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Give Light and the People Will Find Thewr Own Way

MONDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1938

A CONTRIBUTION TO PEACE

ARLY next summer King George VI and Queen Elizabeth will shatter precedent by a visit to Canada, thus

him while he was still active in the business. | may

| prizefight business

becoming the first British monarchs ever to set foot in the

new world.

| is an employee of the baseball industry,

The King and Queen, according to an announcement |

Dominion. Officially there is no mention of the United States but unofficially a trip into this country is indicated.

We very much hope this will prove the case.

for the better part of a month within a few miles of our

In fact, |

. . . . | protection from unjust punishment for mere secret should the royal pair come to this continent and sojourn

Enough

By Westbrook Pegler

Landis Carries His Authority Too Far, Westbrook Thinks, When He Bars Hornsby From the Press Coop.

EW YORK, Oct. 10.—Judge Landis has not quite made clear his reasons for barring Rogers | Hornsby from the press coop at the World Series, | but whatever they were they were insufficient. He should have no more authority to bar anyone from the ball vard press coops than a President of the

United States has to rule a man out of the press |

gallery of Congress. Hornsby is a noted veteran of the baseball industry, and if there are any bugs on his record Landis should have the courage to give him a trial and either rule him off openly or clear This seem a small issue, but the actions of the Judge and—a few years ago—of Jim Farley in the in New York have tended to weaken public resistance to the assumption of dictatorial powers by men in public office. True, Landis but that does not entirely relieve him of public responsibility.

: | He came to his job at a time when it was openiy from Balmoral, plan to spend about three weeks in the |

known that some ball players had been “whispered out” of the game on the suspicion of collusion with crooked gamblers and, with his own record of fearlessness on the bench, was expected to guarantee the public protection from conspiracy and the players

accusation. Hornsby’s case indicates that the baseball

| magnates are up to their old methods again, for

| there obviously is some conspiracy against him, | vet he never has had an opportunity to confront any |

border without a call on our President it would be regret-’

table. We should like to see such a visit between the heads of the world's principal democracies. Such an exchange would have a wholesome and altogether constructive meaning for the whole world. In Britain there are always a few baiters of the American eagle. Over here we have our professional twisters of the British lion's tail. These, of course, would object to a roval visit to this country. But, in our judgment, the overwhelming majority of the peoples of both nations, and of English-speaking peoples everywhere, would welcome it. We believe the gesture would contribute to world peace.

THE WORLD WILL BE SORRY ENATOR GEORGE W. NORRIS says will never run for office again. “l am serving my last term. fight.” We know more to earn sweet retirement

once more that he I am making my last

of no tribune of the people who has done “exempt from public haunt.”

1943, by which time “Uncle George” Considering the achievements he has crowded in his first 35 years in Congress, we should sav that the gentleman from Nebraska, in his last four vears and three months, will have time to create a few more TVAs and push through one or two more amendments to the Constitution. A word of warning to the misguided enemies, of the Senator. You'd better not try to kick him on the way out. He tried to quit eight years ago, and again two years ago, but each time some of his enemies, country, picked a last-minute fight with him. And they found that Uncle George was one of those militant pacifists who couldn't retreat under fire. Nothing would please us more than to have this great

to January, along in his 82d year.

dean of American liberals serve the public another half-

century. But this time we promise, regretfully, not to be

among those who selfishly urge him to change his mind. For

George Norris long since has filled Dr. Johnson's requivement: “Don’t think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire.”

THE PATHS OF G LORY

JOME of us who are old enough to remember when college football had a “Big Three” are feeling a little older today after reading Saturday's scores, which revealed that— Harvard lost to Cornell, 20-0. Yale lost to Penn, 21-0.

Princeton lost to Dartmouth, 22-0.

EXCUSE THE YAWN ND about baseball— We're also old enough to remember when each club in both big leagues started a season with the not altogether unreasonable hope that it might possibly end up with the championship.

League fighting for second, third or fourth place in that “first division” of the league's percentage tables. And the

teams of the National League fighting for the privilege of |

getting into the World Series playoff and being beaten by the Yankees. Of course there is some fun discussing the exploits and comparing the skill of Di Maggio, Gehrig and Crosetti. But if competition is the life of baseball, how long can we expect the fans to stay excited about three such players on one team, and with that team winning the world’s championship three times in a row? They may be the best players, and the Yanks the best team, the world ever saw. But we have heard it said that eating even a plate of quail every day grows monotonous.

WPA'S POLO FIELD OLO pony, 7500; bridle, 825; saddle, $125; guards, £9; polo cap, 816.50; sweater, $10; breeches, $35; riding boots, $65; spurs, £3; polo mallet, £4.50; ball, 40 cents,

ciation, but from the Baltimore Evening Sun, which in a spirit of public service—and of levity—gives its readers some pointers on how to equip themselves to enjoy Baltimore’'s new polo field, which the WPA is building at a cost of $40,000 to the nation’s taxpayers.

The estimate, perhaps a little high on the cost of one | | Ferguson can’t be bothered now.”

polo pony, is moderate when you take into account the fact that, if you go into the game seriously, you will need a whole string of ponies. The Sun's estimates do not give the cost of oats, hay, wages for the grooms and other items. Of course, Harry Hopkins didn’t originate this project. The Baltimore Park Board did—having that much WPA money available, and being unable to think of a better use for it. But it occurs to us that if Mr. Hopkins wants to work himself out of a job, he should build a WPA polo field for every town in the country. An argument for that is, it will |

fortunately for the!

| to the press coop. | ervation to be made a hangout for dozens of men | having no connection with the newspaper | and there came a time when the rows were so clut-

| past.

| the bankers be ruthlessly | picture, ; out

and

charges. = = HE baseball writers themselves are in part to blame for the judge's extension of his authority For years they permitted the res-

business,

tered with guests and ball players attended by their ghosts that an ordinary working stiff with a story to

| pine plank with sightseers sprawled all over him. This old fraud has just about expired and sport

| sections now are filled by the work of professional | newspapermen.

In Washington the accredited journalists guard their privileges,

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES If We Could Find a Way to Hook

| write had to do his stuff on an eight-inch section of |

and an effort is made |

to keep out lobbyists and others having no rightful | place in the press gallery lest there come a scandal— |

| something which would smear the corps’ good name. |

HE baseball writers have been less careful, and al- |

though a gambler or fixer might find no advan-

| tage in the press coop it would be wise, nevertheless, | to restrict admission to those who can prove an assighment to cover the games.

As for the old ball players, the industry itself should make provisions to accommodate them in a veterans’ section in the stands. It does seem cheap and unappreciative of the mag-

in past World Series and certain others of great distinction instead of shoving them off into the press section. Landis, however, extends his power to the press coop and the air in baseball and gives a challenging example of the manner in which a little authority may be enlarged.

Business

By John T. Flynn

All Railroad Problems, He Thinks, Ought to Be Given to One Agency

EW YORK, Oct. 10 —Out of the hearings on the wage demand and strike threat of the railroad unions a faint glimmer of light is emerging. That light may be stated thus. to cut wages 15 per cent. The unions say they will strike if the ¢ut is attempted. The roads say that they are facing bankruptcy and that they cannot continue to operate if the cut

is not made.

The unions say that a cut will reduce half the

rail employees below a living wage.

The roads say they do not object to paying higher

| wages as a principle but that as a matter of fact

they haven't got the money to pay the present wage. The employees say they have nothing to do with the roads’ ability to pay. They are entitled to a living wage. They add that if the roads are not able to pay it is because of the bad practices of the roads in the

Now one thing strikes the spectator at once and that is that both parties may be right. Does this, however, not seem to indicate that this wage question

The roads have had a bad, shocking history of mismanagement and The condition of the roads, whatever

pay proper wages, that they cannot keep up maintenance, that they cannot keep abreast of modern developments, that they are being slowly crushed by competitors.

Proposing a Commission But of late we have seen seven clubs in the American |

This being so, does it not look as if all these questions ought to be thrown into the lap of one agency to settle the whole problem? Should not the unions now Government quit ignoring the problem: that the managers quit thinking in terms of only their jobs; that pushed out of the whole a proper authority be set up to work railroad rehabilitation pro-

demand that the

that AQ comprehensive gram. More concretely the suggestion is that the President announce at once that he will refuse one dollar of further financing to roads until a full program is decided on; that he name a commission of five men of as great authority as he can find; that this comsmission be given six months or even three months to

| present a complete program for stockholders, bond-

holders, workers, management and Government and that thereafter the Government proceed to put its whole power behind that program.

A Woman's Viewpoint

pony shin

SAR By Mrs. Walter Ferguson riding |

to talk to every Tom,

d ; : : | knocks at the door and to answer telephone acquaintThese items are copied, not from a catalog of exclusive |

circulation among members of the United States Polo Asso- |

ances?”

It's a sensible question. 1 know from experience

DUCE, ONCE TEACHER, NOW

! ‘By B. C. \ ) . | nates not to welcome at least those who have played | Rut we can’t help being glad that his present term extends

will be well |

right now.

[power in Europe today, and there is!

The roads want

[country were likewise marked down

|Africa and a half-conquered, pover-

It Up | _By Talburt

MONDAY, OCT. 10, 1938

Gen. Johnson Says—

He Doubts That Rebuffs in Coming Elections Will Be Enough to Turn Roosevelt in Another Direction

ALISBURY, Md., Oct. 10.—The elections are going to give some comfort to the Republicans and a

little regret to the third New Dealers, but will it be

: | enough to turn Mr. Roosevelt in another direction?

GOSHALL THAT ENERGY GOIN’ To,

The Hoosier F

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

orum

(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, religious controversies excluded. Make your letter short, so all can have a chance. Letters must be signed, but names will be withheld on request.)

PUPIL, THIS READER SAYS

t would be interesting to find out just how Benito Mussolini is feeling |

He seems to be sitting on top of the world. But it is a safe bet that if you could get a look at his in-| most thoughts you would find that | he is far from happy. For what has been happening in|

[would not be returned to society, |whateve, his crime may have been. The suggestion is worth thought. 2 = 2

A PLEA FOR MORE | TRAFFIC CAUTION [By J. F. D.

May I call attention to the article “Holiday From Death,” con-

Out in Ohio, realists on both sides told me that nothing but a perfect flood of WPA and other “money for honey” can save Senator Bulkley. It seems to be generally agreed that Pennsylvania is lost. Wisconsin doesn’t look well. New York will be a contest and farmers everywhere are stirring uneasily. But granting all this and a good deal more, as long as the money holds out the third New Deal probably could if it will, still keep business in a St, Vitus dance of apprehension and employment stage nant. Surely Congress will not jump as fast as before. The purge that failed lost its expected disciplinary effect of all Senators. As for the intended purgees, they are coming back to what Secretary Swanson used to cail the “six-year pulse.” They don’t have to run again until 1944. Some of them are determined to fight for their principles and especially to oppose the “elimination committee”—Hopkins, Corcoran, Cohen, and their clique of unofficial assistant Presi= dents. " HIS doesn't mean that there will be no more crack-pot policies. But it does mean that they will come harder and that, if they are jammed through on Tommy Corcoran's strategy—"hit ‘em in the jugular’—there will be more rebellion than ever. These “jugular” gentlemen came into their own right after the 1936 elections. None of them took the

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| hustings to help the stupendous majority or hinfed

| their purpose before election. | first to say:

But they were the

“Now we have a mandate.” It was they

| who cooked up the astonishing one-man Government

legislative program of 1937 and they who undertook to bum’s-rush it through Congress by bulldozing Senators and Representatives. Without exaggeration, it was a tragedy. With the enthusiastic majority that had elected Mr. Roosevelt, he had an “era of good feeling” on his doorstep. By dealing as he so well knows how to deal, pleasantly and personally, with responsible Congressional leaders, he could have had any legislation within reason

| that he wanted.

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N such an atmosphere he could have healed the breach in labor, brought it and industry into

| much closer relations and probably could have won

sta

recovery. But immediately after his election he enrolled with the jugular boys. Whenever he saw a pair of ears, he slapped them down. His program almost completely talled. On the advice of his jugular-hitting janizariat, he battered business, battered his own friends, battered the taxpayers and, if he didn’t batter anguished labor, he did little to help it. The President is not naturally a jugular-hitter. He is more of a smoothie and a sweetie. It was wrong to dress him up like a gladiator. What this movie needs is a new scenario and a new staff of directors.

densed from the Rotarian in the| Will rebuffs in coming elections be severe enough to

October “Readers Digest.” | The article tells of a test con-|

the last few months is obvious enough, when you stop to think

they will make a 6 per cent loan. ducted by the Superintendent of

If a prospective borrower had that Police of Providence, R. I, a town type of collateral, he would not re- Which has achieved a notable record

about it. Benito has been slowly but steadily deflated. Hitler's Germany is the dominant |

quire a loan from a bank,

ONE PRISON SENTENCE IS SUGGESTED By A. E. N.

| The history of prison reform has {been the history of man’s growth into social maturity. (is painful because a man doesn’t find it attractive to admit that he has been grievously in error, and thus every new effort to effect further reform meets a very respectable wall of opposition. A step that seems a little breath-| taking at first has recently been recommended by Judge Ira W. Jane of the Wayne County Circuit Court, sitting in Detroit.

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every indication that it will become more dominant in the next year or so. And all of the boastful talk from Rome about the beauties of the, Rome-Berlin axis cannot hide the fact that it is not at all to Mussolini's interests to have Hitler advancing so fast. Look at what has happened al-! ready. A year or two ago, it was a cardinal point in Italian policy to keep Germany out of Austria. Today Austria is part of Germany. Jugoslavia and the neighboring

as a sphere for Italian penetration and expansion. That dream also has exploded. mits that in all criminal cases there The Near East has also been a should be only one penal sentence— | goal of Mussolini's foreign policy. lone year to life, But the famous old German ‘drive A man’s period of imprisonment to the east” is going ahead now would not be determined in adfaster than ever before. [vance by the extent of retribution | What is left? An arid empire in society wished to exact from him, but solely by the amount of time it (would require to transform him | into a fit person to participate] again in the social scene. Whoever proved incapable of such reform

| TAKE AN CAR! By ANNA E. YOUNG

ty-stricken domain in Ethiopia. So Mussolini can hardly be happy about the way things are shaping up. The pupil to whom he taught fascism is in a fair way to muscle teacher clear out of the schoolroom. os L =

| WANTS MORE LIBERAL

lof loaning money.

| basis of loaning money. | could have the finest character , the world, but unless he could pro- |

| would be unavailing.

| free himself from the yoke. | ketable stocks or

| of similar assets for security before

certain friends ask me, “do you stop work Dick and Harry that

that most of the people who knock on the door want | to sell me something, and usually it is something 1

can't use and don’t want.

As for the telephone, it's

| a perpetual bother—and yet can you imaging life |

upkeep |

without it? I can't. Occasionally

“Mrs. Ferguson is out,” or “Mrs. But I never make

have someone say,

such resolutions stick for long. Instead, with a child-like curiosity that expects startling or wonderful news. When the doorbell rings I always have the feeling that the visitor may be a Good Fairy | in disguise. Nowadays a great many people seem to think it a foolish waste of energy to answer such demands, to

I decide to be hard-boiled by pre- | tending to myself that I am important enough to |

p - = a WLLING TO K

if summoned, I hurry to the telephone |

be gracious over the telephone, or to show considera- | tion to passing strangers, especially when they happen |

to be salesmen. Maybe so, but I can never quite believe that mv time is more valuable than the feelings of a friend

| who may wish to speak to me, or that my work is

| more important than the hopes and anxieties of the men and women who come to the door. The theory that we must all be too busy to say

give the underprivileged one-third a high standard of living | 4 few words of encouragement or to smile at some.

to shoot at. WPA projects.

It looks like a good WPA project to end all | body who may need a smile more than bread is one reason i ae Yori is such a cotkeyed place. With theory.

I disapprove the

all my s

POLICY OF LOANS

By R. PH. | Or choose the port for the boat to The real obstacle to business re- | land, | covery is the failure on the part of | It might be better to go right along, our banks to liberalize their policy| Help work out the directions you | So much bunk send. has been coming from the bankers about the worth of character as a! Rather than stand on the bank and But one| expect to get

pursue

mand, vide collateral his pleas for a loan Sp hop right in, there's plenty of| room Consequently the man with char- And an oar—for an extra hand! acter, but with no gilt-edged col-| eee ese. lateral, must hock his job, his auto) or his household furniture, and] thereby mortgage his future to a! point where he seldom is able to!

DAILY THOUGHT

O God, thou knowest my foolish- | ness; and my sins are ‘not hid from | thee. —Psalms 69:5. The banks, of course, want marbonds, equity in life insurance policies or any form

N all thy actions, think God sees thee; and all his actions la-| bor to see him.—Quarles.

The process |

Judge Jane sub-|

If you wish to direct the course to

in What you in your heart do com-|

|among American cities for “death{less days” on its streets and high|ways. In this test one automobile | driver was given carte blanche to {speed from one end of the city to | the other “beating” traffic lights and doing anything else necessary to accelerate his progress. A second driver was instructed to drive well} under 25 m. p. h. and to observe every rule of the road. The two cars arrived at their destination less than two minutes apart. I wonder | what use the speedsters make of the! second they save? | Only a small beginning has been ‘made in the national campaign for traffic safety and the article ferred to points the way that could | and should be followed to cut down! the appalling and unnecessary toll] lof death on our highways. | No driver cares to have one car | alco another passing him or honk- | ng to pass and the stern urgency of following drivers, regardless of conditions of weather or road will] often force the careful and con- | scientious driver to drive faster than he should in order to “keep up with | the procession.” Again may I suggest a continuation of efforts to end needless and | [Dreventab; e highway slaughter?

2 4 2 savs S NATIONS OF TODAY

| ARE SURE OF NOTHING By Mrs. L.

War may have been a necessary | evil in this world but it certainly | (has settled none of our problems.

| |

| produce that result? Probably not.

It Seems to Me By Heywood Broun

Proposing That America Be Given The Facts on Its Labor Conditions

YDE PARK, N. Y., Oct. 10.—I am for the unity of American labor. But before peace can be

reached it will be necessary for us all to know just

| what the shooting is about. And by “all” I mean | many who are members neither of the American Fed=

| eration of Labor nor the C. I. O.

re-i{

{Our history books are full of this]

war and that war and today after 20 centuries of Christianity and war we are living in a jittery |world, wondering what is going to ‘happen next. And in my judgment lit looks like anarchy. Law and order is breaking down all over (the world. The nalions are sure (of nothing, so they can’t go into ‘a a big war. Millions of brave, courageous men [have marched away to war with the

best motives and highest principles |

|to make what they thcught a better ‘world to live in. It is an evil world, ruled by imperialism, tyrants of [its and injustice that cause war. In a better world there would be no ‘need for wars. So iet us all hope for that better world which is sure |to come.

LET'S EXPLORE YOUR

po ils: AL

QUALITIES OF THEIR HUSBANDS HIGHER THAN | HUSBANDS RATE THEIR WIVES? | YOUR OPINION

Wc HAD MORE TO DO WITH 5 IN i cVILIZATION Chie MANOR THE

FAR more. If women would ex-, we would have such a healthy race pend one-fifth as much time of women that many of the beauty

(and money in systematic exercise, in |aids would b= unnecessary. Think of

|securing plenty of fresh air, sun-

the study of scientific diet, and in the agony women endure in wearing [high-heeled shoes! On the other shine and Sleep as they do in study- hand, some of this “taking thought” ing, planning and making clothes, does make them look better, and

By DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM

MIND

were old-time corsets and some of those grotesque beauty aids.

happiness. She found more unhappy |

on the whole the mgn rated their wives higher on personal qualities than the wives rated the husbands. From this it seems we may have a| high estimate of a person's qualities | and yet be unhappy living with him or her. Ain't nature queer? » ” »

IN A SENSE it was the woman, although it is hard to divide the honors (or the blame) because the thing that really made civilization a necessity was the child. | Owing to the fact that the human ‘child has a far longer period of | helpless infancy than any other ani'mal—which John Fiske: showed 50 vears ago was one cause of mans {vastly higher intelligence the mother and child had to be car=d for by the father. In order to do [this more effectively—fight off animal enemies and secure food — he had to combine with other fathers. | Also, the youth had to be trained in the tribal arts—and so civilization was really built around the family)

pusting: on Jnake-up: 0d Sif) Uke most. of 1% is. hot really injurious asiapd parenthood.

A PSYCHOLOGIST of Wash-| got into a fight with a wandering mongrel. ington University, Jessie Bar-!| ing to separate the dogs, nard, devised a scale for rating de-| ent were torn so that blood was drawn. grees of marital happiness and un-| sprained her ankle in stepping over a log.

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It is my impression that the average American is inclined to believe that the quarrel between trades unionists is wholly a personal issue between the leaders of two groups. This has no basis in fact. I can hardly be accused of being a violent partisan of William Green's, and I disagree violently with many things which he has said and done. And yet | I am quite ready to admit that he represents, ade- | quately, the economic and political philosophy of those who believe in the craft setup. Recently we had excellent factual reports of labor conditions in Great Britain and in Sweden. Indeed, the average mewspaper reader in the country may very well know more about trade union problems in | those nations than he does about the questions which disturb us here. Out of these reports good may come. It is also possible that the net result could be harmful. It will be quite useless to make any attempt by legislation, or otherwise, to solve American problems wholly by the light of practices whigh obtain where the fundamental conditions are very different. For instance, Sweden has no share-croppers. The picture must be rounded out. And so I think the time has come for President Roosevelt to appoint a | fact-finding committee to report to America on labor conditions here,

Facts Would Tell the Story

It seems to me that a good fact-finding commis= sion would not need to make specific recommenda= tions. The facts would tell the story. And I do not see how any labor leader could possibly stand out and say, “I want to continue without the benefit of an informed public opinion.” Already I am on record as believing that the proper growth of trades unionism ought to be along vertical and industrial lines. I am wholly willimg to stand by the facts which may be brought out by any competent and impartial group of research men. If I am wrong I will recant, But not without proei. We most certainly need further demonstration of the fact, which President Roosevelt has touched upon, that there is a mutuality of interest between the farmers and the industrial workers in large cities. We must have peace. Let us have peace. But it must be a peace based upon information and not on prejudice and self-interest.

‘Watching Your Health

' By Dr. Morris Fishbein

HE menace of the accident is constantly with us, One reader has just written me telling about a trip he took this summer and the troubles he had. First he was exposed to poison ivy. The pet dog In frythe hands of my correspondHis wife

Innumerable accidents of a similar character can

husbands than unhappy wives, yet| happen to anyone.

It would seem almost impossible to prevent every accident yet the trail of events leading to most serious accidents indicates that somewhere along the line there lay some carelessness. Prevention is worth while from every possible point of view. However, we must not only prevent accidents. The intelligent person ‘knows what to do when an accident occurs. Almost every one of us has seen the account of a person who stuck his finger with a pin, needle or a thorn, or cut it with a piece of paper. A little later serious infection set in and death followed. There are certain things that ought to be done in every such accident: Never use any antiseptic that is too strong, bes

cause the damage done by the antiseptic may bs -

worse than the injury itself. Don't attempt to suck out the poison by using the mouth for that purpose. The mouth may put in more germs than it takes out. It is much better to wipe off the blood with a piece of sterilized bandage, and wash the injured part clean with soap and water,

Apply either ordinary tincture of iodine, mercuro-_

chrome, metaphen, or some of the other antiseptics that have been approved, and cover the area with prepared sterilized bandages. Every home should have a first aid package cone taining sterilized bandage and cotton, mild antiseptics, adhesive Apes and prepared bandages.