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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, 19%

GOING, GOING, . . . ~|saBF ~7ON RIBBENTROP says Germany “will now fight to the finish” in a war that has been “forced upon her.” The ‘German press shouts for an aerial invasion of England. The British retort that.two can play at that game, announcing that their planes have just made scouting flights over Berlin and other German cities. The world continues to sit on the edge of its chair, waiting for the frjghtfulnes

which it has been fearing daily since Sept. 3. :

We suspect that if Benjamin Franklin were here today he would still maintain, despite Versailles and Munich, that “There never was a good war or a bad peace.”

IT'S NEEDED | YT looks like a nip and tuck finish for this year’s Community. Fund. Despite the fact they need $69,994.84 to go swinging over the top, workers feel they can reach the goal of $683,710. : We sincerely hope they succeed, for these volunteers have put forth as fine an effort as we have seen in a long while. But we hope they succeed for another and more important reason. This year's goal of $683,710 is one of the lowest in many years. Consequently, anything less than that amount means that each one of the 37 welfare and charitable groups of the Fund will have to skimp on care of the infirm, the aged, the young, the crippled, the handicapped, and all the others who depend on-it for support. | | If you haven't made your contribution, if you have been overlooked by a Fund solicitor, or if you find that “you can. afford more than your original gift, send it in at -once. It is needed. : Co

SMOOT’S LAW AND MR. HANES |

N 80-billion-dollar national income would produce 8 billions in revenue at present tax rates, remove the

necessity of the emergency spending, and thereby make it

possible for the Government to balance its budget. That is what John W. Hanes, Undersecretary of the Treasury, told the New York Herald-Tribune’s Forum yesterday. And he made a strong appeal for business-govern-ment co-operation in building business volume to attain that income level and provide the needed revenue. ‘We don’t dispute Mr. Hanes’ proposition that the

answer to our country’s economic, social and fiscal prob-

lems lies primarily in a larger and ever-growing volume of _business. - And we would be last to accuse the Undersecretary of belonging to the wait-and-hope school of budgetbalancers, for he has done perhaps more than any other Government official in the direction of stimulating the confidence from which greater volume flows. | | | But we think he puts too little emphasis on the expenditure side of the budget. It is one thing to remove the “necessity” for emergency spending, but quite another to -stop the spending. ~~ One day back in the Coolidge Administration when the Democrats were heckling the Republicans about extravagance, former Senator Reed Smoot of Utah summed it “all up in. one crisp sentence: “Thé cost of government will “continue to rise, I care not what party is in power.” That .became known as Smoot’s law of government, and it is almost as irresistible as Newton's law of gravity. Our present Federal tax structure provides little or no -brake against rising government costs. Only about 5 per cent of the voters pay Federal income taxes; the other 95 per cent are soaked plenty—Dbiit indirectly and invisibly. So we wish Mr. Hanes had gone farther than he did in smerely recognizing that there are possibilities of raising

some slight additional revenue and increasing tax conscious- |

ness by broadening the income i base. We wish he had

. iplugged for immediate enactment ‘of income tax schedules

:that would double, treble or quadruple the number of in:come tax payers, and raise substantial revenues even on the basis of the present national income. For we greatly fear that until Congress sets up a tax ;system which touches the pocket nerves of a formidable number of citizens, Smoot’s law of Government is likely to keep at least two jumps ahead of any rising business volume. |

ZANE GREY vw a

© AS a dentist, he entertained his patients with stories of

g his prowess as a fisherman. One of them encouraged

. him to write those tales, and thus began the literary career : of Zane Grey. ; : : High-brows may deny that it was a literary career. His : novels were intended frankly for the popular taste, and : they hit that mark, earning him a fortune. Perhaps the West he pictured was romanticized beyond much resem-

*" blance to the real thing. But if he did not produce great

literature he did provide grand entertainment, and few authors of this generation have had more sincere mourners than does Zane Grey now that he has passed beyond his - beloved purple sage.

THE MULE SITUATION

. 'T°HE news from Columbus, Tenn., center of the American : © mule industry, seems to us pretty gratifying. . + It appears that there is no war boom in mules. At first there was quite a little speculative buying by dealers, ‘but foreign orders haven't materialized. For one thing, the mechanized armies haven't much need for mules yet; for another, .it isn’t clear whether mules are weapons of war

and so embargoed. _¢ Anyone who has had much experience with mules will {testify that.they can be both offensive and defensive, on occasions.

They and

But their preference is all for peace. don’t go around looking for trouble. Let the tan

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Price ‘in Marion Coun-'| - ered by carrier, 12 cents

Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler Wi in Reno;

Gambling Respectable

About Everybody Takes a ‘Hand.

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I) ENO, Nev., Oct. 26—There seems to be. three | Si

stories here, the wide open, legal gambling, the | §

| divorce industry and Nevada's humane attitude to- | §

ward soulless corporations and the rich. This is the one about gambling. = : !

_ The gambling is’ indubitably open, legal and one |

of the principal occupations of a great many locals and casuals. However, any vice which is cheap tends to demoralize itself and in Reno there is a roulette wheel for which 1-cent chips are sold and most of the bets on all the games, with the exception of faro and craps, are in amounts of a quarter or less. The standard limit in roulette is $5 on a number, but this is reached only when some high-roller happens along from the outside. But the vast bulk of the gambling, and it is vast only in bulk and over a long period, is pathetic in its scrawny poverty by comparison with the extravagance of the old buccaneers of Virginia City in the golden days. .

UNDREDS of slot machines line the walls and stand back-to-back in solid rows in the dumps and lurk in the corners of stores and restaurants, usually near the cash register, so as to suggest an idea to the customer who has just received some change. But those built for quarters receive little action, while the nickel and dime machines grind in the small money of a clientele composed for the most part of gamblers who are by no stretch of the imagination Park Ave. scions and scionesses of Hollywood stars. they seem closer to the WPA. In the keno rooms where cards are two for a dime, and in the big department stores of the gambling business which offer everything including the paddlewheel, ladies of the most reserved type and plainly not of the divorcing set are as much at home as the dealers who get $15 a day and enjoy full respectability under the law. ~ _ In Nevada gambling, properly licensed and provided the tools are honest, is as respectable as preaching and a stickman is on even terms, legally, with the Governor himself. Therefore, an elderly lady with her children grown up and gone away and with a dollar in hand is no more out of place spotting nickels on the corners of a layout or peering at the numbers on a pair of keno cards than she would be scuffling around in the chain grocery, squeezing melons and complaining of the price of neck-bones for stew. ® = = N Reno the city collected $59,452 and the county $48,142 in license fees from gambling devices in the year ended last June 30, at a flat rate per table, machine or whatnot, and without regard for the total amount of money gambled through them.

The grind is not maintained by the pretty people. | “It is supported by the town types of both sexes, from

9 o'clock of a Monday morning, to my certain knowledge, to long, long beyond 12 of a Saturday night. And something which I thoroughly understand, now that I am an old settler, 48 hours in Reno, boy and man, is our casual acceptance of all this gambling as petty amusement and commerce, unrelated to vice. It startles a stranger at first. Then he deosn't give it much of a thought. I hear it is the same way in those South Sea places where the ladies go around so nonchalant.

Business By John T. Flynn

Reich May Turn Socialist in Bargain With Russia to Prevent Collapse.

HICAGO, Oct. 26—The news from Europe—the less headlined news—has been such as to lead to the suggestion that the war in Europe may end swiftly or completely change its character because of the situation in Germany. .. The extent of the surrender of Hitler to Stalin is quite incredible. - His non-aggression pact was understandable. But when - Russia stepped into Poland

the situation was not so easy to understand since |’

Stalin’s entry into that part of Poland cut Hitler off from access to Rumania and put a barrier between himself and Russian Ukrainia. When Stalin began to pick off the Baltic states— Estonia, tvia, Lithuania—thus taking control of that part lof the Baltic most essential to Germany, the picture began to assume form and sense again. With the threat to Finland and the Aaland Islands the picture comes almost clear. Germany has had vital sources of iron in northern Norway and Sweden. The iron comes down through the Gulf of Bothnia and into the Baltic. Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania command the Baltic. } But Finland commands the narrower Gulf of Bothnia. And with the Aaland Islands, squatting in the very center of that highway, Russia would be able to shut off Germany’s Scandinavian iron supply. That Germany would sit idly by while such an operation is being completed is not to be believed, unless she is in a desperate state at home and helpless to prevent an encirclement far more fatal than any she suspected from her western foes.

Fantastic, but Logical

The only price from Russia which can be conceived as warranting this on Germany's part is that Germany needs vital supplies so seriously that she must get them from Russia. She does not have the wherewithal to buy. If Russia sends supplies to Germany it will not be to a Fascist Germany. It will be to a Germany so weakened by war and last-ditch economic devices, that she is on the verge of collapse. Collapse might mean that Germany would go into a revolution and that Stalin would be in a perfect position to step in and pick up the pieces, finance and supply a Communist regime. Or it might mean that the present leaders, would make a bargain with Russia—a bargain under which the transition of Fascist Germany to a Socialist Germany would be accomplished with Hitler still in power. All this seems fantastic. But it is no more fantastic than the things which have happened. Moreover it fits the economic Tacts as we know them.

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

most of us Finland is an admirable little country because she pays her debts. Nine out of 10 Americans are familiar only with that. trait of: her character, being unaware that there is another strong tie between us. For Finland is a country where the democratical ideal exists, and not only exists, but functions, and in many ways a great deal better than it does here. For example, Finnish women have more equality with men than those in America have ever enjoyed. Doors of opportunity into economical and political fields -are open to them which remain closed to feminine citizens in many of American states. Labor legislation is on the basis of eqyal right.

Perhaps these details may seem unimportant, and if we take the longer view I am convinced they are. It is not vital to our well-béing for women to be able to compete with men in every kind of labor, but it does seem we should be urged to engage in those tasks for which we are especially fitted by nature. "The waste of woman power, brains and, ingenuity in the United States at the present mament is a shameful blot upon the patriotic ’scutcheon. In a thousand places where it is needed feminine skill is barred or only grudgingly tolerated. ‘In the matter of making ugly places sightly and bringing beauty to drab spots, women are especially

gifted. They are cleaners and scrubbers by nature;

they love tidiness and are adept at working out interesting new arrangements and color schemes. Any small town party luncheon table, proves that. The usually contrives to “do wonders with very

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For the Country's Sake He Hopes That Corcoran's 'Yés-Men' Won't Be Running Industry in Event of War,

ETROIT, Mich., Oct. 26.—The mystery of the report of the ill-fated War Resources Board on ‘Industrial Preparation for "War remains unsolved. The board, upon its appointment, was loudly heralded ‘as an advisory committee which would first study and report upon economic mobilization and then, if the worst happens, become a great industrial council —to run our resources for the awful purposes of war, The selection of most of the board was a blunder. All but three were Morgan-du Pont products, or satellites, and it would never do to have a Morgandu Pont war. ‘So it was announced that the board would soon have accomplished its great task of surveying our war resources and, after rendering. its report, would retire. It is duly receding.! But where is the report? I don't know, but that report, if any, will never make any headlines when it comes out. While this board was composed of top-notch names 0. Indus, it Biwi Xomposel of experts .in the e indus an nun) production that will be most : EEL Le ‘A S a result, before the board could even enter its first duties, it had to educate itself upon exactly the things upon which it was supposed to educate the War Department. yo ; Thus the War Resources Board hardly had time to commence’ to get ready to begin to function before if was liquidated, Thus also the world can un-lax its eagerness for the revelations of that report. All this does not mean that such a survey and report are not urgently necessary. The President understands this necessity. There are two current Washington forecasts. One is that, after the neutrality debate, a. new and more intelligently selected board of real experts will be appointed. The other is that the Administration feels that, it already has plenty of ex perts in various departments—not merely to report on industrial mobilization but to run it.. : : » » » a

OR the country’s safety’s sake, prayers ought to be offered that the latter rumor is not right. In some few departments, this claim of competent experts is true. Mr. Wallace’s organization could goose-

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~The Hoosier

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

step war agriculture. ' Jerome Frank's S. E. C. and | Jesse Jones organization wouldn’t need any emergency capital issues committee or war finance corporation. Harold Ickes’ organization could do the fuel administration job and the Maritime Commission that of the 1918 shipping board. But think of indus~ ° try at large being mobilized by the Secretary of Labor, and the Department of Commerce. .

Secretary Morgenthau also got together a council

THINKS MORRISSEY HAS TOO MUCH AUTHORITY By Times Booster I am a daily reader of your paper and a great admirer of it. Your recent expose of the unbelievable and disgraceful acts of the Center Township Trustee’s office has only

made me respect you more. There is, however, another matter that should be brought to the public’s attention and at this time I want to commend Judge McNelis for his stand in this situation. I am bitterly opposed to any one’s having the taxpayers and police department so bottled up that a citizen can not enjoy his constitutional rights. : Our Chief, Mike Morrissey, does have such a free hand he is so arbitrary that it is time for the courts, Mayor, Board of Safety or some one else to put their foot down. « o 2 8 ”

WHAT MAY BE NEXT IN SENATE DEBATE? By A. B. C. And now an embargo advocate stands up in the U. S. Senate and proposes that we grab the West Indies while England's back is turned. What may we expect next?

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URGES U. S. BEWARE OF REPEATING MISTAKE By Common Sense Our nation was called on to cross the seas with our money and soldiers on the plea that it was our duty to do our part to save civilization. Did we have it? No. We lost our money and 50,000 lives and received back as many more physical ‘and mental wrecks. Why repeat? Why allow ourselves to be befuddled by emissaries who seek another sacrifice on the plea of fellowship because we use the same language, or for any other reason? Beware of sweet words and axes to grind. Life is cheap in the thickly populated countries and, as Cecil Rhodes said, “To the fittest belong the So to get, the trade their rulers do not scruple to sacrifice the lives of their citizens—the more left for those who survive—and those in control take care not to get into the front line. England has been spending millions on wildcat schemes in the

I believe the best man for the job

‘too much impressed--“I am no hel-

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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.)

we- have for saving the taxpayers

side until it is proven otherwise.

East to get trade ,and to protect some mongrel nation that cries for Help because some other mongrel nation is attacking it. . Why does she not use those millions to develop the unlimited resources of Australia, to which she will be compelled to move eventually, or to anja? FE

2 8 =» GIVES TOM QUINN VOTE OF CONFIDENCE By John L. Sullivan There has been much said about conditions in the Center Township:

Trustee's office. Some interests are asking for Tom Quinn’s resignation.

Trustee’s office? » » » FEARS FASTER WRITING HURTS LITERARY QUALITY By W.M, :

now is Mr. Quinn. If it can be dishonest, I will say he should resign—but until then 1 say stay with it, Mr. Quinn. I believe he is just a good fellow

riously questioned.

but why should he quit? If the man is honest, he is the best chance

money because the finger will be on him constantly and he is bound to} give us a good administration. Most

everyone believes that Mr. Quinn is honest and I'm going to be on his

Could it be possible that someone wants Mr. Quinn to resign so. that they can dictate the policies. of the

A pen is a brake, preventing too quick thinking. Perhaps, because it| ° is relatively slow, it was the most important reason, second only to the intelligence directing it, that much of the literary effort made in ‘the past was more generally successful. In the past century we have had great writers, but none approached in the quality of their writing the great works of Shakespeare. It may be contended, therefore, that the inproven that Mr. Quinn has been troduction of the typewriter has quickened the pace of modern writing, but whether quality has made similar strides forward is to be se-

of practical financial experts. The Corcoran-Cohen- . Perkins cabal mowed them down in the same barrage that liquidated the War Department Board. But over in the Department of Commerce, at the same time, Mr. Hopkins set up .his own industrial general staff. Here are the names of these great leaders: Bassie, Coln, Davison, Hughes, Humphrey, Salant, G.C..Johnson, Newcomb, Perlo, R. H. Riley, McDonnell, L. C., Wilson. They are a typical bouquet of Corcoran yes-men— theoretical economists with no practical industrial experience whatever. Isn’t that a poor way to prepare national defense on the industrial side for any war?

lt Seems te Me By Heywood Broun

Chicago Eleven Not so Good Now, But They'll Do All Right Later On.

N= Oct. 26.—Congratulations are in order e

at the moment to' the University of Chicago. aten 61 to 0 by Harvard, it has now been trampled upon to the tune of 85 to 0 by Michigan. ; Dr. Robert -M. Hutchins said in effect: when he assumed the presidency of the institution that he hoped ‘the football teams would not be very hot. I am only quoting prexy, approximately. At any rate, he has his wish and should be very happy. On the wholg, the moral victory over Harvard was even more significant than the Michigan debacle. "Way back in the days of the point-a-minute teams of Hurry-Up Yost Michigan occasionally ran-up centuries. But when Harvard wins by 61 to 0 that is news, particularly in the cast of the frail aggregation now being coached by Richard Harlowe,. .. :

New Books

EW" are the men who haven't once wanted to chuck it all and just fly away. Some get dead serious about it and they do fly away. Such a man is Wolfgang Langewiesche and he tells now he flew| stand clear across the street.” away in “I'll Take the High Road” (Harcourt, Brace & Co.). y y Less than 10 years ago Mr.jLangewiesche was a rqsearch assistant in the University of Chicago, fast becoming, by his own admission, a library drone. . Today he’s a capable pilot, able to go about any place his raving whims may lead. But lest you be

pilot’s

went into the flights.

meted, begoggled hero of the skies; picture ‘me ‘bookish, bespectacled unable even to hold a teacup with-|’ out rattling it. ...” ” But Mr. Langewiesche is quite

jumps—intentional ones;

serious about his flying: “I tried

Side Glances—By Galbraith

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strange, forsaken land, Key West.

amateur pilot. rented ships, flew on a well-con-country. : . "If you've had ideas along this line, Mr. Langewiesche has encouragement for you in the appendix: “Flying is now possible for any person of normal intelligence who is in good health and is financially able to eat regularly.” : Then the author goes ahead to explain in details and dollars and cents what he means. ~~ Want to fly? ..P),

- BUCKEYES By ALBERTA DUNCAN STIER Grownups fret and wish (they Might turn back years, live days Of childhood when they roamed Autumn woods—nor hurried hom Till deepening shadows : . Mingled with: evening's haze,

Eight-year-old, you wander now Beneath those selfsame trees I knew. ; : : Lost youth returns with your cry, “Mommy, see, buckeyes for you.”

DAILY THOUGHT

Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gift, or the altar + that sanctifietly the gift?—Mat- | thew 23:19.

our love for

hard to forget about flying. ‘But wanting ‘to fly is like hunger and like love: The harder you iry to forget it, the worse it gets. It got so that I could spot an airplane on the cover of a magazine:on a news-

Prom buying “iime” in hour lots and struggling toward a private license, the author soon reached the stage where nothing but cross-country flying would calm the urge to “get in the air.” Most every week-end ' and every spare penny

All this, remember, by a strictly Mr. Langewiesche

tracted budget, but saw. lots of

I trust that whenever a Cantabridgian capered across the line the eluded Chicago end inquired, “Well played, old fellow, but how goes your Greek, and what is your figure in Fine Arts I?” . : The student body and the public in general should | have some ‘such feeling about Chicago. When the line is split in twain and the rival backs go tearing by, the boys in the cheering section have a right to say, “That all goes to prove our scholastic standing.”

still Hope for Harvard

In fact if Harvard had not taken a sound trouncing at the hands of Penn in atonement for its Chicago triumph I would have had forebodings about the future of the classic halls along the Charles. You don’t get ‘Walter Lippmanns out of teams which win bys61 to-0. In other seasons Richard Harlowe has had some Crimson teams which were much too good, and I hope that ‘when the attack clicked to perfection he him‘self had a certain sense of shame. For Mr. Harlowe can do something else very well. He isa distinguished

Gliding around the Metropolitan t. Airport at Chicago was put down as kid’s stuff by this time. So first he took a cross-country to tlre Southwest. Next came some parachute a little later two .and three-day hops. over the Midwest. And all the while experience in navigation was piling up. “Last there is the Christmas vacation trip all the way from New York south, over swamps, barrier beaches, Georgia pines and finally to that

And after watching his charges perform so ineptly against they men of Penn I hope a brand new idea may come tb him with which to save the season from disaster. My suggestion is that the good gray .coach should make a little pep talk about as follows: : " «Fellows, turn in your uniforms and all equipment, for from now on we will scrimmiage no more, fall upon the ball or tackle the dummy. Boys, we're going for a bird walk, and there's a varsity H for the lad who spots the greatest number between. here and Dorchester.” Then may 77, the Red Grange digits, mean, “He saw 50 many robins.” : :

Watching Your Health | By Jane Stafford ey

HE child who will not eat or has many food disT= is pointing out that something. is ‘wrong with his life, Katherine Reeves, head of the nursery school at the New York State College of Home Economics declares. She gives the five following reasons why -children may refuse to eat the food put before them: ign? 1. Some physical or physiological condition. Frail, badly nourished or anemic children are often inclined not to eat. For them Miss Reeves advises a modified schedule with more frequent meals, vest and food that is easy to eat. Be Rl "2. A child may résent the pressure of adult authority. If the child senses his parent's irritation at_his refusal to eat, he may use mealtime to exploit this ‘situation. LA i Bk te “0 "3. Boredom. The child who is bored by lack of companionship and other activities outside of mealtime may use .this occasion to create interest, draw attention, .and generally amuse himself. fh 4. A child may have too many decisions to make. Some parents, in their eagerness to have their: children eat at any cost, permit their children to decide what to eat, where and when. It is a wearing experi= ence, Miss Reeves comments. Era ad 5. Consistent dislikes for a certain food may ho be actual cause of a refusal to eat. While it is true that children tire of foods given them day after d since babyhood, and appreciate efforts to vary foods, variation in food is not the only way to ¢ vate appetite. ‘Outdoor play, rest, freedom from st: and companionship all have a bearing on and should he considered. in relation to fusal to eat. : : ps