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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1938

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FIVE | DAYS T0 GO . BEGINN ING Monday morning it will be unlawful for any employer who is “engaged in commerce or in the pro‘duction of goods for commerce” to pay his employees less than 25 cents an hour, or to work them more than 44 hours ‘a week without paying time and a hal€ overtime. : By “commerce,”. Congress explains in the Wage-Hour “Act, it means interstate commerce.’ But Congress did not undertake to say just what constitutes such commerce and ‘what doesn’t. Its reluctance in this regard is logical, -in “view of the changing winds that blow through the courts when the subject is raised. Nor did Congress give the wage “hour administrator, Elmer F. Andrews, any right to define -such ‘Gommerce. So— A lot of employers are wondering whether they are under the law or not. : Mr. Andrews advises them to “let their conscience be their guide.” - “But if conscience dictates the wrong decision, the employers may be in dutch when the Wage-Hour Act gets around to the suing stage. And Mr. Andrews adds that he doesn’t forsesee a “national calamity” even if an industry complies with the law now and discovers eventually that it didn’t have to. With that, we agree. The minimum wage required by the act comes to $11 a week. If such a wage is a calamity—particularly when learners and apprentices and messengers and handicapped ‘people and a lot of other groups are subject to exemption— this nation is in a sorry fix.

AND SPEAKING OF CALAMITIES N June 13 last, Chairman Alfred P. Sloan Jr. wrote a ~ pessimistic letter to the stockholders of General Motors

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Looking ahead to the quarter-year which would begin on-Nov. 1, Mr. Sloan expressed fear that the automobile .industry’s business might equal only the volume ‘of 1932— “the low point of the previous depression.” He was especially gloomy about the Wage-Hour Bill, then before ConLETess, saying among other things that if it should become “law— 3° “The result will be deflationary as affecting the na- - tional economy. . . . It will create further unemployment. “. .. It will disturb the industrial balance between one section cof the country as ‘compared with the others.” é Well, here it is'the 19th day of October. In five more “days the Wage-Hour Law will begin. And we see by the “papers that Mr. Sloan had some news to announce. yester“day, as follows: -%. General Motors is revising its production schedules up“award. It will put 35,000 men to work within the next two “weeks. On Nov. 1 it will restore the salaries of its white“collar workers to the level that prevailed before a cut last

“February, this meaning a 10 per cent boost for those making |

“ess than $300 a month. Mr. Sloan said present business sprospects make all this possible. ©” In Indianapolis alone the direct effect of this G. M. order means the hiring of between 500 and 600 men and the * addition of possibly $10,000 more monthly to the city’s : payroll total.

PURITY INJ APAN

FEW days ago Japanese police, determined not to let - the minds of the soldiers and people be diverted from i campaign in China, ordered a long blue rayon dress with white polka-dots fora statue of Venus de Milo in a ‘Tokyo restaurant. :. Later, these same alert Nipponese cops served notice “that American girl members of a touring softball team : “would have to wear long “sharts,” coverifig their knees, if : they’ played exhibition games in Japan. ° We thought of these incidents as we read how J apanese “propagandists had sent out a story about China training 10, 000 orangoutangs to throw bombs at the gentle little “visitors from the Flowery Empire. Of course the story “wasn’t true. Clearly, the Chinese don’t need fighting orang“outangs to put the pure-minded Japs to rout. What they “need i is a regiment of fan-dancers and strip-tease artists.

“BURT WHEELER, A FREE MAN

NI many men in public life ever achieve that serene : independence which enables them to swing freely and “tell all their detractors where to get off. . x What a glorious feeling it must be, we can sense from * exuberance of Senator Burt Wheeler's remarks. Thrice ‘ ‘elected to the U. S. Senate, he says that i3 “honor enough : for any man,” so he “probably won’t run” again when his “term expires.in 1940. : oF “They used to call me a wild man. Now they say I “am a reactionary.” A politician no longer seeking the guffrage of voters can shrug off name-calling, as a duck sheds water. > One of the earliest of the For-Roosevelt-Before-Chicago :3men, Senator Wheeler was among the first to break with ithe President on the court-packing plan—and for that he thas been stripped of patronage, which to ia politician “gecking re-election, is the most favored of all perquisites. 2 But, says Senator Wheeler, “I don’t mind that. I send - Lhobseekers over to see Jerry (O’Connell, Montana's Con- ; Bn and Jim (Murray, the other Montana Senator). “Jt relieves me of complaints.” 5 Always above the average of Senators i in tndendndence, i Wheeler now seems to have attained the eminence

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jrginis.—men who know the joy and freedom of fighting one, who care not what anyone says. E Strangely enough, it often happens that men Sho snrove themselves big enough to be really independent in

blic life find that the rank and file of voters applaud that |

i dependence. Selfless enough not to worry about personal

ferment, they inspire in the general public. the selfish |.

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Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler Tunes Are Lifted From Lifted Ones,

But It Doesn't Matter Since They All Sound Different When ‘Swung.'

EW YORK, Oct. 19.—I am mildly startled to

read that suits have been filed against Walt

Disney on allegations that he plagiarized the work of two original composers in songs used in his production of “Snow White.” This was to me the first

intimation that plagiarism, brain-picking or even out-

right, undisguised theft was held to be improper, much

less illegal, in an art whose ethics always seemed to.

have ‘been frankly stolen from the: pickpocket and

chicken thief. Larceny long ago came to be regarded as ‘ree

.spectable practice, for there have been recitalists who

made a specialty of playing current popular songs

and then playing them over again with slightly dif-|-

ferent tempo and accent to demonstrate that they had been stolen from more or less familiar pieces. In the last dozen years or so at least five popular American songs, including one great national success,

have been swiped from an old English hunting and.

drinking song called “Cram-Bam-Boolee.”

And it was a surprise to me one evening a few | IB

years ago to be told by a friend in the composing | §

usiness' that the English song itself probably had een stolen from a German song, apparently even older, which he then played over .on the piano to prove the sameness. : 8 = \ : : HIS was by no means a rare case. He continued for more than an hour checking songs of cure rent or recent American popularity whose composers

‘had had the gall to copyright them as original work, ‘and even found songs stolen from songs which them-

selves plainly had been stolen. I suggest, however, henceforth no original author need lose any sleep over the subject of his rights to his work, because, as music is played nowadays, not even the author himself would be likely to detect any resemblance to his property. Mr. Benny Goodman’s version of “Alexander’s Ragtime Band” is one that will serve the purpose of illustration—a performance so tricked out in his own rare cleverness and fancy work that it seems a 90 per cent waste of his money to pay Mr. » Jrving Berlin his royalties. 2 2 8 T= thing called swing as applied to a well-loved song is like a bath of some distracting French ketchup from molten tar and ipecac sloshed over a Kansas City T-bone, and it is my wan but earnest hope that some daring maestro will one day organize a band of musicians who can read music and play what is written to revive for the members of my generation in recognizable form the music of our ‘teens and 20s. Love songs—may I say—are excepted from this yearning, because mine is a generation that sang not of its love when young but, unknowingly, perhaps, sang more of amour which is, in the American sense of the word, a very different and distinctly less ‘dignified sentiment than that which our elders gave voice to in “Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes.” The love songs of our time, appropriately, were mooed, not sung, and are remembered without pride. “I'll Be Waiting With a Taxi, Honey” and “Pick a Pinky Petal for Your Papa’s Pride” were tawdry expressions of the sweet agony of youth, and there was to my taste something deserving of a swift kick about anyone who mooned “All Alone by the Telephone.” I just doubt that that was love. I know not whether the Greéks had a word for it, but the Amerjcan Indian, with his blunt economy of speech, would have expressed it honestly if delicately. in the phrase, “Ugh! Ketch ‘um squaw.”

Business By John T. Flynn

- Railroads’ Job, He. Says, Is in The Poor Man's. End of the Train.

HICAGO, Oct. 19.—There is no doubt that the American railroad gets better and better in what might be called its Park Avenue section—the Pullman car neighborhood. It is in the poor man’s end of the train that there is still vast room for slum clearance. No one who travels can fall to be amazed at the elegance and comfort of thé cars and the variety of accommodations offered. If we went in for grading the cars, we would have first and second and third, fourth and fifth class. There is first. the full-sized compaztinent with room for two people. Then there is the single bedroom. It costs something less, but is still high, though not much more than a lower berth used to

cost before prices were reduced. Then there is third

class—the roomette, something quite new, a marvel of convenience and organization that is wonderfully outfitted for complete self-sufficiency in travel. Below that comes what was once the haughty lower berth, but is now the humble lower berth. Then there 1s the fifth class—the day coach. For the man who can afford to pay for his luxuries the car builders. have certainly gone a long way in producing de luxe accommodations. Unfortunately there are not enough people in this class to keep the railroads prosperous. The development makes it seem to the casual traveler as if the roads had deliberately abandoned the low-fare trade to the bus and the motorcar.

Like That Arkansas ‘Run

A few roads, which need not be named, have put on some excellent day coaches. But a&s a rule the day coaches are frightful places, particularly when measured against modern standards of taste and comfort and cleanliness. Aird worse than this the local trains seem to be the legitimate and worthy inberitors of that famous train that ran through Arkansas. It seems pretty obvious that the passenger business of the roads has got to be a mass production business and that it must succeed or fail accordingly as it appeals to and serves the masses. The notion that a man would rather travel in a motor car is simply not so. He travels that way because it is cheaper. Give him decent trains and better schedules and low prices and see how quickly he will climb back into the trains. There is too much catering to the small audience of customers for the luxury trade, and not enough effort being made to capture the mass trade—where the profits are. :

A Woman's Viewpoint

by Mrs. Walter Ferguson ou said something in your column the other day

about the rights of a wife,” postcards a corre- |

spondent. “I wish you would be good enough to print a list, so I can bring it to my husband’s attention. We often disagree on the question.” After I read those words, I began to think about the matter and soon realized that the request itself would have been startling a hundred. years ago.

- Rights for wives are a. comparatively recent innova- :

tion. Yet, if I can believe my mail, we still have a multi tude of individuals whose rights in matrimony are sadly limited and to whom this subject is one of great importance. For that reason, I shall give my list

here, hoping some of you. may be able to supplement it |

with other valuable items: I believe that every wife has the right to: Her own individuality, her own convictions and to

spiritual freedom.

Interests and recreations outside her home. Her own spending money. ie husband’s company several evenings of the wee Refuse to bear more babies than her strength will permit.

A voice in the ‘discipline and - training: of her

children. Some knowledge of her husband’s business affairs, Select her own friends. Ghose her own pg Yeast Vv. er family in at leas once ev! 90 without asking permission. = tape A vacation from domesticity once a Jeak. - ‘Gontradict her pushard when Hh le around. Sto nif d’s 0 that one” be: os

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: | rh i The Hoosier Forum 1 wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

HITLER'S LEADERSHIP PUZZLES READER By C. H. B. Calm comes after the storm news from Europe. Mothers are relaxing for a time thinking of the safety of their boys and a world looking

to progress and prosperity which peace creates. To die for one’s country, isn’t it destructive? To live for one’s country, isn’t it creative? Those accepted for army service are the choicest of young life. Those deficient mentally and physically are left to organize and conduct a better world! There is something wrong: when the intellectuals in a great country can't take some step toward modifying the domination of a man who, according to Science Service, is infantile, paranoid, amoral, sadistic and dangerous. - How long will the world contifiue to make obeisance to such. leader-

; ® 8 8 THIS READER WOULD STOP SPREADING OF HATE ByK.R. M. : In answer to R. L.'s recent article in The Forum, saying that the Versailles Treaty was a document of hate, I want to say, “Hats off to you” for telling the true side of the German situation. So many people seem to believe all of that hateful propaganda against Germany. Ninety per cent of the people who write those terrible things about the Germans and their leader have never been in Germany nor have they met Hitler—they just believe everything they hear. I am an American and believe the sooner we stop spreading so much hatred the better off we shall be. Propaganda and hatred create war and we want to avoid that. I hope we have more articles of the other side. There are always two sides to a story and so far we hear just the one. 8 2 8 COMMUNIST SCARE CALLED. SMOKE SCREEN By Legislative Committee, Phoenix Lodge . 1076, S. W. O. C.. Elwood. The adage that a lie will gallop through the streets. before truth has time to saddle its horse seems

to be holding good today—more so: than in the days of old. But always be assured that the truth will out. And so has the real truth come to the surface since the Dies investigating committee turned the spotlight on the un-American activities of certain organizations and monopolists who have been proven

| the real culprits in their efforts to

overthrow our Government. Such

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

has been the outcome bf the muchheralded . fight between the two major groups of organized labor.

‘Had the press and radio been fair,

and had the general public wanted to know the real truth of the situation, many of the pitfalls could have been avoided and the results of this investigation would not have fallen like a thunderbolt on-an unsuspecting populace. z With nearly a half century of experience in the labor movement, it was no. surprise to us to learn that the American Federation of

‘|Labor has been lgbor’s most dan-

gerous enemy. . . . We have realized for the pakt several years that the Communist scare was only -a §moke screen raised by the enemies of our Government in order to hide their own activities in order to enable them to set up a government to their own liking. s 8 8 FORESEES A DAY OF | RECKONING IN EUROPE By H. A. The day will come, as it always

has, for a day of reckoning in the present situation in Europe. A re-

JILLS OF ALL TRADES

By DOROTHY BUERGER It seems to me that Mothers have A way of finding joy In simply serving, day by day, Their little girl and boy!

Some Mothers like to carpenter. I guess perhaps that’s best, For Dads could never fashion things With any daintiness! :

And .. . Mothers sort of specialize ‘In happiness. A knack That makes a gloomy castle “home” And glorifies a shack!

DAILY THOUGHT Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives. —I Peter 3:1.

F earthly goods, the best is a good wife; a bad, the bitterest curse of human life.~Simonides.

newal of faith, of reliance in it, will determine realization of our hope that justice shall triumph over force, We in this American democracy cannot become pessimistic and resigned -to the continued success of the European dictatorships over the democracies. The recent parliamentary debates in London and Paris seem to follow the trend of thought

-|that democracies and dictatorships |

cannot live side by side. The idea of justice, says Thomas Mann, dominates human nature. This, I believe, will eventually and inevitably motivate the superior strength of free p=oples to restore the high ideals of man to their rightful place in the world. In the words of Dr. Eduard Bznes, “history will be our judge.” . : rel WW SEEKING TO PRESERVE AMERICAN IDEALS ByF.S., News gathered by various agencies seems to confirm every suspicion that the Fascists and Nazis are the rats gnawing at the foundation. Nobody doubts that fact. Those of us who would conserve our hard-won liberties feel that

something drastic must be done to

curb these enemies of law and decency, who would impose an unAmerican way of life upon a people cradled in the doctrines of the rights of man antl basing its political philosophy upon the idea of the consent of the governed, , 8 8 8

CONTENDS THAT AMERICANS SHOULD BEHAVE ABROAD By H. L R. When you are in Rome, do as the Romans do, is an adage that can be used to maintain peace in more countries than one at the present time. When foreigners come to the United States, they can learn the laws of America and abide by them, realizing that under no circumstances will interference be allowed from outside countries. Now then the rule must work both ways. When Americans choose to.live in other countries they must abide by the laws of those countries and nat be asking for protection from the Government of the United . States, for interference will not be allowed in foreign countries either. We must do to other nations as we would have them do unto our own people who have seen fit to dwell in other countries.

The best thing any country can do is work for peace before it is too late and all countries are involved in a war that will set civilization back.

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LET'S EXPLORE YOUR MIND

By DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM

ME HEALTH TO FIND QUT THE MEANING

Ju tha lives of his

this mean to me?” “What ‘are other people thinking of me?” ete, Itisal-

ways ME that is uppermost in his thoughts and as long as one is thinking of himself, strange to say,

{he cannot achieve: ihe highest. self-

development. ® 8 -

NOTHING hinders the development of good new habits as does remorse over bad habits and cons

tinual blame of one’s self. Of course one must first face the facts about his bad habit without dodging or

{trying to save his face. He should - study, as though it were

some one alse, just how he comes to indulge

in the bad habit and what are its

consequences. Then he should oe vote all his thought and drive to developing the good habit to take the place of the old. 2 8 = WHEN one finds himself saying, “What does it all amount to— what does life mean anyhow?” it is 3 Preity sure sign he has-failed to

find the meaning of life in the only way it can be found—activity, liv-

ing it in a vigorous, determined way, stacking its problems with courage ‘he In plten, defeated—as

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‘by establishing Arherican imperialism,

en. Johnson Says—

A Little Thought Must Be Given . Our Defensive Problem Before Any Large Armament Program Is Begun.

’ASHINGTON, Oct. 19.—In all this suddenly re= Y ‘vealed purpose to launch an almost unlimited armdment program, it would be a swell idea to keep our shirts on. Military programs for defense are not The considerations that gove erned Britain and France to sacrifice Ozechoslovakia because of their own unpreparedness in the air are not necessarily ours. They are subject to swift bombing raids of a destructive character. But the bomber

has not yet been produced that can. fly 3000 ‘miles, drop its load, and return to its base. Mr. Bullitt returning from France is reported to have infected the Administration with acute airplane itis. Mr, Bullitt is a brilliant man and a good ame bassador, but I never heard that he has any particular military experience, We happen now to have an

| excellent general staff, Before we come to any quick

conclusions about unbalanced spending for defense, it would be wise for the country to hear what it has to say. » ®. ® OTHING has yet been proved on extremist claims for the devasting effect of aircraft, except for its effect to bluff Britain and France which are in peculiarly exposed positions. This is no argu=ment against a larger air defense and a better produc= tion, only against any amateur snap judgment on this peculiarly technical problem, The National Recovery Act, away back in 1933, appropriated almost any amount the President chose to mechdnize and motorize the Army. After Mr. Ickes got that title of the bill to administer, nothing was done, That was five years ago. Much of that money was spent on raking leaves when it could have beeni spent to-as good or better effect on employment for equipping our national defense, and we would now have something better for our dough than debt and defenselessness. There is something about this-swift, sudden’ hullae baloo about ‘billions for defense” that smells a little like political hokum, It ‘is true: that our ‘Army, though excellently organized, staffed and manned, has not ‘been properly equipped. It is true, too, that we need a bigger Navy, But there is something a little preposterous: about this sudden discovery of a des= perate emergency. need with nothing more specific than we yet have heard to describe or define. iti - : s a 8 : = : UR defensive problem requires something more than long range air bombers on the formula of European nations sitting with boundaries back to back, or nearly so, It requires a great provision of

antiaircraft troops and equipment, mobile heavy artil= lery to guard cities, especially coast towns, against raids. It requires swift, compact, armored land forces of greatly increased fire-power. It needs plentiful reserve supplies of powder, explosives and propellants, which take a long time to produce after the initial order. It cries for plans for industrial mobilization worked out in co-operation between industrialists and military men, and not by the latter alone. Soldiers know less about industry than lawyers know about surgery. Recent scarehead agitation is for headlong action on no well-considered and deliberate program. It is as big a folly to try too much too soon as to try too little too late. I ought to know. I ran NRA, :

It Seems to Me

By Heywood Broun

U. S. Stands to Lose if It Tries To Battle Fascism. With Fascism,

EW YORK, Oct. 16—America must rearm: Nobody who believes in liberal democracy is likely to rejoice over this necessity, and yet I do ‘not see how it can be blinked. . There is no denying the tact that an armament race is in itself a kind of warfare, and that sums spent for guns and shells Tepresent a fearful waste

and drain on human energy.

And yet, paradoxically enough, the only apparent way in which international disarmament or limitation can be brought about is for America to arm.. The moat which surrounds America is neither-as wide nor as deep as we once believed. There is nothing hysterical in the belief that the validity of the .. Monroe Doctrine will be boldly challenged in our lifetime. Indeed, I think that Hitler was hinting very broadly when he gave the: dubious pledge that ‘Fase cist imperialism wanted no additional “European territory.” Nazi negotiations and Nazi manipulation are already under way in several of the South Américan countries. We must arm unless we are willing to see Reich colonies established on this side of the water. At that point I am quite ready to admit the possibility of debate, but I insist that we must either arm or drop all pretense that we are dedicated :to the- duty of protecting all the nations to the: north and the south of us from foreign aggressors.

A Real Danger

And there rises also the pertinent problem as to whether we can keep out European imperialism only That danger is real. We will lose instead of gain if we attempt to fight fascism with fascism. People who believe in democratic processes have every right to fear the creation of an officer class in the United States. Accordingly, in enlarging our fighting forces. we must use every available method to democratize them. We must broaden the base of our naval and military forces. ‘To put it bluntly, we should already look to the loyalties of those in high command, and weed out officers who palpably are not in sympathy with our traditional institutions. Of course, this does not mean a Democratic army, As a matter of fact, we already have allowed politics to play too great a part in national defense. The American Army should belong to the American people as a whole, and should not be slanted in such a way that it may become an auxiliary of any special group. And, of course, there will be and must be disci-

‘pline, . If world fascism is to be checked and washed

away we must demonstrate that democracy can build a co-operative discipline deeper and stronger . and ; more enduring than that of the aggressor. :

Watching Your Health

By Dr. Morris Fishbein

NE of the most astounding Sachin 0 of which we have any knowledge is the human hand, - The human hand developed its present flexible form in response to the needs of mankind, : * When the anatomy of the human hand is studied, it is: found that, first of all, it rests in & certain position—that is, flexed. The resting position is’ not the best working position. The tendons on the backs of thé fingers do not need tunnels to control their motjon, because the fingers cannot be bent backward. This construction of the hand is important in relationship to its ability to function. For that very

reason an injury to the hand is of the utmost ime

portance, because it may interfere with the ability of the individual thereafter to work. - The wear and tear of life ekposes the hand in an unusual degree to all sorts of injuries, as well a “to infection by bacteria. One of the commonest infections of the ‘hands 1s the formation of pus after an infection in the pulpy part of the finger tip. Frequently felons become so serious that they have to be operied by surgery. . An infection around the fingernails i paronychia, and because it spreads. along the line of the nail it is called called a “runaround.” Frequently : these infections develop after unclean ‘manicuring. Usually if the fingers are soaked for five minutes in very hot water, it becomes Possible to push ¢ ihe. akin back Signy from the nail and to permit the get ou If tere 1 0b any surgical ncidon, » srr” attention should be had can reli ‘pain the use of.