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Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way WEDNESDAY, MAY 24, 1939

NATIONAL DEBT WEEK HIS is being celebrated as “National Debt Week” by the Republicans, while in other quarters it is hailed as “Foreign Trade Week.” The Republicans seem to have picked the more lively topic: The national debt is a lusty, thriving giant, while foreign trade ig pigeon-breasted and swaybacked with malnutrition despite the tender nursing of Secretary Hull. We're puzzled, however, to find the G. O. P. confining

its observance of debt week to speechmaking and the issu- |

ance of red-ink statistics. Judging from the loud silence of many Republicans in the Senate when hundreds of millions were being added to the farm bill, and of Republicang in the House when extra clerks were voted for Congressmen, a logical move this week would have been a Re-

Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

Why Should Press Fret About Bids to Garden Party When Gentle Art of Gate Crashing Is Available?

EW YORK, May 24 —The limitation of bids to the royal garden party at the British Embassy almost puts it up to the Fourth Estate to revive the fine old art of gate-crashing, which has become almost extinet in journalism. This thought probably has occurred to other members of the craft, and it may be taken for granted that efforts already have been made to case the joint and learn who delivers thé grocefies, meat and bloaters and whether any of these persons would like to lay off and go to the ball game on the day of days. The possibilities are not exhausted by the closin of the guest list and the knowledge that there wil be detectives from the Federal service as well as Scotland Yard men guarding the portals and pouring grog in the guise of butlers or iushing the same in the guise of deserving Democrats. | An American fly cop might be willing to tie his | shoe while a particular friend passed in, and it was | a detective from Scotland Yard, no less, who made it possible for your correspondent and Mr. Floyd Gibbons to crash the gate at the lying in state of the late father of the present King Emperor in London | a few years ago and not only made it possible but initiated the idea.

OU never know until you try, and if you miss the worst that can happen is a quiet heave into the alley. They wouldn't be likely to bend any blackjacks over a man’s head in such circumstances, and a lady journalist could give them the old “Sir. how dast vou!” and threaten to lie down and scream

publican demand for appropriation of a million dollars (in borrowed money, of course) to finance the celebration.

GOOD RIDDANCE TO A LANDMARK * ANOTHER landmark has been removed,” lamented Justice Pierce Butler of the Supreme Court as his colleagues decided that the pay of Federal Judges is subject to income tax. ‘ Landmark is right. But one of those landmarks which, in the classic malapropism, had “all the earmarks of an evesore.”’ We think a far better landmark is the Court majority’s

that thev had socked her a couple. They couldn't let that happen. But that grocer’'s boy and butcher's bov business is longshoreman’s stuff, and the true art of crashing calls for a dignified entrance through the front gate, and that calls for nerve, poise and scenic effect. There was a lady on the news here in New York in the late Phil Payne's day who crashed the reception after a Vanderbilt wedding with her hair whitened up with powder and got away with it by smiling at everybody and pretending to be elderly and deaf. = 2 =»

T Garmisch during the winter Olympics Paul Gallico crashed a cordon of Hitler's Black Guards by busting through from behind and saving with a stupid grin, “excuse. please. Ich Amerikanischer not speak German language.” They could have thrown him out, but thev didn't,

view, ag expressed by Justice Frankfurter, that “judges are also citizens” and as such are not exempt from “sharing | with their fellow citizens the material burden of the Gov= | ernment whose Constitution and laws they are charged with | administering.”

BUSINESS STATESMANSHIP

T would be good for the country if other business organizations would follow the example of the American Retail Federation, which ended its national forum in Washington vesterday without adopting resolutions. Formal resolutions, framed for the Government's guidance, have become as standard a part of the average business convention as the roast squab on the banquet menu. Usually the document is drawn up by a hand-picked comsmittee and ratified by a listless scattering of fagged-out delegates, and so obviously does not represent the considered opinions of a far-flung membership. Such resolutions do little good and some of them do much harm. The United States Chamber of Cominerce, for instance, has a peculiar talent for reactionary needling of the Administration in power. What it resolves at ite annual meetings sometimes causes business a full year of | trouble. The Retail Federation has some 200,000 affiliated mem- | berg, but it wisely refrained from any attempt to speak as “the voice of American retailing.” Its chairman, Louis E. Kirstein of Boston, spoke ag an individual when he discussed “The Interests of the Retail Industry.” But we think he was thoroughly justified in his modest hope that a large number of his fellow-merchants would agree with him What most impressed us in Mr. Kirstein's speech was its emphasis, not on what Government should do for his industry, but on the industry's responsibility for “close, earnest and intelligent co-operation with Federal, state and local governments in striving for solution of the major social and economic problems of the present day.” That's business statesmanship. And the chairman's specific suggestions were admirable. Retailers, he said, should increase the real income of the people by reducing costs of distribution. They should recognize the right of consumers to know exactly what they are buying and of emplovees to bargain collectively with emplovers. They should oppose monopolistic practices which retard the flow of goods, and for the same reason they should oppose all forms of trade barriers between states. They should give every possible help in disposing of farm surpluses within the existing economic svetem. They should recognize consumer co-operatives as a legitimate form of retail distribution, asking only that Government refrain from subsidies that would give the co-ops an unfair advantage. President Roosevelt told the Retail Federation that “out of every dollar spent by the Federal Government to provide jobs, more than 50 cents passes over the counters of the retail merchants.” Yet we think Myr, Kirstein made it clear that he, for one, is no advocate of reckless Federal gpending. Retailers, he said, should ask the Government to formulate "a carefully planned and explicit fiscal poliey.” And, pointing out that retailers are “concerned as never before” with taxation, he emphasized the need for a corre: lation of Federal, state and local taxation that will encour age private investment and increase purchasing power, This merchant's speech strikes us as a better platform for American business than all the formal resolutions adopted since the New Deal began.

GABLE FOR SUPREME COURT? NE wish to go on record as strongly as we can in sups port of the reputed candidacy of Jimmy Cromwell for appointment to the United States Senate (in case Senator [Smathers is made a judge). Me. Cromwell ig the husband of the rich and beautiful Doris Duke. We should also like to record ourselves as vigorously favoring the appointment of Arthur Hornblow and Gene Markey ag Senators from California. Mr. Hornblow ig the

husband of a Miss Myrna Loy, and Mr. Markey is married | |

to a Miss Hedy Lamare. We with also to nominate for the Senate, from New York, Mr. Billy Rose. Mr. Rose ig the prospective husband sf a Miss Eleanor Holm, New York's other seat in the Senate should be reserved until Miss Brenda Diana Duff

Frazier takes a hushand.

Now let's see. Where does Ginger Rogers come from? | | person to say his piece when he feels like it.

And Carole Lombard? And, er—Sally Rand? If something along these lines could just be worked yut, the news and pictures issuing from Washington would ye mmensatably more palatable. \

| men.’ | the banker's lawver and the lawyer thought he was

Front is best. If a man or woman, dressed for the

part, crashed right through as though it were in- | sulting not to know him or her by sight there is one |

terrible second of suspense, and it either works or it doesn’t. It works in a surprising percentage of attempts, and my old man worked it beautifully once when the examiners were going over the papers of an absconding bank president in Chicago. He just walked in, laid his stick and gloves on the board table and said, “Well, let us proceed to business, gentle And somehow the examiners thought he was

an examiner until he got up te cateh oan edition Someone then asked him. “and whom do vou repre-

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“Hearst's Chicago American.” old

and bowed out

Business By John T. Flynn Owen D. Young Gave Excellent

my man said

Advice Before Monopoly Probers. |

seeking absolute | “savings capital,” which represents

EW YORK, May 24—Owen D. Young made two points in his testimony before the Temporary National Economic Committee which are worth thinking about. The first has to do with the popular notion that

| Government must act as a rescue agent or life-saving

crew for ailing enterprises. Recently a large industry

very plainly set down the objective of its trade organ- |

ization. It pointed out that it was important that no newcomers be allowed in. Therefore, they said, a fence should be erected by law around this industry with a sign reading “keep out” to all newcomers and that those inside the fence should be protected by price and production controls which would permit them ail to make a living What this idea ignores is that this is the condi= tion in almost every industry and for the most part always has been the condition In every industry

brains and the energy to run their enterprises suecessfully. There are also a lot Who cannot do this because they lack the ability, the capital or the energy This is of the very essence of the present svetem It is supposed to offer an open field and an opportu nity to every man to use his capacities in any field he selects.

The Second Point

| The incompetent should be permitted to fail. That is the law of the system. All the system ought to guarantee them is the opportunity to try to succeed. It cannot. it dare not, attempt to guarantee them success. To do that is unitimately to ensure faiiure to everyone. The quicker the Government stops trying to enable incompetent railtoads, incompetent busi= nessmen, incompetent landlords, incompetent bankers, mcompetent farms to stay in business, the quicker it will bring about recovery The other point made by Mr. Young was that most of the great, strong industries in this country have

The Hoosier Forum

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into the industrial sytem to produce | the necessary expansion of business By HW. L. Seeger, Prohibition Party which is the only genuine guarantee | for their permanence. The State of New York has lifted interest in the

ing 10 per cent of the total asseis of

course evasion of these legal restric | | tions can be accomplished by setting (up | property, to which loans are made And from its ghoulish shape, man- reproducing from

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financing Scine years ago, when regulation the Stock Exchanges was being proposed, the argument was made that the exchange performed on a vast scale the function of furnishing capital for industry, Af that time the writer attempted to show rather elabs orately in a book on security speculation and its ecos nomic effects that the great bulk of the actual finane= { Ing of American industry in so far as routing capital | into physical assets was concerned was accomplished out of earnings. This is still true and, indeed. more go than ever

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A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

¥ ID you hear Big Mouth talk this morning?” This was the surprising remark addressed to me re- | cently by a taxi driver. He referred to a Hitler speech, | and his critical analysis of it would have done some college professors I know very proud indeed At the moment, hig radio was emitting ear-splits ting shrieks from a swing orchestra. 1 confess I als

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ways happen to get into taxis when that sort of noise | fills the air—but the Hitler *emark gave me somes |

thing new to think about Suddeniy I saw what it really meant—hundreds of axl men scurrying arcund our streets, and most of them with radio dials tuned to ceaseless air entertains ment. The prospect was appalling, because I ean think of nothing more harrowing than having to lis ten morning. noon and night to some of the programs, Yet in the thick of the constant chatter there must be many times when the driver picks up impore tant messages, part of a history-making speech for instance, a line of two of beautiful poetry, or the theme of some great symphony And suddenly T saw, too, what I had never seen before—how the Man in the Street is formulating his | opinjons of large affairs. The more I talk to taxi | drivers, grocery clerks, department store saleswomen, boys who deliver milk, ice, cigarets and newspapers, the more sure I am that our democracy it in pretty safe hands

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‘and agree with most of vour edi- A or | ; ical torials, but I think the one in re.| against the Holy Ghost hath never [asset rather than a liability, America |

gard to Prohibition, May 20, is not| forgiveness, but is in danger of has too long been playing Santa

tions.

would help emplovment, help the

URGES LIFTING OF BANK RESTRICTIONS

We have committed the folly of

uor traffic do not agree that Prohi-

(Times readers are invited bition was a failure any more than

to express their these columns, religious controversies excluded. Make your letter short, so all can have a chance. Letters must be signed, but names will be

views in A Reader investigation conducted by e T. N. E. C. concerning the vast

or murder. Our mistake was to put Prohibition into our law without having a political party in power committed to Prohibition as a policy of government, You may be right about objecting to Senate Bills 517 and 575 which seek to eliminate radio advertising {of liquor. Having given liquor the | green light, there can bé no reasonAnd able ground for restricting its power either, | over our political institutions, radio nor is this an argument for Pro-| or the press. We who claim that hibition. The old saloon was the liquor produces a condition of only true solution, I believe, of the | slavery favor its abolition by a party liquor question, in power through administrative ac- ’ tion designed to stop it, like counterfeiting.

e legal restrictions imposed upon | institutions, which limit eir investments to bonds, mort-| ges and loans. This apvlies to] nks, insurance companies and The idea to make

withheld en request.) a single nne of these things.

hind the limitation is I am not a Prohibitionist

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r deposits and insurance policies. | ” ” ” OPPOSES ADMITTING 1938 REFUGEE CHILDREN By E. P. i ao! I was amazed to read the letter existence of the iq 'by Maria Burkett advocating the admission of German refugees to this country. What about the

rage instead of forcing them back| was TOTAL FAILURE

U. RB. Senator Nominee

Those of us who have no financial |

GHOST PLANT

ese restrictions partially by allows | see

surance companies and savings

banks to go into direct ownership! By JOSEPHINE DUKE MOTLEY [thousands of our own "fresh young

income producing property. Of Beneath the dense flange of the hopefuls” graduating from high forest leaves. : | schools and colleges each year who The solitary ghost plant comes to cannot find jobs? life, Our better type of citizens are not themselves because most of the young people cannot

to own!

dummy companies

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gs which represent 19 per cent of |

company funds kind verceives

vailing strife {themselves and establish homes.

(to find “high-type citizens with

plants

partners in the business, we must| dead. (have plenty of them here hoping peal out restrictions on the sav-| No virtue thie strange flower at«|and looking for the jobs that do not gs institutions’ power to invest tempts or chants jexist. When we can give every

ese savings in direct ownership of | And so it droops ite white and American high school and college wax-like head. graduate a decent job, then it will “For shame,” we say, who stalk the be time to take upon ourselves the woods. responsibilities of foreign people. How different is this bloom from Charity begins at home, most men. ” » " man, endowed with worldly goods, [FAVORS DEPORTATION IF Falls lower than the ghost plant

| CITIZENSHIP IS SHUNNED now and then, |

Since he, too, preys on others and By a Woman Reader the dead, | Referring to the foreigners in Yet lacks the shame and grace to our midst, T have every sympathy hang his head. for the immigrant who enters our SR SS ——— country legally, determined to 3 make the most of his or her opDAILY THOUGHT portunity by becoming a citizen, But he that shall blaspheme | obeying our laws, becoming

These savings investments should subject to approval of a Govern=

surance of FHA loans. The conAnity of the capitalist system de= flow of vings into the expansion of pro-

For all his]

vings or die. .

William Cussing I read your paper every evening

eternal damnation.—Mark 3:20. Claus to a group of un-Americans S—— who by their actions are biting the T chills my blood to hear the hand that is feeding them.

blest Supreme rudely appealed to] After the necessary time it takes,

keeping with present day condiYou doubtless recall some of | e arguments put up for repeal. It

farmer dispose of his grain, lower On each trifling theme —Maintain!jet them declare their intentions.

ness knows what all

xes, stop the bootlegger and good your rank, vulgarity despise To tf they do not wish or intend to]

answer ig neither brave, polite, nor'de so, let them pack their grip and

I ask you honestly if it has done wise Cowper, | take the next boat home,

LET'S EXPLORE YOUR MIND

By DR. ALBERT EDWARD WiGGAM

And, correspondingly, I lose my fears of propa- |

ganda and its power to break down the Americanism which has been Built upon the right of every single

Mr. Hitler has done us a great favor, I believe. He has frightened the ordinary citizen out of his political lassitude, and in the long run lethargy is a greater threat to democracy than bunds or reds or invading

[ton,” but I rather think that more women than men feel rather ‘than think their way through life, |When it comes to the big, smashing,

gossip, jealousy-—either of their hus- business, that is, the real whoppers, can be educated and, in addition, bands or of other women's money |I think women cannot hold a candle (is practically certain to become

| IF YOU are going at the problem of building your person|ality==not as a matter of wishful | resolutions but as a genuine longY range enterprise-—say a five or 10 ‘or 50 year plan-which is the only kind that has any chance of suc-ceeding-=the intelligent thing is first to find your strong and weak points, You should ask yourself ‘such questions as these: Am I persistent? Cheerful? Friendly? selfish? Enthusiastic? Poised? Good (humored? ete. Put these answers in one column, In another column put these: Am I conceited? Untidy? Pessimistic? Egotistical? Disloyal? Complaining? Careless? Lacking |gelf-confidence? ete. Begin here— (and keep on the rest of your life. | ww YES. He may be a walking en- | cyclopedia of knowledge and [still be a silly fool, with no more | mind of his own and no more backbone than an oyster. Knowledge is not necessarily education because (education means, first, organized | knowledge-—the only kind of knowl(edge, that becomes power. It means also organized personality, sound work habits, self-control, tolerance, ability te get along with others, open-mindedness and willingness to help with the social problems of the community, Without this latter personal matters—neighborhood | vicious, ruthless lies in politics and [quality of socialmindedness no ope e a

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WEDNESDAY, MAY 24, 1939

Gen. Johnson Says—

Opposition Should Have It Easier

Next Time in Baring Recklessness Of New Deal's Spending Policies.

ASHINGTON, D. ¢.,, May 24-—~The Gallup and other polls showing that this or that potential Presidential candidate in 1940 has 2 per cent, 10 per cent, or 50 per cent of support are interesting measures of the value of the three political P's— patronage, popularity, pyrotechnics. Often that might mean much but, this time, apart from policies and issues, they don't mean a thing. No political Pooh-Bah in our history ever

had a tiny fraction of the P and P and P that Mr. Roosevelt still enjoys. He has poured out more pub= lic funds for patronage than all his Presidential predecessors combined. He has the power to pour still more and he proposes to pour them. That has made him idolatrously popular with all the discontents and it starts the race with his contestants under a woeful handicap. As for pyrotechnics or fireworks, he is the greatest master of that art that the English speaking race ever produced. ” ” ” OTWITHSTANDING the almost complete col lapse of all his policies, about the only chance the Democratic Party has in 1940, is to throw any appeal to real issues out the window and make their bet on the mistakes of their opponents, their tremendous patronage, and the art of this master magician to gloss over their tragic failures and to fool most of the people most of the time with his multitudinous diversions, excursions and alarums. Yet, strong as this reliance may now seem, it is weak because the mess that must be covered up so reeks that it must tax the resources of even this master, The Republican candidate's slogan of 1936 boiled down to this: “The New Deal is good but we can deal it better.” But the party was not truly united on even so much as this. All that is changed in their favor now, The opposition is pretty well united on sincere approval of the original objectives of the New Deal. More important to it, there exists a perfect arsenal of ammunition with which to attack every single method used to attain those aims, ” HE most important of these is the utter recklesse ness of the Administration in spending more public money to do each separate thing than was remotely necessary or could, with any conviction be Justified. But strong as is this arsenal of destructive critie cism, it is as nothing as compared to its constructive byproducts. Our tax net is now so wide that even a moderate decrease in spending plus a consequent moderate increase in business and revenue, would either completely balance the budget or so distinctly head it toward balance as to break the continuity of fear which has paralyzed private investment for six years. On that basis, the critics could conscientiously promise recovery on the very reasoning that Mr, Roosevelt promised it in 1932—and achieved it until he violated every promise by rejecting economy for extravagance, It is the brightest hope in our economic sky.

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It Seems to Me

By Heywood Broun

A Friendly Tip for Gen. Moseley— His Attention Caller Should Be Fired.

EW YORK, May 24.—I have never met Maj. Gen, | George Van Horn Moseley. In fact, as far as [I can remember, it has not even been my privilege to gaze upon his picture. Sight unseen, I conjure him up as an old gentleman with a long white mustache who fairly bristles with military pomp, patriote ism and excellent intentions. And it is in a friendly spirit that I would like to offer a word of caution and advice to the retired soldier. General, in spite of the intensity of your devotion to the American way, your place is in the ranks and not in the pivotal position of staff officer | behind the lines. Time is a great leveler, and age lays its finger upon the brass hats as well as the | corporals and sergeants | You say that it should be the privilege of a patriot | to discuss national problems apenly and frankly, What rogue will dare deny that? But I think, if you will pardon my glove, General, that you bit off more territory than you can chew at present when you declare that it's your intention to save America from | itself. It seems to me that now, and at all times, the United States is rather larger than any single najor general,

For Everyone to See

If the news-gathering organizations are correct you announced in El Centro, Cal, “My attention has just been called to press reports to the effect that I am a Fascist.” No man may reach the higher brackets in the military service of the United States until he has demonstrated his ability to both read and write the short and simple words of our mother tongue. And when your name was flung into the news the story was not printed obscurely in some remote quarter of the real estate section, No, indeed, General, you had your day on the front page. The man who undertakes to save America from itself, preserve our democratic institutions from all attacks cannot afford to be a cloistered recluse to whom the noises of the street come feebly, The man who sees himself as another Washington or Lincoln must sound a trumpet call. Blow, bugles, blow! No malter how pure his patriotism, it will not suffice if he waves aloft an ear trumpet and shrills out, “Follow me!” The age of re- | tirement is clearly indicated when the services of an attention-caller become imperative. And so, General, I think you should lean back and take it easy. Avoid starchy foods and too much excitement, A little chess and some debate about Grant's stralegy in the Wilderness are indicated, Can you hear me, General? IT was trying to say that this is 1939, and that your mustache is on fire, I hope vou won't mind if I eall your attention to it. Sooner or later you've just got to learn.

Watching Your Health

By Dr. Morris Fishbein

E depend so much on our eyes that we ought to give ourselves every benefit that we can in relation to their education, their hygiene and their control. The eve of the newborn child is about 70 per cent of the size of the eve of the person fully grown. It is a shorter eve than the eye of an adult and the lens of the eye of the newborn child is a sphere or circular globe, During the first few years of life the eye grows rapidly and reaches adult size at about the age of 8 or 9 years. The lens of the eye continues to grow throughout life, The pupil of the eye is small at birth and remains small until about the end of the first year. During childhood and up to the age of youth, the pupil of the eye develops its maximum size. Then it gradually becomes smaller so that in older people the pupil is often quite small. The size of the pupil depends to a large extent on the adaptation of the retina of the eye to light. The retina is the nerve tissue at the back of the eye by which we are able to see. The iris of the eve is the colored portion. People of dark races have a darker color in the iris than those of the blond races. Mast children are born with a blue iris, the color being due to the appearance of the color layer at the back of the iris. The color changes during the first years of life as the material becomes thicker. Children must be taught to use their eyes correctly, This involves co-ordination of nerves and muscles and of the brain which can be improved with proper training. As the child grows older, it develops what the specialists call “binocular vision”—that is to say, it uses both eyes in seeing. Sooner or later one eye becomes more important

than the ofhér and we tend to rely more on one

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