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FRIDAY, JULY 15, 1938

3 DAYS, 19 HOURS, 17 MINUTES " AME of a name!” exclaimed the ghost of Jules Verne, catching sight of the headlines. “Some American has

outlied me by 76 days.” : But the headlines are true. Howard Hughes and his

four companions did circle the globe in several hours less

than four days. They did cross three continents and a wide. wet ocean between a Sunday evening and an early Thursday afternoon. Monsieur Verne, writing his famous novel in 1872, dared not stretch his elastic imagination too far. He sent his hileas Fogg on a journey “Around the World in But 17 vears later Nellie Bly, a real-life news-

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fictional P 80 Days.” ly, paper woman from New York, made it in

hours, and

36 days. A squadron of U. S. Army airplanes, bearing the first men to fly around, took 175 days in 1924. The German Graf Zeppelin, flying 21,700 miles from Friedrichshaven in 1929. returned there in 20 days 4 hours. that, Wiley Post and Harold Gatty hung up a record of 8 days and less than 16 hours. And in 1933, Post, flying alone, took nearly a day off that.

Now Howard Hughes and his crew, after halving Lind-

bergh’s time from New York to Paris, have surpassed Wiley | Nobody yet has |

Post's record by an even larger margin. equaled Puck, the Shakespearean sprite, who boasted that . : : ] he'd “put a girdle round about the earth in 40 minutes.’ But. as we feel right now, we'd hesitate to wager record before long.

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WE aren't going to attempt any job of lily-gilding. We | haven't space for all the adjectives that would be | needed to do full justice to the Hughes achievement. We'll | state merely the obvious fact that this aerial voyage of | nearly 15.000 miles, accomplished by leaps of two and | three thousand miles, at speeds ranging toward four miles | a minute, was a great triumph for man and machine. More |

By John T. Flynn

than ever before we are impressed by what can be accom- |

plished when human courage and skill are coupled with thorough preparation and intelligent use of the marvelous aids that science has made available.

Soon after listening to the tumultuous welcome for | Mr. Hughes and his companions at New York's Floyd Ben- | nett Field, we turned the radio dial and heard the President, | at San Francisco, telling his hope that other nations will |

join America in a program of armament reduction. And the permanent world peace of which Mr. Roosevelt spoke seemed more desirable, more urgently needed, even than he said.

WHEAT

N Italy, Mussolini has been putting on a great show, | designed to calm his people's fears of a wheat shortage. |

Stripped to the waist, sweating like a horse, he has been

working with the farmers in

malicious lies of Italy’s enemies.

In Russia, Stalin is hopeful of rain crop 3 | hi n Is nv] Ol A grain yf of 115 | called for lack of a better name—is under way.

to 130 million tons in the Soviet Union's southern areas. | This is the quota he has set, and if it is reached the |

Russian people will have more and better bread than in other years. In the United States, the Federal Crop Reporting

Board has just forecast a 967,412,009-bushel wheat crop— | : ) . eat crop | ment spending as shown in the Treasury statements second largest in history—and a larger than normal corn | And so, it might be supposed, the American people are happy in the certain prospect |

of abundant grain for all their own needs, with much left

crop of 2,482,102,000 bushels.

over to feed the hungry in other lands. But no one supposes anything of the sort. Americans will not be able to get as much bread as they want. Other countries will be able to buy only a fraction

of our surplus. Part of it will

prospect of huge Government losses.

And next year, while Russia and Italy and Germany |

continue their efforts to grow more grain and become com- | | cetera, et cetera.

pletely independent of the products of America and other

democracies, we will invoke crop-control provisions of the |

Farm Act, rewarding our farmers for planting less in an attempt to avoid the curse of too much wheat.

TWO ADOLFS

DOLF HITLER, who has made arrogance a national

he promulgated the Nazi doctrine that all persons of German stock, wherever they may be and whatever citizenship they or their forebears may have adopted, still owe their primary allegiance to Germany. In happy contrast, we cite the remarks of Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden, now an honored visitor to America, who expressed the hope at Boston the other day — *. .. that Americans of Swedish origin, while keeping first of all allegiance to the country of their adoption, may

still cherish those links of traditions and ideals which |

bind them to the old country beyond the seas... . 1 feel proud and happy when | am told that this vast number of Swedish people are looked up to as efficient and lawabiding subjects in the country of thir adoption,”

days and 6 | hv 1913 another American, John IH. Mears, trav- | eling by train and steamer, had cut the time to less than |

Two years after |

. : { ing out of the money. For a world in which men can fly one day across the |

wastes of Asia and the next above the farms and cities of | America has become too small for any but good neighbors. |

i | about its ability to put these funds in tion. their harvest fields and | J jo.p s in motion

assuring them that rumors of a deficient crop are the |!

| loans.

Man, in his wisdom, has arranged matters differently. Millions of |

be held off the market | through Government loans, involving the almost certain |

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Washington

By Raymond Clapper

Roosevelt Would Have Strengthened His Position if He Had Declared Months Ago He Was Out of Race.

(Westbrook Pegler Is on Vacation)

ASHINGTON, July 15.—One of the questions most frequently asked me by persons both in and out of politics is, “Do you think Roosevelt will run for a third term?” The question becomes more insistent as evidence accumulates of Roosevelt's phenomenal hold on the country. In Pueblo, Colo., Roosevelt received an appeal from 4000 Colorado steel workers asking him to run for a third term. That probably is the forerunner of many appeals. Unless an upset occurs, Roosevelt will be subjrct to great pressure to run, just as Coolidge was. Will Roosevelt prove as big a man as Coolidge? I never thought Coolidge was a great President, except in the negative sense that he knew he was riding a wave of prosperity and that the shrewd course was to let things alone. But he was a great man. He was grea! in the one big decision he had to make. He could have taken advantage of the same argument that T. R. used and claim that he had had only one elective term and therefore was free to seek a second election. He pushed it away. “ # & °' HEN I am asked what Roosevelt is going to do, I have to say I don’t know. I don’t think even Jim Farley really knows. My guess is that Roosevelt will refuse to run again. I think he believes too strongly in American democracy to decide otherwise. If he does, then I'll be completely fooled. Before long, and particularly as soon as the fall elections are over, Democratic politicians will begin pressing Roosevelt hard to state his intentions, whatever they may be. Indiana Democrats have refused to wait. In their state convention this week they indorsed Paul McNutt for President. The Mississippi State committee a few weeks age indorsed Senator Pat Harrison for the 1940 nomination. In the coming months a great many favorite sons will sew up their states by obtaining indorsements.

” = n OOSEVELT might better have declared himself out of the race months ago. It is argued that he would have undermined his control of Congress. On the contrary he would have immeasurably strengthened himself in the confidence of the country. He controls Congress not because of any fear there

that he will have a third term but because of his strength with the people. A man who is trying to do the things Roosevelt is trying to do would be stronger not to have around him the suspicion that he is scheming to grab another four years. There is enough suspicion already that he wants to be a dictator. His silence on the third term only accentu-

; =. | ates that suspicion. that Mr. Hughes or someone else won't be challenging that |

| make any statement on the subject now.

him to The best has come to me is that

However, few of his intimates expect

judgment on that which

| Roosevelt will go on through the next session of Con-

gress and make his statement about a year ahead of the 1940 nominating conventions, as Coolidge did. At least that is what some of his most loyal political friends think he ought to do, in fairness to those who want to seek the nomination. But of course there's never any telling what a Roosevelt will do.

Business

Economist Suggests Three [tems To Be Watched in the Near Future.

EW YORK, July 15.—While the star gazers are watching the financial skies for omens, the man in the street would like to know what to look for. Here is a suggestion of at least three things to keep your eye on in the coming weeks and months. The most important is the Treasury statement.

| This is published daily on The Times’ Financial Page.

Newspaper headlines carry brave news of great | { grants by the Government for projects approved in

many millions. But the thing that counts is the goMany of those great projects never get beyond the headlines stage. What you want to know is how much money is being actually poured out. The WPA money we can count on. That is much easier to spend than PWA money. Also it is easiep to get that in flow than loan funds to states, etc. We will have protracted recovery if the Government can get its funds going. And you can tell when the funds start flowing by the Treasury statement. You will not have to worry about WPA funds. Just assume that they will pour. The thing there is a doubt about is the PWA funds. The Government is optimistic You can tell when it does by the Treasury statement. When the Government is really pumping money into the pump—when it starts up to a point where it is running a deficit of about three hundred million a month, you will know the recovery movement—so-

Watch Private Construction

The other thing to watch for is commercial bank This is not as important now as the Government expenditures. A rise in commercial loans may mean nothing more than a brief seasonal rise in activity, to be followed by a return to the low levels. But if these loans should rise heavily, and Govern-

should expand, you could look for a rising curve of business activity. Unless these are emphatic in their expansion the rise will be short-lived. The third item, of course, is construction—private construction. Private consfuction must increase not a little, but plenty to be significant. The rise must continue, must, indeed, be progressive. Look therefore at the Treasury statements on Government expenditures, particularly WPA, commercial bank loans and private construction. That will help vou find your way and save you from being fooled by

| the optimists and the pessimists.

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

EVER mind, girls, justice finally prevails. What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander, et Those comforting thoughts came rushing to mind when I picked up a magazine and saw an advertisement showing a sad, frightened-look-ing man with a bald spot, standing in the general manager's office asking for a job. With the usual tact of the supersalesman, no rude lines were set down in print, but the inference was plain. The reader knew at once that the applicant would lose his chance for the position because he

oi : : . | had been careless enough to lose his hair. way of life, came near reaching an all-time high when | | ads.

I hope the country will soon be flooded with such The men ought to have a good dose of their own medicine.

a while. » The champions of eternal youth are just about at their rope's end with women. By indefatigable efforts they now have millions of sensible, middle-aged ladies dyeing their hair, curling their eyelashes, getting their faces jacked up and starving themselves into stringbean slimness, in an effort to appear as juvenile as modern business standards demand. And as for get-

| ting married, according to everything we read in | the paper no girl can make the grade who isn't | glamorously perfect in a physical way

Women's middle years have been made almost un-

endurable ever since some bright brain thought up the | | idea that the female of the species had better be

odious than old. Because of this, women have endured inhuman sufferings and so I feel no compunction in saying that I hope to see the day when the same fear will drive men in droves to the beauty parlors and whey. one of the requisites for getting a Job will be a w-new permanent,

| and Democratic | successful in reforming the rest of |

| at home with | first. ( to have party finances

| through collections from state em-

| contributions,

| sort | charged. Also the club funds should |

They've been dishing it out to us long | enough, so let them have nightmares about bulging | | waistlines, wrinkles and the other scars of time for

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

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FRIDAY, JULY 15, 1938 |

SHOULD HAVE TANGLED WITH THAT GUY!

The Hoosier Forum

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

REGRETS DEMOCRATS IGNORED REFORMS Rank and File Voter It looks like our precious Demo-

| crats in Indiana aren’t as progres- | sive in deed as the New Deal is

supposed to be. Two reforms I feel are most important to the welfare of our state and ones that I had counted on as planks in the Democratic platform are to be shelved | without action, When politicians get together, it | appears progressive ideals go into | the discard if they threaten to loosen the glue of party solidarity — | favors. Up until the time the politicians convened there was a strong | possibility the reforms would be | “planked.” The New Deal reform program is all right in national affairs, ap-| parently, but the sentiment seems to be that it shouldn't be made to apply to the politicians on their | home grounds. If the New Deal | party is to be |

the country, it had better start right its own personnel |

As regards the “Two Per Cent | Club” plank it is indeed preferable | built up|

ployees instead of from corporate

But in fairness to the taxpaying public which pays the salaries of jts state employees, these 2 per cent | contributions should be entirely | voluntary: they should not be tribute levied on the jobholder as a | of “job-insurance” as is|

be made subject to public accounting. \ » ” s SEES CHANGE IN VANNUYS’ PRINCIPLES By A. J. M. { I have stood strong in favor of | electing VanNuys as Senator because | he had the courage to stand up and protect American democracy. How- | ever, today I am done with Van- | Nuys forever. Any Senator who will step out and sell out my Americanism to the New |

| Deal and agree to stand 100 per | cent for

the Roosevelt policy of | Fabian socialism is not only against American democracy but also |

| against the American people. There- |

fore I advise every signer of these |

| cards to drop the whole deal and |

take abode in the Republican ticket. | The Senator knows that the brain trusters are located in the area of

| the Federal Trade Commission and | | that the Interior, Labor, Justice and |

(Times readers are invited to express their in 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.)

views

Treasury Departments harbor their quotas and that hosts of them are in PWA, AAA, TVA, SEC and FERA.

We were delighted with VanNuys | | when he stood against the 100 per

cent Roosevelt plan. Now when his

principles change and he accepts | the plan of Fabian socialism we are |

compelled to drep him like a hot

| brick.

” ” » LISTS ROAD IMPROVEMENTS TO REDUCE ACCIDENTS By Constant Reader If we have decided that automobiles capable of 70 to 80 miles per hour shall continue to run on our streets and roads (which we apparently have), and if or when we decide that these cars are injuring

day holiday, such as Sunday and July 4, list.

driven a car two or three hundred thousand miles to say what should

ideal conditions under which fast cars may operate with comparatively safety, and the conditions are these: 1. Eliminate opposing traffic such as where cars are traveling in opposite directions on same road. This also includes left-hand turns and crossroads. 2. Separate widely different kinds of traffic such as bicycles and foot traffic from automobile traffic. Also bus and truck traffic should travel on its own roadways the same as railroads. 3. Eliminate all fixed obstacles in the traffic stream such as steel beams to support overhead crossings, so-called “safety zones,” and traffic signal posts. It is obvious that track streetcars are now out of date and should be replaced with busses and trackless trolleys. 4. Eliminate all death turns or sharp changes in the line of traffic.

and killing too many people (which

| we apparently have not), then it is

high time that we do something about it and quit just listing eacn

| Monday the dead and wounded for |

the week and week-end. On a two-

WAILS OF AN AMATEUR

GARDENER By R. M. L.

The garden of flowers I see in my dreams Is an Eden of color and grace; Mignonette, tulips and peonies beam With roses all over the place.

Magnolias smile o'er a bloom-bor-dered pool; A garden seat beckons repose; A vine-covered arbor so peaceful and cool Leads to where nobody knows.

But so much for dreams and so much indeed

For the work that my bloom-plots |

invoke; All that I manage to grow is some weeds— My two-by-four garden's a joke.

DAILY THOUGHT

So Saul took a sword, and fell upon it.—I Chronicles, 10:4.

HEN all the blandishments of life are gone the coward sneaks to death; the brave lives on. —Martial.

about them and being glad it is not us involved) | conditions up to the standard of the | new cars now being sold.

{ done. But we can make it well nigh impossible for the dumb-cluck to go out and Kill himself or, worse, other people.

ignorance as not to know why road improvements are not made. It is because of the cost. So why not say right out that we are sorry for =all these accidents and deaths but really we can't do anything about it as it costs too much. Indeed I have seen in the papers marvelously accurate forecasts as to how many people will be killed over the week-end and how many injured; the only mistake ever made is that too few accidents are sometimes foretold. We always have the full quota at least.

#. 8 2 SEES EVIDENCE THAT WORM IS TURNING By Daniel Francis Clancy

Daniel M. Kidney,

Times,

| torial nomination. Advantage? turning of the worm, eh? Maybe | some day a lawyer won't be able to |e nominated to any ‘office higher than County Prosecutor.

LET'S EXPLORE YOUR

By DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM_

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ONE IS FORCED to agree with | ducer and manager that actresses this writer George Jean Nathan, | achieve their fame = Katharine although it seems strange, too, sihce | Cornell, made famous by her huspsychologists rather believe women | band-manager, McClintic; Maude are naturally greater actors than | Adams by Charles Frohman; Grace men. But, as Nathan points owt, it | George by her husband, William A. is through the build-up of the pro-| Brady; Elizabeth Bergner by her

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—pictures taken with the hand

of a micrometer revolving in the picture so the time of each motion can be told to the thousandth of a second. If a teacher slows down his motions to show a pupil he simply cannot make his usual motions—but a picture can be slowed down to any degree without changing the motions. Some golf clubs have motion pictures of good and of average golfers—very helpful—but I know of none that uses micro-motion pictures. What is true of teaching golf is true of all physical skills.

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THIS IS A FINE example for showing how unwise it is to put all your eggs in either the heredity or the environment basket. They always work together in the same basket. (The name Nam is fictitious.) When it was found that sun{shine and vitamin D will cure rick- | ets, the fact was overlooked that some children were much more subject to the disease than others—indicating a difference in heredity resistance... The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research. reports from experiments, on rabbits that rickets are much more strongly inherited in some strains than others. No doubt the same is true of humans,

we have twice the usual

Now it is easy for anyone who has |

be done or to give the theoretical |

If we really expect to cut down | accidents (instead of just talking

Now I will not pretend to such |

covering the | State G. O. P. convention for The | stated that Willis had the |

YES, by micro-motion pictures |

Gen. Johnson Says—

Business and the Administration

May Be Speaking Same Language And Thinking Same Thoughts at Last,

ETHANY BEACH, Del, July 15.—Mr. Lewis H, Brown is chairman of the Commerce and Indus= try Committee of the International Management Cone gress which will meet in Washington in September, That congress will bring together some of the fore= most industrial managers in the world. Mr. Brown has sent’ me a collection of opinions of leading Amer = ican business managers on the present problem of industrial leadership. It is intended as a basis for discussion at the congress. It is the most remarkable document I have seen recently. Almost without exception, the outstanding thought, is recognition of a vast change in the duty and responsibility of industrial management toward labor, the consuming public and to Government as well as to stockholders, In many of these opinions is a spoken or implied admission that heretofore too much or even exciusive emphasis has been put on managerial obligation to stockholders or ownership, Even where this is not touched upon, the recognition of a new sort of public responsibility is clear. " n ”

fers can be no doubt of the correctness of this. In these great economic empires which have grown through the inevitable operation of natural laws to such power and influence over the lives of mil= lions of workers and consumers, the public trust involved in these private offices becomes as great as. if not greater than, the public trust involved in public office. For a long time the utilities—railroads, ferries, electric power and light companies, etc.~have been said by the courts to be subject to direct Governmental regulation either because they are natural monopolies or, for other reasons, because the public is in a condition of helplessness under their management. They are “affected with a public interest.” But in other lines of business, the public was supposed by the law to be sufficiently protected by competition bhetween units. But as business units naturally became greater and more powerful, this protection for labor and consumers grew less and less effective, Incustry was too slow in seeing that, if it did not of itself recognize a duty to protect its public, the rule of the public utilities would be applied to all business. " n un J\HIS collection of 50 leading business opinions seems to recognize something like this, with varying degrees of emphasis and clarity. For that reason, it is something of an eye-opener to me. The encouraging thing about this is that precisely this reasoning was at the bottom of the first New Deal and still is the belief of many very prominent third New Dealers including, as I believe, the Presi= dent. If that is so and business and the Administration are at last thinking the same thoughts and speaking the same language, it is about the best news thas all who are hoping and praying for prosperity could hear. There can be no real recovery until business and Government go forward together. Furthermore, whether you like Mr. Roosevelt or hate him, he can't be denied the credit for jarring industry into this way of thinking. The jarring process has been pretty rough and has been accompanied by unnecessary jolts in other di= rections. But maybe that was the only way to get

this result.

It Seems to Me

By Heywood Broun

If F. D. R. Is Rushed as He Tries To Pass, He Might Decide to Run.

EW YORK, July 15.—One of the most familiar charges against Franklin D. Roosevelt is the assertion that he is a breaker of precedents. He has knocked down a few, I hope, but on the whole his activities in this direction are very much exaggerated. It just so happens that America is a land of short memories. For instance, if Mr. Roosevelf, indicates a willingness to accept a nomination for a third term it will be said in many quarters that he has violated all American practice. It is true, to be sure, that T. R. sought “a second elective term” and that an interval elapsed before he put in his order for a third cup of coffee. His bid was rejected, but there is small evidence that the third term factor played any very vital part in the result. The popular impression in regard to Calvin Coolidge seems to me inaccurate. The average citizen believes now that Calvin Coolidge definitely eliminated himself as a candidate for a third term. But many Washington observers are of the opinion that the canny New Englander had no such intention when he said, “I do not choose to run.” Like every other President, Franklin D. Roosevelt is eager to see the Democrats nominate someone who will support those policies which he himself has initiated. Mr. Roosevelt's best chance of success In this ambition is to retain for himself the role of triple-threat man. His opponents cannot charge in upon him as long as they remain in doubt as to whether he intends to pass or kick or run,

A Touchdown Is Possible

Many well-informed persons think that the President sincerely desires to flip the ball to some associ= ate in the end zone. But the student of foothall and national politics must consider the contingency that a situation may arise where a pass is not possible. Let us assume that Garner, McNutt, Wheeler, Byrd and several others break through. There is also the distinct chance that every eligible receiver will be covered by the opposition. I do not think that in such a crisis a good politician or a good quarterback will be content to lef the other side smear him in his tracks. Rather, he will fake a pass and then tuck the ball under his arm and run. If the critics of Mr. Roosevelt continue to crowd him. I think he will run again, I hope they cone tinue, because it is my belief that he can reverse his field, smash through the secondaries of reaction and sweep across Lhe goal line, v

Watching Your Health

By Dr. Morris Fishbein

RADUALLY in various portions of the United States special facilities are being developed for the care of those crippled with infantile paralysis and other crippling diseases. In most of these institutions various exercises in water are being made available as a means of ene couraging the activity of weakened muscles, The chief advantage of this method is the support that water gives to the weakened muscles. No swimming pool will cure paralysis. The. pool itself is useless, unless there are availe able competent teachers who will encourage the use of the weakened tissues, control the amount of exe ercise and of rest, and aid in developing properly those muscles that are capable of being redeveloped, One of the chief values of such places, however, is the mental support given to one patient by the others. Here children will see other boys and girls who may not be as well off as they are. Thus they will be encouraged to make the best possible efforts, leading toward cure, Finally, in connection with most of these instie tutions there are complete staffs of specialists in various forms of medical practice, including particularly orthopedic surgeons. These men are not only able to aid by the applica« tion of proper splints and braces, but also by surgical operations which have been designed to reconstruct damaged tissues. In the paralytic stage of infantile paralysis patients must, of course, be moved to the best ade vantage of damaged tissues, They must be protected against secondary infec tions. They must be turned to aid them in getting rid of mucus and saliva which may collect in the mouth,