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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1939

CONGRESS AND COMMON SENSE

THE House of Representatives at Washington voted, 205 to 168, against the $5, 000,000 project to start fortifying Guam, then gave its almost unanimous approval to the rest of the $53,800,000 naval air-base bill. That showed common

sense. The people of America are overwhelmingly behind the President and Congress on national defense. In a world that is madly arming, we have no option save ‘to protect our own country. But there is no call for hysteria. Some of the arguments for fortifying Guam were, to say the least, childish. “Why shouldn't we do. it?” “It belongs tous, doesn’t it?” “Who cares whether we offend Japan?” “Are we going to join Britain and France in world: appeasement? 2” And so on, like boys stirring up a fight. 2 If a fortified Guam were really vital to our defense, = or even contributed materially, of course we should go “ahead with it, regardless of what our neighbors might say. But, as 205 members of Congress were quick to see, a fortified outpost in the middle of a swarm of Japanese islands, 5400 miles west of San Francisco and only 1400 miles from Japan's principal home base at Yokohama, would have been like a kidnaped ¢hild with a beanshooter in a den of heavily armed gangsters. While Hawaii stands and our Navy remains afloat, no existent hostile fleet would dare approach our West Coast. However, there is much we can do—and the bill passed by the House yesterday outlines what it is—still further to strengthen our Pacific position, around Pearl Harbor, Midway Island, the Aleutians and so on.

A HOPEFUL PATTERN FORMS

HE significance of what Treasury Secretary Morgenthau says about taxes and business carries much more importance as it relates to business than as to taxes. For if business doesn’t come back, it doesn’t make any difference how high the tax rate goes—it won’t pay the bill. : But if business does come back in sufficient degree, balancing of the budget on the present tax rate would be possible. Mr. Morgenthau’s statement is part of a welcome pat‘tern that seems to-be taking form. Included in that picture is what the President said about putting capital to work, in his address opening Congress; what he later said just before he left Key West about business having nothing to fear; the efforts of Harry Hopkins in his new capacity as Secretary of Commerce; and various other signs. They all peint to a realization, at long last, on the part of the Administration that the business of this country is business, and that an indiscriminate kicking around of business by the Administration is also a kicking around of the Administration itself and an ultimate kicking out. The Secretary of Treasury says he is bothered about the “Oh, what's the use” attitude of businessmen he has talked with. : We are glad to hear him say that. ‘We hope he keeps on being bothered until something very tangible is done about it. The situation has arrived at a stage where. “what’s the use” perfectly describes it. As long as it lasts, we continue to stagnate. - ends, we go ahead. We hope Mr. Morgenthau follows through. His talents can contribute much. But we remind him that we aren’: even started, yet.

SNAPPY SOONERS TTENTION is hereby directed to an upsurge of enterprise and resourcefulness in the ever-interesting State of Oklahoma, as indicated by recent items in the public prints: : Wade Webb, unemployed oil-field worker, picketed the State Capitol with a sign reading: “I have no kinfolks in the Capitol. How about it, Red?” Governor Leon C. “Red” Phillips,- deducing that Mr. Webb wanted a job, asked the Adjutant General to help him find one. Bert Alcott, sentenced to 58 days in the Oklahoma City jail, took his watch-repairing tools along, rigged up a bench in his cell, and is doing a thriving business on watches and clocks brought to him by policemen and their friends. And Fred Miller, asked by the Prosecuting Attorney at Duncan why he had taken 250 pounds of meat from a neighbor's smokehouse when he had a fat hog in his own pen, offered the ready explanation that, “My hog is mortgaged to the Government and I couldn’t get a ham off him without destroying U. S. property.”

WORDS AND MUSIC OMETHING went wrong in a New York: radio station’s -control room. “And so listeners heard the strains of a symphony orchestra, playing. Weber's “Oberon” ‘overture, mingled with the oratory of Rep. J. Parnell Thomas (R. N. J.), who was denouncing Secretary ‘of Labor Perkins. The trouble was remedied quickly—too quickly, perhaps. For it occurs to us that the sufferings of the great | unseen audience might be materially lessened if all political speeches were set to music. Good loud music would ‘be our preference when the speaker is someone like Mr. Thomas. And, on the other hand, there is plenty of music, so-called, which certainly would sound no worse if :accompanied by an obbligato from the vocal chords of a Congressman or a Cabinet member,

BECOMING

WE admire the tone of the statement by Robert 1. Jackson, Solicitor General of the United States, removing

himself from consideration as a candidate for the Yacaney on the Supreme Court:

“Aside from a disinclination to any judicial post, I am

When it

too well aware of my limitations to ancy Jnyself as. al

successor to Mr. Justice Brandeis.’

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In Washington

By Raymond Clapper

Talk of Presidential Candidacy Harmful Just Now to Hopkins Who Is Trying to Make Good in.New Job.

ing to undertake a new role as Secretary of

the very interests he is trying to help. : : With what I believe to be complete sincerity, Mr

‘closer co-operation. Business has ‘been calling: for

done,

materially until business activity increases. He sees

nessmen and the Government. He sees certain causes of this hostility which he believes can be’ eliminated.

tions to recovery. = : Ee 2 8 8 3 HAT is the basic thought which undoubtedly will underlie his first speech as Secretary of Commerce, at Des Moines tonight. But just as the former WPA Administrator is about

carnation, a cry is set up that he is out to get the

in Towa is widely quoted to that effect and the incident although disavowed is used to brand Mr. Hopkins as making a cheap grab for the Presidential nomination. The fact that he is making his first speech in Iowa is cited as indicating that he was merely looking for a good cornfield from which to offer himself as the people’s choice. Actually he wanted to make this

turers, and would have done so had not conservatives in that organization treated him like a porch climber. I am willing to suspect Mr. Hookins of hoping for

pects. When men rise to prominence in national affairs, they dream dreams. They're all human. You wouldn’t have to ask Mr. Hopkins twice to take the nomination—nor a thousand others, 8 » 2 UT Mr. Hopkins can’t be as dumb about political matters as might be inferred from some of the insinuations now broadcast. He knows, if he knows anything about it at all, that he has just one chance at the Presidential nomination. That chance lies in doing a notable job as a Secretary of Commerce. His chance is a slender one at best, and if he boots the ball, even that chance goes out. Mr. Hopkins knows, as does every friend of the Administration who is looking at realities rather than labels, that in the long run the New Deal cannot succeed unless the country can become prosperous under it. Good intentions will not be accepted in-

definitely by the country as a substitute for results. Popular confidence in the Roosevelt program is ebbing

as was clearly shown last November. Without recovery, the New Deal risks popular repudiation in the Presidential election next year. Democratic politi cians are running out on it pretty fast now,

Business By John T. Flynn

England, Last Stronghold of ‘Sound Finance’ Theory, Tosses in Sponge.

of what is more or less contemptuously called “sound finance,” has now abandoned that position. That is to say, England, which up to now has struggled to pay her bills out of taxes—to pay-as-she-goes—has

given up the struggle and joined the ranks of the borrowers. The importance of this event can hardly be overestimated in any estimate of the future, : .England has, perhaps, and so far as we know, one of the heaviest, if not the heaviest public debt. Taken in proportion to her population it is far higher than ours. It is somewhere in the neighborhood of 32 billion dollars.

necessary to expand her budget, to spend for relief and rccovery and later for defense, her ministers clung to the principle of meeting her expenditures out of cash revenues raised by taxes. Under this policy the taxes rose until today an Englishman pays a normal rate of 25 per cent on his income—a figure which, if attempted here, would probably lead to tax strikes, if not rioting. But now, under the fear of war, she has found it necessary to enlarge her armament plans to the most formidable proportions. That program calls for an expenditure over a five-year period of eight billion dollars. The Chancellor has announced that two bil= lion of that will be spent this year. Raising so large a sum by taxes is of course out of the question for:a country already so overburdened. Hence the Chancellor has just declared that a loan of $1,500,000,000 will be floated at once. Which means that England turns now to borrowing,

Issues Short Term Notes

From whom will she borrow? With saving of 400,000,000 pounds, there is no point in making longterm loans now, says the Chancellor. So he will issue short-term treasury notes. Which means he will issue short-term notes bearing low interest which he will sell at the banks, precisely as the United States Treasury has been doing. So that England is going to kill three birds with one stone. She is going to save her taxpayers from another import.. She is going to spend afhuge sum in industry for arms. And she is going’ to get the benefit of a moderate inflation of income through spending bank. funds. A conservative financier might well say to himself his is the end of conservative finance—“sound finance”; that the fat is in the fire and that it is only a question of time when the world will have to adjust itself to these new national debts, And the conservative financier will be. right. :

A Woman's Viewpoint

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

E™= if we get rich enough to give $200 a month to everybody past 60, we shall not have solved the problem of old age. I say this because it seems to me there is no hope and no salvation for man save in work. From my own experience I feel that occupation

old. than for the young.

Young people have romance and recreation. : is their constant companion because the spring

and enthusiasm, ‘For the old, love is sometimes only a memory. They have grown too stiff or too weary to play. But the idea of sitting down at 60 to twiddle one’s thumbs until the Grim Reaper decides to make oe a, is enough to slow the beating of the stoiitest

Work is the one sure remedy for emotional pain: it is the best anodyne for sorrow and the only al pains disappointment and defeat. When the time comes for us’ to try no more, then, in all truth, the individual is dead—or he might as well be. For man is a creative force as well as a bit of world ‘of with low level.

- As an measure, let's

Hopkins wants to ‘bring Government and business into 5

that, and now there is a man in the Administration, | closer to Mr. Roosevelt than anyone else, who is ready | = to take business up on its plea and see what can be. 5

As a New Dealer with his feet on the ground, Mr. |. Hopkins sees that unemployment cannot be reduced

business activity retarded by hostility between busi--

His purpose is to try to remove some of those obstruc- |

to emerge from his cocoon into a more glorified in- |

1940 Presidential nomination. Some minor politician

speech before the National Association of Manufac- |

the 1940 nomination. I have a long list of such sus-.

because it has not brought sufficient recovery. The |. middle class, which holds the political balance of |I® power, is edging back toward the Republican Party,:

EW YORK, Feb. 24.—England, the: last stronghold

As her depression difficulties rose and she found it |Pe&.

is more necessary to the happiness of humankind than : money, and that it is even more necessary for the.

in their veins, their bodies are charged with ring surges I

happy people by them ; monthly doles is getting Sans down 10's pet :

emergency oney for the old who are sick and and beaten, ions Toney for: -—r ous enough to pretend that by doing so we can; com- =

7 ASHINGTON, Feb, 24—Harry Hopkins, in try- |.

Commerce, is the victim of short-sighted, sabotage by bs he : :

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The Hoosier Forum

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

WELCOMES DEFEAT OF INTEGRATED BAR BILL By Thomas J. Gallagher, Sullivan.

for the proponents of the so-called Inte yted Bar Bill, I wish to congratulate our Legislature for defeating this well-intended, but dangerous measure.

‘There have been so many charges and counter-charges relative to this measure, that the public has been unable to get the real issue. This bill provided for a State Bar of Indiana which compelled membership of every -attorney, under pain’ of disbarment; it gave the Supreme Court full and complete power and authority to make any and all rules and laws governing the conduct of attorneys with the cor-

ci e, or disbar any attorney: who failed:to comply with such, rules and laws so made; under: such bill, the

court had authority and, it was pre-

sumed, would appoint committees in each county for the indictment, trial and punishment of members of the bar.

This of course, delegated unlimited power to the Supreme Court

sired; and made them the lawmaker, prosecutor, judge and jury, from which there would be no ap-

The practice of law, which includes our courts, is not the private roperty of the lawyers, but is, on he contrary, the valuable property

fects every walk of life.” The control of a field so far-reaching ‘as this should not: be centralized ‘in the hands of a few .men, however honest and broadminded; with power to control the very ‘habits, expressions and actions of those who are indispensably necessary for the assertion of every constitutional and legal right of every person. There is a growing tendency .in the whole nation and particularly in Indiana, concealed behind a shield of “raising the standards of

class of. citizens, and through integrated bars, etc, to make the bar

the ordinary citizen. To 'preserve America, all Americans must be kept free, and next io the press, the lawyers should be the last to be regimented. s s i REFERS NOISY LENS. TO BILL OF RIGHTS By 100 Per Center

The main topic of conversation these days concerns nationalism, religion, minorities, ad infinitum. ‘I am a-100 per cent American. I think that the Bill of Rights means just what it says: This country was

‘With highest esteem and respect |

responding power to suspend, dis-|

to make any such rules as it de-

of all the people, ingsmuch as it af-

the bar,” through difficult bar ex-| aminations limited to a restricted|

an exclusive and aloof group from.

(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 sequest)

founded and built by refugees and our Constitution was written to protect all future refugees.. : If most of the people now spouting their pieces: would just make themselves clear everything would be all right. The’ qaestion is simple. They either favor the Bill of ‘Rights or they don’t. I don’t suppose it would be any sin to say you don’t like the Bill of Rights if t “the ‘way you feel. The only thing necessary is that you come clean in the American way,

: 2 8 = WANTS FIRMS LIST WAGES PAID HELP By Joe Montgomery You are the purchaser, the :ultimate consumer of a vast array of commodities and services. Since you

pay the bill, you are the employer of all those who make those goods and render those services, just as, being a voter-taxpayer, you are the government, Of the thousands of persons on your payroll, do you know the salaries of even a dozen? "Do .you know how much your cer pays his help? Do you know ow much the men received for making thé shoes youre wearing? How much the man made who made the chair in which you're resting, the cigarets you're smoking, the golf clubs of which you're so proud?

FEBRUARY SINGS By MARY P. DENNY

February sings In carols bright: ’ On the lyre of wind and snow Singing in the cold. Song of snow bird from the tree. Carols of the chickadee. Everything is bright and free In the glow of winter light Gleaming and bright. Shining over country way Through the winter day.

DAILY THOUGHT

Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor . drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.—I Corinthians 6:10.

TF God hath made this world so fair, where sin and death abound, how beautiful, beyond compare, will

paradise be found.—Montgomery.

|and amateur,

‘Maybe you couldn't discover, even

if you were to ask your dealer. ‘But ‘if you and enough others persisted in requesting such knowledge, manufacturers eventually would learn to provide the information along with other specifications of the product. The cheapest price very often does not represent the lowest wages; so really it's important to have the facts. Once knowing, isn’t it possible that patronizing the purveyors of goods and services produced under fair wage standards would tend not only .to diminish poverty and relief rolls buf to remove at least part of one cause of labor strife? * You pay the fiddler. Why not call the tune?

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|SURE, 'TIS A CLANCY

COMING: OUT FIGHTING! By Daniel Francis Clancy, Logansport

‘From a recent Times- ‘ editorial: “qt all adds up to the fact that the off-the-record device is a means by which official information is transformed into . unauthentic gossip peddled at a: speed that would shame Mrs. Clancy, the symbol of over-the-back-fence dissemination of news.” : . So, you have:set up “Mrs. Clancy” as the symbol of over-the-back-fence gossipers? Alas—ah, alas! — now how do you ever expect me to gel a wife? Only a sincere apology can remove this barrier before me along the path to wedded bliss. 2 2 2 OPPOSES PENSIONS FOR GOVERNORS’ WIDOWS By Frank K. 8. : Saturday night’s Forum included a letter from James M. Gates opposing widows’ pensions. He is right. Why is a Governor's widow any different from any other. widow? I know several widows in Indianapolis who have several small children. Their husbands left them nothing and these widows are getting the small sum of $20 a month. If Governors .can’t leave their families provided for, how can it be done by the man Working on WPA?

STILL THINKS COLUMN WRITING A CINCH By Claude Braddick, Kokomo. :

“Where would Mr. Braddick find something to write about, day after day, if he had a job of columning?” asks Mr. Joe Green in The Tires. The problem of writers, professional is not in finding something, but rather in choosing something from that inexhaustible source, the teeming universe. Knowing no more of Mr. Green than what is revealed in his letter, I could write at least a dozen columns on the subject of him alone—particularly what seems to be his lack of a

sense of humor,

breathing Say, a i Sato an a a

LET S EXPLORE YOUR MIND |

By DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM

DNESS, KINDNESS we ns COINION mm

‘to most women.

taking a chair, But this is just the man—medicine or any other field— who proceeds "slowly ‘and: analyzes every detail if the case is: not clear at the start. A or ignorant mind, however, is likely to jump to conclusions whether he knows the facts or not. Therefor, it is a sign of either great knowledge or crass ignorance to jump quickly to conclusions. ” 2 8 3 OF COURSE, these Virkiss pall, as a rule. Women love men, however, chiefly, for ‘their heroic virtues more than for anything else. ‘That is why a uniform, which at least gives a a 8. herols page ground and setting, is so attractive Strength, vitality ‘and. heroic qualities coupled with tenderness: kindness—that

[| the combination that “slays ‘em.”

PROBABLY “NOT. Even the biggest, strongest men and women have at times a lurking sense of being inferior to certain sie One of the biggest bankers,

P| lin New York cdme. to me recently | with a ‘Woshegone esting. rent said| th

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FRIDAY, FEB. : 2, 1989

oon Johnson

Says" i 3 Foreign Representatives in Akron

For Rubber Parley Surprised - at ‘Extent of War Talk in This Country.

KRON, 0, Feb. 24.—Akron, 0. properly calls it- - self “the rubber capital of the world.” . The ocension for my visit is a convention of emplovees of the greatest company. There are 2000 of them.. They came from the ends of the earth—from rubber plantations in the Far East, from factories and sellihg establishments in more countries than ever were in the League of Nations. They represent the globe: ' Iam a bug on conventions anyway. They are the quickest way that I know to get a wide cross-section of conditions and opinions. Such cross-sections are a necessary part of the business of conducting this column. So I have followed meetings of the visiting firemen in all parts of the country. But I never saw any equal. to this one. The gross harvest of impréssions from so varied a group is, as yet, bewildering and too little digested to boil it down into columns—except

for one thing. Nearly all foreign representatives, and especially

those from Europe, expressed astonishment at the °

amount of war-talk and war-jitters in this country as compared with nations close to the possible scenes

of ‘trouble. # 8 8 Ess say that, while the possibility of war. - recognized and the nations are getting ready for it, there is almost no sentiment for war among

the people—neither in France, ‘nor in Italy and least

of all in Germany. On the contrary, they report an

awful fear of it and a great resistance to any talk of it. Accordingly they say that there is much less

of an atmosphere of threat abroad than at home.-

That is a very interesting slant. It might be that the reason for less war-talk there is that the press of those countries is less free. Skipping that for a moment, it has always been dangerous for a leader— and. especially for one who relies on force for his leadership—to take a country into war against its will. Sometimes a reluctant country can be ballye hooed into it—as we were in the World War. But generally spedking, it is a military axiom that, if there is no “will to war” among the people and the relative strength of the enemy is so nearly equal, that there can be no hope of ‘a short and

triumphant parade, it is fatal for an ambitious gov- i

ernment to provoke a Ware 8 8 F course, all this % guessing. The present situae tion is exactly like a poker game. We don’t

know what is in the other fellow’s hand. A military:

showdown might be called at any time and the fat would be in the fire. We can’t afford to bet on any. thing but adequate defense. " These industrial informants are neither military nor diplomatic experts. They are simply alert buginessmen, who, with their eyes open, mix in the daily life of foreign peoples all over the world. But the particular examples they give to support their general conclusions are very persuasive of the idea that, if there is war in the wind, it blows from ambitious dictatorial leadership and not from the present pure pose of any of the peoples. That gave me a thought. Ninety per cent of our own people are absolutely opposed to any bloodshed anywhere. And yet to hear our government talk, we are asking for it. If these commercial ambassadors are right in reporting exactly the same: condition in other countries, isn’t the peace of the world threatened —not by the nations—but by a bunch of egomahiacs jumping up and down bellowing at each other?

It Seems to Me

By Heywood. Broun Bund Rally Shows Gen. ‘Washington

‘Must Cross the Delaware Again.

Toy N. J., Dec. 25, 1776.—George Washington, the Commander-in-Chief of .the American Army, crossed the Delaware under cover of night and attacked the Hessian garrison. Gen.. Washington caught the enemy unaware, and Col. Rall, the leader of the mercenaries, was killed and a thousand of his soldiers were taken prisoner. Although the numbers engaged were small, it is believed that Washington’s victory has ended for all time the Hessian threat to American Inispendonce. 2 : % MADISON SQUARE GARDEN, New York City, Feb. 20, 1939.—For more than three hours an audience of 18,000 persons was addressed by speakers in Gér= man uniform who attacked American democracy as corrupt and inefficient, and insisted the only sans solution of economic problems has been pointed out by Adolf Hitler, the leader of the Reich.

Ai one point in the proceedings Miss Dorothy L

Thompson, an American newspaper reporter, was strrounded by 50 storm troopers, acting as private police and garbed in the uniform of a foreign army. Miss Thompson was surrounded and menaced because she laughed at the remarks of the semifinal speaker -of

the evening, G. W. Kunze, national public relations .

director of the German-American Bund, who referred to the Chief Executive of the United States as “President Rosenfeld.” Mr. Kunze wore a silver shirt and a Sam Browne belt. In opening his remarks he thrust his right hand forward and up and dedicated his sentiments ig “fellow white Gentile Americans.”

Hitler on Our Shores

And when the men in silver gray began to crowd in closely and in a threatening way around a member of the working press a fellow in that craft approached a police captain and said, “Get those lousy. storm troopers away from Dorothy Thompson.” And the police captain replied, “I can do nothing. They are in charge of preserving order .inside this hall.” Before the speakers came the drums. These were the ‘drums of wrath and hate and venom which was smug

and sly. The ‘words spoken had all the assurance of rg

men who felt that already they sat in possession. But mostly it was the drums. Those drums of voodoo excitation. Beat! Beat! Beat! Thump out all faith in fellowship. Beat! Beat! I do not think our frontier is the Rhine. But let us defend the Hudson and the Harlem and keep our river rim safe from those drums of devilment, We are we. Who are “they”? Once again our leader Washingion must cross the Delaware.

Watching Your Health

By Dr. Morris Fishbein

N as many as one out of 1000 childbirths the infant I comes into the world with certain: portions of the spine not properly grown together. In most instandes the difficulty is simply a failure of the coverings ‘of the spinal cord to develop as they should. In other instances there is a lack of one or more of the bones of the spine called vertebrae, which form the: bony

- casing over the s&inal cord.

In case of a lack of this portion of the’ bony covering there is a hernia or projection of the covers ‘of the spinal cord to the exterior, making a large ‘sac or

balloon filled with fluid. This is a most serious con-

dition, for unless something is done the child is Ukely to die before it is a year old. t In many instances failure of the spifal tissties ‘to grow together properly is associated also with ‘that collection of fluid within the skull and the enlarge ment of the bones of the skull known as hydrocephalus, a condition: which makes a tiny body witir a vary large head. - ; t If the condition called spina bifida in any way, there occurs eventually and stretching of the neives in the 4 they do not function satisfactorily. e Bey 0 EE Wal frequent, the eR pr Ak edn dg ‘When a phy: sees such & patient he has } ‘exceedingly difficult decision to make. ¥ Bappens to be deformed in some other nats is. not a proper development of the Tg be gained by operating on Sen ae “are

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