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“PHONY WAR” | NRACKS about “this phony war” and speculation about T “when the war will really start” continue to be heard oft every hand. It almost,seems as if there were a certain impatience, a resentful feeling that we the audience are seated and the ¢ast should get on with the mov A phony war? " & Ask any Pole. Ask any European Jew. : Ask any Finn or Rumanian or Hollander or Swiss snatched from his peaceful routine for frontier duty. Ask any Esthonian or Latvian or Lithuanian. Ask ‘any French or German or British machine-gunner lying in the rain under a bush between the Maginot Line and the Westwall. : - Ask the widows of British sailors, of U-boat crews, of French aviators. Ee : The war has had many queer diplomatic aspects, ‘and perhaps there is something to come that will make all this seem picayune in retrospect, but “phony” seems a callous word for what exists today. -

MONSIGNOR O'CONNOR

: INDIANAPOLIS has lost one of its finest citizens in the

death of Monsignor Maurice F. O'Connor of St. Joan of

‘Arc Church. The Catholic diocese has lost a sincere and able churchman. Sometimes referred to as “the Cardinal Hayes of Indianapolis” because of his charitable work, Monsignor O'Connor died yesterday in St. Vincent's Hospital. at the age of 55. : A native of Indianapolis, he became interested in the various charities of the church early in his career. And although he came to build the largest parish in the diocese ahd although recognition of his talents resulted in heavy demands in diofesan administration, his interest in the unfortunate never wavered. He helped establish the Catholic Community Center - and the Catholic Charities Bureau. He took a leading role in the founding of St. Elizabeth’s Home. These will be his monuments.

THE SIREN SONG AGAIN HERES a little free advice for which we'll probably get no thanks if the market does go sharply up, and which will be forgotten without gratitude if it goes down. But anyway— «<< a - There are signs in the sky pointing to considerable increase in “war bride” spetulative activity of the marginal type. ‘This, because of the repeal of the arms embargo. Already hunches to get in on this or that are flying thick. We think the thing for all of us novices to remember is that playing the market isn’t our game; that no matter : how much we might win temporarily the chances are we would lose it back and then some; that the average person, unaccustomed even to the machinery of stock speculation, can’t move fast enough to escape with his skin. ! If we must gamble, let’s get out the dice, or pick out a horse, and be clear-cut about it with cash on the barrelhead. But as for/the marginal play, let's remember that throwing seven or eleven is much less of a strain; that the _hoaty art of power politics has nothing on the big board of the curb when it comes to getting cleaned. Stock speculation goes against number one of the economic commandments. You can’t get, and keep, something for nothing. * That kind of speculation is one thing; investment is another. But even investments, though made with all care, don’t by any means all pan out. For ours is erroneously called the profit system. Actually it is g profit and loss system. Mortality is high in any business. But, assuming wisdom and care, dividends and increment may be forthcoming. While there is a chance of loss as well as profit in everything, buying outright for the long haul, and letting your investment ride, is a lot different from marginal playing for the fast rise on the “in and out” theory that lures 80 many lambs over the financial cliffs of Manhattan. : | So, if you have savings that are aching for action, buy for| ownership—buy outright—but don’t climb out on the

marginal limb. :

SAFE WINGS SINCE last March 26—more than seven months ago—the * commercial air transport lines in the United States have. not had a passenger fatality. ' In that same period, according to the Civil Aeronau-

tics Authority, our air lines have broken all records for’

3 passengers carried and miles flown. The figures are: Half a million passengers; more than 50 million miles flown. : These facts would be impressive and reassuring at any time, and are more than ever so now when thoughts dwell inevitably on the power of man-made wings to spread death and destruction.

THE ARKANSAS TRAVELER : Le has been a long time since the writings of Opie Read : were popular—a long, long time since his “Arkansas Traveler” carried its weekly budget of fun over the country. He was a humorist of an older, more robust ‘and less sophisticated school than we know today; a contemporary of Bill ~ Nye and Mark Twain, though he outlived them by many ~ : But many an American bookshelf still holds well-worn ‘copies of “The Jucklins,” “The Starbucks,” “Old Ebenezer” 2 other books by Opie Read. And many an elderly citizén sighed with regret yesterday as he read that their e genial author was dead in Chicago at the:age of 86,

ms A THOUGHT ~ «SLO, Norway, Nov. 3.—The newspaper Tidens Tegn . said today it was possible the Nobel Peace Prize would be awarded this year."

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By Westbrook Pegler

Has and Eggs Bars Court Review And Strikes and One Section Even Admits lts 'Dream-Bucks’ Worthless.

OS ANGELES, Nov. 3.—The cry of “dictator” has been raised so often that just now, when a real

dictatorship is proposed for California by. constitu- |'

tional amendment, it is necessary to cite chapter and verse to prove the real purpose of a political putsch disguised as a pension plan. This can be done with quotations from the official proposition, but the pension fake is such a raw imposition on the fears and hopes of vast numbers of poor people that it is/

difficult, nevertheless, to present the proof in a word. The plot begins to reveal itself in Section 3, which says the Governor must appoint either Roy G. Owens or Will H. Kindig of Los Angeles as Administrator until a successor shall be elected and qualified in 1944.

Then there follows a long, unintelligible descrip- |

tion of the dream-bucks or pension warrants which will be worthless. At the end there occurs a paragraph requiring that the warrants must be accepted at face value by all state, county and city governmental bodies in payment of taxes and other obligations— which means, incidentally, that the counterfeit money may be used to pay for gas, water or electricity bought

1 from publicly owned public utilities

2 8 8 | is provided, however, that public employees need not accept the counterfeit money for their wages, but another provision requires that anyone who sells equipment to the state or any of the inferior governing bodies must accept dream-bucks to the extent of half his claim In these two provisions, the authors discredit their own counterfeit money. 100 per cent and 50 per cent, respectively. Section 16 establishes a state bank, whose chairman shall be the Administrator, with an initial kiwly of $20,000,000 in real money, to be raised by a bond issue, and Section 20 confirms the difference between 1eal money and dream-bucks by referring to the one as “lawful money” and the other as “retirement compensation warrants.” : : They appropriate for themselves $700,000 in real money for administration expenses, of which $200,000 must be spent advertising the ham-and-eggs plan to people who, already having voted on it, would legally be presumed’ to know all about it. It just happens that among the promoters of the plan there are two

men, the Allen brothers, who run an advertising |) “agency.

® 2 2 ECTION 37 says that no injunction or other writ shall ever be issued to interfere with any act of the Administrator. This is the one which places him above the courts and all other laws with supreme power. The dictatorship over: labor is provided in a section which says that “no capacity to produce goods, services, conveniences or comforts shall be curtailed, limited or rendered non-productive hy any means whatever,” followed by a declaration that such curtailment or limitation or destruction of production Le only by.constitutional amendment. And that is'why it is so interesting to note that the state C. I. O. and the San Francisco Labor Council of the American Federation of Labor indorsed the plan, nevertheless.

Business By John T. Flynn ;

: iN Trade Réports May Be Deceptive; Reliable Data Since Sept. | Lacking.

EW YORK, Nov. 3.—Perhaps it might be a good idea to call an armistice on trade reports for a month at least. : While I was in Chicago there was an official report. about employment in Illinois. One headline writer surmounted that story with the caption, “Employment rises 2.4 per cent in Illinois.” Another put on the same story “Re-employment increases at rate of 28 per cent in State.” Still a third put on exactly the se story “Employment lags 12 per cent behind The news everywhere is mixed and, of course, it is in the very order of human nature, and perhaps rightly, to isolate the cleeriest items ahd give them to people who are getting plenty of bad news. : But if we really want to know what goes on we must be a bit more selective and discriminating. The first important observation to keep in mind is that reliable data on business since Sept. 1 has not yet been assembled. ” : The next point is that what we have seen represents a sort of hurrying period. On its face it looks good. And it may be good. But we are not yet in position to appraise it wisely. A favorable factor is the increase in wholesale business. Business, when it gets ready to move down, does not start in the retail field. Usually the retailers begin to curtail their purchases before their customers begin to cut down. That is because rétailers are more intelligent buyers than their customers,

Also, producers sometimes curtail operations before wholesalers. This is because large producers, at least, operate over a larger territory and get an earlier impression of approaching danger than either - wholesalers or retailers... : : . The fact that producers and wholesalers are inceasing their activities ahead of retailers is a good factor. The fact that building has increased some and that Government expenditures through public works have shown an even larger increase than business is also a boosting factor. | . All boosting factors, of course, are not always sound factors. But Government expenditures, though they may make for trouble later, are a boosting factor when made out of borrowed funds, which is an unsound factor. So there is every evidence that the current -activity will continue . with unabated energy until Christmas. But we will do well to keep our weather eye open and remember that the situation is mixed, complicated and difficult to forecast very far ahead. For myself I am waiting to see the definite statistics for September.

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson be HE old Man of the Sea who rode on the shoulders

of Sinbad in the ancient Arabic tale may have | ;

been a forerunner of what was to come. If the trend toward increased pensions for the aged con-

tinues, the old will literally bear the young downward |

to financial destruction.

This May be said, I think, without showing undue | |

partiality to the latter or animosity toward the former, The facts are simple and speak, for themselves. Several states are on the verge of bankruptcy, yet new and more grandiose schemes to increase tax burdens are constantly being hatched.~ Between war and pensions, the. children face a really future. : In fact, old people constitute a rising national problem, as Roy Helton points out in a recent issue’ of Harper's Magazine. They grow numerically stronger every day and jt has been estimated that within 30 years we shall be developing a population that will be predominantly old. This would seem to call imperatively for plans giving them some measure of security—and it does.

But it should not make us forget the real meaning

of that abused word, and certainly security cannot be defined in terms of a “handout” from a state tottering always on the edge of economic ruin. It may sound fine to say that all citizens of Cdlorado who have reached 60 are entitled to a $45-a-momnth pension. Only they aren't getting it, in spite of the law on the statute books. Lh Self-respec people of any age do not like be-

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SEES HITLER DOING F. D. R. A GOOD TURN By A. B. O. : If President Roosevelt is re-

| elected to a third term, Republicans

will hold Hitler personally responsible. 2 8 8 LACK OF INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITY CITED By Times Reader : Let me say to Voice in the Crowd that if his theory of tightening our belts like the Germans in order to recover from economic depression is correct, then Heaven help the farmers, manufacturers and small and large businessmen. If their volume of business decreases due to smaller

consumption levels, they are headed for the bankruptcy court.

savings last year out of our national income. Only six to eight billions of it can find investment jobs—the rest. of it is in dry dock. If that sum had gone into consumption channels instead of bogging in savings, there would be no unbalanced budget or unemployment. Excess savings, held by people who ‘have no use for them save hoarding, are disastrous to a capitalist economy. Only proper taxation can remedy this. The wrong people have the money credits—that is what forces Government deficit spending.

: 8 2 = ASKS IF WAGE-HOUR LAW HAS TEETH By Patient : I quote the full body of ¢ form letter one local employer required each of his employees to sign re-

_|cently to be held in the files of the

organization: “Your weekly salary is $18 for a 44-hour week. Complying with the 42-hour week law which went into effect October 24, 1939, we have adjusted - your salary on the records as follows: “Your basic salary will be $16.78 a week for 42 hours. As you are employed for a full week of 44 hours, you will be paid one and a half times your regular compensation for two hours in excess of 42 hours, or $1.22, or a total salary of $18 per week. : : “In other words, your weekly salary will be the same, but because of the 42-hour law, will be computed as herein outlined. . (Signed) Manager. “The foregoing computation as to my weekly salary has my approval. ¥ (Signed) Employee.” Is the Wage-Hour law another

There were 19 billion dollars of

(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, religious con_troversies excluded. Make your letter short, so all can “have a chance. Letters must be signed, but names will be withheld on request.)

law so written: as to convey an impression of good, but lacking teeth to make it effective? If so, it’s another reason why our high courts should analyze and pass judgment on our new laws before they become effective. But then, are we to presume our . lawyers would find less to do? Poor public, how dumb—our lawmakers must yet think. ein 2 nn 8 DOUBTS OUR ABILITY TO LIQUIDATE DEBT By Another Reader ‘So Mr. Voice in the Crowd thinks we can pay off our national debt by lowering our standard of living? For his benefit, be it known that the debt is now more than 40 billion dollars and there are only about nine billion dollars in actual money in the country. Half of this is locked up, lying dead in the vaults of the international financiers, leavs ing us about four and a half billions to pay off almost 45 billions

‘of debt.

Furthermore, the Federal debt is only a drop in the bucket inasmuch as our state, county, city and personal debts must also be paid oft out of the circulating money on hand and they together with the

Federal ‘debt total more than 300 billion dollars. : So, Mr. V. I. C,, you could make a thousand dollars per week and were it possible to save every penny of it, you couldn’t begin to pay

"| your national debt, to say nothing

of the interest. You should learn some economics, V. I. C., before you attempt to tell the people how to get out ‘of the soup. The international financiers keep money scarce so they can loan our Government its own money and charge it interest on this money that we caused to be printed and paid for. ... . : : ” 2 CLAIMS MOTHER RIDICULED IN COMIC By IL. M.: ¢iy yet In the comic, “Out Our Way,” a few days ago a mother was held up

to ridicule. It was, to say the least,

bad form to print such a picture.

‘| As a mother I resent it, and for all

other mothers who are too busy and some too dumb before the eloquent men who get together in very safe law-making halls, palaces and war offices and decide to send our sons away to be murdered in this game they call war. ! And about the form letters the lawmakers are now receiving, de-

manding that they do not commit}

our United States to the path that

is surely the road to the game—

these letters are real, expressing the direct voice of the people, mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters and all the people who make up the nation. We do not want to be involved in war, especially the wars which are now going on and in which we have everything to lose and nothing to gain.

New Books at the Library

ORD BYRON once said of Lady Caroline Lamb that however much she vexed, tormented, and infuriated him, she was never boring. This, perhaps, explains not only her attraction of Byron and other lovers, but the lifelong devotion of her husband—“her last love as well as her first.” 2y : Her sensational antics as Byron's mistress endowed her with a lasting notoriety; her many years of marriage with Viscount Melbourne has interested few biographers, although William Lamb was himself a celebrity. A Whig aristocrat, long after Caroline’s death he was to Lecome Prime Minister of England, '‘bril-

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which would guarantee to every citizen opportunity {j

for work, which. would end the strife betweén

and labor ‘and bring about a fairer distribution of

natural resources and profits, would be more valuable’ to old Jecpie than all the pensions promised ‘by lawmakers. n the dream of being useful dies from ‘seni fhe

Side Glances—By Galbraith

liant and beloved” young Queen Victoria. ‘Lord David Cecil's “The Young Melbourne” (Bobbs-Merrill) is a vivid biography, not so much, of William and Caroline Lamb as of their highly colored, spectacular world in the first quarter of the 19th century. Theirs was a reckless era. Strict monogamy was expected of no one. William Lamb’s marriage to the wilful, beautiful Caroline was a love match, but within a few years the discord of their conflicting temperaments started the young wife on the long series of tawdry, spectacular intrigues which culminated in her scandalous romance with Byron. : During their 21 years of marriage William Lamb's character was passive; his energies were all spent in the patient care which he gave to his mad wife, particularly after her wild temperament and insane conduct had ostracized her from their social world. "He matured slowly; at 47,.long after Caroline’s death, he was still “young” Melbourne, standing, though he did not know it, on the threshold of a new career as statesman—a triumphant completion of. the long, slow evolution of his personality,

"TWO PICTURES | By MAUD: COURTNEY WADDELL I watch the clear, unruffled waters

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Recen Roosevelt Quotes Used ‘by {of Columnist Pals of Palace Guard . | Unfair to Regular Newspapermens

R fommonD, Ind, Nov. 3—Until recently it wasn't IN. supposed to be kosher to quote the President—. his direct permission. Ne wspaper . people didn’t do it and neither did any other kind of visiting firemen—from Senators on down. It is a rule. I don’t know how a President could ever be himself without it. : fo a Recently there has been a fibod of “q — some very direct, and some thinly paraphrased. Maye be the rule has| been relaxed oi there has been some wholesale scooping—or somepin’. * » “Somepin’” lis probably more accurate. If the President told Senator Gillette that the Iowa delegation should go to the Democratic convention unin. structed, and t po complimentary native-son vote for Henry Wallace because Henry hasn't got “it,” either :somebody had -a microphone or there is an African in the wood-lot. : That would be an astonishing way for a President to be talking for publication about his Secretary of hy ould he say it in a press conference and permit quotes? Not conceivably. There are many who think that a little less: “It” and a little more stability. and common se is what is needed in this warring world. .Mr. Roosevelt is too well aware of this to be advising a shapely candidate

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‘» ® 8 og NE : BY: this is just one of many instances of pubs lished Presidential conversations between quotae tion marks that the regular press didn't getr ' Ree cently a long colloquy, in the kind of punctuation that indicated stenographic accuracy, was reported as: between the President and a friendly representative who was not in favor of lifting the embargo. Some of these pieces were sp larded with well-known Rooseveltiana—first names, “grand-grands“ and “now looks” —that they had all the earmarks of“verbatim records. But how could they have been without a microphone, a stenographer or a deliberate, purposeful handout to a single reporter several-days after the event either by the President or his confidant? All these possie bilities are too unlikely to consider, ! : 8 ” 8

HIS is said as no slur on them. Their batting average for accuracy is high—anad this is their business. But none, so far as I know, claims to be particularly psychic or gazes into crystal balls, Yet some, who were not always thus, are now pretty chummy with the palace guard and most of this clairvoyance filters out to be water on the wheel of Not one of these direct quotation stories has been denied, qualified, or repudiated. That's fine for these first-bounce reporters, but a little rough on the pave-ment-pounding newshounds who catch them on the fly and then go around all flatulent with the actual gusty words of the great, that would make swell stories if it were not for the gentlemen’s understand ing that they can’t be repeated without permission. For the sake of preserving a really sportsmanlike and valuable ‘Federal institution and giving the regular press a fair break, something ‘ought to be done about this, Wa

lt Seems to Me By Heywood Broun = :

World of Tomorrow Closes in Gloom, But Another Year May Be Different.

N= YORK, Nov. 3—The day was dismal as we drove past the Fair on its closing day. Only afew | enthysiasts for education passed through the portals, Rain fell persistently upon the World oftTomorrow and somehow seemed to emphasize the gap between man’s potentialities and his performance. As a matter lof fact, almost from the moment that a forward. pointing finger was set up in Flushing ‘Meadows the Universe in general started to retrogress as rapidly as Ipossible. Even a little faster. But there will be another year for the World and for the Fair. Grover Whalen

lis not mocked.

"There is a rock and it can be found. Into Very and far may fix their roots

'when next the World of Tomorrow is exposed to the

ublic view. : P Billy Rose and the Italian bar

General Motors, ! won the first-year honors in my estimation. alle : or the *

to share the enthusiasm manifest by many Soviet Pavilion. The smile which formed the motif of every mural seemed to me too set and glittering. It reminded me more of Red Riding Hood than of the revolution. And before the gates were closed, the Russian grin had become by many shades too cynical. :

Italy Had the Cooks

In applauding the food and drink put out by the ftalians, I have no desire to indBrse the political and economic theories of Mussolini. The ispaghetti ran on time along before the Latins turned to Fascism. It just happens to be a fact that Italy has mastered the magic of the frying pan beyond any other nation, And ‘I am not excluding the. Scandinavian. Ths French were in the picture. You cannot throw their , chefs out of the contest. But I would like to throw

out their head waiters, : r As an 87% per cent American, I take patriotic pride

in the fact that our own land showed the way in

both science and showmanship. Billy Rose has the talent to realize that if you are going to jump, you should jump. “Dive and be done" was the formula he set for his Aquacade. I think he put on the best show any fair has known. As far as any single artist went, I would put Bill Robinson of the Hot Mikado ahead of all -the painters and archie tects who contributed to the Fair. fel Af The Fair preached a fine sermon in its ty to prove that no race or nation has a monopoly in the creation of living and lively culture, Now at they know the way, I think we all want Mr. Whalen and his associates to come again. The dream of the World of Tomorrow is not dead. It merely hibernates. The command is fo SA ay

Watching Your Health

JH van bookkeeping has recently been used.to determine whether oF os 8 child puiainste 2 Siinie in Springfield, Mass. is paying dividends ew happier, healthier children who will be able to meet grown-up problems in a grown-up way and to avoid breakdowns that might end in jails or insane asylums, The audit shows the institution is in the black, Two-thirds of the children for whom results of the clini treatment are known are believed to have ims proved since first Soming » he Shin, oe alyers Stein, psychiatrist at the Sp: e osp Guidance hind, “reported to the Boston Society of Psychiatry ar<l Neurology A small fraction, 33 of 500 children; have recovered. Si Maw ' The’ percentage of improvement was a little greater ~ among the boys than the girls. This is considered nificant of the accufacy of the human audit finds of improvement, because in public schools boys

| fail three times as frequently as girls, -

I ponder these two pictures so D slike, , brought to the clinic were school

Commonest complaints for which the ch!

wetting, sex misconduct, stuttering and of disorders, feeding problems, nervousness, temper. trums, disobedience and stealing and pilfering, All these varied complaints were due chiefly te emotional factors. Nearly one-third of the children = |,

were problems and got into trouble because they had not been properly trained and disciplined. Proper | training and discipline in this connection does not ; mean the birch-rod variety considered grandfather's day. Nearly a third of the children were idernourishe say about one-third of them had gland disorders, but neither se Con~ ed much of a part in causing

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