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Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way

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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 10, 1940

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AN D THAT'S THAT ECRETARY OF THE NAVY EDISON, asked by a Con‘gressional committee about his proposal that Congress _ grant the President power to commandeer factories and ships in any peacetime “emergency,” said: “If there are really possibilities inimicable to our democratic system in this proposal, 1 just made a mistake in “making it.” HA Amen, |

-T00 MUCH AMBIDEXTERITY

ACH of the houses of Congress has a committee whose | responsibility it i is to draft measures of taxation.

And each has a committee whose prerogative it is to draft appropriation bills. ; For the last 10 years of taxing with one hand and spending with the other, Congress has been unable to coordinate its ambidextrous movements. Its spending hand has passed out some 27 billion dollars more than its taxing hand has raked in. It is not strange that this should happen. All of the pressure applied on the appropriations committees has been for more and more spending. Meanwhile the pressiire on the revenue-raising committees has been all against higher taxation. The members of these committees are only human, and since they all want to be re-elected they find it easier to yield to than resist pressure. As long as the Government could go on borrowing in unlimited amounts Congress found it convenient not to let its taxing left hand worry too much about what its spending right hand was doing. But now that the Government has drifted perilously close to the legal borrowing limit of $45,000,000,000, Senator Pat Harrison has proposed that from the membership of the two taxing committees and the two spending committees a super-committee be created to consider all fiscal problems relating to intake, output and borrowing. This committee would be subject to pressures from both sides, and could lay down a consistent policy for Congress to follow toward a balanced budget.

It seems to us not only that the Senator’s proposal

is eminently sound, but that some such course of action is inescapable,

ONE WAR FOR TWO?

HE war in the West and the war in the North seem to be, edging toward a merger. ‘may pitch in to salvage Stalin’s awkward attempt at imposing “liberation” on the Finns, and that the Allies in turn may give the Finns full-dress support.

If that happens, Heaven help Sweden and Norway. Those honest democracies, caught in the middle, will provide the theater of war.

Molotov’s reported plan to visit Berlin may be a portent. And the new German propaganda campaign is ominous; an “authorized source” in Berlin says that Allied assistance of Finland via Scandinavia is “simply intolerable”—although under international law it is perfectly legal.

Premier Daladier makes no bones about the fact that France is “doing its duty” toward Finland “in the fullest measure possible”; England is admittedly providing “every facility for the shipment of arms” to the Finns. And the only way their help can reach Finland is via Norway and Sweden, who in consequence are bathed in venom by the German press.

Hitler must be disgusted with his friend ‘of the Kremlin. He had hoped for Russian supplies to help Germany beat the blockade. But now Stalin, who had little to spare in the first place, is wasting his substance in the Finnish misadventure. If Hitler goes to his rescue, he reduces by that ‘much his own reservoirs of munitions for the expected spring blitzkrieg against the West. 2 2° 2 » Would Stalin really want German help? The corollary, he must suspect, would be eventual war with the Allies. Already Britain's. ambassador has quit Moscow for home. London is expected to issue a “White Paper” divulging details of the Allied-Russian parleys which were blown up by the bombshell of the Nazi-Red pact in August. document can hardly be complimentary to Russia. Among Englishmen there appears to be a growing disposition to drop their bogus politeness toward Russia, and a di-

m!nishing affection for the slogan of “one war at a time.”

But, assuming that Stalin is asking Hitler's help, will Hitler chance it? Supposing Norway and Sweden invited or permitted the Allies to land an expeditionary force to resist a Russo-German threat. What happens then to

Hitler’s “lifeline”—his vital supply of iron from Sweden's far north? ..

Suppose the Allies beat Germany to the draw in southern Scandinavia, and got a solid footing there. From the Swedish coast to Berlin is, by air, 200 miles; to the Kiel Canal, 125 miles. The Sirziegle gain for British air power would be immense.

And what about Italy? The Fascists a few ‘weeks ago proclaimed the solidarity of the Rome-Berlin Axis, but ‘they do not disgnise their loathing for the Bolsheviks and their liking for the Finns. Would the Axis buckle under the strain of a real miliiery collaboration between Berlin and Moscow ?

The decision is Hitler's to make. Doss he dare alienate Italy, force the northern neutrals into the Allied camp, deplete his manpower and material with an overseas diversion, risk his iron supply—all for the sake of saving the face of a Siavie dictator whom he reviled. before embracing?

WAR N OTE

JVI USSOLINI will shortly distribute lich ¢ cards among Italians, probably just to show the Pestle how well the axis is still Working

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_ Spelvin' s Son Would Like fo ‘Be A Diplomat So Old Man Tells Him First Step Is to Marry Into Wealth.

EW YORK, Jan. 10.—George Spelvin’s son, the

one they call Dummy Spelvin, has been giving

the qld man a lot of worry lately, because George isn’t going to last forever and he wants the kid to gét started at something. So Mr. Spelvin was cheered

the other day when Dummy sid he thought he would

like to be a diplomat. “I don’t see why I couldn’t be a diplomat,” Duminy said. “I don’t, either,” said the old man. “Except you have to spend a few years preparing for a career.” “How do I do that?” Dummy asked. “Well,” George said, “you have to get married to some rich queen first and give a lot of her money to the national committee.” “Have you got any rich queens in mind?” Dummy asked. “No,"“% Spelvin said, “but you ought to be able fo snag one around New York or maybe Palm Beach. That is where they hang around. “The way to do it is you ome a playboy. You hang around saloons and never pay any bills, but just crack funny jokes when the| waiter comes and say, ‘give it to her.’ You pretend you think it’s a great joke to make the women pay for your drinks and the hack fares and all.” ~ 2 2 8 oT.” Dummy said, "then i'n they don’t take it as a joke.” “If'n they don’t, then you can make up your mind you are not the right type for a diplqmat,” his old man said. “That is the first step to qualify for a career. It is like the entrance examination. If you can’t bum a few drinks off a glammer girl you are not ever going to get one to .give you $25,000 to give to the national committee to buy you a job as a diplomat. But if you get by it's a great life, with easy hours, and the beauty of it is that everybody knows

you are just a big dummy that got married to a rich

queen. bright.” “Yes, but, paw,” Dummy said, “suppose we don’t get along. Suppose we fight all the time. And suppose we get divorced.” “Oh,” the old man said, “that is all right; in fact, that is practically compulsory. You won't hardly get any recognition without a divorce first. But after you

Nobody ever expects you to do anything

have married and divorced, you will be surprised how |

the rest of them will fall in line to marry a dashing society scion. You can take your pick then, because you will have your name in all the saloon columns of the papers as a scion.” | : s 8 = ES,” said Dummy. “and then who do I make "application to for the Hob? Tn the State Department. “No,” the old man said. “The State Department doesn’t have anything to do with appointing diplomats. The State Department just furnishes the clerks and secretaries who do the work. You have to make your application to the state chairman, and he will fix it up for you to make some speeches on the air about conditions. Not any particular conditions, but general conditions. They will fix it up so that people begin to hear through the papers that you are not only a scion, after all, but a serious young man, determined to devote your wife’s fortune to solving the problems of the national committee. “So, by that time there comes a vacancy in some second-string country and you are a diplomat, with your charming wife.”

Inside Indianapolis Traffic Courts Must Accept the Responsibility for Safety Record.

HE Indianapolis Accident Prevention Council has hit home. a telling blow by loading the responsibility for the city’s safety record on the traffic courts. Our courts do not have good records. But the real

story, like most things, goes deeper .than surface in-

dications and it involves a good many influential politicians. The judges in the first place are dependent upon the Governor for appointment. Given that situation, you cbviously have to have pretty good political backing to get on the bench. And anytime you find judges named in that fashion you'll find the politically influential clamoring for . favored treatment—whether it be in Timbuctoo or Indianapolis: Every judge naturally would prefer to have his a, model court—well-operated, dignified, with a firstclass reputation. But when you add to all the factors in the present situation the fact that there are a few prominent citizens whe: also have no hesitation in asking for preferred treatment you can’t have a healthy situation. The courts must carry the load. - Vigorous enforcement by the courts simply means vigorous enforcement by the police and results in more careful driving. When you get widespread law respect and observance there will be a very large drop in the number of accidents. Teo achieve this the courts have to be completely removed from political handling and judges-named on sheer merit. But that’s not going to happen until the public wants it to happen.

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THE WILLIAM HENRY HARRISONS gave an elk party last Sunday night at Algonquin. Yessir, we said elk. = Mr. Harrison took four of his close friends, Russell. Williams, Clark Wheeler, Dr. Paul Allen and Willis E. Kuhn, to the Harrisons’ IXL Ranch near Dayton, Wyo. All of ‘em bagged deer and elk. At any rate, they brought an elk back and the party was staged. For your information, elk is swell roasted, but you have to season it much more highly than beef. After dinner, everybody took part in a Bull-Durham cigaret rolling centest.\ Dr. P. O. Bonham won. The old cowboy in him, ie ” ” ”

STREET CLEANING NOTE: The tra iy policeman at Ohio and Meridian Sts. show how . to handle a broom yesterday. . . . He got his spot nice and clean. . . Jessie Levy, ‘well-known local attorney, made her appearance at the Court House

‘with her hair tinted a distinct powder-blue. . . .

“The latest thing from New Yo i she proudly.

A Woman's Viewpoint

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

PROFESSOR (feminine) from Pitt College remarks that American women are too lazy to take up political responsibility. Being an instructor in the science,,she ought to know, even though we think she has misstated the case.

Granted that many of us are inert as well as inept | in political activity, we suffer more from fear than Women without a lazy bone in their |

lassitude. bodies do not stick their fingers into political pies, because they imagine men would disapprove. And the average woman would rather please one man or all the men than save the country any day in the week. We speak in general terms, of course. No blanket charges can be made, since every community possesses its share of alert, intelligent feminine voters who are on their toes all the"time and know what's going on in committee meetings and at crossroad precincts.

Nevertheless, the common run of our sex is cut |

from other cloth. They are so occupied getting themselves togged out to please the roving male eye, or

preparing meals to please the male appetite, or taking |

orders from the bosses whose wishes are sacred, that they haven’t time nor energy to keep up with other matters. When Mr. Common Man comes home in the’ evening and asks the Little Woman what she’s found ‘out about the qualifications of the several candidates, or praises her knowledge of important Sam paign issues, we shall see all the Little Women in the U. S. A. tearing their chignons to become politically informed. And not one minute hefore.

Another thing; Professor. How is the average ; housewife going to acquire sufficient information to.

vote dnielligenily when she has a ‘husband and several Sdren $0 “be fed, bedteq and scrubbed for every

WEDNESDAY, J

Gen. Johnson Says—

Reciprocal Pacts Are Intended: as Attempt to Restore Foreign Business By Scientific Economic. Trading.

ASHINGTON, Jan. 10.—I doubt if one person in 10 knows what is meant by “reciprocal tras

‘agreements under ‘the unconditional -most fav

nation clause.” They are what the lawyers call “ of art.” But few of us are artists in such words: over these words will wage one of the greatest batt]

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The Hoosier Forum

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

CURIOUS INNOCENT, LACKS EXPERIENCE, 1S CLAIM By Voice in the Crowd The most likeable thing about Curious of Bloomington, judging him entirely from his writing, is that he is innocent, in that he does not know what he is writing about.

People of this school of thought can get well if they set themselves first to making a! job for themselves, then to making a job for someone else who is not employed. It is the spirit of the builder and not the destructionist that has built our nation. That is the only spirit that can save America, and with it, civilization. It is too bad we cannot give the idealists a corner of Texas (not around Uvalde) and let ’em start their system. right from the ground and see what they could build in 200 years with a non-incentive system. Some of our late resettlement experiments approached the idealist plans. Where did they get? For particulars consult your daily newspaper—daily. . ‘. ow. FAVORS CONTINUANCE OF

PWA BUILDING PROGRAM By Tom Berling

With the completion of the public works administration program of building, what has the building game in sight in the way of future work?

Are we going to wait until building comes to a standstill or will we show a little initiative and keep the wheels turning? One-story filling stations and remodel jobs will not keep the vast building industry busy. Applications for unemployment insurance are increasing; many men are out of work and more are going to be if PWA is allowed to die. As the building industry is interested in this fight, let us.all get busy. Manufacturers of building materials, architects, contractors, colleges that turn out engineers and architects, salesmen, secretaries and stenographers, draftsmen, office boys shop men and watchmen, get busy! Protect your jobs, your future and your happiness. Get behind your representatives, state and national, and tell them you need the PWA building program. The members of the building trades who perform the work in the

|| field must realize that we do not at

this time need a higher hourly wage but must strive for steadier employ-

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

ment and a greater annual wage. We should realize from our past experience of personal and business activities that certain acts of today will bring eertain Tesulis in the near future. Let us develop a gleater sense of personal responsibility as to union activities. We can only be as great as we have greatness within us— not the greatness of any one man

or trade, but of many men and many trades, joined together in loy-

alty, friendship and devotion, with a real consciousness of the respon-

sibility of each to bring to his part,

of the work that which will extend and improve the. services which we perform...

Like meat ahd potatoes this quotation is good for all of us and if we will live up to it we will not only have meat .and potatoes but the proper mood to enjoy them. Le win THINKS ROOSEVELT MERITS THIRD TERM By C. D. G. C., Martinsville, Ind. Everyone is talking about taxes and bills passed by the Government.

If they who talk had to live in some of these war-torn countries, they

‘|election of President than it really

of usurping, the work done by the

: &g 7 % % would be glad to pay double their taxes to live here. We ‘have a President put into office by the vote of the people and that is much better than a dictator. . . . Politics plays a bigger part in the

should. It should be vote for the man instead of the party. If half the people who talk .against the Government, had to be in the President’s place they could see what a| job it is and appreciate the success the President has had in helping us out, of a crisis.

He has the. unemployment prob-|| lem well in hand and the bread lines

are now very few. T am a booster tor a third term for Roosevelt, be man who overcame a crisis.

. ” ®. =n CHARITY. AT HOME HELD GREATER NEED By Let’s-Be-Consistent Isn't-it a pity that Herbert” Hoover, who responds so readily to European distress signals, when the distressed are: ‘friends of. England, can’t be put in charge of a. campaign to relieve distress here among our own homeless refugees, instead

Red Cross? That first and second $100,000 which Mr. Hoover sent out of the country would have given food, renewed life and faith to thousands of homeless, starving “Grapes of Wrath people,” evicted share-crop-pers, and Dust Bowl refugees now drifting, shunned and hopeless, up and down America’s roads while the strong tide of American sympathy and aid flows past them in a steady stream, abroad. Let charity start at hone! Now!

New Books at the brary

HE author of “When We Were Very Young,” “Winnie-the-Pooh” and “Mr. Pim Passes By'’—to mention only a few of numerous plays, poems, stories and essays fromthe pen of A. A. Milne— tells in his “Autobiography” (Dutton) how it is that he has happened to write as he has. “One writes,” he says, “in a certain sort of way because one is a certain sort of person; one is a certain sort of person because one has lel a certain sort of life.” And so he proceeds b look back

Side Glances—By Galbraith

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at his happy childhood, at his years at Cambridge, at the spirited youthful years he spent as a free-lance writer in" London, at the period when he was assistant editor of Punch (orie of his dearest ambitions) and at the happy years since then duririg which he had distinguished himself as one who loves to write and who had been successful in his chosen field. The war interrupted his work. Of it he says. “It makes me almost physically ‘sick to think of that nightmare of the war years.” But when it was over he took up his pen again. His frank but unassuming

the endearing qualities of this man and furnishes much of ‘the charm of the book. The title under which fhe volume wis published in England —{‘What Luck!”—is genuinely - expressive of his own unboastful acceptance of his good fortune. In addition to telling the happy story of a happy life, the author explains how the Christopher Robin poems came to be written, draws vivid portraits of his father and his brother ard his employer, Sir Owen Seaman, as well as of other personalities of his time, and lays down excellent suggestions for intending In all, this is a witty, honest, good-humored volume, good: reading for one who can:savor these qualities.

NEW YEAR PRAYER By ANNA E. YOUNG Help us, clear Lord, to find anew A word to speak, a bit to do Grant that we seek and prove to be Greater. fri all humility.

Go. grant us eyes of truth to see

DAILY THOUGHT

For whosoever exalteth himself shall be g based; and he that hum--

| bleth himself shall be exalted.— |

: Luke 14:11.

thou: wouldst fi find much favor | and peace vi God and man,

be very low in thine .6wn eyes.

with heavy taxes.

. Tariffs have been the curse of American politics When we were colonies of England, she wouldn't lel us manufacture so much as nails. She wanted her own factoriés to do that. We were to produce raw materials. It was one of the causes of revolution, Our lack of any industrial capacity handicapped us in that fight. When we won it, Alexander Hamilton properly insisted that for our own defense and balanced prosperity we must encourage an Americar manufacturing industry, He proposed a tariff so high

‘that ‘low cost production from England could not

prevent creation of our own “infant industries.” He was probably right at the time. The whole country fell for it. It did create both an Amesiedd manus facturing and shipping industry, Teh ” ” ” UT the South and West were not. industrial areaL They were agricultural and their prosperity dee pended on export trade. Behind our tariff walls they had to pay more for the products of -American in dustry than they would have to pay for European industrial products. But no tariff, no matter how high, can protect any agricultural surplus crop. Farme ers bought at a highly protected price level. They sold at the much lower world price level. The South soon saw that the tariff was simply a tax laid on Southern agriculture to protect New England industry. That, and not slavery, Was thd | economic cause of the Civil War. The tariff has cursed political administrations ever since. Through the device -of trading in Congress between one industrial minority pressure group. and

to boost prices and profits with no regard for the general interest of the vast majority of consumers ‘or the economic welfare of the United States. It became a veritable racket : which culminated ‘in the

J. Grundy-Smoot-Hawley, tariff of abominations under

Hoover. This is regarded by many economists as the real cause of the collapse of 1929 and the following years of destruction and depression, ; ” # ” N 1932, Mr. Roosevelt proposed a scientific’ trading: down of all tariff barriers./ Partly . in | defense against our Hawley-Smoot tariff. All nations had adopted: similar restrictions and the commerce of. the world was frozen into a honeycomb of, nationalistic watertight trade compartments. Mr. Hull's reciprocal trade agreemeénts were an effort to restore our export trade by scientific economic trading. * The idea was to find. these areas in which

| tariff concessions to us would not greatly interfere

with our standards of living for workers and farmers but would give them the outlets without which their surplus production could not move. + : This is a delicate technical business. In. view of its importance. in the coming session of Congress the discussion will be continued in two Subsequent columns.

Mr. Bricker

By Bruce Catton

Ohio Governor's Boom Built on. Relief for Man Who Still Has a Job.”

ASHINGTON, Jan. 10—The really significant part of® the relief stand taken by Governor Bricker of Ohio has been pretty much overlooked, That part had to do with relief. .Governor Bricker declares that Ohio is Meeting

| its relief. problem honestly and adequately. Then he.

adds: “I have also an interest in: the relief of OVE’ burdened. taxpayers, in the farmer who works. from’ sun-up until sun-down and who often “receives too small a part. of the nation’s income. I ‘haye an interest in the home-owner ‘who is now’ burdened I have an interest.in thei relief’ of the. man who has a job, tut who for. every four. days’ work done gives -one to the Government in: taxes.” That, according to people here who should ‘know, will be the keynote on which the Governor isto be: presented to Republicans as a Presidential prospect during the next six months. While Governor Bricker is officially not a candidate for anything‘ except another term as Governor of Ohio, his Presidential candidacy is’ actually being developed very ‘actively: by his friends. Just incidentally, the situation has: the intimates of Senator Robert Taft, the ‘avowed Ohio tantidate, preity eh worried. : bey oH

Hatch Acts for States '

| One man who was sincerely soiry ‘to see Frank: Murphy leave the Department of Justice is Senator. Carl A. Hatch of New Mexico, author of thé* famous clean-politics bill. That bill expressed Murphy’s ideas perfectly, and while he was in. the Cabinet Hatch had a potent friend in court, so to speak. Right now Senator Hatch is preparing to push his ‘companion piece—a bill which would prohibit political activity by state employees in all agencies to which the Federal Government contributes money either by loans or grants. This is a cruel blow at political machines, since every state highway department gets money from Uncle Sam, and the state highway department is usually the backbone of the dominant state political machine. . For that very reason, the bill has a good chance of passage; Senator Hatch chuckles as he reflects that Senators and Congressmen whose own political preserves were reduced by the first Hatch bill are glad enough to see to it that: the same grief is handed along to the boys back home. : (P. S.: That applies especially to statesmen who: are on the outs with the state machine back home. One solon estimates that the bill will get 25 Youss. in the Senate on that score. alone.)

Watching Your Health

By Jane Stafford

MANY of the thousands of mothers who die each year in childbirth are. sacrificed needlessly, Often the death is due to ignorance or negligence ‘on the mother’s own part. A New York City report on maternal deaths showed that more than one-third of the preventable deaths were due to some failure on the part of the mother to take advantage of facil ities for safeguarding herself. First thing for a woman to do when she thinks she is going to have a baby is to go to her doctor, He will examine her and make tests to determine whether her kidneys are working properly. This is important because an extra strain falls. on these organs during the time the child is developing in the mother’s body. If there is any sign of kidney disorder, early detection and proper treatment. ‘may save the mother’s life. The modern doctor will also take a sample of the mother’s blood to test for syphilis. This is important to safeguard the baby’s life and health as wei: as the mother’s. If ‘she has syphilis, no matter how she got it, early treatment will in most cases enable her to have a healthy baby, as well as check the rav< ages this infection can do to her own body and mind. The doctor will also, take the mother’s-blood pres-" sure. If this becomes too high, as-it.may without the mother’s knowing .it, her heart may be over= strained, so it is important to have this watched. | - Whether the baby is likely to be born prematurely, whether there will be twins, whether the Baby is “headed in the right direction” for easy - birth, and: whether the mother's pelvic development will perntit the baby’s i ne. in normal. fashion can also be de=:

termined the: doctor’s examination, - .After. the expectant mother has: had. her. first examination, she should be careful to follow. her doctor's advice—and only his—about food; :exereise, drinking walter, rest. and the life. - She should. also return to consult him regularly every month until: the baby is born, so that abnormalities or dangerous

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