vote-getting he is a miracle man, Still another menace to Mr. Nye iz Rep. Bill Lemke, Father Coughlin’s ill-fated white hope. Mr. Lemke also wants to go to the Senate and believes Mr. Nye'¥s ripe for plucking. ‘