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coenle Ite Strange That. Some Americans Now: ‘Believe Overthrow ‘of Tsar Was Not Populer in This Country. |

EW YORK, Dec. 28.—It is a sed commentary on VN American. intelligence that apy man can stand before the people so soon after the Russian Revolution and convince any considerable portion of them that this upheaval was artificially engineered from the outside by a mysterious group of plotters irr white | weskits known as the “international bankers i... And that the Americans at the time: regarded it as any- ; thing but a glorious occurrence. Lloyd George wrote | that the worms which devoured tsarist Russia were | bred of its own corruption and that it fell because every fiber of its. power, influence and authority had rotted through and through. oe A “There was not enough stremgth left in its arm | even to lift the scepter when its decrees were challenged by a hungry Petrograd mob.” he wrote in one volume of his apparently interminable, always informs | ative and highly profitable memoirs. sor . Lloyd George says further, on the authority of one |: who cannot be denied great knowledge, that the tsar himself was the unconscious head of the conspiracy, who never would have been chosen by any responsible board ‘of directors to manage any business of any magnitude. : 3a fret

Gen. Johnson i: Days— |. | } Tragic Indeed Is It That. Germany |

Having Given World Such Sacred | “Customs Has Now Forsaken Them. |

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FY \ULSA, Okla. Dec. 26.—Long before the Resurrece | tion there was a festival of early spring in nearly | all lands and especially in all German lands. Long | before the birth at Bethlehem there was a winter festival in nearly all countries and especially in Ger- | man countries. There they were called Easter and Yule. fn or ge . Faster had some symbolic reference to the return to the northern earth of flowers and verdure and birds—all the stirring signs of spring. It was a day to mark the joy of people in the annual return of re. | viving life. The Yule festival, in some vague way, had to do with the worship of fire as expressed by the earth and the sun. It marked [the winter solstice, That was the turning of earth's long orbit, back toward the sun, the beginning of the .end of cold, lon nights, short days and the return of warmth an abundant light.

The Yule season was then, as it is now, one of giving and good will—of warmth and forgiveness of all | old hates—of a momentary truce to savage hostility and all unworthy prejudice, hatred and unkindness. gs = 8 Hd LTHOUGH the beginnings of these two festivals go back so far beyond recorded history that the the contrary,” they g the German peos

MONDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1938

- HARRINGTON OF WPA | THE Army-trains able éngineers and trains them, also, to attend strictly to their profession and leave politics alone. Col. F. C. Herrington, the Army engineer who now becomes Administrator. of the Government's huge WPA work-relief program, (will néed to do more than refrain from political activity ‘his own account. The country will look to him for positive and prompt action to take politics out of WPA and WPA out of politics. He should be given a free hand to do that. . As Chief Engineer for three years, Col. Harrington has been largely responsible for planning and directing WPA’s activity in the field of public works. Considering the difficulties he has had to contend with, we think he has done well. . His sympathetic understanding of the humanitarian purposes of WPA is known. But we hope and believe that he will put new emphasis on the practical side of the program—on elimination of extravagance and waste, on projects of greater usefulness, on getting the greatest possible value for the taxpayers’ dollars as well as giving the greatest possible measure of relief to the unemployed. Col. Harrington takes over at a time when WPA faces hostile criticism from Congress and a serious loss of pub- | lic confidence. It is necessary, in our opinion, for Congress to reassume its cuty under the Constitution and end the pernicious practice of voting billions for relief but passing to others the responsibility for deciding how the money shall be spent. : : That does not mean, however, that WPA should be scrapped. - On the contrary, the need is to return WPA to sound fundamental principles. As a nonpolitical agency, carrying out the policy that the Federal Government must bear a large share of the burden of unemployment relief and that every effort should be made to provide useful jobs instead of doles for those who can work, it can be immensely valuable. That, we trust, is what Col. Harrington will

make it. }

® x = ; LOYD GEORGE also quotes from Princess Radzi- |: . y il i \ 45 i: ; : will’s book her belief that the hatred of Rasputin, | : EY Pata . ~ : wv : | “memory of man runneth not openly expressed in the best society of St. Petersburg were most strongly marked amo and Moscow, was only a blind for a campaign fo. over- ples. To them we owe much of the beauty of Easter throw the tsar himself. Zz ; Si and nearly all of the kindly customs of Christmas— Not only that, but as reference to the files of the lighted trees, tinsel, gifts, yule logs and good cheer. | American papers of that period will prove, the Amer- But to both festivals something came along toward ican response to the revolution was acclaim, not re- the close of the dark ages to give these emotional, pugnance. Even though this country stood to lose an | sentimental and certainly pagan rites a new vitality ally in the impending American struggle against the which changed and elevated their value to the world, Germans, American traditions and the sympathies “In the beauty of the lily, Christ was born across born of those traditions were such that the people of the sea, with a glory in his bosom which transfigures the United States smiled through their tears or wept you and me.” His was a simple teaching. It did not

through their cheers with the honest feeling that one. | seek to fake for itself either one of these primeval monster has perished, anyway. | x festivals. But to both were given a suggestion that s #2 » . J their sentiment should be continued throughout the

vont year—that peace and good will were the highest pur y BT now, as Svjach ge ial 1 rons We ouniet. poses of the human mind—thaf these seasons could American education has 8g. fo crap dh be used the more highly to emphasize a thought. of stupidity, there are Americans who listened agape ! : Ll ; and with unreasoning belief to oratory which would somehow have it that the Russian revolution was fensive to the American belief and that they indicated as much at the time. 3 xs If there were any great and cunning outside conspirators on behalf of communism. reckless of the consequences to religion, human dignity and freedom, they were the Germans. who promoted the Bolshevik revolution in order to take Russia finally and completely out of the play on the Eastern front, grab the Ukraine and release German armies for the final military struggle in France. It was the Germans who gave safe conduct through Germany for Lenin and other Bolshevik leaders, inviting them to do their stuff, and the final, blame for the bolshevism that the Nazis and their American ecclesiastical fellow-travelers are always viewing with such horror is a spot on the soul of the German nation which will not out while truth lives.

Business By John T. Flynn Trade Commission as Judicial Body

Drew Liberals' Fire in Coolidge Era.

EW YORK, Dec. 26.—When Col. William Donovan of New York was Assistant Attorney General in

» 8 : I is a bitter, cynical kind of perversion that, in the birthplace of so much that is beautiful and solemn and inspiring about both Christmas and Easter— Germany—everything that was given to lift them from the human toward the Div and debased. For good will, hatred. For peace, war, For brotherly love among all people, German sue periority, German hostility and German. aggressive. ness toward all aliens, and the complete degradation of the very race whence spring the author and giver of Christianity, and of Christmas as we know it. If this kind of thing is right; the very basis of civilization, the principles of international law, every decent thought of man since civilization began to make progress is wrong. : The meaning of Christ and Christmas is the exact reverse of such a principle. It is that people shall be decent toward each other because of love and respect and not that they shall be so because some man, elevated to a position of control, tells them to be g0 and threatens to kill or torture them if they are not. This is the essential difference between dictatorship and democracy.

lt Seems to By Heywood Broun

~The Hoosier Forum : I wholly disagree with what you say, but wil defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

the fate of the rest of the world. The dismemberment of Czechoslovekia and the trend of world events since then seem to have set Americans thinking. Former surveys showed a great majority of Americans believing that their country could stay out of any war that might start in Europe; now they do not think so. But the changed attitude is not simply one of pessimism. Pessimism in itself can be as blind and unthinking as optimism. According to this survey, the American people are not at all resigned to the drift toward war. They are willing to do whatever needs to be done to stave war off—and they have got to the point where they see international co-operation as the best means of accomplishing that end.

DEFENDS PARTY PLAN FOR PROHIBITION

By E. 8. Lewis, State Chairman ‘Prohibition Party

In the recent election the Prohibition Party polled much the largest vote of the three minor parties on the ballot. We take this to be an indication that the liquor question is the livest and most important ‘question before the voters of Indiana today. The struggle between the major parties is chiefly for power and the spoils of office, and a question as to method in dealing with economic matters. The liquor question is a moral, social and economic question altogether, and we believe that until it ‘is rightly settled, no permanent success can be attained in the solution of r problems that confront us. .

(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.)

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the Munich settlement but feel that it was justified as the sole means of preserving peace; but it shows that they also believe that a generai European war will come before long

anyhow, and that when it does come The United States will be drawn into

WORD DETECTIVE vs T would be hard to imagine a much more interesting or more useful life than the one lived by Dr. Frank H. Vizetelly, who dwelt for most of his 74 years in a world of words. | : : | Tracing words to their sources was his business and

; that the survey is ac- Dear Benito: Here

. his hobby. He may not have been the greatest authority in that field, but no other has done so much to make philology popular and no other in our times has contributed so many new words to the English language as Americans speak it. i He was quick to defend slang phrases, if he believed they served a purpose, and he admitted many of them to his | Standard Dictionary. He was equally quick to attack such abominations as “okie-dokie” and “all-rightie.” He disputed Walter Winchell’s claim to the invention of “whoopee,” and traced it back through Shakespeare’s day to 450 A. D.; He declared that there are\nhearly~800,000 reputable ' words in our language. But he pointed out that the aver- . age American uses only about 8000, and that Woodrow Wilson, in 75 speeches between 1913 and 1918, found 6221 words enough to make his meaning clear. In short, Dr. Vizetelly thought of words as tools with which human beings might work toward better understanding of each other. And for all he did to make them sharper, more useful tools we owe a great deal of gratitude to the kindly lexicographer who died the other day in New York.

SPENDERS DON’T LIKE IT

HE fight over the Government reorganization bills will come up again in the next Congress, and again one of

the Coolidge Administration, he had-a bright. idea for reorganizing the Federal Trade Commission and the Interstate Commerce Commission. i His plan was to divide the functions of each Commission into regulatory and judicial. He proposed

should have no power to institute proceedings against business enterprises; that the power to do that should be lodged with an officer of some sort ‘'who- would act as part of the executive branch of the Government. The Commission would be a mere tribunal which would hear the -case-anc render a decision. He also proposed the same procedure ,with™ refer-

The plan was hailed with great ‘satisfaction by the utilities, the railroads, industrial corporations who do not like regulation and are always happy at any proposal which tends to cripple it. And this of course would cripple it. It is sufficient!

mere judicial tribunals we could be prepared to see

red tape than at present. The Picture Has Changed’ All this has been more or less forgotteri. But it is interesting to hear that the New Deal, which is supposed to be such an enemy of business, is actually talking about proposing for the I. C. C. and F. T. C., a scheme which had its birth in the reactionary Administration of President Coolidge. or New Deal experts are said to be working on the

that the Federal Trade Commission, for instance,

ence to the utility regulatory cornmissions. =

ly slow and sluggish now, but if the regulatory bodies were turned into

regulation cluttered up in even more and hopeless

We charge that Prohibition and even the regulatory laws never have been in the hands of their friends for administration. That is why they have failed. z ‘

As ours is a government by politi-

‘| cal parties, we believe the party plan

{s the only solution. We have tried low license, high license, state sale, local option and constitutional prohibition. They all have failed because the administration in power was not friendly to them. The next logical step in combating this traffic is the election of a party pledged to the administration of a prohibition law. :

» 8 » SEES U. 8. PACIFISM UNDERGOING CHANGE By B.C. Ye y The solidest truth ‘in American

politics is that Americans are collectively a nation of pacifists. But

|a change has been coming over the

face of the waters, of late. American pacifism is no longer blind and emotional; it has stopped telling itself that the two great oceans are impassable barriers, and it is doing ‘| some heavy thinking about the price that may have to be paid for peace. One of the most sighificant de-

curate, American changed in a way that is little short of astounding.

but isolationist ‘with a difference.

CHRISTMAS CAROL By A. MARIE JOHNSON

should play

crime tolerance awaken, Christmas time.

vary— ;

of thee— . and death Clings closer still than our very : breath— Delivers ‘the weak chains— Brings solace and rest where sorrow reigns— 1 of sompaision that stoops to prison Ts

‘from galling

To forgive and to heal men’s ugliest scars; All this—and we nail

thinking = has

The nation is still isolationist—

For one thing, it apparently realizes that its own fate is tied in with

How strange that hatred and greed So sorry a part on this Blessed Day. : In the midst of terror, war and this O Star of Bethlehem—and CalCarve deep in my heart a vision Of a wondrous love that in life]

Contrast this with the attitude of the postwar era, with the frantic screaming that went up when American adherence to the World Court was proposed, with the oratory of our self-appointed watchdogs who take the stump whenever a President or a Secretary of State glances beyond our own borders . . . make those contrasts, and it is easy to see what a vast shift in public sentiment has been taking place. - No more important job faces the leaders of American politics and American thought than to check up on this shift, verify it or prove it wrong, and prepare to act accordingly. ° 8 ” 2 THINKS PENSION PLANS

CONFUSED BY READER By Claude Braddick, Kokomo = M. A. Nichols, in The Times of Dec. 20, seems to have confused the California $30-a-week plan with the simon-pure Townsend plan. Licking stamps and filling out State vouchers are alike anathema to the cohorts of Dr. Townsend. All a

Townsendite has to do is to draw his monthly allotment (based upon 2 per cent of the national business turnover) and spend that allotment

the fact that we were understs

How's ‘Me, Gs

N= YORK, Dec. 26—According to rumors, seve eral recent articles in the Italian press, under varidus signatures, have actually been written by the Duce himself. This seems a sufficient cue for a veteran columnist to offer a little advice to a young commentator who is having his first fling. And so here goes one of those partially open letters:

“DEAR BENITO—Don’t get discouraged if the ree ;

sponse to your first columns is| less than enthusiastic. Others have had the same experience. Try as you will, it may be all tripe in the beginning. Indeed, there

are instances where it contilues to be tripe for

your chin up. Like the if only time enough is

would suggést that you

your own fist on your

months and even years. Keep worm, a columnist may turn given to him. “If you want my advice I | drop those pen names and put

| stuff. ‘It is I’ would do as a title, but ‘Me—Mussolini’

might get you an even wider audience. Syndication in: your case is by no means impossible. You won't mind, I'm sure, if I go off into anecdotage on .the inutility of pen names. ; |

A Sad Experience

“Once upon a time another writing on a magazine, and the entire book in the bad wi

fellow and myself re e got out pretty nearly s. In order to conceal \ffed I used, in addition B. K. Akwood, Howard al others. The only one were the Akwood arti

to my own name, the signature Campbell, Bass Hale and sever which attracted any attention

lini,) for a Title? :

His hands| wiihin the next 30 days.

Like all- other forms of “pump priming,” the plan can never work, because due to inevitable and invisible losses, you can never take out quite as much as you put in. It all boils down to the homely illustration of a man trying to lift himself by his own bootstraps. » ” » SORRY, WE DON’T KNOW THIS SWING NUMBER By M. L. 8,, Columbus, ‘Ind.

Please publish the words to the song: “Seven Years With the Wrong Woman,” and so on.

plan to reduce the I. C. C. anc the F. T. C. to the status of judicial tribunals and to move the initiating power and the investigational power over into some executive department. When this was proposed by Col. Donovan'it was opposed as a reactionary scheme to please the: utilities. When it is trotted out by the New Deal, howe ever, it will have the banners of liberalism flying over | it and all the liberals who held” up ‘their hands in horror at Col. Donovan's suggestion will throw their hats in the air for it under Roosevelt. Those who oppose this old Donovan-Coolidge scheme will be called tories. 8 +i : - This is one of the reasons why it is so difficult. to follow: the course of liberal and conservative policy and why no one can trust a label on a political scheme any more than on a bottle of bootleg liquor.

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson oe

'M a movie fan and don’t mind admitting it. Restful, soothing, dreamlike are the hours spent in a coma-like stupor while one is wafted into far places | on our modern magic carpet, to mingle intimately with night-clubbers, gangsters or the simple noble people who inhabit the shadow world. All about me sit other individuals who have chosen the same way of escaping reality. Some of them obtain their release through the romantic episodes, for they sigh with rapture while the love scenes are | showing; others seem to get’ their thrills from gun |. battles, or the exploits of brave adventurers, = = As for me, I am entranced slways by a simpler | fantasy—the speed with which the people on the | goreen put through their phone calls. As a wishful | thinking device, this little trick takes the cake. It is the greatest illusion ever thought up by the entertainment world. Week after week, year in and year | out, I am literally carried away with joy to. see the | hero or the villain or the lovely lady at times of crisis rush to dial a number and never once get the |: busy signal. More amazing still, the right party is]. almost instantly at the other end of the wire, | After a bout with my.own telephone, I hurry, like some addict.in search of his drug, to the moving picture theater and there find balm for aching nerves | in these satisfying visions. JHow far removed from | this sweet ecstasy is our daily existence! Maybe the men find it to get one another over the phone during office hours, buf; if you want to coms municate with a homebody--cne of our much lauded housewives and mothers—you will be up against an almost imposgible job. I don't know where the wome

-velopments of the year is the latest “sampling” of public opinion made by a magazine. : This survey indicates that the American public today believes in what is known as ‘collective security” — joint action by the democracies to restrain such aggressive statesmen as Hitler and Mussolini. ; It shows that Americans would be willing to fight to prevent conquest of Canada, Mexico or the Philippines, but that they are not now willing to take up arms in the defense of South America. It shows that they disapprove of

LET'S EXPLORE YOUR MIND

By DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM

All such boys should have special

-|treatment. Nearly all can be made into good citizens. CAN PEYCHOLOSISTS PREDICT IN ADVANCE THE BOYS WHO ARE MOST

LIKELY OE RIMINALS? ;

and feet To the cross invisible, in every street; : Just phim mortals of spirit and clay Praying for “Peace on Earth” this day!

DAILY THOUGHT

And Jesus answering said unto them, the children of this world marry, and are given in marriage. —Luke 20:34.

HE child is the: father of the man.—Wordsworth. :

the chief disputes will be over what to do with the General Accounting Office. . The GAO is an agency of Congress. Its job is to see that the executive departments spend money only for purposes which Congress authorizes. The reorganizers want to reorganize the GAO out of existence, and substitute instead an auditing division which will have power only to audit the money after it is spent. That, of course, would cut out some red tape and increase efficiency. _ A case which illustrates what the fight is all about has just come to public attention. The GAO has decreed that the Farm Security Administration can’t. lend ‘some three . smillion dollars for the purpose of building five co-operative hosiery mills. The GAO’s contention is that, while it might | be a fine thing for the FSA homesteaders to have some . hosiery mills where they can work, money which Congress appropriated was for the purpose of turning tenant farmers into farm-owning farmers, and not into mill hands. The FSA, on the other hand, contends that Congress + did give it power to set up the hosiery mills as part of its general rural rehabilitation program. The legal dispute will continue for some time. Meanwhile, according to FSA officials, the money. already has been lent and some of it . spent. But the effect of the General Accounting Office ‘decree will be to stop further spending until all doubts as to legality can be cleared. : : The reorganizers don’t want: the GAO to have the power to halt spending. But to us this certainly seems to be a case which proves that somebody ought to have such power. hi

SOUR NOTE T HE revelation that the Musicas spent a large part, if " -not all, the money they are charged with stealing, not. mn riotous living, but on efforts to lobby bills through various Legislatures is most depressing. It fills cynics the pessimistic conviction that there really is no hope. is a matter of common knowledge that, what with device or another, the politicians get away with an allingly large part of honest men’s money. Here is ence indicating that they clean out the crooks even effectively. What a world!--Baltimore Evening Sun. |

cles. We had two letters on|a piece he wrote, and both the readers who praised his essay took occasion to say, ‘Broun is terrible. Get rid of him and give us more of Akwood.’ In a jealous rage I strangled my ghostly competitor and we lost two subscribers, which caused the publication to suspend. “Furthermore, even when ypu are prepared fo go to bat for a cause, it isn’t a bad idea to insert every now and again in such a phrase ‘Ip my opinion.’ This may save you from & libel suit, and also inoculate you against that epidemic disease known as columnar swell-head. However, it is o1ly fair to admit that the vaccination doesn’t always take. I could show you &

forearm all scarred by the surgeon’s needle : «I must close now, because all this advice seems

s0 sound to me that I mean to stop outside and begin following it myself.” fot

Watching Your Health By Dr. Morris Fishbein i

Oe upon a time the tossed away as materigl of little value in the

human diet. Today it is recognized that tomato juice is an excellent source f vitamin C, containing in an equal quantity about half as much vitamin © as the same amount of oran, ala Of course, the person who is trying to be exceed. ingly economical will find that tomato juice costs less than fresh orange juice if only the vitamin C equive: alent is concerned, and that the price is very much less if canned tomato juice jis used. The value of tomato juice lies not only in its vitamin C content. The juice has also been considered to be excellent source of vitamin A and a good source of vitamin BL Morgover, it contains an appreciable amount of vitamin G. Since the scientists estimate the value of vitamin content in terms of | units, the reader may compare the value of tomato juice with the other foods he eats in relationship to their unitage content by the fact that a four-ounce serving of tomato juice provides 500 international units of vitamin A. of ih This is approximately one-fourth the amount of, vitamin A that the normal human being needs in a given day. It provides 28 international units of vitamin Bl which is about 1-11th of the dally re-. quirement of this vitamin, and 24 units of vitamin G which is 1-25 of the ds a hy Tomato juice is particular of those are reducing bx

liable tests can determine there is no special difference, either physical or mental. Two Yale psychologists, Dr. and Mrs. Miles, gave both physical and mental tests to men and women up to 95 years of | |age and at all ages their perform- . |ances were just about equal. Some | little evidence developed that ex-| ercise delays age, as Dr. Miles found that the forefinger seemed to preserve more of its vigor into old age than did the other fingers that are ‘lexercised less.

8 « » ¢ 3 A STANFORD psychologist, Campbell, - put carbon papers under the examination papers of large numbers of students so he could catch them if they made erasures and corrections after they had seef the true answers and before they handed in their papers. He found not only that far more of the slow students cheated, but that they were more willing to lie about it when caught. Several other similar experiments have Intelligence

NO. So far as the most reYOUR OPINION a.

YOUR OPINION aa.

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1 2= - They can not predict|78 worst boys in a city of 100,000. which particular boy is going|He had never seen the boys but to become a criminal but out of [after calling them in one at a 100 jay of 13 years of age, |time. and giving them tests of their are

say they can pick out the ones who|inner day-dreams, habits of ‘picked | given the same results,

je most likely to do so. One| thought, ambitions,

the