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. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1939

A MONG California’s most effective campaigners against the $30-a-week “ham and eggs” pension scheme to be voted on Tuesday are Upton Sinclair and Dx Francis E. Townsend. : Their opposition may be ascribed, in part, to professional jealousy. Both.gentlemen have panaceas of their own to peddle. But a proposal which frightens the leaders of the EPIC movement and the inventor of the Townsend Plan must be something for which “dangerous” is entirely too mild a word. : ¢

'WARE THE CURFEW : ONE of the things frequently said about war is that civil liberties are among the first casualties. - That goes for wars to save democracy as well as other kinds of war. The . truism is already showing up in England, where protests are being heard in Commons against various so-called defense

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1. Outlawing political propagandists. 2. Expressions which may be interpreted as fomenting disaffection among members of the fighting forces. 3. Attempts to influence public opinion. 4, Curfew regulations. 5. Unrestricted censorship of publications. These came as “orders-in-council” shortly after fighting started and are getting more and more irksome.

Lesson to us: Unless we keep our heads, and retain

constant vigilance in our realization that power politics is not our game, the curfew may be ringing for us.

SOMEBODY OUGHT TO EXPLAIN THE current squabble about the Safety Board’s recommendation that the Fraternal Order of Police here drop its associate memberd or that Indianapolis policemen resign poses several interesting questions. In the first place, what is the Fraternal Order of Police? If it is simply a fraternal organization of policemen there can be no great complaint. Policemen have a right to fraternal organization like anyone else. . But what about these associate members ? What do they join for? What do they get out of it? : Chief Morrissey has charged that associate members have tried to get police favoritism. Mayor Sullivan is even “more forthright. It is “a deliberate attempt to purchase protection from

the police ‘department, declares Indianapolis’ chief ex-

ecutive. But all this has no effect on City Councilman Harmon A. Campbell, an associate member. He is indignant over these charges and speaks of an affront to a “national organization of which many men of prominence are members.” It would be interesting, indeed, if Mr. Campbell would provide a list of just the Indianapolis associate members.

A VITAL STATISTIC DISPATCH from Bucharest reports that Rumanian, shipments of oil to Germany have fallen off drastically since the war started. From a pre-war average of almost 4500 tons a day, it is said, the flow has dropped to a little better than 2000. : ; That is an extremely vital statistic. : Germany does not produce enough oil to meet her peacetime needs. Even with her marvelous-development of synthetic gasoline from coal, she turns out only about half her normal requirements. However, Germany is reported to have accumulated an oil reserve large enofigh, when added to her own output, to keep her going for almost a year without imports. - But perhaps this war will go on a lot longer than a year. Those German reserves must have been substantially reduced during the mechanized conquest of Poland. And althought Poland had some oil wells, Soviet Russia got the lion’s share of them. : So, if the war is to be a long one, Germany will have to get oil somewhere. Perhaps Russia will supply her: But Russia hasn’t much oil to spare. Italy produces almost no oil and is not likely to deplete her own precious reserves for Germany's benefit. Obviously Germany can’t run oil from the United States _or Mexico or Venezuela or the Dutch East Indies through the British blockade. Not unless she sinks a lot more of the British Navy. Lt. You'll hear a lot more about Rumanian oil if the war settles down for a long haul. adn ROE

DRIED HERRING

N an effort to put something more than words into our Good Neighbor policy, and to\help cushion the Western Hemisphere against the economic shocks of war, Secretary of State Hull has been driving for more and better reciprocal trade agreements with the other Americas. For this the Secretary brought down upon his gray head the wrath of Senators Borah and King and other Republicans and Democrats from states whose products might conceivably be opened to competition with imports from south of the Rio Grande. The antics of these Senators who are always so eager

to do somethin for silver or cattle or potatoes, at the

expense of the cent of a story

est of the country, are somehow reminisId about Sir Robert Peel. A protectionist

turried free trader, Sir Robert led the famous fight for re-

peal of the corn laws. In the course of the debate he read to the House of Commons a letter he had received from a fisherman living on the Southern Coast. Sir Robert was right, the fisherman wrote. Tariffs should be abolished. Both the necessities of the poor and the luxuries of the rich should be permitted to enter England duty free. That would mean lower prices, and higher standards of living.. It would promote the commerce and peace and prosperity of the world. “But,” concluded the fisherman’s letter, “I think an exception should be mage in

Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler z

Ham-and-Eggs Puts Lewis: on Spot; It Bans Strikes, | but Communists Got California C. I. O. to Indorse It.

OS ANGELES, Nov. 4—These people cut here cer<4 tainly have made an awful ‘bum out of poor old John (Longwords) Lewis with their indorsement of the Ham-and-Eggs thing, = There is just no getting around the fact that the California C. I. O., under Communist domination, has placed itself on record in support of a constitutional amendment which revokes labor’s right to strike. | . z Lewis may deny that the Communists run ‘the C. I. O. on this coast, but it makes no difference what he says, because everybody knows they do. Moreover,

| ang ‘sane American labor ‘man will admit that this

anti-strike clause of the Ham-and-Eggs article moves to abolish the dearest treasure that organized labor has acquired in the long struggle up: to the Wagner act. John Lewis didn’t win it; nor was it a trophy brought in by the communistic California C. I. 0. It was won by leaders and fighters long before their time and was handed on to them for safekeeping, although it might be admitted that Lewis himself has done some effective brawling in his day ‘to .confirm:a right previously established:in law and principle. "=. But if Lewis doesn’t: do something loud and emphatic Old Longwords will give silent consent to a labor-baiting program which makes Tom Girdler’s meanest thoughts on the subject read real nice. ” » » F , HE California Communist C. I. O. justifies this support as an act of gratitude to the Ham-and-Eggs racket for its help in defeating an anti-picketing law last year. If you can’t strike, there is no reason to picket, and the right to picket obviously withers into total unimportance if the right to strike.is gone. But there you have the situation, and, just for extra, you might stir in the peculiar. fact that this Ham-

most faithful imitation of Adolf Hitler’s national socialism that has yet been offered in the U, 8. A. I will go into a comparison one of these days, but in the present. mood I would like to point out a touching little scene in which all the standard-gauge citizens and businessmen who view Ham-and-Eggs with great alarm are quoting Upton Sinclair and old Doc Townsend as though titese two economic queeries were highly respected pillars of the system. - : A Sinclair said the Ham-and-Eggs thing was no good, and the old Doc, recognizing it as a dastardly attempt to milk his cow, denounced it as an economic fallacy. 2 8 2 . EIR opinions make better political matter than anything that might be said by J. P. Morgan. They are even printing the opinion -of ‘ Franklin D. Roosevelt in disapproval of Ham-and-Eggs, and when

‘| the leading citizens of California quote our beloved

Dectien as an economic sage their desperation is plain. : : : : Yet. it might be a good thing to try Ham-and-Eggs. If this dictator attempted to exercise the: powers

be lynched or chased intd the sea, because California, though her people will stand for plenty, just isn’t going to take a dictator. Labor wouldn't yield the right to strike and picket, and the rank and file probably would bat the ears off the C. I. O.'s managers and oi them out for trying to Hitlerize them in a labor ont. : 7 Of course, the state-would go broke and would have to start over, but some state has got to take the fall and furnish a sobering example for the rest, and Cali-

fornia seems nearer ready than any other, | ~~. ¢{

Business By John T. Flynn

Recalls F. D. R. Feared \nvelverent Of U. S. in Warm Springs Farewell.

EW YORK, Nov. 4—Speaking on Oct. 26, the President referred to certain orators who had been suggesting to the American people the possibility of the sons of American mothers being sent to fight on the battlefields of Europe. Then he said: “That I do not hesitate to label as one of the worst fakes in current history. It is a deliberate setting up of an imaginary bogey man. The simple truth is that no person in any responsible place in the National Administration in Washington or any state government or any city government or any county government, has ever suggested in any manner, shape or form the remotest possibility of sending the boys of American mothers to fight on the battlefields of pe.” Now that is a pretty clear-cut statement. We will leave the state, the city and the county statesmen out of this. Let us see whether the President himself has ever suggested such a possibility. Sr On April 9, 1939—only six months ago—during the -Spring crisis in Europe, the President, saying goodby to his neighbors at Warm Springs, promised to be back in the Fall “if we don’t have a war.” : That expression caused some speculation. What did the President mean? He did not leave people in doubt very long. The Washington Post printed an editorial suggesting that the President, in using the word “we,” meant “western civilization.” "The editorial made it very plain that it understood the President's use of the pronoun as meaning that this included us. In using the word “we” the President told the dictators, far more impressively than he told Warm Springs, that the “tremendous force of the United States must be reckoned with in their current thinking.” .

Agreed With Editorial

" The President, at a press conference on April 11, told the newspapermen that he embraced that editorial without reservation. : Does the President now mean to suggest that we might become involved but that we would send ‘no troops to France? Is any man willing to gamble on that proposition? Men, statesmen too, state, city, county officials and Federal officials of the highest rank, have said openly many times that if war breaks out in Europe we are bound to be drawn in. And these suggestions have come chiefly from those who now support the President's weird “neutrality” schemes. Why then: should not reasonable men fear that American boys will be sent to France?

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

show you how the great American Mind sometimes functions, I am using a letter here which purports to be an argument on a vitally- important issue concerning | democracy and the Constitution. Here it is—and you're welcome: : . “Hurrah for the new, organization which has been launched in Chicago (an organization designed to promote laws depriving married women of the right to work). Thank Heaven we are now able to rise and do something, and we sure are. You have the nerve to call it un-American. You are about the most une American creature I can think of. Of course God would be on the side of the provider of the family. “Do you have the nerve to think the Lord approves of women working in order to outdress others and still

clubs and smoke so many cigarets that her brain is a muddle, and deprive children of the proper food? “There are hundreds just like you. One reason you insist on working, you are too lazy to do your own household and washing, etc. You would rather get some poor drudge to do it for you and you be the Big Ike. It is people like you that make other people lose their religion. . . . ‘We are going to boycott the paper if they don’t stop printing your column. That is what we of the new organization are going to do,

sure to find in such a missive a certain sardonic humor. As was to be expected, the letter is unsigned, but it escapes the wastebasket because it offers such good evidence that most of the talk on this subject is not based on the facts. Intellectual leaders of the movement to oust married women from industry must find it inspiring to travel in the company of persons capable of, this e A and classic re-

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and-Eggs which the Communists are baosting is the |

which he has written into the law for himself he would |

A Waman’s Viewpoint

try to vamp the nearest man, run around to night |

boycott everything that employs married women. ...” | . Any widow working to support her household is |.

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“One: Answer to Industrial Problem ; Found in Hagerstown, Ind., Plant; ©. Perfect: Circle .Co. Cited as Model. ry ICHMOND; Ind. Nov. 4—1 have just seen what \ seems to me to be on€ ‘of the answers to our

vexed industrial ‘problem. It is the ‘plant of the Perfect Circle’ Co. at Hagerstown, near Richmond,

Ind. It is a relatively small foundry and machining

operation-~making piston rings. Hagerstown is a& small -_ agricultural community—population = perhaps 1500. The workmen in the plant live in that or other little towns or on small farms. Most of them owh their own homes and grow et least some of their own food.. The. plant has been managed so that there isn’t much’ unemployment but, if lay-offs come, nobody has to sit staring at a: blank wall and wondering about starvation. : rg TELS It" is exactly: this’ feeling of desperate he lsshiess : chine

= sputters, stalls and stops that makes much of the

he Hoosi I wholly disagree with what you say, but will : defend to the death your right to say it—Voltaire.

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THINKS TOWNSENDITES DEMANDS TOO MODEST By Pat Hogan; Columbus, Ind.

Someone rises to lament the radio|

ban on unnecessary noises and says this will deprive the Townsend Clubs

of aid. Others: have bewailed the|

issue because of the Rev. Charles E. Coughlin. = - : If the Townsend Plan means any-

we have ‘over 60 drawing. $200 a month the more prosperous we will be. Then why the cruel restrictions —60 age limit and a paltry $200. Why not abolish the CCC, WPA, PWA, all old-age pension schemes along with the Social Security Act, take all those out of work, even those who: do not want to work (there may be several millions in this class) and pay them all $500 a month. This is. the only ideal plan to get money into circulation. If no one has the courage to push this plan, the only course left is to convince the Townsendites that there is no Santa Claus. . . . = Coughlin is the greatest problem. We have always revered the clergy, regardless of sect, considering their calling a sacred privilege. . . . And in all history there has never been such a shameful betrayal of trust as that of Coughlin. When a man plunges from the pinnacle of piety to the mire of billingsgate . . . . thinking people should draw their conclusions easily. . . : ‘8 8% DOUBTS SHIPPING ARMS INVITES WAR FOR U. S. By James R. Meitzler, Attica, Ind. Those opposing the arms embargo repeal are showing more alarm and hysteria -than good judgment dictates .or their cause warrants. Shipping arms to belligerents is no more dangerous or likely to get us into war. than shipping wheat. All nations at war hold shipments of anything whatever to enemy countries as contraband, and capture or sink the same whenever possible. They make .the rules, and neutrals obey them unless they wish to. go “0 war. Pie : : In the last war it was not the German Government that declared war and sent troops 3000 miles to fight, but our own. Gen. Hugh Johnson stated recently that before our declaration of war only :one American ship, the Gulflight, had been sunk by a German submarine. Holland, Denmark, Norway and

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thing, it means that the more people

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Sweden lost hundreds of ships but kept out of war. They laid no embargo or other restrictions on their commerce but let the shipping take the risk if it wanted to.

Today the same situation confronts us.. We can help Hitler with our arms embargo and lose that much business. We can adopt cash and earry, help England, and destroy our merchant marine, Or we can allow our merchants to ship anything to all countries at their own risk without any. danger of being involved in war if we keep our heads. There is not a nation in Europe that could attack us if they did declare war. The initiative is in our own hands. We can fight or not as we will, : : ” ® ” CRITICIZES FLYNN FOR ARTICLE ON WAR By Sagie Stewart, Brazil, Ind. "In the Oct. 14 Times there appeared an article written by John T. Flynn that, in my opinion, is nothing more nor less than a false, malicious, slanderous piece of partisan propaganda. Taking advantage of the freedom of the press, he makes assertions

against the honesty and sincerity of Franklin Delano Rocsevelt in ‘his efforts to keep the country out of war, because of his stand .on the

|arms embargo, and also concerning

Woodrow Wilson's policy before our country entered the World War, In this he aecuses Wilson of leading this country secretly, little by little, step by step, ‘purposely and maliciously into the war. .... =. .- One wold think that Flynn, Nye, Borah, Bone, - Clark, Vandenberg and Johnson ‘called the present session ‘of Congress instead of the President. ... . = When we remember that Hitler has broken every promise that he has. ever made, his absorption of many small and weak countries, what assurance have we that he will not continue : this until "all the smaller countries. of Europe are in his power? "If the Allies lose, we stand alone. With all the Nazis, Bunds, Communists, Fascists and other antidemocratic influences in the country, - democracy. will’ be doomed. . po : LLM gle 8 : CASTS DOUBT ON CLAIM MASSES CONTROL CAPITAL By Citizen : : : Here are a few statistics to help Voice in the Crowd in his claim that capital is the property of the masses. The Bureau of Internal Revenue reports that in 1929 threetenths of 1 per cent of our population received 78 per cent of -the dividends reported to individuals.-A special President’s + Committee : reports that in 1930 in the U. S. A. there were 2,664,365 tenant farmers

and 1,157,848 farms under mortgage.

New Books at the Library

HEN F. Clement C. Egerton found himself bound for Africa and the French Cameroons, he tried to find a reasonable explanation for his desire to make the difficult and hazardous journey. As he says, he had “a vague idea that a journey into the wilds would be for the good of his soul,” but he realized that he should have a more convincing reason to offer to other people. After some thought he decided that his very genuine interest and more or less expert training in anthropology should be a logical

enough explanation for anyone. After his arrival in Douala (French ‘Equatorial Africa) his first duty was to choose a boy to be head. of his expeditionary forces, and by .the process of elimination he acquired Fidele. A week later the litile€ party, laden with 25 boxes of luggage (including a very moist pound of butter) began its journey. Their subsequent wanderings are described in “Africal Magesty” (Scribner). ° At the suggestion of the administrator in one little village, Mr. Egerton decided to visit the Bangante people of the British Cameroons. He spent several months with these natives as. the guest of the King himself, studying and recording their .customs. He’ describes them as a simple, friendly people, possessing “an independence of character which is wholly ‘admirable’. J "It is. Mr. Egerton’s opinion that white men are making a mistake in forcing their own type of civilization on these people to whom ‘the law of the survival of the fittest-has not yet come to mean the survival of the slyest.” : ¥

CAREER By HELEN M. ECK

Such a glorious. past, resplendent With colorful beauty, admired by

all, 1: ‘ Was yours for a brief season, transcendent; - "3 23 Till swiftly: The last curtain call!

I roam through the denuded - Old props, pungent smells, everywhere— - | : :

And nothing my grief so assuages As’ stumbling jon your private

Your ig on the back, so posses1 ve, 3 5 vi £ $4 : Be agent Joi) seman) ot J oping its mistress, so restive, Will, some back amid great ac-

‘DAILY THOUGHT

of offence toward God, and toward

men. —Acts 24:16 :

“| is always something else to do.,

"| bitterness in. labor relations in congested centers dee pendent wholly on a: single industry. 13

. In this age of specialization; a workman is expert in ‘only ‘'ohé operation. It is only part of a finished job. When the factory slows down there is little he can do except sit and curse the system, = : 3 ha

THAT. need never happen in this model factory

“set down .in.a community of small farms. There

sons and nephews of the old-fashioned manufacturers who started this ‘business half a century ago on a

. This escape hn ‘has another angle. The shoe string are operating it. They, like their fathers

| grew up with this community and this business and -

so did most of these workmen, From managers to machinists they went to school together. They know each other better than some city-dwellers know their own brothers. - lie uw . : igus ** There is nothing impersonal about these industrial - relations—no absentee management and no - frozen face “personnel department.” Neither are there any sour pusses bending over the batteries of marvelously, ingenius machine tools: in -the shops. There is no : paternalism. «But I:have inspected hundreds of face tories and I have never ‘seen better, cleaner or more satisfactory working conditions and morale. : Mh # ” 8 | A \ EF Pittsburgh the :other day, I heard one of oup greatest industrialists, E. T. Weir, say exactly what I have heard Judge Brandeis say: “The trouble wit. our great economic empires is that they are too bi for any single human mind to manage. There aren'y . enough brains.” .- ~~ Se SF ppc te "The answering argument is .always “increased - efficiency and lower: cost from - consolidation. and mass production.” That is generally but not always true. It is certainly not trye in this case. This - is the - manufacture of one key part for automobiles, - Most great automobile companies have gradually ins creased by ‘absorption or competition the percentags - of parts they make themselves. ‘But not in this field, Why? Because by close managerial attention the few ' manufacturers who make only one thing but make it superlatively well have remained more expert than | any other department of a mammoth organization - can possibly be. 3 ris © You can't generalize foo much, Some industries couldn’t operate.this way at all. But wherever it is possible, our industrial trend should be toward smaller and more efficient plants, much more widely scattered: in ‘rural ‘communities, with much morq native and neighbotly management and control, i °

lt Seems to Me By Heywood Broun ae Charges by Molotév Are Not keh. To. Contribute to an Early Peacel

NEY YORK, Nov. 4—Many profess to be puzzled . by the policies and ‘arguments put forth in official statements from the Soviet Republic. The an= | swer is easy enough once the reader can work out tha key. Russian diplomacy is all done in double talk. ! Thus, in America, the official Communist attitude . seéms to be that the pact with the Nazis has all but |

destroyed Hitler, He is pictured as being completely :

ander the domination of Stalin. And yet, in speaking | from Moscow, Molotov announces that a strong Ger= many is indispensable for durable peace in Europe. Again, Premier Molotov voices the theory that an ideology cannot .be destroyed by force. . Nevertheless, in various Russian newspapers the proud boast had been made that the last remnants of capitalism ir Poland are being blotted out by the dictatorship of the proletariat. : J We ae A Ciel It seems to me that the Molotov address delayed the possibility of a conference ‘instead of expediting it.’ One of the palpable barriers to a settlement’ of the last World War- was the insistence of the Allies that Germany must accept the stigma of war guilt, Surely the ‘road. to amity ‘and free discussion is not aided now by the dogmatic declaration of Russia that France and England started the present conflict and picked upon a semi-helpless Reich. . The suggestion that thd United States should “free” Cuba is just so much sill sand thrown in the gears to.block the very vital and necessary participation of America in any interna tional conference, aT Just Evening Things Up al And I believe that the assertion of Molotov that lifting the -arms ‘embargo would prolong the war. ig’ certainly open to argument. After all, there is muecie to be said for the theory that a bombing plane in the present situation may well be a defensive weapon. AS long as Germany retains the mastery of the air there is ‘the danger that large-scale attacks on cities may, take place, with hideous destruction. If a balance were achieved, both sides might well" be inclined td sheer off. Sandan rhe LE by | There should be a negotiated: peace, but the possi pility of such a happy. outcome of the world’s tragedy, is ‘hurt by Molotov’s seeming willingness to put oul - the flames with a bucket of gasoline. And it does not seem to me that Russian’ sincerity is much enhanced by its sharp protest against our mild effort to keep Finland intact. There is no very excellent chance for * a’ happy landing for the dove of ‘peace if it is to be flown by “Two-Way Molotov.” : :

Watching Your Health By Jane Stafford

Wis the coming of cold weather, you ate sure to hear much’ complaining about. sinus trouble or sinusitis as it is sometimes called, . To help you under~ - stand what it is-all about, the U. 8. Public Health Service has issued the following description of the sinuses: pi . : iy - ““The human nasal cavity, which extends from the nostrils about the .mouth’ to the beginning of the throat, is not a mere tube; but a cavity about four inches long and much larger in the middle than at éither end. On cross section it is nearly. A rather broad at its base and.very narrow at the top. It is divided in the middle by a thin perpendicular bony wall called the ‘septum,’ into a right nasal cavity and ‘a left nasal cavity, each lined with a mucous. membrane that warms and moistens the air passing through the nose on its way to the lungs. = © * °

- “This brief description of. the nasal cavities applies to newly born babies; "but, after ‘birth, ‘the plies 2 eavity,.if healthy, very flowly begins at certain places’ to excavate neighboring bones on each side, p aces larly the chéek hones. These excavations form very

slowly, enlarge, or balloon out, from: small c

, as they grow, and usually are not complete until about

the 20th year. . . . « “Both rignt and left nasal cavities finally have connected with them these hollow spaces in the bones,

: dedbdal .| ‘called accessory nasal sinuses. In the cheek bone, the And Hefeln do T exercise myself, | Sinus is large, dnd is. commonly called the ‘antrum’; in |

to have always & conscience void | ic, Dome over each eye here is a smaller cavity, ‘

which is called the frontal sinus. When sinus trouble is referred to, it commonly means disease of either the antrum or the frontal sinus. But a similar sinus called the sphenoid sinus, exists behind each nasal avity, in the base ad sc