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Give Light and the People Wili Find Their Own Way

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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1938

. FREEDOM'S GREATEST ASSET HEN President Roosevelt ordered our 'Ambassador home from Berlin, and told the world it was because of

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the “unbelievable” things the Nazis were doing to Catholics and Jews, democratic peoples everywhere rejoiced.

At last, most of us thought, the German masses would see what civilized society thinks of the Nazi persecution

of defenseless minorities.

For here was an international

development of such importance and of such concern to the German nation as a whole that Germany's S newspapers ‘would have to print it.

But Germany's newspapers did not print it.

So far

as we have been able to learn, the masses are still in ignorance of the real reason for Ambassador Wilson's recall. Even the report that Hetr Hitler intended to speak at the funeral of Ernst Vom Rath yesterday afternoon, using the occasion for a tirade against the United States, proved unfounded. Had he done so, the Nazi press and radio would

‘have been obliged to carry his words and the cat would have n out of the bag. Dictators do not dare let their subjects know the truth.

The first act of every such ruler is to gain control over

press and radio. , ‘what goes on outside except what the propaganda bureaus

Thereafter the public hears nothing. of

want it to hear. The propagandists can color the news to suit the occasion, suppress it entirely or invent it out of ‘whole cloth. It is the-boast of Dr. Goebbels, Nazi propaganda manipulator, that through his control of these instruments of publicity he can play upon the emotions of the

German masses as a maestro conducts an orchestra.

He

can make them respond to calls to war or peace . .. or

pogroms. All of which points a moral.

The most valuable single

adjunct to liberty yet won by humanity, in all its thousands of years of struggle, is free speech and free press. Despotism cannot thrive where these exist. So long as men can speak and print the truth, no Hitler or Stalin can drive

them like cattle in directions they do not wish to go. “Give light and the people will find their own way.”

THE DIRECT PRIMARY

MONG the resolutions approved by the Indiana Farm " Bureau in its closing sessions here yesterday was one calling for adoption of the direct primary for State offices and U. S. Senators. This newspaper has long urged the direct primary

for these offices as well as for county offices. It has urged

this step because it believes that the direct primary, in

spite of certain weaknesses, is still preferable to the handpicked slates of party bosses.

In theory the direct primary ought to break the . stranglehold of bosses on party machinery and end a whole flock of abuses that inevitably grow out of the

convention system.

In operation it falls short of its

“ advocates’ hopes, as do nearly all other reform measures. It is nevertheless a better system of getting candidates _ before the public than any other we know and we ~ congratulate the Farm Bureau for having gone to its

amendment.

Support.

The backing of this important body makes serious : consideration of a direct primary amendment more probable in the forthcoming General Assembly.

- WAGNER ACT AND PUBLIC

ISTINCT increase in public demand for constructive revision of the Wagner Labor Act is shown in figures

| from the latest survey made by the Gallup Poll among

- rank-and-file voters throughout the country. Fifty-two per cent are now for revision as compared _ with 43 per cent last May. Though the Republican percentage for revision is _ naturally the higher (58 per cent), nevertheless the survey shows no less than 50 per cent of Democrats in favor of

With the Republican gains in Congress, this indicates steadily strengthening pressure for changes in the Wagner act to make it bilateral, fairer and less likely to encourage

‘the industrial strife it was designed to allay. The logical man to take the lead in making these

needed changes is Senator Wagner, author of the act, who has earned labor’s confidence and who could be counted

on to protect labor’s fundamental rights.

~~ Senator Wagner was less than forthright on this issue pif the recent campaign. And we greatly fear that if he fails to take the 4nitiative in making his law a more workable and acceptable statute, he may find himself pushed aside by determined and perhaps less wise revisionists—not to speak of repealists ready to discern

CADEMIC education frequently is accused of lurking in the shadows of Yesterday and of solving the probof Tomorrow while ignoring the problems of Today. is indictment cannot be brought against the McDonough rool near Baltimore, Md. Eighty-four boys are enrolled in the third annual class

} safe driving at the school.

Of the 21 who passed the

urse last year, not one has been involved in an accident any kind. Training is carried past the book learning

EB Bors of 15 are permitted to enroll in the course and weeks are required for complete instruction. The first weeks are spent in the classroom, the next part of the se is given in the school shop where eight cars are unted on stationary blocks. Students learn the proper placement of hands and feet

the manipulation of controls.

A gravel driving course

the next step and final instruction is given in an eighttour of Baltimore with the pupil driving.

Here is 20th Century education for problems of the Century, :

Fair Enough

By Westbrook Pegler

Evidence Grows That Germans,

Proud of Their Culture, Will React

“Against Terrorism of Their Leaders.

EW YORK, Nov. 19.—Writing about religious and racial hatred 30 years ago, Mark Twain claimed to be innocent of all such prejudice and said: “All that I care to know is that a man is a human being—that is enough for me; he can't be any worse.” : This is a rather despondent opinion of the breed, but a tempting criticism at a time when nature and the earth still are performing handsomely, but woe abounds, nevertheless, because, in the words of another American journalist, only man is vile. Yet there are still occasional flickers of the pulse of decency and conscience which gave reason to go on hoping that the human race may one day conquer the poison in its veins. Amid the moral and nervous shocks of the Nazi atrocities of last week a subtle but hopeful development has almost escaped notice. For the first time since Herr Hitler came to power there is a feeling of pity for the German people and for Germany. This is not cant but comes of an honest belief. that the Germans themselves have suffered more than they yet know in degradation and loss of self-respect. The Germans are not Orientals, 2 #2 a ' SHE violent acts and conspiracies which the evil imagination of their captains could conjure against the objects of the terror have been far exceeded by the conduct of the Nazi state, and the feeling of intelligent Germans will be akin to that of an intelligent man who. in a self-induced fury seizes a stick and beats his dog until he lies bleeding, smashed and moaning at his feet.

. No man not insane, no man of the character and pride of the Germans, can do that and escape a dreadful inner conviction that he has debased himself. And the German people, so proud of their race and their country and eager for the respect of the world, will have that reaction when they look at the blood on their hands. > Nobody in Germany as yet may/dare express this revulsion but it has been expressed hy the New Yorker Stats-Zeitung and Herold, which said, “in the names of our dear ones, we protest against desecration of the German name through fanatics in the ranks of the party in power who are trying to drag a great people into the mire of their sadistic lowness.” A pulsebeat. 8 ” ® . REALIZATION is coming at last among the Ainericans who inherit and take pride in the German character that the Nazi regime is debasing that character at home and disgracing the German country before the world. Defenders of the German name, character and culture cannot indorse, even by silence, a wanton campaign of murder, assault, burning and looting, followed by extortion and enslavement, as representative of the German people. These Americans suffered much from patrioteering during the great war and after, and the Steuben Societies fought against odds and unpopularity for the proposition that the many should not have to suffer for the misdoing of the few. They now face the fact that the German Government has taken horrible revenge on many in retaliation for the act of one tortured boy and that the German character is identified with this pogrom before the world.

Business

| By John T. Flynn

Exchange Will Err Seriously, if It Permits Brokers to Incorporate.

EW YORK, Nov. 19.—~To the man out in Kansas chiefly interested in the price of wheat the New York Stock Exchange probably seems very far away. But what is done there can have a very important bearing upon his fortunes, just as what the farmer does on his wheat fields can exercise a powerful interest upon ‘the gentleman who makes a living betting

on the prices of stock in New York. The exchange is now considering something which may seem to the average man merely a matter of exchange procedure and not important. But it is of the greatest importance nevertheless. The exchange has a new administration and since it has been in office it has had an excellent record of reforms. But now there is a seemingly harmless proposal before the members for decision which might well result in throwing all that has been done into the wastebasket if it is adopted. As I say, on its face it is unimportant—it is a proposal that brokerage partnerships may incorporate if they wish. Why not? Everybody and everything incorporates now. Why shouldn't brokers be allowed to incorporate? Well, it is because incorporations.have been carried so far and made the subject of so many abuses that the time is at hand to call a halt. And here is an excellent place to begin.

Setup Led to Whitney Scandal

The broker is an agent, a representative of the person whose accounts he carries. It is important that he be kept in that relationship-—that he be an agent and nothing else. Recently the SEC called on the exchange to make a rule which would prohibit a

broker who represents the public from speculating for his own account on margin. That is a very important rule. It was following this course of both broker and trader that led to the sensational scandal in the case of Richard ‘Whitney. Now if brokers are permitted to incorporate, there is no. way of enforcing this rule or any other rule. The brokerage firm is a corporation. The men who operate it can be members of as many other corporations as they wish. The brokerage. firm can belong to some other corporations. The identity of the men who own the stock will be lost—hidden behind the corporate screen. moral value of forcing the brokers to operate under their own names will be gone. The members can distribute their various activities among many corporations and no commission can follow them. No commission can regulate an exchange which is run by incorporated brokerage firms.

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson ¢

Con experiences punctuate the page of every life, .for we live not according to the number of our days, but by the events which mark them. This being true, the wedding of an only daughter can be rightly classified as an exclamation point—and how exactly like one it is! For a while, there occurs a complete break in the domestic routine. You have no part in the past; you neither imagine nor plan the future; the present is all important and, being occupied with it, you exist in a rarefied atmosphere of extraordinary happenings. Even the consciousness of the impending change in the tempo of existence cannot hamper delight in the excitement 6f the moment. For me, the great occasion is over—and I loved everything about it; yes, even the heartache and tears. How quickly, too, the days have gone—whirling days of preparation, hectic days with last-minute details demanding attention. . Then—and how incredibly soon—came the Big Moment. That Somebody, whom I had thought of always as My Little Girl, floated down the church aisle in bridal finery and, with a tremendous shock, I realized that I was the mother of a woman. Passing before me through the haze of remembrance dances the figure of a bobbed-haired child, bent upon endless mischief; next comes the hoyden, with her awkward ways; then the adolescent, grown taller and more misty eyed; quickly followed by the maiden with gentler manners and lovelier looks. Wasn't it just yesterday that her Daddy and I shed a few foolish tears together after we had watched her off on her first formal date, strangely decorous in a

new long dress? And only a few minutes daar, ‘here dsh usband,

e is a grow up lady with a h

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SATURDAY, NOV. 19, 1938

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

CLAIMS G. O. P. LACKS NATIONAL PROGRAM By Bull-Mooser, Crawfordsville ~The Republicans are sending 78 new Congressmen to Washington, but never did a national party elect a more nondescript group. Not having any national Republican platform, the Republicans were able to promise this in one territory and that in another. They promised - whatever they had to promise to win. For instance, in Connecticut they joined with the strong Socialist Party for a Republican-Sociality platform (whatever that could be) while here in the Middle West they joined the ‘“red-baiters” on a platform to rid the country of everything socialistic. In California the Republicans were against the old-age plan (because it is old and -beyond the dream-of-utopia stage there) but in New Hampshire (where it is still new and in the dream-of-utopia stage) they made it their only outstanding platform promise. The farm program, the tariff and all other issues were as hopelessly confused by the Republican campaign promises in various states. It is impossible to determine wnat the Republican Party stood for in 1938 and therefore it is impossible ta determine what they won. All that is certain is that if those 78 new Republicans live up to their campaign promises they will resemble a pack of howling and snapping dogs around the White House. They will be -fighting so much among themselves that the public in 1940 again will have to call upon the Democrats to restore order. 2 2 2 THINKS REPUBLICANS | FACE BIG JOB By W. Scott Taylor Republicans who expect to continue their gains should not issue blanket indictments against the unemployed, accusing them of being unwilling to work. It would be better for Republican success if they would tell us how they are going to stop our manufacturers from producing more efficiently with fewer and fewér men; how they are going to stop progress abroad in growing the crops and making the goods we formerly supplied; and how they expect to lower foreign trade barriers by raising more of our own. Instead of accusing the jobless of believing the world owes them a living, ‘they should tell them how to make a living in private employment. They should explain how they are

going to get back the machinery we

shipped around the world and stop that competition. They should make clear how they are going to enable the country to consume what it produces when it employs the idle— without a better distribution of pur-

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chasing power among the people. They should explain how they are going to take care of millions of surplus farmers who will be driven into the cities to compete for jobs with the unemployed when they destroy the farmer’s ability to maintain prices by denying him the right they give to manufacturers to adjust supply to demand. When the Republicans supply the answers, the three and a half million Roosevelt voters who stayed away from the polls in Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Ohio will have something better to vote for than the choice between two political machines as alike as two peas. ® ” 2 THINKS DRY ACT LACKED FAIR TRIAL

By H. S. Bonsib L. W. C. wishes to know what I meant by “good people.” I meant the good church people who are resolute in their church-going and who say the liquor traffic cannot

FIRST THANKSGIVING By VELMA M. FRAME Can't you see that first Thanksgiving | On shore untamed and dense? The feast from the heart of nature Such a hard-won recompense.

The Indians’ plates were heaped alike With those of the Pilgrim stamp: I'm sure that He looked down and smiled, On that rugged and happy camp.

Let’s live anew that first Thanks. giving, No matter the race or creed; In the struggle of the Pilgrims Lies a lesson we all should heed. ,

Let’s be thankful for America; For horizons so richly endowed; For its peaceful air, its happy homes, : For Old Glory, be thankful , . , and Proud!

DAILY THOUGHT

And they went forth, and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them, and confirming the words with signs follow=ing.—Mark 16:20.

GOOD discourse is that from which one can take nothing without taking the life—~Fenelon.

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be legalized without sin—and then

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the stuff. I call that inconsistency. L. W. C. is correct when he says people will follow their own desires and appetites. But does that mean laws should be made to encourage those desires and appetites? . People are getting just as drunk ‘on legal as on illegal strong drink. And as for bootleggers—there are more of them now than ever there were 1n saloon days. And when L. W. C. says “Prohibition helped fill the prisons, asylums and hospitals”—prohibition

‘did not fill those institutions. It

was intoxicants, no matter if they were legal or illegal. The safe, sane and sensible thing is to elect a government that will put beverage alcohol in the same category as opium, cocaine and morphine; #&dopt the same drastic means to suppress ‘its manufacture and sale. What can’t be mended must be ended. 2 » J SEES RECOUNTS AS AID TO JOBLESS By B. F. I have been wondering since the recent election what the Republican plan is to end unemployment, which they ardently have promised the voters to do. Now at last, after careful study

of their post-election activities, their plan becomes plain, and it appears to have some merits. The solving of the unemployment problem all lies in the recounts. The Republicans,” by demanding a recount of ballots in 21 counties now (later it will be the whole State) expect to place many unemployed at work counting ballots. This ballot counting will take some time; then it will be up to the Democrats to fall into line with the scheme to aid the unemployed: and demand a recount of the recount. The Republicans can then demand a recount of the recount of the recount and so on until 1940, each party doing its part thus to provide work. Huzza! We have at last the Republican plan to. place the unemployed of Indiana at useful labor! All credit to the G. O. P.

2 #2 8 READER'S VERSION ON HOW POLITICS WORKS By Daniel Francis Clancy

The Eternal Triangle: The worker takes care of the voter before election day; the voter takes care of the party on election day, and the party takes care of the worker after election day—now and then. Usually it boils down to the voter being taken by the worker, the worker being taken by the party— and the party just goes on takin’. Each party says it has to fight fire with fire. The politicians fight fire with fire and the voter gets

his fingers burned.

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LET'S EXPLORE YOUR MIND

By DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM-

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who had little or no appreciation of art. He also compared the most successful artist among the students with the poorest and found nc dif-

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NO. This is just one of those bits of poetic bunk that add to the gaiety of psychologists and keep them from dying of boredom. Women were not “meant” for anything in particular, except to be women and to be the companions of men and mothers of the race. They are usually harder to understand than men, for many reasons, but women were not meant any more to be loved by men than men were meant to be loved by women.

NO. “As a man thinketh in . his heart, so is he” and so does he. No truer saying in psychology was ever uttered. If you allow yourself to think the wrong act of course

J |you can’t help doing it, but your

fault is in not turning your thoughts away from the wrong act. Your acts always follow your thoughts. There is absolutely no way to form “good habit but to think your way

Gen. Johnson Says—

To Lima Parley Notice to World U. S. Can Close Ranks as It Did in 1917,

HICAGO, Nov. 19.—The appointment of Mr. Lan= don to the Lima Conference was a fine thing for the President to do—intelligent and patriotic even beyond its surface appearance. In times of great stress, this country always has closed Upggits ranks against exterior enemies no matter how hard its factions fought at home. The 1916 election was so close that its outcome was not certain for 24 hours. Yet, within a few months we were at war, Never did this nation give a greater example of its solidarity. 1n positions of Government you couldn’t tell a Democrat from a Republican until close to the end of the war when a Cabinet member persuaded Mr. Wilson to draw the party line in a vice tory election. It was a tragic—even fatal mistake. Before that Mr. Wilson put more Republicans than Democrats in key positions. The commander of the A. E. F, .Gen. Pershing, was as near to being a Republican as any Army officer can be to any party. The Fuel Administrator, Dr. Garfield, was a Republican. So, as it turned out, was the Food Administra tor, Mr. Hoover. ancestor of the present Labor Relations Board—was headed by a former Republican President—Mr. Taft, ” ” ” HE most important district draft board had for its chairman, Charles Evans Hughes. In all ‘Army and Navy promotions, politics were absolutely eliminated for the first time in our history. The German challenge then, as now, was a chal= lenge to democracy. Under Mr. Wilson’s leadership this country proved that under war stresses democracy can thus make a. collection of itself and be more efficient in both industrial and manpower mobilization than any dictatorship. If Mr. Wilson had continued that policy in the 1918 election and in appointing American delegates to the peace conference, it is possible to believe that the whole post=

different. Up to the Landon appointment, there has been absolutely none of this in New Deal appointments. It is true that Mr. Ickes, Mr. Wallace and, possibly, Mr. Hopkins and Miss Perkins, were Republicans in name. In fact, they were radical extremists. 2 ® = B® the Landon appointment suggests a much greater opportunity. The question of migration and resettlement of persecuted Jews is one of the world’s greatest problems. On such questions as ore ganization for relief, we have one who was once recognized, by the nations, as the world’s greatest expert—Mr. Herbert Hoover. In Belgium, Germany, Russia and the Near East, he successfully solved kindred problems. It is true that there is already a committee, headed by Mr. Myron Taylor, working in this field. Not for a moment to question Mr. Tay=lor’'s well-known ability, since his committee was formed, the whole nature of this problem has changed. It is now of vital international concern, beyond ability that requires world prestige. Both, because of his earlier work and because he is a former President, Mr. Hoover would be an ideal selection and challenge the attention of all nations. Like Mr. Landon’s and to an even greater degree, it would be a signal to a menacing world that this country is again closing up its ranks as it did in 1918,

It Seems to Me

By Heywood Br sun /

Hitler's Insolent Warning to Press Is Challenge That Must Be Accepted.

EW YORK, Nov. 19.—Kidnapers have established the practice of forcing agonized parents to make no appeal to the law because they hold the missing child as hostage. It is not a farfetched analogy to say that Adolf Hitler is trying to put over the same sort of threat in regard to the press of all the world. Entirely aside from any bristling against official utterances, the Fuehrer has had the audacity to say very plainly, not only to the press of England but of America as well, that it would be wise for newspapers to speak softly, lest he increase his pressure upon groups which are suffering from oppression. This is a challe hich must be met. sense the threats of Nazi leaders have a diminishing force, because it is difficult to think of new forms of frightfulness which have not already been set in motion. But if it were true that an expression of moral horror in America would have to be paid for by some new outrage.in Germany, I still think that even that price would not be too high. By threats Herr Hitler won diplomatic submission from democratic countries in Europe. That was and continues to be a tragic blow to the forces of civilization. But if Herr Hitler can sit within his spider web and command newspapers of all the world to stand still until they. hear his bidding, then the world of progress and of decency would be gone beyond repair within the sight of any living person.

No Room for Compromise

On this issue I feel strongly that Americans of diverse view§ can close ranks and say, “We will not accept dictation.” Always we have bristled against any suggestion of control or pressure by our own leaders. I have quarreled with commentators who, in my opinion, have conjured up goblins and bogey men as to the possibility of semi-censorship upon the part of Government officials, Some of that I will take back. It is better to be overscrupulous and. suspicious

than to consent to any kind of compromise which would impair free expression. And now I hope, and

articulate and eloquent indighation against the Hitler effort to stifle comment in countries which are still beyond the range of his much-advertised air forces. And if it were true that Adolf could attempt to copper expression by dumping high explosives, we

and, having said that, stick to the fundamental right of speaking from the heart and soul. And in this expression I think that all should join.

Watching Your Health

By Dr. Morris Fishbein

HENEVER a new substance is introduced into medical science, there are certain diseases on which it is invariably tried with the hope that it may ‘accomplish something. Among these diseases is rheumatism. All sorts of treatments and cures have

been proposed for rheumatism from time to time and it is interesting that almost any of them seem to be associated with a certain number of remissions and cures. This means, of course, that a certain percentage of cases of rheumatic condidons improve without a great deal of treatment. In 1935 two investigators reported. that they had seen considerable improvement in two rheumatic patients who received massive doses of Vitamin D. They believed that a relationship existed between the use of calcium by the body and the occurrence of arthritis and that possibly the Vitamin D had affected the

about improvement in the arthritis. Later these investigators reported improvement in 25 out of 34 patients with rheumatic conditions who had been treated with large doses of Vitamin D, but Nat about the same time other investigators began to report that the results which they attained were not so encouraging. For this reason two investigators in Boston undertook to make an extended study of some cases of rheumatoid arthritis which they treated with large doses of Vitamin D and which they studied before, during and after the treatment. As a result they concluded that this method of treatment did not materially influence the course of the disease. Certainly the results were too disappointme even to suggest that this method : of treatmen

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