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Want Ads S-3131 Tage 4 Want Ads 3-3181 THE KNOXVILLE NEWS-SEXTINEL Monday November 14 1933 Interception Fumble or Touchdown? The Knoxville News-Sentinel Finy-Btxcnil Yr Publication A Scripps-Howard Newspaper GEORGE CARMACK Editor LL CHAMBERS Business Managci CeiteriMl Reema an Butinrsa Office 201 Wait Church Avenue Telephone 3-3131 Knterrd at Kneivflle iortoffica Second Claes iUll Matter Full reports of the United Press Associated Press Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance and A Service Inc Py Mall Dally 1500 Pall IM prr Veer Pally and Sunday Veer light and the people will find iheir own way" MONDAY NOVEMBER 14 1938 Revulsion 1 XTI-SEMITISM was old in this world even when Pharaoh's taskmasters I brat the children of Israel and command-: cd them to produce bricks without straw Like mankind'! other lingering tsar-baric prejudires racial and religious bigotry recognises no boundaries and i varies from country to country only In form and degree We must admit with ihame that flare-ups of anti-Semitism 1 and other Intolerances hare at times blackened our own history The savage hatreds that flamed In Ku Kluxism have never been completely extinguished Knowing the prejudices that smoulder in the breasts of a small minority of our own citizens many who cherish America's ppud tradition of tolerance have feared tliat the pogrom hate of Europe might span the Atlantic We have seen how quickly they were spread into Italy into Czechoslovakia and along the axis But the sheer horror now raging in Grrmany has stirred a revulsion In the mass conscience of America si It has In England and Frsnre and other lands where people still live under the Democratic ideal that makes all men equal before the law This ghastly demonstration of what can happen once passions are unloosed has caused many Americans to count as never before the consequences of giving rein to bigotry A 17-year-old Polish Jew temporarily crazed shoots a Nazi official In Paris In revenge for thBt bey's crime mobs of Nazi hoodlums are loosed in the itree ts of Germany to destroy and pillage the property of Jews Thousands of Jewi are Jailed and sent to concentration camps The psychopathic tyrants of the Reich decree Levying a $400000000 fine against the 500000 German Jews confiscating all insurance due them for destruction of their property and compelling them to repair the damage at their own expense forbidding them to operate stores or factories to hold any important jobs in German corporations or to attend movies concerts museums lectures or dance halls Acts and decrees these which terrorize pauperize and ostracize a whole people for the sole offense of worshipping their God in their own way or having ancestors who did Seeing this Americans are shocked into resolution that the seeds vhlch sowed ttfat tyranny shall not take root in our soil No Answer But 'Yes1 FROM October 1 to midnight Saturday there were 1691 persons arrested on traffic charges by Knoxville police Such an arrest record called for a great deal of work on the part of police Handling these cases properly called for a great deal of work on the part of City Judge Mynatt and clerks at City Court It put many drivers to a great deal of trouble and cost them quite a bit of money in fines Has this enforcement drive been worth all this energy all this trouble all this cost? Well not a single person has been killed on Knoxville streets since September S3 ir no one Is killed before midnight tonight this will be 50 consecutive Days" Last rear at this time 26 persons had been killed So far this year only 17 lives have been lost Personal Injuries and property damage have fallen off almost unbelievably With these facts in mind could there be any answer but to the question of whether or not the traffic drive has been worthwhile? National Safely Council General Johnson His 'ideology' Is To Wipe Such Words From Language Sunshine Moonshine Let's Keep It Up! (AN you imagine a city of more than 100000 population in which only one person was injured by traffic in an entire week and this person only slightly hurt? Well that happened In Knoxville last week From midnight Saturday Nov to midnight Saturday Nov 12 only one person suffered a traffic Injury on Knoxville streets This is a marvelous record One thing is responsible for energetic law enforcement on the part of police Let's keep it up Are These 'Low' Rotes? mHE Louisville Ky Gas Electric Co is a new "voluntary rate reduction" for that city Under these new rates 590 kilowatt hours of electricity under the do incstle scale will cost $1150 inside the city and $1225 outside the city In Knoxville which has TVA power the same amount of electrical energy costs Just about half that $690 Is Knoxville lucky to have TVA? Clapper Says: By RAYMOND CUPPER The LaFolletia May Be Out but They're Not Down With Defeat He Has More Time Organize i I New Party MADISON Wis Nov The La Fol-ettes are out but not down Failure of Gov Phil La Follette to win re-election means only that his wife soon must go house-hunting and that Phil free from State House duties can devote his energies to building his National Progressive Party To many of us the election seemed to head the country back to the two party system and to pronounce the death sentence on third parties From that conclusion the La Follettes firmly dissent a Party Rally A FEW days ago Republicans aided by conservative Democrats swept the state Republicans won all state offices and will control both Houses of the Legislature But there Is no sign of demoralization of the La Follette forces The first thing they and it shows what expert political operators they was to call state-wide rally of La Follette progressives This meetting was held Sunday in the Assembly Chamber of the State House Some 1500 county chairmen and La Follette party workers came from all over the state Many were up at 4 a and drove to Madison to arrive for the afternoon meeting Tt was not a funeral but a party rally more like you see on the eve of victory than on the day after defeat They handled this thing just as Wisconsin University does when it loses a football game Everybody ralliea around and cheers the pep talks for the next game The crowd overflowed the Senate chamber Suddenly from the rear of the chamber a boyish figure called out that the crowd was too large and would everyone go over to the assembly chamber It was Phil mind the wires on the floor in the Phil said referring to the repairs of the electric voting apparatus guarantee you get shocked badly as you did last Brother Bob Optimistic rpHAT set the pitch of the A laughing off the defeat as a mere in-cident in the Progressive movement No handwriting: No blues No letdown No quitting But poise confidence edn-ylction that they were down only for the moment Brother Bob La Follette the senator said it was a good thing that If the Republicans had to win they won every-thing Republicans would have no alibis The La Follette crowd is certain the Republicans will hang themselves Privately the story is ciculated that a leading Republican industrialist commenting on the election of Julius Heil Julius the Just as Republican governor said that the best thing Heil could do for himself now that he w-as elected would be to commit suicide at the peak of his career Mother Phil on Job GOVERNOR PHIL LA FOLLETTE acted as master of ceremonies He introduced all of the candidates on the losing ticket for brief speeches Bob La Follette unlimbcred In a pep talk Bob urged the county chairmen and workers to hold meetings every two weeks to gather in their homes and to keep up interest in everything that happens in Madison and Washington Phil called his wife to the platform She stumped the state for him and is known by everyone Phil just called her up by her family pet name She said that as soon as she did her house hunting and caught up on mending the and the two tots were sitting on one of the steps leading up to the she would be back with them helping the women organize bazaars and other money-raising activities the kind of a family party It was You see ahything like it outside of Wisconsin Morale Runs High NO let down on morale the secret of the La Follettes as the progressive workers left Madison today less than a week after election hardly remembering their defeat and convinced that two years from no yr they will be back in power Primarily two factors are cited in explanation of the defeat which incidentally was not unexpected in Wisconsin although it was a surprise elsewhere First La Follette was elected governor the last two times by a minority vote His total was less than the combined total of the Democrats and Republicans This year the two old parties combined and beat him Second by checking the figures in several counties it appears that the LaFollette vote stayed home Combined Republican and Democratic totals in many counties are almost what they were two years ago La Follette' was way down Low farm prices and a feeling that the New Deal getting anywhere produced a spirit of disillusionment Voters took a attitude" and let the state slide into the lap of the conservatives Now Phil La Follette intends to turn In earnest toward building his National Progressive Party Fair Enough By WESTBROOK PEGLER Explanation of Why Philadelphia Doctors and Hospitals Refused To Aid Woman in Child-Birth Is Indictment Rather Than Vindication "MEW YORK Nov Nobody elates the doctor's service to mankind more than your correspondent but this essay will admit that the defense of the profession in the case of the Philadelphia woman who bore a baby unattended after several doctors had declined to assist sounds more like a plea of guilty than vindication Several professional bleeding hearts broke down and bawled over the tragedy of this rather celebrated mishap not in honest sympathy for the unfortunate woman and the bairn but in propaganda for collective medicine The American Medical Association investigated and now presents its own account of the case with a note of satisfaction which is not justified by the facts Refused by Hospitals THE account morning October 22 at 7 o'clock the patient was delivered of a six or seven-months' still-birth at a rooming house to which she went only about an hour before Her home address is not known and ahe was in labor on arrival at the rooming house had previously been taken to two hospitals by a roomer and had been examined and refused admission because she was not registered in either as a patient One of the roomers called the sergeant at the police station who failed to call the district physician because he said he did not wish to disturb him on Sunday The roomer then tried to reach five different doctors in the neighborhood The first was taking a bath and when he answered the doorbell no one was there He reported that he had not taken care of an obstetrics case in thirty years second doctor a specialist in diseases of the eye was asleep and did not answer the doorbell The third does not practice obstetrics but offered to send an ambulance This offer was refused The sergeant telephoned a hospital and the assistant chief resident offered to call on the woman if the police would send a car On his arrival he found the patient and the dead infant He administered treatment and left instructions to call the hospital if further treatment was necessary patient refused to answer questions made no statement and disappeared one week later It appears that there are ten hospitals within a distance of from three blocks to one and one-half miles from the place in which this delivery occurred" Report Is Incoherent 117ELL now In the first place the au-YV thor of this writ apparently cant event count much less compose a coherent journalistic statement He says the roomer tried to reach five doctors but fades into static after telling of the third offer to an ambulance" The meaning of that offer is not made clear but the patient and the friend who was trying to promote a little human kindness at that hour of a Sunday morning cannot be blamed for regarding it as just another stall She already had been examined at two hospitals and refused admittance because she wee not registered as a patient which seems a coldblooded excuse for turning into the street woman who obviously was an emergency case On the face of this account It la necessary to exonerate the to-celled district physician and pass the buck to the sergeant The next man the one who was taking a bath vindicates himself easily but the stipulation that he taken an obstetrics case In thirty yens lndicatea a false attitude What difference would that make? Kid Internes such tasks and even policemen have been known to meet emergencies of this kind In New York 'A Miserable Affair A DOCTOR is a doctor and a preference for localized practice would not impress laymen as an excuse for refusal of emergency help to a stricken human being The next also not practice obstetrics" fact which may be Ignored as of no value But he was asleep end apparently sleeps very soundly Tne one who offered to send the ambulance take advantage of the opportunity to do himself Justice He explain why in this critical moment he didn't go himself and the layman Is left to suspect that the ambulance service might have found excuses for delay or refusal considering the cold indifference which the woman encountered at the two hospitals People do Impose heartlessly on doctors This woman had an obligation to make inquiries and arrangements montha before While she was having this wretched experience a lot of habitual indigents far and wide in this country were calling out ambulance doctors to treat them for drunkenness wakefulness worry Snd the itch But the Journal of the A A exonerated the profession in this case By the own account it was a miserable incident with strong indications of heartlessness at the two hospitals where a mere paper-work formality excluded a desperate penniless person What People Say: SPOKESMEN for WPA workers la New York on an Informal strike: ask men to use first a shovel and then a pick and work without a break la so PROF GALE NOYES Brown University Providence I advising members of his English class: the secretory not his daughter The government la getting all the money so never give It to his daughter but the secretary has a POSTMAN JOSEPH YANEVICH of Chicago before 8 Commissioner Walker when he was charged with destroying mall: when my feet ached I threw away part of my mall to lighten the load" EMIL LUDWIG speaking to the American Club In Paris: great American men Europe knows are the men whose effigies on $1 bills" Is it too much to ask? It would be a very slight sacrifice at the hands of the speakers There are so many other words But for every Important speaker there are hundreds of listeners Think of the net arithmetical gain Norton LOTS of ways of gathering news but the old grapevine confidential method Is by far the best But we are just going to let you in cm a real secret and take full responsibility for it Here it is After more than half of a lifetime working at this newspaper game we have just found out Honest a secret after more than 30 years! Here it is We can't publish a newspaper to suit everybody Seems strange doesn't It But here is how it Is One fellow doesn't like what we put in the paper another what we leave out And here Is another story We try to Just tell It as it Is One fellow likes it another doesn't True we have neglected our work spent some time in those thirty-odd years fooling around with other things Done a little Kiwanis stuff Wasted some time on Boy Scouts Piddled with football golf or even a bridge game now and then if we could find any one who plays as poorly as we do Slipped off from the office at times even to go fishing or attend a funeral Perhaps to waste time working on a road project or some other community activity neglecting our newspaper work And yes we almost forgot we have wasted some of our columns helping to promote P-T A activity or some more space urging support of other civic organization Or taking a little space to tell of the joys of some of our neighbors and friends or their sorrows when shadows came But to our utter surprise We have just found out after 30 years that no part of all this pleases every one However we thank those who continue to buy the paper and arc doubly thankful to those who now Bnd then are charitable enough to say a kind word -and tell u-that one little item or line was all right -f'oulMld rrosrpM Norton Vi Prm Atkina Editor Very Sporting Mr Mooney ypUNG MOONEY up in City Court Friday afternoon on a charge of speeding displayed the spirit that will save lives on Knoxville streets For some reason the officer who placed the charges against Mr Mooney was not In court I was clocked by the officer doing 40 miles an hour" Mr Mooney said Upon this statement Acting Judge John Mynatt fined Mr Mooney $10 In reality Mr Mooney was both prosecutor and defendant testifying against himself It was a fine example of good sportsmanship It also shows that Knoxville Is growing safety conscious and that the public is enthuslastieally behind the Folire Department's campaign to save lives By MILLER Deflation slogan for after Vanderbilt: Why you'll be lucky To beat Kentucky 00 HEADIEST FLAYER Oddest news item in Sunday's football reports: Hogan two headed General The N-S 0 0 0 Height of something or other: Florida has a tackle named Llghtbrown but he's a white man Lifted from CBS dinner-table isn't a matter of saving the world for democracy but rather of saving this democracy (the United States) from the Delegates to the Pan-American conference in Peru should not spill the beans while they're in Lima a What the wants in the way fif preparedness is more seats on the 50-yard line for the Army and Navy pa me Straw from the straw polls of the recent election may be gathered up and used in making hats to pay election bets The re-enactment of Steve Bro jump from Brooklyn Bridge at the New York World's Fair sounds rather flat It was hoped Grover Whalen could pet somebody to jump over it The elections should serve to emphasize the obligation of the Democrats to the Republican party Business can get too good The biggest boom in shipping recently injured German ship near Oakland Cal That simulated news broadcast proved stimulating as welL What the country is waiting for now is to find that the re- warlike broadcasts' from Europe were simply old works of a British novelist A Puzzling Question do people exercise caution with fire in their own homes snd immediately throw that same caution out of the window when they go into the woods?" American Forests asks this question in its November issue and then confesses that it cannot answer it But it announces that the Forest Service has employed Dr George Shea noted psychologist to find out why people ordinarily so careful with fire are so careless with it in the woods His report should prove Interesting In the meantime let's be careful wlien we go into the woods or ride along a highway where a carelessly thrown clgaret may start a destructive fire By HUGH 8 JOHNSON NEW YORK CITY Nov Something ought vigorously to be done by the public hangman about word I know much about words but somehow there got into our language two varieties Anglo-Saxon and the other more or less Latin For example you can say spit or if you are more high- brow you can say pectoratlon You can say sweat or you can say perspiration YOU can say stink oh what's the use? This conversation could get very vulgar I know all the proper criticisms against our heritage of the short vigorous Germanic words But the St James version of the Bible and of the prayer book happens to be about 90 per cent full of them The tense vigorous prose and poetry of Mr Kipling is composed of them almost exclusively Our language of the law as larded with the other kind But our language of the streets is almost exclusively Anglo-Saxon and not Latin If you want to call a man a son-of-a-gun you go back to your real mother-tongue I could start here and prove it to you but the column would probably not get by the censor Our native language is vigorous but not sweet Plan Is Simpler 170R example take the word to describe the despotic states We need and I think we want a word like that It is enough to substitute for the word the word or nr It sufficiently describes a dictatorship to say a boss" You have to call Mr Hitler or Mr Mussolini a totalitarian Isn't it enough to rail him the big shot or the boss? Wouldn't we know precisely what that meant? Another Washington word that ought to go through our wringer is definitely" It means that any particular situation ia beyond discussion That Harry Hopkins for example has become the real white-haired boy in the white colonial cottage with green shutters on Pennsylvania Avenue that Tommy Corcoran is just the court jester and not out of touch with supreme or any other guess When you say "but that sort of fixes it means the real McCoy and not a rumor Let'i 'Rub Out' THESE words "ideology" and need something done to them in the interest of humanity Of themselves I dare say they are innocent enough but as part of the Washington patter they ought to be eliminated or sent to the dry-cleaner I have served in the capital city before during and after the war It was always an echoing gallery not only of gossip scandal silly stuff but worse But never has it held a candle to the dangerous kind of small talk that goes on today I suppose the words I have been discussing are perfectly good English rhetorically and grammatically But if they could be edited out of the capital language and were never to be heard again I think the air would flow a little more easily and I am sure that more people would be pleased defi i 9 I 'V r1- I "'v 1i a-- I ir -r rl I 1 Senator Bailey Speaks on Freight Rates SENATOR JOSIAH BAILEY of North Carolina in a letter to The News-Sen-tircl clearly shows why Congressmen from the South and the Southwest are going to have to make a determined drive at the next srM-inn of Congress to get the freight rate differential taken off the back of the South Says tie North Carolina Senator: the South needs is an equal rhanre with other sections We desire no advantages We have gotten along very well notwithstanding many dlsrrimlnatlons Give us a fair chance and we will lead the nation 1 would not be willing to substitute Congressional action for action by the Interstate Commerce Commission on the freight rate problrm But the Interstate Commerce Commission has repeatedly found there was a gross difference between freight rates in the Northern territory and the Southern and has done little or nothing about it 'Tor more than 20 yrars the Slate of North Carolina has undertaken to Intercede with the Interstate Commerce Commission and without any degree of success For this reason I am in favor of direct action by Congress" SIDE GLANCES By George Clark A Woman's Viewpoint By MRS WALTER FERGCSOX GOSH I'm tired! just put down Marie Bcynon new treatise on energy to bum which is called Lifetimes in One" a bomb of a book bursting with a hundred different kinds of vitality as it holds the human dynamos up to attention Besides lauding them with superlatives it sneers at the notion that the rest of us need give way to the fatigue which assails the ordinary worker at the end of a 12-hour day We could all be human dynamos the author contends if we only followed the rules Maybe so but I felt like going to bed for a couple of months after I found out what the results of this loosing of Niagaras of energy would he For example one of Mrs Ray's heroes is Mr Joseph Day who in her own words the greatest real estate man who ever lived His nearest competitor is still a billion sales dollars behind his record a period of 40 years Joseph Day has sold more property to more people for more money by many millions than any other man in the whole i world This is due to his unparalleled I energy never wears an overcoat nor car-1 ies an umbrella lie says they slow him 1 (Inivii 11c can run down the middle of Broadway dodging traffic fastrr than a taxi can drive him He never sits when he can stand never stands if he can walk and never walks if he can Now I hate to be contrary but it's my candid opinion thnt a man of this i to he put in a strait-jacket In the first place no sense In burning up so much energy persuading one person to buy another person's real estate Any slow-moving Johnny Apple-: sw-d is a more valuable member of society and certainly a little part of our lifetime ought to be given over to more IciEUiely peaerful pursuits I Since unemployment is everywhere and sales miMance practically nil the need for periodic spells of weariness seems obv lour i Anywy I the sensation of tlred-I new The rhythm nf life is made up of vaes of energy amt fatigue mawrnf "'rr aU' iVs a thing so many of us are tazy Xne human dynamos whom we pfc You're Right Mr Emcrt pLYDE EMERT editor of The Mary- ville Times had to say in a recent issue of his paper: as if Maryville should get in on TVA power and lowrr rates Judging from reports Knoxville folk have found a gold mine In reduced light and power Mr Emert is light And what he has to say about Maryville is just as true about other East Tennessee towns Many towns In East Tennessee are sleeping on the possibilities of TVA power They are falling behind in the rare for progress and prosperity when they doj mire and whose vitality is responsible for great accomplishments show up vividly by contrast with their fellows who are plagued by inertia If we all developed into Joseph Days the world would presently be a bedlam and our energy would probably blow us into Kingdom Come And besides what would become of all the taxi drivers? saying what you like or dislike Henry That' what paying the decorator to "-'Vj- k' 9 HSU.