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THURSDAY, MARCH 2, 1939

HANDICAPPING OURSELVES WELVE Senators have introduced a proposed consti- * tutional amendment to prohibit the United States from waging an overseas war save on the authority of a popular referendum. : On the face of it, nothing would séem more just. Let the boys who would do the dying have the say in declaring war. Moreover, some of our leaders of late have been putting chips on Uncle Sam’s shoulder and daring the world to knock them off. What more natural than that we should look for a brake on such leadership—some mechanism to prevent hotheads from involving us in an unwanted. war? But it is not as simple as it sounds. We found that out when we tried to legislate an all-inclusive formula to safeguard our neutrality. Excellent though it was in theory, the neutrality act has failed utterly and admittedly in practice. So it would be with the proposed war referendum amendment. i Such an amendment, by its very nature, almost certainly would do more harm than good. Patently, no Presidefit would call a referendum until some dispute with another nation had brought us to the brink of war, Under those circumstances the other nation would regard the mere fact of the calling of a referendum as equivalent to a declaration and would act accordingly. Our hands would then be tied for weeks and months, while the other nation would be free to strike when and where it pleased. : t In a time when streamlined dictatorships are ready ‘to pounce with lightning speed, we should not load our democracy with unnecessary and dangerous handicaps.

SHOULD CITIES SECEDE?

HE Detroit City Council has given its unofficial approval |

to a proposal that Detroit and Wayne County, together with four adjoining counties, secede from Michigan and establish a 49th state. 1 . The plan’s sponsor, Alderman John A. Kronk, seems to be less hopeful of its adoption than he is of centering public attention on the present alleged discrimination against industrialized Detroit. He points out that the five eounties for which he proposes secession contain nearly half of Michigan's total population. And he asserts that Wayne County, alone, pays half of the state’s expenses but gets back only a third of that amount.

The rise of great industrial cities in states otherwise |

predominantly rural and small-town has created some exceedingly difficult problems. Indianapolis is an example. Detroit is another. Cleveland is still another. Many of Cleveland’s unemployment relief difficulties have been due largely to the fact that the Ohio Legislature, operating under a system of representation that dates from horse-and-buggy days, is controlled by a ‘“cornstalk brigade” of rural members who have little understanding of or sympathy for the needs of a city of a million people. But secession is not the solution for the cities’ problem, just as it is net the solution for the problem of industrial states which find their interests conflicting with those of agrarian states in the Federal Union. It might lead to some most undesirable consequences if, here and there throughout the country, city-states should split themselves off. The need of this country is for more unity, not for sharper divisions between its people and its sections. Unity within a state requires fair treatment for its communities in such’ matters as taxation, representation, and apportionment of relief money and other public funds. We doubt that the people of Michigan would vote to.let Detroit secede, but they—and the people of Ohio and other states— should see that wisdom and justice both call for correcting the conditions which penalize the big cities.

FRANCO AND HIS ALLIES THOSE who take it for granted that Franco will in gratitude give his Italian and German allies bases in Spain may not be counting on post-war psychology. Instead of Franco's feeling grateful to the Fascists, is he not more likely to resent their claims that they won the war for him? Once Franco is victorious, is not their help going to appear more and more unimportant as it recedes in time and the need for it vanishes? ~ Remember how little love the French and British had for us once the war was over, and how eagerly our soldiers turned to the once-enemy Germans as being “the only nice people over.there,” And to be fair about it, our belief that “we won the war’—no matter how justified in fact--was irksome to the Allies who had struggled so much longer and harder than we. H The Italians and Germans have fothing much more offer Franco. But the British have something—loans, |

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Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler j Singers Ought to Stick to Their Art and That Goes Double for One - Beniamino - Gigli, the Noisy Tenor.

EW YORK, March 2—It is time to destroy the superstition that because a man or a woman can shriek louder and a little less sharply than most human beings, that person’s views on politics, eco-

papers and editorial discussion. : : At the moment Beniamino Gigli, the Italian tenor, is maiming print in Italy and here with the observation than “an air of extortion and corruption” prevails in the United States. For that reason, among others, says he, he probably will not return here. His remarks will earn Sig. Gigli certain credits with Premier Mussolini, and their merits need not be argued. He speaks the truth, of course, and it may be said, further, that after long familiarity and patience with official sin the people of this,country have only recently heard of Yet more loathsome and arrogant abuse of trust in the Federal Courts and in the local affairs of many cities. ; But such a criticism comes with poor grace from a native and citizen of Italy, considering not only that Italy has been the main source from which we learned the arts of extortion and corruption but considering also the character of the Fascist Government itself. / 2 8 2

the fact of his being an operatic singer imparts special value to Gigll's views on matters beyond the opera. Obviously, it does not. As a singer he speaks with no more prestige on nonartistic topics than any chestnut vender or apple shiner under the “L.” Singing, it should be kept in mind, is the lowest and most vulgar of the arts. Its masters, as a class, are jealous, silly, childish, vain, petulant, grossly illmannered. Any stranger who has ventured around behind during the squawking of an opera must always remember the impression made upon him by the chorus of gargling, barking, spitting and other disgusting sounds emitted by the artists in preparation for their moments on the stage. They know little beyond the roles, which they must learn as children like Christmas recitations, and

doing poor work and know it they sometimes stomp off, sulking like brats, if a customer happens to yawn. Actors are more polite and incomparably more game under conditions of distress. ” 8 8 3 T= ill manners and poor sportsmanship of operatic people probably can be traced to the fact that opera is native to a land which is notorious. for its impudence, inconsiderateness and muckerism in

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| Feminine voices and the voices of. little boys are light | and birdlike and suited to the art. It is not a natural ! or happy art for males, and in no case is it a crea- | tive art. 3 | Gigli may return if he likes, but it is hoped that | if he does so he will not be quoted on any other topic than his knack, or if you want to be generous his art, of bawling and flouncing about a platform with lace on his cuffs and paint on his face.

Aviation By Maj. Al Williams

Separate Department for Air Urged As the 'Only Way to Get Job Done.’

HARLESTON, 8, C., March 2—Two and one-half years ago I surveyed the budding airpower or‘ganization of Europe. In Italy and Germany I saw definite evidences of consolidated plans for real airpower in the forms of national air policies. : In each case, the first step had been to grant complete autonomy to the air forces, along with complete responsibility for their development. In England and France I felt, rather than saw, evidence of a desire to do the same thing. But the older services circumvented its accomplishment. I returned and wrote of the new factor called airpower which would one day swing the balance of military power from England and France to the airpower na-

| tions of Italy and Germany. Last year I made a

similar survey, was amazed at the strides taken, and firmly prophesied, in spite of expert incredulity, that the airpower-of Italy and Germany made declaration of war by England or France impossible. I made that Prophigey publicly about a month before the Munich affair, : | Every observer returning to this country since Munich has corroborated the details I used as the basis for my estimate of “No War.” There’s only one way to get a job done, That is to assign the responsibity to one man and one organization, and protect him and his outfit from interference while he is at the job. A completely autonomous air organization, possessed of complete jurisdiction over its own affairs, with full control of its policies and edministration is the prime requisite for the development of airpower.

Mass Production Impossible

We have no air policy today. We have an air service in the Army and another in the Navy. Each outfit has its own engine and plane specifications, differing radically. This means chaos, when the objective is mass production. Interservice jealousy produces such deplorable situations as short-sighted, Navy-sponsored pesiriclion against Army long-range bombers flying more than 100 miles over the sea. When the present air rearmament program is comnleted, we’ll find both services still struggling bitterly for command of the air, and both fighting about coast defense. : Airpower has a major job to do in the modern world that cannot be done by any army or navy, nor by any air service of any army or navy. Our Army needs an air arm for auxiliary jobs, such as scouting. Our Navy says it must have an air arm as the “eyes of the fleet.” All right, let’s give both outfits the planes needed for the auxiliary jobs, and let’s get on with building a separately administered air force that will mean real American airpower.

; / ° ° A Woman's Viewpoint 3y Mrs. Walter Ferguson :

N the late afternoon I like to walk beside the river ‘whose waters have sparkled at me for so many

Who would like to’ be in Franco's place, however desirable an alliance he is able to make? Mussolini and Hitler rose to power by capitalizing post-war discontent . But Franco will himself have to face and satisfy the discontent of his own vast army of returned soldiers who doubtless will constantly remind him that they won the war.

WHAT'S A HAT FOR? NAISS LILLY DACHE, one of New York's better-known T milliners, has returned from Paris with word for husbands to be encouraged because women’s hats this spring will be shorn of gewgaws and easier on the eye. To prove her point, she herself wore a confection which ‘might be described as of a relatively’ sane vanilla favor rather than the exotic pistachio and chartreuse of current vogue. [It looked, that is, something like a hat. ~~ We doubt if this will be such good news to husbands as Miss Dache hopes. The new creations will be different nough to date everything a month old, requiring a new ‘hat for all costumes. And since when has good sense been an attraction in women’s hats? The wilder the fancy, we suspect, the more subtle the lure. And fhe more men can

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years. In summer the footpath, like a faint unsteady pencil mark, wavers through the green grass. When

nate and today millions of twigs etch patterns of beauty against the rosy evening sky. Across the wide Arkansas, smokestacks of our biggest oil refinery send up blue-black plumes into the heavens—and of all the ‘lovely things the eye can see, nothing is more beautiful to me than those banners of smoke. Behind them the sky is a glory of gold, which makes a gorgeous background for their sturdy, defiant strength. The whole tale of our civilization is emblazoned there, God's might and man’s power, united in a scene of splendor. Although I could not see them from where I strolled, I know that armed soldiers walk before the gates of that refinery, because for five weeks workers have been on strike there. The setting during that evening hour was superbly Wovely, After nightfall it would be still more so. But for men and their conflicts, would not the earth be altogether beautiful? The citizens of our community are alarmed and

what it is all about. I suppose we feel just as men and women feel everywhere when the forces of capital and labor set themselves against each other. Beneath our thoughts, and during our comings and goings, pulses a faint fear. As I read and hear daily the rantings about European strife, I wonder why we refuse to turn some of this attention upon bad affairs at home. These industrial wars threaten our democracy far more than

nomics or cultural topics deserve reporting in the

HOVER. the point to be considered is whether | |

they are so overbearingly vain that when they are |

all its relations with other nations—political, artistic ||

Singing, of course, should be women’s business.

winter comes, the brown and purple eolors predomi-

sad about the strike, for most of us do not understand |

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

DEMANDS VOTE ON HOUSE BILL 126 By Anita J. Norman House Bill 126 was approved by the Ways and Means Committee several weeks ago and has been scheduled for third reading, which would result either in its passage by the House or its defeat. . The decision as to whether this bill,

| which was introduced at the begin-

ning of the present session, is to be voted upon rests with the Speaker of the House. The bill provides for a maximum of $12 a week for a period not to exceed 36 weeks in any fiscal year for maintenance cost during actual

persons registered for rehabilitation; $10,000 to be appropriated annually. At present tuition and supplies are provided such persons by the Federal and State Governments—but no funds are allowed for maintenance. A person who is financially unable to pay for tuition as a rule is unable to pay for maintenance. It is extremely difficult for the average citizen to understand why such a bill should be killed by one man, especially as this bill has been

eral weeks, 8 o ” DEPLORES HISSING OF F. D. R. AT THEATER By 8S. S. : A scene in a local theater the other night would have gladdened and buoyed the hearts of Hitler and Mussolini. An audience made up largely of the well-fed, well-dressed and ill-mannered hissed when the President of our country appeared in a newsreel. showing what they thought of a President whose chief sin is his real concern for the plight of the poor and the helpless. > » 2 8 THINKS LACK OF FUEL BARS NAZI AIR MIGHT By H. S.

A magazine published an article by S. Paul Johnston on Germany's airplanes and headed it “Hitler Did Not Bluff,” meaning that Hitler meant what he said when he threatened war last September. Mr. Johnston is an expert on this subject and one may believe that everything he wrote is true. Nevertheless, his article appears to be just another Lindbergh report produced on the basis of what the German Propaganda men wanted to show

He overlooked and not once mentioned a rather important phase of airplane operation: Where will Hitler get the fuel to fly these 10,000 planes? In case of war, England could block Germany so thoroughly that its gasoline stock would be exhausted in a short time. Another thing: Mr. Johnston said that Ger-

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“Our best people” were.

many’s airplane factories work only eight hours a day and that its production could easily be doubled. Did he inquire into the possibility that production is restricted to one shift because of the lack. of raw materials? . There is not the slightest doubt in my mind that England and France could have stopped Hitler without war, but they did not want to. It is too bad that American experts support, -although innocently, perhaps, German propaganda,

. ” » ® NOW IF THE WOOF WARPED,

training for physically handicapped | THY WOULD BE SAD

By A. Weaver :

Quite seriously, the Department of Agriculture recently proposed a label for rayon dresses which would tell the consumer what he was getting. It began like this: “This garment has a breaking strength of 60 pounds in the warp and 50 pounds in the woof, and the perceniage of fabric elongation at the breaking point was 10 per cent in the warp and 10 per cent in the Well, sir, that’s going to be quite some label by the time they get through with it. The garment won’t need any lining. The label will take its place. Seriously, it seems doubtful that the [average person would be c._.ply interested in the elongation of the woof, as long as it didn't warp.

LAST NIGHT

By VIRGINIA POTTER Together again just you and I— Driving along 'neath the same old sky; You naming places we used to

see— Things we once did, and where we used to be.

Bringing back memories bitter and sweet— Laying them all again right at : my feet. Who

would have thought you'd not forget— Although I brought you a lot of regret?

Last night together; why can’t it last— |

Just zy together, forgetting the pas The world -is the same and one thing is true— Your love has been all mine and mine for you!

DAILY THOUGHT Fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake.—Job 4:14.

EAR is the mother of foresight.— &" H. Taylor. :

FAVORS DEPORTATION OF BUND MEMBERS By Anti-Bund Ea Quite a few, perhaps the majority of us, were indifferent to that inane or insane Bund meeting in Madison Square Garden. However, this indifference and lack of familiarity with their and similar activities has gone far enough. Te Let’s acquaint ourselves with their

underground methods and adminis- |

ter equivalent remedial measures. - Give them | something to yelp about and plenty of “free speech” after they have concluded that ceremony, and deport them, at least dump them beyond the nine-mile limit of the ocean. 2 8 = LAUDS SENATOR FOR BACKING FIREWORKS BILL By Hoosier Thanks, Senator Vermillion, for your appeal for tlie fireworks bill to become effective at once. You were not able to convince others that a child’s life was worth more than the dollar, but in every mother’s heart in Indiana you will have a place for trying. =3 If the fireworks on hand have to be shot off, why don’t they take them to the public parks and display tifem where they can be handled by men who _know how to do this kind of business. Why can’t the balance of the Senate see we are only trying to save lives, not money? oy s =x LACKS FAITH IN OUR LEGISLATURE By Diogenes Your editorials on the Legislature certainly registered with me. They weren't quite strong enough but I'm old enough to know that modern editors must exercise reasonable restraint, : I'm’ yellow. If I wasn’t I'd be organizing a picket line to parade around the State House with placards telling-what I think about our Legislature. Then I'd probably be jailed for profanity. Cos so» SEES HOPKINS’ SPEECH AS CHALLENGE TO BUSINESS By Businessman | Secretary Hopkins’ speech at Des Moines is more than a gesture toward business, It is a lenge to business to demonstrate its ability to solve the problem of unemployment. The speech is also a reminder that unless business does achieve economic stability under our system of government, then business will not survive without regimenta-

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So. r= AN ANON US writer claims that most women never learn how to read a newspaper. They skim around I for personal gossip and really do not read the big doings as men do.. Well, I can only express & personal opinion from talking to hosts of both men’s and women’s clybs. It seems to me women, as a rule, do not read edi-

|torials as much as men, that they

read much more eof the society events and—unless they be distinctly intellectual—as most club women are—read little of the big political and foreign news. Men seem to read the sport: and financial pages and glance at the big news headlines, but get their political and economic opinions mainly from the feature writers in these fields. a ; YES. Rear your children with a clear understanding of their abilities but at the same time just as clear an understanding of their limitations. Most feelings of per-

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THURSDAY, MARCH 2, 1939 Gen. Johnson

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Women Own Mest of Accumulated Wealth of U. S.; May Yet Reverse

Opposition to Capitalist - System. *

EORGETOWN, 8. C., March 2—It can hardly be contested or doubted that the policy of this Administration in its later phases has been in general¥ to “share-our-wealth.” By various devices, it has attempted to redistribute property and to take away. income from those who have it to give to those who have none or less. : ‘ The effect has been to paralyze the production of new wealth, to live on the fat atcumulated in the past and to mortgage the future- instead of either”. paying as we go or making the present support itself. It buys the votes of pressure groups and hence has recently swung elections. It intensifies class hatreds, There are very few people who argue that it can long continue without destroying the so-called capitalist or prefits system. There are some, like Mr. Amlie, who has been nominated by the President for the Interstate Commerce Commission, who have said that this system is' not worth saving. There are many Fourth New Dezlers who advocate this sharing of income and redistribution of wealth because they think it will hasten the coliapse of our present system and permit a socialist system to be built upon and out of its ruins. ” ” » B® there is one great group in the United States which has not yét been sufficiently informed or sufficiently drawn together to make a “pressure”; group. Their interest is distinctly adverse to all this. Théir principal characteristics are such that, if they ~ were sufficiently well organized ahd led, they could be

the most dominating pressure group this movement has yet seen. ” :

The women of America own most of the country’s ¢

property and control most of its income—or at least most of its use through spending—and their strength is advancing by leaps and bounds, Of all estates passing on death of the heads of families, one-half to one-third go to the widows, the rest usually go to children, of whom there are more girls than boys. The result is, as clearly shown in the statistics of ownership—stocks, bonds and real estate—that ‘women own or control 70 per cent of the’

accumulated wealth of the country and annually are; ®

moving into a greater percentage of control. 8 ” # F the tremendous total of upwards of 110 billion, of insurance provided by 64 millions of policies, and with due regard to duplications, a large percentage of American families are covered by insurance and & very large majority of beneficiaries are women. : As compared with England, where property largely descends through the male heirs, America is rapidly

becoming a matriarchy—a country controlled or subject to control by women. Thus far there has been

no issue of sufficient clearness or intensity to herd

them into the same corral on a political or economic issue. But if this trend which threatens their homes, their security and the welfare of their children isn’t such an issue all commentators through the ages on the female sex have been in error. ; There is not room here to say alt that could be said on this subject. But there may be a tremendous, ohstacle which the Fourth New Deal has completely overlooked. It may yet save the capitalist and profits: system. : ’ :

It Seems to Me By Heywood Broun i Nation-Wide Broadcast on April 9

Urged as Tribute to Miss Anderson.

EW YORK, March 2—When the Daughters of the American Revolution refused to permit Miss

Marian Anderson to give a concert in Constitution’

Hall in Washington it seemed to me one of the most stupid things which have occurred within~America .

in years. And yet.I wrote nothing about it. All I could say was that it was stupid and monstrous, and a piece of that sort is merely a kind of holding-the-franchise column.

Moreover, as I grow more mellow and my arteries 5s

harden, I am less interested in denunciation and more eager to find opportunities for affirmation. It seems

to me the better way. Often a point can be more *

eloquently scored by pointing with pride than by viewing with alarm. | : Sh And in the case of Miss Anderson the opportunity for such a gesture is now wide open. The date re=fused to the great contralto is April 8. On that day: Marian Anderson should be heard not only by the citizens of Washington but by thé nation. But let us forget the Daughters. It is up to some radio chain or musical organization to offer, and, indeed, to plead, with Miss Anderson to accept the’ facilities of a national hookup so:that everyone in our nation can hear one of the-most glorious voices now vital in the world. Bt re At such a celebration no mention should be made of the erring organization, and I do not: think it is necessary to place any emphasis upon the fact that Miss Anderson is a Negro. The answer to the bigots both here and abroad can be most eloquently ex-: pressed in her own singing voice. In ':he extraordinary notes within her range there are sounds which

make the whole world kin. German Should Be Included

To me it would seem most appropriate if some great German could be included in the program of tribute. Naturally the name of Thomas Mann comes

to my mind. I grow fretful of the lengths which idl here is approaching. Hatred of Hitler has

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positive side and let us listen while .those ‘who are beyond question among the great of America join! with Marian Anderson in a celebration of the inter! national unity of art and the artists. And to me its would seem most fitting if Eleanor Roosevelt should! act as chairman for| this evening of fellowship and fraternity. | i :

Watching Your Health -

4 4 . Ys , By Dr. Morris Fishbein au AST menth a convict, sentenced to death, offered] L his body for experimentation in the transplanta! tion of organs with the hope perhaps of savirg his; own life and with the hope that by such human ex-;

perimentation something might be done toward sav~] ing the lives of other human beings. 4

Recent publicity as to the possibility of transplante'

ing portions of the eye has brought to every medi college and research institution in the country many, letters from people who wish to sell an eye for trans~! plantation. : Sat i In the case of the convict it was gring bait : plant into his body the pancreas gland from $i A of another individual to find out whether or gland would remain alive and able to supply necessary insulin—the substance necessary for proper use of sugar by the body. In the absence insulin, diabetes develops. ~~ ile The actual facts 8s to the possibility of inte ing glandular tissues from one into another do. not indicate that the procedure is likely to become:

exceedingly efficient or, indeed, that it is possible at} ‘all with our present knowledge. wih ! |

"In fact, most qf the evidence shows that ti taken from the holly of one species of animal transplanted into another is treated by the body as foreign material and is either encapsulated or | mn. down: and removed by the forces that the body has’ for this purpose. Ls ¢ BA pi For instance, attempts have been made in bodies of both men and women who have effects of certain glandular tissues' necessar: normal life, to transplant into the bodies from othe i ;

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