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TUESDAY, AUGUST 9, 1938

- 23 DEATHLESS DAYS E have been keenly interested in the enviable safety traffic records set recently in various cities. We have

- cited the success of safety campaigns in Louisville, Ky.,

~ which went more than 60 days without a traffic fatality; - Evansville, which had 88 consecutive “deathless” days, and *. ‘Columbus, O., which last week passed its 40th day with no - deaths, wifh the hope that similar results could be achieved

~ here.

Now, apparently, Indianapolis is off to a good start on "a new “deathless marathon.” Today the city is in its 28d

consecutive day without a traffic fatality, the longest such.

period since last summer. Auto deaths for the year to date in the city stand at 40, as compared with 64 up to this time in 1937. ; There is every reason to believe this 23-day’ siretcll can be lengthened—that is, if there is no let-up in careful driving and law enforcement and, most important, if no leniency is shown traffic offenders in Municipal Court.

A SECOND THOUGHT T may be that in winning the Democratic nomination for Governor of Texas, Mr. W. Lee O’Daniel has made an important contribution to political science. And we're not joking. One of the nosh serious problems of democracy is the source of campaign funds. Today candidates usually get them from three sources, Federal employees, State employees and special interests who contribute either in the ~ hope of favors or fear of getting kicked i in the pants if they don’t. Corruption is involved in tapping any of these sources. But Mr. O’Daniel went to a new source for his campaign—the plain voters who enjoyed his hillbilly. band, liked his campaign and wanted him to succeed. Seriously, is there any other honest source of campaign funds? Whether it be by passing the hat at meetings, as Mr. O’Daniel did, or by mail solicitation, a candidate should go to the citizenry for his campaign funds. We citizens should be willing to finance the campaigns of the men in whom “we believe and whom we want to put in office to take care of the public interest. If we are unwilling to do this, should we be surprised if our candidates go to the questionable sources for their campaign funds?

- TENANCY IN D. C. : Of for the life of a landlord in Washington, BD. C.! That is one business in which neither Government competition nor the recession has made a dent. Though the Government has been constructing new office buildings ‘as fast as it could lay one block of limestone on top of another, its demands as a tenant have grown faster. In 1933, when its vast new building program in Washington was getting under way, the Government paid $826,000 for 1,191,735 square feet of space in private office * buildings. - Its rental bill this year will be around $3,000,000 for 3,244,775 square feet in private buildings. Yet meanwhile a multitude of new Government buildings, costing " multimillions of dollars, have been completed and occupied. They include a new Supreme Court building, a new Federal * Reserve Board building, a block-long extension to the Agriculture building, and mammoth piles of limestone to accommodate the Departments of Justice and Postoffice and Labor and Interior, the Communications Commission, the Interstate Commerce Commission, the Federal Trade Commission and the archives. Whenever a bureau or department 1 moves a dozen New Deal agencies scramble for the old quarters. The overflow continues to swell, with the Government tenants crowding the doctors and lawyers and lobbyists in the downtown office buildings. Meanwhile, in their nonworking hours, Government “employees, "most of them drawing small salaries, crowd ..into one and two-room apartments and double up in roomot ing houses at rentals which would provide luxurious living . quarters back in the old home town. Such is the housing problem in the nation’s capital. We confess we cannot see the end to the process where the Government borrows more money, hires more people and ‘ rents more space. We pause, however, to hope that the _. answer does not lie in the latest of Government structures * that vast new annex to the Bureau of Printing and En-

graving.

. SURE, WE'RE FREE WE see that Mr. Mussolini has put a stop to the campaign of the Fascist editor, Virginio Gayda, for freedom of - male Italian necks. Il Duce’s order is brief and to the point: ; «Drop that silly idea of no collars and ties.” So the men of Italy, who had begun to enjoy the comfort ‘of open, tieless shirts, will now meekly put their -- Adam’s apples back in bondage. Thank fortune, we have a democracy, and no dictator _ can order us to wear collars and ties. We wear ‘em, of

course, but that’s only because, in this land of liberty and

individualism, we don’t want to look “different.”

“BY DAMN I AM” DON JOSE TORMOS DIEGO, Mayor of the City of Ponce, “l in Puerto Rico, may not be precisely at home in -the . English language, but he seems to have no difficulty in “saying what he means. : Leaving a Washington hospital after an appendicitis operation, Don Jose said he had “plenty of tripes left” to fight the “pig-dog” Puerto Rican assassins who, during his illness, ‘had attempted to kill Governor Blanton Winship th their “shoot-guns” at Ponce. And the Mayor added: “If 1 could speak the English by the books, I would w their nose, by damn I am.” That 8 telling em, Don Jose. Politics on the American

interest if Sfficehiolders ‘would ‘talk |

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Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler J. Edgar Hoover Makes Emotional

Accusation Against Reporters, but |

Fails: to Support It With Proof.

EW YORK, Aug: 9.—1It is impossible to deny that, as Edgar Hoover says.ifi an article in Collier's,"

newspaper reporters sometimes do embarrass the so

called G-Men and other police by premature publica‘tion ‘of pews which tips off criminals that the cops:

| are close. ‘But it is not necessarily true, and Mr. Hoo- | | . ver offers no evidence that the murder of the Levine | | | ~——= | boy in New Rochelle was caused or hastened by the | | | conduct of the reporter who trapped-the child's father

‘into an.admission by posing as an agent of the kid- | ¥ ‘napers in a telephone conversation.

Tt would seem more likely that.in this case and the criminals never had any intention to return the victims, and killed them as soon as they conveniently could. 4 child is a dangerous handicap to a

Knows that a murder adds lithe }t anything to the | penalty he has already deserved. Mr. Hoover, who -

boasts that many of his agents are lawyers and that all of them, himse ‘an emotional accusation the reporters in these two instances, but does not support it with anything that even resembles prot.

D° you want to know something about Mr. Hoo- | A

ver? He is spoiled. The American press has.

“treated him as a sacred cow. His department is still | talking about ‘the glamorization of criminals long |

after the press took to glamorizing him and his men

instead. He has been praised in proportion to the

very fine feats Of detection which his bureau has achieved, and a little beyond, for the G-men have: received entire credit for some jobs in which other agencies took part. 1 would like to point out, too, that, as Mr. Hoover himself has indicated more than once, there are a lot of crooked police and prosecutors in various cities, and that, as he failed to point out, newspaper reporters often have turned up and. called irresistible public attention to evidence which local officials were trying to ignore or were too stupid to discover. The Hall Mills case in New Brunswick, N. J, was so badly handled that it was only in response "to the work of reporters that the body of Mrs. Mills was exhumed after some time to reveal the fact that she had been not only shot but almost beheaded by a knife, It was the enterprise of a newspaper that compelled the prosecution of Walter Ward in White Plains after the local authorities had dropped proceedings against the son of a millionaire in a slight case of murder. There have been many such incidents.

» 8 s AS Mr. Hoover has reason to know, the police of Kansas City are the minions of the most corrupt politico-underworld machine that this coun= try has produced since the day in Minneapolis when several of the high-ranking police officials and even the mayor himself were sent to prison, largely through the enterprise of newspaper reporters. A reporter working on-a big crime story in Kansas City cannot reasonably be asked to hold back or totally suppress news-evidence. The police might be trying to cover up a pet criminal, Mr. Hoover has had experience with the Kansas City police. He. knows that the same is true of some rural police, and it has not been long since his own boss, Homer Cummings, was moved to say, apropos several inside Jobs in the St. Paul Police Department, that there was something rotten in St. Paul.

Business By John T. Flynn

Favors Proposal to Compl Patent

Owner to Release Rights to Others.

EW YORK, Aug. 9.—Of course everybody and his brother has a neat set of instructions for the Senators and Department Representatives who are about to lift the lid on monopoly and attempt a solution of that very old question. Mr. M. M. Bilofsky, who, I believe is a manufacturer of electrical equip=\ ment of some sort, has his pet suggestion. I do not know much about Mr, Bilofsky, but the suggestion looks like an excellent one. The patent’ law, intended to foster research and invention, also has been used as a prolific parent of monopolies. Today some of the largest industries enjoying monopoly conditions rest their pasition squarely upon patent grants. But there is another aspect of this. Having built up a large business and invested huge sums in it, the great manufacturer of a patented article stands rehdy to invest large sums in new inventions not for the purpose of developing them, but for the purpose of squelching them. One of the great electrical companies owned the rights to a lightning arrester, A young engineer in the laboratory thought it was a defective arrester. He set to work to perfect a better one. But before he couid get far with his mouse trap the head of the company beat a track to his door and told him to throw the mouse trap away. However, he was determined. So on his own time, and in his kitchen at home with materials he purchased from the drugstore, he did perfect an infinitely superior lightning arrester. However, he was obliged to turn it over to the company because of the terms of his contract. But it so disgusted him that he made up his mind never to work for a large corporation again. He kept that promise and has prospered amazingly as a small man.

Owner Would Have Advantage

Now Mr. Bilofsky wants the Federal Government to amend the patent law so as to compel the owner of the patent to lease the patent rights to others. No one will be permitted to manufacture it without paying him a royalty. But he will not be permitted to sit on the patent himself. The owner of the patent will have an edge over every other competitor in that he will not have to pay the royalty. That is enough. But if some other producer can make the article, pay the royalty and

‘ sell it to the public at a lower price he ought to be

permitted to do so. This is all the more true when we reflect that in practice the owner of the patent is usually not the inventor but some corporation which has bought from him Honopoiisile, control of it.

A Woman's s Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

ROM the Woman's Bureau of the U. 8. Department of Labor,-comes bulletin No. 158 concerning “Une attached Women on Relief in Chicago.” Probably conditions are similar in other large centers, and certainly .an. account of them doesn’t make ‘pleasant reading. b . It is staggering to realize that a large numbgr of these women have never done any work outside the home. They are untrained in every sense of the term. Having belonged to what we think of as the fortunate

class, with husbands or fathers to support them when they are widowed or: orphaned and disaster strikes, they are incapable of earning the meagerest living. . All of which brings up a pertinent ‘question, What constitutes real security for the individual--mioney or

the ability to earn money? -

Everybody knows the -right answer. to that one. Fortunes have a way of disappearing into thin air nowadays. Stocks crash, investments lose their value and, for any one of us, economic. riiln may be lurking Just around the corner. - Husbands and fathers are ‘well aware of this, Yet men who claim to have practical and financial sense behave with strange naivete at this point® Most ui; of them are desperately concerned at the thought of leaving their families without tinds ‘and, as a conse-

an obtain such funds. sarly grave to

Yet how few teach thelr wives i ughters how to fake care of ‘money, how to invest if or “how to earn it. “Isn't this af quirk in the male male makeup? The will look after their: ka i. Jor kw nat been: n-fo! when they : Femoved from the have ;

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

DEFENDS RULING BY LABOR BOARD By P. B. Much has been said and printed about the Labor Board's action in

invalidating the closed shop. con |’

tract between a certain plant. in

Muncie and the A, F. of L. In its Labor Board forced the plant to the A. F. of L. union and bargain with the U. A. W.,, a ©. I. O. unit. On the surface this would seem that the Board was pro-C. I. O,, and the counsel for the A. PF. of ‘L. promptly so charged. But a look beneath the surface will show that the Board was only carrying out the letter and spirit of the National Dabo Relations Act in that it was ting the right of employees to a their own representatives to do their bargaining, and that they did not have to accept an organization that the employer would like to bargain with, Section 7 of the Act is as follows: Employees shall have the right to self organization, to form, join, or assist labor organizations, to bar gain collectively through representatives of their own choosing, ete. Section 8, Subsection 3, is as follows: It shall be an unlawful practice for an employer to encourage or . discourage membership in any labor organization.

Qe 2 HOLDS THAT FACTORIES ARE ‘KILLING PIGS’ By Times Reader Farm machinery factories are still “killing the little pigs.” The abundant life cannot be established under the present American system of enterprise. We penalize the producers of -wealth by slashing their income if they dare go over the scarcity levels. We pay big income if Lhe producers restrict the production of real wealth. The wheat producers got about 90 cents a bushel for 1937 wheat. The cost of production is about 85 cents a bushel. As a result of the 5-cent margin, farmers splurged on buying new tractors, combines, discs, plows, seed drills—mostly on payments to be met out of 1938 crop receipts. Wheat in 1938 is near 60 cents a bushel delivered. The trouble comes as a result of raising more wheat to pay for new machines bought on time, The farmers will get 240 millions less for 936 million bushels this year than they got for 874 million bushels last year. If the tarmers destroyed 30 per

cent of this year's crop they could

thdraw recognition from |-

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pay off their debts and have money left. As a system it does not make sense. Pig killing was decried as anarchy—but pig killing has gone on in American industry for nearly 10 years now. Farmers operate at 100 per cent of capacity while industry operates at 60 per cent of capacity. There are no squawks on killing off radios, washing machines, tractors, automobiles, furniture or clothing in the factories where these “little pigs” are produced. If farmers really kilied pigs and destroyed 40 per cent of their production as the industries are doing, we could strike a pay-off balance: No work, no Sts, The Corn Belt Liberty Leaguers should push the industries into producing 100 per cent along with the farmers. That would give us the economy of abundance.

® 8 8 NO CHANGE SEEN IN G. 0. P. PURPOSES By Everett S. Brown Since the New Deal he come into existence the Republicans have done nothing but ridicule the President and his aids because of their en-

DREAM POEM By VIRGINIA V. KIDWELL I read him my wonderful poem, So perfect in rhythm and rhyme; With a delicate choice of expression, A verse that would live for all time.

And then I awoke and I couldn't Remember a line! My brain teems With the usual commonplace verses But none is the verse of my dreams.

DAILY THOUGHT

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.—I Corinthians 3:19.

E ancient nt hieroglyphic for God was the figure of an eye upon a scepter, to denote that he sees and rules all things.—Barker.

deavor to restore the nation to the people. The Republican Party’s pro= essional dictators, since the days of 1863 when they wrested full controi of the finances of the nation

« | by trickery, have partially held con- |.

trol since that time. They have

called President Roosevelt a dictator.

They called Theodore Roosevelt a king and yet they profess to be a party of Americanism. Their definitionsof Americanism is “let so-called Big Business run the nation as it pleases.” They now have set up & camp of “pbrain-trust busters” with an exprofessor, Dr. Glenn Frank; as chief instructor in the art of teaching their candidates how to cover the issues of coming campaigns. They would repeal all New Deal legislation and return the nation to bank failures, farm mortgage- foreclosures and eventually civil strife. Such is the picture of the future. You may call a leopard a hotsecat, but you cannot change his telltale spots. Neither can you change the Republican Party in intentions and purposes. ® = =» THINKS NEW DEAL, G. O. P. HAVE OUTLIVED USEFULNESS By Frank Walton

While the world has been running on cannon fodder and slavery for many years, take the compulsory form of government from over the

people and the world would start’

righting itself. The Republican Party and the New Dealers have outlasted their usefulne They have made such a run on taxing people to pay a lot of fat salaries, The world would be much better off: without so many who are expensive but absolutely

| worthless. -

I stand 100 per cent for tax exemption for $5000 in real estate and personal property for every taxpayer in Indiana or the United States. s x2 ‘nm HOLES IN STREETS DRAW READER'S FIRE By William H. Fields At the Alabama and Washington Sts. safety zone there are about 50 chuck holes. When it rains every passing automobile splashes muddy water upon anyone standing there. The street has been that way for four years. At Alabama and Pearl Sts., by the County Jail there is a big chuck hole, and all during the night trucks can be heard hitting that hole. It sounds like an explosion and wakes up everybody in the nearby flats.

Sie ates Yoo Susciins aiiude 14 thor- | cluded. from exper

oughly mid-Victorian would bring boys up y

LET'S EXPLORE YOUR MIND

By DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM

THE STORY OF HEREDITY | DAD, SINCE Duk cous

PARENT, Wa ONT HUMANS?

a Bh on n SOME TIMES" TRUE?

this training accounts for about all the difference in cool-headedness between the sexes.

# = = SUCH STORIES are all untrue, woman has a brown or black child, the father was of ‘that race. The reason black sheep come from white parent sheep is because black in sheep is recessive and white is dominant—like blue and brown eyes. Such traits do not show unless both parents either show or carry them. Thus blackness is often carried by

‘| white: sheep for one or many gen-

erations but will not show until a “carrier” is mated with another

| Yearrier® Then the black comes _|out as strong as ever. color in humans is just the opposite.

But black

Black is domipant and never skips a genemiion,

I DISCUSSED this from one angle recently, and said it was partly a sense of loneliness and insecurity. I think we should add a feeling of defeat and inferiority. Neither one has the e¢alm, critical

1 attitudes coupled with the prophetic i | vision of

of genius and the patience of

| Time of A great constructive

i 3s Lincoln, Wash-

LJ. (My father)

If a full-blood white|

3 Faith in Bible, Constitution and ~ Flag Will Keep Us Off the Rocks That Wrecked Other Republics.

ETHANY BEACH, Del, Aug. 9.—Reluctantly, the ‘other day, I became 56 years old. Among the simple surprise gifts that came to console me was a big beautiful “garrison” flag with the note: “Dear Hughie! This flag is for your birthday remembrance, It always seems to me to wave a cheerful greeting and thanksgiving to the Lord for the best land and Government this world has ever found yet. With love, Mom.” (My mother.) She.reminded me that just 30 years earlier, when my father was living, the present had been a good Bible. The note on the fly-leaf says: “Dear Hugh

Your mother and I send you this Bible. We commend it to you as the very best thing we could give

1 you. We believe that it is the word of God to man

written by His inspired servants—that it contains the

- wisdom of the ages and all the rules and thinking

‘that are needed for a decent life. We feel that you believe this and that you will wish your little son to know that this book is the best lamp and guide for his footsteps throughout his life. Affectionately, S,

H yeah! Here we have it all—Bible, mother, home and flag. You forgot the Constitution among this reactionary stable of sacred cows.” Nobody has the crust to say just that, but Something like that is the unspoken attitude among many of the new thinkers who are out to reform the world. It is accepted doctrine along much of the “popu= lar front” that religion should be soft-pedalled or de< stroyed as a kind of dreamy dope that has tended to make the “underpriviledged” suffer their misfore tunes with meekness rather than to rise in wrath. In our own country there has been no such ate tack on religion, but some of the sentiments in my mother’s flag note are not popular among our intelli« gentsia. In all such arguments there is something on both sides. In some places and times, religion has been used to suppress needed reforms. ernment” is perfect or above needed criticism and improvement. Surely our system needed change in 1833. - Bub all this doesn’t mean that we should cast off or even loosen all old moorings, )

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HE lady who wrote the flag note is 84 years old, As a girl she married a. poor man and went to Kansas in 1882, There and in pioneer Oklahoma, she bore and reared her children in poverty and primitive conditions in comparison with . which the present standards of living of the lowest income classes are

luxury.

They both suffered much more than our modern “underprivileged.” They not only saw the building from its beginnings of that Southwest country, but they materially helped to build it on the principles of those two notes. They both thought that the Bible contained “all the rules and thinking that are needed for a decent life” and my mother still religiously be lieves that this is the “best land and Government this world has ever found yet.” Maybe that is all “horse and buggy” stuff. But in this faith we became great and if, in all our change, we don’t stick to the essence of it, ‘we are headed straight for the rocks on which have been wrecked one European democracy after another. 4

It Seems to Me

By Heywood Broun

Writer Sees Heroic Determination Now to Do Away With Ancient Evils,

EW YORK, Aug, 8.—~In the first chapter of Genesis it 1s written: —“And God said, Let us make man to our image and likeness: and let him have dominion”—but in the third chapter it is set down that the Lord God said unto Adam:—“In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat hread till thou return to the earth out of which thou wast taken; for dust thou art, and into dust thou shall return.” Man functions, therefore, under divergent auspices. He is buoyed by a blessing and cast down by a curse. Sometimes he gets a bit confused. But it is well for us to remember that the blessing came first and that it is the better part. Moreover, the words spoken to Adam: are possibly less an interdiction than a bit of practical advice. The sons of Adam may still attain the likeness of God and win dominion over “every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.” But they will have to work for it.

And so I do not think that it is meant for man to lament that here is the beginning of the end. Many Utepians have lost faith. They seem to forget that once they spoke of & new world and if the old order passes they should be the last to regret it. But in their dreams bettertnent was to be a gentle rain and not a cloudburst. And out of the ranks of an advancing army some. scurry home to wrap themselves in platitudes and reap the rich awards which the privileged bestow upon prodigals. There are none so reactionary as the tired radicals and the limp liberals. And they assail ‘their old comrades in arms as cruel and wanton because they seek to turn ‘hopes into realities by struggle.

The Great Days

* But perhaps the true essence of cruelty lies in the fundamental misconception of Utopia philosophy, Jehovah made man after His likeness. Out of the dust of the ground He formed him and then He “breathed into his nostrils the breath of. life; and man Became a living soul.” But traces of the mud of the garden still cling to humankind. Even in life there is a tendency for dust to return to dust. It has been said that some of these days the Lord’s going to set this world on fire. Perhaps it has happened. These are the great days. In 50 years I have never known a -time when there was more to make one conscious of the heroic determination of men and women to do away with ancient evils. There is blood and there is strife, but man marches on. And he seeks to take on the shape of the image in which he was created.

| Watching Your Health

‘By Dr. Morris Fishbein :

1T= heart is a powerful muscle. With every cone traction, the heart forces out five ounces of blood, and this goes on 70 Siren a minute for about 70 years, : In one day the ‘heart handles 4000 gallons of blood, and sends that blood through the large arteries at the rate of about 56 feet per minute. During a day which a man spends lying in bed his heart produces enough power to carry a man weighing 150 pounds up a hill 500 feet high. “When a heart is diseased, i is obviously not able

to do its work with as much efficiency or force as when the heart is in the best of health Like every other organ and tissue of the body, the

‘heart has a reserve power somewhat beyond the needs

of every day life. The average man calls on this reserve when he is compelled to run at high speed or to work rapidly, or to overcome disease. When, howe ever, the heart itself is diseased, it calls on a reserve power which is diminished If the call on the heart is greater than the heart can possibly meet, heart failure follows. : There are various signs of heart failure. _ Among the most obvious is shortness of breath and 2 biueness of appearance. Among factors which overtax the heart are physe ical and mental exertion, worry, anger, anxiety, overe indulgence in food, “tobaceo, alcohol or work. An ine sufficient amount of sleep or rest is also a factor, sinc the body i nok pemited fo recover from is exe ustion.

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