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Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way

f THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1938 : 1 ‘SAVE 8000 LIVES JAZ a year ago a hopeful thing happened i in the United States. The charted line that represents deaths in automobile accidents, after rising steadily for years, turned | downward. : So far in 1938 there have been 20 per cent fewer

| traffic deaths than there were in the same period of 1937. { More than 6500 men, women and children are alive today | who would be in their graves if that line had stayed at i the ‘peak it reached last year. : Here, as in the rest of the nation; the drive for safer istreets and highways has brought results. At the present jtinie the Marion County total of fatalities stands at 105 jas against 130 for the same period last year, and in Indian-, rapolis 66 as against 81. ‘Now comes a crucial test. The next six weeks will bring 1938's worst traffic ‘hazards, Earlier darkness. Rain, snow, sleet. Wet leaves ion the pavements. The Christmas rush, tempting motorists «to drive a little faster than usual and pedesiriong to take “chances on crowded streets. £ Now, today, we should all rosiive to resist this temptaition—to drive with extra care, to walk with extra care. So ‘we may maintain the 20 per cent reduction in traffic deaths, ‘completing a year in which one life in five has been saved. That will mean 8000 persons spared to see the New Year, for nearly 40,000 died in traffic in 1937. And it may

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{THE WRONGS OF HONORIA

:QOME 1500 years ago there lived a princess, named Hon- £ oria. She was the granddaughter of Theodosius II, EmOne day she was caught flirting with ‘one of the court’s good-looking chamberlains, was promptly iisent to her room in the castle tower, and confined thereafter ‘under severe restraint.” But Honoria pined for freedom.

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ito Attila, King of the Huns—a short, swarthy, barrel-chest-ed fellow who lorded it over central Europe—and bade him

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Now Attila never had the slightest Stertion of marry‘ing the girl. But her proposition gave him a marvelous dea. He would pretend that she was his bethrothed. He ‘would thus become her knight and so, whenever he felt like iit, he could go to war to avenge her slights. Which is what ‘he did. For a couple of decades, every time he felt the need for more loot, he thought up a wrong to right for Honoria. tHe massacred, pillaged and destroyed cities and country‘sides throughout most of Europe. k Again and again grandfather Theodosius bought him ‘off. But Attila refused to stay bought. He always came back demanding bigger and bigger tributes. For Attila, at All he had to do was to think up some new insult allegedly endured by

his fiancee. And he kept it up until at last he fell for a

:damsel named Ildico and died suddenly in the middle of the ‘night following a nuptial banquet. (And he died with ilonoria’s wrongs still unredressed.) | » ”» ” 2 ” » FTobar Attila’s successors in Europe are playing th ~~ same game. On the amazing pretext of avenging a “crime against a minor Nazi official, the Hitlers, the Goerings and the Goebbels are sacking and pillaging Germany's Jewry.

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‘provided by a half-insane boy's attack against a Nazi sub“ject in Paris, Herr Hitler and his followers are now making “raid after raid against the helpless people of this boy’s race in Germany. First they attacked the Jews in their homes, their synagogs, and their places of business, looting as they went. Then they levied against them the most colossal

piribats ever demanded of any people, even in time of war.

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raged and aghast at the spectacle. Or that President | Rocosvelt has protested, and ordered our Ambassador to "Berlin “to return at once for report and consultation.”

& As a result, the Nazis will doubtless fly into another

irage against this country. : The international need of the hour, it seems to us, is to do something concrete for German Jewry and for world

ol . Jewry. There are many almost empty but fertile lands still

left in the world—many, for instance, within the British mpire—where a real asylum might be set up. That, of ourse, would be only a partial solution of a much larger roblem. But it would help.

BUSINESS STAYS BETTER

URTHER evidence of improved business conditions for Indianapolis has been supplied by the Chamber of Com-

in erce and the bank reports on Christmas savings.

The Chamber finds that employment, payrolls, building

Sand other indices showed an upward trend for October,

ontinuing the gains of previous months. Christmas savings clubs are to distribute some 45,000, an increase of 21 per cent over last year. This is urprising ‘in view of the fact that the Improvement came during the period of the recent recession. Also gratifying is the announcement that the PittmanMoore Co. is about to construct a $300,000 addition to its harmaceutical laboratories and that the automobile and related industries have rehired almost 2500 workers since ov. 1. While there is nothing here to cause hats to be thrown the air, neither are there any signs that the improvement likely to come to an abrupt halt. And, as far as we're ned, we prefer the present steadier dlimb to normal to lar upward surge that mig

Fair Enough

By Westbrook Pegler

Nazi State of Mind Too Loaths me

To Discuss, Yet Must Be Debated

For Protection of Civilization.

EW YORK, Nov. 17.—It is no more possi e to argue with the Nazi state of mind than with the germ of some foul disease. It must be considered as a thing no more capable of reason or decency than dirt. Civilized human beings find it offensive even as a topic of discussion. : In this vein, human beings must discuss its offensiveness and speculate on means of protecting them-

selves from its pervading stench. This thing thinks that it is God and that all the creatures which crawl in it partake of godliness, while the members of the human race, being outside Nazidom, are vermin to be subdued, sickened and destroyed by the germs which it gives off. It has called

this country a nation of gangsters and boasted of its |.

discipline and then has ordered out mobs to murder, loot and burn, offering the excuse that the disciplined, nongangster state was unable to control the rioters and maintain internal order. This country has had a few isolated, spontaneous

“mishaps of the same kind in Chicago, Springfield and

Atlanta, but with the difference that the Government in all such cases promptly leaped in to quell the rioting and restore order. - 8 ” 2 HIS Nazi thing for some time had been planning the final act in the debasement of the German nation, the reintroduction of human slavery in a country which once could make honest boast of its intelligence and civilization. The assassination of one of its agents by a young hero in Paris was not the cause but the pretext. The thing calls its victims Communists in one breath and in the next speaks of them as greedy capitalists. It cries “coward” at an utterly desperate waif in the world who invited death to strike one blow, but sees bravery in the hounding and scourging of unarmed, helpless, hopeless, starving people by mobs operating without risk under the direction of its police and troops. It cries “gangster!” at the- American nation and pleads helplessness when mobs stone two Cardinals in their homes, smash and loot and throw a priest out of a window to his death. This Nazi thing set adrift in a river a barge loaded with its victims and laughed uproariously as they were stoned from shore to shore, threatened with death by beating wherever they should land and with death by starvation and exposure if they didn’t land. ” » 2 HIS thing has infected the Italian nation and has even exported its pestilence to this country through its bunds. It has armed beyond any other power in the world and mobilized 1,500,000 men to

crush ah independent nation, but has denounced this country as a warmaker because the United States has decidede to repair its defenses. And yet, between the lines from Germany at the

height of the terror, there were hidden away little |

hints that some of the German people still remain human beings. Some were arrested, the dispatches said, for daring to express pity for the victims and alarm for German civilization. The American Steuben Societies purport to cherish Americanism while preserving their cultural heritage. That heritage is almost destroyed in Germany. The Steuben Societies have spoken out courageously on persecution many times, but if there ever was a time for them to denounce it and defend their heritage the time is now and Germany is the place in which to make themselves heard. )

Business

By John T. Flynn

Time Seems Right for Third Party, But Movement Lacks Great Leader.

EW YORK, Nov. 17.—The election has already produced its first inevitable fruit—talk of a

third party. For the first time in our political history since the

war the circumstances of our social life call for a third party buiit chiefly upon economic issues. But the obstacies in the way are enormous. The Republican Party, despite its occasional and sporadic differences, is built upon a fairly well understood ethic, It is the defender of the existing system of property rights and of the theory that the road to prosperity | is the encouragement of business. It is the party of business—big and little. It has dragged behind in its defense of its position. 1t became encrusted with privilege, tradition. It lost contact with the people. It fell under the dominion of one segment of business—the large utility interests and the large banking interests. Such a party can shift its position without changing its funda- | mental constituent philosophy. But the Democratic Party is divided hopelessly. There are private property, business-utility, banking defenders in it as far to the right as the most casehardened Tory. Then there are the simonpure liberals, the Jeffersonian advocates of free trade, free speech, human rights, human tolerance, etc. Then there are the crack-pot squads—the inflationists, the

-$30-every-Thursday people, the pensionites, etc.. who

are neither liberal nor conservative, but just either hungry people clamoring for food or shallow imposters ready to exploit them.

But What Will It Stand for?

Then there are the large numbers who feel that the present system is passing or actually done and that some large scale change must be made in the pattern of our economic life. It is a party of irreconcilable and hostile elements. It may well be it has seen its last great victory. It exhibits all the elements of decay. And so the left-wing groups talk about a third party. But a third party devoted to what? To Fascist controls like the NRA, the AAA, the Guffey Coal Act —the principle of scarcity as a means of producing prosperity, to high prices and huge armaments to make income? Or to a genuine, thoughtful and liberal program based upon realities, to make the present system work? Or will it be a third party which merely draws together a great mob, all the disaffected .elements in the nation, including all the purveyors of panaceas—inflation and ham and eggs and subsidies of every description? A great leader might well now form a third party. But have we got one?

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

OT often does one watch while a man and woman give away a home they have taken years to create. The experience is a Privilege both rare and moving, which takes on-added significance when

Seen in retrospect. A few days ago Mr. and Mrs. Waite Phillips of Tulsa handed to the directors of the Southwestern Art Association a deed to their city estate, which is to be used henceforth as a Home for the Arts. The magnificently landscaped 23 acres surrounding it had previously been given to the city for a public park. And so Versailles becomes a reality in Oklahoma. For, in just: ‘such gardens as these, glamorous Marie

Antoinette once walked. All this is wonderful, I know,

but not half so wonderful as the thought that from now on we who are poor in worldly goods can share in such beauty. I like especially to think of the children who will roll lon the greensward, to whom the murmur of those fountains may sound messages from fairy tongues. Xt requires very little imagination to visualize the corridors and rooms of the great house open to men and women whose hands are gnarled with labor and whose hearts may be hungry for beauty. Perhaps many tired souls, yearning after some unattainable dream, will find comfort and peace there to ease them from the stress of life and its fretful passions. In our great Southwest, where raw-boned adventurers worked so hard to hew out fortunes, and where inherited wealth was unknown onl genera

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES __ Added Attraction—By Herblock

THURSDAY, NOV. 17, 1938

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

SUPPORT OF AGED HELD HANDICAP TO G. O. P. By Bull-Mooser. Crawfordsville The election of 1938 marks one definite trend—the attempt of the Republican Party to capture the vote of the old people. The Republican press with ° its unfair attitude toward labor and its many deliberate misrepresentations has so stigmatized the labor vote against the Republican Party that it was hopeless to look for a rejuvenation of the party from appeal to labor. - The farmer, though dissatisfied with farm conditions, was a long way from turning en masse to the Republican Party. Moreover, what could the Republicans offer without deserting Wall Street and the protective tariff issue for industry from which they obtained their campaign and propaganda funds. The Republican politicians turned to the old people because that was the last remaining large grotp of voters to which they could tu was either a matter of capturing i old-age-pension vote or politically throwing in the sponge. Hence, the paradox of the National Republican Committee, while cpenly disapproving of any and all old-age-pension utopias, sending out word to the. various state committees to get on whatever old-age-pension bandwagon necessary to win the election in that state. The surprising thing: was that eight years Va long enough for the old people to forget the Republican record. They fell blindly

into line back of the Republican

promises of various and sundry utopias for the old (a different utopia for each state or district). Here in Indiana Noble Johnson had to offer nothing more than to back the Townsend movement to get back into office. Believe it or not, it's an indisputable fact that in 1938 the Republican Party has come to represent an alliance of Wall Street, Big Business, knocking taxpayers and old-age pension utopias. The Republicans have the old-age pension vote. It now remains to be seen if they can hold it. Will the national committee come out . with some old-age pension utopia plan? Will the newly elected Republican Congressmen live up to their promises? Is it possible for the G. O. P. reactionaries who control the party to sell Big Business and the taxpayers on ' some old-age pension utopia? Your guess is as good as mine; but my guess is that the Democrats have cnly let the Republicans take enough rope to hang themselves. There is no wrath greater than that of a disappointed old person. In 1940 the old people will end their hegira and return home to the Democratic Party.

(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)

PROTESTS PAYMENTS TO 2 PER CENT CLUB. By A. G. Smith | A certain R. A. writing to the Forum is “mildly amused” the fact that Democrats were or-

dered to parade recently at a rally.

My husband is a State employee, and he, too, was similarly requested to attend the parade and report to the ward chairman for checking

purposes. So I know that “claim” is true, But mildly, highly, cynically or otherf|{wise. I'm fed up to the eyebrows t| with the dictatorial manner of the Democratic machine—the way it makes employees goose-step and

‘give till it hurts. The employee ‘must feel eternally grateful for his

job: If it weren't for the State, you might not be eating, etc. One co-operates gladly when the objective is sincere, honest and worthy,

as it was in the beginning of the

Democratic regime, but the whole thing is now simply subservient to the will of a few and used to fur-

SPECIAL DELIVERY

By ELEEZA HADIAN

A white curtain Flagged the dawn, And day on the go Stopped at my window - To leave the package That would contain My portion of courage; Just enough to live Twenty-four hours through —New hopes, dreams new— A bit of laughter Tucked in between A message or, two That whispers, “Don’t be afraid To start anew.” Oh, yes, I am sure There was one for you Done in a glow, Done in pink; You'd get it tomorrow, You'd get it I think, If you'd give the dawn A knowing wink.

DAILY THOUGHT Thou has also given me the shield of Thy salvation; and Thy

gentleness hath made me great.— II Samuel 22:36.

HOSE ‘who live live in the Lord never see each other for the

last. Yime German Motto.

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I'm not amused—neither

ther a personal ambition that is not particularly considerate of the good of the people. It has been charged that the Governor is neither honest nor candid about the Two Per Cent Club funds when he says they are “voluntary.” They aren’t.and he isn't. Those contributions are levied to the limit of one’s ability to fork over and one must fork over or be prepared to look for another job in a still jobless world. Not only does the Two Per Cent Club get a share, but the City and County organizations also expect a rakeoff on the job they indorsed for an employee. We could have a very lovely Christmas if we had the contributions we “voluntarily” gave. As it is I'm just hoping for the best. I understand we got off easy in comparison to the Marion County employees—they’ve had to help out the precinct, ward and County funds as well with handsome individual contributions. If the Governor meant to be completely frank he'd say where the money went and how much there was of it. By law it remains. unaccountable to the ‘public and besides paying for banquets tendered to Mr. McNutt, just where does it go? You tell me. Who has a better right to know than those who contributed? ese are rhetorical questions and I don’t expect an answer, but I'll find the answer sometime, If certain reforms are not forthcoming in the 1939 Legislature, as has been promised, there will be a split. And believe you me, I'm going to help split it along with others. The organization can’t always hide behind the President and cry “Vote for us or you're disloyal to the President.” » 8 ® HELPFUL SUGGESTION ON HOUSE NUISANCE By P. 8. Thomas I think it would be a good idea to have a little corner in your paper where you can print some of the recipes for the betterment of man.

I have been bothered a good deal in years gone by with rats. 1 was advised if I sprinkled concentrated lye down in their runways and holes under barns and sheds it would kill the rats. I did this and have never been bothered again. I am sending this in as sample No. 1. I hope others will follow. Print anything that will make this

| world a better place to live in.

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NOTES TOWNSENDITES BACKED G. O. P. By Claude Braddick, Kokomo See where the Townsend Plan clubs voted the Republican ticket en masse in the recent election.

Figured, no doubt, that the New Deal policies were too . derned

“visionary” and impractical.

LETS EXPLORE YOUR MIND

By DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM-——

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other to every eligible girl that comes along. A reasonable concern for a boy's marital success is evidence of a sound, healthy mother love but, if [carried to excess, modern psycho ogists regard it as a pretty serious matter and an interference with the young man's personality development,

NO. The old notion of the superiority of the first born which led kings, dukes, etc., to leave all their dominions and property to the first born was pure bunk. They should have waited until the boys were old enough for them to select the ablest one and put him in charge. ” 2 2

YES, under some circumstances, and no under others. For example, a woman can’t be 42 years old and 35, or weigh 160 and 140 at the same time. But the gold standard, or tariff, or Labor Relations Act, or Minimum Wage Law may be partly right and partly wrong. Most matters in practical life are! compromises between pen and tters

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Miss Thompson's Plea for Defense Fund Merits Support as Means of ‘Learning Facts in Killing of Nazi,

EW YORK CITY, Nov. 17.—Miss Dorothy Thomp=son spoke on the air Monday night to plead for a fair trial for the young PolishJew—Herschel Grynzpan—who shot the third secretary of the German Embassy in Paris—Herr von Rath. It was a stirring defense. She got an instantaneous reply -from thousands of people. These contained many suggestions of contributions to provide a defense fund in the trial before the French courts. Upon this urging, Miss Thompson has asked some of her cole It is a privilege. The shooting of von Rath by Grynspan was used by the Nazis as a signal for such a wholesale persecution of Jews in Germany as threatens to expel or destroy them. The mob violence which occurred everywhere next morning, and stopped suddenly, by order, after it had served its purpose, had the appearance of an officially planned attack and none of spontaneous action. There is some evidence that this wholesale purge was planned five months ago. In other words, this shooting seems to have been a convenient excuse. Or it may have been part of a plan, even more dia-

bolical, to plant an insane assassin to provide that ex- Nl 3

cuse—a deliberate sacrifice of von Rath. 8 0» ” ice this could qualify as a political assassination, there is danger that this young psycopath may be railroaded to the guillotine with no more than a gesture of a trial. A way to prevent that is to get the best French legal counsel and an ample defense fund. Our Gove ernment can't intervene to do anything about this criminal trial before a foreign court of one who is not an American citizen. Jews cannot contribute to this fund. The Germans have threatened that any Jewish protest will be a signal for more atrocities against German Jews. For these reasons, Miss Thompson has said that she will not receive a single Jewish contribution. But Americans of other faiths and races can support this effort by contributions, however small, sent to Miss Thompson at 730 Fifth Ave, New York City. The more contributions the greater :will be the effect of this protest. It appears today that these remittances will come by the tens of thousands. Therefore, none needs to be very large. | Contributions by clubs would be very acceptable, : x ® OBODY in this country in hormal circumstances has any interesf in excusing assassination or defending assassins, especially abroad. But these are not normal circumstances. e whole world has a vital interest in knowing the truth of this kind of a

killing. It was precisely such deaths at Sarajevo which started the World War. Was this, as the Nazis ab urdly charge, the result of a Jewish plot justifying the destruction of Jews in Germany? In the middle ground, was the assassin insane or a deliberate murderer? Or, at the other extreme, was it the result of a Nazi plot to afford an excuse for destroying Jews in Germany? The world is entitled to the best available information. For these, which seem to me overwhelming reasons, I think Miss Thompson's ‘suggestion is of the first magnitude in the murky affairs of a desperate world, I hope it will be generously and widely supported.

It Seems to Me

By Heywood Broun

Dartford a Peaceful Town, but It Didn't Like That Business at Munich.

EW YORK, Nov. 17.—One of the most important elections held in the last few weeks came a little before our own and was held in a suburb of London. But it was a contest of far more than local significance. Dartford returned a Laborite

in a by-election. The district was not precisely a Tory stronghold although a Conservative had been the incumbent, but here was a straight out-and-out test of the Chamberlain policy of collaboration with Herr Hitler. The Munich Pact itself was the issue upon which the men and women voted. And the strategic advantage lay with the Government. Dartford is a community of little clerks and small shopkeepers. It is: filled with the kind of people whom H. G. Wells used formerly as the characters in his novels.

The villas do not stand shoulder to shoulder, but “i

for the most part, are semi-detached. Between the houses run little alleys in which ‘on a clear day it might be possible to swing a kitten. And here the average Englishman lives in his castle with a few flowers in front and radishes abaft his dwelling. The Thames winds its way through Dartford, and the villas cluster close to the river bank. . Dartford sent its men and boys to the war in 1914, and its women folk huddled in shallow cellars when the Zeppelin§ came over. Those who came back

from France bore with them their share of decora-

tions. Yet, though they had acquitted themselves well, the warriors of Dartford took no great joy in the adventure. They were glad to stand behind et again rather than up to neck in mg and ood

No ‘Mistaking the Issue

The Prime Minister spoke out of a knowledge of middle-class psychology when he sdid-that Czechoslovakia was: a far-away land and a tiny country. He realized that in the little houses of Dartford a man might stand up and touch a roof which was all

that stood between him and an enemy bomb. And so he made the peace which passes under= standing, firm in the belief that the small and humble of the placid villas along the Thames would agree that even temporary safety of life and limb was of more importance than abstract things called liberty and justice. And in the vigorous campaign Chamberlain’s men spoke of just one thing when they argued for the Tory cause. They pushed aside all other issues and said. “He kept us out of war.” But when the peace came the men and women of Dartford found it was no peace at all. They. could still hear the voice of Herr Hitler, They turned the Tories out. They spurned (the pact of Munich. And to the world they 810, “This thing 1s not good enough for British freemen.”

Waliching Your Healt

By Dr. Morris Fishbein

MONG the most common of all disturbances is hoarseness of the voice which, of course, is usually associated with some sort of disturbance in the larnyx. In many instances mere rest and refusal to use the voice for some time will bring about improvement. On the other hand, the causes of this condition are varied and some of them may represent the insidious beginning of a serious disease. Certainly persistent hoarseness. should. demand an immediate direct exam= ination lof the vocal cords and of the larynx by a physician who specializes in such conditions. Anyone who is hoarse for as long as a month should certainly have not only a direct examination of the throat, but also

a complete physical examination to determine the ®

presence of any constitutional disease. There are many factors which may affect the sound of the voice. Sometimes it is muffled or thick as a result of an inflammation in the nose or in the sinuses or as a result of a swelling in the throat. A cure of these conditions will result in restoring to the voice its normal resonance. : In order to have a voice that is normal, the vocal cords must come together as they do under normal conditions. Their tension must be normal and they must be vibrated in the normal manner. An interference with any one of these conditions will produce a change in the voice. . Among the factors which may ‘produce swelling

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