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DEMOCRAT AND CHRONICLE. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER IS. 10-3S 18 i 'f 'That Certain Age Ly, rics or Lire 53 rmorrnt gS brxmut VNL ROCHBSl Krt hRALD Established 1832 by Gannett Co. at 57-61 Main Street East. Rochester.

N. 5. Frank E. Gannett, President. Douglas Townson, Viceprestdent.

Herbert W. Cnilck-bank. Secretary and Treasurer. there may be places where Rochester's system produces poorer results than systems which are spending less. The report cannot "be taken on its face as confirmation of the claims that have been made for Rochester's system, nor on the other hand can it be taken as confirmation of criticisms that have been made of Rochester's system.

What the report needs, if it is to be as useful as it can be, is thorough understanding and study. More Letters Swell Protest, One Dissent U. S. Inaction in Mexico Called Inconsistent R. DAVENPORT, General Manager NEAL MURPHY, Business Manager HAROLD W.

SANFORD, Editor AUTO SHOW MOV 19-26 I What Is Hitler Hiding? By DOUGLAS MALLOCH The Cause That Counts It Is the movement, not the man. That matters in the world's endeavor. It is the creed that counts, the plan. And not that men shall think us clever. Yes, when we feel the inner urge.

The call of Christ, of right, of beauty, We must ourselves our selves submerge, Forgetting self, recalling duty. What if, indeed, we do go down In blood and dust; if fallen, dying Although, perhaps, we lose the crown We still may see our banner flying? A comrade bends the word to hear, The final word amid the rattle: The soldier whispers in his ear Not "how am but "whose the battle?" With souls to save, and men to free From night, and light a pathway through it. What matters most to you and me Is what is done, not who shall do it. With hearts so full of sorrows, wrongs, When words of mine might comfort bring them. If they shall care not for my songs, I pray that someone else shall sing them.

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New Models, New Enthusiasm Improyed prospects for the coming business year will give the annual Automobile Show opening Saturday at Edgerton Park a note of cheerfulness reminiscent of the boom periods of the past. The motor industry is necessarily a fluctuating one, depending on the purchasing power of the masses. The majority of motor car owners, it must be remembered, are in the small income class. The spurt in production that set in, after a nunrber of low months, in September and has gainedmomentum with each succeeding month, suggests that the public is again ready to buy new cars, that outworn cars are being scrapped, that the eternal interest in the new models is again at fever point. This is the report from New York and other centers where shows have been held.

There is no reason to doubt it will be echoed at the Rochester show. Once again the industry has gone ahead with all its old ingenuity in the invention of hew means for attracting customer interest. There are new mechanical gadgets new lines, new conveniences. Running through all the new ideas is a new principle of safety, in construction and operation, in Jine with the new emphasis to which the public has responded on the highways. Cars are more safely constructed, more easily operated, more quickly stopped than ever before.

Safety will be emphasized also at the Rochester show by the new "steerometer" and "reactometer" devices, by which pa TELEPHONE CALL Main 7400 All D. The nee Over By H. I. PHILLIPS Editor Democrat and Chronicle: Hitler is trying to conceal tome thing by the orgy of anti-Semetic savagery. What is it? (1) The cost of war mobilization to terrify the world and to bring about the Munich agreement has not been covered by the immediate profits from despoiled Sudetenland.

(2) Having aided the fascist dictators tt extend a second imperialist war, the Munich plotters have initiated an armament race unequalled in the world's history. Nazi finances are being strained to meet this race. (3) Anticipated profits from Nazi trade in Central and Eastern Europe are nowhere near original figures. Besides, it will take years fully to realize what Nazis need in an awful hurry. (4) The economic and financial situation in Germany today, despite surface appearances, is potentially more threatening to the Nazi regime than at any time In Hitler's rule.

(5) Discontent among the German people and conflict in the armed forces have not been "appeased" by Hitler's victory over Czechoslovakia. Dr. Katona of Wall Street Journal and now writing for Barrens Financial Weekly says as follows. "The present economic condition of Germany is different from that of the first few years of the Nazi regime Under the changed conditions it is much harder to compensate ia-flajjionary methods by deflationary pressure on prices. And the danger of an explosion is more imminent." When a country of millions of people who knew of liberty, of Industrial and scientific development a people which stood once in the lead of the march of civilization must now be content with vast munition factories, concentration camps, and barabaric race and religious persecutions, we must agree with Dr.

Katona: the danger of an explosion In Nazi Germany is more imminent. DAVID ARONOFF. 7 Engel Place. MEMBERS OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Tlie Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited In this paper and also the local news published herein. All rights reserved.

J. P. McKlnney ft Son, National Representatives New Tors Office 30 Rockefeller Plaza Chicaet, Office, 604'Wiigley 400 N. Michigan Ave. San Francisco Office 742 Market Street Planet Jottings trons may test their skill at the wheel in a practical way.

By means of mirrors and pictures, conditions are produced similar actual traffic and the way in which the driver handles his car registers on the machine. The Rochester Safety Council of the Chamber of Commerce is cooperating in these tests. A motor-conscious public has learned to look beyond the beauty of the exterior of Frank Roosevelt, the w. k. quarterback, was a victim of the most surprising football play of the season.

His team ran the full length of the field in perfect formation, only to discover it didn't have possession of the ball. It may be necessary to write the -signals instead of calling 'em from now on. K. LaGuardia, one of our better Indian chiefs, conceded the need of a new party almost before anybody conceded the recent election. The Yale football team is thinking of turning semi-amateur.

Alf Sloan, Hank Ford and Mr. Chrysler have been showing their 1939 designs in What-the-Well-Dressed-Pedestrian-Should-Dodge. All the models come with bumpers, wheels, headlights, horns and gas tanks as regular equipment this year. It's a far cry back to the days when the question every customer asked was, "But will it go uphill?" Herb Lehman won an election which will make him serve four years rrore as Governor and is wondering whom to blame for this in a year when it was so easy to lose on a Democratic ticket. The editor wishes to correct a statement that Frank Buck won the Nobel Literature Award.

It was Pearl. Colonel Fulgencio Batiasta, who runs Cuba these days, was a recent White House visitor, bringing back tender memories of the days when disorders in a little country that size could attract attention. Agents for Ringling Brothers circus are trying to make arrangements to trade Gargantua for Hitler and Goering. (They realize the latter are such wilder specimens that they will have to throw in a couple of gorillas to boot. the new models and into the inner mechan The Problem of the Refugees By WALTER LIPPMANN THE problem of refugees has i passed far beyond the scope ism that represents the sinews and blood of motor.

anatomy. This year special exhibits under glass cases will show the complex workings that convert gasoline into power that turns wheels. The entire mechanical process will be illustrated. The motor industry today is recognized as a barometer of progress This year it is registering clear weather ahead. colonies are to be redistributed in of charity and private compassion, and if there is to be any approach to a statesman-like solution, we must look at it coolly and in clear perspective.

For, though at the Ninety Years of Service The ninetieth birthday dinner of the Temple B'rith Kodesh is an occasion of community significance. The influence of this venerable religious congregation on moment the problem seems to turn uponjthe calculated suffering being inflicted upon the helpless Jews Jewish community has been large; its FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1938 Daily Bible Passage Joshua 16:22: I will see you again and your heart shall rejoice. Farm Program Found Wanting "There can be but one real test of any law of this kind, and that is its effect upon farm prices and the total volume of farm receipts," Louis J. Taber, master of the National Grange, told that body in its 72d annual session at Portland, Ore. With clarity and conciseness, the Grange leader reviewed the farm program and piled up facts to show it has not done for farmers what its proponents promised or ex-.

pect-ed. "By the one real test," Mr. Taber said, "it is obvious that it has not reached a satisfactory goal." There was no bitterness in the Grange master's summary, but rather a studied re- view of all the factors affecting the operation of the program. He found Secretary Wallace and his assistants have been "able, earnest and persistant" in trying to make it work. Farmers gave "reasonable cooper- ation." But Old Man Weather showed complete disregard for production control.

Consumers at home and abroad have shown their disregard and, as in the case of cotton, American acreage restriction has meant expanded foreign acreage to seize world markets. "The farmers of America never will be satisfied wtih a permanent program based on continuous government control," Mr. Taber warned. "We cannot permanently lift all prices and benefit all farmers simply by production control on four or five crops without discovering that additional ones must be brought under control from year to year," he said. "If carried out for a long period of time it would finally reach every farmer in the land with quotas and allotments practically every commodity and crop." Grangemaster here has pointed out the real threat to the traditional independence of the farmer." It is that of more and more control to cover up mistakes and miscalculations -or at least of trying to carry on a program that already has been tested for five years.

Last winter the Grange warned Congress of pitfalls in the farm bill, but its protests were unheeded. The "farm problem" may be said to be worse today than ever. Mr. Taber In reviewing the situation is constructive not merely critical. He has praise for good features and good intentions.

He would continue soil conservation, marketing agreements, crop loans, crop insurance and surplus commodity purchases. To him it would seem the "part of wisdom" to amend the present Farm Act to make it more workable, and at the same time "build a substitute long-time program." No doubt during the Grange convention these points will be discussed, and the Grange may be expected to express its views fully. contributions to the whole community also have been large. Men and women who have been conspicuous in the congregation have also been conspicuous leaders in the city's social serv the crowded to the uncrowded regions of the earth. IF MIGRATION of this sort Is to be possible at all, if what we see in Germany today is not to end in slavery and massacre, the migration will have to be organized with the full and active cooperation of the great colonial powers.

For they alone have sovereignty over territory into which mass migration is possible, and the only moral justification for empire is that it opens up the backward and empty regions of the earth to settlement. But if the colonial powers are to organize such a migration, they must have time and the facilities to undertake such a great project. That means that they must not have millions of helpless, demoralized paupers dumped upon them before any measures can be taken to deal with the problem. This is the practical reason why it is necessary to bring pressure upon Nazi Germany to show soma degree of moderation. If nothing can be done to modify the present wave of persecution and spoliation, it will not only make impossible the opening of colonies and the movement of peoples, but it will provoke throughout Central Europe a condition of terrorism, probably of desperate violence, which will multiply the task beyond the human capacity to solve it.

THE problem is a colonial problem, and it seems improbable that Great Britain, France, Belgium, and Portugal, can consider a redistribution of colonies without insisting as part of the bargain that there shall be some provision for the victims along with fresh opportunities for their oppressors. If Sees Dangerous Editor Democrat and Chronicle: Thousands and thousands of words are dinned Into our ears telling us to boycott Germany. Why? In all sincerity I ask why there is so much commotion about the Jewish persecutions? Remember a little while back when the Catholics of Mexico were undergoing similar persecutions, priests exiled and killed, churches closed, nuns violated. Remember? Remembei how the Catholics of the United States asked for the sympathy and the help of American Christians and Jews? Remember how the Catholics asked a similar boycott against Mexico and even askd the President of the United States to intercede and beg mercy for the persecuted Mexican Catholics? Do you remember what happened? I do. No boycott was instituted by other than Catholics.

No sympathy ai forthcoming from so many of our American "friends" who now ask our sympathy. Thousands of messages were sent to the President from non-Catholic and Jewish groups all over the United States asking non-interference on his part in a matter of "foreign policy" especially when that interference would be in the interest of Catholics. The President did not intervene, although he has already intervened in behalf of the Jews. Why the discrimination? I believe that Catholics and any other fair-minded people In the United States would do well to shut up their ears and close their eyes whenever Nazism is mentioned. There is no reason why we should concern ourselves so fiercely about the happenings on another continent.

What Is it all leading up to but the same Insane spirit which disgraced America during the World War when even German books were taken from the shelves of public libraries and destroyed. Can't you people see that this propaganda Is lining up the youth and flower of th nation to be cannon fodder in another war to "make the world safe for democracy?" Sit down and relax. Grab your pipe and pick up Sherlock Holmes or Grimm's Fairy Tales or Alice in Wonderland. I grant you it will make for a happier America free from foreign entanglements. WILLIAM W.

BL'ECHEI 250 Child Street, Rochester, N. Y. ice and cultural organizations, and in civic life as well. And its three rabbis of recent memory have epitomized in their civic life the contributions of their co-religionists to the community. It is appropriate that at the dinner greetings will be given by those of other faiths.

Particularly appropriate will be a greeting by Mrs. Mary T. L. Gannett, the close friendship and cooperation of whose husband, the Rev. William C.

Gannett, with Rabbi Max Landsberg, of the Temple, was a leavening force in the community for many years. The social service activities of Rabbi Horace J. Wolf, and the community and national leadership roles of the present Rabbi, Philip S. Bernstein, in many fields have been both locally and more widely recognized. The congregation and its leaders well deserve the good things that will be said about them at Sunday's dinner.

order to out the policy of appeasement, surely an integral part of that appeasement must be some orderly, feasible place of set-tlment for the minorities who cannot live in Europe under Nazi rul That means not weuely the finding of land and the opening of it to colonization but also pressure upon the Nazis not to aggravate the difficulty beyond all reason. But that is not all it means. If this migration is to be organized, it will have to be a regimented movement of peoples under a strict political discipline. For only under a strict political discipline can the excessive urbanized migrants be reeducated and trained to the life of pioneers in a new country. This would be necessary in any event to make possible migration on a large scale; it will be essential in view of the inevitable nervous impairment which this persecution will have inflicted upon them.

They cannot hope as individuals to drift out of Central Europe to places of safety where they can live the urban life to which they are accustomed. They will have to go, if they are to go at all, in organized formations, led by firm leaders, according to an agreed plan, and under the sovereign control of the great colonial powers. Copyright 1938 Jews Her Good Neighbors Democrat and Chronicle: We read in the daily papers of the persecution of the Jews in some of the foreign countries. I feel it a privilege and a duty to speak a word in their favor. I have lived in New York City for a number of years, the largest Jewish city In the world.

On the right of my home live a family of Jews, on the left another family of Jews with only a driveway on either side between us. Across the street are many more Jews. In all this time there has never been one bit of trouble or annoyance in any way. I find them a sober, thrifty and industrious class of people. They have proven kind and generous, willing to help in any emergency if needed.

They are devoted to their families and to their religion. I can't see why anyone born into this world hasn't the right to live as they please as long as they respect the rights of others. No doubt there are criminals among them. I notice that some it our Christians are not so good. It Ed.) Frank Murphy of Michigan was a victim of the first sitdown strike by the voting public recently.

Frank had Roosevelt's support, but thought he might win up to the last minute. Don Budge, the tennis player, turned pro for $75,000 a year the other day. That's about as far as anybody can get with a rubber ball, say we, in one year. The Duke of Gloucester and the Duke of Windsor and their wives met in Paris last week and behaved almost like any relatives would. Republicans are so cheerful just now that it's perfectly disgusting.

Several were seen smiling in public last week, the dirty Tories! 4fr 4fr TAKE 'EM AWAY! Pictures I do not think beguiling: Irwin, the triple slayer, smiling. AI ItOXE BY MIKItflRS Lawyers, court officials and police still think it perfectly proper and conducive to public safety to pose with triple murderer, smiling from ear to ear, the Irwin proceedings prove. Here is a criminal who ruthlessly killed three people on an Easter morning; he escapes the chair and spends the rest of the afternoon grinning and leering into cameras with the cooperation of everybody concerned! When the supply of gasoline runs out, automobiles may be run by radio, says Charlie F. Kettering of General Motors. It will be embarrassing when a stalled truck driver gets Charlie McCarthy when he wants Kate Smith.

The second trial of Jimmy Hines, Tammany leader, will begin in January, Grover Whalen hpving decided he doesn't want it for the World's Fair in 1940. Captain George Eyston, who drove an automobile more than 350 miles an hour in Utah, was arrested and fined for driving 37 miles an hour in London. All those Salt Flat rehearsals gone to waste! Copyrirht 1918 Minute Message By JONA1HAN JOHNS Orders I was talking to the editor of a business magazine in Chicago recently when the subject of executive ability came up for dis Looking Backward O'Mara Tests Upheld The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court has affirmed the Sup: erne Court's indorsement of the constitutionality of the drunken driver tests devised by District Attorney O'Mara and put into effect with the cooperation of physicians of the community. within Germanys the problem will soon involve in fact, it has already begun to involve ethnic minorities of all kinds, Poles, Ruthenians, Hungarians, Czechs, Slovaks, as well as Jews in that whole region of Central Europe which at Munich was opened to Nazi domination. We are witnessing a phenomenon like that in the great migrations of the fourth century, when, under the fierce pressure of the Huna behind them, the tribes of Central Europe were pushed through the boundaries of the Roman Empire.

THOUGH the cruel injustices of the Nazis is unique in the history of modern nations, the necessity for massive emigration out of Central Europe has existed for nearly a century. The reason is clear enough. From the sixth century to the 19th century, the total population did not rise above ISO millions. It was kept down by great epidemics like the black death, by a very high rate of infant mortality, by diseases that modern science and public health administration have since learned to prevent, and perhaps by biological causes that are quite obscure. But after the year 1800 the population of Europe grew suddenly at a startling rate and by 1914 it had become 460 millions.

The older Europe could obviously never have supported such a population. But in the 19th century two fundamental things made it possible not only to support such an increa.se of the European population but to support it in increasing comfort. The 'first of these was the industrial revolution and the world-wide division of labor under free trade, the other was the opening up to settlement by Europeans of the virgin lands of the Western Hemisphere. Europe lived by exporting manufactured goods, pioneer farmers, and artisans. THE World War marked the end of the regime of free trade and the end of the possibility of free migration.

At once Central Europe became greatly overcrowded, particularly overcrowded in its cities. For the people of the cities, and this, of course, included most of the central European Jews, depended for their existence at their customary standard of life upon a volume of international trade that was continually contracted in the post-war period. Immediately there were too many urban people, too many shopkeepers, too many professional men, too many artists and intellectuals, all in fierce competition for the narrowing opportunities of Europe. And there was no settled and temperate region of the earth open to these urban people, long divorced from the soil and so unfitted by generations of urban existence for the life of pioneers in a wilderness. The problem of the refugees is, therefore, a problem of adapting masses of urban people to the life of the pioneer in undeveloped countries.

For it is as impossible in the 20th century, as it has been in amy other century, to move masses of people from the overcrowded cities of one nation to the overcrowded cities of another. That can be done for individuals. But for masses th only possible emigration is from 45 YEARS AGO TODAY 1893 "The Middlesex Valley Railway Company is extending its line south from the Naples station, across Academy street and through the lands of John Huber to Fred M. Pottle's line." "President Brewster has appointed the following members of the Chamber of Commerce delegates to the canal conference to be held in New York: Ira L. Otis, James W.

Whitney, Henry L. Fish, F. W. Hawley, C. C.

Meyer and John W. Chase." Indorses Indian's Plea Editor Democrat and Chronicle: It was gratifying to see the generous amount of apace given to th young Indian, whose brother's letter appeared in your paper several days ago. From personal contact I would amy the party in question is a superior type and I feel convinced his case was not intelligently handled. C. A.

LETTAU. Iola Sanatorium. The Appellate Division's opinion, given by Associate Justice Benjamin B. Cunningham, points out that the tests are as much a protection of the innocent as they are an evidence of guilt, and that as applied the tests involve no compulsion infringing a defendant's rights. The questions on which the Appellate Division and Supreme Court Justice Wheeler of the lower court gave their decisions are technical questions.

The Constitution forbids a defendant being compelled to be a witness against himself, but whether the objective tests in District Attorney O'Mara's plan constitute a violation of this protec 5, is not always the lowly born who commit the worst crimes. There are many of the better class who are guilty In the same way. We know this to be true. Many who have come from homes of poverty have reached wealth and distinction. I cite Lincoln.

Ford. Edison and Woolworth. the latter started a fortune of millions by selling from a pushcart on the city streets. From our Jewish population many have reached the upper rungs of the ladder of success. I can tion the governor of New York onnvsavmgs A Word of Caution The Regents Inquiry into the Character and Cost of Public Education in the State of New York is the work of nationally recognized authorities in their particular educational fields.

None of the public releases, including the report of its general findings and recommendations, mentions the systems of any particular city or locality. It therefore is a bit premature to say whether any of its criticisms or recommendations for improvement can be applied to the Rochester school system. The report says that the character of education has no relation to the amount of money spent, that poor results are found in high-cost sections and good results in lower-cosc sections, but it is not to be inferred from that the high costs necessarily mean poor results or low costs good results. It is said that the system as a whole gives better education than that of other states; yet it also Us said that in some particulars 35 YEARS AGO TODAY 1903 "The east lock of the poor house lock, two miles west of Lyons, was badly damaged. A freight steamer plowed right through, cutting the loot bridge in two parts and tearing out the two east lock gates." "Members of the Fifty-Fourth Regiment, New York Volunteers, met at 22 Andrews street for the purpose of talking up the organization of fhe survivors of the regiment.

Henry W. Meilke. was elected chiirmin, E. P. Laduque vice-chairman and J.

T. Redhead i State, United States Supreme Court justices and many of our best judges, lawyers and merchants. At least one of the foreign dictators claim a special kind of blood must cussion. "You have noticed sometimes," he said, "the head of a factory or other organization, who seems to supervise his employes without effort. He does not continually trot around and tell this man something, and another man something else, about what he should do.

The men already know, because they were properly and explicitly instructed in the beginning. "In another organization the boss is forever telling his men this and that, constantly repeating his orders and always worried less things will not run smoothly. "Well, I'll tell you the secret. The efficient executive sees that his orders are thoroughly understood in the beginning so future repetition is unnecessary. "An army officer once gave me rather lengthy instructions over the telephone.

While I understood them perfectly he insisted that I write them down and read them back to him. After that he did not have to bother." The same idea applies when giving orders or instructions d'irect, or otherwise, in any organization. The point is to know absolutely that they are pcifectry understood. This is only one factor that helps to make a good executive, but it is well worth tion is a matter on which there is technical disagreement. Certainly so far as the lay public is concerned an intoxicated automobile driver is a dangerous menace to the public safety, and it is important to the public, as well as to those who may be wrongly accused, to decide as quickly as possible after an accident whether intoxication actually exists.

Obviously such evidence as can be obtained should be obtained by physicians who are able to distinguish between signs of irresponsibility caused by shock or other factors and those caused by the effects of liquor. District Attorney O'Mara's plan, as Justice Cunningham points out, makes possible this expert protection both for the accused and for the public. The Court is the judge of the technical validity ot the plan; to the lay mind the Court's indorsement is confirmation of the plan's proper aid in controlling a public menace and its common sense. the results in New York are not as good as those obtained in states which "spend less. Eventually the Inquiry's criticism and ecommendations will have to be consid rule the world.

I quote from Edgar Guest's poem "Just Folks" wherein he tells how a rich man and a poor man met in a hospital, both about to undergo the same operation. The following are the last two lines of the poem: "Just under the skin when the light 'ireaks through. There's scarcely a difference twixt me nnd you." I agree with Mr. Guest perfectly. It Is not how we look or what we do but what we are, be we Jew or Gentile.

A Christian woman 90 years old. ALICE C. FOSTER. Brooklyn, N. Y.

ered with respect to their bearing on the 25 YEARS AGO TODAY 1913 "Hiram G. Clark and Jack Shee-han, of Rushville, have returned from an eight-day stay at Charles T. Chapin's camp in the Adiron-tiacks. They brought a deer weighing 1S5 pounds, something veiy rare." "The Public Service Commission has granted an extension of the date set on Mayor Edgerton's application for an order requiring the New York State Railways to grant a 3-cent fare on the Rochester lines." Rochester system. But the public attitude, until the report has been thoroughly and competently discussed, should be an open-minded one.

Rochester school costs are high; Rochester's system is generally re This is just the quick way t' come downstairs, John. But it's the hard way, too. garded as better than the average. But.