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TUESDAY, MARCH 16, 1937

WILLIAM LOWE BRYAN RESIGNS FTER 35 vears of service to Indiana University as its president, Dr. William Lowe Bryan has resigned. For more than half a century Dr. Bryan has served his alma mater in some capacity. As president he served lenger than anv of the school’s other nine chief executives. Ie now bears the title of president emeritus and will continue to serve as the University's head until his successor is appointed. The thousands who attended the school during Dr. Bryan's tenure doubtless bear in mind a memory of the small, kindly, simple man who directed I. U.’s destinies for so long. Under Dr. Brvan the University showed its biggest increase in enrollment and facilities and the greatest enlargement of its curriculum. Dr. Bryan took a broad view of education. He believed that all activities of a university—teaching, research, public service, opportunities for general culture, recreational activities and intercollegiate athletics—must be fostered co-ordinately. “What the people need and demand,” said Dr. Bryan in his inaugural address, “is that their children shall have a chance—as good a chance as any other children in the world—to make the most of themselves . ..” Dr. Bryan strove to see that this chance was provided. For this the people of Indiana owe him gratitude.

NEW AUGUSTA TRAIN WRECK A 11. NOGGLE, fireman, went back into the steaming * cab of the wrecked Big Four passenger train in New Augusta vesterday and dragged out the engineer. A few

minutes later Mr. Noggle died. The engineer's injuries also |

proved fatal. It was a gripping story of heroism. The wreck, caused when the train was derailed after striking an automobile, is another tragic argument for grade separations. In 1935 Indiana had the nation’s third largest number of grade crossing accidents. Only Illinois with 422, Ohio with 349, beat Indiana's 287 train-automobile crashes.

Since 1922, nearly 100,000 persons have been killed or in- |

jured at grade crossings in the United States.

Federal aid 1s helping Indiana do something about |

grade crossings. The new $6,000,000 program includes further crossing elimination and protection. Latest figures showed 12,726 grade crossings in the State, more than 10,000 of which were unprotected. Obviously, the immediate protection of all these is economically impossible. But it is necessary to go forward as soon as possible with separation or protection projects

on the 850 grade crossings on the State highway system, |

and on less important crossings where obstructions are particularly dangerous.

MRS. ADA E. STUART

THE death of Mrs. Ada Ellsworth Stuart is a loss which

her community and state could ill afford. The history of her family is an outline of the history of the United States, and Mrs. Stuart carried on the tradition established by her great-grandfather, Oliver Ellsworth, a delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1787.

Mrs. Stuart was one of the founders and leaders of the | Women's Franchise League of Indiana, which led the fight | for women’s suffrage and later became the Indiana League | She was first president and then hon- | orary president of the Tippecanoe County League of Women |

of Women Voters.

Voters. Until her death Sunday at the age of 82, Mrs. Stuart was actively interested in the civic affairs of Lafayette where her family moved from Indianapolis after the death of her father, who was minister te Sweden. A fine citizen has died.

READ IT AND SWEAR 2 VERYONE who has just paid a Federal income tax owes it to himself to read and get mad about the Supreme Court’s decision vesterday in the Brush case. Not only this decision, but the whole train of previous decisions which established the precedent for this one. Mr. Brush’s 814,000-a-year salary as chief engineer of

the New York City Water Supply Bureau, five judges of | the high court ruled, cannot be taxed by the Federal Gov- | ernment because he gets that salary from a municipality. | It is unconstitutional, said the five judges, to lay Federal |

“burdens” on state and local subdivisions.

Qp it is that Mr. Brush and several thousand others who |

hold similar jobs over the country are added to the everexpanding privileged class that is not required to con-

tribute to the support of the Government in proportion |

to ability to pay. The express language of the 16th Amendment to the Constitution—"“The Congress shall have power to Jay

and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source de- | js just so much legalistic putty in the hands |

rived . . of the judges. Inside this great privileged class of nonpayers of income taxes is one judges themselves. down several years ago declared that Federal judges—who, heing on the Federal payroll and therefore already exempt from state and local income taxes—didn’t have to pay a Federal income tax either, because the Constitution said, in another place, that the compensation of judges “Shall not be diminished during their continuvance in office.” (Pretty cute reasoning on the part of the judges, don't you think?) The same constitutional “protection” extends to the President. But Mr. Roosevelt the other day paid his income tax on his salary, voluntarily. Tn a vigorous dissent in the Brush case yesterday, Mr. Justice Roberts said: “He owes his allegiance to each government. He der rives income from the exercise of his profession. His obligation as a citizen is to contribute to the support of the governments under whose joint jurisdiction he lives and pursues his calling.” Sound reasoning, isn't it? Sound enough, we think, to apply to lawyers on the bench as well as to engineers in a water department.

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TUESDAY, MARCH 16, 1937

Yeah=Everything Is Up—By Herblock

Fair Enough

By Westbrook Pegler

Mussolini Again Demands Italians and Applies Financial Pressure in Order to Gain His End.

NEW YORK, March 16.—I have been try- |

ing to imagine what would happen in this country if we had a Mussolini of our own and he were to issue a decree like the one which the Duce nonchalantly let fly at the Italian people a few days ago with regard to the propagation of the breed. For several years Mussolini gave wedding bounties and baby bonuses to his subjects to stimulate the

production of Italians, an adaptation of the speedup system which organized labor heartily deplores in industrial life. He constantly harangued the people on the subject of population, holding that if there were not many more Italians, the time would come when there would be no Italians, because a numerically small nation could not stand off its enemies. Then, a little over a vear ago, he justified his gallant defensive war against the Abyssinians in a land 3000 miles away on the ground that Italy was overpopulated and had to expand or bust. There seemed to be a slight inconsistency in this, but one of the advantages which a dictator enjoys

Mr. Pegler

| Is his immunity to embarrassing questions.

Now that Italy has expanded into Abyssinia, the Duce again is demanding more Italians, and this time he doesn’t say “please,” but applies financial pressure. The bachelors’ tax has been increased, and married couples are required to breed, if possible, failing Which their possessions will be seized by the state upon their death. There seems to be a serious invasion of the private

But worse than that there is a question concerning the sons of Ttalians who are to be produced merely as tax-exemptions and for revenue only.

5 un 2

HUMAN being, whose original reason for being |!

may be computed in an exact number of lire, which is a 6-cent Italian coin, seems somehow less

human than one who occurred in the natural course

of events. For the Duce's purpose is plain in this respect. He has staked out on the map of Africa the countries which are to be conquered by these bundles from heaven who will be trained from infancy in the arts of killing, and they come into the world with the mission of killing or, in the case of the girls, ‘of producing killers. That much is piain, I am not an expert on the subject of souls, but I have to roll my own thoughts

on the subject, because there is something terrible about the reasoning of anvone holding expert cre-

dentials who would justify this procedure in the |

name of God. 2 8 ® CCORDING to the Duce's code, the highest honors of citizenship are accorded persons whose motives seem most sordid and whose other talents in life may be no asset to the state. This may be all right in Ttaly under fascism. They do have some curious ideas by comparison with ours on certain phases of life, and perhaps Wwe have no

right to criticize, but only to observe and, possibly, if it isn’t an intrusion, to comment. But, after all, is that any way for a man to make a living?

More |

{ would make motor | about 35 miles an hour in open roads land 15 to 18 miles an hour within | | city and town limits.

The Hoosier Forum

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

| SUGGESTS SLOWER AUTO SPEED TO CUT TOLL | By Howard O. Carter |

Without going into a lengthy discussion of ballistics in relation to {the mounting toll of deaths and | serious injuries to residents of Indi- | ana, the solution in eliminating to a great extent the serious number of automobile accidents is as follows: 1. An executive order or request of all automobile drivers for a period

| of 30 days’ test to reduce their speed |

| between the hours of 6 p. m. and {6 a. m. (This will eliminate objec- | tions during business hours) during week days, and full 24 hours’ reduction throughout holidays and Sundays.

9. This reduction to be one-third |

| of present speeds: whereas it would require one hour to reach a destination, it would require only 20 min- | utes’ earlier start. 3. There is no excuse for anyone | driving wildly outside hours, thus converting a motor ve-

| hicle, with its inherent weaknesses, | | into a deadly weapon.

4 During these restricted hours it vehicles speed

All serious-minded drivers would

| co-operate in this test for a period of 30 days, and if it proved to pro-

duce worthwhile reduction, steps could be taken to make it permanent. I trust that you will consider the

{above as a basis to stop this un- |

life of the Italian citizen in the terms of this decree. | eyes

2 » ”

| CHARGES NONINTERFERENCE

| NATIONS INSINCERE By Agapito Rey, Bloomington

The blockade of the

posed to go into effect soon. It does not require great penetra-

| tion to see that this belated effort | to stop interference in Spain is not

based on sincerity and good faith.

In fact, ‘ever

around Guadalajara. And

The directed by England, has been the main factor in prolonging the conflict. It was organized ostensibly to

prevent the Spanish struggle from | { developing into a European war. In | depriving | the means of |

reality it was aimed | the Government of defense against the attacks of Italy and Germany. And it is beginning | to bear the desired fruits. While

General Hugh Johnson Says—

Se Much Has Been Said and Written About the Supreme Court Issue That Everyone Is Going to Be Sick of It in About Twe Weeks.

Vy Sater March 16.—The great Supreme Court issue is being talked toward what Grover

Cleveland ‘called “innocuous desuetude ’—which is

Lippmannese for an old hat in the ash can. Nothing |

is surer, in this country anyway, than that what is sweet to ‘everybody's tongue one month, in the next is sure to follow the rate of an “all-day sucker” leaving nothing but a sticky splinter. On second thought it is worse than that. to be so distasteful that you are likely to be run out of the room if you mention it, Examples are “23= skidoo,” war stories immediately after the war, a

putative novel called “The Rosary,” a beautiful song |

of the same name and “Ta-ra-ra Boomdeay.” The ‘day is rushing on us when if you say “Supreme Court” you will have to dodge as you utter it, but the time is not vet. : % & / HE beloved dean of all columnists, Mark Sullivan.

has forgotten how to write about anything else.

From the phylactery bound broad on the Tofty brow | of High Priest Lippmann have been erased all four |

Verses ‘of the Pentateuch and there is imprinted there,

like the purpose of revenge on the heart of Hamlet, |

the single subject of the Court. The beautiful, but far from dumb, Dorothy Thomphas gone so ga-ga about it, that she mumbles to

ne She actually put on a two-reund bout, | with JR da both co Jubite teers Bout

| up and knocking | applause just as the bell rang in the

herself out

last minute of the last round. It's duck soup for Senators, too.

fying themselves all over the lot—immolating, as they say, their political careers on the altar of patriotism Dave Walsh immo=

to save the “Soo-preme Caht.”

| (Times readers are invited to

of business |

Spanish | | Coast to stop the flow of men and | | munitions into the country is sup-

since the ban on | | volunteers went in to effect, Italian | Army units have landed in Spain | | and now are doing all the fighting | who is | | going to enforce this blockade? Italy | { and Germany will patrol the Medi- | | terranean, France and England the | | rest. Could anyone conceive of any- | | thing more farcical? Nonintervention Committee, |

amidst

express their views in these colreligious controversies ex- | cluded. Make your letter short, | so all can have a chance. Letters must be signed, but names will be | withheld on request.)

umns,

England sends out notes and calls | meetings to discuss neutrality, Italian and German battleships and (airplanes bombard the defenseless Spanish ports, and their armies take Spanish cities and hand them over to the rebels for “purification.” The | Italian press hails the taking of | Malaga as an Italian victory. England's attitude is not hard to { understand. The conservatives now in power are more inclined to Ger{many than France. They already have reached an agreement with Italy over their influence in shipbuilding, steel and transportation | industries. Under the progressive Jovernment of the republic, wages and working conditions became more influential and exacting. It is not difficult to see why they favor a reactionary government that will overthrow all social legislation, suppress labor organizations and set | the country back to the days of the inquisition. This is what the called democratic countries are trying to bring about with their neutrality, which leaves Spanish people (at the mercy of military traitors, | savage Moors and foreign intriguers. ” n n | WANTS TO KNOW STORY | BEHIND COY ATTACK By H. A. I have been reading of the State | House scandal. What the Legisla- | ture's Investigating Committee should know is the story behind the

| Coy attack.

In the last convention Cancilla got plenty of proxies for the CoyTewnsend organization that were rightfully Kirk McKinney's. What Indiana needs is someone to wake her voters up to the fact that the people do not nominate their own candidate for Governor and

A BOY AND HIS KITE

By PAYRICIA BANNER

A pair of ragged overalls, But then he doesn’t care— At heart he is a little king, His kite floats thru the air. A noble kite of royal blue Against a sunny sky... His eager eyes gaze heavenward And hours pass swiftly by.

| DAILY THOUGHT | And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of Man which is in heaven. —8St. John 3:13. | PTHE love of heaven makes one { heavenly. —Shakespeare.

$0- |

| ware of

that organization swings delegates at the convention. I once gave The Times credit for having backbone, but will it let a scoop like this ride by, or has Mr. Farley instructed it to lay off? How about the case of Mr. Blish? According to the papers, Peter Cancilla is a big, brutal slugger, but in real life he is a very small fellow with a lot of nerve. It is time the people were awakened to the facts about these setup machines now fighting one and all in Indiana.

2 ” ” OPPOSES GOVERNMENT RUN BY COURT By T. L. D., Pittshoro It is plain we cannot have both the present membership of the Supreme Court and the New Deal

measures indorsed in the last na- |

tional election. It is plain that the issue is not the Constitution or the Supreme Court. These, we are sure, will survive no matter what the outcome,

The issue is, shall a few members | {of the Court run this country or

shall Congress and the President run it? Are we willing to place

our destiny in the hands of those | who believe in property rights first, |

last and always as against human rights? An assurance to the timid: You need never fear a dictator in this country as long as we elect the entire House of Representatives every two years, one-third of the Senate every two years and a President every four years. Caution: Be=

anyone who holds office for life. ” n ”

HURJA IS SAID TO BE

| FARLEY’S PROPHET | By

Bruce Catton People who have been acclaiming Postmaster General James A. Farley's uncanny skill as a po= litical prophet might give a thought

| to the coming resignation of Emil

Hurja, for hand man. Mr. Hurja has announced that he will presently leave politics to re= turn te private business, and it is

years Farley's right=

quite possible that this may have an | effect on Mr. Farley's gifts as a!

prognosticator. For it was Hurja, by all accounts, who collected the statistics

casts. Hurja knew politics as few men know it, ton ‘correspondents have marked him down as a man who had an uncanny way of telling just how the cat was going to jump, come election day. It Will be interesting to see how

the rare Farley gift survives the | loss of this talented lieutenant.

the power exercised by |

and | erected the graphs on which the | Postmaster ‘General based his fore- |

For years, Washing- |

It Seems to Me

By Heywood Broun Richmond Pearson Hobson of Merrimac Fame Bobs Up in Defense of the Supreme Court,

EW YORK, March 16.=—You can’t keep a good man or a reactionary down. In the beginning the conservatives planned to be very slick in fighting the President’s court proposals. According to the

scheme of campaign, only liberals were to be

allowed to show their heads. These stooges of the opposition would include, of course, the sincere and the seduced, the saps and the sapient. But when a fight becomes general it is im= possible for any commander to keep all his troops under disci= plire, and by now the strangest sort of sea monsters are coming up out of the weeds and bellow= ing. It had been hoped by the foes 5 of Mr. Roosevelt that William | LL. Randolph Hearst would sit this | = a one out. Rut he's in again. The Liberty League crowd promised faithfully to keep under cover and not tip off their sympathies. They, too, have begun to come up with the crocuses. After all, it is pretty difficult to convince any citizen that he has political b. o. | and that you would prefer to get along without his help. Sooner or later it was certain that Richmond | Pearson Hobson would get into the contest on the wrong side. Commander Hobson is almost a genius in picking deplorable causes, and now he is the president of the Constitutional Democracy Associa= tion with offices on Madison Ave. and everything on his side but justice. The resurgence of Richmond Pearson Hobson | shocked me deeply when last the top of his head appeared above the surface of the sea. To be sure, I had heard his name during the prohibition era. The commander was among the driest of the drys, Compared to him, Bishop Cannon looked like a man who had been caught in a thunderstorm. And in this faet there was great irony. I saw Mr. Hobson quite plainly at a hearing of the platform committee at the Democratic convention of 1038, After 20 minutes or so I turned te my nearest neighbor and asked, “Who is that dreadful old codger who is making that singularly dull speech?” “Why, that is Richmond Pearson Hobson,” swered the man of whom I had made the inquiry,

Mr. Broun

an=

n ” 4 ND a eurious and poignant pain laid hold of ma A in the pit of my stomach, for this was the firsh This was the man who went down with the Merrimae in the harbor of

and greatest hero of my youth. Santiago on a summer's day 38 years ago. Of course, before I had Hobson as a hero there had been Robin Hood, but he was only a man in a picture hook, while the commander was flesh and blood and one of our own warriors who fought to make Spain safe for democracy. Something was gone now=—practically all the flesh and most of the blood. The man upon the rostrum was dry as dust not only in his point of view, but in his personality as well.

” ” ” S I remember, Richard Harding Davis wrote one of his most thrilling dispatches about the gallant young naval officer from the South. The Spaniards themselves hailed him as a hero. To be sure, he did not succeed in blocking the channel, but it was a good try. And a Spanish gunboat fished him out of the water to furnish him with warm blankets and, I hope, a shot of rum. And they tell me that when the Castilian rescuers appeared Richmond Pearson Hobsbn was going down | for the third time. But he came up, and now, n= stead of being the hero of Santiago Harbor, he has become a dull advocate for deplorable causes and in | the present controversy the 10th old man.

thundering last second of the

They are eruei= war is (1)

The Washington Merry-Go-Round

A. F. of L. Faces Big Loss of Revenue and Is Adopting Organizing

Tactics of C. |. O.; Prejud

By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen

ASHINGTON, March 16.—Datest significant development of the Bill Green-John L. Lewis labor that Labor faces an important loss of revenue; (2) that the A. F. of In. is now adopting the identical industrial

Green's American Federation of

| lated his—at least a little—at Madison Square Garden Tt gets | | Germans and the Jews—all the objects of the Ku-

in a special side-show intended for the Catholics, the

Klux Klan except Negroes. = ” ”

ENNETT CLARK picked out Kansas City as the Golgotha to do his early spring immolating with

| this: “It has been said that I shall destroy my political

future. . «+ No individual's future is worthy of con= sideration. I Would rather put my back to a blank wall and be shot than vote for the President's pro=

| posal.”

Even “Cyatah” Glass is going on the air to talk for an hour and “Cyatah” doesn't like to talk at all | —much. An hour on the radio is far too long, but I'd rather hear Senator Glass talk for an hour than | to waste the same hour hearing any other 12 Sen= ators talk five minutes each.

Senator Glass will be worth listening te but even | | the Federation Unions were suspended.

his eloquence will be just another shovel of sod on his PT ee Jmverest on this ua i tb. Abe Wo weeks from now the t er A ha ha bl

alt ay old

union tactics for which it once berated and suspended

Lewis with his Committee for Industrial Organization. | These were the chief developments behind the |

scenes at the mysterious conference of A. F. of L. or= ganizers staged in Washington recently. Green did not shout it to the public, but he told the field men to go out and organize not along old A. FP. of L. “oraft” lines, but “from top to bottom in one union.” > % &%

O get the full import of this, remember that the

death struggle between the A. F. of L and the | C. I. O. began over the question of industrial union= | Green and his old=line union ¢hiefs wanted | | to stick te a lot of different “craft” unions within each | | industry. ting all the different groups of workers within any |

ization. Lewis and his C. I. O. stood out for put=

one mass production industry under one big union.

It was for this that Lewis and about one-third of |

But now that Lewis has achieved such spectacular success, the

A. F. of L. moguls have quietly adopted the industrial whton ec oF hit hated Fv, ,

eg 3

pay or

ice and Spite Largely Caused Labor's Split,

In other words, it wasn't a matter of principle, ! but of personal prejudice and spite which caused the | civil war in labor's ranks. It is a ¢lose parallel to the personal prima donna rivalry now splitting the | | | |

liberals over Roosevelt's Supreme Court proposals. ” on ” B= there is more than personal revenge behind this abrupt shift in tactics. Green and his allies must now look to their finances as a result of the split, Their suspension of the C. I. O. unions last Sepe tember cost them at one stroke 1,250,000 dues=paying members. Since that time the C. I. O. has boosted its Yolls to 1,800,000=just a little below the 2,000,000 now left in the A. ¥. of L. The C. I. O. unions also took awav With them $12,500 a month, or $150.000 in annual dues. Since then, other unions bolting the federation have cost it another $130,000 of annual revenue. A $300,000 slash from a previous income of $1,000,000 is a hard blow for the A. I. of L. budget. The fat salaries of CGireen and his moguls have remained unchanged. Other expenses are as high | of higher. Something desperate had to be done even to the extent of swallowing pride and raiding the enemy by aping his tactics, Green is staking everything on this maneuver, If it flops, either he will have to take a big out in ce with Lewis, 2 Xi er 8 £5 }

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