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MONDAY, AUGUST 29, 1938

SUMMER DRAMA IN MARYLAND THE political spotlight turns to Maryland as word goes out from Hyde Park that President Roosevelt, himself, personally, will make a Labor Day appearance in the free

state. :

1938, ‘this to us is the most entertaining, for the reason that the two men involved represent a contest of real talent that can’t be found in the three other events that are como climax in Georgia, South Carolina and New York. the entries, with the exception "are not of the class

ing t Hot though those races be, ; of the scholarly George of Georgia, at Maryland provides. : i Coy and Talmadge, Georgia, Cotton Ed ‘Smith and Olin Johnston, South Carolina; O'Connor and Fay, New York, are not of the Man O’ War breed. But Tydings and . Lewis are. Two thoroughbreds matched. - No more, scintillating speaker has graced the U. S. Senate in the last couple of decades than Tydings. His “Tulip Time in Vermont” masterpiece three years ago this in which he tangled with pork-barrellers over a

th, mon late Senator John Sharp

flood-control bill, was worthy of the

- Williams. ls oo Ability here. And ability of similar sort in his oppo-

nent, whose record of actual legislative accomplishment is greater and more consistent than Tydings’ and runs back to years before Franklin D. Roosevelt was a name in national affairs. And as an orator, like Tydings, Lewis is handy with the rapier, not dependent on the ball-bat. : As for Tydings, he’s his own man. No fear about his being anybody’s robot. That has been demonstrated. And as for Lewis, on his record no one should lose any sleep about his becoming a ventriloquist’s assistant. That has been demonstrated, too. : The “Li’l Davey” who told Coolidge to “go to” when, in return for an appointment on the tariff commission Coolidge asked an undated resignation, will never do a yes job for F. D. R. or any other human being with whom Lewis may at any time disagree. The battles he has gone through against what seemed at the time deadly opposition—for the first workmen’s compensation law in America, for parcel post, against tariff grabs, for social security—leave no doubt as to his courage. And such a fight as he put up against the Ludlow resolution, when he split with his pacifist friends for what he felt was right for the country, was just one of many proofs he has given of the high quality of his independence. : So, no matter how the contest goes, there will be no display of mediocrity when the Senator from Maryland. * rises to remark.

i HIS WORRY, BUT NOT HIS FAULT

COUPLE of years ago a lot of people in this country

were looking at the skies through dust clouds and singing “It Ainta Gonna Rain No More.” Some were saying that the droughts were nature's punishment .for Henry Wallace's wicked pig-killing and cotton-plowing-under, that famine was around the corner and thank God the Supreme "Court rescued us by destroying the AAA-processing-tax-acreage-control evil. : We think it pertinent to remember this. And to remember that there was one man who kept insisting that the rains would start again. That there would be another glut in our markets and a new batch of trouble in the farm belt. : That man was Henry Wallace, Secretary of Agriculture. It’s his job now to try to find a way out of the trouble which he warned would come and which he wanted to prevent but couldn’t because the adequate preventive measures which he asked for were refused him until too late. Mr. Wallace, therefore, deserves a sympathetic understanding in any critical appraisal of his latest undertaking. That undertaking, ironically, is something against which he has preached for many years—dumping our produce on the world market. Speaking Saturday at the International Conference of Agricultural Economists at Quebec, Mr. Wallace said: “Export subsidies are a type of economic warfare which if used on a large scale and for a long period, inevitably . harms the nation which uses the subsidy more than it ~~ harms anyone else.” : Then he added: “Nevertheless, in certain emergencies, there may be exceptional and compelling circumstances justifying the use of export subsidies for limited and temporary purposes. It is such a situation that now confronts us in the case of wheat.” ; : In those words, Mr. Wallace undertook to justify a ' program which his Department of Agriculture has just launched—a program of Government purchases of wheat,

designed eventually to move 100,000,000 bushels of Amer-.

ican wheat on to the world market for whatever price the Government can get for it. That is approximately the amount of American wheat exported last year. \ According to Mr. Wallace’s experts in Washington, we had to choose between letting the price sag toward the ruinous levels of 1932 or resort to subsidy. Otherwise we would export no wheat this year. Because Canada also is - harvesting an extra large crop, and is establishing a bottom " i.price of 80 cents a bushel for Canadian farmers and is - laying plans to sell two-thirds of the crop abroad for whatever price the Canadian Government can get. In a political democracy a subsidy for one thing begs subsidies for others. If wheat, then why not cotton, ‘tobacco, cabbages and shoelaces? No, we don’t like one little bit what Mr. Wallace is

-- doing as a “temporary” measure. But we know Mr. Wallace

_, doesn’t like it either. And we wouldn't care to be on his hot spot, trying to solve a problem which he—almost alone —tried to avert, and knowing that if he doesn’t ease the ~ pressure, the farm politicians—with their cost-of-produc-tion and funny money schemes—may run roughshod over him in the next Congress. n

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. prohibition and do not yet coneede that the people

‘By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

Fair Enough

By Westbrook Pegler nr

Surely Dixie Shouldn't Resent a | Sif

. Man's Asking, 'How've You Been?'

EW. YORK, Aug. 29—There is something about | | the South which always gives a Northern man 3

to feel that he has two strikes on him in any attempt

to discuss-any Southern problem. It is somewhat as |:

though the South were a secret society. There is no need to seek the reason, for we all know what the South suffered at the hands of the plundering hypocrites who compelled the organization of the original Ku-Klux Klan and established a suspicion of Northerners and their motives which exists to this day. But a long time has passed, and it seems not too pushful to suggest that the South is no longer a Tibet whose councils are not to be invaded or problems understood by Northern men of equal intelligence. Southern men and women come North and find themselves fully privileged members of the community, qualified or, anyway, permitted to give advice on any subject2 8 =» i HAVE no desire to invade the South, for my base is here, and 1 get along all right, but if the Southern States felt sufficiently informed on our Northern

customs and feelings to command that we abolish |

alcohol it surely is no worse intzusion by a Northerner to offer an occasional opinion on Southern problems. The South almost got even with us with prohibition. Just as the slaves were freed without compensation to their owners, the property values of Northern distilleries and breweries were ruined by the amendment. The workers in many subsidiary lines of the beverage trade, and, I suppose, to some extent, the growers, were similarly wronged in 1919 by a law pressed on us by the South. It would seem facetious

to add that millions in the North were woefully |

afflicted by the blight to their customs and appetites imposed by strangers who thought they knew what was best for us in the long run. But we did have a type of carpetbagger and scallawag in our midst, the spy and prohibition agent. . It is not that I have any special degire to sound off at the moment on a particular matter of Southern business. It is merely that the old answer, “You don’t understand the South,” presumes to disqualify the Northern man before he opens his mouth. It can’t be as mysterious as that any more.

» 2 =» E are told that the South is economically sick, and that in a nation is not something that can be localized. If a man has a broken leg he knows it all over, and it. certainly is a matter of concern to the whole United States if the South is ailing as badly as we have been told. After all, the doctor bill will not be localized.

Maybe the diagnosis exaggerates. But obviously the South doesn’t feel pretty good, and it is a iittle cavalier of the South to resent a man’s asking “How have you been?” or “Have you ever tried iodine?”

That old matter of state rights is up again, and I am all for that except that I think there are too many states and that there should be some .consolidations. But I was for state rights all through

of Georgia, for example, had any right to forbid the New York man to walk right up to the counter and buy himself a slab of gin. .

Business By John T. Flynn

Japan, Germany, Italy and the U. S. Have Experienced No Real Recovery.

EW- YORK, Aug. 29.—The League of Nations’ annual report on world production and prices finds that the United States has enjoyed less recovery than the rest of the world. . \

This is a point about which there has been a lot of loose talk for a number of years. The critics of present Government policies have pointed out that in other countries there has been a more marked recovery than in America. rn Sn ' The criticism seems to be based upon the assumption that here the Government has interfered in the most disastrous manner while in other countries where the Government has permitted . economic forces to operate naturally the recovery has been sounder and greater. " Now the League points out that profits have been higher in countries like Germany, Italy and Japan, that production has been higher. ; This kind of a report can get nowhere until it makes clear what it means by recovery. Recovery must be understood io mean a speeding up of the normal activities of the economic system through normal causes. ; Now the fact is very clear that in practically every country the rise in activity has been due to Government interference and to one kind of ‘Government interference, namely Government spending ‘of bor= rowed funds.

England Joins Borrowing Nationd

The one exception to this among the great countries was England, but this is no longer true. There was a great deal of advertising of the recovery Ly England’ up to the end of 1936 without any increase in the national debt. This was partly true. There was recovery but it was really nothing. to brag about and it was in a pretty bad way in 1937. Then England started one of the greatest peacetime borrowing programs of her history. Also she has taxed her people up to one quarter of their incomes.’ No American would call this recovery. As for Japan, Germany and Italy, they have been doing precisely, what the United States has been doing, borrowing a. the banks great sums of money and spending that meney. The difference has been .chiefly in the kind of spending. Italy, Japan, Germany have done most of their spending on war objectives; we have done most of ours on peacetime operations. But the effect in producing an artificial recovery was the same, a condition which looked like recovery but was really the prelude to more trouble. ; he To talk about recoveries in Japan, Germany, Italy and the United States is fantastic.

A Woman's Viewpoint

ALK won't bring peace, according to several foreign delegates who spoke before the Second World Youth Congress in Poughkeepsie, N. Y. I hope the girls, old and young, will pay no attention to these remarks. Talk is about the only contribution many of us can offer to the cause of peace. And make no mistake, it’s a valuable one. % The housewife has little time to carry banners and for that reason generally feels helpless to aid a movement in which she is interested. “What can I de?” she asks herself. : ’ She can do wonders so long as her tongue holds out. In the first place, she can tell her children the sordid causes behind all wars that have been fought for “glory and righteousness.” She can teach them to hunt for the truth beneath the camouflage of words that are woven to deceive men into accepting war as a national policy. ; : Every war has been preceded by talk—cruel, angry, lying talk—and all military conscription rides to success on the crest of verbal storm wav : Heretofore, men’s tongues have led\ the clamor— . tongues that spoke eloquently of thé honor, the adventure, the glory of fighting. Millions of hapless boys have been lured to death by bright werdpictures of the jolly life of the soldier. The souls of

nations have been stirred by lectures, pamphlets and |

drums—a form of noisy talk, fashioned with delibera-

tion to drive common sense from the minds of think- |

ing men. rs Is it not then reasonable to suppose that -what can be started with talk can be end

| parable to ours.

We hope for action from those wh be active, byt in the meantime may

The Hoosier Forum

I wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

CANADA NO UTOPIA FOR BUSINESSMEN, Is VIEW By T. L. All that glitters is not gold in Canada, Fortune magazine warns the business executives and directors who form a majority of the $10-a-year business magazine's subscribers. The Canada which some American businessmen dream about as the last great unexplored country where business is allowed to manage its own affairs while government minds the budget is in reality only a. legend. J * “Like all legends that have vital-

ity, this legend of the business-

man’s Canada is founded upon a certain number of unquestionable facts,” Fortune admits. ‘Canada is still in the developmental stage. There is still need for capital and a hearty respect for it. “The people are conservative and hard working. and there is no gov-ernment-and-business problem com-

“But the spinners of legend ‘omit or gloss: over certain other facts;

such as the staggering burden of.

the public debt, which amounts to $628 per capita in contrast to the per capita figure of $430 in the United States. Of this $638 the Federal debt accounts for $389 (the U. S. Federal debt is $282 per capita) and a fair-sized chunk of the Federal debt is due to the war, as it is here, too. : Se “Income taxes, the second largest source: of Dominion revenue, are stiff, too. Personal income taxes are levied at rates which, at least up to the $100,000 bracket, run higher than in the United States, and there is a flat 15 per cent tax on corporate net income.” ~ Canada is expensive to run, For-

tune explains, for three inescapable |

reasons; ; : 1. Sheer distance.

2. The smallness of her popu- :

lation. : . 3. The unstable character of her trade. \ 2 ” 2

WORLD CONFERENCE URGED

TO DESTROY TRADE BARRIERS

By Internationalist. Ea At the base of this European war scare is the economic conflict for eontrol of markets. . Victim of its

own greed and stupidity, each na-

tion arms to seize and hold areas which give promise of economic

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gain. None of these groups realizes that * international co-operation would permit each to gain the utmost value from each other. The Versailles Treaty attempted to restrict the ability of Central European nations to provide neighbor nations with a free flow of trade. Statesmanship is the art of government which makes a nation the friend of its neighbor, Friendship provides the basis for international trade, which flows unhampered between all countries. Europe could be the most prosperous place in the whole world if it discarded its policy of economic nationalism for one of international co-operation. Europe cannot survive on a basis of economic nationalism when each nation is dependent upon international trade to provide a modern living standard. The chess game of international politics along the Danube is but an attempt to find the basis of economic co-operation among the nations which hold resources necessary to provide each other’s need. It-is not a matter of aggression, or of political supremacy, but one of imperative economic need. Trade barriers and threats of

- SIESTA

By MAUD COURTNEY WADDELL Comes noon with its languid rest, Still as a sleeping grey stone, With scarcely a motion known

While Time stands still in th West. ‘

Flowers and trees hang limply o'er; : : Not even a lizard bland Stirs on the hot desert sand 'Til the sun creeps past my door,

DAILY THOUGHT

Follow peace with all men, and “holiness, without which no man Shall sée the Lord.—Hebrews 12:14.

| FP HE essence of true holiness consists in conformity to the na-

ture and will of God.—Lucas.

force to limit nations in this contribution only react as a boomerang to the nation or group using these weapons. When Europe builds fleets and equips armies to break down economic barriers, it wastes a large portion of its resources which could raise the living standards of each nation. An international conference of all nations, now, to obliterate all trade barriers across national boundaries, would destroy the war and armament race, and would bring each nation unheard of prosperity. Mr. Hull could do the world a great service if he initiated such a conference. It would reopen world trade for us on an unprecedented scale. America started the economic barrier or protective tariffs, which have not protected any one nation, but have decidedly wrecked the whole international world economy. Let America propose a world economic reconstruction, based on a free flow of international trade. It would stop all war and preparation for war. This is an international world, and cannot be shackled by primitive nationalism. Into this world economy each nation must pour its products, for the benefits of all other nations. Europe cannot continue to live in the era of feudalism.

2 2 2 SAYS ROOSEVELT’S SON RUNS TRUE TO FORM By J. B. : We notice by the newspapers that young Roosevelt is running true to form—$18 per week salary, and $90 per month rent. Keep it up, boy, and some day our grandchildren will make you a famous President—like your father. ; 2 = 8 GIVES HIS IMPRESSION OF G. O. P. PLATFORM By W, F. Poff: : As I read each statement of each

prominent Republican, I get this idea of what their platform should

be: - 1, Longer hours for the working man. 2 2. Less pay for lakor.

3. Vacations with pay for money |

changers. La 4. Old-age pensions for the rich. 3 Reduction of taxes on the wealthy so they will have more to spend for propaganda, 6. Destruction eof all laber unions. 7. Complete restoration of Hooverism. 8. Save America.

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—By DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM

BOTH must have to be showmen of a high order, but the dictator has to stage his shows more consciously and obviously. The democratic leader—such as Lincoln —tries to educate his followers to higher ideals of character and social and national welfare. The dic-

tator appeals to the crowd’s passion for being important, for saving the world, and builds up the crowd’s delusion of their own grandeur. “ To do this he must frequently appear in heroic attitudes and on great occaassume the position of being

Gen. Johnson ; Says—

- It's Not. Browder or the Communist Party That Columnist Is Against, But a Dictatorship of Any Kind.

YDETHANY BEACH, Del. Aug. 29.—I got more than

“Dear-sir-you-cur” letters for a recent few kind words for Communists. I had said in effect that under our Constitution, an American has as much right to be‘lieve in and talk communism as to be a Republican if he confines his activities to voting and argument

My angry correspondents say that this is “une American” and “treasonable.” One says that I must’ Be ‘a Communist myself. SE Passing the point that if that is un-American, then so is the Bill of Rights. I regard the whole Communist thought and movement as threats to

But that doesn’t change the righteousness of Vole taire’s principle which is also crystallized in our Constitution: “I disapprove of what vou say, but I wi defend fo the death your right to say it.” ; » ” 2 HE words “Communist” and “communism” are too loose to mean much of anything. The “Communist” Party in this country is. not impor tant, What I detest is not that party, or Earl Browder, or any other hot-eyed zealot openly advocating his view. It is the “dictatorship of the proletariat”—or ‘of anybody else. It is the confiscation and destruction of human rights, including property rights—whether that is done openly by some swift stroke of a usurper or “cleverly” and slyly over several years, by cone fiscatory taxation, de ment of the value of money, unbalanced budgets and deficit financing, bribery and

administration of relief, un-American extensions and centralization in the powers of Government at the expense of Congress, the courts and the states—or by any other method. : I don’t believe that in favor of some theoretical ideal, thus far nowhere successful in the world’s. history, we should destroy political and economic “systems that have made at least a little security in international affairs and a great advancement and prosperity in our own country. I think much of the world’s present all-time record of misery and our own unequalled distress are due to the policies and beliefs I have just condemned. . : Co” ” 8 T is true that they are policies and beliefs of the Communist Party. But that is not half so important as the fact that they seem to be the policies if not beliefs of many powerful political leaders and officials who don’t call themselves Communists at all but say they are Democrats. . I doubt if lany of these people have any kinship with - the Communist Party or leadership here or abroad. Why should they? They have found a political formula of promising Utopia to distressed people who would reject it indignantly if it were called cdmmunism but who have no fear of the name and record of the oldest party in American politics. Maybe these are not their conscious beliefs and goals, but there is scarcely one of their actions that does not travel straight down that alley.

It Seems to Me

By Heywood Broun

Hollywood More Liberal in View, Than Other High-Income Groups.

YEW YORK, Aug. 39.—If the material spread before the Dies committee were accurate one of California’s most pressing problems would be easy of solution. Some of the witnesses have pictured Hollye

should not be the slightest difficulty in finding a young lady to play Scarlett. However, the committee’s “ace” smears better than he sleuths. And yet in all fairness to the screen colony it should be said that it is far more liberal in its point of view than any other high-income group in America. And Hollywood has been shoved % little to the left, mainly . by. the motion picture moguls. It all began -during the race between Merriam and Upton Sinclair. Upton frightened the producers enormously, and they contributed much in money and propaganda to his rival. And though the magnates won, they paid a price which they had not anticipated. The pressure which they put on players for campaign contributions had much to do with later trade union organization in the screen industry. A friend of mine had an offer from one of the big companies. He is a specialist, and his particular gift is required only occasionally. He needed the job very badly, but just the same he turned up at the studio wearing a Sinclair button. One of his friends warned him, and when he reached the inner office he got a bawling out instead of the job. But they just had

days later he was hired.

Not Even a Canceled Stamp

In his first pay check there was a request that he give one day's salary to the campaign fund of ‘Merriman. He refused. A vice president summoned him and suggested that he give half a day's pay. There was another refusal. Finally the official bee came candid and explained, “I don’t care whether your contribution is no more than a nickel. We want to have it on record that this studio is 100 per cent against that Red, Upton Sinclair.” My friend is a hoofer, but he suddenly became an actor. “I won't give five cents to Merriam,” he said, “or one cent or a canceled postage stamp. As a matter of fact, I'm broke, because everything I get on this job is going to Sinclair.” : P, S.—He beat the rap. : All in all the folk of Hollywood have gone well beyond grammar school in the matter of acquiring a soeial consciousness. The U. S. Chamber of Commerce, for instance, might well profit by a little lecture from Miss Carole Lombard on the income tax. “I have no kicks at all,” Miss Lombard said. “I like the parks and the highways and the good schools and everything that this Government does. And, furthermore, if I Sige: bave to pay high taxes I wouldn't be earning so mu n

Watching Your Health

By Dr. Morris Fishbein

ECENTLY newspapers reported the deaths of a considerable number of children in one town in Michigan—these children having become infected with an organism of the dysentery type called the Shiga bacillus. While this condition is uncommon, it is not rare. A number of eases are likely to be seen every summer in the warmer areas. _ The organism is ealled the Shiga bacillus because of the Japanese investigator who first isolated it. It is only one of a number of different bacteria which may cause dysentery in children. This germ is never found outside the body except -as' a contamination of excreted material: Perhaps it is from one person to another by contamination of the food supply. Usually it requires from four to five days from the time the germs are taken into the body till the disease appears. In mild cases there may be a fever up to 101 degrees, together with some of the symptoms usually associated with the mild fever. It is not possible for the average person to ate tempt to diagnose whether or not 'a serious diarrhea is due to an infection with dysentery organisms or

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