Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 June 1936 — Page 9
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NEW YORK, June 1.—A man came up to me in a restaurant and said, “I'm a regular reader of your column, but, of course, I do not always agree with you.” The latter part of the statement is not unfamiliar to me, and still I put on my prop smile and answered, “It's nice of you to tell me.” At that point he went too far. “What ‘I like about you when I do like you,” the stranger continued, “is your-tolerance.” He didn’t see the blow coming, and it was swung from the floor. Unfortunately, it landed just a shade too high, and, even so, I knocked him across four chairs and a couple of tables. I am a moderately patient man, but I see no reason why I should brook insults in public places. And with all the vehemence I can command I utterly deny the nasty accusation aa x ma tolerant person. ere is a gr * confusion n the jing hd vices and virtues, but palpably tolerance Heywood Brown is a weakness. Pleage pot ne 1 would not die a Voltairean dea - Stwalght adversary’s right to voice his heresy, but I would go a long way in favor of free speech. Tolerance, however, demands more than that. If 1 understand the word properly it means that after your opponent has spoken his piece you are under obligation to scratch your head and reply, “Maybe there is something in what you say.” Or possibly, «The truth lies somewhere between the two. That is called tolerance, but it ought to be called namby-pamby neutrality. Of course, I would let my adversary speak, but there is nothing kindly or tolerant in that, I'm for allowing him enough rope in the simple hope that he will hang himself.
Eloquence of the Sea
NE of the matters concerning which I have no O pretensions as an expert is seamanship. The factors which make for safety at sea are highly technical. However, when I see a little dinghy on the deck of a steamer marked “Fifty passengers,” or words to that effect, I look 2 it in some dismay and “They're not talking about me.” ll 1 have gone to meetings of the striking seamen in New York, and each time I have been impressed with the clear-cut case made out by the sailors and stewards as to the justice of their cause. It can’t possibly be that all our ships are manned by first cousins of Demosthenes, and so I assume they have just a good cause to plead. Of all the speeches I have heard in a year the very best was made by a ship’s steward who, as far as I know, was without previous platform experience. It is a familiar saying that men of the sea write well when they turn to literature. Such names as Conrad and McFee come to mind as men whose training seems to have been wholly out of the stimulus of their environment. I have found in the seafaring authors a grasp of simple and direct expression. They do not overword themselves or go in for the fancy nouns. Nor do they deal much with purple patches of descriptive writing. .
# 8 o They Think Straight, Too NDEED, I think written English could be vastly improved if years or months were set aside for the conservation of adjectives. We certainly could get along with a much smaller number than those which are current. Any forthright person ought to be able to say everything he wants with the use of just two qualifying words. I refer, of course, to our old friends “swell” and “lousy.” ‘In much the same manner I find that the sea makes its followers think straight and talk straight. : I am willing to listen to arguments on’the other side, but they will have to be very good to make me shift from my belief that the striking sailors of New York City have a swell case. \ (Copyright. 1936)
Power: of Courts |s Foremost Issue
BY RAYMOND CLAPPER
ASHINGTON, June 1.— After slaughtering practically every New Deal measure that has been: dragged before it,.the Supreme Court now begins its summer breathing spell, ending a winter's performance which leaves the stage, as in the last act of a Shakespearean tragedy, strewn with the gory dead. This performance comes to a slightly farcical end with the court, entangled among its own precedents, considering whether, if labor relations are local matters reserved to the states as in the Guffey decision, New York State can have its women’s minimum wage law. The answer seems easy. But back in 1923 the court threw out one women’s minimum wage law on the ground that it violated constitutional freedom of contract. { This winter, the court has said that agriculture is a local matter, that coal mining is local, that Congress can't deal with wages and hours, that when the Constitution gave Congress specific power to make bankruptcy laws it didn't mean quite that. The court has even undertaken to read the mind of Congress. It held in the Guffey decision that when Congress said one thing in plain language, it meant something else. .- Actually, it wasn't the court which said these things. It was a majority of the court which issued these solemn pronouncements with a great
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to-do of quoting precedents; that is, something that |
judges before them had said. At the same time sev--eral other members of the court insisted upon exactly contrary opinions, with equal conviction' and with an equal array of precedents to support them. | Thus the Constitution and the language of SGT come.to mean, not merely what the judges y they mean, but what five judges on the Supreme Court say they mean. That puts the four other Judges in the same class with Roosevelt, flaunting the Constitution, ignoring the will of the Founding: Fathers, and seeking by indirection to undermine the foundations of the American form of government. " . »
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MONDAY, JUNE 1,198
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SMOKING OUT
This is the seventh of a series of articles, “Smoking Out the Candidates,” written by Frazier Hunt, world famous reporter, for NEA Serv-
ice and The Indianapolis Times, in which are presented the’answers |
of Republican presidential possibilities to the same ten questions on the
vital issues of the day. . #
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BY FRAZIER HUNT : (Copyright, 1936, NEA Service, Inc.)
THE Dark Horse from Iowa
goes galloping toward Cleve-
land. At the Republican convention four years agoSenator Lester J. Dickinson was the keynoter. This time he is an out-and-out candidate, who contends that there is a chance for a genuine anti-New Dealer not only to make a
good run but to be elected. . He
believes also that the fight should
be carried straight into the enemy's camp. And when this man from out where the tall corn grows believes anything he believes it with all the power and drive of his six feet, 190 pounds of dynamic farm-boy energy. For hundreds of years the Dickinson tribe have been gathering strength from the soil and storing it up for just such an emergency. : ‘ This Iowa Senator certainly looks like a President—if that means anything. A great shock of white hair tops a finely shaped head. His jaw is square and strong, and his bluish eyes are bright
and sparkling. : man a dozen years younger. His voice is powerful and untiring. He'd come mighty near winning
Frazier Hunt
At 69 he boasts the health of a :
one of those international hog-calling contests that are so popular in
his home state. §
Words put down in-black and white lose considerable of their violence as compared. to the way they come booming out of the mouth of this determined Hawkeye, a stanch and 100 per cent opponent of New Dealism. He is a deep-feeler and a viewer-with-alarm, as you'll quickly
observe from reading his answers to my 10 questions on vital issues of the 1936 campaign. 2 2 0»
DO YOU. favor balancing the.
budget? If so, do you advocate reducing relief expenditures or increasing taxes? If by taxes, what kind? Have always favored balancing the budget and living within our income. Relief expenditures can be reduced’ by taking ‘out waste. Then revenues should be raised to national expenditures., With reference to taxes, additional revenues can be raised by increased customs, further adjustment of income tax schedules, and corporation taxes. / 2 ” 2, SHOULD relief be by direct cash payments or as wages? Should relief be paid for and administered by the Federal government or by the states, or both?
Rebellion
Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance WASHINGTON, June 1.— The Senate Munitions Com- - mittee is in rebellion against War Department plans to subject the nation fo a military dictatorship in wartime, it was learned today. The committee attacks the plans in a report in a series of bills quietly sent Congress by the War Department. These bills embody the dictatorship program, which the department has been preparing since shortly after the Armistice. The committee’s report will go to the Senate this week. The bills would place the entire country under absolute military control. This could mean a presidential dictatorship, since the President is commander-in-chief of the armed forces. The bills also would establish complete censorship of speech and the press by military authorities. J
Relief shopld be neither direct cash payments nor wages. It “should be administered by the local authorities in the form of: the proper necessities of life to provide sustenance. A great many
‘people are given relief in the form: of .cash payments which are:
being - used: for: other purposes, including the purchase of radios and automobiles.
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HOW SHOULD the problem of permanent unemployment and care of the aged and unemployed be handled? The problem of unemployment can be handled only by restoring confidence as we did in 1896 and adopting an economy of plenty where every one will have work. The care of the aged and un“employables should be handled through a mutual local, state and national program with each unit of government furnishing part of the sustenance.
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DO YOU favor further devaluation of the dollar or stabilization at present gold content? Do you believe in any form of currency change, currercy inflation or credit inflation, a return to the gold standard, the remonetization of silver or a managed currency? : : 5 I do not favor devaluation of the dollar, but do favor its stabilization at such a point as can be agreed upon with several leading nations of the world. I do not believe that currency inflation or credit inflation ever brings. definite results. It would seem to me that our only course as a monetary program for the future is to join with ‘several of the leading nations of the world to stabilize currency at a fixed value of gold content.
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DO YOU favor any program whose aim is to control or fix wages, working hours or a shorter work week? I do not believe in the control by the government of fixed wages. This should be a local problem,
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controlled by the state and not by the Federal government. 2 8 s 5 DO YOU favor an amendment to the Constitution
.authorizing the Federal govern-
ment to deal with economic: and
social problems, national in scope, or of limiting: the courts as to their right to declare laws of Congress unconstitutional? . a - I do not favor an amendment to the Constitution that will: per= mit: the Federal government: “to deal with economic or social prob--
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lems, nor do I believe in the limi-
tation of the courts in their right
: i ‘= DO YOU favor modification .or suspension of the antitrust laws to enable business men (a) To agree on (b) To agree on 1 (c) To agree on control of production; (d) To attempt to fix prices? It is my belief that the antitrust laws should be made stronger, rather than weaker. Whatever trade practices are approved should be approved by the Federal Trade Commission and not by those having a financial interest in the practices. Trade practices and labor relations in the control of production and attempt to fix prices should not be authorized by ‘the Federal government. in any instances. 8 8 8 WHAT IS your remedy for © the farmer? Do you favor the curtailment of production, industrial or agricultural? Under no circumstances do I believe that the Federal govern-
ment should be a party to curtail“ment of production in either in-
dustry or agriculture, : 2 8 = ARE YOU in favor of the policy of making - reciprocal trade treaties to encourage foreign trade or reduce tariff walls? I am opposed to reciprocal trade agreements and believe that the tariff policy should be returned to the legislative branch of the gov= ernment and should not be made the whim of any commissioner or bureaucrat. : 2 8 » : Nn DO YOU favor a policy of public power development;
TVA, and the control of utilities through the utilities holding company act? aay to It is my belief that the quicker the government gets out of .the public power .business, the better for all concerned. The expansion of the TVA is absolutely unjusti~ fled. FF « >. oor exf The ‘composite candidate.
Washington Merry-G oRbo und
BY DREW PEARSON AND ROBERT S. ALLEN
ASHINGTON, June 1.— Some straight - from - the = shoulder. talk was . handed the Presidént at his rebént informal after -dinngs conference with Senate liberals. (Fn It was all in friendly spirit, inwith much jesting and laughter. But there was no-pull-ing of punches in the serious moments. A a Senator Bob La Follette, Wisconsin Progressive, spoke pointedly on the failure of the: Treasury to follow up the President’s recommendations for a tax on. corporation surpluses with a care-
. fully worked-out bill. Senator
Henrik Shipstead, Minnesota Farmer-Laborite, told the President he would have to make up his mind which way he was going. “You must decide, Mr. President,” he said, “just what you want to do—play ball with business or crack down on business.” The Minnesotan also contended that the President would have to take a definite stand on the guestion of the Supreme Court. He argued that even if the Democratic Party did" not make an issue of the court in this year’s campaign, people would be certain to ask the President how he proposed pushing new liberal measures as long as the way was barred by the tribunal. BY edited Felix Frankfurter, who was present, agreed with this. President was non-committal. In -a discussion of the Democratic platform, the President was advised to include a strong antimonopoly plank. as “If you don't do that,” he was
-also advised, “the Republicans will | + beat you to the punch, There is
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“Lincoln Memorial may help find a cure to one of the most dreaded of all diseases—infantile
paralysis. They are Rhesus mone-:-
keys from India, :little fellows
- weighing about 15 or 20 pounds;
and . costing the government $7
- each plus board and lodging.
They eat expensively—half a loaf of bread soaked in milk, plus six ‘bananas. ‘And a hard-boiled ‘egg on Sunday. | ; But what they eat is of no importance. The important thing, to the white-aproned surgeons of the Public Health Service is How they react after a trip to the operating table. : "An attendant slips the cage. door ajar, bags a monkey with a ‘net, stretches him out on the
- operating table, while Dr. Charles
Armstrong gives him a shot in the arm with a hypodermic needle. The monkey is. put back and another is bagged. = . 5 +One set of monkeys is- treated with the newly discovered immunizing injection supposed to prevent infantile paralysis. The other set is not. - Then both sets are. inoculated ‘with the virus of poli-
melitis (infantile paralysis): " The test is whether the immunized monkeys live while the
‘others die. If so it may mean
fety. for children all over the world. z Lo ee #0 wi NO far, Dr. Armstrong has had ‘amazing success. In one experiment with eight monkeys, three of the four which had heen immunized lived. The four not
Dr. Armstrong, however, is con‘servative. He: is making no predictions. : : “We've got to remember,” he
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‘patient, to compare results.
(Copyright, . 1938;
insists, “that monkeys are not humans. We hope we can have
| the same results with children, ’ but we are not sure. We are waitTru- | ing for aguother.e
pidemic. a IF Salud ans will react like ‘these
1onkeys, wé could. prevent, such disturbances as the abandonment
last summer of the Boy . Scout
Jamboree. - The secret is merely a little nasal spray with picric
“And it’s cheap It's ‘used in
‘making explosives. You can buy
it by the carload. A penny’s worth of picric acid will treat 500 children ’ :
“The trouble is we'll have a hard time proving its effect. At the next epidemic, everybody's going to demand it. We'd like to withhold it from every second But we can’t do that. - We can’t say, ‘Your child may have the benefits, but yours may not.’” i Preparing for the next epidemic, Armstrong works with his menagerie, keeps his charts, and prays that human beings will behave like monkeys. : : 2 = = Oh ie UCHANON of Texas rose on the floor of the House in support. of a bill providing an .additional $4000 “for folding. speeches and pamphlets for the Senate.” It is election year. The bill passed. . . » To avoid the chore of record180,000 yeas and nays for the
-voting record of the House of Rep-
resentatives, Tally Clerk Hans
- Jurgensen has invented a tabulat-
ing machine now being built for
the purpose. . . . The average farm
mule works 1120 hours a year, according to Department of Agriculture experts. This is 440 hours less than a man would work on the basis of the much-opposed 30hour week. . . .. When TVA’s six.
: dams are completed, they will have
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VV ASHINGTON, June 1.—When the new Popular Front, or Left Wing, French government comes into power this week, the European crisis will accelerate - its march toward the feared climax.
Nazi Germany is bent upon walling oft France from the rest 6f Europe by building a line of fortifications along the Rhineland frontier. Then, according to virtually unanimous opinion in Euroe pean capitals, she will embark p= upon the road to conquest in the direction of Russia. Austria, Czechoslovakia, Rumania, Soviet Russia and, formerly, Poland have placed chief reliance upon powerful France to come to their aid in the event Herr Hitler attempts to ‘expand at their expense. Germany’s reoccupation of the Rhineland last March was the first move to make any such aid impossible. The next move a —refortification of the Rhineland—is now under way. Wm. Philip If France permits Germany Sion to complete these fortifications, her role in European affairs will be diminished vastly. She will find here self less courted by the other powers because she will no longer be in a position to help them materially in time of trouble. Thus isolated, her own
: security- would be correspondingly imperiled.
France, therefore, will never accept the German fait accompli in the Rhineland so suddenly thrust upon her on March 7. Secretary of State Paul Boncour, member of the present French cabinet and likely minister of foreign affairs in the next, Smphaucally told this writer so a few days ago in
Situation Still Grave
DFE the apparent lull, the Rhineland situae tion, ‘he admitted, is stiil very grave. It is bound to come to a head again not later than two weeks from today when the Council of the League meets at Geneva.
The incoming Socialist government will certainly be every whit as firm as the existing government, It may be even more so. Composed of Socialists and Radicals, and backed by Communists as it will be, impression that it will be
there is a widespread “Pacifist.” Nothing could be further from the truth, True, it will be “Pacifist” in the sense that Soviet. Russia is ‘Pacifist,” which is not “Pacifist” at all, Russia is opposed .to war—except in defense of what She Sonsiders ha own vital interests. The same can said of the t Wing government abou over Power 2 In France. to take = n Blum, Jewish leader of the French Socialists will be the next prime minister. He and his party abhor Hitler and Naziism. Allied with the Socialists are the Communists, openly inspired by Moscow, Moscow is absolutely certain in its own mind that it is only a question of time before the Nazis begin their program of expansion in Eastern Europe, and hence regards them as Russia’s bitterest European foe. . 8 =
3 : . Difficult Days Lie Ahead
~GHOULD. the Blum government: issue an ultie
matum to stop work on the Rhineland fortifica«
“tions therefore, it might reasonably expect the sup-
port of practically every one of the 372 deputies
\ occupying Popular Front seats in the new chamber,
plus a good number of the 246 deputies of the right, plus Moscow, Austria and the three countries
~ of .the Little Entente, all of whom fear Hitler.
There is reason to believe that if France would relive those fateful March days over again, she
“would promptly give Germany 48 hours in which
to withdraw her troops from the Rhineland—or else, There now exists the possibility that she may demang that Germany leave that area unfortified— or else. i So, for France, difficult, even dangerous days lie just ahead. Her decision will make history. If she permits herself to be cut off from central, eastern and southeastern Europe she will definitely cease to wield the great influences at the council tables of the world she unquestionably does now. On the other hand, the chances are the alternative road would lead to war..-
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RIC P. KELLY, Dartmouth College professor and ~ one of the best modern writers for young peo= ple, has recently written another excellent book for older boys and girls. Ce “ THREE SIDES OF AGIOCHOOK (Macmillan, $2) is an adventure story based upon historical facts about Dartmouth College. It tells how a young stu= dent in the restless days of 1775 braved the dangers ous wilderness to save the little college from de-