Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 June 1936 — Page 10

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CROSSROADS WEEK NY way you look at it, this is Crossroads week for the Republican Party. What happens in Cleveland will tell whether it is over the cliff, or on to glory. Just let the tone of things be pitched on the same note that. has been sounded since 1920, and the cliff has it. But should there come out of the Cleveland convention a spiritual rejuvenation of a political organization long ago turned utterly materialistic, then there might be a chance—and maybe, on to glory. ° It is called the Grand Old Party. Grand it was, in Lincoln’s time. The “old” phase began to show up in a big way along toward Mark Hanna’s day. The arteries were hardening. From & cause the high humanitarian purpose of which was to abolish human slavery, the party by the late nineties had gone midriff. It had changed from a thing of the heart and the soul to something exclusively stomach. “The full dinner pail” was all- . ‘sufficient, as a slogan. That became the be-all and the end-all of ambition. The possibility of something in life being worthwhile beyond enough to eat was not dreamed of in the philosophy of the party that had been Lincoln's. . And so on, to the twenties, victorious most of the time, its spiritual batteries recharged temporarily by the first Roosevelt, but over the long haul running lower and lower. Much oratorical reference, as is usual on such occasions, will be heard this.week to that “party of Lincoln.” It should be borne in mind that it is also . the party of Harding. Some phrase-maker, back in 1920 when the now . famous smoke-filled hotel room was getting in its work, said, “the difference between the Democratic and Republican parties is that the Democrats pin * their faith on the committee on resolutions while the Republicans are content to rely on the committee on credentials.” The cynicism -of that remark tells a volume about what is the matter with the Republican Party today.

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® 8 ” YNICISM seemed to work. Harding and the Ohio gang and the most shocking scandals in our -national history came and went without appar= ent bad effect on the party's strength. An’ idea grew that you could get away with anything. “Prosperity absorbs all criticism,” it was said, Fall and Forbes and Miller and the little Green House on K-st and the black bag and Mr. Doheny’s admission that he had secretly sent $100,000 in bills . to the Secretary of the Interior in connection with the naval oil leases—all those events seemed to be in line with things that “were done.” Came 1924— and the failure of the nation to revolt at what had happened under a Republican President described, b.. | the eminent ‘historian, James Truslow Adams, “as: surrounded by and dependent upon the worst gang of ruffians and grafters that has disgraced any Administration in our history.” - Corruption and contentment seemed to be the watchword for success in a nation utterly satisfied with the fleshpots. Came Coolidge with his “they hired the money, didn't they?” statesmanship; and then Hoover with his chickens and his pots and his cars and his garages. Then 1929, and the delayed fuse went off. A na- ~ tion's conscience, long dormant under the narcotic of what proved an illusion of prosperity, flayed into action. © And now, without dragging the story out, we find the Republican Party, founded in idealism but ‘gone the way of much flesh, meeting once again to decide on a candidate and a platform. Will the outcome be to hark back? If so, school is out, we believe, for the G. Oo. P. If not, there may be hope. A slight glint ‘of human kindness has appeared. A few faint breaths of liberalism have stirred the air, fanned mostly by Willlam Allen White of the state from which the probable nominee hails. Will those breaths grow into a breeze? And blow the long accumulation of foul odors out? Or will it die down? If they die, it may be the doldrums forever. The week will tell.

IT CAN BE DONE Moe motorists favor rigid drivers’ examinations and strict enforcement of traffic laws. People are aggressively backing the safety campaign. They fe no Jonge: taking calmly the appalling trams tol in city, state and nation, . This is the gratifying result announced today by _Stephen D. Crain, who directed a survey of 3500 Indianapolis drivers over a two months’ period. National Youth Administration workers, aided by police, conducted the interviews. The Chamber of

Significant facts in this cross-section of the pube's attitude on the traffic situation: ‘More than 70 per cent want rigid examinations for

about stopping the flood of tax-exempt securities As a matter of fact in that year the Federal government itself has poured about three billion dollars of additional tax-exempts into the money markets. Today the interest-bearing-debi- outstanding of the Federal, state and sybdivisional units of government totals about 50 billion dollars, the income from which is totally or partially free from taxation. . Yet neither the President's proposal for any variation thereof, has been or is being studied by any committee of Congress. Of course Mr. Roosevelt was not the first, one to suggest that something be done to plug up the loophole by which this wealth of government bond holdings defeats application ‘of the principle of taxa--tion according to pay. Ever since income taxation became the backbone of our Federal tax structure, Presidents and Secretaries of the Treasury have regularly called to the attention of Congress the fact that high income tax rates are ineffective so long as tax-exempt investments offer the wealthy taxpayer a refuge. "The Tease why Congress: has felled to: ast 1s apparently that Congress has been doubtful of what would be the results. It is easy enough to figure, for example, that a man with an income exceeding $50,000, being required to pay a tax of 35 per cent on the first part of that excess, would hesitate to choose a 6 per cent private investment in prefer-

ence fo a 3 per cent tax-exempt. # ” »

T is easy to see how a taxpayer subject to the topmost income tax bracket of 79 per cent would do better by buying 3 per cent tax-exempts than by investing in a private enterprise promising a 14 per cent return. In his case, a million dollars in 3 per cent tax-exempts would yield a net return of $30,000; a 14 per cent return on a privdte investment would yield a gross return of $140,000, but of that the govvernment would take 79 per cent—$110,600—leaving a net of only $29,400. : Yet there is another side to the picture. How mich more would the government have to pay for the money it borrows if it did nat offer the taxexempt inducement? We do not know. No comprehensive study has ever been made. We do know that Great Britain, which has more than twice our

per capita public debt, is now borrowing money at

an average rate of 3 per cent, about one-half of 1 per cent more than the average our government is now paying for borrowed money. : The whole question is one requiring exhaustive research to determine whether the removal of tax exemption would net the government more in taxes than it would lose by higher interest. We cite this one problem as more evidence of the crying need of a thoroughgoing study and overhauling of our whole compléx Federal tax structure. Congress is now getting ready to pass a half-baked tax bili and walk away from the subject—just as. it did last year. If it makes no provision for an intermediate study, Congress will reconvene next session —just as it did this year—without the knowledge and preparation for intelligent tax legislation. But a sounder course is open. - Senators Harrison, Byrd and others have proposed it—the appointment

. of ,3 joint committee, made up of members of the I> Senate and House Taxation Committees, this body

to go“to work with congressional and:Treasury tax experts, and to keep working until the next Congress convenes. Then, on the basis of the findings of this joint committee, Congress can legislate with intelligence and with confidence.

WELCOME, PROPHETS! NDIANAPOLIS is entertaining. and .is being en‘tertained this week. Thousands of: members of the Mystic Order of the Veiled Prophets of the Enchanted Realm, a Masonic organization, have come

(ko Sawnofee the forty-seventh .annual, session of

their Supreme “Council, And while Sahara Grotto and sitions generally are extending Hoosier hospitality to the visitors, various ‘drill teams, bands, drum and bugle corps and uniformed groups from many parts of the United States and ‘Canada will put on a show of their own. The program, which started Sunday, will carry on through Thursday with drill contests, massed band concerts, a Mardi Gras and other parades, ceremonials and business sessions. bers of Sahara Grotto have provided plenty of fun for their guests, including automobile racing at the Speedway. We are sure nothing will be neglected in ‘ the effort to make these visitors feel at home.

FREEDOM OF CONTRACT

HEN the Supreme Court majority knocked out the New York minimum wage law, upholding Joseph Tipaldo, a laundry-owner, against the people of the Empire State, Justice Pierce Butler in his majority opinion said: : “In making contracts of employment, generally

speaking, the parties have equal right to obtain from

each other the best terms they can by private bargaining.” ~ ‘A news dispatch from New York indicates that Mr. Tipaldo is about to put his girl employes on the 40-hour week, instead of the present 40-hour schedule, although he will not require them to work in his little steam-filled plant for less than the $12.40 minimum under the voided law. Tipaldo says busi-

ness is good and he is spending $8000 for expansion.

A WOMAN'S VIEWPOINT : BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON VERY now and then some little fairy tale pops! out at us from the newspaper. It may be wholly glamorous, or it may, if we follow it tg the conclusion, end in the disaster of the bad witch's spell.

Anyway we like reading such stories, and very for-

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tunate it is that we seldom know the finish. . . Wiliam Leeds, heir to a vast American fortune, is the hero of our most recent romance, ‘He now is honeymooning on his yacht Moana with his bride, daughter of an ‘unemployed Pittsburgh: steel worker. Isn't this the 1 from which our grandest cinema plots are made—the rich young man, the toil-worn maiden, the marriage and the yacht waiting to carry them into faraway seas? In imagine. tion every girl follows them into their land of a Io Se 1

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to worry about 1s the present predicament of Gen. Lew Wallace. More specifically, the shabby {reatment accorded his memory. :

takes up all of two columns to show

to him. It was plenty, because if you believe the Columbia people, Gen. Lew Wallace died on the battlefleld of Shiloh 18 years before he wrote “Ben-Hur,” thus leaving his whole literary career to be accounted for. - To be sure, Gen. Wallace kept his army marching up and down all day within five miles of the pig battle without being able to find it, but that is ho reason why encyclo~ pedists should jump to hasty com. clusions. The fact is, of course, ‘that Gen. Wallace got back safe and sound after the war to Crawfordsville, where he practiced law successfully and letters even more so. » ” » And just the other day in the April issue of the Indiana Historical Bulletin, Christopher. B. Coleman lamented the mutilation of the marker at the site of Camp Robinson in Riverside Park, where the Eleventh Indiana Regiment, commanded by Col. Lew Wallace, encamped during the Civil War. The vandals not only mutilated the marker but actually stole the Colonel’s medallion ‘bust. After which, gthey left for parts unkown

found. All of which calls tor an explan. ation, 8 8 8 HIS column, it may surprise. you to learn, has no adequate explanation. It knows enough about Lew Wallace’s boyhood, however, to venture the opinion that Gen. Wallace’s present predicament is due almost entirely to posterity’s habit of punishing practical jokers, Looked at in. this light, it is another, and very good, .example of Greek nemesis. Which is to say that it is another example of Jogical rewards and penalties. Whatever is “the explanation, it remains ‘a fact that Lew Wallace thought up and put into execution more practical jokes than any dozen Indianapolis boys put together. Most of them were remembered. Tagen one of them was remembered sufficiently to get fnto | both Sulgrove’s and Dunn’s histories of the town. The historical joke was alined at Laura Kise, a school teacher, but it ended by upsetting the whole town. Laura, it seems, ran the Baptist school back of the church abutting the alley east of the Grand Hotel

|and, between ‘tending to the school

and the bad boys of the neighborhood, she had her hands full. 2 8 o HE had succeeded Clara Ellick, who gave up. At any rate, she was married to a Methodist preacher as the easiest way out, with ‘what success nobody will ever know. Laura was not that kind, and the first thing she did was to build a bell tower against the little’ frame schoolhouse. It ‘was her idea of promoting discipline, but she wouldn’t have done it had she known more about young Wallace. The bell tower was hardly up when one night two boys, one. of whom both Sulgrove and Dunn identify as Lew Wallace, climbed up to the bell and fastened a cord to the clapper which they led across the street and the intervening lots to the bedroom of one of them over a store on Washington-st—more than a block away. Here they kept a lively alarm going as long as they liked and driving everybody nuts because, of course, nobody knew whether it was the signal of a fire or the sign of an impending comet. 5 It kept the town jittery for over a month and there were men even then who hoped Lew Wallace would get what was coming to him. Which, of course, is what the Greeks meant by nemesis.

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WE came down fast. The hoist got to hitting the sides of theshaft, and bumping back and forth, like a locomotive on the tracks. ~' It felt good when we started: slowing up. Finally we stopped. A quarter of a mile fromthe top, We: Just lifted a wooden bar and stepped out into the mine. Gee, it’s quiet down here:: Not a: sound anywhere, or a soul in sightAl Bebee and I start walking down a tunnel. Al and I both have on fiber crash helmets, like sun hats. That's a mine rule. They've saved lots of lives from falling rocks. I walk along behind Al: talking,’

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FLAYS RACKETEERING IN GARB OF PATRIOTISM By: Hiram Lackey * “The Black Legion's crimes are

’ part of a larger picture of intoler-

ance in America. They are cut from from the same piece as teachers’ oaths, anti-Red forays into campuses, vigilante and lynching mobs, anti-labor terrorism and other:

‘manifestations of special interest

racketeering in the garb of patriotism.

“It is the Senate's business. to |

light a lamp ‘and search: these socigl ratzholes. 1f ‘it fails to launth the La Follette investigation and finance it with adequate funds it

Your Health

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN FE the matter of weaning, as in many ‘other problems affecting children, there are two schools of thought.

‘| One holds that the best way to

wean a baby is to wean it suddenly. This may be absolutely necessary in case the mother develops a serious disease, such as typhoid fever, pneumonia, tuberculosis or a: kidney ailment. Sudden weaning also may be *necessary should

the mother discover that she is

going to. have another baby.

Mothers may nurse their ‘babies:

through " many minor diseases, however, without apparently injuring either the babies or themselves. Sometimes it is desirable to: introduce . partial artificial feeding early in the life of the baby. - ‘When the child is to be weaned suddenly, it is customary to use a mixture of milk that is more dilute than would be given ordinary. Affer the first few days, when baby has become used to the artificial feeding, the strength of the

group Yoaned go out that sudden weang is uncomfortable for the mother, and that not infrequently the baby.

will have failed in one ot. its most important duties.” This sparkling gem represents Scripps-Howard editorial light at its best. It is a sad commentary on American education that in. large ‘sections of “our land of free speech and press,” an enlightened, militantly ‘honest teacher of social sci=

ence must sell his soul in order to obtain the teaching position in which he is best fitted to serve his country and support his family. Thus the . teachers’ oath, which may represent a choice: ‘between prostitution -and the relief rolls, is a part of the grim irony of our sweet land of liberty. American youth, has the. right to know the truth about why religion, democracy and capitalism was rejected by Russia. In this understanding ‘lies’ the salvation of the best in American ideals. - Every American scholar should be encouraged to exercise -his constiFreed right of teaching every American pupil and student the long and timely strides that Russia has made in her efforts to give to the world a contribution, com-

parable: to our modern scientific

achievements, Greek / art - and thought, Roman law, or the religion of the Holy land. Practical social or .economic Justice for all, regardless of class or race, is something new: under the “An honest presentation of the strength and weaknesses of both |p Americanism and Communism comes close to our needs. Sherwood Eddy offers it to us in “Russia Today.” Sl 2 #8 = NEW DEAL PRINCIPLE DECLARED WRONG By Paul Masters, Anderson

- A new philosophy was introduced into" this country along with the New Deal. ‘This is. the theory of a plannéd abundance to be éreated through a policy of planned scarcity. The old idea of perpetual motion can’t beat that very much.

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Three years ago the AAA pro-

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duce a scarcity of hogs. Millions ‘of little pigs. and’ mother pigs were killed. And what happened? The price of bacon quickly doubled but the weekly pay check did not. The result: In 1934 the American people consumed 650 million pounds less of pork: than they did in 1932. On top of that we lost our foreign market for lard and pork. The result of this planned scarcity is that we

must now grow less hogs, raise less corn to feed the less hogs and 3s this process the men it took to raise the normal amount of hogs and corn are now walking the street, adding to our unemployment problem, - : More than 1,750,000 were

thrown.out of employment at a time ing

when unemployment was the greatest problem facing America. Study the facts from the Department of Commerce. In 1934 the cotton growers received, including charit;y payments for not growing cotton; about $850,000,000. In 1932 with : no restriction, about $1,235,000,000. Now if $850,000,000 is more than $1,250,000,000 it really upsets all known rules of arithmetic. And yet the New Dealers, or rather the “misdealers,” would" lead us to, believe just that. When we can build cheaper and better homes, more and more people will buy them and more and more people will be employed in building them. This is equally true of every item, food, clothing and utomobiles. Very tow people have IE they want. So it stands to reason that the more we give our people for less money the more they will buy and the more people will be employed and the sooner we come out of this depression.

and security, not backward to a zentralized dictatorship and a per=manent dole. - Do away with this folly of scarcity. Walte up, voters of America. ; ro

DAILY THOUGHT

Every man’s inheritance shall be i1 the piace where his lot fall

your : Numbers 22:54.

NJOY what thou has inherited drom thy sires if thou wouldst possess it. What, we employ and use is never an oppressive bur

can 4 profit by —Goethe,

By George Clark

2 8 = ; main - tunnel. winds around. like a snake, and side tunnels run-off from it, and other tune nels from the side tunnels. Al tells j me how the mine is laid out: - : +. “There’s just one shaft, running” straight down ‘for 2000- feet... But about every 100 feet down .is a. ‘level; corresponding to ® floor in an office building. “On each level, drifts run ot from the main shaft: There are more than 50 miles of drifts in this | mine. yet the area of the lease on the surface 18 Just a few blocks square.” : We walked and walked, and. didn’ ‘ see anybody. Al said that was because just a few men, from two to half a dozen, were working on each level. There were about 200° men in the mine, but we never saw: more: than a dozen. Finally we came to the end of- A tunnel. Two men were working there with compressed air drills. = It made a terrible noise. When: the steel drill bit into the rock, sparks: flew for three feet. They drill about 18 holes there in a day. Then at night they put in. dynae. mite and shoot it off. In the mons, ing, they'll cart out he loose rock; hoist: it: to the top, and start drills:

again, Al and T left these boys to theit drilling, and wound through sone more tunnels. They were dry and warm. We came to a wooden chute sticking down into a tunnel. We crawled up this chute, and then’ reversed and crawled back over she top of it. It was hard going. “This is a stope,” Al said. = 18 2 8 3 - Se LOOKED around. We were in a big cave, as big as a house. If. was like being in Mammoth- Cave in" Kentucky. “We're ‘taking gold ore out of here now,” Al said. - It was very dark. I twisted ‘my head to flash my lamp all over the ‘stope.” * The walls and-ceiling were

“You can’t see it ” Al said. - “It’s In the rock. It has to be milled We were in the mine about two

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