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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1938

TWO INVESTIGATIONS AS usual, WPA officials rushed in to find their organization not guilty. But Senator Sheppard’s Campaign Expenditures Committee, having sent its investigators to

- check the facts, has come out with so convincing a list of

instances in which political pressure was applied to Pennsylvania WPA workers that the denials of Harry Hopkins and Aubrey Williams are made to sound silly. Senator Sheppard, loyal supporter of the New Deal, does not enjoy exposing political abuses of WPA. Yet he has exposed them in Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Tennessee and other states. It is to Indiana’s credit that the Committee’s investigators found no similar abuses in this State. This Texas Senator, who is not seeking to glorify

himself or to protect his friends and harm his enemies, but |

who is simply trying to find truth, is giving the country a fine example of how a Congressional investigation should be conducted. : . President Roosevelt has just centered attention on what, in his opinion, is a flagrant example of how a Congressional investigation should not be conducted. The Dies Committee of the House, created to investigate un-American activities, has as great an opportunity as the Sheppard committee for useful service. Many persons and groups are trying secretly to infect America with foreign ideologies repugnant to democratic ideals. We need to know what they are doing. But Mr. Roosevelt was justified in rebiking the Dies Committee for permitting itself to be used by Republicans who wanted to smear a Democratic candidate, Governor Murphy of Michigan. There are many other instances in which the committee has admitted to its record hearsay testimony, opinion, name-calling, charges that are absurd and charges that are malicious. This mass of worthless stuff has obscured such worth while evidence as has been brought out. It has created public indifference to the revelations of patriotic citizens who have given true and significant accounts of subverive activities. . We could wish that Mr. Roosevelt had spoken out as vigorously when the same smear technique was being employed against critics of the New Deal by such supporters of the President as Senator Minton and Senator (now Justice) Hugo Black. His present protest might be more effective. Even so, Congrorsinas Dies can’t brush it aside by charging Cabinet members with aiding a campaign of “misrepresentation, ridicule and sarcasm” against his committee. The Committee is responsible for making itself ridiculous. We should like to see it reverse its tactics, adopt the less spectacular, but far more effective, methods of the Sheppard Committee, and really finish the important job it started.

16,000 STRONG NDIANAPOLIS is pleased, as always, to be host to the schoolteachers of Indiana for the next three days. It is an important meeting for the teachers, of course, but the program is studded with events and subjects that will be of interest to all thoughtful persons outside the profession. In fact, we're a little envious of the teachers’ opportunity to hear Mayor La Guardia of New York City; Miss Agnes Macphail, Canada’s first woman member of Parliament, and Paul Van Zeeland, former premier of Belgium. But even if we can’t share personally in their program, we're glad to have so pleasant a group of individuals as our guests for the remainder of the week. We hope their stay will be as pleasant for them as it is certain to be for us.

AN UNPRECEDENTED NAVY DAY

ODAY is not just another Navy Day. The 12 months since last Oct. 27 have seen the passing of an era of comparative security for the United States and the birth of a new era which, for us, may be filled with peril. Let us illustrate: For 115 years we have made the Monroe Doctrine one of the pillars of our national security and a cornerstone of our foreign policy. And we have felt pretty safe. But the truth is that the British Navy has been standing between us and harm. It stood there, of course, not for America’s sake, but for Britain's. But the result has been the same. Britain, unwilling to see any of her European rivals expand and enrich themselves in the Americas has, to all intents, mounted guard with us over the new world. Today we face an entirely different situation. Great Britain is finding it difficult to defend herself in her own front yard, let alone across the seven seas. And the same is true of France. Four totalitarian states, ruled by strongarm dictators, are reaching out, openly or secretly, to grab what weak®r states cannot defend. Hereafter, America must definitely rely on herself and herself alone. If the Monroe Doctrine is to be upheld, the United States, Canada and the 20 republics to the south of us must do-it. And the best defense is to be able to prevent foreign aggressors from establishing themselves on the shores of the Western Hemisphere rather than to try to put them out after they land and consolidate. For us, this means an adequate Navy backed by an adequate air force, an adequate merchant marine and an adequate Army. By “adequate” we mean the size and type of national defense which the war machines of potential aggressors force upon us. And behind all this we need a ready industry equipped to supply the country’s defenders in the field. But, most of all, we must have enlightened, united .«citizenry, For the true bulwark of our security is the American people themselves. If they split into warring factions, divided on social, political, economic or ideological grounds, the most powerful Amy, Navy and air force in the world-won'’t save us.

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.and relief and created by means of borrowing.

Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

Ifalo-Americans Are Told They're Being Played for Suckers When They Defend Mussolini's Actions.

EW YORK, Oct. 27. —Several times lately these dispatches have been accused of anti-Italian feeling. Well, the Italian nation, under Musselini, has fostered anti-American feeling for a long time, and a review written in Rome recently reported that it was safe to say that not one word favorable to the United States had appeared in print in Italy in two years. . Muissolini’s press, which obviously expresses senti-

‘| ments to which the government desires to give voice,

repeatedly has called this country a nation of gangsters, a charge which plainly includes all those Amer= fcans, loyal to this country, who were born in Italy or born here of! parents who came from Italy. If an American publication were to call these Americans “gangsters” they would be deeply offended and with good reason. But when Mussolini's “ess calls them gangsters there is no audible outcry. « This lack of resentful expression may be due to the lack of means of expression independent of the extended influence of Fascist Rome. Only a comparatively few Americans of Italian birth or blood actively sympathize with Mussolini and fascism, and Mussolini presently will discover that he has made a clumsy mistake in addressing insults to the nation for which they have patriotism. 8 8 8

OME loyal Americans, including Americans who never saw Italy, have found it difficult to admit to themselves that the Italy of Mussolini and fascism is a foe of democracy. The United States long ago withdrew from the export trade in democracy and does not now attempt to push its line of government in other countries. : It seems not to be realized that the so-called Italo-American element in this country has a great power to moderate the attitude of Italy toward this country. If these Americans can be of service to him they also can be of equal service against Mussolini, remembering, of course, that Italy constantly tries to organize their influence in Italy’s favor. It is worth remembering that it is impossible these days to ascertain just what is the state of relations between Mussolini's Italy and other nations, inéluding, of course, this one. Italy has not yet declared war on ‘Abyssinia, for example, but has made war on that country, nevertheless; invaded and bombed it, captured its capital and absorbed it. Nor has Italy declared war on the legal government of Spain. o 2 8

HUS Americans of Italian birth or blood who permit themselves to defend the course of the Italy of today and are instinctively hurt by criticism of Italy, are permitting Mussolini to make use of

them. All this is painful, but the sincerity of Mussolini’s feeling for these Americans may be judged from ‘he fact that he himself detests and severely punishes people whom he even suspects of harboring the slightest affection for any other country. He obviously has only contempt for persons who call themselves Italo-Americans, just as :Hitler can only despise those who permit themselves to be called German-Americans. Mussolini and Hitler both are imposing on the sentiments of many Americans of foreign birth or blood and playing them for suckers. In Italy and Germany no man is allowed two guesses as to whether he is all Italian or 100 per cent German.

Business

By John T. Flynn

Arms Program Has Good Label, but Should Be on Cash Basis, He Says.

EW YORK, Oct. 27.—The first requisite of any plan which hopes to become effective is to get a good name under which to operate. One of the cherished hopes of the Administration in Washington is to bring back in some form the essentials of the NRA. This may or may not be a good idea. But it is certain that any plan to bring it back ought to have a good name. It would be manifestly very bad management to call it “A Plan to Restore the NRA” because the NRA had a rather bad ending. Therefore the plan to bring it back is called an investigation of monopoly. The latest plan in Washington is for an increase in armaments. Again I do not utter a word either for or against that plan. I merely suggest that it is important that the plan have a proper label. So Postmaster General Farley comes forward with the ideal label. He calls it the President’s Peace Plan. However, while it is questioned whether we ought to have this “peace plan” or some other, upon one point all intelligent men can agree. . That is upon the idea incorporated in the antiwar profits bill sponsored by the Senate Munitions Committee—that every expenditure for war or defense should be paid for in cash and not raised by means of Government loans. Up to now the Government's expenditures for recovery and relief have been paid for out of funds created by bank loans instead of taxes. We have still to find some means of paying all the vast sums expended by the Administration for recovery and relief.

The Easiest Way As there seems to be a disposition to shift the

technique of recovery from spending on peace-time

projects to spending on war preparations, there is danger that the President may wish to pay for these preparations out of sums raised by means of bank loans. That, of course, is the easiest’ way. But it would be a grave and even tragic error if this were to occur. If the President is permitted by Congress to embark upon a vast adventure of armaments he should be compelled to raise by means of taxes every dollar that is spent. Up to now hundreds of millions have been spent on military and naval preparations during this Administration out of funds appropriated for recovery

4n end should be put to that. If we must arm, let us not hand the bill for these armaments to our children. Let us not use the armament industry as the foundation of our recovery by making it the excuse for further additions to our national debt.

A Woman's Viewpoint

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

“rsome THOMPSON is & smart woman” a friend tells me, “because she thinks like a man.” In my opinion, this remark is more flattering to the men than to Miss Thompson, although I am aware that the theory is well established that any female, has reached the pinnacle of success when she has attained the happy ability to apply masculine logic to her own and the world’s problems. Yet men’s thinking, it would appear, has ruined

what promised to be a very fine civilization. The wasteful, competitive, nationalistic psychology ‘which has flourished for generations has brought our world to its present pitiful pass. At least, “them’s my sentiments.” Europe's woe today is due to one thing-lack of intelligence before Versailles. Deeper than political issues, more profound than any strife between fascism and democe JY, is the class struggle raging beneath the sure ace And a class struggle exists chiefly because the last war destroyed most of the bright young men of the continent—young men who might have had the vision to see that the finest flowering of democracy lies in equal justice to all and who raight also have had the wit to solve economic problems which today appear beyond our understanding. The so-called rational male always goes armed—

because by so doing he believes liberty can be rescued

from her destroyers and preserved to her friends. Yet was ever greater fallacy hatched in mortal mind? - There is dire need of reasonable co-operation between the sexes and nothing can be gained without it. But with my whole soul I resent the implication that, to be logical, women must think, with men, along the old; channels which have been used so they are nothing than ruts.

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The Hoosier Forum

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

READER CONVINCED CHAIN STORES ARE A MENACE By A. J. Bclineider I find difficulty reconciling the well-known liberal policies of The Times, with recent editorials, inciuding “Some Reforms Destroy” in Saturday’s issue, relative to the recent chain store propaganda opposing the Patman Chain Store Tax bill. Do not conclude that I intend this to champion the Patman bill, for the. simple reason that I am old-

taxation is for revenue only; and it should never be used for punitive or discriminatory purposes, But when you subscribe to the propaganda of the officers of a large chain system, who . . . . have to hire an organization of paid wordjugglers , . . . you know. you are espousing a further betrayal. In the first place, I defy you to cite any time when economic prosperity came with low retail or consumer prices. And if you cannot cite the instances, there must be none. ° . . « « «+ When Mr. Richberg points to the fact that abolition of chain stores would improve the profit-mak-ing possibilities of smaller retailers and jobbers, he is talking through his hat. The old-time spirit of competition is not dead, nor is it on WPA, so that the law of supply and demand would still control. . . .

‘|{I almost cried, when I read

that Messrs. Hartford were slaving six days a week, 52 weeks & year, without vacation, and juggling almost a billion dollars of their money, while they had to toe the line and pay practically every cent of their earnings to the various political agencies in taxes. . .. I am aware that they get back with a profit (interest) every cent they pay out in taxes by adding it on to the purchases of that low income group they are so concerned about. . . .

Understand, I do not mean this to subscribe to the Patman bill; but I do mean it that I am convinced that the chain stores are a menace—not only chain grocery stores, but the 5-10-25-cent stores and other chains as well. Most of the chain systems never stock domestic products if they can be purchased outside the U.. 8. A return to the old-time owner managed store would tend to boost sales of U. S. produced merchandise. And as a consumer, I personally am

store to buy hardware and books, to a restaurant to buy coffee, to a 5 & 10 to get lunch, to. a hardware store to get electric supplies, to a bank to buy real estate, etc., etc. If some sort of a licensing system

fashioned enough to believe that

getting fed up on going to a drugj:

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

were involved, so that each merchant were licensed to carry on only the business covered in his license, it would be better all around—and all merchants then would have an opportunity to profit. . . . e 8 @& CITES ACHIEVEMENTS OF PROHIBITION PARTY By H. 8. Bonsib I think the drys have lost a lot of time and money and votes, in either of the two major parties. In trying to gain their objective, they will never make much héadway in either of the old parties, because they never will harmonize the three essential things, viz: the Legislature, the judicial and the administrative. Both of the old parties are composed of wets and drys. “A house divided against itself cannot stand.” To illustrate—I know of a splendid Christian man who was elected Sheriff—but his way was blocked by a wet prosecuting attorney and a wet judge. That is the handicap of a dry man in a wet party. The reader may say there are other things of more importance. What is of more importance than the souls of men—with the wets

THE HALLOWEEN PARTY By VIRGINIA POTTER

The crowd begins to gather— There’s ghosts and goblins, too, And clowns and dainty fairies, Bo-Peep and Little Boy Blue.

All playing games and guessing. Who is this by their side— Is it John or Mary; . Or is it Nell or Clyde?

The time comes to unmask And each face can be seen; Gee, it’s great to have a party ‘When it’s Halloween,

DAILY THOUGHT

Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.—Philippians 2:4.

F God is thy father, man is thy brother. —Lamartine.

unfit for this world and the world to come? The liquor traffic ruins more bodies, damns more souls, elects more bad men, and does more evil than all other evils combined. It is said you can’t run a country

-|on sobriety. Give us a sober coun-

try and that country is safe for

" |democracy. It 1s said the Prohibi-

tion Party does not cover enough ground. That is a mistake; the Prohibition Party was the pioneer on prohibition and equal suffrage, was the first to declare for civil service reform, was the first to demand direct vote for U. S. Senators, the first to favor reduction of postage from 3 cents to 2 cents (which was in 1876). It was the first and for years the only party to stand for international arbitration as a means to universal peace; the first to declare against lottery and gambling; and the first demanding that free Government lands be given to actual settlers and not to land grabbing speculators. It was the first to declare against polygamy, against white slave traffic. ,It was the first to indorse uniform wage and hour laws, income tax, tariff concessions, postal savings, child labor laws, conservation of resources, employer’s liability act, old-age pensions. (1916), unemployment insurance, economic councils, Government control of resourcés—and any more. The Prohibition Party will be on the ballot in Indians.

2 8 8 HOPE HELD FOR THE REDSKINS By Daniel Francis Olancy, Logansport Headline: “U. 8. Gives More Colorado Land Beck to Indians.” Well, it’s encouraging to hear now and then that the old idea still exists

here and there. Small and obscure this ‘case, but while the idea lives there’s still hope—the redskins may get the whole works someday yet! A Hoosier youth recently went to sleep while listening ‘to a political speaker over the parlor radio in falling from his chair, bumped h head. We all sympathize, of a —but he might be thankful that he didn’t fall asleep at a public meeting or he'd probably have lost his watch and wallet. Says Dr. A. J. Stoddard, new superintendent of. Philadelphia: public schools, who is endeavoring to dignify common labor, “I don't know why a man who is helping dig a ditch need feel ashamed of it. > Neither do I, Doctor. And if he helped like I would he wouldn't éven

feel tired.

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4 70 bo, i ALWIYS BEHAPPY Prec a

NO. One way of answering this is simply to point to the obvious

fact that people who have plenty of money are far from being always happy while many poor:

seem very happy. Anoth & ‘to )

people | been d [they

LET'S EXPLORE YOUR MIND

By DE. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM

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same environment, with the same general - income and surroundings

and give them an actual happiness test. A number of such tests have by psych and

‘|the same thing, | skills, habits, philosophy of life, rte. | .

all receive the same salary vary all up and down the scale of happiness. Plainly, then, happiness depends Jory little on money, es y after person ‘has enough. for food, clot g :

and Jhelizr. . WOMAN “HATING, as ‘well as cherishing . some love disappointment, are both signs of a deep seated lack of adjustment, not especially to women but to life itself. Chronic male hypochondriacs and men afflicted with lack of emotional control oftén take the woman hating way of showing it. Anyone who announces himself as hating women or “distrusting all women” or who is suspicious of women is mentally ill and needs a doctor or psychologist to find just what form of egotism he has. Since all forms of mental maladjustment are to some extent due to heredity, it follows that women haters are partly born as well as nage. »

YES. The origin} nature of man does not change very much but what amounts to: about bis knowledge;

do change. Chinese, Japs, Germans, Jews and Englishmen are all about alike in their orginial natures but | f we see what different worlds they |socla have created to live in. without changing the nature of;

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NRA and the Draft to Give So . Advice. aio Mekiiator ao

little more than five years ago T tried & wo ete

I supported the bill and; based on my WPA contach ge

with him in New York; Ihave said in: “this; column and still believe that Mr. Andrews is the best person I: know to administer it. I naturally don’t itke several. side-swipes he has taken ‘at NRA’s similar attempt. NRA had a much hardér and broader thing to do and

from the Johnstown flood sneering at Noah. But columnists should remain objective, which means they, should forget their vn ‘experiences. Furthermore, I ima, ne that Noah, lookliig. ‘dow but sympathy for: those he saw battling in the swirling waters, ’ sertainly feel for Mr. Andrews. 1 think he is gois Job with all the efficiéney and coolness IE So es oe aorOiress that

2 ” os rr Noah may say a word, however, the prime necese sities in a thing like this are three—flexibility, sympathy and common sense. ‘When you attempt to

apply a cast-iron rule to a country of such infinite

variety as the United States, you must instanly Togs nize the vital need for exceptions.

it was breaking & trail. It is a little like a sufferer .

I first learned that in administering the Worl |

War draft which invaded most of our homes with a sacrificial demand. It flushed up utterly UDR. able situations. Under a strict reading of the law, & boy had to march when his number came up. In

hundreds of cases this happened when's mother or = J

father was on a death-bed, and there were dozens

of young men ready and eager to go earlier. We

learned how to stretch the. law. I learned the same thing in NRA. If Puerto Rican drawn-work (lace) workers had been where near mainland rates, it would have destroyed one of the island’s principal industries. . Cast-iron national wage rates for Florida steam laundries would

have closed them all.

® = 2 I THINK Mr. Andrews made an error in his tight interpretation of the doubtful language of Bection 18 as practically preventing any reduction in ‘existing wage rates no matter how far above the minimum,

He will make a mistake every time he surrenders any

ground for interpretation in the direction of flexibility, This is especially true where the question is of regional differences in wages and livings long estabe lished by natural economic influences and conditions,

As sure as the sun rises and the increasingly drastio

provisions of this law begin to apply ny its own terms in future years, the principle of suth honest regional differentials must be applied—or the law itself will fail and Mr. Andrews, who has made so brave and intelligent a start, will be discredited. This is ne guess, for this is Noah speaking—and not from the final security of any Mount Ararat either, but from deep down in the Weeckags: of a far more ambitious attempt. ey

It Seems. to Me

By Heywood Broun | ys

English Seem to Have Antidote fof ~ Our Envoys’ Craving to Serve U. S.

EW YORK, Oct. 27-It must be that the British have some secret drug which they slip intd the tea of visiting celebrities. And in the ‘case of our Ambassadors they give them double dosage.

Marmaduke Finneys never knows that anybody has tampered with his metabolism. The craving to serve his country and defend de-

mocracy leaves him almost overnight. Nor ure there -

any unpleasant after-effects. The man from home finds no fur upon his tongue and is all uficonscious of the fact that an Oxonian accent has been slipped within his larynx. It might be an excellent idea for Washington to send no representative to the Coutt of St. James unless he can offer proof that he has been previously in residence. Such folk are not wholly proof against Buckingham buck fever, but, at least, they have built up a partial resistance. When the name of Joseph J. Kennedy was sube mitted to service across the Atlantic the State Dee partment felt that for once it had outsmarted the British Foreign Office. He was Irish and’ proud of it, and he came from a ward where the kids are taught to Twist the lion’s tail even before they learn to roll their hoops. Moreover, in addition: to Sour childhood training, Mr. Kennedy was known to be 3 mn who ‘had been in touch with. the good things 0 e.

Pheasant Not Likely to- Floor. Him YE

The rough diamond ‘of South Boston had later : been exposed to the polishing ‘process: st Harvard, Palm Beach and some of ithe be homes. on - Island. He would not be oné te. faint When serve:

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with pheasant or likely to sell his birthright for even z

the highest grouse. : Here was the man who could be: éoynted pon to .

eschew the traditional ‘knee britches: of the menial and yet run up a batting. average of 333: or better: mc

reaching for the right fork at state banqguéts. And in the matter of knee britches Ambassador Kennedy did come through and declined to get h

keeping his pants It’s too bad he int. display the’ same fortitude

imself up after the fashions or; 3 Runiey, Honest, Joe insisted of

in regard to his shirt. Since his goon pro-Munich i

speech of the British naval dinner: it seems ‘to 'me that Mr. Kennedy's occupation is gone as far as hia

‘country’s - interests are “concerned.

Certainly one Chamberlain : should be enough for England, and there is no ‘good reason why America should send &

representative ¢ to hold the gentleman's umbrella. a

Watching Your Health

By Dr. Morris Fishbein

T= horrors of modern warfare are so great that the human being might be unable to endure them were it not for the contributions of medicine, Indeed, it has often been suggested that the medical

profession itself by a unanimous refusal to.participate

in any war, could end all wars. ; In any war it is the doctor who must find. out first

which men are physically’ fit for service, and make

the others fat when repairs and -Fehabilifation are

possible. The medital profession prevents the epldemios

which in the. past have destroyed more soldiers than were, killed by. gunpowder and shells. Even‘in the world War meningitis, pneumonia, and at last the devastating influenza, took a terrific toll of lives. When the wars end, it is the medical proféssion which repairs the ravages by.restoring. the physically | disabled and conferring upon the Yetoran the op= portunity to live again. a Now comes the question of what ¢ be ‘done tor those who have lost: their sight or heir ae Pare ticularly serious nowadays are the me 8h chat, who: find. themselves haunted by And long after the wars have: a Tr the veterans who +n tuberculosis, cancer, and chronic diseases resulting from long sustained injuries demand medical cate,

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