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: FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1038 JERE WE COME, LAFAYETTE! ROT out vour superlatives, wheel up the fine, highounding phrases, unlimber the twoddoljar adjectives.

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| and. Navy, Ohio State and Michigan, Kansas and Missouri, cd Penn and Cornell, Vanderbilt and Tennessee, Stanford and | oiithern California—take

Indiana-Purdue game. -

If this newspaper is hot so good tomorrow, it will | A | the force of government. The poor submitted to the

LL. GAINS; HITLER LOSES country yesterday concluded trade bargains with’ its 254 BY best customers, ‘Canada and the United Kingdom.

| ment which has been operative for three years, during which time commerce between the two countries has been E. tly increased and—to quote Canadian Prime Minister : enzie King—relations “have never, been happier.” iy The compact ‘with the United Kingdom is something pew. And monumental. For England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Irelend, Newfoundland and the nonself-governing ritish colonies—in whose behalf this 20th U. S. Reciprocity Lg Pact is signed—are all now brought within the orbit f Secretary Hull's program. ; : It is important as a straight business deal. It will bring immediate benefits to the United States and the nited Kingdom and all other countries who conduct their A as . : ommerce on a guaranteed nondiscriminatory basis (which excludes Germany). It will benefit the American wheat ig who again has gained equal and duty-free access o the British market—a market that in recent years has n partially closed ‘to him by the 6- cent-a-bushel prefrence which Britain gave to its dominions. It will benefit | the American cotton farmer, because it freezes cotton on Britain” s free-trade list, thereby ending the threat of preerred. treatment of Empire cotton. It will benefit Ameriie producers of lard and meat and tobacco and a wide range of fruits and vegetables. And, being a quid-pro-quo proposition, it will benefit British producers of leather oods, chinaware, high-grade textiles, whisky and other Roti And that’s not mentioning the -benefits that will flow to consumers through lower prices and to those ngaged in handling and gransporing 200ds in the ports pe on the seas. ran Bor there is in this deal something of far greater importance than the immediate trade benefits.

¢ For it is not too much to say that if this long-awaited -and laboriously negotiated treaty had not been consum“mated, it might have meant the end of progress toward. ‘Becretary Hull's ideal of promoting peace among nations purough greater trade-and equal treatment among nations. i The world is now locked in a grim conflict to determine ‘ho% the world’s trade shall be carried on. Secretary ‘Hull's rogram calls for tzeating all nations alike, and each time e signs a new treaty he adds to the area and population bf the world subscribing to that program, Adolf Hitler's 4 program b.2 ‘one-of granting dnd withholding trade favors, ll f. making two-way deals between Germany and other

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is i is a program of ‘bargains by threat, designed to force.

nomic axis. It is a: program which. leads inevitably to eprisals, and the uncertainties and bitterness of economic:

{varfare—the very opposite. -of conditions so necessary to. a

rs seeking peace. Secretary Hull's trade arvesuenis now etbrace nations which control 40 per cent of all the world’s trade. The greatest nd latest addition i is the United Kingdom. It should now ¢ much easier to win other nations over to the Hull plan. ¥: Hull can now offer other nations a greater inducement Te Pledge nondiscrimination, and Herr Hitler's power to kompel them to play his brand of ball is correspondingly ‘yreakened. : a 3 That being so, yesterday's new agreement, with all its ‘inadequacies and omissions, is a good agreement. It couldn’t have | been a bad one.

THE AUTO SHOW

TE sometimes forget how important the automobile is to American industry.

It takes something like the Tadisiapolis Auto Show, pening at the State Fair Grounds tomorrow, to remind that one out of every seven of the gainfully employed r dependent on the automobile for his livelihood. Like the Speedway races here in Indianapolis, which fare a. proving ground for engineering ideas, the nation’s uto shows are sounding boards of public reaction to the dustry’s sleek néw creations. If the new models sell ell,. we have every reason to look forward to a good winter vas season in other lines.

XCELLENT THOUGHT OVERNOR LEHMAN of New York announces that his ~ fourth inauguration, on Jan. 1, will be “just a simple remony” because “this is no time to spend money on volities.” - - . Governor-elect. James of Pennsylvania wants his inuguration to be “as simple, dignified and inexpensive as sible” because of “the widespread distress of our peo“and the serious problems facing us.” Two minds with a single thought—a Democratic mind

the Union’s largest state and a Republican mind in the cond largest, state. And it's an excellent thought. We

er FERREE.

: ese, we say, toss "em together, dix ’em up and what you have left is a pale reflection. of an |

ations which discriminate against the rest. of the world::

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A I RA

By ssibrook Pegler

U. S. Gangsterism Borrowed From |.

Naples and Sicily, So Mussolini ‘Has No Right to Criticize Us for It.

EW YORK, Nov. 18.—Mussolini has less right

than anybody else in the world except Hitler to i

point the finger of scorn at the United States as a land of gangsters. In his book “Personal History” Jimmy Sheean

a spoke of being in Venice in the very early days of | fasciism, living in the premises of a seedy old noble- “| man who ran a little gambling joint and paid tribute

to a. gang of young extortionists whom he called

Fascisti. After that the Fascisti came along to grab control

of local governments, then the national government, -and presently to employ on behalf of the Italian | nation the same psychology and methods—in brief, ‘gangsterism—toward other countries.

Now, to be sure, the extortion system is familiar to Americans. Hoodlums prey on shippers, merchants and others in collusion with minor politicians, and sometimes with the police, and destroy their property, sometimes even kill them, if they do not come through. -But Mussolini didn’t get the idea of fascism from

our gangsters, nor did they get their idea from him.

He and our gangsters got it from Sicily and Naples. 8 8 =

“HE Mafia was a Sicilian organization which routed |

the regular police and grew so strong that it had

Mafia and placed themselves under its protection,

‘jand the more aggressive spirits became Professional

brigands, assassins and extortioners. ~ The Sicilian Mafia had a code whereby

‘who had been wronged, even unto death, considered

it ignoble to tell the police, knowing that their comrades would avenge them. J. Edgar Hoover calls this the rat code, but it is really the Mafia code, im=ported from Sicily. We did have our close-mouthed Hatflelds and McCoys, but they were only landlocked mountaineers and family feudists. Hundreds of thousands of Sicilians were fleeing to the United States tp escape the terrible poverty and ignorance in which they were held at home. Most of them were good, hard-working people. Buf naturally a certain proportion of Mafia terrorists came, too. s = = : HE fnotiens immigrants, by training and tradi< tion, were afraid to trust the police, so the Mafia murdered and extorted at will, For a long time they confined their operations to their own frightened countrymen. Later they branched out, and native

Americans of various racial strains extended the system to the general public. We received a branch establishment of the Camorra of Naples in the same way about the same time. The Camorra began as a secret organization in prison, and as the criminals got out they carried on, enlarging their scope. They murdered, robbed, shook down brothel keepers and prostitutes, ran lotteries, terrorized elections, controlled public officials and got so bad that in 1890 the Italian crown sus-

pended the crooked local government of Naples and.

substituted a royal commission. The name “gangster” is American, but we got the idea, the method, the psychology and the original cast from Mussolini's own Sicily and Naples. In fact, it has been only a few years since Mussolini himself broke up the Mafia as a nuisance and disgrace

to Italy. One mob smashed another, as often happens

here,

Business By John T. Flynn

General Motors Yearly Wags Plan Seeks Solution of Grave Problem.

EW YORK, Nov, 18.—A great American corporation seeks to deal in a constructive way with the grave problem of unemployment and layoffs. The General Motors Corp. comes forward with a new approach to the ideal of the full working year of 52 weeks The plan is novel. Buf it is offered in good faith by a company eager to meet an important obligation. Therefore all discussion or even criticism of it must be in a spirit of sympathetic interest. The plan is intended to work as follows: The basis of it is what is called the standard weekly income. That is defined as a 40-hour week at the going rate of pay. So if a man earns 80 cents an hour, his standard weekly income is $32, The object of the plan is to guarantee to him in every week in the year whether he works or not at least 60 per cent of that sum. That man can begin the year with the knowledge that, if things-go well he: will ‘have a job all year at $32 a week, but that

‘no matter what happens he will have at least $19.20 ‘a week. If he works 48 weeks and has a four-week |

layoff, he will get: $19.20 in each of the four layoff weeks: and $32 in the others minus certain deductions. Now, how is this done? The company proposes to

create 2 loin. fund out of its own resources. When

the ‘employee works full time he will make no payments to the fund. But if he be laid off for any length of time he will receive $19.20 a week from the loan fund. “When he returns to work he will have to ‘repay it.

How. Plan Would Work

“In repaying it the money will be deducted from his $39 each week. But the deduction will not be permitted to reduce the amount of cash he receives below $25.60 a week. In other words, 60 per cent of his standard weekly pay will be immune from deduction, while only half of the balance can be touched. Things will. go better for him, of course, if he makes overtime, for this will help pay off his loan faster, Assume such a man has two weeks’ layoff in the year. He will collect $19. 20 a week for two weeks, $25.60 a week for six weeks-and $32 a week for 44 weeks. If he has a four-week layoff he will get $19.20 for four weeks, $25.60 a week for 13 weeks and $32 a week for 36 weeks. There are other features, but this is the broad outline in as simple a form as I can state. The plan deserves yery full and objective discussion,

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

UNNY how we have to eat our words, isn’t it? Queer how the very thing we rail against we later champion. Yet this is usually what happens; because most of us find sooner or later that the customs men have followed for ages, even though we may regard them as unnecessary and foolish, actually are valuable and wise.

Perhaps our words are hard to Syallow: but they |

are good for the digestion, as I well know, and we are the better for such feeding. - All this is apropos of prenuptial hulJabaloa, which I confess I have regarded in the past as a waste of time and money, if not a public nuisance. That was because they were other people’s weddings. When there's one in your own family—well, that’s different. And now, for the good of marriage itself, I wish

some kind of preliminary ballyhoo, Whether simple

or elaborate, could be firmly fixed among our national customs, . They have been in use from the earliest known beginnings of marriage. The primitives invented long drawn out rites to celebrate the union of two members of the tribe. Later, when men became civilized and Christian, Church ceremonials came into use. Only in recent times have boys and girls been allowed to marry without some previous announcement—some preliminary preparation which might stamp the event upon their minds as an important one. Nowadays we see hordes of couples, wholly unprepared for life together, hot-footing it to the Justice of Peace on the spur of the moment and marrying in such haste that the whole affair is as casual as a beauty parlor appointment. Can we wonder that they regard marriage as a hit’ or miss arrangement, since we've stripped it of so. much of its sacred and secular: significance? A little. more fuss and, feathers might go to fix

.|secution of Jews

The Hoosier Forum

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

DEPLORES ATTACKS

|AGAINST JEWS

By Mrs. W. A. Collins Remember a Jew, Haym Salmon, financed the American Revolution to give us freedom from England. Can we sit by our firesides now and see this noble race persecuted? Can Old Glory wave in honor while a defenseless race is robbed, starved, beaten, murdered and exiled by a madman? . f ‘I have Jewish friends I love and may God. keep them safe. I am against ‘war but no peace ever came from persecution of any class or race. No country has ever been kinder to the German refugee than America, yet boring at our hearts we find German ‘spies. Our ancestors came here for peace and found the jewel of great price— Freedom, We have always fought the battles of the underdog. I beg you to help this hoble race who were

{here from the beginning and new

have no place to rest their weary bodies. ae . MONROE DOCTRINE NEGLECTED, IS CLAIM By E. F. Maddox It begins to look like Americans have seen enough persecution of Christians by communism, and perby fascism, to make them decide that both of these alien dictatorships are totally unacceptable on this hemisphere. There are rumblings in Washington about reviving and revitalizing the Monroe Doctrine. That is a good sign and all patriotic Americans should insist that the Monroe Doctrine ‘should ‘be enforced in this

‘hemisphere without fear or favor. The United States silently has] watched both communism and fas-|.

cism grow and flourish not only in Mexico and South-America, but in

Fascist Party or organization in the United States is existing and operating in direct violation of the Monroe Doctrine. The Monroe Doctrine says: “We regard any attempt on their part (foreign nations) to extend their systems to any portion of this hemisphere as dangerous to our peace and safety.” People who insist that we must tolerate alien-inspired Communists and Fascists, give them equal rights to free speech, press and assembly with respectable patriotic American citizens, have destroyed the force, effect and intent of the Monroe Doctrine, and most of these seemingly tolerant, wishywashy, spineless purveyors of such foolishness -are - sympathizers with the radicals. So we are going to revive the Monroe Doctrine are we? Well, let's enforce it at home before we try it on .somewother country, Then

our nation. Every Communist and |

(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.)

let’s find out why communism has been coddled in Mexico, since that is the elosest neighbor who has openly, violated the Monroe Doctrine. Then next comes Cuba with some sort of dictatorship. Yes, we must either stamp out all kinds of glien encroachment in this part of e world or give them all freedom to seduce our gullible people and destroy all of our democratic, institutions.

clean house in the United States ‘before I get enthused over this revival. ‘My opinion is that this new strategy is being used to stir up the war fever, create public favor for increased armaments and gently but firmly drag us into a European war, : s = = REPEAL FAILURE IN READER'S OPINION By M: L. 8. Replying to L. W. C. in The Times of Nov. 14, let me say that some time as a matter of civilization we shall return to prohibition. Jack London said, “Future generations will think of our use of beverage alcohol as the stupid vice of our savage ancestors.” ‘They will think of

A FRIENDLY GREETING

By. ROBERT 0. LEVELL

Just a friend to say, “How are you?” ; ; Makes you feel so glad and gay; For you know he really means it, When he greets you for the day.

Then he really can inspire you, . : In the very nick of time; Just to hear him when he says it, In a way that proves so kind. .

At the noon time or the night, You'll be glad to ‘have him greet

you And to ‘speak with all his might.

“™ DAILY THOUGHT

For the Father himself loveth . you, because ye have loved me,’ and have believed that I came out from God.—John 16:27.

AITH is to believe, on the word of God, what we do not see, and its reward is to see and enjoy what

we believe. —Augustine,

‘I am waiting to see how soon we;

When you see him in the: Hein, ;

it as we now think of cannibalism. With the crime it always produces, it is not a bit less savage. It was proved that prohibition

reduced drinking 60 per cent even with its enforcement in the hands of its enemies. One man. told me that within three weeks after repeal he saw more drunkenness than in the 14 years of prohibition. Another said repeatedly that the present situation is 100 per cent worse than before prohibition. When I repeated that to still another man, he said, “It is 500 per cent worse.” All these men are reliable. and well informed through their own observations. The wets promised to reform, to remove the objectionable features of the liquor business. Those who believed they would were easily deceived. The wets say there is less drinking now than during prohibition. That is false. : Every promise of benefit from repeal has failed, notably reduction of taxes and unemployment. Both have advanced. Nothing worse than the truth was ever said of the liquor business, and no good word. was ever truthfully said. of it. G. Edgar Hoover says there is more bootlegging today than during prohibition, : 2 = 8 SUGGESTS INQUIRY OF DIES COMMITTEE By A. B. C

Who sets up the charts as to what is un-American? There is a: fishy

smell to the Dies Committee inves-|

tigating the La Follette Civil Liberties Committee. It might be a paying proposition: to have the Civil Liberties Committee investigate the Dies Committee, Is -this Red smear and dyeing merely for home consumption to keep our minds off our unsolved internal economic problems? Now we have two bogey men—bath invented to attract our attention while we ought to reconstruct. our .economy to provide every able-bodied person with a job not connected with relief, The bogey men are the Fascist invasion. of our hemisphere and the political party Communists who ask us to vote for them on the State ballot. We will soon be back to witch Stating if signs ‘don’t fail. » ” #”

HINTS DRY LAW SKIRTED EXPROPRIATION RULE

By H. 8. One of your recent editorials stated: is inherent in every sovereign state —provided it pays for what it takes. . + -« The United States stands on that law. , .» I wonder where this law was hid-

den when we started the noble experiment. of prohibition?

1 NO, it is decreasing, thanks be. This heartening fact has been brought out by Prof. William r Op

burn, University of of Chicago ologist. He that

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LET'S EXPLORE YOUR MIND

~By DR.,ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM

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SICAL LIFE ui I$ YOUROPINION ‘which had been steadily rising for

‘many years, turned slightly downward and that since yy taken quite

more people marry ‘now than ever before, at least any time within the last 50 years. 2 8 =

NO. It is more often a sign of low intelligence and is regarded by one or two leading investigators as being akin to epilepsy. Most people who have violent outbursts of temper are simply emotional adolescents—adult children—who have never learned how to control their emotions and still think the way to get what they want is to kick and scream and cut up generally as they did when children. Indignation at real wrong doing is one thing but, as a rule, when you see a person hopping mad you are witnessing

pure childishness.

CERTAINLY. You and I can hardly begin fo realize how our whole system of government—even the fundamental objects of having a government at all—have changed unless we study the'leading authorities. We have had no revolution— but, as the authorities show, our government has changed more since its ginning than France was changed by the French Revolution. Both parties. today pretty well agree that many of the aims of the “New

s is | government today the

Deal” are.the a ims of our

-altogether an advantage.

“The right of expropriation:

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Gen. Johnson -

Says— F. D. R. May Shew ‘Ditch’ fomper For a While, but He'll Turn to Right Soon as Desired by Electorate.

EW YORK, Nov. 18—Everybody is asking how the President is going to react to. the elections. Is what Louis Howe used to call his Dutch stubbornness,

| going to assert itself in a plastic pose of Ajax defying | the lightning? Or will he respond to the old Latin | maxim that the voice of the people is the voice of 1 God?

1 think I know the answer. His first reaction will be deflant. For a couple of months he will ignore the elections and pull a couple of Potemkin performances on the other side of the stage. dramatizing the famous Dutch stubbornness. But after that I believe that he will respond to the mandate of the elections as all good Presidents should. After all, this is still a democracy and nobody knows exactly what that means better than Mr, Roosevelt. He has immense pride but he also has intensely ingrained the, spirit of the American system. He is probably as good a judge of the temper of popular opinion as any man who ever lived. s s ”

ILL he kick the palace janissariat of radical advisers out of the White House windows? That isn’t very important. They steered him wrong. They brought to his brilliant Presidency a two-year period of disaprointment and frustration by encouraging his desire to assume an attitude of domination, rather than leadership, which our people would not follow. I think he now knows that this was a mistake and that his advisers know it. - After all and notwithstanding the tact that this column has kicked that crowd all over the lot, and they deserved it, these are brilliant and able men. Most important of all, they are fanatically loyal. In whatever criticism Harry Hopkins may now

suffer, he will, in some measure, be taking a rap. He

is honest to ma. fault—extraordinarily able and courageous. I don’t know Tommy Corcoran by such personal contact, but I know enough about him to be sure that his course has been governed by supreme Irish loyalty. He will go in the direction in which it appears that the best interests-of his beloved chief travel. And where Tommy Corcoran goes Benny Cohen will go. : 4 # ” »

NOTHER prominent Irishman, Pat Hurley, former Secretary of War, once took over a busted oil company as reeeiver and was going over its organization with an intimate to determine upon whom he ua rely. “This guy Smith,” he asked, “is he 0. X.?” . “He'd go down the road for you,” was the answer. “And Jones—friend or enemy?” asked Pat. | The answer was, “I would say well disposed.” “Well disposed!” blurted Pat. would he commit perjury for us?” “Friend yes—perjury no.” Pat Hurley is believed throughout the oil tndstry to have said: “Write him off our lists as an acquaintance.” This story is pure myth. But I believe it iiiterprets Tommy Corcoran. When Mr. Roosevelt decides to turn to the right, he could have no better aid. “Tommy is and he pretends to he “only an armor bearer.” He will be as eager to close up the rift between Mr, Roosevelt and his real strength, Jack Garner and Jim Farley, as he has recently been so active in widening it. “Smart” is tHe word for Tommy, +

It Seems to Me By Heywood Broun

Dewey, Barton or Taft Seem Good Bets to Head G. O. P. Ticket in '40

TEW YORK, Nov. 18.—Persons who like to indulge in the pleasant and harmless sport of making winter book on political futures will not find it necessary to change the odds very much in spite of

the results of the last election. If somebody will lay

you two to one I think you can win a wager by offering to bet that the Republican nominee in 1940 will be one of three names which you mention. When the terms are set say, “Dewey, Barton or Taft.” In spite of many other gains the Republicans gained little new Presidential timber. Among the crop of new Governors there are, of course, several of Vice Presidential size, but that is about all. It is well to remember that Republican gains were largely in .| agricultural regions, and if the strategy of the next G. O. P. convention is sound the leaders will look to a man who has shown vote- getting ‘appeal In the industrial areas. As a matter of fact, one such Republican did show up in the State contest in Rhode Island, which is small and the name is Vanderbilt, which might not be preponderantly an industrial vote. But the State 1s Still, note Governor Vanderbilt as a long shot. In Pennsylvania the Republicans gained a Gov= ernor, but hardly a Presidential possibility. Such comfort as the Democrats can find in the last election

‘lies in the fact that they held power in three of the

most populous States. It is almost essential for the Republicans td: break into that tri6 of New York, California and Hlinois to capture the election in 1940, But at the moment they do not possess a local winner, I am omitting the name of Mr. La Guardia, who is not spiritually a Republican in the eyes of the party leaders, and perhaps not technically, either, since joining the American Labor Party.

Third Party Possibilities

Existing third-party movements have been badly shattered, but it still would be possible to get one together if both the major parties nominate men well to the conservative side. That is possible. Ac~ cordingly, I am. going to ask the privilege of making my - 1940 prediction a double-barreled one. My first prediction is that the voter will be asked to choose between the two major party candidates—Mr. Rooses= velt and Mr. Dewey. My alternate prophecy carries a little weaseling. If the first prediction does not come through I think that Mr. Dewey, the Republican, and Mr. Clark, the Democrat, will face a third ticket, called the Progres-

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sive Party on which Mr. La Guardia will be running :

for President with the active support of Franklin Delano Roosevelt or Roosevelt with the active suppett of Fiorello H. La Guardia. Soh : Lh

Watching Your Health

By Dr. Morris Fishbein :

URING 1937 Americans chewed 86,000,000 pounds of chewing gum with a retail value of about $100,000,000. Apparently the average was 100 standard

sticks of chewing gum per person for the year. Al-

though Americans chew 86,000,000 pounds of chewing gum a year, practically all the rest of the world chews slightly over 3,000,000 pounds, but the exports are steadily increasing and this American habit may yet spread to all the world. The information indicates that American soldiers introduced the chewing gum habit into Europe as well as into other less ¢ivilized portions of the globe, The basic material of chewing gum is & ‘product called chicle which comes from a tree produced in Central. America and in Mexico, The trees are tapped and the juice runs out exactly as the maple syrup is obtained from the maple tree. When this juice {is heated, it coagulates and the coagulated material is then shipped to the United States where most of He chewing gum of the world is manufactured. The material is then prepared for chewing by at ing sugar, and flavoring with t, licorice, cloves, cinnamon and similar substances, + om. me f vest 2 che gum, on the question of whet or no harmful or helpful to health. wing im: that it can do for health is to to the wa 5 a5d.hy exercise to stimulate the circulation of thus to improve the tissues of the Le A owt on a

membranes of the cheeks, and the general condition - used as - a cleansing agent Se the gum will pick up loose : pleces of material from the tissues as well as War

of the teeth. Chewing gum has also been

terial between the testh.

That will be

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