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WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 8, 1938

JACKSON DAY the followers of Andrew Jackson will -*■ dine together, listen to speeches by local leaders and by the President on the radio. Considering what has happened in Washington this week this will be the most important Jackson Day gathering since the ceremonial began. The point about the meeting this year is that it will emphasize that Andrew Jackson fought battles with the Supreme Court. He v.as the first people's President in the strict sense. We hope progress toward recovery need, not be interrupted by anything like the Jacksonian battles. But the disciples of Jackson should not meet reaction iying down. BLOCK THIS ROAD TO WAR! TOHN PIERPONT MORGAN and his associates did "all in their power to help the Allies win.” We quote from the Morgan statement given before the Senate Munitions Committee hearing. After the invasion of Belgium by Germany, the financiers ‘‘were deeply shocked” and ‘‘in spite of President Wilson’s urging impartiality ‘even in thought’ we found it quite impossible to be impartial as between right and wrong.*’ "We realized that if the Germans should win, the freedom of the rest of the world would be lost. "We agreed that we should help the Allies win the war as soon as possible. That thought w T as the fundamental idea underlying everything that we did from the beginning cf the struggle till the armistice.” Mr. Morgan here shows how the fortunes of his house, deeply rooted though it was and is still in the economic life of this country, were involved with the war fortunes of the Allies during the entire period that President Wilson was strenuously trying to keep this country out. We do not question the sincerity of the sympathies of Mr. Morgan and his associates in that time when war was sweeping the world. We only ask what assurance have we, under present law, that our country will be able to steer a peaceful and neutral course, if the moral indignation of Mr. Morgan and his fellow financiers should happen to become aroused in 1936 over the invasion of Ethiopia (which threatens the British Empire) to the same pitch that it reached in 1914 when Belgium was invaded (which also threatened the British Empire). The answer is none—as the neutrality law now stands. The assurance should be quickly written into the new neutrality statutes. THE LICENSE PLATE CASE 'T'HE city and state police enforcement of the motor license law is not unreasonable. During the early years of the depression many weeks of grace were granted. But that was before automobile banditry and drunken driving became epidemic. Aside from the duty of the state to collect its revenijes on time, the need for the prompt registry of all cars has a social importance. This is borne out by the fact that since Jan. 1 a number of sets of 1£36 plates have been stolen from parked cars. This can mean only one thing—the presence of car owners trying to beat the law and save theiv license fee. It may mean in some cases that criminals are trying to hide their identity. Indiana has lagged behind some other states in Its motor vehicle regulations. The licensing grace period was one case. Lack of car inspection was another. Lack of drivers’ examinations was a third. If the state enforces the license requirement it may get up the courage to add other needed reforms. CUTTING DOWN THE CCC WHITTLING down the CCC camps has turned out to be a major headache for the Administration. Nearly every time elimination of a camp is proposed, the congressman in that district goes over the head of Director Robert Fechner and protests to the White House. The result is that this task, originally scheduled tor completion by Christmas, is still in progress. Meanwhile the political aspects of camp elimination have been thoroughly explored and the results laid before those in charge. Some members of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee have pointed out that less resentment is aroused by the liquidation of camps far out in the woods than of those near towns which have profited from the campers' trade. Also they discovered that the Army reservation camps are easy to dispense with, and that this at the same time meets the criticism that CCC is a step toward militarization of American youth. Mr. Fechner, however, asserts that worthwhile projects will be continued and those camps cut off where the work is completed. "No politics” will rule all decisions, he says. Soil erosion camps in particular are scheduled to be saved. There are now 2428 camps, and they are to be cut to around 2000. WHO MAKES THE LAWS? A NGTHER judge of the lower Federal courts has used his injunction powers to nullify an act of Congress and stay the government’s hand in carrying out such an act. This time it is Federal Judge John P. Barnes of Chicago. In an oral opinion he has declared the Guffey Coal Act unconstitutional and enjoined its operation on the ground that "mining is not interstate commerce.*’ More than a score of injunctions have been laid against this act. passed by Cong-ess to ameliorate the intolerable conditions in miserystricken coal fields of the land. • The Guffey Act is, a law, duly passed by Congress and signed by the President. So are the AAA. the Utility Act, the w agner Labor Act and other reform measures. Yet - mdreds of injunctions have been issued by lower Federal judges halting the government In its enforcement. These judges are using their equity powers not to preveni lawless acts, but to nullify laws; cot to protect the people from harm.

but to protect interested corporations from the effect of laws passed by the people’s Congress. Congress has already curbed the Federal courts' abuse of the injunction in two respects. When it found these courts using injunctions against labor unions under the anti-trust laws Congress passed the Norris-La Guardia anti-injunction law. When it found these courts being used by utilities in rate cases Congress passed the Johnson Act. Perhaps the time has come for Congress to speak again. In his annual message President Roosevelt suggested this might be necessary: “The carrying out of the laws of the land as enacted by the Congress requires protection until final adjudication by the highest tribunal of the land. The Congress has the right and can find the means to protect its own prerogatives.” “AND THE LAW GOES ’ROUND AND AROUND” r I ''HERE is going to be a lot of confusion among the youth of the land if the school and college logic classes ever take up the Supreme Court’s majority opinion on the AAA. For they will find the words and the thoughts of these six elder statesmen veering and varying even between two pages of the opinion. And the bewilderment of the students, adults as well as youths, will be aggravated by study of other things these same venerable gentlemen have said in other cases, on the bench as judges, and off, as special pleaders. Justice Roberts, who wrote the AAA opinion, says on Page 11, for instance, after a scholarly dissertation on the historic background and meaning of the general welfare taxing clause: "It results that the power of Congress to authorize expenditure of public moneys for public purposes is not limited by the direct grants of legislative power (to the Federal government) found in tlie Constitution.” But on the next page he says this dictum must be brushed aside! “Powers not granted (to the Federal government) are prohibited. None to regulate agricultural production is given, and therefore legislation by Congress for that purpose is forbidden.” This is the same Justice Roberts who said in the New York milk case opinion: ‘‘This court has from the early days affirmed that the power to promote the general welfare is inherent in government,” and "if one embarks in a business which public interest demands shall be regulated, he must know regulation will ensue.” tt tt a SUPPOSE the logic class considers Chief Justice Hughes, who voted with Mr. Roberts against the AAA; Justice Hughes, who said in the court’s decision upholding the Minnesota mortgage moratorium law, "The legislation was addressed to a legitimate end, that is, the legislation was not for the mere advantage of particular individuals, but for the protection of a basic interest of society.” This is the same justice who, as a great constitutional lawyer in 1921, filed a brief in a Federal Court upholding a Federal farm loan act under this same general welfare taxing clause, in which he said: ‘‘Congress has power to use the public money, and to provide for the borrowing of money, to aid in agricultural development throughout the country in accordance with the systematic and general plan to promote the cultivation of the soil, involving the application of money through loans or otherwise, and that Congress, having this power, could exercise it, by the adoption of appropriate means to that end and the creation of instrumentalities for that purpose. Congress has the power to judge for itsslf what fiscal agencies the government needs and its decision of that question is not open to judicial review.” Among the six who now hold that orily states can deal with agriculture there is Justice Sutherland, who said for the same court majority in knocking out a state income-tax law only a few weeks ago: “As citizens of the United States we are members of a single great community consisting of all the states united and not of distinct communities consisting of the states severally.” At this point, maybe the logic class had better be dismissed. It may be feeling a bit dizzy. AN HISTORIC WEEK . T HI S is a memorable week for Indiana’s farmers. The first pole in the co-operative rural electrification project will be set tomorrow near Lebanon. That pole will be a symbol. Once begun, the work of lightening the rural housewife’s toil and that of her husband will spread throughout the state. Modernizing the farm—doing away with the kerosene lamp, introducing the electric refrigerator, giving power for farm machinery—ranks with city slum clearance in progressive administration. The rural electrification program will soon be refected in orders for electrical equipment—one more step out of the depression. ROLL OF HONOR nPHE head of another prominent German radical A has rolled in the sand at Hitler’s feet. He was Rudolf Claus, condemned for “preparing for treason.” That some time may prove a proud epitaph. A WOMAN’S VIEWPOINT By Mrs. Walter Ferguson in' MERSON wrote, “A foolish consistency is the J -' hobgoblin of little minds.” If that be true, then womer must answer to a charge of pettiness, especially when it comes to their hospitality. To begin with, a thousand or more rules were made for the rich, and only the rich can afford to follow them. Take, as the simplest example, the custom of serving meals according to ducal palace standards—with each dish passed so that every guest may help himself. Certainly the fashion must have originated in establishments where a full staff of servants was available. Yet today it flourishes in many American homes where only one maid is employed. So you get a bit of this, or that, and being hungry you gobble it down before the other dishes arrive. Then you sit staring uncomfortably at an empty plate. The bread invariably follows after the meat and all vegetables have gone their rounds, although the male guests gnash their teeth for it. Meanwhile the hostess takes their minds off their miseries with sprightly conversation, for what does the comfort or even the hunger of guests mean to a woman who wants to impress them with her fashionable menage? Hundreds of useless and expensive gadgets are now the vogue—service plates, lace doilies under finger bowls, frills on the chicken and parsley in the peas. It takes as much china, glass and silver to serve a dinner party as it does to stock a small hotel. Down in the cow country, Emily Posting has even gone to the lengths of serving butterless bread at formal affairs. Heaven knows why, since we all resemble Milne’s king in those parts and “like a little butter with our bread.” Anyway, we sweat blood for fear we’ll break some Newport tradition, and we run our husbands into debt imitating Mrs. Astorbilt of Miami, while the moat we achieve for our pains is a hospitality sincerity or zest.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES .

Squaring The Circle With McCREADY HUSTON

"PERSONS of experience would say that nothing could be done about the testimonial banquet to relieve its deadliness. They would say that guests would have to continue to suffer from its monotony. Yet all the time there has been a remedy and nothing was said about it. I discovered it in the dinner of the State Federation of Labor, at which tne incoming and outgoing officers were feted. The key to the situation was that there was no long speakers’ table. Everybody was seated the same, at round tables each with eight places. It is surprising how elimination of a speakers’ table improves what is usually a bore and a chore. tt tt tt A T one table was T. N. Taylor, erf Terre Haute, the retiring president, who had not stood for reeleciion. Across the room was Carl Mullen, of Hammond, the incoming president. This informal, easy arrangement, with everybody on an equality, struck me as worthy of being copied by those who get up banquets. tt tt tt T WAS glad to find at my table Edgar Perkins Sr., a veteran in labor circles, for many years president of the Typographical Union in Indianapolis. Three generations of the family have held the same position—Mr. Perkins, his father and his son. Seventy, Mr. Perkins could pass for 60 and, on the State Industrial Board many knotty questions are referred to him. tt tt tt the police are arresting ~ “ motorists v/ho display last year s plates, one could wish they would do something about drivers who splash one’s last year’s trousers and shoes. I suggest that a survey oe made by some engineers to determine how close to tfie curb one may stand, waiting to cross, without receiving a tidal wave against one’s personal appearance. Then an orange fine could be drawn on the sidewalk. Recently the cleaning and pressing bill has grown out of all reason just because we got too close to the onrushing cars. tt tt tt T SEEM to have booted one in -*• referring to the desire of the American Association of University Professors for tenure of office. The word I used was "permanent.” A member of the association corrects me, saying that what is desired is "indefinite” tenure. I should have known better and I apologize if the feelings of any members of the association have been hurt. I might have known that indefinite tenure was right because that is what we have of this mundane existence and the professors would not ask anything more. '* tt tt tt / T'HE literature of the National Tattooing Registration Association is alluring. If I break through to the core of the idea it is that farmers should place their registered brand on their chickens, pigs, horses, implements, harness—everything movable. By joining the association the applicant receives a brand, which is registered in the home office at Saginaw, Mich. This brand is placed on file with sheriffs and state police of all states having members of the association. By this brand, stolen poultry, livestock and property can be identified. It sounds like an extension of the human finger-printing idea. tt tt tt T'\G you remember how boys used to tattoo themselves with colored pictures which would transfer from paper to the skin on being wet? And that reminds me of school companions who were known by the number of warts on their hands, and were proud of them. tt tt tt ORGANIZED high school basketball and other sports have lifted modern boys out of the slough in which warts were considered assets. OTHER OPINION Greenlee and McNutt [Fort IVayne News-Sentinel] Mr. Greenlee's importance has been that of a noisy radio blaring forth in the quiet hours, or that of an unmelodic bullfrog marring the quiet solitude of a summer night. His claims to lasting fame are essentially those of a Peck’s Bad Boy operating on a statewide scale and given to the breaking of windows and the pulling out of chairs from under persons who would like to sit. The Governor's other satellites have not liked Greenlee because he was too close to the throne —and standing room about a throne is always sold at a premium. The rivals now must feel happy. With a logic that is incontrovertible, Greenlee is assuming that if the state can put up with a McNutt, it might be able to put up with a Greenlee, so he is entering the race for the Governorship. When all is said and done, the entire affair has the appearance only of a quarrel between two political hounds, one afflicted with rabies, the other suffering from distemper. Both of them merit delivery at the public pound November.

A FRIEND IN NEED STILL

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The Hoosier Forum

(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, reliuious controversies excluded. Make vour letter i short, so all can have a chance. Limit them to 250 words or less. Your letter must be sioned, but names will be withheld on reauest.l tt tt tt WONDERS WHY MANY SEEK HANDOUTS By Jimmy Cafouros One truth glares at us like a lurid, fervid eye. Why is it that every one from the veteran to the aged, the students and the unemployed, the army, navy, banks, railroads and farmers, are looking for a handout? What sort of Utopia are we blindly groping- for? Some clamor to share the wealth. Others raise a din to even up the income. We are becoming like hungry revolutionaries who would upset the castle, slay the inmates, mob the servants and distribute the furniture. One would have a mirror, another a bed, another a cooking pot, another a small cannon. Does this not indicate chaos? Grant that the majority are poor. In fact, the majority always will be poor. At least if they work they eat, they are clothed, they carry the cross of life. But if they wreck the castle, they have no defense against strange intruders, they have no order among themselves, a famine pervades the land, and general chaos reigns. Better that we should share the work, whatever our lot may be. There are always good times to come. tt tt a HOLDS TOWNSEND PLAN IS SOLE SOLUTION By William Cooperider, Clay City Modern machinery, scientific methods and invention for doing all kinds of work, manual and professional, have so. revolutionized the fundamental principles of government and human progress that a dispensation for a more equitable order of distribution has become absolutely necessary. As population increases also shall human ingenuity increase in accordance with the spirit and tempo of the time. The Townsend revolving pension plan is the most fitting and proper, if in fact not the only, way this emergency can be met in peace and justice to all. Right now this country has its millions in the dead of winter out of work and as honorable men and women as God ever gave to the world suffering from cold and hunger. Poor little, innocent children, stinted and weak, scramble at the knees of helpless, hopeless and forlorn fathers and mothers who feel the tender touch of pity and distress too great to be expressed and too annoying to restrain. Yet this civilized and Christian-

Questions and Answers

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1 wholly disapprove of what you say—and will defend to the death your right to say it. — Voltaire.

ized country of ours has continually turned a deaf ear to these unAmerican, inhuman, beastly conditions until patience, hope and the benedictions of providence have lost their vigilance and their virtue. I need not go into the political graft that has been going on, and still rife and wretchedly perpetrated upon the people of this country with the nation in debt to the amount of 30 billions, with government bond issues of 15 millions, with interest piling up while the careless sit in silence and the laboring classes forbear the stupidity of the voting public which watches and waits for some statesmanship or divine miracle to right all things. The Townsend revolving pension, when put into operation, if it doesn’t cure all governmental ills, which no wellversed advocate claims for it, will go a long way toward minimizing the many evils of the country and keep the people’s money In circulation, thereby protecting the people and keep running the industries of the nation which are essential to the country’s peace and prosperity. This political philosophy, the product of years of hard study and economic research, it does seem to me should command and exercise the greatest sway among all who have to depend upon their physical ability for the necessaries of life, especially when there is an abundance of everything to make and keep the masses prosperous, persevering and happy. tt tt tt DESCRIBES QUALITIES THAT MAKE PATRIOTS By David Horn. Patriotism is nothing more nor less than loyalty and fidelity to that group of which one happens to be a member. Patriotism began many hundreds of thousands of years ago when our ancesters realized that each man, woman and child was safer and was more likely to get enough to eat by being a member of a herd than by living in individual isolation. Loyalty to the entire group and obedience to its rules and customs were demanded from each individual for the protection he enjoyed. A real patriot places the interests of the entire group over his own interests because he knows that his own security and future welfare and that of his own children and posterity are far more certain under conditions which equally afford the largest available measure of happiness and prosperity to all of his fellow countrymen. A real patriot does not center his thoughts and efforts in devising schemes of enriching himself at the expense of his fellow-citizens.

the next dealer. It means “shift responsibility.” Q —What does the name Donna mean? A—Lady or mistress. It is an Italian feminine form of the Latin word for lord or master. Q —What is a party whip in Congress? A—A Senator or Congressman whose duty it is to see that the members of his party are on the floor and ready to vote on a measure of party interest. Q —What was the strength of the United States Army at the end of August, 1935? A—Officers. 12,048; enlisted personnel, 132,040. Q—How many ships did Germany and Great Britain lose in the Battle of Jutland? A—Germany, 11; Great Britain, 14. Q —Does Angora wool grow after it is cut? A—No. That is a popular fallacy. Q—At what age do walnut trees begin to bear? A—A few walnuts may be expected in five years more or less after the trees are planted in orchards, depending upon environment and other conditions. Large crops may be expected- in from eight to 15 years, also depending upon Conditions. . L.'A: St - -V V -

Although one individual in a thousand may succeed in amassing wealth for himself, it is impossible for everybody to be rich as an employer, landlords, investor or capitalist so long as each is trying to buy cheap and sell dear. Therefore, any policy which fosters and encourages greed, sharp practices and selfishness amongst the members of a group is anti-pa-triotic because it endangers the existence of the entire group. "A house divided against itself can not stand,’’ said Abraham Lincoln. Now-I have the honor to be a member of a group of about 135.000.000, called the United States cf America. Would anybody dare deny that during the last six year the people of this country have experienced the severest economic crisis in history? Was it the original object and intent of the founders of this republic to transmit to us conditions which force millions of men and women into lives cf vagabondage, degradation and misery; deprive millions of people of employment; close hundreds of thousands of industrial establishments; destroy markets for hundreds of millions of dollars worth of goods and deprive millions of people of money? Is it patriotic to witness such conditions with sheer apathy and indifference and to brand a oerson as a lunatic or Communist when he dares suggest some remedy? “OLD GLORY” BY ROBERT O. LEVELL Beautiful and wonderful flag of our land, Brilliant and glowing with color so grand, A marvelous beauty wherever you be, Waving above on land or sea. Proud of you and for you. The great red, white and blue, Near to us and dear to us for every stripe and star, Love and honor goes to you, for the precious flag you are. DAILY THOUGHTS Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies; for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.—Psalms 27:12. OBSERVE your enemies, for they first find out your faults.—Antisthenes.

SIDE GLANCES By George Clark

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Your::: Health By DR. MORRIS FISFBEIN

may recall the furor that -*• arose some time ago about the use of aluminum pots tnr cookinr, and their effect on the human system. The claim was made that foods cooked in such pots would absorb some of the metal, which would be dangerous to the body. There is no cause to be concerned about this. The tiny amount of metal that is dissolved in she food has been found to be harmless, ar.d in some instances it actually may be beneficial. And that is true not only of aluminum utensils, but those oi copper, iron and tin. The point is that these metalS and others are present in the human body in minute amounts, and that they serve a distinct purpose. Copper, for instance, is needed with iron so best results may be had from the iron. a a l“'OODS that contain fair amounts * of this metal include oysters, beef liver, mushrooms, currants, split peas, pork and lobster. If your daily diet contains occasional amounts of these substances, you will get the copper that you ordinarily need. Sick persons, of course, may require extra amounts of such foods, and these should be prescribed by the doctor. Manganese is another important metal. Foods that contain it are blueberries, whole wheat, split peas, navy beans, chocolate, beet greens, bananas, kidney beans and chard. a tt a OTHER metals, found in smaller amounts in the body, are chromium, tin, silver, aluminum, cobalt and nickel. Many of these are to be found in milk and in various vegetables. Ordinary amounts of these metals, when taken into the body, are promptly eliminated through the intestines. One of the most dangerous metals is lead. This may be taken into the body through beans, apples, cherries, sausages and other foods. Meat sometimes contains lead, due to the fact that cattle may have licked newly painted surfaces. Grapejuice, also, may contain lead, if the grapes have been sprayed with lead arsenate. A physician has estimated that the average person takes in frdm one-fifth to one-half of a thousandth of a gram of lead, and gets rid of the same amount, every day; In this quantity, lead is not harmful.

TODAY’S SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ

A JOINT expedition from the Harvard College Observatory and the Massachusetts Institute of Techonology will go to Russia to observe the eclipse of the sun which occurs on June 19, 1936. The eclipse will not be visible in this hemisphere at all. It will be total in a belt about 75 miles wide, starting at the Mediterranean and swinging northeastward across Greece and the Black Sea, then across Siberia, Manchuria and northern Japan, and finally ending in the Pacific Ocean. Omsk and Tomsk, well-known Siberian cities, lie close to the central line of the track-. On invitation from Dr. Boris P. Gerasimovic, director of the Poulkova Observatory at Leningrad, the HarvardTech expedition will locate itself at Ak-Bulak, a town in the southern Ural Mountains, north of the Caspian Sea. The nearest large city is Orenburg, about 70 miles to the north. Dr. Gehasimovic was formerly an associate at the Harvard Observatory. Dr. Donald H. Menzel of the Harvard Observatory will be in charge of the expedition. He will be assisted by Dr. Joseph C. Boyce of M. I. T. Among other members of the expedition will be Henry Hemmendinger. n a a THE Harvard-Tecli expendition will devote its chief attention to obtaining spectrograms of the chromosphere and the corona. They will concentrate particularly on a study of the infra-red region of the spectrum concerning which little is known at the present time. The chromosphere is the atmosphere of the sun. It consists of a layer of thin gases surrounding the denser gases which constitute the solar surface and emit the light which we see.