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THE COURIER-JOURNAL, LOUISVILLE, WEDNESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 9, 1938. SECTION 1- Time and Tide no questioning the ambitions of Hitler and his Nazi regime, however, to carve out for themselves a sizable slice of Southwestern Russia. According to the Dimitroff timetable, therefore, war in Europe is three years off, a rather optimistic prediction. Answers to Questions Consolidation of The Focui (November 22. 1828), The Louisville Daily Journal 1830, The Morntn Courier U8.T7.

The Daily Democrat U843). First issued as The Courier-Journal November fl. 188. Founded by Henry Watterson and Walter N. Haldeman.

Barry Bingham, Publisher. Harrison Robertson, Editor. Robert W. Bingham, Publisher, 1918-1937. 9 "Off Year" li'j fijif ilia -f ''f' JpW itfeSI Iff The Point of View Communications ahould be brief.

1p? ibly written, preferably typewritten, on one side of the paper. The writer's name and address must be sicned, nnt to be published without the consent of the siRner. Publication does not imply approval by The Courier-Journal. By HERBERT AGAR Pill Down the White Man Burden "To anyone who knew the East," wrote Bruce Lockhart last spring, "it was already clear that, whoever might win the war between Japan and China, the white race had lost it." The truth of that statement become more obvious every month. The Japanese have now informed us, as politely as possible, tha American and European "rights" in China have come to an end According to the Japanese view, China will become what Japan decides to make of it.

The rest of the world will not be consulted. And it will not matter to the Japanese whether the rest of the world likes the result or dislikes it. Our State Department, of course, does not accept the new state of affairs which the Japanese have decreed in Asia. But this lack of acceptance does not have much influence on Asia. According to the Stimson Doctrine, our State Department recognizes no changes which are brought about by force.

Since the entire world is being remade by force, our State Department may soon find itself unable to recognize anything that exists. It will have to lead a remote and melancholy life of its own, based on the assumption that the world is always the way it used to be. The rest of us, however, are under no obligation to pretend that the white man's position in Asia is what it was in the days of Theodore Roosevelt. A new era in history has opened. The white man is no longer supreme in Asia.

It seems probable that before the Twentieth Century has ended the white man will not even be important in Asia. I cannot see anything to regret in such a change. Asia is an overpeopled and undernourished continent. The idea that the white man has any right to take profits out of that continent is absurd. For several generations the white man was strong enough to take what he wanted.

Some of the Asiatics are now getting strong enough to push the white man out. Neither the original victory nor the present repulse of the white man has the smallest moral sanction. In both cases It Is a mere question of force. Today the force belongs to somebody else so we see it in all its uncompromising wickedness. Christianity, democracy and science are the white man's real contributions to life.

Now that the physical domination of the white man is about to be removed from Asia, the good parts of the white man's civilization may begin to have some influence. Hitherto the Standard Oil Company has been a symbol of the white man's penetration in Asia. And the Standard Oil Company is not a good illustration of the Christian or the democratic way of life. Similarly, the white man's science has come to Asia chiefly in the form of textile factories, munitions plants and war-planes. Science as the disinterested search for objective truth has been taken to Asia chiefly by the medical men.

This has been a noble work; but it has been somewhat overshadowed by the work of the munitions men. Everything we have a right to be proud of our religion, our thought, our political aspirations these things are more likely to flourish in Asia without the backing of our economic and military might. The rise of Japan may be a tragedy for China; if so, the Chinese will doubtless deal with it in time. But the decline of the white man's Asiatic power is no tragedy for Asia. Neither is it a tragedy for the white man, who has plenty to do at home.

(Copyright, 1938. by The Courier-Journal Syndicate.) Senator Soaper Says "The tumult and the shouting dies," sang Kipling and the new theory is that "Dies" isn't a grammatical blunder, but could be a Texas Congressman. We need newspapers. Otherwise, how would the listener whose radio goes dead in the thick of a raid from Mars get the final results? Adolf would not let Hungary grab all it wished of Czechoslo MTM OA vakia, as Adolf holds a patent on the process. Besides, Hungarian minorities are different.

The German minority in a foreign part never knows at what hour the command will come from home, "On and after Monday next, you are dissatisfied." For the driver who speeds to an oil station when the gas is low, there is a soul-mate in Kansas who Is hurrying to finish a knitted sweater before the yarn runs out. Often one suspects the great paperhanger of hives, but late figures on German war material prove conclusively he is not the one-armed celebrity. (Copyright. 1938, by N.A.N.A., Inc.) Ask IV Ie Another 1 Who preceded Victoria as ruler of Great Britain? 2 Is a kilometer greater or less than a mile? 3 What conqueror made the year 1066 famous? 4 On what continent was the old Barbary Coast? 5 In what Shakespeare play is the line, "Out, damned spot! Out, I say." Answers are in last column this page. Lost: A Loyal Republican (St.

Louis Post-Dispatch.) That was a pathetic bit of news from Ossining. Its Village President, Howard Dunscomb, a loyal Republican these past thirty-five years, has severed connections with the party. Come November 8 and he will vote against the candidates on the Republican county ticket. The Republican fight on the League of Nations? Apparently he forgave his party that; at any rate it brought no rupture. The Harding Administration scandals and the Coolidge siestas? He stood them like a soldier in the ranks.

The G.O.P.'s alliance with Volstead and the prohibitionists? However hard it may have been, he held fast. But there comes the breaking point in time. For three years he has been trying to obtain a low automobile license number, and each year the Republicans up the line gave him only "the usual song and dance." So that's that and the Democrats have another voter. It just goes to prove that Americans won't take the politicians' run-around indefinitely. Sooner or later they rise up in civic wrath.

Sparing (Atlanta Constitution.) "Is your wife economical?" "Oh, very. We do without nearly everything I need." trap and a disgrace to St. Matthews. It was built about twenty-five years ago by the present superintendent after we had raised half the cost by subscription. At that time, when we pleaded for a new school, we were told that the city would soon take us in and it would not be advisable to build much of a school that was twenty-five years ago and they are still using that same alibi.

The St. Matthews district has always paid the big end of the taxes and received the little end of the benefits. When confronted by the press, at that time for their neglect of St. Matthews, the superintendent accused the community of apathy. Well I would like to add another charge to that, one of asinine stupidity if they continue weekly to accept the crumbs that fall from the table.

We have been assured that we are to have a new school but the present site has to be sold first just another alibi. Let me ask what is wrong with the present site? It is in a beautiful location, convenient to the bus line, and has water and lights. All we need is a new building. F. A.

Holzheimer. Louisville. Readers wishtnfc answers by mail arm requested to inclose a sumped, se.f-addressed envelope witH tneir qje-tions. Address The Courier-Journal Information liurrau, I.ouHvt!le. Tr bureau cinnot answer riieioris reUt-inc to commercial contests, give advice in law or medicine, or undertone extensive research.

How did the Romans add, subtract or multiply with their system of numerals? A The Roman numerals were not adapted to calculation, so they used a device called an abacus, which consisted of a series of counters on vertical rods, so arranged that by moving them up and down they could get the answer after a long time. To multiply say, 21.345 by 3.137, a sum which any fifth school boy can do in a few minutes, required several hours of work with an abacus, Yet when Arabic numerals were introduced into Europe about 1.001 A.D. the conservatives of that time made such resistance to the adoption of the new system, that it was not until about 1,500 A.D., after printing was invented, that the modern system of numeral came into general use. And ths abacus or a similar device, still is used in some Oriental countries. What is Yiddish, is it a language or a food, or what? A It is a dialect, made up of about 40 per cent Hebrew, 41 per cent German and 20 per cent English, which is spoken In some sections of New York City.

Please say what is the population of the world. A There has never been a world-wide census taken to ascertain the population at any given time, but estimatei art that it has slightly mora than inhabitants. criticises the ownership of automobiles by persons on relief, we only have jurisdiction over persons on direct relief who receive an average of $13 a month and it seems to me it would he impossible to operate a car with this monthly income. We, of course, have no jurisdiction over relief workers after they have have been certified to W.P.A." Solon F. Russell.

Director, Department of Public Welfare. Louisville. AIPLAUSE FOR MR. DUNNE. To the Editor of The Courier-JourrvaL Every liberty-loving American should offer a prayer of thanks for the enlightening letter of Mr.

J. E. Dunne which was printed in these columns Monday. If every American realized his heritage of freedom and appreciated the liberty we enjoy instead of taking it as a matter of fact we would all be vigilant against any form of foreign "ism" that endangers our liberties. If we spent a small portion of the same energy toward combatting foreign propaganda that definitely endangers our liberties as we do in criticising some of the laws passed by our Government which we erroneously think curtail our liberties we would be applying our attention to the real and vital point of danger.

If we would stop to ponder the freedom we all enjoy we Would be proud of expressions of this liberty as "The Star-Spangled Banner" instead of playing this song as swing music, as I have read. However, if swinging "let freedom ring" will make the American public more conscious of their freedom and more determined to fight to protect that freedom, then I am in favor of it. Leon Levich. Louisville. TAYLOR COUNTY'S NEED OF BOOKS.

To the Editor of The Courier-Journal. A Pack Horse Library was opened in Campbells ville, Ky, November 3, 1938. It is located on Main St. in the Sanders Building nnd sponsored by the Fiscal Court of Taylor County and the Works Progress Admi nistration. In order to make a success of this undertaking it is necessary to have hooks and magazines.

We need several thousand books as soon as run get them. President Roosevelt has just ordered the domestic postage on books reduced to l'j cents a pound, saying he hoped this would stimulate "cultural growth, education and development of the American people." The old rate on books cams under parcel post rates, which, rangp from 7 cmti a pound upward. The new rate was effective November 1, 1938. During the flood disaster of 1937 no county in the Stat responded to the call from Louisville more quickly than Taylor County. We opened our homes and provided every comfort possible to those who came to Campbellsville at that time.

There is a dire need for a library in Taylor County. If you have any books which pre not being used and would to send them where wort! people will benefit from ti.e use, please send them to the Pack Horse Library, Main Campbellsville, Ky. The books you send will appreciated. If you have more books than, can be conveniently sent by parcle post we will try to make arrancements to get them if you will let us hear from you. Thanking every contributor.

Louise S. Van Cleve, Supervisor of Project. Campbellsville, Ky. Answers to Ask Me Another 1 William IV. 2 Less.

3 William of Normandy. 4 Africa. 5 A Community Chest Triumph Community Chest workers deserve congratulations on a campaign which reached its goal in time. This is not only the result of efficient organization, enthusiastic canvassers and a responsive citizenship. It is still more decisively the result of scrupulously excellent management of the Chest itself and the service of the agencies operating under it.

Had they not won the approval of the community through the years, efficiency, enthusiasm and benevolence would have failed. In fact, if there were no efficiency in the Chest management, there could have been none in the campaign, nor any enthusiasm among the canvassers, not to mention the attitude toward it of the benevolently inclined. The campaign also has demonstrated the groundlessness of fears that Government relief would make people indifferent to constructive social work. The response this year seems to have been more widespread. The contraction or expansion of numbers subscribing to the fund is indicative of waning or growing interest, a significant sign.

The total, 57,856 gifts, exceeds any previous year. A Long Overdue Recession An election apparently so close in such populous States as New York, Ohio, Michigan and Pennsylvania that political wiseacres declined to guess the outcome, this was an easy one to predict generally. No one doubted that it would show Republican gains in Congress. Statistically, the Democratic Party had built Itself up for a big let-down by the liquidation of two instead of one landslide. The Congressional election of 1934 was the first since the two parties have been competing that there wasn't a recession in the dominant party's majority.

Then came along a still greater landslide In 1936 with further accessions to Democratic seats. How tremendous this progressive overturn has been by the successive elections of 1932, 1934 and 1936 can best be appreciated by comparing the party division in the present Congress with the one elected in 1930, in Hoover's mid-term when Republican prestige was vanishing. The depression was a year old and the consequence of it was that the Republicans lost fifty-three seats in the House, reducing their majority over the Democrats from 106 to two. That wiped out all the reasonably close Republican Districts in the country and the party lost 102 in.the 1932 National election. That was" to be expected; but in 1934, without the aid of a National ticket, the Democrats took twelve more seats from the Republicans, which was unprecedented.

Always in the past some had slipped back. Some did in 1934, but others which had withstood the 1932 landslide went Democratic. In 1936 eighteen additional Republican Districts deserted to the Democrats. Many Districts, normally Republican by several thousand, went Democratic by a few votes, carried by straight party ballots. This year straight ballots for State tickets In a contest on local issues can affect results in such districts.

Besides the Representatives from States-at-large, all Democratic, the Republican districts subsequently lost, though they were strong enough to resist the tide running against Hoover in 1932, included one each in Delaware, Montana, Nevada, Nebraska, Oregon, South Dakota, Virginia and Wyoming; two each in Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, New Jersey, Ohio, Rhode Island, Texas and Utah; three each in Colorado, Michigan, Minnesota and New York; four each in Iowa, Missouri, Washington and West Virginia; five in Massachusetts, six in California, eight in Illinois, nine in Wisconsin and twenty-five in Pennsylvania. That a great many of them would Revert was conceded; but Republicans didn't even hope to see the party balance reduced to the proportions of McKinley's, Theodore Roosevelt's, Harding's or Coot-idce's second Congresses. And no party heretofore has been swept out of power without first losing the House. Reporting on the railroad situation, The Twentieth Century Fund says, "other public utilities appear to have maintained a fairly liquid position throughout the depression." And they are the ones Government competition was supposed to have reduced to a pulp. Carl Van Doren said he wasn't "debunking" Ben Franklin as the apostle of thrift by depicting his extravagant taste in dress, surroundings and food; but, it doesn't make any difference.

This generation doesn't study McGuffey's Readers. German liners are to be named for characters from Wagnerian operas; but it isn't necessary to remind the world what Germany once was. Wagner's operas will survive when the present regime has vanished. The Radio Commission has decided to restrict the use of the word, "flash," on the air. With this precedent, maybe it will go a little further and restrict the use of a joke to one radio comedian an evening.

The Japanese announce that the head of the provisional government in Central China will be the deposed old Warlord, Gen. Wu Pei-Fu, pronounced "Whoo, Phew" in the Chinese vernacular. The big ships being built are still called but we're no longer so sure of that. At least it is dread that is responsible for their being built. The batting average of old Vox Populi is still 1.000, as the defeated candidates who faced him can testify.

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The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited In this paper and also local news published herein. All riehts of republication of special dispatches herein also reserved. IWEDNESDAY. JioTember 9, 1938 It's Up to You, Governor la dismissing his Commissioner of Wel-f fare, Frederick A. Wallis, Governor Chandler now assumes complete and single responsibility for conditions in the State hospitals.

The appointment of Miss Mar-l aret Woll places a trained social worker at the head of the Welfare Department, and the public looks hopefully to her knowledge and experience. Miss Woll must be conscious of the fact, however, that her predecessor was dis-r missed because of his refusal to co-operate with the Governor by reinstating a superintendent at Eastern State Hospital who did not qualify as a superintendent under the specific terms of the Chandler-Wallis Act. That fact seems to leave Miss Woll 4n the position of holding her job only so long as she concurs in Governor Chandler's desires In her appointments. It Is the Governor who has taken full personal responsibility for these appointments, which cnder the Chandler-Wallis Act were to have been the responsibility of the Director of Hospitals, with the concurrence of the Commissioner of Welfare. Kentucky hopes most fervently that Gov-l finer Chandler will use this responsi-i fcility welL His personal reputation is I directly at stake.

He has agreed to keep Dr. J. G. Wilson as Director of Hospitals at the of a group of doctors, and he says 'that Wilson "will be given a chance." Whether that chance will extend to the point of allowing Dr. Wilson to appoint trained people without being checked by Governor Chandler and Dan Talbott remains to be seen.

Commissioner Wallis acted with courage in refusing to compromise his position on the appointment of Dr. Vallandingham, whom he knew to be disqualified for the position of superintendent. His departure leaves Governor Chandler as the sole ar- biter of the fate of more than six thousand sick men and women, Kentucky citizens, many of whom could be cured and sent home if they were given decent, modern standards of treatment. The Courier-Journal has no program for the State hospitals, and no single ap-; pointment to suggest. It only urges the Governor to prove his sincerity of purpose i by permitting the staffing of the hospitals i- ith people of unquestioned qualifications, and without further delay.

The money, appropriated by the Legislature, lies ready to pay the salaries of such trained people. The mentally sick people in the hospitals have been the victims of what Governor Chandler has termed the "mess" in the handling of the hospital situation. Wher-I ever the blame for any such condition should fall, the Governor now assumes full power and responsibility for straightening it out to his own satisfaction. Every Ken-' tuckian who suffers unnecessary torture confinement to a State hospital where treatment would mean a cure, every Ken- tickian who dies through carelessness and J. Neglect in these institutions, i3 now the responsibility of one man.

That man is Governor Chandler. Germany' Timetable Georgi Dimitroff, Secretary General of the Communist Internationale, announced iti Moscow the other day a timetable of military moves to be carried out by the Hitler Reich that allegedly had come from German sources. As the Nazi regime usually works out its plans far in advance, fee schedule is interesting, but convincing to only one item, that the drive to gain the "Ukraine would not start until 1941. According to the timetable, Hungary will be attacked in the spring jbf 1939, Poland in the fall of the same year, Yugoslavia, and Bulgaria in 1940 and France, Belgium, Holland, Denmark and Switzerland in the spring of 1941. A series of lightning like moves will bring all Europe jmder the sway of the Third Reich, it is to be inferred.

But why attacks on Hungary, Poland, Yugoslavia, Rumania and Bulgaria? These of necessity must become subservient to Greater Germany, if not vassal States. The orderly procedure of consolidating the gains resulting from the Munich peace automatically will bring Eastern, Central and Southeastern Europe into the economic and political orbit of the Hitler Reich. To effect such consolidation there must be peace, of which Germany will be as desirous as any other country. When consolidation is effected, when Germany has carried out its vast public rorks program, when its armament factories have made the nation invincible, then it may turn eastward. This may be in 1941 or even earlier.

It may be deferred if it entails serious risk. There is i first-class school with worthy traditions and a splendid body of students and alumni. It was a shock, therefore, to see them classed as "slap happy" and "second rate" in the University of Kentucky official publication, "The Kentucky Kernel," of November 1, 1938, as follows: "Why not book only first-class teams to furnish the Cats grid opposition? So far out of six games, four have been with slap-happy second-rate elevens while two have been with top-limb teams and you know the results. To lose a game to a powerhouse like Vanderbilt by 7 pointt or to Alabama by 20 does not mar the prestige of a team but in a fray with teams like Xavier, Oglethorpe and even Washington and Lee the odds are too high, all to lose nothing to gain." Whom has Kentucky defeated in the last ten years to give it the claimed My observation has been that colleges, like individuals, with real prestige are not afraid of losing it. It is only those who do not have it who are afraid of losing it.

For instance, Alabama is not afraid of losing prestige by playing Birmingham-Southern and Howard Colleges, both of Birmingham, Ala. Tennessee is not afraid of losing prestige by playing Southwestern and Sevvanoe, both Tennessee colleges. In fact, the University of Kentucky is the only tax supported State institution in the South that is afraid of playing any other college in the same State. Not a Washington and Lee Student or Alumnus. Louisville.

KENTUCKY'S POLITICAL EXILES. To the Editor of The Courier-Journal. There is so much truth in your editorial entitled "Kentucky's Political Exiles" that it should be spread to cover all of the exiles from Kentucky's educational institutions, educated at tha expense of the people. The writer doubts if there is any State in the Union that shows less appreciation for local brains than Kentucky, and this applies in no small manner to Louisville. Louisville Medical School, a department of the University of Louisville, not only has a Class A rating, but from across its portals have stepped young men who have become leaders in the medical profession of this country but whose efforts fell on barren soil in Kentucky.

In the Speed School of Applied Science, another department of the University of Louisville, this city has the only accredited engineering school south of the Mason and Dixon Line. Graduates of other engineering schools are brought into Louisville by industrialists and others, while the young men graduated from Speed go forth into other fields outside of the State and make "names for themselves." The same stands good for our local firms in the building construction, paving, sewer and other engineering fields. When P.W.A. Administrator Harold L. Ickes was here in January and looked over the L.

N. viaduct, he asked the writer what New York City firm had handled the project. When he was told the viaduct had been built by the Henry Hickel Company of Louisville, he said: "Why, I did not know you had a firm in Louisville capable of such excellent engineering construction!" Louisville firms employ, In most instances, graduates of Speed and the engineering department of the University of Kentucky. Only the other day with nn important civil engineer, well-known in the national field, the writer inspected an intricate job of construction at the Louisville Water Works. This project called for exceptional ability as the barrel of the pipe had to be carefully constructed and with accurate elbows.

When the engineer inspected the interior and exterior of this pipe and the symmetrical elbows, he was surprised to find the work had been dene by the George M. Eady Company of Louisville. In the national engineering field, graduates of du Pont Manual Training High School have reached very high standing. One of the best U. S.

authorities on underground construction and flood control is Woolsey M. Caye, chief technical engineer of the Commissioners of Sewerage. Louisville people do not know that even the office of the U. S. Weather Bureau at Washington, has adopted Mr.

Caye's maps of flood levels of the Middle West and his record of rainfalls, together with watersheds. In the fields of law, science, business administration, Louisville boys and girls have attained high rank. Louisville has the brains to carry on difficult as well as easy problems, but Louisville does not appreciate the brains within its own borders any more than the State as a whole. C. J.

P. Lucas. Louisville. DIRECTOR RUSSELL INCORRECTLY QUOTED. To the Editor of The The article entitled "Aid Head Shifts Jury's Blame" in the Home Edition of November 5, 1938, incorrectly quotes my written statement to the press.

The full statement which I released was as-follows: "Regarding the grand jury's criticism of the Municipal Bureau of Social Servic I would like to state that it never has been the policy of the bureau to differentiate between married and unmarried women. The applicants have been selected regardless of their marital or financial state and strictly on qualifications to do necessary social work. Since the adoption of the Personnel Commission the Department of Welfare has nothing to say or decide on the status of the person's marital state. We select the applicant from the list submitted to us by said Personnel Commission. "With reference to that part of the grand jury's report which PLEA FOR NEW SCHOOL AT ST.

MATTHEWS. To the Editor of The Courier-Journal. The grateful teacher Who wrote the letter listing achievements of the County Board of Education forgot to mention the Greathouse School. It is a chain of chicken-coops, a fire- Tooncrville Folks of course to Flem Proddy, the Local Inventor tl.MOffSSBS HIS Tif i I a Referring, THE WASHINGTON AND LEE FOOTBALL TEAM. To the Editor of The Courier-Journal.

I had always thought that Washington and Lee was a.