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FRIDAY, MAY 20, 1938

BLESSED BY HIS ENEMIES NOT since Andrew Jackson battled against Nicholas Biddle has a President been more favored than Franklin Roosevelt is in the choice of epponents. We refer, of course, to his more vocal opponents, those who shout against him right or wrong. Their angry denunciations of Roosevelt and all the New Deal works seem to set the tone of the opposition. The country experienced hard times when Andy was in the White House, but thanks to the Bank of the United States type of opposition, Old Hickory remained a popular hero to the last. And after eight years he stepped down, able to boast that he had punished his enemies, rewarded his friends and named his successor. The Nicholas Biddles of today are largely responsible for the fact that Mr. Roosevelt continues to hold his popularity among rank-and-file citizens, despite many Presidential blunders and in the teeth of a severe business depression which has brought distress to those citizens. What we have said above is by way of introduction to a reminder that on Monday the House of Representatives will begin debate on the Wage-Iour Bill. The bill starts at 25 cents an hour and 44 hours a week and graduates in three years to 40 cents and 40 hours. It happens to be true that many of our strongest Roose-velt-haters are persons who in the past have thought it quite all right to use the power of the Government to erect tariffs to keep prices high. Will this same crowd now shout down a proposal to use the power of the Government to build a floor for the wages of industrial workers—a minimum ranging from $11 to $16 a week! If so. they will give another demonstration of why their type of opposition does not detract from Mr. Roosevelt's popularity—of why they are no more effective today than the Biddle crowd was a century ago.

POISON BY RADIO A SPECIAL interdepartmental committee in Washington

had planned to lay before the President this week its |

report on the advisability of setting up a Government radio station to broadcast propaganda to Latin America. Tuesday, however, it decided otherwise. The report is to be held up until fall to give time for further study. We sincerely hope this will be the last of that idea. The purpose of such a station, in the words of Rep. Emanuel Celler, one of the project's sponsors, would be to combat the “damnable broadcasts to South America” emanating from government-owned plants in Europe. There can be no doubt that certain European governments, particularly Germany and Italy, are deluging the Southern half of this hemisphere with the most barefaced propaganda. Nor that some of it is palpably designed to undermine the influence of the United States in that area, While we think the desire to counteract these subversive efforts and build up good will for Uncle Sam is laudable, we most earnestly question any such method as the above to achieve it. For years we in this country have been decrying, belittling and berating international propaganda as a disturber of the peace second only to fanatical nationalism and destructive economic barriers. Now that the entire nation is convinced that propaganda is a weapon on a parity with poison gas, there are those who would have us take it up ourselves, To make it all the more absurd, the proposal is to turn the Government's radio blast on Latin Americans. There is no corner of the globe so completely inundated by wireless propaganda. So true is that that they have developed an immunity to it comparable only to a salamander's immunity to the rays of the sun. They began long ago to get wise to that type of broadcast. They know the other fellow is trying to get something for himself by pulling the wool over their eves. They know most of the stuff they receive from these official sources is doctored, so they add more than a pinch of salt or don’t believe it at all. Over the long haul that sort of thing doesn’t pay. Especially for us. It would develop into a boomerang for Secretary Hull's honest, open-and-above-board trade program and for the President’s policy of the good neighbor,

THE ELEPHANT TRUMPETS OL. FRANK KNOX, who got a little political exercise and experience running for Vice President on the G. O. P. ticket in 1936, told the Young Republican convention at Oshkosh, Wis,, the other day that: \ “Today a great opportunity is fairly begging our party to take it by the hand. Tt is the opportunity to become once again—the party of the small businessman who sees his profits vanishing; the party of the men and women who want to work: the party of the farmer, who with each passing day finds himself more and more under the thumb of a bureaucrat in Washington.” We join with the Colonel in hoping that the G. 0. P. will turn into that kind of party. It has heen a long, long time since the Republican national leadership has seriously concerned itself with the needs of little business or of farmers or of “men and women who want to work.” Through the many years when it was in power, and through the years it has been the minority opposition, the party has been in the hands of men apparently more eager to please campaign contributors than voters, And that fact goes far to explain why the Republicans in recent election years have obtained plenty of campaign money but fewer and fewer votes. But the Colonel's speech shows there's some life left in the party, so maybe there's some hope too.

MISSOURI, UNABRIDGED PA'S Missouri guidebook project (cost, to date, $226, 961.93) is at a standstill, suspended for “lack of a competent editor,” the United Press reports. It shouldn’t be a hard problem to solve. Just appropriate another $226,961.93 to hire a writer-editor, Ought to be able to get a pretty good one for that. Search for the guidebook’s title shouldn't be too difficult, either. Maybe permission can be obtained to call it “Gone With the Wind.” {

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Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

The Dictators’ Own Outbursts Make - Any American's Remarks Sound Like The Love Murmurs of a Sophomore.

EW YORK, May 20.—Well, maybe some of our public officials have run off at the lip a little too freely of late about the native American abhorrence of war and dictatorship, but Mussolini and Hitler should be the last men in the world to complain of that. They love to dish it, and anyone who makes a practice of dishing it must expect to take it in his turn. ; Mussolini and Hitler have been making cracks

about us and Britain, France, Russia and Czechoslovakia for years, and it is not so long since they

| were talking the same way about each other or each

other’s people, which amounts to the same thing. It is written in Hitler's own creed, that the Italians, or, anyway, the Southern Italians, are a low race because they are dark-eyed and dark-com-plexioned and have short legs. Marriage between a blond, blue-eyed, long-legged Nazi and an Italian of this description was condemned on the ground that the Mediterranean races, which include many Italians, had a touch of the tar brush. " % @

HERE was rivalry between Mussolini and Hitler at the time. Mussolini personally despised Hitler as an imitator and had received a bad impression of Hitler when Adolf visited Rome to pick up ideas. They and their press—which, of course, speak their ideas and say wmothing without permission—were

sneering back and forth across Austria, and you can find in the old files, if they have not since been edited, many insults which make the angriest remarks of our statesmen and propagandists about them and their systems sound like the love murmurs

| of an infatuated sophomore.

Mussolini was dishing, too, at the time, and most of what they dished was so silly and childish that the rational peoples of the world found it hard to believe that such remarks could represent the official opinions of nations claiming to be great and demanding to be treated with respect. > ¥ % HE dishing in Italy at the time the Teague “of Nations voted the sanctions, or boycott, against Ttaly for a flat violation of an agreement sounded like the raging of a spoiled brat in a tantrum. Mussolini and his journalists insulted every statesman and every nation on the list of sanctionisti, and I heard the Duce deliver one speech to a lot of peasants in which he stamped around exactly like a pampered little boy in a rage and at times went off into screams. I never saw an orator make such a spectacle of himself. Now, it does seem an absurd way for nations to act toward one ahother, and I think we lower ourselves to let them make the rules of repartee for us and draw us into spats. But they began this kind of thing, and we in this country have no idea of the things which they have been saying about us for vears, and, although the American outbursts have done our dignity no good, it may not be a bad idea to let them know that they are supposed to be grown up now and are expected to develop some civil manners,

Business By John T. Flynn

The Story of Fascism in Germany Is Told in Nine Brief Chapters.

EW YORK, May 20.—Those who have been induced to believe that in spite of some of its ugly human features fascism really does hold some kind of key to the solution é6f our economic problems will be interested in the latest phase of the Fascist economy in Germany. The story of fascism in Germany is told quickly

| in a few chapters.

Chapter one reveals a nation in a great state of social and economic disorder. Chapter two shows us a new Messiah, using the Fascist economic philosophy of Mussolini and some new ingredients of his own, promising to bring Germany order and prosperity. Chapter three brings on the scene certain important financiers and industrialists who say to themselves that what Germany needs is economic control by and in the interest of organized business. Through Hitler's violent oratory they see that he has this idea too. They therefore decide to back him financially, Chapter four sees order restored by the bayonet and the dungeon. Business does rule in a German improvisation of the corporate state of Mussolini, Chapter five sees the beginnings of the search for prosperity. This takes the usual modern form: The borrowing of great sums and the spending of these sums on public works and armaments. Chapter six looks like a success. The military program, the armament program and the public works program makes employment for vast numbers,

Profits Go to Pay the Bills

Chapter seven—the financial burdens begin to harass the Government. New and weird forms of financial stratagems have to be invented. The great spending program results in purchasing power, The merchants and manufacturers make larger, even great profits. But the Government has to take away most of these profits to pay the bills. Chapter eight—the management of what is now an economy of sacrifice becomes increasingly difficult, The control of the economy by business begins to vanish. Instead business now finds itself subjected to the very thing it fled fromy-Government discipline, Chapter nine—and here is the latest development. Business, as in America, is told it must resume operations, which means investment, But business holds back. Therefore the Government now proposes to invent the projects, the industries and to force business to invest in them, The wage earners’ wages fixed by the Government, business regimented minutely, external holdings of citizens taken over, profits consumed by the Government in taxes and now pfivate investment directed by the Government—this is what the German businessman got in his effort to escape socialism,

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

HE luscious strawberry shortcake was topped with a mound of whipped cream. Twelve serve ings made a brave red-and-white parade on “either side of the luncheon table. With her first nibble, every woman present spoke either of calories or her diet. Some of its flavor was lost to me because only the day before I had seen the two ragged dirty children, They stood in front of their home, a tar-paper shack, and never was I 80 conscious of my poundage as when they looked at me, an unanswerable question in their sad eyes.

How could we have made a world so cockeyed that thousands are told to practice restraints at the table while hundreds of thousands of others haven't enough to eat?

The reports say we shall have a bumper wheat crop this summer, and almost immediately comes news from the Department of Agriculture that farmers will be ordered to curtail their plantings 30 per cent next year, At all costs we must prevent overs production because overproduction means that prices go down and nobody has any money, It also means that there will not be extra food for those who are hungry. As many schoolchildren in our cities will suffer from malnutrition and be called stupid because their brains can't work fast without food. As many mothers will have to decide whether 10 buy a loaf of bread or a quart of milk with their st few pennies, It seems a pity that we should use the earth 80 ungratefully, She gives when in the mood, but we, it seems, are unwilling to receive unless the market is right, As we balance the budget nicely for “producer and consumer” half the population goes hungry, exe cept women who are dieting, I wish there were some way for us to get on with the process by high-calory foods with the famished,

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FRIDAY, MAY 20, 1938 Gen. Johnson Says—

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Utilities Through the Wringer Is That the Public Is in the Wringer,

ABHINGTON, D. ©, May 20 thing screwy about the idea of rate the public utilities—ratiroads, gas, water tricity. . Any other kind of business can sheriff only so long as it can keep price quolity up. It makes no difference how mich money has been invested in bricks and mortar, But the utilities are, an exception rule is that money ihvessed is turn.” They are monopolies and government regulate their rates, But does that difference rates guaranteeing immortality to investment operating efficiently? The “return on investment” rule resulted in races to boost “investment.” When the railroads were put together, shrewd buccaneers bought up little ones low and sold them to big ones high. When the publie rebelled, the Government overtook a vast appraisal, In the meantime, there was a tremendous increase in general values. The appraisal showed (he rate-maks-ing base of values low. But some railroads can't earn money on those values—xo what?

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FTER the World War, what had happened to the railroads began to happen to the electrical utils ities—buccaneers buying up little ones low and selling them to big ones high In both cases the public held the bag because it bought these securities in small measure directly. and indirectly in much larger amounts through insurance companies, trust funds and mutual savings banks No solution of this problem has been effective, The Federal formula has been to rubsidize compet tion at public expense. Against the railroads. it was done by building canals and deepening rivers on the theory that low water would force the rail rates down, Against electrical utilities, the Gover ment builds competing plants or subsidizes the cities to build them, Neither is logical nor honest, Outside the Cireak Takes waterway, we have no artificial waterway that comes anywhere near bearing its own cost In ele tricity, the cost of plant is so large a part of tota that no private company can survive if the

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NIGHT WATCHMEN URGED FOR HOTELS By Traveling Salesman The State Fire Marshal and Tndianapolis Fire Chief should read

| the stories of the Atlanta hotel fire |

If we do not have hotel laws in | this state to put night watchmen > | in hotels that sleep guests in flimsy | constructed buildings, there should be. | In the observation of the writer the | more fireproof a hotel is the more | precaution ought to be taken for safety, all of them having night watchmen. If it is necessary to | offer protection in fireproof hotels, | where a fire may be confined to

in which at least 33 died. |

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HOLIDAY REFORMS | SUGGESTED

By BC. The people of New Jersey have | worked themselves into a considerable lather over the issue of shuffling the official holidays around | and you can't blame them, Passed by the State Assembly was | a bill moving every holiday to the nearest Monday. The people in| favor of bigger and better week- | ends were tickled to death, but the | people who didn't want to be wav | ing flags and shooting off fire crackers some July morning three days after the rest of the nation | weren't tickled at all, | Whatever you think of the every-holiday-a-Monday idea, however, there is definitely a need, not merely in New Jersey but everywhere, for a few sensible reforms in the | whole year-long holiday schedule, Heads of families have been wish- | ing for generations, for instance, | that New Year could be placed just | a few pay days further removed | from Christmas. And take the matter of wedding anniversaries; how much easier it would be to remember, men, if all wedding anniversar- | ies could be scheduled for the same | day all over the country? And] how about keeping April 1 moving around all the time so that the kids wouldn't ever know just when to get set? And the 4th of July: Never let it start till after 11 a. m,, say. . Somebody get to work on this idea.

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> % 9% SEES HITLER MAKING WHOLESOME PROGRESS

By Edward Jay

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[ slovakia be another Switzerland? It |

Herr Hitler told the Ttalians that he considered the present Versailles-

can, if Hitler will leave it alone, as he has promised to leave Italian Tyrol alone,

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unless he has been hit, fixed boundary between Italy and THEFDS HY Eroeser or NEES Austria forever “unalterable.” ethics like a man who has bought But there are many people of un- |? Carbon hat. deniably German blood on the| 1neres no defense of

Italian side of the line. Thus Hitler departed from his (whom somebody has tried to shut up

, . - The biggest thing that ever hapsit t as all- | Sore: DOSIUNn hah rate Iii a [pened to the country’s traffic safeiy important and that all Germans In | pavement may likely be the enlisi= Europe “must” be included in his |ment of the highway victims themdomain. selves. Omaha's victims have orbe Wa s Emi wave wax 8anized the Veterans of Automobile His reason for this departure Was | Accidents. In Cleveland an Attoof course political. He wished 10 mobile Accident Vietim League has win the good will of Ttaly. [sprung up. The veterans of highBut whatever the reason, it

[way warfare are setting out to fight Bi h [for pe selves. wholesome progress for Hitler to ad- here. eal members mit that there may be more im-|pave lightning in their eyes, and portant considerations than the kin- | {i's likely that something national ship of blood—good will, for in-|ix on the way. If it is, the war for (traffic safety ought to be moving be | into its hottest phase, not com-

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What country is happier than| READER BELIEVES democratic Switzerland, where Ger- | 3 \ . , F. R. mans, French and Italians all live | harmoniously side by side under one| Another one of those news stories government, though each group that make you do a little occasional speaks its own language? | meditating of the “Science: Is It

Why cannot democrati J7echo- | : Bi 4 : ho ic Czech [a Blessing or Curse?” subject ap-

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| peared the other day This concerned the effects

AWAKE, MY SOUL of altitude on man’s mental and

By DOROTHY 8ST yn NY Esl { physical capacities. Workers in the

Awake, my soul, to the call of life! | : Be not content te just remain | Harvard Fatigue Laboratory climbed

A seed, 50 hard and tight inte the Chilean Andes and boned While beauty is locked in thy | up a little. domain, | They found {hat miners Release this power which can | worked at an altitude of 10,000 feet express had an extraordinary capacity for Itself in life, labor. The miners mined all day and then knocked off for a game or 50 of moccer, But the Harvard scientists also found that these miners weren't as lively in the head as the workers at sea level, and they couldn't hear as well Let's just hope that the less paternalistic captains of industry don't start a general trek to ‘he hills, The thought of the rise of a generation of artificially ereated superworkers who haven't the sense to improve their lot and can't hear the call of freedom iz a little too much like an H. G. Wells nightmare of the future to be comfortable to contemplate,

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in loveliness Awake, my soul, to the call of love! Respond to its enriching voice That wings from skies above To echo in the heart of man— rejoice And gather in this melody Which is the key of all beauty.

DAILY THOUGHT Banctify them through thy truth; thy word is truth.—John 19:1%,

RUTH is only developed in the hour of need; time, and not man, discovers it.—Bonald,

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BROWN=EYED, HOW CAN THAT BE?" “usr SHOWS How HEREDITY KIDS, YOU CANT | "

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LET'S EXPLORE YOUR MIND

By DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM

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impressions Dr, Laird asked h21 women workers in five different large concerns, located in different parts of the country, and in different lines of business—women who had worked under both men and women bosses—and 00 and 81-100ths per cent sald they pre ferred men bosses, Dr, Laird thinks women resent being bossed by other women chiefly because it recalls the way they were bossed by their mothers, A lot of leading women executives have jumped on Dr, Laird with both feet, I've alreacy run for cover, but if you want to get into the fuss, let's hear your opinion,

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OF COURSE NOT, and the increase in high schools that pre jute boys and girls, not for college ut for jobs and citizenship, shows that educators are recognizing this more than ever, Only one high school boy or girl out of 10 will ever go to college. Formerly high schools were mostly college preparatory schools but they are rapidly bhecomv ing life preparatory schools as they the baby is going to be brown-ayed | should be. Bpecial courses should be

joy | Offered for the few who expect to later on, because all white babies 20 10 college and all should be

taught Fnglish, civics, history and the responsibilities of citizenship, I think this represents the views of our leading educators,

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ET, railroad valuations remain loaded with tha | cost of properties that have long since outlived { their usefulness. Many utilities could not survive on { their present valuations and rates in competition with | more efficient existing privately owned installations, | now operating in similar circumstance: If thess {| corporations were in other fields of business, the sols tion would be a new and realistic rate structure based not on valuation, but on efficient standards of opera tion. There would follow financial reorganization of their capital structure-—the wringer of bankruptey The trouble with that solution is that the peopla generally are in the wringer through tremendous holdings of these debits for dead horses. The bought under the “fair return on investment” rule and any reallstic changes in that rule great diztress—whether by the method here or by the present Federal attempt to subsidize coms | petition | On either horn of this public 1s | caught. It is one of our three greatest problems,

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It Seems to Me

By Heywood Broun

The Utah Geologist Hasn't Played Fair With the Brontosaur He Found.

EW YORK, May 20 who go down to the earth with spades seem (0 me to pursue one of the most fascinating of all vocations. Home one | of them comes up with the jewelry of a dead queen, | while another is delighted if he can lug away with | him part of the backbone of a prehistoric monster And 80 it grieves me to read that local pride and | petty jealousy has raised ii: head among the excavators, And Utah, of all places, is the spot which would put parish prejudice ahead of the interest of world mcience., Dr, Frederick J. Pack of the Biate University has just announced that he and an uns identified friend have unearthed an 11-foot hind leg of a brontosaur, “Just two of us know where the gentleman lies,” says the geologist out before our funds were depleted assured the remainder of the complete pkeleton will remain secretly buried until we get monev te completa | the work.” That is the psychology not of science but [ of the Great Divide And, just to rub it in, Dr. Pack has invented the slogan, "Utah dinosaurs for Utah museums.” 1 don't know whether he intends to make it a political issue, To me it seems as if Dr. Pack were pursuing a brontosaur in the manger policy If his own univers sity lacks funds to rouse up the old gentleman from the limestone where he lies, then an invitation should be extended to some more prosperous institution te come around and do the trucking.

Too Precious a Secret

If Dr. Pack and his accomplice were to he called suddenly, there would be none to show a waiting world the X which marks the spot where the brontos saur is buried, Centuries might elapse before any other excavator stumbled upon the find, Utah's pretty big, and it is too much to expect even the most ardent of antediluvian investigators te dig up its whole extent, Think of all the beer bottles and tos mato cans and old magazines which would be churned 1 And somebody might strike rich veins of gold of copper and start another panie But the present situstion is hardly fait the brontosaur himself, Consider his estate, Wleven feet of hir left hind leg are in-a museum, but the rest of him lies on the lone prairie, And since a good deal of preliminary scratching has already been done, there is just a possibility that a eat might get him After all a monster divided against himself cannot

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Watching Your Health

By Dr. Morris Fishbein

ROFEBSBIONAL know 1t is to get before undertaking the regular grind of activity The first step, of course, 158 alwavs to know that the athlete 1s phyrically sound. This ean be found out only by making a study of his previous Hiness, and by a complete physical examination We know today that big muscles are not essofs tial for health, However, we know also that keeps ing fit gives a sense of well-being, that promotes health and encourages the production of work The athlete must follow a rigid and strict routine in order to maintain his fitness. Tor this reason all professional athletes are subjected of fines and similar penalties for infractions of the rules regarding diet, alcohol, tobacco, of and similar important factors in hvelene The diet of the athlete must sufficient to maintain his weight, but also correct, so that he will not increase weight steadily during his athletic efforts, All people lose welght during physical effort, but this loss is mostly in the form of water, and 18 res gained in 48 hours after a diet suMcient in mineral salts, The athlete who 1s working hard on a football or baseball team, however, must be supplied pars ticularly with enough carbohydrates, since the energy that he expends uses up many calories which carbos dydrates provide, At least nine and one<half hours of sleep in each 24 are recommended as the minimum for athletes on modern football or baseball teams In addition to this, however, short periods of rest during intermissions between severe exercises are ndvised,

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