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TUESDAY, JUNE 28, 1938

FIREWORKS TIMES® article vesterday amply illustrated the hardship, pain ahd expense that can be caused by a single firecracker. It told of 12-vear-old Mary Anna Taylor's experience, how the first firecracker ghe lighted on the Fourth of July three vears ago set fire to her clothing; how she spent seven months in the hospital, and how she had to undergo eight skin-grafting operations and three blood transfusions. A tragic holiday adventure. But, with the failure of the City Council to enact an adequate antifireworks ordinance, more victims of similar accidents can be expected this Fourth of July. A measure that would ban the use of fireworks by all except experts is the most effective way to curb the annual toll of deaths and injuries.

MORE BREAD AND CIRCUSES HERE is one great difference between Franklin D. Roosevelt and other Presidents who have undertaken, as party leaders, to have a hand in party primaries. Mr. Roosevelt has the power to bestow or withhold cash benefits affecting millions of people. We should like to believe that he will use this power without regard to politics—that he will keep his Presidential right hand in ignorance of what his partisan left hand does. Jut belief becomes exceedingly difficult. “Keep vour friends in power,” said Aubrey Williams, deputy administrator of WPA, speaking vesterday to 800 members of the Workers alliance who were in Washington to demand restoration of recent WPA wage cuts to whitecollar workers. “You know who your friends are—the people who stand for Government support of work-relief projects,” Mr. Williams continued. “The men who stand for these things will win elections.” Then, asserting that the increases sought cannot be granted at this time because the President has

not received “needed support” in Congress, he advised the

workers “not to stop fighting for higher wages.” There was about as plain a promise as could be given

of money for votes. Put the right men in Congress—the

right men, of course, being the ones Party Leader Roose- |

By John T. Flynn

velt wants—and increased benefits will be forthcoming. In the light of Xr. Williams’ statement, what is to be thought of the wage increases that Mr. Roosevelt did grant vesterday to half a million workers in 13 Southern states? There is an appealing economic argument for scaling up the WPA pay level in the South, since the Wage-Hour Bill has committed the Government to an attempt to bring the wages of lowest-paid Southern industrial workers more nearly into line with those in other parts of the country. But the increases will help two of Party Leader Roosevelt's favored candidates, Senator Barkley in Kentucky and Senator Thomas in Oklahoma. And now that Mr. Williams has established the link between WPA wage raises and

votes for those who will support the President in Congress, |

it requires more credulity than we can muster to suppose that in ordering these increases Mr. Roosevelt was influenced solely by economic argument. “Keep your friends in power.” But they assume a fearful risk who seek to remain in power by exchanging cash benefits, granted or promised, for votes. That is a process easy to start, but our reading of history reveals no leader who, having started that process, succeeded in stopping it without a smash,

NOT QUITE “ALL” HE other day Mikhail Kalinin, chairman of the Council

of People’s Commissars, made a campaign speech to jussian workers in a Leningrad factory in which he said:

United States. This fact we are not going to deny. have more autos than we have. But in America the owners of all the riches are the Morgans and other capitalists. We are somewhat poorer but at any rate the working class and the peasantry are the owners of all we have.” Well, certainly the distribution of wealth in America is not what it ought to be. But take autos, for instance, since Mr. Kalinin seems to consider them a symbol of riches. The most recent registration figures show 29.705.000 of them, including trucks, in this country. . Say that, instead

there are 60,000 American families that might De covered by the term “Morgans and other capitalists.” And say that each of the 60,000 families owns 10 automobiles. That would account for 600,000 autos, leaving 29,105,000 for the rest of us who, according to Mr. Kalinin, are the owners of nothing.

HERE YOU ARE, MR. PRIESTLEY R. PRIESTLEY, the English man of letters, exhorts American writers in a Saturday Evening Post article to seek fresh material on the highways, where much of American life is lived today. “The old world of the road and its travelers produced Don Quixote, Gil Blas, To Jones and Pickwick Papers,” he remarks, “but where are the sagas and epics of this new world? And make no mistake about it, all the material is there. Characters as odd and adventures as strange as any that Cervantes and Fielding and Dickens described are here, waiting for their chronicler, in this new world of the road.”

Because he thinks no English writer could do the job,

colleague.”

Well, Mr. Priestley, we commend to your attention our | Mr. Ernie Pyle, who is just now resuming, after a rest, ! the travels which have kept him on the go for the last He |

three years. Of course Ernie doesn’t write fiction. writes what he sees and feels, at readers of hig daily column will testify that the uth as recounted by him is often stranger indeed ** ii the storybooks.

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Washington By Raymond Clapper

F. D. R. Once Said Democrats Not Agreeing With New Deal Policies Were Out of Step. They Still Are!

(Westbrook Pegler Is on Vacation)

ASHINGTON, June 28 —Whispering that Postmaster General Farley was out of step with the Administration's attempt to purge anti-New Deal Democrats have been set at rest by his remarks to the Young Democrats at Boston. Recently I stated that regardless of the setback in Towa the Administration would continue its fight

against the renomination of anti-New Deal Democrats where there is any chance to win and that Farley agreed with this. This is now made clear by Farley himself—and he goes further, to approve the direct intervention of the President in this fight to uproot Democratic office holders who are not in general sympathy with the New Deal. i . Although much show of indignation over this purge is made by political opponents, they privately accept it as part of the game. They would regard Roosevelt as a sap if he did not try to slough off Democratic Senators who voted against him consistently. 2 8 J OOSEVELT in his fireside talk made clear that he felt he had every right to speak in those instances where conservative and liberal Democrats were opposing each other and where Democrats opposed to his program at heart were professing to be for him. Farley supported the President in this, telling the Young Democrats that a President is expected to get things done and therefore naturally wants men in Congress who are sympathetic. “It will never appear right to me” Farley said, “for a national legislator to ascribe unworthy motives to the President merely because they do not agree on a particular question, and still claim to be loyal to his party. When he takes su¢h a course he is lending aid and comfort to the enemy.” In his fireside talk, Roosevelt did not insist upon 100 per cent rubber-stamp allegiance. He said he would not make any single issue the test but rather the general attitude, The liberal school of thought, he said, recognizes that the new conditions throughout the world call for new remedies. It insists that these new remedies can be adopted and maintained under our present form of government if we use government as an instrument of co-operation to provide these remedies. $8 £ 8

HE conservative, as Roosevelt defines him. does | not recognize the need for Government itself to |

step in and take action to meet these new problems, but believes that individual initiative and private philanthropy will solve them. But that is the rough distinction which Roosevelt makes and he has now given full notice, in which National Chairman Farley joins, that in so far as they are able to do so they will press to stamp liberalism indelibly on the Democratic Party. Roosevelt is only following through on what he told the Chicago convention in 1932 when he accepted the first nomination: “I warn those nominal Democrats who squint at the future with their faces turned toward the past, and who feel no responsibility to the demands of the time, that they are out of step with their party.” They still are,

Business

Government Shouldn't Be Harrying Bankers for Behaving So Sanely.

EW YORK, June 28.—The battle between the pot and the kettle—the Government and business— and their several determinations to prove each other black continually leads to strange and sometimes dangerous by-paths., One of them led recently into the banking field. The Government has been accusing the bankers of refusing to lend the billions which have piled up in them through Government operations. Of course the banks have been accusing the Government of making good loans impossible by destroying confidence. A few weeks ago Mr. Marriner Eccles revived a criticism he has made before—that Government bank examinations were too drastic; that the appraisal of good bank loans was upon too severe a standard and that it was this which was holding up the flow of private funds into industry. The Treasury apparently didn't relish the Eccles attitude. The little controversy led to some conferences between the two New Deal officials which ended in some sort of compromise which consisted chiefly in Mr. Eccles leaving the field. Mr. Eccles, of course, knows a vast amount more about banks, banking, money and economics than Mr. Morgenthau. But in this case it looks as if Mr. Morgenthau was right. There has already been too much of a disposition to weaken the banking structure for the sake of a little recovery.

Remember the Twenties Already the Administration has in one of its bank-

ing acts liberalized the terms of lending on real estate | | mortgages for national banks—a step which will yet | cost the banking system many a sleepless night. | was one of those surrenders to expediency which did

“Comrades, we probably still are much poorer than the | They | | to lend monev—not to worry too much about the -col- | lateral, but get the money out.

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not net very much to the economic system in temporary gain and will vet cost it a headache. Now the Government has been harrying the banks

That is what svept 10 thousand banks out of existence in the twenties. It is, of course, unfortunate that the banks do not It is unfortunate that borrowers do not loans. The causes of this lie in other sections of the economic system. Meantime the

{ only sound course for the banks is to follow wise { banking practices. And the only permissible course for

the Government is to see that they do. Instead of harassing the bankers because now they are behaving so sanely, the Government should seek for the causes which lie deep behind all this sloth

A oh > baa aiite | among bankers and borrowers, of only the “Sixty Families” Secretary Ickes talked about, |

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

TT Ladies Home Journal poll on the war question brings out come interesting facts. It seems to me when we find 72 per cent of all those questiohed expressing doubt about the value of peace organizations, we really have something to talk about. We can be very sure that such doubts exist because of the widespread—and I believe, propagahdized— notion that women talk too much and accomplish very little. Also, perhaps, because peace groups have a preponderance of feminine members, the opinion has gained ground that men are not concerned about establishing peace. . They are quite wrong m these opinions. Peace movements are hot wholly feminine. Actually, men lend the main strength to all those now in existence. They supply the courage, vision and most of the

money while women, as always, look after the details and lend that tenacity of will which defies defeat and which is necessary for the establishment of new ideas upon the earth.

There is one thing to be said about organizations. If they can be effective in promoting anything at all—

i ‘ ; , | and who will deny that?—they ought to be effective he says: “I hand over this gold mine to some Amepican

in promoting peace education.

One person is too weak to resist the massed, century-old arguments for war. And in a nation which has been built upon the belief tHat in union there is strength, it seems odd to find women ready to express distrust of peace societies, especially when We consider how much of their worth-while work in other fields is done in groups. .

If peace organizations are useless, then let's admit that all others are also a waste of time and send in our resignations. Buf run down the rumor first. You may be surprised to find that it comes from other Srganiseiiges flue: tigive by promoting war,

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| the people of this great nation going | to sit back and let the gods of war

| SEES | POSITION By PB. W.

| she has plans for exploiting the | “South Seas region” of the western

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INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

TUESDAY, JUNE 28, 1938

The Saint and the Sinner !—By Talburt

{ ’ TAKE NO PART IN POLITICS

4 BRING ON THOSE PRIGRES

The Hoosier Forum

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

SEES ANOTHER WAR CREEPING UP ON U. 8.

By A. H G. The question is: How long are we

slowly creep upon us? Secretary Hull is again sendipg the Japanese war lords demand for apologies toncerning bombing raids upon civilians which threatens to endanger the American interests.

(Timgs readers are invited to express 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.)

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Last year President Roosevelt sent word for ali Americans to evacuate the war zone and sent a convoy to bring these people safely back to the United States. But many of these people declined the opportunity to | return so they remained in China. | But they fail to realize the fact | that they arc endangering the lives and homes of 130000000 who |

| haven't entirely forgotten the result |

of the last great conflict—a war to end all wars. ~ ” = BUSINESS REVIVAL SEEN IN CO-OPERATION By Morton Kominers The present stock market advance clearly indicates a resumption of business activity based upon active demand making necessary a building up of depleted inventories. A satisfactory settlement of the railroad and public utility problems | will further stimulate activity in the heavy goods industries. Government spending will help to spread purchasing power over a wider area. The business curve should approach a new Roosevelt high late in August. Coming events will prove the impotence of a strike of capital in the face of new profit motives. The country has come through the recession without serious maladjustments and the next two vears should see constructive forces definitely in

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| kind is part of the larger Japanese

| miles, or 10 times as large as Japan

in a Tokyo magazine called DiaKnowledge that something of the

program doubtless lies behind the statement of Philippines President Quezon recently carried by The

Times When asked if he still favored a re-examination of the question of complete independence for the Philippines, he said: “I am. . , . I have not changed my mind.” Speaking of the Philippines and other countries of the “South Seas | region,” the Japanese publication | continues: “These countries and islands have a total area of 1500000 square

proper. And a total population of approximately 93,000,000, which is about the same as Japan's. “More than half the population are not yet civilized. They are governed as colonial territory or protectorates by various Western powers with the single exception cof Siam. The Philippines will not have complete independence for another eight years. Despite their helpless political status, the population has vast trade possibilities in the future because of abundant natural resources and raw materials and their very large purchasing power, which

the saddle. Greater co-operation between big business and Government in the | creation of jobs should make possi- | ble a relaxation of Government paternalism, a reduction in the national debt and a political swing to the right. ” = » JAPAN STRENGTHENING IN ‘SOUTH SEAS

As soon as Japan completes her conquest of China—if she does -

Pacific.

By the “South Seas region,” it is explained, is meant the region “including French Indo-China, Siam and the British Malay States, the

offers a great potential market for the industries of the world.” According to the latest available | figures, approximately 35,000 Japanese were living in this area in 1935. Far and away the largest colony—

TO HAVE DOROTHY BUERGER Noviceship: I knew With vou Love pioneering. , Ownership: Your charms Other arms Hold endearing!

DAILY THOUGHT And he said, of a truth I say

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Philippinéds, Dutch East Indies,

British North Borneo, Srawak and |

other islands nearby.” The list is from a “survey of Jap-

| anese investments and enterprises”

throughout this area, as published

unto you, that this poor widow hath cast in more than they all | —Luke 21:3.

{ FT is the will, and not the gift

that makes the giver.—Lessing. |

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some 21,000—was in the Philippines. The Dutch East Indies and British Malaya came next. It is significant that while Japan is now curtailing her interests in other parts of the world, owing to the war, such is not the case in “the South Seas,” particularly in the Philippines. And even more particularly in the Philippines Province of Davao, a Japanese stronghold with military as well’ as economic potentialities,

” » ” REPUBLICAN ACTIONS TERMED DUPLICITY By W. L. Ballard

We often hear of F. D. R.'s brain trust. Came reorganization of G. O. P., which is only P. O. G., Plutocrat Old Guard, in disguise. Its new leader is Glenn Frank, old-time college prexy, with a “cabinet” up to now of college men! How is that for duplicity? Oh well, they are but dummies to ape “brain trusting.” “Me and the boys” aim still to pull those wires Punch and Judywise under cover. But that would be more duplicity.

» = ” WANTS RETURN TO OLD POOL SCHEDULE By C. B. All this arguntent about the free hours granted to the children of this city to swim in the pools pro-

vided for them by the taxpayers seems ridiculous to me. Why not restore the old schedule? I heard no argument by anyone against it. It was satisfactory wasn't it? Let's get together and settle this thing before the summer is over. It has been going on for days. : The children of this city have waited patiently for nine months for the opportunity to go in swimming, and now they are forced to wait one and one-half hours from 12 o'clock noon to 1:30 p. m. under the new schedule before they can again enter the water. This is at the hottest time of day, and who wants to waste it looking at the cool. water on the inside of the fence while they are forced to stand outside in the sun?

¥& & # QUESTION POSED BY READER By H. D. Gadsby

To all people, to all businessmen and other smart people: Do you know of any other country on the face of the earth where you would rather be located at the present time than the United States? If you do, you should sell out and go there at once. If you don't you knocking our present Government.

LET'S EXPLORE YOUR MIND

By DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM.

NOOSING A fo 2 AGE PARTNER |

WAN A WOMAN T : EN? NCGERYD = i

1 FAR MORE difficult because she does not have the freedom of making a “marriage campaign” that a man has—something he takes as his “natural right” Things are changing somewhat on tifis point.

HAVE NERVOUS BREAKDOWN AG HUMANS 00? YES ORNO

A 60CIAL CIBNCE C|ASS ASKS DO YOUNG PEOPLE

| Personally, I think a woman has a | perfect right to try to find and win a good man for a husband. However, she has to use finer and less obvious techniques. Two books give

| Martha Bruere,

“How to Get Your Man” by Anne Hirst and “The Way to His Heart” by John Beeckman,

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SO DR. W. HORSLEY GANTT and associates of John Hopkins claim from experiments on dogs—as related by Science Service. One dog had a nervous breakdown because he could not tell the pitch of two musical notes and for five years whenever he heard these notes had whined and showed labored breathe ing, heart palpitation and all the symptoms of profound mental conflict. Friendly words and gestures and, especially, the presence of another dog in the room proved helpful. Another dog in the room always helps me, ® 8 =»

THIS QUESTION has been intensively studied in one entire state by Howard Bell and written

up, by that keen social student, in the SurveyGraphic. Mr. Bell found that four out of five of the boys and girls, not married, were living at home because they wanted to. If they could find work most of them wanted above everything to stay in the old home. So the “breakup of the American Home" is ecohomic and not because young people want it up.

excellent advice on this subject, broken | »

Gen. Johnson Says— It's Too Bad This Administration »

Won't Accept Co-operation That Doesn't Come Kicked and Cuffed,

ETHANY BEACH, Del, June 28.—It was a fires side, but not where the family is comforted—just where the barbecue begins. The President’s “chat” was a roasting. He deplored political speeches that * use “mean blows,” {. e. “misrepresentation, personal attack and appeals to prejudice.” Critics must stick to arguments—the poisonous snakes “(copperheads)” ty No sir. No appeal to prejudice by any “calamity howling executive with an income of $1000 a day who

has been turning his employees over to the Governe ment relief rolls in order to preserve his company's = undistributed reserves’—and stealing the stock= holders’ stamps. There is no American executive with $1000 a day after income tax. There is no company rich enough in reserve to continue employment when , sales stop. This wasn't argument. It was a petty, personable rabble-rousing attack on an individual,

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HE President wants no misrepresentation by ope ® ponents—disciples of ‘“defeatism”—whe have consistently refused to co-operate with ‘the mass of people whether things were going well or going badly, on the ground that they required more con« cessions to their point of view before they would admit having what they called ‘confidence.’” The group in the Democratic Party who do not always agree with everything the President proposes and who he is going to oppose in the primaries he calls, * “conservatives,” who think that, “we ought to repeal many of the things we have done and go back, for instance, to the old gold standard, or stop all this business of old-age pension and unemployment insurs ance, or repeal the Securities and Exchange Act og let monopolies thrive unchecked.” These the Presi« dent tells the people are “conservatives” as opposed to “liberals.” If that isn't political misrepresentation, what is it? ! Among leaders in the Democratic Party who don‘

like the President's unnecessary assaults on our Gove _

ernmental and economic pattern or his radical ade visers, there are not 2 per cent who remotely believe. or desire any such thing as is stated in the paragrapi just quoted-—rabble-rousing, pure and simple, “Nor am I, as President of the United States, tak« ing part in Democratic primaries. As head of the Democratic Party, however, . . . I have every righ#' to speak.” How can a man step out of his skin as President and do things as a party leader that would be wrong as President? There is an inadvert« ent admission here that the President ought not td, speak in the primaries—only Mr. Roosevelt.

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HY should the President not speak? Ordinarily there is no reason in morality. But nowy since he is the sole dispenser of billions, there is every reason of democracy, decorum and decency. A logic which would unsmilingly unload the one about blame for the depression probably wouldn’$ think of that. The mistakes of labor and business brought on the slump. But Government too is to blame. How? By not foreseeing that business and labor were such fools. It is too bad. Necessary co-operation was coming’ fast. This Administration won't accept co-operation that doesn’t come kicked, cuffed and crawling. I¢ wants to fight it out on a pure demagogic "basis of class war, J

It Seems to Me By Heywood Broun

Polls on Public Opinion Are Seen - As the Newest Peril to Democracy.

EW YORK, June 28.—Almost every day some= body bobs up and points with alarm at some new peril to democracy. I hate to add my penny to the general alarm fund, but I wonder whether we are not becoming too poll-minded. : For more than a hundred years our nation has» muddled along on round numbers. Any orator who warmed up to his subject always declared that “every American knows in his heart.” And the only quali fication the speaker permitted himself was a height» ening rather than a weaseling phrase. The beauty of excessive statement is that it pro= motes rather than curtails debate. The politician wl.e slaps his opponent in the face with a swaggering guess has no intention of reducing him to silence. On tl #’ contrary, it is the American manner of challenging him to choose his weapons and meet on the field nf honor, Today things are very different. Both In puhblieand private there is always present the man with a stack of clippings. He asks for the floor and reads the latest set of figures compiled by some trained staff of experts. The article might come from Fortune, for ine’ stance. The staff reports that after sampling opinion in all groups it finds that 78 per cent of all the per= sons in the United States love Mr. Roosevelt and that 20 do not. Two per cent are still on the fence. Those of specific mind may contend that it is a waste of time to argue without having all the facts in hand, and that before a vote on some specific legisla« tive measure (the wages and hours bill, for instance) it is well to have in hand the facts as to publie’ opinion.

Unacceptable in Laboratory

With all due deference to the various groups which? go in for cross-sections, I contend that even the most highly trained group of experts cannot bring in the precise srt of evidence which would be accepted im a chemical laboratory, We deal not in science but, in pseudo-science, And as far as the process of gov< ernment goes, an unofficial poll serves as a sort of imperfect referendum. The flaw in cross-section pronouncements is tha there is no way of measuring the passion of a con’ viction. The man who marks his “X” upon a quese tionnaire may do so in the most casual fashion, Peow ple do not like to sit out polls or dances. Forty-four per cent of earnest-minded and thores oughly convinced citizens may easily bring over enough recruits from a flimsy majority to win the day. And far from clarifying the will of the people, an unofficial poll may serve to confuse it. >

Watching Your Health

By Dr. Morris Fishbein

NE of the marvels of modern medicine is reconw structive surgery, By this is not meant the ordinary form of beauty surgery, which includes the taking of humps off noses, face-lifting, the making of artificial eyebrows, or even the placing in normals position of lop-ears. There are certain conditions im which children come into the world incompletely formed. In these cases particularly, reconstructive surgery does a wonderful job. * When a child comes into the world with the upper

lip and palate incompletely joined together, the cone dition is called cleft palate, cleft lip or harelip,

It is now possible in many instances to perform an immediate surgical operation following the birth of the child with such a deformity, so that the mother may come home from the hospital with her baby able to lead a normal existence.

Sometimes repair is postponed for a long time, Obviously the longer the repair is postponed the more difficult it becomes to do a suitable operation, Moreover, if the operation is postponed until the child has begun to talk, the disabilities of speech that have been established may inéline toward permanency. The operations are now recorded in works of surgery, and the spepial instruments and other ape paratus that have become available make it possible to do an excellent piece of surgery in the recone struction of the mouth and jaws.

The only time when these operations should be postponed is in cases when the child is too weak or too small to permit a good operation,

Reconstructive surgery in the case of cleft palate

or harelip is one of the greatest boons that modern

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