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SATURDAY, JULY 9, 1938

PAST MASTER

PART from how vou feel about Mr. Roosevelt—whether |

vou love him, hate him, or are quizzical about him— we'll bet that if you heard his Covington, Ky., speech you will agree that you were listening to one of the greatest political orators of all time. He faced a delicate job. Ile very easily could have slashed an artery. But he didn't. The exquisite technique of Mare Antony was there, in the way he ves-butted Chandler; all the “he is an honorable man” business, to build up a cloudburst of faint praise with which to wash an opponent down the drain—the one challenge the Presidential

in this case who had dared

favorite, Dear Alben.

It seems almost providential that this tour should have

heen provided just as the greatest show on earth was withdrawn to winter quarters. We need choice enter{ainment in the summertime. We have it now, though not from the flying trapeze. We who live today would give almost anything to be projected backward into the time when the lords of speech ruled and entertained the land—DPatrick Henry, Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, the Randolphs, Lincoln and Douglas, Robert G. Ingersoll, or Bryan in his prime. Well, we have another giant of the hustings: one of the cleverest in political history. He has departed on an intrepid crusade. He is taking on all comers, and assuming unto himself all the risks. He may win. He may lose. But we'll venture to say that after the show is over, the verdict, regardless of sentiment for or against him, will be written in the words of that oh too popular song—"He may have been a headache but he never was a bore.”

MORE DELAY ON SEWERS N spite of torrential rains last week-end which demaonstrated the inadequacy of the City’s drainage system, the Works Board met again yesterday without doing anything about the sewer problem. North Side residents had been assured of definite action on the proposed 38th St. storm sewer, but the Board

once more failed to agree on a technical point that has |

delayed the project two months. The urgent need for sewers in other areas also was brought to the Board's attention. Rather than continue this City officials should order a prompt study of the sewer situation. Then, amount to be spent, they should proceed to carry out a modernization program with-

out delay,

bickering,

after determining the exact

SOME TITLES COME HIGH NITIAL cost of a foreign title is high, upkeep is very expensive and when time arrives for the trade-in the value often is found to have depreciated to a great deal less than nothing at all. Of course, Barbara Hutton knew that in the first place, without anyone having to tell her, much less needing to out for herself. She could have named dozens of American heiresses who had married titles at a cost in money and happiness out of all proportion to the value received.

find

But the little Woolworth heiress went ahead and became both Princess and Countess. The quoted price was $1,000,000 per husband in prenuptial settlements. a great deal more expended on the first before that matter was wound up, now a demand for $5,000,000 as the price of retirement hy the second. The cold-hearted onlooker might say that if she goes ahead and verifies the rumor that she intends to marry into nobility a third time. she might be put down as deserving what she may get and what she may have to pay. But this isn't a cold-hearted affair—except on the payThis young spoiled child is seeking happiness (mistakenly, perhaps, via the title route). just as any other bride, surprisingly she feels that she can afford to indulge her whims. About all we see to do is to hope that the third time is the charm. —————————

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and not

PEOPLE

HE human race is a great institution.

we realize,

That thought, is not particularly new, but it was inspired by a bunch of clippings that have accumulated on our desk. i Here, for instance, is a story about Edgar D. Pepper, 250-pound’ hitch-hiker. who registered at a big Chicago hotel, ate 3.08 worth of breakfast, $5.91 worth of lunch, $5.70 worth of dinner, $4.59 worth of bedtime snack, and then went to jail when he admitted having no “money to pay for all that food. Here is Sally Rand, the fan and bubble dancer, who

savs she

turned down an important movie role because

she was expected to dance the can-can, which she con- |

siders “suggestive.” Here are Dr. Nathaniel Kleitman, Chicago University

psychologist, and Bruce Richardson, a student, who lived

for a month in the depths of Kentucky's Mammoth Cave | “to determine whether a man can adjust himself to a 28- |

hour, six day week.” Here is a veritable Sheik of Araby—Hafiz Wahba, Arabian Ambassador to London—who wore white robes, a

turban and horn-rimmed glasses when he called on Presi- | | be compassionate and is capable of witnessing the

| most poignant manifestation of feminine sorrow with

dent Roosevelt, and who said he is making a tour to study “the female education problem.” And here is Lieut. Robert M. Stanley, a Navy flying cadet, who soared 8200 feet to break the American altitude record the first day he ever flew in a motorless glider, and then a few days later piloted another glider 225 miles, from Elmira, N. Y., to Washington, which may be a distance record, All of which, perhaps, proves nothing much, except that this would be a pretty dull world if it didn't have people in it, i

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By Raymond Clapper

G. O. P. Has Done Little to Provide Home for Those Who Like Aims of New Deal but Not Its Execution.

(Westbrook Pegler Is on Vacation)

ASHINGTON, July 9.—In the public utterances of some of their national figures at least, there appears to be a determined Republican effort to catch up with Roosevelt. For six years or so Republicans have allowed Roosevelt to hold a monopoly on the inspirational stuff. This was Roosevelt's stock in trade. He sold the more abundant life so successfully that even when hard times unexpectedly came back, you could go out among the unemployed and they would still tell you

that Roosevelt was their friend. By the nature of their attack on Roosevelt, the Republicans worked themselves into a position where they were suspected of advocating the kind of democracy which Anatole France sarcastically described as “the right of every man to sleep under the bridges of the Seine.” ” » = ORMER Governor Landon, who always has been somewhat more progressive than most of his

fellow Republican leaders, labored to erase this im-

the Breckenridges, |

pression in his Council Bluffs speech this week. He said a poll of the seventeen millions who voted against

Roosevelt would show that an overwhelming majority |

of them believe in collective bargaining, in social security, unemployment insurance, relief—but freed of politics—in a better distribution of wealth, in raising the standard of living, and "a great many other social reforms.” He added: “You and I know that America has decided these issues. Regardless of what party comes into power, they will have to be carried forward, because the majority of all our people want them. But they want them to work.” Rep. Bruce Barton said something to the same effect at Indianapolis and he said it with eloquence and force. But that same afternoon, the Indiana Re-

| publican State Convention ignored Barton's keynote

advice and nominated for its Senatorial candidate a country editor who is described as 100 per cent

against the New Deal. = » ”

HE Republican Party, whatever men like Landon |

and Barton .say in championing a more progressive course, has a big job ahead of it to sell this idea,

the reactionary James. Pinchot scribed as a “half-hearted New Dealer” and James by a landslide. National Chairman John Hamilton, as official head of the Republican Party organization, spoke at the University of Virginia oh the aims of the party. He has become so intent upon picturing the party as purely Jeffersonian that he embraces as a corollary a “hands off” policy in Government, particularly the Federal Government. That position, it would seem, points to a rubbing out of the New Deal. As yet the Republican Party has made little progress in providing a home for those who believe in the general aims of the New Deal but are growing steadily more sour {toward its execution, and particularly toward the political prostitution of relief.

Business By John T. Flynn

Slump Due in Large Part to the Isolated Stratagems of the U. S.

EW YORK, July 9.—Probably the world will never know who killed Cock Robin. Or should this bird be known as the goose that laid the golden egg? Whatever the name it seemed to be going strong until a year ago, when it curled up and died. The Republican drumbeaters say that it was the President who killed recovery. They want people to believe that he deliberately planned and brought about the present depression. Of course no one will believe that. But while the President didn't do it deliberately, certainly his acts had a large share in the result. This is not because he was vicious and wanted to hurt the country but because he didn't know what he was doing. The tax figures for the fiscal year just closed help to bear this out. For instance, the Federal Government collected nearly a billion dollars in taxes last year more than it did in the preceding year. If you look at the figures you will see that more than half of this increase in taxes came out of the pockets of the lowest-income classes. For instance. 250 million dollars of the increase came from social security taxes. Another 150 million came out of railroad employees and at least a hundred million out of commodity taxes. While taxes were being drawn thus from the lowerincome groups, the great lending agencies of the Government were making huge collections. In 1933. 1934 and 1935 and even 1936 these agencies were lending large sums of money. Bui now they have begun to collect it back. Thus last vear the Reconstruction Finance Corp. instead of paying out a great sum actually collected a third of a billion more than it paid out. The Commodity Credit Corp. the Farm Credit Corp. and other agencies collected back from industry and farms more than they loaned out.

Collections Are Deflationary

This of course helps Government credit and may he regarded as in one sense wholesome, But I speak of its effect upon the economic system. Government collections are deflationary as contrasted with Government loans and payments which are inflationary. Increased Government taxes and collections are not necessarily bad in themselves. They are only bad when they are permitted to occur without making allowance for the inevitable economic effects. Our trouble all along has been to adopt isolated stratagems as if they were not connected with the economic system at all. Now the Government wants to renew its inflationist policy. Here again this should not be done without measuring the effects and taking steps to guard against them,

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

WONDER why a man who has had many love affairs is always spoken of as a Great Lover. Just habit perhaps, since he, of ali men, does not know how to love. I was reminded of the puzzle once again as I read the life of Gabriele d’Annunzio written by his secreary, Tom Antongini, and published by Little, Brown & Co. An extraordinary personality that Italian, made of the stuff that biographers and readers adore. The jacket lists him as poet, soldier, patriot, lover. Three other words might well have been added: Seducer, sybarite, swindler. For certainly d'Annunzio lived up to all three titles, preying on women and living in luxury for which his creditors paid, since he never met his bills if he could avoid it. Here's a bit that will introduce you to the souls of Great Lovers, if we can believe the books and biographers: “D’Annunzio has never been willing to believe that love can make a woman suffer. He sees no reason to

as little compunction as a dentist feels for a nervous patient. He has always been a free lance, a great artist, a vigorous pursuer of new sensations, whether found in dealing with a self-willed woman or in a flight of enemy batteries in action. He is a sensualist in the fullest sense of the term, taking his

| pleasure where and when he found it.”

Charming fellow, girls! We speak often of the strife now going on between the sexes, blaming the fact upon woman's desire for equality with the men. Yet we enjoy, in fact, a very special kind of friendship if we compare our feelings toward each other to the bitter enmity which marked the era when Great Lovers flourished,

SEES JUSTIFICATION

{ hue and cry raised against him, but

{ patriotic purpose of keeping Social- | ist and Communist agitators and

| ation

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The Hoosier Forum

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

FOR HAGUE'S POLICY By E. F. M, If Mayor Hague was interfering | with sensible patriotic Americans | there would be justification for the

since his efforts are directed at the

their sympathizers out of Jersey | City because he knows by experience that their purpose is to pro- | mote Red Revolution and the complete destruction of our whole sys-| tem of constitutional democracy, he is fully justified in barring Nor- | man Thomas. Mr. Thomas has a sticking his nose in every trial brawl he hears of. He uses | his oratorical powers to fan the | flames of class hatred for the spe-

record for indus- |

| cific purpose of wrecking the capi-

talist economic system We don't need wreckers now, we need officials with courage who are willing to risk their lives for the preservation of peace, economic recovery and the perpetuof Americanism. The NaGuard had not only the

right

tional

| right but the duty to join a parade

to demonstrate that we, the American people, are opposed to all alienisms, especially socialism, communism and fascism, and that we mean business. ” » ” FRANCO HAS ACCOMPLISHED SAYS By Agapito Rey Franco and his allies ruled over a greater portion of Spain for two years. During time what constructive measures have they put into effect? They have been prodigal in speeches and wordy programs, but their legislation thus far has been to nullify the constructive work of the Republic. In a country with a disgraceful percentage of illiteracy | they closed 58 secondary schools. They annulled civil marriage, suppressed the divorce laws: abolished

now have

this

{ the popular libraries and destroyed

the books of liberal writers. The minimum-wages law and other labor legislation have been dis- | carded, and the peasants again are | a day. All| labor unions, political parties. Ma- | sonic lodges and Protestant!

| churches have been suppressed and

their leaders murdered by Franco | and his Moorish saviours of Chris- | tianity. 3 The apologists and condoners trv to impress the uninformed readers | with Franco's constructive work. |

| had

(Times readers are invited to express their views these columns, religious conexcluded. Make your letter short, so ali can Letters must

in troversies have a chance.

be signed, but names will be withheld on request.)

They point to his Labor Charter as proof of his organizing capacity. But this Labor Charter is not a law

i | or a set of laws regulating human

activities. It is merely a statement or a program of what the Rebels will implant in Spain if and when they triumph. This charter is quite interesting | and if the philosophy it convevs been backed by appropriate legislation we might see some hope for the Spaniards who survive the Fascist hordes. The document contains 16 sections, which are in turn subdivided into smaller ones. The first section exalts the virtue of labor and closes with the statement: “All Spaniards have the right to work.” The second and third set forth that the state will regulate the length of the working day, wages and conditions. The fifth refers to farm workers and promises regulation of prices and improvement of rural life. Section 13 speaks of a corporate state to be formed, “inspired by the principles of unity, totality and hier-

| archy.”

The purpose of this document was to create the false impression abroad that the New Spain had begun to function under Franco's rule. But while this charter speaks profusely of dignified life, happiness and other panaceas to attract the working man, no laws or measures have been enacted to make these promises a reality. All the Rebels have done thus far was to cancel the mild social legislation introduced by the Republic.

LAST BITE By ROBERT 0. LEVELL My last appetizing bite— When I arranged to enjoy it;

I had to see this very sight--My finger slipped and dropped it.

DAILY THOUGHT They remembered not his hand, nor the day when he delivered them from the enemy.—Psalms 78:42,

F all the faculties of the mind, memory is the first that flourishes, and the first that dies.—Colton. |

| done

F. D. RS SUPPORT OF BARKLEY

PUZZLES READER By a Citizen The President's was fair enough reconcile his words civil service

fireside but I cannot and the new legislation, etc. With the reports that WPA funds still being used to influence votes in various states. Nor can I understand the Presi-

speech

(dent's selection of Senator Barkley | of Kentucky as his successor as re- | ported. | he

I can not understand why is practically pinning the New Deal's future on the election

we are trying to get away from. Of all those named as nominees I find Barkley acceptable as Chief Executive. seems strange that the most acceptable in my tary Hull-—should have the chance.) Without apparent of his own, Barkley is a

least

least ideals typical

| “party” man who can, however, ex-

pertly follow the leader, Not so popular in Congress, since he achieved leadership by a narrowest of margins, it remains to be seen whether he is popular enough in his home state (even with the aid of WPA funds). The selection of a man so hard to put over in the first place and hardly a Class A leader in the second place is mystifving.

It is said that by 1940 we, the peo- |

ple, may get so tired of brain-trust brilliance we'll be glad to vote for a man of experience, Perhaps, if we did not recall that experience without brains is simply practice. ry wu uN OBJECTS TO ASSESSMENTS FOR TRACK REMOVAL By One of the Small Home Owners The City is going to remove the obsolete car tracks. The best part

| of it is that they are going to assess

the abutting property owners $1.20 per lineal foot for removing this track. I wouldn't think =o much of it if the street was in need of resurfacing, for then it could be with the one operation, As it 1s, the street will be all tern up, the track taken up, and tae streetcar company will laugh up its sleeve at another good one that

they put over on the unsuspecting |

public, with the assistance of our servants or public officials. If the City has to have the tracks taken up, let it charge the bill to the streetcar company. It is the company's baby, not ours, so why make us pay for it?

LET'S EXPLORE YOUR MIND

UF CRACKER FOR ARGUFYER| CUB: NOTED WRITER SAYS, "NOBODY CAN DEPRIVE US OF OUR FREEDOM EXCEPT OURGELES" CANNOT A DICTATOR DO IT?

4 YOUR ANSWER _____

"DAD, A PSYCHOLOGIST CLAIMS THE REASON MEN SUCCEED 16 DUE: rE ,

By DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM

| |

" — Wy WHICH ARE e cs me wore RACAL OROLD PEOPLE P ee

| groups rated equally high on the | Then he gave them an | “imagination test” with such ques- |

TO IMAGINATION. 16 IMAGINATION INHERITED 2"

SSHUCKS, NO, DICK,

® ANYBODY CAN USE IMAGINATION.” YOUR OPINION

COIR ONT 1OBE JONN Pui CB

ANNE O'HARE M'CORMICK, noted journalist, stated in a notable address that if we allow a dictator to rise and deprive us of our freedom that is our own fault. If we, in democratic countries, lose our freedom, it is we who have been responsible. I agree with Mrs MecCormick. Never was the motto so

true. “Eternal vigilance is the price ! of liberty.” ® = = ACCORDING to one of the best students of American social trends, Martha Bruere, it is the old people today who have been disillusioned and are “seeing red”

and not the young people, analysis of the opinions of over 13,000 youths, only four out of 100 “want any change in our economic system or form of government.”

This does not look like the younger |

generation was planning to lead us into a revolution. Mrs. Bruere thinks there is more danger of them becoming too smug and apathetic to want, and intelligent social and progress. ¥y ¥ »

DR. F. L, WELLS, a Boston |

psychologist, gave four different tests of intelligence and personality to 100 men whd have made $100 a week throughout the depression and 100 who have made $35. The two

four tests.

tions as this: “What should be done

if you knew extensive oil fields were | { about | mark?” and “Suppose the Atlantic | | seacoast were going to sink 50 feet |

to be discovered in Den-

within the next year, what should be done?” The intelligence and

personality tests did not pick out |

the “superior” men, but the imagination tests did. The high salaried group wrote long, rich discussions about what should be done, whereas the low-salaried group wrote little and some could not think of a thing to do. Dr. Wells leaned toythe opinion that the imagination

was mostly inherited. \

are |

estimation—Secre- |

In an |

work for, | economic | might also be added that the shedding of the teeth

SATURDAY, JULY 9, 1938

Gen. Johnson Says—

Election Issues All Boil Down to This: "Would We Get Along Better If We Kicked Out Present Crowd?’

ETHANY BEACH, Del, July 9.—Jim Farley went nobly to bat for his boss over the air at the University of Virginia's annual forum. On the same day, Alf Landon was shelling him by radio from Council Bluffs, Iowa. Both were keynote speeches for the Congressional campaign. Jim sees business leaders at last understanding what the Government has been trying to do for them. Thus illumined, he imagines industrial big-shots at

last rallying to the third New Deal. It is not a “Gov= ernment of visionaries.” The President is no more to be swayed by extremists of the left than by “financial giants.” There is no danger to the system or any American institution. As usual in all recent Adminis= tration speeches there is a catalog of blessings, re= forms and benefits to the mass of the people which the third New Deal has brought.

Mr. Landon wants to know just what permanent blessings there are. He fails to see any improvement in any of these economic conditions which make for continued prosperity, except such temporary spurts as can be purchased through spending, debt and taxes, leaving the underlying conditions worse when the spurt is over, a R. LANDON aligns himself with the “yes-butters™ by pulling the old one which the President so much protests—"We all agree with your objectives but condemn your methods and policies.” But Aif gives it a new and scorching twist—after five years. You haven't truly reached any of your objectives and the reason is that you have used the wrong methods and policies.

Except for that contribution there is nothing new and sparkling about either of these speeches, They are important, because if you study each one carefully, you can avoid reading or listening to several million words between now and November, It is difficult to question Alf’s assertion that nothing fundamental in our halting economic system has been permanently repaired, The trouble with Alf's speech is that it is sterile of suggestions. © nn HE trouble with Jim's effort is a doubt of his accuracy. The new co-operation he sees with business is the steel industry's liberalizing its price and basing-point system without wage cuts. The truth is that this was a ransom it paid at a pistol's point when some of its leaders were brought to Washington and told that, if it didn't do that, the monopoly investigation would put it on the operating table, Jim surely doesn’t believe that the President is not swayed by the “extremists of the left.” He couldn't be swayed much by anybody else, because such people are the only kind he has in his inner circle of intimate advisers. That is also why Jim is off base when he says that this is no Government of “visionaries.” No phrase ever better described it. The election issues are unfortunately very vague. They all boil down simply to this: “Would we get along better if we kicked out the present crowd?”

It Seems to Me

By Heywood Broun

We May Not Have to Give Country Back to Indians; They May Take It.

N#Y YORK, July 9.—The Administration in Washington is protecting American reds. O..e

they were almost extinct, but now they are increa ing rapidly. But I could go on to note the fact that long before the New Deal the Government did embark upon a policy of paternalism in regard to the Indian. It was generally recognized that men and women of this good old American stock could not survive under rugged individualism. In order to save them from extinction they were madeswards of the state. It is curious that this policy has aroused such a small amount of criticism, because, in effect, the Governmens. 1s maintaining the first native Communists. Their collectivism was of a primitive sort. but within the tribe there was a sharing of the wealth, and fields are tilled co-operatively, Indeed, I think a scholar might do a really serious book on the relationship between the American Indian and the French Revolution. I assume that Rousseau, although he was a romantic (or maybe because he was a romantic), profoundly influenced early revolutionary thought. He was one of the spiritual fathers of our own Revolution. His influence on the French Revolution was even more direct. According to the Columbia Encyclopedia, “his plan provided that, individuals should freely surrender their absolute power over themselves to the people as a whole. . . .” Rousseau believed in the natural worth and goodness of man if only he could be rescued from social and economic maladjustment. And that's where the American Indian comes in, because Rousseau drew much of his concept of the noble savage from such scraps of information as he received from the New World.

Setup Was Tough on Him

Salvation was to come from contact with the woods and streams and the simple pleasures which arise from living close to nature. While he did not match up wholly to this ideal, the native Indian of America waa probably a good fellow when he had it, According to the report of the National Resources Committee, the original American is growing more rapidly than any other ethic stock. I have no particular stake in the fate of the aborigine. Still, it would have done much to cripple modern conversation if the native Americans had become extinct. I know a girl who would be tongue-tied if it were not possible for her to say every once and so often, “Let's give that back to the Indians.” She thinks it's an epigram. But it would be an even more uproarious joke if the Indians increase so much in the next few generations that it will be quite unnecessary to give back anything to them. They might just step out and take it.

Watching Your Health

By Dr. Morris Fishbein

ODAY the problem in the care of the aged that gives most concern to the doctor is the diet that is to be permitted to people past 60 or 65 years of age. The situation is especially complicated because modern dentistry is able to provide the human being with a full set of teeth- which he is able to use up to far advanced years. A famous British physician said that the shedding of teeth was actually a nat= ural safeguard for the aged against overeating. It

in older people is a safeguard against eating the wrong kinds of foods, We must remember that the muscles and the glandular tissues of our digestive tract tend to break down in old age exactly as does the skin of the sure face of the body. For this reason the diet of the aged should consist of materials that are easily digested and absorbed. Second, whenever there is any tendency of stasis of the material in the body, the physician must see to it that the material which ree mains is suitably removed, Following such an intestinal siege it is, of course, desirable that the tissues have a suitable amount of rest from overeating in order to permit them to recover as far as possible, Milk is generally considered® to be the best food for the aged, exactly as it is for the young. Occasionally, however, older people will dislike milk exactly as will young infants, and this dislike should be taken into account. Moreover, older people tend to become sensitive to certain foods toward which pere haps they were not sensitive in their youth, It is important for the doctor and the patient to recognize the presence of these sensitivities and thus to Joke them into account suitable ,