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TUESDAY, MARCH 21, 1939.

on JUSTICE DOUGLAS

FOBODY is surprised, ‘but a great many people are pleased, ‘that President Roosevelt has nominated Wil-

in Douglas to be an Associate Justice of the U. S. Su-

preme Court. - Since Mr. Douglas has been generally considered the most likely appointee, his qualifications had been pretty horoughly discussed before the President acted. They re, in our opinion, excellent. It is our hope, as we are certain that it is Mr. Douglas’ determination, that he will -

- prove a worthy successor to Mr. Justice Brandeis, whose

place on the Court he will take. The new Justice—and we speak of him so because his rompt eonfirmation by the Senate seems assured—will be,

at 40, one of the youngest men ever seated on our highest:

bench. With the: vigor of youth he combines breadth of experience and maturity of judgment. Western by birth and upbringing; he knew grinding poverty as a boy, worked his way to education, practiced law successfully, became an outstanding teacher of law at Yale, entered Government

~ service under the New Deal and rose to be Chairman of the

Securities & Exchange Commission. Such a career would be possible in few other countries. Mr. Douglas is a product of the American system, and he He has described himself as “really a pretty conservative sort of fellow from the old school, perhaps a school too old to be remembered.” What he meant, we think, is that he wants to conserve democracy and lend his best efforts to the task of making it function for the greatest good of the greatest number—ihich is our idea of true liberalism. “The one regrettable aspect of his nomination is that it deprives the SEC of a chairman who has been doing one of the best administrative jobs in the New Deal. We hope the President can find another man, atJeast almost as capable, to assume the highly important task of supervising Government regulation of the security markets.

WHERE WE CAN HELP MOST

HERE is no longer much doubt that a majority of the people of this country stand with the President in his desire to help Europe’s menaced democracies in every way possible “short of war.” ~ Tomorrow, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will: consider changes in the present Neutrality Act to permit cash-and-carry sales of arms to countries engaged in war. Such sales are now taboo whenever the President finds that a state of war exists. | The existing law has proved itself unsatisfactory to practically everyone, including its sponsors. In effect, it puts us on the side of the strong as against the weak; the heavily armed as against the poorly armed; the aggressor as against the victim. Specifically, in the present European situation, it plays into the hands of super-armed Germany as against her weaker neighbors. It tends to encourage Hitler to believe that he not only has the advantage over Britain and France now, but that he can maintain this lead because he can build new armaments faster than the democracies. - Any arrangement, therefore, which will give France and ] Britain measurable access to America’s superior industrial equipment to supplement their limited national defense measures can hardly fail to act as a damper on the dictators. In the event of conflict between the totalitarian powers and the democracies, sentiment in this country would almost certainly force repeal of the present law to permit Britain and France to make cash purchases over here of the things needed to save them from defeat. It would seem sensible not to wait for war, but to act now, so the dictators will know, in advance, what to expect. The President wants the act modified because he be lieves, and we think correctly, that it weakens the influence of the United States for peace. If Hitler knew for a certainty that, in case of war, the democracies would receive no help whatever from the United States, it might well prove decisive. The -scales aparently are that delicately balanced. -

STILL TOO MUCH

E are glad to learn that Secretary Ickes did not, as stated recently, ask Congress to increase to $86,740 the salary appropriation for his information section of the Interior Department. The error was not ours. E. K. Burlew, Assistant Secretary of the Interior, had told a Congressional committee that an increase of more than $36,000 was being asked. The House of Representatives, objecting to expansion of

the department’s publicity activities, voted against any addi-| ‘tional money, and we applauded that action. Now Mr. Bur-

lew has told the House that he was mistaken—that the

amount asked for next year is the same as is being spent

this year, $50,900. : So, finally, the House has placed the new appropriation at $45,810, a reduction of 10 per cent. The saving will be only $5090, but that is something and it is welcome. The output of information and propaganda, from the Interior

- Department and from many other Government agencies,

might very wisely be reduced by a great deal more than 10 per cent, =

PROMISING

HEY elected a mayor, the other day, in “the Marsh,” a village of shacks along the old Erie Canal towpath near Buffalo, N. Y. The victorious candidate’ was Everett J.

Haentges, who campaigned on a platform promising no

more cold weather, no snow, no high winds, bigger and better fish in Lake Erie, less work and an early spring. Mayor Haentges is wasting his talents in “the Marsh.” man who can promise things | ike that ought to be in t least.

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Fair Enough

By Westbrook Pegler

Our Fiction Writers Well Paid and If You Ever Try Describing Face Of Lovely Heroine You'll See Why.

EW YORK, March 21 —PFiction writers make big money at home, sometimes as much as $3000

for a story, plus the movie rights which may be as

much again. It would seem to be a soft way of making a luxurious living, for one story a month should suffice, and some highly successful fictioneers

"have made one story last a lifetime, merely writing |

it over and over, now in a Palm Beach setting, now in Hollywood, now on board a ship, and now, for a change of pace, in the poor but honest surroundings of the five-and-ten. .

But, although I can run a typewriter and know |

as many words as the next one and can think up the

doing and sayings with little effort, fiction and its |

rich and easy rewards plainly are not - for me, be-

cause I find it impossible to write convincing descrip-

tion of pretty ladies. “The beautiful oval of her face,” I say, and then

look at the words on paper and “x” them out and |

back into it like this: “Against the pale radiance of the moon the beautiful oval of her face . . .” Nope. Ham! Fresh sheet of paper. Once more, now: . . .

“The deep pools of her eyes, {llumining the tender

oval of her face. ... ® 8 8

T gets worse and worse, and it does no good to play:

the duck for the beautiful oval of her face and

start in on her finely chiseled throat, the slender

tendrils of her fingers or the tantalizing tilt of her chin, because, eventually, you have to assemble her like a car on the line. You have got to select a certain kind of eyes big and round or mischievous crescents, and fit them alongside a certain type of nose and a small, petulant mouth (for society types) or a different kind for noble, self-sacrificing girls. That is another problem. You can’t say she has a big mouth. It sounds funny. Like mush-mouth. It takes days and days of toil and hundreds of cigarets to create a nice mouth which is not small, indicating a small, spoiled nature, nor yet an ear-to-ear mouth. Some fictioneers seem to just throw them together any old way and get good results, which may explain why prime fiction brings such high prices. Then you still have to surround all these fixtures with an outline which, say what you will, has got to be a delicate or “tender oval, because after all, if you give her a square face the editor is going to bounce it right back at you. 2 8 8 AY this head being completed, including the hair —which, by the way, has a seductive fragrance and tickles deliciously against the man’s cheek—has got to be mounted on a nice chassis, and there you are in trouble again. Not tall, not runty; not fat, neither scrawny. Just right. You try Sescribing, Just right and you will see. Men, too, are hard work, because here again the standards are very high and the rules exacting. Firm chin, dancing eyes, tall, lithe, lean, clean-limbed with a certain springy eagerness in gait ss though about to break into a run and ‘with muscles rippling beneath the jacket or shirt or the honey-colored surface of his sun-tanned arms, this latter for rough diamonds such as oil drillers and engineers and for playboys on the beach of Nassau. It sounds easy, but you try it, and when the postman drops the story back you will realize why fictioneers get.up to $3000 a story, plus, in some. cases, as much again for ‘the’ movies.

Business By John T. Flynn

Hitler Objectives Not a Secret; Latest Conquest Part of Plan.

EW YORK, March 21.—One of the odd circumstances of the European episode is the manner in which observers insist on refusing to look at the facts. What, for instance, could be stranger than men being surprised at what has happened in Czechoslovakia? Whatever one may think of Hitler, at least

one thing is quite apparent; that he has proceeded" .with perfectly logical sequence in the aitainment of

his objectives. = People insist on veing puzzled, on wondering whether he will strike right or left, east or west. But he keeps on going precisely in the same direction and precisely as he has announced a score of times,

So far as Hitler is concerned—what is it he needs most? Supplies of food. Where are they to be found in greatest abundance? In France or England, or in some distant African colony which will take years to develop? Or in the Ukraine? The answer is obvious. And what is more, there also lies supplies of oil. And near there, also, in Rumania, lies other supplies of oil and other minerals and foods. How can Hitler get what he needs most—by driving to the west or the east? Is not the answer plain? If he drives to the west, he must fight France and England and certainly Russia, for Russia will take advantage of the struggle to help paralyze Germany. But if he drives to the east he may very well hope to fight Russia alone. Does anyone believe that England or France will come to the aid of Russia?

Chamberlain Opened the Gate Immediately following the Munich peace, I suggested that Mr. Chamberlain saw this with crystal clarity. Mr. Chamberlain knows what Hitler wants

and he knows also that if the way could be made a.

little easier for Hitler to get to the Ukraine he would go that way. Therefore Chamberlain saw that in the collapse of the Czech resistance last September he was in effect opening the gate for Hitler to the East.

Shortly thereafter I pointed out that Hitler would soon find a pretext to resume his attack in Czechoslo-

.vakia, for that little country was to him merely a

corridor to the Ukraine. That attack has come, perhaps, a little sooner than Hitier planned. He has all of Czechoslovakia save Ruthenia. Where will he strike next? The time may be difficult to fix, but having gone so far does anyone believe he will turn back? :

A Woman's Viewpoint

By. Mrs. Walter Ferguson

N the anniversary of a day of personal tragedy, I always wake late in the night shaken by sorrow. Suddenly I am dragged from sleep by some

vengeful force, which seeks to torture me. It is always the same. The night is no blacker than the chambers of my heart. Everything is still. I seem to be lying under heavy stones, Yabped in some place of frightful fears and engulfed in a bitterness too deep and dreadful for tears. Then—and for three years they have not failed me—far off and faint I hear. the cry of wild geese. Closer, closer they come until I can fancy I hear the flapping of their strong wings diréctly overhead. Still and tense and filled with unutterable gratitude, I listen as they depart, until the last lingering note of their voices becomes only an echo in my ears. Whither are they flying? Why co they come when their visitation is a message of hope out of night’s ‘blackness, some insistent reminder that beyond the edge of time there.abides eternal stability? way are our hearts so moved by their strange eerie call? . I do not know. But this much is true. Their coming heralds the approach of another spring. Their cries in the silence are a challenge hurled at the night through which they too, are traveling. And whatever their destinations may be, we know they are compelled to journey by some instinct which we cannot explain, but which has been planted in | their breasts by the same God who directs our course through His Universe. After their departure peace comes and the forgetfulness of sleep. And dawn brings a resignation which is far from bem hopeless. I am certain such Jagle nm is given to us all n= times of greatest |is

A ® s : : The Hoosier Forum 1 wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it—Voltaire.

DEPLORES GAG ON WPA JOKES By Democrat. Not long ago there was a good deal of comment in the United States about a movement in Germany to bar from the stage cerfain comedians who made cracks about the regime. But it seems that the joke is on

us. Now comes the American Federation of Actors with a little “co-or-dination” of its own. Members are forbidden, ‘it seems, under penalty of a fine, from making cracks about WPA and shovel-leaners. In fact, if the wheeze appears hitter enough, the member may even be .suspended by his brother actors. If that suspension is followed by being barred from work, as it would if the federation maintains a closed shop, then it is easy to see that here, as in Germany, actors must toe the line of superior authority or get off the stage. True, it is a different authority, but the principle is the same. Audiences, not dictators or union majorities, - should decide whether an actor's jokes are good or not, Stand firm for the freedom of the wheeze, say we. ” 8 8

PRAISES CONDUCT OF JUDGE IN KUHN CASE

By Ralph Weber

If justice means anything, it means equal treatment before the law for all. A judge must not allow his personal opinion of a man who stands before him sway his decisions. That is why a mere magistrate in a Brooklyn court did a fine thing in acquitting Fritz Kuhn, the would-be Fuehrer of America, of a charge of libel. We know nothing of the legal merits of the case. But the magistrate felt that. Kuhn was not guilty. He so ruled. Kuhn’s lawyer then tried to thank the magistrate for his decision. Ee was quickly interrupted. “You have nothing to thank me for,” said Magistrate George H. Folwell. “I think the activities you have. the misfortune to represent are most reprehensible. - Your client and his ilk are engaged in a reprehensible activity. - The chauvinistic nationalism of which your client is the head is the root of:all evil.” Anyone can deal justly and mercifully with friends and those with whom one agrees. That is nothing. It is in rising to deal an evenhanded justice to those one hates and holds in contempt that one rises above their level. Only Kuhn and people like him will be unable to see the point. 2 8 » PROTESTS CLOSING OF BINGO PARLORS

By Mrs. Bingo

I see no reason why they should stop the bingo games. There is, and

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bling here, under cover. This includes horses, poker, etc. Lots of old folk enjoy bingo. What can they do for recreation? The taverns are full of young folk, most

always will be, other types of gam-.

(Times readers. are invited to express their views in these columns, religious controversies excluded. Make your letter short, so all can have a chance. Letters must be signed, but names will be withheld on request.) -

‘ly under age, disgustingly drunk. Who wants ta see that? True, some can’t afford to play bingo—but the majority can.

8 8 ” HOLDS ‘SOCIAL SECURITY’ MEANS LESS FREEDOM By G. Szmak, Industrial Economist In the final analysis the cause for the - continued industrial depression in America is the supreme gullibility

of the American public as suckers for “something for nothing” psychology, dosed out by irresponsible politicians under an uneconomic social system. The irresponsible always seek security at any price (not knowing they will have to pay for it ultimately), even though they are idle. ‘The responsible have their security by achievement through industry. Consequently the American public is taking the largest and most expensive dose of patent medicine that has yet been administered in history. The public not only likes it but wants more of it, because it provides an excuse to play hookey from school, at least until the appointed rendezvous with destiny arrives as sure as death, in the form of debt and taxes. It should now be self-evident that this rendezvous with destiny is a rendezvous with slavery in hondage to those who now offer social security. This social security means increasingly less individual security.

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THINKS BUSINESS NEEDS REORGANIZATION By L. H. : . Eccles may be wrong. Apparently all the pump-priming money that Congress has allowed to go out to

business during the six years of the New Deal has been wasted.

SHADOW DREAM

By DOROTHEA ALLANSON Let us linger in the shadows Amid the breezes cool, To watch the moonbeams sparkle Upon the garden pool.

We dare not break the silence Of night's enchanting spell. Perhaps our eyes and hearts will speak Words our lips ‘would tell,

DAILY THOUGHT

Cursed be he that taketh reward to slay an innocent person. And all the people shall say, Amen.—Deuteronomy 27:25.

URDER itself is past all expia‘tion the greatest crime, which

nature doth abhor.—Gofle,

The prodigal son, ‘befter known as American Business, has wasted eight years in slow motion strikes. Production has been allowed to languish, causing a waste of from 30 to 60 billion of possible national annual income. Squeezing that waste out of business is a herculean task compared to squeezing the waste out of Government operations. If we squeeze the waste out of Government before we squeeze this 10-fold greater waste out of business, we will have to take to the lifeboats. Before we pick the mote out of Government, let’s take the log out of the eyes of business. The duplication in business: is responsible for more than double the waste of Government. Why get jittery about Government expenses when business can cheerfully ‘allow us to waste 30 to 60 billions annually in national income by not producing it? But these are the days of jitterbugs, so maybe nothing can be done about the 30 to 60-billion-dollar annual loss which business forces on us. We need a business reorganization. 53

” 2 PAT ON THE BACK FOR MR. EINSTEIN By Admirer Albert Einstein, the physicist, is a man you can like even without in

the least understanding the theories of the physical world which have made him great. Those of us who failed dismally to understand his revolutionary conception of relativity, curved space, and space-time relationships, can get a thrill out of learning that Einstein is boldly striking out toward a”single unified concept that will unlock with a single key the mysteries of the physical world. This boldness in a human ming, especially in a world which faces a sort of twilight of the intellect, is exciting. At the same time, Mr. Einstein indicates his interest in a sort of “Court of Wisdom” in which 20 of the world’s wisest men might sit and deliver judgments of the world’s affairs which, though without any compelling force behind them, might at least set up a standard against which men could measure actual affairs. Visionary? Perhaps. Yet it will be a sad day when the world no longer produces visionaries.

# oo =» TOWNSEND PLAN NOT A PENSION, IS CLAIM By R. M. R.

The Townsend Plan is not a pension. A pension is a gift or bonus for some special service, which you can spend or save as you please. An annuity is bought and paid for subject to the terms of the contract. Under the Townsend Plan, all people at the age of 60 receive an annuity each month for the benefit of the nation. Those people would step out of their line of work in factories and other industries and let the younger people take their places. To me the Townsend Recovery

Plan means a step forward.

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LET'S EXPLORE YOUR MIND

By DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM.

SOUR VIEWe Oh MERELY | YOUR PREJUDICES

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ly bolstering himself by boasting of his performances and abilities. He

tractive both to men and women but egotism is always disagreeable.

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THE only answer I know to this is the Chautauqua gurvey —a survey of several hundred young people who were asked to answer this question. Fifty-six per cent answered “No.” I think it would depend a good deal op what sort of young people were interviewed and whether they came from happy or

{unhappy homes. In the California

study of marriage, more than 80 per cent stated that they were fond of their parents and greatly admired them. This was especially true of married couples who had come from happy homes. Whether the parents merited this praise or not, this was the statement made by the children. ” ” o NOTHING broadens your views 2 so rapidly -and with so much justice and tolerance as reading the opposition newspapers and books on

controversial questions. This is

always true unless you read them for no other purpose than to disagree with them. The greatest danger to our democracy is that people who are hipped with isms— naziism or communism or socialism, or any ism whatsoever--read nly

France.

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Designation of Authority to Keep Congress Abreast of Progress Seen As Vital Need on Defense Program,

ASHINGTON, March 21, ~There is and ought to be a good deal of difference in Washington on just how far we ought to go in waging economic | war on the dictatorships in support of England and Nothing very violent has been done as yet, Germany gets no benefit from the reciprocal trade agreements. But there is no economic attack on Hite ler. It is because we have no “most favored nation” treaty with Germany.

Neither can the. recent 25 per cent increase in duties be called an act of economic war in reprisal fer

| the seizures in what used to be Czechoslovakia. - Au-

thority to make such increases has long existed. It was granted to offset the invasion of our markets through the device of subsidies and dumping by any nation. Germany has been guilty of both for a. long time. For an equal period the State Department has been criticized for not increasing the import duties." Such boycotting of German goods as there. is has been by private individuals and not by our Governe ment. So it is not true that we have, as yet, any dee clared or undeclared economic war on Germany and there is considerable opposition to any such move. » f 4 2 "

uT there is almost no opposition since the events of last week, to our rearming in a military and naval sense as fast as we can and to whatever extent our experts recommend. The money will certainly be made available by Congress. In this very ease and dearth of ertticism—cdasiructive or otherwise—a dane

ger lies. Congress will .pass the appropriations with & flourish—and go home. The public will feel that its protection has been assured—and quiet down. The War and Navy Departments will take over the pro gram of building—and then what?

There is no central direction of this great. effort as between the two departments and in the War Department. There is little enough as among. its many bureaus. If the past is any guide to the future, in the War Department at least, there will be months, if not a full year, of shadow-boxing, jumping up and down and galloping in place. There will: be delays while designs are changed at the last -moment—

| delays due to Ted-ispe in placing contracts and de»

lays, ete. 2 8 8 HE Navy is better organized and has a better record—but with every shipyard in the country absorbed in orders or prospective orders for months

if not years to come, :it is pretty hard to see much unusual progress even: in naval rearmament. Under the best of conditions, it takes months to start such a program and these are not the best of conditions, If World War fumbling and experience count Yor anything, this solution requires three things—a single directing authority—some very close contact, if nos control in the manufacturing industries involvedse third and above all, some simple machinery for ree porting progress at least monthly to We military and naval committees of Congress: If this latter is not done and the ‘Brogram. bogs down and some disaster results, there might be a collapse and scandal that could possibly rock this Government. If it is done, the very record of the reports showing monthly progress or failure is the best spur to action and insurance Sgatnst failure. hat could be invented or imagined.

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lt Seems to Me By Heywood Broun

Natural Resources Are Not Money; We Should Not Gamble With Them.

A IAMI, Fla., March 21 ~It seems to me that there are two types of extravagance and that much

. the editorial pages so carelessly. Didn’t you ever hear

truly fundamental problem of waste. This fact was called to my attention by a seller in the two-dollar mutuel window at Tropical Park. “You were writing something: about the: Evers glades,” he said, “and you seemed to be under the ignorant impression that nothing but waste and use< less land was being consumed. As a matter of fact,

some of the richest soil in America is being: des

stroyed. And it's gone not just for today or toe morrow but forever... My wife and I bought a little tract a year or so ago over near Davie. She drove over Sunday, and what we have now are a few acres of ashes. The farmers drained off too much water, and when a dry spell came these bogs began to burn like peat in Ireland. The fire ate down right

- to the coral crust.

- “But isn’t there any effort made to check this?? I asked. . “Not very much, ” said my friend. “You see, it's local matter. The county has a fire warden, and a calls out a few assistants and some volunteers. Bub it doesn’t amount to much. We didn’t even know our land was in danger until it had been swept down to rock.” “But couldn't the Federal Government be effective in planning measures for protection?” -I persisteq, gE

Only Economy Matters

“I'm surprised,” he said, “to find that you read the editorial pages so carelessly. Didn’t you ever hear of States’ rights? Don’t you know that an: economy drive is on in Washington? Let the good earth burn,, © Shoot the works! The soil on which we live goes up. in smoke. We can't afford to be extravagant. And, if “ I may suggest, a ticket on Brain Trust in the fourth 5 might not be a bad investment.” All of which brings me back to the. subject oft governmental extravagance and “Federal meddling.” In the first place, among the rugged individualists there are many who say that each farmer should be permitted to do whatever he pleases with his land; even if he leaves it sterile and barren for future generations. And there are others who say that if there is to be any regulation whatsoever it must be left to the States. Of course, I don’t agree. A man may take a roll of bills and drop it in the lake, burn it or put it all on No. 17 at some convention wheel. That’s his privilege. But there is one form of gambling which ought to gO: That’s gambling with natural resources. We should not be allowed to use them as faro chips. They don’t belong to us gamblers.

Watching Your Health

By. Dr. Morris Fishbein

T= rapid evolution of the trailer not only as a means of transportation, but also as a permas= nent home for many people has caused the American Public Health Association to develop a special coma mittee to consider the health problems raised by this development. Such problems also obviously concern roadside camps and comfort stations.

There is the danger of contamination of wales supplies by the dumping of sewage and wastes fro trailers. There is the necessity for those who gave in the trailer to secure safe water.and safe. milk ;

To protect the public generally dgainst ‘the hazards arising from the use of trailers, the Jollowing suggestions are made: In every trailer camp there should be at one attendant whose duty it is to maintain the camp and equipment in a clear, orderly and sanitary condition. He should also make a permanent record of the name and address of the owner, the license number the home state, and number of occupants of oo trailer. Camps should be located 80 that drainage will not endanger water supplies. - They: should be Jocated in

which mosquitoes breed. : The trailers should ob be ‘so - lote ogethés ‘tha nad they represent a hazard to each other.. ‘There shoul

be a-clear space of at least 10 feet on each side bes,

tween the trailers. Tv bed It is also necessary that there be a safe water supe ply with plenty of outlets, and that there he also'n place in which the tanks on the trailers can be filled. under sanitary ps Ne

~All states should prob