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THURSDAY. MARCH M. IWS. POLITIC AL WIRE-WALKING SEVERAL Administration leaders some day may be tripped up by their own political nimbleness. / A lew days ago. Gov. Marriner Eccles of the Federal Reserve Board told the House Banking Committee that the government should adopt a stiff graduated Income tax. skim off surplus savings, plow the receipts Into public works, thereby building up the purchasing power upon which Industry's profits depend. Senators Robert La Follette and James Couzens took Mr. Eccles at his word and proposed specific taxes. Now Mr. Eccles nas reversed his advice, saying higher Income taxes should not be applied until after prosperity has returned. Perhaps he didn’t mean 07 his first statement what everybody seemed to think he meant. Perhaps he really meant, as his second statement appears to make clear, that we should wait until prosperity somehow miraculously returns, and then tax to retain It. Perhaps his amendment to his program was not prompted by the political unpopularity of taxes. But to the average man. his clarification looks like political footwork. Nor is this an isolated case. In January, President Roosevelt sent up his social security message. His party leaders on the House Ways and Means Committee started working on a law to give the people security in their jobs through unemployment insurance and old-age pensions and insurance. Now. with the third month of the Congress session ending, the Wavs and Means Committee gaily recesses Its deliberations and puts the bonus debate ahead of security. Apparently the security bill is to be permitted to drift into the adjournment jam. That strategy kUled unemployment insurance *nd old-age pension bills last session. Administration leaders who think the popular desire for security is merely a passive yearning are apt to be rudely awakened. The people are aggressively intent upon security. If they fail to get the proposed plan, they probably will force some scheme not as sound. In Oregon this week, the voters recal.ed a state legislator because of his opposition to the Townsend Plan.

BETTER WAR PLAN rr’WO war plan proposals are before Congress. The McSwain bill before the House, drafted by Gen. Hugh Johnson and Bernard Baruch, is primarily a mobilization plan. It purports to. but would not, abolish war profits. It would give the President power to freeze prices, draft manpower, take over whatever industries and resources are essential to defense, and license other businesses. It might work out to increase private war profits. The Flynn plan, which the munitions investigating committee intends to write into a Senate bill, goes much farther. It would fix prices, close commodity exchanges, abolish speculation, take over industries essential to the conduct of the war, draft officers of these corporations into service at army officers' pay, take by taxes half of all corporation profits up to and all profits above six per cent, tax individual Incomes from SIOOO or less up to sufficient to pay for the war, confiscating incomes above SIO,OOO. Supporters of the Flynn plan admit that It is not a complete program. Yet it is obviously superior to the McSwain plan. -In 1917 and 1918.” John T. Flynn said in outlining his plan, "we had our war and we sent the bill to our children and grandchildren. In the next war we must resolve, as intelligent as well as civilized beings, that while one part of the population —the army—fights in the field, the other part that stays at home will pay the bills.” In addition to a war profits curb, other legislation is needed to redefine our national policy or. neutrality and freedom of the seas, and to give the government adequate control cf the munitions business, with power to limit peacetime as well as wartime profits. These additional measures are needed to help keep us out of future wars. This legislation should be enacted before the close of this session. It can be amended thereafter as further investigation develops new holes to plug. A BONI S COMPROMISE REP. DAVID J. LEWIS of Maryland, with a forthrightness that has made him nationally famous, has brought a minority report from the Ways and Means Committee condemning both the Patman and the Vinson bonus bills. He suggests instead adoption of the Tvd-lrgs-Andrews bonus bill, which would pay veterans who prefer cash now the 1935 maturity value of their certificates instead of the 1945 maturity value. In other words, he would give the veterans what they are entitled to under rfce law. instead of awarding additional benefits as proposed under the Patman and Vinson plans. Our government's finances, Mr. Lewis believes, are not in shape to stand the strain of ladling out class privileges without regard to the needs of the recipients. Os the Patman plan to print two billion dollars in currency to pay the bonus. Mr. Lewis says: , “It would at one stroke inflate the outstanding currency by about 40 per c at and start us down the toboggan of repudia ion of Insurance policies, public and private pensions and bonds " Supporters of the Vinson bill, he says, sense “the financial chaos implied in the flat philosophy," but provide no method for raising the money for immediate payment of the 1945 value. With the Treasury in the red, “the modicum of public confidence still remaining may receive a destructive shock by a bond issue to pay two billion dollars sot due until

1945, including 10 years’ gift of Interest not yet accrued or earned.” ■ " 1 r 1 ■■ " JUSTICE HOLMES’ LEGACY MUCH of the Significance of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes’ bequest of more than half of his estate ‘‘to the United States of America” will be lost If Congress tries to find a specific memorial purpose for the money. Let it go into the general fund, where it will promote the general welfare as well as or better than In any specific use. Thus it will answer the cry of thc*e who, much farther from the scene of government activity than Justice Holmes and with much less intellect to discern what is of use and what is not, evade their taxes or pay them with a grumble that “the government wastes our money.” As Justice Holmes knew, the government of a democratic people spends money at least as wisely as the average'human agency. Much of the outcry against it is only a mask for unwillingness to share with society what one has been fortunate enough to accumulate. We are all going to have to pay a lot more taxes for the common good. Let Justice Holmes' gift go, as he must have intended it to go, the same way at those taxes. The best way to appreciate this very different gift is not to differentiate it from other government income. THE CRIME BATTLE \ DEMOCRACY based on a system of local governments as nearly independent as possible is apt to run into a hole chain of headaches when it sets out to combat modern crime.To fight crime in this day and age you have to have a centralized authority which can strike anywhere in the country without regard to state and city boundaries. To retain democracy in Its traditional form, you want just as little centralization as possible. In other words, the setup which preserves freedom the best is the very setup which is the least efficient at fighting crooks. We have tried to get around that of late by giving the Bureau of Investigation of the Department of Justice more powers. To an extent, this has worked very well. But it can only be carried so far. The foundation of our police work must be the local systems—the city police force and the county sheriff's organization. The immediate problem, then, is to find some way of federalizing our anti-crime forces without infringing upon the rights of city and state to govern themselves in the old-time manner. A bill is now pending in the Ontario Legislature which might profitably be studied in detail south of the Canadian border. This bill would set up a director of special police services for the entire province. He would have power to direct every local constable in Ontario to perform such duties as he might require: he would be, ex-officio, a magistrate. empowered to issue summonses and warrants anywhere in the province. Nevertheless, each city would retain full control of Its own police force. It would select, pay and administer the force just as it does now. The provincial director w’ould not interfere in strictly*local affairs. He would act only in those cases where crime spills over from one city to another. It ought to be possible for some such system to be worked out in the United States as well. The advantages are obvious. There would be enough centralization to make the lot of the criminal infinitely harder, but not enough to reduce the independence of the local units of government. If we drift too long, leaving all but strictly local affairs up to the Department of Justice, we are apt to wake up some day and find that cities and states have surrendered to the Federal government more powers than it Is good for them to surrender. It might be wise to look into this Ontario proposal pretty thoroughly.

A WORD FOR THE ARMY A^HARLES LATHROP PACK, president of the American Tree Association, and lifelong worker for forest conservation, is not frightened by charges of militarism arising from the Army’s supervision of the CC~ In a letter to Secretary of War Dem. Mr. Pack urges that the corps be continued in Army hands. He joints out that there are two distinct jobs J.i connection with the direction of the corps. One is the management of the men in the camps, performed by Army officers; the other is the direAion of the men in reforestation and similar projects by trained foresters. Extensive survey’s made by the American Tree Association, he says, have convinced him that the Army is doing its share of the job efficiently. It is probably true that the CCC, under Army control, could be perverted into a militaristic outfit. But there is little evidence that anything of the kind has happened. Mr. Pack knows the details of the case about as weli as any one. His word should carry a good deal of weight. Mussolini has reorganized his cabinet, seven of the 13 job* going to his most trusted men— Mussolini, Mussolini, Mussolini. Mussolini, Mussolini. Mussoknl and Mussolini. The Nobel prize winner, who has discovered a simple cure for bilious headache, won't make much of a showing in th‘s country until he reports a cure for the hangover type. The man who emarried his former wife, so hell have her as a partner at bridge, must have had an awful time digging up alibis while she was gone. Mother Dionne, after a week in Chicago, wishes she were lack home. So did many Chicagoans even be‘ore the week was over. Scientists have uncovered what is believed to be tne oldest city in the world. Some of our own cities m.\y not be as old, but they can appear Just as dead. Anyway, any hunter who can't bring dowh a wild fowl within three shots, the proposed limit for shotgun magazines, is no hunter; he's foul. Prof. Tugwell still seems to have considerable ■ ull with the Admlnistratioc .

As I See It BY GEN. HUGH S. JOHNSON CHICAGO, March 21.— Jitters— I have talked to a good many very important business men, a few lawyers, and some labor leaders out where J used to try to be in business and the practice of law myself. There is no use denying that they have a fair amount of jitters. I think that business is better than sentiment which, frankly, isn’t saying very much for either. As for business, who can blame them? We tried to write a whole new order for business in NRA and, by one means or another, put about 96 per cent of employers under it—a reorientation of, an economic universe. We thought we had altered the anti-trust acts and we did, by agreement, change the hours of labor from an average of 52 to an average 40 hours a week. Now nobody knows whether this new dispensation is going on forever—or for two years —or not at all. Nobody knows whether a code is a code or just another combination or conspiracy in restraint of trade. Nobody dares do anything under the old order for fear of the Federal Trade Commission. Nobody dares do anything under the new order for fear it wili not last. a a OTHER jitters come from seeing things under the bed. One man said to me, ‘‘We don’t dare fight a strike which we know we can win for fear of Federal intervention.” And when I asked him what kind of a strike, he said. ‘‘Oh, in our refusal to deal with these damned unions,” and he had signed both a code and an agreement with the President undertaking to bargain collectively with representatives of his employes. There is no question that, in this particular city, the battle lines are drawn. The small industries out here simply do not intend to comply with that part of the law which recognized unions. Now I formerly had that complex, but what I saw in NRA made a convert out of me. Collective bargaining is a necessity of our future. As I have frequently explained, it is my opinion that either a company union or a craft union is an economic anomaly. That, however, is not the point. The point Is whether we shall have trade unionism in this country and, in that point, in the rather grandiose language of an earlier day —“Live or die, sink or swim, survive or perish,” I have taken my stand. I think it is an absolute necessity in this complex economic era. (Copyright, 1935, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part forbidden.

Liberal Viewpoint BY DR. HARRY ELMER BARNES HITLER has at last scrapped the Treaty of Versailles —or at least those sections of It which have held Germany in military bondage and tutelege. The Allies are now reaping the whirlwind which they sowed in the treacherous wind of 1918-19. Never in human history would a generous peace have been more beneficial to victorious powers than in the peace-making opportunity after the Armistice. The. Allies were in a position to have gained almost every one of their avowed war aims—democracy, disarmament, the rights of small nations, good-will in Europe, and a world organization. Unfortunately, these ends, which were played up by President Wilson, the Entente war orators and their press agents, were not the real goals of the Allies. These were embodied in the secret treaties which envisaged the destruction of Germany’s economic power, the parcelling out of her colonial empire, the destruction of her fleet, and the award of much of her European territory to Poland. France and the like. President Wilson was only slightly successful in blocking these plans. a a a JN 1918, the German people were weary of war. ■4 They were tired of the Hohenzollerns and imperial t rule. They longed for peace They wished to try to control their own political destiny through republicanism and democracy. They aspired to extensive social reform and popular justice. They were only too willing to disarm, provided the rest of the world did likewise. They were eager to co-operate in an impartial investigation and assessment of war guilt. They were reconciled to the idea of restoring Belgium. The war-weary German people refused to back up the high command in any program of retiring to the Hindenburg line and fighting it out to the last ditch. Trusting President Wilson, they fell away from their rulers and compelled acquiesence in the Armistice, supposedly based on the Fourteen Points of President Wilson. But the Fourteen Points were blandly shelved when peace was made. Not a one was fully lived up to, and most of them were wholly scrapped. Germany disarmed to the bone and in good faith at first. But France, like any guilty despoiler, demanded security In saving her ill-gotten gains. She trotted out the silly bogey of “the three invasions of France” in the 19th century—all of which were in answer to initial French aggression! She demanded special protection and insisted on a vast armament. She built up a real military hegemony in the place of the mythical German hegemony of 1914. a a a UNDER French leadership, the Allies saddled Germany with the exclusive guilt for the World War, and penalized her with staggering reparations, ostensibly justified by this unique responsibility for 1914. Whereas Prussia had levied an indemnity of one billion dollars on France in 1871, the Allied powers placed one of 33 billion dollars on Germany. The German people hoped that this vindictiveness would prove only temporary that reason and justice would ultimately prevail. They were cheered for a time by Locarno. But the fundamental Injusices remained unaltered, and no promise was given that they ever would be remedied voluntarily by the Allies. This generated a spirit of desperation in Germany, which I was able to observe in 1926-27 In every class from the old Junkers to the workers. The Germans became receptive to any demagogue who would promise and reiterate revision of the Treaty of Versailles. Men who would not have spoken to Hitler on the street— Indeed would have thrown him off the sidewalk —in 1926, ultimately rallied about his Nazi banner. Germany now has revision, but at what a cost to both Germany and the world! If Europe moves into another world calamity, It will be one which was builded at Versailles by those men who had a popular mandate to bring to an appropriate close “the war to end all war.” In view of the status of a modern European monarch, that demand of 25 cents a day salary by the boy king of Siam seems outrageous. They’ve invented a robot plane pilot. Now what we need is a robot automobile driver, operated by a voice from the back seat. Remember back when nations acquired new territory by exploration, in the days before punitive expeditions? All we hope is that passage of the four-billion-dollar bill will mean as much relief for the people as it does for the Administration. What we can’t understand is why Papa Dionne objects tc someone taking away from him the job of walking the floor at night with flv babies.

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UPHOLDS HIS THEORY ON RUGGED INDIVIDUALISM By Charles L. Blume. There have been several answers to my letter on rugged individualism. None of the writers has really seen it in the right light. They remind me of the story of the seven blind men who attempted to describe an elephant. My friends, you have disappointed me in not answering my questions. The questions are good civic inquiries; answer them honestly to yourselves, then compare your answers to present conditions—you will find that they are far from vague. Let us define rugged individualism. It is that quality of character that makes the best of adverse conditions; the ability to carry on in spite of heartbreaks or bitter disappointments; the courage to stand against encroachment on the rights of free thinking and free speech; the lasting steadfast faith in God; the right to enter any field and succeed according to ability. My friends, are all men with vast wealth rugged idividualists? What are the small business men struggling against competition and governmental interference to be called? Success is not measured in terms of wealth, but in terms of service and achievement. Wealth is an accident. Used wrongfully, it becomes a menace to those w r ho possess it—destroys them and those who are their heirs. Financial history will prove my contention. What are w r e to call the men and women who manage to fight on and are loaded with taxes to carry on relief for a great many people who have merely lost their nerve? There are some people who -wouldn't work if a job was offered them. No, we are not going to go back to the jungles; we are not going to build our own roads or automobiles; we are not going to mount the steed of single-minded selfishness, but we are going to mount to steed of true rugged individualism and with the banner of our courage unfurled rationalism and not radicalism! a a a SUNDAY TAVERN CLOSING WILL CAUSE TROUBLE By Helen Kay Tounf. There simply isn't any way to appease these Anti-Saloon League fellows, it seems. How they storm that the new liquor law is a whitewash. Well, it may be a whitewash to them, but it is a washout to the citizen who likes an occasional glass of beer on Sunday. How much saner it would have been to have closed bars until 2 o’clock, let them open at that hour, remain so until 6 and open again after church hours from 9 to 11. Under existing conditions every Daily Thought . If, when evil cometh upon us, as the sword, judgment, or pestilence, or famine, we stand before this house, and in Thy presence, (for Thy name is in this house), and cry j unto Thee in our affliction, then Thou wilt hear and help.—ll Chronicles, 20:9. HEART troubles in God’s husbandry are not wounds, but the putting in of the spade before planting the seeds—Henry Ward Beecher.

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third house in certain districts will be a bootleg joint. There are already many who have taken advantage of this Sunday closing and who are selling standard beers at 25 cents a bottle In private residences. Any man or group of men or any organization should be intelligent enough to realize that you can’t thwart a thirsty person. If he can not be within the law' he will be outside it and the average citizen who will sing “The Star-Span-gled Banner” to Heaven and reiterate his allegiance to law and order again and again will go 17 blocks out of his way for a glass of beer when someone says that he dare not have it. We’re fostering continued bootlegging in more ways than one, and when some of these prohibition shouters take time out to really think, if they can, they will have to admit secretly if not openly that the correct solution to our liquor problem is still a long w 7 ay off. Personally, I don’t care a hoot about the Sunday closing. It is the effect upon the general public that Is to be taken into consideration. There are going to be more back doors open than you can shake a stick at. It might be a little more dignified to have a family entrance to these taverns and keep women away from the bars as in the old days. However, we’re barking up the wrong tree now and those who don’t want to pay 25 cents a bottle for beer on Sunday or who have not had the foresight to stock up Saturday night will be getting out the malt can and the sugar or whatever it takes. So They Say We believe there is something unlucky for royal personages in this present time.—M. Smaksman, confidential secretary to former King Prajadhipok of Siam.’ Anyhow, I would rather have Huey Long attack me than praise me —Norman Davis, roving United States ambassador. , The superman of the future is with us today in the young man of 1935. President William Foster Pierce of Kenyon College, O. The love to own property must be above everything else,— Gov. George H. Earle of Pennsylvania . pTHE WIND IIY POLLY LOIS NORTON If !. were the wind w’hat fun I’d have Rippling the stream at the water s edge, Playing on leaves in trees and hedge, Ruffling the feathers of sleeping birds. Bending the rushes to my will! If I were the wind, how gay’ Id be Filling the sails that go to sea. Helping the wing that the world's waist girds, Sniffing the smells at the cottage *111! If I were the wind, what fun Id h&vej