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WASHINGTON
PARADE
By
RAY JOHNSON
and
WALTER PIERCE
WASHINGTON, D. C.—At the
Department of Labor, of all places,
there seems to be a sign out...."No
Help Wanted’. The First Assistant
ecretaryship is still vacant. The sec
d has been vacant for two years.
t is safe to predict that one of them,
it least, will remain so until the CIO
AFL debate quiets down. The idea
of finding a neutral candidate with
sufficient labor experience, who is
‘willing to serve under Madame Se-
cretary Perkins brings a cynical smile
‘ the face of political Washington.
The real results of the President's
Western trip are the interests of the
moment with much shaking at the
dications that he will continue the
Court Reform Fight although just
why anybody who has witnessed Mr.
Roosevelt's ability as a stubborn
fighter should be surprised is the real
‘matter for headshaking.
"Here at the hub of government
and politics an observer becomes a-
cutely aware of the change of inter
ests of the American people in the
t decade. The big questions of yes-
r-year, the tariff made famous by
Mr. Dooley, for instance-have been
rgotten.
The sales tax is more vital to the
average voter than the national debt.
penny increase in the price of cig:
— arettes or gasoline arouses definite re-
sentment. An increase of a billion
dollars in the public debt is just a fig-
ure in the papers. The Sales tax fig-
ures are really something to talk a-
bout with California collecting over
seventy millions a year and Illinois
over sixty.
There was a time, too, not so long
ago, when a sign of nerves in Wall
Street made the foundations of the
White House tremble, the Capitol
dome to crack and the Washington
Momument to sway like a cornstalk
in a big wind. From Hell Gate to the
‘Golden Gate folks used to whisper,
~ ‘panic’ and begin to store up cans of
beans.
Today Wall Street is putting on
one of its finest fits of shivers. What
makes the brokers angry is not the
lack of explanation for it but the fact
that the man in the street is paying
almost no attention.
Perhaps the man in the street is
right for most of the stocks are sound
and at a fair price. Dividends are
~ good. Steel profits for the first half
of 1937 were 165 per cent over the
same period in 1936. Automobiles 59
~ per cent. Oil refining 60 per cent.
But the old ‘sucker to fantastic val-
ues is missing.
The policy of China seems to have
steadied—in China's favor. Japan,
‘not noted for shining diplomacy,
"seems indifferent to the fact that we,
together with the British Empire, buy
far more than half of her exports.
And this correspondent sympathi-
zes with the Congressman from Illi-
' nois who presents the label ‘do-noth-
ing congress’ because we remember
that the session of 1777 approved the
erection of a monument to General
Hugh Mercer, but the monument
wasn’t built until 1902—a hundred
and twenty five years later. There's
no telling what projects of the late
legislators may be completed a cen-
tury and a quarter from now.
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GE WOSRAPAY
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Columbia Feature Service.
SOME CLINGING VINES
APPLES IN THE PUBLIC EYE
From now on the apple—one of America’s prin-
cipal fruit crops—will be much in the public eye.
The biggest and best crop in years is flooding into
the American market to be sold to you at bargain
prices.
Reason for the sudden prominence of the apple
is a grower-consumer benefit campaign carried on
by the organized chain stores throughout the
country. This is the most ambitious campaign of the
many chains have undertaken in the last two years
on behalf of producers and consumers. Vivid and
spectacular displays will greet you in your local
stores. A tremendous linage of local newspaper ad-
vertisinp is being used to make sure the exception-
ally heavy apple crop will be moved with utmost
celerity and economy.
It is the object of the chain stores to sell more
apples than ever sold before, at prices that will re
turn the producer a reasonable profit, and at the
same time give the consumer big value for his
money. How can this be done? The answer lies in
mass distribution. The chains are buying by the
carload, selling fast, eliminating every possible dis
tribution and overhead cost, and passing the sav-
ings on to the buyer.
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frain from buying apples during the next few
months, and especially during the holiday season
when the campaign will be intensified. This means
a better, more healthful and more varied diet for
millions of American families. It also means that
apple growers in every section of the country will
dispose of an enormous crop to the greatest ad-
vantage.
THE FARMER AND THE GOLD BRICK
The time-worn story of the city slicker and the
gold-brick might well be revived in view of John
L. Lewis's bid for farmer support and his stated
ambitions to organize the farm folks under a union.
To be sure, it would greatly enhance the CIO's
powers if the American farmer could be rallied to
support that minority of the labor ranks that mar-
ches under the Lewis banner—but it doesn’t seem
logical that the farmer wants labor dictating prices,
especially when the farmer, along with the other
industries, must pay those prices. Can you imagine
the farmer voting deliberately to pay higher prices
for the tools, clothing, machinery and prepared
foods he buys, just because John L. Lewis asks him
to?
Then, too, can you picture the farmer and his
farm hands dropping the hoe by the clock and put
ting over until the morrow the milking duties just
because the union dicates the hours a man may
work? Time and nature do not recognize unionism,
and until Mr. Lewis can enroll them in his fold, it
is not likely that crops will wait to be harvested
and the cow hold her milk until another time.
La GUARDIA IN 1940?
Biggest political job in the U. S. is the Presidency.
Second biggest, many think, is Mayor of New York.
That is why a New York mayorality contest is an
event of national significance and interest.
The recent election proved two things—one, New
York voters still like the New Deal—both Demo-
cratic candidate Mahoney and Republican candi-
date La Guardia supported its principles. Second
Tammany is very much on the skids—it threw its
whole weight behind Senator Copeland, who ran
in both primaries, and he was badly beaten in each.
The Democratic machine is-Mahoney’s biggest as-
set. LaGuardia has no machine—but he is a color-
ful, vote-getting personality, has made a remarkable
record for efficiency and honesty as Mayor, and
has practically all the New York newspaper sup-
port.
There is a movement, started by Wiliiam Allen
White, to boom LaGuardia for the Republican
presidential nomination in 1940. White calls him
“Another Lincoln.”
A scientist who can write well is
news. A scientist who is conscious of
the world outside his laboratory is
doubly news. Dr. Nathaniel D. M.
Nirsch, a former director of the We-
yne County Clinic for Juvenile Crime
and now State Director of the Unit-
ed Public Health Survey of New
Jersey, not only writes well about
“Dynamic Causes of Juvenile Crime”
(Sci-Art Publishers, Harvard Square,
Cambridge, Mass.) as a reporter, but
alsor as anesditor whose conclusions
deserve front page space.
“As one surveys various miracles
in the world today, one clearly rec-
ognizes the close interfunctionings of
those world-wide manifestations with
crime: We must realize, then,” says
Dr. Nirsch, © that the causes, treat-
ment, and the prevention of the lat-
ter are largely bound up with the for-
mer. Beyond the individual delinqu-
ent, and his parents and their daily
environment, lies an abnormal com-
munity spirit, a troubled national
outlook, and an apprehensive world.
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“The economic collapse is only the
most patent disaster of the day, not
the most vital or far-reaching. Less
immediate, but deeper and more
trenchant, are the decay and relig
ion, art, faith, hope, and beauty, and
the world-wide irrational sweep of
hypernationalism. Beside this lethal
movement, industrial depression and
crime are ‘secondary problems.
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“Crime is tending more and more
to involve whole sectors of a popula-
tion, to embrace classes and nations,
to become, in other words less of a
problem of maladjusted individuals
and more a problem of class and na-
tional crimes. Assassinations are con-
doned by large sectors of the popula-
tion; the semi-defied leader of a na-
tion invites the assassination of the
head of another nation; thus the
boundary between killing and murder
disappears and mass murder becomes
a major element of patriotism. War's
morality is essentially the same as the
criminals psychology and viewpoint.
Crime is not only becoming general,
but it is deemed natural and normal,
it is rewarded and applauded.
“To combat juvenile crime, while
the criminal’s code is flaunted from
the palace, the court, and the camp,
Herculean measures are imperative.
They are dependent for their origin,
development and execution on gen-
jus. Without the advent of a number
of men of great genius, the decline
of the West will gallop into the de-
vastation of the east, and the pro-
blem of juvenile delinquency and a-
dult crime will be swallowed up in
the disappearance of all moral val
ues.
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Pending the arrival of men of gen-
ius to give us new faith, new courage,
new objectives and a new set of mor-
als, Dr. Hirsch suggests some good
can be accomplished by changing our
schools to fit the needs of between
one third and one half of the child
ren sent to them. These children
“cannot profit intellectually or emo-
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tionally, by an academic education
after the fifth grade,” but they do
show vocational abilities and inter
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ests, so “agricultural and mechanical
training would develop their self re#*
spect and their sense of well-being,
as well as keep them and prepare
them for useful life work.”
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Dr. Hirsch also says a good word
for re-ruralization and the trend on
the part of large industries to decen-
tralize. Another point that Dr. Hirsch
makes is one with which I have
heartily agreed for a long time. “A
drastic change in our whole attitude
toward the child” is necessary. “To-
day he is our ethical base, from which
all values, attitudes and conduct flow.
a quasi-deification of youth pervades
the land, and is unquestionably one of
the principal causes of our adult im-
maturity in literature, in art and in
ethical and social outlook. It is wide-
ly accented that youth is the period
of enjoyment, and that parents must
sacrifice themselves in order that un-
limited pleasure be their offsprings’
heritage. It results, too, in parents
and society surrendering natural and
adult interests for juvenile substitu-
tes.It is true that the basic elements
for emotional and intellectual matu-
rity are native endowments and can-
not be environmentally built to order,
to be thwarted and forced to retro-
gress.’
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Then Dr. Hirsch quotes Rev. Hel
ton’s admirable article, “Sold Out To
The Future,” which appeared in Har-
per’s in July, 1932; “If part of the
enormous sums annually wasted in
the adoration were retained for the
cultural life of the mature, and the
extension of their leisure, children
would have a better world to grow
up into, more motive for self-im-
provement and less need to be pre-
pared for the mad pace led by a fu-
ture-chasing society. In its sublime’
confidence that the child is father to
the man, our world forgets that the
man is father to the child.”
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Today the father who gets down
on the floor to play games with his
child is ennobled on magazine covers.
But the barefoot boy scrambling a-
long a furrow behind his father’s
plow is no longer a proper subject
for a Millet’s brush. He will more
likely merit the attention of the So-
ciety for the prevention of Cruelty to
Children.
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Very apropos to this subject were
the observations Miss Margaret Mead
made in “Coming of Age in Samoa,”
a book which is still good and in-
structive reading nine years after it
was published. Says Miss Mead:
“Samoan children do not learn to
work through learning to play, as
the children of many primitive peo-
ples do. Nor are they permitted a
period of lack of responsibility such
as our children are allowed. From
the time they are four or five years
old they perform definite tasks grad-
ed to their strength and intelli-
gence, but still tasks which have a
meaning in the structure of the whole
society.
“With professionalization of edu-
cation and the specialization of indus-
trial tasks which has stripped the in-
dividual home of its former variety
of activities, our children are not
made to feel that the time they do
devote to supervised activity is func-
tionally related to the world of adult
activity. Although this lack of con-
nection is more apparent than real,
it is still sufficiently vivid to be a
powerful determinant in the child's
attitude. The Samoan girl who tends
babies, carries water, sweeps the
floor; or the little boy who digs for
bait, or collects cocoanuts, has no
such difficulty. The necessary nature
of their tasks is obvious. And the
practice of giving a child a task which
he can do well and never permitting
a childish, inefficient tinkering with
adult apparatus, such as we permit
to our children, who bang aimlessly
and destructively on their fathers’
typewriters, results in a different at-
tude towards work, American chil
dren spend hours in schools learning
tasks whose visible relation to their
mothers’ and fathers’ activities is
often quite impossible to recognize.
Their participation in adults’ activi
ties is either in terms of toys, tea-sets
and dolls or toy automobiles, else in
a meaningless and harmful tamper-
ing with the electric light sys
tem. So our children make a false set
of categories, work, play and school;
work for adults, play for children’s
pleasure, and schools as an inexpli-
cable nuisance with some compensa
tions. These false distinctions are like-
ly to produce all sorts of strange at-
titudes, an apathetic treatment of
school which bears no known rela
tion of life, a false dichotomy between
work and play, which may result
either in a dread of work as imply-
ing irksome responsibility or in a la-
ter contempt for play as childish.”
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In short, Margaret Mead had to
go all the way to Samoa to realize
as Dr. Hirsch realizes we must shift
our attitude towards children, we
must henceforth demand that child
ren grow up to us, not weakly sub-
mit shrinking to their size.
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But when Dr. Hirsch concludes
“looking at the world today from the
broadest perspective, no solution of
any of the myriad major problems is
possible without the sudden appear-
ance of men of Genius—men with
kingly chromesomes, of philosophical
mold, of far reaching vision,” then
I think it is time to call a halt and,
before agreeing entirely with Dr.
Hirsch, who leads up so admirably
to this conclusion, to ask ourselves
just what type of men we want to
lead us to these happy utopias men
like Dr. Hirsch must believe in if
they are to account their work worth
doing.
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Do we want Hitlers and Mussolinis
and Stalins, who, if reports can be
credited, have done mucho cut down
statistical criminality in their respec-
tive countries? It is easy enough to
agree that a man in the White House
who could be admired by both par-
ties and their adherents and whose
word could be law—but good law,
would be the type of man that would
fit Dr. Hirsch’s platonic dream. But
he, as a scientist, although he knows
such a man can be predicated, allows
himself too much wishful thinking in
believing there can ever come a time
in this country when “Ballots are
weighed instead of counted,” a sug
gestion he makes in passing.
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When such a day of weighed bal
lots dawns, Jefferson will be a derid-
ed myth, and the principles of Ham-
ilton, to which this country is not
yet officially committed, will come
into their own at last without any
need, as in the past, for the cloak
of the Sage of Monticello to hide
their true nature.
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Theoretically, of course, a nation
led by a man of genius is a fascinat-
ing idea. It always has been. If, in
the argot of the day, we were lucky
enough to be given a right guy (we
wouldn’t pick him), then, naturally,
all would be right as rain—in theory.
The only rub is that what's right for
one is not always right for another.
So it seems safer to agree with Jef-
ferson, still safer to believe that our
national well being depends upon be-
ing united in the belief that we all
have the right to be divided on every
other subject.
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Today, more than ever, American
patriotism calls less for flag waving
and sword sharpening for the bene-
fit of oars across the sea than it does
for defending within our own borders
the right of every man to have opin-
ions in a world which is fast suc-
cumbing to the pap fed it by. a
few pawky potentates who have
tricked peoples, who should be free
today, into believing that jails are
palaces, that iron bars are merely
stockades against barbarians who
must one day see the light and clam-
or, themselves for a nice, comfortable
cell and a pretty suit with stripes
running the wrong way.
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I think Dr. Hirsch, in concluding
his otherwise very interesting and
persuasive work, was guilty of a little
deliquency himself by turning truant
to play that popular game of child-
hood called “If I Were King.” Even
an adolescent Alexander of Yugosla-
via must have learned by now it’s
not much of a game. Who's going to
play it with you?
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BROADWAY
LIMITED
By
W. A. 8
New York, N. Y.—Calling all
Broadwayfarers....come home....Legion
gone....streetcars
covers back in place....Fifth Avenue
mas....Jast Legionnaire in uniform
seen at door of Astor midnight last
night....Seventeen people thought he
was doorman and asked him to call
taxis.... so East Side—West Side—to
find the news we've missed....the Cot-
ton Club's Grand Opening with Cab-
Calloway and a chorus that’s tall—tan
and terrific....Helen Morgan caroling
‘My Bill’ at El Dorado........ Mitzi
Green at Versailles warbling the lady
was a tramp’....tsch! tsch;....and........
sucker that we are—we. just found
out that those socialite dancing coup-
les who strut at certain clubs get
twenty-five per wisit.... International
Casino opened at last....but after a
year of ballyhoo the floor show
wasn't ready....Ricaro Cortez and
Missus at the Waldorf....and Charles
ai Don’t Call Me Buddy....Rogers
with Mary........ America’s Sweetheart
vii and if she isn’t America's......
she’s ‘still ours... well — one
of ours....to Grand Central Station to
hello Howard Sihler, the big ques-
tion and answer man of the informa-
tion booth........ six million questions
asked and answered............ six of ‘em
ed and said “Hello Howard ....whadda
ya know?!....Giant sign on Broadway
.....Giant Beer 5c!...with little ‘root’
before the beer....Lady-in-the barrel
in Hell Gate still unsolved................
nice new murder of man with one ex-
wife........ one ex-fiancee........ one active
fiancee being nicely muffed by pol
ice....who had more trouble keeping
the crowd from making faces at Mius-
solini’s little boy last week than in
handling the Legion parade....recent
exodus of the stem’s two biggest col-
umnists made one of the movie mo-
guls brag...."Hollywood is where the
good Broadway Columnists go!....and
Gene Cheu, the cynic writer, quipp-
ed back....remembering that one of
them had collapsed....You mean when
they're half-dead!....from the Sunday
girl able to play bagpipes....Why do
cloak and suiters want all models to
be size fourteen....five feet nine........
when the folks who buy the dresses
are going to be five feet three....size
eighteen....nightclub new and differ-
ent....La Conga....Cuban from Rhum-
bas to Daiquiris........ and music that’s
strictly jungle tom-toms.... Things you
never knew.....so what?........ That in
Queen Elizabeth's time the diamond
a precious stone rated second to the
Bezoar....they're just gall stones silly!
Sign in the post office says Mr. Far-
ley’s men are looking for a Mr.
Clairmont....you can tell him by his
mole....an inch and a half by half an
inch.... of all places....on his tummy!
tsch! tsch!.... The big black buses that
carry airplane passengers trying to
look bored and brave on the way
there ...and as if they hadn't been
airsick on the way back...But the
street crowd never gives ‘em a second
glance any more....The broad Rue’s
latest riddle.... heard the other night
at the Hollywood....where the new
show is super-super....which way do
Uncle Sam sent a man out to see...
and found they're fifty-fifty.
workin.
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running....manhole
out from under the paper by Christ-
foolish....but he was busy so we wav-
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