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MONDAY, JULY 4, 1938

TODAY'S BEST ADVICE N this Fourth of July we omit, for a change, our usual philosophical remarks about the significance of the anniversary. Instead. after reflecting on the fact that the Glorious Fourth has of late years come to mean a Reign of Terror on the highways, with hundreds of casualties, we turn over this space to the American Automobile Association. The A. A. A. thinks that this Fourth’s list of dead and maimed will be materially reduced if drivers will observe the following “code of safe driving”: “Keep your place in the line of traffic and avoid weaving. Keep a steady driving pace and avoid spurts of high speed. “Take plenty of time for your trip. “Avoid passing on hills, curves and at street intersections. “Take a restful position at the wheel. Grasp the wheel lightly to avoid tenseness. Avoid eyestrain caused by staring ahead.

“Adjust the driver's seat so that there will be no strain |

in reaching the accelerator and brakes.

“Drive within your headlights at night. Check brakes 0 they will stop within the distance revealed clearly ahead. that Jeffersonian,

argument and as fairly say that the Democrats have

“Keep on right side of the road. “Be sure the car is in good mechanical condition—

brakes, tires and steering wheel in particular.”

“100-PER-CENTERS”

A GOOD deal has been said of late about what type of men should be sent to Congress, or sent back to Congress. Of all the utterances on this topic, what Rep. Bruce Barton of New York told the Republican State Convention here strikes us as about the best: “We are waterlogged, in both branches of Congress, with 100-Per-Centers. You know the type. They run for office on the platform that they are ‘100 per cent New Deal’ or ‘100 per cent anti-New Deal’; ‘100 per cent capital’ or ‘100 per cent labor.’ “A 100-per-center is a man whose mind is on a sitdown strike. processes to someone else. Ie is what is known as a rubher stamp. The object of the American people this fall should be to stamp out the rubber stamps. “Give us Representatives who are men. Men will support the President when he is right and stand like Men who will cast Men who will

who

a rock against him when he is wrong. a vote to their own hurt, and change not. stand on their own feet and consult no boss but their own consciences, who will take no orders but their oath of office. Give us enough such men and we will re-establish the in-

dependence of Congress.”

CIRCUS FOLDS ITS TENTS

E don't know all the merits of the labor controversy | Ee ; ) : | with in Washington is to organize business to induce

that has closed the Ringling Brothers Circus and sent it back to winter quarters in Florida with the best months of summer still ahead. But we know that the news has made us feel suddenly very elderly and a little bewildered. We appear to have lived right spang into a new era, and we don’t like it. It seems only day before yesterday that our great ambition was to join the circus and travel with it to far places. It never occurred to us that anyone could want pay for leading so exciting, so ideal an existence. And here we discover that the circus was not like that at all.

sion. Its owner could threaten to cut wages. Its artists and

clowns and canvas men could fold its tents, load its strange | and wonderful animals into railroad cars, let its people go |

hunt other jobs—perhaps on WPA—and trail dismally back to Florida in June. How about Gargantua, the great gorilla, “rightfully termed.” as the press agents said, “the most frightfully fiendish brute that breaths?” Ie was on his first tour of America. and now this thing makes a monkey of him. The last, we realize was a feeble attempt to inject a little humor the situation. and we apologize for it. [here's nothing funny about what happened to the circus. It's tragedy, for all concerned.

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CORN BREAD FOR ITALY

ECAUSE of a diminished wheat crop the people of Italy | are eating a “new bread” made, by Government order, |

with flour containing 20 per cent of corn or other substitutes. Some Italians have complained. Premier Mussolini's newspaper has just answered them by asserting that the new bread is more nourishing and produces greater energy for reproductive purposes, therefore being important to the welfare and destiny of the Italian race. We get it. Since there are so many Italians that they

can't have all the wheat they want, they are told to increase |

their reproductive energy by eating substitutes, so that there will be more Italians to share the wheat, and they can eat more substitutes and produce still more Italians, and so on and on. The simple logic of that proposition surely will convince all of Premier Mussolini's people that it was absurd to kick about not getting enough wheat in their bread.

RIDE EM, COWBOY!

F you are not thrilled by occasional items indicating that

ciation of such items will increase with the vears.

There are some, no doubt, who will find a glow in an

announcement from the Interior Department. The General Land Office granted a three-vear grazing lease to Ned Hillyard, a rancher near Phoenix, Ariz.,, who is said to be “at least 100 years old.” An investigator was sent to interview Mr. Hillyard. His report says: “In spite of his advancing years, Ned Hillyard is considered vet as one of the best cowboys in the state. He was alone at his ranch at the date of my examination, and wes engaged in breaking a bucking cold.”

He has handed over the management of his mental |

It was a thing that could feel the pinch of depres- |

Washington

By Raymond Clapper Jefferson and Hamilton Probably

Did Not Take Their Theories as | Seriously as Politicians Do Now.

(Westbrook Pegler Is on Vacation)

WY GT July 4—The sainted Jefferson, who died 112 years ago this Independence Day, must be looking down with amused tolerance upon the political scene here where spokesmen for the two parties are fighting over the shreds of his mantle. Here we have John Hamilton, national chairman of the party. which has been regarded as the political descendant of Jefferson's mortal enemy, Alexander Hamilton, telling Republicans in Alabama this: “Republicans of today better exemplify the principles and philosophy of Jefferson than do those who call themselves New Dealers. . . . Whenever the Republican Party has departed from Jeffersonian principles it has not been true to itself. Today it stands

as the only ofzanized champion of the Jeffersonian

philosophy.”

Three days later James Farley, national chairman | of the Democratic Party, says: |

“Under our present Government, the school of Jefferson has taken a mighty stride in progress.” This sort of stuff is meaningless ancestor worship, reflecting more the greatness of Jefferson than the intelligence of current political debate. 8 8 . EFFERSON lived more than 100 years ago. It is futile to try to fit everything he said for a rural

country of 3,000,000 persons snug along the Atlantic

coast into a modern industrial country of 130,000,000 persons stretching across a continent. Republicans once worshiped Alexander Hamilton

as the champion of a strong central government. The

party was founded to preserve the central government.

| For years after the Civil War the Republican Party { built up the power of the National Government.

Now the Republican Party wants to whittle down the Federal Government, wants to enthrone states’ rights and leave regulation, if any, to the states, and sees a threat to liberty behind every bush. It calls

Well, the Republicans might go further with the

become disciples of Alexander Hamilton, once the patron saint of the Republicans. now who want a strong central government. = = ” LL of this is shadow-boxing over theories of two { men engaged in a political struggle 150 years ago, men who probably didn't take their own theories as literally as their descendants do now. When a theory got in Jefferson's way it didn't stand a chance. violated all of his theories when he made the Louisiana Purchase in face of his own private doubts about its constitutionality. Let Republicans who want to emulate the worthy Jefferson act that one out. Jefferson was the Roosevelt of his day, hated and denounced in every silk-stocking drawing room and club. Present-day Republicans would not have considered him one of their crowd, even though he believed in states’ rights.

Jefferson, Hamilton and the other great minds of |

the early days faced their current problems and when necessary invented new governmental machinery to deal with them. None believed the ena of all wisdom was reached in the 18th Century. Otherwise we would not be having fireworks tonight.

Business By John T. Flynn

New Deal Now Toys With a Policy To Shift Its Course Completely.

EW YORK, July 4 —There are signs that the New Deal is playing with an idea which is the direct opposite of the original New Deal. The original New Deal went off upon a frantic experiment in organized scarcity. The new idea which apparently is being toyed

it, encourage it and pay it for producing more. Oddly, the old New Deal idea of scarcity was carried forward under a banner covered with golden promises of abundance for all. Critics of the NRA

and AAA said that they might be in grave doubt |

themselves how to produce abundance, but they were sure that the way was not through trade agreements to produce less. The immense failure of that plan has not prevented the New Deal from reverting to the idea over and over. Its farm policy. its Guffey acts and similar measures have all been surrenders to the scarcity theory—limited production to make higher prices. But now in a confused and uncertain way it seems to be veering around to a policy which is the direct negation of all that it has done.

The latest expression of that idea is the cloak and | | suit plan to have the Government buy up the surplus |

stocks of the suit makers. The scripture of this plan is the book of Mr. Mordecai Ezekiel, economic adviser of the Agricultural Department, called “$2500 a Year.” The plan is not new, of course. The Commodity Surplus Corp. is based on the same idea.

Bill Already Introduced

Very broadly its proposal is that producers shall under Government auspices determine each year or season how much of their products the country needs or rather how much of their product the country can buy. Then the industry undertakes to produce that much, thus creating work and wages and a larger supply of goods. What the industry cannot sell to the public, the Government will buy. The suit workers’ plan to buy up surplus men’s clothing looked like a beginning in this direction. Word comes from Washington that if this is successful it will be tried in other industries. A bill has been introduced by Congressman Amlie called the Industrial Expansion bill to reduce the whole plan to law. No one has yet explored minutely how it will work or whether it can be made to work. But there is something about it which appeals to those who like the word “abundance.” Maybe we will adopt it without examining how it works, as we did the NRA. In any case the thing is significant because it may give the turn and character to our next New Deal Aight toward abundance.

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

INHORN dictators make the most noise when the

need for caution is greatest. Today with the nation facing economic problems more difficult than any before known, little men are renewing their efforts to oust married women from industry.

The Bill of Rights, the Constitution, civil liberties,

common justice, are unable to move them from their rock-ribbed prejudice. Women cause hard times, they cry, and their clamor echoes upon the tongues of their own wives and daughters who have given the question no more study. Ever since Adam ate the apple handed to him by Eve, certain men have blamed their disasters on women. Now, when they cannot solve their problems of

machines versus human beings, of unemployment, of : : : | waste, of inefficiency, there are still many who can older men are still useful in the world, be patient, Appre- | | responsibility.

think of nothing to do except raise the cry of woman's

Yet they should know that women’s work has been taken out of the home to a very large extent. We have to be grateful that the President's wife is not afraid to speak in behalf of justice on this question. Married women are also people and voting citizens; therefore, as Mrs. Roosevelt points out, they have the same right to work as other individuals, if they can find jobs. It's a short step from the persecution of the married women to the persecution of all women, and shorter still from there to the persecution of little men—which is surely something little men ought to think about. No citizen establishes justice for himself by depriving agpther of his rights.

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

| DECRIES HITCHHIKERS WHO ROB MOTORISTS

| By Hiram Lackey

| The hitchhiker who holds up his | benefactor should be punished by [national law as severely as a kid- | naper. He is devoid of gratitude, without | which a man cannot be a good | friend, father, husband or citizen { because gratitude is the foundaHe has

man has in another—against all that makes human relationships sacred and worthwhile. Thus he | strikes at the very foundation of! civilization. However his offense does not justify us in playing the coward by refusing to grant a helping hand to the student, iob hunter and other | worthy and innocent persons on errands of goodness and mercy If we are lacking in courage we are not much better than the man who is lacking in gratitude because cour- | | age also is a cornerstone of social virtues. i gy & ” BARTON INDEFINITE, | READER CHARGES | By G W. Sharkey | It is with sincere regret that so | many of Bruce Barton's admirers | have been disillusioned by his convention speech. I, like many others, | always have thought of him as a | | man of deep thought and one whose | sincerity was unquestioned. Can it

| seeming to promise everything and |

actually promising nothing that is| so common with all office seekers? | In his speech to the state con- |

| vention he was very careful not to |

offer any definite remedies to take | the place of the evils that have “bogged down in the mire” of the present Administration. But rather he makes use of the poet in him to “vision” the utopian reforms, and any of us can vision what should be. What we are waiting for is a sound plan of something better than that which we have, if any one can think of it. Back in 1933 the nation turned wholeheartedly to Roosevelt because he was a man of action. Even Mr. Barton admits that the President's inaugural address thrilled him to the finger tips as it did us all. At least the present Administration is not letting the people starve, as one of your good Congressman said they should do rather than have the Federal Government render direct aid. I refer to the remarks made by Mr. Snell a few years ago while debating on the question of the Government giving direct relief.

Mz. Barton, you are right about

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your party losing touch with the common people. You may have repented by now, but it's going to take

a much better statement of your |

position than you have given us so far, The American what they have

voters will Keep until they are

strongly assured that something bet- | ter and permanently is in their plat- | | form,

¥ 4 FAVORS ‘PURGE’ IN BOTH PARTIES

By G. J. B.

Why so much criticism of the socalled Roosevelt “purge”? I can't see why a “purge” of the major parties would not be beneficial to both. If a healthy opposition to the party in power is an advantage to the country, let it come from the party out of power. There is nothing but confusion to the average voter to have Senator Carter Glass on the same ticket as President Roosevelt. If Democrats with little or no liberal outlook could be “purged,” even if they were run for office by the Republican Party, it might result in a party acceptable to all liberals, and if Republicans with little or nothing in common with the average Republic-

an, such as Senator Norris, could be |

“purged” from the Republican Party, the party might be consistently “conservative.” Of course no “old line Democrat or Republican” wants to be read out of his party, no matter how

LET THE FLAG FLY! By M. P. D. Let the flag fly Unto the sky, Glorious and free From sea to sea! A radio of life Above all strife; In wonder high, Shining through time In tone sublime. Let the flag fly Unto the sky!

DAILY THOUGHT And King Solomon passed all the kings of the earth in riches and wisdom.—II Chronicles 9:22.

ICHES are not an end of life but an instrument of life—H. W. Beecher.

out of step he is with the majority of the party. But don’t we as voters have some rights in the matter? A third party, they tell us, is impossible, so while we may be sincerely liberal or sincerely conserva= tive, we can never be sure we are indicating our political beliefs at the polls. More power to President Roosevelt in his attempt to “purge” the Democratic Party of extremely discordant elements, whether conservative or simply “wild men.”

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TIME TO GET BEHIND F. D. R, READER SAYS | By Frank S. Coyle It's a new Roosevelt. Perhaps I'm naive, maybe it's only more cleverness. But he seems genuine, This is the man we voted for in 1932. What we need is an end of witch doctors. Nothing is mysterious. We must look at uncomfortable things. We have a nation of rich land,

many minerals, fine forests with trained labor that wants to work and we have the tools and railroads. All that's needed is to get straight, settle things sanely and in our tradition. i Let's get behind Roosevelt, This poverty is ridiculous. An honest man can have a third term. There [isn't anything bigger than doing his | job well.

gy 5 u | VANNUYS BEING SUPPORTED | IN EAST, READER SAYS | By Isabelle Ingle Newkirk, Upper Montclair, N. J. We in these parts are deeply concerned over the reprisal threats of the Administration against the nomination of Senator VanNuys. | Being a Hoosier I am very proud of the record in Congress of Senator VanNuys, that he had the courage to put his country first. We cannot afford to lose a man of such honesty and courage, I hope that both Republicans and true Democrats will uphold him. The press of New York City and New Jersey is all for Senator VanNuys, ” ” ” FAVORS PROJECT FOR SLUM CLEARANCE By William Lemon Accepting a Federal loan for slum clearance and low cost housing would be one of the most heneficial projects that has yet taken place. Unsanitary shacks not only breed disease and crime but are a dis= grace to any civilized community. The landlords accept only enough rent to pay taxes until times improve, and are unable to keep these

shacks in repair,

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LET'S EXPLORE YOUR MIND

By DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM

these breeds remain happy when their master is grouchy and always have some new bag of tricks to take his mind off his troubles.

” os ” NO. MAYBE there is such a thing as telepathy or at least “extrasensory perception,” but, notwithstanding the highly creditable experiments now in progress on the subject, I still belong among those with suspended judgment. I think the experimenters themselves feel much the same way. ¥ & 8

I CAN'T answer this from much experimental evidence because the way to get along with other people has been mainly left out of our education. Recent experiments show it can be taught very definitely and thousands of examples from marriage clinics prove that when people are taught how to get along with each other they usually give up their plans for divorce. The best rule for getting along with other people is this: Deliberately over= estimate the importance of the other fellow's point of view, This

| Northern majority for two principal reasons. first was their fear that the New England States | would, as a majority, vote slavery out of existence, The second was that if the Northern majority could | control | would exploit the South, Being given in the Cone

Gen. Johnson Says—

Your Correspondent Sees Need for A New Declaration of Independence As a Safeguard for the Minority.

ETHANY BEACH, Del, July 4~The Declaration of Independence published 162 years ago was a reluctant resistance to tyranny—the resistance of a minority of Englishmen to a majority of English men, who supported a king in an effort to exploit them. If there be no limits to the powers of a majority, even in a democracy, to tyrannize over the minority, that tyranny can be even worse than that of the

bloodies despot that ever walked the earth. There could never have been any United States if this prin=

| ciple had not been frankly admitted and recog- | nized in the Constitution,

The Southern colonies were afraid to join the The

interstate and international commerce, it

stitution what were represented to them as abso

| lute guaranties against either form of majority tyran=

ny, they consented to join the North, o » un OTH guaranties were eventually repudiated, and it resulted in the bloodiest civil war in history. The

| ma jority oppression of minorities has been the cause

of most of the disintegration of nations, It was the purpose of our Constitution to prevent any such thing, The Constitution was an invitation. It said both to States and people, “Come under this blanket on the assurance that while there shall be majority rule, to the extent that this document clearly

permits, it will be subject to its own restrictions and limited to your obligation to support the reasonable requirements of local and national government.” There isn't any doubt about that, Our whole history attests it. Under this promise 48 states and the whole people were enticed into our present governmental forms. But we are now confronted with a new interpretation. It is that a majority can act to take away anything anybody has, to divide among itself, ” ” 8 HE recent Fortune poll confirmed what this column has often asserted—that the strength of the third New Deal is among the groups openly sube sidized through Federal taxation by that third New Deal. They are a majority. Does anybody suppose for a moment that this subsidized majority will not consistently and forever vote for the exploitation of all minority classes? It is not a vote on principle, honor or justice. It is a vote for subsidy extracted from its own victims to finance their exploiters. If it worked and could continue to work—if it did the subsidized classes any permanent good—it would be impossible to oppose it. But it doesn’t work. At the height of its most hectic activity, it left 10 million people unemployed. It was majority tyranny—wholly ineffective, utterly destructive of the profits system which has frequently at least employed all those who want to work. In correcting this country’s fundamental difficulties, it has made not one inch of progress. What we need is a new Declaration of Independence. oe

It Seems to Me By Heywood Broun

Freedom Can't Be Frozen Like a Football Near the End of a Game.

EW YORK, July 4.—President Roosevelt's speech before the National Education Association brought out to the full his great capacity as the articulate spokesman of American democracy. I have in mind the closing portion of his address in which he spoke of the burning of the books. He spoke of the burning of libraries, the exiling of scientists, writers and other artists and of the censor= ing of literature, painting and news. And what he said, I believe, was said deservedly and magnificently,

But if he had stopped there some critics might have objected, “Even though it is true, why run the risk of stirring up bad blood with Germany? It still isn't our business.” But I think the next paragraph ought to be graven in bronze and kept before our eyes. “If the fires of freedom and civil liberties burn low in other lands,” said Franklin Delano Roosevelt, “they must be made brighter in our own.” Sincere people differ enormously as to what the details and general shape of our foreign policy should be. Yet I believe and hope there can be a broad base of solidarity in the statement of those things for which free men strive. There is no smugness in the paragraph which I have quoted. On the contrary, it is a call for self-examination.

We Have Our Faults

Obviously American practices have not always lived up to the finest American precepts. We have known and still know of censorship and suppression of civil liberties within our own borders. That's our fault and our problem. But it is undeniable that recent developments abroad have had their repere cussions here, Nazi followers have boldly stated that they hope

to promote anti-Semitism in America. Official journals in Hoth Italy and Germany have hailed Hague as a hero on account of his efforts to curtail free speech, But even if there were no direct propa=ganda of that sort aimed at the life of things we hold dear, the echoes and the shadows of Fascism would reach our shores. And our answer must be to augment and develop the liberties to which America is pledged. It will not suffice simply to say that our press is freer than that in other lands, We must strive to make it still more free. We cannot preserve our liberties by standing still, Freedom cannot be frozen like a football in the closing minutes of a game. In order to hold what we have we must go forward.

Watching Your Health

By Dr. Morris Fishbein

OWADAYS we have learned much about the detection of disease in the human being by using various tests and mechanical methods of examination, Many people have come to believe that disease can be diagnosed without even having the patient anywhere near the doctor who examined him. This is, of course, an error. The doctor must determine, first of all, the cause of the pain or of the suffering. Sometimes it is the result of an infectious disease. Perhaps germs coming into the human body have attacked the tissues and as a result of their attack have broken down the human tissue, resulting in disorders of function and subse quent distress. Sometimes various chemical substances coming into the body cause it to be attacked with inflammation or irritation, We must recognize that the human being is a com= bination of mind and body. This possession of a mind capable of reaching to external circumstances is one of the. chief marks of a human being. Regardless of the physical character of any illness from which a human being may suffer, his emotional reactions are of the greatest importance. Some people are so disturbed by the slightest pain that symptoms are exaggerated to a point which makes even the doctor doubtful about the nature of the disease. Other people are so stoical and so come pletely free from fear of any kind that they tend to minimize greatly symptoms which may be of the ute most importance in diagnosing a disease. Unless the doctor has a thorough understanding of the mental reactions of the patient, it is difficult