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INANKING ... AND AFTER...? : THE Japanese are at Nanking. Here lived the last of the Chinese emperors. Here was the republic's first capital. Here Sun Yat-sen, China’s George Washington, took the oath of office. Here he stepped down in favor of the ambitious Yuan Shih-kai. And here, on the slopes of Purple Mountain, is his tomb. = : Today Purple Mountain is in the hands of the invader. In the sacred forest around China’s Mount Vernon are bivouacked the Japanese. The future of the nation is at stake. From now on much, if not everything, depends on the help China receives from outside. . . A few days ago, speaking at Leningrad, Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinov took occasion to.heap ridicule on the democracies for their failure to adopt a more positive course. Instead of doing something to curb international outlawry. he said, they merely “drop letters in mail-boxes asking aggressor states to admit their guilt.” There is something in what Mr, Litvinov said. The democracies have done little but write notes and .talk—as, one by one, the covenant of the League of Nations, the Kellogg Pact and the Nine-Power Treaty have been torn to shreds by the signatories. Instead of acting, they have backed away. But, with all due respect for the Russian foreign minister, we may ask what more has the Soviet Union done? Her spokesmen also have talked a lot—about her military preparedness to meet any emergency. But apparently she has been as reluctant to wade in against aggressors as have the democracies. ” u = A ” » . ‘OR China is Russia’s next door neighbor. So is Japan. Russia shares frontiers with both countries. Furthermore, military experts are convinced that as soon as Japan polishes off China she will turn on Russia. Quite as Mr. Litvinov indicated, little help may now be expected from the democracies. They are not ready to go to war in support of an abstract ideal, however high, That is why the postwar pacts have been—and are still being violated with such impunity. It takes vital and immediate interests to prod the democracies into ‘doing more than “drop letters in the mail boxes.” : That is where ‘Russia comes into the Sino-Japanese picture, She is directly and vitally concerned. If Japan crushes China, she will likely be next. As long as big, powerful Russia remains intact on her flank, Japan never can be truly mistress of the Far East. She never can even be certain of holding on to what she has. : With the arrival of the Japanese at Nanking, therefore, the struggle enters a new phase. Henceforward, events should move more rapidly. But in what direction your guess is as good as ours. : fe

37 ANONYMOUS HEROES HE special session of Congress, all tangled up on the program it was. called to consider, has one achievement to date. 2 : : : It has voted itself a Christmas bonus of $225,000 in mileage money. Some members will Visit their home districts after the special session adjourns on or about Dec. 22 and before the regular session Begins on Jan. 3. ‘The actual cost of their travel will be less than 5 cents a mile. But they will draw 20 cents a mile, both ways. Many other members will not go home, but they also will draw 20 cents a mile, Next year Congress will vote His none: $225,000 for travel to and from the regular session. ' Thirty-seven Representatives stood up to vote against the mileage resolution. Unfortunately, their names are not on record. They were overwhelmed by 327 other members of the House, and a demand for a rollcall vote was then turned down. The Senate approved the resolution without one voice in opposition. We regret that the 37 must remain anonymous, for they appear to be the real heroes of a special session of which it is likely to be said: : “It did little to help the country—but it certainly did help itself.” Aa

BUY CHRISTMAS SEALS | (CHRISTMAS SEALS long have been associated with Christmas spirit. ‘ From the sale of these 1937 health stamps the Marion County Tuberculosis Association hopes to raise $40,000 to fight the disease which claimed the lives of 323 of the county’s 8000 tuberculosis victims last: year. This annual yuletide charity has made possible Sunnyside Sanatorium, the Theodore Potter Fresh Air School and the Julia Jameson Nutrition Camp at Bridgeport, From Seal contributions the child nutrition program is maintained in city and county schools, for 16 years a nurse has been provided rural sections of the county, and adequate tuberculosis clinical facilities have been set up in the city. The value of Christmas Seals is well illustrated inthe, work done at the Bridgeport Nutrition Camp. Of the 643 children who have entered the camp since it.opened in 1928, not one has died ‘of tuberculosis or any other preventable disease, hs : “SEER aes Others, too, are Don’t let them die!

: 4. POPULAR SYMPHONY CONCERTS . : ANOTHER step in bringing good music to all Indianapelis - = will be taken next Sunday when the Symphony Orches"tra gives its first of four pepular Sunday concerts. Boris Schwartz will be soloist: at the opening of the series at the Murat. | : ~ To fulfill its proper function music should reach as large an audience as possible. It should be “popular,” in the best sense of the word. Neither conductor nor orchestra finds greatest expression as long as the performance remains merely the prize of a coterie. These Sunday con- _ certs—at movie prices—will do much to enhance the role usic in the life of the city, and tg establish-the Sym-

depending on Christmas Seal funds.

climb over the stile and the old

"There Are Such !—By Talburt

Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

She's Now the Ex-Wife of Husband Of Ex-Wife of Husband of—Oh,

Let's Call the Whole Thing Off!.

NEW YORK, Dec. 8.—Ernest Simpson, of London, the former husband of Dorothea Parsons Simpson and of the Duchess of Windsor, the former wife of Comm. Earl

Winfield Spencer, U. S. N., the former husband of Mrs. Miriam J. Spencer and husband of Mrs. Norman Reese Johnson Spencer, has married Mrs. Mary Kirk Raffray, the former wife of Jacques Achille

Louis Raffray, who has married : Mrs. Connie de Bower, the former wife of Herbert de Bower. Mr. de Bower is the ex-husband of the wife of the ex-hushand of the wife of the ex-husband ef both Dorothea Parsons Simpson and the Duke of Windsor’s wife, the exwife' of the ex-husband of Mrs. Miriam J, Spencer, the husband of Mrs. Norma Reese Johnson Spencer, | Or, to put it otherwise, the Duke of Windsor’s wife is the ex-wife of Lai the husband of the ex-wife ef the Mr. Pegler husband of the ex-wife of Mr. de - Bower and four to carry. ‘Or, still otherwise, the exwife of the husband of Mr. de Bower's ex-wife is the wife of the ex-husband of the Duke of Windsor’s wife, the ex-wife of the ex-husband of the ex-wife of the husband of the present Mrs. Spencer ‘and carry one. _ Or, perhaps more simply, Mrs. Dorothea Parsons Simpson is the ex-wife of the husband of the ex-wife of the husband of the ex-wife of Mr. de Bower and, by the same process, is ex-wife of the ex-husband of the Duke of Winhdsor’s wife, the ex-wife of the ex-hus-band of Mrs. Miriam J. Spencer. 4 Water won't quench fire; fire won't burn stick; stick won't beat dog; dog won't bite pig; pig won't

lad tonight. y cannot get home

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B wk Ay is the ex-husband of the wife of } e ex-husband of the ex-wife of the ex-h of Mrs. Miriam J. Spencer, the ex-wife of Srraiseng band of the Duke of Windsor's wife, the ex-wife of Mi. Raffray’s own ex-wife's husband, ex-husband ef Dlestnes, Farsons Stmpesn and is himself the husir e ex-wife o r. de Bower, i that of ex-husband. 7%: View presen ake one blue bottle from 99 blue bottles, leaving 98 blue bottles hanging on the wall; take one blue Vine tle from 98 blue bottles, leaving 97 blue bottles hanging on the wall; take one blue bottle from 97 blue bottles, leaving 96 blue bottles hanging on the wall. : | Af a dinner party a hostess would have an interesting problem seating all her guests in such a’ manner that no ex-husband should be placed next to either his present or ex-wife or any guest next to the present husband or wife of his or her ex-spoufse. # » ” Eov= guests present a seating preblem, anyway, and it would be necessary to place the present Mrs. Raffray next to the fermer Mrs. Spencer. The Duke could be seated between the present Mrs. Speneer and Mrs, Dorothea Parsons Simpson. Comm. Soencer would be at the left of Mrs. Dorothea Parsons Simpson, with the present Mrs. Simpson on his left ahd Mr. de Bower on her left and the Duchess to the left of him. Then comes Mr. Raffiay, then the ex-Mrs, Spencer, then the present Mrs. Raffray and finally Mr. Simpson. He would be only ‘one place removed from the Luke, and the Duchess would be next to the ex-hus-band of the present wife of one of her ex-husbands. Mr. de Bower would be on the left of Mrs. Simpson, the ex-wife of his ex-wife's hushand. If marriage and divorce were extended in the same ratio to the entire population for a few generations and each marrigge resulted in at least two children, the world would be just one great, big, happy family. - Meet the ex-wife.

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Good Medicine for the Business Slump—By Kirby

Hie tage #3

nN @ - ; The Hoosier Forum I wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

NOW THAT HE MENTIONS IT WE DON’T FEEL SLEEPY

By Christopher Billopp, in the Baltimore Evening Sum

Going to bed is a very simple matter. It is accomplished by hundreds of thousands of persons every. night. ; It consists merely in emptying the ash trays into the fireplace, letting the dogs out, calling the dogs in, fixing meat with poison and putting it out for the rats, setting a couple

against cockroaches. Looking to see if the icebox doors are firmly closed, shaking down the furnace and putting on more coal, taking out a couple of scuttlefuls of ashes, getting a drink of water, eating an apple or a bit of cheese, put‘ting down accounts, seeing that the outer door to the cellar is locked, seeing that the inner door to the cellar is locked, inspecting for dripping spigots. ; : Seeing that the door from the cellar to the kitehen is locked, seeing that the kitchen doer and twe windows are locked, putting the lights

four windows in the dining room are locked, putting out the lights in the dining room, seeing that the front door and the five windows in the hall and living room are locked. Some Other Chores, Too Putting out the light on the front porch, taking a smoke, looking to see if the clock on the thermostat is running, putting out the five lights in the living room. Seeing that the letters to he taken to town in the morning are where you will notice them, closing the front closet door, putting out the two lights in the hall, kissing the children ' goodnight, winding and setting the alarm clock, winding the watch, removing bed spread and putting dewn puff on the bed, lowering shades on nine windows and closing the shutters on three.

washing face and hands, rubbing pomade inte the hair, taking nose drops for celd, rubbing lotion on chapped hands, laying out clean

bathreom light, putting out dressing room light, opening hedreom windows, turning out bedroom light and jumping into hed.

should be able to do it all in from an hour to an hour and a half,

8 » =» LEWIS PUTS FINGER ON C. 1. O. WEAKNESS, IS BELIEF By E. A. E.

“The greatest tragedy of the New Deal is that it has waged such heroic battles, conquered reactionary forces, fought off Old Guard saboteurs in Congress, forced the acquiescence of the Supreme Court, and {then, having wen victery in such agonizing struggles, it has declined in prestige because of just one thing—lack of competent and coordinated man pewer,” said John L. Lewis, .in an interview with Mrs, Eleanor M. Patterson of the Washingten Herald. A keen and accurate observation,

General Hugh Johnson Says—

Administration Ceuld Create ‘Scare Boom' by Currency Tinkering: But Government's Own Securities Would Be Periled by Such Policy.

WA7ASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 8.—This- Adminis ¥ ¥ tration suddenly could create a business boom -~but it would be the mest deadly act of all its

recent experiments.

. If it were to decide to spring an inflationary boom liased on a vast new tinkering

credit, it probably eauld- make early 1939 look like

‘chilled bidding at an auction of refrigerators in the

arctic, There are two ways to make people spend the inoney to buy things. One is to persuade it out a them through confidénce. The other is to scare it out ot Hem through fear—fear of the future value of 3 n 5 x ” « If people believe that Business is en thé upgrade

‘because conditions are safe and sound, they will

buy things in the hope of profit from genera] busi.

. hess activity. If people believe that, due te Govern ment tinkering, dollars are going to be werth less |

and less—there will be a rush to change vanishin dollars into concrete things—or to I Joh the country, ; Lie 3 #2 = 8 : TP HE Administration still has power to decrease the A. gold content of the dollar. A return te a heavily unbalanced budget through unlimited spending by writing up credits in the books of : banks, plus reduction of reserve requirements, could greatly

increase the volume of bank credit and thin out its | te

of mouse traps, spraying the pantry

out in the kitchen; seeing that the |

Getting undressed, cleaning teeth, |

clethes for the morning, putting out |.

With a little practice, anybody

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that. And, coming from Mr. Lewis, all the more. interesting because it is precisely the same criticism that should apply to his own performance as a national leader of labor. Mr. Lewis, proclaiming himself an admirer of President Roosevelt's aims and ideals, adds that he believes they are endangered by failures of administration. It is equally true, we think, that “lack of competent and co-ordinated man power”

|is a threat to the admirable aims

and ideals which Mr. Lewis is -attempting to realize through his Committee for Industrial Organization.

Experienced Men Needed .

It is not because Mr. Lewis is an irrespansible leader that wildcat strikes and violations of contracts have marred C. I. O. efforts to organize the automobile industry, for

AT TWILIGHT ' By FREDERICK RUSHER

Birds wing homeward on waves of song, To wateh o'er little ones fast

asleep, . The day in all its glory passed and

. gone, : Shades of night around them _ creep.

Unlike earthly mortals who fret and frown, Whe find no happiness at close of

day, And when each twilight slips around, : : Wish for the night to fade away.

Were it that human beings. were like birds at ease, Treasured their loved ones fond and dear, And each one alike would strive to please, : And remove the trace of doubt and fear.

So it seems at twilight when day is done, Birds alone knew of comfort and

rest, Their strong determination is triumphantly wen, : And each one returned to its happiness. DAILY THOUGHT These things I have spoken unto you, that in Me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of

good cheer; I have overcome the world. —John 16:33.

‘LL the scholastic scaffolding falls, as a ruined edifice, before one single word—faith.—~Na-

poleon.

instance. As head of the United Mine Workers he has shown himself

‘| to be, through many years, & re-

sponsible leader. It is because of a weakness of administration. A sudden, vast extension of activity into new fields called for the services of many capable and seasoned subadministrators, and such mén simply were not available in the .numbers required. They may be developed by experience, but meanrwhile costly blunders are made,

Franklin D. Roosevelt and John L. Lewis both have been handicapped

by the failure of many of their

lieutenants. to measure up to the size of the responsibilities placed on them. That probably was inevitable, Bu: leaders must be judged finally, not by what they intended fe accomplish but by their success in achieving their intentions. And efficient administration, through man power, is indispensable to achievement in any great undertaking. As Mr. Lewis says: ; *“If we are going to centralize power . . . we cannot escape administrative responsibility.” That admonition, I think, should be ‘taken to heart by the President of the United States—and by the C. I. O. chairman,

2 8 =». GARNER IS EXAMPLE OF HOW NOT TO WORRY By M. 8. Insurance underwriters, meeting in New York, planned a nation-wide educational campaign to teach American men how te quit dving in middle age from diseases brought on by worry. They should adopt for their mascot our 68-year-young Vice President, who has just celebrated the “recession” by bagging a 125-pound buck in the northern Pennsylvania woods.

~ Mr. Garner will die sometime, but it will not be from worry. * He works on a regular shift. He hits the hay at 9:30 every night in the ysar except two-—the night the President entertains him and the night he entertains the President. He takes food with his meals and and sleeps o’'nights like a man with a 800d conscience, He does his job in his own stride, plays a bit of poker and once in a while presides at a “Texas tea” with the boys. He shuns dissension like

Washington's: weather or its wrangles he slips: off to Uvalde for a quiet rest with his fishing rod or gun, as he did last summer during the: Court fight. When his Party wants a man te storfh a redeubt they call on someone else, but when there is harmony: to ‘be waged up pops Mr. Garner, his eyes atwinkle with good will and his guffaw .resounding down the corridors. Right new Caetus Jaek- is sticking pretty close to the Capitol. this is a sign there is going to be a spell of peace on the Potomac.

According to Heywood Broun

I hope’

Merry-Go-Round By Pearson & Allen

Difficulties in Its Administration Threaten Housing Drive Success; Straus Confirmation Under Fire.

ASHINGTON, Dec. 8. — President Roosevelt's second field of attack on the housing problem—that of low-cost hous=: ing or slum clearance—is now in the fidgety"

hands of Nathan Straus. ; This field is entirely separate from the Federal Housing Administration, which endeavors to stimulate individual home construction, and the Home | Owners Loan Corp. which aids’ only these who have placed mort gages on their hemes. a». Low-cost housing is an aftempt to aid municipalities to wipe out their slums by building ‘modern, subsidized apartments for rental at the lowest possible price. Originally this work was carried; on by the Housing Division of PWA where it came under the: watchful and frequently ferocious: eye of Harold Ickes. i Nominally it is still under the. eye of “Honest Harold,” but actually 'i% comes” under the super= vision cof Nathan Straus. Partly because of this ambiguity of ad--ministration, the new Housing authority threatens to become one of the tragic failures of the Administration. - . Father of the U. 8. Housing; Authority is Robert Wagner, Ger-man-pern Senator from New York. * ; : : During the. first two of these years he got no appreciable help from Mr. Roosevelt. Af the last. " ? Congressional session, however," Robert Allen with mest of the New Deal pro=' gram out of the way, Mr. Roose=~ velt put the Wagner Housing Act on-his “must” list, and it was passed. " It is a modification of the old PWA Housing plan by which slum-clearance projects were built chiefly through outright grants from the Pederal Government. The new bill provides a fund of half a billion dollars from which a city may get a 90 per cent loan plus an outright gift of 10 per cent, provided it fulfills, certain servicing conditions. There are also condi=" tions by which it may contribute cash, and secure a’ larger outright gift from the Government. : “» x s » » oe HE administration of this new organization was placed under Mr. Straus partly because of his connection with the Hillside housing project in New York, but this is now one of the skeletons rising up" to give him trouble. : The . Hillside project was financed with PWA.: funds, and in building it Mr, Straus kept a valu’ able strip of land which he owned adjacent to the property. On this he erected stores and other build-. ings. The value of these now have increased and are.

Drew Pearson ,

a plague, and when he doesn’t like| reputed te be worth four te five million dollars.

‘The Wagner Housing Aet prohibits speculation or profit on a housing project by a housing official, andaltheugh this is net necessarily retroaetive, it is. new one of the ppints of attack on Mr. Straus’ cone: firmation by the Senate. : ; - A nervous, temperamental man, Mr. Straus has been ‘unhappy in Washington. Never subjected to the: spotlight of public office, he winces every time he’ sees his name in print. : : i It was suspected in the Interior Department that Mr. Straus expeeted to commute back and forth toNew York, and run the Flousing Authority three days a week with his left hand. Secretary Ickes, however, promptly disabused him of that by giving him free rein and full responsibiliiy. 3

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American Colleges Are Fast Removing Ban on Negro Grid Players; Now It's Up to Big League Baseball to Scrap Color Prejudices:

with currency and -

now held inte purchase of “inflation-preof” things— commodities, common stocks, farm land or foreign money and securities. ~That would produce a great temporary activity. But the dangers in such a course = terrifying, If it - went far enough to create a fear ol Government secur« ities and the market price of Federal bonds took a nese dive, the hanks are so full of them it would threaten the solvency of every bank in the country. There would be only one way te prevent complete collapse, The Government would have to make all its bonds redeemable at par in its present paper money.

of the dollar, s 8 9

HERE might follow complete confiscation of ‘all T= bank accounts, insurance policies, ineluding soeial security, and ef any wealth based on credit or money values, In the meantime, the great sufferers would be wage and salary workers. The cost of living would rise to fantastie figures, but wages

would lag far behind, - We ae: some who wish to substitute for our capitalist and demoeratic political systems a “planned economy of production for use and not for profit.

have been playing around with some of this poison for five years, How much is a fatal dose?

atest present lack of

The Administration seems te be started on a plan

Thai would still further thin eut the purchasing power

This would be a sure-fire way to discard them. We

EW YORK, Dec. 8—Grantland Rice, who used. |

’ to be an old Seuthern boy himself, tells me that the lot of the Negro in college football grows. easier, ‘He pointed to the success this season ef Cornell's great end, Holland. wn a In previous years there were teams well above the Mason and Dixon line which would semplain severely about the makeup of a rival eleven and prac-: tically ask for a guest list hefore they weuld go through with a contract, And in cases where the home team refused to agree to have a Negro star sit out the engagement it was not. unknowr. far the visitors to gang up on him right after the Kict-off and make sure that he was injured. ~ Cornell played seme of the best feams in the East, and while Holiang go his bumps, there is ne evidence that he was called upen te face any more severe treatment than goes in general with the game. Olint Frank, of Yale, mentiened Fiollsrd as the best end he had seen all season, and it is I'kely that his name will appear en several All-Americas, = - Co ae so» boo PTVHIS may raise a peint which bogged up some A years ago in the selection of Walter Camp, or it may have been Rice's selection. I can’t remember the name of the Negro who was chosen, kut one of the fellow members of the All-America vias a boy

i ent for including Negro players in Big League-

in from an institution of learning in the deep South. |

To be sure, the embarrassed Nordic was in a some~what ineffectual position. Since the All-America is mythieal and never meets either socially or on the gridiren, the declining nalfbaeck was in no itionwhere he eould really do much about it. Ss name.

.and the name of the Negro player had been printed;

in the pages of a great national weekly, and abouf; all the reluctant recruit could do was to fake a pass: and fall on the ball. : A I am also interested to find out what Ferdhamwill do about the fact that three of the Rams have. been chosen on the All-New York eleven of the Daily.

ey are. of Karl:

AN

put away the crown oa the ground tha wholly out of sympathy with the doctri Marx?

- Worker. Must these lads from the famous. college

" 8 8 z Te Eo» ND again I wonder whether Commissioner Landis" LN. has been informed that Red Rolfe of the Yankees did an exclusive set of steries on the world series for the Communist newspaper. on This eelumn was originally intended to be an ar* Jaseball. The ban against them grows sillier and, sillier. I see no reason why the Giants and Yankees: draw lines not drawn hy Cornell and most othercol .. As a matter of fact, there have been Negroes. : Big e, ut they were introduced

sh. the color