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THURSDAY, APRIL 6, 1939

“WOE TO THE WEAK!” DDRESSING hig faithful Faseisti combat squads a week ago Sunday in Rome, Mussolini thundered to them and to the world this message: “Let us hear no more talk of sister nations, brother nations or of any other such bastard relations between countries. International relations today are based on force. .. woe to the weak!” Today is Army Day. It is a good time to take stock of where we stand in a world go picturesquely, yet so accurately, described by 11 Duce. It is vital that we should all place our affairs—national defense, economic recovery, foreign relations—on the soundest possible footing. Strictly in line with the above, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee yesterday began hearings on amendments to the Neutrality Law, The first witness was former Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson, who testified: “I weigh my words when I say that I believe our present Caucasian civilizatizon is threatened by the gravest danger with which it has been confronted for four centuries.” What he said, of course, is true. Adding to its ime portance is the fact that he ig not only a former Secretary of State, therefore thoroughly familiar with his subject, but also a Republican, hence not to be accused of supporting the President for political motives, For support the President he does. Ie advocates changing the Neutrality Act to give greater discriminatory powers to the chief executive. As it stands, Mr. Stimson holds, it tends to aid the aggressor and doom the victim. What we should have, he said, is a law defining broad policies but giving the President power to adjust them to world events and changing circumstances. If necessary, he added, “vou might give Congress the power of approval.” = ” ” 2 ® » “7 AM not impressed,” he said, “with the fear that in that zone Presidential discretion ig likely to be abused. It is my observation that in no sphere of political action is the sobering effect of terrific responsibility upon one man so marked as in the sphere of our country’s relations with the outside world.” We are part of a world gone berserk, a world in which force again ig all that counts. In such a world there is no royal road to peace. No law, however skilfully drawn, can, of itself, preserve our neutrality. “Certainly,” observed the former Secretary of State, “in the case of the two wars in which we have become involved within my lifetime, the Presidency was the most cautious and conservative element in the country—elinging to every effort for peace until it was clear either that the people were determined upon war or that no other course than war would preserve our safety.” It goes without saving that we should leave nothing undone that could possibly be relied upon to keep us out of war. In our judgment, the worst way to go about it is to nullify our unexcelled power for peace. But that is what our neutrality law largely does, by notifying potential aggressors in advance that no matter what they do or whom they attack, we will not interfere—except that, on occasion, we might help the aggressors. That should be changed. Only by so doing can we do our part in preserving peace in that kind of world of which Il Duce spoke.

THESE BALKAN STATES

E hope a fair share of public interest will be focused on the conference of state legislators and officials— including Indiana—now being held in Chicago. And we hope President Roosevelt's letter read there yesterday will prove to be the keynote of the conference; that, as he suggested, positive steps will be taken to tear down the trade barriers which are slowly choking interstate commerce. One of the compelling reasons for the formation of the United States was to rid the people of the retaliatory tariffs which the 13 original seaboard states had begun to erect, and thereby to make possible the free flow of national commerce which was so indispensable to the general welfare. For nearly a century and a half of our nation's growth to greatness, commerce among the states was unimpeded. But a few years ago “ports of entry” began springing up at state lines as legislatures started competing with each other in passing laws discriminating against trade from outside their respective states. Ton-mile taxes were imposed on out-of-state busses and trucks; discriminatory license fees were levied against “foreign” corporations; inspection laws were enacted to prevent farm products from crossing state lines. : Indiana and Ohio engaged in a “beer war" with mutual taxes of $1.40 a barrel and up. Michigan forbade entry of beer from 10 states. California put a tax on outside beer. Michigan began rebating most of its 50-cents-a-gallon wine tax to Michigan vintners, and California retailiated by forbidding state institutions to use Michigan products. And the ball is still rolling in that direction. Now for the first time a sincere effort is being made to stop this Balkanization of American commonwealths.

NO SNAKE-EATING

F you're thinking of eating snakes in public, don't go to Kansas to do it. It's against the law. Nothing is provided relating to the eating of live goldfish, but we can look for such a law any time now. The pro-snake statute is just one of the freak laws encountered by Prof. Newman F. Baker of Northwestern University in a trip through the wonderland of the state statute books. He found laws against inciting hostile Indians to break a treaty, against hitching a stallion within 800 feet of a place of common worship, against stealing a neighbor's cook or butler. It’s easy to get a law passed, but hard to repeal it, no matter how ridiculous a change in times has made it. Any state which purged its statutes ofgall this useless lumber

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In Washington

By Raymond Clapper

Dewey Laying Low, Avoids Court And Platform Appearances and May Not Reveal Policies Until Autumn.

EW YORK, April 6-=Although definitely intending to seek the Republican Presidential nomina« tion, Thomas BE. Dewey is hiding under wraps for

the time being. Politicians from many ‘arts of the country are calling on Mr, Dewey in sicady procession, some to look him over, some to tender him support, and some to inquire what is in it for them, Mr. Dewey, who is a supremely self-confident young man, allows his eandidacy to gather its own momentum without much artificial stimulation. He hag no organization. No one is riding the trains for him as Jim Farley did for Mr. Roosevelt a year in advance of the 1032 convention. Mr, Dewey hag authorized no one to speak for him. Politicians will have to see him directly. For the present, he is his own manager. . . ” R. DEWEY is not likely to make many courtroom appearances between now and June, 1040, His work as District Attorney involves supervision of a large staff of attorneys. His office is responsible for cases in nine courts, with trials often going on simul taneously in all of them. This probably is the largest Prosecutor's office in the world, Mr. Dewey's friends think it would be foolish for him to neglect the ade ministrative work of this office in order to appear in court to obtain publicity. Neither is Mr. Dewey anxious to make speeches, He turned away a lecture agent whe offered him $1000 a night, He refused to speak in the Chicago mayoralty campaign as he has refused countless other invitations. Two weeks hence he will speak off the record to the American Society of Newspaper Editors in Washington. But he's ducking the headlines. Probably not before autumn will he begin to expose his ideas about national affairs. In this he pursues a course which is the opposite of that chosen by Senator Robert Taft who loses no opportunity to speak and acquaint the public with his views,

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HE first task ahead of Mr. Dewey is to develop a personal campaign organization. Inasmuch as he will not utilize his own able National Committee-, man, Ken Simpson, he will have to find a new Jim Farley. Mr, Dewey has made Edwin F. Jaeckle, an upstate leader, chairman of the State Executive Committee, his man in state organisation matters. He is not likely, however, to be assigned to handle Mr. Dewey's national campaign for delegates. Mr, Dewey has a little informal week-end brain trust, the best known of which are Lowell Thomas, radio commentator, and Kenneth Hogate, the jovial chief of the Wall Street Journal, They are week-end farmer neighbors of Mr, Dewey up in the country. Among those growing in influence in the Dewey group is Charles P. Sisson, who was Assistant Attorney General under Mr. Hoover, If the New Deal had not enticed Willlam O. Douglas into SEC several years ago, Mr, Dewey might now be only a successful but unfamed New York lawyer. They were classmates at Columbia Law School and in 1034 discussed forming a partnership, New Dealers offered Mr. Douglas a job at Washington and the definite meal ticket looked better than a struggling partnership with young Dewey. Five years later both of them, meantime having achieved national eminence, enjoy the sweet music of hearing themselves crooned about for President.

(Mr. Pegler is on a brief vacation.)

Business

By John T. Flynn

Proposed Clause Would Curb Power Of President Under Neutrality Act.

EW YORK, April 6—The Congress has now gote ten around to considering the problem of neutrality and a change in the present Neutrality Act. The sponsors of the original neutrality policy have several changes which they wish to introduce and which are worth considering. The existing Neutrality Act broke down in its very first section. - It provided that neutrality legisla« tion should go into effect immediately upon the proclamation by the President of a state of war between two or more countries. But in practice the President refused to proclaim a state of war even in a case where one of the bloodiest wars of modern times was being fought. The President refused to recognize that Japan was making war on China. But he did recognize that a state of war existed in Spain.

The effect in each case was to attain not neutrality’

but to serve an entirely different purpose. In the case of China the President refused to issue the proclamation because he wished to put the coun try as far as possible on the side of China. In the case of Spain he issued the proclamation with the greatest speed, rushing through an amendment to the act for that purpose, because he wished to put the United States in line with England and France 3 clr Jen jnitenvention policy. In each case the effect he sident's action was to help th ; he wished not to help. J ie, Very ide

Method Would Be Changed

The new bill sponsored by the friends of neutrality now proposes to change the method of make ing the law effective. It reads: “Whenever the Congress shall by joint resolution or whenever the President shall find that there exists a state of war between or among two or more foreign states, the President shall forthwith proclaim such fact.” Thus if the new policy is adopted Congress will take it out of the hands of the President literally to repeal the law or render it ineffective or use it as an instrument of national partisanship. Congress itself may declare a state of war to exist. This perhaps is the most important feature in which the bill needs amendment, The history of our foreign relations teaches us that the man who handles the negotiations abroad controls the fate of the nation in the matter of war or peace. Congress alone can declare war. But a President can lead the nation by little steps along the road to war, so close to war that when the moment for a declaration arrives there is little choice left to Congress.

A Woman's Viewpoint

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

'M in the doghouse with all proponents of old-age pensions. Certain Townsendites go so far as to accuse me of advocating slow death and even general slaughter of the aging innocents. And all because I wrote that work was as necessary as cash to the happiness of old people. And yet my intentions toward the aged are the kindliest imaginable. From all the strange interpretations that have been put upon it, however, my language must have been obscure. I did not advocate taking from them their pitiful ittances, even though I did say, and even though say again, that every man and woman who has led an active, busy life can never be happy in idleness. i The misleading item, I suppose, was the word— work.” To most of them it seems to have only one connotation. Work is something one is forced to do to earn a living. Perhaps because I am a woman and a housewife, it has no such meaning for me. Thousands of my sex keep busy and happy all day long and never get a cent for what they do. From having listened to them talk, I am perfectly certain they feel deprived of a great privilege when they are’ forbidden the right to help with family tasks. And so I wrote that we should harm old people if we took from them the opportunity to be busy. I Jopent the statement. With all my heart I believe s true, \ The desire to be useful is as instinctive within us as the desire to be fed and housed. No self-respecting person likes to think of himself as a worthless, worn out piece of human junk. And so it seems to me, even though old people must have pensions, they should also have occupations (call them hobbies if you wish) in order to be happy. Old men especially

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AGREES WITH HOWARD ON FOREIGN POLICY By Edward F. Maddox Roy W. Howard's advice that the American people need to base their opinion of foreign affairs on facts and realism, rather than on wishful thinking and trick propaganda, is right, It is time for America to wake up. Why should we get excited about a rumored ‘Stop Hitler” bloc of England, France and Russia? Mr, Howard says: “Despite an army of tremendous manpower and an air force of great numerical strength, Russia today, according to foreign military observers and French and British statesmen, is an exploded hope, It is washed up as a factor in any immediate alignment against fascism.” 8o why the big headlines about a coalition with Russia to stop Hitler? , .. We have a man-siged job to keep the Western Hemisphere safe for our civilization. We certainly can't do it if we plunge into the European war madness. We need some common sense and realism in our foreign policy. We need more Amerfeanism and less internationalism in our National Government,

® =» =» COMMENDS ROY W. HOWARD'S COMMENT ON NEW DEAL

By R. W. Weber

It seems to me that Roy W. Howard’s final article of his series was by all odds his best, Especially interesting to me, and to those of us who felt that The Times was growing cooler and cooler on the New Deal, was the final paragraph Mr. Howard wrote from Paris: “Meantime, regardless of party or differences of opinion as to its methods of getting results, the broad principles of the New Deal, looming in importance above its failures, still are America’s best answer to the challenge of totalitarianism and to the dictator's claim to be the real champion of the world's underprivileged.” That's significant and important and timely. My esteem for Mr, Howard rises several notches, ” o ”

URGES CLOTHING GIFTS FOR AGED POOR By A Christian Worker

I am asking every faithful person to pray without ceasing for the sad condition of our aged poor who are on the long waiting list for old-age pensions. These old people need clothing. Set aside a day in your neighborhood churches for these old people to get your clothes. Make this

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

OFFERS SUGGESTION ON UNEMPLOYMENT

By Reader A sure cure for WPA: Make all

WPA men report and stay on the job 40 hours every week; give married men who have to maintain a home $90 for work requiring skill and $70 for common labor; give single men $45 for work requiring skill and $36 for common labor. Then they could not take jobs that non-WPA men need. There would soon be work for everybody.

As it Is, a non-WPA man can't get what he should have with WPA workers competing with him.

APRIL By L. B. D. W.

0, naughty April! North winds blow! It's clouds and winter, sleet and snow, temperamental thing, How dare you smash our lovely spring?

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Lawsy daisy!

O, saucy April! surely

Your monkeyshines are crazy! Now hush your mouth, Old Winter hears, You make such noise you fill all ears.

O, pretty April! Dress in green, Your mother wishes you to preen, She has a carpet for your feet With trees aloft, and blossoms sweet,

0, darling April]! Make your bow, Come, beautiful, mind mother

now. Be kindly, gentle, loving, gay, And smile on us your sweetest way.

DAILY THOUGHT

Owe no man anything, but to love one another: for he that love eth another hath fulfilled the law. —~—Romans 13:8.

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DOUBTS GOLDFISH GULPING IS CIVILIZED CONDUCT By Ed Miller, Pittsboro Will someone please tell me what the word civilized means? Just a few days ago we read of a young Western man and his raw meat eating habits, who was hunted like a wild beast and was branded as uncivilized, savage, a wild man and a Tarzan, Now the theme shifts to

the East and we have young men gulping live goldfish. These men cannot be called savage or those other names of our Western man, because they go to college and live in a city. Perhaps where our Western Tarzan made his mistake was in not being a college man or having a $5 to $10 bet that he could outdo a competitor. And he never thought of using milk or orange juice as a chaser and performing before an audience of 300 as our Eastern chaps do. How many of us eat raw oysters; hamburger that is just heated, not cooked; and T-bone steak that is still twitching on the plate? I'm afraid 1t would be hard to count all of those who do. I'm just a small country town fry with a little more than 20 years of life to my credit—so I still have much to learn. To all of them—let them eat what they want—but will someone please inform me what a civilized man is.

yy 5 2 CAPITALISM IMPRACTICAL, TOO, IS CONCLUSION

By R. Sprunger BE. PF. 8, in the Forum, thinks socialism is impracticable. Capitalism certainly can't be called practical with its “legal” thievery in the form of profits, millions of unemployed, crime, hunger and want amidst plenty. The desire of capitalists for world trade supremacy leads to international clashes and war. This leads science to inconsistency by causing it to create horrible instruments of de= struction on one hand while it strives to create life-saving instruments and medicine on the other. As for Russia, how could it discard socialism when it never even had it? Russia is a dictatorship as horrible as the revolting fascisin of Germany and Italy. It is a pity that millions are fooled by the economic dictatorship masked with political democracy. We will never be really free until we have complete social and industrial

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LET'S EXPLORE YOUR MIND

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NOT if by “genius” we mean the power to create and initiate constructive work. A few persons, otherwise idiotic, or at least feebleminded, have been able to recite long poems or, like Blind Tom, play long musical compositions, add or multiply figures or remember automobile licenses, people's names, telephone numbers, etc. But, as Dr. Catharine Cox Miles, psychologist, shows, these are simply persons whose general intelligence has been retarded but who have developed some one small talent until it seems remarkable. However, such persons never create anything new; they are mere reciters and copiers. ® 8 =»

A CRITICAL STUDY of the attitudes of college students by Vernon Jones, psychologist, has just been reported in Educational Psychology. He found students grew somewhat more liberal in attitudes toward war, religion and the church the longer they.were in college although ‘the growth in liberalism was small. He also found the brilliant students tend to be somewhat more liberal than the average and slow, but there were so many exceptions that he finds you cannot

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6, 1989 Gen. Johnson Says—

Early Treatment of Cancer Saves Victims Great Suffering, He Says In Indorsing Drive for Funds.

ABHINGTON, April 6.—~When I was passing the tambourine for funds to fight infantile paralysis in New York City, I said: “The fight against cancer goes on under good organizations that have raised millions, But as yet, we have no defense against infantile paralysis.” Some of my friends in the fight against cancer protested this, Their points were that whereas the cancer death rate runs up around 112 per 100,000, in« fantile paralysis kills only about one per 100,000 and also that the American Society for the Control of Cancer gets only about $200,000 a year. Now I certainly do not want to get into any contest about the relative demerits of these two human scourges. Still, I think my statement was justified, Pollo is a crippler rather than a killer, so comparative death rates don’t tell the story. On the other point, the polio drive was also for funds for research, for which there is little available, X

OR research in cancer there is available about one million dollars a year in addition to the money raised by the American Society. So “they have raised millions” seems accurate enough, I would be the first to say that they don't have nearly enough and that the fight against cancer needs more money than that against infantile paralysis. When cancer gets beyond control it is one of the most hopeless and agonizing of human fills. It is the second deadliest of all killers—exceeded in deaths only by a heart disease. It takes double the number destroyed by tuberculosis and far more than its nearest deadly rival, pneumonia, The tragic aspect of cancer is that a great part of the mortality and suffering is due to popular ignorance about the disease. If treated early, from 70 to 95 per cent of cases are cured. If allowed to run into later stages, the chance of cure drops to nothing in cancer of the bladder to 30 per cent in skin cancer—the easiest to cure, > 8 ANCER Is not hereditary, You do not get it from eating or drinking. You can’t “catch” if from another person. There is no more social reproach in having cancer than in breaking an arm. The simple rules that people should know and practice to avoid its evils are: To avoid constant irritations to any part of the body, to keep clean, to have a doctor look at once at any irregular discharge of blood from any natural opening of the body and also at any bump or dark mole, wart, thickening, sore or blister that «ems to be getting worse or bigger, and, above all, to be examined physically by a doctor at least once a year—especially those over 40, This is no health column but I have heen asked by the “women’s field army” of the American Society for the Control of Cancer thus to help spread this warning, The President, by proclamation, has also asked the press to do the same and has set April apart as a month for everybody to co-operate in the state and national programs for the control of cancer. The most important public part in those programs is to impress upon everybody the simple rules just stated. It seems a little thing and yet my advices are that, if this information were known to and acted upon by everybody, it could prevent hundreds of thousands of cases, tens of thousands of deaths and untold suffer ing every year. That is no little thing.

It Seems to Me

By Heywood Broun

Not to Dictator, but to God, Did Natives Pay Tribute That Holy Day.

EW YORK, April 6.—Some few years ago I went on a spring cruise. The steamer touched the northern tip of South America and paused for a day at the port so that passengers might travel up the mountain to Caracas. When we reached Venezuela word came that Gomez, the old dictator, lay dying in the capital. And as we went up the winding road, which drops a sheer two or three thousand feet at convenient corners, I noticed that all those who walked along the highway were clad in black or purple. Young and old all seemed to be hurrying to some central point. And, naturally, it was my notion that they were hurrying to the palace to learn the fate of Gomez. In the great square of the city these signs of mourning and of tribulation became banked into moving masses of people. And I thought to myself, “Perhaps the potentate is already dead, and it is for that reason that the garb of grief is everywhere.” But at the door of the cathedral the driver stopped and said something to my companion. My friend translated and explained, “The driver says this is the service to mark the three hours of agony on the cross.” And it came to me that’ they mourned not for Gomez but for the Son of God. Out of bright sunlight I came into cool darkness flecked, but not wholly broken, by the light of many hundred candles. And all about the walls and statues and across the shoule ders of the worshipers I saw the badge of purple, Holy week had come to the foothills of the Andes,

Faith Burns High

I have seen church services in far and near places, and many were impressive, but here for the first time I saw a people who seemed to feel that the Passion of the Lord was actually occurring once again. The faith of the faithful burns high along that mountain shelf. Some part of the agony is theirs, put the joy of resurrection bursts in their heart like an apple tree suddenly come to bloom. To them the miracle is without question. They have lived through it, and rebirth becomes a part of their own experience. Only one sleepy sentry stood outside the palace of Gomez. My friend spoke to him. “Gomez is very old,” said the soldier, “and, like you and me and the beggar in the street, he must die some day. But he is of strong will. He will breathe until he has seen another Easter morning.” I suppose that hefore death the old man wanted once again to dip his hands in life.

Watching Your Health

By Dr. Morris Fishbein

HERE are four critical periods in the lives of women: Birth, the passage from youth into womanhood, marriage, and that period which marks the end of the reproductive life. At the critical periods in the life of the growing girl, she needs the best advice that medical science can give as to the changes that are taking place in her body. Indeed one expert, Dr. Edward D. Allen, insists that careful routine examination of the body of the growing girl at such time is even more important than routine care of the teeth. Many a girl because of false modesty has suffered all her life. Simple anatomical malformations which might easily have been corrected lead to distressing symptoms. Indeed, there are instances in which complete absence of certain organs and tissues has gone unnoticed simply because the family or the girl herself refused to undertake the necessary study of the case. The adjustment of the body of the growing girl to the periodic manifestations of her sex is sometimes a difficult, and on other occassions an exceedingly easy performance. The first few years may be marked by irregularities and severe symptoms. In some instances girls seem to be undergoing these changes far sooner than they should; in others the changes come much too late. In either instance they are probably due to glandular difficulties. Suitable use of the glandular materials that are absent from | the body, properly administered by a physician, may 4 make all the difference between health and distress. Thus the, wome