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WEDNESDAY. MARCH 4 1936

THE NEW TAX PLAN 'TMIE President's proposal about taxation on cor- -*■ porate would prove sound or unsound, in our opinion, dependent on the degree of its application. i Until a bill is prepared it is impossible to know Just how the plan would operate or how far it would go. Should it go to the extent of diverting 100 per cent of corporate earnings into the dividend column, that would be dangerous. For it would mean that American business from now on would be operating on a fair-weather basis, laying up nothing for the rainy day. Reserves for safety against emergencies and depressions are as necessary in business as they are in the life of an individual. Without such renerves another depression such as that which hit In 1029 would wipe out practically every business and enlist the population of the nation into the army of the unemployed. Rut should the plan be so designed as to allow reasonable r.serves, translating the remaining profits from surplus into dividends, that might have a benign effect not only on tax collections but on mass purchasing power, tend against undue expansion in boom times, and prevent such highly speculative use of corporate money as was seen in the lush twenties when corporate reserves were being poured into the call market to feed the gambling fire in Wall Street. Insofar as surpluses are translated into dividends the tax collected therefrom unquestionably accords with the soundest principle of taxation, namely, visibility and ability-to-pay. Dividends become income and the income tax is graduated. The President’s proposal coupled with it the elimination of the corporation tax, the capital stock tax and excess profit taxes. In that recommendation the abil-ity-to-pay principle is served, for those taxes run against all stockholders alike regardless of wealth, whereas the income tax which would be substituted is graduated. So the proposition seems to boil down to a question of adequate reserve being recognized as a necessary factor in (he operation of business, and a determination of what adequate reserves are—by no means an easy one to answer. Until the principle enunciated by the President is translated into a proposed law by the House Ways and Means Committee, judgment on the practicability of the idea must necessarily be suspended. THREE YEARS OF ROOSEVELT A S President Roosevelt ends his third year in -*■the White House, let us glance back ever the road we have traveled with him, and ahead along the path he is taking. That road behind us is crowded with so many landmarks of achievement and failure that we see only the more noticeable ones. Business is better; the index has advanced from 60 to 95 per cent of an estimated normal. However, inasmuch as the number of unemployed three years ago was roughly 14,000.000 and now is roughly 10,000.000, we have a long, long way to go after we pass ‘normal” before we approach that “more abundant life.” A prostrate banking system has been repaired, Depositor confidence has been raised from the lowest to probably the highest in the nation’s history; bank failures, once so common, seem a thing of the past, Investors, for the first time, have been given a measure of protection—through the securities registration, stock market control and utility holding company laws. a tt n FARMERS’ cash income last year was two and one-half billions larger than in 1932. FCA have stopped foreclosures. Bankruptcy prices have given way to profitable prices. Surpluses are down to manageable proportions. And despite a serious court setback, a national program of planned production and soil conservation is again moving ahead. Laws aimed toward social security are on the statute books. Experimental, they doubtless will require frequent revision. Many states have lagged in giving necessary co-operation. But the plan offers an economic cushion for future unemployment and for assured, if inadequate, incomes for the aged. Labor has gained recognition of the right to bargain collectively, and means of enforcing that right have been provided. Labor’s stake in industry has been recognized, through the Guffey Coal Act and other legislation. Utility rates have been widely reduced, largely because of TV A; Federal co-operation has strengthened state control of rates; the electrification of farms has been pressed and new' markets for electrical appliances thereby opened. And in the Tennessee Valley we have a laboratory for planned regional development. A million city families have been saved from eviction by the HOLC. and a number of private lending and insurance companies made solvent. And HOLC's record of collections on its mortgages —the dregs of the real estate market —as well as RFC’s record of collections on billions loaned to finance and industry, has proved that the government can do business in a business-like way. Housing has been a major failure. One scheme after anotlaer has flopped—subsistence homesteads, limited-dividend housing corporations, direct slum clearance on speculative property, and other hopeful plans. However, FHA has reduced the secondmortgage racket and provided for lower interestguaranteed mortgage financing. Fiscal affairs are in a bad shape. We're still operating on borrowed money, and have piled up a record gross national debt. Fundamental tax reforms still wait; the bulk of revenue still comes from invisible levies. The visible ability-to-pay taxes •till rest on a narrow base. tt tt tt TN foreign affairs, Mr. Roosevelt has changed the United States from the surly bully of the Western Hemisphere to a friendly neighbor. But he has accepted a neutrality policy which provides only partial safeguards against involvement in foreign wars. His reciprocal trade treaty program is a vast improvement over Smoot-Hawleyism, but he has yet to face the reality that we can not coiltfct foreign

debts or greatly Increase exports until we admit a much greater volume of imports. The relief problem, greatest of the nation’s burdens, is little nearer solution than it was three years ago. Those on relief are more adequately cared for, and some 3,500.000 breadwinners have actually been put to work, but the program is costly and wasteful. The problem is still being handled as something temporary—and on borrowed money. Mr. Roosevelt has permitted politicians to block extension of the merit system. He has tolerated mismanagement and inefficiency in many agencies. He has permitted government departments to work at cross purposes and promote confusion. nun fk DMITTING all blunders and minimizing all accomplishments, President Roosevelt can be said to have 'ed this country out of chaos. He has freed the country from despair, and restored the faith of the average man. A majority of the lower and middle classes still believe that he is sincerely striving to make this a better country. They believe he has the courage to do batti/3 with greedy special interests and they love him for the enemies he has made. THE RIGHT TO BE WRONG JN granting free time on a coast-to-coast hookup t 0 Communist Party the Columbia Broadcasting System acts in the true American tradition. Under this* permit Earl Browder, the Communist Party's secretary, will explain Communist principles, and Rep. Hamilton Fish will answer him the following night. - A few feverish folks of the 200 per cent American variety may raise their voices in alarm. Let their fears be quieted. Nothing so quickly destroys a false doctrine as its ventilation under the rays of free debate. Nothing encourages its growth so quickly as suppression. Heretofore Communism has languished in the United States and in England because we Anglo-Saxons have refused to persecute it. Would the red flag be floating over Russia today if the Czars for generations had not driven popular protest into cellars? This is not only good psychology and statesmanship. It is good Americanism. If any one doubts it, let him first read the Constitution and then listen to the words of the author of the Declaration of Independence. Truth, said all-wise Jefferson, ‘‘is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from conflict, unless, by human interposition, disarmed of her natural weapons, free argument and debate. “Differences of opinion, when permitted ... to purify themselves by free discussion, are but as clouds overspreading our land transiently and leaving our horizon more bright and serene.” Even so inadequate a pleader for the present system as Mr. Fish should win the argument. The broadcasters have helped him by forestalling the Communist claim that American capitalism is against free speech. WHAT PRICE LOBBYISTS? that Congress has its sleeves rolled up to tackle the lobby problem, the air soon will begin to ring with cries about freedom of petition. They should cause no concern. No lobby bill pending in Congress denies any one the right of petition, nor does any member of Congress advocate such a course. The most that any measure proposes is registration of lobbyists. Petitioning and lobbying—would go on as before if it should become a law. Only—and here’s the rub—lobbyists would be required to make public the names of their employers and the amounts of their own salaries and expenses. There seems to be nothing unfair about such a proposition. Lobbyists sometimes call themselves the Third House of Congress, and if we accept them on that basis shouldn't we apply (the same rules to them that we apply to the other two houses? Strict ethics and statute law govern the private activities of Senators and Representatives. Their salaries as lawmakers are a matter of public record. The sums paid lobbyists for influencing legislation are equally of public concern. A WOMAN’S VIEWPOINT By Mrs. Walter Ferguson WHEN stories about great men’s wives are written, the virtue most often stressed is modesty. We see them blushing at the idea of a reporter wanting to interview them; we hear about their retiring domestic habits, and their dislike of sharing the spotlight in which their husbands purr. Here is a typical line from such a story. “She likes to sit inconspicuously along the sidelines while her husband carries the ball on the gridiron of public life.” What sort of impression does it convey? That the chief duty of a wife is to fetch and carry for her man, to soothe his aching brow or to start “yessing” him when he feels low in spirit. The job is not as easy as all that, girls. For, In most cases, a man’s wife has as much to do with his success as the man himself. And she doesn’t aid him by merely sitting in his shadow. This is true among both famous and obscure. Thousands of small fry, who have earned only local reputations, get where they do because the Mrs. lends them the necessary push upward, and innumerable men are destroyed by the extra burden a clingingvine woman puts upon their wearied shoulders. The man in public life, far more than any other, needs a wife who can do more for him than sit on the sidelines to applaud his prowess. Her duties are many and varied. She must know how to maintain a charming home for him; to rear children who will do nothing to tarnish their father's reputation; to be a gracious hostess, and to speak always with discretion. Moreover, she should make a good appearance and be ready to advise him wisely at times of crisis. For this reason, we ought not to feed girls the ordinary stickv-sweet stuff any longer. Every wife should aspire to be a real partner to her husband; otherwise she doesn’t deserve to be supported by him or to share any glory he may attain. FROM THE RECORDS ■J3 EP. JOHNSON (R., Okla.): I submit that the Federal government should not be put to the expense of sending some society saphead from the city who is interested primarily in holding down a government job, and who no doubt in some instances knows nothing about trees except what he might read in a government bulletin, to not only teil the farmers how to plant trees but to actually plant them—and mind you—at the government's expense. 808 Senator Rehinsnn (D., Ark.): The Senator from Delaware (Mr. Hastings) took the floor of the Senate some two or three times and opposed any recognition for Gen. Mitchell. Now he is grieved, he is sad, he is hurt at heart, because, under a Democratic Administration another military officer who violated the rule of the department has been disciplined moderately for his action. - . - i t . -i; , .

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'\/'ESTERDAY an Indianapolis watchmaker interviewed the president and all the engineers of a big watch company on a little bauble he has thought up. It is a watch with what they call floating power. The works are set in springs and are said to be absolutely shock-proof. They say you can drop it, strike it, break the crystal or .most anything, and it won't stop running. The watchmaker has all the patents and copyrights and what nots and is going to make the rounds of the watch companies, getting reactions—and offers. We’ll let you know how it comes out. tt tt B A MAN who has lived in the . *- East for some years was watching a basketball game the other night. He heard the opposing rooters boo a player who stepped up to shoot a foul. He looked puzzled. “That's the first time I ever heard a basketball crowd try to rattle a free thrower with boos.” he said. He was going to say more, I believe, but something interrupted. Well, he comes, you know, from a section of the country where basketball is only a game, not war. a a a idea for an editorial car- -*■ toonist. Draw a worried elephant sitting a bit wanly in the front room, draw a picture of Herbert Hoover sitting on the first landing of the stairway. Put this poem under it; “Last night I saw upon the stair, A little man who wasn’t there; I saw him there again today. Cee, I wish he'd go away.” a at r KNOW a butcher who practices -*• writing every night. He’s pretty good. Vanity Fair has written him some encouraging letters. But can you imagine a more hazardous occupation than butchering for one who expects to make his living typewriting? He works in the 5500 block on E. Washington-st. r | 'WO ladies were on a street car. As they approached a corner one of them looked out of the car and said: “There’s Ruth. She's running to make the same car we are on.” Ruth made it. She joined them. The same lady said to her: “When I saw you I said to Betty here, I said: “ ‘There’s Ruth, she’s running to make the same car we are on.’ ” Said Betty: “Oh, you did! Well, I made it.” tt tt A WOMAN was riding from Irvington to Berkley-rd on the North Side. Berkley-rd has a closed off space through which no car can drive. The cab acted up. “Lady,” he said, “I’ll not take another passenger in this cab. It’s no good.” They hit another bump. “Lady,” he said, “If there was another cab around here I w*ould transfer you to it.” They got to where Berkley-rd ran into the lawned boulevard where no car could drive. He stopped his car and looked back at the lady. “Lady,” he said, “do you want I should go up on the grass?” tt tt a CONTRIBUTED by Martha Adams: Let some of the famous-last-words enthusiasts start a search for fa-mous-first-pages. You will be able to remember several, and the Public Library has many more, in case your own library fails you. There is, for one. the beginning of John Erskine’s “Private Life of Helen of Troy." Remember when Troy fell at last and Menelaos sought out Helen? In his hand he carried a bared sword, prepared to deal with her as she deserved. But he had not seen her for several years, and she was no less beautiful as she waited calmly for his vengeance. According to Mr. Erskine, the outraged husband only said, “‘Helen,’ . . . ‘it’s time we went home.’ ”

TODAY’S SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ

THE living organism must be I studied as a “transformer of! energy; i n the opinion of Sir Fred- I <.vick Gowland Hopkins, famous : British biochemist and former presi- • dent of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. His views are particularly inter- ! esting in the light of Dr. George W. Crile’s recent book, -The Phenomena of Life.” in which the Cleveland surgeon argues that life is a manifestation of radio-electric energy. According to modern scientific views, all the energy of the universe is tending to dissipate itself uniformly throughout space. But the living organism. Sir Frederick points out, temporarily halts this downward flow of energy, concentrating energy within itself for its own pur- ! poses. Therefore, to understand the ! phenomena of life, the scientistsj must study these energy transfor- i mations within the living organism. The fundamental process by ; which living organisms on this earth capture the energy of sunlight is known as photosynthesis. Plants,' of course, do the capturing while animals get their energy secondhand by eating plants or each other. It is the presence of chlorophyll in the plant cells which makes it possible for them to function as what Sir Frederick calls “energy traps.” But Sir Frederick does not think that photosynthesis was the original form of energy trap.

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(Time s readers are invited to express their views in these columns, relinious controversies excluded. Make vour letters short, so all can have a chance. Limit them to SSO words or less. Your letter must be sinned, but names will be withheld on reouest.l a a a HANGING BARRETT HELD FUTILE BY READER By a Noblcsville Reader This month in Indiana there is to be a hanging in the jail yard of Marion County on a creaky gallows that Illinois discarded nine years ago. There is even to be a “humane” hangman, who talks to his victim for four hours to get him in the “psychological frame of mind” for the fateful event There seems to be no doubt that the man is guilty as Cain, though God knows what made him a bad man, unfit to live among his fellow men, what were the failures of his home, his church, his school, or the society in which he lived, or what demon took possession of his mind and will power. But capital punishment is unfair, for if every one were hanged who were guilty directly or indirectly of the death of another, the sound of the hammer making the gallows would be heard from morning to night for many days. Night clubs flourish, and in a single night enough money is spent to keep needy families for a whole year. Beer joints thrive, where plots are laid to rob and to kill. Medicines are made in Indiana that the poor need to make them well and strong, but can not buy. Factories answer the demand of their employes for a living wage with martial law. Munition makers do not even blush when their evil machinations are laid bare to spend freely the lives of our boys so that they may make fortunes. Huge salaries are paid to officials while thousands of boys have no work and are forced into a life of crime. Capital punishment solves nothing. It is doubtful if it is even a crime deterrent. It is inhuman. It is inconsistent with the teaching of

Watch Your Health

BY DR. MORRIS FISIIBEIN A SPECIALIST in foods, Dr. Albert H. Rowe, has worked out a series of diets by which persons can tell just what foods cause them to suffer from sensitivity. According to his plan, each of these diets should be taken for seven to 10 days to determine whether the symptoms of food sensitivity have been eliminated. As soon as this Is accomplished with one of the diets, additional foods are added, one at a time, and kept on the list if the symptoms do not reappear. If sensitivity returns, however, you know that this additional food was the cause, afcd it should be eliminated permanently from your diet. Your doctor, of course, can give you specific advice on this matter of desensitization. Sometimes the eating of a cooked form of a certain food will help to desensitize a person, when the raw form won’t. Doctors have w’orked out diets free from egg, free from wheat, free from milk and other common substances, with a view toward use of

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that Galilean who taught the worth of human personality. Why can not the mind of man, guided and directed by a higher power think of a better way? and speech. P- S.—Thank you for your splendid work for freedom of tne press a tt HE HAS NO SYMPATHY FOR “TAKE-A-WALK AL” By A. J.—Brazil Coomparing “Take-a-Walk Al” with former President Hoover, we find that in the last presidential election, Mr.. Hoover was defeated by his own party. Did it make Mr. Hoover angry? If he was angry, he did not hold any grudge at his party. Instead we find Mr. Hoover back fighting hammer and tongs, while “Take-a-Walk Al” gets out his hammer and tongs to fight the party that has stood by him and elected him Governor of New York four times and in 1928 gave him the honor of running for President. It was no fault of his party that he was defeated. I feel that “Take-a-Walk-Al” has been well taken care of by his party. The only thing that hurts Al is that he did not run against Mr. Hoover in 1932 when it was almost certain that Mr. Hoover was facing defeat. “Take-a-Walk Al” walked out in 1928 and the party would be better off if he would keep on walking. If he can not be President, he won't let any Sne else be. Every time he makes a speech, he makes 100,000 more Roosevelt votes. a tt MOVE TO AID BUILDING PROGRAM IS LAUDED By Fred T. Loftin. 922 West 32d-st Announcement is made from Washington that methods will be made easier for construction of buildings in groups. The industrial development of many Indiana cities and towns several years ago was accomplished mostly through in-

these diets by those who are sensitive. an tt THE four elimination diets suggested by Dr. Rowe follow: Try one, then the others, until you find the diet that eliminates your sensitivity. Then proceed with added .foods. DIET NO. 1. —Rice, lamb, lettuce, spinach, carrots, pears, peaches, maple syrup, olives and olive oil, gelatin., sugar and salt, DIET NO. 2—Corn, tapioca, bacon, chicken, squash, asparagus, peas, artichokes, pineapple, apricots, prunes, Mazola oil, Karo syrup, sugar and salt. DIET NO. 3—Rice, rye, beef, tomatoes, beets, string beans, grapefruit. pears, peaches. Wesson oil, gelatin, maple syrup, sugar and salt. DIET NO. 4—Two or three quarts of milk a day. The last diet is the real foundation diet, and is resorted to when the others fail. The search for the trouble-making food, starting with milk only, is a much slower and more tedious process.

Q —Can adult aliens automatically become American citizens for any reason without being naturalized by a court? A—The only way they can become American citizens is by naturalization. Q—When is Handsel Monday? A—The first Monday after New Year's Day, when, in Scotland and some other localities, handsels or presents are given to servants and children. Q —ls Jack Dempsey, former heavyweight champion, called the “Nonpareil'? A—Jack Dempsey, “the Nonpareil,” died Nov. 1, 1895. William Harrison (Jack) Dempsey, the former world s heavyweight champion, was not born unti* June 24, 1895. 1895.

dustrial subdivisions. Then no government help was obtainable. In Cincinnati 1500 houses are being constructed under supervision of the Allied Building Industries, composed of employing builders. These movements mean much in getting the building trades at work and much in giving homesteaders opportunities to secure much of their living from cultivating tracts. Many more of such enterprises would be promoted if there were a small central organization capable of directing, methods of securing government insurance, etc. There is said to be an excess of private capital in Eastern financial centers available for such undertakings. The League of Women Voters is trying to raise the standards of the numerous candidates for office. More ought to be required of them than to show their love or dislike of the President. They should be asked, “What are you doing to make jobs in your community? Have you shown any spirit of cooperation in such movements?” People will respond better to the urge to build and repair houses when they have jobs enabling them to meet the payments. Many Hoosiers have found homes in Florida because of the spirit of co-opera-tion the citizens of that state have shown. Can we not have a renewal of the old-time spirit of co-operation to upbuild Indiana industrially? Many factories could be gotten from the industrial East. Only a small amount of capital would be necessary to match cities and towns to needs and resources. The work would be philanthropic and profitable. Voters should show preference for candidates interested in this matter. Labor organizations can make themselves felt in this if they will.

FEBRUARY DAY BY MARY WARD The winds blow strong, And chill along The highroad and the river— And heartening song And balm-like calm Today would only shiver— But in Beauvais And for Cathay The softer breezes quiver— And down this way The cold winds say; “We stay not here forever.”

SIDE GLANCES By George Clark

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MARCH 4,193 G

Vagabond from Indiana ERNIE TYLE

OCALA. Fla., March 4. —When we got out of the car on the edge of the bare sand bank, out there in the lonely middle of Florida. a young fellow in khaki pants and boots stepped up and said. “I’m Inspector So-and-So, of Items 22, 3 and 4.” He was one of 21 such inspectors,Government men watch every move* the contractors make. They see that the work camps are according to Hoyle, that the food is good, and ventilation all right, and sanitation O. K. They see that safety rules for workers are observed. They see that they excavate just the right way. Thev see that they don’t use more machinery than they’re supposed to. tt tt a A ROAD has been built along* this 20-mile stretch where canal excavation is now going on. You could hardly call it a road—they’ve just smoothed down the sand. It runs along the canal bank, within 30 feet of the edge. It’s a little hard to describe what the canal looks like right now. Suppose we take just one “item.” We look down into an "item.” which is a big hole. It's probably two blocks wide, and maybe half a mile long, and 40 feet deep. Down in the bottom men and tractors and scrapers are working. The banks of the ditch aren't straight up and down. They slope. This slope, in canal terms, is the “earth slope.” The ledge where we're standing, about 100 feet wide, is called the “berm.” I couldn’t find out why. Then, back of the “berm.” they pile all the sand they take out of the hole. It forms a big wall alongside the canal. This is called the “spoil bank.” It is thrilling to look mto one of these vast holes. I have never seen such beautiful earth. It is a bright golden yellow. It is pure sand It is moist, and almost as fine as powder. You’d love to take off your shoes and play in it. tt tt tt SOONER or later, as they dig down, they will hit rock. On some “items,” the top surface of the rock is as smooth as a billiard table, |and when the contractor finishes, I the bottom of this “item” is abso- ! lutely level. An airplane landed on I one of them the other day. But in other “items,” the rock ! rises in jagged peaks, 10 and 15 feet | high. They stand up there from the | floor of the pit like the grotesque , image in the Dakota badlands. This rock is Ocala limestone. It’s as white as a freshly laundered sheet. And it’s so soft you cart crumble it in your fingers. It has no grit in it either. It's almost like soap The queer thing is, that when it’jt exposed to air for some time it turns gray and hardens, like cement. Since the entire bed and walks of the canal will be dug through this rock, it means they’ll never be bothered with slides. The limestone goes down, without changing texture, for hundreds of 'eet. Occasionally you can see the imprint of a sea shell in it. a a WHEN the contractor and his men get down to the rock, they’re through. In this 20-mile section the top of the rock is still 60 feet above sea level, and 90 feet above what the bed of the canal will be. That means they’ll have to dig down through 90 feet of rock. So the contractors will strip off all the earth, down to the rock, over the whole length of the canal. Then the Army engineers will build huge hydraulic floating dredges,. They’ll start these at either end, to eat their way through the canal. Drillers will drill hundreds of holes in this rock, and blow it t<y bits, and then the dredges will come along, suck up the rock and water, carry it through a iong pipe, and pour it out on top of the “spoil bank” along the canal, where it will settle and dry and become the permanent ridge that will run the entire length of the canal on either side. They won’t start building these dredges until they're assured of a new appropriation for continuing the work. They’ll build 14 of them. It will take 10 months to build each one, but they'll build several at once. DAILY THOUGHT But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea. man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?—Job 14:10. I NEVER think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.—H. A. Hamilton.