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MONDAY, FEB. 7, 1938

ALIVE OR DEAD?

ECAUSE of recent and conflicting court decisions in two states the status of the proposed national child labor amendment is in doubt.

The Legislatures of Kentucky and Kansas voted last year to ratify the amendment. Both, at earlier sessions, had refused to ratify. Now the Kentucky Court of Appeals holds ratification illegal, while the Kansas Supreme Court holds it legal. Is a state, having once refused to ratify, forever barred from changing its mind? Do the nearly 14 years since Congress submitted this amendment constitute more than a reasonable time for completion of the ratifying process? To both questions the Kentucky court said yes and the Kansas court said no. Courtenay Dinwiddie, general secretary of the National Child Labor Committee, suggests that one or both of these. state decisions ought to be reviewed on appeal by the United States Supreme Court. We agree with him that the questions on which the Kentucky and Kansas courts have taken opposite positions should be answered by final authority. If the Kentucky court is correct the amendment is dead. For of the 28 State Legislatures that have voted to ratify, 23 previously had voted not to ratify. And eight more states would be needed, but the Kentucky court believes it is too late for any state to act. The reasoning of the Kansas court seems to us more logical. But here is a case where laymen’s opinions do not count. Only the Supreme Court can say which of the two state courts is right. It seems clear that the Supreme Court is under no compulsion, at this stage, to hear an appeal from either state decision. It can wait until 36 states have voted to ratify, and until Congress passes laws designed to make the amendment effeetive, and until someone challenges the constitutionality of these laws. But it also seems clear that the Supreme Court might most properly and usefully consent to give its opinion now on a matter of such general public interest. Whether the amendment is alive or dead should be determined at the earliest moment possible. The present uncertainty prejudices the rights of children who are suffering

for lack of protection. Those who are fighting to abolish child labor should know, without further long delay, whether | it is worth while to fight on for ratification of this amendment or whether it is necessary to seek a different remedy.

WHAT'S THE HURRY, HAWAII? ERNIE PYLE, our roving reporter, wrote from Honolulu that the topic of conversation half the time in Hawaii

is “the race problem.” Said he: “Hawaii is made up of the following races: Japanese .... 151,000 White . 59,000 Filipino 53,000 Hawaiian mixture 39,000 Portuguese 30,000 Chinese .........\s 27,000 Pure Hawaiian , 21,000 Puerto Rican Korean Conglomeration

“Now,” he continued, “I have no way of knowing what each of these races thinks of the others. All I know is the white man’s opinion of them all. . . . They mean the Japanese when they speak of ‘the race problem.’ , .. They say no man can tell what the Japanese are thinking. They say that in case of war these Japanese would unquestionably be loyal to the Son of Heaven. . .. “During my first few days in Hawaii I was amazed at the way everybody talked about ‘the race problem. . .. For this hodgepodge seemed to me very colorful, and the races all seemed to be living together very peacefully. And I thought to myself: ‘Oh, pooh to all this talk! If three or four more generations go by before a big war, they'll all be completely Americanized.’ . .. That's what I thought then. . . . That's what I still think.” ” # ” rR » » RNIE is a mighty shrewd observer. We believe he has hit the Hawaiian nail on the head. Given time, the melting. pot will work out well. : But if Ernie is right—and we believe he is—then all talk of statehood, for the time being, should be dropped. With 151,000 Japanese in the islands, 20 to 30 thousand of whom are aliens, and with the whole Pacific a seething caldron of unrest, the time is hardly propitious for political change. A generation or so hence, perhaps, the entire situation will have altered. There seems little reason to doubt the loyalty to the United States of the third generation of Japanese, and very little more to doubt that of the second generation who are American citizens. So why rush matters? What harm can come of waiting and letting time work for the islands a little longer? If Congress will just cut out its own unfair tactics—as evidenced by its action in the sugar quotas in putting Hawaii in the class with Cuba and the Philippines—there will be no justifiable complaint on the score of the present territorial status.

ADOLF’S BRIDGE A BRIDGE to be built over the Elbe at Hamburg, Germany, will be 4100 feet from end to end with a suspension span of 2240 feet and towers 580. feet high. Chancellor Hitler has referred to it as “the world’s largest,” and German newspapers are under orders to call it that whenever they mention it. Well, the suspension span alone of San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge is 4200 feet long, and its towers are 742 feet high. San Francisco's other bridge, to Qakland, has two 2310-foot spans, and its length from end to end is more ‘than 23,000 feet. Still, nobody is likely to contradict Herr Hitler when he calls his Elbe Bridge “the world’s largest’ —that is, no-

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Fair Enough

By Westbrook Pegler

Chicago Should Hold an Inquiry To Learn if the Majority Really Favors the Gambling Ordinance.

(CHICAGO, Feb. 7T.—Another symptom of the political degradation of Chicago is the fact that persons who reckon themselves to be good citizens not only condone but aggressively indorse a proposal to take the underworld into a legal partnership with the City Government. This would be the effect of the ordinance to license the operators of public gambling rooms. Ostensibly these rooms would be licensed only

to receive and transmit bets to mutuel tracks in Chicago and elsewhere on a commission basis,

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be persons of good character. However, not even the most ardent defenders of the ordinance are naive enough to believe that. The bets would be booked as usual, and the licensees would be the same. persons operating the rooms now. : Moreover, some of the horse rooms, having a faint Cg of legality, would construe their licenses to justify their operations Mr. Pegler in roulette, craps, blackjack, the slots, the wheel and the cage. They operate such games of little chance now on the tribute system, and the system has been tolerated by the Government so long that it has come to be regarded by the people as wrong only because none of the tribute goes into the treasury. There is no thought, however, of calling on the City Government to suppress the gambling rooms. The Government merely says that this is impossible, because there are too many of them, and stands on a plea that the people like to gamble, and this is accepted without effective protest. But obviously, in a city of three million the proportion of the people who like to gamble and have money to gamble is negligible. x = = T= vast majority of the people never visit a gambling house, but the mass of them have been worn down to acquiescence. It is similar to the case in Germany and Italy, where people grow tired of putting up a mental resistance to propaganda which they know to be untruths, and eventually say, “All right, Hitler is perfect,” or, “Ethiopia made 2 cowardly attack on us,” and let it go at that.

It is not merely that gambling is to be legalized in Chicago. That is not a new question, and a majority of the people in a test might approve, provided the business could be conducted as a business and compelied to pay its dues. The point that everyone knows, but wants to forget and does forget, is that the gambling business is a racket. o ” »

T handles enormous amounts of cash every day, and would become a recognized and respectabilized influence in city politics, fighting with the enormous strength of its ready money to preserve the power which passed the ordinance and defeat any political opponent of that power. It is an influence now, but given legal status, the gambling industry would try to take over the Government. This ordinance was ed without appropriate inquiry. If such a law re to be proposed in the National Congress on the same grounds there would be committee hearings, and all existing conditions would be exposed. The committee would find out whether, as in the case of Prohibition, the whole community wanted to legalize a forbidden traffic or a comparative few were being made to sound like a majority.

The Hoosier Forum

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

FL.NN'S OPINIONS ARE CRITICIZED By Pat Hogan, Columbus, Ind.

John T. Flynn's articles about President Roosevelt are an insult to the intelligence of thinking people. Mr. Flynn first lamented the Social Security Act and leaped 20 years into the future to borrow trouble because the tax collected now is being diverted to other channels—relief and what not. Also he magnifies the present tax as a proscriptive measure, wantonly reducing the purchasing power of workers. Let us see: The tax takes 40 cents from my weekly check. If that can in any way aid the unemployed either by direct relief or WPA, I should like to have the tax doubled, and I don’t care a hoot if I never get it back. Moreover I give five times that amount to local charities and consider it the best “purchasing power” I have. As to Flynn's 20 years hence theory, that is the bunk as any insurance man will tell him. " In his articles about President Roosevelt he is playing the role of a gypsy fortune teller, a psychiatrist and a professor chasing butterflies, but I hardly think President Roosevelt is going to ask Mr. Flynn's advice. He pictures the President as a sleek politician of wishy-washy nature, with no purpose, no goal, a diplomat of the backstairs variety playing both ends against the middle and trusting to luck to solve the: problems of the nation. Mr. Flynn has floundered around in the financial morass so long that he cannot or will not understand the English language. Every measure advocated by Roosevelt has been designed to aid the common people, two-thirds of our population, and every person over 12 years of age understands it thoroughly. " 5 EJ

READER PRAISES FLYNN’S ARTICLES By a Little Businessman Congratulations for giving John T. Flynn his say on the Editorial Page along with the other commentators. We may agree or disagree with what Flynn, Johnson, Broun and the others say, but we certainly want to know what writers of their caliber have to say about our fastmoving world. John Flynn has been recognized for years as the country’s outstanding popular writer on economics. Most informed persons have read some of his books and magazine articles. His daily articles on the Editorial Page are a real contribution to your readers’ thinking. * 8»

NEED SEEN FOR BOTH CRAFT AND INDUSTRIAL UNIONS

By L. 8. Farmer. Anderson The A. F. of L.-C. I. O. controversy, in its last analysis, resolves itself into a question as to whether one or both forms of organization

Business—By John T. Flynn

The Government Has Sold the American People War Scares to Win Their Favor for a Large Preparedness Program, Economist Says.

ASHINGTON, Feb. 7.—The discussions around the President's war preparation program have so far limited themselves to arguments for more ships to insure peace. As peace is a universally loved and extolled state approved heartily by Napoleon and Kaiser Wilhelm and even by Mussolini up to a few years ago, the whole controversy has run alo smoathly. . Only in the last few days have men in Congress got around to talking about some of the by-products of the preparations plan. One of these by-products, of course, is the effect which preparations will have upon public psychology. The Sines is ihe Soanothic consequences. pretty well recognized that the American People are not normally in favor of large armaments. They have & natural indisposition toward them. And

as you get away from tne A . taste iv L 1 tlantic seaboard this dis

money to build ships and guns danger, the opposition becomes

(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.)

will best serve the ends sought by organized labor as a whole, and a correct answer demands a recoghition of the fact that both forms have a useful function to perform in the field of organized labor. Both should freely function within their respective fields and co-operate toward the attainment of ends held in common by both groups. The craft form, as the name implies, seeks to eguard common interests of skilled workers employed witnin the various crafts throughout industry. The industrial form seeks to safeguard common interests of all workers, skilled, semiskilled and unskilled, employed in all the industries of the nation.

As the industrial form includes all workers employed in industry and the craft form includes only a part thereof, it necessarily follows that the smaller, less powerful craft organization would function more effectively within the larger, more powerful industrial organization. To permit smaller craft organizations to dominate over broader industrial organizations would be unreasonable and undemocratic. From which it appears there are but three fundamental bases whereupon an acceptable working agreement between these two contending labor groups can be constructed: namely, provision whereby each group shall have jurisdiction over and function within specific industries jointly agreed upon, provision whereby craft organizations shall function within and under the jur-

THE TIDE By ROBERT O. LEVELL

I enjoy to watch the tide, Fascinating as can be, From the beach along the side In the cool breeze of the sea.

Waves so free from cave they go, Rushing over rock so near, Far away, and to and fro, Like a heart so full of cheer.

DAILY THOUGHT

Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.—I John 2:15.

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

isdiction of the larger industrial unions of which they form a part, or arrangement whereby both provisions shall be utilized under specific conditions.

The A. F. of L. peace offer which demanded the 10 original C. I. O. unions return to the A. F. of L. fold and leave new unions organized under their leadership to the mercy of embittered A. F. of L. leadership is not a peace offer at all, but a demand for complete surrender, tantamount to the hand saying to the hody, “Depart from me for the hand can function better without the body.” The rank and file of both organizations, interested primarily in benefits to be derived from effective organized effort rather than domination by leaders from either side of the controversy, should make persistent demands upon union. officials to arrive at an acceptable working agreement and eliminate devastating friction desired by none except those embittered to a point where they prefer to see the labor movement wrecked rather than progress forward into a field of greater efficiency. » » »

URGES VOTERS TO ACT FOR THEMSELVES By A. J. McKinnon

Every day is Constitution Day until April 30, 1938. I do not see much excitement in Indiana about this ‘proclamation the President made on Constitution Day. The President and his three branches of Government are quite busy with radio spot announcements which give their activities.

Other days are set aside for speeches by prominent Administration men while the President is busy calling in industrial and businessmen. Things go from bad to worse, because nothing is accomplished but a friendly talk and a radio announcement that the President is getting a line on the recession, which is very good as far as it goes, but it does not go far enough. Let us hope our people wake up and write even a postal card to our Representatives. It is necessary before April 30, as five of our Indiana Representatives seem to have become yes-men. Indiana could get along without some of these men and cut taxes. Also we could do without half of our county sheriffs, since one sheriff today can cover much territory in an auto. The people ought to come iogether and make several petitions before our next election. We might get busy with some petitions for the poor, the rich, the laborer and farmer; in other words, put it over ourselves, not looking to representatives. On Constitution Day there was a radio announcement that the C. I. O. was going to back the President for a third term. There will be no third term for anyone.

Gen. Johnson Says—

Important Businesses Must Go to

New York for Money for Financing Betause There Isn't Any at Home.

NEW YORK, Feb. T.—The next act in the. Washington vaudeville is going to be a turn, entitled “Home-Keeping Hearts Are Happiest” or “Don’t Go to Wicked Wall Street, There's Money Right at Home.”

CHairman Douglas of the SEC tried it on the dog out in Chicago this week. The new Solicitor General, Robert Jackson, gave it a trial run in Rochester about a month ago. The idea is that there is no need to go to the New York money market to finance any business enterprise. Just pass the hat around among the neighbors. A good answer to that is a ques= tion—if it could be done that way, why wasn't it done all the time? Nobody running a business likes to go to New York for new dough. It costs a lot. It is as complicated as chess. It is a cold and unsympathetic market. Business went to Wall Street because, generally speaking, there was no place else to go. This new idea of hat-passing homefinancing is like many other half-cocked magic by New Deal rabbit yankers. It didn’t proceed from a sufficient knowledge or investigation.

» ® » R. JACKSON'S Rochester speech held up as the shining example of home-work, George East man’s building up of his Kodak Co. That seemed to have his complete blessing. It is one of the best success stories in the book. Mr. Eastman built the foundations of his business by plowing back its profits. But that company had to go to Wall Street. Eastman Kodak is one of the gilt-edge issues on the big board. Also, in the manufacture of movie film, it comes as near to having all

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.the business as Mr. Jackson will find in all his trust-

busting forays. Henry Ford built a vast business without going to the money changers. But what Mr. Ford did, or even what Mr. Eastman did, can’t be done now. If you start using your profits to build up your own business, instead of distributing them as dividends, the punitive undistributed profits tax hits you so hard that there isn’t much left to plow. » a » UT even if this fool thing hadn't practically stopped business expansion, you can't finance any important business out in the sticks. Why? The money isn’t there. Mr, Ford didn't do it that way except for the smallest kind of beginning. His business was all built out of profits. It is easy to see why the money isn't there. If a business is any more than a strictly local enterprise, it serves a wide area—several states or even the nation. It is completely out of proportion to the relatively small part of that area in which its manufacturing is done. It must look to its wide trade area for i capital for the same. reason that it does for its es. The machinery for national distribution of investe ment securities is in New. York—and nowhere else. That just happens to be an economic fact and any Batic) policy that ignores it is bound to be cock eyed.

According to Heywood Broun—

A Sarasota Booster Relates a Most Unusual Legend of the City, Which Involves a Beautiful Princess and 100 Indians Unable to Swim.

ARASOTA, Fla., Feb. 7.—My friend Mr. Perry is |

on by the State Department and the Navy at this very moment. It is now recognized that the naval program was projected long before the Panay incident. It is also well known that the State Department and the Navy intended to use South America as a bugaboo. Then came the Panay disaster and the Japanese war immediately was adopted as the basis for the current war

scare. ® ® w HE President planned his message proposing his T billion-dollar Navy for Friday, Jan. 28. On that day the State Department released its flaming story about. the many indignities suffered by Americans. But the American protest on these various minor annoyances had been made 10 days before. The news had been kept on ice, however, saved up for 10 days to be released at the most opportune moment, as part of the propaganda for preparedness, Since then almost daily stories and statements ted from the State Department designed Instead of soothing the public mind, va called “very grave.” Admiral Leahy later declared that “war is nearer than it has been at any time since 1918." And he has now trotted out the South American fear—that South America is exposed to - expect we may d billions for war prep a deliberate car

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a booster for this beautiful resort in a quiet way. He says that unless the brakes are put on Sarasota will soon catch Miami, and he wants to know, “What have you got when you've got Miami?” Accordingly, he was shocked when I said that I was about to cross the big swamp and get to the mainland at about Hialeah. “Surely,” said Mr. Perry, “you are not going to miss the festival of Princess Sara Sota on the 25th and 26th of this month?” I told my host that I would be toiling hard at serious things in the frozen North by that date, and I added that I had never met or heard of the Princess. “Please don’t be gauche,” replied Mr. Perry. “Princess Sota is a famous character in history. She was the lone and lovely daughter of Ferdinand De Soto, who discovered Florida.” “Hold on!” I cried. “I thought Ponce De Leon discovered Florida, and, anyway, how come De Soto's one fair daughter was called Sota with an ‘a’ and no ‘De’?” t - 8 8 =

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very delicate. Otherwise, our climate would have saved her. “The son of the Seminole chief begged for permission to- arrange the funeral rites for the lost Princess. He told De Soto that Miss Sota's body should come to rest in the most beautiful harbor in all the world. Naturally, he was talking of the bay down here at the end of the street. And on the appointed morning, under a glorious sun, such as we have had all last week with the exception of the last three days, the funeral canoe of Princess Sota was paddled out into the middle of the bay. #® ” » “gq ZNE hundred warriors, the bravest of the tribe, accompanied the bier of Sara Sota. At a given signal each warrior cut the birch bark in the bottom of his own canoe, and so all the brave hundred were drowned that they might serve as a guard of honor for Sara Sota in the land beyond the skies. . “That is why we have the festival on the 25th and ty is known as Chamber

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