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TUESDAY, OCTORER 11, 1938

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SO Tom Mooney will stay in jeil a while longer. (The U. S. Supreme Court yesterday again refused to review his | case.) Mooney was convicted in February of 1017. Two | months later evidence showed that the principal witness against him—the man who said he saw Mooney at the | scene of the bombing—had tried to suborn perjury to establish his own presence in San Francisco. But under California law, perjury does not interest | the courts unless it can be shown within 10 days of convietion! Twenty-one vears have been spent by Mooney and his Jawvers trying to find a way around that provision. Dur- | ing that time the testimony of every witness against Mooney has been demolished. A wav could have been found, of course, if there had | Mooney could have been freed by the California courts on a writ of habeas corpus. He could have been pardoned by any of California’s Governors, But there are still too many people in the state who remember that Mooney was considered a “dangerous labor agitator.”

been a will.

It is terrifving to law-abiding, freedom-loving people to realize that even appeals to the country’s highest tribunal | will not prevail against the legal machinery that is used to keep an innocent man in jail after the legal case against him has crumbled to bits; after the judge and jury who convicted him have said they were wrong and pleaded for his release. It can happen here.

WE WAIT WITH INTEREST SENATOR SHEPPARD'S campaign investigation com- * mittee has cracked down hard on one Cabinet officer. Secretary Morgenthau could see nothing wrong in the action of Hampton Magruder, U. S. Collector of Internal te for Maryland, who called in his politically-appoint-ed subordinates and told them he was going to vote against Senator Tydings. But the committee now asserts that it cannot “agree with the position taken by the Secretary,” that it found Mr. Magruder’s political action “a violation of he spirit, if not the letter, of the law . . . a breach of the Department's own regulations . violative of sound administrative principles” and that “no excuse to be found for it.” So far, so good. Senator Sheppard's committee has a matter pending | another Cabinet officer—Postmaster General Farley. It concerns the same Marviand primary. The postmistress ff Salisbury, Md., the committee found, spent nearly all of time this summer campaigning for Mr. Tydings' oppoand very little time sorting the mail of Salisbury. The Postmaster General, and

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‘MIKE’ ELIZALDE N HEN President Quezon of the Philippine Commonwealth picked Don Joaquin M. Elizalde as his Resident Commissioner at Washington he made one of the best tions of his carcer. | The islands are due for complete independence in 19486, | If they are to escape being seriously crippled economically, if not politically, by that very liberty, an enormous amount work remains to be done on Philippine-American rela-

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Thig 1s clearly recognized on both sides of the Pacific. In fact, a Joint Preparatory Commission, composed of leading Filipinos and Americans, worked for months in this country and in the Philippines on ways and means to re- | 1s possibly fatal handicap, Its report is now ready Congressional consideration. One of the astute members of the Joint Coma was “Mike” Elizalde. So he will be particularly helpful in that direction. But that is far from all he will have to do. As Philippine independence approaches, relations between the islands and the rest of the world, not alone with the United States, becomes increasingly important. His mission will really be ambassadorial as well as cconomic and political. | Few envoys have been better equipped for his particu- | lar job. lead of Elizalde & Co., a concern employing fifty thousand workers in Asia, Europe, North and South America and the West Indies, he is a first rate businessman and a humanitarian. is concern has won the official national title of “model employer” in the Philippines because | of the splendid working conditions enjoyed by those in his employ. And he is a practicing economist. He is one of the most popular men in the islands. | There, as in this country and in Europe, he is called plain | “Mike” by all who know him. Ile and his three brothers | form the only brother-team now playing winning polo. Young, handsome, gracious, rich, at home on four conti-| nents, he nevertheless insists on working side by side with the humblest in his concern and continues on the job— whether for himself or for the Philippine Government as hard as anyone. And, for his service to the Government he refuses to accept a penny of pav. We predict for “Mike” a brilliant and useful career at Washington,

EROSION IN A NUTSHELL HE most pungent summation of the soil-erosion problem that we have seen is this story told by Ralph MeGill of The Atlanta Constitution: “Not long ago I stood with the owner of a great south Georgia farm. We were in his bottom lands and came to the river. It, as do all other streams in the South. runs | red.

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Fair Enough

By Westbrook Pegler

Would Someone Who Knows the Truth About This Country's Ability | To Defend Itself Tell Mr. Spelvin? EW YORK, Oct. 11 George Spelvin, the average |

American, has been asking some questions lately which 1 pass along to the War Department, | |

Mr. Spelvin read a story in the Saturday Evening Post a few months ago by an American officer who had just done a trick as official observer in Spain, which said that the Germans had an antiaircraft gun | which, in the words of a World War humorist, would | git vou if they just wrote your name on the shell, |

The missile had a touchy shout which would explode on impact with the wing of a plane and blow the ship | to flinders. and their gunnery and apparatus were so | smart that it was death, certain-sure, to fly within |

| their keep.

Well, last week Al Williams, one of our most famous military fliers and certainly our most understandable writer on the subject of aerial attack and | defense, had a piece which set two miles as the alti

| tude limit for antiaircraft fire and gave the Germans

and Italians all the best of it in attack. Ww 4 4

the basis of this and other fragmentary reading Mr. Spelvin was crowded in the direction of an | alarmed belief that the Germans were now the bull of the woods upstairs. Mr. Spelvin is no expert, but he is, remember, as his old man was before him and his son will be be- |

| hind him, the manpower of the American Army in all | | wars in defense of the dear od sacred heritage.

Now, last week, Mr. Spelvin read a Washington dispatch which said that by next summer our Army intended to have 300 or 400 of the world’s most effective antiaircraft guns or, as he estimated, a little less than half enough guns to defend for a few days |

against determined bombing the ammunition plants in | Bridgeport, Conn,

The War Department had seemed rather proud

| of this promise of 300 or 400 guns for next summer,

but Mr, Spelvin permitted himself to ask what the | War Department was fixing to do about the defensive | He was | thinking of the Fast Coast alone, but realized that there might arise defensive problems on the Great

| Lakes, the West Coast and the Gulf,

~ = s HE Washington dispatch said that these guns could fire five or six miles up, and Spelvin was inclined to fear that a newspaper reporter might have less expert knowledge of antiaircraft fire than | Maj. Williams. Mr. Spelvin also referred to his reading on the | American armament in the World War, including | that book called “Fighting Fools,” by James E. Edmonds, a National Guard brigadier, and the dismal

| contrast between our windy boasts and the actual pro-

duction of fighting stuff. Although the United States had been a large commercial dealer in munitions for two and onehalf vears when this country entered the war, the

{ American soldiers fought largely with borrowed arms

and borrowed ammunition. Mr, Spelvin also has read that the American had only 55 serviceable planes on entering the World War and that only 667 ships of American manufacture ever saw action, Mr. Spelvin said he wished someone who knows the truth about this country’s ability to defend | itself and knows how to tell the truth compactly for the common understanding would let him know |! Just how we stand

Business By John T. Flynn

How Some Americans Feel on the Question of a Disarmament Parley.

NEY YORK, Oct. 11 Since the Government is sounding out the European chancellories on the question of a disarmament conference, I thought I would sound out some American citizens on the same subject. { You might suppose, the world having come out of | the very jaws of war, that a wave of pacifism or near pacifism would sweep over people. Yet here is what | I got. I asked a newspaperman what he thought of the idea. He said he thought this was no time to talk | about disarmament. To ask a pause in armament | now would be to freeze the inferiority of England and France, I asked a former banker, now head of a fair-sized corporation. He thought it would be better to let evervhody cool off before beginning an argument disarmament, | He said he favored dis- | the worst that could !

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| happen to a disarmament conference would be failure | which would leave us no worse off than before and { 1 might succeed

I asked a merchant, owner of his own moderatesized store. He said he had no strong views on the subject. He didn't like military displays but he thought this country ought to go in for a bigger Navy.

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Teacher Wants Arms Race

1 asked a young high school teacher. a woman. She said she hated war and arms. But she thought that England, France, Russia and Germany and Italy | in an armament race was not without its advantages. She felt sure these countries would erack under the strain, but that the weakest country, economically, | would erack first; that from all she had read Germany and Italy seemed ta be in the worst economic condi tion and that a continued armament race would crush the governments in those countries and that this was the thing to be desired above everything else in the world. I asked a young minister. Me said he would not favor disarmament efforts now. He wanted to see England go ahead and grow stronger. Then he felt Germany would be more willing to listen to a disarmament proposal, An old engineer said he thought this was not the time. But he was eager to see a disarmament cone ference soon, sav in six months | A writer of novels said he favored a conference | right away under American auspices. Another writer had a singular slant. He said he thought it would be a good thing, it would take our minds for a while off | our own troubies, and after it was over we might go

| back to our own problems with a fresher, saner ap- | proach.

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

HE ingenuity of politicians engaged in thinking up new schemes for taxation is measureless. If

ideal—but that's a day-dream, I suppose, which goes

The most recent and fantastic suggestion comes from a municipal functionary who wants to slap a tax on trees. The idea, as we can see, has unlimited possibilities for getting out the cash and would be especially effective if the Government should follow up its reforms by enforcing reforestation.

In that way we could be fleeced going and coming —taxed if we didn’t put out trees and taxed if we did. The notion may be ludicrous, but so were the French tax on salt and the English tax on tea when first suggested. The token tax now used by many of the states is also funny— if you have that sort of a sense of humor. As we dig into our pockets and purses for the right number of these frail metal discs, we joke about the necessity, overlooking the fact that the tinkling of those tokens may become the clanking of fetters in a chain which is fast enslaving millions of citizens—as every nuisance ievy has enslaved the people, Civilization after civilization has fallen before the sales tax, as our history hooks disclose. Fhe American taxpaver is a merry fellow, Sometimes he laughs loudest when tie joke is on himself, and I think the time has come when he must learn to snarl instead of smile, For he is the eternal | fall guy | The tax on trees idea is another which seems too | ridiculous to think about—until we remember that | every civic tyranny from which men have suffered began as % reverie in the mind of some embryo politician,

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TUESDAY, OCT. 11, 1938

Things Don’t Seem to Have Improved Much—sy Herblock (To John son

The Hoosier Forum

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

FAVORS CANCELLATION OF WAR DEBTS By J. IL.

A much-discussed question arising from the World War is that of international debts owed to us

The question is, should the debt be canceled? Personally 1 feel that it should. Ever since the war the debt payments due to the U. S, plus the interest and dividends on American private loans and invest- |

ments abroad have been immensely | mheodore Roosevelt and Franklin

larger than any pavments due from Delano Roosevelt found and coded America, At the same time we have

been importing less goods than we were exporting. All items combined

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to express their views in these columns, religious conMake

your letter short, so all can

troversies excluded.

have a chance. Letters must be signed, but names will be

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easily understood. The Republicans

; § CN, 1 cannot convince us when they prehave been either roughly balanced |{anq to say that our nation will be-

or have left a margin making still game a dictatorship. They cannot more difficult the settlement of these .onvince us that under the New Deal payments due to the U. S, [leadership we are unfitted for our The United States in raising its democratic form of government. tariff barriers and more stiffly pro-| We now are convinced that under tecting its surplus of exports against the Republican leadership our hopes the imports of Buropean goods were overturned and our citizenship helped pave the way for our present was near failure in the midst of economic Crisis. general prosperity. If our tariff would have remained | yr uN stationary after the war trade could AN OPINION have provided a genuine means of | oy : paving at least a part of the debts | ON GAMBLING to the United States. Large payments by one country] another can be made only said, “To be or not to be through exports of goods and serv- question.” ices. A more up-to-date one is, “To In viewing these facts, T do not gamble or not to gamble, that believe that America should become is the question.” Life in every phase too demanding in her efforts to col- of activity is nothing short of lect the debt due to her. | gambling. vy Wn | terics I certainly can't see. If I am

a contractor in any business and HOPES WERE OVERTURNED BY G. 0. P. LEADERSHIP

By W. G. Someone in the remote past has is the

{need may be, if I don't have the fright figure to draw that job I'm

see simply out of bread and butter, The human race from primitive ph

times until the 18th Century be-|

lieved that nature is good. Since of gambling (though not of the shell

game variety). If I'm sucker enough to give 5 cents to win a dollar and lose, it's my hard luck and the hysterics are the same as the contractor that lost his job. | In a magazine recently the writer DENUDED By F. F. MACDONALD Glimpsed off-guard, the petty mean soul Is like some fruit seeming perfect and whole— Though appearance and polish awhile may deceive, Hate and contempt in the end will receive!

took the initiative against the obforces of mankind. Government which above

S. upon a Constitution established in the spirit, As a student of our Constitution and who studies the howling of the

constitutional day and their echo that they are the only Americans who observe the Constitution, I

sense, brothers.” It was once possible for tvrants to cry wolf to check. the growth, for demagogs to increase their conceit, or for moralists to stir their indignation. It was possible before the New Deal for Republicans to prove and fool the people under their infallible political pundit. Their dominant idea was in the nature of chaos, and the progress! of our nation was waning. We who study the Constitution conceive that| —Amos 2:16. it is the law of our forefathers’ hu-| man conduct which the new reform- | ers from Jefferson, Jackson, Wilson,

DAILY THOUGHT And that is

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EAR is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.—Sewell.

so politics and economics can be]

Why folks go into hys-|

I've come te the conclusion were! I in power I would allow all forms]

bewails the slot machines and [marble boards. Did it every occur |to those reformers to stop the making of those machines? It is just as easy to place a fine on the ones making those machines, in fact easier than waiting till the ma- | re are made, then pounce on the [unsuspecting manipulator of the machines and fine them, then in a pious frenzy destroy them that gave to the makers and their families | bread and butter. o o » CONTENDS U. S. SHOULD TRY | JAPANESE BOYCOTT

By a Reader Now while the world is tensely |watching the great powers avert a new major catastrophe is the proper time for our foreign rela- | tions department to make a move helping, if not actually causing (the cessation of the Japanese-Chi-[nese war. | Last week a Chinese officer de\clared that China would tame down

Japan within three months if the,

U. S. would cease its exports to {Japan during those three months. Gqod or bad the implied request (that we boycott Japan hasn't been | tried, | It's a real war in China, with |Japan the aggressor, But it isn't officially declared so.

ports to Japan also unofMicially declared? » ” » MARBLES RETURNED AT MUNICH, READER SAYS

By G. F. H.

figure on a job no matter what my |

I used to play marbles for keeps| {when I was very small, and some-! times out there in somebody's back- |

vard I lost, And when I lost I lost. | There was no getting the marbles | back. You played, you got down on

| your knees, you rubbed your thumb!

[to relax the muscles, and you | worked hard to win. But when you | lost and your marbles were taken from you by the winner, you were done. It was with all this in mind that T read in the newspapers what Mr. ! Hitler had given to him. | In 1918 the nations concluded a | kind of game for keeps. Countries in Europe were plit up, divided,

changed, wiped tut and even sold | | down the river. In a sense they were |

out of marbles. But there has been a Munich con-

ference now. And this Munich con-|

ference has fixed the game of mar- | bles to work out a bit differently. It

courageous | seems that the nation on the losing | among the mighty shall flee away |side began to want its marbles back. | naked in that day, saith the Lord. | And so at the Munich conference it!

| was decided that the loser of the | marbles in 1918 had quite suddenly

become the winner, and the mar-

‘bles, all shiny, were returned.

LET'S EXPLORE YOUR

[5 IT TRUE THAT ONE'S y DECLINES APIDLY AS HE GROWS OLDER, EGPECIALLY AFTER FORTY?

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D WHO KICKS A HOSEA i DALY EAGER TO HAY | EQUASTAY THE LADY AND NOT WORK AT HOME; | SOUR OMNION | - = J / \

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N 3 oo FROM LARGE OR BoYs MALL FAMILIES HAVE THE RETTER CHANCE FOR SUCCESS YOUR OPINION

\ 1 i CORR ANT BRE san PILAR 00 \—’ 1 I THINK that back of most of scrubbing office buildings and workthe objection husbands have to ing in laundries but when they their wives working is the half- come into the factory or office and conscious feeling that in the longi demand pay almost equal to his— run they are likely to ®ake their then he suddenly discovers Jobs. They do not object to women | “woman's place is in the home.”

By DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM

MIND

ONE psychologist had a group

of people of about the same

general intelligence memorize litera{ture and found that the differences | between persons of 20 and 42 were {so slight as to be scarcely measureable. Others have shown that “Immediate memory” —ability to recall ‘a passage or discussion immediately |after reading or hearing it—declines [somewhat with age, but “logical | memory —ability to get the mean[ing and remember the main points |does not show any decline provided lone takes more time in scanning the facts. In fact mental speed declines slightly but total mental power never declines.

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BOYS from large families have the better chances for success when compared with boys from small families of about the same social and educational level. Two | investigators, Huntington and Whit(ney, have shown that college students whose parents went to college—which indicates they from educated families—succeed in larger numbers if from large than small families—with one exception, this exception is that of self-made men who have limited the number of their children in order to climb into the higher social and educaclasses.

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So why then | can't we have a real boycott of ex- |

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Racial Minorities Are Something We 'Ain't Got Nothin' Else But,’ Yet They Are Scarcely a Problem.

| Yj suniaion Oct, 11.—In all this Czechoslo= | vakian business, it seemed to be taken for | granted that because the Sudeten Germans were a | racial minority, Hitler had a right to them. That would be a swell rule to apply to this coun= | try. Racial minorities are something which we “ain't | got nothin’ else but.” New York City is just a | metropolitan cluster of them. They frequently live | together in the same districts. In some ways, accord= ing to their nationality, they are more Italian than the Italians, more German than the Germans, and so forth. There are more Jews than there are in Jerusalem. In more than one Northwestern city there are more | Swedes than in all but one of Swedish cities. The Negro communities are something else again. They | are a racial minority. But: this is their only country and in more ways than one they are more American than the Americans. It's a cinch that the Indian nations are, | »

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UT we haven't found all these racial minorities much of a source of weakness. Also, except for | the Negroes, who are handicapped in many ways that | are not political, they are not oppressed and are much better off than they would have been in the country | of their origin. It is a fact in this country that the minorities, not racial ones usually, by forming political pressure-blocs are stronger in securing special legisla= | tive benefits than the mass of the people, for ex= ample: Veterans, farmers, labor unions, WPA work= | ers, and now people past 50. During the World War, there was a great hulla=baloo about the disloyalty of large groups of German origin. I was especially warned abouf leaving the Wisconsin draft in charge of German-American state and local officials. I simply asked the Governor to come to Washington and told him that all such peo= ple were on the spot—but that we trusted them im- | plicitlv. The Wisconsin draft record was the best of all the states. Sometimes it was sad, sending boys to | fight their brothers, but if there was ever a case of disloyalty, I didn't hear about it,

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HE Nazi, Communist and Fascist spying and

other activity uncovered by the Dies Committee ought to be rudely stopped, not because it is racial or

| minority activity or even very dangerous, but because | it is undercover warfare by foreign powers professing

peace and friendship.

But our racial minorities are not going to be se=- | duced to any dangerous degree. We have pretty well solved that problem. We did it by our Constitution. The secret of it is local self-government to the maximum extent possible for a unified nation and centralized Federal Government to the very minimum necessary to make a nation. That permits territorial racial groups a voice in their own government. Under dictatorships, or even too greatly centralized | government, racial and all other minorities are bound to be kicked about and oppressed and therefore to be rebellious and traitorous. That is why the problem | 1s so acute in Europe and so sleepy here. That is also | why we should fight recent trends towards centraliza-= tion in our government. If we should raise a real problem of racial minorities, it would tear us to pieces, We have so many.

It Seems to Me

By Heywood Broun

He Does Not Want Any Labor Peace Unless It Is Good and Lasting.

EW YORK, Oct. 11.—A good deal has been said recently about peace in the ranks of labor. I hope more will be said, but when peace comes it must {| not be a Chamberlain peace. No adjustment will be | effective or worthy of respect unless it is built solidly | upon present facts and immediate eventualities. Dis= | unity is not good, but it is preferable to any thing | of shreds and patches run up hastily upon a machine | of shallow compromise. If the word “compromise” has had of late a fore bidding sound, the fault lies with some of the com- | promisers. Unlike a gift horse, a compromise should | always be looked in the mouth and with the aid of a strong torch. Under the light it sometimes develops that the thing which is called a compromise may prove to be a sellout or a complete surrender. Maybe it would be best just to toss the word overboard and substitute the noun “agreement.”

The whole structure of civilized society is based upon agreements, but before a compact of agreement can be reached there must be an agreement on the premises which constitute the reason for debate. When that has been done the sensible man or group may consent to say, “I want to walk a mile, but right now I will settle for half that distance.” But it is a surrender instead of a compromise if any progressive person accepts a bargain which commits him to retreat 880 yards.

General Public Also Labor

That is why I have been arguing for the effort to | lay a complete picture of working conditions before | the American public. “Labor” is certainly a word ine | clusive enough to include many millions who are not | yet enrolled in any trade union, I have heard a great deal about a growing hostility upon the part of the general public in America toward labor. But to a great extent that is because the general public has lagged a little in realizing that it is also labor. And I am not always moved when I hear that some | strike has caused great inconvenience to the general public. I imagine that any employees who work long hours for inadequate pay may also find that condition a great inconvenience, | Obviously, the strike is the weapon of the group which is seeking those conditions essential to life and the pursuit of happiness. Unity in labor will mean an increase in labor strength. An increase in labor | strength will mean labor peace. Let's have peace. And let's make sure that it is the

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‘Watching Your Health

' By Dr. Morris Fishbein

| N 1936, 4500 people died on American farms from | preventable accidents. Several hundred thousand others were injured. Somehow people seem to be more careless in the country—perhaps it is because they are out of touch with the high speed machinery, the electrical hazards, | and some of the other causes of accidents so common in the city. The man in the city must be constantly alert. In the country the mers presence of a great amount of space seems to make people more careless. | In the country, as in the city, one of the chief menaces is speed on the highways. Cars are driven at night in the rural districts much too fast for the | lighting conditions which are available. On the farms, many thousands of people are injured every year by falls. Ladders are used far beyond the time when they

| are safe. Every ladder should be inspected before use.

In the farm home, as well as in the city, people are injured by slipping on loose rugs, slipping on a soapy bathtub, falling down stairs because of toys, marbles, or other loose materials left on the stair way. There should be a hand support in every bathtub, and children should be taught to use the hand support in getting out of the tub. The machinery in the cities is usually subject to | regular inspection by safety inspectors. The farmer | must be his own safety inspector, to make certain | that people who do not understand the hazards will | not “monkey with the buzz saw.” The fire hazard on the farm is a constant menace, With #&ttention to these common hazards, safety on the farm will

kind of peace which will prove not only good hub