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TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, 1938

EAST IS EAST E have heard it said that never what they seem. ; ; : And maybe that explains why, at this particular time, our friends the Japanese have permitted themselves to become embroiled with our friends the Russians. Certainly there is nothing of occidental strategy in such timing. Press dispatches describing activities .in the region where the borders of Korea, Manchukuo and Siberia join, tell of artillery fire, tanks, machine-gunning and airplane bombings. And Army headquarters in Tokyo boast of how Japanese border troops repelled Soviet border troops, and with a shrug cemment that a Russian airplane counterattack was merely a Soviet “face-saving” gesture. We can understand that there may be reasons why, at some distant future date, the Japanese might want to But why now—why give the Russians any excuse for “face-saving” gestures at a time like this? : Why, at a time when, according to Tokyo dispatches, the Japanese Government is .asking manufacturers to shorten match stems to save wood, asking citizens to wear clogs instead of shoes to save leather, trying to tan rat skins as a leather substitute, restricting the use of all things the raw materials of which have to be imported and

paid for abroad? Why, at a time when all this tightening of the belt

is being done to help finance a large segment of the Japanese Army that is already mired in the mud of China? Why, at a time when Great Britain—noted for being cautious and waiting to pick a winner—is negotiating to provide credits of 50 or 60 million dollars to China for “nonmilitary purchases.” It does not appear to be the strategic hour for Japan to seek another enemy to fight. i Yet, maybe things are what they seem. Maybe it is strategy of desperation.

THE DOCTORS IN COURT A GROUP of Government employees in Washington, ~™ D. C. formed a co-operative known as the Group Health Association. By pooling their health risks, and sharing jointly in the employment of physicians and surgeons they have tried to obtain, by collective action, medical services

which as individuals they could not afford. The organized doctors of Washington didn’t like the

in the Orient things are

idea of patients organizing. But now the doctors are on _the defensive. For the antitrust division of the Justice

Department has announced it will place before a grand jury evidence indicating that the American Medical Association and its affiliate, the District Medical Society, have been restraining fair competition in medical practice.

The Justice Department alleges that the organized |

doctors, by threat of expulsion from membership in their medical society, are making it difficult for the organized patients to’ hire competent staff physicians. It charges that the boycott extends even to threatening expulsion of physicians who take part in medical consultations with GHA staff doctors. And it alleges that Washington hos-

pitals are excluding GHA ‘doctors, thereby depriving GHA

patients of the services of the physicians of their choice. We don’t know enough about the antimonopoly laws and the medical laws to say whether such practices as those alleged above are legal or not. But it does seem to us that

Dr. Fishbein, spokesman of the American Medical Associa-

tion, is resorting to the red-herring technique when he charges that submitting this evidence to the grand jury is just a plot by the New Deal. If there is any issue of professional qualifications it is not clear to us, for all the physicians involved in the controversy are of recognized standing—all have been licensed to practice under the laws. If the issue were one of keeping quacks from practicing medicine, we would quickly side with the organized doctors—as we have many times in the past. But that’s not the issue. It seems to us that a much more sensible statement than that of Dr. Fishbein is that made by Dr. Channing Frothingham, president of the Massachusetts Medical Society: ; “Organized medicine is making an awful mistake by not following the trend “of public opinion in medical and hosiptal insurance plans. The trouble is, doctors are independent fellows: and think their rights are being taken away. They can’t see that they'll be benefited. “I'm glad the whole thing is coming out into the open.”

WHY CAN'T WE? AT Evansville, the first automobile death in 89 days has just been recorded. That city’s population is well

over 100,000.

Columbus, O., with 300,000 people, has gone 32 days without a single traffic fatality. Louisville, Ky., about the same size, had, at last reports, escaped automobile deaths for two consecutive months. Nashville, Tenn., population nearly 175,000, has had none for 87 days. Knoxville re-

cently established a record of 89 days with no traffi

deaths among her more than 125,000 people. Splendid records, these. They encourage hope that the menace of death on the streéts can be curbed. What do Evansville, Columbus, Louisville, Nashville, Knoxville have that Indianapolis doesn’t have? If they can go for weeks and months without killing people in traffic, why can’t we? Part of the answer is law enforcement.

N Panama City a large milk products plant, under construction for some time, is ready for operation, says a

report to the U. S. Department of Commerce. But now,

the report adds, the industry confronts a difficulty—lack ~ How quaint !- Imagine a country building a big milk products plant before finding whether there would be milk

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By Rodney Dutcher Bankers Too “Cautious, Says U. S.; U. S. Too Tough, Return Bankers; And Still the Argument Goes On.

NX 7ASHINGTON, Aug. 2—Even Jesse Jones of RFC, locally somewhat notorious for tightfistedness, has come out and criticized bankers—some of them, anyway—for excessive caution in the field of loans to indutsry. Chairman Marriner Eccles of the Federal Reserve Board has been feeling the same way about it, only worse, which is why bank examination rules were slightly relaxed recently. Finally, there is Chairman William O. Douglas of Securities and Exchange Commission, who for months has been preaching against what he says is unnecessary restriction of credit and also urging a new regional industrial banking setup to handle needs:of relatively small local industries. ss 8 = : HE bankers have argued back that nothing of the sort is true, usually asserting—as the Investment Bankers’ Conference, Inc., did recently—that lack of confidence in the political and economic outlook, in--crease of taxes depriving corporations of incentive to expand and-the attitude of the Administration toward employers caused many companies to refuse fo seek new capital. Others suggest that most businessmen still recall the alacrity with which banks called loans in the depression of 1928-33 and that this memory affects their psychology as to borrowing. ; But now Douglas and SEC, in a phase of the monopoly investigation, are going to investigate the causes of credit restriction. And it’s possible to reveal at least one item of square material as they begin— a study of a recent. questionnaire by the Investment Bankers’ Conference from which I. B.C. drew the cone clusion that “there is not now and there has not been during the past two years any substantial lack of new capital available for expansion of sound companies.”

ss = = ANG this dotument apart, SEC found that a questionnaire sent to 4000 U. S. Chamber of Commerce members had been answered by about 800. They noted that although only 25 per cent or less believed there had been a lack of capital for sound ex-

pansion investment, the companies which had actually tried to borrow and thus had best opportunity to know the true situation were divided half and half. : Of 40 companies which tried to get new capital and failed, 34 declared belief capital was lacking in their section. Of 52 which succeeded in borrowing for expansion, 41 expressed an opposite opinion. Yet the results were so adjusted by I. B. C. as to indicate 88 per cent felt there was no lack.

SEC experts believe new capital needs are centered in such districts as Atlanta, Cleveland, Columbus, Los Angeles, Louisville, Nashville and Seattle, rather than in the largest centers.

Business By John T. Flynn

Success of Government's Spending Program Depends Upon Its Speed.

N= YORK, Aug. 2—It is not a very simple matter to spend a billion dollars. And it is more difficult still to spend several times that much. ' But upon the Government’s success in getting its billions actually spent—not just appropriated—will depend the results upon business which it hopes to

‘The Government’s spending program is im three divisions—the WPA, the PWA and the lending activities. ; It's WPA, as was to be expected, has been able to step up expenditures at a lively rate. It has an organization and can put men to work on all sorts of simple projects quickly. ’ But the PWA is much slower. Its funds are spent upon building operations: which take a long time to get under way. There must be plans, approvals of city authorities and then further red tape complied with at every stage of the preliminary -operations. It not infrequently takes a year from the time a blueprint has been prepared to the time when ground is broken. Therefore it is not surprising to find that the sums actually paid out on PWA projects in the same period of 26 days this year is less than last year. The same is true of the lending operations of the Government. These have as yet shown little if any gain over last year. Large grants have been authorized. But the thing that will count in the present economic situation is the flow of actual funds into the stream of business. :

WPA Must Carry Load

1t is, therefore, upon the speed which the Government can put these lending funds and PWA funds into motion that will depend the course and rate of business improvement. This is not reported in criticism of the authorities ‘at Washington. It is literally impossible to make large Government building projects move fast. Even after projects have been approved by the Government and accepted by the states or cities, so much ramains to be done that many months must elapse before construction begins. This is unavoidable. One of the worst things cities and states can do is to rush into construction with half-baked plans. The matter is noticed because of its bearing on future events in the business world. It now seems reasonably sure that no very important section of the PWA sums available -for spending will be laid out in cash before Christmas. Therefore, if Government spending is to produce recovery the brunt of the spending will fall upon the WPA. And there a question arises as to whether that sum is enough to make a very ‘powerful impression.

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

HE average layman holds himself aloof from the controversy about his welfare now raging between the Federal Government and the American Medical Association. : : If he is a middle-class citizen, he considers himself a martyr, and is fond of saying that only the very rich and the very poor receive any consideration from doctors—although I doubt whether he would be willing to exchange places with the poor.

If we are honest, we must admit that our attitude :

toward the doctor has always been irritable and without consistency. We're ready to spend money on everything except our health. ; Most families will make any sacrifice to buy an automobile on the installment plan, while they feel much aggrieved if they have to invest monthly sums to pay for medical attention which may have kept one of them out of the grave. No, friends, there’s no excusing ourselves. If we had always paid the doctor as willingly and "as promptly as we pay the dressmaker, and the garage-

men, some of our medical problems wouldn't be .

haunting us how. ; A woman I know expressed what I mean when she said: ~ : iid “I was good and mad when the bill for my operation came—$250. It seemed preposterous. I couldn't: put all that down in ‘a lump sum, so I resorted to installments. :

“As time passed I felt better and better, more |

like my old self and then one day as I was writing the check the thought struck—No money can ever really pay for what the doctor has done for me.

. He has created a new well woman out of the old

wornout_sick me. He’s made me feel a zest for life again. He's separated me from “HE :

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LS . ? i ® : The Hoosier Forum I wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

HOPES WILLIS SPEECH RECEIVES WIDE PUBLICITY By Warren A. Benediet Jr. Candidate Willis waxes eloquent ‘over the blessings of the Constitution, according to your news item. Note: “The Constitution gives me the undisputed to a place I may my own, my home.” - But how about those hundreds of thousands who, through no fault of their own, lost such a place during the Great Depression? “In the bosom of my family, we can speak our most sacred confidences.” And, you should add, fears of economic insecurity. “This Constitution has given me the opportunity of establishing a business according to my choice.

-| No government can tell me... what

I must follow, or limit my initiative and ambitions in any way.” - Oh, sure. Just the same opportunity to start a bank, or a steel company, or an independent store there was 50 years ago. “I am glad for some of the things the Constitution omitted. Nowhere

| will you find any authority for the

Federal Government to. assume responsibility for the education of our

‘children. For that we should be

grateful to Almighty God.” More education for the masses isn’t popular with - your backers, eh, Mr. Willis? I am glad that speech was printed. I hope it receives wide publicity. I am sure it will be inspiring to WPA workers and others sinful enough not to be born rich or fortunate. :

2 ® 2 SAYS ARTIFICIAL SCHEMES OF NEW DEAL HAVE FAILED By E. B. Swinney’

Since the New Deal recovery program is so contrary to all natural economic laws its failure is assured in advance; in fact, none of its artificial schemes have succeeded since it was’ started in 1933, as there are still 12 million unemployed and the outlook is no brighter than it was then, The spending and lending program is a mere palliative, and good for the impoverished only so long as the money holds out. Spending as a prosperity booster is all the bunk. Wealth must be created before it can be spent, yet the wiseacres who are running the show in Washington are paying ‘out millions for throttling production. And the Farm Bill with its automatic push buttons is impractical and unworkable. How much more sensible it would the cause of these re-

be to re c g economic storms. enry George hit the source of

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

economic troubles in an iniquitous land policy that permits monopoly of the natural resources, which bottles up employment opportunities, causing low wages, poverty and allthe ills that flow from it. .

But since this means bitter opposition by the land grafters and the arousing of public sentiment, we shall probably have fo suffer a lot more. - But the day will come when the name of Henry George ‘will become a synonym for economic freedom as Lincoln's has against chattel slavery. 2 = x COMES TO DEFENSE OF STEAM TRAIN ‘By a Railroad Fan

There is much ballyhoo that the Diesel train is overshadowing the steam train.

A Diesel electric costs much more than a steam locomotive of the same horsepower. It has to run 100,000 miles before it can equal the economy of a steam train. The latest steam engine that has been proven as to its mechanical principles and efficiency is the B. & O 16-cylinder constant torque

MY HEART

By PEGGY ANN COOK Like ships that toss in the stormy : sea, My heart was restless, too; I'd seek awhile for lasting love, But never contentment knew;

Until one eve, a wind by chance. Swept my life into your path, And I felt secure; content at last, Safe from the ocean’s wrath!

Let’s never let a wind or wave Part us, now that I've docked; For you alone my heart may own; I have it securely locked!

"DAILY “THOUGHT

Return, O Lord, deliver my soul: oh save me for thy mercies’ sake.—Psalms 6:4.

HERE is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time, and all things in succession. That which grows slowly endures.—J. G. Holland.

drive engine. This is really a radical departure from the conventional type engine. It is. rated at 5000 horsepower, capable of handling 14 standard steel coaches at 100 miles and hour and at the same time running as smoothly as an electric engine. i= ‘The Pennsylvania Railroad is building or has a new high-powered steam engine of four cylinders, with two sets of driving wheels. Both these locomotives are streamlined. The steam engine is returning bigger and more powerful.

: 2 2 ® SAYS SUCCESSFUL SALESMAN MUST DELIVER GOODS By H. B. His Showmanship, in any form, gets

results for its user. W. Lee O’Daniel, |

a flour merchant in Texas, adver-

a hillbilly program. The thought must have come to Mr. O’'Daniel,

“If a hillbilly show can sell my

| flour, why can’t it sell me into the

-Governor’s chair?” With that, he began a unique political campaign— and, wonder of wonders, it appears that he will be successful. : Radio “buildups” help sell personalities io the listening public, but once a person “arrives” it does not mean that he will remain on top. Merit then becomes a necessity. Showmanship may get you where you want to go, but in the long run you must deliver. ® 8 = READER LIKED MILLER’S ARTICLES ON SWEDEN By E. J. M. . - Thank you for publishing Webb Miller's timely series of articles on conditions in Sweden. The gracious visit of Swedish royalty in connection with the tercentenary celebration of the landing of the first Swedish settlers in this country has brought Sweden to the front pages of our newspapers. While we might be guilty of “romanticizing” Sweden (according to & Swedish economist) Mr. Webb Miller has enlightened us on Swedish prosperity, her labor system and method in strikes.

8 » » SAYS WALL STREET SEES WORKING MAN AS FOOL By Earl Boyd

Wake up; working people! As long as you allow your representatives to

Government, you all will remain slaves, because Wall Street is or-

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Finding in Giffen Case Is Another Example of the Shortcomings of The Army's Court-Martial System.

ETHANY BEACH, Del, Aug. 2.—Like the trial of 57 Col. Oberlin Carter 40 years earlier, the courte martial of Col. Giffen reflects no credit on the Army court system. Giffen was charged with “conduct une ‘becoming an officer and 8s gentleman”—specifying that he “maliciously knocked the hat off Joseph Curran—drunken brawl,” etc. He was not found guilty of “conduct unbecoming a gentleman,” but only of “conduct to the prejudice of good order.” Instead of “maliciously knocking” said hat off, he was only guilty of wrongfully taking it off. To civilians these distinctions will seem silly. Yet in military law, they are significant. Conviction of “conduct unbecoming a gentleman,” leaves no discretion in the court—only mandatory death sentence to honor. ‘Conviction of “conduct to the prejudice,” is less important. ; » ” 2

principal part of any Army officer's frugal compensation is the retirement privilege. Giffen could have lost his lifetime earnings in the twinkling of an eye. Was a particular bit of rough-house (off duty and not in uniform) “wrongfully taking a hat off” or “maliciously knocking it off?” Did this buffoonery constitute “conduct unbecoming” or “conduct to the prejudice?” One decision could mean the ruin of a life and a family—the other a slap on the wrist— either on exactly the same set of facts. It is a device that makes it possible to “get” any denizen of the dog-house of official displeasure. As I said in an earlier column on courts-martial, injustice ‘through such devices rarely appears. But that isn’ the point. The point is that such injustice is possible. : This was shown to be a suit on flimsy pretext. Some of the evidence was faked and contradicted. Plainly the court-martial system was permitted to be used to advance a private end and vent a private grudge. Such a case should never have been per mitted to go to trial. It was clearly sloppy, careless and incompetent pretrial investigation. But the courte martial | lise fumbled as badly as the staff judgeadvocate.

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: . » 2 # HE finding of a “less included offense” in cire cumstances as muddy as these is an example of another shortcoming of the court-martial system. Courts-martial are not composed of judges, but only of officers temporarily assigned who act as both judge and jury—and then go back to their military responsibility to higher authority. When they get charges approved by the commanding general, they dont like to “let the old man completely down.” Giffen should have been instantly and indignantly acquitied instead of having his long record smirched with this “slap on the wrist” to save somebody's face. Fumbling about in the indignation which most commentators have felt, it has been stated that many Army officers drink. Formerly yes—perhaps. Now, in the critical world situation, the profession so seri= ously regards itself that in few classes are there more abstainers. x : Somebody slipped in this corps area and this court= martial did more to “discredit the service” than Giffen. Just wait until the cool practical intelligences of the present Judge Advocate General and Chief of Staff have a crack at it. Somebody’s ears will bt and they won't be Giffen’s. . : LR ail

lt Seems to Me By Heywood Broun

Clergy's Backing for Open Shop Apparently Sought in Youngstown.

EW YORK, Aug. 2.—Marc Blitzstein wrote a play last season called “The Cradle Will Rock.” It was about a place called Steeltown, and the manner in which the executives ‘of a big corporation endeave ored to control the thought of the community by put ting pressure upon the newspapers, the schools and the ministers of the town. The play had a moderate run and excellent notices, but most of the critics spoke of the episodes as being broadly and bitterly satirical in their nature. But some of the testimony given before the La Follette Committee makes “The Cradle Will Rock® seerh not only factual but almost mild in its indicte ment. Mister Mister, the industrial leader in the play, was content to use a single minister as the spokesman for company propaganda against the unior. . According to the testimony of the Rev. Orville C. Jones an effort was made to enlist the entire clergy of Youngstown as proponents of the open shop. There was, to be sure, dispute among the opposing witnesses as to whether the company used coercion, but ne denial of the fact that the Sheet and Tube Co. gave ‘a little dinner to 30 members of the local Ministerial Association, and that W. B. Gillies, the company’s operating vice president, made a little speech. Mr. Gillies had denied that he exerted pressure. According to a news report he “declared that it was beneath him to coerce the clergymen.” Dr. Jones voiced some objections to the theories expounded by the representatives of the plant management, and Dr. Jones hasn't got a pulpit any more. Of course, that may be sheer coincidence.

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I haven't the slightest doubt that W. B. Gillies, the company’s operating vice president, was scrupus lously truthful when he said that he used no threats at the little dinner, and that it would be beneath him to attempt to coerce clergymen. : I assume that the feast of reason was a simple repast, and that the suggestions made by the spokes man for Sheet and Tube were couched in the friendliest way imaginable. And doubtless Mr. Gillies bowed his head as any man when he called upon Brother Doe to ask the blessing. His speech came after thanks had been given for the blessings about to be received. And before he spoke it is possible that the propagandist for sanctity and truth and Sheet and Tube took up a piece of bread and a knife. And it is just barely conceivable that some of the local clergymen may have noticed on which side he spread the butter. ne

Watching Your Health By Dr. Morris Fishbein : ! AMIN ‘A has already been mentioned frequently V in these columns as one of the most necessary substances in the human diet. It has also been pointed out frequently that few people need to take extra Vitamin A because this vitamin is widely distributed in many common food substances. io * The plants with thin green leaves are among the. best sources of Vitamin A. Thus it is reported that. the outer green leaves of iceberg lett: hich are c 1 7 ¢ dk fo 3 : ; : the consumer, have been shown to be from 30 to 40 |