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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1938

YES, MORE THAN ENOUGH

VER the years since the Constitution first was ratified and the Senate first organized, Senators have been jealous of their right to participate in the conduct of our

foreign affairs. : :

In many a bitter fight the Senate has exercised its constitutional rights as a partner in determining what our foreign relations shall be. For the Constitution says that

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Fair Enough By Westbrook ‘Pegler

Wherein Concessions Are Made on Jobs for Women if Ladies Consent To Risks Which Now Plague Males.

EW YORK, Dec. 30--Before I yield any part of my contention that the wives of men who are gainfully employed should not be encouraged to occupy jobs which could be used by- unemployed heads of dependent families I must be promised compensating admissions from the ladies. The ladies, in such cases, must waive their right to alimony or separate maintenance in the event of domestic trouble, and, as a further condition, those with dependent husbands must accept liability for their continued support in case of divorce or legal separation. / This might answer the question “are women people?” And the equally interesting question ‘are husbands people?” As matters stand, the employed wife of an employed husband is legally entitled to a portion of his earnings in peace or, so to speak, war, but he has no claim or hers. Even though she be the much more capable and independent member of the team, the law is such that if she checks out or compels him to, she can force him to allot her a weekly allowance from his own inferior pay.

the President “shall have power by and with the advice 8 a8 =»

and consent of the Senate to make treaties, providing two- ” Often the Senate has used its veto power over treaties the President has negotiated ; often it has pinned its own reservations to the international agreements the White House has

* thirds of the Senators present concur. . « .

worked out.

So, against this historical background, it is not surprising that such men as Senators Borah, King and McCar- - ran should now be demanding that reciprocal trade treaties

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But we hope that this demand will never

our foreign policy.

But for decades—reaching an ignominious climax in the Hawley-Smoot tariff act—we saw tariff log-rolling

be agreed to. As regards other matters than tariffs, we believe there should be no encroachment of the executive on the Senate’s Constitutional power to advise and consent in determining

in House and Senate, and suTered severely therefrom.

By vote of Congress, backed by public opinion, that has

been ehanged. |

The progress made by the President and Secretary of State Cordell Hull under the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act has been one of the brightest spots in the New Deal.

We hope the record will not be darkened by a forced

change in the law that would cause these agreements to be

ratified by two-thirds, or even a majority, of the Senate. That would be but a return to. old-fashioned tariff log-

rolling. : And the country’s had enough of that.

A ‘DRIVE’ WON'T DO IT

HE new Secretary of Commerce, Harry Hopkins, has been talking to members of Congress about a possible national campaign to find jobs in private industry for the unemployed ‘— a drive to create a ‘re-employment

psychology.”

But, frankly, we doubt whether a great national “make jobs” drive, no matter how well equipped with slogans

or how loudly ballyhooed, could do much good.

tried before, and always it has fallen pretty

It’s been flat.

There can’t be many private employers who find pleasure in seeing workers idle or enjoy refusing to take on

people who come hunting for jobs. Every

employer we

know would much rather hire than fire and would be happy

to put more men and women to work today—if he. were

sure he could meet the payroll and earn a reas

In other words, we think that a “re-employment psy-

onable profit.

chology” already exists. It’s the normal impulse of busi-

ness to want to see men and money at work.

The trouble

_ is that something, or a ‘combination of many things, is

counteracting that psychology and causing resist its normal impulse. And it seems to

business to us that Mr.

Hopkins’ greatest chance for usefulness is not to organize

a ballyhoo campaign, but to find what things are keeping the “re-employment psychology’ from functioning and then a things out of the way.

do his level best to

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THE REAL GERMANY

Na dispatch to the New York Times from Harold Callend< er, a correspondént who recently has toured Germany

and Czechoslovakia, we read this:

“There were many instances of kindness by non-Jewish When Jews’ houses were smashed and - food supplies ruined and shops refused to sell to them, they often found that food had mysteriously appeared on their

This happened in country

‘Germans to Jews.

doorsteps during the n ght. towns as well as big cities.

“There are authenticated cases of Jews emerging moneyless and broken from concentration camps and receiving banknotes surreptitiously from ‘Aryans,’ and of

non-Jews—even Nazis—ziving shelter to homeless Jews.

“But such indulgence in the charitable spirit must be carried out with stealth and caution, for it conflicts with official ideology and with authorized conceptions. More careful ‘Aryans’ strive to forget. that they ever had Jewish friends, for who wants to go to jail or incur the displeasure

of the ward boss of the party?”

We knew, of course, that this would be so. Herr Hitler and all his Storm Troopers can never wholly stamp out the And there is something tremendously: heartening in this picture of “Aryans” going furtively, “with stealth and caution,” about the business of helping

charitable spirit.

their Jewish neighbors—risking punishment to be kind.

They, we like to think, are keeping alive the real Germany—the Germany that remembers human kindness as a This is the Germany that we believe will survive and triumph when the “official ideology’ of the Nazis comes

virtue. to its inevitable end. MUNICIPAL ASSET

“PY almost any standard of comparison, the Indianapolis 7 Municipal Airport can be ranked today among the finest commercial fields in the United States. The proposed ex- ~ pansion of its runways by some 4500 feet, together with ~ other improvements under way, wilt establish it as one of the few able to accommodate the giant air liners now on

the drafting boards of designers.

Recognizing these advantages, the Government has located its new aircraft radio experimental station here |! and aeronaptical concerns are considering locating plants strictly enforced below the Mason and Dixon line is at the field. Beyond that is its vast potential usefulness

for military purposes.

All in all, Indianapolis has an asset in its Municipal that only now is receiving the recognition it.

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F°2 convenience I am waiving the question of the support of the children, if any. By no means, however, should the gentleman be compelled to pay anything for the support of the lady in the case, and I would entertain a proposal that, in the abs sence of children, she be required to pay him a little something every week on the ground that she has permitted him to become accustomed to a scale of living, on- their joint earnings, to descend from which would impose a hardship on him. It is a heartrending experience for an unfortunate husband to find himself suddenly dependent on his own income after some years of luxury on joint earnings, the more so if the wife’s pay has been the larger, and still more so if he is ordered to pay a portion of his own poor salary to a lady who was more than a little scornful of his inability. 4 2 ” Soa ET, so cruel is the law that many males must pay or, in some states; go to jail. The theory seems to be that ladies, having married, are entitled to support and, if legally separated or divorced and legally aggrieved, are entitled to maintenance apart. The unemployed dependent husband of an employed wife presents a slightly different problem. Actually he is a wretched sufferér, miserably conscious of his position, but in the matter of responsibility he is still legally the head man, and his wife is not obliged to work for their support. He eats the bread of charity. And in time she may walk out or devil him with taunts until he is driven out, in which case it is not she but he who is legally expected to support not only himself but her as well. But in such a situation should not the wife be liable to his support and the women’s wing of the

sponsibility as equals and people? But there is no women’s wing. The plans of the architects and, some will say, of God himself didn’t provide for Saluy of the sexes in domestic economic responsiility. i : :

“ ® | 5 | The Hoosier Forum I wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

INSISTS MERIT PLAN WORTH FIGHTING FOR

By Homemaker

I am one of those naive souls who have made L. F. a little weary because of my insistence on a merit plan for Government employees. Perhaps the Administration will also find the topic so wearying that

alimony jail yawn for ladies who refuse their re- |

troversies excluded.

have a chance.

(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, religious con-

Make

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Business By John T. Flynn

New Year than events in Europe.

ter than we do. :

American observers is the behavior of England. on the continent.

nation against another and succeeded pretty well.

what nation England is driving at.Struggle in the Future trol of the economic system. classes in the various countries? any source?

enemy is Russia. .

at least they fight the same enemy.

has been.

Undoubtedly Italy will be in that.

hausted themselves in that titanic struggle.

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson .

more faithfully.

which smell to Heaven under their own noses. most cases they are even abettors to the outrage.

sections of their cities.

Thinks England's Game Is to Steer Germany Into War Against Russia.

EW YORK, Dec. 30—In the range of economics no set of circumstances looms larger for the

What happened in those swift few days of Berchtesgaden, Godesberg and Munich now become clear, though why it should not have been clear all along is worthy of wonder, since its meaning was described for us several days ago by men who know Europe bet-

The great mystery of the present European crisis to

England’s primary interest for a century has been .her immense and widely scattered colonial empire. Because her interests in the matter of land were everywhere but in Europe she made it perfectly clear to European governments that she had no ambition

But while she had no territorial ambitions there, she had very great interest in preventing any controlling power from gaining complete dominance. This was essential to the protection of her empire. Therefore she skilfully layed off one European

But now Americans ask why England has apparently abandoned this policy—why she permits Germany to expand in military and territorial resources. The answer must be thet England has not -abandoned her old plan of playing off the nations against each other. The confusion is in the failure to realize |

Whether we like it or not the realistic student of European affairs must see that Europe’s problem will slowly divide upon a great economic issue—the con-

Will it be controlled by the Communists or by the Fascists or by the highly privileged aristocratic ruling

For England the question is: Will England’s life be subjected to an attack upon her ruling classes from

To those groups there is but one real enemy in Europe—at least so the Chamberlains think. That

Bad as Mussolini is, vile as Hitler seems to them,

The one great problem in Europe today is for England to isolate Russia and if we understand that, it is quite simple to see how successful British diplomacy

It is to be a battle between Russia and communism on one side and Germany and fascism on the other.

But the stage is being set for a war that England can keep out of and in which Germany will be fighting the battle of Mr. Chamberlain's school of thought. It will be time enough, thinks Mr. Chamberlain, to deal with Germany and Italy when both have ex-

HE average son of Uncle Sam would be in a better position to preach tolerance if he practiced it

The jewel of consistenéy does not shine noticeably in many sections of our country, and it’s rather amusing to see men and women become so indignant over injustices abroad while they continue to ignore those In

One hears on every American street corner passionate denunciation of Germans’ intolerance to the Jews, and they are voiced by men who will not allow an American Jew to bélong to their civic or social clubs and who have placed residential restrictions which exclude Jews who pay taxes from living in certain

Some of the bitterest editorials written against Nazi mob-rule are penned in states whose laws do not prevent mobs hunting down and lynching Negro offenders, and thousands of people in hundreds of

it will do something about it—if only to stop squawks like this. (Just like a woman, eh?) To tell the honest truth I don’t believe it will immediately stop political trafficking in Government service, either. For I know that right now it is being partisanly used in the several departments where it is installed. But at least adoption of the system will be a step in the right direction. In time even the administrations may be glad to have it so for the better records in office theyll be able to make. And how we scan those records for.a chance to yammer! Also this callous hiring and firing for purely political reasons will ‘cease to be considered the accepted way of doing things. The standard will have been raised. ' And those politicians finding “causes” to discharge such employees without good reason may find themselves out of luck. “He who digs a pit for others >. 2 Indiana seems to have an especially greedy brotherhood of spoils-grabbers. But while I admit my cynicism I shall still try to do something about it as long as I can use a ballot. Do you suppose you can perk up- and do something about it too, L. F.? . ” ” ” 4

THINKS GERMAN PEOPLE

IGNORANT OF EVENTS By R. Sprunger . I wish to point out to E. F. Maddox that most of the German people are kept in a state of ignorance, and are only allowed to do what Hitler's dictatorship says is good for them. So how does Mr. Maddox think the German people are going to call Hitler to account for his words when he rules by brute force? True, there is a strong underground movement by Social Democrats and others in an attempt to rid Germany of this bestial government. But their progress is slow because they must be cautions. Also the Tory Chamberlain aided Hitler with his “piece” policy of giving away other people’s property. 1 don’t think anyone who sincerely believes in pure democracy will call another to account when he attacks all forms of dictatorship or those who promote it. The German press controlled by Hitler has started a campaign to attempt blackmail of Uncle Sam by calling for “internationalization” of the Panama Canal for the benefit of Germany, Italy and Japan. Mr. Maddox, you defended Champerlain. Do you advocate that

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Chamberlain settle this for us via Munich as he did for the Czechs? 2 2 2 WANTS CONGRESS PUT LID ON WAR TALK By E. F. Maddox It is going to take a lot of common sense and cool judgment to keep the United g States safe for democracy and at peace with the rest of the world for the next few years—but we can do it if we will determine that we are going to have it that way. : Congress and the President are servants of the people and the way to inform them that we desire peace and continuation of our good, oldfashioned constitutional democracy is to write, or telegraph, the President, Senators and Representatives and tell them to keep us out of war and

dictatorship.

We common people are sick and tired of war talk, and sly attempts to circumvent our Constitutional rights. We don’t want any more tricky laws passed by Congress on the pretense of war emergency. We are in no danger of attack and won't be for years. But there is danger that some of our radical officials will involve our nation in war. We must insist that Congress clamp the lid on war propaganda such as lured us into the World War. There is going to be a clash between fascism and communism in

JANUARY SHINES

By M. P. D.

January shines in ice and snow Over roads sharp and cold. It shines on the window pane With pictures in frost In the light, bright and plain. It gleams on the gate post In white silvery gloss. It whitens the hillside Where the schoolboys coast. It adorns the river wide With jewels of gold As in days of old. And shines in the light In radiance bright.

DAILY THOUGHT

And thou shalt have joy and gladness; and many shall rejoice at His birth.—Luke 1:14,

ANY children, many cares; no children, no felicity. —Bovee.

Europe and Asia and the hope of democracy and civilization is for England, France, the United States and all other democracies to’ keep clear and let the dictatorships have it out. They will come out in a weakened condition and the democracies can retain and preserve their full powers if they refuse to be drawn [into the war. England and France seem to realize that they can’t afford to fight to save dictatorships. We had better learn the same lesson.| The great majority of the American people are opposed to both mig and communism, but if we fight it will be to help one or

the other.

I would not sacrifice one American boy to save either of these foreign dictatorships, but there are thousands of people in this nation who would [gladly squander the lives and material resources of our great democracy to save communism, and others] would do the same for fasci But these are not real Americans. They do not speak for America. They are the agents of some alien dictator. We must not listen to their propaganda. { 2 8 ASKS CHIEF FOR MORE SAFETY ZONES By a end : Congratulations, Chief Morrissey on your reappointment by Mayor Sullivan. We know that you wiil continue to serve the community in the future as you have in the past. We know that you have a big job and that it takes a fearless and courageous man like you to handle

resolutions you make for the New Year is to establish more downtown safety zones. They are badly needed at all four corners of Illinois and Maryland Sts, on the southeast corner of Delaware and Washington ., and at Alabama and Washington Sts.—also at the corner of Capitol Ave. and Maryland St. f 8 » ”

URGES LABELING OF LIQUOR AS ‘POISON’

By hibitionist next Legislature should enact compelling liquor products to be labeled with a “truth in fabric” label. The label should state the alcoholic content in each package, as well as a notice that alcohol is a “habit forming narcotic poison,”

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body and mind. That should put

‘| the buyer on guard, much as the

“poison” label does on other dangerous drugs. e label should also state the amount of the state tax derived from this sale, as the price of state consent to the transaction for the destruction of its citizens. Let the

traffic regulate itself to death.

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LET'S EXPLORE YOUR MIND

By DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM

small towns through the Middle West are in a very lather of anger about Mr. Hitler's exclusion of nonAryans from Cierman cities. Yet these same individuals have written statutes on their books which Torti Negroes to stay overnight within the town

In fact, the one law most cherished and most

the Jim Crow law. Negroes cannot enter the -hotels, elevators, railway waiting rooms or any place else sacred to the white man. : We judge. the Nazis by their deeds, not by their words. Are we ready to apply the same judgment to ourselves? If so, there’s plenty of dirt to be cleaned 0) YT: s Ane

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BOTH physiologists and psychologists are strongly against it.| They believe, first, thére is nothto be gained by it and, second. t it often sets up bad nervous encies and feelings of inferiority, and may at times even be a factor in stuttering—one of the most serious of all human handicaps and one that is largely brought on by mistreatment and misunderstanding in childhood. : 2 8 8 4 OUR best evidence on this is that there have been more truly great: actresses than actors. ost the only actor of modern

t mortality is Edwin Booth; but seve actresses are about as well Siddons, Rachel, B re and Ellen Terry. Also, although it

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Gen. Johnso Says— | Oklahoma, Which Once lt Up for New Deal, Now Hea: In the Other Direction, Visit S 10 ULSA, Okla., Dec. 30.—An annual ‘holiday my own state of Oklahoma shows great’

since last year. It has been on occasion “Wi a woolly and full of fleas.” It will be that wa

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out as a rip-roaring New Deal stronghold. Just now it is headed the other way—and it can be just as “wild and woolly” on one side ag the other. o Its new Governor-elect Leon ¢. (Red) Phill 8 beat an extreme Third New Dealer outright WPA car didate, Dealers and white-rabbit pullers. jve within § He wants to see all spending covered by revert proposes to cut out all unnecessary spending. He is a middle-of-the-road progressive and classify in the Garner group of the Dem nn 8 Ae M= HENRY WALLACE should send out somes scouts—not of his regular organization—to see how Oklahoma farmers like this AAA. I found and wrote about a similar farmer attitude in South Caros lina earlier in the month. Except for cotton in easte ern Oklahoma, the crops are different but the senti= ment is the same. Ss Many, if not most of them, don’t like it. These | think it is too complex, Shat the restrictions on. | duction are too great and that they are not ge enough for what they give up, The allotments and restrictions for which “benefits” are paid, and the methods of calculating them are so intricate that they are hard for anybody but an| accountant to under- ° stand. Due to this, rather than to any monkey. business, injustices are done or farmers feel that they are being done—which has the same popular effect, I found it to be true in South Carolina that proposed restrictions on tobacco py oduction were so great that small farmers could not make a living or keep their help employed—even with the “benefits” proposed. The same complaint is made by small cotton farmers in Oklahoma. They voted for cotton restric tions partly because the surplus is so great, but mostly because their penalties are so severe that they were forced so to vote. | STREET

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T= dams, dikes and ta must build and the me they are to get “benefits” are His “benefits” are great eno his ranch vaiue is increased.

which livestock men jods they must follow if . k., for the big rancher, gh to pay for them and e complaint is general

| that this is not so of the liftle fellow and that the -

tendency is to freeze him out. i The wheat problem is worst of all. Nothing that has been done and nothing proposed by the Admin= istration promises to make a dent in it. I believe that its farm policy will have to|be simplified and made less dictatorial if the Third New Deal expects to hold Oklahoma farmers. . gtr] There is a strike in a great Tulsa oil refinery, Troops are being used but only, as they explain it, “ir. aid of civil authority.” | ; a aly All signs seem to say that Oklahoma is turning to the right—perhaps too far to the right just now,

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Simple. Assault) Case Points Moral For Belated Attack on Santa Claus.

1 TEW YORK, Dec. 30.—This year I neglected a old Christmas custom. I failed to write a umn panning Santa Claus. But perhaps a few lated words might strike some small response g now. A recent event in the City of Chicago made 3 subject seem pertinent. trip was for the purposey of engaging in mass carol singing, and sO naturs v1 was on the outlook for good cheer. Sa At the corner of one of, the city’s chief thorough - fares a Santa Claus was standing with bell and keftle for contributions. # so! Along the avenue came a lad, a sturdy little fel - low, whose eyes twinkled with mischief. He seized the “prop” beard of Santa Claus and stretched the elastic binder out a full two feet before he let it go. kerplunk into the face of Old St. Nick. But, fortu-+ nately, Santa Claus was spry, and before the prank= ish little fellow could |escape the giver of gifts fetched him a clout over the head and laid his scalp open: It was not possible for him to kick the antic urchin as he lay on the sidewalk, because a good-humored holiday crowd intervened. | The physician took three stitches in the boy's |head, and Santa Claus wag ‘and held on a charge

Stamford, Conn,,:in time unfortunately, I have nof learned of the subsequent proceedings. However, I feel certain that no jury of fathers could possibly convict the prisoner, particularly a couple of days after Christmas, when everybody is a little weary, Mind you, I'm not blaming the boy. Any other bright and ingenious lad would have done the same’t{hing if given the same opportunity. ' ~ 1 RR E Nt

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The truth of the matter is that a gulf is fixed between youth and age. [If there were such & thing as infant suffrage in the United States, Santa Claus could not even get 5: elected to the City Coui=

I had to get hon to trim the tree, an

cil. Santa Claus is a 2 invented by grown to scare the life out of the tiny tots and make ther know their place. Some impressionable youngsters can be kept tamed and |in subjection for weeks at. a time by threats that if they don’t behave themselves they'll be put on [the blacklist of the big toy monopolist. And when skepticism rears its. gallant head parents will lie and fight to the last ditch to keep the myth in being.| It is much easier to scare a child with fabrications|than to spank him. ° . Some of the little beggars are extraordinarily agile, and when a proud parent’s arteries begin to. harden he finds it quite a strain upon the heart fo chase a kiddie all around the living room in order to smack him down. The long run through a broken field takes all the fun out of the proceedings. It is 1 easier to sit in the rocker and growl at the brat witl some threat of what Santa Claus will do to him if

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Watching Your Healt By Dr. Morris Fishbein :

ANoTe the greatest of discoveries that have been’ A made in| medical those related to the glands of internal &# Among the most significant of the recent § products is testosterone propionate, a product is coming to be called the male sex hormone. While this product . i several years ago only recently has it me to obtain a preparation from the urine of ings, and still more re put together by the ch

chemical called choles known as testosterone. Since the product was developed it has tested in relationship many different p Ct even mental conditions affecting the human body use has been studied enlargements of. gland, in the treatment of overactivity of gland, in the case of women who seem to activity of certain of the glandular su veloped in their bodies, and in the case en who have lost the effects of certain gle stances from their bodies. © ~~“. = Men ‘who have suffered changes in the result of a complete deficiency of sex g have apparently been 4 pated with this have respon in such 'a’manner as the substitute takes the place to some

es. More recently some

me there are at least twice as many

] fo’ ol ¥ investigators that these glandular substances de