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FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 2, 1938
LEWIS AND THE U. A. W.
OHN L. LEWIS is sending his two ablest lieutenants to
Detroit in an attempt to bring peace to the United Automobile Workers. That is a large order, even for Philip Murray and Sidney Hillman. BE Ed Mr. Lewis, whose own United Mine Workers bar Communists from membership, is asking President Homer Martin of the U. A. W. to reinstate the union officers he fired for allegedly paying more attention to the Communist “party line” than to the union’s real interests. He proposes also that the U. A. W., now seething factionalism, shut its
collective mouth until its next convention and let the C. 1. O. ]
decide all disputes in the meantime. : x That is too big a dish of crow for Mr. Martin to stomach.
. Perhaps | powers are amply documented in the history of union
progress, can conceive some other formula and obtain its’
~acceptance by both Mr. Martin and the insurgents. i Factionalism has been so expensive the membership “doubtless would prefer a single leadership and steady “work.
* "HAROLD CAUGHT A CARTER : “M* ICKES should really be more careful about prodding
wasps’ nests. He ought to have known that “Marse Cyahtah” Glass is his match, if not his master, at no-holds-barred vitupera-
= tion.
When he blithely bracketed the Senator among the - “political hypocrites,” in a speech at Tacoma, Wash., anybody could have warned him that he had caught a Tartar. And sure enough, the Senator cocked his mouth on one side and hissed that Honest Harold is a “confirmed blackguard” emitting a “wanton falsehood” in a “mean and impertinent” manner. ’ Mr. Ickes has long been the New Deal's _name-caller. And the bigger they come the better he likes it. A few years ago, every time he thought up.a new insulting phrase he tried it out on Huey Long—whom he accused, for instance, of “suffering from halitosis of the intellect.” - (Huey retorted that Harold “is dead and won't lie down.”) : : ‘Mr. Ickes fought Father Coughlin, Jim Farley, FHA Administrator Moffett, Lew Douglas, Emil Hurja, Gifford © Pinchot, Charlie West, Robert Moses, Donald Richberg, Gen. Johnson, Pat Harrison, and even Adolf Hitler, with : . “varying degrees of acerbity. He called Landon “a Trilby | .to Hearst’s Svengali.” He branded the president of the ET 7 Society of American Foresters “a below-the-belt fighter.” | 3 He sneered at Liberty Leaguers Shouse, du Pont, et al, as | “those vestal virgins of liberty.” He referred to Fiorello | La Guardia as “an exclamation-point boy.” His every speech and press conference dripped such words as “malodorous,” “contemptible,” “pussyfooting,” “absurd,” “puerile,” “despicable,”” “notorious,” “strutting,” “threadbare” and " “inane.” He fought many a fi ind the scenes with © Harry Hopkins, though he formally {announced one time ~ that “there is no rift, schism, clash, row, breach, break or misunderstanding” between him and Harry. ; But none of the objects of his aspersions heretofore, ““unless it be Gen. Johnson, has been so gifted at abusive rebuttal as Senator Glass, that self-styled “relic of constitutional government” whose rasping philippics have long been the Senate’s greatest drawing card. The Senator is 81, but he asks and needs no quarter in epithet-swapping. He paid his compliments to another Cabinet member, for instance, by calling Attorney General Cummings . “evasive, disingenuous and misleading.” The Roosevelt “= court plan was “a frightful proposition.” Brain trusters were “visionary incendiaries.” His terrifying temper has been aroused by such innovations as dial telephones and * that legalistic short-cut, “and/or.” In one of the most violent tongue-lashings ever delivered on the Senate floor he accused Senator Nye of “dirt-daubing the sepulchre of ° Woodrow Wilson” and of being “insensible to every consideration of decency.” The magnificent scornfulness of "his voice pumps new meaning into such words as “impertinent,” “abhorrent,” “impudent,” ‘“‘mendacious,” “malicious,” -and that sweeping Southern monosyllable “trash.” We would dearly love to see Mr. Glass and Mr. Ickes face to face on a debating platform, with all rules of decorum waived.
“ WISELY CHANGED HIS MIND E have already commented on the remarkable action & of Senator Sheppard in changing his mind about the propriety and legality of WPA workers being asked to con“tribute to politic] campaign funds.
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But for a man in public life frankly to admit that he
has made a mistake is such a phenomenon that we feel we should be falling short of our duty if we failed to publish the complete text of the precedent-breaking statement. S So we give you here the reconsidered views of Morris Sheppard, chairman of the Special Committee to Investigate ‘, Campaign Expenditures and Use of Governmental funds: i: «At a former press conference, I stated, in reference to solicitation of funds for candidates from relief benefi- _ ciaries of Works Progress relief funds, that it was my opin“jon that when people have earned money it was theirs to spend as they please and that such solicitation was not within the province of this committee’s inquiries. Further _ study of the matter convinces me of the error of that view 4 and that relief beneficiaries should be placed under the same “legal limitations with respect to political contributions as “are now placed on regular WPA and other Federal em- ~ All of which means that, on second thought, Mr. Shepard concluded that it was unlawful for politicans running
r office to shake down WPA workers, and likewise unul for the workers to permit themselves to be frisked. for didn’t say, but we presume that he also believes
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By Westbrook Pegler = i)
Dies Committee Has Touched Nerve " In Communism Probe, It Sees, but Nazi Angle Must Not Be Forgotten.
NTEW YORK, Sept. 2—By the shrill squawk of the _Bolos and their journalistic fellow travelers against the Dies. committee’s inquiry into communistic activities Mr. Dies and his colleagues may know that they have touched a nerve. The inquiry was all right as long as it confined itself to the activities of the Fascists and Nazis, for, after all, they are upstart rivals of the Bolos and the fellow travelers. - But
.when witnesses began to accuse the Communists
of activities which they themselves proudly admit in
less guarded moments Mr. Dies became a tool of
fascism. 4 But after all, what accusations have been made that the Bolos want to deny?
That Communists are influential in the C. I. 0.2
They admit that. They favor the C. I. O. and join it, and it would be contrary to their purpose not to
dominate it- wherever they Can. So, of course, they |
are active and influential in the C. I. O,, and, moreover, while still denying it they
: 2 8 = ; / C. I. O. leader, accused of sympathy for the Com-
munists,” fumed at this and denied that he was an enrolled Communist—which wasn’t the charge at
all—but corroborated the witness by vowing a belief. &
that Communist Russia is the world’s greatest effort for human betterment. > 2 put It was said that the old League Against War and Fascism was under Moscow influence. This league’s reputation came to be such that it presently was
deemed wise to change its name to the League for’
Peace and’ Democracy. But. neither name contains any hint against communism, and there is no denial that the Communists and: their fellow travelers favor the league, whether or not it be admitted that they gomitute it or that it is under direct influence from 0scow.
It was said also that Shirley Temple had unwit--
tingly lent her name to-the Communist \ by sending greetings to a Paris said to be communistic. : or * ® = : NSBopx said Shirley Temple was a dahgerous Red, but with fellow travelers in the newspaper business Mr. Dies could hardly expect entirely objec-
tive treatment of the actual testimony. But the facts .
were not disputed at all, nor is. the charge disputed
that the Communists do seduce prominent persons
into lending their names to communistic organizations with misleading titles. . Of course, in such hearings where prejudiced witnesses are invited to sing their songs, overstatements and sensationalism are common. Thus the Communists and fellow travelers have been given occasion to jeer at the report that Federal officials would be connected with subsidiary groups of the’ Communist organization. But further inquiry might dig deeper and produce more evidence, and, anyway, when did the Communists and fellow travelers become so sensitive to overstatement and sensationalism on the part of ad lib witnesses before Congressional committees? It has always pleased them when directed against any of their pet enemies. Mr. Dies is doing very well, but he should remember to come back to the Nazi investigation before his committee goes broke, just to make things even.
Business By John T. Flynn
A Grave Movement Is Developing From Roosevelt's Actions in South.
EW YORK, Sept. 2—The long-term economic effects of what the President is doing in the South, as usual remain far more obscure than the immediate ones. The immediate ones sre political and relate chiefly to the results at the polls next November. The long term ones are economic and social and touch the roots of one of the profoundest ‘problems in this country, one it has hardly recognized. Remote as it may seem this problem has to do with the Negro and his economic and social position. For 65 years the Republican Party has numbered among its assets the Negro vote. This asset was not so much the Negro vote of the South but of the North. The Negro vote of the South was merely important to the Republican machine for convention purposes. The Republican Party looked upon the South as hopelessly Democratic. But now the Negro vote at the North seems to be pretty generally lost to the Republicans. The colored voter is no longer interested in emancipation, He is now interested in his social and, principally, economic rights. These he wants to establish at the North. This is the salient where he recognizes he can push his gains further. .
G. O. P. Looks to Dixie .
In this fight he knows he can look for no support from conservative groups—Democrats or Republicans. His hopes lies with the liberals and progressives. And for this reason he has aligned himself with the liberal ghd progressive elements in‘ the Democratic industrial
Why should the Republican Party sacrifice gains in the South to win Negro votes at the North which are already lost to it? Reasoning thus there are Republican leaders who believe their next great battle Is to be for the Southern states. And for the same
reason there are vast numbers of the white-suprem-
acy devotees of the South—whic¢h means the bulk of leaders there—who. are wondering if the Democratic Paty ja the champion of white supremacy is not lost With these shifting views in the backgroun easy to see the effect which the ng x the South is having on sentiment there. The President is being widely advertised, in print and by whis‘per, as the protagonist of the-colored man--which is far from his discredit. His forays into the ‘Southern primaries have had the effect of giving a further push to this movement toward a cooling in Southern sentiment toward its traditional Democratic devotion. Here is a rapidly rising and grave movement developing amid all our other problems the long-term results of which, so little noticed, no one is Prepared to face.
A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson i
Tr there is anything to the idea «that people respond |
more eagerly to praise than to blame, giving medals for good driving ought to work like a charm, Anyway, it's a swell innovation and we're all for it. In Oklahoma City, a woman has actually been pre-
sented with a courtesy award for life-saving driving,
which goes to show the thing is taking hold of: the public imagination, Speaking of women drivers—and aren’t the men always doing it?—their record through the nation is something to be proud of. The figures prove that they are men’s superiors at the steering wheel, but Just get a man you know to admit it!” : Common sense argues with the figures. Feminine masculine sort. Isn't it true that men of their flair for recklessness? Theis proudest Et cal feats, from the trip of Columbus to Corrigan’s wild Sigh. prove that the male is eager to take desperate The quality is a splendifi one at sea or in the afr, but on the highway it plays havoc with life and
nature has always been more cautious than the.
stoutly assert their:
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~~ The Hoosier Forum ; of ‘wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.
SAYS AMERICA MAY NEED COMMUNISM
By W. M. K. Communists are coming in for a lot of unsolicited publicity. This, thanks to the zeal of some political puppets of the economic royalists, who are smearing the New Dealers with communism. Of course, there has been no evidence to substantiate these fables. : To be sure, Communists are increasing in number. This is true in America, as elsewhere. Do not the American people have the right to become Communists if they want to? Speaking of the Constitution, doesn’t that cherishéd document provide for change? If it comes to the day that the American people shall, by a majority, decide to set up communism, is there anything unconstitutional, or un-American, about it? Perhaps America should go on along the old beaten path, but then, again, maybe America does need communism. : 2 ® 8 READER TAKES ISSUE WITH WILLIS By Bryan B. Biyant Everybody ought to read the. address of Raymond Willis, Republican Senatorial nominee, at the Capehart Farms rally. : : Mr. Willis states that the President ‘is coiducting a “purge” which is an attack upon Senators and Congressmen all up and down the land. Then note what follows. Says Mr. Willis, “For one reason only— they have declined to obey the will of one man.” Of course that reason cannot. have the approval of the people. But, the people elected
Senators and Congressmen, upon the platform of New Deal policies. When, then, a number of those elected representatives, in flagrant violation of the mandate of the people and of the people’s‘trust imposed in them, turn right-about-face against the policies on which the people elected them—and that by the greatest majority ever known —then whose will are they disobeying? 2 Mr. Willis—albeit the name he claims—either does not know the wills or-else he deliberately intends to fool someone. It is obvious that the will which those Senators and Congressmen have disobeyed is the will of the people who elected them. Thus, President Roosevelt is pro-
‘| tecting the mandate of the people
President Roosevelt, and Democrat’ It’s terrible how words exaggerate
(Times readers are invited to express theif views in these columns, religious controversies excluded. Make your letter short, so all can have a chance. Letters must be signed, but names will be withheld on request.)
who elected them. Mr. Willis stresses the failure of management under the New Deal. What gall. As if the people are not capable of remembering so far back ‘as the years 1929, ’30, 31, and ’'32. ‘While Mr. Willis is defending the interests of the monopoly class, at the same time he expresses remorse that during the last six years there has been an almost constant effort to arouse “class feeling.” The only possible inference that it is possible to draw from these remarks of Mr. Willis is that, with him and his kind, it is perfectly all right for the monopoly capitalists to feel the awareness of their interests, or to have “class feeling”; but when it comes to the great working class, and the large class pt impoverished farmers—for them, it is the will of Willis to place a strict taboo on “class feeling.” It is the will :of Willis that what is sauce for the goose is not sauce for the gander.
# 8 =» KEALING FAVORS LABOR, READER DECLARES By a Westsider
I wish to retract the statement made in the Forum by a South Side citizen, who stated that Mr. Kealing voted against the antipicketing
EXAGGERATION By ROBERT O. LEVELL
The things we want to say, For oftentimes it’s not the truth The way a thing is said. : ‘For those who say “tickled to death” “Don’t mean it just that way, When they are just amused so much And are not really dead. :
DAILY THOUGHT Take heed for yourselves: If thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him; and if he repent, for- - give him.—Luke 17:3.
~OD hath promised pardon to J him that repenteth, but he hath not promised repentance to
‘SAYS READER DECEIVED
‘he may eat, what work hé may do—
| cumstances. ‘We have everything we
‘| government, we’ll have no different
| By American Worker
‘him that sinneth.—Anselm.
ordinance. He: voted for the repeal
of this ordinance. This statement |
may be certified by referring to the Council records. : If this unobservant South -Side citizen would follow the ‘aclwvities
of the Council more keeniy in. re-|
gard to labor ‘organization prob-
lems brought before the Council, he |
would recognize that Mr. Kealing
voted in favor of labor organiza- |
tions every time. Te a
ABOUT RUSSIA By Plain American May I answer Mr. American Worker? The pity of it is that many, like yourself, have been deceived by Socialist leaders into believing ‘that their form of government is really the Utopia which you
listed. Don’t blindly accept their |
fairy tales. Look for yourself at Russia; or better still, go there yourself awhile and try it. You'll be awfully glad for the chance to come back to America and help readjust our own Government to meet our needs. #5 In Soviet Russia the worker is told where he may live, what food
he is the property of the State, and so are even his children. If he objects, his statements are called lies,
and he is “purged” into eternity,|
where he ceases to be an annoyance. Our ° Constitution "allows for
changes, in order that it may serve |
our nation at all times with freedom of government under changing cir-
need to work with. All we need is to make all true Americans realize it is up to them to do so by a more vital interest in their voting power, and to use it to substitute honest persons in the place of dishonest ones. If we haven’t enough honest persons to correctly run this form of
people to use in a socialist form of government, and we give them an iron hand to rule with. 8 ” »
CORRECTION
My letter to the Forum of Aug. 30 contained ‘a typographical error. The second paragraph should have read as follows: : The Soviet Union does not have communism. It does not have socialism. They have a: democracy. that is based on socialism. Here in America our democracy is based on capitalism. In other words they believe in human rights over property rights. They believe in production for use and not for profit.
limb. The’ average man gloats in his strength. “So | |
long as the car is under control,” he will say—and go careening on his way, confidently, g nothing to snap and that no other proud man will be SomIng on ‘the wrong side of the road over the next To ‘be ‘fair, however, we should remember that there are more men than women drivers. And having shown this in to fairness, we wish also to announce we're pretty tired of hearing the ‘smart cracks about our, driving. Men . Fepuatio the daring, reckless, ma
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{ ES. BOGARDUS, Southern Salami | ‘8 studied the likeness RVI traits of 300 pairs of chums and
defend their
found they were alike in a grand
LET'S EXPLORE YOUR MIND
——By DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM-
BPS FATHER, THEY CLAIM, , SR TEE ME SAG Pl INTELLIGENCE OF A I3YEAR] BN Oo CHILD, HAVENTWE |
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of their traits and unlike in 33] per cent. On breaking this analysis| 3 down further he found that these p
| developed. So, if the average in- | | not only does not: mean we:
only 50 per cent alike in their hobbies, reading habits and shopping habits.. He . concludes that chums must be very much alike in.
standards and ideals but quite un-{ wever, today ‘many of them ‘have: been’bfoken - down into several parts. = ne Zig EE hag ' Very early it was established that Vitamin B con-
like in less vital matters. vo nC .® = = 5a ot DAD isn't so far wrong when -this statement is made in this sensational, unqualified way. The brain and nerve mechanisms by
which we learn grow pretty rapidly until about 16; then they slow down, but. probably continue slightly up to 25, possibly 30. By age 13, therefore the learning capacity is highly
telligence of adults is that high it morons but that we have enormous
capacity for - acquiring knowledge |
and mental skills as long as we live. A moron is now held to be a person whose abili of an eight or nine-year-old child. This is not pessimistic. A boy of 13 for example, can see as well as an adult, but he continues to see new
| Gen. Johnso | Says—
to learn is about that |
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You Can't Get Angry With Hopkins, ‘As Wrapped Up as He Is in His Job, For Attacking Roosevelt Purgees. \TEW YORK, Sept. 2—Harry Hopkins made a ripe roaring defense of purges, of WPA and a fire-
| "eating attack on tories at Boston. Mr. Hopkins hasn't. spoken often in this sulphurous way. That is strange . because he has it in him to make the hottest of hore rendous Harold Ickes’ squawks and yowls sound as soft
as Bing Crosby’s crooning in comparison. = = = He has a mind like a razor, a tongue like a skin ning knife, a temper like a tartar'and a sufficient vocabulary of parlor profanity. Finally, he is a zealot who, as Mrs. Roosevelt says, “believes in what he is doing.” “Believes” is too soft a word. It is a fanatical
religion and, in its practice, he is a hard-shell, |, His defense of WPA put an excellent case for the
unquestioned good work it has done and for the undoubted right of Administration spokesmen to call attention to whatever it has accomplished, yo sm. a : JRUT in his zeal, Mr. Hopkins waxes fiery in denial that the WPA organization anywhere brings poe litical pressure on its beneficiaries. I think he sine cerely believes that, notwithstanding that he knows that his ineffable first assistant, Aubrey Williams, stood up before Dave Lasser’'s WPA workers’ union and egged them on to elect only their “friends,” politicians who would vote for more and better WPA appropriations. Because he is a blind loyalist, Mr. Hopkins believes that there has been no WPA political pressure despite: the Williams statement, and ‘much other plain evidence that everybody. else knows, For a similar reason, he believes this also—that
the Presidential. purgees in these primaries “tricked
the voters by wearing our own insignia in 1936” when Mr. Hopkins says “everybody knew which way we were going, . . . only to turn. against us as soon as
they got into office.” .
If that had been spoken by anybody. but such a blindered witch-finder as Mr. Hopkins, then stich a dupe of 1936 as I was would get all heated. up. g, coke a A Phi FOR one thought I knew “exactly which way we were going.” I thought “we were going” where the Democratic platform and campaign promised, to go
and ‘not in: the very different ‘direction we took as
‘soon. as Mr. Roosevelt “got into office.” - That was where most: of the present purgees were told and thought we were going. None “turned against that.” “That” turned against them, : * If anybody “tricked the voters,” it was the gents who really knew “which way we were going,” slyly failed to say anything ‘about it in the campaign, pulled their fully prearranged plan out -of their sleeves immediately after the second inauguration and condemned as’ traitors all who had fought for them but would not participate in their fraud as accessories after the fact. : ‘You can get sore at the men who pulled this stupendous stunt as cold dishonest politics—but not at Harry Hopkins. He's just a high-minded fanatic in a semireligious frenzy.
lt Seems to Me By Heywood Broun =~
“Ridicule Came to Dies Group When It Let lts Witnesses Go Astray.
EW YORK, Sept. 2.—Martin Dies took to the:
air to make a collection speech for his committee. He was more moderate than might have been
expected. In fact, to a great extent he seemed to be .
upon the defensive as he moaned that some com‘mentators had failed to treat him and his fellow members with satisfactory respect and seriousness. It is the boast of the committee that if. any individual is slandered he may. hie himself {o Washington and gain a hospitable reception for rebuttal. To be sure, this is not a wholly accurate assertion.
The committee has a short way with dissenters and
all day long for “yes” men, = If the Dies committee had used any sort of crossexamination whatsoever it might have held its more imaginative witnesses in bounds.” Instead the more florid romancers were egged on as they seemed to be drawing to the end of the chapter. = This is. the spirit which prevailed when Prof. J. B. Matthews opened ‘his mouth to put his foot into it. His error began in a fashion which was innocent enough. He made the statement that the French newspaper Ce Soir is “wholly owned by the Communist Party.” The American representative of the publication has since denied that assertion, but the COMILITER did ‘not bother to ask the doctor for evience. ’ ETE ie ALS But at this point Matthews threw in for good ‘measure the statement that motion picture stars had been duped by the “Reds” into sending felicitations to the publication upon an anniversary. He mentioned Clark Gable, James Cagney and Robert Taylor. And then added .“and even little Shirley Temple.”
A Putout for Mr. Matthews
Just how stock greetings from stars to a large
paper in a good foreign market could hasten the revolution it would be difficult to say. Any member of the Dies committee might have minimized the harm done by saying no more than “So what?” ' Buf Dies was so dedicated to sound and fury and the ‘fervor of the hunt that he did not have sufficient acumen to whistle Matfhews back to heel. The whole pack went roaring over the hill and down into the glade, while reporters, suddenly - galvanized into life, began to send out bulletins. 357 Headlines often go a step beyond the text, and
presently America rocked to read the somewhat in-
‘accurate banner line “Shirley Temple Called a Red.” “A little lad once wrecked an emperor by crying out, “He hasn’t got anything on,” and Shirley Temple, al= though unwittingly, has played the same role in show “ing up the Dies committee. Martin Dies complained over the air that he and
his associates have suffered from ridicule, but in
scoring that he should give a putout to J.!B. Mat= thews and credit himself with an assist.
Watching Your Health
By Dr. Morris Fishbein
\INOE vitamins were first named A, B, C, D and
a, ? EB, the average person is inclined: fo believe sve that “each of these substances is ‘something very definite,
sists of at least two different substances, which were named Bl and B2 and later called Bl and G. Now it is known that Vitamin B has many different parts. The first, called Bl, is the anti-beriberi vitamin. Another part is known as riboflavin, a compound necessary for growth in animals. : : It has been found that there is another factor which ig effective in the treatment of pellagra in man and black tongue in dog—a factor which is
necessary for rapid gains in weight and. the normal
nutrition of pigeons. A vitamin tentatively called B4 prevents a form of specific paralysis in rats chickens. : A portion called B5 is necessary to maintain
Only. of these factors have been » : tely to be individual chemical substances. Only two hdve been found definilely important to deficiency diseases in man—namely, vitamin B1 which is the beriberi factor, and the PP factor which is
Because vitamin BI is known. to be definitely ase
sociated with beriberi and with polyneuritis, many
and
Sm
tests have been made to determine whether this vita= ,
min is of value in treating conditions in the human
y| Body in which neuritis is a fac ‘The most important study