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NE Riley 5551 Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way

FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, 1937

- M’NUTT’S FOUR YEARS OVERNOR McNUTT leaves office Monday with a good record. .

. The State has emerged from an era of troubled finances. The budget is balanced. The Governor leaves his successor a more efficient governmental organization than he found.

The achievements fall into four general classes:

1. Emergency action. McNutt took over during the worst of the depression. He kept the State in stride with the Roosevelt New Deal program. Indiana was the first state in many instances to co-operate with the Federal Government on major reforms. “Model laws” governing operation of banks, building and loan associations, credit sales and insurance companies wére among the accomplishments.

2. Social legislation. Indiana has become a leader in the field of state public welfare laws. It was one of the first to provide financial aid to the aged. McNutt co-ordi-nated the State's program: with the national Administration’s. He put through a program at the 1936 special session so that Indiana could join in the Federal Social Security program.

3. Fiscal policies. By the unpopular route of new

taxes and appropriation cuts, the budget was balanced. At -

* the same time, property taxes were reduced and, by a partial diversion of new revenue, educational standards were maintained. But institutions suffered, in plant and personnel, and now need rehabilitating. - In a recent fiscal accounting, McNutt reported an unobligated treasury balance of nearly $11,000,000. ii 4. Reorganization of State government. By centralizing administrative control and responsibility in the Governor, the number of departments was cut from 169 to eight, with an asserted $2,000,000 a year saving. Greater efficiency has resulted, though further improvements are necessary. For the first time, it is possible for the public “to hold the Executive responsible for the scattered functions of government. Under McNutt, Indiana has taken a leading role in the movement for interstate co-operation. Chief criticisms against the McNutt Administration have been that it was too highly a personal machine, that a net income tax would have served the people better than the gross income tax—really a sales tax; and that the Administration lacked a sensitiveness to basic civil liberties, as in the hurried use of troops in labor disputes. » 2 ” : = ". 8 HE McNutt Administration must be evaluated in its setting, the conditions under which it operated. Mostly these were emergency conditions—the worst depression in the country’s history, a period of shrinking income and of need for greater expenditures. Under that severe test, McNutt has kept a steady hand on State government, with the emphasis on relief and public welfare. Most of his mistakes can be attributed to the haste that was required. That was better than a policy of inaction. Few states during the last four years have been so fortunate in their-state administrations as Indiana.

A" WELCOME SCHOOL GRANT

THE $202,500 grant approved by PWA for a new high ~ school building in Irvington is a welcome supplement to the $875,000 school building budget. The budget was planned to meet minimum school housing needs—the first unit of a new East Side school in Irvington, an addition to the George Washington High School, and an addition to School 26. It was estintated that more than $2,000,000 was needed to relieve overcrowded conditions. The Federal grant will help supply more of these essential facilities. :

“THE VERY FOUNDATION”

CHIEF JUSTICE CHARLES EVANS HUGHES deserves |

the-nation’s gratitude for his opinions upholding the American rights of free expression and free assembly. It is good to find the United States Supreme Court’s other mem- . bers concurring unanimously in reversing the conviction of Dirk De Jonge under the Oregon Criminal Syndicalism Law. De Jonge, a Communist, spoke at an orderly public meeting called by the Communist Party in Portland to pro- * test illegal raids on workers’ homes:and halls and the shooting of striking longshoremen by Portland police. The meeting was raided and De Jonge was arrested, tried and sentenced to seven years in prison. The Oregon Supreme Court upheld his conviction. De Jonge offered to prove that neither he nor anyone else had advocated criminal syndicalism or committed any other unlawful act at the meeting in question. But the Oregon courts took the strange posption)that such proof would be no defense. On the ground that the Communist Party had advocated criminal syndicaliSm elsewhere, they held that De Jonge had committed a crime by assisting in . the conduct of a meeting under Communist auspices, even though nothing unlawful was done at that meeting. : Chief Justice Hughes rebuked that dangerous reasoning in vigorous language. The Oregon law, itself, was not held unconstitutional. . The Court acknoweldged the power of states to protect themselves against the use of speech, press or assembly to incite to violence or crime. A But the Court warned the states plainly that they must not employ such laws to prohibit proper exercise of Constitutional rights, even by members of a minority group whose doctrines are hateful to the majority. : A question about whether the right of free speech has been violated has been raised in the Indiana Supreme Court in the appeal of the syndicalism conviction of Paul Butash. This Hungarian-born American was sentenced to one to five years at Angola last summer on a charge that he advocated ~ violence at a meeting arranged by those who later testified . against him. The American Civil Liberties Union, which . also defended De Jonge, claims Butash merely said, “People can force Congress to change conditions.”

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Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

Columnist Describes What Might Happen Here in United States if

Civil War Like Spain's Occurred.

EW YORK, Jan. here— ; As everyone remembers, certain Generals of the United States Army rebelled against the American Government last July, using

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disloyal troops and stolen equipment to at--

tack the lawful authority of the country. They set

forth that crime was rife in the nation, that grafters

were stealing the public funds, and that the people were undisciplined, irreverent and disorderly. This was txue. Still, the Government was doing its best, and it was, after all, the lawful Government of the United States. The mutinous: Generals were supported by an element of economic royalists, reactionary Republicans and Jeffersonian Democrats and were frankly Fascist in their aims. These civilian Fascist volunteers came from the privileged and aristocratic families of Newport, Bar Harbor, Palm Beach, Philadelphia, New York and Long Island and included many famous and dashing young men with inherited fortunes whose families had lived for many years on the labor of the lower classes. As enemies of democracy, both: Adolph Hitler and Benito Mussolini sympathized with the Fascist Generals. Mussolini had a special motive in helping them,

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because he wanted to grab Cuba and establish a foot- |.

hold in Central America under cover of the confusion. Mussolini "immediately sent in Italian soldiers disguised as civilian volunteers to seize Cuba on behalf of the rehellion. ” ” 2 ITLER and Mussolini also shipped in bombing planes and military pilots to help the traitorous Generals destroy the American Democracy, and they were followed by German and Italian troops from the regular armies, €isguised as volunteer soldiers of fortune. Hitler and Mussolini both denied giving any help. J The German and Italian fliers in German and Italian planes bombed the American capital, killing thousands of ordinary citizens, including women and children, and their disguised infantry took part in many attacks on the patriots’ lines. In these circumstances, the French and Russian Government$ decided to give a little surreptitious help to the Government and sent in military equipment and experts to counterbalance the Fascist aid to the rebels. They, too, pretended to be neutral and indifferent and gave their assistance on the sly. ” ” 2 S time went on, the American people realized that their democracy was under fire not only from a small element of rich and arrogant Americans, but from the combined powers of Nazi and Fascist dictatorship. So naturally they were driven to the other extreme and became a Communist outfit. Still there was legally no war in the United States, and the Government had a legal right to buy war material and borrow money from foreign nations to put down a mutinous internal disorder. But when the Government tried to buy some second-hand planes in Great Britain the British went into a huddle and said that it would be a violation of neutrality.

. ; The Hoosier Forum I wholly disagree with 1 hat you say, but will defend to the death your ri 1ht to say it—Voltaire.

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SOCIAL SECURITY ACT NEEDS REVISION, WRITER SAYS By Arthur G. Gresham I believe the Social Security Act is unconstitutional and that adequate old-age pension legislation should be substituted for it at once. The Social Security Act is nothing more than a direct payroll tax and furthermore, there is no provision in the act to set aside this money for old-age pensions. The first duty of Congress is to solve this problem. We need old-age pension legislation that will be effective at once with full provision for those who reach the age of 65 this year. : 2 nn n SHARE-THE-WEALTH CAUSE DOOMED, BELIEF By Lowell Rees, Rushville Hiram Lackey is of the same school of thought ‘as I, but he has more enthusiasm. Another difference is that he calls his ideal form of government a share-the-wealth plan while I call mine pure democ-

racy. In a pure democracy everyone shares the wealth according to

‘his value to his fellow men. A son

would find it difficult to live long on his parents’ savings. Leisure and idleness would be the enemies of society. Everyone would have to share the work, as well. A share-the-wealth social order is possible only when we are educated to the degree that everybody is able to comprehend the virtues of frugal living. As a whole, we dg not know how to divide rightly rsonal expenditures and reinvest capital. We crave temporary personal pleasure. We do- not plan for the future. .. Personal and national ambition is a weakness that stands in the way of a share-the-wealth society. I believe that the share-the-wealth cause is doomed to disaRe pointment. ” » » CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICAN PARTY ADVOCATED ‘By Wesley T. Wilson

When political principles cannot be attacked on their own merits, it.is a favorable device of the opposition to ridicule some man supposed to be their author. . Mr, L. L. Patton, of Crawfordsville, accuses me of nominating Alexander Hamilton as the 1940 Republican standard bearer. * I wonder if Mr. Patton has ever read the life of Hamilton? Like the hen who cackles because the fact that she has laid an egg is ever astonishing and new, the liberals delude themselves into the belief that liberalism is something brand new and progressive, and conservatism is ancient and out-

General Hugh Johnson Says—

Both Sides in G. M. Strike Should Agree to Abide by Election on Employee Representation; Lewis and du Pont Should Confer Quietly.

ASHINGTON, D. C, Jan. 8—Any obstruction of the automobile industry strikes at the prime mover of prosperity. It is the greatest consumer of raw materials and industrial products. Both man-

agement and labor here have a deadly serious ob--

ligation to the entire country. The union says:

out an agreement on labor policy for all your employees everywhere.” : This far, General Motor’s Bill Knudsen and Alfred Sloan have said, in effect: “We will deal with any and all representatives of our men. We can’t recognize any to speak for all without refusing our nonunion men their right to choose other representatives, or to have no representatives. - Also, our many plants are located in many different places with different conditions in every different place. The several plant managers must deal with representatives of our employees in each locality.” ” ” ” HE first question is: “Does this union represent a 0 J ajority of ul Senaral Motors’ employees?” A§ e law now stands, if it does, it has 555 Joe : ; as a right to speak When asked, 8 fé® days 486, how mass in they had, union officials Sa “Enouen Ramat down the plants.” )

(Times readers re invited to" express their view: -in these columns, religious co froversies excluded. Make you: letter short, so all can have a ¢ ance. Letters must be signed, bu! names will be withheid on reques ,)

worn, Liberalism ii a throw-back to the ancient p triarchial age when each membe: of the clan worked, lived, ate, sl¢ ot, loved, hated and died according to the will of the chief, who inherited the gov-

ernment of the co nmunity from the patriarch who Li id begotten it. All the principle: of liberalism can be found desc: bed in detail in Plato’s “Republic, ! written four centuries before Ch ist. They so disgusted Plato's yp ipil, Aristotle, that he withdrew fi im the school and founded one of his own. Between Plato and / ristotle, there can be no doubt as fo which has contributed the most! o the progress of civilization. " Mr. Patton advises ‘hat we “make the Republican plaiiorm of 1940 appealing to living | mericans.” In advocating conservai sm for the party, I am urging just that. In the term “living An ericans” I do not include those pip: -dreaming in-

BODY ANI SOUL

By RUTH SE ILTON Let us press on toget! 2r, O my Soul, I will be true to ¥ uu and you to me; > High in the far, blu distance lies our goal— i Perhaps too high ¢ nd far — but doggedly Let us press upward Let us never swerve No matter what oki tacles bar our way— Uncertainty will nerve; Humiliation may Ir some steps

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pay; A We must face those ‘ho jeer; hurt those who plead; : Suffer through to; ures of deep hopelessness, But you are master 2 id, if you will lead, - i ; I pledge to folow although futility ; Dog us ’til death—Cai they be failures, Soul, HE Who strive, nor sw sve, yet never reach their goal?

DAILY THQ JGHT

If we suffer, we shi Il also reign with Him; if we deny Him, He also will deny us.—II Tim. 2:12.

Come then, afflictic), if my Father wills, and be ny frowning friend, A friend that rowns is better tHan a smiling en my —Anon.

ternationalists ‘who have ‘directed the policies of the New Deal. I do not include those immigrants and children of immigrants who came to this country to escape intolerable conditions in Europe and now seek to make this country like that from

which they came. I do not like Americans who are ashamed of their own heritage and speak glibly of the superiority of the institutions of decadent Europe over those of vital, living America. The term “living Americans” can properly include only those who are thoroughly American by heritage of blood and ideals. It is to them that I appeal for a conservative Republican Party. There must be no more compromises on platform and candidates. There must be no more adjustments of prety principles to satisfy politicians with blocks of votes to deliver. \ We must choose a platform that honestly expresses our real convictions and candidates who will carry such a platform into successful action, and stand or fall with our choice. We must have sincerity before expediency. The Republican Party must be conservative.

: 2\a =» CHARGES VIOLATIONS BY STREETCAR PILOTS By E. R. E.

I read in the paper every night that many have been arrested for motor law violations. I have driven over one million miles since 1907 or ’08 and have had only one accident. That was when part of a state road gave way, I have never gotten a sticker, never been bawled out for any ofiense by an officer. I am no amateur driver. Why do we never read that a streetcar motorman, trolley-bus or bus driver has been arrested? I have seen several cases where they should haye -been, and an ofJie was there who could have done it. Dec. 11, at 7:45 a. m. a streetcar headed east ran a light at Alabama, and-East Washington Sts. The trolley came off and he blocked the street for two changes of lights. There were at least six officers who saw it. 3 Sunday, Dec. 13, a motorcycle officer was parked at the curb: at North and Pennsylvania Sts. when a bus ran a red light—not a yellow light—and the officer still sat there.

1A man came down Ft. Wayne Ave.

and ran a car-length past the sign on the avenue and the officer was right after him. Let’s see these energetic policemen light on these light-jumpers from the streetcar company. (Police and Indianapolis Railways officials declined comment. —THE EDITOR.)

It Seems to Me By

Heywood Broun

Reaches Conclusion Children Do Not Like ‘Alice in Wonderland' And Fairy Stories Are Injurious.

NEW YORK, Jan. 8.—Dr. Paul Schilder

made the front page by the easy device

of asserting that “Alice in Wonderland” is not a book for children. This is old stuff among psyehiatrists, and one need not be a

follower of Freud to look with some suspi cion as Lewis Carroll as a nursery visitor. : The theory of alarm about Alice was voiced to me 10 or 12 years ago by Dr. Reede, of Washington. It

was his notion that a child has a good deal of trouble in orienting itself to actual life, and that the fantasy of suddenly shooting up or dwindling made for emotional instability. : = Indeed, one does not need to go all the way with the learned ¥ _ brethren to agree with them. It { really doesn’t matter much whether Dodgson was filled with a sup= pressed streak\ of cruelty. That would seem natural enough. After all, he was a mathematician and a clergyman, and almost inevitably he must have had an unconscious desire to bisect something more split heavier quarry than doctrinal

Mr. Broun

than angles and hairs. The chief point is, Do children like “Alice in Wonderland”? It is my impression that the book has small appeal to young readers. but I didn’t like it much until I reread it in adult life. The average small boy or gjrl who tackles Lewis Carroll is likely to come away with the impressio

that it is all very silly. :

And that, I think, is a healthy reaction. After all, nonsense literature belongs to people who have reached the years of discretion. A child is engaged upon learning so many necessary things that he may he overburdened if fantasy is put in his path at the same time. My own theory is that not only “Alice” but practically all fantasy stories ought to be removed from the children’s table. : : » ” ” R. SCHILDER might well have pointed out that practically all fairy stories are heavily larded with cruelty. In the Grimm stories perfectly fearfuk things are done to witches. After reading these horrors, an impressionable child may get the notion that there is something evil about age.

Hans Christian. Andersen is not much better in

this respect. Of course, he is very sentimental, but that is merely the other side of the coin of cruelty. I can still remember the poor little match girl who froze to death on Christmas Eve. And isn’t that a dainty dish to set before the juvenile reader? ” " zu

AIRY stories are not good for children, because

it is very easy to put a young person in the mood

where he wishes to escape the realties of the world. Life is much harder for children than for adults. I have said this is a tough world for children, People weep ,when the kiddies don’t get their fairy stories, but those very.same people often stand quite calm and dry eyed as the boys and girls march into a factory. What the children of America have “a right to demand is justice instead of sentimentality.

Childhood may be all right for a visit, but I wouldn't -

live there if they paid me.

The Washington Merry-Go-Round

Tiaras and Top Hats Are Trooping to White House Now for Social Events; Indiana Woman Decides Who Gets in and Who Stays Out.

“We want our national officers . to sit down with your national officers and work

That is not a sufficient answer. You can close down a plant by a strike with an aggressive minority of as little as 20 per cent. There is only one peaceful and proper way to find out this crucial truth of majority representation—to hold an election under some impartial authority, and by secret ballot, uninfluenced by the employer. . 'The first oY both sides owe to the public is to offer to abide by a peaceful election.

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R. KNUDSEN’'S second proposition—that General Motors’ labor relations be negotiated by each plant separately—is an example of the principal cause of labor trouble—absentee control and hiredman management. Subsidiary plant managers do not make labor policy. x : That evil of insufficient authority goes further than lecal management. There are no merg inherently liberal and intelligent industrialists than Mr. Knudsen and Mr. Sloan—but even they do not make General Motors’ labor policy. That is made in New York—or Wilmington, Del. = This @6plimn suggests a wholly tinheralded conference in a hotel room between principals—Mr. John L. Lewis and Mr. Pierre du Pont—to tell each other frankly their real minimum requirements—and to spare our convalescent country this threatened staggering relapse. : : 3 :

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| By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen

Vi ASHINGTON, Jan. 8—This is the season in i Washington when tiaras and top hats troop to he White House. The floor of the great East Room is|i lick and polished, the crystals in the huge chandelie| 5 gleam like jewels, and the special staff of Negro bu ‘ers are spick-and-span in newly cleaned uniforms. The pace of White House social life will be faster th: n usual this season. The President's trip to South Ar erica delayed the opening gun, and as a result has cre vded the post-holiday calendar. | Never has the demand been greater for invitations ;he White House’ receptions. Though the affairs far from exclusive—the number of guests runs to 2000 at a single party—the socially minded it invitations as if they were passports to paradise.

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» 4 ” HE St. Peter who stands guard at the door is . . gray-haired, matronly Mrs. Edith Helm. Mrs. He! n owns and personally manages a large farm on the Wabash in Indiana, and likes to call herself a dirt far ner, But Washington society knows her as a wo! 1an of Eastern breeding, who uses tact when it will work and force when it won’t, | Vhen she closes a reception list, it stays closed. iI play no favorites,” says Mrs. Helm. “I never ope 1 the list for anybody.” oy jhe finds her job easier than if used to

Roosevelts have done away with the practice of “getting behind the line.” In previous Administra-

tions a select few were privileged, after they had ,

shaken hands with the President, to step behind the cord and remain in the receiving room, looking with haughty superiority upon the other guests who were obliged to keep moving.

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LIMBING into a taxi a Washington visitor

directed the driver to take him to the Justice Department. ~ : . . “I want the entrance nearest to Attorney General Cummings’ office,” he added. . “Is he in that department?” asked the driver. - “Certainly; he runs it.” i a “Huh,” observed the driver, “from reading ‘the newspapers I got the idea that J. Edgar- Hoover was the big shot there.” A = 2 ” For about half of the 15 new Senators, a- biographi= cal sketch could be written which would apply equally well to any of them. It would.read something like this: : : “Born on farm, worked way through school, read law at night in law office, edited country newspaper, passed bar examination, served with’ U, S. Army 1917-18, ®lected to State Legislature; Methodist, Mason, Legionnaire.” A i i :

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