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‘TUESDAY, FEB. 22, 1938

THE TRAGEDY OF EDEN. . THE ‘tragedy of Anthony Eden is the tragedy of the world. A new and younYer Woodrow Wilson, he is suffering a somewhat similar fate because he was born into an era which, apparently, was not ready for him. Like Wilson, Capt. Eden is a firm believer in an ordered civilization based on law and justice. He looks upon this ‘tiny sphere as a community in which inevitably there are ‘good and bad members. Therefore, he reasons law-abiding members must stand firm for their own good and co-operate to resist outlawry. - He is a stanch supporter of the League of Nations, which Wilson fathered and of the principle that collective security is an international duty. ~ “We.are in the presence of the progressive deteriora~tion.of respect for international obligations,” he told the House of Commons yesterday when he rose to explain why he had resigned as Foreign Minister. He was not quitting on a question of detail, he said, but on one of fundamental

principle. 2 2 = i 2 a =

RIME MINISTER CHAMBERLAIN regards himself as a realist who, to save his country and his empire if not the world must face the facts however unpleasant they may be. Among’the facts, as he sees them, is the collapse of the entire postwar peace machine. The League of Nations, as a bulwark against aggression, has been deflated. When Japan invaded Manchuria in 1931 the League failed to function—Ilargely because the British Government betrayed its promise to stand with the United States in support of treaties. It failed when Italy annexed Ethiopia. And again in the present Japanese aggression against China. Mr. Chamberlain wants peace as badly as Mr. Eden. He, too, is mortally afraid of what another world war would do to mankind. He is convinced that civilization as we know it would be doomed. Where he differs from Mr. Eden is on how to head off the catastrophe. Mr. Eden would have no dealings whatsoever with the Nazi-Fascist powers until they reformed whereas Mr. Chamberlain believes he can obtain such reform: by meeting them halfway. ~The British Prime Minister, therefore, apparently plans to recognize the new Roman empire of Mussolini and make some sort of colonial deal with Hitler. On such a basis as this he believed he can obtain ‘assurances regarding Spain and other danger spots from both powers, and save Europe and the world from cataclysm.

MER. WASHINGTON HE prevailin” weakness of most public men is to slop over,” said Artemys Ward in a Fourth of July oration. “G. Washington never: -slopt over.” But many famous poets and statesmen in the past have done so when talking about G. Washington, and lesser ones will do so today. For few men have better earned the muchabused adjective * ‘great.” And no historic idol has better withstood the tarnishing inks of literary muck-rakers. : ‘But ‘without slopping over we can say on this 206th anniversary of his birth that we wish we had more of his spirit in the world right now. A soldier who hated war and warned against “overgrown military establishments.” A victor who might have been dictator or king, but indignantly rebuked the suggestion, A rich land-owner ~ who left the soil he loved to risk life and health in establishing a people’s republic. A popular idol who refused a

Presidential third term. A man of simple righteousness, | *

a straight thinker and. a straight shooter. And yet so little of ‘a saint that Joseph -Delteil could write of him: “Washington! Here is a fine, fearless, placid man, perfectly well-seated in the center of his soul, direct and pure. . .. He could smile, drink and make love. , .” The world today, so torn by swaggering little Caesars, and befuddled by doctrinaires and demagogues, could use the counsel of his serene and august spirit.

THREE-SECOND LAUNDRY | THE United States Senate took three seconds to pass a

ered by carrier, 12 cents |

bill : canceling a debt of $2,653, 840), 000 owed to the

Treasury by the Reconstruction Finance Corp. There was nothing ‘wrong with the bill. In 1932-35 Congress hit on the bright idea of providing money for various purposes without appropriating it, by authorizing the REC to make loans. Before it could make the loans, the RFC:had to berrow the money from the Treasury. The Senate’s speedy action inspired Republican Senator Vandenberg of Michigan ‘to make a: little speech, and it seems to us he spoke a mouthful.. He said:

“All' I am. undertaking to do is to emphasize the fact

that we did run a $2,700,000,000 laundry in three seconds and to express: the hope that in the future when Congress wants to make grants or subsidies or loans, or to capitalize external corporations to go into business, or to invade many of the fantastic fields in which we now find ourselves, Congress will be frank enough to appropriate the funds directly and not saddle the RFC with the burden.”

HAW!. HAW! GLEN N. W. MW'NAUGHTON of New York City, who owns-12 race horses and describes himself as a corporation lawyer, has launched an effort to raise $5,000,000 to present: to President Roosevelt “if he promises to resign within the next five months.”

It began, according to Mr. ‘McNaughton, with a remark

he made in:telephoning to a friend that: “There’s nothing

the matter with the country but Roosevelt, and we ought to give him $5,000,000 to get out.” Within a sho time, he

says, this great idea had spread all through Wall Street,

“Once these things start,” he adds, “you néver know’ how they’ll end.” Well, we know how this one will end. It will end with a good many citizens indignant over a silly insult to the President, and with Corporation Lawyer McNaughton getting: more Rorselaughs than his 12 race horses can ever

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In a Way, George Had It Easy;-By Herblock

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THIS BUSINESS OF

BEING CHIEF EXECUTIVE iS NO BED OF ROSES, 3UT AT LEAST NOBODY-

CAN TELL ME WHAT

PREVIOUS PRESIDENTS

WOULD HAVE DONE

\F THEY WERE ALve!

Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

Despite Kansas City's Political Setup the Town Has Little Violent

Crime and Good Public Services.

KANSAS CITY, Feb. 22.—Here is a paradox for you. Tom Pendergast, -the Democratic boss of Kansas City, gives good, rotten soverghnt, and runs a good, rotten city whose conventional Americans of the

‘home-loving, 100-per-cent type, live on terms

of mutual toleration with wide open vice and gambling. Kansas City has been described as- an overgrown

trading post on the. frontier, but that figure does justice to neither the facts nor the town. She is not a post at all, but a great city whose reputation has suffered from the inclusion in her name of the word “Kansas,” a word sighifying social bleakness, prohibition, and an aversion to the pleasures of others. Kansas City is more like Paris. i Mr. Pendergast ds an old-time saloonkeeper, .and similar in some respects to Frank Hague of Jersey City. He is religious, rich and 2 benevolent despot in his relations

Mr. Pegler

with his loyal subjects, but he lacks Hague’s vindic-

tiveness toward those who have the audacity to fight

him, ® 8 8

A THoveH he put off his apron and laid aside his beer mallet long ago, Mr. Pendergast is. still operating in liquor and beer, being now in the wholesale way of business as agent for various lines of merchandise, which naturally enjoy a strong preference in the cafes and saloons of the merry city on the edge of the Kansas desert. - He generously per-

mits other brands to be sold, but ‘the loyal saloon-

keeper knows whose line of grog and brew is whose.

Mr. Pendergast also sells ready-mixed concrete in i of quantities for public and private works, but at

suggestion of monkey business, he is prepared to argue that his concrete is good concrete, and that his prices are the lowest and his facilities the best. 2 x 8 ~HE police force is entirely political, and every cop is beholden to some leader for his job, and removable or otherwise punishable on the demand of the same one who appointed him, subject, however, in| extreme cases, to Mr. Pendergast’s decision on

appeal.

policeman might as well try to shake down the Santa Fe Railroad or a big department store. Neither cops nor firemen have pensions or job security. | But in spite of all this—and this is what drives the ition wild—Mr, Pendergast runs a good town, with efficient public services and with comparatively little violent crime. Kansas City has adopted the old St. Paul and Toledo system ‘of permitting criminals to relax and frolic without molestaiion, with the understanding that their activities while in town must be

elurely social and. no way professional.

The firemen are similarly situated. A | : gambling-house keeper doesn’t have to bother with cops. He does business with the organization, and a

The Hoosier Forum I wholly disagree with whit you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it—Voltaire.

PROTESTS CRITICISM OF SCHERRER COLUMN

By Pro Bono Non-Smoko

In The Times of Feb. 18, one of the famous “minority” not only objects to Mr. Scherrer’s article about the streetcar company’s request that passengers should not smoke in streetcars, but he (or she) would “cheerfully wish that all his (Mr. Scherrer’s) days and nights might be spent inhaling H2S.” Now I protest. I think that that is altogether too severe a treatment for the genial columnist of The Times.

-It seems to me that this one of the

“minority” lacks all sense of playfulness. Mr. Scherrer should not be treated to a veritable inquisition because he dared to comment good naturedly on an expression which doubtless caused the advertising Seperiment of the streetcar company. an. i amount of careful thought,

‘But I haven’t the slightest doubt that the folks up on the ninth floor of the Traction Building got as much kick from Mr. Scherrer’s article as did ‘the vast majority of the readers of The Times who look forward every day to see what Tony Scherrer has to say on the first page of section two,

Now in behalf of “minority,” I should like to say I personally object just a8 much as “he” or “she” does to smoking on busses. There are two men who ride downtown every morning en the same Meridian St. bus with me. Apparently they light their vile cigars just before the bus | arrives, and then hold them in their | hands until the bus arrives at the Circle. Now if they would only smoke a good brand of cigars it wouldn’t matter. ® x »

ANDRICA SERIES IS CRITICIZED By Joe Saunders In his otherwise excellent series

lof articles on Jewish Destiny, re-

cently published in The Times, The-

odore Andrica’ makes some state-|

ments and implications that are not altogether in harmony ‘with the facts. For example, he says: “The -Jews is the general name for the Semitic people who inhabited Palestine from early times.” The term “Jews” could not properly be applied to ‘Hebrews generally . until after the return of the Israelites from Babyionian exile. Again, the history of

the Hebrews as a people distinct

from the other branches of the Semitic race did not begin with their sojourn in Egypt, but with the arrival of Abraham and Lot in Canaan, 2046 B. C. The experiences of Ben. Israel in

eph, great grandson of Abraham,

pt began, strictly speaking, when Es takeh there as a chattel 1853

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Raymond Clapper Says—

Proposed Reciprocal Trade Agreement With Great Britain Causes Considerable Smoke About the Unpaid War Debts, but Little Fire.

ASHINGTON, Feb. 22.—There is considerable

smoke here about the unpaid debts but very

little fire. Most of the -smoke hangs around the British debt, which some people have recalled to mind

because negotiations are now going on for a recipro-: cal trade agreement with Great Britain.

{The other morning President Roosevelt: held ‘a | -| backdoor conference with several leaders in Congress | and some understood that the British debt question | was up. However, the most earnest assurances are

given that it was not the British debt but a suggestion

‘involving a minor country and that the Congressional

leaders turned thumbs down. If by any chance it was

a trial balloon to test out the prospects for some 2 ah to the British debt question, the yesulis +

were not encouraging, ‘The unpaid British debt is momentarily embers

because to reach a reciprocal agreement of any value we will have to accept a considerable quane

tity of products from the British Empife. In the fall Congressional cainpaign it will be a miracle if a

number of candidates for the House and Senate do

not complain about our letting in British products while the war debt is unpaid, ignoring, of course,

oe the only way the debt can be paid is by the sale

in the United Sta tes,

N

ATE and strictly unofficial discussions have taken Place as fo the possibility of Great Britain

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(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, religious con‘troversies excluded. Make _ your letter short, so all cang have a chance. Letters must be signed, but names will be withheld on request.)

years B. C.—not 1600. Later came Joseph’s brothers and their families, and Jacob his father.. These formed the nucleus of the Hebrew colony that flourished in the land of Goshen until the tyrannies of an arrogant Pharaoh precipitated the Exodus, .in 1615 B.C. . . . Concerning the dispersions of the Israelites, the article is too sketchy and inconsistent. ‘While giving

period “of desolation, Mr: Andrica fixes its beginning (with the overthrow of Zedekiah) in 583 B. C., which makes the period 2 years short, ‘. 8 = NO RULE OF LEARNING, - READER BELIEVES 2 By B. C,

It isn’t unusual for Jectiizers and educators to disagree on practically any given subject, but when two authorities’ like Dr. Albert Edward Wiggam and: Robert Maynard Hutchins take, opposite stands on the subject of vocational training, is it. any wonder the average student may get a little confused? President Hutchins of Chicago University, ad the Inland Daily Press convention in Chicago, declared: -

college is to help the student un-

derstand the traditional wisdom of

A RAINY DAY By ROBERT 0. LEVELL

When the rain drops pelter down, Wits that old familiar sound; s & good time to abide ’. Satished to stay inside.

When the noise of that old rain, Pelters on the windowpane; In that old familiar way On a very rainy day.

DAILY THOUGHT

When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue faileth them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them. — Isaiah 41:17,

H CX often we we look upon ‘God as our last and feeblest resource! . And then we learn that the storms of life have driven us, not upon the rocks, but into the de-

sired haven.—George Macdonald.

-the correct date for the end of the

“The first responsibility of the

, | the race. . It should not attempt to

prepare people for specific -jobs.” He added that any course to be ‘taught in college should be funda-

mental and a subject that can be

‘taught. . On the other hand, Dr. Wiggam, Times columnist, lecturer and author of several modern “behavior” . books, including. “Exploring Your Mind,” was lavish, in a recent lecture, with praise of vocational guidance not only in college, but in high school. He declared too many students found their abilities by accident, or never found them

at all. He even favored courses |

teaching the technique of applying for a job. It may be possible that both of the learned gentlemen are laying down hard and fast rules where no such rules can be applied. Vocational guidance could fit one student and- be lost on another, whereas a general education might develop one youngster tremendously and leave his classmate untouched. Either rule is like saying all col-

lege boys should run the quarter- |

mile because ‘they all have two legs apiece. Humans don’t fit in arbi-

trary patterns,

2 8 =» : ‘TUBERCULOSIS REMEDIES SUGGESTED. BY WIGGAM

‘Morgan Brantlinger, Editor of The Rainbow, Sunnyside Sanaterium publication, sends us the following letter received from The Times eolumnist, Dr. Albert Edward Wiggam.

I had tuberculosis’ when I got out of college at the age of 21 and lived in Colorado four years. Was in two

different sanatoriums for a period

of several months each. I concluded even then that climate had little value in curing tuberculosis other than the fact that in the West and ‘Southwest it is more pleasant to sit ‘out-of-doors than in our more vigorous Eastern and Northern climates. I don’t think air itself has much influence one way or the other so one gets plenty of it both in his lungs and about the body so as to keep his general tone. I had a subsequent lay-out when I was about 35 for a few months and another when I was about 50. Both of these were due to my own

‘neglect and the fact of my taking y on too many responsibilities..

However, I took the trouble the

last time to get completely well and

during the 10 or 12 years since have worked like a8 common plow-horse “and had no thought of tuberculosis. I am now past 60 and was never in better health in my life dnd look forward to many active years. I think a. cheerful disposition has more to do: with curing tuberculesis than climate.. This combined with absolute scientific rest and proper diet will pull most everybody

According to Hey

through. .

fing a Jarse bond issue In the United States, | hest to el hs

the debt is $4,600,000,000 and Britain ‘is in arrears on her semi-annual payments about one billion dollars. The total amount of principal and interest called for in the 62-year payment plan now theoretically in effect is $11,100,000,000,

One proposition which has been talked over un. officially calls for a British loan to be sold to the

-American public for a total of - $3,000,000,000. Midwestern investment bankers are said to be interested in this plan. “Mr; Roosevelt says the British debt situation is exactly where it was two years ago. This Government, it is understood, is taking no initiative and will not.

Its attitude is: If any foreign debtor has a proposi-

tion. 50 aks, let the proposition be submitted.

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~HE Fibrous] trade agreements act speuifies that

ra Sling in it gives. authority to cancel. or to. any manner any ‘foreign indebtedness to.

2 Ey States. Under that provision the Goverment has firmly refused to allow other governments

to use the trade-agreement negotiations as a ve- |

hicle for wangling their debts down. However, interest at Washington in the whole

debt subject is very low. For practical purposes the |

ectibi have been pretty much’ written off as uncole, ’ But 13 one of ou beh diplomatic ofices sad privately not long ago, the ur war debts best {suratios we ave becoming

Aner that? ues they Jorkod on) her Wim A

Mas Feb. 22— Yes” said the husky young man who was lacerating my left kidney with his manipulations, “I guess I've rubbed them all. I | think I can hoast that there are men in public life right now who wouldn’s be where they are but for my massages.” He took ‘a roll of fat as a candy puller yanks at taffy and grew a little reminiscent. “I've done a swell job for fat men many times,” he continued, “and yet I suppose you might almost say that the best ‘treat-

| meni ‘I ever gave a patient turned out in the end to

be kind of tragic.” Taking my right arm at the elbow, he began, absentmindedly, 4 twist it around until I felt constrained to remind him that it had been my Intention + to take it back with me to New York.

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EE fat. ‘man I was telling you about,” he continued, “was a Cuban. His name doesn’t matter, and, anyhow, I can’t pronounce it. I met him hii through | a young lady. She came {0 my health studio, and said in Spain, ‘My gentleman friend | thinks I am too fat’ I sent her to the chief lady | in charge of the ‘ladies’ department; and they put her in an electric-light cabinet and ‘threw the key away.

« tack my am ana pared to |

~ “Well, Wo. -weeks.

ler. i poll.

Ger. Toon

Says—

‘Wallace Needs Everyone's Supporf In Administering New Farm Bill For He's Playing. With Dynamite.

VV ASHIN GTON, Feb. 22.—Good administration can make a bad plan work. Bad administration can make the best plan fail. The farm bill is just about the worst piece of legislation ever turned out by Congress. It is so obsture and complex with its gross reference to other statutes—it takes days of work for

even superficial analysis. Notody knows how it will work, how much it will

cost and how much’ liability ‘the Government will eventually have to assume under its almost. limitless guarantee—and not 10 men who voted for it know what is in it. It collides head-on with what are supposed to be Constitutional inhibitions and deeply. rooted popular traditions. Congress knew: it and yet passed the bill. That is water over the dam. : The question now is adminis- | tration of the bill. It could put s a terrible crimp into the country. It could wreck Mr. Roosevelt and Hugh Jonpsen return the Republicans. .It could do almost anything. Mr. Henry Agard Wallace 1s Horatius at the bridge. - ® =» S far as this cling is concerned, white 1t doesn’t approve of Mr. Wallace, in his present position, and despises this bill, it certainly wishes him well in this. All our eggs are in the basket which Henry must carry all by himself. - Reserving the right to criticize particular actions, I think everybody ought to pull for his general success. There is this thin Chinaman’s chance. Mr, Wallace may be haywire on planning and panaceas, but he is usually extremely cautious in action, and caution is what is principally needed in playing with this truckload of dynamite. The essential aim of this plan is to get farm prices up to “parity.” This is to be done in a combination of two ways: (1) by regulating production and ‘marketing to a restricted current supply to market, thus raising price (2) b making up the difference between the price thus ri ‘and the “parity” price by paying cash “benefits.” hr : ® » : R. WALLACE has so much discretion here that he could hold his plan down to little more than paving “benefits” to secure parity prices and. leave his regulation of farm production and marketing to a very minimum—almost none at all. Or he could go the whole hog and collapse himself—and us—in a

ear. In either case, making up parity’ prices is going to require new revenue and the only place to get it. is by a “processing tax”—which is hokum . for “sales. “tax.” Such g.tax is inevitable. But if the proposition’ of “parity prices” is accepted it isn’t as bad as it. sounds. What difference does it make to the.consumer whether it comes through scarcity and tinker-

“ing with the food supply or through a tax? It makes

a difference, but it is all in favor of the processing tax because that would save hundreds of millions in. other taxes for the cost of the cockeyed administra= tion of 6,000,000 farms. Also, it would be a lot better for the consumer to be assured of plenty under free

. production than to gamble that Henry didn’ make

a mistake in regulating an ‘artificial seareity.

ood Broun—

. The Health Institute Professor Wonders ‘Whether He Did a Good Job In Getting the Former Cuban General in Condition to Ride a Horse.

to be & general and waa any more. That was the

thing that was worrying “This was a Monday, one of our quiet days, and the general—he says that he wants to have the whole establishment to for the entire afternoon. Hed "laid the money on the line, and so we barred all the rest. of the customers and concentrated on him. ‘It is very important,’ he said, ‘for me to ride a horse tomorrow. I must ride a horse Yomortow,, ‘and. my back—it hurts.’ ~ 2% s 8.

“WWE Bre him the works I don't think I ever : saw a patient who could take so much punishment. He dropped nine pounds in the hot room, and after that we just sort of batted him around. Along about 5 o'clock he had enough. He was sort of pale around the gills, but we’d hammered the kink out of his back. He. said he thought he could: ride a horse:

‘tomorrow. In fact, he did. He led a revolution. a. A

“That was on a Tuesday.” They captured him on ‘Wednesday’ and shot him’ on-Thursday morning. And T've always been a Jisejs-pustied to figure out whether I did a good job for him or not. I've seen-the girl once or twice since at the Casino and: oy night clubs. ‘She doesn’t come around the Health Instifute any

more.” gave. me a. whack between the

vir & | shoulder pads to indicate that my own ordeal was.

over. ; “I had patient i in here the other day who comes from your part of th d. € he told me he does ‘good 8 B