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(Batting for Heywood Broun) ; HE only chance of averting Fascism and even temporarily preserving capitalism under democratic forms is for American employers to recognize the homely truism that a half hog-is better than none, : There is some evidence that a few employers are showing some signs of alertness in the situation. This is well brought out in a recent study of the National Industrial Conference Board on “What Employers Are Doing for Employes.” This study was based upon questionnaires, and replies were received from 2452 establishments employing 4,500,000 persons. The authors of the study make it clear that employers who refuse to make any concessions for the welfare of their employes are in reality helping the cause of labor— . “Employers who have resisted the spread of a philosophy of employment relations which stresses to-gpetation ve an. : Barnes consciously alli emselves pr. . with leaders of organized labor. The latter have waged uncompromising war on the growth of activities which tend to make the worker regard the employer as a friend rather than as a
natural enemy.” ” » 2
Collective Bargaining Grows
Pperasrs the most significant of all is the fact that there has been a considerable growth - of collective bargaining in the industries studied. A little over 30 per cent of all companies which answered the questionnairé reported that a system of employe representation was in existence. A comparable study in 1927 revealed that only 5 per cent of the companies investigated had a system of employe representation. In 1935 nearly 12 per cent of the companies studied reported agreements with national trade unions. Some consideration for the economic security of the employes was also evidenced through the mainIenanee of different types of insurance for emloye » Tn ‘about 59 per cent of the companies covered in the survey a group life insurance scheme was in operation. Sickness and accident insurance provisions ‘existed in 31 per cent of the companies. Formal pension plans existed in only 10 per cent of the companies, but these were the larger companies, employing some 44 per cent of all the workers involved in the study. The survey also lays stress upon the fact that no little attention is being given to financial incentives to better work, thrift opportunities for employes, industrial training and education, medical attention, plant conveniences and recreation. That more enlightened employers recognized the vital character of such endeavors is emphasized in the fact that these measures were either continued during the depression or revived just as soon as business hecame better, ® =n =
Employers’ Stand Welcomed
LL commentators, save confirmed radicals, will weleome such evidence of growing enlightensent on the part of employers, Yet it is necessary to indicate that most of the ‘developments outlined in this study relate to the frills rather than the fundamentals of employment i.and working conditions. Indeed, it is admitted that «many of these measures have. been: undertaken to | discourage and counteract the growth of collective bargaining. There is little provision for real economic securtity, assurance of employment or insistence upon a living wage. Palliatives must not be confused with
‘cures. i ‘When employers enco / tive bargain ‘and insist upon better in ey establish reasonable minimum wage ‘provisions, when they co-operate heartily in a national scheme. of social insurance, and when: they turn a larger share of profits back into wages we shall know that there
has been a real change of heart on the pars of American employers.
My Day
BY MRS. FRANKLIN D. ROUSEVELT
RAYVILLE, Ill, Sunday—Yesterday morning my son Elliott and daughter-in-law ‘Ruth took us
in their auto and drove us all over their land, show-
ing us the little stream which runs through their place and the big pecan trees, as well as fields and crops. It took us a good hour and half, and at 12 o'clock we started on our drive back to Fort Worth pnd boarded our train at 12:30. Our many kind hosts were at the station to say Juog-Y. among them Mr. Amon Carter, who had aded hats with my husband, giving him one of those he always gives his friends and taking my husband’s Panama. Gov. and Mrs. Allred, who were the kindest of hosts, continued with us on the train until we
~WONDAY, J JUNE 1, 1936
COLUMBUS MAKES Hoosier City Treats Al L ts Children as Privileged —Finds It Pays
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BY ARCH STEINEL Times Stat Writer
, (COLUMBUS, Ind., June
15.—There must be the
magic of discovery in the name of this town: of 10,000
«Columbus. They have discovered down
-here a new deal for children and
if you're a Columbus business man, school teacher, welfare worker, or one of the 80 per cent of the fathers and mothers in the town you are pretty sure to know all about it. Columbus has hitched 1500 boys and girls, 80 per cent of the town’s population between 8 and 21 years, to an idea embodied in the Columbus Foundation for Youth, Inc. It actively operates two clubs, one for boys and one for girls. 'It now is building a 75acre preserve in the hills of Bartholomew County to ‘conserve childhood. Donald Dushane, Columbus school superintendent, his kindli-
“ness hidden by a forbidding pair
of horn-rimmed glasses, told us about it. “Our boys’ and girls’ clubs are for children, not ‘underprivileged’ children. We have no ‘underprivileged’ children—all children are privileged in’ Columbus,” he said. One of the founders of the clubs, he pridefully enumerates the facts that show what Columbus and its business men and parents have done since 1928 to eradicate ‘the small-town loafer and turn him from probable petty crime to playing billiards and pool, without cost, in the town's own Poolzoumy . x = NHEY ore. 1. Juvenile Court meets but three or four times yearly today in Columbus, where in 1928 sessions were held monthly and oftener. 2. Where in ‘1927-1828 the juvenile delinquency totaled 11 boys and five girls, with four of that number committed to correctional institutions, today the county has not committed a child to a. correctional institution since 1934. 3. In the last: two years the Juvenile Court has not had a new juvenile’ case on its docket. Offenders brought in as delinquents —there have ‘been but five cases in the last two years—had been in trouble before. Bouncing a bit on the rough hill roads in Bartholomew County in Mr. Dushane’s car, on our way to the Youth Foundation’s newest project, a camp, we learned why they don’t come back to Juvenile Court. “You see back in 1928 a Mr. William Barnaby, former city
ing. councilman, now dead, got inter-.
_ ested in doing something “for
.children. He talked it over with “other business men and civic lead“ers. “be a permanent thing and not
It was agreed that is should
sporadic. And: that’s: ‘how the Columbus Foundation for Youth started. ” ” ” E got one abandoned school building and started a Boys’ Club. The idea grew and last December, after much clamor from ‘mothers and women’s organizations, we started our Girls’ Club in a ‘second abandoned school building. “But before we started the Girls’ Club, Q. G. Noblitt, Columbus manufacturer, gave us 75 acres of land he owned in the hills that are in Bartholoméw County. That started our camp we're visiting today.” The coupe’s gears were shoved into second to meet the incline of the hills and then Mr. Du-
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shane’s car nosed out on a prom-
-ontory that exposed a panorama
of green-wooded hills and tan valleys. A sturdy white painted house, Colonial style, stood above a winding road that dropped ‘to the valley below the hill. “That’s the clubhouse. It’s a revamped farm home and will accommodate 65 to 100 boys for meals,” Mr. Dushane explained. , # ” ELOW the clubhouse, hanging to a- side of .the hill, were three cabins. One cabin, finished, was a'cameo in the nearby green shrubbery with its brown logs contrasted by a whitewash placed where the logs were chinked together. “Bach cabin will have shower
baths-and double beds to -accom=
modate eight boys and a’ counselor. Therell be six cabins soon. The finished one is built by the Poundation and’. the one over there is being built by the Rotary Club of Columbus, and that other one by the Kiwanis Club.” The ‘Columbus ‘Chamber of Commerce and one woman's: Organization also have entered the “cabin-in-the-hill” contest for
‘benefit ‘of thé city's youth. at The Works Progress Adminis
tration, through a $35,000 grant,
is providing the labor for the
camp project. 8 n= ; IRCLING the cabins on. 8 rutty road Mr. Dushane’s
‘car came to a second high point
that overlooked a clay-scraped valley framed by the green fringe of woods “And that’s where we're building our dam for our 14-acre lake with the help of WPA funds. It’s there that boys and girls are to
' be able to swim and fish and go
boating, under supervision.” While Mr. -Dushane spread his dam out orally, told of the tribulations of having the earthenwork razed by spring rains, a river near Columbus held its summer ‘quota of youths fishing and swimming without supervision in unclean waters. “Supervision,” as far as the Co-
-|: clubrooms: for ‘boys and girls, will
lumbus Foundation for Youth is concerned -is not “verboten” or “you. must not.” The foundation has no “musts” except ' that. “must” of good taste in any orderly household, Mr. Durhané’ said. A boy may swear, but he Just doesn’t do it around the foundation’s clubhouse. He may smoke cigarets, but not near the club or ‘while on a hike to the new camp grounds. Preachments, mottos, are not necessary. The foundation lays down guide-lines. and. youth takes the hint. : dd s : nd AMPING periods at the summer home of the Youth Foundation are to begin next summer for 10-day periods. . . Nor will the foundation be compelled to drill wells to fill the lake for the rainfall from the surrounding hills and next winter's . snow will be sufficient to fill the dam bed and keep it filleq, it is ; believed. ] Two concrete spillways dre ‘to accommodate the overflow water. The camp, like ‘the Columbus
serve youth without class distinction, Mr. Dushane says. . - A study was maae of 620 members of the Boys’ Club, . which averages a membership of 700. Two hundred eighty-seven fathers . of the boys are employed at common labor and only 156 homes were found to’ be economically below average. Automobiles are owned by one-half. “Rich, medium class, and poor —they're all alike—in the_ Boys’ and Girls’ Clubs,” esplainel Mr, Dushane. + . : # == ul OU see,” he. said, .as he meshed the: gears of the - coupe for the return trip to Co-
who helong to the club Working.
lumbus, “we’ve got fathers of boys |
“1. Donald Dushane, Columbus school superintendent, talks about new fencing for the Girls’ Club playground with Mrs. Eloise MeGiunis,
‘club director.
ia This building is: HE be: cused as ‘a clubtoom by Columbus: Boys’ and Girls’ clubs during their camping periods next year. ;
3.:Circuit Judge George W. Long at one of his rare conferences with a juvenile delinquent in Columbus. - Delinquency has dropped to
a new low in Bartholomew County.
right here on this dam project for WPA “They're good wotkinen, ‘too, if you keep them doing something more worthwhile - than raking leaves,” he added.
: He told of one father working. on the laKe project with a boy.
in the club. ; “He was almost. a police ‘char‘acter. We had to take two of his children ‘away. He lost his job but ‘liter got on WPA. He had one boy - with him.’ That boy
‘Joined the elub——" The school
superintendent stopped . momentarily as he shifted gears for another Bartholomew hill. “Then the other day I met this father. He came up to me all smiles. ‘Say! ‘Say! Mr. DuShane . did .you-hear about Jimmie. Heé’s
doing well. He's going to be in’
the club’s circus.’ ” : 2 8 = R. DUSHANE did not philos-
‘ophize. . He did not talk of character. bullding or youth sav-
ing. He is modest and so are Co-
Dobbins, president of the Youth Foundation. ;
Stand with. them and watch as they observed a group of boys ‘or girls playing and you get silence. You are not ee in the back, taken by the with “a reminder. to ~ what we’ve done.”
A quiet pride seems to envelop Columbus when it talks ‘about the Youth Foundation. ‘Politics play no part in its operation. . Mr. Dushane is a Republican and Circuit Court Judge George W. Long, Juvenile - Court .referee, a Democrat. The membership of the foundation equally represents hoth parties: and. all - sizes and. assortments of denominational faiths. They meet on one common
ground: “All children. are privileged.”.
“Look, | see
‘Next—The Clubrooms of the’ . Youth Foundation.
‘BY RAYMOND CLAPPER
DENIES LANDON 1S ‘SYNTHETIC’
matic about the man, except” possi-
same kind of genuine, home-folks
lumbus business men, and William
Shoulder , |-
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tered a s Second-Class Matter at Postoffice, Indianapolis, Ind.
x ‘DISCOVERY’
/ “ Li 2° fe * fe 2 3 iq. : EW YORK, June 15.—I can’t quite put my finger on the reasons but it strikes me that the Department of Justice is too fond of drama these days. This will be akin to treason in the opinion of our truebelieving hero-worshiping citizens and that, in itself, is bad because no department of the gov= ernment should be held above questioning or critie cism.: We get crushes in this country and when we are packing the torch for some public figure, department or idea | we resent the slightest suggestion that the object of our affection may have a wooden leg or a nagging disposition. But invariably we find out and then we get sore and say “never again” until we find ourselves feeling silly over some other swift blond, convinced that this one is the dream girl. We have been nuts about France. Woodrow Wilson and his fourteen points, Herbert' Hoover, Insull utilities and Cuba at various Westbrook Pegler times 2nd many of us remember : when WO! have been dangerous busin: “Yes, but——-/>7 E ess to say It is true that I recently asked permission to visit Alcatraz Prison off San Francisco and was thrown for a loss but I am sure that is not my reason for insisting that some one should be allowed to. visit Alcatraz every now and again to check up on Sanford Bates, the head man of the Federal Prison Depart= ment. Alcatraz has been described as the American Devil’s Island, which is a poor boast because the original Devil's Island is a disgrace to the French mation and is gradually being abandoned in favor of
a worse but more secluded and somparatively obscure island in the Orient. p y
Who Owns It, Anyway :
«A YCATRAZ is a secret prison in which anything might happen including rough stuff and though it may be run strictly on the level‘at present that is no assurance that the next man in charge won't turn it into a Joliet, a Welfare Island or the kind of madhouse Atlanta was a few years ago under the man=agement of this same Department of Justice. A secret prison suggests the island of Lipari in which Mussolini filed away a lot of good, respectable Italians for the offense of speaking out of {urn and the Oubliette camps wnere Adolf Hitler hides those tough, courageous Germans who had the reckless gumption to rise up and declare he wasn’t any super= man but just a crazy Austrian house painter. And with the lesson of Huey Long so fresh in our memory I don’t think we ought to indorse the idea of secrecy in an American prison which some tough guy might be tempted to use for a political doghouse a few years hence.
The Case of Ellis Parker
OME intuition, perhaps, tells me that the emo tional or sentimental regard for J. Edgar Hoover, the chief of the G-men, is going to result in a re action one of these days. 3 Mr. Hoover, in his love of personal publicity and his self-approval, closely reminds me of old Ellis Parker, the celebrated hick detective of Mount Holly, N. J, who has been arrested on a charge of kidnaping and assault in the political mixup which followed the Lindbergh-Hauptmann case. Mr. Parker’s favorite reading for years has been his scrap-books and he had a pose of rustic shrewd= ness or quaintness which made good copy for the ' papers.
Merry-Go- Round
BY DREW PEARSON AND ROBERT S. ALLEN
ASHINGTON, June’ 15.—Behind the scenes in Cleveland there was considerable debate on the question of how far the platform should go: in boost= ing the traditional high tariff policy of the Republican Party. Apparently ‘some of the G. O. P. master minds were inclined to think that Cordell Hull's policy of lowering trade barriers was catching on with a lot of people. Actually it is a little early yet to see how Hull's treaties are working out. Too many of them have been in effect only a few months. But the two longest in effect—with Belgium and Cuba—have been definitely beneficial to that part of the United States which does not raise sugar. _ Belgium increased her American purchases by 71 per cent during the first 10 months of the treaty, most of the increase being in commodities on which there had been tariff reductions. Her increase of
bly in a négative sense, and in the very absence of drama as was the case with Coolidge. He is not a towering giant physically, but merely of medium height. and build. If you should pass him: on the street |phone gracefully. Landon’s characin Topeka, you would scarcely dis- ter will impress itself through actinguish him .| tions rather than words. Politically, he signifies a revival of the Theodore Roosevelt progressive tradition which was interrupted by the war and which Franklin Roosevelt has sought to A somewhat abortively. ‘Every -one who knows the Middle
interest that you and your neighbor down the street have in éach other. He does not have the oral showman-: ship of Roosevelt. His personality does not flow Through the micro-
ASHINGTON, June. 15.—<1In the first sentence of the first | | statement which he issued after the ‘| nomination of Gov. Landon, Democratic National Chairman Farley reveals how completély he fails to ‘understand what has happened, Farley refers to Landon: onteip D u- | ‘mistake Eo SR at owner of the 2 hardware store. 2 » o i L of New York might be : of deliberate - distortion if he had Js. quit and modest 7¥et he, not already unconsciously revealed re W .: e HHovies + as his attitude toward the grass roots | Strong, silen ie sali, of America when he recently re-| ¥: thin. his own ime
He won't slap. your back, nor - ferred to Landon as a nonentity from a “typical prairie state.” Thus barrass you with fulsome flattery.
But h know wha Farley, off guard, revealed that he ted Janis ur think, Bt you a has little real comprehension of the |, "hoard He makes you feel that [his Middle Wests a he has a friendly interest in you, nation’s po a famil —abou typical New Yorker, Farley is'as|Y%0 “ your: dog & the
unable to understand the "West as.
gpeached Dennison, which is only a short distance jrom the Oklahoma line. On this trip Congressman yburn, whose home is in that district, was also with us. I repacked all my bags and tried to send everyfPhing I could back on the train, but I find I still have far more with me than I should have. At about 10:40 we stopped in a town and I had to go out on the back platform and explain that the President was in bed. I was met with great disapproval, and one irate gentleman remarked darkly, #He might need our votes.” Vincennes this morning at 9 o'clock, gaily decorated and the streets again lined with people. Not &s demonstrative a crowd this, as in the South, but a ndiy and gay one. We could only stay for the first hour of the megnorial ceremonies. I was struck again by the gay parasols. To my amazement I saw some little ones, puch as my grandmother used to use when driving in her victoria. I went back to the train with my husband and there we parted, Mrs. Scheider and I, with Mrs. Helm pnd Mrs. Fritz of Lawrenceville, got into the car
importation from .other countries was only 44 per cent. Cuba increased her American purchases 58 per cent during the first year of the treaty; meanwhile the United States increased its Cuban purchases, mostly sugar, by 221 per cent. During the four months the Canadian treaty nas 2 been effective both countries have increased their purchases from the other by about 15 per cent. Speaking of tariffs, wonder what's become of the authors of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff? Six years ago they were among the most powers ‘ful members of Congress. Senator Smoot of Utah virtually dictated the taxes of the Senate. He had West, and. particularly Kansas,| more appointees in the Federal government than any knows that Landon is real and that other single Senator.’ ; the philosophy for which he stands ® oh an: nn squally authentic ‘product’ of EP. HAWLEY of Oreeon * dictated the affairs of Through him the middle the House Ways and Means Committee, wrote frontier 1s self as the ‘the tariff bill as he wanted it. cradle of modern political Ehought, .Today they are scarcely heard of in Washington
; Smoot, now in his seventy-fourth year, is in Salt Which Gov. Horner had kindly placed at our disposal GRIN AND BEAR IT :
Lake City, devoting his time to the affairs of the Mormon Church, of which he is an apostle and sec= and proceeded to Grayville, where we lunched at the : Pon —— i. : : ily across the - — CCC camp. Before long We will meet Mrs. Helms =| Pl = ; ~ | Hudson River to win addy. 8} CH
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