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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1938
T'S UP TO HITLER
Bt LUE MONDAY. This morning as the world awakened and began preparations
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for the day's work, it must have done so feeling that its future reposes in the hollow of one man's hand and he the unpredictable mystic and communer- -withAdolf Hitler.
London comes word that Britain, at long last,
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has definitely let the Nazi warlord know that if, in spite | he attacks Czechoslovakia, England will | | that he would eventually embarrass or endanger the
-_ | British empire, the fact still remains that when the has received similar assurances.
and Soviet Russia stand by in a!
of concessions, come into the war against him, are id,
France
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So today Britain, 1g to hear what fate, alias has in store for Europe. as an ordinary mortal had it so frightfully estiny of the entire modern world.
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state of semimobilization waitn
Adolf Hitler, Never h his power to influence d What a sad commentary on our world this day is. What
a rebuke to world statesmanship. Twenty years ago today,
. i Woodrow Wilson was drafting an instrument by which the | o. seotland, Czechoslovakia is a foreign country to
world could stave off aggressive wars and make things safe That instrument was the Covenant of the League of Nations. The way to peace, it said, was for peace-loving nations to act collectively to make aggression unprofita An act of war against one would be tantamount to an act of war against all, and all would help the victim according to the ability of each.
for democracy.
ble.
lived up to, the world today in, No potential aggressor eghbor because it would have not get away with it,
If the covenant had been would not be in the fix it is would have dared attack a ne Kne in advance, it Japan would not have invaded China; Italy would not have annexed Ethiopia: Germany would not have swallowed Austria nor today be preparing to destroy Czechoslovakia.
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But it was not lived up Woodrow Wilson's own country was the first to weaken the League by refusing to join. Then, one, all great powers— Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Soviet Russia, Japan still further undermined it either refusing to honor their pledges in time of crisis withdrawing
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or else by civilization today faces a tragic spectacle. At this moment the League Assembly is meeting at Geneva. It ought to be stopping war. But it is doing nothing of the kind. The best it can do is to discuss, academically, what be done about the refugees, war upon the League at Geneva but upon what one little power-drunk ex-corporal will say at Nuremberg. If that represents progress, then it must be backvd. The only thing that has happened in the 20 years that science has gone ahead with the and more terrible ways national and international forth the lumbering
verse wind.
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A FATHER WAITS
FOR a time vesterday the President of the United States knew that universal once described
aries Dickens:
experience by
Cl “The suspense—the fearful, acute suspense of standing by while the life of one we dearly love ig trembling in the racking thoughts that crowd upon the make the heart beat violently, and the breath come thick; anxiety ‘to be doing something’ to relieve the pain or lessen the danger which we have no to alleviate, and the sinking of soul which the sad
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‘RAH FOR BART!
GEN BARTOLOMMEO COLLEONI and his horse are 3 improving, it is reported, and soon should be in the best of condition. The General and his mount, we might point out, a statue in the yard of John Herron Art Institute and some time have suffered lamentably their tle with the elements. grade is encouraging news, It is our tolomn
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That they are on the up-
hope now that 1
this figure of the brave Barhings in general.
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LASSER YIELDS
AVID LASSER, war graduate who heads the Workers tue that is a rarity in these times: his mind, on occasion,
the young veteran and M. 1. T. Alliance, has one vir-
He is willing to change
Three weeks ago Mr. Lasser announced that the Work- |
ers Alliance would raise £350,000 from WPA workers with
which to support Congressional candidates pledged to big- |
ger and better relief. Senator Sheppard of the Senate Campaign Expenditures Committee said he couldn't do it. Mr. Lasser retorted that he could and would. Now he has announced that the £50,000 project is being dropped. To be sure, he still insists that the Aliance has a "legal and moral right” to seek a share of the WPA pay envelopes for campaign purposes, but he bows to the Sheppard warning. We think congratulations are in order for Mr. Lasser. Mr. Sheppard, the WPA workers—and the taxpayers.
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Fair Enough
By Westbrook Pegler
He Insists That Czech Problems! Mean Little to Britain's Youth, Who | Would Do Fighting if War Came.
EW YORK, Sept. 12.—It is easy to sound off | about Great Britain's sacred obligation to go to | | war again, if necessary, to save Czechoslovakia from | the foul invader. A case can be made out for that. But war happens to be a deeply personal matter to every individual who must do the actual fighting, and those individuals, in the main, are boys and voung men, much like Americans of the same age.
Those who would be called on to do the fighting include Canadian boys and young men who are no more intimately acquainted or personally concerned with a border fight in the middle part of Europe than Americans.
| he never
| office hesitate to commit individual men and boys to | this war,
| appears only collectively as a menace to the peace | of the world.
| No more pressing as a personal matter | are to
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If a Canadian or an English boy has a personal duty to fight for democracy in Czechoslovakia, a land saw, it is only a fine technicality which relieves an American of the same duty. Certainly, Americans admit no such obligations, but, nevertheless, there are Americans who hold Great Britain up to scorn because human beings in high
2 » = RANTED that Germany, if Hitler gets away with
it in Czechoslovakia, will push on, demanding, seizing more and more in a drive to the Fast, and
decision is made hundreds of thousands of individual human beings, most of them young men, will have to go to a foreign land and fight. The generals, and we in the United States, will think of the war | in terms of battles and armies, but it will be a war | of boys and men, nevertheless. The individual of the German side is less distinct in the picture It is not easy to think of him as a | decent, tolerant, individual youth, because today, as | before, he represents arrogant, horrible cruelty. He
To a schoolboy or young man in England, Wales
them, and the rights and wrongs of the dispute are than they Americans. To Americans it is not a pressing, personal matter, alling for individual action and the disruption of the whole life of their country.
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES The Handy Guide—=to Destruction
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F one more war could reasonably be expected to settle matters for ail time, the prospects of the sacrifice would be less dreadful to the individual | who would have to do the fighting. But there is | no nesson to think that one more war would be but a curtain-raiser for still another, They have "on fighting one another in big and little gangs of nations for hundreds of years | Like the gangs of Chicago, they change allegiance, double-cross one another, conspire and break out in wars endlessly, and the victor hardly has time to wash the blood off his gums with a tall beer before he finds himself ganged by a new coalition, including certain of his late pais. The British have done their share of all this, but wasn't this to be a new day in the world? It takes gall to sit here, at this distance, legally immunized from (he sacred obligation, and sneer at young British. Canadian and Australian boys and men as schemers giving away the liberties of a fictitious country which the United States helped to promote
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Business
By John T. Flynn
Government Is Now Biggest Buyer Of Its Own Bonds, Economist Says.
N= YORK, Sept. 12. the biggest investor investor in securities Uncle In a Treasury as of July 27,
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If vou should ask who 1s in the United States— the answer would be, your report just made by the it appears that Uncle Sam is the holder of roughiy $43500.000000. There is no bank, no insurance company, no collection of financial interests that can match that This, of course, a new function of t ernment. But in its present enormous character entirely new The Government 40 huge corporations or commissions invest. Probably you never tates Spruce Production Corp funds which must be invested. invested in Government bonds. This of the minor corporations. But S. Government Life Insurance Fund. That supposed to have accumulated cash reserves of $804 000.000. Of this $742.000,000 is invested in Government securities and the balance in other types of securities The Unemployment Trust Fund and Old-Aze Reserve Account vested U. 8 Government bonds
Congress Should Take a Look
But soon the largest will be the Old Account which in 10 years will be several billion alone and. unless the grotesque law under which it is established is changed, will in time amount, according the Government's own calculations, to 47 biilion qoll One odd resuit now has become It issues bonds those 40 different funds. At present sre is a steady stream of funds flowing into the T casury from unemployment taxes, oldage pensk ym taxes, railroad retirement and civil servjce retirement svstems, postal savings deposits, Federal deposit insurance funds and others. As [ast funds make their way into the Treasury the Government borrows them and substitutes for the cash its bonds. If this keeps up the time will come when the Government will owe to its own corporations | 30 or 60 billion dollars for moneys collected by it and appropriated by it its own uses, to pay the expenses of the Government had better have a
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‘A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson
HE glamour girls will be hotfooting it out of Massachusetts now. On midnight of Aug. 31 breach-of-promise suits were outlawed, and the ladies who
| regard love as a commodity will have to go elsewhere to ply their trade We can but wonder who started the custom of attaching a cash value to the heartthrob. The | | lawyers accuse the ladies, of course, which ought to | make it permissible for a lady to accuse the lawyers. We aren't foolish enough to insist that the fair sex is blamel in the matter. However, it's hard to | imagine that some heartbroken maid of the old days ever mustered up enough spunk to sic the sheriff on the beau who had walked out on her. In spite of all evidence a good many of us will go on believing it was the brainchild of some lawyer. | The marvel is that the men have put up with | this racket for so long, and that in many states they [ still tolerate it. The difficulty of repealing a bad law never has been better exemplified than in the suits for alienation of affection, promise, and alimony bor | | |
ess
the strong, young, childless wife. These so-called reform measures were passed during an age when a woman's reputation could be irreparably damaged if some suitor seen often with her in public decided he didn’t want to marry her. Accord- | ing 0 the standards of the Victorian Era, the poor | girl was expected to pine away with shame and frustrated passion, while the thug lost caste in the | community. Caste and cash, to be exact, for later when the tension ran high the lady could take her heartbreak into court, asking money enough to live ! on for the remainder of her life. | | Maybe some day we shall learn that the emotional |
i settled justly in a court room. women who believe in fair play we hope the legalized gold-digeing can be stopped.
‘World
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| words—the pity of it is that many,
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MONDAY, SEPT. 12, 1933
The Hoosier F
I wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.
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CALLS PLEA FOR RELEASE OF CAMPOS UNJUSTIFIED By Caspar Thomas Latin-American delegates at Youth Congress are ported to have suggested the release from Atlanta Prison of Pedro Albizu Campos and several of his colleagues who were convicted for al leged political activities connected with terrorism. The court records in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and the United States dispute the assertion that they were sentenced without] justification. Cur officials consented to an appeal to the courts in the United States and it resulted in the upholding of the jury's verdict. The plea of the Latin-American delegates is unjustified. I can imagine the indignation on their part were any group in the United States to question the integrity of the judiciary of their countries. I doubt that these delegates reprosent the sentiment of the majority of their people. In some quarters in the U. S., however, their views ma) have a tendency to create such an impression Puerto Ricans are backing Governor Winshin. They have strongiy voiced disapproval of the acts terrorists the Nationalist Party who have carried on a campaign of violence. Statehood or dominion rule may be brought about only after the murderous action of a few ir: [responsible people cease. To encourage a continuance of such | terrorism is stupid and shocking to all who believe in law and order.
(Times readers are invited
to express their views in
these columns, religious con. troversies excluded. Make
your letter short, so all can
the pur-
Letters must be signed, but names will be
have a chance.
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as the like would be when caught in any other country. And other countries do have their similar episodes.
the period of the when
lution and in Rebellion and Reconsrtuction, the beloved Lincoln was and Secretary Seward shot. I think your best paragraph was vour last one, but how can you, by vour analvsis of our Constitution, preclude the American people from going right along with the Constitution to socialism? 5 o ~ SAYS NEED IS FOR RENEWAL OF FAITH IN AMERICANISM By M. G. What this country needs is a mighty renetval of our faith in Americanism as we have known it for 150 years. This,
ol of
and, while we can yet say it at the polls. The Republican principles of government under our American [system have been proved over a {period of vears to be for the good lof the American people as a whole The New Deal methods are proven | wrong. They have no concern with | the fundamentals of Americanism or recovery. The chief concern of
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REACTIONARIES, By J. N. E. May ican?
IS VIEW
PALS By DOROTHY BUERGER She is very energetic When her keenly svmpathetie Daddy is home for the day.
Mr. Plain paraphrase your
I answer To
Amerown like yourself, by reactionary ing that their
government blindly
for
have been deceived leaders into believcapitalist form of the Utopia. Don't accept their fairy tales. Look yourself at all the capitalist governments, Then don't believe all tales which reactionary leaders tell you about the Soviet Union, either Read their Constitution, note their advanced democracy which exceeds, even, our own Bill of Rights. Read the proceedings of their trials -‘purges,” you sav—complete reports of which are readily available; open trials, attended by press- | men and people of many countries Certainly those eriminals, convicted | {and confessing to the destruction of property, murder and complicity with espionage departments of for-land eiIgn enemy nations—ceertainly were ‘purged’ into eternity;
is Habits Mother thought departed Now flare up—and quite imparted With these roguish pals at play.
the fairy!
in And catch Daddy fast asleep in T'hat pink bonnet of helt
DAILY THOU GH T
But he that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost hath never forgiveness, but is in danger of eternal damnation. —Mark 3:29.
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UCH as thy “words are, such will} thine affections be esteemed; such as thine affections, will such be thy deeds; and such as thy deeds just | will be thy life.—Socrates.
For example, take America in the period of the Revo-|
murdered, |
and this alone, | can save us from one-man power, |
New Dealers is to stay in power by regimenting labor and industry, appealing to the emotions, forgetting intelligence, sinking the better class, leaving the New Deal and ignorance high and dry. This country is infested with a foreign disease known as the “gimme’s.” It was brought here by a bunch of leeches whose only claim to Americanism is the fact | that they live here. They sap the | vitality of intelligence, uprightness, honor, ambition and true Americanism. They promote class hatred, shackle our liberties and deliber- | ately misrepresent facts and figures to our peopie for the sole purpose | of getting votes to remain in power. These leeches could not poll one | vote from an honest American if they were known by their correct name, “Communists.” Therefore they misrepresent themselves as Democrats. See to it, Americans, that you go to the polls and vote the Republican ticket. See to it that every one you contact is registered. | This is the necessary part we all {can take in this coming campaign [to restore our American birthright.
r 4 8 URGES TOWNSEND PLAN FOR RECOVERY By D. E. K.
Remember a few years back when| the Townsend Plan was being, talked? Remember how Roosevelt | and his committee made a “puppet” out of our good Mr. Townsend? Now what? | We haven't our $60 monthly. But our billions are spent just the same. Can anyone imagine anything worse than our experience under the New Deal? Is there a person today who would not risk the Townsend Plan as against this ridiculous orgy of spending? Townsend's name goes on. This California thought of $30 every Thursday is the forerunner of the nation’s awakening, although Mec- | Adoo with his millions will tell you | California is doomed. | I am no Townsendite. I, too, was | afraid of the plan. It looked too
Mother wishes friends would peep good. But that was before I under-
stood it. Picture our country today, if the old were spending their $50, the younger folks employed full
time, raising happy families, eating |
food instead of killing pigs, making {clothes instead of destroving cotton. | Tugwell says if we got industry [going we could pay twice our na-| (tional debt. What wouldn't the) | Townsend Plan do for industry? Such a plan would increase the [population of a state and it could well afford the additional population for where the people go, industry goes,
LET'S EXPLORE YOUR
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surveys. show the|ly
crowd motives that cause wars and | of their frightful results + part
By DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM
because the so-called “fighting —whether they really do or not. great majority are strongly op- | instinets” have little to do with wav. relationship between men and women can never be [posed to war. This is partly due to Wars usually are brought on by alty and security that scarcely anyFor the good of the |their understanding of the childish leaders who develop in the people systems of fixed ideas which they dictator is afraid of his position. He make them think are backed by God| always feels insecure,
MIND
jor the State or some superrational ‘agency. By these they develop a national paranoia—a delusion of their own grandeur and the glory of belonging to a big, powerful, rich nation. It is this silly emotional fustian that causes most wars. | ” - os A NEW study of this old prob-
lem has just been made by Kathleen Hergt and J. R. Shannon.
The study takes in the 1967 most no- | table women in the United States] —those listed in Who's Who in| America—all women with famous] careers of their own. It shows more! than half are married and more] than half of the married women are | mothers with an average of two to three children and many with four or five, One of the most famous has 111. As to being normal, another study shows that the Who's Who [people are more completely normal than the average. This seems to an= \swer the question in the affirmative. ” . ” THE REAL leader—not the . dominating dictator—will do both. He makes his followers feel they can rely on the Old Man for ideas in all emergencies but also (that they help him with their ideas In [this way he builds a feeling of loy-
‘thing can break. The dominating
Gen Johnson
Says— Why Does Stock Market Dip Every
Time War Is Hinted, When It Is Certain Strife Would Lift Prices?
ETHANY BEACH, Del, Sept. 12.—Why the stock market hesitate or decline with increased fears of general war in Europe? If war began, it would cause, at the start, abnormal and panicky conditions. But if it ran the usual course of great wars, it would bring a boom in prices and business as sure as the sparks fly upward. . ‘First of all, it always has. In our Civil War the price level doubled from 1861 to 1866. In the World War it a little more than doubled between 1913 and 1919. This might be called coincidence if there were no persuasive reasons why it should happen. The first reason is that big wars on the modern plan almost immediately create tremendous shortages of supply. The need is desperate because the existence of nations depends on it. The short supply 2oes to the highest bidder and prices shoot through the ceiling.
should
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HIS shortage is not merely in munitions of war, It exists in almost everything. Soldiers in the field under war conditions actually consume from five to seven times as much cloth and leather as the same individuals in peace. They eat from 20 per cent to 50 per cent more. Cargoes are sunk. Dumps and bases containing vast stores are destroyed or abandoned. Reserves must be piled up, As for almost all other commodities—all minerals, all important chemicals, many fibers—modern war is a contest to see which nation can destroy the greatest quantity of these by burning them and hurling them at the enemy to drench whole countrysides with fire and steel and gas. There is never enough. Another reason for soaring prices is that inflation of currencies in war is inevitable. As the credit of threatened nations declines, the buying power of their money declines. The effect of all these causes on neutral nations acting as bases of supply is equally certain. Even if their own credit increases and their currencies remain stable the other two causes are at work, ry 8 =» HESE forces naturally work first and farthest on producing countries where buying and transport is easiest and safest. England, France and even Russia, if they were involved, would all look to the United States for overseas supply. None of them could buy here on credit, neither private nor public credit. In 1914, our private creditors financed them only on collateral. In 1917, our Government bailed our bankers out, didn't take their collateral, and then granted unlimited credit to the Allies. It never can happen again. But it is esti= mated that their citizens own upward of 11 billion dollars in gold here, or in American securities, whizh their governments can: grab, sell here and pay cash for supplies. Such purchases and prices would put our farmers on easy street, absorb our unemployed and set every factory wheel spinning. It would be a fool's paradise. It would bring another crash and possibly eventual destruction, We don't want that at any price and certainly not at the price of war. But it would come as sure as sunrise. So why should the stock market dip every time it seems to be about to begin?
It Seems to Me By Heywood Broun
Antishy Drug Can Do Much More
Than Stop Yale Men From Crying.
NEY YORK, Sept. 12—Down at Yale they are working on a drug which seems to do away with shyness. This field of research is interesting, but it may have its dangers. One shudders to think what may happen to New Haven if the sons of Eli are to become even less inhibited. But there are groups and communities where the new notion of the scientists may do a world of good. Consider what might happen if every newspaper columnist were to receive a shot in the arm of this antishy solution. It might even restore the first person singular to journalistic meadows where that stalk has long been absent because of the innate modesty of the scrivening tenant farmers. And there are other pastures in the press which might profit through the administration of the new hormone, According to the newspaper accounts, was formulated ih Switzerland and sent from the lofty peaks to those low grounds of New Haven which lie in the domain of Ducky Pond. Experiments are being made at the Yale Institute of Human Relations, I read with bated breath the information from Neal E. Miller and Richard T. Sollenberger that “Emotional instabilities largely disappeared. Some persons stopped bursting into tears, as they had been, accustomed to do with no apparent provocation, Others ceased to suffer unexplained fits of anger, Periods of sulkiness were relieved.” To me this was doubly startling. Not only were the discoveries of the scientists amazing, but I must also confess a certain surprise at this picture of a tear-swept undergraduate life in the post-Billy Phelps period. I had never thought of Yale men in that way.
A Shot in the Arm
But the new drug has an even greater mission to perform than to still the sobbing of the seniors as they are tucked into their lonely cots in Harkness during the long winter evenings. The way to a happier and less jittery age among the journalists should be easy. It can be attained by following a& simple rule. No editorial writer on any Republican paper should be allowed to read a speech by Franklin Roosevelt without first baring his arm and getting a jolt from the hormone which wipes away past regrets and future fears. Surely there is need of stimulation for those ine trepid writers who have faced the goblins for five years, Their eyelids are a little weary from viewing with alarm. Their backs are bent from Red hunts under beds, They have stood at the crossroads so long waiting for a safe and sane tiolley that their knees begin to sag.
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Watching Your Health
By Dr. Morris Fishbein
ETANUS, or lockjaw, is one of the greatest and most persistent menaces of mankind, For many years there have been available methods of inoculation against this disease by the use of the antitetanic serum. Recently the value of the method has been so certainly established that the British Army has offered voluntary inoculation against tetanus to ail regular troops. The methods are, therefore, considered safe enough for general release. The new material for inoculation is madz hv a method similar to that used for the toxoid that is used against diphtheria. It has been found that the toxin or poison of the tetanus germ can be made nonpoisonous by treatment with formaldehyde. This is used in the toxoids that are produced. Inoculation of anyone with a proper number of injections of such material will insure a longstanding protection against lockjaw. In general it is customary to give at least two well-spaced doses of the preparation in order to insure a reasonable immunity, Unfortunately, we do not have for tetanus, as we have for diphtheria, a reliable test which wili prove whether or not the person exposed to the disease will be likely to develop it. Neither is (here any method for determining with certainty whether or not immuaity has developed, except by actual studies of the blood. Extensive trial on- a large scale of the tetanus toxoid seems to have shown that the reactions following the injection are no more severe than those which follow injection with the diphtheria toxoid. The germs of lockjaw are widely prevalent in soil and in our surroundings. When a person has a penetrating wound which’ has been contaminated by earth ge. by clothjmg tion against. tetanus should