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PAGE FOUR
EDITORIAL
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Tune Inf On KRBO
Saturday Evening, November 28, 1939°
Saturday E
' And he said to David, Thou art more righteous than I: for thou hast rewarded me go od, whereas I have rewarded thee evil.—I Samuel 24:17. . .To love an enemy is the dis-
tinguished characteristic of a religion which is not of man but of God.-Rojas, - . 5 -
Up to Congress.
A private insurance company, interested in
remaining solv ent, would scarcely approve the
United States’ social security policy. It is a
noble gesture to set up a system designed to
bring greater security to the aged and infirm.
But, unless the federal government finds a
sounder financial footing, the whole plan is
likely to be like scuttling the steamship to
save a lifeboat.
The regular session of congress earlier this
year revamped the entire social security sys-
tem. increasing payments generally, but post-
poning increased payroll assessments on em-
ployer and employe. The amendments will go
into effect Jan. 1 of next year, and during the
course of 1940 it is estimated that 900,000
persons w ill collect a total of $114,000,000.
Under the Security Act of 1937, the present
1 percent payment made by the worker and
matched by his employer would have been
increased in 1940 to 112 percent. This, increase
has been canceled by the revisions; and, in-
stead. it will be necessary for congress to raise
the pay ments to 2 percent each for the worker
and employer in 1942 and to 3 percent in
1945.′
The big trouble is that these increases are
not assured. Congress: simply told the Social
Security Board to come back in 1942 and the
legislators would see what could be done. At
the moment, congress is in no mood even to
cially designated as assistant attorney general
in charge of the anti-trust division, either | _
doesn’t know How to Win Friends and Influ-
ence People of Importance, of doesn’t want to
be president—more likely the latter.
He has been in the justice department only
about.a year and a half, but in that brief time
he has tripped, so many people between the
: swinging doors of his anti-trusting that it
I would be almost no trick at all to organize
a nation-wide posse to go after his hide. In
the course of his whirlpool incumbency, Mr. ,
Arnold has managed to infuriate: the farmers, ,
college professors, truckers, milk distributors
and dealers, fertilizer manufacturers, the en-
tire medical profession, the motion picture in-
dustry. tire companies, the truckers' union, the
bottlers’ union, the building unions, the build-
ing industry, and finally all unions and busi-
ness men in general. 3
How much public good w ill come out of all
this activity remains to be seen. But as a side
issue, about the only person who isn't mad
at Mr. Arnold is a Mr. Dennison Whipsnoodle -
who rides the rails and hasn't seen a news- 0
paper since 1923. “
THE HOME POLITICAL WATERS
G.% DEM.
A/ 1940 1
IIX/CMPal
—sseewren
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rwnoce
The Creeping Man
By FRANCES SHELLEY WEES
Other Viewpoints
Someone Blundered.
From the Christian S ience Monitor:
vewii
—
How long Germany can wage wars and with
lecess. is a question exer-
discuss further tax levies, much less pass them. 1 ' F AL
And 1942 isn’t so far away. The argument that ". at pr SPE ’ su
the beneficiaries aren’t really being taxed- , cising the talents.of gohefmentebertsuin
. that they are just casting their bread upon the
waters—falls a little flat. In these days you
never can tell which way the tide will turn.
several countries In all their estimates, spec- . -
ulation in some measure is necessarily present.
The knowledge whether Reichsfuehrer Hitler
deliberately ch ose war with Britain and
France or whether he blundered into it on the
If the increases in 1942 and 1945 were defi-
nite and assured, the social security system rice YA "‘‘r HF *.........., *
w ild : retry closely resemble sound actuarial . assumption that : These nations would-not fight
management. The big difficulty is that prac- —this would help toward an estimate, of Ger-
tically the entire, gigantic scheme is based on many’s real St ength
these future rate increases—and if they're not If Herr H t er deliberate • chose war against
AN
0
YESTERDAY: Mr Deane
tells Michael that Mrs. Mur-
chison was out with a man the
evening Murchison disappeared
Later that evening, Mrs Devoe
is found dead on the cliff.
Chapter 41
RETURN TO LIFE
Tuck was sitting up in bed drink-
ing the cocoa Bunny had just
brought her. Michael, in dressing
gown and slippers, was stalking rest-
lessly about the room, and Bunny
was perched on the foot of Tucks
bed, pale and quiet Bunny was
not talking a great deal these ter-
rible days. There was so little to
say that did not touch on the mys-
tery; so little that did not remind
her of Michaels warning The
world seemed rather a terrible, un-
friendly, deceiving place.
"Michael. ' Tuck set down her cup
and snuggled down into her .pil-
lows. "Michael, why did she do
it?"
He did not answer for a minute
Then he turned and faced her.
leaning over the foot of his own
bed
“You mean," he said slowly, "if
she had done it, why would she
have done it?"
Tuck gasped "Murder?" she ask-
ed in a breathless whisper.
"Any observant person who has
lived near Mrs. Devoe for a num-
ber of years would know she was
left handed Easiest thing in the
world to drape that left hand around
the knife in her heart."
"But the knife, itself! It was her
own. out of her handbag. Why
should she have been carrying it?”
"I always have a penknife in my
handbag," Bunny said in her low
voice after a minute. She was
unlike in appearance, a Although
there is not the slightest relation-
ship. He is quiet mad about her
too, I think, although he may bes
tiring of her just a bit Still, those 1
letters didn't sound as if he were, .
did they?"′
"Letters?" ?
"In the box, honey. The warm, t
friendly ones ”
"Michael Bruce Forrester! Hows
long have you known that?"
"Oh, quite a while."
Bunny laughed suddenly. "I
thought perhaps they were one of
the unspeakable things Duncan was
responsible for" she said. 6
"No." He blew a smoke ring. "So
you see.' he went on, "why Mrs.
Devoe would have committed sui- s
cide if she had committed suicide 1 ′
Which she didn't ”
"What makes you so sure she *
didn't, Michael?" •
"The same thing . that explains
why she might have Her tempera-
ment and her religion She was a
very moody, serious minded, earn-
est Christian woman She has been •
wringing her hand* and praying fogs
a long time now, worrying herselr
i sick over the sins of her only child.
Bu suicide in her eyes must have
been a greater sin than all; she %
wouldn't pile one sin on another.
No But it must have been rather
awful for her . for, you seed
Michael said quietly, "she didn’t
know into what black depths Devoe
and his wife had been led in order
to conceal their relationship”
"Then, if it isn’t suicide. Mi-
chael—why was she murdered? Bez, 5
cause she knew too much? Lik®
Miss Lissey? Old-Mrs. Devoe? Is
what you have told us the. thing
---” Bunny s eyes widened.
forthcoming, there is likely to be a financial
ex: osion that will be distinctly heard on the
planet Jupiter. At the very best, the 1 S.
treas ry " ild have to lay in a goodly supply
of bright red ink
As Bruce Catton recently pointed out in his
Washingt n column, it is estimated that by
1944 the Social Security Board will have paid
out ab ut $2,093,000,000 to beneficiaries This |
two powerful nations
one might assume he
in addition to Poland,
ounted on the material
Michael drew a deep breath
Thais a question I should like
thinking it over “That’s a question I should like
“Yes. And the point is . .. the to be able to answer,” he said de@
is approximately $1,500,000,000 more than was
counted on under the original act. The annual
payments are expected to increase year by
year until some distant date when they will
ent the Re to carry it - :
through. But if he blundered into it relying ex
on bluff to win the day, it was not on German 3
strength but on his own cleverness that he may |
have relied.
Thus the disclosure by Reikichi Kita, mem-
ber of the Japanese house of representatives,
indicating Herr Hitler did not believe Britain
and France would fight, is extremely inter-
esting Mr Kita says that a Japanese indus-
trialist who was nvited to the nazi rally at
blade isn’t over two inches long, spondently.
Pretty hard to stab yourself with a
blade two inches long. I, should
ashington Daybook - - By Preston Grover
Fii
NEW YORK,
stocks continued
market proceedin
At a quiet op
included United
Chrysler : N. Y
International Ha
Up a shade wer
U. S. Steel.
Financial eireli
figures for the v
closing a further
to-year increase
ment store sales
In the latest w
timated sales top
period by 2 per
week the gain ar
the week before
was recorded.
Studied also w
commerce departn
wholesalers for (
over the same n
A constructive
the statement of
culture showing ■
farmers in the 1
amounted to $6
193,000,000 in tl
a year ago.
NEW Y
NEW YORK
futires opened 8
Around the end
ever, a renewal i
ing and some De
the list back to
5 to 11 points do
9.20.
NEW OKI
NEW ORLEAN
ton futures opene
of 4 to 9 points
NEW
NEW ORLEAN
tonseed oil closed
summer 6 40 nom
Dec 5.88 Jan.
6 24b: Jty. 6 56
B—bid
NEW O1
NEW ORLEAN
cotton closed stea
3.683.
Low middling8
middling 10.10; re
369.
NEW
A NEW ORLEAN
" liquidation and •
pressed cotton f
closing quotations
losses of 7 to 8.
Dec .9.75 9.7
Jan ..9.68° 9.
May ..9.31 9.3
Mch ..9 55 St :
July . ..9.01 9.0
A Oct 8.55 8.5
B-Bid: A-Aske
Pr
CHICAGO. Nov
263; unsettled, pr
973 ' weak; fresh
firsts 23. current
packed extras 17
firsts 16 ..
The inquest followed so closely
by old Mrs Devoe’s death, marked
the end of the period of seeming •
insetion for Michael He was away,
from home most of the time
mysterious errands which he did not
explain One of these errands was .
in answer to a telephone call from
the Veterans hospital—a call which
asked him to come to the hospital
imagine.”
"Will you tell me why she did
it?" Tuck said after a minute or
two. Her voice was very small and
tired.
Michael drew a deep breath and
straightened his shoulders. "Ill
tell you a story," he said, "and you
can draw your own conclusions.
"It s a story of the necklace he
wenton. “I'll tell it briefly. It be-
gan in Williston, six years ago At
the time, a very wealthy woman
had as her maid a pretty, French
girl whose name was Marie Duval
The girl . .
Tuck gasped weakly.
“The girl seemed thoroughly
HOME IS WHI
YOU MAKE 1
I DEXTER. Inc
spent the Rapp
• in the third gr
lowed the exam
. Albert. 91. a
) Mary, 88. have
married life in
where he was
war days The 1
school-not ve in
munity
immediately, as’one of the patient®
wanted to see hun.
As Michael knew it must be it
was Smith He was pitifully thin
and pale. As they came in he jump-
ed up and gazed at them frantical-
ly. His eyes were burning with are
insane light.
•Its you!" he choked out.
"Yes." Michael said cheerfully.
"What can I do for you old man?"
WITH MY OWN EYES’
Smith relaxed a little He sank
back into the pillows, but his hands”
still clawed nervously at the edge
WASHINGTON — The death of Justice
Pierce Butler gives President Roosevelt his
fifth appointment to the supreme court and
there is a better than average chance he may
have an opportunity to appoint one and per-
haps two more.
The health of Chief Justice Hughes is such
that he has given up all social activities al-
though of all the members he was the most
socially inclined.’ He has not reduced one iota
the staggering amount of work that falls upon
a chief justice. Observers who know his dis-
position express the belief that if a time ar-
rives when he cannot accomplish his full quota
of work with his old assurance, he will retire
at once.
The possible retirement of Justice McRey-
nolds has been rumored and forgotten a half
dozen times. It is widely believed that he once
had definitely made up his mind to remain
on the court until after the 1940 elections. That
The four pre-New Deal members, Hughes,
MeReynolds, Roberts and Stone, are elderly
and dignified, some of them stern. The four
Roosevelt appointees. Frankfurter, R e e d,
Black and Douglas, are far less so, although
in court Reed frowns, almost glowers, from the
bench. Once behind the velvet curtains that
shield them from the court spectators, the four
newly appointed members are ebullient, so re-
port comes out.
Except for the gracious though commanding
presence of Chief Justice Hughes there are no
“outstanding personalities" on the court to ri-
val the late Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes and
the retired Justice Brandeis. So far no close
friendships have developed even among the
New Dealers like those which characterized
that of Holmes with his one time colleagues,
Brandeis and the late Chief Justice White.
SOME DISAPPOINTMENT
In the eyes of old time observers, the new
members have presented both surprises and dis-
appointments. Justice Black, who took his seat
under a sain of criticism for his asserted Klan
connections, writes some of the most concise
opinions of the court. Justice Douglas, these
observers say, has a clear, logical mind akin
to Hughes...
Amazing to some are the wordy, involved
opinions of Justice Frankfurter who came to
the bench in a smother of praise amounting to
adulation His associates, including the Chief
Justice, se»m to find his questions from the
bench time-consuming and often pointless.
Once Chief Justice Hughes silenced him rather
peremptorily. The irritable MeReynolds has
__barked at him repeatedly to let the lawyers,
iwi.su .. : OR‘AL "ciment ren our The whole personality of the court has and not the court members, present the cases,
met the department you want and SM - connect you changed as markedly as the tone of its opin- Other justices have grinned slyly at such chid-
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City Editor
society EA tor
Nuremberg, h it who decided because of the cri-
finally level off. .,
A program as tremende is as this can’t sim- sis to eolimmediatelute St. ' . mavasurged
ply be shelved after a few years if it doesn't
in a note from Her Hitler to stay in Germany
because there would not be war.
unuet a ..tou. It was not possible for the Allied diplomats,
deficit. So. it appears that the revenue will in direct negotiatic with Herr Hitler, to know
certainly whether he was really ready to face
seem to be working. And not even the United
States can operate forever under a steady
eventually have to be raised through general
taxation, instead of through payroll taxes
ernment ever st s •
will also have to-include everyone in the social
se urity pr gram—not just industrial workers
—because everyone will be kicking into the
kitty, Then, when the number of beneficiaries
increases the total annual payment goes up and
more money will be needed
The whole thing might easily turn into a
vicious circle that will leave economists dizzy
and taxpayers broke
A Lost Chord.
W1 at we'd least expect at this juncture in
world affairs- is having someone from the |
British Empire tell us gently to steer clear of
the European war Therefore the advice of
Rodrique Cardinal Villeneuve, Lanada a lead- i
ing prelate, sounds a little like a long lost
but thoroughly welcome chord in a chorus of I
sirens’songs
Cardinal V lleneuve. who is archbishop of I
Quebe a d honorary president of his provin- |
eial R*d Cross organization, predicts that the
a major war
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The Family Doctor - - By Dr. Morris Fishbein
/ Secretary Americas Medleal Association
Rubbing the Wrong Way.
elming assent the leadir g ca di-
late the least-like y-to-be-a-president al-
• : n is blusterin g. pipe-smoking
: Thurman Arnold, No. 1 tru-t-huter
u the department of justice. Mr. Arnold, offi
Especially serious among the dis-
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trustworthy although she was much
too fond of the men to please her
mistress entirely. One of her par-
ticular admirers was the mistress’
nephew who was at the time at-
tending the university there. The
second—and the two men did not
know of each other, remember that
—was another student a younger
fellow, to whom she paid little at-
tention. although he seems to have
been quite mad about her I do
not know the details of their ac-
quaintanceship The older chap had
no prospects of inheriting money.'
although his aunt was wealthy, and
if the younger had any money he . ,
kept it to himself tor some time he was gone away, and wouldn’t
it is pe sible that it did not never come back You said “ •
seem important to him since he was was safe Didn t you? Didn’t you
deeply interested in science and not
in money or commerce
"The mistress was rather a con-
noisseur of jewels, and so the maid
handled many of them. It must
have been a temptation to a nature
such as hers one realizes that She
of the blankets.
He looked at the
doctor "I got to talk
to him
alone he said.
The doctor went out and shut
the door quietly. Smith dropped i
his voice to an accusing whisper
"You said as how I didn't need
to be afraid of him no longer," he
said hoarsely. “You said as how
"Yes ’
"Well, you got that paper, ain’t
you? Cant you do something for
me? Can't you get him locked
"Locked up?" Michael repeated
. in amazement.
finally succumbed to tht temptag "He’ll be hangin’ around here .
non However, she did not steal, in a day of two, like as not. Send-
from her mistress she took a dia-in for me. that’s what hell' be
mond necklace which she was sup-
posed to be returning to a shop It
was a week or two before the theft
was discovered, the mistress and the
jeweler each thinking th other had
the necklace By this time the
girl had repented of her action, and
would have given up the Jewels,
perhaps, save that it meant a con-
fession of what she had done When
the questioning began she was in
✓ agony of appre er
that she had not returned the jewels.
This was obviously unture, and dras-
tie steps were about to be taken
when to the tremendous surprise of
I all concerned, the girl paid for the
j diamonds, announced tha she was
married and left her position She
had told the younger of the two
doin’ I won t go I tell you. I won a
go Nothing on earth cap make
me go "
“Listen.” said Michael tersely.
"Act like a man, will you? You re
acting like a damned rabbit."
Smith wiped the sweat from hii
face You ain’t never been shel?
shocked." he mumbled
"No. I don’t know what it’s like.
But talk sense, anyway I told you
the other day you were safe Safe
as anything on God’s earth could
make you—from Murchison. He &
dead man.”
Smith stared at him. His eyes
were starting from his head.
"Dead?" he whispered. Dead! Did-
n't I see him with my own eyes
no later than yesterday?" • -
struction of the coronary arteries of Men suffer more from these con- men to whom I have referred of
the heart . work for which he re-ditions than do women. There are her trouble, and he had offered to .....
centls, received, the cedlerineuuthed • many theories concerning this facet me ^ nad ndieent mnehitanee or ’Il v true! I might have known
service medal of the American Med. the chief explanation being th.t men something over fifty thousand dol- that devil had you fooled He’s too
ic«i Association are constantly under greater strain lars. smart. Dead! I was in a store, way
If diseases of the coronary arte- land drive than are women Men are BLANK ASTONISHMENT
ries, including angina pectoris, were likely to indulge in dietary excesses of cour e you know of whom sity folks don’t go over there He e
I am speaking Marie Duval mar-hidin.’ I say. God knows what for
ried Edgar Murchison to save her-
separated from all other form, of much more than are women Use of
heart disease they would still rank 1 alcohol and tobacco and exposure to
eighth in the leading causes of intoxicating substances such as in-
School System of Toledo, Victim of Squabbling, Closes Down Everything
By NEA Service
TOLEDO 0 Nov 25 —Spec-
tacle of a metr politan Amer-
ican city of 300.000 barring the
doors of its schools and tem-
RotE, • abandoning * the:
year because Of lack of funds
has become a tragic reality here
More t an 40.000 students
packed up their books and went
Jan an —it schools open then
If not there’ll be even mo €
weeks of thia economic vaca-
tion
Here’s the story in words of
those most concerned
., Says the board of education
—or ident, peppery, bald Edward
F Evans
“The public won’t accept any
more tises) We warned them
w d close the schools if they
didn’t give us more money.
Well the education of their chil-
dren is their headache now."
Says a high school senior,
Francis Adamski, 17:
“I want to finish my educa-
tion. I need a diploma to get a
job.”
Says
teacher "Russell
“It’s a tragedy for the kids,
but we teachers rant keep on
without pay.”
Says • taxpayer, Walter
Barertsch
If the education board pulls
another election to try to raise
dough, well knock their pants
off again."
"The schools should stay
open, but put some new men on
the school board These guys
waste our money ′
Says a mother
"I don t think the teachers’
pay should be cut because they
have ■ lot of responsibility for
our children, but we don’t need
brass bands and dances ip the
schools "
STATE LAWS
HELD TO BLAME
Crux of the matter lies in j
state lax say school board of-
ficials ■- legall can get
from two sources only:
speciall voted real estate levies
when taxes exceed the ten-mill
limit and the state school
foundation fund a subsidy
from which Toledo gets $1,-
300.000
Worst hr. town of its size dur-
ing the depression Toledo saw
realty values drop to half their
1920 averages saw assessment
rates sliced school income from
taxes drop from four million
to just over two million dollars
Teachers have been working
at anywhere from 63 to 88 per-
cent of their base salaries.
From 1933 to 1935 25 percent
of their pay was in script
, Since mid-August of this
i year, teachers have received
only two weeks pay By Jan-
uary they will have lost in un-
paid valar.es a total of nearly
four million dollars in seven
years
By the time school closes, red
ink on the school books show-
ed a deficit of $603,671 Were |
school to keep until January 1.
an additional $400 000 in teach-
er salaries would be due, boost- |
ing the deficit to more than one
million dollars
The board of education says
it just can’t afford it.
SEEK TO FORCE
TAX ELECTION
They say they’ll probably set-
tle by forcing another tax levy
election.
Heading the pro-levy forces is
President Evans sprightly and
sixtyish He was first elected to
the board when his son Eddie
Jr. was the high school football
hero *
Ht sums up the problem:
This is a case of lost rev.
enues; of unwillingness by real
estate owners to carry a heav- 1
ler tax burden, of lack of a i
“What!"
on the other side of town. Univer-
4
scheme to create new income;
and a public apathetic to school
welfare ‘
too high The minimum pay
here is $1 350 while in Colum-
SUDETEN KEN
HOPKINSVIL
cent Kentucky (
enough from (
but Tdolf Hitle
in thia county,
was written in
. in two separate
N
Nea
o
CALLS TAX LEVY
CITY ‘BURDEN’
Leather-lunged Walter Baert-
schi is the most valuable of the
opponents to the tax levy Pres-
ident of a share-the-wealth or-
ganization called Friends and
Neighbor, Inc., he takes credit
for quashing the propose’ at
the polls in November School
boardmen say large real estate
holders approve his stand Once
a vigorous backer of Father
Coughlin he has now split with
the radio priest.
He says:
"We want to make real estate
an attractive investment, and
add to employment Whybur-
den the beleaguered home own-
er who is on relief with taxes
upon taxes?
bus. a comparable town, it is
only $1 000 The maximum pay
here is $3 150 while in Colum-
bus it’s $2,000
CHARGES sc HOOL
SITDOWN
The school officials and
teachers are staging a sit down
| strike and are holding the
schools at ransom ,
"The Board of Education has
employed little school children
to hand out false propaganda
I at election booths. They have
offered A’ marks to students
working for them at election
! time’ -
self from prison The unfortunate
part of the matter' said Michael
dryly, “was that she had already
married Jared Devoe."
If he expected blank astonish-
I ment from his audience, he got it.
Neither girl could speak
Michael lit a cigarette. “So.” he
went on after a pause, “you get
the situation Marie is apparently
still in love with her own husband
She engineered rather cleverly the
business of getting him here into
this university, through passing him
off as her cousin They are not
He come in the store, and I saw
him coming I got down behind a
counter quick He never saw me
at all. But I saw him the devil!
Dead! Not on your life, he lan •
dead."
"Just a minute," said Michael
quietly "You’re not doing your-
self any good. You say you saw
him yesterday
not mistaken?"
Are you sure you’re
"I am not It’s Murchison. I
him plain '
"Describe him *
“Our teachers' salaries are
"The schools have on hand
$150,000, and $351,000 from the
state subsidy is due this week
Why must we close schools? To
force al deceived public to vote
Mill higher taxes!”
dustrial poisons, are much greater
among men than among women
Finally, their active lives expose
them much more often to infection
han is the case among women
Doctors are likely to say that the
chief factor in diseases of the coro-
nary arteries is hypertension or high
blood pressure All over the world
studies are now being made in the
prevention of high blood pressure
We know now that early detection
of this condition and the adoption
of a suitable hygiene of life in re-
lationship to it will do much to keep
hypertension under control Such
activity will also yield good results
in the prevention of coronary dis-
ease and angina pectoris, -
"Well—he looked just the same
as ever except he had on a coat.
One of them dusty looking rain
coats It was, and a fawn hat He #
tall .. . clean shave., dark What
else is there?
"You’d swear on the Bible that
it was Edgar Murchison?’
"I would."
"What kind of a store?" Michael®
asked after a moment
"A hardware store. I was buytn’
a bit of tape to mend my crutch.”
"What was he buying?"
“That’s what I asked the clerk
when he went out I thought 10
might be . ” “Smith shuddered,
caught Michael’s eye, and com-
trailed himself "He was buying
an oar-lock,’ he said.
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