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IHE PALM BEACH POST Thursday Morning, October 13, 1938 Page Four THE 4-POWER PEACE PLAN AT HOME The Palm Beach Post Copyright. 1938 by Palm Bead Publications, incorporated at 328 Datura Street. Weit Palm Beach. Florida. New York Day By Day By CHARLES B.

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other differences among people, you are apt to have a tough time in New York. I came from a fairly typical Western community. Something like 85 per cent of the people there were bofh in America of parents born in cent of the total Federal revenue from taxes. Other Federal revenue sources that year, and their percentages, were: Tobacco, 12; liquor, 12; estate and gift, gasoline, customs, 10; and miscellaneous taxes, including excise levies on luxuries and regulatory taxes on such articles as oleomargarine and coconut oil, 12. i Importance of levies in terms of dollars is shown by the 1937 figures on taxes collected for the first time in 1932 or later.

Gasoline taxes in 1937 -amounted to more than 196 millions, while liquor tax revenues, revived with the repeal of prohibition in 1933, brought in more than 594 millions. Income tax showed the greatest elasticity to periods of economic depression and prosperity. Income tax collected in 1931 accounted for 66 per cent of total Federal revenue, or $1,860,040,000 that year, and 69 per cent, or $3,956,936,000 of the record 1920 collections which totaled $5,736,213,000. Decline in customs revenues after 1925 is attributed to restrictive tariff rates and a general slipping of international trade. America.

In New York you simply don't happen to, WASHINGTON Here is one of the arguments which Roosevelt used with friends of Herbert Lehman to persuade him to- run for Governor of New. York for a fourth term. Roosevelt told how he had visited with voters around his own county near Poughkeepsie, particularly Republicans who had nevertheless voted for "Would you vote for Lehman again for Governor?" Roosevelt asked them. "Yes," was the answer. "Well, would you vote for Lehman for the Senate?" the President pursued further.

"Well I'd have to think that over." "Would you vote for Wagner for the Senate again?" "Yes," was the invariable answer. "Well, would you vote for Senator Wagner for Governor?" con find a great many persons, in the course of a day's business, with that kind of origin. Millions of them here, without a doubt, but there are so many recent comers and so many whose parents came from abroad, that you're much more likely to- be talking to those fairly recent Americans than to the others. Just the SUBSCRIPTION BATES i'HE POST (mornlne dally) with I'HE rUS'l TIMES (Sunday only) successor to the Sunday Issues ot The Palm Beach Post and The Palm Beach Times since February 10. 1934.

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Atlanta. Kansas City and San Francisco Germans, Jews, English, French and Italians, tinued the President's cross-exam- With one unfortunate exception, I didn't see or hear anybody become angry with any other persons in the groups. THE POST TELEPHONES For any department of The Post News, or Advertising call either 6161-61626163. Lake Worth for News, 195J and 40. The exception was an amiable merchant who found himself losing his temper when DO UNTO OTHERS The principle of democracy is as simple as the principle of the Golden Rule for in fact democracy is little less than, the application of Golden Rule as a way of life.

And in the last two or three weeks, not a few persons have wondered how, where, and when the democratic ideal is going to make an effective defense against Fascism. With all its imperfections, the democratic way seems to promise a future in which somehow, mankind will be able to develop its own limitless potentialities; while Fascism seems to offer precisely the reverse. And it the opposing point of view was being ex pressed. He rose from the table in the midst of his soup, rushed for his hat, and disappeared. The company was astounded, but the ination.

"I'd have to think that over." Based on this, Roosevelt mada the argument that New York voters, including many Republicans, were well satisfied with Lehman as Governor and Wagner as Senator, but that there might be a drastic change of opinion if the two New York Democrats ran for any other jobs. A Little Child Shall Lead Although both Roosevelt and Jim Farley are credited with the major political miracle of persuading Lehman to run for Governor, the chief credit really goes to a newborn babe. The baby is Carla Poletti, the very new daughter of Charles Po Opinions expressed by writers ol syndicated irtlcles published In The Post and The limes are their own. Such opinions are presented in order to give varying sides of questions of general Interest, although such opinions may be contradictory among themselves and directly opposite to opinions entertained by The Post and The Times. went on as before.

was this conviction, even more than the There, has been a shortage of fish in the New York market since the hurricane destroyed so many fishing boats and drowned so many fishermen. The need is being sup plied from inland markets, and the situation is clearing up. But for two weeks there was THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1938 a scarcity of certain popular kinds of fish. letti, New York Supreme Court justice and intimate friend of Governor Lehman. The last time he ran for Gov-ernor, Lehman wanted Poletti to be his running-mate for lieuten In the heart of old Hell's Kitchen, in the forties, I saw a pulley washline the other OA1LY B.IBLE THOUGHT Heal me, Lord, and I shall be healed; savejne, and I shall be saved: for thou art my praise.

Jeremiah 17:14. noon, with a set of doll clothes swinging in the breeze. It was stretched from the third 7,. to; ant governor, but Jim Farlev TEN YEARS AGO TODAY THE STARS SAY By GENEVIEVE KEMBLE YOUR DAILY HEALTH By DR. MORRIS F1SHBE1N Editor Journal ot the American Medical Association and of Hygea the Health Magazine From Post Files October 13, 1928 story of one tenement to the opposite tenement wall.

Smoke from a paving operation in the street was not helping the wet doll clothes much. 1 Down below, holding her nude and battered doll in her lap, sat a round-faced little girl of about four. She was looking up at her wash, apparently trying to figure out when the sun might get a chance at it. She sat on the ground, which was none too clean, I assure you. I walked by softly, and she didn't hear me.

But I heard her say something to Dolly about clean do's so's you won't disgrace me b'fore the neighbors." The menace of, the accident is constantly witn us. une or me readers of this column has just written me telling about a trip that he took this summer and the troubles that he had. For Thursday, October 13 Much progress and satisfaction are read from this day's sidereal operation, with much activity and keen interest in both old and new projects. There may be very lucrative 'new contracts or agreements, in which initiative, acumen or shrewdness will gain objectives, especially with "big business" associates. Those whose birthday it is may find themselves in a year of whirling activity.

Old as well as new matters are under high impetus and should bring to bear much talent, sagacity and shrewdness in handling perplexing situations leading toward desired objectives. A child born on this day may be highly intellectual, alert, keen and of impressive personality, which will attract the co-operation of elders and those in high standing. widespread feeling of sympathy for Czechoslovakia which made so many Americans heartsick over the things that had been happening overseas. But the defense of democracy is a good deal like charity; that is, it begins at home. And what happened recently in New Jersey is a fine illustration of the fact In Hudson County the German-American Volksbund to hold a rally.

It was to be addressed by Fritz Kuhn, the "fuehrer" of this home-grown Nazi outfit. But when the meeting started, a mob descended on the threw stones and vegetables, broke a number of windows as well as heads, and caused a speedy and disorderly adjournment. Socialist Norman Thomas has as little love for Fascism as any man in America, perhaps, but he remarked that. this mobbing of the Volksbund "is doing more to promote Fascism in American than Fritz Kuhn ever can do." And all who are eager to preserve our democracy must realize that Thomas is dead right. When you try to defeat Nazism or Fascism meaning one and the same thing by brutal-Jty, you simply are playing the other fellow's game.

You are meeting him on his own ground, and by so doing you are confessing that in your heart you really don't believe in your own vaunted principles. The essence of this Fascist-Nazi theory is the proposition that brute force may be used to shut off unwelcome ideas. That is what is done in both Germany and Italy. No citizen there can have his say in public, and if he has it in private, he is visited by the secret police before he finishes his pronouncement. The very essence of democracy is that any man may 'voice any idea that seems good to him, without hindrance or let, because the good-sense of a free people in the long run will be protection against disaster.

There are a great many things we can do to save democracy, but there is one thing we can't afford to do we can't fight for it with Fascist weapons. We must use democratic weapons. And if we ever take the notion that we can use Fascist means to fight for democracy, democracy will be the first casualty, for it is abandoned when that notion is seized. If the defenders of democracy ever accept the principle that it can be preserved only through resort to fists, clubs, rocks and guns, they simply lose the battle before they start. First he was exposed to poison ivy.

No one in the group had the slightest idea of what to do about the matter when the inflammation followed contact with the ivy plant. The pet dog, which accompanied his wife, got into a NO PARADE Sometime the guy who gave the order to cancel that circus' parade yesterday will remember a crying kid along "the curb, and he'll wonder if the money he saved was worth it. Sometime the guy who gave that- order may have a friend let him down, and perhaps he'll remember that he used to have a lot of folks cooperating with him in West Palm Beach until he let them down. Sometime the guy who gave that order may find himself broke and perhaps he'll remember that there were a lot of kids whose fathers were broke and on and the only part of the circus they could have, seen would have been the parade. Sometime the guy who gave that order will be jolted by a broken promise and perhaps he'll remember the promise he broke to a couple of thousand kids.

Sometime the guy who gave that order will remember- that he could have postponed or cancelled the afternoon performance and still held the parade, and maybe he'll wonder if the money he saved was worth slapping a bunch of kids in the face. A circus parade is only an incident in a long lifetime, of course. But wouldn't you hate to have THAT guy's long lifetime? light with a wandering mongrel. In trying to separate the dogs, the hands of my correspondent were torn so that blood was drawn. His wife sprained her ankle in step planted his large foot on the idea.

This time, however, Jim was anxious to give Lehman anything he wanted, from Al Smith's Empire State Building to the Statue of Liberty. So Charley Poletti took Lehman over to see his new baby and while there persuaded the Governor to run once again, this time with Poletti on the ticket for lieutenant governor. The baby did the trick. Wheat and Cotton Wheat and cotton farmers might as well make up their minds to the "fact that all the bellowing of "Cotton Ed" Smith will not make the administration boost the loan levels on these two surplus commodities. The South Carolina Senator is in bad with the administration, but that is not the reason they will refuse his' plea.

Reason is that New Dealers, particularly Henry Wallace, believe higher loans on cotton and wheat would ruin the export market and work harm for the farmer in the long run. Export movement is already too slow, with world surpluses in both wheat and cotton. If the loans were increased, the domestic price would soar above the world price, and important countries would turn from the high U. S. market to low-price markets.

The only preventive for this is export subsidy where the government keeps the domestic price high but sells for export at a loss and meets the loss from the public till. This is already being done in wheat, but the subsidy payments are moderate. If the wheat loan were advanced from 60 to 86 cents as proposed, the government would pay a subsidy of about 35 cents for every bushel exported. This is out of the question, not only because the cost would be fantastic, Florida East Coast Hotels Company announces the Royal Poin-ciana Hotel, gathering place for the Four Hundred in early Palm Beach days, will not be reopened this season because of damage by the hurricane. 'Mayor Barclay H.

Warburton of Palm, Beach announces Ocean Boulevard, reduced to fragmentary stretches by the wind and waves of the hurricane, will not be rebuilt this season. Dr. W. E. VanLandingham has returned from Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, where he went several weeks ago, 'relinquishing his office as city health officer, for 30 days.

Frank J. Kelly, who with Mrs. Kelly has spent the past two months touring Europe, has returned and is at the Brazilian Court, while Mrs. Kelly will remain in Tom's River, N. until later in the season.

Employes of the Southern Bell Telephone Company enjoy a dance in the assembly room of the telephone building, with the affair arranged by a committee composed of Mrs. Alice Evans, Miss Sylvia Saulnier and Miss Eleanor Zeller. ping, over a log. Innumerable accidents of similar character can happen to anyone. These come to mind: The celluloid comb on which a There's a good-sized group of New Yorkers, chiefly connected with stage, screen, radio and books, that goes to Martha's Vineyard, off the coast of Rhode Island' and Massachusetts, for summer recreation.

Most, of these people like to fish. They have become well acquainted with the fishermen of the Vineyard. During the hurricane, most of these fishermen lost their boats, lobster pots, equipment and homes, Some moving spirits among the, summer visitors, who had only lately returned to New York, went up, as soon as roads were open, to see how their fisher friends had fared. At once, they determined to hold a benefit performance in New York. There would be plenty of talent.

Katharine Cornell and Jimmy Cagney would be able to think up something. Jim Thurber, wit and satirical artist, would produce a bit of this and that to sell at the show. Margaret Halsey, in the flush of the success of her funny book, "With Malice Toward Some," would certainly come across with amusing lines. Tom Stix, radio man, went about organizing. child was playing a tune broke into flames and set fire to the child's clothing.

A bridge player Five Tampans Seek To Prevent Retrial TALLAHASSEE, Oct. 12. UP) Five Tampans asked the Supreme Court today for an order preventing a retrial of election fraud charges against them. who had bid and made a grand slam got so excited that he leaped suddenly from his chair and dis located his shoulder. A workman knocked on the door of the boss1 office at the precise moment that a man on the other side drove a Their attorney, Pat Whitaker of Tampa, obtained a writ requiring Criminal Court Judge John R.

nail through the panel into the knocker's fingers. A child choked on an all-day sucker when she fell Himes to show cause by Oct. 19 why he should not be prohibited while running with it in her from proceeding with a new trial which he had set tor Nov. mouth. A man ran his motor car into the side of a viaduct, and the car with its occupants dropped 22 feet to the railroad tracks be The men, Al Rato, D.

Alfonso Coniglio, Luis Pitischi, Arsenio Corral and Mario Pullara, were charged last July 13 with fraud in Small Business Men Will Meet Tonight A meeting of operators of small businesses here will be held at the Hotel George Washington at 8 o'clock tonight. It will be one of a series in the proposed organization of. a small business men's club. low. The train, which came promptly demolished the car.

but because it would be done vir. the May democratic primaries. It would seem almost impossible to prevent every accident yet the tually over the dead body of Cor-dell Hull, who is opposed to all sorts of artificial trade measures. On His Majesty's Service Whilfl thpir rnllpncriipc in lTnrAru trail of events leading to most serious accidents indicates that somewhere along the line there Large Group Entertained By Three Local Men lay some carelessness. were getting out the gas masks MERGER IS TOPIC NEW.

YORK, Oct. 12. WI I. B. Tigrett, president of Gulf, Mobile The fisher folk heard about it, and respectfully sought a hearing.

They earnestly requested that there be no "We can't take money from strangers," they said. "We and our ancestors since before there was any-United States have caught fish for a living. We've had some little setbacks before now. We need boats and gear. If our friends want to lend a hand right now, well be grateful.

But please don't ask strangers for money. Others need it much worse than we So an organization of Friends of Martha's Vineyard is getting under way among those literary and acting folk. They say they will find a way to help without offending the sturdy pride and independence of these honest fishermen. PENSION PLAN "UNSOUND" Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau joins President Roosevelt in deciding that the $30-every-Thursday pension plan advanced in California for persons 50 years old and out of a job, is unsound. He doubts the constitutionality of the proposed program as well, indicating that if the plan is attempted, the United States will bring suit to have the highest court pass on its constitutionality.

Section 10 of-the U. S. Constitution, reads: "No State shall enter into any treaty, alliance) or confederation; grant letters of marque or reprisal; coin money; emit bills of credit; make anything but gold and silver coin legal tender in payment of debts; "Coin," in its verbal sense, has no more to lo with meta'l than it has with anything else. I- this sense it means to make, so that seemingly, no State can make money. Then no State can make anything but gold and silver, coin legal tender in payment of debts.

The Federal government can, but not a State, or so it would seem. Many municipalities throughout the nation at different vtirhes have resorted to the use of scrip in payment of local obligations, redeeming such issues with lawful money later on. But tenders of scrip merely were measures satisfactory to those locally accepting it. Whether a State can legislate so that acceptance of scrip could be forced on State employes as part pay may be something else. It will, at least, be interesting to watch development of the California scheme and then to know the Supreme Court's determination.

Prevention is worth while from every possible point of view. However, we must not only prevent accidents. The intelligent person knows what to do when an acci Northern Railroad, said today Police Chief R. W. Milburn was host to 126 members of School Boy Patrols, of this city, Lake Worth, Boynton and Delray Beach; Hugh Dillman, of Palm directors of the road at a meeting Wednesday would consider merger dent occurs.

Beach, was host to a score of chil of the carrier with Mobile Ohio Railroad. The merger has hcen under discussion for some time. dren from the Children's Home Just a little knowledge of first aid may npake all the difference between permanent disability and and Sheriff W. H. Lawrence was host to a score of inmates of the even between life and death.

last weeK, the statf of the British embassy in Washington was en-gaged in presenting a testimonial to one who had been on his ma-pesty's service for half a century. He was Harry Brown, the embassy's faithful negro lackey. Replying to Sir Ronald Lind-sey's speech of presentation, Harry established a new high for diplomatic fealty with the following: "And I want your excellency to know that I stands ready to always serve you. I would go over the top for you underneath!" Navy Plot There is serious trouble brew County Farm at the circus Wed' How many people are regularly The estimated value of hogs produced in North Carolina increased from $9,145,000 in 1932 to in 1937. nesday afternoon.

All of the trimmings were provided for the injurd as the result of tremen guests. dous trifles? Almbst every one of us. has seen' the account of a person who stuck his finger with a pin, needle, or a thorn, or cut it SIDE GLANCES By George Clark ENGLISH LIARS' CLUB Here in the United States we have had a National Liars' Club for a good many years. President Theodore Roosevelt established his Ananias Club thirty years or more ago, and since that time we have been doing mighty well by it. Now news comes from England that a village's -hunt for the biggest liar Is out of bounds and is an affair in which the whole nation is participating.

The biggest liar is being sought for everywhere just as a matter of recreation something like our play at finding the biggest liar. Kibitzing is a distressing habit, but -as long as the game's growing by leaps and bounds already, it might npt offend if another nation sat in just this once, just for a hand or two-kibitzing and lying being used synonymously. Therefore, the English might look in their own empire for a tentative list of canidates who, were they here in America, would be ready to give such assurances as: No, the women never again will return, to the waist that is' all pinched-in. Modern Warfare? Why it's just' a matter of one quick blow. Then it's all over.

Why, when a hurricane doesn't hit Florida and comes on up the coast, it always curves away out to the east. Hitler? Why, that guy's just a big bluff, a big bag of wind; and if he thinks he can bluff the democracies, he's crazy. Yes, son they used to have torchlight processions years ago. But we had politics then, and the day of the torchlight parade is past. Sure it'll work what's the use of having a government to take care of you if you got to work yourself? ing between Navy brass-hats and union shipyard workers.

In irate charges to the White House, the Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers has accused the Navy Department of playing "ball with the National Council of American Shipbuilders in an undercover scheme to break the union. The President has Deen warnca mat unless ne maKes his naval pets behave, a strike may develop which would seriously impede naval construction in TAX TRANSFORMATION When Congress meets in January, one of the subjects to be considered will be our Federal taxes. Two. questions will be involved. One is how to improve and simplify our present complex system.

The other, which may be even more urgent, will be how to increase the total Federal revenue. Growth of the Federal debt will require more taxation to service it, while governmental functions continue to increase in number and scope. It -is interesting to note that in the last quarter of a shift from customs the major shipyards. The basis of the accusation is I have never visited the but I shall consider it an honor if the Friends will admit me to membership in their little organization. This country should be proud of those fisher folk.

It needs them. (Copyright, 1938, McNaught Syndicate) and her navy to. that of a fifth-rate power; all the same in the end, if she feels that she has been unjustly treated in the peace of 1919, she will find means of exacting retribution from her conquerors Injustice and arrogance displayed in the hour of triumph will never be forgotten or forgiven. "Fo rthese reasons I am, therefore, strongly averse to transferring more Germans from German rule to the rule of some other nation than can possibly be helped. I cannot conceive of any greater cause of future war than that the German people, who have certainly proved themselves one of the most vigorous and powerful races in the world, should be surrounded by a number of small states, many of them consisting of people who have never previously set up a stable government for themselves, but each of them containing large masses of Germans clamouring for reunion with their native land." This did not apply to Czechoslovakia, since none of its territory ever belonged to Germany.

But it applies now. And under the spur of desperation, whipped td feverish fury by fanatical patriotism, Germany has exacted "retribution from her conquerors." Unfortunately, the penalty is to be paid by a brave and industrious people in the Danube Valley, not by the statesmen of that other quartet who in 1919 had so little foresight and tolerance'. Three of them are and Lbyd George, the fourth, is saying little. the Navy's repeated postponement of letting bids on the new battleships authorized by the last with a piece of paper. A little later serious infection set in and death followed.

There, are certain things that ought to be done in every such accident: Never use strong carbolic acid, bichloride of mercury, or any antiseptic that is too strong, because the damage done by the antiseptic may be worse than the injury itself. Don't attempt to suck out the poison by using the mouth for that purpose. The mouth may nut in more germs than it takes out. It is much better to wipe off the blood with a piece of sterilized bandage, and wash the injured part clean with soap and water. Apply either ordinary tincture of idonie, mercurochrome, meta-phen, or some of the other antiseptics that have been approved, and cover the area with some of the prepared sterilized bandages that are now available in drug store for first aid use.

The slightest -signs of increased redness around the injury, and particularly lines of redness radiating away, indicate infection; a doctor should give the wound his attention at once. Every home should have a first aid package containing sterilized bandage and mild antiseptics, adhesive plaster, and prepared bandages. Great Britain has become the leading foreign purchaser of household washing machines made in the United States, imrjortine The union asserts that there is now only one yard in a position to PRESS COMMENT handle this work the Camden, N. plant of the New York Shipbuilding Corporation, All other yards, it says, are so overloaded with orders that it will be several years before they will be cleared. The Camden yard has just de livered one light cruiser and is commetine several omer snips.

levies 10 income utxes, as me uwuing suurce of revenue, and new measures enacted since 1932, have almost completely transformed the Federal tax structure. Customs and liquor taxes back in 1910 yielded 87 per cent of all Federal tax revenue, with- 99 per cent of the total Federal collections coming from four general sources. In that year, customs levies brought fn "54 per cent and liquor taxes 33 per cent of the total tax revenue. The tobacco1 tax furnished 9 per cent of the total, and the income tax, levied as an excise tax on corporations, produced 3 per cent. In 1937, the income tax brought in 44 per FROM THE RECORD Cincinnati Enquirer: Although Mr.

David Lloyd George was one of the mest grasping of the "statesmen" who picked the bones of a defeated Germany in 1919, he was not without a prophetic insight into the blunders which were committed in Versailles. The following quotation from a memorandum of his, dated March 26, 1919, is pertinent just now: "You may strip Germany of her. colonies, reduce her armaments to a mere police force Despite the abundance of naval and merchant marine orders, the union alleges, the corporation has for two years deliberately avoided copiirinir npw hnslnpss. The uninti ascribes this oolicy to two reasons: A 1. To break the union when its (Continued on Next Page "I guess I got a coffee grinder somewhere, but the profit would be so small it wouldn't be worth my time to hunt for it" 3,734 machines in June.

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