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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 1938

A SAFE AND SANE PROPOSAL

HIEF MORRISSEY again has proposed what seems to be the only effective method for insuring a “safe and cane Fourth.” He is urging passage of an ordinance, once defeated. which would ban the shooting of fireworks by anyone except licensed exhibitors. In spite of repeated warnings many unskilled in the shooting of firecrackers either have been burned or maimed each year. And, as Chief Morrissey says, “scores of children in this city may be expected to receive serious injury” this Fourth. : The present ordinance, which merely limits the shooting of fireworks to one day, admittedly is weak. We hope the City Council disregards any selfish protests and acts favorably on Chief Morrissey's suggestion.

PUMP AND PUMP-HANDLE NNOUNCING that he had signed the big spendinglending bill, President Roosevelt took occasion yesterday to make some optimistic remarks about business prospects. Asked whether the general economic picture shows signs of improvement, he said: “There have been a few raindrops coming from the heavens that probably will be followed by much-needed showers.” Stock exchange prices had shown a second day of share advances, with the largest trading volume since March. Perhaps that’s a raindrop signalling a break in the long drought. Steel production is gaining a little. Lines on the business charts turned upward last week for the first time in months. There is other encouraging news. But Mr. Roosevelt's immediate hope, of course, is that

the prospect of billions to be spent under the bill he has | it is explained, does not mean the Administration | wishes to mix in foreign wars. | hopes to provide a certain scope within which the in-

just signed will start a faster climb out of depression. There is no such popular enthusiasm over this spending program as there was over earlier ones. There is less faith

ing the ultimate effect of continued deficit financing, more resentment against political use of the money. But these things are certainly true: 1. No matter what anyone may think of the wisdom of this program, the money is going to be spent. That's settled.

2. It is to the best interests of the whole country that |

By John T. Flynn |

the spending should accomplish all of its beneficial economic purposes, immediate and permanent, if that is possible.

3. Nothing can be gained at this stage by grousing |

about the program or refusing to co-operate with it,

In other words, the Government is going to pour bil- | lions into the pump, and the smart thing for business, in- | dustry and everyone else is to take hold of the pump-handle, |

work at it with might and main and hope fervently that the priming will catch.

KEEP THE RAILROADS SAFE RAIN accidents killed 367 passengers on American railroads in 1907. One passenger died for eagh 75,000,000 passenger-miles of travel. ;

In 1937 only three passengers were killed in train acci- |

dents, and the rate of deaths was one for each eight billion passenger-miles. A remarkable record for increased safety was marred when the Milwaukee Railroad’s crack Olympian passenger train plunged through a flood-weakened bridge into Custer Creek in Montana. This was the worst rail disaster in the United States in many years, the only major one since 1933. On the Milwaukee Road, itself, no passenger had died in a train accident for 20 years. Since 1907, which was the deadliest year in American railroad history, steel coaches have largely replaced the old woeden cars.

safety rules, all have contributed to reduce the number of accidents and to decrease the likelihood of passenger fatalities in such accidents as did happen. The Montana wreck seems to have been one that no measures could have prevented. The Olympian was running on a fast schedule, but the track had been inspected only a short time before, and the engineer apparently could have had no intimation that a sudden cloudburst had turned the little creek into a raging flood or that a death-trap was waiting for him and scores of his passengers. Under ordinary circumstances, therefore, this tragedy probably would create no misgivings as to the safety of railroad travel in general. But present circumstances are not ordinary. Most of the roads are known to be in grave financial trouble. It costs money to maintain track and equipment, to replace obsolete equipment, to provide adequate inspection service, to keep the morale of employees high. Yet these things are necessary if the Montana disaster is to stand as an unavoidable exception proving the rule that railroad safety has been raised, and can be kept, to a standard that would have seemed impossible 30 years ago. Here is another compelling reason why the railroad problem, as a whole, should be attacked promptly, intelligently, and with determination to work out a sound solution.

WISE BIRD HAT was a smart pigeon—the one that was supposed to carry a letter inviting Governor Lehman of New York to visit San Francisco's 1939 World Fair. He flew 10 miles to Richmond, Cal, descended at the store of a friendly grocer who fed him crumbs, and stayed there. Human beings have crossed the continent on foot, on horseback, in wheelbarrows and by almost every other

conceivable means of locomotion, bearing messages that |

could just as well have been semt by mail and that didn’t mean a thing ‘when they reached their destinations. The publicity is supposed to be worth the effort. But that pigeon got more publicity by not making the effort. We'd never have thought him worth mentioning if he'd been dumb enough to fly all the way to "New on) | ER

Better equipment, better operating per- |

sonnel, more vigilant inspections, stricter enforcement of | | 1936 and then the President began to taper off a | little at a time. Then the business machine. having

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The World View

By William Philip Simms

With Our Foreign Policy as It Is, Aggressors Now Look on U. S. as a Bound Giant Who Can Be Ignored.

ASHINGTON, June 22.—America’s foreign relations have reached so dangerously confusing and conflicting a stage that a thorough overhauling has become imperative. American foreign policy and the acts of Congress designed to implement that policy are so completely at cross purposes that European and Asiatic capitals are left bewildered. . Between now and the next Congress, therefore, the White House, State Department and Senate Foreign Relations Committee hope to rationalize tne nation’s stand and have a plan ready for Capitol Hill's consideration, At Paris, in 1928, the United States signed the Kellogg Pact outlawing aggressive war. Like most of the peace measures of recent times, that pact was largely of American manufacture, Yet last year, in Washington, Congress passed a Neutrality Act which largely nullifies it—at least so far as we are concerned. For this act serves notice, in advance, that if any state wishes to violate the Kellogg Pact we will do nothing about. In fact, we may even help the outlaw. At Chicago, President Roosevelt declared the United States and the other peace-loving nations should “quarantine” aggressors, But the Government is forbidden, by law, to treat the aggressor otherwise than it treats the victim.

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HOULD a powerful state—say Germany—deliberately violate the Kellogg Pact and go to war with a weaker state—like Czechoslovakia—it is mandatory upon the President to embargo munitions to both alike. At Nashville, Secretary of State Hull called on the world to help restore respect for international law and order, and to humanize the rules and practices of war. Yet every potential outlaw state is aware that if it attacks its neighbor the United States must withdraw to the sidelines and let nature take its course. In eight years the Philippines are to become an independent republic. Observers predict Japan will invade the islands as soon as the United States withdraws. If and when that happens, the United States, under existing law could sell supplies to Japan, but not to the Philippines, thus facilitating the destruction of the very republic which we helped to create at great cost. Having command of the sea lanes, Japan could buy in the United States and the islands could not. = ” ” NLY by taking advantage of a technicality has America wriggled out of a situation which otherwise would have placed her on the side of Japan against China—despite our moral obligations under the Nine-Power Treaty of Washington. The attempt to rationalize this quixotic situation,

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fluence of the United States can be used to help stave

- . | off conflict. in Government pump-priming, more apprehension concern- | | : | nation.

The world regards America as its most powerful

her closely. The side she is on—not necessarily with her Army and Navy, but morally and economically— should win. As things stand now, however, she is looked upon as a bound giant who can safely be ignored.

Business

U. S. Spending Has Gone to Where

EW YORK, June 22.—Those who ponder the vast spending bill of the Congress which has just adjourned might do well to trace the first beginnings of spendings and then look ahead, if they dare. This began under Hoover. The first attempt was the Federal Farm Board and its half billion dollars to peg the wheat, corn, cotton markets. That wasn’t called spending. For the Government bought crops and, so it supposed, got value. But the whole half billion was lost. Then came the RFC, also under Hoover. That was for loans to banks and railroads. But the RFC last year wrote off more than a billidn in losses. Then came Roosevelt, his mouth hot with his denunciations of Hoover's “extravagance.” A little before this Norman Thomas, Socialist leader, had demanded that the Government spend three billion on relief. That seemed a shocking thing to many. But Roosevelt yielded to the first PWA money. Congressional grant of $3,300,000,000 in June of 1933. But Roosevelt did not plan to spend much of this —a few hundred million. He childishly supposed the NRA would bring back recovery by September and that this money would scarcely have to be touched.

Policy Was to Be Abandoned

But when July came and a collapse and things got worse, Roosevelt then reluctantly made Ickes PWA administrator and started spending. That was in 1933. The spending was supposed to “prime the pump.” It was going to produce houses for the poor, etc. In a year all would be well and we could abandon the policy. But we never did abandon it. It rose in volume and intensity and recklessness until the summer of

been lifted up on these stilts, it promptly collapsed. Now, six vears later, the Government's expendi-

tures sun to 12 billion, of which nearly four billion

is outright relief and anctiher billion or more are masked recovery expenditures. And the country, now this, having first endured for emergency purposes the face of spending, has now come to embrace it. The thing has now gotten tg be something more than mere spending—affecting the Government's credit. It is more even than spending borrowed money. It has now gotten to poisoning our political system. Critics blame Hopkins, Ickes, Farley, this one and that. But the one man who inspires and manages it all is Franklin Roosevelt.

‘A Woman's Viewpoint

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

OST cities have ordinances to restrict the activities of out-of-towners who horn in on the home

merchants. Peddlers must get a special license. Truck

gardeners cannot sell their, vegetables without first |

making a visit to the municipal! council. Beggars are forbidden to ply their trade. All sorts of laws, meant to protect the professions and business from possible shysters, are in effect. Except for the churches. People who peddle religion still enjoy free trade. As a consequence, there's never a season in the life of any town when one or a group of such peddlers are not preying upon the credulity, the emotiohs and the pocketbooks of the people. They raise a little money to set up a tabernacle, and before long the curious, the listless, the idle, the dissatisfied flock to them. Many of them are sincere, I believe. Some are perhaps more concerned with saving souls than gathering dollars. But no one can deny that the field is also infested with the boll-weevil type, who are harmful to organized churches.

Although the Better Business Bureau is quick ‘to sense any infringement upon the rights of merchants, bankers, manufacturers or mechanics, whole congregations sometimes will join hands with the traveling evangelists to take money out of town that ought to go into the salaries of the resident ministers. Somebody ought to speak up for the home-town preachers, and my neck is out. They do all the work; baptize our children; marry our young; bury our dead. And many times the money we hand out to our visitig, tYansenit Quid spel the difference between coman pastors who serve us faith-

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

SYMPATHIZES WITH INDIANS By E. T. One can sympathize with those Creek Indians who traveled from Oklahoma to Washington to ask the Government for a secluded place abounding in game, fish and forests, vhere they and their full-blood brothers of the Cherokee, Choctaw and Chickasaw tribes might escape

: | from civilization. Potential aggressors, therefore, are watching |

Once they had just such a place in the Southeast. But there they were in the white man's way, and so a century ago some of them were persuaded and others compelled to move to a new Indian Territory, with the Great White Father's sclemn promise that it should be theirs as long as the winds should blow, the grass grow and the water flow.

This, also, was a fair land of] forests, fish and game. It was a| land of oil and coal and fertile soil, | but nobody knew that then. Lying remote, almost unexplored, far beyond the Mississippi, it seemed | unlikely that the white man would | ever have use for it. Perhaps the Government intended to keep its treaty. They were called the Civilized Tribes—the Cherokees, Choctaws, Creeks and Seminoles. But to them civilization meant ability to make and obey their own tribal laws, and freedom to educate their children and worship their God. The civilization of statehood and oil wells, of railroads and automobiles and paved highways and hustling towns and depression and unemployment and relief, was never their choice. Indian Commissioner John Collier | told the petitioners from Oklahoma |

Alas, even Congress in all its wisdom cannot grant the request. There are millions of us who share the longing of the humble full-blood Creeks for a Happy Hunting Ground that exists no more.

» = = FOUR 500-MILE RACES ANNUALLY WANTED By Pat Hogan, Columbus, Ind, Why is it with the finest speedway in the world we have only one day in a year to enjoy it—or rather endure hustle, scramble and turmoil for 20 hours to relish a few hours pleasure, and that not even lasting pleasure? One of the race drivers dropped an invaluable tip when he said that auto manufacturers would do well to get into this game. Why not? This classic features 33 cars, none of which could be driven on the highways and never will be permitted to travel 100 miles an hour; but we have 33 million cars that travel the highways daily and consequently that many drivers sincerely interested in dependable automobiles.

Suppose we have a race Memorial

(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.)

Day, another July Fourth, another the first Saturday in August, and the “Classic” on Labor Day. Reduce the present admission half and the Speedway will be packed on all four events. Hundreds of thousands who now cannot afford it will welcome the change. Instead of this mad scheme for the highest speed, give the highest prize to the stock car that travels

the entire distance without a stop, | : which long ago has collapsed, but

or serious mechanical trouble. This plan will eliminate many of the hazards and will encourage the drivers to demonstrate the value of the motor rather than g.orify themselves.

If memory serves correctly, only |

one car has ever gone the entire route without a stop—Dave Evans with a diesel at an average of 89 miles. Can you imagine any emergency when any of us millions of car owners will be put to such a test? Anyhow we are al. interested in cars the other 364 days of the jear. This plan would be of mutual benefit to the motoring public and the motor industry. As a strictly business proposition it would double the Speedway’s profit. ” » ” SAYS WHOLE INDUSTRIAL SYSTEM NEEDS WRINGER

By H. L. S. Is it not funny to see American capitalism welching on taking its

MERE HUMANITY By ANNA E. YOUNG Oh yes, I'm a dandy fellow And I have no faults at all;

I never did a thing that's wrong— Or if I do, it is small!

At times I am very brilliant When conversation seems to lull; While talking with friends I get to show My wit, for I seldom am dull!

| Yes, we are merely human;

We exalt ourselves to the sky— Me with my whale of an opinion of myself, You with thoughts of you just as high.

DAILY THOUGHT

For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked. —Psalms 73:3. f

NVY is a passion so full of cowardice and shame that nobody ever had the confidence to own it.—Rochester.

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medicine. The railroads need to go through the wringer so they can go out to enlist new capital for reconditioning and rehabilitation of equipment. The railroads are only a sample of what the whole country needs even on a more drastic scale. The railroads are water-logged with debt and over capitalization. That is on a book value basis. Well, so is the whole industrial system of the United States. The country went haywire when it went into the World War on deferred payments, by issuing war bonds, instead of going it on a pay-as-you-go basis. That I. O. U. program drove prices out of line, gave us a phoney capital structure, forced us to sell after the war on the installment plan, and gave us Insull pyramids. Well, the phoney prices we still charge for goods and services carry the phoney capital and debt burden |

which is still being pegged by 12

priations to keep it from temporarily going into the wringer. Since the war was written on the cuff the price structure after the war should have been doubled to permit repayment and an increasing consumption. If war started tomorrow every wheel in America would roll into action. Why not do it for preservation of peace?

” ” ” REGRETS SPLIT AMONG INDIANA DEMOCRATS By R. G. L. Much lamenting is done about the split in the Democratic Party. It is indeed a depressing situation because it may mean the end of the Democratic Party in power while it still has much to give us in the way of progressive governmental service. What makes it even more lamentable is that the split is not due to some deep cleavage in principle in our state. Senator VanNuys by his record in Congress is a nan of sound judgment, in accord with most of the best informed students of government of the state; he is progressive, liberal and far-thinking nearer statesmanship than many another Senator of longer length of service in the Senate. So many people of Indiana indorse him that it is said to be embarrassing for the organization politicians to oppose him. The split, it develops, is due to the personal animosity of one particular power in the State House machine! And because he will not share power or compromise, because he must not be made to “eat crow,” because he must save his political face, the Democratic Party may have to terminate its service to the state of Indiana, I thought women were supposed to have a monopoly on vanity. It is lamentable, but at the same time laughable.

LET'S EXPLORE YOUR MIND

By DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM

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seven different colors (including white) show up in the offspring! No example shows more clearly the nature of recessive qualities or genes (jeans). They do not show in the'offspring unless both parents

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germ-cells. Thus every person carries within himself a host of qualities which he does not show, but which will show as sure as fate in a portion of his children if he marries a mate carrying the same recessive genes. »

THERE is a lot of truth in this. Beyond question the most important thing in a man’s life is the woman he marries—whether the marriage be successful or a failure. In spite of anything he can do, his life largely revolves around her, his home and their children—if they have any. If he loves her, he spends his life trying to make her happy and if he does not love her or dislikes her, he spends his life trying to find means of escape. It is the rare husband who gets by with mere indifference.

NO. Dr. A. R. Laouer, psychologist, after working on tests ior auto-drivers, says in the Scientific Monthly: “ ‘Safe driving’ and what many people call ‘good driving’ are not the same. Many safe drivers are not good drivers; that is, skilful in the sense of mechanical and general alertness. The racing driver is usually a ‘good driver,’ but we would ly call him a ‘safe driver on)

Gen. Johnson Says—

Columnist Predicts New Dealers

Will Be Acquitted and Opposition Convicted in Congressional Probes.

ETHANY BEACH, Del, June 22.—Three impore tant summer investigations are about to begin under the almost unlimited power of Congressional inquisition. That power is to examine into the affairs of men or institutions which are under criticism at the bar of public opinion. Sometimes the verdict plus the disclosures of the trial result in what is in prac tical effect a sentence of economic pains and penalties or even death,

But in these trials the accused has none of the defensive rights guaranteed in almost every other system of justice. They are conducted by committees, usually composed of Congressmen but, in one of these cases, also composed of and now sure to be dominate ed by executive officers. These are the judges who are rive at the verdict. They are also the prosecutors if not the accusers. Nobody ever heard of that kind of arrangement in any accepted system of justice. The accused can’t call any witnesses or confront or cross-examine any witness against him. If what he says in his own defense is not acceptable to the Joquistiion, J eqn tell him to sit down and shut up. e refuses to answer, the commi TE Ry mittee can send him 5 ” ”

Fal, there is no pretense that the judges are impartial. In one of these inquisitions they are not only politicians, but dogmatic administrative zealots, intent on taking apart each American eco= nomic pattern and putting it together again on some modified form of European collectivism, They will use their inquisitional power not to ine quire whether this should be done, but only to re that it must be done. The truth has less chance before these three coming summer inquisitions than a FCenen Royalist before the French tribunes of the ror. They are being hastened onto the sta 1. stage in the h of the bitterest political campaign of recent Yh lent is not the subject of these inquiries which are really to be tried before the public. It is the pretensions of the onuisitons themselves. Does anybody suppose ey are not going to acquit themselve ue ak ves and convict This political three-ring circus has in Ring O s n the TVA inquisition, entirely dominated by third New Dealers. It is certain to be a bath of whitewash for TVA and of mud for its opponents.

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r Ring Three is the political investigation of mise use of relief funds, especially under WPA. It is

also smothered under New Deal domination and ine fluence, :

The scintillating middle ring—the “monopoly” ine

vestigation—a mass production of witch-finding with a St. Bartholomew's massacre of all business opponents of the third New Deal at the end. Here Congress clearly abdicated its own control to the executive by giving the President disposition of 80 per cent of the appropriation, It surrendered its own peculiar and exclusive inquisitional power to the executive—who otherwise has it not—by opening the way to appointment of five fanatical antibusiness executive officials and adding to them two anti= business Senators and one antibusiness Representa= tive. It will be exactly like eight minks turned loose in an unprotected chicken coop. It is a failure to pro duce essential facts on vital issues at a crisis in our history.

It Seems to Me

By Heywood Broun

Some Who Preach Nazi Philosophy Unaware of Its Source or Result.

EW YORK, June 22.—On several occasions I have admitted that in spite of Mayor Hague the word Fascist can be flung around too freely. It is even within the dim realm of possibility that I may have stretched the term myself, The trouble is that there are two types of Hitlerism which may be observed. They range from Jersey City down. Certain people are decidedly imbued with Nazi notions and at the same time are unaware of the source or the results of the philosophy which they preach. For instance, I have at hand a clipping from a Jersey City columnist whose chummy department is entitled “Draw a Chair.” The author, D. John Rickard, after announcing his devotion to the Constitution, declares bluntly, “Jersey City has the right to deter= mine for itself what it shall do about its govern ment. , .. If it chooses to abandon democracy it will abandon democracy.” If words mean what they generally mean in ordinary usage Mr. Rickard is saying that Jersey City, under the Constitution, has the right to declare that the Bill cf Rights is suspended and that dissenters should be shipped to Alaska, He would fight the Civil War all over again, but in smaller compass. It is to be Jersey City against the nation. Probably Mr. Rickard does not mean exactly that, He has assembled his words carelessly, and simply went a bit foo far in the eager competition which goes on across the river to get a smile from the boss.

Hague Himself Annoyed

The Hague himself was annoyed when the bund offered storm troopers for his parade. He had no right to give them a cold reception. They were entirely correct in recognizing him as a man who was playing the same side of the street as themselves, It is probably true that those who are no mors than 60 or 70 per cent Fascist constitute a greater menace than the 100 per cent Nazi. Indeed, it even may be that those who are but slightly tainted cone tribute the greatest threat of all. I hope this is true, because William Dudley Pelley, of the Silver Shirts, is certainly taking no pains to conceal his plans for American fascism. I have just received a copy of “Liberation,” which seems to me as gross a propaganda sheet as I have ever seen. Possibly Mr, Pelley is just a bit too frank in explaining his motives. In the leading article I find on Page 3, “Pelley has consistently told his legion n#ires that if they would “heel” him financially, he would drive all New Dealers from Federal cover.”

Science Today

By Science Service

OISON ivy is again levying its toll of blistered, . itching misery on thousands of picnickers, campers, tourists, What can be done about it? is the frantic perennial cry. Well, three things can be done. First, learn what it looks like, so you can avoid it. Second, use a simple means to prevent its harm. Third, if you do get poisoned, seek the right remedies. Poison ivy is a three-leaved vine, that either trails along the ground and sends up shrubby branches from a few inches to 3 feet high, or climbs trees, clinging to the bark by means of innumerable short aerial roots. Its leaves are either smooth-margined or (more often) notched or lobed, smooth, rather glossy. Poison sumac is a close relative of poison ivy, though it doesn’t look like it. It is a tall shrub, with leaves like those of the common sumac, but with pale gray bark, and its fruits are pallid waxy berries. Now that's what they look like. Keep away from them if possible. As an insurance against polsoning, get a 5 per cent solution of ferric chloride in a half-and-half mixture of alcohol and water. Bathe all exposed parts (including ankles in sheer hose) and let the stuff dry on. This preveniive works for most people, though not for everybody. If you do get poisoned, this same solution can be used as a remedy, swabbing it on gently with a sof$ cloth or a wad of cotton. Or, for a stronger remedy, try a 5 per cent solution of potassium permanganate in water, You have to be careful with the permane gana because it sometimes burns tender Satie, fowever, Becatser ik son hi

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