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Give Liyht and the People Will Find Their Own Way

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1938

:SPIRIT OF GOOD SENSE "M0 David Lawrence, publisher of the United States News, ~~ belongs credit for a fine idea finely carried out—the -Christmast night radio forum with national leaders discuss-

«ing the question, “How Can We End Class Wars?”

Among the speakers were: Secretary of Commerce Hopkins, who read President

| Roosevelt's brief message saying that “the spirit of Christ-

“mas is the hope of mankind” and then, on his own account, ~paid tribute to America’s “friendly families.” Vice Chairman Murray of the C. I. O., who urged that “#Government, labor and industry co-operate in an honest “effort to solve our economic problems.” : President Green of the A. F. of L., who expressed the

| | “wish for a spirit of good will among workers and between

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them and their employers. ; President Hook of the National Association of Manu-

~ facturers, who stated his hope for peace between the various

groups in our society through “mutual respect and con-

“fidence.”

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President O'Neal of the American Farm Bureau Fedration, who appealed to agriculture, labor and industry work together, ¢‘each seeking to complete the other rather Fo compete with it.” 3 Speaker Bankhead of the House of Representatives, ¥Republican Senator-elect Taft of Ohio, Associate Justice

“Reed of the Supreme Court and President Dodds of Prince-

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ston University, each of whom dwelt in his own way on the

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Sheed for tolerance, good will, friendly settlement of differ-

S8nces and recognition that the general welfare is more simportant than the special interests of any group.

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E-4 t 3 8. o o E think back to the holiday season one year ago. Then the economic trend was downward. Government, ibusiness and labor were blaming each other for the new iTecession. Administration speakers were on the radio, attacking the rich, denouncing “America’s sixty families,” uttering dire threats against business. Speakers for busi-

ness were replying in kind.

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: i Against that background, it seems to us, Sunday night’s . { broadcast was an especially hopeful event. Here were tie

political alliance,

{ spokesmen of elements which once seemed determined to { fight each other, now speaking together in friendly fashion. | Here were leaders of Government, labor, agriculture and “industry talking earnestly and reasonably about how Americans can unite in a common cause,

We don’t want td appear naive. There has been ho sudden dawn of millennium. The spirit of good will, about

~ which it is so easy to talk at this season, will undergo severe

strains in the months to come. Interests will clash, opinions will differ. There will be: controversy over this issue and that, as there must be among a free people who govern

~ themselves by democratic methods, We know all that.

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sister republics.

VARCHIE THE SCHOLAR

.. But we know, also, that if the spirit of good sense pre-

Lvails differences can be adjusted and controversies can be

settled, without that bitterness of hate which is so plainly the thing that is most wreng with the world today. And we hail the Christmas radio forum as one more indication

that this country may be trending in a new direction, into an era of good sense,

WE'RE STILL FRIENDS, ANYWAY

J)OUBTLESS there are some people in the United States who had hoped that at the Lima conference the 21 American republics would conclude an iron-clad military and

and thumb their collective noses. at the h-

rest of the world.

To those the Lima meeting may seem to be ending in failure,

1 But to our way of thinking it is something to be thank{ful for that, in the course of three weeks of debate, disagreement and compromise, the delegates managed to adopt 110 resolutions by unanimous vote, and today are winding up the ceremonies by delivering pleasant Speeches to each other. We don’t believe any other 21 nations on the globe geould do as well, ‘ : True, most of the resolutions were not of the spectacudar stuff that makes front bage news. They dealt with

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such ideals and principles as freedom of expression and

“women’s rights and such commonplace matters of co-opera-Stion a Swildlif

promotion of international trade, preservation of and Inter-American copyrights. : And the principal resolution, the declaration of Ameran solidarity, certainly was not worded in a way calculated to give much pause to the designs which certain Euro3 ictators appear to have in this hemisphere. There 18 not likely to be any letup in the undercover, boring-from-within activities which proved so effective in the absorption of Austria and the dismemberment of Czechoslovakia. But as Senator Borah has said, the solidarity declaraon~was a step in that direction. And surely Secretary ull’s patient negotiations and his final acceptance of the rgentine position cannot fail to have good effect in proving that the United States is willing to “travel with” her

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OST conspicuous in the new crop of Rhodes Scholars is Archibald Roosevelt Jr., grandson of T.R. and distant usin of F. D.,, who danced until 4 o'clock the other

orning, then went before a committee in Boston for an

examination—and won. : Young Archibald can read 12 languages. He frequently feuts classes” at Harvard, but he obtains honor marks. He ill complete Harvard's customary four-year course in three years and will go to England next fall to begin his studies Oxford on one of the scholarships established by Cecil odes. : /

This country may. run short of some things, but its

3 of remarkable Roosevelts. doesn’t seem likely to be ted very soon. :

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Washington By Raymond Clapper

Defense Program Is of Such Vital Importance, Joint Committee of

The. Congress Should Consider If. |

(Batting for Westbrook Pegler) ASHINGTON, Dac. 27—Recent world changes

have thrust so many considerations into the |

problem of national defense that Congress would be justified in resorting to special procedure. The most practical method would be to set up a joint House and Senate Comtnittee on national defense.

This would be = special, temporary committee. It

would be obligated to survey the whole field. It would ascertain what we proposed-to defend. First of all, it would define the problem. Are we going to protect merely the shores of the United States, or the hemisphere? Then it would prepare a rounded program to support the policy, covering Army, Navy, aircraft, industrial preparedness and the methods of financing. It all goes together. In this situation, it would be criminal to deal with the problem of national defense in the old piecemeal way. Can we do the job properly by working through some 10. House and Senate committees, each jealously going its own way? | : 8°" 8 NDER standard procedure you have the House Military Affairs Committee holding hearings, running its own show. The Senate Naval Affairs Committee runs its show. Neither knows nor cares what the other is doing. How can you relate air strength and the Navy, or Army coast defense and the Navy, without considering them together and in relation to each other? How can you decide how many Army airplanes are needed until you know what the Navy is going to consist of? These matters are all tied together and they should be considered together. - You can’t have properly balanced national defense when you cut the job up into small pieces and distribute it among some 10 different committees each working independently. The working out of the defense program would be scattered piecemeal among the standing House committees on military affairs, naval affairs, appropriations and ways and means, and among the Senate committees on appropriations, foreign relations, military affairs, naval affairs and finance. Duplicate hearings would be held, and there would result .a long time-consuming scramble in which Army, Navy and aviation each would grab as much as possible. : 8 2 |» HE Joint House and Senate Committee should contain representation from all of these committees, plus perhaps that of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, which, while of little consequence ordinarily, does have jurisdiction over neutrality legislation, which must be considered in connection with the whole national-defense problem. Put such a committee to work, first on a carefully organized program of hearings to gather expert testimony and second on the drafting of a balanced, unified program. Then Congress will know what it is doing. Bring such a program before the full membership of the House and Senate, under the auspices of such a special joint committee, and it would be entitled to respect. Because of the men on it, such a committee would be powerful enough to protect the program from raiding on the floor. Such a special joint committee ought to produce the pest program that is possible under our system— one that provides enough but not too much, balanced and proportioned adequately to the needs of America at this hour.

Business By John T. Flynn

Billion Authorized . Last June for Recovery but Only 68 Million Spent.

EW YORK, Dec. 27.—As the year draws to a close orie wonders what has become of the great Public Works program of more than a hillion dollars authorized last June and which was to lift the country out of the recession then going along merrily. Although authorized, only 68. million of that money actually has been spent. . For several months after- June, almost weekly announcements were made giving huge totals of projects that were authorized. The impression got around that ‘a vast pouring of public funds into public works, instead of WPA, was to be the Administration’s final bid for recovery. Then an announcement was made that all of the vast sum had been authorized and there was no more left. The WPA appropriation purposely was kent down because PWA was to take up the load as the days went on. But now WPA funds practically are exhausted and PWA iis still far from being under way. Rumors have got around that PWA funds are being purposely held back in order to have them available for military construction when Congress meets. The argument will be strong that the armament plan will thus cost very little more than the funds already provided. But in the meantime, what becomes of Government expenditures for relief and work relief? If there is any validity in the claim that public works expenditure will produce recovery, then is it not’ plain that any plan which tends to divert them into war expenditures will postpone their expenditure and postpone recovery results?

Armament Is Something Else

The question whether we are to have a great armament program is one thing. One may hold what view he wishes on that. But it will be idle to suppose than an armament program can begin to have much effect on business for some time to come. Six years ago the President, when the first PWA money was appropriated, was urged to go in for low-cost housing. This he refused to do. Here and there a few housing projects have been built at costs and at rental rates which put them completely beyond the ‘reach of the low income groups. Had the President six years ago got behind a real low-cost housing program we would now know something perhaps about low-cost housing construction. But now, six years after the New Deal began, it is a

little late to talk about housing. Apparently, we.

are to have battleships. instead of houses.

A Woman's Viewpoint

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

T= President General of the D. A. R., Mrs. Henry M. Roberts Jr. suggests that every citizen be

provided with a concise definition of Americanism, one simple and clear enough to be used in a child’s primer.

It’s her plan to promote patriotism, and a pretty good |

one, too, provided we can agree on an interpretation.

So far, most attempts to do so have been confusing, .

- GENERAL OVERHAULING

Gen.

Johnson Says— Campaign for Permanent Funds : ‘To. Fight Infantile Paralysis Is .

Nonpartisan and Entirely Worthy.

QT. LOUIS, Mo, Dec. 27.—Somebody—nobody connected vith the White House, with politics, or with Mr.’ Roosevelt—asked me to become chairman | of a committee to provide a fund to fight infantile paralysis in New York City. There is one slight reaction which is both curious and unusual. I find a very distinct resistance. It is apparently based on the fact that a brogram to finance a similar fight started several years ago, with a series of birthday balls celebrating the President’s popularity. Punds collected above expenses provided money to improve conditions ,at Warm Springs and for medical research into the as yet undiscovered causes of this disease. ; : I saw some of that and certainly approved it. It was showma ship in a good cause. But what is being tried this year is very different. It attempts to set up a permanent fund to icarry the fight into every county and/ make it continuous. The main idea is, during January to secure small contributions from people who| cannot afford to make large ones. The effort: is completely nonpolitical and nonpersonal.

been mentioned here before, the question of geting sufficient medical attention for the poor by haying them contribute a little in the nature of insurance from day to day, in the hope of receiving medical aid when necessity comes, has become foremost in national attention. I have’ seen this popular demand growing constantly. Resistance to it from conservative groups of the medical profesthe epithet, “socialized medicine” seems as unwise gs it is unkind, : i resistance against the drive to provide some kind of clinical service for the piteous sufferers of infantile paralysis does not come from the medical - profession, but it seems even more unkind. It is made

{on the ground that the effort is too closely per« || sonalized and tied up with the President’s well

known suffering from the same disease. The effort in New York and, as I am told, everywhere will not

be based jon the circumstance that the President

W | was once |a victim of this disease or that the day

The Hoosier Forum

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

CRITICAL OF BOTH HITLER AND ICKES By Edward F. Maddox The private argument between Herr Hitler of Germany and Harold L. Ickes is not of - sufficient importance to cause -any strain in diplomatic relations between this country and Germany. It doesn’t amount to any more than Hitler's tiff with Mayor LaGuardia of New York. And Mr. Hitler had better learn that the threat of a great army and air force strikes no terror into American citizens as it does with his near neighbors. He must accept the fact that he cannot intimidate, nor censor free speech and press in the United States. In fact he has shown mighty poor judgment and statesmanship in his recent moves. He can’t afford to make enemies by illadvised threats, complaints or persecutions—or by interfering in the internal affairs of other nations. Mr. Ickes is famous for vituperative speech. He even maligned the dean of Democratic Senators, Carter Glass. I believe he called him a “political hypocrite.” ‘In this land of free speech even: the President has been raked over the coals. Any dictator who engages in attacks on democracies in general, religious or racial persecutions, and attempts to censor free speech against his policles is using dangerous diplomacy. If Mr. Ickes and Mr. Hitler want to fight let them meet on some desert island and settle it man to man. The. people of Germany and the United States should call Mr. Hitler and Mr. Ickes to account for their

foolish personal attacks lest it lead

to war and bloodshed. In future arguments they should get in touch by private telephone and call each other names to their hearts content. ' Propaganda Minister Goebbels of Germany had better cool off and change his tune, too. Such dipiomatic baiting is fraught with war, death and disaster.

; 82 2 = ASKS BACKING FOR LUDLOW AGAINST WAR By W. H. Collins

Please permit me space to appeal to all Christians, especially the true followers of the Prince of Peace, who taught love, kindness and justice for all. \ This is an appropriate season— when hearts are full of love, joy, tenderness and sympathy—to assist the Hon. Louis Ludlow in his great appeal to the Congress and the American people to keep the United States out of wars. Let us come to his aid in every possible way.

(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.)

LOST FRENCH ‘COLONY TEACHES LESSON | By B. C. : We talk so much about rapid communications in our modern world that we often forget about the lonely, isolated spots where men live completely cut off from their fellows and where human survival is a precarious thing, ~~ : So this little story about the lost French colony on St. Paui’s Island, which sounds like something from the old sailing-vessel days, is a good reminder that we have not yet either conquered nature nor anni-

hilated: space. ; Some 40 or ‘50 French fishermen

YES! WOULDN'T IT? By VERNER L. HOWELL Wouldn't this old world be better, If the folks we meet would say, “I know something good - about

you!” And then treat us just that way?

Wouldn't it be fine and dandy, If each handclasp warm and true, Carried with it this assurance? “I know something good of you!”

Wouldn't life be lots more happy If the good that’s in us all Were the only thing about us, That folks bothered to recall?

Wouldn't life be lots more happy, If we praised the good we see? For there’s such a lot of goodness, In the worst of you and me.

Wouldn't it be nice .to practice, That fine way of thinking, too? You know something good about me! I know something good of you!

DAILY THOUGHT

He shall call to the heavens from above, and to the earth, that he may judge his people.—Psalms

y EDEMPTION js the science and

" Peace on earth, good will to men!

the song of all eternity.—Pollok, : ‘ :

went to St. Paul’s fo catch lobsters. ‘St. Paul’s is about as remote a place as there is on the globe; an utterly barren, rocky little island far down in the south Pacific on the rim of the Antarctic ice shelf, it has no resources whatever except the lobsters which inhabif;, its foreshore. A

‘| worse place for people to run short

of food and fuel could hardly be imagined. That seems to he what happened to these French fishermen. They did have one of the modern world’s space-killing gadgets—a radio; so they were able to send back word of their plight, and a ship sailed to their rescue at orice. But somehow the thought of this little band of people, marooned on the bleak rocks down ‘in the region of eternal storm, ice and loneliness, stays with you

and sends a bit of a shiver down your spine,

For this world is not quite as safely regimented and controlled a place as we usually assume. In our urban society we' may never come in contact with the elemental perils of danger, hunger and cold; but we are just lucky, and it is dangerous for us to forget that human life exists on this planet on the same terms it always did—as a constant struggle sgainst an environment that is forever hostile. This earth would go spinning on

through space quite as serenely if|

it had no freight of human life at all. It spun that way for some scores of millions of years, if the scientists are to be believed, and it may do so again. Our tenure here is. not so solid or so permanent that we can afford to take any chances. And that is why the present tendency toward war, destruction and general conflict between races, nations and groups is such an ominous thing. This tendency may very easily destroy the great fabric of our civilization; and we do that only at our dire peril. For the machinery by which we hold off these natural, elemental threats to our earthly existence is extremely complicated, and like most complicated things it is very delicate. We could smash it beyond repair if we got too brash and flip with our bombing planes, our blockades and our gll-round talent for destruction; anc if we do so, all of us may find ourselves up against precisely the sort of thing the colonists on St. Faul’s Island are up against—only we would not have any place to send radio messages.

as no two people seem to have the same conception | &

of the word. : The businessman, who has suffered bureaucratic trouncings from Washington, believes we already have departed from democratic principles: the working man, whose wages have been upped under new laws, is just as certain that the New Deal is restoring lost ideals. To those who advocate rugged individualism, there is something sinister in labor strikes, while the person who leans toward liberalism fears Fascist encroachment if we follow standpat methods. The militarists say the pacifists are a patriotic menace; the pacifists retaliate by accusing warmongers of treason. So there we go—everybody with his own pet theory and few ready to listen to the other fellow’s interpre tation. When we speak about the ideals for which

cur forefathers died we overlook the fact that many fought to take the country away from the Indians as willingly as they did to free the slaves. : Americanism is as much a state of mind as a principle of government, and for that reason a simple definition is hard to give. It might be interesting, however, to offer a prize for the best one and see how many contradicting opinions would be aired. - ~~ Certainly most, of us agree that the best synonym for Americanism is tolerance. Unless we can preserve thai, none of the other definitions will have any real

YES, much more. The whale-‘bone-corseted, hooped and multiskirted, much-bustled, over-clothed woman of the Victorian. era was not only nét at all like a man but

jwas not even like a human being.

Now, in her two-piece bathing suit or heach pajamas, or in her mart,

LET'S EXPLORE YOUR MIND

By DE. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM

_J6 IT AN ADVANTAGE TO KNOW: go He YOU HAVE INHERITED

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form-fitting — not corset-fitting — dress and short athletic skirt of today she is much more like man because she is much more like a ; being. Th AB am:

human Was not like anything

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MIGHTY little, if any. Perhaps if a lot of your ancestors were musicians, artists, writers, doctors, lawyers, mechanics, ete., it would give you a little more confidence in choosing these vocations than if there had never been any

|such persons in the family. But the

chief thing you and your vocational

|counsellor wish to know, is what

powers, aptitudes, interests, ambitions. and education you have now. When you find these out you can forget whether your ancestors were geniuses or fools. Eo ® 8 %8: HE not only can but often-does. More than 5000" college ors were given a “comprehensive ‘examination” by the Carnegie Foundation —and, believe me, it was compre-

human culture; many of the freshtook the examination and passed far better than the seniors! The “Study” concluded this was not en-

study or because the teachers did not teach, but because the courses

hensive—in every major field ' of

men, sophomores and juniors also

tirely because the students did not:

were organized in separate, unrelated units so a student did not have to use unit No. 1 to Jearn No, 2, and Nos, 1 and 2 to learn No. 3. So the .knowledge leaked out’ of . the| bottom of his head faster than the|g professors could pour it in at the

of the end of the drive happens to be his birthday,

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blication in this country has been more ical from time to time than this" column on egarded as the errors of this Administration, But so far as the President is concerned in this connection, it cannot be denied by anybody with less than the| prejudiced sentimental hide of a rhine-

| oceros that his conquest of this disease to the poins

of overcoming and making himself President of the United States is an inspiration of hope, comfort and courage to every person suddenly and blamelessly afflicted by the same blight. : - This circumstance is a lucky and spectacular aid in. this campaign. - But it neither makes nor destroys votes. It would be unwise not to use it. That a person should refuse to put his weight behind an effort which promises so much to relieve children of this curse, on the ground that a political adversary was once blighted by it, is something like refusing homage [to George Washington -beca he had wooden false teeth and died of quinsy. I have been able to talk most df the resisters whom I thave seen out of this pesition. It has always turned out to be a case of misunderstanding,

Aviation By Maj. Al Williams Hot Coffee at 9000 Feet With the Mercury 7 Below Not So Simple.

| (Batting for Heywood Broun)

UG and spice and all things nice—whoops, he's a fighting pilot! | : : A kind and thoughtful friend presented me with a thermos) bottle recently and I took-off from the warm Southland for the frozen North. a : As I progressed northward at 9000 feet, I felt the cold. e outside temperature was seven degrees below zero. Ahead of me,

at the same level, I spotted the trim outlines| of a big Eastern Air: Lines transport going north. I was making 207 miles an hour and rapidly overtaking the big fellow. Off his right wing tip at a good distance, I wiggled my wings. The copilot of *| the transport waved his hand. I sat there in formation for a few minutes. I knew the interior of that bg ship was heated to a very comfortable temperaure. . The

I thought of my thermos. bottle. Holding the co

trol stick between my knees, I unscrewed the top. Immediately, three inner cups fell to the floor and distributed themselves among the maps that were sc ttered there. x x Plays Tag With the Cup : I couldn’t reach the cups on the floor. I pulled away from the transport, tipped the Guifhawk up, and groppe ‘the left wing, The two cups raced across the oor . | I Over went the nose of the Gulfhawk and down went the right wing. This time I grabbed both cups

as they raced for a far corner, with the ship standing on its nose. :

I tucked all three cups inside m olf jac wedged the control stick between nl pd to work the cork of the thermos out with my teeth when an idea flashed through my mind. insisted upon filling the bottle to the brim mi—at sea level—forgetting that I ‘might open it at 9000 feet. The atmospheric pressure at sea level is 14.7 pounds per square inch, At 9000 feet it’s re duced to 10.4. : The boiling point of water at sea level is 212 degrees Fahrenheit; at 9000 feet it's only 195. I squeezed the cork to unseat it lightly. Sure’ enough, the hot coffee and steam squirted out vigorously. I put the bottle on the floor and tried to coax the

pressure out without flooding me and the cockpit with

scalding coffee. It was no go. The outside cold was driving its barbs deeper and deeper. Re I looked longingly at the sealed hot coffee cone tainer, shivered, and flew into the icy Northland,

mumbling: “What a scientific guy am Ii”

Watching Your Health By Dr. Morris Fishbein | |

CANT advances in medical ‘science during are related particularly to the development new methods of diagnosis and treatment of e. Particularly important among the greatest discoveries are those contributions on the treatment of pellagra with nicotinic acid. :

In the South many thousands of people suffer with this condition. Among the general symptoms are inflammation of the skin, loss of appetite, diarrhea, sore tongue, and various forms of neuritis. In some cases the mentality may be involved. Dogs frequently suffer with a disease similar to this condition which is called black tongue. :

Some years ago the late Dr. J. Goldberger of the Uni States Public Health Service found thst the people who suffered particularly. with pellagra were those whose diets were lacking in certain fundamental factors, . Families with pellagra used little milz, few vegetables. and their diets consisted largely of careals. The chief factor in these diets was the lack of fresh foods. Later it was established that the eating of a diet containing considerable amounts of liver, yeast, = vheat germ prevented the occurrence of these symptoms. rie Va |The significant factor seemed to be certain parts of ‘the vitamin called vitamin B which is now known to be a mixture of many different vitamins. Apparently the factor in this vitamin which cures % tongue in dogs and which likewise controls pellagra in human beings is nicotinic acid. .° La | The product has now been tested on mahy patients in whom the reddened areas in’ the an

to improve; the excessive flow of saliva ‘dis 0 ed. | The reddened areas on the hands of th patients began to whiten 48 hours after the nl cid |

as first gdministered. Apparently if the been disturbed mentally: before he got ths the nicotinic acid- will cure the pellagra bus: