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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1938

LOOKING AHEAD "THIS world seems to save its richest rewards for the : foresighted people. Strangely, though most of us know ‘this, not all are willing to look ahead to anything except ~ regret over lost opportunities. "Those persons must run into uncounted millions who, _ as children, decided they didn’t want to learn music. They couldn’t foresee the day when the knowledge would have been a deep and abiding pleasure. Perhaps that is asking too much of any human foresight. i ia : But there are others of us who can’t get around to ordering coal until the snow is flying. Another legion— _and here we begin to get to the point—fiddle around and procrastinate and dillydally about Christmas shopping. Despite every lesson of the year before, we manage to tear around at the last minute, wearing tempers and salespeople to a frazzle, fighting for what wiser shoppers have left of the Christmas merchandise. ’ ~~ We jam the postoffice with last-minute mailings. We fret under the knowledge that our gifts can hardly be delivered by Christmas. Then we worry for weeks over the appropriateness of the selections we made in our final desperation. By such means do we transform a season of joy and peace into a struggle to undo the penalties of procrastination. ; Is this state of affairs inevitable? For some, perhaps it is. But for wiser ones, the merchants of Indianapolis are providing a powerful incentive to save time, money, worry and regrets. : Christmas is only 18 shopping days away. Certainly not too far away to get a head start toward more enjoyment. It can be done by seizing the opportunities which the stores are now presenting. . Shopping is a pleasant exercise if only it is undertaken ‘leisurely. It becomes a task under the stress of frenzied necessity. Everybody gains, but none so much as yourself, if you begin today the admirable habit of looking ahead.

LONG WINTER AHEAD

"THOSE of us who were hoping to be out of the recount trenches by Christmas seem doomed to disappointment. The recount commissioners have just ordered five tons of

coal. - If this sort of thing keeps up, we'll have to start calling it Marion Recounty.

MARK FERREE.

Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

Mr. Ickes Unpleasant at Times, | But if Chicagoans Are Ready for A Reform Mayor He's Their Man. |

EW YORK, Dec. 3.—In the current “Who's Who,” Harold L. Ickes gives his residence as Winnetka, IIL, but this petty technicality could hardly deter a New Dealer from running for Mayor of Chicago. The intimation that he might, coming from his office in Washington, is highly stimulating. Surely the Chicago Tribune could not object on this ground, although it surely would on many others, For the Tribune itself, with a - Hitlerite appetite for territory and anschluss, long ago projected a map of an imaginary realm which it calls Chicagoland, extending from a point beyond Milwaukee on the north, past Des Moines on the west and including St. Louis, Indianapolis and the outskirts of Detroit. In the racial sense, therefore, Mr. Ickes may claim to be almost a pure Chicagoan, with just a trace of suburban blood in his veins, Chicagoland is vast and as yet unconquered, but great batches of Sudetens, as they might be called, in communities far from the city borders, have been heartened by propaganda on the air and in print for years to endure exile bravely until that happy day when Col. McCormick will rescue them from Hoosier and Hawkeye oppressors and unites them in the proud and privileged bond of Chicagoness. # 8 = he : PF the political feasibility of the Ickes candidacy I know nothing, but certainly stranger and much worse things have happened in Chicago. Mr. Ickes is a down-the-line New Dealer, and would seem to deserve the President’s support, should he really want the job. He is also ornery, disagreeable and socially bilious and in a campaign would present the unique spectacle of a man snarling, not smiling, at the crowds, a man not begging for office but condescending to serve. . ; : Yet by such a campaign, the only sort of a campaign that Mr. Ickes, with his nature, is capable of waging, he just might whip Chicago into a rage against itself for guilty submission in times past and against the whole evil procession of knaves who have

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of. JUST SERVE ME THE FACTSFIRST! ,

robbed the city of government and civic self-respect. That, incidentally, was Hitler's early method. He insulted them; he called them slaves, fools and worms. and rasped them with his scorn for enduring ignominy.- : ; x x 8 ” » HE people of Chicago have had so much of hand-

shakers and robbery that recently there have

The Hoosier Forum

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

been murmurs of a yearning for not a dictator, of course, but a mean reformer, whose wrath would know no brother, not even an alderman. Mr. Ickes would be mean enough. He can be guaranteed not to steal, although he might sleep in

the office to save room rent, and he won’t let anyone else steal a dollar because he will count up in person, lock the safe and cock the trap-gun every night before turning in. Of course, under Mr. Ickes, it might be worth a man’s life to try to enter a State St. department store through the picket lines or ride the “L” through the showers of half-bricks from the chimneys along the line, for he wouldn’t abhor a little harmless labor mischief in the general shaking up. But if it is reform they want in Chicago, a Mayor who would clean out every seam and cranny of the flea-bag known as the City Hall, honest Harold, the house dick of the New Deal, is: their man.

OPPOSES JEWISH HAVEN IN AFRICA By Bull Mooser, Crawfordsville

If we are looking for a solution

of Jewish persecutions, why send the Jews to Africa? Isn't Africa just as much (if not more) a hotbed of European politics as Europe itself? Isn't it a battleground of German, French, British and Ifalian diplomacy?’ :

If we settle the Jews in Africa,

how long before the European persecutions will follow them there? What assurance is there that their future European masters in Africa will be more humane than their present Europe?

European masters in

If we are sincere in our wish to

Business

By John T. Flynn

Proposed Change in Neutrality Act Would Reverse Existing War Policy.

EW YORK, Dec. 3.—It is now obvious that the Administration intends to step out into interna-

protect the oppressed Jews, why not help them to get to South America, where they will be under the protection of our Monroe Doctrine? Moreover, sending these Jews to South America might solve a problem for our State Department. Our ambassadors down there have been complaining that the Latins have no taste for small business and industry and that, as a result, the Nazis and Fascists are immigrating there

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from the injections than when given to older children. For this reason physicians advise that immunization procedures be done during the first year of the child’s life, Immunization may be carried out in any order, or may be arranged at the discretion of the physician. It is suggested to immunize first against those diseases which are responsible for the greater number of illnesses and serious complications in infants and younger children. og Two of the most important diseases to receive the early consideration are smallpox and: diphtheria. - For details of these preventable diseases the family physician should be consulted.

cause for thought; and I am “taking it out on you,” as I have enjoyed many of your editorials, and feel you are fair-minded. I am not a reactionary, and I am not a New Dealer. I simply try to keep to the middle of the road, and do not care what the name of the party is, as long as we have good government, When you speak of “Back to 1932,” I cannot help wondering, in view of personal observation, if that would be so terrible. We still have a depression; many people's savings and investments of the old days are gone, with little coming in to augment them; taxes are higher; there is labor trouble, class hatred; as many people reported to be out of work; huge governmental costs; a constant war on business that can keep people profitably employed, if given a chance; small business men having to close their doors ‘because of unfair taxation (good old gross income); and a staggering national debt that will be a milestone around the neck of people’ as well as incoming Presidents for years to come. Not such a glowing picture, is it?

Gen. Johnson 1Says—

U.S. Reattmament Plans Useless Unless Full Consideration Is Given ~ To Part Modern Plane Will Play.

|/ ASHINGTON, Dec. 3—A new element has en- : tered the art of war and it is that alone which already has changed the map of Europe and shaken the world with jitters. That new element is, of course, the tremendous advance in airplane design and

| efficiency.

As a matter of fact, it is an almost completely unknown quantity. Battle between massed modern air armadas has yet to occur. In that sense Herr

‘Hitler's bulldozing of Europe and Signor Mussolini's

deflance of the whole British fleet in Ethiopia were pure bluff. : "But, on paper at least, it is a persuasive if not a compelling bluff.” The theoretical case made by the enthusiastic aviation experts is appalling. It amounts almost to this—that there is no defense against air bombing attacks in mass. - This claim rests oh the circumstances of incredible speed and the fact that, unlike a ship or an army moving in two horizontal dimensions of the surface of the sea or land—length and breath—the airplane also has the immense depth of the sky in which to maneuver. en : :

» 2 ” FF giant bombers speeds of 250 miles an hour exist and speed of 300 are expected. At the latter speed an enemy and a friendly ship would be approaching each other at a rate of 600 miles per hour— 10 miles a minute—nearly 300 yards a second. At a

target moving so rapidly, what chance has either to register a hit on the other with any known weapon? Almost none. Any man who ever pulled a trigger on a moving target knows that. : ; Such speeds also bottle up defense from the ground. Airplanes on the ground must have sufficient warning to be manned, started and to climb into the air—as much as 15 minutes anyway. In 15 minutes the attack could move 75 miles. It is possible that listening posts more than 75 miles away could give a warning. But in Spain the practice of attack has been to approach at the plane’s uttermost ceiling, as much as

20,000 feet, and then to drift in, losing altitude with- 1

out a sound. Antiaircraft guns must also have warning and time to be manned and put in action. With these great speeds and altitudes, these guns also have a very difficult target. : : ” 8 ” INALLY, the argument is made that, with such

speeds, equal on both sides, and all the heavens

ih which to maneuver, the attack can be conducted

with a force inferior to the defense because it need never join any battle it desires to avoid: It can veer and disappear at -the first sight of superior force in

the air. : - From private advices, I hear that what forced British action at Munich was information that the Germans were prepared to send over London one hundred bombers an hour for 24 hours. London is the heart of England with one-third of her population and onethird of her resources. It is the biggest and easiest target in the world for bombers and only 350 miles from Germany by air. : This is one side of the story. It is doubtless exaggerated. In the whole history of war, inventions and advances on the offensive have always been overtaken by the defensive. Defensive measures have not been discussed here. The considerations governing an air attack among the short distances and crowded nations of Europe are not our consideration. How‘ever, in preparing our vast rearmament program, it behooves us to know exactly what we are doing.

It Seems to Me By Heywood Broun

Father Coughlin Probably Sincere,

But Seems Careless About Facts.

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tional affairs and play an aggressive role. If any |in hordes and taking over these We. shouldn’t be too derisive of

HE best news out of Washington we have read in a long time is that Dr. Herman Oliphant, educator, economist, ~ general counsel of the Treasury Department, is no longer . writing the ticket in the Administration’s tax policies. : The man mentioned as the one to be henceforth the Administration’s spokesman on tax policies is John W. Hanes, Undersecretary of the Treasury. Mr. Hanes has had considerable experience as a business man and a taxpayer. Hence his approach is entirely different from that of Dr. Oliphant. : We don’t know what kind of a tax program Mr. Hanes ‘may have in mind, but since his principal idea is to encourage business—and not to punish all businessmen for the sins of a few—it is safe to assume that he will not propose anything resembling Dr. Oliphant’s undistributed profits tax, which did so much to turn the New Deal’s earlier “recovery into a recession. And assuming that Mr. Hanes’ plan will be one which

doubt lingers in any mind on that subject the appar-

ent intention of the President to scrap the Neutrality Act should remove it. : Of course we are not told that we are to do a little world policing. We are merely told that the President is going to attempt to “amend” the Neutrality Act. The plan as reported is that the President has approved an amendment to the Neutrality Act which will permit him to embargo shipments to aggressor countries. _ Maybe we should do this. Doubtless many good Americans think that we should. But at least we ought to be frank with ourselves about it and know precisely what we are doing. Because it is a very serious step. It is a complete reversal of our international policy. And it is loaded with dynamite. Hence we will be very foolish if we attempt to disguise what we are doing under innocent-looking words. The last word we should use is “neutrality.” We have a neutrality act. The policy of that act is to keep severely out of quarrels between other nations. It is based upon the well-founded fear that if two other nations go to war and we attempt to supply them with munitions, to make a profit out of the war trade, we will get into trouble and possibly war, At least that is the way we got into the last war.

fields.

The. refugee Jews are mostly all

artisans and small businessmen. Why not send them to South America?

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DR. HARVEY URGES EARLY IMMUNIZATION

By Dr. Verne K. ~ Board Director

Harvey, State Health

The purpose of this article is to

outline a few methods of immunization used in protecting infants and young children against the dangers of prevalent diseases in childhood. During the first six months of life, a breast-fed child usually receives some measure of protection from the mother’s milk, against these diseases. weaned, this protection is lost and the child becomes more susceptible to infection.

When the infant is

Beginning with about the sixth

month of life, infants should be

protected against acute infectious

WELL, FRANKLY, WE'VE BEEN CONFUSED, TOO By R. W. Weber

Will somebody tell me what in the name of goodness all these election recounts are about? ) I started to read about them shortly after election. First came threats of recounts. Then formal requests for recounts. Then petitions for injunctions, pleas, counter pleas in such a dizzy procession that I'm hopelessly confused. ; I really wonder if any of the candidates themselves know any more what all this recount business is about. ante Please don’t print any more about recounts. ; ”» ” ”

THINKS RETURN TO 1932 NOT SO BAD

By Interested Reader Your editorial, “The Old Guard Never Learns,” gave me considerable

the du Ponts either, in respect to the President and his family. Think these things over before condemning 1932, as I am sure you'll come to the conclusion that by comparison it makes a very good showing with 1936. Our six-year remedy hasn't worked much of a cure, has it?

2 2 { THINKS KENNEDY SHOULD BE RECALLED By E. R. Stephens ; So Joseph Patrick Kennedy, that brave broth of a lad from Boston, was not one to be taken in by the British, was he? 1It|looks like the boy is not only making pretty little speeches for Mr. Chamberlain but is doing chores for him as well. Now, when an Irish-American begins trotting at the heels of the British Premier isn’t it about time to call him home and let him start writing his memoirs? 2 ”

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EW YORK, Dec. 3.—I wonder why everybody is so kind to Father Coughlin. It has not seemed to me that the reputation of the kindly cleric for 100 per cent reportorial accuracy is beyond the margin of an occasional error. Naturally this is not intended to cast any reflection upon his sincerity and desire to

promulgate nothing but a faithful historical record of

the days which are past and those’which are still to come. But no mortal man, however dedicated to good works, can see the future clear and entire. It is possible to question the words of a prophet as to the shape of things to come. At least, that has been the custom. : As far as generalizations go, Royal Oak has a right to his opinions, even though to some of us they seem deplorable. But he has not been wholly content to confine himself to the formula

of “This I think” or “In my judgment.” Upon occasion

he has attempted to back up a theory with the supporting testimony of “This I know to be a fact.” And several times his source material has been proved to be a broken reed.

Let Freedom Ring

Father Coughlin has been shrewd or fortunate enough to beat his adversaries to the punch. His

the clergyman from

Therefore the act provides that when the war starts the President shall proclaim the fact and thereafter we shall ship to neither. That is neutrality.

Alternative Is to Take Sides There is another doctrine—the exact opposite of

LAUDS ROOSEVELT’S IDEAS OF JUSTICE By Morris Peternick Our President, F. D. Roosevelt, is the first man on this North Ameri-

diseases by immunization. The immunization is accomplished by giving one or more doses of immunizing agent, which consists of the killed organisms causing the disease, or a modified toxin or virus

original statements have been given generous space in many prominent papers. The denials have been spotted in about the same position, but no denial ever catches up with an affirmation. . The head of the “United States Secret Service” has

‘will encourage business on to a greater and greater volume, thereby producing larger and larger revenues for the Government, it is interesting to speculate hopefully on what

AMITY By ANNA F. YOUNG

There is one cherished flower In my garden of friends,

that might do toward balancing the Federal budget. ‘We'll do the speculating on the basis of the present tax structure. This year our country’s national income will be

neutrality. That doctrine is to be un-neutral, propose: to take sides. It proposes to permit this

(smallpox), produced by the organism. The prophylaxis or protective agent is generally given by injec-

It

As its fragrance is scattered ° It all subtly blends

Into thoughts that are priceless,

can continent who is trying to inaugurate the essential teachings of Christianity by impelling elemental justice in everyday life.

been quoted as saying that there is nothing in the archives of his department to lend support to the statement of Father Coughlin that the Russian Reve olution was financed by “international Jewish banke

country to weigh the guilt in the event of war between two nations and then put ourselves on the side of one of them by refusing to sell to the aggressor— the guilty nation. ~The President plans to “amend” the Neutrality Act to put that power into his hanlds. He wishes to change the act to empower him to decide who is the guilty party in the war and, having made that decision, to put the American economic machine on the side of the innocent and against the guilty—or on the side which the President sympathizes with. If we are to go in for such a policy, would it not be the course of prudence to leave that decision to

tion into the loose tissue of the body where it causes the least disturbance. Since the greater prevalence of the diseases of childhood occurs during the preschool age, it is advisable to begin active immunization at six months of age and give an active immunity or protection to the child. During those early years, young children probably continue to have a certain degree of immunity which was acquired from the mother, and

| ers,” but millions of people have read or heard the original declaration who have yet to become acquainted with the correction. Several famous anti-Semitic forgeries such as the Protocols of Zion and the Benjamin Franklin letter, have been denied over and over again by scholars worthy of belief, and yet they go merrily on their way. And so I wonder whether the right of free speech or free press actually is impaired if anybody should say, “This man has a right to say this, but I have an equal right not to print it if all the information in my hands shows that the statement is based upon information which is fallacious.” Freedom should ring

Bathed in memory’s dew It was planted and cared for In my garden—by you!

DAILY . THOUGHT And there was no more war unto the five and thirtieth year of the reign of Asa.—II Chronicles 15:19.

‘a little more than 60 billion dollars, and of that tax laws now on the books will rake in about five billions in revenue. Our Government is spending this year some three billions more than that. : ; But a larger business volume, building the national income up to 70 billions (about what we had in 1937), our statisticians tell us, would produce, on the present tax basis, revenues in excess of 614 billions. National income of 80

May good fortune follow him! ” ” 2 .

RUSSIA URGED AS HAVEN FOR JEWS By James Carlyle : Why is nothing said about locating the Jewish refugees in BiroBidjan? When Russia founded this colony it said as for Jews. The territory is large and is not well populated. Rather than Palestine or Africa it would offer an

EACE is the happy, natural state of man; war, his corruption, his

billions (almost the 1929 figure) would produce revenues of nearly 814 billions. National income of 90 billions would produce more than 10 billions revenue. And a hundred-billion-dollar national income would mean more than “12 billions revenue. : If that is the direction we are headed, then truly our public debt will be something we can handle. And we think ‘Mr. Hanes is right in wanting to start now.

INO FALSE MODESTY T HERE is, as he says, nothing coy about Secretary Ickes. or Some of his admirers are urging him to leave the Roosevelt Cabinet, his post as Public Works Administrator, _ to become Mayor of Chicago. And Mr. Ickes, questioned about the matter, doesn’t blush or stammer or hang his head. He comes right out and says that it strikes him as a good idea. ) This doesn’t necessarily mean that he will run for Mayor. Mr. Ickes makes no secret of his opinion that he’s doing a pretty swell job right where he is. In addition, though active in reform politics for 40 years, he has never yet demonstrated his ability to get himself elected to office. There is the further small consideration that he isn’t, at present, a legal resident of Chicago. But this much can be said now, that if the Secretary 8 become a candidate the campaign will be interesting.

ckes, but not that he lacks vigor, honesty or courage. And, come to think of it, a Mayor with those qualities to be precisely what Chicago needs. =~ oh x: ;

| tolerance quotient, and many an intelligent man

Congress or the people who will have to fight the

therefore experience less disturbance. disgrace.—~Thompson.

outlet for the refugees.

war if war begins?

A Woman's Viewpoint

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

1 CL BRANCE. It is a word that rolls glibly from the tongue—glibly and often these days, when the world ‘stands aghast at the wrongs inflicted by

Intolerance and Bigotry. The pitiful plight of the Jews in Germany has stirred the sleeping consciousness of civilization and may be the means of bringing about that moral rearmament which Mr. Hoover so aptly asks for, i : Today, one feels proud to belong to the newspaper profession, for no editorial office has been too small to voice its protest against what is happening in Naziland. The heart of America is stirred—and enough, I hope, to induce us to sit in judgment upon our individual and private intolerances. : We all have them. Little pet prejudices they are at first, which grow into mass hatreds that bring on international scandals, until man finally becomes so vile he can scarce abide himself, Now is a good time, I think, for each of us to ask himself the question—‘How tolerant am I?” Am I ready always to grant my neighbors of other races or colors the same civil rights I ask for myself? Do I live and vote in a city where the Negro population is housed in hovels not fit for animals, and remain unmoved by the fact? Am I willing to grant to the people of other religions the same freedom of thought and speech I wish for those of my own faith? Do I hold with the group that demands the removal of women from industry during periods of depression? : This sort of a test might show a pretty low general

would flunk the last question. For, although he may be’ reasonable and just upon all matters save those which involve women’s rights of citizenship, he is sometimes strangely obtuse and obdurate on that particular subject. a Fi etl gh |

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anarchy going. about

LET'S EXPLORE YOUR MIND

By DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM : |

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‘YOU DON'T SAY SO. ILwonder(what? We have no proof that womhow this wise man knows all this. There is a good deal of moral ia wee bit more “dominance of womjust now—but|an” in the formerly,

en are to blame. Perhaps there is air now

also more co-operativeness, more creative companionship than ever before. Anyhow I just.can’t get het up over the approaching chaos. 2 2 =» : THE INDICATIONS tend toward that conclusion, Groves and Ogburn, two eminent sociologists, show that in those cities where the most woman are employed, the ‘marriage rate is the ‘lowest. They think this indicates that when women earn their own money it tends to delay marriage and, in some cases, discourages it altogether. We all know of salaried women who prefer

1 single blessedness, even when they {have had excellent offers of mar-

is s = = : I DON'T THINK SO. Where ‘women have gone out as soldiers they have fought as desperately and bravely as men. Moreover, there is

male of the species is more cruel than the male.” However, if women ran the world, as some women advocate, I rather think they would seldom go to war. I hardly believe they would get up- the nationalistic ambitions and other causes of war that

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Watching Your Health

By Dr. Morris Fishbein

EOPLE often wonder whether men who have done much rowing, running, swimming, or played much basketball, football or baseball are likely to have heart disease later in life. - In those sports in which the muscular activity lasts for along time, as, for example, in rowing, in longdistance swimming.or running, the heart is likely to be large in relationship to the size of the body. Some authorities feel, however, that the men are able to do the athletics because they have large hearts rather than that they have large hearts because of the

athletics. : Well-controlled athletics will never harm a heart

that is normal and healthy. The chief danger to the

athlete, as to everyone else, is the danger that he will undertake his athletic activities too soon after he has had a severe cold, influenza, pneumonia or some other illness. : Obviously, it is of the greatest importance that every person who indulges in athletics have the heart examined before undertaking serious activities. :

When an athlete gives up his muscular work bes

cause he goes into business; because he gets married or for some other reason, it is not only the heart that is subjected to new circumstances but also the body

The best advice is for the man who has been athletic to try to keep himself reasonably fit after he gives up athletics by controlling the amount of .food and drink that he takes, by continuing a reasonable amount of exercise, and suitable attention to his body, If he will watch his weight and his blood pressure and if he will have an occasional physical examina-

tion to determine whether or not the organs of the

body are functioning normally, there is no reason why

‘the athlete should not live as long as anybody else