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MONDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1938

THE RAILROADS’ DUTY THE railroads are under no legal compulsion to accept the advice of President Roosevelt's fact-finding board and call off the proposed 15 per cent reduction of their employees’ wages. : But we hope and believe that they will recognize it as their duty to take this step and so end the threat of a general railroad strike. Patriotic concern for the country’s welfare and enlightened regard for their own best interests combine to urge the decision on them. And we think that public opinion will strongly support the report of the factfinders—Judge Stacy, Dean Landis and Prof. Millis. The Board concludes that railway wages are not high, even as compared with wages in comparable industries; that a horizontal wage cut would not meet the roads’ financial emergency, since there is no plan to distribute the savings merely to the needy roads; that it would run counter to the general industrial wage trend ; that business improvement, now indicated, may relieve the financial distress suffered by the roads in the year since the last wage ‘increase was granted. Wage-cutting is never a popular expedient. It seems to us the Board has shown conclusively that, in this particular case, it would be an unwise expedient. It would be unfair to railroad labor. And its effect on general business might be such as to do more harm than good to the railroads themselves. So we believe that the admirable machinery of the Rail Labor Act, having moved to this final stage of a factfinding report, will produce a peaceable settlement of the railway wage controversy. And we trust that the roads will announce their decision soon. The country needs definite assurance at the earliest moment possible, that recovery will not be stopped dead, a’ month hence, by a railroad strike. But settlement of this labor question, important as that will be, of course will not dispose of the larger, more complicated and even more serious railroad problem. The present condition of the roads, as the fact-finders’ report sets forth, is very bad. The managements should abandon their plan to seek “quick financial relief” by reducing wages. But certainly they need help in developing a long-range remedy for their difficulties. The suggestion is made that the Government, may lend them money to rehabilitate themselves. We aren’t con- * vinced that inviting them to go further into debt, even on ..easy terms, will be best for them or for the Government. However, the country should be impressed as the factfinding Board has been by what it describes as: “The necessity that now rests on Government for a ~ complete and thorough-going reconsideration of the relationship of the railroad industry to our national well-being.”

A PRACTICAL BID FOR PEACE ATURDAY the Radical Socialist Party of France's Premier Daladier, Foreign Minister Bonnet and President " of the Chamber of Deputies Herriot, adopted a resolution expressing the hope that a new world economic conference would be called, in accord with President Roosevelt's suggestions, to bring peace and order out of the existing chaos. Behind this move is something more important than the usual platitudinous resolutions of a political party. It was a first step toward what French leaders hope will be a realistic effort at durable peace based on voluntary negotiation. It constitutes a painful admission that the whole post-war collective security system has collapsed and that something practical must be undertaken if disaster is to be avoided. Fundamentally, the French suggestion is in harmony with Administration pronouncements from the very beginning. Hardly had he unpacked his things at the White House in 1933, than the President sponsored a world economic conference at London. He afterward scuttled it, of course, but it was because he thought the timing was bad, not the idea. And certainly Secretary Hull's most distinguished efforts have been to promote world peacz through international justice and economic ar:2asement. We do not know whether a new world conference of the kind suggested actually would provide a cure for what ails us. But this we do know: Unless a cure of some sort is found, and soon, thus paving the way for universal arms limitation, catastrophe is bound to overtake all concerned, us along with the rest.

PARENTS’ JOB OLICE reports of property damage in Indianapolis as Halloween time arrives places a job directly on parents. The line between harmless pranks and malicious destruction of property is always drawn pretty fine at Halloween. The householder who good-humoredly accepts mysterious rappings on the window or rings on his doorbell is justifiably affected otherwise when bottles are broken on his porch or his windows are smashed. Extra shifts of police have been promised, but they can hardly be expected to be everywhere. Thus, the fathers and mothers of the celebrators are called upon to read a convincing lecture on the obligation to maintain a decent respect for the rights and property of others.

MR. AMMERMAN’S ELECTION NDIANAPOLIS has known Karl V. Ammerman, principal of Broad Ripple High School, since 1911 when he came here to teach commercial subjects at Manual. His administrative talents were recognized in-1923 with his appointment to the Broad Ripple post. Since then, Ball State and Butler have conferred degrees upon him in recognition of his work in the educational field. The latest honor to come to Mr. Ammerman is, of course, his election to the presidency of the Indiana State Teachers Association. : We congratulate both Mr. Ammerman and the teachers. Indianapolis citizens will be glad to share with Hoosier ~educztors the talents and abilities of a man they long have ‘held in high esteem. '

Fair Enough

By Westbrook Pegler New York City's Out-of-Staters

Shun Hard Toil and Expect Their |

Children to Do Likewise, Peg Says.

EW YORK, Oct. 31.—Yes, and another thing about them is that you never see them doing any of the really heavy work of building up the place. They come here as green as grass, thost of them without visible means of support and claiming to want work, but they are too good to soil their hands with

the rough jobs. That kind of work is out of their line. They want to be lawyers or work in offices or stores or write for the magazines and papers or do plays or go on the stage. Something soft is what they want, out of the weather, and as soon as they begin to do all right they start pushing their way into the clubs and the better neighborhoods. : They consume plenty, but if you ever suggest to one of them that he ought to be a farmer and produce something he will laugh at you as though you were crazy. Or if you crack that they ought to teach their kids to be farmers or laborers, it is the same. It is true that they sometimes send their kids back to the homeland to college, but that is just for clannishness again—the old fear of being assimilated to New York, although the kids have been born and brought up in New York and enjoyed its advantages.

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UT, whether they go back to school, back to the scenes, customs, inconveniences and all that the parents were so glad to escape from when they were young, or go to Eastern schools, they aren’t fixing to go in for heavy toil when they get through.

Yet the parents will sit around and knock other people for avoiding manual labor. and say, “How many farmers do you see among them?” and complain because these others, too, keep alive their old traditions and folkways and try to give their children the kind of education and enough stake in life to make it unnecessary for them to be laborers.

But when they go home they like to read notices in the papers describing them as New Yorkers—and their attitude toward those who did stay back amid the old scenes and customs to work as mechanics, farmers, ditch diggers and what-all is one of hearty condescension. They regard them as quaint, backcountry people, and when they return to New York they get together with other emigres to laugh as they describe the yokels at home. #2 8 8

Xx ought to hear an unassimilated Nebraskan describe the conversation he had with Zeke, the

taxi driver, in his old home town the time he went |

back to bury his uncle. Zeke wasn’t much account, ever. He and the unassimilated Nebraskan went to

high school together, but Zeke was a common toil |

type who stuck around home until, finally, he got his hack. Zeke is a riot in his quaintly boresome accounts of the changes in the old home town. They sometimes seem just like regular New Yorkers, but every now and again some little thing occurs in conversation to betray the fact that they are still Iowans, Texans and so forth in their hearts, who never will take full citizenship in the community which has treated them so well, who will always give first loyalty to some other state and claim a right to condemn others here for similar sentiments, for an aversion like their own to back-breaking toil, for social ambitions and vanities exactly like their own, and for preparing a gentle future for their children, even as they aspire to do.

Business

By John T. Flynn

This Talk of a New System, Still Capitalistic, Seems a Bit Vague.

N= YCRK, Oct. 31.—In the last week in three conventions, one of them of businessmen, the statement was made that (1) the old era is dead, (2) the capitalist system as we have known it is a thing of the past, (3) a new system is now here or is developing, and (4) we had better adjust ourselves to it. That statement has been made many times in the last six years. Each time I hear it I am led to ask this question: Assuming that the old system is dead and that we are in or are heading toward a new system to which we must become accustomed, would it not be an excellent idea if someone would define that system? - It is certain that none of those who make this statement mean that the new system will be socialism or communism or fascism. Always they mean it will be capitalism. But what is this new system and how does it differ from the old one? It will still be a system of private property. Do they mean private ownership will be subjected to more controls? Is that the difference? It will still be the money economy. And that is far more important. For the grave maladjustments which society suffers from arise more out of the functioning of the money economy than. out of any other feature of the capitalist system. But no one contemplates any change in this.

A Job for Economists

It will still be a system of profit and competition. Or will- it? Will competition be ended? « Do they mean that some new form of control will be established in which business will be formed into guilds to put an end for all practical purposes to competition? : If it is still to be capitalism and the money economy. I can conceive of no other economic system which will differ from the present one save in purely accidental circumstances. If they mean the new system will be the capitalist money economy hut with competition reduced to the minimum through the operation of the guild system or through a form of capitalist syndicalism, then would it not be well to ask economists if such a system will work? After all the guild system was tried during the middle agés. The defects it developed were the cefects which any economist, in the present state of economic knowledge, could have predicted. It will develop the same defects today and break down far more swiftly. The fact is that the capitalistic system does operate in obedience to certain laws. It cannot operate any other way. Attempt to operate it in violation of those laws, no matter how just the social objective, and it will break down. In short, isn’t all this talk about another system a little vague?

A Woman's Viewpoint

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

OSH, I'm tired! I've just put down Marie Benyon Ray's new treatise on energy to burn, which is called “Two Lifetimes in One.” It’s a bomb of a book, bursting with a hundred. different kinds of vitality, as it holds the human dynamos up to attention. It also sneers at the notion

that the rest of us need give way to the fatigue which |~

assails the ordinary worker at the end of 12 hours.

We could all be human dynamos, the author contends, if we only followed the rules. Maybe so, but I felt like going to bed for a couple of mcnths after I found out what the results of this loosing of Niagaras of energy would be. For example, one of Mrs. Ray’s heroes. is Mr. Joseph Day, who, in her own words, “is the greatest real estate man who ever lived. “Over a period of 40 years, Joseph Day has sold more property to more people for more monzy, by many millions, than any other man in the whole world. This is due to his unparalleled energy. “He never wears an overcoat, nor carries an umbrella. He says they slow him down. He can run down the middle of Broadway dodging traffic faster than a taxi can drive him. He never sits whtn he can stand, never stands if “he can walk and never walks if he can run.” : : Now, I hate to be contrary, but it’s my candid opinion that a man of his sort ought to be put in a straitjacket. There's no sense in burning up so much energy persuading a person to buy real estate. Since unemployment is everywhere and sales resistance practically nil, the need for periodic spells of weariness seem obvious. 2 Anyway, I like the sensation of tiredness. The rhythm of life is made up of alternate waves of energy and fatigue Perhaps, after ali, it's a good thing so many of e lazy : Se

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ABOUT THE INTENT OF OFFICIALS By T. Mcllvaine, New York

The President is reported as having made the following broadcast last week: . “The way of democracy is free discussion—as exemplified by the objectives of the forum to which I am speaking. Free discussion is most greatly useful when it is restrained and relates to facts. It is not useful to suggest either to the American people or to the peoples of other nations that the American Government, -its policies, its practices and its servants are actuated by motives of dishonor or corruption. To do so is, of necessity, an attack on the American system of constitutional representative government itself.” That statement just does not make sense. Intent, that is motive, is a fact. Furthermore, intent is the half of all crimes—accomplishment the other half. If an official spends the public’s money before election in an honest but mistaken belief that the expenditure is necessary to relieve distress, then at most he has only made an honest mistake; but, if he spends the money, under the guise of relief, with the intent to infiuence the election, he is a political malefactor who should be removed from office, ” 2 # THIS READER SEES BENEFITS IN A UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE By A. L. M. - A way has been left open to mankind whereby all may enjoy a fuller life, the threshold to a better undeistanding among all nations. The pen may be “mightier than the sword.” The tongue can and will be mightier than the pen. On occasion one or more of the better minds delve into the possibilities of a universal language. Untold are the benefits that could be derived if a universal tongue were incorporated into the school system of every nation. In time the nations of the world could erect on a neutral spot a super broadcasting station where the world’s people could be informed as to the world’s state of affairs in a tongue understandable to all. # 2 = NATIONAL UNITY SEEN AS PRESENT NEED By W. M. To a certain degree we have depended on politicians as saviours of our nation and well it might be asked if they are not failing us in our time of need. : One thing is true and that is we

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

“concerted efforts of the agents of the farm bureaus and the organized corporations to make the orphans, the old folks and the blind the object of their tax-saving attacks.” Quotation is from an article written by J. P. Cummings on Sept. 29. . It may be that taxpayers have a just cduse for complaint in governmental expense such as large salaries and overhead .costs but when they attack the Federal-State public assistance as given to the the aged, the orphan and the blind, they are going contrary to the best and noblest instincts of the Amerjcan heart, They are absolutely wrong in these attacks. The opinion of the writer is that if the farmers would investigate their bureau in its governmental costs such as salaries and overhead expense, a drastic cut would be made and thus the farmers would have more money to pay their taxes. The same holds good with . |other organized corporations. Hold up yout chins, ye aged and widowed. You may not have stocks, bonds nor houses but you have a vote. There are kind-hearted candidates who will not let you down.

® =» = PEACE TERMED VITAL CAMPAIGN ISSUE By F. Y. Carpenter

One issue in this campaign is so important that if neglected will almost certainly make other issues of no use. The issue is peace. If we are

are all Americans and supposed to be brothers and sisters, so let us in reality be one big happy family tor there is “plenty” in the land and everything can be simply grand. In the coming election the. “Dems” will go at the “Repubs” as though they were in reality bitter enemies. Is it not time to forget this wrangling? Remember that united we stand and divided we are all a bunch of palookas. ® = READER DEFENDS WELFARE COSTS By R. R. Bulgin

It must be very heartening and refreshing to the aged, the widow and the orphan to have the Central Labor Union and men like Leo Rappaport, J. Pierce Cummings, past worthy president of the Order of Eagles and many others come to the defense against the cruel and vicious

BLOSSOMS OF HEAVEN

By ANNA E. YOUNG

Maybe a heart needed softening So he loaned for a wee short while Those baby lips and eyes of blue And that innocent angel smile.

murder, no doubt we would be from that moment under a dictatorship. In that case all other issues would not be worked out by us, but worked out on us. : We Indianians may push out our chests just a bit, I think, because of the way Louis Ludlow’s War Referendum Bill has caught the attention of the nation and the world. I think we will do well even to break party lines to return to Congress this man who states that he intends never to vote to send our boys away from our own shores to kill and be killed.

. 2 ® USE OF NATURAL GAS IS SUGGESTED By G. A. Smith

We read. in the newspapers that residences are the worst offenders in regard to the smoke nuisance. If natural gas were permitted entry into the city and made cheap enough to burn in furnaces the smoke problem would be largely solved, This also would apply to coal burning factories. -

But the world was surely brightened By the child—who could not stay, Yet God needed that beautiful flower To bloom in His. garden today.

So He transplanted that delicate rosebud That you loved for such a sweet short while But the world is better and purer, "Twas ont ied by that blue-eyed smile.

DAILY THOUGHT *

He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him joo and raiment.—Deuteronomy 0:18. :

HEN faith and hope fail, as they do sometimes, we must try charity, which is love in action. —Mulock..

LET'S EXPLORE YOUR MIND

.By DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM

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THE father who continually harps

his way through school, owh is and. hl

on what a hard struggleihis children economy and courage he had. in boyhood, how he worked but trying to impress them with t & ‘whale of a seahorse he i

it in, the children soon see through the old man’e egotism and take it as a bore or a joke. ’ ss 8 8 THERE is no way of answering this with exactness. No doubt woman’s natural functions of motherhood cause her to react in many ways with more tenderness and unseifishness than men. But if we take the whole round of human conduct, the average reactions of men and women are very much the same. Nearly all moral codes have been made, or at least given to the world, by men; it may be because this is more a man’s than a woman's world.

NO. Not if it means that when a man talks about himself he | | just naturally tends deliberately to misrepresent. True, he often does misrepresent, but, outside of the deliberate hypocrite—a person whom I think is pretty rare—he misrepresents because he does -not realize his own motives. A ‘husband, for example, may honestly tell you he conceals his difficulties from his wife because he does not want to worry. her, but in reality it is to save his owH- Tace and preserve his feeling. of im-

THIS TRUE? 3 YOUR OPINION —

food, etc., is not trying to teach

and heartless attacks made by the

plunged by Congress into organized

financial

Gen. Johnson rs Says— :

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Responsible for Germany's Defe Not the Jews, as Hitler Maintai

EW YORK, Oct. 31.—One of the most bar J results of the savage “peace” of Munich will B

| a wider and more intense persecution of Jews.

has long been a prime point in the Hitler progran Since Hitler now stands astride of Europe as

greatest threat, if not its absolute master, this 1

bound to be a new development in more nations than one. ; i As recent attempts to resettle persecuted Jews other countries have showl, the poison already spread so far that no nation will offer them a ha of refuge. When you stand off a little way i look at this throwback to the darkest ages of wi burning, ignorance and intolerance, it seems sim incredible in any civilized country. I don’t § enough about conditions in Germany to. be 8 but on the general advance of societies for the vention of cruelty to animals everywhere, I'l that, even in Berlin, dogs or cats or horses co have been mistreated as have been Jews, wi sending the sadistic perpetrators to Jail.

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HAVE no particular brief for the Jews as aga 1 all others. But I have one for them as h beings. I know their faults, perhaps not as well they themselves know them. Every race has fa and in every one there are extremists in those fa who become actual public enemies. But every has virtues and in every one there are extrem who become public benefactors. Among the lg in Jewry appears the figure of Jesus Christ and of him the whole of the law and the prophets. tween them is based much of all the decency religion and righteousness that we know. i Yet, the people who contributed all this to th human race is being scourged more mercilessly ever before in history. It is being destroyed savage leaders whose boast is that they intend rule the world by going back thousands of years the abolition of human freedom and the conquest the world by fire and sword. : ss 8 ® R. HITLER'S argument is that the caving of % “home front” in 1918 destroyed the German tary front and that it was the defection of the Ji people in Germany that crumbled domestic resis With a defeated soldier people like the Germans, especially the Prussians, that is sure-fire Ww burning propaganda. . But I happened to be at the head of one of principal divisions of our General Staff in those di and Army member of our War Industries Board. .’ knew exactly what was going on inside of Germ It is true that the nation was starved into subm but it was the whole German people who € Hindenburg and Ludendorff, in their memoirs, state that clearly and lay the blame almost singly on the “pitiless war industry” of the United States. = =

The genius and head of that “pitiless war indu. was a Jew, B. M. Baruch—but not as a trai destroying Germany from within—just as an An can like Pershing or Sims fighting above-board ags Germans—Jews and Teutons—to destroy her i without. So now the “Jew Baruch” bécomes a prifie . cipal object of German wrath because, backed by the President, he warns that we should def ourselves. | A

It Seems to Me By Heywood Broun 2 Peace by Fear Isn't That Me Equivalent for Banishment of Wa

EW YORK, Oct. 31.—Those -who have wo! ( whether Ambassador Kennedy spoke for the Administration in his Trafalgar Day speech in Lons= don have their answer. Their doubts should be d pelled. President Roosevelt has spoken with cls and force. Indeed, I think that the short spe which he made over the radio to the Herald Trik Forum has an excellent chance to endure among | public addresses which Americans will treasure in -years to come. And when it comes to carving word upon the walls of colleges or schools yet to be founded I would like to watch the chips of granite fly as stone surfaces take on this sentence: “It is becoming ine creasingly clear that peace by fear has no higher or more enduring quality than peace by the sword.”

Under the impulse of sudden anger a man may begin to scurry down the ladder of civilization with all the agility of a chimpanzee. So it can be with nations. But nothing degrades the human spirit to the same degree as abject terror. A crowd in panies * can be the cruelest thing in all the world, and nob even the best of us is proof against the infection. ‘AS a matter of fact, anger and fear are close kin. Indeed, of all human emotions fear is the most fearful. And ,, it can be a lingering ailment. It comes both beforey and after the event. Timidity knows no armistice, * AN It is not within the power of most of us to delight in danger or to face it without qualms. One of th most dangerous of all indulgences i to point the fi ger of scorn at others and call the cowards,

all things,

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of sheer terror. wrap it around us as a comforter.

Speaking Out for Democracy

“There can be no peace if national policy ‘adopts as a deliberate instrument the dispersion all over fhe world of millions of helpless and persecuted . derers with no place to lay their heads.” : . With such policies, whether they be at h abroad, we cannot make common cause. Web in democracy and must speak out forthrightly defense. a If it were possible for a nation to stand u and preserve democracy by the sheer weight 1 spiritual intensity I would be for that. Gravely I doubt that it is enough in the world in: whic 2) find ourselves. I respect the sincerity of p i even though I am convinced that rearmament is ne essary. But there can be some basis for making mon cause. . Let us, at the very least, combine to that the peace of fear is not that moral equiv: which war may be banished from the earth.

Watching Your Healtt By Dr. Morris Fishbein

INT andys when so much is being written dangerous foods and the control of food dlers and similar subjects, we ought to certain foods are protected by nature. Among foods eggs are -particularly important becaus are listed with the protective foods—those thi tain the essential minerals, proteins, fats, and the vitamins that are necessary to maintain growth. : os : Most of the white of egg is a pure protein, has been found to contain as well a minerals and some vitamin G or the second vitamin B. Some children get the habit of the white of egg alone and a smaller number prefer the yolks. The latter group are ‘better cause it is known that the yolk provides A, B, D, and G, as well as fats, protein and Following are the qualities of eggs Wk them especially useful in the diet of the gro Iron—Eggs are richer in iron than milk, the best foods for supplying this necessary to the building of red blood. : Calcium—Eggs contain a little calcium compare with milk and milk products f this substance necessary for sound bones & Phosphorus—Eggs are specially rich'in p Vitamins—Except for the fish oils like ¢ and halibut liver oil, eggs are the richest vitamin D in the average American diet. usually found associated with D as & vitamin, is also profuse in eggs. The of vitamin B are also found in eggs. Since eggs supplement milk in the me is deficient, the ©