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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1938

THE COMMUNITY FUND JDESPITE the unselfish labors of 83000 volunteer workers and generous giving by a great many people, the Com‘munity Fund drive came to a close last night more than ‘$62,000 short of its goal. The shortage may be diminished slightly by last-minute gifts that could not be tdbulated. : But the unpleasant fact remains that, unless the drive is to be extended or solicitation continued in some other manner, the 37 member agencies will be severely restricted in their activities during 1939. Each agency will have ‘to get along on approximately 9 per cent less than the min‘imum amount needed to do its work thoroughly. If the Fund leaders decide that solicitation will not he continued, they should set to work immediately to find out ‘the weakness of this year’s campaign and to guard against iis recurrence in 1940. Indianapolis should be one of the ‘nation’s leaders in the care of its needy and underprivileged citizens.

‘CHINA'S EIGHTH KEY ITH the fall of Hankow, the Japanese today are in possession of seven of the eight keys to China— Peiping, the northern capital; Tientsin, the north China ‘port; Kalgan, the gateway from Urga and outer Mongolia; ‘Shanghai, the financial capital and port commanding the mouth of the Yangtze River; Nanking, the Nationalist ‘capital; Canton, the great port and gateway to south China, and now Hankow, the country’s Chicago and head of ocean‘going navigation on the Yangtze. The occupation of Hankow brings the war to what should be its final phase. It means that the country is now divided into two very nearly equal parts. Japan holds the ‘eastern, or coastal half, with all the ports, railways and other principal means of communication. The Chinese have been pushed back into the almost roadless west. If the Chinese keep up the struggle, t must be along two lines. First, irregulars remaining behind will likely keep up their guerrilla warfare. Second the still unconquered West may continue to fight the East. How long hostilities can and will be maintained depends. Gen. Seishiro Itagaki, minister of war at Tokyo, "has declared he would keep at it as long as the Chinese generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek remained in power. He would occupy “every inch” of China, he said, if necessary

to destroy the “anti-Japanese and pro-Communist” Chiang. ” £4 2

2 2 z y ; HICH brings us to the eighth key which the Japanese will have to possess before they can safely lay claim to victory. This key is the subjugation of the Chinese people themselves as apart from the conquest of any area. When Japan began her war against China, Chiang Kaishek was ‘busy putting down the Communists. For years he had chased them all over the country and at last seemed on the point of success. To accuse him of being pro-Com-munist, therefore, was absurd. But Japan's war party needed a plausible battle cry so they hit on that. Today, thanks to the Japanese, Chiang’s efforts have “been completely undone. He has been forced to join hands - with the Communists and make common cause against the invaders. As a result, all China may yet turn red. Certainly Russia will leave no stone unturned to Sovietize the Chinese... and for cause. If Japan pacifies China, it is more than likely that she will shift her troops to Manchuria and attack Siberia, possibly while Germany, her anticomintern ally, attacks the Soviet Union in the West. Clearly it has now become a matter of vital importance to Russia that Japan shall eventually lose the war. And if she can win over China's 450,000,000 people to communism, she can encompass Japan’s defeat—even if “every inch” of Chinese territory is taken. Not only would Japan find it impossible profitably to exploit territory inhabited by such a mass of Reds, but in the end her own 70,000,000 subjects might be tinged the same color—absorbed as the Chinese have absorbed other invaders in the past. It was stupid of the Japanese not to realize that Chiang Kai-shek was a friend and not a foe. It may well be that they have awakened a red dragon which will yet devour them because they at the same time destroyed the oriental St. George who might have saved them.

PEACE IN JERSEY CITY MAN named Jeff Burkitt, having served six months as a political prisoner, has been released from jail in Hudson County, New Jersey. Mr. Burkitt had long been an opponent of Frank Hague, Mayor of Jersey City and boss of Hudson County. Last April he applied for a permit to discuss politics at a Jersey

City street meeting, was refused, attempted to speak with-

out a permit. Mayor Hague’s police arrested him. A Jersey City judge sentenced him to half a year in jail on a charge of using abusive language to the policemen, although a number of witnesses testified that the charge was false. Most Americans believed that just such outrages as this cruel and unusual punishment of Jeff Burkitt and just such autocratic practices as those of Mayor Hague moved President Roosevelt to say in his fireside talk last June 24: : “And I am concerned about the attitude of a candidate or his sponsors with respect to the rights of American ¢itizens to assemble peaceably and to express publicly their views and opinions on important social and economic issues. There can be no constitutional democracy in any community which denies to the individual his freedom to speak and worship as he pleases. The American people will not be deceived by anyone who attempts to suppress individual liberty under the pretense of patriotism.” Yet, as Mr. Burkitt emerged from jail— i The Roosevelt Administration had just sent Secretary _of War Woodring to Jersey City to give enthusiastic indorsement to William H. J. Ely, candidate for the U. S. Senate, whose sponsor is Mayor Hague. The New Deal and

i the New Jersey dictator apparently had discovered that,

ter all, they both are most ‘concerned about” the same : an 3 +

Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

Bums Will Be Bums. Westbrook Maintains, No Matter What the

EW YORK, Oct. 26.—There is a down-under school of writing in this country which counterfeits ability with dirty words and blandly helps itself to the assumption that because the world is out of step with a small element of congenital bums, drunkards and thieves the world is in the wrong. There is a‘ tendency to argue that communism is the only answer, although there is no evidence from those who have written either for or against commu-

nism that the no-goods fare any better in the U. S. S. R. than they do here. : Persons who have seen bums only in the phony soulfulness of the fiction version created by the dirtyneck and flannel-shirt literati are at a disadvantage in the presence of such reading, for they have no background of personal observation of experience. Others, however, who know better, knowing that bums are not local to the United States, but exist in all countries which permit men to become bums if that is their bent, instead of forcing them into the ranks or the dead storage camps of the dictator, are not deceived. 5 S There is no more truth in the thought that a bum is a bum from force of circumstances than there is in the old American superstition that gypsies kidnap children. ’ : 2

2 2» OSSIBLY some gypsies did kidnap some children a long time ago, but from the-time of Charlie Ross on down through the cases of Katherine Winters, Billy Whitala and Bobby Glass gypsies have in no famous instance been shown responsible. The biography of Jack London, the Boswell of the bums, reveals not only an understanding of the type, but a community trait, and while it were inhuman to lack pity for the misery of the mildewed bo, as for any suffering creature, it does not follow that to deny him heroic qualities is to cheat him of his due. There was for a considerable time an Alaskan school of writing, which would have endowed with superhuman qualities every man who took part in the gold rush. In after years the members of this community standardized their lies about the hardships in that frozen land, but, unfortunately for my own illusions, two of the veterans whom I knew best were two of the most fluent liars I ever knew and the third had spent most of his time in a gambling house. ” ” 2 NE often related with no qualms, even after all that time, that his most dependable source of revenue was the cheating of real prospectors through short-weight when weighing their pokes of dust. He may have been lying about that, too, for the truth never was in the man. -

physical, is not to be rejected outright merely because it is what it is, but the attempt to blame it all on something called the system or on the cruelty and indifference of people who are busy working out their own problems is subject to challenge. Policemen and flop-house keepers develop a heartlessness toward bums as a class through practical experience, and no doubt their attitude is too general, for occasionally there must come along a stray whose greasy shirt eovers a heart of gold. But, in general, bums are just that, and the most notorious bum that the newspaper business produced in the days of the tramp reporter, though he came of an eminent, not to say good, family and could prattle Shakespeare, married women only to live on their hard-earned wages and was the more of a bum for the contrast between his advantages and the mess he was.

Business

By John T. Flynn

Lack of Customers Alone Holds Up Loans by Banks, Economist Says.

EW YORK, Oct. 26.—Here are some facts about banks which may be worth thinking about. They are revealed in the latest issue of the Rand, McNally Banking Directory. In 1928 all American banks had 61 billion dollars in deposits. Now they have 59 billion. The interesting point, however, is that in 1928 they had 38 billion dollars in loans while now they have only 21 billioss. Deposits are less by only two billions, but loans are less by 17 billion. That tells part of the story of the present state of business. = Back in 1928 the banks had 19 billion dollars invested in securities of all sorts. But now they have 28 billion. Most of these, of course, are United States Government and other public securities. This condition is confined to no one part of ‘the country. It is a matter of fact fo be found wherever one goes. > Here in New York there is a bank which has all of its deposits save two million in cash and in Government securities. Out in Topeka I found a bank with $802,000 in deposits and $726,000 in cash and public securities. : = This explains why Jesse Jones is always jumping on the banks. But while the RFC chairman publicly jumps on the banks, it is said that he is really jumping on the Government. He nags the banks so the banks will reply and put the blame on the Government. Mr. Jones is said to belong to the group in Washington which has been criticizing the security of the Government’s method of checking bank loans.

Policies Loosened

As a matter of fact, the Government has loosened rather than tightened bank lending policies. It has permitted national banks to make loans on real estate which ought not to be permitted. It has set up a mortgage guarantee system to encourage banks to ge into real estate loans—another dangerous proceeding. It has set up a deposit guarantee system. But the banks hang back. I have just returned from a trip down through the Middle West. I talked with bankers in various cities. The banks are eager to get loans. That is the only way they can make money. The banks are in good shape. They have a capi-tal-to-deposit ratio of seven to one. They have a three to one ratio of deposits to cash and many are better than that. And they have not only the deposit guarantee system of the Government, but the Federal Reserve’s excessively generous policy of loans and discounts. There is only one thing holding them back and that is their own customers who do not seem to want to borrow money.

A Woman's Viewpoint

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

COMPARISON of the modern spinster and the modern bachelor is one of the best ways I can think of to illustrate the progress made in the last half century by unmarried women. Whereas the single man has merely marked time, the spinster has really gone places. - The word itself is an offensive one to me, although its origins were dignified. In the old days, a spinster was one who was occupied in spinning her wedding outfit, and later the title applied to daughters of aristocratic families in England who never married.

In my childhood, its connotations were less complimentary and a slight slur always seemed to accompany the word. Now, however, its meaning must soon change again, because the unmarried woman of our period has simply taken the world for her oyster.

An account of her accomplishments and ambitions is simply amazing, especially when you turn back the pages of history and study her as she was in her former state. Although she has generally been noted for the uprightness of her character, she had mighty few privileges and usually acted as an underpaid servant in the home of relatives who overworked her. And look at her now, if you please! Some of the most important tasks in the business and professional world are in her hands. Also she is better looking, better groomed, better informed than half the men she works with and far more up and coming in every way than most of their wives. Her main quality is courage and there isn’t a smug bone in her body. Beside her, our bachelor appears a pallid and often a timid figure, and usually the exact replica in habits and philosophy of his Great-Uncle John, who was .also unmarried. Our lady, on the contrary, is certainly

| not the counterpart of

her Great-Aunt Emily,

Country or lts Economic System.

The literature of degradation and filth, moral and -

The Open Door I—By Talburt |

I wholly

The Hoosier

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

COMPARES ROOSEVELT TO LINCOLN By Morgan County WPA Voter We hear much talk of the times today—the WPA workers, the Democrats and the Republicans, My family has always been good old G. O. P. —but not any more. The Republicans that were put in office by the poor WPA workers are trying to down those who had to be on WPA. I am now a leader of the Democratic Party. I have 500 votes of WPA workers who were not Democrats before. We mean this time to put in office Democrats who are for the poor WPA workers. President Roosevelt was a God-sent man to save the poor people of the nation from starving, as Honest Abe was sent to save the nation and bring the North and South together in unity. I can still remember those dark days back in Hoover's time when babies cried for want of food, and people's life savings were lost in closed banks. To think that in so big and rich a nation there are men holding their heaps of money up and oppressing the poor. Some day they will be glad to give it away.

$ 8 = DON’T TURN BACK, THIS READER SAYS

By Hiram Lackey

Some people, in order to vote “the devil” out, would vote “the devil” in. Their logic is the logic of jumping from the frying pan into the fire. This “logic” springs from weakness which is as old as the habit of blaming the leader, “finding faylt with Moses.” Nothing is more natural for us than to blame someone else for our own shortcomings. Leaders are handy targets. As in the days of Moses, some would rather go back to the slavery and hungry pangs of Hooverism than to die in the wilderness that always lines the horizon of progress. Fortunately or unfortunately, depending upon your. courage and energy, our generation is forced to progress or perish. Therefore we need the foresight and manhood necessary to ‘sail on,” to see the thing through. In the virile ‘words: “We have just begun to fight,” we find our need. This is no time to listen to the weakling who, after swimming half way across the river, complains of being tired and cold and turns back, losing all. Why take all the risks and then forfeit the chance of victory?

2 2 ” A WARNING TO ITALY AND GERMANY By A. D.

Edward Maddox claims the coalition of Germany, Italy, Japan, Aus-

(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.)

tria, and Franco’s Fascists is a force so formidable that England and France will not risk their national existence to save smaller nations. In the first place there is no longer a country of Austria; it is now a part of Germany. Japan has already bitten off more than she can chew, and Franco's Fasists have their hands full fighting the Loyalists. That leaves Germany and Italy who would be opposing England, France, the Czechs, Russia (which, by the way, has a very good chance) and possibly the United States, besides some smaller nations such as Belgium. So I should say Germany and Italy had better be careful.

. 2 8 ” ANNOYED BY LOUD RADIOS By J. S. M. Inasmuch as some people haven't sense enough to operate their radios so as not to annoy everyone in the community, it would be a good idea for radio stations to operate from 9 in the morning to 10 at nignt, but maybe Fido would bark all the more,

though. Volume controls on radios should

AUTUMNAL

By MARY WARD Why can it be the golden leaves falling Into grassy places not far from home Bring more autumn loveliness enthralling i As through the years I roam

Perhaps it is in part remembering The golden glow of spring and summer season, Like day's fulfillment and afterglow of evening— That may be the reason.

DAILY THOUGET

And he said, The things which are impossible with men are possible with God.—St. Luke 18:27.

N all the vast and the minute, we see the unambiguous footsteps of the God, Who gives its luster to the insect’s wing, and wheels His throne upon the rolling worlds.—Cowper.

not permit people to enjoy a program while working in the opposite end of the house.

® 2 ” DESCRIBES PLIGHT OF COUPLE SEEKING AID By Verdi Allen As a resident of Indianapolis and a religious worker I was called on to visit a sick man . .. at an E. Market St. address. I found him in an unconscious state from a paralytic stroke, his wife sitting on the bed trying to keep the flies away from him. I inquired as to what had been done and was advised that the City Hospital had sent a doctor to see him. The doctor, after diagnosing the case, left some medicine, stating that he could not get him into the hospitai. I then called the City Hospital and was advised there was no provision made for a case of this kind as it was a chronic case. I called the Health Board and was advised it had no service for this case but I was kindly told to call the Public Nursing Association. This I did and was told the nurses were off duty at that time but they would send a nurse down to see the man sometime after 9 a. m. Friday. It was then about the middle of Thursday afternoon. The man had been unconscious since Wednesday morning. I also called the Police Department and was told they could do nothing. This man and his wife are relief cases but it seems as if they did not want to go to the County Infirmary as they were told to do, and have almost “been fed by the ravens.” They have the room in which they

live on credit waiting for the “Old

Man's” pension and eating “what they could catch.” Perhaps this couple is at fault for not following the relief rules and I sympathize with the charity workers, having myself been a social worker all through the ‘depression— but this is certainly an emergency case. The old man is slowly dying and his wife is not equipped to care for him. The question seems to be: “Whose job is this?” Shall we all pass the buck? Can’t we break a few rules in respect of old age and in case of death? I contend that too much of the money spent for relief is absorbed somewhere in overhead, and does not reach the client. It is in just such emergency cases as this that relief is most needed and would do the most good. Instead of criticizing let us serve the client in a neighborly way, remembering that we, who are in charge of the relief

agencies, are in reality depending upon public funds. :

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ment that apparently is important

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LET'S EXPLORE YOUR MIND

By DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM

£ ONE IS NOTA 13 aNic MES! HE LEARN To BECOME A MECH ANIC? a * YOUR OPINION —| 2

cla We FECTIONS

» 2 OR TOMEN NO IAENY

NO. It is because he keeps your keeps you watching his right hand

while his left hand is really doing the trick. Often he hands his assist-

his assistant while he is doing the rest. Of course he also has a lot of mysterious pockets and receptacles that you know nothing about. ® 2 ® IT IS EXTREMELY doubtful. v In what is known as the “Minnesota Mechanical Ability Tests’— a study requiring four years by a whole group of psychologists—no significant relationship was found between a boy’s mechanical ability— as measured by these tests—and his environment. The entire 600 page report leaves a strong impression that mechanical ability cannot be learned to any great extent by one who is not that way any more than music can be learned by one who is stone deaf. f 2 ® SEVERAL STUDIES by Dpsychologists show that the main vices attributed to men are “brutality,” “roughness,” “inconsiderateness,” “dominating disposition.” All of these are really one vice or imperfection. But women are considered “illogical,” “vain,” “overemotional,” “oversensitive,”. “deceitful,” “gossipy,” “cowardly,” etc. All of these are separate vices or imperfections. Of course this does not prove women actually possess a imperf

greater number of ections

‘kplan. This was the third New Deal.

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Gen. Johnson

Says—

Mayor La Guardia, as Independent As They Come, Says, ‘Nix on Lehman Unless He Indorses the New Deal."

ASHINGTON, Oct. 26.—Mayor La Guardia’s position in supporting Democratic candidate Lehs man for Governor sums up to “nix unless he indorses the New Deal” The Mayor thinks the New Deal is necessary because, under these conditions, no state can stand on its own legs—all have to have Federal aid. Now there is in ken no better public official than Fiorello—and he is amply entitled to his own opinion, ~ But this is pretty terrible. = Governor Lehman is a New Dealer, too, but, like so many of the rest of us, he is not a third New Dealer. Nobody has done more to put into effect the principles of the 1932 Democratic platforms. They were the liberal charter of reform that the country knew and approved of as the New Deal. : : Immediately after the 1937 Inauguration, there was swiftly sprung on us a dizzy succession of revolue tionary surprises beginning with the Court packing Most .of the stalwarts of the Democratic Party refused to. accept this, especially the Senators later marked for purging: and also Governor Lehman, . 8 5 =

rps stand has been approved at the polls wherever there has been an election on this issue. Unofficial polls indicate that, while Mr. Roose= velt is as popular as ever, these revolutionary policies do not even have a majority. ; Yet, unquestioning support by Lehman of exactly these policies is demanded by La Guardia as the price of his support. The history of the whole trend of events amounts to this, that Governor Lehman re-. fuses to write himself down as a ventriloquist’s. dummy. One curious aspect is that Mr. Dewey is a lot less of a third New Dealer than Mr. Lehman. Fiorello is dressing himself all up with no place to go. A still funnier angle is that, if there is one man in public life who, himself, is not and never could be a. ° yesser, his name is F. H. La Guardia. A more fiery and implacable independent never lived—so indee:.

.'| pendent in fact that he doesn’t know to what party-

he belongs right now. 2 » »

X= there is no mystery about why, as Mayor, he is for the New Deal. It has enabled him to give his city the best administration it has ever had. No American city has been so much improved and none has got the dough more nearly when, where and as she asked for it. But that is no help to the argument that we must

[| have more centralization of Federal power in a third

New Deal because no state can stand on its own legs in these conditions. This deluge of spending didn’t fall like manna. The money comes from some place. The only place it can come from is the states. Many states pay into the Federal Government more than they get back from it. It doesn’t take a third New Deal to continue that misfortune. : Rarely in a political clash have there been three finer figures than La Guardia Lehman and Dewey. If Fiorello wants to shoot off a few Roman candles of | complete’ inconsistencies, call it his explosive Latin. temperament—no harm done. :

It Seems to Me

By Heywood Broun

‘Extras’ Have Made the Original ~ Czech Deal an Expensive Matter,

NY YORK, Oct. 26.—TI take it that Neville. Cham--berlain has never altered a country home or had a bathroom installed. oe If so he would have known in advance that it isn’t the original contract which ruins the man who Dakss the pact, but the extras which drift in a little ater. { The English Prime Minister presented the deal in regard to Czechoslovakia as an inexpensive matter, But now the items of afterthought are being presented for payment. China wasn’t in the original document at all, but Neville Chamberlain is now learning that in an absent-minded moment he threw in that small territory just to bind the bargain. Of course, he did have an inkling that democratic Spain would go along with the rest, although the matter. was never mentioned. And the trouble with the “extras” is that the obligations never can be satisfied. It is too late now for Chamberlain to explain that it was quite by accident that Adolf Hitler secured mechanics’ liens upon the British Cabinet and the House of Parliament. An Englishman's home is his castle, but even a castle can collapse under the weight of mortgages. And so it seems to me peculiar that publicists should warn us not to be lured into pulling England’s chestnuts out of the fire. The truth of the matter is. that England hasn’t any chestnuts anymore. And’ stanch isolationists seem to suggest that now is the. time to embark upon a scheme of collective security: to be based upon the granite foundations of the Fuehrer’s pledges. rai

Satisfied With a Strap

We must live in the same world with the aggressor nations, and if they are kind enough to leave us a strap to cling to we should not complain. We have much in common. “Bruenn, Czechoslovakia—thirty Jews—men, women and children are miserably living in a tent near the roadside in a no-man’s land south of this city. They are without medical help, without bed and with little water. Czech and German authore ities forbid the taking of food or water to them.” The families of these people are citizens of a land where prejudice was practically unknown. Hitler has come, and with him the fantastic fires of persecution. But Col. Lindbergh has proudly accepted a decoration from this man. Joe Kennedy echoes Chamberlain in saying that we should make peace with him. It may be that the postscripts to the Munich Pact were written in ine visible ink. But now the words show up black and clear. And in the articles of indenture is the stipulation, “And with the aforesaid properties this represents the transfer of national honor, international humanity and all Tash civilization has meant into the hands of Adolf er.” : Americans should give another answer here and now to those who say, “Let us jump upon the wagon.”

Watching Your Health

By Dr. Morris Fishbein

ROM the time when the Jewish leaders in the’ famous migration from Egypt established the eight great principles in their code of hygiene, preven. tive medicine has moved steadily forward. Jin However, the type of preventive medicine that was to save enormous numbers of lives and extend the

average length of life from 35 years to more than 60 years came as the result of great discoveries made during the last few hundred years. : When Edward Jenner learned to inoculate against: smallpox, people with the scars of this disease upon. their faces began to be infrequenf in civilized com= munities. But the principle which Jenner introduced has come to be the basis of inoculation against. typhoid fever, diphtheria, scarlet fever, and many other infectious diseases. / ee In 1668, Ramazzini, a medical practitioner of Italy, first called attention to industrial diseases. He recog. nized the fundamental factors concerned in such’ diseases and even indicated methods of prevention. It is strange that more than 250 years had to pass before" the world recognized the significance of his contribu=-. tions to human welfare. : As preventive medicine moves forward, individual doctors are beginning to be more and more cons" cerned with its application to mankind in general, Tos day we are beginning to practice periodic physical X= aminations to detect disease in its earliest stages. We’ urge cleanliness in industry, in the home and in traveling. We guard against exposure to various diss

eases because we know the methods of transmission. Bf

The combined work of health departments and ef exe

individual doctors will yet increase the average pectancy of life by more.