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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1938
CROOKED POLITICS : T last public pressure is getting action against election frauds. The Grand Jury indictment of 24 Democratic and Republican precinct officials in the May primaries is a beginning. Whether these 24 officials of four precincts are guilty should not be prejudged. They deserve a fair trial, free from the partisanship which so easily poisons such proceedings. If proved guilty of course they should be punished to the limit of the Jaw. But that is not enough. What about other precincts? And what about the higherups? Was it a matter of minor party workers operating as pikers on their own, or was it organized corruption from above? Thanks to dictatorships and war dangers abroad, there is much loose talk in this country today about “un-American activities and isms.” We do not believe that American institutions can be overthrown or weakened by such alien forces. But democracy can be undermined and destroyed by inefficiency or corruption. What this community should be worrying about is not the long-haired soapboxers but the 100 per cent American home-grown political crooks.
WAR GUILT WHILE the trans-Atlantic cables hum with widely varying opinions from the capitals of Europe concerning the result of Premier Chamberlain's talk with Hitler, the news from Berlin is none too cheerful. The rigorously controlled Nazi press, we are told, continues to pour forth a Niagara of screaming headlines telling the German masses how the Czechs are “mistreating” the Sudetens: that the “misery” of this minority is “simply staggering”; that the Praha government “is no longer master,” and so on. Meanwhile comment concerning Britain’s peace efforts remains meager and vague. This can mean only one of two things: Either the Nazi propaganda machinery has been ordered to keep up the impression that war is imminent, further to scare Europe into vielding whatever it is that Germany wants, or else war has already been determined upon and the authorities are whipping up a popular frenzy with that in view. If the latter is true, then Ged help Europe,
HOW FAST IS POSSIBLE?
N Sept. 4—FEight days before the Maryland primary
election—President Roosevelt went into that state in At Morgantown, the President spoke enthusiastically of Maryland's plan for a $3,000,000 highway bridge across the Potomac River, calling it “one of the things that has got to be done as fast as we can possibly do it.”
an attempt to “purge” Senator Tydings.
On Sept. 10—Two days before the primary—Secretary Ickes made public a telegram he had sent, on special instructions from the President, ordering the PWA regional director in charge of Maryland projects to hurry up action on applications for Federal money to build the Potomac Bridge and also a $2,500,000 Susquehanna River Bridge at Havre De Grace, Md. Cn Sept. 12—Primary day—Maryland Democrats renominated Senator Tydings and rejected the President's candidate, Rep. Lewis. On Sept. 15—Three days after the primary—Secretary Ickes, when asked at his press conference what progress had been made on the Maryland bridge projects, said: “They are just where they always are. We are going very carefully and we aren’t ready to make a decision yet.”
GETTING WISE TO THE GOLD-BRICK HERE indeed, is something new under the sun. Since we are selfishly interested because newspaper advertising is involved, make vour own discounts. And then we still think the idea is good.
A big business, attacked by a Washington lawmaker, decides to stay out of lobbying and instead go direct to the public, using every medium of paid advertising. Pointing out that their opponent, Rep. Wright Patman of Texas, is an “able politician, propagandist and lobbyist,” John A, and George L. Hartford, heads of the A. & P., declare: “In that field he (Patman) is an expert. We are experts only in the grocery business. We believe the chain stores (which Patman proposes to put out of business) have a right to present their case to the American people. We will not go into politics, nor will we establish a lobby in Washington for the purpose of attempting to influence the vote of any member of Congress.” Just why this approach-direct should be something new is hard to understand. But it is. It avoids the intrigue and back-alley aspects that alwavs characterize lobbying, and the public suspicion which is always generated when behind-the-scenes stuff is going on. Of all the suckers, from the original hayseed who purchased the gold-brick and Uncle Cyrus who bought the Brooklyn Bridge, the businessman who hired the lobbyist heads the list. That the operators of an institution which does a gross of nearly a billion dollars a year have decided to trv another way is, to say the least, significant. :
AND NONE TOO SOON
NEW mathematical definition, just reported to scientists meeting at Cambridge, Mass., is said to make it possible to predict what will happen in states of complete chaos and thus, for the first time, to bring utter confusion under man’s control. We don’t understand it—but, considering the state for which the world seems to be headed, we're certainly glad to know that definition is ready!
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Fair Enough
By Westbrook Pegler
Comparing the Hines Decision
Entering a Ring With White Trunks.
EW YORK, Sept. 17.—The mistrial in the Jimmy Hines case before Judge Ferd Pecora puts me in mind of the night that Harry Wills was tossed out of the ring and definitely out of the running for the heavyweight championship of the world by a decision of foul in his fight with Jack Sharkey. Wills, in heavyweight pugilism, like Prosecutor Tom Dewey in New York local and state politics, was a nuisance and a menace. Nobody quite knew how great a menace he was because he had been kept out of important fights by Tex Rickard’s gentlemen's agreement with himself that it wouldn't do the boxing game any good to have a colored man fight a white man for the heavyweight championship of the world. Finally, however, he was given a fight with Sharkey, a new boy at the time, and was disqualified for hitting while holding, a technical foul, but common practice in the ring all over the United States. Some referees and judges do make a solemn pretense of penalizing in their little score-sheets a fighter who hits while holding but most of them have favored the theory that when a man gets up in the ring to fight, especially for the prices which fighters received in those days, he ought to protect himself against minor impositions.
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HE disqualification of Wills eliminated him from the logical contendership or runnerupcy as the
known at the time. Tom Dewey out of the ring, so to speak, may not have the same effect on his future, for he is young and still coming on, whereas Wills was beyond his prime and just hanging around. But, certainly, the Democratic machine of New York City and state and particularly Tammany Hall, will feel no regret that the Republican's most promising young aspirant to the governorship lost his most important fight on a highly technical foul which could have been evened up in the scoring. Lawyers often are allowed to get away with the sort of foul for which Pecora tossed Dewey out. It is almost impossible for any human being to go through any ordinary day's conduct without committing a technical violation of some ordinance or the spirit of some law and, similarly, if a judge should sit back, laying for a chance to call a foul on an attorney, especially in a complex trial lasting a month and more, #1ie chance would be bound to come. No case ever would go to the jury,
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HIS trial contained the elements of a fight for the logical contendership of runnerupcy for the office of Governor of New York and the Republican boy, by a very fastidious application of the rules, was given that which in pugilism is known as the old yo-heave, to the great political detriment of himself and his party. The political consideration is not just something that exists only in my imagination, for it was mentioned by counsel for the defense. Under the rules of the New York Prizefight Commission, a fighter could be disqualified for default or foul should he appear in the ring wearing white trunks or should one of his seconds appear in a sweater having a pocket in it, but the customers would consider that such an offense could have no true bearing on the merits of the contest and, in their resentment against being denied a thorough fight to a decisive result, considering all the expense to themselves, would be likely to wreck the joint. The people of New York, in an analogous situation, have shown more restraint.
Business By John T. Flynn
Will Defeat Itself in the End.
EW YORK, Sept. 17—Keeping prices up to a population whose income is diminished is one of the favorite devices of the present Administration. The Agricultural Department has been pegging the price of milk to those who need milk. Because there is, literaily, only a limited sum of money available to buy milk, it becomes increasingly difficult to sell it the higher the price is put. There is another fact involved. The farmer and the distributors between them expend a certain amount of money to produce the milk. The more they succeed in taking back in prices in excess of what they spend to produce the more they make it impossible for other producers to sell their products. By pegging the price of milk the Government upsets the butter market, for the high price of milk cuts the sales and more milk flows into butter production. The result is that butter production has reached an all-time high.
Cuts Total Purchasing Power
Therefore the next thing to do is to peg the price of butter. This the Government does by buying up 115.000.000 pounds of butter at a cost of $38.000.000. But while taking this 115.000.000 pounds of butter off the market, the Government makes it increasingly difficult to sell the remaining product by raising the price. So with cheese. By raising the price of milk the Government helps the dairymen producers. Then by buying and thus pegging the price of butter it helps the butter producers. But who will help the millions of people who have to pay for the milk and the butter? Of course in the end a policy like this defeats itself. It helps producers for a season, but it cuts the total purchasing power of the na‘ion and in the end it hurts the butter makers as well as other producers. If this price-fixing policy keeps up—and it will, because the Administration is committed to it—all the increase in purchasing power being created by the spending program will be more than offset by the price-raising program and the end will be collapse again. Price-raising is one of those things which a political government finds it easy to do. It is easier to vield to milk producers and butter and cheese makers than to refuse them. That is our policy now—surrencer, surrender on every front where enough pressure is applied. But this is not a program,
A Woman's Viewpoint
By Mrs. Walter Ferguson
1= American Association of Psychologists wants to be represented in the Army Medical Corps, in order to strengthen national defense. “The national mental resources must also be mobilized,” they announce, and the idea sounds excellent to me except that after war starts there aren't any mental resources. Everybody's crazy then. The fellow who is endowed with his full mental powers is not willing to sacrifice himself for a pretty platitude, nor to endanger the future of his world for a bunch of highbinders who believe they are divinely endowed to give orders to the whole human race. He's even smart enough to know that when a democracy goes to war it becomes something else again. The time for the psychologists to do their defense act is before war begins, and certainly the place for putting it on is outside the War Department. War departments are a direct result of war psychology. Can any person doubt that if we had conscientiously practiced the Christian doctrine we profess to believe, peace would be better established in the hearts of men and women? Is it not true that propaganda precedes the flag? There's no evading this truth. A standing army finally gets tired of standing. This is no strange belligerence which invades the being of the professional soldier—it’s merely old human nature doing her stuff. Nobody wants to prepare for something he'll never be able to do. Would you, for example, like to spend years learning how to make automobiles and then never be given the chance to show your skill at it? Of course not. The only way to stop war is to stop getting ready or it and #W cease investing so much wealth in is
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COMMUNISM IS LIKENED TO ITS FOE, FASCISM By Plain American
To Mr. J. N. E. Forum of Sept. 12: No, we are not deceived by reactionary leaders who call things by their opposite name. We have examined the socialist governments called “democracies” and claiming “freedom of the people” and found in reality atheist anarchies without regard for individual rights of the people. We know their trickery in all “Red” stump-speaking is an effort at confusion of thought, to deceive us into following their cause solely for one purpo$e—to draw us blindly into their squabble against the other “isms” in Europe which they are fighting.
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by the mining companies. Why can anyone in a democracy ignore the right of the mext generation to use the land, due to the present generation's destruction of it? We are paralleling the Chinese | who made the Gobi Desert out of la glant forest. Soil erosion due to
of Indiana to fill up the gorges left |
payer of the heavy burden he now has. Although they pay no tax, except “painless” taxes, their votes count just as much as that of the real taxpayer such as the businessman or a real estate owner. Chronic shovel leaners who do not seek or want work should be disfranchised. on ” » WANTS VANNUYS SENT BACK TO SENATE By E. F, Maddox The Constitution of the United States makes provision for the republican form of government. It separates the powers and functions of the Federal Government into three separate branches. To the Congress is given the power to write the laws, to coin and regulate the value
money
We are equally opposed to the otton cropping on hillsides of the thereof, to make appropriations and
principles of those factions which, |goyth is said to be due to ignorance. to declare war.
But today under
also atheistic, are intent on selfish | yhat can be said of strip mining? | what is called a New Deal, the
greed for power without regard for individual rights. Both factions are equally repulsive to American ideals. ” = ”
ANOTHER SLAP FOR MR. DIES INVESTIGATION By It seems as if the Dies Committee to investigate “un-American” activitv needs to be investigated itself. This committee is attempting without documentary proof to fasten a “Red” label on any liberalminded person. Do they expect democratic people to accept their recommendations
R. Sprunger
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able sources? That we are in danger of communism in this country is absurd, as the American Communist Party cast only 1 per cent of the total vote in 1936. The real danger is fascism which has a strong foothold in this country. The Fascists of Germany and Italy gained control of government under cover of a Communist smoke screen. Now just who is backing the Dies Committee? Who wishes it to continue its “smear campaign?” is its purpose? = ” ” SOMETHING AMERICAN DIPLOMATS SHOULD READ By A. L. U. Westbrook Pegler is to be congratulated on his excellent article on “Foreign Policy.” It should be read by every American here, as well as American diplomats abroad. E- ” ” CHARGES MINING COMPANIES WASTEFUL OF LAND By A. C. B. When the Government gets through with its soil erosion program in the Tennessee Valley, it may come to the strip mining area
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{ This generation is only a trustee of the natural rescurces. Our land titles do not give us the power to wreck the future use of land. Democracy demands an intelligent use by every title holder. ” » o SUGGESTS CHRONIC SHOVEL LEANERS BE DISFRANCHISED By W. T. R.
A few days ago I passed a WPA |line—laughlingly called ‘‘workers.” [ They were cleaning out a ditch, but | most of them were leaning on shovels, sitting down, smoking and talking. My opinion is that a great many chronic reliefers should be dropped from the rolls, so as to ease the tax-
DEEP SORROW By ALBERTA DUNCAN STIER
| Late each life comes hours of pain, Hours of grief—fighting fate in vain;
| The world seems wrong, we think!
that we | Peace and content will never see; | Through all the burdens of life's hard years | Nothing can bring such pain-filled tears, Than to drift out from long hours of pain To find your plans have been in vain, To hear a voice whispering as it prays, “As you wandered through the shadows, i The baby slipped away.”
DAILY THOUGHT
If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.—Colossians 3:1.
HE name of Christ — the one great word — well worth all
languages in earth or heaven. -- | Bailey.
executive branch has assumed the power to write laws, send them to Congress with a “must” tag attached and if any Representative or Senator fails to bow to the demands of the President he is marked for a ‘‘purge.” Congress has been bludgeoned into delegating its power to regulate the value of money to the President, The Chief Exezutive also dominates appropriations for relief and other purposes. And now, most dangerous of all, there seems to be a scheme afoot to scrap our neulrality law and give the President full powers to decide whether we shall plunge into another foreign war. All of this is contrary to both the letter and the spirit of our Constitution. If we send a majority of ‘“yesmen” back to Congress this fall we are risking another experience like that of 1917-18. This nation has done all in its power to persuade foreign powers to settle their quarrels peaceably. If they insist on war let them take the consequences! We have all we can attend to at home. If we keep the United States free and independent of all alien “isms” we will do well. Senator VanNuys is a member of {the Foreign Relations Committee land has publicly stated that he is {opposed to our nation taking part lin foreign wars. Send him back to the Senate, not because he is a Democrat, but because he stands for Constitutional legislation and is opposed to entanglement in foreign wars! The greatest danger we face right now is the foreign war menace. We can keep out of all European wars if we want to. Put only Americans on guard in Congress. If we send Socialists, Communists and Fascists or men who sympathize with them, to Congress, they will vote to force us in to help their favorite dictator.
ALL PSYCHOLOGISTS who have studied employment problems agree that lack of control over one’s emotions causes r more
failures than lack ©
LET'S EXPLORE YOUR MIND
By DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM
THE STORY OF HEREDITY...
/ { A "OUR CLASS DEBATED WHETHER GIRLS INHERIT MORE FROM THEIR MOTHERS AND BOYS FROM THEIR FATHERS MOTHER WHAT DO YOU AND DAD THINK?" "THAT MUST BE TRUE, DICK, OR ELSE BOYS WOULD BE SISSIES ANDGIRLS WOULD BE TOMBONS." {
YOUR OPINION ces A
3 RG.) K, NATES wy HUSBAND SAYS [ AM ABNORMAL BECAUSE I TALK TO MYSELF WHEN ALONE. 1S THIS TRUE?
the job. People who worry or who can’t get along with the boss or fellow-employees, or have feelings of inferiority, often have three tim the ability for doing their jobs, yet
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fail because their emotions are 'sapping their energies and creating problems that have nothing to {do with the job. And of course a boss who worries his employees makes many a worker fail. | ” n = NOT EXACTLY. The reason 2 boys are like their fathers and | girls like their mothers is not that | boys inherit their masculine charac- | teristics from fathers and girls from mothers but because the life cells that produce boy and girl babies are slightly different. They both come equally from mother and athe, but half of the cells have a male-producing substance in them and half a female-producing substance. We will explain this more fully in another “Story of Heredity.” # 2 =» IF SO there must be an enormous number of us abnormal. It depends really on what it is you talk abcut. If you are talking over past insults, saying how you are going to get even with some one, or regretting past mistakes and the like—it may not be precisely abnormal but it is a very bad habit. But if yQu are merely thinking out loud, trying to solve the problems of life, the habit. may annoy others, but there is nothing abnormal about it. =: 2
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Gen. Johnson Says—
He Rises to Pecora's Defense In Calling Mr. Dewey Off Base In the Game With Mr. Jimmie Hines.
ETHANY BEACH, Del., Sept. 17.—The entire press, with no dissent that I have heard, plus official and private viewers-with-alarm, have heaved their pop-bottles at Umpire Pecora for declaring Mr. Dewey out on third base in the Hines trial. Among these are my own particular pets among newspapers and commentators and my pet of pets among public officials, Fiorello La Guardia. Everybody is out of step but Johnson. I have no particular brief for Ferdinand Pecora, but I have read every word published in that very fully reported case. I doubt if any trial was ever conducted with mere thoughtful care by the judge to preserve the principles of American justice. It was very early apparent that Judge Fecora was uneasy about the indictment itself. It sounded as though it might have been drawn by a Hollywood scenario writer. A conspiracy trial reduced by state's evidence to one defendant is something like a herd of cattle with only one cow. » EJ »
HE case was on thin ice as to the statute of
limitations. The offense was probably misnamed. Throughout the trial, Mr. Dewey acted as though public approval of his general brilliant course had relieved him from some of the restrictions of Anglo= Saxon law for the protection of people accused. Yet, the usual criticism is that Judge Pecora acted on a technicality. Technicality? That is an easy word. They are technicalities that a man must not be forced to be a witness against himself, that the people shall be secure in their homes and property against unreasonable searches and seizures, that a man shall be tried by a jury of his peers and so forth. But they are technicalities for which much blood has been shed and without which America wouldn't be any better than Hitlerized Germany. It was popular to put Al Capone away. He should have been put away. But I believe that a black blot on American jurisprudence is that he was tried for income tax evasion and sentenced for unnamed and unnumbered murders and extortions. I don’t believe that the popularity of a prosecution should change the law, » #2 = R. DEWEY has proved himself a fearless and relentless prosecutor—and a poor trial lawyer. The record in the Hines case suggests that he is no expert in examining witnesses. On occasion, Judge Pecora had to help him. It was either ineptitude or a conviction that, with press and public behind him, he could get away with anything. There was something smelly about his whole array of witnesses—political vengeance: seekers, perjurers, convicts, crooks and procurers—people with whom nobody would trust a nickel or an unplucked hen. With our mercural public it is no new thing to see a young meteor like Mr. Dewey, on the strength of one performance, and in spite of such revelations of inexperience, forgiven for anything and boomed for the highest office in the land. I am not arguing for Jimmie Hines. I am arguing for our judicial and legal system. I don't believe that Judge Pecora threw that case out merely on Strvker’'s motion on Dewey's prejudicial question. I think he threw it out on its cumulative stench which eventually became too dense to abide.
It Seems to Me By Heywood Broun
Debutantes, Brave as Lionesses, Picket Just Like the Grownups.
EW YORK, Sept. 17.—One approaches the news of the day with apprehension. Nor is it so much tragedy which the reader dreads as having to face the fact of international insanity. And to those who sit in an outward room the most terrifying sound of all may be the noise of empty laughter. Death comes in these afternoons bereft of dignity as well as all other human attributes. I have heard it said that in time of trial and tribulation there is
nothing like a good laugh. That's right. There is nothing like it to freeze the marrow of the bones. Let's not have it. There is, of course, a transcendental kind of mirth which can be tonic against despair, but it bears no kinship to those didoes which are generously included under the label of “good clean fun.” No attempt should be made to extend the silly season into the days of bleak and bitter storm. Man's hope is not dead, and there will be spring again and resur=rection, but this dawn cannot be brought into being by any kind of barnyard cackling. It seems to me that there should be a moratorium on all things cute and antic. : It was good to have missed the demonstration in W. 40th St. on Wednesday, where “five debutantes and socially prominent young matrons picketed briefly the headquarters of Kenneth Simpson, Re= publican county leader.”
Debbie and Dog Don’t Agree
The debutantes took up direct action . cause Mr. Simpson has not given aid to the Sutton Pi. ce rebel=lion to save the nation by indorsing John J. O'Con= nor of Tammany for the House. Mr. O'Connor says that there should be no “yes” men in Washington. The debutante of today is not the empty-headed miss of a previous generation. If she feels that it is her duty to picket she will not shirk the sacrifice, even though it breaks up her whole morning and makes her late for lunch. The ladies were not on the picket line very long, as it happened. “As soon as they had been photographed and in« terviewed they signaled a taxi.” : All the same, there they were, as brave as lionesses, carrving signs up and down just like the grownups. One of the debbies had a bright idea. She brought along her Dachshund, whose name IS Romeo. She carried a sign urging voters to support O'Connor, but the dog had a smaller placard urging support for Allen W. Dulles, the opponent of O'Connor. This was side-splitting, of course, but I should think that this conflict in opinion between the dog and the debbie might serve to confuse the voters. Dachshunds are
said to be very intelligent.
Watching Your Health
By Dr. Morris Fishbein
OR more than 25 years medical attention has been concerned considerably with the tonsils and with the question of whether or not they ought to be removed from most human beings as a routine, The list of diseases which has been attributed to infection through germs of one kind or another attacking the tonsils is a.most like the index of a medical textbook. It has been said that the removal of the tonsils will aid the prevention of scarlet fever, diph= theria, influenza, infantile paralysis, and other infec= tious diseases. It has been said that the tonsils may be responsible for goiter, and intestinal disease of one kind or another. Tonsils have been credited with the responsibility for a good many cases of rheumatism, neuritis, pain in the back, sciatica, and heart disease. A definite relationship has been traced between infection of the tonsils and serious inflammations of the eyes. fections of the ears, to loss of hearing, and to all sorts of skin troubles. Nevertheless, the time has not yet come when surgeons or specialists in diseases of the throat con- . sider it justifiable to remove tonsils merely because of the presence of any one of the diseases that have been mentioned. Before removal of the tonsils is recommended, the physician will want to make a thorough examination in order to determine the extent to which the tonsils themselves are infected and also to determine the, definite relationship between the infection and the other disturbances. When it is once established that the tonsils are responsible for maintaining a persistent infection elsewhere in the body, all authorities are agreed that the only real benefit to come must come from a com- .
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