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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1938 |

CHANGE IN CLIMATE

4 E have a new moral climate in America,” said President Roosevelt in one of his addresses to Congress. From the day Roosevelt took office, through all the years of his first term, and well on past November 1936 probably the greatest factor in the New Deal’s {tremendous appeal ran to that very thought. After more than a decade of political materialism the New Deal swept across the

nation like an exhilarating breath of pure air. Almost a religious fervor prevailed among its followers. Its accomplishments were those of a holy cause. Its mistakes were quickly and freely forgiven, because its heart was in the right place, its intent weighted with idealism, its objectives unselfish and unsullied. At last the crassness and cynicism which had come to be symbolic of politics had been “driven from the temple.” A glorious day had dawned. Then, in the spring of 1938, things began to appear that somehow didn’t seem to fit into a moral climate. The sexton was seen taking a sly dip into the poor box. Feet of clay began to show under the tunics of some of the disciples. That night .of June 3, 1938, when the Hatch amendment was defeated in the U. S. Senate may be called the turning point—when condemnation of politics in relief was rejected and the green light given to a new and streamlined spoils system. The New Deal went “practical.” “We hope to live to see the day when such shameless cynicism will be punished. at the polls,” said an editorial the next day. You know the story. Of Kentucky. And later of other states, as revealed by the Sheppard committee. Of shakedowns of WPA workers for campaign contributions. Of women on sewing projects being told to change their party registrations and to vote accordingly. Of denials, first, from on high, then alibis, then the condonement that silence gives. It is unnecessary to review the whole sordid affair. ‘Nor yet the story of the New Deal's equally practical relationship with the brutal Hague machine in New Jersey. An old, old situation had developed—older than Caesar's wife. Those who preach must remain pure. The town rake can philander a bit and get away with it. But not the parson. : : The swing of the by-elections happened because of numerous occurrences—labor warfare, sit-down strikes, the condition of business, taxes, loose spending, and many others. But not the least of the causes was public disillusionment brought about by the discovery that New Dealers were, after all, like other men. We have lived to see the day when cynicism was punished at the polls. And not the least of the good results was the disproving of the political epigram that you “can’t beat four billion dollars.”

PARDON FOR MOONEY FTER 22 years a pardon is in sight for Tom Mooney. California at last has elected a Governor who not only proclaims his belief that Mooney is innocent of the San Francisco bomb murders but who shows evidence of courageous determination to act on his belief. Governor-Elect Culbert L. Olson will deserve the whole country’s gratitude if he makes it one of his first official acts, when he takes office in January, to sign this pardon. He may expect, of course, to be denounced by some sitizens of his own state. Despite the overwhelming evidence that Mooney and Warren K. Billings were wrongfully convicted on perjured testimony, there still are Californians who fight every proposal to right the old wrong. But we think those Californians, though influential, are a small minority. Most of the people of the State, in our opinion, will welcome action to remove-—so far as it can be removed at this late date—the ugly blot on the name of California justice. The new Governor cannot pardon Billings, except with the approval of the California Supreme Court. This is because Billings previously had been convicted of a felony. But if Mooney is freed, the Supreme Court is not likely to stand in the way of freedom for Billings. We have heard fears expressed that Mooney, if released from prison, will become a dangerous radical agitator. We think these fears absurd. Mooney is dangerous only as a symbol of justice perverted and denied, and the way to make him less dangerous is to set him free,

CAREFUL, HUNTERS! HE hunting season opened today and throughout .Hoosierdom hunters blazed away at rabbit and quail and pheasant and occasionally at each other. Dinned into their ears had been the usual “don’ts,” “with a special warning this year against the danger of fires. Recent rains dampened the woods and fields and stopped disastrous fires which had raged in many sections. But the woods are rapidly drying out, according to the Conservation Department, and the danger still is great. The true sportsman will heed these warnings. Greater caution should result in curtailing accidents in the hunting areas.

PENSIONS PLUS CANDIDATE named Jay Rowland, attempting to go 77 the Thirty-Dollar-Every-Thursday - pension plan one better, ran for the Arkansas State Senate on a platform promising free goat-gland rejuvenation treatments to all men past 60. He said: “Ask the first 10 men you meet and see whether they would not rather have youth and vitality restored than . receive a pension.” Er Well, the first 10 men we met said they’d rather have vitality restored AND receive a pension.

Fair Enough

By Westbrook Pegler

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Young Men in Love Forget Girls’ Are Only Human With Faults Which May Lead to Marital Unhappiness.

EW YORK, Nov. 10—Most ladies are more or less pretty or otherwise attractive when they

are young, and most boys of marrying age are either too dumb or too badly confused by the sweet misery of love to realize that all ladies, even the prettiest of them, are not divine creatures but human beings. This means that they are likely to have faults. Some of them have very bad tempers, some are whiners, naggers and bores, some are lazy and untidy, suspicious, jealous, bossy, extravagant, stingy, unkind or dumb. Ladies have about the same faults that men have and about the same virtues. Their virtues, however, have been publicized by poets to the general neglect of their shortcomings, and they are very clever at covering up their flaws until after the wedding. It is an instinct. Mostly the males are able to endure or laugh off traits which manifest themselves after the glad chimes have died away. They balance the bad against the good—consider their own little imperfections and decide that mamma is not perfect, but certainly a lot better than that gal that George Spelvin is tied to. ® =n =a EIGHBOR SPELVIN, on the other hand, thinks his spitfire is the-best on the block and has developed a defense against her blurts of temper which enables him to jog along with the anniversaries piling up behind them. Some people who marry find themselves simply unable to stick it out and after a while are able to agree on only one thing—divorce. In that case he has to pay her alimony even if there are no children, and if she is one of those smart ones, interested in nothing but a good living and independence, she is set for life, while he is stuck for life. ; He has to give her first chop at his pay and if he gets married again the second one goes around grousing about what a dope he was to marry the first one, anyway. » 2 8 T is just pitiful the things some poor guys have to stand for. Some of them play bridge all the time and get into jams with other dolls who are married to important business associates. Some get tight at parties and start scraps. Some chisel on the family bank account, run up bills on the quiet and keep a man up to his eyes in debt all the time. Then, when they get bawled out, they squawk and cry or take the other tack, telling him he is a bum, unable to support a wife as he should, which is worse. Some are always tearing fenders off the family car and complicating things so that the husband has to-go to the county chairman or someone to keep them out of jail. The determined woman is another terrible type. This kind seems gentle as a kitten when young but after marriage reveals an iron will and compels the husband to go to restaurants or out to the neighbors’ houses night after night when he is so tired he wishes he could get pneumonia or something so he could go to bed for a month. But boys of marrying age are not of normal mind when they get in love. They just think how adorable she is, and nothing can snap them out of it. It certainly seems too bad, but that is the way it goes.

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

RAPS WAR PREPARATION AS RECOVERY CURE By H. L. S.

Now that the election is over we can again turn toward normalcy. The next thing for our attention is the “preparation for war to avoid war.” We have chosen the job of policing both North and South America. The job indicates that our big business investments abroad need some big stick protection.

Business

Preparation for the job will also provide jobs for the unemployed. That is the most important thing about the “new way” out of depres-

these speeches over the radio revealed to this listener

By John T. Flynn

Hoover Speeches Improved, but Err On Analysis of Recovery in. Europe.

NEW YORK, Nov, 10.—President Herbert Hoover was among those who made speeches in critical spots during the late campaign. A careful attention to

that he was making the same old speeches he made in 1932, though brightened up and lightened in diction and delivery. But the economic ideas served up in

the new package are the same. Mr. Hoover still clings to the illusion that the depression in this country was caused by the behavior of Europe. And he still persists in the strange argument which he made in 1934—that Roosevelt's New Deal prevented real recovery here while Europe was climbing out of her troubles. Listening carefully. to both Mr. Hoover and Mr. Roosevelt it is apparent that Mr. Hoover knows more economics than Mr. Roosevelt, but the difference is not very great. Mr. Hoover maintains that the New Deal constituted an immense interference in the business affairs of Americans—hampering businessmen at every point and producing an illusion of recovery by enormous infusions of public borrowing into the economic system, thus slowly burying the economy under a great load of debt. Now a pretty fair case can be made for these various propositions and two honest men can differ about them with complete sincerity.

The Same Kind of Treatment

But what shall we say when Mr. Hoover begins to contrast this with the recovery which he sees in Europe in every country, he says, save France, which follows the New Deal. It is incredible that any man will say that Germany and Italy and Austria and Hungary and Portugal have done whatever they have done without harassing and regimenting and ruling business at every turn or that they have not also buried their countries under even more terrible debt loads. From the point of view of the economist, Germany and Italy have done much the same as we have done, though they have been more brutal and dictatorial and have guided the nations’ economic energies into different channels. They have created vast debts and spent the money to make work and jobs. So have we. They have spent these sums on gigantic war preparations; we have spent them on peace-time projects. The recovery of Europe—if anyone wants to call it recovery—has been achieved by the self-same means as our recovery, brutalized by the introduction of the military and autocratic spirit. It is a false recovery Just as ours was. It will crack up just as ours did.

’ ° ° A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

a E take 'em down this way,” said the guard, unlocking the heavy door, which let us into a narrow corridor of stone. With’a flourish he relocked it and there we stood imprisoned in the passage to the State Penitentiary death chamber.

_ Four women, jauntily hatted and quite incongruous in that gruesome place, meekly followed the leader down to that final open rock-walled space, which houses the cage holding “The Chair” and the eight death cells.

No windows; cells narrow as a grave; heavy air: the glare of hard electric light above. Already ‘our present Oklahoma executioner has pulled the switch on 56 at $100 a pull. “He spends his last hours right here,” intoned the voice, now whipped to vibrant strength by the memory of past thrills, which he hoped to pass on to us for vicarious enjoyment. / : “Two whole days he’s in there, with guards standing outside every minute. Anything he wants to eat or drink he gets. No, Mam, whisky ain’t allowed, of course, but he can have cigars, cigarets, soft drinks, candy—anything he craves. And a brand new coal black suit to be buried in.” ; ‘The Chair! Grim queen of the modern torture chamber, sole occupant of her realm, dreadful and inscrutable behind heavy bars, stretching from the floor to the ceiling of the dungeon-like room. Outside the bars is ample space to accommodate an audience o several score spectators. > One doesn’t think of the state as being in the theatrical business, yet the routine it uses to commit its legalized murders is as dramatic as any play. It takes place underground, is done for the promotion of righteousness, and unctiously we invoke the ‘mercy of.

sion.’

Germany, Italy and England adopted war preparation as the solution for unemployment. So we have precedents in democracies like France and England as well as in dictatorships. War preparation is not a solution for our economic debacle. It is in fact a serious blunder, because it either leads directly to war, or to a more serious derangement of our economic structure when war preparation must cease. War preparation merely postpones temporarily the necessity for economic readjustment in line with the realities of our day. We prefer, how-

ever, to postpone the inevitable as long as possible, and war prepara-|

tion opens the way for delay most admirably. Government must of necessity be more intelligent than the mass of the population. The law of necessity overrules all government stupidity as well as the clamor of the emotional electorate. The law of necessity demands that we evolve a rational and efficient functioning mechanism to create and distribute new wealth to the masses. ‘Even Mexico is not immune to the law of necessity. Peonage and poveriy cannot endure even by force of the

laws of property.

We, too, shall be compelled by the law of necessity to make property rights secondary to the natural law of necessity and our primary public rights to use this private property for the nation’s public welfare. The

failure to press the public right as.

primary, has allowed us to waste

our economic production resources

in nonuse of materials and man-

power. That eondition cannot and

will not endure. We can and should carry out a policy to fix a responsibility on privately owned production facilities to meet our national needs on the most efficient basis of operation. No cessation of production should be tolerated after our public policy program of production has been set. This should be done by an intelligent democratic process. Delay only means later involuntary acceptance of such a policy. In the long run private property

rights are more surely safeguarded

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by the use of these rights in harmony with the public welfare. War preparation is no solution for nonfunctioning economic mechanisms. We need a national conference on ways and means to bring our privately owned production mechanism up to date in relation to operation for increasing our national wealth and constant employment, ® » 8 HAS SYMPATHY FOR DARTMOUTH GRIDDER By B. C. : Although endless columns have been written about the real and inlaginary evils of “overemphasis” in college football, it took this queer, tragic case of the Dartmouth College halfback to ‘present the problem in its true light. In this case, as you may recall, an intensely religious young student found it hard to square his career as a football star with his conscience. He dropped out of football, returned to it when a fuss was raised, then tried to end his dilemma by leaving college altogether and taking refuge with members of a religious cult. This act simply focused national publicity upon

him, and made it all the harder for

him to get the peace and quiet he seemed to be needing. And his case is significant because it is not one that reflects discredit on the college authorities.

DAT PUMKIN’ PIE By GRETCHEN M. SLINKARD Dat pumkin pie looks mighty fine, I bet de taste am sho’ divine, Too bad dat I ain't got no dough Woon my stomach’s beggin’ fer t so.

I wish I's rich like other guys, I'd fill my stomach up wif pies. Gee, mister, gosh, dat pie looks good, Won't yo sell on time? I wish y’'would. .

DAILY THOUGHT

For the Lord will not cast off His people, neither will He forsake His inheritance.—Psalms 94:14, :

N poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. —Aristotle.

Dartmouth. is one of our most respected colleges. Its record in regard to “overemphasis” is certainly no worse than that of other schools in its class; on the whole, it is probably a good deal better. This lad was no bewildered young husky sent to college for the sake of his athletic talents; he was a sincere, intelligent student: who became. a member of the team simply because he enjoyed the game. But somewhere along the line something worked a profound injustice on this young man. Honestly bewildered and confused, he found his role as college student a great deal more complicated than it ought to have been. When he decided that football was not the game for him, he was unable to give it up simply and without a fuss, as would nave been the case if he had decided, say, to cut out bridge or poker. Now the point of it all is that the resulting hullabaloo—which can so easily have a very bad effect on the boy’s whole life—wasn’t anybody's fault. There isn’t any villain in the piece. This lad simply got caught in the machinery of intercollegiate football and it did things to him.’ And that is where football as an institution has something to answer for. As a game, it is a fine sport; collegiate rivalries are wholesome and stimulating; the game can well be a valuable institution of college life. But when the institution of football takes a bewildered boy, lifts him high up into the headlines and compels him to solve his most personal problems there in sight of the multitude—well, then, there is something radically wrong. It isn’t fair to put young men under that kind of pressure. A lad who goes to college to prepare himself for life deserves a better break. When a game disrupts his whole period of preparation, the game has something to answer for,

s 8 .= HOLDS CAPITAL NEEDED FOR START ON FARM

By Albert Schmitt Henry Ford's statements take in a lot of territory. He says the man who cannot find a job does not deserve one. He points out that there are a lot of farms idle and no one to run them. Now I do not agree with Ford. If Henry Ford will stop to think before he speaks he would not say those things. I have not at any time been afraid of work and would. take farming any day to a shop. But I, like perhaps a thousand others, have not the capital to start. I would like to know, would Mr. Ford put up the needed capital? If so, I am sure he would find a greater’ amount of farmers who would be in line than he would care fo handle.

ARE THERE MORE VI THAN GIN VIRTYE ZTHUMAN Leosvarenr 1980 gonn, PA 48 SO 2

WHEN William James said this, 8 generation ago, little was known about adult psychology—or any psychology for that matter. thousands of experiments since

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LET'S EXPLORE YOUR MIND

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LIKELY THAN UNHAPPY 2 DIVORCE? YES OR NO —and learn new things about as readily at 60 or 70 as at 15 or 20. Old age offers no serious handicap doing anything you It do not con-

titudes, beliefs, hopes and skills as long as you live, it is your fault and not because your mind has lost any of its essential powers. 8 » » J NO, there are far more virtues. If this had not been the case the human race ceuld never have pros gressed. Indeed, what is a vice? It is some: form of manifestation of un« fitness to survive. And if there had been greater unfitness than fitness in man’s mature, he would have perished in the struggle with nature and other animals. Man has outstripped all other animals solely because his nature is essentially made up of virtues—courage, confidence; health, co-operativeness, tolerance, kindliness—above all intelligence.

YES. A report of the Census Bus reau shows that twice as many wives as husbands obtain divorces and that this relative proportion is increasing. It points out that one reason may be that the laws allow more legal grounds for a wife to obtain a divorce than for a husband. For example, “neglect to provide” would rarely be grounds for a husband to seek a divorce. Also cruelty, kenness and desertion furnish

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Election ‘Blow at One-Man Rule But Roosevelt Needn't Lose By It If ‘He Now Turns to Elected Advisers.

ASHINGTON, Nov. 10.—Well, it's all over and some people had their ears slapped down. Who? Just a minute. This column is conducted by no political Isaiah. It declined to pick particular winners, As Arthur Krock said, you couldn't feel a ground swell. In the spring of 1936, you couldn’t avoid. feeling it. Then came the Cleveland Republican convention—and Mr. Landon. Its deflation was as evident as the feeling you have when a high-speed elevator goes down: Then this column was, within two states, as accurate as Jim Farley. It was a cinch. : There was no such certainty this time. But just before the election this column did say that, regardless of the selection of individual candidates, the election was certain, by the reduction of tremendous third New Deal majorities in the popular vote, to show that this country didn’t want to buy any European magic of one-man government, .

8 8 = HAT must, by now, be abundantly apparent. It is a comforting signal. It means that, as usual, you can trust the American electorate to remain American, For that this column has pulled as best

it could. Yet, such a rebuff to Roosevelt was unnecessary. When he was elected in 1936, he could have had anything within reason that he wanted. I believe that he could have pulled this country out of a depression, that has lasted long beyond its right to live. I think

i he could have gone down in our history as one of our

greatest Presidents. If he didn’t know how to do it himself he had advisers who could have told him how.. Jack Garner could—Joe Robinson could—Carey Grayson could and he was not a politician at all—only an adoring friend. : But there were other advisers and they sang a’ different song. Harry Hopkins, and no man is more sincere, told him that he had the unanimous support of the “underprivileged” and that the “class struggle”: would make him an Anterican Lenin—who is a Rus= sian demigod. The twin Topsies, Corcoran and Cohen, supported this view. 2 2 ” think. and have argued continuously here that these well-meaning “men were wrong and were the architects of a certain misfortune to Mr. Roosevelt, which has at last occurred. Is it a downfall? It would be a pity if that were true. He has broken new ground in both politics’ and economics as no previous President ever did. His courageous attack on the catastrophe of 1933 is unexampled. He; as contrasted with his radical advisers and the policies they have argued into him,’ still stands first in the hearts of his countrymen. 1 think it would be a shame to lose the leadership of Franklin Roosevelt or to see him stymied against a recalcitrant Congress. It is wholly unnecessary. I think it will not happen. He doesn’t need to lose a single one of his liberal objectives. He needs only to give up the idea that, to attain .them, he must wreck and then reorganize the traditional American form of government. He should call to his help the elected leaders and representatives of the people.

It Seems to Me

By Heywood Broun

Franco Has at Least One Virtue; He's Quick to Trip His Apologists.

EW YORK, Nov. 10.—At least one virtue must be assigned to Gen. Francisco Franco. He certainly. shows up his apologists. On several occasions some.

American has returned from a week-end with the Rebel forces and attempted to sugar-coat the leader of the Spanish Fascists. Ellery Sedgwick, among others, has sought to promote the belief that the gen= eral is a high-minded gentleman filled with compassion for his countrymen. But none of these statements can stand up, because Gen. Franco himself in authorized interviews has demolished such fantasies. In the one which appeared recently Gen, Franco was particularly candid. James I. Miller, of the United Press, submitted the query, “Will you grant general amnesty when the war is over?” The general said—and, remember, the dispatch was passed by his own censor—“There should not be returned to society an element of fomentation and deterioration, but I believe in redemption through the penalty of labor. “Once it has been established what penalty fits the crime in question the criminal will be able to redeem himself through work and good behavior as a prisoner until he has paid for his crime. One day of good behavior will be equivalent to reducing the sentence by two ddys. We have more than two million persons card-indexed with proofs of their crimes and names of witnesses.” : The Columbia Encyclopedia gives the population of Spain, with the Balearic and Canary Islands, as 23 million. It may well have diminished during the last two years. And so Gen. Franco is calmly promising to the world a greater terror than modern history has ever known,

He Seems to Forget

Apologists for Franco have defended air raids on civilians and the slaughter of women and children on the ground that these were actions necessary in time of war. But, according to Gen. Franco's own schedule, the fate of the civilian in a time of peace would be even worse than during hostilities. : An estimate of 200,000 is given in Mr, Miller’s dispatch as the strength of Gen. Franco's armed forces. Granting the Loyalists approximately an equal numeber, Gen. Franco has upon his card index the names of one million eight hundred thousand “criminals” to be drawn from the folk back home who have not actively participated in the fighting. : Gen. Franco says He has won and that the war is over. He seems to forget that he himself admits that there are still two million “criminals” to be conquered. No matter which way the tides may shift upon the field of battle, Gen. Franco can never win. If he were able to shoot or imprison the entire two million whom he mentions, others would rise up to take their places. No fight for liberty is ever lost until the last heartbeat of the brave is dead. :

Watching Your Health

By Dr. Morris Fishbein

MOTHER usually gains about 14 per cent in weight. ‘Most authorities are now agreed that she requires for her nutrition only the food which she has usually been eating, providing her diet has been satisfactory. But she needs more of everything, particularly more proteins which build ' tissues, more calcium and phosphorus which are concerned with the development of bones, more iron for the building of blood, more vitamins to prevent any deficiency diseases, and more energy simply because of the increased requirements on her body. Te . Provided that the mother is well during the period preceding her hospital trip the only attention she needs to give to her protein diet is the choice of those which have what we call a high biologic value, It is known that such proteins are more important than those without this value. The proteins that are especially important are those of milk and meat. 3 It has been found that many different factors will influence the amount of calcium and phosphorus that are absorbed by the body. It is necessary to take a certain amount of vitamin D in order to get.the body to use enough calcium and phosphorus. However, if her diet contains enough milk and green vegetables, she will have enough calcium and phosphorus, but un» less the rest of her diet is properly developed she will not utilize the calcium and phosphorus satisfactorily. There seems to be no lack of evidence that our diets are low in iron. As a result of this deficiency of iron, there is a tendency toward the development of mild forms of anemia, Such a condition is extremely important in mothers. Some studies have shown that iron is better absorbed when it is taken in the diet along with plenty of fresh fruits and vegetables. ‘One salt that is of great importance is iodine. It

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