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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1938

THE HARTMAN CHARGES THE fraud and perjury charges brought against Joseph E Hartman, Republican candidate for Superior Court 3, are so serious the voters should know before Tuesday’s election—not after—whether they are true or false. This is only just to other Republican candidates. And simple fairness to Mr. Hartman also demands that he be promptly cleared of any taint if he is innocent. . That responsibility rests jointly on the Indianapolis Bar Association, which has started its investigation, and on the Republican organization. The Republican county chairman, Carl Vandivier, is to be commended ‘for his promise that Mr. Hartman will not be permitted to serve, even though elected, if the charges are proved true. But

that is not:enough. : The voters have a right to the facts before they vote.

BURN A RAG FTER reading the Sheppard committee’s report of WPA political activities in Pennsylvania, we find it not difficult to imagine that the shades of Boies Penrose and Matt Quay must be sprouting wings. These poor, benighted old fogies. They intended to leave nothing undone to turn out the vote. And they were blunt enough to brag of their sins. ‘But they were unimaginative old-timers in the political racket. They never conceived of any such thing as a WPA where truck drivers are shaken down for $100 campaign contributions, where women on sewing projects are told to ¢hange their party registrations and vote accordingly—or else—where work-relief pay checks are passed out to schodlchildren to buy the parents’ votes. x : Development of those novel refinements in the corruption of the ballot box came at a later period in our country’s history, in an organization headed by those twins of -professed high purposes—Harry Hopkins and Aubrey Williams. :

DEBT DOESN'T PAIN JIM FARLEY HE Hon. James Aloysius Farley took to the radio the

other night to “venture the assertion” that no one]

within the sound of his voice had ever “felt the slightest pang because of the national debt. «Ag a matter of fact,” pooh-poohed the Postmaster General-Democratic National Chairman-New York State Democratic Chairman, “because of lower interest charges, the cost of carrying the public debt today is less than it was in 1922 when the debt was about 15 billions smaller.” + The Hon. Jim was making a political speech, and of course he did not bother to remark that, whereas in 1922 nearly all of the Government's debt was in long-term bonds, today a large proportion of it is in short-term Treasury notes. But even Jim must know how much cheaper it is to borrow for 90 days than for 10 or 20 years. He didn’t bother to remark that whereas in 1922 the top Federal surtax on incomes was 50 per cent, today the top is 75 per cent (plus 4 per cent normal tax), which possibly accounts for the much greater readiness of the very rich to soak their money away in tax-exempts, regardless of the return. © “Nor did he take the trouble to observe that, whereas in 1922 the debt and the interest burden were on their way down, today they are on their way up. This distinction possibly may account for the difference in the unemployment picture as of 1922 and as of 1938. We didn’t have nine or 10 million unemployed then. And, conceivably, one reason for that may have been that people who had money felt that the future looked rosy and were eagerly investing it in private enterprises and thereby creating new jobs. The unemployed who listened to Jim’s speech may have been so numb from long searching for work that they couldn’t identify the particular “pang” occasioned by the Federal budget being nine years out of balance. But we doubt that they gained much comfort from Jim's reassurance that our per capita debt isn’t as large as Great Britain’s—yet.

HE PLANNED IT THAT WAY ASTnEa FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, designing ™ his new cottage at Hyde Park, provided for three bedrooms but only one clothes closet. Thousands of housewives detected this apparent oversight as soon as the plans were-printed in newspapers and magazines. Now Mrs. Roosevelt has informed her press conference that the cottage will, indeed, have but one closet. The President, she said, prefers old-fashioned wardrobes. All right, but we warn Mrs. Roosevelt that her explanation won't wash with the overstuffed Tories in their well-stocked clubs. They certainly will not believe that the President prefers anything old-fashioned. We can hear them now, telling each other that this proves it: “That man will never admit he has made a mistake.”

NO BIDDING CONTEST

THERE is much talk about revising and extending the Social Security Law, and we're glad to hear it. Changes in.this law, made calmly and carefully, in the . light of experience and after mature consideration, can send the social security program ahead on the right track and insure its greatest possible benefits to the greatest possible number of people. : a But we hope there will be no attempt to stampede Congress into /a hurry-up, slap-dash job of remodeling social security on the plea that something quick and dramatic must be done to head off unworkable old-age pension - schemes. yi The effective. way to deal with such schemes is to oppose them directly and openly, not to go into competition with them. . Wey 2 : And the way to insure success for social security is to proceed carefully in changing it, being certain that each change will make the program sounder and more practical, and to avoid promising impossible things. That will keep social security better than

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Fair Enough By. Westbrook Pegler

Hitler Going Out of His Way to Edit Rights of Peoples in Other Lands And Americans Should Be on Guard.

EW YORK, Nov. 4—The Austrian anti-Christ speaks again, this time through the person of

one Josef Terboven, the Governor of the Rhineland

province, and his message is an order to other nations to abolish freedom of expression or accept the fate of Czechoslovakia. Already he had claimed the right to censor the ballot in Great Britain to the extent of blacklisting British statesmen net amenable to him. Now, through Terboven, Holland and Luxembourg

are warned to suppress newspaper comment which is considered offensive to the Reich: " Thus, by degrees, Hitler and Germany proceed to

| impose on the rest of the world not only an imitation

of the Nazi form of government but supervision by Berlin of the thought and expression of their peoples. This is not a far-fetched interpretation of the German attitude. Censorship of the press and of speech is Naziism, and if other nations must adept suppression as a measure of self-preservation Hitler steps beyond his borders to edit the rights of free citizens of

other nations.

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FERR TERBOVEN does not hamper himself with pretense but plainly boasts that Hitler took Czechoslovakia at the point of the gun, and in warning Holland and Luxembowrg of the fate which they invite by maintaining their domestic liberties conveys a message to Americans as well. It is only consistent to suppose that as each new submission to the threat of overwhelming war increases the power of Adolf Hitler, the American people presently will find themselves under his admonition. Through his anti-American bunds he has entered the domestic politics of the United States and begun a campaign to abolish tolerance and human rights just around the edges as a starter. There are educated Americans so gullible and supercilious that they cannot perceive the source from which they are being incited. ? This country needs no assistance from Hitler or agents of Hitler who mock American hospitality and our laws of naturalization to defend it from bholshevism. The United States has made a better job of repelling bolshevism than of scotching the reptilian approach of that other terror. » » ND it is distinctly contrary to the character of the anti-Christ nation to perform any helpful service for any other country exceply with the sinister

motive of moral political and military subjugation..

Yet Americans who sincerely believe in and have fought for the liberties of the Constitution are seduced by alien conspirators toward an unformed, unreasoned belief that the Constitution would be improved by some clause restricting its benefits to those whom they happen to like. Communism now appears to be subsiding as a power and threat. The press of the last few years,

and particularly of the last three months, suggests

that the Russians didn't have it in them, after all, to make good with their state. But now Naziism is a new aggressor here, with the same conspiratorial,

cynical and foully unmoral lessons which the Nazis:

learned from the parent vice of their own depravity, bolshevism itself.

Business

By John T. Flynn

Whitney Episode Spurs Exchange To Curb Trader-Speculator Evil.

EW YORK, Nov. 4—Swiftly, out of the revelations of Richard Whitney's transactions, comes the first step toward the realization of a reform which every unbiased student of the Stock Exchange has recommended for years. This reform is known by the name of “segregation.” When the Securities Exchange Commission was organized in 1934, one of the first subjects pressed on it for study was this question. It was believed by many that the very heart of the Exchange problem was to be found in the fact that men who acted as agents for others, commission brokers who handled millions of other people's money, ought not to be per< mitted to engage in speculation for their own account. Along with this went one other reform, namely, the elimination of the specialist as a trader ‘for his own account. Te Against these two reforms the Exchange was set to fight to the last ditch. The leader in the fight was Richard Whitney. : One of the very first hearings held by the Commission was on the specialist problem. The writer appeared before the commission to present the case against the specialist. Richard Whitney appeared there flanked by a host of specialists to fight it. The Economics Department of the Commission was directed to make a study of segregation. It made such a study. But it was given hardly any funds to carry on that study. In the end Kemper Simpson, commission economist, and Willis Ballinger, his assistant, made a report pointing out the grave dangers in the old system.

Further Inquiry Ordered

Mr. Landis for a while suppressed this report while the subject was handed to another group, which included several former Stock Exchange stooges. They brought in a report which meant nething.

‘Then William O. Douglas became chairman and the whole question of studying seriously the exchanges and their economic functions was undertaken for th first time.. Then Whitney's failure came. :

‘The Exchange, now reorganized, and at the sug- |

gestion of Mr. Douglas, has adopted new rules. One prohibits a broker who acts as an agent for others on commissions, from engaging in stock trading for his own account on margin, This is a reform of the first magnitude. wi, Now one way to make this reform completely. futile is to permit brokerage firms to incorporate. Let us see if the SEC will permit that. ER

'A Woman's Viewpoint

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

D° you know there are a million and a half more men than women in the country? I'll bet the husband hunters won't believe it, for, to roving feminine eyes, there always seems to be a great scarcity of males. Well, girls, I've found out where the surplus hides. In the penitentiaries. At our Oklahoma prison, for instance, where I recently spent a day, there are 2131 white men and 46 white women, with Negroes running about the same ratio. Although I have no figures, it's probable the

difference would be true in many other states. This visit was a memorable experience. So far as we could tell, there was no evidence of sordidness or cruelty. An educational department, begun nine months ago, offers each prisoner the chance to learn a trade, profession, or art, and the men are taking to school like a duck takes to water. Fittingly enough, the department is housed on

the topmost floor of the gray granite pile and, al-|

though the quarters are tragically limited, one can imagine that the inmates from their high windows are glimpsing other far horizons more accessible for present traveling than the physical one, which stretches beyond the rock barriers of their classroom. Believe it or not, prudery has put and kept a lot of people in our penitentiaries. If our common sense 50 years ago had been as great as it is now, thousands of diseased individuals might be well and useful members of society. Generations of syphilitics have made business good for the wardens. z Drug and liquor traffic are society’s second culprits,

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CLAIMS WPA MEN PREFER PRIVATE JOBS By Mrs. F. Cooper, Columbus, Ind.

In answer to a letter signed “A Voter,” from Ft. Wayne, I give the following statements:

In the fall of 1932 Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected by the people and in the fall of 1936 he was re-elected, carrying 46 states out of 48. Did that prove Roosevelt had done nothing in the past four years to help the people? You say you have 25 Democratic relatives on payroll doing nothing; jobs which needy should have. I take it these 25 Democratic relatives are not needy. Did it ever occur to you that cur own local officials are to blame for a lot of the unfair distribution of government work and money?

We have always had, and always will have a class of people that won't work. When there was no WPA, they were on the county and the taxpayers’ money kept them. But all men on WPA work are not worthless, and many of them would prefer jobs elsewhere if they could get them. 8

SOUNDS WARNING ON “RED PROGRESSIVES” By Edward F, Maddex

In the Communist Party platform as written by Philip Bart, I found this: : “Among the progressive groups, of which the Communist Party is a part, co-operatipn was extended in support of the New Deal. . . . The Communists state frankly that their ultimate objective is to convince the people of the need of transforming existing capitalistic ownership of industry to a socialist society where production for use will prevail. , . . Strengthening the Communist Party will help in strengthening the entire progressive movement. ,. .”

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and Communist programs are the same, I quote from Charles Ginsberg, of the Socialist-Laber party: “The Socialist-Labor Party calls upon the working class to rally under its banner on the political field and at the same time organize into a Socialist Industrial Union for the purpose of enforcing the fiat cf the ballot and taking over and operating the industries for the benefit of all humanity, supplanting the political government by an industrial administration. Instead of productign for profits, with its starvation and misery, production will be carried on for use only.” This shows that the so-called “Progressives” aim to seize control of all private property and produce for use only. It will pay the people of the United States well to stop, look and listen a long time before they give support to so-called “progressive” movements. Most of them are communistic, and “Socialist In-

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BY PSYCHOL

IF THEY were tolerant and sen- . sible enough to do this a good many of them would decide not to

for a surprising number of major crimes were committed influence of

By DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGA

$HouLd APPLYING FOR DIVORCE BE REPRESENTED ERO OSRTS AS WELL AS BY LAWYERS PYES ORNO ce

are now organ-

(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.)

dustrial Unions” certainly will lead us straight into the Socialist-Com-munist plan to seize production machinery and produce for use and not tor profit. We are glad to have these people state their alliances and objectives so plainly. Mr. Bart calls all opponents of the New Deal program “Tory Democrats” and “Tory Republicans” and “reactionaries.” Well the New Dealers have raved about “tories, reactionaries, economic royaltists and the 60 families” for so long it is no shock to read it in the Communist program. The Communists have crawled into bed with the Democrats and now call them tories because they want part of the blankets. And the Republicans had better bar the doors for the Reds are boring a big hole with a big auger right in the middle of the elephant. We should beware of “Red Progressives.”

» » 2 APPEAL TO MASSES, RAILROADS ADVISED By a Rail Fan

The railroads of the country keep complaining of loss in revenues both passenger and freight. I am speaking particularly of the two large Eastern roads. The railroads saw the bus and truck coming years ago and they did nothing about it. Pullman ‘¢ars are fine as far as

/ “JOY” - By ROBERT O. DEVELL It's_that real joy that cheers the - way, To let the sunshine in; It’s your brave heart for every day For all that you can win.

To make you glad and keep you free, For now and ever more; For all you are and hope to be In all that you adore.

To keep your soul and heart in tune, With real joy to be had; When you drive out the fear and loom, all your heart so glad.

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DAILY THOUGHT For she said within herself, If I may but touch His garment, I shall be whole.—Matthew 9:21.

N actual life every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith.— Schlegel. :

LET'S EXPLORE YOUR MIND

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: 3 WouLp WORLD DISARMAMENT EN 2D YES ORNO—— fruly amazing and gratifying how

many couples on their way to the divorce court are able to reconcile

get a divorce. Numerous marriage their differences when they lay all ounseling bureaus

their cards on the table before

of men £ ly love

comfort and luxury are concerned but this passenger business has got to be tackled from .a different

angle if the roads ever expect to]

get the masses of people back on trains. It would be no difficult job for the roads to get the people now traveling by bus and many private car owners back on trains because after all a train is the safest, surest way for the masses to travel with speed and comfort. If the roads would reduce fares to 1% cents per mile and run special all-luxury coach trains from New York to St. Louis they would certainly get the business.

If you could go from Indianapolis to New York for about $11 in luxury coaches at 80 to 100 miles per hour, private cars and busses could not begin to compete with them. : The sooner rail managements wake up and adopt this plan the sooner they will begin to make real profits. It is their ame and only weapon. The Old Irgn Horse has gone modern so why not rail management. ”» » tJ ROOSEVELT LAUDED BY FARMER'S WIFE By Mrs. 8. T.. Arcadia As a reader of your paper, may I express my views? We farmers are very thankful for the New Deal and President Roosevelt. We have money with which to pay our taxes now where we did not in Hoover days. : : And we have not forgotten that hogs sold at $3 per hundred, wheat at 30 cents a bushel and corn at 10 cents a bushel in those days. Just think—it took three wagonldads of corn to pay taxes! That is the thing to think of before we cast our votes Nov. 8. Give us the New Deal and this Administration and not the Hoover days. \ ” 8 ” LEGION CONTRIBUTES BRIGHT SPOT TO NEWS By A. B. C. The American Legion adds much that is pleasant to the contemporary scene. The greatest value of the organization comes from the less widely advertised activity that it contributes to the life of the communities where it is established. Such an incident is reported from Marengo, Ia., where the Walter A. Wandling Post has voted an honorary membership to Frans Hinkelman, who is ineligible for ordinary membership because he served with the German army during the war. Mr. Hinkelman aided the Legion when the members built new quarters there. He shared their joys and tribulations as a citizen of Marengo until they elected to honor, him with membership in their post. I submit that this story, which had its beginning in the last war, is a bright spot in the day’s news of wars and threats of wars.

doing to the other or in what way he is unfair and intolerant. :

8 2 2 HOW BAD EVIL really is is measured by two things—what it does to the individual and what it does to others. For this reason some evils are worse than others— they have broader and deeper consequences to all concerned. I should adjudge Lady Macbeth to be the more evil person of the two—she planned the murder and through her husband's arm really committed it. Macbeth was a weak, pliable person and was simply frightened out of his boots by the deed. : 2 t 4 8 NO. But it would immensely lessen the probability of war for two reasons. First, it would do .away with the ready-to-hand instruments for waging war and, in my judgment, a man or nation is immensely more likely to use a gun if one is in hand than if it has to be purchased or manufactured.’ Second, the very process of scrapping armaments would set up those attitudes of mind that would make war more unlikely. But nothing will guarantee the end of war except a baptism On High with brotherdoes not seem to

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unexpectedly lost bets on a Navy upset. West Point ‘promptly was ordered to adopt the three-year rule re= _gardless of ‘principle. :

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To Have a Professional Coach To Improve Its Football Teams.

ASHINGTON, Nov. 4—As herein predicted I . went to the Army-Notre Dame football game

“and saw my own team get licked, after a gallant bat<

tle, by a better team. I have made so many boners commenting as an amateur, on football games where

.| my heart was enlisted, that I am gun-shy.

Yet, I think nobody who saw this particular game °

| understood at least three of the referee's decisions.

I think it made no real difference. Notre Dame '

would have won anyway. They had, and used, not one but four complete teams, any one of which was a

‘match for Army. ;

© I merely ask, I do not suggest, why wouldn't it be a good rule to permit substitutions only for injuries?. Is the mass production of multiple teams, or the ex< - cellence of the best athletes the object of college - contests? 2 Yet, even if the answer is “anything goes,” I can’ altogether understand why Army can’t produce ample reserve material.r There are 1800 odd Cadets. They are the physical cream of the country. There ought to be better material there than at any other colleges. ‘Talk to the West Point coaching staff and they will

1 tell you that they don’t get the material because other

colleges can proselyte among high and prep school talent, and they can't. : ue yet 8 & 8 THY can’t they? A West Point appointment and VV education offers more initial advantages than “Proselyting” doesn’t necessarily mean anything improper. I sold ohe of the dest high school ends in the country on Army advantages. He was an All-America in football in two successive years and turned out to be ad

"| goed a young officer as there is in the Army. I don’t | know any unavoidable reason why the Army shouldn’s

be as good as any team. : "But I know several avoidable reasons why it isn’t. The first is that every other college has a profession= al coach. Like it or not, coaching is a profession as: intricate as medicine or law. But not for Army.

” » 8 ” RMY is going to be worse in the future. :The three-year rule in football was intended to pre=

vent semiprofessionalism. Considered against the rigid entrance and semiannual examination require-

‘ments at West Point it was wholly—absurdly—unnec=

essary. West Point stood out for years on principle against any three-year rule prejudicing an athlete, The Navy-minded White House crowd last year

Army athletics are subject to political intervention, even in the distribution of seats at Army games. Well, maybe this is just an old grad grousing. But in this instance he sincerely feels that he has so much to grouse about that it would be cowardice not to do it.

lt Seems to Me | By Heywood Broun

Possibility of Invasion by Radio Censors Is a Scary Thought, Too,

TEW YORK, Nov. 4—I'm still scared. I didn’t hear the broadcast, and I doubt that I would, have called up the police to complain merely because I heard that men from a strange machine were knock= ing the daylights out of Princeton. That doesn’t hape pen to be news this season. My first reaction would have been, “That's no Martian, but merely McDonald of Harvard, carrying the ball on what the coaches call a ‘naked reverse.” ~ Just the same, I live in terror that almost any time now a metal cylinder will come to earth, and: out of it will step fearsome creatures carrying death: ray guns. And their faces will be forbidding, because the next radio invasion is likely to be an expedition. of the censors. Obviously, Orson Welles put too much curdle on the radio ways, but there isn’t a chance on earth that any chain will sanction such a stunt again. In fact, I think it would be an excellent rule to make the provision that nothing can be put forward as a news broadcast unless it actually is news. Nor do I think it would smack of censorship if plugs for a prod=uct were required to be identified as advertising matter. . We have much more reason to fear censors than octopi from the distant skies. The weapons which . they may use can be much more far-reaching and devastating than any to be conjured up in a fane - tastic horror story. It is not a good thing that thou- ; sands of gullible people should be needlessly fright"

“ened out of their wits, if any. Possibly it is too much

to ask the mixed audiences which radio commands to face the inventions of that lively pseudo-scientifis sorte to which the imagination of H. G. Welles turned when he was very young. : The State Department seems fo be unruffled as to visits from Martians. There is no record that any - stranger from that inhabited planet had ever been detained at Ellis Island for questioning or had his visa canceled. Of course, the line of questioning would be obvious. : > :

About Those Canals, Now

According to such astronomy as TI have picked up from the Sunday papers, Mars is noted for its canals, The engineering feat appears so prodigious that there may be reason to suspect that it could be a coe : operative enterprise undertaken by a Socialist state,’ It could even be Communistic. : : To our discomfiture, American officials put no barriers 1n the way of military men from Mars. Their scientists and philosophers would hardly fare as well. In fact, I missed Orson Welles on Sunday. because I was talking to John Strachey, an economist who happens to be a citizen of that same planet of ‘which we are a part.’ 0° ’ : It. is his intention to lecture at American colleges, but he has not yet won legal admission and remains bound‘ to silence on a-temporary parole from EHis ° Island: He came in a ship and not a cylinder and carries no death ray gun, but‘there are those to whom his presence strikes terror. They fear words and ideas, although there is a cherished American belief that these are the staples by which free men

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Watching Your Health

By Dr. Morris Fishbein

HE play “Yellow Jack” has focused public atten ; tion on a disease that used to decimate popula tions and which has been known as among the most destructive of all diseases; namely, yellow fever. This disease is transmitted by the bite of a mosquito. About 14 different varieties of mosquitoes are known to be responsible, The disease has also been found not only in man but in the monkeys of the jungles of South ‘America. . a A special commission of the United States Army, ° including Doctors Reed, Carroll, Lazear and Agromente, demonstrated conclusively that the disease is conveyed by the bite of a mosquito and not in any other way. j About 10 days after a person with yellow fever is . bitten by a mosquito that mosquito: becomes capable of transmitting the disease, Once the method of transmission of yellow feve was established, it became possible to stamp out mue of it in the civilized world, so that at one time only a few spots on the coast of Africa and South America | were infected. Now new methods of transportation, the airplane, have aroused the realization that yellow . fever may come back, People travel in airplanes, 5 Wherever people travel, mosquitoes can travel as well, & Investigation of airplanes coming from yellow fover & areas has revealed mosquitoes in the compartments . occupied by passengers and in the baggage compart= ments. Sometimes the mosquites are on the passengers. ; + In the United States, the Public Health Service has | recognized the danger. Airplanes coming from South > America are disinfected to guard against carrying mosquitoes which carry yellow fever. Studies are alsa being 1 2.83 16 ihe piessise of infacted MONG

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