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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1938

GIVE THANKS HUMBLY IT is natural that American thoughts should dwell, this > ‘Thanksgiving Day, on the blessings enjoyed by us and denied to so many of the world's people. As President ~ Roosevelt said in his proclamation— i+ “In the time of our fortune it is fitting that we offer prayers for unfortunate people in other lands who are in diye distress at this our Thanksgiving season.” “. And it is fitting that we celebrate this day in all humility. Ours should not be the Pharisee’s prayers—“I thank thee that I am not as other men are.” We have, in ; truth, small reason for self-righteous pride. a Qur advantages are very great. Wide oceans separate us from the fears and hatreds of Europe and of Asia. We “have vast stores of natural and created wealth. * We have fertile fields, rich mines, huge industrial plants. More nearly than any other large nation in history we have ~ ability to produce the means of decent living and comfort and security for all y And yet; considering our opportunities; we might have made far greater contributions in this last year to the sum of human happiness. Many people in our own land are distressed today. Many of us, even as we deplore the evil ~ products of greed and intolerance abroad, fail to recognize the urgent need for unselfishness and co-operation here at home. : : ° Let us give added meaning to the gratitude we voice today by recognizing more fully the responsibilities which _ our unique blessings place upon us.

STRAW IN THE WIND : \UDDENLY little Ruthenia, easternmost tip of Czecho- ~~. slovakia, has become one of the most important bits of _ territory in the world. It has less than a million inhabi- ~ tants and it is no bigger than Connecticut. But its fate, which may be decided soon, may portend the future of eastern Europe. . - Ruthenia, nestling on the southern slope of the Carpathians, used to belong to Hungary. But the Paris peace‘makers gave her to Czechoslovakia. Now she is an autonomous part of what is left of that republic. Her 3,000,000 mountainous acres not particularly valuable, as land goes, but strategically, they are vitally important. ~~... Nazi Germany wants Ruthenia because, in her hands, it could be used as a spearhead against the Russian Ukraine and Rumania, or for a flank attack against Poland. Poland and Hungary want it so they could have a common frontier. As neighbors this bloc of neutral states between Germany and Russia could then strengthen itself against Naziism’s steady pressure from the’ west. ; .- Separately, none of these states could hope to beat off the Nazis. Together, however, they would constitute a potential power which even the Reich would hesitate to attack. : + Germany, of course, is hostile to the whole idea. Germany objects to a common frontier between Hungary and Poland, and Nazi inspired propaganda in Vienna, Berlin and even Praha is paving the way for preventive action. She

opposes Col. Beck’s conception of a Third Europe. It would

be.an obstacle in her road to the east. - If Ruthenia goes the Hungarian-Polish way, it will be a straw in the wind for peace. If the Nazis gain control there, the province may become the jumping-off place for a new European war. :

Li WAR BUILD-UP A7E enter a season of the year when there will be much talk and song about peace on earth, good will to men. Yet hate crackles in the supercharged atmosphere of the world. : : :~ Never in our generation since the four-minute speaker and liberty bond orators poster artists, publicists and ~ preachers inflamed our passions two decades ago has there been such a build-up for war in this country as is goin on right now. : © Let's not fail to recognize that fact. Let’s realize the ~ ghastly and ultimate futility of war as thé answer. This

il is. a time for cool-headedness. For preparation, yes; but

~~ nét for a lashed-up fury that will make us yearn to use the new guns we are building. ©“ Looking around us today we think the time has come | to reprint once again what Mark Twain in his “Mysterious . Stranger” wrote, years before 1914, about war: i “There has never been a just one, never an honorable one—on the part of the instigator of the war. I can see a million years ahead, and this rule will never change in so many as half a dozen instances. : “The loud little handful—as usual—will shout for the war. The pulpit will—warily and cautiously—«object—at first; the great, big, dull bulk of the nation will rub its sleepy eyes and try to make out why there should be a war, and will say, earnestly and indignantly, ‘It is unjust and dishonorable, and there is no necessity for it.’ . “Then the handful will shout louder. A few fair men on the other side will argue and reason against the war with speech and pen, and at first will have a hearing and be applauded; but it will not last long; those others will outshout them and presently the antiwar audiences will thin out and lose popularity. hah ~~ «Before long you will see this curious thing; the akers stoned from the platform, and free speech stranby hordes of furious men who in their secret hearts still at one with those stoned speakers—as earlier— do not dare to say so. a «And now the whole nation—pulpit and all—will take ap the war cry, and shout itself hoarse, and mob any Aes who ventures to open his mouth, and presently such ouiths will cease to open. ; ‘Next the statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the e upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will rlad of those conscienice-soothing fallacies, and will diliy study them, and refuse to examine any refutations em, and thus he will by and by convince himself that yar is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he er this process of ception.”

Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

When War Born of Hate Has Wiped Out All Nations, Then Perhaps There Shall Be Peace—But Not for Man.

EW YORK, Nov. 24—So, at last, they totally obliterated the Jews from the face of the earth. |

The last few hundred thousand were taken to sea in ‘old merchant boats, packed in cages and locked up tight, and when the rusty flotilla reached the appointed ‘spot, far down in the South Atlantic, the crews and sailors opened the cocks, abandoned ship and made for the vessels of the international navy,

‘which took them aboard and opened fire with their guns. ; It was like shooting barnyard ducks. In less than an hour it was done. The mopping up was simple, but thorough. There was not one Jew left on earth, not, one, and the remaining peoples of the world sighed with relief and said, now we shall have peace and progress and no more greed, lying, cheating, conspiracy or theft. : The property of the Jews was distributed according to promise, ,and there was now no reason why the people shoufd fail to prosper and get along as friends. : ” 8 ” ET there were alarms, and complete trust and cooperation were lacking. The Japanese had united the Asiatics and were moving against the Russians. The Germans attacked the Poles to rescue an oppressed minority on the Sudeten precedent and Mussolini pounced on Great Britain’s lifeline because, even though they were indubitably Aryans, the British were arrogant, cunning and acquisitive and honor -was not in them. : These moves pitched the world into a general war in which it was difficult for any individual to distinguish friend from foe. The French fought the Germans. The Americans held off a while, but finally pitched. in against the Japanese, and the jumble became so confused that a bomber could unload his bombs almost anywhere outside his own country and find justification in some evil and menacing trait of the people living there. : ~ Not only that, but within the warring countries individual and group hatred grew. There were still greed, lying, cheating, treachery and theft. Men swindled one another, circulated evil rumors, conspired for power, failed to pay their bills, seduced maidens, robbed and stole. 2 x2 8

HE Africans were wiped out early. In Asia starvation and disease destroyed millions, but the Western nations were no better off. They could feed themselves better and knew more of sanitation, but their weapons were much more deadly. Still the world fought on long after the last Jew had disappeared beneath the waves until just two small bands were left, the freckle-faced people and the nonfreckled, each claiming to be pure and to possess exclusively the virtues of honesty, honor and clean blood and each sworn to exterminate the other

-as the only guarantee of peace, progress and decency

on earth. It ended with just two survivors, an old man and an old woman, together in a hut. - He was one-eighth freckled—that is to say, he had a few small freckles. She was of the pure, nonfreckled strain. So one night she finished him with an ax as he slept and fell dead of the poison he had put in her soup that evening. And the horses and asses romped in the fields, never again to be beaten or overburdened; deer walked in the open, unafraid of being shot by men; rabbits and birds took courage, cities moldered and the world was purified of cruelty, dishonesty, treachery and greed. :

Washidgton By Raymond Clapper

Events Abroad Tell Us How Very Fortunate We Are This Thanksgiving.

YY Asmioron, Nov. 24—This Thanksgiving has more than its usual meaning for us in America. Ordinarily we note smugly that most Americans are able to sit down to a bountiful family dinner and we drop a word of regret that some are still left to the bitterness of want and anxiety and let it go at that. But this year the Thanksgiving season must bring to every thinking American some sense of our deeper blessings—those which normally we take for granted without even being conscious of them. Events abroad tell us how fortunate we are. Not particularly because of our own efforts but because we have been. given certain things. We have been given geographical protection such as few nations enjoy. It is true that invention has somewhat diminished that natural geographical protection. Any nation possessing an air base on the west hump of Africa can strike at some South American territory with airplanes now in use. Invention has narrowed the oceans. But the Atlantic and Pacific still exist. When you consider that many nations live separated from their normal enemies only by a line marked off between them, which both sides must protect with armies and fortifications, our ocean protection becomes a priceless blessing. We are blessed also with resources which make up much more independent and self-sustaining than most nations. Aside from rubber, tin, manganese and a few other special materials, we are immune from blockade.

We Have Other Blessings

Those are physical blessings. We have others equally priceless, of a different kind. ' We have the tradition of democracy and protection for the individual, a tradition which our nation has inherited from its Anglo-Saxon beginnings, and which we have strengthened and enlarged during our own national life. We have maintained our: political democracy. We have developed our social democracy. And we are in process of achieving economic democracy. These things all have been brought back to our consciousness by events in Europe and in the Far East. We have seen large sections of the so-called civilized world reverting back to the pillage and barbarism of the Dark Ages. : Those grim realities tell us how fortunate we are in America and how much has been given us.

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

I AM bringing my girl up to be a clinging vine,” said a recent acquaintance. “I know men too well. The more you do for them the more they expect you to do. So I want my daughter to be thoroughly dependent. I'm convinced that down at the bottom of their hearts, all men despise independent women.” Now, if you want an education in feminine psychology, there’s nothing like keeping your ears open. Remarks similar to the one quoted are often heard these days. Among a number of middle-aged women, the idea survives that man was made to support and

sustain a passel of females in idleness. They have no shame about preaching this doctrine to their growing daughters, either—the theory being, apparently, that the smarter the gal, the more she will snag from some man’s bank account. Wives, they claim, are rare treasures and should be kept in luxury. Which is very amusing, when you stop to remember that any eligible man nowadays can step out his back door and take his pick of hundreds of homehungry females. Do men despise independent’ women, I wonder?

| The question bears thinking about and, if true, puts

the despisers in a bad light. According to the ethics we learned at school, independence is a major virtue, even when dressed in skirts. Regardless of all that, I believe every girl of our time should be trained to stand upon her own feet. Contrary to the common opinion, that’s what oldfashioned women did. They knew how to, work. They produced, they created and they toiled beside their men. Although they were not paid in cash, they felt themselves a necessary part of every human enterprise. They took pride in the fact that their men needed them, their Somuiinlties needed them, and

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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.

MAYBE ANOTHER ELECTION WOULD SOLVE THINGS By Daniel Francis Clancy, Logansport Writing from —. Crawfordsville, Bull-Mooser recently blamed the defeat of the Democratic party in his County on the Old Guard— claiming that it wouldn’t have happened if youth had been in the saddle. I found this very amusing since the Old Guard here in Cass County is blaming’ the party’s defeat on the Young Guard—claiming that if age and experience had been in the saddle it wouldn’t have happened. Edward, a friend of mine, says, “We're having so many recounts it would be easier just to have another election—and then, too, the Democrats could see if the people really meant it.” 2 #2 =n PICKING CANDIDATES FAVORITE PASTIME By Homemade Politician Everybody’s doing it; it’s quite a game since the last election became history: Button, button, who's going to be the next President? Columnists make predictions based on almost nothing; it’s just verbal hay to fill the columns they're paid to write. One discounts them. Editorial writers faced with daily dead-

Hines must have tissue paper opin-

ions on every subject under the sun so their prognostications can’t count for much either. - (The Times writers are excepted, of course. I think them fine even when I'mg convinced that one of us must be off the trolley.) > 5 Politicians have motes in their eyes plugging. their own particular candidates, so what are their predictions worth. And Johnny @Q. Public can’t decide until all the candidates are trotted out on the field. Nobody’s opinion at ‘the present time is worth a hoot but it’s lots of fun to lay your bets and try to call your shots. We all like to be considered Sir Oracles, like the wise old editor I once knew who predicted on Nov. 9, 1928 that Franklin D Roosevelt would be elected in 1932. One thing is certain: The man who is elected will not be the caliber of Roosevelt. There is no such available, and we won't be satisfied with a mediocre spoilsman candidate put forth by the poker ‘playing gang in a smoke-filled back room. He will be a compromise eandidate in more ways than one, I'm thinking, but who? Gd ~ Mr. McNutt for the Democrats, no doubt, if he can survive his obnoxious “pushing” campaign. (We still cling to the fiction that candidates should be “drafted.”): Secre-

(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.)

tary Hull is the man I'd like to see run if he only had 10 years lopped off his age. If the Republicans find a leader who is a cross between Senator Borah and Bruce Barton, or a combination of both of them, the G. O. P. would have something a voter would prefer to anything the Democratic machine could elect. If Mr. McNutt runs, I'd have. Mr. Barton to oppose him; if Senator Borah runs; it should be Secretary Hull; and if Senator Norris of Nebraska could be drafted, I wouldn't give him any opposition. At any rate, al Presidential candidates ought to be in view now; we should not have any “dark horses” sprung on us.-

# #8 URGES GREETING CARDS OF REGULATION SIZE

By Mrs. C. J. Finch, Chairman Public Relations Committee, Auxiliary to Railway * Mail Association.

As the holiday season approaches

and greeting cards are being pur-

chased, the attention of the public

is called to the necessity of procur-

ing regulation sizes in order to relieve the postal service:of a great burden. Cards exceeding four inches in width must be folded in order to fit

HIS MESSAGE

By VELMA M. FRAME

With the beauty of the flowers, The magic’ of budding trees; The song of the bird at dawning, The gentle touch of the breeze. With the wealth of a golden harvest, The love in a mother’s eyes— Each day the Supreme One above us Sends a message in pleasant disguise. :

DAILY THOUGHT

There is no peace, saith the Lord, unto the wicked.—Isaiah 48:22; ; :

F the wicked .flourish and thou suffer, be not. discouraged; they are fated for destruction, thou art

dieted for health.—Fuller.

in the letter cases in mail cars and are damaged by so doing. Those smaller than 23% inches are difficult to handle and may be lost in transit. To insure delivery of cards .in good condition, it is necessary that the above dimensions be observed. » ” ”

FORESEES HORRIBLE FATE FOR HITLER i By a Hoosier Hitler's latest atrocities toward the Jews of Germany, instead of inciting fear and hatred in me, has had just the opposite effect. This time he has gone too far, and the

conviction is growing upon me that for his crime against his fellow human beings, no matter their race or creed, he has forfeited his place on earth. I feel that a horrible fate has been packaged and addressed to him ready for delivery any time now. He is giving Germans everywhere a bad name, The people of Germany can’t forever be kept in ignorance of his acts or anesthetized by propaganda. For no man can mess up history or commit such crimes against humanity as he has and not pay the penalty. One looks at the calendar to be sure we are not back in the Middle Ages. #n n=

SAYS POLL PROVED PEOPLE GULLIBLE By John Steward | Now .that the Government is on the rebound ' toward Wall Street, prosperity, no doubt, is lurking just around the corner. Of course, how. soon the great army of unemployed will go back to work with ‘high wages and the assurance of steady employment, depends on the repeal or modification of certain laws by the next session of Congress—laws that will release the 60 families from any responsibility and thereby restore free enterprise. In other words, extend special privilege to the elite and witness a plan of negation work wonders of legerdemain. : The results of the last election demonstrate forcibly the gullibility of a people and proves the clear insight of Nietzsche’s philosophy. His “will to power” which many people attribute to the encouragement of individualism was, in reality, an injunction to the masses to throw off an inferiority complex and aspire for a transvaluation of values-«Nietzsche preached that out of the peasant class would come a superman and that his high ideal would be beyond the controlling of millions of lives by economic subjugation. :

IF YOU want advice, just go to some one who knows. just enough about a subject.to be: unaware of what he does not know. ‘from

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LET'S EXPLORE YOUR MIND

By DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM

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THAN WIVES TO PUT . MEAN! ON-WHA AEE EA te will get a dozen “remedies” for your cold in five minutes, Each will tell

you what he does for a cold, over= looking the fact that his remedies,

How much “good advice” do you get|in most cases, have: never done him

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|stantly and make life for both ut-

NOT if he were fully conscious of all the possible consequences, because he would see that he would harm himself most of all and get less out of life by doing the: wrong thing. For morality is essentially getting the most out of life. Plainly, if everybody got the very utmost out of life—its utmost goodness, adventure, tolerance, love, truth; faith, “sweetness and light,” that would be the highest morality possible to human nature. But we do wrong because we allow our selfish passion for getting a thrill out of the present moment blind us to the immense loss we suffer in future good and happiness. td i” » BOTH neurotic husbands and wives do this to each other con-

terly miserable. This is because the neurotic is always thinking of himself and takes everything others say or do—even the most t{rivial things —as reflecting on him, Wives tend more than husbands to do this because more women than men are introverted and self-centered, although many husbands, ‘too, make life unhappy for themselves and their wives by this infernal and utterly useless tendency. The moment any oné says something, the neurotic always shoots back, “Yes, but —» and then goes into a lot of talk

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Our Problems Are Many, but We Can Thank God. That Our Nation Still Is Blessed Above All Others.

ASHINGTON, Nov. 24.—When we get all through feeling sorry for ourselves for the depression, for millions unemployed, for the plain fact that things ain’t what they used to be, we can take a short look across the world—north, east, south and west—and get down on our marrow bones and thank God for what we have and are, blessed above all people on earth. Sp We can thank Him, first of all, for 3000 miles of

| sea water which removes us from any threat that

tomorrow morning the Heavens may be raining bloody death, destroying homes and mothers and children who are utterly helpless and defenseless. The bomber hasn't yet been produced that can carry an explosive load 3000 miles and return 3000 miles safely to her se

e can thank the Lord that no matter what tmprove , ‘within the bounds of reason, may be made in gas attacks on great centers of population, we do not have to smother our civilians, including children, in schools, in grotesque gas masks. We do not have to construct underground gas-shelters where people will have to huddle like rats for hours to avoid

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E are thankful that we do not have to mask our ' public buildings and works of art with mountains of sand bags. . . To put it in fewer words, we could almost adopt the 91st Psalm: “I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and my fortress; my God, in Him will I trust. Surely He shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler and from the noisome pestilence. He shall cover thee with His feathers and under His wings shalt thou trust: His truth shall be thy shield and buckler. Thou shalt. not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flieth by day; nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday. A thousand shall fall at thy side, and 10 thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee.” On the more material side, let me. quote from this column of March. 26, figures there wrongly credited to the London Sphere—it should have been our. Amer= ican publication—The Sphere: 3» 8» “" ITH 6 per cent of the world’s area and 7 per cent of its population, of the world’s production ours is: Oil, 70 per cent; wheat and cotton, 60 per cent; copper and iron, 50 per cent; lead and coal, 40 per cent; telephone service, 60 per cent; railroad service, 33 per cent. Of the world’s consumption ours is: Coffee, 48 per cent; tin, 53 per cent; sugar, 21 per cent; silk, 72 per cent; .dron, 42 per cent; copper, 47 per rent: petroleum, 69 per cent; automobiles, 80 per cent. “We have more than half the world’s monetary metal—gold and silver—and more than 75 per cent of the world’s banking resources. Our 130,000,000 people have a purchasing power and enjoy a consumption of conveniences and necessaries equivalent to that of five hundred million Europeans or one billion Asiatics.” <All that isn’t to say that we are well enough off. But it does suggest that we seem to be favored of Divine Providence and we ought to be far more grate=--ful than the Pilgrim fathers who instituted Thanksgiving for a condition many times more bleak and miserable than anything we have suffered or can imagine, :

It Seems to Me

By Heywood Broun

Debt Is Owed Pilgrims, but Choice Of Turkey as Symbol Was Unwise.

N™ YORK, Nov. 24—Of all American holidays Thanksgiving seems to me the one most worthy of celebration, since it came originally from such an unexpected quarter. It would be an overstatement to call it the fanatics’ feast day, because the noses of our New England ancestors were never quite as blue as they have been painted. But, at the very least, i$

‘is an anniversary wrung as a concession from the

austere. There are people, particularly to the south of us, who go in for fiestas much more readily than was the custom among early Americans. In some of the Latin lands a holiday is proclaimed whenever two or three of like mind are gathered together. But the Pilgrims of Plymouth not only landed on a rock, but proceeded to live on it. It was a real triumph of suppressed desires which induced them

to depart. from their flinty fashions long enough to «°°

say, “Let’s knock off work for just one day and throw a party.” Governor Bradford of Massachusetts was and 1623 the famous year. And in his ae Hy Governor Bratiford did more to add to American party gaiety than any Good-Time Charlie. A merrymaker who could gain‘a couple of yards around such a stern and rockbound end was really going places.

He's Quite an Athlete

Of course, the Pilgrims did sneak up on their re solve to let their hair down. As far > the Pi announcement went, it was something less than an official call to high jinks. The day was set apart for religious observance, and yet, even at the beginning, there must have been some hint that after a three-hour sermon it would be less than sinful to relsx momentarily, e owe much to the Pilgrims, but we should also pick a bone with them, since they are primarily responsible for making turkey practically obligatory as the center dish for the celebration. They hit upon the turkey, because it was the best the New England forests could afford. Or, at any ‘rate, the bird got . the nomination because he was a clumsy flier and much easier to knock over than deer or duck or partridge. I'm for the preservation of old customs, and turkey is not so bad if minced or hashed. ’ But, in spite of his clumsiness; he is too much the athlete to make him the finest of eating come panions, Even when tamed he runs to muscle and sinew, and the man who has tackled a turkey dinner, light or dark meat, knows he has been in a battle before the pumpkin pie rolls ‘round.

Watching Your Health

By Dr. Morris Fishbein

T= life cycle of the beef parasite resembles that of the fish parasite except that in this case the intermediary animal is of the bovine species. In a recent review of this subject the chief of the Zoological Division of the United States Bureau of Animal Industry points out that two recent outbreaks of tHis condition have occurred in cattle. In each instance the animals developed the infection from contact with a single human being who was a carrier of this

disease, - These tapeworms will grow quite long inside the human being. Every segment of this worm will contain several thousand eggs and-over a period of several years a human being may expel a few of these segments every day. Hundreds of cattle can become infested from a single human carrier if he happens to live in an area where cattle are plentiful. In one outbreak it was discovered that the water | supply for cattle was taken from a river 75 yards be- » low a sewer outlet. of the river were used as a public park. Tramps commonly slept in a stable - in which cotton seed hulls used for feeding the cattle ; were stored. Thus the cattle were exposed to infestation from many different places. \ 3 Human beings can become infested from eating » raw beef or beef that is rare. Rare roast beef is a | common American dish, The fact that more people - do not become infested from tapeworms from this % source is due entirely to the protection that meat in- « spection gives to the public. Cooking at a high tem perature will also destroy the parasites. it should be remembered, however, that only about two-thirds of the beef slaughtered in the United ~ States As subjected to Federal inspection and that % slaughte t ‘beef away from Federal on away with the p