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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1938

MIDDLE-CLASS =F VERYEODY else is trying to put into one phrase what the election signified, so why shouldn’t we: This is a middle-class country. It is the middle-class that pays the bills. And it is the middle-class that calls the turn. For long spells the middle-class appears to be dead. But it is only sleeping. The politician who fails to realize that gets the shock - of his life. The middle-class is sometimes referred to as “the public,” sometimes as ‘the people,” sometimes as “the inno- - cent bystander.” It likes to go on journeys. Occasionally to the right, occasionally to the left. If times are calm for awhile it wants excitement— yearns for a fire, or something. But if times get too exciting, then it wants its carpet slippers and popcorn and a Sunday when it’s raining. The trouble with a lot of politicians is that they mis- _ take sudden impulses on the part of the middle-class for permanent trends. They find a lot of the middle-class ‘hooked up with some minority movement or other and fail to realize that the middle-class won’t stay hooked. So they misguess the strength of the minority. They ride the minority for one victory and think they have found a formula. So, great surprises occur. A back to normalcy in 1920 or another kind of “mandate” in 1936. Each deceptive and full of traps for vote hunters. What we have been going through is more experimentation, more refoxm—more excitement—than the middleclass wanted, 3 got fed up. So it yoiel that way.

» MUCH i iy said about what Mr. oevelt is going to do about it. Secretary Ickes thinks he ought to go Secretary Wallace takes the more realistic view that there has been a turn, and we'd better admit it. As for Mr. Roosevelt, we believe he is smart, that he has a great capacity for sensing ground swells, that he understands the middle-class character of the nation’s elec‘torate, and that while he may fail to gauge the speed once,

he won’t make the same mistake twice.

Also, he is a student of history. He knows that “there is a %ime to every purpose under the heavens—a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted.” He knows that it took a conservative government in England, finally convinced against its will of the social need for reforms initiated by the Liberals, to put an enacting clause in those reforms. He knows the political dangers that go along with dreaming too long and consolidating not enough. He knows that his place in history is yet to be written, and that reaction from too-much-Ickes, too-much-

- Corcoran, too-much-Hopkins, too much do-or-die, may turn: over to others the credit for the gains which, already

achieved in principle, are not yet gathered together and

buttoned up in actuality. At least we think he knows that, because, we repeat,

we think he is smart.

And we venture the prediction that Mr. Roosevelt's performance from here in will be that of Mr. Roosevelt. President, country squire, and illustrious member of the

~ middle-class.

THE RED CROSS CAMPAIGN EW organizations are more widely esteemed than the American Red Cross. Not only has it functioned magnificently in times of grave national emergency, but it is carrying out an increasingly important role in day-to-day services. No one knows when fire, flood, earthquake or storm may strike a community. No one knows when the Red Cross will be needed desperately. It is imperative, therefore, that ~ the Red Cross be ready at all times. You can do your share by enrolling now as a member

3 of the Indianapolis chapter of the American Red Cross.

“ SAVE THAT FOURTH MAN

HESE pleasant postsummer days we have been enjoying are about over. Cold, blustery days are not far away, bringing with “them new dangers in traffic. It gets dark earlier. It takes longer to stop in rain, sleet, snow, ice or wet leaves. z Pedestrians pull their heads inside their coats, like - turtles, or blind themselves with an umbrella, which is not the same protection against automobiles that it is : against rain. You're headed for the vital statistics if you - do either. : Right now Indianapolis has a good chance to cut its traffic deaths by 25 per cent. Fatalities are 64 so far this . year against 80 on the same date in 1937. That means one out of four who might have been

: : killed can be saved.

All that you have to do is take it easy and keep your eyes open for seasonal hazards. Let’s keep that fourth man alive.

“HULLY-GULLY, HOW MANY?” WES the Federal wage-hour act became effective, one

of the first to descend on Washington with a loud squawk ‘was a spokesman for the pecan-shelling industry, who said he had no alternative but to fire several thousand pecan shellers unl his industry was exempted from the

law. The other day another man from the pecan country

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: i visited Washington. He was Everett L. Looney, chairman

! of the Texas State Industrial Commission—and he carried { with him some interesting statistics. . The average pecan worker in San Antonio, he said, : earns approximately 5 cents an hour, or $2.50 a week. : Yet, Mr. Looney said, the industry’s “spokesman,” aforementioned, he received for the last several years an annual salary: ef $12,000, and, over the last eight years, “drew down additional profits of over $800,000.” ; Mr. Looney said he thought that the pecan industry will find it possible to pay the 25-cents-an-hour minimum ‘which the law requires. 1t does seem that the s “spolegiuan® Fight sh share a little. i 2

Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

Hitler and Mussolini Likely to Do U. S. Big Favor if Taunts Result in Smashing Politico-Crime Tieups.

\ EW YORK, Nov. 12—Has it ever occurred to

any of us that our cultured friends across the |.

sea may be doing us a helpful service in their robust denunciations of the United States as a land of gangsters? Mussolini, of all people, started this, and when, after a long time, he touched a nerve and made us twitch, Hitler’s press took up the charge. Now both call us a nation of gangsters. And Americans who,

earlier in the game, took a mischievous pride in this reputation have now become ashamed, realizing that there is more than a grain of truth in what they say. Apparently our gangs are not as bad now as they were during prohibition, but it would be foolish to say that they are extinct. The Department of Justice has done good work, heavily assisted by the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment, and Tom Dewey in New York has not only won spectacular victories over some of the most defiant low-lives of the underworld but, more important, has swung public sentiment angrily against organized crime, particularly in collaboration with local politics and Government. It is rather pathetic, yet a hopeful sign, when ordinary citizens of Chicago, after generations of submission to politico-criminal combinations, speculate wistfully on the possibility that Chicago, too, may one day discover a Dewey. # Ed ” HE very name of Dewey suggests hope, and now that Mr. Dewey has received instructions to proceed with his work he probably will kindle in the people of many communities an aggressive purpose to smash the rackets which prey on them and punish criminals in politics. I have not the text of Mr. Roosevelt’s recent remarks about overemphasis on internal corruption, but, as I remember, he thought such talk could be overdone. Certainly it is bad publicity for the United States as a country, but if the talk leads to practical prosecution of grafters and hoodlums and results in a new concept of responsibility and honesty in politics the country will be the winner. The Russians shoot grafters. We seldom even send them to jail. We have laughed off such crime, not realizing, as the Russians do, that a grafter who robs the children of their schooling or the people generally of money paid as taxes is guilty of a worse crime than

| mere highway robbery. He strikes at the security and

political stability of the country. n.8 = : URING prohibition we got a very bad press abroad. We deserved it. And Americans traveling in Europe, far from showing shame, boasted of the criminality of our gangs, particularly of the Chicago gangs. Now it is being hammered home to us that we tolerated criminality as a routine nuisance and permitted the growth of a belief that the spoils of office included graft. With the worst intention in the world Mussolini and Hitler will have done this country a great favor if by their exaggerated and unmannerly remarks they shame the American people into a new attitude toward all crime and particularly graft. Doctors often use deadly poisons to cure disease, and if the ill-meant taunts of the Fascists and Nazis help to goad the Americans to a robust moral turn against graft and other crime the intention can be ignored,

Business

By John T. Flynn

Election Results Show Grain Belt Through With New Deal Farm Policy.

EW YORK, Nov. 12—One would have to go around to a good many places and talk to a good many people in order to appraise accurately the forces which lay behind the upsurge of votes against the New Deal in various places. Probably the most important fact, as far as issues are concerned, is the bearing of the election upon the President's farm program. The votes in Kansas, Iowa, Indiana and in the farming districts of other grain states seems to make quite evident the fact that the farmers are done with the New Deal farm program. It is important because the two great measures of the Roosevelt Administration were the NRA and the sas One has been junked. The other is on its way ou The other important economic issue which looms up as deeply affected by the vote is the President's approach to recovery. The depression which gat under way in the summer of 1937 was a grievous blow to the President's prestige. The intervening months served to mitigate the severity of that loss. But no one can doubt that a widespread, growing undercurrent of suspicion or mistrust or at least of questioning is moving across the mass mind. Everywhere men are asking if, after all the effort and noise and fever, anything really important has been acecomplished.

Many Voters Were ‘Homesick’

Another factor, of course, is the fatigue which comes to many who find themselves away from home too long. States like Kansas and Pennsylvania, for instance, are rock-ribbed Republican states. They went Democratic under the impact of the depression. But the voters were really off the reservation and many of them were getting homesick. Two other facts must be considered. One is a certain weariness among peopie outsitle the ranks of labor with the labor wars. This is wholly unjustified, but it is true. Great numbers of people feel that somehow labor troubles are holding up recovery. I do not think they are. The causes lie elsewhere, save in the building industry where labor costs are a powerful factor. The other fact is the more or less natural cohesion of the business groups and those influenced “y them that in some way the New Deal is interfering with business. The President's error was in postponing too many of the important reforms and wasting too much energy on unimportant ones. Now the normal conservative tide has set in.

A ‘Woman's Viewpoint

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

NEVER met a man I didn’t like.” These well known words are graven upon the recently unveiled statue of Will Rogers at the new Claremore Memorial.

How sadly they echo in our ears! Although he has been dead only a little more than three years, his philosophy is strange and utterly alien fo our time, for we seem to be well launched upon a program of dislike and distrust.

Daily, almost hourly, our fears and passions mount, and I am afraid our genial Will would be very lonesome in a world where ‘nobody seems to like anybody any more.

Only a pitiful few in the U. S. A. are able to speak or write with tolerance about world affairs or national issues. Instead, we hurl javelin words at Mr. Chamberlain, at our own erstwhile hero Lindbergh, and at the troubled people of far off countries.

We know, of course, that Adolph Hitler, whose every gesture makes ‘proud leaders cringe, is a child of the hates engendered by the World War. We are also in the clutches of a vast fear—since fear always journeys with hate through the earth ways. Spies tiptoe down every alley, we- are told, and enemy airfleets may be expected to appear behind any random cloud. We are, in fact, behaving like a bunch of silly cravens. The spectacle of a radio broadcast throwing a whole nation into panic is enough to make us wonder whether we are as brave as we insist the English should be ‘in repelling ‘Nazi hordes. “I never met a man I didn’t like” now rolls as clumsily and falsely upon our tongues as those other words: unto you’,

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GLAD HE DOESN'T DRIVE CAR IN GERMANY By B. C. It strikes me that Adolf Hitler is a bum auto salesman. German engineers with a great mechanical tradition behind them have developed an automobile which it is hoped may be sold on the installment plan to Germans for less than $400. But the police are doing much to cure whatever automotive appetite there may be in the residents of

Berlin. Drivers of automobiles who violate minor laws are subject to cruel discipline. The offender is not arrested. But his tires are deflated and he is left to his own devices and the mercy of the gathering crowd to get his tires pumped up again. While pumping the tire up or changing it, he must dodge traffic in order to save his life and limbs. It is not difficult to believe that an individual who has been through that experience would become slightly seasick at the mention of another automobile ride. The joys of motoring are manifold, but pumping up tires on Adolf Hitler Platz while a crowd of jeering compatriots look on is not one of them. Adolf’s auto boom will die on his doorstep if motorists have this sort of regulation. to look forward to. ” 2 2 URGES DEFEAT FOR NEW DEAL IN 1940 By A. Myer With Mr. Roosevelt's haywire policies, supermanned by the master minds of the Corcorans, Cohens, Ickeses, Hopkinses and “what-have-you-coterie’” of centralized Washington, one wonders if and when normalcy will ever prevail again within our borders. With policies that require spending gone rampant; with almost a 40 billion dollar national indebtedness ($300 for each man, woman and child in the land); with crackpot legislation; with government, industry, labor and farmer interests all cluttered in confusion; with disgust and discouragement, what is the solution? There is only one solution, and that is “Defeat the New Deal in 1940.” 2 2 2 SEES VICTORY FOR . CLAW-FANG PHILOSOPHY By Hiram Lackey The victory of “claw and fang

philosophy” in our election is another one of many forces that drives America further away from true re-

ligion and nearer to war with all its horrors. The “sow and reap” statement is one of the scientific facts impossible to evade. It's a long

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story but its logic is unbreakable. Rome tried and failed. “Not one stone shall be left on another” is backed by logic as unbreakable as the law of gravitation. In about 70 A. D. Titus found it so, and so shall we if we continue our course. He tried his best to save the temple at Jerusalem, but it was destroyed, tens of thousands of “good, respectable men” were slaughtered and their women and children were either killed or carried away into uncpeakable slavery. Yes, good people, just the quality that filled Cadle Tabernacle the night of the Republican rally. Let anyone who doubts that children suffer for the errors of their fathers study the history of the race up to and including today. Too bad that rugged individualists prefer to learn, not by history, but by trial and error.

FAINT HEART WON FAIR LADY IN THIS CASE By a Reader It strikes me that Philip Gilbert is a man who can take it. But he has to sit down from time to time. Mr. Gilbert is 24 and he recently joined the ranks of the benedicts after a ceremony that had him on the floor twice. And more than that, he says that the wedding ceremony didn’t bother him at all. But he fainted twice. Considerable credit must be given his wife, the former Mary Evaul of Washington, D. C., whose father, the Rev. Dr. Paul Evaul, performed

TOO LATE

By HARRIETT SCOTT OLINICK The things we want the most do come Too late. After the yearnings and the hurt Sly fate Bestows the fruit our hearts desire Upon a golden platter, But now too late, oh far too late, It does not matter.

DAILY THOUGHT And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.—Romans 8:10.

T= good are heaven's peculiar

care.—Ovid.

the ceremony in Metropolitan Methodist Church. Mr. Gilbert fainted the first time when the tones of the organ pealed out in the traditional wedding march. Revived, he carried on nicely until he reached the “I do.” Then he fainted again. Dr. Evaul saved the day. He retired with the couple to an alcove of the church where the ceremony

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seated in chairs, The world will sympathize with the couple and wish them the greatest happiness after such a hectic start of their married life. The sudden jolts of Fate should hold little terror for Mary, whose stoutness of heart must be admired. As for the bridegroom, he’s stouthearted, too, although a pair of flopperoos at the altar is hardly the best way to start married life. He must be excused, however, on an ancient alibi which is still good. It must have been something he ate. 2 2 2 THINKS FOREIGN NEWS HAS BRITISH SLANT By Just Thinking I see by your letters from readers that a good many people like to express their viewpoints. That is why I would like to “cut loose.” Why must our foreign news be gotten through British telescopes? Why must our country be the barometer for England? Why must Great Britain be the clearing house for our affairs? Could it be that England doesn’t want us to sell helium to Germany?

; 4 ” 8 BACKS FIRST LADY FOR PRESIDENT IN 1940

By ‘Aunt Kate’ Since Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt has decided “never” to run for President, I would suggest that we “draft” her. We shall have a woman President eventually, so why not now? There is none better trained and qualified for the position than Mrs. Roosevelt, and I take pleasure in nominating her for 1940. ” 2 ” TWO-TIME SUPPORTER DESERTS ROOSEVELT

By Reader Now for a big rally. Raymond Clapper says everybody's happy. It couldn’t be done without decent, deep-thinking Democrats, so don’t crow, just shout. Maybe this is the answer to our prayer at Cadle-and a rebuke to “Hail, hail, the gang’s all here.” I voted twice for Roosevelt, but

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there is no evidence of the opposite tendency—that women teachers make them into spineless mollycoddles. 8 2 J THEY may not have better natural intellects, but they are certainly far better educated. Jazz has made a fine contribution to musical expression but it cannot equal the immense ranges of expression of human aspiration, defeat, suffering, courage, fear, shame and glory possible to the classical musical forms. If by “Intellectual” is meant more widely educated, certainly persons who really enjoy classical music are more intellectual than those who can find enjoyment only in jazz.

2 2 2 YES. This is not because our fears have anything to do with outward events but they have a lot to do with ourselves. If we fear we are going to fail at a task we are more likely to fail. Even if we fear a financial or other venture is likely to fail, provided we have its management, our fears are likely to cause us to be over anxious and make mistakes of judgment—buy when we ought to sell and sell when we ought to buy, and all that. In this sense fear does make the things you are afraid will happen uch more likely fo k Be...

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Political Ghost Writers Useful And Mr. Roosevelt's Speeches Were Big Factor in His Triumph of 1932.

"ASHINGTON, Nov. 12—My fellow columnist, Raymond Clapper, wants to see liquidated all ghost writers of speeches for political big shots and thinks that “unless you have the Roosevelt radio voice, you don’t win elections simply by making speeches.” : Mr. Clapper stresses the obvious fact that political organizations for getting out the votes and other me- ° chanical aids are sometimes more important: than oratory. He doesn’t mention the tremendous elece toral effect of four billion dollars a year in political Y handouts, which ig, perhaps the most effective vote- ° 3 invented, notwithstanding its poisonous effect on national morality and our whole : political and economic future and integrity. I am not much impressed with the argument about Mr. Roosevelt's radio voice. It is a clear tenor.with a fine Harvard accent, but not nearly so pleasing as 99 out of a hundred radio announcers’ voices. -Further= - more, there are millions of the masculine persuasion who don’t like musical male voices in the upper reg=. ister and who favor Harvard accents still less. Tu

2 #2 a T should be remembered that Mr. Roosevelt was speaking musically into the radio regularly for - years in New York. Yet nobody discovered any miraculous appeal. It was only after he became a - formidable national figure that this marvel was discovered and it was only then that he accumulated competent ghost writers. The President's native ora- - tory is pretty awful in arrangement, diction and

philosophy. Mr. Roosevelt was nevertheless elected for his first term solely by reason .of his speeches. They were one : of the most remarkable piece-by-piece expositions of a new economic and political philosophy in dialectic history. Without them, natural national inertia and the traditional Republican majority would hyve pre= ’ vailed in an atmosphere of apathy. i 2 - That this was largely ghostly Dratorical ectoplasm seems to me of no importance whatever. It was - rigidly edited by Mr. Roosevelt. He rejected 10 times - what he accepted, made the final result his own and 5 gave it his own peculiar twist of expression. And the country answered to the substance of what he said.

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EVER but on one occasion having had a ghost * writer and being no longer of even that avocation, I speak without prejudice. I think they ‘are . both necessary and desirable, desirable - to save’ us . from the awful oratory of political stuff-shirts and ~ necessary to permit our principal overworked officials to become articulate on policies which we are entitled to know. As in the 1932 election, I am convinced that speeches do help sway popular -opinion. To deny that is to ignore the phillippics of Demosthenes, the emergence of W. J. Bryan, the existence of Patrick Henry and the profound national effect of the Web ster-Hayne and Lincoln-Douglas debates. Furthermore, I can see no fault in national leaders : —whether George Washington with Alexander Ham ilton or Franklin Roosevelt with Tommy Corcoran— using ghost writers. After all, the speaker makes their . words his own and is thereafter forever responsible. for them. :

It Seems to Me By Heywood Broun

G. O. P. Had Reason to Lift Goal Posts, but Rose Bowl Is Far Away.

'"TAMFORD, Gonn., Nov. 12.—Hereabouts I see broad ~ grins upon faces which have not smiled in the last v six years. I would not deny Republicans the right to go into a snake dance or tear down the goal posts. - Cut I think that upon mature reflection they may admit that they are still a long. way from the Rose Bowl. It is well to remember that the Democrats captured New York, Illinois and California, and it is extremely. difficult for any party to win a national election , with=

out at least one of those three States within its columns. And not every Republican victory was truly an indication of triumph for the G. O. 2 in 1940. Governor Wilbur Cross, a mild New -Dealer, was defeated for the Governorship of Connecticut, but largely through the huge vote run up for the Socialist candidate, Jasper McLevy. That is hardly an indica- . tion that all New England is eager to send a conserva=" : tive to the White House. In the 20th Congressional District of ‘New’ York the Republicans picked up a seat through the victory ° of Vito Marcantonio, but everybody knows that Mr. Marcantonio is a progressive and that his Republicanism runs for Sweeney. ; : California has elected a Governor who is expected to pardon Tom Mooney, and Robert Wagner, who has been under heavy fire as the author of the Wags= ner Act, carried New York State by more than 400,000 votes and ran up the amazing majority of 900,000 in the city. John J. O'Connor, who was purged, remained that way. However, progressive Democrats . did receive some severe setbacks, ;

No Grief Over New Jersey

It cannot be denied that the defeat of Governor Frank Murphy in Michigan and Benson in Minnesota . are punishing body blows against the New Deal. Nor is it possible to minimize the Republican vie- | tory in Pennsylvania by saying that the Democratig -: candidates were pretty weak. because the same thing goes for the Republicans. And, even so, I see no - clear picture that the country has suggested to Presi= - dent Roosevelt that he pull in his horns and move over into the middle of the road. Certainly Refther California nor New York supplies such texts. : Mr. Roosevelt did make a brave fight for Mr, ! Murphy and lost. I wish he had done more for Mr, Benson. The rebuke in New Jersey was coming to . him. And so I am going to put in my own two. cents? worth along with the rest of the commentators and * say that the lesson of the election is that a progressive _’ President wins when he is hold and forthright and loses when he plays too long with expediency: and ; makes compromises which bite into principle. -

Watching Your Health.

By Dr. Morris Fishbein Ey :

HERE is no reason to believe that he 84 T painful, and yet .the idea that children will suffer growing pains at various times is widespread. . Actually, of course, some of the pains ‘which occur in | the legs, arms, shoulders, and backs of certain children , are associated with growth. Thus a child who is inclined to get fat and’ Who - - has at the same time knock-knees, flat-feet, or any weakness of his ligaments may suffer with pain due to - growth because of the combination of these factars, Today, however, growing pains in most instances is a term used to cover flashes of pain that occur in children because of the presence of rheumatie condi~ tions. This should not. be taken to: indicaté that every child who suffers these pains is in danger of - developing either inflammation: of the joints or any serious condition affecting the heart. The pain, like all pains, should be considered a warning of the necessity for an investigation. e Growing pains, according to a British investigator, are usually found in children who are ill, weak, under= nourished, unhappy, work too hard, or walk too far to school. The children. who have these pains usually suffer frequently from colds.

There seems to be some difference between the kind of pain which is particularly growing pain and the kind which is associated with the development of rheumatic fever. From the point of view of the physician, it is exceedingly important to distinguish growing pain from the kind of pain which is: associated with Heivnlis fever. In the latter condition, the child should, ©

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