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Give Light and the People Wilt Fina Their Own Way

TUESDAY, JULY 26, 1938

TEXAS VOTES A CHANGE

THEY were accustomed to solemn-faced professionals who knew all about political affairs of the state.

But a man who could sell flour and croon “Beautiful

Texas,” who could promise more businesslike government and fatter pensions, and do it all to hillbilly rhythm—well such a candidate for Governor was different. So the people -of Texas voted for a change. And caught in that sweep was the honored Texas custom of sending the same men year after year to Washington, a practice which has placed Lone Star representatives high in Congressional seniority. That “continuity in office” idea was what advanced John N. Garner to party leadership and to the speakership and made him available for the Vice Presidency. It made

Sam Rayburn party leader.

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“A T least two Texans who

Se aT were headed for greater posi-

: tions in Congress were stopped in their tracks by Sat-

urday’s ballots.

Morgan Sanders’ seniority promised to make him soon the chairman of the House Committee on Ways and Means, the most powerful in Congress. But he was defeated by a 25-year-old who worked up greater campaign steam on the

pension issue.

The other casualty was Rep. Maury Maverick, who, ‘though only in his second term, had established himself as the undisputed leader of the liberal bloc in the House, that group of about 100 so-called Maverick progressives. A third who seems destined to remain at home is Rep. W. D. MacFarlane, another loyal New Dealer, who likewise proved to be second-best on old-age pensions.

On his junket through Texas, President Roosevelt gave

his “my good friend” blessing to both Maverick and Mac-

Farlane.

But the magic failed to work. Mr. Roosevelt

withheld that benediction from another Texas Congressman, Rep. Hatton Sumners, who did yeoman service in wrecking the President’s court bill. And Sumners won. It does not necessarily follow that Mr. Roosevelt's praise was a liability. Rep. Marvin Jones, who also got a Presidential pat on the back, won easily. And Majority Leader Rayburn, more identified with the President than any other Texan, was renominated without opposition.

Blind loyalty to Mr. Roosevelt was not the paramount, Indeed the President’s personality seems

issue in Texas.

to have bden overshadowed by that of the musical Mr. O’Daniel. Local issues and cross currents apparently were dominant. But in going out of his way to pick and choose among the many candidates for the many offices, Mr. Roosevelt gets a measure of credit when one of his candi-

dates wins, as in Oklahoma.

So he gets some discredit

when his choice proves.to be not the people’s.

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ERHAPS this election’s one result of greatest concern to non-Texans was the defeat of Maury Maverick. Washington will miss that colorful figure. In four short years he has gained national prominence. Fighting always on the side of civil liberties and social justice, he has been an intelligent

and forceful leader of the liberal bloc.

Yet he has been no

wearer of labels; he has been a “Maverick,” an unbranded independent; a warm-hearted but tough-minded legislator, with the ability to think and the courage to act for himself. Rep. Maverick has accepted his defeat philosophically. He says he will “take two: years’ rest and be back up there,” We sincerely hope that will prove, true.

EVANSVILLE CAN TEACH US

A SISTER city, of Indianapolis in southern Indiana has proof of what an earnest safety campaign can accomplish. Last week-end Evansville, with a population of slightly more than 100,000, marked its 88th consecutive day without a traffic fatality. This broke a previous record set between Sept. 24 and Dec. 21 last year when the city went 87 days with no automobile-deaths. = Fo Like Indianapolis, Evansville has had a serious automobile problem. Last September the city began a safety drive designed as a permanent one, with continued strict

law enforcement.

Figures show that since the campaign

started there have been eight automobile fatalities in Evansville, 280 personal-injury accidents and.328 injured. In the same period a year before there were 24 deaths, 410 per-sonal-injury accidents and 494 injured. al So encouraged by results Evansville is preparing to en ter the National Safety Council’s contest to recognize cities making the greatest safety advancements. 0. - Indianapolis, too, has conducted a traffic safety cam-

paign along these lines. The drive was not to be temporary,*

but permanent, marked by strict law enforcement. And it has shown some results—the 1938 death toll now stands at 40, as compared with 63 in 1937. But there’s much to be

done.

We'll welcome the day when Indianapolis can celebrate the completion of an equally long deathless period and make a similar bid. for national recognition of its safety efforts.

MARBLES

SENATOR GEORGE L. BERRY of Tennessee, the union leader and owner of under-water marble properties—Fought, as chairman of Labor's Nonpartisan League, to re-elect President Roosevelt in 1936; Was the President’s co-ordinator of industrial ee-opera-

tion after NRA ;

‘Was, reputedly, appointed to the Senate.because President Roosevelt wanted a man whose vote could be counted as certain for New Deal measures; But now Senator Berry, campaigning as a “Jeffersonian : Democrat” for the nomination to succeed himself, is denouncing the New Deal for extravagant spending, calling pump-priming an “utter waste,” criticizing the Government “for competing. with private business and attacking ‘the

litically-minded WPA.” a difference a few. marbles gan make!

What

Fair Enough

By Westbrook Pegler ~~

Few Isolated Cases of Drunkenness | ~~

in the Life of an Army Officer

Shouldn't Demand a Solemn Trial. |

TEW YORK, July 26.—Walter S. Giffin, a leu- |

tenant colonel in the Army, has been on trial

before a military court on a charge of drunkenness

and unbecoming conduct. The unbecoming conduct suggested by the testimony does not constitute moral Jturpitude. At worst he was guilty of the rather foolish behavior of a man with a skinful. Phe penalty could be dismissal. . : : Regardless of the merits of this case, the should make it the occasion for revising its in the direction of honesty and decency by abolishing the regulation which makes an officer a prey to any snitch who considers it his duty to run and tattle when he sees an officer a little too deep in his drams. : : I cannot recall offhand any officer of my acquaintance who did not get a little bit high now and again on his own time, and they include all ranks from major general down to second lieutenant. Moreover, if this regulation had been similarly enforced against every officer who overdrank himself during the World War the good of the service would have been served by the total demoralization of the service and the loss of the victory.

F an officer is a drunkard that is quite another matter and the facts of the case are better de-

termined by a medical board than by a court. But |

the mere fact of his being drunk once or on several isolated: occasions in the life of a robust man to whom fighting is an occupation should not be made the occasion for a solemn trial. ; I am discussing, of course, drunkenness on the officer's own time, for it must be agreeds<that it is not in the best interests of morale and discipline that a commissioned officer fall on his face before his troops while on duty in uniform. But even in such case dismissal from the service should not be mandatory. After all, the enlisted men know the facts of life. Everybody in the Army knows that many officers get drunk occasionally. They rely on their fellow officers and the wives of the officer set to keep still about it, and therein you have dishonesty and a violation of the code of honor, because, strictly speaking, every officer who sees another one even slightly excited from liquor is supposed to tattle.

ATURALLY, a commanding officer, like any other executive, should police the conduct of his subordinates and should have power to inflict some sort of glorified K. P. on an officer who gets drunk too conspicuously or too often. But this: could be done without courts and charges sufficient to break a man's career. ; » The fact that not one case of known drunkenness out of a hundred ever results in charges and trial—a fact which every Army officer will acknowledge— proves that the present system places more value on spite and bad luck than on justice and honor. . Col. Giffin is a veteran officer who ‘would be eligible for retirement on pension next March, and his dismissal now without his pension for conduct which is an everyday occurrence in the Army would be an evasion of an obligation which is about to mature.

Business By John T. Flynn

- Nazis Will Get Economic Effects Desired by Control of Stock Mart.

EW YORK, July 26.—When the Berlin stock market bogged down it was natural that from

that cave of rumors—Europe—dark explanations

should come. At this distance from Berlin it is posSibi merely to speculate about the real cause of the crack. The whole economic situation in Germany has been confused for some time. Only a little over a month ago it was said that business activity had’ reached a record high. Germany is operating on a four-ycar plan. Fhe plan consists largely in the development of war industries. But there are other economic factors not so good. Germany's trade balance has been persistently against her for months. And this is serious. But more serious is the grave difficulty the Reich has been having with its problem of financing its vast operations. Then suddenly the stock market sank down in a panicky crash. At first it was thought by some observers here that this presaged either some very serious internal financial troubles or a drift of rumors into the exchange respecting the government's plans in Czechoslovakia ’ But now the cause seems to be cleared up. Rumors of 5 Coning Eowdiscasion m She Ssouritivs of Jews led urrie umping of stocks and market by frightened Jews. bongs on the

More Pressure on the Market

But there was probably a contributing cause. For sometime, until last spring, Germany was financing her public works and Government contracts by means of special bills—just ordinary I. O. U.s, promises to *pay. These could be discounted at the banks. Last April this policy was abandoned. And the Government began paying for work projects with Treasury hills which could not be discounted. This did not take long to use up the cash resources of contractors and manufacturers. As & result, for some time they have been forced to sell securities. This pressure was on the market and when the dumping of securities by Jewish investors was imposed on that pressure, the market could not stand it. The Government has been supporting its oond market, just as we have been doing. Only there the task bas been difficult. This is done through corporations owned by tHe Government which step in and buy offerings of bonds. This job has been getting steadily too heavy for these Government corporations. What the next step will be cannot be foretold, save that the Government will proceed to apply to the stock market the same type of controls it applies Sy hsre else to produce the economic effects it esires.

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson a

N New York a committee has been formed for “recognition of women in the musical profession.” Such groups as the Women’s Trade Union League, the Consumers League and the League of Women Shoppers are behind it. So we jnay expect things to begin popping soon.

It may interest you to know, as it interested me.

that none of the leading orcliestras of the country employ women players. The New Republic calls our ,attention to that fact in a splendid editorial which gives some startling information on the whole subject. This rule, it seems, is rigidly enforced. in such organizations as the New York Philharmonic Society, the Metropolitan Opera Co., the Columbia Broadcasting System and the National Broadcasting Co: Moreover, in New York City, where 17,000 male muSiolans, get a minlhium wage of $90 a week, fewer women ve stea emplo paid $30 or $35. y omy yHient 20d ure

Well, it’s live and learn, I suppose. You can get &

pretty good education on the subject of business discrimination against women by asking a few questions in your own community. And whenever some smartaleck begins broadcasting about this being a woman’s

world, just have some items like the above handy to

spike the fallacy.

In almost every field a woman has to be twice as’ :

good as a man before she can expect get as much salary—and sometimes when she’s twide as good he gets all the raises. ;

The condition is easily explained. “1t is a hangover from the days when the belief was as. ‘women were frail.

Men hold the balance of they

: business power, the be sider themselves supreme in the Arig hay :

_ disputes their leadership in scientifi mechanical fields. Their kness, it el an in their

mentally incompetent and physically |

ANAPOLIS TIMES _ Man !By Talburt

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1 JUST KNOW |F | GET IN TOO DEEP A

our!

GREAT BIG MANSY LIKE YOU COULD PULL J ITTLE BITSY ME.

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

PROPOSALS TO AID HEAVY INDUSTRIES By M. K.

The following proposals would re=lease billions of dollars of purchases to heavy industries: Eh 1. Railroads—A 10 per cent wage loan by all employees for a period of one year, to constitute a first lien on the properties. This money to be used for track maintenance. . A one-year loan of interest on bonds. This money to be used to amortize for one year purchases of rolling stock. Disposition of surplus real estate to cities and pooling of terminal facilities, with further disposition of urban trackage for express highways. This money to be used to pay bank debts and out-

bond interest on these purchases by a percentage tax on all freight bills, highway and railroad.-- Finally, elimination of all preferential rebates and discounts to shippers. 2. Electrical Utilities—Immediate loans by RFC to permit modernization and expansion of generating equipment. : 3. Housing—Immediate establish ment of price schedules by material producers and jobbers based upon full capacity production for a period of one year. Immediate loans to builders of 80 per cent of cost price against approved plans, with addition of government housing programs to make up full capacity reeded. 8 8 2 s

HOLDS AMERICA MUST BE FOR AMERICANS FIRST . By J. J. M.

By the press we are informed that hundreds of thousands and perhaps millions of people in countries that have a dictatorship form of government want to leave their respective countries for other parts of the globe where a more democratic form of government exists.

We Americans are in sympathy with these unfortunate people. However, we have our own troubles. For nearly ten years millions of our citizens have been in search of jobs, with very little success. It is a known fact that small businessmen have all they can do to keep their heads above water. As for big business and professions, in this “land of the free” competition is quite keen. America must be for Americans first. :

2 8 =» : URGES WEED-CUTTING ON RAILROAD PROPERTY By H. E. K.

Most of our property owners have cleaned their lots of weeds, but the railroad rights-of-way .are an eye-

standing accounts. Cities to pay

(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, religious controvérsies. excluded. = Make your letter short, so all can have a chance: Letters must. be signed, but names will be withheld on request.)

sore to our fair city and a menace to health. Can't something be done about this? : » & 8 SAYS GROSS TAX SURE WAY TO: RUIN LITTLE BUSINESS By Jasper Douglas The Indians gross income tax is one of the worst schemes that big business could devise to put little business out of business. The small merchant doing $4000 worth of business in a year, and there are many who do not exceed that, are exempt for $1000 but have to pay tax on $3000. He is not taxed on his in¢ume but on gross receipts, which is quite another thing. This merchant must have paid $3000 for the goods he has sold. Then rent, light, heat, telephone, clerk hire, cost him more than $1000. His business has not paid his full cost of operating and to be ‘taxed on his losses is a sure way of plowing him under. The workmen who gets $2000 2 year pays on $1000. That is right for his’ income is $2000. But the actual income made by the small businessman is not his full receipts, but is only what he has been able ‘to draw out of his business as salary for ‘himself. Even the amount he has been compelled to use for living expense is not al! income when he has bills unpaid and has been com-

WEDDING BELLS

By DANIEL FRANCIS CLANCY

Usually a lover dwells Hopefully on wedding bells.

But when I think of them I am blue— For another fellow shall be marrying you. ;

DAILY THOUGHT

But he saveth the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and .from the hand of the mighty. — Job 5:15,

FOE to God was never a true

friend to man.—Young,

belongs to his creditors. ‘For nine years business has been on tottering legs. Money appropriated by Government to keep people from starving, when paid out in small amounts to the needy must be spent immediately and those dollars circulate about twice before it gets

‘| right back into the hands of the

financiers who loaned it to Uncle Sam and on which the people are taxed to pay interest. : ‘This borrowing and spending cannot go on forever. What will be the final outcome?. : The remedy is plain. The machinery which is the tools by which we all must live must be transferred from private to public ownership. Big business now legally is run for profit and profits are made by buying labor cheap and selling products high, When industry is socially owned it will be illegal for one man to profit by another’s distress without private gain to individuals who want to hog everything, all will partake of what labor may be necessary and of the products. So long as Government is in the hands of the rich, there is no hope for the poor. # is time we used our brains. * » ® . SAYS BRITISH DIPLOMATS EXCEL IN PRACTICE By a Reader. . . According to a chart>drawn by

Dr. Frank B. Littell, Great Britain has almost twice as many politicians of "international repute as has the United States. By the same chart (based upon the contents of an international’ Who's Who) the United States has nearly as many world-renowned diplomats as Britain. > ; : We're definitely inferior in politicians but not so awfully bad in diplomats, you say. But it must be recognized .that Britain has a

of ours. to draw from. And ‘although, by these statistics, we're almost as good in diplomacy as Britain—it has seldom proved to be so in practice. :

2 = = SUGGESTS. STUDENTS GET CREDITS FOR TRAVELING

By 8. R.

I suggest that every college throughout the country should give regular credits for those students who travel abroad, because, in my estimation, a two months’ trip abroad is worth an entire year’s study through books at home.

TIONS ION. WE'RE GETTING SMARTER ALL THE TIME" ; a4 16 DAD RIGHT 2m ©

1 DAD IS WRONG and I fear A Russell may he right. Educating one generation does not.

because that is ed not the ine be

the natural capacities of the pent

LET'S EXPLORE YOUR MIND

By DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGG

‘piling up that the unskilled and \semiskilled classes are having most of the children and these classes

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occupations requiring not only higher intelligence but better health and finer character. If this continues, it sems certain to lower the future intelligence of the race. Ng? # ” ®

DR. MAURICE H, KROUT, Chicago educator, has probed into the-childhood recollections of large groups of radicals and conservatives, and finds that the radicals had most unhappy childhood recollections of being cornipelled to keep their faces washed while the

"| conservatives did not recall any

such unpleasant experiences. He concluded that nagging and ridicule were more effective in making radi-

| cals than spanking, That would be

my guess, too, If you want ta ruin

a child—just make him feel in- | | terior and ridiculous.

Ww a 3 ‘THE ANSWER to this and «J similar questions may decide the future fate of America, according to Dr. Goodwin Watson, Co~ lumbia University psychologist. He contrasts labor’s - magnificent response to the appeal to serve high

| ideals in 1917 with the present con- ~ | fusion and lack of broad national

patriofism of labor's demands today. The same thing is true of em‘ployers. . In. demanding security every person thinks solely of his

| own interests but in a program of

pelled to use money that rightly

population only one-third the size |

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Gen Johnson ;

Says— We Shouldn't Become Bankrupt Just Because Governmental Finance in

Europe Is Strained to the Limit.

ETHANY BEACH, Del, July 26.—What seems to me to be the most cynical and dangerous piece of political impertinence is the constant sneering by

- officials in this Administration at those who protest

the alarming growth of debt and taxes as a result of Federal extravagance. : The protestants are, of course, all economic royalists who squeal solely because they object to having their ill-gotton gains taken away, to be divided up by

a great humanitarian government and given to those who have less. Since those who have less are far more numerous than those who have more, this becomes sure-fire rabble-rousing. It is almost impossible to make clear to “those who have less” that,

"through the intricate maze of taxation methods, there

is not one of them—whether employed or unemployed and on relief—who does not suffer a take-off of at least one-fifth of all he earns or gets by the hidden

/hand of Federal, state and local taxation.

T'S a ghastly fraud on the poor. By just so much as unlimited waste, extravagance and governmental profligacy increase, so will that pinching on the food, fuel, shelter and clothing of the poor increase. ‘It is pitiless cruelty, by officials who have intelligehce to know the truth about this, not to acknowledge it to their victims, but to conceal it, to the danger of their country” for their own momentary political popularity as dispensers of all things good. The most charitable excuse is ignorance. But it is poor at best, for none so ignorant, should occupy such high places of responsibility. But ignorance will not excuse that other frequently repeated piece of baldfaced deceit—“That we don’t know enything about real tax burdens; that our great mother country— England—pays taxes and carries a debt much gréhter than our own.” ; 5 8 = =» IN the first place, it simply and unquestionably untrue. Studies by the Twentieth Century Fund, and by Harry Scherman, show beyond a doubt that,

{ whether. figured per person or in percentages of wealth

or national income—all the ways there are ‘to figure it—the burden of the total British debt and taxes is considerably less than our total—I'ederal, state and local. And that ain’t the half of it! England has done as Much or more, in all directions, for her underprivileged as have we—and done it “without increasing her debt. Citing England was an unfortunate alibi. It convicts us not only of unbelievable extravagance, but also of incredible incompetence,

But suppose it were true that British debt and taxes are more? What argument would that be for in=creasing ours? England bore a World War cost relatively more than twice as heavy as ours and England has met the latter part of this depression without unbalancing her budget at all—and maintained a higher degree of recovery and an even greater measure of ‘reform. : Yet British: Governmental finance is strained to the limit. France is worst. Germany and Italy are

bankrupt. The argument here is that, because others

far more sorely beset are on fhe point of collapse we should become bankrupt, too. Cockeyed, incompetent and worse!

It Seems to Me

By Heywood Broun

G. O. P. Plan to Indorse O'Connor Is Seen as Blundering Strategy.

EW YORK, July 26—When politicians perform a signal public service it may be captious to look their motives in the mouth, And yet it is difficult not to note the clumsiness with which some of the gentlemen ply their own craft.. The point I have in mind is the current plan of some: Republican leaders to have their party indorse John J. O'Connor, a Democrat, for re-election to Congress from the Sixteenth District in New York. To me this does not seem to be smart politics for the immediate situation, and it is blundering strategy as far as the long pull is concerned. : I can think of no better argument New Dealers could raise for a purge than the chance to cite the fact that certain Democrats have.become the darlings of the opposition. The Republicans seem to be dumb enough to hand this precious ammunition to the Roosevelt forces on a silver platter. . Of course, if the G. O. P. leaders do go through

with an indorsement for O'Connor they will contend -

that they are making the gesture on the highest moral grounds. They will say that John is a man who puts the welfare of his country aliead of his party. and that he has been ready to lay down his political life to preserve the Constitution of the United States. But the choice of John J. O'Connor to play the

role of the Maverick martyr is a singularly bad piece

of type-casting. In his long record there is no indication of any previous desire on the part of Mr, O'Connor to take on a sacrificial crusading -complexion. Indeed, it might very well be his own proud boast that he is a good organization man.

His Prestige Diminished

And so regardless of the immediate issue involved the public will think, and have a right to think, that in the City of New York many of the battles between the Republicans and the Democrats‘have been- little more than bits of shadow boxing. If the Republicans of New York City indorse O'Connor they will also indorse the cynical conclusions of the independent voter. This is a consummation devoutly to be wished. Such an admission may do much to promote a strong labor party. And in that sense I think the Republican bosses of Manhattan ought to be praised for their candor. But, of course, these happy results are hardly within their intention. John J. O'Connor is likely to be returned to Washington whether or not he gets the aid of a bi-partisan alliance behind him. But I think that he will return with diminished prestige. He will seem to be a legislator who serves the interests of reactionary Republicans while ostensibly operating on the other side of the chamber. :

Watching Your Health By Dr. Morris Fishbein 1 IFE on this earth is a constant battle between the L insects and lower animals and man for the food that is available. If modern chemical science did not come to the rescue of mankind, the insects would eventually win; today the advantage is with the human being. « f ; Every great new discovery brings with it not only great advancement for mankind but also new hazards. Were it not for the poisonous insecticides and plant sprays, the prices of fruits and. vegetables would

- be excessive.

In the case of most vegetables it is possible to control the danger from insecticides by peeling or stripping the vegetable before it is used.

When it was realized that insecticides conveyed a

potential hazard to human beings, various commis-

sions throughout the world considered the problem.

It was determined: that the minimum amount of lead and arsenic remaining on fruits should be 0.014 grains per pound. This might be represented by two parts of lead per million or 1.4 parts per million of arsenic. Spraying with lead arsenic has for many years been the most effective means of controlling moths on applés and pears. Other sprays contain fluorine. With such sprays it is desirable that the excess of the poison always be removed before eating. Experience has shown that dry wiping or brushing cann be depended on to remove most of the spray. oo sn No one needs to fear acute

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