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TUESDAY, JUNE 14, 1938

SPAIN WITHOUT CASTLES ONG before anyone thought of the mysterious catchwords, “isms,” cryptic symbols and salutes that now order the lives and deaths of so many anonymous Spanish millions, Spain was Spai=. And to those nameless millions, Spain meant not some bloody proving ground. It meant, perhaps, a peasant plodding behind a tasseled mule through the dazzling sun, and singing old, wonderful songs; And grapes, jade colored, sweetening in the bright daylight; And dry, shuffled road dust, cool and restful underfoot in the shade of a lemon tree, but stretching hot and shimmering, in a path over the red baked hills, perhaps over the border to towered, fabled Carcassonne . .. The other day the United Press reported that many Rebel Spaniards had suddenly revolted against the strategy of the visiting war experts from Germany and Italy, which is to bomb Loyalist-held towns until those towns are flat. Maybe they remembered when Spain was Spain amd not a mad place; remembered the day they wandered through the Alhambra with a friend now fighting on the other side, and later sat with him, and joked, and had a glass of wine, and listened to the shrill wooden horns of the street musicians.

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Maybe they saw that if the visitors’ strategy persists, there will be no beauty left; no place to go, some day, to |

rest one’s eyes from the welts of war.

Or maybe they dreamed of the inevitable time when | heavy creditors) the visiting war experts will roar | away in their planes and tanks, and exhausted, patched-up | Spanish warriors will stumble wonderingly through their | own land that they wrecked with their awn hands. . . . | news spotlight which glares more brightly here. than Maybe those revolting Spaniards saw suddenly that Spain

and all the world should be a place to live, and not a place |

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IT'S ONE BIG JOB ¥ HE Federal Government, co-operating with the states, has established a nation-wide employment service and a nation-wide system of unemployment compensation. The first is intended to help workers get jobs, the second to help them over the gaps between: jobs. Here, obviously, are two parts of a single undertaking. And that whole undertaking ought to be under unified administrative control. That would make for greater efficiemcy, economy and usefulness. In almost every state the employment service and the unemployment insurance system are now directed by a gingle state agency. But in Washington there is divided responsibility. The employment service is undex the Department of Labor. Unemployment insurance is under the Social Security Board. Frank Bane, executive director of the Sorial Security Board, has pointed out these facts in an address before the International Association of Public Emplovment Services. responsible for both activities. Mr. Bane wisely refrained from saying what Federal agency should be given this responsibility. That is a ques-

tion which ought to be decided neither by the Social Se- | : oe : | Something like this is now being tried by the Curb | Exchange.

And Congress should make its decision on the basis |

curity Board nor by the Labor Department, but by Congress, of accurate information as to which Federal agency is best able to handle this big job in the most satisfactory way. But the need for complete unification of employment service and unemployment compensation is plain.

LESSON IN APPRECIATION

AESAR GERARD, whose parents brought him from his |

native Italy when he was 2 years old, died in Newark, N. J, last month at the age of 57, and his will, just admitted to probate, discloses that he left his entire estate of $15,600 to “the United States of America.” “This country has been good to me.” Caesar Gerard told the lawyer who drafted the will. “I want to give my money to the country in which I made it.” This country has been good to most of us. It hasn't been able to give all of us everything we want or even everything we need. But it has given us the nearest approach in human history to freedom, to education for all, to equality of opportunity. And those among us who are disposed to feel that our country doesn’t do enough for us might well think about Caesar Gerard, American by adoption, whose last wish was to do something for his country.

DEPRESSION VICTIM HE world, as Robert Louis Stevenson observed, is full of a number of things. But, alag, it doesn’t follow that we're all as happy as kings—or even that all kings are

happy.

There's King Sisowath Monivong of Cambodia, for | instance, who has just discovered that among the things

of which the world is full is depression. Even in far Cambodia, a little land of jungles and jewel mines next door to Siam, economy measures are becoming necessary. So poor King Sisowath is “firing” half of his harem, and soon will be reduced to his last 100 wives.

NOTHING NEW

N amendment has been introduced in Congress to provide that “the title of the President shall hereafter be “The President of the So-Called Republic of the United States and the Emperor of the Islands of the Sea.’ ” Don’t get excited. No slur at Franklin D. Roosevelt wag intended. This amendment was introduced in 1001— William McKinley then being President—by Senator Richard F. Pettigrew of South Dakota, who had left the Republican Party to lead the Senate battle against imperialism after the Spanish-American War,

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Fair Enough

By Westbrook Pegler

Your Scrivener Thinks That Hague Is Safe as Long as He Plays Ball With the National Administration.

EW YORK, June 14 —It seems futile to look to the National Administration for any rebuke to Frank Hague in Jersey City on principle. A rebuke for practical, political reasons would be another matter and would count for nothing as a defense of

civil liberties. In a similar but more brutal and dangerous situation in Louisiana the Administration fought Huey Long, but not on any question of principle. Huey broke discipline and therefore attempts were made to punish him through his organization, but there was no solicitude for the liberties and rights of the citizers who lived under his system. In fact, since his death his successors have continued to operate the Long system, but are accepted as New Dealers in good standing by reason of the reconciliation which is known in Washington as the second Louisiana Purchase. = =» = N precedent, then, Hague appears to be safe as long as he plays ball. Of course, if some political break should occur, then, naturally, he would be placed in the doghouse. Wishful interpreters might try to construe that as an act of principle, as a repudiation of a man who had the effrontery to turn out the National Guard under arms by way of reminder that in case of a showdown he might sweep the streets with machine guns. But that would not be true. Huey passed laws which converted the Louisiana National Guard into a personal army ana called out troops repeatedly to intimidate the citizens while he put through a series of laws which gave of the courts, the elections, the local governments and the schools.

And, anyway, a rebuke to Hague pretending to be based on principle would be inconsistent with the spirit of the New Deal. If the dispatches of Tom Stokes from Kentucky are true—and you may be sure he can prove up—then it is no more wise for a WPA worker to express opposition to dear Alben Barkley in Kentucky than for a radical agitator to sound off in Frank Hague's Journal! Square. He might not be run out of town, but if he were given to understand that rash speech would cost him his job, how free would he be to speak his mind? 5 ff

E have seen also the work of the Senate Lobby

Committee “investigating” people who exercised |

the right to petition Congress to reject the Reorganization Bill. any of those who lobbied for the bill—only those who lobbied against it, although a Washington dispatch that day said that messengers claiming to have White House authority interviewed Senators, making promises and threats. These were not the precise words, but they give the meaning. So the spirt of the New Deal, in these and other incidents, will be seen to be not unlike that of Mr. Hague around the edges. Not yet as crude and rough, to be sure, but similar in principle and capable of development. Now that Hague, so close to New York and the

in Louisiana, has demonstrated the danger of political terrorism, perhaps he will give pause to those New Dealers who thought they were sick and tired of fair play.

Business By John T. Flynn

Methods of Regulating Unorganized Securities Markets Are Suggested.

EW YORK, June 14—A movement is taking form on the securities markets which may have important results. Up to now we have had organized security markets, like the New York Stock Exchange, the Curb, the Chicago Stock Exchange and numerous other local exchanges. Then we have had the great unorganized markets generally known as the overs

the-counter markets.

The Securities and Exchange Act permits the SEC to regulate both these markets. The organized mar-

| kets are regulated now by the rules of the several

exchanges, plus certain other rules suggested by the

| SEC and plus the continuous supervision of the SEC.

But up to now no very great regulation of the over-the-counter market has been attempted. : One of the results of this—so Wall Street brokers Insist—is that a great deal of business is being driven from the regulated, organized markets to the prac-

a | tically unregul er-the-co ; ket: He argued that one Federal agency should be made | J ana S4 Gus OINGcEAuAAr MAvRer,

The exchanges are struggling with this problem One way to meet it is to enable the exchanges

tions, over-the-counter brokers. The commissions would be split. Splitting commissions has up to now been one of the three deadly sins on the Exchange.

Caution Is Necessary

Another method is for the SEC to submit the over-the-counter markets to rigid regulation at least as severe as that on the exchanges. But this is difficult. The over-the-counter market is vast and its business goes on in offices behind closed doors. A third method is to have the SEC compel all security transfers to take place on organized exchanges. But this might well result in a combinatiecn of this rule and the first alternative, namely the use of associate membership on the exchanges. All security orders could not be filled on an exchange unless

{ there were some relationship between the over-the- | counter brokers and the exchange members.

There are men who think that something like this

| 1s the only thing that can save the New York Exchange from very disastrous loss of business.

And there is some reason for assuming that this subject has occupied a good deal of the time of the conference between Mr. Douglas and the exchange officials, If anything like this comes about it will make a very considerable change in the whole business of handling security trades. Certainly it ought to be approached with great caution.

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

ME JACKSON BARNETT, widow of the man |

who was once the world's richest Indian, has been jailed in California for contempt of court. I know nothing of the details of the case against her,

but it seems to me that for a long time she has | symbolized the common citizen in the clutches of an |!

inexorable legal monster.

It has been charged that she married Barnett for

his money. Since no woman in her senses could have married him for love, we must accept the charge as

true. But whatever her motives may have been, they |

were as altruistic as those of the lawyers who have succeeded in pocketing most of her ill-gotten gains. From the day she eloped with the muddle-pated old Jackson, the two were harassed, persecuted and robbed. The courts made their lives a misery. By persistent and prodigious efforts, the law has dis sipated an enormous fortune. And in the process of this dissipation the lion's share has gone to enrich attorneys. Once upon a time Jackson Barnett, at the persuasion of white educators and thdian leaders, decided to endow Bacone College at Muskogee, Okla, the only

college for Indian boys and girls in the United States | not under Government supervision. Starting in 1880 |

as a missionary school, it has a long honorable record | and could have used some of the Barnett wealth to |

‘excellent advantage for Indian youth, The movement was frustrated through legal intervention. Several reasons have been given, but it is easy to guess that it represented too rich a sum for the lawyers to relinquish. Today they hey most of it.

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

LARGE NUMBER OF NONVOTERS DEPLORED

Perry H. Easton

“A Grand Jury Job” was the title of The Times editorial. Does your valued paper know why more than 554,000 declined their suffrage in Indiana in November, 1936, and more

Could it be that the last paragraph of your editorial was paramount since the vote reveals that the vast majority were of the great thinking middle class—the bulwork of Indiana? That speaks danger! The pitiful part of it all remains sad but true. The most dangerous of all who were directly responsible for robbing our people of their birth rights, in all probability, shall go However, the statute of Indiana guarantees immunity to anyone who has acted for another, even though he committed a crime, In this event,

may in the end receive their day in court. Justice should apply under our Constitution. » » »

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The Surry County Cat Club has been organized in North Carolina.

(Times readers are invited to express their 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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and strike for a principle involves sacrifice of a high order. We have had opportunity to observe recently how many members of Congress, facing a similar decision, have been capable of similar sacrifice. And Congressmen, presumably, can make some sort of living if they aren't re-elected. But WPA workers are, for the most part, poor men who never did much more than get by in the best of times. This is the despicable aspect of using money, appropriated to aid desperate fathers of families, to pervert their principles and cons= trol their votes. Mr. Stokes’ dispatches have revealed that just this is being done, directly or indirectly, with Federal relief funds in Kentucky. It is a poor defense that points to the other side with the accusation

The gossips should organize a Catty | Club. . . . The Nazis say that it is| beneath the dignity of a man to

| perform the movements of “swing” | | unless he is drunk. | I've seen the Big Apple rendered I|

The only time |

thought that the dancers had been | “swigging it,” but learned later that

| they were merely “swinging it.” . . .| | Speaker Bankhead recently stubbed

his toe and was compelled to roll around the capitol in a wheel chair | Well, one politician finally got his |

FF % 4 ATTACK USE OF RELIEF MONEY TO GAIN VOTES

By F. F. We read in the dispatches which THomas L. Stokes has been sending from Kentucky that people in that state “take their elections seriously.” And we read of this or that WPA worker who refused to sign “papers” for a candidate he didn't like, even if the refusal cost him his job. “Cost him his job.” That is easily said and easily brushed aside as unimportant. A WPA job doesn't amount to much anyway. But put yourself in the WPA worker's place. You have, perhaps a family that must be fed and clothed, children who must be kept in school lest they lose their only chance in life. The small WPA

that state officials are misusing funds in the same way, or that points to widespread use of the same methods in other states by politicians of many factions. Oppression of the poor is a crime against this free country and will remain a crime, subject to eventual punishment, so long as one citizen is left with enough manhood to go hungry and fight.

¥ 4 CLAIMS MONEY SPENT FOR RELIEF NOT WASTED By William Lemon Have the critics of Roosevelt's four-billion-dollar spending gram anything to offer in its place? And do they wish millions to be

CESSATION BY DANIEL FRANCIS CLANCY I do not love you now; But, my dear, feel this— I know That when I return, Feeling life's emotions and colors, I shall love you again. Wait, understand.

DAILY THOUGHT And did all drink the same spiritual drink; for they drank ot

that spiritual Rock that followed them; and that Rock was Christ.

wage permits you to struggle along until times improve and vou can do better. To cut loose from this slim hold

—I Corinthians 10:4,

Jusus OHRIST, the condescen- | # sion of divinity, and the exal= | tation of humanity —Phillips Brooks.

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unemployed facing starvation and subject to the propaganda of the Communists?

The money that has been spent is not lost or wasted. It has clothed and fed millions of Americans.

The World War cost 42 billion dollars just to save a few economic royalists. Was it worth it? n » ” CLAIMS LOCAL JOBS GO TO NONRESIDENTS By B. OC. How is it that men can come to Indianapolis from other states and go to work at once while other men beside myself have to pay taxes and several of us are trying to buy homes, Here is one case. A man came here about three months ago from Tennessee and went to work at once

at a plant in Brightwood. When that business dropped, he went to work at another plant and has not lost a day's work since he came here, A number of my neighbors and 1 worked at those plants and have tried many times for work. We are told they don’t need anyone when we know they have taken on other out-of-state men besides the one we have told you about. No wonder we have our papers full of robberies. If we don't get work soon we will do some of it. We are not going to starve,

» » » | PLANTING MUST PRECEDE | HARVEST, READER SAYS | By ©. L. Prosperity will return with the harvest, says William 8. Knudsen of General Motors Corp. Mr, Knudsen forgot to mention however to what harvest he was referring. In a way I agree with Mr. Knudsen on the | above statement, but I am of the opinion the harvest to be reaped for prosperity is not yet sown. The working people of this or any other country have a right to live, and should have a voice in the affairs of state. Though for many

years they have been practically denied these rights they are slowly awakening to the realization that they not only exist but it is necessary and essential they be exers cised to prevent the nation's being plunged into eternal chaos.

Therefore, I say, when a planting of “determination to co-operate and recognize the other fellow's rights” seed is made for the purpose of raising a crop of “mutual under= standings” and “willingness to con= cede to our fellowmen their just dues” then and only then are we ready for a harvest that will tend to return prosperity.

LET'S EXPLORE YOUR MIND

By DR. ALBERT EDWARD WI1GGAM

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TO ONE'S THOUGHTS AND FACULTIES?

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YING At 8 WOMEN AER NE MEM * TRUE PP FALSE 7 AS I CRUNCHED along through the snow one mid« night, 10 years ago, with Dr. David Mitchell, psychologist, I remember he said, “It's the parents that start fears in children. When they talk fear and lack of self-confidence in the home or when they dominate,

threaten, ridicule or punish them foolishly, they set up fears that last for a lifetime. Next come the teachers and schools which set tasks at which over half the children are bound to fail. When we educate people not to talk fear and not to frighten children, but to

develop all their possibilities, we shall banish fear from the world and personal failure will be unknown.” 1 believe this is entirely true, » ” » OF COURSE there is a lot of truth and a lot of falsity in any such statement. Both men and | women are largely molded in their | attitudes, habits, beliefs, total personality, ete, by the kind of society they are in and by what that society expects of them. Men expect certain things of women and beyond question this is an immense force in making them what they are. It works both ways. vw 5 WE HAVE LITTLE but pure theory to guide us here. The stage fright of students before examinations and of persons applying for positions probably reduces the chances of sticcess, although a mild excitement that rouses all one's interest but does not become paralyzing, may be an aid. Many famous actors and public speakers have stage fright until the moment they begin, then it instantly leaves them, They claim they do not do well if they do not go through this period. From long experience with audiences I never have the slight-

ot gage fright if I am prepared.

TUESDAY, JUNE

Gen. Johnson Says—

Sound Form of Cheap Intermediate

Credit Is One of Greatest Needs In the Farm Implement Industry,

ASHINGTON, June 15.—~The Federal Trade Commission has just submitted to Cone gress an exhaustive “monopoly” survey of the farm implement industry. It finds that the bulk of the business is in eight large companies of which “four to six dominate both manufacture and sale.” About 20 years ago, the Commission examined this industry. Then it was “dominated” by two large companies. There has not been concentration, but

exactly the reverse, Tha report shows this, but does not say it. The principal criticism is that some study of prica trends, made by three professors, was instigated by the industry's trade association, but signed only by the professors. It doesn’t suggest that the study was inaccurate. The report finds uniform prices but no price« fixing by agreement. It finds “price leading.” That means that the industry waits before getting out their price catalog to see what prices International Hare vester will make and then follows them. But the Commission is fair enough to add that the uniformity of price is due to uniformity of design. The reason why the companies wait for International is because they know it will meet any price reduction.

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HE Commission complains that a practice of “full line forcing” hurts “small manufacturers, retailers and farmers.” Small companies make only two or three implements. The larger companies make nearly all types. The former give a dealer business for a single month—the latter for the whole crop cycle.

The Commission used to frown on the old monop= olistic practice of selling two dealers in any town, That made the companies insist on a full line con tract—or none, which is their perfect right. But the Commission intimates that with this goes pressure not to handle other implements. That is the policy of no company. 1t is the dealer, himself who doesn't want to because it lessens his seasonal quantity dise count, ’

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™ reason for both high price and concentration is lack of intermediate credits, A farmer can borrow short-time money to finance his crop. He can borrow long-time money by a mortgage. But imple« ments do not pay for themselves in a single season, but only in from two to five years. The result is that the big companies are in the banking business on a tremendous scale and at great expense. Little come panies can't do this, One of the greatest needs 1s some sound form of: cheap intermediate credit for agriculture, I put my small implement business on a cash-carry basis, Tt greatly reduced sales, but its cash-carload deal was 20 per cent below the best cash-quantity price of any competitor. Twenty per cent is a whale of a saving to agriculture, but this proves that approximately that could be saved if cheap intermediate financing were available,

It Seems to Me By Heywood Broun

F. D. R. Should Make No Pretense of

Being Neutral in Future Primaries,

EW YORK, June 14.—8enator Gillette was probe able accurate in saying that his primary victory constituted a rebuke to the left wing of the Democratic party. In this declaration, of course, he courted no open break with the President, A convenient fic tion is being maintained that Mr. Roosevelt is not aware of the activities of a little group of advisers who would commit him to more radical actions than any he has espoused as yet, The strategy of the opposition in this respect has never been extremely clever. In effect, Franklin Roosevelt has had alibis dropped in his lap instead of having to think up his own explanations. There were the days in which Mr. Moley was supposed to be “the real power.” A little later on the industrious rumor mongers had Rex Tugwe)l “running the Gove ernment.” Jim Farley had his day as stage manager, and right now Republicans and anti-New Deal Demo= crats have pinned the purple on Tommy Corcoran, They seem to forget that this:line of attack can be a great convenience to the Administration. When something goes wrong the President can absolve hime

self from most of the criticism by kicking “the real power’ downstairs or up.

An Error in Tactics

Franklin Delano Roosevelt has been head man in his show from the second he stepped into the White House, Every correspondent and every politician in either camp knows that. But it is easy to get large portions of the public to fall for the bunk. The weakness of this kind of attack is that the Repub= licans have been trying to put over two types of propaganda which are mutually exclusive, It is a little difficult to press the twin indictment that Roosevelt is a tyrant and a dictator and at the same time an executive who is wholly under the thumb of some adviser, But now the time has come when the President can no longer afford himself the luxury of coasting along on the inept publicity put out by his enemies. I can see no soundness in the strategy by which Harry Hopkins drew the assignment to sound off on the Iowa fight. Like all leaders who are gifted with a genius for politics, President Roosevelt sometimes forgets that a straight line is the shortest distance between two points, and that occasions arise when a quarterback should call for a simple line buck ine volving no deception whatsoever. The fact that the New Deal suffered a serious reverse makes it impera« tive for a straightforward declaration in the fights to come, Particularly in the Georgia and Maryland fights Mr. Roosevelt should make no pretense of being neutral,

Watching Your Health

By Dr. Morris Fishbein

JE AnLy sojourns on the golf courses in the northe ern part of our country are already recognizing the fact that a mosquito can be a nuisance even if it does not carry a disease. The male mosquito doer not bite and, therefore,* does not irritate the hums: being or carry diseases, The female mosquito, however, is out for blood, Incie dentally, the mosquito does not really bite, but actually saws her way through the skin. There are mosquitoes in some portions of the world which carry malaria, They are obviously a menace to all of mankind, because malaria is a serious disease, Certain portions of the world have been unable to develop because of the presence of large amounts of malaria. It exists in many of our states, but in others the malaria has been stamped out, first of all by treating patients with the disease, and, second, by eliminating the growth and development of the mosquitoes which carry malaria.

But malaria is not the only disease for which the mosquito is responsible. It has been said that thers is again danger that yellow fever may come into the United States, because there are residues of yellow fever in the tropics. One of the greatest contributions of America to modern medical science was the dis= covery that the mosquito carries yellow fever. -

For a while it was thought that by eliminating the mosquitoes yellow fever and malaria could be come pletely eliminated from the world. However, more recently it has been found that in certain tropical areas not only may human beings act as reservoirs for infection, but that also some of the jungle animals, like monkeys, may actually have Fo Sever and be”

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