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"TALCOTT POWI LL, former editor of The Indianapolis Times, died yesterday in Greenwich, Conn. is a loss to journal sm.
MONDAY, APRIL 5, 1937
POWELL
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His death
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He was popular here and in the East. His gay and courageous spirit w dened the circle of friendship. As a brilliant and colorful writer, he won success in
the field he loved bast. Many will mourn his passing.
JOHN L. LEWIS, TODAY | O those w! ~ have dealt with him as head of the United
Mine Workers,
of contract. gain is closed,
John L. Lewis is the symbol of sanctity Tough as a bargainer, yes, but after the barinexcrable in the enforcement of his side of
the proposition on vhich depends the economic existence of
a half million
worke I's.
In contrast with that picture is another—of Lewis,
sinister, bent raise hell for
on d sturbance, thirsting for chaos, out to hell’s sake, overflowing with hate for author-
ity, hankering for rilin, obsessed with revolutionary dreams. The impression. is ‘ccentuated by the man’s personal ap-
pearance, his
theatrical carriage, the stern cut of his jib,
the bushy hair, the flashing black of his eyes, the rumbling
roll of his voice.
And so, whenever a strike starts in a
tailor shop in Keokuk, John L. Lewis gets the blame and more heat is added to the hatred on the part of those who
thus conceive
No one was ev
.loday. His s
sincere ambition to ica will depend on If he
by the tail. the vast and
order that now pre win and go down 11. if the situation st:
him. sr in a more critical spot than Lewis is or failure in what we believe tobe a revitalize the labor movement in Amerhow he handles the bear he now holds an “swing it’;
ucces!
as y
history as among the truly great. ys out of hand—as it is now—and the
second picture of lim continues to expand, then the public revulsion which is now manifesting itself in the mounting protests against tie sit-down strikes will seep over him
| and he will b make it.
His problem i is a student of m litary history.
of taking in
eommunication.
e jus, another of those who tried and didn’t
He is smart. And he He knows the dangers too 1iwuch territory and of a broken line of And therefore more than anyone else he
one of control.
must sense the necd for restraining the spread of C. I. O. to the limits of tim: and territory in which he as leader can
‘function; the
out on the firing line;
perils of irresponsible and impetuous action the structural unsoundness of a
cause founded on a contention that two Wrongs make a
right.
His job is quickly to change the struggle from guerrilla warfare, whicl is what it is today, into the kind of con-
test in which
to perform—-colleciive bargaining in its truest and most
he, a; head of the miners, knows so well how
effective sense.
A CCC ANNIV “RSARY
OUR years ago :oday President Roosevelt named Robert
Fechner as dir: ctor of emergency conservation work to organize and admi: ister the Civilian Conservation Corps. On April 7, 1933, the first youth was enrolled. On April 17 the first JCC camp was established. The peak of enrollment was rcached in August, 1935, with 506,000
young men ahd war veterans in more-than 2200. camps.
Today there are 3/.0,000 enrollees and 2000 camps. Behind ‘these facts from Director Fechner’s fourth
anniversary repor
is the story of one of the New Deal's
- most successful and most popular ventures. The CCC's birthday finds a group of its frionds in
Congress organizirg We view those plans with less alarm than the Congressmen display.
tion.
to oppose plans for its further reduc-
The President, we think, is not likely to
permit this, his favorite agency, to be injured by ruthless
cutting. On permanent, a
held within reasor able bounds.
the contrary, he has proposed to make it nd p rmanency will require that its cost be But few will question the
wisdom of the investment made in the CCC, or the value of
the dividends
it hs paid.
It has given ¢mployment to-nearly Wo. million young men, contributed lo the support of their families, given hundreds of thous: nds of them educational advantages they never would have .iad otherwise, improved their health and equipped them for better citizenship. At the same time it
carried out a
prog ram of tremendous value in the forests,
parks and fields o/ America. There is a record of which the cece men, their dir ector, the President and the nation can all be proud.
THE MUSIC FESTIVAL
HE twenti
eth biennial convention and festival of the Na-
tional Federation of Music Clubs, to be held here April
23 to 29, has dianapolis.
been called one blessing from the flood for In-
This bg musical program was transferred here
if he can bring about in | >t unorganized field of labor the same | ails in the mining industry, then he will | But |
because flood-striciien Louisville, which had been preparing for it nearly tivo years, could not handle the elaborate
schedule.
The communit 7 now has an opportunity to help assure
the festival's success. be on sale at a low )rice the next 10 days.
Season tickets for 14 concerts will
In return, the purchaser may hear a variety of vocal and instrumental music including John Powell, John Charles Thomas, Rudolph Ganz, Rudolph Reuter, Bomar Cramer
and the Kreiner Siring Quartet.
Nearly 5000 persons will
participate. Organi:ations are coming from 30 states. Other highlights include concerts by the Indianapolis Symphony. Orchestra, and the National Symphony Orchestra of Wash: ington, directed by -Hans Kindler; a four-piano artists’ ensemble and the juwiior day program with 1000 young mu-
sicians taking part
The festival i3 an important cultural Liang entertain-
ment event for Incianapolis.
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| terrible oversight.
mena par
Hung Up! —By Talvart ’
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MONDAY, AP] IL 5, 1937
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Fair Enough
By Westbrook Pegler
Writer Answers Misrepresentation Charge of Local Governmental Workers Paying No U. S. Income Tax.
W ASHIN {GTON, April 5.—Christine R. Kefauver, of the Civil Service Sentinel of New York, complains of misrepresentation in the discussion of the exemption from Fed-
eral income tax enjoyed by state, county and
municipal employees throughout the country. The proposition is simply that such employees should pay the saine rate on ‘their income that is paid by people in private industry on like amounts. There
is no misrepresentation in hat. « As her first point, Miss Kefauver holds that there should he a distinction between political appointees, who draw the highest pay, and civil service employees who do the real work. The answer is that all public employees should pay the tax pertaining to their brackets. The political appointees who draw the highest pay and do not work should be eliminated. This may sound aaive but let us be naive about it. Points Two and Three note that civil service people pay the state income tax and the sales tax, the same as others. What of it? Do they want medals for that? Point Four says: “We struggle with the increased cost of living on a rigidly fixed salary.” But everybody struggles with the cost of living and the same rigidity of salary, plus the job-protection of civil service, would be a boon to people in other lines when wages are down and unemployment is rife.
Point Five: “We are compelled to reside within the City of New York whether we can afford the rent or not.” It is just too tragic that people working for the city have to live in the city. Point Six: “We receive no bonuses.”
Mr. -Pegler
That is a There should be bonuses at once.
2 “We cannot strike to enforce pur
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po SEVEN: demands.” private employees. Point Eight: “We contribute half the pension we ultimately receive.” So do we all under social security and people who buy private insurance against old age
| contribute the whole pension in payments over the
years. Point Nine: “We carry our lives in our hands every moment of our working day if we are policemen, firemen, sanitation men, nurses, doctors or in-
| spectors, and we are not covered by workmen's com-
i
pensation.” ‘Miss Kefauver is being dramatic. Some policemen and firemen are killed but such tragedies are provided for. The slaughter of sanitation men, nurses, doctors ‘and inspectors should be looked into. . un » 2 OINT TEN: unemployment contributed millions.”
and relief agencies and have
to these
© agencies?
Point Eleven: “When times are good it takes all our pay to meet expenses. We do not share in the general prosperity, When times are bad, our wages are the first cut.” The answer again is that people
| on the same pay have to pay the income tax if their
earnings are within the taxable brackets. And when times are bad the wages of public servants are not
| the first but the last to be cut.
Point Twelve: “We pay every tax which you pay except the Federal income tax and very few civil service employees receive a salary high enough to be taxable anyway.” They should pay every tax that other citizens pay with no exceptions and if their salaries are below’ the tax line they needn't worry. I trust this is free of misrepresentation.
Neither can about 85 per cent of
) . “ The Hoosier Forum 1 wholly disagree with what you say, but will - defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.
CONTEND$ SPAIN HAD TOO MANY GENERALS
By Agapiio Rey, Bloomington.
The Spanish rebellion began .last July 18 when army officers revolted in an attempt to seize the government. The revolt was planned and backed by Germany and Italy. Like their Spanish supporters, the church and the land barons, the men revolted to salvage and perpetuate the special privileges they enjoyed. At the close of the Spanish-Amer-ican War, | Spain was left with a colonial army, but no colonies to garrison. |The - officers were retained 4n their positions and mili-
1 tary schools continued to turn out
additional officers annually. In 1931, when the republic was established, there were 21,000 officers, of whom 800 were generals, making one officer for every seven enlisted men. The Army in this country consists of some. 165,000 men- with 12.000 officers. However, our officers are engaged in many tasks outside o the Army proper. Officers train . O. T. Q. classes in our colleges. So the states’ National Guard units and manage CCC camps. With almost twice the number of officers this country has and no allied occupations for them and with an army smaller than that of the
can readily see that Spain was confronted with a real problem. The officers formed a dangerous military caste. They devoted themselves to intrigue to control the Government and obtain special privileges. The Government of the republic tried to remedy the situation. It abolished all the special privileges the monarchy had allowed and reduced the number of officers by onethird, letting all those who did not care to swear allegiance to the republic retire on full pay. However,
officers plotted against the Government. In July they betrayed the country they had sworn to defend. Of the 21,000, only 2000 remained loyal to the republic. The traitors still parade as hationalists after selling their country to Germany and Italy and importing savage Moors and foreign renegades to murder women and children.
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When were private employees | | and businessmen forbidden to contribute
| OPERA COMPETITION _ | GIVEN PRAISE
“We are called upon to contribute to |
|By B. C.
The . Chicago City Opera Co. feeling that Americans will find a | new taste for grand opera if it is | sung in language thev can understand and based on themes that are familiar fo them, has opened a competition for an opera by an American composer based on a romance of the Civil War. The winning work hi be presentied.by the opera next a Now while this competition, at first glance, provokes somewhat droll visions of fat Italian tenors garbed as Robert E. Lee and U. S.
Appomattox, and of warbling “supers” trailing about the stage
United States by about 15,000, we’
whether retired or in service the.
Grant straining for high notes at.
(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.)
in the guise of Jeb Stuart's troopers, it must be added that the idea is fundamentally sound, as they used to say. If grand opera is ever to become popular in America in the way it is popular, for example, in Italy, it has got:to go American, : ” ” o SUGGESTS JUDGE BAKER RUN FOR GOVERNOR By Clyde P. Miller. Our present Governor and his predecessor have set high examples for this office. When a man fully meets the standards set for, a Governor it, is inevitable that attention is attracted to him and it is proper that his availability for the cffice be acknowledged whether the time is long or short until his services can be procured. Therefore, I consider the present time as not inopportune for thé citizens of Indiana to recognize the fact that Frank P. Baker, present Marion County Criminal Court judge, represents the type of man that must be found in our next Governor. Judge Baker possesses in abundance the firm, courageous and unimpeachable character that it takes to make a great Governor. Unswerving in his enlightened conception of duty, soundly just, yet kindly, courteous and even-tempered, his
obvicus capacity for leadership in | the best sense will not be overlooked when democracy’s next standard bearer is chosen.
APRIL SHINES
By MARY P. DENNY April shines, The world awakes. Shining in the flowers of day, Violet, lily and daffodil Blooming by the laughing rill, Shining in the grasses bright, Growing in the April light.
April shines, The world awakes To the beauty of the day. » Robins sing at morning light, All the world is shining bright In the golden April light.
DAILY THOUGHT
I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.—-Acts 20:35.
Examples are few of men ruined
hy giving.—Bovee.
LINCOLN FEARED COURT, SAYS LABOR LEADER By John McLellan, President, A. F. of L. Local No. 867, Cleveland. Many who oppose Roosevelt's Supreme Court plan admit that the Constitution should be changed, but say that it should be only through the people, forgetting that the people have no share in the appointing of justices nor any control over them afterward. : Permit me to quote Abraham Lincoln in his first annual message to Congress. He said, “Labor is prior to and independent of capital, which could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital and deserves much higher consideration.” At his first inaugural Lincoln said, “The candid citizen must confess that if the policy of the Government upon vital questions affecting the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court the instant they are made in ordinary . litigations between parties in ‘personal actions, the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their government into the hands of that eminent tribunal.” Does anyone doubt that if the wise Lincoln had had the chance he would have hesitated to reverse the Dred Scott decision by increasing the membership of the Court instead of having it reversed by the Civil War? It is quite evident that Lincoln looked upon the Court as a form of dictatorship, and it is just as evident that the same forces which plunged this country into civil war in an effort to continue physical slavery for Negroes now oppose Roosevelt in his effort to free all labor from economic slavery. ”n ” os WEBSTER AND LINCOLN
! QUOTED IN COURT
By Charles C. Call A newspaper carries a quotation from an address by Daniel Webster in the year 1837, in which Daniel was exhorting - his listeners—and posterity, too — to ‘stand by the Constitution as it is.” Then we would have to discard several of the amendments which have been added to the Constitution since the year 1837. Among them would be the Fourteenth, which gave civil rights to our Negroes. We would have to discard
the election of Senators by popular.
vote, women's . suffrage and the Federal Income Tax. As a quotation from one of our honored statesmen, I offer the following from Abraham Lincoln's first inaugural address, March 4, 1861: “The candid citizen must confess that if the policy of the Government, upon vital questions affecting the whole people, is to be’ irrevoc-
ably fixed by decisions of the Su-
preme Court the instant they are made in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions, the people have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their government into the hands of that eminent tribunal.”
It Seems to Me
By Heywood Broun
In Effort to Be Fair, Writer Tries: Carnegie System on. Irate Wife, But Has to Slap Her Down, Anyway.
EW YORK, April 5.—Friends of Dale Carnegie (it seems he has a complete set) have been bawling me out because I referred disparagingly to his book in a recent column.
I imagine it was one of the postgraduate students , who got me on the telephone. This young woman greeted me with a voice which contained not only. a smile but a recurrent chuckle. “Just what is so funny so early in the morning?” I inquired. “I was thinking over Yat cole umn which you wrote about Mr. Carnegie,” she answered. And then she added with all the sweet= ness of synthetic honey, “But don’t you think that you were just a teenie-weenie bit unfair in what you wrote? Why don’t you read the book again and try to get the benefits which Dale Carnegie is offering?” Unfortunately I am a sucker for. the cooing voice, and I hate to be. unfair. In first reading the book, I had followed instructions and underlined with a red pencil those passages which seemed peculiarly pertinent to my own_case. And so, upon a second perusal, my eye was arrested by Page 78, where I had set down four stars beside the - paragraph which reads: “Regard this as a working handbook on human relations, and whenever you are confronted with some specific problem—such as handling a child, winning a wife to your way of thinking or satisfying an irritated customer—hesitate about doing the natural. thing, the impulsive thing. That is usually wrong. Instead turn to these pages and review the paragraphs you have underscored. Then try these new ways and watch them achieve magic for you.” I was so impressed that I said to myself, “By golly, I'll try it as soon as opportunity offers.” - : n a 2 i ¢ DID not have long to wait. It so happens thats I occasionally work for a magazine which is unions 1zed. As a member of the organization I attended a meeting at which a strike vote was taken. The meeting was long and rather acrimonious, and my wife at home.was on the conservative side of the question, while I was among-the insurgents. I had promised to let her know the result as soon as the meeting ended. I told her over the phone that the strike vote had been defeated, but she misunder= stood me. In my hurry to get back I left my over= coat in .the hall, and since it was a cold and bitter night, I stopped to get a glass of ale. When I reached my fireside, worn out by my own oratory and that of others, I expected a sympathetic greeting, but ine stead I was met by an irate female who exclaimed, “Lost your. overcoat, smell like a brewery and how you're on strike!”
Mr. Broun
” n n a M: Airst impulse was to behave in a natural manener and slap her down, but then I counted 10 and remembered Page 78 in Dale Carnegie's book. Here was the chance to follow his primary suggestion, which is never to talk about yourself, but always to talk about the other person. And so instead of making any answer to the blanket indictment I said, “Never mind about me. What have you been ‘doing, my dear? Did you have a pleasant evening?” «* “Where did you go with those loafers after the meeting?” she wanted to know. - “TI told you,” I repeated with rising voice, “that: I have no intention of talking about myself. I'm: wholly concerned with your interests. What the hell: have you been doing?” And in spite of Dale Carnegie I finally obeyed shih: impulse and knocked her down. .
General Hugh Johnson Says —
Mark Sullivan's. Suggestion for Setting Up Wage-Hour Legislation Would Result in 48 Watertight Economic Units in United States.
EW YORK CITY, April 5.—Mark Sullivan makes an interesting suggestion which he says forecloses argument for national regulation of maximum hours and minimum wages. The Washington wage decision, he believes, permits a state to regulate hours and wages. An earlier decision on the Ashurst-Summers law sustains a prohibition on shipment into a state of goods which, by the laws of that state, cannot be sold there. -Mixing these two decisions and shaking them well, Mr. Sullivan produces the following cocktail: “By these two laws together, any state that passes them is fully protected with respect to minimum wages, child labor or other undesired conditions.”—48 Blue Eaglets. Passing the point, which Mr. Sullivan tfankly mentions, that Ashurst-Summers decision relates only to prohibiticn against prison-made goods, the further point that the Washington wage decision related only -to the exploitation of female labor, and the resulting point that Mr. Sullivan’s cocktail therefore lacks Several essential ingredients—passing all that, and if the conclusion were 100 per cent accurate, ihe result would be ruin.
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Ase to this theory, our system of one unitary national market of 128 000,000 people goes out the window. One national economic unit was the principle which made this ¢quntry great. It was
are one people.”
firmly embedded in the Constitution. the purpose of the Constitution—“In commerce we
We wouldn’t be one people in commerce under Mr.
Indeed it was
The Washingion Merry-Go-Round
Secretary Ickes and WPA Administrator Hopkins Have Changed Sides On Relief Issue With Hopkins Going in for Permanent Public Works.
By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen
yy unoion, April 5.—In the past four years New Deal master minds have executed many
Sullivan’s theory that each “state is protected against everything it wants to be protected against.” We would—or we could—he 48 peoples. New York, with the highest wages and the most rigorous antisweatshop provisions in most industries, would automatically be cut off from the whole United States in the large bulk of industrial production. It would be cut off coming and going. No state with laws less favorable to labor could ship into New York.
” ” ” : N the contrary, New York could not compete in states which determinéd to take advantage of this situation and pirate New York's old markets by reducing or repressing their own labor standards— not because of any legal exclusion but because of economic exclusion—she couldnt meet the prices of products of sweated labar. The whole record of NRA is replete with instances of the deliberate migration of industries to areas of degraded labor conditions for the sole purpose of pirating existing high- -wage markets. Nobody who knows about this subject would con-
freeze this country into a honeycomb of 48 watertight commercial cells at once. :
test that any such solution of this problem would |
strange and breath-taking gyrations on the question of relief. In fact, the daring young man on the flying trapeze had nothing on the Administration’s relief policy. At present New Dealers are.in the midst of another tour de force. So far it has been kept under cover. But it will break into the open shortly, when President Roosevelt sends his relief estimates for the new fiscal year to Capitol Hill. In a nutshell-the story is this: Secretary Harold Ickes and Works Progress Administrator Harry Hopkins have completely exchanged positions,‘and now are taking sides exactly the opposite of those they once held. : The best of personal friends and both ardent advocates of generous relief grants, they have differed sharply on how the money should be spent. E # ”
oe favored a great nationwide program of permanent public works, such as schools, power plants, stadia, housing and slum clearance. He argued that such projects would reduce unemployment by stimulating heavy industry. Hopkins disagreéd. He con-
tended that the way to create jobs was for the Government to-do so directly through quick “made work” projects—cleaning up parks, building swimming pools, laying sewers, etc. : Ickes’ projects, Hopkins held, would require largely
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skilled labor, of which there was relatively little on relief rolls. WPA projects, he pointed out, needed little skilled labor, would provide immediate work for. the, great majority on relief rolls. After months of secret discussion and deliberation, Roosevelt sided with Hopkins. But no sooner was it in the saddle than the WPA began slowly, but steadily to abandon its own sphere and move into the orto of its rival PVA. . ”n 2 * $ NSTEAD of oonAnire its operations to “made work" projects ‘and concentrating on. relief labor, the WPA branched out into the heavy type of construc tion, requiring nonrelief skilled labor. More and more, as it muscled into the PWA ficld, WPA freed itself of the restriction that preponderant percentage of the labor employed on its projects must be relief labor. More and more of late, it has, granted complete ex= emptions from this rule. While this transformation has been developing in the WPA, Ickes has been rigidly held to the narrow: confines. laid out for him. With the WPA depleting the supply of skilled labor not employed in privateé industry, he found it becoming virtually impossible: to undertake WPA projects because of the lack of the necessary craftsmen. The result had been to compel’ Ickes to gear hig.
works program to the type of labor that is available
semiskilled and unskilled relief workers. Thus, he, the vigorous: foe of the WPA, has been’
forced by 3 into the bosttion § of a tail to its kitez 3 f
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