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“Give Light and the People
W’all Mind Their Own Way"
A Thought for Today ,
I HAVE sinned greatly, because 1 have
1 done this thing: but now, I beseech
thee, do away the iniquity of thy servant;
for I have done very foolishly.—I Chron
icles 21:8.
He that cannot forgive others, breaks
the bridge over which he himself must
pass if he would ever reach heaven; for
everyone has need in be forgiven. Her
bert
WINDBLOWN TAXES
TTHANKS to this being an election year,
* our language is being enriched with
BELL-HOP LEGISLATION
THREE recent incidents throw light on 1
1 the curious business of lawmiking, |
After having permitted his name for I
some months to adorn the military disaf-
fection bill. Senator Millard Tydings of
Maryland withdraws, when he reads in the
papers that Secretary of War Dern is "not
especially interested in the legislation."
"Neither am 1, who originally intro-
duced the measure," says Tydings, bowing
himself out.
Then Rep. O’Connor of New York, at-
tacked by Father Coughlan for being the
author of a claims bill, counters with.
"Everybody seemed to, think it should
be passed to correct an injustice to some
poor, fellow I never even had talked to.
I introduced ■ it as a matter of form and
have forgotten just how it came to me.
1 never knew just what it was about, but
it had -been approved by the State Depart-
ment and seemed all right."*
Third, that measure which went
through the Slate Senate of Rhode Island
with such gusto, to pay a $10 bonus to
Evael OsW. Tnesba a striking demonstra-
tion of the wvillingness of legislators to do
something for ex-soldiers even though the
ex-soldier in this case happened to be a
figment of a practical Joker's imagination, 1
the name spelled backward connoting that 1
well known military term, “absent with-
out leave."
Our schoolday idea of a lawmaker was |
one who, imbued with the urge for re-
form, personally wrote the proposed
statutes after vast study and contempla-
tion -— then introducing and ardently
espousing them. But such items as these,
appearing from time to time through the
years, have been disillusioning, and so we
have grown cynical enough not to he |
shocked at these evidences of rubber-
stamp statesmanship.’
But since our budget is out of joint
and economy long overdue, why wouldn't
It bn pertinent to leave all the work to
the more fleet footed pages and save the
pay of those older and less agile members
of Congress who elect to operate as mes-
senger-boys?
90 GRAND
CUMMINGS thinks he is: worth
some fancy terminology descriptive of the WALTER
usually drab subject of taxation-wind- | the $
the Continental Illinois Bank & Trust Co.,
fall taxes, reimbursement axes. | and also the $15,000 he gets for his spare
placement taxes. .■ | time job as trustee of the Chicago, Mil-
The only exception is’ "brand new i waukee& St. Paul Railroad. He says so
taxes," used in reference to the $120,- himself, in a statement issued in Chicago.
000,000 additional which will have to be 1 Perhaps he is right, But it is, we be-
raised each year up to 1945 to make up | lieve, a very proper subject for investi-
the difference between what it will,cost | gation by the Senate, which has been
the Government to pay the veterans
bonus now and what it would have cost |
had payment been postponed until the
original 1 945 maturity date. Congressmen
who led the fight for immediate payment
argued that the bonus was a debt and it
made little difference to the taxpayer
whether it was paid in 1936 or 1945. As
taxpayers dig down Into their pockets for
$120,000,000 a year for the next nine
years, they may reflect that sometimes a job, treasurer of the Democratic National
fine distinction is also a big difference.
the $75,000 he receives as head of
started by Senator Couzens.’ _’ •
For Mr Cummings apparently got both
jobs through the influence of Jesse Jones,
head of the Reconstruction Finance Cor-*
poration-Mr. Jones having the lever in
the first instance through the $50,000,000
which the Illinois bank owes the RFC, and
in the second through the RFC’s financial
support of the bankrupt railroad. And,
Incidentally, Mr. Cummings’ other spare
THE FORT WORTH PRESS
Hitler Ku Klux
Pegler Says Reichsfeuhrer
Uses Combination of Klan,
Capone Methods
By WESTBROOK PEGLER
DRAHA, Czechoslovakia— The capacity
I of Hitler’s Ku Klux cannot be exage
gyrated, but the fact remains that the
bravest people in Germany -are excluded
from the gang, it takes
very little courage to
join , a racket whose
members enjoy the right
.to cheat and rob the
Pegler
non-members, - but the
man who defies the mob
does so, knowing that
the Nazis will break
him persecute him and
his family, and perhaps
kill him. .
Of course, the Jews
receive the worst ham-
mering. because Hitler
is constantly Inciting his
hoodlums to chase them
up alleys, but the Jew
has no decision in the
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THE SOUTH TOD A ¥
The Rural Press in the South
' By H. C. NIXON
, ■ (Copyright, 1936, by Southern Newspaper Syndicate)
; THE rural press of the South is
I more important than that of
matter. But there are thousands of brave,
stubborn Germans, protestant as well as
Catholic, who had every chance to accept
the protection and the looting privileges
which the swastika confers and refused"
to surrender their principles.
This took physical courage far beyond
that which is required of a corner loafer
or neighborhood politician raiding a dark-
ened home in the dead of night. It also
asked for moral bravery of an even finer
kind. For this type of dissenter, as Ger-
man as beer and as patriotic as old Bis-
marck himself, understands full well that
he will be classified as a traitor to his
any other section except the |
West. The South has hundreds |
more weekly hewspapers than
has New England or the Middle |
Atlantic States or the Middle j
West, and the Southern rural
press. in the broad sense, also
includes many dailies publish-
ed in small cities or large towns 1
serving a reading constituency I
of farmers. .
Many of these papers are :
thriving "How is your circular
tion?" I recently asked a staff
member of one of them. The i
answer was, "An all-time high." 1
The decline in the number of, F
rural papers has been tsome-
thing like the decline in the
—number of metropolitan papers: -
a reduction through consolida-
tion or combinations which lias
not cut down the number or -
importance of newspaper cen-
ters. And the reduction of the.
number of metropolitan papers
has been a godsend to the ru-
. ral press because it has cut
down tiie number of city
papers competing for the farm-
er's attention and hasscreated
more room for country newspa-
pers. Furthermore, the coun-
try newspaper serves a reading
public more vitally Interested
than ever in discussion of po-
tury has little danger of being
sidetracked, and It is making a
■ widely democratic appeal. Its
total cirenlation runs far above
a million, and more than one
journal can boast of hundreds
of thousands of readers." This
wide appeal, suggests either an
iticat and economic Issues and
‘adult education
country. * *
This means that he may be tried be- RURAL AT HEART
i fore a court of neighborhood ne’er-do-wells THE rural press in the .South
on a charge of treason to the land he loves 1 has always been able to
and shot or locked up for the rest of his make human appeal without re-
I life without a chance to clear his name.
I That. Is the maximum risk, but at the very
least he loses his job or his business and
is ostracized. ...
All this is bad enough, but the test of
| character is even worse torture if he has
a family, because his wife and children
naturally will be made to suffer, too. His
wife, of course, is doomed to spend the
rest of her life cut off from the normal
friendships and social relations of her sta-
tion. and the children find themselves ex-
cluded from the playgrounds of the Nazi
kids whose pleasures, like those of the
little Italian Baillila, are entirely warlike.
His Advice’
Reporting From Easyne
Chair Out, Vet
Tells Broun
By HEYWOOD BROUN -
| NEW YORK.—One of my ft .
| I bosses bobbed up across I’
ENDEAV
TALK ’
DO ON
First Christi:
Group T(
Earl
H. C. Nixon
Editor’s Note: H. C Nixon, who has,
contributed before. to this column is
head of the department of history
and political science at Tulane Uni-
versity. New Orleans: a member of the
regional committee for the South of
the Social Science Research Council:
a member of the executive council of
the American Political Science Assn.,
and chairman of the Southern policy
committee. Dr. Nixon was with the
Wilson peace commission at Paris In
1918, and has written numerous books
and contributed to national and re-
gional magazines.
this point by his success with
rural publishing in Virginia.
Many editors of Southern
country papers are more alive
to significant social trends than
are some of their city cousins
sort to sob stuff or sport page who are experts in the newspa-
per game. In some ways we
extravaganza. Joel Chandler
Harris, Bill Arp; Ed Howe,
William Allen White, and the
late editor of the Dahlonega
(Georgia) Nugget might be re-
garded as country editors who
achieved distinction by sticking
to the lore of the soil. Man-
kind may today be cultivating
an urban sophistication, but
most of us are still rural at
Windfall taxes are levies which will be
enacted to recapture from the processors,
taxes which we consumers paid when we
bought food and clothing, but which the
processors caused to be impounded by
the courts and returned to them when the
Supreme Court declared the AAA consti-
tutional.
Reimbursement taxes cover both wind-
fall taxes and other temporary levies
which will bo imposed to put into the
Treasury the half hillion dollars which it
counted on getting from AAA taxes, but
didn't get, and which It Is spending on
the farm program for the current fiscal
year.
D EPLACEMENT taxes are the levies that
It will take the place of the AAA taxes
in raising a half billion dollars a year to
finance the permanent farm program for
next year and the next and the next.
We regard all of these taxes as neces-
sary.
But best of all we like the wind-
fall taxes
Is colorful.
The description is as apt as it
Some of the processors doubt-,
less were unable to get from consumers
all of the processing taxes. But we are
not talking about what they didn't get.
We are talking about what we as con-
sumers paid and the Government hasn't
got yet. That is what the windfall-taxes
are all about, and whence they derive,
their happy nomenclature
The Supreme Courts Hoosac decision
wasta windfall in the laps of a great many
processors We can get a pretty good
idea of how much of a.windfall it was
by reading Mgmesodug up by Secretary
Wallace to prove that the Impounded con
sumer paid taxes returned to cotton, wheat
and hog processors as a group amounted
to three and one half times the average
net profits of those processors in the pros-
perity years of 1927, ‘28 and ‘29.
That’s like collecting fire insurance on
a house which didn't burn down. And we
hope Congress drafts an airtight windfall
tax that will bring justice out of one of
the greatest taxation injustices of all time.
CHEAPER TRAVEL
WHEN a business man finds himself
W consistently losing money to his com-
petitors he either lowers his prices, or If
he can t do that he goes out of business.
The railroads of the United States can't
go out of business. ,
This is why the Interstate Commerce
Commission, over protest of several large
Eastern lines, yesterday issued orders re-
ducing standard coach passenger fares
from 3.6 to 2 cents a mile.
Committee, probably was no hindrance to
his appointments — which, incidentally,
brings his pay for supervising this seg-
merit of the taxpayers’ money to nine
times what Mr. Jones gets for handling
all of the billions of the RFC, and to
more than the President of the United
States gets for supervising all Of the
Government's operations.
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Fever Rising
FT\US, in organizing the new Germany,
I Hitler has drawn heavily on the ranks
of the mediocrities and cowards who fight
only in packs and automatically denied
himself the company of the most courage-
ous people in the land.
It would be foolish to suggest that all
Nazis are yellow, although they include all
the front-runners in the country, but the
highest courage they ever will be called
upon to display cannot compare to that
of the true German who deliberately chose
to, defy ihepi, knowing what a lonely,
| miserable future he was in for.
There are more upstream fish in Ger-
many than you would be likely to suspect,
but individuals among their number dis-
appear quietly into their graves or concen-
tration camps, and the rebels themselves
. . By JOHN T. HUYNN . have no way of determining how numerous
EW YORK. - If just 12 months ago you '
had made a selection of 25 common
stocks which were then more or less ac-
tive in the market and had bought one
share of each you would have a pretty
profit now —.what in
they are, although Hitler probably knows.
Sometimes their courage fails and they
Wall Street
called
profit,
settle
a
would be
conservative
For instance, to
on 25 actual
stocks, you might have
bought them for $2104
in March of last year.
Those same 25 stocks
today are worth in the
market $3050. Here Is a
profit of $946 or rough-
ly 43 per cent, not
counting the dividends
which would have been
paid in the year. And
while not all of the
John T. Flynn
surrender, and when that happens the
Nazis gloat over the vanquishment of brave
Germans who reached the end of their en-
durance.
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THEY had an occasion of this kind a few
1 months ago when Julius Streicher,
who made his fortune publishing obscene
literature in the guise of a patriotic cam-
paign against the Jews, presided at a din-
ner for fifteen hundred political prisoners
who had just been released. There were
brave and patriotic Germans seated all
around him, whose health and determina-
tion had finally cracked in prison, but
Streicher rose and. In the role of super-
patriot,patronizingly offered to provide
railroad, fare and passports to Russia for
all who wanted to go there.
heart. There is more meaning
, for us still in expressions like .
"the hind tit" than was ever
dreamt of in city philosophy.
It would be well for the gentle-
men of the rural press to real-
ize even wore fully that the
roots of our culture are rural
have had a surplus of experts,
of analysts, so to speak, and are
now in urgent need of perspec-
tive and synthesis in our discus-
sion and treatment of the events
of the day. The informed coun-
try editor- may lead the city
expert in this service of philo-
sophical interpretation. I meet
country editors who are wide
readers and who can converse
with force and intelligence on
the signs of the times. Would
that they might* put more of
their strong conversation in
their papers.
. .... EDITORS INE FORMED
and that these roots should not 1 .
, be neglected. Sherwood An- . A COUN RY -editor, recently
I derson seems to have proved 4 imported into a political
----I science conference with which I
Books
JOHN GIBBONS, author of
• "Roll On, Next War!" (E.
P. Dutton Co.) enlisted and re-
mained a private-soldier in the
British Army throughout the
World War. He says he wrote
this book to advise his son how
best to get along in the next
war.
He hopes his son likewise will
have too much sense to be a
sergeant. .
From his years of service, Pri-
vate Gibbons concludes that the
worst thing about war is not the
enemy, but the army—your own
| army, whatever country you are
fighting for.
“It seems an unfortunate re-
sult of a great National Struggle
for Civilization that the men
should hate their army far more
than they bate the enemy, but
there the thing is," the author
declares.,
Relating a conversation he had
recently with a German private
- soldier In the World War, he
agricultural, renaissance in the
- South; or a widespread spirit of
critical concern —perhaps both.
The agricultural press and
the farm pages of many dailies
are carrying far the gospel of
better farming, of soil conser-
vation, and of crop diversifica-
tion. They,are passing on to
the farm public the valuable in-
■ formation concerning agricul-
ture made available by the far-
flung agencies of the national
department nf agriculture and
the agricultural colleges and
stations of the South. They are
touching on social and economic
problems of the farmers, on the
problems of farm organisations
and co-operation.
But, with a few excellent ex-
ceptions, our farm papers and
farm pages have slighted a set
of underlying problems which
must be faced if Southern farm-
ers, in the large, are to be saved
or removed from peasantry.
The ills of farm tenancy in the
South, the disparity between
agriculture and manufacturing
under the prevailing industrial
tariff system, the undue burden
of taxation oppressing farmers
—these are among questions
which the agricultural press
should hit hard and hit con-
stantly until we reach genuine
solutions, solutions which are
not makeshifts. The agricul-
path last night and shook
warning finger in my face, T
gentleman in
question was —ciume
a veteran igobit
w ay, w ay MCA
back when I We a a
w as a news- T, a
paper fledgeta,
ling. Natural-”7a
ly. I listenedA
with close at- ′%,,
tention to 1%
what he had , , 1
to say.I
made you
what you are
today," he be-
gan, "and I'm
far from sat-
isfied."
Broun
t1
′ “How” May
will be discus
mediate Christ
First Christian
•night under d
Cansler. Doug
will be in char
Others to tak
Gray. Thomas
Gowin, Margie
garet Ann Mar
ton and Scott
Three other
: societies will d
I "What, Should
Virginia Gre
I Young People’
[ Congregational
7 W111le A 111 ri-el
hold a “Monop
At Oakh
: Church. Wre!
conduct the )
ciety, with
speaking. Inti
t under direct!
1 Witty.
Will In
The Senior
nolia Avenue
“The trouble with You and A
your tribe," he continued, "
that you get high hat and fo
get that once you were reporter
and might be again if you work
ed hard enough, I don't rea
your column every day. Wb
should I?
"For the last few years you’v
been writing your opinions abou
this and that. What do I car
about your opinions? Opinion
are a dime a dozen. Who gay
you the right to have opinion
except on things you’ve taken u
with your own hands and see
with your own eyes?" —•------
"Take up your easy chair am
walk," said he, “and don't se
will be led by
Pruden will
under allspice
lowship Societ
Endeavor.
Leon Berry
ficers at the
" deavor of Me
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Church. The;
ton, presiden
vice president
secretary -trea
C. McConley,
visor.
“Prayer" v
row’s subject
Young Peop
Chestnut Av
Church. Spe
Jones, Tom
Muir.
Will Dis
At First C.1
ma Griffith *
lowship Socie
nance." In
Endeavor Ma
present a B
program. Pi
one of the
"God Is Fat
will discuss ’
What God Is
Jack Cour
Intermediate
side Christia
"What Is
be Winona
Young Peop
Presbyterian
The Junio
hill Street
will be condt
Orman on ′
to Win Othe
tural South must produce more,
get more, consume more, and
divide it better, if the rural
South is to come Into Its proper
heritage. Our farm press should
go in more strongly than ever
for such a program and policy,
• • *
FEWER HANDICAPS
THE farm press and the whole
1 rural press, of the South
have not the handicaps of the
urban press, which may be
forced by a miseducated public
to publish what that public
wants. An old farmer of my
native community once called at
the offices of "his paper" in
the largest city in the Southeast
and, complaining that all the
news being published was had
news, asked why they did not
print some good news. He got
a word down on paper untl
you’ve walked two miles and
looked to your left and to you
right and to the ground or the
sidewalk in front of you. Fol
low your nose and quit waggling
your ears."
:
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TN all probability that is good
L counsel, and almost any mln
uta now I intend to heed it it
moderation. If my old precap
tor had allowed me to get a word
in edgewise I would have argued
that I was striving hard to be a
roundsman rather than a police
man oh fixed post, and I would
have pointed with pride to the
fact that I had been to New
Orleans, Knoxville and Washing-
ton since the first of the year.
Of course, I am not certain
that I did my two-miledaily
stint in any of these cities. There
were times, I fear, even amid
the alien corn, when I merely
leaned back and wrote down "It
Seems to Me." : „
Quite a while ago I endeavor-
ed to make myself an inquiring
reporter right here in my na-
tive town, and the column broke"
out into a rash 'of pieces about
the Aquarium, the Brooklyn
Bridge at sunrise and the Bronx
Park Zoo. But at the end of a
week the managing editor said,
"Rest, perturbed spirit; the stuff
is pretty terrible.”
1 was about to say that 1
might try again, since that par-
ticular managing editor is gone
with the snows of yesteryear.
However, at the moment the
metaphor seems inappropriate.
Snow is hardly a word to be
used just now to connote im-
permanence.
%
was connected, stacked up like
a brain-truster and at the same
time had more practical experi-
ence to draw on than had the
professors. The most interest-
ing non-news columns of cer-
tain city, pap ers are those which
reprint or summarize the col-
umns of rural editors. A man
who has studied or taught in
three or four universities in fol-
lowing out his interest in the
history of ideas once told me
he got the inspiration for his.
career from reading editorials
in a certain country town daily.
There are, of course, too
many "weak sisters" in South-
ern rural Journalism,' but it is
encouraging to note healthy
examples of strong, well-edited
papers. May their tribe in-
crease. Our rural districts need
more good editors, just as they
need more good physicians. .
It is stimulating to pass in
review the different regional
farm papers of the .South.
Though issued generally from
our largest cities, these publica-
tions are part of our rural press
from the point of view of the
readers they seek to serve. The
land of Dixie has had strong
agricultural journals for more
than 100 years. Edmund Ruffin
of Virginia and South Carolina
was one of a group of vigorous
farm editors and agricultural
reformers of the Old South.
They brought about more scien-
tific improvement in agriculture
than is generally realized. But
unfortunately, their appeal was
to a limited group, and their
work was sidetracked by the
controversies leading up to the
Civil War and by the war itself.
the rather superficial answer
that all news was bad news—
that if it was good. it was not
news. Rural Southerns, men
and women, want gossip, but -
they will relish good news if
they can get it. They will stand
for an abundance of serious
matter, provided it is human-
ized and set forth with punch
CHESTN
HOMEC
and power. They like their
editorials and their coffee
strong. --------'
Two Important developments
seem likely to affect favorably
the policies, status and import-
ance of the rural press-—the
radio and the physical decen-
tralization of industry. The
radio may reduce the Import-
ance of the press as a medium
of communicating red-hot “spot
news,” for the radio can get
there first. The newspaper
must come along with comment,
.explanation and interpretation,
a more important, job, which in
recent years has been largely
neglected because of the empha-
sis on spot news. The rural
press can hold Its own with the
urban press in such humanized
comment, especially for appeal
to rural readers.
The physical decentralization
of industry, made possible by
cheap transportation, cheap
power, and various mechanical
aids, and made necessary by
population problems, will prob-
ably give us tn the future a
balance between industry and
agriculture in nearly every com-
munity. That balance will give
support to the local press here
and there and everywhere.
The rural newspaper and the
rural editor in the South have
a future.
Dr. Finnell
It
Dr. J. Le
nolia Chris
L. D. Ander
Church will
morrow at
ices of Ches
Church.
Rev. H. (
will introdu
ker Moore
song, after
will welcom
W. Davis
act play wil
en Adams.
Buster and
7 Claud Hal
church’s his
Miss Dor
panled by
a violin sol
ler and B
com panled
Mrs. Ed Co
selections,
cordion nur
Tea will
to 6:30 p.
says:
"I had always thought that
the German army possessed at
It Is this assumption that anyone who least the quality of working like
a perfectmacm apparently it
only worked in vicious hiccoughs
like our own army,
shares to which I refer .
paid dividends, most of isn’t a Nazi must be A Communist which
intensifies the difficulty of the non-com-
forming patriotic Germans. And the fact
that none of the guests accepted Streich-
them did....
If you had made a more speculative
and discriminating selection you would,
of course, have made a great deal more.
What is the reason for this? The recov-
ery of business is, of course, given as the
chief reason. But it is the future—its com
er a offer was interpreted to mean mainly
that fifteen hundred Communists had just
been beaten into submsision.
plexion and promises—which fixes ths
price of stocks and not the present. There
has been an uplift in business which I
think is based on Government spending
chiefly. But the most important factor
in the price of stocks is the belief of
many people that prices are going higher.
They may not know why they are going
higher. They may attribute it to recovery,
they may attribute it to coming Inflation,
Whatever the reason It Is this conviction
that prices are going higher which makes
prices higher now.
But on what Is this conviction based
chiefly? Is it confidence in recovery or
the expectation of inflation? Among the
speculative groups it is certainly based on
The War-Mongers
By MRS. WALTER FERGUSON
THE pastor of Manhattan's: famous
1 Broadway Tabernacles Dr. Allen
Knight Chalmers, is flying around the
country jacking up the
courage of churchmen
on war resistance.
His beliefs are out-
lined In a nutshell: "I
can't conceive—It to be
“I take it that probably all
armies will be much the same.
They will be quite all right un-
til the war begins. If you want
to have a really good army, then
you should be careful not to
have a war.” D.M.K.
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Today’s Poem
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GOSPEL OF FARMING
THE Southern agricultural
1 press of the twentieth cen-
the expectation of Inflation, And this is a
fair expectation. The recovery so far Is
business. Since 1923 they have been suf supported by Government expenditure. And
fering severe losses In passenger traffic | everybody believes that they are going to
and revenue. Among all the Industries continue.
the railroads are slowest in emerging 1 c That is. also a fair expectation. They
from the red now. 1 are going to be whatever is necessary to
There are certain things the railroads | keep prices up during the coming .year.
ean do to meet the challenge of the air-m The President is committed to the theory
We believe the railroads themselves
will come to look upon this .order as good
plane, the bus and the passenger auto. I that high prices are essential to prosperity.
They can cooperate with the Government He may, therefore, be relied on to increase
In effecting large-scale economies, such as i he recovery expenditures whenever prices
consolidating terminals, as ordered in 11 I tend to lag.
In addition to the relief money, the
enormous bonus payments are to be flood-
ed out Into the stream of business. And
there Is a general feeling that. In spite
of the talk of Republicans and conserva-
tive Democrats against spending; no mat-
ter who is elected the spending will con-
tinue.
In the field of private business there
Is a good prospect of an expansion in
building, the signs of which will make
themselves felt in a month or two. If this
goes as far In the private housing field
as it now promises to we may see some-
thing approaching a rudimentary fever in
speculative channels. Mr. Hoover and his
Democratic allies are doing their best to
frighten people with the prospect of ruin.
But nobody believes them.. The one thing
which could check this inflationary urge
now is a tax program by the Administra-
tion, but we may rest assured nothing like
that will happen. The fever chart looks as
if it would rise.
cities by Coordinator Eastman. They j
can make other savings without adding
men to the unemployment rolls Chiefly
they can get more of their share of the
tremendously expanded "travel market"
They can do this by making rail travel
pleasanter, faster and cheaper Many rail
lines have improved their services tre- |
mendously.
They have airconditioned
their coaches,
smoothed their roadbeds 1
and speeded up their trains. But that |
has not been enough to change the anpm- ■
aly of crack trains carrying a handful of 1
passengers, while the highways were black
with autos full of potential rail travelers.
The new fares may turn the trick.
Western and Southern railroads have had
emergency 2-cent fares in effect for some
time. All of these have Increased bus-
iness, and all have urged the commission'
to make the reduced fares permanent.
Attorneys for some of the Eastern rail-
roads are talking about appealing the
ICC order to the Supreme Court. Those
who manage the lines might well ponder ।
the wisdom of this course. After all.
there is only an infinitesmal difference |
in the cost of running an empty train
and one full of passengers. But there's
a considerable difference in revenue.
A Chicago woman, whose husband
left her in 1926 to seek a job, wants a
divorce. Perhaps she isn’t aware things
are .picking up.
the business of the
church to preach the
gospel to the Individual
* while it ignores society
as a whole." ,
Here is the kind of
man who is denounced
by all the forces of dem-
aroguery: by the weak-
"kneed Babbitts who are
scared of, Reds; by the
old-men-afraid - of - boys,
Mrs. Ferguson and by the diamond-
studded ladies of patriotic societies. In
short, he is denounced by the combined-
power of reaction and billions
If the church does not consider society
as a whole what’s’ to become of society?
If war continues, what's to become of so-
ciety? It will undoubtedly get to such a
state that It will need no church and tole-
rate no diamond studded ladies.
TAPS
Ah! 'Twasn't so many days ago
That I was called upon to go
And give the slow, sad bugle
call-
Taps.
Yes! Twas last Armistice Day;
just SO--
For those who rest where poppies
grow.
Our soldier boys who gave their
all—
Alas! How little then, I thought,
or knew
That oh! so soon, dear buddy true,
I d have to blow, so low, for
' YOU-
Taps.
JUANITA THOMPSON.
Decatur, Texas.
This Is Life
SIDE GLANCES
By George Clark
The will to outlaw war is the only -—
way to stop It. Since the folly of 1914
we have done one tremendous thing. A
We have discovered the cause of war. A
By JAUk MAXWELL
LITTLE book of poems,
from which I derive much
Never before In man’s history has there
• been such a digging into the facts, such
a reaching back into first motives or such
determination to get at the origins of
international conflict.
Our job now is to find a cure for
war. A harder task truly, but one which
is made easier now that we know what
incites to it. We shall never find that
cure if we listen only to those whose
subconscious will drives us toward war.
And the policy of the war makers is
always the same, "Let’s get ready for a
bigger one."
How they love to quote the saying
of Washington, which they have made
famous; "In time of peace, prepare for
war." ABut do you ever hear them utter
words of his which are equally as wise:
"Beware the impostures of patriotism?"
pleasure and help as I go my
way along is, "Just From Geor-
gia," by Frank Stanton who
has crossed The Big Divide.
Stanton's homely bits of verse
seem to have so much of the
milk of human kindness and
are so encouraging . . ". when
the way is rather uncertain and
a fellow begins to doubt his
ability to carry on. X like this
one:-------------------------------------------
“Honey, don't you worry
’bout the trouble what’s in
sight; de sweet word fer you
is, 'twill all come right! De
sun is a-travelin’ to de shaders
uv de nite, but de stars is
shinin’ welcome . . . an' It'll
all come right!”.
“I’m not afraid to go out into the world. Haven't 1 re-
peatedly asked you to buy me a little dress shop?”
NEVERTHELESS and notwith-
I standing, 1 aim to please,
and 1 will follow any counsel
which seems confident and sa-
gacious, Of course, when one is
advised to take a walk he natur-
ally wants to be told just where
and in which direction.
Columnists are much less self-
satisfied than is generally as-
sumed. The first person singular
is largely defensive rather than
arrogant.
The man with a daily stint
cannot help identifying himself
with a performer walking over
Niagara Falls on a tightrope. As
he looks at the fearsome depths
below he can hardly avoid turn-
ing to the stragglers on the bank
and shouting, “Tell me, how am
I doing?” And when they tell
him the rapids seem to rage
even more fiercely than before.
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T HAVE a chance to do some
1 columns from abroad this
spring—England, France, Ger-
many and probably Russia. I
have hesitated because I feel
that there is hardly any quarter
of the globe right now where a
reporter could walk more advan-
tageously than in America.
There are few potential hap-
penings in Europe more Interest-
ing than a Liberty League din-
' ner, though 1 am not sufficient-
ly the optimist to believe that AI
Smith will pull anything like
that again in this campaign.
As a matter of fact, this coun-
try is so teeming right now with
Page 1 game that the hunter
need not even walk very much.
Everybody Is running for some-
thing. Even editors like Colonel
Knox are running.
The reporter need only lie in
the long grass and incorporate
himself at a given point. It is a
good idea to pick a spot near a
water hole. Before the sun falls
even an indifferent marksman
should find himself equipped
with a couple of buffalo robes, a
brace of gazelles and maybe a
section of elephant tusk.
In twenty-six years I never
knew a time when so much was
going on within commuting dis-
— tance. I mean to go outand—re-
port these vital, happenings at
first hand. In fact. I mean to
buy myself a round-trip ticket
on the subway and write a book
to be entitled "Ten Cents That
Shook the World.
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