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THE TIMES-NEWS
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" Tl'ESDA Y,~OC TOBER 25,1938 1
HERE IS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR
STRAIGHT THINKING .
(By BRUCE CATTON)
The world is governed more and more
by emotion, and less and less by thought.
That is the greatest danger of our day.
If any sanity and decency is to be kept j
in the world, people must think more.1
That means all people, not just the leaders.
That is harder than just to shout "Hoo
ray!" or "Boo!" But it must be done.
Let's take a laboratory example, the
latest Lindbergh affair. Chances are that
one either considers Lindbergh a nasty
Fascist spy who intrigued against the So
viet Union, or a wise observer who served
peace and the world by telling the truth
about the Russian air force, in quarters
where that knowledge was badly needed.. !
Yet how fa'' is one justified in drawing
either conclusion? Let's re-survey the
facts, and see whether opinion is condi
tioned by feelings toward Russia, the So
viets, Hitler, Chamberlain, or by known
facts.
Lindbergh went to Russia. He was en
tertained by Russian airmen with the usual
courtesies, and shown as much of Russian
air strength as the Russians cared to show.
He returned to England. Several maga
zines there printed a rumor that Lindbergh
had made certain comments uncomplimen
tary to the Russian air force at a social
eve t i*"1 to persons of influence in the
British government.
K - R >>ian host-aviators immediately
cair»L . with a violent statement con-|
demning Lindbergh as a paid liar and a
Fascist spy. The world promptly took!
sides. Lindbergh himself remained silent.
Beyond the published rumor, how much
actual proof has been shown that Lind
bergh said the things attributed to him?
Very little. The central fact of the whole j
affair remains unverified.
Assuming, however, that Lindbergh said
the things attributed to him, were they
true? Obviously the effectiveness of any
air force before actual test in war is a mat
ter of opinion. It is not a matter on which
to use terms like "liar." There can be no
proof.
Now the third accusation: that Lind- j
bergh was a paid spy for Fascism, and
made such a report on Russian aviation
purely to influence Britain against oppos
ing Hitler. That is a nasty accusation. It
ought not to have been made without the
strongest evidence. But is there any evi
dence? None at all. It is a plausible
sounding hypothesis, but of proof there is
not an iota.
Three belief-hurdles have been quickly
leaped by many people in this affair. They I
concluded: 1. Lindbergh said or did not
say what he was reported to have said.
2. It was or was not true. 3 It was or was
not said with the worst kind of ulterior
motive. Yet all three conclusions rest on
assumptions not proved.
All these things were reported in some
detail by the newspapers, and properly so,
because they were news. But if ever there
was a case for suspended judgment on the
part of the reader, this is it. The whole
thing is a question of fact, and the fact is
by no means established. . t
This is the kind of testing and searching
which Americans must apply to all news,
especially foreign news, these days if we
are to choose a course that is wise and just,
and not merely be blown on winds of pas
sion and demagoguery.
So China's scorched earth policy brought
the Japanese hot-footing it into Canton?
One of the difficulties is that, all these
plans for peace seem to be forged in the
armaments factories.
O, no, the forgotten man isn't really lost;
he's merely over there under that pile of
bills that his children are going to have to
pay.
At any rate, the Democrats of the eighth
district will start their campaign with the
most advertised candidate they've ever
had.
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more farm confusion
What to do about the f^rm surplus? "With a
really striking resemblance^ to the Greek Furies,
the question returns to plague a government which
not only has failed to solve the difficulties in this
most resurgent of political and economic head
aches, but has actually encouraged the farmer to
look increasingly to Washington for disposition of
his troubles.
Consider a few recent developments. On Thurs
day President Roosevelt was said by Senator Lee '
of Oklahoma to be in agreement on the principle
that "the domestic market should be allotted at a ,
fair price to the farmer." If this means anything,
it means that some sort of price-fixing is being
considered by the White House, for a subsidy can
not "guarantee" any return above tKe amount of
subsidy.
Meanwhile, Secretary Wallace is making frantic
efforts to head off popular agrarian demand for
price fixing. Instead, he wants to substitute a
processing tax plus a consumption subsidy. But, if
there is thus an apparent difference of opinion be
tween President ad* Secretary of Agriculture,
this is matched by differences within the Secre
tary's own department. Quite logically and cor-!
rectly, many in that branch of government feel
that whatever good effects may be achieved by
moving cotton into trade via the consumption sub
sidy route will be offset, as far as disposition of 1
the crop is concerned, by the processing taxes, j
One may not entirely cancel the other, but a con
servative estimate, based on past pel formances, is 1
that at least half of the additional cotton which
may be consumed as a result of government-aided
purchasing power by the underprivileged will be
negated by the buyer resistance engendered by
processing taxes.
Confusion twice confounded, for fair. But this
is not all. Even as Secretary Hull is still working
doggedly to expand world markets through trade
agreements, Senator Lee also asserts that the Pres
ident is considering a plan based on division of
world markets by agreement. This, in principle, is
directly opposed to the Hull program.
Finally, we are confronted with a plan, also from
certain individuals in the agriculture uepartmem,
ivhich would give manufacturers free cotton to be
made into work garments, thus increasing con
sumption (theoretically) of such goods. That this
plan would compromise our whole retail system,
ivhich rests on the price-market factor, is evident
to anyone with a reasonably adequate knowledge,
[)f economics.
Opponents of a planned farm economy need not1
jubilate at all th;s. It is too very near the tragic |
for anyone to tneer. But once ajrain are we re
minded of the chaos into which controlled produc
tion must sink unless we invoke rigoifms manda
tory centralized control—a proposition which the
vast majority of our citizens, farmers or not, shun.'
- Wall Street Journal.
NO INCONSISTENCY
A . tihern newspaper correspondent shows his,
!uck of understanding of racial relations in the,
?outh in writing about Senator Ellison D. Smith
and one of the senator's negro friends.
Just outside the office of Secretary Wallace, the
correspondent reports, hangs a photograph of Cot
ton Ed on which is inscribed, "To Edward Crockett
from his friend, E. D. Smith." Edward Crockett is,
and has been since the days of Woodrow Wilson, a
colored messenger in the department.
Yet, the correspondent adds, as if he had discov
ered a great inconsistency, Senator Smith cam
paigned for renomination this year on a white su
premacy platform.
Innumerable southern negroes can and do count
on innumerable southern white men as their j
friends, and both know that the white men see eye
to eye with Senator Smith on the necessity for
white supremacy.
Many of our northern friends, like the corre-!
spondent in this case, fail to understand it—but
usually those who come from the north to live with
us in a short time do.—Greenville Piedmont.
THE WAY IT IS GOING
A dispatch from Washington says that the cur
L*nt budget for this fiscal year (1938-39) esti- j
mates spending of $8,985,157,600, income of $5,
000.27^,000, and a net deficit df $3,984,887,600.
This is the way the Federal Government is being
managed fiscally and financially.
It analyzes to be like this when applied to an (
individual: j
Une is yearly earning $o,uuo as the whole of
his income and the same one is annually spending
approximately $9,000 in living expenses—net re
sult, $4,000 in the hole at the end of the year.
Keep on doing this long enough and that indi
vidual will find himself hopelessly entangled.
It is not otherwise with the Federal Government.
The end of the sort of fiscal policy now being
practiced is sure, definite and inevitable.
No New Deal magic can prevent that end from
some day being reached. And it is certain disaster
when it comes.—Charlotte Observer.
AT A GEORGIA FAIR~~
Says the Columbus (Ga.) Enquirer: "The fact
that such a large attendance is being recorded at
the 1938 Chattahoochee Valley exposition, despite
the absence of gambling devices on the midway, is
proof that it is not necessary to operate these so
called games of chance in order to attract big
crowds to the grounds—claims to the contrary not- j
withstanding."
The Columbus Enquirer commends the fair man
agement for having taken positive action to ban j
gambling in any way at the big exposition. The ;
records show that attendance, instead of decreas
ing, is on the increase. The fair turnstiles are j
clicking faster this year than in years Pas^ when
gamlling was permitted.—Spartanburg Journal.
NOBODY IS FORCED.
Secretary of the Interibr Harold Ii. Ickes now
says that President Roosevelt "might have to run
for a third term in 1940 but that "for his sake I
hope he doesn't."" ' ' " ,
We hope so, tobi for his sake, for the sake of a
treasured tradition of our beloved country, for the
sake of the American people and their welfare now
and in the future.
The President mi£lit run again; he will not have
to run.
No man ever has or ever will, so long as we hold
fast to our priceless democratic piinciples; be j
forced to become a candidate for that office or for
any other in these United States. Gieenville Pied-^
mont
The Ultimate in Pension Plans
voters wait'£(cr
Will PLEASE K6cP
TrteiR PlACES fM
line
LIFE DAY BY DAY ;
Rv WiCKFS WAMBOWT :
« . .1 _
The German republic failed and |
there is a reason. The German
nation, by nature and centuries
of training, is not equipped for
Wamboldt
selt- government, <
The Germans!
have been taught!
to obey a boss; I
they have been j
educated to let
some command- {
i n g figure d o
their thinking
for them; they j
have been taught
to love to mind
and never to
question the
voice of author
ity.
When the Ger
man people aft uv
the World war
found themselves free to manage
their own affairs, to form and to
run their own government, they
did not know what to do. They
were like a lot of school children
suddenly Riven charge of a huge
business. So they became demor
alized, stewed around in dissent
ing factions, and the body politic
fell to pieces until somebody
could come along, put it together
again, and tell the people what
to do and when to do it. How hap
py those Germans were when Boss
Hitler arrived on the scene and
began ordering them about! What
the Allies should have done in
1918 was to have marched into
Berlin and set up a government
for Germany; then supervised its
operation until the German people
could learn to take it over and
run it—exactly as the United
States did in the Philippines.
The democracy is not for every
kind of people. The democracy is
u
lor a people accusioineu iu uiuv
pendent thinking, who love free-!
dorti and are individually interest
ed in government. Really the de
mocracy is for a people who are
highly developed mentally and
spiritually. While we Americans
love freedom we are not yet suf
ficiently developed mentally and ;
spiritually to make a success of
our democracy. At present we are
merely messing along: with it.
Whether we can acquire what it
takes—become informed, alert
and responsible as to the demands
of democratic government before
we lose our democratic govern
ment, is a vital question. Unless
we Americans do rise to the oc- .
casion and demonstrate we are
fit, for self-government, we shall
sooner or later lose self-govern
ment.
Persons with the souls of slaves,
or of outlaws, can never make a
democracy succeed. The democra
cy calls for sincere, honest, un
selfish, patriotic devotion to pub
lic duty and public welfare. It
calls for the type ©f citizenry
which is committed to a govern
ment of the people, by the people
and for the people, and which is
determined to make that govern
ment work.
COULD IT BE?
The suspicion is entertained in
some quarters that England has
traded Czechoslovakia's Sudeten- j
land( which England did not own) i
to Germany for Germany's Afri-1
can colonies (which England now |
holds as a result of the World
war).
Anyhow, perhaps one reason
our Revolutionary forefathers cut
loose from Old Mother England
was that they had a hunch this
BEHIND THE SCENES
IN WASHINGTON
RY PODNFY nUTPHPD ,
JBX KUUNE2 UUltMtK
SEA Service Staff Correspondent
VY/ASHINGTON.—New York has
" a two-price system. L'oston
has another. In each city milk
is sold to poor people at n;ucli
iess than the regular retail Pnce
The Boston plan, under which
WPA families buy milk at two
cents a quart while most Boston
[amilies pay 12 or 13 cents a quart,
operates on a substantial federal
subsidy. The New York plan in
volves no subsidy except the mu
nicipal contribution of supervision.
Although neither plan can be
said to be a model on which the
Department of Agriculture is sure
to base a two-price system for any
specific farm product, both are
usually mentioned in any discus
sion of the two-price idea by the
two-price thinkers. Each is sep
arate from plans under which mu
nicipalities give free milk to desti
tute families.
In Boston the Federal Surplus
Commodities Corporation, which
ordinarily only buys surplus com
modities from farmers to give
them away through state and local
.agencies to those on direct relief,
buys milk at the Class I price—
which r.>eans most of it at IVz
vents a quart—and gives it to the
city. The city pays two cents a
quart to commercial milk com
panies for pasteurizing and bot
tling, when upon the milk is avail
able—to V.PA families only—at
two cents. Behind all fhis i3 al
federal effa?t to hold up the Class
I fluid milk price for New Eng
land farmeis. Milk classed under
federal order as "surplus"—the
same kind of milk—is sold at less
than three cents a quart. The
oretically this milk might be
bought at such a price and sold to
the peer at that price plus a possi
ble three cents for processing and
distribution cost.
1
in Mew YorK tne iormai aenv- |
ered price for milk is 133/4 cents a
quart and the store price runs be
tween 11 and 13 cents, usually
settling at 12. But if you have a
certain blue identification card,
you can go to one of the 110 city
milk depots and buy practically
the same quart—a shade less but
torfat—at eight cents. This also
is Class I fluid milk. Farmers get
5.3 cents a quart for it, which
means 6.25 or 6.5 cents delivered
in the city. Milk distributing cor
porations buy it and deliver it to
the depots for sale at eight cents
to the blue card holders.
To get a card, the head of a
family must sign a statement that
he is unable to buy milk at the
regular store price, state tha num
ber of people in his family and the
number on welfare or home relief.
The way it works out, most of the
depot customers are persons on di
rect relief or WPA. Cards must
be renewed every three months.
Depots open at 6:30 a. m. and
remain open until 8:30. A truck
drives up and unloads trays of
milk bottles, An attendant passes
out the milk to the people stand
ing in line. Another checks milk
cards to see how much each
customer is entitled to. Cards are
punched. The man who sells the
milk works for the company. The
man who checks and punches
cards usually is a \VPA worker
provided by the city. Depots usu
ally are vacant stores or baby
health centers. Thus the city in
curs no extra cost for handling,
refrigeration, rent and so on. Pre
sumably the milk companies lose
no money on the deal. They dis
patch one truck only to a given
spot, sell in very little time with
out solicitation, suffer no bottle
losses because .customers must
present empties.
(CopyrieV. 193S, NEA Service, Inc.*
3zecho-Slovak sell-out was coming i
n 1938 and they didn't want their :
descendants to be even remotely
jonnected with it.
Wait a Minute
By NOAH HOLLOWELL
WHOSE TOWN? Scene 1— Po- j
lice court; nine cases .called in i
which there was the charge of I
drunkeness, including two for ,
driving while intoxicated.
Scene 2—Good men and women
in Hendersonville working up sen- !
tiinent to help deal with the juve- I
nile problem of the community,
when publoc speakers are speak
ing about it and preachers are
preaching about the waywardness
of boys and girls.
Scene 3—Harry Buchanan urg
ed that I see the picture, "Boys'
Town," as one of the best, in his
opinion, and one that hundreds of
rural school children and teachers
witnessed yesterday and last night.
I took his advice as much as I was
inclined to hear Governor Hoey,
another "best" in the orator's
line.
CONTEMPLATION: As I wit
nessed the gripping picture of|
Father Flanagan and the home he ,
made for boys, I thought of Hen-'
dersonville and its boy problem, ■
of Mayor Edwards as he plays, in '
a limited way, Father Flanagan to I
the boys. |
YOUTH OR ADULT PROB-!
LEM: I was led to wonder if it is |
altogether a youth problem with :
Hendersonville. When the foun-'
tain-head of a stream is polluted |
can we accomplish much in treat-'
ing the pool? Is not the source
of trouble the best place to apply
our remedies? If the community |
is not a safe place to nurture'
adults into good citizenship, what
about it beinp: a desirable atmos
phere for boys? Wouldn't the
juvenile problem pretty well take j
care of itself if we could be cour-;
atreous enough to clean up the |
things that are not wholesome for
adults?
With many bad examples set for
boys, what better can we expect
of them?
BROTHER AND SISTER
MEET AFTER 41 YEARS
HORNEI.L. N. Y., Oct. 25.— ;
•(UP)—A sister and brother who
had believed each other dead for
41 years have been reunited.
The sister, Mrs. Adolph Class
of Hornell, came to this country
from France when she was 14,
and her brother, Theodore May,
when he was 12. Both lived with
relatives near Buffalo, until Mrs.
Glass was married and moved to i
Jamestown. After 4^. .years Mrs.
Glass learned a Tbeotfore May re
sided in Tonawanda. S£e investi« i
prated and fotrhd thatf it was her j •
brother.. Each had received infor
mation, they said, that this other
was dead. •
—t~-i
CLIMBED TOO FAR
CUNEO, Italy,"* Oct.- 25. (UP) |
A Marseilles mf&Jfcipal counselor,.
Leon David, was in jail today be
cause he didn't look where he was
going. Enraptured by the beauty
of the Alps in the region of Isola,!
he climbed until he found himself
face to face with Italian Carabi-1
neers. He had crossed the frontier
without knowing it.
In freezing, water expands
about one-sixth its volume.
* • •
Lack Of Purpose
Brings Failure
To Bright Pupps
— r
St. Louis School Survey
Shows "Immediate Sat
faction,, Factor
ST. LOUIS, Oct. 25. (UP)—A
survey of high school students .in
this city showed that a lack of
purpose in life is responsible f<fi'
the failure of bright' students jti'
hiyh school studies, according; tp
a report issued by board of edit
cation officials.
George R. Johnson, director of
the survey, explained that thfc
"brijrht" pupils who fail "have a
behavior pattern calling for im
mediate satisfaction rather than
the performance of duty for ulti
mate gain."
Johnson .said these pupils at-1
tend movies more often than tHb !
"well-adjusted" pupils, retire af
ter midnight more frequently, do
more automobile driving, smoke
more cigarettes, study less at
home and have less interest in
continuing their education.
LOOK TO FUTURE
"The well-adjusted pupils, 0)1
the other hand, study more often
at home, hold official posiitons in
organizations, wish to attend col
lege after graduation from high
school," Johnson said. "Such facts
I suggest that the well-adjusted pu
pils envision purposes more dis
tant."
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