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FRIDAY, JUNE 30, 1939

BEHIND THE RED FIRE FFECTION, curiosity, and lots of native pride all combined to attract a great throng for the reception honoring Paul V. McNutt's homecoming today. There undoubtedly would have been a fine crowd without the expert stage-managing that has gone on, for Mr. McNutt is a colorful figure in his own right with a public record entitling him to high honors. But because of the stage-managing and red fire and gaudy set pieces no one will be permitted to forget that he also will be looking at a man who may be a potent figure in the next Democratic convention. It is inevitable, therefore, that behind their gaiety people will be meditating on his performance in past years, weighing him on a new set of scales and speculating on his chances in an arena that has brought satisfaction to a few and bitter disappointment to many. It must be a rather solemn occasion for Paul McNutt. Home, at last, on his native soil, and wishing perhaps for just a brief advance glimpse of what the next 18 months hold for him. We wonder, too.

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HALIFAX'S WARNING

N the summer of 1914 both France and Russia called upon |

Great Britain to make it plain that if Germany marched, | But the British Cabinet |

then Britain, too, would march. was of two minds, and Sir Edward Grey, the Foreign Minister, refused an irrevocable commitment. When Germany declared war on France, Britain acted promptly enough. of peace. The result was written on eight million graves. Twenty-five years later, last night in London, Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax said: “In the event of further aggression we are resolved to use at once the whole force of our strength in fulfillment of our pledges to resist it.” Those are words that even he who runs toward war can read. It was observed that Lord Halifax did not specifically define “aggression” to include a “spontaneous” move by the Nazis of Danzig to proclaim their amalgamation with the Reich. To the extent of that omission, he appeared to leave a ladder down. Nevertheless, in view of the repeated pledges to Poland, it seems certain that if the status quo of Danzig is violated, whether by Hitler's troops from the Reich or by his devoted Nazis within the free city, resistance by Poland will bring the British and French—and possibly the Russian—armed | forces into action: We can hope that Hitler will heed in 1939 the warning | that was not served on the Kaiser in 1914.

PULLING THE TEETH OME members of the House Judiciary Committee are | trying to change the Hatch bill into a toothless fraud. | They are doing their work on Section 9 of the hill— | the section designed to abolish pernicious political activities |

on the part of Postmasters, U. S. Attorneys and their as- | sistants, Collectors of Internal Revenue and Collectors of | Customs and their deputies, U. 8S. Marshals and other hold- | ers of the prize Federal patronage jobs. Section 9 would | forbid such officials to use their “official authority or in- | fluence for the purpose of interfering with an election or | affecting the results thereof.” As passed by the Senate, this section goes further. 1t | says these officials “shall take no active part in political management or in political campaigns.” The House Judi- | ciary Committee has voted to yank out this last provision. | Under the present system, many such Federal office- | holders are more or less compelled to engage in political ac- | tivity to hold their jobs. Some, of course, enjoy it. But | whether they play politics of their own volition or under compulsion, the Government service suffers and the taxpayers lose. | The prohibition against Government officials playing | politics should be put back into the Hatch bill. If you] believe with us that persons on the Government vayroll should devote their full time to the jobs for which they | are hired, then watch how your congressmen vote on the | Hatch bill, and how they vote on all amendments designed | to pull its teeth.

THE SILVER RAID: ACT TWO WE didn’t think much of the shady bargain between the | Senate's hard-money Republicans and Democrats on the one hand and the cilver bloc on the other. The former, eager to swat the Administration, voted, against all their professed principles, to hike the Treasury's price for domestically mined silver to 7715 cents an ounce. In return, they got the silverites’ support for an amendment to end the President's power to change the gold con-

But it was then too late to aid the cause |

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| and quit increasing her armaments?

tent of the dollar. to stop the buying of foreign silver. Last night the money bill was worked on by a HouseSenate conference committee—under Administration dominance—with this result: The President's devaluation power was restored. The continued buying of foreign silver was approved. The price of domestic silver was fixed at 70 cents an ounce—7ly cents less than the hard-money bargainers offered, but still a good 30 cents more than it is worth on the inflated world market. The net result of all this bribing for votes that won't stay bribed, is this: The American people pay a larger subsidy to the home silver interests—the old price was 64.64 cents an ounce. And the Government continues its foolhardy policy of subsidizing foreign silver interests and speculators, something for which there is not even a political excuse. The thing which the Administration salvaged was continuance of the President's power to change the gold value

They also put through an amendment |

of the dollar. That power has been used wisely and to good effect. It has enabled our Government, in co-operation with England and France, to establish and maintain monetary exchange. The future will have more need of the same

stabilizing influence. &

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Fair Enough

By Westbrook Pegler

State Citizenship Not Highly Regarded by Many Except for Tax Dodge or Other Selfish Purpose.

EW YORK, June 30.—The very fact that Americans do not loyally regard themselves as citi= zens of the state in which they live, but rather as American citizens, has made for slackness in state government and in many cases has converted state citizenship into a tax-dodging device. New York, which has a personal income tax law, is bounded in part by three states which have no such tax—New Jersey, Connecticut and Pennsylvania. To these three and to Florida many New Yorkers have fled to establish legal residence and escape all or part of the tax, which began modestly but has increased steadily and last year raised $123,472,000. In the last decade the existence of the income tax and the lack of one in Connecticut have seriously impaired the salability of New York real estate in areas near the Connecticut line, and even higher Jersey, under Frank Hague, is endurable, if not attractive, to individuals who earn salaries in New York but, as nonresidents, need not schedule other income. 2 2 s ESIDENCE in these tax-free neighbor states may be entirely technical and even fictitious. It is advisable to lease a house or apartment and vote in the place of refuge, and some of the refugees make a point of holding motor licenses in Jersey, Connecticut or Pennsylvania for the sake of appearances. Other states have entered into an indecent competition for the shyster law business and the board-and-room money that comes to a divorce coleny, and although factory-made divorces appear to be legally good in all the states, some of them are morally indistinguishable from Russian divorce decrees. This is probably the lowest of all the abuses of state sovereignty. Nevada, singularly free of morals and inhibiting | and also of pretense, frankly boasts of her vices and advertises herself as an almost taxless state and a refuge for tax-weary citizens of other states, with a particular appeal to California. But Florida out-did Nevada once when a rich old villain who had brought material benefits to the state, resorting to peonage of Florida citizens in the process. bought a law which enabled him to divorce his afflicted wife and then had the law repealed. 4 4 4 HAT, however, was just a novelty. It didn't affect Florida's relations with other states or vice | versa, but it did show the depravity that can be ex- | pected of state governments because people regard | them as unimportant units of government and pay them little respect and no loyalty. So state citizenship, which may be changed as | easily as a man may change wives and at much less | expense, means nothing but pecuniary advantage at | best, and certainly this is not a matter of patriotism | or loyalty except in rare individuals, notably foxhunting Virginians. They think they are something | special, and indeed, in some ways they are. A strong central government need not be a dicta- | torship. It could be, but, after all, the pecple have to | repose authority and responsibility somewhere, and | the state governments are not responsible now. They | grow more irresponsible and expensive year by year,

Business By John T. Flynn Great” Britain Enjoying Prosperity Due to Arms Factory Activity.

| EW YORK, June 30.—Reports from England bring the glad tidings that Great Britain is

| enjoying a steady and marked rise in her industrial

and commercial activity. Business is on the rise. Something approaching a boom is in the offing. This, of course, is no more than was to be expected. England has had a ‘hard pull for a long time. Now she begins to experience the first evidences of prosperity—and all due to what? To Adolf Hitler.

| For England's rise in trade, which has gone on how

for six months uninterruptedly while ours has declined for the same period, is wholly due to her immense armament program. Her armament factories are busy and also the factories which supply raw materials to these armament factories, and the work-

i ers who are employed in Vickers and in her steel

mills, her coal mines, her shipyards, are spending their money for clothes and food and business every-

| where is feeling the stimulating influence of an

incipient war boom. One odd feature of this is that England ds enjoying this stimulation in spite of the fact that great of her gold have been flowing to the United States while the United States, which has

| been getting the gold, has had until a few weeks

ago a continuous decrease in business activity in the same period. Maybe some of the money panacea reformers in Washington will explain that.

What Effect on People?

But what would happen to England's business if Hitler suddenly were to announce to his erstwhile friend, Mr. Chamberlain, that he has decided that war is a bad thing, that Germany is going to mend her wavs, that she is ready to demobilize her armies If Hitler did that and Mr. Chamberlain believed him and acted upon that belief, England would be promptly plunged back into the deadliest depressions, for the support

{ which helds up her recovery—armament—would be

withdrawn. And incidentally, Germany would pitch headlong into an even worse depression, since she is even more than Britain dependent on arms business and war scares. Therefore we may look confidentially for no such gesture from Hitler. But what effect is this war prosveritv going to have upon the psychology of the British people? Will they now become somewhat more truculent, more war-like, more tolerant of the idea of resistance and attack? In other words, as business improves in England under the influence of her new belligerence, as her war-like attitude turns out to be full of material blessings in the way of jobs, may we not expect England’ to become more and more committed to the idea of an aggressive role in Europe? Let us watch and see that experiment in progress.

A Woman's Viewpoint

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

OR A long time I've been convinced that husbands walk off with other women mainly because they (the husbands) are starving for attention. Against all traditional logic, childless marriages very often succeed. Why? Well, having no babies to pet, the wife does the next best thing; she makes a baby out of her husband, and how he loves it! Most heads of families could do with a lot more attention. Sincere, wholehearted, disinterested attention, I mean, which is something very different from the old trick of women who purr and kiss for new frocks or an evening's entertainment at night spots. For this sort of petting, every smart man knows he must pay in cold, hard cash. What he secretly hankers for is to have poured upon him gbme of that doting solicitude which women lavish so freely upon their children. A man comes home at night, let us say, tired out and with nerves frazzled, only to find his spouse ab« sorbed in the doings of little Martha Jane and Bobby. Her entire conversation will center upon their tricks and their needs. She enjoys hearing herself spoken of as a wonderful mother and lives up to her conception of the reputation with every ounce of her energy. As a consequence, her husband feels just as welcome around the house as a cockroach. Except as a cash register, he Tealizes, he is not a necessary part of the family circle. For all practical purposes, these 10 per cent mothers are a social menace. They not only ruin their children, but they manage to make a good many men believe tha

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The Hoosier Forum

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

THINKS CITY NEEDS SOME NEW STREETS By A Weary Hoosier There's a lot of talk about selfliquidating loans from the Federal Government. Do you think maybe Indianapolis could discover a way to make new street paving seliliquidating? We certainly need new streets. The way theyre going they're going to liquidate themselves without any loans. ” 2 8 BACKS CONSERVATIVES IN DEMOCRATIC PARTY By Old Guard Democrat Some of your readers seem to Having always been a Jefferson|/have the wrong impression on the Democrat, I long ago became con- Spanish Civil War. The Loyalist

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

WANTS AMERICA TO STEER CLEAR OF ALLIANCES

By Charles Norris

vinced that the New Deal was ROGh-|ie0ps in Spain were not Christian ing more or less than a socialist- but communistic, which means the communist program being foisted on people in this country have been the nation disguised as democracy. misled by a lot of newspaper and And we are now rapidly approach- radio propaganda, ing the time when there must be a| General Franco is a Christian and showdown to see whether the Demo- believes in Christian ideals. No sane crats—Garner, Burke, VanNuys and | American would be in favor of those brave conservatives who have bringing refugees to this country borne the brunt of the battle to save When we can’t take care of our own.

our nation from communism and It is very unfortunate that we have

calsi ’ + refugees any place in this world dictatorship, can wrest control cof today. But let this country take care

of her own first. We do not want a neutrality bill that lines us up with any foreign country—England, France or anybody else. We must stay out of all foreign entanglements. Let's do

the Democratic Party. It is nothing strange to read that the New Deal is moving today to close ranks with left-wingers and progressives for next year's Presidential battle as Democratic con-

servatives draw further from the Roosevelt Administration. Or that) Rep. Eugene Cox of Georgia charges

everything, but do it for America. We don't want any more white

crosses in Flanders Field or any other foreign field. In other words, let's attend: to our own business and let Europe attend to her own troubles. 2 ” ” SEES TOWNSENDISM BLOW TO SELF-GOVERNMENT By A Reader It has long been a debatable question if people are capable of selfgovernment. And when we see a considerable part of the people giving allegiance to such a fanatical proposition as the $200 a month pension plan, it lends strong support to the argument against their ability to govern themselves. Such an outlandish proposition would never be thought of in a totalitarian state. But I believe that Dr. Townsend has attracted as many followers as the Ku-Klux

Klan had in its prime. We remember all too well what a demoralizing influence that organization had upon the political life of this country, and we are now treated to the sorry spectacle of legislators and other office-holders, in the hope of gaining the suffrage of its followers, subscribing to one of the grandest schemes that was ever advanced to rope in a gullible people. Such action on the part of our public officials gives dictators a powerful argument against democracy’s

elective system of government.

in a public speech that the Federal bureaucracy is shot through with communism. Nor is it strange that these same left-wingers—Socialists and Communists and their fellow travelers—are agitating for a third

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term for their champion, Mr. Roosevelt. It is their only hope to keep their stranglehold on the Demo- HO can say what urge it was cratic Party. which drove the rather sickThe time has come for the Demo- ly, pasty-faced Rudie to organize the crats to clean house. We have had | world revolution and to form the enough left-wing trickery to open new world government with himself our eves. The radicals intend either as World Director and his colleagues to rule or ruin the Democratic Party | of the “Group” as his advisers and as well as the whole nation. The ministers? New Deal is socialistic and has had| After he became World Director, left-wing backing from the start. his mother and his Aunt Julia, Indeed. it has preferred left-wing- upon being interviewed by the Press ers to Democrats. remembered that “he was a strange, It is time for all conservatives— thoughtiul boy": that “his soul was those who wish to preserve, protect like a star and dwelt apart.” But and defend our constitutional liber-| when he was a boy, in spite of an ties—to stand firm for God and|aunt's sentimentality and a mothCountry against the encroachments er's loyalty, they saw him as a maof left-wing revolutionaries. licious, ruthless, antisocial being

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whom his brothers heartily disliked and who apparently had no affection for anyone. In “The Holy Terror” (Simon and Schuster) H. G. Wells develops his conception of how a world revolution may be accomplished—a revolution directed against the exploitation of money-power, directed toward (as Rudie—now called a more manly Rud—phrased it) delivering a Common-Sense ‘vorld to the Common Man—toward the destruction of the old decadent institutions which prevent Man from coming into his heritage of peace and plenty. This is the story of the second world war—the one which took place in the 1940's—and of how Rud and the “Group” took advantage of the currents of dissatisfaction and fear to seize control of the world and to form a world state, which extended from Pole to Pole. Furthermore, it is Mr. Wells’ theory of how the dictator complex is born—of how, as with Rud, the revolutionary leader becomes more and more isolated, how the emphasis in his mind shifts from the well-being of man to his own grasp upon power; how he begins fearing, hating, killing. And finally, it contains a suggestion of how to deal with leaders who have

{outgrown their usefulness and who

serve only to stultify, not to create.

YOUR CHILD AND YOU

By JAMES A. SPRAGUE If you always speak correctly And in accents soft and mild; Your speech will be reflected In the language of your child.

If you always act uprightly And your deeds are not defiled; Your life will be reflected In the virtue of your child.

The truth is plain, my brother, You should never be beguiled; For your daily speech and actions Make a pattern for your child.

DAILY THOUGHT

Thou shalt fear the Lord thy Qod; him shalt thou serve, and to him shalt thou cleave, and swear by his name.—Deuteronomy 10:20.

EAR is implanted in us as a preservation from evil; but its

g away at Samp is the way it makes |i CK IK bls 5 x 3 Ls

duty, like that of other passions, 8 not to overbear reason, but to

Gen. Johnson Says—

Craig's Retirement a Great Loss; He Was Brilliant and Efficient and

Did Much to Humanize the Army. .

ASHINGTON, June 30.—The retirement of Malin Craig as Chief of Staff is a national loss. He is going out West and “practice keeping his mouth shut.” The general editorial comment was that he is not a brilliant but a dependable soldier.

That is good enough for any man—but it just doesn’t

happen to be true. Craig is both brilliant and dependable. The reason why casual observers didn’t know about the brilliant parts is that he really

doesn't have to practice keeping his mouth shut.

He has done it all his life, P I have served with Gen. Craig since we hoth were kids—for years in the same troop of the First Cavalry.

He had as original a mind and a quiet antic wit as -

any soldier I have known. His official record is a model of propriety but if there were interpolated just a few of the incredibly ingenious daring and colonel-shock-ing things he said and stunts he pulled as a youngster to enlighten tedious frontier service, it would make Charlie McCarthy's imaginary antics read like a table of logarithms. He just never got caught. He was practicing keeping his mouth shut. :

os » CADET who, on a long end run and about to be . tackled, could flash the then unprecedented play of stopping and kicking a field goal, isn’t exactly a dolt. Craig did such unpredictable things all his life in every campaign in which our Army engaged during his service except, as I remember, Pershing’s Mexican expedition. He wasn't made chief of staff on his pull. He didn’t have any. made more progress toward efficiency and effective ness than in any other period since the war. Its morale is higher and its popularity with the eivil population is greater. Dead wood has been gouged out and the general staff and the corps of general

Under his guidance the Army has _

officers are uniformly better than I have ever known. Craig is as much at home with a roomful of top sergeants or private soldiers, as in a party of lieu- =.

tenant colonels and, what is more important, they are as much at home with him as with each other. He took a lot of silly “side” out of the Army and humanized it. It is a piece of national good fortune that his successor, Gen. Marshall, is cut from the same cloth, = ” ” T is a great virtue in soldiers to keep their mouths shut or as they say “eat their own smoke.” Nobody ever did that better than Pershing and nobody ever had more to eat—what with impossibly stultifying orders in Mexico and constant Allied sniping and lack of co-operation at home in the World War. His example perfected Craig's education in keeping his mouth shut.

For, in his last year or so of service, he had te practice lock-jaw. The Internal War Department stew with the Assistant Secretary of War running around and cutting under both the Secretary and the Chief of Staff and trying to corcoranize the Army, made an almost impossible situation for a soldier whose loyal« ties must run undivided to his chief. It kept Craig's soul constantly in the wringer. But nobody ever heard a peep out of him and nobody ever will—even though, if he started squawking, he could make more commotion than a flock of homing geese. “Well done thou good and faithful servant: , .. enter thou into the joy of thy Lord.”

Aviation By Maj. Al Williams

Airpower Is Having Marked Effect On Maintenance of World Empires.

ASHINGTON, June 30.—Time and again I am asked what the British are going to do when their air power has been expanded to meet the poten tial, but untried, air power of neighboring nations. This question usually is accompanied by the serie ous question as to when and whether there is going to be a general war. My opinion is there will be no war within the next few years. Although it is a fairly well established fact that the British are now turning out about 600 warplanes a month, I still do not believe they are

willing to risk a war, because they are peculiarly vule nerable with London wide oven to air attack. Oh yes, antiaircraft batteries and interceptors will make it pretty tough for attacking forces, but por-

tions of the attack will be driven home. And it doesn’t take the thousands of hombers so freely imagined, to render helpless a highly mechanized and heavily populated city. Those fellows are pretty cool and calculating about the price they are willing to pay for a war. I think the carefully estimated price far outweighs the cost of making territorial concessions. They are just driving hard protective bargains, and are not giving up anything without testing threats to the elastie limit.

Arterial Lines Vulnerable

These may be radical thoughts, but history is move ing fast right before our noses. Ihe overhead costs of maintaining a world empire are becoming prohibi« tive. In the old days a powerful sea fleet was the only insurance needed for swinging potential enemies into line. This kind of equipment was beyond the pockete books of all but the wealthies! nations. . But air power machinery is well within the purse limits of nations that lack resources to own and ope erate giant battleships. The arterial lines of Empire today are vulnerable to air attack at any point. Land and sea control of the Suez Canal and Gibraltar once assured England free and ready access to her Far Eastern empire. But not now. I believe that the machinery of this age not only renders it impossible to conquer and hold strongly nationalized lands but also challenges the mainte nance of a far-flung world empire. I predict that within 10 years there will be no British Empire—as it is today. Air power is reshaping international boundaries,

Watching Your Health

By Jane Stafford ;

F you have planned to take advantage of summertime to get in some healthful exercise, you might give a thought to the health value of the particular form you have selected. In general, all outdoor ex= ercise is. good for the health, but there are a few important don'ts. Don’t overdo. The exercise you take for health should not become work and it should not leave you exhausted, the U. S. Public Health Service warns. Don't engage in competitive games or strenuous exercise without getting an okay from your physie cian, who will be able to tell whether the conteme plated exercise is suited to you and your needs. Don't exercise too soon after or before a meal, The Federal Health Service advises waiting three hours after a meal before you begin to exercise, and letting an hour elapse between your exercise period and the next meal. As to forms of exercise: Walking is highly recom mended on health grounds and has the advantage, loose clothing and low-heeled, comfortable shoes. Horseback riding, the Federal Health Service says, is especially beneficial for gastro-intestinal disorders. Swimming, also highly recommended, brings into play nearly all the muscles of the body. . Tennis and handball are rather strenuous and: after the age of 45, the average person is advised not: to play “singles” in either game. Golf, however, can’ usually be played at any age, though nine holes a day may be enough for older persons. A A final don’t: Don't, after exercise or games, stand around in clothing that is wet with -

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