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Give Light amd the People Will Find Thel Nay

MONDAY, MARCH 8, 1937

“A LITTLE JOB TO DO” HE legislative committee investigating the Joel A. Baker-Peter A. Cancilla terror lobby has acted speedily to protect the public's interests.

A New

12 cents a ,

Testimony already has |

disclosed a political situation here far worse than was first |

indicated when Cancilla assaulted Wayne Coy in the State House a week ago.

The committee's desire to finish soon the first phase |

of its investigation is understandable. journs tonight. Members have been away from their private affairs. But just as evidence at each of the preceding hearings

The Legislature adhere two months, |

has developed the need for new subpenas and new wit- |

Nesses, testimony is needed in order to dig up the facts. The failure of three police agencies—State, City and County-—to find the fugitives Joel Baker and Cancilla, increases the seriousness of the case. Baker has been linked directly with Cancilla in the Coy attack. Joel Baker's secretary testified Baker and Cancilla left Baker's office together last Monday morning. A hotel taproom employee testified Baker and Cancilla left

the taproom together, later that morning, with Cancilla |

saying, “1 have a little job to do.” The two returned to the taproom together shortly after Mr. Coy was slugged, the employee said. been in hiding.

Underlining this damaging evidence was testimony by |

Virgil Sheppard that Joel Baker had threatened to kiil him and that Mr. Coy had told Mr. Sheppard of similar threats

hy Baker on Mr. Coy’s life. Mr. Sheppard was named Act- |

mg County Welfare Director when aroused legislators summarily ousted Joel Baker from that post. So the job has only begun. Many other persons have been connected with the case. The Investigating Committee has demonstrated by its conduct that it wants to follow through to the end the amazing ramifications of the Baker-

Cancilla pohtical ring and its use of intimidation as a |

Weapon.

Further hearings are necessary to get to the bottom. The full committee need not attend all sessions. The members, all attorneys, have been acting ex officio in the capacity of counsel, anyway. One Republican and one Democratic member could sit as attorneys for the committee in questioning witnesses and completing the record. Grave new disclosures make it imperative that the committee recess, rather than adjourn.

“BALANCED ABUNDANCE” HERE is joy in the ranks of organized labor over recent and prospective wage raises in steel, autos, clothing, coal and rails. dustry over the golden stream of dividends and expanding markets. There is joy on the farms over prospects of bumper crops and good prices. But there is fear among the unorganized consumers— white-collar masses, service workers, the millions of unemployed and the rest—that prices may go beyond their capacity to buy. They remember 1910 and the years fol-

lowing when “HCL” was their alphabetical bugbear and |

buyers’ strikes were the sit-downs of the day. Today the high cost of living is a haunting fear of

something around the corner, rather than a reality. Aver- |

age wages have been going up faster than retail prices. But the danger of runaway prices is far from fanciful. un x n ® 5 Secretary of Agriculture Wallace, in a speech to the Consumers Emergency Council in New York on Saturday, warned of this danger. Ie said there is no balm either in low prices or in high prices as such, but only in the progressive balance between production and real purchasing power. Secretary Wallace would lead us to anced abundance.” There appears to be no short cut to this land. But there are certain things we may do to make the going easier. We can, for instance, drive home that profiteering is suicidal, that to raise prices faster than we raise wages and salaries is to court another depression. We can move more sternly against greedy monopolists. We can place more weapons in the hands of consumers, such as an ably manned fact-finding Government consumer service, give aid to consumer co-operatives for developing price vardsticks, encourage publicly owned utilities. We can, the Supreme Court willing, set up national planning services for industries, as England has done, to aid sick industries through modernization and rationalization of their production. And, finally, we can provide for a juster distribution of earning and buying power, " The lower one-third of our people, who, President Roosevelt says, are still ill-fed, ill-clothed and ill-housed, form the potential market that must be annexed to prosperous America. Otherwise the land of balanced abundance will forever be a mirage.

SAVE 10 YEARS

HE T way. These savings certificates were first offered the public March 1, 1935.

sales aggregated $259,000,000, maturity value.

“the land of bal- »

In 1936,

sales jumped to $473,000,000. Last month they exceeded

$130,000,000. If that pace is maintained through the remaining 11 months, the 1937 sales value will be approximately $1,500,000,000. What interests us most about this whole baby bond proposition is that

Government's future financial soundness. If enough voters become creditors of the Government, there will not be so much reckless spending of public money—for the very simple regson that touched pocket nerves show up in vefiexes at the ballot box. .

A A RY OTITIS PE SI REE rr

Since then, Joel Baker and Cancilla have |

There is joy in the offices of organized in-

“baby bond” habit of saving is taking hold in a big |

For the remainder of that year |

average citizens, who never .before | owned Government securities, are acquiring a stake in the

so today's testimony doubtless will show further |

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES Note in the Chorus of Nations—By Talbur

Fair Enough

By Westbrook Pegler

La Guardia's Remarks About Hitler Worth While Because They Serve To Show Nazis as They Really Are.

Guardia should have kept a still tongue in his head because, after all, insults are futile but there is always a temptation to poke up the Nazi efficials and newspapers just to have them rage. Between their moments of spectacular rage they are likely to deceive other races with a false appearance of civilization and intelligence and these incidents have the value of catching them off-guard and revealing them as they really are, So the little inconvenience to the State Department occasioned by La Guardia’s remark that Hitler belongs in a chamber of horrors probably was worth while after all. As a result of this crack we have had another demonstration of the fierce vituperation and wild recklessness, the filth and slander which the Nazis use in lieu of argument when they are sore. It must be remembered that anything which is printed in a Nazi newspaper represents Adolf Hitler's sentiments on the subject under discussion because the papers are strictly dictated by Joe Goebbels, the sinister little man in command of the propaganda department. So when Der Angriff says in a tone of mysterious menace “we could take an interest in the United States and United States affairs which would not be pleasant,” that is not merely some editor speaking but Hitler, himself. Just what Hitler means by that Der Anerift does not explain but it isn't very important because he has been pulling the same thing on other nations all over

the map. The boy is just taking in a little more territory,

Mr. Pegler

un un n 'N Germany no American would be allowed to organize a political demonstration or sound off from a platform to the detriment of a German mayor or provincial boss and any American who tried it would be tossed into jail where the tough guys would give him a thorough churning before the U. S. Consul could get to him. But in our country Nazis enjoy all the liberties and privileges of free people and reveal their manners by ridiculing the system which | permits this freedom and depicting us as a nation of gangsters and other criminals.

There is a difference between Germans and Nazis |

In this country, of course. The non-Nazi Germans detest Hitler as heartily as other sane people and they are constantly at pains to distinguish themselves from Brown Shirts. However, the very fact that they mind their own business puts them at a disadvantage because the Nazis are constantly in action and thus attract attention. ®

” ”

S for the suggestion that Hitler's image be given a place in a chamber of horrors at the impending New York World's Fair, the Nazi Government, in all its angry wordage, has not yet given any reason why not. It seems a very good idea except that it would be pretty rough on some of the other old-time torturers, And if the Nazi Government decides that it will not, come to the fair that should be all right, too, because their New York and New Jersey units undoubtedly would make the fair an occasion to kick up trouble among the Americans.

General Hugh Johns

Guardia's Remarks

Mayor La

" _. MONDAY, MARCH 8, 193%

Fireside

Chat—sy Herblock

The Hoosier Forum

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

ASKS IF PEOPLE WANT PRESIDENT'S PLAN

| By James R. Meitzler, Attica

| NJEW YORK, March 8.—Maybe Mayor La |

The President's plan to pack the

Supreme Court is neither new nor |

unconstitutional. But, is it what the people want? The people elected Roosevelt President. They gave him a submissive Congress. Do they want Congress to give him a subservient Court? Do they want a controlled Court to set the Constitution aside? Those who favor the plan claim the justices represent only one class, those who own property. But have they proved their point? Judges should represent neither class nor mass, minority nor majority. Supreme Court justices should repre sent the law, according to the Constitution. ' What part of the Constitution does the President want nullified by the decision of a packed Court? The fifth amendment, which denies the Government the power to deprive any person of life, liberty or property without due process of law? The Fourteenth amendment, that denies the same power to the slates? These two amendments safeguard the liberties and property of all persons, big or little, individual or corporate. The NRA invaded those rights, as did the Wagner Labor Relations Act and all the laws favored by union labor. What is wanted is

a Supreme

Court which will, by judicial deci= |

sion, amend the Constitution as the

executive may desire instead of per- |

mitting the people to decide for themselves by constitutional procedure—a court which will invade the rights of those who own property in favor of those who are not owners of that property. | which will give union labor equal or superior rights in the property of

its employers, regardiess of the Con- |

stitution 8 ”

SOUTHERN PAPER FAVORS ANTILYNCHING MEASURE

Walter White, Secretary, Association for the Advancement Colored People, New York City, Your readers will be interested in the following editorial from The Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch: “The Times-Dispatch favors the enactment of the Federal Antilynching Bill just introduced in the House of Representatives and shortly to be introduced in the Senate. It sees no hope of ever wiping out lynching, the greatest crime against | Southern civilization, except through Federal action. | “If every state would enact an antilynching law similar to that

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which Virginia passed a decade ago, |

lynching could be almost, if not wholly, obliterated. law makes lynching an

against the State as a whole, sub-

jects all participants in lynchings to |

charges of murder, and authorizes | the Governor to have the attornev

| general aid in the prosecution and |

co spend any sum he [the Governor]

on Says —

About Hitler Raised

American | of |

The Virginia | offense |

(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.)

deems wise in convicting fle guilty parties.

since that law was placed on the statute books “But it has become plain that few, if any, of the Southern States will follow Virginia's legislative example. Although the Dyer Antilynching Bill of 1922 and the Cos-tigan-Wagner Antilynching Bill of 1935 would almost certainly have passed, but for the filibusters Southern Senators, most Southern States seem to have learned nothe ing from these episodes. Southern Senators on both occasions expressed profound resentment over the possibility that the Federal

Government might be permitted to |

imterfere in the affairs of the States but they do not seem to have done anything to make such intervention unnecessary. “This newspaper’s primary objec= tive is to put

have disgraced the South and America before the world, “It is clear that lynching will not be wiped out until there is a new spirit abroad in the land, or until State and local authorities bestir themselves far more vigorously than they have done heretofore. We see no likelihood that either will occur

| in the measurable future. convineing

the most that this

“One of

demonstrations is true

| was given in the autumn of 1934,

In reality. a court | when Claude Neal was taken from

an Alabama jail Florida. At least

and lynched in 15 hours’ notice

was given in the nation's press and |

over the radio that Neal was to be lynched, and from 4000 to 7000

| white people gathered, among them |

many small children. Neal was put

AFTER REUNION By DANIEL FRANCIS CLANCY

| Your presence was the lucifer

Which touched the dry

| Powders of my soul i And caused them to ignite

And flare forth,

The powders of romance and love. |

And now, after we are parted.

When the colorful flames have died— | | Now, that I am alone,

My soul is still warm And sad.

Oh! I long for you

DAILY THOUGHT And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ve be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.—St. Matthew 18:3.

HILDREN are God's apostles, sent forth, day by day, to] preach of love and hope and peace. | —James Russell.

a Storm in

Germany Because They Contained Such a Large Element of Truth. |

EW YORK, March 8-—In Madame Tussaud's old wax-works in London there were wax figures of all ‘the Kings and Queens of England, including the reigning monarchs, and of Napoleon Bonaparte,

the Kaiser, and every very prominent ruler in the |

world.

it wasn’t such a terrible thing for Mayor Fiorello La Guardia simply to suggest that he is going to put a figure of Herr Hitler in the New York World's Fair waX-works—if only he hadn't called the Fuehrer a brown-shirted fanatic “who is now menacing the peace | of the world,” and the wax-works is the chamber of horrors. Of course if any man is | world an appropriate place for him would be the | chamber of horrors. Also, if a man insists on wearing a brown shirt as a uniform there isn't much the matter with calling him “brown-shirted.” The issue seems to get down to whether handsome Adolf is a fanatic

who menaces the peace of the world. Because Fiorello |

says he is a fanatic, the Prussian stumtruppen seem to be polishing up their oy and all the fatherland

is ablaze.

MN z= What Fiorello said about Adolf wasn't |

polite but listen to what Adolf’s push-button Phew is ne about Fiorello: ad sufficiently bribed him, were enabled to kidnap and pillage with more impunity than ever before . . . gangster-in-chief + + + Jewish ruffian . , , ally of Moscow. It gpesn't suggest that he be put in

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There has not been a sin- | gle lynching in the Old Dominion |

of |

a stop to the seem- | | ingly endless series of mob murders | which

| to

to death with the most unspeakable [and unprintable tortures. No one | was even arrested “As long as State and local ofli- | rials are indifferent to these bar- | barities, they will continue to occur. We see no alternative but to enact a

MINUTE, MY EFRIEND= LET'S TALK THIS over!

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8y Heywood Broun | Columnist Goes to Philadelphia in Search of Lost Youth, But Younger Set Convinces Him It Is Really Lost,

ILADELPHIA, March 8.——When 1 came to the “flu” |

PP! | here recuperate from

| a . a Federal law with teeth in it, and to! thought the slower pace of the town and its

let the G-men and the ¥Yederal | courts go into action.” | ” # ” ECONOMIC LITE OF READER NOT LIMITED TO STATE LINES

By “American First’

Am 1 a Hoosier first | American first? My (am an American first, and [lieve 90 per cent of the Americans [will agree with me in my answer. This would not have been the [case a century ago What has (brought about the change? One (has only to look at the stock [market for the answer. American business Las outgrown [ boundaries. In the same sense, the need | protection of my rights has outgrown state boundaries My economic life today American | rather than Hoosier. That (I am an American before 1 Hoosier

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state

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” OPPOSES RETIREMENT PAY | FOR ELDERLY JUSTICES | By John Acers I have read considerable about the | retirement bill for the Supreme | Court and I would like to know

n ”n

Is why |

answer is, I

I be- |

{ remarked, “Perhaps you know my Uncle Alec | lieve

if |

| a [our Congressmen have good common |

| sense,

I work for $11 a week. Why not |

retire me on full pay? human as anyone else? | thousands of others

I know who

Am I not as | of have |

| worked all their lives at manual la- | hor and would like to retire on full |

pay, even though it is small.

With all due respect to the Court |

judges I would say, let them retire |

if they choose, but just like myself, with nothing. | get another job | drawn fabulous wages life.

Neither most

4 o n | REDISTRIBUTION OF JOBS | ASKED BY NEWCASTLE MAN By William Rupert, Newcastle I realize that business out some expense, but penses could be reduced by lowering the salaries cf some The Legislature could be reduced by one-fourth and the body could still do its work—in less time It is easy to see that some politicians and professional men

doing more to promote sellish in- | terests | welfare,

than to promote

The President asks

the needy older people

women who don’t need What we give rightfully will grow

and help others. What we withhoid |

for ourselves will not grow.

officials. |

100. | are |

general |

I am 72 and cannot | have 1! of my | { been detained by business in Washington.

|The Washington Merry-Go

Fspirit of mutual confidence might be good | for my cough, In first through Rittenhouse Square 1 blame near broke my left tripping Evidently 1 was violating some speed law, last night for Kid MeIbsen's “Ghosts” has the liveliest drama of the season. In little lanes trim houses stand which might give forth Ben Franklin, and all in ail Philadelphia gave promise of being a paradise for the middles aged, since the hands of the clock have been set in slow motion, But Father Time is a cosmopolite, and there is no city this side of Samara or bevond it where one can possibly avoid him. It was a girl from one of the colleges hereabouts who rudely cut across my pilgrimage in search of lost vourh. I had been deceiving myself with the theory that it was only mislaid. The voung woman from thie undergraduate weekly did an interview and then I bes he used to be a newspaper man once himself, before he took-up radio.” That gave me pause, and in the interval the vears cascaaed down upon the middle of my neck. “Yes, 1 know your distinguished uncle,” I answered, “and it seems but yesterday that he was talking about you. “And now vou're sitting there asking me what 1 think of the Supreme Court. Well. it seems to us as if they have been sitting there a long time, but to the justices themselves undoubtedly the years have simply galloped.” » Ww » OR did it help me very much to visit a local college where a relative of mine has recently matriculated. This countryside is thick with institutions of higher learning. You cannot throw a rock with out hitting a dean, or at least an assistant professor. However, I threw no rocks, but went to call at a fraternity house instead. Chief Justice Hughes is the most distinguished member of the group to which I belong. Brother Charles was not around, as he has

my easy amble

leg by over a local pigeon,

They gave a fight dinner CO\ and been hailed a:

Mr. Broun

The members of the chapter received me cordially,

but with a politeness which made me feel that I, too, | was used to being addressed as “Sir,” and it wears me ( 11. and Gov=- down | ernment cannot be operated with- | State ex- |

m my 9s and on the bench. I am not

Chancing to look at the college paper, my eye happened upon an article dealing with co-ed week, and I read, “On Monday night a, Beau-Bow party will be held in Collection from 7 to 8. Its vital fea ture is that the boys wear bow ties and the girls wear hair bows.” that the cynical

I’ is true flagrantly editorialized to why is as good as ours ” I can tell that it will be a fatal error if IT undertake to try to keep up with the younger set. I belong

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added “Your

reporter sentence,

in guess

a as

In fact, I'm an ancestor myself, which is inecreass ingly borne in upon me. I am going back to a communily where men of 50 #ib around and tell each other mendaciously that the half-century mark is actually the prime of life. I am going back to mingle with friends who wouldn't even dream of being polite to me. 1 don’t want to be called “Sir.” I want to be called “Butch.”

Round

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President to 'Shoot Works’ on Supreme Court Tomorrow Night; Old Guard A. F. of L. Leaders Gloomy Over Lewis' Success With C. I. O,

suggested that the place for him in | It is a dirty dig that hits the bulls-eye that calls out

menacing the peace of the |

pickelhauben (spiked helmets)

“Gangsters, when they |

Madame Tussaud’s Chamber of Horrors—only “in an

insane asylum or a prison.”

The German Government immediately made a |

hot protest to our Fiorello called Adolf, but it 1s a safe bet that our Government won't even mention what Adolf’s press called Fiorello. Instead of polishing up our pickelhauben, the only national reaction here will be a considerable guffaw joined by the Mayor of New York.

State Department about what |

What explains that difference in reaction? Mark

Twain said that when a man is called a name In Which there is not a shadow of truth—that is a joke.

the reserves. And he illustrated that in this way: A distinguished French author came to this coun=-

By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen ASHINGTON, March 8-—The President's “fire-

side chat” tomorrow night is something you

don’t want to miss.

He is going to “shoot the works” on the Supreme |

Court. Not only is he going to take off the gloves, but his speech will make a significant change in Administration tactics on this all-important issue, In his sensational message to Congress, the Presi-

dent's chief argument in justification for his proposal

| to “pack” the courts was the advanced age of many

try and, after spending a couple of weeks, went home |

and wrote a comprehensive book all about Americans.

The principal diversion of our upper crust was, he |

saidy trying to find out who and what their grandfathers were. ” ” n HAT nettled some people and ever, Mark Twain himself. So he wrote a skit about French highhats. They, said Mark Twain, were all busy trying to find out who their fathers were. " That instantly caused a worse blaze of indignation in France than Fiorello’s dead cat heaved at the Fuehrer has raised in Germany, Mark Twain explained that the offense in both places was the element of truth in them, Mark was right. The only trouble with Fiorello was that he said a

judges and the overcrowded condition of

calendars.

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torney General Cummings.

Cummings’ strategy was weak and unsound. Stressing the age of judges, they told the President, played into the hands of the opposition by enabling them to concentrate their fire on the relatively unimportant charge of judical inefficiency.

The astute thing to do, they counseled, was to |

make a straightforward challenge of the Court's axing of liberal legislation, particularly labor and social welfare measures. argued, put the opposition at a disadvantage by fore. ing it to defend the unpopular rulings of the judges. The advice sounekd good to Roosevelt, He junked

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court | . | the two giant corporations, but he has become the idol

| of the labor movement.

HIS line of attack was sold the President by AtBut recently other | | White House advisers have convinced Roosevelt that |

This form of attack, they |

| Cummings’ strategy and in his speech tomorrow night | will tackle the issue from the more direct approach.

He will hit straight at the Court's scuttling of liberal social and econbmie legislation.

8 HESE are sad days for the little group of Old Guard moguls who rule the A. F. of LL Their hated rival, bushy-browed John L. Lewis, whose collapse they confidently predicted when he tackled General Motors and United States Steel is now riding higher than ever. Not only has he scored epochal agreements with

n n

Jnions are falling over thems selves to join his Committee for Industrial Organiza« tion. His success in unionizing the auto and steel in.

| dustries, which the A. F. of L. never succeeded even in

denting, puts the C. I. O, in a position to become a serious rival to the Federation itself. Added to Lewis’ miners, the steel and motor workers constitute an ox - ganized strength that is vastly greater numerically

than any other similar combination in the A. F. of L

fold. : Even more ominous, fromthe old craft-unionist viewpoint, the C. I. O, triumph is a smashing blow to their theory of labor organization and a tremendous boost for unionism,

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