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? MONDAY, AUGUST 21, 1939

CO-OPERATION BEGINS AT HOME FOr the third time in recent months, the American Feder"ation of Labor calls for a ‘‘co-operative effort of business, labor, farmers and other groups” to increase national production and living standards. :

Present business conditions, the A. F. of L. says, are

*particularly favorable for sound, healthy expansion.” The alternative, it ‘asserts, is more Government pump-priming with its dangers of inflation. But it argues that business leaders are not organized to plan such expansion, and so it urges the Government to take the initiative ‘in calling forth co-operation between the various groups. i. There is much good sense in what the A. F. of L. says, and it is not alone in seeing co-operation as a thing this country greatly needs.. Only a few days ago Philip Murray, vice president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations, made a very similar proposal. He urged President Roosevelt to call representatives of Government, business and labor into conference to solve the unemployment problem. But, as we pointed out at the time of Mr. Murray’s appeal, one great obstacle to a co-operative effort would be the fact that labor, itself, is divided. Mr. Roosevelt has tried, without success, to close the breach between the A. F. of L. and the C. I. 0. Any business-labor-farmer conference he might call would start with the representatives of labor at war, striving for advantage over each other. - The country would welcome co-operation, led by Government, for eal recovery. But if the leaders of labor believe in co-operation—if they actually are convinced that a concerted effort could solve our problems—the country surely is justified in asking why the leaders of labor stubbornly

refuse to co-operate with each other.

EMBASSY PRISONERS

GE¥ FRANCO'S Government has been represented as eager to stimulate commercial and cultural relations

' between Spain and Latin America. But Senor Franco is

going about the enterprise in a very odd way. During the civil war in Spain, the Chilean Embassy at Madrid sheltered some 2000, Franco followers who sought refuge there from the Loyalists. The latter, recognizing the right of diplomatic asylum, did not molest the fugitives. Now that the war is over, however, and his 2000 supporters freed, Gen. Franco has been insisting for months that the Embassy hand over to him some 17 Spanish Loyalists who sought cover in the embassy when Madrid was surrendered to the Nationalists. The 17 include physicians, lawyers and newspapermen. ,Under the principle of diplomatic asylum as recognized and practiced in Latin America, the 17 should be given safe conduct by Gen. Franco to the Spanish border. European law and practice, however, does not recognize this principle. The result has been a long stalemate.. Other Latin American countries are rallying around Chile. Feeling against the Spanish Government has risen at times to such heat that Spanish diplomats in Chile have

had to be given police guards. Even strongly pro-National-

ist newspapers in Mexico and elsewhere have condemned Gen. Franco’s attitude. The Spanish “Caudillo” may be within his rights under international law, but he certainly appears to be getting off on the wrong foot insofar as relations with the new world are concerned.

BUILDING UPSWING

: ONE THOUSAND new homes in Indianapolis by the end

of 1939— : ; “The largest construction program here since the black autumn of 1929— ; _ ° The largest number of building 10 years— : And last, and most important, encouraging signs of expansion in the industrial building field. These were just a few of the extremely interesting facts turned up by David Marshall of The Times staff when he began digging into what has been happening in the building field here this year. It looks like the most active building period. since 1929, with more than $12,000,000 worth of homes, apartments, business buildings and ‘additions going up. : Filter that sum through the hands of contractors, workmen, supply dealers, retailers and all the other business channels of the community and we have one important reason why Indianapolis is better off than other communities of comparable size. And credit the Federal Government for stimulating much of this activity, even though some would also assert that expansion of industrial building is held back by other policies of the Government. :

THE FOE WITHIN an HE ultimate reliance of the people ~ selves. -£ This must be so in any popular government, and we all know it if we think about it at all. We seldom do. : That is our greatest danger. It was never more clearly put than by Earl Griffith, Ohio Secretary of State, in addressing a meeting of the National Association of Secretaries of State. Griffith, pointing out that Ohio is the only

permits for the past

must be on them-

| state which makes its chief election official the Secretary of

State, thus centralizing control of elections, appealed for befter election laws. “The most vital element in the successful operation of popular government is the confidence of the public in the integrity and impartiality of elections,” he said. . : he ) “ And then he added something that might well be pasted in the hatband of every citizen: “Our institutions - are threatened not by the intrigue and collusion of the corrupt and vicious, but by the inertia and passivity of the intelligent.”

LAW ENFORCEMENT NOTE | PRIVERS hailed on minor traffic violations in Colorado may remit their fines by mail. Now if we can only

re out some method of serving prison by corre-

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| a steamboat line it owned for many years:

Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

Back Stabbing, That's What It Is! This Trying to Restore Recovery In Face of F. D. R.'s Dire Prophecy.

YORK, Aug. 31.—I was around town for a few hours today, and, my friends, it would make your blood boil to see the back-stabbing that is being committed openly in our marts of trade. Women back-stabbers churning around the counters in the stores. Men back-stabbers knifing President Roosevelt in the markets. Hundreds of thousands of treacherous betrayers of the New Deal straining prain and brawn in offices and plants to manufacture and sell goods so that recovery may occur in the land to the discredit of the President. - -For let there be no mistake about this—that if business should rebound in spite of the rejection of President Roosevelt's latest formula for recovery the formula will be discredited, and that puts it up to all loyal supporters of the New Deal, in the Administration and out, to resist this sinister scheme in every possible way. : 3 Do you need a pair of shoes? Don’t buy yet. Wait. Every sale of a pair of shoes in the critical months to come will be a contribution to recovery and a knife-thrust in the back. Were you thinking of opening a store or adding a new line to the shelves of an old one? My friend, have you considered what that would mean? } EJ E 4 2 OU were going to do this fully realizing that every dollar you would spend would be a contribution to the defeat of the Administration's proposition that recovery would occur in no other way than Mr. Roosevelt's. If you will just refer to the vocabulary of the New

Deal as of the last year or so you will discover that |

any act of opposition to the New Deal—even passive opposition, for that matter—is back-stabbing. Jack

‘Garner, that evil old man, was guilty of back-stab-

bing when he hadn't said aye, yes, no. Although it was he who had finally put Mr. Roosevelt over in the first place, he was a back-stabber when he just didn’t go along with the President. ; He just held still, and that was stabbery in the back, first degree. :

HIS last Congress was guilty of back-stabbery, first degree, too. Maybe the degree was a little bit firster than common-ordinary first because this Congress not only held still but pulled snoots at the President and put the patriots of the country on the spot. This is the spot that the patriots are on: If they employ: a lot of new hands and if the new hands accept that employment and the factories use up material and the new hands use their wages to buy things and numbers of them pull away from relief

' jobs and the country gets off its knees and starts to stagger forward, the New Deal is foully betrayed, and ||

you can put the recovery down to a dirty, underhanded conspiracy against the program of progress. It will be reaction. : And if it comes to a crisis with the dark clouds of recovery lowering over the Administration and menacing streaks of optimism flashing through the storm, there is still hope. Harold Ickes, the Department of Justice, the Treasury, the Labor Department and the Labor Board can be relied on in a crisis to devil the life out of the back-stabbing ingrates and chase those clouds away. .

Business By John T. Flynn

D. & H. Gets Rid of Steamboat Line, Proving Early 'Radicals' Were Right.

EW YORK, Aug. 21.—One of our large eastern railroads—the Delaware & Hudson—has just sold It is not an important business event in- itself, but it has a

special significance. Those who have read the history of American business will remember the movement which set in as early as the Seventies and Eignties and came to its full flower in the early years of this century, when big corporations began to buy up all sorts of Snisrpeises if remotely related to their main enterprise. : The railroads bought steamship and steamboat lines and ferries, streetcar lines, interurbans, coal companies, hotels, news services, trucking companies, even printing companies—because they did a lot of printing. When all this was going on a number of men who were variously called liberals, progressives, radicals, populists denounced this practice. Some of them, of course, were just political orators and even demagogs. But some of them were among the most thoughtful statesmen and economists of the time. Some of this opposition was based on a fear of bigness; some of it upon a hatred of accumulated wealth; some of it on political strategy. But the thoughtful critics contended that the capitalist system can be operated successfully only when it is operated functionally. That is, they said that regulation is difficult, that while there must be some regulation of business, the best policy was to order the Sysiemm so that the minimum of regulation was required.

Time Proves Them Right

They contended that if the men who owned and operated a bank were in the banking business and no other it would not be necessary to regulate banks. And ‘in the same way they contended that if the men who ran railroads limited themselves to running railroads, the railroads would be better, But the men who ran the railroads and their hired economists and defenders:took a very superior view of all this, as usual. Here, they said, were a lot of amateurs trying to tell these great business titans they were wrong. By their operations and maneuvers they have all but wrecked the roads, the coal companies and the hotels. The Delaware & Hudson was one of the great offenders against this simple law. But now they have sold their steamship company and are glad they are to be rid of it. One of these days we will get ‘rid of a good deal of regulation by getting back to this old and common-sense formula. Limit industries to functional activities. That will not solve all our troubles, but it will do more to solve them than any other one thing. -

1. !/ ° 5 A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson Ao girl has been born to Crown Princess Juliana of Holland, and there's a sound of sigh-

ing upon ‘the air. Too bad, too bad. No doubt she’s a darling little thing, we say, but what a pity this

one wasn’t a boy. - We feel it, we say it, we believe it |

and at the same time we insist that women are men’s

equals, : Which is a nice slice of boloney. Even in new democratic countries, which are free (so we boast) from Old World prejudices and frayed superstitions, we still hang on to the notion that women justify their existence only by producing sons. ; For more than 49 years there has been no male member of the House of Nassau, and in spite of that fact it has thrived far better than some of the other royal houses of Europe. ruled wisely. Although it has several times skirted the edge of disaster, her sturdy little country has always been rescued by her good sense of diplomacy. Among the principalities of the continent, little Holland has more than held her own. Why then, de we imply by our sighing that it

should have a man for its ruler? Because we are

so steeped in the traditions of kingship and promogeniture and all sorts of ‘ether silly twaddle that we can’t get out from under.

It may be possible Holland has done so well be--

cause a woman directed her destiny. In several instances history has proved that the lady can do as fine a job on the throne as behind it. England thrived under Elizabeth and Victoria; queen mothers have often been expert regents during the minority of their sons. And Holland is an existing example of a pasion where the feminine will has been potent with

Queen Wilhelmina has |

|The Pole-Sitter! —By Talburt

To mm ; —— , , The Hoosier Forum 1 wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

SEES U. S. SPEAKER A AS POWERFUL FIGURE » By Raymond H. Stone : The Speaker of the House in Washington is the pivotal office of the ¢oming decade. Whoever wins that office after 1940 will have the responsibility of directing the public spending through appointment of members of the appropriations committee. : 2 8 8 CITES MOTOR INDUSTRY IN DEFENDING PROFITS

By Voice in the Crowd

Mr. Douglas claims that the key to recovery is production for use and not for profit. He no doubt believes it. ; I would ask the gentleman where the automobile industry would be if, when it was new and employed 100 men, they had set out to produce without profit? There would still be 100 men employed and very few people would drive cars. The profit from building automobiles is what has tooled up this industry so that more ple could be employed, more wages could be earned, and more people could own better automobiles. Every man employed -in this great industry is making daily use of these profits to earn his daily wages, and that is true of every industry in the land. It seems that the only manner in which production fer use and not for profit is possible, is for each man to produce for himself those things that he needs. Civilization has outgrown such a life, because men can have more goods, live longer and in greater ease under our system of serving each other for profit. For no one to have an incentive heyond his own bare needs would freeze further progress right in its tracks. You are not going to work for anyone else for nothing, and you cannot expect anyone to serve you for nothing. It isn’t natural. ? All of us would like to see the “government returned to the people, as the framers of the Constitution intended,” but don’t forget, they had depressions and they lived through them in privation and thanked God when they had

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

enough to exist. No one ‘can do more. au er : ASKS WHAT'S DELAYING RECOVERY Now x By Brian Boru * Early in the recent session of Congress the anti-New Deal element in House and Senate, ably bolstered by the United States Chamber of Commerce and its kept press, assured us repeatedly that Congress would let business alone and stop “hammering” recovery the nation would swiftly snap out of the doldrums.

There was a hue and cry for Con-

gress to go home, to throw the Administration calendar out the window and allow private enterprise to take off on its flight to prosperity for which, we were told, it was eagerly poised. Well Congress has gone home after having junked the Roosevelt

{the green light.

now? Where is this boom we were to expect? Not only has business been freed of the fear of “crippling legislation” but as a matier of fact many of the modifications it asked in previous legislation were enacted. Business, industry, definitely | has So what? Stocks continue .to drift downward. Capital stagnates. Agricultural prices are falling. The awaited pick-up in trade and employment is lacking.

Is this stagnation the sort of herformance we can expect to echo the promises of the conservatives if we turn the government over to them in 1940?

BACKS SHERIFF'S DRIVE ON MIGRANTS

By Clarence Lafferty -

Fam back of Sheriff Pangburn’s campaign against the Southern states migrants 100 per cent. ~He is doing something for the Hoosier unemployed in. his county that the entire State should do. Those migrants can afford to come to this State and work at a lower competitive -wage, and return to their native state where there are no winter expenses, while a Hoosier cannot. California at one time turned migrants from that state who did not possess certain limited means. Indiana would do well to do the same thing. Anyone coming here looking for a job should be turned away, for this state already has an uynem-

program. So. what is holding us ployment problem.

New Books at the Library |

O the majority of laymen the medical profession is a. closed sphere to which only the initiate have egress. Whereas for centuries a knowledge of the healer’s art was considered common property of all educated men, the cultured laity of today generally know much about medicines and comparatively little about medicine. : Believing that the history of medicine is “an epitome of the history of civilization and should form a part of every man’s culture,” David Riesman in “Medicine in Modern Society” (Princeton University Press) contends that the educational

basis of our time might profitably

Side Glances—By Galbraith

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: ~Genesis 37:5

be broadened to include high school and college courses in medicine similar to those now offered in law, political economy, and art.

The discoveries and advances of

the profession, “peaks in medical history,” are outlined and described briefly. from the early theories of

anatomy and blood circulation to

antisepsis, X-Ray, vaccine, ‘blood transfusion, and in our own time, hormones ang vitamins.

In nontechnical language, such formidable sounding subjects as allergy, ductless glands and basal metabolism are defined and explained. Several chapters detail

changing methods of diagnosis and

treatment in heart diseases, tuberculosis, cancer and syphilis. The importance of preventative measures against contagion | is stressed, and the vital necessity for periodic health examinations of each individual. The progress made in the distribution of good medical care through the expansion of public health services has done much, the author concedes, to alleviate misery and suffering among the lower classes, but drastic social reforms, not curative medicine, are needed to eradicate the poverty which breeds disease and wretchedness. - ; = Since medicine, more than any

‘| other science, is concerned with the

saving of lives, the author declares that doctors, above all others, “are obligated to spread the doctrine of peace on earth, among men of good

| will.”

SUNSHINE By ROBERT 0. LEVELL Takes a world of sunshine To make the sky be bright;

When the light of day time Has shone with all its might.

Sunshine down from the sky. A smile to win the day; When the sun is shining high . A joy for all the way.

DAILY THOUGHT And Ji dreamed a dream,

and he teld it to his brethren; and they hated him yet the more. .

|Gen. Johnson

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Says—

Changing of Thanksgiving Seen as Slap by New Deal at Another of Our Time-Honored Institutions, -

ASHINGTON, Aug. 21.—Thanks can be given exactly as well on the third as on the fourth Thursday in November. . Thanksgiving Day is partly for that, but it also commemorates the first bountiful American harvest that ended a year of starvation and death and so convinced the New England pio-

'| neers and millions who followed that they could sur-

vive and prosper behind those bleak coasts. In this

second sense it has a deep ceremonial sanctity. It

honors independence, courage, fortitude, and the fear

of God as strong, tough fibres in our national char- .

acter. The first Thanksgiving Day was ordained by Governor Bradford in November, 1623. George Washington proclaimed the day nationally, in 1789, to celebrate the triumphant end of another long and terrible test in the making of this people—the revolutionary struggle and the birth of the new nation

under the Constitution, He named the last Thursday .

in November perhaps on some more accurate tradition of the exact November day set by the Bradford proclamation and certainly in respect for that Pilgrim

precedent. i

2 8 8 i TERRIBLE ordeal for national faith land fortitude came again in. the war among the states. Toward the end of it, when the preservation of the Union seemed assured, Abraham Lincoln, rever- , ing the precedent set by Washington and the spirit of Pilgrims, proclaimed the fourth Thursday in November. That day had been honored in some states for

decades and has been celebrated nationally ever since. .

For three quarters of a century, nobody was ever callous enough to suggest a change. : In hard practical sense it makes no difference that President Roesevelt’s puckish humor and headlining have pulled another startling playful prank on another honored American institution by setting aside a tradition of generations and amending Washington,

|| Lincoln and perhaps the Pilgrim fathers.

_ The exact November day of the first Thanksgiving isn’t’ certain. That isn’t. important. It isn’t certain that Christ was born on Dec. 25. The Declaration of Independence wasn’t signed on the Fourth of July. There is no practical reason why all these celebrations shouldn’t be shifted. There is no reason at all except reverence for the acts of our most honored ancestors and a decent regard for our highest traditions and for two of the best. attributes of humanity—patriotism and religion.

: 2 8 = TT is particularly true of Thanksgiving Day. .

| Christmas Day is a religious and Independence : Day a patriotic festival. Thanksgiving Day is both. It celebrates triumphs over national adversity and thanks God for them. If there is any more justification for shifting it than the others we ought to know

| about it.

We are told that merchants demanded it to get - 4

holidays farther apart to increase their profits. That effect is far from certain. But, if sure, it would be a better reason for shifting Christmas which is still closer to New Year's Day than to Thanksgiving, and New Year's Day can't be shifted without amending the solar system which even the Janissariat would hardly attempt. | The country never heard of this “profit” reason or of the merchants’ demand before this surprise deei-

sion. It is an implous reason, a sacrilegious demand °

(if any) and an impudent and. irreverent decision.

Aviation By Maj. Al Williams -

British Bomb Shelters and Balloon :

Barrages Held 'Sops to Psychology.

ASHINGTON, Aug. 21.—There are two angles

from which the British ground defense against air bombardment looks screwy. One is the bhomb-proof structures of corrugated iron that any Britisher can set up, or rather down, in his back yard. The other is the balloon barrage. It’s my suspicion that neither is worth more than

its weight in junk, and that both are sops to public on

" psychology.

The man-in-the-street is convinced that air bompardment is aimed at creating mass murder from the

air. It's aimed at him, his family, his home.

Actually, the most effective air bombardment can accomplish its real purpose without killing a single. individual. We have lived through the prophecies that poison gas would lay millions of people gasping and choking in the streets. A little investigation demonstrated that to create such havoc to life, impossible quantities of poison gas would have to be dumped on a given area. And to be dumped, it has‘to be carried.

Now it’s mass murder. Let's think for a moment.’ ia A tremendous amount of risk is involved in getting

a bomber over an enemy town. | The efficiency of war demands that when it gets there, the greatest results must be accomplished. Which| would be more efficacious? To slay a hundred thousand people with bomb fragments, or, using the same number of bombs, to disable the water mains, destroy the sewerage, cripple the electric power plants, and impede traffic.

It Keeps Them Busy The dead could be buried. But with the. entir

city machinery crippled, and turned into an epidemic 4d

center, there would be a permanence about the attack ~ - bi the city. The problems -;:

which ‘would stop the life of

in the secand case would be well nigh unsurmountable. 3

Tests have demonsirated that any bomb capable

of digzing up a water main and tearing a sewer to

pieces will brush one of those portable bomb-proof shelters away like tissue paper. But the psychological effect of keeping the populace busy doing something, J lessens the idle terror of the dreaded air attack. § It's a whittling or knitting stunt to keep them from thinking. : The balloon-barrage provision is little better, The British have already lost about a score of balloons through the unruly behavior of the air. They know as well as we that there is only one real answer to air attack, and that is a strong protective attack against the bombers by fast, maneuverable, single-seater fighting planes.

Watching Your Health :

By Jane Stafford

Iv another week or two parents will be making preparation for sending children to school. Along with provision for shoes,

uniforms or other clothing, ~

books and pencils, the child’s health should come in

for consideration.

The child who is to enter school for the first time _

hould have had a thorough examination by the fam- .- ily d the U. 8. Chil- - '“

ily doctor and dentist in the spring, Ne Bureau states. would ‘have allowed the

whole summertime for not too late to start the procedure.

correction of defects, but it is .

A physical defect puts a child at a disadvantage. > with his schoolmates. Poor eyesight or poor hearing

may make him st in his in school. | Ls When the doctor makes his pre-school examination of the child he will check his hearing and vision.

| He will see whether the child's nose. and throat are

in healthy condition. Removal of tonsils and adenoids is not practiced quite so widely as it once was, but the doctor may find it necessary for your child's

m dull and backward. He may fail .- studies, become discouraged and lose interest

th, “ig ; 28 The doctor, will also want to know whether the

child has been gaining steadily in weight and in height. If not, there may needs correction. The’ adjusted, or he may need to spend more His eyes should be bright, his cheeks rosy, h

to fatigue, but for health as well as appearance it should be corrected as early as possible. - School brings added danger of communicable diseases. To rate We id as Be possible - pox and immunized against diphtheria,

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