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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1938

THE LARGEST STATE FAIR | "HE Indiana State Fair opened today with its usual wellrounded program. It is expected to attract 460,000 . Hoosiers and out-of-state visitors by next Friday. All departments in the vast Fair Grounds are crowded * with exhibits. There are more than 1200 head of cattle. ¥ The number of horse, hog and sheep entries are large. Some - of the nation’s best horses have been brought to compete -in the Grand Circuit racing and horse shows. The display . of farm machinery is the largest ever assembled at any state fair, while there are 400 more boys’ and girls’ exhibits than last year. Exhibits also have been prepared by the stafe colleges. Prizes and premiums totaling approximately © $147,377.65 are to be awarded. : : A special feature is the Northwest Territorial Celebration pageant, to be presented daily starting Monday. In addition, there are to be vaudeville presentations each night i - in front of the grandstand, special events every day and the usual midway attractions. § All in all, it promises an interesting and educational : week. You’ll be sorry if you miss it. |

: . VOTERS NEED TWO EARS } ME ROOSEVELT would “not have the slightest objection” to the election of “a good liberal running on the Republican ticket.” : But Mr. Farley exhorts the voters of Maine to vote the straight Democratic ticket, including the ultra-conserv-ative Louis Brann for Governor, and thereby “prove to the country... that there is no chance that the work President Roosevelt has done shall be undone by any return to that party which multiplied multimillionaires and reduced the rest of our citizenry to poverty and despair.” : -Yet last week Messrs. Roosevelt and Farley jointly announced that on political matters they were “in complete © agreement, as usual.” :

HOW THEY ‘GET ALONG’ IN ENGLAND

HE Presidential Committee which surveyed industrial : relations in Great Britain releases its report at a time when the United States is being threatened with a nationwide railroad strike.

The report could not be more opportune. For the railroad industry is one of the few in this country where em- : ployer-employee relations parallel those in Britain. On one . side is a strong association of employers; on the other side ~ are strong unions of employees. The spokesmen for these two groups deal with each other through established procedures of negotiation, conciliation and arbitration, and in line with honored traditions of collective bargaining.

The railroads have announced their intention to cut . wages. The unions have balked. The initial efforts at negotiation and conciliation have failed. The unions have refused to submit to arbitration, and now, with the unions polling their members in a strike vote, one official step remains, The President will appoint a fact-finding board, for the purpose of bringing public opinion to bear on the dispute. We are closer to a major railroad tie-up than we have been in many, many years. Yet the public seems confident that the trains will keep on running, that somehow, - sometime before the strike deadline, the two sides will sign a new agreement. : For it is generally believed that America’s railroad industry has “learned how.” ;

® = = ! ® x =» HAT, in brief, is the gist of what the President’s committee found in England. Employers and employees over there have learned how to get along with ‘each other. That goes not for just one, but for practically all of Britain’s industries. 3 Labor union leaders and members in this country, we ~ _ think, can profit by reading in this report— ; ‘How Britain’s unions have learned to settle their jur.isdictional disputes without stopping work, penalizing employers or antagonizing the public. How the unions over there, by their mistakes, brought down on themselves laws strictly limiting peaceful picketing, outlawing intimidation and sympathetic strikes designed to “coerce” the Government, forbidding politica! use of union funds without the written permission of members, and how today, for the most part, the unions accept those laws as proper restraints. o 8 8 8 » y : AMERICA'S employers, we think, can profit by reading— How Britain’s employers learned long ago not to quarrel with the fact of unionization, but instead to welcome and encourage the development of strong unions, and to join with other employers in forming associations to deal with the unions for the mutual advantage of all parties. . ' How,employers over there gave up long ago all thought of trying to fight unions by hiring strikebreakers because *, “there is a general feeling among workers and employers ~ that ‘the job belongs to the man’ and that it is not right - for men to take, or to be asked to take, the jobs of their feliows,” and because “there is confidence on both sides that the controversy will be settled by peaceful negotiations, and a desire on both sides to effect a resumption of work * under circumstances as grom bitterness as possible, so * that future strife may be avoided.” mal ;

‘HE report is the work of nine outstanding Americans— ;

+ representatives of labor, of capital, of Government and of the public. All who read it, we think, will be impressed, President Roosevelt was, that “the most salient feature sf it is the co-operative spirit coupled with restraint which own by those who represent both employers and em- $ in Great Britain. Collective bargaining is an ac-

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Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler A Place on Page One, It Is Plain

Europe's Fireworks Haven't Begun.

"EW YORK, Sept. 3.—The Hines trial, in my opinjon, has been overplayed in the New York

| papers, but the sight of the story, stil on top of the

right-hand side of Page One, is a blessed relief from day to day. : : , As long as the Hines trial leads the papers it is plain at a glance that it has not happened yet in Europe. On the day that Hitler makes his: move Tom

swept out of sight, and the proceedings will be summarized back among the ads. Then the war heads will roar of confusion and terror, and the people will read the papers with a feeling that the hour of doom has struck. ; There was a hot trial going on in Paris in August, 1914, in which the wife of Joseph Caillaux, a former Prime Minister, was charged with killing Gaston Calmette, the editor of Figaro. The whole world—the newspaper world, anyway—hung on that one, for,

angle. But the war blasted it out of print, and I will bet you don’t remember what the verdict was, if you - remember ever hearing of the case at all. She was acquitted. I looked it up. » » #

T= question of news value generally is decided by the instinct of the desk in a newspaper office. Often the press is accused of overplaying or underplaying stories for reasons of business or political policy. But often such a charge can be pared down to mean only that some pet beef over which the plaintiff has chewed a pencil far into the night, has been boiled down fo its relative importance, deep inside. When I was a cub in St. Louis there was a folk tale abcut a man who had kicked one the night the battleship This man was supposed to have been on the desk and

where inside the paper. Whether he was loath to tear up Page One when on the point of saying, “Take it away,” or just, somehow, didn’t appreciate the size of a dispatch no bigger than a man’s hand I never heard tell. But they used to say that this man, now grown old, had quit the editorial side forthwith to become a recluse in the proofroom because that job did not call for the exercise of decisive judgment on news values. : / 5 ” ” »

NOTHER one has it that The Chicago Evening

firmly shoved the Jeffries-Johnson fight in Reno back around Page 10 and reduced it to the essential intelligence that James J. Jeffries, white, the heavyweight champion, had been knocked out in the 15th round of a contest with Jack Johnson. But, generally speaking, the news is played in proportion to its importance and public interest, according to the editor's judgment, which usually is fairly accurate. And, wishing Mr. Hines no particular ill, I

York papers indefinitely. ; Maybe people do not realize what a strain they are under just now, all tense and apprehensive like a

whom George Patullo used to tell. Mr. Patullo, the war correspondent for The Saturday Evening Post, was a patient when the Germans came over one night to bomb some forage piled close to the hospital. They didn’t hit the hospital, but one plane kept circling over the roof until the wounded officer sat up in bed and shrieked, “Drop it, damn you! Drop it and quit buzzing around!”

Business By John T. Flynn

Economist Lists Possible Effects Of European War on U. S. Business.

EW YORK, Sept. 3.—If was of course natural that the stock market, at the first shock of a possible European war, should make a sudden descent. But what will an outbreak of war now do to business here and to stocks here? Of course if war begins certain lines of business will suffer promptly. Those industries which supply peace-time goods to Eurcpe will become immediately affected by a loss of European trade. This can be very serious, but the actual extent of the damage under present circumstances remains a little doubtful. On the other hand certain other lines will be stimulated. . Europe does have some buying power in this country which it can use. Probably one of the first acts of the various governments involved would be the seizure in fact or in effect of the security invest‘ments held by their respective nationals in this country. With these securities in their hands the Governments could use them to buy war materials manufactured here. The extent of this purchasing power might well be very great, for there are several billions of American securities owned by foreigners living in the affected countries. Sooner or later these purchases would help the industries which make war goods. On the other hand the President would be called upon immediately to declare the existence of a state of war. It is inconceivable that a war in Europe can break out without a declaration of war or that such a war should take on a form which would Justify the Executive here avoiding his plain duty under the Neutrality Act. This would doubtless interfere with trade in war materials. But it would not cut that trade off all together.

Securities Clearing House Advisable

However, foreign governments, in order to use the securities of their nationals, would have to sell them. This might well precipitate a selling wave in the market which would send stocks tumbling. If events should lead to war it would be important for American bankers and industrialists to set up a committee of some sort as a clearing house for securities to prevent their coming on the market in too great a flood. In the last war there was a sudden withdrawal of bank funds and of foreign owned investments from this country. It is difficult to say whether this would develop now. However, there would certainly be some withdrawals and these would have a further depressive effect upon the market. Should war come the first duty of this country would be to take measures to protect our economic life from the effects of the war.

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

HE Man Next Door had delivered himself of a scathing .ecture on feminine fashions. “I suppose the psychiatrists have a word for it,” he shouted, “but to me it proves that women are just plain nutty. Why can’t they stick to one style for a couple of years at least and give us a rest from these silly fads?” Being the Visiting Lady in his home, I didn’t make the quick verbal comeback’which might have been put in these words: “And suppose they did, where

spice to a drab existence?” : Woman's ability to change her dress styles with the moon’s waxing and waning is one of the best evidences of her mental superiority over the average male, who has to have the Mayor tell him when he can take off his straw hat in the fall and who hasn't changed the cut of his clothes for so long that all the United States goes into a dither when our Ambassador at the Court of St. James's is asked to appear in knee britches. : : ; : And why shouldn't he? And why don't all the gentlemen put on knee britches when they dress up? It would change their whole outlook on life. : Getting an entirely ferent Kind of hat is a spiritual experience for a girl. Instead of being plain Mary Jones, who works in a department store basement, she walks away feeling like a glamour girl for i litile while, e other hand, the | men = another hat. The individual oi! into Ly, buy an in Jim Jones. :

I wish the men would take more interest in their

‘the workers of Britain have learned

‘As Long as Hines Trial Is Worth

Dewey, Jimmy Hines, Dixie Davis and the rest will be

unlike the Hines thing, it had quality and a woman.

Maine was blown up in Havana Harbor. to have tucked the bulletin away in a hole some-"

Post, which was intellectual and cost a nickel,

hope he can continue to rank as high man in the New

wounded American officer in the little field hospital of -

would business be? And what would add gaiety and

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Urope—By Herblock

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

STRIKE OF TAXPAYERS FAVORED BY READER By F. J. F.

Hurrah for the 500 who were at the City Council chambers protesting against raising the budget. More power to you, and may your action spread, so we can really have a tax strike. That is the only way to stop confiscatory taxation. There are too many on the public payroll for the good of the public. What does Townsend care, or know, what is a high rate for the man who is working only part time, or not at all? Some, if their politics are O. K,, can work and be on relief, also; others, if they have a stick of fur-

‘niture, don’t get relief. What will

these public parasites do when hey have taxed the people till they t meet all the salaries for unnecessary jobholders. When some big public official takes a vacation, which they do practically all the time, there is a big splurge. in the newspapers, of all the happenings, the fine food— and people actually starving to

‘death.

You are taxed to pay the farmer for not raising food, and then they buy it from European countries. Is that = economy? Formulate plans for this tax strike, beginning with taxes payable in the spring of 1939.

8 8 = DEPLORES CONDITIONS IN SOUTH By M. E. J.

I have seen much in the papers lately of the South—I won't say it’s freight rates, but I will say they must ‘have some deadly enemies working in this country. The difference in the standard of li in the North and the South would indicate that it was some forsaken place not really connected with the Northern states, and I wonder if we in the North are any better. I have just returned from a small town called Cedar Hill, about 40 miles west of Nashville, Tenn. I stopped at a WPA rock crusher, and the foreman told me that they received $1.44 for an eight-hour day, and the foreman received the same wage as the rest of the men, showing that skilled labor is paid the same scale as the unskilled. A farmer living in the vicinity told me that he had six children, and could not remember when he had made a dollar. He has a large tobacco crop on which he will lose money. And we are taught that Lincoln freed the slaves. It is hard to exaggerate the hardships of the poor people. The farmer I mentioned, and his wife and children were a mass of rags—a shameful situation in a country that is civilized—or is it civilized? A poor man is denied the right to work for his loved ones. And I say

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if it takes a Hitler or a Mussolini to

remedy this situation, let us have him. My ancestors for 300 years fought for our flag, and all we have to sell is our labor. When we are denied that right it is time to discredit the whole mass and let the people run the country for awhile. I voted for ‘this Administration twice.. Where is the end—and what will it be like? ” ” ” EXPECTS ‘REALISTIC’ POLICY TO TRIUMPH IN CZECH CRISIS By C. S. In his Times column, Gen. Johnson says, “it seems incredible that Hitler could pull a complete mobilization without getting an ultimatum for it.” 1t is probably “incredible” to Gen. Johnson that the capitalist democracies ever permitted the rise of fascism. But to the reactionary class of England and France it is a “realistic” policy. : They see in fascism the protection of their class interests against the movement of the working class. They also see the danger to their national interests. Their foreign policy is to give aid to fascism by concessions and agreements—to direct it away from their colonies and the Soviet Union, and rearm to defend colonial interests if fascism realizes that Soviet frontiers are impregnable. The “realistic” policy will again

MY BABY’S PLEA By DOROTHY BUERGER

“Mother, rock me?” A baby’s plea ‘Outworn by you Who's half-past two! Yet, should I miss This bit of bliss Mx life would seem A dull routine. Dear God, if you Should ever rue My happiness . . . Please leave me this, My baby’s plea, “Mother, rock me?”

DAILY THOUGHT The Lord executeth righteous‘ness and gludgment for all that are oppr ~—Psalms 10316.

OD’S mill grinds slow but sure. - —Herbert. ;

triumph in the present Czechoslovakian crisis—to the satisfaction of “Adolf Hitler. : : Imperialism’s contradictions have thus reached a stage where it cannot accept collective security against aggression—cannot guarantee security for itself or member nations.

: # = = SAYS NEW DEAL ACTION POINTS TOWARD CHAOS By E. F. M. : If the so called “liberals” and “progressives,” who are attempting to assume complete control of the

in the open and tell the people their true objectives and political affiliations, we ought to have a clearer

understanding of the real issues involved in this “purge.”

gressive” have been used to cover a multitude of radicals who plan to purge, regiment, corrupt, and coerce the nation into another dictatorship. Those who point the finger of scorn at European dictators are adopting this method. The purge, the demagogic speeches, the appeals to the masses to “keep your friends in power,” the open and brazen promises of more and more gifts of the taxpayers’ money, the inciting of those on relief by high Government officials to organize and demand more, the whitewashing of law violators, all point toward chaos if these dangerous activities are not checked. It is time to look this gift horse in the mouth. If you will get the “gimme” idea out of your mind, you can realize that a large part of the relief money is going to elect corrupt politicians to office. + Taxpayers ought to adopt this slogan: “Billions to feed the hungry, but not one cent for corrupt politicians.”

” n 2 RECOMMENDS WPA SALES INSTEAD OF PAYDAY CHANGE By Hattie E. Ryker 5 To “WPA Worker”: The Housewives Protective Association is asking the merchants to set a WPA sale on WPA paydays. This seems to me a more simple method of obtaining results than asking the WPA to change its system, which is already established, and would probably also require some change in its office personnel. : If you want the result, why not give them your co-operation? Study this over. : Sign your name and address to your Forum pieces, and maybe you can get in touch with them. Don’t expect the Government to

please everyone—that can’t be done.

LET'S EXPLORE YOUR MIND

-By DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGG.

| poes Epucar |B cn of SITIVE IN Lio . Eo oR NO— merdously subjects he knows

AM to 5-mile records made by men from

23 to 27 and Nurmi made the 10mile record at 31. DeMar ran Marathons up to age 50 and made his

.|{ best records between 36 and 42.

Many baseball players are still going strong at 40. moe. - YES. We must all share th blame, just as we must share the blame for having criminals in the first place. Reflect that the prisoner is a man who originally made faulty adjustments to his fellow men. When paroled he is usually weaker in his moral fiber than when he went in. Therefore, every one should give him every enco

] urage‘ment to resume his ‘place in life.

Psychologists are now at work on tests that will soon tell us much

‘better who can stand parole and

who cannot, - nn : IF IT BE REAL education and . not mere animal training, drill on classics or - history or mathe-

more positive in Positive

Democratic Party, would come out {

The words “liberal”. and épro-

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Try Your Hand. at This New Game _ Being Played Around White House; , W's Goofier Than 'Knock-Knock.'

"EW YORK, Sept. 3.—It was the President's subtle S humor that fastened on staid and sombre Henry Morgenthau, Secretary of the Treasury, the nickname or alias of “Henry the Morgue.” This also broke a precedent. George Washington never called his Sec-

retary, “Alex the Ham,” But that was before the

day of this particular form of nomenclature for

- hatchet men and. finger artists like Gyp the Blood.

'Not that Henry is a hatchet man, even politically. He ‘Is just a good and faithful servant of the boss. But, once started, this quaint Presidential pleas= antry doesn’t stop. When I leit that society, it had -gone no farther than the Treasury t. Now it has spread to include the great unofficial combination vizier and court jester—Thomas Corcoran. and others. Considering his bubbling energy, “Tommy the Cork” seems to fit nobbily. ” ”» »

AM not quite so sure what, beside its lilting sound, *justifies “Harry the Hop” for WPA Administrator Hopkins. In gangland it would mean a dope which Mr." Hopkins certainly is not. It might perhaps refer to his flea-like agility in action. But I think it is Just because the President got the habit. How far it has gone, I.do not know. It could apply quite: handily as “Fanny the Perk” to Muddom the Secretary of Labor or “Danny the Rope” to the genial old political hangman in the Department of Coms=’ merce. Stonewall Jackson became an immortal name, but somehow “Henry the Wall” doesn’t click for the earnest and studious Henry Wallace. “Cordell the Hull” sounds highly impertinent and meaningless. Yet “Leon the Hen” for the latest superman among the third New Deal thinkers, seems right on ‘the nose for Leon Henderson—if you know this great economic egg-layer. But I am not sure that he has so far crashed the inner circle of heavy White House

| comic familiarity as to have acquired this accolade.

‘ 2 = » : “JJAROLD the Ick” may possibly have been applied but it seems unthinkable, It sounds too

viscous, or messy or sticky or simply “icky-icky” as so

many children say spontaneously when they get smeared with something, Mr. Ickes is the reverse of “Icky,” so if there is any “Harold the Ick” engraved on the back of any seat of the White House round

table, somebody pulled a boner. Of course, this sprightly Presidential playfulness could go on forever—*“Alben the Bark” for the beloved old Kentucky watchdog of the Senate and others whose possible antic aliases I recite just to fill up this column and leave the dear reader to guess—Robert the Bulk, Pat the Hare, David the Cush, Rex the Tug, Ray the Mole—not to mention some that could not possi= bly occur on land or sea—Ernie the Weir, Tom the +» Gird, Frank the Knox and John the Ham, It is unending and sickeningly silly but to some extent it is surely and truly how they sometimes disport . themselves in the seats of the mighty. Try this new White House game on your acquaine

fectuously as “Knock-knock, who's there” ever did,

It Seems to Me

By Heywood Broun Fascist Newspaper Attacks on U. S. Have Nothing on Some Over Here,

EW YORK, Sept. 3.—America has had a bad press in both Germany and Italy. The newspapers of these countries are under official direction, and so it is obvious that the bombardment has not only the sanction but the encouragement of Hitler and Mussolini. Sas These journalistic missiles have been directed at America, our President and all things American. And yet it would be interesting to examine some of these Fascist projectiles to ascertain if certain of the shell * cases do not bear the label “Made in the U. 8. A.” The domestic drumfire in many.instances has been just as vicious and just as unfair as anything printed -at the behest of foreign dictators. Of course, it is traditional that when brothers fall into reviling each other they may make common cause when anybody from the wrong side of the tracks attempts to chime in, no matter which side he espouses. And yet I wonder mildly whether certain commentators have not slightly compromised their right to deferid the honor of America in the light of the accusations which they have hurled not only at the Chief Executive of the nation but at large masses of American citizens, : Naturally I do not refer to vigorous and forthright criticism of Franklin D, Roosevelt, his policies and all his works. For instance, I would cite Alfred M. Landon and Bruce Barton, too, as men in the political ‘picture who have fought hard against the New Deal and still kept their punches up above the belt. What I have in mind is the w campaign which has become articulate at times in columns and in editorials. Particularly I refer to the attempts to get at the President by attacking members of his family, both immediate and distant.

A Right to Disperse

And there are commentators who have assailed all trade union members as racketeers and blackmailers. Others have seen fit to say that the millions on relief are chiselers and ne’er-do-wells, Indeed, I can think of few things which the propagandists of Italy or Germany could invent which would be more punishing to our national repute than some of the tales fabricated here at home. ; : Possibly the more venomous of the critics might _ admit that they expected their words to be taken with ‘salt and that their violence was to a great extent strategic. But the brass-check boys of the controlled foreign press might say the same thing. Freedom of the press means freedom, and no limitation of good taste or reasonableness can be put upon it. Even in a troubled world I would not have every publicist here make common cause and speak with a single ‘voice. But freedom of assembly carries with it freedom to disperse, and when common scolds begin to tarnish our way of life I think Dysianders have a right to walk out and let the words fall upon the barren air. kai

Watching Your Health By Dr. Morris Fishbein alae

ERIBERI was first found among Orientals who lived on a diet consisting almost exclusively of decorticated or polished rice. The condition ‘may also, of course, be caused by living on a diet eon-. sisting almost exclusively of refined flour, sugar or starches. : : ; The chief manifestation of beriberi is a change in the nervous system, including particularly an ine flammation of the nerves toward the surface of the

body. A deficiency of vitamin Bl in man involves chiefly the nervous and circulatory systems. = Beribert or minor manifestations of that disease may develop in the person who lives in the United States because

of various factors which render the intake of vitamin

Bl inadequate. - Fk In a person who is alcoholic or addicted to the

there is a definite interference with the a a of the vitamin Bl, Wa an bsorption e p

often restricts her diet to concentrated carbohydrate foods which are low in their content of vitamin BI, Also, she may fail to retain in her body all the food which she takes in. ST : ESS The small baby who happens to tion called pyloric stenosis, in which the outlet of the stomach is greatly restricted, also ‘suffers greatly from a sufficient

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taking of fairly large amounts of liquor each day

regnant woman who becomes nauseated i

have the condi~