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THURSDAY, APRIL 14, 1938

DEATH CROSSINGS UTOMOBILE drivers who attempted to “beat the engine” to Indiana grade crossings in 1987 again were responsible for a high total of deaths and injuries attributable to mixups between motor cars and locomotives.

The State’s total dead during the year in grade cross-

ing accidents is placed by the latest figures of the Inter-

state Commerce Commission at 155, against 156 in 1936. Injuries from similar accidents in Indiana during 1937 totaled 313, compared to 282 the previous year. Indiana, surpassed only by Illinois in deaths, accounted for 9.64 per cent of the nation’s record-breaking toll of 1607. This national total was an increase of 5.79 per cent over the 1519 killed, in crashes of the same type during 1936. In contrast to the records of Indiana and the nation were those of Delaware, Nevada, Rhode Island and Wyoming. In these four states not a single person was killed last year in train-auto crashes. Here is evidence that, with the elimination of the more dangerous grade crossings ‘and the display of more caution by motorists, Indiana can reduce materially its alarming

traffic toll.

FIVE MONTHS TOO LATE

THE President now wants to retain the “principle” of the undistributed profits tax, while admitting that “modifications shown by experience to be desirable, in particular ' the exemption of small corporations, should be made.” He is now eager for Congress to enact the modified form of this tax proposed by the House, instead of the Senate bill, which completely eliminates the undistributed profits tax. : Unfortunately, Mr. Roosevelt is just five months too late in taking his present stand. i) If he had announced his willingness #6 take a modifi-. cation last November, when Congress met in special session, we think the country’s business would have welcomed that as a sign that the Administration wanted to correct its errors. It would have accepted gladly a compromise designed to get rid of the worst features of a tax that had done so much to kill recovery and spread unemployment. Quick action then, along the line the President now urges—and the recession might never have become a serious depression. But now, the creeping paralysis has crept. And nothing short of complete repeal of that thoroughly discredited. “tax will relax the psychological and economic rigors that grip business today. : We hope, therefore, that the Senate and House conferees, now working out the final draft of the tax bill, will ignore Mr. Roosevelt's last-minute appeal. : "The President’s letter implies that the House bill would prove less burdensome to smaller corporations. The fact is that the Senate bill actually assesses a smaller tax on 130,607 of the 193,219 corporations doing business in this country. The President’s letter charges that the Senate bill's capital-gains section places a premium on speculative profits. The fact is that it does not. It does give more realistic treatment to long-term investment gains—for the purpose of éncouraging flow of investment capital into business enterprise, thereby stimulating recovery and making possible the collection of more revenue. Mr. Roosevelt's desire to save face is understandable— but it is not the fault of Congress that he waited too long and put himself in a position where he feels face-saving necessary. Face-saving won't halt the business slump. Enactment of the Senate bill has a good chance to do if.

FRANCE’S 100 DAYS

Y almost unanimous vote the French Parliament has made Premier Edouard Daladier virtually a dictator for 100 days. Until the end of July his Government will rule by decree, being authorized to use emergency measures to undo the Treasury tangle, borrow more than half a billion dollars for national defense, and deal with labor problems. It is to be regretted that internal turbulence forced this great democracy to set up one-man rule even for a limited. period. But other democratic peoples will hope that M. Daladier uses his power wisely and successfully. With Nazi Germany probably the strongest military power on earth, about the only thing that seems likely to hold Hitler down

to something like reality is for him to be confronted by

another great force—a force which even his megalomania will hesitate to challenge. : A united Britain and a united France, acting together, might give Hitler pause. If they were joined by Italy, as British Premier Chamberlain hopes, Europe’s chances for peace would be greatly enhanced. = - M. Daladier and most of his associates enjoy high prestige. They are moderates, believers in the “middle way.” They may, in the fateful hundred days to come, go far toward putting France back on her feet and saving Europe from war. :

ENOUGH, JUST NOW HE argument over a proposed $3,000,000 memorial to Thomas Jefferson is on again in Washington. . Some people object to the site selected, others to the marble temple which the Memorial Commission. wants to build. They say Jefferson wouldn't have wanted a marble temple. “. The Roosevelt Administration is doing fairly well by the first great Democrat. It is putting Jefferson’s‘face on the new 3-cent stamps—displacing George Washington, for the first time in history, from the current letter-postage

~ stamp. AB is putting his face on the new nickels, displacing the familiar buffalo. ~~ s

" We don’t know what sort of memorial Thomas Jefterson would have wanted. But, remembering how he denounced Alexander Hamilton's theory that “a public debt

is a public blessing,” we're pretty sure he would not have wanted any memorial that has to be built with borrowed

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By Westbrook Pegler

What, Isn't Adolf, Going to Give The Blessings of Liberty to Those Tyroleans Who Would Like to Yodel?

EW YORK, April 14—There is something strange about Hitler's indifference to the plight of the 250,000 Germans in the conquered Austrian Tyrol, where Mussolini more than a decade ago forbade the native yodel as a subversive expression. The unhappy German yodelers were terribly distressed: by this.cruel and unusual edict, and some of them daringly continued to yodel .in cellars at night in very subdued undertones, but the nervous strain was almost unbearable, nevertheless. A Tyrolean forbidden

to use his natural means of expression is like a dog |

forbidden to bark. In fact, of all the German minorities in other lands the muzzled Tyroleans stand most in need of anschluss. In Austria, where Hitler recently rescued a minority, the small element. of Nazis enjoyed liberties for which Mussblini’s captive Germans dare not even yearn, : os EJ ® UE, a few were executed some years ago for assassinating Chancellor Dollfuss under orders from the Nazi headquarters in Munich, but that punishment seemed not too severe under the circumstances. If Munich should execute a similar decree on Mussolini, the Italians probably would be equally resentful. Neither the Austrian nor the Czechoslovakian Gov-

. ernment has ever forbidden the German minorities

to yodel, and neither county has faced the necessity of defending its sacred soil from the defiling tread of an invader 3000 miles away, as Mussolini did in Abyssinia. In defending the sacred soil of the Italian homeland against the invader Mussolini. called to the colors many members of Hitler's orphan minority in the captured Tyrol and sent them out to make little ones out of big ones on the Abyssinian roads. The German Tyroleans could not bring themselves to regard Italy as their homeland, and their indifference to the menace of Haile Selassie’s legions was a great problem to the Duce.s

HE Tyroleans for a time were forbidden to speak German at all so that they would be compelled to learn to speak Italian. They also were forbidden to band themselves into secret political societies. They evaded both verbotens, however. They would hold furtive meetings to indulge in the delicious gutturals of their native tongue and even yodel sotto voice and adopt high signs and identification marks. There are other points on which Der Fuehrer and Il Duce have expressed themselves in writing so strongly that intentional insult is the only meaning that can be read into their remarks. Two years ago, for example, when Mussolini needed war materials more than Christmas trees, he forbade Christmas trees on the ground that they were a pagan device of a pagan people, namely; the Germans. Not long before that Hitler, in exalting the blue-eyed, blond Aryan, wrote with the deepest contempt of swarthy people with short legs, black eyes and beaked noses. Surely these proud conquerors are not going to laugh off such deadly cracks, considering how alert they are to resent quite trivial affronts from lesser sources. And it seems incredible that Hitler while he is rescuing his minorities, intends to abandon to endless torture and longing the muted yodelers of the Tyrol, the piningest minority of them all.

Business By John T. Flynn

Officers Are Bewildered by Plan For Large Navy, Gen. Butler Says.

ASHINGTON, April 14.—One of the most significant expressions of opinions heard before the Naval Affairs Committee on the proposed huge naval building program was a statement made to the committee by Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler. : Among many other salty observations he said that he had been talking with quite a’few Naval officers end that the Navy was far from being a unit in favor of the bill. When he was asked by Senator Walsh if he believed these Naval officers were opposed to the bill, he replied: : “No. They're not opposed to it. They're just a little confused and bewildered about it. They don’t see the use of it. The officers of the U. 8. are just about as fine a body of Americans as you can find anywhere in the country. But.they have an attitude of mind toward things like this which it is difficult for civilians to understand. They do not question the orders of the political commander—who is the Presi-

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“I spent most of my life in the Navy, ending as a Major-General in command of the Marines. I spent years out of the country on various expeditions into South American countries and China carrying on little undeclared wars against smail helpless countries in the interest of business interests. Under orders from the Government I took more than one Central American dictator off his throne and put another in his place. Looking back on these things now I think they were pretty bad. But-I didn’t question them then. When my political chief told me to unseat a little dictator, I unseted him. That's all there was to it.

Believes Program Is Bluff

“Now I believe that the Navy is getting blamed for this big Navy program and I don’t think that is true. This program originates: with the political chiefs. I don’t believe this big Navy is ever going to be ple I think this whole thing is a part of a big bluff. : :

“Of course the political chief -tells the Navy to plan a big Navy with huge battleships for aggressive warfare 4000 miles away from our shores. And the Navy does just what I did when they told me to throw a dictator off the throne of Nicaragua or told me to wind up a revolution one way or the other. “I have known Bill Leahy (Admiral Leahy) for years. There isn’t a finer Naval officer or finer man in this world. If his political chief tells him to build a Navy to protect our coasts he will know how to do it and will do it. If his political chiefs tells him to build a Navy to fight battles over in Asia he will do that. If he tells Leahy to build a Navy to make an attack on the moon he will do it and defend it.”

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

I= had plenty of kickback from “The Do Nothings” in the past few weeks. American women, it ‘seems, resent the charge that they are unconcerned

on the war question. Unhappily the letters come from those who are concerned and who, I hope, will now do something to arouse their lethargic sisters.

_ Invariably these letters ask: What can women do to stop war? Mrs. Jacobs of Pittsburgh, puts the matter pertly. and sensibly in these words: ‘There would be much less wrong with American women if you and other columnists would find some answers instead of asking questions.” She's dead right about that. So here I go. . Sail First: We can teach our children the futility of the militaristic ideal. il Second: We can make our opinions vocal. It seems to me quite necessary that we should falk a great deal about peace. Many individuals profess to believe that such talk does no good and that peace meetings are merely a way of letting off steam. The fallacy of that idea is exploded when we remember that war has been promoted by talk, gestures and noise for ages. A parade is one way of talking, isn't it? Drums, uniforms, drills shout aloud the war, motif. Why then should we imagine that any voice raised against it makes no impression on the public? * Third: We can organize peace societies at home. Already we have made tremendous progress in our thinking on this subject, and don't believe that Congress and the State Department are not aware of the fact. I can remember when no woman ever questioned the right or wrong of making war. That was supposed to be man’s businéss. Now we realize that to promote peace we have to love it with our hearts and work for it with® our heads. The Job also requires courage. It may well be that the time will come when" asked to sacrifice popuyi in i sd ow tu

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Editor's Note—Margaret W. Buchtel of Washington, D. C.. was moved to versify after reading the following in a recent Heywood Broun column: “Thé old ranch on the ridge is being renovated and so I'm doing my spring planting by remote control. That is, I am making mental beds of both flowers and vegetables. And when I talk of potatoes I almost seem to see their little heads popping up from the good earth.” Her verse follows:

Hey! Wood You Look at This!

A potato does not have a head Although it does have eyes; It does not pop from out the ground _ But deep beneath it lies Until with hard, back-breaking toll: You dig it from its earthy soil. A cauliflower has a head, As also has a cabbage, . The latter being used, you know, In a familiar adage. : The farmers everywhere, no doubt, Are sending their opinions— “Don’t talk about the garden stuff Until you know your onions.”

. 8 = HOUSING SLUMP LAID TO FHA REQUIREMENTS By H. L. 8.

The collapse of new housing which took place in the last half of 1937 can be traced to the requirements 6f FHA. To meet the specifications for housing which the insured loan demands, housing costs

000 possible buyers per year. The low-income groups are still forced to rent old houses, because the monthly payments for new ones are out of reach. The volume market for new homes is in the $2000 10 $3000 bracket, not in the $5000 to $6000 price class. The low priced homes necessarily will be reduced in space and trimmings. + When we recognize that low income will not support “the requirements in space and trimmings which FHA demands, we may start io build the 800,000 homes per year that we should. If the Government insists on the excessive requirements that force costs above the income level of the people who need new homes, we should ask the Government to subsidize the construction of one million new homes within the next 12 months, The subsidy need not be a gift, but it should be a lien that requires no. amortization for the first 10 years, with only a nominal interest rate, not more than 3 per cent for the whole life of the first mortgage. Amortization should not start until the 11th year. That two billion dollar donation for WPA relief next year could be

become prohibitive for all but 100,- |

(Times readers are invited: fo 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.)

entirely eliminated if the Federal Government ‘would authorize a $1000 treasury collateral on each of one million new low-cost homes priced from $3000 to $4000. This would re-employ six million men at once and would not cost the Government one cent. We can get those new homes only if we approach the problems realistically, instead of ballyhooing as the FHA has done so far. It is time to quit kidding ourselves. Homes must be built to meet the income of the occupants. We will either start construction now or write off many billions in capital and debt structure soon. » 8 EX-MAYOR OF SULLIVAN SUGGESTED FOR SENATE By Fred W. Ackelmire, Shelburn:

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is not asleep and has no idea 'of nominating any but their most substantial timber, and you can bet it will not be Jim Watson. Senator VanNuys will collect a scattered Republican vote, but his main strength will come from the renegade and disgruntled Democrats which will not be strong enough to elect him. However, unless we are

HERALDS OF SPRING By RUTH KISSEL

The call of the robin, the song of the lark, Gay laughter from children at play in the park; : Green buds bursting themselves in the sun, : Dandelions blossoming one by one; Violets peeping up over the grass To nod at people who stroll slawly

past. ‘It is -a glad medley to eye and to ear, To know that growing time is here. DAILY THOUGHT For we cannot but speak the

things which we have seen and heard. —Acts 4:20.

UTH is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.—Amien.

‘the fact that the Republican Party

discreet in our selection of a Democratic nominee, a Republican will be elected next November. I have in mind a man of sterling character, an orator, and one who in every detail has co-operated with the principles of our humanitarian President. He is a man that all Indianians, Democrats and Republicans alike, can be proud to point to as our Hoosier Senator. I refer to Fred Fenton Bays, ex-Mayor of Sullivan, and at present a member of the Public Service Commission. ‘With a man-like him, we can’t go wrong. : ” ” ” SAYS INITIATIVE NECESSARY FOR CREATION OF WEALTH By Voice in the Crowd

- I wish to ‘take exception to editorial, “Damn Foolishness.” That our natural resources are not man-made is entirely correct. To consider natural resources as constituting our national without giving even more credit to individual initiative, is completely wrong. Natural resources were here when the Aztecs, the Mound Builders, and the Indians were walking over and through them. For those people they had no economic value. Oil, coal and metal have no value in the ground. They have no value at all until a consuming public wants to put them to use and commands capital and labor to bring them out, refine and fabricate them into useful things. : : Individual initiative is imperative in the creation of wealth from the means at hand. Individual initiative does not exist with a’ certain class—it exists in capital and labor, and all of us who serve with our heads and hands and expect some sort of due reward. That the reward is fairly well divided is evidenced by the U. S. Department of Commerce report,

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States 1920-1935.” This report is obtainable from the U. S. Government Printing Office for 25 cents, and it displays the fact that labor receives 84 cents out of each dollar’s worth of value produced and sold. Probably our greatest waste of a natural resource was in clearing the land to raise food, but timber is ‘one resource that can be renewed. It is the duty of politics to maintain law and “order and to coordinate the understandings of men. Business can work with politics only wheh politics is in its regular line of duty. When business is compelled to work for politicians, we will have given up 300 years of human progress and the freedom of our forefathers will exist only in history. =

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| Independent Woman points out that

woman has always had to win a husband (and keep him won) outwit the in-laws, manage her home and children and keep on good terms with the neighbors. Success in these personal relations has been her only success whereas a man’s success has always depended chiefly on the quality of his work, even if he was a 82 =» 8 ACCORDING to the Lange- - James Theory which was in-

1888, we do not cry because we are unhappy ‘or laugh because we are gay, but are unhappy because we cry and gay because we laugh. After much study psychologists and physiologists still set = considerable store. by the theory and hold that if you will look brave and indifferent. when you are afraid and speak soft-

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F. D. R.'s Action on the Railroads: It Should Haye Started in 1933.

ASHINGTON, April 14.—The President's action on the railroads seems right from every angle. It has been criticized because, in submitting a dise tinctively legislative problem to Congress, he also did not submit a cut-and-dried solution. He sent only the recommendations of a committee of Interstate Commerce Commission experts and those of other informed sources representing varying points of view. He declared a policy against grants of public money to subsidize .interest payments on the railroad debt as being what “most of us,” including specifically hime self, think, and he might have added “most. of the country.” All this is in precise accord with our constitutional system of democracy and division of powers and duties as between the executive and the legislature. In times of great and dangerous emergency, there can be no complaint of suggested executives drafts of pros posed statutes, but even then-a practice of legislative drafting by executive officers is a greater burden and handicap on them than it is a benefit. : > 8 nn : OR the President to write the laws as well as to execute them puts upon him a responsibility for

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was never intended by the Constitution—and it is a heavy one. A President must form governmental policy on broad lines, but the translation of those policies into specific statutes is clearly the job of Congress. There is reason for this far more fundamental than iiere ore ganizational red-tape or dogma. That reason is that the application of any national policy affects every part of the country and their interests are too diverse for any small executive group possibly even to suspect them all. - It is a much slower and more cumbersoms process than Government by executive order or Government by predigested statutes strong-armed through Congress. But it’s a much safer process. » # »

It is the unfortunate growth of a half a century of errors and worse. It is peculiarly a national probe lem affecting all areas and so peculiarly a Congres-

Congress to give it any more than -a lick-and-a-promise at this session—some emergency action to

+4 prevent unnecessary receiverships and tide over the

period from adjournment until after election, and pere haps amendment of the: bankruptcy act to make reorganization easier, speedier and cheaper. The railroads will have to go through the wringer: to squeeze out, by financial reorganization, debts for dead horses. There will have to be consolidations and abandonments of services. But this is no time to ate tempt either. . : The only thing to criticize is that this action was not started in 1933. The problem was as acute then as it is now. There was full authority in the recovery act to do all for the railroads that is now proposed in the way of loans and credit, and it was a distinct part of the recovery program as planned by NIRA.

It Seems to Me By Heywood Broun Why Not an International Swap of

Journalists to Better Friendship?

; EW YORK, April 14.—Cecil Rhodes left a will in which he tried to do his bit for the promotion of international;amity. According to the terms of the documents, a sum of money was set aside to send American college students to Oxford. : As far as I know, the scheme has worked out satisfactorily. The beneficiaries of the bounty of Cecil Rhodes bob up from time to time as after-dinner speakers. And as a rule, they acquit themselves well in mildly humorous and sharply clipped speeches. But I am afraid that the dispensation has not gone very far to effect a true clasp of hands across the sea. Two untried ways are still open: We could allot several dozen members of the House of Representa tives to sit in Commons in exchange for an equal number of British legislators. But if we offered some of our Congressmen, it is quite likely that the English

throw in $50,000 and a left-handed pitcher.” And so I suggest that the best method for the proe motion of mutual understanding would be to swap newspapermen or even columnists, We could offer a Lippmann for a Laski or a Winchell for Lord Castle ross. I have the notion that it is much easier to comprehend the politics or games of another nation than to grasp and hold its jokes and witty sayings. Any alert British journalist could catch.on to the general ine tentions of our Congress within a week, and many things occur in the House of Commons which are right down the middle of the alley of a Washington corre= spondent.

What Is a Home Run?

Men who have served long in our capital begin in time to get a little bored with Copeland and John O'Connor, whose oratory might be thrilling: to the stranger within the gates. And, on the other hand, I assume that Lady Astor, who is little more than the regular blue plate luncheon to Londoners, might be very thrilling to a transplanted: reporter. Since newspapers have much to do with mold.ng public opinion here and abroad, there might be a mutual gain in popular understanding if the Britishers read stuff by our writing men and women, while we pursued the account of our own land as set down by representative British journalists. This idea represents no personal ambition of my own. Of course, the newspaper ambassador should be drawn from the youth of our local craftsmen. But I do maintain that even Anglo-Saxon blood will remain thinner than water until’ the reading public of the British Isles gets an inkling about home runs and we begin to comprehend the triumph of the man who scores a century at cricket.

Watching Your Health By Dr. Morris Fishbein ‘HEUMATIC attacks of all sorts frequently begin h with a sore throat. For that reason a sore throat in a rheumatic child must be considered a serious symptom. J : Whenever a child cothplains' of sore throat, of pains in the muscles, of severe pain on moving the joints; whenever a child appears to be extraordinarily pale. to be short of breath with slight activity and to be exceedingly fidgety or nervous, the physician and the parents must anticipate the possibility of a rheumatic -condition. Take the necessary steps at once to determine the diagnosis and to relieve that condition, if possible, to avoid damage to the heart. The occurrence of chorea or St. Vitus dance is gene erally recognized as a symptom of a rheumatic condi« tion and should also cause a prompt investigation as to the condition of the heart. Obviously the removal of infected tonsils and adenoids is an important step in the prevention of rheumatic heart disease. Rheumatic and driest rooms that are available. be against undue exposure to the weather, ly in the fall and winter mon They

should get plenty of rest. i ‘Once rheumatic heart

disease has developed the most important of all methods of treatment is rest. In very serious cases the child is permitted to do. ; for himself because of thE danger of a suds den collapse or a sudden dilation of the heart, The diet for the child under such conditions should, obviously, be an invalid diet since it cannot eat large ‘quantities of food while in an invalid condition. It is

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