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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1936.

“A REASONABLE PLAN”

HE private-public power pool in the Southeastern states which apparently is being seriously considered by the

* President and the Tennessee Valley Authority looks to us

like a reasonable solution of a difficult problem. It recognizes an imporiant fact that at times heretofore has been forgotten by some of the opponents of TVA. That is that the government's power-navigation-flood control project in thie Tennessee Valley is not something that can be “wished” out of existence. The dams and the

power houses are {here; more are being built; more are be-

ing planned. | The Supreme Court has upheld the validity of the

operations at Wilson Dam, thereby approving the heart of

TVA's power program. The people of the valley are deter-

mined to get the full benefits from the development of their great natural resource—the public rivers. The power companies seem to ‘have forgotten that. They seem also to forget that TVA is the result of long, hard years of fighting for the public interest. Finally, with the help of President Roosevelt, the public won that fight. We belieye the people will not permit their great victory to be turned into defeat and the consumers forced once more to be at the mercy

of the monopolists, On the other hand there is in power facilities in the Southeadgfern states. The TVA recognizes this. More than two years ago, “HV A's concern abeut this private investment was expressed in a letter Power Director David E. Lilienthal wrote to President C. E. Groesbeck of Electric Bond and Share. Mr. Lilienthal said: “Duplication of facilities and territorial competition in the area of its operations the Tennessee Valley Authority

fone private investment

* has consistently sought to avoid wherever there was a rea-

tried out by Hoover's “spread-the-work” drive.

sonable alternative.” x » 5 x x n

OW it is proposed that the power manufacturing and transmission facilities of the government and the private utilities be used jointly for the general good; that power transmission lines be made common carriers. That's a sensible proposal. Wholesale rates for electricity would be the samesthroughout the region. They would be iow. That's sensible, also. ‘We share Chairman Arthur Morgan's hope that the intensive warfare, in the courts and out, between TVA and _the utilitie& will be ended. But, unless agreement is reached on the proposed power pool or some similar and equally fair plan, that is but a vain hope. | = ! : Apparently this Administration is prepared for a finish fight if it can not get.the| co-operation of the private utilities. : | The utilities and their themselves to thank if they fight goes on.

stockholders will have only refuse to co-operate and the

| THE MAN AND THE JOB AA AKING work for the jobless is the government's regrettable duty. Fitting them into private jobs is a happier one. lt is a sign of better days that President Roosevelt refers to the work of the National Re-Employment Service,

. now engaged in the constructive task of finding the right

man for the right job. ! The President has*allocated $4,000,000 to this far-

flung service's 1700 main and branch, offices, for a special

project. This is to restore to private employment as many

as possible of the 3,000,000 WPA workers registered in the service. : Since PWA and WPA began, many relief workers have become skilled in new tasks. By reinterviewing and reclassifying them the Re-Employment Service can place thousands more into private work. The service already has made 16 million placements, of which 3!4 million have been in private industry, 7,500,000 on relief projects, and 5,000,000 on public works. Without much - fanfare private employers have been * faking on more help. According to Secretary of Labor Perkins, nearly 5,500,000 workers have been returned to private jobs since the depression’s low in March, 1933, while 3,000,000 are now on the government's emergency work rolls. : Industry's gradual absorption of men, slow as it is, will prove of much more lasting benefit than the hectic method Industry will take such men as it can employ at profit. The government’s part will be to offer private employers its up-to-date lists of men qualified by skill and experience for what jobs = ; 4 . . become-available. To try to force extra men upon private industry through government pressure or ballyhoo is futile. Too much spreading of work means spreading misery. President Roosevelt avoids this hand-washing gesture. le urges employers to ‘realize their deep responsibility to

take men off the relief rolls,” and shows theni the way to |

in orderly labor market.

SENATOR NORRIS

- HEN we think of Nebraska we think of rolling plains,

waving cornstalks, goldenrod, William J. Bryan, Willa Cather and Senator Norris. : For a while it looked as though Nebraska liberals, for

, the first time in 34 years, would go through an election

‘come out for Roosevelt's re-election and had gone fishing. ‘Republicans and Democrats had nominated candidates for

his seat. But a “Draft Norris” movement was launched. by

Democratic Editor James E. Lawrence and finally it was announced that Norris’ name would be on the ballot as an independent. ~ We hope the good people of Nebraska still feel as we do about “Uncle George.” The Senate would be a lesser body of the peopie's tribunes with his seat occupied by a

| organization of the Federal government, if Mr. Roose- | | velit is re-elected, are neither reportorial conjectures

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Fair Enough

By Westbrook Pegler

NEW YORK, Sépt. 12.—Driving to the |

office this morning, George Spelvin, American, thought as follows: : Have to cut that out. No sense to it. Must have had a dozen Scotches, but those

brandies in between. Man’s an awful fool do that. Well, I'm through, that’s all there is to that. Glad it’s never got a grip on me like some guys.! Quit any time, never miss it. Quit dozens of times. Not another drop for six months anyway. MayRke a year. Christmas be # tough thou Everybody wanting guy to drink Christmas. 5 Look at that creeper poking along in the middle of the road. Get over, get over dope. Costs about $100,000 a mile to build these roads and some dope creeps along so nobody can use them. Oughta pinch a few. Woman driver, of course. Probably a battle-ax. Um-m, nice. How do you do? Sneak another look in, the mirror. Jertainly nice. Oh well, none of my business. Keep going, sep or you'll be late for work. Bap Mr. Pegler Look at that truck tear. Must be 20 tons. Using regular box-cars on the roads now. Crash right along without regard for anybody. Know my rights, though. Better not smash me.- Sue for a million. - Gentlemen of the jury, I was driving to work in the morning, doing about 35—no, doing® about 22 miles—driving cautiously, perfectly alert, perfectly sober, in fact don’t drink.: Quit drinking, but don’t object other people drinking, gentlemen of the jury.

5 #2 a =» Alas! No Witnesses HIS ‘enormous juggernaut, tearing along 45 miles an hour, way over wrong side of the road, struck me head on. No witnesses, though. What am I going to use for witnesses? Truck chauffeur and helper be sure to claim I hit them. ‘Anyway, their Insurance company probably drag me clear up to the United States Supreme Court. Lucky to get hospital expenses in the end, after paying lawyers, court expenses and all. Lawyers fix it so rich millionaires don’t pay income taxes, but I got to pay $86 and then they come after you two years later for $12 more, with 6 per cent interest. Show me where I can get 6 per cent interest on my savings. A racket. Four hundred dollars exemption for a kid. Try keeping a kid on $400 a year. No exemption for doctor bills, either. Rich corporations charge off depreciation, but no allowance for depreciation of “your health. Motorcycle Cop. Go on, you goggle-eyed punk and pick up some of these.creepers and truck drivers, Let sober, alert cautious drivers alone. Give me a ticket and I'd demand jury trial. I'd say, your honor, this officer is a liar, committing perjury. Demand Jury trial. I'm a respectable taxpayer. Moreover, wasn’t intoxicated, either. It happens I don't drink. My word against his and I know my rights. Convict me. and I'll fight it to the highest court in the land. Spend $100 fighting rather than pay $10 fine on cop's testimony. Matter of principle. Need a dictator around here a few months. Clean up the police and -courts, crooked politicians, racketeers.

: » n EJ "Morning Mr. Nilly

Dicer not so hot if you don’t like the guy, though. Some enemy squeals you said the dictator was just a crook and bang-bang against the wall. Or chop your head off with an ax. Those cock-eyed, crazy Dutchmen. Heil Hitler. Heel Hitler more like it. Ninety-nine per cent vote for Heel Hitler but strictly one-way ballot.” No way to vote no. Chop your head off if you try. No wonder he got 99 per cent. Otheér per cent, dead or in the can. Gee, getting late. ' Step on it, brother, or you'll be late. Let him try to bawl me out. I'll tell him. Forgets the nights I've worked overtime. I'll say, “Does it ever enter your so-called intelligence, Mr. Nilly, that I do two men's work around here and no raise in three years?” .

Just, under the wire. ’Morning Mr. Nilly.

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Spain—~Will It Come to This ?—By Kirby

CRITICISES HOSPITAL VISITING HOURS

!By C. L. H.

The writer, a church worker in an official capacity at one of the large city churches, tried to call on one of his boys in the City Hospital. He wag unable to see the patient, and not only refused admittance, but rudely told he must wait until visiting days, whieh it seems occur three times each week from 2 until 3 o'clock. % The City Hospital is owned by the taxpayers of this city, and while I realize that one could not expect io run out to the City Hospital at all hours, loved ones and close friends should be able to.see patients each day, and not be obliged to wait three days. It would be indeed futile to take this case up with the Mayor or the superintendent of the hospital. Public sentiment is the answer. There must be hundreds of taxpayers of this city who feel as I do in the matter. Let's take the City Hospital out of the jail class. Treat patients like human beings, and not wards of an institution they themselves own. Visiting hours should be each day, if only for an hour.

HOSPITAL OFFICIAL EXPLAINS HOURS

By Dr. Kenneth Kohistadt, Assistant Superintendent, City Hospital

Visiting hours at City Hospital have not been reduced, but changed to take care of the increased number of callers. The new schedule, which allows one-hour visits on Sunday, Tuesday and Friday afternoons and half hours” on Tuesday and Thursday nights do not apply when a patient is in serious or critical condition. | : We are always glad to make exceptions in special cases where conditions do not allow callers to time their visits with eur regular hours. Increasing visiting hours necessi-

tates extra help to regulate wards

and in addition, we feel many patients are often actually harmed by frequent visits. Criticism of eur present schedule is unfounded, we feel. but any caller who has such criticism is welcome to come in and we will be glad to make satisfactory arrangements. 3 n ” n

| FINDS OHIO ENFORCES | TRAFFIC REGULATIONS

By Jimmy Cafouros, at Buffalo, New York

. Before leaving the Great Lakes Exposition, I nosed around a bit where General Motors, and General Electric had their displays. I saw some luggage trailers that were pippins. Little affairs about a yard and a half deep and with about a yard of space inside. They looked like little boats. In another department I saw what was the equivalent of a house on wheels. Kitchenette with stove, tables, plenty of seating space, clec~ tric lights, electric fans, running water. It seems that in time to come people will stop living in houses and move up and down the land as work varies. - There is something about the towns and cities up here that

General Hugh Johnson Says——

ETHANY BEACH, Del, Sept.

No subject is closeg to the President's heart. No close friend to whom he talks freely is unaware of his hobby or organization charts. He is an expert on the subject and knows all the answers abput “functional” and “subjective” divisions, “direct” and “in. direct” authority “supervision” and “direction.” This colmun has frequently harped on the “tive assistant Presidents” setup, to detach the big. from administrative detail and to let our Presidents live.

= xn 2 HE President has frequently discussed almost the

same idea with his friends from" the very beginning of his Administration. In his economy program

that marked the first six months of his Administra- |

tion, he was planning many simplifications of the Federal structure. Nothing was a greater disappointment to him than the whole idea of reorganization forced aside by the avalanche of new problems, new administrations, and the greatest load of business that ever descended on the White House. He has never lost sight of the idea. In 1934 he received a confidential memorandum showing how the

British government, without a spectacular upheaval,

12.—The stories | coming out of Washington about a complete re- |

heavy war organization by using a very small steering committee within the overpopulated cabinet itself.

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press their views in these columns, religious controversies excluded. Make your letter short, so all can have a chance. Letters must be signed, but names will be withheld on request.)

entirely lacking back in Indianapolis. In Indianapolis we are entirely surrounded by fields. Up here the boat life is part of the blood of the people. There was another thing that attracted a whole lot of visitors here. That was Abraham Lincoln's state carriage. It was the very same one in which he journeyed to Ford's Theater in Washington on that fatal night in April, 1865. Cleveland has a slogan: -down—we love our children.” ' In Indiana no trailer-truck can be more than 34 feet in length.” In Ohio and on into the East there is no limit and it is no uncommon thing to see. a double truck. Another peculiarity of Ohio is that it is one of the few states from Indiana east to enforce the law in regards to trucks stopping at railroad crossings. Indiana has the same law, but it is not enforced as it is in Ohie.

“Slow

#::n 8 VOTER APPEALS FOR GROSS INCOME TAX By a Reader, Frankfort

A few days ag8 a local merchant received a circular letter from an

association representing his line of

business in which he was urged to

I'LL NEVER SMILE AGAIN

BY VIRGINIA KIDWELL

I'll never smile again the smile A woman wears when knowing she Is loved securely all the while, With faith and trust and honesty.

I'll never feel the bliss again I felt at touch or sight of ‘you; So proud, so sure you were my man, So positive that you were true.

What's left to ease the broken heart That finds a trusted man untrue? There's nothing left except to part; But life is death when there's no you!

DAILY THOUGHT

My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God. —Job 16:20.

HERE is a sacredness in tegrs. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, ‘and of unspeakable love. — Washington Irving. :

The Scherrer, Pyle, Ferguson, Fishbein and Science columns have been moved from this page to the Feature Page (Page 9). i

stated that the time to beat 1t is | next November. It quoted what each candidate for Governor has to | say on the subject, which is well | known. In the course of the dis-| cussion it was proposed that we se-4

cure a moratorium from it and ail |-

substitutes for two years and then | if it is found to be needed we should

have the Legislature pass a net income tax law. | Just how much | Candidate Springer had fo do in the framing of this policy will probably not be known. However, it would not be an easy matter to convince any one that he had no hand in|it. Whether he has ever openly come out for the net income tax I'db not know. I suspect the association would not have ‘made the en without knowing what to .expect of Mr. Springer, if elected. ] Think of it, they don’t seem to know whether the reyenue from that source is or is not heeded, and, according to the suggestion, the way to find out is to declare a = moratorium on present tax for two years and await results. If we run in the hole, the tax is needed. By using the old rule of trial and

error, those who know, much more |

than any one else about} the balancing of the budget propgse to take [the risk for two years/ of cutting out entirely one of the best tax laws we have ever had, run the risk: of cutting short the state revenue and impairing thereby our schools and the like, all merely to determine whether we need|the tax. Mr. Voter, what do you think of such a proposal? What do you think would become of our state if left in the hands of thase who show no better business sense? Citizens of Indiana, unless they are blind, should get [behind the gross income tax law and see to it that it is not endangered next November. : un ” ”| ASKS BETTER HOUSING FOR WHITE FAMILIES By B. E.I have just finished reading about the new housing project to replace the slums of the city—about the | three-room doubles to be equipped | with shower and water. 3 1 also have been reading recently | about the housing project put up for the Negroes of the city—the Lockefield Gardens—not three-room

doubles but magnificent brick apartments with refrigeration, with four

or five rooms of the latest construc- |

tion arranged so the sunlight reaches each one, and with playgrounds nearby. From the description and the outward appearance they are apartments any one would be proud to live in. They seem better than most of the apartment biuldings of the city. I think the housing project and the clearance of the slums is a fine thing, but I don't see why the poor white people shouldn't be entitled to at least as good as the colored,

[the same opinion.

and I've heard many people express

Fs ~The LiberalView The Hoosier Forum | The Liberal View I wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it—Voltaire.

This was the inspiration for the ill-starred 1934 attempt to make Mr. Richberg a sort of chief of the general .staff and the order giving him precisely the pow-

ers of a prime minister. It wasn't done quietly. It was |

blazoned with trumpets. Every prima donna in the Administration cast began knocking over tables and chairs and whetting up ‘stilettos for Grand Vizier Richberg. 3 : = " = T is 10 times harder to butt into the older Federal bureaus and oust ancient retainers, who have been sitting so long on the old-fashioned cane-bottomed® chairs of the statutory departments that their backs look like a waffle. : ” The difference between previous efforts and the long-cherished plan behind the President's jutting, and sometimes stubborn, Dutch jaw, is that this is an obsession with him and he will carry it through for better or for worse. Such things can’t be done by fiat.

® = 2 r addition to all that, the best organization plan that was ever written, without competent men in the key spots, is not as good as the worst plan with proper men to put it into effect. i Regardless of all the false starts and errors of the recovery effort in a time of unprecedented turmoil, it is the conviction of this writer that the second four years of Roosevelt will be the ablest national Admih-

Wishing ON, Sept. 12.—There is some doubt in the minds of one or two Cabinet members as to whether their chief will keep them on after November—if he is re-elected. Chief question mark is in the mind of Daniel Calhoun Roper, Secretary of Commerce. He has indicated to subordinates that he sees the nandwriting on the wall; will make a polite exit. ; Naval Secretary Claude Swanson, who has been in poor health, also may retire. Attorney General Cummings can stay if he wants to—or he can go to the Philippines. The President is fond of him, but would not be averse to a younger crusader in the Justice. Department. : * Hull, Morgenthau, Wallace, Ickes are fixtures. Jim Farley wants to come back, and the President wants No one will be appointed until after election to fill the War Department vacancy left by Dern. Also there will be no ambassador immediately appointed to Russia. The President needs bait with which to. entice contributions to Jim Farley's war chest. After all, this is a campaign year.

= = # JERE is a pretty accurate index of returning pros-

perity: : The Securities and Exchange Commission, which

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‘By Harry. Elmer-Barnes

(Substituting for Heywood Broun) °

| EW YORK, Sept. 12.—The noisiest and

(Times readers are invited to ex- ) oppose the gross income tax. It

most persistent hullabaloo raised by

Republican warhorses and Liberty League

spellbinders against Mr. Roosevelt relates to the charge that he has carried through a veritable orgy of spending which the rich are paying for. It is alleged, in season and out, that the - President has put into operation a determined policy of soaking the rich. Mr. Landon has echoed this allegation. I do not propose to debate the wisdom or unwisdom of the spending policy, though it is evident that the rich have benefited as much or more than the poor. Governmental spending has been the chief cause of the business and Sevisi ies poor from which the rich have profited. Moreover, relief expenditures have kept the masses calm and have protected the rich against the disorder and rioting which might have re- : sulted from four years more of the 2 “let them eat cake” policy of Mr, of. Barnes. yaover. : ; But there is one matter which does not admit of debate, and that is the fact that no “soak the rich” policy has been adopted by the Roosevelt Administration. The facts are clearly setdorth-in an analysis of Federal taxation and Federal budgets since 1929 in the current volume of the “Labor Fact Book” .(International Publishers, $2). Let us look first at the Federal budget of 1928-1929 and that proposed for 1936-1937: : : Federal Income in Millions $

1928-20 1036-37 3 $1,943 551 Ea]

Income taxes Estate, gift taxes, ete. ........ Miscellaneous internal revenue taxes 3,153

Where Increase Lies

5 figures show that the income to be derived from the wealthier classes ini the budget of 1936-1937 represents an increase of énly 1.5 per cent over that» of 1928-1628. On the other hand, the income to be derived from the lower middle class, workers and farmers in the budget of 1236-1937 constitutes an increase of more than 118 per cent over that of 1928-1929, a Of the total governmental receipts in 1928-1929 the consuming masses contributed only 37 per cent, but they are expected to contribute nearly 56 per cent in 1836-1937. The contribution: of the wealthy has been proportionately lowered from 63 per cent in 1928-1929 to 41 per cent in 1936-1937. : . The benefits from Federal expenditures under the Roosevelt Administration have also distinctly favored the wealthier classes. In the budget proposed for 1936-1937 the benefits to the weaithier. classes in subsidies and other grants will be 48 per cent greater than they were in the boom days of 1928« 1929. Over against this is the proposal sharply to curtail relief expenditures. :

= zn » No Soaking the Rich

f one prefers to stick to taxes actually paid by various incomes classes in the community the story remains the same. In 1930 the total of taxes paid by the wealthier classes to the Federal government amounted to $2,475,000,000, or over 68 per cent of the total Federal taxes. The taxes which fell mainly on the consuming masses in 1630 amounted to $1,152,000,« 000, or less than 32 per cent of, the total. | Turning to 1935 we find that the taxes paid by the wealthier groups totaled $1,409,000,000, or a little over 38 per cent of the whole tax payments. But the taxes falling on the masses increased to $2,233,000,000, or over 61 per cent af the total tax burden. Statistics of this sort could be multiplied, but the facts cited above are sufficient to show that so far . at least, the Roosevelt Administration has not soaked the rich. = ’

The Washington Merry -Go-Round

By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen

in the capital. Lights burn in its offices every night. Up until a few months ago, most of the issues go= ing through the SEC were refunding issues. _ But-now brand new issues are being floated—a sure sign that business is healthy. : = a » : $ HAT is really worrying Hull and Roosevelt about the Spanish civil war is the effect upon Latin America. | This is the one foreign field where closer co-opera= tion with the United States is not political dynamite, and the President has been counfing heavily on the forthcoming Pan-American conference to cement his “Good Neighbor” policy. : — But now war in Spain is a serious obstacle, If war had come in any other country—Austriag Poland, Germany, France—it would have been differs ent. But it came in sleepy, siesta-loving Spain, the mother country of most of Latin America. Latin Americans are foliowing the Spanish war. avidly. And whichever way it goes, Tépercussions will result in South America. If the radical government wins out in Spain, there may be attempted radical revolutions in Chile, Peru and possibly Argen-

there will be a ten-

dency tow dictatorships in \South America.

Some of these repercussi may start popping

about the time of

the forthcoming Pan-American