Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 October 1936 — Page 10

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Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1938

ELCOME, GOV. LANDON | | NDIANAPOLIS welcomes Gov. Landon. He will make|a :| major campaign address here tonight in an effort to Indiana. The state has been classed as “doubtful” y most observers and most straw votes. For a time, Gov. don was given an edge. More recently the trend has ged, with the odds favoring President Roosevelt. . Regardless of predictions, the Landon speech tonight t the State Fairground should be given careful consideraby Hoosier voters. Many vital points remain for him to clear up. Listeners would like to hear just how he would " have the United States engage in world trade revival with2 out abandoning narrow nationalism, how he would improve the administration of relief, how he would cut expenses * and still spend as freely as the New Dealers for the fatmers and unemployed. We have told why we are for Roosevelt and have given ~ #he many reasons for that support. We think it would unwise for the country to change Presidents now. But we also think it is important that Gov. Landon’s proposals and ~ eriticisms be carefully weighed by the voters, who should decide for themselves. : ~ As a guest of Indianapolis, and as a candidate for President who has been a gentleman throughout the campaign, Gov. Landon is assured a respectful hearing.

THE “TAX” ON WORKERS ' OR some time it has been whispered that the Roosevelt * haters had something up their sleeves that would upset the working people of the United States. It has appeared Tow in a widespread attack on the Social Security Act. * The attack is three-fold. "i The first is frankly partisan, with Republican’ stump and radio speakers telling the people, as Gov. Landon did, that this act is unworkable and unsound. In answer to this it need only be pointed. out that after nearly a year of open discussion and hearings the Republicans in Congress woted overwhelmingly for its passage. The Republican House members voted more than 4 to 1 for it; the Senate Republicans voted 3 to 1 in its favor." : The second attack is with the connivance, either sincere or otherwise, of employers. In many industrial cen. ters employers are posting and slipping into their workers’ pay envelopes notices that beginning next year the Federal government will collect a “tax” on their wages. Some of these notices contain downright lies, others half-truths, others only innuendoes. All give the impression that Uncle * Sam is making a raid on the workers’ pay with a new Fed-

gral “tax” on wages that may never come back to them.” OF -

course, this is absurd. The “tax”—1 per cent in 1937, run--ning up to 3 per cent in 1949 and thereafter—is not a tax for the government. It is a contribution from the worker to his own old-age security. ~ premium, for an old-age annuity policy upon which at 65 he may retire. And it is a bargain for him, not only because jt is cheaper than all existing private annuity plans, but because his contribution is matched dollar for dollar by the . employer. For every $1 the worker puts in, $2 is laid aside for his old age. Say he is a $25-a-week man aged 20. He ~ pays in 25 cents a week next year, 75 cents i in 1949 and . @fter. At the end of 43 years, if he has averaged $100 a * month and fulfilled certain easy requirements, he can retire "at $53.75 a month for the rest of his life. No dole, no - Pauper’s oath, no poorhouse, no charity. And the fund into * which he has been paying is as sound as the United States ~ Treasury. "The third attack is furtive, a whispering campaign. ~ One of the whispers is that workers who have paid into _ private retirement plans will lose everything. There is fothing in the act that affects these private schemes. Employers may keep them going, and some are doing so. An- * other whisper is that the “tax” is a wage reduction. If employers use this act as an excuse to beat down their workers’ wages, they, not the government, hist take the

We do not believe this particular Foorback will fool many of the workers. If it did, it would be the last irony. For then workers would vote against the Administration because of a measure designed to improve their own wellbeing, security and happiness and for a candidate who promises them nothing but a Federal pauper’s dole. ,

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TRUE IN 1919 AND NOW ™ a message to Congress, Dec. 2, 1919, President Wood- = row Wilson said: “The productivity of the country gresily stimulated by e war must find an outlet by exports to foreign countries ad any measures taken to prevent imports will inevitably exports, force curtailment of production, nking machinery of the country with credits to carry unId products and produce industrial stagnation and unempyment. If we want to sell, we must be prepared to buy. hatever, therefore, may have been our views during the od of growth of American business tariff legislation, we ‘mow adjust our.own economic life to a changed condin growing out of the fact that American business is full x and that" Amerion. is: the greatest, capitalist; in: the

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By Westbrook Pegler

Columnist Is Still Tagging Around With New Deal Wrestling Troupe Learning - About National Issues.

LENS FALLS, N. Y., Oct. 24.—You may ~" say what you please about Washington as the source and center of our politics, but your correspondent has learned more about ‘hational issues in two days with Jack Dempsey’s

caravan of New Deal wrestlers than in several years of intermittent listening in the national capital. Last night after the wrestlers had demolished the

campaign arguments of the Re-. publican Party with an irrefutable series of moose-calls, whinnies, quacks and grunts Mr. Jack Cur» ley, the proprietor of the herd, proposed a small snack of supper. , There were Mr. Curley and Bessie, who once owned a wrestler of her own -which followed her around like a pet; an official of the state prize fight commission, detailed to see that the ideals of the -spoert are maintained-down-to - the last whinny; Mr. Pinkie Gardner, a prominent tombstone dealer, and your correspondent. Refreshments were ordered and a man appeared at Mr. Curley’s side and dropped into a vacant. chair, saying, “I will bet you don’t know who I am.” “It looks like easy money, » Mr. Curley said, «put I never bet. What are you going to have?” “] am the man who gave the dinner for Jack Dempsey and you boys tonight,” the - mysterious stranger said.

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“Are you boasting or apologizing?” the boxing coms |

missioner inquired, “because of all the lousy dinners—" » t ® i > ? AIT a minute, wait a minute,” the stranger said. “I mean I didn’t give the dinner. I mean I was a committee of one for the club. I got it up, but I was only a Ki aa of one. I am not to blame.” “Committee of one is the way I “ike it,” the commissioner said. “Because then if you give a good affair you get all the glory, but if it is lousy like

that one, you know who. is to blame, I leave it to Jack and Bessie, was that a lousy dinner?” “Pretty lousy,” Mr. Curley agreed. “But,” the stranger insisted, “they only allowed me 50 cents a bead.”

“You got 40 cents change a head coming, » the

commissioner said. “Is this a cheap town?” Mr. Curley inquired.

“This,” said the stranger, “is George R., Lunn’s’

town. Remember George R. Lunn, used to be Al Smith’s Lieutenant Governor? This is his home town. I know George well. Leave me tell you a story about George R. Lunn.” : 2 ” u 0, it is no cheap town,” the prize fight commissioner interrupted. “The town is all right, but here you got the greatest attraction in the world. You got Jack Dempsey. Every night he can make

fi’ hunner, sen’-hunner bucks, just to appear in some:

town and he don't’ have to even eat their dinner. He could go to Rochester tonight for sen’ hunner bucks and just show: his face and say hello and you get him free for a 50-cent dinner.” “I want to tell you about Gemge R. Lunn,” stranger persisted. “Used to be tenant Governor that time.” “Pempsey could have gone to Troy for fi’ hunner bucks,” the commissioner said. “Just down to Troy.” “But listen,” said the stranger. “Leave me tell you a story about George R. Lunn. I know him 40 years. Listen, I will tell you about George. Leave me tell you, Used to be—." :

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The Hoosier Forum 1 wholly disagree with what you say, but will od desend to the death your right to say it—Voltaire. :

SEEMS LIKE A GOOD IDEA, MR. MARTINO . By Frank L. Martino x,

A winner never loses—a loser never wins. Be a friend to a friend, and boost your country, your state and your city. Boost your friends, your neighbors and the stranger. Remember, they can get along with-

them to help you. If is natural to have feelings of personal or. political worth.

profession; business, trade or political ‘progress or accomplishments. It is true that there are times in all our lives when God alone can comfort us. It is true that the hour will come when dearest friends fail us. + But it is equally true that the love of a friend is the dearest thing

.|in all: the world and that no man

is so happy, and no man is so misergable, that he can scorn or reject it.” In happiness and sorrow, the heart of a friend is our common need: - Bobst your church. ‘Cease to be a chronic knocker; cease to be a progress blocker. “To speak no slander; no, nor listen to it,” was one of the rules of King Arthur's Round Table. It is one of the rules of every gentleman and every gentlewoman. It is one of the rules of every good American. “Thou shalt not bear false witness,” is a solemn command which has come thundering down’ almost from the dawn of civilization. Slander is false witness, y Today, when every man is truly your neighbor, when news travels on the wings of lightning, that command means even more than it did in those days of old when first it was written on the tablets of stone. The idea that slander is a poison is as old as literature. -It is easy to criticise people and hard to praise them, It is easy to add a little to something one: has heard, and a little added here and there will turn harmless gossip into cruel slander, and truth into a lie. We ‘must be honest in things we

| repeat, and careful in all that we

sa i our own eyes and ears deceive us at times, as we know they do, Wwe may be sure that truth loses much in coming through a dozen eyes and ears. If a.thing sounds false, as it is generally the case, we must. believe it false. Slander and fdlsehoods are two of the greatest evils in the world, but they spring,

as a rule, Jipm ignorance.

® ” » WRITER SEES DEMOCRAT HORSE LEAD IN STRETCH By Jimmy Cafoures Any one trying to feel the pulse

of the nation must not get too close to the news because he's apt to get

is better posted as to the rough

. The presidentia election is coming into the home tch, so there a‘'lot of ong hee The Lemke dropped. out ne Roosevelt Tae ni down to an Landon. Jantes set, the pace, it

out you but some ‘day you will need

Give everybody credit for their.

‘a. return to the dole.

only a certain salient angle of it.| ’| Sometimes it seems that a layman

{outline of things than the experts’ ‘themselves.

(Times readers are invited to express 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.)

seemed for a while. As the horses wind up the race it is only too evident that the superior power of the Democratic horse probably will carry it to victory. If you ever observe ‘a race it seems that the best horse always waits for the finish to put on the pressure. Any one who has read history can recall the hectic times of Lin-

‘coln’s -second election with the popular McClellan running against!

him. Alwags before the break “of things there's a brief lull and a period of doubt... .

; 8% 8 BELIEVES LANDON HAS LOST BACKING OF ALLIANCE

By Merrill Jackwon, State. Secretary, Workers’ Alliance of Indians

- Gov. Laridon will receive very few

votes from WPA workers.

The attempts by the Republican press to paint the WPA as ‘“degrading” and’ “shameful” employment have failed to cover up the fact that the: ‘only substitute the Republicans have to offer is the dole. It is obvious that Landon can not make his boasted “cut in relief costs” in any possible way except by It is: claimed that he will reduce relief expenses by eliminating “graft” and “inefficiency” in the WPA. How {rue

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BY THOMAS E. HALSEY

Most selfish was the hope that I Might never sing a mournful song, ; That cares would ever pass me by To plague some one more bold and strong.

I wished ‘but good might come to me,

So unto others I could say, “Cheer A grieved ‘ones, ‘and you

Her i clouds, a brighter : day!" La

Yet have’ I Tived to realise That Sorrow’s cup is every man's, For bunny tears have Qlled my|

_ And “failitrey have beset my].

plans. There is no law by God or man Which grants immunity from

pain. So humbly, ‘helpless, here I stand, Immersed in tribulation’s rain!

DAILY THOUGHT And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity: and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low : the haughtiness of the terrible.— Isaiah 13:11. i : 0D is an the aids. of virtue; for whoever eads punishmen suffers it, and whoever deserves it fireads Galton.

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examination of recent figures released. " It has been shown that administrative cost of WPA in Indiana is only a little over 3 per cent. It is clear that no great savings is possible. here. The average: WPA worker in Indianapolis receives $60 per month. Does Gov. Landon intend to reduce relief costs by cutfing this? Gov. Landon chaiifes that WPA is wasteful. Does he know that WPA

{workers have. constructed or re-

paired 109,000 public buildings, improved 400,000 miles of road, built or repaired 28,000 . bridges, enlarged 7000 sewer systems, built 5000 watercontrol works, 3000 water supply systems, 1100 new swimming pools, 5000 tennis courts, and *26, 000 playgrounds?

workers to get excited about the Republican ‘ cry ‘of “waste” when they watch the “economic royalists’ waste ‘billions through unused pro-< ductive resources, economic speculation, and wasteful advertising.

The state Republican platform advocates “the administration of relief and social security by duly constituted local officials on the basis of need and the ability of the tax-’| payers to pay.” This is another way of saying that the unemployed must be placed at the mercy of local politicians and bankrupt communities. The Workers’ - Alliance, ‘a _statewide organization of WPA workers, is opposed to the “dole” system and will vote at the polls to prevent it from becoming the governmental policy in the United States. The Alliance looks forward to the establishment, by .organized labor, of an independent working class political party after the election.

2 = = SEES ‘CLOSED SHOP’ IN COURT ‘RED TAPE’

By David Horn . + » It appears to my humble way of reasoning that the founders of this’ country intended to build up a regime where every layman, from. the humblest and poorest to the mightjest and richest, might have equal access to legal redress in case of some altercation with a fellow citizen. t appears to me, however, that e ends .of justice” now have become altogether a dead letter. | Court p dure is so full of red

tape that, without any legal train-

ing, it is impossible for an edueated layman to act as his own attorney (whether he is plaintiff or defendant)—especially when he is reminded that “he who would be his own lawyer has a fool for a client.” . yman has had enough legal education to be able to draw up his own pleadings he stands no chance to receive a square break if he is not a practicing at- . ‘The fact that the “benc

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It Seems to Me By Heywood Broun

President Roosevelt Pays Party Call on 1,000,000 Americans, and It's a Prédigious Performance.

EW YORK, Oct. 24.—Franklin Roosevelt paid a party call on a million Americans Wednesday. This required a 14-hour day, 11 speeches and more than 150 miles of motoring. It is questionable whether any

other candidate has ever put in such a prodigious performance. To me I must admit it was one of the most ating cavalcades in' which I have ever been privie leged to trail along. Unlike Joshua of old, F. D. Roosevelt did not require the sun to stand still; he merely ordered it come out and shine. It can hardly be that New England has produced more perfect days in autumn. For a time it was a sort of combination .Vanderbilt Cup race and. snake dance.. Upon leaving Providence, . when the adventure began, all rules were off. With a shrieking of sirens and a curse ing of. police hundreds of cars swept across the border into Mas= sachusetts, and they cut in and out and bumped and sideswiped

Mr. Broun

others. : Franklif Delano Roosevelt was riding bent for leather to save the.old Bay State from falling for

the clutches of Kansas Alf.

But now a brake has been put upon the mad pace, We crawl because the Streets are filled with thousands, All the police lines are broken. The car of the President moves. slowly with the citizens by Fall River crowding up- within arm's reach of his car. 2 #2 » ‘ ! EW BEDFORD, which once housed whalers, now turns out thousands of kids from the schools and girls from the mills. I couldn't say for certain whether they were political converts or not, but they were curious and they were gay. This is a fete day in Massachusetts. As Roosevelt's band comes whirl

ing down the gay bright roads all its sirens set + into a kind of ecstasy. Over the hill honks - the

hope of a new life.

And now Boston is the goal The crowds grow larger, and the lane for the cars grows narrower. As the cavalcade swings around the corner the Common is before us and 125,000 people stand there close packed -and waiting to hear the candidate. It is a startling number of people. Because of little hum= mocks in the park you can not see where the crowd beging and where it ends. Only one hour behind. peda, On to Worcesip by way of Cambridge. And it is in. Harvard Square for the first time that any indication of hostility is sounded. “Boo!” shouts a bunch of Lk And then they join in, “We want Landon,”

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A NUTRAL newkpaper man from a press servic leaned out the window and shouted, “You de~ serve him!” and a columnist who should not have betrayed the educational sponsor of his youth added, “And hurrah for Yale!” ; There was a tribute which came to Franklin D, Roosevelt at the very beginning of ‘his swing into the doubtful New England bloe. A small crowd men going on the trip were standing around the Washington platform when the President started up the ram Somebody applauded, The Washington Phintiiees. o ent next to me followed suit, Of

p. “I thought you people Who knew hi go in for that,” I said, My friend the co sighed. “In theory we don’t,” he said, ' there are times he gets you.” Yesterda Sime. 3 am referring to the million 2

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The Washington Merry-Go-Round:

Outcome of Election in lliinois Depends Upon Personalities Nash and Kelly; Roosevelt Looks Like Winner Since Harma

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