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THE AMERICAN WAY THE President’s appointment of former Governor. Alf

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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1938

2 MR. CUMMINGS IS LEAVING

OMER CUMMINGS is perhaps not the best Attorney General this nation ever had—nor yet the worst. He has accomplished some improvements in the Justice De-

* partment, notably in criminal apprehensions and prosecu- . tions, in expediting court procedure and in prison administration.

A friendly and easy-going fellow who prefers to bask

‘in the sunshine of today rather than in that of a visionary

tomorrow, Mr. Cummings’ talents as a harmonizer have been severely taxed in the divided councils of the New Deal.

Mr. Cummings’ wide experience in practical politics failed him miserably in his most ambitious undertaking. As chief of the Administration’s legal forces it was his assignment to bring the judicial branch of government into the New Deal fold. The scheme he concocted was designed on the theory that the hand is quicker than the eye. Argument: The Federal Court dockets were crowded. Remedy:

For each judge over 70 years who fails to retire, appoint

a younger judge to sit with him. Object: To, pack the Supreme Court. It was a clever scheme—too clever. Mass:

opinion revolted. Congress rebelled. The packing plan

was overwhelmingly defeated. And that was the turning point where the New Deal's popularity started its long toboggan downward. We said Mr. Cummings originated the packing plan. But, really, we are not altogether sure. Mr. Cummings will retire to private life in January. And we daresay that if ever his right to that particular niche in history is disputed it will be only by a deathbed confession of some anonymous confederate overwhelmed by a remorseful desire to take the rap for Mr. Cummings, even as Homer took the rap for F. D. R. of

M. Landon of Kansas to the delegation which will represent the United States at the Pan-American conference at Lima, Peru, was a master stroke. And Mr. Landon’s acceptance was just as fine. ; Mr. Landon, as everybody knows, was Mr. Roosevelt's opponent in the 1936 elections. He was decisively beaten. But instead of retiring to the sidelines to jeer, more than once he has emerged to join wholeheartedly in the cheers. Secretary of State Cordell Hull, of course, will head the Lima delegation. No better choice could be. made. So Mr.

“Landon will be second in command. Thus, while it can be

said in all truth that a smaller man than the President would not have made the appointment, it is equally true that a lesser man than Mr. Landon would hardly have accepted. In other lands, leaders are shooting their political opponents. In other lands the “outs” are hiding in cellars plotting nasty things to do to the man who is “in.” Americans, therefore, should feel a real glow of pride over the Roosevelt-Landon attitude. As long as that sort of thing can happen over here there is no need for us to despair of our democracy. v :

A CENTURY.OLD CHURCH NTON SCHERRER, our genial columnist, called attention the other day to some of the interesting things ‘that have happened during the 100-year history of the Second Presbyterian Church.

His column aroused our curiosity about Indianapolis back in the 1830’s, so we began to dig into the matter

ourselves. And here is what we ran into in Max R. Hyman’s old “Handbook of Indianapolis”: “The great financial panic of 1837 proved very disastrous to Indianapolis. It stopped all work on .the great

enterprises undertaken by the State, leaving contractors

and laborers without their pay. The banks were compelled to suspend specie payments and private business was overwhelmed with the credit of the State. Large stocks of goods had been purchased by the merchants and remained unsold on their shelves, or had been disposed of on credit, and collections were impossible. Nobody had any money .. . there was a laek of currency, and the Legislature ‘issued bills secured by the credit of the State, and bearing 6 per cent interest. This ‘scrip’ was made receivable for -taxes, but from the want of credit abroad the scrip passed

only at a heavy discount . . . it was not until 1843, when

the Madison railroad was approaching completion, that an

upward tendency in business occurred.”

Apparently the good Presbyterian fathers of that day did not regard the panic of 1837 as anything except a ‘man-made visitation, for they founded their church’ the following year. And their faith in Indianapolis was justified. ;

WE ALL WANT TO JOIN ANOTHER | big new building has been diario in New York City’s Rockefeller Center. And Mr. Rockefeller, observing the crowds that stopped to watch the progress of ‘work, has provided them with a comfortable shelter. It has a roof to keep off the rain, a screen to stop flying splinters, and even a motto—'‘The best pilots stand on the shore.” Here is something more than a kindly and whimsical gesture. It recognizes a deep-seated human trait—the desire to see men at work, things being built. And surely,

after so long a time when these sights were rare, it is good

to have that desire gratified. We hope there will soon be

opportunities, and many of them, for clubs to be provided

for the Sidewalk Superintendents in every American city.

HERE WE COME, BOYS! ‘WE share with the ministerial groups the satisfaction they feel that Governor Townsend has ordered State

Police to eliminate slot machines in the state. But—

When you propose to sock an opponent on the nose, do you advertise the fac, for several days in the news-

_ Business Manager,

Bor Bog By Westbrook Pegler :

Ladies Are Strange People, Really A Race Apart and Like Frenchmen Difficult to Understand: Sometimes.

~ V race, so different from men that it is impossible to understand what goes on with them. The best a man can do is guess. It is a good. deal like talking with a Frenchman. For instance, they never pick up -a check but, just by turning on the old charm, they can make you feel that it is an honor and a privilege to do all the buying.

As an example, one night. when r was a very young cub reporter I made the acquaintance of a lady while strolling in an amusement park on the west side of -| Chicago, and in no time at all was tempting ‘her pretty lips with beer and sandwiches. This went on to the extent of about $2, and as we left the beer place I had only $1 left. Then she saw a man selling kewpie doll lamp shades and Sqiseied that she would love to have one, She lisped. pre “How much is it?” I asked. “A buck,” the man said, so I gave him the buck and had to walk home—about five miles. just no sense to such things.

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HEY have secrets, too. They have a private opinion of men as a race; and they always analyze us and pitch to our weaknesses all the time to make us do as they want us to. knowledge together from experience and remarks that they let slip sometimes, like when they are sore over something. Boys.can’t understand it at all. Ladies look at a man’s waistline, and if he is getting flappy around there they feel humiliated and think back to when he was lithe and young. But generally they mask their true meaning about this by saying that he was altogether too skinny when he was a bridegroom and that this new handsomeness and filling out 1s due to good feeding at their hands.

This is a velvet knock, but there would be a terrible time.in the love bower if the husband should say, “Well, Sugar, I was just noticing how you have

you have enjoyed since I took you off your family’s hands, and I think it is fine, because there wasn't much of you then. Just a slip of a girl then. Just a pretty little thing.”

their increased heft and make jokes about how scrawny they were 20 years ago; but they try not to let on that they have noticed any difference in her. That would be worth a man’s life,

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ADIES think they just take over where the man’s mother leaves off and continue the job of keeping him up on his manners, guiding him in his affairs and making important decisions for him, while

cisions. As will be seen, all this is defensive business. Ladies are just at the right time with some man when they are young and marrying, but in time they

begin to have little nags back and forth as the man ‘I'regains. his mental balance.

Soy they build up this quiet. superiority and smiling condescension busindss, decide that there is no harm in letting them think that way if it makes them any happier.

Men are not such dummies. They are the clever things happy. But that is just.it. Why does it make

to dummies?

Business By John T. Flynn

$4000 Goal Too High, A. F. of L. Urged to Aid Low Income Groups.

EW YORK, Nov. 16.—The demand of the American Federation of Labor for a goal of $4000 a year inicome for every American family is an index of what is the matter with the A. F. of L.

No one can possibly object to the hope that one day every American family will have such an income. But a goal like that ignores completely what the real objective of society and labor should be now—an income of half that much for the family, No one has found the formula yet to-attain this more modest goal.

are getting less than one-fifth of that is on a par with the “ham and egg” movements. However, there is something more disturbing than the mere futility of the objective. It is that while the A. F. of L. talks about $4000 for every family, it is really thinking about every A. F. of L, family. The A. F. of L. has through its career, and particularly in its later career, devoted itself to the interests of the skilled .craftsmen and given small attention to that vast army of workers who are without special skills and who have constituted the exploited part of our labor world. It was. that historic betrayal which resulted in the C. I. O. and all the grief for labor which has come since. But the A. F. of L. fought and struggled to get as ‘big a cut as possible for the skilled workers, until it began to resemble the stockholding class a little, each fighting to get as big a cut of the available in-: come from production as possible, leaving the unskilled ‘worker to do the best he could.

Building Situation Cited

The A. F. of L.s blind policy in this regard has been a major influence in the collapse of the building industry. I do not mean that the material man and the financier have not played their part as well. But the A. F. of L. had pushed up building wages and along with that cluttered building operations with limitations of all:-sorts until today building is no longer possible in the present system. The A. F. of L. spends too much of its time upon the $3000 and $4000-a-year worker and too little upon the $750 and $1000-a-year worker who does not get his fair cut of the melon. This country has not yet found the secret of providing $4000 a year for every family. But certain unions have found the secret of providing almost that for some families by getting more than their share of the national income. There are such unions which are as much the enemies of labor as their predatory employers who Scherne 4 to get more than their share in profits. b

: Lf oI Aa A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson HIS year, Armistice followed closely upon the heels

becoming ‘major embarrassments to the citizen who gives any thought to their real significance.

racy’s flowering—the momentous 12 hours when we can exercise our full rights of suffrage and when the majority of us do, either by voting for'the candidate who offers the biggest plum in the party pudding or the’ largest pension for our aging parents, or by using the day for vacationing so that we often forges to show up at the polls at all,

sance instead of a privilege, and when that feeling becomes general democracy functions so badly it is often an embarrassment to its advocates.

to be! If we celebrate it much longer as a time for history because it came bearing beneficent gifts to humankind, we shall declare ourselves to be simpletons or fools. On Nov. 11, 1918, firing ceased on the Western Front; but the hatred which had inspired it flared as

the economic greeds that incite men to war never lessen in spite of tall talk and peace pacts. Sadly enough, the day which commemorates the cessation of hostilities in the World War has been tightly named. Intervening years prove that it was only an ‘Armistice after all; time out, called so that

for the pre awful struggle. $0. come, -

. EW YORK, Nov. 16.—Ladies constitute a separate |

There is | §

You have to piece this |-

widened out yourself from the good providing that.

But the husbands don’t say that. They grin about"

at the same time making him think he makes the de-

ones to let the ladies think they are dummies to keep these strange People happy to think they are married

-{the time will spon come

To talk about $4000 a year when millions of families

of election. As national holidays, both are fast |-

The latter occasion is widely advertised as democ- |

I daresay only a few modern Americans vote with | true patriotic intent these days. The ballot is a nui--

As for Armistice Day—what a farce it turned out |

rejoicing, a day which deserves a permanent place in |:

high as ever in the hearts of national leaders, while A

politicians and generals could recuperate their forces

ht! 1” ? Goethe's I Tost Words, —By Herblock

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

DOUBTS REACTIONARIES SCORED TRIUMPH : By Arthur Scott

In the recent elections the reactionaries won some new positions. But their gains are more apparent

than real in the face of the fact

that they were forced to win them at the cost of deceitful evasion of the basic issues of New Dealism and progressivism.

The American people still want

the essentials of the New Deal;

they want social security and old-s

age pensions; they want labor's rights protected. They showed this most unmistakably where there was the opportunity to see the issues unclouded by cunning strategy and unobstructed by a Yeaetionary political ‘machine. Where reactionaries won {by deceptive strategy, such as pretending to out-New Deal the New/ Dealers, en the people are: going to check their performances against their promises. The American people still want democracy, security and peace. 8 #2» : WANTS POLITICIANS PROPERLY LABELED By E. F. Maddox

People who insist that democracy demands toleration, free speech, iree press and the right to assemble in

{mobs, armies or to organize into

unions for every brand and variety of political movement, revolutionary or otherwise, certainly would not object to having these different political movements identified, so an honest American could avoid the subversive and revolutionary variety of alienisms. if he so desired. My idea is that every political party or movement in the United States should be forced by law -to sail under its own true colors and be refused free speech, free press, assembly or the right to organize except when it is done openly under their own special emblems and names. - If a person is a Democrat,

| Republican, Socialist, Communist or |Fascist, let them speak, write or

organize openly as such and not he political hypocrites. I suggest that every political speech made over the radio should plainly identify to what political party or group the speaker belongs. If we must let them speak, let them speak openly in the name and by the authority of - their party officials or else keep off the air. If they write a Look, article, letter of any form of written political propaganda, the, should head it as follows: , By: John Brown, Democrat. The idea of Socialists, Communists and Fascists working in and controlling the Democrat and Republican parties is pure molitical anarchy. - The Dies Committee in-

(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.)

vestigating "un-American activities has begun: the good work of exposing certain men and organizations and Congress should call on

every political sparty apd purveyor |

of political propaganda to register under the name and emblem of the political party or movement they represent and refuse all rights to write, speak or organize to those not registered. Is that. intolerance? No—just common sense. The Democrats and Republicans will welcome such. publicity and the agents of alienisms could either comply with that law or hold their peace. Why should we permit ourselves to be misled by any disguised political faker? I say turn the spotlight of publicity on all Political activities. 2 8 =n THINKS DEMOCRATS

NEED YOUNG BLOOD By Bull-Mooser, Crawfordsville

Not a Demoerat elected in the whole of Crawfordsville—city, township or county. Well, that’s what I predicted in the Hoosier Forum six months ago, and it’s come to pass. The Democratic leaders around here regarded me as crazy when I told them they were doomed to defeat unless they got some young heads to take over the party learlership—and something besides: the personality of President Roosevelt as a platform. It took utter rout to convince

IDES OF NOVEMBER

By MARY P. DENNY

Patter of the autumn rain Strain of autumn deep and clear, Over wind-strung harp of day Through the deep November way. Leaves of gold and crimson strain Shining in the city park Where the squirrels and rabbits hark, Winter now is drawing near, In the evening of the year.

DAILY THOUGHT

My brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of His might. —Ephesians 6:10.

HERE is “nothing on earth worth being known but God and our own souls.—Bailey.

tthe conservatives even admit that{-

these, ~ contrary - perpetual-office-seekers that their day was through —that: this is the day of young men and new. reforms, locally as well as nationally. Well, now that we young “Rooseveltians” have buried our impedimenta, we can start preparing to get back on the winning side in 1940. ea. BELIEVES LABOR MADE GOOD SHOWING By E. F. The reactignaries have been crowing about their victories at the recent election. : When you look at the percentage difference in votes. cast and the

the: Wagner Act, you - will. notice: that both parties are nearly even. And when you consider that the New Deal helped: labor—and -since |:

they didn’t help :business—it ‘isn't such a bad: showing for that “deluded, ‘unthinking, ungrateful— labor.” § : 2 nn .n ELECTION SEEN AS WARNING TO LABOR By R. Sprunger

The recent election is a warning to Labor to céase its petty bickering and unite its forces for an aggressive fight on the rising tide of re-| action. Labor should take a pointer from the Tories. Wherever a candidate was suspected of being progressive or liberal the Tories forgot party line and “ganged” that candidate. The most disgusting sight was the aid the reactionaries received from educated fools and illiterate voters whose real interests belong with Labor. The recent election is not a safe and sane return to so-called Americanism as E. F. Maddox thinks. It is an attempt to thrust us into the medievalism of the Hoovers, Hardings, Coolidges and Hitlerites. 2 an 8 DOUBTS CONSERVATIVE TREND IN ELECTION By W. F. Hulet, Crawfordsville. In your editorial of Nov. 11, you stated: : “While. Tuesday’s conservative sweep is proof that the reaction has started, the swing has not yet gone far enough to injure the workers.” Don’t you realize that six of the Republican Congressmen elected were elected by the Townsend votes? I wonder why you call it a conservative sweep? If $200 a month or $30 ‘every. Thursday is conservative, I have never understood what the word conservative means. Is not the indorsement of the. Townsend Plan a very: dangerous one for our State

and Nation?

NO. He will gain a a certain satis- wes—indeed the fun—he is missing. faction from seeing his bank ac-|{Of course he. is not working strict-

count; pile-up but he. does not know|ly for money iy for he. . laupoke the world of larger and finer val-ltance it to | 110

LET'S XPLORE YOUR

By DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM

AT TH gid E SAME Ia YOUR OPINION —

any other woman! In the resulting

|| It brings only the. discouragement of being a failure. Often a school |.

= pile. When he gets it he doesn’t know how to enjoy it except to purchase . things that make him seem still more important, : 2 8 nn : CERTAINLY. Recently a woman |

in New York shot and killed an-|

other woman’s husband. The wife thought he was faithful. but this woman had involved him in an affair because she sald she had craved a man who could dominate her. He was that type of man and she did not want him to dominate

quarrels she’ killed him. Many women have this attitude toward men but fortunately very few express it quite. so vehemently.

SOMETIMES but % mol in most |’

cases. If the failure be because the lessons were above their intelligence, it is folly to repeat them.

failure ruins a person’s courage and self-confidence for life. If the failure be due. to’ troubles at home— parents quarreling, joblessness, etc., or to the child’s emotional difficulties, these should be cured as far as possible. Of course my theory is that schools .should all. be or-

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difference in the. Gallup Poll. over |

‘the matter things will die down and a situation may

for example, that workers. in paper and paper goods

ganized so.that no child. can fail

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| Mexican Proposal on Seized Lands

Amounts to Our Paying Debt by/

Export Tax on U.S. Mining Output.

EW YORK “ITY, Nov. 16. —The name of our delegates to the Pan-American i at Lima, Peru, were announced in the press omn)the same day as the plan to pay Americans whose lands had been seized—:‘expropriated”’—by the Mexican Gove ernment. That was just a coincidence but it serves to reveal one of Mr. Hull's principal headaches. Mexico is under a Communist "dictatorship. seized farm’ lands belonging to Americans with’ Bi

| idea of giving them away to ‘poor and’ landless Mex- | icans.

It didn’t pay for them. It also seized oil properties and ‘threatened to seize mining properties. While it did not actually. take these foreign mining properties, it imposed such. burdensome labor laws as to make their operation almost impossible.

Our Government demanded pay for the farm. lands —not, as yet, for the other properties seized, although the principle is the same. Months passed without, any settlement. Now the brilliant plan is announced that the Mexican Government will impose an almost confiscatory export tax mostly aimed at the. American mining properties. and use only about 20 per cent of the returns to pay for seized farm properties, over ‘a

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will.come out of purchases by our Treasury of Mexican silver, at an artificially high price,’ the proposition on its face is a pippin. One kind of confiscated American property is to be paid for by a tax on ie production of another kind of American property. Mexico is probably not through seizing Americin property. She has already taken most-of the oil property owned here and is trading the oil to Germany and Japan in exchange for their goods to the exclusion of American goods. She has her eyes on. the very mining properties which she is now taxing to pay for the seized lands.. How she expects to pay for the oil lands, and perhaps later for the mines, if ever, does not appear. A Leftist Government on the Mexican model has just taken over in Chile. There are a lot of American copper and nitrate properties there. It is very likely. that they too will be confiscated. If Latin-America continues to make foreign-owned property unsafe, it will kill normal American trade as sure as the: sun rises. : . sn 8 ET it is becoming more and more the foremost Y of our Government to build up both political and economic unity in the Western hemisphere, éven to the extent of inviting Europe and Asia to stay out. It doesn’t look so hot. Mexico, Chile, Santo Domingo and Brazil are already under something like dieIt doesn’t do to jump to conclusions: bgcause each varies from the rest in form and none is quite on the European model. But if fascism and communism take Latin-America—not by European intervention but by internal revolution and change, it isn’t easy to see just what we are going to do about it. Furthermore, it isn’t easy te see what would happen to the’ proposed new loose league of American nations as a confederacy of the democracies against the European poison of communism and fascism. Of course, there is nothing to do but to:keep on trying. But we should not‘ go to sleep with our idealistic thumb in anybody's realistic mouth—here or. nye where else. ;

It Seems fo Me

By Heywood Broun oo 3

Shocking Persecution of Jews by Nazis Is Threat to All of Civilization,

EW YORK, Nov. 16. 1. has been. said that in its present fury the Nazi government is returning. to the Middle Ages. It seems to me that even more ancient days are now recalled and, indeed; there is a movement to deny to the Jews those books which coritain the stories of their great national heroes, the Bible itself may go into the burning. But this would hardly obliterate the ancient memories upon which the culture of an cppressed people has been nurtured. And as it was with Shddrach, Meshack and Abednego, so shall it be with their fellows. - Even .the. most savage cruelties have not availed. Nor will they NOW, This is a matter which touches the conscience. of .the world. The recent outrages in Germany should put an end to any suggestion that democratic peoples may by compromise get along well enoysh with the. Phi losophy of fascism. - “Well enough”: cannot .be sufficiently broad . br deep to take into- its bosom the sword and the: torch. When fires are loosed there must be set up defenses

since:a raging flame knows no boundaries, and is 6

not to be modified by pacts and promises.. ; Frightfulness is not a force which can readily. pick and choose. Fires:do not. consume every third -house in a block, but threaten all dwellings which -lie-in their path. That which has begun in Berlin is not alone a danger to any single race or religion. In fact, it is evident that the Nazi drive veers every now and ‘again from the synagog to the churches. :

Three Who Didn’t Hesitate

As the passion rises and the flames dance higher it must be plainly recognized that there is a threat to everything which has’ been brought to: us in’ the slow development of civilization. “Be it known unto .thee, O King,” said, Shadrach, Meshack and Abednego, “that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden. image which thou. hast set up.” These were men who did not wait to -be asked. It was their firmness and their determination which enabled them to come safely through the ordeal of the fiery furnace. In these days I have heard-dt said by some, both Jewish and gentile, that the ugly fact of prejudice can be handled best by saying very little about it. : According to this theory if no mention is made" et

be achieved which runs, “well enough.” But certainly it is not only craven but silly to talk of silence or hushed voices when the sky is filled with roaring fires. Even the word “prejudice” is insufficient. We face a force which would end all things in which we believe, Let us speak out. What are we going to do?

Watching Your Health *

By Dr. Morris Fishbein

VERYONE knows that people who work hard under bad climatic conditions have more illness and do not live as long as those who live sheltered lives. The social aspects of our lives are closely rélated to our health and the years of our living. . -. Recently British authorities have analyzed: the {m= portance of such factors not only on the men who ata employed but on the wives of these men, If was found,

had an excess amount of deaths from cancer, whereas their wives did not have such an excess, : Cancer of the skin increases as one. : passes down the social scale not only for men but alse for ‘their wives. ‘Thus the Dipaisonal factor for cancer of We skin would seem to have little influence. For some reason ‘doc and surgeons suffer from diseases of the stomach and the intestines to a mie greater extent than do ‘their ‘wives. Although men and women die in about’ the. shme numbers from diseases associated with poverty, women are much less affected than are men by those diseases that are definitely associated with what is commonly called “high living.” : The people who suffer “citiefly “with diabetes, in. flammations of the kidney and gallstones, as well as with high blood pressure and brain hemorrhage are those who eat heartily, exercise little and are overweight. Apparently, therefore, married women take

more care of their weight, their diets and their general appearance than do their husbands, and this tribute to vanity is Da important factor in pi For: years it has been well es ‘middle age is a-m

ing their lives. lished that overw long life.

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