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WEONTSSDAY. MARCH 20. 1913

AMENDMENT TO FREEDOM THE alleged purpose of the McCormack bill before the House Military Affairs Committee is to guard against possible mutiny In the military forces. But adequate civil statutes already in effect, not to mention strict regulations governing armed forces and military resen itions, make this bill unnecessary. And the language of the bill makes it dangerous. The bill not only provides severe punishment for those who incite revolt, but also for “whoever publishes or distributes any book, pamphlet, paper, article, letter or other writing" advising such disobedience. Thus it could be used to suppress publication of books, magazine articles, newspaper editorials, or sermons disapproving of war or war methods. It could be used to prevent protests against use of the military in an industrial strike area. It could be used in countless ways to tyrannize over a free people who cherish constitutional guarantees of free speech, free thought and a free press. Testifying yesterday against the bill, Dr. Charles A. Beard, dean of American historians, advised members of Congress to turn their legislative thoughts into more beneficial channels. “Congress.” he said, “can do more to allay popular distempers by giving attention to President Roosevelt's security program and other measures designed to provide employment than by enacting penal legislation conceived in the spirit of historic tyranny." NAPOLEON AND HITLER THOSE who read in this newspaper Napoleon’s letters to his wife. Marie Louise, might have been struck with the similarity of this mad man's career more than 100 years ago and that of another in the making in Europe today, Adolf Hitler’s. Both the Corsican corporal and the Germanic house painter were commoners. Both rode to power as bogus revolutionaries, only to betnv the workers and set out to pursue "glory” so- themselves and their country, to kill. main, bum and destroy in patriotism’s name. Both took the sword in defiance of the civilized world Napoleon perished in early middle age belov?d cf few. Hitler’s finale is yet to N written. Some day at Hitlers tomb may stand a wiser man and say of him, as Ingersoll said of Napoleon: "1 thought of the orphans and widows he had made —of the tears that had been shed for his glory, and of the only woman who ever loved him. pushed from his heart by the cold hand of ambition. And I said I would rather have been a French peasant and worn wooden shoes. I would rather have lived in a hut with a vine growing over the door, and the grapes growing purple in the kisses of the autumn sun. I would rather have been that poor peasant with my loving wife by my side, knitting as the day died out of the sky —with my children upon my knees and their arms about me—l would rather have been that man and gone down to the tongueless silence of the dreamless dust, than to have been that imperial impersonation of force and murder, known as Napoleon the great." MATTER OF DEGREES A N Old Tuner is a man who believes what * he used to sing in his student days: "It’s no easy matter to get a degree.” Today any smart ycung fellow who keeps his politics well polished can hope for at least on.* honorary handle to h!s name. Older ones should have several. Last June, at the height of the degree season, practically all the Cabinet officers and a number of minor politicians found themselves cited to the campuses for this or that and decorated with academic honors. And now Senator Huev Long is going to make it even easier. Impressed with the amount of publicity won by George Washington University when it conferred L. L. D.’s on seven Journalists recently, he has invited a number of Washington correspondents to step up and pick out what degrees they want. Then he will have Louisiana State University, of which he is patron, confer them forthwith. Gov. Ruby Laffon of Kentucky is satisfied to make his friends into colonels; Dr. Long of Louisiana is going in for the higher culture. To old-fashioned academicians this might seem like a debasing of the cultural currency. TO big-hearted Huey it’s easy—Just like sharing the wealth. WHITES AND INDIANS ' V 'HE noble red man has been hoeing a “*■ pretty tough row ever since the white brethren discovered that America’s broad land was fertile, scenic and studded with fine mineral deposits: but nothing that has happened to him is much odder than the way he is used as an object lesson every time he gets a little extra money. in this kind of story the most, because it 1s the Oklahoma Indian who has the most money, what with the Osage oil fields and all. And a neat little sample of this sort of thing popped up Just the other day in Tulsa. In Tulsa there died one Duffy Morrison, 42-year-old Creek Indian, who was a mute, helpless cripple all his life long and who never knew what money was or what It was good for—but who died possessed of a fortune of 4100.000. due to the fact that his 160-acre tribal allotment was rich in oil. Duffy Morrison's case yraa typical of the weird and illogical things that started happening when oil was discovered under Indian land. Indian after Indian came into great riches. I In most cases the lucky red men had not th| 1 filnteat idea how to use their new wealth. For

many of them it was a curse instead of a blessing. This helpless invalid, who never knew he was rich and wouldn't have cared if he had known, was the reductlo ad absurdum of the whole business. But the strange thing about it all Is the way it has aroused hopest Indignation in the breasts of certain worthy white citizens. These people have protested that It was absurd. contradictory, and sinful to shower unearned riches on children of nature whr had no notion of the value of Duffy Morrison's case, In their eyes, will simply be the clinching argument. Suppose, though, that we had a helpless half-witted white man, who chanced to be the son of a multi-millionaire manufacturer and who thus inherited vast riches without ever knowing it. Suppose we had a gay promoter of the "Coal-Oil Johnny" type who made millions by betting right in Wall Street and went about leaving SIOO bills in the hands of night club chorus girls. Suppose we had the daughter of a wealthy utilities magnate who could think of nothing better to do with her wealth than to buy a sleazy foreign title with it. Such cases—common as grass—are Just as ridiculous as anything that the records of oil-blessed Indians can show. But nobody squawks. It is only when a simple Indian comes into money that we hear wise words about the evils of giving unearned wealth to people who can’t use it properly. THE LITTLE FOXES THE newly organized Wine Institute, formed to encourage cheaper and better domestic vintages, does well to center its campaign against excessive state and local taxes and fees. These, rather than Federal taxes and tariffs, are the little foxes that eat the vines. It was in the spirit of repeal to encourage the drinking of the lighter beverages. Flouting this, the states and localities are loading absurd burdens onto the vintners’ backs. The Federal tax is 10 cents a gallon on dry wine, 20 cents on sweet wine. Ohio adds an additional $1 tax on sweet vines. Pennsylvania adds a 58-cent tax on dry and an 84-cent tax on sweet wines. Often counties, cities and other subdivisions pyramid taxes on those of nation and state. Wiser California, restricting her levy to 2 cents, has filled her coffers with more than $250,000 revenue since repeal. License fees, as well as taxes, tower to ruinous heights in many states. Massachusetts charge wholesale distributors SSOOO annual license. New Jersey has a SIOOO fee for selling wine not consumed on the premises. A single shipment of wine may be laden with as many as 11 license fees, not to mention several different taxes. The results are: Higher prices, poorer quality, more illicit manufacture, more basement vintners, more fly-by-night operators. And it doesn’t pay. While taxes were collected on 30.000,000 gallons of wine in the year following repeal, an estimated 25,000,000 gallons of basement-made wine went tax free. IN HAPPY AGREEMENT XITHEN both capital and labor agree that * the country is beginning to come out of the depression, there must be something in it. On the same day that the American Federation of Labor—usually deeply pessimistic—announced that “under the ruffled surface of the business stream, currents of revival are steadily gaining strength,” the United States Chamber of Commerce noted that a rise in production figures which began in December has continued steadily into March. While the federation saw small promise of Jobs for the jobless in the immediate future, the Chamber estimated that 700,000 should have been re-employed by March 31 over the beginning of the year. Certainly the conjunction of these two reports would seem to indicate pretty definitely that a real upward trend is at last in progress. NEW YOUTH PROBLEM r T'HE falling birth rate is ap: to do a good many things to America before it gets through. One of its unexpected by-products may be the emergence of a vast race of spoiled children. This quaint development is suggested by Professor William F. Ogburn of the University of Chicago, in an article in the current issue of the magazine Better Times. Professor Ogburn figures it on a straight supply and demand basis. The supply of children will decrease—or, at any rate, will not Increase at the old-time rate. The demand, in the sense of the love of parents for their children, will remain just as high as it ever was. and will perhaps even increase. The result will be that the child will be appreciated more. As Professor Ogburn remarks: “It seems probable that the child will receive more attention. With some groups that will be good for the child, no doubt. In many cases this out-of-the-ordinary attention may make the child too self-centered.” You can carry it still farther. Every parent knows that one of the most powerful tools in the molding of a child’s character is the bestowal of praise and blame for the child’s acts. Where children are prized more highly, comparatively. It is logical to expect that the scales will be unbalanced, the doses of blame will be diminished, and the amounts of praise increased. But Professor Ogburn isn’t through yet. He points out that when the proportion of children in the population is smaller, the average child will naturally associate with his elders more than is now the case. This will increase liis precocity, but he will not get those subtle, toughening Influences which come from constant association with youngsters of his own age. Tomorrow’s child, then, seems destined to approach manhood and womanhood under something of a handicap. And this rather gloomy forecast is Just one more reminder that modem times seem constantly conspiring to place new responsibilities on the shoulders of parents. There was a time when the parent's hardest problem was to find some way to feed, clothe, and educate a constantly growing brood. Shrinkage in the family’s size is apparently going to replace that problem with a new one. equally difficult. Remember, Eugene Grace said he decree wm ■ much as any one else—not war profits.

As I See It -BY GEN. HUGH S. JOHNSON.

CHICAGO, 111., March 20.—Huey Long challenges Bernie Baruch to debate him. Father Coughlin challenges the whole press of the country to debate him. As reported here he says that, if he is proved wrong, he will stop broadcasting. The challenge Is the fruit of a medieval idea that God takes a seat in the comer of anybody who is right in a controversy and by miracle if necessary, will always defend the right. If a rheumatic and toothless old woman was accused of being a, witch, the idea was that j science and learned judges could not render a verdict. There was a much better way to get the truth. All you had to do was to tie her up in a sack and dump her off the deep end into still water. If she drowned she was a witch. If she didn't, God had stepped in to prove it all a lie. Elsa was heiress to Brabant, but the greatest thug and best hatchetman in the empire said “No, I am.” This was very simple to those old savages and their emperor. Henry the Fowler simply said: “This thug challenges Elsa to a hatchet-contest so that God can mix in and we will know that the one who hacks the other up the most is right.” Os course, Elsa could not wield a battle-ax but it was according to the rules for anybody to pinch-hit for her. That time a magic knight named Lohengrin came down the river and got her out of trouble by chopping the principal thug up into mincemeat. Everybody applauded, but is magic fair in a life and death athletic contest? It is like horseshoes in boxing gloves, dopuig a race horse, or five aces in a poker game. nun THE whole idea of the challenge “to public debate” on a political question is to “settle it”—not by logic and reason—but by calling up the best tom-tom beaters on each side to see which can stir up the greatest primitive popular emotion. Bernie Baruch, who has one of the greatest liberal minds in this country—as I shall in due course prove—is a sensitive and reticent gentleman. He is almost inarticulate in controversial speech. Huey Long would make a monkey out of him in a mud-slinging tournament. As Calvin Coolidge is reported to have said: “It ain’t fitten to enter a scent-sprinkling contest with a skunk.” I disclaim any reference to Huey’s political odor notwithstanding his reference to me as a dead' herring. Yet it was one of the masters of our decorous mid-century senatorial oratory who said of another great Senator (Henry Clay, if memory serves) that he was like a dead mackerel on a beach in the moonlight. “All one could do was to glitter and to stink.” n n n FATHER COUGHLIN'S challenge seems a different, matter. He implies that the papers suppress him and offers to get off the radio if the press will discuss what he proposes. I don’t know whether they suppress him or not. If they do they are the more deceived. His banking bill is something which not one person out of a thousand understands. But he is selling it daily to millions—not by explaining it but by promising what it will do. He says it will bring back the Garden of Eden. I think the press ought to discuss that. He is certainly selling millions on the radio by his method. It is utter folly to attempt to meet Father Coughlin by silence. I never suggested that he be suppressed. I only proposed that he stop using the emotional magic of religion in his fight with reason and logic. If he wants tc ne a hatchet-man in this desperate battle royal, let him take off his magic coat and get down into the sawdust on the same terms as the rest of the boys. Using the mystery of religion is also like horseshoes in boxing gloves, doping race horses, and five aces in a poker game. But let’s not try to suppress him. Let’s say with Voltaire—tricky memory again—“I do not agree iyith a single word you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” (Copyright, 1935, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole . . or in part forbidden.

Capital Capers BY GEORGE ABELL

SENATOR PAT HARRISON of Mississippi is becoming as much the wrestling authority of the United States Senate, as Senator Warren Barbour, ex-pugilist of New’ Jersey, is its boxing champion. Pat never misses a wrestling bout if he can get them. He even prefers watching a struggle on the mat to hearing combats of oratory on the Senate floor. The new Irish wrestling sensation. Dan O’Mahoney (pronounced Mahany by the Irish) has greatly intrigued Pat’s interest. O’Mahoney has won 16 consecutive matches in this country. When he wrestled in Washington, veteran Senator Harrison was in his customary ringside seat. ' He looks like he’s got something,” was Pat’s comment after viewing the tussle. Incidentally, Pat showed good sportsmanship himself during the course of the match. Some one sat down in the Senator’s seat during his absence, but Pat didn’t disturb him on his return. He merely slipped into a vacant seat, saying to the man in the next chair: “This seat isn’t taken, is it? Somebody’s got mine.” NOTE: Minister Michael Mac White of the Irish Free State was one of those who welcomed Wrestler O’Mahoney in the name of the “auld counthry” w’hen he came to the Capital. “He’s a grand scrapper,” commented Envoy Michael. nun Ambassador castillo najera of Mexico is planning to add a little more color to Washington. “I am going to send to Mexico soon for some 'Nardos' —sweet-smelling tropical flowers which we have there,” he explained, “and put them in the conservatory of the embassy.” The conservatory will then resemble a miniature garden of Eden, observes feel, with Ambassador Castillo’s wire-haired fox terrier lying in the shade of a cactus, 17 canaries trilling musically, and tropical nardos exhaling sweet perfume. n n n ADOLF BERLE, one of President Roosevelt’s original “brain trusters,” has been making political speeches in the Midwest. In St. Louis, one of Adolf's listeners, enchanted with the flow of oratory which caused another original “brain truster" (Charles Taussig of New York) to refer to him as “Old Silver Tongue.” offered him passage on a private train to Louisville. Mr. Berle accepted and presented the ticket at the station. “What show are you with?” inquired the station master, after examining it. “Mv own.” quickly replied Berle. “Train 18,” said the other, and stamped the ticket. Berle boarded train 18 and spent a more or less pleasant trip en route to Louisville. He was amazed at the speed of the train and mentally thanked his friend for his courtesy. Upon arrival, he learned the cause of the speed. He had been the sole passenger on what is known as a “spinach train”—in this case, three freight cars laden only with that vegetable. Spinach trains make extra fast time—sc the spinach will remain fresh. “Ah,” sighs Adolf when friends jest about his St. Louis to Louisville train, “I say it’s a spinach train, and I say hooray for it!” It finally leaks out that the Hauptmann jury really has decided on a verdict of mercy. All of them have voted against going on the stage, which is a mercy verdict for audiences. The cost of ham and eggs has risen so high! we’ll soon have to order the combination without either one or the other.

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(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns. Make your letters short, so all can have a chance. Limit them to 250 words or less. Your letter must be signed, but names will be withheld at request of the letter writer J nun COUGHLIN CARRIES BANNER FOR PEOPLE OF NATION By T. D. Danaher. I believe the old saying, “Like Bigots Like,” and I see it is the truth, plainly manifested in this controversy existing today between the Irish priest and the general. The existence of “Old Glory” is due to the energy and sacrifice of the Coughlins and their like since the idea was first conceived, while the efforts of the progenitors of the general were aimed in a distinctly opposite direction. The general let the cat out of the bag. Somehow these Roman cassocks have been a thorn in the sides of the general and his Orange ancestors since the time that the arch sensualist, his Brittanic majesty Henry VIII of England, first ordained that Catholic churches cease to act as such, and all who were worthy wearers of Roman cassocks be banished or assassinated. But it seems that Father Coughlin has the wrong Bibl*. I wonder if the general would be pleased to lend a copy of t oat impromptu version which the saintly Henry authorized to be issued when he became the self-appointed ecclesiastical head of his people in England. Some scribe in The Times mixes the general in with some important Irish-Americans, but failed to include A1 Smith. Gen. Johnson Irish indeed! Why, yes, he is as Irish as Woodrow Wilson, Gibbs McAdoo or Benedict Arnold, and these Irishmen with the general included would paint the Atlantic red every month in the year with the blood of Americans at the bidding of their masters when it meant the preservation of the British Empire known now (thanks to De Valera) as the British Commonwealth of Vetians. Oh, J. P. O’Mahony how we miss you. An unfortunate condition exists in this country. We have 20 per cent of our people capitalizing the ignorance of the 80 per cent, and Charles E. Coughlin is busy educating us out of that slough while the “chocolate soldier” and his bosses are trying to dig us in. Father Coughlin, all real Americans are with you, and despite the venom of the Londonderry Orangemen you will still remain Father Coughlin the saintly shepherd of souls, and Charles E. Coughlin, the warden of American rights. P. S.—l wonder if the Roman cassock influenced the “general’s” vote in 1928? n n n ROADHOUSES BRANDED AS “HELL TAVERNS” BY READER By Rural Taxpayer. Here is an open letter to all rural taverns, barbecue stands, beer joints, dance halls, and gambling places that line the roads outside the city. First, this territory is for homes and children. Years ago, hard-working Christian people set up their homes along these roads and have invested every cent of money they could earn in improving them. They have invested a thousand dollars to every dollar the rural liquor joints have. Now let me describe one of these booze taverns. First, Mr. Brown bought an acre of ground and built a house for his family. His investment was about S6OOO. He has four children ranging in age fromto 12 years. A typical American home until along comes

IT DOESN’T MAKE SENSE

Socialist Plan Upheld

By Socialist. The idea that every man and woman more than 60 years old should receive S2OO a month is, in itself, fair and just. We congratulate Dr. Townsend for having aroused the multit ides into bringing pressure upon old party politicians forcing them to give consideration to the plight of our aged. Os the so-called advanced nations only the United States has permitted our aged to either shift for themselves or be shunted into poor houses after our industrial system of human exploitation has finished with them. However, would you trust oldline politicians, who have no real sympathy with legislation of this nature, but seek only spoiis for themselves and their henchmen to administer such laws, supposing that they should be forced into framing them by the mass pressure behind the Townsend plan? Look into the history and the platforms of the three political parties and you will find that only the Socialist party has consistently fought for an old-age pension. However, the Socialist party does not propose security for only one sector of our population, but for all; those able to work and those unable for reasons other than unwillingness. The Townsend plan proposes pensions for those more than 60. What about those between 40 and 60 who, under our present wastean ex-saloon keeper and purchases the acre next to Mr. Brow’n. He puts up a road house (but does not live in it himself). Then the drunks start rolling in. They drive up in automobiles making all the noise they can, all night long. Mr. Brown’s children hear nothing but cursing and swearing, filth and slime from the drunks and bums. Mr. Brown’s investment drops in value from S6OOO to about S2OOO, on account of the roadhouse next door. All home investments within 1000 feet of this roadhouse are cut in half. Just in the last year I have read of many shooting cases, people getting killed, robberies, holdups, and w’hat not in these roadhouses. Why people do not form armies and burn down these places, I don’t know’. For every dollar in taxes the state of Indiana collects from roadhouses, the taxpayers must raise $lO to correct the evils arising from these hell taverns. Gov. McNutt surely loves children and the Hoosier home when he approved the clause in the Indiana liquor bill abolishing the hell taverns. n n n GAS COMPANY ACQUISITION ACTIVITIES BRING FIRE By Alvin Lewis. Just as The Times is courageously publishing facts that have ever been held back from the public in regard to the amazing financial methods of the Citizens Gas Cos., a bill is signed by the Governor which commits the city to issue so-called revenue bonds for the taking over of the gas property. The city will then become as the “Old Man of the Sea,” condemned for 99 years to shoulder a heavy bag of tricks such as the Indianapolis Gas lease. Why all the rush to pull Mr. Eaton’s chestnuts out of the fire? Our honorable mayor, under pressure from Cleveland, expects to have the prettily engraved revenue bonds off the press afro nee. Is there some consideration offered

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ful system of individual capitalism, can not be exploited for profit? What about the source of revenue for the Townsend plan? Canny politicians will give the Townsend plan lip service and will seize upon the consumer tax as an easy source of additional money for spoils politics, but if the plan is to be put into effect in our present economic system it will be only through inflation and the aged will receive their S2OO a month in printing press money. The old party politicians can give you an unbearable burden of sales and turnover taxes, inflation, and a meaningless roll of S2OO a month, but only through social ownership of the natural resources and the essential monopolies can you attain real security and the satisfaction of S2OO a month in tangible form. We produce wealth only by our daily use of man-power, machines and our natural resources. Under the present system we have seen millions of our fellow men denied access to these two basic needs for a life of abundance. Townsend planners: Look beyond the symbol of money, beyond the single humanitarian idea of Dr. Townsend to the broad ideas of security and the good life for all our people in this the richest country in natural resources, manpower and brainpower on the face of the earth. Such is the commonwealth plan of the Socialist party.

for all this speed, or is it possible to make out of the poor gas company a Democratic stronghold for those who vote right. n n n SUGGESTS MORE ‘ARTING,’ LESS THROAT-CUTTING’ By Bird Baldwin. To John Thompson, re your articles of late—You really can’t expect exhibits of art if there ain’t enough art available contemporarily—or sumpin. If the artists would spend their time “arting” instead of throat-cut-ting, the show gang might be able to put over a few exhibits. nun DEFENDS PUBLICATION OF ARTICLES ON HUEY LONG By Frank B. French. I would like to answer the “Disgusted Reader” who so severely criticised Huey Long in your paper March 9. The “Disgusted Reader” surely has that rare and nearly extinct disease of being overpaid and overfed. The “Disgusted Reader,” man or woman, needs to be criticised for not having the courage to sign his or her name to such a slurring article written and published before the public. What Huey Long states he intends to do for this country is headline material and the reason the papers

Daily Thought

Do violence to no man; neither accuse any falsely; and be content with your wages.—St. Luke, 3:14. NO man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting as to which may be true.—Hawthorne.

.MARCH 20, 1935

publish every word of his speeches, anri about 98 per cent of the American public reads it and is not disgusted. is proof that the “Disgusted Reader” is one of the other 2 per cent. st a a ' To F. H.: Since anew wagon already had been purchased for Charles, we sent him the 10 cents you forwarded to us.

So They Say

We will never molest, nor ever have thought nor will think of molesting the Italian colonies of Eritrea and Somaliland. Emperor Haile Selassie of Abyssinia. Private shipbu.lders will soon come to grief if they continue to feel that there’s something immoral and unpatriotic about the government building its own ships.—Senator Homer T. Bone. Academic freedom should be the freedom of the learners to learn and not the freedom of the professor to profess or to indoctrinate.-—John W. Studebaker, United States Commissioner of Education. It is not sufficient to be known as “good citizens;” we must be good for something. Our greatest problem is the number of intelligent people who are morally unemployed. —Bishop Ernest M. Stires. The fact of my putting nail polish on my toes is no different to me as a dancer than to a choir girl who puts polish on her finger nails. —Ruth St. Denis, famous dancer.

I’m a Dreamer

BY AUSTIN JAMES

They say that I’m a dreamer man Who’d rather sit all day and dream. Than work and toil like other folks And emulate the slaver’s scheme. They say I’m just an easy man Who’d rather sit around and write, Than strive in manual industry To show the temper of my might. And yes, there’s some who will avei4 That I care not for gold or wealth, That I’m completely satisfied To live with nothing but my health. Well, sir, it’s true this dreamer stuff, Ci course I like to sit and tiream. But they know not what from it all May come some sweet or tender theme. That I can sit and write about, And which some saddened soul may see And find an avenue for thought Os heavy burdens —set them free. Ah no, they can’t —they've nevet known. Perhaps, the comfort of a verse, The gentle touch a poet gives To thought—in which they might immerse Their troubled hearts. I’m satisfied To bask beneath the radlrmt beams Os those who’ve found some happiness By reading writings oi my dreams