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THURSDAY, MAY 19, 193

CITY MANAGER GOVERNMENT ORE evidence of the efficiency of city manager government was presented yesterday at the League of Women Voters state convention. Murray Seasongood, president of the Hamilton County, Ohio, Good Government League and the first Mayor of Cincinnati under the Charter Administration, called the Cin-

cinnati city manager government the “best form” of municipal administration. He told the convention the council-manager government has proved its worth over a

12-year period.

He emphasized that in Cincinnati a genuine merit |

svstem prevails with more than 95 per cent of the city employees operating under it, and that there has been no politics in connection with relief administration. He explained that Cincinnati was among the few solvent cities in Ohio during the depression. More than 10 years ago Indianapolis voted five-to-one for city manager government. The State Supreme Court invalidated the law on a technicality. We believe public sentiment is just as strong today for an efficient form of city manager administration. But first the people must have a chance to vote on it and the constitutional amendment process is slow. Nevertheless, this process should be put in motion.

LABOR TURNS IN PENNSYLVANIA ECAUSE everybody is interested in personalities, the most dramatic thing that happened in Pennsylvania was the political plucking of John L. Lewis’ eyebrows. Now that those remarkable adornments have been ficuratively thinned, Mr. Lewis’ professionally stern ‘visage can no longer dominate the nightmares of timid economic royalists. Somehow Mr. Lewis’ bristling countenance had become a symbol. So many people got the idea that the C. I. O. leader was a political menace that, in time, Mr.

Lewis himself seemed persuaded that he could scowl his |

way to political puissance. As the Pennsylvania primary showed, it was all a fantasy. That should have been apparent to those who had eves to see the backdrop of the stage whose boards Mr. Lewis trod. Until 1933 the head of the United Mine Workers was an orthodox union leader, distinguished from others only by a superior ability and a firmer tenacity. In truth, he was a little on the conservative side; he voted for Coolidge and for Hoover. But when 1933 put a friend of labor in the White House, and brought the NRA into being, Mr. Lewis seized the opportunity—with such success that he soon found himself marching at the head of a vigorous new labor movement, the mass-production legions. In his unionization crusade Mr. Lewis marched abreast of the New Deal political advance. This coincidence, perhaps, was largely responsible for the confusion of cause and effect. And perhaps it prompted Mr. Lewis and his lieutenants to view theirs as a political rather than an economic following, to the extent that where they couldn’t control existing political organizations they began building machines of their own. In Akron, Detroit and other cities they met defeat. Their supreme effort was in Pennsylvania—the nation's second most populous state, a stronghold of the mine workers’ and steel workers’ and needle trades’ unions, boasting a total C. I. O. membership of 800,000, enough to carry any election. There, rebuffed by the Democratic organization, they undertook to take over the party, placing at the head of their ticket Tom Kennedy; himself a leader of the mine workers and the C. I. O. Their ace in the hole was Gifford Pinchot, running on the Republican ticket. If they couldn't nominate Kennedy, then they could retaliate against the Democrats by switching to Pinchot in November. That's what they thought. But both Kennedy and Pinchot were overwhelmingly defeated. The A. F. of L. played an important part in turning the trick—abandoning its tradition of political nonpartisanship to do so. And apparently a lot of. C. I. 0. members secretly voted contrary to the orders of their leaders.

What does it prove? Most of all, we think, it proves

that America’s labor movement is not a political movement. It shows we believe, that workers in the mines and mills join unions to improve their economic conditions: that workers who pay union dues expect the collectors to devote their energies to securing employment, raising wages and bettering conditions; that dues-payers resent the spectacle

of dues-spenders pursing political power on union time and”

union funds. The Pennsylvania election, we suspect, is a turning point in America’s labor movement, a turning away from the false path of politics and back toward unionism’s true objectives. : If so, Tuesday was a great day for labor.

A BILLION FOR PEACE WHEN President Roosevelt put his signature to the : $1,156,000,000 naval expansion bill, it was the most practical bid for peace this country has made in a long time. Regret it as we may, the world today has turned its back on the magnificent Wilsonian ideal of collective securfty and reverted to the age-old system of every country for itself. So, like it or not, adequate self-defense has become indispensable. But costly as this national insurance is, this should be remembered: When a well-armed nation invites the others to reduce and limit armaments, it is listened to with respect. The day is coming when the major powers will be in a mood to respond to such an invitation. When it arrives, this country’s voice will be heard. We will not be in the position of the tailless fox asking the others to cut off their tails. % Thus does naval expansion work both ways. sd bh

‘Washington

By Raymond Clapper

Pinchot's Defeat Seen as Decisive Factor in Pushing the Republicans Toward a More Conservative Stand.

TASHINGTON, May 19.--Pennsylvania Republicans cast the die for themselves and perhaps for the party nationally by emphatically swatting down Gifford Pinchot, who wanted to be Governor again. That event is of such national political sige nificance that it is not to be overlooked in the excite ment stirred by the spectacular and incredible heave ings and groanings which marked the savage Democratic primary in Pennsylvania. Certain circumstances make Pinchot's defeat some= thing of a decisive factor in pushing the Republican Party nationally toward a more conservative, if nov reactionary, position. Pinchot had become a national symbol of the feeble fire of progressivism in the Republican Party which has smouldered since Theodore Roosevelt's time. Pinchot represented the idea that modern industrial conditions create new public responsibilities, and he did not believe that the Republican Party could shut its eyes to them and retreat to the good old days of Mark Hanna,

OWEVER, Pennsylvania Republicans nominated for Governor a party hack who was hatched by the old Vare machine and whose chief asset is his willingness to take orders from the right people. In other words, the Republicans who are left in | the party in Pennsylvania want the good old-fash-ioned stuff and no fancy trimmings. What has happened 1s that most of the progressives and the labor vote, on which Pinchot relied in his two previous elections as Governor, have gone over to the Demo- | cratic Party, and the Democrats who formerly jumped over the fence to help him, now stay on their own side. Undoubtedly that has happened in a good many other states. Something more is involved in the Pinchot defeat. It leaves the Republican Party in Pennsylvania in undisputed control of the reactionary triumvirate composed of Joe Pew, the Philadelphia oil man; Jay Cooke, the Philadelphia capitalist, and Ernest Weir, the Pittsburgh steel millionaire. They have financed the party in Pennsylvania and have controlled it during the last few years when it has sunk to its lowest state since the Civil War. They have beaten down Mr. Pinchot's challenge to their domination and now have the party tied hog-tight. » ” ”

URTHERMORE, this group, and particularly Mr, Pew, have heavily financed the Republican National Committee. They have been not only its important angels but they have dominated it. This group, now having demonstrated absolute

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control of the party in the second largest state in the nation, is in a far stronger position to influence

| the party nationally. Even if they lose the Pennsyl-

vania election in the fall, they will still control the second largest delegation to the Republican National Convention. And if they win the Pennsylvania electheir national prestige and influence will be irresistible. : Considering the entrenched position now of this powerful triumvirate, the Republican Party will have extreme difficulty in taking any but the most conservative candidate and the most conservative platform in 1940. For these Pews and Cookes and Weirs are men who stick by their principles, win or lose.

Business

‘By John T. Flynn

U. S. Aims to Do Nothing Drastic Under Utility Holding Company Act.

EW YORK, May 19.—The utilities scem to be in a way of making peace with the Government on the TVA program, The Government is to mark out the limits of its power program, take over the private companies within those limits and call it a day. It is not a bad idea, but the agreement ought to go further. First of all, either we ought to go in for a Government ownership program or a private ownership program,

Personally I favor the Government ownership of power. I would like to see the Government go in in an honest way for such a movement. But I know that this present Government has no intention of doing this. But while not having any plans to do so, it keeps up a rat-tat-tat about power ownership which gets nowhere so far as Government ownership is concerned and tends to paralyze private ownership expansion. At the same time it demands that private

| industries invest in order to make prosperity. It must

do one thing or the other. And since there are really going to be no more experiments, it is just as well that we know about it. If this gets the Government out of the utilities’ hair, then there is nothing to stop them from going ahead with their private expansions if they really are in earnest about that. But there is another field of activity, That is the Utility Holding Company Act. That act, which has been upheld, calls for a process of simplifying holding company structures. The utilities made a tremendous pother about what they called a “death sentence.” But everybody who understood the President's technique knew that he would make a great point of passing the act to please all the foes of the utilities and that after it was passed practically nothing serious would be done under it,

Utilities Frightening Investors

This is what has happened. The SEC commissioner named to administer that act went into a long doze and did nothing. Some very bad holding be strai but nothing drastic will be done. Snighienes ou Therefore it would be an excellent thing if the utilities on their side would recognize this fact, recognize that the moderate activities of the commission under that act are a good thing for investors and that they are actually doing more to frighten Investors by keeping up their warfare on the act than all the Government interference can do. If the utilities will now express their compliance with the act and go along with it, then that happy state which business has wanted of peace on the utility front will have been arrived at.

A Woman's Viewpoint

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

I SHALL always associate the Ladies Home Journal with Edward Bok. A great man he was, and I often wonder what he would think if he could see his Journal now, for almost to the last he was a stanch advocate of the theory that “woman's place is in the home.” The slogan was made famous by him, and with due respect to a sincere individual and an honest editorial pioneer I believe he retarded the feminist movement for many years. His influence was wide and powerful; through his Journal he spoke to more women than perhaps any other man ever did. He not only spoke to them but he was heeded. Today the Ladies Home Journal merits salvos because it is one of the few so-called home magazines that is wide awake to the fact that women are realists and very different from the usual picture of them painted by editors and screen writers. : In the polls now being made by its publishers it is interesting to note that American housewives—that is to say the common Kitchen variety, whose names seldom appear on society pages—are really thinking for themselves, and that their thoughts are not the ones usually credited to our sex by persons who pretend to speak for us. We are informed through the Journal poll that money and not love is the cause of most marriage troubles. And so at last the truth is out. The homebodies, those women whose children will be tomorrow's generation and who are buying most of the goods sold in the country, do not resemble the conventional pattern. Among them is a growing alertness to sham and fraud,

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THURSDAY, MAY 19, 1938

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

SUGGESTS MORE POETRY APPLICABLE TO LA FOLLETTES

By R. G. L.

I liked your editorial on the La Follette’s and liberalism. The quotation from Cyrano was very apt, but the rest of it is even more apt: So, when I win some triumph, by some chance, Render no share tqQ Caesar—in a | word, I am too proud to be a parasite, And if my nature wants the germ | fore the November election. It is that grows |a good time for people to get toTowering to heaven the | gether, correct false impressions, mountain pine, | challenge foolish ideas you heard Or like the sheltering | before Primary Day, and learn the multitudes— [truth about these things about

I stand, not high it may be—but | Which you have been in doubt. | “ oo ®

alone, lex Doesn't that describe the career of | FORGET HUGE PROFITS, BUSINESS TOLD

all the La Follettes? By W. L.

” » » ASKS REPEAL OF Roosevelt's three - billion - dollar rf emergency appropriation has drawn DOG ORDINANCE fire from the more fortunate, who By Mrs. W. M. Dolk expected to see this great humaniWhat manner of men are they | tarian sit idle and let millions of

that brutally slaughter | his people suffer and starve.

helpless, | : dumb animals—those poor stray, | In tearing the New Deal apart homeless dogs—and ruthlessly per- | for a post-mortem, Dr. Glenn Frank

secute a noble, kind woman whose | COuld go farther back in the pages only “sin” is to love, protect, and | of history by examining the Tea befriend stray dogs? | Pot Dome scandal, Smoot-Hawley y tariff and Banker Dawes’ borrowThe men referred to are our pres- |; OT ent Chief of Police, Michael Mors | 5, COVernment money. , Be a) ; ur If the banks are bursting with rissey; Theodore H. Dammeyer, [money and business is afraid and the Board of Safety. The [tare a chance, then our form woman is Dr. Elizabeth Conger, Superintendent of the City Pound. | The City Pound is supposed to be a humane institution for homeless, lost and stray dogs—even pet dogs are often picked up by the dog catchers. Dr. Conger must be retained! The present city ordinance calling for the destruction of dogs must be repealed!

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

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| dictators, a Mussolini who roars | and pounds his chest like a Tarzan, {and a Hitler who rode into Vienna in his chariot like a Caesar of ancient Rome. If business will forget huge profits | and put its shoulder to the wheel we can save our democracy. MAY IS ON THE AIR By M. P. D. Set the radio To the sky; May is on the air, Sending messages of light, Bright and fair, Songs of bluebirds from on hith And of larks in the sky; Radio chimes out of the skies Where the Maytime glory lies. DAILY THOUGHT Nevertheless God, that comforteth those that are cast down, comforted us by the coming of Titus.—II Corinthians 7.6.

% w URGES THAT VOTERS NOT RESIST CHANGES

By H M. It doesn’t leave muoh to our imaginatinn just what the outcome will be in the vote fraud cases soon to be presented, now that we have advance that it

so, will be settled by the District This, however, doesn’t change the opinions of thousands who voted to change the present setup, nor is it too late to change this. Everyone, from sheer inability to change, drifts on for a time along the lines of mental habits and —— precedent, but it behooves us—us | F all created comforts, God is being, of course, those who wish to | the leader; you are the borsee a change—correct this habit be- | rower, not the owner.—Rutherford.

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| European nations in the hands fi ! 8 1 Ae HS ar |on the five-billion-dollar war debt

By DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM

SAYS STOCK JOKE MATERIAL IS BECOMING SCARCE

By B. 0,

This is alarming. Pittsburgh is opening a battle on smoke to end all battles on smoke, And the result, of course, is going to be the end—eventually—of all Jokes about smoke over Pittsburgh. Jokesmiths: Watch it, Whither are we drifting? New York and noise used ‘o be stock joke material, but the antinoise campaign seems {to have checked that subject off the list. If things keep up like this, the professional gagsters some day are going to be left with nothing geographical to joke about, No jokes about— The wind in Chicago. The fog in San Francisco. The emotional chill in Boston. The altitude in Denver. The blasts nf hot air in Washing-

on. What a situation! » » » SEES WAY FOR PAYMENT OF WAR DEBTS By H. L. Let's get a payment on the war debt now. That 400-million-dollar Mexican payment demanded for English and Dutch oil wells, might easily be written off, by asking the

England credit for the 400 million

which is still on our books, with no payment made for several years. At least we could get 400 million dollars worth of oil for our Navy, which would otherwise come out of taxes. If John Bull ever intends to pay Uncle Sam, here is a real chance to show good faith by letting the oil wells go on the debt. If John Bull won't pay us, he has brass aplenty to ask little Mexico to pay him. » » ” POETS NOT APPRECIATED AS

HUSBANDS, READER THINKS By D. F. C. A California poet, suing his wife for separate maintenance, accused her of violating an agreement made when they were married that she should earn the money and he should do the housework. I'll tell you, some women just aren't sufficiently thankful for having a bard for a husband. After all, they should be willing to make little sacrifices for the privilege of floating through life on a cloud of couplets.

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and children on social questions. A bully idea! * = = IN “Man’s Last Specter,” an article by Inis Weed Jones on insanity brings out these astounding facts: “Our present national average is 40 per cent cured or greatly improved. The best hospitals return as high as 60 per cent to normal life. The New York Hospitals show at the end of 15-year period only 17 per cent of the patients remaining (excluding deaths and transfers). In the Boston State Hospital an analysis of 4000 cases show 19 per cent had to stay 30 days or less; 45 per cent six months or less; 56 per cent one year or less; at end of 10 years (excluding deaths and transfers) only 3 per cent were left. I feel a lot safer myself after reading this remarkable record. All insanity may soon yield to the conquering march of science.

WE can't settle this with scientific evidence, but I dou that a man is usually quite as as his word.

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Gen. Johnson Says—

Roosevelt's Pump-Priming Program

Will Do a Lot to Prevent a Rout At Coming Elections in the South.

ASHINGTON, May 19.—I came back from a recent trip through the South thoroughly con=vinced of something I merely suspected before. Une less economic conditions get considerably worse than they are now, the third New Deal boast—'you can't beat four billion dollars’—is correct. This column once suggested that although you can't beat four billion dollars, four billion dollars can beat you—meaning that the more you do for many people, the more they expect. It has worked that way in some places in the North and West but not, as vet, in the South, This, I think, is because, as yet, this depression has left that region almost untouched. It is beginning to bite in agriculture and in the textile industry but the general effect is nowhere near as appalling as in the more highly industrialized regions. » ” » ENERAL third New Deal policies are, in principle contrary to the whole history and tradition of the South, hateful in much of that area. But third New Deal dough is not hateful to recipients anywhere, In Tennessee, Senator Berry, who is a candidate to succeed himself, is letting his resentment over the taking away of his marbles by the TVA boys, run away with his judgment. He is attacking TVA in Tennessee by saying he doubts its constitutionality and its value. A mouse might as well run for office among his fellows in Bertrand Snell's warehouses on the issue of taking away the cheese. : Mr. Roosevelt's pump-priming may not do anything to restore prosperity but, unless things get much worse, it is going to do a whole lot to prevent a rout in the fall elections as far as the South is concerned, The overwhelming election of Senator Pepper was no surprise at all to people who had been in Florida. He himself had said all the time that he would get more votes than all his adversaries combined.

HE economic health of the South has been so bad for so long that the spurt of Federal spending was sorely needed and very welcome, The possibilities in any cessation of spending or relapse to the economic status quo are so menacing that no candidate can support any policy that even leans in that direction. If the depression reaches the South in spite of all that Federal spending can do to prevent it, there might be an entirely different atmosphere. Whenever and wherever the Administration can truthfully say, “You are far better off and we planned it that way" it is unbeatable and it can still say that over large parts of the South. People who have known great deprivation and are temporarily relieved simply will not think of the long term effects of the elixir that relieved them not even so much as a year ahead and no matter how dangerous the prospect. Furthermore, I am beginning to believe it will forever be politically impossible greatly to reduce Federal spending even if it produces complete collapse —until it does so. Ugly as the conclusion sounds, spending buys the votes necessary to preserve itself and you can take it away about as easily as you can red meat from a hungry tiger,

It Seems to Me

By Heywood Broun

Il Duce Refuses to Call Time Out Once He Gets Started on a Speech.

EW YORK, May 19.-—Increasingly it becomes difficult for the American reader to understand foreign politics. It never was easy, and the growth of fascism has not helped comprehension. I have particularly in mind the speech which Mussolini made to many thousands in the city of Genoa, At times it almost seems as if Benito were trying to burlesque the movement which he leads. Of course, it isn’t a laughing matter, and it will take more than satire to stem the tide upon which he rides at the moment, Possibly the speeches may seem less preposterous before they are put into English. But the very back= ground of these public appearances always suggests an operatic setting. Look at the scene in Genoa. “He spoke fo an enormous crowd packed in the Piazza della Vittoria from a high stand built in imitation of a battleship prow.” One wonders whether the Duce did not fear that somebody might break a bottle of champagne over his head. “At the foot of the stand were 16 large female figures with their arms raised in the Fascist salute symbolizing the victories of Italian arms during the Fascist regime.” This would seem a florid touch and also rather generous bookkeeping, but it so happ2ns that Mussolini is his own official scorer. No errors are ever set down, Miscues go as drives which were too hot to handle,

Everything Is Eternal With Him

Public men in America are not averse to discourses in which they lay it on a little thick, but even the most shameless of our native spellbinders warms up a little before he turns on his full effects. And there is generally some process of letting down here and there with what passes for homely wit, This is not so of Benito Mussolini, An oration by him is an aria from start to finish, and not a note ever falls below high C if he can help it. He speaks not of today or tomorrow but always in terms of eternity. The alliance {with Germany is not just a successful diplomatic ccup but an alliance which is to be everlasting. Even the helter-skelter pact pushed through with Chamberlain was mentioned with the dogmatic statement, “This agreement will be lasting.” The names of the Kings and great ones of Rome remain. They are not without their fame, but history has caught up and passed them by. Much of what they did is dust by now. And if Mussolini were touched at all by superstition he might have taken that artificial prow from which he spoke as a scrt of omen. It will go back to the lumber vard, and the 16 large plaster ladies will return before long to

the chalk pile.

Watching Your Health

By Dr. Morris Fishbein

HE opening of the baseball season brings the usual announcements of athletic injuries. The reports are full of such words as knots, kinks, sprains, strains and similar terms which mean noth

ing very definite from the point of view of a scientific diagnosis. In most instances the trouble is a sprain. A sprain is usually the result of a partial or com= plete tear of a part of the tissues of the ligament around a joint, The muscles are fastened to the bones by ligaments. These tissues, like other tissues, contain blood vessels and nerves. The sudden pulling or tearing of a blood vessel may cause blood to pour out into the tissue, which will produce a swelling with pain on movement, In the healing of a sprain certain definite steps have to be followed. First the blood pours into the tissue which is torn, Second, this blood clots. Third, the clot is absorbed, and fourth, healing occurs with some scarring, The first thing, therefore, to be done in the case of ain is to control the amount of the bleeding as as possible by the use of a bandage (stopping the tissue) and applying cold water. The elevate the portion concerned so that it to swell, good deal of pain, the pain is cone

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