Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 July 1936 — Page 9

undoubtedly remembers Senator Borah’s

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=" NEW YORK, July 11.—The works of

William Allen White are being “provided by the Republican National Committee.” There is nothing immoral in that, but

_- 1 do think that a canned release sent out by * a political party is something less than the

best spot in which to argue against “regimentation.” ver, when a man’s frank propaganda is printed precisely as if it were news I think he is : unwise to moan that this country ? il is likely to have a “controlled press” unless his side gets elected to office. Never was an argument more definitely regimented, and it amazes me to find the Sage of: Emporia hurling wild charges around so freely. For instance, he says of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, “He shut off debate in Congress— the debate that brings out the differences that reveals the truth.” The last Congress talked and talked itself right into the middle of the summer. At the very end a filibuster by Rush Holt defeated the possibility of passing another Guffey bill. How can it justly be said that Roosevelt shut off debate? And take another paragraph which indicates that it must be getting mighty hot out in Emporia. *Time and again,” writes Mr. White, “he (Roosevelt) has urged the pasasge of measures which he himself has admitted to be of doubtful constitutionality.” Mr. White probably refers to the letter which the President sent in regard to the Guffey bill,

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White Less Than Accurate

E is a great deal less than accurate to say that the President admitted that he himself regarded the

* bill as one of doubtful constitutionality. And even if

he had done so that would not Justify William All White in his “Time and Again.” y - = As a matter of fact, I think Mr. White is unwise in bringing up the matter of the Guffey bill. The

- law was invalidated by a divided court, and the major

part of the act would have stood but for the very tortured construction which the court put upon interstate commerce.¢ : “When the courts have decided against a plan,” writes William Allen White, “he — tried 3 slip around the courts by legislation jammed through a rubber-stamped Congress.” Waiving Mr. White's rubber stamp; it seems to me that the gentleman from Emporia suggests adding powers to the Supreme Court which that august body has never claimed even in its wildest moments. When a majority of the Supreme Court holds that the Guffey Act, let's say, is unconstitutional, it is criticising the manner in which Congress has attempted to solve

~ the given problem.

The court by no means presumes to say that nothing possibly can be done to stabilize the coal industry. ; = ® ”

Victim of Regimentation

VW iliau ALLEN WHITE was at the Cleveland convention of the Republican Party, and he assertion that several of thé New Deal measures which the court tossed out would have stood up if he, Bill Borah, had been empowered to put them into the proper shape. And, come to think of it, William Allen White was in Cleveland for a purpose. He was on the resolutions committee, and he argued that the Republican Party should note the decision of the Supreme Court in the New York minimum wage case and have a. plank suggesting the possibility of an amendment to clarify the rights pi: the states ta pass welfare legisiation. Mr. White did not wir his battle] il It is nonsense for William Allen White to go around suggesting that the Constitution is too sacred to be touched by human hands. He doesn’t believe any such thing. Mr. White should strike out for freedom and quit writing stuff to please the Republican National Committee. He should not allow himself to be regimented. :

My Day

HH: PARK, New York, Friday—I left for Hyde Park yesterday afternoon at 6 o'clock as I intended to, after speaking at Teachers College in New York City, . I must record my admiration for the devotion of these summer school students. The hall was packed for the opening of this course, and as yesterday was warm, I could not help sympathizing with everybody present, : I. have always felt that the Hudson River is a warm spot when it is warm anywhere. My husband called late in the evening and I rather hesitatingly inquired how they were surviving in Washington. He said cheerily: “The heat is fearful and I am so busy all I hope Be to live until I get on the train and start off on my

Four of us got up at 5 o'clock this morning to take a long moter drive before the traffic on the road was heavy, and we were back by 10:15. Since then the telephone, the mail and the various plans for arrivals and departures tomorrow have kept me busy. ‘Never think that you are going to have an uneventful day as long as you have a large family and are part of the entourage of a man in public office. Something new always turns up at the last minutes. Often it is something very pleasant, but still it is unexpected. All the press were much excited yesterday because one of the books published for older boys by the Junior Literary Guild criticises a policy of the present

1 explained, however, that on none of us ever know what the We read the hooks that are sent our comments, and give our reasons ments, without the assistance of any o

- ; (Copyright, 1936, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.)

New Books THE PUBLIC LIBRARY PRESENTS— H commencement over, what? Do you want to ‘me ? Are you interested in the

America’s Future Held No ~ Cause for Worry in | Rural Indiana.

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Forrest Davis, noted political writer touring east from Kanstopped here and there to interview “typical Amer-

icans” regarding their opinions of economic and political *

affairs. His third dispatch follows. , sg & =

BY FORREST DAVIS

Special Writer URING IN INDIANA, July 11.—By accident today I met a future. pioneer - and an automotive David Harum who signified the epic of enterprise—land acquisition and commerce—in this country. : - Mr. Dugger I found patiently trading a used car for a mule; a young hitch-hiker

had just come from a look at the little place

in a green valley on which he intended to settle when he'd saved enough for the down payment and stock.

Genuinely rugged individualists, neither

had

given the matter of America’s future much thought. They took it for granted. Nor had they been disturbed over the current political alarms—Mr. Hoover's Fascisti, Mr. Al Smith’s Communists in 'Washington. Political talk, they called it, and both were,

I gathered, gun shy of politicians.

I recommend a day amidst the kindly garrulities of Indlana as an antidote for the despair of elderly gentlemen, who, lunching at their clubs, detect signs of a decline in the old American spirit -

among the common people.

The rural Hoosier

won't let them down. Unsuspicious, eager to swap views with the‘worldly stranger, spurred by a journalistic impulse to tell all, he discourses obligingly and with -equal readiness on the peskiness of his in-laws, the corn crop, business, his neighbors or the primitive beauties of famed Brown County. I know his traits. By birth I am a rural Hoosier.

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LL day I lounged through the fair, fat, brown

and green countryside.

The corn was waist

high. I saw new tractors in the field, new colts and calves in the meadows, new paint on the barns, new

cars in the barnyards. hope in the farm houses.

I heard there was new

Repeatedly I pulled up alongside the road to talk a dozen times. I learned many novel things, exciting in their way. A new growers’ co-operative,

for example, had been formed . among the peony—‘“piney” to be a true Hoosier—farmers of the southwestern counties. For Memorial Day the co-operative shipped a quartér million dozen peonies! A train traveler misses the bite and flavor of a countryside. Moreover he is not brought face to face with the astonishing diversity of counties and states, let alone the country as a whole. He dismisses whole states with generalities Illinois is a corn state; Kansas 3 wheat state. Motoring can bring Jou down to over-the-fence realities.

How. weuld a clubscar traveler |

ever ‘hear about Uhcle Herman Fulcher, down at Petersburg, who is 96, hasn't taken a drink of water in 25 years and is tending

his eighty-fourth consecutive corn

crop? Or that Uncle Herman prefers sour wine to water?

A passenger on: the Twentieth Century would never guess that the Amish (members of an Ana~ baptist sect who wear somber, seventeenth century garments) ‘in the northeast of Indiana have a virtual monopoly on peppermint culture—for juleps and gum. Or that the major Stark County crop

* is. pearl onions; or that the coun-

try’'s finest presérving tomatoes are grown along a stretch of the National Road east of Indianapolis. !

8 # 8 : NDIANA alone is a complex sector of American ciyilization. Actually it holds within its borders the French Lick cure, the Gary steel mills, Notre Dame’s football team, thousands of coal miners stranded by the rapid introduction of steam shovel strip mining; and ‘for history—New

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“Grain”—A. photographic study by William M. Ritasse—Black Star.

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Harmony, in which Robert. Owen

tried his collective - experiment, and old Vincennes, where George Rogers Clark won the Northwest. Imaginatively, there is General Lew Wallace’s Indiana; Edward Eggleston’s, Tarkington's, Riley's, Ade’s, Dreiser's and Meredith Nicholson’s. A host of Indianas, visible and invisible.

All this I learned, or was re-.

minded of, during one day’s travel. Mr. Dugger stood outside -his garage on the main street of Sullivan, Will Hays’ home town, and chauffered amiably with a lean, stubble-faced farmer in overalls.

oa “He ‘wants to-trade me ai estile as down payment on a second- ‘|

hand car I'm holding at $235,” Mr. Dugger explained. “He's asking $150 for the mule. I don’t know exactly what the mule’s worth and I've sent for a fellow tat knows mules. “With a horse or a cow, I would know. But I have to .be careful with a mule. These farmers are pretty slick traders.”

The farmer, Mr. Dugger added, had no need for the mule, which was surplus stock, but his family wished rapid transportation. Their last car wore out during the depression and couldn’t be replaced. “Real cash,” said the Sullivan David Harum, “is still a little scarce with the farmer.”

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R. DUGGER, a resourceful trader at all times, turned to this type of barter last fall when, with farm values rising, a fairly steady market appeared for livestock, corn and hay. Hell trade for alfalfa, too, or a piece of land. He bought 30 acres of pasture north of town on which to keep stock pending a resale. This

LET'S EXPLORE YOUR MIND

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MORALE BY 60d

spring he leased 70 acres over west, at a yearly rental of $125, for the same purpose. . ‘°° = Mr. Dugger’s automobile : busi ness, as may be supposed, is booming. eo The hitch-hiker was ‘picked up outside Terre Haute.: A tall,. narrow-faced, pleasant ° youth speaking the drawling idioms of southern Indiana, he was a private, a muleteer,. in’ a service company at Fort Benjamin Hare rison, Indianapolis. =~. A refugee from the depression, -he had enlisted while on his folks’ farm outside the village of Cedarville. In the army he was saving his pay for a down. payinenton a

~ SWEDEN OPPOSES MONOPOLY

This is the last of six dispatches on

. economic conditions. in Sweden. “

BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS ey Foreign Editor AS GTON, July 11—“The logical conclusion of your policy—better goods, better service, better housing, better everything fo less money than any body. else”’—I said to wizard Albin Johansson, head of Sweden’s - $140,000,000-a-year cooperative business, “is that youll eventually own Sweden.” “In that case,” he promptly an-

swered, and he became very serious,

“we shall have failed—utterly.” “Why do you say that?” I.asked.

His answer somewhat surprised me.

“Because that would put us on all

fours with Communist Russia, Nazi

Germany, Fascist Italy and the

other totalitarian states. ‘And they, in our judgment, are all wrong.

“We are Oo to monopoly,

tooth and nail, whether by govern-

ment or. by private initiative. One

of the fine things about Sweden—if

you will pardon my saying so—is its

sheer democracy. It can, and does,

engage in business But it generally does so in fair competition. Anybody that wants to is. free to compete against it.

“There are some exceptions, of course, in favor of the state—like

the tbbacco monopoly. “But I am

opposed to extending them. When

the Labor Party advocated the state

taking over gasoline and coffee, for

“FQUT yours.” I sald, getting back ' , to_-the original proposition, “would be a ‘good’ monopoly—as

~~ 3 x on ow, 1 3 the late Theodore Roosevelt once

said of some - = “There’s no such thing as a ‘good’ operative miracle - man.

ont. ah ocome wastetu}

15-acre place in Wabash bottoms; a place which he ‘had: just’ been inspecting for the twentieth time. His folks had sold their 130 “acres of poor soil to. a::mining company, which proposed to: shovel off 27 feet of dirt to mine a 27-inch vein. Ee i “I wouldn’t give up farming for any other life,” he. confided, “although soldiering is easier and steadier pay. . : “All I want is that 15 acres to start. I'll keep chickens, a cow: and pigs and raise. my own gar‘den truck. In good times I'N rent

go up. Then, | |.

other land to plant. In bad times T1l hole up.and wait it out.” °

ing with a very old watch he had just acquired and of which he was as proud as a boy—a timepiece which struck the quarter and the hour, told the different phases of the moon and the day of the month. Albin Johansson ‘is like that. While we were walking: down the street, he suddenly darted into a little shop selling office supplies. At the door he turned and beckoned me to follow. He wanted to show me a cash register the co-operatives are making—because- the existing ones cost far too much—and a tiny portable typewriter selling for about $39. He was very proud of these things. He wanted me to heft the portable to test its lightness. What a run for his money Jo-

they started out manufacturing popular-priced automobiles at the same time! And he works for sheer love of his job. His salary is said to’ be only $3000 a year. ; “The whole aim of Swedish cooperatives,” he told me in his office overlooking Stockholm’s picturésque harbor, “is to give ‘the people the best quality of everything they need at, minimum cost. Not forgetting,” he added quickly, “their role as a yardstick. Our prices tend to keep all prices down to a fair level. . “We are not trying to crush any-

mind you, is on a purely business s. We realize an honest profit on everything we manufacture and

room for all. But monopolistic dividend and swollen salaries can not be paid by concerns competing against us. There lies the difference.”

right,” he replied.

‘hansson would have given Ford had | tori

body. We don’; want to put anybody | pri out of business. Everything we do, |

‘yardstick.

do the same thing. There is ample

By the end. of his “hitch,” or enlistment, in, 1937, he would have enough saved to get the 15 acres, and he had a sort of option on it. I asked the prospective pioneer, before putting him down in Indi.anapolis, what he thought about ‘the future of the country and a man’s, chances in obligating himself to buy a farm in these times. “The country’s got to be all “With ‘all this good land and people willing to work it’s got to be all right. People have got to eat—don’t forget that, sir.” is

NEXT—A further excusion’ into “midland opinion. he or Gipoh v incr | in oIBbss 8 faoiT 4

OHANSSON cited figures to show ¢¥ how co-operatives actually help, rather than hurt, honest business. In 1021, for example, only 12,000,000 kilos of margarine — popular in Sweden, even on the farms which prefer to sell their fresh butter in town—were consumed throughout the country. The trust was selling it all, The trouble was the price. Mar-

garine was too dear for the poor to buy. It was 4.33 kronor per kilo (about 58 cents a pound). As the margarine trust refused to listen to reason, Johansson set up a co-oper-ative factory—in fact several faces. ; By 1930 the price was down to 1.30 krona per kilo (about 17 cents a pound). And what happened? Did Johansson’s competitors go broke? Nothing like it. True, the co-opera-tives were selling 12,000,000 kilos of margarine annually—as much as the whole trade disposed of nine years before—but the independent concerns were selling an additional 40,000,000 kilos. Sweden was. eating 52,000,000 kilos of margarine a year, or more than four times as much as formerly because the mass of the consumers could afford to pay the

ce. : And that, said Johansson, pointing the moral, is the big lesson of the It makes for honest prices. - The masses can afford so much more of the things they need and ought to have—and even of the things they merely want. Their limited means stretch over so much more ground = when unreasonable dividends are ruled off the board.

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reasons. Without opposition, they get big, fat, flabby, clumsy, lazy, in-J

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NEW YORK, July 11.—Just to keep the .record straight, let us see just who it was that introduced politics and religion into the Olympic games of 1936. Germany was awarded these games four

years ago. At that time, the international

. body which ‘selected the site acted on the supposition

idea that four years later the games would be used to ballyhoo Adolf Hitler and to indorse a regime of murder, persecution and |} paganism the program would have been awarded some other country. Ji: No country has any right to use the Olympic games and the beautiful Olympic idea of brotherhood through sportsmanship, which ‘is a pretty nice idea, however pathetic, as a signboard on which to display its politics and hatreds. - > In four years, sport in Germany has become a politico-mili-tary monopoly of the state. All young men and women who are barred from the Nazi party, or refuse to join it as a matter of prine ciple, are automatically barred from the team. The Nazis have made two exceptions, but they “made them under pressure from the outside in fear of losing the games. To $5 8

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Athletics and Politics

HE Nazis often point out that American Negroes are victims of discrimination, and ‘this is not to deny that they are, But Negroes are not barred from our Olympic feams. Many of them have worn the American shield in the past and some of the most formidable athletes on this year’s squad are Negroes. A Nazi political book called “Knowledge About Germany” by Kurt Muench, described as “Reich polis tical trainer,” gives information on the status of sport in the country which bids, the athletes of the world welcome in the brotherhood of sport. i It says: “Athletics and sport are the preparatory school of the political will in the service of the state, Non-political, so-called neutral sportsmen are un ‘thinkable in Hitler's state.” It also says that sporf in Germany can not be separated from politics. The official Nazi propaganda press has made ule, guarded admissions, time and again, that these 2aines are to be exploited to the utmost as political propa= ganda for a party whose fundamental principles are at war with everything that Americanism stands for, Three days out of eight, in Garmisch, the Nazis sent in Hitler to hog the show and on other days they sent in Goebels and Julius Streicher and their gene erals. Their army was all over the place.

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| It’s Different in America

E similar conditions had prevailed in Los Angeles in 1932 the Republican Party would have barred all non-Republicans from the American team. Presi dent Hoover and his cabinet=would have stolen the show for a political demonstration in a campaign

| year. And the Army and Navy would have shove

swhe people hither and 'URépublican Party was. Of course, nothing of the kind happened. ; © The American Olympic committee has been raise ‘ing a faint whine of politics and religion” lately to cover its own incompetence in financing the team. No doubt about it, politics &nd religion are involved this year. But nobody in this country started that and the American Olympic authorities have always used the tin cup ‘to raise their money. - At a time when farms are burning up, herds are dying and millions of Americans are nickeling along . on the dole the deficit reasonably can be charged to natural causes, including the committee’s own fails ure.

Merry-Go-Round

BY DREW PEARSON AND ROBERT S. ALLEN / 2SHINGTON, July 11.—President Roosevelt personally has taken a great interest in pushing construction of a Pan-American highway. He suge gested that it go on the Buenos Aires Conference agena. Latin American diplomats, who thought thi conference was called to promote peace, get a secret chuckle over the highway idea. . . . Overheard in Justice Department corridors: “Gee, mother, I wish I was a G-man.” “Well, son, if you eat your spinach you can be cone some day.” . . . Gov. William. I. Myers of the Farm Credit Administration has dec privately not to sell any of the government-owned farms to veterans teceiving the bonus, unless they can show they are experiencd farmers. He wants to avoid future grief both for the ex-soldier and for the government. . F. W. (Big Fish) Fischer, bulky Texas lawyer who defeated the New Deal in its test of the oil code, is.aiming at Jimmy Allred’s job as Governor of Texas, sicher is heralding the fact that Allred failed to keep his promise to start old-age pensions in Texas.

yon to show. how strong the

well, sometimes called “The Valentino of the Revolus - tion,” is putting on weight. . . . Treasury plans to consolidate its Secret Service and other investigating staffs into one compact unit were balked during the closing days. of Congress. ; : = ; v i 2 #2 = ON RICHBERG, one-time “Assistant President,® is the anonymous author of a forthcoming can _ baign book to be used by the Democrats as an ant dote to James Warburg’s anti-New Deal “Hell-be “Gully and wil have oF cm oh, De hy >” ve as ¢ , “Guill —of saving the banks,” “Guilty —of feeding starvin unemployed. . . . Rex Tugwell’s ace ma Kenneth Clark, has his gov Boettinger