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Fw TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1939

“ORDINARY MAN” INTELLIGENCE “THE wise man profits by the experience of others and doesn’t repeat their blunders. “The ordinary man repeats the blunders of others, but profits by his own experience and refrains from repeating his own blunders. ~ “The fool profits by no experience, but repeats his own blunders as well as the blunders of others.” For this bit of philosophy we are indebted to former Senator Gore of Oklahoma. We think we detect in our country’s attitude toward the present European war a rise of “ordinary man” intelligence—a determination not to repeat our own blunders. One example is the policy of Americans traveling on belligerent vessels, a policy concerning which, incidentally, Senator Gore had what were considered very radichl ideas some 23 years ago. In 1916, about a year before we entered the other war, the Gore-McLemore resolution—denying passports to the Americans taking passage on armed vessels of belligerent powers—was bitterly debated in Congress and throughout the country. President Wilson, declaring that *to forbid our people to exercise their rights for fear we might be called upon to vindicate them would be a deep humiliation indeed,” demanded that the resolution be voted | down immediately. That was done. Patriots and the press applauded. The Kaiser couldn't bluff us.

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Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

Col. Fleming, New Administrator Of Wage-Hour Law, Ruled Army Athletics During Break With Navy.

EW YORK, Sept. 26.—Col. Phil Fleming of the Army Corps of Engineers has been appointed Administrator of the Wages and Hours Law in place of Elmer F. Andrews. That would be the same Col. Fleming, a small decorous soldier, who, in his term as athletic officer at West Point raised so much money that they had to get him out of there lest the military academy one day come up with all of it. A major then, Col. Fleming took over just as the era of wonderful nonsense was dawning on a happy land, to serve through the fabulous days of the Notre Dame rivalry and the politico-sporting feud with the Naval Academy. He is the man who beat the Naval Academy in the tremendous triviality which rattled both services from the Hudson and the Severn to the China station, was a short-ender going into the fight, and won off by himself. The Naval Academy, so close to Washington, had an advandage in the important matter of political contacts, and the Army, moreover, was still suffering somewhat from its reputation for snobbish and stiff-necked aloofness.

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EVERTHELESS, in an exchange of diplomatic notes with the naval offices, Maj. Fleming fixed the Navy into a position from which, in the end, the Naval Academy chose to escape at a sacrifice of honor. The feud was a tiny version of those vast and tragic spats in which nations of red and brown ants come to carnage over the pathway between two blades of grass, arising from the fact that the Army had beaten the Navy in football with a consistency that was disheartening to hoth schools. The Navy had adopted a rule limiting the varsity service of midshipmen to three years, including any prior service which they might have had in civilian schools. The Army allowed cadets three full years of varsity play regardless of previous experience. The Navy even benched some good players who had used up their allotted time, and in this uneven condition and in violation of their treaty demanded that the Army adopt the same restrictions. » = ” AJ. FLEMING refused, and after much diplomatic correspondence and political interference the Naval Academy refused to keep its contract. Having come to such a point, it was well that they did break off, for joint boards of Army and

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Well, today, the State Department is denying passports to all Americans who can't show compelling reasons for! going to Europe, and the Gallup Poll reports that 82 per | cent of the American people favor a strict law forbidding our citizens to travel on belligerent vessels, armed or un- | armed. That's one proposal in the new Neutrality Bill to | which no one objects. Again, in the last war many American industries made large profits. But later, high taxes and collapse wiped out | those profits. Today's strongest pressure for keeping out | comes from leaders in those same industries. For instance, | E. T. Weir, the steel magnate, admits that the European conflict has been “tremendously stimulating” to the steel business, but says it is “not a healthy condition. War never produces anything healthy.” | Perhaps the outstanding example of “ordinary man” | intelligence is being displayed by the American Legionnaires | now meeting at Chicago. Many of the men at that conven- | tion were “over there” in 1918 and have sons of an age ripe to go now. But all reports from Chicago tell of the complete unanimity of sentiment—it is not our war.

WHY TAXES REMAIN HIGH

AX bodies are diligently studying ways and means of | trimming a few cents off the various budgets sub- | mitted in Marion County. As a result of their efforts, economies have been achieved. tainly have no quarrel. But it has long seemed to us that the upward trend | in taxes will not be halted until sweeping. changes are | made in the organization of our major governmental units, | until duplicate functions and duplicate offices are eliminated, | and until the waste and inefficiency of overlapping gov- | ernmental units are shaken out of our present system. Then, and then only, will we begin getting a dollar's worth of return out of every tax dollar paid into the | treasurer's till. | The mere pruning of budgets, without disturbing the | inefficient forms of our city and county governmental | organizations, is a little like treating a corn without doing | anything about the wrong kind of shoes that cause the corn.

some reductions and With that result we cer-

WHAT ABOUT THAT $500,000? EVENTEEN days ago President Roosevelt proclaimed | a “limited national emergency,” and authorized the State Department to use $500,000 to bring Americans home from the war zone. Yet a dispatch from France today by Lee G. Miller, Scripps-Howard correspondent, carries the surprising news that at the American Embassy and consular offices in France “regulations prevent loans for passage even to obviously reliable persons.” Meanwhile, Mr. Miller reports, our Embassy in Paris is “issuing doles to keep destitute Americans housed and fed.” That, of course, the Embassy should do. But the particular £500,000 was earmarked for getting Americans home and away from dangers that might involve | the United States in Europe's troubles. It can hardly be said that the money is being used for that purpose so long |

as Americans, with perfectly good bank accounts and credit | ratings at home, are stranded in Europe and because of | By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

diplomatic service red tape are unable to cash checks or borrow money to obtain passage home. These are not mendicants. They are responsible Amerjean citizens in trouble. The U. S. shipping lines, it seems, demand that the passage be paid for in dollars. But because of the breakdown in exchange facilities, the stranded | citizens can’t change the francs they own into dollars, and because of the failure of the communications system they can’t obtain money cabled from home.

service from their Government, even though that serviee

would not cost the Government any money in the long run.

This situation calls for investigation by the Congress |

which appropriated the $500,000 and by the President who directed that it be used to help Americans return home.

ATROCITY SR JOHN SQUIRE, English author and editor, writes to the London Times suggesting this song for the new war: “What's the use of Goering? He never was worth while. So pack up your Goebbels in your old kitbag and Heil! Heil! Heil!” They say we Americans don’t appreciate the British gense of humor, but if puns will win the war we'll have to admit that Sir John has done his bit,

| finding themselves too angrily at odds to co-operate |

| Congress in special session to consider one of the

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fully in the national defense. Public sympathy fa- | vored the Naval Academy. Nevertheless, Maj. Fleming stood his position, and, | like Chamberlain in his more recent repartee with Hitler, pointed to the text of the treaty and the Navy's previous indorsement of the terms. | The Army-Navy series was suspended until the year of the panic, when President Hoover, by a firm |

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the schools to play a game in the Yankee Stadium for the benefit of the Salvation Army. Col. Fleming not only endeared West Point to the public by destroying the Tibetan seclusion of the academy and taking the corps on tour to dress the football shows, but on his departure left many paid- | up improvements as monuments to his service and a great bulge of money in the athletic and charity funds of his alma mater. I think I will put him in the Cabinet,

HOLDS IT'S ‘FATAL’ TO REMOVE EMBARGO By J. E. N. | Just a word of appreciation to you for your patriotic stand in favor of strict neutrality. Let us keep the neutrality law as is. It would be fatal to “remove the embargo.”

FF 4 & TERMS SHAUGHNESSY

Business By John T. Flynn Fe A LAUGH

F. D. R.'s Attitude on Eve of Session | If further evidence were needed ow he that these Shaughnessy playoffs in Criticiged for Flavor of Politics.

the minor leagues are the bunk the outcome in the American AssoASHINGTON, Sept. 26.—Washington on the eve of the special session of Congress presented

a very curious spectacle. The President had called

Louisville, which barely scraped through to finish in the first diviston, beat third-place Indianapolis in the playoffs and now will play gravest questions that can possibly confront a deliber- third-place Rochester in the “Little ative body. The question to be considered was action | World Series.” on the arms embargo in the Neutrality Law. _Belittling World Series” The President had been considering his plans and a br ume Top it. > : . . The whole thing is a laugh. had announced that he would address Congress and

that his speech would not be more than 1500 words long. Beyond a doubt he had completed his proposals and had called a meeting of certain Congressional leaders, including the Republican candidates in the last election, to confer with him, Yet I could not find a single Senator—Democratic or Republican—who had the slightest idea what the President's proposal to Congress would be. It was generally understood that an effort would be made to rush the legislation through—to employ a sort of legislative Blitzkreig or lightning thrust. And every effort was made to keep all of the Senators and Representatives who would be called on to de-

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{ » n » WANTS U. §. KEPT OUT OF ENTANGLEMENTS By F. T. Aaag

Quite by accident discovered in the latter part of the | 15th century. From that time on America has become a haven for the persecuted people of Europe who settled here. Most people call this nation the melting pot of the world. It goes farther than that— all nationalities have been fused together to form the nucleus of a {great nation with but one thought

everything. A Slap at Borah {and desire—peace and happiness. | These two ends have been ac-

\ In other words this important subject was being | complished since the Civil War. treated as if it were some ordinary incident of po-| Almost from the beginning the litical strategy. The President asked everybody to people of Europe have been at odds put aside politics. Yet all the machinery and tech- with each other. bickering for nique of politics were emploved—complete secrecy power and fame. Some nations are about his plans rather than a frank avowal of what more aggressive than others. and he asked so that men might discuss them; the pres- in reaching out for more territory sure machinery going full blast; the element of dra- or power the smaller countries are matic surprise to confound his opponents. stepped on with the result that beAnd when the announcement was made at the fore long an uprising has started— White House of the conference of leaders, and it was the bigger the nation the greater said all would attend save Senator Borah, that mo- the uprising. This condition will ment was chosen by the White House representative always remain on tha side of the to take a slurring kick at the ranking Republican Atlantic because all nations of member of the Foreign Relations Committee and the Europe are divided against each most distinguithed member of the Senate. “1 sup- other. In America, even though pose Senator Borah has alreqdy attended his neu- there are several nations, there is trality converence.” sneered the President's secretary. a spirit of co-operation between The President himself took a shot at the news- nations—each nation respecting papermen. He presumed the reporters would pursue | the rights of the other country. to their places of hiding, their hotels, offices and bars, We've had a lot of unsuccessful

| | | solve the European situation with |

ciation race furnishes the clincher.

America was

|an unsanitary condition by a flock of | [chickens which my neighbor refuses tag (to pen up? I have been told three these columns, religious cons |times, by the Board of Health, that troversies excluded. Make [there is a State law which says your letter short, so all can | chickens must be kept in an inclosed | larea, as they are considered stock; |but, so far, nothing has been done 'about this, though they said it would be taken care of. | This city is always boosting clean homes and lawns, and sanitary conditions, but it seems they want to] do nothing about it. My garden does | me no good whatever, for as fast as

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experience in the past trying to, the result we should stay out of this European war. This mess can : only be cleaned up by the European tomatoes ripen these chickens nations and we've got to stay out. destroy them and they seratch up

Let's solve the problems here in my flowers and nest in them. our own country and by so do-/ I am told the Police Department ing, we will make the United | will no nothing — and the Health | States the greatest nation on earth. Board has done nothing—so What] We have the natural resources, the can I do in order to keep my prop-| will and courage ,, VIUSt | things, so why ow away our big I keep a 24-hour watch over it just |opportunity by getting in the en- because a neighbor's property is tanglement over there? We've nothing but a chicken farm? nothing to gain and everything to >» 8 lose. Is the > 8S. to be or not oo URGES U. 8. KEEP AWAY be the greatest country on earth: " . | That is She question and only time FROM BAD COMPANY | has the answer. [By M. B. | » | The United States made a mis[take when they entered the first [World War. They lost mm men, CHICKENS A NUISANCE | money and prestige. Democracies By A Citizen |have failed since time out of mind, Do I have to contend with my but the rule of staying out of bad property being destroyed and kept in|company is stiil a safe one.

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New Books

ROWNUPS who years ago turous years of her marriage to Dr.| thrilled to the adventures of] Gilbert Blythe. “Anne of Green Gables” and the

Ee nee tent. in ore py BVUNE'S charming home on Prince AL Ce 83 ; Edward Island. eir humor an | with the publication of a new : : . Ty the Feely series. It is “Anne pathos mpve side by side as the roI y id » (Fred a k 5 Stok “| mantic Anne assumes the new role or oe ee: ene , %s of mother of six adventurous young=Fo Montgomery, creator of the | ters and wife of a very busy and iPad Ra “i. | popular doctor. The children apyoung woman Who has become 0 sear to inherit their mother's ro=

girls what Horatio Alger Was 10 ....¢c dreams and find themselves| bovs of the bygone days, writes of

2 . own children n mm no fewer predicaments than Anne | Anne with her own children VBR" ope gia. Helping Anne through | oe through happy deys. “Anne of | the adventures of the young ones Green Gables” pictured the Young; nav choice character, Susan, who irl, “Anne of Windy Puplars,” her! : hod] teacher role. ama Annew| Speaks her thoughts with no frills, St I aE ~° no nonsense.

House of Dreams,” those first rap- The book is recommended not]

Now we find her at Ingleside, the|

the participants in the conference and reduce what |

issue that as their stories. As a part of the political move the two candidates

e Glances—By Galbraith

only for the growing girls but for their mothers who would like to read of the grownup Anne who is

of the Republican Party were summoned because the F President knew they both agreed with him on the |

repeal of the arms embargo.

Woman's Viewpoint

N my home city, Tulsa, Okla, with 150.000 popula= tion, there are more than 8000 clubwomen. There are all sorts of organizations with all sorts of objectives, but the majority of their members are just | plain American housewives without any frills. Now it would be foolish and untrue for me to say that these women see eve té eve upon any subject, even war. I think we'd be a pretty poor lot if we did. But one thing may be said without fear of contradiction—not one of the 8000 now wants the United States to be drawn into the European fracas. While moral mdignation often rages, common | sense is uppermost. The defeatist attitude is also apparent—the old “war is inevitable” bogy—but these | words are invariably followed by the remark, “I'm | | praying we will stay out.” | Now, by multiplying this local 8000 by the thou= | sands who belong to other clubs over the country, we get some idea of how powerful the feminine club group could be—if it wished. In the first place—and this is an important item —these women have votes, something they did not have in 1916. In the second place, most of them have studied international relations during several past vears and are not an ignorant, easily led lot. They certainly do not fit into the usual picture of | the “Home Woman" which still exists, I'm sorry to | say, In many heads. | In the struggle we now face the one thing the | club woman needs is self-confidence. If she is strong enough to stick to her convictions; if she refuses to | | let herself be misled by false arguments: in short if | | she can hold on to plain truth and horse sense by | remembering past blunders. she will be a powerful force in sav democracy here in its last stronghold. But, as I said—it all depends,

BE vow g : : "Mother isn't the one that's sick, Doctor. It's Billy= he cut his finger"

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+ BEEN BOPR, 1938

| experiencing problems similar to | their own, There is many a lesson [in child management that should! | mterest mothers. | | IL. M. Montgomery, the author | was brought up on a Prince Edward Island farm, the setting of the Anne books. Since the publication of "Anne of Green Gables” well over a million of her books have been | sold. (R. R)

MY MOTHER

| By JAMES A. SPRAGUE

| Out on a quaint old veranda, | In front of a cottage quite plain; | | Is painted a memory picture That brings a real feeling of pain; | | The likeness is that of my mother] So anxiously waiting her boy; er heart beating high as hastens To greet him with welcoming joy.

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{ I wonder if now she is waiting In front of a mansion of gold; | | Waiting and watching, as anxious | As in those dear days of old; | And I wonder, I wonder sincerely. | | If that old-fashioned mother of

| yore | Will

be veranda, To swing wide a welcoming door.

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TUESDAY, SEPT. 26, 1939

Gen. Johnson Says—

Legion Having Fun as Usual at Convention, but All Seem Pretty Grim About Keeping U. S. at Peace.

HICAGO, Sept. 26.—This American Legion convention in Chicago may not turn out the biggest attendance, but it is the biggest I ever saw=-and I have seen several. It starts with the usual hilarity, but nobody questions that it is grim with purpose. These aging lads wants no part in any European war, directly or indirectly, They have been there and they know, They marched in a crusading fervor to make the world safe for democracy. While they were away, their country put prohibition over on them and when they got They had hardly recovered them when the backwash of the war took them away again—and with them most of all they or their families had saved in a generation. They learned what debt and taxes are and why. They were told that they were fighting for inter national decency as boiled down in Mr. Wilson's Fourteen Points. They look abroad and see every one of those points repudiated by their associates, as well as their enemiés, in the World War. When it is suggested to them that our fate is tied up with England and France and that we must in part rely on them to protect us, they remember that those were the very countries which, through secret treaties, were double-crossing us before we ever entered the war, and have two-timed both us and every other nation that has relied upon them ever since,

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HEY hate and distrust Hitler, but they are not going to sleep again with their thumbs in the mouths of his European enemies. The Legion is unanimous on that but, like Congress and the coun= try, it is bitterly split on what we ought to do to keep out and especially whether the lifting of the arms embargo is a step to get us in. This writer, from as abundant and close experience as any man, regards that as something of a tempest in a teapot. We have few arms to sell. We will need all our munitions-making capacity to do what the Congress, the country and the Legion seem unanimously agreed upon—to arm our own amply against any attack—and to rely on nothing else, There is something very kindly about this reunion. The Chicago cops who are legionnaires—and that means most of them--are in Legion uniform. Only they can arrest veterans, Mayor Kelly has pro=vided a special court exclusively manned by Legion

| judges. Soldiers to handle soldiers—that's smart!

” ” HE main effort is not to manhandle buddies but to protect them from dips, gyps and con-men. No police force in the world is better equipped to do that. The noise is welcome. These gents are engaged in a momentary effort in the impossible attempt to recapture four days of a glorious episode of vanished

| youth. It can't be done, but the attempt deserves the | tribute of a tear rather than any condemnation.

The cloud of war is a damper. It isn't especially apparent in the festivities, but vou haidly can butt into any gathering knot of veterans without finding that the subject of conversation is the war in Europe and how io keep out of it. Many of these singed cats are now fathers with children approaching ages within the draft. They will be a tough bunch to fool,

Congress

By Bruce Catton

Members Twiddle Their Thumbs Awaiting Bill to Repeal Embargo.

ASHINGTON, Sept. 26 —For an extraordinary session to meet in a period of “limited emer=

gency,” this Congress is a surprisingly inactive body. It can't take up the neutrality issue until the Senate Foreign Relations Committee reports out a bill, and the committee will not be ready to do that for several days. So far, party leaders are following the President's request that action be confined to this one issue; which means that for the moment the two houses haven't anything to do. How long this state will last is an open question, of course. Meanwhile, a great many of the legislators

| who hurried here for the opening session have gone | back to their homes again.

This is especially true on the House side. That body's plan is to convene once every three days as a formality and then recess without doing anv business. Many Congressmen can see no special point in sticking around just for that A lot of them feel that they are more or less on the spot, though. As one Middle Western Congress= man expressed it: “The people back in my district are all steamed this emergency and they figure I'm down here at a critical time to help save the country. So if I go back home now they'll think I'm lying down on the job. But what earthly good would I be doing

| by staying here, as long as the House isn't doing any | business?”

Encouraging Development

A number of Congressmen have begged reporters not to publish the fact that they were leaving Washington, so that constituents wouldn't accuse them of running out on a crisis. The mere fact that Congress has come back into session has helped the atmosphere down here. Until Congress returned, the general fatalistic assumption that “we're inevitably going to get into this war no matter how hard we try to stay out of it” was so thick in Washington you could cut it with a knife. Congress is so definitely in a non-warlike mood that this sort of talk has greatly subsided. This, any way you look at it, is an encouraging development. While Congress waits for something definite to work on, all sorts of volunteers are coming forward to help get the world out of its crisis. One woman called the office of a leading isola= tionist Senator and said she was willing to sacrifice herself to restore peace. Years ago, she said, she had offered the state of Massachusetts to let it electrocute her in place of Sacco and Vanzetti. Massachusetts had turned her down: but now she was willing to let herself be burned at the stake, in public, if England, France and Germany would call the war off,

Watching Your Health

By Jane Stafford

ANCER experts from many parts of the world A have just held a five-day conference at wilich they

| reported their progress in the fight against this Neo, 2

killer among diseases. The possibility of human can=cer being caused by viruses or by gland secretions or by chemicals was discussed and there was talk of methods that might be tried for preventing cancer. So far, work along these lines, though it has exciting possibilities, is still in the laboratory stage. Of value for immediate practical application are the ad-

| vances that have been made in the fields of radiology

and biophysics. Studies showing that neutrons, created in the eyvelotron, have slightly higher efficiency than X-rays in destroying cancer cells is an important step which advances in the treatment of certain types of cancer.

Neutrons and X-rays Kill cancer cells by the

| same method, but a greater concentration of neutrons

can be delivered at the site of the cancer, so it looks as if they would be more effective. Greater effectiveness, because a more concentrated dose can be given, is an advantage. also, of the new, big X-ray machines, With the 200,000 volt X-ray machines ordinarily used in cancer treatment, the go off through the

them "kick back’ against the skin which may in time be damaged by them. When the voltage of the ma-

| ehine is raised to 600.000 or 700,000, the Kick back is

reduced to only 5 per cent. This spares the skin and delivers a greater concentration of cancer-killing electrons directly on the cancer. The huge one-million-volt maqhines have the same advantages, but are costly and require a large staff for their operation.