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MONDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1938

“MAN VERSUS THE STATE 33 T is most interesting to read, one after the other, the 5... speeches of Anthony Eden in New York, and that, the next day, of Secretary Hull, thousands of miles away, in ~ Lima. Both hit the same note; both warned against a reversion to the state as the all-powerful force in human affairs; ~each points to the dangers that arise if, as Secretary Hull _8says, there should come a revival of those doctrines and {“theories which an “overwhelming majority of mankind reJected long ago,” but which now loom threateningly throughi; out the world. : ; : i “Man was not,” said Capt. Eden, “made for the state. : The state was made for man. . . . We are living through an « attempt to reverse his faith. After centuries of endeavor i! he is threatened by the state he himself created.” L ‘Involved are all those rights of individual self-expres- .. sion, those conditions under which the human personality + can live and grow—as set over against those forces which, | ‘when overexalted in the state, hold men, as Secretary Hull i says, in “bodily slavery and spiritual degeneration.” ki 8 8 8 ® » » HE curious thing today is that so many in this country, . * who sincerely believe themselves. true liberals, lean © more and more to the state as the healer of all the ailments i of our increasingly complicated civilization. Their tendency i to sneer at those who challenge every step by which, the “state encroaches on the individual is, to our way of think- \. Fling, the queerest quirk of our times. The Whig—the lib- % eral—of yesteryear was the one who opposed the state most 4 bitterly. Many who call themselves liberals now are those : who have embraced the old Tory ideal of exalting the state : over the citizen. fe Our society must grant that, as modern life grows more and more complex, Government must become more * and more the umpire. They didn’t have red and green t lights at the street corners in the horse and buggy days. {1 And each new law is a restriction on the rights of the i individual. That cannot be avoided. But expansion of Gov1 ernment, local, state or Federal, should, we think, be aci cepted as a practicality, not as a philosophy. Eternal vigil- : ance should stand against the State going beyond the umpire stage. When we transcend that, in exalting the State, we are backtracking—reviving, as Secretary Hull said, those

doctrines which civilized mankind rejected long ago. 8 8 8 2 8 =» :

F democracy is to be preserved, history must be remem- ; bered. We must not forget that Whiggism began with § resistance to Charles II in his effort to re-establish un- : checked monarchical power; that the Tory of that day was : the one who supported the divine right of the state; that : i the issue then was individual freedom versus governmental 3 coercion; and that out of all the struggle which preceded i and followed these grew the Magna Charta and the Bill of Rights—freedom of religion and of expression, right of assembly, trial by jury, guaranty against unwarranted search and seizure, and those other precious heritages ‘which we are too prone to take for granted. ~~ The only good by-product we can see of the growth of dictatorship throughout the world is the re-examination _ it is causing of what the function of the state, in a democracy, is all about. : If that re-examination shall extend to those who, liberal by instinct, are enticed back to Toryism by their very humane urge to try the state as a cure for all our troubles— if that comes to pass, then the revival of tyranny, in Germany, in Russia, in Italy, will have produced one important and benign result.

+IT'S CHEAP TO LAUGH

. H. CAMERON, director of the Works Progress Administration in Cleveland, made a speech the other : day in which he told the manufacturers’ committee of the Chamber of Commerce some wholesome truths. : Reminding his audience that the heads of 75,000 Cleve 3 land families are on WPA projects, and that at least half of them formerly were employees in Cleveland factories, Mr. t+ Cameron said: 2 “These workers are appalled by the lack of public appreciation and understanding of their efforts. ‘They are re- § sentful of the barriers erected against their efforts to return to the private employment whence they came. “When you ridicule the WPA worker and brand him as being lazy and undesirable, you are finding him guilty without trial. And worse, you are building up a dangerous class distinction.” That needs to be said again and again. The jokes about shovel-leaning WPA workers are cruelly unfair. Constructive criticism of the WPA work-relief system is legitimate. But the men and women on the projects did not invent that system, and they should not be punished for its shortcomings.

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4 tering, Gengral Motors vice president and research scientist, testifying before the O'Mahoney Monopoly Investigation ~ 4 Committee. : = Not the least element in Mr. Kettering’s genius is his 8 ability to state a difficult problem in simple terms. He has done that liere. And who can doubt that, as Mr. Kettering ‘has predicted, the American people eventually will learn how to put idle men, idle money and idle material to work producing the best times this country has ever known?

8. EAST ST. EXTENSION EXTENSION of S. East St. through Garfield Park to connect with Road 31 would seem to be a logical sequel to

Mayor Boetcher has asked the Park Board to study the : proposal. Such a study should be thorough and should inude public hearings in which South Side residents and

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Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

Study of Monroe Doctrine and Its Commitments Urged in Light of Feud Between France and Italy.

ASHINGTON, Dec. 12.—It would be a good idea ¥ to take out a copy of the Monroe Doctrine and read it again by the red glare of the Franco-Italian trouble. The people of this country would then discover that a principle which Americans have regarded as a protection against intrusion in this hemisphere by the ever-warring nations of the old world puts it up to the Americans to protect the British and French

possessions in the proscribed area. To be sure, there is an emergency exit by which this nation could escape a fight with Italy and Ger‘many- in defense of the French and British Islands ‘off the coast, French and British Guiana and British ‘Honduras. But would we use it? Probably not, because these outposts in the hands of their present owners are harmless to us, but in the possession of Italy and Germany would be guns pressed against our ribs. : The Monroe Doctrine says that “the American continents, by the free and independent condition which

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the world, and at that time Cuba, had not assumed a free and independent condition, and the French and British colonies have not done so yet. These were exceptions, but there is an implied promise by this country to prevent the capture or conveyance of these possessions, and if war comes between Italy and France as a starter, who would have the greatest interest in defending them? ; In the event of their capture by the nations of the axis or their cession to those nations by the terms of the peace Italy and Germany assuredly would colonize them, and not only that but would fortify them, garrison them and create bases for bombers and submarines and propaganda. In this manner, then, the United States becomes a military ally of France and Britain. Italy and Germany, weighing the consequence, might decide to let these possessions alone and leave their distribution to the peace conference, at which time, if they won, they might feel strong enough to challenge us for them direct, with Japan to help them on ‘the west. But in any case, these French and British colonies, so close to the United States and such ‘convenient steppingstones to Latin America, where the Mon-, roe Doctrine applies with full effect, cannot be permitted to fall into Italian or German hands. ” ” »

“W3 owe it to candor to declare that any attempt to extend their system to any portion of this hemisphere is dangerous to our peace and safety,” the Monroe Doctrine says. “With the existing colonies or dependencies of any European power we shall not interfere.” : : There have been a couple of trifiling irregularities on this country’s part in the observance of the Doctrine, notably when we interfered with the existing colonies of Spain and did intrude in a war between European powers. > Still even these lapses will not be deemed to have abrogated the main purpose of the Monroe Doctrine, The toleration of a Nazi-Fascist stronghold in Nassau, for example, hardly more than an hour by plane from Miami, would destroy the Monroe Doctrine utterly and threaten the American system of government “achieved by the loss of so much blood and treasure and matured by the wisdom” of the most enlightened citizens. : :

Business By John T. Flynn

Important Inventions Take Time, - Often Are Result of Accident.

EW YORK, Dec. 12—Charles F. Kettering, General Motor’s laboratory man and invention hunter, told the O’Mahoney Monopoly Committee in Washington that what the country needs is new industries. But what interested me most was his state‘ment that you cannot just go out.and look for new inventions and find them in a hurry. He said he had young men working on definite problems for 15 years who had not found the answer yet. In that statement lies an important fact for those who are sitting around waiting for a new invention to drag us out of the hole. I once spent a day with another man like Charles Kettering—Dr. Willis R. Whitney, retired head of the General Electric Laboratories. He said that few of the gréat epoch-making inventions were discovered by looking specifically for them. Scientists stumbled over them, often looking for something else. Flying became possible and inevitable when the gasoline motor was discovered. The man who made the motor was not thinking about flying. Radio was not discovered by men seeking directly for a means of distant communication or of broadcasting. It was an accident. When Edison discovered the incandescent lamp he was deeply troubled by a glow which appeared near the base of the filament in the lamp. He worked and others worked to get rid of that defect—they called it the Edisdn effect. They gi not know it was radio they were trying to get rid of.

Birth of the Fever Machine

At the time I talked to Dr. Whitney he had just made a strange discovery. He was experimenting with electiicity as a means of stimulating the growth of plants. Out of curiosity he subjected an egg to the small device he had constructed. It killed the egg. So he thought perhaps he had found a means of killing insect pests. He put flies in a test tube and applied his current. Thé flies died. When he ran a cold air current through the tube he found the flies came to life. Soon he discovered that what had happened to the flies was that the electricity had given them fever. In the end, what started out to be a means of stimulating the growth of plants ended in the fever machine. Some amazing invention one of these days may bob up to knock the depression in the eye. But it will probably come as unexpectedly as the X-ray, the flying machine, the radio, the fever machine. One thing is sure—invention is not done.

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

.TOMAN’S dumbness about money is proverbial— -and charming, of course. At least that’s masculine opinion. > 2 : Even in these advanced days, many husbands believe that a wife should not dabble in money matters,

although they do want one to possess enough knowledge to balance the household budget and market intelligently. : Men's attitude at this point is both inconsistent and naive, often shoving them off the deep end into

| bankruptcy. For it’s a foregone conclusion that the

woman who doesn’t understand the value of money, or how hard it is to get nowadays, won't be any magician at budgeting or saving. Encouraged to remain dumb, she may surprise him by doing so until financial disaster overtakes the family or he finds himself saddled for life to an addle-pate who can’t make change. . The average man, it may be said in passing, has very little sense about women—not half as eh as ‘he has about money—or he would begin to educate his wife on the subject the minute he marries her. Instead, he often takes the opposite tack, keeps her in the dark about his business affairs and behaves exactly as if he believed life were a gay and secure pilgrimage for women—which he knows very well it isn't. On the contrary, it has never been more precarious, and it’s a poor sort of protection any wife gets from a husband who is not ‘willing to train her to think of money in practical terms. 2 Believing that a word to the wise is sufficient, I am calling masculine attention to an excellent little handbook: called “Money Without Men,” by Ruth MacKay,

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HOOSIERS CALLED WORST DRIVERS IN U. S. By Ralph Weber

Rarely am I a contributor to public letter boxes in the newspapers, but I want to register on one subject. as vigorously and emphatically as I know how. That is on the subject of courtesy among Indianapolis = automobile drivers. I have lived in a number of cities, but nowhere have I seen a more discourteous, light-jumping crew than right here in Indianapolis. > They have little respect for young or old, and the surprise to me is that you have had only 49 pedestrians killed so far this year in your city. ! 8 85 =» : FAVORS STEEP LICENSE FOR BINGO GAMES By R. H. . Why all this “holler” about slo machines, punchboards, and so on? What about bingo games? If that isn’t gambling, I would like to know what is. : : Every night people jam into halls, churches and empty rooms to donate and then go hungry the rest of the week. I happen to be one of those businessmen who pay a $1300 a year license besides store - license, sign license, gross income tax, Social Security, etc. I am a legitimate business man and run a decent, respectable place—a beer tavern. My place, like 75 per cent of the other taverns, is practically empty every night. I abide by the law 100 per cent. If I had a punch board in my place, or any other petty amusement, I would be arrested. Why should lodges, churches an‘ clubs have bingo games and we have to struggle along trying to make a living while all this gambling goes on unmolested? Miami, Florida, charges a license of $1000 for bingo games. Why don’t they do it here? ” 2 ” £ THINKS HITLER UPSET THE APPLECART By B. C. ’

The year has been generous to the apple growers. From the lush val-

leys of the Yakima River to the

bounteous slopes of New York orchards the crop has been abundant and of excellent quality. A happy orchardist with his crop wrapped and packed was a man to be envied. And, finally, the sale of cider this year promises to be greater than ever before. ‘One man has changed the picture. In a special warning to his countrymen to avoid intoxicating liquor and alcoholic beverages, Adolf Hit ler thumped his chest a couple of times and boasted he drank only apple juice.

1 YES. Cannon, Harvard physiologist has shown that the seat of the emotions is ingthe “thalmic region”—a small area at the Base ot

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(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.)

SOUND WARNING ON WAR PROPAGANDA By E. F. Maddox The Times deserves credit for the fine, sensible editorials recently printed under the headings, “The War Build-Up,” and “Let's Not All Go Crazy.” The press and radio have the

power to keep this nation out of foreign wars or to lead us into them. There are many evils in this world which we do not like and fear of them and hatred of them is an incentive to create the war fever. But, thank God, many of us have a. will for peace, a desire for Christian brotherhood and we can see and analyze the injustices and cruelties perpetrated by the preachers of class and racial hatred. Both communism and fascism are cruel, merciless purveyors of hatred and malice, implacable, unjust, deceitful and treacherous because they both originate from a cauldron boiling and foaming with political, religious and racial hatred. Hatred, greed and fear are the harbingers of war. Love, kindness, generosity and reason are necessary to the promotion of peace. Every movement

DREAM-WISHING By DOROTHY BUERGER

I wish that I had never known The spell of a palm-fringed shore, Then glory I'd be sure to find In a clear brook’s pebbled floor!

I wish that I had never thrilled To a haunting waltz refrain— That leaves me cold to cantering rhyme Of pittering, pattering rain!

And oh, I wish I could forget Some things my heart remembers. But memory’s ashes smolder warm With ever-glowing embers!

DAILY THOUGHT The Lord shall reward the doer of evil according to his wickedness.—II Samuel 3:39. ’

ETRIBUTION is one of the grand principles in the divine administration of human affairs.— J. Foster. ;

LET'S EXPLORE YOUR MIND

By DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM

[le THE COMMON IMPRESSION JUSTIFIED THAT MEN OF

GENUS ARE MORE DREN NIE 9ay Gx THAN ORDINARY MEN? Y£6 ORNO—

stirred by rage, fear, disappointment, etc., it profoundly affects the heart, kidneys, liver and the digestion and, if prolonged, the effects on the entire body are disastrous. It

which stirs up class or racial hatred

is “dangerous to our peace and safety.” Therefore it is the duty of every speaker, writer, publisher, and of those who control the radio to be careful what kind of propaganda is dished out to the American public. All public officials tainted and motivated with doctrines of foreign dictators are dangerous to our continued peaceful foreign relations and should be removed from office. I predict the Lima Conference will be unsatisfactory because too many of our Southern neighbors ‘are already sold on the dictatorship idea. The Monroe Doctrine has lapsed for want of enforcement. We are attempting to lock the barn after the horse is stolen. Canada and the United States are the hope of peace and democracy in this hemisphere. Let’s have no

coalition with communism to save

ourselves from fascism. The only way to preserve peace is to avoid all alliances with both factions. Let's arm ourselves spiritually, morally, mentally and physically to resist our present drift toward war. There is hope jn right thinking. “Men ought always to pray and not to faint.” People who pray and heed the words of the Prince of Peace have a will for peace. Let us pray and remember that “there is a just God who presides qver.the destinies of nations.” 8 8 8 : FINDS NEW RETAIL PLAN WILL BEAR WATCHING By B. OC. . Organized retailers who met in Washington to draft a program for distribution and increased consumption of this year’s bumper crop of oranges and grapefruit may have taken a most significant step in modern selling. For the distributors proposed a plan where handling and distribution costs be reduced in that “such savings be applied toward lowering consumer prices and improvement of producer prices.” There were other important provisions such as the elimination of third grade fruit from shipments, the provision of a maximum markup of 25 per cent, the reduction of transporiation charges, and a permanent board to advertise and merchandise the product. : But the vital part of the program was the willingness of the growers to share their bumper crop, the bounty of nature, with the ultimate consumer, the housewife, by reducing prices. Retailers of the country will do well to wateh this effort on the part of one industry to move a bumper crop for the ultimate advantage of everyone along the line, producer to consumer.

ing death. Thus a broken heart is a literal fact. .

: 2 » 2 . . NO. Most men of genius have been less interested in sex and women than the average. They have for long periods been so absorbed in their gigantic tasks that sex has been entirely put out of their lives. Frank Craven, writer, who has studied the lives of an enormous number of great artists, also comes to- this conclusion. The absorption of men of genius in sex and women has been greatly overadvertised because a few men of genius have written so glowingly about their own escapades. . 8 8 NO. Three times as many of our leaders in every field — science, business, politics, education, ministry, social uplift, ‘etc. — were born in the cities. Whether this is due to the more stimulating environment and better schooling of the cities, or that the brighter boys and girls have left the farm and

‘their children become eminent; lead-

ers, is not known. Dr. F. Shuttleworth, psychologist, studied the grades of country and city boys and girls in Towa and found the country boys and girls made slightly lower grades than those from the city. Again, however, we do not know ether this is due to heredity of

Gen. Johnson

Says— F. D. R. Has Chance for Fresh Starf

And Should Not Repeat Mistakes Of 1937 Which Delayed Recovery.

ASHINGTON, Dec. 12.—Congress, coming back ' to Washington after the great boomerang purge and the election rebuke of the Third New Deal, enters a stage setting very unlike that of 1937. The 1936 Democratic campaign utterances had been mild and conservative enough right up to the President’s last -minute explosion in Madison Square Gare den. There was a reason for that. Before the Repub~ lican convention, platform and candidate had been exposed to the public view, the Democratic high command was really worried. ; - But after the pitiful Republican campaign showing all this ehanged. Traveling constantly through the country, as this writer did, it was easy to feel the upward surge of a terrific ground swell. It never ceased. growing from the Republican convention to election day. It enabled Jim Farley to make his remarkable prediction of 46 Democratic states. Even this column came as close as 44.

” » ” HE New Dealers of the palace guard sensed it too. They began to utfer their famous chant; “We have a mandate—a mandate—a mandate.” They whetted the President's appetite for the blood of business to the point where he could do the savage Madison Square Garden war dance; “they have met

their match—they will meet their master.” - Tommy Corcoran was already planning the revolutionary “must” legislative program which was designed to make America over at a single session of Congress—the court packing plan to subjugate the judiciary—the reorganization plan to Hitlerize the executive departments and civil service—the Wages and Hours Bill in its original Fascist form to goosestep industry—proposals to “share-our-wealth” through plans to continie and tighten punitive taxation and give business 4 further third degree and the seven TVA’s plus continued lump-sum appropriations of billions to turn the states into Federal provinces. _ Looking back on the whole pattern as finally disclosed gives one the shivers. The country had a narrow escape. But. it did not fully escape. The fight to halt this sly and silent revolution stalled and frustrated America for two years. It increased the debt by billions and postponed a recovery long overdue. 2 8 8 I= was a great peril and a great tragedy. It was a tragedy because Mr. Roosevelt had been re-elected with greater unity, goodwill and support of all classes than any President since Washington. He could have carried his country to recovery and himself to glory as one of our three greatest Presidents. Now with the coming of Congress comes a fresh start. Most of Mr. Roosevelt’s lost ground could be regained to his own and his country’s vast advantage. Will that be done? Or will stubbornness, vindictiveness and pride prevail? Early signs are hopeful. The rumors persist that Harry Hopkins is going to the cabinet and Frank Walker with a nonpartisan board will take WPA. The Columbia speech was conciliatory except for the little dig about “liberals.” Great | pains are being taken to make the monopoly investi=_gation seem beneficent. Rearmament and the Lima conference are good line play for a quarterback sneak around right end. It is too early to judge. We can only hope and pray.

It Seems to Me

By Heywood Broun

Dies Probe Into Contributions to Church Poses a Serious Problem.

STAMFORD, Conn., Dec. 12—Nothing in current journalism has frightened me more than the headlines I have seen which say, in effect, “Dies’ com_ mittee finds that Jimmy gave nothing to the church.” Possibly this is retribution. When other committees publicized the budgets of men who owned yachts and ‘racing stables or sent their insurance payments to Bahama companies I did not yell “Bloody murder!” or protest against the invasion of privacy. No urge moved me to proclaim that a man’s income is his castle. No sacred principle was involved so far as I was concerned. But if church contributions are to be a matter of governmental survey by Mr. Dies, or anybody else, the thing comes very: close to home in this neck of the woods, and I want to register a protest. I'm sorry that James Roosevelt has seen fit to issue a denial and state that he did put money in the plate and refrained from mentioning the matter in his tax ree turn. “That's my own affair,” would have been a better answer. Ill stick to that one. Any other course would be fatal to a householder in Connecticut.

He Got His Money’s Worth

I live in the very center of the Church Supper Belt. If my generosity or penury becomes subject to a public recording I will be strawberry-festivaled to death. It is’ my recollection that I did buy two tickets for a church affair at the Longridge Con=gregational Church, but I fooled them by showing up and eating two servings of pumpkin pie and got my money back. I also took one card of admission to the Methodist Oyster Carnival on Highbridge and remained away, which left the church with a clear profit of 50 cents and an oyster. But this doesn’t begin to scratch the surface. An active and generous resident of Cohnecticut could be kicking .up his heels and making whoopee a: some church jamboree practically every night of the year while the season is on. ; Does the Dies Committee mean to break down the sales resistance of those who dislike oysters and do not particularly care for strawberries or evangelism? I shudder to think that religion in America could by any stretch of the imagination approach the status of being a racket. And so I deplore the day when it will be possible for a deacon to drive up to the door and say, “You take I0 tickets for our Baptist raffle or I'll turn your name over to the .proper authorities as subversive and a slacker.” 5

Watching Your Health.

By Dr. Morris Fishbein

HE death rates from diabetes seem to be increas ing in ‘most countries. The reasons are many. Most important is the fact that more people are liv-_ ing longer than people used to live. When cognizance is taken of this factor, the increase in the death rates from diabetes disappears entirely. Thus the rates of death from diabetes have declined at most ages and are found to be increasing among men only after 65 ahd among women only after 55 years of age. Strict . attention to the ailment will add many useful years to the average life. Whenever sugar is found. in the urine, one must be suspicious that the condition is diabetes. The modern

|| treatment involves the use of diet and insulin—not

only the old insulin but also the new type of insulin, which is called protamine zinc insulin. The chief advantage of protamine zinc insulin is its usefulness in mild cases, and the fact that it brings the patient closer to normal living, because usually it needs to be taken only once a day. a Diet is still an integral part of the treatment of diabetes. Control of the diet need not be a highly ; complicated or complex matter. The diabetic diet is - simple. As pointed out by Dr. E. P. Joslin, the doctor

merely needs to learn the patient's usual diet, and then to make the simple adjustments that are neces» sary to meet the special needs of his condition. % Patients with diabetes frequently do not die of diabetes itself, but rather of the serious omplications:

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