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TUESDAY, JULY 4, 1939

A MODERN TEN COMMANDMENTS T is customary on the Fourth of July for orators and editorial writers to quote from the Declaration of Independence. For a change, it seems to us that today we might recite another great document, one which concerns rights that are much more vulnerable in these days than our independence. We give you the first 10 amendments to the Constitution of the United States, better known as the Bill of Rights: 1. Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. 2. A well-regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. 3. No soldier shall, in time of peace, be quartered in any house without the consent of the owner, nor in time of war but in a manner to be prescribed by law. 4. The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. 5. No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous, crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy

of life or limb: nor shall be compelled in any criminal case |

to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property. without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation. 6. In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which districts shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation: to be confronted with the witness against him; te have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense. 7. In suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed $20, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury shall be otherwise re-examined in any court of the United States than according to the rules of the common law. 8. Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor crue! and unusual punishments inflicted. 9. The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people. 10. The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.

AIR HISTORY AT HOME PROUD as this country should be of the great Clipper planes now operating passenger service across the Atlantic as well as the Pacific, there are air developments

within the United States that ought not to be overlooked. |

For instance, a few days ago the largest passengercarrving land plane—the 30-ton, 42-passenger DC-4—made its first transcontinental flight.

important in air transportation history as the trans-

Atlantic Clipper flights. It will be seen in Indianapolis one |

of these days. It's likely that, in the next few years, thousands of people will travel in planes of the DC-4 type for every hundred persons who make the trip to Europe. Most of us do most of our traveling in our own country. The huge DC-4 is something that home folks can and will use. While admiring new wonders, let's watch the history-making events in our own back yard.

YOUTH MOVEMENT RECRUIT T isn't hard to imagine that many unreconstructed Austrian patriots will resent the action of the Nazis in enrolling the 13-year-old son and namesake of the last Chancellor as a member of the uniformed Hitler Youth.

Nazi. He will have to learn that his father deserved his fate of death in life and that old independent Austria was a mistake. His enrollment will be an added bitterness to the father, and he himself may become in time quite a feather in Hitler's cap. It is a Nazi boast that their system takes a child as soon as he is 3 vears old and “doesn’t let him go until the grave, whether he likes it or not.” But while the Nazis are training Kurt Schuschnigg Jr. in their way we have no doubt there are other boys in Austria and Czechoslovakia whose fathers are training them more in the manner of the young Hannibal. That youth, according to Plutarch, wag taken into the temple at the age of 9 and sworn to eternal hatred of the Romans. Both sides can work at the youth movement.

HE GAVE US RUGGLES HARRY LEON WILSON died last week in Carmel, Cal. America, no doubt, has produced greater novelists and humorists, but he created certain characters that will be long remembered. Ruggles of Red Gap, of course. When Charles Laughton played Ruggles on the screen, it seemed a high tribute to that fine actor that so many who saw him said: “He was as good as Ruggles in the book.” Then, too, there are Bunker Bean, and Merton of the Movies, and Ma Pettingill, and Cousin Egbert, each of whom has contributed no small measure of gaiety to times that pd great need of that

There wasn't much fuss about that, but this successful test trip probably was as |

The Labor Front By Ludwell Denny Ruling by Massachusetts Court

Holding Such Bills Illegal May Halt Measures Aimed at Working Wives.

ASHINGTON, July &—Federal officials here hope the widespread movement to ban married women from public jobs will be slowed down by the Massachusetts Supreme Court decision protecting the rights of such working wives. Secretary of Labor Perkins and officials of the U. S. Women’s Bureau refute the pin-money theory used by the advocates of discrimination. According to the Secretary, “The Women's Bureau finds that a woman's so-called pin money is often the family coupling pin, the only means of holding the family together and of making ends meet.” Although there has been no major drive for discriminatory Federal legislation since Congress two years ago repealed the partial discrimination under the 1932 Economy Act. the movement has been growing in the states. The Massachusetts court, when asked for an advisory opinion on five such bills covering public serv ice, found them unconstitutional on grounds of arbitrary discrimination. The court held: = = =

- ARRIED women are not, by reason either of being women or of being married, excluded from citizenship, though before comparatively recent constitutional changes women did not have the political right of voting and of holding public office. “Women, married or unmarried. are members of the state. Subject only to constitutional limitations they share with other citizens the duties and privileges of citizenship. And like other citizens they are entitled to the benefits of the constitutional guarantees against arbitrary discrimination.” 2 Similar protection of working wives who are teachers has recently been accorded by the courts of Georgia and Wisconsin, In Tennessee and other states the fight is continuing to remove all diserimination from working wives in public jobs. In addition to the many communities where some kind of discrimination exists in practice, four states formally ban the employment of the wife under certain conditions if the husband is on the public payroll. Recently the Governor of Alabama prohibit ed such employment. ® ® =

HE pressure of continuing large scale unsmployment—almost 11,000,000—of course, is the power behind the discrimination movement both in private and public jobs. But facts and figures on the subject are illusive.

day is unknown. ject in 1930 reported that 3,071,302 “gainfully occupied” women were married. Since 1930, total employment has declined. but the

The actual number of married women working to- | The last national census of the sub- |

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

trend toward married women at work probably has

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| less reported themselves “single,” precisely because of

fear of this movement. But the census shows that of all married women

in 1930, 12 per cent were workers outside the homes. |! 2 [ican history, let us now take time |

to think about what that date was, | | be signed, but names will be

One hundred and sixty-|

Twenty-nine per cent of all working women over 15 were married. Of all workers over 15. male and female, 6 per cent were married women.

(Mr. Pegler did not write a column for today.)

Business

By John T. Flynn 1939 Deficit Two Billions Above

SOLEMN OBSERVANCE increased and these two factors may have cancelled OF “4TH” URGED out each other. Moreover, some working wives doubt- |

Mr. Roosevelt's Original Estimate. |

EW YORK, July 4 —The fiscal vear of the Gove | ernment, which ends June 30, comes to an end

in this nation of deficits with a deficit of $3,500,000.- | 000. | We are so accustomed to deficits that the Adminis | tration actually boasts that this is half a billion dollars less than it anticipated. | AS a matter of fact, the deficit is about three bil- |

lion dollars more than the President estimated it | would be when he sent in his budget message to Con-

| has increased hy $3,350.000.000 and now stands at its

| year, based on the President's estimates made this

a : Ge § cat | bill lars. Young Kurt Schuschnigg Jr. is in training to be a pion Collars

gress during the early part of 1938. When the Presi-

| dent sent to Congress the estimates for the budget of |

the fiscal year which ended June 30, he forecast a deficit of $949000,000. Actually the deficit is $3,500:

It is true that later in the vear, in July—that is, seven months after he sent his estimates to Congress —things had already turned out so badly that he was compelled to send to Congress a revision of his budget. It is on that subsequent revision that he now claims the deficit to be less than he anticipated. As a matter of fact, the President's revised esti- | mates have gone astray. Seven months after his first |

budget estimate was made he said he would have to

have $1685000000 for WPA. As a matter of fact, |

WPA has spent to date $2,220,000,000 or $535,000.000 task of carrying on what they so

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more than the revised estimate. I think n» one can | point te an instance in the history of the Government | when a budget estimate has been so wide of the mark as this one has turned out to be. |

Tax Collections Save the Day |

The situation was saved by the unexpectedly large return in taxes.

By Charles E. Parr, Asst.

Troon 25. Lest we forget what is perhaps the most important date in Amer-

and what it has meant to us. July 4, 1776, was indeed a long time ago. three years have elapsed since our Declaration of Independence received the vote of every colony. . . . Yet we still remember that date. . . . The Declaration of Independence . . drafted by Thomas Jefferson

. was the sclemn enactment by |

representatives of all the colonies of a complete dissolution of their allegiance to the British Crown. . . Irets try te recall that date of long ago. should not be just a day when everyone goes on a picnic, or spends dollar after dollar for fireworks. Let's make the Fourth of July a

memorial day, a day which we will hold in memory of those great men

through whose struggles and hardships we of today are left a . . . free nation. What they struggled to obtain, let us struggie to remember and to retain.

Following the theme of Abraham |

Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, shall we dedicate a portion of our lives

te the memory of those men who | struggled that our nation

gain life? It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But in a larger sense, we cannot hallow those lives. Those brave men, now dead, who struggled here

(have consecrated it far above our effects and always voting against

power to add or detract.

Even though the world may little | years, and what has it got them? | What the people need is-to stand many miles away, {

note what we do here, it is for us, the living, to be dedicated to the

nobly established. Let us remember them, and thank God for them, as we celebrate this holiday. » ®

” DENIES OUR PEOPLE HAPPY AND CONTENTED

Income taxes turned out to By a Citizen

be $166,000.000 more than expected and miscellaneous Someone has said that this is an!

internal revenue taxes were $306.000000 more than | expected, while Social Security taxes were $125.000.000 | in excess of expectations. Had it not been for this fortunate circumstance, the deficit would have been more than $4,000.000.000. | One other circumstance helped and that was | the inability of the Government actuaily to spend all the sums provided for public works. When the President made his revised estimate he sought to soothe Congress by the assurance that this large increase in the expected deficit would not necessarily mean an increase of a corresponding sum in the national debt. As a matter of fact, the public debt

all-time high of $40,374,000 000. It is well to remind the reader that for next

year, the deficit will be another three and a half

A Woman's Viewpoint

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

MERICA'S greatest Mother is dead. Although Grace Abbott had neither husband nor child, she represented motherhood at its noblest and best, and through her lifetime she served the interests of the little people of the United States with her whole heart. History will write her down as a great woman, but I prefer to remember her and her kind—spinsters like Florence Nightingale, Frances Willard and Jane Addams—as great mothers as well, since they possessed a highly developed sense of responsibility toward the helpless, a trait which is generally attributed only to women who bear children. Mother love, moving powerfully in the breasts of the Grace Abbotts of earth, keeps all that is worth while in civilization alive, for that love is a part of some divine desire to mitigate the woes of the weak and to brighten the lives of the innocent. Grace Abbott carried a dream in her heart, working ceaselessiy that it might be made to come true. She wanted to see the Child Labor Amendment written into the Constitution of the United States. Thousands of her fellow citizens have laughed at her for that. Men, greedy for profits, set it down as the idea of an erratic sentimentalist; but some day the amendment will be ratified by enough states so that it will become a vital part of America’s code for living. If that time is destined to be far in the future, her work was still well done, because all over the country she stirred the national conscience to a sense of what she considered an existing outrage. The mothers of the United States ought to build a monument to the memory of the greatest among them —Miss Grace Abbott. She was the typical Madonna type, flamingly glive always to the needs of children,

age of confusion. Perhaps it is. Our

worthy Mayor states that our people are contented and satisfied. Our

|esteemed Governor declares that our | people are in happier condition than

those of other states. A Marion County Circuit Judge,

{referring to taxes, prophesies that [it won't be long until all property| (will be delinquent and then where standing, because it is easy to under- along endless streets in heat and (will we be? A manager of the prop- stand, the information is sufficiently cold with cheerful enthusiasm. You ‘erty management division of the In- detailed to be workable, and the need also a good sales personality, |dianapolis Real Estate Board says facts seem definitely authentic.

that rental offices were forced to sue|

erat” resents the opposition of Sen-

The Fourth of July|

might |

[swer to this flood of questions irom |

and vote for principles, not for the political stooges of both old parties. Also to find the cause of effects and get rid of the cause, as it is useless to fight effects and allow the cause to remain.

{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

® 8 » BACKS VANNUYS IN THYRD-TERM STAND By Former Democrat

withheld on request.) In his June 24 letter “Loyal Demo-

ator VanNuys to a third term for Mr. Roosevelt. Why should he not oppose such a movement if he so desires? Why break a precedent established by “The Father of Our Country,” a precedent which all these years has been honored and respected by former Presidents who might have run for third terms By R. Sprunger also? Surely this vast nation can The opportunity for the people to|find more than one men who is gain more democracy and create capable of eonducting our national abundance for themselves instead of affairs. A third term would be just the capitalistic owners is here for another step toward dictatorship. the taking via the ballot box. Did Mr. VanNuys thumb a ride The people will never have true with the other party? I think the prosperity as long as they fool truth is that, after declaring him themselves or allow themselves to out of the party, Governor Townbe fooled into thinking that the send and his clique feared an indepresent economic system is workable pendent victory for Mr. VanNuys for the “general welfare” of all. land invited him to climb on their Security secondary to independ- bandwagon to make his race. He ence? Don't make me laugh, be- erred in that; he should have stuck cause without security you can't be to his original plan. independent for long. Mr. VanNuys is to be commended He who thinks he can progress by because of his courage to vote on “rugged individualism” is both blind bills according to his best judgand stupid. No one can progress ment, regardless of Mr. Roosevelt's without the aid and co-operation of Wishes. Our democracy needs more ‘his fellowmen. |of his type and fewer polly parrots | The people have been talking of Who merelv sit up and re-echo their /master’s voice and hope for a politicians for cracker sometime during their act. [I know of one who doesn't live so

Jone out of every eight tenants for possession of property because of failure to pay rent since Jan. 1. | Undoubtedly this is an age of con-

| fusion. ” =

"CLAIMS BALLOT WILL SOLVE PROBLEMS

| something or for

ANY months after her last may save you the little capital you broadcast upon the subject of [already possess! So heed them: For opening various typas of shops, let-| example, “If you contemplate open=ters were pouring into the office of [ing a bookshop simply because National Broadcasting Co. for Alissa | you've always loved books give up Keir. She felt these requests were the idea; just go on thinking of her responsibility. “So You Want to | browsing as a lot of fun! For book Open a Shop” (McGraw) is the an- [selling is an exacting trade.” \ What you must have above all, she people seeking economic independ- advises, to enter the real estate busience by opening a shop. This book ness is sufficient strength to enable may help you solve a problem of long | you to walk up and down stairs and

poise and a good speaking voice.

The warnings which she offers After you have had some practical

Side Glances—By Galbraith

experience with an established firm, you are ready to open a real estate office of your own. And when you have reached this point Miss Keir

sacrifice in thi

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“Please remember they are having hired entertainers at the club ~Jonight and you don't have to be

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encourages you by saying, “You won't need a large amount of cash.” It is up to you to decide if you can qualify, and in which field. You will find many possibilities open: You may open a tearoom, start a gift sliop, set up a beauty parlor, venture into interior decoration, or embark upon any one of several other interesting enterprises. But if you are not sure that you can qualify, just give up your wild ideas and go to work for someone eise who has already made a success of your dream shop.

FOURTH OF JULY

By MARY P. DENNY Ring far the cry Unto the sky, Glory and peace Without surcease! Joy and good will Over field and hill, Raise far one voice Let all rejoice, See freedom’s star In glory far, One country free From sea to sea. Shining in light, In radiance bright!

DAILY THOUGHT

But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.— Romans 5:8.

LL loves should be simply step-ping-stones to the love of God. So it was with me; and blessed be

‘| jars.

Gen. Johnson Says—

It Seems Incredible, but There Has Been a Swing Back to the Things Our Fathers Fought 200 Years Ago.

ASHINGTON, July 4-—It usually gives me @& slight pain as any great anniversary approaches to think “Christmas” for example, “is coming so I have got to write a Christmas column—whether I have anything to say about Christmas or not.” But this particular Independence Day comes with other happenings that really seem to make a subject. American independence wasn't just a single erupetion away off of the edge of the world in the fringe of a howling wilderness. It was a symptom of something that was working throughout the whole of Western civilization. It wasn’t just on the political side. In the same year that Mr. Jefferson wrote his Declaration of Independence, Adam Smith published his “Wealth of Nations.” The struggle for religious freedom had been gong on for 200 years. Mr. Jefferson’s brief for political freedom from “any kind of domination over the mind of man” was a blood-brother of Adam Smith's insistence that if the human race could be free of artificial restrictions and “economic planning” on the business side, the whole world would go into the richest harvest of ade vancement that it had ever known. = ” ”

N both the economic and political sides this revoe lution was against a dogma called “the divine right of kings.” The revolt was expressed in a principle—“as little government interference with daily living as is consistent with the safety of the commue nity.” The idea spread like wild-fire. Adam Smith's prine ciples became as much of a religion in business as did the principle of the American Revolution in politics. Either by bloody internal revolution, as in France, or by violent secession, as in the United States, or by more orderly processes, as in England, Germany and Italy, there was a greater or lesser swing away from old ideas of personalized and dictatorial government. The result was astonishing. In the Nineteenth Cene tury alone, the human race made perhaps a greater advance than in all the previous ages since man bee gan to walk on his hind legs and became something more than the skulking, weakest of the beasts living on grub-worms, berries and shell-fish. ” = ”

T seems almost incredible, after a little more than a century and a half of such progress, that, as a

| fool returneth to his folly, the swing seems clearly | back to precisely the system of personalized govern- | ment and goose-stepped humanity that existed in the

years before Thomas Jefferson. Yet so it is beyond question or doubt. Something scarcely distinguishable from the old system has returned in the greater part of Europe and Asia and in more than 20 governments of the Western Hemisphere. Nobody can sincerely deny that there has been a great sweep in the same direction in our country. With us the ironic aspect of this reactionary recession is that the leaders of it call it “liberalism” and have the cool brass nerve to refer to Thomas Jefferson as the father of their faith. This astonishing reversion has made great proge ress here since 1933 under the leadership of the present Administration. The Congressional revolt against it in the past few days may not have been pretty in parts—but it is certainly significant that it ushers in this particular Fourth of July.

Aviation By Maj. Al Williams

Attitude of the British Toward Flying Produces Great Airmen,

ASHINGTON, July 4 —TI have just finished read« ing “Wind, Sand and Stars” by the French aire man, philosopher and poet, Saint Exuptery. There’s beauty of thought and expression in this work of a man who is accustomed to looking down on the earth. A bit fiully, if you will, but then the world above the horizon is still virgin forest, and no mat-

ter how one restrains oneself there are beauties and grandeur there simply beyond description. Then, too, the French have never lost their romantic cone. ception of flight.

Checking the critics against my impression of the book, I note a singular ease with which the critics seem to understand and approve the French attitude toward flying, and utterly misunderstand and misinterpret the Britishers.

During the World War, the French pilot seemed to visualize each patrol flight as a sortie into the land of superhuman adventure. The Britisher, on ths other hand, tried to impress spectators with the casual, matter-of-fact way he just took up another job that had to be done. It seems strange to me that while we are further from the French psychology and nearer to that of the British airman, our people try to appreciate the first and dismiss the second. Deep underneath, the French airman never can seem to waive the idea that aeronautics is not a rebirth of the age of chivalry, with knights in shining armor,

He Is a Good Actor

We Americans see what the Frenchman sees, bug have a little more trouble getting around to speaking about our vision. 'The Britisher sees what we both see, and seals expression and emotion with an habite ual chromium finish. Climatic conditions, plus a thousand incidentals, and the heritage of living in a world-ruling nation, make the Britisher act as he does. Cool and cale culating, when others are excited, is his part in the play, and he is a good actor, He is flooded with example from youth. Suppression of emotion is inherently British. It takes severe self-discipline to accomplish his external calm and insouciance, The British airman is no braver, no more skille ful, than the American, but he certainly enjoys an advantage in starting cool. Then, too, the British pilot in peacetime is not a front window exhibit, to be jeered or cheered on split-second notice by an excitable public. The greater the tension, the graver the danger, the more silent is the great British aire man. It is fascinating to watch him hold his calm in the face of trouble.

Watching Your Health

By Jane Stafford

HEN baby goes traveling special precautions are necessary to guard his health. Among the dangers that threaten are unsafe water, milk and other foods, sudden changes in temperatures, flies and other insects, adults and children who may be “coming down” with contagious sicknesses and spreading their germs, and fatigue. Baby's regular routine or schedule for food, sleep and other activities should be followed as closely as possible. The food problem is easier if the baby is breast fed, but don’t forget to arrange for boiling his drinking water as well as the bottles and nipples for it. If the trip is to last only a day or 24 hours at most, the milk mixture, drinking water, bottles and nipples can be boiled at home before starting. The milk mixture and water can he taken in vacuum The milk mixture must be thoroughly chilled before it is put into the vacuum bottle. If it is put in warm, it may sour. The vacuum bottle should be cleaned, scalded and cooled before the milk is put into it. Milk from a vacuum bottle should not be used after 24 hours. If the trip is to be made by train, arrangements can usually be made to keep the baby's bottles in the refrigerator of the dining car or buffet car. In this case, the milk mixture can be made at home and put into nursing bottles that are well corked or covered, They should then be wrapped carefully in a clean cloth. Nipples, boiled at home, should be carried either wrapped in sterile gauze or in a glass jar with a screw top. For trips of longer than 24 hours arrangements must be made for boiling the milk mixture, dr

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