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FRIDAY, JUNE 24, 1938

FAIR AND CLOUDY “I CONOMIC skies are definitely clearing.”—Secretary of Commerce Roper. “There have been a few raindrops coming from the heavens that probably will be followed by much-needed showers.”—President Roosevelt. The eminent weather prophets evidently didn’t get together on their figures of speech. But we hope they're both right—that the tide is turning, prosperity coming around the corner, businest getting back on its feet, the road ahead appearing smoother, the chasm of depression being bridged, a new day dawning. And that abundant rainfall from the cloudless blue will paint the bow of promise above a land warmed by the sunshine of better times.

THE BLESSINGS OF IMPORTS OX E might think that those politicians and businessmen who always denounce “the flood of cheap foreign goods” when imports are rising, likewise would express satisfaction when imports drop off. But they never do. Perhaps the reason for their strange silence is that to speak up at such times would be to expose the economic fallacy of their argument. For periods of rising imports are always marked by improved business conditions. And in hard times imports drop off | for the simple reason that people can’t afford to buy as much of the things they need and want from abroad. In the late Twenties this country experienced a strong prosperity, and the accompanying strong inflow of foreign

Washington

By Raymond Clapper

Chairman Hamilton's Offer Leaves Two Possible Courses Open to the Southern Anti-Roosevelt Democrats.

(Westbrook Pegler Is on Vacation)

ASHINGTON, June 24—It becomes increasingly clear that the political realignment now going on is likely to work itself out through the two

existing major parties. Various sectional parties. may exert large local influence. But in national terms, the realignment seems destined to continue through a shaking-out process between the Democratic and Republican National Party organizations. This has been made more probable by the declaration of Republican National Chairman John Hamilton at Birmingham, Ala. Speaking to Southern Republicans— yes, there are some—Hamiiton stated that the only way in which the much talked-of coalition between Republicans and anti-Roosevelt Democrats could come about would be for the dissenting Democrats to join the Republican Party. = = = Ys practical advantage in this to Southern antiRoosevelt Democrats may be suggested. The anti-Roosevelt Democrats in the House and Senate now sit as Democrats and participate as Democrats in organization of the House and Senate and in control of committees and legislative business. But they have little voice because the Roosevelt Democrats control. By joining with Republicans, sitting as Republicans, voting with Republicans in the organization of House and Senate machinery, it is conceivable that after some gains on the Republican side they could obtain some control. While exceedingly anxious for a coalition with anti-Roosevelt Democrats on some such basis, Hamilton makes it clear that he is strongly opposed to any change in the name of the Republican Party or to its disappearance into a new grouping. “This is a two-party country,” Hamilton said, “and the Republican Party is the only effective instrument of organized opposition to the New 1. It has seized the other party. All opposition to the present regime at Washington must be built around the Republican Party. Suggestions and proposals to the contrary are not realistic. They represent only wishful thinking.” ” » =

T= Hamilton is not the whole Republican Party, and some Republicans like Senator Vandenberg have been toying with the idea of a formal coalition. But Hamilton is national chairman, and while he remains so his attitude will have great weight within the party. Thus Southern anti-Roosevelt Democrats like George of Georgia and Bailey of North Carolina have two possible courses. First they could go on as

products provided the basis upon which the high-protection-ist politicians and manufacturers got together, the first group seeking votes and the latter grabbing for larger chunks of the American market. The result was the SmootHawley tariff, which choked off imports, and, inevitably, choked off exports and helped to make the depression the awful thing it came to be.

After the present Administration came into power, Secretary of State Cordell Hull launched his reciprocal | trade program, slowly rebuilding our foreign commerce. Our imports and exports rose together, through 1934, ’35, "36 and "37. The high-protectionists appeared again on the hustings. But the “recession” silenced them.

Through the first three months of this year our exports continued to rise—the total was 115,000,000 greater than in the first three months of last year—because our customers abroad had not experienced the same serious slump that we had in this country. But our imports declined sharply—=8291,000,000 less than in the first three months of last year—because we had less money to spend abroad. According to the theories of the tall-tariff boys, the decline in imports should be making this country prosperous. But Secretary Hull states a big fact when he says: “It is not a sign of prosperity; it is the exact reverse... Soon or late it must lead to a decrease in exports, since trade must necessarily be a two-way process.”

GOOD RAISING NE of the finest lessons in real Americanism that we've heard about lately was taught by Eugene W. Casey, a 32-year-old Negro cab driver in New York City. Recently he was sick and in the hospital, and his family received $49.10 in city relief. The other day Eugene Casey wrote this letter to the City Treasurer: “Dear Sir—Just to let you know me and my wife have no further need for the relief as I am putting my cab on the street and would like to be cut off on our own will. Please, sir, tell me how I can repay back. Thank you ever so much sincerely.—Eugene W. Casey, Cora L. Casey.” A man who wants to “repay back” his relief money is unusual enough so that the newspapers sent reporters to ask Eugene Casey why. He told them: “It's just the way I was raised up, back in South Carolina. It’s the way I'm raisin’ my kid.”

WHAT A FRENCHMAN SAW

R. LOUIS MARTIN, head of the Pasteur Institute, on returning to France after attending the dedication of the Franklin Memorial in Philadelphia, paid this tribute to American science: “Our American colleagues have enermous facilities, but their methods are very different from ours. ... The Americans combine their efforts. A physicist associates in his work with a chemist and they obtain the assistance of a technician in mechanics and electricity. We never see that in France.” The tribute is deserved. The astounding progress of science in this country is due in great measure to the fact that specialists work together, pooling their knowledge, to reach common objectives. That makes all the more conspicuous and depressing another fact which Dr. Martin, as a visitor, may have been too discreet to mention. Americans also have enormous facilities, the greatest in the world, for making their form of government and their economic system function efficiently for the general good. Political and business leaders, working and enlisting the aid of technical experts, might insure for all our people a greater degree of prosperity and peace than they have ever known. But instead of combining efforts in this field, the leaders seem determined to fight each other and defeat progress toward what should be the goal of all.

SPEAKING OF SPENDING NCLE SAM is a fast spender. If he gets rid in the next year of the $12,000,000,000 appropriated by the recent session of Congress, that will be at the rate of about $380 a second. But how about the crowd in New York that paid $1,015,096—better than $8250 a second—to see Joe Louis knock out Hitler's boy, Max Schmeling, in 2 minutes and

now, continving at Washington in a party with which they are completely out of sympathy so far as national affairs are concerned. Or second, they could keep their local organizations Democratic but turn them in as Republican so far as Presidential, Senatorial and Congressional candidates are concerned, being national Republicans and local Democrats.

Business

By John T. Flynn

Monopoly Investigating Committee Must Study Whole Field of Bigness.

EW YORK, June 24—Before the monopoly study launched by Congress gets under way, partisans begin to argue about the meaning of “moncpoly.” It is a safe guess that the investigators will, for the purposes of the study, adopt the widest possible definition. How they may define monopoly when they come to the end of their investigations is another matter. But those who argue the point must remember that our laws against monopoly have always included the idea of “restraint of trade.” The Sherman law, for instance, made not only completed monopoly unlawful, bu any acts by individuals in concert to restrain rade. And this is important because it has led many students and legal authorities as well to consider the whole question of bigness as related to the study of monopoly and restraints upon trade. No one, for instance, will say that Mr. Justice Day was a radical or even an extreme liberal. He was Secretary of State in the Cabinet of William McKinley and was named to the Supreme Court by MecKinley. In the steel case Justice Day dissented from the majority. And in the course of that dissent he laid down the doctrine that the power which comes from size “may not legally be deprived from conspiracies, combinations or contracts in restraint of trade.” He said the illegality arose from the “scope of such combinations” and their “power to suppress and stifle competition which create or tend to create monopolies,” which it “was the purpose of the Sherman act to condemn.” A distinguished United States Senator said recently that he did not know of any monopolies in this country. Perhaps there are no utterly, complete, 100 per cent, copper-riveted monopolies,

Definitions Have to Be Reasonable

But the definitions of monopoly have to be reasonable. And the whole subject has to be considered in relation to its economic consequences. The investigation will be interested not merely in utter monopoly, which is so rare, but in monopoly practices which are very common.

Two men may compete, but they may mark out a certain area of their industry which they will lift out of the domain of competition by agreements. They may, for instance, compete in eve ything but prices. To that extent there is competition. But to the ex-

tent that they agree upon prices, they do impose a restraint upon trade.

It will be a great misfortune if this powerful group failed to examine fully the whole subject of bigness and its effect upon the economic system.

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

“ ANP so Goldilocks ran home to her Mother as fast as she could go and never, never, went back to the Bear's House” At the last word the littlest Ferguson, her baby face tense with listening, pleaded, “Tell it aden, tell it aden.” My heart quivered to the phrase. A long time ago two round-eyed little sisters, avid for stories, had said the same words. Then they were a familiar sound upon the lips of my own three children, and now this last baby, who seems an exquisite composite of all the others, coaxes me to “Tell it again.” What fun it is to comply. As I tell and retell the story of Goldilocks—she will have no other—I consider how like children all of us are, the whole of humankind. How unsatiated, forever driven by the same old curiosities, forever intent upon the same old mischiefs, and forever expecting to escape from their consequences, as Goldilocks escaped from the anger of the Three Bears. “Tell it again.” It is a cry of grown-ups. Give

us, we pray, the adventures, the thrills, the romance, the heartwarming rewards, no matter whether we merit them or not. For man never grows too old to believe in fairy tales or to hope for a happy ending to his strange story of life. The defeats we see, even those we experience ourselves, do not daunt hope, I like to think we shail not be disappointed. For no weariness, no hardship, no sorrow are heavy enough to extinguish the brave little flicker of our hope. Somewhere, every frightened Goldilocks will find refuge. Somewhere, our mother’s arms wait to shelter us once more. Beyond today—on the other side of the portals of death—lie safety and peace and

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FRIDAY, JUNE 24, 1938

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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.

POET CONSIDERS BUYING WHISTLE

By D. F. C

‘Some time ago a Canadian poet, Wallace Havelock Robb, bought himself a bell to ring “when I am in the mood for it” to make “a sweet sound over the countryside at eventide.” Said Robb: “This is the first time in record where anyone has bought a ceremonial bell just as a whim. Hardly anyone but a poet would have thought of such a thing.” I think I shall buy a steamboat whistle. Then, whenever I finish a poem, I shall pull the cord. When I conclude a couplet at midnight the moan will spread over the city. The poetry lovers, lying awake in

| waiting, will sigh and smile in pleas-

ure—and the sleeping businessmen will roil over and swear. » s =

ACTION URGED ON PLAN OF HULL, CHAMBERLAIN By P. S. W.

“Flying has brought new horrors in modern war,” Premier Chamberlain told the British House of Commons. Thereupon he proposed an international code to cover bombardments from the air. He suggested: First, that deliberate attacks on civilians be declared contrary to international law; second, that airplane bombs be aimed only at legitimate military objectives; third, that reasonable care be required to avoid the bombing of civilians. This is directly in line with Secretary of State Hull's recent demang for the humanizing of war practices. Even Germany is on record to much the same effect. Berlin has proposed the prohibition of gas, poisonous and incendiary bombs and the dropping of bombs of any kind on open localities outside the range of ordinary artillery; that is to say, beyond the actual fighting front. The democracies should take the Nazis up on that. To say they are bluffing is no answer. The way to find out is to call. There is a fairly widespread disposition to speak ironically of the very term, “humanizing war.” All war is inhuman. But this is no time for hair-splitting. If we can’t abolish war—and we don’t seem able to do that—perhaps we can minimize some of its more barbarous practices, even if it proves impossible to end them altogether. Time was when soldiers made a show of parading the bodies of pbabies on the points of their spears. Wells were poisoned. The wounded were finished off with brutal pikethrusts. Prisoners were blown from the muzzles of cannon. Such things were an accepted part of war. Today they are taboo, and civilized

(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.)

| ban. It isn’t much, but it is something. Now a new horror has appeared. Bombs are being dropped on open cities in Spain and China. Civilians, among them women, babies and the aged, are being blown to pieces i wholesale. | Civilization, if there is such a

thing, should begin to work on this | problem now. As a first step, it] | should act on the Hull-Chamber- | | lain suggestion. At least, such a code would serve to draw a line. Even if it were only partially observed, there would be that much gain. Any restraint in such matters is better than none at all. ” =

NEED SEEN FOR ‘PUBLIC'S DIRECTOR’

By 8S. A. E. Dr. Walter A. Jessup, president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, has been elected to the board of directors of the Johns-Manville Corp. in New York. Dr. Jessup’s chief experience has

been in education, not in business. He was a school superintendent in Indiana, a professor at Indiana Uni- | versity, and from 1916 to 1034 he! was president of the University of | Towa. Still, it is likely that other |

educators have served on the boards

A FRIEND By VIRGINIA POTTER He always says, “Hello there” In a cheerful sort of way, And if I've felt downhearted He drives the blues away.

He can't be called a lover, For he’s just a true blue friend Who likes to see me happy, Who'll be loyal to the end.

He doesn’t ask of anything; His only joy, I know, Is seeing me lighthearted, He has often told me so!

DAILY THOUGHT

A sound of battle is in the land, and of great destruction.—Jeremiah 50:22,

EN who have nice notions of

religion have no business to be

nations pretty generally observe the soldiers.—Wellington.

of big corporations. The unusual thing about Dr, Jessup’s election to the Johns-Manville board is the reason given for it. 3 He is to be, according to the corporation’s president, Lewis H. Brown, the direct representative of the viewpoint of the general public. As Mr. Brown says, there have been profound changes in economic and social thinking in the last 10 years. Business is confronted with new responsibilities and new relationships. Dr. Jessup is expected to advise the corporation how it should meet these, so serving the general welfare while serving also the particular desire of its stockholders for profits. Here, it seems, is something new— an experiment. Much will depend upon the quality of the counsel given by Dr. Jessup and more, perhaps, upon the willingness of the corporation to follow that counsel. But Mr. Brown and his directors have recognized an important fact. In these times business has an obligation that extends beyond its owners, its managers, its customers and even its employees—an obligation to all the people who may be affected by its operations. Unless business recognizes and meets this obligation the only alternative is further and further extension of

.Government’s attempt to regulate

and control business. 2 8 = SUPPORTS MAVERICK'S PLEA FOR BETTER AIR DEFENSE By P. A. Rep. Maury Maverick of Texas charges in a signed article in Collier's that this country’s billion-and-a-half dollar naval program amounts to nothing more than an invitation

to war, “the biggest chip the United States has ever placed on its shoulder,” and adds that at the same time, our coast defense, which would cost millions instead of billions, are woefully inadequate. The War Department, he states, is constantly worried by our vulnerability. But his most startling statement is that “we have altogether, in this entire nation, the grand total of only 56 antiaircraft guns.” After analyzing the protective needs of the country’s industrial and population centers on the East Coast, Rep. Maverick suggests in detail a plan of unified national defense, which he says would cost fa: less than the present naval construction program, and would tend to insure peace instead of threatening war, It is high time that the Government stop putting so many eggs in the Navy basket and begin to prepare a better air defense.

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the life cell each child was born from.

2 A WRITER, Catharine Mackenzie, in the New York Times Magazine, interviewed doctors, lawyers, taxi-drivers, headwaiters, restaurant managers, heads of depart ments of home economics, etc., and concluded this is still a man’s country as far as getting the kind of cooking he likes best. The survey distinctly tended to show that women cook to please men and the astonishing thing was that most of them admitted it!

n ” » NO LOWER TYPE of human vulture exists today than the employment racketeers. Kenneth Coolbaugh in Occupations—The Vo-

cational Guidance Magazine—warns job-seekers to ascertain from the local Chamber of Commerce or Better Business Bureau in their city if an employment agency is on the level. He warns against all employment agencies and advertisements that offer to sell jobs or offer salaries in excess of local rates or that offer glittering jobs at a distance. He warns further, don’t deposit any car fare or trust a person who seems in a hurry or is not permanently located or who asks for money or a bond on one pretext or another, except the most moderate registration feé, or who offers to mail letters to prospective employers.

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Says— ‘When Will This Depression End?*

Your Correspondent Lists a Few Items on Each Side of the Ledger,

ETHANY BEACH, Del, June 24—The foremost American question is, “When will this depression cease?” The President says that a few raine drops of improvement may mean a much-needed shower—which is decidedly more conservative than prosperity Hoovering around the corner. But it is a lot better than such official pessimism as Mr. Wale lace’s occasional outgivings on the farm prospect. Joe Kennedy, from the vantage point of months

of absence from the scene, thinks we have about cried ourselves out. The Administration is well known to be hoping highly that its great outpouring of the public's money will bring a distinct revival just in time for the November election. But will it? It will if the very spending itself and other Governmental acts and attitude don’t frighten private money back into its hole. n ” ”

TS President quotes that great seer, Danny Roper, that national income this year will be 60 billions as against about 70 billions last year. Mebbeso. It is

a lag of 30 billion below what we need for bare lean normality of business without increased population.

Three billions of public spending is the most that could be dished out this year. That can't make up for a lag of 30 billions or even for the lag of 10 bil lions between this and last year. Nothing under the sun can make up that lag except a return of private spending, that doesn't mean Just big investment money. It means an end of too much caution and saving against fear of disaster by every one of the 130,000,000 Americans who has two nickles to rub against each other,

Those millions of cautions are part of what Joe Kennedy calls our “crying ourselves out.” But the reason for the “crying” so far as big money is cone cerned, is fear of Government.

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Se much for the minus signs in this guessing cone test. There are a few plus signs. One of them is a great European drought and a tendency in ware threatened countries to lay up surplus stocks of come modities—including farm products, There are some faint glimmerings of hope in very recent seasonal sales figures and even the vital automobile pattern isn't as gloomy as it was a month ago. More important than all of this is the funda« mental fact that this country is just too big and wealthy and has too much essential umph for even the most idiotic Government gyrations to keep it dewn for long. Stocks become exhausted. Necessaries are con. sumed. Human needs and appetites continue. After a sufficient period of deprivation, action simply has to begin. The difficulty is in timing it. This column joins the President in declining to try that. But here is a rabbit’s-foot hunch. The third New Deal must have improvement for the November elections, Mr. Roosevelt is so lucky that, if he fell into a well, he would land on a buried treasure.

It Seems to Me By Heywood Broun

Columnist Wants Full Credit for An Idea That Was Entirely His Own.

EW YORK, June 24.-—Several years ago I joined a labor union, and at my own volition I made a promise not to write about it in the column, But today I ask indulgence for about three lines to correct an impression which is unfair to the American Newspaper Guild. Several people seem to be under the impression that at the recent convention in Toronto the Guild went on record as being in favor of the U. S. Government going into the newspaper business by putting out rival papers in cities where no competition existed. The subject never came up before the Guild. Merely in the capacity of visiting fireman I did, in my own right, make a speech before an inter= professional group at which Morley Callaghan, the Canadian novelist, was chairman. And I did say that I believed in the Federal theater and in Federal writers’ projects, and that Government newspaper projects seemed to me just as logical as other Federal projects. It seemed to me that the proper place to make the experiment would be at large one-paper towns. I was not drawing up a precise plan. I was throwing out an idea entirely on my own. But speaking of the daily press, everybody in this modern age is inclined to use “reporter” and “writing newspaperman” as meaning the same thing. I'll waive the fact that a good many columnists, dramatic critics and book reviewers are not reporters. What I really have in mind is a little group of stalwarts now diminishing or extinct. I refer to men who were excellent reporters, although they had to mark an “X” when they signed a payroll,

Night City Editor Unconvinced

Thirty years ago I worked on a paper which hired two of these gifted news gatherers. One covered crime and spoke out of a vast experience which he had had as a pickpocket in his early youth. He was eloquent in relating a story, but he had to use pantomime in making his points. All of us except the night city editor were convinced that Sam was entirely faithful to the best interests of the paper. After all, there were so many other places where the night city edie tor might have mislaid his watch. The other nonwriting reporter was named some= thing like Sam, and Broadway was his beat. The trouble with Sam was that his stories sounded so much better when he told them than when some slightly more literate person put them into words. He got me into my first and only libel suit. It was a story of a vaudeville actor who borrowed the fur coat of another performer on a snowy Christe mas eve. When the storm broke I summoned Sam. “The editor says we two have gotten the paper in, a libel suit,” I explained. Sam laughed uproariously. “Don’t be silly,” he said. “The thing never happened at all. I just made it up.”

Watching Your Health

By Dr. Morris Fishbein

w= the nose becomes infected as a result of some irritation or wound into which germs enter, small abscesses form. The germs most likely to invade are the pus-forming germs of the type of the staphylococcus or the streptococcus, which ace usually constant inhabitants of the various portions of the body. The first sign of an infection is tenderness or soreness, associated with heat, throbbing, and pain. Since the other tissues respond in an endeavor to wall off the infection from the rest of the body, the cheeks and the upper lip will become thickened, and the swelling may extend to the eyes and the eyelids, If nothing is done, quite frequently the fluid mate~ rial may break through and be evacuated, so that the signs of infection rapidly disappear. In many cases, however, because of the large blood supply in this area, the infection may spread widely and may even invade the blood, producing death. Obviously this is not the kind of condition that anyone ought to try to treat for himself, because of the menace that exists through extension of the infection. A physician will determine first of all the extent of the involvement, and may apply directly to the affected area suitable antiseptic substances which will help to destroy the germs or inhibit their action, Doctors dislike very much to endeavor to treat these conditions by cutting because of the danger of spread of the infection. In very severe cases the X-ray has been used with considerable advantage as a means of checking this sort of an involvement. The dangerous possibilities should be a constant warning not to endeavor to remove crusts by force or to pull hairs from the nose with infected fingers. J

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