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I'HURSDAY, JUNE 16, 1938

WHY NOT PEACE AT HOME? WwW ARFARE in our upset world is not limited to Spain and China: nor are threats of war confined to Germany, (Czechoslovakia, Russia, Italy and other dominions beyond the sea. We are at war at home. But we don’t realize it since no bombs are bursting over our cities and no blood is in sight. In that failure to understand lies our trouble. Until we find the path to domestic—to economic—peace, let us not be too critical of those who cut and slash and shoot and intrigue “over there.” That the theme of a talk which we believe will strike a response in the hearts of millions in our country. It parallels in its appeal, in a domestic way, the speech in which Secretary Hull earlier this month pleaded for ‘‘cooperation, morality and justice,” internationally. Donald Richberg, like [Hull a New Dealer, talking beAdvertising Federation of America in Detroit and urging amity among home folks as well as among nations, criticism toward all “hard-minded zealots” they be in industrial management, against the aggressive and destructive minority can “always overcome the good intentions of the majority”; against those who seek to win their arguments by shouting down and beating up their opponents—those “who rely upon their lungs and fists instead their brains.” He said that what our nation needs is unity the friends of domestic peace, who, regardless of their different economic interests, will join to stop the “shouters and the sluggers” and establish an orderly society in which “no manager, no labor leader, and no Government official will be licensed to settle any argument with a club.” Mr, Is our nation, productive capacity, fare? Well, It looks that way at the moment. We would pass the thought on to the bellicose Girdler and the beetle-browed Lewis; to the President, and to all those who have attained the responsibility of leadership, including the lawmakers capital for the hustings. Without advocating sweetness and light and complete calm as a substitute for all controversy—and realizing that controversy within reason is the agency of social progress

fore the turned his whether ernment. which

passive

Richberg states this proposition: going to ruin itself with private war-

we wonder.

we nevertheless agree with Mr. borhood bully and his satellites” have been too much running our show and that it is about time for what he calls the nice quiet boys to gang up and establish peace. Or as Mr. can fight one another into prosperity.”

Our major problem is as he says “lo create a national

purpose and a national demand that responsible representa- | labor and Government lay down the |

tion of management, weapons of warfare, sit down around the council tables of peace, and do the job.”

MRS. JOHN NEWMAN CAREY MRS. JOHN NEWMAN CAREY, was a woman of varied of her time to encouraging education and an appreciation of the arts. establishment of which she do-

the home,

Among her achievements was the Children’s Museum in the family nated for that purpose. She was one of the founders of Orchard School and a leader in numerous civie and historic clubs. keenly

Her

ide her

in enriching lloosier of the city and

work and generosity

ms an outstanding woman

UNHAPPY LOBBYIST EN we can't work up a very high temperature over expeditions into the halls of Congress. The measure which Mr. Lewis and his C. 1. O. lieutenants wanted the House to pass happened to be one that we thought dangerous. We agree that the Government shouldn't award contracts to firms that violate its labor laws. But we did not agree that the Secretary of Labor should be given unlimited discretionary power to blacklist or not to blacklist firms merely accused of disobeying the National Labor Relations Board. Mr. however, was entitled to his opinion. entitled let Congress know his opinion. even entitled to park himself in the speaker's

Lewis,

He was Lo

he was

office, call in members of the Ilouse Rules Committee, and which |

tell them what to do. a good many

At least he operated openly, lobbyists do not. So we don’t believe that Mr, Lewis has seriously undermined the foundations of the republic. The chief damage done, we suspect, is to the public stature of John L. Lewis, once credited with ability to make politicians tremble by waving his eyebrows, now self-revealed as a man who gives orders to Congress and can't get them obeyed. Mr. Lewis’ reputation for sagacity also has suffered. He might have realized that most Congressmen have more to gain with their constituents by defying C. I. O. “dictation” than they have to fear from his displeasure. Apparently he did not realize that. And, in addition to losing his point, he has made himself target for such Jibes as this from Ohio's Rep. Lamneck: “John L.s frowns have lost their force. Perhaps his clouding up and threatening to reign will prove the clearing shower before the sunshine of industrial peace in our nation.” But Mr. Lewis takes the gloomy view. the Rules Committee,” he turn-down from Speaker Bankhead, “was not only cowardly but downright pusillanimous.” Or, as the New York garment manufacturer reproached his competitor: “Ww hat you have done to me is not only unethical but lousy.”

“The action of

labor or Gov- |

so blessed with natural resources and |

Richberg puts it in another way—"no people |

who died this week, | interests who devoted much |

John L. Lewis’ two personally conducted lobbying |

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Fair Enough

By Westbrook Pegler

Anyone Who Has Anything to Say

Doesn't Need a Fortune in Order To Become a Newspaper Publisher. EW YORK, June 16.—In a country which has a

free press anyone who has anything to say may become a publisher. There are practical diffi-

culties, to be sure, but the privilege is there, and it is | incorrect to say that the owners of the existing news- | papers of the familiar and standardized American

pattern possess a monopoly of that privilege. Certainly there are hundreds of persons in Russia,

Germany and Italy today who would manage to get |

their beliefs down on paper and into circulation if

those countries offered the same freedom that exists |

here. The cost of publishing a standard paper, even in a small city, are enormous, and the enterprise calls for specialized ability in a number of departments. But a publication intended merely to express a view need not be complex. It needs no news service, no photographers, no fleet of ‘wagons, no reporters, no advertising department, even, unless the editor and proprietor wants to abandon pure altruism and turn commercial. gy & 4

NFORTUNATELY, even a modest paper requires

some money for the printer, and, of course, for |

the editor's living, but that is just something that cannot be helped. It takes money to start a peanut

stand. In this country those who want to express themselves on paper seem to believe that a paper must have comics, recipes, health hints, iocal and world news coverage and blanket circulation. But in Barcelona about three years ago there were, as I recall the number, 80 publications arguing all shades of

among |

who are about to leave the nation’s |

Richberg that the “neigh- |

She also was | interested in nature and gardening organizations. | life | state, |

political opinion. most of them tin sheets without '@ journalistic luxuries, whose editors wrote with perfect abandon. They weren't getting rich, but they certainly were laying it on the line as often as they had anything to say or the price of publication. I bave found those who complain most bitterly about supervision and over-or-under emphasis in our papers usually are slightly screwy on some “ism” or hatred and claim a right not only to publish violent communications but to spot them outside, as we say, preferably with a banner head. They want to edit the existing papers, and often when some libelous contribution has been discarded there will follow a squawk of suppression and a demand for censorship or state regulation.

FEW days’ mail of a metropolitan editor would illustrate the point. Letters come in containing the most fantastic general accusations against whose sections of the publication, and the editors are always being accused of selling out to various groups and interests. I receive many small publications which if printed in the standard daily papers at all, let alone in Page One position, would inflame mobs to commit atrocities against masses of innocent Americans. The screwball simply has no sense of truth and will write the most dreadful lies and superstitions as fact and fly into a rage if the editor, with a decent sense of responsibility, does not give him prominent space. I know our press is imperfect, but I know, too, that our daily standard papers are models of objectivity, conscience and fairness as compared with the letters

and the “ism” publications which denounce it for sins apparent in themselves.

Business By John T. Flynn

U. §. Must Find a Way to Regain The Money Used in Pump-Priming.

EW YORK, June 16.—There is a great split ‘n opinion on the policy of pump-priming. Congress, apparently, is a unit on spending. But it differs among its members on the amount to be spent and the objective of the spending. But the discussions do not reveal very much clear understanding of what pump-priming and spending without pumppriming is. When you prime a pump you pour a little water into the pump to help start the flow from the well, And a characteristic of it is that you not only start the flow, but you get back the water you put in. This offers a clue to the distinction. If the Governinent pours a hundred million into the pump of industry to get it started, the Government should take pains to get that hundred million back. This the Government has not done. When the Government pays out a hundred million in relief, the money goes to the unemployed. But very quickly, instantly in fact, it is spent by them and passes into the hands of business. It keeps cir-

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Grand Finale—By Herblock

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The Hoosier Forum

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

WOULD KEEP AMERICA FOR AMERICANS ONLY

By S. MeM.

How glibly we speak of our de- |

mocracy and determine that one

country shall remain so and that |

isolationism be our watchword. A beautiful thought indeed and an achievement that man

| striven for since the beginning of

| civilization.

Yet, how far is it possi- | ble? We hear of secret agencies and emissaries of evil boring into the very heart and core of our existence, while we seem to sit quietly by with little or no concern. There has been and always will be differences of opinion in religious and political issues, but when the

| domesticity of our homeland is dis-

| turbed by outside

influences then the time has come to sing these dilferences and bind ourselves together in an endeavor to get rid of the dis-

| turbing element.

| punished accordingly.

Let us keep America for Americans and should any faction show signs of converting our peoples or lands for anything un-American, let them be treated as lawbreakers and ”

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| TRADE WITH AGGRESSORS | SEEN AS SHAMEFUL

| understand how much help we are |

culating around until someone who gets his share de- | | as were our forefathers who fought |

cides to save it and thus remove it from circulation. In a perfect pump-priming operation the Government should attempt to get that money back as soon as it becomes savings, Then the Government may pour it back into the pump again and recapture it again.

Tax Policy Should Be Changed

If the Government does not do this, it must borrow new funds and pour them as fast as the preceding supply has been drained off in savings This is why the Government has been compelled during the last five years to continually increase its borrowings. And this is why savings pile up in commercial, savings hanks, insurance companies, building association and investment concerns of all sorts. The point of all this is that if ‘he Government is going to continue the policy of spending it must agree upon a tax policy related to the spending program. There are but two ways of approaching it. One is to so adjust the income tax that all persons with incomes from $1000 up who must be assumed to be get-

ting their share of the income created by the spending program shall pay in taxes enough to reimburse

the Government for its relief outlays. The other way is more complicated and involves an effort to determine and assess the extent of each man's savings, the amount he accumulates over what he spends and tax the difference, At the present time the Government follows precisely the opposite course. It taxes a man's spendings

Perhaps |

said yesterday after his final |

through its commodity and excise and sales taxes.

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

SHE came to my door selling handmade lace, a lively old woman who looked like a wren troubled with arthritis. Something in her quick smile made me curious. During the sale her tongue rattled gaily. I only wish T could have got her remarks in shorthand. Woven of common sense, they were colored with a dauntless hope, and were typical of something Indomilable that lives forever in the souls of sturdy men and women. “I keep pretty peart. My son Joe says to me t'other day, ‘Mom, you hadn't ought to run around the way you do. Don't nobody want that lace you're makin'’ ‘Now Joe’ I says, ‘I'd thank you to keep your tongue to yourself.’ He's a mighty good boy, but hard run now with four kids and sickly wife. ‘I been a usin’ these legs,’ I says, ‘long before you was knee high to a grasshopper and if you don’t look out, Joe Fuller, they'll outlast yours.’ “Yes'm, I've raised nine young ‘uns—two died before they could set up—and I ain't never seen the time I was willin’ to let somebody wait on me. My boys is workin’ to get me a pension. Well, whatever I get, it'll come in handy, but if they think I'm goin’ to stop workin’ they've got another think comin’— and so's the Government. “There sure is a lot of eryin’ about hard times. Shucks—as I tell my kids—'twouldn't be no fun to life if you couldn't have some wrastlin’ bouts with trouble. It's wrastlin’ that makes us tough. Seems like everybody nowadays wants to be like a passel of cows layin’ around in a rich pasture. “I'll tell you one thing I've noticed. The folks

who ail t oy f work generally gits along.” rice Le or wisdom that went with it.

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for he bit Dil Of pct Mag Enel von | Pefsona

| under | the heirs to those brave men,

By Robert Redfern

Can it be possible that the libertyloving citizens of the United States

giving to the liberty-haters in their | attempts to destroy liberty in Spain | and Japan? Japan. without our help, not continue to rob, murder and destroy in China. The Chinese today are in much the same position |

George Washington and we, are

| feeding the great guns of the Jap-

anese in their work of destruction. Does any actually believe that Japan right to try to destroy Could any unprejudiced really believe it right that wealthy men should hire

has a| China? person a Moors,

| Italians and Germans to enter Spain

| |

and destroy the Spanish people simply because those people have chosen to follow the example of the founders of our own country? If Americans only stood aside and let these peoples fight it out among | themselves it would be bad enough, | but to actually continue trade relations with those aggressors is something that should make us hang our heads in shame, ” ” ”

HARMONY SOUGHT AMONG DEMOCRATS

| By Edwin Smith, Sheridan

The Democratic Party was lucky | in getting into power. At first the

has |

could |

liberty-loving American |

few |

(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.)

Democrats worked together and really got some place, but now they are not sticking together and will eventually lose the power they industriously worked for. in all his sincerity, cannot steer the ship alone—without the support of the Representatives and Senators that we, the people, voted in. As the late Will Rogers said at the convention in 1931: “Now that the Democrats are in, let them act as Republicans.” How true all those words. in power? ‘Things along smoothly until they began pulling in opposite directions. Can't they forget themselves and |

Can't they picture the disappointment on the faces of the people, when they work against our President? Is ours the government of people, by the people, and for the | people, or is it government of the

fishness?

My RIVER DREAM By ALBERTA DUNCAN STIER | Today I read about a river, A winding, turning, stream; Memory came and bid me follow Adown that shining river my dreams.

leaping

Each twisting bend to me so clear, Each deep pool, shaded o'er by stately pines,

Deep yearning for that river comes |

| to me, . Long 1 for that peaceful clime.

As 1 read before me pass The . beauteous glow of moon agleam; If I should never again, In memory I'll have my dream.

DAILY THOUGHT

And Jesus answered and said unto him. Get thee behind me, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shall thou serve.—St. Luke 4:8.

wander there |

river

O man is matriculated to the

| tempted. —George Eliot.

80 | Roosevelt |

How can they hope to stay | were running |

think of the people they represent? |

the |

political climbers and personal sel- |

art of life till he has been well |

REGIMENTATION SEEN AS POSSIBILITY IN U. 8

By Charles M. Means

Going back to the time when the | | NRA came into being, business was | at such a low ebb, straight dictator- | ship seemed to many of us as a| | solution of our troubles. In the dictator nations of the old { world the head of the Government | | can and does control the votes of | the people that his ideas may be | | perpetuated. These rulers were cle- | | vated to power during a period of depression just as our President was | | elected durieig financial stress. If we again sink low enough there will be a growing demand for regimentation with absolute control of the | electorate. It is doubtful that it can be accomplished by political methods alone, but can be done by the use of military powers, . The steps to dictatorship imply a depression, then dissention among the people followed by administra- | tive control of the electorate.

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BELIEVES WPA AID | WOULD HELP FARMERS

| By a Democrat

Ever since the WPA was started | to provide work for unemployed [men and women of all kinds and | different projects such as road | work, sewer and paving work in parks, I wondered why some work | couldn't be alioted to the farmers. It seems to me, as the farmers pay taxes on their property, they should | | have a chance to get some workers | | when they need help to take care of their crops and repair buildings and | fences. The farmers could give quite a | | lot of idle people a chance to get out | [in the country and get some fresh | air. At the same time they would l learn where their edibles came from | (and what work it takes to produce them on the market ” on INCONSISTENCIES | IN LIQUOR SETUP | By H. S. Bonsih

How is this for consistency?

| Churches are built to save people

| and at the same time drinking places are allowed to undo what the churches are trying to do. Ten to 15 dollars is spent to take care of the extra cost of the liquor traffic all for the sake of getting back one dollar |in revenue. A corrupt politician is elected, who will misappropriate the | | taxpayers’ money all because he be- | longs to a certain party. (I call rns | not “patriotism,” but “party-ism.” | The liquor traffic is given the shield of license and then tears are wept over the natural results of such an | | arrangement.

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SEEN

LET'S EXPLORE YOUR MIND

By DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM

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HE CAN if he will become genu-

inely interested in the other people instead of himself and the personal impression he is makigg on

others. Fl 8 ths very bart of ol him

hour ARE MORE EXPRESSIVE OF ONE'S PERSONALITY, THE EYE AND EYE-MUSCLES @ OR THE MOUTH AND MOUTH MUSCLES! YOUR OPINION ———

iq & 5 Poes COUNT T:NG ON YOUR LACK Of FINGERS) cpp a LIND YES OR NO aa

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timidity—lack of a deep heart ine

terest in the other fellow but, in-

stead, a continual wonderment ab what impression you are personally.

| THE FIRST WORK to determine this point was done by | Knight Dunlap, psychologist, then of Johns Hopkins, which showed the lower part of the face was more ex- | pressive. The study I recently de- | seribed where students were required to look at a photograph of a | person they had never seen and | then match it with another of the | same person, first with the upper part of the face masked and then with the lower part masked showed that it was easier to recognize and atch them when the upper part as masked. ” » ” IT SEEMS to indicate at least normal, mathematical ability. As related by Science Service, the psychologists of the Wayne County, Michigan, Training School for problem boys found some boys who could not name their own fingers when they were touched by the psychologist, a condition called “finger agnosia.” “All such boys were poor in arithmetic. Boys who were gcod at arithmetic were quick to recognize which Ranger was touched. Fn believed to 0

Gen. Johnson Says—

You Couldn't Ask for a Milder or

More Flexible Measure Than the Wage-Hour Bill in Its Final Form.

EW YORK, June 16.—Of all the proposals for wage-hour legislation actually considered in Congress, the conference compromise was by far the best, From the experience of NRA, I thought that a much better way would have been simply to prohibit importations into any state of goods made on lower labor standards than its own or the highest com= peting state, This plan was never seriously considered. This bill started out in the original form of the Black= Connery measure. That was one of the most dictatorial proposals ever put betore Congress. It was so bad that even Senator Black couldn't stand for it. He revised it but it was still so bad that it died, The bill has been completely rewritten at least four separate times and while the compromise may seem to be a last minute hasty hash, it is composed of suggestions which had appeared in other drafts and had been pretty thoroughly studied.

”

F you are to accept intimate Federal regulation at all, this bill is the most flexible, sensible and least dictatorial of any of the drafts. Forced by pressures which, under the Recovery Act were compelling, NRA tried to regulate wages and hours in fields where enforcement was impossible. It had very little trouble in the great interstate indus tries. Its chief grief came when it butted into small establishments not in interstate commerce and in the so-called “service” industries—barbers, cleaners and dyers, restaurants, pool-halls, beauty shops and also small one-family stores. Ninety-five per cent of come plaints about noncompliance with wage-hour agree= ments came from this field. As I read this new bill it avoids all these pitfalls in exemptions, If its administrator sticks to that, the only trouble is going to be on the question of NorthSouth differentials. On that point the bill is very obscure, While it seems to forbid any regional differentials, it authorizes relaxations for the causes that make regional differentials necessary.

HE principal reason for the North-South differ= ential is the Negro problem in the South, When NRA got Negro wages too high in some Southern in= dustries, the Negroes themselves protested. White people were taking jobs that had traditionally bee longed to. Negroes. As a matter of fact, the problem under this bill is not nearly so serious as it sounds. Most southerp Negro labor is either in agriculture or in purely local enterprise. Both are exempted from the bill, The starting minimum wage is so low—$11 a week—that it will cause no serious upsets in industries that really are in interstate commerce even in the South. Finally, the bill goes into full operation so gradually if doom begins to crack anywhere because of it there will be plenty of time to prevent a disaster by a revision of the law. The country was clearly committed by overwhelmse ing majorities to Federal wage-hour legislation and, according to recent polls, still heavily favors it. If it were to be tried along this particular line at all, I don’t know how it could have been a /nilder and more flexible measure without being just an empty gesture,

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Washington

By Raymond Clapper

F. D. R. Has Stopped Slipping and Seems to Be Gaining in Popularity.

TASHINGTON, June 16.—Roosevelt’s comeback in power is a most amazing phenomenon in

politics. This is not a blurb for Roosevelt, but merely an attempt to report that the unexpected happened. When Roosevelt stubbed his toe on the Supreme

Court bill a year ago his enemies thought they had him down. His friends feared so. The House buried his Wages-and-Hours Bill, which like the Court bill had become a symbol of Roosevelt's objectives. The catastrophe seemed complete. However, when Congress came back last fall, there still seemed to be a surprising amount of life in the old boy. He had been training around the country and somehow or other he had pulled himself together, He was still in the ring. That was not only contrary to the rules of the game, but was alarming to a number of people in Congress who thought they had Roosevelt where they wanted him. So something had to be done. The Re= organization Bill came up. him on the Court bill was called back to the frong and the fight was on. It was a close battle. Roose= velt won the engagement in the Senate, but lost in the House by eight votes. That seemed to have pug Roosevelt down again. About the same time something was happening pack in the grassroots. In Alabama, Rep. Lister Hill ran for the Senate emphasizing his support of wages= and-hours legislation. He cleaned up. In no time at all the Wages-and-Hours Bill was hauled out, dusted off and made ready to go places.

Pepper Surprises

Shortly thereafter Senator Pepper, campaigning in Florida on a 100 per cent Roosevelt platform, soundly licked a field led by Rep. Mark Wilcox, who had ase serted his independence of Roosevelt, That was ane other jolt, and the courage of a goodly number of Senators and Congressmen who had begun to think that they could dispense with Roosevelt gagged. Wages-and-hours legislation came rolling along. Roosevelt sent in his Relief-and-Recovery Bill and the fight against it collapsed. He was handed a blank check, a thing nobody would have thought possible two months ago. - Behind it all, even more amazing, is the apparent fact, reflected in the feeling of most politicians—ex« cept a few stubborn Republicans—that Roosevelt has stopped slipping and is if anything gaining in popue lar strength. This, in face of a steadily deepening depression, in face of the fumbling in the Iowa pri maries, of Roosevelt's stubborn opposition to widely demanded revisions in the tax law, is unheard of in our time,

Watching Your Health

By Dr. Morris Fishbein

OST people know about vitamins A, B, and QC and D. A and D are the fat-soluble vitamins; C is the antiscurvy vitamin that we get in orange juice, and B is found largely in yeast. B is the anti= pellagra and antineuritic vitamin, : Vitamin E was one of the most recently discovered of the vitamins, It was proved that on diets which were otherwise complete, but which lacked this new factor, rats could not reproduce, although they ap= peared to be normal in other respects. During the last 15 years continued studies have been made upon this vitamin, applying them mostly to animals, because apparently the human being ig seldom deficient in vitamin E. Nevertheless, all sorts of studies of this vitamin have been made on human beings with a view to finding out whether or not it really is necessary in the

human diet beyond the amounts usually taken,

In the male, vitamin E is apparently concerned with just one function, and that is the development of the reproductive cells, Since vitamin E is found particularly profuse in wheat germ oil, most of the studies made with vitamin E have involved the use of that substance. There are some women who seem to find it difficult to give birth to children—even though the birth process is be use the child does not mature, Several investigators have tried the wheat germ in cases of women of this type and have reported exe cellent results. . Nevertheless. Ad total number of cases involves the lower ads, and shat As

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