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MONDAY, MARCH. 13,1939

PIUS XII IS CROWNED

EFORE half a million people in the. ion pated piazza fronting the Vatican's Basilica of St. Peter yesterday, the triple Tiara of the Pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church was placed upon the head of Pope Pius XII. As if to symbolize the democracy of the Man of Galilee, the rite took place out of doors, on a raised platform eracted on the central balcony high above the crowd so that all might see—the rich and the poor, the mighty and the humble. Few rulers, spiritual or temporal, are in a position to wield greater influence than the newly crowned Pope. Few, |

if any, are better qualified to make the most of the op por- |

tunity. Pius XII is a skilled diplomat.- He has an inti- | mate, personal knowledge of the world in which so many sinister forces are in motion. He knéws the problems faced by governments and the wants and needs of the

. Leader of 350,000,000 faithful distributed all over the earth, the new Pope is abundantly implemented to carry on his work, And certainly, never more than now have wise

and good shepherds been needed to bring calm to a troukled world.

WE REN OMINATE— “APPEASEMENT”

SINGLE word is “having an inordinate bearing on recovery. The word is “appeasement. 44 : The extreme Left among the New Dealers are using this most pacific of words as a weapon. ‘Because the word got into the picture in connection with efforts to revive tie nation’s business—efforts in which Mr. Roosevelt has becn joining—it is now being employed as a taunt to the President, to accuse him. of retreat, to needle him into another sock in the jaw of industry. All this comes from those who hate business, who think business is wicked and should be abolished, and- that ‘the capitalistic system should be changed. Mr. Roosevelt in his last press conference—asked abot t the word and the implications thereof. He came back wif the suggestion that a better word be considered. We hereby renominate- “appeasement.” We use as our ‘authority. Webster’s International—or any other dictionary. To appease does not mean to retreat. Here you have it, all of it, from Mr. Webster himself: “To make quiet; to calm; to reduce to a state of peace; to still; to pacify (anger or hatred); to allay; as to appease the tumult of the ocean, or of the passions; to appease hunger or thirst. Synonyms: ‘Quiet, conciliate, propitiate, assuage, compose, calm, allay, hush, soothe, tranquilize.” If there is any humiliation in that, then the Sermon on the Mount was a declaration of war. And, we think, never has this battered world, includ- | ing business and government at home and across the seas, needed anything quite so ‘much as it needs appeasement today. : There comes a. time when, literally, blessed are the meek. fo

IT LOOKS GOOD

HERE may be holes in it, but offhand we see nothing wrong and much that may be right in the new “food stamp” proposal of the Federal Surplus Commodities Corp. And certainly the FSCC deserves praise for its intention to give the plan thorough trial, in a small way and in a few cities, before undertaking it on a national scale. The proposal is that any person on relief who agrees to accept part of his wage or allowance in orange-colored stamps, exchangeable for food at any grocery, will be presented with a bonus of blue stamps. These blue stamps will be good only for buying foods of which the FSCC declares a surplus to exist. In other words, if he doesn’t insist on being paid entirely in cash, he receives—for nothing—a supply of grapefruit, butter, potatoes or other edible commodities that have been produced too abundantly. This seems, on the face of it, a redsdnable scheme for attacking the old problem of scarcity in the midst of plenty. | The choice offered the reliefers—as between all cash, and part cash part stamps—should make the plan easier for them to accept with dignity. The grocers should be pleased, since the FSCC would redeem the stamps at face value and since more customers would be coming to their stores. Farmers should be glad to see the disposal of some of their surpluses regularized (though the plan won’t touch the troublesome cotton glut, and probably won’t be much help with wheat). And the undernourished third of the nation ought to welcome an opportunity for a bigger, better diet.

HITLER AND THE GALS STORIES persist that Hitler, the misogynist, is having affairs of the heart. ; Up to now Der Fuehrer’s preachments have been that ‘woman's place.is in the home—the “children; cooking and church” doctrine. Now there are signs that he may be changing and that in his eyes milady may also belong in the night club, on the dance floor, sipping a bit of champagne and making a modicum of whoopee. If he really has gone in-for the girls there's just no telling how the course of human events will be changed, but there’ll be a change. Woman's part in history has been more dramatic, and etimes more deadly, than the male’s. Witness, Helen of Troy, or Gaby Deslys, or go back to the very beginning

with Eve and the apples. Potiphar’s wife, the Queen of Sheba, Cleopatra, Lady

but always thrilling. For woman, empires have been builded and for her “at long last” abdications have occurred. . But her mighty influence has not as yet been brought to bear on Adolf Hitler—unless the recent reports are actually true. In that case, keep your eye on the ¢ Indicator amd old on to your hat,

air Enoug By Westbrook Pegler “Our Vice, Drinking and Smoking, Bad Enough, but Preferred Above That of Germany ‘Which Is Warl

ASHINGTON, March 13.—The Germans under Hitler, almost from the. “beginning of his rule, have inveighed against the use of tobacco and spirits, particularly by the young, and they have lately taken what a Republican orator. would call a firm stand on the subject. Not only the German youth of both sexes, but older Germans: of “both sexes are urged to eschew both fumes and -drams on the ground that such are bad for them, as nobody can deny,

although one may, as usual, question the honesty of the ‘regime in Stating ‘one reason and concealing others.

The others are, of course, that Germany raisks

| no tobacco and, even by forbidding its use altogether,

would disemploy only 3 few store clerks and save greatly on imports. As for hard liquor, that not only causes a hangover, traffic accidents and liver trouble, but consumes grain which in a hungry nation, were better used for food. Unquestionably, a nation which neither drinks nor smokes must derive physical benefits from this abstention, and anyone who has smoked a German cigar or cigaret will insist that in Germany smoking is by far the more injurious habit. It. causes the | teeth to turn green, the finger nails to drop off and the skin to come loose, as in sunburn,

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ET the Americans who are slaves to both vices and | would break the bounds of thralldom only at the |

cost of economic calamity may console themselves with the thought it might be worse. For in Germany armament and militarism constitute the greatest vice, and not only its running ex-

pense but its ultimate cost in human life and health

will be much greater than the normal wear and tear of tobacco and liquor on Americans. If it be true that the Americans cannot afford to break off habits which yield one-sixth of the total revenues of the Treasury and incalculable other taxes and employ countless workers, it is likewise true that Germany under Hitler’s regime cannot swear off arming and soldiering, If Hitler were to swear off his vice, his unemployment would destroy him, and it is by no means certain that it will not destroy him, anyway, in the long run. His is a vice which apparently must produce a ghastly national climax, whereas it is most unlikely that this country ever will come down off smoking and drinking all in one heap. 2 8 =

HIS opinion of war is my own and is offered as such with the admission that prominent authorities disagree. Hitler himself has glorified it, and Mussolini at times has sung of war as other poets nave sung of the sweet agony of love. Against. these testimonials for war one hesitates 0 mention the indorsements of the vices which Americans cherish for ‘their own sake aside from their economic necessity. Defenders of tobacco have made out a rather frivolous case, and Omar Khayyam, on wine, though romantic, was not convincing. He recommended wine as a career, which is a little excessive, The Old Soak of Don Marquis was the most winning of the propagandists for our follies, and his vice was prohibition hootch at that, Yet if a nation must have vices, as apparently they must, arising from their riches, as in our case, or from their lack, as in the case of the Germans, human beings, given a free choice, would elect ours. Liver trouble is unpleasant end sometimes fatal, but where is the profit if a man keep his in shape by abstinence from fun for 20 years and die abruptly in a hole from a bullet in his liver fired by a foe who never was known to say. “No”?

Business By John T. Flynn

Government Economy Alone Won't Bring Back Prosperity, Is Warning.

EW YORK, March 13.—There are certain ideas which have in them some sort of irresistible energy which, once loosed in 2 community, take hold of it with ruthless possession, One such idea, seemingly, is that one embodies |in the placards which Secretary Henry Morgenthau is how circulating and which read “Does it contribute to recovery?” The Administration is going to find that test

| applied to everything. And doubtless one place to

which it will be applied without delay is the area of Government spending. An economy wave is sweeping over the country. It has attacked the states as well as the Federal Government. It is importent to call upon statesmen to pause on the threshold of this movement and to warn them what may be in store for them. No reasonable argument can be made against economy. The writer has; for more than four years persistently called attention to the profound danger in the Government's borrowing plan, the rise of the national debt and the persistence of deficits. The budget should be balanced. And that was as true three years ago as it is now. : But there must be a reasonable approach to a preblem of this kind. When you build a certain kind of a foundation under a house you cannot yank that foundation from under the house without bringing down the structure around your ears. You cannot build props under a shaky economic system and then pull the props from under it without causing trouble. You must provide the other props before the poor props are withdrawn,

| Vital Factor Overlooked

This iz the problem here. There seems to be an idee that while you cannot belance the budget dt ones, you can do so slowly by withdrawing Government spending props. But this too is fatal unless you put others in their place. And this is what is

| being wholly overlooked.

Thereiore it is important to call attention to the | state of business. According to the index of business of The New York Times—which is a very conservative one--and less disturbing than others—production began to decline in early December and it has continued to decline .ever since. March 1 of last

year production” was a little higher than it was

Jan. 1, But this year it is at least five points lower than it was at New Year's.

If is proper to enforce economy. But it must be

{ intelligent economy. But above all people must real-

ize that economy will not restore business activity,

A Woman's Viewpoint

By. Mrs. Walter Ferguson

F! there's the inferiority complex. earth. who now and then feel they have a grievance and say so, are invariably greeted with a horrified

one subject I'm thoroughly ‘sick of, it's The meek people of the

chorus of protests. “Inferiority complex! Inferiority complex!” we scream, and, regardless of nature's plan, we exhort them to become bold and aggressive. While I hold mo brief for Uriah Heep and his kind, it seems to me we could glo with a good many more unaggressive people. A certain amount of humility would be welcome on the modern scene and the les ther. In short, I'm worn out with all these glib, .cocksure, be-nonchalant folks who seem to be always underfoot these days. It's all very well to plug for & consciousness of supegiority, but why bother unless we've actually got

saifleihing to be superior about? The trouble is there |:

a 00 many second-raters stuffing their heads with half-haked psychological theories. By feeling great, they are told they can be great, and as a consequence a large percentage of the population is so intent upon its own complexes that we have to hunt a long time to find one genuine human being, Would1’t it be a good thing if we could forget about these twin nuisances for a while and just be ourselves?

Me ybe I'm wrong but it seems to me that too much

altering of personalities is going on. We aren't satisfied to educate the morons until many of them regard themselves as sages; we've started in to turn every sow’s ear into a silk purse. Success and superiority are spelled with capitals in the modern’s dictionary. In our ardor to get both, we've . cluttered up the country with exhibitionists who are more noisy than sensible and who have be- { i pr »

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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.

“MIDDLE-OF-ROAD” POLICY HELD NEED By W. H. Edwards, Spencer In the Forum of March 8, Gent leman from Indiana expressed some thoughts that have been penetrat-

ing into the minds of many voters who care not about party names or party ballyhoo. Throughout many years, preceding the Roosevelt Administration, business has been promoted and maintained by the Federal Treasury, and the buying public has been bled to pay for “coming out” parties for. the debutante daughters of our financial overlords, such as that which recently occurred. :

Our financial overlords, helped by

powerful corporations and speculators (gamblers) in the food of the people, had dictated to our lawmakers what laws should or should not be placed on the statutes. With little regard for the human element, the economic vehicle landed in the mud at the “right” side of the road, for. the simple reason that the “cne-third of the people who are ill-fed, ili-housed and ill-clothed” did not have enough purchasing power to keep the economic machine running. The Roosevelt Administration pulled the old economic rachine out of the ditch; then, not satisfied to keep driving down the middle of the political road, it veered too far to the “left” into the mud on that side of the road. The result is we have labor racketeers and extremist elements dictating to our lawmakers what laws should or should not be passed—or else. We Americans must recognize

that governmental policies affect business, that either capital or labor

organizations, allowed unjust lee-~ way, may tend to wreck the whole, fabric of government, may make, it impossible for government to function without a dictator to pull! us out of an economical mess. Do | we want even a benevolent dictator? ? #2 nn DOUBTS GENERAL SUCCESS FOR MEDIATION ACT By M. F. Parker, Anderson Your editorial “Maybe This will’ Teach Em” is over-optimistic concerning mediation machinery for the nation’s industries patterned after the Railway Mediation Act. I, too, think it worthwhile and would eliminate many . strikes, but one is foolish to believe that it would work as well in all instances as it has for the railroads. Government is the most impor-|. tant business of this country and

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railroads are second, because all agriculture, consumers and industry depend on railroads for transportation—to say nothing of their importance in national defense. ' About half the people believe the railroads should be owned and operated by the Government. And due to the above mentioned facts the railroad management must at least be fair as their functions are so vital to the nation’s general welfare that the Government would have to step in and operate the roads to avoid a general depression. Other industries could flaunt this

miracle board, and general opinion of the rest of the country would not be aroused except the minority affected by the dispute. So you'll have to reach deeper in the hat and get a better trick than that.

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SOME PUBLIC OFFICIALS OVERPAID, IS VIEW By Dissatisfied. Marion I see once again where our playboy legislators are through with

their playhouse. It seems: a shame that the voters of this State have

MARCH BROADCASTS

By M. P. D. Broadcasts of storm Taking grand form. Broadcasts of wind Over city din. Sleet-and rain In one great strain, Winter in flight Through the spring light. -Joy of the spring, / All the birds sing. Bluebird and robin A grand anthem ring.

DAILY THOUGHT

Lift not your horn on high: speak not with a stiff neck.— Psalms 75:5.

OTHING is so credulous as vanity, or so ignorant of what becomes itself.—Shakespeare.

1to contend with the way they do

things. I wonder why they did not vote themselves another raise as that is one bill they would have passed. My idea is to reduce their salaries and also some of these high-priced judges and prosécuting attorneys and other high-priced attorneys ployees—then some of us poor guys wha have to pay these taxes could live. A judge comes ¢ on the bench about 10 o'clock, works until 12, goes: out and plays a couple of rounds of golf; comes back and-sits on the bench another hour and his day is through —while some poor, prisoner lies in a cell for six months waiting for his case to come up. I don’t think we have any: eal to make fun of Hitler. What Hitler is doing is for the good of Germany —and where would Germany be today if it weren't for Hitler? I have listened to candidates hefore they are elected make promises and throw mud at each other until they are elected and then they forget the public ever existed. All they want to do is feather their own nests. ;

” » 2 RESENTS ATTACKS AGAINST BINGO

By D. K. May I ask some of our good friends where all this money goes that is lost in bingo and beer drinking? Close all the bars; stop the eer and whisky: stop all the storerooms

that sell it; stop the delivery of the stuff; close the ‘distillery and brewery; go back to our dry days when the farmer could not gét enough for his load of grain to pay for the gas to haul it to the city.

Oh, those good, old days! Every farm in Indiana was about to be sold for taxes.. i, Close the bingo games, you good people. That's what I say. Take good care of the few cents cash I have; see that I spend. it where you wish I should.

Close the halls; get the few: jobs the help have; stop the little pleasure the thousands or so old folks have left. You tell them what they can do.

I often wonder what the real thoughts are that go round and round in some of the heads of -those good people who. have their noses in everyone's affairs but. their own,

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| MARRIAGE

LET'S EXPLORE YOUR MIND

By DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM,

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human marriage says, abridged: “So far &s I can see, there is every

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ity, We can best judge the future reason to believe that the unity of of a custom by a study of its history.| the sensual and spiritual elements Edward Westermarck, whe Breatest in sexual J Jove leading to marriage ring the his 1100 a

ture ever to: fade away.” All com-

‘| petent students agree ‘with this.

o » . : a CERTAINLY. His life was just one long worry after another. He

had to worry every day about food for he did not know how fo pre-

serve it and, if he ran out, the near- |: {est grocery was 12,000 years away. .|He had to worry about smoke that filled his cave when he cooked or

made a light. He had to worry about the wild animals for he had nothing but crude spear and.club to fight with. He had to worry about clothes for if the fur bearing animals were not plentiful and- easily’ caught he second-hand hand-me-downs. ‘His biggest worry was about. evil spirits—every noise

land curious sight was an evil spirit,

and thunder, lightning, eclipses, etc., just worried the daylights out of him. * i ~ KX 5 #8 =» NO. One often has: some fear or some enterprise so deeply and

‘ | anxiously in mind: that he dreams

about it: later the events dreamed about may come true. But the dream had nothing to do with the events unless he was a believer in dreams and took steps.to make the events oceur.. Dreams. do. not of themselves Change anything, unless

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Washington |

: By Raymond Clapper

Mass’ *Broduction Key Hi Success on Low- Cost Homes, Class Seeking Dafa’ on Ft. Wayne Project Told. ASHINGTON, March 13.—To the ninth grade science class, Callanan Junior High School, Des Moines, Iowa: ts In response to your inquiry for more details con-

cerning the Ft. Wayne, Ind., experiment where about

50 four-room houses were built for $900 each by using WPA labor, I would suggest that you write to Mr. Frank Watson, care Federal Housing Administration, Washington, D.C. He will be glad to give you additional information. ans Many persons, both in the: Government and out of

it, are trying to find ways of building ‘houses at prices: |*which almost anyone can afford. It does seem silly, ‘doesn’t it,:to build one house at a time, which is the

way most of our houses are built. If Ford automobiles were. built one -at a time as houses usually are, they

‘would cost perhaps $4000 each.

Since 1 recently described the Ft. Wayne low-cost ‘housing experiment, many "others, aside from your science class; have written to me about it.

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ee is not the only such sSperiment. being conducted. The Farm Security Administration is

| working to ‘the same end to produce inexpensive

houses’ for people on farms. One official of that Gov-

| ernment agency writes me as follows:

.. “Last year.we built almost 100 houses on a project known as the Southeast Missouri Project near New Madrid, Mo., for about $1100 each. To be more specific, we built 89 five-rdom houses at an average cost of $1105 each and five two-bedroom houses (more comparable to the Ft. Wayne houses) for $930 each. “Of course these are farm houses without plumbing or bathroom facilities, but they are very substantially built with double floors, insulated walls and ceilings, and stand on concrete piers. They each have a screened work porch and a small front porch,

“The most important factor in their construction was a precutting and prefabricating: system worked out by our engineers under Capt. R. B. Lord, corps of Army engineers, who was loaned to us by the Army. All material was cut to exact size by power saws in a central workshop on the site. Wall panels, flooring and gables were assembled in this central shop and transported to the house site on trucks. ” 2 = ESPITE the precutting and prefabrication, six different designs were used. The engineers say tha! this product is a better-built house than the ordinary carpenter-built structure and will last indefinitely. “While these mass-construction methods are not usable in the construction of individual homes, we. have adapted these plans for homes being built by borrowers under the new tenant-purchase program. They are actually being built in the South today under contract, with a profit to the contractors and lumbermen, for about $1300.”

Much was written ‘a few years ago about the mis-~ takes and bungling at the first so-called “subsistence homestead” developed by the Government at Arthurdale, W. Va. The effort was ridiculed and denounced as wasteful socialism, But from each such experiment much is learned, as you doubtless find when mistakes are made in your science class, That is the way we learn, by trying.

lt Seems to Me

By Heywood Broun

Favors More Scholarly Approsch to Art of Picking Bathing Beauties. IAMI, March 13.—They weré choosing a Miss

- Florida just as I was checking in and so I had to

withess the spirited contest from a bedroom window on the seventh floor. The honors went to.a Miss Magrill, a home girl, and the local press pointed outwith pride that although she is only 17 she is already “statuesque.”

. The seventh floor isn’t ‘such a bad place from which to watch a bathing beauty contest. One gains perspective, which has been so largely lacking in this outdoor sport. America has taken the Miss America and the Miss Universe business much too lightly. - These tournaments ought to be-conducted in a wholly scien tific manner. The reputation of Darwin and the entire theory of the survival of the fittest may be 3a stake. And so I would suggest that it is a gross error fo hold bathing beauty contests at hotels or beaches. The approach should be more stholarly. I would turn the whole research problem over to Yale University in New Haven. Let the Eli anthropologists wrestle with it. From a strictly eugenical point of view no single Miss Cripple Creek or Miss Universe is particularly important in her own right. The burning problem is the question of what her grandchildren and her greatgrandchildren will be like. That is why the investiga-

tion should be left to an established institution like

Yale, which knows its fossils. What About Gray Matter?

I have no reason to quarrel with the word dstatu= esque” but I think it does suggest one avenue of nae tional peril. In striving to honor the long-limbed or greyhound school of architecture, aren't we possibly

overlooking the importance of gray matter? We neg-

lect the mute Minerva and fall for the roguish eye and the dimpled knee. You undersiand, of course, that this “we” ‘business has nothing to do with me. I am referring to the judges. : * In science it is well to advance only one step at a time and so I am not going to press the most important reason of all for allowing Yale to implement the research for beauty. It is my sneaking notion that either by order of the Bursar or by the accretion of tradition, it shall become ‘compulsory every year for the captain of the Yale football team and Miss America to marry. If this is kept up for a couple of hundred years we shall learn much about heredity and about Yale men. And possibly just to make it even more scientific, all the progeny should be sent to Princeton.

Watching Your Health By, Dr. Morris Fishbein

HIS column is usually devoted strictly to scientific medjecal advice and seldom discusses the ethics or morals of drinking, smoking, chewing, flancing or any other pleasurakle habits. However, it is well to know that any of these habits indulged in to excess may seriously affect the health and life of a human being. Most psychologists are convinced that people whe drink regularly do so to escape from mental situations which they cannot solve. The, effect of alcohol is to prociuce a state-of well-feeling and: also: to ‘some extent forgetfulness of recent events. Excessive doses of alcohol taken regularly will serlously damage the tissues of the human body. There is no ‘good eviderice that: occasional doses of alcohol will appreciably. shorten life. * | The dilution of alcohol with water or ‘ginger ale may tend to prolong the effect through increasing the amount. of fluid that has to be taken up by. the

‘stomach to get the alcohol. There is ‘no remedy’ that can be taken by mouth |

that will destroy the liquor habit, and there is no drug or serum that can be injected into the veins that will bring about. such a result. There are institutions in ‘which people can be kept away from liquor while they have the attention of psychiatrists and psychologists who try to develop in them the will to break the habit. A young healthful man who has taken © of alcohol to relieve stress:or: strain, or to f

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