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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1938

REGISTRATION IRREGULARITIES L NY slick election day schemes that may have been prepared by gentlemen of the “vote ‘em early and often” school of thought ought to be uncovered by the threeway investigation of alleged registration irregularities now under way. Not only has Prosecutor Spencer swung into action, but the chairmen of both major party organizations have undertaken independent checks and promised the prosecutor full co-operation. : First reports dealt with the alleged registration of floaters and people from vacant lots, empty buildings and the second floors of bungalows. And now Carl Vandivier, Republican county chairman, voices his belief that a large number of Republican voters are missing from the registration lists. It ought to be a relatively simple matter to establish the truth or falsity of these reports. And there can be a healthy cleanup of such despicable business if the party chairmen will insist on as vigorous prosecution of any misguided followers in their own camp as of any found in the

“opposition camp.

The whole thing will bear watching by Federal authorities.

“FRIGHTENED WITH FALSE FIRE” T is strange and disturbing that thousands of Americans, secure in their homes on a quiet Sunday evening, could be scared out of their wits by a radio dramatization of H. G. Wells’ fantastic old story, “The War of the Worlds.” We're sure the 23-year-old actor, Orson Welles, didn’t realize the panic he wad®spreading from Coast to Coast among people who believed that monsters from Mars actu-

-ally had invaded New Jersey.

Yet young Mr. Welles, a student of Shakespeare, might have remembered Hamlet and, remembering, might have foreseen the effect of too much dramatic realism on an audience already strung to high nervous tension. Hamlet it was who staged a play to “catch the con-

~ science” of the King of Denmark, his uncle, who had mur-

dered Hamlet's father, seized the throne and married the This play within a play also concerned

widowed queen. the murder of a King. And, as Hamlet had intended, his

uncle and his mother were driven to such hysterical terror

that they refused to watch it to the end. “What, frighted with false fire!” exclaimed Hamlet with bitter scorn, certain now of his uncle’s guilt. Unlike Hamlet, young Mr. Welles did not plan deliberately to demoralize his audience. And no guilty consciences, but nerves made jittery by actual though almost incredible threats of war and disaster, had prepared a good many American radio listeners to believe the completely incredible “news” that Martian hordes were here. Of course it should never happen again. But we don’t agree with those who are arguing that the Sunday night scare shows a need for strict Government censorship of radio programs. On the contrary, we think it is evidence of how dangerous political control of radio might become. The dictators in Europe use radio to make their people believe falsehoods. We want nothing like that here. Better have American radio remain free to make occasional blunders -than start on a course that might, in time, deprive it of freedom to broadcast uncensored truth. And it should be easy for radio to avoid repeating this particular: blunder. The Columbia system already has pointed the way. Let all chains, all stations, avoid use of the news broadcasting technique in dramatizations when

there is any possibility of any listener mistaking fiction - for fact.

“REDS” TO THE RESCUE OR many years Indianapolis nas been one of the few minor league baseball organizations retaining its independence. The result was that in the unceasing search for baseball talent it had to compete not only with clubs in its own class but with the far richer major league clubs seeking players for their affiliated minor league farms. ‘This lack of contact with a major league organization often was advanced as the reason why our Redskins had not done so well in the baseball wars. The situation was well understood by the fans and there was considerable clamor that such an arrangement be undertaken. Therefore, the announcement of General Manager Leo

: T. Miller that the Indianapolis Indians had effected a player-

working agreement with Cincinnati for next season should

Ls give Indianapolis followers of the national pastime reason + for optimism.

After leading the league until mid-July last season the

z Indians did a nose dive but managed to get into the playoffs

by finishing fourth. Under the new arrangement the club

+ should do better.

Anyway, here’s hoping!

/ PROUD—AND HUMBLE

BBE ERNEST DIMNET, the noted French author, arrived in New. York the other day and paid a high

. tribute to America’s free press.

During the recent international crisis, he said, the

i. people of Europe didn’t understand what was happening

to them. Their newspapers, under enforced or voluntary censorship, printed only what the heads of their governments wanted printed, and this fell far short of presenting a complete picture of what was going on. Abbe Dimnet,

. who was in France during the crisis, said that for the

§ most part his first accurate knowledge of events in

i Europe and of their true significance was obtained from American newspapers, mailed to him by a friend in this country. And he added:

“Complete press freedom does have its disadvantages

& and evils, but they are far outweighed by the great service

{. to a humanity that is seeking truth. Freedom of the press

‘in the United Bates is one of the remaining Bright rays ‘in a darkening world.

Fair Enough

By Westbrook Pegler Farley Spoke Out of Turn in Yelling

Foul’ Against Campaign Attack, but

Mr. Dewey Seems Inconsistent, Too.

EW YORK, Nov. 1.—The chickens never did roost too high for some of the friends of our Mr, James Farley. So it was indeed laughable of Mr. Farley to make grabs at his trunks and yell, “Ow! Keep your punches up!” when our Mr. Tom Dewey exposed the yeggmanship of certain Democratic statesmen in Albany in one of his recitations last week. It was indeed laughable to all who used to know Mr. Farley as chairman of the caulifiower commission and see him on fight nights at the Garden sitting just around the corner from the gorillas who, by order of the Commission, were supposed to be excluded from those cultural exercises. : In the interest of moral hygiene, Mr. Farley’s commission had ruled that criminals were not to be admitted to any of the fight clubs, but on glamorous nights in those dear, dear, dizzy days of old our James would gaze about and scan the countenances of the very cream—or should one say the scrum—of the New York underworld. There came one grand gala night when, with more than a million dollars in the house, there were three ex-convicts among the personal attendants of the tigers in the main event. 3 o 2 R. FARLEY always has been & man of liberal mind toward the hard realities of the world. He once explained that he lacked the cruelty to enforce his own regulations, which would have banished fallen men from pugilism, because, after all, they did have to live, and if every hand were turned against them they would be forced to resume a life of crime. For this I honor him, but I think he should make that his stand publicly and defend the propriety of yeggmanship in politics in Albany on the ground that it yeggs be excluded from politics and pugilism they will have no alternative but crime of the most vulgar sort. Certainly it didn’t take Mr. Dewey to discover that the gambling rights are regularly parceled out in the city of Saratoga Springs. In fact, gambling had become so important a part of the commerce of Saratoga Springs that when, last summer, through some political error, gambling was forbidden, some of the citizens formed a picket line to protest that their bread and butter was being taken away. 8 » 8 1 was much to their contention that gambling should be permitted, but the trouble was that it was against the law, a fact which necessitated the giving and taking of graft by politicians of the yegg type whom Mr. Dewey so piously deplores. But even conceding the truth of all that Mr. Dewey says and his right to say it, I have been wondering whether Mr. Dewey has anything else on the ball. The job of governing New York is no mere matter of heaving yeggs out of petty office in local administrations, suppressing crap games and busting up rackets. For the most part those duties belong to the office of Prosecutor, which Mr. Dewey now holds in New York. Mr. Dewey has not yet shown much appreciation of the greater: issues, and Mr. Lehman has been one of the best Governors of his time. On the careers to date I don’t think it would be an even trade and, moreover, if it was such an urgent matter to get Mr. Dewey into the District Attorneyship so short a time ago, the same evils would require that he stay there and finish a job he gave us to understand he alone was qualified to do.

Business

By John T. Flynn

Banks Must Aid New Industries If Real Recovery Is to Be Realized.

EW YORK, Nov. 1.—F. C, Crawford, president of the Thompson Product Co., Cleveland, has lectured the bankers and hinted to them that they should put aside their fears, forget their criticisms of the Government and get down to the brass tacks ot helping to speed up production. Of course speeding up production is not enough. There must be a speeding up of production of new industries and industrial expansions. The ‘banks have not held back in iending money for current production. What they have not done is to advance money for new plants and new industry. Many times I have pointed out the extent to which banks nave withdrawn from the business of expanding loans. And I have replied to the criticism showered on the bankers for this condition. But, while I feel that on the whole the fault does not lie primarily with them, it is difficult to escape the feeling that in places they are to blame. For instance, today’s mail brings me statements trom two banks, one in Memphis, Tenn. and one in Jackson, O. The Jackson bank shows deposits of $1,360,000, They have $1,380,000 in cash and invested in securities. The loans of this bank amount to only $200,600. That is less than the stock and surplus of the bank. Some years ago Prof. Irving Fisher wrote a book called “100 Per Cent Money.” It was a plan for panks to have the entire amount of their deposits in cash or investments the equivalent of cash. Such a bank should make no loans, he pleaded, and thus banks always would be liquid. Well, here is a bank which has 101 per cent of its deposits in cash and liquid investments. Such a bank is not a bank but an investment trust operating as a bank.

Craze for Security Uppermost

The statement from Memphis shows a very different result. Its loans and discounts are equal almost to one-half of the bank’s deposits. However, this condition in the banks remains one of the strangest and most baifling of the phenomenon which now characterize our economic condition. It reveals an almost complete drying up of the spirit of industrial adventure. -The craze for security in every mind—the worker, the investor, seems to hold men back from risky investment, which is the only kind that produces new industries. How can this be broken? This is one of the great practical questions which lies at the very bottom of the whole problem of normal recovery.

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

Y mail is swelled these days with letters from women asking, “What is to be said now for the

cause of peace?” “Is this a time to be idealistic?,” they inquire. “What avails the pacifist attitude when war blows its dragon's breath over the earth?” Not being, as yet, a complete fool, I am well aware

that the United States could not disarm while other |

countries are increasing their armaments. I am also aware that a great many who talk and write brave words will not themselves be called upon to fight.

Let me also confess that I might become as mili- |

tary-minded-as any of my friends, if like them, I believed it would be possible to establish freedom upon earth by going to war for it. This emphatically I do not believe. > : It often seems to me that most of the persons who discuss war do not realize what it means in modern terms. If we had enough. imagination to

visualize what a general world war would mean in

the destruction of buildings, schools, churches and children, could sanity sanction it? I think not. The question of peace still pulses with vitality because, for the first time in history, a few individuals have grasped the idea that peace, even as war, is made by man. We are thrown into such a panic at the thought of general war because we know it is not now inveitable or necessary. It has always seemed to me that the surest way to establish democracy was to make it function ‘and

I am certain that the time to stand by our ideals |

is when there is danger of losing them. So whatever happens, my convictions are ) beet Re pacifist methods is the vi

I wholly

The Hoosier Forum

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

NONVOTERS HANDICAP TO DEMOCRACY, IS CLAIM By B. C. According to all the newspapers, the coming Congressional elections are a highly important event in American politics. We shall see, through them, how much of a reaction there is against the New Deal; the voters will get their chance to express themselves, and in one way or another our democ-

racy will register its verdict on this,

that and the other thing. So registration lists are up, in-

| terest is at fever heat, and all the

signs indicate a heavy vote.

But when the smoke has cleared away and all the votes have been counted, it will be found—-as usual —that only a little better than half of the electorate bothered to go to the polls at all. The stay-at-home who never pokes his nose into a polling booth will once more be a significant if little-noticed feature of the election, There are lots of reasons for this. A certain amount of this stay-away business is due to the uid nature of cur population; people move about, find themselves ineligible to vote, fail to transfer their registration, forget about the absentee-ballot provision, or through some other oversight are unable to vote even though they would rather like to. Another thing which must account for a large proportion of the absentees is the fact that in many districts — probably in most — the outcome of the election is pretty clear before the votes are cast. Many a mah, in such circumstances, reasons something like this: “Well, I'd vote for Candidate Blank, but he’s going to win anyhow and I'll be pretty busy Tuesday so it won’t hurt if I don’t vote.” But when all such excuses are made, the fact remains that there are some millions of the citizens who fail to vote simply because they are too lazy, too indifferent or too cynical about politics to take the trouble. Of course, this is a free country. The right to vote carries with it the

|indisputable right to refrain from

voting, theless, the nonvoting voter is decidedly a handicap to democracy. For if voting is a privilege, it is also a duty. The theory of democracy assumes that each man will perform that duty; each man who fails does his kit to weaken the democracy he lives under. For the “special interests”—the pressure groups, the political machines, the factions, the something-for-nothing people—none of these ever fails to vote. It is only the man who has nothing at stake but the welfare of the country as a whole who stays away from the

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

away, a disciplined minority can, and very often does, run things with scant regard for the interest of the whole, That is why nonvoting is a peril to democracy. And if you have been a nonvoter, now is an excellent time for you to think over and decide to stop being one. a EMPLOYMENT OF MARRIED WOMEN CRITICIZED By Anxious Much has been said and written regarding the cause of the depression beginning in 1929 and the more recent “politely” called recession and what should be done to prevent future repetitions. Someone at one time attributed our predicament to igreed. With that person, I heartily agree. : Let's check back a few years. Prior to the World War it was considered a downright disgrace for any married woman to work outside her own home and we had real prosperity for many years. Patriotism and the absence of millions of our best men during the wat altered public opinion on this subject. They worked then and continue to work today to the detriment of the entire nation. In our own organization of 20

NOVEMBER SINGS By M. P. D.

November sings in falling leaf In murmur of the rustling grass And in the autumn birds that

pass Through country way on autumn day. In all things happy and gay November sings a roundelay.

DAILY THOUGHT

Thus speaketh the Lord of hosts, saying, Execute true udgment, and shew mercy and compassions every man to his brother. =Zecha~ riah 7:9. ERCY more becomes a magistrate than the vindicative wrath which men call justice.—

Longfellow.

polls. And because he does stay!

persons, we have the following situation: Weekly One man, head of the family, earning [EERE EEN NEN NENNN] o His wife earning cseeccevccceces 40.00 Daughter (single) earning.... 22.50 Daughter (married) earning.. 18.00 Daughter's husband earning.. 35.00

Total sssessensessnssvees $10.50

One man, no dependents, earning ssssssacsesssesacevscss+360.00 His wife earning ¢cccoeseccess 30.00

Total ss ecesesavacsssenss+$330.00 One married woman, no dependents, earning sevsesses «$44.50 Her husband earning cccececee 31.25

Total sessvssscscessseesse$75.75 One man, no dependents, earning essssnssssessssssssssce $44.50 His wife earning eesosssssesce 18.00

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Total Casssesessssssssess«$52.50 One man, no dependents, earning essscssscesssessessssese $38.50 His wife earning 000000000000 17.50

Total erasers STEER One man, one dependent, earning esossssessesssssesscscss $35.00 His wife earning s00s0ssssssce 12.50

Total esssesssepssscssscs $67.50

One man, two dependents, earning tssssiescsencscscess $50.00 His wife earning sesessccsssss 18.00

Total ve00.$68.00

Seven out of 20. families or about 331% per cent having two or more incomes where one income is sufficient to permit each family to live comfortably. This condition is general. The banks, Government, State and County offices, industrial plants and business offices all have a large number of married women employed who are not obliged to work.

This is detrimental to the nation as a whole because much of this income is not spent in the channels of trade but instead finds its way into savings accounts of financial institutions, which have more lendable cash now than they know what to do with, while millions of persons are on relief because there is no bread winner in the family. These people, refused a job because of the greed of others, are living on the tax money of those who are employed, thus cutting the potential purchasing power of the

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nation. Give one man the entire;

income ofthis nation and in a very short time Le would have 130 million people to house, feed and clothe. To the same lesser degree, does this concentration of incomes in the hands of favored and selfish families affect the normal flow of busi-

ness adversely.

LET'S EXPLORE YOUR MIND

By DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM

legality of its own acts. That is precisely what communism or fascism would mean for this country. 2 8 8

NOT AT ALL. You may stop and give a dime to a beggar ahd go on your way rejoicing, but ‘you have probably damaged him, helped to confirm him in his habits, and also wasted a dime that some organized charitable society could have used - for some permanent benefit—buying fuel: for a family where the father is too sick to work, buying a brace for a crippled child or school books for some poor boy or girl or ‘even promoting some scientific research that would benefit the whole world. Just so with many of our acts. Merely feeling we are doing right does not. always prove we are doing right. » 8 = EXPERIMENTS have shown that in learning any skill you progress far faster by short periods of intensive work than by long periods of effort. One's movements are so awkward and his efforts to

NO. Everett Dean Martin ex-| methods of the government and|overcome them so great in learning

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amined over 1100 revolutions instead of seeking to reform - from {something new that he soon begins

De De Froaunt It is far

Chance to Bari; Project Testing Henry

ASHINGTON, Nov. 1.—-You kric you have getting into a pe

‘gum or cigarets through the cellop

it? You can thank the du Ponts wrapped the world in cellophane industry. With Duco, “they also business of painting automobiles. your ancient automobile can always

| the appearance of a tramp steamer |

around the horn, is that du Pont ¢on Now we are about to see another, textile of unbelievable qualities.. You there will be no bonehead plays in. The du Ponts are sure the gun is lot pull any trigger. They are starting dustrial plant at Seaford, Del. : The possibilities of a development of unpredictable. If we could, by some. the problem of the mechanical or ¢ tion of flax and other so-called “bast restore our old linen industry and dependence on India and the British Isle burlap. This new textile may free us fre sity to look to the Orient and France for Sik 8 = f J UT my point is not to overempl ticular theory. It is to suggest Pont take a leaf out of the book of H Ford’s idea is to put our economy into .b by making agriculture serve industry He proposes this in two ways: First, ¥ products of our farms to replace imports fn countries as industrial raw materials. wants to decentralize industry—put in rural areas and see that industrial settled on small farms where they can of their own food, and have off-season ment when factories slow down. I think Mr. Ford has something working it out convincingly in an exper But what an opportunity this is for Mr. put it into mass production! Pierre ‘du Pont has come in for a I as an economic royalist. To me it alway a shame. Anybody who knows him is a simple, kindly man—Ilovable and in 8 ® ®

ALWAYS have thought he ought to gt with a piece he had prepared himself ning, “My name is Pierre du Pont,” scribe his aims and his methods, I bel change hostile popular ppinion in a single But here is a chance to say it in than words. Delaware is one of the states in the union. With a sea full flank, an unusually fertile soil and fa k and with her combination of agriculture & trial opportunities, nobody needs to go state. If Mr. du Pont in building this imme in possibly creating an immense new.

00 provide a few acres for each future.

some equitable housing and equipment: give Mr. Ford's idea a real workout and u ernment “resettlement” Projets, 50 far, Lents,

It Seems to Me

By Heywood Broun

Doubts Value of Match r In Arms, but Ignoring :

EW YORK, Nov. 1.—Hitler, the h ternational Fascist Federation, and carries.a big stick. A number of ers say that we also should carry a bigs softly, if at all. In other words, we are the Reich and its allies in an armament allow the propaganda of the aggressor unchallenged. This policy is being advocated by Willie Hearst, Capt. Joseph Patterson, the New Tribune, Joseph P. Kennedy, Herbert: numerous others. They call" it al I have no desire tao pin strange bed of the publications or persons mentions would like to question the “realism” of ‘ti who say that we should match the Fascist for gun, but make no attempt to copper ganda word for word. : Mr. Hoover believes that any military of the Monroe Doctrine is really very Mr. Baruch thinks otherwise. So let that m set down as debatable while we come eve home. £2 It is held by the “realists” that, mitch as deplore the treatment of oppressed min many and its attendant satellites; we in no official criticism, since it is none Live and let live. #3 But on the day that Capt. Patters r Franklin Roosevelt to voice no opinion, th Consul General in New York City made: dress. . According to the report in | Times, he “attacked such democratic. free press and liberty of worship.” And representative of a friendly power is qui “If we enforce the expulsion of the Jews of the nation we do so because it is e and it seems a remarkable coincidente 1 European nations do likewise.”

Anti-Semitism Increasing

Of course, it is not a coincidence come into being because of the victory which Hitler won at Munich. I is very slow in realizing that the pact Czechoslovakian borders only inciden We didn’t take it on the chin, but it to maintain that we have not felt some the punch. Anti-Semitism mounts in America. foreign borin increases. The Nazi dri Catholic Church: has its repercussions h men begin to talk like carbon copy not a coincidence. And this is the time when many | thought say that the President of the should remain mum. By all means I but that should not mean a willingny silence and sell our liberties for a song J

Watching Your

By Dr. Morris Fishbein

ESIDES the eruptions on the skin such infectious diseases as scarle chicken pox and sensitivities of food with infections of the skin that are p ing. The most common condi scabies, ringworm, and the spots" parasites. In impetigo little blisters filled mainly on the hands and face. T from tiny lesions about the size of ti to large yellowish looking bumps.” The condition can be spread from i other by direct contact or by the. wash cloth or towel, or by co this reason a child with- Ah from other children until the brought under control. : ‘When this condition gets out wards of a hospital, in ‘an orphan where else, it should be considered efforts should be persistent until 3 appear. an Several times column ‘has old: also called the teh, cuban itch, by other names. An old market covered that sulphur will control it. brought about by a little parasite skin wherever it is moist and tween the fingers. Incidentally it mite that causes the trouble. E filling ner destiny to. produce .

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the skin are what cause the it

In clearing up an outbreak necessary to boil every bit of which the infected person. has

estroy other materials. P tions and .oin