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Give Light and the Peuple Wili Find Thetr Own Way

MONDAY, MARCH 29, 1837

VOLUME HERE probably was not much basis for the &pectation that the President, as the result of his week-end conference on the labor question, would do “something about” the sit-down strikes. As a matter of unpleasant fact, once a sit-down strike has begun there isn’t much the President—under the limitations the Supreme Court has placed on the Federal power—can do, except to say he doesn’t approve of this particular type of lawlessness any more

than he approves of the employers’ defiance of the Wagner |

Collective Bargaining Law.

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This, however, does not relieve the Administration |

from the necessity to make a beginning on a complete labor policy.

This is true because the whole success of the New Deal | economic and fiscal program depends upon the development | of a greater and still greater volume of production and

business.

Mr. Roosevelt's own WIA, at the very time he was

conferring with Congressional leaders, released an indus- |

trial study which concluded that to reduce unemployment to the level of 1929 the production of goods and services would have to be stepped up to 20 per cent above the 1929 high. Our population is about 6 per cent larger than in

1929, and technological improvements have so increased

efficiency that fewer workers are required to turn out the same volume. In a system such as ours we lose balance by standing still; we maintain balance only when all economic forces advance abreast. And with purchasing power still lagging behind, despite all the billions of borrowed money the Government has spent to shorten the lag, the country can ill afford anything that retards the advance of that economic

Fair Enough

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Remember the Sad Case of Humpty Dump

MONDAY, MARCH 29, 1937.

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ty !—By Talburt ‘March Temperature Variationsin W ashington—By Herblock

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Westbrook Pegler Kansas Prohibitionist Hoist by Own

The Hoosier Forum

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

It Seems to Me

By Heywood Broun

Enters Beech Grove Evolution Controversy, Even to Suggesting

(Times readers are invited to States to go back home uncer a express their views in these col- | Government plan.

ey liu ; oc umns, religious controversies ex If the majority of these bovs go

force. And that is what industrial strife does. The New Deal's plans to re-establish balanced economic conditions and a balanced budget cannot succeed so long as management-labor troubles paralyze any large segment | of industry. And that is why, in our opinion, it is so vital that the | Administration do all in its power to prevent industrial

Petard When Legislature Amends PRIEST QUOTES LETTER | ‘ . OF SPANISH IN "UAL | Bone-Dry Bill to Permit 3.2 Beer. SE ySa IVIEVURCTL | cluded. Make your letter short, |

By Rev. P. A. Deery, I WN in “WW Y E wh 3)... i ans | EW YORK. March 29 __ Was ever a vir- | Newnifn, ‘Chih Cunha, 3 | so all can have a chance. Letters | home, the economic and social con- | NEW \ ORK, March 29, Out mn Indian 1 . | A Hoosier Forum writer says “The must be signed, but names will be | ditions of the islands will be greatly | they seem to be preparing a revival of tuous public servant played so foul a [inhuman treatment accorded the withheld on request.) improved by the introduction of | , trial] SHR i » > ~ . i i y i » | ’a ww S A » 4 ery ‘She b ¢ trick as the Kansas State Legislature has | different learnings which they ac- | 18 SCOpes 1ria : aD just perpetrated on Rep. George W. Plum-

intellectuals in Spain by, Rebel Fasfoisted iiavorid Sascriston.” Ves. Sis: | quired in America. | should be for that, as the original show was nd description, because It 1s Ot | muniste and other destructive ele- | gp, to accomplish this, 1t is Tor | ane of the most entertaining ever offered to mer, long a toiler in the cause of prohibition? ! yu em a disputes from getting out of hand. Mr. Plummer introduced a bill to prohibit the sale of beverages with any alcoholic content what-

‘fact. But the inhuman treatment | ments which from time to time tried | the Philippine National Assembly | 3 the feature writers. And the question of what to do, we believe. is Doi g : eve, 1s pointed | soever. The House passed his bill, but the Senate,

(has been inflicted by the present | to upset those principles. | to consider a general rehabilitation | | Reds in control of the Spanish Gov- | My earnest desire is to see the ap- | program with the following provi- | Of course, any attempt to stage the aflair again will be marred by the fact that it is impossible to out by what already has been ¢ : I ried y ies . ady ha i done and is working so well | in an evil moment, made an amendment permitting in the railroad industry. There is a system of true collec- | 32 beer. The bill then went back

| ernment. Permit me to give Your | nication of those principles for the | sions: An emergency bill which | | assemble the original cast, William Jennings Bryan tive bargaining between employers and employees, plus to the House which concurred in

U. S. Constitution May Be Involved

Indiana University Bloomington

another communistic country like |

| readers proof from an intellectual Fo Iw avy : : benefit of the Filipino people. { would pay the passage of every | gentleman from Madrid. This gentle- | | Filipino now in the United States Therefore I feel confident that in | F11P is dent mn Claretce Darrow 3s too old to participate, while Henry Tati | ) nt, t { mediation through a Government agency, plus voluntary I Eriment, 0 Ye Torro © arbitration, that for more than a decade has prevented a

man was in the ranks of the Reds | : who wants to go home to the until he learned their ulterior mo- | ‘he due course of time some con- | > Mencken has become a Republican and has ceased to believe in evosingle serious strike by the simple process of settling disputes before they come to a head.

THAT BUDGET AGAIN

THE corporation undistributed profits tax was to be the big revenue bonanza that was to balance the budget painlessly. But apparently the ore vein is thinner than expected. For, although corporations did yield to the law's compulsion and pay out more dividends and thereby swell personal income tax collections, the March payments indicate a total that is about $150,000,000 short of expectations. : So it seems that if the Federal budget is to be balanced, it can be done only by some painful effort in Congress,

either through economies or by more taxes, or both. That |

the budget should be balanced, and without delay, seems to be no longer a matter of dispute. Even David Cushman Coyle, apostle of tall public spending, and Governor Eccles of the Federal Reserve Board, who looked upon the unbalanced budget as necessary and desirable through the hard depression years, now say the time has come to stop adding to and start subtracting from the public debt. ‘ All in all, it seems very likely that before long Congress will find itself in a position where it will have to look for more revenue. Knowing the aversion of Congressmen to creating new taxes or hiking old ones, when elections are coming up, even though they be a year off, we offer in the spirit of service a few suggestions as to how Congress might get more revenue by reducing tax rates and revising tax methods. u

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= = = T might, for example, take another look at that undistributed profits tax which it bundled through so hastily last year, and find that hy amending the law to do Jess violence to sound corporate practices it would enable many firms to produce more taxable earnings. ; And there is the capital gains tax which tends to dis-

courage normal financial transactions, and which manv

experts say could be made more productive of revenue if |

liberalized or repealed, to remove the penalties. now assessed against transactions in securities and other property. The rising market has made many capital gains “on paper,” but they are not taxable gains so long as the owners keep their holdings off the market. Likewise, some experts believe that the Federal tax of $2 a gallon on liquor, when added to state taxes, gives bootleggers too much of a competitive advantage over legitimate dealers, and that more revenue could be obtained by a lower tax, which would whittle down the bootlegger margin and stimulate sales through legal channels. And if the Federal tax on cigarets were reduced from the present rate of six cents a package to around four, many more brands, could be retailed at 10 cents a package, the lower price would lead to greater sales and might result in more revenue, Last, but by no means least, is the opportunity that will be presented when the Administration brings forth its bill to extend the expiring nuisance taxes. Instead of reenacting those hidden levies on gasoline, motor oil, automobiles, matches, cosmetics, etc., Congress could—and, we believe, should—make that tax burden visible by broaden“ing the base and hiking the rates of income taxation. Congressmen who sincerely favor Government economies will back such a program. For they know that the surest way to promote public sentiment for economies is to make taxes yuore visible, : : &

| go staggering

Mr. Plummer, “As men of God, and that 1 believe you are,” Mr. Plummer pleaded, “vote against this iniqui-

| tous act, and prevent it going out

to destroy the reputation that I

| have built up in 67 years.”

But they only sneered at the

| pood man’s anguish, for they were

not men of God, as he believed.

| So, henceforth, as the fathers and

mothers and the vouth of Kansas Mr. Pegler about the state, sodden, incoherent, and a ready prev to other vices

which follow alcoholism as the night the day, the

| world will attribute their plight to the blameless Mr.

Plummer.

The 3.2 beer amendment is bad enough in all

{ truth, but Mr. Plummer may console himself, unless | he is beyond comforting, with the knowledge that it

could have been even worse. They might have put in a paragraph to legalize whisky and craps and cockfighting, t] UT why speculate on potential horrors? Kansas

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the State of Kansas, but the day is at hand when Kansas will sit in the lunch wagon or the Elite Cafe drugging their moral sense and rotting their character with beer, while the radio on the counter among | the pies and crullers emits the seductive mooing of | a crooner far away.

There was not merely a straw but a scantling in the wind of sinfulness when Kansas some years ago repealed the anti-cigaret law. There are no statistics at hand, but it must be that this concession to Satan has seriously reduced the stature of Kansas manhood and womanhood and accelerated the crime rate.

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ERHAPS Mr. Plummer will permit an outsider to offer a word of cheer in his hour of distress. If so, let him take hope that his fellow citizen will | be none the worse for the distortion of his intentions | regarding beer. Kansans are long accustomed to the robust jolt of shoe polish and spot remover, which they have drunk for many years in defiance of not alone the state law but the laws of nature and gravity. Kansans coming to New York or Washington com-

| and gins are insipid to their taste. too feeble to be | fell. A Kansan, schooled on the native beverages of his state, is a man to contend with on a party around here, and Mr. Plummer might like to know that many of his fellow citizens wouldn't even water a garden with his 3.2.

| vealed | Spain. He was president of the Ath- | enee, a republican club of Madrid {in 1931. He helped pave the way for |

| Parisian:

| from republican Spain

{ the section of the Nationalists have | not had their lives threatened nor | have they been forced into exile.

| the hotels of Paris and the larger | cities of France, Spanish political | refugees. All of them escaped from | Red Spain. | necessary to quit Nationalist Spain. | Finally, there is one important fact: | That is, that Spain, Europe and hu- | manity be delivered from a bloody | regime, an institution of assassina{tion for the advent of which we | accuse ourselves of having prepared | through a tragic misunderstanding.” |

| FEELS M'NUTT WILL BE | SUCCESS AS COMMISSIONER

Russia, islands that may lead to the reorDr. Gregorio Maranon, president 8anization of the present judiciary of the Madrid Academy of Medi- ©f & one-man jury and judge trial

cine, now a refugee in Paris. has re- | SYStém in all the municipal the terrible condition in| Provincial courts of the

{ing in the judiciary department, calls for a radical change, the only means or medium to render justice to all. Asks Higher Standard

the republic. These are his words as they appeared in the Petit!

“I was fooled. All the intellectuals of Spain speak with me, think as I think, and like me, have fled for their safety. The revolution is our work. We wanted it, prepared for it, it | was born of our most profound re-

calls for a national movement is the labor situation. This movement

usurpation of the big landowners.

One practical solution to raise the

since” You standard of living of the people of

They are thousands

happened

ernment to encourage the Filipino

assassinating daily boys who are now in the United

THE MONTH OF MARCH

By W. V. FOWLER Scattered snowflakes earthward bound Add cheer to a cool March day;

intellectuals who chanced to be in

“Investigate. You will find in all

ground, Not one has found it Like fairies they fade away. Though March by some is dreaded much For the changes it will bring;

That comes with the glorious spring.

| So let's not face with dread and fear, This month so full of fun;

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And gently as they reach the]

| gram for every Filipino upon his

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and | islands. | Such a condition as this, now exist- |

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arrival in the islands, such a program to apply only to those boys who are not able to finance their way through and every applicant

must be thoroughly investigated as

to his financial status. Need Financial Help

One of the most important rea- |

sons why a majority of our boys overstayed in the United States is that they do not want to go back

difficulty.

Another important problem which | home or cannot because of financial | . | | crude and awkward.”

Such a plan would be a national |

| will be developed extensively . . .

| my country is for the Insular Gov- |

| that the Japanese penetration

| should be for a better standard of | asset to the Isular Government be- | | living and a proper legislative meas- | cause not only the money will be ure to protect the class against the | paid off, but the national resources |

| and above all, this plan will have a |

tendency to eventually curb the Jap- |

anese penetration in Mindanao.

in |

Mindano in the acquisition of land | | is a total menace to the forthcoming |

Philippine independence

such a condition is not tolerated. A continuance of such a

| eventually will cause an explosion | and it will be too late. So, to relieve | this future complication, I urge the |

Philippine National Assembly

and the | | Government ought to see to it that |

condition |

to |

| ndopt and promote such a plan as | | it thinks necessary.

It, too, has a softer gentler touch |

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HE'S REWRITING

| U. S§. CONSTITUTION By Daniel Francis Clancy, Logansport Is there any chance of holding up | this Supreme Court business for a

Which brings us tidings of good. |

| public administration, the appoint- | ment of Paul V. McNutt as High | Commissioner

| try to a more progressive advance- | | ment in both the economic and

: | social life of the . plain that the legal scotch and bourbon, the wines | 8 Pepi

| exercise those American democratic

By Joe T. Arruza, Ft. Wayne

! . on cheer As a man of wide experience in

to the Philippines

will beyond a doubt lead that coun-

Oh, let

lish the just:

His position as High Commissioner requires him to adopt and

Psalms 7:9.

| principles which this country a

| cherished since the birth of this na-

And tells us spring has come.

DAILY THOUGHT

the wickedness of the wicked come to an end; but estabFor the righteous God trieth the hearts and reins.—

of days. . . . Some German has in-

| vented a bomb-proof bed. | what they need in Europe, but what | we need in America is a motorcar-

| destrian’s house after him, . . . MacArthur was only a General when he commanded the Army. In fact, I think, only a Major-General. Now, out in the Philippines they

make him a Field Marshal!

| 3 : : mr | | the Constitution in just of a couple | a ‘dotble ender.

lution. Of course, there may be no trial at all. The State School Superintendent, Floyd I. McMurray, seems disposed to try to meet the fundamentalist protest with tact and blarney. The case concerns the Beech Grove School, in a suburb of Indianapolis. And Mr. McMurray says, “All the school taught was that the early cave men were very That could hardly be called evolution. I had a couple of uncles just like that. I would like to point out to the Rev. Verdi Allen that in one of the children's note books the following sentences were found: “Early form of life was a mere ceil. From the cells came plants, birds and reptiles. The reptiles grew huge and died, and man came to earth as an apelike animal.” Now, Mr. Allen are you going to stand for that? This Beech Grove School is suggesting that if we go back far enough we may find that papa was a snake or one of the larger lizards.

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CITIZENS’ COMMITTEE which called upon the school superintendent based its complaint upon the contention that the youth of Beech Grove was being taught that early man was little more than a “highbrow ape.” It seems to me that they understated their case, and they were much too ready to listen to the soft words of Mr. McMurray, who explained, “It is one thing to discuss theories, forms of government and the reasoning of scientists, but it is a far different thing to advocate these theories. A minister in church’

Mr. Broun

| may discuss Satan and his works, and we would not | expect him to advocate thaf we follow Satan.”

I don't see how tha! absolves the faculty of Beech

| Grove School from the crime of casting aspersions

| real question is: | while? I'll have finished rewriting | That's |

| proof bed, because before very long |

| drivers will be coming into the pe- | | Court?

upon our ancestors. We ought to fight because the Are we men or anthropoids?

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ERHAPS you may ask how we can stage the show without being assured of an all-star cast. One way out of the difficulty would be to make the debate The charge against the teachers of Beech Grove School could be broadened to include the accusation that in teaching evolution not only are they attacking the family and the home. but also undermining the Constitution of the United States. That ought to be logical enough, for if a littie child learns that the early form of life was a mere cell what becomes of the sanctity of the Supreme

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Oh, yes, indeed, once the idea of evolution becomes rife there is no restraining people from a desire for change. They will even undertake to say that what may have seemed wise more than a century ago is no

| longer suitable for the conditions of todav.

‘Genera

EW on, March 28.—The recall of Mr. Luther a5 German Ambassador to Washington is regrettable. No Nazi himself, he represented an ooo lous Nazi Government in a very difficult period ably and faithfully—but without even a charge that he had any responsibility for, or connection with, the undercover Nazi propaganda and organization that has been going on here to the intense annoyance of

most Americans. Maybe that is why he is being recalled.

: It isn’t very smart. Everybody who met him liked him. The asinine arrogance and boneheaded ineptitude of the German Embassy from 1914 to 1917 had more to do with creating pro-Ally sentiment in the United States than the sinking of the Lusitania. Mr. Luther's tact and unassuming kindness, modesty and common sense were a distinct German asset at a time when Germany needs all the good | will she can generate.

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dor to Britain standing before the King and brandishing the Nazi salute with “Heil” in the King's face, is among the kinds of things we are considering —ihe kind of thing you can't imagine from Mr,

Luther. Tt is the king pf thing that

| Hugh Johnson Says —

Recall of Luther as German Ambassador to U. S. Is Regrettable, Because He Represented Obnoxious Government Sensibly and Well. |

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= ridiculous spectacle of the German Ambassa- |

| not to

from Washington for his recall and helped to pre- |

cipitate our declaration of war-—disbursing money

to help German agents to blow up American munition |

plants and sabotage manufacture, using his diplo-

matic immunity to carry on correspondence with |

Mexico urging that she attack our southern border, and finally winding up with a suggestion that an American merchant ship be sunk “without trace.” That's one way to be an ambassador. A precise reverse of this policy was beautifully executed in Mexico when Dwight Morrow, as America: Ambassador, turned the feeling of a whole nation toward us from intense hostility to reasonable friendship. Benjamin Franklin did much the same thing in France. I think Mr. Luther was trying to do it in this country and making as fair a go of it as was possible, considering his Government,

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it's too bad that he is going. It is encoyraging to learn that his successor is not a member of the Nazi Party and is said to be much like Mr, Luther

| in many respects.

It seems to be an ambassador's business to keep his eyes and ears open and his mouth shut, to understand and try to sympathize with the problems of the country in whose of h i

courtesy he is living and, above all, | 8Ny evangelistig revivals

The Washington Merry-Go-Round

Large Foreign Purchases of Scrap Iron and Raw Cotton Are Held Barometer of Coming War; Chilean Envoy Has Gadget to Time Children.

By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen

ASHINGTON, March 29.—One of the most |

significant barometers of war is the purchase of scrap iron and raw cotton. So much scrap iron was recently purchased in the United States by European countries and Japan that it clogged freight yards in

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some parts of the country and railroads temporarily |

refused further orders.

Thanks largely to foreign purchases, the price of

U. S. cotton is the highest in seven years and even the Government-held surplus largely has been sold.

without using a certain amount of scrap iron, hence its importance to munitions manufacture.

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HILEAN Ambassador Trucco has been concentrating, not on diplomacy, but on a gadget which will tell him what time his children get home at night. Trucco once was the head of the Chilean State Railways, is a great engineer. Also he is a widower and - father of one son and three daughters. So he undertook to design and execute, with his own

Truccos go out in the evening, they pull their panels out. When they come home, each in turn slides the proper panel in. An electrical connection flashes each arrival to the ambassadorial bedroom upstairs, When the last Trucco gets home, he—or more likely she—pushes in the fourth panel and turns out the lights.

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N the wall of the office of Isador Lubin, Commissioner of Labor Statistics, hangs a large chart, It

| consists of two lines which tell a significant story of | the pickup in American industry, Note—It is impossible to make steel economically |

Line No. 1 represents the consumers or nondurabla goods industries (food, clothing, etc.). It began ta climb in 1933 and has been on the upgrade ever since,

Line No. 2 represents durable goods or heavy industry (steel, building materials, machinery). It was

hardest hit by the depression, lagged far behind even | during most of 1836. But now Line No. 2 is going al-

most straight up. By March 1, it had attained a level almost parallel with consumers goods. This development is of the greatest economic sige nificance. It means that for the first time since 1929, payrolls in the vital heavy industries are once again in a “normal” relation to payrolls in the consumer inlustries. In practical terms it means that for millions