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WHAT'S THE RUSH? ~~

ER the lash of its leaders’ whips the Senate is about to givé the tax bill a lick aid promise: ‘and then try to adjourn the Seventy-Fourth Corigtess 4n time for the opening of the Cleveland convention, If this hurry-up program goes through, Congress ‘will find itself accused of leaving behind it unsolved some: of the nation's most harassing issues. ; Without disparaging the ‘importance of the. Ree Publican convention it is suggested that instead: ‘of adjourning now Congress could vote a recess 80 that those members who are delegates may attend, Then they can return to Washington and finish the Job. s 8 ”

xr. two years, in the face of the most —— mounting expense in our history, the slaim-bang, “stop- -gap, Happy Hooligan technique ot tax: legis. -Jation has been employed. ’ © Here has been the procedure. Congress ‘meets. Assurances proclaimed that there would be no need for tax legislation this session. Weeks and months + Toll along. Hot weather arrives. The congressional _ eye becomes fixed on adjournment. Then—a tax message! Surprise party! Hurried routing out of the experts! Bum’s rush! : Remember the “We'll pass it in six days” per‘formance of 1935? And the same sort, with Yaria- * tions, this year. Result: A mess of confusion, ignorance and ire ‘ritation. ' Accordingly, no matter how the present tax bill finally comes out, it will raise less than a tenth of the year's expenses, and will be half-baked insofar as the. whole broad problem of Internal ‘revenue is. concerned. It is time to call a halt on the hit-and-miss and to turn scientific for a change. A complete over hauling of our whole taxation system is long over= .due. , ‘The procedure is spe Before Congress adjourns let there be a subcommittee appointed, made up ‘of members from the House Ways and Means and the Senate Finance Committees. This body to ‘go to work immediately, with Treasury Department ‘and joint taxation committee experts—and to keep Working until the 1937 Congress convenes. Then to report. : 3 ~ Thoroughness, hard labor, intelligence, the long haul approach, plenty of time and application—those ‘qualities injected in proper proportion can serve the * nation well in this time of fiscal distress. To set in motion such a program would be statesmanship of the highest type. To fail to do so would be just | another disheartening demonstration of Arrespen-

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4defit. If the President thinks that criticism of his ‘relief administration is petty or partisan he is badly misinformed. There is a widespread, informed and honest questioning of ‘relief practices and polJefes. This present Congress should create a nonpartisan and expert commission, arm it with money and power to study the whole relief picture through‘out the country, authorize it to bring in a report oi the facts and a suggested long-range policy for ‘the next Congress to follow. Our present relief policy 4s that of the ostrich. : The Wagner-Ellenbogen slum-abatement bill also ; deserves: immediate consideration: This is not only a greal: humane : program, , but it would provide the needgd: stimulus fof dhe laggard construction in“dustry. No measure béfore Congress has had such popular support from the cities, counties, states, labor organizations, employers and social workers. | The La "Follette resolution to investigate labor espionage and civil: 1ibérty violations cries out for ‘passage. ‘Such’ murderous outfits -as the ‘Black Legion ‘are -oniy symptomatic, ‘of Fascisteminded groups thdt must be killed oft by the germicide of pitiless publicity. The Ketr-Coolidge-King deportation’ bill's: faituré to pass would make crime control ‘harder and leave ‘a wake of, needless. niiery., ‘The substitute Guffey coal price-fiking pill should be considered in the interest of peace and order wm ithe: goal. fields. ‘;The Guffey, ship subsidy bill should : ‘be ‘passed in the interest: of. :peace and order at sea : «on the water ts; -_ ig OW, can be aovol aside di thie: interest of party. conventions and campaign= ng. : But ‘only at the risk of ;social disorder, pre suffering and recovery eterred.

PARK! MUSIC community is assured two free symphony ‘concerts this month’ in: Garfield Park as a res t of ‘the ‘State’ Tax Boards action in: approving Aransfer of $700 from the city's general fund to the Mayor's. office to meet concert expenses. The first concert will be at.8 o'clock Sunday night and the second June 20: Ferdinand Schaefer, director of: the: Indianapolis Symphony: ‘Orchestra,

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BE Podoras conviot IkpF set aivelta gots muds’ in prisons of their interstate character. States thus | have a right to bar them from sale Within their ‘borders. Schwellenbach. that fn. the same “way states could be empowered Bar the products

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Of child-1abor. - +s sii,

If ‘yen & few of the larger industrial “states |

enacted suply laws, ehfld labor would: necessarily stop, hie thinks. New York has hever constitytional amendment but has a strong “¢hild labor law. of its’ own and might seize the chance fo protect. its. manfacturefs. from competition withfirms ‘using child labor in nearby states. : The Supreme Court opinion in the convict labor case was written. by Justice Sutherland, and concwred in by other court conservatives. Senator Schwellenbath has laid his plan before a number of constitutional aHUotities and says they have detected no flaws. ' Congress probably will not give it serious consideration until next winter, but it is being intro“duced now so that lawyers may yu. it during the

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Ed GARBAGE. PROFITS

NOAP and. candle consumers paid little attention when the’ Senate Piriance Committee . approved Senator Bafley's amendment. to the tax bill, daying imposts on various fats’ and oils, clung: 3 cents & pound on tallow.’ ih But the boys who spesalate on githingd aredse tallow futures: certainly took. heed. The New York Journal of Commerce, May 28 issue, tells the story: “Tallow prices on the New York Produce Exchange scored the sharpest jump seen since the mars .ket was opened on news from Washington in regard to the Bailey fats and oils excise tariff. The trade was mostly of the opinion that -any action definitely decided upon should have more effect upon the tallow market than any other, Sales for the day totaled 480,000 pounds. Prices closed up 12 to 23 points.” ar. nn

_ LIKE MARK TWAIN'S DEATH . . .

J =wouTion of the TVA. program, says the suit just filed against it by 19 power companies, “will necessarily and inevitably destroy all or a substan--tial part of the business and property of each of the complainants. »

TVA rate reductions have already ‘been in effect

" two years and it is natural to suppose thet ‘signs of

impending collapse would be evident if it were, in fact, impending. Yet what does, the record show? "During the first year of the redubtions: the three companies most directly affected, ‘Tennessee’ Electric Power, Georgia Power and Alabama Power, made

“substantial gains in net-income,

The Tennessee company was awarded a medal by the industry for “remarkable sales increases in residential, comercial and. industrial. ‘power. It ranked first in the country. = All three companies made’ sensational gains in sales of electric appliances, far outstripping. companfes of like size in regions Whete no reductions took: place. : Comonwealih. & Southern, “niiding company which controls all three, has just reported to its stockholders that “the business of your corporation has shown material increases”; that consolidated gross earnings show a gain of 6.35 per cent for 1935, and that the average annual yse per residential cus-: tomer in’ the system increased 14.21 per cent.

_ #Fhe report,” Mark Twain said, “has been, greatly

» aaggernieq. 3: HE question of relief has not been met w vob J

ing a $1,425,000,000 blank check to the Pres- [°

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- 4 “FOOD AND PEACE OOD will win the war, they used to say, and it did. Now there’s a chance that it may prove

Just as useful in preserving the peace. Some six or seven: thousand farm women. from

"all ‘over the world are meeting: int Washington this

week to exchange recipes—and other details of life on ‘a farm. From Palestine ahd’ India’ ‘and Estonig and China they ‘are gathering, not to pass resolutions or to hear silver-tongued orators, uk. to, talk : things ‘over among themselves. __ The Associated Countrywomen of the World are sponsoring the conference, the third—and- largest— of its kind ever held.” And the women who have been : in charge of’ advarice collection of recipes, for publication in book form, report that the common interest in food transcends barriers of race, language, nationality and political differerices. Farm women from Nazi Germany snd trom Palestine, housewives from .nothern-and southern Ireland, even Democratic’ and Republican ‘ women from rural ‘United States worked together on this common objective.

. And after they. have met and talked things over; after their eyes’ have Hghitéd up’ over. the priceless’.

gift of something new to serve thé family, after: they: have learned : to: twist; their, tongyes | {around the Toielgit niathes und savor foreign fayots; 1t' ‘Should be * just ‘a lttle harder for dictators or any one- else to make them hate each other enough to: give up their sons. and husbands to fight.

. 4 A WOMAN'S VIEWPOINT: BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON “HE boy-friend and -I have about’ given up motoring,” said a college lass, home on a holiday. “We find walking so much pleasanter and more

"convenient for—er—well, all sorts of things:”

* Sensible child! She will probably walk hef young man: straight to the altar, for it is undeniably true that motoring is not the. way to-speed up romance. ‘Take the litle matter of holding hands, for example. A stroll through the woods in the spring, a. walk over snowy winter fields, sets ‘a: better pace for the pursuit of love than a dash through congested high-" ways at any time of the year. Indeed there is something incongruous in love-making in an automobile, however we look at it. It may be that medern courtship and marriage suffer’ most because of the headJong manner in which we approach them. a Most of us have forgotten, snd some of the young-

_ er generation have never known the joys of walking.

‘Yet youtlt is the proper time for indulging in the ° pastime, for it is the period when one likes to weave sweet illusions from the fabric of fancy. “Consumed

or | seme alg tts i dott

‘frustration these days as he dashes frantically up {and ‘down the paved rodds in a futile effort to ease

| the ache in his being. Jia aa: ache whit he does

the

He got it by way of Alma Jane| Wilday, Wie sige, who g% 4 uy |

picked it up, bat is good enough to have come straight out of the Buca Lapi kitchen in Florence. It’s even

better because Mr, Calvert has|

added some original of his

| own.

The recipe will: serve’ atx peopl eople provided Mr. Calvert is not invited.

Mr. Calvert always ests two plate-| fuls at one: sitting. ‘What's more;

he knows of one man who got haif-

way through his ‘third plate before |

he gave up. In polite society, how- = fd

ever, it's enough for six,

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Pes start, is easy enough: - Put | -

one pound of spaghetti ‘dn plenty of boiling water. ‘Boil 25 minutes and. no guess-work - about it, because: if you do, the: spaghetti

won't ‘be. “ben cotti,” Which. 3s: to | 4

say that it will be hard,

‘Drain off water and: rinse. spa- a

ghetti in cold water. to serve heat it again by pouring over it boiling water and draining it off. All this sounds melancholy enough, but it has to be done to make the sauce reasonable. ' To know ‘the sauce, as finally developed by Mr. Calvert, is not unlike looking ‘at a cook’s naked soul, To make it: ‘Cut five slices of bacon into bits and Ary crisp... Remove bacon from grease. Add two heaping tablespoons of butter to the bacon grease. Strip one large onion apart by layers and fry it -in grease... Remove the: onion. At this point Mr. Calvert departs from the original recipe. The Berthelsen instructions call for throwing away the ‘onion, but Mr. Calvert, true to his banker’s instinct, keeps it for further use as you. shall presently see. 8 8 ” O continue: Add to the grease ‘one-half pound of round steak ground like hamburger. Slice very thin two or three toes of garlic (de gustibus non est disputandum) and cook thoroughly with the meat. Fry well. Put back the bits of bgcon ‘previously fried and stir in a can of tomato, soup. y Add salt and cayenne pepper. This is a good time, says Mr. Calvert, to put back the tried onion salvaged a couple of paragraphs back. Put in about Half a pound of - Arherican ‘chéese—snappy—and stir and beat all together. If the cheese doesn’t mielt in the sauce you might as well start over, says Mr. Calvert. Put. the spaghetti Qeft draining

{at the beginning of this piece) on

plates: and pour the sauce over it

| Eat with a good green salad and a

flasco of . Chianti. To do it right;

| the recipe will set you back six bottles. ‘In a pinch, claret will do.

Sometimes, in an ecstatic mood, Mr. Calvert adds a ‘pound of fresh. mushrooms, cut but not very fine, to the sauce: It's nothing for be-

-ginners, though, says Mr. Calvert.

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A-—For the Latin, Thesauri Afhericae Septentrion Sigilum, ,meaning. “The Seal of the. Treagury, of North Ameri¢a.”, | =~. ‘Q—=When ‘did ‘the Twentyifirst Amendment to ‘the’ United: States Constitution’ becothe- effective?

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U. S. HAD NO RIGHT IN

WORLD WAR, HE SAYS By Hugh S.. Johnson

Decoration Day ought ed “coms. memorate the glory of our soldier dead—and the monumental ‘madness of political leaders. + = Such platitudes as “The Civil War was inevitable” won't wash. It might have been inevitable in 1860, but it wasn’t inevitable 20 years earlier. Its cost is incalculable and we are paying for it ‘yet. ‘Its cause was the bitter implacability. of a few die- | hards and the ferocity of a few fanatics on both sides. It was the flowering of an engendered hatred of class against class and section against - section. It had its- Huey Long in John Brown, its Father Coughlin in William Lloyd Garrison, its Herbert Hoover in John C. Calhoun, and - its Rex Tugwells everywhere. A contributing cause was. the North's refusal to respect constitutional engagements. . 2 Our latest mass contribution - to national cemeteries was even -more

Your Health

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN OST mothers “are inclined to

‘become’ nervous, and seek to

change the baby’s feeding too ire=quently, The doctor changes -the feedings in accordance .with ‘the development ‘of the infant and the symptoms that occur as a ‘result of its diet. Remember “that not all the dis comforts ‘and disturbances of. the

“ehild ‘are attributable to its idiet.

Grandmohers and inexperienced nurses are likely to contend that most of the baby’s. trouble. is due to something it ate or to the way in which the food was prepared. It also.is not possible to tell, with one or-two feedings, whether the new food is more agreeable than the one which has just been abandoned. [wo oo ae sass, may be Tr or. the e Fequired the new mixture is better than the old .one. At . certain. seasons of ‘the. year, ho carta and at certain periods in the baby's life, a change in feeding is necessary. In_ hot. weather, infants . ‘do not digest as ‘well as they do. in -cold weather. They require

Joss. food because they’do Hot have |

roduce heat.

perspire more and Jose. more,

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water from the body, so that require more water. The formula in hot weather, therefore, is

water: and less milk. skimmed milk is used,

whole milk.

inexcusable. We had no more biisiness in the World War shindy than an Orangeman in a 8t. Patrick's Day parade. We were led into it by internationalists and idealists who Yantsd America to: save the. worl

THINKS INSURANCE FIRMS SHOULD FINANCE HOMES By H. L.: Seeger _

Your editorial headed «Needed

A Building Boom” ' uncovered a closet skeleton, when you said private capital amd FHA: could not provide decent housing. for. 71 per cent of the families of America, who had incomes below $2500 a year. Yet there is ‘where the housing

shortage exists. Families: whose in=:

come - exceeds $2500 a year never had {rouble in finding a decent home to. buy ur rent. Now, since the insurance compaities, and other lending agencies have trouble in‘ finding borrowers for their funds, let these lenders go inte the business of building with this burdensome money, and ‘let’ them hold the deed to the property, instead: of the mortgage. ‘What is good for the borrower, should ‘be better for the would-be lender. : These lenders could Organs ize their own holding ‘companies, to own these properties and accept the

“holding company’s’ mortgage. At

least foreclosure would not be so

‘}likely then, or necessary. “If there

is profit in the holding of property; the profit would go to these anxious lenders; if not; then it would: be silly for any one to borrow ‘money

“mortgage. If they build on

8 a enough scale, they may be able’ to bring prices down for decent homes to the 71 per cent of our low-income families. Here is a chance for these Tend= ers to sell shares in their “holding companies” to low-income families, to become :shareholding purchasers of homes. © The title to remain with the holding company until the shareholder surrenders stock' to cover payment of his home. Without .debt burdens, could be no fepression.

SEES" CARVER PUTTING oNE

OVER ON G.O.P. ; By George Gonld Hine. The new Republican chief brain truster, Professor Carver, who has been hired to prepare for the National Committee a new dish — brains-—has ‘presented them with the startling proposition that all wealth is- divided into three classes , stealings and findings. “The effect’ of his upon wealthy Republicans can be imagined. It

there

“| hissing:

Long”?

themselves into the apostles of

was just the same as whispering in each expectant ear the words: “All is discovered!” But the professor

was not satisfied with this. . He

added: the happy: thought that all ‘unearned wealth should be Tredis-

tributed by drastic taxation. To any..Republican committee, hungry

for -ideas, this was all that was

‘needed. To them, the professor was “Beat it—the police!” There was no reason for -them to believe that the professor would

Lever bring in a proposition that

would start a stampede for the exits. In 1928 he wrote a book entitled . . “This | Economic’ World; How It Can Be Improved.” This was before the depression was in anybody's philosophy. ' In this book

he states, “There is absolutely no

reason why this widely diffused prosperity should not be permanent.” His only fear was that the masses “would destroy themselves with riotous living. “He said the “surest way to raise wages, Suplize wealth, emancipate the laborer, is to encourage the accumulation of capital by an increasing number of capitalists.” What was wrong with this? = Here was a professor of Harvard whose teachings : were . the . religion. of Presidents Harding, Coolidge and Hoover. How could the committee

suspect that Professor Carver would |

ever descend so low as. to present a group of. trusting Republicans with ‘a dish prepared “A 1a Huey

SILENCE 45 BY VIRGINIA V. KIDWELL I find he more than just an empty

“This shen place is haunted, deso- |

It's DE ad With 8 heavy gloom That chills with: fears I can: not : . dissipate. Thr

This ‘room holds ‘more than lone- “~ liness profound. Here lays a Tecling- of complete despair,

Its: silence; memory makes its hol-

low sound, Here some one died for whom ‘I used to care. .

DAILY THOUGHT .For such are false apostles, des ‘ceitful workers, transforming

- Christ. —II Corinthians xi, 13.

\ECEIVERS are | are the’ most dan- - gerous members .- of - society. They trifle - with. the - best. -affections of our nature, and violate the niost. sacred obligations. —Oraphe,

By George Clark

‘agabond

from

Indiana

evening when they don’t appear, it:

seems that something is wrong.

The Shaws and we are gypsies, at: least for .the moment. Our ace quaintance was one of those here- : today-and-gone-tomorrow things, We were pals of the open road and the overnight hotel stop. :

~ We SNe picked © Soom own first in Tame. into MexWe eo at the same place. . overhight, We "Fot to talking, £ Now there. are two types of trave'-

or ‘anybody, at any" time, loudly and at great. length. They are the good-fellow blabber~mouths of the road: I hate them, Then ‘there are the: quiet .ones. I don’t’ mean” haughty or stuck-up ones, but simply people who prefer their own company to the inanities ° of the garrulous vacationist. You" don’t strike up one of these old-pal old-pal friendships with them after three minutes at a gas station. — > 2 .» Ete In “HE . Shaws belonged to the ' second group. We led them .

right away.

Charles Shaw is librarian at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania He is a young man, and looks and acts no more as though he was con~ nected with a college than I do. Mrs. Shaw is. young, too. She says they have a boy 17 in prep school, but we think the Shaws probably kidnaped him, for they aren’t old enough to have 8 chil of 17.

They had thelr two ‘other chil- .

na

dren with them. Dick is 12, and has .

a sharp, eager face and blond Rais, The other. kid is Dorothy, is 10, and some day she is goin to bust from all the funniness pile up in her. She has a grown-up sense of humor, plus a couple of hmen, and her eyes are. shiny with the enthusiasm of what she is about to say, and she’s so full of puns that. I expect her parents will have 6. . shoot her eventually. The ‘Shaws are on a sabbatical ; half year. They piled in the car and went ‘to Florida, and “then: Mexico, and now they're in California. Like us, they haven't much of a schedule. They are - in no

hurry. : * = #

HE Brave started from Tams. ‘gunchale: ahead of us on a Sun-" day morning. We said good-by, and - ‘maybe we'd Bee each other again. some ‘time. °° . Two nights later, wi we pulled : up at a tourist cabin in Monterrey, . there was the Shaw car, _right next, door to us. We had a reunion. “The next day in ‘Laredo ‘we “met: on: ‘the street. Our plans had: coincided, and we were both staying :. oves a day in Laredo. We ate t= 8 er, - "The. following night in Del Rio we" had just got in, and there was & knock on the door, and in popped two kids, and the boy said, “Well,

.| here we are!” and the girl said: *}

“What's the difference between an elephant and a mail box?” much wrinkling of brows we ‘said we dida’t know, and she said: “Well, I'll never send you out to [ mail a letter, then.”

2 88 ras keep. going like that, We got so we “ate together» at every stop, and at night we'd gosit in each other's rooms, in our pajamas, as if we'd known eich - other all our lives. That kept up” for ‘a week, and ‘it got so all day we would wonder ‘where the Shaws were, and ‘when we hit a hotel in the, evening, right away we'd look over the register to see if they were in yet. ; - We had to leave each, other in El Paso. were going ‘on west, :

They were | and we headed back for home.

Every evening now, when we get BT Sal and lie down for a little rest, we unconsciously wait for a and expect to see a little in ‘and say “We're right -door to you,” and a little girl say “De you drink?” If you say “No,” she'll

| Today S Science: ~ “BY DAVID DIETZ ° is possible 0 be a tutterer thout The.