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Give Licht and the People Will Find Ther Own Wap
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1938
DECEIVING THE AGED ME WILLIS, the Republican Senatorial candidate, and 10 Republican Congressional candidates of Indiana,
have accepted Townsendite indorsement. Just how these campaign |
maneuver with their attacks on the New Deal's alleged |
conservative gentlemen can square such a radicalism is somewhat difficult to understand. If they are sincere in their belief in the Townsend plan that is one thing, but if they are not actually Towngend adherents their attempted straddle will require a lot of explaining to the voters. The same sort of thing is another in many states, Cruel disappointment is in store for the elderly people who are putting their hopes, efforts and money behind most of the old-age pension schemes now agitating the country. They can't be blamed for their eagerness to believe that pension panaceas will relieve their personal misery and create general prosperity. But the politicians of both parties who are buying votes with false promises to the old people are the ones who deserve condemnation. Colorado has thrown its finances into chaos in a futile
happening in one form or
attempt to pay 245 a month to every resident over 60. That | { whom all must obey, means nothing less than the ab- | rogation of the rights of a free press, freedom of as-
paratively mild pension plan next month. Yet office-seekers |
State faces bankruptey unless the voters repeal its com-
from coast to coast are supporting proposals which would bring worse troubles on their own States and on the National Government—the Townsend plan, the $30-every-Thursday mirage on which California votes in November, the laws ordering payments up to $100 a month or more which will be on the ballots in various States. President Roosevelt, rightly, spoke out against the $30-everv-Thursday menace. That, however, was before the primaries in California. Since then Sheridan Downey, who won the Democratic Senatorial nomination as a supporter of the scheme, has been blessed by Mr. Roosevelt as a true liberal. And the New Deal's No. 1 press agent, Charles Michelson, has explained cynically that it “is not the highest type of statesmanship” to win elections by backing movements in which vou don't believe—but that, after all, elections must be won and that the Republicans are no better than the Democrats. True-—too true. Offsetting Mr. Downey ig California's Republican Governor Merriam, now seeking re-election by
a renewed indorsement of the Townsend plan. Florida's New | Deal Senator Pepper made a bid for Townsend support and | But so did the three Republican Congressmen elected |
won. in Maine last month, while the Republican nominees for Senate and House in Oregon are riding the same issue. In Minnesota the Democratic candidate for Governor 50 pensions for all persons of 60 or more. But
proposes $
the gubernatorial race in New IHampshire’'s Republican . Y | is simmering down to an irreducible mass of workers
primary was between two indorsers of the Townsend plan. |
In Wisconsin the Democratic Party talks of $60 payments,
Democratic nomination for Governor of Massachusetts as an advocate of $40 pensions for everybody past 60. The Republican convention in the same State swings Townsend leaders behind its candidate by pledging the State's Republican Congressmen to use their influence for an early hearing on Townsend plan legislation.
And so we might go on and on with the shabby story. | Of Democrats all over the country so avid to stay in power | fh C0000 Daony have Worked on WPA store that they are willing to deceive the aged with promises | they know can’t be kept. Of Republicans all over the coun- | try so hungry to win an election that, while denouncing |
y | around 6 per cent. the New Deal for extravagance and recklessness, they outdo | v pe
{ “We're not just churning around with the same peoi ple.
Women Lobbyists Close-Mouthed
the Democrats in the wildness of their promises.
“FEW DIE... NONE RESIGN" JOHN L. LEWIS put William Green on something of a spot when he offered to resign the chairmanship of the C. I. O., provided Mr. Green would also quit the presidency of the A. F. of LL. That was Mr. Lewis’ answer to the Houston resolution declaring that the A. F. of L. could not make terms with the C. I. O. so long as Mr. Lewis remained its “dictator.” But Mr. Green quickly retorted that Mr. Lewis was making a “grandstand play,” that even if he quit the chairmanship he would remain C. I. O.'s “dictator behind the scenes” so long as he continued in control of the United Mine Workers, C. I. O.'s largest unit, Without any malice whatever toward either Mr. Lewis
or Mr. Green, we are inclined to say that the idea of both | For the inter-
men stepping aside is not without merit. necine war has become one more of personalities than of issues.
to compose the conflict, they, too, should step down. on, and on, until through the process of elimination the American labor movement has rid itself of all the A. F. of L. and C. I. O. leaders who would persist in the struggle for domination over workers and membership dues. But we realize we are day-dreaming. Power is something which human beings seldom thrust aside. We do not anticipate that Mr. Green or Mr. Lewis or any of the other leaders on the two sides will, in any real sense, voluntarily surrender the prerogatives which they regard as their own.
In that respect labor officials are like public officials, of |
whom Thomas Jefferson said: “Few die and none resign.” If peace is to be established and labor reunited, personalities will have to be subordinated. Given a will for peace
ways can be found to settle the jurisdictional disputes by
mediation and arbitration. peace at the top? bottom, Millions of workers already have been injured by the chaos and insecurity which this struggle has promoted. These workers have a right to demand of their leaders peaceful conditions under which they can work at their
But how to attain a will for Only, we think, by pressure from the
jobs and draw their wages. And they, alone, can force the | resistance cettainly consitutes patriotism in its high-
leaders ko sue for peace. v
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| States it seems important to emphasize just now the | tive operations of Fritz Kuhn and his Nazi organiza= | groups may be avoided if it is kept in mind that the | Nazis are in the minority among those of German
| origin or stock and that no element in the American | community is more angrily opposed to them.
| of the New York Court of Special Sesssions, at a din- | % ner of the New York Council of the Steuben Society |
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| 130,000 took private industry jobs. | tually said they were taking other jobs and
And we are inclined to go further, and say that | if Messrs. Lewis and Green quit and their successors fail | And
| civilized men to compromise about matters of inter-
in England may have helped to prevent world dis-
realists in a world of martial dreamers.
ough By Westbrook Pegler
The Most Effective Opposition to The Bund Is That Offered by Those German Groups Loyal to the U.S.
EW YORK, Oct. 12.=-In view of the attempt of the Nazi Bund to extend Hitlerism to the United
fight of others of German blood against the provoca=
tion, Indiseriminate resentment against all Germanic
The statement of Justice Gustave W. M. Wieboldt
last Saturday is firm enough. “We know that they are un-American in their wavs | and ventures,” he said, “and that is something that we shouldn't stand for as an American organization, They do not believe in religious freedom.” Justice Wieboldt added that some members of the Nazi Bund were not American citizens but that all members of the Steuben Society were, and called on | all members of the society to stand together with one common goal to end the German-American Bund. ” = » HEODORE H. HOFFMAN, national chairman of the Steuben Society, recognized in the Bund an enemy of all patriotic, law-abiding Americans of German blood and made an address supplementing a long | article published under his name in the October nums= | ber of the Steuben News, the official bulletin of the National Council of the Steuben Society. “For four years,” he said, “we have been silent against the untruthful attacks on us by the Bund. Now we must come out and show exactly where the great bulk of Americans of German extraction stand on this question.” In his reply to attacks by Fuehrer Kuhn's Navi | group Mr. Hoffman wrote in the bulletin that a speech | by Kuhn, as reported, was in essence a plain attack on the fundamental law of the United States. “His ery, ‘Away with Parliamentarianism!’'"” Mr, Hoffman wrote, “substituting therefor one leader
semblage, freedom in the study of facts and to express conclusions and opinions thereon freely, freedom | of religious belief, or, in other words, abrogation of |
democracy,
“YT would seem that in the case of Mr. Kuhn the | time has arrived to speak out in justice to its | members, as well as to the American principles of Government, and that by not doing so tolerance would become nothing but cowardice. “If the A. D. V. (the Nazi Bund) is truly American, why have not its members joined the many German societies already existing in America?” There appears to be no comparable organization | of Americans of Italian origin or stock loyal to the | American Constitution and equally resentful against the parallel conspiracy to promote outposts of Italian fascism in the United States. Naziism, however, can have no more effective opposition than that now presented by Americans of German blood who have finally come to recognize the menace and effrontery of an anti-American organization whose activities imperil their reputation as citizens and their peace with their neighbors,
In the Capital
By Rodney Dutcher |
Federal Officials Pleased With The Latest WPA Turnover Figures.
ASHINGTON, Oct. 12.—Private industry is hiring WPA workers in considerable numbers, but available figures do not indicate the work-relief army |
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who don’t want other work or whom employers don't |
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and both Republicans and Progressives come out for iiberal- | izing present pensions. Former Governor Curley wins the | Wh turnover figures for the country.
Federal officials are pleased with their latest | In August, latest month for which figures can be had, 195,000 persons left WPA rolls and an estimated About 55.000 ac75,000 more quit without saying why. Officials can’t see why those in the latter group quit unless it was to get better employment. Another 55,000 were discharged for inefficiency or laid off. Although WPA has a present peak of 3,129,000 workers, only 15 per cent have been on the rolls steadily since the first peak in February, 1936. More
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time or another. About 53 per cent of those added to the rolls in August were going on WPA for the first time, approx- | imately the percentage in previous months. The separation rate also has remained relatively steady, Aubrey Williams =avs:
Deputy Administrator
This is an economic problem.” | { » 5 | Women's Department-—One of the most interesting Congresswomen in the next House is likely to be | Dorothy Bellanca of Brooklyn, long an organizer and | official of the Amalgamated: Clothing Workers, She received the Republican and Ameorican Labor Party | nominations in the Eighth New York district and has a good chance to win. . . . Mrs. Roosevelt's nickname to her oldest friends is “Tottie.” . . . The most closemouthed persons in Washington are the women lobbyists ar more secretive than male practitioners, they never discuss their work with anyone but business associates and when imbibing in public places confine themselves to soft drinks, . . Evie Robert, beautiful blond wife of Democratic Committee Treasurer Lawrence (Chip) Robert, and most publicized woman in | Washington society, is being boomed for District of Columbia commissioner. She won't get it unless Mr. Roosevelt forgives “Chip” for walking out on his man Camp in the Georgia Senatorial campaign.
A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson
ERHAPS not many of us realize that we have lived through a great historical moment. For centuries to come chroniclers will write that September, 1938, saw the first intelligent efforts ever made by
| college and
{goes like this: slow in backing up France because
‘ance ‘British Government hedged and syn rising over mountain supreme, cataract from our friend's right!
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took the lead in trying to rally the|
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES Columbus Dav—1938—By Herblock
WEDNESDAY, OCT. 12, 1938
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Gen. Johnson
§ Says—
Democracies Might Use the Tactics. Of the Chicago Police, Who Allowed Gangsters to Kill Off Themselves.
‘ camaro, Oct. 12.—Herr Hitler certainly
plucked the hopes of those who saw “peace for our time” growing out of the great Munich sell= out. True, he told his country, Sunday, that all he wants is peace. But he also told them that it is to be a “Roman peace’—a peace guaranteed by the
point where she can lick anybody who disagrees with her. During the Czechoslovakian crisis, he told the democracies toc the west that the Germans “deeply despise” them. Now he tells Britain and France that he distrusts them because, being democracies, they might elect men who will not kow-tow as did Daladier and Chamberlain. Maybe they had it coming to them. Czechoslovakia trusted them. See what she got. No, Germany has little from example on which to trust them. On the other hand, who would or could trust Germany? n ” n HAT kind of “peace for our time” can democracies expect from a bloodthirsty bully who starts out by telling them that he both despises and distrusts them and that he proposes to arm so strong-
ly that he can lick them at any time—singly or in
¥ a battle royal?
| There is this to be said for Herr Hitler's thinke ing—in a world where no nation trusts another and all are arming to the teeth, how can any nation rely | for peace on anything less than sufficient military | force to protect itself at all events? The answer is,
fact that Germany will be further armed to the ®
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none can and there is no reasonable argument to the ’
| contrary. There is hardly one European country that is
| not tarred with this same stick of treaty repudiation
I wholly
The Hoosier Forum
disagree with what you say, but will the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.
THINKS DOCTORS
defend to WERE SLIGHTED By R. R.
Some of us newspaper readers avel sorry to see so little mention of the| recent meetings of the State Met; ical Association. The doctors are | becoming greatly agitated and con-|
cerned in regard to the socialization | of their profession, Is this not a
matter of vital interest to the peo-| ple, and to those of us who assume that our newspapers are a source of information? Two addresses Wednesday night | by men who came here from other! states, were popular, open to the public and well attended—and received only brief mention by the press, What a contrast with the pages given to the doings of the base-| bawlers and footbawlers, so-called! sports which are regular tumblebug | performances, Alas that so many high school students Are we “intellectual?” | ” » »
take part.
| FROWNING ON THE
BRITISH ATTITUDE | By. B. C. The recent Czech crisis would not
{have been complete until British WORDS FROM
newspapers found some way to
{blame the whole business on Uncle By L. G. G.
Sam. That moment has finally ar-| rived. According to reports, it is heing argued in London that the Czechs would not have been sold down the river if America had only done its
| part.
That amazing argument, it seems, The British were!
the British were reluctant to commit themselves without assurance of American support. Such assur-| not being forthcoming, the!
hedged until Czechoslovakia was| signed, sealed, and delivered to the] mercies of Hitler. Further, it is “Czechoslovakia was Wood- | row Wilson's invention any way,”| and hence the United States should | have borne the chief responsibility. If your memory runs back to the early 1930's, you may recall| that the first serious blow at the world’s peace machinery was struck by Japan, in Manchuria. At that time it was an American secretary | of State, Henry L. Stimson. who | democracies to stop the steal. But the effort failed—because, when the pinch came, the British were look- | ing the other way with great steadfastness.
| “If that the heavens do not hein
(Times readers ars invited |AMERICAN CRITICS DRAW READER'S IRE
their in these columns, religious con- Lg See . : baad Mak I wish to express an opinion in retroversies excluded. ak® ply to “Full Blooded American” your letter short, so all can that the criticisms of aliens to Letter ok which he so much objects should erfers mus Inot. be taken as seriously as the [criticisms of some of our own peoCall ple. For the most part the former withheld on request.) | probably do not know any better. | This cannot be said of the latter.
that machinery had worked then, | I wonder if it is necessary under
Mussolini and Hitler would have a form of government to speak
haved differently. |criticisms of our leading public In the face of that indisputable men, even if a national election fact, any Briton who complains that|is in the offing. President Roose-
; .._|{velt and the sponsors of the New America failed to back up the Brit Deal are portrayed as being vil-
ish government in the Czech crisis iS 13ins of the worst type. Now does aisplaying a gall that ought to win z5y sensible person believe a 10th medals. |part of what he hears on every And as to Czechoslovakia being hand and sees in almost every Woodrow Wilson's baby: Let it be ‘newspaper and magazine? I can't
to express views
have a chance. be signed, but names will be
‘remembered that Wilson, alone of pelieve that he does.
the allied statesmen, went to Paris| And does any reader or listener without an ax to grind. take it as the “gospel” truth? If America has a good many things he does I feel sorry for him. en her conscience, but when it| I know the Republicans are huncomes to the failure of the world’s gry for jobs and patronage, but peace machinery, the bulk of the|is it necessary in a democracy to load must be carried in London. destroy all the good that one po2 litical party has done in a term of years, just t06 make a place at the public trough for another group for another term of years? = " ”
EASY TO PASS OUT OTHER
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On the occasion of Hitler's in-
\vasion of Czechoslovakia the words PEOPLE'S MONEY, IS VIEW
from King Lear come to my mini: go; 5
People who support the so-called New Deal are like a one-eyed man. vile offenses, With his left eye he sees dear old It will come, Santa Claus in the White House
Humanity must perforce prey on handing out presents of billions of itself, 'dollars. Some of these dollars may
Like monsters of the deep.” [fall into the hands of our one-eyed
| friends. He feels very grateful. SUNRISE -| White House. By ALBERTA DUNCAN STIER | If a surgeon were fo remove the
visible spirits Send quickly down to tame these
Birds awakening to the gentle eve, he would see that “there ain't touch of day; Ino Santa Claus.” No one can give With promise of things surpassed away that which he does not own. in dreams It is easy to appear generous when Nature has her way. handing out other people’s money. Those hillions of dollars being dealt out so freely are being taken away gentle | from the hard-working people—the |industrious, the frugal, the real producers of wealth, With his right eye our friend can now see that it is the workers and
Sun rising over life sublime, Heart awakening to the touch of love; With promise of things divine. God smiles down from above.
DAILY THOUGHT
Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands.—I Samuel 21:11.
{the Federal Government. The enormous taxes paid by the railroads | and corporations is money taken ~ |away from the workers, indirectly, RESS it as we may, feather it. by the Government. It is like the
daub it with gold, huzza it, and | man who rents a house and thinks
|Santa Claus must be kept in the]
farmers who are obliged to turn | toward the autobiographical, {over their hard-earned billions to! that she sat at her typewriter and purred as she
{ and an almost cynical disregard of what used to be { known in the world as national honor. We are in=- | clined to preen ourselves in the feathers of sanctity { and say “holier than thou.” But it is black on the | face of our own record that we coldly and deliberately repudiated the promise in our gold bonds with | as little regard for the pledged word as the Allies | had in refusing to pay their debts to us or the signa= tories to the various peace treaties in violating eve { ery one of them. If these examples mean anything, they mean that no nation can be counted on save where its own best interest clearly lies.
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T may be that Hitler armed to superiority will i simply sit still and consolidate his gains. It may be—but who can count on it? If he becomes relatively so strong that he certainly could, if he would, take Rumania and the Ukraine—as he took Austria and | the Sudetens——by merely stretching forth his hand, how much would you bet that he wouldn't take them? He needs what they've got and needs it desperately— wheat, oil and foodstuffs. There is only one comforting thought in the whole | dark future: Hitler at least seems to be headed in the | other direction—toward the East and away from | Britain, France and eventually us. If Hitler continues his charted course as adver- | tised, sooner or later he must collide with Russia and
| perhaps even with his “only friend,” Mussolini. It
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| racies will be the tactics of the Chicago police when | ganghood was in flower, to let the mobsters kill each | other off. It saved trouble and expense and juice for | the electric chair. And it was much more effective
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It Seems to Me
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By Heywood Broun
The Critics Err in Assuming That Clare Boothe Writes With Malice,
EW YORK, Oct. 12—The world is so adroitly or=dered that compensation is afforded for all things. The summer dies and the theater revives again. One should not grieve if he sees some ancient elm take on the look of rustiness and desolation. He need only comfort himself with the reassuring words, “If winter comes with its biting blasts can Miss Clare Boothe be far behind?” Some of the critics have said that her present drama, “Kiss the Boys Goodby,” is not up to her usual standard, With this judgment I do not agree, Indeed, it seems to me that the reviewers err in the long Sunday dissertations in which they seek gropingly to find the secret of Miss Boothe’s artistry. Their mistake, I believe, lies in their bland assumption that the facile profiles which the young lassie dashes off are set down in malice, That is far from the fact. Almost alone among the critical fraternity I have ferreted out the underlying motivation of the little lady. She is in a sense Shakespearean, but also heavily influenced by the spell of the late Charles Dickens. Indeed, it is my notion that she is none other than Tiny Tim with the reverse jammed tightly on. There may be some substance in the assertion | that not every character in “The Woman” was truly precious in the sight of Miss Boothe, This time the dramatist deals with folk much | closer to her own heart, The idea that she seeks to | show up the Connecticut intelligentsia as repulsive is | one of the most preposterous delusions I have en=
countered. ‘She Laughs With the Audience
| The audience is expected to laugh at the sallies of | the alley cats, and it does. So does Miss Boothe, After | all, the biting words and the sharptoothed epigrams which they utter come from her own fertile mind, Like Bernard Shaw and other prominent wits of the | theater the young playwright has a tendency to lean 1 can easily imagines
etched out her little masterpiece with acid, In pri- | vate life, I am informed, the lady is reserved. Here | then came her release. For more than two hours it "becomes her privilege to tell the human race pre= | cisely what she thinks of it, But though the actiona of the members of the little house party are some-
It is important to remember this. sing swaggering songs about it, the owner pays the taxes: the owner | times less than admirable and their phrases are met
|For it was the Manchurian mvasion {that put the world's peace ma-
chinery to its first great test. If!
what is war, nine times out of 10, merely passes the tenant's money but murder in uniform?—Douglas along to the Government. Jerrold, Who will open the blind eyes?
national justice BEFORE instead of AFTER war. Millions of words have already been written on the |
| subject and it seems to me too many of them con-
demn the leaders of European democracy for granting | Hitler's demands. | It's amazingly easy, of course, for people across 3000 miles of ocean to tell another nation when to | ght. Emotionalism, bombast, false arguments, foolish comparisons, prophecies and some sound sense have marked American newspaper and radio comments, but as yet no one has suggested that the pacifist groups
aster. Yet it is a logical surmise. Last year Vera Brittian, famous English writer, during her lecture tour in the United States, said there were hundreds of thousands of men and women in England who would refuse to fight under any circumstances. They are not cowards, either, for their courage was proved in 1914. Convinced, however, that war fixes no boundaries, | settles no disputes and wins no victories, they are true They know what the sentimentalists are afraid to see and admit, that the one sure way to annihilate democracy in Europe and to set up communism or fascism in its stead would be a plunge into general war. ~ There is a growing conviction that war resistance is now the sole duty man owes his country, and such |
est form. { er rss TE i
is to tell the sufferer {such a thing. I rather think we'd|’
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JNFERIORITY NES ORNO ——
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ACCORDING to the late Alfred | Adler, the inventor (or discov-|
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LET'S EXPLORE YOUR MIND
By DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM
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jcure is to get interested in other people and learn to talk freely to them. | ” » NO. Accuracy of observation and ability to remember exactly (what happened and when, and to {put it together in a clear logical {manner is of more value to the side jthe witness is on than his mere Be Doone or riz | | Wish to tell the truth, Often a perWITNESS TO TELLTHE | |son of this kind reveals more truth, TRUTH RE NosT joven Saough he be a SORSUmmALE iar, than one who has a hazy memCH A CI C* lor and poor powers of observation. : A poor memory often leads a person to misrepresent fact or an | event more than a deliberate at{tempt to lie about it.
| NO. Throughout all the great women lovers have {been brilliant women and, con- | versely, women of genius, such as | Sappho, Madame de Stael, George (Eliot, Mrs. Browning and others, {have been great lovers. In her profound book, “Woman and Labor,” | Olive Schreiner says “George Sand |attracted with deathless force some be better off if the inferiority com- of the most noted men of her genplex had never been discovered. The eration, even when middle-aged,
Poes THE OF A BRILLIANT MIND MAKE WOMEN LESS ATTRACTIVE TO MEN? VES ORNO 4
‘erer) of the inferiority complex, sufferer gets the idea it is some sort stout, attired in rusty, inartistic
of disease that can’t be cured except | black, rolling cigarets in a dingy by some mysterious process called [bffice and scorning all personal
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lieve the sentiments expressed by one and all are salty grains of wisdom.
Watching Your Health
By Dr. Morris Fishbein
OST conspicuous today among all the causes of accidents are those associated with the speeding up of our traffic. The automobile accident problem is one which is giving increasing concern to doctors, safety engineers, public officials, and all communities. Today we know that this is not one of those situations that will work itself out by some law of fate. The problem is not one which concerns the city alone. The rural rates of accidents and deaths in traffic are steadily increasing. For example, in 1933, 35 counties scattered all over the state of Illinois had a higher automobile death rate than Cook County, which contains the city of Chicago. Everybody knows the rubber stamp remarks that
driver that is not insured who has the accidents”; “The older the car, the more likelihood of an accident”; “Some people have all the accidents”; “It's not the car, it’s the driver.” These commonly accepted truths have been discove ered by tae public as a result of its own experience. We know that the drunken driver, the hit-and-run driver, the mentally unbalanced driver, the driver de=fective in any of his important senses, is not as safe as the individual who has ordinary intelligence, good eyesight, a reasonable amount of hearing, the posses= sion of both arms and legs, and a certain amount of public conscience. Today most of the New England states, and about seven states scattered throughout the rest of the country, have a good, standard driver's license law in force. A driver's license law is a ‘necessary law for- the states thal. want (0 be safe rather ian sony, { :
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