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Give Light and the Peopls Will Find Their Own Woy

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 32, 1938

TAKE THE GLOVES OFF! ; R the first 10 months of 1938 Indianapolis made a praiseworthy showing in the reduction of automobile ‘accidents and fatalities. = _ _. But in November the picture suddenly changed. i... Traffic accidents increased 42 per cent over the previous and fatalities 22 per cent.

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‘month, injuries 40 per cent i. Why? : I. The weather cannot be blamed because most of November ‘was unbelievably mild and sunshiny. i We believe the blame rests squarely on the police and judges, on the letdown that followed the election and ion the uncertainty that goes with a changing administration. E. And we believe, too, that law enforcement can turn the fatality curve downward just as suddenly as it arose. An indifferent attitude by our police and officials can

kill people just as surely as an irresponsible man loose ‘with a gun.

SWEET JUNKET "NEN Senators and 30 Representatives, most of them with their wives, are speeding southward today in a de luxe special train for a free vacation in Florida. Those who made the arrangements in Washington for ‘this joyous junket were a trifle vague about who is standing

ithe expense of the train, the Pullman drawing. rooms, the

meals, the drinks, the hotel accommodations, the golfing, . bathing and sightseeing in Miami and Tampa and all the ‘other pleasures to be enjoyed by these favored Congress‘men. © But we notice that a great many people interested .in ‘sugar are also on the special train. And that the seven-day ‘schedule includes two days at the sugar-raising, refining ‘and experimental plants of the United States Sugar Corp. “(the company that collected $1,067,665 from the Govern“ment for not growing sugar cane in 1933 and 1934). And we recall that Florida sugar interests and their lob“byists have been trying to get Congress to do something for

‘Florida sugar—specifically, to lift present restrictions so’

‘that the Florida interests can gain market advantages over ‘sugar from Hawaii and Puerto Rico. : All of which suggests a thought. : We aren't sure who will pay for this “free” Florida ’ yacation that 40 of the people's representatives are getting. But we shrewdly suspect that, if Congress does that pay for

‘little something for Florida sugar, you will help to fit every time you dip into your sugar bowl. : {THANK YOU, MR. WELLS : AMONG the most significant words spoken yesterday by 4X german B Wells in the inaugural events which made “him Indiana University’s 11th president were those outlining his views on democracy. : Democracy, Mr. Wells reminded his listeners, is a livSing, positive thing that cannot be handed down from genf eration to generation like a family heirloom. Each new “generation must win it anew if it is to have real meaning “to those possessing it.

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These words; along with his condemnation of the persecution of minority groups in Nazi Germany and elsei where, mark Indiana University’s new leader as a man in “whom we may take increasing pride.

“ROOSEVELT AND RELIEF “YN his first Administration President Roosevelt moved ~ © boldly and effectively against the problém of unemployment relief, Now, after three years of WPA, the Roosevelt relief “policies face attack by Democrats as well as Republicans “in Congress, and there is unmistakable evidence of ‘growing “public feeling against them. x Why the change? New Deal extremists say it is not “because of anything wrong with the policies or their

= Administration, but because wicked politicians and selfish “Tories are scheming to wreck the Federal relief program

“and let the unemployed starve.

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. There are wicked politicians and selfish Tories. But, ‘in our opinion, a great majority of the American people still agrees with the basic principles of the Roosevelt policies—that the Federal Government must continue to “see that relief is adequate to the need, and that so far as

Most criticism of WPA is due to abuses perpetrated in the name of those principles. To waste of money on useless and absurd projects. To concentration of power to pend vast public funds—more than $7,000,000,000 in three years—in the hands of Mr. Roosevelt and Administrator arry L. Hopkins. To arbitrary use of this power for the se of experimenting with social and economic theories. And, above all, to pernicious political activity in the A organization, from Mr. Hopkins down to minor fficials in many states. ; 2 s 8 : EJ 8 8. E have stated our hope that Mr. Roosevelt will put chief emphasis, from now to 1940, on perfecting and onsolidating what his New Deal has begun. And he might vell tackle relief first. : The state and local governments should be given incentive and responsibility for seeing that Federal funds e not, frittered away foolishly. Congress should be couraged to resume its constitutional duty and bear ts full share of responsibility for -relief spending. And WPA should be taken out of politics, and kept ut. : : : ~ But we believe that Mr. Roosevelt has the choice etween leadership toward the fundamental reforms that l restore WPA to its first principles or seeing public pinion turn irrevocably against the whole Federal relief

‘subject of graft and

Fir Ev

By Westbrook Pegler

Grafters in Public Life Are a Real Menace to Democracy and It's Time Penalties Were Made to Fit Crime.

NEV YORK, Dec. 2—Sentence of 139 years has been imposed on a nasty little maniac named

Robert Irwin, who killed three persons, and the question is whether he got a bargain in escaping the elec-

tric chair. : ; ‘Some say this and some say that, but I will attempt to say that people in this country have centered their attention and resentment on the dramatic crime of murder to the neglect and condonation of another type which is just as bad as murder in its effect on the safety of the community. I am inching up to the corruption in public office and the suppression of the liberties of the people by local dictators. It isn't only the cash cost to the taxpayers that makes graft a grave crime. But when this thieving deprives the people of improvements and services and brings their government into contempt the grafter is a dangerous enemy of the people's liberties and the

safety of the country. I suppose that is rather high |

sounding, but if so that is just too bad and just goes to show how tolerant we are of this kind of crime. I shall tell you why I think it is so dangerous. ” s ” 2 IF sabotages the operations of democracy and bring people to the point of toying with the idea that maybe they would be better off under a dictatorship, which is another way of saying that it discredits the American system of government. They get into the habit of thinking that every second, third or fourth

dollar of public money is earmarked for the grafters by a tradition having almost the force and dignity of law, and in time they may develop an attitude and

a conviction that democracy is just a wall motto and :

not a system. It would be easy to mention names of men who should have gotten death—or, anyway, life—for public thievery in New York, Chicago, Jersey City, Louisiana, Pennsylvania and Connecticut, but I have to watch

- out for libel, because most of them have never even

been indicted. If a few such criminals had gotten

‘| death—or, anyway, life—a long time back the more

recent generation of thieves would never have entered politics at all, because it would have been an honest profession and thus unsuited to their talents and unattractive to their nature,

» » # [| THINK that had this been done we could today have a much higher standard of honesty in politics in office and that the people, in their hearts, would have a much stronger love for and appreciation of their liberties. But, as it is, I am afraid the people regard such crimes as mere mischief inherent in democracy and would be shocked at the very suggestion that a criminal politician is comparable in evil to a murderous nut who killed three persons. The citizens of this: country seem to believe that the good old democratic system can support forever any burden of graft, wilful impairment and discredit that can be loaded upon it. In this sense they connive at. the attack on the democratic system and their own liberties. ; Homer Cummings and Edgar Hoover, with the help of the press, have changed the attitude of the country toward the hoodlums who for a long time were glamorized in the public imagination. They aré now regarded as rodent enemies of society, but the thiev-

ing, grafting, sabotaging politician and officeholder

is still honored as a sort of Robin Hood. ‘

Business By John T. Flynn » Economists Draft Recovery Plan With U. S. as Heaviest Investor.

N= YORK, Dec. 2.—Seven young economists, from Harvard and Tufts Colleges, have fabricated a program for economic recovery “for American democracy.” It appears in a small book just published. As in 1931-32 a stream of programs for rehabilitating America now pours out upon our desks. This -is the most interesting:I have seen chiefly because it comes from the hands of men who understand the anatomy of the capitalist system. , "The program is based upon the theory that the continuing functioning of the capitalist system requires a continuing flow of investments. The authors

point out quite properly that this means that private

industry as a whole must pay out in capital and operating expenditures more than it receives back in prices. Strange as this may seem, it is true. Private industry has ceased to do this because capital investment almost has come to an end. Therefore these gentlemen ground their plan upon the proposition that the Government must step in and become the great investor. The whole ‘problem, therefore, is to organize and finance a vast Government investment program which ‘will be permanent.

Not Afraid of Borrowing

Here is the program. (1) A 50-year program of rebuilding America—its houses, starting with homes for the slum dwellers. (2) A vast expansion of our recreational facilities. (3) Great projects to modernize our traffic facilities. (4) Conservation of resources, particularly soil, through reforestation and fire pro-

| tection: engineering works to retard surface erosion,

and a national program of river and dam co-ordina-tion for flood control. (5) National program of educational and health éxpansion. : On the welfare side they would extend old-age benefits to all classes, abolish the old-age reserve account and reorganize unemployment benefits to include all workers. Si They advocate both taxation and borrowing. They insist tax revenues can be expanded enormously by putting an end to existing evasions and by abolishing tax-exempt securities. This rising tide of taxes to pay interest they dismiss with the proposition that this can be rendered harmless if the bond ownershi is spread among all the people. Sr They urge an end of trust busting, The Government should regulate those that can be regulated by controlling prices and should take over those which do not yield to regulations. It should take over the railroads, regulate prices of great basic industries and try both regulation and ownership of utilities.

A Woman's Viewpoint

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

" ARRIAGE and Careers” was one topic discussed at the Woman's Vocational Conference at Ohio State University. I agree with wise Dean Gaw that the word “career” is often misleading.

Few men and far fewer women actually have careers. What they all want, of course, is work. And work outside the home can be and often is the same sort of drudgery as washing dishes or changing diapers. ; A friend who works with a social agency told me a story recently that. illustrates my point. It seems a dejected man had come to her for help. He previously had been employed as gardener for a wealthy man, earning the handsome wage of $175 a month, with a rent-free cottage in which he lived ‘with his wife and four small children. “But what happened?” asked my friend. “Why couldn’t you get along on that?” To which he responded that he supposed it was because his wife was away from home so much that everything went to rack and ruin. :

“Away—where?” ET turned out that the wife had

got a job as janitress in a downtown office building “But what did.

and for a while made $75 a month. she mean, leaving four small children to take a job

‘| as janitress?” ;

“Well,” replied the despondent husband, “I dunno. I suppose she is like other women. She wanted & career.” 3 It is deplorable that housework nowadays requires so little mental effort, especially in the circles where the college woman most often moves. before a girl flings away the chance of marriage for a “career,” I. - she must be sure

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The Hoosier Forum | disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

CALLS ON SULLIVAN TO CLEAN UP DEMOCRATS

By Model T Democrat

and not a makeshift subterfuge. It must be a new deal, with the right in the rank and file to cut the cards after they are shuffled by the bosses and before they are dealt. Nothing else will suffice.

to do so, the late arrivals in the party and the streamliners made it dificult for the old-time Model T Democrats to be very enthusiastic about keeping in control an organization dominated by them with such arrogance. Their utter disre-

should prevail in intra-party matters affronted, disgusted and disheartened thousands of loyal adherents of the Democratic Party. Mayor Sullivan can and will, if the organization permits him, correct these abuses and build up the party for 1940. Loyal Democrats, who want the party to survive and not disintegrate in- this crucial period of the country’s history, wish Mayor Sullivan well and hope he will take the party reins in his own hands and cleanse its organization of the abuses that have well nigh wrecked it in. Marion County.

ya = THINKS REPUBLICANS SHOULD KEEP PLEDGES By B. F.

Mr. Bobbitt, at a recent Republican meeting, urged the newly elected Republican officials to keep all pre-election promises made by them to the voters. He said the people had demanded a new kind of honest government. It is nice to know that Mr. Bob-

hold party leaders to sworn promises. This declaration of principle has lightened many hearts. The old people of Indiana are

| waiting for that $200 per month pension—or is it to be $30 every|.

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PLEADS FOR RIGHTS OF MINORITIES By Joseph TC. Wallace

. The Republican candidates for the State House of Representatives from Marion County were defeated by an average of 7371 votes. They now seek to hold: the election over again by placing the decision as to the result for representatives from Marion County with the Republican controlled House of Representatives. If the House should vote strictly along partisan lines, it would seat the Republicans even though they lost by more than 7000 votes. If this procedure were followed to its ultimate conclusion, no minority members could ever be seated if the majority did not permit it. This would lead to complete one-party government, regardless of the desires of the electorate,

Marion County democracy needs | a new deal, But it must be genuine|

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bitt is a strict taskmaster, and will |’

(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.)

TOLERANCE ON UPGRADE INU. 8, IS VIEW By Bull Mooser, Crawfordsville It is surprising how the man on the street today is aroused over the persecution of the Jews in Europe. And if he is not aroused over the oppression of the Jews, then he’s aroused over the fate of Spain, China or Czechoslovakia. Good fellowship and tolerance of race differences is in the air in America as it has never been before. The experiences of the rest of the world in hatred and intolerance has stamped its lesson upon us. We have gotten our lesson cheaply, but let us hope not too cheaply to remember. ® » 8 SUGGESTS COMMISSION FOR RESETTLEMENT By Boris J. Friedkiss There can be little argument that Herbert Hoover, the World War Food Administrator and ex-Presi-dent of the United States, is best fitted to head a Resettlement Commission for German Refugees.

As the refugees consist of Jews, Catholics and Protestants, the other

WE'LL MEET AGAIN By VELMA M. FRAME I know some day on a far-flung shore We'll meet again, just as before; You’ll smile the same old pleasant

way; we'll alk of our dreams of yesteray.

of a Sime long past when just we ‘two Created a world we alone knew; Through “sorrow and pain you smiled your way, : Your smile brought the sun with it ; each day.

I wouldn't change an hour in the life we knew, . If we could live it back . . . just we .twoy c : So when we meet on that far-flung _shore, We'll live it anew, forevermore!

DAILY THOUGHT

The secret of the Lord is with them that fear Him; and He will Show them His covenant.—Psalms 25:14, : ;

IF is only the fear of God that can , deliver us from the fear of man.—Witherspoon.

members of the commission should be representatives of the Catholic and Jewish faiths. Hon. Alfred E. Smith is an outstanding Catholic layman, honored

| by the Pope and one who well knows

the meaning of bigotry. His executive experience as Governor of New York State well fits him for the formidable task.

If Mr. Justice Brandeis of the United States Supreme Court should feel that he has the strength for the task, he would add to this commission his rich experiences and unusual ability. 2 2 =n URGES FREEDOM FOR ALL MENTAL VAGRANTS By a Taxpayer Seventy-five out of one hundred, according to Dr. Myers, are not insane. Why should the 75 people suffer the pain and hardships of staying in the Psychopathic Ward, which is nothing more than a prison, where a policeman stands at the door, and where the windows are barred with iron? ward at ‘the City Hospital should be abolished and save the taxpayers thousands of dollars. The judge who liberated those two women should have the sheriff bring in all who are confined in the above places on ° charges of mental vagrancy, and turn them out and give them their freedom. Also, according to Dr. Bahr of the Central State Hospital, there are many there who are not insane, and why should they be deprived of their liberty and justice? This should be of interest to every citizen in this city and state.

8 ” 2 DIVORCE REFORM STUDIED IN OHIO By B. C.

Social problem No. 1 of the U. 8. is- divorce. Of uncommon interest

period” between the hearing of a divorce suit and the final granting of a decree. This plan is now before Dean Arant of the Ohio University Law School, as chairman of a special committee on revision of Ohio marriage and divorce laws. : No divorce case could be heard until four months after the filing of the petition. Then an additional three or four months should be provided for reconsideration and reflection before issuance of the decree. Here is a thoughtful approach to a problem which now seems governed by the vagaries of the wind or the tides of the sea. Four months is not too long a time for deliberation on the part of a man and woman who have vowed their allegiance for the duration of their entire ' life. The country will be watching Dean Arant’s committee and the recommendation ‘of the plan should be the cause of some rejoicing among the serious-minded

people of the nation.

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LET'S EXPLORE YOUR

—By DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM

LEADING EDUCATOR ASSERTS MOST

PEOPLE ARE GT) PID AD EDUCATION WILL NOT RAISE THE MENTAL LEVEL

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without her seeing them—although

she sees most of them all right. But

when they are absorbed in looking a Peak or icebergs or the

MIND

TRUE, provided you define what " you mean by “stupidity” and by “mental level.” Present indications are that about one-half of the Amer-

ican and Canadian peoples could

go through high school—a pretty high mental level. Probably 15 out of every 100 could go through college—a very high mental level. If all people who are too low in learning ability to learn high school subjects—which is not the only kind of learning ability—are called “stupid,” then we have a good many in that grade. Education, of course, will not raise the inborn learning capacity of the race but we already have a vast deal of capacity that is not ing used. ® 8 8 : NO. Man has a mind, but as a rule, he uses it only when he has to. Using the mind is hard work and man is by nature a hunting, fishing, fighting, singing, dancing, playing animal who hates work and gets out of all of it he can and loves to live by his emotions. Probably three-fourths of your every-day acts are carried on by unconscious habit or else are pure emotional reactions and drives for which you could not give the remotest reason wanted to act

| growing South American trade.

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Gen. Johnson Says".

Mr. Hull Could Make Good Case For U. S. at Lima by Stressing Superiority Claims of Nazi-Fascists,

ASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 2—Yesterday, we dis cussed the question of whether political propa= ganda or the threat of force on anything except the ancient principles of good trade practice would prevail in the coming struggle between the dictatorships and ; the democracies for fhe rich and The conclusion was that only good business principles would prevail. But we cannot overlook the effect of the constant

stream of political propaganda being pumped into South America by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. In this, however, successful as it may seem, there is

Both countries are stressing their insistence on racial purity within their borders. In Germany especially none but Aryans are to be permitted. There is no such thing as an Aryan race. The Nazis meant that only descendants of the old German tribes are fit for their association. is goes in the religious field also. The Catholic faith is condemned because its church is international. With them there is no brotherhood of man but only brotherhood of Germans.

2 ” ” ERR HITLER openly has A contempt of

the democracies, of all other races and of the Roman church. In Signor Mussolini's country those are so many Catholics that he couldn't openly pull this line, and also the Vatican is in Italy. Furthermore, his people are far from being blond beasts, nevertheless, he, t0o, is harping on the string of Italian racial superiority and the pure Italian strain—whatever that may be. Now this is the atmosphere in which is being lsunched the Fascist and Nazi wooing of Latin Amer= ca. : . Those countries, like our own, have been mixing and melting pots for all the races of mankind. The foundation strain of nearly all is native Indian blood —80 per cent in Mexico, for example. With this, in varying quantities in different countries, has been mixed large doses of French, Spanish, Portuguese, English, German and Negro blood and lesser portions from every race that walks the earth.

y » ” ” ! URTHER, the faith of all of them is largely Roman Catholic. None knows and recognizes any good old German God. Nearly all are, or pretend to be, democe racies. !

In spite of all this, every one of these peoples is proud of its country and most of them are intensely nationalistic.

These are circumstances in which Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini seek their friendship, favor, associa bon and commerce. It boils down to something like 5: J “Your ancestors were inferiors and your religion is a fake. Your forms of government are inefficient, if not worthless, and we despise and condemn them. Yet in spite of all that we love you. We want to improve your lot on our own models. We seek your friendship, your trade and alliance. Love us or we may beat you into a pulp.” : If we shun anything that smells of this attitude we should have a long head start in the contest. It pig be a good text for Mr. Hull's opening remarks a a.’ :

It Seems to Me

By Heywood Broun

There Is Much to Be Said on Defense And Both Sides Should Be Heard,

EW YORK, Dec. 2—Complete pacifists and con= firmed militarists have a right to be heard, but I hope that discussion of national defense is not going to be restricted entirely to these groups. Both sides have ready access to publicity, and they possess spokesmen who say the things which look well in print. But there are a number of technical problems to come up. i’ Once I was on a steamer which was having a fight with a submarine, and it seemed to me that there were two types of passengers who were not particularly helpful. One crowd raised a great commotion and shouted that we were about to be sunk any second, and they were just about drowned out by a rival faction which kept up a loud yell. “There isn’t any danger!” As things turned out, both sides were less than wholly accurate. So in the present jittery state of the world I don’t think that we ought to say, “Done and done,” whenever any general or big scrapiron man ounces that we must have the biggest Army or Navy in the world and that we should bend every eos to completing the program in the next few months,

Oceans Are Not Enough

Even when the need of airplanes is brought to public attention I don’t think -it is unreasonable for some inquiring reporter to try to ascertain whether the author of the remarks has some special brand of his own to sell. ; : And yet I would copper this position completely with the expression of my own belief that much harm may be done by the sincere and pious who think that no problem confronts us save the necessity of giving thanks for the existence of a couple of oceans. It would help a great deal if everybody on both sides of the armament problem would cease calling names and trying to put adversaries in a hole. Perhaps somebody is hiding up a tree who truly wants us to send an expeditionary force abroad to die in foreign fields. But I have not met anyone who ane nounces that as his intention. Surely it is a good deal less than fair to say that | the man who suggests greater strength in American antiaircraft equipment is opening the door for the boys to go to France all over again. And it is unjust to hint that someone who speaks in very broad pacifist terms is secretly an agent of a foreign power. .

Watching Your Health By Dr. Morris Fishbein

FTER a child or an adult has recovered from a fairly long term of illness, it is not desirable that he get up and try to go about his daily work at once, The mere disappearance of the fever and the depres= “sion associated with illness is not an indication that the patient is well. Indeed at this time he is pare ticularly susceptible to infection. Moreover, the physical state of the nervous system, the digestive system, and the other organs is such that a slight extra stress may result in breakdown. For this reason, convalescence after any serious illness should be slow; the activities of daily life should not be un= dertaken until the physician is convinced that the patient is again in the best of physical condition. As soon as possible after recovery has begun, it may be desirable to change the patient from the room in which he has been living and to give him oppor=tunity to see other portions of the house if he is at home, or perhaps to spend some time on a sun porch or in a recreation room if he is in a hospital. Although visitors may have been forbidden dur ing the illness, an occasional visitor may come to the patient. The choice of visitors is of the utmost im portance because the maintenance of the patient's morale is vital, Only visitors should be permitted who are cheerful and entertaining, and none of them should be permitted to stay long. Unfortunately, there are some people who come te enjoy invalidism. This attitude is enhanced by visitors who are overly sympathetic and whose Jools tone tends to induce the patient to make much of suf-

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