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Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way

SATURDAY, JUNE 25, 1938

THE WELCOME SIGN

RESIDENT ROOSEVELT had much to say last night about co-operation. The American people, we are sure, were glad to hear him talk on that theme. Ie told capital and labor of his hope that they will operate more intelligently together and in greater co-operation with their Government. “Such co-operation,” he said, “will be very welcome to me... I need all the help I can get.”

And he added that he sees signs of getting help in | the future from many who have opposed his program in |

the past.

We do not regard this as one of the President's greater | It con- | | on his banjo to inaugurate the 1938 political cam-

speeches, The tone of most of it was political. veved the impression that Mr. Roosevelt is pretty cam-paign-conscious just now. We think it might well have included a generous recognition of the fact that co-opera-tion, after all, must involve give as well as take. And it might well have omitted some references, some epithets, that contributed nothing to better feeling. But we don’t want to be captious. The notable point is that Mr. Roosevelt, in that portion of his address which touched on the thing of most immediate importance to the national welfare, did hang the welcome sign on the door to co-operation.

That, coming at a time when indications of economic | The |

{| cently , how the pendulum has swung, Sloan was among the

improvement are beginning to appear, is hopeful. indications are not too numerous and not too bright. A vast amount of working together needs to be done before the country can feel assurance that the worst of its troubles have been overcome.

But we know that the co-operation of which the Presi-

dent spoke is necessary, and that it must come quickly. For | unless capital and labor and Government do operate more |

intelligently together, this country is not likely to preserve

known them.

NEEDED: A HOUSING AUTHORITY

ORE evidence that Indianapolis slums constitute a

serious menace to health, morals and public welfare | has been brought to the public's attention. Walter E. Stan- | ton, State Housing Board secretary, in stressing the need |

for slum clearance, cited a 1932 housing study here which showed that 30 per cent of the City Hospital's cases came from the most poorly housed 10 per cent of the population.

The survey also revealed that during the same period 24 per cent of the cases treated in venereal disease clinics and 19.1 per cent of the Central State Hospital patients came from the slum area. “This area was the home of felons, whose arrest, trial and imprisonment absorbed 36 per cent of the City's expenditures along these lines,” the survey stated. Yet these statistics only bear out what civic and church groups repeatedly have contended—that poor health and delinquency run hand in hand with poor housing. The resolution for an Indianapolis Housing Authority, now pending in the City Council, would set up machinery for slum clearance and low rental projects. A five-man commission appointed by the Mayor would have the power to investigate housing conditions, issue bonds, buy real estate and fix rentals. The projects, it is pointed out, would be financed largely by Federal loans and subsidies.

Attacked on various grounds, the resolution has been shelved since last fall. Its opponents have charged it is not the most feasible approach to the problem.

Effective and speedy action is necessary, however, to remedy a condition of dwelling dilapidation here that a Commerce Department survey in 1934 showed to be fifth worst among 24 cities of this size. If a housing authority is not believed satisfactory, a better proposal should be offered. We have not heard a better proposal.

CIVIL SERVICE VICTORY «INCE the civil service system was nominally written into Federal law 55 years ago, every Government personnel abuse, every mistake of an inefficient employee, has been

held up as proof of the system’s failure. The fact is that civil service has never had a full chance to succeed.

Yesterday President Roosevelt gave the system some of the weapons needed to make it effective. Ie issued executive orders removing more than 130,000 jobs from the political pie counter, instituting scientific personnel divisions in each agency, prescribing promotion on a merit basis, creating in-service training, transfer, reinstatement and appeals machinery, and endowing the Civil Service Com= mission with much-needed power and directional guides. More important than the blow at the spoils system is the establishment of a foundation for a true career system. This does not mean that a career system will spring up in a night next February, when the Presidential orders take effect. It does not even guarantee that such a system will ever come about. The battle is only begun.

To create a personnel system adequate for the largest hiring agency in America, to guarantee the justice and promote the efficiency needed in what should be the country’s model business establishment, decades of work may be necessary. The encouraging factor is that purpose and direction for that work have been clearly set down at last.

THOSE AMAZING INDIANS

HOSE amazing Indians return to Perry Stadium tonight, still setting the pace in a close American Association pennant race. They fared well on their latest two-week road trip, winning 11 of 16 games and being especially impressive against the strong western contenders. The Redskins’ present stay here will be for only four days. However, that should be long enough for them to soak up some of that beneficial “home” spirit and at the

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Washington

By Raymond Clapper

Roosevelt, in His Fireside Chat, Played All of the Strings on His Banjo to Open the '38 Campaign.

(Westbrook Pegler Is on Vacation)

ASHINGTON, June 25.—You can get a better line on Roosevelt's fireside talk if you keep in mind that he was speaking primarily as a politician, sounding the keynote in the Congressional campaign in which he is the real issue.

Roosevelt is under no illusions about the stakes in

this fight. It is part of the struggle to determine whether the New Deal shall be scrapped in 1940—yes and whether his own party is to run out on it. If in the Maryland Democratic primaries, for example, Senator Tydings, the stiff-backed anti-New Deal Democrat, is renominated, it will be heralded throughout the country as a repudiation of Roosevelt. So it will be in many other primary contests. And in the November election, if the Republicans put over their candidate for Governor in Pennsylvania, does anybody think that it will not be accepted as a repudiation of Roosevelt In the second most important political state in the country? Roosevelt and his New Deal are the issue this year and he is ready to pitch in with everything he has.

& 4 4 T should also be remembered that Roosevelt frankly regards himself as a politician and the Presidency as a political office. Roosevelt thinks the failure of some of our ablest Presidents has been due to the fact that they not recognize that the Presidency is a political office. So in this role, Roosevelt played all of the strings

paign. Sprinkied throughout the talk were invitations to business and labor to co-operate with the Government—but it was clear that this must be on the Administration's terms. Those who have urged him to rest on his oars, he denounced as ‘“copper-heads”’—the most bitter Civil War epithet brought back to life. In defending the Wage-Hour Act, Roosevelt let go this scathing thrust: “Do not let any calamity-

howling executive with an income of $1000 a day, who |

has been turning his employees over to the Government’s relief rolls in order to preserve his company’s undistributed reserves, tell you . . . that a wage of $11 a week is going to have a disastrous effect on

all American industry.”

HAT was generally construed here as a reference A to Alfred P. Sloan of General Motors, who redeplored this legislation. And indicative of

big business executives who called on Roosevelt last winter during the series of conferences over co-opera-tion between business and Government. Roosevelt takes the unusual step of announcing that in his capacity as leader of the Democratic Party he will go into some of the Democratic primaries to defeat Democratic candidates who are not in general sympathy with his program or who are resorting to “misuse of my name.” He repeatedly makes clear that his purpose is to

: : | improve the functioning of the democratic system and for long either capital or labor or Government as we have |

to preserve private enterprise. His thought is restrained. The language is bold and taunting. It will enrage all Roosevelt-haters but it will stir his supporters to more aggressive campaign work and that is the maln purpose of any campaign speech.

Business By John T. Flynn

Type of Man Named Exchange Head Will Tell Success of Reform Fight.

EW YORK, June 25.—The great victory won by

the reform elements in the Stock Exchange remains to be completed and consolidated. Whether this will happen depends cn the type of man who is chosen as president. The two evil forces in the Stock Exchange through its checkered history have been the professional speculators in the membership and the handful of great investment banking firms which have managed to dominate it. After all, the Exchange is one of the most powerful engines in the country for making money. The group which can dominate that machinery, exploit it, command it, can make enormous profits. The great investment bankers, therefore, have found this machine of the first importance to them in their operations. They have affected great respectability. They stand out as the agents and protagonists of the most respected elements in the community. But through the medium of the exchanges they are enabled to pull strings, manage adventures, carry on operations which cannot always stand the light of day. The chief use of the exchanges to them has been their facilities for distributing stocks to the public.

They're Still Powerful

To these firms the ability to enjoy the favor of the Exchange and its management is of incalculable value. So they have schemed and conspired to dominate its councils. This has been easy for them because it is a simple matter for them to throw in the way of Exchange governors untold opportunities for making money. In the overturn which took place in the Exchange last May these banking interests suffered a severe defeat. But it would be a great mistake to suppose that they had abandoned the field. They still exercise great power. They still have it in their hands, perhaps, to turn the tables, to get a president and a council who will look with benevolent cyes upon them, There are honorable men on the Exchange who oppose this, who believe that the Exchange should be an instrument to serve the public absoluiely independent of any of these great predatory banking interests. You will know whether these men have won the fight by the type and character of the man named as president of the Exchange, If he is a member of a law firm connected directly or indirectly with the bankers or the many law firms who act for them, or if he is a director of one of the many companies they control; if he is one of their social allies, then you will know that’ the battle of the marketplace has been lost and, in spite of all the dangerous struggle which a few there have made, the old gang will still control.

A Woman's Viewpoint

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

HEORETICALLY, I'm “agin” child labor. But I very much wish I could put my 14-year-old boy to work. What's to become of a youngster living in a modern city when three months’ vacation stretches ahead of him.

There are summer camps. But they are for people with money. He may work fitfully at Boy Scouting, or spend a couple of weeks at a Y. M. C. A. lodge, or visit relatives and friends if they will put up with him. But that doesn’t really solve his summer problems.

The car is there to be washed, the grass should be cut, and some other odd jobs are crying tq be done. To keep him at all this, however, takes more of my time than I can spare. The movies offer expensive and often questionable entertainment. He listens to radio programs glorifying slaughter. Yet, forever before my eyes is the question: How can you teach a boy to work when there's no work I'm more than open, I'm eager for your suggestions. Along with other deplorable social evils the city has brought us is the evil of idleness for children. There are few home chores of the sort we had when most of the population lived in villages or the country. Only the books we loved are the same in every era. I feel truly serene about my son only when we are reading “Huckleberry Finn” or “Treasure Island” or “Lorna Doone” aloud together. But I want him to learn the self-discipline that regular work brings. i can I give him that?

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

SAYS FARMERS COMPETING FOR JOBS IN CITY

By H. J. L.

Here is my say about the farmer. (I am trying to make my living in | the construction business and have |lived in Indianapolis all my life. There was a farmer on one job layv[ing bricks at $1.37!: per hour, al- | though he owned a large farm 100 | miles from Indianapolis. He cried because the city man would take relief instead of working on his farm {at $1 a day. {ernment in turn wanted to pay him not to raise crops. Is this fair to the man living in Indianapolis who | pays taxes and tries to make a liv- | ing without some acres to help him along?

He also said the Gov- |

(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.)

| know how much more the Government can afford to do at this time. Of great interest is the news that | medical knowledge is now such that, | given enough money, it could stamp | out tuberculosis in a few years. The | same thing is true of other diseases. | Here should be a great added in-

muzzles will be off the entire population. It also, however, looks like the last. Many of the dogs according to the word from Vienna, immediately celebrated their unaccustomed freedom by taking large bites out of everything in sight, including their masters. » ” ” NOT SURPRISED BY POLITICS IN RELIEF By S. Omar Barker I share your concern over the current use of relief money to buy votes, not only from willing sellers | but also coercively from those who | hold free suffrage, a citizen's right, {but I don’t share your apparent

At present there are three farm- | contive for every effort to get our surprise that President Roosevelt

ers from Martinsville working on a job here and they own farms. Another from Morgantown made $54 a week as a carpenter. What chance has the city fellow | like me? Heavy taxes should be put | on those who want to work at both | ends. We can't go to towns to work; they won't let us. So more power to the WPA and the city man. ” on n

| | URGES DEMOCRATS’ ELECTION

| FOR RESPONSIBLE CONGRESS

| By Charles F. Howard, Windfall

I find many Republicans are go- |

ing to vote Democratic this year | for the first time because to elect a the factories will open in full. tarmer, laborer and all business will | flourish because the Democratic | Party would be 100 per cent re- | sponsible.

| years, the Republicans will sweep

| the country like a prairie fire in|

| 1940. | To elect a Republican Congress

conditions two years longer. Re-

they were blocked. Neither party would be responsible for anything. Bankruptcy, anarchy and chaos would be supreme. Voters can make Democrats 100 per cent responsible for everything for the next two vears oniy by electing a Democratic Congress this fall.

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TUBERCULOSIS FIGHT E. V. : Tuberculosis kills about people in the United States year, and disables a great more. The National Tuberculosis Association, meeting in Los Angeles, has outlined a proposed program by which, it says, this plague could be practically ended in six years. The cost is estimated at about $200,000,000, most of which the Federal Government is asked to provide. The Government has assumed many other obligations. It is spending billions to feed, clothe and house unemployed Americans. AS one by-product of this spending many new hospitals will be built, and that will mean a considerable increase in facilities for the treatment of tuberculosis sufferers.

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Democratic Congress will mean all | The |

If the Democrats fail to | | make good during the next two |

this fall would be to prolong present |

publicans would claim, because of | a Democratic President and Senate, |

| economic machine running in good | order again, so that Government, in- | stead of borrowing and spending | billions merely to keep victims of depression alive, will be able to provide swiftly and surely the ammunition needed to destgoy such old enemies as tuberculosis.

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FINDS FREEDOM NOTE ABROAD

By F.C. C. Maybe the intentions of Der | Fuehrer have been something no- | body suspected, all along. | Maybe those champions of personal liberty who have pictured him as the arch-enemy of democ- | racy and individual freedom have been doing the man a grave injustice. Maybe the point of the annexation of Austria was to ac-

| quire a laboratory in which the best | methods of easing the new Ger- | many into the privileges of adulthood were to be worked out. The latest news from Vienna is scarcely credible in any other light. After 24 years of the strictest | regulation, the dogs of Vienna have just had their muzzles removed. | The law requiring that every Jack dog among them be muzzled in pub- | lic at all times has been stricken | off the books completely. | Friends of freedom, it looks like | the first timorous step toward the Germanic millennium, when the

DISCOURAGING By VIRGINIA V. KIDWELL { I view my neighbor's yard and sigh; | His flowers have such a hothouse | air: | , | My own are scarcely half as high, But that, of course, is only fair. | For he works steadily and hard | To make each healthy plant more | fair: | I only dawdle in my yard And give it intermittent care.

DAILY THOUGHT

For the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and believed that I came out from God.—John 16:27.

| AITH is to believe, on the word i of God, what we do not see, and | its reward is to see and enjoy what

I don't we believe.—Augustine.

| permits it. Make no mistake about planned it that way. ’

2 x = THIS READER | HAS A QUESTION | By 8. H. That German inventor who has developed a “house-fly” flying machine deserves credit for marvelous

ingenuity. It's a helicopter, with rotating wings, and it can go up, down, forward, backward, sidewise, | or hover motionless in the air. Yes, but can it walk upside down on the ceiling? ” » ” SUGGESTS DEPORTATION OF POLITICIANS By 8. N. It has been said there is some | good in everything and I have con- | | cluded one of our basic faults as a | people is in expending our energies | denouncing things when we should | be seeking and making use of the good which lies therein, Mr, Jersey Hague is a case in point. I think he really has some=thing in the suggestion that we deport and segregate the disturbing element of our population. If we really want to get rid of those who have ruined what once was God's country, however, we must start with the politicians. No one, so far as I know, has ever advanced a reasonable proposal for the advantageous use of that great continent turned over to us by Admiral Byrd-—Antarctica. Let's send everybody who ever held a political job down to Antarctica, You think that would be cruel! What would they live on? Don't be silly! You can put a poliiician anywhere and in any maner and rest assured he will land on something to tax.

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» nn PEGLER IS TERMED ‘WINDBAG’ DEFLATER

By Harry Gumbley

As your correspondent, Westbrook Pegler, seems to get plenty of adverse criticism, permit me to go on record as one of his enthusiastic fans. As a deflater of windbags he has no equal in America today. Pegler's column is like a refreshing cocktail before a hearty meal,

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By DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM

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"MOTHER, ALL PEOPLE SHOW SURPRISE, DISSUST PLEASURE, CONTEMPT, LOVE, ETC., BY CERTAIN FACIAL EXPRESSIONS. ARE THESE INHERITED?" "CERTAINLY, DICK, WERE JUST NATURALLY BORN THAT WAY, YOUR OPINION oe. 4

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emotions with the same Bestures and expressions as man. wever, a Columbia professor, Dr. Otto Kline-

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berg, has found that many gestures and expressions are merely racial or national customs. He finds when a Chinaman sticks out his tongue he does not mean contempt but surprise; when his eyes grow wide with what we would call surprise, he is angry.

» » » 2 A PSYCHIATRIST, Dr. Joseph C. Solomon, of Baltimore, has developed a new method for treating shy and maladjusted children, He plays a game with dolls with the children in which the children unconsciously tell about themselves and thus reveal the causes of their difficulties. At the Bureau of Juvenile Research in Chicago, by properly directing the play of shy children, the children soon overcome their shyness and become self-con-fident and aggressive.

® a =» 3 ACCORDING bg ihe ies opin fons of psychiatrists prison officials, the heartless murders done by killers are done by them in a state of terror, caught after some ruthless hey are

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SATURDAY, JUNE 25, 1938

Gen. Johnson Says— |

Prize Fighting Is Mostly Contest

In Brute Strength, and if We Want Perfect Champ, Why Not a Gorilla?

EW YORK, June 25.—Some visions stick in the mind like a midnight landscape suddenly and blindingly revealed by a flash of lightning—to be instantly blotted out in blackness. Yet you recal' them more clearly than the same daylight landscape observed for hours, One minute after the machine-gun rapidity of the Louis-Schmeling shambles began, there was such a flash etching of that poor Nazi, numb against the

ropes, eyes bemused, daubers down, utterly helpless, mentally absent, pititully limp. It lasted a split second but it will stick with me always, After the last Schmeling-Louis fight, Mr. Hitler's propagandists unloaded a lot of silly boasting stuff about its proof of white Aryan supremacy—crediting the victory to a mythical race rather than to a very substantial man, There is no such thing as an Aryan race. There was a Nordic race of tall, blue-eyed, long-headed savages, like the Vikings, but Mr, Schmeling doesn't be= long to it—nor do any of Herr Hitler's people.

» » » T= piteous flash 1 got of Schmeling wrecked and out on his feet, was vivid pictorial disproof of this nonsense about Aryan physical supremacy, The average of white intelligence is above the aver age of black intelligence probably because the white race is several thousand years further away from Jungle savagery. But, for the same reason, the aver age of white physical equipment is lower. If the blackmen had an equal opportunity to compete in athletics, there might not be any white

champions at all. Certainly there would be fewer on a percentage basis. As officer in charge of athletics in Pershing’s punitive expedition, I once conducted an all-sports fleld day in Mexico. There were three white regiments and two colored ones. As I recall, the Negroes took all events except one second in the 100-yard dash, My enlisted assistant observed—with bad diction, but good sense—‘Lieutenant, they're just too physical for us.” It was obviously true.

* ¥ ¥F is nothing for us to weep about and seek white hopes. These black boys are Americans—a whole lot more distinctly so than more recently arrived citizens of say, the Schmeling type. There should be just as much pride in their progress and prowess under our system as in the triumph of any other American. Prize fighting isn't exactly one of the highest types of human endeavor. It is mostly a contest in brute

strength and cruel savagery. A nation should feel no shame because its best bruisers are not brutally stronger or more cruelly savage than the best bruisers of another nation. A nice, well-trained gorilla would make a swell heavyweight champ. He could probably lick six Louis’ and a dozen Schmelings in a single battle royal. Presumably Herren Hitler and Goebbels would not feel compelled to get out any alibi excusing Aryan supremacy on that.

It Seems to Me By Heywood Broun

A Prize Fight May Have Its Effect On the Troubled Affairs of Europe.

EW YORK, July 25.—At the moment this is written Max Schmeling is gravely ill, and so what I want to say is not intended to be facetious. Nor have I any desire to speak ill of the German fighter as an individual. He had his assignment, Whether it was his personal desire or not, Schmeling came into the ring as a symbol of a political philosophy. "And while it may sound far-fetched, I honestly believe that this particular heavyweight prize fight may have a not inconsiderable effect upon the affairs of Europe. I am aware that a prize fight is only a prize fight and that it is silly to draw deductions as to national or racial prowess from the fact that one individual succeeds in battering down another. But that inevitably was the set-up. Semiofficially, at least, the Nazi Government chose to risk its prestige in a trial by battle even as Israel did when David engaged in single-handed combat against Goliath. And, as in ancient days, Schmeling was the warrior to stand out in front of his fellows to prove the might and power and glory of the entire group which chose him as its representative. He was expected to dramatize the new German anthropological theories and demonstrate Nordic superiority,

Tunney Shares View This theory is not my own invention, I was talking to Gene Tunney before the fight, He saw both men in their training camps and talked to them, and he said that in his opinion Louis had a much greater equipment of physical weapons, but he was impressed by the fact that the Nazi Government had put in a very successful amount of work in convincing * Schmeling that his role was that of national repre=-

sentative. This seemed true to me because I met Schmeling several years ago, and he seemed in his own right affable and courteous. But this time he appeared to be under orders to speak arrogantly and to carry on the tradition of his home Government that victories can be won by sweeping assertions of determination and power. The result of a prize fight may be a little thing in reality, but psychologically it can be important. Even the tiniest hint that the Nazi bark is more than the Nazi bite could possibly loose a train of consequences. And one hundred years from now some historian may theorize, in a footnote at least, that the decline of Nari prestige began with a left hook delivered by a former unskilled automobile worker who had never studied the policies of Neville Chamberlain and had no opinion whatsoever in regard to the situation in Czechoslovakia.

Watching Your Health

By Dr. Morris Fishbein

F all the great accomplishments of modern medical and public health science, those related to the welfare of the child seem most vital and significant. A large part of the result must be credited to the provision of pure milk and pure water in our large--cities. In many places the campaign against infant : deaths has included visits by trained nurses to the homes of mothers of newborn babies, informing then of the proper care of the child; the development of infant welfare or consultation centers, to which the children of those unable to pay may be brought for... suitable advice; the co-ordination of the efforts of a great many different agencies leading to a combined attack upon unnecessary deaths, : Indeed, a large part of the credit for what has been accomplished is the result of education of people generally in the care of the child. Much attention is being given to nutrition of the growing child. It has been shown quite certainly that an adequate living wage for the worker is necessary in order to '' provide the infant with the necessary food and shelter as well as with medical care and that when wages are inadequate infant mortality is high, Special attention is given to the problem of the undernourished child, by teaching nutrition and by -. providing school lunches. Tuberculosis is prevented .: by the use of open-air scheols, preventoriums andsanitoriums. Attention is also given to the teeth so as to pre vent dental caries and to take care of cavities as they develop. Moreover, there are today special Slasecy for ackwa fldreri, crippled children and so des