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The Coolidge examiner., 1938-12-22
JOBS WANTED

MAYOR-Secretary of the In
terror Harold L. Ickes, may re-
tire from office to run for Demo-
cratic nomination as Chicago's
mayor.
PRESIDENT John Nance
Garner, vice president Of the u.
S., is being doomed for the presi-
dency by his boyhood friends at
Detroit, Texas. One claim to
fame: the mud-chinked log cabin
where Garner was born.
SECRETARY-Anthony Eden,
who retired as British foreign
secretary in opposition to Prime
Minister Neville Chamberlain,
may return to the cabinet next
month as dominions secretary.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Rep.
Joseph Martin will be elected
house Republican leader on the
first ballot next month, since 100
of the 169 G. o. P. partisans have
assured him their support.
The Coolidge examiner., 1938-12-22

he must either turn about-face (if it
is not too late) or resign to be fol-
lowed by Lord Baldwin or Mr..
Eden:
Memel. Detached from German
East Prussia by the Versailles trea-
ty, later ceded to Lithuania, this
943-square-mile territory on the Bal
tic is being absorbed back into the
Reich without consultation with-or
protest from-the four guarantors of
the Memel statute Britain, France,
Italy and Japan. Using ''Sudeten"
methods, Germany first provoked
Memelites to cry for autonomy. Fol-
lowing victorious plebiscite came
the cry for "anschluss" (union) with
the Reich. Although Hitler an
nounced after the Munich treaty
that he had no more European ter
ritorial claims, no one doubts his
agents are behind the Memel coup.
Ukraine. While world attention
has been focused on the Franco-Ital-
ian crisis (see beIOtU) Hitler has
quietly but effectively begun agita-
ton for his projected Ukraine re-
public, to be carved out of Poland
and Russia. A Nazi-inspired auton-
omy move in the Polish Ukraine,
the first step, is being correlated
with activity of German agents in
the Russian Ukraine. The latter
step is especially well timed, since
meager reports out Of Moscow in
dicate the Soviet republic is weak
ened by internal strife. Not con-
tent to stop there, Hitler has opened
negotiations with Persia and At
ghanistan for German exploitation
Of oil and wheat lands. In the Bal
kans, Jugoslavia has practically re-
nounced the little entente to follow
pro-Nazi Premier Milan Stoyadino-
vich.
France. No observer believes the
recent French-German treaty is
worth anything, because the Reich
has actually increased anti-French
activity since it was signed. France
has alliances with Poland and Rus
sia, both Of which have been ig-
nored in Germany's Ukrainian
drive. France dominates the little
entente, which Hitler has defeated
in JugoSlavia and is undermining in
other Balkan countries. And-most
important-France resents Germa-
ny's support of Italian demands for
Tunisia, Corsica, Nice and Savoy.
Current opinion holds that France
will surprise Germany and Italy
with a strong and unexpected re-
sistance to these territorial de-
mands. In the end, however, Italy
may get partial control over the
Suez canal and a share in French
Somaliland, offering an outlet to the
sea from Ethiopia.
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Should Glue Thought to
General National Policy

Because Of this prospect and the
existence of several other things like
it, there ought to be some thought
given to the question of general
national policy. In other words, I
am of the opinion that the congress
and the several state legislatures
ought to keep their feet on the
ground instead of jumping off the
deep end when there is no boat in
which to ride. see no profit in cut
ting off my nose just to spite my
face. There is just as little sense to
that as selling out to the vested
interests"
There is something to the argu-
ment in favor of regulation OF great
chains of stores. 1t can be truth
fully said that they exert lot Of
pressure on the independent. They
deny this, of course, and answer
that there is no pressure. Their
statement may be true insofar as it
may mean that the chain store has
made no calculated plan to drive
the independent out of existence.
Yet, their very bigness is, of itself,
a pressure because they can buy in
larger quantities and obtain lower
cost prices than the individuals who
buys a few cases of canned goods at
a time. When they buy at lower
prices, they can sell at lower prices
and the independent finds himself
hard put to meet the competition.
That sort of thing happens in ev-
cry community where chain stores
are in operation. 1t will continue
to happen, because there is not a
man nor a woman who will say
honestly that he or she will pay
higher price simply because the
store at home is owned by somebody
who is a local citizen. l am old
fashioned about it. will go to
chain store many, many times, be-
cause I save money. 1t is my mon
ey that I am spending and l am
going to get the most for it that l
can. The fellow who owns local
store is in business to make a profit
and l am willing that he shall have
a profit, provided he can give me
the same value for what spend as
does some other store. If the inde-
pendent runs his store in a slip
Shod way, fails to manage his af-
fairs efficiently and thus has to have
higher prices, see no reason why
should be the goat. To me, the
situation is exactly the same as if
both competing stores were home
owned and one of them gave better
values.
The Coolidge examiner., 1938-12-22
Bruckarts Washington Digest
Legislation Against Chain
Stores Will Come Up Again
Danger to Independent Store Operator Will Be Theme
of Discussion; Question of General National Policy
Needs Thought; Sane Regulation Is Possible.
By WILLIAM BRUCKART
WNU Service, National Press Bldg. Washington D. c.

WASHINGTON. - The politician
who is demagogue-the fellow
who has nothing on the ball and gets
into politics on his gift for gab-al-
ways must have a bogie man, a
hobgoblin. There must always be
an immediate threat, like the sword
of Damocles, hanging over the
heads of the dear pee-pul. If the
political demagogue doesn't have
that sort of thing, he is utterly lost,
because usually he can not talk
about fundamental issues.
The favorite bogie man of fellows
like former Sen. Tom Hef1in was
Wall Street" Day after day, ole
Tom would drag Wall Street onto
the floor of the senate and shake the
gizzard out of it. There were others
like Tom and there were other hob
COLLINS. The chain stores, for a
number of years, were the meat and
drink of the demagogue and many
an otherwise punk got elected to Of
flee because he could talk for 10
hours about the evils of the chain
stores. We always have had our
trust busters, the baiters of corpora
tions. One bogie dies and another
takes its place and the thing goes
on until presently one of the old and
and almost forgotten bogie boys is
brought to life again.
AS pre-session plans take shape,
it appears that the country is going
to be told again about the evils of
the chain stores. There is going
to be an attempt to legislate them
out of existence. Many a shout will
ring out on the floors of the senate
and house about the danger to the
independent store operator, the man
at home. The bill, whatever form
it takes or whatever it proposes to
do, will serve as a vehicle for a
shouting mob of representatives and
senators. AS usual, they will offer
no new argument, but they will send
copies Of their speeches back home
and make a great howdy-do over
themselves.
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All Factors in Situation
Need Careful Consideration

suppose that some of the things;
I have said in this analysis of ma
tional problem will make me as pop
ular as skunk with some local
merchants. l believe, however, that
there are two sides to the argument
and that there must be moderation
in dealing with the hobgoblins that
are built up for selfish reasons,
either political selfshness or for
monetary gain.
Hence, 1 argue that the country
and its legislative bodies must look
at all factors involved in the Situa-
ton. Hysteria and demagoguery go
hand in hand, with the demagogue
leading and capitalizing on the cir
cumstances he has created. If it
can be shown where the brush sales
man or the salesman for the floor
sweeper or the home remedy sales
men are welding bad influence
upon the life of the nation, prohibit
them as is done many places with
the saloon. If it can be shown that
the vast majority Of the people get
no benefits from chain stores and
that the chain stores damage the ma
tional life, get rid of them or regu-
late them closely. My thought con-
tinues to be. however, that there
must be moderation in legislation.
G WeXt.rn Newspaper Union.
The Coolidge examiner., 1938-12-22

AS the u. S. becomes a nation Of
older men and women (caused by
declining birth rate) federal-state
support of the INDECENT aged is no
longer a political football but has
emerged as an acute problem recog-
nized by Democrats and Republi-
cans alike. The present social Sc
curity setup was a New Deal in
spiration, but 1875 recession
proved even this revolutionary step
was insufficient. This month al
most every congressman converging
on Washington carries a new plan
in his portfolio, foreshadowing the
most heated battle to confront the
seventy-sixth congress.
Many Republicans would like to
forget that 40 of their 81 new men,
berS were elected this year on prom
ises to support the Townsend meas
ure or bring the pension issue to
a vote. But one who refuses to for
get, and who will undoubtedly fire
the opening gun in next months pen
sion argument, is Massachusetts
Rep. Allen T. Treadway. Ranking
minority member of the house ways
and means committee, he will en-
barrass his political partisans by Of
fering a resolution for hearings on
Townsendism.
When pension arguments are sift-
ed down, Washington observers ex-
pect Townsendism to drop from the
picture, to be followed by a clear
cut Democrat-vs-Republican debate
on how social security shall be
amended. In this argument the
most surprising feature may be Re-
publican support Of S30-a-month
federal old age contribution, featur-
ing a 60-year age limit as against
the present limit of IS years. II
states could equal the $50 federal
contribution, pensioners would then
receive $50 month.
Where the federal government
could raise $50 month, or where
states could raise even less, is a
moot problem. There are currently
1856, 700 persons on pension rolls,
costing the U. S. about S238, 500, 900
for the fiscal year. States pay
$3.50, l29, 900. This gives each of the
1856. 700 INDECENT an average of
SIG. If all eligible persons were
added to the rolls, the number
would swell to more than 5000, 900.
Since the u. S. is already using
social security payroll taxes as
fast as they come in. and since most
states are unable to raise their SIS
monthly share for each pension, any
plans to increase payments must be
preceded by plans for financing the
system.
While Republicans are attempting
to iron out their pension program,
the administration prepares to offer
congress sweeping plan for revis-
ing the present old age insurance
system. Probable recommends
tions:
Cd Monthly payments to widows
and dependent children of workers
covered by social security, plus $500
The Coolidge examiner., 1938-12-22
ASIA

The possibility Of a major Far
Eastern crisis involving Japan, Chi
ma and Russia becomes more immi.
nent each week. Far from denying
it, japan has taken new bitches in
her economic belt and settled down
for a struggle which may begin
shortly after January l. Having
made supplementary army-navy ap-
preparations of 81 ,634 400, 900, Japan
faces a probable Chinese ALI.
ance forcing her to desperate meas
ures to protect what gains she has
already made in Manchuria and
China.
Having penetrated deep into the
vast Shansi province, Jap troops are
confronted with guerrilla attacks
which in 10 days cost 5000 lives.
Generalissimo Chang Kai-shek, who
is already getting supplies from
Russia, promises the guerrilla war
fare will continue. That japanese
are at a disadvantage fighting SO
far from their base of operations is
evidenced by Chinese recapture Of
several key towns near Canton.
Two clashes with Russia form the
basis for a new war scare. The
first concerns Japanese fishing con.
cessions in Russian waters. Though
Russia refuses to renew the con.
cesSions, which lapse January l.,
Tokyo threatens to continue fishing
even though an armed patrol is
needed. The second dispute cen.
terS on Sakhalin island, where the
Japs charge Russia is seeking tc
expel Nipponese oil workers. For
her part, Moscow is demanding Jap
anese payment for the Russian in
terest in the Chinese eastern rail.
road, seized when Japan took Man.
churia.
Meanwhile Japan has substantial.
ed the belief held by observers for
many months, that China's "open
door"-guaranteed by the nine-pow-
er treaty-is about to be closed.
Seeking to liberate Japan and China
from dependency on foreign mar.
ketS, finance and raw materials,
Tokyo has virtually dictated what
Great Britain and the U. S. can
henceforth expect in the way OF
trading privileges. Struggling its
shoulders over still another treaty
broken in 1888. the U. S. state de.
partment has called home Nelson
T. Johnson, ambassador to China,
to see what can be done about it.
Since Ambassador Joseph P. Ken.
nedy has also been called home
from London, it is thought the U. S.
may solicit British support for uni
fed protest against Japan's econom.
ic activity in China. Probable re-
suit: nothing.
The Coolidge examiner., 1938-12-22
Problem of Separating
Crooks From Honest People

Now, there may be sound reasons;
for city council to bar anybody
from selling direct. At the moment,
l do not know Of any. Yet, accord
ing to the reports received by the
federal trade commission, there was
a small town out in Wyoming which
actually convicted some boys from
the neighboring farms and SEN
fenced them to jail because they vio-
lated the city law, by selling direct
to the householders in the town.
That town ought to have a very red
face, it seems to me.
I said that there were certain
types of canvassers. ought to be
barred. I refer to the racketeers
who scour the country in crews,
selling this or that or the other;
who are here today and gone tomor-
row, and who many times leave a
wake of dishonest dealings, insults
and sometimes plain thievery. OF
course, there ought to be punish
ment Of that type. But why punish
the honest ones by placing them in
the same category as the crooks.
The problem becomes one of sepa-
rating the crooks from the legiti-
mate people, but your demagogue
will not do that, whether that dema-
gogue be member of congress, a
member of the state legislature or a
member of the city council. He
would not be able to bleat so long
if he attempted to analyze the real
situation.
This Green River ordinance"
hysteria is being promoted by some
outfit which, it appears from the
federal trade commission informa-
tion, goes from town to town and
operates campaigns for passage Of
such a law. Those fellows make
money out of their campaigns. The
local merchants pay the bill. For
the life of me, can not see where
they are any better than the agents
of the direct sellers whom they are.
seeking to prohibit, because the
agents make profit. l must cor
rect that last statement. The agents
of the direct sellers are different.
Usually, especially the legitimate
agents, live in towns in their terri
tory and pay their taxes and buy
their human needs there. The pro-
moters run the campaign, take their
profit and scoot.
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News AnaIvsis--
COP. Keeps Election Promise,
Drafts NelU Pension Measures
BY Joseph w. La Bine--

leader was en- route to the U. S.
where he leveled yelled criticism at
the man whose cabinet he left in
anger. Anthony Eden, one-time for
eign minister, told the National As
sociation Of Manufacturers that de-
mocracies must resist false COM
placency" in viewing international
perils, that "the survival of democ-
racy must depend on the faith which
it inspires the results which it
can achieve"
Within few days the long-await-
ed results of Mr.. Chamberlain Mu-
Mich peace" treaty became de-
spairingly apparent on three fronts,
making the prime minister realize
The Coolidge examiner., 1938-12-22
Europe

The ong-cherished hope that
Great Britain would eventually dis
cover the futility of Prime Minister
Neville Chamberlain dictator zap
peasement" policy is at last bearing
fruit. Faced with a new series of
crises, Mr.. Chamberlain is presum-
ably being forced to reverse his
stand or resign. Most significant
was the dinner at Lord Stanley Bald
wins home, attended by King
George VI and group of right-wing
Labor leaders, all strenuous oppo-
nents cf the Chamberlain govern
ment.
Even as the king broke bread with
this crew, another anti-Chamberlain
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lem that destruction Of chain stores
Will raise retail prices of the things
they sell by as much as 20 per
cent. Who is going to pay that?
You and and everyone who buys
Tor consumption. If l can get my
cigarettes at two-for-a-quarter am
not going to pay IS cents. So, if con-
gress or the state legislatures find
1t necessary to protect the independ-
ent, that policy should be adopted.
But the extreme position of taxing
them out of existence or destroying
them some other way is utterly silly.
1t is, as l said earlier, rather like
cutting off my nose to spite my face
and l have beak of which no
one could be very proud!
This chain store bogie man is Just
another of the many that are used
by politicians to build up them
selves. Once before, in these col
umns, l expressed the hope that
some time would like to see an
honest politician. l think it would
be refreshing to all of us.
l heard lately, too, of movement
against those people who sell direct
to the consumers. There are GER
tain types of them that ought to be
locked up. Most of them, however,
have legitimate product and they
are making that product to sell to
consumers. The movement that is
now said to be spreading has
evolved into what is called the
Green River ordinance" a munich
pal law which is designed to prevent
any house-to-house canvaSsers.
The Coolidge examiner., 1938-12-22
Sane Regulation of Chain
Stores Can Be Accomplished

If the chain stores are abusing
their power, a power they have sole
ly because they are big, the con-
gress and the several states surely
ought to take notice. There can be
sane regulation of them. They can
be made to correct any abuses, but
can not find any legitimate ex-
cuse for destroying them. I am in
the role of a consumer, and every
legislator ought to consider that his
constituents are consumers and that
they must be given consideration.
I have been told by men in the
government whom l believe have a
general understanding of the prob
The Coolidge examiner., 1938-12-22
The Parent Mind

The souls of the sons of God are
greater than their business; and
they are thrown out into life, not to
do a certain work, but to be a GER
tain thing; to have some sacred
lineaments, to show some divine tint
of the Parent Mind from which they
came.-Martineau
The Coolidge examiner., 1938-12-22

fOHbtoeS Nttt HOt Oc gOi SOttSHs
funeral expenses to families Of "cov-
ered' workers who die before IS.
CD Payments to wives and depend
ent children of men who have re-
tired at 65. but whose monthly in
come under social security is insult
ficient.
90 Starting old age payments
January l, 1910, instead of January
l, 1912.
(4) Immediate inclusion IN social
security of 2,6O0.O0O seamen, bank
employees, charitable and religious
workers; inclusion in 1941 of 6,000,-
600 farm and domestic workers.
(5) Provision for payments of $40
more each month to married men
than to single men.
The Coolidge examiner., 1938-12-22
The Nations Progress

National progress is the sum of
individual industry, energy, and up
rightness, as national decay is of
individual idleness, selfshness and
vice.
The Coolidge examiner., 1938-12-22
GODS GREAT LOVE

LESSON TEXT-Matthew 2:1-12.
GOLDEN TEXT-God so loved the
world. that he gave his only begotten
Son, that whosoever believeth in him
should not perish. but have everlasting
life.-John 3:16
The Coolidge examiner., 1938-12-22

EDITORS NOTE-When opinions
are expressed in these columns they
are those of the news analyst and NOT
necessarily of the newspaper.
The Coolidge examiner., 1938-12-22

CEVERAL months ago, the Nazis
~ expelled George Grosz from the
realm. He had beaten them to it
by about six years. Just now, he
- gets American
Beats Hitler's Citizenship, He
Order of Exile was a savage
By Six Years and ironic carl
caturist who had
raised many blisters on sundry Nazi
hides before he made his getaway.
While he is certified Aryan, he
was an outstanding candidate for
concentration camp and was Shrewd
enough to see what was coming.
When he landed here in 1892,
to teach at the Art Students
league, there was a row in the
league, but President John Sloan
defended him as lone of the
greatest of modern artists"
and here he is, painting happily,
and everything is gemeutlich.
He has given up caricature and
lets the world go by. His paint
ings are hung in many good CALLER
les, and he has a nice home in
Queens, where, with his wife and
two children. he says he enjoys his
exile tremendously.
g Consolidated News Features.
WNU Service.
The Coolidge examiner., 1938-12-22

ImbroDed D SUNDAY
Uniform o~-~or
= LESSON =
By HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST. D. D.
Dean of The Moody Bible Institute
of Chicago.
g Western Newspaper Union.
Lesson for December Is

Lesson subjects and Scripture texts Sc
lected and copyrighted by International
Council of Religious Education: used by
The Coolidge examiner., 1938-12-22

a HARD-BOILED, bantam-weight
\ British newspaper man was as
signed to a colonel's staff in the
World war. The colonel was con-
temptuous. He
Warns England tossed the new
Clean SUeeping conner a hand
Is Vital Need book on Syria.
Take that" he
said, land study it. You might be
able to digest it in six months"
Perhaps can," said the scrivener.
1T took me only three months to
write it,
That was gamey little Leopold
S. Amery, One-time ace reporter
for the London Times, later a
cabinet member, now putting
his steel spurs to Mr.. Chamber
lain's "appeasement," the re-
ciprOcal trade treaty and all
deals with the dictators. He
says, You might as well try
to please a tortoise by stroking
its back"
In parliament, he has been for
many years the leader Of the die
hard conservatives. He is against
any social fixings or trimmings
whatsoever, and. having been, like
Kipling, a reporter in India, is
for the old empire formula without
any notifications.
The son of a poor civil servant in
India, he scrambled through Oxford
by snagging every scholarship in
sight. He went to parliament and
in 1922 became secretary of the ad-
miralty. Later, as colonial secre-
tary, he swarmed all over the en-
pire, making fluent orations in Syri-
an, Arabic, Turkish, French, Ital-
ian and German. In Cambridge he
had confounded his elders by his
gift Of tongues.
He is bitter-ender who SAYS
Der Fuehrer's big horses aren't
going to run over him. He has
been a prophet of doom and has
warned England against meet
ing a crisis by sweeping the dust
under the rug.
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DR. OLIVER CROMWELL CAR
II MICHAEL lives I'D to his name

DR. OLIVER CROMWELL CAR
~ MICHAEL lives up to his name.
At the conference of southern busi-
ness leaders at Atlanta, the chancel-
lor of Vanderbilt
Dr. C0rn1Ichdei university cries
Cries DoIDn Yen down the yen
For Secur;tv for security as
"the goal of
stagnation and defeat" With grim
Cromwellian tenacity. he has been
showing this home for years. DR..
Carmichael says security is fun
damentally at war with sound eco
nomicS..
He is native Of Goodwater, Ala,
a Rhodes scholar from the Univer-
sity of Alabama.