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Give Light and the People Will Fina Their Own Way

THURSDAY, JULY 7, 1938

THE G. O. P. SHAKE-UP HAT shake-up in the Republican county organization is significant. It was so long overdue that most citizens probably assumed that it would never happen. But here it is at last. When a Republican county chairman actually appoints 14 new ward chairmen, and in the process unseats several Coffinites who seemed destined to retain control forever, that is not only news—it is a near miracle. County Chairman Vandivier, who did the clean-up job, says “his purpose was to prevent candidates from serving at th ward leaders who would be fully responsible, and finally, to inject new and younger blood into the organization,

Anvone who knows anything about political organiza- |

tions, especially . 0. P. organization in Marion Countv, knows that Mr. Vandivier needed lots of courage Certainly he is driving

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to make these sweeping changes. forward in the right The Democratic county politicians doubtless are much interested in Mr. Vandivier's example. At least, they ring wouldn't hurt the Demo-

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should be. A littl cratic organization v THE SOUTH inch of cotton cloth added to - Chinaman would mean prosperity

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saving offers little help to the | | merous other measures. He was, except on the Su-

n illustration of what mass buying power it's timely. which President Roosevelt and his National Emergency Council are just now turning the spotlight.

can’t do much, but mass buying power among the 36,000,000 people in the Southern states. We can do something about that.

The effective buving income of the average family |

in Mississippi last year was 768. Some farm families in that state existed on less than $300. It was just such conditions that Mr. Roosevelt was talking about when he said that “the South presents right now the nation’s No. 1

economic problem—the nation’s problem, not merely the

South's.”

The effective buying income of the average family in |

Ohio was $2587, some having a great deal more and many

much less. The average family in Mississippi, given even | much, could have had better clothes to wear, | better food to eat, a better house to live in, a better school |

half that

for its children, better medical care. It would have been a better customer for products made in states like Ohio. And so the average family in Ohio would have been even more prosperous. To put it another way, if the per capita net income of Southern farm families could be raised to the level of other sections, that would mean enough new buying power to absorb more than $5,000,000,000 worth of goods—twice the value of our exports in 1936. Of course this condition in the South, which as Mr. Roosevelt says is responsible for economic unbalance in the nation as a whole, is nothing new. Its causes run a long way back, and are rooted deeply. 1t's easy to say that Southern income should be raised, that Southern buying power should be increased, but doing the job will be tremendously difficult. The new Wage-Hour Law should help Southern industrial workers on the lower income levels. Freight rates which discriminate against the South obviously call for adjustment. But that would be only a start. -We don’t know what program Mr. Roosevelt will propose. But we like the way the President and Director Lowell Mellett of the NEC have approached the problem. Experts from many Government departments worked at it, preparing reports on such topics as the resources of the South, its population, its labor and relief conditions, its tax structures, farm tenantry, education, public health. But for once Washington didn’t claim omniscience. Mr. Roosevelt asked a group of Southerners—educators, industrialists, businessmen, labor leaders—to study these reports critically and edit them in the light of their own knowledge of the South. The result should be the fairest, most accurate picture yet presented of the South's problem as a whole, and such a picture is essential to a satisfactory solution of that problem.

UNCLE SAM, ADVERTISER HE U. 8. Maritime Commission is preparing a campaign of advertising intended to interest citizens in trips to South America on the three big “luxury liners” recently taken over by the Government from the Panama-Pacific Line. The object is a good one, and we hope the campaign will bring the Commission many times the $500,000 that may be spent on it. But another agency of the Government, the Treasury Department, also has gone in for advertising in a big way, having spent about $1,650,000 in the last three years to push the sales of its Baby Bonds. And we find ourselves getting a trifle confused. Which is our patriotic duty—to save our money and buy Baby Bonds, or to spend our money and see South America?

NO NERVE TROUBLE INDICATED

AS the story unfolds to date, Count Court HaugwitzReventlow is insulted at an offer of $250,000 and is shooting for 5 million. At first we couldn’t reconcile that with the report that the Count has been undergoing a nerve cure. But perhaps the cure worked. ’ ; t

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Because, as we see it, mass buying | power is one answer to the Southern economic problem on | | port a 95 per cent New Deal Democrat. | won and the Indiana Republicans, in their state con- : . ae : | vention a few days ago, didn’t even mention VanNuys. Not mass buying power in China, about which we | day that is past.

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Washington

By Raymond Clapper

You May Think Jim Watson Belongs To the Past, but His Two Rules Stil Guide Indiana's Democrats.

(Westbrook Pegler Is on Vacation)

\ ASHINGTON, July 7.—It is not for nothing that Indiana Democrats grew up under the shadow of that veteran stalwart Republican, the Hon. James E. Watson, who for a generation taught not only Indiana Republicans, but all Republicans the rules of the game. Jim Watson, like the Gridiron Club, has but two rules. They have guided many a bewildered politician in a crisis. Rule No. 1 is, “If you can't lick

‘em, then join em.” Rule No. 2 is, “There are times when a politician must rise above principle.” The McNutt Democrats whe run Indiana have gone into prayerful consultation with their inner souls and have decided that the time has come to apply both of Jim Watson's celebrated rules. So the word goes out from authoritative sources in Indiana that the McNutt crowd has torn up the death warrant which had been signed against Senator VanNuys and are about to give him renomination.

HERE was no doubt that the McNutt Democrats could lick VanNuys for renomination in the state convention to be held next week.® But VanNuys had announced his intention to run as an independent Democrat and there was grave danger that this split in the Democratic forces would lead to the election of a Republican Senator from Indiana in Novem ber. That would be a fine kettle of fish for former Paul McNutt, who expects to come back from the Philippines next winter to begin his campaign for the 1940 Democratic Presidential nomination. Therefore all is forgiven and Senator Fred VanNuys is coming back to the McNutt fold. There's a lot of stuff being said about the Supreme Court fight in this connection, but it doesn't mean much. VanNuys fell out with the McNutt machine in Indiana long before the Roosevelt Supreme Court bill was ever heard of, and already was slated for extinction. When he refused to go along on the Court bill, that fact was used by the Indiana State House crowd as a club with which to beat the doomed VanNuys down. But the real crime of VanNuys was that he wouldn't go along with the State organization. ~ o ” HERE is no little vindication in this new situation for John Hamilton, chairman of the Republican National Committee. Some Indiana Re-

| publicans thought it weuld be smart politics for the

Repuklicans to indorse VanNuys instead of setting up a Republican candidate. Hamilton had looked into the Senate record of VanNuys. He found that VanNuys had voted for most of the New Deal legislation—for NRA, AAA and nu-

preme Court and Reorganization Bills, about as loval though not as enthusiastic a New Deal voter as his 100 per cent colleague, Senator Minton. Why, asked Hamilton, should the Republicans supHamilton

You may think that old Jim Watson belongs to a Maybe so. But his soul goes marching on to guide the Indiana Democrats through their decisive hours.

Business By John T. Flynn

No Signs Have Appeared in Market To Justify Prediction of a Boom.

EW YORK, July 7.—The great question in the

mind of every reader of the financial pages is— | | will the stock market take a tumble soon or is this

rise the first stage of a market boom which will extend well into next year? :

The explanation of the present rise is a point on |

which men may differ. All sorts of extraneous influences may send a market up or down for a brief space. But nothing can keep it up or down during a prolonged period save the underlying business situation. The market went up as it is going up now in April, 1933, following the bank holiday. There was no reason for that rise save the general expectation of inflation. It collapsed in July because there was no underlying business situation to support it. Later on, as the Goverment’s spending program got under way the markets began a more orderly rise and continued that last fall. Now the principal thing to be considered is whether or not the underlying business situation will support a rising market. There are some students of business who believe that the reversal of business which began in the spring of 1937 was a mere inventory phenomenon—that this has been a sort of inventory recession. They think that inventories are now depleted and that buying will result and that business will rise and we will see something in the nature of a boom. These same people were predicting a great boom in the winter of 1936 on the very eve of the recession. My own view is that anybody who believes this is an inventory recession exhibits an appalling lack of knowledge of the whole subject of the business cycle and the mechanical structure of the capitalist system.

U. S. Spending May Help

It may be that a boom will develop. It may be that business is going to get progressively better. But at this moment that is a mere guess. It is possible that there may be an improvement in business under the impact of accelerated Government spending and price declines. But that improvement does not reveal any of the specifications

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Perhaps with the developing summer and with the development of the Government's spending program signs will appear later to justify an opinion. But they are not sound yet. The people pushing up stocks now with their orders are those who think that stock prices in many sectors are too low. They are guessing upon the future, which is a legitimate function of speculation. But it is a mere guess so far.

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

NT long ago I was sitting with a group of young men who were seriously discussing the most desirable qualities for a wife. Regardless of the state of their purses—some of them: were flat—all agreed that the topnotcher must be a gracious hostess. Beauty and glamour were secondary considerations, although the boys expressed a preference for smartly groomed girls. They wanted them orderly, punctual, truthful; they extolled sportsmanship and courage; a few said they hoped to draw a good cook from the marriage lottery, but none put any special stress upon domestic skill. I kept wishing one of them would mention the trait which seems all-important to me in either husband or wife—and was @isappointed when it was ignored. Perhaps the boys are inexperienced or maybe the girls have only shown their brighter side to all their beaus. At any rate, nobody spoke of a good dis-

| position—which is actually the greatest household | gadget.

I'm old-fogy enough to believe we are born with our dispositions. Any experience with new babies proves that. Training enables a person to cover up his natural faults, but even so the pattern of our character is set before our birth and, with few exceptions, we carry that pattern to our graves. The charm teachers can tell us how to disguise a bad disposition, but they can’t tell us how to get a good one and for that reason the artificial article doesn’t turn the trick. Nothing so graces and enriches the home as an even-tempered wife—one who is not addicted to poutings or chronic complaints and who laughs of she cries, :

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SEES COPPERHEADS IN ADMINISTRATION By A. J. McKinnon There seems to be considerable discussion about what is a copperhead. Mr. Roosevelt was not clear in his statement on copperheads. He did not prove to the average man that those who oppose his plan are copperheads. My estimation of a copperhead ‘'n the Administration is the Committee of 48 which is holding high executive office in our Government. Mr. Hopkins was placed in charge of the publicity work of the Committee of 48. In December newspapers carried the story that Harold L. Ickes, Secretary of the Interior, recommended

| the division of the country into 12

districts for economic planning and

| recommended the establishment of a |

Emergency Administration of Public Works. This, if put | into effect, would do away with | state lines and establish a supreme | Government bureaucracy. I feel that this will be brought up {at the next session of Congress, as | Mr. Hopkins recently stated that the | emergency proposition is now to be- | come a permanent proposition and | the Committee of 48 is to step in under the name of “liberals” with no stop-and-go signs to contend with and take political control of all discordant elements. The Committee of 48 is not elected by the people. Yet these men seem to have more say in our Government than our duly elected representatives to Congress. Congress seems to be a sideshow. If we cannot elect Congressmen who understand democracy and who will fight against these copperheaded liberals { who believe that license to do what | you please is liberty, then democracy | is gone. The question in my estimation for every voter at next election is: Are we going to let these socalled “liberals” that are not elected by the people run our Government?

» ” ” SAYS ROOSEVELT'S WORK FORGOTTEN TOO SOON By C. B.

About seven years ago quite a few of my friends and I were in a tight place.

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| Then along came a man with a big mind and a big heart. This man was nominated and elected to the bhiggest and hardest job in these United | States. He took over the job of re- | habilitation. He knew, and we all ! knew, that the country was in a “mess,” but the job didn't frighten him a little bit. We all looked to him for guidance in those trying times and we did not look in vain. How soon we forget! With all this

We were about to lose our | i homes and about everything else.

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talk of dictatorship and all these “scare writings” we should remember that if the man wanted to rule | us with an iron glove of dictatorship | the opportune time would have been {in the beginning when we were all | practically whipped. Think it over, folks, and help our President win this | this and all future depressions.

| n o ” | DEPLORES OLD-GUARD RULE | IN REPUBLICAN PARTY | By Garden Variety Votes The keynote speech of Bruce Barton before the Republican convention was the most inspiring talk {I have ever heard from a Repub- | lican. Or from very few Democrats | either, It went to rock-bottom in its sincerity, was fair to an opponent | who has been getting only brick- | bats from Republicans, and very | shrewd in its analysis. | But hopes for a rebirth of the party were quickly dashed when it was realized that the Old Guard is still firmly in power. Was the

IN THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW

By EDNA JETT CROSLEY

The glorious sunset aflame with scarlet lace, in its etchings I trace your lovely face; My tears rain freely as the winds moan over my head, Which dry my cheeks, but leave tear traces in their stead.

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The rising sun at dawn proclaims a new-born day, Just as my love for you grows stronger with each ray, | How can I ease the ache within my heart When even the elements in sympathy take part?

DAILY THOUGHT

But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness, and all tHHese things shall be added unto you.—St. Matthew 6:33.

HE body, that is but dust; the soul it is a bud of eternity.— N. Culverwell.

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speech and the more liberal platform above their heads? Somehow one gets the impression they didn't even listen to it, considering it just a convention pep talk for the benefit of the voters. Perhaps they regard it as the new type of packaging Rep. Barton said the party needed, and never mind improving the contents. At any rate, it doesn’t seem to have penetrated. As it is, before the young Republicans can get the Republican phoe-

be fighting in vain until the Old Guard has joined yesterday's seven thousand years. The Old Guard is too expert at the practical end of the political game. Changing the metaphor, even if the political

machine is a wreck, they'd rather be in control of the wreckage than get a new model and driver,

5 n A SAYS EDITORIAL UNFAIR TO WILLIS By Marion R. Money Your editorial, ‘The Elephant Limps Along” says “Certainly Candidate Willis is not the equal of Senator VanNuys, whom many Republicans wanted to nominate and will vote for in November.” This statement was unjust and very unfair to Mr. Willis. I was a delegate to the recent Republican State Convention. Very

few Republicans, I find in my travels over the state, even mention Senator VanNuys, let alone say anything about voting for him. All this VanNuys propaganda is, in my mind, being fostered by a group who wants to ride the VanNuys band wagon in event he decides to run independent. It takes a lot of nerve for any man or group of men to ask the Republicans of Indiana to vote for or support a man who is 96 per cent New Deal and 4 per cent whatever else you wish to call it. You are very evidently not acquainted with our candidate, the Hon. Ray Willis. If you were, you would not have made the above statement in an editorial in a paper like yours. He has always been a leader of his fellowmen in private life as well as in public. Has Senator VanNuys? There is no question that Senator Watson has been the most able statesman that ever represented Indiana. I am confident Senator Watson feels that he has served his allotted time and will very graciously step aside for our new leader. As to the Hoosier Republicans having Watsonitis, there are several thousand taxpayers and workers in Indiana today that wish they had had more Watsonitis in 1932.

LET'S EXPLORE YOUR

By DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM

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one's hereditary makeup, although environment also is a powerful fac tor.

A HARD QUESTION. To us, democracy seems natural, but we forget that it is a pretty recent thing. Men have nearly always lived under dictators. However, I think their day is pretty nearly over for two reasons—first, the dictator today has no understudy to take his place. In olden time he could fool the people into accepting his son and even make them think the whole family was endowed from heaven, but today such nonsense is not accepted in most countries. Each dictator must make good on his own. I think the passion for individual freedom has been slowly gaining ground and will continue to do so, and eventually overcome all other theories of government.

IT WOULD be nine times as great. According to the law of physics the impact of moving objects increases in proportion to the square of the speed. If a car were going 100 miles an hour it would strike with 25 times the impact of one going at 20. The law was discovered by Leibnitz, the German philosopher, about 1675 and raised a storm that lasted a hundred years, but is now accepted as a basic principle of science, .

THURSDAY, JULY 7, 1938 Gen. Johnson Says—

Columnist Thinks Publicity Men And Lawyers Have Had Much to Do In Getting Business in Dog House.

ETHANY BEACH, Del, July 7.—~A recent piece here suggested that big business is in the dog house of a considerable public opinion, that this is partly due to unfair political attack, and that business should try to change this situation. It said that collective bargaining is popular and that many neople think that much of business is at heart opposed to it. That piece brought a protest from a good friend— one of our greatest industrial leaders—able, public= spirited and wholly sincere. He says that business believes in collective bargaining but that national unions are not necessary for true collective bargain= ing. He denies what I have never charged—that business contributed to the depression and closes by reminding me that there is no such organization in

business as would permit it to take any action to im= prove its public relations.

» n ” T= writer has fought a long and successful fight against outside unionization and I know that his own labor relations are among the best in industry —operating through a company union, He got .a

pretty raw deal in his contact with the first Labor Relations Board. Up to that time, he had heen more genuinely sympathetic to the first New Deal than any industrialist I know. Now he fights the third New Deal on more fronts than one, but purely on principle and conviction, I cite this letter because it is typical and, as I think, proves the point of my other piece. ~All employers are not as fair in their labor relae tions as this one, It is a pretty general conviction that it is impossible in a company union to have the independence necessary to genuine collective bargaine ing. In spite of such bright exceptions as this company union, the general experience is against them. Furthermore, independent unionism is the spirit of the law of the land. ¥ ¥ =»

EF is true that business is an unconnected aggregation of hundreds of thousands of separate units and can't act as one. Just the same, whatever une

favorable public opinion there is was created by it and its leaders could do much to improve the condition. The main trouble is lawyers and publicity “experts.” Lawyers who counsel last-ditch fights on some shoe-string of legalistic right against popular legislation, win their fees but generally lose the case. Many business concerns and associations have “public relations” men who write speeches for the boss, and regularly get out sheafs of mimeographecd press clip sheets. As long as they are simply news of constructive developments, that is all to the good, out it is bad business and bad judgment for the head of a business of millions of stockholders to be handing out political propaganda adverse to Government as a constant practice, The rift between business and the Administration is one of our greatest misfortunes, Both sides are to blame—Government more than business—but is that

81Y Jyawon for business to continue to be to blame at all?

It Seems to Me By Heywood Broun

If Barton Has Presidential Hopes He Needs a Stop Watch and Eraser.

EW YORK, July 7.—More than a year ago I ventured the columnar guess that Bruce Barton might be a good bet in the winter books for the Republican nomination in 1940. It is still an open race, but certainly the odds on Mr. Barton have shortened. But Bruce Barton faces two handicaps. In the first place, he looks too much like John D. M. Hamilton. Hamilton has a passion for public appearances, and if both men take to the stump in the same campaign one should wear the purple trunks and the other the black, so that casual spectators well back of the ringside section, can tell which is which, But the most potential handicap to Bruce Barton is the circumstance that he used to be a syndicaied newspaper columnist and a voluminous contributor to the magazines. As I remember the output, it was largely inspirational and extremely sound and worthy in its moral precepts. But even the most orthodox author may let his pen slip as he faces the deadline. Some years ago in a magazine piece Mr. Barton did eulogize Mussolini in a manner which he may live to regret in a tight campaign. This material was used against him when he ran for Congress, in the Seventeenth, without apparent effect, but the Seventeenth is largely silk stocking, and many of the voters there are impressed by the rumor that the Duce has made the trains run on time. As yet the fine-tooth comb process of research has not been applied to the works of Barton, and when that is done no one knows what may be churned up,

Item From the Past

I do not suggest it as a major issue, but in an old scrapbook I have just come across an item by the Republican dark horse which will not help much with the housewife votes. “Convictions,” he wrote, “are splendid when they relate to important matters; they are a public nuisance when they provoke a row over a petty detail.” And as a specific instance of what he means Mr. Barton mentions a friend with a taste for eggs boiled two and one-half minutes, Against three-minute egg the man makes violent protest. “This,” says the G. O. P. columnist, “is silly, since 30 seconds can never make much difference.” Let Mr. Barfon stand as silent as he can in his room some morning and toll off 30 seconds. He will find it a period of existence at which no connoisseur of time or cookery can afford to sneeze. Thousands of touchdowns have been made with no longer than that to go. And elections have been won or lost with some felicitous or unfortunate phrase requiring hardly one-third as many seconds. If Mr. Barton has Presidential aspirations he should buy himself a stop watch and an eraser,

Watching Your Health

By Dr. Morris Fishbein

A svn diphtheria is now one of the diseases that medicine has practically solved, it still remains a menace in many places. There are already some American cities which can point to a record without a single death from diphtheria. Others, however, continue to be troubled by this disease, and there are occasional outbreaks which are more severe than some of those which occurred long ago.

Today we know the cause of diphtheria, we have a means of determining whether a child who is exe posed to diphtheria is likely to catch the disease, and we have a means of inoculating children. Fortunately, diphtheria is not as fatal as it used to be, because of the discovery of diphtheria antie toxin. It is well established that toxoid will prevent diphe theria. Indeed, it can be said that if most children received the toxoid at the age of 6 months, and if this were continued year after year, diphtheria would become as rare as smallpox, In communities where 90 per cent or more of the children are inoculated with toxoid against diphe theria, the disease practically disappears. Under the circumstances, a city with a high in cidence of diphtheria is not doing what it should in protecting its public. Part of the responsibility rests on the parents of the children who are concer Children cannot themselves go to the doctor. By the use of the Schick test it is quite possi... in times of outbreak to determine which children are susceptible to the disease, so that they may be quite certainly inoculated. A far better rule is to give all young children the benefit of inoculation with toxoid, and thus to do the most that can be done to prevent the spread of diphtheria, .

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