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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.
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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
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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
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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.
Indeed, in the opinion of author
ities, the compulsory automobile
liability insurance law has created
evils and abuses far greater than
those it sought to correct. The me
dicine has been worse than the dis
ease.
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Anti-Lynch Bill Sec
ond for 38 Session
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Immediately the Senate was in an
uproar. Several attempts were
made to got Senator Wagner to
withdraw his motion but he, stood
pat.
A motion to adjourn was made.
If this motion had been successful,
it would have dislodged the anti*
lynching bill from consideration
and would Have permitted the Sen
ate to take up other bills the next
day. The motion was lost by a vote
of 35-27.
Borah Speaks Against Bill
Senator Borah took the floor and
made a long speech against the
anti-lynching bill charging that it
was attempting to remove the au
thority from the states over their
own affairs. Finally the Senate re
cessed until August 12th and over
night, desperate efforts were made
to bring order out of chaos. Be
hind the scenes, there was fever
ish activity on the part of Senate
leaders to effect some kind of ar
rangement by which the snarl of
legislation could be untangled.
Pressure was brought bo beer on
senators favorable to the admin
istration and also favorable to tha
arti-lynching bill to ge.t them to
choke off the anti-lynching bill and
bring it up later.
Finally there a proposal that
the bill be made a special order of
business for the next session and
given a place on the calendar. This
proposal was finally agreed to by
Senators Wagner and Vanuys
late Thursday afternoon, August
12th.
With the pressure from the po
werful sugar bill lobby and from
the District of Columbia Airport
bill lobby and with the great desiro
of all senators to close the session
and go home, it is beieved that the
agreement on the antilynching bill
v.as the wisest move and that con
tinual pressure for action at this
time, in the closing days of the
session, would have aroused antag
onism which would have made it
very difficult for the bill to come
up again.
As it is now, the bill is on the
calendar: is scheduled to be the
second one considered in the new
session and will not have to fight to
have a place for it on the calendar.
As for the chances of passage,
the United Press, in a story on
August 11, declared that support
ers of the bill claimed 70 votes and
“test votes indicate that they are
not exaggerating.”
The New York Herald Tribune
correspondent in analyzing the
bill’s chances declared that it is "‘al
most certain of passage” now that
it has won a place on the calendar.
Galaries Crowded
Notice of action on the anti- •
lynching bill drew crowded galler
ies to the Senate. Colored people
came from far and near, s?me of
them as far as Westchester county,
New York. The galleries were
crowded for the first time since
the supreme, court bill fight.
The discussion on August 11th
contained a long speech by Senator
Borah and the discussion on Aug
12th, until, the action was taken
putting the bill off until next ses
sion, was featured by the usual
harangue from Senator Tom Con
nally of Texas.
Senator Borah was heckled and
questioned repeatedly during his
speech by Sens. Shermon Minton
of Indiana, and Jt Hamilton Lewis,
of Illinois. Others who fought to
the last ditch for the bill were
Senator Boone of Washington, As
hurst of Arizona and Senator Cope
land of New York. Among the most
active in the suport of the bill was
Senator Bennett Champ Clark, of
Missouri. It was through the ef
forts of Senator Clark, that pic
tures of the Duck Hill, Mississippi,
blow torch lynchings, which were
too horrible to print in newspapers
were displayed on a bulletin board
in the Senate Chamber.
When the motion to make the
anti-lynching bill a special order of
business in the next session was
made, Senator Ashurst arose to say
that he would not vote for it un
less it read “shall become and re
main the unfinished business.’’
Senator Harrison of Mississippi
said that his group was not willing
to agree to that, whereupon Sena
tor Ashurst declared he would net
vote for it unless they did. Finally,
the motion was voted in the form
desired, insuring that the anti-lyn
ching bill would be on the calendar
continuously until it was disposed
of.
