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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1939

THE RELIEF SITUATION TAXPAYERS get fed up when politicians get too gree It was therefore inevitable that the loose, costly and partisan system under which direct relief is administered in places like Center Township should finally come to light. The time has arrived to make a full and thorough investigation of this whole business. Let's find out what has been going on. |

CRIME AND THE FUND T is disturbing to learn that there has been a large, increase in juvenile crime here during the past year. Figures submitted to the Safety Board by Detective Chief Simon show that police believe 75 per cent of this City’s burglaries and petit larcenies to be the work of youngsters. From Jan. 1 to Oct. 1 this year there were 1559 crimes attributed to juveniles, 516 more than for the same period last year. It is an increase of 50 per cent. Apparently there is still a very large group of juveniles in need of the supervision and guidance which the Boy Scouts, the Y. M. C. A. and similar organizations can provide. One answer is that we ought to make it possible for these organizations to widen their efforts It is a community problem that coreegns all of us. One way of helping these organizations is to give to the Community Fund. The Fund can help repair not only clothes and spirits, but the morals of bewildered and -mistaken youngsters.

CELEBRATION IN BERLIN T was a pathetic story that described wild rejoicing in Berlin as a result of false reports that an armistice had been arranged, that the Chamberlain cabinet had fallen in London and that the Duke of Windsor was about to succeed King George on the British throne. Pathetic, because it revealed two things about the German people. First, how sadly they have been deceived by their own rulers. The Nazi Government has blamed the false reports on a sinister plot of the British Secret Service. That seems unlikely. It is the Nazis’ own propaganda—the “synthetic optimism, the effort to create expectation that Britain and France would grasp at the first opportunity to back out of the war—that has prepared the German people to believe incredible things. * Second, how much they want peace. Hitler has told them of great victories in Poland. He has assured them that their armies are invincible. Yet they are eager to celebrate an end to war. Perhaps there is also a gleam of hope in the story. As the German people learn that they are being deceived by their rulers and that peace on Hitler's terms cannot be bought cheaply, the will may grow among them to seek peace on just terms. If that will becomes strong enough, | the people of other countries should be ready to join the people of Germany in celebrating a real armistice.

PRICE OF CASH-AND-CARRY THE human tendency to over-simplify is being revealed in the second week of the great argument. ] Cash-and-carry, as first stated, seemed almost unde‘batable. Forbid any trade with belligerents except as they ‘will use their own ships and as we sell them on the barrelhead. Excellent idea! Safety first! But it is now being brought out that this means wide paralysis of American shipping — since American boats ‘heretofore in Atlantic and Pacific trade would have to park “for the duratign” or compete in non-belligerent waters ‘with a trade ‘already adequately serviced. Which would -hit our own merchant marine right where it lives. So, in‘stead of a war boom, there would come a war depression, ‘unemployment and bankruptcy, so far as our seamen, ship owners, exporters and importers are concerned. Also, ex- : tensive weakening of our Navy, since merchantmen as well ‘as battleships are vital to complete naval operation. Hence, speeches now are being made in behalf of ‘exempting from the embargo the Pacific trade and com“merce in other zones which might technically be belligerent ‘but actually not hazardous. : Senator Bailey of North Carolina, chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, presents alarming statistics. Modification of the safety-first, cash-and-carry program is ‘being urged by many who at the outset.over-simplified “and went whole-heartedly and without reservation for the - principle. . Secretary Hull, urging all restrictions that may be required to keep us out of danger says: “Such inconveniences and losses as may result from this voluntary curtailment of our freedom of action . .. constitute from the point of view of our national interest . . . a worthwhile sacrifice.”. With which we agree. But what if we owned a ship? Or to get personal, what if some high governmental authority should say that “it would be a worth while sacrifice to the common good to shut down your newspaper and let all your employees out, and then, if you can, go on relief?” Accordingly, as a matter of justice, it seems to us that our Government might very well say: “War is the most costly of all things, present and potential. If we get in, millions will be merely white chips and billions not even blue. The most obvious way to stay out of danger is to stay out of danger zones. But if we do that, by edict, our seamen, shippers and ship owners will have to take the rap, and most of them will go bust. Apart from the other elements involved, human Yife and ~ heartaches and all the suffering war entails, it is just a plain, cold, money-saving business to forbid our ships access to belligerent seas. people who will benefit, should recompense those he ar the immediate loss.

“Peo

ho must Whatever it costs will be dirt

“Unless meticulously done it would mean an open season for subsidy and greed. But the problem isn't one that

In order to do that we, the whole |

4 | who goes to battle.

Fair Enough :

By Westbrook Pegler

Traditional Peace and Quiet of His TE Beloved Pound Ridge, Conn. Being|

Rudely Upset by Political Strife.

OUND RIDGE, Conn. Oct. 12. —Up here’ where live, away from it all, political strife is brewing,

because so many people have come up to get away from it all that we aren's away from it all at all any more. A dozen years ago it was very qulet;: the roads were rough and the village store sold overalls, patent medicines and licorice whips. Now the roads are very well kept and the store sells imported ale, charged water and camembert. It seems that among those who saw the place first and restored abandoned farmhouses or built new dwellings there was apprehension lest too many refugees from the mental moil of the city and not just the right type follow them into this paradise. For this reason it was decided that the region be zoned and that, among other restrictions, building plots should be at least two acres in extent. There was objection to that right away on the ground that of the local yeung men and women, who were only little kids when we started to beautify nature with nursery trees, and lawn furniture, many could not afford two acres. : # 2 8 HAT is true, and in this phase the zoning ordinance can be attacked as an act to discourage matrimony and drive these young people out of the community in which they were born and in which, in many cases; their ancestors fought the Indians and the British over these very hills. Soon an agitation began to array the country people against the city folks, but the political line is badly snarled, because the zonin straight descendants of local piorfeers, while the other side includes some Johnny-come-latelys from town. { There are some other confusing angles, too. For instance, the country ticket, led by city people, would open the region to bungalow settlements of city people, who would thus increase to a hopeless degree the very preponderance against which the present campaign is directed. 2 8 = A NOTHER thing is that this new ticket is Democratic in an old-time kiver-to-kiver Republican district but calls itself the Citizens Ticket, which is an insinuation that the Republicans, both city and country, aren't really citizens at all but civic and

political declarees, like convicts and lunatics, Some of’

‘| our people feel pretty insulted about that.

And, further to confuse the confusion, the New Dealers of the Citizens Party are raising a hue and cry against the incumbent Republicans for trying to establish a self-perpetuating political monopoly— which is a fine thing coming from anyone who indorses a third term for the President. I am not sure but that those who oppose the new ticket may be deemed to have knifed President Roosevelt in a critical time. It is kind of funny to find city people who are, on the whole, inclined to prejudice and to exclude others, individually and en masse, themselves attacked as undesirables on the proposition that if you let one. city family get a foothold their relatives and friends will soon overrun you and eventually run you out. And it was so lovely and quiet up here away from it all until it all followed us up.

Business By John T. Flynn

Mood of Peace Seems tc Be Giving Way to a Psychology of War.

Ni YORK, Oct. 12. Little by little thé bird builds its nest. And. it is upon the same schedule that a nation moves into war. It is surprising to behold how far we have traveled away from the mood of peace and toward the psychology of war with the struggle in Europe only six weeks old. What is the explanation? Three years ago the college students of the country were organizing and, incidentally, raising Hail Columbia about the Oxford Oath—an oath not to go to war no matter what our part in it might be. tically all those students have abandoned that position. They are now clamoring for America to put herself on the side of the democracies. Three years ago, when the munitions inquiry was going great guns, the country was a unit in holding that trade with warring countries would get us into war and adopted the Neutrality Law to prevent that. In 1936 the President, at Chaiitauqua, warned that it was by seeking trade in a war that, by easy steps, we would get into the war. Now he asks Congress in his recent message why we should ship raw materials abroad to be processed into arms when we can process them ourselves and get the profit and employment out of it. All that pre-war mood of reason is thrown overboard.

Wonders What's Next

The preparedness hysteria is far advanced. We are talking about having the greatest Navy, and the President outstripped military men in talking about 20,000 planes. I hear daily stories about how, as soon as Hitler whips England and France, he will come

‘over here. We are asked why we should wait to fight

him on our own soil, when we can fight him in Eu. rope. Already we have been told thai England's Navy alone protects us. Foolish and fantastic as this is, yet it is retailed to our people. In the movement to end the arms embargo, the President screens it behind a demand for cash and carry—a thing all of the neutrality bloc have fought for from the beginning. But hardiy is the bill introduced when we see it is not cash and carry, but 90-day-credit-and-carry. Now we are told that the.Americas must draw a band hundreds of miles wide around the Ameriean continents and prevent any war acts between the belligerénts in that band. What ‘will be next? ‘Why have we traveled so much further this time than in 1915? The reason is obvious. Our leadership then was bent on keeping us out. Our leadership now is itching to get us into the controversy in some way.

A Woman's Viewpoint

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

“IN every war,” says a famous feminine columnist, “it is the women who pay the highest price.” She then proceeds to dish up the customary comments about the heartbreak of mothers, wives and sisters who watch their men off to fight. And there's truth in every word she says. But what about the multitudes of women in our country who are unattached to males? Cities are running over with spinsters and divorcees and childless wives who aren’t going to suffer any such throes if war should come to us. Let's be realistic about them, if you please. I am perfectly sure such women love peace and hate war as much as we mothers do, but at the same time I am also perfectly sure they will not suffer from it as much as their sisters whose husbands and sons will have to fight. It cannot be denied that the chief lure of war is the lack of excitement felt by the average person during times of peace. Lifé becomes drab, stale and

presto, we're off, with shivers of exaltation. For women like excitement quite as well as men— and nowadays many find life pretty meaningless. Would it not seem wise then to leave sentimental

people include some.

But prac-.

memory had been a little bett

tiresome, when suddenly the trumpets blare, and

nonsense out of war talk and try to realize that, unless a woman lives in an invaded country or sends men she |.

y ’ : ; i Sy > .: The Hoosier Forum 1 wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your Hight to say it. —Voltaire.

ONE EXPLANATION FOR NAZI OIL SHORTAGE By A. B.C. Berlin seeks from Russia an increased supply of oil. Evidently the propagandists have used up too much this last month by spreading it on too thick. 8 8 # HAMILTON FISH REPLIES TO WESTBROOK PEGLER By Hamilton Fish, New York To Westbrook Pegler: I was amazed and astonished to read your article published Sept. 28 in The Indianapolis Times and other newspapers, taking me to task for “carelessness regarding the source and truth of information.” I|*

am afraid, after two ‘years, your memory is not as infallible as you

‘would indicate,

I remember a pleasant visit from you, with no outbursts by you as you indicated, and I also remember that you were gathering information to be used against the Roosevelts in your colmuns. It is true that I showed you several letters that had just come to me

ing that Mrs. James Roosevelt, for whom I have a high regard, received $35,000 from the Federal Government for the repair and maintenance of her home at Hyde Park while President Roosevelt used if as a summer White House. If Four , you would have recalled that I sgid at

these charges, but would investigate and ascertain the facts. The same applies to your statement that the President’s father in his will provided that his son should have no hand in the management of his estate. I have repeatedly re-

‘plied to inquiries that I knew noth-

ing about and did not believe it. The only basis of truth in your column is that I showed you some

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 check every detail carefully before accepting them as facts, as I know that anything that I might say that cannot be ‘substantiated would weaken the balance of my argument. : It seems to me that some of the columnists are much more careless

from constituents and others, alleg-

that time that I did not bhelieve|

letters that were on my desk, that

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with facts than men in public life, who know that the slightest deviation from the facts defeats the cause which they are upholding. : # = ” THINKS POLICY OF ISOLATION WRONG By J. M. C. Previous” to 1914, our economic conditions permitted us to remain isolationists. After the World War the demands of foreign trade forced us to step up our industries. It was built up so rapidly thav when other countries began to compete with us our Government could not cope with the complex situations and we found our industries paralyzed. Our form of government and the Constitution is the same that they used -generations ago. Only the conditions and the minds:of our people have changed. ‘But the spiritual

basis of the Constitution and the fundamental principles of govern-

ment are the same, and it is this solid foundation of \ Americanism that will hold this country together and force our Government to take its. rightful place of influence in world affairs in order to save our own economic necks. Many times since the World War, our influence has been felt in world affairs. In a small way, its is true; for, while we wanted to remain isolated, we reluctantly helped other countries to preserve our own security. Meanwhile we invested private capital in these countries and proceeded to grow rich on their helplessness, But a rich man cannot throw crumbs to poor relations and still hold their respect. Now these “poor relations” have made a comeback, economically and militaristically. Their economic growth demands new markets and their military machines obtain those markets. While we just sit back smugly, getting deeper in debt, spending our wealth instead of using it to build up a world trade for our own betterment as well as other countries. . oe 2 ” ®

EVEN SPECTATORS AT WAR MUST PAY By Observer

Economists say war today is even expensive for the onlooker. As ih gridiron battles and prize fights, we

must pay admission to enjoy the conflict.

New Books

RB 44 years the world, Bersdity. i F and environment were the masters of Stuart Shaw. Then suddenly the genius of an orphan boy made him stand up, face the world and fight, That is the story Percy Marks tells in “The Days Are Fled,” Frederick A. Stokes Co. In his “Tree Grown Straight,” Mr. Marks told the story of a boy growing into manhood. In his new book he tells of a boy growing to adulthood, rearing a son and daughter and finally becoming the guardian of a ragamuffin who hears better music than he can play. Stuart Shaw was the son of a

mediocre theater musician. He in-

herited musical ability, but whatever genius he might have had was

loves to fight, she does not suffer as much as the man |. ;

Instead, . ‘her ego may be. Ame. Tn

{ with noble feelings. Actually, truth compels us to adit. war ould temporarily benefit millions of women in the United

should be ignored

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States. That's why we must also be on our guard against feminine jingoists., ; :

Side Glances—By Galbraith

killed by the selfishness of his father and his musje teacher in forcing him inté the drudgery of constant practice that took away all traces of a happy childhood. Finally, in Germany, he found a teacher who cotild save something of the talent that had béén encrusted with skill, but only éhough to make him a “musician’s musician” and a teacher in a girls’ collége. Marrying one of his least promising pupils, he has twin children —a boy who inherited his remarkable musical ear, a daughter who inherited her mother’s common sense. Recalling his own unhappy

life, however, he would not let his

son lose his playtime for music. Except for that, he contributed little to the life of his own children; they got from him, nevertheless; his deep love of beauty. - That was the reason that the

‘| family accepted Tony Scala, the

vegetable peddier’s son, into their lives, Tony had infinitely more musical genius than either his guardian or the guardian's son— and far less musical education. What he lacked in training, Stuart Shaw could give him. Stuart had moved along with the current of the world so long that he did not understand how strong society would fight against him when he sought to break its conventions and give his whole life to the orphan. But the one thing Stuart Shaw could be expected to fight for was beauty, in order to give ‘Tony Seals the right to know beauty to the full he threw in all his own love of beauty and all his strength. When the battle was over, he had not only won Tony a place in the artistic world, but he had given himself a place there. too—By 8, H.

THE TEST

By ELEEZA HADIAN Not, being rich, - Criterion For feeling rich. But feeling rich ~~ Sure touchstone For being Ticht

~ DAILY THOUGHT |

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avoid do ‘Ahings' that are’ To ham type, of dramatics., : Congressman 3¢ ing New Pranklin Roosevelt; has t ganized an

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public payroll, is treasurer of that committee. official stationery, he is soliciting finds to support that

committee’s activity.

This column regards ‘the - ‘objective of /Mr, Pish’s committee as the most important cause now before our public. It agrees that a constant vigilance ‘and dosing with antidote against powerful and poisonous: Lm ganda to get us in are distinctly ‘écessary, But isn’t’ the way to-do it. Members of Congress are, paid by the atl tepanal district and the people as a whole, ‘in the constant debate’and

strategy for the fixing of laws. But it is no part of

the proper duty of any of them ‘to organize - political pressure blocs in both the country at. large and Congress itself and, in any typical Father ‘Cough lin technique, solicit conttibutions; jorge and: Smal, from the public for the plain JOS ‘of propaganda 8 =.o.8

iat I’ is a good cause—keeping out’ of sar<bub Wp

precedent. One of the fund soliciting Tatters said that the purpose is to offset the “New Dedl war hyse teria. campaign.” It misrepresented ‘repeal of the arms embargo as giving the “President power to select the aggressor nations—the war-making powers of Cone gress.” It suggested that the money asked is “to back up those members who are working in the interest of peace by getting their statements to people in all sec tions of .the country.” Thirty-seven of the members of the “committee” are Republicans, one is a Democrat. The question of keeping-out of war ought to be a non-partisan question. The moment it becomes anything different, we lose a lot. Party pressures and party loyalties, if enlisted on the-side of getting into war would be very dangerous. Public opinion‘is so overwhelmingly against getting in that there is! Tow no danger, There is no “war party, 4 8 wigs ae T= very process of trying to. Sofi: the Republicans as the only “peace party”»—no matter how phoney—has a distinct tendency to mix. the deadly question of peace or war in with all the lesser but still hotly contested issues between the pro-New Dealers and the antis. It has no place there, ; I is an entirely different question. wt SE Do some New Deal policies’ tetid toward Wir? I think they do but I do not believe that they are so intended. I know of no “war hysteria” New Deal campaign. It is a question of opinion. to be debated, not a Question of politics for emotional tom-tom beating. While Mr. Fish is doubtless honestly worried and sincerely eager to serve the cause of peace, this kind of medicine show snake oil yending is apt to work just the other way. It degrades and discredits debate and deliberation on some of the most serious Jolene this counwy ever faced.

It Seems to Me By Heywood Broun

Yankees Ought to Be Présecuted - For ‘Restraint of Trade, at Least.

NEV YORK, Oct. 12 —Soniebody should: appeal to the Attorney General. The Yankees have won their fourth consecutive World's Series, and if that isn’t combination in restraint of trade I never sawone. : ! ~The situation is also an incitement to subversive propaganda. Our national game itself may be seized upon by agitators to prove that efficiency does not de=« pend upon the. profit motive. This is not a reference to the employees. It is worse than that. The management itself seems subject to the charge of being - corrupted through and through with idealism. The New York American League Baseball Co. has not gone in the red, as far as I know, but its gains have been gravely curtailed by the fact that recent races have been runaways, with all the contests in ° the latter part of the season constituting nothing more than academic exhibitions. And when the series .crown. is gained in four straight games the bread comes right out of the . mouths of the magnates. And yet President Ed Bar- - row sils chortling in the counting house and seems . to say, “Money isn’t everything.” And no hope of greater equality in the game looms ahead. The pursuit of happiness by the rival owners is little better than a wild-goose chase, since along .

‘the racks replacements lie ‘maturing for some day

to come. When Gehrig went the way of iron men up popped Dahlgren, and. Keller seems another Ruth. Gordon is already tops, although a juvenile, and | Dickey one of the great receivers of all time. |

Missionary Work Needed

In other words, we bestride the baseball world, and petty pitchers hack helplessly at the ankles of . the Yankees. This is bad. It adds fuel to the hate of those in the hinterlands who insist that New York is not properly a part of the Union. And it does not satisfy these protesters that annually the Giants and the - Dodgers are offered up as sacrificial goats. to atone : for the virtues of the Yankees. - In the old days men who had the welfare of the national game at heart.sent missionary expeditions to Japan, England, Australia’ and other remote ’ corners of the globe so that the unlettered savages might get a touch of American culture and learn to cry out, “Kill the umpire!”. But missionary work is also needed here at home. = It is about time that followers of the St. Louis Browns were permitted to see a baseball player. Even Brooklyn has rights and deserves an outfielder, Too long have the rooters of Manhattan sat at the table of Dives. We have reached a surfeit. Crumbs will no longer suffice the Lazaruses of the League. They deserve a curve ball pitcher and a utility ine fielder who can bis 230.

Watching Your | Health

By Jane Stafford

ABIES is a widespread skin ailment which is often z very troublesome in school, although it may af- - fect anyone. Another name for it is the itch. Like - pediculosis, it is especially likely to occur when cleaniness of body and clothing are neglected. and’ th : standards of personal hygiéne are low. ! It is caused by a parasitic. insect called the itch mite. The mite lives in a small burrow, about half an inch long, which it makes for: itself in the skin. The female lives at the end of this burrow.. The itch

‘mite seems to like the folds-where the skin is’ vg =

delicate, such as the web between the fingers and toes the backs of the hands, and the armpits, ; enough, it does not often burrow into. the skin of the face or head.

The rash or eruption in scabies is sald to- result |

largely from the irritation of scratching. The ‘itching is felt chiefly at night after,going to bed. ‘In: si the wrists and the skin between the fingers usually are the first places where the condition is noticed. : You can get scabies either directly by contact with a person who has it or indirectly by using his gloves, undercl or bedding. As in the case of ringworm cr of osis, the keynote in avoiding or gete ting rid of scabies is cleanliness, Gitniog ‘and with fastidiclothing ‘and linen, | Lh py 0! ee

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