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TUESDAY, APRIL 11, 1939

A CAVALIER OF TWO CENTURIES

THE news columns say that James Hamilton Lewis is dead. They tell us that those pink-whiskers-grown-gray have vanished from the American scene; that no more shall our eyes be gladdened by the pastel hues of waistcoat, cravat, kerchief and spats; no more shall our ears be charmed by the vibrant resonance of his polished oratory; no more the fascination of his courtly demeanor. All this we refuse to believe. For Jim Ham has been more than flesh-and-blood, more than a national figure. He has been, and remains, a legend. Legends never die. By the year the century turned, before most Americans now living were born, Jim Ham had attended universities in Virginia, Georgia, Ohio and Texas, had gone broke in Savannah, had migrated to the Pacific Northwest, served as Congressman-at-Large from Washington and as a Colonel in the U. 8. Army in Cuba and Puerto Rico, had been twice defeated for Governor of Washington state and once for Senator, and had taken his first defeat for the Vice Presidency. It was one of the legendary qualities of Jim Ham that he was never ruffled by the misfortunes which drive ordinary mortals to despair. Indeed the 19th Century, in which he crowded enough adventures to have given glamour to a dozen lives, was to Jim Ham but a period of apprenticeship. He flicked the dust from his varicolored garments, preened his still-pink whiskers, and strode upon Chicago to start life anew, City Attorney for Chicago, again a losing Vice Presidential candidate, defeated for Governor of Illinois, elected U. S. Senator, the Democratic Party's wartime Senate whip, President Wilson's plenipotentiary to Europe on various affairs of state, passenger on a ship torpedoed at sea, awarded military decorations, defeated in his next try for the Senate, rejected again for Governor, through the golden 1920s a dazzling practitioner before the Chicago bar, and then once more back in the Senate to give color to its proceedings and animation to its debates. Now the news columns tell us that Jim Ham is no more. We say we refuse to believe it. Legend is stronger than vital statistics. Such a spirit as his is imperishable.

LOGIC SIDES WITH PEACE NSTEAD of moping always over the inevitability of war, we might better take time out now and then to consider some of the factors which tend to tip the scales the other way. Reason is on the side of peace. Here's why: If there is to be a new world war, it will be launched | by Adolf Hitler and no one else. Benito Mussolini won't do | it and neither will Japan without a “go” signal from Berlin. | f it is to be war, Hitler will have with him at most, as far as we can see, Germany, Italy and possibly Bulgaria. As for Spain, there is every indication that she is extremely | war-weary and would likely remain neutral. Against the Nazi-Fasicist bloc would certainly be ranged Britain, France and Poland and possibly Russia, | Rumania, Hungary, Jugoslavia, Greece and Turkey. China | is already fighting Japan and her effort would probably be | intensified in the event of a general conflict. | Inside Germany, the Czechs certainly would not be an | asset.

And neither the Hungarians nor the Rumanians would be of much, if any, help to the Fuehrer even if he | squeeze-played them into a position where they could or | would not side with the Anglo-French coalition. Despite the odds being on the side of the totalitarian | powers at the outset due to the more advanced stage of | their preparations, they would be foolish to bank too heav- | ily on a quick knockout. True, there have been rumors that Hitler contemplates | a sudden, undeclared war; that, unannounced, he will un- | leash thousands of bombers over sleeping London, Paris | and other centers in a savage effort to paralyze overnight | both the enemy's war power and its morale. Even so, his- | tory proves that such barbaric acts usually turn into boom- | erangs, arousing, instead of destroying, the fighting spirit | of the people whom terror is supposed to subdue. However one may view it, a new world war would almost certainly be a long war. And if Hitler and his dupes | did not lose it, neither would they win it. For out of such a bloody saturnalia only anarchy could emerge triumphant. | Der Fuehrer must know this. So reason, we repeat, is on the side of peace. But there we stop.

THE EX-ER THE BETTER AYBE this world needs a Union of Ex-Sovereigns, as proposed by former Queen Salima Machimba of the 30-square-mile Island of Mohilla, near Madagascar. Protection for what rights ex-rulers have left is one of the things we haven't wroried about much, to date. But certainly Salima Machimba has a grievance. She abdicated 40 years ago, and she, her husband and their daughter have been living on a small farm in France, with a French Government pension of about $130 a year—surely not enough for a former royal family.

So we wish her well in her efforts to unionize the exsovereigns, from Alfonso of Spain and Amanullah of Afghanistan right on down the alphabet to Zog of Albania. What we look forward to most eagerly, however, is the time when there’ll be material for a Union of Ex-Dictators.

MEN AT WORK WATER company engineers have had a difficult time keeping sightseers at a safe distance during construe-

tion of a tower on the North Side. The problem finally was | solved by bringing in benches and giving the spectators a | front row seat at a safe distance. | There is distinguished precedent for this. It was John | D. Rockefeller Jr. who provided seats for spectators when | his Rockefeller Center buildings were being erected in New | York. And a fine idea it is. For whether we're jobless and | looking on in anticipation or guided merely by boyish | affection for looking on, there is no more pleasant pastime

to be found than watching men at work,

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In Washington By Raymond Clapper

Our Own National Self-Interest Is All That Should Concern Us In Formulating a Foreign Policy.

FASHINGTON, April 11.—In shaping our own policy toward affairs in Europe, it seems to me that the first essential is to think strictly in terms of

national self-interest. We only confuse matters to talk in terms of “democracies versus dictatorships.” Or of aggressors and nonaggressors. When Germany took Czechoslovakia, it was an outrageous act of aggression against a helpless people but it had only the most remote connection with our interests. It would be a beautiful world if there were no a rs. But there are aggressors and always have been. Britain and France built up their empires by jon. And as Col. Henry Stimson, former Secretary of State, acknowledged last week, we ourselves got away with a near bit of aggression against Mexico nearly 100 years ago. If we start out on & crusade to put down aggressors, we'll be chasing about all over the world. All we can do is to watch out for those instances of aggression which might constitute major menaces to our own national interest, “« 4% &

UNDAMENTALLY, our national interest makes it KF desirable that the status quo of naval power be preserved. It gives us a world more to our advantage, and there is no use pretending otherwise. An indispensible requirement is the preservation of our strategic control of the Western Hemisphere. There can be no compromise on that. Second only to that is the advantage to us of the maintenance of British sea power in Europe and the Far East. We have a strong community of interest with Great Britain despite the :fact that we are trade rivals. It might not be a fatal day for us if British sea power were broken, but it would be a sober one. We are kidding ourselves if we try to exercise a mission to save democracy or stop all aggression, and we are deluding ourselves if we do not attach real value to the preservation of British sea power, = = =

. F that is a correct analysis, it would seem that our general policy should be first to insure our naval strength around the Western Hemisphere, Army strength is of much less importance. Second, to consider that our interest in the distant future is on the side of Britain and not Germany. Third, to remember that this interest is not immediately affected and that so long as that is the case, we would be foolish to become directly involved. Fourth, to give the breaks to the British and French in a kind of benevolent neutrality. During the last war we took the attitude that our national interest lay in preservation of British power,

although we found several other ostensible reasons for | But we didnt go in until it |

going into the war. seemed as if the Allies were in danger of losing the war. It will take a great deal to get us into another war, and it should, because until the Germans really challenge Britain on the sea we are not vitally affected. Furthermore it would be the height of folly for us to become absorbed in the Atlantic to the exclusion of the Pacific. Japan, which was an associated power on our side in the last war, is now a member of the Rome-Berlin combination,

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(Mr. Pegler is on vacation)

Business

By John T. Flynn

Rep. Goldsborough Repeats Fiction Debt Not Owed Because All Own It.

EW YORK, April 11—Amid so many alarms of . § war and so many fears of business it is pleasant

to learn that we have no national debt—that this 40 billion dollars which the Government owes is not a national debt, but just a more or less meaningless fiction,

Congressman T. Allan Goldshorcugh of Marviand, leaving the House to become a Federal Judge, assured his Congressional colleagues of this in a fareweil speech. He explained it all very simply.

If America owed

this 40 biilion to foreign countries. then it would be |

But we swe it to ourselves. The nation owes the debt. But it owes it to the people of America. Then Mr. Goldsborough explained that nothing could be so silly as to talk about handing this debt on to posterity as a burden. Our grandchildren will owe it. to be sure, but they will owe it to themselves. They will both owe and own the debt. But unfortunately Mr. Goldsborough has gotten the grandchildren who will owe the debt and those who will own it mixed. For instance, I observe that 18 large commercial banks in New York City own about four and a half billion dollars of this Government debt. that? The banks. These are investments of the banks. And these notes and ponds belong, not to the people, but to the banks. The banks belong to their stockholders. The stockholders of these banks are relatively a mere handfut of peopie. Certainly the people who own these four and a half billions and the people who owe them are quite different. They are ownea by perhaps a hun-

a national debt.

milion Americans.

A Simple Parallel

The Hoosier Forum

I wholly discgree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

ANSWERS ATTACK AGAINST CAPITALISM By Voice in the Crowd Commenting on R. Sprunger’s letter to the Forum of April 6, in which he claims that “capitalism is impractical,” I wish to state that no social order can succeed that does not take into account the selfishness, laziness and general cussed-

Who owns |

ness of man. No social order can! | succeed that does not recognize and | | reward honesty, industry and thrift {of individuals. We prate about capitalism as | though it were secmething awful that | | we could discard, yet it is the most | essential tool of the social order. : Capitalism must remain and the | only question is whether it shall be! state capitalism controlled by and! | for the political leaders, or if it be | privately controlled in the efficient, | | competitive manner of service that {has always been American way. | That is the manner by which the | (industrious and ambitious poor man | jcan become rich, and the lazy and [negligent rich can become poor. We | ‘rail about private capital structures) that earn from 3 per cent to 6 per’ |cent per annum on invested dollars ‘that provide work for labor, and {like a herd of geese we don’t com(plain when the earnings of three {hours of every working day are ‘taken away in taxes to provide york for the political contingent. { Mr. Sprunger’s statement that the [pursuit of world trade promotes |war is probably an overstatement. | [It is the political interference with | [trade that promotes trouble. World | trade promotes industry, and indus|trious people are contented.

| World trade does not induce sci- |

| dred thousand steckholders. They are owed by 130 ence to produce “horrible instru-|

ments of destruction.” That feature displays the ruthlessness and cuss-| ledness of man. The first inven-|

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huddled in a corner of La Belle France, starving and miserable!

See the rebuilding of what used to be historic and beautiful Spain, and the establishment on its ruins of the world’s newest authoritarian state! See historic old Czechoslovakia, and the terrorized thousands clawing in agony at its iron gates, seeking the smallest chanée to escape the German rule. See historic Russia, but don’t inquire what they did to people ex-

considered the actly like you in the recent days | when they were building the Social

Utopia with a firing squad. Bask on the sunny beaches of the Adriatic. The alarm may come soon enough to enable you to scramble to the bomb-proof shelter in time. See the concentration camps and the panic lock of a man who dares not answer a simple, civil question because he knows not who may be listening, what double-crossing spy his questioner may be! See the little children, age 10,

MAY

By JAMES A. SPRAGUE As May approaches with its flowers After April's many showers, Quite longingly we look ahead When our feet will lightly tread

The little path along the stream Rippling in the sunlight’s gleam.

As May approaches, too, it seems, There are other kinds of streams;

Some of the American bonds are, of course, owned |tjon of primitive man was the stone Streams of people on their way

by mutual life insurance companies. And the ownership of these bonds is in the hands of a large number of people. But to say that those who own the bonds as a whole and those who owe them are the same people is to close one’s eyes with singular stubbornness to the hard facts. I know a club which has a bonded indebtedness.

| The club has about 400 members. The bonaed in- | | debtedness, which is not large, is held by about 20 of

the members. It is true to sav that the bonds are due

| by club members and are also due to club members. | But they are due by 400 club members and are due

to 20. National bonds do constitute a national debt. They are due by the Government, which is a corporate entity, representing the people. The bonds are a debt of that organism. They are due to perhaps two or

three million people. perhaps five million altogether,

but not in equal proportions,

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

EN are the fortunate sex because they have the right to propose, contends an eminent newspaper writer, and no doubt many will agree with her,

But just take a look at the bad selections most of them make in the marriage market. Having had centuries of freedom to select their mates, having had every educational advantage and every opportunity to meet all types of womankind, a large percentage lead to the altar girls who have no qualifications as fireside companions, no ability as housekeepers and sometimes not as much sense as an ordinary Pekingese. The scholar picks a woman who is not far from being an addiepate and who can’t understand what he sees in his silly old books; the banker selects one who is an addict of culture clubs and goes in for every new ism; the economical man weds a spendthrift; the staid middle-aged widower falls for the blondined babyface; the scientist marries a gadabout and the rake marries a prude.

I daresay that if we had the proposal privilege, women would be just as bad. For it isn't rights we really lack—but plain horse sense, which seems to be a missing quality in the majority of both sexes these days. Indeed it often appears that we use less intelligence in getting married than we bring to any other enterprise. That is why sober second thought compels us to believe that perhaps the right to propose has very little to do with getting a satisfactory husband. By and large, women who have never the privilege do a better jo of choosing than the men with all their rights. Perhaps a verbal proposal hasn't very much to do with it after all. I'm inclined to lean toward the opinion because I've watched so many ladies spot their man, begin the chase and ph. In the tag yefere he Liew what Wes lisp:

‘hatchet with which to kill other ‘men. We are still at it and from the slow manner in which we gai | intelligence it seems that for a thousand or more years men will prepare for war instead of peace, = = = THINKS AMERICANS BETTER STAY HOME

“A calendar of 1000 events in Bu-| rope, in booklet form, is yours for] |the asking,” announces a travel prospectus.

the asking! See the 400,000 Spanish refugees,

Mournfully their tax to pay; So it is along through life, First the pleasure, then the strife.

DAILY THOUGHT

Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying. I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.—John 8:12,

” 2 = LL the strength and force of

man comes from his faith in things unseen. He who believes

Strong convictions precede great actions.—J. F, Clarke,

herded into ranks and shouting a shrill salute in their piping voices as the drillmaster begins the task of whipping them into cannon fodder.

See the gas masks hanging beside every fireplace, and hear the drone of planes overhead. It's exciting, for you never know what moment they may stop playing and begin in earnest that spectacular “blossoming” of bombs which so impressed the esthetic Bruno Mussolini.

See the suspicious customs officials, stopping you every 30 miles and rummaging through your baggage. Meet the police every time you raise your camera, and feel the fine contempt that will be felt for you in so many places as a | “decadent” citizen of a free re- | public. | Who knows, you may be lucky ‘enough to encounter the Greatest [Show of All—the authentic Next | World War, the Five-Ring Carnival of Carnage. A mere thousand events {Burope this summer? Pshaw! | million! The American tourist will do well to plan his summer trip this year {so as not to miss the ones that ‘appeal to him the most. * a a DISTRUST SEEN AS AID TO DEMOCRACY [By O. E. Stickley It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active, The condition (upon which God has given liberty to man is eternal vigilance. If he breaks this condition, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime and the punishment of his | guilt. | England under Chamberlain has {broken this condition. Shall we, the United States, follow suit? There is one safeguard known generally to the wise which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots. What is it?—Distrust. ® » = CLAIMS HIS LETTER WAS MISCONSTRUED By E. F. 8. R. Sprunger has misconstrued my letter in the Forum. elaborated. Socialism in Russia, as now practiced, has certain imper(fections which will cause the naive [to discard the essence or idealism of socialism. To really understand

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Yes. A thousand events, ours for is strong; he who doubts is weak./Slavie Russia with its undereur-

‘rent of Oriental fatalism is difficult for the Western mind.

»n OR 1 and even profoundly influence a man’s personality. Take extreme

instances—a priest or bishop marry-|a fireman in ecclesiastical robes or

ing a couple and dn : make

AKE THE MAND ro NE

LET'S EXPLORE YOUR MIND

By DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM

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OPINION er.

FR Y ES ARSE HAVE

DENIES,

THEY have a lot to do with it; mony seem grotesque. It would

change our feeling about the personality of the clergyman. Or dress

In a dress suit with Fis

would lose all confidence in the fire department. The fire insurance companies would raise their rates. So in every line of business and profession it pays to pay a great deal of attention to be properly—never extravagantly—dressed. ® =» »

CERTAINLY they do, although they may be in hot water with their men all the time. This comes out when expert psychologists, trained in personnel methods and

management, try to induce bosses and executives to use more scientific methods. However, as one expert points out, experts would more often secure the co-operation of executives if they would talk more their language instead of using a lot of words that are over their heads. [ A J » : NO, it is because they never wanted a divorce in the first place. They got into some quarrel, or some in-law got them dissatisfied and one or the other consulted a lawyer and he, either from ignorance or for a fee, a divorce as the only thing. Often in a marital difficulty one partner—usually the wife — consults a lawyer in sheer bewilderment or else just to teach te ; lesson, — and it goes

Gen. Johnso

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n Says— China Wants Us fo Apply San

Against Japan, but Our Hi & Shows That Is Sure Path to ‘ §

ASHINGTON, April 11.—“China,” says Dn Wang Chung-hui, Chinese Foreign Minister, “could win the war (against Japan) if the United States would apply neutrality measures distinguishing between the aggressor and the victim.” Here is innocently exposed the blatant bunk that is being proposed in the hearings on the “neutrality” bill. Our sympathy is strong for China .but, our wish to keep out of war is stronger. The wish of Dr. Wang is that we shall get into the Sino-Japanese war on the side of China. Dr. Wang does not stand alone. Walter Lippmann is positively hysterical against Senators who do not believe in giving the President power to use embargoes and economic sanctions against unfavored nations. His argument is that perhaps the President could thus prevent war between foreign nations. He sug-

keep out of it and therefore that we ought to get into economic war to keep out of military war. n ” 2 DOUBT Mr. Lippmann'’s capacity as a military and naval expert to suggest that we can't keep out of foreign war. Behind our ocean barriers, we can keep out of it if we make ourselves strong enough on land and sea and in the air. If we become that strong neither belligerent can attack us during the war because both will be too busy and neither can attack us afterward because both will be too exhausted. Mr. Lippmann warns Senator Nye that we were sucked into both the Napoleonic wars and the latest World War. We got sucked into both because we were thought to be too weak to avoid being assaulted and for another reason that Mr. Lippmann seems to forget—in both we tried exactly this same folly of getting in first on the economic side—against England in the first case, and for her in the second. Mr. Roosevelt refers to this left-handed war as measures less than war and more than words. Mr. Jefferson called his similar attempt, “peaceable coercion,”—and slammed on his embargo. It failed of its purpose, almost ruined our commerce, threatened to split the nation and finally, under Madison, got us into war, ” 8 ” BE were pulled into the World War partly he= cause we were thought to be too weak to fight effectively and partly because we again took economia part and permitted England, but not Germany, ta violate our neutrality. As for the Senate interfering with the President's constitutional right by not giving him powers of em= bargo, any first year law student knows that he has no such constitutional right to engage us in foreign war—economic and military—or even finally to de= termine foreign relations. Of course the Senators must “confess that they don’t know how to prevent war.” So must the President, so must even Mr. Lippmann. In all our experience, economic unneutrality won't do it. All our experience tells us about that is that if we try it and it fails to prevent war, it is sure-fire to get us into war. ‘

It Seems to Me By Heywood Broun Garner May Win Nomination by Default Unless F. D. R. Speaks Up.

EW YORK, April 11.—I want to take a fling at & little prognostication on American national politics. Some of this is guesswork, but more than half comes from well-informed persons who spoke off the record. At the moment the race for the Democratic nomi= nation in 1940 has narrowed down to three men. The names are Roosevelt, Farley and Garner. On the surface the Vice President is in the lead, but this apparent disadvantage must be discounted by the

fact that of the three men named he is the only one who is making an active campaign for delegates.

Mr. Garner, of course, has made no public state=~ ment, but the drive for him is well organized, well financed and already functioning. The early belief of some political observers that he was ambitious to capture delegations merely in order te have a balance of power which would enable him to dictate the nomination can now be dismissed. Garner is for Garner. The race is more simple than it seemed a month ago, because the Hopkins hoom has failed to catch on, and men who know William O. Douglas well seem to be speaking with full warrant when they say that the youngest member of the Supreme Court not only is not a candidate, but would much prefer not having his name discussed in connection with the Presidency,

Garner Backing Analyzed

Of the three men who are really in the race most political observers rate Garner the weakest as a poten tial vote-getter. Even some of his backers grant, when they let their hair down, that he could hardly be expected to carry much more than the Solid South and the border states.

Why, then, does he apparently lead at the moment? There are two answers to this. The Southern delegation in Congress, with a very few exceptions, favor Garner, even thcugh they do not expect him to be elected. They are much more intent on defeating the New Deal than they are on defeating the Republicans. In spite of rumors to the contrary, Farley is still a supporter of the New Deal. His mind and his heart go along with Roosevelt and not with Garner. He would maintain Federal relief and not embark upon the harsh cuts favored by Garner and the conservative Democrats. But at the moment he is in the tragic position of being compelled to twiddle his thumbs while his Texas rival corrals delegates. Farley cans go to bat until Roosevelt says the word. It wouldn't be a bad idea for the President to speak out pretty soon. There is no good reason why a defeatist candidate like Garner should be allowed to pick up the nomination by default,

Watching Your Health

By Dr. Morris Fishbein

OST people and most physicians constantly think of the possibility of tuberculosis when there is a cough, profuse expectoration, constant fatigue, loss of appetite, and the other symptoms that are associated with this disease. Few realize, however, that there are a considerable number of infections of the lung which are not caused by the germ of tuberculosis but which also demand most serious consideration. Most important are the conditions known as bronchiectasis and abscess, The X-ray picture which indicates the presence of tuberculosis may also be utilized to indicate the presence of other infections of the lung. Indeed, some times bronchiectasis occurs at the same time as tubers culosis. Bronchiectasis is a form of chronic infection of the lung with the persistent expectoration of large amounts of sputum, in many instances associated with infections of the nose and throat and also associated with involvement of the sinuses which surround the

nose. In bronchiectasis the tissues of the lung are dilated. The profuse sputum sometimes has an unpleasant odor. However, even this symptom does not appear in all of the cases. It must be borne in mind that early treatment of" this condition is of the utmost importance, Once the tissues of the lung have been damaged or destroyed by the repeated infections, they cannot be restored. Whereas collapse of the lung by artificial pneus mothorax is frequently helpful in the control of tuber= ‘culosis, it does not seem to offer much :

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