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TUESDAY, APRIL 20, 1937 PARENT-TEACHER CONGRESS N the weltey of organizations which have risen in our generation, an individual is often at a loss to know which are most worthy of his time and effort. About parentteacher groups, however, there can be no doubt. An ever closer co-operation between home and school is a necessity if we are to train our children to be men and women capable of dealing with the complex problems of a modern world. Today the Indiana Congress of Parents and Teachers opens a three-day session here. Some six hundred educators and parents are expected to hear discussion of the convention's theme—“The Child—A Community Responsibility.” It would be hard to suggest a more suitable subject. Unless the community sees to it that all children get the best possible break, the community will suffer. The appalling problem of the youthful criminal may often be laid at the door of a community indifférent until it is too late. Mrs. rs G. Hughes, congress president, has said a move will be made to bring the national parent-teacher meeting here in 1939. We hope the move may be successful. Indianapolis would be proud to be Host to such a convention.
OUT OF THE BOG—HOW? HE President's commission on farm tenancy, after a thoughtful study of the question, recommended creation of a Government corporation to buy land for landless farmers and to provide guidance for these farmers until they had paid for their land over a 20-year period. By a narrow vote the House Agriculture Committee rejected this plan. It now proposes a substitute. It is willing to appropriate $50,000,000 a year for five years for loans to farmers, but it doesn’t want the Government to buy the land or supervise the farms. The commission's plan would give security both to the Government and the farmer. The proposed substitute gives security to neither. We need something more than money to pull our farmers out of the bog of tenancy. To make agriculture the profitable and pleasant way of life it should be we need, not the isolated farms of the past, but individual farms grouped in well-planned rural communities. Only the government has resources to provide such planning,
. though only the individual effort of the farmers can make
it succeed. : : The history of the Resettlement Administrafion’s
supervision of its clients shows that Government agricul-
tural supervision, far from being repressive, stimulates
the individual efforts and ambitions of the farmers. It helps them to rise in the world and to prosper, and they like it. From the Government's standpoint such supervision is necessary to success of the program. Lending money to tenant farmers so that they may buy land, to be “mined” and exhausted by the only farming methods many of them know, would be folly. The American people should not be asked to appropriate millions of dollars for tenant aid, only to see their money wash down eroded gullies. Congress ought to follow the sound recommendations of the President’s commission on farm tenancy.
IF HE WINS, HE LOSES
HE court-packing hearings drone on. Spring sightseers in Washington in search of things interesting pass by the Senate Judiciary Committee room and go instead to view the cherry blossoms. The committee Senators themselves yawn, stretch, walk out of the hearings and go to the ball game. The truth is all the starch and spice have gone out of the Court controversy. It is generally conceded that the President, if he wants to be bull-headed about it, has the
political power to put his packing scheme through. But a
preponderance of Senators and Representatives who stand ready to go down the line if commanded to do so are fervently hoping they will not be forced to pay that price for party regularity. | Excepting the President and the few who seem to be in charge of Administration strategy, practically all others sympathetic with New Deal aims are satisfied with the substance of victory achieved through the Supreme Court’s latest decisions. : : True, the new 5-to-4 liberalism of the High Court rests on a narrow margin. But if it is a wider margin the Administration wants, it can get that by switching to the O’Mahoney substitute applying a judicial two-thirds rule to Court decisions on constitutional questions. If the Administration’s desire is to make the process of constitutional amendment more responsive, to meet future emergencies, that can be done by embracing Senator Norris’ latest proposal providing for ratification of amendments by the voters insiead of by the legislatures. Either or both of these amendments, we believe, can be passed with overwhelming and voluntary Congressional and popular support. But if the President insists on his plan to pack the Court, every Administration undertaking thereafter will be cursed by the bitterness and disunion which his plan is engendering. Entirely aside from the lack of statesmanship in the packing scheme, we believe it would be a tactical blunder which the President cannot afford to make. He has nearly four years ahead of him, four years in which he wants to bring more happiness and better living conditions to the American people. To achieve this larger aim he will need the help of a united people.
A SERIOUS THREAT An alarming demonstration of the sit-down evil was narrowly averted in Hollywood when a group of chorus girls threatened to strike in protest against the importation of New York models. The home town girls allowed they were as well qualified as “any old New York clothes-horses.” The strike was quickly settled, as it should have been at any price. The very thought of a musical comedy chorus sit-down strike is enough to arouse the bald-heads of America to a counter revolution and a walkout.
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The Nice Thing About a National Sport—By Herblock
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Amount of the Take and Boldness Of Operators of Florida Gambling Rackets Fill Writer With Awe.
IAMI, April 20.—One way to abolish crime is to legalize it and that is what Florida attempted to do with the slot machine racket. That State authorized licenses for the one-armed bandits at the rate of one
for every 100 inhabitants which meant that Dade County, including Miami and Miami Beach, was entitled to 1800 permits. The license fee was $60 for each
which the county and state took $30 and the municipality the other half. It was later pointed out that the bandits are not sold but leased through agents or licensees who leased them, in turn, to the local - storekeepers, who had taken out the permits for their operation. So the State courts decided that agents also would have to buy licenses at the same rate. That meant a nut of $120 per machine but this was a trifling matter. Even in a square machine, the chance of hitting the jackpot is estimated at one in 8000, and the payoff, even then, ranges between 8 to 1 and 150 to 1. There are bandits in operation which have not been known to give a jackpot all year, for there is nothing to forbid the insertion of a gimmick in the gears to make certain that it will never succumb to a generous impulse. : The machines were set up in stores and saloons all over the place and the harvest has been incalculable, but one representative of the slots arguing against an Injunction said this writ would deprive his clients of $20,000,000 in profits this year in ‘Dade County alone. Last fall, most of the counties voted by popular referendum to repeal the slot machine law and Dade County was among them. It was held, however, that the existing licenses must be respected until their expiration next October and there is no reason to expect serious interference even then. " t- = - HE bandits will simply return to their old, illegal status, business will continue as usual and the local statesmen, who lost their private and unofficial licensing powers will resume their informal but highly lucrative dealings with the racket. This season the slot machine law, through the ingenious interpretation of a gambling house operator from the North, was stretched to permit the operation of roulette and crap tables, bird cages and all the standard devices of the fully equipped gambling house. : The law mentioned “other devices” and the dealer from the North bought five licenses for five table games which he defended as “other devices” in the intent of the Legislature." . " 8 ” EXT fall, of course, owing to the repeal by popular vote, the protection of the bandit law will be removed from the parlor games too, but like the slots they always prospered and suffered little molestation before the law, so there is no reason to believe they will be harassed unduly next season provided, of course, that the proprietors make the proper arrangements. Viewing the joyous open abandon with which the rackets operate in Miami no practical, werldly person can feel any sense of indignation. Your correspondent’s sensation therefore is one of awe at the magnificent gall of the grafters, the cocky impudence of the racketeers and the stupendous total of the take both in graft and profit.
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CLAIMS MINORITY ASKS CROWN FOR HIGH COURT
By Bull Mooser, Crawfordsville
Let Americans read the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution again and they will find that the sacred thing is not the Constitution itself, but the principle of representative government, set forth in those documents.
Our forefathers knew from experience with the colonial charters that even the most liberal constitution might be subverted té6 rob the people of their rights. They knew that constitutional government and representative government were hollow terms when the phrase “with the consent of the King” was tacked on. Hence they erased the phrase “with the consent of the King” and substituted “with the consent of the people.”
Today there is a small but loudspeaking minority that uses all sorts of arguments in trying to change our form of government from one with the consent of the people to one with the consent of the Supreme Court. Under the guise of building up the Court as 4a check, they are actually attempting to build it as a choke on representative government. They would give the Court the crown formerly worn by the King.
This minority shouts “save the Constitution,” yet it seeks to deprive the Constitution of its very life breath—the principle of representative government. To expect the Constitution to live after the principle of representative government is gone is like expecting a man to live after his breath has gone.
2% .8 THINKS GOVERNMENT SHOULD AID TENANTS By a Tenant
Do you think something should be done by the Government about housing conditions? We tenants are too outrageously poor to find better quarters or improve the ones we are now in, so we must grin and bear them. As an illustration of conditions here, I offer the following: To keep the wolf away from the table, I bought myself a cheap typewriter and set about writing short stories for which I had a small market. The landlady, as poor as myself, came in recently with the complaint that for half a day she'd gone around doing her work with an umbrella raised, thinking to keep out the “drips.” Then her son came in and said it wasn’t raining, it was only the sound of my typewriter. Which doesn’t speak so well for the typist—or roof.
” ” ” FAVORS ‘DINGLE DOOS’ TO REPLACE HORS D’OEUVRES By B. C.
_ Any American who has ever sat in a restaurant and looked help-
General Hugh Johnson Says—
Washington Is Crowded With Visitors Come to See Cherry Blossoms, And It's Happy Diversion From Arguments Over Supreme Court.
ASHINGTON, April 20—This is the season tor cherry blossoms in Washington. The throngs that for 10 days have crowded the city have exceeded those that attended the inauguration or the Shrine convention. They come from nearby towns and faraway states. No one really knows how many visitors fill the streets today, but last Sunday the police say there were over 200,000, and today there must be many more. When one adds to these the unnumbered thousands of Washington people who, tempted by the sunshine of glowing spring day, join the endless procession in motor cars apd on foof, the imagination is dulled by the great spectacle of movement. Transportation rates. are low—thanks to the railroads and bus lines. Fourteen thousand came by train alone. Every hotel is filled up to its very last room and thousands have been put up in Baltimore and other near cities. And the hotels did not raise their rates, and prices everywhere are normal.
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T'S a happy diversion when we can relax from the strife in arguments over the Supreme Court, the war in Spain and the arming battalions in the great nations of the world. “Time and the hour runs through the roughest day” and I am glad enough to forget strikes and economics and join the cheerful souls who enjoy the ethereality of the radiant blossoms. £5
(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.)
lessly at the menu with its long list of French phrases must applaud Congressman Maury = Maverick’s new campaign. Mr. Maverick wants French names driven off American menus, and he would start by calling hors d'oeuvres ‘“dingle doos.” “Dingle doos” is a word of his own invention. Its great advantage, he says, is that anybody can pronounce it.—which is far from true of “hors d'oeuvres.” ‘And the Congressman’s campaign might well be carried right on down the menu. For the hungry American in a restaurant not only has to understand what these French names mean; he has to be able to pronounce them when the waiter bends over to take his order, and that is something of a job. Brave men stammer and stumble and blush pitifully; cowards give up and ask for something simple such as ham and eggs; both groups are entitled to relief. With ‘“dingle doos” as a starter, why can’t we go ahead and get Americanized menus?
” 2 2 ANSWERS KERN LETTER ON MERIT SYSTEM By Herbert V. Hill, 1902 Park Ave. I would like to reply to Mayor Kern's letter on the Merit School. *~ Why does one have to have a pull to get into this school? Why is it that 69 Democrats and no Republicans were named for the school? What this town needs is a merit system like that in Pennsylvania for State troopers. There politics are out and a man is a man. Why is it that the Republican Councilman cannot get a list of Republican and Democratic members of the Police and Fire Departments? If this is a true merit system, then I'll take vanilla.
MY DESIRE
By ANNA E. YOUNG Friend of man I want to be With understanding sympathy. 1f I thought that I could do A bit of good—or help renew A friendship lost—or aid some soul To gain some height—or treasured goal, : I'd feel that I had gained an untold Wealth of treasure—hidden gold.
DAILY THOUGHT
He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.— Mark 16:16.
E that will believe only what he can fully comprehend, must have a very long head or a very short creed.—Colton.
URGES LAW TO CONTROL INCREASES IN PRICES By a New “Decker” New Deal legislation should include a measure to prohibit any increase in prices of commodities of any kind unless the increase has been approved by the Federal Trade Commission upon duly presented evidence justifying such increase as necessary to maintain production. The increase in prices should never be allowed to increase only production profits unless they are to be used within 6 months to increase facilities for production. No New Deal legislation thus far has touched the sore spot in our
economy, namely the tremendous waste in equipment and useless duplication in distribution. | This waste must be cut to the | vanishing point before the con-| sumer can support the capital] structure of industry. Each business | is still a cobbler making shoes for | a particular clientele.’ The fact that 45 per cent of the trade dollar goes to production, 45 per cent to selling and 10 per cent for profit indicates a hare-brained intelligence and lack of co-ordina-tion. rliogl 8 ” CLAIMS LABOR BACKS ROOSEVELT COURT PLAN
By E. B. Ross, Local 226, United Automobile Workers of America.
In the face of tremendous odds, President Roosevelt had the courage to propose and work to carry through his plan to liberalize the Supreme Court. Day by day accounts seem to indicate that he is waging the battle nearly single-handed. This is only on the surface, however, for organized labor is behind the scenes working quietly and efficiently to help attain the much desired changes. The mandate given the President last November by the working people of this country still holds good. We are living in a day of unbelievable economic changes. President Roosevelt believes that the Court should be changed to meet these conditions. As the President said in one of his speeches, “We have only begun to fight.”
2 2 #8 HERE'S A NEW IDEA FOR THE TAX MAKERS
By a Taxpayer I noticed in The Times that the State took more than a million dollars out of the auto tax fund and put it in the general fund:account. How does that happen when the State gets money from Washington for road work? It’s a wonder that some bright mind doesn’t bring out a bill to tax each spoke in auto wheels. There
seems to be a separate tax on every nut and bolt on a car.
TUESDAY, APRIL 20, 1937
Strip Tease That Worried the Boss—By Talburt
It Seems to Me By Heywood Broun |
¥. : Lynching Is National, Not Sectional,
- Problem and Needs Stamping Out In All Phases and in All Quarters.
EW YORK, April 20.—There must be some immediate answer to the atrocity of Duck Hill. If I were a member of the House 1 would vote eagerly for the Gavagan Antilynching Bill. that I have less than full faith in the complete efficiency of this measure and that I also regret that the contest has been channeled into sectional lines. Lynching is a national problem, and every effort should be made to convince all communities that they share a joint responsibility. I am willing to admit a difference in degree between confessions obtained at the end of a rubber hose or by a gasoline torch. But I must insist that I can hardly i ; respect the intellectual integrity & QW 3 of those who are willing to accept Ss torture in a New York police station and at the same time be completely horrified by mad cruelty in some Southern cornfield. And so I say that both are wrong, horribly and eternally and that the movement for a decent kind-
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of justice ought to enlist the full support of all - -
Americans.
I have no. particular desire to attempt a sreakup on Southern sensibilities. The crime of Duck Hill
And yet I must admit
tosses out of the picture some of the favorite argu-
ments of those who have minimized the crime of lynching when associated with racial conflicts. It
used to be said that what was called “mob violence”
by Northern publicists was actually an attempt to protect Southern womanhood and that due process of law could -not be relied upon when the victim of an attack was forced to face the ordeal of giving testi-’ mony in open court. : wo ap UT Duck. Hill has nothing on earth to do’ with American womanhood. A storekeeper was robbed - and murdered. I have no means of knowing whether" the mob killed guilty men or not. No issue could be - raised as .to the speed or certainty of punishment along strictly legal lines. Two accused men were al=ready in custody, the date of their trial had been set, and it is not usual for Southern white juries to lean - over backward in acquitting Negro defendants when - any reasonable case has been built against them. And yet there is some truth in the cry of many Southern Congressmen that the Gavagan bill has the . political impetus of a Democratic desire to solidify gains among Negro workers in the industrial cities of the North. And whether there is any merit at all in the clamor that there is carpetbagger legislation once again, an effort should be made to rid necessary political action of the stigma of sectionalism. If I am asked what practical device could be adopted to bring this condition around I can only say that I think the most effec-. tive antilynching bill would be one devised, written. and passed by Southern Representatives themselves. 8 » ” F I am told that this is too. much to be asked and that no achievement of that sort is possible I can at least point to one man in the House who has risen completely .above his local political interests. I refer, of course, to Maury Maverick of Texas. "Mr. Maveri®k is probably taking his political life in his hands by voting for the Gavagan bill. I assume that he does not like its provisions in all respects, but he is strongly actuated by the feeling that in addition
to representing his own community he is a spokesman
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The Washington Merry-Go-Round
Senator Tydings (D. Md.) May Escape an Unpleasant Situation Created By His Opposition to Court Reform by Attending the Coronation,
I drove through the parks, to the tidal basin and Kenwood, too. The trees are budding and before they don their summer dress and become “those greenrobed senators of mighty words” the evanescent Japanese flowers will have vanished for the year. I am impressed anew with the resiliency of the hearts and minds of these happy crowds. For a day, at least, beauty has become a reality to them. Their cares have been left behind. Washington Monument
and the Capitol dome are quiet and benign, and the
city is the cheerful host willing to forgive traffic errors and kind enough to accept the discomfort that comes with the milling crowd. :
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T present these exotic trees to America was a A gracious act of the Japanese. It must be good diplomacy, too, because there is something akin to the Christmas spirit in the air. i : They are talking about uprooting these lovely trees. Some would drain the Tidal Basin and build a memorial to Thomas Jefferson there. I don’t know what may be decided as to that, but I am sure enough that millions of people who now, and in the past, have been a part of this moving parade will miss this festival of illusive charm. I believe that these uncounted thousands will return to the daily grina, refreshed and happy and conscious that they have beheld and contributed to
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that the Federal Reserve Board ordered .an_increase
By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen
ASHINGTON, April 20.—It might be interesting to keep one eye on the European passenger lists to see whether Millard Tydings, Maryland’s socialite Senator, goes over to view the coronation. His father-in-law, Joe Davies, U. S. Ambassador to Russia, has invited Millard and his new wife to go over as the guest of himself and Mrs. Marjorie Post Hutton Davies, the breakfast food heiress. For Millard, the coronation would be an’excellent way out of his present Supreme Court dilemma. He was one of the first breast-beaters to come out against the President’s plan. > Since then he has had a terrific reaction from his Maryland constituents. Those who make a ritual of the Maryland Hunt Club races are for him, but unfortunately they don't have many votes. On the other hand, organized labor has. ” ” 2
EHIND the scenes, some very brisk talk has been addressed to Federal Reserve Chairman Marriner Eccles as a result of the sharp slump in Government bonds.
There has been a lot of talk in Wall Street about the mysterious reason for this slump, but there is no mystery about it. It was due primarily to the fact
of one-third in the cash reserves of member banks, effective May 1. As a result smaller banks; heavily loaded with Government bonds, dumped them on the market in order to meet the Board's requirements. Marriner Eccles was responsible for this increase. He has become much worried over the specter of in lation, knew that an increase in bank reserves would take money out of speculative fields. He also knew this would bring an easing in bond values, but he expected nothing as drastic as actually occurred. ‘
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HE bond drop brought an immediate howl from the Treasury. Chief pride of Secretary Morgenthau is his maneuvering of Government interest rates down to a point where the Treasury pays only the same total interest it paid under Hoover, despite the big national debt rolled up by Roosevelt. : Morgenthau has raised a lot of the money in the from of short-term paper, maturing in from one to five years. This means that he has to keep going - back into the market to refinance every time an issue matures. - ’ : Right here was where the Eccles policy pinched. Morgenthau’s..howl was behind the action of the Federal Reserve Board .in convening its Open Market Committee and going into -the market to buy Gov= ernment, bonds, thereby halstering bond prices... -. :
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