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SATURDAY, JULY 30, 1938

HENRY FORD AT wo

JOT far from River Rouge, where sprawls our vastest

evidence of 20th Century industrialism, a son named Henry was born 75 years ago ta Mary, the wife of an Irish immigrant named William Ford. In that three-quarters of a century’ no man has wrought a greater change in the physical fabric of America, or in its folkways, than has Henry Ford. He found a horse-and-buggy world, and mechanized it. In a sense, every crossroads filling station and every hard-surfaced highway is a tribute to the lean gray man who is being honored today at Detroit—which city is itself a monument to him. There are those who think Mr. Ford's social and political philosophy has not kept pace with his progress across mechanical and industrial frontiers. Critics of his labor policy call it a survival of the very horse-and-buggy age which, in its tangible aspects, was liquidated largely by his own ingenuity and daring. But his stubbornness on such matters as NRA and the Wagner Labor Relations Act is likely, over the long haul, to be recorded as a. fleeting phase. Indeed, his defiance of NRA is already a rusty memory, and so, too, in a few years may be his resistance to collective bargaining and his reliance on the “labor relations” technique of strong-arm squads. Those things will pass. But not the story of the $28,000 investment that became an empire of machinery turning out, at its peak, 10,000 cars a day. Nor of the man who could look at such a plant and say, “Industry as yet is in a crude stage.” Nor of the revolutionary $5-a-day minimum wage for all hands, which brought down upon Mr. Ford’s head in 1914 the angry cry of “Socialist!” Henry Ford is a rugged individualist. His company— which means himself—usually has about half a billion dollars in surplus and reserves. Seventeen years ago, when he was pressed for money and Wall Street offered to help. oyt— in return for a voice in the management—his reply was: “Git!” In politics he has picked men rather than parties; he indorsed four Presidential candidates—Wilson, Hoover, Coolidge and Landon. Americans have been proud of Mr. Ford for a long time; they have poked a little fun at him sometimes, it is true, and fumed at various of his policies. But we think the rest of the country joins us in hoping that he will round out the fourth quarter-century which he starts today.

“LAW ENFORCEMENT” T'S becoming a habit with Municipal Judges Pro Tem. to

show undue leniency with defendants in traffic cases. ' We 2

had our latest example yesterday when Judge Pro Tem. Bess Robbins fined only two of 28 motorists charged with‘improper parking a total of $4. These 23 had been arrested on affidavits after ignoring stickers and warnings. ~ Judge Robbins said, however, the sticker cases were

decided on the merits of each. “Some said they hadn't received the stickers,” she said, “and there was no proof they had.” Maybe so. And maybe it would have been better just to dismiss all 23 cases. But a traffic problem as serious as ours can’t be solved with this kind of so-called law enforcement.

‘CLIPPER FLYING

T was only two years ago, October next, that regular air passenger service was started over the Pacific. Seo smoothly and so safely did the schedule run that riding a Clipper became routine. Thus does the sensational of yesterday become the commonplace of today. : Now the Hawaii Clipper is missing—the first bad news.

‘to mar an otherwise perfect trans-Pacific passenger flying ‘record, covering nearly 15 million passenger miles on a

span over three times the distance of an Atlantic crossing. If disaster has overtaken the Hawaii Clipper it will be the first time that a passenger has been injured in a flying accident in a Pan-American Airways ship in the eight years of that company’s operation over international routes. During that time nearly 750,000 passengers have been flown 250 million passenger miles. The safety record has been a remarkable one and should not be forgotten at a time when

“trouble comes.

WINROD ITHOUT radio, the Rev. Gerald B. Winrod probably would be a sensational but relatively obscure preacher in Wichita, Kas., instead of a dangerous—and we mean dangerous—contender for a seat in the United States Senate,

Broadcasting weekly over two Kansas stations and"

publishing a monthly magazine, Winrod has made him-

self, for the moment at least, the most conspicuous political

figure in that state. He has done that by vicious appeals to the ugliest prejudices and passions in American life.

He is a baiter of Catholics, Jews and Negroes, His

- mentality, as he exposes it, is the mentality of the Ku-Klux

Klan at its worst. His opponents charge that he receives campaign funds from Nazi Germany. As to the truth of this charge, we know nothing. But we know that he is a man after Hitler's own heart. And Winrod is seeking the Republican nomination for the Senate. America guarantees freedom of press and: speech to its citizens—even to citizens like Winrod, whose press pours forth intolerance and whose voice, magnified by the radio, arouses hatred and fear over an entire state and far beyond its borders. In these times, when the voices of demazons and charlatans can be so magnified, it is more important than

ever before that those who believe in tolerance, in decency, in honor, should stand boldly for their principles.

We are glad that Willian Allen White is leading a fight against Winrod; that John D. M. Hamilton, chairman of

‘the Republican National Committee has spoken out against | - . Winrod; that many leading Protestant ministers of Wichita | and Kansas have warned their people against Winrod, =~ ~~. Andiwe hape that the Republican voters of Kansas will | 80 to the polls next Tuesday gud defeat Winrod, ~~

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air Enough By Westbrook Pegler

His. Tomcat Way of Fighting onk

Spanish Rebels and the Japanese to Does citi, Hiling women sad chiliren 1a the yeoests. ot

ican aviation will do the same thing. - “The planes will bomb the enemy's towns without ‘regard for: the

stegples off churches Jvesiooking whe Se because the enemy will be a: hypocritical lot who will not fail to use the:

steeples, too, and that will be desecration, bécause oyr soldiers, of course, will have piously refrained rom posting observers in them. Our aviation will not start the game of bombarding civilian populations. The enemy will start that. He will bombard New York or San Francisco, perhaps, claiming that these are military objectives merely because they contain valuable ships, docks, muni plants and military stores and factories. In aiming at these things and the big bridges and water works and power plants he will scatter his bombs over wide areas from greaf heights. The slaughter will be awful, and we will know very well that he is using the military objectives as an excuse for his barbarism.

is a great burden on a Government which is trying to fight a war in the field and confine the brutality to soldiers. Afid attacks on the noncombatants

draw planes and men from the war zone to defend ‘the people. When the enemy does that to us he will have an advantage unless we do the same to him. We will bomb hospitals occasionally, too, but only because the enemy, with his cynical and inhuman cunning, will spot them close by his dumps of am- . munition, forage and gasoline or right alongside his important railroad junctions. He will do this deliberately in order to put us on a spot, knowing that it will be impossible to shoot at these legitimate targets without hitting his sick and wounded.

ELL, he just can’t get away with that, and if he is so vicious as to da this, then the best thing to do will be to: fight his tomcat style in the belief that the only way to minimize and end the suffering is to give him the works at every opportunity. He will attack our hospitals, too, especially the big ones on the Hudson and East Rivers or close by the rivers in New York City, but he will be cunning enough to claim that he was aiming at big ships loading troops and military stores along the, docks. That will be too thin for belief, but we will call him a liar, pointing out that these hospitals are not that close to the important docks. Buf then he will say that -the intensity of our antiaircraft fire kept his ships so high that they had to sacrifice accuracy for safety. He will say that it is up to us to move the hospitals, abandon the docks or ease up on the antiaircraft fire. In a fight with such an enemy a decent nation is hopelessly handicapped in attempting to observe the niceties of war. The sooner he is crushed the better and he, the monster, will be telling the poor dupes of his population the same about us.

Business By John T. Flynn

Depression Victims Still Look to Economic ‘Witch Doctors’ for Cure.

EW YORK, July 30.—~When a man is ill he looks for a doctor. Once upon a time he sought out the witch doctor who cast out the demons from him. Now he hurries to a physician who understands the

human body. But if the physician is honest he also understands his own limitations. He knows there are diseases for which he has no drugs and no cure. In the presence of those diseases science and knowledge stand helpless. Its only path is the path of research and dis-. covery. But reSearch and discovery are long. And there are men who are ill and demand remedies. They do not’ want physicians who have to admit they have no cures. They want doctors who ‘insist-that they do have cures. And these doctors of course are quacks, And so it falls out that even after all our scientific advances, even at this distance from the jungle, men with incurable diseases hunt for witch doctors. It is se in the case of our great economic diseases —our ‘greatest economic disease, depression and poverty. For these dread maladies science has not yet found a cure. It is too bad, but it is a fact. The honest economist is compelled to admit this. But there are men who claim to know the cure: Usually they are country dentists, flour salesmen, itinerant preachers, country lawyers and politicians. They are profoundly ignorant of the immense science in which they pretend to spechlize. But they advertise their nostrums with an assurance of results. And the poor who are tortured by poverty, the worker who is wasted by unemployment, even the little businessman who sees his life’s efforts erumbling away, listen to him because he promises what the informed student cannot promise. .

A New Crop Appears $ .

This is the explanation of the strange collection of men who fiourished from 1931 to 1936. It is the explanation of the new crop which now makes its appearance. That is why a man with a hillbilly band and the Ten Commandments as. his platform and $30 a week for all over 60 can run away with an election in Texas. That is why a preacher with a platform of damnation for Catholics, Jews and Negroes can threaten the Republican ticket in Kansas. One of these days men will understand the depression germ and the world will accept the theory. But until that time, as depressions become a more widespread and durable phen on, it looks as if we are in for a long period leadership at the hands of third-rate men.

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs, Walter Ferguson

™ going to have = bahy. Now I can really scoot out from under all my responsibilities.” Unless you know Dorothy and her conscience, you will not understand the implications behind her joyful exclamation. She's much more than a brilliant young matron——she’s a local institution. And, being a nat-ural-born. executive and leader, she is plways up to her neck in civic and club enterprises. When the Chamber of Commerce needs someone to do & quick job of rounding up the feminine workers, “it calls Dorothy in. Every time her church puts on ®& drive, or one of her clubs sells tickets for an en-

asset and that her husband's a. sweet - put up with her, And now, just when she'd have to face the music by refusing the goat any longer, along comes he J Mr. Stork and Dorothy's reputation She now retires, Basking in the

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YORK, July 30.—Barbarous 1 may bo of the United States ever gets into another war ny

civilians, and the artillery will’ shell any objectives os within range whose destruction seems to be worth the | price of the ammunition. The axillary will Xnook the |

BLEEDING and demoralized civilian population

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

CLAIMS LIQUOR DEALERS HAVE UNFAIR COMPETITION By Licensed Retailer

State retail liquor dealers are overburdened with a license fee in excess of $1000 and still we have to obey the closing laws and adhere strictly to the code while some roadhouses run all hours of day and night and have all kinds of gambling, including roulette, dice games and other forms of gambling. Should they be allowed to serve drinks and pay no license? Well, they do and the law officers never try to stop them. Is this fair competition to a licensed retailer? Investigate and learn if this situation does not exist. 2 8 8 CORN BELT LIBERTY LEAGUE MEETING KEVIEWED By G. L.

We drove into Noblesville to attend the recent meeting of the Corn Belt Liberty League. The courtroom was well filled and the meeting got under way with the chairman of the club introducing the speakers, a lawyer and a minister

‘from near Kokomo.

The audience at this meeting was subjected to one and a half or two hours of the most absurd speechmaking anyone ever heard. Not a single issue was honestly given. One third of the crowd seemed to be in sympathy with the speakers, but the Oifser iwo-thirds were simply boilg. Ai the close of the meeting a gentleman from Tipton County asked for one and a half minutes and succeeded in stating that he was a dirt farmer and challenged the speakers to come into his. county. He offered to debate with them each issue and stated that there was only one compulsory item in

reason they had no

from the New Dealers Proke up the Tieeuing in- a riot. away without comment and were. glad to be on their way. All in all, this 8, Was an outstanding meeting of the Corn Belt Liberty League, : FE) 2 EXPRESSES BELIEF IN NONRESISTANCE By Hiram Lackey ; During the last week The Times and a military leader have attacked the wisdom of nonresistance. The Times would have us believe that the man who also gives his cloak

bad citizen deserving the Santempt of his fellow: Americans. If our material welfare were the most important of all considerations, the editor would be correct. Surely | / the experience of this generation |’ indicates that our material well-

the -whole AAA law and for that to stand on. Af this moment cheers]:

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(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.)

being, as a nation, depends on our spiritual well-being, Surely our editor and military leader cannot deny that our highest spiritual authority both taught and practiced physical nonresistance.

a materialistic life. We are citizens of a pagan nation. We are caught in the web of materialism. But this is na excuse for intellectual dishonesty. There is no excuse for our throwing away the one clean weapon with which: we can fight for a higher and Diner life.

® = SEES IMPORTANCE IN POINTS CITED BY LEWIS

By H. A. 0. Remember the three tremendously important points, cited by Jorn L. Lewis. They are: 1. That- freedom of the press 1s not a special privilege for owners of newspapers and magazines, but ya right extended to the humblest citizen. 2. That includes even the right fo express distorted and prejudiced views, 3. That those who want freedom

WHEN DADDY SHAVES . By DOROTHY BUERGER I lay my dally down to. sleep, I put away my broom, : ‘Cause 1 know . Daddy's going to shave . . . He's in our powder-room!

And then like that—the fun begins, Dad strikes a comic pose As he Fass those whiskers, stroke

stroke, With “aetours ‘round his nose!

with joy and clap my hands, “Oh, Dad, you smell so sweet.” "Tis then he takes the brush and . draws oi A mustache on my cheek! But goodness me, this joy iS gone (With the wind, grown-ups would

say), A lectrie razor Dad has bought To whisk his beard away!

DAILY THOUGHT

To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord approveth not.—Lamentations 3:36.

0 will what God God doth will, that is the only science Sat gives

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to express their own views and opinions should defend the right of others to express contrary opinions. 2 x =» JAPAN HELD APT PUPIL OF WEST By H. Ww.

The statement by Prince Konoye that Japan isn’t really fighting the Chinese people, in my opinion, has been wrongly criticized by. the press. Two decades ago.some nations declared that they. were only fighting the Kaiser and not the German people, and in doing so. they starved to death innocent women and children. It is amazing, how fast Japan adopts our Western civilization,

. » » RESIDENT OPPOSED TO CIVIC AFFAIR By a Resident The folks in the vicinity of the 4400 block E. 10th St. are just recovering from the annual Mardi Gras of the Sherman-Emerson Civic

League. Residents are cleaning up beer and pop bottles, working on trampled lawns and broken shrubbery and catching up on sleep lost for five nights. I as a resident of this commu-~ nity and a pro y. owner would bear up with this if anyone can show ‘me wherein it is for the civic good. If not, let the City Fathers send it to the outskirts of -the city. F . = = NOTHING LIKE SCHOOL OF HARD KNOCKS, READER SAYS By B. C. Preparation-for-marriage courses are sprouting on every academic bush these days, but one old-fash-ioned method of set{ling things in advance goes on forever, It's simply taking the girl out to dance. According to Leo Reisman, whq has been playing dance music iS Jong enough to know what he’s Slking about, third-degreeing a martia prospect is the chief reason most people embark on the dance floor. “Of course there are a few people. who dance because they like the rhythm,” he remarks in an in. terview, “but mostly they're more interested ' in learning. about their partners than about new steps.” And, boys, in case you don't know it, there are few better ways of getting genuinely acquainted than taking a swing or two around the floor. Then ask yourself afterward: Did ‘she like the easy-going music, or was she wild? Did she try to do the leading? Was her gancing extravagant, or economijcal? What was she doing over your shoulder? That gives you the idea. There's nothing like the school of hard

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LETS EXPLORE YOUR MIND

ey oR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM

ACCORDING to the “Lie Detector,” which registers very slight changes in heart beat, breathing and blood pressure, women are much more prone to tell social liess-lies about dates, prais-

R | | ing the other girl's frocks as being | | pretty, ete, than are men. These

results have been obtained by Willism M. Marston, psychologist, one

[ot the inventors of the device.

What Will Be a Bigger Share Than - Belongs to Either Capital or Labor.

ETHANY BEACH, Del, July 30.~The tax element

in the cost of articles of common consumption shirts, furniture, bread, automobiles—is already 20 per cent of the refail price. It is botind to increase as

spending continues and debts and deficits rise.

In many important lines of manufacture the tax payments are greater than the dividend payments, and in some they Spproash the amount of money paid to direct labor. Much of the tax element in cost is different from the labor or profit element. A company can run without profits for years. When times are bad and business declines, labor wages tend downward—or at least they used to do that. Even the new “floor une der wages” will not prevent that altogether, because it applies only to the lowest rate for unskilled labor, But taxes are fixed by law. The tax rate rarely goes own. Labor rates though not so rigid, through collective bargaining, unionization and minimum wage laws, tend to become more and more inflexible. ¥ * » ” r you apie clear back to sources of raw materials, the bulk of material costs is made up of labor costs. With tax rates firmly fixed by law and rapidly increasing and labor rates tending to make inflexible other elements of cost, two results are being produced. First, the cost of everything we consume is going up. Second, that cost tends to become rigidly rozen. If this tendency continues, the only flexible ele ment in cost will be the profit element. But in the great mass-production industries the percentage of price that goes for profit is relatively small. Recent increases in tax and labor. elements are greatér than the whole profit element in the rosiest of times. We are headed toward price freezing on a cone stantly increasing schedule. Price inflexibility, especially on high levels, prevents natural economic forces from restoring prosperity in times of depression. : The only way to restore a stagnant market is to lower prices to a point where people with reduced incomes can buy again. » » » HE favorite dragon for political heroes to kil} is monopoly. Their battle slogan is that it prevents prosperity by high and inflexible prices. As the

Brookings Institution has pointed out, there are very

few industrial combinations with power to do that anymore. But the utmost of any power they ever had to do it: was negligible compared with the resistless certainty of the trends here discussed This Administration, through the. O'Mahoney Committee, is about to stage a witch hunt—and no matter what is said, .witch hunt it will be—to find the .cule prits in business who are responsible for high ine ‘flexible prices. Maybe there are some but, compared with the effect of the debt, spending and taxation policies of Government itself to cause this prose perity-preventing trend, they are relatively as ine effectual as children in a kindergarten. Government has horned in at the table between capital and labor and taken for its own extravagance what soon will be a larger share than belongs to either. That extra share will be paid for by everyone who eats, wears clothes and lives under a roof,

lt Seems to Me By Heywood Broun

Heedless Words of a Small Child Sometimes Jam Up Best of Parties.

(GTAMFORD, Conn., July 30.—One of those infant prodigy preachers is scheduled to deliver a sermon hereabouts next week. I hope that multitudes of us religious-minded folk will stay away in droves. Child labor is just as out of place in the pulpit as any

where else. A recent picture of a tiny tot performing a marriage ceremony for two smirking adults seemed: fo

me just about as noxious an exhibit as I have seen °

in the news of late. If I speak with warmth, it may be that I have been frightened by a story told by a neighboring dominie in his sermon of last Sunday. : “I once heard one of the most famous reform workers of New York tell how she came to charitable work and why she gave up low-cut dresses,” began the minister and proceeded to relate the following shocking episode: “Sister Jane Doe, as I shall call her, was ready to start for the theater one night in what was termed a ‘fashionable dress’ I may say that the devil himself animated whatever seamstress designed that gown. Sister Doe’s little boy, a manly lad of 5, said to her, ‘Mummy, you are not going out that way? You are not dressed.’ There were tears in his voice, but his mother paid no heed. But when she got to the theater she could not forget that childish voice. What the actors said was lost upon her, for always she heard in her ear, ‘Not dressed! Not dressed! Not dressed!’ .

Parents Must Take Firm Stand

“At last a blush of shame mantled to her cheeks, She drew her cloak abcut her and went home, dressed for the last time in such a costume! If I gave you Sister Doe’s real name you would recognize it, for since that time she has saved many souls in Newport, East Hampton and even in Saratoga.” And all this goes to show how the heedless words of a small child can sometimes just jam up and ruin the best of parties, Little boys and little girls should not he permitted to preach either in public or in vate. nls must take a firm stand in their freedom or they will be completely dominated by the whims of their own offspring. So pay no attention to any repioach or exhortation which comes to you in a childish treble. I certainly do not purpose to come home in my cloak from any show with my

whole evening loused up because the sweet voice of -

‘some little one hastbeen whispering in my ear, Nn shaved! Not shaved! Not shaved!” :

Watching Your Health

By Dr. Morris Fishbein pide)

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DR. GOODWIN WATSON, Co- mr ‘lumbia psychologist, has been ?

‘echnical methods and finds that | | during ordinary times the vast | majority of people are conservative -| middle-of-the-roaders. But the mo- : mang some big questioh comes up-- a a Prohibition, the |

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