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FRIDAY, JUNE 10, 1938

GOOD FOR THE G-MEN!

Cash kidnaping case in Florida. Fathers and mothers everywhere in America must be grateful tc the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and glad it is on the job, even as they grieve with the parents of Jimmy Cash. The brutes who stole and murdered the little Levine

we hope they will be, and that the G-Men will add another to the long list of kidnaping mysteries they have solved. If potential kidnapers knew they couldn’t collect ransom money, there would be few kidnapings. that premise, a good many people are reasoning that the

way to stamp out kidnaping is to make payment of ransom |.

money a crime. We wish it were as simple as that.

harm than good. Suppose your child were kidnaped. Would you obey such a law, disregard demands for ransom, make no attempt

police and the G-Men? Or would you disregard the law,

try to deal secretly with the kidnapers, and attempt to keep |

the authorities from finding out and interfering with what vou were doing? And, if you chose the latter course, do vou suppose any jury would punish you for paying a ransom? We fear there is no easy way to stamp out the hideous

crime. That job, we suspect, will have to be done the hard |

way that Mr. Hoover and the G-Men are following—by intelligent, unremitting efforts to catch all kidnapers, there-

all who may be tempted to become kidnapers.

RED TAPE ERHAPS a Maupassant, inspired by profound pity for the tragedy of life, could do justice to the story of John Fyfe and of what Government red tape did to him.

Last September John Fyfe, a 58-year-old employee in the heating plant of the United States Capitol at Wash- | ington, was crippled beyond ability to earn a living when

both his hands were fearfully scalded. The Government maintains an agency to provide for its servants who are injured in line of duty, and last October John Fyfe laid his case before this agency, the U. S. Employees’ Compensation Commission. long process of routing the claim through investigations and reports. Months passed, while John Fyfe worried over his enforced idleness and over the unpaid bills of doctors and hospitals.

Late in May, however, the three members of the com- | | old guard on the exchange.

mission got around to deciding that John Fyfe should re- | pew board of governors five men who were there five |

ceive $116.66 a month—two-thirds of his former pay—so long as he remained disabled, which meant so long as he

lived. But again there was delay, a briefer one this time | of only seven days, before notice of the award was mailed |

to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Fyfe. A commission officer is quoted as saying:

“We can’t be expected to rush to the telephone to notify i

claimants when awards are approved.”

And when, finally, the good news did reach John Fyfe | He had

been in a hospital since the day before, having taken poison |

he was not able to understand or appreciate it.

and slashed his wrists. Two days later he died.

ATTACK BOTH EVILS

HE U. S. Senate's investigation of politics in relief cer- |

tainly should be broadened, as Senator McAdoo pro-

poses, to include political use by state officials of Federal |

highway and social security funds. Senator Barkley of Kentucky told the truth when he

said that the opportunity exists for Governors and others |

| up Speiiaive practices in Wall Street. The govern- : i } .“ . ‘I ment official wh y j y 8 - Senator Barkley's mistake was in proclaiming the cynical | BS NoHId en; hig ages wih, Hots

to grease state political machines with Government money.

doctrine that the same opportunity ought to be left open

for Federal officials to get the political benefits of relief |

spending.

Here are two evils, and of the two the misuse of relief |

money is the greater, because it takes advantage of the helpless and the hungry. But both should be exposed and fought, wherever they appear, and Senator McAdoo's proposal is a step in that direction.

However, it will make even more important the selec- |

tion of an absolutely fair investigating committee. A group dominated by factionalist Senators could whitewash one candidate and throw mud at his opponent.

Of course the other proposal, to give the committee |

$50,000 instead of only $10,000 to spend on the investigation, should be adopted. Considering the size of the job to be done, even $50,000 may not be enough.

SLOWING DOWN

S if we didn’t have enough to worry about, here comes a British astronomer, Harold Spencer Jones, with the information that “somewhere an unknown gigantic brake has been clamped on the spinning world, slowing it down.” In some manner we don’t quite understand, Mr. Jones has figured it out by observing the moon. The earth’s slow-

ing-down process, it seems, is going on at about a thous- |

andth of a second every century. That means, if our mathematical calculations are correct, that the world’s rotation will stop altogether in about the year 8,640,001,938 A. D.— or just about the time the members of the human race, judging by their present rate of pregress, have learned to live together peacefully and k 0 2 ;

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| you can nail him cold as an anti-New Dealer,

. EDGAR HOOVER and his G-Men deserve unstinted |

. | ond, don’t fight him anyway unless you have a good praise for the work they have done and are doing on the |

But Attorney | General Cummings probably is correct in saying that the | proposed law wouldn't work and would be likely to do more |

Then began the |

‘Washington

By Raymond Clapper

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES In the Spring a Young Man’s Fancy— apt <

Your Correspondent Offers Some | Reportorial Notes to Help You in |

Untangling Your Political

ASHINGTON, June 10.—Here, quick reading, are some reportorial notes to help you untangle your political news: 1. Regardless of its setback in Iowa primary, Administration will continue to fight renomination of anti-New Deal Democratic Senators—-where there is any chance to win. 2. Democratic National Chairman. Farley agrees. His difference with Corcoran group of White House

advisers has not been over strategy, but over the practicality of fighting in certain states. He has two rules. First, don’t fight a sitting Democratic Senator unless Sec-

chance of beating him. On both grounds Farley opposed the clumsy fight against Gillette in Iowa. 3. All agree, including Farley, that the Administration should try to beat Tydings in Maryland, Smith in South Carolina and George in Georgia. All woulda

boy at New Rochelle, N. Y., haven't yet been caught. But |

All are ready to help

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ADMINISTRATION will support Governor Leh- . man for re-election in New York if he will run.

| If not, will insist that Senator Wagner run. Talk of : | entering Hopkins for Governor never taken seriously. Starting from |

5. Dominant fact in political situation still is

Roosevelt's popularity. it in Towa paimary when, although knowing Roose-

condensed for |

Same .

News. |

Senator Gillette acknowledged |

velt had given word to ‘beat him, he pretended con- |

trary and refused to be jockeved into anti-New Deal role. Administration not Expected some setbacks, which will average out with successes like Florida and Oregon. Primary bitterness counted on to fade out quickly. In fall election issue will be centered on support of Roosevelt.

6. Campaign plan is for Roosevelt to stump aggres=-

sively in Eastern industrial states where danger of |

heavy losses in House is greatest. That will follow

| cross-country trip. Plan calls for making Roosevelt | | chief drawing card for Democratic ticket everywhere. |

to deal with the kidnapers, and leave everything to the |

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ROOSEVELT'S popularity is driving some anti- |

4 . New Deal Democratic candidates underground. In

certain localities they avoid all speeches, except on |

“nonpolitical occasions.” 8. Farley's advice has been brushed aside on several occasions recently in favor of Corcoran group

| but he accepts situations philosophically. He is tak-

ing a long trip to Alaska and will be out of the country during the hottest of primary season but back directing organization for election proper. 9. Republican management tending strongly. away from compromising with New Deal and toward straightout fight. Nomination of James, extreme con-

s > : . ; | servative candidate for Governor in Pennsylvania, by throwing the fear of practically certain punishment into |

and Dickinson, bitterly anti-New Deal Senatorial candidate in Towa are indicative. 10. Administration’s bungling of relief-in-politics issue has been manna from heaven for Republicans. This is Roosevelt's most serious fumble in present campaign.

Business By John T. Flynn

What Some Took as Retreat of SEC Really Marked Phase in Victory. EW YORK, June 10.—~When Chairman W. O.

Douglas of the Securities and Exchange Com- | 2 8 | killed when a bomb struck a hos- |

mission declared that “there would be no more crack-

| downs on the exchange,” this was taken as a sur-

render by the Commission. In anti-Wall Street circles it was criticized as the usual New Deal surrender. In conservative circles it was taken as a model for other government agencies, who were admonished to let business alone, As a matter of fact, it was not a surrender by the SEC. It marked a phase in a victory by the SEC based on a policy of being in earnest as to its objectives. The victory consisted in the complete rout of the There is not on the

years ago. The board is made up of new faces and

| is entirely dominated by what were known as the | reform forces in the exchange. That revolution was the result of complete disgust | with the policy of the old rulers of the exchange who | | resolutely held out against all reform until they were

driven to it; who stoutly denounced the SEC and

| refused to co-operate with it.

First Feared as a Radical

This was well enough while Kennedy and Landis were chairmen of the Commission and when a policy of complete weakness and vacillation were the rule. But when Douglas came into power the exchange

realized it was dealing with a very different man. At | first it feared him as a wild-eyed radical. But little |

by little the abler and more reasonable men came to see that Douglas knew what he was talking about; that he was not disposed to act until he was in possession of facts; that he had some understanding of the world in which the exchange operates. Also Douglas doubtless realizes as well as any man that the era of reform has passed and that the reformer must be satisfied with less now since the first great opportunity for reform was thrown away by his predecessors. This strengthened the hands of the reform in the exchange. So much so, in fact, that even if Richard Whitney had not staged his famous disaster, the old guard would have been ousted. But when Whitney

| fell and brought the exchange into such disgrace the

whole fight was over. The younger men in the exchange won a complete victory. That victory means a genuine desire to co-operate with the SEC, to clean

est effort by the exchange to clean house would be a fool. And W. O. Douglas is no fool. We may be sure he will see that the exchange keeps its end of the bargain.

A Woman's Viewpoint

' By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

OSES and moonlight; That's June.

love and honeymoons.

come to full fruition. Some of them will.

many of us mark our happiness with a price tag? The 1938 bride, as all others have done before her, counts her wedding gifts, fingers the shining silks and satins of her trousseau, worries about her social obligations and her husband’s promotions, and takes care to budget their income to the penny. But in all this concern about material goods, will she count romance among her worldly treasures? Probably not. Yet it is worth a great deal in plain dollars and cents. The expense of unhappiness Is tremendous even if we think of it only in money terms. Actually, marriage failure is our costliest economic mistake, Broken homes exact a dreadful toll from our purses, and who can estimate their cost in nervous disorders and sorrows? The job of keeping romance alive devolves largely upon the wife. but it is true nonetheless, and the bride who refuses to face the fact is not likely to succeed at marriage. A good many girls fail because they expect too much of men and of life, and their demands upon romance are too great. They do not budget their happiness as they do their incomes, Yet the bride who knows how to make a little love go a long way and, by economizing, accumulates a savings account of trust, hope and affection, is almost certain to find herself rich in

the funds of happiness with the passing years. For it is true ti ‘8s money makes

The dreams now budding would | envelop the whole earth in glory if they could all | Others, | fated never to be realized, will die because so many brides and grooms refuse to put a valuation upon ro- | mance, accepting it as a gift instead of the reward of | | effort. In the confusion and noise of living, how

This may be unfair and unfortunate, |

worried by Iowa defeat, |

FRIDAY, JUNE 10, 1938

By Talburt

The Hoosier Forum

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

| DEPLORES NUMBER OF | SPANISH BOMB VICTIMS

| | By Agapito Rev

| The Minister of National Defense | lof the Spanish Loyalist Government |

{ has made public a detailed record

of children killed and wounded in |

Republican Spain. From the be-

ginning of the war, July, 1936, to | the end of March, 1938, German and |

Italian air forces and Rebel artillery | manned by Germans took the lives (of 10,709 children and left 15,320 | crippled and wounded. The city of | Madrid alone had 879 dead, and Valencia 329 This total of 26.588 innocent victims of fascism does not include figures for the city of Barcelona, nor does it comprise the victims of

the barbarous bombings since the | | first of April, which have been the |

| most savage of the whole war. When the victims of the attacks on

Alicante, Barcelona, Granollers and |

other recent air raids have been | counted another 1000 children must | be added to the dead. In Alicante several sick ones were

{ pital. In Barcelona the children's | home St. Philip Neri, maintained | by American charitable organiza-

tions, was destroyed with an ap- |

| palling loss of life, | Our Department of State publicly has decried this wanton slaughter | of children in Spain, but it has not

{ inquired whather any of them were |

| killed by American bombs. Under | our neutrality act the Spanish Gov-

| ernment cannot obtain supplies in |

oy Ruth Shelton { The hatred of labor for capital is not, I believe, so much an envious hatred of wealth as

tions and a despising of capital as the cause, So long as a man is climbing the ( ladder of success by fair means, he | is respected, even admired, by the | laboring class. has reached the ladder’s top and [begins to use his accumulated | wealth and power to force smaller

| businessmen either to sell to him |

{or be ruined by him, he is looked | upon as a business dictator. And when his pampered son | joins heired and often undeserved | millions with the heired and like- | wise undeserved millions of | pampered daughter, and the com-

| bined fortunes are used to carry on | an old business dictatorship or to |

a rebellious | hatred of existing laboring condi- |

However, when he |

some |

to views

crown is handed from father to son, what are these people who will and heir it but ‘economic royalists?’ ” And so, without even realizing it, the country is ripe for a step away from democracy! Labor hates dictatorship, but it prefers dictatorship by government to dictatorship by individuals. It is growing more and more fretful under the oppressive dictatorship of big business . laying off when

live on too-low wages; putting in whatever hours big business demands and laboring under whatever conditions big business sees fit to let exist. Slowly but surely its resentment is arousing it to the fact that its salvation lies through | organization and the polls. If capitalism could realize that it is seriously ill, and prescribe for its own ailment built-up payrolls, thicker pay envelopes, shorter hours, better conditions and a sympathetic understanding of the lives of its

ably be rapid and sure. » » » HAGUE AFFAIR WILL SPEED SOCIALISM'S GROWTH, 1S VIEW By Another Socialist No liberty-loving people can fail regard of human rights that now | exists in New Jersey, particularly as | recently practiced against Norman

| Thomas. This is an old, old story to Mr,

OLD MAN DREAMING

By MAIDA L. STECKELMAN Sweet Alice! Gone these many years, And yet it always seems to me When I'm along, my Alice comes to press Her warm cheek close to mine, And sits beside me dangling babies on her knee. My Alice! Lovely as a rose fall blown; seems 8s knows When I'm alone!

It though she always

DAILY THOUGHT

So Joseph died, being an hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.—Genesis 50:26.

T is as natural to man to die as to be born; and to a little infant,

| perhaps the one is as painful as the | watch some of their white collar |

| other.—Bason.,

PARK AVENUE GET® ALL THE BREAKS!)

THE ASSUMPTION that there is any such “high percentage” of women who work for pin money is not borne out by the facts, The

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WHO HA® MADE N ACHIEVEMENTS YES ORNO ee AON Pu A a over 12,000 working women that less

than 3 per cent could be called “pin money workers.” These were women

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who lived at home and were yet

big business says lay off; trying to |

employees, its recovery would prob- |

| to be appalled at the shocking dis- |

| Troms, and Socialists at who have seen the movement grow Stronger on such a diet, harsh though it be, | Throughout history, men and women with

progressing the better-

| ment of the human race at heart |

| have been persecuted by the same ignorant brutality that apparently motivates the powers that be in New Jersey. | One need only review the lives of | such men as Socrates, Archimedes, Newton, Lavaisier, and countless | others to see that they suffered torture and death at the hands of an ignorant rabble, incited by selfish leaders who could not stand honest, | constructive criticism.

We can only deplore such terror

ism but we also realize that these

things only speed the day of deliver. |

| ance from a system of society which | countenances them,

| 5 ” ” RAPS STATE OFFICEHOLDERS WHO SEEK FEDERAL POSTS

By Average Citizen

Although the Indiana Constitu- |

tion says that an officeholder may

| seek another State office. Nothing | specific is said about a Federal of- | fice, and therefore it is perfectly [all right for said officeholder to seek a U. 8. Senatorship for instance. To the man in the street there {1s as much logic in that as there

| is in saying that a man may have |

a contract to serve in one capacity which cannot be broken, but if a | larger firm can hire him | that contract is immediately (and void. The Devil, it is said, can quote Scriptures to suit his own purpose. | Politicians can read the law to | suit their own purposes, too, it | would seem, | ” n ” | SAYS HE IS FED UP WITH TACTICS OF ‘BIG BUSINESS By D. J. Corbet Businessmen fall into a grievous error when they believe citizens that disagree with their opinions are Communists. The fact of the matter is that citizens in the everyday walks of life, through actual knowledge, are pretty well fed up on the tactics of | so-called “Big Business.” Therein lies a great number of supporters of President Roosevelt, ” “ CRITICS OF WPA ARE SCORED By I'll bet

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One Who Knows these big shots who are (always talking about the WPA | workers leaning on their shovels | wouldn't pick up a shovel, let alone | use it a week for $15. Why don't they go over to the WPA office and

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friends?

LET'S EXPLORE YOUR MIND

By DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM

them, however, are expected to support themselves in every item except room and board. " »® ” ENTIRELY FAIR. In fact in most intelligence tests the | speed with which the tests can be | answered is one of the main fac- | tors of the test itself. The ones who can answer the questions the quickest are believed to have the better minds and actual experience over many years bears out this theory in the main. Some tests, called “mental power tests,” have no time limit and as Dr, Irving Lorge has shown, up to about age 28 the two types of tests are almost

‘sons do better if allowed more time. | » Ow" - | MANY older readers will remember G.W.Grafflin, the song leader for Sam Jones, Stuart and other

is the progressive achievement of a

Gen. Johnson Says—

That Small Group of Advisers to

The President Has Another Clever Scheme to Investigate Monopoly.

ASHINGTON, June 10.~In the face of some Congressional revolt against underground cone trol of its independent constitutional powers by the executive, the Senate proposal to hand over to the President financial control of a Congressional investie gation is a long backslide. Congress has resolved to Investigate monopoly. The country needs this factual study, But it doesn’t need a witch<hunt. It needs

large, |

away, |

| an impartial, scientific, calm, comprehensive and

| careful inquiry before being launched into Governe mental action that could bring such far-reaching, une expected and unintended results that it might never be able to recover. It is well known that the little group which now controls the President's thinking is contemptuous of such a necessity. In its opinion, Congress is a dols and a handicap. It needs no advice—no facts. It has used its prestige with the President and his pres« tige with the people to solidify itself in control of much of Government, It couldn't do that with the Supreme Court doing its duty. So it set out to con= trol the decisions of the Court. It couldn't do that with the Senate standing firm. So it set out te change the Senate from vertebrate—which means any animal which has a spine—to invertebrate, which is a $4 word for any spineless creature,

HIS group recently has had some COUTAREOUS Tew buffs, but in the monopoly investigation resolie tion, as now proposed by the Senate, the joint come mittee—on which the Senate and House each have three members and the executive departments five - Is made just an adjunct to an executive political witch-finding. A check of Congress on everything, ine cluding the Executive, is its power to investigate anve thing it deems necessary. On this plan, Congress is to appropriate the money necessary to make this ine vestigation—$500,000, but only $100,000 is free monev. The other $400,000 “shall be available, on application by the committee for allocation by the President among the departments and agencies (executive) to | enable them to carry out their functions.”

This is a new one. It gives the Executive a power of the purse to regulate a Congressional committee, | This is coupled with a device in the resolution to get around the Bill of Rights, by coupling the limited inquisitorial power of the oxecutive bodies, like the Federal Trade Commission, represented on the come mittee, with the practically unlimited powers of a Congressional committee which can make all the “un reasonable searches and seizures” it pleases,

HIS is slick. This little group seems to have cape tured the President's imagination with their cleverness and so dazzled him with their brilliance as to suggest that he is no longer the boss of this show,

If that appearance were a fact, he would no longer be the real President of the United States. This group would be. I have often been accused of lack of realism or even candor in holding them rather than him to blame for many devices, the effect of which would be radically to upset constitutional gov ernment in this country. I still stick to it. None elected officials clever enough to concoct a thing like this, are smart enough to take the best man living.

It Seems to Me By Heywood Broun

Mayor Hague Is No More Fighting Communism Than He Is Poison Ivy,

EW YORK, June 10.—~The very things to which Mayor Hague points with pride are the circums« stances which good Americans should view with sharp alarm. If the New Jersey boss were a leader riding along wholly upon the strength of a well-organized minority machine, that would be bad. But it is worse than that, The danger of Hague is the undoubted fact that, as In the case of Huey Long, he has been able to ine duce many not only to surrender their liberties, but to like it. Of course, he puts pressure on those whose liveli« | hood depends upon him, but most of them have no | great objection, Even among those who criticize his actions there are some who help his cause along by prefacing their mild rebukes with the statement that the Commus« nists are just as bitter foes of free speech as the Mayor of Jersey City. That might be an interesting subject for an academic debate, but it is wholly irrel- | evant to the goings-on in Jersey City. Many editorials have been written condemning the | Communist Party of America as being too slick in its declarations for democracy. And somebody could write a column about that, But it is silly to say both that Earl Browder is trying'to do a sneak-up and stick his chin out at the same time. Earl Browder has not attempted to make a speech in Jersey City, and the record shows that no member of the Communist Party has made any such attempt. Any such effort would pour water on Hague's wheel,

| Speak Out, Mr. Roosevelt!

Hague is not such a fool as to believe that Norman Thomas or Congressman O'Connell or Bernard are Moscow-bound. Both Representatives are among the most able New Dealers in the House. Norman Thomas | in a number of debates with Browder was sharply critical of communism both here and abroad. Mavor | Hague is no more fighting communism than he is fighting the man-eating shark or poison ivy. He is fighting industrial unionism and all progressive politica. belief. National guardsmen, judges, clergymen and memsbers of Congress came to heel when Hague whistled, And the President of the United States says that this is a local issue! Hague in his own person will never sweep the country as Huey Long might have done, but his very success in rabble-rousing has given aid and comfort to every Fascist-minded person in the land. Someons must speak against this rising tide of tyranny, antie Semitism and intolerance. And who but Franklin Delano Roosevelt? Name him, Mr. Roosevelt, or forever hold your peace,

Watching Your Health

By Dr. Morris Fishbein

HE femur is the great bone in the hip and thigh It 1s one of the strongest

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of the human being. | bones in the human body. Nevertheless, as we grow old, there are sometimes falls or accidents which result in a fracture or break | ing of this bone. In the aged, particularly, this is | a most serious matter. | For almost 50 years the specialists in surgery and in orthopedic surgery have been concerning theme selves with working out suitable methods of treate ment for this injury. The results of their labors have introduced some ingenious, well-nigh unique, methods into the practice of medicine. One of the operations is called a bone graft. In that operation the tissues are opened, the ends of the two parts which will not unite are freshened, and then a graft is inserted up the side of the bone. This graft is material which is taken from the bones of the lower half of the leg. The graft completed, the leg is put into a cast and held until the tissues have healed. In another operation the broken parts are fitted together as a carpenter would fit together the parts box. & third operation a new head is made for that which forms the pelvis. This new socket, modifications of all of these In many new procedures involving frace

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