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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1938

MORE ABOUT DAVEY LEWIS

WE second evervthing President Roosevelt said yvesterday about Rep. David J. Lewis of Maryland—

That Mr. Lewis performed a great and progressive service when 80 vears ago he passed the country’s first

workmen's compensation law through the Maryland Legislature; That the parcel-post law he put through Congress was another notable contribution to progress; That he strove mightily and effectively for humanity

in helping to bring into being a nation-wide system of old- |

age and unemployment insurance; That “he has lived the life of the Good Samaritan— and has not passed by on the other side,” and that the people of Maryland “are fortunate in having a man who not only has seen vigions but has lived to make hig dreams come true.” We applaud everything the President said in eulogizing Mr. Lewis, And we should like to add further testimonials, We should like to say to his credit gome things which Mr. Roosevelt did not mention That “Davey John” Lewis never has approved the

Roosevelt Administration's policy of operating year after |

vear hevond the Government's income, and piling up debts to he horne by future generations little Welshman's tough-minded integrity never will permit him to approve such a policy; That he has sturdily opposed the hidden taxes which the Roosevelt Administration has continued in force, draining a lion's share of the Government's revenues out of the nockets of those least able to pay: That he has courageously fought for forthright taxapay the cost of Government—for direct, visible the incomes of the largest possible number of ve has attacked the inadequacy and dema-

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citizens: 8 “skyseraping rates on skyseraping incomes |

gogery of that he has denounced the political cowardice of exemptions and what he characterized ag “trivial middle-class brackets when we face an treasury’; that the principal reason he has failed to accomplish any reforms in this field

has been lack of co-operation from the Roosevelt Admin-

insolvent

istration: That, Lewis has never been a party to the shameless brand of spoils politics in which the New Deal's political axmen ave

now engaging in their effort to elect Mr. Lewis and defeat Senator Millard Tydings;

: nd That, if Mr. Lewis is not elected, the voters of Marviand don't know of his accomplishments

in all of hig long and honoved career, Davey John

it will not be because

and hig worth, but because the purge strategy has obscured

the isstiie of Mr. Lewis, the independent progressive, versus |

Tydings, the independent conservative,

- “ ~ “gn “ «gN ¥ 4 AUTOS, RUBBER, STEEL—PLEASE NOTE— THE Commission (British Roval Commission on Labour, 1804) analvzed the difficulties in the weakly organized trades, pointing out that peaceable relations are the result

of strong and firmly established trade unionism, and that trade unionism in a weak and struggling condition rather

conflicts: and that, from the experience of industries which have reached a high degree of organization, ‘the most quarvelsome period of a trade's existence is when it is just merging from the patriarchal condition in which each mplover governs his establis’ ment and deals with hig own men with interference, but has not yet fully entered into that other condition in which transactions take place between strong associations fully recognizing each

no outside

other.’ “Thig wag attributed in some measure to the fact that established itself latent hat in early stages of organization the workmen have not yet learned by ex-

when organization has partially

grievances come to light, and to the fact perience what their union can and what it cannot achieve, while the leaders have no great hold over the men. But the effort to force recognition was thought to be the chief cause of the frequent and violent conflicts which usually attend the earlier stages of organization.” —From the report of the President's Committee on Industrial Relations in Great Britain, In England 44 years ago they were writing of such things in the past tense.

ANECDOTE

ERE iS a new ancedole {to

new ug, anvwav-—with a whiperacker on the end that possibly points to a moral as well as adorning the tale: An upcountry gentleman, awakening with the sun and reflecting that it was his 55th birthday, decided to go to the city and make an occasion of it.

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Boarding 5:50 train, he noticed that hig Pullman wag numbered 35. signed him to Room 550. By this time he was convinced that occult forces were at work. Suddenly inspired, he phoned a bookmaker and said: “Lay $550 for me on the fifth horse in the fifth race at Saratoga, to win.” The friendly bookmaker demurred, protesting that this particular horse was practically a cripple. But our man, basking under the auguries, was firm, In due time the bookie phoned to report that the horse had run fifth, “What!” screamed our incredulous bettor, a pause, and then he cried in apoplectic frenzy:

“Oh! That madman in the White House.”

There was

and we trust this frugal |

| Some

At his hotel in the city, the clerk as- |

In the Capital

By Rodney Dutcher

With Se Many Yale Law Professors Working on Monopoly Probe, Maybe Classes Should Be Held in Capital.

Ts Sept. 6.—If you don't like the way the monopoly investigation goes, blame the Yale Law School! Assistant Attorney General Thurman Arnold, in charge of antitrust cases and Department of Justice member of the Temporary National Economic Committee, is a professor on leave from the school. Mr. Arnold has his own dean working for him this summer—Dean Charles E. Clark of Yale Law School, who helps with afr. Arnold's regular work and in the monopoly inquiry. Although Mr. Arnold temporarily is Mr. Clark's boss, Mr. Clark will be boss again when My. Arnold returns to New Haven,

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ALTON HAMILTON, Yale professor of business, public and constitutional law, was recruited by Mr, Arnold to locate and outline trouble spots where the business system doesn’t function. George Dession, professor of criminal law at Yale, will stage-manage the first monopoly hearings. Allan Hart, former faculty member, is handling the “group medicine” and antitrust case against the District Medical Society and the American Medical Association, Half a dozen young lawyers who were graduated from Yale also are working with Mr. Arnold and an unknown number of law school students are “dollar a year” men, Also on leave from the law school is Chairman William O. Douglas of SEC, a monopoly committee member, SEC Commissioner Jerome Frank is a former lecturer at the school. A Douglas right-hand man is Abe Fortas, resighed from the faculty to handle administration of the holding company act, Roger Foster of SEC is another former faculty member, Mr. Arnold, Clark, Hamilton, Douglas and Frank all have been publicly mentioned as Supreme Court

possibilities. But the leading candidate for the existing

vacancy is still Prof. Felix Frankfurter of Harvard Law School-——which has contributed more graduates to the New Deal, but not as many professors, » - »~

OVELL: H. PARKER, 12 years chief of staft for the Congressional joint committee on taxation, has resigned to become a private tax consultant. Most Senators and Representatives claiming to know much about taxation owe their reputations to Mr. Parker, It was he who wrote Senator Pat Harrison's attack on President Roosevelt's eriticism of the last-session tax | measure. My. Parker was born in Osterville, Mass, on Cape | Cod. Discussing lack of co-ordination of state and Federal tax policies, he sometimes relates a story his father told him many years ago. Muskrats were pests in the nearby towns of Mashpee and Barnstable. A Mashpee town meeting voted a 25-cent bounty for every muskrat killed, the town treasurer to pay a quarter for every pair of muskrat ears presented. Men and boys made 50 cents a musk- ({ rat by delivering tails in Mashpee, ears in Barnstable. Next year each group of town fathers decided to fix that. Mashpee voted to pay for ears. On the same day Barnstable voted to pay for tails. After another vear of 50-cent muskrats the towns co-ordinated and agreed on tails,

Business

By John T. Flynn

Think of Economic Effects of War If Mere Rumors Cause Disturbance.

EW YORK, Sept. 6.—War, the upsetter of trade, is on the job. It has been upsetting trade for time. Unfortunately when the war actually arrives the upset may not be so keenly felt. From the point of view of trade the actual war period is frequently to be feared. The worst time fs when the war is over and when armaments cease to sustain trade An example of what war, even before being denation’s economy, may be seen in which gold has been behaving for

the least

does to a

clared, the some time, Take England, for instance. England has at least gone in for war preparation on a gigantic scale, As a result she has been importing enormous quantities of all sorts of things. And the net result of this is a great balance of trade against her—which was nearly a billion dollars in the first seven months of | this year. Therefore England has had to surrender gold. She has seen a serious weakness in the pound and her equalization fund has lost about $200,000.000 or more in its support of the pound sterling in a short time. Meantime prices of peace-time goods in foreign countries have steadily sagged, Therefore these goods have been worth less in the foreign markets. Therefore these countries find themselves, even where exports have not declined mm actual volume, suffering from import surpluses, measured in dollars.

Gold Excess Ils Not Healthful All these things help to explain the disturbances in the gold market during the last few months and particularly in the last month. Gold, either frightened or driven by necessity, has been leaving Europe and coming to us. We have more than we need and the excess is not healthful for us. We now have over 13 billion dollars of gold while the other countries with gold reserves have only around 11 billion all together

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nation in the world is. suffering from disturbances caused merely by the rumors of war If the war comes you will hear how every man in Europe is emploved and how business is holding up. But when the war is over the real trouble will come, No matter who is right in the quarrel, no matter who wins the war, victor and vanquished together will universal economic disaster when the war ends, The Great War lasted only a little over four years But today, 20 years after, Europe has recovered from the effects of that war. The peace follows the war is longer and as full of woe as the war itself

Thus every

oll Il one

not

that

‘A Woman's Viewpoint

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

Presa XY J tion from a clown around the sufferings of the buffoon until we have | come to believe that he is always wiser than a serious |

the first Sob Sister got

man and that his funny outside hides a heart of gold. Perhaps that is why Ed Wynn's recent matrimonial fiasco gave everybody a turn. Being such a “Perfect Fool,” it was easy to assume he would ge too smart to believe in fairy tales. Yet, after 14 months of marriage, Mr that living with a husband 25 years older is an un- {| endurable experience, and once again we see human nature running true to form. It is surprising and rather sad to find so many middle-aged men hampered by Mr. Wynn's particular form of vanity. the opposite sex cannot resist them. Sometimes this leads to mistakes, although we are ready to admit that such men are more to be pitied than censured. They are victims of their bringing up, and of persistent pampering on our part, No aging woman ever deludes herself so about love. She may go with men, she may even marry, but always she is realist enough to understand that it is something other than her charm that brings about the miracle. If she’s rich, she gives credit to her money; ability to make a husband comfortable has turned the trick. Almost

This form of common sense has apparently heen left out of the masculine nature. The older some of them get, the harder they fall. Such men are either super-egoists or they underestimate the sensibilities of women by assuming that money can takeythe place of youth and love.

| young Communist; Howard Hughes | was loud in praise of the co-opera-

her inspiras | Romances have been woven |

breaking |

Winn's young second wife announces |

if she's a good cook, she knows that her |

never does she kid herself into | believing she's a lovely Juliet to a younger Romeo. |

| not happen at all. And it is one of | the glories of human nature that

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

TUESDAY, SEPT. 6, 1938

And the Foreign Investors Say== —By Herblock

TO PAY IN TIME

The Hoosier Forum

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

SAYS POLITICAL LIBERTY IS ONLY TOLERATED

By N. A Well, it looks like the end is near. Pretty soon the United States will cease to exist as an independent

country to become a dependency of Red Russia. According to the findings of the Congressional investigation, Russiainspired Communists dominate practically the whole country. Mrs Roosevelt shook hands again with a

tion he received from Soviet officialg and, to climax the calamity, Mr. and Mrs. Lindbergh are guests | of the Soviet republic. I have been always under the impression that Stalin shoots everybody who has more than 200 rubles in his pocket. Is it not possible for Mr, Dies to subpena the Lindberghs |

se they can explain their un-Ameri- | can behavior? But what to do with Shirley Temple? She also has become the tool of the Communists, Like it has been pointed out, the latest investigation of un-American | activities promises to be itself a con- | siderable exhibition of un-Ameri-canism. Why? Because the whole show is obviously for the sole purpose to pave the way for a conservative victory in 1940, The tories in every country claim that they abhor the political aspects of the Soviet regime. Maybe so, and to a certain degree I understand. But how, then, do they explain their flirtation with fascism? | The German and Italian people | are certainly as much, if not more, under political bondage than the Russians. It is plair to me that it is the Communist economic philosophy, more than anything else, that the tories dread. They like to pro- | fess their love for political liberty, but for economic freedom they never have shown much liking. And so I come to the conclusion that they oniy tolerate political liberty as long as they can control it by means of economic subjugation. » » »

DOUBTS WISDOM OF FASHION EXPERT'S ADVICE By BC.

Hail, gentlemen, to Countess Fira liingka, of whom vou may not have heard, the Countess is serving at|

the moment as a fashion expert al

took a stronger hand in the matter. | 16:25,

There's the signal! Let's see, now | -well, hats should be attended to | first. They ought to have more |

connection utility, thing to do is to decide once and | host he can do. for all exactly where the waist-line | is to be, i furbelows, angles without any meaning should | be eliminated altogether. everything { that | gO: | ment matter

| posed of for good. | should be comfort.

| produce a dismal looking gang!

| SYMPTOM OF DESPERATION

| By a Reader

| duty to make the best provision he [could for his own old age, the tre- | mendous vote rolled up in California { for must look like an evidence of mass | lunacy.

supposed that it was every cilizen's

the thing can't be explained that simply, The scheme to put everyhody on the payroll once a certain birthday is passed, and to finance

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troversies seem very smart—but you can't dismiss it by simply calling it crazy. have a chance. " : I'here is more to it than else, Underneath it runs a very real and widespread feeling of desperation—a panicky, unreasoning fear with the head, more | (hat hunger and want are likely to As for the dresses, the big | overtake a person in spite of the

And Now the mere fact that an emoand | tion of this kind should take hold y | of great numbers of people in the fact, | United States—of all countries on

In disguise | earth—is one of the most startling

and keep it there, projections, tucks,

in the way of thi il . makes for confusion should | 'MN8S that could happen. tet the truth be known. Perhaps we have just naturally As a matter of fact, one ideal gar- | talked ourselves into a blue funk. should be conceived and the | On the one hand we have politicians of changing fashions dis- | declaring that our old business sysThe chief aim | tem has collapsed for good and can never work again unless it is controlled and directed from Washington; on the other, we have certain business leaders asserting that business can never possibly recover unless the government goes fishing or takes a long nap or something.

If all of that has persuaded some citizens that all is lost and that a wise man will fasten himself permanently to a Federal payroll, who can wonder at it? Perhaps if we talked less, spent less time in recrimination, and devoted ourselves | more earnestly to an unemotional search for recovery, the panic which lies back of these pension plans would disappear.

And wouldn't a program like that

To an ordinary man who always

the $30-a-week pension plan

Yet we have lived long enough |

[ with this frantic, unreasoning de- £ rp | mand furnished security to realize that

for complete, government-

CHANCE FOR MISS LOMBARD TO SHARE WEALTH SEEN By 1. A.W, With all the comments and cartoons about Miss Lombard's cheerful income tax payments, I haven't seen anyone yet mention the possibility

EDDIE By MARY R. WHITE Just a wee, little chap With big, brown eyes And a smile that's infectious, And--believe me—he's wise; He'll capture your heart, He's an elf, in disguise— Is Eddie.

services, It seems to me that in getting $465,000 a year Miss Lombard must surely be depriving some of the workers in the lower income brackets of a fair wage for their services, This especially in view of

Just a dear, little boy Growing older each day, Not naughty or bad In a mean, hateful way; That this standard he keeps His lifelong I pray-— For Eddie.

DAILY THOUGHT Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised; he also is to be feared above all Gods. — I Chronicles

holders’ complaints, ete., ete, Inasmuch as Miss Lombard only

(at turning over the rest of the { money paid her to the politicians | for distribution, when a more equi= table one could be made right within her own industry and to those chiefly responsible for her opportunity.

is not he “that searches for praise that finds it.—Rivarol.

They cherish the delusion that | |

LET'S EXPLORE YOUR MIND

By DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM .

ANY answer to this is bound to

» | | be what Thomas Huxley called

pa “a scientific use of the imagination.” Experiments show that more women | than men get their feelings easily hurt; also more women than men go to psychologists and psychiatrists ‘and pour out all their thoughts and feelings and. as I showed recently, | are more likely to confess things they are ashamed of. When it comes | to being told they have cancer or | T. B. or some serious disease, it seems to me, among the men and women I have known, that the | women take it on the chin rather | better than do the men. So, it seems | to be a draw. gy 4

13 CERTAINLY. That's what | «7 makes news—when the man | bites the dog or it snows in July. | What makes all popular beliefs is when people mistake the exception for the general rule, as when a tall man marries a short woman and they say “We always noticed op- | posites marry!” or when a rich

WHICH ARE MORE AFRAID OF LEARN: ING THE TRUTH ABOUT THEMSELVES - MEN

DO NOST PEOPLE TEND TO NOTICE THE EXCEPTION TO |HE RULE RATHER THAN THE RULE SELF? YESORNO

ARRAN BAP oun oral Co

NO. Love at sight happens every | Institute of Family Relations that | man’s son is no good and they say

day—indeed nearly always hap- | nearly half the marriages follow- | ing engagements | whole year end in divorce shows the |

folly of not giving time and common sense a chance to temper pas- | —as a four-year Harvard research sion. has shown,

pens almost at first sight or does

such love often lasts a lifetime. But frequently it does not last a the fact as shown by the Los es

“Rich men's sons never amount to | anything.” They don't notice that ON€ | most of them are quite decent, hard working boys, and often have more

business ability than the Old Man

less than

the whole business by an involved | set of rolling-stone taxes, may not |

an | ignoble desire to live on somebody |

of Miss Lombard being paid an ex- | cessive rate of compensation for her |

the exhibitors’ complaints, the stock-

nets $20.000 a vear anyway, I hard- | Iv think she should be so overjoyed |

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Gen. Johnson Says—

The General Thinks I+ Advisable For Third New Dealers to Tell Dies Committee Where They Are Headed.

EW YORK, Sept. 6.—I find it simply impossible to get heated up about secret activities of either 5

the Nazi or Communist Parties in America in th ‘=i

sense that either Joe Stalin or Herr Hitler have important stooges in our Government, schools or churches faithful to them and members of a vast conspiracy to deliver us to Russia or to Germany. I know that there is such an attempt but I think it is piffling. A much greater danger seems to me to

be that so many people in our Government have aims very similar to those of both Communists and Nazis which they think they have themselves invented. If I could see that they are doing, or could do, our underprivileged or our county any good, I would »>e with them-<whether they spoke for themselves or their brother experiments in Europe. 1 earnestly believe that they are doing nobody any good but, to the contrary, that their ideas have retarded recovery.

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THINK we are being confused by labels. I don't care whether you call it communism or third New Deal-ism, If the result is destructively the same, I am agin it, I think it is an error to ascribe it to Earl Browder, Harry Bridges or Dave Lasser as Com= munists merely because what they want seems to be approximately what is wanted by people in our own Government, I would rather bring up for careful consideration and discussion the true social and political philosophy of Muddom Perkins, Harry Hopkins, Tommy Cor= coran, Henry Wallace, Harold Ickes and the President himself. I don't for a moment believe that these people in our Government have any tie-in with any foreign organizations, but that isn't very important. When the Dies Committee was asking about facism, both the Government and a large part of the Washington press fraternity were applauding. The moment it started on the doctrines and organization of come munism both of these American institutions became obstructive or actively hostile. ” ” ” ROM a perfectly insignificant remark about Shire = ley Temple, there was created a general public im= pression that the Dies Committee had seriously received evidence that this popular infant is a danger= ous Red. Ridicule is a most dangerous instrument to Kill a public measure and this was supremely ridicu= lous. If there is any Red hunting to be done, wouldn't it be better to turn the hounds loose on the Administration itself--not to discover some nonexistant tie=up with Europe but to let the new planners of our destiny tell—‘“cross-my-heart’—how far away from our political an economic moorings they really purpose to take us. I think I know--just as far toward collectivism and one-man government as they can go and get away with it, If they can convince our people that this is what a majority wants, that is what we ought to have but, in so serious a matter, they ought to spread all the cards out face up on the table.

It Seems to Me

By Heywood Broun

Question Isn't 'Did F. D. R. Lose In Carolina?" but 'Did the U. S.7"

EW YORK, Sept. 6—When the bad news came in from South Carolina, Franklin Roosevelt remarked, according to his secretaries, “It is often said that it takes a long, long time to bring the past up to the present.” Few wiil deny the truthfulness of such an adage, but there will be disputes as to whether this was merely an afterthought upon the part of the President. But it is quite probable that Roosevelt was conscious of the risk from the beginning. And so I am convinced that Roosevelt played the part of the statesman and not the role of the polis tician in his attempt to remind South Carolina that the Civil War has ended. The foes of Mr. Roosevelt, and some of his friends as well, are less than fair in always interpreting every move of the President, as something motivated by his concern about his own immediate political fortunes, Being human, he is animated by ambition, but on numerous occasions “that man in the White House” has displayed a lively realization of the fact that no one can write much more than a few paragraphs in the history of his country. And the wise men of the world have always known that the very most which any single individual can do is to begin a chapter.

Progress is a composition impossible without col= laboration, and a teacher is strong in direct ratio to the strength of his disciples, who will solidify gains already won and concentrate upon the next objective. And so it is slightly beside the point to argue whether Roosevelt won or lost when Cotton Ed declaimed himself back into the Senate, Cotton Ed did not ride on the coattails of the President. He was borne along upon the hot breath of the hymn of hate which he took out into the highways and the market places of his home state. Cotton Ed per=suaded his constituents that they were living in the days of 1864 to 1870, and they voted for him,

A Reverse for America

And so the really important question is whether America has won or lost by the decision of a state to clog the wheels of progress and stop the march of time, I say America has lost for the moment, because South Carolina has seceded, not merely out of the Union but out of time and space. But the sun also rises. I do not think that Cotton Ed or all his ilk in Carolina can maintain a murky dusk of hate and suspicion and enervating exercises in swaggering superiority. You. over there in the corner, you say Roosevelt lost. All right, but did you win and did America win when Cotton Ed strode back into the upper house using the tombs of his ancestors as stepping stones? Have you the right time? What is the day of the week, and what is the year?

Watching Your Health

By Dr. Morris Fishbein

HE most important measure in preventing tuber= culosis is to keep the child from coming in cone

tact with someone who has an open case of this dis= ease. Most physicians are convinced that neither a man nor a woman has the right to marry while actively ill with tuberculosis. A child born of such parents must usually live with them, and as a result is constantly

exposed to an open case of the disease. With regular physical examination of all children each year on entrance to school, it is possible to detect a great deal of tuberculosis in early stages. In many instances the examination is, however, much too pere functory to show definite signs of early tuberculosis, For this reason the tuberculin testing of school children and the making of serial X-ray studies is to be considered as an important factor in preventing tuberculosis. Mortality tables show that the death rates from tuberculosis increase particularly during the period of adolescence. During the coming of adolescence many children are anemic and underfed, principally because of the mental changes that are associated with this period. They are likely to spend long hours in badly ventie lated class rooms, stores, or workrooms. An insufficient amount of attention is given to their needs for recreation in the open air. Their diets are not adequately supervised, and they indulge in irregular meals of poor quality and insufficient quantity. . For such reasons experts are inclined to emphasize attention to the dietary needs of the growing child. The maintenance of optimum nutrition for every child is a form of prevention of tuberculosis that should not be overlooked. In association with this nutrition there should be good hygiene with plenty of fresh air, sunshine, and adequate rest.