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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1938

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#: tion Tuesday was that going on in South Carolina, 2 where the New Dealers were trying to purge Senator ‘“Cot- * ton Ed” Smith. Then, suddenly, in rumbled the returns '< from California’s primaries. = So we asked The San Francisco News, a Scripps- * Howard newspaper, to wire us an interpretation of what < had happened. We found the analysis interesting and in- * formative, and it occurs to us that our readers will too: - “Renomination of Governor Merriam by the Republicans and State Senator Culbert L. Olson’s victory in the : Democratic primary for Governor were expected. Olson, ¥ as a progressive leader in the Legislature since 1934, had © convinced most people that he was not so radical or erratic : as the Upton Sinclair EPICS and other left-wing elements

% with whom he was associated in 1934. 3 “Olson made his campaign largely as an old-fashioned ~'middle-class reformer opposed to political domination by oil = and public utility corporations and championing the cause % of the farmer and small businessman more pointedly than 3 that of labor. While the C. I. O. and the Communists sup- : ported him covertly and Tom Mooney openly, he made no ® comments or overtures except that he is on record for a

. Mooney pardon. “Olson hopes and expects a cheering word from Presi-

: dent Roosevelt although he has been at outs with Senator * McAdoo and George Creel since 1934, when Creel and 3 most of the McAdoo crowd repudiated the Sinclair candi- ‘ dacy. But the New Deal and national issues entered very “ little into the campaign. 3 “Sensation of the election is the defeat of Senator : McAdoo for the Democratic nomination by Sheridan : Downey, Sacramento lawyer, who was Sinclair’s running . "mate in 1934 as candidate for Lieutenant Governor. Later . Downey joined the Townsend movement as its attorney * and this year he championed the $30-a-week pension plan, 3 by far the most fantastic panacea yet advanced. More than : a million voters have signed petitions to put the plan on “ the November ballot and they undoubtedly gave Downey : enough votes to decide the issue, although as Senator he - would have no part in carrying it out. “McAdoo’s defeat must be seen as partially due also "to the aggregate effect of charges that he used his control "of patronage ruthlessly to build up a Federal machine of : officeholders who used their power for personal advantage. ~ Roosevelt's support of McAdoo was largely discounted as : loyalty to an old associate of war days and payment of an « obligation dating back to the 1932 convention when McAdoo 3 and Hearst swung their Garner delegates to Roosevelt. : Downey himself was one of the first Roosevelt men in : California, having declared himself before the 1932 conven- : tion, and remains an ardent New Dealer. “The pension plan will overshadow all other issues from

now on.”

$2500 VS. DEATH TOR another year apparently the city will have to depend on part-time efforts of police officials for its traffic . engineering. The Council has eliminated from the 1939 - City budget the $2500 request of Chief Morrissey for the . employment of a full-time traffic engineer. : Approval of this request would have permitted the - Safety Board to hire a graduate civil engineer with special"ized training in traffic engineering. It would have been his duty to conduct a survey of the entire city, making a com- . plete study of traffic accidents, their cause and cure. He 5 also would have consulted with the City Engineer and : Works Board with a view to safety on proposed street im- - provements. > We regret the elimination of this item and seriously = question the argument of the Councilman who said, in leadXing the attack on the request: “The traffic situation can’t % be handled any better than it has been handled lately, with i a decrease in auto deaths.” } In answer to that we would like to quote the man con-. “sidered America's No. 1 traffic engineer, Dr. Miller Mec- - Clintock, head of Harvard's Bureau for Traffic Research. Says Dr. McClintock: “If it were possible to apply *everything we know about traffic control, we could eliminate 198 per cent of all accidents and practically all congestion.”

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“INSULT TO TAXPAYERS SUNITED STATES Senator Morris Sheppard, chairman of x the Senate Committee Investigating Campaign Ex“penditures, now warns David Lasser, president of the “Workers Alliance of America, that the latter will violate _ “not only the spirit but the letter of Federal law if he per“sists in his plan to collect a $50,000 campaign fund from ~ “WPA workers. | 2 The Senator cites a section of the Federal Criminal 3Code which specifically forbids persons in the service of ‘Tthe United States to hand over money or other valuable ithings “to be applied to the promotion of any political Tobject whatsoever.” Penalty, fine up to $5000, three years’ Simprisonment, or both. : To pretend this doesn’t cover WPA workers because ®it antedates WPA would be an indefensible technical evasion. It is likewise idle to maintain that funds thus Sraised for an “educational campaign” would not be used in 2the political interest of any candidate or candidates! This 2is much too much to swallow. Moreover, the taxpaying part of the public doesn’t “need even law to convince it of the gross impropriety of the 3 Lasser project. Taxpayers already have seen enough of politics bedeviling relief without being asked to stand for =a deliberate attempt to levy on relief pay for political cam-

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Law or no law, Mr. Lasser’s plan should be halted by

vigorous public protest against any such unblushing misse of relief money provided for the needy by great public fort and sacrifice.

justice, It insults the taxpayep

Legal or illegal, the Lasser scheme is plain imposition

rise in a depression market without agreements to

‘strange beings once inhabited the environs of Man-

- we assume we shall be regarded as civilized 5000 years

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Extent of Communism -and ‘Nazism “In This Country May Not Be Great, ‘But It Does No Harm to Check Up.

EW YORK, Sept. 1.—Every so often the United States Congress, observing a suspicious rash on the hide of the nation, makes a political blood test to determine whether the country has become infected with communism. This has been done before, and happily, the results always have been negative. Now the symptoms are out again, and the Dies Committee on Un-American Activities decided that inasmuch as the two maladies are almost alike it would test for Naziism at the same time. Probably it is nothing worse than poison ivy, but it does no harm. to check up. : : Both diseases ale subtle. Both pretend to revere the Constitution while working for its destruction, and both invoke democracy for protection from its defenders. Both result in butchery of persons and liberties, both are utterly ruthless and cynical and deYoted fo the belief that any treachery is justified by the end. :

. ® 8 2 HE hearings thus far have served at least one good purpose in familiarizing the public with the term “fellow traveler.” Up to now the common public has had no pet name for those who remain outside the official fold of the Communist organization, but tag along doing the Communists’ dirty work in the guise of progressives and reformers. fa 2 Of course, there has been much indignation among the Communists, who point put that theirs is a regular political party, forgetting that by similar cunning a Nazi might easily organize a legal Nazi party within the wide limits of the American Constitution. The Dies inquiry has been called a Red hunt, and, if I were a member of the committee-I should admit as much. It is a Nazi hunt and a Red hunt; that is the committee’s duty and purpose, and it is a patriotic work. I am also an enthusiastic believer in Red baiting, being one of those who are tired of affected patience and forbearance under the most licentious baiting by the Reds. 2 » R. DIES is being baited by the Reds now for exposing their activities in the C. I. O. and in the film industry, of which they boast under some circumstances but deny under others. The Communists and their fellow travelers have been aggressive, overbearing and pernicious in the C. I. O. and proud of their power up to the point where Rep. Dies took them at their word and set out to prove it. At that point, however, the Communists and fellow travelers became mock modest and derided the very idea that they, being so few, could have had any influence among so many. Mr. Dies, however, is indirectly responsible for the smoking out of one C. I. O., leader who finally had to declare a belief that Communist Russia represents “the greatest effort for human betterment which has been made in history.” Such a believer would seem eligible to join the party the more directly to assist this greatest effort for human betterment, but it is still libelous under some conditions to charge an undeclared person with outright communism. The Communists, again like the Nazis, believe that those who are not for them are. against them—a status which should be highly acceptable to all who believe in the American form of Government, rather than the Russian or German, as the greatest effort for human betterment that has been made in history.

Business By John T. Flynn

Building Rise Depends on Applying Antitrust Laws to Small Business.

EW YORK, Sept. 1—The sound of the hammer has been more heard in the land a little more. this year than last. But, of course, building construction has not gained in any degree proportioned to the hopes .of businessmen; and the reason is obvious. : The most active period of business construction in our history was between 1926 and 1929. One of the most inactive if not, proportionately, the most inactive, has been the period from 1934 to date. Is it not a little odd, therefore, that building costs in most of our great cities should be greater in this period of serious inactivity than in the period of greatest activity? To add to the oddity, all this is true in spite of the fact that the period of 1926 to 1929 was a period of general prosperity and high prices, while the present one.is a period of general depression and lower prices. : : These statements are based on a study of building costs made for the Architectural Record by the F. W. Dodge Co. In New York, for instance, building costs in 1935 and 1936 were at or around the 1926-29 level. But in 1937—our now famous recession year—they rose 10 per-cent above that and this year they are almost another 10 per cent up. : With the percentages somewhat less the same thing is true of Chicago, Boston, Cleveland, Denver, Pittsburgh, St. Louis and other cities; The first question is: How can we hope for any recovery in business while this greatest of key capital industries, mere important to recovery than any other, paralyzes recovery with high prices?

Result of Artificial Agreements

The second question is—how do these building prices get that way? Obviously prices cannot possibly

keep them up. Mr. Thurman Arnold has announced that the Administration is interested in getting prices higher for the small husinessman. Well, here is an industry which is dominated by the small businessman. Yet it reveals an energy for raising prices which no big industry does. ; There is little doubt that the appalling situation in the building industry is the result of all sorts of artificial agreements of contractors, subcontractors, material producers, material sellers and labor, While these restrictions exist, any hope of the revival of business is impossible. They will never be broken up until the Department of Justice gets over its illusion that the antitrust laws do not apply to the small businessman.

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

WE shall do the sporting thing at the New York World’s Fair next year when we bury a glass capsule designed to preserve specimens typical of our civilization for curious descendants in 69038 to study. That will be nice for the folks 5000 years hence. Can't you just imagine them gawking at the queer gadgets their archeologists display to prove what

hattan Island and points west? There is some confusion about what is to be deposited in the crypt. No one is quite sure what will interest future Americans, or what is most typical of our age, or exactly how directions for finding the buried treasure can be left. I feel a little discouraged about the whole thing. Will the precious capsule fall into the proper hands, and can we be sure its message will not be misinterpreted? Maybe we even flatter ourselves When

from today: Unless the capsule can be enlarged to hold a sizable miniature of Big Bertha, several ‘bombs and $ampleg of our latest poison gas, the project seems utile. : : In every age, man has been best identified and pigeonholed by his weapons of destruction. The arrowhead is a relic of the Neanderthal citizen, after which came evidences of bone needles, which developed into spearheads. With the advent of what historians call the Age of Culture, the tomahawk, the bow and poisoned arrow, and later the sword made their appearance. Guns marked the next step in

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Says— at . Farm Prices Haven't Been Kept af Parity, and if Wallace's Program -. lsn't a Proved Flop, What Is It?

ETHANY BEACH, Del, Sept: 1—Secretary of column is unfair to him. He wants it censored for accuracy. The Secretary himself can censor it for accuracy. But who is going to censor the Secretary =

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High finance has seen few equals to his adroitness 2

§ | in so revising and recasting the estimates of the corn

5). | preached for five years. | much higher prices than they are getting. But. he

The Hoosier Forum

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

BELIEVES ALL POLITICIANS ARE LIKE PEAS IN POD

By W..S. Politicians seem to be like peas in a pod, regardless of party or nationality or age.

Some of the highranking New Dealers in Washington show the same love for the trappings and perquisites of office that was displayed by their old deal predecessors. They seek the mgst spacious and imposing office quarters, surround themselves with secretaries, assistants, press agents, doormen and other supernumeraries, and ride in chauffeured limousines at government expense. + A symbol of the Germany of a

strutting Kaiser, resplendent in uniforms with medals, ribbons and braid. The Germany of today — well, open most any newspaper now= adays and have a look at the festooned chest of Gen. William Goering. The Russia. of the tsars was a dark land ruled by secret police, terrorism, torture and purges. The Russia of Stalin likewise. In Mexico, old Porfirio Diaz was a brutal tyrant, ruthless to his enemies, indifferent to the welfare of the common people, but lavish in conferring privileges on those he wished to favor. Young Lazaro Cardenas seeks to restore lands to Mexico's impoverished peasants. He expropriates the lands, pleading the poverty of his Government as the reason for not compensating the legal owners. And when the United States recently protested that treatment of American citizens whose properties had been taken, the Cardenas Government retorted that the United States was seeking a privi--leged status. for her nationals in Mexico.. Yet we read in the paper that El Presidente Cardenas nationalized a farm belonging to Gabino Vasquez, chief of the Federal Agriculture Department. And to that cabinet officer he paid 100,000 gold pesos indemnity. » » ”

WANTS LEADERS OF ALL

FACTIONS TO UNITE

By E. S. Brown .

Saturday, Aug. 27, was a day In Indiana long to be remembered by those ‘who think, read, and think again what all this political campaigning is for. The Republicans were out in full blast, endeavoring to blow the Democrats into the unknown. They had an array of silver tongued orators which was enough to have made the entire nation and our neighbors, Canada and Mexico, laugh in wonderment. : On the other side of the political

few years ago was the haughty,

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picture, we had the Democrats blasting the Republicans with all the vigor possible, and not the least abashed by what might be said about them by their opponents, who are the believers in the Supreme Court and the Constitution. The Democrats are of two schools of thought, according to Republican Party bosses. These are the Jeffersonian Democrats and New Deal Democrats. Likewise, the Democrats have the Republicans divided into three factions, not resembling one another in the least, but endeavoring to make the people believe that they are all one and the same. The only difference between Jeffersonian and New Deal Democrats is in name and leadership. The difference between the Republicans in their three divisions is: The Lincoln Republicans taught and practiced emancipation from slavery, not only for the Negro but also for the white man. Then came the period of those who advocated the Lincoln doctrines, which in many ways

BOUQUET By RUBY STAINBROOK BUTLER How carefully I'll place you there By the newel of my winding stair,

To say things I can never say, For friends are coming here today.

I hope I've made your duty clear; It’s my sincere wish that you appear Most gracious; alone : Conveys the cordial warmth of home. Sat

your sweet blush

You see—I want today to be, For each {friend a fragrant

memory, And you are gifted with the power ‘To perfume every shining hour.

DAILY THOUGHT

The manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal—I Corinthians 12:7. .

A LL the principles which religion teaches, and all the habits which it forms, are favorable to strength of mind. It will be found

that whatever purifies also fortifies the heart.—Blair.

embraced those of Thomas Jefferson. The third was the Hoover school. With the advent of Hooverism, which is coupled with all the other imported isms, the foundation was laid for the many un-American political isms that confront us now. The Republican Party bosses are the daddies of the present dissenters in the country’s national affairs, whose politics is to rule or ruin. The Democrats see the evils of such doctrines, and are endeavoring to defeat those evils by liberal legislation. They have made mistakes. Our present. local tax question is of vital importance every taxpayer in Indianapo d Marion County, and can corr only by the sound co-operation of all property owners. There is no doubt but that many of the taxpayers have a strong feeling of indifference toward the efforts of those who believe in strict economy in the County’s . affairs. Many items can be entirely eliminated without any serious detriment to the proper functioning of the City and County government,

Republicans in the past have com- |

mitted mistakes in the local government, but have denied nearly every one. Why can’t the leaders of all factions unite with a-determination to settle these many differences of opinion so that confusion and discord may be eliminated? : 2 8 8 COUNCILMAN KEALING

CORRECTS “A SOUTHSIDER” By Edward R. Kealing, City Councilman

To clarify an erroneous statement made in The Hoosier Forum Aug. 30 by “A Southsider” who has been misinformed, I wish to state that I voted to repeal the antipicketing ordinance along with the other two Republicans and three Democrats; and also voted for all other labor bills favoring the laboring class of

people, being a. laboring man my-|

self. I feel justified in asking this particular person who said that I voted against the antipicketing ordinance to retract his statement. ® 2 » SUPPORT SOUGHT FOR TOWNSEND PLAN By R. M. R. Sa What is wrong with our country? Is it overproduction, or underconsumption? There isn’t enough buying power. We must have the buy ing power in the hands of all the people at the working age. How are we going to get it? By going to the polls Nov. 8, and voting for the General Welfare Bill, the Townsend plan. There will be people in each precinct who will represent the Townsend plan. So, if you want prosperity, help put this plan through, and make it law. Vote for the man, and not for the party. - :

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LET'S EXPLORE YOUR MIND

By DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM-

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ously. A raving beauty in a ‘wo i create a

saved from this dilemma for, as S. J. Holmes, biologist, has found by extensive research the most beautiful girls are mostly picked off as wives before they reach post graduate work in science—or anything else. Hi ® 8 =

YES. The notion of “total hu-

man depravity” which was very |

popular in the 18th and early 19th centuries and which led the sinners

who listened to Johnathan Edwards’ sermons to grab the seats to keep from slipping into perdition

‘has pretty well died out. Whether

any woman loves him or not, there is always a lot of good in every man, but a woman's love is one of the strongest forces for bringing the good to the surface. 8 8 = :

ABOUT the hardest job of education is to induce people to accept the simple universe as it is,

| instead of some mysterious universe

of their own imagination. A group of astrologers assured me that sunspots are caused by the “breathing” of the sun—the “outgoing and intaking of psychic force. This sounds. grand—but to a scientist, silly.

and | “Psychic vibrations,” “Fourth diMetision Relativity. stem fo Dring :

crop, supply and consumption that he escaped the Tequirement ur ite. Jaw to ut corn-croppers under Sys! o - igurePolitically % was ais Tate: Nigure-iggling: Mr. Wallace almost immediately burst forth with a plan to buy vast quantities of wheat at an artificial American price, jimmied or attempted to be jimmied,

'| ‘by Mr. Wallace, above the world price. Then he will

“sell this surplus in export at the much lower world

| price—and charge the loss to the Treasury. This is

precisely the reverse of the gospel Mr. Wallace has He promised the farmers

was todo it by controlling farm surplus would disappear and price

HE has had five years to do it. He has tried every 4 trick in the bag to avoid surplus, killed baby pigs, destroyed corn and cotton, bought tons of everye from eggs to oranges and given them away, He has maintained artificial domestic’ farm not high enough fo give farmers their promised price “parity,” but h enough to prevent exports and give their competitors abroad large chunks of their . export markets for wheat, cotton and animal fats—

production so thas would rise. !

which is at the root of the problem, desperation, he juggles the figures to avoid trying his own medicine on corn, and instead of giving purchased surplus wheat to our destitute, he proposes to subsidize a lower price for it to foreigners out of our Treasury. :

In spite of the hundreds of millions he has squandered, farm prices have not been maintained at parity and if the whole policy and program is not. B proved flop, what do you call it? 3

Now, in political

2 8 =» * 2 JA SRICULTURAL prosperity, which means ine dustrial prosperity, can’t be maintained on world farm prices. No nonfarmer ever kicked om paying for dollar wheat, 10-cent cotton, six-bit corn, If the price in a free market fell below that, or below whatever figure above that is “parity”—it wouldn't be much greater—then there would be no important consumer opposition in this country to an excise tax on all we use, sufficient to pay those prices to farmers without any attempt to restrict farm production or regiment any farmer. : Of course, there could be no ent f that tax and maintaining that nem ron culture chose to produce above domestic needs for sale to export. If we consume 600,000,000 bushels of wheat and the farmers raise 900,000,000 bushels, Dhey. ome ges a guaianiseq $1 a bushel on twoe 0 eir crop and the lower co re ig marke IS ro Competitive. pri at would maintain their price stabili would preserve to them their export markets y a Shrplus, hats jhe matise with that? Principally : o element o liti culture by Mr. Wallace, © Sonu ot oh

It Seems to Me

By Heywood Broun ‘Columnist Isn't Criticizing When He Says American Women Lack Humor,

NEY YORK, Sept. 1.—The two most amusing hooks of the late summer season are both by women. Naturally I am Yunking of Ruth McKenney’s “My ister Eileen” and “With Malice Tow ” Margret Halsey. Br) Some” BY

I have no desire to set the two ladies into a s - chase and watch them 80 over the hurdles. le which I wished to discuss in a brief and chivalrous way is the curious fact that America’s leading humorists of the moment should be feminine, Ee Women, and particularly American women, have many admirable qualities. But with singularly few exceptions one does not look to the ladies for good, glesh fun, And such exceptions as exist are mostly ritish. English men and American women are equally adept in their ability to miss the a = anecdote. : And in one sense the American woman serves humor with more severity than does the English. . By this time he is pretty well reconciled to the fact that he has no sense of humor. Indeed, he ta great pride in not being a funny fellow. Le But the American woman is not content to becomes the guardian of the sterner and more important vire tues. No sewing circle ever meets with . hi needler exclaiming, “I wouldn't take anyt for my And usually it is worth a little less’

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Too Good to Be Funny

The case is blacker than the darkness of a void Not only does the average American woman lack & sense of humor but she insists upon proving it. Few moments are so dreadful as the one in ‘which the hostess says, “My husband told me such an amusing : story the other evening. I'll try to get it straight® -You just know she won't. : = Of course, almost everything that I have set down is in a spirit of worship and adoration. The American woman is too kind to be an adept in humoz, Wheezes are born in bitterness and set forth in save agery. Traditionally it is woman’s role to bind up wounds and not to create them. The average Ameri= can housewife is so pampered and so happy doing the washing and getting the evening meal ready that she has no time to be making up sly digs at anyone. aE And so I predict that the next book by Miss Mes Kenney, and by Miss Halsey, too, will be on the somber side. Women can’t be funny over a stretch of time. Woman was put into the world to be a sturdy vine and look after her mate—the helpless clinging oak And that role decidedly is not a laughing matter.

Watching Your Health

By Dr. Morris Fishbein

4 ban question of whether or not persons with tuberculosis should marry is one which has | repeated cohsideration by the medical profession. Most authorities in the field of tuberculosis would’ be likely to say that marriage for either sex is uns

has not had the disease actively for at least two years, 2 There seem to be some cases in which marriage

in such cases it is important to find out whether or

disease to the second party concerned. For women there is a special question which has to do with the possibility of having a child. Most aus thorities are convinced that any- woman who has ac tive tuberculosis should not undertake to have a ¢ There must also be raised the question as whether or not the tuberculous mother can nurse child should the child be born. Under the kind close contact that might thus exist the child mi get. tuberculosis even if it had been born free of manifestations of this infection, A . An investigator studied 166 cases of : couples, and found that in 38.5 per cent of them infection of one of the partners to the Had been passed from the other partner. ; : This question of marriage for the tuberculous is a serious one in which the decision must be made by the doctor in every individual case, on the basis of the facts discovered at the time when the patient is first studied. Every patient should under such ci stances have a Soipplete examine tion by the doe

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wise until it has been shown by tests that the patient

might actually benefit a person with tuberculosis, but “not there would be any danger of transmitting the