Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 November 1938 — Page 12

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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 19338

ELECTION PRECAUTIONS VERY precaution seems to have been taken to insure an honest vote in today’s election. Both major parties have posted extra watchers and challengers at election booths. Sheriff Ray has detailed 60 special deputies to watch for intimidation of voters. In addition to hints that some of J. Edgar Hoover's FBI agents are keeping their eyes on the situation, there is the knowledge that irregularities in this election will bring Federal prosecution. : We are glad to see these preparations taken. They ought to go far toward minimizing such a postelection stench as followed the May primary. Few things are more destructive to voting morale than the revelation of trickery and fraud at the polls.

ATTN: HOPKINS AND FDR HE New Deal Administration has shown an especial ~ fondness for rubber-stamp Senators. And when a trade was worked out whereby William H. J. Ely resigned as New Jersey’s WPA Director to become the Democratic nominee for the Senate, the New Dealers were so pleased that they swallowed all the mean things they had said about Jersey’s boss Frank Hague. ~~ What did it matter if Mayor Hague's gorillas: had roughhoused a few labor union organizers and denied to many distinguished Liberals the rights of free speech and free assembly? Why fret about the Bill of Rights when you have a chance to pick up a hundred-percenter New Dealer Senator? Everything that Candidate Ely has said in the campaign confirms the impression that he intends to be a yesyes Senator. But something he said the other night, in a speech at Jersey City, was more than illuminative as to whose rubber stamp he will be. He thanked Mayor Hague —whom he described as “your leader and my leader”’—ifor “conducting such a splendid campaign for me,” and added this clinching pledge: ‘He will not find me wanting when he wants me.”

WE DISCOVER LATIN AMERICA

UNTIL the World War, we Americans knew little about Europe, less about the Orient and almost nothing about Latin America. : The war and its aftermath made us more conscious of Europe and Asia, but we continued to doze alongside our new world neighbors. Only recently, after the hurricane rise of the totalitarian states and the passibility of their impact upon our hemisphere, did we begin to wake up. And therein lies a certain danger. In the sudden popular awakening to the implications of the situation, there is danger that we might impulsively do the wrong thing. In “The Coming Struggle for Latin America” Carletgn Beals reminds us how Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and imperialistic Japan are moving heaven and earth to widen the foothold they already have obtained. The Germans are sending their salesmen into the remotest corners of the continent to work up new customers for their wares. They are pushing steamship and air lines and propagandizing with government-subsidized news and ~ radio facilities. The Italians are similarly engaged. And so are the Japanese. But let’s keep our shirts on. European interest in Latin America is hardly new. In fact it is not as new as ~ the Monroe Doctrine—of which more later—and that goes back 115 years. Germans and Italians have been colonizing Brazil, Argentina, Chile and other South American countries for generations—long before we, as a nation, took any particular interest in foreign trade. ” » = ® = » A GAINST that sort of thing we have no right to complain. If others outdo us in fair competition, that is our hard luck. It is up to us to find a way to turn the tide in our favor. « But if the totalitarian states fail to stop at fair practices, it becomes a different matter. If to advance their economic interests they send in agents to start revolutions and set up new Nazi or other forms of governments, thus virtually annexing our sister republics, we suspect the Monroe Doctrine would come into play as promptly as it would after any other .form of aggression. And we believe it would be more effective today than ever, for at Buenos Aires, in 1936, the doctrine became a Pan American

pact. As for the rest, we agree with Carleton Beals. “We

. gain nothing,” he observes, “by imitating the tactics of the

Fascist powers,” with their subsidized news and sirpilar trickery. In-the long run, “the only way we can exercise sound influence in Latin America is to stand squarely with the democratic and progressive forces in those countries.” As Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles said Sunday night, if we can “guard and maintain inviolate the freedom of men’s souls and intellects” in this hemisphere, and

~~ “through such example, and through such co-operation,

they can aid the establishment of a better world order,” mankind generally will benefit in the long haul, ourselves along with the rest.

NICE VORK, RICHARD

IF the neighborhood children play “cops and robbers” with a little more than their usual gusto for the next few days, you will have to blame 12-year-old Richard Wasson. Richard is the boy who chased a robber from his home the otner night with nothing more potent than an air rifle, Well, sir, it was quite a feat at that. It is not surprising that the achievement of an ambition which lurks hopefully in every juvenile breast has.made him the envy of his fellows. fu It showed fine courage, quick thinking and other qualities of which any adult might well have been proud in

the same emergency.

Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

Bruce Barton Effective When He Likens Some Ardent New Dealers to The Intolerant Type of Reformer.

EW YORK, Nov. 8.—Bruce Barton, who seems to be squinting down the bar’l at the Presidency, passed some remarks in a piece in Collier's recently which describe better than any other effort that I have seen the mental attitude of some of the bigname New Dealers and of the New Deal itself. Mr. Barton perceived in the Washington Administration ‘a distressing growth of that malady that may be termed “the intolerance of the welidoer,” and said that, az a boy, in a country parsonage, where the spare room and the table conversation generally were monopolized by some reformer, he observed that, “No man can so cheerfully eat of his neighbor’s food, make extra cooking and cleaning for his neighbor’s wife, use his neighbor's vehicle and force sacrifices on his neighbor’s children as the man who is bent on reforming the world.” “I discovered,” Mr. Barton wrote, “that nobody can be quite so intolerant, no one can so cheerfully sow such seeds of violent hate, as he who is completely convinced of his own righteousness.” ®.8 > ARTS of this quoted matier suggest the figure of Mr. Harold Ickes, who gets $15,000 a year but when he felt the need of a rest cure put himself away in the Naval Hospital at $3.75 a day for room, board, attendance and all, undoubtedly in the honest belief that service of such value as his to the country deserves such consideration. He also comes to mind along with Mr. Barton's phrase about the sowing of seeds of violent hate by men who believe that they have made financial sacrifices to pursue each his particular line of human betterment. More meaty is the challenge to the idea that because the New Deal is composed of consecrated men—if it is—the removal of those men from office and power would be a step toward some dreadful national fate. : Such an idea has been put forward lately, possibly in deep sincerity, but I just don’t think it is true, preferring to believe that if the New Deal were turned out in 1940 and a Republican or a fusionist Government were installed the gains of the New Deal would be consolidated and improved and business would leap at the chance to employ peop:e.

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CAN'T believe that everything is staked on the continuance of the New Deal and the re-election of President Roosevelt or the election of someone proposed by him. And I do believe that there are several men, not Fascists or Communists, not bigots or rabblerousers, any of whom could turn in a good performance as President. : The New Deal presumes to outlaw as un-Americans almost all those who actively oppose it on any phase, and that obviously can’t be so. The old way has been left behind, but there were good men then there are still good men, intelligent and efficient and as patriotic and devoted to democracy as any New Dealer, who could carry on the Government without resort to hatred. I don’t know what sort of businessman it is who can believe in Nazi-fascism. There must be some, of course. But any businessman or any employee who has listened even an hour to the story of these isms knows that the American system is best. It wasn't agreed when Mr. Roosevelt was elected and re-elected that the New Deal was to be a dead end, and I don’t believe it is.

Business

By John T. Flynn U. S. Could Quiet Old-Age Clamor By Increasing Retirement Pensions.

EW YORX, Nov. 8—The Federal Government is considering a change in the date when old-age pensions under the contributory system shall be paid.

Under the law no pensions will be paid under this portion of the act until 1942. It is proposed to advance the date of payment to 1940. This is a reform which is too insignificant to spend much time on. Under this act pensions are dependent on the length of time a worker has contributed to the plan and the size of his wages during that time. As the plan went into effect only two years ago it will be seen that no one will have been contributing very long by either 1940 or 1942. A man who earned $100 a month every month for 20 years without losing a week's work would only be entitled to about $30 a month pension. So it may be surmised how little a man who had been in this pension system for only five years would get. ? What is more important than advancing the date is to increase the payments for those who have been in the system only a short time. The Federal Government could do this out of the taxes it collects for Social Security. Up to now the Government has collected more than seven hundred million dollars in old-age pension taxes and has paid out in benefits only $5,400,000. The Social Security taxes are so high that for more than 30 years the Government will collect many billions more than it will pay out. There is one other thing it can do. We become excited over the old-age pension schemes of the promising politicians in the West and the Southwest. But much of the success of this movement is due to the niggardly pensions that are paid to old people under the old-age assistance grants. = There are states where the average pension is only $4.95 a month. There are 15 states with average pensions of less than $15 a month and seven states with average pensions of less than $10. : Of course these so-called pensions are ridiculously low and no one can blame the aged for becoming enraged about them. The states may talk about doing more but many of them cannot do very much better. They simply haven’t got the money. The Federal Government could help by changing the law to permit it to pay an average of $15 on every pension where the State contributed as much as $5. This would insure an average . pension of at least $20 a month, This certainly is not exorbitant and it would go a long way toward quieting the immense unrest among the aged.

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

OMEN sound a discordant note at two places in the modern scene—the public bar and the poker table. Although this column has been, and still is, an ardent champion of equal rights, there are certain haunts which womanly charm does not embellish and where feminine talent is out of place. ! Much to-do has already been made about our invasion of the saloon—so much, in fact, that there is little more to be said on the subject, even if it would make the slightest impression. As regards poker, the same goes. One phase of the New Freedom to which I cannot reconcile myself is the sight of so many lovely ladies “feeding the kitty.” Perhaps that’s because I remember so well the time when no woman dared to stick her nose into a room where a game was in progress, unless it would be to bear refreshments to the exhausted players. What majesterial calm reigned while the hands were studied! What magnificent nonchalance was exhibited by the losers!—for a gentleman was known then by the kind of poker he played. In a room ‘thick with cigar smoke, where brass cuspidors gleamed goldenly in the gloom, the coatless, collarless clan would sit far into the night matching their wits and tasting, to the last sweet drop, the peculiar, intoxicating elixir of comradeship that only men knqw how to brew. For a little while, the clashing of sex differences receded into the background and the henpecked husband became a miniature Hitler, as his pile of chips increased. With the passing of the poker game “for gentlemen only,” something sturdy, romantic and virile went out of our world.

—By Talburt

The Hoosier Forum

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

LAUDS HERING DEFENSE OF F. O. E. PENSIONS By J. Pierce Cummings It is a matter of considerable gratification to members of the Fraternal Order of Eagles and to the memory of the pathfinders who first blazed the trail for Old-Age Pensions and Widow's Pensions to see our great fraternal leader, the Hon. Frank E. Hering of South Bend, boldly defend the order

against political usurpers and demagogs. In a message to “Fair-Minded Voters,” Mr. Hering has said: “Disregard the claims of politicians and organizations that selfishly seek their own ends. The truth is that the Eagles wrote most of the state old-age pension laws and: all laws are based on the Eagles’ Model Bill, written in 1921. The money of the PF. O. E. financed a nation-wide educational campaign. The efforts of the FP. O. E. crystallized national sentiment.” Furthermore, Mr. Hering, chairman of the National Old-Age Pension Commission of the F. O. E,, has not hesitated to give credit where credit is due to individual Congressmen and legislators who supported the Eagles’ plan. 1It is gratifying to observe that the friends of the Eagles’ Old-Age Pension Plan, which ultimately became the National Social Security Act, are still standing conservatively upon this

terically into the advocacy of impractical, Utopian dreams. We do best by our old people by working on the progressive development of the welfare program fostered by the Eagles. 2» =» AMERICAN WORKER

REGIMENTED, IS CLAIM By R. Sprunger : The trouble with E. F. Maddox is that he is of the 10 per cent who think they think and have no conception of pure democracy. This group, along with the nonthinkers,

are gullible prey for the 1 per cent who own the tools of production and rule our lives with economic dictatorship masked by political democracy. Do you call it justice for workers to produce wealth only to have it taken from them by this selfish group whose purpose it is to get something for nothing? You have spoken of regimentation. Who is any more regimented than the American worker who is told by the capitalistic owners how and when he can work and how much he will get? Just why are you opposed to collective ownership of industry and distribution democratically con-

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trolled by the people so that all will receive full value for their labor? Why pay tribute to another human for the right to work and live? Why do you defend a system that has brought on the chaotic conditions we see about us? Is it that you harbor a secret hope that by some fluke you will arrive at the “top” and have power over others? Why don’t you argue a question on its merits instead of screaming “communism” at progressive measures? As. far as the radical and labor movements are concerned, they were here many years before “Red” Russia was ever heard of. 8 ” 2 DRUNKEN PEDESTRIAN CALLED TRAFFIC PERIL By Lewis F. Frazeur Every automobile, like a firearm,

is a potential killer. Pedestrians, as well as drivers, must realize this

THE JUBILEE

By ANNA E. YOUNG It seemed a colony of birds Were holding, Holiday ; Across from me in yonder elm Whose limbs so gently sway.

At first I heard a robin, bold Then a timid little wren Then there burst forth a rhapsody Of countless bird notes, then

A blue jay called unto his mate A sparrow twittered, low A dove sent forth her sweet CooCoo And, I thought, I heard a crow!

Then I looked to see how many birds Were in this, Jubilee And please believe me when I say One was all, that I did see.

Just one, a wee gay songster One bird, upon my soul The only bird up in yon tree Was a swinging Oriole!

DAILY THOUGHT

Be merciful unto me, O God, be merciful unto me: for my soul trusteth in thee.—Psalms 57:1.

HE greatest attribute of heaven

is mercy. —Beaumont and Fletcher,

fact. The use of liquor increases this hazard. Laws prohibiting the driving of automobiles by persons “under the influence of intoxicating liquors” are enforced. The following court decision is self-explanatory: “The statutory offense of driving an automobile upon a public street while under the influence of intoxicating liquor differs from a public or common nuisance in this: The former offense is complete when the thing prohibited by statute (Phamp. L. 1913, p. 103) has been done, whether with or without inconvenience or annoyance to the public, whilst the latter offense is not complete unless and until there is an inconvenience or annoyance to the public. “It is not essential to the exist-

ence of the offense prohibited by the supplement of 1913 to the Disorder-

ly Persons Act (Phamp. L. 1913, p. 103), that the driver of the automobile should be so intoxicated that he can not safely drive a car. The expression, ‘under the influence of intoxicating liquors,’ covers not only all well-known anr easily recognized conditions and degrees of intoxication, but any abnormal mental or physical condition which is the result of indulging any any degree in intoxicating liquors and which tend to deprive him of that clearness of intellect and control of = himself which he would otherwise possess.” (State v. Rogers, 91 N. J. L. 212 syllabuses 4, 5.) A pedestrian under the influence of alcoholic liquor is as truly a hazard to traffic, ‘apart from the legal element of inconvenience or annoyance to the public. Highways should be safe for autoists as well as pedestrians. A drink of beer to impair his normal mental reaction may make a pedestrian, as well s driver, responsible for a serious accident. Why should the law grant apedestrian a greater license on streets than a driver in the same condition? >

” 2 DEFENDS RIGHT TO KEEP DOGS By L. Zook More about dogs: A. B. C. and I. M. Lee show by their letters how selfish they are. No doubt their neighbors get the same pleasure from pets that they get from their

gardens, etc. In other words they are saying “little you” should be

deprived by law of your pleasure in your pets so that “big I” can enjoy mine more fully. What about A. B. C. and I. M. Lee and others like them appreciat-

ing their neighbors’ rights as well as their own?

LET'S EXPLORE YOUR MIND

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NOT AT ALL. The comic strip of the newspaper is one place ‘where the genius ‘and the moron find a common ground of enjoy-

By DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM

15 ITA S)GN OF A VERY COMMON-

PLACE NEN ED NOY =

YOUR OPINION ——

2 SHOUMAR RIGE BE CNOIDERED, a FALE J RING POEs

ment. This is because the main appeal is not to the intellect but to

things and for much the same reasons. They like to see the main character get into a tight place and then by a clever ruse get out. People who claim they don’t enjoy comic ‘strips are either trying to be “highbrow” or else are too stupid to enjoy life. 2 ” E J NO. In probably nine happy marriages out of 10 romance does not last because real love succeeds it. Romance is a frightfully disturbed emotional state—a provision of nature to draw two people together—but any couple that expects this high state of ecstatic excitement to continue, and every kiss to bring the blood rushing to their heads are a couple of hopeless adoles-

_|cents. Congeniality and not ro-

mance is the best guarantee of permanent happiness in marriage.

~ ” ® ” 3 3 NO. Paul N. Farnsworth, Stan- ; ford psychologist, arranged the birth dates of more than 7000 artists and musicians under their birth signs in the Zodiac. All authorities (?) on astrology claim Libra is the best sign to be born under if you wish to be a painter or musician. But fewer painters and musicians

Gen. Johnson Says— National Trend in Today's Poll

Likely to Be Rebuff to New Deal For Domination of Legislature. -

ASHINGTON, Nov. 8—In the snowstorm of comment and prediction on this election, this column has had little to say. It did not know what to say. Several of the contests are too close to predict without a crystal ball. The guess as to whether the Republicans are going to win 20 or 60 seats in the House, or four or six Senators, or half ‘a dozen Governors is anybody’s.. : That is not nearly so important as shifts, if any, in experienced popular majorities as compared with 1836. The outcome of local elections is not nearly so important as the shift in number of votes on a national scale. . I wouldn’t take a chance in predicting any election in closely contested states. But I have no doubt whatever about what the statistics of election will show on the point just put. The idea of push-buttori representation in Congress, of too much executive domination in the legislature, is almost certain to get a nation-wide rebuff so far as greatly decreased ma~ Jorities, compared with 1936, can show it. You can't travel across this country without sensing it. !

” ” ” - T2 may indicate no moderation of extreme third \ / New Deal policies and proposals in the new Cone! gress. Whether it does or not will be entirely a mate, ter of the President's political interpretation of it. If. he takes it to mean a real turn in the tide of popular opinion, he will act accordingly. He is the best polit ical judge of recent times. His eye is on 1940. He has

a wide ground for a swing toward the right without losing any important leftward support whatever. The latter element has no place else to go. Mr. Roosevelt's danger is not nearly so much of losing support there, as it is in losing support in the center and right. The President’s pre-election speech gave business a new case of jitters. They say that it indicafes no wish for business co-operation with Government and is cane firmation of their fear that the O’Mahoney antie monopoly investigation is going to be a holy inquisi<

tion. I CAN'T see that it indicated any such things, It stressed the President’s favorite theme of continuity of “liberal” government and pleaded for the elec tion of “liberal” candidates. Why wouldn't it? That is the way he has believed his political course should. be set. Until he is convinced by a shift in votes that such is not the temper and belief of the people, why. should he change his theme on the eve of an election? The direction of the third New Deal policy depends not on that speech but on this election. But it de pends more on the trends of popular opinion that it shows than on the particular candidates who are elected. If it reveals as tlearly as was shown by the. abortive purge of Democratic primary candidates, that the people do not want a piano-board Congress on which the President can play any tune he likes, that this country does not like the third New Deal as well as it likes the President, that it is not a sentence of political death to oppose the Corcoran-Cohen-Hopkins. junta, then the Administration will surely shift to the right. : ! If it shows to the contrary, then “we ain't seen nothin’ yet.” :

It Seems to Me

By Heywood Broun

Mr. Priestley Speaks Out of Turn In Attack on N. Y. Drama Critics.

EW YORK, Nov. 8.—A little while ago this column gently chided the dramatic critics of New York and alleged that they were just a shade too jaded. It was an il-timed piece, for presently “Oscar Wilde” was produced, and a little later “Abe Lincoln in Illie nois,” and the reviewers rushed out from the sidelines to tear down the goal posts and go into a snake dance, Once a playwright can pierce the toughened epidermis of American critics he will find that underneath the hide of the man there lurks a cheer leader. But even if this were not true the time has come to close ranks against the invader. J. B. Priestley, British dealer in Whimsy-Whamsy, has just sounded off in London, England, with an attack on the noblest work of man. I refer, of course, to the New York dramatic critic. - And when Old Ironside is attacked by alien guns I feel certain that first-nighters, Players, Lambs and the Shuberts will join together to make common cause in defense of our ‘own. Mr. Priestley is a champion egg layer as far as Broadway is concerned, and it is from a sore and stricken heart that he sets down his resentment.“What I imagine to be dramatic and moving,” he complains, “a New York critic (whoever he is) cone siders trivial and tedious. Just as much of what they think brilliant, original and profound in the theater has seemed to me merely slick and trumpery.” :

Both Cute and Cosmic

But in all truth it is Mr. Priestley who is the slicker, for he has not been content to write plays about today or yesterday or tomorrow. Instead he turns his feeble field glasses on eternity. By a curious contortion he manages to be both cute and cosmic. His last play was called “I Have Been Here Before,” and life is certainly minimized by such spectators as walk out on

I am less bitter toward escapists than some of my best friends. I think the man who runs away may live to fight another day? If he can find refreshment in a binge or by wallowing in fantasy I am quite will« ing to wish him a happy landing. But whimsy has its addicts just as well as whisky. Playing at Peter Pan stunts the growth of both the individual and the na tion. : If the dissolution of the British Empire now seems to be in progress the seeds of this disintegration can be found in the national literature. I think a shrewd prophet might have caught an inkling of the days to come even when Rudyard Kipling was sonorously celebrating the might and majesty of a far-flung imperialism. For Kipling did sneak off behind the barn to write tales of talk among the animals. And when an author bends his ear to record what the baboons have to say, and the reply of the elephants, he gives clear testimony of a feeling thas the conversation of his countrymen has lost its savor,

Watching Your Health

By Dr. Morris Fishbein

ORE and more attention is being paid to a disease which occurs mostly in men of middle age or past, commonly called Buerger’s disease, but also known as thromboangitis obliterans. That long technical name means that it is a condition which exists in the blood vessels, by causing them to become inflamed so that clots form and passage of the blood is slowed. ; Usually the disease starts with pain in one leg, but later appears in the other. The legs get cold, then there are spasms of the blood vessels” in the legs. Later there is swelling and even ulceration or gane grene. : : While the disease involves the legs far more often than any other part of the body, it may occasionally involve the arms and sometimes hoth the arms and the legs. Occasionally the condition gffects the blood vessels of the heart, in which case the symptoms are more serious in their effect. : It is customary in this disease to put the patient promptly to bed, to apply heat, which is an aid in improving the circulation, and to practice various alternate hot and cold water treatments, and chexsges in position of the limbs so as to help circulation.

A new device has been developed which produces alternate pressure and suction to epecourage the flow of blood through the limbs. In some cases in of salt solutions or similar substances is made into the, blood vessels so as to improve their condition and tet ease passing of the blood. : “*, . In the belief that the condition might be like ap infection, an attempt was made fo bring about stimus lation by the injection of a foreign protein substan About this, however, physicians ‘are doubtful and ce

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