Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 September 1936 — Page 15

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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1936,

- - DOLES VS. SOCIAL SECURITY Te social security plan which Gov. Landon outlined at Milwaukee is essentially the same as the proposal adanced two months ago by Chairman W. W. Aldrich of the Chase National Bank. Instead of a national system of job insurance, with each ~ state having its own plan within certain minimum Federal standards, he would turn the whole problem of insuring job income back to the states. That’s where Roosevelt found that problem. At the end of the first two years of the Roosevelt Administration, only three states had-unemploy-ment insurance laws. Then the social security law was passed. Today 15 states have such laws, and other states are falling into line. Repeal of Federal unemployment ingurance standards probably would force those states, for competitive business reasons, to repeal their laws. We think

that should not be permitted to happen.

Instead of an old-age insurance program, requiring gach worker covered by the law to contribute out of his current income to build up his own nest egg for his own old

age, he would substitute a Federal-state system of doles for

elderly paupers—the doles to be financed by taxes. : By no stretch of imagination can this be called social security. Instead it is a permanent plan for public chari for the needy aged. It refuses to rise to the Roosevelt objective of building a society in which we shall have no aged poor. Landon calls his a pay-as-we-go plan, meaning that each working generation would be taxed to support the pauper elders. By contrast, Roosevelt's is a pay-in-advance ~ plan, with each working generation compelled to save for its own old age. Landon calls Roosevelt's plan “absurd.” We can not agree with Landon. As a people we are inexperienced in the field of social security. All honest differences of opinion should be welcomed. But there are certain fundamental principles which should not be ‘sacrificed.

A THEATER FOR THE PEOPLE ; Pr 1914, William E. Jenkins, at the John Herron Art Institute, made a plea for organized dramatic effort. He argued that a modern stage wasn’t necessary to produce good plays; a raised platform would do. The result was the formation of the first community theater in this part of the country. Three one-act plays were presented that year in the Sculpture Court of the Art Museum. E Preparing now to open its twenty-second consecutive _ Beason, the Civic Theater of Indianapolis offers eight popuJar productions for 1936-37, two more than last year. Most of these were New York successes last season. Only a handful of stock companies is left in the country today. The infrequency of road shows makes the Civic Theater even more important to Indianapolis play-lovers.

Because of the tradition of high entertainment: value

- which the local gr oup has established, it is not surprising ® hear that the current ‘membership drive is hearing suc-

| BOOKS AS MEMORIALS HE Indianapolis Public Library recently was given $200 : in memory of William B. Wheelock ‘to buy children’s Books for circulation. Some one close to him, who knew his interest in the library’s work with children, wanted thus to ‘honor his memory with books for children. : = ‘The custom of giving memorial hooks to the library began in 1917. It has grown rapidly. A few years ago a manufacturing firm sent the library $20 to buy books on opera in memory of a night watchman, who had loved music and saved his wages to go to other cities to hear it. The Indianapolis Woman's Club gives books to the library as a memorial to deceased members. In recent years this same : ‘method has been adopted to pay tribute to living persons. “Names of the donor and the person in whose name the gift § made are placed inside the front cover of each book. Books are chosen according to the donor's suggestions or the special interests of the person memorialized. Few memorials are more useful and appropriate.

WORLD TRADE’S NEW YARDSTICK “A FTER waging a long and losing battle against the de- : pression, France has at last been forced to follow ‘Britain and America’s lead, devalue her currency and tie ‘the franc to the dollar and the pound.

been increasingly likely ever since Britain went off gold in 1931. When the United States followed suit in 1933, it betame inevitable. Now she has taken the plunge. It should lead: % highly eneficial results, not only in France but throughout the orld. For, unlike the United States, Britain and the other untries that have gone off gold or attempted managed

ncies, France has the support of the principal financial

pwers of the world. In fact, what is now taking place is not ‘merely a reuation of the French franc. It is nothing less than an ternational movement to rationalize ratios and stabilize principal moneys of the world. Fy This stabilization effort is one of the most constructive nce the Armistice. Logically it should do more to speed Id economic recovery than anything yet Semipled by ernational co-operation.

With a standardized yardstick, world trade should

ove faster, and. every improvement in world conditions Ss improved domestic conditions, for individuals. :

2 MORE HURDLE e face of tremendous pressure for bidgibeutiing; the Marion County Tax Adjustment. Board refused fo evade

| thousands of political prisoners.

‘That she would eventually be compelled to do so has |

that means more

dors AT THE | SIGN oF THE: SUN FLOWER, iB

The Liberal View

By Dr. Harry Elmer Barnes

(Substituting for Westbrook Pegler) More Political Prisoners in Jail Now Than in Days of Metternich; Shows Growing World Daspotism.

NEW YORK, Sept. 29.—The Republicans have charged thagsPresident lloosevelt has set up a dictatorship and that liberty is disappearing in the United States of America. They might well cheer themselves up by a reading of the last bulletin of {lie Inter-

national Committee for Political Prisoners

It is often assumed that we need to turn back quite a ways in modern European history {o discover any general prevalence of political : oppression and the imprisonment of men and women for their po: litical ideas. We usually’ associate ths Yast great, orgy’ i political’ oppres ion with the Pe fistrian au t,x rince Metternich, who dominated’ Central European politics for more than a third of a century following the defeat of Napoleon. . It has been assumed that the progress of democracy in-the Hast hundred years has put an end to this sort of thing. But, unhappily, such is not the case. It is one of the strangest ironies. of history that the great war to make the world isafe for democracy” ended by making democracy less safe in the world than it has beén at any time since the collapse of the revolutions of 1848. The situation is well described in the most recent communication sent out by the International Committee for Politica Prisoners which has its | headquarters: in New Yor Ly.

Dr. Barnes

2 ® on ' EVER in all the years since the war and the world-wide fight against Communi¢:n have so many persons been jailed or exiled in so many countries for their political belicfs and activities. In a score of countries Communis{, Socialist or native independence movements are wholly outlawid. Mere membership in them is punished more severely than the commission of high crime.” It is estimated by the committee that there are over a quarter of a million men and women now in prison in Europe and Latin America for purely political offenses, very few of which involve any acts of

violence.

. This estimate is very low indeed, since only two years ago a Dutch expert estimated that there were over 3,000,000 political prisoners in Europe alone. There are also many politica! prisoners in ihe Orient, especially in China, India and Japan. ” 2 2 HE victory of the radicals in the la:i Spanish election led to the immediate release of many In Venezuela, the death of the grim dictator, General Gomez, made possible the freeing of hundreds of politica! prisoners and permitted the return of many exiles. : There was one important setback during the year, namely, in Brazil. Here, as a result of ti: rebellion of 1935, thousands of radicals were thrown into prison. The Committee has protested vigorously to {he Brazil ian Ambassador against these wholesale aurests and the trial of prisoners under conditions which deprive them of ordinary legal rights,

The Hoosier Forum

1 wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it—Voltaire.

ASSERTS COUNTRY NEEDS MORE FATHER COUGHLINS By H. Nevins

I should like to say a few words to your correspondent who signs himself Pat Hogan. He tells us Father Coughlin choked on his own prescriptions which he has been trying to stuff down the throat of intelligent people. I have not heard of Father Coughlin’s choking or of any of his followers doing so. I wonder how Pat Hogan found that out. He. also says people don’t try to seek facts, but let Father Coughlin do their thinking for them. Father Coughlin is not doing the thinking for the people; he is rather expressing our sentiment.

In writing his wise-cracking ar-

ticles, Pat first declares that Father Coughlin talks on the money question because it is a subject people know so little about; then, as a parting shot, he asks why any intelligent people should read his book, because everybody knows more about money than Father Coughlin. For your enlightenment, Pat, I can tell you that Father Coughlin knows more about money than any man in this country, and as for banking, he also knows more about that than most of those who are at the head of our banking institutions. Father Coughlin has forgotten more than you or some of those honest bankers ever knew. “If we had more men of Father Coughlin’s courage and intelligence in this country, we would not be in the mess we are in today. He is the only man in the country who is fighting the battles for the working man, but some of them are so blind they can’t see it.

2 8 = HOLDS POLLS INDICATE NEW DEAL VICTORY By Warren A. Benedict Jr.

‘While various Republican newspapers are solemnly pointing with pride to the Maine election, it is no more than: fair that we note. the results of a recent American Institute: of Public Opinion nation-wide poll which many of them are spoasoring. This poll is widely advertised for its “scientific sampling.” It can not logically be accused of being pro-Democratic. : It shows Maine as the strongest Republican state in the Union, voting only 33 per cent for Roosevelt. Landon trails nationally with only 256 electoral votes, the majority of which are from doubtful states. Actually, Maine voted 43 per cent for ‘the Democratic candidate for Governor and a fraction over 49 per cent for the Democratic candidate for Senator. It is quite safe and logical to place the Roosevelt following in that state somewhere between those two figures. Thus, at the very least, there is a 10-point stronger New Deal sentiment there than the poll indicates. A similar difference bstween votes

General Hugh Johnson Says—

Is Gov. Landon's Attitude on Social Security Act Result of ‘Ignorance

or What'? Would Mean

7 ASHINGTON; Sept. 2¢.—The Pring al pain in the peck from Landon's speeches is the so obvious evidence of a different intellect speukiiig through -the Governor's mouth every iime he opens iis mouth. The growing certainty that Mr. Landon is not the author acquits him of a far graver charge than mere

inanity. In his great speech he atiicked the te saying that an ijcrease in a, period ig depressed cheese by from 5 |

over

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and the poll throughout the nation would indicate such an overwhelming New Deal victory as not to assure Landon of even seven states with 50 electoral votes. A healthy opposition is always conductive of a better government from those in power. Therefore, many of us sympathetic toward the New Deal can wish the Republican better luck than the Maine elec-

tion and the much-advertised poll

seem to hold in store for them. 2 ” FEARS LANDON PRAYER TO GO UNANSWERED

By Mrs. Lillian Spencer Reed, Bloomington The writer does not recall what the eminent Kansan, who operates under the birdseed emblem, prayed for when he prayed. Could he have petitioned his God to grant a miracle similar to that of the loaves and fishes, which would multiply that well-known $1.08 to an amount on which a poor

man might sustain himself and his :

family? Or did he beseech a shower of manna on the needy citizens of the state he governs?

The granting of such a “request:

would work out beautifully with: the thrifty budget balancer’s program and relieve him of any duty to the

‘'state’s unfortunate.

Mr. Roosevelt’s critics are too harsh, considering the country’s plight at the close of three administrations conducted according to the gospel as expounded by the G.. 0. P.

2 2 2 SEES SOCIAL PURITY AS NATION'S NEED By X. Y. Z.. Crawfordsville In these days we hear, a lot about social security, We need to ‘hear more about social purity. ? A nation so filled with dens of sin

MOURNER

BY DANIEL FRANCIS CLANCY Man goes to others’ funerals, That they may come to his. (Though of this he is aware: That he will not be there) Man goes to others’ funerals, That they may come to his.

DAILY THOUGHT

The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished.—II Peter 2:9.

EMPTATION in the line of duty God has provided for; but for temptation sought and coveted, God has no provision.--G. E. Rees,

and gin can not have social security in any real sense. We have human wolves going about in sheep’s clothing to prey upon society. Our moral

‘lepers walk the streets, but do not

ery, as they should, “Unclean! Unclean!” All honor ‘is due to the noble laborers of America. We should strive to give them better opportunities in their times of adversity. There are those, however, who never

aid a righteous cause nor ever work’

for their daily bread and who expect much from the government without giving anything in return. While father works, little Johnny Squander roams about in his rattling car and covets his’ father’s beans and buns. He has no respect for the first or fifth ‘commandments. He may belong to the night riders; at least he is out every night. Let us work for both social security and social purity, knowing that “righteousness exalteth a nation and sin is a reproach to any people.” CLC a CAN'T UNDERSTAND REPUBLICAN PROMISES ~~ ° By “Pallbearer,”” Noblesville I have been reading several newspapers. and magazines and listening to ‘the radio talks by many of our leading candidates. I am convinced that the G. O. P. has great quantities of money to spend in this campaign, but it is plain that even with its unlimited resources, it still offers kicks instead of constructive platform proposals. Thus it never can be said whether they keep their platform pledges or not. No one seems to know what these promises are; not even the prairie or his Windy City running mate (nos, the Hoover disciple). Indiana will continue “with the fairest tax system of any:state in the Union. Therefore, Mr. Springer just doesn’t fit into the: picture next November. The coffin so ‘magnificently decorated and ised to bury

the gross income tax more ‘than

likely will have a use’ for: burying the remains of Mr. Springer’s .po=litical ambitions,

LIKES WAY "SWEDEN ATTAINS GOAL By George H. Harris It is very gratifying to read Dr. Wicks’ views of the economic situa« tion in Sweden and find they have attained their goal without aid of the political contact fixer and gobetween for the different corpora-

% tion employing groups.

Our American economie set-up will never be attained until th tribe of political parasites are pushed aside and eliminated. A careful analysis of their platforms is enough to show their utter lack of understanding. of the needs,

aspirations and desires of . the |.

masses of the people.

Fox of the :Kansas}

JPOSSIBLY a moral can be drawn out of this ™

. and say, “Pop has got the grip or something.

It Seems to Me. By Heywood Broun

Sick Persons Are Nuisances and Ought to Be Rushed Out of the House and to Hospitals Pronte

EW YORK, Sept. 29.—It is an old fae - miliar saying that two men are required to do a painting—one to paint the pictures and the other to hit him over the head wheh he is done. Something of the same sort is

necessary inillness. I suppose you have heard

of the art of healing. To be sure, this particular até form sometimes solves itself in a manner which pers mits of no argument, but-I am talking of those fora

tunate patients who get well. Th8 problem ‘is, when is the sick man whole again? It has been said that rieryous invalids are never cured, because if the physician can ‘bring them health they merely regard it asa new, strange and forbidding symp tom. Save in the more elabozate cases, you have two persons cone cerned in the problem of health and frailty. The decision lies with the doctor and the patient. : = I am the worst of all possible patients. I combine the bad fea= tures of the nervous invalid and the reckless convalescent. To mse the ordinary illness is divided into two stages. For a couple of days I think it is extremely likely that I am going to die. During this stage I am a terrifis nuisance. I want love, sympathy, battalions of doce tors and frequently Scotch highballs. There can’t be too much nursing. When the doctors are away I take my own temperature every 10 or 12 minutes and. keep a steady finger on my: pulse. I have noticed a watched temperature always boils. Simply by fools ing around with the thermometer I can keep , ‘the mercury well over 100. And it would amaze you what can be done with a pulse rate simply by giving it too much attention,

Mr. Broun

» ” 8.

AloNe about the midge’ of an: ‘illness you get 2 ‘message from somewhere that this isn't the § cise time. You know that the worst 1s over and 4 ‘you. are definitely. on the mend. _Unfortutiately, when this'stage is réached 1 am a much worse patient than ever before. You see, all my: ‘filnesses divide: very ‘simply into the two stages. In: ‘Stage No. 1.1 think I am géing to die. In Stage No. 2 I want to put on my clothes

and go to the horse races. It seems to me a com>

paratively sane way. of facing disease, but it catses all: kinds. of ructions. - They fell me: that I make even, more fuss about going. to the horse races than I do: about dying. Well, ‘why not? Horse: races: -a1p fun. - In the carlich’: and more gloomy sages I oon sionally have lapses into kindliness -and forgive all the people around me for all the wrongs they have done me, but when I get to the horse race stage of a malady I have a civil word for no man. , © 8 nN ¥o

more universal lesson lies; I think, in appre the fact that a sick person is a pest and that he ought to be rushed out.of the house as soon as ble and put in a hospital. These should be institut ns of first and not of last resort. If I were an enterprisibg. daphtanad I would set up a pleasant building to be called the Grip and Bad Cold Hospital. We would maintain an amb service, and any family could call up day or rate, ‘he is making an awful pulsance of Ay Come and take him away.” ; : 2

The Washington Merry-Go-Round: |

Landon's Public Declarations on Freedom of Teaching and Labar's

Increased Income Tax of Several Billions

But it is an intricate technical subject that can't ‘be accurately projected and blue-printed—even by experts—much less by a cracker-barrel politician from the short-grass country. When the Governor compares government bonds in the insurance reserve to the I. O. U's of a thriftless father found in his children’s heritage,

Rights Are Founded on

BY WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE Editor Emporia Gazette

- (Substituting for Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen)

MPORIA, ‘Kas., Sept. 20.—1 wonder if the voters of this country, while reading in Landon’s Chau-

tauqua speech recently his declaration against the

teachers’ oath and his statement that he did not be-

| lieve teaching should be made a “suspect profession by ‘having 0 take a special oath,” realize the background of that speech.

These public declarations were founded on a record.

Records, William Allen White Declares

his acceptance speech gave certain laher Wt EB 3 Landon