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TO REBUILD THE PARTY THE White House purgers marked eight Democratic and political destruction, They persuaded President Roosevelt to speak out publicly against four of the 10. The Democratic voters have now renominated all of the eight Senators and one of the Representatives. one—Rep. O'Connor of New York—has been defeated in a Democratic primary, although he won the Republican nomination.

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We offer an understatement to conclude the record:

The purge was not popular. = = » »

Messrs. Hopkins, Ickes, Corcoran et al.—the ones who conceived the idea of disciplining independent-minded Democrats in Congress—had never been heard of in the Democratic Party before they were elevated to their present places in the public payroll. Yet they nominated themselves as guardians of some

vague sort of party mandate, and decreed that Democratic | congressmen who refused to swallow any legislative scheme | thev concocted should go to the political guillotine as party |

traitors. The voters, to whom the party belongs, have now set aside that decree. Where do we go from here? Obviously, the “rubber stamp” days are gone. But we hope the swing won't be to the other extreme—to a stubborn, defiant attitude in Congress that would mean two years of stalemate and legislative impotence. For the good of the country, and to the end that the New Deal's many good features may be perfected and

firmly established before Mr. Roosevelt leaves office, the

President and Congress should work together. This will require both the inspirational leadership of Mr. Roosevelt and the balancing influence of a sympathetic but independent Congress,

Mr. Roosevelt can no longer pull legislative white rab- |

hits out of his hat and send “must” orders to Capitol Hill. He can, we believe, obtain co-operation. What is needed, it us, is a true understanding of party re-

sponsibility,

seems to ,

The Democrats in Congress have the same obligations |

as Mr, Roosevelt to the party platform. They, too, have a mandate from their constituents to use their independent

judgment in framing specific measures to fulfill the plat- |

form. The trouble has been that Mr. Roosevelt, instead of

consulting the legislators’ independent judgment, has tried | to impose his own judgment and the hunches and ideas of |

tle circle of advisers.

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The President has made mistakes, but he has the qualities of leadership that enable him to recoghize mis- | We hope he will see the wisdem | reviving, through his leaders in Congress, the long-neg- | partici- i | the states and towns and by various Government [of being geared to provide this, that | ost liberal social order that man | corporations. The total debt is 65 billion dollars. That jor the other nation with “economic can ever attain.

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takes and shift his tactics.

of lected system of party caucuses and conferences, pated in by all party members in Congress.

That system could make it possible for measures to

be submitted, deliberated, perfected and incorporated into |

what would be, in the real sense, a party program—one to which all elected Democrats would owe a higher degree of allegiance, and for which all would feel a higher degree of

Be sihilitv responsibility.

AND AS FOR DOUBLE-CROSSING It you dot just survey quickly the scene at home and abroad today. Read, nittee investigating un-American activities in New

1't think eternal vigilance is the price of liberty

for example, some of the testimony before the subcomi York City: of the boring from within of the Communists in the WPA Workers Alliance—governmental supported termite Th

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termiteproof, Or read of the Fascist war-mongers abroad. And then see what comes about in a democracy when such forces as those converge on self-rule. one of the few remaining democracies in the world, comes this dispatch: “Exercising extraordinary powers reserved for times of great national danger, the Cabinet abridged constitutional rights of Czechoslovak citizens in the interest of national safety, ing that persons are subject to arrest without warrants and can be held without charge. New restraints were placed on the press. Letters may be opened by Government representatives. Homes may be searched and the right of free assembly was suspended.” May such things never happen here. But they will, unigilance is indeed, eternal. :

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HELP FROM THE POLYPS A SCIENTIFIC expedition from Beloit University reports it has located two Spanish galleons which sank in a hurricane off the coast of the Dominican Republic in 1632, carrying $70,000,000 worth of gold and silver to the ocean's

bottom.

It is said, however, that salvage of the long-lost treas- |

ure probably is impossible, the ancient ships being covered thickly with coral deposits, tough as concrete. How for- { We owe gratitude to the innumerable patient generations of coral polyps which have toiled through 306 vears to build that submarine vault. But for them, the United States Government would have to buy that gold and silver from treasure hunters, and go to all the trouble

unate!

~and expgnse of guarding it in our own concrete caverns nf

Kentucky and New York State. |

two Democratic Representatives for |

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Security of person was abolished, mean-!

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Fair Enough

‘By Westbrook Pegler

A Picture of What Might Have Happened to Sudetens if the Ciechs Used Hitler's

EW YORK, Sept. 22 —Nobody will deny that the Sudeten Nazis were traitors to Czechoslovakia and members of an international conspiracy against the state in which they lived. They proclaim that. Adolf Hitler complains that they have been persecuted. But if the Czechoslovakian Government had treated them according to Hitlers own way with those whom he has classed as traitors and international conspirators their status would be about as follows: All Sudeten Nazis would be officially classified as beasts. This includes not only the Nazis but all other | Sudeten Germans, even a large number who are bitterly opposed to Nazism and loyal to Czechoslovakia. It includes all Sudeten Germans who fought for Czechoslovakia's independence and those who were blinded or crippled in the struggle. It includes the widows, parents and children of Sudeten Germans who were killed fighting for Czechoslovakia. = = = LL Sudeten Germans, without exception, would | be officially classified as members of a low and ' treacherous breed of international conspirators, in | league with Nazi Germany to open the gates of Czechoslovakia to the national enemy, Adolf Hitler. A Sudeten German would be anyone either of whose grandparents was a German. All would be | barred from the public schools and colleges, from the law, medicine and the teaching profession, from public office and from all public employment. All Czechoslovakians would be forbidden to marry | Sudeten Germans or to have extramarital relations | with any of them, as this would defile the racial purity of a noble people with the corrupt blood of a loathsome race. No Sudeten German would be permitted to employ a Czechoslovakian housemaid below the age of 45 on the ground of a propensity of these people to defile the racial purity of Czechoslovakia. = ® = UDETEN Germans leaving the country would be required to leave behind, in the form of taxes, 95 | per cent of the value of all their possessions. Those | attempting to transfer or smuggle money, | securities or credits out of Czechoslovakia, preparatory to emigration, would be placed in concentration camps. There they would be beaten with dog whips. | starved, spat upon by race-pure guards of the highest culture and forced to clean latrines with their hands. There would be frequent public broadcasts, amplified by loudspeakers, in public places, describing Sudeten Germans as beasts, monsters, animals, pigs, | dogs. reptiles and cockroaches.

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The foregoing is a literal paraphrase of Hitler's |

| way of dealing with those who are, by his Jecree, traitors to Germany, including men blinded and crippled fighting for Germany and the families of men killed fighting for Germany. There can be no question that all Sudeten Nazis were traitors to Czechoslovakia. That they were not treated in strict accordance with Hitler's own formula may be due to the weakness of a degenerate, democratic thing, without culture or race, calling itself the | Republic of Czechoslovakia.

Business

By John T. Flynn

| Contends Tax-Exempt Securities

| Problem Growing Steadily Worse.

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throws the spotlight on those incomes in the United States which escape taxes. They are the incomes and the parts of incomes which come from | interest on Federal and local bonds.

| great evil the taxes that are lost. The greatest evil lies in another direction. That ignored evil is the most serious side of tax-exempt bonds.

taxes. People are in the habit of thinking of the

national debt includes also the issues outstanding by

is a staggering sum. But here are two more staggering facts about it.

Second, the interest on it is practically two billion dollars a year ($1.900.000,000).

each year. And we have not come to the end. | The Situation Grows Worse

The actual loss of taxes is not so terrible. What is

22 --A Government report | fix . . [for any war that takes place—pay | ixed prices. This is a new and ef- few dogs fail to. A dog will risk his

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It is shocking to be told that there are 65 billion |Europe’s fields, mines and factories | ; dollars of Federal, state and local bonds exempt from |could produce the things her peo- solved their problems as individ- Whether you will return in a few 'ple need. Peaceful trade, fostered uals, with a small amount of gov- moments or in a week. And when Federal debt of 38 billions as our national debt. Our {on a basis of meeting the needs ofl synment, and thereby at small tax You come he will only be glad to [the people of each country, instead eypense, they were members of the See you. Have you noticed that?

First, it has increased tenfold in the last 25 years. |needed.

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policies. At the present time it is impossible to get people with large incomes to invest in industriai en-

exempt in safe Government securities. The wealthy have learned various devices {or safety

in investment. Diversification is one of them-—put-ting their money into a wide variely of securities. But at the present time better than that is Government securities. The result is that at the present time the resources of banks, savings banks, insurance companier, large investors are all flowing into Government tax-exempt securities. They adopt this easy and safe method instead of embarking it in riskv industrial ventures merely to have the prize taken away in taxes if they are able to make a profit. The situation grows steadily worse. of bonds issued by governments increases. dent hangs back. Presently a Congressional law will be introduced, passed perhaps after a great battle, | and declared unconstitutional. The proper course to end this evil is to introduce an amendment now and put the weight of the Administration behind it.

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‘A Woman's Viewpoint | By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

i HE other day a successful young businesswoman said to me, “I've never known a working girl who | was disloyal to her employer.” “How about the men?” I asked. “I won't be saying,” she replied, but her grin gave me the right answer. As a matter of fact I suppose there are disloyal women in business, but no one can argue that they are as numerous as disloyal men. Even in my housewifely and therefore limited experience, I've known any number of men who were ready to sell out their employers at the drop of the hat, who cheated them at every opportunity, and a few big shots who traded valuable information of their corporations for cash on the barrel head. Happily they are greatly in the minority, but they exist —some of them in mahogany offices. And strangely enough, men of this type are the ones who talk loudest about the ingratitude of the laboring man. Which brings us to the main question—why should the honest worker, who gives to his job the best he has, feel like a craven before his boss? He shouldn't, and no intelligent boss wants him to. Work is a privilege. It is also a glory. All but | the most mechanical sort is an expression of the i deepest instinct of the human soul—the instinct to produce, to serve, to benefit. Every employer and employee is moving toward the same end. Neither could live without the other. This does not alter the truth of the great principle —a slavish working class is the foundation of every dictatorship. The person who doesn’t feel pride in

his job or believe that his service is valuable to those |

{ who pay him will be ready to take orders from the | first half-baked demagog who comes along. But I've fwandered far from my original idea— ho~ * disloyal working women have you met? ii

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SEES EUROPE HEADING DOWN A DARK ROAD By B. C. | Because the Atlantic is wide and | : our ways of thought rather careless,| lroversies

(Times readers are invited

to express their views in

these columns, religious cone 9 excluded. Make your letter short, so all can

realities back of the “war crisis”; have a chance. Letters must beadlines. | be signed, but names will be We read that Germany does this, | withheld on request.) Britain does that, and Czechoslovakia does some other thing, and we tend to turn those abstractions the trend of taxes. Whether or not into flesh-and-blood actors. But we you know it, or believe it, one-third can’t begin to understand what is of the national income is now paid going on unless we constantly re- to the various divisions of Governmember the millions upon millions ment for taxes. You can now add to of ordinary human beings whom the tax item the difference between

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unhappiness. And at the same time consumer to pay tribute to a few

their di int is. their ideals politically subsidized industries and weir disappointments, thei eals, | ; : their thwarted individual | © hold up false values. And the big

questings for happiness that has idea is “to increase the national inbrought the world to the edge of come so that we can pay more war, taxes.” The head man has so stated Those desires could be satisfied. and inferred on several occasions. When Americans worked and

ret ri They were indivigwi danke ually free, and yet, in need of and : | serving each other. Lack of undertap? div standing is leading us from this. But that isn't Sane, aaaly EI) When the people who work and jarger and larger arn are allowed only the meager o necessities of life, and the balance of their earnings are taken for wen you will know that we

self-sufficiency,” those things

without these few essentials for human contentment, Europe today taxes, ti is a welter of fear, hatred, anxiety, and suspicion which makes war al-| most inevitable. The people of Europe can have the things they want—if they go/ The

DO YOU? By VELMA M. FRAME Do you ever stop a word Before it's harshly spoken? Do you ever let a promise made, Better not made than broken? Do you ever stop through the busy day To help a lost one find his way? Do vou ever feel a sweet repose When the busy day is at its close? Then, with a conscience clear, a mind at rest Say to yourself, “T've done my best.” Do you?

and bloody road which will exact] a fearful toll from them—and leave! them as far as ever from their real| goal. & 4 # SEES DIRECT LINK BETWEEN TAXES AND ‘ISMS' By Voice in the Crowd

There is always discussion in the] Forum as to whether or not we are |

DAILY THOUGHT

If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.—I John 1:9.

any of the modern “isms.” Let me suggest a method of meas- | uring the movement away from, or toward democracy, so each man can decide. You can tell exactly if you watch

O err is human; to forgive, divine.—Pope.

are the victims of one of the “isms.” It won't make any difference what “ism” you call it—people are either | free. or they are the subjects of the! power that rules. The greater that power the more oppressive the rule. ” oy ” A 12-YEAR-OLD LETTER THAT STILL WORKS By Mrs. John G. Odell I wrote a letter to you in 1926. You published it. In honor of Dog | Week, I'd like to resubmit it. The letter follows:

“Greater love hath no man than this—that he lay down his life for his friend.” How many men measure. up to

‘this ideal of friendship? And how

‘calculating and as modestly as] ‘though it were all a part of the 'day’s work. He will risk his life to save your child because he has seen that you value it. He will wait for you hour on hour, with no knowledge

There is never a time when he is oo tried or too sleepy to welcome you. His greeting is always the same. He is going to be glad to | see you and he is going to show you | ‘that he is glad. | It is all the same to him Yhether) your clothes are ragged or new, | whether you have 2 cents in your | pocket or two city blocks in your name. He looks into your eyes] and if he finds Kindness there he will not care about your pocket-| book. You are your dog's happiness. Just your being there fills him with | contentment and pride. You do] not even have to feed him. Hel | will starve and suffer with you and | ladventure anywhere. He may even die, but he will die loving you just] the same.

¥y n = CERTAIN SOMEBODY'S WRONG | ABOUT YOUTH CONGRESS By Lester Gavlor Mrs, Franklin Delano Roosevelt recently wrote a personal letter | denying that the World Youth | | Congress, which met on the Vassar | {campus last month, was Com-| | munistic. In Ohio the Communist Party] quota assigned to be raised for the | World Youth Congress was $500. Somebody's wrong!

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likely to undertake impossibie| measures and reforms that do far |more harm than good.

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WHAT this professor—Edward L. Thorndike—means is that| good environment benefits every-| body and bad environment is bad| for everybody, but what chiefly conlcerns us is not whether our environment is good or bad compared with, say that of our grandparents or of {the Eskimos, but whether we are] | better or worse off than our neighbor. We are not trying to get ahead (but to get ahead of somebody—and jour ability to do that depends in {large measure on our inborn capaci- | ties—our heredity. Therefore, our relative rewards — which is what mainly concerns us — are largely given or witheld by the hand of | heredity. This is very optimistic be- | cause it shows we have inborn, powers by which we can do some-| thing about it and are not the help-| less victims of environment.

THE BEST information avail- | able shows that the death rate] to pedestrians on country highways |

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THURSDAY, SEPT. 22, 1938

Gen. Johnson Says—

He Looks on Jim Farley as

An Honest Politician, Far, Far Above the Borers-From-Within,

ASHINGTON, Sept. 22—One of the most readable political autobiographies that I have seen recently is Jim Farley's story of his life. Its attraction to me is that, in its relation of inci dents that I have personally observed, and there were not a few, the story is generally substantially accurate as I recall it. There are one or two important narratives which do not check with my recollection, especially the tale of the fourth ballot at Chicago. I think Mr. Farlev's memory slipped a little. That ballot nominated Mr. Roosevelt. The intimation that Mr. Hearst had no part in the switch of Texas and California, which saved the day for Mr. Farley's candidate, is a little strong. But these instances are the exception in my observation. The chief impression conveyed is a true one, of the simplicity, straightforwardness and utter Irish loyalty of the Postmaster General. ” ”n T seems important to speak about that because various kinds of political propaganda have been extremely successful in creating a very general and very horrid popular impression of “genial” James as the worst sort of scheming, ruthless conscienceless, ward-heeler politician, Nobody can read this story and keep that impression, which fs utterly false, Mr. Farley is a politician of the old type and, as his record proves, a very suc= cessful one. But he is an honest one. He uses pa= tronage, when he can get it, in the old-fashioned way. As Postmaster General, his critics call him Job= master General. Mebbeso. But as compared with some of his Republican predecessors, he is a snowy white swan—and as compared with the tactics of the real undercover Administration gunmen in both polit= ical preferment and political assassination, Mr. Farley’s are a happy combination of the Ten Commande= ments and the Golden Rule,

” 2» = R. FARLEY is a good soldier who does what he is told and doesn't complain about it, He doesn’t say so, but in Jim's policy, there would have been no purges, no political reprisals, no bum’srushing of Congressmen to vote for a silent revolution in our form of government and business, such as was

contained in the unsuspected combination of bills so suddenly sprung in such rapid succession immediately after the second inauguration, which mostly failed and which resulted in the purge that failed. Mr. Farley may be no sweet-scented political

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New Deal would have won most of its objectives and

| the country would have been well on the way to a

rapid and prosperous recovery. The words justifying

| this statement are not in the book, but it is all there

between the lines. After all, an old-fashioned Democratic politician is much to be preferred to a third New Dealer “borer from-within.”

It Seems to Me

By Heywood Broun

Anent the Cultural Capital of America—None Other: Hollywood!

EW YORK, Sept. 22.—The man who sat directly across the table leveled an arresting finger in my direction. - “What city,” he asked, “constitutes in your opinion, the cultural capital of America?” Naturally I knew there was a catch in it, and so I didn't ven= ture to mention Boston, New York or Emporia, Kas. “The cultural capital of America,” said the speaker of the evening, “is Hollywood, Cal.” “Are you by any chance connected with the motion picture industry?” I required mildly. “It happens by a coincidence,” he replied, “that I am a scenario writer, a. producer and a publicity man for films, but I don't see what that has to do with the problem which I have propounded. You probably know that when any dogmatic opinion crystallizes in America the precise opposite to that belief is always certain to be true. “The general impression prevails that Hollywood is inhabited by a collection of dopes and nitwits. I offer that in evidence as proof that the motion 'picture industry has gathered into itself the smartest men and women of America and of the world. Great minds are always humble, and that is one of the reasons why the intellectual capacities of Hollywood are underrated.”

The Parade of the Ostriches

“Motion picture stars are forever saying off the record, ‘Of course, I'm nothing but a Hollywood ham.’ Except in press releases about super-colossal enter= prises, producers tend to become apologetic, and exe plain to visiting novelists, ‘You understand the handi-

caps under which we must work.” Authors vacationing in New York all use the line about turning out potboilers for the sake of dough. But the truth is that motion pictures have given the creative artist more opportunity for the full scope of his or her talent than any other art form in America. “There is motion picture censorship, and there are rules and regulations more or less voluntarily adopted by producers, but I ask you to compare the six best native plays or novels of any season with the six best films.” : The speaker paused and said: “I will conclude with a parable. The ostriches called a convention, and 601 delegates were chosen. The last one arrived a little late, and as he scurried across the desert to get to the meeting the 600 in attendance were frightened by the noise and stuck their heads in the sand. The latecomer looked around and said dejectedly, ‘Oh, there's nobody here’ And the moral, my friend, is that as soon as we get the sand out of our eyes we will begin to realize that in the craftsmen and artists of Hollywood we really have got something.”

‘Watching Your Health

By Dr. Morris Fishbein

OW that school days are back again the relation between the child's health and his work in the classroom demands attention. Many a child has to repeat his grades because he has not been able to take full advantage of instruction as a result of correctable defects. Moreover, the child's entire future life may be ruined by the sense of inferiority and incompetence resulting from failure to attend to such matters. It is now possible to make certain that many diseases Will be prevented by the use of inoculations. One of these is smallpox; another is diphtheria. In many states children must be vaccinated against smallpox before they can be enrolled in the school. Diphtheria is a treacherous disease. A single injection of a standardized antidiphtheria toxoid will confer protec= tion without danger or harm to the child. For real protection, however, the child will be taken to the doctor for a complete physical examination. With the beginning of the school year, the child will spend more time indoors away from the sunlight and the fresh air, He may lose some of the resistance to disease that has been developed during the summer. Moreover, in school he will come into intimate contact with numbers of other children who may be carriers of various types of infectious disease. Under these circumstances, the child will need all of the resistance

that he can develop. A child who is vigorous and well nourished, who

IN A recent address, entitled!ones” and pointed out further that runs over three and a half times| is free from foci of infection in the tonsils, the teeth

“Great Abilities,” Prof. E. I. great intellect and good intentions Thorndike said, “We will do better | tend to go together, When the man to trust our fortunes to abl# persons of moderate intellect has good in-

than to try to pick well-intentioned |tentions, as he often has, he is ‘ : N,

‘greater than for all other automobile accidents combined and many times worse than for pedestrians crossing city streets.

and the adenoids, whose bowels, kidneys, and skin are working satisfactorily, may be able to throw off some infegtions which the child who is not so healthful will be able to avoid.