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TUESDAY, AUGUST 22, 1939

THE SOVIETS SELL OUT ; GOVIET RUSSIA has sold out to the highest bidder. That is the only construction we can place on the- momentous news tat Moscow has agreed to sign a non-aggression pact with Nazi Germany. Whatever its other consequences—and they threaten to be many and grave—this treaty, if concluded, will prove the complete insincerity of both parties to it. For years they have posed before the world as deadly enemies. Hitler rose to power by promising to save his - country from the “Red murderers.” Germany, with Italy, Japan and other members of the anti-Comintern alignment, is pledged to suppress the spread of world communism. The Soviets, for their part, have howled against Hitler and all his works, while American Communists and their deluded fellow travelers have been assuring us that Russia is a true : democracy, a firm opponent of fascism. : : Even after yesterday’s announcement of the two-year trade agreement between Germany and Russia, men close to Stalin were insisting that the Soviets would continue to negotiate in good faith with the British and French representatives who have been striving for months to bring Russia into the “peace front.” That was only a few hours before the bombshell revelation at Berlin of Von Ribbentrop’s mission to Moscow to conclude the non-aggression pact. Plainly Russia, while haggling with Britain and France, has been secretly dealing with Germany. Plainly Dictator Hitler and Dictator Stalin have been willing to forget all

their professed principles, to strike a bargain and to spring.

the news of that bargain at the precise moment when it would most help the Nazis and most hurt the democracies. It is cold comfort for Britain and France to discover that Russia undoubtedly would have been an undependable ally, as she has been a treacherous friend. And cold comfort for Poland, her peril now tremendously increased, to reflect that Russia and Germany can have no real faith in each other. : This strange new Nazi-Communist friendship may not be an enduring one. But, while it lasts, it will be one of the ugliest facts the world has ever had to face. Hitler, apparently assured of access to Russian raw materials and of immunity to attack from the huge Soviet military machine, is equipped to run a stronger bluff than ever before. And Britain and France, if they attempt to resist German aggression without hope of assistance from Russia, will have to face frightful odds. ~~ Whether this development has increased the imminent danger of war in Europe, or whether it has delayed actual fighting while intensifying the “war of nerves” which seemingly can end only in armed conflict, the next few days may tell. Meanwhile, a world grasping at such straws as the Pope’s fervent appeals for peace and the efforts of the seven little neutral nations whose representatives meet this week in Brussels, can only hope against hope for the best.

LOOKING BACKWARD

: TEN years—a brief space in the history of a nation. Let's : look back to August of 1929. Herbert Hoover, five and a half months in the White House, was riding the crest of popularity. The great Coolidge boom was continuing and growing greater. The Re‘publican Party was celebrating its 75th birthday and many people, remembering how Mr. Hoover, with nearly six million more votes than any other candidate ever polled, had swept all but eight states, were saying that the Democratic Party was dead. £on Prohibition was a burning issue. There was indignation over deaths from poison liquor and over killings by enforcement agents. The farmers, as usual, were complaining that they weren't getting: their fair share of national prosperity. En ie We : 8 8 =» DEMOCRATIC Congressmen were denouncing continued ~ extravagant spending by the new Administration. But the Republicans were pointing out that the last fiscal year had ended with a $195,000,000 Treasury surplus, while income taxes had been repeatedly reduced under Republican Presidents and the national debt had been cut from its $25,482,000,000 war peak to only $16,931,000,000. Events abroad were: interesting, but not very important. Some sort of revolution was going on in Mexico, and we were ‘helping the Mexican Government to put it down by selling) arms and planes. The Spanish parliament ‘was debating a new Constitution. Emperor Hirohito of Japan had just ratified the Kellogg Pact, outlawing war. The Duke of Gloucester, King George’s third son, was in Tokyo to invest Hirohito with the Order of the Garter. Mussolini, seven years in power, was making Italy’s trains run on time. Germany, with more than ‘3,000,000 workers unemployed, was ready to make her fifth prompt annual payment to the Allies, under the Dawes Plan, and had agreed to the new Young Plan, hailed as a “complete and final settlement” of the World War reparations problem. It provided for annual payments of $513,000,000 a year until Germany’s indebtedness should be wiped out in 1989. A young agitator named Hitler was editing a little paper, inveighing against what he called the injustices of Versaille. But his political party, with only 12 seats in the Reichstag, was not taken seriously. # » 2 o 8s 2

THERE was, indeed, little to distract Americans from their favorite occupation of watching—and playing— the stock market. There had been a sharp, sudden tumble in prices three months earlier, shaking out thousands of scared little “margin” gamblers. But professional traders and big investors had rushed in on a recovery wave, and in mid-July everything was going up. The 30 industrial stocks, in the Dow-Jones Averages, were around $270. A seat on the New York Exchange sold for $600,000. A few ' cautious souls ventured to wonder whether the rise could continue forever. : Waiting, two months ahead, was a“black October day. : ut most of us, in August, 1929, had no idea that we were ‘watching the events leading up to the tragedy.

By Westbrook Pegler

Evidence Continues to Pile Up 3

That G-Men Have Been Getting a

Lot of Credit Due Treasury Agents. | _.

Nw YORK, Aug. 22—Thanks to the American

“habit of thinking in bunches and the activities | #

of the Edgar Hoover ‘claque of journalists, the Deent of Justice has received credit in the public mind for victories which were prepared by the Bureau of Internal Revenue. Sandy Klein; a who

covers the Treasury, recently revealed that the case

against Tom Pendergast in Kansas City was worked

up by accountants operating under Elmer: Irey, the chief investigator of the Internal Revenue. b

The Department of Justice merely prosecuted |

Pendergast on evidence obtained by Irey’s men, and | CA

it was the same force of investigators who built the case against Al Capone, although Mr. Hoover is widely believed to have been the man who caged the most powerful criminal “of the rough-and-tumble type, that this country has ever seen. Mr. Hoover is a great cop, but his volunteer press agents and his public are inclined to credit him for feats which belong to Mr. Irey. | : In Louisiana a few years ago, the Internal Revenue, as a Treasury agency, prepared the income tax cases

against Huey Long's men, and the Department of | #8 Justice handled the prosecution, such as it-was. The |

ambiguities of the revenue act are such that the Internal Revenue may descend to political coercion,

and in the Louisiana affair this motive was suggested. | Sites

HEN the settlements were made and the indictments were dismissed by the Department of

Justice on the ground that there had been “a change |

of atmosphere” followed Huey Long's death, the two departments, Treasury and Justice, were in a fix. One or the other was left out on a limb. Either the Treasury worked up cases against political enemies of the New Deal who didn’t deserve indictment of justice, or eased up after the second Louisiana purchase. Lately it has been reported from Louisiana that there is a suspicion of tampering in one of the trials that failed, and if that is true, then, the Justice Department would seem to be responsible, for, after all, the prosecution should protect its witnesses and guard the grand jury and trial jury. Hin : The Justice Department will now conduct the prosecution of Moe Annenberg and others, including some who are not yet indicted, in the great racebetting case, which will cause a political earthquake in Chicago. But the Treasury started combing Mr. Annenberg’s affairs more than two years ago, and has worked on them persistently all this time.

» 2 8 HEE again, there may be a suggestion of political

harassment, because - Mr. Annenberg entered Pennsylvania politics on the Republican side and

assisted in the fight which licked Governor Earle.

But that argument jumps the track at the point where the prosecution crosses over into the Chicago City administraton, which is’ not only Democratic but New Deal and third term. So Mr. Hoover recently visited Miami, and now the Department of Justice is about to become actively righteous there, but the fact is that the Treasury was in’ there a long time ago, checking on the slotmachine operators and those politicians with. whom they did business. a The Waterbury, Conn. prosecutions were a state affair, and the convictions are a matter of no little encouragement to those who hold that Kansas City, Chicago, Miami and Louisiana default their responsibilities and ' place themselves in receivership, so to speak, when they call on the Federal Government to perform jobs which are properly the duties of the local police and prosecutors.

Business By John T. Flynn

Cause of Recovery Harmed by Utility's Blast at Sale to TVA.

EW YORK, Aug. 22.—There is a kind of feeling around that “it is up to business now” to do its stuff. And this being so, it is a little disappointing to see a huge utility company, after making a pretty good bargain with the Government over its Tennessee properties, spending a lot of money in full-page advertisements to take a crack at the Government in terms calculated to stimulate rather than calm the fears of investors. :

The Commonwealth & Southern Corp. sold its Tennessee properties to the TVA for 78 million doilars. The company, in a arge advertisement, declared that it had been forced to sell its plants at a loss. But this was singularly at variance with the acclaim which went out from the whole industry for Mr. Niiste because he had won a great victory over the . /

But the sale to TVA and the negotiations preceding it apd the final arrangements were all heralded to the country as a sort of peace treaty, the inauguration of an era of peace between the Government and the industry. : 2

This therefore was an excellent moment for the industry to capitalize on the new situation in order to cheer investors, calm their fears and invite them back into the finance markets where the utilities could easily absorb a billion of new money.

More Fuel on the Fire

Instead the statement ‘was calculated to keep those fears alive. It left the distinct impression that somehow this company had escaped with a part of its skin, that all other companies were still exposed to the same peril. It had in it a note of warning. And while in the order of human nature it is‘ not to be. expected that the Commonwealth would love the TVA or the Government it might, in view of the settlement and the magnificent check it got, have held its peace.

It is, in fact, a service to the industry to call attention to this and to point out that instead of being exposed to a peril, the industry is now in less danger of attack than at any time in the last 10 years. Before Roosevelt, it was in danger from its own bad practice: which have caused so much of its troubles. Many of those have been cleaned up, thanks to the laws of nature and gravity and to the Government which forced them to clean up. The brief energy of the Roosevelt crusade against the utilities has lost its pep, its vitality and direction. Roosevelt wants peace. The industry wants peace. Why not recognize the fact and set about the great job of rehabilitation?

A Woman's Viewpoint

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

GOT a sad little note this morning which is worth passing on if only because it calls attention to a common ‘error in public: thinking. “Aren’t there any men who love their wives?” asks a perplexed young girl. “Seems as if everything I read is about quarrels and divorces. Do married people fight all the time?” - There is more, but that’s enough. Enough, at least,

to make us realize how important it is to speak often

of the happiness and success of marriage. There are frequent stories—and beautiful ones they are, too—of unions which have lasted half a century. They are usually written up as if they were freak occurrences. And most of them are, from the standpoint of duration. Not very many married couples live to celebrate their Golden Wedding anniversaries.

But those who are not lucky are oftener separated by death than divorce. -

Yes, Young Perplexed One, there are men who Tove |

their wives, even in these decadent days—millions of them. They don’t often get their names in the newspapers, unless of course théy are promoted in business or die. But they are the same men you see pouring out of office buildings at noon every weekday. They are the men in-shirtsleeves with lunch pails in their hands who troop by thousands to factories and mills. They are the men plowing in the fields when the spring comes. . They are the earnest young souls, walking about with dreams in their eyes. Old and young, great and obscure, they are those who speak little of their love, but do much to prove it. Don’t be discouraged, Little Girl. Man is not a predatory nor a faithless animal by nature. Give him

bus half a chance and he will serve and love his wife ;

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

DOUBTS VALUE OF 16TH ST. PROJECT By Reader . What difference is there between

the Ritter Ave. WPA job and the|

16th St. job at the Post Road, which

started on a road that had no|

homes on it and finished in a woods with a dead end?

8 8 8 UPHOLDS ROOSEVELT ON

THANKSGIVING CHANGE By Robert M. Stita

To those who have been so crit!’

ical of Mr. Roosevelt's proclamation of the 23d of November as Thanks-

giving day, I would like to quote the|

following history on that day of festivities. “In the United States, a day set apart annually and appointed by the President and by the Governors of the various states for giving thanks to God for the favors and mercies of the year past. It is essentially a harvest festival and owes its origin to .the Pilgrim Fathers. Despite the lean harvest of the summer of 1621, Governor Bradford decreed a day of Thanksgiving and rejoicing after the scanty crop had been gathered in. This example of sturdy faith spread to the other. New England colonies.” In the course of the Revolution, Congress frequently recommended days of thanksgiving and prayer. After the close of the war many of the states adopted the custom of an annual day of thanksgiving. There was, however, no uniformity of date for holding this festival. Owing, however, to the admirable persistence of Mrs. Sarah Josepha Hale, President Lincoln at last in 1863 appointed Thursday, August 6, “as a day for national thanksgiving, praise and prayer.” Since 1864, the last Thursday, in November has been proclaimed annually by the President as the day of national thanksgiving. : In the greatest of all democracies, I cannot understand why anyone would not be patriotic and loyal to the greatest of our great Presidents and forget his prejudice and cease all this rabble-babble about the day he appointed for our celebration. i ” 8 ”

SAYS FARMERS OPPOSE

THANKSGIVING CHANGE By Henry A. Roberts The latest disturbance Roosevelt has caused is a suggestion that our old established date for Thanksgiving day be shoved forward one week earlier than the regular custom. We cannot conceive of any

(Times readers are invited to 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.)

is familiar with farming and the history of the United States. The traditions of our Pilgrim Fathers are well known. Thanksgiving day was to be after harvest, after all the grain, winter vegetables and fruit, such as wheat, rye, corn, potatoes, cabbage, apples, nuts, etc., had been stored to supply food during the long winters. The farmers of Indiana today are accustomed ‘and work to that end to have their main crop, corn, in the crib by the last Thursday in November.” However, about onetenth of the farmers, or those who are behind time, will not get their corn in the crib before Dec. 15th. Mr. Roosevelt of Hyde Park knows very little about farming, and those who understand the situation will never acquiesce with the suggestion of making Thanksgiving day earlier in the season than it is now. Governor Townsend is supposed to know something about farming, and it is hard to believe that he will issue a proclamation declaring Nov. 23d as Thanksgiving day in Indiana. . . .

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DENIES SUGGESTION WOULD SOLVE RELIEF By W. C. G. ; Answering (self help promoter) concerning WPA layoffs, I ‘emphatically agree that it would be wonderful for these people to have a business of their own either individually or collectively. However, 1 disagree on the method. No leader could be hired at any price to bring this about. President

Roosevelt tried to produce jobs only and billions have been spent for the cause and now his fellow workers have turned against him. = 2 2 J TAXI DRIVER CRITICAL OF ‘GOOSIE’ LEE CASE By A. B. Why is it that 11 squads of Police could not get a conviction in the recent “Goosie” Lee case? I drive a cab. I am not a politician. So when I go to jail I know I will not see the smiling face of some police official letting me out on my own recognizance, and there

won't be any confusion of evidence to turn me loose.

8 # 2 3 CALLS F. D. R. BEST PRESIDENT SINCE LINCOLN By H. L. . : There is one thing that President Roosevelt has been unable to do in six years—one thing that a Republican President could do .in a few months. It would not take a Republican President long to teach some people what a good President Roosevelt is. If a good President is so easy to find and elect, a real friend of the people, why did we go from Lincoln to Franklin D. Roosevelt without finding and electing one? » tJ f= BACKS PAWNSHOP LAW. ON FINGERPRINTING By N. J. Singleton 4 It seems to me Harry Bivens who did so much wailing and weeping over the “class legislation” of fingerprinting of pawnshop loans would be very happy about the regulation

should somebody rob him of that diamond ring and dispose of it by pawning. Oh, that would be a horse of another «color! What does he mean “class legislation”! Sure—against thieves and unscrupulous pawnbrokers.

New Books at the Library

NE of the best of the new “who-did-it” thrillers’ is Donald Clough Cameron’s “Murder’s Coming” (Henry Holt & Co.) in which the current labor-vs-capital theme plays as much a leading role as the murders themselves. Yes, we said murders.

man suggesting such a thing, if he

‘Abelard Voss, criminologist, is in-

"Please, Mother! ‘The grocery man isn't interested in the SU yee hitting fo

Side Glances—By Galbraith

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sweater - Tommyl" ~. wih aa tN

vited to the one mill-dominated town of Andor to get in on the ground floor of homicide. Before you can get half a dozen pages out of the way Wbelard has discovered his first murder. ‘From there you race into a pitche battle between union organizers and

police, more threats, more murders, still more threats, more clues and

more excitement. : Mr. Cameron not only knows how

to write a story, he knows how to

‘|hold it together. To his everlast-

ing credit, let it be said that in “Murder’s Coming,” he plays ro tricks on the reader. If you're a member of the club (Confirmed Detective Story Readers), you may be able to pick out the killer long before you get to the showdown. But in any event, you'll enjoy this one a lot.

IF YOU WERE I By JAMES A. SPRAGUE

If you were I and I were you How many, many things we'd do; For you it is so very plain What I should do but you refrain From telling me. - If I were you and you were I How many, many things we'd try; For me it is so very plain What you should do but I refrain From telling you. If we were in each other’s place We'd do big things; in any case We 3 so much that each should o, - If you were I and I were you, But we refrain.

"DAILY THOUGHT And he said unto them, Hinder me not, seeing the Lord hath prospered my way; send me away that I may go to my master— Genesis 24:56.

#NREAT loves, to the last, have pulses red; all great loves that have ever died dropped dead.—Helen Hunt Jackson.

: | peoples’ money.

|Says—

New: Deal Maneuvered Into Stand On Spending Where G. O.P. Has a Made-to-Order Issue for 1940.

ASHINGTON, Aug. 22.—Mr. Roosevelt likes to

¥ suggest that the only political issue for 1940 is “liberalism.” All there is to fight about is his “liberalism” on the one side and the Tweedledees, Tweedledums and Tweedledummers on the other. Said in that way, it is just a name calling contest. “Liberalism” means about what you want it to mean and the Tweedle triplets are all those who are alike - in not agreeing with you. : But if “liberalism” means an effort to give farmers a greater relative income, to prevent suffering from unemployment, to take care of the aged and infirm, to preserve the rights of labor, to protect labor from exploitation and to prevent by regulations business abuses due to bigness or otherwise—if that is what liberalism means, practically every Tweedle is a liberal. None of these things will be at issue in 1940. Methods of -reaching these ends will be debated but not the ends themselves. Other proposals, such as encouraging rather than rebuffing business and private enterprise = investment, will be the issues. ;

UT, after saying all this, there still lurks in Mr. Roosevelt's word “liberalism” another issue which he soft-pedals. It is basic, critical—perhaps the biggest issue of all. It can be stated in a few words and made perfectly clear to any voters: : maa Mr. Roosevelt and his men are committed beyond the. possibility of retreat to the idea that the way to: increase “purchasing power,” aintain employment and restore prosperity is to spend masses of morcy. If that principle is accepted at all, it follows that the more you spend the better it will be. They are committed to that, too. In this aspect we have something . quite different from the social reforms and objectives mentioned above with which a majority of us agree. That difference is just this: “Shall we try to get and keep those reforms by spending as little money as is necessary for the purpose, or shall we do it in a manner that spends as much money as we can per-

(| suade-Congress to appropriate?”

Clearly the answer of the Roosevelt school must be and, in practice, has been, to do it with the maximum distribution of public money. Mr. Roosevelt's distinctive liberalism is liberality in dishing out other

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AZ that is surely a resounding issue which Mr. Roosevelt himself has made a dozen ways—most recently by predicting business disaster because Congress refused to grub-stake his proposed lend-spend spree, and earlier by insisting that the 1937 business recession was caused by a reduction in relief expenditures for that year. ! Mr. Roosevelt’s disaster is not yet demonstrated and the 1937 argument can be shown to be based on a misstatement of facts. Neither argument makes any. difference. Both are mentioned here merely to show

how clearly Mr. Roosevelt is committed to a stand

that offers what seems to me the most effective issue for his opposition. It is not an issue of objective, but flatly and simply of economy rather than deliberately planned extravagance in reaching objectives. yi] If Mr. Roosevelt's ideas dominate the Democratic convention in 1940, writing the Republican platform could be a draftman’s delight. Every day in every way their prospect becomes brighter and brighter.

U.S. Roundup

By Bruce Catton

New England Outlook Good as Factories Begin to Hum Again. (Sixth of a Series)

IPOSTON, Aug. 22—Native Yankee caution never deserts the New Englander. Conditions that would make a Midwesterner glow expansively and predict a: year of pretty good business will lead the New Englander to admit only that right now things aren’t too bad. Then he'll add that he isn’t at all sure about - next month. ; Cn : So you can’t say businessmen here are optimistic. They are freely admitting, however, that right now things aren't too bad—and some of ‘them forget to add the gag line about next month. New England industrialized itself ahead of the rest of the country, and as the rest of the country caught up with it, a lot of New England industries moved away. Vow 2 In the middle Twenties New England started a counter attack. .The Governors of her six states got together and caused the formation of the New England Council, an advisory and co-ordinating body which was to be, and is, supported by subscriptions sold to businessmen. ; ci It tried, first, to get all the data it could on what the problem really was, and next to figure out some solution. ‘The symptoms of the problem were all too visible—empty factories in cities and towns all over the area. A part of the solution seemed to be to persuade industrialists that these factories were - still perfectly usable and that New England’s -supply of skilled labor and her transportation facilities were valuable assets. . . : : Two ‘Uncertainties’ Cited Somewhere between 1925 and 1930 the long process of migration was stopped, and since th ew England has slowly been winning back the lost ground. Charles F. Weed, vice president of Boston’s First | National Bank, and present head of the New England: Council, says that the present business outlook would be quite satisfactory if two uncertainties could be removed—uncertainty about the European situation, and uncertainty about what the gentleman in the White House is going to do. : It is the latter uncertainty which he considers the more damaging; and he believes that business’s objection to the New Deal is more a matter of the Administration's general attitude than of any specific ‘New Deal act. He does nat, for instance, share the rather common New England feeling that the reciprocal trade treaties are damaging to this section. “They may hurt some particular lines and help others,” he remarks. “If they result in greater prosperity for the country as a whole, New England will share in it and be better off.” :

Watching Your Health By Jane Stafford :

W JHEN a Chinese mother counts the number of children she has, she does not include in the tally those who have not yet had smallpox. ‘This is because she knows how uncertain their stay Yin the family will be. American mothers, fortunately, do not need to make such tragic calculations. Children and adults can be protected against smallpox, with its threat of death or disfigurement. Vaccination is the mef dof getting protection against this plague. Facilities for being vaccinated are not available to most of China's. - population, but in this country no one needs to risk smallpox for lack of vaccination. Even those wha" cannot pay a doctor to do it can be vaccinated, because most health departments will vaccinate in such cases free of charge. J : ‘Every child, health and medical authorities declare, should be vaccinated against smallpox before entering school. In fact, vaccination is advised for babies before they are six months old, with revaccination when they enter school. : Flan | Vaccination is simple and safe. Even: the some= times disfiguring scar of the vaccination, to which many people have objected, is being eliminated by modern methods of vaccinating. The protection given by vaccination may last many years, but cannot be relied upon to last longer than five years, which is why vaccination is urged for all persons in a community whenever there is a smallpox outbreak. The United States led all other nations of the world except India in the number of smallpox cases. reported in 1937, the Federal Health Service reports. The reason is that many people fail to have -

| selves and their children vaccinated. While it is trué

that smallpox cases in this country in recent years have been comparatively mild, some authorities believe and past experience shows that the malignant type might develop spontaneously from the milder

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