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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1939

- ROOSEVELT, LABOR—AND RECOVERY

Ax hail to the latest move in the Administration’s belated, but, we hope, sustained effort to stinjate the nation’s business. The President steps out to stop labor trouble. Within the “Dear Bill” and “Dear John” velvet of his communica- . tions to William Green and John L. Lewis we trust there is enough i iron to bring results. Nothing has contributed more to the delay of indus- * trial recovery than the epidemic of strikes in key industries —occurring at just the worst time imaginable. A strike any time is bad enough. But when it comes while 10 or 12 million people are already out of work, when relief taxes are mounting at a geometric rate, when men already employed are thrown out of work because of strikes ‘—well, that is the last word in making a desperately bad situation worse. : re ‘And that is what has been heppentnz. ‘How common the headlines—“20,000 Auto Workers Out”; “Shipping Tie-

up on Pacific Coast”; “Lumber industry in Northwest

Paralyzed”—and so on. As to the merits of these. controversies we are not

commenting here. In some, capital is at fault; in some, labor; or, in others, communism boring from within and

fellow travelers playing international politics, and in still

others jurisdictional battles, involving nothing as between employer and employee, but destructive struggle for power among leaders of organized labor itself. The points that every strike costs the worker, the. employer, and the public. The amount never can be calculated. The ramjfications are 100 great to compute. An auto shutdown in Flint may mean bankruptcy for the small garageman in Emporia. You can’t count the ripples when. a stone is hurled into the calm aters of economic peace. In terms of general welfare, the Administration’ s objective is all concerned; to devise some way by which—with justice to all —the show can proceed without interruption. That actually happens in Sweden, for example. But it by no means hap- . pens, yet, here. So, this part of the Administration drive for business recovery is vital. And if followed through, to where continuity is attained inthe operation of our industrial system, we may count much more than half of the whole recovery . problem solved.

Strikes and fear of sprikes have contributed incalcul-

~ ably to that “what’s the fise” state of mind on the part of . business of which Mr. Morgenthau spoke recently. L !

SPUNKY HUNGARY INCE Munich, people have been saying that all central Europe is eating out of Der Fuehrer’s hand. That does appear to be pretty much the case, but appearances - sometimes fool you. Take’ Hungary: The government at ~ Budapest has ordered thé Hungarian Nazi Party dissolved, nd arrested many of its leaders. That little Hungary has the courage thus to defy whi mst be the wishes of her powerful neghbors is significant. Shorn by the postwar treaties of most of her territory and power and many of her citizens, she is patently too weak

2 fo fight Germany. But she can still show her mettle by

. or other rights were violated.

fied that:

refusing to dance every time Hitler whistles.

Similarly, Rumania, Yugoslavia and even what is left ‘of Czechoslovakia are showing certain signs of independence.

— some more, some less. From inside Austria come reports of a rising anti-Nazi sentiment which is causing alarm in Berlin. And Poland, that doughty neighbor to the east, is resisting all efforts to drag her into the German orbit, with clear mdications that she would fight if her neutrality

This situation is mot exactly helpful to a warlike Reich. The bloc of little states Germany has bullied to coming over to her side may give the appearance of strength. But when the showdown comes they may use the opportunity to free themselves from their masters.

HIROSI SAITO ECRETARY HULL voiced the sentiment of a great many Americans when he spoke “with the deepest regret” of the death of Hirosi Saito. This Japanese statesman was a good friend to our country as well as a faithful servant of his own, and his passing is a loss to both. Few Ambassadors have had a more difficult assignment than ‘was Mr. Saito’s during five years in Washington. It was his duty to explain and defend Japanese policies which he knew to be unpopular in the United States. He strove with good humor, intelligence and an unusual degree of success to understand the American viewpoint; and he won, if not the agreement of Americans, at least the respect and admiration of almost all with whom he came into contact. This world sadly needs more diplomats like

him. *

A NUDIST DEAL? BEFORE the Ohio Legislature is a bill to outlaw nudist : camps frequented by both sexes, and before the com-

mittee considering this measure has appeared Russell D.

Abbott, styling ‘himself 'Ohio’s first nudist leader, who testi-

«Membershi ip in a nudist organization

Cleveland.” Important, if true. Many a man who, having lost his shirt, has found no glint of sympathy in his banker’s eye, will be inclined to doubt it. But maybe it’s only complete audity that inspires confidence in a lender. Maybe Mr. bbott has found the great solution. Maybe the way to sen up credit, put private capital to work and bring yanent prosperity i is for us all to become nudisis, We'll

Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

Alleged Threats Against Italian and Gérman Groups Loyal to U. S. Should Be Concern of Dies Probe.

EW YORK, Feb. 27.—Now that the Dies Committee has obtained fresh money with which to continue its investigation of anti-American activities it is to be hoped that the members will sink a pick into the activities and policies of Germany and Italy affecting naturalized Americans and their sons and daughters. Both Germany and Italy make claims on the loyalty of their natives who have ‘moved to the United States, and Italy holds that the children of immigrants, even though they were born here and never have seen Italy, remain, in some indistinct way, Italians. By propaganda, by pressure from alien organizations these Americans may be embarrassed and intimidated. Those who lives in German or Italian neighborhoods may be deterred from full exercise of their Americanism by a threat of persecution of kinsmen who remain in the old countries. The consuls are active in the affairs of these communities, and a consul need not utter a threat in plain language in order to convey a meaning. » ® ® . F a inan-is a merchant in an Italian neighborhood, and word is passed that he is in disfavor, he may become: the victim of a boycott by other members of the group afraid to deal with him lest sonie punishment be visited on their relatives back home. A

power of intimidation exists, and if a newspaper |,

published in Italian constantly salutes the Duce, to the express or implied discredit of the United States, the community may feel aware of suspicion and espiongge. Individuals who want to be not German-American or Italbo-American but all-American cannot feel free to oppose propaganda and influence if conditions are such that they may be ostracized for their Americanism. They deserve protection from intimidation through boycott or persecution of hostages, and if such protection is not given them they cannot be blamed for going along with anti-American leaders placed among them to' do the work of the Fuehrer and Duce. 2 8 =

HE Nazi laws plainly lay claim to the loyalty and service of all persons of German blood everywhere. This claim is scornfully resented, of course, by most of those concerned in this country, but where. a. German-American settlement exists those who acknowledge the .claim and constitute themselves agents of Hitlerism can inflict on genuine Americans ‘of German blood distress which they should not have te endure. If there was any possibility of compromise early in the game it is clearly impossible now for anyone to be an American and remain a Nazi German or a Fascist Italian. | Nazi and Fascist have openly expressed their hatred end contempt of everything that is American ism, and it may be added with force that the detestation is mutual. It would not be necessary to prosecute and probably no new’ laws would be required. The situation needs only light and air, but it will he necessary to

provide protection for witnesses and, informants, be-

cause Americanism among these two groups is regarded gs traitorism. in the Germany and Italy of today and. to some extent, in German and Italian settlements in the United States.

Business By John T. Flynn " Indorses Senator Wheeler's Move To End Railroad Holding Companies.

N= YORK, Feb. 27.—Senator Burton K. Wheeler

wants to put an end to railroad holding companies. [Interstate Commerce Commissioner Eastman said a dozen years ago that it is‘impossible for the ICC to regulate the railroads if they are owned by holding companies. Since that time the Commission has been given some powers over holding companies.

ail a great

deal of weight in getting bank loans and credit ratings in

But it still seems true that, wherever holding companies are permitted, regulation is impossible as a practical matter. A railroad is owned by a corporation. A holding company is another corporation which owns the railroad corporation. When States began to permit holding companies toc own corporations many economists and lawyers warned sgainst it. The President of the American Bar Association in 1911, himself a great corporation lawyer, told his brother lawyers that America would one day repent of its folly in permititng this abuse of the corporate power. We hzve now an economic society which is called the capitalist system. It is having hard® sledding. Capitalists denounce those who wish to abolish it and substitute another system. But do they ever stop to consider that the reason the capitalist system is in so much trouble is because of the things the capitalists have done to it?

A Limit to Freedom

This is a democratic society. One of its aims Is to permit men to be free—free not only in their personal lives but in their business lives.. In this system we have come to have what we call Big Businessmen and that well-known person, the Little Fellow. The bigger and more powerful a person is

.| the more it is necessary to curb him if he is dis-

posed to injure his neighbors. . It is so with the corporation. You do not have to regulate the independent businessman operating in his own name and with his own funds so very much. But if he has the funds of £0,000 others and a corporate charter, his power, for harm, ror unfair rivalry, etc., is so great that you"have to regulate him, Now he can become big enough with a single corporation charter. holding company charter, not only can he become bigger than is safe for society, but the ability to regulate him almost vanishes. | This is a good time to abolish the railroad holding company. Most of them are in financial difficulties and are in bankruptcy. They have proved bad invesiments for the people who put their money into them, They have proved bad citizens. They have proved bad for the railroads. They have helped only the promoters who wanted to exploit the roags and the investors. They ought to be abolished.

A Woman's Viewpoint

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

BELIEVE in giving flowers to the living.” How many times you've heard that remark—so often, indeed, that it has become a trite saying and no longer impresses us with its wisdom. And I'm not so sure it is wise. in the contemplation of material things, shrink from the swift ruin that comes so soon to the frail blossoms about the graves of the newly dead. And yet they are

‘not actually offered to the dead. We give them W

console those who are bereft by death.

I am not one who believes we should abandon the custom of remembering the dead with flowers, and may God forbid-that we shall ever be persuaded to do so. They do bring some solace to the griefstricken and that is all we can hope for them to do. Also they convey a nessage which only flowers can express— our belief: in the everlastingness of life. As for the living, who are in good health and spirits, they could do very well without nosegays if we only took enough pains to speak the kind words we so

‘| often deny them.

Not long ago I looked upon the serene face of a dead friend. She needed no flowers from me, but oh how I wished the two of us had taken more time from our work to laugh together! She was one whose laughter was frequent and infectious. We are always too busy for that sort of thing, it seems. And so the time comes when regret for all lost laughter 1s like a knife blade in the heart. We feel— and we are right—that nothing matters much except the hours ive spend with those we like and love. Breryii ne else—success, money, fame—is a hollow

But if you let him operate with a.

It’s true that our thrifty souls, absorbed .

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Where There’s Life There's Hope! 8; Talburt

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

FREE SPEECH LIMITED IN SCOPE, IS VIEW By Edward F. Maddox The silly idea, sold to the gullible American people by the Socialists and Communists, that our Constitution guarantees equal rights to everybody in the United States, regardless of whether or not he is a citizen, or what system of government he advocates. is leading us into trouble. Mayor La Guardia, being of Left

Wing political adherence, is on the spot for the very reason that he

ties” for his radical fellow travelers. The chickens have come home to roost—a great flock of his political enemies gathered in Madison Square Garden the other night with the Mayor’s permission. Mayor La Guardia enjoyed the idea of a Nazi Bund meeting in New York? Certainly not. But his hands were tied by. the Socialist argument of free speech and assembly for everybody, no matter what they advocate. .Such a fine legal protection for treason, sedition, espionage and rebellion. The only safe remedy for dealing with all the un-American political organizations is for Congress, and each State, to pass laws making it a .criminal offense to organize or advocate any form of government not in harmony with our Constitution. We must outlaw all alien /inspired political movements or sacrifice our democracy to a dictator. If democracy can’t find means to protect its citizens from the propaganda of its enemies it cannot and will not survive. ” 2 2 SEES DEATH PENALTY ON WAY OUT By A. B. C. It’s. been a long time since, the country has been swept by any kind of a concerted campaign to abolish capital punishment. Back in the old-fashioned days of the early 1900s, when human life was still considered to have value, there used to be periodic campaigns against the death penalty as barbarous, But since the World War set up 8,000,000 white crosses and poppies grew about them while Spain and China were killing their millions, somehow objections to ridding the world of some dangerous scoundrel by summary execution sounded weak and irrelevant. But it is not that bad. A committee of 40 lawyers banded together to work for abolition of the death penalty in Massachusetts, found that Yoday only six states retain the

has fought so hard for “civil liber-|

Do you think

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death penalty with no alternative: Massachusets, Vermont, Connecticut, North Carolina, New Mexico and Florida. Gradually the apparently lost ideal of a society that could maintain itself without the punitive ruthlessness of a Chinese war lord, has been making progress even without an- active or recognized campaign. That is often the way of progress. Long campaigns yield nothing; the reformers tire and say “It is hopeless; nothing can be done!” And then, while they speak, the fruit they tried so long to pick drops in their lap, dead ripe at last. ” » 2

THINKS TAX SYSTEM IN

NEED OF REVISION

By A. B. The tax struggle reveals an attitude of shifting responsibility from one group to another. Government functions are created by either pub-

lic demand or by pressure ‘groups seeking special benefits. No one can attend legislative sessions very long without seeing these special interest groups at work seeking legisla-

tive sanction for their particular

brand of special benefits. The whole history of lawmaking is a struggle between laws for the whole public

UNSEASONABLE By MAUD COURTNEY WADDELL

1t is a mysterious night—

Too strangely warm—instead of Snow, Hurrying winds bend bare tree-tops, I walk beneath tall swaying limbs. Fleet wind races behind me madly Like ‘hurrying footsteps. I hear Its unfinished whispering sighs, And 1 feel a little afraid Of the dark and wind—tonight, Of their mystery and strength.

DAILY THOUGHT

Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.— Galatians 6:7.

LESSINGS ever ever wait on virtuous deeds, and though a late, a sure reward Sticeseds.~ Congreve.

interest and particular group interest. : : It also reflects a struggle between tax dodgers and taxpayers. The

area of individual awareness to the whole public interest is very limited. For that reason we tax imports into the country .which are new wealth and do not tax exports of goods from the country which represent wealth in labor and material. Exports make us poorer, not richer, as a nation. That has not soaked into our heads as yet. Our whole tax structure is lopsided, in that it restricts business, by taxing the operation of business with fees and licenses and. operating taxes. It is a painful extraction of revenue that is not based on ability to pay or on net income. Net income ‘taxes are the only sound taxes. They should be levied as

all governmental expenses. We would soon get rid of overlapping |functions of government sudivisions if we collected direct taxes according to income. Taxes have a direct bearing on the ability of business to promote prosperity. All business is charged with a public interest; it is not an irresponsible individual racket. The control of business| in the public interest is of paramount public concern. The regulation of business should not cause its strangulation. Business is in fact a public utility. Proper taxaton would be derived from net income. And proper control would result from declaring all yusiness| a public utility, which would require a planned program of production and distribution. | |® » = THESE [FLYING HOOSIERS SURE GET AROUND By Track Fan Well, las long as Don Lash, the two-mile king, had to be beaten, we can be consoled by the fact that it took wand Hoosier to do it. Tom-

my Deckard twice has defeated the flying State policeman in recent meets. And so another great Indiana trackman takes his place in that. select company which includes Lash, Charlie Hornbostel, Hermon Phillips ‘and Ray Sears. 2 8 =» PENSION ACT URGED TO RESTORE PROSPERITY By F. ‘L. , Martinsville

In my opinion there was never a better bill before Congress than the Old Age Pension Plan Bill. I'd like to see it become a law within the next 30 days, for this reason: It would take men 60 years and over out of industry. Young men could take their places. Prosperity is what we're looking for and we must have it. |

LET’ S EXPLORE YOUR MIND

By DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM

[os THE AVERAGE W'S NERVOUS MACHINERY WORK FAST ENOUGH TO HANDLE AUTOS Al AND ACH HIGH SPEED

MACHINES?

YES OR NO cee 2

ColifGE Hn

SE.

YES OR NO ere

THIS is brought out in a research conducted by William 5.

of C

Bernard on 500 a

jority of both sexes stated they beHeved a man could safely marry a beneath him in edu

this agrees with the opinion of men and Sronien in general. What do you

NO. The average man cannot safely make an airplane pilot

{and is not safe driving above 40

miles an hour in an auto. Even then he is safe only if he drives quietly and does not get irritated and try to pass a car driving at 30 except where there is a long clear space ahead.

| High speed machines simply work faster

the nervous reflexes of the average man. He cannot safely be trusted with them. Only men above average—far above—can be trusted with airplanes, and any man or woman below average should not be trusted with an auto.

” # 8 . CERTAINLY. Out of, say, 100 drivers, psychologists can predict that the ones who indulge in day dreaming, who worry, who say they “are bothered with useless

3f thoughts,” who do not sleep well,

who are’overambitious, who believe other people do not like ‘them, who do not get along well with other people and who have similar person-

to have idents. They can also 1 h t ‘people wha

the Federal income tax is levied, for |

ality habits are the ones most likely.

Gen. Johnson Says—

Cochran Bil on Reorganization

Blocked Needed Reform Last Year,

A/ASHINGTON, Feb. 27—1It is a pleasure and ‘ relief to be boosting, rather than knocking, a policy of this Administration. time to study Rep. Cochran's new streamlined bill for Government reorganization for hidden jokers, if any, and, to that extent, I keep my fingers crossed. But there is no reason to assume any such thing. On a first reading, the bill seems to ring trud In every clause. ; It covers an urgent need. It avoids every principal objection to the bill which was side-tracked in the last session of Congress. In the mew and highly intelligent strategy of the Republican minority to sup=port the good and oppose only the bad in the Administration, it should be approved and become alaw without disheartening delay. The bill gives the President the initiative in p posing reorganization and regrouping of deral agencies to simplify the great Washington hodgepodge, to save money and increase efficiency. It requires the President to’ submit his plans to Congress and if Congress does not, by concurrent resolution, veto them within 60 days, they go into effect. » » ” ER last year’s plans, if Congress wanted to veto what the President proposed it had to do so by a law of joint resolution which the President could in turn veto. That meant that Congress could not effectively’ approve without a two-thirds vote, The President does not have power to veto a concurs rent esolution. Since Congress in delegating these legislative powers can impose its own conditions, Rep. Cochran’s new bill has removed the biggest bug in the old bill, It removes all the other bugs also. It exempts the partly judicial, partly legislative commission from the executive power to reorganize. civil service under a political Poo-Bah. It does not avoids any “resources and planning committee’— which was objected to largely because it was feared that it was a device to take river and harbor work away from the U. S. Corps of Engineers. The urgent need for a thorough reorganization of government has been recognized for more than a quarter of a century during which time President after President and commission after commission have proposed plans to do it. more lives than a cat and is as resistant as a rock, Ed » ”

I has been quite clearly demonstrated m all these

both the planning and execution must be in the exec utive department under very broad powers. During the war, I was given the seemingly simpls

nine, bureaus which were competing with themselves,

was 3000 miles away with the powers of a Commander in-Chief. He did it. the shadow of Congress. With all the war powe of the President, we were resisted at every step and never really succeeded in anything more than name, From that experience and many others, I know: that Mr. Cochran’s bill is an absolute necessity and

cept in minor details that can be—and ni be—threshed out in debate. 9 doy it

It Seems to Me

By Heywood Broun

Even’ Flock of Rhode Island Reds Can Co-operate When Necessary.

TAMFORD, Conn. Feb. 27.—After watching and reading of recent didoes among members of the

template the lower animals hereabouts. Our feathered friends, naturally enough, lack our intelligence, but they have their points. I am not among those who believe that civilization is about .to crumble, but if it

does a new one might be evolved within the chicken coop.

those cultural marks attained by men and But speaking for my own brood of Rhode Island it. must be said that they would not start . scratch in every respect. : The group of 14 fowls with which Iam acquain is handicapped by gluttony, avariciousness and, to &

fully long time for them to scotch these errors a become fit to associate with us. But in some matter

| of learning they are not laggard. Thus, though the

bicker while ambling about by day, they huddle gether for protection when the nights’ turn bitter. The troupe contained an underdog. She was scrawniest of the lot, and the other hens mauled he about. Yet, even in the case of the outcast, fraterni prevailed as soon as the wind howled.

Their Daily Lesson

I used to peer through the window, and there was no tendency to bar her out of the co-operative nightly huddle which is the only central heating system th coop affords. The fight was off until up rose the sun. and the temperature. Although the chickens are greedy and wholly.

conflict when the corn is served. It is'placed in a circular trough; and I have yet to see any one of the «+

board. The rooster generally wins the award. B 5 when he is set he makes no effort to lash out to right or left and keep others from feeding at the same container. The fact that there is room enough f all is accepted calmly enough, although never advance. Chickens are dumb about economic matters, a they have to learn this lesson day after day.

Watching Your Health

By Dr. Morris Fishbein

HE kidney is one of the most important organs ‘the human body. From time to time, ; deavor to list the organs of the body as to tive importance. Many of them put the bra heart, the lungs, or the liver first. No such list,

sence, death promptly ensues.

Fortunately the human being has two kidrieys—o of which is quite sufficient to carry on the work of the . body if the other happens to be completely incapace itated. That is also the case with the lungs.. The hu= |

portion of one of the kidneys functioning f

Pyelitis is the name given to infection of the kide ney.

fected tonsils or from an infected digestive An infection in the kidney, as an infec where in the body, sets up fever, intoxicati products of the fever and of the germs, and ciated symptoms of nausea and vomiting. also be pain in the abdomen and if the very severe, the kind of rigidity that is e an infection of the appendix. In many instances, however, the inf kidney takes place slowly and becomes ck . A person with a long-standing infection ¢ ney shows the results by damage to the appetite, headache, loss of weight, and ge If the infection is such that the Kidney are from performing their function of exc terial from the ody the person inf: the poisoning of such products,

ct. else= 1 by th

Lacks Unpopular Features Which

There has not been

It does not put destroy the office of Controller General and it -

But a bureau has

I do not see any good ground for objection to it ek- 2.0

ignorant of table manners, they never ED into open '

Rhode Islanders adopt an “after you” attitude. They a rush and jostle in the effort to be the first at the

ever, could exclude the kidneys, because in their be v

man being may continue to survive with even only & -

In most instances the germs are. brought from | points elsewhere in the body as, for example, from in- x

years that, if any reorganizing is going to be done,

Job .of centralizing purchases and preventing conflict : in the War Department among at first five, and later

Jo

ag i

Gen. Pershing had the same problem in France. Hs We were in Washington under

human race it is refreshing te turn for a day and con= od :

Several million years, or make it billions, might be on : required for the hen and the rooster to come up to. women,