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SATURDAY, JUNE 18, 1938

A BRAVE SPEECH ENRY MORGENTHAU, Secretary of the Treasury, made a fine commencement address at Philadelphia's Temple University. What most impressed us was Mr. Morgenthau's courage when he touched on the topic of civil liberties, He said that no American can afford to remain neutral in the struggle to preserve those liberties—that he who -abstains from the struggle, believing his own rights not in danger, is unconsciously helping the enemy. And he added: “Failure to defend those liberties in city, one county or state strikes at the liberties of all of us. When we tolerate the curtailment of constitutional rights in any place by any individual or group of individuals, no matter how close to the seat of government, we make easier an attack upon our own constitutional rights.” Does it seem strange that a public official should be praised for courage in voicing sentiments so obvious and so true? We think this speech did require courage because Mr. Morgenthau knew that his remarks would be interpreted as aimed at a man who is curtailing constitutional rights in a place very near to Philadelphia—Mayor Frank Hague of Jersey City. Indeed Mr. Morgenthau, asked later whether he had spoken with Mavor Hague in mind, said: “If the shoe fits, let him wear it.” Mayor Hague ig “close to the seat of government.” He is a vice chairman of the Democratic National Committee. And others high in the Administration of which Mr. Morgenthau is a member seem to be going on the theory that discreet silence concerning Mayor Hague and his dictatorial tactics is the better part of valor.

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A STADIUM FOR SCOUTS JAPIANAPOLIS Boy Scouts officially are to receive a welcome improvement to their reservation tomorrow when the new £10,000 stadium is dedicated. The stadium, which seats 1200 persons, was built with funds raised by a subscription campaign sponsored by the 12th American Legion, Scouts are afforded excellent opportunity at the reser-

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vation for developing craftsmanship, citizenship and health. |

The new stadium should provide additional benefits.

JOHN, YOU SAID IT OF course John Roosevelt is only the bridegroom, thervefore a relatively unimportant member of the happy party at Nahant, which includes not only the bride but also

the President of the United States and the most remark-

able First Lady this land ever had. Millions of masculine hearts, however, should today with fellow feeling for young John. We know exactIv what his emotions were when the society reporters gathered round with demands that he enlighten them on the momentous question: What shoes would Miss Anne Clark wear as she walked to the altar? “White sandals, which tie here and there,” he said. But John rose to heights of genius when they asked him about the bridal gown. His reply deserves a place in history. We had read without fully comprehending the published accounts of the 20 yards of French organdie, the 620 vards of satin ribbon, the 14 yards of bridal tulle But John, in seven words, gave what is to our mind the perfect description of all the bridal gowns that ever were: “It looks like gauze lined with something.”

AND TOMORROW IS FATHER'S DAY ERHAPS the most encouraging news of the week comes from Methodist Hospital, where it is reported something is going to be done for the “forgotten man’—the expectant father. Hereafter in the waiting room on the maternity floor movies are to be shown, not only to ease the tension, but to give the men a few pointers on care of the baby after it

arrives. More than that, punch and cakes are to he served

picture magazines,

It is satisfying to note that the hardships involved in |

becoming a father are being recognized, and proper steps being taken to lighten them.

THE STOLBERG WARNING HE current battle for control of the C. I. O.'s United Automobile Workers recalls what Benjamin Stolberg wrote in his series, “Inside the C. I. 0." which was published by The Indianapolis Times last January. “The Communists are out to get him (Homer Martin,

president of the U. A. W.), even if they have to wreck the |

union,” Mr. Stolberg said. “They are not interested in the automobile workers’ union. They have to follow a ‘line’.” Whether it is the “Communists” trying to get Mr. Martin, or Mr. Martin trying to get his opposition, or both, it now becomes clear that factionalism is threatening to wreck the union, Mr. Martin has suspended five officers of the U. A. W,, charging that they violated a pledge against further factionalism. “Communist Party leaders have unduly interfered with the union's internal affairs,” he asserts. The suspended officers retort that Mr. Martin's own group had breached the antifactionalism armistice. Wherever the blame may belong, the dangers are obvious. tion, if continued, will make union discipline impossible. Wildeat strikes in defiance of the top union leaders, broken contracts, another plague of sitdowns alienating employers and the public, are probable consequences. The cause of organized labor will suffer. Some members of the C. I. O. criticized Mr. Stolberg’s articles as unfair and unfriendly. It is becoming clear, we believe, that those articles constituted a timely warning io a divided labor movement. - \

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Fair Enough

By Westbrook Pegler

All Right! Go Ahead and Organize A National Lettery, but Look at Those Countries Which Have Them.

EW YORK, June 18.—John T. Gibson challenges my contention that the people of this country gamble much less than they are popularly supposed to. I cited returns to show that in 1935, in the 18

$257,562,000. By other methods I arrived at the conclusion that the annual American expenditure for

ing counterfeits and stolen fees. Of course, there is no way of knowing or estimating the mount whose investors received no run for their money in the Irish Sweeps. If it will be of any comfort to the other side of the argument, however, I will admit that the traffic in counterfeits and uncompleted deals is equal to that portion of the sweeps here which, although illegal, we may, for the sake of elarity, call legitimate, That would raise the American expenditure on the Irish Sweeps to $42000.000 a year. The known volume of gambling even then is only about $300,000.000 a year, and I have to insist on the importance of the fact that the bulk of this money is wagered under legal, open conditions.

4 4 4&4 R. GIBSON drifts off into the dream world frequented by those who believe Americans bet in billions,

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“Most of the money bet on the horse races in the United States is bet by persons absent from the track,” says he. “The pari-mutuels handle at most about 10 per cent of the money bet on horse races. Independent bookies handle the rest.” Says he, ves, but does he know? Nobody knows how much money the bookmakers handle. But we do know that much of the money wagered with bookmakers is represented in the mutuel figures, because bookmakers make a prac tice of dumping bets into the mutuels. I cannot claim to know any better than Mr. Gibson the amount of the bookmakers’ business, but I do know that many who frequent poolitooms are cheap plavers, and that if you were to pay $100 for the privilege of frisking a roomful of them you would be betting against yourself, ® 8 =» E have to admit, however, that the bookies’ customers include many fairly prosperous individuals. But these are an absolutely unknown, fluctuating quantity, and Mr. Gibson offers no evidence that the book trade is nine times the track business. Just says so. I might grant—only for the sake of argument—that it is twice as great, but there is still no reason to think that gamblers would give up horse betting to patronize a national lottery. I don't care. Go ahead and have a national lottery if the idea can be bulled through Congress sometime. But look at the countries which have chewed

| the muscle off their own arms to feed their stom-

achs—France, Germany, Spain, Italy and Cuba, for

| example—and observe how peaked they are.

Ireland is an exception. But we buy half her tickets and the British colonies take much of the remainder, and Ireland thus gets fresh money all the time. But Ireland couldn't buy half our tickets. Even in our busted state we could more feasibly buy half of Ireland, whose total capital investment is less than we bet in a year on the licensed tracks alone.

Business

| By John T. Flynn

Congress Failed Important Duty By Not Meeting Railroad Problem.

EW YORK, June 18.—Nothing could illustrate more clearly the refusal of Congress, the Administration or the country to face facts than the adjournment without meeting the railroad problem. It is not to be regretted of course that Congress did not act in its last days of life. It had nothing before it of importance about the railroads. It had no leadership. The President offered no leadership. He sent a message to Congress early in the session outlining the financial plight of the roads and let it go at that. What is to be regretted is that Congress early in the session did not go realistically about finding some way to put the carriers in a state of health. One of the alarming things about the railroads is the manner in which they are falling into disrepair, The Railway Age estimated as carly as 1933 that there was a maintenance deficit of over a billion dollars. If that is true, the deficit must be at least two billions by now. But the railroads are powerless to do anything about that because of their crushing debt structures. No one seems to be willing to consider the railroad problem on any other terms than getting loans for them from the Government or cutting wages or raising rates. The only bill before Congress which seemed to have Administration blessing was one to permit the RFC to make loans to roads to buy equipment, But that would mevely increase their debt when it is debt that is destroying them now.

Rail Managements Also to Blame

But it is not enough to say that Congress has been

Fighting within the automobile workers’ organiza- |

derelict. The railroad managements themselves and

| the railroad banker-promoters have been even more | derelict. They are interested in saving their jobs, in

i ; ‘ . : | saving their special stock interests and bond issues. after each showing. For those men who prefer light reading | 3 ¢ i

while they wait, the Mothers’ Guild of the hospital's White | Cross Guild, which 1s sponsoring the project, will provide |

None of them is giving a thought to the great social function of the roads or the general problem of the national econcmy, It is because of the default of the management and bankers that Congress has the duty to step in, One bogey which stands in the way is the stake of the insurance companies in railroad bond holdings. But this is enormously exaggerated. That argument is a camouflage to protect the various stock interests which dominate the roads. Congress may pass up this duty but it may have to face a special session on this subject before the vear is out. There is only one way out for the roads—a great comprehensive reorganization of capital structures and compulsory consolidations based on service to the public and economy and efficiency of operation.

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

" OMEN wear such funny hats,” says Dr. George Crane, psychologist of Northwestern University, “because they never grow up mentally.” We don't doubt his word at all, but we hope he will be consistent by giving the same reason for

men’s dressing up in those queer-looking lodge uniforms they wear on parades. These men not only put on hats of assorted shapes and colors, but further embellish their beauty with flowing robes, turkish trousers, sashes, epaulets, brass buttons and what-not, Moreover, brass bands advertise their glory as they march down the city streets in tasseled fezes, with scimitars dangling at their waists, looking like a bunch of Moslems off for Mecca. Nobody minds, of course. They are as engaging as little boys playing horse. I believe it is true. however, that the gentlemen originated the idea of lodges and thought up the fantastic uniforms they use. Most of the organizations have allowed the ladies to form auxiliaries, but the females cannot compete with their husbands in the matter of fancy dress. Since the days when knights wore armor and generals donned uniforms and medals, men have displayed a weakness for such haberdashery. Other psychologists have called this an escape mechanism. But at last we have the truth from Dr. Crane. If women's crazy hats are evidences of

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[ INFLAMMATORY SPEECHES OF | NAZIS ATTACKED By W. P.

Speaking at Stettin, Germany, in | the presence of Der Fuehrer, Rudolf | Hess declared that Hitler “alone is | to be thanked that Europe is not in | flames.” Czechoslovakia, the Nazi lieutenant went on to say, is the real menace to peace. And he pictured the | little central European democracy as | a sort of monstrous dragon, snorting fire and brimstone preparatory to pouncing upon the long-suffering Germany. Germany's “love of peace,” he concluded, must not be trifled.with too far. This would be laughable were it | not so tragic. The Hess technique is all too familiar, The German Kaiser employed it before the World | War, and others before him, back [into the dim beginnings of history, { Japan's war lords used it in 1031 | to “justify” their invasion of Man- | churia, and again to excuse their present war on China. The portents, therefore, are ominous, Nobody believes little | Ceechoslovakia wants to provoke a | conflict with powerful Germany. | Hence the only convincing reason | { for the inflammatory speeches of | the Hesses, the Goebbels, the Goer- | ings and the Hitlers is a desire to | arouse the Germans themselves to | the necessary pitch of war. | Herein is to be found the most sinister aspect of the European situ- | ation today.

4 & & ASKS END OF POLITICS IN NATIONAL RELIEF By Disillusioned

After reading what the papers are full of—Federal politics in relief with the President condoning and even defending such action, and some local politicians and election officials obviously guilty of dishonesty at the ballot boxes—I can't help letting out a heartbroken wail. Is there no moral honesty among public officials and politicians? That politics played too large a | part in local relief we have known | {for a long time. At least all those | who ever had contact with the relief problem did. No amount of local | protest, when it brought forth any- | thing but denials, did any good. But we had faith in the word of (the President and Harry Hopkins { that such political skullduggery was | not condoned by the top officials. {And so we blamed the selfishness {and ambition of local politicians. What a blow it is to our faith now to realize that our sense of honesty and justice has been betrayed by those we trusted so much as to be our national heroes. To politicians this is no doubt all

considered “practical politics” but to | us it reveals a toe of clay. |

The President could do much to |

(Times readers are invited their promises or there is dishonesty

to express their views in | allot bofes.

these columns, religious cons eg. 8 4 troversies excluded. Make | BELIEVES BEAVERS

\ CAN RESCUE U. S. your letter short, so all can

By T. E. have a chance. Letters must I am happy to see the Federal be signed, but names will be

Government making use of the in- : | stinctive engineering genius of that withheld on request.) industrious animal, the beaver, ee The Interior Department has announced plans to resettle 300 or

cure the sick feeling we have if he

would at least oR Playing ANY | small streams in Idaho, where they more politics in administering re- | will pe encouraged to build check lief; if ‘he would publicly reprimand dams to prevent soil erosion, inMayor Hague, and resist all tempta- | frease wale facili ioy gud Sreste ’i ' _ | lakes for fishing and duck-breeding tion to act unjustly because oppo purposes. Secretary Ickes’ men nents stoop to conquer, no matter estimate that each beaver, trapped if the whole New Deal is at stake. | q,,q transplanted at a cost of $8, In our opinion the New Deal philos- | will be worth $300 to the cause of

ophy is not at stake, but the New | conservation. Deal clique, trying to get a Sunrigle | Even more interesting is the poshold on its administration, certainly sibility revealed by the further estiis, : {mate that the beaver population Locally election fraud is too ob- | will increase 100 per cent the first vious to be ignored. That almost | season and 150 per cent each year nullifies the rights of citizenship— | thereafter. destroys the only recourse we Have Let's see. With 600 resettled beavers to remedy evils. {at the start there should be 1200 Editorially you say something can | hy the end of the first year, Then,

| be done about it. Haven't the people |the annual rate of increase rising

of Indiana been trying to do some- to 150 per cent, there should be 3000

| thing about installing a city man- | after the second year, 7500 after

ager form of government and athe third, and so on to 453,160,230

| complete merit system in all gov-|pyusy little dam-builders after 15 ernment for years? Organizations years,

meet with only frustration. At the |* At the end of 20 years, if my polls we also meet with frustration, | sajeulations are accurate, the for either the officials we elect break | peaver population of Idaho should reach 44,292991,200, and if each DAD beaver is worth $300 for conservaBy A. S. tion purposes the total value will Dad, IT owe so much, it seems,

be $13,287,897,360,000—and all’ from an origin investment of 1 For your helping hand in making $4800. ginal y ot my dreams Apparently spending can go on Come true—for joys I'd never had at Dp Bt po. at ~ ace If I could not call you dad. celerated rate, and the Interior Department’s 44-billion-odd beavers , will dam the country well out of the That I might greater happiness | aq by the year 1958. Or, if not, we see; can wait until 1959, when there will When f{liness came you faithfully | he 110.732.478.000 beayers worth watched, $33,219,743,400,000. Books and & 4 4 bought, THINKS LOVE HAS ADOPTED

The many romps and plays we've | MORE MONERY CODE

had : ‘va ’ Time was when swains expressed You've known the joy of being tender sentiments through the flow-

dad; : ; G x , , | ers they sent to their ladies fair— fod grant my prayer that I may roses for ardent devotion, violets

pay for fidelity, lilies for purity, ete, etc. The debt of love I owe today. Love seems to have adopted a

DAILY THOUGHT more modern code and a more ro-

bust one, even though its interpreMoreover ye shall take no satis- [tation appears to us a trifle obscure. faction for the life of a murderer,

There seems to be no other conwhich is guilty of death: but he

clusion to draw from the case of shall be surely be put to death.— [the young man in a New England Numbers 35:31.

town who, using the facilities of the ee Canadian National Telegraph, had URDER itself is past all expiation the greatest crime, which

a messenger boy deliver to a damsel nature doth abhor —GofTe,

Sacrifices you made for me

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in Montreal one fried egg, sunny side up.

LET'S EXPLORE YOUR MIND

By DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM

CERTAINLY. Such women are . always ing- never have =a

last means of bolstering up their deep and lasting sense of inferiority. » # ” YES. Leading employment managers agree best first method is to typewrite all possible information about yourself, including age, education, religion, politics, sports records. outside activities and interests while in school, frank reasons for leaving previous jobs—indeed everything to give picture of your real self. Then discuss your statements with school principal and two businessmen. Then mail to 20 or 30 firms asking interview.

CLASS ASKS « Dey ONE WAT BETTER THAN ALL OTHERS, To APPLY FOR A JOR ?

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MY, how times have changed! I married in 1902 when I was earning $480 a year and went to housekeeping and felt no fears of the future. Now they are asking if they dare marry on three times that amount. Well, we had some tough times, but we're glad we did it. I

else—least of all for the man they |think you will be, young man, if i health and are not

fore” They are using thi aa thelr | eakly discoursevd

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SATURDAY, JUNE 18, 1938 |

Gen. Johnson Says—

It's Too Bad John Roosevelt Hasn't

200,000 Ancient Mariners to Keep Crowds Away From the Wedding.

ASHINGTON, June 18.—It is a pity, if it is true, that 200,000 people are going to jostle and rub ber around while John Roosevelt gets married, or to be in the same town where it happens, It has been sweetly said that it is just because the world loves a lover and that, after all, the Amer= cans are an old-fashioned folk. It is no such thing. - It is because the Americans are a rubber-necking * race. Let no public character momentarily in the limelight lay the flattering unction to his soul that because crowds obstruct his passage and people stare at him in streetcars and restaurants, it is because of either his pulchritude or his popularity. It is because of their curiosity and his publicity, They would do exactly the same thing for Al Capone or a threeheaded calf. All the Roosevelt kids are fine samples of simple, modest and decent American youth. If a French mayor gets squirted with fizzy water or an automobile exceeds the speed limit, it doesn't detract from that’ statement one bit, They are American kids and hence full of pep and do not take themselves too seriously. If they didn't happen to be children of the President, but just your kids or mine, you would never have heard anything about it. or 8 OT one of them hunts the limelight and the kind of publicity under which they have to lve is a constant burden of embarrassment. ‘That they re=main as modest and sweet and decent as they are is something of a marvel, Some mistakes have been made but the wonder is that they are so few considering their almost lim= itless opportunity to make mistakes. Nevertheless, the President has been eoriticized for not sitting on them more. For crying out loud, doe they have to live their lives in plaster casts because they happen to bear the misfortune to have had their father become famous? The President isn't, by nature, much of a sitter-onner and he thinks his adult children have a right to live their own lives. I think their record is pretty good as it stands and that if he had done more repressing it wouldn't have been any better, y & =a F all those children, none has a finer, happier, temperament and character than John, He will be able to bear up while his 200,000 wedding guests listen to the “loud bassoon,” on the outside of the church, but it is too bad that there aren't also 200,000 Ancient Mariners to hypnotize each one of them with

| an old sailor's story about six miles back of the village | limits as was done in the poem of that name,

But it's all right. In spite of all hot political is= sues, these young people will have the best wishes of 130,000,000 of their fellow citizens. When this day. is over, they can get some peace and quiet. As soon as the seven days’ wonder of their wedding fades, they can almost live the lives of half-way human beings so long as they do not ride in trains, or visit restaurants, theaters or other public places. It was something of this constant staring and craning of necks which was partly responsible for the self-banishment of the Lindbergh family. I know celebrities who have experienced more or less of it, but I don't know anybody to whom it is not a torment.

Washington

By Raymond Clapper

These Arguments on Steel Prices Have Become Somewhat Confusing.

ASHINGTON, June 18.—At a recent meeting of the American Iron and Steel Institute, its pres=. ident, T. M. Girdler, said that the only way to bring about real improvement in industry was “by the ree moval of artificial barriers to production so that private enterprise can function.” Later in his address, touching upon the delicate question of steel prices Mr. Girdler said “there is no hidden hand in the if dustry with power to prevent price reductions except the hidden hand of costs.” The same week saw some interesting financial new ° about the steel industry and I reported a summ-~* of it. Mainly it was to the effect that Bethlehem Steel had Just announced its new price list for the third quarter, reaffirming existing prices and following a virtually identical announcement a few days earlier by the Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp. Along with this was the news item that steel production was below 30 per cent capacity compared with 90 per cent a year ago. I mentioned that it seemed odd that prices were held practically identical with what they had been when boom production exe isted. A few days later, Gen. Hugh Johnson took the ine dustry to task in an address to the Iron and Steel Ine stitute. He said: “The whole country believes, includ= ing the foremost of independent economists, that iron and steel prices are too inflexible—sticky—and that their present levels are a principal influence retarding recovery. . . Why don't you take some action here, even at a considerable sacrifice of profits?”

Weir Replies

This all seemed very confusing to me in trying te follow the argument that Roosevelt is against the law of competitive supply and demand while business« men are for it, Mr, Ernest T. Weir, a leading steel producer, was provoked by the foregoing to write an open letter to the newspapers protesting that I had ‘cast certain serious reflections upon the steel industry.” He said that the steel industry ‘is most highly competitive and that the only force ‘fixing’ prices is high ‘fixed’ costs.” Now if Mr. Weir had said that because of the peculiar economics of the steel industry it can't have free price competition, and that it is necessary for steel companies to stick together and prevent prices cutting, he would not be so crosswise of the facts. Of course there are objections to saying that, be= cause it would only encourage somebody, possibly a New Dealer at Washington, to pipe up and say, all right, but let's have the Goyernment in on the private price-fixing to be sure the public interest is protected since steel is a principal utility in modern industry, And why bring that up?

Watching Your Health

By Dr. Morris Fishbein

HEN the principle was established that arti ficially induced fever might be beneficial in a wide variety of diseases, attempts were made early to see the effects of such treatment on diseases of the eye, This was particularly important, because many of the diseases of the eye are difficult to attack and some of them are considered hopeless. For this reason physicians, working in a large Midwestern hose pital, tested the fever methods on an assortment of 50 different eye diseases. - In heat treatment the patient is first made ready by being given a special diet with large amounts of orange juice and dextrose, He is then put into the fever box with the head outside. He does not receive any fluids until a fever of 105 to 107 degrees is reached. It has long been established that certain diseases are mare susceptible to treatment by fever or heat than are others, principally because the germs which are involved in these diseases are also especially susceptible to increase in temperature, It is also believed that the heat treatment may be especially of value in stimulating the defense mechanism of the body to action. As a result of their tests of more than 50 cases;

the investigators are convinced that the fever treats

ment is most useful in the treatment of gonorrhea and syphilitic infections of the eye, but that various other forms of disturbances of the eye, including ulcers and reuritis of the optie nerve, must be studied much more extensively before it can be determined whether the heat ar fever treatment gs really of value. :

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