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MONDAY, MAY 16, 1938
THE LA FOLLETTES—AND LIBERALISM
NE of the strangest recent happenings in a strange and upset world has been the reaction of certain persons, who publicly pride themselves on their liberalism, to the La Follette third party movement of 1938. Their attitude has been one of suspicion, of pinning the Tory tag on the La Follettes for being so bold as to express some ideas of their own about the state of the nation. ideas that conflict in spots with those of the man who apparently has come to be looked upon as a Messiah. That Senator La Follette should have been selected as the week-end cruising companion of the President only a few days after the self-appointed disciples had given voice to their doubts adds zest and interest to the situation. n
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» 4 § for these critics, nothing could be more fantastic, it seems to us, than their questioning of La Follette liberalism. Perhaps the reason lies in a lack of precise understanding of what, after all, a liberal is. Granting Mr. Roosevelt full title to progressivism, on the basis of his Presidential performance, it should nevertheless be remembered that the La TFollette family was sweating in the vineyard long before Mr. Roosevelt got hot. Just for example, when in 1924 the elder Bob was tossing political security to the wind and defying all the powers that be, Mr. Roosevelt was saying, “In John W. Davis the Democratic Party has found a candidate of whom it can be proud.” Not that Mr. Davis was not a very brilliant and charming nominee, but support of him in those days of corruption and contentment hardly classified in progressivism with these words of the elder La Follette in inaugurating the third party of that year: “An analysis of the platforms adopted by the two old parties will show that the real issues have been ignored and that the candidate of either party if elected will go into office with no specific pledges whatsoever binding him to the people, while he will be under the most immediate necessity and obligation of serving the party bosses and predatory interests to whom he owes
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F we could take the space here we should like to recall |
the background of La Iollette liberalism that was being
built up during the days when others now so active in the |
liberal fold were playing conventional politics: to go back to the time when the Elder Bob was making Wisconsin the greatest liberal laboratory this nation has ever seen. to retell the story of his first entrance into the United States Senate, of the early insults to him, culminating in his assignment to that drab and dingy office in the sub-
cellar of the Capitol basement, the office which later became |
a shrine for the liberalism of that time. Or of the whips and scorns he endured because of his opposition to the war that didn’t save democracy. It is a thrilling story, but long. So suffice it to say that in fuil step with his ideals and sharing the ostracism were his wife and his two sons. Never in our history has there been so inspiring an example of taking it the hard way, for principle. And now the two sons propose to carry on according to their own conception of what the country needs. Because this program of seif-expression involves certain disagreements with the one who to some has come to be regarded as Allah, the La Follettes are pounced upon as reactionaries by those whose test of liberalism has never been nearer the fire than to a blazing log in a faculty clubhouse. There are a lot of things about the La Follete program with which we might quarrel, but to hear the La Follettes called Tories gets our ire up. ” » » » » ” FROM the practical rather than the emotional point of view, however, we think the one fact in their career most pertinent at this particular time should be stressed. It is that most of the useful reforms accomplished Federally by the New Deal already had been accomplished in WisCcONSin—on a pay-as-you-go, not on a borrowed money, basis. We don’t know how to underscore or italicize that enough to bring out its full significance. Put viewed in all its implications the contrast looms as big as space. The liberal government of Wisconsin will not be “wrecked on the rocks of a false fiscal policy.” The budget of that state is balanced at a time when balanced budgets are as scarce as free speech in Jersey City. » un » » » O we say we can view only as fantastic the sudden criticism of the La Follettes as tory-bound. And that's where the definition of liberalism comes in. Someone once said, “As intolerant as a liberal, as militant as a pacifist.” Maybe that tells it. However, liberalism always struck us as meaning the opposite of blind allegiance; rather, to imply the idea of being yourself. We believe the word independent might well be substituted as clearer and more explicit. As soon as you tie yourself to a cause or a party or a personality for better or for worse, you necessarily cease to be independent. And that may be the explanation why so many who for so long looked upon the La Iollettes as the very symbols of liberalism have suddenly come to view with alarm any deflection from the gospel and the leadership which have become their religion. As for them it might be suggested that “to thine own self be true” is a pretty good motto. And as for the La Follettes, differ with them on many things as we may, we would pay them the tribute of a quotation from “Cyrano.” The creed of every La Iollette we have known has been: To walk in my own way and be alone, Free, with an eye to see things as they are To fight—or write. To travel any road Under the sun, under the stars, nor doubt If fame or fortune lie beyond the bourne. Never to make a line I have not heard In my own heart: Yet, with all modesty To say: “My soul, be satisfied with flowers, With fruit, with weeds even; but yothal them In the one garden you may call your. own.”
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Fair Enough
By Westbrook Pegler
The Young, Modern Bartender Is
A Cross Between a Psychoanalyst, Druggist, Salad Cook and Banker.
FW YORK, May 16.—When I first put on long pants and thus qualified for admission to the bar the bartender was a plain man with simple duties. He had to know how to draw beer with the proper depth of collar, a knack easily mastered, and, on the intellectual side, he had to be able to read labels s0 as to distinguish between rye and bourbon, even though both bottles were filled from the one keg. He had to be a durable listener, able to put in, at the proper moment in the recital of a customer's domestic woes, with a sympathetic, “Well, that's the way life goes,” and his professional eye and ear were supposed to have an instinct for the dew-point beyond which a patron might drop asleep on the streetcar and be carried past his corner going home. And, of course, he had to know how to make change and keep a mental file of those patrons who had steady jobs and were entitled to credit. Beyond these gifts and an ability to keep peace by authority or restore it with his beer hammer the bartender had no other requirements to meet, » bd ” HERE is an old superstition that he was also a philosopher by night and a physician in the morning, but that is only superstition. The philosophy with which the rye and bourbon clients on the other side of the bar endowed his remarks on life
with its sorrows was imperceptible to the buttermiik |
patrons. And the medicine which he dispensed with soothing assurances in the morning never did any good. The patients only thought it did because they had reached that point at which a man can't feel any worse and must get better or die right away. Those who didn't die got better and gave the bartender credit. I suppose most of those old bartenders are in their graves by now or demoted to kitchen police in the new saloons, for the new crop are young men, many of them graduates of the speakeasies, and thev have problems which the veterans of that day would be unable to solve and would scorn to consider, There are the sidecar, for example, composed of cointreau, brandy and lemon juice; the Alexander, of creme de cacao, sweet cream and gin; the honeydew, of gin, strained honey and the juice of a lime, and the pink lady, made of shaving lotion, huttermilk and strawberry extract. There fire various sorts of kisses and caresses and that strange affection cule tivated in the time of prohibition to stifle the tasfe of the liquor, called the old fashioned cocktail, a fruit salad dunked in rye and crowned with a sprig of turnip greens. » 5 3 F one had asked for an Alexander and explained that it sfarted with creme de cacao, my kind of bartender would have come roaring right over the counter to run him out of the ward. For one thing, he didn't like people to stump him with prescriptions that he didn't know how to fill. For another, he never heard of creme de cacao. The modern bartender is a cross between a salad cook, a pharmacist, a psychoanalyst and a banker, for he must cash checks and keep up on credit ratings. But IT am not protesting or lamenting a departed mode. I am just making observations on the passing show,
Business
By John T. Flynn
Neutrality Is Almost Impossible Under the U. S. Neutrality Act.
NEY YORK, May 16.—The events of the last few months, and particularly of the last few weeks, have demonstrated pretty conclusively that the Neutrality Act is not a neutrality act at all but an act to make neutrality almost impossible. The principle of the Neutrality one—and it is in conformity with what for a century was the generally accepted idea of neutrality, though never implemented by statute. That principle is that where two nations are engaged in war, the neutral nation cannot assume responsibility or afford protec tion to its nationals engaged in war trade with either belligerent. When, however, the act was drawn a great amount of discretion was lodged with the President to determine when the act should go into effect. He could, for instance, decide when a state of war existed, Other discretions are permitted. 4 At the time this writer pointed out that this discretion in the President would lead to a complete frustration of the act and its objectives. It was argued that the act should provide for automatic neutrality immediately upon the existence of a state of war and the meaning of a state of war should have been defined in the act. Then if the nation wished to adopt any other policy than neutrality, Congress would be in a position to shape a new policy.
Chinese Are Favored
As matters stand the President holds discretion to declare that a state of war exists and to apply the act to any given situation. Under this the President has held that a state of war exists in Spain but that a state of war does not exist in China. Of couree that is a grotesque distortion of the facts and of the whole purpose of the act. Bat the reasons behind this are that the State Department's sympathies have been with the Chinese on one front and with the revolutionists on the Spanish front. In other words, the State Department has used its discretion not to apply a principle of neutrality but one of partisanship. In the case of Spain it was infinitely worse than this. For there the Neutrality Act was applied to Spain, thus cutting off supplies to the Loyalists, while it wag not applied to Germany ard Italy, who are as much in the Spanish war as we were in the Cuban war, And now te further reveal the fantastic twisting of a good into a thoroughly bad policy, the State Department, under pressure from the real advocates of neutrality in the Senate, is about to agree to a lifting of the Neutrality Act from Spain when the President personally calls a halt, and this, according to one Washington correspondent, because he has peen powerfully importuned by partisans of the Franco rebellion in this country,
Act is a sound
A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson
I SPENT last Sunday in the country, and when I say country I mean away oul in the deep solitude, For a whole 12 hours nobody turned on the radio, and happily the telephone was out of order. There were 17 at dinner. I shan't give the menu, for fear of starting a revolution in urban breasts, To use an old-fashioned phrase, the table groaned first and the diners groaned afterward. Outside, the day drowsed. Two lordly geese, strays from the flock, strolled in the fenced yard. Hens, stepping warily through moving bevies of fluffy babies, sang in the sunshine. The rye fields looked like a wide green ocean, Closer, peacocks, pheasants, strutting turkeys fed without fear. Horses, pigs and dogs kept up a pleasant din in the barnyard while a playful puppy rolled in the grass, desperately trying to catch his tail. In the country at this season hope rises in the human heart like sap in the trees. There is none of that fearful apprehension about the future that lingers in cities as a mist hovers over a swamp. I heard no criticism of the Administration. The creaking of economic machinery does not penetrate to men whose crops are ripening and who know the winter will see their families and animals with sufficient food. With half of our population in cities, it is still true vhat the capable farmer is the only independent man. It shames one to be sad, surrounded by all these eager growing things. The dark boles of the trees have clothed their nakedness, and along with the peace that invades the soul in these surroundings comes a remembrance of certain lovely old words: “The flowers appear upon the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come and the voice of the turtle is heard the land." N
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w THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES As Much as We Hate Being a Windmill l<By Taibut |
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MONDAY, MAY 16, 1038
The Hoosier Forum
1 wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it==Voltaire,
ASKS COMMISSIONERS YTELD ORPHANS’ HOME CONTROL
The Civil Liberty League, W. PD. Harrison, President
We wish to inform citizens of Marion County of our opinion growing out of the investigation of the Colored Children’s Orphan Home, especially the meeting of May 12 in the Juvenile Courtroom, the ruling of Judge Geckler, The Commission -
the Home to a second party. Then Mr. Thomas L. Neal, Marion County Welfare Director, offered to take the institution over and provide a properly trained personnel to operate it, President Dow W. Vorhies of the County Commissioners sald the Commissioners would not give up | the management of the Home be- | cause that action would show the Commissioners incompetent to man- | age the institution, We hope every fair-minded citi- | zen will gend a letter to the Com- | missioners persuading them that | their fiyst duty is to those pendent children, and not to what | will be said about their ability to manage the institution, Their pres- | ent attitude is the dog in the manger. They cannot do the job and re- [ fuse to give it up to those whe can {and will do it. | usefulness as citizens all depends on | the action taken now, » » 9
| SAYS WORK IS U. 8. NEED By KH. E B.
It is an old adage that charity should begin at home, It is equally frue that citizens will profit most by giving careful attention te the problems of their own country. This does not mean that any intelligent citizen can afford to be
world. But it is likely to prove disastrous if we get overexcited about misrule in some other country and neglect the problems which are besetting us at home, We should certainly keep informed on foreign matters, including the doings of the Fascist dictators. But our own problems and the attempts to solve them are infinitely more important for Americans. If we make the United States a prosperous and successful nation, we shall not have to worry about anything dictators may do to us Far and away the best protection against the threat of dictators, [within and without the United States, is to avoid the conditions which make dictatorship possible, It is all very well to call attention to the wickedness of Hitler and his cohorts, but our own recession or take the defects of democratic tions in the United States, now, we should be a great deal more concerned anout the antics of
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Congress than about the behavior and policies of Adolf and Benito. Americans have a good deal to pe thankful for. The citizens of the United States are still the masters of their system of government, They are politically sovereign and not slaves, This is surely something which should not be overlooked. But there is no assurance that we shall be able to continue popular sovereignty unless we have pome means of encouraging popular interest in our own problems, ” ” ” SELECTION OF 6G. 0. P. STATE SECRETARY CRITICIZED By A Disgusted Republican Displacing of James A. Blane as secretary of the Republican State Committee and installing of Neil McCallum, speaks no good for harmony among the Indiana Repub- | licans for at least two years. Just at a time when it began to look like Republican success, along | comes Ewing Emison of Vincennes |
and kicks this opportunity into the trash heap. And by the way, who is | this man Emison, and what has he | ever done in a political way of worth to the Republican Party that justifies the fact that he became its | Indiana ‘leader’? He has never | won an election in his own county or district since he became '‘‘promi-
nent.” that
Notwithstanding the fact
chairmanship the Republicans had
LAST FAREWELL By MAUD COURTNEY WADDELL
We climbed the highest peak, With clouds draped near our feet; And velvet silence fell With hushed majestic spell; Hand in hand we stood there, Unspoken was our prayer, Winds’ patient loneliness Passed with fleet, wild caress; We did not know it said, to joys moon fled,
DAILY THOUGHT
And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. —Deuteronomy 6:5.
OVE is an image of God, and 4 not a lifeless image, but the living eszence of the divine nature which beams full of all goodness.
—Luther.
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constant representation in Congress from the district, Congressman Greenwood never has had opposition from the organization. The childish way the Bpencer meeting was participated in by some of the County Chairmen, and their followers, principally Johnson County, is to blame for the deplorable condition the Indiana Republican Party finds itself today, Mr, Slane was bringing an excellent condition about state headquarters, He should have been left alone to complete the task before him. During the short time he was secretary he changed the headquarters from a refrigerator car to a pleasant place to visit and trans. act a bit of business, With the present men in charge nothing less will confront the Ins diana voters than a continuation of
Gen. Johnson Says—
Your Columnist Is Convinced the
Country's Undergraduates Know the Questions and Most of the Answers
ABHINGTON, May 18. American public apie fon was prepared for the Revolution by tha pamphleteers. Writers like Hamilton, Madison and Tom Paine did it by many little books, They wers masterpieces of exposition and argument. Similar writings might not be popular today. They are tod stilted and highbrow for this era of snappy, slangy Americanese. Only Ben Franklin wrote for the peopls in the language they spoke The next effective popular appeal was the debate, It was necessary. The pamphleteers stirred up the small aristocracy, which alone voted and was educated to take up that kind of talk, Hxtension of the voting privilege was rapid after Jefferson. Tt needed a more popular method of appeal to the public, Bomething primitive remaining in humanity loves a fight—a contest in which opposing champions come nobly to the grapple, A debate provides that » % 3%
HE great debating age started with the Revolus tion and lasted through the Oivil War, My uncle, Alexander Johnston, once wrote an American history of critical political frends by merely collecting the speeches in debate of the opposing leaders in every crivis. Tt would pay anybody to read them, Bome, like the Webster-Hayne and Lincoln-Douglay debater, averted, or did much to bring on the Civil War, The whole country followed them hreathlessly, They made the political opinions of the people The old-time debate died in a period of unchecked partisan oratory in the emotional days following the Civil War, But there ix growing now romething to replace it—the open forum-—extemporaneats, oral and Epontancous questions from an audience and the rame kind of answer from ita speaker—in effect a debate between speaker and audience, The techs nique is developing rapidly, The initial difficulty is to get people to awk critical questions hot enough to supply the element of context, and speakers willing to subject their dignity te organized heckling, But when the fee is once broken, both like it and the entertainment values of thix kind of show, compared ta the ordinary speech and lecture, is many times multiplied, » %
HAVE been experimenting with this on various kinds of groups in many parts of the country, Tt is usually suceessful and always fun. One unmiss takable impression is the frequently inacearate or in complete dean of adults about present public questions of the younger generation, The most complete taking-apart T have suffered recently was by undergraduates of the University of Tennessee and still more remarkably at West Point, whera military discipline and the cloistered life of the cadets would suggest questions mild and formal They were all aggressively from Missouri on every statement and you couldn't get by with anything lesa than a head-on answer That 5 true of youth wherever T have tried this new development. Thea politician of the next decade im't going to get by on his shape or with any protective coloration. 1 think it is one of the most helpful signs of our times, Bor .
Washington
By Raymond Clapper
Pennsylvania Results May Prove Where Republican Party Is Going.
the Townsend-McHale-Elder outfit, which has little public respect, but in as commendable as present Republican setup, h %. %
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ABHINGTON, May 16. If you want a tip as 10 WwW where the Republican Party is going, watch the rerults of the Republican primary in Pennsylvania tomorrow And mee what happens to Gifford Pinchot, twice Governor and now trying for another nomis
nation, Extreme conservative Republicans: wm Pennsylvania
By William WN. Conners, Phitadeiphia, Pa How proud Indiana must be of that notorious leader of the local O. GG. P. U, Bherman Minton! He seems to be trying to outdo [ his Black predecessor in his imfair, | imdemocratic,
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¥ % 9% SAYS U. 8. HAR BECOME TOO TOLERANT
By Ruth Shelton
A picture of a German Bund
| meeting in session shows Old Glory
and the goose-steppers’ swastika placed side by side and both are being saluted by Bund members in uniform-—with the Hitler heil! A man has no more right to pledge allegiance to two flags than he has to marry two wives, any man is to salute Old Glory, him do it with Old Glory’s own salute—not with a Hitler heil! There will be those, I know, who will ery “intolerance,” but it seems to me that, as a nation, we have been tolerant now to the point of foolishness, Our flag stands for free | thought, free speech, tolerance creed and race—individual freedom in as far as possible. But it does not stand for tolerance of form of gov-fMmment-—it stands to live and die for democracy! Naziism stands Tor the exact opposite, The two cannot dwell peacefully together—nor should they, Naziism is an aggressive guest whose welcome is wearing thin, The sooner it
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led and financed by Joseph Pew, of the rich oil family, are leaving few dollars unturned to prevent the pros gressive Mr, Pinchot from obtaining the Republican | nomination for Governor. Mr, Pinchot is the only | Republican who is given a real chance of being abla [ to win the Covernorship in the fall election, but Mr, Pew says he will not stand for the surrender of Republican Party to Pinchot, Word has come to Mr, Pinchot that Pew says he would prefer to see another Democrat in the Governor's chair, If the par doesn’t nominate Pinchot that is probably what Pew will see, CARATS Mr. Pinchot, Mr. Pew iz running a farmer vare henchman, Judge Arthur H. James, of the Su perior Court. Bo Mr. Pinchot says that if Judes James were elected, Mr, Pew would be the real Governor, Tt was Mr, Pew that put Judge James inte the race, and the Pinchot people charge that $460,000 has been guaranteed for the James primary campaign and that actually twice or three times that amount is being spent, Judge James ix attacking Mr. Pinchot as a New Dealer, Mr. Pinchot, it seems, doesn’t believe people out of work should starve and he has, of all things,
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WE WHO are born talkers sures ly d6. Unless a person 1s a particularly interesting talker, we usually think we could be doing a better job and only listen to him to be polite. I find after I lecture to a group, they come up and want to do all the talking. No doubt they have been bursting for a chance to talk. » » »
A NO. As they put it, moral bes havior is “a function of the situation.” Hartshorne and May in their big study of tendencies of 10,000 children—aged 9 to 14-—to lie, cheat and steal found that if a
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advocated old-age pensions, better compensation laws and similar measures which the Tories of England accepted long ago. Mr. Pinchot is just an olds fashioned Theodore Roosevelt progressive Republican and that. makes him, among Pennsylvania Republican leaders, A dangerous radical,
Up to the Voters
The question 1s whether the Republican voters of Pennsvivania have more xense than the Republican organization leaders. That is What tomorrow's pris Ir Mr, Pinchot wine It will be against (hese determined and costly efforts of the Republican Party leaders~which leaders neidentally dominate the Republican National Committee and heavily finance it, and keep watch that it does not try to ecge across the rallroad tracks All of this, in the country’s second largest state, Mdicater the difficulty that the Republican Party nationally will have in readjusting to A more pros gressive position. The Republican Party's job ix to catch up to the point where Theodore Roosevelt was about a quarter of a century ago. And in spite of the political lessons of the last eight years, the leads ory are still convinced that even to be within 23 years of the times would be moving too fast and
recklessly,
Watching Your Health
By Dr. Mortis Fishbein
fue development of the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation and the technic of underwater gyms nastics for improvement in infantile paralysis have been (he stimulus to the development of similar ins stitutions in various parts of the United States, Many hospitals have established warm water pools and special apparatus for giving these treats ments in the eity in which the patient resides, There is A large institution In Los Angeles, and the government has recently appropriated funds for the building of another fn Jersey City, One of the conspicuous developments of last year was the builds ing of the Carrie Tingley Hospital at Hot Bprings, New Mexico The modern care of the erippled patient requires, first of all, a scientific diagnosis of his condition, Sometimes it is mfantile paralysis which is the res sult of damage to the nerves and their roots by an infection. In other instances, it is a tuberculous ns fection of the spine which brings about abscesses that destroy nerve and muscle tissue, The modern orthopedic hospital includes not only a pool In which it 1s possible to give children the benefit of underwater gymnastics but also a shop for the building of braces, and other apparatus which will hold the deformed tissues In place and grads wally bring about correction. There must be equips ment for extension or pulling on tissues that tend
to contract, the decisions as to what operations are to bs the orthopedic surgeon, the expert In
neurology st In diseases of children or infe bringing to bear