COMMENTS EDITORIAL PAGE opinions I THE OMAHA GUIDE Published Every Saturday at 2418-20 Grant Street, Omaha, Nebraska Phones: WEbster 1517 or 1518 Entered as Second Class Matter March 15, 1927. at the Postoffice at Omaha, Neb., underAct of Congress of March 3, 1879. TECtMS OF SUBSCRIPTION $2.00 PER YEAR Race prejudice must go. The Fatherhood of God and the Brother hood of Man must prevail. These are the only principles which will •tand the acid test of good. All News Copy of Churches and all Organizations must be in our sffice not later man 6:00 p. m. Monday for current Issue. All Adver tising Copy or Paid Articles not later than Wednesday noon, proceed ing date of issue, to insure publication. __ .. EDI! O RIALS.. I i i If Mussolini Joins Hitler—Good! By William Pickens for A. N. P. J£ Mussolini joins Hitler in an attack on the rest of man kind, it will be good—for the world can destroy tlfein both in ono effort. The world lias no doubt tha't the German has picked on the Spaniard and started this new quarell, much as the wolf in Aesop’s fable pluked a fuss with the lumb—so he could gei a pretext for devouring said lamb. If Germany attacks Spain, surely France and England will have the consistency of abandoning their unpr 1 •-*«d noli-, cy of holding the Spanish government to be in the same cate gory with the Spanish rebels, and will let the government of j Spain buy'munitions and weapons of defense wherever they can buy them and from whomsoever wants to soil them to Spain. That will be the least France and England should do; but they would he jus ified in intervening with foree to prevent a Fac ist assault on the Iberian peninsular. The Germans are all “wet”: their battleship, as a patrol ship waj out of plane, in a Spanish puff. .The parol rfhiipsj Were diree ed by international agreement to stay out of Slpain’s territorial waters. These Germans put into a rebel port to bluff off any at.nek by the government against the rebels,—and when government planes appeared, the Germans, feeling secure on therr bat leship, opened fire. Nobody needs doubt that the re ports of neutral observers are correct: that the Spanish planes were attacked by the Germans, and of eourse replied to the attack by bombing the ship. - i So, the Hermans are mad because marksmanship of Span iards was better than that of the Germans—although the Span-! iards were in a swiftly moving plane while the Hermalns were on a steady big ship. 1 hate war: hut if we call get Hitler and Mussolini into the same boat, I’m going to do all I am permit ted to do to help sink that boat. If ever ther<* were two arch enemies of human freedom and happiness, here they are. Under Nazism the Germans are fed only propaganda of the most dangerous sort. Next we'll hear the Jews were responsi ble for the bombing. More frothings at the mouth in Berlin. OWrst against New York’s mayor; and all other Americans; then aganst the Pope; then against the entire Catholib church—now this last madness. It seems to us that Hiller’s mania may be about to succeed in isolating Germany before she begins her next war. The Pope Mas been plainly biased against the peo ple’s government in Spain, all along, and libs been trying to Ithrowchurch sentiment to the side of the rebels and Faeists— and now here comes Hitler with attacks of the vilest and most Invidious sort on the whole Catholic Church. When Hitler gets xe&dy to fight he will have against him, not only Spain, hut all races, except his own “Aryans”—all the Catholic V*hurch, except that, part of it in Italy which Mussolini may hold down, and all the decent Opinion of the entire world beyond Reich borders—excepting bnly Mussolini, if bis opinion iii the mat Laws Increase Business Overhead In 1917 whenproducers got one dollar for making goods overhead people got another dollar for thfe various servic.es lead ing up to the sale of goods to the consumer, Saya. Professor Walter Rautenscauch of Columbia. But in 1932 when producers got one dollar; overheadern got $2:32: Increases in distribution cost occur naturally as an industrial civilization develops, more maohine-made products arc used, and title system nefessary to bringisg goods to thp people scattered about u great nation be comes more involved. But it is essential to the well-being of the people that the increases be restricted as much as possi ble, and overhead costs between producer and cossumer be at a minimum. Yet there has been a veritable rush of legislation lately whose inevitable result would We to increase the burdn of ovrhead, and widen the tcost spread from farm or factory to borne and place of busisess. This legislation takes various forms. Sterne penalizes large scale merchandising practices which reduce overhead charges to the vanishing point, and throws protection of law around tKe middleman, eves though in some cafies he may be ineffi cient and serve no necessary purpose. Other laws penalize low-cost retail distribution agencies, and thus place a premium on waste and a burden on efficiency. Still other laws legalize j, DELINQUENT SUBSCRIBERS—PLEASE NOTICE The poetoffice department does not permit the delivery *f papers to delinquent subscribers. If your payments are not up to date, please mail or bring amount due to The Guide office er call WEB1617 for representative; Tour cooperation will be Tiatly appreciated* The Management I LEADERS IN NATION’S MEDICINE The officers of the National Medical Association wliieh held its annual ctonven ion in St. LoulLs this week painted a record of splendid accomplishment during the past year. Pie ured above and reading from left to right are Dr. John A. Kenney, Newark; editor of The Journal: Dr. lioseoe C. Giles, Chicago, president; Dr. E. T: Taylor. Sit: Louis; treas urer. Bottom Row—Dr. G. Hamilton Francis, speaker of the House of Delegates; Dr. Marcus B. Hutto, secretary Kxecu.ive Board; Dr. John T. Givens. Norfolk; general secretary and Dr: George W. Bowles, chairman Executive Committee. Twenty-three hundred physicians, dentists and pharma cists belong to the body, including faculty members of leading medical colleges, and executives of all accredited Negro hospi tals in the country. The Association during the past year has stressed medical and dental education; surging young men or women to make up the alarming shortage which exists in the profession, has given scholarships, furthered public education to cut down infant, and maternal mortality and aided 'Dr. Thomas A. Pharran, U: S: Public Health Officer, in the drive against syphilis. Through its efforts a post-graduate course in venereal disease has been established at Howard University in cooperation with t*he government. (ANP) price-fixing, and enable manufacturers to refuse 1o sell to re tailers who will not charge an arbitrary price on trade-marked produots, even though that price entails an excessive profit for the retailer. High prices mean Dess spending, less sale of merchandise, less employment. Fair, competitive prices mean increasing in dustrial expansion, employment and consumption. If all units of gorernment would adopt a policy designed) to keep competi tion open in all merchandising lines, and to encourage the effi cient and economical distributor, every family in the land woul r reap the benefits—and so would every farmer and every ef ficient producer. Congress May Serve the Nation The national administration realizes that the tax un distributed corporate earnings has been n failure, said Repre sentative Emanuel Celler, Democrat of New York, recently. It was passed ns a revenue-raising measure, he stated, and we all know all it accomplished wat$ to >nake corporations de plete their reserves. The government got virtually no income from it, and business was harmed. Congressman Celler has in troduced a measure to amend the talk, and if the experts are followed, it will be passed. L. H. Parker, treasury authority on taxation, has pointed out his department has received a large amount of correspondence complaining of the effects of the tax—and that almost all of it has come from small, not large, corporations which found tfye tax made it next to im possible for them to expand thedr plants and buid up finan cial reserves. Senator Harrison, Chairman of thfc' Senate Fi nance Committee, has expressed himself in favor of tax revis ion to give relief to debt-ridden corporations, and eneuroage plant rebuilding and modernization. The late Senator Robinson, majority leader, spoke on behalf of modification of the law so that investments in new enterprises would be encouraged. Secretary Morgenthau, in a letter to the president concerning tax policies, said that tax changes should he made in order to remove inequities and help industry. Jesse Jones, chairman of RFC, declared that he would like to see an amendment to this act that would encourage expenditures for modernization of all character; for replacement of plant, machinery tnd equipment, els. Probably no item on the congressional calendar would do so much to encourage business, to increase the spending power, and to provide new opportunities for employment as Mr. < oil er’s bill to modify the undistribtted earnings tax. Congress will do the country a major service if it passes the measure this term, thus encouraging new job-creating expenditures. THE LOW DOWN ■-———from HICKORY GROVE Bein’ a champion, and on a pedestal, it is great stuff; and when you are champion, every body will say that you can’t be beat. And if anybody else ever want* to lead the procession they will have to wait ’til you die or retire or resigfi. And then all at ottee, and kind of unexpected like, some body will show up with a bav maker, and put the champion in his place. And the feller who was inviifcible and unbeatable yetsterday, he is not being ash ed, today ; for his autograph. And in polities it is not much different, and everybody is 'either stored stiff of the feller who is in power, or is cheerin’ him, one or the other; until somebody comes along and up sets his applecart. And KettSn’ beat at p-iae fighti’ og polities, it tis all the same, and goin’ from cheers to jeers, it is not a long step. Yomrs with the low do"’< JOB WPPT*' MEDICINE IS WORSE THAN THE DISEASE During their current sessions, legislatures in twenty-nine states have been asked to consider bills which would compel motor vehicle owners to take out bodily injury liability insurance. No one quarrels with the intent of this kind of le gislation. It is intended to give a practical and certain means of re dress to persons injured in motor accidents. There are many cases on record, aoeording to the Associa tion of Causality and Surety Exe cutives, where lack of some public protection against the accident evil has worked hardship on innocent parties and their dependents. Nevertheless, the compulsory automobile insurance law has not proven a remedy. It fails to accom plish in practice what it promises in theory, as ten years of exper ience has shown the people of Massachusetts—the only state where such a law exists. In the Pay State motorists complain of the high cost of liability insurance; in many cases it is from 50 to 100 per cent higher than formerly. In surance companies point to the ex. cessive cost and frequency of claims Racketering in faking, fraud ulent and exaggerated claims is rife. Moreover, and improvement in the accident record, contemplated by the law, has failed to material Race Wins in New York Labor Fight New York, Aug. 19 (C)—Three places instead of two were won on the executive committee of the Am eican Labor party at their meeting in Manhattan Opera House Thurs day night, after a fierce fight on the flood. The fight was led by James Partin of the 19th assembly di.strct. Irving Leiman of the 2£rd district asked that his name be withdrawn and that of Mrs. Lillian Gaskin, chairman of the 19th dis trict organization was substituted, gving three places to the colored group of the 23 members. Eight hundred delegates attended the meeting and endorsed Mayor La Guardia for reelection. ize. The opposite, if anything, is true! Under a system where, all vehicles must be insured and where outside influences rather than business judgment control the acceptance or rejection of ques tonable risks, the reckless driver does net fear an inability to secure insurance. 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