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"FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1939

# MR. MURPHY DECLINES

powers the President possesses.

“the Senate, by unanimous vote, adepted the Vandenberg |

A TTORNEY GENERAL FRANK MURPHY has decided * not to tell Congress what wartime and emergency.

We: wonder what Mr. Murphy or the to gain by such a refusal, il "~ Our Government is now operating on what the President proclaimed as-a “limited national emergency.” 'Nobody seems to know exactly what that is, except that somehow it authorizes the President to accomplish certain things merely by issuing executive proclamations. Such. proclamations, of course, must be based on authority granted by statutes of Congress. Over the 150 years it has operated Congress has passed a great many laws that long since have been forgotten. Showing a very natural curiosity,

New, Deal hopes

resolution asking the Attorney General to enumerate the President’s. extraordinary powers. Mr. Murphy refused to do that, but instead listed more than 100 statutes which

. he said vested special powers in: the President. In effect,

Mr. Murphy told the Senators to read the laws themselves. "It happens that Mr. Murphy is the chief lawyer of the Government, and he has around his office a lot of hired help. In’view of emergencies existing and threatening, it is hardly conceivable that he has failed to cause a study to be made of the emergency powers to which the President might have recourse in case he should need them. As‘we see! it, it was not helpful of Mr. Murphy to refuse to make the same information available to the Senate.

FLYING DUTCHMAN?

FEW months ago you would have said it would be impossible for a $20,000,000 ocean liner, one of the four largest ships in the world, to disappear as utterly and completely as though it had flown off to the moon. Yet that is just what has happened to the German liner Bremen. She sailed from New York just before war broke,

. and there is no authoritative report of her since. Reports

from both sides on her whereabouts have canceled each other out, and today the world knows nothing of her fate. It is inconceivable that neither the’ British nor German admiralty should know. One or the other, or both, are holding out the truth, for a reason that will probably become clear only when the mystery is.solved. The Bremen affair shows how -completely the peoples of the world have been placed ‘at the mercy of a handful of war-time censors for news-of what goes on. Until a

better one comes along, mystery-story addicts’ can well |

apply themselves to the problem of ‘what becomes of a $20,000,000 ship and 700 men when they simply disappear.

into thin air—or deep water,

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A DOCTOR GOES TO WAR

ROM Toronto comes word that Sir Frederick Banting has gone back to war, as a captain in the Canadian Army Medical Corps. He was overseas for three years in the last war and was decorated for valor. In the 20-year interval between wars he also served conspicuously. He discovered insulin. In the United States alone, it is estimated, two million diabetics are living today because of that discovery. ' : By a whim of fate Dr. Banting lived. No bullet had his name on it. Perhaps, by a similar whim, the man who might have solved the riddle of cancer died. Perhaps the man who might have conquered heart disease has been killed in Poland or will be killed today on the Western Front, or toMorrow. The best of Europe’s young men were slaughtered in the last war. Second-raters were left to fumble their way into more slaughter. : Thus does war preserve the advances of civilization and make the world safe for democracy.

EDUCATION FOR THE STARRY-EYED

X ILE observing this fast-moving scene wherein. his-

4 toric drama is being written at each tick of the clock, let’s pay tribute to the greatest job of pretense-shedding.

“ever recorded in all the annals of hypocrisy. :

_ There was Russia—prating of her virtue and her ‘idealism, renouncing all imperialistic ambitions, sneering at

icapitalism and democracy, condemning the profit system,

logical motions.

her vast heart throbbing for the great unwashed, desiring no more territory and yearning only to extend her proletarian gospel throughout the world that the rest of humanity might be spiritually uplifted by the purity of the ‘new religion, offered as a substitute for all pending theo-

Now she is in the real estate business. And about, to go into shipping and lumber. Renting ships from Norway, and trying to rent some more from Denmark and Sweden so that she may take over the business with England which hasn’t been going so well for the Scandinavian countries since the war began. Grabbing off land in Poland, ports in Estonia, turning a prehensile eye on Finland—going West with all the verve of any entrepreneur who ever shoved a pushcart and all the acquisitiveness that ever characterized the most ardent disciple of Horace Greeley. No doubt soon she will have her sign out as a dealer in lime, hair and cement, soft drinks and billiards. In short, running a. general store, and “in trade” up to her neck. So goes into the limbo another Utopia for which so many of our starry-eyed fell. Down the same old sink, one more substitute for the profit motive, one more “greatest experiment ever made for human betterment.” : v Disillusionment is always cruel. So it isn’t cricket to jeer or twit those who hoped this indeed was the millennium.

Rather it should merely be in order to point to the realities

now so visible to the naked eye, and, without indulging in

too much told-you-so, recall that suckers are born one a ' minute. Then to admonish that the only way to cure one’s

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By Westbrook Pegler

Retraction, but It All Simmers

EW YORK, Oct. 8.—Rep. Ham Fish writes that ‘he is amazed at my recent" memoirs of a day,

,| when, ‘to hear me tell it, he was fixing to use, in a’ 5 speech "in his district, which includes ‘the homes of |"

President Roosevelt and the President’s mother, two unconfirmed bits about those distinguished constituents. ra Sim ;

that Mrs. James Roosevelt had received $35,000 from

tenance of her home at Hyde Park while the President used ‘it as a summer home, the other that the President's father provided in his will that Franklin should

Wherein Ham Fish. Demands 8)

Down to a 'Test of Memories.’ |

"These tips came in his fan mail, one to the effect

the Federal Government for the repairs and main-

have no hand in the management of the estate be-

cause 1, was his belief: that, the future President had | |

no ability to handle money. ~~

"The latter. veport I investigated and found that |

it-was just. one of those lies which take off into space and, in many cases; never are shot down. But the information. about the maintenance of: the house

himself,’ when he attémpted to dip an oar into the

‘Congressional investigation ‘of fax avoidance and evasion, had 23 } g President’s tax return into.question. So I'never in. vestigated and. therefore never

‘wasn’t.so easily come at—just then, anyway—for Fish

‘been told ‘that he mustn’t bring the| mentioned the one:

about. the house either, and considered it to be-out of |

‘bounds until Steve Early did a piece for the Saturda

‘Evening Post in Which he mentioned it to deny 1. ing

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AL this Is just overture to create a ‘mod for

you some letters that were on my desk that had ‘reached me that day requesting me to look into ‘these charges. I asked the Ways and Means Committee for this information. I pride myself on the fact that I do not make statements carelessly and

as I know that anything that I might say that cannot be substantiated would weaken the balance of my argument. ‘It seéms that some of the columnists are much more careless with facts than men in public life, who know that the slightest deviation from the facts defeats the cause which they are upholding ...” . Mr. Fish adds that if my memory had been a little

charges, but: would ascertain the facts. £2 2 » 8 RB -

O it comes down now to a test of memory, in which I totally flunk any recollection of his saying that he didn’t believe the charges, but would ascertain the facts. On the contrary, my memory is distinct on the point of his suggesting that, even though the reports were not confirmed, it would be possible to use them,

and “it is reported” and that he had already prepared to use them in a speech. : . In general, I claim that newspaper standards are higher than those of Congress, if for no other reason than -our lack of -immunity. I admit, however, that, as he says, “some of the columnists are much more careless with facts than men in public life,” but only with a one-word amendment. I make it “some men in public life,” but indorse his warning that news, and especially ‘news pictures, may be tainted and conjure statesmen to ‘observe in debate and in the record: the same standards that they would require of American journalism,

Business By John T. Flynn

Businessman Wary- of War Profits, Recalling Experiences ‘of 1918.

ASHINGTON, Oct. 6.—~One of the odd phenomena which has made its appearance since.the war began in Europe is the attitude’ of business toward war profits. It is surprising, to say the least.

serve to confuse the public mind on this subject. Also the stock market churning gives the appearance of business, in its old way, rushing for war profits. But, surprising as it may seem, this is far from the truth. Businessmen, I discover, are full of suspicion of war profits. In the case of hides, leather, burlap, wool and other products, the price increases are due to special circumstances. In the case of sugar, grains, etc., of course businessmen may be counted on to take the profits when they can get them. But many business leaders are keenly aware of the fact that war profits are vanishing profits, that while a few make money which they keep and still others make money which they quickly lose, war, for the most part, ‘as one put it, “disrupts their

‘organizations, makes constructive planning impossi=

ble,” makes long term investment impossible, kills off permanent customers in favor of transient customers, gives an illusion of prosperity which disappears the moment: peace is rumored. : * The singular difference between conditions now. and when the last war began is that then business: was all for rushing after the war profits while the political administration was eager to restrain them, while now business is reluctant and suspicious while the’ war urge comes from the poligical administration,

/ . - Positions May Be Reversed Now we may actually see business seeking -to re-

strain the Government instead of the Government

seeking to restrain business. There are a number of very large flourished in the most amazing manner during the last war which have never recovered from the effect of that prosperity. There are sections of New England which got the benefit of the great war orders, which made extensive expansions to handle war orders which boomed with 24-hour operations from 1915 on, put which either went into bankruptcy a few years after the war was over or lingered on for years trying to readjust themselves to the changes. 1 could give here the names of scores of such business concerns in New York, but there is no point in naming them now. But businessmen in the East re-

put out warnings against war expansions. this does not apply to all, but it includes enough to make it a very healthy energy in the country for sobriety.

A Woman's Viewpoint

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

T'S unfortunate that we are not able ‘to. discuss | ||

.questions of international. consequence. in terms of what is best for the United States. The propaganda issue has petered down to almost puerile folly; what-

sympathizer of naziism or a tool of Great Britain, Nobody talks pure United States any more. fi While we should-be dubious of all propaganda, we ought to be especially skittish against that coming

our troops into Europe to fight for Mr. Hitler's But it will require stubborn resistance and comes good sense on our part to stay away “side if the war drags on.

out’ country sincerely believe that democracy can be saved only when its proponents mass themselves battle against its foes. For this reason their ma arguments may be valid. ’ RAE Many others of us, however, cannot agree | therefore isolationists in heart. We belie as sincerely, that for us war would be the on ‘to lose democracy here, and perhaps everyw yi Moreover we aight id | also, th Ie ‘of the world has not been placed in Divine power. - The business of run States is our affair and we could do a ‘of that if we. used our brains to atten

f working so hard to manage matters.

self from being a sucker is through experience, and to smark in closing that ours isn’t such a bad country after all.

‘Therefore patriots would do we ‘only our motives for joint

Ham’s- say in reply -to' mine, which is that “the’} : only basis. of ‘truth in your column:is that I showed |:

check every detail carefully before accepting the facts, e

better I would recall that he said he didn’t believe the.

anyway, with such escape phrases as “it is believed”.

The price rises in certain commodities may

industries which

call all this, speak about it now among themselves, |. Of course |

ever one believes, one is in danger of being dubbed a |

from the Allied countries because it is more dangerous | | to us than any other, I take it we shall never move |.

from England's A To be fair, let us remember that many citizens of |

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WANTS. ATTENTION DEVOTED TO OUR OWN PROBLEMS By L. B. Hetrick, Elwood, Ind.

I wish some of our learned writers would tell me the difference in the economic effect between the words shan’t and can’t. La - If in this land of overproduction ‘Congress should pass a law saying you shan’t buy the things you want, a great noise would go up from even the pauper without a penny as ‘well as the rich man with his millions— yet our present economic ‘system takes the last penny from the consumer so he can’t buy the things he hankers after. So, in effect, what is the difference in this instance -between shan’t and can’t? : The word shan’'t would mean a man-made dictatorship while : the word can’f s an economic dic» tatorship °n ; tory interests, upheld by the people who are made to believe in such an erronequs presumption as that ail have an equal chance to get rich some day ‘and ride on the other fellow’s back. | : : This idea is getting us into a lot of trouble here at home without going abroad for more of ; can use. : . 8 = BELIEVES DANGER LIES IN 90-DAY CREDIT By Anti-Repeal | { The President's neutrality bill says 90 days are to be allowed for paying for goods purchased here. That is his version of ‘“cash.” . In my estimation 90 days is/three months and three months is short- | term credit. Cash to me means money on the counter before goods are carried out. : Pe ‘Short-te=v1 | credit is as effective as long-term credit for getting lus to hold the bag again. Particularly when the bottom carrying the. stuff is sunk by an enemy submarine. Would the. British and French (be any more apt to pay for something they didn’t get than they paid for merchandise they did get as in the last war? : Jo The ibe ke: definition of cash

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seems to be like his notion of neutrality—twisted around to mean the exact opposite. I do not say it| is dishonest, but ‘what. would you call it? { Ca | “This country is being bombarded with propaganda—ie lies and more lies—with ‘one objective: To influence Congress to lift the embargo so that this|country will give t British economic aid. . If" we ‘are saps enough to give them economic aid, they know we're

ade by various preda-

it than we,

co-ordinate - their economic : | ostensibly for war but more par- | ticularly for future world economic

~~ The Hoosier Forum ; I wholly disagree with what you say, but. will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire. :

(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.)

still the same old suckers for propaganda for military aid we were in 1917. - c ru : ® # = URGES STREAMLINING

OF ECONOMIC FRONT

our Text door

Jib. Can nads, our Tex neighbor; on a dictatorship -basis and | streamlining its industrial machine

as the European war-torn nations did, we lumber along’ with our own economic machine functioning on:a 60 per. cent efficiency basis. Congress dawglles. over cash-and-carry, credits to beiligerents, embargoes, travel rights, and * all the minor gadgets to get us into war or keep us out, while the warring hajions 11e,

| competition. :

Having felt the power of a coordinated program, these nations will not go back to haphazard individual business in their exports. Congress needs to recognize this situation and pass legislation to

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Mr. Hoover May Prove to'Be Right, Yet in This Wan of Surprises, No ‘Statistics Can Foretell - Outcome. XX 7ASHINGTON, Oct, 6.~Great respect is due any

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1 statistical analysis by Herbert Hoover. His

| most recent one of th¢ war in Europe was cogent

| defeated.

| and complete. | It added up all the elements and

concluded that e the war might possibly end in ‘4 stalemate, Hitler cannot win, the Allies cannot be : ¢ add | “Sea power and afiple manpower to defend France would have won the World War without help from the United States if the Allies had not thrown their manpower away in futile capture of trenches and .in blundering military adventures.” And again *, ,, Sea power may be damaged but cannot be de- - stroyed by- aircraft.” : cele “This is not to say that Mr, Hoover may nof. be entirely Soret It is only to say that ‘no man on earth can predict war values and outcomes by marshalling figures. I would hesitate to attack most of Mr. Hoover's conjectures on international economies, but I would as surely hesitate to accept his eon-

“77 | jectures on military values based solely on statistics.

| streamline our own economic ma- “| chine to make it function on a 100

per cent efficiency basis before we lose out in the economic war which overshadows the battle fronts. 2 n= 3 SAYS LINDBERGH ADDS INSULT TO: INJURY By Robert H. Tam 2 A A few years ago a young man and his family fled these shores to take up. abode in a foreign country, where they lived in self-imposed exile. He left behind an idolizing, though much embarrassed and sorrowing nation. Their “Lindy” had run out; impressing a sense of failure in a crisis on his adoring public. Bal og : Col. Charles A. Lindbergh has returned and is now trying to tell

has never wavered for one instant, how and why certain laws should be enacted. ‘That is indeed adding insult to injury. | . Lindbergh I: suggest, should he ever again find this land of ours: intolerable, that he- select Berlin’ as a permanent home site,

millions of hearty “Heils” in recognition of his legislative efforts over here. : { : a ‘8 =» PRESIDENT "SEEN “WITH THE MAJORITY” By J. F. : As in the past, President Roosevelt holds himself in readiness to work with the majority.

New Books

coor DAVIS went to)

Harvard for a while, grew restless and then struck out for the equator. * During the ensuing 12 years he has been to such places as Africa, the West Indies, Borneo, Java, Tahiti. . . . And from these wanderings came a travel book, “Islands Under the Wind.” Now we have his first novel, “Save Me the Sun,” (Henry Holt & Co.). 2 Evidently full of consuming South Sea legend, Mr. Davis has chosen to give it-a ride on that dependable vehicle, troubled love. But though the pattern be trite, the story is well told. : Michael is a writer and Judy is his devoted but precise wife. After

two years of marriage in San Fran-

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cisco, they find their efliciencyapartment existence is making them well-nigh mcompaije. Walking home after another Saturday night of revelry, Judy suggests they sail off. to the South Seas. An arduous voyage takes them to Tapu, an imagined island peopled by hospitable brown-skinned natives. Presently they find that much of the difference between a delicates-| sen and life in the open is manual labor. They dub an orange tree the

of many a dietetical state of. -hesi-

for api, and bake breadfruit. { Meanwhile, Michael finds : Judy suggested ‘they come to Tapu. because she sought to appease a man

|who had gone there to be a hermit

after. she had shunned his love. In-

* | spired by a native girl all the while,

Michael brushes up: an old novel— even to the point of selling it. Judy bears him a son and through it all they regain the mutual adoration which had been shaken by the apartment jitters. ° =a Mr. Davis has exhibited a bulging knowledge of tropical lore and has sprinkled it with a personable philosophy gleaned, no doubt; from many a night in tepid surroindings. (PF. PJ.

RETURN ~~ By DOROTHY JEFFERS COYLE

One cannot’ live to oneself :alone For life is a thing we must share.

|1f we but smile and be a friend

We'll find friends everywhere.

| Like a spreading ripple in a stream

When a rock is thrown from the

:| . hand, ; | We'll find our smiles and kindly deeds

will come

‘back to us where we

So’ be free with kindly deeds

your smiles and While all the world is gay

1And they'll come back a hundredfold

Sometime when your world is gray. A - — an et Ap ger

J tary attack has yet to tory.

~| experience enough to | sible outcomes are so terrible that nebody ought

‘millions of Americans, whose faith|: in these ‘grand old United States|

where he: will be welcomed : with | -

“Duchess” and she helps them out| tation. They dig for tubers, search

"124 hours.

RT . : : APOLEON’'S guiding maxim was that, in war, . physical values are to moral values as 1 te 3,

‘| What kind of figures could have predicted the erup-

tion of a handful of gaunt Arab horsemen swarming out of the desert and subjugating three-fourths of civilization? Hannibal challenging Rome with a mob of mercenaries—the stubborn unpredicted resistance of the Boers and of our Southern Confederacy or the rise to unprecedented power of an Austrian papere hanger. or an obscure Caucasian. divinity student? You can’t compute the outcome of any war with a slide-rule or an adding machine, ~~ How can Mr. Hoover be sure that the Allies could have won the World War without: our help if it hadn’t been for French attacks and military blunders? They came so close to losing it ‘at the very start that some hard-boiled agnostic military experts . regard their salvation as a miraculous. dispensation of divine providence. How can he be so sure:of Allied victory through economic strangulation by sea

power? = Economic war has become an increasing element

Hot bloody war but that a great military nation can be

choked to its knees by economic pressure not accoms panied by constant, aggressive. and successful -milie ‘be proved by any single instance in all his teh i i : Sanaa ; ;

is another wholly uncertain elemisnt in

I this new problem. Mr. Hoover says that sea

power may he damaged but cannot be destroyed .by aircraft. If that means merely that navies cannot be wiped out by air fleets, it is probable but still unproved. But if it means that preponderance in

| the air cannot greatly restrict the seaward supply.

of a nation like England, it is a pure guess on an outcome yet to be tested. _ This war has already produced so many wholly unpredictable and shocking surprises that the enly thing sure about it is that nothing is sure. So many of the forces in conflict are so new that nobody has pose as an expert. The pos-

to try. Cir One thing stands out crystal clear—if there is any ‘reasonable way. whatever to stop it right now. no man with an ounce of humanity in his heart: will dare to say in advance, “No, we will not listen, We will fight it to a finish.”

Aviation By Maj. Al Williams jo Hasty Training of Youngsters Not

Enough or Medern Fighting Plane,

ASHINGTON, Oct. 6—In this ers of military

ner

to the young, hastily-trained fighting pilots who, like ourselves during the World War, are walking around trying to make believe they are really part of the show. . It was bad enough in the old days, when the top speeds’ of the fastest fighters were about :130 miles an hour, the landing speed about 55. .: Only a year has passed since the Munich affair and the subsequent general rush for planes Jand pilots. In that year youngsters have soloed on training planes little slower than the fastest fighters of the World War—but far more dependable and so much safer to fly. : : The modern training plane almost flies itself, But even at that a first solo—cut loose from the .ground for the first time—is still a pulse-quickening big moment. nl : Training a pilot for a modern high-speed single= seater. fighting plane means accommodating him not only to fly subcensciously, but to know the meaning of and care required by the complicated equipment, Getting a Student pilot soloed at this time is ine finitely simpler than it was. in World War days, There's so much more information available. ‘We had practically no books, and 99 per cent of our ine formation came by word of mouth, not too well exe

pressed. ; i Just a Modest Start rm |

But, the modern solo pilot also has much furtheg to go with his education. Foe ChE ih The modern single-seater student pilot who has soloed has really only begun his training. As soon as he steps from his primary training plane into an advanced type, he starts to control supercharged en<« gines, controllable pitch propellers, retractable land ing gears, radio tuning, and, in all, must be keenly alert to the meaning of the readings of about 30'in< ‘struments. © : Fo ME A His final fighting type ship has a top speed of more than five times its; landing speed. And it's in ‘tihrat gap between his landing speed of about 70 ‘miles an hour and his top of 350 miles that his education works to guide the delicate machinery or ruin ‘it. : hn phn “No flight training program of 12 months provides more’ than : ability to stagger around the sky in the latest fighter. But there are lads in e today, hastily trained, who are nothing more ¢t cold ‘meat for an experienced fighting pilet. ~~ * ~~ And—what ‘a pity!-—all because someone failed ‘to plan the meshing of the training program with the .

manufacturing program. : Watching Your Health ations stat the

By Jane Stafford HICKEN POX is one of those certain to get. it school. Almost

\4 young school child is" almost he has not had it before he started to sch } everyone is susceptible to this disease, until he has had an attack. Probably 90 out of every 100 persons have had chicken pox by the time they are 15. . The disease is one of the most readily communicas ’ ble of all diseases. Hospitals, even isolation hobhitals c

for infectious diseases, almost never admit pox patients because of the ease with: which infection spreads. Convalescent serum the blood of recovered chicken pox patients may give temporary immunity, but there is no vaccine against chicken POX. ; : % ! a Fortunately, the disease is mild, and death rare, although it has occurred in uncomplicated cases from extensive involvement of the skin. | is we The sickness is caused by a virus. hich is believed to be present in the sores of the and mucous membranes. It ‘takes from two to three weeks for chicken pox to develop after the v has entered

the body. ; | : : The child coming down with chicken pox is usually

| feverish. He may vomit and complain of pain in his

hack and legs. The eruption usually: appears within

' The one great danger about chicken pox: is that

-| it may not be chicken pox but the very serious disease,

smallpox. It is important to have a correct di

| made, both so that the patient din get proper Ha guoels men otected if it

t and so that the public can be ealth so

and medical authorities

aviation plans and expansion, my: mind turns