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SATURDAY, JUNE 17, 1939

SQUALUS, THETIS, PHENIX N May 23, the new U. S. Navy submarine Squalus sank with a loss of 26 lives. On June 1, the new British submarine Thetis sank with a loss of 99 lives. Two such disasters, coming so close together, seemed a tragic coincidence. Now the third great democracy, France, has lost a submarine, the Phenix, with 63 men. It begins to seem too much of a coincidence.

SPOILS SYSTEM AT BAY HE President, under pressure on the Hatch bill issue, evidently has gone yes-but. In a press conference he favors the objectives of the measure, but thinks it loosely drawn and should be rewritten. Which is a way of indicating that the pressure is taking hold. And we can understand. Because a long-intrenched political system is being assailed. Not that there is anything inherently wrong in a yesbut attitude, except that the President is on record against it. »

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The fact is, the Hatch bill is surprisingly brief and clear, as legal documents go. With ail the whereases in, plus one proposed amendment, it runs only 1035 words. It states its purposes simply. It is a major offensive against spoils. It passed the Senate unanimously more than two months ago and has been hung up in House committees since. It is the outgrowth of the failure to enact an anti-politics-in-relief resolution a year ago, and the WPA election scandals which followed. It hits Congressmen where they live, and hit birds flutter. Hence the pressure.

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The bill not only bars relief from politics but it breaks up another and venerable racket. device by which many public employees work in the political vineyard at taxpayer expense. Duties of such help are specifically defined. They aren’t policy makers. But their deputies do the work while they play politics, in behalf of the Congressmen who secure their appointments. There is no more reason why some revenue collectors, for example, should spend their time fixing fences for the fellows who got them their jobs than for a newspaper reporter to employ his hours running personal errands for the city editor who hired him. But that's the game—in public life. And that’s what the Hatch bill would stop. No wonder there is resistance.

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Coming with especial timeliness is an address by Attorney General Frank Murphy before the Civil Service Assembly. He goes into the history of the spoils system. Somehow, he says, in our attack on it we have not made the progress we had anticipated against the “skilful and energetic” resistance of those who have had a stake in it. He points out that 13 per cent of the nation's average family income goes to meet public payrolls. He thinks that is much too much. And he comments as follows: “The ancient practice of passing out Government jobs in payment of political debts must end. “We must abandon the companion idea that the Government payroll is a legitimate field for charity and benevolence toward special groups and persons who lack qualifications for public service.” “. .. a large percentage of public jobs has been and is today controlled by machine politics and special interest groups. “The opposition of these groups, together with public

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ignorance of much of the inefficiency, graft and waste re- |

sulting from the spoils system, has been enough to undermine virtually every effort to establish and enforce sound personal management in our Government.” The solution, he concludes, is a real awakening of the people who pay the bills, Pertinent, that—and touching directly on what the Hatch bill is all about. We commend the Murphy speech to the President who is now feeling the pressure of those same “skilful and energetic” groups to which the Attorney General refers. For it is of such pressure that yes-buts are made.

BUFFALO MEAT USSOLINT'S tame editors seem to be slightly misinformed about the situation in the vicinity of Hyde Park, N. Y. In their reports of a recent picnic at that locality, the Rome newspapers assert that Mrs. Roosevelt, after a quarrel with her mother-in-law, served the King and Queen of England “hot dogs made of buffalo meat and stuffed with cabbage, which they washed down with beer, while secret service men and soldiers stood behind every bush.”

The Italian journalists might have done better than that. Why not Iroquois Indians, armed with tomahawks, butchering the buffalos and grilling the hot dogs at their camp fires?

As to what actually happened at Hyde Park, we prefer to take our information from a real authority, Mrs. Roosevelt herself. Which gives us opportunity to say that her daily columns, during the Royal visit, were good reporting at its best. That story about how Their Majesties remained calm when a serving table tipped over and deposited an avalanche of broken dishes on the dining room - floor, when someone dropped a tray of bottles and glasses in the library, and when the President almost sat on another tray of glasses and pop bottles must have tickled and touched millions of families.

But we suppose, by the time it gets to Rome, the Italian editors will have discovered that the dishes and glasses were broken by cowboys who rode their bronchos into the - Hyde Park estate and fired their six-shooters through the

: | snoot sandwich, a specialty of Beale St.—or, anyway, It kills the henchman | of the Memphis Nagro night life sector—also is to be

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Fair Enough

By Westbrook Pegler

Royalty's Bout With Hot Dog Prompts Him to Recall History of That Distinctly American Delicacy.

EW YORK, June 17.—The American hot dog, a habit-forming sausage, received the name by which it is now known to all clean-minded, rightthinking Americans and to the British King and Queen and their subjects from the iate Tad Dorgan, the sport page cartoonist and humorist of the Hearst papers at the time of the Thaw trial, in 1906. This delicacy up to that time was known variously as the wienerwurst, the frankfurter and the Coney Island red hot. There was a humorous superstition that the Coney Island red hot contained a large ingredient of dog meat, and Tad introduced a family, or litter, of little animated sausages into the comics with which he was lampooning the legal farce then in progress. These little sausages would be seen in queer antics, holding conversation in talk balloons while little fox terriers, frisking through thé disconnected scenario, tossed off remarks which identified them as departed relatives. 2 = =» AD called them hot dogs, and the day he died Mrs. Dorgan presented to the late Harry Stevens, the New York ball yard and race track caterer, the original drawing of the first of the series in which the name “hot dog” appeared. The drawing now hangs on the wall of the Stevens office from which the late Harry's sons direct a business extending, gecgraphically, from Bosten to Miami and culinarily, if such a word there be, from eaviar and champagne to dogs and pop. The Stevens dog is prepared according to a house formula by Otto Stahl in New York and the Essjay Company in Maryland and is boiled, not fried or grilled, and served in a long roll also made to private specifications. In the East hot dogs vary greatly in content, some containing cereal and some being composed entirely of meat. but Bastern dogs, generally, are not highly spiced. West of the Alleghenies the popular taste demands more tang, and the so-called dog that is sold in some Western ball parks is not only highly seasoned but is shorter and fatter—a veritable German breakfast sausage—and usually is grilled on a gas plate. * 2 ®

EW YORK will have nothing to do with popcorn,

a Western delicacy, and attempts to popularize .

it at the New York ball parks were expensive failures. Nor has the hot tamale or chile con carne or chile mac, which is the short name for chilemacaroni, ever enjoyed any demand here by contrast with the popularity of those eccentricities in the Middle West and Southwest. The Westerners also consume vastly greater quantities of hamburger than Easterners and have neither social nor gastronomic fears of the onion, raw or fried. Tamales, chile con carne and chile mac may be obtained in the neighborhood of Harlem, and the

the ears and tails of pigs, fried in grease, are delicious and are hereby recommended, although the King and Queen, had they been confronted with such, might have been pardoned for demanding kippers instead. It is all in the point of view and the training of the individual. The kipper is a terrible thing to most Americans. but Englishmen rip kippers and sift the bones out of their mustaches and teeth with practiced skill.

Business By John T. Flynn

Co-operative Progress in U. S. Slow Though a Few Have Done Well.

EW YORK, June 17.—Those who do not understand Americans wonder at the failure of the co-operative movement to progress here. Fifteen years ago a number of Western farmers started a gasoline co-operative with capital of $12,500. Now that co-operative is the largest gasoline and oil distributor in the country. It has assets valued at $192,000 and has paid back to its members $375.000. That is a record of success which seems to establish

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If It Isn’t One Thing, It’s Another !—By Talburt

The Hoosier Forum

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

INDUSTRIAL EXPANSION HELD RECOVERY NEED By H. L. 8,

The new relief bill is ready to be Hatched. Relief is our annual headache. But like the Army and Navy bill, it is our defense against aggression; it keeps the home fires burning. We seem to be content to continue relief as a substitute for real thinking about our economic condition. We hear plenty of political blah, about turning back to the good old days. But no concrete proposal is brought forth to abolish the necessity for relief expenditures. If we would expand our industrial production to absorb all those inj need of relief, we could save the money we spend on relief. Like the | weather, we discuss relief but fail| to offer a remedy to abolish the] need for it. We know that if relief | appropriations should not be made, | that business would go on a tobog- | gan slide. So we may well say that business is on relief as much as la-| bor. Industrial expansion is the only answer as a means to abolish relief. |

We have found that since 1930 busi- |

ness has no way to absorb the 11] million unemployed. How can we! expand business now, to do away |

the fact that a co-operative can be successfully run in America. But why do Americans refuse to try this way out? The reason, of course, is based on the steadily growing tendency of all classes in America to depend | for their necessities and luxuries upon the specialized | services of other people. It does pot occur to them to | build houses for themselves; they have been taught to | believe that someone else should do that for them. It | is so with everything. | In the great housing shortage in New York in 1920 | I found Americans living in old apartments for which they were paying $80 a month—apartments which had once rented at as low as $20 to $30 a month. But two blocks away I found a group of Scandinavian workmen living in infinitely better new apartments which they had built in a co-operative enterprise, and paying less than $40 a month, not merely to occupy it but to own the buildings. However, there has been a slight impetus to cooperative enterprise. It is attributed to the crushing ou competition and to Congressional policies of pricexing.

Price Struggles Anticipated

~ There is every evidence that this country is now in for a prolonged period of price struggles—the eifort on the part of merchants to get higher prices and on the part of consumers to get lower prices. In the past consumers have expressed their resistance to price increases by not buying. But the resistan-e not merely te higher prices, to the existing prices, but the dynamic demand for lower prices may well do two things. First it may bring on the field a group of producers and merchants who make war on existing price standards actively. Second, it may result in the rise of a more vigorous co-oper-ative movement, When we realize that in Great Britain there are about 360,060 men and women employed by consumer co-operatives while in the United States there are only about 10,000, we can see how far this country has to go to match the British progress.

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

OW that the company has gone, can't we let down our back hair and talk about 'em? That's the most fun in entertaining anyway—the moment after the goodbys have been said, when we can get into something comfortable and go over the whole thing in retrospect. And all the while we know the departing guests are as avidly discussing us and our idiosyncrasies. For that, folks is the way we're made and I think it's a good way. We've found out now that George and Elizabeth of England are pretty much of a piece with the rest of humanity. People who yell that we ought to have a king to keep us in line patriotically forget that the one characteristic every American loves most in royalty, aristocracy or celebrity is the common touch. We like to imagine we're just as good as they are and that they know it. So we screamed ourselves hoarse last week, because their British Majesties have the common touch and, although we put ourselves in the position for condescension, they did not condescend. They behaved themselves exactly as we like to think we should have done if our positions had been reversed. Another thing. T hope Uncle Sam will take a lesson from King George, whose royal visit was a veritable march of triumph mainly because he brought the Little Woman along. It was her costumes, her Jewels, her hats, her smiles, her remarks, that the reporters fell over themselves to get and that gave exactly the proper touch of glamour to the tour. George, by himself, would have been no great shakes as a visitor. Probably just as hard to entertain as Uncle John or Dad or Mr. Jones down the street. It's true of every man—the smart one always

with relief? Let me suggest ex-|

{panding the principle of the social |

security plan of rewarding the employer who maintains steady employment, by lower costs of insur-| ance. Let Congress take the two! billion for relicf and offer it to em- | ployers as an extra profit in pro-| portion to each employer's expansion of man-hour employment; made during the year. Step up the | bonus in proportion to the ratio of increase. We aid all types of industry directly by other schemes. We chase rainbows but profit drives us. ” ” 2 GLAD SHE LIVES IN

FREE AMERICA By Marianne

I don’t mean to give the idea that my life is a bed of roses. We all have our reverses and worries, no one is immune. But when I walk down the street and see people living quiet and comfortable in their homes, I can't help comparing ours with other countries, torn with strife and sorrow, Do we realize how fortunate we are to be living in America?

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

When I kneel in church on Sunday I'm quite sure no one is going to rush in and kill everyone in sight including the clergy. Then I thank God I am privileged to live in Amer2 =» FAVORS INCREASE IN WHISKY TAX By Italicus Prohibition not only prohibited the advertising but, (though it was never apparent) it also prohibited the manufacture and sale of “giggle water.” Yet I don't recall that habitual drinkers experienced any difficulty finding liquid refreshment. Senate bills 517 and 575 are the] brain-children of Senators

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who | aren't abreast of the times or the economic conditions of the nation and who are ignorant of the personal habits and desires of their fellow citizens. With the nation eset by countless vital problems, certain Senators are so little in-| terested as to take up precious] time dawdling with a nonsensical | and utterly useless idea which |

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would take 75 million of sorely needed dollars out of circulation. If those Senators really want to do something for “true temperance,” let them sponsor a bill doubling the taxes on all beverages containing more than 10, 12 or 15 per cent alcohol. By making whisky 10 times more expensive than beer or wine, those Senators would really be promoting the cause of true temperance (which does not mean abstinence). The doubled revenue could be used to build hospitals, sanitariums, homes for the aged, the infirm, orphans, and for other humanitarian purposes. The prohibition of alcoholic advertisements would throw thousands of men and women out of work, cut the income of several important industries and boost the sale of poor grade liquor. It would be a break for cirrhosis specialists and lye merchants. ” ” ” FEARS WAR TALK BAD FOR CHILDREN By Audrey

On all sides one hears news of war. It is continually spoken in homes in the presence of children. These children hear stories of war on the radio, in the street. To them it doesn’t mean bloodshed, death and destruction. It is paraded before them in all its glory. What is the effect? They play with pop-guns, toy guns and tin Very few of these children change their opinions of war until too late. The present setting is all too perfect for them, in after years, to march to war.

New Books at the Library

FTER the Nazi Government asked him to leave the country, Edgar Ansol Mowrer, Berlin correspondent for the Chicago Daily News, told us in “Germany Turns the Clock Back” all about the Germany of 1932. In THE DRAGON WAKES (Morrow) he again has written a book this time of China, which comes to the bewildered reader with clarifying directness, bearing the trained, observer's stamp of authprity. A

| book of only 242 pages, with the

A small boy playing on the side-|simple maps needed to read intelliwalk with his toy train is doing gently, well and interestingly writwhat a child should do. instead of |ten by an eye-witness, it is the andrilling with a gun to be a soldier. swer to prayer for something un-

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derstandable and credible about China and: Japan. His first chapter, “The Jellyfish Turns,” in a very brief sketch of the background of the present situation. The next makes understandable the attitudes of foreign powers, especially Great Britain. In the following 11 brief chapters, Mr. Mowrer recounts his observations and interviews as he went everywhere by plane, car, railway, and on his own legs, to find out what is actually happening in China. His description of the medieval city of Chengtu, his interviews with Chiang Kai-shek and his wife as well as other members of the famous Soong family, bring the country alive for the reader. Mme. Chiang is a member of the Soong family; Gen. Chiang, of course, is a member of the Chiang family. The chapter, “Meditations While Flying to China” brings together his deductions. The sum. total is an interesting, most enlightening, and, one believes, authoritative presentation of what goes on in China.

DAD AND HIS BOY By JAMES A. SPRAGUE The dad who's a happy chum for his boy Is helping to fill the world with

Joy; And a lot of boys wouldn't be

so bad If ‘they had a worth-while kind of a dad.

A dad who labors hard each day, He may be quiet with little to

say, But deep in his thought is a constant plan To make of his boy a splendid man.

He is the daddy, who merits our praise; We'll plead his cause to the end of our days; And now we hail him on Father's Day; For him and his boy we shall ever pray.

DAILY THOUGHT

Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than man.— Acts 5:29.

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Gen. Johnson Says—

New Dealers Accused of Using O'Mahoney Committee to Set Stage For Fascist Control Over Business.

EW YORK CITY, June 17—Just about the cleverest propaganda in the world has been the management of Senator O'Mahoney’s Temporary Economic Committee. The testimony before this committee has been better reported and less noticed than any investigation of our time. The Senator from Wyoming is one of the most persuasive gents in the upper house. If ever a man was taken for a ride, Joe is the guy. Be-

fore there was any such “investigation” as is now in progress, he had proposed a bill for the Federal licensing of any corporation in interstate commerce. It sounds simple. But read the bill. The Senator is a forthright fellow and by that token a swell setup for such managers as Benny Cohen and Tommy Corcoran. O’'Mahoney’s original bill practically delivered American business gagged and bound to Federal regulation. The White House inner circle convinced him that much propaganda must be prepared before such a law could be passed. Hence the O'Mahoney Economic Committee. But the Senator’s simple purpose was to be controlled by strong and clever propagane dists such as Lubin, Frank and Leon Henderson. ” ” ”

T was a commission of a sort never before known in American history. It was only secondarily .a Congressional committee. Its steering is done by such scarcely disguised Cohen stooges as Leon Henderson and Jerome Frank. Its obvious purpose is now clearly revealed as the building of a record on which can be launched a communistic or Fascist control of American business. At strategic intervals such a renovator as Mr. Berle is pushed in to put in the record the real purpose. The Senator, who is chairman, is being daily pub= licized as a conscientious Irishman. So he is—but with a purpose constantly guided by much more subtle minds. The counsel for the committee is a man named Nehemkis—a Cohen product. The best minds in American business—not to mention Congress—are being taken for a daily ride by the cleverness of some of the most revolutionary influences in the United States. » EJ AR be it from me to assume the role of a political Paul Revere. But it is my business to read and comment on the passing show. What is being jimmied into the national record before the O'Mahoney committee isn't given the attention it deserves. It is carefully directed and is the most potent self serving buildup we have yet seen. It is a publicly subsidized prelude to economic revolution. Such collectivists as Jerome Frank and Leon Henderson are getting away with it—almost without challenge. They—with their much wider industrial experie ence—have taken such intense, earnest and innocent bucolics as Senator O'Mahoney, as completely as Grant took Richmond. Their purpose is as revolutionary as Hitler's and they are making as excellent use of their puppets on that committee and the gen eral indifference of the people of the United States, as the European totalitarians ever did, to lay the ground for a Nazi-Fascist Federal control of almost every normal activity of American life—whether in labor, agriculture or industry.

It Seems to Me

By Heywood Broun

Old Sports Writer Suggests Remedy In Case Mayo's Fails to Help Gehrig

EW YORK, June 17.—The Chamber of Commerce should start a drive to put Lou Gehrig back on first base. Unless this is done the Horatio Alger tradition of industry and business is knocked higher than a kite. Mr. Gehrig has observed all the maxims in the copy hook, And now they say that he is done! In one of the sports columns I read that, neces=sarily, Lou had slowed down to nothing on account of “his advanced age of 36.” My own index figure is higher by a year or so, and naturally I resented the crack. We men of 40 should make common cause in defense of our present efficiency and even our potentialities. Joe McCarthy told me that beyond any pessible debate Lou was the finest first baseman of all time, and undoubtedly he is right. Why, then, should this earnest young man be thrown to the wolves at the advanced age of 36? I think I know an answer. Mr. Gehrig has gone to Rochester, Minn, to submit himself to a physical examination. Pending those findings, I am mute. If physical lesions of one sort or another are dug up I will yield to the findings of medical science. And, of course, if there are physical defects of vision my theory doesn't go. My guess is that the iron horse is wholly sound, save in his psychology. He has read too much stuff in papers about his fading abilities. First basemen, like veteran columnists, must learn to say, “Nuts to you!” and tear up the postcards.

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Time to Relax

1f the Mayo physicians can find nothing wrong in Gehrig I would like to take the case without fee. I would prescribe a short schedule of conduct which might be good for both of us. We have lived tego strictly. Nine o'clock is not a good hour at which to retire. The simple life is excellent, but both the ath lete and the columnist ought to admit that the Spartan regime should be handled with due regard to moderation. If Mr. Gehrig consents to be my patient my first order will be, “Tonight we get out on a spree.” We will stop at some convenient store for vine leaves and make a night of it. Quite prokably it will be a good idea to attend a race track and lose all our ready dough. As married men certain stipulations must be drawn, but we might at least smile at some of the younger girls. All rules of exercise and diet will be thrown to the winds. At the end of the week the devotion to dissipation may lled off and each of us return to his natural ini There could perhaps be a period of 24 hours to break the spell. At the end of that time, I think, Lou Gehrig, aged 386, can go back to the game and knock most of the fences down. If that fails, either Lou or Broun is completely cockeyed.

Watching Your Health

By Dr. Morris Fishbein

IFTEEN years ago a survey made by the U. S. Public Health Service indicated that there were between 110,000 and ‘150,000 people in the United States who were addicted to various forms of opium, Women seemed to be much more likely to become addicted than did men. Indeed, it was rather well established before the new narcotic laws were passed that about two women were addicted to every one man. The figures now seem to indicate that four men are addicted for every one woman. It is believed that women became addicted in the earlier days because they led a more secluded and sedentary life and that they treated themselves with drug preparations containing dope or opium for all sorts of real or imaginary ills. Once, however, the use of such remedies was brought under control, it was not easily possible for women to obtain drugs; naturally women are much more law-abiding than are men and are not as likely to get into bad environment as are men. Investigators of the U. S. Public Health Service point out that women were treated and cured in great numbers following the passing of the narcotic laws and that thereafter women avoided illegal contacts with opium. Men were still able to make such contacts and thus became addicted to the drugs. The person who takes drugs and becomes addicted to them does so because he is emotionally unstable and is unable to adjust himself to his environment. He feels restless, discontented and inferior. When the Harrison Narcotic Act was passed, it became apparent that people who were addicted to drugs had to be’ cared for. In 1929 a law was passed creating two narcotic farms which are now located in Lexington, Ky., and Ft. Worth, Tex. In these places physicians are investigating the nature of narcotic addition and are undertaking work to rehabilitate narcotic addicts who are admitted to the farms.