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MONDAY, DECEMBER 19,1938

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Council on. x Social Security for the: months of study devoted to proposals 40 amend and extend our aystem of national old-age insurance,

In reading the Council's final report, one cannot fail to"

be impressed by the great amount of labor and thought vhich went into its preparation. The ‘members lof the uncil are not candidates for office, and therefore are not

gaged in trading illusory promises for votes. They are

10 0 yromoting any panacea nor building any political pressire organization, and therefore are not engaged in | aiting hopeful oldstérs into paying dues. |

- |Instead they are 25 outstanding citizens—educators, business leaders and representatives of organized labor— who in February, 1937, were asked by a special Senate committee to make this exhaustive study. Having concluded their work, which entailed great sacrifice of time from their .. private affairs, they have submitted their recommendations to-Qongress for whatever action that body wishes to take. A 2 82 8 ; ” 2 o | E Council’s final report will not please the Townsend"lites and other dues-collecting organizations bent on solving 11 problems by ballyhooing a single ides. "| But those who sincerely want our present old-age security program expanded into a real system of national insurance, as rapidly as may be consistent with the country’s abili'y. to pay, will in our opinion applaud the report as ap rogressive and far-sighted document.

| The recommendations include: Starting payment of in-

surance benefits in 1940, rather than in 1942 as the present law provides. Boosting the average of benefits payable in the early years, recognizing that the worker covered into the program late in his employable life has not been able to build an adequate annuity credit for himself. Providing for the paymert of annuities to widows and dependent children insured workers who die either before or after the age of. 65.| The immediate blanketing in of ‘seamen, employees of ~ banks and of charitable and religious and educational institutions, now excluded from insurance coverage. The inclu- } sion, by 1940 if administratively possible, of farm and i domestic employees. The Government to contribute onethird of the eventual costs of the insurance program, deriving| the reyenue from some source other than the pdyroll taxi by which employer and employee groups each pays its one-third. 2” s tJ . ” tJ # "THERE are many other recommendations, concerning | which there will be Mich Jispuie | in ln Foi induaing

Co! sideration of security problems. To balance off the addijional expenditures that will be necessary in Iiberalizing the : be tiefits in the near future, the Council suggests contraction of : some of the greater benefits promised in the distant future when persons now young will be old. Wisely, we think, the Council holds that the eventual total cost should be no larger than was contemplated | under the original So¢ial Security Act, saying: * “The pattern cannot be larger than the cloth; the degree of sécurity afforded must be limited by the national jricome and the proportion of that income properly available for any specific purpose.” i. “No benefits should be promised or implied which cannot be safely financed... i. “We should not commit future generations to a burden © larger than we would: want to bear ourselves.”

NEEDED: MORE DONORS

QO numerous were applications for aid in the Clothe-A-Child campaign this year that The Times regretfully was i compelled to close its lists last week.

Even so we have on file the names of more needy children than we may reasonably expect to clothe—unless more donors come forward.

Nothing would please us more than to be compelled to ‘reopen our lists and add the names of additional needy children. But we want to be certain first that the Clothe-A-Child fund can take care of the children now on file.®* We don’t want to disappoint a single child if we can avoid it. The response to date, both through the Mile-of-Dimes and through direct donations, has been most generous. It must be, for families are turning to the Clothe-A=Child fund in increasing numbers for the assistance Which they may not obtain elsewhere. "Ta those who: are able and who have not yet corltributed, we .commend the Clothe-A-Child ‘as one of the most. satisfying experiences of the entire yule season. Your gift will Just Jong after the holidays have become a memory.

BIRTHDAY OF AN EPOCH

“HIRTY-FIVE ‘years: ago last Saturday the Air Epoch

began. gowen driven machine.

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» ” ” The. ‘man ‘who made that first sticeessful fight lives today in. Dayton, a shy, publicity shunning. philosopher of 67. It would be interesting to know the. thoughts of Orville: Wright on. this anniversary. .. He has seen the principles with which he and his brother pioneered so developed that planes a hundred times vier ‘and 40 times faster than the first Wright machine w- ply the air. : He has seen the airplane, turned to uses of Violéhes, uipped to rain destruction and death from the skies. War , been. made more horrible than ever before. Great es live in fear and men of ill will employ the winged

jines to blackmail whole populations and. extend the |.

force. . It covéred only 120 feet—that first successful flight. the world to which Orville Wright returned, after 16 air, would never be the. same again,

ty, 3 cents a copy; deliv-,

‘their sales forces and our financiers. effort our government should give every reasonable

‘Men flew successfully for the first time in a

-air Enoug By. Westbrook Pegler

Nazi-Fascists, Having Cr shed Weak =

Mjaertrion Reported Roady to Turn gainst Their Own Middle Classes.

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‘past. week indicate that, political cannibalism

kind.

‘The campaign of ridicule will be vatched with ine terest by professional writers in countries ‘where | repartee has free play, because unde: free conditions ‘the one who deals in ridicule must b: careful lest his ‘victim top his gag and leave him griping. Tilting an opponent who is a mere victim without the right to

i | strike back is like working out on the body-bag in

the gym and likely to develop the defects of over confidence and carelessness.

) YORK, Dec. 19, —Two developments of the.

‘has broken out in Rome and Berlin, where Fascist| § and Nazi have now. decided to :de our their own |

In Italy the middle class. 1s marked for ridicule, — punishment and extinction, and in Germany it is. | discovered ‘that there are pire Aryans who have ~ | the same lust for profits, the same cunning and | «|-the same unscrupulousness as attributed to the Jew.

It is the risk of a return blow that makes for |

caution and skiil in the preparation of material, and |. }

it seems highly improbable that the official competi-

‘the Fascist party will produce the best of which they are eapable. In fact, the writers ard artists of both

muscle to the neglect of subtlety and timing. 2 8 : HE Italians have forgotten how to duck and have

tory in connection with Mussolini’s support of Hitler's liberation of the oppressed Sudetens.

under the conditions of modern war. In this critical and very embarrassing jam the irresistible legions lost their sense of direction and advanced to the rear with such rapidity that severe casualties from trampling were reported to the Duce in Rome. If the Italian middle class is now an enemy of the regime after all these years of Mussolini and fascism that obviously must mean that a great body of genuine Italians—natives with many honors for achievement in art, war and other fields—have resisted fascism, even as the people of the contemptible democracies. 8 8 2 ISPATCHES . from Roine re port that these people are to be ridiculed ss enemies of the

old, civilized custom of shaking hends.

pe led to regard this as a menacing evil in their midst, but to outsiders it will indicate that the Duce has become very hard up for internal enemies. The Nazi discovery is less startling, although the admission of it does burn a few pages of the Nazi's own book. It has never keen any secret to most Aryans that they are blood brothers in race to unscrupulous men of cunning Who lust for profits. It was no secret, either, that the (Communists at one time polled a vote 10 fimes tke number of the total Jewish population, including children, leaving the conclusion that bolshevism in Germany was overwhelmingly Aryan under free conditions. But Hitler, too, has just about exhausted .the original roster of internal enemies and, like the Duce, is reduced to state cannibalism.

Business

| By John T. Flynn

Aiding American Firms Located in Latin Ameri ica Would Not Help U. S.

TEW YORK, Dec. 19. While in certain quarters men are talking about building armaments to protect our trade in South America from the Germans, in others there is a4 more intelligent approach to the problem-—plans for financing. American trade with our South American sisters through the Ex-port-Import Bank. One of the first exertions of this kind of aid, however, is to finance a large corporation which en-

gages not in trade between this country. and South . America but in industrial enterprise within the

borders of South America. In all this subject of protecting our trade to the South, we must remember that there are two kinds of businessmen doing business in South America. There are American businessmen and corporations whe manufacture goods in the United States and sell them in South America. Then there are the American corporations which produce goods in South America and sell them in the United States. It is this last group we have fo be most particular about. There is certainly nothing wrong in Americans investing money in South American mines and factories. But there are two very distinctly different economic results in the case of these investments and those of -our home produce: 's who sell to South America.

Held as Concessions

First, while Americans own those. South American industries, they are operatéd in South American countries, worked by native labor and are far more important to South America than to us. Second, in many cases the corporations which operate these enterprises hold them as concessions exploiting the natural resources of those countries. This too is quite all right. But in so many cases these resources have been obtained in the first place through many sorts of practices which have left a very bad odor among the people there. What America needs now is trade between ‘our producers and the producers of South America. We neéd to sell the output of our factories there. Selling this output is a job for thé American . producers, .In that sales

aid which will not produce irtitation among those neighbors. One such aid is to finance éxpert and ntwors transactions between the two countries.

A Woman’ s Viewpoint

By. Mrs. Walter Ferguson

Jp RasNiry is back with a bang. We have lived to see the rarest of fashion incongruities; face veils and cigarets, and hoopekirts clustering about public bars. After this, can anything surprise us? The girls are told, too, aiid with tiresome fre quency, that they must carry théir femininity with them wherever they go, like a banner, . Office work ers, private secretaries and sileswomen are warned

and is the surest way to persodal failure in the coms

mercial world. Flat chests; boy:sh bobs and angles are out. We want our women to be womaly Again. a

women a the. wth wher Ye fewest ae

girls to follow the age-old patterns of ‘theit being? : Or do théy merely surmise tliat masculine’ attitudes.

are bétoming wearisome?

. 1don’t know the answer, bit one nL 1 Sp

Femininity is something that up or dress. . It 18-88 pulsihig hearts, and when we ate forced to HES idéals we suffer thé most dangerous and i ps foday. we exist in a world fi w ess like ‘Women thin behaye 1iké mén. . gi 1. ry 1 can’t seé that it makes much womett. wortk—so’ long as they are

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those qualities of spirit which have marked their sex

through the ages and: of Which, let us remember;

the maternal urge is strongsst. The instant that |

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tion for Italian writers and cartoorists arranged by |.

Italy and Germany have been doveloping artistic|

been flattened several times in international rep- | artee by references to Guadalajaré—a tendér name | ° in Fascist history—and to the Italian persecution of | the German minority in the former Austrian terri- |

It was at Guadalajara that the contemptible | Communist-Spanish rabble met Mussolini's indomi- | table blackshirts, in the first real test of Fascist valor

Italian nation because they have maintained the Without the |

benefit of counter-propaganda the Italian people may’

| Dimes.

by experts that any mascéuliné ose is bad for business |

1Says—

Endowment of National Society For Permanent Fight on Infantile Paralysis Object of This Year's Drive. EW YORK, Dec. 19.—A great drive to fight ‘ifie

fantile péralysis in every county in this nation is starting, ‘It will go on™ until the 13th of January

: the President's birthcey. Then it will wind up in | a series of birthday parties everywhere,

The country knows all’ about the Birthday Balls

‘which have been held every year. to. raise money to

improve Warm Springs and for other : emergency

‘| uses. This drive is entirely different. Its purpose. is

to set up a permanent nation-wide network of defenses with outposts in every community Against this terrible

| curse of - childhood.

“There was a time when diseases were the master

of man. The black plague, yellow fever, typhoid, ty=

| phus, smallpox, diphtheria, syphilis and tuberculosis

The Hoosier Forum I wholly disagree with. what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say teVolidire,

, STRICTER LIQUOR CONTROL URGED By C. OC. Harshbarger, Ladoga Everywhere our young people go today they see the flaming advertisements of beer, wine, brandy and whisky. The alleged charms of these beverages are flaunted from electric signs and billboards, told over radios, described in newspaper and magazine advertisements. . The liquor interests are seeking recruits among the young people. They would have you to believe that the very smartest people drink. Is it smart to spend money on something that harms the body? Is it smart to take something that might make a habit ruining your life, just for -the thrill of being like the rest of the crowd? Is it smart to take a drink and go out to drive a car— and perhaps have an accident that not only endangers you, but inhocent people? Or is it stupid? Many of the American people are protesting now after being deceived by the propaganda that conditions would be better under repeal. It has not decreased drunkenness and crime. It has not brought us out of the depression and it did not put the bootlegger out of business as ‘it was supposed to do. :

Write yoiir representatives - and senators to - vote for better liquor control. ” 8 ”

GETS THANKED BY THE REAL SANTA By D. L. Stoddard : I have heard and read a greal deal lately about so many Santa

Clauses being here, there and every-

where at this particular season— some fearing children. would lose faith in the real Santa Claus. Being a little boy myself, now in my second childhood, I put on my overcoat. - I had saved a dime each 20 years of my life and I was going to put them down in that Mile of I hardly had got off the streetcar before I heard a bell ringing, and sure enough, right out there in the bitter cold, was a real Santa Claus ringing a bell. As I stooped to line up my dimes, Santa stopped ringing the bell and came and lined them up for me—and he THANKED mie.

my 74 years that Santa. Claus ever thanked me. Now I know that he was the REAL Santa Claus standing out in the cold that little boys could have Suitable warm clothes to be comfortable all through these ehilly winter days.

. There may be miechanical, spiritual, human and many other kinds| of Santas but this was the REAL one. without hith not only tiny boys but tHe entire world would suffer.

The first time I ever remember in |.

(Times readers are invited fo 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.)

It touched my heart to think Santa Claus would thank me. My hat is off to the first real-for-sutre Santa Claus I ever met, 2 =n #8 THE RIGHT PLACE BUT THE WRONG BOOK By Daniel Francis Clancy, Logansport I pass on to you a true story of ah amusing incident which occurred during the recent campaign. Cass

. | County Democratic headquarters was

in a hotel. One day a man walked into the lobby, up to the desk and. asked the clerk where he could register.. “Right here, sir,” said the clerk, swinging around the book and handing him a pen, The man wrote his name and started in on his street address— which caused the clerk to inform him that guests did not have to give their street addresses. Whereupon the supposed guest looked up and inquired peevishly, “How’ll you know what precinct I'll vote in if I don’t put down my address?” 8 ” ” BELIEVES PRESENT CIVILIZATION DOOMED By William Murphy.

Something not to get worried about is all this talk and furore

WINGS OF THOUGHT By R. M. L. A thought is such a fleeting Evanescent thing, I wish that I could leain to Catch it on’ the wing.

Or capture witty phrases” That flit beyond my tongue, And lovely melodies within My heart uhsung.

Perhaps when I get old It may be I'll get wise And track them to their iair To take them by surprise,

DAILY THOUGHT

And all the kings of the earth sought the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom, that God had put in his heart.—II Chrotiicles 9:23.

. |century he would,

MY wisdom om often goes with fewest words, = Sophocles:

about armaments, war and posses-| ‘|sions. Don’t the poor, deluded peo~

ple know that history is merely repeating itself? Do they not realize that they are bound for extermina-

tion just as great civilizations before -

them have been doomed? They are merely going through a historical transition at this time and they can do nothing but mark time. : If one could return in another no doubt, be again greeted by the old, American Indian once more reveling in the ancient security that: was his own before the “palefaces’”’ came and upset the apple-cart. - ‘sow REGRETS PRESS SUPPORT OF PENSION PLAN E By Claude Braddick, Kokomo : My home town newspaper seems to have adopted an attitude of fatherly benevolence toward the Townsend plan. The plan has many devotees here and while giving them fullest publicity, no hint has ever been offered that the plan may not be quite all that its hopeful admirers believe it to be. a This adopted-son attitude on the part of the Republican press is, of course, quite understandable. Yet we cannot help believing it'is also quite shortsighted. It is for all the world like a man who, findirig a newborn tiger cub, would take it into his home, feed and nurture it tenderly, because it was cute and furry, then later bemoan the fact that somehow, unaccountably thére was a 600pound tiger in the house.

; 8 = a. oh . HOMBURG HO! MR. EDEN HELPS SET THE STYLES By B. C. Alert Dame Fashion keeps up with the news and Anfhony Eden's jaunty Homburg hat is hardly doffed the first time to admiring Ameticans before New York's fashion setters have a new Homburg creation for milady- in the show windows.

And the new hats look all right, Judging from the first illustrations we've seen in the ads—and Hompurgs look pretty smart on the male dome, too. Of course we can’t all have Eden profiles to go under the hats, so men, don’t be too hasty. One thing we sincerely hope: That the overlords of men’s fashions stop with the Homburg if they de-

cree new male styles in the name of

Tony Eden, ahd that they don't in sist on the Somber hues that characterize most IEnglishmeén’s ap parel. “Mr. [Eden’s: clothes seem to fit well, but the American male

flair for color and design in coats|.

and pants is much more to be pte-

ferred than the uninspired sults of

the ayerage Englishman.

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to a ugh Sxtens, bit on

them, however, the whole social order j balance

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LETS EXPLORE YOUR MIND

_. By DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM~

1 PROBABLY this element enters rs ou and él go

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ishing the guilty and vindicating the eternal power of righteousness.

We even forget to grieve Over his|

death because of our glow of admiration for his courage and the pow= erftil aid he has given to our lives by his noble sacrifice. i a8. 8 No, ¢ though this is about as good A theory as any. Scientists not only do not know wh

been able to make & reliable guess. One theory is that it gives greater variation [ih the offspring than 8 is One sex, as. is ‘plants and lower aniSome . recenit experi

mal forine | ments Just Jublished tend firm this ¥ :

| ganizations which have raised millions. But as

‘| deaths occurred

mimber of deatns are due to garage heonus

blocked the march of progress for centuries. Now we °

can almost see the day when.man will’ be master of diseases. Hy finding out how they worked, every=one of these slinking slaughterers has been hampeved: ¢ or completely controlled. 2 8&8 x UT two. baffling blights remain, checked but not conquered, cancer and infantile paralysis. Their murderous mates were unmasked by research -and

| science. “That took much money. These two tortures

remain because they have not been completely éx-

| posed. ‘We don’t know exaftly their causes. The

fight against cancer goes on under ‘good national ope as ye we have no national defense against infantile paralysts. ‘To create one is the purpose of this drive. Two things are necessary and they both require money. One is, by research, to track this merciless killer and crippler to his hiding place and wipe him off the earth. The other is to salvage the human wreckage he leaves béhind him. Infantile paralysis is not like other diseases which either kill or are cured. It is like some mythical dragon that rushes through a. village maiming the Bodies of innocent children—darkening thelr ‘whole ves The doctors have rot completely controlled it but they know enough to fight it, if in your community there is provided the organization, the money and the squipment. These -exist in far too few Places. : 2 8 8 'T is an expensive disease. Its treatment requires ‘costly surgical ard hospital equipment; The Birthday Balls alone could not have possibly produced enough money. The idea is to establish a national organization with units in every community. t For this purpose, 50 per cent of the contributions from every county will remain there to help victims in any way the local organization decides. The other half will go to a national foundation fund for research and emergency. From people who can afford it will be asked big money. But the principal idea is’a “march of dimes.” Mailing cards will be sent out to everybody. They are prepared to hold 10 dimes. All’ who can be ‘reached will .be asked to put in as many dimes, up to 10, as they can spare and mail the card. In addition to this, every device to raise money will be used with the birthday parties as a sort of last round-up. It is a “brother, can you: spare a dime” drive or “10 cents a dance.” * Ten cents to-dance for your pleasure that of hers may" at least walk to their work. :

It Seems. fo Me.

By Heywood Broun

Worst Is Yet to Come Apparently; Dictators Have Turned Columnists. J

rEW. YORK, Dec. 19 —By ‘a curiotis ‘twist of cire cumstances - the. current quarrel in A Europe seems to be less upon boundaries than on.column rule, Mr. Chamberlain took the dismemberment of Czechoslovakia comparatively calmly’ but he has displayed true passion and patriotism over the fact that German reporters absented themselves from his dinner. And in Praha there has been a sharp issue cone cerning: the censorship of a little satirical newspaper piece said to have been written by the Duce himself, Now it is to appear in all the offending journals as a

$. ee threat of Mussolini'as dictator of the earth has been sufficiently’ terrifying, but I am even more worried if he intends to set himself up: as a sort of compulsory columnist in every publication. of the known world. "And yet this development is not altogether surprise ing. - Obviously Betiito sees himself ag another Caesar, And I had forgotten, on account of other tribulations, that Julius was an author and indeed a kind of. Roman Brisbane. : Herp Hitler is also an author but as far as I know he has put himself forward as a political interpreter rather than a gleaner of Middle European gossip. He follows the mannér. of- Mark Sullivan more closely than that of O. O. McIntyre.

It Seems to Mussolini

Mussolini, both in statecraft and in the cultural field, may be intent upon covering more territory than the Fuenrer. If he were permitted to do a profile of himself, I rather suspect that he might say that the great Italian leader wis compounded out of elements of Caesar, Casanova and Samuel Clemens. 1t is even possible that Benito in his bathtub takes ‘on some of the attributes of Caruso. Against this columning by dictators there ought to be a united front on the part of working newspaper< men. A craft in which the competition is already tough is hard enough, but how can any of ‘the galley slaves get by if we must tilt against: men who have the power to dash off a piece for universal syndication which goes on the cabl the postscript, “Read it and like it.” - Indeed, the clash of efuntries and governments on the matter of newspaper’ encroachments by dictators i8 not essentially comic after all Civilization. will stand still, advance or retrograde in a direct ratio to the amount of reliable. informa= tion which is made available to the peoples of the world. The ruler with a lust for conquest can well afford to forget concrete pill boxes if id he can cape, ture the press of al sountries. 2 :

“| By Dr. Morris Fishbein’

yy is here and the tool killer is ottt to catch the careless motorist who works on his car in the garage with the doors closed. This is the time of the year when newspapers piblish the records of

én found on the roadside dead in their motor. cars from poisoning by exhaust gas. . Every year many

Vi reds of people die of this cause. there are two sexes but have never | hand peop!

Moreover, it seems likely. that a good many ‘people suffer from the ‘¢/Tects of carbon monoxide gas withe

‘out dying. In Chicago, authorities are testing the

concentration of carbon monoxide gas: that is released ih the busses when they ate rtinning at full’ speed in the streets with 211 of “the windows closed." ~ Records tell Sod deaths occurred. Three

| whiere He had falienmonoxide gas from

a faulty bathroom heater, A eohsiderabls number of ‘people commit suicide by inhaling carbon morioxide gas, but by far thé la: cold; keeping th ie ane and d; e car to work on it, Swithaus reajinmg ‘fonoxide poisoning.

Watching Your, Health !

deaths of people Who have used chafooal burhers'in |: | tightly closed roorns. ‘They tell about men and wome

tramps living:in a shanty who Ee | used: chareoal in & bucket for ‘Heating purposes Fl

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