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Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1938

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__.. AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR!

“HE new calendar is neat and unsmudged. The annual 2, impulse to write off as water-over-the-dam the blunders _ and tragedies of the old year is almost as irresistible as .. usual. : But it is only “almost.” al Perhaps as an individual one can still say to himself: ~ “I did thus-and-so that I shouldn’t have done; an unkind destiny did this-and-that injury to me; still, here is a new start, a clean page, perhaps a year of better judgment and

~ =sbetter luck.” |

But as a citizen of the world it is hard to do that.’ The events of 1938 are not past; their cumulative effects are a dark cloud that casts a frightening shadow over the new calendar. : : ~ But why list the hates and failings of mankind ? Theres 10 bottom to the wells of pessimism. And after all there must always be that chance of a sea-change—of a turning ‘back toward the ways of peace and decency and sense. A new year, a new calendar, a new horizon, a new if wraithlike hope. 2 Boy, we've changed our minds. Fill a fresh glass for a toast to the New Year! But we'll drink it with a prayer.

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THAT MAN BARKLEY—AGAIN

“A JONE other than Senator Alben W. Barkley now shows

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* up, to tell what should be done to prevent politics in 3 relief. : If this be a late repentance, fine. But, lest we forget, and to guard against credulity that may prove extremely expensive, the record, of Mr. Barkley himself on this matter # should be examined with a microscope. That record calls id suspicion. It cries out for all the “show-me” of the + sturdiest Missourian; for a resounding “who goes there?”

Sa §1t may be a Greek with what merely looks like a gift.

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For Senator] Barkley was the one who led the fight : which beat the Hatch amendrffent on that hot night in June, i less than eight months ago. The Hatch amendment declared against politics in relief, as a matter of public policy. It was a very mild amendment. It imposed no penalties.

~Z But it did express a principle which Mr. Barkley sweated ~ ¢ and shouted to oppose. He won by a dripping eyelash. If ¢ he hadn’t there would have been a different story.

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“i Governor Happy Chandler of Kentucky. The burden of

: Mr. Barkley’s plea was that they’re doing it with their :-funds, and so must we—that two wrongs make a right.

No more cynical scene was ever enacted in the Senate | : of the United States; so-called statesmen, facing summer |

: campaigns, squirming before an obvious issue of right and ! wrong, finally taking the easiest way by voting to stream- : line the speils system, and Mr. Barkley declaiming: “We : all know that there is not a state in the nation in which : the political organization which is in control of the state : does not prostitute for its own politcal purposes the em- : ployment of men and women,” and thus seeking to. justify : similar prostitution in WPA, : Small wonder that 250,000 copies of the Barkley speech were circulated in the campaign—not by Mr. Barkley but by the opposition; that the Stokes investigations in Kentucky and later the Sheppard committee investigations ‘brought a public| revulsion; that; as the coming Congress convenes, WPA is political dynamite ‘even though Harry Hopkins is gone; that there is no longar resistance to doing something about it, but only the question—what? In looking for the answer we advise—watch Mr. Barki ley. And remember that the hand can be quicker than the eye, =. + wn es

13,530,900 PENNIES EARNED

POSTMASTER GENERAL FARLEY'S annual report tells how 100,206 mail bags were salvaged for further use after their bottoms wore out. The worn parts were trimmed off and the sacks were restitched, so that though ‘slightly smaller they were still serviceable, and Mr. Farley estimates that this saved the Government $135,309. Now $135,309 isn’t much, as things go these days. It's ‘a minute fraction of a per cent of the $772,445,607 total cost of running the postal system. It is, in fact, the kind of sum that a good many people in Washington talk of as “only a drop in the bucket.” 2 Still, $135,309 is $135,309—more money ‘than a citizen could earn by working hard for 90 years, 300 days a year, at $5 a day. Let’s be glad for this evidence that someone iin the Federal Government remembers what was said by ‘another Postmaster General, a Mr. Benjamin Franklin, to ‘the effect that a penny saved is a penny earned.

NOT FOR US

{IN Mexico, where the Government owns the telegraph sys-

I~ tem, President Cardenas has set aside a daily “complaint

a hour,” during which citizens may send free 20-word mes-

sages of complaint to the Government, st This struck us, at first, as an excellent idea. On sec-

‘ond thought, however, we have decided not to advocate

anything of the kind for this country. In the first place, pwhat American citizen could put his complaints into 20

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T isn’t spectacular work. And it seldom gets on Page One = of the newspapers. But the continuous fire prevention program being carried out quietly in the United States is an

mportant factor in reducing losses from fire and the num-

er of deaths due to burns, explosions and conflagrations. It is especially gratifying, therefore, to learn that Ingiana has just won first honors in the International Fire Prevention Week campaign and that Indianapolis placed cond in the State. These are high honors, indeed.

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Fair Enough

By Westbrook Pegler .

Criticism of Government nV. S.

Real Democracy in Action, but Fascists Don't Seem to Understand. EW YORK, Dec. 3i.—Some of our people lately

have come to think that it is disloyal to the country to criticize the errors of the National Ad-

ministration and fo wage controversies between groups

within the population because this gives aid and comfort to the enemy, heing loudly exploited in their press as evidence of the failure of our kind of Government. ; i : I argue that the reverse is true, that the disunity

is no more than skin deep and that the Germans ‘and Italians deceive themselves in believing that democracy is decadent because it indulges in selfcriticism. In fact, this criticism, including even silly and petty fault-finding as well ‘as sound and wise opposition, proves the vitality of the American system and helps to preserve it. If dissent and opposition were waived here in order that we might make a front, that would call for acceptance of the judgment of a very small group of officials dominated by one man who himself has indicated no desire for such responsibility, although

| Some Americans think he has. ; Mr. Roosevel: leans heavily against his opposition, but if it were suddenly withdrawn he might fall on his face, and ali of us with him, and in that |

case the enemy would have cause for rejoicing. 2 #8 #8 I HAVE read that anyone who has criticized the New : Deal or the President has no right to resent insulting observations about the American Government and the President in the press of Germany and Italy. his forgets, however, that those are not free papers,

t weapons, like guns, which the two head men use |.

to toss cracks at a nation ‘with which their countries are on nominally peaceful terms. : If Cordell Hull were to call Italy a land of gangsters that would be no more official than: the same insult to this country published repeatedly in the Italian papers. : A free country is like a family whose members have differences of opinion and sometimes get into rousing scraps. Being all in the family, such utterances are privileged and usually are resented much less than the same cracks from an outsider. In fact, let an outsider repeat the same remarks and the Jastillys impulse is to close up and belt him one for uck. ; / 2 ls La 2. 20 5 2) O just wha extent would it be safe to go in withholding criticism of Government policies and the declarations of important individuals in the privacy of the family circle? No line is drawn: so if people be-

gan to choke back they ‘might find themselves ignor-

ing errors which seemed disastrous to them. ; : It is certain that the voluntary and compulsory censorship of the press and speech during the World War cost this country much by covering up many bad failures, The papers and the people were glad to get their rights back after the war, and the conclusion was that, although there had been some expensive and inexcusable flops, the result was worth the price. But, in Great Britain, Lord Northcliffe had to take a chance of serious consequences to expose to the public the shortage of ammunition and the fumbling incompetence of many high officials. : Criticism of the New Deal, dislike of and opposition

to President Roosevelt and his policies do not consti-

tute disloyalty to the United States, but, on the contrary, serve as regular workouts for our democracy.

Business

By John T. Flynn

Government Spending Necessary

1 ° : x stil But Won't ‘Bring Real. Recovery. |e ought to include rk Bde

A\TEW YORK, Dec. 31.— There is a violent argument

center, on the effect which the Government's spending program has had upon the course of business. Mr. Eccles says such recovery as we have had was

the result of Government spending and that without it the country would have been ruined.

His critics say ‘had it not-been the Government's spending policy private investment would have gotten into action arid that real recovery has been prevented by Government spending.

Both sides ignore some important factors. There is no doubt that Mr. Eccles 1s right when he says the recovery we have had has been due to Government spending. He is also right when he says that without Government spending the country would have been ruined. But whether the Government spending has produced any “real” recovery is another matter. Whether the spending has heen wise is also another story. And even more important is the question whether the policies accompanying Government spending ‘have been calculated to aid recovery. On these points the verdict must be against the Government. - Private investment is essential to the functioning of the capitalist system. The Government spending brogram was desisned to take the place of private investment. Now private investment had completely collapsed by 1931. Two great problems faced the nation as a result:. To reform the abuses which had fouled the system. and to stimulate’ recovery.

Reform Was First Need

Many, like the writer, urged that reform should gome ait, fat z shoul he directed at essentials and e carr ough. swiftly. should be in order. 8 ¥. Then. fecovery This, however, was not done, An example is the fact that only now is the Administration getting around to Wall Street and the Exchange, With the system reformed and the public apprised that reform was at an end and that Government to consolidating and stabilizing the system, private investment might have been resumed. : :

Instead almost everything in the world was done to introduce uncertainty into affairs. The spending program was unavoidable. But it .was never intelligently planned.’ The same stimulation could have been obtained with half the money,

A Woman's Viewpoint

‘By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

THE other day I was talking ta a bookshop pro- ~+ prietor who told me that children seldom like the books their parents select for them. “I suppose most of them go right on doing the selecting, in ‘spite of your warnings,” I said. Mnoge : + “Oh, sure! Absolutely! Parents ‘best about, that every time.” ; - Isn't it true, that parents think they know best about everything touching the lives of their children?

think they know

| And is it not equally true that lite often proves them

wrong? ’ : It seems to me all adult education should include ‘8 course in honest skepticism. To talk about the virtues of self-confidence is all very well, but most people could do with a few doubts about their own judgment —especially when they happen to be parents. . The woman who insists upon choosing books, clothes and friends for her daughters will inevitably

become the mairon who thinks she ought to be al-

lowed to pick qut their colleges and their husbands. _ The saddest aspect of parenthood is the fact that We will be aliens ih the world our grownup children inhabit. This has been trué of every generation and is just as likely to be true of ours. : “ * I don’t mean by this that youngsters are generally right and their elders generally mistaken. It doesn’t: we run about a 50-50 score. But one fact is obvious: Being a parent doesn’t endow you with the qualities of a surefire guesser, ‘- Teaching children to make their own selections

wisely is better than chobsing for them—in an age when most of tiem suffer from too much bringing

in progress, of which Mr. Marriner Eccles is the

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History Shows Cong They Take in Too Much Lesson We Recall Ri

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| * make an attack in the Western

what will happen to them in the eas world? How can & military natio in buttering great parts of the globe?

| most “invincible” conquerors fell on their

they bit off more than they could chew. Alexander the Great did one-of the globe gobbling, but he got drunk and di fore that kind of disaster could get a The /Roman conquerors had sense eno when they had gone far enough. They borders of the German tribes. The 0 thet I recall of a military power co holding any really great part of the earth Ghengis Khan—all the vast country from rope to the China Sea. But even he kne stop, without oon: on the Danube be too far extended. I & 8 8» I’ is one thing to march through a capture or destroy some cities. It is g more difficult thing to subdue and go ‘poleon found that out when, at the

{military reputation and power, he inv

captured Moscow anc all the strategic p ‘the way—only to see the grand army a ‘guerrilla warfare and himself beaten, destroyed. 53: Something very much like this seems to pening to the Japanese forces in China, ‘Rogers used to delight to point out, China h: simply swallowed her conquerors—including of the great Ghengis-—and has still remaine Gen. . Pershing’s punitive expedition mare

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The Hoosier Forum

defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

disagree with what you say, but will

THINKS ALL GROUPS SHOULD BE HEARD By Z. : : It appears that Governor Townsend wants to get public opinion on such legislative “hot potatoes” as the Wages and Hours Bill, so he is sending out a questionnaire to all the editors of Democratic papers in Indiana. : Perhaps my opinion will sound strangely” unorthodox, but if the Governor really wants the reaction of the ‘people, he ought to include other groups. One cross-section is

the whole, place in his spot as Governor of all the people to ask Republican editors for their opinion, too. The replies might have to be written on asbestos, but they would help complete the picture of Indiana opinion. He ought to include every other

fare such as civic, labor organizations and even employer organizations. : $ No doubt the Governor feels that the Democratic editors are the cream. of the crop in the matter of cerebration I should hate to disillusion him but the aura of braininess surrounding an editor's chair isn’t always: authentic. It depends on the man and not the little sign on the desk. Democratic editors, so far as I note, are just as prejudiced as opposition groups they so enthusiastically castigate. In fact, in the Democratic organs, of all the visiting editors to hold forth verbally before the election, there was only one who could be considered a real leader in “thought. And I would

| wager that he would be just the one

whose opinion will be disregarded. The Republican editors would probably stack up the same. That's why I say give all groups a hearing. Whose state is this, anyway? :

® 2 = FINDS GAME LICENSE CAN'T BE DUPLICATED By Robert Werner

Being an enthusiastic hunter, I received as a Christmas gift from

license for 1939. Upon opening the envelope and seeing the license, I put it back in the envelope and placed it beside other gifts. In the excitement which followed the opening of gifts, my mother began gathering the waste paper and burning it in the stove. My license, of course, went up in flames. ’ ing I would be able to get a duplicate, I went to the Conservation Department but ‘was told I could not in any way get a duplicate. Being but 19 years old and practically just starting as a hunter, I wonder if the Conservation Department isn’t trying to discourage

hardly likely to be representative of It would not be out of

my father a hunting and fishing

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REPORTS BOOKS BANNED BY SPANISH REBELS By Agapito Rey, Bloomington Fearing the people in Rebel Spain and in all Fascist countries may come in contact with modern ideas and discard some of their superstitions, the Rebels have ordered all questionable books destroyed. A purifying commission has been working for more than a year and issued several lists of books forbidden in Franco's territory. An official list appeared in the Diaro de Burgos on Oct. 26. It was signed by Julio Saldana, chief inspector of secondary and higher education, and instructed the colleges to remove the censored books from their libraries. The list contains 108 authors. Some are barred completely, others only in specified works. It is a well~ chosen list, one we would recommend as the basis for a good varied library. The authors are listed alphabetically, so the venerable Altamire heads the roll. This distinguished jurist and historian was for some time Judge of the International Court of Arbitration at The ague. His “History of Spanish ivilization,” written some 40 years o, is forbidden. There are several ericans honored in this list, ong others, Dewey and William ames. Of the English there are arlyle, Ramsay MacDonald, Lar. The German includes among others Ludwiy Freud, Haeckel, ‘Kant, Emil ul

(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.)

young hunters. All game laws try to make sports of the hunters, but as matters are now, hunters should try to make sports of the men who create the game laws. Auto licenses can be duplicated when lost, even by the worst crooks; why not hunting licenses for honest sportsmen? 8 8 8! LIPSTICK, RED NAILS, HIGH HEELS ROUSE IRE By Disgusted a Say, boys, let’s all stain our fingernails and smear red grease paint on our lips and put on shoes with heels three inches high and let the girls see how much we will look like silly fools.

THOSE PURPLE PANTS

(Prompted by that recent newspaper report’ on the Jreference of the American man for brighter colored habiliment.)

By R. M. L. : One day by quite the oddest chance My eye caught in a wand’ring glance One of our young dilletants Arrayed in wildly purple pants. Oh, such brightly purple pants!

How boldly he did strut and prance To catch the eye of debutantes, The gayest of the gay gallants, Dressed in vivid purple pants. Oh, those gorgeous purple pants!

He seemed to say, “I'm the advance Of male sartorial elegance; Color, note, promotes romance, |

dwig and Remarque. Among ther non-Spanish writers forbidden we may cite Balzac, Dumas, Flaubert, Anatole France, Victor Hugo, Dostoevski, Lemartine, Merimee, Rousseau, Tolstoy and Ibsen. = Of the Spanish authors practically all of any importance are forbidden, beginning with: the 14th century Archpriest of Hita. Even the medical ‘studies of Drs. Cajal ~/land Maranon are forbidden. This list is not how, its Siemens, of “ cks and|humor, for it includes some ers Diseary Jour dingy bla i ; q favorable to Whe aligns wg Dither Your way from shop to manse | [Who because of personal grudges In Ea coo oP and pants; [refused to collaborate with the ReOr through the canyons of finance, {publican Government and have reWhere one may lose his shirt, per~ | mained aloof from the struggle. chance | | These fence straddlers have been But never, never, purple pants!” living for the most part in France.

; They find themselves now scorned DAILY THOUGHT by one group and despised by the Absalom said moreover, Oh that

other. To cite only a few of the I were made judge in the land,

Spanish authors we may mention: Azorin, Baroja, Blasco Ibanez, Con-. that every man which hath any suit or cause might come wito me,

cha, Espina, Espronceda, Larra, Antonio Machado, Palacio Valdes, and I would do him justicel— II Samuel 15:4. ; |

Pardo Bazan, Perez de Ayala, Gal- | |dos, Unamuno,. Valle Inclan and T is with our judgments as with our watches: no two go just

many others. alike, yet each believes his own.—

For the fair ones it enchants, As these royal purple pants.

The Rebel slogan as proclaimed by Gen. Millan-Astray at a reception of the University of Salamanca is: “Down with intelligence.”

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LET'S EXPLORE YOUR MIND

i —By DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM

-BOTH love and the family deelf. and, as among In prehistoric {father had to scout for times—as among primitive peoples |also

'mantic sentiments and family ties and affection developed. with it. ® 8 8 . THAT great. merchant and “ great man, the late Ecward A. Filene, maintained that what we need for permanent prosperity is “intelligent selfishness,” not sentimental unselfishness. He pointed out. that the businessman who pays low wages and maintains long hours not only produces less output but decreases buying power for the very goods he manufactures or deals in. |The man who s high wages and /|keeps his wo up fo a high ‘state of health and efficiency. is in~“[telligently ' selfish because he gets “|richer himself, In doing so, however, he makes everybody else more prosperous. He aids prosperity and reforms society at the same tim 2 8 =

HARDLY anything will do more to improve both your will power and personality than keeping your muscles hard and your body generally fit. In fact will is chiefly the power of keeping your attention centered on one problem or performance until you solve or complete it. This is because every food and [thought tends to express itself in provide shelter. In this way [action and the stronger and -more amily began and as it became [a . one’s muscles are the more

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thousand men and stayed there for ‘mon it would have taken 10 times that number occupied and governed northern Mexico, The airplane has vastly increased the st striking power of an aggressor nation. The 1acketeer dictatorships could do great harm to English and French centers of congested population. They might possibly, but not probably, do some harm to ¢ on this continent.. But it would be like shoo balls at an elephant sq far as any conquest is concerned unless they had first eonquered dis armed other great military and naval Europe. Even then they could not keep Eu dued and at the same time undertake here. They know that. re { 2 8° » hE ERE are two theories on which vast armament is proposed for us. One is to defend the We Hemisphere; | the other is to prevent Herr Sig. Mussolini, or both, from starting a get : in Europe by becoming sb strong that the mere a of our joining a coalition against them will bli them into keeping the peace. : - : The second theory requires us to become wh have never been—z military nation armed # 3 teeth, Armament for defense of this hemisphere demands only a fraction of that. Do we want to be willing and able to engage in another E ar? That is what the second theory means and it pushed just now. This country had better eyes on questions of foreign policy and ar right now. | P bebe

By Heywood Broun Fr 2 Pitfalls of the Dinner Table Gio For Benefit of Ambitious Li

N= YORK, Dec. 31.~Liberals and Tadicals; particularly the young ones, should be very careful about their dinner dates. More progressive fights have been undermined around the festive bo 3

were ever lost in Congress or the House of C ons.

The British biggies seem to have developed the art of trimming Samson’s locks more effectively than any equivalent| group in this country, but we may take a patriotic pride -in the fact that Nancy Astor, Eng land’s most expert borer from ‘within, is Americans born. And it is only fair to point out that when she gets to work in serving propaganda with the pudding she knows no barrier of class or nationality. It has never been my good fortune to see the-fair Tory splitting a small notion along with a crumpet., But from word which has come to me from returned journalists and from a few printed pieces that Nancy Astor is no slouch when it comes the ladyfingers. : i ‘Lord Beaverbrook, in his bluff British way, to the stag line. And the visiting newspa woman comes back home filled with victu sneaking suspicion that there is much to poor dear Mr. Hitler after all. Some of the game isn’t quite cricket. ¥ no sportsman should blaze away at sitting the fair play of Old England is not he the fact that Cliveden took Joe Kennedy the first bit of pattie on a toasted cracke have been more gallant if they had waited finger bowls before they gaffed him.

Not the Pottage, It's the Patter

i ¥ « I have ventured thefopinion that they ) things better in England. Indeed, the declis fall of Ramsay MacDonald dated almost : moment, he ‘was induced to come to court pants. Here we have no regal honor list for p of political seduction, but in Washington York there are those who work most rr lly. get the young progressive politician to Come aro to dinner and strut his stuff. And the barte reasonably good souls has been accomplish devices. | It isn’t the pottage so much as the pad makes the young hopeful sell out. i % Ag New Year's rule for progressives would to avoid those parties where they will meet « bearer who chesrs with insincere agreemen came out of the lions’ den unscathed, but was. Siifewy ‘erough not to make a regular of dining in such company. 3

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Watching Your He BY Dr, Moris Fishbein Ti

F°& several years throughout the Uni there have appeared epidemics in destroyed great numbers of valuable s. example during the first week of Augus outbreak of inflammation of the brain gccurr horses in southeastern Massachusetts, and : “Island and caused the death of more animals. : : oh Simultaneously in various parts of ti States from time to time there have oc breaks of a condition called epidemic en infla fion of the brain, among human condition is frequently confused with the ‘tion of the brain that produces a sleg; ra, called American sleeping sickne ‘trast to the sleeping sickness of Africa “by the trepanosome transmitted by the us physiciang are confronted with problem of distinguishing between “varie inflammation of the brain; also they are an effort to determine just how these epid

In the second week of August, 1938, a years vld, came to a hospital in Brockton, 1 an attack of inflammation of the brain,’ ventually more than 30 cases of occurred among human beings in this By a co-operative effort involving | physicians and the public health auth areas concerned and research workers. i research institutions of the cour

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