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MONDAY, JULY 25, 1938

WARBLE WHILE YOU RUN

AFRT is long and political issues are fleeting. So it may be that the victory of the hillbilly candidate in Texas signifies change wiiich will carry on far after all the seemingly impg#tant questions of the 1938 campaign are forgotten. : ; Even Mt may mark the decline of the rooster-squawk type of music from which we have suffered too long, oh Lord, too [email protected] the return of something to which we can dance without first training in the St. Vitus Academy.

~ Mayhap the gentle strum of the string - will replace the |

blare of the trombone in the derby, and “Comin’ ’'Round the Mountain” take precedence over “Flat Foot Floojie With the Floy Floy.” If that be the outcome, Mr. W. Lee O’Daniel, flour salesman and troubadour, will have proved himself much more than merely a statesman. This is likely to start a parade. As for trial number two we have a suggestion. We offer the idea of sefting * the words of Mr. Galen Tait to Hawaiian, a tune-mode even more alluring than the hillbilly. Mr. Tait is the newly announced Republican candidate for Senator in the Democratic state of Maryland. Listen to him lilt: “The-stilettoes gleam and the rapiers flash in the partisan warfare between the Capulets and the Montagues of democracy, led the one by little David Lewis and the other by the tall Mr. Tydings. Lal “As the resounding blows are struck and the welkin "rings with shouts of rage and pain, perhaps the voters of Maryland may conclude: ‘A plague on both your houses.’ “To my party associates and to Republicans generally may I say that I represent no faction or individual. I long labored with you in the vineyard for the good of our state and party, pressing® the grapes that some should drink of the wine of authority. | “The crown of thorns and the seat of cactus typify the Democratic primaries of Maryland—and the nation. The laurel wreath and the olive branch seem wiser symbols for- Republican cohesion.”

Try that, Mr. Tait, on your steel guitar.

MAYBE WE'LL GET ACTION

N the last session of Congress President Roosevelt: recom-" mended that in the matter of taxation public securities be treated on the same basis as private securities, and public salaries on the same basis as private income. ; Mr. Roosevelt had made that recommendation before. Indeed, it has been a pet reform advocated by every Secretary of the Treasury since the Income Tax Amendment went into the Federal Constitution. But always before, those in power have let interest in the suggestion wear itself out in talk. ; : This time the Administration seems to be seriously intent on action.” For here, in the middle of July, the Department of Justice comes forward with a documented brief

- holding that the reform is in every way constitutional. And -

Mr. Magill, Undersecretary of the Treasury, chimes in to announce that his staff is preparing a report on the tax proposal to submit,to the next Congress. So maybe at last the time is coming when this great loophole of tax privilege is to be closed.

It is not proposed to breach the tax exemption guarantee in those Governmental securities already outstanding— “merely to sell future issues with the understanding that they be’subject to the same taxes, Federal, state and local, which must be paid on the possession of and income from private securities. Nor is it suggested that the salaries of public employees be taxed retroactively—merely that in the future persons on public payrolls, whose incomes are large enough, pay both Federal and state income taxes, just as private citizens do.

The only argument ever raised against this eminently fair tax program has been that the Supreme Court might turn it down. And in several recent decisions the Court has tlirned its approval of this concept of tax equality.

DEBTS OVERDUE

SPEAKIN G of international obligations, we're glad to note that the British House of Lords took time out the other day to debate the advisability of renewing payments on England’s war debt to the United States. We're glad they haven’t forgotten. *

< Defaulting on that debt left Britain in a pretty weak

~~ position when later she tried to get tough with Mexico

in the matter of expropriation of British holdings. It is only fair to say, however, that the United States invited the war-debt defaults by stubbornly refusing to consider proposals for reasonable adjustments. Even so—and many persons high in London now seem to realize the fact—it was a mistake for England to'run out on that obligation. It is encouraging to see this sentiment growing over there. And it is not too much to hope

that the British and other European governments—for

their own good—may soon be asking for another chance to talk business about those debts. Let’s not muff that opportunity—when it comes. Let’s be prepared to make the same proposal we are making to Mexico—settle by

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WHERE LIGHT IS NEEDED

THE seven spikes have been removed from the crown of the Statue of Liberty, to be polished and reinforced before they are replaced. This is only one item in a general renovation program, another item being a WPA project which will add three acres to Bedloe’s Island, in New York Harbor, on which the statue stands. A further suggestion: Give Miss Liberty a searchlight in addition to her torch, and focus ifs beam over her shoulder on Mayor Hague’s adjacent realm of Jersey, City.

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“ Hitler ‘Several Points to Keep |

His Nazi Armies Out of Yorkville.

EW. YORK, July 25—The time has come to LN recognize the existence of ‘German minorities in certain areas of the United States, notably in New Jersey and specifically in the Yorkville section of New York City, and to head off trouble with Adolf Hitler. by concessions to them. Otherwise Hitler eventually will send his armies in to complete the task of his political agents, and these districts may be seized by force as Austria was. 2 In that event our national prestige and pride will

be badly damaged, and the American minorities re-

siding in these predominantly German neighborhoods

will be punished as fiercely as the Austrian non-Nazis

are today. We should placate the German minorities at any sacrifice. a : : The terms upon which this may be effected without bloodshed may be read in the demands which have been presénted to the Government of Czechoslovakia on behalf of Hitler's minority there, First—These German sections in our country must have complete territorial autonomy. Yorkville, for example, must be recognized as an independent German

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ECOND—These German sections must be permit- |

ted to have their own armed police, organized on military lines, and the ‘police of New York City must be withdrawn and kept out of Yorkville. The frontiers of Yorkville may be fortified against the United States, if the Nazis so desire, and members of the American minority iwho remain in Yorkville must accept the status of aliens. . Third—These German sections shall be indemnified by the United States for any damage which they. may believe they have suffered since 1918 fhrough the imposition of the American form d® government. Fourth—The male youths of these sections shall receive Nazi premilitary training, so that if they should join the American Army or Navy they would join as Nazis, drilled to the minute in treachery against the United States and qualified to act as spies.

Fifth—They shall have the right to impose additional taxes, especially on the members of the American minority in their midst.

Sixth—There shall be full equality of national languages in the United States to the end that German may be made by law the official language of these districts of Jersey and New York City.

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EVENTH—AIl American officials holding public positions in these areas shall be discharged and Nazi substitutes shall be named.

As an eighth condition, not stated but implied in the terms which Hitler has presented to the National Government of Czechoslovakia, all members of these Nazi minorities shall have the citizenship rights of Americans while giving their allegiance to Hitler. i This last condition need. not be pressed because most of the Nazis of the Hitler minority now make a practice of taking out American citizenship in order that they may organize American societies under the Nazi banner and work for Hitler in the guise of Americans. : There may be some Americans who will object to this proposal, but the sensible way will be to recognize

that Hitler often has proclaimed that wherever any . considerable body of Nazis are there is Germany and

avowed his determination to redeem all his minorities in time. Our case is no different from that of Austria and Czechoslovakia.

Business By John T. Flynn

Banks Are Willing to Lend Money, But There Aren't Any Borrowers.

EW’ YORK, July 25.—The Chairman of the Reconstruction Finance Corp. once again tilts his lance and charges at the banks for not lending money to business. This is one of the periodic alibis of the Administra. tion for the failure of private business to expand under the stimulating medicine of Mr. Roesevelt. In support of his charge Mr. Jesse Jones cites the fact that since last February when the RFC resumed its loans to business the banks participated in only about 12 per cent of those loans. But the figures of Mr. Jones are very significant. The RFC resumed its private lending in the latter part of February. In four and a half months it leaned $85,000,000 to 2001 borrowers. It must be remembered now that the RFC entered this field in order to make loans which banks refused to make. Since it proposed to lend money upon milder interest rates and gentler requirements, it might well be supposéd that, if the borrowers are in existence, they would flock to the RFC in even larger numbers than they flocked to the banks, with this difference—that the RFC would make the loans while the banks would send them away empty-handed.

A Drop in the Bucket

Now while $85,000,000 may look like a lot of money to a man with a small salary, it is a mere drop in the bucket in the banking system. If the banks had taken every one of these loans the effect upon the lending portfolios of American banks would have

been utterly negligible. The fact that only $85,000,000

in four and a half months could be loaned by the RFC is proot of the fact—and it is a fact—that the banks are not lending money, not because they do not wish to lend it but because there are no borrowers. Mr. Jones tells the bankers that they have allowed profitable business to drift to the finance companies which finance instaliment sales. These companies, says Mr. Jones, made loans of more than four billions in 1937 and did it with trivial capital. Mr. Jones has an odd idea that if the banks had done this business instead of the finance companies the result in business to the country would have been different, that bank loans would have been larger. But when the finance companies made these loans, where did the money come from? It came chiefly from the banks. The

. banks, instead of lending it directly, loaned it to the

finance companies. What the banks didn’t lend, the finance companies loaned out of the bank balances which, so far as the nation’s business is concerned, is precisely the same thing.

: ’ . : ° A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson ITY and country women have always been sharply

divided in their thinking. That they still are is proved by the poll on the liquor question reported

by Henry F. Pringle in The Ladies Home Journal.

While Carrie Nation had a great deal of support in metropolitan areas, I think it can be safely stated that the country people put over prohibition and the city people brought about its repeal. Rural and urban attitudes are interesting subjects for study. History shows that in every age and land there has existed a strange inborn antagonism between the agricultural elements and the trade elements. Sometimes the f{ is so deeply buried

it is not evident, but let a crisis come and the ancient

enmity will appear.

Even more interesting'is the comparison between urban and rural contributions to national welfare. It doesn’t make us city folk feel any too good either, because the downfall of all civilizations can be traced to the vice and political iniquity in populated centers, while the fragments saved were rescued by the stability of the agricultural inhabitants. It is folly for us to overlook or to discredit the power of the countryman.

And if the city powers are as smart as they

imagine themselves to be, they will heed the hint

carried in this particular poll. . 3 . The farm and small-town woman is not a fanatic.

She keeps up with current affairs and enjoys the

same amusements and many of the same conveniences

an ardent prohibitionist, bit’ gentlemen, you can bet , your bottom dollar she won't sit by vio politics submit again to domination by the liquor everlord

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by her city sisters. She is no longer even

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

RESIDENTS DEMAND REMOVAL OF BALL PARK By Residents The building of the softball park on W. Minnesota St. has just about ruined this neighborhood as a residential neighborhood. The terrible dust that is caused, the noise long after bedtime, profanity, drinking and attendant rowdiness, racing of motors, honking horns, loud automobile radios—

all these things cause us to demand that City officials take the necessary steps to remove this nuisance and immediately. Ny In granting a permit for the ball park City officials certainly did not have very much consideration for the home owners and renters of this neighborhood. We want to remind them that we pay considerable taxes and we expect them to take this into consideration. We, the residents of this neighborhood, have our rights and we expect the City officials to take notice of them and act accordingly. We expect action in this nuisance and we mean now. ” ” 2 x SCHOOL LAW AUTHOR ASKS APPROPRIATION By W. B. Hiser > The member of the 1937 Indiana Legislature, Hon. Marshall A. Talley of Indianapolis, Marion County, who introduced my bill that was made into a law almost unanmiously, requiring that character education be taught as a regular part of the program of the public schools, told me that the State Superintendent of Public Instruction told him that the reason the law is not being enforced is because it carries no appropriation to pay the expenses_of doing it. With $24,000000 4n the State Treasury and the Legislature now in special session to correct some of the omissions and errors of the 1937 session, as well as take some advanced legislation, now is just

this forgotten school appropriation along with a number of other school appropriations that will be made and which are really less important because they concern themselves with stone and brick and mortar buildings — where this character education appropriation : concerns itself with the welfare of all human life within the confines of the State

home, state, nation. ‘Pocket Money’

The amount of the character education appropriation would be but “pocket money” compared with others and would scarcely be missed from the $24,000,000; yet in the end it will set the public school to doing more good for you and me as the home, the State and society, whose only duty it is to serve, and for which you and I established, by tax-

the time and opportunity to make |

of Indiana—children, youth, family, |

(Times readers are invited fo 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.)

ing ourselves to the limit. The appropriation should be large enough to employ & director as is done for the other departments of education in the State Department of Education; and as is done in the state of Nebraska where a similar law is in successful operation. - The most powerful and the only institution that you and .I have established and financed to the limit that it may be well manned and which reaches all the children and youth of all the homies of the state of Indiana is the public school. That the public school should purposefully teach character education as a primary objective, instead of expecting it as a by-product of other subjects taught, is being urged and indorsed by men and women in all walks of life in every organization in the nation that has taken up, studied and discussed the shameful crime record of the U. S.—the worst of any of the civilized nations of the world.

2 2 2 ; QUESTIONS WISDOM OF HEALTH SPENDING By A. J. M. I see by the headlines that we are on the road again with another humanitarian venture. Humanitarianism is like the bait in a mouse trap —a sure catch. Mr. Roosevelt has gone on another fishing trip while he leaves Miss Josephine Roche, his chairman of the Interdepartmental Committee, to co-ordinate health and welfare activities, to catch suckers in America, to put over another bureaucratic proposition on the American taxpayers. This National Health Conference was opened by Miss Roche to the

LATER WISDOM By MAUD COURTNEY WADDELL

When words are hurled Unkind—unjust— | I pass them o'er With slight contempt, Since I have Grown more wise.

DAILY THOUGHT

. Why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, by profaning the covenant of our fathers?—Malachi 2:10. :

TH is a weak anchor, and : glory cannot support a man; this is the law of God, that virtue only is firm, and cannot be shaken

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by a tempest—Pythargoras.

tune that it would require $850,000, 000 per year to launch. It will be very interesting to know who is connected with this spending drive, with our country nearing the bankrupt stage. t J » # GIVING UNEMPLOYED JOBS CALLED GOVERNMENT'S TASK By L. B. Hetrick Relative to Mr. Roosevelt's plea for industry to employ the millions of idle throughout the country, we wish to say there never was nor should there be a law to compel any individual, group or private institution to employ anyone—it’s unthinkable. Thefeore it devolves upon society as a whole to employ the unemployed simply because it. is beneficial to society to see that the mentally and physically able are employed at some useful wealth producing work wherein they can create their own living without taxing society. : . The Government, which is the agency of society, should employ the unemployed for the economic benefit of society. /But to do this the Government must own sufficient means of production and distribution. : "Work should be divided according to/ increased productivity and efficiency of machinery until all are employed. Neither private industry nor private monopoly can do these things and it is unreasonable to expect it of them. Private monopolies operate entirely for private profits, which concentrates wealth and causes depressions, while public monopoly would operate for prosperity Tor all instead of for the few at the expense of public welfare. Public incentive is worth more to society than the predatory incentive

‘of the profiteers.

The land question has for ages been unsettled. This can be solved by leaving the land to the dirt farmer who actually farms—allowing no one to own more than is necessary to furnish him such income as any other occupation would bring him by his work and worth—and otherwise leaving him alone to do as he pleases. The farmer has paid over and over for the land, yet private monopoly and commercialism own his outlet from the farm and get all he produces except a precarious existence. When this exploitation is ended, a small farm of 40 to 80 acres will mean more peace, happiness and comfort than one three times that size ander the present system of unearned income and concentration, which robs the producer amd consumer of purchasing power and shuts down production in sight of want and misery on every hand. “We have always lived under an economic dictatorship © which deprives us of even an explanation as to how an honest social system would work, void of debts and methods of exploiting labor.

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LET'S EXPLORE YOUR MIND

By DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM

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The Hope of Peace in Europe Rests On the Fact That All Nations Know « No War Could Be Ended Quickly.

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N=¥ YORK, July 25—~There is a difference between the military situation in Europe now and the circumstances out of which grew the World War— and on that difference hangs the hope of peace. Then as now it was a part of the theory of war— even the German cult of war—that no nation could stand the drain and destruction of a long modern war. But the German military dogma was that If a strong nation—especially a nation of “supermen”—were fully prepared to throw its entire resource of men, money and materials into the first onslaught and its adversary were not, there could be no long-drawn war. There would be only overwhelming victory “in six weeks.” On that theory Germany . thought she could conquer, She had a right to think so. She had proved that theory twice in the last half of the 19th Century— once against Austria and.once against ce. Her calculations showed that she could do it again in 1914. . Her principal miscalculation was on the speed of Russian mobilization but, even with that, it is military opinion that if she had stuck to her original Schlieffen plan—a much greater concentration on the right wing of the sweep through Belgium, at the sacrifice of less protection of Alsace-Lotrraine and East Prussia—nothing could have prevented a complete victory over both France ‘and Russia in the first few months of war, ” » » : O nation now has any such relative supygmacy of swiftness and strength as Germany had in 1914, as would: permit it any such dream of a six‘weeks conquest. Furthermore, all are so nearly bankrupt that the slim chance of victory carries with it no glittering prize of -tremendous indemnity and rich

The danger of war resides not now—as in 1914— in the superior strength of any swaggering bully, But it exists, nevertheless, and it grows out of the very race for armament that made this peace-preserv-ing equality of strength. It was absolutely necessary for Hitler and prob-

{ ably for Mussolini, if they were to protect their per-

sonal ambitions, to overawe weakened nations to an exaggerated point far beyond their limited financial | resources. Both bankrupt, they live dangerously on an artificially inflated economic bubble so thin and so expanded as to be in constant peril of explosion and collapse. Every advance in armament by sounder nations, such as England, requires them to increase their personal danger of disaster.

F the time ever came when either of these megalomaniacs saw that he thought was a certainty of personal destruction through economic collapse and there remained the thinnest chance of salvation through sudden war, it is hard to ‘believe that he would ndt grasp at the fatal straw of war. The farther the race for armament proceeds; the greater the strain on them. ? 2 What could reverse the apparent implacable march toward ruin? It is hard to imagine anything but both military and economic demobilization by common consent, and joint action of European powers and that—just now—seems impossible.

lt Seems to Me By Heywood Broun

There's No Truth in the Statement Radicals Have No Sense of Humor.

EW YORK, July 25.—The first time I saw Ruth McKenney she was speaking at a protest meet"ing, and one of her friends said, “You know, we call her “The Red Gracie Allen.” That deceived me. It was not until a second meeting that I realized the uncommon good sense of the young woman. In her book “My Sister Eileen,” which has just been published, Miss McKenney explains that as a school girl orator she stuttered: “Take the Marines out of Nicaragua!” I used to thunder to a fairly spellbound audience, ‘Redeem America’s g-g-good ‘ n-n-name.’” : All that is gone now. Only a kind of breathlessn remains. t Old delusions die hard, and the statement that radicals have no sense of humor has been made so many times that we come to accept it in spite of manifold testimony to the contrary. But even those who know better still cling to the notion that the wit of those with a cause must invariably fall in the channel of biting bitterness. It is interesting to compare Ruth McKenney with some of her fellow-contributors to the New Yorker, Take James Thurber, for instance. : He walks a tightrope over a Niagara of tragedy, and thus follows the tradition of Swift, Aldous Huxley in his earlier work and the best of Ring Larder. It is obvious enough ‘that all three of these writers belong among those who have rebelled at life. The radical, on the contrary, has a lively faith that the world can be changed. He is up to his ears in the youth movement and slum clearance and peace and security. And there can be such a thing as a passionate serenity. I've seen it. :

Buoyancy and Bounce gant Decidedly T find this buoyancy and bounce in the

writing of Ruth McKenney. But if you have the idea that “My Sister Eileen” is a piece of crusading prole-

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tarian literature, I've done this all wrong. It is a series of light essays and episodes<™ There F are some sly digs at stuffed shirts, but I doubt that even Mrs. Dilling would find it subversive at surface. There .is, for instance, the story of the manner in which - Ruth McKenney, ss a college correspondent, ‘went. to the hotel to interview young Randolph Churchill. : : ; “Up to that very moment I had never tasted any-

leg liquor distilled in some abandoned mines near New Straitsville, 0.” » > To all lovers of good clean fun I most Heartily recommend “My Sister Eileen,” the first book by “The Red Gracie Allen,” ; ; :

Watching Your Health ‘By Dr. Morris Fishbein Fad

NCREASINGLY Americans seem fo be finding it difficult to sleep. It may be the depression. It may be the speed of our lives, or wrong with our nervous systems. Perhaps it is just the effects of much promotion, but the sales of sleepblets and powders are enormous. ~ Once upon a time indulgence in some sleep-proe ducing powders and potions was the inevitable ace

or in business. Nowadays, however, all classes of

result, various manufacturers endeavor to make imitations of the product or improvements upon them so that every manufacturer will have a product of his own for exploitation.

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