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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1938

RUMORS OR FACT? IN an election as ‘closely contested as the one Indiana has - just witnessed, it is not surprising that there should be ess for a recount in some counties. There might have been some recounts even if there had been no suspicion of irregularities, for by the very nature of the setup election workers are bound to make a few errors. But it would take an exceedingly credible mind to Bceont unquestioningly. some of the things that have happened* in this election. The long delayed returns out of Terre Haute, for example. The precincts in Howard County which had been overlooked for four long days. The growing rumors of irregularities in this town and that. : 1 To our naked and unaided eyes, these things look more serious than the ordinary, garden variety of election day mistakes. We might be mistaken, but they should not be passed by with a casual wave of the hand. © Therefore, we hope that the various | affected candidates put their suspicions into concrete ‘demands for recounts and that, if evidence of trickery and vote stealing is later uncovered, the guilty be prosecuted to the limit of the law,

THE TEST TO COME EXICO at last has agreed to pay Arveriean citizens whose farms, worth some $10,000,000, she expropriated several years ago. But far larger claims in the offing will bring the real test of whether Mexico intends to follow in Scviet Russia’s footsteps. And, with regard to the future, the Mexican note was not reassuring. Mexico says she will settle the farm claims for the sake of “friendship” with this country. But she maintains that these claims are agreement must not be taken as a precedent. Amer ican investments in Mexico run well above a billion dollars. Properties valued at about $200,000,000 al-

ready have been expropriated. Nobody denies Mexico op al ' journal of the A. M. A, hasn’t exonerated the profes-

right to expropriate properties if she pays for them. The ominous thing is the Mexican Government’s apparent attitude that, after expropriation, she can nlead that she need net pay because she is unable to-pay. : The right of expropriation i is inherent in every ovortin state—provided it pays for what it takes. That is existing : international law. The United States stands on that law, but - Mexico does not. . So the settlement of the farm land con- | troversy really settles nothing, because the principle involved is left still in the balance. = | If the peoples of the world expect to have Yéiness relations they must have and observe al code of fair dealing. Otherwise the whole structure of international economics will break down. If that happens—if world trade collapses —then, as Secretary Hull so rightly keeps reminding us, international relations generally will become impossible and, along with them, efforts for world pegce:

THE C.I. 0.’S OPPO TUNITY RESIDENT#ROOSEVELT’S ‘message to the C. 1. O. convention expressed virtually the same sentiments as the one he sent to the A. F. of L. convention—*That every possible door to access to peace and progress in the affois of organized labor . . . be left open.” “Continued dissension,” said the President, “can only On the other hand, collective bargaining will be furthered by a united labor movement making for co-operation, and labor stneace will be in the interest of all Americans.” #0: The A. F. of L. convention received the President's plelb and referred it to its executive council. Nothing

more Aappened. The C. I. O. convention has received the plea, and also

referred it to a committee. We hope the C. I. O. will take this opportunity to cause something more to happen.

DANGEROUS WEAPON \

foe tendency of Government is always to extend its power. And, as the price of liberty is eternal vigilance, so it is up to the citizen to examine, challenge and criticize | c any bureaucratic expansion. | The recent consent decree in the Ford-Chrysler auto‘mobile financing case calls, we think, for such examination. - For a speech in‘Chicago by Wendell Berge, special assistant attorney general, indicates that this decree is merely the forerunner of a widespread campaign. The layman’s idea is that a law is something that requires or forbids something—that something being defined very specifically in the law itself. That seems simple and logical. | © But the intricate build-up of legal procedure whieh

brings forth- such an instrument as the consent decree |

leaves the layman in by no means a clear state of mind. For example—a violation is alleged to have occurred. Indictment is brought. By the exercise of the consent decree the prosecutor assumes for himself the authority to decide whether certain offers by the defendant, in addition to agreement to cease the practices complained of in the indictment, might not be grounds for stopping prosecution. ~ That is where the question of power comes in. . The Ford-Chrysler decree finds the two motor com- ; panies required to desist from all sorts of practices which the Department of Justice itself says are not violations of the law, but abolishment of which the department believes to be in the public interest. . This procedure is defended on the grounds of custom and practicality ; as the intelligent way of settling anti-

* But the actual result is to make the prosecutor also jury and judge and legislator, to make justice a horse-trad-ing proposition. The prosecutor can turn on the heat and, in effect, ask “what have you?” ~ . Certainly we think that the prosecutor-jury-judge-ker role is a dangerous one; that judicial reviews of decrees should be more than perfunctory, as they

OW "Some sort of a Sullivan Act gheuld apply to limit

not necessarily valid, hence the |

Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler i Report of Medical | Association.

: a Offers Poor Defense of Doctors in|

~ Philadelphia Baby Case Incident.

EW YORK, Nov. 15 —Nobody appreciates the doctor's service to mankind more than your correspondent, but this essay will admit that the defense of the profession in the case of the Philadelphia woman who bore a baby unattended after several doctors had declined to assist sounds more like a plea of guilty than vindication. Several professional bleeding ‘hearts broke down and bawled over the tragedy of this.rather celebrated mishap, not in honest sympathy for the unfortunate woman and the baby, but in propaganda for collective medicine. The American Medical Association investigated, and now presents its own account of the

case with a note of satisfaction which is not justified |

by the facts. The account says: “Sunday morning, Oct. 22, at 7 o'clock, the patient was delivered of a six or seven months’ ‘still-birth at a rooming house to which she went only about an hour before. Her home address is not known, and she was in labor on arrival at the rooming house. : “She had previously been taken to two hospitals by a roomer and had been examined and refused admission because she was not registered in either as a patient. One of the roomers called the sergeant at the police station, who failed to call the district physician because he said he did not wish to disturb him on Sunday. The roomer then tried to reach five different doctors in the neighborhood. The first was taking a bath, and when he answered the doorbell no one was there. He reported that he had not taken care of an obstetrics case in 30 years.

HE second doctor, a specialist in diseases of the eye, was asleep and did not answer the doorbell. The third does not practice obstetrics but offered to send an ambulance. This offer was refused. The sergeant telephoned a hospital, and the assistant chief resident offered to call on the woman if the police. would send a car. On his arrival he found the patient and the dead infant. He administered treatment and left instructions to call the hospital if further treatment was necessary, “The patient refused to answer questions, made no statements and disappeared one week later. It appears that-there are 10 hospitals within a distance of from three blocks to one and one-half miles from the place in which this delivery occurred.” The author of this writ apparently can’t even count. ‘He says the roomer tried to reach five doctors but fades into static after telling of the third man's offer to “send an ambulance.” It is necessary to exonerate the so-called] district physician and pass the buck to the sergeant. The next man, the one who was taking a bath, vindicates himself easily, but the stipulation that he hadn’t taken an obstetrics case in 30 years indicates a false attitude. What difference would that make? Kid internes handle such tasks, and even policemen have been known to meet emergencies of this kind. ” 2 8 HE next also “does not practice obstetrics,” a fact which may be ignored as of no value, but he was | asleep, and apparently sleeps very soundly. The one who offered to send the ambulance doesn’t explain why he didn’t go himself. People do impose heartlessly on doctors. But the sion in this case. By the Journal’s own account it was a miserable incident, with strong indications of heartlessness at the two hospitals where a mere paperwork formality excluded a desperate, penniless person.

Business By John T. Flynn

Failure of Crop Insurance Plan Adds to Woes of Secretary Wallace.

YTEW YORK, Nov. 15—There is no doubt that the results of the elections have spread gloom in the Agricultural Department, which looks upon these ‘elections as a severe blow to the farm program. But the blow to the farm program came before the elections.

Somehow the farm program hasn’t been clicking. An example of this is now reported. It has to do with the Government’s much-advertised plan of Federal crop insurance. Farmers suffer from too big crops which cut prices, and frequently when crops are small and prices go up the crops are small because many farmers suffer great losses in their harvests from grain

diseases, blight, drought, too much water, all sorts of:

things. To protect the farmers against this Jatter hazard the farm act created a crop insurance corporation. The farmer can insure his crop by paying the premiums in grain or cash. ‘The plan has been in force now since the farm act was passed, but up to the present time, farmers have not used the plan to any great extent. Only 68,500 wheat farmers had applied for insurance. They had paid the insurance in either wheat or cash and where the insurance is paid in cash the Government buys wheat with it at the present prices to put into the reserve. The amount of wheat in the reserve as a result of the premiums is only 1,945,000 bushels. sure their crops so that there is very little likelihood that the amount of wheat insured will be much more than two or three million bushels,

Congressional Fight Due This is a pretty sad showing. It can hardly be

said there was not fime to set the insurance organ-

ization going. If the farmers have not gone into the plan it is due chiefly to the fact that confidence in the whole farm plan has been sefiously impaired. Thus, at whatever point the program is examined, it seems to have run into foul weather. succeeded in keeping down acreage. It has not succeded in curtailing crops. It has not succeeded as oe insurance system: and it has not succeeded on the ever-normal granary side, which involves loans to farmers. The loan machinery has been slow and farmers have not been able to make their loans. The explanation of this is that the job was too big to be done in a hurry. It is therefore now plain that one of the first fights which will appear in Congress when it meets in January will be a demand for a new farm program.

A Woman's Viewpoint

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

NE wonders sometimes What the girls expect of

marriage. Too much, by far, if we follow the ide trips from divorce court to altar and back again. : One of the more recent notables to make the journey was Martha Raye, whose decree became absolute on Sept. 28, and who married her second husband 10 days later. There is no inclination on our part to scold Miss Raye. She is very young and has followed the example of many older and wiser heads in Hollywood and elsewhere. It is surely pertinent, however, to ask what these people want from marriage. Upon what objective are their hearts set? Is theirs a quest for perfection in a mate, or only the expression of dissatisfaction with the emptiness of their celluloid world? Nobody can answer those questions with authority. We can only guess at the strange impulses which actuate the many men and women of our time who seem to seek in marriage something which no mortal has ever found there—“happiness ever after.”

The spectacle of the shifting of mates which goes |

merrily og in all classes of our society is a pathetic reminder that we lack some spiritual quality for the better shaping of our lives. Is it not proof. also that

-what we seek in others is that which we do not

possess within ourselves—the capacity to love with even a small measure of constancy? . It seems reasonable to believe that the faithless men cannot expect faithfulness in their women, and vice versa. Yet faithfulness is the one thing we hope

| and pray for in our eager search fo perfect

-| Popular Culture.

Farmers have until Saturday to in--

It has not.

THE INDIANAPOLIS Is There a Chicken i in That Egg >—By Talburt

The ‘Hoosier Forum

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

THINKS MUSSOLINI SHOULD READ HISTORY By J. P. : Headline on news from Rome in Saturday’s Times: “Fascist Ban Hits Mickey The Mouse.” “Our aim is to rise pildren 1 in the firm imperialist spirit of the Fascist revolution,” , explained Dr. Gherarda Cacini of the Ministry of “The Government,” continued Sig. Casini, “must look to the future consideritg that the child of today is the soldier of tomorrow.” On considering such a statement as this, we wonder how soon they will revive the ancient Spartan custom of throwing deformed male babies over a cliff in order that they might not bring disgrace to their families by growing up to be cripples and unfit for military service. Such statements might also belie the position Mussolini took at the Munich conference as the preserver of peace and bearer of the olive branch. Here in America a soldier is not scorned nor looked down upon, hut it parents were convinced that their offsprings had no future but that of a soldier, surely the birth rate would suffer a decrease. For it is the dreams of opportunity and fame and accomplishing feats that benefit mankind that make a nation and its people great. It was the ideal on which America was founded and has grown. It is the essence of survival. So we might say to Mussolini and his Minister of Popular Culture, who so openly cherish a nation of soldiers which they think will perpetuate them for all posterity, look to your history. Caesar tried it, Alexander and Napoleon also. And where are they or their dreams?

” 2 ” CRITICAL OF THE TIMES FOR PAGE ONE EDITORIAL By Bull-Mooser, Crawfordsville November 5 seems to have been low-tide for the policy of The Inrlianapolis Times. I refer, of course,

‘to the editorial boxed in on the

iront page—an editorial which went

out of the way to approve the Democratic ticket in Indianapolis. It is true that the editorial told only what most Republicans acquainted with Indianapolis would have been willing to admit. It is also true the election .verified the predictions of the editorial. Nevertheless, this type of editorializing

(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, religious controversies excluded. Make your letter short, so all can have a chance. Letters must be signed, but names will be withheld on request.)

on the front page is certainly below the past- standards lof The Indianapolis Times — and apparently directly opposed to the policy of Scripps-Howard. Most of us, Republicans . and Democrats alike, take ‘The Times hecause it has justified the reputation of being more fair—and above the gutter-type of editorializing on the front page such as plagues the other major newspapers available in this locality. Come on, Mr. Editor, why this sudden drop into the gutter of Pe ® ” » SUGGESTS COLUMN BY MRS. PEGLER By Wondering i Westbrook Pegler’s dissertation on Young Men in Love, inferring what a heavy price he pays for his aberration, is amusing if it doesn’t actually stir up one’s pity for the poor thing. Since W. P. generally writes on the crass cynicism of politics, etc, I wonder what brought that

on. Can it be that his “spitfire” in-

TO AN IDEALIST By R. M. L.

You want your life a gallant knight, Magnificent and grand. Courageously to make your fate To bow to your command.

May life be always thus to you, Romantic and ideal, . And all your wants and dreams of it ‘May they come true and real.

You make me feel so old somehow, I have a little ache; For I must take my life upon The best terms I can make,

DAILY THOUGHT Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that ‘which is 200d. — Romans 12:9, |

heart of hi him who truly loves is a paradise on earth; he has God in himself, for God is love —Lamennais.

spired it? If so, I strongly urge The Times to get his Mrs. to write her version of the affair to give a balanced picture. Perhaps Westbrook eats crackers in bed or pulls out her chair at the dining table when he wants to play a trick on her. Such an article from the Mrs. may lead us to suspect that it is just pitiful the things some poor dolls have to stand for, too. But in the interests of justice, let’s have it.

” ” ” MIDDLE CLASS BACK IN SADDLE, READER SAYS By Voice in the Crowd : The Times deserves considerable credit for its summation of the election result and its meaning in the editorial, “Middle Class.” . The facts that we still have a democracy, that we still have a middle class, that we still have the check and balance of two virile major parties, have been gloriously established. Every American should

rejoice because so long as this condition maintains, rule by the people is safe in our great land. America is safely on-its way back to rule by ‘a great cross section of a hundred million intelligent people and away from the rule of a handful of machine politicians. . When the majority gets tired of the Reds and the radicals and the racketeers of all classes they will brush them aside like flies. The people are going to do the hiring and the firing of their representatives, and when the new hired men and the ones that were retained march up to Capitol Hill it will be well if they remember that they are the servants of the people, and not rubber stamps. The New Deal is dead, not because of ideals, but because of impractical methods and low grade politics. The New Deal failed when with the entire nation behind them they decried all individualism except that of a handful of men in Washington, who had no more practical belief than that a fuller life would be ours if we created a big enough pawn shop and never redeemed ‘a pledge. Finally disbelieving this theory is the great middle class—the 25 million families who in all times make their own way. This great class who know the struggle of making a profit or earning their wages, and the pain of having taxes take an increasingly greatér portion, have turned the tide. They are not Republicans, they are not Democrats, they are clearheaded citizens who will do their own thinking and pay their own way.

1 NO, it is because they are mentally and emotionally of the

masculine type. The extensive researches ‘Terman |

LET'S EXPLORE YOUR MIND

By DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM

one to the conclusion that women who affect mannish ways and dress

are very masculine in their interest, notions

SOUNDS “just like & woman.” It is barely possible, of course, that women could do a better job

: lot governing than men beeause men

certainly haven't been a great success at it. But to make such a.pos‘itive assertion without evidence in favor of it and with a good deal against it is poor thinking. Women are just as intelligent as men but| for unknown reasons they have not done ‘any job—except acting and rearing cHildren—better than or even as well as men. So I hardly think they would do better in the hardest job on earth—government. ‘. 2 0» : FALSE, as a rule. As we study. the lives of ‘the greatest men we find that a quiet confidence in their own powers with “no consciousness of faults or weaknesses has been one of their most outstanding qualities. Furthermore, the person who thinks he is conscious of his faults is usually merely feeling inferior and, ‘more often 4han not, about something that is not a fault at all but a virtue. That is, he wants to be as bright or interesting or well dressed as others— all very good qualities. Again if one becomes intensely conscious of his real faults he usually tries to comggerated

although [pensate for them by

Gon, Vor,

Says— : Ideology and Totalitarian Among Words Which Should Be Given the

Bum's Rush in U. S. and Pronto, Too.

EW YORK CITY, Nov. 15.—Something ought to be done, by the public hangman about the word “ideology.” I don’t know much about words but somehow there got into our language two varieties—one Anglo-Saxon and the other more or less Latin, For example you can say spit, or if you are more highbrow you can say expectoration. You can say sweat or you can say perspiration. I know all the proper criticisms against ir heritage of the short vigorous Germanic words. But the

St. James version of the Bible and of the prayer book

happens to be about 90 per cent full of them. The tense vigorous prose and poetry of Mr. Kipling is composed of ‘them almost exclusively. Our language of

the law is larded with the other kind. But our lan- .

guage of the streets is almost exclusively Anglo-Saxon and not Latin. Our native language is vigorous but not sweet. ® 2 ” OR example, take the word “totalitarian” to describe the despotic states. We don’t need and I think we don’t want a word like that. It is enough to substitute for the word “ideology” the word “plan,” “idea” or “thought.” It sufficiently describes a dictatorship to say a “gang boss.” You don’t have to call Mr. Hitler or Mr. Mussolini .a totalitarian. Isn’t it enough to call him the big shot or the boss? Wouldn't we know precisely what that meant? Another Washington word that ought to go through our wringer is—‘but definitely.” It means that any particular situation is beyond discussion. That Harry Hopkins, for example, has become the real white=

haired boy in the white colonial cottage with green

shutters on Pennsylvania—that Tommy Corcoran is just the thot jester and not out of touch with supreme authofity—or any other guess. When you say, “but definitely,” that sort of fixes it. “But definitely” means it’s the real McCoy and not a rumor.

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HESE words, “ideology,” “totalitarian” and “but definitely,” need something done to them in the interest of humanity. Of themselves, I daresay, they are innocent enough but, as part of the Washington patter, they ought to be elminated. I suppose the words I have been discussing are perfectly good English—rhetorically and gram=matically. But if they could be edited out of the capital language and were never to be heard again, I think the air would flow a little more easily and I am sure that more people would be pleased—“ideology,” “totalitarian,” “but definitely.” Is it too much to ask? It would be a very slight sacrifice at the hands of the speakers. There are so many other words. But for every important speaker, there are hundreds of listeners. Think of the net arithmetical gain.

It Seems to Me

By. Heywood Broun + Possibility of Return fo One- -Party

THs +7

EW YORK, Nov. 15—One of the grave dangers which are threatened by the election is the possibility that we may be returning to one-party government. Most Americans believe that the two-party system functions better, but until the New Deal came

away his vote or curl up at home with a good book. There was, to be sure, an official opposition in the Congress during the administrations of Messrs. Hard-

1 ing, Coolidge and Hoover, but it was made up largely

of old-line Southern Democrats.

. The difference between an old-line Republican and a traditional Southern Democrat is hardly greater than the, thickness of a fingernail. They may indulge in fiery sham battles, but upon all fundamental economic and political issues they think and vote alike, And so it would be a singularly bleak day in November, 1940, if the voter had to face the choice of casting his ballot for Bennett Champ Clark or Robert Taft. Such a situation would vastly increase the sale of fishing poles, since the problem of differentiating between the contestants would be of interest only to watchmakers and miniature painters. Z However, it is fair to admit that the new crop of Republicans who won in the last electioh represent a ‘divided allegiance.. The complete lineup will not be

known for many weeks, but, as far as surface indica- .

tions go, it seems possible that the Republican side of the House will contain more Townsendites Y an Hooveri If aine is to be accepted as a barometer the food doctor got the jump on the great humanitarian. Such

a rift in the Republican ranks might hold promise of

spirited fireworks if it were not for the fact that Dr. Townsend in all public questions, save the little matter of his pension plan is highly conservative,

Union Party Helped, Too

Henry Cabot Lodge, the brilliant young Senatorial statesman from Massachusetts, has not precisely embraced the Townsend plan, but he has been Sending valentines. Raymond E. Baldwin, who took Connecticut aw, from the popular Governor Cross, has been mentioned in a number of jubilant editorials as a potential Presi Serial candidate. Mr. Baldwin won by almost 3000 votes It is possible, of course, that he was helped a little by the fact that Jasper McLevy, running as a Sociale ist, polled 165,000 votes. But this was only indirect. Into Mr. Baldwin's own totals were poured 5000 votes from the Union Party, which is the property of Father Coughlin. That was sufficient to turn the tide, and no doubt Mr. Baldwin is grateful to the kindly clerio who preaches brotherhood for some upon the radio. On the surface it’ might seem as if the Republicans would have to split the spoils of victory among some= what diverse forces. This is a superficial point of view. The Republican Party has a right to boast that it has never hesitated to take the shirt off the voter's hack to recompense its allies.: And in the last analysi Hoover, Mr. Townsend, Father Coughlin and can get fogsitier.

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Watching Your lh

By Dr. Morris Fishbein | HE will to live is deeply rooted in all m nkind.

* From the beginning of time man has sought not

only increasing years, but increasing years of usefulness. One of our leading biologists, Dr. ‘Raymond

Pearl of Johns Hopkins, indicates ‘that until we are 20

years old we do not pay much attention as to how long we will live, but after that age we begin to think what ‘we can do to preserve our health and to realize the 0 years of age which is tie life cycle of ‘man.

Apparently the older we get the more anxious we

are to keep on living, With the development of modern medicine great

help has come to enable most human beings to reach at least 60 years of age. This help, however, is chiefly in the earlier years of life. In 1890 only 72 per cent of boy babies reached 10 years of age; now 91 per cert, reach 10 years of age.

In 1890, 600 out ow every 10,000 white males wh had reached 70 yeas of age managed to live to the of 90.. Now only out of every 10,000 white a who ‘have reached the age of 70 live to reach 90.

In his consideration of the subect Dr. Raymond Pearl has made a special study of the relationship of the use of alcoholic beverages to long life. Everybody knows the anecdotes of the old men who lived long were persistent liquor drinkers and of the old men who lived long and never drank a drop of alcohol The statement is sometimes made that the latter did not live longer but that it only seemed longer. Nevere theless, the exact scientific study of this question leads to the general conclusion that moderate drinking does not significantly shorten life t that heavy drinks does seriously life. :

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