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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1936

YOU CAN HELP ENING of the seventeenth annual Community Fund drive today finds Indianapolis better able than in recent years to carry on this program. Much of the task of direct relief was taken over by the Federal government during the depression years. The millions of persons still unemployed will make a continued large-scale assistance program necessary, for this problem is one of the most serious facing the country. Yet gains have been made in assuring greater security in the future. The hope now is that while the government works to aid the employable jobless, the burden of direct relief may be turned back to local communities. The hazards of disease and delinquency, of ‘disrupted family life and despair, of bewildered youth, have taken their toll. There are intangible losses that call for social rebuilding. The Community Fund can help—with your help.

THE LANDSLIDE AND THE COURT URING his Madison Square Garden speech, in his con-

cise restatement of objectives, President Roosevelt |

enumerated these: To reduce hours overlong. ‘To increase wages -that spell starvation. To wipe out sweatshops. They constitute the very heart of the New Deal philosophy which perhaps may best be summed up as an attempt by a great ‘nation after all the centuries actually to bring into reglization the biblical prophecy that “The needy shall not always be forgotten; the expectation of the poor shall not perish forever.” But that is more than merely humanitarian philosophy. It goes deep into economics also. It strikes out directly toward the goal of increased mass purchasing power in a society whose vast capacity for production has run away from its capacity to consume. That the depression troubles of recent years are mostly attributable to that is the central theme of the material as distinct from the spiritual phase of the New Deal idea of bettering the lot of the cofimon man. Our future prosperity or lack thereof, we believe, will be largely determined by whether that objective can be attained. And for that obJective Roasevelt has just received the most emphatic indorsement ever recorded by our people since the United States became a continental nation. All of which bumps squarely into the Supreme Court and the Constitution. For the Supreme Court says that under the Constitution those problems can not be dealt with nationally; that they must be handled by the states. And they can not be solved by the states for the very simple reason that in a competitive system wherein modern methods of communication prevail, it is impossible for part of the « country to make things with cheap labor without bringing ruin to such other pat of the country as may attempt to pay more; either ruin or dragging the higher down to the lower level. For wages are an important and integral part In the cost of any manufactured article. And the.same Constitution which the court says forbids the nation to act forbids also protective tariffs as between the states. : » o = 50 there we are, The Constitution as it relates to wages and hours has éither become antiquated, or the Supreme Court conception of what the Constitution means has betome antiquated. Either way you look at it, something must be done, So in the coming months there must be discussion and action on this subject. There are two ways by which our Constitution can be modernized. One is by amendment. The other is by calling a constitutional convention. ‘The Constitution itself provides the machinery. Under it, laws blocked by the Supreme Court can be passed; or the power of the Court itself to block can be curbed. If the nation is to live and to thrive as an economic unit, it can no longer shy away from a decision as to what would be best to do. The task should be approached realistically, not emotionally. And one of the best by-products of the overwhelming mandate of last Tuesday is that it takes the Constitution and the Supreme Court definitely out of the zone of feeling and puts them where they belong—in the realm of thought. That fact is strengthened by the nature of the Republican campaign wherein every stop on the organ of sentiment was pulled without the slightest effect on the American voter. The political Sradision that the people of this country do not want their Constitution and their Supreme Court discussed is today dead. We can now proceed to a rational consideration of those things which must be done if the effectiveness of that great document as a guide to our national life is to be preserved.

LEGION LEADERSHIP

N its new national commander, Harry W. Colmery, the American Legion has a leader who is demonstrating a love and understanding of the principles of liberty. That four-square Kansan despises nothing so much as the tenets and practices of communism. Yet, in reference to such recent escapades as the one in Terre Haute where Legionnaires were reported to have been the leaders in the “mob that prevented the Communist, Earl Browder, from making a speech, Mr. Colmery writes in the national Legion magazine: “I feel that it is essential that I should take cognizance of a situation which, if it persists, not only will do immeasurable harm to the Legion but will undermine the faith of the people in the *Legion and in our democratic form of government. “The American Legion is opposed to communism. But there is nothing which even remotely implies that we should suspend the Constitution of the United States, violate the

How much more tolerant, more civilized, more intellit is

seem to have—the contept that the spirit of 1 calls for the sandbagging of all dissenters.

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Fair Enough

By Westbrook Pegler

‘Recent Political Disturbance’ sulted in People Gaining Great Mass of. Unrelated Information.

EW YORK: Nov. 6.—One thing which the country gained through the recent political disturbance is a great smattering o minute and unrelated information on the history and powers of the Supreme Court,

the Constitution, machine politics, states’ rights, the private affairs of Andrew Jackson, the fallibility of great men and the origins and pricelessness of the American liberties. This campaign. produced a tremendous crop of books on every conceivable phase of all the subjects involved. Some were solemn, others flippant. There were cynical books and bumbling appeals for the preservation of the American system, histories, novels and biographies. There have been thousands of pamphlets and intellectual, butch-ers-paper magazines devoted to ‘the origins, the early symptoms and the ravages of dictatorship in all its forms. And the patriotic orations of the candidates and party wind-jammers have blown many wisps of knowledge which we didn’t have before. Even in the mysterious matter of money which many an angry ignoramus tackled with no more preparation than a shave and hair-cut we learned, at least, that the question is too big for finite intelligence. When, in one book on the mere meaning of money, eight of the greatest economists in the world go off into dreamy confusion trying to define the stuff, the case becomes hopeless

Mr. Pegler

‘for people who know money only in terms of the

two-bit piece and the dollar bill.

Most of us soon gave up money as an occult subject, and it is-important to note that those who campaigned on monetary issues. presently found themselves hopelessly balled up with religion, communism and spirit communication.

s OT since the Civil War have the citizens analyzed the composition of the country as they did in 1936. Most of us were rather surprised to learn that we were not a nation according to the articles of incorporation, but a partnership of states, with mutual responsibilities, but wit ndividual rights. In the course of the last year, three states have used their armed services to enforce interstate immigration restrictions, with money as the only test of desirability. And New York has upheld a state law imposing an import duty on liquor from adjacent Connecticut where the state tax is lower and where border-line New Yorkers naturally prefer to do their shopping. Under the same principle, each state would be free to establish customs stations and border patrols to compel the stray traveler to pay a 2-cent duty on a 12-cent package of cigarets andsto measure the fuel in his tank and tax that, too. But the New York liquor duty is not effectively enforced except on imports from Europe and Canada and the rights of the states are dying of absurdity and disuse. The central government, whose assumption of power was an issue in the campaign, takes money from the wealthy states to feed and placate the sallow sisters, some of which

have their own shiftlessness to blame for their |

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- : HE NRA attempted to raise the peons of the backward states to the level of free workmen elsewhere or, failing that, to hoist the one a little and depress the other until they met. We leamned that the nine old men wear pants under their black kimonos, that Al Smith is just a janitor in store clothes and that when it comes to political sophistication, Tammany Hall has nothing on a Kansas Jwyer who learned his fundamentals up the dirt roads.

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URGES VETERANS TO PURGE RANKS By A. W. S. on An article by Harry N. Jones was published in The Times Oct. 30. He pleads to veterans of all was to

rid the country of Patrioteers. . . . We find our national colors in

parades of men decorated with.

badges representing them as having served in war. Upon investigation we find some who enlisted two or three years after the war was over. We find others decorated with ‘badges of foreign wars, although they enlisted in 1901 and 1902. They were sent to the Philippines for duty. Upon their arrival, finding the insurrection over, they accepted jobs with the War Department or the civil government, since both branches needed clerks, bookkeepers, mechanics, civil, mechanical and stationary engineers more than soldiers." Every. Arusirerican should: protest to Congress against its creation of war veterans when the country had no war. The veterans should clean their ranks or reorganize that they may cease to be catspaws for political Patrioteers.

2 = = | PEOPLE KEPT FAITH, WRITER BELIEVES

By Free Lance

Once again this nation has risen en massé to the defense of its inherent. fundamental principles and vindicated the truths for which it stands supreme among the ations of the earth. By this soul-stirring victory we have kept the covenant of faith with our President and have enshrined in our hearts ‘a true .Jeffersonian Democrat who has fought shoulder to shoulder with us and for us.

By our devotion and gratitude ;

shall ‘we sustain his courageous spirit and strengthen his gallant leadership for the battles yet to be fought and: won.

Thomas Jefferson himself, shotild | -

the veil be lifted, could not but say of his illustrious pupil, our great humanitarian President, “Well done, thou good = faith seTvamby”

WANTS LESS GOVERNMENT" . DICTATION TO BUSINESS By J. Burton, Richmond = °

The conditions of America today. are due only to the dictation of our:

General Hugh Johnson Says—

Roosevelt's Great Victory Places on Him Grave Responsibility of Bi Protecting Helpless Minority From. Tyranny of Overwhelming Majority.

ULSA, Okla. Nov. 6.—Gloaters aren't nice people, but this colutun can't: resist one Jittle gloat over s0 many telegrams like this one: 4 “Congratulations on being a prophet and the seventh son of ‘a prophet. Sumner Blossom.” ;

The fear of war, universal admiration for the Presi-

(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.) :

DEMANDS IMMEDIATE °° UNEMPLOYMENT CENSUS Byw.s. ' Now let’s get back to work. Speak ing as a people, our first job is to get a throttle hold on this problem of unemployment. In a vague way

we have a feeling that it is not as

insoluble as it seemed a few years ‘ago, and there are some who are inclined to believe that the problem will solve itself as, and if, recovery continues. But the majority of us —or 80 we indicated by. our ballots Tuesday—are not inclined to sit idly by twirling our thumbs ana trusting in things to solve themselves. Nevertheless our: approach is pitifully vague, for the simple reason that we do not know as much as we should about either the nature of the scope of it. We have only the haziest ideas about the number of employable jobless persons in the country and in the various sections, or about the type of work these unfortunates would be competent to perform if given an opportunity. The fact that the American Federation of Labor, as reliable as any other estimator, in its last calculation some four months ago reported the number of jobless as about 11;000,000, approximately. the same figure that it was citing’ back in 1932, is indicative of how little we know of the scope of the problem. That estimate can not be reconciled with the statements of the Depart-

THE DAWN OF LOVE

~ BY FRANCES BURTON

Have I only dreamed you, darling, Or are you really true? Will you vanish with the sunrise Leaving only the dream of you?

Ah, no! You're real, beloved! = So real, splendid and so fine. I yearn to. you close again, To feel again that you are mine.

Where tare sou bos these macy tye searched the universe n vain?

Have you hoch seeking as I sought To, mest at last upon this plain?

Now, every day is cloaked with gladness, Sweet peace reigns in my heart;

11 am content with dreams today...

“one day we need not—

part! / DAILY THOUGHT Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that receiveth whomsoever I send receiveth Me; and he that receiveth Me recei th a that. sent Me.—St. Jo

Rr noblest gift ever bestowed by $4 OB Tan Monesuien.

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iment of Labor and the United States Chamber of Commerce that from five to six million persons have been’ added to private industry's pay rolls. Nor with the personal knowledge of all of us, who see everywhere the signs of returning prosperity... Nor can any of the aforesaid be rationalized with the costly reality that the government's work relief outlay today is as great as it has been at any time during the depression. There is, as we see it, only one way to get to the bottom of the problem. ~ And that is by a nationcomprehensive and detailed ‘employment census, to. ascertain how many are jobless, why they are jobless (whether because of age, or physical or mental disabilities, or technological displacement), and as much definitednformation as we can obtain about their individual competency and training. When, and only when, we learn the nature and: scope of the problem can we plan: intelligently for its solution. It has been said that, for political reasons, President Roosevelt did not want to attempt this census prior to the election. ell, the election is over. But the unemployment. isn’t.

ts f J o PEARL-ST REPAIRS PROMISED WRITER By JE G. I would like some help in a little street. repairs. A short stretch of Pearl-st, 2700 East, running west of Rural-st to alley is in very bad condition. I would like to ‘have it repaired. By Fred K. Eisenhut, Street Comissioner Necessary repairs and fills on Pearl-st are to be ht as soon as possible, Street repairs of this kind are determined by the location, dnd will be made immediately when the condition is ‘acute. Minor repairs. called to our attention will be made on routine schedule. ie RAPS OPPOSITION "6 SOCIAL SECURITY ‘ACT By L. L. These H. L Menkéns that attempt to hold back public acceptance of the Social Security Act without offering anything in its place remind me of players on a certain football team this fall. It was in the fourth ‘quarter, one minute to play, fourth down and one yard to go. The quarterback called for a straight plunge through the center of the line to make the yard. Imm tely, several players challenged e signal. There followed several H. L. Menken remarks that the play would not work. Singe no other play offered more chance of success, it finally was decided to accept the signal. Just then, ' however, they were penalized five yards for taking too much time for signals. The H. L.

Menkens then had six yards to go instead of one,

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It Seems to Me By Heywood Broun

Laments Passing of Campaign Because It Made the Work of - Columnist Extraordinarily Easy.

EW YORK, Nov. 6—Don’t shoot the columnist. He is doing the best he can. Moreover, it must be remembered that he ‘livés in a world which generally puts on a show _ sufficiently lively to make any com-

ment of His a matte® of minor importance. Today's stint, Yor instance, is written before all the votes are in and counted. . This could be the most

eloquent column ever written in any newspaper and | even so, nobody would pay any atemg at po | tention. And so I purpose to save Er ap my best thoughts for a rainy day. But in all fairness to truth and | accuracy I would like to make a few general comments on the late | campaign even if the sweepers are | now busy cleaning away the debris. It is customary for Americans to ' be prefty apologetic forsthe hoopla nature of our mational campaigns. I can't speak for all my fellow citizens, but I gravely suspect that ‘this toplofty attitude . is sheer Mr. Broun hypocrisy. Speaking for myself, I ‘can only say that I'm sorry the campaign is over. Politics is the best of our national sports and furnishes more excitement than football or baseball. . |

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- emotional - and: . esthetie: which a national. 0

‘ampaign affords, it is, of:

willing. to take half ar as long as: the “You can't possibly get. stuck for ‘a subject, | every night some famous man, or formerly Tamous man, has made a speech and. stuck out his chin, ‘All the columnist need do: is to thumb down the ¢ text of the address and then begin, “Whaf on does ex-Governor: mean when he Says’. At that point you paste up three or four hus words from the ex-Governor’s perfectly t%

courset ang the net result is what might be; ¢ column: At least it passes. for that. 4 too great an amount of bitterness and that: . should .all now strive to forget and: bind no: the { wounds. I'm not .gltogether. sure that is the ; right idea. Sometimes it seems to me that Doren § Of course, the real trouble is that ‘our politic ! campaigns are" too short rather than tog" i for ‘putting 'poliffes- in the Home and ‘ha . fundamental ‘issues discussed every. day 10 the Lh i every other Sunday ow day and Christmas Jmorning: t £ SHE THE things for hich and by which ‘weiive iW = be important enough to carry as: a measure as the I Becurity ‘Act. Here law well worth extended discussion. ahead of time that it would be a The heavy majorities which the law obtained in the House and the te make it seem beyond the into the presidential | campaign at the ‘last minute, and it can scarcely be asserted that the arguments concerning the problem were on the highest possible intellectual level. who deplore American election’ modes’ and ‘manners. _ Well, I must admit that things have been done this year and in other contests which seem fo me under -hand and despicable. Just the same, I am for vioe

has been said’ that the tecent campaigns arou America we lack a capacity to get hot.’ Well, perhaps it 't be. a em day in the eer continuing concern.|: | Take, for nance, a8 realm of dispute for the present. It was thrown But there I go ambling over to the camp of these lence and vigor of tu

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