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The Indianapolis Times (A SCRIPrS.HOTVARI) NEWSPAPER) ROT W. HOWARD President LITDWELL DENNY Editor EARL D. BAKER Business Manager B Member of Lulled Press, ScrlpptHoward Newspaper Alliance, Newspaper Enterprise Association. Newspaper Information Serrlce and Audit Bureau of Circulations. Owned and published dally (except Sunday) by The Indianapolis Times Publishing Cos.. 214-220 W. Marylsnd-st, Indianapolis, Ind. Price in Marlon County, 3 cents a copy: delivered by carrier, 12 cents a week. Mall subscription rates in Indiana, 33 a year; out--o(*e lAg at and the g j,j a 0 f Indiana. 65 cents a month. People Will Fin* Their Own IToy Pbone HI ley 5531 SATURDAY. MAY 2, 1938 PROGRESS FORTY years ago the leading classes at the YounfaWomen's Christian Association were embroidery and needlework. Members of the board were ‘ board ladies,” and far removed from the "secretaries” and other workers in the organization. There was the Lady Bountiful idea, with women of leisure doing something for the working girl. n a a ■p VENTS of the last few days show the progress *- J made by the Y. W. C. A. and other women's organizations. In Colorado Springs, the biennial national convention of the Y. W. C. A. is talking of dropping the requirement that members show some church affiliation. This once strict rule already has been liberalized in Indianapolis without lasing the original spirit of the association. Members now attend industrial girls’ classes. They discuss politics, economics and other current problems. One member spoke before the General Assembly this year on the Social Security Act. The gulf between the board of directors and members has disappeared. There is a free expression of ideas, r democratic working together. Working girls have representation on the board. n m tt IN Cincinnati, the League of Women Voters' convention adopts a program calling for better schools, old-age pensions, unemployment insurance, child-help measures and reciprocal trade agreements. In Coral Gables, Fla., the seventeenth national council of the General Federation of Women's Clubs asks Congress to establish a national academy of public affairs. Women are giving serious consideration to major problems of the day. Certainly these activities show an intelligent approach to vital issues. They are evidences of good citizenship. PEACE CAMPAIGN A WORLD troubled by talk of war and revolution is the background liiat will draw unusual interest to the all-day forum and mrss meeting of the Fmergency Peace Campaign here Monday. In 300 cities over the country the peace campaign is being conducted as a step in the movement to keep the United States out of future wars. The peace aims of the British Labor Party will be outlined by George Lansbury, Labor Party leader in the British Parliament. This program advocates international co-operation as to raw materials and markets, and fair access by all nations to the world's raw materials. Rabbi Ferdinand M. Isserman, St. Louis, and Ray Newton, Philadelphia, executive secretary of the American Friends Service Committee peace section, will speak. Gov. McNutt, Mayor Kern and others will be on the program. One thing that will be stressed is how economic crises bring political unrest and war and how prosperity is linked with peace. Nations can live more easily in peace if they are not torn by economic strife. The value of this campaign is that it centers discussion on the finding of every possible road to friendly international understanding. ‘SIMPLIFYING’ TAXATION—IV "TT'XAMPLE (2)—A corporation has an adjusted net income of SIOO,OOO. It has as yet declared no dividends, but it decides that it wishes to retain $22,500 net in surplus (in undistributed net income). The percentage of undistributed net income to adjusted net income is, therefore, 22’i per cent. Sir the rate of 22’j per cent does not appear in Schedule 11, it is necessary to apply the rule immediately following the table in that schedule. This rule states th.l the percentage is more than 20 and less than 30, that the rate of tax will be 9, plus six-tenths of the amount by which the percentage which the undistributed net income is of the adjusted net income (22per cent in this case) exceeds 20. Applying this rule the rate of tax will be 9 plus six-tenths of 2 1 a. or 10.5 per cent. Then the amount of the tax will be 10.5 per cent of SIOO,OOO, or $10,500, and the balance of the adjusted net income (SIOO,OOO minus $22,500 minus $10,500) cr $67,000. must be paid in dividends.”—(From the House Ways and Means Committee report, explaining che new Federal tax bill.) A BETTER TAX THE House having tossed the mystery tax bill into the Senate, Senator Robert M. La Follette brings forward again the same simple tax amendments which he has urged for several years. It is a relief to get a chance to discuss again something we all can understand. The La Follette amendments would make income taxpayers out of about 1.500.000 citizens who now pay only invisible taxes, would boost the normal and aurtax rates, and would produce $446,000,000 additional revenue annually—on the basis of the present tax structure and present business conditions. More important are the long-range purposes of the La Follette amendments—(l) To make visible taxes pay a larger share of the government’s costs, and thereby reduce the burden borne through invisible taxes, and thua (2) to reconstruct our Federal tax system on the sound and socially just principle of ability to pay. The present percentage is all awry. More than 60 per cent of all Federal revenue is obtained from unseen sales and nuisance taxes, which bear heavily upon the poor and only lightly tap the rich. Let’s get some of these invisible taxes out where we can see them and feel their weight. Let’s look at them again in thq budget of that middle-class family, the Joneses—John and Mary and son Oscar —whose financial and tax problems we have discussed previously in these columns. John Jones has a good white-collar job. He earns $3600 a year, which means that the Joneses are better than twice as well off as the average American family. On that income, the Joneses pay a Federal income tax of $13.60. But how much do they pay in invisible Federal taxes? We brie? here from a detailed table we

once published on the Jones family tax budget: Taxes on their automobile, gas, oil and tires, $12.99; on cigarets <a pack a day), $21.90; on alcoholic beverages, $9; on movies, theater and ball game admissions. $2.60; on matches, playing cards, cosmetics, toilet articles, radio and refrigerator parts, $2.66. * a a IIIE hear a r ot of demagogic outcries against the * * La Follette amendments because they would assess additional visible levies against moderate incomes. These complaints do not point out that the La Follette assessments ag.tinst the higher incomes would be mffch greater. Nor do they seem at all concerned about that much heavier unseen tax burden of the "little fellow.” What are the facts about the La Follette amendments? Let's take the Joneses again. Amendment No. 1, reducing a married' couple's exemption to S2OOO, would increase the Jones’ income tax from $13.60 to $33.60 —much less than the invisible Federal tax bill which the Joneses pay. Amendment No. 2, increasing the normal rate from 4 per cent to 6, but not reducing the exemption, would boost the income tax to s2o.4o—still less than the invisible taxes. Amendment No. 1 plus amendment No. 2 would raise the Jones family Income tax to $50.40—0r just $1.27 more than they pay in invisible taxes. Amendments No. 3 and No. 4 would not affect the Joneses; they are surtax increases. The Browns, who live across the street from the Joneses, have an income of S2OOO. They pay no income tax now, but they do pay substantially the same amount as the Joneses pay in invisible taxes. The La Follette amendments would not make the Browns pay an income tax, but the money raised by the La Follette taxes would enable the government to ease the burden of the invisible taxes paid by the Browns and the Smiths and the Perkinses who make up approximately S5 per cent of our population living on family incomes of less than $2500 a year. The only way to bring tax relief to the “little fellow” is to find a substitute for those taxes which really burden him. The La Follette taxation principle has that aim. If it is adopted the government will depend less and less upon revenue raised by invisible taxes which have no relation to ability to pay, and more and more on revenue raised by direct taxes proportioned to ability to pay. And as the taxes of the people are flushed out into the open, more and more will the people challenge the wisdom of government expenditures. And that is the reason, especially in an election year, why it is hard to get politicians to accept the La Follette principle. ONLY A START A S Cleanup Week comes to a close today one thing is certain: If Indianapolis becomes and remains the spotless city everybody wants to see, the cleanup must become a permanent, day-by-day activity. * CUTTING THE PHONE BILL r T'WO bulky documents -which have been made part of the record in tile Federal Communications Commission’s telephone investigation may save millions of dollars to telephone users. They are reports by the commission's accounting department on license contract relations between the American Telephone and Telegraph Cos. and associated companies. They will be available to state regulating bodies in defending rate reductions in state and Federal courts. The first test of their potency probably will be made in the Wisconsin Circuit Court, where the Wisconsin Telephone Cos. intends to appeal a decision c the state commission reducing local exchange rates $863,000 a year. The state commission found that the company failed to prove the value of services rendered it by the A. T. and T. for which it pays 1!£ per cent of its gross revenues annually. The reports made public by the Federal Communications Commission, after months of work by its accounting and legal departments, contain much data intended to support this claim. If it is successfully used in a large number of rate cases, it may eventually cut some $13,000,000 a year from consumers’ telephone bills. A WOMAN’S VIEWPOINT By Mrs. Walter Ferguson THE fathers of the Constitution would be flabbergasted if they could make us a return visit. Imagine Thomas Jefferson being greeted at a state border by gun-toting guards who demanded to see his bank book! There may be excellent economic reasons for such high-handed procedure as that used by the Governors of California and Colorado, but those made public by Gov. Ed C. Johnson of the latter state sound far from logical. The border was patrolled, we hear, because he didn't want indigents coming in who might, by offering to work for lower wages, do harm to the native laborers in the sugar-beet districts. But a Governor with sufficient power to call out the National Guard to keep such nien from his bailiwick ought to have the power to prosecute any employer in the sugar-beet district who paid less than the established wage to his workers. I do not pretend to know the technicalities of constitutional law. But I have read the Constitution. and I get from it no picture of a patrol which forbids the poor to travel from state to state without molestation. It seems highly improbable that the founders of our republic intended to reserve certain of the more pleasant and beautiful portions of the country for the well-to-do. No one will deny that the droves of idle men now adrift in the land are a menace to those states with pleasant climates. But that’s just their hard luck, or ought to be. For what more natural than that the jobless should strike out for places where jobs are obtainable, food cheap and sleeping comfortable under the open sky? Aliens may be dealt with in this summary fashion, but it remains a mystery how, under the Constitution, American citizens can be prevented from crossing state lines. HEARD IN CONGRESS p EP. TREADWAY (R., Mass.): This complicated legislation (the tax bill) was originally worked out with algebraic formulas. The present tables of rates will prove to be more Greek than algebra to the unfortunate taxpayers. * a a SENATOR REYNOLDS (D„ N. C.): There are 97,000 tobacco farmers in North Carolina, and I know personally about 50,000 of them. ... I used to chew tobacco. We all have tc learn the ways of our friends. With every chew of tobacco I took, however, I made a vote or two. and I have not forgotten how to chew tobacco. (Laughter.) *' a a ■p EP. DOUGHTON *<D., TC. C.): If jt takes 52 college professors or brain trusters or bonehead trusters, or whatever you call them, to tell the Republican how to select a candidate and write a platform . . . how many would it take to conduct a Republican administration? (laughter and ap- - Aj .

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■p DITH VONNEGUT calls her pet squirrel "Tschaikowsky.” The "Nutcracker Suite”—see? a a a We probably never would have thought of Mrs. Vonnegut’s squirrel to start today’s column if we hadn’t run across the program for the Sigma Alpha lota’s 125 grand piano spectacle which is scheduled for tomorrow at Butler Fieldhouse. won’t believe it, of course, but we re telling you for a fact, so help us, the program we saw called for the playing of the "Waltz of the Flowers from the Undertaker Suite” by Tschaikowsky. a a a A SKED whether he was going to the piano concert publicized above, Adolph Schellschmidt' said he thought he'd hear it sitting on his front porch. a a a f\F course, we always knew that Herman (Pete) Lieber was a good card kibitzer—probably the best we have—but we never knew until yesterday that his interest in sports extended beyond that. It now turns out that Mr. Lieber is the best-informed man in Indianapolis on the Olympic games to be pulled off in Germany this summer. He didn’t deny it when we went to see him about it. Mr. Lieber (Jegan at the beginning, which is what we like about Mr. Lieber. The games, said he, will start with a runner carrying a torch lit'by the sun’s rays in the temple of Zeus at Olympia. None of your new-fangled electric buttons or magnetic gadgets, said Mr. Lieber. This fire will be brought from Olympia through Saloniki, Budapest, Prague, Vienna and Dresden by 3000 runners. Each runner will be provided with a torch which will be lit by the runner he relieves. The last Vunner’s torch will light this year's Olympic fire which, according to the tradition established by Baron de Coubertin, must burn throughout the games. And as if that were not romantic enough, said Mr. Lieber, a thousand carrier pigeons will 'be let loose to spread the message to the comers of the earth, Mr. Lieber had all these details at his fingers' ends. a a a TtiTR. LIEBER wfs especially full of Baron de Coubertin, despite the fact that he was a Frenchman. The Baron, it turns out, thought up the Olympic idea in 1884 but he didn't get it to work until 1896. Since then it’s been going all right, though. Mr. Lieber attaches great importance to the historical fact that the Baron thought up his scheme just at the time Adler, Dorpfeldt, Hirschfeld, Treu and Furtwangler completed their excavations and archaeological studies in Greece. He thinks that it might have had something to da with the Baron’s idea and that maybe the Baron’s idea wasn’t so French after all. Anyway, said Mr. Lieber, the Germans this year aren’t going to be satisfied with sports alone. They are going back to the original idea, which was a correlation of the arts with the games. Olympia and Greek art belong together, said Mr. Lieber, and we heartily agreed with him. Indeed, we never saw anybody bring out the Greek in us the way Mr. Lieber did. TODAY’S SCIENCE BY SCIENCE SERVICE In a laboratory cage, two monkeys quarrel. One of them assumes command. That animal is boss. The other must dance to the tune he calls. Why does the one become tyrant and the other slave? This is a problem that a psychologist has set out to solve. It is one having many implications for man in a world of dictators, political bosses, office tyrants and the myriad petty and glorified rulers of other men’s lives. Why is it that a man may be subdued and helpless in his own home, but become a tyrannical slave-driver when he reaches his office desk? This is one of the universal human problems on which light is thrown by the study of mon.ceys now being conducted at Teachers College, Columbia University, by Dr. A. H Maslow The size of the group is very important in bringing out bullying tatiavior, Dr. Maslow has found. When three individuals aye placed together, the situation is entirely different from what it is where there are but two or where there are four. When Dr. Maslow’s animals were paired, two by two, it soon became eivdent which were the most dominant monkeys in each conceivable combination of two. Then he introduced the third animal and the picture changed. Perhaps the' newcomer was more dominant than either of the pair already in the cage and became over-lord. APRIL AND WILLOWS BY E L Q. i The willows and April are very good friends, Haven't you noticed it, too? When winds softly whisper that bold March is gone. Don’t you know what the willows do? ; They breathe happy sighs as they shake off their furs, 1 And ripples of joy thrill them through; They reach slender fingers to welcome their friend— Haven't you noUcefl it, too? __

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(Time* readers are-invited to express their views in these columns . religious controversies excluded. Make uour letters short, so all can have a chance. Limit them to tSO words or less. Your letter must be signed, but names will be withheld on reouest.l a a a VALUES THE ELDERS FOR THEIR EXPERIENCE By Jimmy Cafouras What is it that a rising, growing boy or girl wants in this life? That is easily answered —opportunity. What is it that an aged person wants? Security, of course. What does a sick individual want? Rather, what must we give such a person—what does he need? Comfort. What does a full-grown, hale and hearty, intelligent, capable and resourceful person want? Expression. Now lets piece this whole affair together. Every child should be educated and prepared in every way for its brief heyday of fitness. The capable should be capitalized on and exploited lor the good of the whole. That is possible only through proper guidance and education and an appropriate apprenticeship. A lot of our self-styled progressive thinkers are beginning to recognize the value of agr. and experience. Every old man and woman is a living parcel of knowledge and resource. They glory most when they pass them on to the young. What would our race be without the old folks to say, "Hold up there,” or “Easy now?” The finest engineers are the oldest engineers. And they’re the finest teachers, too. Just think of the information and experience that go quietly and un-

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BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN NOT long ago a man listed the superstitions of the people in Adams County, 111., associated with various concitions of life and living. Among the most common superstitions in that section, all without any truth or reliability, are the following: 1. A woman, on a first visit to a newly bom child, should not hold it in her arms or she will become a mother. 2. A woman who lays her coat and hat on a strange baby’s bed will .get a baby. 3. If outgrown baby clothes are given away, the mother will need them again. 4. If a couple get married and go to a picture show within the first three days, they will have twins. 5. Girls count apple seeds to discover the number of children they will have. 6. A poor man is certain to have many children. 7. When a boy ig born, the man has more strength than his wife.

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Inclose a 3-cent stamp (or reply when addressing any qnestion of fact or informati * to The Indianapolis Time* Washinrton Service Bureau, 1013 13that. N. W.. Washington. D. C. Legal and medical advice ean not bo *i*en, nor ean extended research be undertaken. Q —How many steps to the minute do soldiers take? At what average rate do columns of troops march? A—ln • marching at attention, United States Army regulations specify 128 thirty-inch steps a minute. The rate of march of a mixed command is regulated by that of the foot troops. For infantry the rate prescribed for drill is 100 yards a minute or 3.4 miles an hour; on the road the maximum to be counted on is 88 yards a minute or 3 miles an hour; including halts, this rate is reduced to 2 hi to 2 a i miles. The rate of infantry columns under average road conditions may be assumed to be 214 to 2Va miles an hour. n Q—How o|. is Irene Dunne, and

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tapped to the grave for lack of imagination. Give the old folks security and let them lead our young. Who is the greater teacher? A man of blazing ideas or a man of great experience? The one may inspire and is necessary to our society, but the other sets us on the right path: What do we visualize then? A society where the young are prepared by the aged, and where the stout-hearted and strong carry on for both. a a a THINKS HE CAN EXPLAIN INSUBORDINATION AT SEA By James C. Barnett In Thursday’s Times Joseph Urban of Bloomington comments on the insubordination among ships’ crews on American ships. Having been a seaman at one time I can perhaps throw some light on the nature of the insubordination. The American seamen in the late twenties at least were being paid about $lO for a seven-day week, each day running as high as 15 hours. The ship I was on had only three Americans in the crew. It was an American ship registered out of an American port, carrying American passengers and freight, but if one wanted a job the admission of being an American and having a knowledge of the English language was a decided handicap. The men who hired the personnel were all either “first papers” Americans or naturalized, and they hired men of their own kind. The men in responsible positions were mostly English. A subtle propaganda pervaded these ships. It was something like this, "Now you are an American and no good

8. Boys are horn more frequently to youthful than to elderly parents. 9. Smok in g by prospective mothers means boys to some and girls to others. 10. There still are people in Adams County who think that the stork brings babies, that the doctor brings the children in the medicine case, and that babies are found in hollow tree stumps. 11. A baby born on a stormy night will be a cross and nervous child. 12. A child bom at 4 in the afternoon will be moderately rich. 13. Colored babies are born white, but as soon as the air strikes them they begin to turn black. 14. A baby born with an open hand will be open-handed and of a generous disposition. 15. Seventh son of a seventh son makes a good doctor. These are some of the most common superstitions among the hundreds that are prevalent today not only in Adams County, but throughout the United States.

how long has she been in the movies? A—She is 28 years old, and made her entrance into the films in 1930. Q—Hi s Charlie Chaplin ever become a naturalized American? A—No, he is still a British subject. Q —What was the maiden name of Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt? A—Anna Eleanor Roosevelt. Q —How old is Dick Powell, and where was he educated? A—He is 31 and attended high school at Litttle Rock, Ark., and Little Rock College for one year. Q —What material is used to make smoke screens? A—Titanium, tetrachloride, a liquid which, when it comes in contact with the air, turns to a heavy smoke, Q —Of what state is Block Island a part? - A-Rtoda Island. ' —l..

American wants a low-paying job on a ship when he can have a good one at high pay ashore. Besides, Americans are drunkards and aren't reliable in emergencies.” I knew three of these philosophical "first-paper” Americans who were on the Morro Castle. One was an Englishman, one a Spaniard, the other an Armenian. They were among the crew members who took to the lifeboats. The officers of the Morro Castle who stayed with the ship were Americans. In this emergency at least the American members of the crew felt a tie of some kind linking them with the American passengers, a feeling that "first-paper” Americans didn’t possess. The seamen have now organized and if ever a simon-pure patriotic labor movement was afoot in the United States it is this one. But their task isn't easy. Engaged in trying to get more American seamen on American ships, like all labor movements they are being "smeared with the tar of radicalism.” It is small wonder they revolt. a a a THINKS LEGION SEEKS SPECIAL PRIVILEGE By Parlor Pink, Terre Haute For two years I have heard American Legion speakers talk about Americanism with its freedom and equality. At the same time we have heard other American Legion speakers trying to obtain special favors for the ex-service man. This and Legion-fostered legislation has proved that they favor special privilege instead of equality. Now another bogey man has them scared. This time it is the alien who is better qualified to hold a job than they are. Again the Legion favors special privilege by wanting a job given to a man not upon his ability but upon a discharge slip. Evidently some of the boys without ability are holding their discharge slips, and aliens with ability are holding jobs. Looks like we need saving again but not from the Kaiser. DAILY THOUGHT For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always. —St. Matthew 26:11. HE is not poor that has little, but he that desires much.—Daniel.

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Vagabond from Indiana ERNIE PYLE

EDITOR'S NOTE—TiII? retlni reporter for Tbs Times goer where he please*, when he pleases, in search of odd stories, about this and that, Guatemala city. May 2. When a foreigner visits a strange city, he becomes very conscious of little things. Here are some of the things, mostly trivial, which my magnetio mind picked up as it sojourned briefly in Guatemala City: The pillowcases on the beds ara split open, not at the end, but aloisg the sides. The president goes for a ride every evening at 5 in a bulletproof car. The city is full of bicycles driver! by sput-sput one-cylinder motors. (I'm told the first one arrived from Germany a couple of months ago, and now everybody wants one). Guatemala has no street cars. And very few taxis. Busses, mostly; a a a YOU get on a bus and sit down; After a while a conductor comes around and takes your nickel and gives you a pink slip. Farther on a second conductor gets on. and tears each slip in half. Eventually a third conductor climbs aboard, and tears what's left in two. It's some kind of checkup system, but it's also a swell salve for unemployment. We'd call it boondoggling. Busses go about 10 miles an hour, even in the suburbs where thers isn't a car in sight. There is, they say, little depression or unemployment in Guatemala. Practically everything closes during the Holy Week celebration. A taxi driver caught operating gets St stiff fine. a a a NEARLY all the downtown stores are owned by Germans. They say there are 10.000 Germans here. Ten Germans to every American. Total population of the city is 125,000. You seldom see a man carrying a basket on his head. The women do the carrying. You don’t see much of this "native life” downtown, but out in the edges of town the woman without a basket on her head is unusual. A friend of mine told me of seeing an Indian woman one day, tight as a tick, staggering along with a basket of eggs, four feet wide, on her head. She didn't break a one, Guatemalan women weave, and wear, the most beautiful and vividly colored cloth I have ever seen. They make long bustly skirts, and wear a shawl of a different pattern, all weirdly splashed with color. Mos* of them go barefooted. a a a Guatemalans look different from Mexicans. Their skin is redder, and their faces are squarer and fuller. I never saw so many camera stores in any one Fiace as in Guatemala. There must be a dozen of them in two blocks. H.gh-class places, too. And "Farmacias.” A pharmacy here is a pharmacy, not a department store. There is not a soda fountain in any pharmacy in the city. Guatemala is a very proud nation. They are very strict about travelers. They say the Guatemalan border is the hardest frontier in America to cross. Either Guatemalan or American money is good here. But you can't use Mexican money. a a a Guatemala city is a very military. There is an honor guard in front of the National Palace all the time. The guard barracks and armory is just across the park from the palace. You see many officers on the streets. I don't know whether the cops are in the army or not, but I know a cop has to salute an army officer. On every corner is a traffic cop in khaki uniform, standing on a red wooden box. The box has -a sign advertising beer. The cops don’t have much to do. There aj-en't many autos. Whenever an auto approaches, the cop makes an individual case of directing it . around the corner. Guatemalans must love art. In nearly every store the walls are covered with paintings by native artists. There are many rich people here —owners of banana and coffee plantations. The residential districts' have magnificent estates, There are no high buildings. I don't remember anything over three stories, and mastly just one. Afraid of earthquakes, I suppose.

By George Clark