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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1938
CORRECT, MR. FARLEY
E welcome the expert testimony of Postmaster General Farley in support of our belief that New Deal agencies have gone beyond all bounds of necessity or reason in their output of propaganda and publicity material. Mr. Farley has a good deal to say about postal matters in the current installment of his magazine story. He thinks it's all right for Congressmen to “frank” speeches through the mails. He believes it was necessary for the New Deal to increase the volume of press material sent out by Government departments and bureaus, because so many emergency relief activities were being undertaken and because the public wanted information about these activities. The same type of service, he points out accurately, was undertaken by Republican Administrations, particularly under Herbert Hoover. But he adds: “Obviously, however, this sending out of press material has been overdone, resulting in waste for the Government and placing an unnecessary burden upon the postal service. There is always a tendency on the part of an employee to be more liberal in the use of public funds for such purposes than he would be with the funds of a private concern. The aggregate of publicity material has become so great that it tends to defeat its own purpose and some way should be found to cut it down.” What Mr. Farley says as Postmaster General, concerning the waste of public money and the unnecessary burden on his department, will interest the taxpayers. As one of
the smartest politicians alive, chairman of the Democratic |
Party, what he says about the flood of publicity material defeating its own purpose should impress the officials who are responsible for that flood.
PARENTAL TWILIGHT! “JZEMOCRATIC self-government for children—which naturally suggests self-determination, protective organization and militant defense of inalienable rights in the nursery—is urged by Dr. O. H. Mowrer of Yale Institute of Human Relations. This earnest advocate of infant freedom says successfully tried self-government among chudien from 2 to 14 vears old in the New Haven Children’s Center, He
is convinced there is far too much “authoritarianism” in the
average American home and school.
Well. the doctor is only going a little faster than his |
times. We have already seen high school pupils asserting their independence in sit-down strikes. What more logical than to inculcate vet earlier consciousness of constitutional and civil liberties in the primary schools, even in the kindergartens? Parents are either old fogies or Fascists. Teachers are dictators. Discipline as training for later life is more and more discredited. Likewise, all former ideas that holding the youthful mind to tasks not intrinsically pleasant may be good preparation for tackling adult problems often still less easy or agreeable. As for that ancient warning, “Spare the rod and spoil the child”"—barbarous! “Life,” said a great Frenchman, “belongs to the voung.” Then why not hand it over to them in the cradle itself to be duly debated and determined—expecting only such “co-operation” with parents or teachers as infant wisdom may deem necessary, reasonable or expedient? Ask Dr. Mowrer.
WHO TOLD THE FTC? NEW YORK gentleman, the Federal Trade Commission has discovered, is making a living by selling booklets with such subversive titles as “How to Win a Husband.” This particular treatise is allegedly advertised in the following terms: “How much would you pay for the love of the man you want? ... Then don't sit back and let the other girl have him. Win him for yourself in spite of all obstacles. The simple clear directions in this book tell you how.” The FTC took a look at this and issued a complaint that “such representations are grossly exaggerated, deceptive and untrue.” It gave the unhappy booklet vendor 20 days to prove the truth of his claims; if he can't prove, he'll have to tone down. Apparently the FTC thinks that any would buy this booklet would be a sucker. This raises some interesting questions: How far should the FTC go in preventing predatory spinsters from seeking advice of counsel? How far, indeed, should it go in trying to keep suckers from indulging in their time-honored custom of parting with their money ? And, for that matter, just how much does the FTC or any other bureaucracy know about How to Win a Husband?
spinster who
CANDIDATES HIS political year has presented the country with a superabundance of candidates, many of whom we shall be glad to forget. Recent news reports, however, have told of three candidates who should not be lost to fame. They are: G8rge Ray of Arkansas City, Kas., who has discovered that he filed for the wrong office; he wanted to be constable, but won the Democratic nomination for county clerk. Mayor C. N. McHugh of Cedar Falls, Iowa, former manager of a cucumber canning plant, who is seeking reelection and wooing the voters with dill pickles. And Thomas H. Leary, a policeman of Cambridge, Mass., whose prankster friends put him on the ballot for delegate to the Democratic State Convention; Cambridge policemen are forbidden to seek political office, and so Mr. Leary is campaigning by making faces at babies, asking voters to give him cigars and begging citizens to elect his apponent.g :
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By Westbrook Pegler
| Touching on the General's Ire Concerning the President's Chums, Mr. Corcoran and Mr. Cohen.
EW YORK, Sept. 19—Gen. Hugh Johnson's picturesque opinion of Tommy Corcoran and Ben Cohen is one of the most touching detestations of the New Deal phase of American politics. It has been largely through the repetitious expression of the old cavalryman's loathing for this booksmart pair that their famous passion for anonymity has been starved to death. Even though he may not realize it, the General probably has in his soul some of the traditional feeling of the soldier in the ranks for the captain's striker who gets the leavings from the table and apparel of the head man and a chance to slip in an occasional needleload of company gossip and advice. Tommy and Ben occupy undefined positions, being neither soldiers, in the full sense of the word nor officers, but have their being in the atmosphere of command, removed from many of the duties and disciplinary hazards of life in the ranks. = = HE feeling of the men on the Hill, those rough-and-tumble regulars of politics who have to go into action to save their political lives and subsist on the regular mess, seems to be similar to Johnson's. Politics is their business, and they are exposed to risks and temptations that do not exist in the sheltered life of the political secretariat. It would be strange indeed if a Senator or Representative, taking a full part in the company life and duties, did not feel slightly resentful at the smirking officiousness of a protected Presidential house pet in telling him what he must do. He would be no nan if he did not sense presumption in such approaches and in threats, however suavely put and however authentic. Mr. Roosevelt has his sergeants for such missions, but he has chosen to use his strikers instead and has permitted them to concoct onerous assignments which gall the souls of the old campaigners, with the natural result that the company morale has been shot to pieces.
L 3 HE rather spinsterly existence of the President's political batmen has been thrown in the faces of the rough-handed and deep-voiced bucks in the barracks who, in a manner of speaking, shoot craps, get drunk and otherwise conduct themselves as common soldiers. They have to stand inspection by both their constituents and the boss and are invited to the White House only to be crawled or specially instructed, whereas Tommy and Ben stand neither formations nor inspecton and enjoy the possession of latchkeys | to the skipper’'s quarters. Tommy and Ben never earned chevrons in the party. They came in only yesterday as soft-handed recruits. Johnson, as an Army man, has the instinct to respect his sergeants as a means of commanding respect for them and for his own authority. Let a commanding officer discredit his sergeants and he discredits not only them but himself in the eyes of those to whom he looks for respect, obedience and that impalpable power called co-operation which even the most obedient troops can withhold.
Business ‘By John T. Flynn
| | Difficult to Say Now Whether War Crisis Will Develop U. S. Trade.
EW YORK, Sept. 18—The drumbeats in Europe have of course produced the inevitable reper- { cussions among those in this country who are forever | gambling on the results of war or peace or famine. | There is a strongly fixed notion that, however wicked a war may be, it is going to send prices up here. This is based upon the belief there will be a tremendous demand swiftly applied to our markets by the warring nations. In 1914, it is true, every ship that docked here brought waves of orders for all sorts of goods for all of the belligerents. But it took a good while before the effect of this demand registered against our prices, our wages and our profits. For instance, in 1913, the year preceding the war, the price index of all commodities for the vear was 69. In 1914, which included six months of war, it was 68.1. And in 1915, after a year and a half of war, it was 69.5. It was not until 1918 that the real effect began to be felt. Indeed, there were some lines where prices were adversely affected. Wages, after a year and a half of war, were no higher than they were in the year before the war. As for the stock market, its first direction was down. Then the Exchange was closed and did not open until the war had been raging for six months. When it did open the price of stocks, unlike other prices, began to rise swiftly at once and continued up for the entire year 1915.
Much Depends on Statesmanship
By the beginning of 1915 other nations not at war, seeking a market to buy what they had always gotten from Germany or England or France, began to send their buyers to the United States. It took time for this to deveiop, but the weatherwise saw | it coming. Also, of course, they saw coming the inevitable volume of war orders from the warring nations themselves. Whether a war trade of any dimensions will develop here or not it is difficult to say as yet. So much depends on the kind of statesmanship which exhibits itself in Washington and. also, upon the temper of the country and the attitude which we approve toward the war. However one thing may affect prices this time more swiftly than in 1914 and that is the money markets, In 1914 the great warring nations were wealthy and their currencies were strong. But now they are broke or nearly so, their currencies are very unstable, as is ours, and in a very short time an immense upsetting of exchange ratios may send prices askew.
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A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson
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holder is to plan the size of his family to fit his
F we except making a living and dodging automobiles, the hardest job of the modern house-
income. Although he may be a person who dotes on children, he dares not indulge in the pleasure of several, lest he find himself and them marching under Harry Hopkins’ banner. Parents nowadays seem to be divided into two main classifications: those who feel no responsibility whatever for their babies, and those who calculate fearfully the terrors of a future dark with disaster. As usual, the one extreme is almost as bad as the other, with the youngsters the chief sufferers in both instances. There's this to be said about babiess They should never be brought up without companiofis of their own age, which leaves the “only child” in rather a pathetic situation. Our discussions seem to get us nowhere very fast. The irresponsibles continue to fill the relief rolls with unwanted babies, while the moderate-income groups spend their money on Scotch and show-off instead of investing it in children. While we are worried about the high birth rate among the very poor, we should be equally upset at the few children in homes of men and women who lay claim to intellectual attainments and who are financially able to provide for several. It might be well worth our while to agitate more against the “only child” household. Nor can we approach this subject without sensing the major tragedy of the machine age—the tragedy of thousands of fine young people too hard-pressed to afford even one child. When the s of our economic sins is written do this waste will be accounted the direst of all.
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES Destination Unknown !—By Talburt
MONDAY, SEPT. 19, 1938
The Hoosier Forum
I wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.
CHARGES “WILFUL MEN” ARE BLOCKING PROGRESS By G. W. B. : Twenty years ago a Democratic President, courageous, liberal and with the vision of the world made free from war and preparation for war, went before the people with the request that a Congress should be elected which would give him the support needed to put over his plan. This plan involved membership in the League of Nations for the United States. A group of “wilful men” in Con-
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have made world safe for democracy. They tell us: “All that is needed is confidence.” They must come clean and give old folks enough to live on. They broke their pickhandle when they started paying off for less than $30 a month. Now there is but one answer. The people can make them tell how they propose to put them back to work, or else the voters could vote a write-
three children had measles and also my baby. In the meantime the boy returned to school only to be returned by the nurse again. It is sad to think such My
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baby developed mastoid infection qq jt if the press won't help them. two years later and she is putting They can do it in meetings. You up a brave fight to continue in isee the people have their backs to
school.
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Europe and probably the rest of the world. So much for a group of “wilful men” whose pride had been affronted in not being represented in the] peace mission, whose states had been “invaded” by the President in| his effort to carry out his splendid | ideals. Today we are confronted by a| similar situation. Again a Demo-| cratic President, courageous, liberal and with the vision of an America made free of economic bondage, is asking the people to elect a Congress whose outlook is to the future. Again a similar group of “wilful nien” and the Republican press are using the same methods to defeat progress. ‘States Rights,” “Dictatorship” and “Communism” are terms heard and seen on every hand. Is the next generation to suffer because the voters of this generation were as easily fooled as was the generation of the time 20 years ago? We shall see.
y ¥ # A MOTHER ADDS HER WORD ON ILLNESS By Mrs, L. E. Everett Mrs. J. V.'s article certainly interested me, for about seven years ago my little girl, who is now 9| years old, was exposed to measles by
four children living next door. The oldest boy was sent home by the school nurse with rash and by the time the boy was over it the other
GIVE AGED LIVING WAGE By W. H. Bremen, It looks like the politicians are being outsmarted by smart men Sho, play the old people's vote against, the WPA. The promise of $30 a month for the old folks, but paid | off for less, seems to be the undoing | of the polticians who go out with | an armful of figures to prove they
I SAW HIS SMILE
By ROSE MARIE CRUZAN He came to stay a little while, Just for a month or two. So tender, sweet, most precious dear But angels came on through And took him back to heaven, Away from me and you.
I held him closely to my heart, Gazed in his eyes; deep blue.
With trembling fear lest he leave My eyes were wetled with dew. He looked up at me and smiled, My baby was gone, I knew.
DAILY THOUGHT For every house is builded by some man: but he that built all things is God.—Hebrews 3:4.
OD is a circle whose center is everywhere, and its circumfer-
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the wall and are fighting for their lives, not for politicians—for their very own lives! ”
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LACK OF 15 CENTS By I. William Rothert I was called to traffic court Sept. 14 for going through a traffic light on the “change.” I paid a fine of $1 and costs, totaling $11. But here is my complaint: Is there any justice in these city courts? I listened to each and
traffic case. In every other trial the person was “discharged.” A woman driver just ahead of me, appearing on the same charge, was discharged. She had gone up and told the court that it “was all wet.” |
I went up meek as a lamb, pleaded guilty, and was fined $1 and costs. Having only $10.85, I was thrown in jail until I could raise 15 cents. Is that justice? 4 2 ” “WONDERING” WHERE OUR REPORTERS WERE By Wondering Having always believed that The Indianapolis Times was the ‘“people’'s paper,” I was greatly surprised to find no mention of last Sunday's (Sept. 11) N. Meridian St. parade and mee:ing at Tomlinson Hall.
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Notwithstanding the fact that | this parade tied up traffic for about one hour and a half, the assemblage | at the hall was an overflow crowd | with loudspeakers on the outside] for the Market St. crowd to listen to Alfred Lawson deliver his message to the people. I wonder if The Times could be afraid like most other newspapers, or were all their reporters on va-
ence nowhere.—Empedocles.
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cation last Sunday?
LET'S EXPLORE YOUR MIND
By DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM
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fourths of all insurance and own over 50 per cent of the nation's invested wealth. So how they spend this money is as vitally important to the men as to the women of the country. ” 2. 2 THIS I think is best answered by that fine phrase of Louis Stevenson,; “To journey is better than to arrive and the chief reward is
labor.” But if one arrives without journeying or receives his reward without - laboring for it, he has missed all those emotions and experiences—even the very habits of body and mind which the journey and the labor would have built up
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EXPRESSIONS | OTHER PEOPLE MORE 1 ACCURATELY - MEN OR WOMEN; YOUR ANSWER — 4
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and nearly 90 per cent if what they spend for the husband’s clothes is included. They inherit about three-
and through which appreciation is
| developed. 2 #2 = A BARNARD psychologist, Miss
3 Gates, secured photographs of | persons showing fear, mirth, pain. | anger, scorn and surprise, and had | 1458 boys and girls judge the emo‘tion shown by each photograph.| There was no difference, except the] boys were slightly better in judging fear. Another test has been made on over 1000 adult men and women in judging facial expresSighs of other people and one sex was just as good as the other in judging the emotion correctly. .
Gen. Johnson Says—
He Can't See How Communism And Capitalism Can Be Worked In One Pattern at Same Time.
ETHANY BEACH, Del, Sept. 19.—Behind much of the “liberal” thought in this country is the principle of “production for use and not for profit.” The idea is this: Workers produce goods and.to just the extent that profits are added to the cost of them, and do not go back to the wokers who produced them, the power of those workers to consume those goods—their “buying power’—is lowered. This is called the “curse of capitalism.” These thinkers say that it results in so unfair a distribution of the nation’s annual production (income) that, as a recent Government report improperly concludes, the upper one-half of 1 per cent of the nation’s: income receivers get as much as the lower 331% per cent. People who accept this as absolutely correct want to cure this evil by having the Government take over the machinery of production and operate it at cost so that with no element of profit at all in price, the workers who produce the goods .will have full and undiminished power to consume them.
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PPONENTS of this idea say that without the driving force of the hope for profit and gain, the capitalist system won't work. Money or property won't invest itself under the constant fear of confiscation or nonprofit operation. We could, they think, go to pure communism and abolish profits and property entirely. That has never worked anywhere or at any time. But, if we were willing to go through the bloodshed and upheaval necessary to try it, it is at least a consistent idea. But the attempt to try both ideas, communism and capitalism, at the same time is not consistent, That argument seems to me unanswerable. And vet, I have just read an advertisement of the Hartford brothers, the gentlemen "whose interests control the biggest grocery chain in this country. It says that these stores distributed nearly $900,000,000 worth of food last year at prices from 8 per cent to 25 per cent less than nonchain stores and at a net profit of 1 per cent. ® nn =
N last year’s figures, of their individual incomes from this 1 per cent of profit, they assert that the Government takes, in income tax, between 82 per cent and 83 per cent. That would leave to them of profit in price, say, 18-100 of 1 per cent. But they are old and without direct heirs. In the. end, inheritance and death duties will probably take up to two-thirds of such accumulated earnings in their estates. That figures a private selfish result in profits to these interests of 6-100 of 1 per cent in the price of goods as against the whole public. - If that isn't “production for use and not for profit,” it comes very close to it. It is probably more advantageous to the public. It is inconceivable that any collectivist state could run this great masse production on any such slender margins. : I happen to know something about this situation. These facts are discussed here because they reveal, better than any figures I know, the extent to which we have already gone in breaking up concentrations of wealth and redistributing incomes, and to ask whether we could go much further without destroying the capitalist system, 4
In the Capital
By Rodney Dutcher
The FTC Is Frowning on Agencies That Claim to Make Dreams True.’
ASHINGTON, Sept. 19.—The Federal Trade Commission is acting in restraint of love's sweet dreams. Matrimonial agencies and books purporting to tell. you how to lasso the lady or gent of your dreams have caused FTC to raise its eyebrows and move to tonedown extravagant promises. : A man in Grayslake, Ill, has agreed to stop adver= tising that “joining our club means the realization of your sweetest dream of love and home” and to stop: guaranteeing happiness or wealth within three months.. No more will impecunious elderly men thrill to his assurances that “I have a large number of very desir=able ladies who have trusted me to find them suitable. husbands. . “Some of them inform me. their financial standings are as follows: A brunet, 30, with an income of $6000;
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businesswoman, age 29, worth $30,000. . .. .
Furthermore, the Commission alleges, it's viola=" tion of the FTC act when a booklet called “How to
| Win a Husband” says:
“How much would you pay for the love of the man you want? Then don't sit back and let the other girl have him. Win him for yourself in spite of all ohstacles. The simple, clear directions in this book tell you how.”
What's in a Name?
New Englanders can’t help noticing some of the aristocratic old Bostonian names, traditionally asso= ciated with conservatism, which appear among leading opponents of the American Medical.Association in its fight against “socialized medicine.” For instance:
Dr. Hugh Cabot, Harvard overseer and Mayo Clinic consulting surgeon, who jumped on the A. M. A. at the National Health Conferences here. Dr. Channing Frothinghamm, president of the Massachusetts Medical Society, who says the A. M. A. makes “a terrible mistake by not following the trend of public opinion in medical and hospital insurance plans.” Dr. Charles Edward Amory Winslow, professor of public health at Yale School of Medicine, witty and sarcastic in his defense of government health programs. Swankiest of all those white marble buildings on Constitution Avenue is the Federal Resérve Building, not actually a Government building, because it is owned co-operatively by the Federal Reserve banks.
This one even has a beauty parlor in the basement and its doors are closed from 12:15 to 1:15 p. m. each day to keep Government workers and general public out of its attractive cafeteria. Bankers often come to the beauty parlor to have their nails done and one of the manicurists says most of the bankers are quite modern now, in that they use liquid polish on their nails.
Watching Your Health
By Dr. Morris Fishbein
N a survey on the mortality of women, several ex perts for a leading insurance company point out that the attitude of insurance companies toward women policy holders has changed greatly in the last 20 years. Women today are considered desirable insurance risks from almost every point of view. They do, however, present certain special problems. It has been well established that there is a relatively high death rate among young women who are underweight, and among older women who are overweight. In other words, younger women who are overweight are a much more desirable risk than those who are underweight. Older women who are slightly underweight are a fhore desirable risk than those who are overweight. * When the death rates of women were analyzed according to their build, certain definite characteristics were observed. The young women who are markedly underweight die more frequently of respira=tory diseases like tuberculosis, but older women whe are overweight have hizh death rates from all of the diseases affecting the blood vessels and the kidneys. The mortality of short women is above the averaga compared to tall women. The mortality of women of medium height’ is slightly better than that of tall women, in the early years, but this situation is reversed in the later years. \ The most striking differences in death rates according to the build of a woman have been found in diseases of the gallbladder and the bile ducts. These coincide with the clinical impression, known to all physicians gf experience, that the woman most likely to suffer fom gallbladder diseases ‘is the .one who is “fair, fat, and-forty.” Jer Re
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