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WEDNESDAY, MAY 27, 1331!
EMPLOYMENT CONFERENCE
r I 'HE twenty-fourth annual convention of the In
ternational Association of Public Employment
Services, opening here today, probably finds these
agcncips in better position to study the unemploy
ment problem than ever before. The reason is that
more specific information is available.
For example, when the Indiana State Employ
ment Service was being developed a few years ago,
there was little knowledge of employment conditions
and trends and the makeup of the unemployed pop
ulation. Machinery for gathering these statistics
was set up. In recent months, the Indiana service
has been able to break down this information to get
a picture of geographical distribution, the occupa
tional classifications, industrial background, age, sex
and other facts about the jobless.
The groundwork for maintaining current infor
mation on the unemployed population in Indiana
has been laid. A pressing need, of course, is to get
n liable statistics on the situation for the entire
country. The American Federation of Labor, the
United States Chamber of Commerce and other
groups usually are far apart in their estimates. When
a complete census of the jobless is available, much
of the guesswork can be eliminated from efforts to
provide safeguards against economic insecurity.
This convention will focus attention on Federal
state unemployment compensation plans under the
Federal Social Security Act. W. Frank Persons, di
rector of the United States Employment Service, is
listed among the prominent speakers. Martin F.
Carpenter, director of the Indiana State Employ
ment Service, also is president of the international
association.
The scheduled three-day program Is filled with
important discussions that should promote better un
derstanding of the unemployment compensation laws
and of the entire problem of economic security.
AT LAST, A SHOWDOWN
“V/fOST of the charges of bringing political pres
-LYA sure to bear on recipients of relief have been
vague and general. The Indiana investigation re
futed some of the sweeping criticisms of WPA ad
ministration. Several specific complaints were
cleared up. But while WPA officials claimed vindl*
cation by the report, New Deal critics insisted the
inquiry proved the existence of partisan bias. .
Now Republican National Committeeman Curtis
of Missouri has come forward with charges that
are specific, with names, dates and places, describ
ing alleged irregularities in Missouri, where the
Pendergast Democratic machine dominates. These
charges demand specific answers.
WPA Administrator Harry Hopkins, it is said, has
accepted the challenge, is checking up on the alle
gations and will reply in specific language. Devel
opments should be interesting.
“EVEN SO, IT IS BETTER”
OANFORD BATES, director of Federal prisons and
one of the nation’s leading authorities on crime
prevention and control, made a convincing defense
of the parole system once when it was under attack.
With Mr. Bates scheduled to address the Central
States Parole and Probation Conference here Friday,
his earlier statement is worth repeating. He said:
“Granted that care should be taken in the ad
ministration of parole, that it should be granted
only after the defendant has served a sufficient time
in the institution, that its administration should be
absolutely divorced from political and other ulterior
influences, that its award should be based on a full
possession of the facts of the crime, the character
of the inmate and the environment to which he
must return; granted that parole boards are human
and have not the miraculous power to foresee future
violations; granted all these things, nevertheless, it
can be maintained that whenever the logical time
arrives for the release of the prisoner, it is infiinitely
better and more consistent with the proper protec
tion of our communities that they be released under
parole supervision rather than turned loose, as must
be the case when they have completely served out
the whole of their allotted sentence.
“When we come to this conclusion, we shall rec
ognize parole, as well as probation and prison dis
cipline, as an integral and necessary part of any
penal system. We shall discontinue our criticism of
it as a method, and concentrated upon the improve
ment of its administration."
“POOR MAN’S COURTS”
'T'HE report showing that one of the municipal
courts at police headquarters disposed of 1158
cases during the first 25 days of May emphasizes a
problem facing many cities. Under the present sys
tem dockets are so crowded that swift settlement is
necessary.
Municipal courts have been called the “poor man's
courts." From them the poor, the uneducated and
the unfortunate form lasting impressions about the
administration of justice. When the system requires
that cases be tried and disposed of on the average
of one every few minutes, one wonders how much
judicial consideration each case gets. It raises the
question whether "poor man's court" is not a mis
nomer.
The municiplal court system of our cities has been
called the “stepchild of our judicial system.’.’ It has
been neglected by the bench, the bar. legislators and
by the public. It is not surprising that many whose
only contact with the law is through such courts
have lost confidence in the judiciary and in the
legal profession.
Chicago and some of the other larger cities are
revamping the setup of their courts, increasing the
number of Judges and restricting their Jurisdictions.
Without such a reorganization, there seems no short
cut to better municipal administration of justice.
FLEEING TAXATION
FROM Nassau, a New York Times correspondent
report* that wealthy Americans are secretly
Investing millions in property in the Bahama Islands
for ths purpose of evading high United States in
tome taxes. The Bahamas are British-pwned, but
under their autonomous government have no in
come taxes.
An involved exchange procedure is followed, it is
said, by which credit for these purchases is obscure
ly routed out of the United States; and the proper
ties are purchased and developed by companies of
which Bahamiam business men lend their names,
concealing the identity of the actual American in
vestors.
We suggest that this report be jotted down in
the memory of Americans who stay at home and do
We suggest that this report be jotted down in
that something may happen some day in Bahamas
threatening the security of American Investments
there. In that event, of course, our State Depart
ment will be called upon to make appropriate
protests.
BREAK, BREAK, BREAK
'THE presidential campaign so far has been little
more than a big boner contest between the two
major parties.
Until Gen. Farley in hr: Grand Rapids speech
patronizingly referred to Alf Landon as “the Gov
ernor of a typical prairie state,” the Republicans
were walking away with honors. Senator Dickinson
of lowa had raised howls of laughter by his famous
dog food speech. The G. O. P. publicity chief has
made four prominent political columnists hot under
the collar by suggesting that Republican editors
would find their pieces rich with the right kind of
doctrine. National Chairman Fletcher had openly
invoked the services of 16 eminent industrialists,
among them several Liberty Leaguers, to pass the
hat for campaign funds. The G. O. P. National Com
mittee had named a boomerang Brain Trust.
Then came the Farley slur on Kansas, a real
prize-winning boner. It was almost in a class with
Joe Grundy’s high tariff appeal in which he told
Congress to ignore the “backward states,’’’ and
Senator Mc-ses’ bon mot about “sons of the wild
jackass," two historic blunders that went far toward
weaning the West from the Republican Party.
But apparently the Republicans are just not
going to let Farley get away with the honor. From
Wichita comes the story that the head of Gov.
Landon's state police force, acLing under orders
from the Attorney General, led a raid on a half
dozen night clubs, smashing bars, ripping up floors
and wrecking property in the true Carrie Nation tra
dition in search for liquor—none of which was found.
Thus, unjustly, may be ruined much of the careful
build-up of Kansas’ Landon as a tolerant sort of
fellow.
It looks as if all the possible boners have been
used up before the campaign has really begun. But
party leaders are resourcelul, and there are still five
months to go.
THE PEOPLE SPEAK
'T'HE American people, in the proportion of more
A than 6 to 4, favor ratifying the pending Child
Labor Amendment, according to a sample poll of
voters in all the states made by the American In
stitute of Public Opinion.
Replying to the question, “Do you favor an
amendment to the Constitution giving Congress
the power to limit, regulate and prohibit the labor
of persons under 18?’’ sixty-one per cent voted yes,
39 per cent no. t
The poll reveals that if this amendment were
submitted to the people of the states, 45 states would
ratify by popular referendum, while only three—
Kansas, South Dakota and Maryland—would reject
it. Interesting to the voters this November will be
the fact that only 46 per cent of Republican voters
replying favored the amendment, while 72 per cent
of the Democrats favored it. City folks in the 10
biggest cities voted 66 to 34 for the amendment, but
farmers voted against it 54 to 46. The other big sup
porting groups were young people, women and
Socialists.
What does this mean?
What, but that tha people’s legislatures are
playing the people false? This amendment was sub
mitted to the states in 1524, two years after the
United States Supreme Court held the second child
labor law unconsitutional. Since then, in all these
12 years, only 24 states out of the necessary 36 have
ratified. Among the rest 22 states have rejected the
amendment and two—Alabama and Rhode Island—
havd refused to act at all. Thus. 21 states in which
the voters apparently favor ratification have refused
to act in accordance with the people’s wishes.
Here is an issue couched in the simplest of terms.
It is good economics and humanity in its most ele
mentary form. Yet, whether from stupidity, mis
information or moral callousness one-half of the
Legislatures have defeated all efforts to take children
out of jobs their jobless elders should have. More
than 2,000,000 youngsters under 18 working at wages
while 10 million elders are idle!
This story of justice deferred to the nation’s youth
illustrates how difficult we have made it for decent
Federal legislation. In face of two laws passed by
Congress, 12 years of campaigning and an apparently
overwhelming public sentiment we still lack a Federal
child labor law, the only kind that ever can be effec
tive.
Reactionary state Legislatures, resisting orderly
evolution of government, are putting too much of a
strain on the Constitution they profess to protect.
A WOMAN'S VIEWPOINT
By Mrs. Walter Ferguson
T AGREE whole-heartedly with a correspondent
that the anonymous article in a rece.it Saturday
Evening Post, “I Like Men With Money,’’ is a sorry
disclosure of femininity.
Prophecies are not in good taste. If they were,
it would be easy to foretell the eventual fade-out of
the damsel who admits that she wants her men rich
and intends to get everything out of them she can
while giving as little as possible in return. She’ll
get exactly what she goes after—baubles.
Nor is this a gasp of moral horror at the idea she
expresses. Obviously she is out to shock her readers.
But nobody is going to be shocked at that which is
so noticeable in our social scheme. The girl really
deserves a pat on the head for telling the truth
about her poor little soul.
She is typical of a certain kind of American
womanhood. The same kind were often to be met
with in the days when Nero was Emperor of Rome.
They are nothing new under the sun.
But one emotion moves us when we read of her
tricks and petty thieveries, her avidity to grab for
herself all the bonbons from life’s cornucopia. That
emotion is not anger but pity; pity that an intelli
gent, fortunate young woman living in the most in
teresting of all epochs should waste her life upon
such petty quests.
Was it to support daughters like these that our
pioneer mothers dared the dangers of ocean and
wilderness? No. However numerous the greedy
grabbers are, for each of them we have 10 fine girls
who appreciate the true worth of men and are
ready to take their share of domestic and social
responsibility.
As has always been the case the generous, useful
women who do real work in the world will continue
to earn much of the money that supports the idler
in her stupid little game. But that is no matter.
The useful and generous also will continue to get
from life that which the other sort can not under
stand—spiritual boons rather than material bonbons.
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
Our
Town
By
ANTON SCHERRER
Tl/CAYBE you’ve noticed the nice
‘‘YA nun in the middle aisle of the
City Market, but maybe your eyes
haven’t wandered down far enough
to know that she sells the kind of
aprons made by the Sisters of the
Good Shepherd.
Besides making aprons, the nuns
in Raymond-st do a number of
other nice things, too. They fix all
the monograms on the shirts sold
| by the L. Strauss people and they
make some of the loveliest laces you
I ever laid your eyes on.
Most of their business is on a
cloister-to-customer basis, but
sometimes, especially around Christ
mas, they let some of the stores sell
their wares. And to keep their time
fully occupied, they run a steam
laundry.
Some of the luckiest trousseaux
ever turned out for Indianapolis
brides were made by them. Given a
fair start, a nun-made trousseau is
luckier than any other kind. At any
rate, Edith Vunnegut and Erna
Rhoads still like to look at their
nun-made things, which is more
than you can say for most trous
seaux.
nun
'T'HE Indianapolis unit of the
House of the Good Shepherd
was founded in 1873, but it really got
started 11 years before that. The
story of the start is one of the
strangest in the town’s archives be
cause, believe it or not, the House
was started without the nuns know
ing anything about it. A couple of
men were at the bottom of it.
The insiitution was an outgrowth
of the Civil War. The floating
population living by plunder and
chance upon the soldiers brought a
plague of loose women to Indianap
olis and it became so bad in 1862
that Mayor Caven called the atten
tion of the council to it.
The jail couldn’t hold the women
any more and so the Mayor sug
gested building a house of refuge
for them. Nothing came of it at
the time.
A year later, however, Stoughton
A. Fletcher made a proposition to
give seven acres of ground just
south of the city between the Bluff
and the Three Notch roads for a
reformatory if the city would do its
part and put up a building.
The gift was accepted and SSOOO
appropriated for the purpose. Plans
were accepted and contracts let.
The prices advanced so greatly un
der the influence of the war that
the work was stopped in 1864 after
SBOOO was spent. All they had to
show for it was a fine stone base
ment.
a
NOTHING happened to the fine
stone basement until Father
Bessonies of St. John’s got around
to it. Father Bessonies had watched
the building of the basement be
cause it was near some land he had
purchased.
Father Bessonies’ land turned out
to be Holy Cross Cemetery and it
just about broke him because he
paid for it out of his own pocket.
But broke as he was, Father Bes
sonies wanted to do something about
the wasted basement.
The more he thought of the for
lorn basement, the more he thought
of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd,
a cloistered order back in his be
loved France who for 200 years and
more had been doing what Mayor
Caven had in mind.
Father Bessonies and Mayor Cav
en struck a bargain and nobody to
this day knows who got the better
of the deal. By the terms of the
bargain the Sisters of the Good
Shepherd got the basement and land
for nothing and Indianapolis got a
shelter for girls who want to go
straight.
Which accounts for the nice nun
in the City Market.
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can extended research be undertaken.
Q —What is a spring peeper?
A—A small brown tree toad native
in eastern United States and Can
ada, having an oblique dark
colored cross on the back, an angu
lar mark between the eyes and bars
on the legs. They breed in ponds
and swamps in the spring and their
shrill, piping notes are among the
earliest signs of spring.
Q —ls King Edward VIII the King
of Scotland as well as of Ireland?
A—He is King of the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ire
land. Scotland is an integral part
of the United Kingdom.
Q —Does the United States send
an ambassador or minister to any
of the British colonies?
A—No.
Q —What is the title of the com
manding officer cn a steamship?
A—Master, or commander, collo
quially called the captain.
Q —What do one, two and three
whistles mean when blown in steam
ships passing each other?
A—One short blast means that
the steamer sounding it is steering
a course to starboard; two blasts,
that she is steering a course to port;
and three, that her engines are go
ing full speed astern.
Q—What does the name Maxine
mean?
A—lt is a fpminine name, from the
Latin, and means "the greatest.”
MORE THAN A LOCAL PROBLEM
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short, so all cun have a chance. Limit
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must be sinned, bit names will be
withheld on reauest.
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THINKS SUPREME COURT
POWER SHOULD BE CURBED
By Hiram Lackey
The Washington Merry-G o -
Round performs another significant
service for the readers of The Times
by catching Justice Mcßeynolds off
his guard and thus revealing the
passion and prejudice that may in
fluence the decisions of the six
judges who agree with Hoover and
Mills.
Justice Mcßeynold’s anger and
childish demands of the guard, when
he spied the serial letter “A” on
his new office door, indicates his
unfitness to influence the prosper
ity and happiness of so many mil
lions of American workers.
Such emotionalism, resulting from
the sight of the letter in AAA, rep
resents an unhealthy adjustment of
this reactionary judge to the just
criticism of the enlightened mind
and conscience of America.
It is reasonable to believe that our
nine justices are competent as to
legal training and intelligence. If
these be constant factors, we the
people ask what determines the dif
ference in the decisions of the minor
and major groups.
We like to think of our justices as
being above the frailties that char
acterized the kings in the days of
Daniel. We have grown to think of
the welfare of millions of workers
as being more important than the
transitory whim of a king.
We think of the Supreme Court
in terms of its dignity and justice.
We would do well to observe what
the six reactionary judges are cam
ouflaging. So much velvet on the
points of spears that they are
Your Health
BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN
IF a mother who is nursing her
baby has plenty of milk, she will
probably do well to feed the baby
from one breast only at each nurs
ing. Less frequent use of the
breast lessens danger of infection
and of sore or cracked nipples.
If a mother does not have very
much milk, she should use both
breasts in nursing, because regular
use of the breast for nursing stimu
lates the milk flow.
If one breast only is used in nurs
ing, the baby should not nurse much
longer than 10 minutes. If both
breasts are used, six minutes’ nurs
ing should supply the baby with all
the milk that will be useful to him.
Scientific studies show that the
food obtained by the baby after the
first six to 10 mirutes is hardly suf
ficient to be of great importance in
ordinary nursing.
Once a schedule of feeding has
been adopted, it should be followed
closely. Sometimes a baby fed
every four hours gets unsually hun
gry at the end of three or three and
one-half hours, especially if he has
been active or if the previous feed
ing has been small.
B B B
IN such case, the baby should not
be allowed to cry for a half
hour, but may be fed a little ahead
of time. The next feeding, however,
should be given at the regular
period.
A baby who nurses too long at the
breast will tend to swallow much air
toward the end of the nursing
period. After the feeding, he will
try to regurgitate this air. Asa re
sult, he may vomit or have colic.
To overcome this air swallowing,
the mother should sit up while the
baby is nursing and hold the baby
in a semi-erect posture. Just before
nursing the baby, she may hold him
upright over her shoulder’
If she will then pat him lightly on
the back, he will be likely to belch
up the air. After the nursing is
completed, the same procedure
should ’ e followed for a short time.
Some babies swalow more air
than do others. If the baby tends to
be an “air swallower,” the nursing
may be interrupted occasionally and
the baby held over the shoulder.
This will permit him to belch up
some of the air he has swallowed, j
before he proceeds with nursing.
thrusting into the hearts of laboring
producers of America!
To the end that we may curb the
flagrant abuse of power by Supreme
Court justices, we the producers
long for the opportunity to express
our sentiments and convictions in
the form of ballots to amend the
Constitution.
B B B
SUPFLY, DEMAND SEEN AS
BASIS FOR WAGES
By E. B. Swinney
The question often is asked,
“What are a person's services worth
at any given time in any occupa
tion?”
It seems to me there is but one
answer, namely, just what can be
obtained for them in the open mar
ket.
This will arouse a storm of criti
cism. but it is true nevertheless.
There is no other answer. Times
and conditions are so constantly
changing that this matter can not
be regulated by law.
The economic law of supply and
demand is nature’s efficient balance
wheel. During the war when the
demand for labor far exceeded the
supply, labor received a much larger
share of the product than the de
pression period when the reverse
was true.
There is no reason in nature why,
with man’s inexhaustible and un
satisfied wants, the demand for
labor should not always exceed the
supply at wages amounting to the
full products. Involuntary unem
ployment means that we have
clogged the machine with an eco
nomic monkey wrench that separ
ates land—the source of . wealth,
from labor—the producer of wealth.
Our job therefore, is not to make
bad matters worse by enacting pal
liative legislation, but to eliminate
the monkey wrench by abolishing
monopoly in the natural resources
by taking the rent of land for pub
lic expenses in lieu of all taxation,
as proposed by Henry George.
B B
LANDON’S LIFE OPEN BOOK,
OLD NEIGHBORS SAY
By Hugh S. Johnson, Tulsa, Okla.
This is written in my home-state
stamping grounds—the Oklahoma
oil country. It also happens to be
the Landon home-state stamping
grounds—just across the line in
Kansas.
Lots of people here have known
the Governor all his life. The lady
of this house went to school in
Lawrence when he was a student at
SIDE GLANCES By George Claris
I; JJ telFTTfilililiiT "Tip
“3 ou’ll die when you hear this. Bess. Jerry has been asked
to give a success talk to some graduating class. Isn’t
that priceless?” v
Kansas University and was called
“Fox” Landon—“because," says she,
“he was slyly shrewd like an old
darky who can play excellent poker
but can't read and write.” Her
brother was a classmate and is for
Fox, but she ardently is not.
An old Negro family friend such
as she had described summed up
his opinion of the Governor this
way: “He don't know much of any
thing and he ain’t even curious.”
In the East there is a lot of
whispering about “somebody digging
up something on Landon.” If that
means some sinister connection with
big oil interests or some hidden sin,
nobody is going to dig up anything.
There is nothing to dig. The Gov
ernor's life is just like his last radio
speech to a small town high school—
a dreary sequence of platitudinous
sterility: “There is no substitute
for courage. Man can not live on
bread alone,” and the whole copy
book Decalogue lacking only “Two
plus two equal four,” and “ ‘Tis love
that makes the world go round.”
They say here that Alf does not
expect to be elected this time, but
expects to win in 1940. That is non
sense. If there were enough time
between now anc’. the convention for
him to go on the air with a few
more such speeches and a canned
dialogue or two like the last one, he
wouldn't even be nominated.
Nonentity can conceal itself but not
if it opens its mouth and emits
words.
ANNIVERSARY
BY VIRGINIA KIDWELL
Every one has special days
That sacredly he keeps,
Sometimes retracing saddened ways
To where a loved one sleeps.
Sometimes reliving in a room
Some past despair or woe,
Rehearing in the silent gloom
A loved voice saying “Go.”
Every one has special dates
Kept sentimentally,
Though long ago you left I know
Today you'll think of me.
DAILY THOUGHT
Only the Lord give thee wisdom
and understanding, and give thee
charge concerning Israel, that thou
mayest keep the law of the Lord,
thy God. —I Chronicles xxil, 12.
THE sublimity of wisdom is to
do those things living which
are to be desired when dying.—Jer
emy Taylor.
MAY 27, 193(7
Vagabond
from
Indiana
ERNIE PYLE
EDITOR'S NOTE—This roting reporter
for The Time* goe* where he pleate*.
when he please*, in search of odd
stories about this and that.
■pv ALLAS, May 27.—What the
Dallas Centennial Exposition
had to have was a man who could
say “no,'' and not say it next week,
or at 4 o'clock this afternoon, but
right now. It has that man.
He is William A. Webb. He i
manager of the Exposition. He is
a good-looking, well-preserved man
in his late fifties. They say he can
be plenty tough. But he can also
be plenty pleasant, as I happen to
know.
I walked into his office late one
afternoon and started off something
like this; “I know you re snowed
under with work, Mr. Webb, but
if . . .”
“I'm not snowed under at all,” he
said. “Let's get in my car and
take a ride.” The truth is he was
snowed under, but it didn't worry
him.
Webb never ran an Exposition
before in his life. But he's an old
railroad man. He has always been
a builder. He has built bigger
buildings than anything at the Cen
tennial. He has handled more
money than the $25,000,000 the Cen
tennial is spending. He has direct
ed more men than the Centennial's
10,000.
B B B
HE quit railroading five years
ago, and retired. He aimost
went crazy. Says he didn t do any
thing but play golf and drink. He s
working now from 7 a. m. ’till mid
night. and says he's happier than
he's been in years.
Here is a brief history of Webb's
career;
Born in Kentucky. Moved to
Colorado early. Started work for
the Santa Fe in Colorado Springs
as a messenger boy. Was a com
petent telegraph operator at 12.
Saw the early, gold towns of
Cripple Creek, Leadville and Aspen.
Never got mixed up in gold mining,
though, except as an unfortunate
investor, he says.
Learned stenography. At 24 was
assistant to the president of the
Colorado Southern in Denver. At
29 was operating vice president of
the Katy system in Dallas. That
was 1905. He rebuilt the whole
Katy system, a $60,000,000 job.
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IN 1917 he was in Washington as
a member of the wartime Rail
way Board. After the war, Aus
tralia wanted somebody to rebuild
its government-owned railways.
Two railroad presidents and Sec
retary of State Hughes, who was his
personal friend, recommended
Webb. He was in Australia 10
years.
Not one day during the first three
years was he without a strike. They
tried to run him cut of the cour.tr>'.
He was a “Yankee.” and they didn't
want him around. He was a cam
paign issue. A government fell over
him.
But he hung on. After the third
year, he never had another strike.
He built or rebuilt 6JOO miles of
track. Built new locomotives, new
cars, organized a whole railroad.ng
system, converted it from the small
scale British to the big-scale Amer
ican. Spent 75 millions. Trained
thousands of men.
When he left in 1930, 2500 people
were at the boat to see him off.
Back in Dallas to retire, he found
loafing hard. He got mixed up in
city politics, just to kill time. When
the Centennial started, he drifted
into it as a clerk of some sort, just
to keep from loafing.
B B B
THE Centennial was run by a
commission. They couldn’t get
anything done. Too many ideas,
and not enough action. Nobody
would say “yes,” or “no.” There was
anew commission about every week.
The Centennial was drifting.
Somebody thought of Webb. They
made him dictator of the show.
That was last October. Since then
things have hummed and howled.
Webb isn’t one of these dynamic
movie-type executives. He appears
to take things easy. He stops in the
middle of something to tell a joke.
He thinks Dallas is the greatest
place in the world. Lived here 12
years before the war. and six years
since he came back from Australia.
Webb says this is the hardest job
he has ever done. He says it's
harder than running 50,000 miles of
railroad.
I asked him what he was going to
do when this thing is all over next
November. He laughed. “I don't
know. Go back to playing 19 holes
a day I suppose.”
Today’s Science
J
BY SCIENCE SERVICE
"ITTHO will be the Pasteur or the
YY Gorgas of mental medicine?
Pasteur proved to the world that
physical diseases were traceable to
minute germs not visible to the un
aided eye. Gorgas made possible
the building of the Panama Canal
with his campaign against the small
and apparently harmless mosquito
which carries hidden in his body the
virulent germ of yellow fever.
Who will arise to protect mankind
from the mental “germs”; the hates,
antagonisms and jealousies that go
about hidden under the names of
patriotism, nationalism, self-protec
tion, race superiority, justice and a
thousand and one oth“r disguises,
and lead man to his own destruc
tion?
This is the Question raided by Dr.
William A- White, psychiatrist of
St. Elizabeth’s Hospital, Washing
ton. He asks;
“Is it not apparent that it is as
essential to know the true motives
that animate men and nations as it
is to know the pathogenic micro
organisms that produce the diseases?
Is it not apparent that it is Just as
important to know the names un
der which these motives masquerade
as it is to know the carriers of these
pathogenic micro-organisms?”
Freedom from the scourge of
germ-produced diseases is not yet
complete, it is true, for this year s
disastrous floods reminded us that
immediately when vigilance in pres
ent-day sanitary measures is relaxed
or interrupted, the ancient enemy
of plague raises its ugly head.
So it is also with the destructive
forces of the mind, Dr. White re
minds us.