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TBUKSDAY, lUNE 20, llOSS
VVuidla docUrea tbe Fnnch uro a
mtioa 'of political roallBta. WO’d Bomehow got
tko Improaslon ihoy voro a nation of cablnet-
aakera.—Nashvitlo Tennoaaean.
Pities and Rdlief
President Roosevelt has spoken ve-
'hemently on the question of relief and
politics and has issued an ultiinatuni to
keep politics out of the spending of
works-relief money.
In so doing the president has not onr
ly rendered a great service to human
ity and the American nation but has
made a wise political move. Already Lis
foes are clamoring that he has a cam
paign fund for next year in the neigh
borhood of five billion dollars, refer
ring to the appropriated expenditure
for public works and relief. Nothing
could do more to destroy the president,
and the New Deal than the widespread
injection of politics into relief spending
but it is very doubtful that all those
charged with distributing the funds
will take that view of the situation and
some will doubtless try to build up a
political machine through distribution
of relief funds and jobs, as has already
been charged in some parts of the
country.
With a spotlight of scrutiny turned
on the president at this time the man
ner in which the works-relief funds
are expended and distributed will de
termine to a great extent the length
and volume of his continued popular-
ity. ^
Where Are Our Big Ships?
Breaking all records for the trans-
Atlantic crossing, the greatest ship ever
built, the new Normandie of the French
line, steamed into the port of New
York the other day. Two years ago it
was the great Italian liner, Rex, which
smashed all previous records. A year
earlier the German liner Europa had
won the m)rthical “blue ribbon of the
North Atlantic.” Sometime next year
the new British ship Queen Mary may
do better than any of these.
It is not always pleasant for good
Americans to realize that this country
is doing nothing to match these efforts
of European nations to capture the
cream of the trans-Atlantic traffic, the
cost of which comes chiefly out of
American pockets. American travelers
and American freight provide the bulk
of the revenue for these giants of the
sea.
It is puzzling to many good Ameri
cans how these smaller and, for the
most part, much poorer nations, can
afford to build these huge ships. By
comparison with the United States,
both Germany and Italy are practical
ly bankrupt, and France is greatly our
inferior in wealth and income. Yet the
governments of those little countries do
not hesitate to spend huge sums to sub
sidize the building of great ships, while
our statesmen in Washington hesitate
and quibble, apparently for fear that
somebody might make a profit if our
government should be as liberal in sup
porting our merchant marine as these
other governments are.
Shipping men say that one reason
why ships under the United States flag
cannot compete successfully with those
under foreign flags is that our ship-
C ping laws require the pa3rment of such
high wages that all chances of profit is
destroyed. That ought not to stand in
r the way, it seems to us, of building,
with government aid, at least one sea
going giant that could compete success
fully,with these great foreign craft.
'^^Perhaps most of America is too far
away from our sea coasts for most peo
ple to take any interest in maritine af
fairs. Yet a very high percentage of
the navy as well as the American mer
chant marine is manned by boys .who
^were bora and raised in the Miseissippi
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We are glad to see the radio broad
casters waking up to swnq of ^e objec
tionable practices which th6ttght|pl
people have long reedfemized. One of
the big radio chains has announced a
new policy which?* it seems to us, sets
a standard which all b^adeasters
ought to maintain.*These poUcfeir re
late both to the character of programs
intended for chiUhren and to the ad
vertising features of commerciid
broadcairts with which most adults
either ,annoyed or disgusted.
"^One broadeasting system b tiying to
^0 for radio what is being; done for the
movi^^'in cleaning up its pros^ms b-
tended for children by prohibiting the
exaltation of criminals,'^'the ^ glmdtica-
tion of disrespect for authority and yin
all other ways prohibiting the broad-^
casting of programs which might have^.
a bad effect upon the moral and 'ethi-*
cal standards of the immature.
In its commercial programs the rule
has been laid down that not more than
ten per cent of the time on the air may
be devoted to advertising talk. Surely
six minutes out of an hour’s program
is time enough to impress upon the list
eners the merits of soimebodSy’s tooth
paste or motor oil. And even these ab
breviated advertising talks are being
more strictly censored than ever. False
or unwarranted claims for any product
are forbidden; no programs or adver
tising announcements which are unfair
either to competitors or to the public
"kre permitted. A strict rule has been
laid down against appeals for funds
over the air and also against all forms
of lottery announcements.
All of those principles and regula
tions have long been the practice of all
reputable newspapers. We have long
thought that it was unfortunate that
the newspapers did not take hold of
and control radio broadcasting in its
beginning. Radiio has been running
wild but it looks now as if, under the
pressure of public opinion, it was be
ginning to catch up with the long-es-
tablishdd ethical standards of the
press.
Borrowed Comment
DROW'.NING P.4TA1JTIE.S
(Charlotte Observer)
This is a good time of year to get drowned.
It is an especially apt time for those who
are good swimmers to go down and come up
no more.
The reason so many fatalities occur in the
waters this time of year is, of course, because
it is the open season for plunging In.
And the reason it is so often stated in con
nection with these fatalities that the individu
al drowned was an expert swimmer is be
cause the proficient person in this art usually
takes uncommon chances, relies too heavily
upon his prowess and forgets that circum
stances occur in this connection over which
one has no control, no matter how artful a
swimmer such an one may be.
Those who go to the beaches or to the riv
ers or to the pools or to any ponds of deep
water for the refreshing and delightful pas
time of swimming, good swimmers or bad or
indifferent, should take along with them an
extra supply of caution and far less depend
ence upon their own superiority over the
treachery of the waters.
Sunday School Lesson
By REV. CHARLES E. DUNN
rHRLSTI.A\ MISSIONS
Lession tor June 23rd. Acts 1:6-8. Golden
Text: Mark 16:15.
Christian Missions are a going concern.
There are about 25,000 missionaries on the
foreign field, and many of them occupy, com
fortable, substantial houses. The compounds
of the principal foreign missionary societies
occupy areas in each of the leading cities
where the missionary enterprise has establish
ed itself. It is clear that the pioneer days of
the movement are over.
One is impressed, in studying missions, with
the wisdom, ability, and harmony of the pres
ent missionaries, and the extent of the sne-
cess already achieved.
With the conviction that the time had come
for a careful appraisal of the whole move
ment, in all of Its phases, a group of distin
guished laymen went to the Orient a few years
ago for a detailed, unbiased investigation.
Their report, “Re-thinking Missions: A Lay
men’s Inquiry After One Hundred Years,”
created a sensation, and immediately became
one of the best sellers in the religious book
field.
These commissioners brought back from
their trip a strong and unanimous conviction
that foreign missions are of great Importance
If conducted on sound lines. They criticise the
sectarianism and Westernism of Protestant
missions, and assert that their primary aim
should not be to build up the church as au in
stitution, but to permeate, both the Individu
al and society with the spirit of Christ.
But note that, this ..epoch-making ’report
does not advocate any retreat, In:fact these
.^thoughtful laymen fkvor many Hum oY ^.ad
vance which vrill iequlrji for their accomplish
ment, large additional fnads. Indeed if all of
their suggestions are carried out Christendom
will become bsinkrupt. .TJ|e nepd, is .bverwhel-
ming. For the world ia^critlcaUy ill,' and the
Christian, missionary gospel of goodrwill is
the road to health*
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George Raft comes to the Liberty llieatre Monday and Tiea4fi^
in the type of part he is best suited for,^ the part of a sAUk^'
confidence man ih “The Glass Key.” Edward*Arnold and Claire
support Raft in his latest picture whidi is considered by the
critics as his best bit of work since “Scarface,” and which he dnplicatea
a similar performance which first brought him to the attention of
film-goers. ■ ^ ‘
Time By The Fonlock
Mother—GoodnessI Here’s a
note from Haiel saying that she
and that crazy pianist have
eloped.
Father—That’s ‘'■'N ojv
let’s get bnsy and move away
from here so they can’t find ns
when they come haek.
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