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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1938

E THE WHOLE ELEPHANT ISCUSSION of the national defense program reminds us more and more of the story about the blind men and elephant. One blind man, having put his arms around ‘animal's leg, announced that the elephant was like a >, Ancther, having grasped a tusk, insisted that the elephant was like a spear. And so on. This country won’t evolve a satisfactory defense proby treating each of its elements as a separate problem. We need to consider all these elements together—to see the program as a whole, not as a hodgepodge of unrelated parts. . Columnist Raymond Clapper proposes creation in Congress of a joint House and Senate Committee on National Defense. At present there are nine or 10 standing committees, each of which would be expected to consider some phase of the defense program, each working independently of the others. Mr. Clapper’s idea is that the Democratic chairmen of these standing committees and their top Republican members should be appointed to the special temporary committee. Then he would have the new committee tackle the job, first of defining our defense policy—that is, learning what itis we are going to defend—and after that of preparing a rightly proportioned program to carry out that policy. The suggestion strikes us as eminently sensible. Only by some such method can we see much hope of developing land, sea and air forces into a balanced | defense machine, with proper emphasis on each part and too much emphasis on none. Only by some such method can the citizens rea_sonably be assured that their money is providing the kind of defense America needs, not being wasted on unnecessary or useless things. That applies to Florida ship canals, now being reagitated as a defense measure, 20,000 pilots and

everything else.

THE DOCTORS STEP OUT

HE doctors of California have taken what looks like a long and important step with their new health insurance plan. : Wage-earners with incomes of $2500 a year or less will be eligible to, join the plan. An individual who pays in approximately $2.50 a month will be entitled to medical, : surgical and hospital services. He may select his own doctor and his own hospital. A corporation now being organized, with doctors, hospital superintendents | and businessmen as directors, will supervise operation of the system. The California Medical Association, with 7000 physician members, is the first state-wide organization to adopt such a plan, although the District of Columbia Medical Society has placed a somewhat similar proposal before its members. We're glad to see doctors stepping out boldly in this new direction. Even the American Medical Association’s conservative leaders are becoming less openly hostile toward what they call “socialized” medicine. The A. M. A,, itself, recently went quite a way toward agreement with President Roosevelt's Committee on Health and Welfare. Probably it will be said that such things as the

California plan are designed to head off compulsory Govern- |

ment health insurance and_to compete with independent group health enterprises. If so, what of it? We think the Government may have to assume a large share of the burden of providing adequate medical care for people who can’t afford to pay for it. But if the doctors can develop a satisfactory system, free from Government control, to provide adequate medical care for people who can afford to pay for it on a reasonable insurance basis, more power to them. Most people, in our opinion, would rather have that done by doctors than attempted by politicians.

AMEND THE FHA

S the motivating force of the present home-building spurt, the Federal Housing Administration has basked In paeans of well-merited praise. There are things about the FHA which may, however, be questioned—because they point to government ownership of a vast amount of residential property. To illustrate: John Doe is paying $35 a month rent on an unfurnished five-roorn house. Assuming that he is okay as to FHA’s

strict qualifiations, he can pay $360 cash'and buy a five-rdom |

house brand-new with all-inclusive payments, or “rent,” of only $23 a month. In one month he saves $12. In two and one-half years, $360. : In a time of increasing rents, John has saved his equity ~ and still has his $12-a-month “profit.” Time comes jo paint and carry out minor maintenance. John lets this go. Depression rolls around again. John still lets it slide. Rents get really low. John’s clapboard house looks very. dingy. ~ His $23 is more than he can rent a better house for. John moves away. ‘The property goes back to the Government. : : a | The realtors of America have asked Congress to extend ~ the FHA. Would it not be wise to ask Congress to amend

| the FBA law, too, and provide a sinking fund of, say,

2 per cent a yedr, to be paid in monthly by John,.so that he can paint when the time comes! to paint, live there

through thick times and thin, and, maybe, eventually own the place? : :

THEY CAN'T BEAT US | | ALFRED WILLIAMSON of Australia has set forth to

“ride from Sydney to Melbourne—about 460 miles—on ‘& merry-go-round wooden horse mounted on two pairs of roller skates and driven by a chain geared to bicycle pedals. | : Let it not be. supposed, however, that America is to be outdone in bold and useful contributions to the progress of transportation. Australia has Alfred Williamson, but we have Lawrence Nicholas, a 28-year-old laborer of St. Louis, who is preparing to float down the Mississippi River to New Orleans in a washtub buoyed up by an inflated

Fair Enough

By Westbrook Pegler

Hitler, Having Set the Pitch for This Name-Calling Business, Seems a Bit Ridiculous in Stand on Ickes,’

NZ YORK, Dec. 28.—Anyone who recalls Adolf Hitler's hysterical insults to the President of Czechoslovakia only a few weeks ago must agree that in complaining of intemperate speech on the part of Harold Ickes, the Nazi Government comes into court with filthy hands and a foul mouth. Since Hitler got away with that, he and his press have crowded their luck, and have gone so far as to edit the ballot in Britain and the press in numerous countries; and are trying to coerce the French courts in the celebrated Grynszpan case. ; ; These developments, of themselves, may be none of this country’s business, but they must be considered in connection with the Nazi threat of some time back to take an unpleasant interest in the affairs of that nation, to wit, this one, whose people habitually wear their hats in the house and put their feet on the table. The Ickes speech and the ensuing protest affords a useful opportunity for the nation of gangsters to declare itself on the subject of insulting repartee starting in Germany. ” ” & T is idiotic and may yet prove tragic that nations must address each other in the terms of bums bawling along a bar in a low saloon, but the Germans sounded the pitch and have just about exhausted not

only the patience but the nerves of the civilized

races. ‘ ; The same position that was expressed to the Nazi should be communicated to Mussolini's Government,

too, for the Italian press is no less official than the

German and has been equally malicious. Americans are inclined to overlook the fact that every attack on the American people, the coyntry and the Government which appears in a German or Italian paper, has the same official character as an utterance by the Fuehrer or the Duce. American newspaper comment is unofficial, and while it may be a more or less accurate expression of popular sentiment, the Government is not answerable for it. When Mr. Ickes sounds off, however, his

remarks, if not disavowed, are official, but nothing]

that he and the President himself have said about Germany and Italy compare in hostility with the official expressions about. this country which have appeared in the German and Italian press. - 2 = » i INCE Munich, the Nazis plainly have indicated that certain Englishinen may be given responsible positions in the British Government only at the risk of their displeasure, perhaps of war, and the British and French press both have choked up at times under the threats from Berlin and Rome. As to the official character and responsible nature of the foul observations about this counfry which have appeared in Germany and Italy, the Germans openly accepted guilt only a short time ago when they demanded that the Greek Government moderate the tone of its press toward Germany. The excuse was. made that the Greek, like the German press, was not official, though it was controlled, and Berlin promptly replied that because the Greek press was controlled the Nazi would regard its contents as official. That covers the case between Berlin and Washington, too, and gives the Nazi g far greater list of offenses to apologize for than Mr. Ickes, Mayor La Guardia and the President have amassed in their comparatively restrained comments to date.

Business

By John T. Flynn

SEC 'Called Off,’ Transamerica Not To Be Probad After All, Is Report.

NEY YORK, Dec. 28.—It is reported that the Securities and Exchange Commission is being “called off” in its study of the Transamerica Corp. The report is easily credited. It is said that every English Indian official has his pet Indian, and every Democratic Administration— since the Democrats began to live on corporate denunciation—has its favorite corporation. Every New Dealer has his pet ecotiomic royalist. And, while the banks have been pretty generally badgered and with much justice by the Administration, one great bank has found itself singularly free from this. This is the Transamerica Corp., the vast bank holding company which spreads over California and into other states, including New York.

The Transamerica was well-favored under Hoover. One of the oddest of the odd loans of the RFC was not the 90-million dollar loan to Vice President Dawes’ bank, but the hundred-million dollar loan to the Transamerica. It was the biggest and the most secret. But when Mr. Hoover went out of power, Mr, Giannini, master of this great institution, turned up as an ardent friend of the New Deal. And he has remained so to this day. Following the bank troubles of the Hoover days a great outcry went up against the evils of holding company banking, particularly the kind in which the holding company that ran the bank also went in for all sorts of other business as well. / A

Complications Invited

An argument can be made for holding company banking. It is not a good argument but at least it has some substance in it. But no“argument can be made for a holding company which operates a lot of banks and at the same time operates hotels, real estate developments, life insurance companies, fire. insurance companies, and a score of other enterprises as well. This is what the Transamerica Corp. does. But the SEC did raise a finger. It found in its investment trust investigation an investment trust hidden away among the complicated assets of the Transamerica. trust without investigating the banks and all the other corporate gadgets of Transamerica was impossible, just as investigating a bank held by a holding company is almost impossible. At this point the SEC proceeded to investigate the holding company. But apparently it was reckoning without the McAdoos and O’Connors and other Democratic politicians in California. But they could not call off the SEC. The question then is—who did?

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

GOMETIMES there come appalling doubts about the benefits of education for women. For what purpose do we send our daughters to

| college? The. answer is that we wish to help them

to have fuller, happier lives, or to become good citizens and better parents. Our aim, we say, is to produce women who will be assets to their social order. And, saying this, we proceed to nullify, sometimes by edict, all the efforts we have made and most of the money we have spent to improve them. Frankly,

| we have created such a badly regulated economic

system that reasonable, intelligent men discuss quite seriously whether one group of citizens—married women—should or should not be allowed to earn money. Unless we are committed to an attitude of uncompromising class distinction, this can mean only one thing: The, college girl who marries will be denied the right to use her education. And ours is a very expensive educational system, as you know, even though it is so poorly balanced. The grade schools and colleges employ a great many women as teachers, but few exercise any real authority in their profession. No one can deny that public education is largely in the hands of men. : Women are allowed to vote in the United States, even if they are not always allowed to earn. Certain political jobs are sometimes handed grudgingly to them, but after 20 years of suffrage, their political prestige is as week as skimmed milk. : In fact, it would seem that we have educated the girls away from the kitchen before we were

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: : ® He . The Hoosier For I wholly disagree with what you say, but defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltq

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OPPOSES WAGE AND HOUR BILL FOR STATE By Voiee in the Crowd . Now is the time for the people of Indiana to ask: Why a State Wage and Hour Bill? Why a Tsar to say when and how we shall work? It is time to ask why, after we have been born in a free land with a

| God-given freedom to work out our

own ends, the meddling reformers

should take the exercise of that free will away? : Mark you this, you come into the world with nothing, no matter how much wealth you create, you leave it here. when you go. You go through this life only once. So long: as you are decent and harm no man, why should your lives be ruled by cut and dried formula concocted by a bewildered crop of reformers that should be studying economics in our common schools? The way to raise the standard of living is to create more goods, not less, and to pay less taxes, not more. If you pile one bureau on another and one administrator and political job on top of another, production and distribution will be stopped, All of the money will go for taxes and there will be none left for the purchase of goods. Then you will have a dictator that will decree 15 hours work a day at low wages to create enough wealth to pay off the debt of a whole generation that slept their God-given lives away. If you don’t believe it, watch Europe. Where would we be if we shortened our hours and doubled our wages and looked at 60-cent milk and 40-cent bread and 80-dollar rent for the common man? : If- they are trying to raise false values and false incomes to collect false tax dollars, why don’t they say so, or if they don’t know what they are trying to do, why don’t they admit it? Or better still, why don’t we wake up and find out? On the day we have a Labor Tsar in Indiana we should drape the pictures of Washington and Jefferson and Lincoln, as their lives will have been in vain.

2 8 =n URGES FREE REIN FOR COL. HARRINGTON By H. L. Seeger ; If Col. Harrington will be allowed to use his engineering ability in the operation of WPA, instead of being shackled like Harry Hopkins, who was driven to “road manicuring” as a way out of depression, then we may yet get value received

out of the money to be spent on public relief work. : The follies of our business groups refused Mr. Hopkins permission to employ the unemployed at jobs that would have created their own needs with ‘their own labor. Self-help under public relief direction was

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“private” industry. The cost of “road manicuring” will be levied against those who have property and good incomes, since those on relief cannot be taxed to pay fo this make-believe work. : Let’s give Col, Harrington the #20” sign, to use labor only as an incident to do a real public work engineering job. 2 = =

THINKS JIMMY ROOSEVELT

TOPS HORATIO ALGER By Dr. Harry N. Nagle The Times requoted a question by Mrs. Roosevelt when she asked “Does the American public want the children of a President to go out and earn their own livings?” The editor of The Times answered it saying, “The American people—at least the great majority of them— want the members of a President's family to live their own lives in their own way, as fully as that is possible, They don’t want the members of a President's family to take advantage of his official position for their private profit ,. .” Does the editor of The Times think there are many men |in America who could have accomplished the same things as did James Roosevelt, the son of the President, when he, without prevjous preparation or experience, set up in the insurance business and in five years, in the face of business competition almost without parallei in America, established an income

NEW YEAR BROADCAST

By M. P. D. Over the hill and the plain Ringeth the radio of the year. Broadcasts of story White with glory. Stories of snowstorm Taking a form In white flakes gay Through the winter day. Wonder of sleigh bell Where the deep snow fell. Beauty of light In frosty flight. Broadcasts of New Year Ringing out clear.

DAILY THOUGHT

Canst thou by searching find out .God? Canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection?—Job 11:7.

B know God easily if we do not constrain ourselves to define him.—Joubert. , that is the talk of the country?

howled down as competition with

No one knows the amount, but it

[J ticul Jcan have practices in five years.

is estimated at around a million by vario writers. His success was all th know that the insurance business is as specialized as is the profession of medicine, but specialization made not e slightest difference. He sold gll kinds and took accounts away from firms that had policies in force for years. : Now we find that the knowledge of James is very diversified. Without any Horatio Alger stuff of beginning at the bottom and working to the top, we find that he has been made a vice president in the movie| industry at the amazing salary of $32,000 a year. It is all too complicated for our meager minds to comprehend for ‘we have to go to school for years, pass our examinations, spend money for office equipment | and then if we are on our toes, progressive, with pleasant personalities, immaculate in every par- , maybe with the “breaks” we

No the editor of The Times ‘would have us believe things that are g little too evident, unless we have been uninformed in the press returns. ! 2 ” » CARE OF OLD FOLKS URGED AS SLOGAN By Gerald W. Landis, Congressman-elect, Seventh District “Take care of the old folks” should be everybody's slogan in 1939.! I hope there are better times ahead for them and they have a happier Christmas next year than they have had this year. It was too bad the WPA administration disappointed many old people over 65 years by removing them from the WPA rolls just before Christmas. Most of them will be forced on direct relief until they can get an old age pension loan. However they will be forced to mortgage their little homes in order to get old age assistance. - Don’t forget the old people blazed the trail and helped make America what| it is today. Let us dedicate

ourselves to aid our old folks, dis-

abled widows and orphans and make America a better place in which to live for all of.our people. ® =n =

OFFERS PRAYER FOR MOTORISTS By Mts. Henry Edmondson

I found in a Kentucky paper a little prayer. I found it good and through your paper want to pass it on. May some motorist read it and may it be his prayer. “Grant me a steady hand and a watchful eye, that no man shall be hurt (when I pass by. Thou gavest life, and I pray that no act of mine may take away or mar that gift of thine. Shelter those, dear Lord, who bear me company, from the evils of fire and all calamity. Teach

me to use my car for other’s need, |

nor miss through love of speed the beauties of Thy world. That thus with | joy and courtesy go on my way.”

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/ : I THINK most parents and schools tend to do so. However, n all IT can learn about child

psy as play

ology they should, as much

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LET'S EXPLORE YOUR MIND

-By DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGA

16 ONE EVER JUSTIFIED IN, &

COMPROMISING Sl INJONS?

BEEN THE GREATER FORCE IV HUMAN HISTORY?

YOUR OPINION me

? POO sO Ques & Co

study the same books and the fact that they are different in any way be kept in the background until the

opinion of the best students as well as of the wisest parents.

a ” » ; 2 YES. If he does not he is a fdol. The wise man compromises his opinions all the time. He knows if he sticks to the idea that he is eternally right and could not ‘.e wrong, he cannot even keep his friends, let alone win his enemies. This | does not mean sacrifice of principle; but principles themselves are made up from numerous compromises with facts and personalities. | Morality is doing and getting the highest good out of life and *o do one must eternally deal with and compromise with other people’s ideas of the highest good.

8 o 2 T fine, tolerant philosopher, arry Overstreet, maintains that history has been dominated hy great intolerances”—religion, nations and the rich against

is now beginning to widen into main stream. In democratic tries—and only in democratic countries—we' are becoming more tolerant in religion, the rich are becoming more tolerant toward the poor, races are more; tolerant of other races and one

Gen. John Yin

| There Seems Little Basis for Belie} ;

more phenomenal when we

nations of each|to The ne foros. that is for-

son

That Hopkins' Transfer Is First Step

In Making Him Successor to F. D. R.

"TULSA, Okla, Dec. 2B.—The belief is abroad that the appointment of (Mr, Hopkins to be Secretary of Commerce (commonly called his “elevation” to the Cabinet) was a first love in a plan to name Mr, Hopkins as Mr. Roosevelt’s successor for 1940, x I doubt it. I even dpubt that a change from the

| Job as official broadcaster of billions to a stepchild

Cabinet office is an “el of being kicked upstairs

I doubt it even after the unusual fact that Mr, Hopkins was permitted to read Mr. Roosevelt's Christe mas night message to the nation as a part of Mr, Hopkins’ own opening speech from the throne. That speech smelt little as though Mr. Hop-

vation,” except in the sense

| kins may share the common belief that he is bee

ginning to be boosted hy his boss up the glory road, It pulled out the tremolo stop and took its hearers back to Harry's simple Christmas days in Grinnell,

Iowa. :

That marked him as a Westerner and not as he technically is, a New Yorker. The next President must be from the West and if Mr, Jackson is made At-torney-General that, with Mr. Hopkins would make five New Yorkers in the Cabinet. It also deplored erican class warfare. Nobody has done more to promote it than Mr. Hopkins with his “fight of the havenots against the haves.” His conversion comes quickly. The speech even figurative

ly kissed babies. Se it may be that Harry sees the touch of the fingey of destiny in the President's hearty slap on the

back, but it isn’t at all hard to see somethin different. g entirely

The disclosures of relief had made of

idespread election jobbery in i PA a dangerous political lia« bility. In the returning Congress the wolves are ale ready howling on the frail. Without some swift salvation, they would have torn all three to tatters and left large rents in the robes of Third New :Deal sanctity. : Mr. Roosevelt could

; have tossed them to the wolves, and been himself sadl

y torn. He could have kicked them into outer darkness—and admitted personal error, which he never does. Or he could have done what he did do, and shatched them, and himself, out of danger. But this required something more than absoluts assurance of WPA reform without seeming to admit the need of it. : : : \ 2 x = HE U. S. Army Engineer Corps has handled Federal public works for a century with ne charge of graft, or political monkey-business. Congress and the country knows this so well that it is a byword, The detail of U, S. Army Engineer, Col. Harrington, to run WPA taken with Mr. Hopkins’ general uplift and the smothering of Aubrey Williams in the “Youth Administration” was the cleverest single piece of political work of the greatest master of political strategy. But since it was a forced play, an only “out,” what is there left to indicate that the real object was to . make of Mr. Hopkins| a Presidential fair-haired fa vorite for 1940? At a critical time, to place a man in a job of great responsibility about which he knows Bovine is certainly tp put him on no easy path to glory. J

It Seems to Me

By Heywood Broun

Hopkins Extremely Able Official .

And Should Make Good in Cabinet.

EW YORK, Dec.|28.—It is my hope that Harry . Hopkins will increasingly become better known to the American public now that he has been made a member of Preside to me that Mr. Hopkins is one of the most useful and.

able young men who| have come into governmental

leadership in some time. : Curiously enough, | his capacities are not wi '™ known. Mr. Hopking is far from being a recflise. He is and will continue to be good newspaper €opy.

But this very fact has tended to obscure the salient i

factors in his mental and emotional equipment. For

instance, a good many columns have been written i Harry Hopkins likes to go to

about the fact that race tracks and make effort to knock down

a mild and timid wager in an the favorite. I've written two

or three of those light essays myself. My intention :

was friendly, because I have an enormous admiration for Mr. Hopkins. | But, in collaboration with other columnists, I reale

ize now that this sort of stuff has been somewhat

punishing. The picture of Harry Hopkins, the regular =

guy, has thrown a shadow across the more important

picture of a zealous liberal who is a tireless worker,

Not by any stretch of the imagination could Mr. Hopkins be called a minh He is not dedicated to revoe

lutionary changes in the political and economic struce ture of America. I assume that there may be opposition to his appointment on the ground that he is one of the Washington wild men. :

Devoted to Democracy

As a matter of fa t, this particular group has no

existence save in the mind of conservative and highly imaginative newspaper commentators. Nor is there any support at all for the rumor that Harry Hopkins has done a persuasive|and subtle job in leading Franklin D. Roosevelt to the left. * The story has gone the rounds that Harry is allied with Thomas Corcoran, and Benjamin Cohen in an effort to change the Democratic Party overnight into a Socialist regime. Nothing could be more silly. Mr, Roosevelt, right or wrong, has run his own show. It is my notion that Harry- Hopkins is not going to truckle to anybody, but he is a gcod listener and an understanding person. He is sincere and forthe right. Among public speakers I would rank him high, because he speaks with deep feeling and utter sime plicity. | ri : His Jevoiiop to American democracy is complete and uncompromised by any reservations. To sum it all up, a strong, able and progressive person comes _ into the President’s social family. And, so, saving the cost of stamps or telegraph

tolls, I'd like to say to Secretary Hopkins, “Happy New Year, Harry!” : . :

Watching Your Health By Dr. Morris Fishbein « : GoMETIMES many years pass before a product iso

lated and developed by the chemists can be adapted to diagn and treatment of disease. The

anesthetics were known long before they were used

for anesthesia. Nicdtinie acid was long available bee fore its special value was found for pellagra. A . A substance called heparin, which seems to have the ability to covered in the

body. Apparently this product has the specific quale ity of preventing coagulation of the blood, yet the mechanism by which it does has not been fully worked out. gal ua

There are two conditions in medical practice in which heparin would seem to have special possibilities. The first is in the transfusion of blood when it is frequently necessary to keep the blood from cos agulating as it is passed from one person to a second, to prevent the clotting of the blood parts of the human body.. = ~~ Since this product was first ‘discovered were made to use it for blood transfusion bu culties occurred because the product was i pure. Apparently the produéé

“when injected I human body in a pure form will def Maly. delay clotting time of the blood so that blood may ] taken from such a person and transferred into veins of another pérson without any

Roosevelt's Cabinet. It seems | -

stop coagulation of the blood, was dise — liver as early as 1916 and more recently has been found in pther organs and tissues of the