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MONDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1938

-WAGE-HOUR LAW BEGINS "FP HE Federal Wage-Hour Law becomes operative today : under good auspices for success. . Administrator Elmer F. Andrews has commended the “vast majority of the country’s employers for their co-opera- - tive attitude. Various national employer organizations have advised their members, when in doubt as to whether their operations are included under the law, to comply with all “regulations. Leaders of the A. F. of L. and the C. L O. have counseled workers not to take “hasty action” against “employers suspected of not immediately observing all of the - law’s requirements. ' This is happily different from the atmosphere which surrounded the inauguration of some other New Deal re“forms. The new spirit, we hope, indicates a trend of the ‘times—a trend away from Government crackdowns and “class warfare with organized workers demanding their last “pound of flesh and organized employers trying to sabotage progressive laws in the courts, a trend toward mutual un‘derstanding, and assistance. : And a full measure of co-operation will be needed if the _ objectives of the law are to be realized and industrial dis“locations are to be kept at a minimum. For the interpreta- . tions which Mr. Andrews’ wage-hour division has given to : the law make it affect many employers who pay wages far . above the 25-cents-per-hour minimum, and many employees "not among the estimated 750,000 underpaid workers whose ! wages the law is expected to increase. : In the matter of hours of work and overtime those interpretations cut across long-established employer-em-ployee relationships, including contractual agreements, even though the rates, of pay be equivalent to a dollar or two ~dollars an hour. - 7, With time and good will adjustments can be made to “fit this new pattern of work standards, spread employment “and equalize industrial competition. Yet that does not “mean that organized workers should be other than.vigorous - and aggressive in bringing to light the abuses of employers “who pay wages below the minimum and require employees -to work overlong hours. Nor does it mean that the Government should be other than prompt and decisive in en‘forcing the law against these exploiters. For the big purpose of the law is to police the chiselers and protect the chiseled; to give a better break to employers : who try to pay decent wages but have to sell their products -in competition with those who shave prices by shaving wages; to give a better break to employees who haven't . been able to command that minimum of $11 for a week of 44 hours of labor. : : Employees who have the skills to command or unions . strong enough to obtain good pay do not need the protection of this law. Nor do their employers require policing. : Fortunately, the Government, organized labor and most : employers, in approaching the readjustments that will have ‘ to be made in practically all businesses of interstate rami- - fications, appear to be keeping in mind the important fact : that the primary objective of the law is to help those who ~ can’t help themselves.

~ A WELCOME INDUSTRY

VERY community is pleased when a new industry comes "to its town. And rightfully so for it generally means more people will be employed, payrolls will increase, new - taxes will be paid. The decision of Standard Cereals, Inc., a Chicago firm, * to locate an important branch: of its business here means all of these things to Indianapolis. But what pleases us fully as much as these tangible benefits is that this industry seems to fit naturally ~ into the pattern of this city’s growth. This is not a “oneindustry” city in any sense of the word, but is notable rather for having a nice balance between industrial, distributing and agricultural activities. It is important in the interest of a stable, depression-resisting community, that this balance be maintained. : ‘And that is why we are especially pleased to see industries of the above character choosing Indianapolis for their future operations.

CHIANG’S NEW ENEMY \

HE fall of Canton marks a milestone, if not a turning : point, in the Sino-Japanese war. It constitutes the biggest blow yet suffered by the Chinese, morally as well as militarily. . Some 10 days ago the Japanese landed a small army at Bias Bay, about 125 miles above Canton. The country thereabouts is so difficult that it has long been a favorite hideout for pirates. Yet the Japanese forces were able to _ march from there to Canton at an average of better than 15 miles a day—fast going even had it occurred in peacetime.

And it was done almost without firing a shot. Small _ wonder, then, that reports are now rampant all along the China coast that the ‘‘bullets” used by the Japanese were of silver. True or not, the impression of a sell-out will be difficult to down, especially as some of the South China leaders were known to be hostile to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek. : : Short of foreign intervention—a remote contingency— guerrilla warfare is now clearly China’s only remaining . hope. would only keep pegging away. But the tragedy of Chiang Kai-shek’s situation is that from now on he will have to contend with still another enemy in addition to the Japanese, namely defeatism and even disloyalty. . It is reported from Hongkong and Shanghai that Chiang may soon make way for some other leader. If that is true, we hazard the guess that he is prompted to do so of betrayals at home. as by

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Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler ete

What Are Westbrook's Ideals? It Is Possible to Tell, He Says, By Reading ‘What He Is Against.

NTEW YORK, Oct. 24.—Someone—I forgot the name

‘asking, “What is he for?” meaning me, and, “What -are his ideals?” meaning mine,

some. And in that case he must have noticed a ‘rather persistent note of opposition to certain things. That is one way of advocacy, one manner of expressing ideals. < . --. Some hygienists emphasize the peril of disease, others the joys of health. It is a matter of approach, but I just don’t believe it would be as effective to sing the glories of democracy or the beauty of purity and ethics in politics as to do the same thing the other way, attacking, if you will, the perils of freedom and open or hypocritical violations of plain decency in public life. . . This country is so accustomed to freedom up to now that no impression could be made by describing it over and.over. A man living on the edge of the

“wonder what $t would be like to live in Scranton just for a change. Lo : 7 . 8 os » OME Americans have been toying with a sneaking idea that what we need here is a Stalin or a. Hitler—not in full ferocity, perhaps, but a Stalin or a Hitler with the brakes on, someone who would shoot down or lock up those other Americans whom they happen to dislike, but who wouldn't interfere with their liberty. I think it is more forceful to point out that, he can never be confident that his

own Stalin or his Hitler won’t turn on him. I don’t know whether this people can be terrified away from dictatorship of one label or another, both being alike, or not. : : Parents, teachers, physical instructors and doctors try to terrify adolescents into chastity by describing the horrors of venereal disease. Clergymen usually

purity. But in spite of either method, and sometimes in spite of both, some of the young pick up a nail. As the wartime hygiene booklets warned the men, so also this country would never get over the infection of communism or nazi-fascism, as Mark Sullivan calls the axis disease, within the life of any American yet born, or enjoy an hour’s relief from torment.

2. 2 = > AM for tolerance, and I think the best boost for tolerance is to emphasize the savagery of intolerance. Tolerance only for those whom you like is no tolerance at all, and I feel a glow of tolerance when I let it run for people who are offensive to me. I suppose I am intolerant of intolerance, but let us not get into smart and nifty paradoxes. I think the best way of opposing corruption in office—and I mean nepotism, too—and the exploitation of high and honored office for the personal gain of relatives—is to nail it, specifically, not just prate of honesty and high principled restraint. And so on, all down the line, it is a method. x If I have been on my stuff it will be possible to tell what I am for and what my ideals are—if I may use a word so far above my humble station—by reading what I am against. You can’t keep a clean face just by loving cleanliness. You have to use soap.

Business

By John T. Flynn

East and West Kansas Differ in - Their Attitudes on Farm Program.

: ODGE CITY, Kas. Oct. 24.—As one moves west from Kansas City the fever about the Administration farm program is not so high. At least the wheat farmers in western Kansas are complying with the program. This does not mean, necessarily, that they are satisfied with it, but they are working with it, which the farmers in eastern Kansas are not. This is accounted for by the fact that there are two different kinds of wheat farmers in Kansas. There are the small farmers in the eastern section who work the rich alluvial soils east of Salina and the large ranch farmers of the west who work the semiarid soils of the dust bowl.

In the west the farmers are getting a better break under the program, because, having farmed wheat a long time, they are not being forced to reduce their acreage as much as those in the east, who have only returned to wheat in the last few years. They will thus get better benefits and besides there isn’t much else for them to do. But the east is much the most populous portion of the state and has a bigger voting strength.

Loan Checks Fail to Appear

However, while these western large farmers are complying with the program they are not altogether favorable to it. This is explained by many as a natural phenomenon in Kansas. Farmers are never satisfied with a program. But there is another reason. ‘The loan checks have not showed up as yet. The loan machinery under the new 1938 farm act has not gotten into werking order. Secretary Wallace when he was here frankly admitted that and said it was due to the immensity of the task. This is probably true. But the net result is that the farmer has not been able to get his check.

Furthermcre the farmer has found that it is not as easy to borrow as he supposed. The quality of his wheat this year has not been too good and a lot of it has not graded well enough to justify & loan. Or some other cause has intervened to prevent the loan. Whatever the reason, the loans have not come along and the farmers mutter about this. In the meantime they arc being fed by the political orators upon the glories of g two-price system, under which they would get a parity price—$1.15 a bushel —for their wheat sold in the American market and ‘be required to submit to no complicated controls, while selling their surplus on the foreign market for whatever it would bring. No one has worked out for the farmers here how this would be done. But it sounds good to them. :

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

N Ellsworth, Kas.,, Mayor Clara Williford conducts the business of her little restaurant and, during off hours, handles the affairs of her town with equal sense and success. a : She’s been Boss of Ellsworth for five years and has

levy from 19.7 to 9.7 mills and lopped off sewer rentals by 40 per cent. - : oo Ellsworth is a very little town, but its 2100 citizens their woman mayor. Mrs. Williford confesses is exactly the reason why she’s making such ‘an excel= lent mayor. Instead she is anxious to get a fair reHieh for the people’s money. she has authority to © An account of her economies—much too long to be printed here—shows how valuable feminine ingenuity used so long in domestic matters. Everybody recognizes the worth of such

you're almost certain to strike a snag. : The notion has been built up - that everything having to do with public spending must be done with the opén palm, As a consequence, most and cities are broke. Bs : I have no desire to argue that women are better equipped by nature for dealing with the devious prob-

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ASHINGTON, Oct. 24.—~The President is’ reported as saying “for the farm problem, a two= price system in which rigid: production control would ‘assure a profitable return to growers on the domestically consumed portion of their crops and with the surplus selling for what it would bring on the world

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§ . : : ? @ he Hoosier Forum I wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death yourright to say it.—Voltaire.

WHY NOT A SIX-PRICE . SYSTEM, HE ASKS By B. C. Li Secretary Wallace’s plan to dispose of surplus commodities by the

finements and improvements.

Two prices are hardly enough. There should be between six and a dozen prices, and let the customer choose the price ‘he would like to pay. With only two prices to choose from the perplexed buyer has to pay either one or the other, with a half dozen he would have a wider choice. Shopping would be a distinct pleasure under such circumstances. Imagine looking over the new automobiles and selecting a nice cream

and about a ton and a half of chromium, and then telling the salesman you are prepared to pay the second lowest price of $8. You could explain that $5, the lowest price, is a little cheap. It would be embarrassing to tell your friends you were driving a $5 automobile. The Secretary, we think, is overlooking something here. ” ” n DECLARES U. S. MUST BE READY TO SPEAK By. a Reader Sr

It is nearly a quarter of a. century since the United States had its first great row over military preparedness.

When Woodrow Wilson launched a ‘huge naval building campaign shortly before America’s entrance into the World War, the drive received a very mixed reception. Welcomed by some, it drew bitter opposition from others. : Now we are coming up to a new preparedness campaign; and this time it is doubtful that there will be one-tenth of the opposition there was’ before. The world is a different .sort of place now, and the American people have had an unmistakable object lesson or two about the change. International relations today are conducted, unhappily enough, over the sharp edge of a drawn sword. Recent events in central Europe make -it all too clear that sheer power has the last word nowadays. So ‘a ‘program of rearmament does not mean that we are getting ready. to fight somebody. It simply means that we are making certain {that our voice shall be heard if it {becomes necessary for us to speak. An America fully able to strike a swift .and crushing blow would be listened to; an America unable to do so might be ignored—and in consequence there might easily develop a situation to which war was the only solution. : We have no wish to meddle in Europe’s quarrels. -But if Europe thrusts a quarrel on us, we should

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(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.)

be ready with the right sort of answer, « . A CALL FOR CO-OPERATION By Frank L. Martino Our country needs us, and is calling upon us for an important duty, one which we neither can shirk, neglect nor forget. Let’s observe the following important and vital

President and others in their sincerity and in their effort to continue improving the economic difficulty. Those able to do so should create more jobs for idle men and women. The American workman and workwoman should make good wages, the good old wages which put plenty of ‘money in circulation; the latter,

cluding the employer, the manufacturer, the wholesaler .and the retailer, as more money in circulation means more buying power. Let’s look: around in our respective communities for needy families, and help them, if necessary. Let's forget our color, race, creed and political beliefs. Let’s bury the hatchet and let’s work together. After all, we are all children of God, and God will help us, but first we must help one another, o 2 ®

REMEMBER THESE HALLOWEEN PRANKS? By C. B. S. :

Another Halloween is about to come and I cannot help but think how different it is now celebrated

AUTUMN JOURNEY

By MAUD COURTNEY WADDELL Again—all too soon Leaves floating silently Down a stream Are like cold bodies Drifting in a dream— To an endless tomb,

DAILY THOUGHT

For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.—Proverbs 4:16.

F thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is

in doing it.—Democritus.

than the way we used to do some 50 years or more ago. Then the celebration started about five days before Halloween night. The first night we called “door bell” night. Every house then had the old-fashion knob with wire connection to bells and after pulling the knob two or three times, of course, we were all soon down the street far away. : Then came “gate night.” All yards had fences then, with two or three gates, and you would be lucky if you were able to locate your particular gate the next morning.as they often would be carried squares away. Next came “cabbage night.” Most front doors then had no glass, so they - made a fine target for the cabbage. Next came “tick-tack” night. As I remember we had a contrivance consisting of a triangle piece of string and on one end of which was tied a large nail, on the other end another nail with which to attach to the top of the window, on the other end was attached a long string which enabled us to get a safe distance from the window to operate it. By pulling the string up and down it would let the nail hit against the window pane. You can imagine the effect. : : When Halloween night came we would do all these stunts together. After doing all the damage we could we would meet at some neighbor's house for a party. : I wonder how: many of your old time readers recall these days? 8 8 2

BELIEVES G. O. P. TICKET IS TOO EXCLUSIVE By Walter Brownfield

Your readers will be more than surprised to learn of the lineup of candidates presented by the Republican and Democratic tickets. When these tickets are - compared—or rather contrasted—it ‘is not surprising that a Democratic victory of 30,000 is predicted. On the Republican ticket, 14 out of 18 county candidates live in a narrow strip directly: north of Fall Creek Blvd. This list includes every one of the nine candidates for judges. A further breakdown shows 12 of the 18 candidates reside in Washington Township—and this includes eight of the nine judge candidates. Not one of the Republican candidates lives south of Washington. St., none west of Belmont, and none east’ of Emerson. Independent voters cannot be attracted to such a selfisHi and short-sighted party. The Republican organization cannot hide behind the excuse of a primary—as that organization had a slate-controlled

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an exclusively selected group to represent the half million people in Marion County. : Their ticket will be overwhelmed.

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By DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM

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communism—the theory that you can take the profit motive out of business "and substitute the group and national motive. .

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man who 1s dominating is selfish or

who schemes to get another’s property is selfish. Likewise, a woman who spends most of her time on her personal appedrance or -neglects her baby or prefers to read at home when she should attend a meeting for public welfare—all these are sel- . More women than -men: do tend to think about themselves and their problems but that is only one kind of selfishness. On the whole men and women are about equal in

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duct that we call “selfishness.” : ewe aT, ‘NO. There is.no evidence that, they. degrease crime a particle.

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certain Whether crime has increased or decreased, yet what evidence we have seems to indicate that crime has increased during. the past. one or two: generations, at least in the

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kets. and not domestic markets determine the price of export crops. It seems to be pretty generally agreed that, at prices determined by present regarded world conditions, our farm structure would collapse. If you concede this and say, which is the truth, that there is some necessary minimum price, then | the question arises of how. to get that price for. the farmer. : Hitherto the plan has been to get it by. Governmental regulation of farm production, by paying the farmer to produce less so that the artificial scarcity will raise the price. Theoretically, this could work only if production could be reduced to domestic consumption and we lost our export farm market to our foreign competitors. a ” ” ” O lose that doesn’t seem to make sense. Worse “still, it requires Governmental compulsion ‘to regulate production. We have tried this plan in-ohe form or another for five years. It hasn't worked.

The only other way is what I have for years suge gested. Let price, production and marketing go free. But on what we consume, we collect processing taxes of exactly the difference between world price and fair price and subsidize every farmer on his fraction of the whole crop ‘consumed at home. Thus he will get only the low world price on his share of what is raised in excess of our needs and that price plus a subsidy on the part of what we use. If the free world price of wheat is 50 cents and we say he ought to have $1 for what we use, two-third of his crop, he would get 50 cents for one-third of his crop and $1

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W JHAT do our consumers care whether ‘they pay for wheat by reason of artificial scarcity fhisish restricted production, or by free price plus - a tax : The newspaper quotation of the President comes near to this suggestion, and then ducks it. It proe poses “rigid production control” to secure high prices on the portion of the crop consumed at home, and Jol says to. sell “the surplus” abroad for what it will ring. There is something haywire here. If the “rigid production control” wasn’t rigid enough to abolish export surplus there wouldn't be any higher domestic price. The price of the surplus determines the price of the whole crop. There would be only world .price for domestic as well as export consumption. Everye thing cancels out of that equation except “produce tion control.” The farmers are already rebelling against that. :

It Seems to Me By Heywood Broun 5

Stories of Kennedy and Lindbergh And One Other Interesting Item,

EW YORK, Oct. 24.—J read with interest s dis- : patch from Berlin which told how Col Linde bergh had received a decoration from the German Reich. Goering himself hung the badge of distinction around the neck of the American flier, and to make it binding he added, “In the name of the Fuehrer.” The report said that the Colonel, in his shy way, smiled with embarrassment, but that he “proudly wore the decoration during the evening.” = When honest effort meets a generous reward the recipient ‘of the favor has every right to pride. It is true that the service cross of the Order of the German Eagle is not quite tops in that series. But Col. Lindbergh can afford to bear his cross in humble patience. There may be other opportunities. of service. nad : s And naturally I am amused and entertained by the lively remarks of Joseph P. Kennedy, American Ambassador to the Court of St. James's. Mr. Kennedy was little short of: sidesplitting in explaining that this original intention had been to build his speech around his nine children. omg Eddie Cantor also does that very well, but. our Ambassador quite obviously felt that he must touch on international policy ever so lightly. He began with a tribute to the peace of Chamberlain which passes understanding and went on from there to suggest that there is no reason why democracies cannot lie down in amity with the Fascist dictatorships. At the end of a hard-played football game the losing team cheers the victors, and the winners make courteous return. Live and let live and Adolf Hitler is a good old soul, :

Passing the Wine of Friendship

It may be that they have been a little rough son occasion and trampled .on human rights and liberties, but why not overlook a. little broken crockery. and pass the wine of friendship around the board? ty * And so I almost turned away from the day’s news -secure in the feeling that the Golden Age is just groaay the corner, It bore the date line “Praha,” and said: r whl 3 eR “Fhe democratic German paper Praha Mittag-to-day anounced it was ceasing publication rather than submit to being obliged ‘to damn what it formerly ‘praised and praise what it formeriy condemned.” And this newspaperman of Phaha finished: his piece by saying, “The world that the Praha Mittag loved and in which it breathed and labored exists no more.” The world of free men goes behind a cloud. But it will come back and shine more brightly than the: wittiest words of our agile Ambassador or the glistening star which hangs like an albatross around the neck of Col. Lindbergh. £% emmi

Watching Your Hell

By Dr. Morris Fishbein | AFT 150,000 people die of cancer every year in '\. the United States. It is estimated that for each person who dies, there are three living with this disease, so that approximately “450,000 additional people suffer from cancer. wri The rate for cancer has been steadily increasing. It was 63 per 100,000 in 1900, and it is about 1068 now. ‘Cancer is essentially a disease of old: people. Since more people are living longer, more and more people are likely to die of cancer. Therefore, the increase in the death rate of cancer does not mean that ‘people are more likely to have cancer now than formetly. In addition ‘to the fact that people are-living longer, we must also take into account the fact that new methods have been developed whereby it is . possible to diagnose cancer more certainly and much. earlier than was formerly possible. Ninety-five per cent of all the cases cf cancer -occur after the age of 35. : Women suffer more frequently from cancer wan ’ do men. However, cancers of the mouth, lips, and ‘tongue are more common in men thah in women, although ‘in recent years there has been an increase of such cancers in’ womén. This may be ‘associated to some extent with increase in smoking ~#moéng womgg. . sa na ~ Almost every organ of the body may be ‘affected with cancer. Cancers of the stomach caused &Imost 27,000 death in 1934, cancers of the intestines abou! 14,000 deaths, cancers of the uterus almost 33000, cancers of the breast 13,171, cancers of the skin 315, ‘cancers of the tongué 1056, and cancers of the: lige 12,4 “These are the organs chiefly affected by e8uge:

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