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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1938

BITTER MEDICINE TRAGEDY, grim and stark, hangs over Czechoslovakia. As this is written, “thousands of white-collar and factory workers” are milling through the streets of the capital shouting: “Give us arms! Save Czechoslovakia!” The heart of the world goes out to the goaded people of this hard-pressed little democracy, beset by its enemies and betrayed by its friends. But revolt and bloodshed in the streets of Praha will not help matters now, as sorely tried President Benes declared in an appeal to his people. It would only be playing into the hands of the enemy.

We must preserve peace and order. Let us save our strength. | We shall need it.” And so they shall.

WHO KILLED COCK ROBIN? N the recent Senatorial primary, M. Hampton Magruder, United States Collector of Internal Revenue for Maryland, called in his subordinates and advised them that he intended to vote for the New Deal candidate, David J. Lewis. Senator Sheppard's committee investigated, found that Mr. Magruder had violated the law in thus playing politics, | and asked Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau what he intended to do about it. Mr. Morgenthau has replied that he doesn’t intend to do anything about it, adding that Mr. Magruder was acting with his knowledge and approval. The pro-Tydings Baltimore Evening Sun, with charac-| teristic tolerance, suggests that the contents of Maryland's | ballot boxes offer conclusive proof that Mr. Magruder didn’t uence people to vote for Mr. Lewis, and that therefore

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it 1e couldn’t be guilty of the crime charged. Just the same, we should like to see the Sheppard Committee investigate, It now knows that Mr. Magruder did only what his perior, Mr. Morgenthau, wanted him to do. It next should call Mr. Morgenthau on the carpet and find from whom he got his orders. Then it should call that other (do you suppose it could have been Tommy the Cork?) and ask whence] ame his mandate. Senator Sheppard, we think, could serve the public by getting to the bottom of—or should we say the top of—that attempt to turn the Government's tax-collecting agency into,

a subsidiary of the purge committee.

WHERE MONEY HIDES HE Treasury Department reports that people whose incomes exceed $150,000 a year go in heavily for n- | vestment in governmental securities that are wholly tax- | exempt. That's not surprising. |

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Suppose you were in the $150,000 income bracket. And | say, for instance, that you live in New York. And that you | have £100,000 in idle money and are looking for a place to | invest it. If a businessman asked you to invest it in his business, promising a return of 6 per cent would you be interested in risking your $100,000 in his proposition? The promised gross return would be $6000. Of that, the New York State income tax (8 per cent in your bracket) would | take S480, leaving $5520. And of that, the Federal income | tax (64 per cent in your bracket) would take $3532.80, | leaving you a net of $1987.20. Would you want to gamble your $100,000 on such a |

private business investment? Or would you go around the | corner to some bond house and pick up a nice little non- | risk £100,000 bond issued by some governmental unit, and wholly exempt from taxation, a bond, let us say, that pays | 3 per cent interest and will yield a gross, and also a net, | return of $3000? Or did your mother raise you to be foolish

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AU REVOIR, JIM HAM

N THE retirement of Senator James Hamilton Lewis, | in the style of Senator James Hamilton Lewis: As that character spake so well, dear readers and most| esteemed friends, (in Bolingbroke) that peerless statesman | we do honor today, “Adorned whatever subject he either spoke or wrote upon, by the most splendid eloquence” for] “style is the dress of thoughts” and in this magnificent attire (as the great Theobald said) “None but himself can be his| parallel.” “Base envy withers at another's joy, and hates! that excellence it cannot reach,” as the matchless Thomson said. Let not such emotions cloud us as we bid farewell “that fatal word” to one who clomb “the steep where fame’s proud temple shines afar” and now seeks “elegent efficiency, content, retirement, rural quiet, friendship, books and ease.” “Lord of the lion heart and eagle eve . . .” Never will we say of thee “Thy plume is trailing in the dust.” ... And never that “Thy red falchion gathers rust.” Or words to that effect, Jim Ham.

TROUBLE WITH THE G. O. P. IS—

(From the Saturday Evening Post) IY ONE form or another, two or three of the hundreds of letters we receive daily pose this question: “What's the matter with the Republican Party, anyway?’ Trying to boil down the answers into a letter is a tough job. We were pondering on ways and means of doing it the other day while paging through a newspaper. A story on the society page of the paper caught our attention. It struck us that the story contained most of the answers, between the lines: “NEWPORT, R. I.—Mr. John D. M. Hamilton, chairman of the Republican National Committee, was guest of honor at a large dinner given tonight by Mrs. Paul Fitz Simons, a member of the National Committee, outdoors at Winter Cottage. Mr. Charles B. Goodspeed, treasurer of the committee, and Mrs. Goodspeed, week-end guests of Mr. Henry P. Fletcher, former chairman, and Mrs. Fletcher, attended wih them. Mr. Hamilton, who is visiting Mr. and

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Fair Enough

By Westbrook Pegler

Out-Glorified by His New Boss. Adolf, the Duce Finds Himself Taking the Cue in Many Things.

EW YORK, Sept. 23.—Adolf Hitler sounded a new note in diplomatic repartee when he called the President of Czechoslovakia a liar, and Mussolini has taken his pitch from his leader in this, as in other recent matters. In his speech at Trieste, Mussolini, in essence, called Pope Pius a poor half-wit, describing thus all those who “try to make it believed that we have obeyed or imitated or, worse, have been influenced” by the Nazis. To be sure, the Pope is not the only one who has observed the Duce’s emulation of his German leader, but he is by far the most influential of those who have noted, in the large sense, the similarity of the so-called Paso Romano to the original goosestep. The Pope has been the most outspoken opponent of Mussolini's imitative anti-Semitism, and there can be no question that, in putting his finger on the truth, he tweaked the Duce’s personal vanity. Up to a few years ago Hitler was the imitator, and the Duce gloried in kis role of originator. He was not even courteous when Hitler, still wearing his greasy, slept-in raincoat, made his first visit to Italy to study the original model. The Duce looked upon the mildewed Fuehrer with the contempt of a Holly- |

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: Chia purely comic intent, Hitler was to Mussolini as al “Our adversaries,” he said, “are awaiting cur collapse. | yainyard chicken to a bird of paradise, and anyway, |

the Duce disliked him personally.

Gradually—but irresistibly since then—Hitler has |

overtaken and passed the Duce, and Mussolini has

seen himself, his regime and Italy fall into the status

of inferior partner in the axis. The Duce’s trip to Munich seems to have been the point of his undoing. Bedight now in a fine uniform and surrounded by soldiers even more gaudy than the Duce’s own lion tamers, Hitler tooled him along dream streets of banners, bayonets and—not to fumble for a descriptive word—baloney, and sent him home blinking.

In the interval, awaiting Hitler's return visit, Mus- |

solini drilled a company of his own troops in the |

goosestep, and nothing has been more deadly to Italian pride and the leader's prestige than this act

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ITHER his soldiers coudn’t learn the goosestep or their spirit rebelled, for they strode like so many girls of the Junior League imitating the faultless fluency of the incomparable Rocketts. They floundered shockingly, and, although Mussolini attempted to salve his people by calling this act of tribute the Roman Step, or Paso Romano, they would

not have it by any name, and nothing has been |

ard of it since. Transfixed in this unwise mood of trustfulness, the Duce saw Hitier sweep down to his northern frontier. and he finds himself today the politicomilitary flunky of a power much stronger and bolder

than himself In the language of Hitler's vaunted culture, Benes

FRIDAY, SEPT. 23, 1938

The Hoosier Forum

I wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

[PROVING THAT ALL QUESTIONS ‘HAVEN'T BEEN ANSWERED By A. S. Sometimes people get the feeling that all the fundamental questions ‘of human conduct were settled a long time ago. Some judge hands down an opinion, then, and it

|comes to you that if the funda/mentals have been settled in your own mind, many of them remain

a liar, and Mussolini, true to the spirit of his su- |, jatermined in the law that may |

perior, by intimation calls the Pope a poor half-wit, factually enforce them in your life.

and let God himself not speak out of turn.

Business

By John T. Flynn

England, He Contends, Sold Out Czechs to Save Her Own Markets.

EW YORK, Sept. 23.—National safety and busi= ness stability is an economic conception; democracy is a spiritual and moral one. When ecoyomics goes to war with the soul, economics generally This is what has happened in Europe. But it has had one very tangible consequence in this country. Prime Minister Chamberlain has struck a mortal blow to the growing movement in America for what has been euphemistically called ‘collective security.” This movement had its chief support among three groups. One is a comparatively small but vocal and influential element devoted to England and | The other is the pro-Russian left wing group. The third is made up of those well-inten-tioned, idealistic persons who hate Hitler and think that America should join with England and France to smash the Fascist menace. The theory behind this movement is that the democracies should stand together to protect the democracies. : There was such a league in Europe. France had a pact with Czechoslovakia. And England had a pact with France. Czechoslovakia is indeed the only real democracy in all of Eastern Europe. Yet England and France have shown that in the presence of a serious threat to their own peace and their own economic stability they could feed to the wolves the one democratic bulwark of eastern Europe and that in spite of treaty commitments of thé most solemn nature.

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{You seem to have some sort of a complex which at times is very difficult to understand.

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ents in the matter of support were defined just the other day for Virginians in an opinion I would like to call to your attention. The Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals ruled that the duty of {anyone over 16 and possessed of ‘sufficient means was not merely to | keep the breath of life in his par- |

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standards of comfort. This is certainly what any person of any decency or natural affection takes as much for granted

justice, trails behind the concept. And what a pity that all of man’s institutions do exactly that! If they could only spring into being | full-grown as the truth of the con- | cepts behind them become univer- | sally apparent, there would not now, for instance, be war in the] midst of universal abhorrence of | it, but a peace protected by some social instrument as expressive of | man's notion of justice as, say, the law of Virginia. $y ow 9 . BELIEVES FINANCIERS CAUSE OF MOST TROUBLES By L. B. E.

I am a perpetual reader of your paper, and sometimes I find it difficult to understand your policies. |

You seem to have the people's interest at heart, yet you never have

On this side of the water the citizen who has stood for collective security now asks himself—what good is the pact of the democracies when they not only refuse to defend democracy in their home continent but deliver millions of people into the hands of the cruelest tyranny in the world, and do so without consulting their victims and violate their solemn engagements in the bargain? if anyone in this country now has the hardihood to raise his voice in support of the proposition that we should go to war to save the democracy of England, I assume that the proposal would be greeted with a horse laugh. What is at stake in England is not democracy but her economic empire. What she is interested in protecting is that economic empire—those vast possessions which are in fact merely markets for her. What England saw threatened by a war was that empire. What she wants us to help her protect is that empire. To protect it she has destroyed the last home of republican government east of the Rhine.

A Woman's Viewpoint

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

OMMENDATION is due women like Mrs. James J. Hines of New York. Their faith and courage during dark days add honor to the title of wife and give new emphasis to the words of our marriage service, “for better, for worse.”

Just the same, these compliments we heap upon the few really damn the many of us with faint praise. By inference they hint that most women desert their husbands at the first sign of disaster. Yet the records show few ever have. On the contrary isn’t it the usual thing for a wife to defy the world in her husband's behalf? Is it not news when she joins his enemies? At least

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standing prominence or notoriety could charge his womenfolk—mother, sisters, or wife—with disloyalty under fire. They may desert later, but during the crisis they stick. In spite of alien bloods, at this point our Mrs. Whitneys and Mrs. Hauptmanns are sisters under the skin.

The deplorable fact to consider is that so many of these women did not suspect their husbands were up to mischief. The famous feminine intuition doesn’t seem to work so well here. Certainly it explodes our boast that we understand our husbands backward, forward, inside and out. There lies the greatest tragedy of men, women and marriage—lack of understanding. I hope every wife who is moved by newspaper stories of the faithful ones who walk with heads up beside their men during trials and tribulations will ask herself these questions: Do I know what my husband thinks and feels? Does he give me his confidence? Are friends? For, better than standing by your man when he is down, is the help you can he will not

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jany time to my recollection more than scratched the surface in your | editorials on our economic problems. You seem at times to criticize economic problems of the present Administration, yet you have never expressed your views as to the real cause of the present dilemma we now find ourselves in. I believe that most of our troubles today are brought about by financiers who are interested in (nothing but profits for themselves lat the cost of jobs of employees whose corporations and companies they control. Is it possible that these same money racketeers have their clutches on throats of the press of the coun-

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by the Constitution of the good old U. S. A. That it is flexible. If you believe the Constitution

the Netherlands are next door to Germany and Belgium, yet that country did not yield to Allied

propaganda during the last conflict. If only we had had their good sense!

Regardless of which way our sym- | pathies lie we should remember that | our interference in 1917 only de- | layed the gory destiny of Europe. | If we had kept our noses out of it! then, Germany would probably have come out of the war with fewer (grievances and no need of a Hitler to bring back her self-respect. This great, still new country need

should be enforced on one point, then why not all? If we fail to enforce one part, is it not possible we may fail on another? Let's quit quibbling; let's get together and demand that Congress repeal the Federal reserve and national banking acts. Section 8 of the Constitution provides the Congress shall

‘ents if they were destitute but to have the right to regulate the value realizin {maintain them according to certain of money and the coinage thereof.

And of foreign coin. ® » » A STAND AGAINST ENGLAND,

|as his ancestors did, but the law, BUT FOR EDWARD | which grows out of man’s concept of | go» geader

The United States should keep | out of all future foreign wars.

In 1917 we were quite idealistic, | but in 1938 we must realize once | and for all that we can’t expect to control the bloody habits of Europe. Haven't they been scrapping ever since there was a Europe? We should have sense enough to stand back and let them scrap if they must and collect what profits may fall our way. Of course, our sympathies will be with the democracies as always, but

THIS WORLD OF OURS

By PEGGY ANN COOK This world is like a mirror— On each of us let it reflect; Whatever you put in it; That back, you must expect!

If you smile it sends one back to you, If you frown you get back another; If you speak crossly it echos back, For Echo is the world’s brother!

Put on a smile, your brightest one, And in this mirror so grand Put the best that there is in you, And the best you can demand!

DAILY THOUGHT

Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.—~I. Peter

1:16. OT all the pomp and pageantry 1 of worlds reflect such glory on the eye supreme, as the meek virtues of the holy man.—R. Mont-

not look back to the Old World. | Above all, we must be wary of England. Perfidious Albion has let everybody down who deserved her ‘aid, from Ethiopia to Edward, Jews and Arabs in Palestine, to Czecho- | slovakia now. England's Edward wanted to give {Germany her old colonies back, g that to humiliate a people lis to invite future trouble, but grasping England couldn't understand such a civilized attitude. They should throw out obedient George and Chamberlain, who doesn't know German, and call back Edward, who speaks German and believes in fair play. ” » ” CRITICISM OF CHAMBERLAIN TERMED UNWARRANTED By A. C. Hicks Czechoslovakia has been denied the protection of its creators. England and France are receiving American editorial criticism rained down upon them for backing down in the hopes of averting a European war. Peace at any price. In movie houses Neville Chamberlain shares boos along with Adolf Hitler. He is for peace at any price.

And this nation, the United States of America, sits smugly upon its theory of isolation, and finds fault with other nations attempting, as best they can under their geographical juxtapositions, to isolate themselves from the perfidy of nationalized hatreds. The United States is as morally obligated to Czechoslovakia in her given rights to survive as a democracy, as are France and Great Britain. If we so love our isolation we can best serve our espousal by refraining from criticisms of the nations beyond our borders. If we must criticize internationally, then we are no longer isolated, Had the United States and Russia declared themselves against Nazi greed, Great Britain and France would never have deviated trom their original course, and Germany would never have dared do more than hunger for what it is now

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1 OF COURSE all things tend to come and go in cycles, but whether a new style or fashion in| art or music or manners, or even in science and philosophy, shall prove a passing fad or not depends upon : butes something of

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LET'S EXPLORE YOUR MIND

By DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM

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permanent value. Certainly music has steadily developed for thousands of years. In our time we have seen jazz exert a powerful influence on music and I rathyo think that “swing” is so funa “odin its appeal particularly th - i

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AS TRUE AS GOSPEL and one of the hardest lessons of life to learn. To pick out the really good qualities of a person, and praise those qualities enough to give him a sense of being approved by his friend or his group or his boss stimulates his best energies and deepest loyalty. Anybody can blame but it takes a keen, tolerant, friendly analysis of another's qualities to praise rightly, "9 =»

OF COURSE a man can write out the main outward events of his life, but to tell the true story of his mind and heart is not pocsible. If he tries to tell how he felt or what were his motives on certain occasions, first, his memory recalls only a small portion of the facts and, secondly, his emotions, strange to say, prevent him from knowing what his emotions were. For example when a man is angry his very anger prevents him from any intelligent analysis of his anger. And so with love or fear or any strong emotion. Still further, both consciously and unconsciously, the personality picture of himself that he has in his own mind is dis-

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He's Convinced Mr. Wallace Is Most Able Man in Cabinet, Despite The Fact He Disagrees With Him,

INCINNATI, Sept. 23.—We don't all agree with the political and economic ideas of Mr. Henry Wallace, but this country never had a Secretary of Agriculture who knew more about farming, not even his earnest and able father. Not only do you hear this from farmers everye where you go, but I have seen the Secretary in action. He was looking into a fairly newly developed branch of the agricultural art, the so-called “broiler” business, buying new-hatched chicks and raising them to the marketing weight of about 3!2 pounds in 13 weeks by intensive feeding. It seems incredible that millions of eggs should be hatched in New England and sent to the “Eastern shore” for this business, but that is how it is. It is a mass-production operation. This particular farmer marketed last year 750,000 chickens—nearly 2,500,000 pounds. In the course of a few hours .Jjr, Wallace went through that operation with a microscope. I have heard experts in the art of getting all essential facts on a complete situation in short order, but none were any better than the Secretary. un » un

HE suggested to this rural economic royalist, angles

of his own problem which he had obviously never considered—and he happens to be an unusually shrewd, smart and able man. The Secretary's concern was the too-rapid spread of the business. It had been so successful that new miniature mass production plants are springing up like mushrooms. The danger is overexpansion of plant on the one hand and, due to slaughtering of too many pullets, an undersupp.y of eggs, and hence of chicks, on the other. It revealed one aspect of the farm problem in the precise terms of the usual industrial problem on a large scale. It is a $9,000,000 industry. It also showed a Secretary of Agriculture who was studying it and was fully capable of prescribing for it. # ” ” T also uncovered the permanent trouble of agrie culture, as compared with industry. Its six million small independent producing plants are too numer= ous to be managed and prevented from making, in the aggregate, colossal and obvious business blunders of overexpansion and overproduction. With far fewer plants and much greater cohesion, if industry can't and frequently doesn’t absolutely control such trends, it can at least influence them to a much greater extent than agriculture. That is the misfortune at the foundation of all of Mr. Wallace's thinking. He apparently wants to correct it by having the Federal Government control the production, storage and marketing of all these six million rugged individualists. This is where the argument and disagreement begins and there is no room for that here. The point of this piece is only to remark the facts that the Department of Agriculture is, by all odds, the best and most efficient of the “service departments (labor, commerce and agriculture) and that it is presided over by just about the most competent man in the country on the agricultural problem—

notwithstanding that I agree with hardly one single one of his proposals to solve it.

It Seems to Me By Heywood Broun

Chamberlain Formula May Mean Constant Turmoil for the World.

EW YORK, Sept. 23.—Nobody should deny the heavy responsibility which hangs over the head of Chamberlain and all other men who sit in power. Few will question the fact that peace is preferable to war. Indeed, a majority will enlist behind the slogan that a bad peace is better than war. But the criticism against Chamberlain is based upon the conten tion that what he presents is not peace at all but war under a thin disguise. This particular column certainly takes issue with the final paragraph of the editorial in The New York Daily News. “It has been said that the chief point in the art of statesmanship is the art of wise compromise; you can’t get everything you want. This would seem to be one of those times when wise compromise is essential.” But if the terms laid down by Hitler have been accurately outlined in the news reports it is extremely difficult to see any justification for the word “come promise.” It is all give on the part of Czechoslovakia and all take on the part of Germany. Nor is there even sound ground for any “realist” who says that it is better to sacrifice the Czechs for the sins of European diplomacy and, at the very worst, localize the conflict rather than have it spread across the whole map of Europe.

The Perfect Fascist System

It seems to me that Hitler has seized upon a formula which will make for tension and conflict along every border. I cannot even see the potentialities of a breathing spell under the Chamberlain formula. It is already indicated that Hungary and Poland want their pickings. The Nazi drive in Belgium has

gone temporarily into eclipse, but there is every likelihood that it will be revived. Hitler will insist that the Germans in Belgian territory be liberated, and he may even seek a canton division between the Flemings and the Walloons. Under the Chamberlain formula there will be nothing for Belgium to do but accept, since that tiny country has no protection save the solemn treaty obligations of the neighboring nations. And very soon it wili be Denmark’s turn. War may come if France and England and Russia call Hitler's bluff. But war is already here if nobody has the audacity to say, “Let’s se what you've got in your hand.” There can be no such thing as Fascist peace. Chamberlain certainly did not promote peace by agreeing to let the Fascists have a free hand in Spain. I see no reason why he should expect the Czech surrender to reverse the bitter lesson of that experiment,

Watching Your Health

By Dr. Morris Fishbein EADY the number of deaths from ulcer of the stomach and the duodenum has been rising in recent years, particularly the mortality among men. The mortality among women has decreased. A gastric ulcer affects the stomach: duodenal ulcers affect that portion of the intestine which fole lows immediately after the stomach. Just why human beings have gastric ulcer and why more and more men are getting ulcers now has not been determined. True, the stomach and intestines are subjected to a good deal of wear and tear in the digestion of foods; but dogs fill their stomachs with bone gnd other unchewed and indigestible material and apparently do not suffer with ulcers of the stomach. The human being has infections of various sorts, particularly with the germs called streptocotci, yet some people get ulcers and others do not. Many people with chronic infections of the nose and throat fail to develop ulcers of the stomach, whereas others who apparently have not had such infections will develop ulcers. Significantly, people who do a great deal of hard work and worry have ulcers more often than do those who do not. Ulcers of the stomach seldom occur in infants and young children. This, of course, recalls the fact that ulcers do occur in those who worry much, work too hard, and are constantly under a nervous strain. The death rate from ulcers of the stomach moved up from 3.69 in 1900 to 6.77 in 1933. Among the theories as to the causes of ulcers of the stomach and the duodenum are those involving the blood sypply, mechanical factors, heredity and constitution, infection, and nervous conditions. It is, of course, quite conceivable that be con