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FRIDAY, JANUARY 15, 1937
MANKILLER 4 JF you live in the Nation’s Capital and are back far enough C3 in your rent you may receive a document that reads as Sfollows—“The President of the United States, to the de:fendant, greeting”: n The message however will not be of good cheer. In“stead, it will summon you to Municipal Court that you may -be evicted. : P Actually the President would not himself, personally, : Sinstitute the proceeding, or with his own hand sign the “document, But there is something symbolic about such an affair as it relates to the task of being Chief Executive. For ‘much of the work that the President is forced to do is of even less moment. Ie and his title are dragged into just “about everything that goes on except as he is able to insuJate himself. “| Up to now, because of the vast detail that is aimed at ‘the White House, and because of the legal limitations affecting the receiving end, the President is so swamped through- . out his whole term of office as to make his the world’s “hardest job. It is truly a mankiller. It is way past time for a careless and not too appreciative Nation to do something about it. : : ' Someone said during Jimmy Walker's regime in New “York that what the city needed was a day Mayor and a ‘night Mayor. That might not be so bad in the Presidency. For example, nothing it seems to us could be much more barbaric than that a President, to whom meeting people is certainly no novelty, be obliged, as he is by custom, to hold those receptions and to shake those hands—a process by the ‘way about as impersonal as if he were receiving at the gate of a football stadium. But the reception is just one in thousands of the requirements which range from meeting all important politicians who may deign to favor the White House with their presence, to autographing pictures, pressing buttons to open expositions, laying cornerstones, viewing parades, and turning “his lawn over to egg-rolling contests. Obviously for years, as the complexities of government have grown, the| President has been undermanned in his “you handle” Jensriment,
An end to the cruelty is promised in the recommendation of the Committee on Administration, which in its report says: : | “Where can there be found an executive in any way comparable upon whom so much petty work is thrown? Or who is forced to see so many persons on unrelated matters, and to make so many decisions on the basis of what: may be, because of the very press of work, incomplete fifopmation 0 A system of executive assistants is proposed, organized in such a manner, the committee believes, as to take off much of the pressure and at the same time greatly improve the unctioning of the President. : Here is a thing we believe long overdue and of greatest importance. Whatever it costs will be nothing as compared to the good results that will follow.
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EAMLINED SCHOOLS’
UR present educational chassis doesn’t need any more : gadgets, but does need to be streamlined to meet . +1937 requirements.” : : his view is given by Paul C. Stetson, superintendent of schools, in his suggested revision of high school courses. ®A richer content of present courses rather than further *ubdivision of them is clearly indicated,” he says. : r. Stetson puts emphasis on “general knowledge as a basic requirement for all specialized training and vocational “work,” on mastery of a few subjects instead of a smattering of many. He disputes the charge that public schools stifle initiative. He urges greater elasticity and freedom in the -selection and pursuit of certain studies, and in allowing cre‘ative talents of students to develop. In manners and morals, ‘he says, “our goal is so to contribute to the character of students that they will do the best thing and find the best ‘solution for themselves and for society in each situation as _ it arises.” Study of current economic and social problems has a place in the modern school program, says Mr. Stetson, but ‘he believes that “to build the entire curriculum around a study ‘a fad.’ One view is that there is too much inclination to scrap the classics and the liberal arts and make education <the servant of superficial movements in society. Another is that high school students, as groundwork for citizenship, should become acquainted with social problems. L Mr. Stetson, in planning a “streamlined” program, apparent y agrees with President Robert Hutchins of the Uni~wyersity of Chicago that “it is our duty to educate the young $0 they will be prepared for further political, social and ‘economic changes.”
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‘WHOM DID YOU VOTE FOR?
“Nor many persons today could tell you for whom they = actually cast their vote in the recent Presidential elec‘tion. The names of the Presidential electors scarcely make ven a momentary impression.
=~ And until the archaic Electoral College system is aban--doned, long lists of electors threaten to clutter the ballot. BE A Jule device to avoid this was hit upon in Indiana ‘when, on Feb. 28, 1933, the General Assembly passed a bill ‘removing the names of Presidential electors and substi“tuting the names of the Presidential and Vice Presidential
candidates. However, a hill passed on March 2, 1933, sepa-
rating state and national tickets, provided for printing the names of the electors on the ballot. When two irreconcil‘able acts are passed, the one approved last prevails. The Indiana League of Women Voters proposes to remedy this ‘by repassage of the original act. By this one measure, the Legislature can shorten the thllot materially. ~~ & wae
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TIA ANT Both Together Might Help—By Kirby
Fair Enough
By Westbrook Pegler
Warns Dr. Townsend, on Testimony Of One Who Was There, Capital Jail and Branch Are No Rest Cure.
EW YORK, Jan. 15.—On the word of one who has suffered, I am able to warn Dr. Frank Townsend, the Mahatma of the Old-Age Pension Corp., that the Washington, D. C., jail and its branch store in
Virginia seem not to offer the opportunity for rest and quiet meditation which he seeks. The good Doctor recently said he would prefer jaii to the payment of a fine for contempt of the United States House of Representatives. Hunt Clement Jr. of the Chattanooga Times writes me that he is an alumnus of this jail and reports that unless Dr. Townsend is willing to accept special favors, which would tend to discredit his martyrdom, his 30 days in jail would be too crowded with discomfort to permit of calm selfinventory. Of course the Mahatma is a physician and as such doubtless would ke offered the hospitality -of the infirmary where Mr. Harry Sinclair, the oil magnate, once did 30 days on the. cushions. But Mr. Siaclair’s worst enemy never called him an idealist or altruist, and Dr. Townsend claims both titles on his business cards. Mr. Sinclair had been a junior druggist in his! Oklahoma boyhood, and, as if by a miracle, when he matriculated at the D. C. jail they happened to be in need of a junior druggist 30 years out of practice. Mr. Sinclair suited the emergency exactly, so his sentence became a sojourn, and the news of this stirred Mr. Clement’s city editor. “He got brilliant,” Mr. Clement says, “so I put on some old clothes, swallowed a drink of illicit whisky strictly in the interest of journalism, got arrested, pleaded guilty and got 10 days. But in the District Jail I discovered that Mr. Sinclair lived: on a high social plane, and I was going to swallow some soap and get sick and thus break into the infirmary until I saw the soap was so dirty that the bums would not even wash with it.
Mr. Pegler
” 2 7 T the morning, as I was concentrating on a plan to : crash Mr. Sinclair's exclusive social circle in the infirmary, I was taken out and marked for transfer
to Occoquan, Va., where the District of Columbia.
maintains a workhouse. Mr. Sinclair was not among us. I was a 10-day man, and 10-day prisoners ordinarily are kept in the jail, but the superintendent had been tipped that there was a reporter among the 18 prisoners who came in the day I did.. So he shipped us all to Occoquan. “I could have bailed out, but I was mad and curious, and I realized that it would be easier to get out if I really wanted to, than to get back in. “At Occoquan, with the temperature at 98, in woolen shirt and undershirt and in shoes three sizes too big, I carried slate to a civilian carpenter on a steep roof. Clogerdig om T= lights were kept on all night in the room where we slept on cotton sacks filled with straw. We soon learned, however, to creep into the sacks, because it was less unpleasant to wake up with our ears and mouths full of chaff than to sleep on top of these mattresses. “The jail food was lousy. I decided that Sinclair and the Washington Star could go-to hell, so I revealed myself, borrowed $2 fram the warden to pay my fine, and went back to Washington. “I was so mad I stayed away from the office two days more. You won't believe it, but the city editor said that from the second day on he forgot all about my being in the D. C. jail.” =
5 @ The Hoosier Forum I wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it—Voltaire,
GROUP RECOMMENDS . ‘ROMEO AND JULIET’
By Citizens Group
.. « We wish to call your especial attention to the showing of “Romeo and Juliet” at Loew’s Theater, Jan. 19, 20, 21, with the hope that The Times will find merit in the local presentation of this great work to the extent of aiding in arousing public support. . . . “Romeo and Juliet” is wholeheartedly indorsed by this group as a magnificent picture and we feel its cultural importance to the community cannot be stressed too highly. Signed: Thomas L. Neal, president, Civic Theater. : Mrs. C. O. Skaar, chairman, Motion Picture Committee of the American Association of University Women. Mrs. David Ross, president, Indiana Indorsers of Photoplays. Virgil Stinebaugh, director, Junior High Schools. Miss Carrie Frances, director of Visual Instruction, public schools. Mrs. Isaac Born, president, White Cross Guild and member of Jewish Federation of Women. Mrs. Hulbert J. Smith, Motion Picture ' Chairman, Daughters of American Revolution. Mrs. Royal McClain, president, Council of Federated Church Women. Donald M. Mattison, director, Herron Art School. George A. Schumacher, professor of English, Butler University. Marie Lauck, Catholic Legion of Decency, Indianapolis.
” » ” WRITER DISAGREES WITH ARTICLE ON GERMANY By William Kruse
Isn't it wonderful how the writer of the article “German Unity Myth,” in the Hoosier Forum recently, is posted on the economic and other affairs of the land of his birth and yet does not sign his name? I pre“sume he was a student of economic and national affairs during the first 18 years of his life in Germany, and therefore knows the conditions and people so well, : Or is he a student of Pegler, Simms and Broun and others who have predicted starvation for years and. the downfall of the present government within six months after it took over the affairs of the Reich? In his article he says the people of the Ruhr, Rhineland, etc., hate any order which smells like Berlin. Now, if those people were such good citizens as the writer, I presume they would rather take orders from Stalin in Moscow. His slander against the German farmer is ridiculous because he knows that they till their soil, every foot of it, from morning till evening to produce all that is. possible, not just for themselves and : for their relatives, but the common good. If they ever did not care to raise all they could, it was during the years
of the Socialist-Communist regime,
General Hugh Johnson Says—
What This Country Needs Is Not a Good 5-Cent Cigar but a Purge Of Political Paul Reveres With Screwy Ideas on Taking Profit Out of War.
EW YORK, Jan. 15—If, in any new world conflagration, we are to maintain the neutrality which the whole counfry demands, it will have to be the guarded neutrality of a strong people. In a world avid for conquest and capture, we are the ‘richest galleon that ever sailed the seas. Our recent experience with the good faith of nations and their will to peace indicates that. Once a world war starts, it would be about as safe to trust our unprotected tranquility in their snarling midst as to trust a haunch of raw horse-meat in.a den of famished Royal Bengal tigers. ; For this reason, alongside “neutrality” will be considered some bill to provide for industrial warmobilization. : Modern wars are impacts of economic systems. Industrial mobilization is everywhere regarded as of as great necessity as military mobilization. . The best job of this, in the World War, was in this country. Other nations have adopted our 1918 method. Not we. Ignoring our own experience, and its veterans, there is one school that proposes a complete new deal. 4
” ” ” i Tos veterans proposed that we excise all profits due to war by taking, in addition to regular taxes, all in excess of a three-year peace-time average. These amateurs want to abolish the profit system in
| war by taking by #8x nearly all normal income—and | ! practically to reorganize our economic i dustrial sys-
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Experience recommended that, by a system of pri-
Communist formula. That would paralyze
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when those so-called representatives of the laborers and farmers lived in luxury from unbearable taxes the people, especially the farmers, had to pay. All those gentlemen ever did was to provide nice bank accounts for themselves in a foreign country, so that when the ground got too hot for them they left to continue living well. If the present German unity is a myth to the writer, probably the only unity he can imagine would be under the banner which bears the sickle and hammer—which, fortunately, has been forestalled. In closing, I challenge the writer in the future to sign his name to any articles which he thinks will enlighten the people.
# a on QUOTES A. P. HERBERT LINES FOR COMMUNISTS :
By Daniel F. Clancy, Logansport
Here is something for Browder’s boys. It's from A. P. Herbert's “Water Gypsies”: And let us clasp each other's hands And by the dead we’ll swear To keep the Red Flag waving Through all the coming year.” That's how I remember it. Herbert, of course, isn’t a Communist —the above was satirical. The tune is that of “Auld Lang Syne.” - EJ 2 ” ONE IN TWO IS UNEMPLOYED WRITER BELIEVES By L. L. Patton, Crawfordsville It may be necessary for the politicians to take a census in order to know how bad the situation is in this country; but any laboring man knows from that among his family and relatives what the situation throughout the Nation is. Almost anyone will tell you that half of our employables are unemployed. Whether the present percent is 49 or 51 seems to ke of no particular significance. Our unemployment problem
BLUE HYACINTHS
By PATRICIA BANNER Incredibly lovely: Blue hyacinths. One day he brought me fyacihths And then—he went away. Whenever I see hyacinths
I think of one blue day. Incredibly lovely: Blue memories.
DAILY THOUGHT
He that answereth a matter before he heareth it, it is folly and shame unto him.—Proverbs 18:12.
NREASONABLE haste is the direct road to error.—Moliere.
By Drew Peaison
stands oufl before us like a pile of coal befoit a laboring man. It will not do any good to know how many chunks of coal there are in the mountain, The important thing to do is to start shoveling.
Surely, fwe should know by now that no amount of magic will save us from our problem. The unemployment situation is a radical developmehit that has been growing upon us for years. Nothing short of radical steps will stop that radical mcvement, Our national income is being cut in half beg¢ause half our population is not producing. We are losing 50 billion dollars a year. If the peril of this situation could be presented to the public with only a portion of the enthusiasm with which the peril of the national debt was presented, I am sure we would soon find a solution to our unemployment problem. Of cours, the first step would be to deport some of our bankers and the Baruch | school of economists, so we could ge f something besides nonsense on the financial and editorial pages: of | our newspapers and magazines. | Then we could start saving capiialism by © starting to make it work in the interest of the nation. |
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THINKS BARRYMORES SHOULD
KEEP TROUBLES QUIET By B. C. i An inspired reporter on the Pittsurgh Press! wearied -by the y€arend summazies of the “most impor= tant stories” of 1936, sat down at his typewriter tiie other day to list the most unimportant stories of the year. EF He started| with the Literary Digest poll ani gave high ranking to the marriage) of that eminent actor, John Barry: ore; and somehow I'm beginning to feel that he was entirely right. Mr. Barrymore's marital difficulties may be piquant and diverting, but they are beginning to lose their apjpeal. Can’t this| estimable gentleman and his wiig find some way of removing their domestic difficulties from the pulilic eye? ® a = NEUTRALITY RESOLUTION DEBATE RESENTED By The Horn Ebok, Union City What must he the feeling of the American people toward those members of the Hijuise.of Representatives who talked away the hours while the war munitions slipped away to Spain? The words were flashed over the radia that our Government had lost the face. Why should that neutrality mation have been debated? {
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those member: who demanded delay in-the House action should not be returned when the next election comes around! The American people have a right to know their names. |
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It Seems to Me By Heywood Broun
Two-Party System Suggested Industry With Workers Organized As Tightly as Employers Are.
NEW YORK, Jan. 15.—Mr. Walter Lippman, the greatest carrier of water on both shoulders since Gunga Din, says that the truth lies somewhere between the attitude of the strikers and the management of
General Motors. But the essential point which Mr. Lippman mentions and then passes by is that the employers are very fond of saying that any individual worker—Jack Pulaski or John Doe—can bring his complaints to the fountain head. Neverthe= less, when a union asks for collective bargaining the management. is often inclined to say, “Do you repre=
sent a majority?” : And there has been criticism of unions because they are loath to enter into elections within the plants. But it ought to be on the record that the so-called free elec= tion is practically always marred by company pressure. In one of the steel plants it was discovered that the secret ballots were marked with invisible ink, which made it possible for the superintendent to find out the way in which each man voted. ’ 3 It is decidedly unfair for any corporation to raise the complaint that a workers’ organization does not represent the will of the majority when that cor= poration has employed spies and used every sort of terroristic device to split the employees. It is perfect nonsense for Mr. Knudsen, the executive vice president of General Motors, to ask workers to negotiate separately in each plant. That will never get them very far, because they will immediately run into the fundamental policy of the corporation, which is directed from the top. .
» 2® " OR is there any worth in the contention that John L. Lewis is just as arbitrary as Mr. Sloan when he asks for the right to bargain for all the workers. The management is always united, and nothing can ever be gained if those employed are split into factions. From time to time much is said about the right of an individual to join a union or stay out of it.. His choice is pictured as a -decision ‘affecting nobody but himself. That is not true. The man who refuses to join his fellows in any craft weakens their position. There is no such thing as the neutral in an industrial war. ” ” 2’ - ERE in America we have been convinced by long experience that the two-party system works best in politics. - The same rule ought to hold good for business. There can be no stability in any industry unless the employees are organized just as tightly and efficiently as the management. If the captains and the kings of industry had a little more imagination they might almost welcome the opportunity to deal with responsible representatives of the men and women in their plants. I might point specifically to the garment industry and to coal as well, to illustrate the fact that strong unions make for peace rather than war. There is pretty general agreement that the cause of the crash in 1929 was a driving up of the purchas=ing power of the country. The workers did not ge% enough in wages to take back the things they made. It seems insane to make the same mistake all over again. Mr. Sloan speaks as if the 40-hour week were in some way sanctified and holy. Not so many years ago Judge Gary was contending that it would be wholly impossible to manufacture steel with any setup
Mr. Broun
except that of the 12-hour day.
The Washington Merry-Go-Round
French Volunteer Communists and Socialists, Veterans of Fighting the Riffs, Stopped Franco's Moroccans; Fascist General Is Licked, Belief. | :
orities and licenses, proved in the war, industrial production be regulated to the Nation's needs. These political strategists, demand that industries be confiscated by Government, their managers “drafted” and that the Army run industry. _ They A ed that to prevent price inflation, civilian suffering and a doubling of the war debt, a ceiling be clamped’ over all prices at the outset, subJou Ne ustmen Slokher “school” proposes that ent “fix” o the pric basic commodities. y price of » foW necanay
” #" i" IV the universal upward price-pressure of war it is about as sensible to “fix a few prices,” and leave all others free, as it would be to command: “Regiment halt—but all the soldiers keep on marching!” The “school” that proposes to tax the capitalist and profit system out of existence on the ea, of war says: “No price control at all. Let all prices go. The higher they rise, the more taxes we take.” That overlooks the war sufferings of the low income groups—soldiers’ families, wage earners and salaried ‘people. Their incomes never keep pace upward with war price-inflation. | WHat this country needs is a es from the Held of Worl
pa= Jan. 15—What stopped Franco’s Moroccans
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an den Linden, smashing Jewish shop windows
in Spain, contrary to many reports, was not the Russians, but French voluntier Communists and
7 | They have been pouring into l¥fadrid by the thousands. Recruiting is going on all over France. The French Government shuts its eyes to it, and the conservative opposition in the Chamber of Deputies says nothing about it because it hates Germans far more than it hates communism. There is a lot of difference, however, between the men Hitler has sent to help the rebel General Franco and the French volunteers who| have gone to the aid of the Spanish Government. Hitler sent a bunch of pink-cheeked SS boys (Brown Shirts) trained in goose:stepping along the
heiling Hitler. In Spain’s bloody, unorganized errilla fighting they have beef a dismal failure. # nn #8 HE French are seasoned veterans of the African
wars, men who had spent 10 [fears or so fighting the Riffs (Moroccans). i / / The Riffs have been the ba kbone of Franco's
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army. Without them he would have got nowhere.
Whenever his supply of Riffs go: low he.
fresh supply, transported across the Mediterranean in Italian and German planes. = Spanish militiamen, terrified even at the name Moroccans, melted before them. They hardly waited to do combat. The Moroccans are among the bravest fighters in the world. Their tactic always is to at= tack. The sheer audacity of their attack unnerves the foe. : But the French veterans know the Riffian game, Their system is to withhold fire. They take one— two—three puffs on the cigaret after a Riff charge starts. Then they let them have it. Li That is what checked the advance on Madrid. A Frenchman, incidentally, organized the defense,
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EST intelligence reports received here from sides both sympathetic with and opposed to Franco are that he is licked. It is conceivable that he may take Madrid, but after that his strength will be i i Also, it will take months of hard cams 0c
the Loyalists by Socialists’ and Come ;, from all over Europe—in addition 1, who bore the brunt of defending