Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 June 1936 — Page 22

NW YORK, June 5.—There have been

_ suggestions from several oy that the’ ‘day the Schechters drank mpagne shall be celebrated as a national festival to be called Recovery Day. It would be much “more logical, I think, to choose instead June 1, when the Supreme Court, by a vote of five to four, enfranchised the women and children of America and decreed that they could work just as long as they pleased and for whatever wages any _ employer cared to pay. This is the day on which’ the watch fires should burn in all high places and block parties be conducted along Park-av. It is intéresting to speculate on the form which the celebration may take in future years. Of course, there ought to be a parade, but it will’ have to be scheduled for very early in the morning, since otherwise the groups upon whom liberty has been conferred will be unable to participate on account of previous engagements in the factory or the sweatshop. Heywood Broun Sing, all ye little children, and sing, ve working women! Praise the name of Pierce Butler, since he has made it possible for you to watch the evening sun rise up and go down through the narrow windows above your loém! And do not forget to praise as well Justice Roberts, who voted right when the great test came. Nor should you forget Justice Sutherland, the

kindly man in the long gray beard. And mention, too,

in your paeans of praise Al Smith, who rose up from the sidewalks of New York to the high honor of sacragis 12 Du Ponts at the Liberty League dinner, e he asked them to join with him in giving thanks to God for arranging that there should always be a strict constructionist majority on the high bench.

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Consider Liberty Joe UT, though all these famous men will be appropriately remembered and honored in the .great days to come, we must look elsewhere to find the chief hero upon whose name and fame Recovery Day will be established. At all the sumptuous banquets some imposing ‘gentleman, such as N. M. Butler, will rise with wine glass in his hand and say: - “Ladies and. gentlement, I give you Joseph Tipaldo.” And he will turn and make a bow to the framed portrait of Liberty Joe. Joseph K. Tipaldo was of humble birth, like Hoover and iike Lincoln, but he rose to the position of owning a laundry in Brooklyn. The laws of the state of New York set a minimum wage of $12.40 a week for women laundry workers. Joe knew where he could get them wholesale, and so Joe paid them around $8 a week and falsified his books to make it seem that he was respecting the law. He was indicted for forgery. This, of course, turned out to be a fallacy of the ignorant lay mind. New York's Court of Appeals found that he was within his rights, and now the Supreme ourt has cited him as a hero. It seems thet Liberty Joe was really a friend of labor all the

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Making It Democratic RTHUR BRISBANE may sell his services for what they will bring, and so can Judge O'Grady. Pierce Butler is very democratic about such things, and hé will permit no authority, local or national, to interfere with Mr. Brisbane's $5000 a week or Mrs. O'Grady’s $8. When Recovery Day is celebrated next year I trust that Mr. Brisbane and Mrs. O'Grady will lock arms and lead she procession. The of both is being preserve Hbelyy & will be closely followed by William Randolph Hearst: warning us against dangerous Communistic doctrine such as that uttered by Chief Justice Hughes, who said, “I can find nothing in the Federal Constitution which denies the state the power to protect women from being exploited by eaching employers.” hd po Jo po have departed on their vacations and will not be with us again until October. _ They will sleep well, I imagine. The roar of the ‘ never-ceasing looms will lull them to slumber. Sing, all ye working women and ye little children! Sing “the judges to sleep and praise the names of Liberty

Joe, Randolph Hearst and Butler! (Copyright, 1936)

G o P. Taking Up

Amendment Issue

BY RAYMOND CLAPPER W J ASHINGTON, June 5.—Speaking of strange bedfellows, it would be funny, wouldn't it, if the Republican Party should wake up some morning during the Cleveland convention and find a constitutional amendment snoring on the ‘next pillow? A month ago any respectable Republican would have been horrified at the thought. The constituticnal issue, long ago after a brief flirtation, was coldly turned out of doors by the Roosevelt Administration, which figured it had enough to answer for already. Not a friendly eve anywhere would wink at the hussy. But the Supreme Court's minimum wage decision has again made an honest working girl out of her. No' doubt the eminently proper Republicans will take precautions to prevent any scandalous incident. Yet, the party is not so hard-hearted that it won't aid a working girl. There has been some tentative exchange of goo-goo glances which is causing talk. ‘ Rep. Hamilton Fish is espousing a constitutional amendment. If there was anything Communistic about it he would be the first io know it. William Allen White, the old rascal, pauses as he starts for Cleveland, where he will put Gov. Landon’s platform ideas into circulation, and urges the Republican Party to face the fact that the government needs powers which the Supreme Court says it doesn’t have. ‘Obviously, some prominent Republicans are no longer afraid of what people will say. They realize that times have changed and that once thought improper are all right now.

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ING the Supreme Court's ani wage decision, there had been for a year or more someing deplorable about the idea of amending the titution, Recently the American Liberty League emanded that both parties pledge themselves not to aan any constitutional change. This ‘was particularly impressive because the head of the Liberty e, Jouett Shouse, was, only a few years ago, : ‘head of an organization to amend the Constitution. But that was an amendment to get liquor back, ch is of course a far more laudable objective than 0 give working men decent wages, and not. so apt to undermine individual liberty. - i, After we got the repeal amendment into the _Gonstitution, every one, except a few vicious Comsuddenly took the idea that the Constitufinally had become perfect and that any intimato the contrary was a threat to the American of government. Bus Bre membets..of the Supreme Court—of all that impression

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d us where the Constitution had sprung a leak.

b was so plain that even the milkman in Omaha

THE G. O. P. 80, YEARS QO History Has Equipped Party 0 Ai wil or E

mergencies

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BY WILLIS THORNTON NEA Service Staff Correspondent.

(CLEVELAND, June 5.— ~ No matter what happens in the Republican national convention opening here Tuesday it won t be

new. The 20 conventions already held during the 80 years of the party’s existence have provided enpugh surprises, turbulent scenes, fac-

tional walkouts, and general political fireworks to make excellent precedents for anything that may happen this year. Suppose Senator Borah carries out his threat and bolts the hall, taking with him such delegates as will follow? It will be no more than happened in 1896 in St. Louis, when Senator Teller of Colorado, a founder of the party, walked out of the hall with 30 delegates in a dispute over silver policy. And no more than Theodore Roosevelt did in Chicago in 1912, when he accused the Taft machine of stealing his delegates. He ordered his supporters to sit silent and not participate through the later stages of the convention, to meet later in their own “Bull Moose” convention.

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UPPOSE Gov. Alfred M. Landon is unexpectedly blocked, and a comparative unknown is nominated? - It will be no more than happened in Chicago in 1880, when eager partisans for a third term for Grant and others equally ardent for James G. Blaine were deadlocked after long and weary balloting. Then James A. Garfield, who had himself nominated John Sherman of his own Ohio delegation in a vivid speech, began to draw votes, and was nominated on the 36th ballot. The 1920 convention in Chicago, which named Warren G. Harding, also followed that pattern. General Leonard Wood, Gov. Frank O. Lowden, and Senator Hiram Johnson had killed one another off, and a Pennsylvania switch suddenly put over the man without enemies who had considered his own campaign perfunctory and his case hopeless.

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D% the G. O. P. face a decision vital to its own future, and a,country distressed by problems.that seem to defy solution? Surely no more so than this party in the days of its birth and youth. A little white board schoolhouse stands in a grove of trees at Ripon, Wis. There;“on March 20, 1856, assembled 53-voters, Whigs,

| Democrats and Free-Soilers.

On principles of opposition to slavery and its spread, and firm devotion to the Union, they adopted the . name Republican. Meetings in Michigan followed, and then their first real national convention, in Philsdelphia. John C. Fremont, California pioneer and dashing Army officer, was the first to bear the standard of the new party. In the four years until 1860 the new party and a national crisis developed together. The American house was dividing inexorably against itselt. Bloody conflicts in Kansas between slavery and anti-slavery partisans, bitter debate in Congress, hatred and distrust abroad in the land. ” ” = HE new Republican Party was popularly identified with the abolition cause; the memory in the South of John Brown’s raid made it almost certain that Republican: triumph meant secession and war. The party convention of 1860

William E.

These. vigorous postures will be a very familiar sight to thousands who will throng Cleveland’s Public Hall during the G. O. P. national

convention.

met in a $7000 specially built wooden “wigwam,” or auditorium, in Chicago. The convention crowd was gay and rowdy; wine and liquor . flowed freely, especially among the Eastern delegates. They felt sure of naming their candidate, William H. Seward -of New York. Salmon P. Chase of Ohio, and Simon Cameron ..of

At left is a preview of Senator Frederick Steiwer i

Pennsylvania were prominent contenders. And so was Abraham Lincoln of Illinonis, the lanky country lawyer, the gaunt, brooding man whose workers were untiring in buttonholding delegates, proposing “if” deals and Cabinet swaps while the confident Seward men laughed before the bars. Convention admission in those

Ore.), temporary chairman, ‘Who, will , deliver the keynote speech. At

right is Rep. Bertrand Snell’ (R.,

Y.), permanent chairman, wield-

ie the gavel which will ‘echo throughout the hall during the conclave.

days was to the swift and. the

strong—doors. were thrown open:

and 4500 people jammed the wigwam.

immediately

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F 465 delegates, 233 were needed .to nominate. - On the first ballot Seward had 173%, Lincoln, 102, others trailing.

ASHINGTON, June 5.— What is probably. the first case in history of a Nazi naval vessel saluting a Jew occurred in the Virgin Islands recently. The vessel was the German training ship Karlsruhe on a trip through southern waters. Arriving at St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, at a time when Gov. Lawrence Cramer was in the United States, it found Morris F. de Castro, who is Jewish, as acting governor. The visit of a foreign naval vessel in any Amegican territory requires, that the commander first pay his respects upon: the governor, then the governor visits the ship and pays his respects to the commander. This protocol was carefully car-

ried out. And as Acting Governor -

De Castro steamed out in the gov-

. ernor’s barge to the Karlsruhe, it

fired 17 guns in an official salute. Cum im : N the door.of a tiny two-room: suite, tucked in an obscure corner of a downtown Washington office building, two words appear: in plain black letters—Stanley High. This is the office, of the latest addition to the President's Brain Trust. I Mr. High is a new type ‘of brain truster. Social worker, preacher, lecturer, newspaper man, maga-

zine editor and radio commentator, he makes no claims to being an intellectual or Left-Winger. But when it comes to Dep and personality he has IT -a big

' way.

THIS MAY seem a

most complex in all

volumes have been on it.

LET'S EXPLORE YOUR MIND

BY DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM

cuesion tt ce of oe ‘Many -

BECAUGE HE J Tal OF Hi AUDIENCE? ". YE6 ORNO——

Washington Merry-Go-Round

BY DREW PEARSON AND ROBERT S. ALLEN

He bubbles over with persuasive- . ness. And that is where his job

comes in: To sell Roosevelt to the “split ticket vote”—the people who vote Democratic one year and Republican the next. : Toward this Mr. High already is speeding in high gear. He is publishing ‘a weekly ‘magazine called “The ‘Roosevelt Record,” snappiest and most attractive

campaign publication so far inthe field; has organized the Good Neighbor League, featuring a series of radio broadcasts by prominent men and women who sing the praises of the’ New Deal. Mr. High's salary and that of: his small staff is paid by the Democratic National Committee. But he works directly under.the President and confers with him at frequent intervals, » » 2

IR. HIGH'S accession to the

He was active in the . Hoover campaign in 1928 and 1932. Last year, in his capacity as director of programs of .the National Broadcasting Co., he had a talk with the President about

Roosevelt's health. came to Mr. High's ears.

That night in his regular week-

ly “broadcast, “Religion in the News,” he told his listeners of his own first-hand observations regarding the President’s health and mental attitude. ° denounced the whisperers. This, was the first open mention of the subject. Subsequently the

President himself referred to it at a press conference. From this contact came Mr. High's present

close association, ‘with the Presi- - dent.’

He prepared some of the material the President used in his Baltimore address to the Young Democrats. Simultaneously Mr. Roosevelt asked him to devote his full time to the campaign, The new brain truster is a native of Ohio, attended high school in Douglas, Wyo., graduated from Nebraska Wesleyan, and rounded out his education at the School of “Theology of Boston University.

‘ He is 41, looks much younger, and |

has two daughters, Patricia -and -Priscilla. ‘Recently, in a magazine article under the caption, “A Republican Takes a Walk,” he gave his reasons for becoming a New Dealer.

¢ 8 8 = ENATOR KEY PITTMAN of * Nevada proposes a yardstick to measure professors. :

He came across a new ‘brain |

trust the other day—the National

Committee on Monetary ‘Policy

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New Deal is an interesting

radio matters. Several weeks later the. whispering campaign about. Mr.

He vigorously

HE biggest specialized job of counting heads ever undertaken in the United States is now in the final stages of preparation at the Social Security Board. The census will cover 25,000,000 workers—the entire pay roll of private industry and commerce. Only farm labor, domestic servants, and a few other special classes will be excluded. Purpose of the check is to list all wage earners and assign them identification numbers ‘for old-age pensions under the Social. Security Act. After Jan, 1, 1937, every worker will have. a ‘number. In charge of the shead-counting is Murray: pension expert. During the three months necessary for the census he will have 11,000 persons working under him. A preliminary survey of the job shows that approximately 75. per cent of American industry ‘is located in about 200 counties. This concentration will aid in expedit- . ing the count, ' . : in st. 3 RTHUR VANDENBERG is telling Senate colleagues he will not accept the vice presi= dential ‘nomination if it is offered. But betting odds in the Republican cloakroom are that he will . not, refuse, if second place actually comes his way. ... . Assistant Secretary. of Commerce Draper did not have to go far the other day to act as judge at his alma mater’s cadet drills. He is a graduate of the Western High ° School in

‘Washington. . , . Lammot du Pont, one of the heads of the great munitions firm, has addressed a letter to du Pont stockholders urging them to join The American Federation of Investors, which fought the Holding Company Act and is opposing other utility regulation. «so In 1932 Bruce Kremer, one of the most active lawyer-lobbyists in - the capital, was Democratic national committeeman from Montani and a potent lieutenant of Jim Farley at the Chicago con- . vention, but at the meeting of the Montana State Democratic Committee this year, Bruce's name was not even suggested as a delegate to the Philadelphia convention. . .. Arthur - Robinson, one-time Republican Senator from Indiana, ‘has joined the large crops of lame ducks With law offices in Wash-

ington. (Copyright, Syndicate,

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On the second, boilh leaders gained, and on the third Lincoln swept into the lead with 231% Seward dropping to 180. Up jumped D. K. Carter of

Ohio, a huge man with bristling black hair. cried, were being switched from

Four Ohio votes, he

Chase to Lincoln. It was enough. So great a tumult rose from the first national convention in a hall large enough to permit an organized cheering section that the firing of cannon outside was not heard within. Which shows also that no dem-

. onstration of the present conven-

tion is likely to exceed the one which greeted the nomination of Lincoln, whose heroic portrait is a

- feature of this as well as every

other Republican convention since that day.

| 4 project in ‘his home state by

Controversy

Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance WASHINGTON, June 5—A lively controversy over a proposed $35,000,000 bridge across Mackinac Straits has broken out in the bailiwick of Senator Vandenburg (R., Mich.), leader of the fight ‘against the - Florida ship .canal. and the. Passamaquoddy tide-trap. : The Senator himself :is not ‘involved in the wrangle, but. his charges of extravagance and waste in connection with the canal and Quoddy projects “are being applied to the bridge:

Rep. Mapes (R., Mich.) _ Mapes and Rep. Merritt (R., Conn.) made the charges in a minority report from the House Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee on a bill by Rep. Brown (D., Mich), to grant. Congressional consent for construction of a bridge across the straits. "The Brown bill does not commit the = government to participation in the project, which has been ‘argued pro and con for a quarter-century, but Mapes and Merritt said sponsors of the bridge . were working to get PWA or WPA financing. Mapes comes from southern Michigan, while Brown’s home is in St. Ignace, northern terminal of the proposed bridge. ~~ PWA Administrator Ickes once has rejected the bridge: “as impractical, but Brown and other backers have been seeking a re-examination, : Critics of the venture say the bridge would be used only by hunters, fishermen and vacationists, and point to the gross earnings of less than $200,000 a year of a ferry line now operating across the straits. The report added that the project ‘could not be justified from a relief standpoint, as ‘ “this project is’ in a sparsely ~ sebtled district.” The Bridge Authority has contended the bridge could be ; made 8 seit-lauidasing on a toll

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GRIN. AND. BEAR m

EW YORK, Jue 5.—One hears harsh criticism of the income tax from persons found guilty of earning their living in- private industry but, in justice to this thriving institution, it should be pointed out that the law has moments of great generosity. The employes of the Federal governs ment are exempt from state income taxes. The ems. ployes of states, counties and cities are exempt. from the Federal tax. Not only that, : but certain state officials drawing big salaries out of the kitty | provided largely by the income taxes of their fellow-citizens are exempt from both state and Federal assessments on their pay. The Governor of New York, for example, heads a long list of highsalaried public officials ‘who do not have to pay any tax on their public salary. The Governor gets $25,000 a year, a figure which would make a marked man of him if he were working for a private employer. But his is what is Westbrook Peter known as a constitutional office so his $25,000 a year is all his own. The Lieutenant Governor, at $10,000 a year enjoys the same ime munity and so do the judges of the Court of Ap= peals, the Appellate Division, the Supreme Court; the Court of Claims, the Court of Special Sessions: and the Surrogates. These learned and public spirited ornaments of the state government draw from $15,000 to $22,500 a year and keep it all, whereas a single-handed clerk or mechanic employed by a business firm at $100 a month is expected to shower down to both the national and state treasuries. The members of the New York Legislature receive $2500 a year or roughly twice as much for their part-time work as the tax-paying $100.a month man, but they too are constitutional officers and thus efempt.

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EW states have income tax laws up to this time so. the state, county and municipal employes constitute the most favored class. They are all’ exempt from. the Federal tax, whereas, comparatively few Federal employes are stationed in states where the exemption means ‘anything to them. Federal men in New York and Massachusetts, for. example, are excused from state assessments, but a Federal employe in Florida has no special advane tage because Florida has no state tax. But the public servants of the Florida community and its subdivisions are excused from paying any thing to the national government. They pay no in=come tax at all. ‘The state, county and municipal job-holders ‘in more or less permanent positions: throughout the country far outnumber the Federal personnel if you. disregard the armed forces and the relief-work peo=ple whose pay is not enough to ‘qualify for returns anyway. I have seen their number estimated at/ five million, a general figure, but with a: reasonable" sound nevertheless. Probably a good proportion of them do fall below the Federal minimum: figure; but one should not. minimize the human quality of the income tax law on that account. There are still millions of judges, school teachers, commissioners, mayors, aldermen, » Policemen, fire men, Governors, attorneys=gen prosecutors; « treasurers, sheriffs and patriots: ig a hundred other classifications who have never felt pains : so familiar to people of common clay. Eh

: » ® ® My, How Generous

F course, some questioning souls will wish to know why a New York alderman, for example, - drawing $5000 a year for political services; [should : not kick back at least a few dollars of the money’ t6- $ ward his next year's $5000. And possibly there. are some so base as to suggest that the unfortunate ’ school teacher, always a pathetic figure in the American scene, should pay her share the same as peo-. ple whose employment is much less secure and less attractive. New York State and New York City in particulakpresent the most waolesome. examples of the gén-, erous forethought of the politicians when they wers. writing the income tax laws. The list is much too’ long’ ‘ta undertake here,’ but if you have a current World Almanac turn. to the. chapter on state and municipal salaries in New York, read the roster of jobs ranging from $40,000 a year down to $10,000 and reflect upon the sunshins which is let into the lives of thousands of patriots. by that kindly provision which exempts them from the Federal tax and in many cases from: the state 16x as well. The patriots of the New. York Legislature, them-: selves forbidden to enjoy the citizen's right to pay and pay, are not niggardly, however. This year they’ have doubled the honor of citizenship in the Empire: State with an increase of 100 per cent in the tax, -

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