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MONDAY, APRIL 17, 1939

CLEARING THE ATMOSPHERE DESPITE angry snarls from Berlin and Rome against the Anglo-French so-called “encirclement,” it remains clear that the only menace to peace comes from the NaziFascist dictators themselves. Since March, 1938, Hitler and Mussolini have kept Europe on edge. Britain's and France's sole response has been to make a few desperate and sometimes feeble efforts to stave off disaster. But the more the “peace bloc” has tried, the more Germany and Italy have mobilized and sent their armies marching up and down the land. Into this situation President Roosevelt moved dramatically, with his bid for a truce of 10 years or longer, accompanied by world arms limitation and trade agreements. “You have repeatedly asserted,” he reminded the two dictators, ‘that you . have no disire for war. If this is true. there need be no war.” Are they willing, he asked them, to give assurance that they will not attack or invade the territory or possessions of the 31 countries which he named. If so, he said, he felt certain he could deliver similar assurances from those countries that they would not attack Germany or Italy. Thus, dispensing with the fancy verbiage sometimes used to conceal the real meaning of such messages, the President put the issue of peace or war squarely up to the two men in whose hands alone the whole thing rests and

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EPORTS from Berlin and Rome indicate that the answer will be delayed for a few days and may be no. If the invitation is turned down the world will know exactly who is to blame. And if there is to be war, regardless, that is a good thing to know. Whatever comes of the gesture, we are glad it was made. The world cannot go on like this forever. There must be a turn soon, one way or another. War-fear is handicapping all normal activities, while two sinister figures block the road to peace and better times. The President’s bold move should at least clear the atmosphere. Soon now, we should be able to see which way the world is headed. Meanwhile, we don’t pretend to know what lies behind the order sending most of the American fleet back to the Pacific. But certainly common sense dictated this step. As long as the British and French fleets are afloat, we have nothing to fear in the Atlantic. We hope we have nothing to fear in the Pacific, either, but if there is any danger to us it is most likely to be from the far eastern end of the Rome-Berlin-Tokyvo axis. The Pacific Coast is where our fleet belongs just now.

CENTURY OF BASEBALL HE military career of Gen. Abner Doubleday is something we don’t know much about, and we're not going to look it up. It’s enough to know that he invented baseball. The first diamond, as he paced it out on a lawn at Cooperstown, N. Y., just 100 vears ago this summer, was the

In Washington

By Raymond Clapper

Roosevelt Probably Aware His Plan Has Little Chance, but Believes It Worth Risk in Interest of Peace.

\ ASHINGTON, April 17.—Behind Rooseveit’s spectacular week-end moves in the European situation were these considerations: First of all it was clear that Europe was being swept helplessly toward the brink. Undoubtedly Roosevelt felt as a matter of conscience that he could not allow the 11th hour to pass without doing what he could to prevent the expected catastrophe. During the latter part of last week the time seemed

ripe to strike and Roosevelt seized the week-end, when there was a temporary lull in Europe, as the hour when he should speak. It must have been obvious to him that the chances of success were not too good—perhaps not more than 20 per cent. Still a chance worth taking, considering what is at stake for civilization. Even a negative answer from Berlin and Rome is some gain, In this situation it is better to know the worst than to fret in doubt. If nothing more can be achieyed, at least it is possibie to smoke out Hitler and Mussolini, to force them to make ciear that they have no interest in peaceful solution of the crisis, and to force them to reveal their warlike determination if such they hold. 8 8 2 R if they have a counter proposition that will O continue the discussion, it will, if offered in a spirit of desiring a peaceful solution, be a signal that the situation is not utterly hopeless. The first reaction from Berlin was not encouraging. However, Goering spent the week-end with Mussolini in Rome and it remains to be seen what the final reaction of the axis will be. As to the second major move over the week-end, the ordering of the fleet back to the Pacific, that is one of those chess-like moves with multiple purpose. For one thing it is simply a normal move, a return of the fleet to its regular base, which is the Pacific, not the Atlantic. Again, if Rome and Berlin considered the presence of the fleet in the Atlantic as a threatening gesture toward Europe, the return from the Pacific can be taken as an indication that we do not wish to continue in that position. Still again if a general war should break, the United States fleet ought to be in the Pacific. For judging by the past, Japan, as the third point in the HitlerMussolini triangle, would move to grab what she could, and the presence of the American fleet in the Pacific would be necessary for protection of our interests. = ” 2 OW to be perfectly frank, the nearer our fleet is to the Far East and the far southern Pacific, the more the British Navy will be relieved from the Far East in order to concentrate in the Mediterranean and along the northern European coast. That is not an official explanation. It will not be admitted by anyone, vet if you take the realities of international politics into consideration, it is a fact. In his direct peace appeal to Hitler, Roosevelt was acting not as a mediator but as an intermediary— quite a different thing. For the moment, he is volunteering his services as a postman between Hitler and Chamberlain. Technically the move does not in any way change our relation to the European situation. Actually it does change it because if Roosevelt's offer is spurned, the record will have been made clear and the effect upon American public sentiment is likely to be profound.

(Mr. Pegler is on vacation.)

Business By John T. Flynn

Nation Suddenly Aware of Mine Deadlock as Reserves Dwindle.

NY YORK, April 17.—The country has suddenly awakened to the fact that it is on the very edge of a serious labor war in the coal fields. The United Miners have a contract with the | bituminous mine operators for a wage of $6 a day in | the North and $5.60 a day in the South. Ostensibly this looks like $30 and $28 a week. respectively, for the | present five-day, seven-hour a day week. Actually the average pay of a miner was $960 in 1937, according to | the miners’ officials, or $1226, according to the opera-

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Recent Trends Indicate That the Best Way for Us to Save Democracy Is to Stay Out of European War.

ASHINGTON, April 17.—~What would be lef

of American democracy and liberty if we got into a new world war on the military side? Buckle said in his “History of Civilization” that the effect of war is always to hasten all peace-time trends. It has

proved true with us in every war, Let's look at our

recent peace-time trends to see where they would arrive if suddenly leap-frogged by war some 20 year ahead. There are many authorities high in our Govern ment who do not believe in production for profit to the producer. They believe in production “for use and not profit.” That is just a fancy name for communism but it doesn’t sound as rough. They are too wise to do this by seizing property. But they boast that they reach many of their ends by seizing, through taxation, much .of the income of those who produce it, to redistribute in various kinds of doles to those who do not. That tendency has already gone far in peace. To go all the way it would only be necessary to seize all income through taxation and that is already proposed in several pending bills with powerful backing. Exit the capitalist and profit system, ” o ” VERY tendency of this Administration has been toward a great concentration of power in Federal Government as against the states, and in the executive as against other branches of the Federal Government. In the World War, Mr. Wilson was given almost every power to reorganize and remake the Federal Government that was denied Mr. Roosevelt in the revolutionary reorganization bill. It is clear from experience that, in event of World War, the President would get those powers instantly—a wardictatorship. The Supreme Court as reconstituted is expected to bow increasingly to the wishes of the executive and the power of the Federal Government as against old rights of states. The constant recent tendency is for the Federal Government to direct and regulate, if not actually to run American industry. In the event of a world war, several bills in Congress now propose that industrial management be put into military service and regimented by the War Department to the full extent that soldiers are,

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anty of the Bill of Rights would go down automatically, Put these pieces together and what do

THINKS THE MAJOR SPOKE OUT OF TURN By Reliefer On April 12 you published a news item the first paragraph of which read: “Euthanasia—mercy Kkilling— is now proposed as a possible solution of the relief problem.” This solution was suggested by Maj. Edward L. Dyer, U. S. Army, retired, in a talk before the Washington Society for Philosophical Research, and is to be a means of disposing of persons over 70 or 75 years of age without means of support. The Major said, “Euthanasia should be considered in cases of old age, where the persons are of no use to themselves or anyone else.” | He also said he realized that “many | religions would be against it.” Now isn't that a wonderful a Especially coming from a man who from the fact that he attained the | rank of Major in the U, S. Army | might lead one to the supposition | that he had had the best of educa- | tion and might be a follower of] some religion himself. But certainly | not of the Christian faith. His sug-

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the event of war, there would be some eloquent silences from the other side of the Atlantic.” There is much truth in his words.

who have to do the fighting, are very much interested in side-step-ping the inevitable conflict in Europe. : Why let a few big shots with rich holdings in Europe drag us into an unwanted war? The youth of this country are far more valuable to us. ” » ” THINKS “DEATH LIST” COULD BE EXTENDED By Tolerant

Edward L. Dyer, U. S. Army, retired. After 10 years of groping by our greatest minds for a solution to the

burden on the Treasury. The plan seems so simple we wonder why some master mind didn’t think of it long ago—so we

could devote exclusive attention to other important matters. such as getting ready for the next war, for instance. But we would make one criticism. Why only the aged sick between 70 and 75? We can think of many others that could very appropriately appear on such a list. And right near

{the top, you bet, would be those |The common people here, the ones popping off with absurd remarks | on serious subjects concerning which | they possess knowledge.

| fiends, bund leaders and other anti-

not the slightest It would be a tossup whether such names would take precedence

over certain types of fresh air

Americans, drunken drivers and similar pests. But there would be no doubt that they would be pretty high up.

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By John Elder

The four powers that dominate the world today are England,

hungry mouths and relieve a great

| you get? You get complete naziism or communism. | Much, but far from all, of it is necessary if we go to | war. If war comes soon, the Administration which | has advocated these trends, if not these objects, ° would be continued another term because of war. Having attained these objects because of war, how many of them would be relinquished at the coming of peace? Woodrow Wilson gave up most of his war powers immediately after the Armistice—because he detested them. Would the present Administration give them up. having greatly desired them? The leading advocates of all these trends are also loudest in saying that we must defend the European “democracies” with force and for the sake of our own democracy. That is about the ghastliest misuse of the name and spirit of “democracy” that we yet | have heard. No matter who wins, the next world war | permanently will destroy the democracy of every nae | tion that gets into it. If we want to save democracy for the world, we will keep out of European war,

It Seems to Me

By Heywood Broun

Talk of Past Aggressions Sweet Music to the Ears of Dictators.

EW YORK, April 17.—Recently I saw something in the papers about columnar pontification. Sometimes it is thrust upon the commentator and is not truly a garment into which he stepped of his own accord. At the moment almost any newspaperman is likely, when he moves out of the office, to be confronted with a query by his friends who are not literary but merely engaged in trade. These outlanders are almost certain to ask—“Mr. X, what do you think of the

The Major should no* have placed | depression, the good major comes the age so high. There are prob- up with something that he promises ably more poor human beings liv-| Will bring back prosperity on the ing in this land of liberty and free- Pe maine would ‘ake sli our in dom, who are without means of J ; "Ine | . support except for the small dole | digent poor between 70 and 175 ahd |13 De, tlieisiong of aga so grudgingly given and which pro- put, SN Se 9 of the | states. The Bank of France is the vides for a bare existence helping er oy sa¥e hope=—nnt 8S keystone of its republic. The into make many of these’ fellow hu- Since er indigent poor at that dividual wealth of the royal family man beings a ‘nation’s relief age are half-starved and sick from of Japan is the pivot. burden.” War and peace come and go as There are many, many hundreds do the seasons. The fortunes of

United States, France and Japan. Their control of the land and seas rests on adherence to fixed ideas of government. The crown

tors’ spokesmen. The contract expired April 1. On March 15, John L. Lewis, United Miners’ chief, demanded a new con- | tract with an increase of 50 cents a day, the six-hour | day and five-day week—the 30-hour week instead of the present 35-hour week. The mine operators countered by refusing these | demands and insisting on a reduction in pay of 50 cents a day. Representatives of miners and operators have heen in constant conference at a New York. hotel since March 15. As a result they have gotten this far—that

European situation?” A newspaperman is only human, and under sufficient provocation he begins to sound off and say what is going to happen next week and next year. He talks learnedly of axises and private understandings. And so I will make my own prediction as to the estate of the world from now until Jan. 1, 1540, I do not think a general war will occur within that period. The hope of peace lies largely in an articulate and definite attitude upon the part of American leaders. Once we begin to say that both sides are

same in size and shape as those of today. His rules haven't | been altered greatly. But the general would be proud and surprised if he could return and see what a century has done to his game. Baseball is big business. Sixteen major league clubs have an investment of $65,000,000 in real estate, plants and equipment. Our own American Association and the

worry anyway, the major’s solution

rest of the minor leagues have at least $100,000,000 more. There are nearly 5000 professional players. Manufacture and sale of balls and bats, gloves and uniforms, make jobs for tens of thousands of people. Baseball is a great sport—truly the national game. It is played by millions of American youths and watched by millions of fans. Its stars are public heroes. So the centennial of Gen. Doubleday’s invention deserves to be celebrated, as it will be this summer. American enthusiasm for this game is out of proportion. Maybe it isn’t really important that, today and tomorrow, the big leagues are starting their annual struggles.

thought that baseball is going ahead as usual.

the roar of guns, but for the crack of outfield hits.

ICKES BENDS THE KNEE

HE following is from an editorial we wrote many weeks

ago:

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But, in a world so full of doubts and fears, there's comfort in the And one! of the things for which our country can be thankful is! that its people are listening, not for marching orders and |

both sides are willing to sign up for two more years at | the existing wage and hour agreements—8$6 and $5.60 | (North and South) for a 35-hour week. But they | have been unable to agree on one pcint.

Balk at Strike Provision

The existing contract contains a clause providing for a penalty of $1 to $2 a day on each miner for every day of strikes called during the life of the contract. Mr. Lewis demands in return for withdrawing his | wage demands, that this penalty clause be eliminated. | The operators refuse. On April 1 the miners quit work—320,000 of them— | though the negotiations went forward. Very little attention was paid to that at the time. But now, suddenly, the country discovers it has only about 30 million tons of soft coal above ground and this is being consumed at the rate of eight million tons a week. Lewis says this is not a strike but a lockout. The mine operators say thev are ready to sign a renewal of the old contract tomorrow. Lewis says the mine operators are being influenced by the big steel companies, railroads, antiunion interests and that this is an attempt to break the union. The operators say Lewis wants the penalty clause out to aid him in his efforts to resist assaults by the A. F.of L. Lewis threatens to call out the miners outside the Appalachian field and also the anthracite miners. Thus the dispute stands.

of men right here in Indiana who are on relief, trying to eke out a living on something like $16.33 per month, who are perfectly capable of doing good work at a rate of remuneration that would take them off the taxpayers’ dole and enable them to lead a life of self respect. Of course us old-timers can starve to death slowly. Yet there are so many ways of bringing life to an end that are quicker and more comfortable. Perhaps the Major bas hit on something that may be acceptable to the state and national governments. Perhaps euthanasia should be made legal, free and easy.

” ” = SEES MUCH TRUTH IN ROY HOWARD'S WORDS By Mrs. Chester Brown I wish the views of Roy W. Howard could be conspicuously placed on the front page of every newspaper in the United States in oversize type. Especially the lines: “If belligerent statements from America were confined to those who expect to do the actual fighting in

would do away with a good many

EMPTY CRADLE By DOROTHY BUERGER There was a time-—not long ago— When evening pravers were said, That Sonny would kiss everyone, Ere he jumped into bed!

Now, I must steal a mother’s kiss. He strains in my embrace, And taut with muscle seems his cheek Endowed with peach-fuzz trace.

The stork is quite a diplomat . . . It knows just when and where To leave a dimpled baby girl, When sons grow debonair!

DAILY THOUGHT For whosoever will save his life shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel’s, the same shall save it.—Mark 8:35.

HRISTIANITY has made mar- { tyrdom sublime, and sorrow triumphant.—E. H. Shapin.

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way to take those possessions for

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men and hnhations are always in ceaseless change. The wise course to pursue is to steer by the central compass. For the United States it is the joint action of Congress and Neither is authorized to make peace or wage war separately.

” ” » FAVORS SUGGESTION ON LIQUIDATING DEBTS By Mrs. W. A. Collins Let me congratulate you on the

article by E. E. Tinsley in the Forum. Why not seek a peaceful

Europe's bad debts? After all we American people lose our possessions if we don’t pay. We also lose our good credit rating. For instance, Italy and Germany

war, so why not collect our debts right now? Our Government could use plenty of cash to pay off our national debt. Then we could give our foreign friends a gold certificate of good credit.

i face a horde of horned devils.

wrong and that there is nothing to choose between the dictators and the democracies we are giving a go-ahead signal to Hitler and Mussolini. The slogan that all nations have somewhere in their past or present a record of aggression which bars them from any present criticism is only another way of saying that we have always had war, that we always will have war and that world conflict is inevitable at this very moment,

Starting Point Needed

Such propaganda is of vast use to Germany. Goebbels could ask for nothing better. No sensible person is maintaining that in affairs of the nations some are clad wholly in shining armor and that they But that is very different from saying that there is no choice whatsoever. At some point or other civilization must say, “From this point on we will make a fresh start.” The old twisters of the lion’s tail are coming back into action. Past and present sins of the British Eme pire are being flashed upon the screen. There is am ple material for making out such a case, but the material and, indeed, the spiritual aspirations of the United States are not promoted by any such propaganda. Each American need only ask himself one simple question: Would we be better off and more secure if Canada were part of the Reich instead of a Dominion of the British Empire?

“Mr. Ickes has now investigated the McKellar charges, found them without merit, and announced that Superintendent Eakin will remain at his post. We congratulate and thank the Secretary. He may have incurred the displeasure of a powerful Democratic Senator, but he has OST recent and exciting visitor to the humble repulsed a political raid on one of the great National parks. | domicile is The Girl Who Rides With Ernie In doing that, he has made all the National parks more | Pyle. And what a honey she is! Anybody would be secure against spoilsmen—a service for which Mr. Ickes! Willing to tuck her in as excess baggage, and although deserves the gratitude of the present and of the future.” SHE an, MANKCE } SIGETING ynte) Near Me ht ta . . "x W Svictke . tainly good entertainment for the driver. The Senator's “charges” were that Mr. Eakin was a Re-| jerry Pyle says she's a parasite and loves it. She's publican and a West Virginian, and that he had permitted | so little she doesn't take up much room. Her long other non-Democrats and non-Tennesseeans to get eivil- | uncurled brown hair is drawn back from her face and service jobs in the Great Smokies park. He demanded that | Der Wide eyes are the clear blue of gentian flowers. Mr. Eakin be kicked out. Secretary Ickes in tigated Come to think of it she’s rather like Husband Ernie. r. maki > : DE : y vestigated, | No show-off stuff in a whole carload of Pyles. In a found the charges absurd, and in effect told Senator Me- | room cluttered with columnists youd pick Ernie for Kellar to go sit on a tack. the fellow who happened in accidentally and then Since then two things have happened. stayed to hear the big shots talk. The two of them First, the Interior Department appropriations bill came before the Senate Appropriations Committee, of which

Watching Your Health

By Dr. Morris Fishbein

OMEHOW the habit of snoring in sleep is usually greeted with a good deal of ridicule and embar=rassment. Whenever the question arises in any home the father and mother will affirm positively that each of them individually never snores, vet each is likely to affirm with equal glee that the other snores to the high heavens. Now practically everyone under certain circume stances may snore, because the conditions that cause snoring may occur at one time or another in every person. ' The actual noises made by the snorer are due to intermittent passage of air at places in the nose and throat where there may be partial obstruction to the passage. What are the conditions that may bring about such obstruction? First, there may occur during sleep a partial reJlaxation of the muscles holding the vocal cords so that they fall more or less closely together and thus interfere with the passage of air. Second. when a person in deep sleep or one who

LET'S EXPLORE YOUR MIND

By DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

AS I have always said, you can’t make one general rule that will fit all women, but I have a strong impression that wotnen are more likely to go to extremes than men. Usually, if they take up bridge it is bridge—and nothing else, or it’s golf, or love or dress or children or managing friend-husband. I think this is due mainly to the fact that most women do not have the wide variety of interests and contacts that men have. A woman usually concentrates on love more than: a man does, but this is probably because more women than men are subjec-tive-minded and introverted. ,

I THINK they are. Several experiments in self-governing

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add up to an Indiana farm boy married to a Minnesota smalltown girl, who lived for a number of years in Washington and are now the Champion

Senator McKellar is an active and vindictive member.

Secondly, Mr. Ickes, fearful of how Senator McKellar

Gadders for Scripps-Howard Newspapers and doing a mighty swell job. We use the plural term because Ernie's the sort of guy who needs somebody to keep his spirits up. He

school classes strongly indicate that democracy must be learned by practice. Dr. Frank Thone, relates the experiments of Dr. O. H. Mowrer of

is unconscious lies on his back the tongue may fall back and partially close the opening through which the air passes. Third, when a person lies on his back the muscles

might apply the economy knife against his department, quietly ordered Superintendent Eakin transferred to the = Shenandoah National Park. § gE For conclusion, we quote from an editorial in The “¥ Knoxville (Tenn.) News-Sentinel: : “Honest Harold” has really been tough with Adolf Hitler. But 5000 miles of sea water separate Mr. Hitler and Mr. Ickes. Senator McKellar is the tough boy in the same block. And Mu, Ickes is ‘too proud to fight.’ ”

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Yale in training problem-children in self-government. The greatest lesson they learned was that “wrong” is not wrong because some dictator of a parent says it is but because it prings bad consequences to all They found, for instance, if one kid was allowed to steal—nobody’s property was safe. The kid was tried by the kids, not by parents, and made to pay for his “wrong.” The experigent © great changes in

doesn’t think any too much of himself but Jerry likes his column and says so out loud. In fact, she is sure it’s just about the swellest column now being written in the whole United States—and a lot of readers agree with her. In short Jerry is exactly the right wife for Ernie. Seeing them together makes us realize how important it is for a man to use his head when he picks out a girl to travel with him. The Pyle bean was working fine when Ernie popped the question, for a country full of would-be glamour lasses, women like Jerry

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controlling the soft palate may fail to hold it so that it falls against the hard palate and obstructs the passage of air up through the nose. Fourth, because of irritation or inflammation, mucous may collect in the nose or in the passages behind the nose. Fifth, the muscles associated with the throat and nose may be abnormally tense and thuse creates inter ference to the passing of air. : } 3 Sixth, if the nose is.blocked and. the lips are held : rather cloge to the air, a whistling sound oeuss 3 a8

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