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FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 1939

A BIRTHDAY A/ILLIAM HOHENZOLLERN, a retired man of affairs, is host today to a large family party. at Doorn House _in Holland in celebration of his 80th birthday. Herr Hohenzollern is, for oné of his age, in good health, though less active than formerly. He enjoys personal popularity among the villagers of Doorn because of his charities to the poor. He is said to believe that, with the passing years, the world has forgotten much of the hatred it once felt for him. And, while regretting that his family is unlikely to be restored to its former high estate, he is reported to find much satisfaction in the fact that Germany has again become a great power, feared throughout Europe. There are few who still refuse to acknowledge that other leaders in other nations shared Kaiser Wilhelm’s guilt for the World War. Yet certainly his policies, his determination to make his. country supreme by making it feared, led the German people into the depths of defeat and misery. And if today he does not see that those who have replaced him are leading the German people inevitably to worse disaster, we can conclude only that Herr Hohenzollern’s many years have brought him little wisdom.

THE FRUGAL FATHERS ORKMEN exploring dusty attic and basement rooms in the U. S. Capitol have discovered great numbers of documents, bearing on the country’s early history, which were long believed to have been burned by the British troops that*invaded Washington in 1814. eo] Some of these old papers seem very quaint to modern eyes, and none quainter than the one which sets forth the total expenses of the Government for the year 1789, including the cost of operating all departments and branches and of pensions. The figure is $596,101.

Today, a century and a half later, $596,101 is barely enough to keep the Government going for 35 minutes. We have about 33 times as many people, and vastly greater national wealth, and we are tempted to smile at the simple frugality of an Administration which could stretch so small an amount of money over the needs of a whole year. : ; | But President Washington and the first Congress, of course, didn’t have the benefit of advice from great economists who can prove that the way for the Government to create prosperity is to spend itself deeper and deeper into debt. Goodness knows what this country might have been like by now if only the Founding Fathers had been 4Smart enough to start out along the lines advocated and folldwed by some of their modern successors.

MRS. ROOSEVELT ON FREEDOM

AD taste, undoubtedly, was displayed by those who prepared pen-and-ink drawings savagely ridiculing . President Roosevelt, to be distributed at a Boston dinner. We can understand the indignation of Police Commissioner Joseph F. Timilty, who ordered detectives to seize the drawings and announced that he would prosecute the persons responsible for them under ordinances forbidding the circulation of obscene literature, saying: “It is about time for some respect to be shown to the office of the President of the United States. In some foreign countries, instead of waiting to obtain a court warrant, officials would order an immediate firing squad for such an offense.” : ; | ‘Precisely so. And that is why Commissioner Timilty, good as his motives may be, is treading dangerous ground. * It is easy to recognize suppression of criticism by means of firing squads as an evil thing. But suppression of criticism—even of unfair and obnoxious criticism—by means of official seizures and court action is also an evil - thing. It is better for the President to be ridiculed than ~ for respect for him to be enforced by policemen. : We've never seen that principle better stated than it was a few days ago by Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, to whom had come a letter and a newspaper clipping of some anonymous verses. in which the President, his wife and his Administration were bitterly assailed. The woman who wrote the letter wanted to know whether publication of such stuff should be permitted. Mrs. Roosevelt's reply, ‘ through her column in this and other newspapers, was:

“Certainly, Mme. Correspondent, this is freedom of - speech. Anyone in this country has a right to state his “or her opinion about anyone else. Even if you disagree with the opinion you must uphold this right, because that same right allows you to express your opinion freely as | ~~ well. You are worried because you were taught to respect the office of the President of the United States, regardless of politics, but this is not an attack on the office or even ~on the Presidency. It is an attack on the man, and perhaps it is better to have more freedom and less enforced respect.” : : Those in our opinion, are the words of a very great and a very wise woman. And Mrs. Roosevelt's fair and truly American attitude should do more than any number of police commissioners and detective squads to prevent ill-mannered and unfair attacks on her husband and herself.

THE DUKE’S BED

T Jarrow, in England, the ocean liner Berengaria is being broken up and its furnishings sold at auction. One item—a bed in which the Duke of Windsor slept when he last crossed the Atlantic as Prince of Wales—went for $27 to a Birmingham man who hopes to sell it to some rich American for 10 times as much. We'd like to get pretty mad over this British insinuation that there are royalty-worshiping snobs in our democratic country who will pay outrageous prices for anything connected, however casually, with an ex-king. But we don’t dare voice too much indignation— oo iBe we suspect, Birmingham man ‘may be

Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

Lecturer's Charge Some Papers Are Sensational Is Easily Refuted By Comparison With Old Files.

on the morality of the newspaper, given at the University of Notre Dame and published by the uni-

'I versity, Richard Reid, editor of the Bulletin, a Catholic

publication, complains of sensationalism and salaciousness in American journalism. Sensationalism is a synonym for yeliowness, and proof that yellowness is

library which keeps old files. = ©

ously accused of bearing false witness in an old folktale of the newspaper business to illustrate the point. It is said that back in the days when we had papers that were really yellow one of them ran a huge head on Page One reading “10,000 dead!” and beneath it, in very small print, the sub-head “in Brooklyn cemeteries,” followed by a paragraph to the same effect. : ; ’ But if news is sensational it is difficult to see how a paper can be asked to treat it otherwise. That need imply neither exaggeration nor fakery. » » » : HERE was a little exchange of words on this point one night during the war when the first American troops entered the line and Maj. Frederick Palmer, the chief censor, issued orders that the

to which Bobby Small, the Associated Press man, replied that the story itself was the most sensational, from the standpoint of American interest, in all his

experience. But I am not trying to avoid the truth of the charge that some papers have been and still are guilty of overplaying sex stuff, particularly in pictures wherein the offenses of sensationalism and salaciousness run together. Mr, Reid says such conduct is an abuse of the freedom of the press which “may become in public opinion. such a danger to the morality of the nation that suppressing of that freedom will be considered the lesser or the least of the evils.” He subquotes John Temple Graves, of the Birmingham AgeHerald, as saying that a free press is not a publisher's right, but his responsibility, and (Arthur Hays Sulz‘berger, of the New. York Times, saying that this . freedom is not given to the press but to the people. ” J ® : Hove. as Mr. Reid says, advertising has improved in character, and although people nowadays speak more broadly and the printed matter likewise is bolder, I know from experience that editors are much more insistent on accuracy. Therefore I believe there will be a trend toward, let us say, modesty or decency, to anticipate the resentment which he foresees. It is a question of taste as well as of morals. But when Mr. Reid gives consideration to a state of public opinion which would abolish freedom of the: press he entertains thoughts of a condition in which other liberties would be likely to vanish, too, including freedom of speech and religion. In countries where one dies they all die, and this remark that there is no authority to pass on the fitness of a journalist for a position in which he may contaminate souls is a reminder that neither is there any legal authority to pass on the qualifications of men who claim to represent and speak in the name of God. .

Business

By John T. Flynn

Uniformity in Bank Statements Urged as Aid to Economic Study.

EW YORK, Jan. 27—Bank stockholders are expressing dissatisfaction with the failure of banks to clarify their statements to make it possible for stockholders to understand what has happened to earnings during the year. An even more serious complaint is made on behalf of depositors and the general public. - If there is anything in this world which lives by books and written records”it is banks. If there is any kind of business which ought to have clear and exact data about its affairs it is a bank. . Yet back in 1933, when the Sen-

ate Banking and Currency Committee was trying to find out something about what banks did with their money, this writer, assigned to that task, was amazed at the lack of information on this point. .The investigators wanted to know just what sort of enterprises the banks had invested in and what sort of loans they had made. For instance, banks make many loans op the basis’ of collateral security. We wanted to getia breakdown of these security loans. We wanted to know how many loans were made for the purchase of securities and how many to finance market operations outside of ordinary Street loans. = We wanted to know how much was loaned (on stocks, how much on public bonds, how much on corporate bonds. We wanted to know something about the life of security loans.

Data Not Available

An elaborate questionnaire was sent out. Two or three large banks in New York courteously assigned the chief accounting officers to’ me ‘to assist in getting

this information out of other banks. These gentlemen, however, had to say in the end that so many of the banks just did not have that information. available save by an original study of their affairs that we had to be content with much less information than we wished and then from only a limited number of banks.: ‘ It had been the hope of many that after the experiences of the Twenties an effort would be made by the banks themselves and by public bodies to compel the banks to keep running records of such data as has an important bearing on the geonontic situation. Economic phenomena are quickly reflected in the banks through banking transactions. Perhaps the two bodies which reach the largest number of banks are the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Between themthey could bring uniformity in-bank statements and useful classification of data. It is not to be expected that the banks can do this by themselves. :

A Woman's Viewpoint

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

N Memphis, Mr. and Mrs. Bates Brown have “At Home Parties” that are really something. One evening every week is reserved for a family get together, and the children—four of them—take turns

deciding what the entertainment is to be. Sometimes they sing, sometimes they play games, sometimes they go out, but when they do they all go together. Isn't that a swell idea?

didn’t someone think of it before? It ought to be easy for me, too, because we aren't much to run around a night.” es, but would it be easy to see that everyone stayed in on the same evening? Could you a habit so firmly that.each member of the group would

such a domestic event? I doubt it. Suppose somebody called up and said: “We're having a few people in for dinner on Friday to meet Mr. and Mrs. Jones from New York, and would so much like to have you join us.” Probably the thought would flash through your mind that Friday was Family Night, but then you would argue: “It might be a very good thing for John to meet Mr. Jones. Let's See, isn’t he the Jones who has so much influence with John's boss?” And so on, ; 7 Bit by bit you would persuade yourself it was a Suty for you to break the engagement with your chilNow the interesting point about the Brown ‘experiment is that they never allow anythin, with the family party. 8 fo intettere

“What the Browns of Memphis are do is - cisely what is needed to rebuild and fort if I \ Pee

EW YORK, Jan. 27.—Repeatedly in his lectures

fading out of our press may be found in any public |

‘I write from hearsay, but I hope I will not be seri-

stories of the correspondents must not be sensational,

“Sure,” I can hear you say, “it’s grand. Why | ¢

feel obligated to save the same night regularly for

The Hoosier Forum 1 wholly disagree with what you say, but will : defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

PEGLER HAS A CINCH, HOUSEWIFE THINKS

By a Homebody

learn that Westbrook Pegler finds it an all-day job to turn out around

amazement that other writers of note can do their daily ¢olumns in short order and still have the rest of the day for other work of various and more important natures. That may be a trick but it isn’t one confined to writers of note. Mr. Pegler may be further surprised to learn that an ordinary housewife such as myself can turn out twice 600 words between breakfast and the time the children wake up, with

‘|the rest of the day devoted to house-

hold duties. What I write, of course, is not saleable verbiage, consisting for the most part of letters pursuant to my interests—consumer legislation, food

-and drug administration, community

health “and: wel: interests, a hobby for “writing verse and just plain gossiping letters to friends in other parts of the country. But if Mr. Pegler can sell his line, I have a notion I could if I tried, too. "If he finds column’ writing so hard, it might be a good idea for him to get out more and learn first hand what he wants to write about, and then he’ll have all the words circulating in his jaws so that he need only to tap them out when he faces the typewriter. . I used to admire the man a lot while he was doing his debunking stuff for The Chicago Tribune some years ago, and still do find his point of view different and worth consideration. But more ‘and more frequently of late I find that although his experience seems to be wide, his insight and understanding of any problem is shallow, and! so -his criticism is correspondingly superficial. And to think he has to spend a.whole day at it! Tsk, tsk, Mr. Pegler. Maybe you'd better stick to sculpturing. . # 8 #

RAPS. PROPAGANDA

.|ON SPANISH WAR

By ‘Alfonso Franco’

At no other period in the history of the world has there been so much and such widespread propaganda. This has been brought out in a most special way by the deplorable treat‘ment by the press of this country. of the: Spanish struggle.

but it was a propaganda that af-

at war. But the Leftist and Com'munistic propaganda. in this country affects not only those people at war, ‘but may eventually affect this country. The result is that the majority of Americans have been led to believe that the struggle in Spain is between two factions of the Spanish people, when in reality it is between the Spanish people and communism. Now that Gen. Franco is about

It’s somewhat of a surprise tol

600 words of superficial criticism | for his column in return for his sal-| ary check. He also finds it cause for|:

During the World War this coun-| try was swamped by propaganda,|

fected only the groups of nations}

(Times readers are invited to express their. views -.inthese columns, religious con. _troversies excluded. Make. your letter short, so all can * have a chance. Letters must be sighed, but names will be 4 withheld on request.)

to win the war, we greet Anthony Eden in our; country, who has come under the guise of making a speech to a group of industrialists. But Mr. Eden’. came to this country to oppose ‘the policies of Mr. Chamberlain and to work for the “Lifting of the Spanish Embargo.” : Gen, Franco does not owe Italy or Germany a peseta~—he has waged this war on a pay as you fight basis. Untiring, unfaltering, exalted by his faith, the Spanish soldier has recaptured the fame of the days when his ancestors were the greatest warriors in the old and new worlds. Just as the Spaniards checked the Turks at the Battle of Lepanto and the Moors in Spain when Granada fell, so are the legions of Franco checking the march of communism not only in Spain, but for the world! Gen. Franco, victory is yours, because justice, humanity and God are with-you. © « ~- °° . de 8 =» 2 FEARS NEW PARK WOULD BECOME LINKS By John A. Wilkins : A group of local patriots are promoting a proposed Harrison Park. Some. of the sponsors were prominent in the Butler Fairview promotioh. I note it is to be a public park. It may be such for some few months then a p rrison Golf & Country Club will take it over bodily for the elite only. John Q. Citizen will pay his tax assessment for thé so-called public park, but will be able to view it only from afar. ' Remember away back when the City Council ordered the purchase of

WINTER NIGHT

By KEN HUGHES Soft and white the snow is falling, Velvet for the ground, ; With the magic ever calling, Eyes have never found; Brighter silver, brighter jeweling Than the crown upon each tree, While the heart, a happy peasant, "Sings courageously and free!

DAILY THOUGHT And he saith unto them, Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith? * Then he arose, and rebuked the winds and the sea; and there was a great calm.—Matthew 8:26.

AITH is to believe, on the word of God, what we do not see, and its reward is to see and enjoy

what we believe. —Augustine.

the Riverside Park site? We were told it was to ve a breathing place for the public. Now look at the dern thing. What remains’ of it after it was appropriated by the elite for golf courses the WPA tree wreckers

are demolishing. Even the beautiful {

rest pavilion built for the common people so they might take refuge in it when inclement weather spoiled their basket picnics has been wrested from them and turned over to groups of flanneled fools for a golf club. + ® t J ® # ! ANGERED BY ARTICLE ON GERMAN REFUGEE By M. J. B. : As I always read the Hoosier Forum and. never have written my

. |opinion before, I will try a line or

two. : In Saturday’s Times, Jan. 21, the column that Mr. Scherrer writes, “Our Town,” cot under my skin.

The German refugee (I hope they don’t read this in Germany), a 29-

|year-old man, leaves his wife, baby

and country, came to Indianapolis. In less than one month he has a good job and will be able to send after his wife end baby in the near future. Also he is getting one-hour lesson (in private) ‘each day by one of our high school instructors. And we have thousands of men in our

city pleading for ‘work to support

their wives ard babies. Also we have boys and girls who would like to go to high school and cannot. I would like to know if this instructor who is giving {hese private lessons is doing so on his own time or on the school’s: tine, ’ Maybe some of our citizens ‘would rather be refugees. 2 2 8 8 URGES GEN. JOHNSON READ UP ON ALICE By C. B. id One can easily surmise, from Gen, Johnson's vocabulary, that he has confined’ his residing to sterner stuff than. Carroll's “Alice. in: Wonderland.” And as further: proof, he seems to have muffed the President’s Jackson Day reference to Democratic Tiveedledees and Republican Tweedledums. In his column next day, the General accused the Pres dent of reverting to name calling. es It might be well if the General obtained a copy of Carroll's interesting book and re¢ad it even now. I'm sure the ‘General would be entertained; and besides, he'd know what action to take when somebody calls him a “jabbery ock.” ; #8 # THANKS POL CEMEN FOR THEIR COURTESY By Mrs. W. A. Crollins We have gentlemen on our police force with the safety of our citizens at heart. I complained about a slippery corner and 10 minutes later

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who resigned. Hootie oe ‘ 9. I DOUBT {hat there will be as m/ many revolutionary inventions and discaveries, although I fully expect to be here to find out as I belong to the Xundred Year Club. New foods from the air, or grown

|chemieally . in your home, electric

devices ‘that wll sweep, make the beds, wash: the dishes—even the baby—department stores staffed by a -

that the next age will be the age of: socal invention—teaching people how to enjoy the mechanical inventions but to live together in peace. Thi§ will be the challenge

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Es D. R. Right on Tax Exemptions ~ "And Probably: Will Be ‘Upheld, but - Entire Issue Needs Thorough Study. %

EW YORK, Jan. 27—The President questions % \ . why “income from whatever sources derived” as , written: into the Constitution doesn’t mean “income from ‘whatever sources derived.” I think that has only one answer—"it means exactly that” The real issue, however, is ‘whether under the income tax * amendment of the Constitution, the Federal Government can tax the “instrumentalities” of the states—

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for example, state bonds or the income thereof and the

salaries of state officials. This country used to be regarded as an “indestructible union of indestructible states.” The bloodiest Civil War in history was fought to make it so, When, in those days, a question arose in the Supreme Court as to whether the Federal Government. could tax necessary functions of the governments of the states, the Supreme Court, on the theory that “the

‘power: to: tax involves the power ta destroy,” said v

“no. 3, ] There is a similar question on the other side also,

Can the states tax the “instrumentalities” of the Fed-

eral: Gavernment, On the “power to destroy”: theory, the Supreme Court also said “no.” a aa nn 8 2 "A LL this happened before the Constitution was amended to permit the Federal. Government to tax “income from whatever sources derived.” Thus* far the Supreme Court has said in effect: Yes, but— regardless of those words—not to the destruction of the indestructible states. : That is enough to give anybody something to think e As was suggested in this place yesterday, even with the few remaining restrictions, the Federal

taxing power is being used broadly to restrict the

states ‘and could be used to destroy them. But the ,, question is not what the Constitution ought to mean, It: is: of ‘what the words in it do mean. I think the President is right and that the Supreme Court will reverse itself and support him in favor of Federal taxing power, . But, as I understand him, he goes much further. He recommends not only that the Federal Government;

‘be permitted to tax income from state “instrumen-

talities,” but that the states be permitted to tax income from Federal “instrumentalities.” sO . A change in the Constitution probably permitted these taxes to the Federal Government. But there was no such change in favor of the states. There is a red flag danger signal there,

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IE people who believe in preserving. the states think L such -a‘ statutory change reversing the Supreme Court: in favor of the Federal Government need not concern the states because the statute will also enlarge state taxing power—they are likely to awake to find themselves holding the bag while the Federal tax=spend-eléct boys escape with the bacon. . This whole conflict between state and Federal taxing power needs a thorough airing. It is no mere detail of governmental annoyance. There are many in the Fourth New Deal who regard the states as @ obsolete and who would like to see them submerged in favor of a highly centralized -and personalized Federal Government. - What we are talking about here is a device to do exactly that. There is no reason for individuals to escape taxes because they are ° on the payrolls of either state or Federal Governments, It is an outrage. But in curing that evil there is no sense in creating a worse one. : What is needed is a clear-cut constitutional reallo- 4 cation of sources of revenue as between the state and Federal Government.

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It Seems to Me By Heywood Broun oh cin Views -of “Fellow - Columnist Cheer Him as Rain. Mars Southern Trip,

ONTGOMERY, Ala, Jan. 27 (On train) —I am traveling because, unfortunately, I took the advice of my severest friend. He flaunted his newly acquired Florida tan in front of my face and said: a —“What you need, old fellow, is a change. You should. pull yourself out of the snow bank in which you are sitting and expose that rugged pan of yours to the sun. Of iate you have become as sullen and as crotchety as a sleet storm. Go South.” And so when I woke up this morning and climbed down from my upper berth there was no white carpet spread before my eyes. “It had‘beem replaced by a red sea of mud. This was Georgia inl the rain, ® And yet I was lifted spiritually, out of ‘the. gloom by contact with a newspapér column. : > ~ “This Morning,” by John Temple Graves, 2d, originates in Atlanta, and is published in the Con- ¢ stitution. The motto at the masthead was: poetical and from the minstrelsy of another day:-<#The:hand of Douglas is his own; and never shall in friendships clasp the hand of such as Marmion grasp”—but Mr, o Graves then proceeded to get down to cases and a discussion of a‘recent Atlanta incident’ which was startling to many Americans. frrd Vigilantism Still Popular © # The Southern commentator wrote: “It was sheer sentimentality. or something worse, for Bishop O'Hara to invite the organizer and leader of the Klan to the dedication of a Catholic cathedral. We could applaud ® him if he insisted upon the right of Mr. Evans to justice under the laws, if he lifted his voice. for Mr. Evans’ right to spéak. and advance his philosophy (if he has one). But the invitation to the cathedral was something different. ‘Intentionally or not, it implied a certain acceptance of both Mr. Evans and the Klan. And even if the Klan is almost gone the: spirit of vigilantism' in the South is not.” The itéendency to anoint one’s self with holy oil and take the law in # one’s own hands in the name of the‘Lord is strong at this moment. It may gét itself another name and leadership, but it is ‘widespread still-and has to be reckoned with.” . th N It seems to me that Mr. Graves has spoken truly afld that we should be careful not to allow the word “tolerance” ever to mean approval, tacit or otherwise, for ideas which are shocking and abominable. :Obvie ously, free speech must include a definite responsi ¢ bility to answer such speeches and slogans as would destroy democracy. : : ! “Wé believe,” says John Temple Graves, “in giving the devil his due but not in giving him a party.” I should like enthusiastically to second the motion,

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GREAT variety of diseases may produce pains ® A in the joints. Sometimes these pains and swellings occur in people who are hypersensitive to various substances; sometimes there are dietary disturbances; sometimes infections elsewhere in the body spread » to the joints. ; a Once the pain and the swelling are established, other conditions in the body may affect the arthritis. The psychologic state of the patient, his diet, the nature of his work, exhaustion and the activities of the glands may all have some effect. Thus the physician will want to make the most extensive

study of all the conditions affecting the patient's life

in relationship to the control of the arthritis. Investigators have discovered that great numbers of women develop disturbances of the joints between the ages of 40 and 60. The conditions seem to occur more frequently in women than in men of a similar . A age. Ite ES hicre LAR SALE In Great Britain an investigation of 1000 at the period in life when al

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