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SATURDAY, JAN. 1, 1938

RING IN THE NEW! : Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring happy bells, across the snow; The year 1s going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true. -* ,From Tennyson’s “In Memoriam.”

N the gallant spirit: of this gr great New Year's poem, we people of the United States usher out Old 37 and Shrow open the door to the little stranger, ’38.

Many of us will wax wistful over the old year’s going. One less year of life for us all, memories of precious faces and moments that are gone, all the things we might have done. But the valor of the human heart that springs eternal is up and ready for another year and all it holds for us, our families and our nation. Ring out the old, say we. Ring out‘ unemployment, the slums of cities and countryside, child labor and the toil of women in sweatshops, tenant farms, preventable disease, delinquency and crime and other social evils that men have created and that men can cure. Ring in security, good homes, fair wages and decent hours, “the nobler modes of life.” t 4 # » # ” # ING out the waste of our natural resources, the looting of forests, plains and wild life, the squandering of workers and this baffling new strife between the factions of labor. Ring in decent relationships and co-operation that will build up the national family income and provide mineral wealth, the looting of our heritage, the land. Ring in a civic sense of husbandry that takes into account the country’s future generations. Ring out this lingering strife between employers and labor. Ring in the old proven virtues of thrift, honor and

self-reliance. .

Ring out all mobbing, all spying and the other mean persecutions of races and classes. Ring in brotherliness and tolerance. wiaid Ring out abuse of power, whether by individuals, groups or government. Ring in the dignity of the humblest citizen upon whom rests the durability of our democratic state. Ring out greed and indifference, “the faithless coldness of our time.” Ring in “the larger heart, the kindlier hand.” Ring out this bewilderment that has seized our business and political leaders. Ring in a clearer vision of America’s goal and the patient next Steps we must take to reach it. Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace.

PROVOCATION __#

A COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY professor by the name of A. T. Poffenberger told fellow psychologists here that ~ a man might do his best work while being annoyed. If true, President Roosevelt should do a good job in 1938.

SCIENCE VERSUS CONFLICT

HAT is the most important thing that science can do for the world? This altruistic question was prominent in the thoughts of scientists gathered here for the annual meetings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

There is a distinct feeling that if mankind in his commerce and everyday living used the methods and principles of science the world would be a happier and more peaceful place. Discoveries themselves are important, because they mold and guide our thoughts and ideals as radically as our materials and machines. But the way science does its . works is even more important. It is essentially peaceful, | constructive, intellectual but not necessarily unemotional.

The misapplications of science to war and other disturbances are cancerous growths upon society that.come from doing things the wréng way, the unscientific way from the standpoint of ideals and ethics. Take war itself. Those who understand and know how to mold human nature and thought could prevent wars. Good psychology could sometimes shape the course of nations and peoples so that armed conflict would be recognized as unnecessary. Of course, some propaganda is 3s deadly as airplane bombs. j The point of many of the sbuatlios here this week was

that science can be applied to remove most of the conflicts - in human society.

THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING HUMAN

N Paris public utility workers struck, cutting off water,

gas, electricity and transportation for six million People, precipitating a national crisis.

In Buffalo 100,000 families were without light and

power for six hours as a result of a fire in the city’s generating plant. Elevators stopped, radio stations went dead, papers suspended, men and women groped about in the gloom with candles and flashlights. - ‘Two incidents, both extremely significant as illustrating the kind of civilization we live in. A highly mechanized and integrated world it is, its very physical functioning as easy to upset as that of a Swiss watch. :

It did not require a strike or fire to throw Paris or:

‘Buffalo into chaos; a few men with monkey-wrenches: could ve done either job. A radio operator can fall asleep and cause the wreck of a great passenger ship. iE The individual is inclined ‘to consider himself unimporin a ‘world of such huge collective enterprises as our

ies, cities and nation. But because of their delicate | nent to > machines: that must be kept working, and : each in-

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Washington

By Rodney Dutcher

A Magician Couldn't Figure Out How to Have Higher Prices and ‘As Much Business Simultaneously.

VV ASHINGTON, Jan. 1.—Even the late Harry Houdini could never figure out how a country could have higher prices, less money to spend and, at the same time, as much or more business than before. That’s the chief factor behind more and more public talk about prices—especially “monopolistic” prices—ancd the possibility of Congressional investigations and antitrust laws. One is entitled to ask: What is this price situation about which 0 much fuss is being made? Forty per cenit of the wholesale business | in commodities is being done in goods whose prices are higher than they were in September, 1929. This fact has been worked out from Department of Labor statistics as of last September, which showed that 281 of the 784 items on which price figures are collected were higher at that time than on the eve of the big depression eight years ago. Mr. Dutcher Against those figures, say the antimonopolists, is the fact that the income of consumers is a third lower than it was in 1929. Some prices have gone down since last summer.

The fire from Congress and Government officials is

being directed at price-fixing industries which began to boost prices in the fall of 1936 and now continue to hold them rigid. Because of rapid technological improvement and labor-saving methods, it is contended there are few if any justifications for prices above the 1929 level. : » 2 2 HE average wholesale price level last September was 90 per cent of 1929. The following groups of commodities, as of September, were above 1929 prices: Coke by 24.4 per cent; cement, 11 per cent; drugs and pharmaceuticals, 10 per cent; bituminous coal, 8.7 per cent; woolen and worsted goods, 6.6 per cent. Iron and steel, 5.1 per cent; paper and pulp, 5.1 per cent; lumber, 4.3 per cent; miscellaneous building materials, 3.7 per cent; automobile tires and tubes, 3.5 per cent; shoes, 1.3 per cent. Shoes, clothing and meats were slightly higher. Farm machinery, automobiles, cereal products and furniture were above 1929 prices, while toward the bottom of the list were silk and rayon, 40 per cent; fruits and vegetables; 58.6; miscellaneous farm products, 65.7; miscellaneous textile products, 74.9,

and dairy products, 7 3. # 8

‘VV DEserEAD onion is that price {ficreases ha

ve been due to wage increases obtained by organized labor. Assistant Attorney General Robert H. Jackson, the Administration’s antitrust crusader, after a speech in New York in which he attacked high fixed prices, received a small snowstorm of letters from persons who blamed labor, Now Jackson comes back with the results of a detailed and authoritative study by Federal statisticians following the 10 per cent wage increase in

the steel industry, the most dramatic and important

increase of the year. He says the ‘wage increases could have been covered by a 5.5 per cent price increase—or 9.1 per cent to cover higher material costs due to wage increases elsewhere—but that the actual 1936-37 steel price increase was 21 per cent.

: ; i. : / Sh The Hoosier Forum 1 wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

OBJECTS TO NUMBER OF RADIO ADS : By Roy C. Perkins

I have read the article on offcolor skits on the radio of Mae West and Charlie McCarthy. I am 46 years old and never owned a radio until recently, as older models could not bring the sounds clear enough. But now I am, or was, somewhat interested and intended to spend a few quiet evenings “listening in.” But what do I get. Right off the bat some guy is trying to sell me a used car. I turn the dial and someone else will loan me up to $300 if I have a steady job. With a steady job you don’t need $300. Dial again and another person is selling magazines, hair tonic and what not. The

| newspapers, streetcars, busses, high-

ways and boulevards are covered with that stuff. S0 in disgust I am planning to trade the radio for a pair of earmuffs and go into solitude and peace. I love music and like jokes, but ads and wisecracks are going to spoil a good thing. Fo 8 8 8 éoie SHOWS WAR-TORN SPAIN STILL READS THE BIBLE By Agapito Rey, Bloomington

Exactly a century ago the British Bible Society sent George Borrow to Spain to sell the Holy Book. Borrow ‘was a picturesque zealot of boundless faith. He hoped to convert even the gypsies, and he translated several gospels into their language. One hundred years ago Spain was in a period of turmoil due to the Carlist War and friction .between the church and the state, which culminated in the disbanding of the monastic orders in 1839. Borrow met with opposition and hostility, but nothing could dampen his fervor. His saddlebags laden with Bibles and a gypsy as a guide, Borrow crossed Spain from end to end. He himself was surprised at the number of Bibles he sold in wartorn Spain. Borrow wrote in this connection a most interesting book, “The Bible in Spain,” which ‘was translated into Spanish many years ago by Azana, now president of the Spanish Republic. Now after 100 years, Spain is again torn by strife and rivalry between church and state. But as in Borrow’s days, the Bible is selling well in Spain. At the 133d annual report of the British and Foreign Bible Society it was reported that

since the beginning of the revolt the|

Society had distributed no less than 210,000 copies of the Bible in wartorn Spain. Depot Kept Open

Right through the siege of Madrid the depot has been kept open, and the Society's representative has remained at his post of duty. We] must remember that the British Society is not the only organization selling Bibles in Spain. Another religious organization that has flourished despite the war

General Hugh Johnson Says—

Administration's Attack on Big Business Is Unlike "NRA Chiseler War’ : There Always Will Be the 10 Per Cent Who Merely Render Lip Service.

Arthur Krock,

VW AsEmveron Jan. 1—Mr, whose skill as a reporter is sometimes overcome by his faults as a courtier, holds me responsible for the Administration’s - recent broadside blasts at

- business.

In his column in the New York Times he analyzes the cause of the mighty salvo thus: “. . . one thing clear in a confused situation. This is that the President, what Gen. Hugh 8. ‘Johnson dinned in 1933, has Soolded that the wicked 10 per cent, the ‘chiselers,’ are again engaged occupations. . : He ( (me) must admit that in his crusading zeal as the head of the NRA, before his

‘skill as'an organizer was overcome by his faults as tor, he drew for the President the pic- |

an administra Sure of of on goat that oat. hat 'spparsiuy. rm live until 1941 a »r» Arthur, 1 op invent the tion was simply

§ of run-of- -of-the-mill hi

(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.)

is the Y. M, C. A. In Barcelona, reputed center of radicalism, the Y. M. C. A. branch has more than doubled its membership and activities since the war began. Its constitution was amended so as to admit women to membership. Its building was never closed or its work interfered with. For the first time in its history, this Y. M. ©. A branch is self-supporting, according to a report published in the Manchester Guardian, Aug. 21, 1937, by its director, Mr. Alfred Jacob. Its monthly bulletin circulates freely in the trenches as does the Catholic Bulletin issued monthly at EBEarcelona. Both pass through the censorship ‘without difficulty. despite the horrors anc priar of war, religion continues to thrive and the Bible is still the best seller in Spain. !

\ BELIEVES WAGE SYSTEM BLOCKS ‘ECONOMIC STABILITY

By M. R., Anderson

There will be trouble in our economic system as long as we cou tinue to have the wage-earner, the employee who works so many hours for so many. cents, with neither guaranteed. No man ever rose very high while working for a wage. Success in the modern interpreta» tion is based mainly upon stability and skill, and an employee cannot stabilize himself or his career when his earning power is anything but steady; that is, when it is inclined to rise and fall with the whims of 20th Century industry. The employee cannot plan ‘for the future

MIGRATING

By MAUD COURTNEY WADDELL A sound like wind rustling Dry leaves among tall trees, That bend before a gale— Brings. myriad tones of loud farewell.

Then like quick - ‘shadows upward swirled With dark: wings swift outspread— Great clouds of eager blackbirds Fly away.

DAILY THOUGHT These things I command you, 18am. ye love one another.—John

HE heart of t him who truly loves is a paradise on eart; he has God in himself, for God is love ~—Lamennais. :

when he knows if in the future he will be working or not. And success requires studied planning. The life of the wage-earner is haphazard, at best. Consider his plight! He aids business when he spends his wages freely, and at the same time he jeopardizes his own welfare, because his returns are never commensurate with his ex- | penditures. If he doesn't spend freely, business bogs down and soon he is out of work or working at reduced wages and curtailed hours. If he wishes to save for the inevitable rainy day, he must necessarily live frugally and adhere to a false philosophy of living tomorrow rather than today. He is an unfortunate gambler if he ‘saves or does not save,

-| SUGGESTS FACTORS FOR

ECONOMIC ADJUSTMENT By Chalmer Fisher Land, labor and capital are the three factors of production.

must first learn the definition of the terms we use in that particular science. (I'mean to say that political economy is a science; as mathematics or physics or any of the true sciences). Some of the terms used in our everyday conversation have different meanings when used in

.| political economy; therefore we must

logically define and bind these defi-

and exclude all they do not imply.

The term “land” embraces, in short, all natural materials, forces and opportunities. This definition, by its exactness, draws a distinction

The term “labor” includes all human exertion, whether physical or ‘mental. This definition, by its exact ness, . draws a distinction around labor and excludes any other term. The term “capital,” as used in political economy, is an abstract term, and nothing can be generally affirmed or denied of it, that cannot be generally affirmed or denied of the whole class of things it represents. Therefore, captal is only that part of production of labor, used in the aid of other production by labor. This ‘includes machinery, factor-

‘| ies, as well as other products having

exchapgeability, such as merchandise and foods, and only applies to them so long as they are in the course of exchange. This definition, by its exactness, draws a distinction around capital, and excludes any other terms that might tend to confuse. There are four other terms, which follow in harmonious order these

rent, wages and interest. If these seven terms were understood in their entirety, our economic malad-

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justment would adjust itself by whe demand of the people.

In the study of any science, we |:

nitions to include all they mean,

around labor and exclude any other | term :

three just defined. They are wealth, |

as against those who may seek

in their evil

chiseling fringe. | My this—that in living up to | ‘unwrit 1 standerds or in any more formal common | 4 Soul, Joi Gan ways Souhi upon J

Y=: , Arthur, there is a chiseling fringe and the | President knew it quite as well as I did. As he

Signed the LROTOYEN. Act, before I could have done he sai a 1h we ask our trade groups to do that which exposes their business, as never before, to undermining

guard those who play the game for the general good unselfishness of others.”

ES ee ait of ihe first New:Deal am it is merely a fact of human nature. Bu such Ja not,

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Merry-GoRound

By Pearson & Allen

There's a Long Story Back of he Administration's Emergency Plan Revived During the Panay Crisis

ASHINGTON, Jan. 1.—Although the Panay incident has subsided, it woul be a mistake to think that the Administra< tion is ‘going to take’ its eyes off the F: East. Just the opposite is the case. Ame can forces in Chinese waters will not diminished, may be iacreased a little—though enough to attract atteation., Real fact is that the Administration welcomed chance to put Japan in her p. There were even those within Adniinistration—chiefly the N —who wished the Japanese

not apologized. : ‘fo get the whole picture it | nec:ssary to go back some distance. At the very start of the Shange haj bombardment, Secretary Hu conducted extremely importa talks with" the British. The: he ook then was that the Sha hai fighting was not a temporary master, but a part of the entire Japanese program of conque ng China. de maintained that the United States had to adopt a policy, ‘nots: for a few months or a year, bub for 10 or 20 or 50 years Ww Japan, with tremendous s of cheap labor. and raw ma 11s in China, had become the greatest industrial empire in the world. As a result of these conversa= tions the Navy last summer Worked out a careful strategy be used against Japan. The plan. was discussed in detail with British, then put back on: te shelf for use—if and when. That “plan was extromely important. It was: upon the fact that Japan is a series of islands is vide : raw materials. All her war materials—cotton, iron, copper, especially oil—must be imported. £0 Unlike Italy, when hoycotted by the League, Ji has no immediate neighbors. Italy imported by from Switzerland, Aus:ria, Hungary, even Jugoslavi But Japan is adjacent only to a very unfriendly Rt sia and a China with which she is at war, 3 rein i 2 = r[ERETORE, the Navy plan called for 8 "ook dise tance blockade of Japan with the co-operation @ Great Britain and the approval of Russia, = The emphasis in this plan should be placed 0 words “long distance.” The blockade was to take at Singapore and the Panama Cafial, 10 days three weeks steaming distance, respectively, Japan, . The Navy plan did not call for penetration of anese waters. It called for stationing ships ¢ and the California Cosst, with: other ships ce ing with the British fleet at Singapore. : After discussion with the British, however, plan. was put back on the shelf. Both sides that if there was real co-operation between the and American fleets, Japan Would fod up and grav: from China,

Drew Pearson

Robert Allen

According to Heywood Broun—

Please Help a Poor Columnist Snowbound in the Throes of a ‘Bring Some Fuel Because Journals of Opinion Burn Not Very wo

that I had not allowed Deems Taylor to borrow longer novels of Theodore Dreiser. 5 Jim Cain’s “Serenade” has already gone. It bu with a blue flame, aad when the fire o episode of the deserted church it sounded bunch of roman candles had been dre mistake. Fortunately, I still have Cas 12-volume edition with illustrations to take m the night. After that there will be notl “The Boy Grew Older.’ ; I am hoping the tcgs will arrive before necessary to sacrifice that, since it has. cu of prt and is oaly 3 thousand Words best. Or whichever way you care to look & The journals of opinion ar e aise in They give a fine whit: light, Indeed, IT might say, since Tam spirits, the New Rerublie

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