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Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way

MONDAY, JUNE 27, 1938

HARRISON'S HOME HE restoration and opening to the public of the old Benjamin Harrison home at 1230 N. Delaware St. recalls a brilliant era in Indiana a half century ago.

The State's only Chief Executive lived in the stately |

brick house both before and after his Presidential term from 1889 to 1893.

furnishings from Hoosier history. The old home and its valuable collection are treasures of which Indianapolis can be proud.

BUSINESS! TAKE UP YOUR BED AND WALK! WE think this a time for business to try its legs. Usually the summer slump appears even in the boomiest of vears. But today, after an economic slide even more severe than in the early Thirties, we are seeing plus Just scan the papers for the last two weeks to find them. We don’t know how to explain the phenomenon. But it is visible. So we take this occasion to call to the attention of business, big and little, which for so long has been rehearing a dirge, that—

signs.

There is a time to weep, and a time to laugh; A time to mourn and a time to dance. Is business so enamored of its grouch that it won't even watch the tide while it may be turning? A lot depends on the answer to that.

1 yecause of the drubbing it has been getting from its Government, will not remain long to weep with busi-

usiness

ness or to hold its hand, if, business insists on staying everlastingly on its back.

Depreciation and obsolescence have worn the founda- | tion for such a market for goods and services as never |

before seen in our generation. Does business want to

supply

health?

REMOVING THE GREEN WHISKERS

"THE President indicates that he, F. D. R., himself, per- |

sonallv, will take a hand in those Democratic state pri-

maries where, as he views it, there may be a clear issue |

of New Deal versus old deal. In our svstem of representative government, where local opinion is supposed to prevail in selecting those who shall go to Congress, intrusion from the outside, Presidential or otherwise, may prove a very dangerous practice for those who indulge in it. It may deeply offend home pride and ignite anticarpetbagging emotions. But, after all, there is nothing illegal about it. It is merely a problem of how vou play your politics. If you win, you win. If you lose, vou lose.

Accordingly, we are glad to see the President shedding | himself and his party of the rather tawdry camouflage which | Our intelligence, if any, has | been insulted black-and-blue by such stuff as that Hopkins- |

has adorned 1938 to date.

and-Jimmy-for-Wearin business in Iowa, accompanied by Presidential hand-washings to indicate neutrality. Frankness is a virture in itself. He who is frank takes his own chances, operates in the open and not deviously, in person and not by proxy. We greet the apparent end of what may be described as the vicarious invasion of home rule.

THE YARDSTICK HE Tennessee Valley Authority's long-delayed report on allocation of the cost of its dams has finally been made public. It reveals that

navigation and 20 per cent to flood control. debited to national defense or to fertilizer production. The report is immensely important, because interest on the investment in power-producing facilities is one of the main items supposed to be covered by TVA power rates. On the fairness of the TVA allocation depends the honesty of the TVA yardstick.

Most of us need not be ashamed to admit it if we | None but experts can | know what it is all about, and even the experts are likely |

don’t fully understand this report.

to disagree, just as former Chairman Arthur E. Morgan

does disagree with the other TVA directors about the | S pt : t hamstringing this study.

yardstick’s honesty,

Fortunately, there is a public agency which has author- | ity to dig into the question with the help of qualified ex- | That agency is the TVA investigating committee

perts. created by Congress. The committee has appointed its chief experts—Fran-

cis Biddle of Philadelphia, a lawyer, and Thomas Panter of | | startled wonder born from glimpsing a new world.

Los Angeles, a power engineer. There has been some criticism of both appointments. But both are men of ability and integrity—the sort of men, we think, who will stand on the principle that the best way to serve the New Deal and the cause of public ownership of power is to make the truth about them known. And we are glad that Mr. Biddle has said that whether the yardstick is honest or not is “one of the most essential” things the committee should determine. It is the most essential thing.

YOU NAME IT ATIVES near Sshow, in South Africa, are said to be fearful that a hybrid animal, a cross between a rhinoeceros and a hippopotamus, is prowling the country at night. Some say the footprints are those of a rhino, while others are sure they resemble those of the hippo, which is never seen in the vicinity of Sshow. We should say that the sshow where that animal belongs is Ringling Brothers’. But what we want to know is what to call the beast. Is it a hipporhino? Or a rhinopotamus? Or a hippocerous? Or just a creature of the imagination of the natives near Sshow? w

outside of Indiana, 65 |

By Walter Morrow

The Last Economist in the Kingdom Didn't Need 87 Volumes for His Formula to Bring Back Prosperity.

(Westbrook Pegler Is on Vacation)

NCE upon a time a great and wise king ruled a populous and prosperous land. The width and breadth of his kingdom were measured in thousands of leagues. But a plague of poverty came upon that land, and no man knew its cause. The king, seeing tnat his people were starving in the midst of plenty, called his wisest counsellors. Seated on his golden throne and arraved in his royal robes, he commanded them to lend him their wisdom. Then began an argument that lasted all through the night. As dawn was breaking the king arose and said:

Here are housed today many of the | of economics, so that I may find light and my people

objects prized by the President as well as other pieces and |

| and crossbows.

Certain it is that public opinion, sympathetic with Ss |

with convalescence under way, |

that market, or does it just desire to enjoy ill |

“Here is only confusion of tongues. I have heard many of you speak of a science called economics, which may prove the key to my people's troubles. Mark well my words: One month hence let all the economists of my kingdom assemble here, bringing with them a short and simple text on this subject

may be saved.” 8 & # MONTH passed. The economists assembled, and their number was two thousand and ten.

“Where is my short text on economics?” asked

| the king.

"0, sire,” replied the chief economist, “we have it not. To prepare such a text will require at least

| a year."

“That,” said the King, “is a people languish. But go, now, without delay.”

and get

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long time, and my | to work |

A twelve-month later the economists took their |

places in the great audience hall, around the crystal walls of which the palace guards, armed with spears Then stocd forth the gray-bearded chief economist. "O king,” he said, “we have labored with all diligence and have prepared the short text on economics for which you asked. We have it here in 87 volumes of 600 pages each, profusely illustrated with charts and graphs.” The king, exceedingly wroth, raised his scepter and let it fall with a crash. And the guards shot one thousand and five of the economists. “Now,” thundered the king, “get you gone, and return not until you have written me a really brief text on economics.” 2 2 » EAR after year they bringing each time a slightly version of the text on economics. King satisfied, and each time the palace guards shot more economists until at last only one remained alive. And a day came when this last economist plodded slowly to the palace and sought audience with the ing. trated himself before the king. and spoke:

“Your majesty, I have reduced this subject of eco- |

nomics to a single sentence. Yet will I wager my head that you will find my text a true one, and not to be disputed.” “Speak on,” cried the king. The old economist rese fearlessly to his feet and said: “Sire, in nine words I will reveal to you all the wisdom that I have distilled through all these years from all the writings of all the economists who once practiced their science in your kingdom. Here is my text: “There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.”

Business By John T. Flynn

Those Who Seek Honest Monopoly

Study Must Dominate Investigation. EW YORK, June 27.—The Department of Com-

merce, true to the function it adopted when Mr.

Roper took office, has set about doing all that it can to enfeeble the coming study of monopoly. Mr. Roper’s department has been closely identified with a large group of businessmen organized as an advisory council, many of whom have been at one time or another either indicted or civilly sued by the the Government for violation of the antimonopoly laws. And it is natural that we should find these men now combining with the Secretary of Commerce to “keep the monopoly investigation within bounds.” which means to keep it confined to the narrowest limits chiefly to protect the men on Mr. Roper’s advisory committee, As this investigation gets under way a variety of conflicting interests emerge. One is found in that group headed by Mr. Borah and Mr. O'Mahuvney who honestly believe that monopoly is economically a bad thing, that monopoly has been permitted to grow under the influence of the nation’s corporation laws and that something should be done about this. Then there is the big business element which lives and thrives under a system under which it is permitted to make all sorts of easy agreements affecting prices, production, trade practices, labor, ete. Then there is a vast multitude of small businessmen who want not personal monopoly or individual corporate monopoly, but the right to get together with their competitors and enter into monopolistic

| arrangements. the TVA directors have decided to | charge up 52 per cent of the cost to power, 28 per cent to | Nothing is |

Administration Split

Then there is the Administration itself which is more or less split up about the matter. There are some in the studied, who want to arrive ultimately at a sound public policy. There are others who hold the view that the small businessmen hold, that trade agreements must be permitted. The President has been devoted to this idea since he canie into office. It has led to much of the confusion in his public pronouncements about monopoly.

Then there are those who, politicallv-minded, see |

the chance to punish some large political enemies. The President himself is the leader of this group. it is to be hoped that those who want an honest and straightforward study of a profound economic problem will be permitted to dominate the investigation. The more the influence of the Department of Commerce on the one hand, and the President on the other is present, the greater chance there will be for

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson -

Can you remember your first train trip? With so many sophisticated children about, I thought I'd never see another 10-year-old whose eyes held the

But I have. When Tom and I settled ourselves in the car, there he was right across the aisle. A chunky, gray-eyed lad, nose and cheeks polka-dotted with freckles, all dressed up in a new shirt, new knickers, new shoes, with his red hair freshly barbered, obviously going visiting. : It took some time to break down his reserve. 1 fancy his mother had warned him about taking up with strangers. Maybe it was Tom's red hair that turned the trick, for the boy finally confided with a grin that he'd been on the train the whole night long and “hadn’ slep a wink.” By noon his eyes were heavy and he had still three hours to go. But in spite of our promises to watch for him, he sturdily refused to relax or close his eyes. Although I extolled the intelligence of conductor and porter, he regarded them with suspicion, convinced that the railroad company would perversely bear him past his destination. At 1:30, however, a hand plucked at my sleeve. “Will you be sure to wake me if I happen to go

head touched the seat than he was unconscious. The

baby contours. I knew he looked then as his mother would always remember him best, even after he had become a man. When we roused him for his station we had to bring him back from a fathom-deep slumber. I felt relieved when his sister ran down the platform to wrap him in a bear hug. Probably I shall never see that particular little boy again, but he symbolizes for

me all the little boys of earth who have left their Mamas for the first time to go adventuring,

returned to the palace, | more condensed | But never was the

Trembling, he approached the throne, pros- |

to sleep?” Happen to go to sleep! No sooner had his |

strained lines went out of his face, which took on its |

MONDAY, JUNE 27, 1938

- Nice Weather for Ducks !—By Talburt

Once Upon a Time

The Hoosier Forum

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

URGES ORDINANCE TO END SHOOTING OF FIREWORKS | By Mrs. J. A. H. I read recently that Chief Mor-

rissey is trying to abolish Fourth of | July shooting except in cases where

fireworks are under the control of a licensed operator. What a wonderful thing this would be for the poor

mothers who have babies that are unable to sleep for days before and

sick and elderly people that «cre looking with fear upon this day.

of dread to people instead of a | happy holiday. I have heard many | people recently talking about the horror of it not only for children | but also for the poor dogs and] birds. There is a cannon that] | shoots a hundred times—what a! | wonderful noise that will be for someone trying to put a baby to sleep. {| Let's all pray that the Council | will see the wisdom of abolishing shooting on the Fourth of July— let's be like other states which are trying to save their children.

g - #4 &# YAWN-—IF YOU CAN, IS READER'S CHARGE By B. C.

The ghastly day approaches. Everybody is now set to handle | the firecracker with a 10-foot pole | —and then take the car out for a | | 40-mile-an-hour spin in holiday | { trafTic. | Ho hum—another one of those | annual Fourth of July letters. Yawn away, brother. | | But don't—if you aren't quite | ready yet to settle down into that | eternal sleep—and don’t get caught | napping on the 4th of July. And {it might even be worth your while | | to keep your wits every day in the | month. For this is the most murderous month of the year. For five years | more people have died of accidental causes in July than in any other month. July days are the hey-days | for traffic accidents, for drownings, | for fireworks injuries, of course, and | | for fatal falls, { More than two and half times as

Administration who want the subject many persons were slain by man’s |

stupidity and carelessness last July as lost their lives during the entire Revelutionary War. One million | were injured. | Yawn, brother—if you | the face of that!

can—in

4g ££ # FINDS SANE ATTITUDE | ON SPANISH SITUATION

| By M. L The Commonweal, a Catholic publication, has just expressed a very sane attitude on the Spanish situation which could be a reply to | some statements appearing in the |

after the Fourth, for poor bedridden |

Fourth of July has become a day |

| Holy

uncertain,

(Times readers are invited their 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.)

to express views in

Hoosier Forum. The quotation folows: “We do not feel qualified to discuss the problem in Spain in any detail because the information available is so generally characterized by propaganda that we do not have any sufficient knowledge of the whole situation. “Two reports on a single event emanating from the opposing camps will be in complete contradiction to each other. The official principles of each side must be taken into account, but the actions of each side, when they can be known, speak louder than words. “One government, or part of it, has instigated, or at least permitted the murder of priests, nuns and lay people; has utilized ruthless methods of accomplishing social and political and economic ends . . . Its alliance with Russia implies some, if an unknown degree, of identification with the evils of the Soviet regime. “The second government, which gives the church open support, yet, in its conduct of warfare, repeatedly, and despite protests from the Father, destroys defenseless civilians, particularly by its air raids upon cities. . . . Many of its leaders give utterance to totalitarian views very similar to those which have been condemned by the church in other countries. . . alliance with the Fascist and Nazi nations implicates it to some, if an extent in the evils of those regimes. “In this country there has been violent partisanship either for the Spanish Nationalists or for the Madrid-Barcelona government. “We feel that violent American

SOJOURNING HEART By F. F. MacDONALD Heart that must bleed and break, Sojourning on earth but a dayv— Cherish the warmth that is proffered you And love, oh love while you may!

DAILY THOUGHT And they smote him on the head with a reed, and did spit upon him, and bowing their knees worshiped him.—Mark 15:19.

UMILITY is the root, mother, nurse, foundation, and bond of all virtue.—Chrysostom.

Its |

partisanship on either side is bad, not only because the facts are obscure but chiefly because both sides include elements that no American wants imported into this country, “Neither has begun to enforce or even propound anything comparable to the Bill of Rights, which protects an individual from unbearable use of authority. , ..

“It is for these reasons that we believe that the wisest, and perhaps the most difficult, policy for Americans is to maintain that positive impartiality,’ a sanity of judgment toward both sides in Spain.” on o ” COMFORTED BY VALUE PLACED ON OLD THINGS | By E. V.

| It is comforting to know that, in | a world so preoccupied with affairs | of the present, there still are people | who place high valee on things that | are old—things | great names of other times. This thought was inspired by ac- | counts of the auction in London | where books from the famous Ham | House library were sold for a total | of $191,000. A volume of the third | folio of Shakespeare's plays, be= | lieved to be the one that Samuel Pepys wrote of buying in 1664, brought the highest bid, $16,000. Dr. Rosenbach, the Philadelphia col- | lector, paid $11,000 for a fine copy of “Gulliver's Travels,” dated 1726 and bearing inside its front cover | a note saying that the fourth Earl | Dyan had read it through in July, 1 ‘

And, this side of the Atlantic, | there was the auction at Toronto,

Gen. Johnson Says—

Your Correspondent Suggests How Business Might Get Right Again With the People and Government.

ETHANY BEACH, Del, June 27.—In 1933, the bankers were deepest in the doghouse of popular disapproval. The long and deliberate assault of poli= ticians on business hasn't beaten it down in public opinion as far as the bankers were in 1933, but it has had its effect. Millions of people sincerely believe that business— especially big business—cares for nothing but profits and, if not restrained by Mr. Roosevelt, would grind the faces of the poor and starve the unemployed. There have been unwise words and actions by tory die-hards—enough to give all the color that is needed by a political business-baiting demagog to make & case against all business. That case is prejudiced, one-sided and only partly true, but it has been so well and persistently presented that many. .

people believe it, » ” ”

T= banking brothers have pretty well bailed themselves out of the bad graces of the people. It is high time for business to do the same and it is an excellent time to try. Business has scraped the bottom of this depression. All the Indian signs say it_is on the way up. If business doesn't grab the anchor ropes with a hearty yo-heave-ho, the polie ticians will say that business is impotent or worse— a clog on prosperity, On the other hand, if business will itself forget politics and get sensibly behind this revival, maybe it can convince the country that, after all, it lives on business, can prosper only with business, and can expect from any Government policy that destroys business, only danger and disaster. What can business do? It is not easy for it to act together because by our laws it is forbidden to do so. But the sprawling disconnected thing called busi ness does respond to the acts and utterances of its leading figures. An overwhelming majority in this country is for collective bargaining and independent representation for labor, against low wages and rigid prices on too high a level and for the principle of reasonable security against unemployment and old age.

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business leaders took the very van in advance ing these popular principles there wouldn't be any ground left to continue the political attack.

On the question of prices—as the upswing pro= ceeds, business bigshots by both words and action should resist mark-ups until they become absolutely unavoidable. Upswings are always marked by increased activity in labor organization and strikes, This time business should put the responsibility on the labor laws— one-sided though they are—and, by loyal, ungrudging compliance instead of resistance, try to make them work. In the “monopoly” inquiry, business should present its side of the case with the greatest of care, but not on any theory that Government must keep its hands completely off our complex structure of vast business provinces and principalities. The publie is going to have more say in these private economic governments. Business should be first to suggest how this can be done with the least harm. .

associated with | | in regard to Hitler which seems to suggest novel con-

where a bath stool from Govern- |

ment House was

about to be |

| knocked down for one dollar, But |

| the auctioneer was inspired to remark that the Duke of Windsor once sat on that stool, visited Canada as Prince of Wales, whereupon the bidding soared to $2.50.

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BELIEVES THERE IS SURE | WAY TO END STRIFE

By E. F. M. If ever this old world is blessed with universal peace it will be brought about by people filled with the spirit of the Prince of Peace. As long as peoples and nations are engaged in selfish rivalry, economic

ho T SCARED TO MOTHER, i OUT SONG 10 2 CORT 16 INWERITED™ »1'W SURE OF THAT. DOT MY PAR WERE THE SAME WAY youR OPINION —— i

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TO ANSWER this one has only to read the press accounts of the recent visit of the quintuplets to the dentist. According to this, Yvonne was examined first and she was loathe to leave the chair. Then

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LET'S EXPLORE YOUR MIND

By DR. ALBERT EDWARD WI1GGAM

| THE STORY OF qd HEREDITY.

THE SMITHS

[Po we JUDGE PEOPLE BY THER

WHoLEpg RyoNAUTY

OR BY ONE OR TWO \ CHARACTERISTICS? YOUR OPINION ——

EXTRYVERTS/

5 Po INTROVERTS OR EARAERDS

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never been scared in advance by the good Dr. Dafoe or any of their teachers or nurses. their teeth were pronounced per- | fect. All my family grew up without the slightest fear of the dentist because we saw our mother sit calmly in an ordinary kitchen chair and have seven teeth pulled at one time without anesthetics by a country dentist. » ” ” 7” AN EXTENSIVE investigation of this has been made by a German psychologist, H. Brugger, and he finds that most people are simply unaware of more than a very few characteristics of their fellow men. He finds when. they think of another person they always think of just one or two characteristics that he possesses such as honesty, selfishness, kindness, egotism, etc., and not of his many other traits and entire personality. ! ” ” - A STUDY of this, made by J. W. Vann, is reported in the Navy Medical Bulletin. He concludes that extraverts are the best prospects for airplane pilots they more and quickly jhemseives to external ve much more in ft

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It Seems to Me

By Heywood Broun

Hitler Should Have Been Coddled When He Was an Amateur Painter.

EW YORK, June 27.—Paul Rosenfield, in a recent article in the New Republic, brings up a point

jectures. Mr. Rosenfeld pursues only one phase of the potential theories. His chief concern is a defense of most of the German painters who have been banned by the Nazi Government as producers of “de= generate art.” Seemingly the finger has been put upon quite a number of schools, and the individuals officially termed, “un-German, Mongolian and Bolshevistic” represent a

wide range of radical origins and political opinions. But the paragraph in the article which arrested my attention read: “In this connection ... we face still another source and a most ironical one. This one is the misadventure of a certain young man in artistic circles in Germany just after the war. In Munich, in those - years, it appears that regular gatherings of serious artists took place at certain cafes. The young man occasionally sought to join them and show some of the more celebrated painters, who may have been expressionists or neo-realists, drawings he had made. The painters were not interested by the young man’s drawings, which resembled the productions of sidewalk artists. Nor were they interested by his ideas or personality. They led him to understand as much and at least he ceased frequenting their reunions. The name of the young man so definitely rejected and despised was Adolf Hitler.”

A Glint of Sympathy for Adolf

Paul Rosenfeld pauses there, but it seems to me that perhaps the whole course of history may have been changed by some casual conversation about a minor piece of draughtsmanship.

If any one of the better known members of the cafe society had been a prophet he might easily have promoted the peace of the world with a few kind words. It could hardly have hurt a neo-realist to have said, “Not bad for an amateur, Adolf.”

If carefully coddled, Der Fuehrer today might bestanding in front of an easel. Bad painting has its dangers, but surely Hitler would be better occupied with still life and doing daubs of one dead fish, three oranges and a blue vase. And for just a fleeting moment I have a glint of sympathy for Adolf Hitler, I know the pang which comes to an amateur painter when he makes his timid proffer of a purple cow to an expert, only to have it tossed over the moon,

Watching Your Health

By Dr. Morris Fishbein

BURSA is a sort of a shock-absorbing sac of fluid which helps to lubricate friction points in various portions of the body. Some of these are found at the top of the shoulder, some of them in back of the shoulder blades, some of them over the hips. and others in other places. Sometimes a bursa will form where there is repeated friction or irritation as, for example, just over a bunion. Because they are located at places where there is friction or strain they are likely to be irritated or dis= turbed, as a result of which they become bruised and inflamed and cause a considerable amount of pain, Wha a bursa is bruised or irritated, it responds with ¢%e development of an excess amount of fluid, If the injury is serious there will be blood mixed with the fluid. Thus there is a large swollen 'ump in a place where there is constant friction or pressure, and the pain that is present is made worse following motion. In a sudden case of inflammation, recovery will occur rapidly if there is not a repetition of repeated irritation or bruising, and if the muscles around the bursa are not used. In very severe cases attempts have been made to withdraw the fluid from the bursa, but in most cases heat and'rest usually bring about recovery. ; ’ There are cases, however, in which scarring follows with adhesions, and in which movement will be more difficult after the inflammation of the bursa. than before. . There are other cases in which therepeated irritation causes the fluid inside to kecome thickened and filled sometimes with small amounts of .