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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1938 ~ Y ri - MIXING POLITICS AND WATER FE favor municipal ownership of the Water Company. Private control of a city’s water supply is absurd. But when any private utility which has long opposed
public ownership suddenly wants to unload, the public should
. look and listen. We know nothing about this proposal which the City Council unanimously has voted to investigate—nothing ex- | cont that there have been reports for several weeks of secret
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ckering and deals. Certainly the public is very much interested in two One is an honest evaluation of the
is protection of any public pur- |
aspects of this affair. property, and the other and operation against the political racketeers. the blunder of starting negotia-
the stupidity of timing
chase Speaking of polities,
3 in secret 18 exceeded only by
them for a partisan political campaign, Maybe is being awfully smart.
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WE STAY OUT OF EUROPE
"THE governments of Great Britain and France, we are |
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have agreed to satisfy Herr Hitler's annexation of the Sudetens. Most Americans, understandably we think, will deplore “ahandonent” of the grand little 20-year-old democracy called Czechoslovakia. American sentiment always Kindles for the underdog, and in this case our emotions are over-
this
whelmingly one-sided. The World War made a grand total of more than 37. | 000.000 dead, wounded, prisoners and missing. And the world is still paying. That war, we were told, was to for democracy.” And the foundation of democracy was the | self-determination of peoples. Unfortunately, when Czechoslovakia was created, borders included certain unwilling minorities. apparently wanted to go with Austria, the Teschen Poles to | Poland, some of the Magyars to Hungary, and so on. Today | these minorities are easy prey to the Fascist dictators and reactionary double dealers. We in this country hate war. Nevertheless we believe | there are things—principles—for which we should fight, what it may. But we Americans have seen enough of | European diplomacy of double-cross to stay out. We want to raise billions of dollars and ship millions of save their bones on the banks of the Rhine ind the Danube, in another futile effort to make the world fe for democracy. The only way we mocracy is to make democracy work here at home. when the dictators victims may turn to democracy as the
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verlooked an anniversary vesterday. But we doubt anvbhody would have cared to celebrate. Nine vears ago vesterday, on Sept. 19, 1929 the great bull market reached its peak. The average price of 50 leading stocks was $311.90. Thirty-four months later, on 1932. the market reached its bottom and those o averaged S33.9R%,
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July 8 stocks Perhaps July & would be the better day to commemoWe might call it National You-Can't-Make-Something-Out-of-Nothing Day. BOOTLEGGING IN 1938 [, VIPENCE obtained by illegal wiretapping having been | Qupreme Court, the Treasury's alcohol informers who heip to catch
rate.
outlawed by the S tax unit now offers to pay rge-scale liquor law violators. Qo, five vears after repeal, there's still bootlegging? "os. and lots of it. In the last fiscal year revenue agents | tured 11.400 stills, confiscated 7,500,000 gallons of mash, arrested 26,000 persons. In 1930, at prohibition’s peak, more than twice as many were captured, nearly five times as much mash was mes as many persons were ar- | to preprohibition condifor the revenue men was |
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du reste >t we re far from hack tions, when a typical year's catch 2000 stills, practically all in the Southern mountains, 470 moonshiners. Rootlegging, certainly, the social menace it was | a few years ago. Repeal ended the speakeasy era of huge profits from retail sale of illegal | large-scale bootlegger, these days such prohibition Kings as Capone. Why is there so much bootlegging? The answer is taxes. Federal, state and local governments take about 60 per cent of the legitimate liquor industry's sales income. Of 21.50 paid for a quart of legal liquor, almost one dollar goes for taxes. The Federal tax on a gallon of 190-proof alcohol is about &4. The bootlegger can make a gallon of such alcohol for a dollar. He pays no tax. So he can peddle that gallon for four or five dollars, making a profit big enough to tempt him to continue in a risky business, and still underselling his legitimate, taxpaying competitors. The Government's new offer of rewards for informers who turn in tips against bootleggers is reminiscent of some of the enforcement methods used under prohibition. Evidence obtained through spies and stool-pigeons strikes us as mighty little more respectable than evidence obtained by wiretapping, A surer, better way to stamp out bootlegging, it seems to us, would be to reduce some of the taxes that make bootlegging profitable, If all; or nearly all, of the alcohol ! and liquor sold paid taxes, which would be the case if boot- | legging were ended, it's likely that the Government would | get even more revenue than it does how. }
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| at Eintracht Hall. | but the anti-Nazis, showing real interest, sent a small
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| of either wing, i { by Sockd el | wings with equal fervor and patriotism.
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By Westbrook Pegler
Civil Liberties, He Maintains, Have No Friends in Either the Left or the Right Wing Groups.
EW YORK, Sept. 20.—I have clippings of two news dispatches of the same date, taken from a left wing newspaper, reporting similar incidents in New Jersey. One tells with obvious pleasure of the disruption of a Nazi meeting in Elizabeth. The other relates with a note of indignation the mobbing of a radical orator at a meeting in Hoboken. The Elizabeth dispatch says: “The moral of this story is. if vou're going to hold Nazi meetings in Elizabeth, do it quietly. Twenty-five members of the German-American Volksbund came to this decision last night, after 500 anti-Nazis took over, broke up and otherwise manhandled a scheduled Bund meeting Only 25 Bund sympathizers came,
Pickets blocked the entrance, others took over The meeting
army. the speakers’ platform inside the hall. was over before it began.”
s = HE Hoboken story reports that Herman Matson, critic of Mayor Bernard McFeely and his Demoadministration, was mobbed and beaten
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Square Park on the Hoboken waterfront and was arrested on a charge of inciting to riot. Mr. Matson's wife, who is expecting a baby, also is
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said to have been punched and kicked as she at- |
tempted to reach her husband on the platform. ris Milgram, state secretary of the Workers’ League, which appears to have been the sponsor of the meeting, charged that “hired gangsters”
| sponsible for the riot.
In the Elizabeth disturbance a police captain rescued the chairman of the Nazi meeting before injury could be done him. In Hoboken the police apparentlv held back until Matson and his wife had been
| hurt and then arrested Matson.
$ 4 4 HE two incidents were identical in respect that speakers were silenced by mob action, yet
one disturbance was class-angled and made to seem
the
{ a trivial and satisfactory happening. In the one case
the police were alert enough to protect the orator, failed to maintain his constitutional rights to speak and that This is the same constitutional right, for which such clamor has been raised by left wing organizations when left wing meetings have been suppressed. : I yield to no man in my loathing for the Naui
| disease, but I put my finger on this parallel as an admission of my contention raised last fall at the time | of the agitation by the Civil Liberties Union in Jersey | | City that the radicals do not cherish civil liberties as { such,
Vile as their conduct and purposes are, the Nazis and Fascists of foreign birth and hyphenated
sympathies are no more contemptuous of equal en- | | joyment of civil liberties than the radicals.
And the moral of this story, to borrow the opening phrase of the good-humored dispatch about the mobis that the constitutional rights o speech and assembly have no friends at the extremity but will be maintained, if at all, only in the middle and curse both
those who dwell
Business
By John T. Flynn
About Chains and Independents, And a Plea to Pause and Look.
EW YORK, Sept. 20.—Mr. Wright Patman, the chief of the Patman Bill designed to mitigate the competition of chain stores with small independents, has announced that he will introduce a new bill to put chain stores out of business. One
sponsor
the great country by making an extraordinarily frank statement
So far as the chains are concerned they have, of course, developed their own special weaknesses and abuses. Those weaknesses and abuses ought to be eliminated. But it might be an excellent thing for legislators to pause and consider the economic effect of a wholesale offensive against all chain-store activities. The battle between the chains and the independents has been a bitter one and both groups have The feeling runs high
and bitter. Hence it is impossible to step into this
| controversy on either side without being accused of
being a propagandist. I do not, however, care anything about either chains or independents as such. I write here wholly in the interest of the public,
The Distributing Inefficiency
even appalling problem of modern of distributing ma-
The one great, is the inefficiency its chinery. of the innumerable operations which go into making clothes. At that price it arrives in the retailer's store. To make one more move—from the retailer to the consumer—in most stores it costs another $15. We need not accuse the retailer of profiteering either.
What the nation needs more than anything else is an efficient system of getting goods to market, There not probably anything in this world more ineflicient than many small grocery stores Now we have erected the small grocer into a kind legislation. (0 be protected against abuses. The Patman as legitlation ought to go to do that. Perhaps some limitation ought to be put on the number of units in a thain. But the intelligent merchant who is capable of discharging the functions of a manager and merchandiser does not have to worry about the chains. In my small town I have seen a single new grocery store—a mere operated by a man who is a good merchant actually put some of the chains out of business. Nothing ought to be done which will rob the community of whatever efficiencies in distribution the chains have developed and perfected.
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He ought bill goes as far
‘A Woman's Viewpoint
By Mrs. Walter Ferguson
OU can imagine my feelings—but no, you can't. No one can who hasn't gone through the same experience. I shall have hysterics, I thought at I shall scream. I shall gnaw my fingers. 1 shall roll over and die hard. “Then suddenly I found myself standing in the I suppose I had been wandering about the house like a demented creature, and before me was a great pile of soiled linen—next week's laundry. Well, 1 pitched right in, dousing and rinsing and wringing out clothes, working like a madwoman, and by the time I was through my body was tired and my soul was calm. After all, it was just one of those things a mother has to accept because she can't do anything about it. I learned a good lesson that day. “For the first time I resigned myself to the facts, and honestly once you get to that point nothing is so dreadful as you thought it would be.” This is a fine little sermon a friend preached to me not long ago. Her only daughter had come in one day six years before. to announce that she had been
| secretly married for two months, Hence the histrionics.
It was actually no disaster, because the couple are doing fine and the son-in-law turned out to be a swell chap. Just a thoughtless trick youngsters sometimes play, and which most mothers regard as a major tragedy. Too bad we don't all have sense enough to run to the basement and get out the washing. Hard physical work is the best antidote for any sudden mental upset.
Many of our disasters have a way of petering out |
into mere embarrassments, Sometimes a happening | that loomed as a tragedy appears comical after we look at it down the telescope of the years. As proof I offer this story which my friend now tells with laughter,
of his adherents peacefully to assem- | however,
chains has more or less startled the |
It costs perhaps $15 to cover all the cost
A lot of them go into bankruptcy | { even at these prices,
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were re- |
TUESDAY, SEPT. 20, 1938
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The Hoosier Forum
disagree with what you say, but will the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.
‘MADE SAFE FOR FASCISM’
SEES THE WORLD BEING | S. f
By C. | ‘The “realistic policy” succeed in forcing Czechoslovakia to |
capitulate and in making the world |
safe for Fascist aggression, Hitler | has sent forth Chamberlain as an | apostle of Jesee to placate “domes- | [tic opinion.” This diplomacy has | |been the death of collective security | against aggression, . The four-power pact which has been substituted means that the small nations will now be divided into zones of influence and sub- | |jected to Fascist domination. The purpose is to isolate the Soviet ‘Union and form a rallying point to assist fascism in its war against the Soviet. : | Is anvone so naive as to believe that fascism stands for peace, that it respects treaties, that a policy of appeasement will satisfy its in-| satiable greed? It honors nothing but its own expansion. ” o o AN EMPHATIC PROTEST ON REP. LUDLOW'S BILL ‘By W. H. Brennen | Raymond Clapper tells Ludlow's war referendum plan will bring on a bitter fight in Congress. He is right. In my opinion, sober minds should get to work to Kill off this] plan, for I think it can plunge us almost into revolution. Congress | 1 has no right to vote such an unAmerican plan upon us. All the “ism” boys will be our leaders and | will be on every street corner telling [our youth not to fight till we are] invaded. | If we must fight, let's do it on the soil of the country that makes us fight.
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5 » ” NAMES BENES EUROPE'S | MOST COURAGEOUS MAN By A. V. W, If 1 were asked who was the most | courageous man of the hour in| Europe, I« would name President Benes of Czechoslovakia, who hurls] back the threats of Hitler and his| mighty war machine and defies| him against taking a foot of terri- | tory from his nation. | Hitler wants to practically rule the three and one-half million] Germans in Sudeten, but what if every nation wanted privileges granted to its minorities and be-| gan taking such steps? | ILiook at all the minorities in America. How could America meet such demands with its conglomerate of minorities? Yet Hodza did say he would grant these minorities rights, something few premiers.
{ million Germans,
‘DISGUSTING STAGE SHOW’
By Disgusted
{read the various letters attacking or
| socialism, communism, fascism, cap-
italism, Americanism, tories, liberals, ete, without .once having had the benefit of a clear bill of particulars. I am certain that many readers like myself would greatly appreciate being enlightened as to the above terms—particularly since one is apt to be accused of being an adherent
of this or that un-Americanism, The anomalous statements set forth at times indicate a great deal of confusion on the part of would do. There are minorities in many writers as to the difference every nation. In America there are between fascism and communism. far more than three and one-half Should all believers in progressive goverment be labeled “Communists” so as to preserve constitudo anything about tional government? these minorities and behind that| Of all these “Americanism” is in Sudeten veil in Czechoslovakia is greatest need of definition. Is it something more sinister. : the old communal way of life pracToo many people think this 1s tjceq by the American Indian, or is merely Hitler on another ram- i the imported Chinese profit syspage but to millions of Czechs {ayy which had flourished in China it's either freedom or serfdom. hundreds of years before Europe had gotten to knee pants? Or per-| haps it is the European system of | capitalism so successfully practiced by the Germans before the Great War and now a potent force
{ this disgust- | in Old World democracies. I would 1S io soy uly disgus Or yet, may it not be the old
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ling stage show being put on by the | colonial system where the means ‘British and French taken off the of production were owned by small | front page. individual owners operating their | The Americans could far better OWD independent shops, farms or | . : other business enterprises, each one | worry about troubles of their own, exchanging his wares and labor on | just across our own border to the ° South. 2 community basis—when export | trade was ni Will we accept the consequenies | 5 the ES land was yours of real communism next door? Will Mexico become a second Spain, or] nn 2 will we intervene? I don't know the CHARITY BEGINS AT HOME, answer, but it is a lot more im- THIS READER CONTENDS portant to me than anything else ‘gy p, B, Fitzpatrick going on outside the United States. | I see that certaiil Persons are us
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A DEFINITION OF for a shipload of provisions for ti ‘AMERICANISM' FS p § for the
ASKING THAT TERM: By E. C. Carlson It is with much interest that I
Loyalists in Spain, { { If there is money in this state for | | this grand work, then there is cer- | [tainly plenty of money to take care of the millions of underfed, poorly | [clothed and aged who are dragging! ouf a miserable existence on old- aye
defending such abstract terms as
assistance, Charity begins at home. | ” ” » ON NEED OF PSYCHIATRISTS | FOR STATESMEN |
WHY? By VIRGINIA POTTER Why did I doubt you loved me? Why did I just look wise? I knew you were pretending— I read it in your eyes.
D. AIL Y THOU GH’ r
The Lord rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.—Psalms 18:20
By E. H,
I believe peace can only come to | tkys world when women in every | country have a deciding vote as to whether a nation should go to war or not. It wouldn't be a bad idea if this country inaugurated the policy of using psychologists or psvchiatrists HERE never was a person who for diplomats in dealing with states- | did anything worth doing that | men, for they are nothing more than | did not receive more than he gave. “problem children” grown to adult ~-H. W. Beecher. |life.
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CERTAINLY. Discipline does not necessarily mean punish-, | ment, In the Army or Navy or in| |any business organization certain rules must be set up as the v life | blood of the group. These s dis-
LET'S EXPLORE YOUR MIND
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y DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM
| DAD is probably wrong. First, it is doubtful that we are any | sivarter than the cave men although | we t are longer lived due to our better diet and control of disease, especially The Cro-Magnon |
THE STORY OF WEREDIY | microbie di S08 "DAD, SINCE THEY GAY TH Lh diseases. ; ONES WITH THE FIT race of Western Europe, which lived |
(TY. SURV! | ear ISAS ne feats ED Se, ti. had bse HUMAN RACE MUST OF BR Some NECESSITY ALWAYS authorities think had more brains. IMPROVE IN HEREDITY? | Furthermore, by our medicine, LL NE A Piney |hygiene, diet, education, etc, we] Mca EAN 'save the unfit as well as the At— | THE CAVE MEN, Dek (and permit both to propagate and 19 DAD RIGHTZ____. | thus suspend and often counteract | [nature's laws. Enough evidence ex- | ists to rouse a suspicion that we may be weakening instead of strengthen- | ing the natural stamina and in- | telligence of the race.
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THIS depends partly on one's temperament and habits of | thought, but I think nearly all important decisions are made most wisely in the midst of activity. The circumstances and consequences are | more vivid and the mind likely to be more active. The decisions of a judge, of course, must usually be made in the quiet of his chambers cipline each person but their object after going over the authorities is to make him secure from punish-|cited by the opposing counsels, but ment, The same with traffic rules| political, military and most business
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Gen. Johnson Says—
It Seems Quite Likely That
The President May Have His Own Way Despite the Purge.
ETHANY BEACH, Del, Sept. 20.—Almost all comment on the “purge that failed” concludes that Congress will come back in a scrappy, bhalky mood like the mouse which lapped up a spoonful of tiger milk and rushed out to find the cat and bust her on the snoot. They think Mr. Roosevelt will be stopped more frequently, It may be so but it overlooks other possibilities, revolt that brought the purge was due to the fact that the President got too far out of touch with his party leaders in Congress --and, especially, in the Senate. He did not let them in on his plans. Sometimes the first they knew about “must” legislation was through the press which Mr. Roosevelt informed before he even hinted his ideas to them. The next they heard was frequently no persuasive argument from their “old friend,” Franklin, but the crack of the whip from some immature White House janissary who had never heen elected to anything in his life.
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HE very language of the bills they were told to support—or else—was sometimes drafted in a dark room by these hard-riding cowboys. This kind of treatment not only stirred up resentment and bitterness, but it also made impossibla the kind of compromise that would have won many votes that, in this cast-iron mold, went “nay.” Now, that whole method was unnecessary, There is nobody in public life more persuasive than tha President. When he turns on his real cuddle-musie, few resist. It would be little effort and effective be= yond computation if Mr. Roosevelt changed his method of dealing with Congress to one he has not vet used, but of which he is masterfully capable. Another thing. It is doubtful whether the President's astonishing personal popularity with the great majority of the lower income classes has slumped greatly. According to all polls, both his policies and associates are far less popular than he. He is still a hero and a champion to millions, .
© = = OST men in Congress, even the purgees, accords ingly would rather be with him than against him, even when they doubt his course and even now that they know that opposition is not suicide. I# would require very slight change in both policy and method for him to get approximately what he wants out of Congress regardless of the purge.
Will he modify his extreme aims, his tactless conduct, and his too great reliance on cocky White House advisers and messenger boys? He will if he feels that not to do so will greatly hurt him politically. There are people who have seen him in anxious moments. They will tell you that he is then a different Roosevelt, Then he does compromise and horse-trade and generally act very much like any other professional politician of the old school on a hot spot. Up to now it has been good theater. Good politics and a lot of fun to ride rough-shod and jauntily, If he thinks it is so no longer, he won't do it any more. If he so changes, he may have his way with Congress regardless of the ruined purge.
lt Seems to Me By Heywood Broun
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Three Rousing Cheers for a Book That Takes a Very Grand Bite.
EW YORK, Sept. 20—~When a novel knocks my eye out I feel embarrassed. It is very difficult to write about any book which you like enormously. Re= viewing a bad book is as easy as jumping up and down on a log, but your phrases roll off a work of merit. Some kind of headline fervor may be the best way out, even though it hardly promotes the art of criticism. However, I will stick to the more pedestrian way and say that I sat up all night with “The Summer | Soldier,” by Leane Zugsmith, and that it is the most engrossing tale I've read in many months, So much for that. As to the nature and quality of the novel, IT would frighten some persons away by divulging the fact that it contains propaganda. But others would be equally indifferent if I intimated that it was a boy and girl story. There are those who think that fiction is not much good unless it represents a definite point of view upon the part of the author. “The Summer is certainly written by a young woman who seems to have a cause in mind. To that extent it is inspiringly a piece of propaganda.
Roughly, “The Summer Soldier” concerns itself
| with a little group of well-meaning liberals who con=- | stitute themselves into a committee to investigate in-
where leaders and where
dustrial conditions in a Southern community violence has been done to labor civil rights are nonexistent.
A War, Not a Slumming Party
These are people of prominence, and while they are actuated by a sense of duty, they are also moved by the spirit of light adventure. In other words, most of the volunteers have enlisted for a slumming party and find themselves in the middle of a war. The narrative concerning the actual incidents is fast and just as exciting as any good adventure or de= tective story. But the novel bites deeper. Affer all, its main ob= jective is to trace the effect of actual firsthand ex= perience upon men and women whose views have been largely conditioned hy theorizing. Some are fright=
| ned off from the beliefs which thev once held dear,
or at least logical. Some quit and others go into dugouts. A few come through. And it is in tracing these reactions that Miss Zugsmith does her best work, for the manner in which the various individuals respond is not according to any set formula. She has dealt with persons and not with symbols. I have thrown my hat in the air for “The Sumemer Soldier,” and it hasn't come down yet.
Watching Your Health
By Dr. Morris Fishbein
HYSICIANS know that the old aphorism, “Stops it will never get well if you pick it,” is one based on extensive experience, and therefore one that it is well to observe. As far back as 1852 a surgeon described three cases of death following the picking of a tiny spot on the
| face by a person who had not the slightest idea about
special cleanliness in such matters. Infections of the face, surgeons now point out, are especially dangerous because the skin is thin, the blood vessels profuse, and the veins have no valves and pass directly into the large veins which go to the important tissues of the body. In one of the largest surgical clinics of the coun= try, it is noted that there hasnever been a fatal case
| of an infection of the face in which there was not a
record that the patient had picked, squeezed, or other wise bruised a pimple or a boil. : n n ” ODERN physicians are likely to treat infections of the face with hot compresses so that the pimple or boil will burst spontaneously and drain without manipulation. Sometimes the use of the X= ray will stop the progress of the infection. For certain types of infection there are now avails able drugs which have a special effect on the germs concerned. Surgeons have given the following advice: 1. Any pimple or boil on the face is dangerous. 2. Never pick, nick, cauterize, or squeeze any pimple or boil on the face. 3. Realize that such infections are dangerous, and consider them serious until their progress has stopped. 4. See a doctor at the slightest sign of a spread of such an infection, and give him every opportunity to control they condition completely until progress stopped.