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FRIDAY, MARCH 17, 1939

00 VALUABLE TO SCRAP : HE Securities: & Exchange Commission at ‘Washington has come down like a ton of brick on proposals by the New York and other stock exchanges for modification of | the Stock Market and Securities Acts. As a result, the SEC may be accused in sone quarters, of discouraging the business recovery which tle Administration is trying to encourage. Such an accusation, in our opinion, would be untrue and unfair. A healthy increase of trading on the stock markets might be an excellent thing for business. But an increase brought about by the methods proposed, while profitable to the exchanges, to brokers and to manipulators, might be anything but good for the rest of the country. Assertions that the reports required in somection with security issues might be simplified without; depriving the investing public of any essential information scem to us worth consideration. But changes that would deprive the public of information, or relax the law against manipulation of the market, or make it easier for company ¢fficials to employ “inside” knowledge in buying and selling stocks would strike, as the SEC says, “at the very hear: of stock market regulation.” The country still remembers the stock marks abuses of 1929. Because of these abuses, the present laws were enacted and the SEC was created. We think the laws have served a valuable purpose and that their a ministration has been, in general, good. Improvements may be possible, but proposals to weaken the laws in the name|of helping business deserve the rebuke Spoken by SEC C airman William 0. Douglas: “Opening things up so that the bo in the Street can have another party isn’t going to help recovery.”

PATRICIA’S GAS BAG: | ‘ ONDON tenement mothers, who have tried but the British Government’s new gas-proof bags for babies too small to wear gas masks, seem to be divided in their opinions.. One reports that her infant slept peacefully in a bag for three hours. Mrs. Alfred Tully, however, described this quite different experience to a United Press correspondent: “They put my 6-month-old Patricia in a sort of aber bag and put a strap between ler legs to stop her kicking. Then they tied up the end with string. There was a like a concertina on’ the side of the bag, and they told me to keep pumping it. Well, 1. pumped, and it made my arm fairly ache. “I could see the poor little mite’s face thro eh the mica | window. She was screaming at the top of her voice and getting redder and redder. After about 15 minutes I said, ‘Here, I've had" enough.” Get her out.’ I've never seen ‘anything like it in all my born days. She was scarlet. You've seen a boiled beet? That's just how Patricia locked.” | Of course, the time may come when Mrs. Tully and others may be glad to see their babies parboiled in rubber bags rather than exposed to poison rained from above. Yet the screams of little Patricia, helpless behind that mica window, seem to us as eloquent a plea for peace as) | this world has heard. i

ONE WAY TO SERVE

T’S very wrong, says Secretary Ickes, for the newspapers to print propaganda. But apparently Mr. Ickes would like them to print more of his propaganda. Of course, he doesn’t call it that. This year the Interior Department has an “informa tion” section of 21 people whose salaries total $50,000. For next year, Mr. Ickes has asked Congress to increase that salary appropriation to $86,740. And the House of Representatives has voted not to allow the increase. There is, surely, no real need for increased produttion by the Interior Department’s information section, or by any of the other similar sections which have grown up in almost every department and bureau of the Government. Indeed, if Congress wants to eliminate waste and promote econery, it might well refuse all increased appropriations for pressagent purposes and insist’ upon. a drastic reduction of present expenditures. The saving would be comparatively small. The 836.7 710 trimmed from Mr. Ickes’ request by the House is a mere fly-speck to a Soyernment spending nearly 10 billion dollars a year. From another viswpoli, ‘however, it is not so insignificant. It is as much money as the United States collects in income taxes from 765 citizens earning $5000 a year each.

DICTATORSHIP AND DARKNESS : ENEFICIAL by-products from the workings of dictatorship are rare—but one is that the world today is getting a lesson in censorship. ° When a dictator takes over, censorship arrives with him. Facts go underground. Propaganda becomes supreme Then rumor gets going. It is Buconiraliable, no matter how much the dictatorship tries.

i From rumor, a steadily increasing nervousness grows, “internally.. Weird stories told on the sly can’t be refuted, in print; can’t be recognized and disproved, as they can be in a democracy. Many of the stories seem Suet fantastic. But nobody] ever quite knows, or can know, whether they are true or: false. Suppose; for example, the German propaganda minister should ‘deny that Hitler is dead and that a double is subbing for him, That's one of the rumors. Or, suppose | ~ Stalin should publicly claim that he is actually alive and | that it isn’t true he is an understudy who just loos like Stalin. \

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By Westbrook Pegler

8, You'd Like to Be Prosident!|

Well, Get Right in There and Pitch Mister and You'll Learn Something.

EW YORK, March 17—All right, you think you are so hot, you're elected. You're elected President of the United States. Now go on. Get in there

and do it your way. Write us an inauguration speech. About 6000 words will do. Did you ever have any experience in writing? Do you know how much copy 6000 words is, just as wordage alone, and never mind what the words say? That one will keep you up a few nights, and if you get by inauguration without making a chump of yourself, then you have only three years and 364 days to go. Just a breeze. - No, don’t try to climb down. You are so hot. You thought Coolidge looked funny and Hoover looked dopey, and I have heard you crack wise about some of the activities of Mr. Roosevelt's wife. Well, what do you think people are saying about your looks? You are no Robert Montgomery yourself, and that companion of yours is going to give you plenty of headaches with her talking, : & 8 = ; ; ND about appointments. There is a judgeship open in Jersey and the boys send you a name, because you can’t be expected to know enough people individually to select ideal men for all the jobs that must be filled. So you name him, and in a couple of days you discover that they have slipped you a terrible burglar. ‘Oh, an awful thief. Been robbing taxpayers and widows and orphans for years and shoved the unions around something awful when he was a county judge. But you named him and you are stuck with him—you, with your prattle about a clean judiciary and court reform. So you are an antilabor President, eh? Boo, you dirty scab! How are you doing, chum? How do you like it in

the White House by now, funny-face? Where does

your wife buy those hats? And, that voice! I heard

her on the radio. What's this about your son beating |

his wife? Do you know what the labor guys are saying about you and your son? They are calling you a tyrant and him the tyrant’s heel. Not bad; not bad. fF # [ J

Soom for those Communists, President Spelvin, You have to detect them by ear, because they aren’t enrolled. A real Communist has to turn his dough over to the party. This kind just say they think the capitalist system is obsolete, and doomed and the sooner it is wrecked the better. You have got some of those fellows around telling you how to promote recovery. Better get them out of there.

Time to write us a nice, long fireside chat, Spelvin. Say about 4000 words of analysis, optimism and policy. What about neutrality? Why don’t you balance the budget? Why don’t you ciear the slums and reduce taxes and build up the Army and Navy? You know you are. strangling business, don’t you? Write it tonight. Got a diplomatic dinner tonight? Well, write it after they go home. What's the matter, Spelvin? Whatever you do, somebody squawks. They crack wise about your wife. Remember how you used to crack wise? Remember those lunch-wagon jokes about the Roosevelts? Oh, so your health is failing. Can’t take it. Get back in there! Get back in there and pitch! You asked for it.

In Washington

By Raymond Clapper

Duce's Magazine Article Shows He Doesn't Know What Goes on in U. S. ASHINGTON, March 17.—Fascism is sweeping

* the world, and even here in the United States

democracy is on thé run. I get ‘this inside information from Mussolini, who writes in the current issue of Liberty Magazine. Soy Mussolini says: “Roosevelt originates, acts, and orders with entire freedom from the approval or goodwill of the houses of legislature.”

That will be news to Mr. Roosevelt, who just the

other ‘day asked Congress again for the $150,000,000 in

relief money that was refused him a month ago. It will be news to Secretary Morgenthau, who had to abandon his drive for raising the limit on the public debt because Mr. Roosevelt was afraid of an explosion in Congress. Mussolini says: “Between himself (Roosevelt) and the nation there is no longer any intervening party.” That will be news to the Republicans who made big gains last November, and -who stand at least a fair chance of taking the Presidency next year. Mussolini says: “There is no parliament but only the state!” That will be news to John Garner, Pat Harrison and Jimmy Byrnes, who think Congress is practically running the Administration now. Mussolini says: “There are no longer any parties but only one indivisible party.” That will be news to Cotton Ed Smith and Senator Tydings, who demonstrated in last summer's purge that the Democratic Party is highly divisible.

The Court Will Be Surprised

Mussolini says: “A single will silences all dissentient voices.” That will be news to everybody—to the Supreme Court which dissented, I believe, from NRA, AAA and some other things; to Congress which howled down the Supreme Court enlargement plan and the reorganization bill; and to the newspapers which have howled down practically everything that Mr. Roosevelt has said for the last six years. These observations of Mussolini about the United States are significant for only two reasons, First, they reveal his appalling ignorance of conditions here. Mussolini might deliberately present such an incorrect picture of America to his own people. But there seems nothing, except ignorance, to explain why he should make such statements for consumption in the United States where their inaccuracy is 50 obvious. Second, - his description of the supposed dictatorship of Roosevelt only emphasizes, because it is so grotesque, the real political freedom and deep-rooted democratic institutions’ in the United States, which were never. more clearly visible than now when after six years of Roosevelt domination, control of the situation is passing out of his hands

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson :

| HEAR via the newspapers that the Army and Navy A are preparing for war emergencies. Dispatches from headquarters fairly drip with anticipation. Plans are now being formulated in detail. For instance, when Mobilization Day finally dawns the psychiatrists will be there right alongside the doctors to do their stuff. Capt. Dallas G. Sutton, Assistant SurgeonGeneral, says every means will be taken to weed out the psycopaths and potential victims of mental disease from the mass of individuals who will be rushed into armed service. From the standpoint of ‘national defense, this doesn’t make very good. sense to me, for it will undoubtedly tend to reduce our country’s manpower. During the last war all sorts of excuses were conjured up for demanding exemption, but so far as I've

| heard, none of the boys admitted mental deficiency.

When we remember, too, that the greatest psychiatrists hold the urge for war to be itself a mark of the irrational’ mind, this plan leaves the higher-ups in a i somewhat uncomfortable situation. Suppose the 1 i jority of generals and admirals showed up with ‘copathic symptoms? Indeed, the whole idea seems utterly fantastic] effort to preserve the neurotics, the halfwits and ti . ‘ weallings for breeding America’s future citizens, while we conscript the mentally sound and physically fit ta ‘be maimed and killed on the battlefields, is evidence

{of something that can hardly be called intelligent

Yet such stories are diredlating throughout Tussia, thinking.

- and the world. Those are just a couple of the most cockeyed. But the sum, total of tales that flourish when the lid of censorship is on is something for. any. ator r to view in srembling. He, who creates darkness,

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Would it not be better for the country, for he future ‘of democracy and even for the solving of ‘present economic problems if we got rid of the popy i= iation of penal institutions and nerve sanitariun instead. War is the greatest of all human insanities.

‘bubble of socialized

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

CLAIMS MANY JGNORE DOG LICENSE LAW By Puzzled | How is it some people can have four and five dogs (exclusive of two litters of pups per dog per year) and never pay one red cent in dog fees? The dogs bark all day and howl all night. Don’t say, “Call the pound or the police,” as both have been called times without number and the dog owners brag they have no tags, never had any tags and never intend to get tags. Nothing is ever done about it, and they continue to breed dogs. Last year we paid $4.50 for dog tax, including vaccination for rabies, and with 12 families of dog owners in one block, were the only ones. to do SO. | Do ‘some people rate special privileges, or is it lax law enforcement?

2 5 = SOCIALIZED MEDICINE

[FAILURE IS CLAIM .By Robert Burke

It is interesting to nate how the medicine in Washington has burst. They do not advertise to the public the failure cf the experiment. After loaning this enterprise thousands of dollars

‘of public money, the organization

finds itself $13,000 in debt—clientele dropping off and doctors becoming

less interested.

Why should: the doctors show interest? Their salaries go on just the same whetlier they make a hurryup night call or not. In other words, the real incentive to practice has been taken away--the interest the physician has in his patients. It is hard to understand how such a scheme as socialized and politically controlled medicine can be put before the public when it has so iniserably failed in Canada, England and Germany. It behooves each citizen to know what his Congrsss-

man or Senator is indorsing and|

when he presents some foolhardy scheme such as this gently to remind him that you are no longer asiesp, ” ” 8 PLANNED PRODUCTION HELD GREAT NEED By Production Balancer 5 This budget balancing outbreak is

only a smoke screen to hide the at-|

tempt to maintain the scarcity economy. This scarcity economy has given us nine years of unemployment. We want to make believe that unemployment’ is temporary. As long as we insist’ on Beeping the scarcity system, we -shall be compelled to suffer wholesale unemploy-

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sumption power with our production

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ment with its attendant relief, and unbalanced budgets. The only feasible wag of balancing the budget is to, balance our con-

power. We cannot escape disaster if |g we much longer delay adjusting ourselves to a rationalized program of industry. Consumption power can only be produced if we plan full-time employment of all labor. We must produce more to have more to distribute. There is no excuse for poverty or unemployment in a nation which holds the resources we do. It is not lack of men or machinery; it is a lack of intelligence and will, We could balance the budget now, and keep it balanced, if ‘'we planned our production intelligently. We lack the will, » ” » DOUBTS VALUE OF HARRISON’S SPEECH By Hiram Lackey. :

To that Southern gentleman, Pat Harrison, The Times awarded the highest praise. His appeal for economy was declared "a classic, worthy of being memorized. Will historians class it among Lincoln’s immortal speeches? Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address to us is a classic not only because of its merit and historic significance, but

- LIFE By VELMA M. FRAME I think our life is sort of like A game of solitaire; The decision rests with you alone, You can cheat or play it fair.

Sometimes one gets so very tired Of trying, only to lose; Then you think no one will know If to cheat a bit you choose.

Though you fool somebody else By saying you played fair; You never fool your inner self, The voice that God od put th there,

DAILY THOUGHT

Thou has made known to me the ways of life; thou shalt make me full of joy. with thy countenance.—Acts 2:28.

APPINESS ‘is neither within . us only, or without us; it is the union of ourselves with God.— Pascal.

because the ideals expressed therein built our civilization. Excepting among scholars, Lincoln is not honored in Germany and Italy any more than Karl Marx is honored here. On the other hand Marx's manifesto is regarded as a classic in the land where his. thinking built the civilization. The question is: Will the ideals of Senator Harrison build or wreck our civilization? We know what his Yeals did under Hoover in 1931 and 32. If keeping the wealth of America in the hands of its present owners is among all things most to be desired and if compressing powder and dynamite will prevent their exploding, The Times is right in conferring immortality upon Senator Harrison. But if our civilization depends on our solving the" ‘problem of distribution as effectively as we solve that of production, we would better stop memorizing Harrison’s speech and get to work, else 50 years from now our civilization might not be here to appreciate even the merit and historical significance of his speech. If Senator Harrison can remove excuses faster than businessmen can invent excuses for not doing their duty, he will be able to accomplish the impossible which will be necessary in order to turn the economic clock back to the happy Twenties,

save business from law and taxes

and America from destruction.

a #2 =» FAVORS BINGO PARLORS BUT NOT TAVERNS

By S. R.

After reading about the attacks on bingo, I agree with D. K. and not with any tavern operator. Bingo gives work to lots of people and gives them a living wage. And the winners at a bingo game spend with the merchants and pay other bills. Between bingo and taverns they should close the taverns as they do Bot help people in any way but hurt em.

URGES APPLICATION 4 OF CHRISTIAN PRINCIPLES By E. F. Maddox Right now is a time in the affairs of men and nations that a few sane and’ reasonable decisions may well save Christian civilization, ard the whole world, from chaos and revolution. This generation does have a rendezvous with destiny." The whole world is seething with fear, hatred, malice and war fever. None of these are compatible with’ the principles of Christianity or peace. Saving Christian civilization and promoting peaceable settlement of international misunderstandings, and inequality and injustices among nations is the great challenge to the statesmen of our time.

J Tay QF ENV

; 1 OF COURSE normal men honestly wish to make a good S |impression on women and the

temptation to spread it on a little thick th :

LET'S EXPLORE YOUR MIND

By DR. ALBERT [EDWARD WIGGAM

RE PEOPLE EVER SATISFIED

A WITH — GOVERMENT ORBAD? YOUR OPINION eee i

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IRA GR GR terribly firme. However, I think very few men adopt lying. to women as. a conscious : I think much of the male

2 GOVERNMENT is never good except in spots and in those spots it is often extraordinarily good. But it is always bad enough for the majority of people to grumble about it. One reason for all this is that

‘good government takes hafd work

and costs money and few people like to pay the price of good government or to work hard all the time to see

+ they get their money’s worth. But

the promoters of bad government work at it all the time. As a consequence government will always be a compromise, with an enormous number of people kicking it, but doing nothing to improve it. : td 2 = $ DR. FRANZ BOAZ—‘‘Papa Boaz,” as his many students affectionately call him — eminent Columbia student of mankind—

maintains that the gestures of races

are due practically entirely to environment, that is, imitation from one generation fo ‘the next. They grow up gradually in each country or race and children imitate their parents just as they do their tones of voice, their walk, etc. Thus this eminent Jewish scholar shows that the Jewish gestures, are a “cultural

heritage” coming. down fob ‘thou-

|| Says—

| perienced Sherman's invasion.

the cabaret practically to myself.

Gen. Yohmson

gary

It Isn't Jimmy Cagney's | Fault,

_ But: New Film, "The Oklahoma Kid," ./

-- Does Great Violence to History.”

ASHINGTON, March 17.—Far be it from me Yo “knock Jimmy Cagney. Like myself, he is just - an obscure Irish boy, sprung from poor but honest parentage, trying to get along with his so-called public, I seem to recall that, with admirable objectivity, he recently told his little sister that if she, also, got thee"

-Hollywood bug, he would stop her—which is good talk

even if it does not sound brotherly. Jimmy could probably do lots for her in Hollywood but Jimmy oughg

to know. My particular peeve is pot against Mr. Cagney. oo wasn’t responsible for the script or production of the scenario of “The Oklahoma Kid.” Some producer was. In NRA the whole of industry passed in review before « my desk in columns of platoons. When the movie crowd came there, I had occasion to say that theirs needed more Christian charity than any other—and they just laughed.” They needed ‘it then. They are ' going to get it soon. > 2 ” ”

CERTAIN amount of poetic license must be accorded to literature and certainly to movies. Dreamy admirers of “Gone With the Wind” said it *® must have been ga diary of a female Georgian who ex= Anybody who ever read “Battles and Leaders of the Civil War,” a great compilation by the old and lamented Century Maga-~ ¢ zine, must have known exactly from whence it came. Yes, poetic license can go a long ways. But, unlike “Sharlie,” I happened to ‘be there, at the age of -11, when the great run was made into the Cherokee strip. “The Oklahoma Kid” pains me. It plays tunes that » were not invented until years later. It puts Army officers into choker collars that were not inflicted for many years. It puts commands into their mouths like “squad fire,” which the old army never knew. It pors *: trays the great race pretty well, but it did more vioe lence to truth and ‘accuracy about that than Edna Ferber did in “Cimarron”—and that was plenty. It talks about a town-called Cherokee which my own Sasher established long after the date assigned to this play. : 8 8 =

Joor as an example of the violence done to History and to accuracy, in this film the run into Cherokee strip winds up in Tulsa. Tulsa, now accurately called “the oil capital of the world,” is a true bonanza city. Believe it or not, after having seen most of the great towns of the world, my fond eyes still believe that the view of Tulsa from the northern hills of the Arkansas River is as beautiful as any. At least Washington: Irving thought 50 when there were no ‘white men. there. But Tulsa wasn't: in ‘the: Cherokee strip. It was leagues away. Will Rogers would have had a fit about this. Having grown to young boyhood in the strip, after the cpening, I went to Tulsa. It was a huddle of huts—and Will’s home was. not far, being near Claremore. O. K. for Jimmy Cagey. Thank ‘everybody who helps to put Oklahcma, cn the: map. But what is portrayed in that picture couldn’t have happened in Okla homa—or any place else in the old West of my boy hood. At their wildest worst, the ‘people of Oklahoma never. stood for any such condition as is portrayed in “The Oklahoma Kid.” *

It Soom pn Me

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By Heywood Broun 4:

Economic Royalists ve. Better, Waiter Fears 'Revolution' Delayed.

ORAL GABLES, Fla, March 17.—Aside from ‘a troupe of acrobats and a dance orchestra, I had And a deserted night. ‘club can be as depressing as a haunted house, Solemnly ‘the, acrobats heaved and tossed. But why should: an acrobat risk his neck to amuse a dance orchestra, -a-fgw waiters and a lone newspaperman?, 1t is:just.suich situations which create a distrust of our economic sy: ‘The acrobats bowed low and went home to th spaghetti: -J:was about to do the same when a waiter who is an old acqudintance wandered over fo. extend the greetings, of the faded season. “I'm afraid,” he said, “the revolution isn’t coming in my lifetime.” I asked him Why he was so’ pessimistic and’ suggested ‘that amaybe he: got up: on the wrong side of the bed.” “No,” said the waiter, “the ruling classy is not quite as dumb as it used to be. If you were familar with Marx you would ‘that he ‘points out. that capitalism carries within itself the seeds of its own destruction. Now, of course there: hig be: any argue ment about that. ‘But the trouble is that every now and then a reform wave hits the’ exploiters. This will have no effect on the final conflict, but it - slows it up and I'm afraid 1 won't-he around w; see it happen. I'm 45, and I'keep® ‘late hours.” I asked the specific Yedsous for ‘my friend’s change of hs “All this I've learned; or the waiter said, “right in this place. There‘aten’t any playboys any more. We haven’t had ‘a’ single: one this season. We've had our season. We've had our fair share of drunks, of course, but I mean those. ‘economic royalists who used to

| gather 10 to 20 guests around a table and hand $100

bills to the waiters. n

And the irony of It!

“But,” I interrupted, “you didn’t object to that?" “Don’t be silly,” said the waiter. “I liked the tips, and also it pleased me to observe what seemed to be

‘the last gasp of a cockeyed civilization. You need

Marie Antoinettes and Louises as well as Lenins to create a revolution, “Meaning no personal offense, there is nothing so conducive to the creation of class consciousness as a crowd of fat and bleary-eyed people sitting around and yelling for mixed drinks at 4 o’clock in the morning. ~ And these are thé same fellows who have the nerve to talk about ‘subversive influences’ when Wey

sober up “But whom do you blafne for all this?” 1 asked. “That's where the irony comes in,” my friend ane swered. “I blame the same fellow that they bawl out. I might have had a chance to see the revolution with my own eyes if it ‘hadn't’ been for Franklin Delano

Roosevelt: »

Waiching Your Health

By Dr. Morris Fishbein

HAVE received a letter from a reader in Indiana who wants to know about aneurisms. An aneurism arises from the stretching of a weak place in the wall of a blood vessel. In the walls of blood vessels there .are layers of elastic tissue. They enable the vessels to dilate and contract. Sometimes a thick-walled rubber balloon, when blown up will develop an extra pouchifig out at: ‘some point where the rubber has been thinned out. This ‘can also happen to a rubber tire’ which ‘has been weakened by either a physical or chemical injury. The most frequent’ cause of the thinning out of the wall of a blood vessel is sn. infection which destroys a part of the elastig dissue, ‘Sometimes, however, a physical injury may cause if, ¥ have seen an aneurism result from a Dllet: iii the wall of a large blood vessel. times. : develop immediately.” atfer § "birth. Because a portion of a blood vessel may not Have'grown properly. Of course, if an infection in the body is attacking : : mister