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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1938

LET'S NOT ALL GO CRAZY

NLESS something happens pretty soon to put mankind back on the road to sanity and morality, former President Herbert Hoover told a Canadian audience, the world faces an early smashup. To see just how right Mr. Hoover was and is, one has but to look around at what's going on in the world. He himself enumerated some of the evidences of the intolerant ideologies which “have joined the Four Horsemen . . . to hold the world taut with fear.” In Germany, he pointed out, “the most hideousy exhibition” of persecution since the Middle Ages is now in full swing. In Russia, political opponents by the thousand are being executed, while in her efforts to force state industrialization, millions of her own people were left to “die of starvation despite the fact that she had the gold with which to buy them food. “A military autocracy in control of Japan is making a war of aggression upon China as horrible as that of Genghis Khan,” while “a bitter class war in Spain ruthlessly executes civilians on both sides.” Here are but a few samples of the terror and intolerance now sweeping the earth. Nevertheless, the former President added hopefully, perhaps the world may have gained something from it, after all, namely, a desire to keep out of war. The old war fever, he said, “no longer sweeps the common people.” 8 2 = : LR ND there, again, we believe he spoke the truth. France, just now, is a case in point. Not so long ago it was the fashion to speak of the French as warlike and aggressive. That, of course, was not quite true, even then, but today they are particularly attached to peace. Many excellent people in this country are being misled into lending their support to groups whose real purposes are not always what they seem, and not always what their liberal and democratic sounding names imply. Some of these groups tend to lead us into entanglements abroad, hence in the direction of war, rather than peace, and towards some form of totalitarianism instead of democracy. A new world conflict is not going to benefit the oppressed peoples of Europe and Asia. Far from it. Their one hope is in the survival of democracy. And democracy would be Armageddon’s first victim. So let us do everything we can to keep our democracy out of war. Let us try to preserve it as a haven for, and defender of the victims of despots elsewhere. Let us try, as Mr. Hoover suggested, to keep at least A little sanity in this mad world. For it certainly is not! going to help the downtrodden anfwhere if all of us go crazy at the same time.

YVILLIAM E. WKEE | ESPITE an unusually active business career, William E. McKee gave as liberally of his time and talents to worthy causes as he did to the important insurance enterprises which he directed. He was an elder of the Tabernacle Presbyterian Church, director of the Winona Bible School ‘at Winona, Ind., and served on the boards of the Y. M. C. A.

By Westbrook Pegler

‘| ground that the property a to the people and

and Methodist Hospital. He was kindly, self-effacing and generous. Best known: of his many philanthropies, perhaps, was the equipping, with his son, of McKee Chapel. It is a singularly appro- _ priate memorial to the life of this fine old gentleman.

FRENCH STAGGERS ISPATCHES from Paris these days sound incredible when we remember that but a few brief years ago France was the cock of the walk in Europe. Remember when decisions made in Paris speedily were translated into policies of the League of Nations’ Council at Geneva? Remember when French rulers decreed things should be thus and so in Europe, and quickly, from the chancellories of Poland, Czechoslovakia, Austria and Jugo- ~ slavia, came back the. echoes, things shall be thus and so; . and by silence or feeble protests, Germany and Italy gave assent? Remember that “ring of steel” which strong-arm French diplomacy forged ‘round the German Reich? But today, could you name even a Balkan principality so humble that it is known as a satellite of France? Dispatches from Paris these days explain why that is s0. For they explain that Paris doesn’t know what it thinks. And Paris hasn’t known—more than a few days at a time —for the last five or six years. The French have had conservative cabinets and radical cabinets and compromise cabinets. They have switched to the right, to the left and down the middle of the road, and each fresh shift has headed into and cracked up on fresh opposition. They have changed from economy to pump priming, from a “little New Deal” back to the old. They have tried almost everything except national unity. While the French have been fighting among themselves, growing weaker and weaker, Germany has reoccupied the Rhineland and annexed Austria and taken over Sudeteland. Italy has conquered Ethiopia and poured fuel on the civil war flames that have all but destroyed Spain. And Dictators Hitler and Mussolini have draped France's former allies over the Rome-Berlin axis. And still, Frenchmen fight Frenchmen, forgetful that they are citizens of a great republic, possessed of a rich colonjal empire, enjoying liberties and a living standard far surpassing those of the subjects of the dictators. France is giving a demonstration of demoeracy at its worst.

McNUTT vs. CLARK FT HE first round of the contest for popular favor by In - diana’s Paul V. McNutt and Missouri’s Bennett Champ Clark, Democratic Presidential possibilities in 1940; Mr. McNutt took the initiative and led with an impresve social function at Washington, featuring caviar, canapes ad cocktails. Mr. Clark countered with a victory celebration at St. s, serving a corned-beef “and cabbage dinner with heer. d 1, Mr, Clark, -

- sene business was small alongside it.

,clinic; when she spoke, her meetings were broken up

Fair Enough

German Atrocities More Horrible Because Nazis Boasted of Culture And World Had Accepted Claims.

EW YORK, Nov. 26.—Some Americans are beginning to ask why the Nazi atrocities should cause any more horror in the civilized nations than was caused by the massacres and deportations and suppression of religion in Soviet Russia and by the butchering of priests and nuns, the burning of churches and the persecution of Catholics in Spain. The oppression of Catholics in Mexico is cited, too, in the same sense. In a wry way the feeling about the horror in Germany is a compliment to the Germans. They had been regarded as a highly civilized people, and the regime which is doing all this constantly boasts of its civilization. Russia, on the other hand, was a very backward nation from which the rest of the world expected nothing .better. The masses were ignorant, and it cannot be forgotten that the revolution and the program of atrocity came after Russian soldiers had been sent into pattle without bullets for their rifles against well-armed German troops. In Spain the people were ignorant, too, but there were other factors. For one, the masses, to quote an eminent Catholic publicist, had been driven to apostasy by poverty, destitution and injustice and had grown to hate the church because they hated the friends of the church who exploited them and whom the church did nothing to rebuke or correct. Moreover, the civil war in Spain was promoted and backed by Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany. ” s ” HERE were atrocities just as horrible on the Rebel side, and, anyway, this was a war in hot blood between two armed factions which, being a civil war, inevitably produced appalling inhumanity on hoth sides. In Germany the people are intelligent, the standard of education is high and there is no excuse of hot blood. Yet the Germans have. carried on these ferocious activities for years and now have come to the point of threatening to extinguish 700,000 people “by fire and sword,” in cold blood. That sounds like darkest Russia or Turkey. Our Communists, of course, will deny that there were ever any massacres or other atrocities in Russia and will argue that the confiscation of property and the imprisonment, degradation and deportation of those who owned it was a work of nobility on the

was then devoted to their uses ” 2 = CC onnniay and naziism are alike in this respect. The Nazis claim that the property of the Jews really belongs to the people, and their government was driven to these confiscations by its necessities, not by indigation over the assassination in Paris.

The Russian atrocities also were carried out in |

cold blood, but the Germans professed to be aghast at such conduct and have held themselves to be better people than the Bolsheviki, | Americans gave them credit for that, too. That is why the Nazi atrocities are so much more shocking. | Aside from the moral courage but in addition thereto, it must be kept in mind that Nazi Germany and Italy tentatively have ganged up with Japan and have turned on the heat against the United States. They may not mean business, but this country doesn’t understand that kind of kidding.

Business By John T. Flynn

John D. Made Millions in Oil, but Bulk of It Came After He Retired.

EW YORK, Nov. 26.—One of the interesting and singular features about the will of the late John D. Rockefeller was that he left among his effects only a single share of stock in a Standard Oil Co.

Of course his Standard Oil holdings long before had been distributed among his Foundations, his son John D. Jr. and his daughters. He probably kept that one share as a souvenir of the vast empire he had created Bij out of which he had made the foundatipn of his ortune.

But it is an interesting thing that while Mr. Rockefeller made a great fortune out of the oil industry, by far the greater part of his fortune was made after he had ceased to be an oil magnate. When Mr. Rockefeller retired at the turn of the century he was worth probably a hundred million dollars—an immense fortune for those times. Later he accumulated a fortune that was once believed to be as much as a billion. It probably never reached , that figure, but it could not have been far from that. But the striking thing is that this man, in cne of the most active acquisitive careers, was able to amass a fortune of a hundred million, while from sheer investment, increase in values of investments after he had ceased to contribute anything even to the management of these investments, he made almost .10 times as much. Mr. Rockefeller made his fortune out of petroleum when its chief product was kerosene. It was only after his retirement that gasoline became an important product. The automobile was coming slong slowly. But after 1910 the automobile became an omnivorous user of gasoline and very soon the kero-

He Was Not a Speculator

To most people who follow such affairs it was a surprise that he died possessed of so much as $27,000,000, large though that may seem. It was generally supposed that he had divested himself of all but a few millions—perhaps three or four. By various means he had managed to pipe his vast fortune into the hands of his son and daughters and foundations. He kept a small amount to keep the wolf from the door. Also he liked to fool around with the stock market. He kept an active account on the stock market going all the time, buying and selling not so much because he needed the money but in order to keep from growing rusty. Whether he was a good trader is not known to the public. Many years ago Andrew Carnegie said of John D. that he was the poorest stock market operator he ever knew, As a matter of fact Mr. Rockefeller never made much of his fortune that way. He was not a. speculator; he was essentially an industrialist. And when he died he had converted what he had left almost entirely into the most conservative investments.

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

HE autobiography of Margaret Sanger is just out. I hope it will be widely read, for it recites the story of a great struggle and a major victory. Twenty years ago, the name of Mrs. Sanger was often featured in magazines and newspapers. She was a thorn in the side of clergymen, professors, doctors and saloon-keepers. To put it plainly, they didn’t like her, It was in 1913 that Mrs. Sanger, herself the mother of two sons, decided that the only answer to the poverty in New York's lower East Side was birth control. She not ony decided it; she said it. - And as usual, when a new idea bursts into view, the public was first astonished, then outraged. Mrs. Sanger was persecuted by smug officials and sanctimonious politicians and by every average man who read into her fiery words the unexpressed rebellion of millions of crushed women, She was arrested for sending obscene literature through the mails; she was dragged off to jail for opening a birth control

by the police; and at one time she served a term in Queens County Penitentiary. But never once did she cease saying that birth control was the only answer to poverty. And the one thing her enemies did not count on was the immediate response of American mothers. Long before her day, we must remember, Frances E. Willard had founded the powerful Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, which, in a way, was motivated by the birth control idea. ‘Many ‘women ‘espoused the cause b.cause they had begun to- believe that

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HOLD IT, BOYS — WE MAY HAVE TO : START ALL OVER AGAIN

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disagree with what you say,

defend + to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

but will

U. S. SHOULD ARM TO HILT, IS CLAIM By M. W. Young Back in Revolutionary days it was said, “We had better hang together or we'll hang separately.” Our country is now reaping the whirlwind for its shortsighted policy

of isolation. | A greater Germany and Italy pressing in South America and now Japan drawing sustenance from China’s hundreds of millions! Unless a drastic revision of our foreign policy takes place quickly we are courting disaster. Let us arm to the hilt.

5 ” t ” PART TIME WORKER PROTESTS WPA RULING By Auto Worker - The WPA recently issued an order stating: “Any person who is eligible for unemployment compensation must be laid off.” This will include the majority of those who, previous to their employment on WPA, worked in the local auto industry, and due to the low

production schedule, haven't been called back, and have been unemployed since the recession first started; yet, when they needed the compensation most, were unable to get it due to the $10 clause. The administrative end of the lo-

tal WPA seems to forget about the

winter of ’35, when the same group was either laid off, or working one or two days a week, and were ineligible for WPA since we weren’t on relief during a certain specified time —yet those working on WPA at that

‘time were only working one or two

days a month, yet were drawing their regular pay. Then the soldiers’ bonus, which many drew, yet weren't laid off of

WPA, and last the hundreds now

eligible for old-age pension, not mentioning the hundreds of property owners, now employed on WPA. During the last six months the best craftsmen of the country were forced by the recession to obtain employment on WPA and ere handed a pick and shovel. The jority who are still on have been reclassified and assigned to skilled crafts. This is where the old guard had their first taste of the “jitterbug.” They found under their supervision men who had forgotten more than they ever knew. These supervisors and district supervisors have had some college education, but no experience in the supervision of skilled men. Therefore, they decided to do something to protect their jobs, and the ruling apparently was issued with the Administration backing it. "Ni if this ruling is upheld, the WP.

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old apprentice school, paying the apprentice union wages, while we live on the small compensation due

us—and then when we apply for work on WPA they will issue a statement which will go something like this: “Due to the small appropriation, it will be impossible to. assign us on WPA,” and. we will go through another winter like 1935.

” a" ” FAVORS ACTION AIMED AT WAR MAKERS By J. Arthur Scott

It is obvious that all peoples hope for the preservation of peace throughout the world. However, whet is a peace policy in foreign relations? A little simple analysis of the two principal Views may help to clarify. One view is that sidvocated by those who have come. to be designated as the isolationists. They say, with reference to the war-making nations and their victims, that we should keep hands off and let them settle their own arguments. This, they proclaim, is the only safe way for the democratic nations. The other is that advocated by those who have come to be designated as the supporters of mutual action by democratic nations. They say, with reference to the war-mak-ing nations and their victims, that we should take a hand in those struggles, and really do something about it. This, they proclaim, is the only safe way for the democratic nations. ; Wouldn't the better peace policy

SUMMARY

DOROTHY BUERGER

-1 Sitting by the window alone, As night gives way to dawn. Watching the gay indifferent crowd Dear, after you have gone! ;

I held the key to Paradise In cold, selfish embrace Until . , . I am quite satisfied, I cannot fill her place.

DAILY THOUGHT

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.—I John 4:8.

HE heart of him who truly loves is a paradise on earth; he has God in himself, for God is love.—

be the one which advocates doing something about it? Such, for instance, as not. to buy, not to sell, not to loan; in brief, not to have anything to do with those war-mad nations which will help them to carry on their wholesale murder business. The economic boycott, sanctions, or the Sazaniinesany such name applies. °

But on the plher. hand, as concerns the victim nations, carry -out a positive program of aid. Extend them credit, sell them. food, clothes, arms, ammunition and- all their

needs, as far.-as is humanly pos-| sible—all democratic nations to take] -

concerted action in so doing. The trade unions, farmers’ organi-

zations.and progressive: movements .

represent the .great majority of the| people and can cause this peace policy to be adapted and put into action in every democratic nation. We must make. our plea for peace

on this basis in every organization|

we belong to, so as to make it understood. It is the same as is known as the “quarantine” policy| of President Roosevelt, enunciated in his. famous Chicago speech, But

public pressure must increase to|-

force our Congress and State Department at Washington .to put it, into action. oH o.n 8 HEARTENED BY FIGHT AGAINST TYRANNY By Grace Bradley ; It restores one’s- faith in human nature to see’ how: quick the people of the United States are to condemn the suffering inflicted on Jews in Germany. I have been following world events for many years and have often been

saddened by the. bloody record. The worst of all the ghastly tragedies has been in: Russia—when she murdered millions of her population, among them many Catholic priests and Protestant ministers. Killings in Russia are still going on steadily and ' religion is almost stamped out. Japan, by her undeclared war in China, has killed thousands and thousands, many of them wothen and children. - In Austria, Chancellor Dolfuss, later murdered by the Nazis, turned machine guns on women and children, killing many. Mexico has heavily pressed. the Catholic Church, killing some priests and driving the others out. .-. - In Spain the Government forces have burned and desecrated churches and killed numbers. of priests and nuns. And Gen. Franco has bombarded open cities: and killed ~=itizens -indiscriminately. There is hope that a storm of protest will be raised. zgainst all tyr-

“will be able to continue their Lamennais.

anny and oppression.

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LET'S oo YOUR MIND

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partly bodily and partly mental, is almost a necessity, if one wishes to be happy. 4 a 8 . ON THE WHOLE I think the indifferent peoplé who always expect others to give them ‘good government, organize social welfare, clear the streets, secure good schools, prevent racketeering, build the churches; etc, are the worst scoundrels we have. They are everlastingly smug in their rascality and pride their ornery carcasses on being “good” citizens. Oh, yes, they are always “in favor” of all these good things—provided somebody else will sit up. nights and risk his reputation—even his gife-to bring them about. ot 2 8 a SAVAGES, by all ‘means. As Knight Dunlap, . + peychologlst, brings out in his Civilized Lif such things as prostitution and kL immorality generally ‘are the products. of civilization and grew up after’ man had gone pretty far in developing civilized institutions and so-called “social order.” Among many. of the lowest savage tribes sex immorality is punished by death. As another student has shown, sex

Gon. Johnson Says—

Setting Up Homeland Exclusively

For Jews Seen as Danger to Those. of Race Now Happy in Other Lands.

ASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 26.—In all these plans to create a “Jewish Homeland” in Tanganyika or ‘otherwise, there is considerable danger to the Jew ish people. . It would be a fine thing to open up any “white: man’s country” for the poor and oppressed of every nation—Jews, Catholics and the persecuted of every race and creed. That was how America’ was popu=lated. There are plenty of other areas on the earth's surface” with equal natural advantages. The wonder is that they have not developed as quickly and in the same way we did. The reason probably is the increasing barriers to immigration that arose across the world at the end of the World War. ~ If now, by reason of new-.waves of persecution, some of these are to be broken down .and immigrantsare to be assisted, as was the case in our early days,” there may be a great forward surge in development of the raw resource of countries. But to create new and exclusively Jewish areas would be bad for the Jews. It would encourage the present blind and brutal wave of anti-Semitism in many places where it is now not important. The reaction likely would be, “now they have a place to go—get ‘em out of here.” f . ” ” 2 EWS are not the only minorities now n great sufe fering and danger. In Germany and elsewhere, Catholics. are coming into areas of persecution. No matter which side wins in Spain, the vanquished are likely to suffer as’ few conquered people ever did. It is not, as was our Civil War, sectional. Never since the Dark Ages has “man’s inhumanity to man” been so vicious. There are many places among many peoples where the only road to peace and security will be through migration. The Zionist attempt to resettle Palestine as a po-

| litical and racial nation of Jews rested on a different

basis. It had been their ancestral home for centuries.’ It turned out to have been a mistake, but that is no reason for not starting out again on the right road: now. It seems to me, for reasons already stated, that the right road is not toward an artificial Jewish state, but toward the melting-pot system that peopled and enriched Lhis country with so many varied strains of blood. # a =u , HERE are now and there will be more oppressed minorities ‘as deserving as the Jews. They need no special treatment other than the escape that all refugees need. They haye proved throughout the history of the world that they can take care of theme selves in any climate and under any hardships.’ But if the nations now set up any preferred park=-*

| ing place for Jews, the temptation in many countries.

where they are envied or discriminated against, but where they are happy and prosperous, may be exactly the same as it has been in Germany—to say: “Take all they have earned or accumulated here awayfrom them and send them to their new and preferred’ countr, HL country has millions of Jewish citizens who" are as good Americans as people of any other racial derivation. Few of them want to trade their present American flag for any other that naw exists or may: in future be invented—any place in the world.

Washington By Raymond Clapper F. D. R., With Time to Think, Urged To ‘Redefine Goal of New Deal.

(Batting for Heywood Bzoun)

tled down for a few days of comparative quiet’ at Warm Sprihgs, where he can have the opportunity, denied him ‘in Washington, of indulging in quiet: ! meditation. i : The trouble with most Presidents, and with most

tling with the day’s details of office that they have. almost no time to think. And just now, of all Himes, ‘thought is needed. Mr. Roosevelt's liberal movement is in confusion. It has come up against signs of a partial revolt onthe part of ‘the American people. It is clear that:

| there is real protest against some things that have

gone on.

Liberalism must take a new grip on itself. First. of all it needs to find out what it thinks. The Roose=,

forms to make our economic system work more. fairly to the whole mass of citizens. But in the: minds of many voters it also stands for political use, of relief, for agitation of class warfare and for subjecting employers to unfair discipline in the Wagner: Labor Act by allowing only employees to bring comeplaints, for instance. “ In short, the public mind is confused, and unsdoubtedly many in the Administration are confused, and are hitting out as freelances in all directions.

Jackson Offers Definition

: Therefore it is a real contribution to the state of mind, to have some redefinitions. Some are needed from ‘Mr. Roosevelt. Meantime one restatement, clear and packed with common sense, has come. from Solicitor General Robert Jackson.

Speaking to the Liberal Voters League of Mont-. gomery County, Maryland, Mr, Jackson said that real liberals are branded by extreme left-wingers as conservatives. He accepted the label, on the ground” that “the liberal movement in America today is” simply an intelligent and realistic conservatism.” ” Mr. -Jackson' cites, as a good working definition, that of Thomas Mann, who said; “We must define. democragy as that. form of government and of society which is inspired above every other with the feeling and consciousness of the dignity of man.” Liberals establish reforms which are then accepted" and come to be thought of not as liberalism but as Americanism. And, Mr. Jackson says, “reaction aries adopt the names and slogans of deceased lib erals in order to discredit living ones.” Just as Re= publicans now make a hero of Thomas Jefferson while his liberal descendants are busy fighting on a new-

: front, this ‘time economic rather than political.

Watching Your Health

By Dr. Morris Fishbein

: VERY year between 35,000 and 40,000 people are killed in this country by motor accidents; 100,000 are injured seriously and . perhaps 1,000,000 slightly injured. It is. of course, possible for what seems to be a minor injury to Sevelop into Something ¢ exceedingly serious. Some abrasions or wounds of the surface, if contaminated with dirt from the road or even with" material from the clothing, may give entrance to: the germs of lockjaw. - What seems to be a mere: bruise of the surface of the body may conceal a: ‘ruptured internal organ of the body which may re-~ quire immediate attention to prevent death. A minor fracture of a bone as a result of ime: proper handling may involve nerves and blood vessels - and bring about a serious damage which may re=" quire months for healing and recovery. Obviously, therefore, immediate scientific attention to injuries: resulting from motor accidents is of the utmost importance. The Red Cross has established first aid stations along most of the main traveled roads of the United States.in which persons are available who have been ‘trained in Red Cross technique. Every person who ‘travels in a motor car ought to have available enough © tincture of iodine or some other recommended coms ; mon antiseptic to prevent, infection in surface wounds ‘and abrasions. \ The first thing fo do when a fracture occurs is to make certain that the person is kept absolutely quiet. If there is a trained Red Cross attendantin a first aid station, even such an attendant should t

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