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- MONDAY, AUGUST 8, 1938

THE RESULT IN KENTUCKY TF Chandler had won it would have been a terrific blow to the political prestige of the New Deal. In ratio, therefore, is the defeat of Chandler to be interpreted as a New Deal triumph. Future historians, while they may ignore the Wearins and the Thomases and the more minor wins and losses of the vital summer of 1938, will record the Barkley-Chandler ~ primary as a milestone, The contest was marred by shameless evidence of campaign pressure with public money. In their zeal to win, both candidates at the eleventh hour’threw off all pretense and: vied with each other in promising Federal funds in

return for support. - . That was bound to befoul whoever won, and will stand

as a liability in the years to come against the careers of two highly ambitious politicians. But, while two wrongs don’t make a right, Barkley came out in front, and, in politics, a victor, though tarnished in the process, is victor nevertheless. So, net, the New Deal is the gainer. We hope, though, that President Roosevelt will sense the potential dangers to his own larger cause that inhere in the kind of campaigning which brought his majority leader in ahead. Barkley could have won without it. And we believe that a continuance of that sort of thing will eventually touch off a revolt from the long-suffering taxpayer that will jeopardize the New Deal and all it stands for. Mr. Roosevelt could call a stop. And if he did, believe ‘us, he'd be listened to: He doesn’t need to countenance even by silence that kind of politics. Instead, by personal condemnation, he could tremendously strengthen the program to which his life is dedicated and throw the onus of porkbarrel electioneering on the opponents who dare indulge in it. Victories then would not only be cleaner—they’'d be

bigger.

PROTECTING SOCIAL SECURITY : AND speaking of doing something to keep politics from } wrecking objectives, we like the way Chairman Arthur © 3. Altmeyer of the Federal Security Board has cracked ~ «down on Governor Davey of Ohio. The Govérnor and his state pension director, it seems, having been caught red-handed sending out vote-for-Davey solicitations along with the pension checks in envelopes ‘addressed td the indigent aged of Ohio. That is contrary to both the letter and spirit of the social security laws.. The Board alse is investigating complaints of padding: of Ohio’s pension rolls. And Mr. Davey and his subordinates will be required to show cause why their al‘leged mismanagement does not justify the Federal Government in discontinuing its contributions. Governor Davey, as was: to be expected, has charged that Mr. Altmeyer and the Federal Board are trying to embarrass him politically. The truth is, however, that Mr. Davey’s own actions are the cause of his political embarrassment. The record does not sustain counter charges of politics leveled against Mr. Altmeyer and the Board. They are merely enforcing the same no-politics, nocorruption rules which they enforced last summer when they cut off Federal grants. to Illinois until the state's officials had cleaned their mess, and which they applied more recently in the case of the Oklahoma pension scandals. The Governors of Illinois and Oklahoma were just as much proNew Deal as Governor Davey is anti-New Deal. Mr. Altmeyer and his fellow board members. in Washington seem to have a healthy disregard of where the chips fall. When they move in on a bad situation it is with none of the tongue-in-the-cheek-attitude that has of late characterized the outgivings of WPA Administrator Harry Hopkins and others on the subject of politics in relief. Chairman Altmeyer and his colleagues on the Federal Board apparently are not losing sight of the social security program’s long-range objectives. The most pressing immediate problem of this Federal-state system is to provide gift pensions to persons who already have grewn old without means of self-support. But it is building toward a day when elderly men and women can claim these pension checks not as gifts based on need but as old-age annuities paid for over the years by insurance tax premiums, and due to them as a matter of right. Obviously spoils, graft, partisanship and favoritism cannot be tolerated in such a program, designed as it is to continue for all time and through innumerable changes in Federal and state administrations. Congress wrote laws to safeguard the program against such corrupting abuses. Chairman Altmeyer wisely is trying to enforce the laws, lest the abuses wreck the objectives.

MISS E. KATE WENTZ Mss E. KATE WENTZ, who died Saturday, possessed all the qualities of an outstanding teacher. Not only did she have a thorough knowledge of mathematics, the subject she taught, but she was able to win the admiration and love of her pupils. The fact that many students kept in contact with her long after their graduation was evidence of their feeling for her. Joining the staff of Manual Training High School when it was. opened in 1895, Miss Wentz became head of the ‘mathematics department in 1904. She held that post until she retired in 1981. Previously she had studied at Purdue and Cornell Universities. The high praise she received for a career devoted to public service is well-deserved.

FRANKENSTEIN’S AFTER US

HE hazards of life in the machine age increase daily. Jean Kinder, 12, of Rochester, Ind., bending over to close the front of her blouse, caught her lip in the fastener ind had to be rescued-by a doctor.

Allen Hilton, 20, of Salt Lake City, arrested for driv-

) miles an hour, explained to hat he

Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

"Under Army Regulations an Officer | Who, Does His Duty Is a Cad and | , One Who Doesn't Is. a Gentleman. |

EW YORK, Aug. 8—In the recent court-martial

of: Lieut. Col. Stewart 8, Giffin, on charges of

drunkeriness and unbecoming conduct; the complains |<

ing witness, Lieut James O. Smith Jr. of the reserve, admitted that he had demanded money from the

Colonel and that when the demand was refused

he said, “I am going to get you” He also testified

that if the Colonel had given him a couple of bucks

he probably would not have made any complaint,

Webster's New International Dictionary defines |

blackmail thus: “To extort money by intimidation, especially by exposure to public accusation, censure or disgrace.” : fren : Col. Giffin refused to hand over money to Smith, and he was actually 1

smudge on his record which w R he given Lieut. Smith'“a couple of bucks.” . 8 =

S means that under the present hypocritical

A code by which Army officers live all officers in |

the various services are barnyard ducks for blackmailers if they take a few drinks on their own time and that the service courts stand ready to serve the malice and cupidity of personal enemies. In any company of drinkers there are sure to be a few who will slop over on Saturday nights or other occasions, always with this. result—that their companions in the service set who see them obviously tight must shirk their duty or violate the first principle of decent social conduct by turning them in, _ : Fortunately for the self-respect of the corps they rarely flle charges, but it is not a fair code which compels a man to choose whether he will play the snitch or violate his oath out of & decent respect for the opinions of mankind.

the days of national prohibition their case was ]

N I even worse. Officers drank, but in doing so they violated not only the rules but the United States Constitution, which they had solemnly sworn to uphold, Nevertheless, even at West Point in those days, the commissioned officers had their own “pub” at Mike Maxey's quaint littie hillside speakeasy, and public opinion on that extremely regulation post openly conspired against the official but artifical concept of duty. . In the course of time, however, changes occurred, as they will on Army posts, and Mike Maxey’s speakeasy was placed out of bounds. Not only that but tear and suspicion spread through the post. Officers who had been in the habit of entertaining in their quarters felt that anyone might be summoned next day and asked to say, on his honor, whether he had observed any violations of the 18th Amendment. And a high-ranking shoofly might come banging on the door in the midst of a party and rank his way into the merrymaking in the technical status of guest but with the mission of a raider. There is just this about it—An officer who does his duty in such cases is a cad,-the one who doesn't is a gentleman, and the blackmailing snitch is openl invited to do his stuff.

Business By John T. Flynn -

Boycott Is. Harrassing Japan as

‘Much as the Chinese Resistance.

EW YORK, Aug. 8—Perhaps as serious and ominous for Japan as the news from the Manchukuoan border clashes with Russia is another item that in the last 15 months Japan has sent to this country $346,000,000 in gold. It would be difficult to exaggerate the importance of this simple news item. Japan can buy abroad the things she needs to continue her desperate struggle in China only so long as she has goods or gold to export. Slowly she is exporting all her gold. Slowly she loses her markets abroad for her exports. Where and how will she buy? - In March, 1937, Japan had a gold reserve of $456,000,000. ' Since that time. she has sent to us $346,000,000 of gold. She has apparently built her gold reserve up from some other quarters, so that this vast drain has reduced her gold supply to $261,000,000. Of course Japan sent gold here because she did not have the goods to send—the balance of trade was too heavily against her. Doubtless many factors are to be blamed for this. But one of them is not to be overlooked. Since the beginning of the JapaneseChinese conflict a persistent and slowly spreading boycott of Japanese goods has been going on in this country. : For several years Japanese exports to this country have been a major source of irritation to domestic manufacturers. Japan was flooding our markets with all sorts of products which were displacing our own.

Japs Admit Boycott’s Success

But when Japan made her brutal assault on China great numbers of generous-minded Americans announced that they would buy nothing made in Japan. The boycott movement was organized. The effect upon sales here and in other parts of the

world has been very grave for Japan. Her foreign trade has fallen off around 20 per cent. Her exports of silk have declined 36 per cent. And, to make up for the geficiency of exports to us, she has had to send us half her gold supply. Japanese authorities admit that the boycott has been a major factor in this result. : The organizers say the movement has been successful and the Japanese say it has ‘been successful. And one of its most telling consequences is that Japan is now depleting her gold to buy goods here instead of paying for what she buys with her goods. The battle front between China and Japan now is in Tokyo, not China, and the real war correspondents are those who watch and report upon these vital economic movements.

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson : T looks as if the women of the United States, in |

sheer self defense, will have to a"

organize a ; Eleahor Roosevelt Society.” I agree with Westbrook

Pegler that she is the most remarkable woman of

our time. That's the trouble—she’s too remarkable.

She puts the rest of us at a dreadful disadvantage. I was pierced by this conviction the other day, when I heard a man scolding his wife. “But Great Scott, Sue! Why can’t you get around

to calling on Ben's wife this week? What's holding

you? If only you women had some of Mrs. Roosevelt's energy. She's pretty busy, and look what she does.” Yes, look! Sry Jmpressiye. a urned out a couple of , a daily news column and innumerable magazine articles, ned, three lecture tours, entertained visiting royalty, pres sided over conventions, presented awards, the affairs of her household and married eral children. As always, however, it's the little things that get us down, and in those Mrs. Roosevelt's record is even niore amazing. We. are ‘told that she rises horseback in the dewy dawn, never forgets her sets ting up exercises, relaxes at the er n counts her calories, always eats Her spinach, gives picnics for Shirley Temple and does her Christmas shopping early. : Mi / Compared to her abounding energy, the mental stagnation and physical inertia of the average house wife is embarrassingly obvious. On second thought, it seems of men on the spot, too. If a and

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Don't Worry. About Varnishing' at TVA Probe—There Is None, Reader In Knoxville Informs Columnist,

4 | JETHANY BEACH, Del, Aug. 8—I wrote & column

expressing the hope that the TVA investigation uld not be a whitewashing stunt and a suggestion t it had started out that way. That drew so many letters of protest’ that in the interest of fairness I quote the following as an excellent example of the lot: “As an old reader of your column . ., . may I exe

#2 | press a criticism of what: you have said about the

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

THINKS PUMP-PRIMING FUNDS SHOULD GO TO INDUSTRY By Gaullible : E. 8, in the Forum proposes more ‘laws as a remedy for the existing economic situation-——call it depress sion or recession. Does not E. 8, know that we already have too many laws—that too many laws is a contributing factor toward our dilemma? If we could only unpass some of them it would be much better.

Since we are at the start of a new “pump priming” attempt, the time is opportune to try a new angle. A pump once primed should

hold water—if it requires Jepented,

priming, it is certain the effect will be lost the moment the handle is freed. Something more lasting will have to be tried. I am still gullible enough to believe that the Administration does want to remedy conditions. Instead of following the present plan of pouring billions of dollars into the bloated purses of the chain grocery stores—precious little going to any other industry that might re hire if any sizable portion trickled its way—I suggest the pump priming funds be loaned to industry to provide payrolls for six months for every man previously employed by each industry. The industries would

| have no difficulty securing mate

rials if payroll cash were assured by the Government. This alone, within 60 to 90 days, would break the backbone of the panic. Then, to prevent a recurrence of Mr. Hoover’s “overproduction” which was in fact underproduction, permit industrialists to repay. the payroll loans with their finished merchandise, which would in turn be shipped off to Kentucky and buried with our gold—and be completely forgotten for about 1000 years. This process would speed up industry on a 24-hour day basis, give every man work, would prime the pump and keep the water flowing.

” o 8 DISAGREES WITH MORRISSEY ON DISPLAY OF TITLE By a Motorist - The windshield display law that was 80 unpopular has just been repealed and here Police Chief Morrissey has the nerve to start ad-

vocating a similar one that will be |.

both unpopular and unsuccessful. The motoring public wants no such law, even though the Chief wants one for the benefit of the Police Department. . We hava, gotten along for many years without such a display and the police seemed fairly effective. ‘There is a license plate on every

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

; automobile and ownership can be

established by contacting the License Bureau at the State House. There are too many unjust laws now. that motorists are obliged to abide by without imposing upon us still further. .

... 1 don’t wish to reflect discredit of ‘any kind on Chief Morrissey, the

Police Department, or anyone else, but in my opinion the Chief is very much out of order. . » = READER COMPLAINS OF WEED GROWTH By Mrs. John C. Linder Sp Some time ago I read an article saying if the Democrats got into office the weeds would grow in the middle of the streets. However, Democrat or Republican, the weeds are growing so high in the city one cannot see across the street. We have made complaint about the weeds growing on a vacant lot within four feet of our bedroom windows, but to no- avail. When.

we asked the precinct committeeman to have them cut, he said fo tell the police, who said it was the County Commissioner’s. duty. The latter said the weeds would be cut in 10 days after the owner was notified. That was about June 20 and no weeds are cut yet.

FOUR ORCHIDS

By ROSE CRUZAN I have a lovely bouquet, Composed of three fine orchids; My daughter, son and his wife; A little bud I now add, The stork just brought a new life.

DAILY THOUGHT

I know that the Lord will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and the right of the poor—Psalms 140:12, Ce — 2 MONG the attributes of God, although they are all equal, mercy shines with even more brilliancy than justice.—~Cervantes.

THINKS HULL'S ACTION MAY BE HINT TO RUSSIA By W. L. B. : Is it accidental that Secretary

Hull jolted socialistic Mexico on:

the “ancient land confiscations” just when Moscow’s border incident jolted Japan on the Yangtse? Is world diplomacy now so unrelated? If Moscow's jolt to Japan is worth 100,000 mén to China, does not Washington's impossible request, asking Mexican arbitration only by capitalistic Latin governments, subtly aim to warn Russia that America is for Japan? Would Hull accept Leon Blum or Stalin as arbitrators? The Mexican “confiscations” are concrete acts of revolutionary socialism, Marxist or not. They are not justifiable by antisocialist thinkers as Hull well knows. So his note must envisage and contemplate other and greater issues. And he again- illumines our alignment in world affairs. It is & good guess Hull will not follow up the Mexican note if it has already served its chief purpose in’ Russia. Anyway I always thought the oil wells in Mexico were owned by corporations especially organized and incorporated under Mexican law. The British Government has now admitted that to be so at least in part. And why were they incorporated under Mexican law if not purposely to bring them under Mexican law and ‘exigency, which turns out to be “confiscation”? f J ” 2 . GIVES REASON FOR OPPOSING ROOSEVELT THIRD TERM By F. E. H. In regard to a third term for President Roosevelt, I, for one, am very much opposed to it for the following reasons: 1. Because it is against the best interest of our form of government. 2. There are men more able to assume the office of President than Mr. Roosevelt. 3. Ways and means must be found to eliminate “relief” and all this “alphabet soup racket,” or else we will find ourselves bankrupt some day—not far off.

8 » 2 . . NEW DEAL BUSINESSMEN NOT INVESTING, IS VIEW By S. R. D.

Regarding the Hoosier Forum letter by V. B. I, I would like to

add that if there has been more|

investing by New Deal businessmen than by Republican businessmen who are skeptical of New Deal methods, there has been no publicity on same.

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-By DR. ALBERT EDWARD

* LET'S EXPLORE YOUR MIND

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IT IS extremely doubtful. Most of the experiments by psycholo-

| gists seem to indicate that what we

call “mental fatigue” is chiefly— possibly wholly—loss of interest. As Milton Wright points out, when el mentally tired from writIg acounts or making ex-

ive decisions, if suddenly a

| fight or fire breaks out, you are in-

sant gh) Be tally vo a “men exA als ip when 2 x ’ y g woman enters the room! : . = =» : THEY always are when you are learning a new skill or type of

‘{ behavior, such as eating with your

fork instead of your knife. You may

{stick your fork in your eye first. learning the néw | Is keyboard devised by re-| 1h

Just now I am

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' presser. '

‘TVA probe? In the interest of fair play and, as:you

say, the great importance which this investigation has to the whole country, I hope that before long you

‘will come to Knoxville yourself and not be satisfied

merely with other newspaper reports on which to base your judgment. = ~ “As you also say, it is too complicated a matter to understand on a superficial statement. However, to

‘one who has watched the slow unfolding of testimony

day by day, has séen the faiimess, courtesy and patience with which Dr, A. E. Morgan and other witnesses have been treated, and realized the deft, determined penetration of the cross-examination. of all witnesses by Francis Biddle, I think your conclusion that ‘the counsel is weakly supporting the TVA coun-

sel and bulldozing the only witnesses who know the

truth, and restricting if not suppressing the evidence!’ is a distinctly prejudiced and misleading statement. ” 2 2 “Y CANNOT help feeling that the blustery grand= stand playing of a counsel who seeks to make the headlines would not serve "the country half so well as what we are seeing here in Knoxville. Between Mr. Biddle and Mr. Wolverton of New Jersey, the fabric of the testimony is very neatly; though quiefly, laid apart and exposed to view. This is not the ‘varnishing’ you are worried about, General.” This doesn’t fit very well with press accounts of the proceedings. Such forthright assertions could not be made if the varnishing were very thick and, if I have misinterpreted the news, I am glad to be corrected. J ; Si There just isn’t any more important subject than TVA or one harder for an outsider to understand. If TVA will do for a great region what its friends claim for it, and do it with as little unfairness to other regions and to private, property and as little affront to our form of government as they say, it is a blessing and should be so accepted. a: » 8 8 . AM frankly fearful of the whole idea. . I know -that there are some planners in Washington who sincerely and earnestly believe that our system of parallel State and National Governments is wrong.

‘They say that the country should be redistricted into

seven economic provinces responsible to one National Government. Something of this thought has colored several pieces of national legislation, enacted or proposed. hat

It is true that many of the states are inefficient

and the whole system is slow and expensive, but I be- .

lieve that the institutions of local self-government are the secret of our past success as a nation and the best safeguard for our future. I hope that TVA investiga tion leaves nothing twisted or obscure about thai pare

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By Heywood Broun a A " We're Learning Greenwich Village Isn't the Only Spot for Painting.

EW YORK, Aug: 8~—There seems fo be pretty general agreement among the men and women familiar with the various Federal art projects that WPA has done &-fine job in stimulating and freeing the spirit of American painting and sculpture. The success of the Federal Theater has -been commented on by all newspaper critics. But painting doesn’t get into the news much, as public interest in pictures is something which is only now beginning in

America. “Rena ce” 4s a big word, but if it should not be defini -laid away in camphor in favor of some less highfalutin term now is the time for us to shake off an age-old feeling of artistic inferiority. + In. the past the young painter or sculptor here at home has been cross-hatched by two kinds of criti

cism. He has been the prey of aged academic ‘“‘ex-

perts” whose point of view has been largely static and almost wholly unrelated to native roots. But young and sensitive talent has been even more cruelly punished by the hick haw-haws of wise guys and smart alecks. Much of the comment has crept into newspapers. So : There are still people ready to laugh when the wise guy says, “Hey, Buddy, which is the top and which is the bottom of your picture?” The pretense is set up that any departure from the Christmas postcard standard is subversive and straight from Moscow. As a matter of fact, if you wish to find the eternal springs of newer art forms you need only hand a hox of paints to yout small son or daughter. Every child is an impressionist. he thing which is called modern might, with equal justice, be called primitive. I am almost disposed to believe that there would be more good pictures in America if there were fewer art schools. | 8

| A Valuable By-Product a Formal art education is likely to mow down all

but the geniuses, and even those of high talent may have quite a time before they manage to forget the things which were taught them during study hours, But, fortunately, there are teachers mow who have found that out.

may have crept in here and there in the matter of WPA art projects, but in the case of painting there may be a valuable by-product. The political urge, if it exists, has prompted the fostering of home talent. We are beginning to learn that painting is something which may be practi well beyond the boundaries of Greenwich Village. ED ' In time we may even learn to appreciate the brave beauty which liese in the simplicity of Bufano's St. Francis. America comes of age and outgrows the old notion that a piece of sculpture should be a collaboration between a tintype photographer and a pants

- I would hardly ae an that the hand of politics

Watching Your Health ;

By Dr. Mortis Fishbein

\ the Crown Prince of Sweden was rushed into the hospital for relief of symptoms due

to a kidney’stone, public interest in this particular

‘disturbance became apparent.

- Of course stones can appear in almost any part of the human being, but. when & stone forms. in the kidney or in any of the: tissues associated with elimi‘nation of urine, the possibilities are much more sérious than when a stone appears in almost any other pore tion of the body, except in the tubes that carry the

bile into the liver from the gallbladder. = Exactly why stones form in these places is hot

wholly established. a

A kidney stone may be present for a long time without causing any disturbance, but when the stone endeavors to pass through a tube which is too small for its passage, a-renal colic occurs. This is one: of the most severe that can affect a human being. Eventually the stone passes into the tube known as the “ureter, which carries the urine from the kidney

5 the ‘bladder. With the passage of the stone there

ous pain on the inner side of the thigh.

at later intervals in life,

one attack of kidriéy stone we

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