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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1939

GET OUR FOLKS HOME UT for the grace of God and a rescue fleet another Lusitania incident might already be upon us. It is from such incidents that war fever starts, reason is abandoned and the urge for peace smothered by the urge to fight. The Athenia sinking was a close call. The lesson is clear. The greatest immediate contribution our nation can make toward “keeping out of it” is to assign all possible American ships to the task of getting our citizens away from Europe and to work to the same end with the shipping officials of all neutral nations, Until our people are home and, under the Neutrality Act, barred from the dangers of travel on belligerent ships, we will be vulnerable to the same kind of emotional flare-up that took us in before.

HOGS “POSSIBILITIES of war profits sent hog prices soaring in American livestock markets, the only markets open in America on Labor Day. Hogs jumped 50 cents per hundred.”—United Press dispatch. So, while some men died, others with an eye for the main chance begin to realize on the possibilities of war profits. It’s an old story. We are glad President Roosevelt already has ordered the Justice Department to study means of tightening laws to regulate wartime profiteering. The prospect of stringent Government regulation of prices is not pleasant. But far less pleasant is the prospect of speculators running up the prices of food and other necessities and thus doing grave damage to America’s internal economy. There will be stringent price-regulation by the Government, we believe, unless greedy humans curb their appetite for the dollars that may be made out: of catastrophe.

THE TREASURY'S BIRTHDAY NE HUNDRED AND FIFTY years ago this week the first session of Congress, setting up the machinery of government under the new Constitution, passed an act beginning— “There shall be a Department of the Treasury.” It wasn’t much of a department, as we think of such things now. The act authorized six officials: A Secretary of the Treasury to be appointed by President George Washington (that job went to young Alexander Hamilton); a comptroller, an auditor, a treasurer, a register and an assistant to the Secretary. They did their work in a house in Philadelphia, the temporary capital. Not until 10 years later, after the Government had moved to the new City of Washington, was there a Treasury Building, and it was only a small wooden structure. There was space, however, to handle the financial affairs of a nation whose receipts and expenditures averaged less than $6,000,000 a year. Six million dollars—that’s about two million less than the cost of the present Treasury Building in Washington. It covers nearly five acres, and even so is not large enough to accommodate all of the department’s activities in the capital. The Treasury had, at latest count, 5795 officials and employees, scattered all over the country. But the Treasury needs lots of room and plenty of

help. Just look at a few of the things it has to take care of:

»% Receipts coming in, more than $12,000,000 a day. Ex-

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‘world’s biggest stock of gold, valued at more than $16,200,000,000. And a national debt of nearly $41,000,000,000. We're pretty well used to such figures nowadays. But wouldn't they have amazed the Congressmen who passed that law to create the Treasury Department on Sept. 2, 1789?

JOBS FOR WPA WORKERS ROM Washington headquarters of the WPA the following order has been sent to administrators in every state: “In all instances where there are certified project employees or certified persons awaiting assignment who possess the required skill, training experience and ability to fill supervisory and administrative positions, such persons shall be given preference in employment in such positions.” That means, simply, that so far as possible all foremen, time-keepers, supervisors and other salaried employees in the WPA program must be chosen from the ranks of the relief workers. The order is so sensible and right that it’s a little surprising to find it only now being issued. As a matter of fact, the WPA estimates that about half of all its supervisory employees have risen from the reliefers’ ranks. We hope this order will be carried out to the letter, giving more good jobs to the people who most need them and leaving fewer opportunities for politicians to place their pets. Which leads to a related subject, the 1940 census, on which the Government will spend about $53,000,000. Democratic politicians all over the country have been looking forward to the census as a great chance to provide jobs for themselves and their henchmen. Sbme 560 district supervisors and 130,000 enumerators will be hired. The Republicans, when in national power, have used the census as a patronage machine. The Democrats, naturally, would like to do the same, especially in a Presidential election year. But the spirit, if not the letter, of the new Hatch Act

seems to us to be clearly against politics in the census | organization. The census millions ought to be kept out of |

political hands. And who needs that money more than the people on relief? There must be plenty of men and women on the WPA and relief rolls in every state who are competent to serve as enumerators. We'd like to see the census jobs apportioned out among these men and women. They will be only temporary jobs, to be sure, but while they last the pressure on the present limited Federal relief appropriation would be eased. Humanity and common sense dictate that such Government jobs as these should be given to the deserving needy, not to the politicians, - 3 J

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Fair Enough

By Westbrook Pegler

Now That Nazis Have Honored Red Delegation in Berlin, Will Bund and

Communists in U. S. Get Together?

EW YORK, Sept. 5—If the Communists are left on a spot as a result of the formal renunciation of the mock-feud between Stalin and Hitler, what can be the outlook for the Nazis and Fascists in the United States? It is difficult to deal with or even to discuss these people as a group because, unlike the Communists, they formed no definite group. There is, or was, a Communist Party, but the Nazis and

Fascists, had no central body. The anti-American Bund, which has goose-stepped under the Swastika in the East, has pretended to be a patriotic American group, and, formally, at least, has disclaimed any connection with Germany, although, of course, the pretense deceived nobody, least of all those citizens of German origin or blood who detest Fritz Kuhn, This is the real Nazi organization, and it has been denounced as such and fought as an anti-American outfit by German-Americans who resented the slightest foreign interference with their conduct as Americans. ” ” ”

EVERTHELESS, the Nazis have claimed to be Americans, whereas the Communists have admitted their relationship to Moscow. That was a surface difference only. For the Nazis at home ‘have repeatedly proclaimed their policy of spreading worldGermanism through organized groups of traitors in other lands. Still, the Nazis had a slight advantage because in approaching Americans they could deny their allegiance to Hitler while pointing to the undenied fact that the Communists acknowledged a foreign despot. The real Nazis here, like the Communists have had their native-born fellow-travelers, some of whom, it may be allowed, honestly thought they were collaborating in a fight on bolshevism. Some of our liberals found the same justification for co-operating with the Communists against naziism. But how can the Nazis now hold their nativeAmerican following, when the Nazis in Germany salute delegations of Bolshevik officials and escort them through the streets with honor and with the Swastika and hammer and sickle flapping side by side? If naziism finds communism congenial in Berlin are they not then congenial everywhere, and doesn’t that mean that both are anti-American, assuming communism is? ” ” ” F Moscow communism was Jewish bolshevism only a few weeks ago, it cannot have changed so abruptly, and if it still is Jewish bolshevism then the ceremonies in Moscow and Berlin plainly proclaim that Hitler himself finds it admirable. In his three invasions to date, against Austria, Czechoslovakia and now Poland, Hitler has not yet attacked the independence of a single Jewish aor Communistic country. All three were Christian, predominantly Catholic. That must make it rather difficult for a silver shirt to single out communism as the enemy of Christianity and still adhere to naziism as a defender of the cross. Equally difficult, it would seem, is the position of Fuehrer Kuhn now. For if Ribbentrop and the military dignitaries who wear the Swastika may exchange courtesies with a red flag delegation in Berlin and provide them with a guard of honor, it were presumptuous of Herr Kuhn to refuse equal courtesy to Mr. Earl Browder. A formal call on Mr. Browder at his quarters would be merely an observance of the new lines of both groups and Mr. Browder would be quite in order in a return visit to the headquarters of the anti-American Bund.

Business By John T. Flynn

War a Fact, Debate Over F. D. R.'s

Plea for Discretion, Now Futile.

EW YORK, Sept. 5—Up to now, the President has asked wide powers and the chance to use them vigorously in order to enable him to prevent a war in Europe. The reasoning back of this was that if war comes in Europe, America is sure to become entangled. The best way to keep America out was to put the strength of America on the side of those who wished to keep the peace in Europe. The argument was that if Germany and Italy could be convinced that they would have to reckon with America’s might and resources they would hesitate to go to war. There were many good men and women who believed this. But, whether this was good or bad reasoning, the war in Europe has come. Those who believed this argument may argue that had they had their way the war could have been prevented. This is one of these questions which can never be settled. The President has said that the Senators who refused to give him a free hand must take the blame for the European war. Of course few people in America will believe this. The war has come because it is a part of the plan which Hitler has had and preached ever since he has been in power. But the war is here. It is no longer possible to argue that we can prevent war by giving discretion to the President. The war is here and the question is— should we get into it or not?

Neutrality Policy Outlined

We should not drift into it. drawn into it. We know now just what is going to happen. Germany is going to bomb civilians in cities. All sorts of terrors are going to be unloosed on Europe. We have in our hands enough facts now to make up our minds what we want to do. If we want to go in we should go in at once with all our strength and end the war as quickly as pos= sible. But every man in power and out of power knows that the overwhelming majority of Americans, while sympathizing with Fngland, France and Poland, are strongly and profoundly opposed to getting into the war. If that is our verdict, then what should we do to stay out? Our official government should remain neutral and quit being the ally secretly of one of the parties to the fight. And whatever we do about a Neutrality Law, three things are essential—first, that no loans or credits be granted to nations at war. Second, that no goods for warlike nations be shipped on American ships, and third, that American passengers keep off the ships of belligerent powers.

We should not be

A Woman's Viewpoint

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

AM told by a teacher friend that children now have such bad manners that educational institutions are taking over the job of improving them. Etiquet classes will be held this winter in scores of important high schools. Leaving out the matter of parental failure, the scheme ought to have a general O. K.—with reservations, of course. Perhaps we'll be putting the cart before the horse again, an error which almost amounts to an affliction with Americans. Teaching fine manners to children won't get us far unless we first teach them good morals, although it may be that one will incite a desire for the other. We have many false notions about manners. The

ultra-courteous hand-kissing days, when every gallant behaved like a Jack-in-the-Box, might also be called the Era of Conceits and Decelts. Behind many of the grand gestures bad taste and evil designs were concealed. Abraham Lincoln was a great gentleman, although I dare say his manners may have been gauche. On the other hand, Machiavelli was a scoundrel, but noted throughout the fashionable world for his airs and graces. The former had what every man must possess in order to qualify as a gentleman—a high sense of moral ethics. The latter was wholly unmoral, even though his manners were impeccable. A revival of good manners would be most welcome. Some of today’s youngsters behave as if they had been reared in a brothel, for which, mind you, we do not blame them but only wonder what their parents can have been doing while they were growing up. Perhaps the schools can bring about marked ime

provement. But I hope we shall not fall into the mistaken notion that fine manners can make a fine man,

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

WANTS F. D. R. TO CHANGE MUMBLETY-PEG RULES By C. L. A. Who can say our illustrious President is not continually on the job and carefully looking after the interests of the people. Only recently after much grave thought and arduous labor he discovered that we were celebrating the wrong day for Thanksgiving and corrected it, too! It's to be hoped after a while he can find time and apply his best efforts to that herculean task of moderniz-

ing the rules of that grand old game of mumblety-peg. ” ” ” SEES FOOL'S FOLLY OF 1914 REPEATED By F. X. A. Again drums are peating, men are marching, bombs are falling, shells are bursting; maimed and dying soldiers lie among the dead. “ ‘It's Started,” Daladier Says.” “Danzig Taken Into Reich.” “Council of War Meets in Britain.” Before this letter can get into print those headlines will be forgotten, giving way to other headlines which will tell of newer and greater horrors. : For that is war! We who are old enough to have lived through the last one and who got a thrill, God pity us, when our boys, so spick and span, went marching down our streets—we know now what to expect. The days of our youth are gone. In the ripeness of our years we can close our eyes and ‘envision the scenes in our army hospitals today, where the lame and the blind sit through their weary days: where the insane are tortured with the haunting dreams of battlefields. They are exhibits from the last war, their youth wrecked, their bodies or minds no longer useful in the world which they went forth so | bravely to “save for democracy.” We could not believe that in the short years allotted to us we would see a repetition of that fool's folly | which began in 1914. But here it is| again, hideous as ever—except for | the fact that we are not in it—yet. We were not in the last one at the beginning. We re-elected Woodrow Wilson because — remember that campaign slogan: “He kept us out of war!” In reviving that phrase I have no disposition to speak unkindly of the

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late Mr. Wilson. But it is well for us to remember, to the end that we may watch our step this time. And keep out—if we can. Meanwhile, let us hope that every sane force on earth will join in one gigantic movement to bring the world’s leaders to a conference table. Silly as it may sound to suggest that there is yet chance of appeasement, certainly civilization no longer is worthy of its name, if it does not make the effort.

” ” » COMMENDS EDITORIAL, ‘BRING HAM HOME’ By A. R. L. Your editorial “Bring Ham Home” is about the best article I've read in some time. I've been waiting for someone to voice my feelings concerning him. Maybe it would be a good idea to give the guy a thorough physical examination, especially around

the cranium. After all, none of us

war vets are in as good a physical condition as we were in 1917. should be no surprise if a few of the

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bunch have gone “nuts.” I've been thinking for some time that he is a member of the Reichstag instead of the House of Representatives.

» ” ” SEES BRITAIN CORNERED IN POLISH DISPUTE By M. G. L.

According to the general rule once we say “A” it's pretty hard to get out of saying “B,” and as war in Europe today raises the question: “After the Polish collapse, what?” Mr. Chamberlain has no alternative. For it stands to reason that Poland cannot hold out against Germany any longer than France did in 1870-71, if it can hold out that long? Therefore, if reason prevails, England and France will not run the risk of another four-year stalemate on the western front and thus play the cards into the hands of Japan.

” 8 ” HE WONDERS WHO ARE COMMUNISTS NOW By Reader . I notice by the newspapers that Russia joined the “anti-Communist

bloc,” now composed of Germany, Italy and Japan. Now who are the Communists?

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- N 1609 a little Dutch yacht sailed into the mouth of a big stream, and then it was that Henry Hudson

first saw the river which was to be named after him. In the 330 years which have elapsed since then, that river has played its part in the growth of a great nation and has itself been the scene of a lusty and turbulent life,

Carl Carmer, in writing “The Hudson” (Farrar) fits the history of one region into the history of the whole nation. He depicts the long, intermittent struggle of the landless tenants to throw off the burden of rents which they had to pay to the owners of the thousands of acres along the shores of the river. Through the story of this region we see the Revolution and the part which these people, many of them

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the picturesque and an appreciation of contrasts, so that his readers enjoy many illuminating pictures of some of these hearty, independent colonists who quarreled so vigorously both with one another and with the law. The story of “Fulton’s Folly” is here, and of the oratorical and pyrotechnical opening of the Erie Canal. And, on the more “refined” side of the record, we have the picture of Andrew Jackson Downing, a 19th century “Hudson River esthete” and a disciple of the “picturesque” in art, who became the authority on landscape gardening and architecture. *Mr. Carmer’s evident pleasure in the Hudson River region, the gusto with which he resurrects its past, and the hope with which he looks forward to a renewal of the beauty which has been marred by the heedless ravages of human beings, are all transmitted to his readers. With this volume the Hudson takes its place by the side of those other proud rivers—the Mississippi, the Kennebec, the Suwannee, the James, and the Powder River—which have already been celebrated in the Rivers of America series.

—————————————————————————— SWEET COMMUNION By MAIDA LEAH STECKELMAN Swiftly as the arrow, as the homing meadow lark, My thoughts turn running to you, through the tender, fragrant dark. A quiet peace assails me, bringing courage for the morrow. Bears me up with tranquil gladness, like your kiss erases sorrow. Mystic potion this, to poet lovers known, Brewed with efflorescence, from the beauty they have sown. Etheric bit of heaven, From the star-paths strewn above, This pure ungarnished faith, and this true enduring love!

DAILY THOUGHT

If there be a controversy between men, and they come unto judgment, that the judges may Judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked.—Deuteronomy 25:1.

OW little do they see what really is, who frame their

hasty judgment upon that which seems.—Southey ’

TUESDAY, SEPT. 5, 1939 '

Gen. Johnson Says —

Now Is the Time for U. S. to Close Ranks, Speed Our Defenses and Do Everything Possible to Avoid. War.

ASHINGTON, Sept. 5~The fat is in the fire, There is nothing we can do about Europe. The

| time has come to think much more intently about

ourselves—much more clearly and with less emotion —hard as that may be. Two things are very apparent. We must be strong. We must be united. Our armament is not proceeding fast enough. There are other fences to mend at home. '

Sunday a remarkable analysis of the railroad situation appeared in the Railway Age. It showed that we are very poorly equipped for the war load of transportation—whether we get into war ourselves or not. The new War Resources-Board is sure to ‘find many other places where action must be speeded beyond any pace yet considered. It will do that. We should be thankful that we shall be so much better prepared and better informed than we were in.1914,. If we keep our heads and go to work, we can be= come the dominant voice for decency in the world.

Nineteen-eighteen showed that this nation armed, organized and mobilized for war can be the most terrible engine for defense or destruction that this world has ever seen. ” @ E must be united. That doesn’t mean that the holding or expression of independent opinion is adjourned in this country. It does mean that we must lean over backward to support the foreign pole icies of our Government. I believe that will be loy~1lv done as long as these policies do not point to taking any active part on either side. :

But there are two sides to co-operalion. No unit can be possible in partisan political obstruction of th. President's foreign policies—not because they are wrong but because they are his. Neither can there be any unity if every time a contrary position is in good conscience and duty taken, the man who takes it is accused of sabotage almost treasonable.

Another thing. This can’t be any janissariat or Fourth New Deal preparation for defense. There are good strong men among that crew—though not enough for these needs. But there are good strong men else= where—among “conservative” Democrats and among Republicans. This country is going to need the united * support of all them—the very best that they have to give. If men are going to be denied the privilege of serving their country because they are down .in the Fourth New Deal black books, the country may: lack the best service, :

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| this crisis the President can demand and receive as intense a loyalty from any other good American as from any Fourth New Deal American. Our unity in this situation is as clearly up to the Presie dent as to any of his opponents. Indeed, such dis unity as has existed can be blamed on both sides in undetermined measure. That ought to be regarded as water over the dam. It is time for a fresh start. Finally, this situation needs an armistic between the two branches of organized labor and a truce in the feud between Government and business. We can't get ready without the utmost of co-operation and united effort among government, business and labor. I realize that all this sounds pretty pollyanna, but I have twice seen, at first hand, the kind of co-opera-tion this country can give a President in times of great danger... Mr. Roosevelt can get it in full measure now—with one exception, He can't lead us into

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U. S. Roundup

By Bruce Catton

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Capital Normal Despite War, but Soon Will Be Hotbed of Activity.

ASHINGTON, Sept. 5.—Although official Wash= ington is keyed up to the hazards of war, the machinery of government has been revolving on just about its usual midsummer basis. Few vacations have been cut short or cancelled; little or no midnight oil has been burned. Now, however, developments promise that the capital soon will be a hotbed of activity. The State Department, of course, is kept very busy. Secretary Hull is on the job, with all of his assistants and division heads. The department re= mains in close touch with the White House, and the job of keeping the government informed about de= velopments overseas is carried through on a none stop basis. In the Department of Agriculture, the Commode ities Exchange Administration has had to do some

extra work to be ready for the conflict. It drew up plans for controlling the commodity markets, keeping speculation within bounds, preventing sudden prica fluctuations, and believes it will be able to ‘stabilize the farm market pretty well.

Money Movements Watched

In the Treasury—whose Secretary Morgenthau was in Europe when the fuss began—a close eye is being kept on things, particularly on currency fluctuations (which gets the Stabilization Fund people up pretty early in the morning). : ! The Secret Service has a pretty fair line on the various foreign agents it will have to watch. Same goes for the FBI, over in the Department of Justice. War and Navy Departments are watching things

closely, nut aren't being much: incommoded. They'va been pretty busy all year anyhow, and the war brought little if any change. : The Commerce Department will be extremely busy. It has compiled a good deal of trade and financial data for F.D.R., but took it all in its stride, Besides those on the Dies committee, only 10 repe resentatives remain in Washington. Eight Senators are in the city. Among them are Senator Frederick VanNuys, Ine diana Democrat and impresario of the Paul McNutt« for-President boom

Watching Your Health

By Jane Stafford

HE building materials required in the construction of the body are proteins, minerals and water. construction material, remember that water occurring in every living cell makes up two two-thirds of the weight of the body. Many kinds of proteins are found in foods. Some of these, such as the proteins in peas, beans and nuts, for example, may be more economical than some others. But for bedy-building, especially in the growing child, the proteins, found in milk, cheese, eggs and meat are the most valuable, Rowena Schmidt Carpenter and Helen Nebeker Hann, of the U. S, Bureau of Home Economics, point out. : Minerals are used in the structure of all body fluids and tissues. Calcium, iron and phosphorous are not abundant in all foods, so in planning a child's diet, particularly, one must keep these in mind. Milk is the best source of calcium and phosphorous. Best food sources of iron are egg-yolk; green vegetables, especially the thin green leaves; dried fruits, especially apricots, peaches, prunes and raisins; some whole grain cereals; and lean meat. While all foods supply some energy, the most con=- ° centrated sources are fats, sugars and starches. Besides supplying building materials for new tissues and energy for the day's activities, food plays a part in regulating the body and keeping it in good running order. Water, minerals and vitamins are important regulating substances in the “diet. The water dissolves food, carries it in the blood stream to be absorbed by cells and is necessary for elimination of waste. It is also essential in the regulation of breathing by keeping the air passages moist, and in the control of body temperature through perspiration. Some of the minerals help in digestion and absorption of food and keep the muscles in good tone. Vitamins stimulate growth and appetite and kelp to prevent diseases like rickets, pellagra and scurvy, -

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