Indianapolis Times, Volume 47, Number 261, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 January 1936 — Page 12
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‘Right of Average Man to Happier Life Real Issue’ —Roosevelt
/ft / UtUtfd Prrn* WASHINGTON, Jan. 9 —The following is the President's Jackson Day dinner speech: This meeting tonight in the City of is one of the many hundreds being held throughout our 48 states and territorial possessions and even on board ships at sea, in honor of the memory of a great general and President, Andrew Jackson. To all of you I extend my most sincere and hearty greetings. lam happy to stand here tonight end declare to you that the real Issue before the United States is the right of the average man and woman to lead a finer, a better and a happier life. That was the same issue, more than 100 years ago, that confronted Andrew Jackson. I speak tonight to this Democratic meeting in the same language as if I were addressing a Republican gathering, a Progressive gathering, an independent gathering, a gathering of business men or a. gathering of workers or of farmers. There is nothing that I say here tonight that does not apply to every citizen in the country no matter what his or her political affiliations may be. It is true that we Americans have found party organizations to be useful, if not necessary, in the crystallization of opinion and in the demarcation of issues. It is true that, I have received many honors at the hands of one of our great parties. It is nevertheless true that in the grave questions that confront the United States today I, as President of the United States, must and wiJl consider our common problems first, foremost and pre-eminently from the American point of view.
SYMBOL OF IDEALS
To mast of us Andrew Jackson appropriately has become the symbol of certain great ideals. I like best to think of him as a man whom the average American deeply and fundamentally understood. To the masses of his countrymen his purposes and his character were an open book. They loved him well because they understood him well—his passion for justice, his championship of the cause of the exploited and the down-trodden, his ardent and flaming patriotism, Jackson sought social justice and fought for human rights in his many battles to protect the people against autocratic or oligarchic aggression. If at times his passionate devotion to this cause of the average citizen lent an amazing zeal to his thoughts, his speech and his actions, the people loved him for it the more. They realized the intensity of the attacks by his enemies, by those who, thrust from power and position, pursued him with relentless hatred. The beneficiaries of the abuses to which he put an end pursued him with all the violence that political passions can generate. But the people of his day were not deceived. They loved him for the enemies he had made. Backed not only by his party, but by thousands who had belonged to other parties or belonged to no party at all, Andrew Jackson was compelled to fight every inch for the ideals and policies of the democratic republic in which he believed. An overwhe’ming proportion of the material power of the country was arrayed against him. The great media for the dissemination of information and the moulding of public opinion fought him. Haughty and sterile intellectualism opposed him. Musty reaction disapproved him. Hollow and outworn traditionalism shook a trembling finger at him. If seemed that sometimes all were against him—all but the people of the United States.
HISTORY REPEATS
Because history so often repeats itself, let me analyze further. Andrew Jackson stands out as a great American, not merely because he was two-fisted and fought for the people's rights but because, through his career, he did as much as any man in our history to increase, on the part of the voters, knowledge of
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public problems and interest in their solution. Following the fundamentals of Jefferson he adhered to the broad philosophy that decisions made by the average of the voters would be more greatly enduring for. and helpful to. the nation than decisions made by small segments of the electorate representing small or special* classes endowed with great advantages of social or economic power. He. like Jefferson, faced with the grave difficulty of disseminating facts to the electorate as a whole, was compelled to combat epithets, generalities, misrepresentation and the suppression of facts by the projess of asking his supporters, and indeed all citizens, to constitute themselves into informal commit-
U. S. Tax Collectors Help Solve Blank Complexities Compassionately, They Calm Brows Fevered by Those Bugbears—lncome Forms 1040 and 1040A. A feverish, middle-aged man, grown a little stout and bald with the passage of years, walked into Room 315, Federal Building, today to ask Uncle Sam to give him a lift with a problem. The man clutched four printed sheets, two green and two white, and mumbled to himself as he rode up on the elevator. His name was John Q. Taxpayer.
Mr. Taxpayer received his income tax return blanks last Thursday and, by today, his head was whirling with income, deductions, computations and schedules. Calmly and compassionately, deputy collectors soothed Mr. Taxpayer and aided him in filling out the blanks, forms 1040 and 1040A and their duplicates. Deputies Aid Citizens For those persons in and near Indianapolis, Will H. Smith, Federal internal revenue collector, has stationed deputy collectors in Room 315 to solve the intricate problems of tax filing. The first group of completed blanks are being sent to Mr. Smith’s office this week. The time for filing without penalty ends March 16. There is the man who sent a special delivery letter to Mr. Smith asking that new blanks be sent him by return mail. “I’m sorry to inconvenience you, but our dog ate up the old blanks,” he wrote apologetically. Those Who Must File The government says of those who must pay taxes: “An income tax must be filed by every citizen of the United States whether residing at home or abroad, an devery person residing in the United States, though not a citizen thereof, having a gross income for the calendar year 1935 of SSOOO or over, or a net income for the same period of (a) SIOOO or over, if single, or if married and not living with husband or wife, or Lb) $2500 or over, if married and living with husband or w 7 ife, or (c) more than the personal exemption if the status of the taxpayer changes during the taxable year. “If the combined net income of husband and wife, including that of dependent minor children, if any, is $2500 or over, or if their combined gross income is SSOOO or over, either each must make a return, or the income of each must be included in a single joint return.” “File Early,” Smith Pleads Mr. Smith has written all large employers in Indiana asking them to urge their employes to file their tax blanks early. Deputy collection officers are situated in Evansville, Terre Haute, New Albany, Lawrenceburg, Lafayette, Muncie, Anderson, Hammond, Gary and South Bend. There seems to be some confusion in the public mind between the Federal income tax and the state gross income tax, according to Ross Barr, one of Mr. Smith’s assistants. “We ran across some delinquent, taxpayers last year who swore up and down that they had paid the Federal tax and could produce receipts to prove it. They always
tees for the purpose of obtaining the facts and of spreading them abroad among their friends, their associates and their fellow-workers. I am aware that some wise-crack-ing columnist will probably say that good old JacKson no doubt realized that every red-blooded American citizen considered himself a committee of one anyway. Nevertheless, Jackson got his ideas and his ideals across, not through any luxurious propaganda, but because the man on the street and the man on the farm believed in his ideas, his ideals and his honesty, went out and dug up the facts and spread them abroad throughout the land. History repeats—l am becoming dimly conscious of the f art that this year we are to have a national elec-
found the taxes they had paid were state levies,” Mr. Barr said. Mr. Smith expects many taxpayers to make out their Federal income sheets by Jan. 31, the date for filing gross income taxes. Some taxpayers prefer to figure out both tax schedules at the same time. OPTOMETRISTS TO OPEN STATE MEETING SUNDAY Thirty-Ninth Annual Convention to Be Held at Severin. The Indiana Association of Optometrists will open the thirty-ninth annual two-day convention Sunday at the Severin. Speakers will include Donald F. Stiver, Indiana director of public safety; Dr. Hammond S. Horton of the East Cleveland Hospital and Clinic, J. H. Taylor of the American Optical Cos., and Elmer Robinson of the Soft-Lite Lens Cos. Officers will be elected Monday. Dr. E. C. Doering, Gary, is president and Dr. W. L. Van Osdol, Indianapolis, is convention chairman. SHRINE PLANS PARTY Members and Families to Play Bingo Saturday Night. Shrine lodge is to held a bingo party for members and families at 8:30 p. m. Saturday in the social lounge of Murat Temple, Edwin E. Temperley, entertainment committee chairman announced today. The organization’s annual business meeting is to be Jan. 20, in the temple. LIONS ARE TO INITIATE Annual Affair to Be Held Wednesday at Washington. The annual initiation of the Lions Club is to be held at the next meeting in the Washington Wednesday. The Rev. O. Herschel Folger, pastor of the First Friends Church, addressed members yesterday on his travel experiences in the United States and foreign countries. SKIN BLEMISHES Famous Treatment Relieves You don’t wait long for relief when you use mildly medicated Cuticura Soap and Ointment. Stubborn itching and irritation of pimples, eczema and rashes respond to its soothing, yet highly effective action. Just bathe affected parts freely with the Soap, dry gently, and anoint v itli the Ointnipnt. Over a hall'-cenftiry of success. Ointment 25c, Soap 25c, ail druggists. Sample FREE by writing “Outic ira,” Dept, 84, Malden. Mass. —Advertisement.
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tion. Sometimes at the close of a day Isa 7to myself that the last national election must have been held a dozen years ago—so much water has run under the bridge, so many great events in our history have occurred since then. And yet 34 months, less than three years, have gone by since March, 1933.
TWO ACHIEVEMENTS
History repeats—in these crowded months, as in the ’days of Jackson, two great achievements stand forth —the rebirth of the interest and understanding of a great citizenry 7 in the problems of the nation and an established government which by positive action has proved its devotion to the recovery and wellbeing of that citizenry 7. Whatever may be the platform, whoever may be the nominee of the Democratic party—and I am told that a convention Is to be held to decide these momentous questions—the basic issue will be the retention of popular government—an issue fraught once more with the difficult problem of disseminating facts and yet more facts. In the face of an opposition bent on hiding and distorting facts. That is why organization, not party organization alone—important as that is—but an organization among all thase, regardless of party, who believe in retaining progress and ideals, is so essential. That is why, in addition to organization, I make this specific recommendation—that each and every one of you who are interested in obtaining the facts and in spreading those facts abroad, each and every one of you interested in getting at the truth that lies somewhere behind the smokescreen of charges and countercharges of a national campaign, constitute yourself a committee of one. To do this you need no parchment certificate, to do this you need no title. To do this you need only your own conviction, your owti intelligence and your own belief in the highest duty of the American citizen. To act as such a committee of one you will need only your own appointment, an appointment which carries with it some effort, some obligation on your part to carry out the task you have assigned to yourself. You will have to run down statements made to you by others which you may believe to be false. You will need to analyze the motives of those who make assertions to you, to make an inventory in your own community, in order that you may check and re-check for yourself and thereby be in a position to answer those who have been misled or those who would mislead.
MANY MESSAGES
After my Annual Message to the Congress last Friday evening, I received many appreciative letters and telegrams from all over the country and I think it will interest you to know that within a few hours I received more of these than at any time since the critical days of the Spring of 1933. I have carefully read those letters and tele-
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AAA DECISION
I know you will not. be surprised by lack of comment on my part tonight on the decision by the Supreme Court two days ago. I can not render offhand judgment without studying, with the utmast care, two of the most momentous opinions ever rendered in a case before the Supreme Court of the United States. Tlie ultimate results of the language of these opinions will profoundly affect the lives of Americans for years to come. It is enough to say that the attainment of justice and prosperity for American agriculture remains an immediate and constant objective of my administration. Just as Jackson roused the people to their fundamental duties as citizens, so must the leadership of this era do its utmost to encourage and sustain widespread interest in public affairs. There was something of the eternal youth in the spirit of Jackson. The destiny of youth became the destiny pf America.
Talks immediately before us are as arduous as the conquest of the frontier a hundred years ago. The nation is still young, still growing, still conscious of its high destiny. Enthusiasm and the intelligence of the youth of the land are necessary to the fulfillment of that destiny. As I understand the temper of the people, particularly the temper of youth, no party of reaction, no candidates of reaction can fulfill the hope and faith of that spirit. It is the sacred duty of us who are vested with the responsibility of leadership to justify the expecta-
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