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BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1937 COLUMBUS THOUGHT THE WORLD WAS ROUND Daily Eagle Letters of Interest By Eagle Readers TUESDAY. OCTOBER 13. I iUBSORIPTION RATE? Although No Names Arc Mentioned We Think We Know Who Is Meant Editor Brooklyn Daily Eagle: Every now and again an article appears implying that a certain man is being hounded by a certain government, and also containing slighting allusions to the man who so bravely took up the duty so selfishly to say the least laid down by the other. We quite understand that it is done at the instigation of friends of the woman, so that certain acts which annoy her may be made to appear to the public as acts of the government and not of individuals. Is that fair? The vast majority of people all over the world feel the deepest admiration and truest loyalty to the one man.

Bitter disappointment and lasting sorrow may ruin the life of the For the woman, contempt and scorn, too deep for mere words to express. May she continue to be snubbed by all decent people. Brooklyn, Oct. 8. A READER.

Mb mmm mm The Black Decision. There is nothing surprising about the Supreme Court decision denying the motions of Haws. Levitt and Kelly, seeking to have the court nullify the Black appointment on the ground that he was ineligible. Chief interest centers in the wording of the courts ruling. Many laymen may be puzzled by the following from the court's order: Insists that nothing can be done without the consent of the Burgos government twhich is General Franco) and that of the Valencia government, which represents the Loyalist faction.

The spectacle of General Franco voluntarily reliquishing the aid of large Italian contingents that first helped in the capture of Malaga and later in the taking of Bilbao, and which are now engaged in pressing upon Gljon to complete the conquest of northwestern Spain, would be amazing, indeed. The truth is that in putting forth Franco and his Burgos government as one of the keys to a solution of the withdrawal problem, the Italian Government sees in him an immovable obstacle to agreement. Not anywhere in the reply to the Anglo-French note is there the slightest intimation that Italy is really eager to withdraw her men. Her protestations of respect for Spanish independence and territorial integrity will be politely received in London and Paris and liberally discounted. Her purpose from the beginning of the Spanish war has been the establishment of fascist rule in Spain.

If that comes to pass with her help it will mean that Spain will be drawn into Italy's Mediterranean orbit and that her mainland, her islands and her African territory will be open to Italian use in war. Spain can hardly be made fascist without Italian aid, and the aid is not being given without some assurance that a price will be paid lor it. The President to Speak. More than usual interest will center in President Roosevelt's fireside" radio address tonight. The country wants to hear from him on several subjects.

We already know, in a general way, what impressions he received from his Western trip. The East may not be so keenly interested in new farm legislation and other subjects that are vital to the farming areas, but anything the President has to say will be worth pondering. Perhaps it is too much to expect him to speak his mind regarding the country's reaction to the Black appointment, and if he passes over the subject of Black and the Supreme Court his silence will have a certain significance. There is nothing to be done about Justice Black, but it will be a relief if the President leaves the court issue alone. Much more important is the need for a clarification of the Chicago speech on international policy.

The country generally has applauded his sentiments on the subject of military aggression, but it is due the public to be more specific as to just what methods are proposed. In a real sense this will not be a quiet 'fireside' chat. It will be a profoundly important proclamation made in the lijht of devastating flames that are threatening the world. Designation of Alderman Hart The i Levi: c.e:ern::i.i voke the iudi As Democratic Councilman Urged Editor Brooklyn Daily Eagle: Your expressed belief in an article under date of Oct. 1, that Alderman Walter R.

Hart would surely receive the Democratic designation for Councilman, was also my belief. It looks like we were both wrong. Every newspaper in the City of New York has made favorable comment on this accomplishment. The Citizens Union called him "the most capable member of the Democratic delegation in the board," and he was the only Democrat in the entire city that merited their indorsement. For some unknown reason the Democratic party in Kings County has not chosen him as a candidate for the Council.

The County Committee of Kings County meets Wednesday to officially put their stamp of approval on the Councilman candidates. I think that the citizens of Brooklyn and the Democratic County Committee should keep this outstanding legislator on the ballot. LILLIAN S. MARCUS. Brooklyn, Oct.

8. validity of executive, or legislative, actum, he must show that he has sustained, or is immediately in danger of sustaining, a direct injury' as the result of that action, and it is not that he has merely a general interest common to all members of the public. One reason this order will cause surprise Is that the functions of the Supreme Court are not better understood. The court does not. as is generally supposed, pass upon the constitutionality of legislation or executive acts, as such.

What it does, when cases are properly brought before it. is to declare whether or not laws and acts, in their application, violate the constitutional rights of individuals, groups or States. What the court seems to say. in the Black case, is that Messrs. Levitt and Kelly have not been injured any more than the rest of us by the Black appointment; that the President had a right to name Black and the Senate had a right to confirm him.

Along with Messrs. Levitt and Kelly, the Supreme Court and the country at large will have to accept Justice Black. He will retain his seat, but the decision of his colleagues on the motion to oust him cannot give him or the President much satisfaction. Program Is Suggested to Ease willing to fight for their right to live and i determined to protect themselves. Only who fights his own battles is entitled to ampaign Ogden L.

Mill. Closely associated in the public mind with Herbert Hoover, and perhaps the ablest of the Hoover Cabinet members and champions. Og-den L. Mills deserved a better political fate than the comparative oblivion that engulfed fruits of victory. EMIL UYLDERT.

Hempstead, Oct. 7. HEFFERNAN or improvements that para I him following Hie advent of the New Deal. a my old Commemorating Pulaski. Sunday's parade in memory of Casimtr Pulaski, who died on October 11, 1TI9, of wounds received in the defense of Savannah, anticipated by a day the 158th anniversary of a hero's death.

The President and Governor Lehman had both designated yesterday as Pulaski Day, but our Polish-American fellow-citizens who orcamzed the parade, which the Governor reviewed, considerately arranged it for Sunday when stores were closed and traffic congestion reduced below the weekday level. part of the program attending the removal of Problem of Middle-Aged Unemployed Editor Brooklyn Daily Eagle: The appalling revelations contained in many letters of people of mature age, yes, even as young as 36, telling of discriminations in employment on account of age, cause me to call attention to the great problem of the permanently unemployed waiting to be solved. Continued appeals for help have gone practically unanswered, and it has become clear to any one that no improvement in existing conditions can be expected unless and until the people of mature age make a strong effort to solve their own problems. It is imperative that persistent and concerted action be taken by those who are now or who soon may find themselves in the same predicament. A group of determined men and women have proposed the following basic program: All age restrictions on public employment to be rescinded.

Ability to be the only requirement. Rehabilitation of those whose professional ability has decreased through unemployment or otherwise by means of full-time intensive retraining courses to bring the applicant's knowledge and ability up to date and on even line with those trained in the latest systems of the profession. Persistent propaganda to change the youth-complex of the people into a quality complex. To obtain this help, to rebuild the efficiency of an important part of our nation we need members and sympathizers. Life is not ended at 40, 50 or 60.

Life begins anew whenever we have the courage to fight for it. Let those who realize that life begins today send us their name and address in order that we may know that they are alive to their opportunities and duties and are the remains of General have been made during the past four years. All this with appropriate comment. From now on, at LaGuardia-Ingersoll rallies in the borough, this panoramic argument will speak in behalf of the amiable gentleman now presiding at the Borough Hall. rpHE Ingersoll traveling illustrated campaign follows in the line of political adaptation of the products of modern science to its purposes.

Almost from its birth radio became an adjunct of politics as the moving picture previously. The first use of it was in the form of amplification in convention and halls. Warren G. Harding was the first President, I believe, to broadcast his campaign speeches. I remember listening to his Cincinnati speech when he was on the Western tour during the progress of which he died.

The broadcasting of the national convention of 1924 made history and familiarized the nation with the reading clerk's stcntorial voice and the call, "Twenty-four votes for President Coolidge used the radio for his not numerous public addresses. President Hoover used it in a lamer measure and President Roosevelt's "Fireside Talks" are now a feature of political life. friend Marshall Covert, now drum major of the "Ingersoll for Borough President" publicity band, and he whirls his baton thus: "If you can give this a riffle in your column, it will be swell. Thanks a lot!" So here she riffles: 'This" being the story of a new campaign method. It is called "Brooklyn Progress," and there was a preview of it in the Grecian Room of the Hotel St.

George, the other day, in the presence of editors, political reporters and the borough chiefs of the Fusion forces. Mr. H. V. Kaltenborn, the radio commentator, was the "chorus" in the Shakesperian sense of the piece.

Says he: "This talking picture report to the voters of Brooklyn gets its start. It takes the form of an inspection tour of the achievements of the present administration of Borough President Ingersoll and Mayor LaGuardia. Our two actors, Mr. and Mrs. John Q.

Citizen, represent you in this film. There they go up the Borough Hall steps. Through their eyes you will see the accomplishments of the Fusion-Ingersoll administration In Brooklyn." Mr. and Mrs. John Q.

Citizen are then Polis patr Failure to Complete Street Repairs Provokes Criticism of the PWA Editor Brooklyn Daily Eagle: Several weeks ago a gang of PWA workers tore up the tracks of the B. M. T. on Central between Cooper and Moffat Sts. A gap was left the width of a car track and several inches deep.

The dormitory used by the PWA has been taken away, making it fair to suppose that, weeks, or even months, may elapse before the street is repaired, as in the case of upper McDougal where there has been a rut several feet wide, extending over several blocks unrepaired for months, In a recent letter to the Borough President, requesting information about PWA workers repairing sidewalks gratis, I was informed that the Borough President had nothing to do with the PWA men, but the President of the borough is responsible to a certain decree (through his subordinates) for the condition of the streets, and not the PWA men. G. J. B. Brooklyn, Oct.

8. Liked Father Curran's etter. Editor Brooklyn Daily Eagle: I was very happy to read Father Curran's letter in our Brooklyn Eagle of Oct. 7. 1937.

I am sure he covered every point of interest. Manhattan, Oct. 8. J. T.

HEFFERNAN. rved tribute to all Mr. Mills was far more liberal, fairer and had much broader vision than his critics of a few years ago would then concede. Here in New York Mr. Mills suffered from the handicap imposed upon him by his defeat for the Governorship in 1916, and his political activities prior to his entrance into the Hoover Cabinet as the successor to Andrew W.

Mellon, seems inept as well as futile. His work as Secretary of the Treasury and his more recent participation in discussions of national problems, enhanced his reputation and revealed his growth as a student of public As a man of means. Mr. Mills entered poll-tics with the idea of performing public service. He had no special aptitude for campaigning, but he displayed real ability in the Treasury.

Inherently conservative, he naturally opposed what he regarded as impractical experiments, yet he could, and did, on occasion reveal a broad comprehension of both social and economic problems. He was a leading citizen of New York and performed many notable services here. General O'Ryan's Appeal. General John O'Ryan's frank and courageous appeal to Manila-. Democrats to sup- Pulaski's memory the recogni tion of special public ceremony.

Entering Washington's army nearly a year after his compatriot Kosciusko had volunteered, he brought to the service of the Revolutionary cause more military experience than the latter possessed. He had been commander-in-chief of the Polish patriot forces in a hopeless con- rip around Brooklyn, A Woman's Word Against a Man's 10 II QUILLEN- wiiai is rrupagaiiuai Mice." a man-cl includes every kind of icludmg the exploita-ttahoney made much IN ONE such case a prominent i to a crippled Negro xcept her enjoyment you lynched, and you a lie would have suf- to "put something across." whether good or bad. Manufacturers associations, labor unions, farm organizations, philanthropic groups, political parties and thousands of other agencies are constantly putting out propaganda rHE late Edward A. Filene is said to be primarily responsible for the creation of the Institute for Propaganda Analy-, which proposes to carry on scientific re-arch into the methods used by propagandists influencing public opinion. The list of di- battle for freedom a California ranc! hostler, for no reas of cruelty, "I could 1 ficed, though she That isn't alway: the South.

In his biography. Judge Rc Carolina tells of a cas reputation proved tr: was charged with i prosecuting witness, so unsavory that was considered wort Exchange Notes. text of the Anglo-French note ivisers includes the names of wn educators whose co-opera-ssure valuable and interesting The first aim of the institute is to teach the public how to distinguish between propaganda and plain statements of fact or corn- recently published auto-iert W. Winston of North tried before him in which deciding factor. A Negro except the word of the and her reputation was unsupported testimony lless.

That was unusual, man in any part of the 7AST masses of such material pour over the desks of news and editorial writers. When the sources are revealed, as is generally the case, and the purpose is plain, such material is extremely valuable. The man who has an "ax to grind" often knows a great deal more about the subjects in which he is interested than the detached academician who seeks scrupulously to avoid drawing biased deductions from his careful array of facts. Propaganda does not have to be rejected, therefore, because it lacks the stamp of scientific impartiality, but its claims and conclusions do have to be subjected to severe scrutiny. The trained reader can usually detect special type of propaganda conforms to principles.

And, finally, it under takes to analyze and appraise propaganda methods and devices. high breeding and unblemished character was deprived of his living and made an out-She fell in love with him. And when he aware of her devotion, she found solace in wishful thinking and the nightly practice of As a fellow worker, she was privileged to see him often. When he looked at her, spoke to her, or accidentally touched her hand, she believed it the confession of passionate desire which she wished it to be, and so recorded It in her diary. When the diary was discovered, the minister was ruined.

Years of upright living, unblemished character and manifest loyalty to his wife counted for nothing in the face of a neurotic female's imagination, Even you, dear reader, will probably say: "I'll bet he was guilty." Talk of sex equality is absurd while a worn-a general against that of a private soldier. The Press and Justice Black. Editor Brooklyn Daily Eagle: Well, with nil their efforts the papers did not prevent Senator Black from becoming a Supreme Court Justice. The most satisfactory thing about the whole affair was the "sock in the eye" given to a corrupt and hypocritical press, a rotten lot. and the American people are rapidly getting wise to their methods.

Jacobs. Hoilis, Oct. I We Regret Error in Article Covering Erasmus Hall Celebration frfifor Brooklyn Daihi Eagle: tage of it pleading beneath the appearance of The i estec untruthful statements put out to serve anti- perform a real service to the public if it does no more than dissipate this false conception of the nature and purpose of propaganda. As a matter of fact, most of the news articles, speeches and editorials dealing with social economic and political questions fall under the category of propaganda in the broadest sense racket worked by Potiphcr's wife. A girl in need of pocket change enters the office of a prominent business or professional man and ing to explain to suspicious neighbors when she tears off a few garments and begins screaming for help.

That is deplorable, for abuse of a good thing always ends in a revulsion of feeling that spoils It. Because they are treated better in America than anywhere else on earth, women should be especially careful not to arouse government does not feel it necessary to re- occasions, in the most solemn fashion, regarding the political independence, consequently, the territorial integrity of Spain, its mainland, its Islands and its colonies." But Italy, which has in Spain armed forces estimated as from excess of all the foreigners fighting with the Loyalists, will sfgree to no tripartite conference, but wants the question of withdrawal discussed, if at all, before the London Committee, wherein agreement on any question affecting Spain has never yet fccen possible. Furthermore, the Italian note assist the untrained public to recognize propaganda and, more important, to help the public distinguish between good and bad propaganda. With the latter end in view, it divides all propaganda into that which conforms to democratic principles and that which lends to undermine or destroy democracy. Thus, despite assurances that it does not intend to engage in any sort of propaganda, the institute is committed to a program patently designed to safeguard and strengthen democratic principles.

That is a worthy objective, but it implies a bias which puts the organiza-Uon Itself in the class of propaganda agencies. of tl m. was Miss Lillian Stutter, Her name was omitted i. and the name you printed AN ERASMUS TEACHER. "As generally understood." the institute explains, "propaganda is expression of opinion or action by individuals or groups deliberately designed to influence opinions or actions of other individuals or groups with reference to ends." In other words, propaganda fl fun -off wit: but easy, and they rebel..