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x MONDAY, JANUARY 2, 1939 SLIMA AND LIBERTY «= 7% Tani ° & SAYS the Lima declaration: “The intervention of any ie state in the internal or extermal affairs of another is iiadmissible.” : : : o:- That will require a lot .of interpretation. At first thought it would seem to call for the expurgation of the. Fascist bunds in this country and for the suppression, for irther example, of “The Daily Worker, central organ of the Communist Party, U. S. A., affiliated with the ComJmunist International,” and of “National Issues,” new Com- ~ munist magazine whose press release carries the same hammer and: sickle, and which sets forth to advise the Cc ming Cghgress on what tp do about foreign affairs, our __national defense, WPA, the\Wagner act and most of our other domestic problems. | Should such boring from within be stopped by governsmental edict—whether boring be from the Nazis or Com“munists—to prevent the intervention of any state into our | “internal or external affairs?”

. | Much as we despise both the swastika and the sickle, swe think not. For that would mean suppression. And suppression and democracy can’t live together. Our problem dsito let freedom of expression prevail and to prove, through “our own acts and our own expression, that ours is a better |

‘system than dictatorship; to turn the light on the termites;

carrier, 12 cents | .

air Enough By Westbrook Pegler Lo Fascination of Germans for Fire.

~ Not as Way tes Observe Christmas. |

NTJEW YORK, Jan. 2—The fascination of fire on a ~N hilltop with which some .of the Germans cele‘brated Christmas this yeas is not a total mystery, ‘although it is hard to realize that the mere sight of flame ‘against the snow ard pines aroused religious feeling. in people who maXe such angry boasts of their intelligence and civilization. =. Fires were great events in a little town where 1 once lived, and the people always were Stine in ‘a way easier to understand than to confess. Fires en -excitement to relieve the monotony, but that wasn’t all. The fire bell was a big church bell on a high, windmill frame with a loose clapper worked by two ropes, and when it rang a strange stir ran through the blood. People would stop dead for an instant and then start on the run for the Town Hall, which contaired the fire wagon and the dog pound or, if the fire was visible in the sky, would streak off that way. It was a distinction to ring the fire bell and men and boys would race to be first to the ropes. s : ; The first ones on the scene would throw furniture out the windows until the fire got too hot, and the men coming up with the engine would drop the sucker into the cistern, pond or lake and pump for a while. Others would form bucket lines and fling little spits of water until those in front were compelled to fall back with a sense of having done their best and give themselves over to the joy of Wiching the flames eat the walls of a neighbor's home." Thon 8 8 HEY never did put. out a fire, and every building that ever caught fire burned to ash. They would squabble and punch one another around for the important and dramatic. duty of holding the nozzle, which gave only a little squirt of water at best and sometimes would die off entirely as the men on the pump handles got tired and wrangled over whose turn it was to pump a spell. : Shia But the entire population of the village would stand in a circle around the doomed premises to watch. Even in the dead of night mothers and chil dren would turn out, winter or summer, to give themselves over to the enjoyment of a fire, and one winter night when gs summer hotel buined, 12 miles down the lake, our fire engine went clanging down there over the ice, hitched behind the express wagon, with cutters and farm bobs racing before and behind and

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people stumbling along on foot toward the beautiful glare in the sky. ; ® 8 .® SAW and felt the fascination of a German fireshow on a snowy mountain the night they closed

The Hoosier Forum

.| But they dared not say so at ho ie. | to fashion a gold brick out of baked-clay and banana f people in ‘the hope that they, /

ME; FILSON understood ‘| proposed covenant with death. |

| small armed nations.

| didn’t seem to be able | takes, It had been overwhelmingly elected. The | country expected an era of good feeling and an end

'38—Abroad. Becal

|: Pack in U.S. Due taNe | } | PR\ULSA, Okla, Jan. 2.--This 1s 'an ‘old year column

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vigorous and military. people of upw The war leaders of France and England had promised their own tortured people to hang the Kaiser and make Germany pay for the war. We knes that Germany could pay for the war only by workihg her

‘a century—an impossibility. So| did they know it.

could keep lifetimes,

and opposed that, ‘But he yearned so for his League of Nations that © they were able to trade him what turned out to be that mess of red pottage for. his cceptance: of their

Then they, especially France, proceeded ‘to try to keep the conquered countries disarmed ‘and constantly threatened by ringing Germany with an alliance of It didn’t work. Germany destroyed the value of her money, defaulted on the debt, outfoxed her conquerors in diplomacy’ and rearmed to the teeth. Ine stead of asserting their military supremacy. while there yet wis time, England and France stood by squawking but doing nothing. If is all this that is responsible for the dictators | for the horrors in Spain, for the rape of Ausiria, for Munich and the present threat to the peace : + 1t is a scarry brood. It took 20 years for t em all to hatch. The chickéns on our domestic roost are of shorter life. They belong more to the Administration than to the nation, but they have messed up the nest for everybody, © ;

the gilt from wearing away during

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2 » =n y i \A/HEN this Administration entered in 1933; its : first hundred days: were glorious. It didn’t seem to. be able to make one mistake. When it returned din 1937, its entry was even more glorious but it to make anything but mis-

of depression. The Administration could have had it

ward of 60,000,000. ~

whole population in a treadmill for three-quarters of ~- ‘They preferred

their terribly ironic winter Olympic spectacle at Garmisch. Paul Gallico and I had started down the slopes to town to write our pieces and had gone a | mile or so when the mountain: erupted into flame and sound. It had been announced as io" save time, we

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

without half trying. But its greatest mistake . was that it misinterpreted the mandate of the election to mean that it could do anything it pleased in taking America apart and putting it = again. ~~

So what? Can we tell anything about 1939 from the last day of 1938? Certainly we are better off when “we recognize our follies than when we close our. eyes to them. Everywhere is furious activity to reverse these trends. The democracies grow daily stronger to deal with the dictatorships.. The Administration is ~¥ retreating to pre-1937 positions. The result is the appearance -of a mild recovery. Prophecy is increasingly a dangerous profession. But surely all this is | to the good for the present and promises better things

wherever it is shown that a driver who figured in an accident was intoxicated. = he But blood tests and other tests have not been shown to prove

drunkenness conclusively in all cases. Doctors and courts still are looking for fool-proof proof. A recent’ case in Toronto points

DOUBTS PENSION PLANS WILL AID RECOVERY By Claude Braddick, Kokomo “Take care of the old folks! That should be everybody’s slogan in 1939,” says Gerald W. Landis, Con-

gressman-elect, in The Times of Dec. 28. | And most of us agree. We hope, however, that Mr. Landis will

(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, religious con« troversies excluded. Make your letter short, so all can have a chance. Letters must be signed, but names will be

thought we might safely skip that to save t e, but after a backward glance we stopped and stood there--but with queer sensations as the lights arched into the sky, higher and higher, -more and more gorgeous, tinting the snow, and the faint, distant, hysterical “heils” of thousands of Germans tinkled against the Jolemn boom of artillery concealed in the folds of the S. ; Unbelievers though we were, we felt the pull of it and sensed the power of the spectacle of the Hitler-

to expose bund activities which are instigated by a foreign _government, and party-line raids on the American labor ~movement—but not ourselves to employ autocracy. *f | So, we say, let the “Daily Worker” work, “National “Issues” issue-and the bunders bund, under the Bill of Rights : “of our Constitution; even though they seem to intrude into our internal affairs. And then let it be up to us to show wl ere they'd take us; if we should let them get away with it. rd 8s 2 8 ° : 2. 2 =a ; “A ND in that connection, we wonder how we would like to live in the kind of a state that these proselyters would ‘set up, if they could—we who prize so dearly the freedom of expression that took so many centuries of struggle and bloodshed to acquire—we who can sound off when we please, ; whether it be at the dinner table, the corner drugstore, or town hall, and who don’t have to look over our shoulders ~ and lower our voices when it comes to declaring ourselves “about our councilman, or our President? * s+ How would it be to go on, day by day, knowing thay fwhat we read and what we hear are regulated; that we are not getting the truth, but a hand-painted version of what sthose on high want us to get? : § “The seriousness with which the Government regarded

ithe situation,” says a recent: dispatch from ‘Berlin, “was

smade plain by the fact that neither afternoon papers yes-| 1

sterday, nor morning bapers today, even mentioned the Gersman protest or its rej ection”—referring to the Ickes-Nazi-Welles affair, * That’s just a sample. How would it be to fly blind in an atmosphere so full of fog as that which envelops our world today; to have no ‘Judgment as to direction, because knowledge was withheld Py the masters; not to be able to call our souls, or our inellects, our own, because they were in hock fo the state? All that is what suppression means—what the swasika and the sickle mean. And all that is why, much though we approve of that general principle expressed in i he Lima declaration, we believe it can be applied without Projecting it to a point where suppression—even against those we detest—is invoked, in this land of ours.

"PA, CONGRESS, POLITICS JHIO’S Democratic Congressmen are trying to ‘bring’ about the dismissal of the State’s WPA Administrator, Carl Watson. : : 2 Their reasons for wanting Dr. Watson fired appear to 2 (1) That a large number of Republicans are on the payolls of WPA in Ohio as foremén, project supervisors, ete. ; ; (2). That the WPA vote wasn’t properly “delivered” last November, when many Democratic candidates were dedeated; (3) That one of the lame-duck Democratic Congressen would like to have the Administrator's job. a Dr. Watson is a former Democratic State Chairman. t.seems most unlikely that he has deliberately favored RePublicans as ‘against Democrats, or that he left undone anything he could properly have done to help his party. - Our reports are that he tried/ to be fair, putting people on the WPA payroll because of their need and their merit Father than their politics. : .¢ Much is said about the duty of Congress to keep politics - but of relief. These Ohio Democratic Congressmen, it seems fo us, are doing the contrary. If their attitude is. typical f Congress, no wonder WPA is in a political mess. We don’t know whether WPA can be rescued by the fnethod President Roosevelt is considering—nonpartisan. oards in every county in the nation to investigate comlaints of political activity. But we're interested in the eport from Washington that opponents of the present elief setup contend that Mr. Roosevelt, in proposing such plan, would be “admitting weakness” in WPA. To face the truth, to acknowledge what has been. ong and make a sincere attempt to set it right—that hould be recognized as a'display of strength. :

‘ELL, THAT'S SOMETHING IDLANS are being considered to change the make-up of the +, Congressional Record, the daily transcript of Senate ind House proceedings, printing three columns on a’ page stead of two. Senator Hayden of Arizona, member of the opmittee on printing, says the change would save $135,).a year. Sy {We know how a great deal more might be saved: Limit Record to the actual transcript of what goes on in e and Senate. FRA E ‘That would eliminate thousands of pages. It‘won’t be : of course. The members of Congress are not likely ive up their privilege of unlimited publicity at the tax. *_ expense. . But we hope the plan’ to change the

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true Germans standing with the Fuehrer in their very midst shrieking and weeping for joy as the mountain blazed and artillery stirred their burn, crush and conquer. :

in the low-cost housing movement haye I heard so much talk about housing ‘as in these years. 1930. to

perhaps, has so little been done.

headlines, one might suppose the present administration had done a gigantic job in the field of loW-cost housing. Here are some more figures on that point.

496,000 dwellings. In the same period public agencies in the United States built 29,559. ‘ :

has been the tragic failure of this Administration. The reasons are plain. And a survey of them reveals the responsibility to rest upon the real estate interests of the cities and the President.

sible obstacle to low-cost housing has been interposed : by them upon the

housing field. There is no and ownership.

ment merely puts up the money.

fighting bogies has been a has talked about housing, but; done nothing. And in

New York real estate interests his special adviser and / ° ® A. Woman's Viewpoint

VM WESTBROOK PEGLER advises politicians

in order to hire another to to pay better wages. of these expounders arguments through did they would be equally in favor of employers men who do not actually need their jobs in. help women who are the sole support of their families.

right to pay women less than hardly fair to accuse cahery in the to prefer lower wages than her brother gets.

tious than men; they are less labor agitators, because,

ancient instinct to

Business By John T. Flynn

« U S. Public Housing in Sad State Compared fo English Development.

EW YORK, Jan. 2.—Here is a fact which might make American citizens take notice. Between 1930 and 1937 England built 2,189,000 private dwellings. In the same period, the United States, with almost twice as many families, built less than half that number. :

Never in the 25 years that I have been interested

1937—particularly in the ‘last: six: years. But never,

If one confines his interest; in housing to newspaper

From 1930 to 1937 public agencies in England built

. The simple truth is that public low-cost housing

In the case of the real esiate interests, every pos-

principle that this was putting the Government into private business. : Of course private business is not in the low-cost profit in low-cost housing. Therefore no one goes into the business.

Baldwin Called in Men of Wealth The housing business: has two sides—construction

Low-cost Government housing does not mean Government would go into the construction business. The building is done by private contractors, the materials are furnished by private coitractors. The Govern-

When Staniey Baldwin set in motion the present housing program in Englanc. he assembled a group of wealthy men, mostly of noble families. The shortsightedness of excessive conservatives great obstacle to housing here. : But more responsible has been the President. He

the days when he might have done something he made the agent and representative of the reactionary

co-ordinator on housing.

x and other unfortunates is wholly a problem of mercy and of modern social -|cure-all; that taking money out of - | circulation, by means of petty taxes, so. that a small portion of the nation’s population may live in comparative luxury, will not increase the total money in circulation, but instead will likely decrease it; that many of those who supported him believe in their hearts that the Townsend Plan is wholly absurd and fantastic and unworthy of more than passing consideration; and that more of his constituents hold this view than have ever dropped a quarter into a Townsend contribution box.

emember that caring for the aged

justice; nbt an economic

Not that we blame. these oldsters,

mind, for wanting a free pension of $200 a month. I, in fact, share that desire. ; we are not credulous enough to believe that anyone will give us that, or any other amount, for the mere. dubious advantage of seeing that much money restored through us the general circulation,

So does everyone else. But

ASKS FAIR PLAY | By Hiram Lackey

The Times editor is always criti-

cizing somebody or thing. A man who “dishes it out” ought to be able “to take.it.” The principle involved is basic. If you can’t take a joke, don’t crack them at others.

An editor must criticize. That is

his work. No man can criticize all the time without making mistakes. The offense is not so much one of erring as.one of refusing to correct errors. A healthy-minded attitude toward his mistakes is what makes a scientific man superior to a sinis-| ter-smeared savage.

The success of an editor is

measured by his ability to persuade others to accept his advice by bowing to truth. Dishonesty, stubbornness and the intolerance, pettiness and smallness of a closed mind are the chief obstacles that stand be tween his work and success.

The quickest way for an editor

to overcome such weaknesses in others is for him first to conquer them in himself. * Just as an editor seeks fo persuade his readers to grant his wisdom first place in their

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minds, so should the editor have the grace and courage to give first place in his Forum to readers who point out his errors. An editor who thus refuses to play the game is as foolish as an army officer who snubs his superior and demands respect from his inferiors. As a rule the higher the officer the more respect he has for authority, because his stake in its rewards are greater. The essence of poor leadership is the refusal to. do what we ask others to do. All of which is so axiomatic that one wonders why an intelligent editor would compel his readers to bring such obvious facts to his attention.

! 8 8 = SAFEST. DRIVING RULE— NO DRINKS AT ALL By a Reader ix : Drunks behind the wheel are potential murderers and certainly drastic prosecution should follow

OMNISCIENCE By ANNA E. YOUNG

They had journeyed, were footsore

and weary : Too crowded were rooms at the Inn os eo Yet shelter was sought, so a stable Where cattle and horses had been

Was madé Holy, by Joseph and Mary And a manger, made beautiful, there : Was a cradle attended by angels Where they placed Baby Jesus "with care.

Brings anew all the sacred sweet . reverence 7 The birth of this Baby, so fair Binding hearts with great understanding

Lifting souls from their burden of

care.

DAILY THOUGHT

Thou shalt fear the Lord thy ‘God, and serve him, and shalt swear by his name.—Deuteronomy 6:13.

IF is only the fear of God that can deliver -us from the fear of man.—Witherspoon. : !

fof it, ladies.

up the fact that capacity to absorb alcohol without drunkenness ensuing varies with the individual. According to a blood test, the driver of an auto that killed a man should have been absolutely drunk —unable to walk or answer questions. Yet the driver, said the coroner, appeared quite normal and showed no signs of drunkenness. No drink at all while at the wheel of an auto is the safe rule, but science has yet to:devise a surefire test for diunkenness.. ... .- 7 Lesa BRITISH, TOO, GO IN FOR DEBUNKING By X. Y. Z. i Our English cousins, ever conservative, are :engaged In the good old American custom of debunking. The targets are ‘some of London’s pursepoor peeresses who, for a. fee,

--larrange * that socially: ambitious|

‘women be presented at court. Some half a hundred ‘applications for presentation to the king ‘and queen have been rejected by the Lord Chamberlain oh the ground the applicants paid the péeresses to sponsor them. : - Of course, the rejection slips will be couched in superlative : polite language. But it is to be hoped there will be enough sting in° them to waken some of our good Ameriéan friends to the absurdity of their positions as . seekers after whatever prestige attaches to a court presentation. : ' t 2

HERE'S FEMINISM WITH A NEW TWIST By a Reader | : :

If this be treason make

Mrs. Evelyn Millis Duval, director of Chicago’s Association for Child Study and Parent Education, speaks up against what she calls “feminine dominance,” in the classroom. Coming from one of. the sex, Mrs. Duval’'s complaint that women

“sissies” among boys and “dictatorial

jor weak-kneed husbands,” can’t be

charged up fo masculine economic rivalry of jealousy. Mrs, Duval’s plea. for more men teachers is feminism with a brandnew twist. a

By Mrs. Walter Fergusen

and businessmen to fire married women who do not actually need jobs, in order to help family men | who do. Women, he argues “further, have had a depressing effect upon wages and are now messing

up the whole economic system. : 5 Too bad we can’t dump them all into the sea and

leave the country safe for democracy and men, isn’t it? : : It is possible, of course, that our eminent columnist is inspired by , truth, but he displays the usual naive faith in masculine altruism when he suggests | that employers should turn out one set of workers whom they will be obliged | It is strange, too, that so few of economic truth follow their to a logical conclusion. If they rs’ firing order to

Most states have set up laws which gives bosses the they pay men. It seems the women themselves of chi-. matter, since no female is booby enough

By and large, women workers are more ‘conscienapt to be swayed by

an instinctive fear that it may be snatched away from them again. = = : oi LoCo aw As for married women, there's this to be said in their defense. If ‘man’s love confers such ineffable liss upon his mate as man himself: supposes, then be the first to admit that wives are ry :

beirg newly introduced to | economic independence, most of them are filled with

LET'S EXPLORE YOUR MIND

NOTHING pays bigger dividends. Dr. Edmund Jacobson’ of the

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YES. This is because thousands

WHEN YOU ARE NO

HAPPY, 33F%" You WERE?

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Do EN TEND MORE THAN MEN TO MEN: ABOVE THEIR » STATION IN LIFE? ; YOUR OPINION ea.

University of Chicago has shown

{that by complete relaxation you can

stop worry at any moment. By complete relaxation he means let-

hands, fingers, face, lips and tongue as well as the larger muscles. Hun-

{dreds of other laboratory experi- _ | ments have shown that when you

are unhappy your muscles are in one state and when you are happy in another state. So, by learning to

-|look and act as you do when you

~ lare happy, it instantly tends to re-

lieve your unhappiness and swing

w. ~~ |you into happier mood.

05 IT THE BAGER PASSIONS OF MEN THAT CAUSE WARP 3 : YES ORNO ee comam mb miiose a

stizactive young ladies, m

| soldier is concerned.: The leader— ‘|especially a dictator—is usually {animated by selfish passion for| | power. The moment a dictator feels

ey oe Fe ea : = - NO. It iis the noblest passions men have, as far as the common:

his power is waning he leads his nation into war in order to unite the people behin

the ‘most| 1

teachers . are. helping to: produce]: | can turn it on and off.

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ting go of every muscle in the entire] |body—even the muscles: of = the

for the future.

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By Heywood Broun : hm Purdue Professor Credits Hitler's EW YORK, Jan. 2—Prof. M. D. Steer of Purdue ciation that .the oratorical triumphs of Adolf Hitler

-can be explained by the ‘fact that his voice has an unusual number of vibrations per second. The profes-

| sor told the teachers in Cleveland that Der Puehrer

gets as high as 228 vibrations per second, whereas 220 is considered par by most rabble rousers. -- The point is both interesting and important. Increasingly the world is swayed by the human voice. Radio has brought back the age of Demosthenes, and it. will serve us all well if we begin to consider to what extent we are moved by mere sounds rather than sshtiments. Do we yield to ideas or to orchestrations? I am very much afraid that a great deal of inter=

‘what Prof. Steer calls “choral thinking” Scientific

portance of mass emotion and diminished rational considerations. -/ Bo 0g 3 I am quite ready ‘to accept the findings of the professor as facts established by precision instruments, because in a rough'and intuitive way I have had the same conception. A newspaper friend of mine, only recently returned from Germany, told rae: “I hate everything for which Hitler stands, but when" he is in front of a crowd putting on the works you have to watch yourself or he will get. you swinging. I don’t know what it is. My German isn’t good enough to follow him elosely. I don’t know what he’s saying. For that matter, neither do the Germans. It's just that his voice gets you all hot and bothered and excited. I suppose it’s a kind of mass hypnotisin.”

Pulling Out All the Stops

.. I have never seen Dér Fuehrer in person, but T have listened.to him in newsreels and over the air in

all, because I was insulated by a long experience in speaking and listening to speeches, It seemed to Ine that I knew how the trick was done. A The formula is familiar enough, but Hitler uses it with-a high degree of proficiency. The exciting factor is pace and pitch. These two are joined together. Even the deepest bass speaker can raise his voice an octave by talking very fast. - : : Tan tones are distinctly under a handicap. The world is largely swayed by tenors. SE It is nonsense to assume that Hitler is constitu< tionally a hysteric or that he lacks virility simply bea crowd up to a frenzy. It is, of course, a device. 5 Sia a

r Health

J By Dr. Morris Fishbein alti

\/JORE has been written of late’ regarding ‘the L effects of diet on the teeth than in all the pre vious years of the life of man upen this earth. Oi ‘of this accumulation of material comes some actual evidence and a great deal of theory. ~~ Once Horace Fletcher said that the human. who would ‘be healthful should live entirely on sof food, but even he recommended that hard foods eaten. He felt that all of the food should be ch until it developed into a liquid state. Since there ai 132 teeth in the adult body, he suggested that each bi of food be chewed 32 times. Actually, of course, there are two periods in when a person should have liquid food—first hood and second childhood. ' In the, intervening the musculature of the stomach and intestin quires something with more solidity and bulk on ¥ to exercise action. nal ht F + --In relationship to the development of the teeth “the child there is now not the slightest doubt but 1 the diet. should contain plenty of calcium 8 phosphorus and sufficient amounts of vitamins A and D to provide the material necessary. for growth of the teeth. dn el _. There comes next, however, the question of ' decay of the teeth after they have developed. are some investigators who are convinced that dietary aspects in relationship to tooth decay are important except in so far as the material is h

(| soft ‘when taken into the mouth. Such inve feel that the food which causes trouble in

to dental decay is-that which has a mar -be retained by the teeth, = =

his famous Sport Palace address. He didn’t get me at _

-But in the matter of mass appeal men with chest

. cause of the high Cs which he strikes when working -

Success to High Voice Vibrations. «

advances in an ironic way have increased the im-

4 N::told a convention of the American Speech Asso-

national action in recent years has been motivated by ' i