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SATURDAY, JULY 16, 1938

LOTS OF SMOKE IN KENTUCKY

HAIRMAN SHEPPARD of the Senate Campaign Ex- | penditures Committee announces that an investigator |

will be sent into Kentucky to check up on the sensational politics-in-relief disclosures made by Thomas L. Stokes, reporter for The Times and other Scripps-Howard newspapers. He will have to be a pretty good investigator to cover all the ground Tom Stokes covered and dig up all the facts Tom unearthed. For Tom is one of the very best in the business. And in some ways the Senate committee's investigator will have to work even harder than Tom did.

For some tracks have been covered up since Tom was in | Kentucky and wrote that series of stories about how the

WPA relief machine was plugging for Senator Barkley and

the state pavroll-and-relief gang was campaigning for Gov- |

ernor Chandler.

The WPA sent one of ils own investigators out cold- |

trailing Tom, and he returned to Washington to report that he could find evidence to support only about 10 per cent of the misfeasances which Tom had reported. This WPA investigation of WPA, to us, didn't seem very convincing. committee also is skeptical. However, we should like to see the committee send not one, but a dozen or two dozen

investigators into Kentucky.

checking other charges made since. The latest of these is a charge by Senator Barkley that

the agents of the State Social Security Department are |

distributing pension checks by hand and warning pensioners

that payments will stop if they don’t vote for Governor | Mr. Barkley has asked the Social Security Board | But the only |

Chandler. in Washington to investigate this charge. Governmental agency which could make a thorough investigation of this and other Kentucky charges—with much possibility of having Senator Sheppard's And the Committee all the investigators truth. We should like to see it do that.

Campaign Expenditures Committee. has enough money available to hire

JUST AS WELL

OR Japan to admit she can’t finish something she has

started involves loss of “face” —a serious matter in the Orient, So it’s certain that the Japanese Government's decision to withdraw support of the 1940 Olympic games, after inviting them to Tokyo, was not made lightly. Of course, it was not the decision of the Japanese people, but of the Japanese military machine, and the reasons for it are clear enough: The war lords have no liking for an event based on They don't want to waste, on peaceful play, money they need for killing Chinese. They discovered that a good many other countries were cold toward sending their athletes to Japan, We're sorry that the Japanese people have been led into making a war that sets them apart from much of the rest of humanity. But it’s just as well that the games are not to be in Tokyo. And perhaps, after this practice, it will be easier for Japan to make what seems the inevitable confession that she can't finish something else she started—the conquest of China. If the Olympics can’t be brought to the New York World's Fair Grounds in 1940, so soon after being staged in California in 1932, we'd like to see them go to Finland. There's a little country that pays it debt, minds its own

international sportsmanship and good will.

dentally, produces some of the world’s

PRIME ON, OH SHIP OF STATE! RESIDENT ROOSEVELT boards a ship at San Diego today, for a cruise down through the Panama Canal. Vice President Garner is fishing on a creek near Uvalde, Tex.

Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau sailed yesterday |

for Europe.

Secretary of Commerce Roper is already over there, | vacationing—and Secretary of Labor Perkins also, attend- |

ing a Jabor conference at Geneva. And Postmaster General Farley is on Alaska. But don’t worry. tinue to turn. spending and lending— WPA Administrator Harry Hopkins

and PWA Administrator-Interior Secretary Harold Ickes— |

already have had their vacations, and are now hard at work. They don’t seem to mind the Washington heat. With that much money to get rid of, who would ? MR. BUCKLIN’S EGGS MASSACHUSETTS farmer named J. J. Bucklin had 260 turkey eggs. He claims that blasting on a WPA project addled most of the eggs, so that 243 of them failed to hatch. Congress passed a bill, appropriating $516.12 for the “relief” of Mr. Bucklin. And President Roosevelt vetoed this bill, saying: “Paying of the amount proposed assumes that, but for the blasting, each egg would have hatched, which is extremely questionable; that had each egg hatched, there would have been a loss of only 10 per cent in the number of fowls raised to a marketable growth, which is also questionable, and that each fowl placed on the market would have brought an average of $6, which is a further speculation.” Quite so. Ii was Mr. Bucklin's privilege to count his turkeys before they hatched, but not to ask the taxpayers to foot the hill for so speculative a count. And who is in better position than Mr. Roosevelt to realize that an enterprise doesn’t always work out as we want it to, no matter hew confidently “we planned it that way”? A

Washington

By Raymond Clapper

Some of Political Skirmishing Now Going On Can Be Measured by A Bit of Judgment by Thomas Mann.

(Westbrook Pegler Is on Vacation)

ASHINGTON, July 16.—Within the last year or two Thomas Mann, who is regarded as one of the great literary minds of our times, has been welcomed by the best people in the United States with triumphal acclaim as the intellectual leader of the attack on fascism and Hitlerism. In that role he has spoken in the principal cities. His writings have been widely read and quoted to supply us with ammunition against the‘ epidemic

of dictatorship which has been spreading over Europe since the World war. But in all of this there has been a strange silence or sliding over of what Dr. Mann has to say about the fight which is being made on behalf of democracy here in America. In brief, Dr. Mann argues that the way to check fascism is to make democracy work. For that matter, it is also the way to check bolshevism, he adds. = = O make democracy work, Dr. Mann says the old idea of freedom, must be somewhat revised. The

old laissez-faire freedom, the idea of Government

| superiority over We are glad to learn that the Senate |

There is plenty of investi- | gating work to be done in that state, not only in warming | over the evidence which Tom Stokes produced, but also in |

its findings believed by the public—is |

needed to make a real search for the !

Down

his way to |

The wheels of Government will con- | For the men who have charge of the big |

keeping hands off and letting nature take its course,

form,” he says. “Only in this way can democracy take the wind out of the sails of fascism and also of bolshevism and overcome the merely temporary and deceptive advantages which the charm of novelty gives the dictatorships.”

The times of “passive liberalism” are, he thinks, |

“gone forever.” The idea of freedom must be refreshed from the economic point of view, “If democracy wishes to make its undoubted moral fascism effective and challenge its pseudo-socialism, it must adopt in the economic as well as the spiritual domain as much of the socialistic morality as the times make imperative and indispensable,” Dr. Mann says. “Here, likewise, freedom must be restored through social discipline.” Democracy must not be permitted to succumb for lack of adaptability. =

LL of the foregoing is quoted from the printed version of Dr. Mann's lecture, “The Coming Victory of Democracy” which was delivered throughout this country last winter and is now published in book

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| form in a translation by Agnes E. Meyer, wife of the

publisher of the Washington Post. Now Mrs. Meyer's translation goes on in a passage which you probably have not seen in the many references to Dr. Mann's lecture. He savs: “I call Franklin D. Roosevelt a conservative statesman just because of the social bent which he gives to democracy. He is a true friend and genuine servant of liberty even when he limits and regulates it socialistically, for it is by such means that he takes the wind out of the sails of fascism and bolshevism alike. . . . The social renewal of democracy is the presupposition and the guarantee of its victory.” There is a bit of judgment, from one of the best minds of the times, by which you can measure some oi the political skirmishing now going on as Roosevelt barnstorms across the country.

Business By John T. Flynn

Plan for Building Low-Cost Houses Could Bring U. S. New Prosperity.

EW YORK, July 16.—Since it is generally agreed that the greatest unexplored market in this

| world is the American market for cheap houses, I anything bearing |

upon the apparently unsolved problem of producing | : P DPA > i i 8 | promptly paid and are more for-|

{ tunate than

have attempted to report here

a cheap house. If any man or group of men can devise a plan

| and a technique for building at a small profit houses week, | of |

for people with incomes of less than $30 a this country would be off upon another flight prosperity comparable to the automobile prosperity of the Twenties. If I were President of the United States, with so many billions at my command, the first thing I would do would be to set up a laboratory to work out on scientific lines the process of planning, finding the materials and organizing the method of building dwelling units for less than $3000 each in both unit and multi-family homes. If the Government could solve that little problem it wouldn't have to spend many more dollars in unbalanced budgets—at least not for a few years. I am convinced that something can be done about this if the problem is approached realistically. in the Tennessee Valley, the TVA built houses which prove that the problem is far from insoluble. They were built in the South, hence the serious problem of insulation and heating did not complicate the costs. But they managed to build a good

house, of four and five rooms with a bathroom, for | $1000.

business, has and deserves the world’s friendship, and, incigreatest athletes. |

They're Far Superior to Shacks

They are very simple, of course. But they are infinitely superior to the shacks in which people are compelled to live in that and many other sections. With wallboard on the interior and exterior, there is good insulation at that. There are no basements and no heating unit. There is a good bathroom and running water in the kitchen. The standards of space, light. privacy and sanitation conform to minimum requirements, They were built with labor which cost from 45 cents an hour for common labor to $1.12 for skilled labor, Of course in the North a central heating svstem would be necessary. But it is not difficult to see that, starting with the plans of such a house as a minimum, at a cost of $1000, the rooms could be enlarged, heat installed, the exterior design improved and other features of a modern American home added to suit the means of persons able to pay more than $1000 or to rent a house costing more than $1000.

A ‘Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

OULD appreciate advice on how to meet a nice young man. There aren't many going to churches as I have tried that method.” This plea lifted from a lovelorn column, seems to me a significant social document. In those few words is expressed a tragedy of our time, a time when men have done miracles and yet | have found no way to appease the longing in the hearts of lonely people. In spite of the glamour that emanates from Hollywood, these are drab days for many boys and girls. Thousands live from hand to mouth and some not so weli as that, while the majority have no hope whatever for the future. Their world rests upon a foundation of sand, and the shifting sensation under their feet emphasizes their frustration in courtship, love and marriage. Where indeed can girls meet nice young men, obhject matrimony? Is it not dreadful that none of us know the answer to that question? Somehow the echo of that pathetic plea, which we know lies unspoken on the lips of multitudes of our youngsters, | haunts our meditations. i A parade of girlhood passes before us. We brush by them on the street; they wait upon us in shops and stores; they linger in God's house. hoping for a sweetheart to materialize. Perhaps it's all a part of the great mortal frustration of this experience we call ife. “There aren't many going to churches.” Here we have a last pitiful touch to the humble drama. Disappointed in the old formula, at least one dis illusioned girl touches the bedrock of reality. Feebly her imagination struggles with the thought that there will be no nice young man for her, ever. We trust it may not be so. +

| cannot survive in these times, in Dr. Mann's opinion. | “The reform I have in mind must be a social re- |

{ fact pops up it should not get by | | without a retort.

- THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

SATURDAY, JULY 16, 1938 |

of Darkness—By Krenz A I

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The Hoosier Forum

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

SAYS HOOSIERS FORTUNATE TO HAVE JOBLESS INSURANCE By Thankful In The Hoosier Forum are many interesting letters. Readers enjoy and appreciate them very much, I am confident, but when one with the earmarks of misstatement of |

I mention specifically the letters about Indiana's | unemployment compensation. { Here are the facts as I find them. | T go on Tuesday to sign a voucher, | then on Saturday morning, with the | first delivery of the mail, I receive | a check for $15. It has never been | late. I am treated very courteously | by the Indiana Unemployment Compensation Division employees. They are pleasant, kind and quite efficient. | T have never been asked my polities] or religion. | I am appreciative of the foresight |

{ of our Governor who acted quickly to |

| safeguard

Indiana's unemployed | against misfortune which is no fault | of their own. I think we are

the unemployed in|

| Illinois, Ohio and Kentucky where |

benefits will not be paid for many | months, So chins up, everybody; let's be thankful and show genuine Hoosier appreciation. ” ” » SAYS EUROPE FEARS WAR WOULD SPREAD COMMUNISM By P. W. | Prime Minister Chamberlain of |

| Great Britain, no less than Premier |

| Mussolini of Italy and Chancellor |.

| Hitler of Germany, is convinced | | that a general European conflict at

| this time would deliver

the entire |

| continent over to the Communists. |

The three statesman, therefore, | are at least tacitly in agreement | not to allow such a war to break | out if it can possibly be avoided. In this they have the support of the would-be neutral bloc—Poland, |

| the Baltic states, Scandinavia and |

| Rumania.

{ Litvinov’s criticism of the democ- | racies for not marching against the

| |

{ them in the lurch,

| cow then deliberately deserted | cause of the democracies—including

In fact, the only capital | not more or less in agreement is said to be Moscow, described as the | only possible beneficiary in case of war.

Soviet Foreign Minister Maxim

Nazi-Fascist powers reveals a strange forgetfulness of history. In 1917, when the World War Allies stood with their backs to the wall in their struggle against imperialist Germany, Communist Russia left Then, as now, the cry was to “make the world safe for democracy.” But whereas Mosthe

the United States, and France—today them on to fight. Premier Chamberlain

Great Britain she is egging

does not

(Times readers are invited to express their views 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.)

believe Russia would enter the war on the side of France and England if those democracies found them-

selves at war as a result of going | ane to the aid of Czechoslovakia against | the convention's failure to adopt

Germany. He is said to doubt her

regard to France. Nor is Britain herself ready to take part in any such wholesale war as this would almost certainly become. She years to complete her rearmament program, now seriously schedule. The chief danger of an early war in Europe seems to reside in the

behind | adopted.

| Nutt control of such affairs. If the | Governor is correct in saying that

possibility of Premier Chamberlain |

being overthrown by a Tory-Liberal-Labor coalition, various members of which, for widely divergent reasons, would welcome a

showdown with Germany and Italy.

¥ 4 4 STATE DEMOCRATIC ORGANIZATION SCORED

| By a Democrat

The Democratic convention this year was even more of a farce than

LIVING BEAUTY By MAIDA LEAH STECKELMAN

God gave me gift to sing one day, |

And let me glimpse eternity; The sun became bright glory Ripping somber clouds apart

To splash and stain the distant |

sails With gold and bleeding-heart. The lazy seagulls, swaying toward the Sunsel’'s mystic grail. Became a part of frothy depths Emerging gaunt and pale; The Torrey pines in grotesque lines From mountain to the sea Trailed ragged plumes of purple light Behind them And dav was done; day! Hushed and still, the song; But in my heart a memory to keep my Whole life long.

carelessly. this perfect

DAILY THOUGHT But it is good for me to draw near to God; I have put my trust in the Lord God, that I may declare all thy works.—Psalms 73:28.

RUST God where you cannot trace Him.—Macduff.

| is not a sort of dictatorship being

| Party is not as progressive in its in-

a | ternal needs two or three | J 1 wo | whistle the McNutt organization has

the one of 1936. And that despite the liberal and fine-sounding speech | of Governor Townsend, who pro- | tested that he was not trying to be | a dictator, The delegates, handpicked to vote | against Senator VanNuys if his] name was presented, were just as | sheeplike in voting for him after | the reconciliation of the State House organization. I'm satisfied that Senator VanNuys was the best man the convention could have chosen but the manner of it must be changed. As a citizen who puts the welfare of the state ahead of party success, Two

planks on the merit system,

turn to direct primaries for Gubernatorial and Senatorial candidates shows definitely the Democratic the New Deal

affairs as

It’s time for a reaction to this Mc-

he is not trying to dictate affairs, then I can only believe it is done by the McNutt principals, for if there

exercised as was most evident at the convention, then Hitler is an as-

| either, Key—and he got 150,000 votes. { Whom I thought would win, Alfalfa Bill Murray. polled

definition of a “conservative.”

sistant motion picture director. I have no objection to McNutt's | ambitions for the Presidency—I'll| even vote for him if I think he's the | best man when the time comes—but | I do object most vehemently to his machine standing in the way of | progress in our state just because it keeps his machine “oiled” for 1940. For of course it is fairly obvious to us that the reforms I mentioned | were not pianked because the system | now current is of vital aid in main- | taining, rewarding and punishing that organization. ” o ” URGES FIGHT AGAINST GROSS INCOME TAX By C. H. W, I wonder how long the people are going to remain in a trance. Maybe they are afraid to voice an opinion on something that will be of benefit to them. I wonder if they know that oppressive taxes is what caused this country to declare its independence. Has anyone enough nerve to say anything against the Indiana gross income tax? I don't mean some of those who don't pay it. What is the matter with the workingmen? Why not get together and organize against this thing? It will take some work and time. Maybe that's why no one bothers with it. If the old spirit does not remain, of course I've just wasted my time—but if you are interested, let's get behingl this and do something.

LET'S EXPLORE YOUR

[ARE WE REALLY A NATION OF

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0 MEN KNOW MORL ABOUT MEN THAN THEY NOW ABO 5

football team of 22 there are about 23,000 sit-downers Jawhing. - A

By DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM_

MIND

the policy of the colleges in making the big games circuses in which only a few acrobats can take part. In the high school a much larger proportion of the students actually take part in athletics.

» o ” AN EXCELLENT recent book by John Beeckman discusses this problem very sensibly. He thinks men know a great deal about men but very little about women, but that men do know what they want in a woman and that the woman who finds out what that is in her particular man has the best chance of landing him—and holding him, too.

” ” ” A STUDY of 2000 probationers of Los Angeles County was made by Pauline V. Young and she found 90 per cent had normal intelligence, 63 per cent had education between eighth grade and end of high school; 95 per cent were in good health. But she found they had little or no social education— training in social responsibilities— had weak home ties, unskilled or no jobs, belonged to few or no clubs, pdges, ete.—in other words had lit-

Gen. Johnson Says—

Roosevelt's Purging Expedition, Which Made Such a Slashing Start,

Thinned Out as It Moved Westward,

ETHANY BEACH, Del, July 16.—This column threw one clear over first base and into the right fleld bleachers in predicting that Gomer Smith would beat Senator Elmer Thomas in the Oklahoma primaries. It is true that of 443,000 Oklahoma Demo= crats, 65'2 per cent of them didn't want Elmer in spite of Mr. Roosevelt's pat on the silvery head of his “old friend.” But only about 33's per cent wante ed Gomer. It was a three-way race and Oklahoma doesn’t have any run-off primary any more. Elmer is a minority choice but his number is up. He is the candidate. His contributions to statecraft have been a pro= posal to confiscate 200 billions of private property and divide it up and to use paper wampum or hokum for money. That need alarm no one because Elmer really isn't Oklahoma's senior Representative in Oklahoma. He will vote for whatever the Administration tells him, It is quite true that “a vote for Thomas is a vote for Roosevelt”—but it isn't a vote for Oklahoma unless the Administration plans it that way. That is all right too, if Oklahoma wants to Slr. render more of her statehood to Washington. Okla homa hasn’t said that. On the contrary, 65'2 per cent of her Democrats declined to say that. n HE contest for Governor didn’t add any laurels to this column's reputation for political prophecy It was close. WPA had its own candidate

The oid sourdough,

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127,000. The plum fell under 139.000 votes, to Leon Phillips, who will be a good Governor. But here again is a minority choice. Only 34 per ceat of the Democrats yearned for Leon. Altogether, this Oklahoma cate that Mr. Roosevelt's

great effect in any direction. but he also wooed Governor

primary didn’t indie intervention had any

He cooed at Elmer Marland who was hope-

lessly licked.

It is true that he kicked Alfalfa Bill Murray in the shins, but he didn't indicate anv preference for Governor, and Gen. Key, the WPA candidate, was beaten, ” S a matter of fact, except for Alfalfa, the whole

slate was radical.

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None answered the President's No effect was marked enough to prove that the Administration can dictate

| candidates to the states.

There was really no contest in Florida, where Senator Pepper was a certainty. The attempt didn't work in Jowa and Indiana and it didn’t mean much in Oklahoma. It was abandoned in Colorado and Nevada. Beginning with such a slashing start in Kentucky, it has progressively thinned out as the train traveled west. That is all to the good. The trip originally planned as a purging expedition has again proved not only the President's great personal popularity, but also his sharp sense of popular opinion and his prompt acceptance of it as a guide to his actions regardless of pre-arranged plans. That may not, argue constancy, but isn't it of the very essence of democracy?

It Seems to Me By Heywood Broun

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Be Cautious in Column-Writing, A Colleague Warns Mrs. Roosevelt. (Mrs. Roosevelt's Column, Page Nine)

EW YORK, July 16.—It is, of course, presumptue ous for a columnist to offer unsought advice to any other craftsman engaged in the same pursuit, In writing an open sermon to Mrs. Roosevelt my sola excuse is the fact that I am a veteran in the business of turning out daily inspirational literature, while she is a newer recruit to the industry. Accordingly, I wish to warn her against the danger of giving even qualified indorsement to carpe diem conduct, Imagine my surprise at finding in “My Diary” the statement, “If I lived in some of the other countries today I think I would develop the philosophy of Omar Khayyam and live for the day and its pleasures.” Such talk is dangerous. Almost I seem to see a waiting queue of citizens at Hyde Park each murmuring, “Say it ain't true, Mrs. Roosevelt.” To be sure, the First Lady is dealing only with a supposition, but I can assure her that Omar wags wrong. His teachings are not useful to any person, in any land, at any time. Full half a century I fol lowed the precepts of the Persian poet. This I did, and by a miracle I am still here to testify that it gets you nothing. In times gone hy 1 used to match my private life with that of any man, however reckless, nor was I ever ready to cry “quits” when doubled.

His Mistake

A columnist is under no moral obligation to account for all his off hours to the public, but generally he does. And, worst of all, if he is no more than a shade rollicking, his autobiographical accounts of high jinks are likely to grow in the telling. That was my own little mistake. As burghers go, I was moderate and reliable in most things, but I could not resist the temptation of making myself out a gay dog in an effort to gain readers and syndication. It dawned upon me that I had gone too far in libeling myself, But the road back to repute is ardu= ous. Skeptics will laugh if I say truthfully that soft drinks taste much better than bitter beers and acid clarets. I must suffer not so much for what I did as what I wrote. And so I am warning Mrs. Roosevelt against the first false columnar step, though it be no more than a vicarious adventure. After all, why should the First Lady envy Omar even at a distance? She has much more fun than he did, and hamburgers at Hyde Park, I am informed, are far more palatable than jugged wine under any bough.

Watching Your Health

By Dr. Morris Fishbein

ECENT years have seen the development of two procedures in the control of infantile paralysis which have had a great deal of attention in the newspapers and in the magazines, but whose exact valus is still not yet positively determined. Recently when it was demonstrated that the disease is transmitted to the monkey by the passing of the infected material into the nose it was suggested that the nose might be blocked by the use of various sprays or inoculations of various sorts. The one on which the investigators finally settled was a 1 per cent zinc sulfate solution.

However, since the method was tried on a fairly large scale last summer, it has been found that in some instances, the solution damages the nerves of smell to such an extent that there is a loss of the sense of smell for a long period of time, if not permanently. Finally, it must be remembered that the method is not permanent but will protect only for a period of perhaps a month or six weeks. As has already been mentioned, among the most difficult of the cases are those in which there is paralysis of the ability to breathe. The famous case of the Snite boy is an example in which the use of the new device, known as the iron lung, has been of great value. By the creation of a negative pressure, automati=cally controlled breathing is made possible. Une fortunately, in some of the most severe cases the

‘apparatus, while it keeps the patient alive for a

while, is unable to do much more than to prolong the exis without very much promise of com-