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Give Light and the People Wilt Find Their Own Way

MONDAY, NOVEMBER ' 7, 1938

THE NATIONAL ELECTION HOUGH Democratic victories are predicted in tomorrow’s State and County election here, the Republicans have a chance to pick up two or three Congressional seats elsewhere in Indiana. In other states the G. O. P. is given a fighting chance of gaining 40 or more Congressional seats, in addition to several Senatorial and Gubernatorial victories. It will be the first time in eight years—eight years in which succeeding elections have whittled G. O. P. holdings to an all-time low: Only 90 of the 435 seats in the U. S. House of Representatives, only 15 of the 96 seats in the Senate and only seven of the 48 governorships. For the last two years, at least, the Republicans have heen a major political party in name only. But even Democratic leaders admit that tomorrow’s ballots will give new strength and militancy to the opposition. This trend away from a lopsided one-party domination back toward the traditional two-party government is all part of a larger trend toward a more even balance in our political system, more equality of power in the executive, legislative and judicial branches, and a sharper division of responsibility between Federal and State governments. In our opinion, it is a healthy trend. For this Government was so set up that it functions best when the checks and balances are real and operative. With smaller majorities in the two Houses, the Chief Executive will be constrained to work with legislative leaders, to quit the hand-out technique employed, for example, with the court bill, and to put forward only those measures which the, majority legislators will approve and voluntarily - vote for in face of sturdy opposition. The result should be a better-considered and more cohesive program. A swing toward a more even executive-legislative-judi-cial balance will be all to the good for the country. Likewise the one-party dominion over so many of the State governments has encouraged State Administrations to bid for popular support not so much on their own accomplishments as on their ability to wangle favors from Washington. And out of it all, we have seen an unprecedented rise and fattening of political machines, the humanitarianism of relief turned into a spoilsmen’s feast, calloused politicians making free and easy use of tax money to perpetuate their power. The mere passing of a fey more States into the control of the opposition party will not abolish this evil. But it should check its spread. When rival political parties are strong enough to police “nd restrain each other, the people get a break.

EMINDER : - F VERY indication points to one of the largest offyear election votes in Marion County’s history. This means many voting booths will be jammed during tain hours of the day tomorrow. Some of this crowding up is inevitable, of course, since 1aany working people can vote only in the early morning qours or late in the afternoon after work. But the rest of us can ease the situation by slipping out in those mid-morning and mid-afternoon hours when voting is normally the lightest, thus getting out of the way of those who have no alternative except the rush-hour periods.

AMERICA HAS ARRIVED

E can remember when European newspapers went for days without more than a paragraph or two under an American dateline. To most people across the Atlantic, the United States was a land of stockades inside. which white settlers lived in constant fear of being scalped. Now those good old days are gone. By and large, more is said about America than almost any other country. And it is not always complimentary. Just now the Nazi press is smearing us with pages of abuse. It seems that we are only “a land of gangsters,” that while we boast of being the greatest country on earth, we really are a nation of bums and breadlines ; of people “camping” in slums “victoriously dwarfed by the skyscrapers of Jewish high-finance.” They are smearing the Catholics, the President and all of us. We are accused of meddling in European affairs; of intriguing against Germany in Latin America; of bury-

ing our heads in the sand of China because we fear Japan.

Dr. Goebbels, the Nazi minister of mudslinging, has been much occupied up to now smearing Czechoslovakia, Britain, France, and Germany’s other neighbors. He has been too busy to take on America. But now he is wallowing in anti-American billingsgate up to his eyebrows. We must not take the phenomenon too seriously. It’s an old European custom and one at which the Nazis are peculiarly and particularly adept. Like the six-months-old puppy that went hunting in the woods and got mixed up with a polecat, in a way we had it coming to us. We ourselves have had a few things to say about the Nazis. The only trouble is we can’t match Dr. Goebbels and his puppet press when it comes to either quantity or quality of nastiness. Nor do we know what, if anything, can be done about’it. The aforesaid puppy usually learns his ‘lesson promptly and forever afterward gives a wide berth to animals of that particular stripe. But this is a free country, fortunately for us, with a free press and free speech. And we wouldn't change those institutions one iota, even if we could. So, we suppose, the best we can do is to develop our capacity to take it, as well as dish it out, until in the process of evolution our olfactory organs develop to the point where, like certain Europeans, we become immune.

THE CAMPAIGN

PEOPLE get all worked up. They say things they don’t ~ 7 mean. They repeat a lot of fifth and sixth-hand gossip. "Usually temperate folks work themselves into furious passions. They think their side can’t lose. And when it does, they charge shenanigans. Gi. Sure, just another campaign. Basketball this time.

Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

Maybe Mrs. Roosevelt Has Right Idea and Now Would Be Good Time To Try to Fathom German People.

EW YORK, Nov. 7.—At the risk of seeming hopelessly naive I wonder if any good could come of a proposal once advanced by Mrs. Roosevelt that people try to understand one another and their problems in times of temper and touchy pride. We and the Germans have tried everything else in the clash of ideals which has been tending toward a rub of interests and national vanity. For more than a hundred years we have got along

with the British, whose arrogance toward the United States is not yet matched by anything that the Germans have said to us. The Germans have been rude, it is true, but we managed to keep peace with Great Britain at times when the British were fond of saying out loud that the only thing that saved us from a good hiding by their fleet and soldiers was John Bull's lofty tolerance of our impudence. But things are different now, and wars are so terrible that we could lose nothing by an effort to discover in the nature of this new Germany some of those human traits which people of the same racial stock have revealed as citizens, friends, neighbors and relatives in the United States.

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HESE traits seem to be utterly suppressed in Germany as a state, but are we to believe they are extinct in the German people? That could be observed in individuals in Germany at moments when they are off parade and the problem suggested by Mrs. Roosevelt's proposal would be to reach them and see what makes them tick and let them understand what makes Americans tick, too. : To distinguish between Nazi propaganda and honest information would be difficult and, of course, the anti-American bunds would be out, but the Steuben sdtieties seem to be sincere and might be given a hearing. The trouble then would be to obtain a hearing for the American people with German people. Their leaders have reversed themselves more startlingly before this. Only a couple of years ago they were schooling their adults as well as the children in a belief that the Italians’ swarthy complexion was imported from Africa, and look what chums the Germans and Italians are now! Maybe that is Hitler's idea of a joke. He is hard to understand sometimes.

N the excitement of these days we forget that Britain and France, too, have fought a few predatory and political wars in the life of this country and that our idealism didn’t reach the boiling point. And, if it comes to that, what is the difference, except in dates, between the acquisition of parts of the British and French empires and Mussolini’s conquest of Abyssinia? Is the German brutality the brutality of the people or of the Government? Do we know? Our imported Germans of the days before 1914 and their children have not been the cruel people. The British tortured the Irish almost as badly, but the British common people were not responsible. If, by the mutual understanding between peoples that Mrs. Roosevelt spoke of, the Germans could be induced to soften up, that would be a gain. It sounds hopeless, but it is the one possibility that has not been fried. Only a big people can do it. A little people would be suspected of fear. Possibly Dire a human faces under these German helmets, after all.

Business By John T. Flynn

Pension Change Urged Requiring U. S. Pay States Half Average Cost.

EW YORK, Nov. T.—Here is a suggestion for the amendment of the Social Security Act. It has to do with old-age pensions. It originates with the American Association for Social Security. Washington is rigidly disturbed about the wave of old-age pension utopias flooding the states. And reports from Washington give ground for the fear that the Administration feels it must compete in some way with these extravagant pension schemes. Therefore

it is said that the Administration is playing with the idea of increasing the Federal contributions toward old-age pensions from $15 to $20 a month. At present the Social Security Board will pay one-

“half of the pension given by the state to any person

up to $30 a month. If the state fixes the pension at $30, the Federal Government will pay half of it—that is up to $15. The new idea is to increase the board's share to $20, that the state may pay $40 a month pensions and get half of this from the Government. The proposal offered by the American Association Is a substitute for this and it seems a very wise one. Increasing the Federal Government's share to $20 will not help very much, At present few states pay or can pay as high as $30, so that actually most of the

states are not calling even for the $15 contribution the

Government will make. To get the Government's $20 the state will have to pay $20. But as nearly all the states now cannot match the Government's $15 share, raising it to $20 would be just fooling the old people. Here is a far better way to change the act. At present the Government deals with each pension case individually. That is if Oklahoma pays old Mr. Smith $20 and Mrs. Jones $10, the Government will pay $10

toward the Smith pension and $5 toward the Jones pension. : :

The American Association proposes that the Government pay one-half of the average pension in the state. Then the state could pay pensions as high as $40 or move if it felt financially able,

. In other words fhe Government nee y limit on the size of pensions the ed ol any It would pay one-half of the total of all pensions, no matter how high the individual pension was, provided that the Federal contribution did not exceed $15 for each pension. To illustrate, on two pensions of $20 and $40, respectively, now the Government would pay $10 on one and $15 on the other. Total, $25. Under the proposed plan the average of these two pensions would be $30. The Government would therefore pay one-half the average on each, or $15 each, a total Government contribution of $30’ instead of $25.

A Woman's Viewpoint

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

o= lady educators have a habit of hitting the nail on the head. This time it’s Dean Margery Nicolson of Smith College who goes out with her hammer and takes a whack at it.

She said recently: “The fundamental reason that women do not achieve so greatly as men do is that women have no wives. Until such time as science or economics correct this blunder of nature we shall remain, I fear, the inferior sex.” It doesn’t require the brains of a college professor to understand’ what the Dean is driving at—that masculine achievement is partly due to feminine encouragement and applause. Nobody, I think, is in a position to dispute the fact, besause we all realize that behind every man who has made good there has stood a woman who loved him and believed in him. Even the men admit it. Some of the most vividly remembered among certain boring incidents of my childhood were sermons and public addresses I had to listen to in which some notable figure gave his “dear old mother” or his “wonderful helpmate” full credit for his rise in the community. It was very touching and, as I came to see later, wholly true. It isn’t always a wife and mother, of course. Sometimes it's a devoted sister, such as Dorothy Wordsworth, who certainly made brother William into a celebrated poet. Among the less famous, the same condition exists. Millions of little men depend upon their women for strength to accomplish. feebler deeds.

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CRITICIZES HISTORY TAUGHT IN SCHOOLS

By Reader

For many years no histories except those written by highly biased Southern writers have been allowed in the schools of the South. Their histories laud the “heroic” deeds of everyone connected with the Con-

ridicule everyone connected with the cause of the Union from President Lincoln on down.

Their histories have been said to misrepresent the number of men in every battle of the Civil War. Some years ago the Daughters of the Confederacy announced their purpose to carry their “Campaign of Education” into the North. It seems they have found some persons in Indiana to carry out their plans. Will the people of Indiana stand for this propaganda being crowded down the throats of their children?

¥ 2 8 ASKS DIVINE GUIDANCE ON ELECTION DAY By Max Kinney

men toil and sweat; in mills and mines, in factories and stores and offices; widows with little, fatherless children; the dependent aged, who ask only the creature comforts of life for their last days .. . all these will say a fervent prayer tcnight . . . that God may guide our judgments , . , on this fateful ciection day! 2 2 ” . DENIES CALLING BUSINESS ITS OWN ENEMY By W. Scott Taylor

In view of the heading on my last letter it is only fair to ask that an error be corrected. There was nothing in that letter justifying the heading: “Calls Businessman Worst Enemy.” There is something in it which would have justified the heading: “Calls Businessman in Government His Own Worst Enemy,” but it was edited out. The writer does not believe that businessmen are our worst enemies. On the contrary, he believes that if little businessmen are encouraged to restore competition in America by tax rates graduated according to the volume of business, in the same way that income taxes are graduated according to the size of the income, that the little businessman can be the salvation of America, by developing new industries. This was resisted by the group headed by Chairman Pat Harrison, who, as far as he dared, provided the same flat rates on business, great and small. This group, the

federate armies and belittle and|’

Out on the rolling acres where,

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anti-New Deal Democrats, is the same group the newspapers are sup‘porting against Roosevelt. In view of the incorrect heading, I ask that the words which were eliminated be published. They were: “Is it not fair to say that the businessman in government is his own worst enemy when after their long rule in this country they had to rush tothe government for help? Obtaining the help for themselves, they sought to deny it for their victims, as mere waste and extravagance. After their long rule in England, they rush to the dictators for mercy—mercy which they denied to the subject peoples under their control. Their justice is like the justice rendered in this country, until lately—the justice that yields to strength, but never to weakness.” The writer is for little business men in business, not big businessmen in government,

» #® ® CLAIMS DEMOCRATS ORDERED TO PARADE By R. A.

I am mildly amused by the statement in Friday's paper that Dem-

TO A LITTLE LADY

By ALBERTA DUNCAN STIER Shy, little winsome miss, Having reached the age of six; Playing at your make believe Every happy and carefree

Tousled, golden, sleepy head, Shunning every thought of bed; Trying all your artful wiles Just to stay awake awhile.

Eyes grow weary, prayers said, Time for you to be in bed; Please God, hear my prayer to-

night, Ever keep her safe and ‘right.

DAILY THOUGHT Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and He shall sustain thee: He shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.—Psalms 55:22.

OD governs the world, and we have only to do our duty wisely, and leave the issue to Him.— John Hay.

ocratic leaders were gratified by the “enthusiastic response” at the rally the night before. Everybody knows that each and every political employee was instructed (not invited) to take part and had to report to his precinct committeeman immediately preceding the parade so that proper retribution could be dished out later to those. who failed to show up. Yours for continued purity in government. y = ® QUOTES BLACKSTONE ON PROPERTY RIGHTS By C. L. Easum, Crothersville Sic ’em Dies¢Committee— “There is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination and engages the affections of mankind as the right of property; or that sole and despotic dominion which one man claims and exercises over the external things of the world, in total exclusion of the right- of any other individual in the universe. “And yet there are very few that will give themselves the trouble to consider the origin and foundation of this right. Pleased as we are with the possession, we seem afraid to look back to the ineans by which it was acquired, as if fearful of some defect in our title; or at best we rest satisfied with the decision of the laws in our favor, without examining the reason or authority upon which those laws have been built. “We think it enough that our

title is derived by the grant of the former proprietor, by descent from

and testament of the dying owner; not caring to reflect that (accurately and strictly speaking) there is no foundation in nature or in natural law why a set of words upon parchment should convey the domain of land; why the son should have a right to exclude his fellow creatures from a determinate spot of ground because his father had done so before him; or why the occupier of a particular field or of jewel, when lying on his death-bed,

land no longer able to maintain

jon, should be entitled to tell the rest of the world which of them should enjoy it after him. These inquiries it must be owned, would be useless and often troublesome in

of mankind will obey the laws when made, without scrutinizing too nicely into the reasons for making them.”—Blackstone’s Commentaries on English Law.

1 IT TAKES so long nowadays tor young men to become able to support a wife that many young women are marrying much older men who have found their place in lal world. e.

LET'S EXPLORE YOUR MIND

By DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM

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earn the living and thus enable the two to marry. Among more mature women the trend is to marry men many years older and scarcely ope

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; pends on the kind of environment and on the kind of individuals. Placé a genius and a moron in a class in higher algebra or astronomy and the moron would find it a dug out while to the genius it would be “a gold mine in the skies.” This environment would make them more unlike. But place them both in a fishing boat,- where the moron could probably do as well as the genius, and this environment would probably make them more alike. You just can’t make a dogmatic. answer that covers all persons and all environments. ® 8.8 ‘ IT'S A mighty risky business. Marriage is not a_ happy melting pot into which you can toss all sorts of contrary elements and expect them to be fused into one If romance cannot fuse them ' together

“11t is not likely that marriage will.

Married people have to live together, not by spells of moonlight nights and joy-rides but all the time, and pay grocery and doctor bills and insurance together, and rear children together and live whatever “religious = or irreligious life. they may have together

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Gen. Johnson Says— -

West Point Course Is Not Flexible, But Cadets. Are Well Grounded in Sciences and Other Basic Subjects.

ASHINGTON, Nov. 7.—The norpolitical ques- . ©.V tion most frequently asked me comes from people who have sons approaching college age. It is, “How about sending my boy to West Point? What kind of an education is that?” : There have been some recent criticisms of the West Point course of study from an educator's standpoint, that it is not flexible enough, that it is not sufficiently liberal, that it does not develop enough personal initiative. : I may be a poor and prejudiced adviser. Generally, if you ask a Harvard or a Siwash man what is the best college, he will say “Harvard” or “Siwash” as the case/may be. West Pointers, as a rule, are no different. I happento be a graduate also of a great state university and a small teachers’ college. : It is true that the West Point course is not flexible, Every cadet takes exactly the same course. There are no “electives” and no exceptions. I will also admit that the instructors are not trained educators.” They are simply graduates of the same course sent back from their regular Army duties for a four-year hitch, The instruction can’t be expected to be as efficient that of a professional teacher.

UT that instruction is given in groups of 12 cadets. Every man has to recite in every subject every day. The assignments of lessons are stiff and every man is marked every day on a high and very rigid standard. If a boy fails in one single subject—once, he is, with few exceptions, finished. It gets to be a matter of fierce pride with nearly every cadet not

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‘to fail. While almost half of them do fall, it is rarely

for lack of earnest effort. . What I am trying to say is whatever the shortcomings of the course may be, it is at least well ground into every graduate. ‘As to the course itself, it is really a sort of prescientific training based upon and shot through: with mathematics, It carries no subject, such as chemistry, electricity or engineering further than its fundamentals but it builds them solidly. A cadet is so thoroughly grounded in several sciences that, if he wanted to, he could carry on in almost any of them. 2 2 8 1= principal stress is an unusually firm attempt : at character building—honesty, honor, loyalty and courage. In that I think the academy is generally more successful than any other college. Coupled with that is the best all round physical training and de-

velopment in the world.

When a boy gets out of West Point, he is far from being highly educated—even as a soldier. But he has as broad and firm a foundation for any kind of education as he could get anywhere. ; Yes, I would send my boy to West Point if I could. (I did so.) But if I did, I would realize that while he could do well at anything when he came out, the chances are nine out of 10 that all he will want to do will be to be a soldier. . He won't have to do that but he almost certainly will. ‘I don’t know anything the matter with that. It is the cleanest and most satisfactory life and profession that I know—and I have lived in several,

lt Seems to Me By Heywood Broun Friends Should Have Advised Dewey

That Issues Merited His Attention, -

EW YORK, Nov. 7—I am distinctly puzzled when I read statemenis which suggest that it will be very difficult for the voter to decide between Lehman

and Dewey because they are both good men and stand

for much the same things. : The first part of that is all right. I have no doubt that the Governor and District Attorney are both honest and amiable. But the political issue is simple and palpable. Whether it be the will of the candidates or not, there is a good deal more at stake than the Governorship. Anybody who thinks that the State of New York and the country as a whole should go back to the leadership of the conservative wing of the Republican party can further that hope by voting for Thomas E. Dewey. Those who are against Hooverism and for the New Deal will vote for Mr. Lehman. It may be that those who have tried to estimate the issues merely by listening to Mr. Dewey’s radio speeches will be a little muddled. It was a little ironical that just the other day the radio program “Information, Please,” had to cede part of its time to Mr. Dewey. That was certainly carrying coals away from Newcastle. Information is. just about the last thing which Mr. Dewey has been dispensing this campaign. He is a fearless District Attorney, but certainly he is not a candidate who lingers any appreciable time upon a business issue, In fact, the Republican leaders are asking the voters to take a prosecutor in a poke,

Reason for Vocal Vigor At first I was inclined to be irritated at the manner in which Thomas Dewey hollers when he is on the air, but now I realize that he has reason for his vocsl vigor. When a man has nothing in particular to say he just has to make it twice as loud. It is possible that Tom Dewey has very definite ideas upon all the fundamental political and economic issues of the day. He must, for instance, have a position on labor. But none except his intimates in the Republican leadership knows*the answer to this question and many others. Apparently they are satisfied, and the voters of New York are asked to charge ahead

like members of the Light Brigade. It is not theirs ta

reason why. All that is to be left to the high command. And the G. O. P. leaders seem to feel that it will be better for the people: to know after election rather than before. Again this may be sound strategy. ; The plan is that Mr. Dewey shall win through drift rather than mastery of the issues. Still, it is a little annoying to hear so much about One-Punch Dewey and the forthright Galahad and all the rest of it. A bullhead by a river's brim fulfills his destiny if he goes with the current. But when he begins to cry out, “Look at me, I'm a ‘salmon leaping up the rapids,” his best friends ought to tell him.

Watching Your Health

By Dr. Morris Fishbein

HEREAS it was once thought that there was but a single pneumonia germ; it is now known that there are many different types. Classification includes up to 22 or more. Some types are much more important than others, because of the frequency with which they are found. os : Some forms of pneumonia germ which are not virulent are found frequently in the mouths of people so that bacterfologists report that 80 to 90 per cent of people carry pneumonia germs. Many times, however, these germs are not capable of causing disease in a normal person. It seems possible that sometimes a germ which is not ordinarily virulent may

take on new form in which it is quite dangerous. * The germs do mot live long outside the human body. When they are exposed:to sunlight they d in a short time. Apparently an hour and a half is the limit of time & germ can live in sunlight. There are records indicating that germs have lived as long as 10 days in a dark room in contact with moist sputum. i : fore o There are also records that germ suspended in

the air in badly ventilated rooms in which persons with

pneumonia have coughed have lived for several hours. Such virulent germs coming in contact with a person who is suceptible or who is in contact with large numbers of people may cause pneumonia. The symptoms of pneumonia have been so frequently described that little is to be gained by telling about them again. It is important to prevent the spread of this most fatal of all acute diseases.

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