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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1938 | ROOSEVELT'S FUTURE COURSE RETTY generally predictions of political experts since election day have pointed to a policy of consolidating gains as Mr. Roosevelt's course from now until 1940. We hope the predictions prove true. We would feel that way even though domestic problems were our only gore But, added, is the increasing pressure of foreign airs. We would hate to see a repetition of what happened n the first Wilson Administration when war abroad entered our national scene as a substitute for all pending motions and delayed for two decades efforts for reform which, had ye war not occurred, might have prevented many of the

xcesses that ensued and the economic and secial misery for which those excesses were responsible. As the Wilson program was sidetracked, so might that of Roosevelt be today because of events beyond our borders and over which we

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oT only do foreign affairs threaten consolidation, but 3 also pressure within the Roosevelt Administration itself. “That'pressure comes from the zealous wing which, by temperament, loves. reform’ s sake, becomes bored by the prosaic

By nature men of this type are extremists, though : oe ever ‘would they admit it. Full of fervor, sincere, the light

Teeming with pride of authorship, they burn They plant, but are

nishers. ith h the urge to be ever on their way.

Calling themtelves liberals but ir) britated when crossed oo the slightest criticism of any of

an 8. 8 » THEY are indispensable at the inauguration of an era of ™ reform. But there comes a time when they become, without realizing it, the worst enemies of the very reforms ey set under,way. Having given voice to a law, they call it good, and dsmned be him who would change a line of it, 10 matter what experience in its application shows. Motives

enough. Ideals are sufficient unto themselves. Nothing |

Ise counts. Mr. Roosevelt has been under the constant influence of his type of adviser, and by nature he leans to the crusader side himself. But in his makeup also is a broad practical side. He is a starter, but when he wants to, he can be a

isher. Will he be, with the great but unconsolidated pro-

gram that stands as his record to date? : © Or will ‘a combination of foreign crisis and ‘domestic Festlessness bring forth a failure of laws already passed, foble in purpose, but, up to now, dangerously imperfect in operation? . We hope in certain future editorials to deal in some detail with what, as we view it, has been the successful part of the Roosevelt program, and what, though on the statute ‘books, is jeopardized by its own failure to function.

TIMELY WARNING

ITH six new smallpox cases reported over the week- : *¥ end, bringing the total in the City to 18, it seems wise

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to pass along the admonition of Dr. Herman G. Morgan, |

Health Board Secretary, in regard to vaccination against this contagious disease. “Dr. Morgan points out there is no cause for immediate alarm. All cases reported so far are mild and easily confused with chicken pox—that common ailment which we took in stride in our youth. Nevertheless, we think Dr. Morgan's advice is timely. After all, vaccination does not confer immunity throughout one’s lifetime. We tend to forget that and grow careless and: negligent simply because the public health services have done such a magnificent job in the past.

SALUTE TO A CHAMPION STAN D back, Iowa, Illinois, Nebraska and Minnesota! Make room for Indiana! We may not raise more corn than some of our sister states, but we certainly raise some pf the finest in the world. As evidence we present William H. Curry of Tipton, nd., who has been named World Corn King for the third uccessive year at Chicago's International Grain and Hay how. And to clinch our right to this claim we would like ‘Ho call attention to the fact that Hoosiers have won the Hide 14 out of the last 17 years. This kind of performance is not accidental. It serie sents a degree of training and skill far more important to . this State than some of the other things for which we award championships and public honors. v=, In Mr. Curry and the other Hoosiers who won honors at the Chicago show, we salute real champions!

/THE OTHER CHEEK PEFUTY SHERIFF WILLIAM M’GINLEY of Pana, III, = was willing to forgive and forget the first time Forrest Phillips’ automobile crashed into his own car. Not until the same thing happened again, less than 30 minutes later, did ‘Deputy McGinley decide that forebearance had ceased to be a virtue and pop Mr. Phillips into jail. For a much more striking example of official slowness wrath, however, we commend the case of Patrolman in Brightman of Des Moines, Iowa. Patrolman Brightman was walking his beat when one a passing group of boys yelled, “Hey there, flatfoot!” r. Brightman promptly ordered the youth to remove his then took off his own shoe. And behold, when the two sto kinged feet were ranged side by side on the pavement, he boy’ s was level from toe to heel, whereas Mr. Brightman « udly displayed a handsomely curved arch. ‘We are glad to know that Patrolman Brightman’s m] plary conduct was rewarded fittingly. The report from s Moines adds that—

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Fair Enough

By Westbrook Pegler

Native Author Slams. Those Who

Prosper in. New York, But Can't Get Their Minds Off Old Home Town.

EW YORK, Nov. 29.—A few weeks ago these dis-

patches raised a faint, impatient yip against the homeward yearning of many Americans who come to |.

New York, prosper here, enjoy the life of the metropolis and raise families in New York, but never permit themselves to become New Yorkers and nevertheless complain of the nonassimilation of foreigners. The chief offender was the late O. O. McIntyre with his dozens of bathrobes and his racks of expen-

1 sive suits in a Park Ave. apartment, who was always | picking out on his typewriter the notes of “How dear

to my heart are the scenes of my childhood” but

didn’t go back to Gallipolis until he died.and would

have pined away for the sights and sounds and luxuries of New York had he ever made the break. With Mr. McIntyre, of course, it was an act. Had I known that A. J. Liebling was writing a book on this subject from the standpoint of a New Yorker I might have left the protest entirely to him, for he has done it much better in a work called “Back Where I Came From,” which I recommend to all members of the Indiana Society, the Minnesota Society and of all other American Sudeten groups, including the Siwash Alumni. I am not a native New Yorker, but I long ago realized that the tradition of heartlessness was false, and, perhaps a little against ‘my will, became thoroughly naturalized, So to speak,

R. LIEBLING, However a native who says in his opening chapter, “Apology for Breathing,” “I have no place to go back to. Friends tell me of their excitement when the train passes from Indiana into

Illinois or back again. I am ashamed to admit that:

when the Jerome Ave. express rolls into the 86th St. station I have absolutely no reaction.” Mr. Liebling sees New York as one of the oldest American places which does not live in retrospect “like the professionally American provinces,” but keeps on renewing itself so that the past is perennially forgotten. “Native New Yorkers,” he writes, “are the best mannered people in America; they never speak out of turn in saloons because they have experience in group etiquet. Whenever you hear a drinker let a blat out of him you can be sure he is a recent immigrant from the South or Middle West.” He observes that New Yorkers are modest, whereas prairie geniuses “raced

in cheap company when young,” feel themselves to be

boy wonders and resent it “when they bounce off New York's skin as adults.” 2 8 = s HEN I was a cub around here I was inpresied by the generous helpfulness of the older reporters on the mass assignments. On ship news, the regulars on the run gather everything worth knowing and then sit down at a table to trade material. I was not only bashful, but ashamed. to come to these conferences empty handed, but any newcomer was always welcome whether or not he had anything of his own to contribute, and Ross Whytock, one of the stars of those exacting days, several times singled me out to make certain that I had missed nothing. On several sport assignments Tom Thorp, a native

New Yorker, did the same, and this active charity by |

self-assured stars who knew their way around was the more impressive because back where I came from, that land of the stronger hand-clasp and the clearer eye, reporters would not only scoop one another for the delight of scoring a petty advantage at the desk but would even give false information to a greenhorn for no other reason, apparently, than the Plessis it gave them to get him canned.

Business By John T. Flynn

South America Embracing Fascism And Therein Lies the Danger to Us.

EW. YORK, Nov. 29.—As the United States turns her eyes toward South America in search of what President Roosevelt calls American “continental solidarity,” there is one danger which seems to be overlooked. One of the most common of human frailties is found in the perversity with which men flee from imaginary perils into the arms of real ones. At present an immense noise fills the ears about the German menace in South America. - This is set up as a giant enemy to be met and conquered. And so much energy is developed to meet and overcome this ogre that we give no thought to the great serpent coiled in the bushes which is the real danger. The trouble in our South American approach is to be found in our confusion.of the terms “naziism” and “fascism.” They are continually used interchangeably. Hence the discussion as to whether South America has gone Nazi or Fascist becomes obscured in a good deal of fog. South America is not Nazi, is not going Nazi and probably never will. But South America is going Fascist. Fascism represents a new approach to the solution of the difficulties of capitalism. The. essence of it is the division between the economic life and the purely political life. The latter is still entrusted to direct state servants, political officials and even a political legislature. The former— the economic life—is. entrusted directly to the representatives of business organized into groups and empowered to make rules and regulations affecting production, prices, competition, investment, etc.

Democracy Is Sacrificed

While business groups thus organized exercise Jurisdiction over these economic problems in the first place, they are subject, of course, to the veto or supervision or interference or domination in the last analysis of the state which is represented by a dictator. A dictator is essential to the operation of this |y system. It involves the sacrifice of democracy to save the economic system, but oddly in practice ends very quickly with the destruction of the economic system it sets out to save. Our real danger, therefore, in South America, arises not out of German penetration, but out of .the drift of our southern sisters to Fascist forms of government. If we enter into any sort of League of Nations of the west with South America we may well find that we are in a league with a whole group of Fascist states—states as violently. opposed to Germany as we are, but operated upon the Fascist model.

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

I WAS glad to see a cartoon by Rollin Kirby which brings to public attention a very important fact

about all these preparations for a new armament pro-

gram. Our income taxes will go up. In case you missed it, the picture Shows. a man labeled Taxpayer, sitting in a comfortable chair when he is surprised by Uncle Sam in his doorway who holds aloft a placard bearing these words: “Ten per cent rise in income tax mapped if armament expansion goes through.” Maybe you belong to the belligerent group which hopes to make an armed camp of the United States.

In that case, you will pay your increased tax cheer-

fails, as you certainly should. ‘Well, I don’t! I shall be as mad as a riled hornet when asked for extra money to buy armaments, mainly because I think, if reasonable care had been exercised in spending it, the regular and extra appropriations already made would be quite sufficient .to defend our shores. Whether you agréé or not, you must be a little curious to know what has become of

the six and one-half billion dollars Mr. Taxpayer has |

handed out between the years 1932 and, 1938.

It looks as if we shall be throwing ‘good ‘money |

after bad, unless we ask ourselves what the wails of the military men mean when they cry about their poor equipment. If we still have no airplanes, no guns, no ships and not enough men, is’it impertinent to ask what they have used our money for? ° We can expect, as usual, widespread hullabaloo about Germans sneaking up on us through South

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

MAYOR LA GUARDIA WILL ‘HAVE HIS FUN By B. C.

His political philosophy does not al-

explains why he is in a small jam with Mussolini and a nice big one with Hitler. But as mayor of Ameri-

hero of many people the Little Flower doesn’t worry much. His latest exploit which leaves the nation chuckling is the appointment of three special police officers to guard against possible disturbances around the German consulate in New York. And those three men are Jews—Capt. Finkelstein, Lieut. Licker, and Sergt. Goldstein: Today while Goering, Goebbels and Adolf are cursing the Semitic race three of the race protect their commercial agent in New York and the world has a good laugh, with Fiorello Joining in on the chorus. 8 2 2 THINKS G. O. P. HAS NOT LEARNED ITS LESSON By Sideline Spectator The election .is a mandate from the people to end unemployment. Grooming of the candidates for the Presidential election in 1940 will become a major industry soon. The Republicans present no constructive program. The Republicans were in power 12 years prior to the economic cyclone of 1933. They were the chief beneficiaries .of the Roosevelt policies since 1933, poking their feet under the table of governmental relief, in RFC loans, farm loans, crop loans, home loans, PWA, WPA, NRA. Everything Roosevelt has done was directed to the saving of our business system from extinction. The best way to junk the present system is to revert to the Republican policies which precipitated the crash of 1929 and the cyclone of 1933. Perhaps Roosevelt did the wrong thing in placing Government credit behind every bankrupt outfit. It may merely stave off the eventual liquidation, which is the normal process by which. capitalism spews up its excessive debt and capital structures. The best way to rush the day of liquidation is to adopt the Hoover policies. Republicans are a “ job-hungry horde of politicians. They have learned nothing since they were pushed out of office. Democrats have made power patronage jobs on a wholesale scale. Their policies are superficial; they do not reach out far enough to make capitalism function. = Neither Barton nor

Fiorello La Guardia is at it again.

low for dictators of any kind. This

ca’s largest city and as the political}.

(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.)

Roosevelf can go far enough in repairing capitalism. If we want capitalism to survive we must be willing to pay the price it requires in liquidations. The alternative is fascism. 8 2 a BINGO DOOR PRIZE DRAWS CRITICISM By Curious Not so long ago 1 read some articles about bingo games. I'm not against them, I really like to play. There’s only one thing I have against bingo—and that is the door prize. They advertise they're giving away a $50 or $100 door prize. After you go they draw and nobody wins. They say it goes for next week. Now I don’t think that is being fair to us. We go thinking we're going to have a chance. Yes, we have a chance all right—with what odds. It’s just like playing a slot machine where you might hit one out of every 10,000. 2 8 8 SEEKS ASSISTANCE FOR JOBLESS FATHER By A Neighbor Some 10 weeks ago a young man, 28 years old, with a wife and two babies, 3 years, and 6 months old, after 18 months of idleness, living off a father-in-law, only money

REFRAIN

By MARY WARD I would travel through wintry wood, Leaving the sheltered nook Where long the chimney Place has

stood, Beside chair and book— I fain would fly on wings of speed Over the distant plain To offer you my fondest meed— And that is my refrain,

DAILY THOUGHT

‘And the king said to him: How many times shall I adjure thee that thou say nothing but the truth to me in the name of the Lord?—II Chronicles 18:15.

7 EEP one thing forever in view —the truth; and if you do this « « » it will assuredly conduct you to the throne of God.—Horace Mann.

earned at caddying, $2.50 to $3.50 a week this past summer, applied for WPA work, rather than pauperize his father-in-law. A visitor called

and checked on his application; told him she could do nothing because he was not on a basket. She advised that they apply for this basket, but as they had no money for rooms, they were obliged to borrow from an uncle who could ill afford it. That was eight weeks ago. .The supervisor called soon after and gave them a ket but promised only that a referral would be made as soon-as posStble. Now the uncle is broke, the young folks are desperate and almost cried in their appeal to the Trustee, who said he was sorry but nothing could be dope until the latter part of the month. This boy has spent a big part of his time checking on days they mention, but it’s always the same. . He is a good boy, always worked and wouldn’t ask for this aid only on advice of friends. If he does get work, even soon, he will be in debt for the next 10 paydays. Must this man and wife and babies be neglected this way? Is there no recourse? What will he do? The landlord wants his rent. They ask only a break,

Editor's Note: te: John K. Jennings, State WPA Director, states that under orders from Washing= ton no one has been added to WPA work relief rolls since Oct. 15. None is likely to be for some time, he said. Congress provided only for a seven-months program and available funds must be stretched until the new Congress provides more. There are applications on file from 10,000 others in the same plight as that of the young man described above, Mr. Jennings said. » " » s INTOLERANCE BRED BY OPPRESSION, IS CLAIM By Robert F. Buehl + It is with interest that I read an article by Grace Bradley in Saturday’s Forum pertaining to the Jewish-Catholic and other persecutions in foreign countries. The Bradleys, Smiths or anyone else cannot be sure that “it couldn’t happen here.” If oppression exists— class hatred follows. It is not Stalin, Hitler or any leader that produces such conditions hut a state of society and economics that breed such hatred in the souls of men. It can happen any place when people are oppressed. America is a long way from being secure. Each citizen should not put on blinders and say, “All is well”—but should use every effort to see that the Golden Rule is applied to all of his neighbors. :

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WI er ‘YOUR OPINION —

NO. It is foolish, The tendency in human nature would be for east eten have the

LET'S EXPLORE YOUR

By DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM

'} ARE BRIGHT PEOPLE SoRALLY THAN AVERAGE

OR DULL PEOPLE? YOUR OPN ION —

SOPULAR jor TRUE THAT

of “his country. Furthermore, his chief aim is to add ‘mere numbers 1 his Population; b ;

{the parents are extremely close rela-

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possibly the United States—would be better off, and have higher standards of living, with a smaller population.

YES, far better, on the average, although there are many exceptions. As the psychologists express it, “Intellect and moral character are correlated.” The first one to prove this scientifically was F. A. Woods, biologist, in 1906 in his study of the Royal Families of Europe. Since then more than 500 studies have been mdde and they all agree, as shown by Dr. Clara F. Chassell in a 500-page doctor’s dissertation on the subject. Just reflect for yourself—the great moral and religious teachers and leaders have not been morons ‘but men and women of the highest intelligence. ” sz 8 * NO. Of course just how much they do resemble the first generation depends largely on who the parents are in the second and third generation, In all fine animal strains

tives—such ‘as brother and sister, which is a closer relationship than parent and child—and of course the third generation offspring are almost duplicates of the first. But in human Doings where nearly all marthe more

Gen. Johnson

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U.S. War Department Needs to Be Reorganized to Link All Resources Of the Nation in This Time of Peril.

ASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 29.—If ever an ine stitution was misnamed 1t is the War Department. War used to be a harizental affair carried on Now war moves on, under and above both land and sea. Furthermore, while war used to be principally a clash of relatively small half-professional armies, now it is principally a combat between whole nations with all their wen, money and materials reorganized from the ordinary

and constructive uses of peace to the extraordinary and destructive uses of war. With all this in mind, Secretary Woodring’s department is not a “War” Department, It is an “Army

| Department” just as Secretary Swanson’s-is a “Navy”

Department. Furthermore, it is not. even .partly equipped to carry on the new economic warfare—the mobilization of all industry, agriculture, finance, com-

| munications, shipping and transportation to the alle

consuming demands of modern war. We went into the World War blind to this plain fact. It stalled all our early efforts, wasted billions and narrowly missed ending in tragedy. In December, 1917, the chairman of the Senate Military Affairs

x Committee attacked the blundering system so fiercely

that it was jolted into haphazard temporsty ree organization, : 2 ” ” . MERGENCY administrations for food, fuel, transportation, merchant marine, war trade, finance and war labor were loosely tied into an overhead cone trol of them and some of the duties of the War and Navy Departments. It was called the War Industries Board. It was a hasty hodge-podge but it worked fairly well. Its most difficult job was to make the War Department play in teamwork. After the war, the machine was scrapped. As a pure makeshift, an Assistant Secretary of War was appointed in 1918 to help make the so-called War Department play: ball. For that reason, he was charged, under the Secretary of War, with supervision of Army supply activities. Chiefly he was a connect= ing link with the greater war organization. When thas was disbanded, he remained—a link with nothing. In a postwar statute, he was given the job of keeping plans for industrial mobilization up to date: In that and in getting better teamwork within the Army itself, it has been a vari lee.

HE present Astisiant P seccetary of War, Louis Johnson, is an ambitious lawyer-politician.. A vast rearmament program is ahead. It involves a partial industrial mobilization. The world is aflame with’ war and we must get ready on all fronts— especially the industrial front. Mere military re armament is not enough. A constant stream of publicity issuing from Mr. Johnson’s office indicates that he believes that all this is his job and he is doing it. It doesn’t seem .to recognize that there is such a person as Mr. Woodring or that, under the law, this on acts “under the supervision” of the Secretary 0 r. This has split the “Army Department” at a time of national danger. Nobody is sure who the boss is and that is an impossible condition in any Army. ° The industrial side of war preparation in time of peril requires not a politician but a man who under= stands industry. No Army officer can and Mr. Johne son doesn’t, even if his office vere the proper one for the job. This situation has been discussed here before. It will be discussed again. It is about the weakest spot in our national defense.

It Seems to Me By Heywood Broun

After All, What Aubrey Williams Said in Dixie Speech Is Old Stuff.

TEW YORK, Nov. 29.—There seems to be some confusion as to what Aubrey Williams said down in Birmingham concerning the class struggle. Did he pat it on the back or merely nod in recognition? To several this seems to be a burning issue. Indeed, one editorial writer has declared with some heat that Mr. Williams is defying the verdict of the last election if he believes that there is any class warfare in America. - But it is my notion that the disagreement is more verbal than real. To many such a phrase as “the class struggle” is an alien concept maliciously cone jured up by a man named Marx. I will confess that I am in no way equipped to attempt any literal rendition or free translation of the classic Socialist posie tion. But I am under the impression that the American voter is familiar with and even well-disposed to _ native approximations of the same concept. For instance, no editorial writer could very well have leaped at the throat of Aubrey Williams if he had spoken of “the struggle between the people and the interests.” Such language is familiar in the speech of cane didates from each of the two major parties. And if it means anything at all it does convey the thought that there readily may be a difference in point of view between those who have much and those who have nothing. “

Hardly a New Idea.

Very many years before Aubrey Williams was born a famous document recognized the existence of-the. class struggle. It did not use. that phrase, nor did it commend the clash. Nevertheless, the commandment which admonished the people of Israel not to covet the possessions of the more prosperous does at least suggest that mankind has long been moved by a desire to share the weefth. a al In our own day politicians are fond of saying that labor is not a commodity, and some trade union leaders have taken occasion to speak at banquets of the mutuality of interest between the employed and the employer. But the very fact that trade unionism and the right of collective bargaining are now generally supported must indicate some belief that labor does need organization to prevent itself from being treated as a commodity. I trust it will not be held against me as a radical utterance if I venture the timid guess that, on the whole, employers do. not generally, of their own volition, increase wages or shorten hours. Such things have been. done, but it is not the general rule. Often a hint or a suggestion on the part of the ‘employees seems to have been helpful.

Watching Your Health

By Dr. Morris Fishbein

LL sorts of books have been written about tdghter and its significance in relationship to health and human welfare. Real laughter is an involuntary reaction like yawning or crying. Few people are able to give a false laugh the sound of reality. Certain animals may make sounds like those of human laughter, but while animals may indicate enjoyment, no other animal but man actually laughs. Some physiologists have claimed that laughter is a healthful performance because it depends on .a series of spasmodic repeated contractions of all the muscles involved in breathing, and especially of the diaphragm. The contraction of the muscles of the face that is associated with laughter is also perhaps helpful—but laughter does not always yield a Pleasant appearance. Children laugh more frequently than adults probe ably because they have not: yet ‘had the experience that is associated with adult years. Perhaps by the time we are older, there is too much of sadness in our memories to encourage laughter, In general, laughter has been found to be a most healthful phenomenon. Most of the proverbs associated with laughter indicate that point of view: For example; laugh and grow fat; laugh and be well, and similar phrases. There are, however, certain diseases in which laughter may be excessive, uncontrollable and-actually indicate the presence of mental disease. ere seems to be some difference of opinion as to just what time of life the baby first laughs. Even

tiny babies seem to smile, which most scientists are

convinced is not actually laughter but merely an exe pression of some internal mechanism perhaps A3S0Ci= ated with “gas on the stomach.” Rea) lsughias in babies after