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ive Light and the People Will Find Thetr Oten Way : FRIDAY, JULY 29, 1938 $5,532,510 AN HOUR H°oWV much is a billion dollars? |

Well, Administrator Ickes announces that in the first » working days after President Roosevelt signed

the spending-lending bill, funds were allotted to PWA projects at the rate of $5,532,510 each working hour. And, at that rate, the total amount allotted was still $159,058,370 short of a billion dollars.

DOWN ON THE FARM THE Congressmen who are investigating the Tennessee Valley Authority find that cheap electricity is doing some great things for the farmers in that region. One dairy farmer has equipped his barn with an electric fly-killer—a small box with a grill of wires. When a fly lights on that grill there's a click, a spark, and a dead fly in the box. Another has an electrified fence “to keep the bull from roaming.” . No animal ever makes a second attempt to break through that fence. Wonder whether anybody has invented an electric device to keep an old mooley cow from swishing her tail through the milk bucket and slapping the milker across the eyes with it.

ADVANCE BILLING HERES another reason—besides the third-term puzzle— for looking forward to 1940— Mrs. Theodore G. Bilbo, divorced wife of “The Man” Bilbo, says she may run against him for U. S. Senator from Mississippi. Politics has given this country many a grand Show. ' The stellar performers have run all the way from Pitchfork Ben Tillman and Sockless Jerry Simpson to Goat Gland Brinkley and Kingfish Huey Long. Alfalfa Bill Murray has alternately stood on his head to delight his audiences and quoted the classics to overawe them. The country has gasped at the oratorical explosions of Father Coughlin and laughed at the musical didos of Hillbilly O’Daniel. But a family scrap on the stump—that should be diverting indeed. Ex-husband vs. ex-wife. Jt ought to be better even than the “War of the Roses,” when Brothers Bob and Alf Taylor competed on the hustings of Tennessee.

EX-CITIZEN A MAN named William M. Greve arrives at his old home town of New York City to visit his daughter, entering the country on a certificate of admission which lists him as a subject of the principality of Liechtenstein. Thus does the. public for the first time learn that Mr. Greve has renounced his United States citizenship.

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We know not why Mr. Greve chose to change his al-

legiance. We know only what the last Who's Who says, that Mr. Greve was born and educated in this country, that he engaged in the real estate investment business, that he was the director of railroads, a bus company, a subway transit corporation and an insurance company, and that he was a member of many well-stocked clubs, including a golf club, a racing club and a yacht club. And what the ship reporter records—that Mr. Greve has retired at 54 years of age, ‘that Liechtenstein is a tiny principality of 65 square miles in the Alps, with a population of 10,000 including three policemen to keep order, and has no army, no navy, and no taxes.

We hope life as a loyal Liechtensteiner will be pleasant | to Mr. Greve, that the little Alpine nation will not impose -on him too onerous obligations of citizenship, that he will always find it a taxless haven, that no mishap will occur, that, for instance, the wards of the House of Liechtenstein will not be swallowed up by a Nazi German anschluss. That, indeed, would be unfortunate, for the Nazis have a way of getting reckless with the private property of persons who come under their dominion. Compared to their take, taxes in the old U. S. A. are but trifles.

(CYCLE TROUBLE

HIS country may be entering a ovele'o of more ‘adequate rainfall, the U, S. Weather Bureau announces.

Consulting its records back to 1886; the bureau finds that a long drought period began that year and continued through 1895. Then there was a period of comparatively abundant rain, lasting through 1909. After that the rain situation seems to have been balanced about right until 1930 and the start of a six-year drought which, coinciding with business depression, caused plenty of trouble.

But there was abundant moisture in 1937, and so far this year rainfall has been above normal in nearly all the states and especially heavy through the Middle West. Judging from past history, the Weather Bureau thinks this condition may eontinue for several years.

That ought to make the/€ountry Happy. It ought to— but disturbing thoughts arise. Perhaps the Dust Bowl’s problem will seem to be solved for a while, but that may cause us to forget that something has to be done about that problem, which is certain to become acute again in the inevitable next drought cycle. Meanwhile, the chances are that there'll be a great deal of trouble with floods. «| Then. too, plenty of rain is likely to mean bumper crops, and everybody knows by now what a terrible thing they are. The Government's efforts to hold down production and keep the ever-normal granary from bursting with surplus stores may be interfered with serjously or balked. ‘The Government, through its Weather Bureau, can figure out that wet and dry spells come:in cycles. However, that doesn’t seem to be enough. What is needed is a way to regulate the cycles or, better still, to abolish them and have normal rainfall everywhere, every year. Maybe there ought to be a U. S. Bureau of Weather Control. How can we plan, and be certain that things. will ‘work out “that

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Fair Enough

By Westbrook Pegler

* Fame Is Fleeting, and Vander Meer

in a Year Perhaps Will Be Pleased

To See His Name Even in Fine Type.

EW YORK, July 20. —The Cincinnati Post: reports that Johnny Vander Meer, the young athlete: who

pitched two no-hit games for the Reds, is demanding

50 per cent of the proceeds of newspaper and magazine | articles in praise of himself for which he ‘supplies ’

the material. Cincinnati papers are happily exempt from this

charge, and he will gladly give them interviews free.

This is a large leak in Vander Meer’'s commercialism, because there would seem to be nothing to prevent the use of laudatory matter intended for local consumption in articles for sale elsewhere. Nevertheless certain Cincinnati newspaper writers are deeply hurt, feeling that Vander Meer has snapped at a hand extended to pet him and munched it clear up to the shoulder. Not overpaid at best, some of them have had a chance to make a few dollars spreading the fame of a hero, and the young man’s demands would cut their $10 and $20 fees in halt. : » f J 2 OME of my colleagues seem to think that this is something new in commercialism, but I can assure them that Johnny Vander Meer is following distinguished precedent. Only recently President Roose-

-velt placed on sale as by-product of the distinguished

office which he adorns of his conversations with the press and, only as an afterthought announced that the proceeds would be devoted to some public work.

Jess Willard, when he was heavyweight champion

of the world, once declined to give your correspondent his thoughts™on the eve of a struggle with Frank Moran on the ground that Mr. Hearst was paying him $50,000 a year for the exclusive right to this commodity. Greater thinkers have been paid less, out your correspondent had to admit that Mr. Willard’s mother did not raise a foolish sen in raising Jess when he said: “Why should I tell you what I think for nothing when Mr. Hearst is paying me $50,000 a year to tell him what ¥ think?” But your correspondent’s mother did not raise any foolish children, either, and in a subtle battle of wits between two intellectual titans, Mr. Willard was first diverted into trivialities, then exasperated into a discussion of his plan of battle which was presently given

eternal permanence in the five-star finals under a line -

which truthfully said that the following thoughts had been expressed at a late hour today “by Jess Willard.” He had given away perhaps $5000 worth of thought resenting a suggestion that Moran was braver.

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OME celebrities are just that way. Papa Dionne, whose sudden rise to celebrity might have caught a less wary man flat-footed, brilliantly foiled all who would have chiseled a profit without declaring him in. But fame is fleeting, and perhaps in a year Johnhy Vander Meer will be pleased to see his name in print, even in the fine type of the record books. When “Trudy” Ederle returned from her victory over the English Channel it took hours to persuade Dudley Field Malone, her manager, to let her accept, free, a red roadster on which she had set her heart in return for her picture at the wheel of the same. Dudley wouldng think twice on the same proposition today. He might even accept a red roadster

. free himself if approached with dignity.

Business By John T. Flynn

Stock Exchange Now in a Position To Take Up Subject of Segregation. EW YORK, July 29.—A couple of months ago the

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public was stirred .by the news that there had

been a revolution on the Stock Exchange. The Old Guard had been mowed down. A brand new set of governors was put in power with a brand new constitution. An able, honest and well-informed young man has been made paid president and an entente has been established between the Exchange and the SEC. But revolutionary governments, when they come into power, always find themselves confronted with the task of reforming. This task now faces the Exchange. Chairman Douglas of the SEC has not permitted the grass to grow under his feet in pressing this matter. And the first important subject he brings forward is the subject of segregation. This is the very heart of the Stock Exchange problem as a public problem. It refers to the demand for a separation of the functions of broker and trader. The problem in its greatest simplicity may be stated thus: That no real reform of the market place in the public interest is possible until first, all brokers who represent the public are prohibited from speculating for their own account and second, only brokers are permitted to participate in the control of the Exchange. The groups which now trade for themselves are the. floor traders, the specialists, the inactive. memrs, the odd-lot houses, and of course, any member the Exchange who desires to do so. An Exchange member should be compelled to regr as a floor. trader, a specialist, an odd-lot trader or a broker. The inactive memberships should be abolished. . :

Commission Ducked Issue

The member who registers as a specialist or a broker should be forbidden to speculate for himself. Such trading should be limited to the floor traders. And as to them, they should be excluded from the floor. As to the odd-lot houses a good deal of study is essential as to them before a wise disposition of that problem can be made. The SEC up to the time of the regime of Mr. Douglas has played with the problem of segregation— hal, in fact, ducked it. The Exchange has been a bad Exchange because it has been under the dominion of men who were primarily speculators and gamblers. Now the Exchange is dominated by a board of governors in which the broker element dominates. It has a great duty and a great opportunity now to approach this important question objectively as the guardian of the publio.interest in the market place.

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

TF it were only possible to restore other things shattered by shells in the same way Reims Cathedral

was restored! But not all the money on earth can do that. Gone forever ere the 17 million = men who died on the battlefields. With them vanished also their potential power—all their capacity for creating beauty,

their influence for righteousness and their genius for

‘leadership. Many of these men were cathedrals of

flesh and blood, which it took longer to develop than the Reims Cathedral was in building. Aeons of time were required to shape their mental attributes in their soul stuff, Some of them were products of the best cul , and education, and in their veins coursed the blood of innumerable noble ancestors. The fact that most of them died fighting for ideals makes their loss none the less disastrous for a world whieh, now needs them so sorely. How fine it would ‘be if we could heal the broken hearts of the wives and mothers of 24 years ago, if we could bring back lost hopes and dead illusions, and give again to the arms of every spinster her departed sweetheart. = These losses are. regrettable, but there is one even

greater. The most splendid, shining thing that those

shells of war destroyed was faith—man’s belief in himself, ‘the assurance that he had the power to right

human wrongs and regulate the affairs of his time. He no longer believes that. Because along with the RE material wreckage Great

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

SEEKS SOLUTION TO DOG TAX MYSTERY By Cecil 0. Wilson

In the little town of Lyndhurst we are confronted by a mystery. N There is hardly a dog on the east side of our town that has not had its tag disappear. To find a solution for this, I would suggest that the city fathers corral all of the dogs in town and insist that 'the owners call for them and show their tax receipts. If the tag number did not correspond with the receipt or if the owner had no receipt and the dog had a ‘tag, it would look bad for somebody. Inasmuch as there are only 36 houses in our little down and 30 dogs, ‘this would not be much of a job. ! ” ” ”

RAILROAD FAN AGAINST FARE INCREASE

By Railroad Fan I saw posted at the Union Station a notice. of increased coach fares effective July 25 on Eastern railroads: This is just another one of railHed management’s blunders and I expect the bankers are partly to blame for it. How railroad managements figure they will benefit the writer cannot understand. It looks like the railroads do not want the day-coach traveler, due to their operation of busses, Railroads make more profit from the day-coach traveler than the Pullman or extra-fare passenger and yet they will not give him a break. Instead of raising fares they should reduce them one-half cent. Then they would have something to draw people to the railroad, instead of running them away. The Eastern railroads are still 20 years behind the times. It is true the Western roads have awakened them but they still seem laggard in many ways. They have put on a few modern trains, but very .few. There was supposed to be a streamlined train through Indianapolis June 15, but it turned out to be just a common train with a few streamlined cars on it. However, it does run on a fast schedule. I saw this train go out a few days ago and the engine headlight was covered with coal dust, It looked as if a hostler had accidentally spilled a shovel of coal on it and didn’t have time to ips 5% off —and this was supposed. to a high-class train. After these new fares .go - into. effect the roads can put some more

Railroad managements are responsible for the difficulties they are in today. Efficiency has partly ruined railroad service—they will spend millions for new efficient

coaches in storage to rust and rot. |

(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.)

engines to heul’ more cars, but they can to -nothing for the day-coach traveler,

# = = HAS LIVING IMPROVED IN 40 YEARS? READER ASKS By L. Chaney Pike Forty years ago hens were 4 cents a pound, roosters 10 cents apiece, eggs 8 cents a dozen. butter 10 cents a pound and milk § cents a quart. Butchers gave away liver and treat¢d the kids fo bologna, Hired girls got $1 a week, did the washing and ironing along with all other work and helped with the milking. Women didn’t powder and paint (or if they did no one knew it) and

they didn’t vote or play poker. Men wore whiskers and boots and chewed

THIS WAS HOW By ELEEZA HADIAN

Just at sunset, across the sky. Shot the wild flames’

spread; And all the bales of cotton cloud, Stacked wide and high; Caught fire and burned a blazing red.

Forward rushed “night, to make a gn, With black blanket, to beat it out; Ang Son the bales of smoke-choked o Piled wide and high, ; Billowed darkly across the sky.

But then the wind went whistling by, and laughed aloud, at night and cloud; It ed and blew, stirred ashes, the ambers’ glowing flashes, Came ‘live and danced across the

sky; There to twinkle, wink from afar, Each speck alight, ‘so like a star.

DAILY THOUGHT

Behold, the whirlwind of the Lord goeth forth with fury, a continuing whirlwind: it shall fall with pain upon ‘the: head of the wicked.—~Jeremiah-30: 23.

{OD is a sure sure paymaster. He may not pay at the end of every week, or month, or year, but remember, He pays in the end~— Anne of Austria.

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tobacco—spit on the sidewalk and cussed. Beer was 5 cents a glass and lunch

. | was free. Laborers worked 10 hours ‘1a day and never went on strike. No

tips were given to waiters and hat check grafters were unknown. A | hanging kerosene lamp and a stereoscope in the parlor were luxuries. No one was operated on for ap-

1 pendicitis or bought a new set of

glands. Microbes and vitamins were unheard of and folks lived to a ripe old age. Now everybody rides in an automobile or perhaps a plane. They

play golf, shoot craps, run the radio |. .

24 hours a day, go to the show and drink any old thing. They never go to bed the same day they get up. They hide when the bill collector comes. They get it on the installment plan and think they're having a swell time. These are the days of profiteering,

‘rent hogs, excess taxes and hidden

taxes. . 5 8 x ou LOVE-MAKING TERMED GOOD MAJOR SUBJECT a By D. C. Doctor Wiggam- says that over 200 colleges are giving courses in lovemaking, mate-selection and family life Love-making would be a good subject to major in. ...

Americans in Ireland celebrated Independence Day by eating: hot

| dogs supplied by the U. 8. Minister.

I.suppose that Americans in Denmark were given double-dips and in Guatemala they had chewing-gum. j Fa Sa V'ANTS NO CHANGES IN ‘GONE WITH THE WIND’ By Edwin Smith Will Norma Shearer play the part of Scarlett O'Hara? We know she is supposed to be studying and practicing the Southern dialect, but we will not be convinced of her being Scarlett till the actual production is in full -swing. She wishes (so

‘it is rumored) that the * part be

changed to suit her personality. (Gosh, the thing may turn out to be a musical, who knows?) Now we admire Miss Shearer and her past portrayals, but we cannot seem to picture Miss O'Hara as being a-sweet, unspoiled girl; we want Scarlett to be scarlet as—well,.as scarlet can be. Miss Shearer is a very clever actress and she can take the part and make it live. We

.want Norma Shearer as Scarlett

O'Hara snd we want also the film

to be “Gone With the Wind” and |

not "Poliyanny’s® love affair.

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LET'S EXPLORE YOUR MIND

By DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM~

“Beautiful”;

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but they had moved! Then to their new abode but they had moved again and to a third place but they had moved from. there just the day before!, Mr. Darrow said, “Well, Wiggam, maybe thére is a little

‘| something to heredity.” I agree.

NO. Prof. 8. J. Holmes, biologist of the University of California. had competent judges rate 600 juniors, seniors and postgraduate university girls as follows:

“Plain”; was the

omely.” Beauty of face consideration but hair, appearance were

| figure and general SARE 010 aSohunt. Por reasons I

shall discuss on another day the sophomores’ were: not ‘results showed: a.

| thought of trying.

Armageddon rages.

Gen. Johnson

Says—

Maybe O'Daniel's Vitor Means That Texas Voters Prefer to Have "Their Political Hokum Served Raw,

ETHANY BEACH, Del, July 29.—~The most popu« lar radio entertainer is a little hand-carved chopping block called Charlie McCarthy. Of course he reflects the genius: of Bergen, but so great is that

.|.genius that everybody thinks only of Charlie,

‘The most popular moving-picture of recent times

was, of course, “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.”

Charlie is only a puppet, but they were not even that —just animated children’s drawings into which ane other genius had breathed life and personality: The most popular. recent air adventure was Corrie gan’s, with his crate. . The most decisive summer political victory was Texas O’Daniel’s, who crooned, wise-cracked and hills billied through a campaign that sounded ike an oR time patent medicine show.

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Was does all that mean? I don’t siotend’ % know, but it might mean that pedple, so long dipped in depression and defrauded in delay, are weary of too much solemn hokum that pretends to ‘be something else. Maybe they like their hokum raw, bu insist that it be labeled , under the’ Pure 304. Ding Act, doesn’t obi to be anything but a ie Moca dummy. Other moving-picture: actors pretend to be real people and some do it:so well that the country loves them. But Snow White and Mickey Mouse and Dopey and :the rest. don’ pretend to be anything else on earth-but what they are—shadowy, kindly figments of the imagination, Corrigan, without pretending fo be anything but a wild Irishman with an ambition, shot craps with destiny and did something. greater than many whe take themselves far more. (seriously would have

It isn't yet altogether plain Just what the. O'Daniel magic was, but it very clearly recognized that . political campaigns are mostly hokum - and. "hoop-la anyway. Instead of dishing. out the. usual brand of solemn hooshwa, he spread his stuff. right out. on the table for what it was and laughed at it with all the rest of the folks, all ant % 8 8 2 a oa DON'T know what lesson, if any, is to'be leartied from this. All entertainers can’t be mario nettes any more than all movie stars car be ahi< mated cartoons, all fliers harum-scarum daredevily or all candidates medicine-show artists. But maybe it does mean, in politics anyway, that people would like it better without so many impossible promises of the more abundant life or two chickens in every pot; ‘without so much downright: misrepresentations of the effect of policies and per< formances; without almost cynical protestations that what is being brazenly done under the eyes of SYerYes body really isn’t being done at all. Parts of Mr, O’Daniel’s platform were the Ten: Commandments and the Golden Rule, Some fun: was poked at that. But the truth is that they would. be platform enough for any candidate, i he could: convince voters that he mean; it. Maybe O’Daniel did.

It Seems to Me

By Heywood. Broun

Conservatives Seek to Muddy Eg Waters. in” Most’ of Local. Fights.

N™" YORK, July 29.—The political ‘campaign of 1938 has already reached a point where vot are being asked to decide whether or not a candi was poisoned by drinking ice water in Kentucky. But it may grow even goofier, A Republican up where I live is telling the people in her district ‘that the recent damp spell was caused by the TVA: She says you can’t build big dams like that and not” expect an excessive rainfall Some of these aspects of the current scene are hue morous enough, but the issues at stake are too mos. mentous for laughter. At banquets reactionaries atefond of saying that they welcome a fight along cleans. cut issues. They would have their hearers believe that they eagerly accept the challenge to let the people pass upon the questions of the New Deal. But in most of the local fights it will- be found that the" conservatives seek to muddy the waters and divert: the attention of the voters with extraneous matters. Already some telling victories have been scored by anti-Roosevelt forces without once making an open attack upon the policies of the President. Ty Naturally, I have in mind the tragic circunistances of Maury Maverick’s defeat in the Democratic prie mary in San Antonio. = Possibly “tragic” is too strong ‘a word for Maury is of the sort to meet a reverse with. the question, “When do we fight again?” wp manny Still the advance of liberalism has been impeded, and it is particularly discouraging to have this setback® Bored in the South. I admit a strong faith in the . I. O, and its leadership, and still I do not think. s is sheer partisanship which makes me say here, ii of is the bitter fruit'of the policy of William Green. rs Green has announced an indifference as to a Cone- - gressman’s voting record on labor matters. "If the candidate has manifested any shred of friendliness toyin ee. 1-0. the knife of William Green is out or him.

What Does He Hope to Gain? sian

Outside of a personal and petty revenge:it is diffi=cult to understand just what William Green hopes to gain. If he succeeds in his endeavor he will find’ a _ ‘House which will send him about his business. Gang” enough after it has used his neck for a steppingstone, Is he really willing to sacrifice ‘the rights and tions of all workers for no better price than a

- of his own face? This was the attitude Which he took...

in the San Antonio primary. Maury Maverick was one of the most liberal leads, . ers in Congress, and through his efforts he did .much-: to break the power of the Southern bloc in its effort to. kill the Wage and Hour Bill. 1 ‘doubt very much: - that the rank and file of the American PFederation- - of Labor will consent to follow ‘Mr. Green: to the top ~ of the lonely peak which he purposes to oucHpy. ‘while

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Watching Your Heath : By Dr. Morris Fishbein bo :

ITH the arrival ‘of the hot season, more ant more inquiries are made as fo whether or not" swimming pools, lakes, streams, or rivers are... thoroughly protected against the possibility of. Spreads: oo ing infection, Unfortunately, many are contaminated by domestia”

and ccmmercial waste products, so that they are une -

suitable for swimming purposes. Most frequently” artificial swimming pools are safe since they are une" .

der control. blic pool in the United States" in 1901. Today. thousands

De ich been npioved by om Sidern plumbing, but”

‘others may occasionally be

eS a ate Tangent we made trond” e Wing pools-is the gists. There are, for instance, 200 public swimming ‘pools in Indiana. Among the regulations which are important, and’

‘which jhe user of the pool may check for himself, ‘are

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