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SATURDAY, MARCH 6, 1937

STILL MISSING IX days have passed since Peter A. Cancilla slugged Wayne Coy, State Welfare Director, in the State House, and fled. Mr. Coy still is in the hospital, seriously injured. And Joel A. Baker, Cancilla’s close associate, who disappeared with the original Welfare Merit Bill immediately after the Cancilla attack Monday, is still missing. Six days—and the two key figures in the terror lobby against reform of the spoils system are rumored to have left the State until the Legislature adjourns and the “heat” 1s off. Why did Baker flee? At the time he was a public official in charge of one of the most important offices in Why did he abandon his duties and go

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Marion County. into hiding? The failure of the County Welfare Board, which originallv appointed Baker, to demand an accounting for his conduct is one of the most astounding public performances of the Baker-Cancilla affair. The board failed to act, but the Legislature did. The Legislature took the bill which Baker fought—fought because the bill tried to end the welfare patronage racket— and used it to oust him. Six days have passed—and legislative investigators have exposed Baker and Cancilla. The State offered a $500 reward for the fugitive Cancilla and urged that perjury be added to the Cancilla charge of assault with intent to kill Mr. Coy. The Baker Investigating Committee has power to continue after the Legislature adjourns Monday night. The law passed yesterday increases its authority over witnesses. The public knows that Baker and Cancilla are but the fronts for a vicious political ring in Marion County. Six days and still State and City police have failed to find these men. But if it takes six months to get to the hottom of this situation, the legislators should continue digging.

THE HOUSING PROGRAM—A “MUST” TATE housing legislation is nearing its final stages. The enabling bills dovetail with the Wagner-Steagall bill in Congress, which involves extensive four-year, low-rent housing and slum clearance operations. This plan lacks many of the vices of our early Federal experiments in slum abatement.

| ment to American crooners, fight- | ers, magicians, women and come- | dians all alike.

| and after the American perform-

Under it Uncle Sam be- | r | the attendant taxes, the matter of

comes not a landlord but chiefly a banker for local housing |

authorities.

Over a four-year period, $1,000,000,000 in Fed- |

| prim.

eral funds would be lent to localities, while only $50,000,000 |

would be available in grants. Slum clearance thus would become decentralized and locally administered. So it is important that there be no last-minute hitch in the State program.

housing authorities necessary to receive Federal loans and

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

We All Need This Patrolman—By Sid Hix

RURAL ROADS WILL

BE SAFER:

FOR RURAL MOTORISTS AND ALL OF US WHEN WE GET THESE FELLOWS OFF THE HIiGHwAyS /

RO RAW MoTOR\S

Fair Enough

By Westbrook Pegler | Writer Takes Another Whack at

Strip-Tease and Burlesque Humor Which He Thinks Are Pretty Awful.

| By the Rev. P. A. Deery, Indiana Univer- |

| NEW YORK, March 6.—These dispatches |

return to the subject of burlesque, and the strip-tease, a theatrical and social infection, which recently received a quiet, if not necessarily respectful, hearing by the Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of Representatives in Washington in connection with a bill to impose on foreign actors the same restrictions that other nations set against American talent. The Europeans ration employ-

The’ industrial or economic restrictions come first, ers have met these regulations and

moral hygiene is turned over to their police, who are comparatively

Mostly, the Europeans, whom Americans in the 30s and 40s and upward have been taught to regard with a nasty-nice morality, are fairly decent. Not even in Barcelona or Madrid, a little more than a vear ago,

Mr. Pegler

| was it possible to buy into a public performance as These bills would authorize establishment of the local |

grants, and to direct, plan and manage housing projects. |

Under the Federal-State program, Lockefield Gardens here,

| Mediterranean port could delve any lower

one of PWA’'s 51 public housing projects, could be sold or |

leased to local authorities. Buttressing local housing operations is a recent decision by the highest court of Kentucky

wanton as the common American strip-tease which | is now presented openly in the so-called burlesque | houses.

And certainly In a for his humor than the comedians engaged in the burlesque business.

The

no gutter-bum performing

American theatrical profession calls the |

| burlesque show louse-opera, and it is impossible to

upholding state legislation for municipal housing commis- |

sions. The Indiana proposal provides for small communities | which is blandly defended before a committee of the

as well as cities. Too much should not be expected of this worthy adventure. It does not put an end to speculative land prices, excessive taxes in many cities and other obstacles to a widespread rehousing boom. And it would give cheap homes to

only 350,000 families of the estimated nine million that |

should be rehoused in decent quarters. But it is a beginning, and one long delayed. It gives us a chance to catch up with what other nations have been doing to help themselves back to recovery and higher living standards for their masses by subsidizing low-cost housing.

SELF-CENSORSHIP HE German Embassy at Washington has protested to the State Department against what New York's Mayor La Guardia said about Hitler. And Secretary Hull has expressed regrets. Secretary lull, however, is not alone in regretting Mayor La Guardia’s utterance. Hitler and Hitlerism are not particularly popular in this country and there is no reason why the rank and file should not express opinions. There are many things a man in the street might say which, due to his position, the Mayor is morally bound not to utter, at least in public. One of those things is “insulting” language concerning foreign countries and their leaders. Washington, it so happens, is framing a neutrality law. If and when the “next war” breaks out, Congress hopes America will be able to stay clear. But there is one thing Congress cannot legislate against, and that is popular passion. opinion is sufficiently inflamed, no law will be able to keep us from becoming involved in somebody else's conflict. This is something which American officials, high and

If public |

| the recent feelings of the population explode in re- | | prisals against the debauchery of national morals and

| but some people can't hear the wind until the roof | blows off.

low, whether Federal, state or municipal, should bear in |

mind. Not to do so is to do their country and their fellowcitizens a disservice.

JUDGES MUST EAT OR a man who seldom thinks of money, Clarence Darrow has advanced an interesting criticism of the President's plan to enlarge the judiciary. “It seems high time,” said that veteran liberal, “that suggestions are made for reducing the public payroll, instead of creating new ways to squander the people's money.” Considering that we have already on the Federal bench 237 judges, all of whom manage to take extended vacations, and whose lifetime salaries range from $10,000 to $20,500 a year, and not one cent of which, according to the courts’ own rulings, is subject either to State or Federal income tax— Considering all these facts, it can't be denied that Mr. Darrow has made a point, ‘

repeat in a home newspaper the name which the | profession applies to most burlesque comedians.

Yet this is the form of theatrical entertainment |

national legislature as native American art. " ” n URLESQUE has created a theatrical sewer in one New York street, which formerly was a decent | amusement center and made it a levee district which | decent people have placed out of bound. rotting Broadway, which is a hard trick. The strip-tease needs no explanation and the only | wonder is that nobody on the House Immigration |

Committee in Washington had the presence of mind or morals to challenge the claim that this is Amer- | ican art,

It is rapidly |

=n ARIS, for some years after the war, was regarded as the theatrical bad-lands of the Western World. But nowhere in Paris today, outside the more or less restricted areas, may the tourist observe the spectacles which are publicly presented in American burlesque. After the war Rome was rotten with depravity, and after that Berlin went haywire. These extremes seem to be the usual forerunner of violent reform in which

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the fouling of the very air. These violent reforms are as bad as the evils which they destroy—if not worse—

The corrosive influence of hurlesque and the striptease has been so insidious that nowadavs even the daily papers treat the subject casually, while the representatives in Congress of young sons and daughters of the Americans sit by and utter no demurrer.

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SATURDAY, MARCH 6, 1937

~-National Safety Council.

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Heros Are Made, Not Born!—By Talburt

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The Hoosier Forum

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

CHARGES LOYALIST FORCES ARE COMMUNISTIC

sity Newman Club Chaplain, Bloomington The Hoosier Forum of March 3 carried the following statement: “—But at no time do we find the

i ; . | Spanish Government antagonistic to | therefore compulsory on our part |

religion or the church.” ‘This is the view of Agapito Rey, Indiana University professor, It is true there is no Spanish government any more, since the

| Russian reds stole the election and

captured the country, Then the communistic, Godless reign of terror accomplished the following record: During the past year the Spanish red government killed 11 bishops, 15,000 priests, burned Catholic churches and destroyed convents. The same Russian powers that caused the bloody war in Spain are in the United States. The red flag of the Internationale is trying to rule the world with the Godless

{ tyranny of communism.

® = ” ARGUES CRAFT UNIONS LEAVE ‘LITTLE FELLOW’ OUT By William Lemon John L. Lewis’ success in the 0. is due to the fact that craft unionism has always left the little fellow, common labor, outside. The various locals striking one at a time have caused many strikes to be lost. The best way to win is to fight the enemy with its own weapons. Capital is organized under practically one head, the United States Chamber of Commerce. The Lewis idea is along the same line and if steel strike he would reach the heart of the industrial world.

Common labor has always been | forced to work for a meager wage |

lowest living conditions. The “pick and shovel artists” have no other alternative than to live in insanitary shacks, and wear second-hand clothes. That is why we have so many sec-

ond-hand stores and so much junk | | merchanise, including automobiles. | American |

The officials of the Federation of Labor are living like

kings on their high salaries and of |

course they fight for the ancient, out-lived system of craft uionism. That a chain is no stronger than its weakest link is the idea of the C. I. O. If labor is ever to be represented in regard to wages and working conditions, it now has chance. n n n

‘ARDENT DEMOCRAT’ FAVORS COURT REFORM By John A, Weinbrecht Having spent 26 active years in

| the pqlitical game, and being an ardent Democrat throughout all the

years, I am a stanch supporter of President Roosevelt's recommendations. , The people indorsed Roosevelt's ideas of the past four years. It is

General Hugh Johnson Says—

War Between New Deal and Reactionaries Began in 1929: Roosevelt Has | Won Four Battles; Struggle on Court Plan Is Fifth, Perhaps Final, Fight. |

‘HINGTON, March 6.—The New Deal made |

its appearance in the campaign of 1932, but L.:2 war began in 1928. It began with the collapse of the old cluster of political and economic policies in the market smash. It continued through the bleak years of depression until, in 1930, popular feeling revolted. A campaign to change Administrations began. The first battle was won in 1930, when the complexion of Congress was changed, But Mr. Hoover and his henchmen held the fort for two years more. In the meantime the New Deal was formulated and presented in that campaign. While it was indefinite in part, its fundamental principle was clear. It was to shift Federal policy from one of inaction to one of great activity on every front—agriculture, labor, public utilities, banking, the exchanges, conservation. It was overwhelmingly indorsed in the election. Rattle No. 2 in the campaign to give Federal policy a completely new direction was won.

” ” ”

H Dy had the proposals of the campaign been translated into laws. than the forces defeated in the great and solemn referendum of 1932 began an effective rearguard action. The principal assault was a mobilization of lawyers in serried ranks to resist and attack every element of the whole New Deal program in the courts. One attack—the assertion that new legislation was

eat cheap food |

the |

(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, religious controversies ex- | cluded. Make your letter short, | so all can have a chance. Letters | must be signed, but names will be { withheld on request.) |

| individually, to send our support whenever he proposes a move of any kind for the betterment of the [ nation. | The State and Federal Constitu- | tions are the best in the world, but {as times and living conditions | change we must adjust ourselves, as {well as our Constitution, to new | ideals to conform. Congressmen of | character of Louis {Sherman Minton age in that they have acquired the knowledge and | what is best fundamentally. {i 1 ‘am ‘for proposal to bench.

the type and Ludlow and

change the

| Perhaps we need no more justices, |

but we need speedy trials to keep the wheels of justice moving at the highest speed possible. " ” | COMPARES AGING JUDGES TO ‘AUNT LINDA’

By J. L. We

Lee, Crawfordsville

all remember contrary old

Aunt Linda, who went to the party |

just because she wasn't wanted. The

present attitude of four old men of |

{he Supreme Court is very similar | to that of Aunt Linda. Five vears ago, when it appeared certain that Hoover would be re- | elected, these four men announced they were thinking of retiring.

| cided to stay on. Of course the | reason they decided to stay on was

| that the election had left the hint |

| that they weren't wanted.

| elections and two more hints

more determined in their Aunt | Linda attitude.

In future years we will laugh over

LIFE’S ROSARY By EDNA JETT CROSLEY When I make life's rosary, I find I'm back where I began And when I reach the end I see | My Lord upon the cross still | hangs.

I find my burdens seem much lighter, | I raise my cross—and try anew | To carry on—to be a fighter,

VERYONE can remember that i which has interested himself. | —Plautus.

| |

are above aver- | understanding of |

President Roosevell's | Federal |

But | | when Roosevelt was elected they de- |

this present Supreme Court issue as | of |

{ we now laugh over the | Aunt Linda. f

story

n » n [CONSTITUTION WILL LIVE | GN, HE DECLARES | By R. B. H, Smith If the President can do away with the needless delays in court procedure, then his proposal is timely. We must admit that when Presi[dent Roosevelt took office in 1932 chaos stalked the nation and that Ihe came forth with his great doctrines of the rebuilding of America in favor of the men farthest down. { If nine men on the Court are sufi ficient it does not necessarily follow (that no more are needed. The Court | must keep step with progress in | order to avoid needless delay in its operation for the general of the nation. However it turns out, true democ[racy will not be silent and the Constitution will live on. n " ” HITS NEW DEALERS FOR COURT CRITICISM | By Charles L. Blume Jr. Remember that famous 5-to-4 decision on the gold clause, favoring the New Dealers? Mr. Roosevelt and his

mentally incapacitated and that the

that was made. Just read the comments | made. earth, gentlemen and | Wonderful decision!

according to the rules, you { make a homerun hy skipping sec- | ond base and going from first

buggy days. There is another | Roosevelt saying that I | hand back. Remember? [according to whose

| spanked.” Hmm. n

CHARGES JUSTICES | CONSTITUTION L.

want to

baby

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CHANGED

By L. Patton, Crawfordsville

| given us, through the process of es- | tablishing precedents, an unwritten | Constitution that completely dwarfs |and almost renders futile the writ- | ten Constitution handed down by | our forefathers. | For the people to change th: Con- | stitution requires the approval of | two-thirds of Congress and three- | fourths of the states. But the “nine {old men” can change the Constitu- | tion by establishing the precedent |of a 5-to-4 vote. | If America is to maintain any pre- | tense of representative government | it is time we made it a little easier for the people to change the Consti- | tution and more difficult for the | “nine old men” to change it.

welfare | |

Constitution was outmoded when |

they | C. 1. O. has been carefully considered and shrewdly The New Dealers said that | the nine men were the salt of the |

scholars. |

But when the umpires said that, | can’t |

to | third. they became old fossils, be- | hind the times, conspirators against | i ve he | the home team and the rules were | SE i I eh te | said to belong to the horse and | . Of wen | . the four oid men have become even Franklin D. “That is | gets | { building steadily during the last six months.

| | Since 1803 the Supreme Court has |

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It Seems to Me

By Heywood Broun of John Has Justified Itself ~~ Magnificently; Labor Movement Now Realistic.

EW YORK, March 6.—The leadership of John L. Lewis has justified itself magnificently. It is only reasonable that praise should be extended to the steel company executives for agreeing to peaceful terms which are likely to be useful all around. But with all deference to the good judgment of the steel kings and captains, I think that no such terms could have been won for labor if there had not been a strike in General Motors. When the settlement of the motor conflict was reached in Detroit most of the editorial comment in the newspapers was to the effect that Lewis and his C. I. O. associates were taking a trimming. Indeed, one or two of the most conservative and most optimistic newspapers hazarded the guess that the star of John L. had set forever. Such comment was silly on the face of it, and in the light of sub=sequent events it becomes even more ridiculous. But these criticisms were made by commentators who first changed Lewis into a man of straw and then proceeded to

Lewis

Leadership

Mr. Broun

| demolish him—that is, within the realm of their own idolizers | | didn’t howl to the nation that the | justices were overworked old fossils, !

pages. One of the favorite fallacies which achieved great prominence was the theory that John L. Lewis had gone completely haywire through a lust for power and that his whole object was one of destruction. From the beginning the campaign of Lewis for the

planned. It has been by na means a one-man enterprise. Murray, Brophy, Matin, Hapgood and many others have done their share. In fact, various organizers whose names never will come into public consideration have had vital tasks in the creation of an effective labor machine. While Lewis has a flair for the dramatic gesture which mav be calculated to make the first page, he has never lost sight of the necessity for detail work which can be dull, tedious and without glamour.

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N dealing with steel the C. I. O. was tackling one of the best organized businesses in America. Its hope of gaining satisfactory agreements lay in meeting the allied executives on equal terms. Lewis certainly was not intent upon destruction, for he has been

At that, he has come pretty close to achieving the

| impossible. Not even the most fervent supporters of | the C. I. O. movement would have dared to hope for | the progress which has already been | year 1937,

made in the William Green has had his answer. It is evident now that the leadership of the A. F. of L.. has not even the merit of maintaining the status quo. The leaders ship of Green and Woll and Frey has been actually an obstacle in the path of progress.

HE leaders banded together in the C. I. O. drive have given tangible proof that thev knew what they were talking about when they undertook to speed up the old guard of the A. F. of L. into activity in the mass production industries. William Green is no longer confronted with a theory, but with a fact. And this is the fact of palpable achievement. Under the leadership of Lewis American labor has become realistic, effective and militant. It would be the height of folly not to admit that many bridges still lie ahead. But more has been done to improve work= ing conditions in the last three months than labor had previously accomplished in the last five years. I think that this seems to be a good start.

” ”

The Washington Merry-Go-Round

U. S. Ambassador to France William C. Bullitt Is Trying to Sell Roosevelt on Idea of Calling World-Wide Disarmament Conference.

undisclosed in detail in 1932, and therefore had no

popular mandate—was overwhelmingly defeated in | | the mid-term Congressional elections of 1934. Whether |

| the New Deal had been sufficiently i 2 | Htly ‘developed in 1932 mysterious that not even the State Department knew

| or not, it was all clearly developed by 1934. That was the winning of battle No. 3. another front the great popular movement begun in 1930 was completely routed in the years 1932 to 1936. The Supreme Court smashed the ‘New Deal's center,

shattered its right wing and rolled back the left of its line, »n » n

Fo this situation came the election of 1936. The New Deal's enemies were seen to be exactly the

battles of 1930, 1932, and 1934. forces who had so smashingly in the courts from 1933 to 1936. The attitude of the Supreme Court was also plain

attacked and won

| clear that, no matter what the country wanted, the New Deal would be defeated, The President to try to work past that barrier within the Constitution and, if he couldn't do that, to seek an amendment. The popular movement won its fourth great battle,

But on |

By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen ASHINGTON, March 6—William Christian Bullitt, meteoric mystery man of Mr. Roosevelt’s foreign relations, is back on another mission so

in advance what it was all about. Inside fact, however, is that Ambassador Bullitt has come back with a personal plan for preserving the peace of Europe, which he is putting up to the President. The United States entered the World War while

| Bill was a foreign correspondent, and he left the | newspaper game to join the State Department, from

Same enemies who fought it in the first three great | They were the same |

which he was catapulted into fame and furor as an adviser to Woodrow Wilson at Versailles. Bullitt’s biggest job during the peace conference was as a secret emissary, to Russia to arrange relations with the newly formed Soviet. Lloyd George

| and Clemenceau cut the ground from under him by

promised |

| dimmed.

the election of 1936. The smoke of conflict had hardly |

cleared away when the President proposed a means tc pass the Court barrier “within the Constitution.”

Instantly he was in his fifth and perhaps his final

battle. It is a constitutional crisis, ¢

| | placing the Allied money on the White Russians, but | enough, Without some new approach to the Court | P S

| or some change in its attitude or personnel it was now |

Bullitt came back convinced there was something in the Russian revolution which would live.

» » ” UBSEQUENT events have more than justified Mr. Bullitt, but his optimistic idealism remains unIt was this idealism which inspired Mr. Bullitt’s part in the resumption of relations with Russia. Mr. Roosevelt would have recognized Russia anyway, but Mr. Bullitt pushed it to an earlier conclusion, later became first U. S. Ambassador to the Soviet,

Coupled with Mr. Bullitt’s idealism is a tendency, when things don’t go his way, to get sore and quit. This was what he did at Versailles, and what he did at Moscow. He began his ambassadorial career in a blaze of popularity. But when Mr. Bullitt ran against a snag in negotiating a debt agreement, he got sore. It became dull in Moscow and Mr. Bullitt quit. He came back to Washington last summer, still an idealist, still bubbling over with enthusiasm. ” =" 5 HAT Bullitt sold Roosevelt last summer was not so much that he, Bullitt, needed a new diplomatic berth in Paris, but that an opportunity awaited the President of the United States to check the mad armament race in Europe, and that Bullitt was the man who could arrange it. Since then, Bullitt has been discussing secretly with the French all sorts of formulas for insuring the peace of Europe, but the one which finally seems to have evolved is the idea of a new move by President Roosevelt for a world-wide disarmament cone ference. Today, the French have emphasized, is the crucial moment. A little later, it will be too late. Further= more, only the prestige and leadership of the United States, an outside and disinterested party, would be sufficient to call an arms conference and steer it to a successful conclusion. This is the argument which Bill Bullitt has

brought back to his close friend, the President.