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Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1938

IN SEARCH OF PEACE HE airplane dash of Britain's Prime Minister Neville | Chamberlain from London to Berchtesgaden to see Reichsfuehrer Hitler in a supreme effort to stave off war constitutes one of the most dramatic gestures in the history of diplomacy. Time was when the responsible head of a great empire would no more have thought of “demeaning” himself in this way than he would have essayed a trip to the moon. The world could soak itself in blood first. And nowhere was this tradition more solidly entrenched than in dignified

old England. So today we witnessed the end of an era. Nowadays when peace or war is the issue protocol and precedence are | forgotten because millions of lives are at stake. The meeting between Chamberlain and Hitler will be historic regardless of what happens. If Chamberlain succeeds. it will mean peace. If he fails, war. The world hopes it will be peace—without Nazi

dictatorship.

WHAT THE PURGE TEACHES DD Georgia—the defeat of Camp, the strong race run hy Talmadge and George's lead—and the story is told of the Senatorial purge that failed. But don’t overlook this curious and contradictory fact. While Mr. Roosevelt, as leader of his party, has been taking defeat. Mr. Roosevelt, the President and the individual, still rides a high wave of popularity. Witness Maryland. The man he campaigned for more ardently than any other lost by a 60-40 ratio. But the | Gallup poll, which called the turn almost to the dot on the Maryland primary, also, shortly before the voting, took a | poll on Roosevelt popularity in Maryland. Roosevelt showed per cent solid with the very voters who turned loosevelt's man down. That poll, it is true, did show a decline—8 points as | compared with 1936. And a similar poll for the whole | nation showed Rooseveltian popularity off 6.5 per cent. So a trend is indicated. But by no means has Mr. | Roosevelt grown anemic. As long as you have 55 per cent | in politics, as in a stock company, you control. But we believe the time has come for Mr. Roosevelt to take the trend seriously. We think Mr. Roosevelt since the winter of 1936 has been in a runaway mood and that he has greatly overestimated his speed. That, to generalize, was why the

purge met its comeuppance. lle also took bad advice and |

accepted amateur management. The chief lesson of the purge has to do with what representative government is all about. Making due allowance for the many other issues that entered into the primaries, public resentment against anything approaching one-man rule was by far dominant. That resentment runs deep. Mr. Roosevelt demanded yves-men. le didn’t get them. His defeats were of precisely the same stuff that brought disaster to his court-packing plan and the reorganization bill.

Therein we believe can be found the answer to the |

enigma of Mr. Roosevelt's high popularity in the broader

sense and his unpopularity on certain specific tests. Because | of his social ideals his prestige is still high. For them the | But, whenever he moves to jam things |

people love him.

through with demands of complete obedience from all who |

might disagree, the people fear him. That fear is accentuated by what they see of one-man government abroad. They will have none of it here. Analyze Mr. Roosevelt's record and you will find the one spot where he always trips. And if he doesn’t quit it, that element of love will decrease as the element of fear increases—that trend the poll shows will continue—and Mr. Roosevelt's influence will ultimately be set aside. If that should happen the nation will have lost the greatest influence for the bettering of the lot of the rank and file in this emergency that our times have seen.

A REAL CRISIS

IG news these days. The purge, for one thing. Hitler | defying the world. More gold pouring into our Treasury. British battleships charging over the seas. Mussolini | ousting the Jews. War in China. Row with Mexico. But we'll bet that a poll of American homes wouldn't list any of these as the most important thing. We'll wager that in the majority of those homes the really big news is that school has started. And that the really big problem is what to do about those new shoes for John and those new dresses for Sue.

ABUNDANCE IN BALTIMORE ID you ever drive through Baltimore? Did you see the block after block of narrow red-brick row houses and the white steps? And did you see the children playing on the steps and on the sidewalks and in the streets, unshaded | from the sun? Playing there because they have no better place, playgrounds being very scarce in Baltimore—espe- | cially in poor folks’ neighborhoods—because the Park | Board hasn't had the money. Maybe you will be interested to know that at last the Baltimore City Park Board has got its hands on some money—some WPA money—and it is going to do something big for recreation in Baltimore. It is going to build | a special type of playground—not a place that can be | patronized by those children who play on the white steps | and the sidewalks and in the streets. (After all they have | a place to play.) But there is another group in Baltimore which as yet hasn't what it wants in the way of a play- | ground provided at the taxpayers’ expense. And for that | group the Baltimore Park Board, with WPA money, is! going to build something special—a polo field! The More Abundant Life, provided from Washington on borrowed money, is certainly to be a boon for those poor Baltimoreans who own stables of polo ponies and heretofore have not known the joy of exercising at public expense.

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Fair Enough

By Westbrook Pegler

An Objection to the Unkempt Who Know Better—But With Nobody Particular in Mind.

EW YORK, Sept. 15.—Senator Tydings of Maryland is a tall, thin man, straight-backed and immaculately dressed, with a preference for doublebreasted suits. Rep. David J. Lewis, his unsuccessful opponent, is short, chunky, slightly stooped and sil-ver-haired, and doesn’t mind if his suit becomes rumpled or his tie askew. These descriptions, taken from a political story of the Maryland campaign, picturize the traditional conservative and radical types

of statesmen. Herbert Hoover and Charles G. Dawes, arch-con-servatives, are double-breasted and wear linen collars, too—-in challenging contrast to the professional and

| conventionalized Sockless Jerrys of American public

life. There seems to be something patronizing and, in truth, subtly insulting to the common man in the exaggerated imitation of his honest and unavoidable unkemptness by those who would thus appeal to his political favor. It is an old and, as David Lloyd George can testify, a reliable device, but most of those who resort to it can well afford to dress as well as their most reactionary opponents, and surely the bird's nest haircut and eyebrows are no badge of principle.

“ 4 # R. WILLTAM JENNINGS BRYAN, in his days as spieler for the real estate promotion at Coral

Gables, Fla., was richly paid, and toward the end of

his engagement the old Pied Piper took the precau-

tion to get his money cash in advance, not trusting the financial stability of the project which he was recommending to those who had faith in him. It is a literal truth that Mr. Bryan operated on the principle of the nickel piano in the corner saloon, and his homely dress adorned the figure of as practical a realist as ever went in double-breasted coat and fine linen. It is reliable hokum, the bagginess and exaggerated indifference to normal neatness which public figures sometimes affect to woo the approval of those whose harsh condition denies them good apparel, warm water and soap. It is reliable, notwithstanding the obvious affectation and an implied suggestion that untidiness is next to godliness. Yet it sometimes is an act which mocks the intelligence and personal feelings of the underprivileged,

as a lampooning of their misfortune by a mountebank | who would say, “I am the friend of the people, for, |

behold, I am gritty and always spill food on my vest.” # #

HERE may be some among the famous third of this nation skeptical and clever enough to reflect

{ within themselves that a man of comparative wealth,

well able to buy the best in clothing, barberage and

a personal sanitation, is not necessarily a common

man at heart but may be burlesquing or soiled and habitually somewhat high by choice. There have been public figures of this type in Congress, in the lower orders of politics and in the out-

| skirts of the labor movement who attempted to make | a political and social virtue of a personal aversion | to plain hygiene,

It is all of a piece with the affectation of lowdown, us-folks oratorical mannerisms, of which Huey Long was a persuasive master, although in certain moments the Kingfish could and did speak the purest, double-breasted English. I must add that I do not apply all this to Mr. Lewis, of Maryland. TI just happened to sce the two descriptions, and they suggested an idea.

Business ‘By John T. Flynn

Theory That the Rich Hold Key to Recovery Ridiculed by Economist.

EW YORK, Sept. 15.—A representative of the American Federation of Labor has just ex- | plained to a labor convention in England the cause | of the present business lethargy in the United States. | It is due, he says, to a strike of capital. The rich | will not invest or lend their money. This they do to | discredit and ruin the present administration. At the same time the weekly report reveals that | bank loans have decreased thirteen million dollars. | Here, doubtless, the controversialist will find proof | that the rich are sitting down on their cash. The idea that recovery comes from the conscious activities and expenditures of the rich is a widely held one. The truth is that very little study has been | made of precisely where the money for recovery originates. Economists have studied the causes of depressions and booms. But they have not followed with any degree of care the precise point at which recovery begins and who supplies the money for it. Where the collapse has been as complete as the | great depression, the recovery will come from one cause—from the rise and development of new industries. Any kind of new industries will not do. | They must be new industries which stimulate pecul- | larly capital investment,

It All Begins With Obscure Men

Just where and how these new industries arise and how they are nourished in their early days has not been very much considered by the economic historian. Take for instance the motor industry. How did it | start? And who financed its ride? It did not begin in Wall Street or among great capitalists. It began with utterly unknown and ob- | scure men with little or no capital. They started in | small bicycle stores, barns, tiny shops. Some induced a friend or local small capitalist to supply a small amount of money. This industry did not get around to the rich capitalist until it was already a success and the rich were breaking their necks to horn into it. The writer has made some studies in the origin of new industries. And for the most part they have begun this way. No one can suppose that Ford or Graham would have cooled down on their dreams of a horseless carriage in order to inflict damage on some political party. It is so now. The industry which may end this depression may be growing in a small way in some little shop under the drive of some man who may not even read the political news.

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A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

T is gratifying to hear a man speak up for monogamy, so our thanks are due Rupert Young, who in a current magazine makes out a fine case in its favor. Too often when the subject is brought up we assume the tolerant attitude. In the masculine code, polygamy is accepted as instinctive, and by falling for this “line” we've come to believe that women

| shouldn't be too nard on the culprits.

“Forgive and forget” is the slogan. and while we can admit the good sense of the method I still contend it's unfair to women unless, of course, husbands can be trained to be as complacent when their spouses misbehave—which they never will be if Old Adam continues to dwell in the masculine nature. Mr. Young, taking a new tack, shows how unsatisfactory and unpleasant those subrosa affairs are, when a man is married to a fine, affectionate woman. His nervous system, he says, was upset by the deceptions he was forced to practice, his intelligence was constantly insulted by the cheap lies he had to manufacture, while his entire code of ethics became subtly altered during the course of these shoddy, surreptitious romances. In no uncertain terms he tells us that his character as well as his happiness would have been ruined if he had not put a stop to

| them.

It seems to me no decent husband can overlook the fact that with every act of unfaithfulness he

| destroys something immeasurably precious to him—

a woman's complete trust. I daresay the hurt any disloyal husband sees in the eyes of a wife, who once believed in him and believes in him no more, is enough to set a curse upon him forever. The curse of his own wounded self-respect. There is little enough faith in our world. If it is not to exist between husband and wife, will not civilization itself suffer from the inevitable quence? ;

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

THURSDAY, SEPT. 15, 1938

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PLEADS FOR CONTRIBUTIONS TO SPANISH FUND By Agapito Rey A relief ship loaded with milk, food, clothing and medical supplies | contributed by the American people is to leave for Spain this month. | This relief ship, while utterly insuf- | ficient to meet the needs of the innocent war sufferers, will cheer and | comfort the Spanish people in their | ats and has virtually announced Saiki struggle for country and ae to the world that winning an elec“The plight of the Spanish war tion is a thing it knows little or victims is appalling. The scarcity nothing about. of food has been intensified because| The Republicans seem content of heavy fighting along the Mediter- |i, a]low their opportunity to knock ranean coast, a rich region from ,¢ the door unheeded. They certainwhich the Loyalists obtained large |y have accomplished a splendid job

quantities o BgNonieal products. (of muffing a well-thrown ball, as far he situation has been aggravat- las I am concerned.

ed by the deliberate and systematic| with an immense amount of bombing of coastal cities and the splendid ammunition at hand, fur-

(Times readers are invited to express their 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.)

sinking of food ships in the har-|

| tors. Large numbers of children and other noncombatants are on the verge of starvation. They must be | looking with horror at the approaching winter. For how can they sur-| vive without food, clothing and! fuel? | The American people who are blessed with peace and adequate | means of livelihood will not forget | the unfortunate Spanish war suf- | ferers. Let everyone contribute to! the limit of his ability. Let us make the relief ship to Spain a messen- | ger and symbol of American gener- | osity.

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¥ & TAKE THAT, ERNIE! FOR MISSING OUT! By

JUST

Jontinental Optical Co.

Having just finished reading Mr. | |Pyle’s column on how spectacles are | made, we're wondering why he had | to go so far away to tell the home | {folks about an industry that has its third or fourth largest manufac- | turer in his own home town. Since 1914 the Continental Optical | Co. has been making the finest | {ophthalmic lenses produced, and {selling them all over the United States, Canada and abroad. We, too, could show Mr. Pyle the |

be marked, and show him the safety glass test with the steel ball. » ” ” DISSENTING—ON THE G. 0. P, CAMPAIGN TACTICS

September sings,

(nished by Fred VanNuys and the

State House crowd, the Republican organization is far at sea with no one about apparently capable of issuing a command. ” ” ” URGES MOTHERS TO KEEP ILL, CHILDREN HOME By Mrs. J. V. Please publish this for the benefit of some mothers who aren't considerate enough to keep their children indoors or at least in their own yard when the child has a contagious disease such as whooping cough, mumps or sore throat. In our neighborhood earlier in the summer a girl of 6 was aliowed, by her neglectful mother, to run loose with the whooping cough. Consequently, every child who played with her contracted it, including my own little girl. Now a hoy of 7 is playing around with his neck tied up with a flannel rag. He claims he has the “lumps.” I try to keep my own child away from him but I think he should be

SEPTEMBER SINGS

By M. P. D. one

glad free chime

way a lens is made, the way it can Through the hours of autumn time,

Sings of flelds of ripened grain In one radiant happy strain. Sings with robin, blackbird, lark, Flying where the wild things hark. All the land in one great line Rings in chimes of autumn time.

By a Republican

Along about the first of the year {it was conceded at every hand that |the Indiana Democrats were doing | their level best to hand over the| not seen Him, neither known Him. {election this fall to the Republicans.| I John 3:6. |But goodness, gracious, Caroline, | {how things can change overnight. COULD not live in peace if I put With the contest just a few weeks the shadow of a wilful sin beaway the Republican state organi-|tween myself and God. — George zation is trying to outdo the Demo-|Eliot,.

DAILY THOUGHT

Whosoever abideth in Him sinneth not: whosoever sinneth hath

kept in his own home. He endangers all the other children. Why do mothers have to be so thoughtless and careless? Just because their own child is unfortunate enough to catch a disease is no reason why they have to spread it all over the neighborhood. It is positively criminal. I try to be so careful with my own child and when something like this happens it just burns me up. So, please, mothers, have a thought for others. Remember that other women hate to have their children sick just the same as you do. > oo

HE DISAGREES WITH COMMENT ON THE HINES TRIAL By 8. A. A.

I feel constrained to answer your editorial of Tuesday in connection with the Hines mistrial decision. The ruling of the court was entirely correct. The taxpayers of New York are reaping the result of appointing and electing a young, egotistical and poorly prepared man to an important office. No youth of 36 with a few short years of practice is at all qualified to handle this job. Dewey by his own conduct and admissions through the trial clearly shows a lack of training. I noted that Mr. Dewey had left a $50,000 a year income to take up his present duties. Who, pray tell, {would pay this upstart a tenth of that sum—especially if the present trial has been an indication of his ability.

” wo» THE LATEST FLASH ON ITALY'S NEW CULTURE By R. W.

Maybe the democracies are going to get more benefit out of the dictatorships than has been suspected. The kind of benefit referred to is the acquisition of talent and great | Works rejected elsewhere as un- { Aryan or ‘subversive.” The gifts [from Germany have been voluminous. Now a certain chance appears | that Italy may be an equally fruit-| ful source. | It sounds a little like something | out of “Through the Looking Glass” | or a Marx brothers show, but a foreign correspondent writes that | Italy's adoption of the Nazi racial | doctrine puts many of the world's greatest works of art definitely on| the spot. Italy is positively cluttered | with masterpieces, and some of the masterpieces are cluttered with | Jewish characters. Michelangelo's heroic statues of David and Moses are particular sources of embarrassment. Maybe America can get an artistic | renaissance of some kind out of this. | The only fly in the ointment is the

rumor that Italy may solve the |

problem by such dodges as chiseling | Moses’ nose into a retrousse and! calling the statue “Fine Old Italian Aryan With a Beard.” Give up?

LET'S EXPLORE YOUR

THE STORY OF HEREDITY.

"DAD IF ALL FEEBLE-MINDED PERSONS WERE SEPARATED 50 THEY WOULD HAVE NO CHILDREN WE'D SOON RID THE WORLD OF THAT /,| CURSE, WOULON TWE?" OF COURSE WE WOULD, pick! YOUR OPINION — 2

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psychologist, secured intimate ence. Let us give even the devil of cpinions on this point from large the depression his due. groups of college students and 4 2 =» over 70 per cent stated the depres- IT WOULD RID us of those sion had drawn their families closer feeble-minded colonies that live together and developed among them|back in the hills and intermarry, i wo :

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By DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM

DR. R. C. ANGEL, Ann Arbor|a stronger feeling of interdepend- |

MIND

(but they make up probably not over half of our feeble-minded. Unfor|tunately, feeble-mindedness seems |to be a ‘‘recessive” trait, the hidden lgenes (jeans) being carried by | thousands of normal people. When {such persons marry each other, even| [though there has been no feeble-| mindedness in their family trees for |generations, cne or more out of several children may be feeble-minded. | The parents should not blame themselves as it is not their fault and lat present we do not know how; to prevent such misfortunes. Lat THEY are one of the best indications, although the average | person does not know what his day 'dreams really are until he sees them |set out in a clear-cut pattern. Dr. Edward K. Strong, Stanford psy- | chologist, has selected 600 questions about occupations, sports, love, people, literature, etc., and had large groups of persons who were successful in 33 different occupations say which items they “Like,” “Dislike” or are “Indifferent” about. | This shows the day-dream of “interest pattern” of persons who succeed at these occupations. By comparing your pattern with each occupation it shows the one you would {ike best and a man rarely fails at a thing he likes. This test has to be given and scored by a psychologist.

| from your point of view or mine.

| substances.

Gen. Johnson Says—

The National Resources Committee's Report on U. S. Income Looks to Him Like a Political Document.

ETHANY BEACH, Del, Sept. 15—The theme of political speeches until 1940 is going to be the “underprivileged third.” It will now be based on “Impartial Government Statistics”—a report of the new National Resources Committee, the official poobah for the new governmental planning. It sent WPA workers to interview 300,000 families, 1 per cent of all, and asked each just how much money it had taken in 1935-1936 excluding direct relief, but including WPA relief. On that 1 per cent sample, and in wide disagreement with every similar study, their conclusions are enough to make all but 11 per cent of us “see red.” Eighty-nine per cent of our families, it says, re=ceived less than $2500, which the Government believes . is indispensable to healthful living. The “lower third” averaged only $471 and was tops at $780. That third got, in total, about what the upper 4 of 1 per cent of the lousy rich get. Meet me on the barricades!

2 2 OW you could tell all this by questioning only 300,000 families out of 30,000,000 is too complex to explain here. Doubtless WPA would be entirely impartial in this endeavor and of course, Mr. Roose= velt’s pet personal planning committee would. They left out 18 states and about 2900 counties and the few places they did investigate seem to be heavily weighted by picking depressed areas and including Southern Negroes. But such suspicions may be unworthy. The re= port frankly states that, when it got to the upper third, especially income classes above $5000, it went to the Federal income tax returns. There it added to net income the amount paid for all taxes, Federal and local, and all interest and contributions. Since such taxes in that year were about twelve billions, mostly paid by that class and accounting for about 25 per cent of income considered, and in some part distributed to the other thirds, the method seems to make the whole study suspect as a self-serving advocate’s brief prepared for future political purposes, ® wn HERE is something highly improbable here. If we have ten million unemployed, they alone, on census percentages, are as numerous as the breadwinners for all of our lower third of families, They are not all in that income class but they are so far the bulk of that class that it is unemployment and that alone, with the Southern Negro families, that pulls the top income of the lower third down to $780 and the average to $470, improbable as those figures seem for the whole country. , The solution of this problem is normal private reemployment. If it came then, on the committee's own figures, the average income of the lower third would jump from $780 to $1160. But what have the makers and users of these figures done about them? After five years of trial and 20 billions of spending, unemployment is much worse than when they began. Their policies have prevented recovery and re-em-ployment. That is the chief cause for degradation of the lower third. WPA wages average $630, not $780. This report locks to me like a great Republican “cam= paign document.” .

It Seems to Me

By Heywood Broun

Presenting a New Adage: ‘Always Give a President an Even Break.’

EW YORK, Sept. 15.—This will be a sentimental column. I take my text from a fellow member of the craft. Eleanor Roosevelt, writing from Rochester, Minn., stated that “there are a few advantages in being the President,” and went on to say that “every now and then someone came to tell the President how far the work had progressed in that marvelous white operating room upstairs.” She did confess that “Jimmy's operation seemed to take a long time.” I know the patient and his father and mother very slightly, but it was difficult for any reader not to put himself in the position of those who waited. Private worries and agonies come to all of us, but this particular situation piled on the agonies for a human being called Roosevelt who is the President of the United States. In the middle of a desperate political campaign in which all the things which he believes are being put to the test, he sits and waits for bulletins as to the condition of his son who is undergoing a major operation. Naturally he must also keep in mind the possibility of some sudden call from Washington regarding the situation in Europe, Two knives are moving simultaneously.

When He Doesn’t Smile

Yes, I know that Franklin D. Roosevelt smiles a lot in the newspaper pictures, and they say that more than any other man he loves the give and take of political conflict. But he isn't always fencing gaily with reporters or waving cheerful greetings. I haven't a doubt that he, too, bleeds when cut. His shoulders are broad, but there is no living American who moves about with a heavier millstone chained around his neck. It just can’t be fun. We have heard much of the scheme which the founding fathers drew up for checks and balances. But they forgot one little thing. They neglected to divide the responsibility. When the nation is gripped by gales the citizen does not cry aloud for Congress or the Supreme Court to do something. The man in { the White House, whoever he may be, must take | the rap. This has always been so. I think there ought to be a much wider apprecia= tion of the fact that the Presidency imposes burdens which are almost tco much for any man to carry. I am not speaking just of Roosevelt, who may be supremely right or absolutely wrong in his policies I would bespeak more mercy and understanding for Chief Executives of the past and those to come. I suggest a revision of an ancient adage. I think it ought to read, “Always give the President of the

United States an even break.”

Watching Your Health

By Dr. Morris Fishbein

TOT long ago someone asked just how many cases N there were in the United States at this time of people who had asthma, or hay fever, or who were sensitive in some manner to foods, pollens, or other It would be difficult if not impossible to

hazard even a guess. Guesses vary anywhere from 2 to 10 per cent of

the population. Most experts are agreed that there is something in the constitution of the person concerned which makes him likely to become sensitized or allergic. In other words, he is the allergic type. It is simple to believe that he is probably the allergic type because somewhere in his ancestry were parents or grande parents who were allergic. It has been suggested also that possibly the glands of the person may be concerned, or perhaps his nervous system. Unfortunately, it cannot be proved that any one or all of these factors are primarily concerned. The theory has also been advanced that the chemistry of the body is primarily responsible. The mere fact that the person who is allergic sometimes seems to get better if he goes along with less food, or has a secondary infection, or changes his place of residence, or in some other manner brings about a complete change in his environment and habits of living, is not necessarily proof of the fact that the difficulty is primarily chemical. The one thing that is quite certain is the fact that a history of allergic manifestations or symptoms can be found in 50 per cent of the people who are sensitized and who come to the doctor. In othdr words, the one certainly established factor is the her.ditary factor.