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IT IS WAR 8 this is written the mad march to war is quickstepping over the hill to Armageddon. The Free City of Danzig—for whose independence Poland has said she would fight—is free no more. It has been folded into the German Reich. German bombs have been dropped on Polish railroad centers, and on Warsaw. Hitler has exhorted his soldiers “to answer force with force.” But the Nazi legions are not waiting for “force” to come to them. They are going forth to find it and “to answer,” The prospects are they will find what they are seeking—for Great Britain and France are pledged to go to war, when and if Poland does, to defend Poland's sovereignty. Only a few hours ago Hitler made public his 16-point proposal for a settlement of Germany's demands against Poland. There seemed momentarily some chance that those 16 points might be made the basis for negotiations. True, his terms were so stiff there seemed very little possibility they could be accepted anyway. Even so Der Fuehrer would not wait, \ Here is one war which, we predict, historians will never dispute as to where the blame lies. But we who are so fortunate to live on this side of the Atlantic—it is not for us, at this time, to assess responsi-

bility for the tragedy that has overtaken Europe. Rather should all our energies, all our resolution, turn to efforts to

prevent our own involvement,

OUR OLD EARTH HIS seems, at first thought, an inopportune time for the announcement that Pope Pius has invited a group of eminent scientists, including Catholics and non-Catholics, to assemble at the Vatican in December for a seven-day conference to determine the age of the earth. We can’t help wondering whether by December great groups of the earth’s inhabitants won't be striving to €xterminate each other; whether millions of human beings won't have been violently removed from any possibility of interest in such matters as the age of this sphere, But the Pope’s invitation does remind us that our earth is very old. One of those asked to attend the conference—Prof. F. A. Peneth of Durham University in England—estimates from his study of meteorites that its age is at least three billion years. It may be less than that, or more. Perhaps no conference of scientists will ever determine that question beyond possibility of doubt or dispute. What is certain is that, since the dawn of human history and probably long before, there have been many times of trouble and fear and distress—times like the present. Tyrants have risen, and fallen. Men have slaughtered each

Humanity has despaired. But the earth has remained. Each winter has been followed by the miracle of Spring. Despair has given way to hope. We can believe that it will be so again. In all our blind ignorance, despite the willingness of mankind to kill and die for causes only dimly understood and too often wrong, we can believe that as our old earth grows older its people will grow wise enough to live on it together and enjoy its blessings in peace and happiness.

THE STATE FAIR NDIANA'S biggest show of the year opens today. It will last eight days. Tt may draw as many as 450,000 persons. Officials say it is the “biggest and best” yet. We believe it. For every year the Indiana State Fair has grown a little bit bigger, a little bit better. It is widely known as one of the best State Fairs in the United States. Exhibitors from all parts of the nation are represented right next door to our own home-grown products. Significant of the size of this great Hoosier spectacle is the fact that there are 4400 exhibits at the Fair Grounds. It is a fine thing that such a fair can be held in an urbanized locality such as ours. It is a healthy thing for city dwellers to get a little closer to the soil, to get back toward the fundamentals of life. Whether or not you've been to either of the great fairs being held in New York and San Francisco, we recommend to you the Indiana State Fair, It's a grand show. And it’s our own.

JAPAN FACES FORWARD JL MPEROR HIROHITO'S selection of the liberal Gen. Nobuyuki Abe to form a new Cabinet, succeeding Premier Baron Hiranuma who resigned following the Moscow. Berlin bombshell, will be warmly welcomed by the real friends of Japan everywhere. One swallow, of course, does not make a summer. Rut it can be a harbinger. Events in Tokyo, therefore, would seem to indicate that at long last the military clique Which has plunged Japan into her present perilous adventure in China and done such injury to her reputation throughout the world for chivalry and culture is losing its hold. If such is indeed the case, the new development will greatly hearten many, particularly in the United States and Great Britain, who have never entirely believed that Japan's unlovely change of front was permanent. Today Japan stands alone. Berlin has deserted her. Communist Russia, her greatest foe, has become a partner of Nazi Germany, leaving Japan's Army, overexpanded in China, precariously exposed to whatever the Red Army might conceivably attempt against her. And now the prestige of the military clique has suffered. Apparently, too, it is to be superseded, or at least somewhat held in check, Baron Hiranuma, a reactionary in league with the “young officer” group, is out and Gen. Abe, who has been in eclipse for the past two years, is returning to power. Tt is far too early, as we said at the start, to say that Japan is about to adopt a more liberal line with regard to China, America or Britain, but there are hopes. For

in that direction lie the best interests of all, Japan included.

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Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

Action of Stage Hands in Taking in ‘Sudeten’' Night Club Group May Lead to 'Anschluss' for Actors.

YORK, Sept. 1.—The terrible war of nerves which has jittered the American amusement business most of this summer has come to another crisis. This struggle sums up as an attempt by George Browne, the president of the Stage Hands’ Union, to Sudetenize the American Federation of Actors, a small border state which has been having trouble with its parent body, the Associated Actors and Artists of America. The situation is very terms it ts a plan pinch off little Sudeten group and, tly, rush in and establish a protectorate over entire territory of the Four A's. The Four A's, who include all the rich stars of screen and radio, do not want to be protected or protectorated, and they, or some of them, may throw themselves into the arms of the C. I. O. in a desperate choice between two forms of ictatorship. 4 Mr. Browne claims that his old charter empowers his union to absorb any person whom it seems desirable. It has an autocratic constitution which permits him to Hitlerize his followers, but it must be said that many of his followers, like many of Der Fuehrer's, point to the benefits which they have received from their dictator and do not bother their heads with democratic yearnings. ® ® ® a long time the moving picture actors belonging to the Four A's have been afraid that Mr. Browne had a secret intention to anschluss them. Farly in 1038 their fears were confirmed when Mr. Browne's executive board claimed the right to govern the performers under the broad provisions of the stage hands’ original charter. That frightened the moving picture stars, who threatened to fight to the death, whereat Mr. Browne said, in effect, that they were a lot of sissies and that he would nob take them as a gift. But vorT enot always believe what a dictator says, and lately Mr. Browne has discovered that the night club talent forming the membership of the little American Federation of Actors are pure stage hands who have been isolated from their comrades all this time. He made this discovery about the time that the Four A's expelled the A. F. A and formed a new unit to embrace the members, following a little d te about bookkeeping. e Four A's, led by the moving picture actors, flew into a patriotic fury and appealed to the American Federation of Labor, which is their League of Nations, té repel this dictator, but the A. F, of L, like the League of Nations, is not very determined in such matters, so it sed a compromise. Meantime, however, Mr. wne had personally issued a charter to the night club people and claimed them for his union.

, but in Its simplest the stage hands to

NY the remaining members of the Four A's are in a panic lest Mr. Browne sweep into their territory and anschiuss them. If he did that he could charge some of the stars as much as $50,000 initiation fee, and a performer earning $200,000 a vear could be taxed $20,000 on the basis that is used in ta movie cameramen. The r A’s have been shouting treason and denouncing Mr. Browne for unprovoked aggression, but he says that under his old charter the formation of the actors’ various unions was an act of aggression against his reich. Therefore, he is just correcting a historical error. The unfortunate actors have one hope. The Department of Justice has lately begun an investigation of Mr. Browne's union, including the career of Mr. Willie Bioff, personal representative of Mr. Browne.

Business

By John T. Flynn Business Taking Calm View of Crisis: War Need Not Be Toe Upsetting.

EW YORK, Sept. 1.—I find among businessmen a growing feeling that war need not be the occasion for panic among people in America so far

as business is concerned. Today I called up men in a number of trade fields. I was surprised at the very tranquil attitude as compared with the far more jittery feeling of official life. The notion that there would be a panicky dumping of European securities has proved unfounded. Euro-

pean nations have learned about the technique of war conditions as well as we have. They will take over all securities and they will be too intell t to destroy the market for their own wares by ing securities indiscriminately on our market. American securities owned in Europe will probably be fed into the market slowly, cautiously, with a view to getting the largest possible return. That is altogether favorable to us. Tt raises the question whether it is necessary to close the Stock Exchange if war is declared. Perhaps it would be well to close it for a day until the shock of the event wears off and men have a moment to adjust . But even that may not be necessary. If, after a few days, the situation gets out of hand then it would be time to close it.

Effect of Neutrality Proclamation

The proclamation of neutrality certainly adversely would affect certain materials for a while. But that is inevitable. On the other hand, while one group of materials may be adversely affected others would enjov a benefit very quickly. The moment would be favorable for American fnterests to extend and consolidate their trade with South America. The German menace which has been the sub of s6 much foolish talk will be pretty effectually removed. It would be foolish to say the war would produce no effect. But it is becoming increasingly clear that the effect need not be very serious at first. And therefore it is increasingly clear that there is no need for panicky, startling, frightening governmental entry into the situation. Whatever is done should be done quietly, calmly and with a view to protecting the public interest and American trade ang not with the view t0 terrifying Americans.

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

O you suppose men Will ever learn? Right now Spain is their object lesson, but theres little evidence to show they will profit from it. Gen. Franco has issued & new proclamation which says that every man from 18 to 50 must give 15 days’ work yearly to pay for war damage. Nice pleasant prospect, isn't it? We should be grateful, ver, for the note of realism introduced into a subject which has heretofore been camouflaged in layers of glamour. There won't be such a thrill when men find themselves faced with the alternative of working for nothing, to pay for their martial

Ready—By Herblock

The Hoosier Forum

{ wholly disagree with what you say, dbut will defend to the death your right to say tt.=Voltaire,

JUVENILE AUXILIARY STAND ON HOME EXPLAINED

By The Board of Directors, Juvenile De. tention Wome Auxiliary Mrs. Walter HW. Geisel, president At a called meeting of the Board of Directors of the Auxiliary to the Juvenile Detention Home with Judge Wilfred Bradshaw and Mrs. Albert Heaven, Acting Superintendent of the Juvenile Home, the following motion was passed: “We, as the Board of a co-operative organization working for betterment of the children in the Juvenile Home, go on record as deploring the misunderstanding created by the ublicity of Aug. 21 concerning the venile Home. We ask that a statement be made correcting the misinterpretation of said report.” In Mrs. Heaven's report that day there were 10 children from the Juvenile Court, nine from the Juvenile Aid Department and seven from the Public Welfare Department, making a total of 26 in all. The present home site now is saving taxpayers $300 rental and $219.25 coal bill, making a total of $519.25 less than the former home, which was located in smaller quarters in which they did not have room for segregation of various types of children, such as the delinquent from the dependent, diseased from the well and the boys from the girls. This information was obtained from records in the Court House. This home has made all these things possible and it also has a fine playground adjoining the home and is centrally located. The environment of this location is very fine as they have an open park in front and a church at the side across the street. ® » » SEES RELIEF CUTS AS HARDSHIP ON CITIES By Relieter Tt is too early to be certain, but it now seems possible that some of the rejoicing at the economy which pared Federal WPA and relief appropriations was premature. Cities, especially, find themselves in a vise as a result. The jaws of the vise are: 1. As thousands are laid off WPA, practically 100 per cent of them in one city had applied for direct relief by Aug. 20. 2. This added relief burden makes it all the harder for such a city to meet the new 25 per cent local contribution required for WPA projects. That means fewer such projects, or higher

around the circle.

(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.)

questioned by the International City Managers’ Association indicated that they had not as yet accepted any former WPA workers on local relief. But certain industrial cities will find themselves between the two jaws of the pincers. Until the relief burden is taken up by private employment, either Federal or municipal govern=ment must bear it.

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DUCE ON GROWING OLD By OlM-Timer Mussolini, it is revealed, now has to wear spectacles when reading or doing other close work. After all, the man is 56 years old, and human, It would be strange indeed if he were not to prove subject to the same ills and aches and pains that are the common lot as old age approaches, And at 856 it begins to approach, Not all the chest-thumping and roaring in the world can keep it back forever. It has been the custom in Ttaly to test the fitness of officials for statecraft and public administration by making them dive over bayonets and carry bicycles up mountains. It will be interesting to note whether these qualifications continue to be the criterion as the Duce verges on toward 60 and stomach ulcers. It would not be surprising if he were to discover virtues in the contem=plative life he never saw before, and to shift the emphasis to mental rather than physical fitness.

THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN COSTS AND PRICES

By Voice in the Crowd

To the gentleman that wonders if the wrong people are in our in=stitutions (of a certain type) I would say that perhaps they are hot through collecting them yet. Be patient — security without liberty awaits those who enter there, I have listened to the orators in Columbus Circle and Union Square, and I note that wherever they are, those who do not like our American economy can twist a sensible statement into a ridiculous one without adding a point or solution of their own. My statement that 84 cents of each dollar went to labor was based on Federal statistics. They must be correct, because about a million politicians are behind them. Now the 16 cents that management gets goes to various divisions of the production and distribution system. It must cover rent, depreciation, interest charges, taxes, insurance, dividends to shareholders and a live ing to those who operate the more than three million business establishments in the nation. One per cent of the people do not get the 16 per cent, and anyone who so states either has a good sense of humor or knows nothing at all about his subject. It is no secret that business has an overhead cost. That overhead cost is lower and under better con= trol in the hands of competitive management than it would be under political control. Even the Socialist party has an overhead cost. There are men at the head of it who live well and travel much, yet they weave not, neither do they spin. Think it over and tell your readers how you would produce and distribute goods without a differential between production costs and consumer prices, and still maintain the cost of government, and feed those who supervise and co-ordi-nate the efforts of others.

New Books at

the Library

HE tragic plight of the Jewish people in Nazi Germany has been the theme of several novels;

the newest of these, centering around the love of a Jewish youth for an “Aryan” girl, is “Chosen

costs, to cities, which in tum have less money for relief, and so on|

Of course it is not that bad In| every case. In fact, four of 10 cities! “der Fuehrer” would persecute Jews

Side Glances—By Galbraith

Races” (Sheed) by Margaret Sothern. Frida Enden, schoolteacher and daughter of a poor middle-class family, ¢culd not at first believe that

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merely because they were Jews; surely, she reasoned, they had been guilty of some c¢rime against the government. In the early months of Hitler's rule, the Endens, like others in the little Bavarian town, accepted with out question the not always conven= jent changes and innovations of the new party. Until she fell in love with Alfred Rosenthal, brilliant young scientist who had been deprived of his professorship at a great university, Frida had no realization of the indignities, the cruel and inhuman treatment to which the despised “not chosen” were helpless victims. Marriage between Jew and Gene tile was impossible in Germany; the Jew who dared love one of “pure” race was guilty of a heinous erime. Outside Germany Frida and Alfred could marry; unfortunately, escape from the menacing swastika was to be heartbreakingly difficult. Eventually Frida was to reach Scotland to await the coming of a child while Alfred remained in Germany in the |shadow of imprisonment and tors ture, Contrasting with the hopelessness of their love story is that of Frida’s young sister, Lizolette, a medical student, and Prof. Pernicker, Alfred’s former instructor, who risks his own security in an attempt to aid his friends.

DAILY THOUGHT

Ye see then how that by works 2 man is justified, and not by only.«James 2:24,

flower is before the fruit,

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Gen. Johnson Says —

Often Critical of Louis Johnson,

Me Now Praises Him for Swell Job .

In Preparing U. S. for Possible War.

ABHINGTON, Sept. 1.~This Administration has handled its job of preparation for a possible war In Europe in masterly style. It seems to have moved on every front shown by the World War to be dangerous. Its financial management to protect our markets against crash liquidation seem to have worked. This has averted a possible catastrophe.

Standing with a large surplus of cotton and food,

most of the world’s gold, and a tremendous unused capacity for production it is overwhelmingly strong on all fronts but two—it has a grossly exaggerated debt and its actual armament, except at sea, is very lame, industry and manpower are complete on paper and

1t is moving rapidly to be ready to execute them.

However, its plans for mobilization of both *

This column has frequently criticized action by

Assistant Secretary of War Louis Johnson, whose re

sponsibility this plan is, but it would be less than fair not to say that his work here comes close tO °

perfection. ” s os Tie War Department wrote its first plan for ine dustrial mobilization many years ago. There have been frequent revisions, Prior to the present edition, some of them were fantastical amateur ate

tempts to ditch principles proved in the World War

and to “invent” a full fledged masterpiece along new

lines, some of them unproved and others proved to |

be wrong. For 20 years, the veterans of our 1918 effort, led by B. M. Baruch, who made a success of that ine

dustrial mobilization, have tried unceasingly to have

a plan prepared which did not attempt to revolu= tionize the capitalist and profits system or put it under inexperienced and inept military management, They have insisted that a few very simple controls were sufficient and that exisiting agencies, especially since the vast expansion of Federal power, could be used without any duplication and with very little addition, Sometimes these ideas were understood and ace cepted, but frequently they were not. They have been admirably adapted to the existing situation in the current edition of the industrial mobilization

plan. In this, the Army General Staff and Industrial |

College and their naval equivalents, supplied the dee tails but its preparation and policy is the statutory duty and sole responsibility of the Assistant Secree tary of War, ” ” o E, like sub-Cabinet members Hanes of the Treas. ury and Welles of the State Department deserve thanks for getting this country ready to stand the backwash of possible war in Europe. I have seen the latest mobilization plan. Its dee

tails are naturally confidential, but it betrays no cone .

fidence to say that in both form and detail it is one of the best and most compact and complete documents of its kind that I have ever read. ~ This may all seem academic and unimportant today. Let us pray that it may so turn out. But if a new World War should come to us, our industrial mobilization could become the most important ine fluence on our daily living, It might eventually result in dictatorial control of how every factory, mine, farm and transportation system shall run, who shall march

with the colors, who shall work at home and where, °’

what we all should have to eat, wear or use of almost every commodity of commerce, how much we shall pay for them and, indirectly, how much money we shall have with which to pay it. It could be just about

as important as the Constitution and laws of the ;

United States.

U. S. Roundup

By Bruce Catton

Country May Look to Washington To Point the Way in Event of War,

Because of the Furopean orisis, Bruce Catton is tempos rarily interrupting his tour and has returned to Washington.

V ASHINGTON, Sept. 1.—If war comes to Europe and a special session of Congress is called, Washington can exert leadership on the American people to point the way it wants them to go. Public opinion has not yet crystallized in thig country. It is definitely and overwhelmingly against Hitler, and it has a fatalistic hunch that some tree mendous catastrophe is on the way. But, if the conversations I have had represent any sort of sample of public opinion generally, then the great struggle which was left unfinished at the last session of Congress——the struggle between the Admins istration, with fits heip-the-democracies-hy-stepse short-of-war program, and the isolationists-still ree mains to be fought out. The people have not yet lined up solidly behind either group. Which, of course, means that a session of Cone gress called to consider how this country should bee have in the face of a general war in Europe would nod be an instrument to register a back-home opinion ale ready formed, but would be a body whose primary task was to help the country make up its mind. If that is true, then the Administration would entes

such a session with one big asset and one big liability, s

Roosevelt's Prediction Confirmed

On the one hand, it has been established that the + President knew pretty much what he was talking ©

about when he said that dire things were about to happen in Europe.

Such an isolationist as Senator Borah, who sald + that his sources of information were as good as the

State Department's and that they did not reveal =

much danger of war, would be left looking somewhat peculiar, On the other hand, the isolationists would have & powerful new argument. The Administration based much of its case for relaxation of the neutrality laws oh the plea that such action would reduce the danger of a general war by serving advance warning that American supplies and munitions would be available to the democracies if trouble did start,

With a war already under way, the isolationists ©

could point out that the argument no longer is valid, and could concentrate on the charge that to lend such aid now would only increase the chance that the

United States might get involved in the war itself,

Watching Your Health

By Jane Stafford :

EALTH and medical authorities all urge us to get some outdoor exercise every day as part of the job of keeping in good health. One of the things exercise does for you is to increase the circulation of the blood. Since the blood carries nourishment to all tissues of the body and takes away waste from them, you can see the advantage of helping it to circulate. Besides the health benefit from this, there is benefit to one’s appearance from what has been aptly described as the glow of health. Exercise helps strengthen muscles, as you know, Every movement we make causes the destruction of certain body cells. All such normal waste of tissue is replaced, usually with a little more than was destroyed. This replacement process is speeded up by exercise, That is why runners’ legs, for example, are $0 well developed. There are other muscles in the body besides the ones in arms and legs, however, One of the most important of your muscles is your heart muscle. If you let this muscle get flabby through soft living and lack of exercise, the resuls

’ a ogg however, may be Sungerovh

because it may result in a greater destruction tissues than the body can replace. People cannot

v all stand the same amount of exercise, so it is wise,

pefore undertaking an exercise and sports program, to have a physician examine you and tell you just what you can and cannot do.

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00 close to meal time. The U. S. Public you should wait at least three