Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 October 1939 — Page 13

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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1939

HITLER'S “INTERNAL PROBLEM” IKE all things having to do with this queer war, It's anybody’ s guess as to whether the so-called peace

“offensive” will get anywhere. But despite Premier Dala-

dier’s calm and firm attitude, as expressed yesterday, which no doubt will be Chamberlain’s Thursday, and despite President Roosevelt’s common sense indication, that under the circumstances, he wouldn't touch the present peace problem even with tongs, we have had a hunch that truce talk isn’t going to die this ‘'week—and that perhaps peace might be made to prevail. The reason runs to the very person who started the war; to the position Hitler has got himself into by failing to remember that those who lie down with dogs get up with fleas. It is best depicted in the cartoon on this page by Talburt. : In view of Stalin’s Baltic grab, and what he has done also in blocking Hitler in the Balkans, we think Hitler soon must get wise to the faet that if he does straighten up he will disembowel himself. Accordingly he may very logically decide, before he gulps the rest of the sickle which his new-found friend handed him, that he'd better call a - surgeon. And the surgeon would be peace—with a big, not a phony, P; a real, two-sided, not one-sided, proposition; specific; definite enough to constitute not merely a generalized offer of a unilatéral truce, but an actual guarantee such as Daladier demands as the only thing France will consider. ‘So, if Hitler should decide not to straighten up and risk peritonitis, that might bring about a situation in which Mr. Roosevelt, or any other important non-belligerent or group of non-belligerents, duly invited and without other obligation than as peace-maker, could move in and get +4 results. Otherwise it’s a struggle for a knockout, with “im presario” Joe and communism standing by .to take over the leavings. - At any rate the hottest spot today is that occupied by Adolf, the Sword-swallower.

DR. CUSHING

NE of the greatest medical men of the 20th Century has been removed from the scene with the death at New Haven, Conn.,, of Dr. Harvey Cushing, the brain specialist. The world at large knew Dr. Cushing best as a brain surgeon but to the medical fraternity he was equally well known as a research man, particularly in the field of the ductless glands. Indeed, it might well be said that modern ‘endocrinology owed more to him than to any other one person. ; In the first decade of this century, Dr. Cushing began his investigations of the pituitary, the tiny gland at the base of the brain which exercises so great an influence over the other glands that it has been called “the master gland.” This work not only pointed out the importance of the pituitary but launched the medical world upon the intensive study of endocrinology which has proved so fruitful and _ promises so much for the future. The world will remember Dr. Cushing as a great scientist, a great surgeon, a great teacher and a great humanitarian, Y

IF IT WERE OUR WAR

“WHAT would we get? First, we would get such a regimentation of our own lives and livelihoods, 20 minutes after we entered the war; that Bill of Rights would need a gas mask, and individual liberty of action would swiftly become a mocking Juemory. This is not hyperbole. Scan the Army’s industrial mobilization plan, for example. We have previewed it here in-Congress. I quote a few typical sentences from a: recent authentic newspaper review: ¥ ‘Labor and business would be regimented. .. . Strikes would be outlawed. .. . Enjployers would-be told by Government what wages to pay and hours to work. . . . What profits to make. . . . The Government would dictate cost, prices, interest ates, rents, etc. . . . Light, heat, food, will be rationed. . . 4 “What has already happened in England? Here is a headline from last week: ‘British Find Fiberties Vanish With ‘War. Traditional Freedom Is Blacked Out.’ We could

not avoid these blackouts here! In the name of another war |

‘to save democracy’ we should have to strangle democracy in-our own land. . . .

“We should come out . . . with an infinitely pyramided |

debt. If the war dragged on the debt would not be long in staggering toward 100 billion dollars. It never could be carried or repaid. Repudiation or ruinous inflation would be inevitable. ‘Our econoniic values would collapse. . .. We should, ultimately understand what old King Pyrrhus meant when he said, ‘Another such victory and we are lost.’ We should win another war and lose another peace.”--Seu5-4or Arthur H. Vandenberg.

IN A ‘NUTSHELL i Lua W E submit the following from the Baltimore Evening Sun, ‘as last week's best editorial on the Hitler speech: Caption — S1 IZED FOR THOSE WHO COULDN'T SPARE ‘TH TIME TO READ IT; Text— _ Herr Hitler can’t understand why the Allied Powers insist on disturbing: the peace in Europe by resisting him, since all he wants. is his own way. ;

MAN BITES DOG :

T'S ‘no. longer’ news that science can take numberless

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devices, originally intended to:serve the arts of peace,

: and make them serve the grim purposes of war. But here’s alittle story that is news: A “sonic vibration” device, developed for signaling : between submarines, is now being used to break up butberfat. Elobiles and so make milk more digestible for

Fair Enough By. Westbrook Pegler Repeal of Evbarge Would Permit

That We May Guarantee Our Peace.

EW YORK, Ott. 11.~It 160ks as though the arms embargo will be repealed all right, and when it

happens no. on the opposition side may-say that his team: was the victim of @ rush act or high

and, as far as the statesmen themselves. are con- |

of opinion that existed when the question was put to them.

The question whether the war would have begun at all if the American law had. been otherwise is one of those scuttle-butt propositions which may be argued forever, but never solved. Hitler alone can give the answer to that, but the man is such & liar that nobody would believe him, whatever he might say, and, anyway, all that is down the drain now because the war did begin. When that happened the question ceased to be one of partisan politics and became one of national defense, although that phase of it has not received sufficient emphasis.

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TH Army maneuvers at Plattsburg were a terrible fiasco, and while the inexperience and consequent clumsiness of the soldiers were placarded to the nation and, incidentally, ‘to the rest of the world, little was said about the amount and kind of equipment now available. Certainly the Allies are not the potential enemy of this nation, while Germany, Russia and Japan undoubtedly are, and a munitions and arms

not only help them to break up that threat, but would stand ready to serve American needs. < There are much propaganda and some dumb, honest belief that Hitler's Germany means no harm to anyone and only wants to live in peace and prosperity,_ but anyone who believes that forgets that

. Britain and France were caught almost unarmed and

had to put up with the arrogant impositions from a dictator armed to the teeth.

T is ask Americans to be just too broadminded to request that they regafd the Allies and Germany as six of one and half a dozen of the other. The Allies may have a fault or {wo—as who hasn’t— but the Nazi idea challenges the American at every point, and it is the enemy of Americanism and the aggressor in this enmity, at that. The danger that the United States might be drawn into war would seem to diminish in proportion to the success of the Allies and the improvement of American strength. © Hitler has made one thing plain—that military weakness is fatal to peace in any nation against which he develops a grudge. Certainly this is -no New Deal measure that is about to pass now. It is an expression of the majority sentiment of the country, agreed on by many who hate the New Deal and is more likely to prevent an attack on this country’s interests by the aggressor and thus to avert war than to shoo us in. It would be interesting, and probably shocking, to know just how many shell and anti-aircraft guns the United States possesses at this moment and how long it would take to produce enough to meet an enemy.

Business By John T. Flynn

Increasing Use Being Made of Taxes To Control the National Economy.

EW YORK, Oct. 11. —The eternal question—“Why are we taxed?”—is tackled by Herbert D. Simpson in the September issue of the Economic Review. He finds that in the early days of the republic the people were taxed upon the principle of their ability to pay, that in the middle years of our national history we shifted over io the principle of taxation in accordance with benefits-received, but that we are now again back at the ability-to-pay theory. It is an important matter now that governments have gotten around :to: the business of taxing their people upon so vast a scale. Pecple quite naturally’ ask—why? Upon what principle? ‘Mr. Simpson’s account leaves out a most important theory which is becoming ‘more and more important. That is the theory of taxation as a means of regulating the national economy. It is not based upon “ability to pay” or “benefit received” theories, but upon a wholly different principle. It is not in any sense new. We have forgotten that once upon a time—up to the great war—Federal taxes were quite modest. The country was supported by revenues drawn from tariff Siitiss and from taxes on whisky, wines, beers and tobacco.

Controlling Liquor Consumption The liquor taxes were not based upon the theory

they touched his business, to curb and control him. They were levied upon the principle that the liquor industry had in it elements of wickedness, that people were better off if their consumption of it were curbed. Tariff duties were levied not upon either taxpayers or consumers upon their ‘ability. to pay or the beneiits received by them. ry. was that our economic system would be better : erved by rendering us as far as possible reliant upon our own resources. They were laid to encourage the creation of domestic industries. They were a frank effort to contiol and direct the eco= nomic system. It is this principle of taxation which is n now emerging as the most important. We still tax in-local communities to some extent on the benefit-received. theory and in our states and the nation upon the ability-to-pay theory. But more and more we are justifying taxes in all these subdivisions, particularly in the national field, upon the theory that the economic system has been fouled by excessive profits and an unequal distribution of wealth and that taxation is the handiest means of correcting these maladjustmenst.

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

OW that civilization seems to be degenerating into bedlam, perhaps it would be well to consider the reasons why we can hate so easily and find ks 80 hard to be tolerant and to love. No two ways about it; we’ve failed and we're stil failing as parents. Somewhere along the way we've lost the right path. Yet never within my memory has there been such an evidence of desire to do the job well. Perhaps the answer is really. more simple than we suppose. Maybe if we worried less about the children

would do better. For, when all is said, the splendor of their homes matters only slightly. It’s the atmosphere’ prevailing in them that makes useful citizens or miserable neurotics out of boys and girls. A man is a good father only when he knows how to be a good husband. And, in trying to build their wonderful world, the men have grossly neglected this most important job. In this respect they must bear the heaviest burden of blame for our failures, :

dren usually make serious efforts to bring them up well; and certainly nine-tenths of all feminine activity these days is given over to pleasing men. Match that with the one-half of 1 per cent of the male population who are even willing to admit that women have problems and you will get a pretty true picture of present conditions. ; The earth is now a breeding place for hate. Dr. Karl Menninger explains the fact when he says that men have demoted, frustrated and patronized women

as the center of

U. S. to Build Its Defenses So|

pressure or ‘otherwise Was denied the benefits of free discussion and sober judgment. : 9 Senators rarely change position on any issue in| response to the logic or eloquence of their colleagues, |

cerned, the vote will represent about the same division :

industry built up at the expenses of the Allies would |

that the liquor dealer received a benefit from them. On the contrary the taxes were levied so far as:

and gave more thought to the arts of marriage we |

At least women have tried. Those who have chil- |

and have everywhere failed to recognize the mother | ity. I. think he's got something

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. | the Picts. Pretty soon there weren't any Picts—but

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

KINDNESS URGED FOR STRAY DOGS ‘By A. G.

How many of us ever think to water a stray dog? Maybe he’s thirsty as well as hungry. If folks would destroy unwanted dogs instead of abandoning them they’d be a million times better off.

8 8 #® WANTS TIME DEVOTED TO OUR OWN PROBLEMS By Voice in the Crowd Why are we cowards if we isolate ourselves instead of trying to solve the unsolvable problems of Europe? They are not fighting our war. They are not trying to solve our preblems,

and all of them want to see us drawn in and further impoverished by another war. We tried to solve Europe’s problem a generation ago. We gave freely of our resources and our manpower, and loaned them money with which to re-establish themselves. What did we get out of it? Did we solve anything? Did we make any friends? Did Shycne pay us back for our loans? We {ertainly gained nothing and we gave up nearly one-third of our freedom in the effort. The only time we have any friends in Europe is when they want us to fight their wars, lend them money or stick our necks out generally. When Europe is at peace we are told by all of them that we are to keep out of their affairs, that we should reduce or cancel their debts, that we are Shylocks, and that we are otherwise too dumb to help. Mostly interested in seeing the embargo on arms lifted are high political leaders that have a mess to cover up with other issues, Europeans who wish to see our power weakened and our freedom disappear, and the idealists who are tired of the responsibility of seeking freedom and would like to try something that has given Europeans nothing. American’ industry does not want war; American labor does not want war, and neither of. them want a single ‘step taken in war's direction. They know that war profits are false profits and war wages only

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go to the support of increased gov ernmental costs. I’ maintain that the time is ripe to solve our own problems, and it will take fully as much courage to do that, and will serve the world better than if we stick our nose into a fracas where noses have been |” cut off for several thousand years: ss 8 = DISTORTION OF POWER BLAMED FOR WAR By Reader Senator La Follette said that Britain.and France were the illegitimate parents of Nazi government. Now they wish to destroy their illegitimate offspring. Power politics is an pbsession, the product of warped minds. - Political power goes to the head. It distorts the purpose of government and few there be who escape it.” It is this distortion of power that has built the European economy, on sands of war material production. Once

~ 3 . ’ started on the war economy there

is no end but disaster. If they go on with war material production they exhaust themselves, and if they stop it abruptly, they face collapse and terrific depression. A return to legitimate peace-time production is very difficult indeed. Their day of reckoning is fixed and certain either way they proceed. Intelligent government seems to be the exception. Only intelligence

of the highest order can produce <

peace and plenty. . Our Government is tinkering with a war economy as a way out for us.

oo» » Ly FAVORS mvrerfENTION TO PROTECT FINLAND By Times ‘Reader, Bloomington; Ind.’

If the U.S. 8. R. gets too rough with Finland I think we should intervene. At least with our political and economic influence. The Olympic games are scheduled to be held in Helsingfors, Finland, in the late summer and fall of 1840. This is a major international athletic affair and one of the greatest aids to world peace. We Americans should make every necessary effort to keep this great international athletic event on schedule. And hasn't little Finland always been right up to date with cash on the barrel head for her war debt to us? > We must not overlook that very important fact. You sugar my coffee and I'll sugar yours,

New Books at the Library

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OR many years, Dr. Caryl P. Haskins has been a student of ant life, observing. them both in their natural habitats and in captive colonies. He is familiar with numerous species, some representing the primitive stages of their -development, others the more advanced stages. He has noted how, as their societies become more intricately organized, the individuals lose correspondingly their own- freedom of

action, and the. good of society as

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a whole takes precedence over that of the single unit of society. He has seen how these distant relatives of man, wise in their ancient civilization, adjust. themselves to environment; how they forage for food; how they treat “foreigners”; how they make and use slaves; how they go to war. He has noted how their physical structure has adapted itself to their mode of life —how worker, queen, and male are differentiated towards a more perfect fulfillment of the function of each category. All this Dr. Haskins has recorded in “Of Ants and Men” (Prenticeba The life of the ants, he feels, offers a promising commana | W. upon human society. Since their culture is so much more ancient than that of mankind, we may observe in their lives the logical development of institutions and modes of living which, among men, are still in their infancy. Thus he comments upon democracy, communism, and fascism in the light of the long experience, of the ants. This ‘is popularized science at its best, fascinating reading for either

the amateur scientist or the ama'teur sociologist.

- BLOSSOMS - By OLIVE INEZ DOWNING Some flowers blossom in the night; When darkened shadows thickly

creep, They never vision gleaming light— But flourish in blackened : deep. Some lives are as the tiny flowers; They osm in some darkened

ust as shadows in thelr bowers,

But knowing God am how" to

‘pray.

‘DAILY THOUGHT

Bless them that curse you, and pony or sm whi Sespiiefully use you—Luke 6:28,

be able to “t bear provevation “is an argument of great reason, to forgive it of great mind.—

embryos. This gives medical men a

- |Gen Johnson : Says— 7d

Hitler Apparently Tired of Bargain . With Stalin Which Contributes to Belief There Is a Chance for Peace. ‘hour,

L Jack ASHINGTON, Oct. 11~There is a hint of %tore

peace in the autumn air. Just how it could jgest appear, I don’t know. But it has become increasingly jjjen

probable that, in his desperate. tie-up with the bear- jn 5

that-walks-like-a-man, Hitler has stubbed his toe {“Dr, and fell on his face. Under the law of averages, some- IS a

thing like that was bound to happen sooner or. later. t

Itisa little like the Britons who invited the strong | and warlike Saxons into England to help them against hy 5 o, .

there weren't many Britons either. Hitler, at one

| stroke, seems to have gotten himsel bottled in the

Baltic, blocked in the Balkans and barred from’ thd

| Black Sea. He has apparently lost the Italian alliance

and gotten himself in the dog-house with most of the

world. There seems no way for him to march but: ‘west

and in that direction there is nothing for him but cer tain slaughter. He would probably pay much for peace. But that situation shouldnt make England and France cocky—they never yet have told more of what they are fighting for than to say they are out to end, not merely Hitler, but Hitlerism. But Hitlerism now also means Stalinism and Japism and fascism—the seizure of territory by force—and the Allies’ own skirts are none too clean in that regard. ; \ 3 8 » ” 5 UITE apart from the moral issues, there is the practical military one. If the Allied aim is to restore Poland and the status quo ante from the Black to Baltic Seas, Stalin would have to give up much more

plunder and strategic gain than Hitler.’ ‘He just wouldn’t do it. He wouldn't do i himself

‘and he wouldn't let Hitler do it. Catspaw Adolf has

sold himself down the river. Japan also has a big stake against Britain and there is more for England to lose in the Far East than in Poland. : In this crazy lightning scene shifting, thre might’ be a complete new line-up—a great. arc of powerful gangster nations from the Rhine to the Ching Sea. That .wouldn’t ‘make a happy Hitler. He would

| stand alone on the immediate fighting front with his

possible gains already lost. But it wouldn’t be so hot, for England either—not even if Italy, as always, changed sides when the shooting began.

F any of these nations, and especially Britain, France and Germany—know anything, it is that, if there is, no peace now, there is nothing else ahéad but an in<’ terminable war in which-—-no matter who wins—every-, body loses. All this is why there is a possibility of peace—perhaps the last one this side of universal ruin. It can. come if the nations want it. It can be prevented only. if they do so by making conditions impossible to accept, "Doubtless the outcome of this most interesting of

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-all recent developments will be largely influenced by

our President. It is a delicate moment. There is now body more competent to deal with this kind of deadly poker playing than Mr. Roosevelt. This is no time for kibitzing or arm-joggling, It isa time for fervent and absolutely silent prayer.

It Seems to Me

By Heywood Broun

Critics of F. D. R.'s Foreign Policy Now Urge Him to Act as Mediator.

EW YORK, Oct. 11.=I think that Roosevelt has a rendezvous with history. By a curious ‘and. ironic turn of events many of the men in Congress: who have argued that thé President should turn his back utterly on European affairs are now eager to have him act as mediator in the conflict. At the mo-

| ment the White House seems in no hurry to take on

the role which has been indirectly proffered by Berlin, And it would be fruitless for Mr, Roosevelt to make a. move: until he has received a round-robin mvitation, But the time is close. The effort should be made. It is optimistic to expect that a lasting peace can be arranged around a council table in which many will sit whose pledged word is justly subject to sus< picion. And yet if one accepts the premise that thewar is far more than a brawl the utility of negotiation is heightened. If it is true, and I believe it to be true, that the ideologies have clashed, then there is reason for argument rather than the: continuance of bome bardment. Even Hitler in those moments when he makes public boasts of victories in the field, gives palpable testimony

‘to the faith which he holds in the power of Nazi words

and proclamations. And since the case of democracy: is good it deserves its day upon the record. And even the most bitter political opponents of Franklin Delano Rooseveli may be moved to admit that he, above all: others, is the most eloguent and effective spokesman for American ideals.

The Case for Democracy

1 have become convinced that a continuance of the war will not readily solvé the issues at stake. I say this not because I think the issues are too petty and too local, but because I believe they are fundamental and almost beyond the range of even the most powerful of guns. In the long run, the proof of every economic and political theory must lie in its performance. : Instead of speaking of political spheres of influe’ ence an international congress might set up bounds in which various experimental economic theories’ of life might be. promulgated. -If fascism can win the heart of man it will survive. The same thing goes for communism, And while the experiment in democracy is older it has never been carried through to the hilt of its potentialities. § Why ‘not say, then, “for 10 years, or for 20, you go your way and we will go ours. At the end of that time we will meet again and see which one'of us nag the cause most worthy of sacrifice.”

Watching Your Healt By Jane Stafford

INGWORM of the feet, popularly Known as athlete’s foot, has become a very common disease and is not by any means limited to school children. In fact, the form that attacks the feet is more common - in adults than in children. Ringworm also occurs on the hands, face, head and.body, and this form is more common among children. It appears as circular areas, of baldness on the scalp or circular, reddened’ and slightly scaling areas on the face or body. After the age of 15, there is relative immunity to scalp ringworm. “The condition is caused by a funigus s0 ‘small Lh

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‘| can only be seen under the miscroscope. It spreads”

by direct skin-to-skin contact with the eruption or by clpthing, towels, floors and bath mats that have become contaminated by skin scalings or hairs of pers sons with ringworm. r Foot baths of i soiuions are sed i many gynasiums in an e! preven spread © worm of the feet among those using. swimming. pool showers and dressing rooms. Cleanliness of body and underclothing is importan portant 3 in fighting this disease It EE mpm equiring prompt an 80 there should be no delay about faking a child w » ringworm to’ the doctor. i ah At present the best methéd of avolding. the. disease |

: is to be particular dust keeping glean and using {one's own towels, clothing,

slippers and the like. the future, doctors may have. better ways of fight the condition, either by tor ev possibly by some sort of vaccination procedure. i

for this appears in news from a research 1

where the ringworm fungus has been grown on a handy : new

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