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FRIDAY, APRIL 23, 1937

MUSIC FESTIVAL OPENS INOT since the May Festivals of 50 years ago has Indianapolis looked forward to anything musically comparable to the biennial convention of the National Federation of Music Clubs, opening here today. Local Federation members and others who have been preparing for the event have been substituting the word “festival”. for “convention.” For the occasion is not just another convention for this “convention city.” It is about ~ the biggest music festival in America. :

Few music centers in this country have ever assembled]

so many noted artists for one event. None of the famous annual spring festivals this year will equal this convention in number and variety of programs. About 5000 music educators, performers and club members are to be guests of the community. : | And we likewise will be their guests. With one or two minor exceptions, the lectures and concerts will be available to the public. For what you ordinarily would pay for two concerts, you will be able to hear more music than usually is offered Indianapolis in an entire season. The brilliant program for this full week of entertainment is well known. Throughout the convention American music will be emphasized. The festival offers an excellent opportunity to observe the activities of club and civic choruses and other semiprofessional groups in all parts of the country. Representatives of musical America promise a, red-let-ter ‘week in our musical history.

“ONE OF THE SILLIEST LAWS”

NUMBER of workers will start Monday taking a census

of the male voters of Marion County. The estimated

cost of the project is $8000. This census is required under an old law passed before the Women’s Suffrage Act and apparently about all the results are good for are to file. County Attorney John Linder has termed the law ‘one of the silliest on the books.” The next Legislature should get rid of this remarkably futile and expensive bit of legislation, before it takes another $8000 from the pockets of the suffering taxpayer.

WICTIM OF A SQUIRE'S WHIM “It’s the sime the whole world over, It’s the poor what tikes the blime, It’s the rich wot get's the grivy— Ain't it all a bloomin’ shime?” Indeed it is. But when buxom, middle-aged Mrs. Violet Norton of Billerclay, England, tries to get some *grivy” from our own favorite movie hero, Clark Gable, by accusing him of being the father of her daughter, she finds her-

self being tried on a charge of using the mails to defraud, |

and few to weep with her.

that she was the victim of a squire’s whim back in Billerclay 14 years ago. And it may be that the squire, who called himself Mr. Billings, had iarge ears like Gable’s. But all that, plus the stern fact of daughter Gweéndoline, cannot stand up against the ironclad Gable alibi. years ago, the testimony shows, our Mr. Gable was lum-

berjacking in Oregon by day, and by moonlight was besieging the allections of the fair Fran Doerfer, who traveled

all the way from Oregon to tell the jury about the courtship. With due respect far the exploits of this Casanova of the cinema, the jury surely cannot grant him the prowess to woo two maids on two continents at once.

WE WEREN'T SO SMART SPEAKING before the D. A. R. congress, Circuit Judge John J. Parker of North Carolina said:

“At this time we are experiencing one of the growing |. : | UT Troyanovsky, like old Mike, was once an

pains-of our Federal system. Not only has interstate commerce grown, but certain phases of production have become inextricably interwoven with interstate commerce, with the result that local governments are unable to exercise over them that control which the situation requires. “It is clear, I think, that we must in some way give the general government a greater measure of control over these matters affecting the national welfare, either by revising our concept of the power possessed by the Federal Government under the commerce clause of the Constitution or by amendment under the Constitution to extend the power of the Federal Government to those phases of our life which have become of national significance.” And to think that only a few years ago organized labor and the liberals in the U. S. Senate—warinly applauded by this newspaper, incidentally—Dblocked Judge Parker’s appointment to the Supreme Court. And the job denied him was given, without a peep or protest from labor or the liberals—or this newspaper—to Owen J. Roberts, who later

‘wrote the AAA decision.

We can’t be sure, of course, that J udge Parker would |

have displayed on the Supreme Court the statesmanlike vision indicated by his words quoted above. But we have an uneasy feeling that we weren't so smart when we helped to defeat him. Well, if so, all we can do about it now is to ‘try to be philosophical and remark that this isn’t the first time we have lived to regret a victory,

PORTRAIT OF A STATESMA! REP HAM FISH of New York deposes that we might help balance the budget by levying a 100 per cent tax on incomes of all Americans who attend the coronaticn

ceremonies and another such tax on all American heiresses |

who marry foreign fortune-hunters. |

Which recails a story told about Statesman Fish and |

former Rep. Florence Kahn of California. “I just saw Ham Fish walking up and down the corridor between the House and Senate wrapped in his own thoughts,” a fellow Congressman told Mrs. Kahn. “Good heavens!” exclaimed the lady from California.

" *He must be naked.”

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Etiquette for Americans at the Coronation—By Herblock

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Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

Finds Pleasant Inn at Sarasota Where the Soviet Ambassador Once Played the Slot Machine.

ARASOTA, Fla., April 23.—This living, human document is being composed on controversial ground for it was here that Aleck Troyanovsky, the Ambassador of the Soviet Government, recently spent a vacation as neighbor. to Prince Michael Cantecuzene, late" aide-de-camp to the Grand Duke Nicholas, commander-in-chief of all the armies of the last Tsar of Russia.

The Gulf View Inn is a sort of barracks, a rough hewn -lodge close to the most beautiful shore that your correspondent has ever

{ seen, and is conducted by William i Whipple who came here from New | Jersey during the great Florida | boom and got beached.

The green water of the Gulf

{ mutters day and night on a beach | as fine as baby powder 15 yards | from the front stoop and big fish

are seen doing high jumps a half mile offshore. Your correspondent has found much to deplore in the political and social life of Florida, but has no fault to find with Mr. Troyanovsky’s hide-out on the Gulf. As between the Soviet Ambassador and Prince

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ys r i | Mike Cantecuzene, there is no doubt that Mike saw It may be, as the Widow Norton says in Los Angeles, | t

Sarasota first. He was once the husband of Julia Dent Grant, a granddaughter of Ulysses, the unhapblest President of them all, and he is some sort of in-law to the innkeeping Potter Palmer outfit of Chicago who used to have silver dollars.set in the flagged floor of the barber shop of their hotel. Prince Mike is a little guy with chin whiskers who was hit twice in the war before he got appointed aide-de-camp to Grand Duke Nicholas. ” n = ASTVAL he has been down here a long time since, managing properties for the old inn-keep-ing family and he was once head man and editorial writer for a Sarasota paper which the Palmers own.

He has made friends with a local alligator, which comes bellying up to his place to pass the time of day and mooch a faceful of red meat as the guest of a Russian prince, and the people like him for everybody calls him Mike. : When Treyanovsky hove up at the Gulf View old Mike said he ought to be sent back to Russia and, throughout Aleck’s stay at Mr. Whipple's plant, Mike gave the place plenty of room and did not meet the enemy. ” ” ”

officer in the army of the Tsar, and they might have had a pleasant evening over a naggin of something, way over on the other side of the world, reminiscing of the old country and the war and knocking political fungoes as one man to another if Mike had been limber enough to make the first bend. But Mike kept his distance and Troyanovsky turned his belly to the sun on Sarasota, beach by day and when night came on attacked the lone slot machine in the lobby of the lodge with a vast fund of quarters like all the other hated bourgeoisie who punt endlessly for the fabulous big casino. Hundreds of times, the Ambassador of the Soviet Socialist Republics pulled the crank and watched the wheels go round, but never hit the jackpot and went away defeated and chagrined, a capitalist in his very heart,

| and kicking himself for a blurry, ruddy, bloody sucker

and a fool even as your correspondent.

ITTSBURGH, April.23.—“Muddom,” Secretary of Labor, nicked a lot of big shot labor and industrial leaders for expense money to Washington to attend her victory rally on the Wagner act. So what? They appointed her their spokesman “to avoid conflicting statements,” and her spokesmanship consisted of this: “I can say truthfully that there was a complete meeting of the minds on the proposition that contracts are sacred and binding and both sides agreed to recommend that their respective principals should so regard them.” One wonders where the conference got on “Honesty is the best policy,” 2 plus 2 equals 4, and “You can’t keep a squirrel on the ground.” . One. can also wonder what the Secretary of Labor thought of the morality of these economic princelings when she called them together to decide that contracts ought to be performed and got them to agree to recommend that conclusion to “their respective principals.” 2 u ” T= greatest accommodation of conflicting views between management and labor in the history of this country occurred in the joint meetings of the Industrial and Labor Advisory Boards in the last six months of 1933. But it didn’t evolve from a town meeting, presided over by a very nice social worker who hasn't the foggiest' notion of what the labor industrial problem is. It evolved from giving these two-fisted he pundits on both sides a direct responsibility in the solution of

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

CHARGES PROFITEERING ON TOWNSHIP RELIEF

By a Taxpayer

I would appreciate knowing where the extra pennies go that are paid by those who get weekly checks from the Center Township Trustee.

I know several persons who get weekly allowances of $1.45. They are directed to some particular store where they may buy what they want, but at’ this store they pay more for what they get than an ordinary citizen, not on charity. For instance: A dozen eggs that you or I would buy for 25 cents, they pay 29 cents for in the same store on the same day. A pound of oleomargerine that we would buy for 14 cents costs these persons 18 cents. Everything else they buy costs more in proportion to the two

| items mentioned above. According to prices these persons | are charged, you can readily sce | that they are not getting $1.45 in

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DENIES RELIEF CLIENTS DIRECTED TO STORES

By Mrs. Hannah Noone, Center Township Trustee

There is absolutely no truth to reports that persons on township relief are charged higher prices in grocery stores than any other person. Furthermore, no person getting a township relief check is directed to go to any certain store. They may choose any store in their neighborhood they wish. . If there is any

store trying to profiteer on relief orders, I want to know about it.

” 2 ” UNION SPIRIT HELD NEED OF LABORING MEN By Bob Cargal, Clinton

Just a few lines from a man educated in the school of hard knocks. I have belonged to the United Mine Workers of America for 33 years. My advice to those who are in a labor organization is to stay in, and to those who are out, get in.

Simply joining a union does not make a union man. There are too many “card” men and not enough with the true union spirit. It has been my experience that there are too many who are out for their own personal good, but to hear them tell it they are some he-men. They are the ones who go out for the offices that pay the most money. I prefer the man who must be shown by his fellow men that he has’ the qualifications that are needed to serve his organization's best interest. He will then feel that he has been selected and is therefore obliged to think of others instead of self, ‘There are plenty of both kinds, so unions should be careful in choos-

‘General Hugh Johnson Says —

Next Big ' Problem in Industry-Labor Situation Is Protection of Public Interest and No Consideration Has Been Given It Yet.

(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.)

ing men to trust. They make or ruin the whole setup. Don’t think that I am against strikes, but men are sometimes forced to let their loved ones suffer because of strikes that never should have occurred—strikes that are due to higherups who never miss a meal. I have stayed on strikes for five and one-half months and returned to work for $1.35 less per day than I was getting when the strike be-

gan, I readily recall that all the more substantial increases we ever ! got in wages, we got with the loss of |a day's work. During the years of depression we | should have learned that when capi- | tal refuses to work, labor cannot | carry on, and when labor quits, capital cannot carry on. Labor and big business must join hands and go along together, since neither can go alone. When the workers of this country awaken and choose leaders on the basis of merit and integrity instead of the ones who| blow the loudest horn, then we wil go places.

= ” THINKS AGING | JUSTICES |ARE ACTIVE MENTALLY By W. L. Ballard, Syracuse How about retiring judges and others at 70? | There is in biology a school which says that man should live to twice the age his father was at his birth. This average father-age, then, should be 35. It was 32 up to a few years ago. |It is 30 now, another tragedy im vital statistics. Twice 30 is 60. Mental, not physical years may be meant. Mental death occurs in many at physical ages of 40 to 50 instead at the biblical 70. Then, how about retiring judges and others at 70? It was all a question of fact. If his Mental Age Index is under 35 he should quit. Each character in the®Bible had a much

LIFE ENDS AT 70? By DANIEL FRANCIS CLANCY

Some say yes, And some say no, As to whether ‘The Court should go.

DAILY THOUGHT For he saith to the snow, Be thou on the earth; likewise to the small rain, and to the great rain of his strength.—Job 37:6.

ATURE is too thin a screen; the glory of the omnipresent God bursts through everywhere.— Emerson. :

greater M. A. I. I could not learn facts, but it is probable that the nine old men, surviving after long struggles for success, each have an M. A. I. above average, with mental vitality even greater than physical vitality. ” un 2 PRAISES HILL WOMAN FOR PRIZE ESSAY By B. C. Several months ago the nation picked! up its newspapers and learned to its horror that a husky young Tennessee mountaineer had taken unto himself a 9-year-old wife.

While legislators belatedly scurried |

about modernizing: their primitive

marriage laws, the agitation that resulted mirrored . the humiliation that such

sparsely settled areas.

It was pleasant, therefore, to read | -

of another wife, from the hills of West Virginia, who is taking in stride a trip to. New York and Havana which she won for submitting the best pro-Roosevelt essay in a nation-wide pre-election contest. That a “hillbilly” woman should have the wide grasp on national affairs and economic issues displayed in her essay was considered miraculous by her interviewers. : And should help remove the taste left by the child-marriage episode.

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THINKS MACHINE AGE MENACE OVERRATED

By a Reader \

" People who believe that machines will ultimately become a Frankenstein’s monster and ruin mankind can get a grain or so of comfort from the recent Detroit speech of B. M. Anderson, New York economist. For it is Mr. Anderson’s contention that whenever new machines have inspired fears of technological unemployment, this period of apprehesion has invariably been followed by an era of improved conditions for | workers. re, He points to the 1925-27 decline | in the number of manufacturing | workers, often cited an evidence of technological unemployment. These | men weren't thrown out of jobs, Mr. | Anderson maintains. : | The workers, he pointed out, were | absorbed by other lines. There had | been a great increase in service industries, for instance. Concern for the esthetic side of life was reflected in increased production of luxuries, and in a growth of school population, both trends that accounted for many of the workers. All in all, if you take Mr. Anderson's: word for it, the machine is sadly overrated as a menace.

The Washington Merry-Go-Round

Opponents of President's Justices Will Resign at

nation’s | benighted | ignorance could exist even in its |

the foremost problem of Ahis country pushing them together, and telling them to go to it and come out with something that would jell. There is nothing surer than that labor organization is going on to completion, at least in the mass production industries. When a true industry-wide partnership has evolved between all the companies and all the labor in a great industry like the steel industry, what does any company in that group care

how high its labor costs go? All its competition will |

be forced to pay the same. 2 =n =»

ND what will to any company that beA Tabor 49 5 any comp | was appointed by Harding in 1922.

gins reducing costs by readjusting wages and hours—no matter how high costs and price go? It will attend to that company more swiftly and completely than any NRA or any “combination in restraint of trade” could dream of doing. What does this mean? It means that, as this inevitable trend progresses, there will develop a clamorous -and suffering public interest that can be protected in only one way. The Federal Government must have a seat in this partnership. . This Administration hasn't given that a thought. That wasn't the purpose of Miss Perkins’ primary class. She wants to prevent the Labor Board from running away with her show in labor disputes. That isn't the purpose of the Labor Board. It is only there to enforce unionization and precipitate this condition. But the of this. It is our next big problem. :

Administration had better think-

By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen

,"”ASHINGTON, April 23.—Opponents of the PresWwW ident’s Court reform predict privately that two members of the High Bench will resign at the close" of the current term, late in May. One of the most active in spreading this report is Senator Bailey, a leading oppositionist. The North Carolinian is cautiously vague as to just who the two retiring Justices will be, but the impression has got around that they are Van Devanter and Sutherland. Van Devanter is 78 years old, and dean of the Supreme Court in length of service. He was appointed by Taft in 1910. Sutherland is 75 years old,

Neither is in the best of health, and both had in-

dicated their intention to retire prior to 1933. Under |

the recently enacted Summers act they can now quit with full pay, $20,000 a year for the rest of their | lives. However, no hint of retiring has actually come | from these two, or from any of the other Justices. | Administrationites view the Bailey report as part of a wily scheme to undermine Senate support of the President's bill. They contend that the opposition, realizing it is licked, is trying to boom up backing for a compromise plan of two new Justices instead of six, and the resignation rumor fits into this maneuver. » ” ”

OW badly the Roosevelt: Administration misses having a friend in the Will Hays movie organization is illustrated by the recent attitude of that °

| cial letter urging movie distributors to | particular film.

| casting stations, and go up to $3 for large ons.

By Heywood Broun Best Job John L. Lewis Could Do Now Would Be to Get Farmers And Industrial Workers Together, NEW YORK, April 23.—1I've been getting a little information recently about the man whom nobody in Manhattan knows. I

refer to the farmer. The first thing I learned about the farmer is that there is no such

-person—that is, not if you put in “the.” In

other words, this general classification has covered so wide a field that it doesn't make much sense. At the top you find a comparatively small group of men who own a vast acreage and produce in quantity. These men are the equivalent of our large industrial leaders, A much bigger agricultural group would include men comparable to those who run small independent fac- . tories or other businesses. A still greater group might be identified as the little shopkeepars of the city—I mean in| the scale of their production. [I suppose: this is the type referred to as the “family farmer.” The sharecropper stands in about the same eco: cinic position as the janitor in a. Mane

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| hattan flat, while the itinerant farm laborer s:ffers

the same hardships as the odd job man of the town. What I'm trying to point out is that itis {colish to think of all farmers as having the same political and economic interests. As a matter of fact. the divergence 1s illustrated in the various types of faim organizations. When the Grange comes out for or against something ‘it cannot undertake to speak for farmers as a whole but only for its particular group. The great handicap in the path of progressive political development in this country has been the fact that the farm worker and the industrial worker seldom sit down together to find a common interest in their problems. They are much more acutely aware of the surface clash in their desires. The worker in the city wants a low price for bread and the farmer wants a high price for wheat, and to this extent the rift at first glance might be found through the contact of consumer co-operatives and producer co-operatives.

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BY at the moment, I am told the farmers of America do not love John L. Lewis. This was the opinion of two farm experts, one of whom is an admirer of the leader of the C. I. O. and the other a foe, Just now the rift grows wider, because whenever a farmer goes to buy anything at a store the proprietor of the establishment tells him that the high prices are based upon the recent C. I. O. strikes. The man on the farm has heard in fireside chats that when the wages of city workers are advanced the city folk have a greater purchasing power and can buy more from the farmer. But the farmer knows that when large organizations grant a 10 per cent advance lin wages

they add a 50 per cent increase in price. : 2 2 a “ I AM told by reliable informants that the so-called rising of the farmers in Hershey was largely a fake and that some newspaper reporters seemed 0 be cbservers who couldn't tell a fink from a 0 But though it may have heen legendary at the time, the myth is valid as a symbol. : [. Just about the most useful thing which |John L. Lewis could do for the cause of economic and political progress would be to pack a comb and brus | and get out into the corn fields. I feel certain that he could prove to the farmers that he doesn't wear a pair of horns. :

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Court Reform Proposal Predict Two Close of Current Term Late in May.

office toward a film opposing the President's Court plan and glorifying the Supreme Court. Motion Picture Tsar Hays, who was Harding's Postmaster General, has gratuitously sent out a speplay |up this

- Note—President Roosevelt's son-in-law, John Boettiger, once was in the Hays organization, | now is publisher of Hearst's Seattle Post-Intelligencer. . EJ # = p= congressional prejudice against more taxes, one levy #s finding almost universal favor on Capitol Hill—nsmely the tax on radio broade casters. : Proposed by hard-hitting George Henry Payne of the Federal Communications Commission, the tax would begin with $1 per watt for the small| broadThe giant 500,000-kilowatt station WLW at Cincinnati would pay $1,500,0C0. The proposed tax is based upon the fact that the broadcasting companies are using extremely valuable wave-channels, lent to them rent-free by the Govern ment, : The broadcasters are strenuously organizing under cover either to kill the bill or else pass the cost of the tax on to the advertiser. In the latter case, the tax may be a big boon to newspapers, for this additional cost of radio time may be just enough to tip the scales back to larger advertising space in the daily papers. >

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