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THURSDAY, MARCH 18, 1937

“SPORTSMANSHIP” ME JUSTICE M’'REYNOLDS had a perfect right to speak out as he did on the court issue, the same right that any other American citizen has. Indeed, it was his duty to do so, just as it is the duty of any other citizen who may think he can shed light on this issue. We hope, as the debate proceeds, that Mr. McReynolds’ colleagues on the bench likewise will cast aside judicial reticence and give to the public the benefit of their views on this important question, which in the end will be decided by the people's elected representatives, and more wisely decided if the people generally are better informed. As to the particular view which Justice McReynolds

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expressed, it is open to the same scrutiny as the views ex- | pressed by other citizens. | The highlight of the Justice's statement was that “a man who has had a fair chance to present a fair case to a | fair tribunal must be a good sport and accept the outcome.” In other words, the Justice thinks it is not quite sportsmanlike to criticize the umpire in this great game of democracy. In so arguing, it seems to us, the Justice laid himself | and the Court open to a few such questions as these: | Has the Court always been an impartial and unbiased | umpire, or has it at times become an active participant, by interpreting the rule book to fit the play? For example, what about that close decision called | against the coal miner in the Guffey act case, when the Court ruled {that the Federal Government's attempt to safeguard working conditions in mines was an invasion of | states’ rights, despite the fact that seven states intervened in favor of the act and none opposed it? And how does that stack up with another decision two | weeks later in the New York minimum-wage case, when | the Court ruled that a state government could not protect | women workers from wage exploitation, because to do so was to invade the private right of women to work for what they could get, even if it be less than enough for subsistence? And what about this? Three times the Roosevelt Administration has gone to the bat, at the ballot box, with the bases filled by a program calling for the use of governmental power to aid farmers, workers and small business |

men—and three times the Administration has turned in an | electoral home run. Is it sportsmanlike for the umpire to say those scores don’t count in this game of democracy? Very distinctly, we think, those who have suffered so | many adverse and unrealistic court decisions have a valid | complaint against the umpire. And the rules of sports- | manship entitle them to do something more than take their | bats and balls and go home. Mr. Roosevelt, assuming the leadership of those not contented with the Court’s decisions, thinks the remedy is | to put in his own umpire. We think this remedy is all wrong, for reasons which we have stated previously many | times. But there are ways of correcting this imbalance | without tipping the scales too far in favor of another | branch of government. | The game of democratic government is played for the | benefit of the people—and it is their right to razz the players, or criticize the umpire, or change the rules. They, | alone, have the final power.

SIR AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN

NE of the most persistent peace toilers in postwar | Europe, Britain's Sir Austen Chamberlain, lies dead of apoplexy at the age of 73. With France's Briand and Germany's Stresemann, it was he who brought about the famed Locarno treaties upon which the peace of Western Europe has rested for more than a decade. Hitler has scrapped those treaties and Europe is again on the verge of conflict. But that is not | the fault of Chamberlain. | Son of the late Joseph Chamberlain and half-brother of the equally famous Neville, he was very near the premiership again and again. But something more or less intangible always seemed to intervene.

Seldom do father and sons rise to such eminence. Even now they are saying that Neville will likely succeed Premier | Baldwin when the latter steps down, as he is expected to do after the coronation.

EARHART FLIGHT AMELIA EARHART PUTNAM again is flying over |

land and sea in what perhaps is the greatest of her | adventures, a flight of 27,000 miles around the world almost | paralleling the equator. This flight has a special interest for Indiana because | of Miss Earhart’s connection with Purdue University and because the University is putting up approximately half of the $100,000 it will cost. Purpose of the trip, according to Miss Earhart, is the testing of scientific safety and navi- | gation aids. Her plane appropriately is called a “flying laboratory.” We salute this pioneer of the airways whose discoveries may make it safer for all of us to ride the commercial airlines.

BUTLER INDOOR RELAYS

NE of the Midwest's largest indoor track carnivals will be held for the fifth consecutive year at the Butler Fieldhouse Saturday afternoon and night. The creation of Hermon Phillips, Butler track coach, the Butler Indoor Relays are a three-ring circus of track

| day

| ‘Government wouldn’t let him pay | an income tax on his $14,000 even

| Treasury Department.

Fair Eno

Income Tax Just Because He's

‘Supposed to Bring in Something.’

ASHINGTON, March 18.—I dislike to harp on tax-exemption of state, county and city employees throughout the country but that’s my baby, and you might be surprised at the number of people scattered about the land who are not merely willing

| but eager to permit the great class of guest citizens | to share the cost of the Government.

The Supreme Court decision in the case of Wil-

liam W. Brush of New York again upholding the exemption came down at an appropriate moment, for it was delivered on income tax and exempted a salary of $14000 a year at the very time when millions of others, earning much less in private pursuits,

| were filing their returns and toss-

ing their contributions on the blanket. You can’t blame Mr. Brush,

who works for the New York City

| water supply because the Federal

Mr. Pegler

if he wanted to. That would be a tax on the city

| itself, and there are millions of other public em-

ployees drawing an aggregate of billions of dollars a year who find themselves similarly denied the right that other people enjoy of filling out schedules. sending in their money and eventually submitting to cross-examination on their most intimate personal affairs by reviewers instructed to go out and get some more wherever it appears that the victim has a little money left. This new disposition of the reviewing staff has produced some highly interesting little interviews.

| One of the most charming occurred in an office in | New York come time ago.

» N this case, the reviewing agent took up several hours of a busy man's day going over the items of his income tax return for the previous year and found the figures entirely correct. “This puts me in an embarrassing fix,” the reviewing agent said. “I can’t find anything wrong with this return.” “That's fine,” the victim said. “Suppose you just certify it o. k. then and let me get back to my work so I can pay some income tax this year.”

” ”

“Yes,” said the reviewing agent, “but that is the |

trouble. I am supposed to find something wrong and bring in at least a little money. So I just think I

| will disallow this small deduction here and charge you $18.”

2 on » . HAT is a hot one,” the victim said. “I make a perfect return and pay the tax and you say you will have to walk off with some of my money just to square yourself at your office.” “Well,” said the agent, “if I don’t bring in a little money, they will only send around another reviewer to take up some more of your time and he will disallow something, you may be sure. Then if you want to see it through you will have to take an appeal and that will take more of your time. So which would you rather do?” “I will pay the $18,” said the victim and drew his check, plus accumulated interest for the delay in submitting to a procedure which the agent tactily admitted was a stickup under the auspices of the For, after all, it does not pay to get stubborn about constitutional rights in these

| relations as another victim discovered when the re-

viewing agent demanded a wedding certificate to prove that he actually was legally married to his wife of more than 10 years.

General Hugh Johnson Says—

Marriner Eccles’ Warning Except for His Suggestion

EW YORK, March 18.--Mr, Marriner Eccles has contributed an excellent analysis of the threaten=ing danger of increased prices. As I understand him he correctly ascribes the present menacing price inflation to three principal causes——war preparation, a rapid and vertical rise in wages reflected too faithfully and promptly in increased prices, and finally to a fear of the value of money produced by a continuously unbalanced budget. He proposes two remedies: (1) Restraint by Industrial producers in adding the full increase in labor element of cost to their prices; and (2) budget bnlancing by increased taxes. With all but one of Mr Eccles’ elements this column agrees. It disagrees with the suggestion that the way to balance the budget in increased taxes. The way to balance the budget is by decreased spending.

sports. Feature event this vear is to be the mile run in which the Hoosier Iron Horse, Don Lash, and Glen Cunningham and Gene Venzke among others will participate. Forty schools are to be represented and more than 400 entries are expected. Anyone who enjoys seeing running, throwing, or jumping as done by experts would miss a treat by failing to be

There is a fallacy abroad in some parts of this Administration that higher taxes do not or should nat | make higher prices, There is no real income in this country except, fhe production of things. Taxes must be paid from in | come. They takz a part of production, are a burden on and an element of the cost of production, and therefore an element of price,

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By Westbrook Pegler Treasury Agent Charges $18 Extra |

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HOLDS COURT PERSONNEL PARAMOUNT ISSUE By H. L.

“Pride of opinion should not be |

permitted to divide the ranks of those who sincerely seek a solution of our all-impcrtant and very pressing court problem.” Thus The Times strikes the bullseve. It is very interesting to study how you put this splendid theory into practice. At the beginning of the

| controversy The Times declared it- |

self against adding new men to the Court and in favor of an amend-

ment. Having expressed its opinion, | [quite naturally it feels that it must

maintain its position. The Presdent did not reverse. Both Each should accept the

Unfortunately, few men succeed

in holding the fundamental truth | | involved long enough to offer the

statesman-like solution that our court and many similar problems demand: Better men make better institutions. Better institutions make better men. That sounds simple enough. Strange that our President appears

to comprehend the significance of |

‘only the first truth, to the exclusion {of the second. The Times appears © (grasp the second truth at the expense of the first. Why not improve the high bench by appointing democratic men and | improve the Constitution by up-to-date methods? The President is

‘right in striving to avoid the eviis |

of delay. His honest opponents are right in seeking to guard our future. Statesmanship demands that the | two groups of liberals support each other and that all join the President in putting out the fire before attempting to build for the future. How can a sincere amendment ad-

| vocate refuse this demand when he |

| Stephen Leacock, Canadian author, wrote in The Forum magazine: “Americans are queer people: | They don't give a damn. All the world criticizes them and they [don’t give a damn. Foreign visitors | come and write them up; they don't | give a damn. They are told that they have no art, no literature, and no <oul. They never budge. Moralists

cry over them, criminologists dissect | shoot, epigrams at |

them, writers | them, prophets foretell the end of them; and they never move. “Seventeen brilliant books anaIvze them every month; they don't read them. The Europeans threaten to unite against them; they don't mind. Equatorial Africa is dead sour

on them; they don't even know it.

what the German |

(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.)

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Chinese look on them as full Oriental cunning; the English cuse them of British stupidity; [ Scotch call them close-fisted; | Italians say they are liars; the | French think their morals loose; the Bolesheviks accuse them of com munism. “But that's all right. The Amer- | jeans don’t give a damn; don't need to—and never did need to. | That is their salvation.”

» w » HASTE CONDEMNED | IN COURT FIGHT | By E. F. Maddox | The New Deal strategists [the judicial reform bill asking for | the President to appoint six new | justices in case those more than 70 {years of age will not retire. This | plainly seeks, not a new and more

vigorous Court, but for a new interpretation of New Deal laws. The New Dealers have a definite | aim in seeking to infuse new blood {in the Court. They are hostile to | the “horse and buggy Constitution” land want to make it a New Deal Constitution. As has been said | many times recently, in Chief Justice Hughes’ own words, “the Consti[tution is what the judges say it is.” Granting this to be a fact, can any New Dealer deny that the fu- | ture interpretations will be favor able to the economic theories, social | philosophy and political bias of the | New Dealers “regardless of reasonable doubts as {0 their constitutionality,” if six New Dealers are appointed? Can any New Dealer deny that | those very words were used to force through Congress some of the legis= lation outlawed by the Supreme | Court? Can any New Dealer take the Constitution, the laws invalidated by the Supreme Court and the interpretation and decisions handed | down by the Court and prove that

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Someday | T shall return to the old home place

Where creation began. DAILY THOUGHT The Lord our God be with us, as he was with our fathers; let him not leave us, nor forsake us ~~] Kings 8:57.

HERE is nothing worth heing known | ang our own souls.-—Bailey.

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and Advice on Price Rise Is Excellent of Balancing Budget by Increased Taxes.

the Court has misinterpreted Constitution?

There has been no attempt made

| to prove by logical methods that | New Deal legislation NRA, AAA and the Guffey Coal Act were actually constitutional, The attacks on Supreme Court

decisions are based on the specious

argument, that “it is the will of the | | majority of the people” as revealed | in the recent election to have these |

laws re-enacted. But such is not the case, Woodrow Wilson came in a popu-

lar President, but he went out

hurry. Great eéon-

international

in a or

| ecomplish stitutional

If so, they are usually decided

wrong, and later reversed by force, | | as

was the Dred Scott decision, There is no way change in the membership of the

Court in a very few years.

stop, look and listen four or vears before they subordinate the decisions of the justices to the elec= tion returns. » SHOOTING ALONG RIVERS HELD DANGEROUS

Shelbyville

” ”

By Lawrence Martin, Regarding

in Indiana, I find that the State

has been and is trying to do its ut- | most in many ways to make fishing |

better for all of us. This is fine for those who like to fish. than to know that the State will continue to stock our streams with all kinds of game fish. We have a State law compelling purchase fishing which is all right, but there some points T want to bring out, When we buy our licenses for legal

glad

us to are

nrotection it is our duty to ask and | see that our game and fish wardens | rivers |

prohibit all shooting along except during hunting seasons. To do this might mean the saving of someone's life, Such a ruling

would be good news to many fisher- | men right here in Shelby County. At | it is not safe to |

present, I will say be along our rivers. " ” DOUBTS JUSTICES DESERVE A PENSION By Thomas Short I believe the recent Forum letter bv John Acers is full of common sense. Why should Supreme Court judges be retired on full pay? They

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get pood pay for doing nothing and |

if they can't save enough While working to live on the remaining vears of their lives, let them do as manv other men who are just as good as they=live on old-age pen= sions. Working men are too old to get 45. Whv let these old men «it on the bench for vears. Let the justices be elected everv four years, along with the President and perhaps they won't sit on one job until they get old and grouchy.

jobs at

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such as the |

a | broken and defeated man because | | he had an ideal he wished to ac- |

prob- | [lems are seldom decided in haste.

to prevent a |

| the fishing conditions |

We are more |

licenses, |

The Washington Merry-Go-Round

Labor and Farm Supporters

Seem

Heywood Broun

It's a Superb World in Which ta Be 21, and Youth Can Win by Co-operating With His Fellows,

EW YORK, March 18.—~This is which might be written by some middle aged man to a younger one. It could he from { a father to a son, an uncle to a nephew or just from one friend to another. “Dear Bill :=I'm writing to vou hecause, if IT remember, this is your 21st birthday. I don’ mean that attaining vour majority is such a remark= | able feat. Millions of others have done it. I'm con= gratulating you not on your skill but on your luck, This is a superb world in which to be 21 “You are going to step out of college and face the threat of war and unemployment and economia strife, And I still say it's a superb world for any young man to taka on. No age that I ever heard of contained quite so much ferment, “If you are worth your salt you are in for a fight, but vou actually have a chance to win it. The bugles are blowing now, and they do not call martyrs to step fors ward and take the rap. This is a summons for clear-eyed youngsters to step out and grab the world by the back of the neck and shake it into sanity. “In a very real sense you haven't the same right that you might have had 20 years ago to get into a great dither about your soul and your age and your | wholly personal ambitions. Whether you like it or not, you will be forced to function as a member of | the group. The important thing for you to decide | is which group. “When you first went to college I advised you to grab all the history and economics you could without much reference to what we used to call eultural courses. If you can sing or act or paint or write, =o much the better. But even in these activities your job in this generation is to pick a side and declara vourself,

a letter

Mr. Broun

» ” »

i OW 1 wish T could be starting where vou are! i sertainly 1 would tear up the four years 1 spent; in eollege and reframe the whole program. You ought to have vour mind bent upon doing vour part in shaping and channeling the economic currents which are flowing so swiftly. “TI hope that you have equipped yourself and wilt continue to equip yourself with the knowledge and ex= perience calculated to make you valuable in the labor movement. If vou want a hero and a model 1 would direct your attention to Powers Hapgood. “You can learn only part of what you need in ¢ol= lege. There are no lecture courses or textbooks which will make you really acquainted with the essence of trade unionism. To get that vou must work at soma craft where vou come personally in contact with tha problems of your organization,

ou ” ”

“¥ THINK that vou are going to find more joy in cow operating with your own crowd than the la=l

| couple of dull generations ever discovered in trying ta

be verv rugged and very individualistic. “I've forgotten most of my mythology, but probs= ably you remember the name of that man who could always redouble his strength by touching the earth with no more than one toe, He was a demigod, a3 I remember. As a mortal vou will need to do a littia petter than that, Get all your toes on the ground, “I'm going to be with vou. That won't mean a great deal, Lock vour hands and your arms with your fellow fighters for a new and shining world, There I go talking again like a commencement orator. 1 don'f mean to. This is really the truth, If you fight for tha underprivileged vou stand a swell chance of getting vour ears bashed in at some point in the contest, Bub, don't forget, vou and your crowd can win “I'm not pulling that old prize fight manager =tuft of ‘Thev can't hurt us,’ They can hurt you plenty, But they can't lick you if vou and your crowd will only stick together.” - ——————,

of Senator Wheeler Are

Turning Against Him Because of His Stand Against Court Plan,

duction (including duties ang taxes) tends to be reInted to selling price, there is generally assumed to be a direct cuusal relation between cost and price; but, In fact, the cost of production affects price only indirectly through its effect on supply .. If that in, an the New York Times says, economic reasoning,” black is white, The tmmedinte effect of increased cost of produce tion, Including taxes—and hence price—is on demand not. on supply, High price reduces the number of buyers, not the number of sellers.

«admirable

tends to offset that by another method. He wants dictatorial control of import quotas. >» » Ww fo ECCLEN balance of the budget would offset

the vise 1h price due to the fear of money but, |

| fn the other hand, 16 would itself increase the cost | of production and hence all prices, The corporate | tae on undivided profits has been as much responsi | bie me steikes and labor pressure for the wave of | Invreased wages, The incentive to accumulate reNETVER In gone, srof in to

“Since In most Instances the total cost of pro- |

| sailing him as

Mut although he does not say so, Mr. Wallace in- |

It is better to distribute possible than

By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen

ASHINGTON, March 18.--8enator Wheeler is | finding his bitter fighting against the Roosevelt |

court plan a costly vendetta, Old liberal friends and associates are cutting him cold, and former labor and farm supporters are asa turncoat, The Butte (Mont) Miners’ Voice, a potent labor paper in the state

which previously has strongly backed Wheeler, in its |

latest issue refers to him as "a former progressive’ and excoriates him for bolting the President,

The left-wing attack has got under Wheeler's hide. | He resents it deeply-=—which accounts for the bitter |

personal feeling he is displaying toward Roosevelt, But, while furious at his critics, Senator Wheeler has no illusions about their political potency, and

an earnest effort to put himself back in their good |

graces,

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AN railroad Wheeler

pension will be offered.

| would be the unquestioned choice for this role. Bug the railroad brotherhoods evince marked coolness toe

ward the idea. Very angry at the Supreme Court, which junked | their first pension measure, they hotly resent Wheels er's hostility toward the President's plan, Secondly, as practical politicians, they fear reprisals against their measure from Roosevelt supporters if Wheeler's name is attached to it. 80 they are holding him off, undecided what to do, while Wheeler is anxiously pulling wires to get his | name on their bill, » ” ” IMINUTIVE Harry Woodring is a cautious, cares ful gentleman. Appointed temporary Secretary

| of War after the death of George Dern, Woodting

| heard rumors that he would be replaced, that dashing is fully aware that he is traveling in strange company | on the court issue. So behind the scenes he is making |

Paul V. McNutt, ex-Governor of Indiana, would sucs | ceed him, 80 Harry did not get himself out on a limb, Ha remained in his old office as Assistant Secretary of War, did not move into the vacant office of the late

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