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FRIDAY, MAY 13, 1938

TOO MANY OFFICES ONSOLIDATION and elimination of overlapping township and county offices is a long overdue reform. We do not know whether the particular brand recommended by William P. Cosgrove, chief examiner of the State Accounts Board, is perfect in all its details. But certainly its purpose is laudable. There are many reasons for such reform. Two reasons. at least, should impress the average citizen particuJarlv at this time. One is the matter of efficiency and the other is the issue of mounting governmental costs. The elaborate township system was set up in the horse and buggy era. Its survival in most cases today is topheavy and obstructs efficient handling of the public's business. And. of course, the multiplicity of these units is a maior factor in increasing the taxpayer's load, both directly and indirectly. With so many public officials having a vested interest in perpetuating these overlapping offices, it is perhaps too much to expect any overnight complete reform. But we believe enlightened public opinion will force the next Legislature at least to start the process of consolidation and elimination of duplicating local governmental units.

“THE JUST JUDGE" I! is unusual for the Chief Justice of the United States to make a public address. said vesterday at the American Law Institute meeting in Washington deserves unusual attention. He spoke of the need for able and industrious judges. Then he went on to speak of the great and growing number of officials who, though not called judges, administer law

and decide controversies as to public and private rights. | [ tion, then it is Xx times as wrong for the Administranumbers of press agents to |

They are the member of the administrative boards and commissions created by Congress. The Chief Justice found no fault with the multiplication of such agencies, which he called “the outstanding characteristic of our time.” The complexities of modern

life demand new rules of conduct and new machinery to!

enforce the rules. Administrative action is necessary but— “ .. The spirit which should animate that action, if the administrative authority is to be properly exercised, must be the spirit of the just judge. . . . Deliberation, fairness, conscientious appraisal of evidence, determinations according to the facts, and the impartial application of the law, whether the controversies are decided in the courts or in administrative tribunals—these are the safeguards of society. For the law is naught but words, save as the law is administered.” What Chief Justice Hughes said is good advice for every Government board, Commission and agency.

PEACE AT LAST? OURTEEN big utility combines have offered to c¢ooperate with the Securities and Exchange Commission in working out a program of voluntary compliance with the “death sentence” provision of the Utility Holding Company Act. This is the most encouraging development in the utility field in several vears. The SEC has welcomed the sit around-the-table plan: indeed, there are indications that the SEC initiated the idea. There is credit aplenty for both the companies and the Commission. For this spirit and method promise a relief from—and possibly an end to— the long and bloody warfare between the Government and the utilities. The big utility concerns fought bitterly and sometimes unethically against the holding-company measure when it was before Congress. After enactment, for nearly three vears, they challenged practically every phase of the law in every court that would receive their petitions. Most of them even refused to register with the SEC until the Supreme Court finally upheld the act's constitutionality. Through these years of fighting in the courts and name-calling on the front pages of the newspapers, the utilities have been unable to raise capital for normal expansion of their plants and distribution facilities. Or perhaps it would be more correct to say that investors, not knowing what wouid be the eventual shakedown of the utility combinations, have been unwilling to risk their money on needed long-term improvements. Anyhow many utility managements have had their minds more on fighting the Administration than on peddling electricity. If plans for reorganizations of the utility companies can be settled peaceably and in conformity to the law, investors will then be able to calculate the prospects of the utilities’ future earnings, and the managements can get back to their job of building up markets for their light and power. Recently it was estimated that the utilities of the country could profitably spend $3,600,000,000 in one year, just catching up on their construction lag and providing one year’s normal expansion. That is almost as much money as the New Deal plans to spend priming the pump. And it would provide real jobs at real wages.

ONE IS PLENTY WE view with alarm that school in Washington where the wives of Congressmen are being taught how to make speeches. Not, we add in haste, that we question the right of any woman to talk as much as any Congressman, if such a thing is possible. And not that we doubt the ability of many of these wives to make better speeches than their husbands. But in a country where the supply of oratory already so far exceeds the demand, we don’t like the idea of deliberately developing two speechmakers to a family. Here, we are inclined to think, is something that Congress ought to pass a law about. Of course it should apply to husbands of Congresswomen just as much as to wives of Congressm: !

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Fair Enough

By Westbrook Pegler

Your Columnist Turns Out a Little Propaganda About Propaganda, if That's What You Want to Call It.

EW YORK, Mav 13.—Senator Green of Rhode Island says a magazine called Rural Progress, to which Glenn Frank contributes editorials, is published only to spread propaganda against the New Deal. This magazine is under investigation by the Senate Lobby Committee of which he is a member, Senator Green obviously considers that the dissemination of propaganda against the New Deal is a business. There are others, however, who regard this as a patriotic work. ; The word “propaganda” came to have a bad meaning with us during the World War. Actually, how= ever, propaganda is not necessarily wrong. I suppose I might be regarded as a propagandist for the extension of the Federal income tax to the salaries of some three million and odd employees of the state, county and municipal governments. If so I am acting well within my rights, and I am ready to defend the justice and wisdom of my proposition. \ td » » SUPPOSE I might be regarded as a propagandist against the conduct of the Senate Lobby Committee. too. If so, T am still within my rights, and again I am able to defend the justice and wisdom of my proposition. I contend that a committee of the Senate which

uses the Senate's authority to investigate any matter is bound to investigate both sides and to treat them alike. If it goes after one side, then it should call up

| lobbyists from the other side and tear into them with | equal cynicism.

This committee hasn't done that and shows no

| intention of doing anything of the kind, so it is my | opinion that the committee is abusing its authority, shirking a duty and doing more harm to the country | than this little magazine did, even if it should be | granted that everything alleged or intimated against

the magazine is true. If the committee doesn't go

{ after the lobbyists who lobbied for the Reorganization

Bill it will cheapen the Senate and give the people to believe that they have lost the right to oppose the dominant political party's measures, except at consid-

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1 DON'T know by what process it could be done, but I

seriously propose that this Lobby Committee

investigated and that

on the stand and questioned

that they could have ignored the worked in favor of the hill just by instinct. And if propaganda against the New Deal is, of itself, investigable (hold ‘er, Newt!), then propaganda for the New Deal is equally investigable. And if it is wrong to spend $900,000 in three years running a little magazine in opposition to the Administra-

tion to employ great make propaganda for the New Deal. When it comes to propaganda this Administration is in a class by itself, and analysis of that propaganda would show the same proportion of untruth or half-truth that could be found in the anti-New Deal material. In fact, this Lobby Committee itself is doing little else than make propaganda for the New Deal.

Business By John T. Flynn

Businessmen Might Take a Lesson From Lewis in Dealing With F. D. R.

EW YORK, May 13.—Evidences of some irritation among large stockholders at the manner in which corporation managers have been handling the opposition to the President have come to light. There is nothing to indicate that this is widespread. Buu

there is much to indicate that the sentiment has made its appearance. These complaints apparently are based upon the feeling that in the end business has to live and get along under Roosevelt as well as under other kinds of Presidents; that the business leaders’ business is a practical one, to get the best possible results under circumstances as he finds them. . There is little doubt that businessmen have bee carried away by the emotions in their attacks on the President. In the early days of the Administration businessmen went down to Washington and established very friendly relations with a man who was supposed to be leading a great attack on established forms. No one has yet reported the extent of the influence these men had upon the Administration at that time. But it was very great. There is not the slightest doubt that the Stock Exchange Bill would have been far more drastic, bui for the intervention of the President. And that intervention was the result of a constant stream of financial leaders who were admitted to the White House when the so-called brain trusters who were back of the bili could not get a hearing. That whole story has yet to be written.

Wrong Sort of Pressure

The President, despite the big talk he likes to indulge in, cannot escape a feeling that big businessmen know what they are talking about. John L. Lewis probably has no more pérsonal use for Roosevelt than many of the business leaders who attack him. But Lewis has kept his head, has recognized that Roosevelt was President and had things Lewis wanted and could not get along without. He has played his hand well and gotten far more than he Sou have gotten had he given vent to his irritaions. Many of the President's intimates on the liberal side have lived in constant fear of his disposition to give in to business when it put on the right sort of pressure. Meantime instead of putting on the right kind it has put on the wrong sort by bitterly assailing a very vain man. It is a feeling that this is the case that has led to some irritation, as reported, among certain influential stockholders,

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

Te strange clanking noises vou're hearing are family skeletons being dragged from their closets. All this rattling of old bones is beginning to offend sensitive ears. Our modern flair for domestic publicity

is one of the points at which we compare unfavorably |

with Grandpa and Grandma, who considered it very bad taste to lug the eccentricities of relatives into the conversation. On the contrary, we haul ours into court with no apparent embarrassment. When Maurice Costello sues daughter Dolores for his keep we are not moved, as we

by the plight of an aged father asking for a place in |

the sunparlor, but instantly there springs into mind the vision of a spoiled old actor grabbing for his lost publicity. The result is that neither parent nor child wins anything but general condemnation and snickers. The Jackie Coogan case is another that does not heighten our admiration for people cut from the modern pattern, After all the buildup in favor of stepparents erected by psychologists and schools teachers, along comes Mr. Bernstein. As a matter of fact, the usual domestic fracas over money has lowered the dignity of the courts even more than it has lowered the dignity of individuals, and this generation's faith in the power of the law to bring them wealth or happiness is as touching and idiotic as their grandparents’ belief in witches. Oh, no, we don’t fall for fairy tales; we trust to litigation. After a hundred years have passed, I wonder which of these two generations will appear the more s nded—that which locked its skeles tons in closets defended the doors with its life, ours, which Darascs them upon the front for

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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES Another Chance for Rambow Chasers !—By Talburt

the members be placed | regarding conversa- | | tions which they may have had in deciding whom to

| investigate and whom to ignore. It seems impossible |

lobbyists who |

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| the 350 members of his congregation 'tiave welcomed handclapping and cheers.

| | WANTS PUBLIC PLACES

[with paraffin injections, their teeth | | filed [dyed black or red, their entire per- |

should be perhaps, |

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The Hoosier Forum

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

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SEES NEW HIGH IN CHANGES By T. E. This American generation seen revolutionary changes Back to Normaley. The New Deal, | The biggest boom. And the biggest | Prohibition. Repeal. Radios | and relief, trailer touring and TVA, | streamlining and social security, | neon lights and neutrality legislation, cartoon comedies and Crop | ie political payroll. control, bank guarantees and back- | True, that might take all less bathing suits—change upon | out of mule trading,

| sport, change. : ; | America's favorite pastime. But as a real climax in change— | (hi It on the a genuinely startling departure from | after all, this is an assault vhe

the olden ways—I cite the news | integrity of the mule-—and Congress from Springfield, Vt. [cannot remain indifferent to this

The trout season opened on a|i.iering with a great American inSunday. And the Rev. Lawrence! ,, by Larrowe, pastor of the First Meth. |Stitution that has withstood all the edict Chusroh : on [shams of our civilization. meh ow, Wi id Unlike the human and other an-

from | : . . ki he mule is without reaching and went fishing. Ue I

(Times readers are invited

to ‘express their views in columns, religious conMake your letter short, so all can

Letters must

these 1as ' \ excluded.

froversies have a chance. be signed, but names will be withheld on request.)

the rural But

Now | imal species, : | vanity. Being, as Josh Billings says, his Board of Trustees has voted ap- | .. \ Ena pe . “haf hoss and haf jackass,” and as proval of his conduct 37 to 1, and lanother wag remarkad, having | “neither pride of ancestry nor hone |of posterity,” the mule is what he |is, through youth, middle age and (dolage. Anyone who tries to halt [time's erosions on the American " SNH [mule, therefore, is guilty of subKEPT CLEAN { versive activity. By all means, ConBy Robert W. Basore | gress should pass a law, and send One of several things that could G-Men into every mule mart and ” . wagon yard in the land. be done to prevent disease and pro- | 590 | mote good health is to maintain] OU EORY cleanliness in public places. Wash- | BAYS 1 nis x TE rooms should be kept clean in parks, | NOT SO PECUL

amusement places and other public BY B ©. centers. | The silly season approaches, and

I believe these health conditions | With it the danger of coming to susshould be investigated and sanita- |pect that the nation is peculiar tion enforced. among the countries of the world » » 2» for its eccentricities. WANTS MULES TO REMAIN So cut this out and keep it in AS THEY ARE your pocket. It ought to help reBy M. 8. lease you from any spells of sadness

, |or despair this summer over the About the orneriest swindle that conduct of your fellow eitizens:

has come to notice is told in scores | Customs officials in of complaints to Congress about a mule “rehabilitation factory” oper- A RAIN ating down in the Southwest, By ROBERT ©. LEVELL Ancient mules, these complaints [Rain makes the ground so bright and clean,

allege, are being taken to “beauiy parlors” where their faces are lifted With water fresh and new,

the verdict with

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their hair

and “bishoped,”

green, whole through.

sonalities sleeked up and stream- The through and lined. Then they are sold to farmers as fair and husky youngsters,

only to wilt down under the sun in | |

way DAILY THOUGHT What will ye? Shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love, and in the spirit of meekness?—I Corinthians 4:21.

a cotton patch. Rep. Overton Brooks of Alabama says he will ask Congress to pass a law. If Congress follows its natural bent it probably will drop such trivjal matters as the depression, unemployment and taxes, now engrossing it, and speedily bring these

UR Lord has written the

mule testers-—who can be added to

Hungary |

| The grass is washed and made so |

| have just received orders forbidding {them to shave off their mustaches. The Police Chief of Freiburg-im- | | Breisgau, Germany, has banned

| dancing to swing music as a public menace,

Chengtu, China, is faced with the [annual problem of keeping visitors from jumping off Mount Omei, They see their own shadows on the clouds below, and fancy they are | seeing Buddha. The British House of Commons has moved to cut down on {length of shirt-tails on shirts for [export to China. Who's looney now?

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» » ” [BELIEVES SUPERHIGHWAYS WiLL GET TEST IN EAST [By ¥. %. | Pennsylvania is about to start | construction of a $53,000,000 super-

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highway, from Harrisburg to Pittsburgh. Plans call for a 152-mile, | {four-lane route, following an old | | railroad right-of-way and dodging [under the dangerous Allegheny | [ Mountains by tunnel. The Government probably will | contribute $24,000,000 to the project | | through a WPA labor grant. A | State Turnpike Commission bond |issue will provide the rest of the | money, and the idea is that the | | highway, to be opened late in 1940, will then begin to pay for itself by | tolls, Rates tentatively fixed are $1 to $1.25 for passenger cars driven | | from Harrisburg to Pittsburgh or vice versa, and an average of $5 for trucks. The country should watch this Pennsylvania experiment with in- | terest. Before Congress are several | proposals to build superhighways | fon a tremendous scale, some of | them calling for as many as 10 | transcontinental routes and involve | [ing estimated costs as high as eight billion dollars. The trouble with these proposals is that nobody knows certainly how | eflfective such highways would be | in making jobs for relief labor or {whether toll charges ever would | (pay for them. Apparently work- | [men on them would have to leave | | their homes and live in road camps And examples of successful toll | I highways are lacking. | Perhaps Pennsvivania will vide one such example. If motorists and truckers prove willing to pay tolls in the numbers and | amounts hoped for, the advocates |of big-scale superhighways will gain | a talking point. The Harrisburg- | Pittsburgh route is through a | region of heavy travel and will Jone unusual advantages in time- | | saving, miles-saving and safety. If

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promise of the resurrection, not | it fails to pay for itself, enthusiasm |

mule beauticians to book. Just think | in books alone, but in every leaf infor other superhighways will be

of the thousands of jobholders— springtime —Luther.

likely to disappear.

LET'S EXPLORE YOUR

MOTHER YOUR HAIR 15 FINE AND SILKY, MINE 1© STIEE AND COARSE.

WHAT CAUSES THAT?

MOST BE THAT SHAMPOO YOU HAVE A' VAYS DoED

i a7 I" pp fA PEOPLE TO FAIL?

you jof the hair shows as a distinctly inture | herited trait. Since

1 NO. Mother Smith, bot and Dot inherited the of hair, | Dave been sud and. the texture |

By DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM

MIND

| some members of any family will {have one type and some another. | That's an interesting line to look

into,

” ” » | NOT AT ALL. The most suc cessful people I know are cons |stantly meeting defeat—but they are successful because they keep their heads cool, analyze the causes of defeat and profit by it. The failure is merely the man who stays de feated. No one can succeed at everything he undertakes. The biggest men and women fail half a dozen times every day, but they analyze the failures and either see they have made a mistake and tried the impossible or else they merely back out and take another tack.

” » » 3 THAT'S THE KIND he is most likely to marry, no matter what I tell him, because nature has so arranged human affairs that like usually marries like. Davenport, biologist, has shown that even nerve ous people tend to marry nervous mates. It is not known which types get along the best together, Two big researches are going on in dif-

| concerning English

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ferent universities to try to find out, s0 Fey PAD ad-

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Gen. Johnson od Says—

This Country's Armament Shortage

Resides in Its Reserve Equipment, Ammunition and Antiaircraft Guns,

ASATVILE, N. C., May 13-—-1It was o. k. for the

Secretary of War to warn the dictator countries that, if they keep on violating principles of Intere national law and decency the democracies might get mad and fight them, but it raises a question whether his own house is in order for such an event It is pretty hard to imagine this country getting mad enough to go over to Europe to spank Mr. Mussolini or Hitler or Stalin—so hard that vou can almost say it is impossible. We don't need to be prepared for any offensive war in Europe. The only likely place in which war could involve us is in the Far Bast. A war with Japan would almost certainly be a sea war. It would probably be a contest in destroying ocean commerce. At the present rate of disappearance of the American mer chant marine, there wouldn't be much for the

Japanese to destroy, » » ”

1570 for what might happen in the Philippine Islands, then a war with Japan would consist of naval engagements and in our Navy chasing the various “maru’s” off the ocean. The remaining pose sibility is of sudden raids and bombardments of our coast cities. Even that is unlikely, but it ie A DPOssi= bility of such destructive dimensions that it must be considered, We do not therefore need anv large provision of land troops. We need plenty of trained officers, hes cause it takes a long time to educate an officer, We also need a suflicient reserve of equipment and am - munition and, above all, preparation in defenss against aircraft Our officer corps in (he Regular Amv is as as any In the world. The value of the corms of reserve officers may he questioned. Theres till ree main many excellent war-trained officers in the re serve but thev are getting old and in a few veary there won't be anv. While the training of new reserve officers has heen devotedly done, it is neces sarily rudimentary, However, considering the other elements of the problem just mentioned, there is probably no slip-up on officers. 0% w T is in reserve equipment, ammunition and antls aircraft that the fault resides. We haven't reserve munitions to last a day in a fair sized battle, Moss of this stuff is highly specialized and takes a long

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[ time to make.

Types of aircraft change so rapidly that we are not in a position to make planes in mass and couldn't that ability for a long time What is needed here is advance preparation, not of the planes themselves, but of the patterns, jigs, dies and fixe tures to make them in large quantities Our most serious shortage is in antiaireraft artil« lery. This art has advanced rapidly. Such guns are an absolute necessity to the defense of crowded places against devastating air attack. It is pretty generally accepted now that, due to the speed of mod « ern bombers, defense by fighting planes is difficuls or impossible. Ground artillery is the only reliable defense—and we have not enough to defend a singls large city like Chicago or New York. In this depression and among all the billions wa are spending to make work it would be a fine idea to buy some reserves of ammunitions and equipment and several thousand antiaircraft cannon.

It Seems to Me By Heywood Broun

The Movie Stars Apparently Were Too Good for Their Own Welfare.

EW YORK, May 13.--T think that motion picture exhibitors are ungrateful when they single out certain stars and assert that the ladies have lost their luster, These were the great names of the screen once upon a time. Perhaps they still are. It is just barely possible that the whole controversy is a press agent stunt. This T doubt. There is a certain tide in the affairs of men and nations and motion picture stars. And if a player begins to lose something of her popularity, it really indicates that she has done her Job too well. They tell me that in the beginning Westerns were supported largely by cowboy audiences. The men on the ranges had never seen such costumes or incidents and epi« sodes. Bul presently the actual cowboy began to look exactly like the motion picture ones. Art always mans ages to stay a couple of jumps ahead of life, and when life catches up it wants something different I'm told that today the cowboys go in chiefly for light drawing room comedies and particularly films butlers. But when the ranch house cook learns the trick of looking and sounding exactly like Jeeves the whole erowd will pass up this type of picture and enlist in the vast army which fol« lows Shirley Temple I have great admiration for the skill of Miss Temple and I'm told that right now she is the greatest draw

[ In the country. But disillusion mav lurk Just around

the corner. Hundreds and thousands of doting mothers are dressing up their kids to make them look as much like Shirley Temple as possible.

Garbo Should Have Been Protected

For my part, I believe Joan Crawford is fust ad good an actress as she ever was, but I have seen too many pseudo Joans employing precisely the same tricks and makeup. And few would ever have tired of Greta Garbo, a truly great artist, if one small privilege had The avthorities should have given her permission to carry a shotgun and mow

| down anybody who said, "I tank I go home now ”

On the stage as well as on the screen many plavers suffer because their personalities are too vivid and they do things too well. Miss Ethel Barrymore once ran into a terrific slump because she read a line superb« ly. Every dinner party contained some miss from finishing school who would say when the coffee was served, "That's all there is. There isn’t any more.” It is a mistake to do anything too well. I imagine that the tragedy of the one perfect performance might even afflict a columnist, although I will admis that as far as I know, this problem still remains aca

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Watching Your Health

By Dr. Morris Fishbein

HE human body is largely a self-regulating mechanism. In that regulation, however, it ree quires certain materials which we must supply of our own accord,

As has been emphasized by the well-known physiologist, Dr. Walter B. Cannon, the second most important of these substances is water, Air, or Oxygen, is of first importance, Food is the third most ime portant, It has frequently been proved that a human being may go 30 or 40 days without food and still recover, Water must be supplied regularly to the body if it is to function with reasonable comfort. The records of men who have been lost in the desert under a hot sun show that most men die before three days have passed, and some may die inside of 36 hours.

If, however, the human being lies at rest in a cool room he may go much longer without water.

Water is absolutely necessary to the human body for several reasons, It forms a part of all of the secretions of the varie ous glands. It is included in all of the digestive Juices of the body, It is the main material in the blood and in the lymph. In the joints it forms a part of the fluid that is necessary for lubrication. Through the evaporation of water from the surface of the body we regulate our temperature, Because of this constant interchange of water in various portions of the body, and because some water is constantly being lost, the supply of water is cone stantly beipg exhausted and must constantly be

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