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MONDAY, MAY 3, 1937

THIS WORLD OF OURS N Berlin, Herr Hitler celebrates May Day by telling German workers that they can’t have wage raises, 4elling German churches that the Reich will not “tolerate criticism of the state's morals,” and telling anyone in general who may dissent that: “There are still among us old fogies who are no longer good for anything. . . . That stand either to ‘the right or to the left and pass one another much as do dogs and cats. But this does not disturb us. We will take away their children. These we will train and educate to "become new Germans.” Ir Moscow, Stalin reviews a Red Army parade. Giant tanks rumble over the cobblestones and 800 fighting planes darken the sky. ~ In Japan, the opposition political parties have just won an overwhelming victory at the polls, but the government in power has no intention of yielding that power. In Spain, Franco's artillery continues the destruction of Bilbao, and British and French warships hover: uneasily in the: Bay of Biscay, helping the evacuation of civilians. All this, happening riorth of the equator, where sun- _ shine is warming spring into summer.

¥ THREE SOUTHERNERS EP. MAYRY MAVERICK of Texas and Reps. Will J. Taylor and Carroll B. Reece of Tennessee were the only Congressmen from the South who voted for the Federal Antilynching Bill. We speak here of the South as comprising r the states of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Létisiana, Mississippi, North "Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia. We are sure that the 99 other Congressmen who represent those states i not condone lynching, and that their - votes against the bill were not motivated by any desire to protect lynchers. We ase sure that they and a vast preponderance of their constituents look upon these mob crimes with horror. | | : Which seems a strange picture of statecraft. Since so many of the lynchings that occur in this country occur in sdthe South, it would seem reasopable to believe that the respectable elements in this _— would welcome whatever help the Federal Gevernment could give in stamping out the outrages which bring shame to their states. These three are the only Southern Congressmen who, on the basis of the record, are above suspicion of worrying about what the not-so-respectable elements may think on the subject of lynching. Both Indiana Senators and all Hoosier Siresertnitbes except Greenwood, who did not vote, supported the Antilynching Bill. We hope the point of view of the three comes to be acknowledged as the plavailing point of view in Dixie. To that end we are glad to quote from an editorial appearing in that vigorous Southern journal, the Richmond TimesDispatch: “The latest sample of what is sometimes called states’ rights is the torture and murder of two Negroes by a Mississippi mob. Southern Senators and Representatives who have been vociferously opposing Federal antilynching legislation on the floors of Congress, on the ground that it would ‘interfere with local self-government, had better produce some evidence that local self-government is operative in certain, parts of the South. They seem greatly concerned for the future of states’ rights . . . but they | are scarcely concerned at all for states’ duties.”

NORMAN HAPGOOD

HE death of Norman Hapgood last week removed from the American scene a citizen whose type the nation ill can spare. Writer, editor; diplomat, political liberal, he actively and intelligently fought fpr the best interests of his country at home and abroad. "To the world he was known as former editor of Collier’s, trenchant commentator, Minister to Denmark during the second Wilson Administration, adviser to Alfred E. Smith when Mr. Smith was New York's Governor. Indianapolis felt a closer tie with Mr. Hapgood because of his s brothers, operators of the Columbia Conserve Co., and his nephew, Powers Hapgood, labor leader. An able man, devoted to the public welfare, is gone.

HEADED WEST URISTS driving Western highways last summer could not fail to be impressed by the great number of ancient automobiles, loaded with families and their household

goods, h8ded west from Nebraska, the Dakotas, Kansas

and other drought-stricken states of the Great Plains.

Now the Interior Department makes public some figures on this mass movement of drought refugees. It began in 1934, but reached its peak this year. From Jan. 1 to Sept. 15 some 2329 farm families from the Midwest migrated into Washington, 1930, into Oregon and about 4500 into ldaho, while 27,800 persons from the ‘‘dust bowl” country entered California in the first six months of 1936. Some of them, of course, were seeking seasonal employment and intended to return to their former homes. But many hoped to find permanent places, and better opportunities in the Pacific states. ” Perhaps it seems ironical, this great trek from an area of temporary drought into a region of permanent: aridity. For to a very large extent successful farming in Oregon, Washmgton, Idaho and California depends 6n irrigation; : and there is none too rhuch irrigated land to meet the de- : mands of established resjdents and of newcomers equipped with capital suificient to establish themselves. | : But it lends point to the statement of John C. Page, acting Commissioner of Reclamation, that there is urgent reed for more.places where homes can be established on land under irrigation. Government projects now under way will supply this need in part.. -Other such projects, as they

are developed, should more than justify their cost, and

make it possible for migrating farm families to become self-supporting and‘ valuable citizens rather than burdens on the eonuiLies in which they, seifle, A

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‘comedians even more So. ally the shows made money. Any time a showman is 4.

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—. THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES" Let It Pour! _sy Talburt

The Law i in Kentucky—sy Kirby

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Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

Burlesque Has Grown Bold and Is Fighting Protests Made by N. 'Y. Clergymen Against Filth.

EW YORK, May 3.—When rats are allowed the free run of a neighborhood for any length of time, they grow as bold as tomcats, and that is what has happened in the case of the burlesque branch of the

drama, intimately known to the trade as louse-opera. Cardinal Hayes and many other religious leaders in New York have protested against this filth, and far from slinking back into the sewer from which

it came, burlesque is making a show of defiance andrtalking about its rights.’ This form of vice has spread over much of the country, but New York, as usual, seems to have been the point lof infection. There were a lot of old, mildewed theaters in town which weren’t earning their taxes, and the promoters began in a small way with a few limp and listless hags who performed with all the animation of a night watchman. The scenery was old and dirty and the dialogue of the Natur-

Mr. Pegler

allowed to display naked women he can make money. From New York the naked-woman shows spread out, and when Chicago,*in the depth of the depression, determined to go through with a world’s fair planned in the reckless days of the boom, it was not art or science or culture but lust that saved the venture. Texas then adopted the same policy as a means of saving the investment in a fair, and meanwhile the burlesque show has become standard entertainment in many cities, big and little. s o ” HE nakedness of the females is just that, and all talk of art in connection with the strip-tease is obvious ballyhoo, but even the appeal to the lust of the customers is less rotten than the remarks of the males who are listed as comedians. The ‘humor in the main has to do with sexual depravity. Always when complaint is made ‘of anakedness or oral filth in a show, the answer is that the show

people themselves are unaffected by their own stuff, and that they are all one big, happy, virtuous family backstage, which is just true enough to establish the basis for an argument. But when Sam Scribner,

‘now T7 years old, who established the old Columbia

burlesque system, declares that old-time burlesque was just good, clean fun he apparently forgets a few

phrases. » » 2

IF is true that the Columbia Theater in New York gave harmless burlesque, and the cast may have been, as he suggests, home-loving, God-fearing- wageearners and artists. But old-time burlesque in Chicago, at least, was different, for there was one famous old house on State St. in which, at the end of the show, the comedian auctioned the girls of the cast to

customers in the audience who claimed them then

and there and took them, still in costume, to the

beer hall in the rear. Possibly they married and settled down in the subwrbs to raise large families

“of respectable Americans, but from the way things

seemed to be going ‘about midnight, it didn't seem likely. If the revolt of the clergy continues and is taken up elsewhere, it would be important to ascertain the names of the people who own the theater in which the vice is presented.

The Hoosier Forum

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

TERMS DOCTOR'S ADVICE ON SWIMMING TIMELY By L. B. J. Vacation time is near, once more, when the ocean and inland lakes will lure throngs of pleasure-seekers. And, just as in previous years, there are thousands who will never return from these watering places. For

drownings are a major talise of accidental deaths. And so the words of Dr. Bayard T. Horton of Rochester, Minn., may well be heeded. According to him, recent studies have revealed that hypersensitivity to cold water has been responsible for many drownings, persons afflicted in this way being apt to collapse after entering the water. To determine whether you have the weakness, immerse one hand in ice water for five minutes. If your hand swells after removal, you are hypersensitive. Most persons, Dr. Horton advises, can be “desensitized” to cold by immersing one hand in ice water for a minute or two twice a day for three or four weeks. A simple procedure, certainly, if it means lessening the danger of losing one’s life this summer. 2 ” 3

NOTES PLENTY WORK FOR UNEMPLOYED

By Bull Mooser, Crawfordsville ~

What is this thing “economy” The Times has written about in editorials, cartoons, etc.? Of course, there is no question but that doing away with relief would be economy. The “reliefer” continues to consume but produces nothing. To do away with him would be economy—and I am 100 per cent for that kind of economy. But how about the 16 million Americans who want to work and produce but are denied the opportunity? Is it economy to leave these millions not producing? Would any business man call it economy If half his staff did not produce? The only solition to the economy problem is to solve the unemployment problem. That would be easy to do. We could use a million men building homes, 10 million reconstructing our river systems for flood control, irrigation and power and another million to convert the dust bowl into profitable grazing grounds again. On all sides of us there is the call for men to fight nature and create wealth. The propagandists tell us it is impractical to harness our rivers. This is not true. The real things that hold projects back are politics and the propaganda of the utility companies. We Americans don’t know what real economy is. We are accustomed to thinking of it in terms of short-sighted individual economy. It is going to be a strain on us to focus our attention on far-range national economy. The only way the property owner can reduce his taxes is to put the unemployed to work. It is time for us to quit trusting in miracles by

(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.)

rugged individualists and use a little common sense in looking at _the problem of economy. ” % n AGREES WITH MENCKEN ON HAPPENINGS IN U. S. By Daniel Francis Clancy. Logansport Employers and employees disagree and what results? ‘The Flowers of Evil"—riots, strikes and the mob

spirit—bloom in the garden of “The.

Great Republic.” Lawlessness, vulgarity and terrorism—the dregs of the American riff-raff rise, and raise an uproar all over the Republic. Im hardly an admirer of American culture at its best (I take consolation in Menken's words: “The native author of any genuine force and originality is almost invariably found, to be under strong foreign influefce, either British or Cont'nental)—but American culture is at its woist. There is only one thing to be done—denounce and view with alarm. Now, look at jolly old England— the whole jolly United Kingdom, for that matter. When labor ponders over its lot and comes to the conclusion that it’s getting the little end and decides to call a strike— what results? The blokes on strike merely mope around—lounging and smoking, you know, and express tacit dissatisfaction. Any surliness, jeering or even frowning is consid-

‘GREEN FOREST ON THE

HILL By O. C. WEATHERBY

‘Oft my soul cries out, for easement From the anguish and the strife It must face in stern appeasement Of the needs of modern life. Then I long for sweet seclusion In green forest on the hill, Where the summer’s wild profusion Brings a tranquil, silent thrill.

Where the blamy breezes murmur In the verdant, shaded domes, And the moss is rich and firmer ‘Neath the songbirds’ leafy homes; : Where the twigs’ and leaves’ soft rustle Scarcely sound my gentle tread— Soothing. contrast to the bustle Of the marts from .which T've ued.

DAILY TOGai

Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to’ your shame.—I Corinthians 15:34.

O man has a right to do as he pleases, except when he pleases to do right.—C. Simmons. =

ered (by the local gentry, the upper classes) definitely dashed bad form. Definitely, I said. But not so here—a bolt is tossed here; a door hinge is lobbed there, teargas is wafted over the city and the, lips of labor pucker up to give forth the razzberry. : As Menken said, “. . . in the Republic; here everything happens that is forbidden by the probabilities and the decencies.”

” zn = BELIEVES ‘GENIAL JIM HAS TURNED GLOOMY By E. F. Middox “Genial Jim” Farley did not look quite so genial on his recent visit to this neck of the woods. Maybe

Jim was .grouching because Hendricks County went Republican in. spite of New Deal bait. You can’t fool all of the Hoosiers all the time. Some Democrats, including Senator VanNuys, have awakened to the New Deal trickery. Every honest Hoosier who has common sense enough to know a dangerous piece of radical legislation when he sees one ought to get behind Senator VanNuys in his fight against the Court reform bill. Everyone who has been shouting “rubber stamp” at Congress should write a letter to the Senator commending him for his stand against dictatorial White House pressure.

Let’s forget politics long enough |°

to show Senator VanNuys that Indiana is proud of him. LAT URGES HIGHER TAX ON THOSE ABLE TO PAY By del Mundo Statements appearing in newspapers indicate that the Government income is not sufficient to balance the budget. To do so would necessitate one of four things: +1. More borrowing, which would only increase the national debt, eventually increase taxes and lower the national standard of living; 2. Curtailment of Government expenses, including relief expenditures, which would cause more unemployment. and increase competition for jobs, thus lowering wages; 3. Increase the amount of currency in circulation, thus using inflation, higher prices and inviting disaster, or 4. Levy taxes on these. who are able to pay, and in proportion to their ability to pay, ‘and in such amounts as may be necessary to bring about a necessary’ distribution of purchasing ‘power to ‘bring into operation mass distribution to match production. A proper and continuous application of this principle will not only dispel the depression but will prevent another depression. The last mentioned plan is the only proper course to follow. If the Government is too weak to follow this program, it will continue on the road that leads to fascism, war and revoliition.

1t SoS 0 Me

By Heywood Broun

Wave of Elegance Ascrib d to the ‘Coronation Sweeps America and Writer Calls on Men to Resist It.

EW YORK, May 3.—Gen. Pershing has just ordered a $600 uniform to wear in London, and a New York magistrate has ruled that it is disorderly conduct if a man | fails to take off his hat at a bar w en ladies |

are present. To the casual bbserver these incidents may seem | to have no connection. But td" the deep student of human affairs I surmise that these straws may indi cate the fact that | America is about to be struck by a hurricane - of elegance. This gale may justly be called a British cyclone, since I blame it upon the | coronation and the events which led up to it. Possibly it was the Duke of Windsor who showed the. way since he took. off his crown because a lady could not have his seat. The inevitable reaction in another English-speaking naticn is that men should take off their hats in bars when: there is co- - educational drinking. : . What to do about it? Some of the surly will proceed to go home and board up against the heavy winds of etiquette. Others may seek to have these winds tempered in some fashion, lest we all become lambs and follow the English ex ample even to the exient of wearing short pants at. formal functions. |

I prefer to keep my hat on my head loons. This has its advantages. When o! leave the place he knows where his ha any rate, his best friends can tell him. | And in a spirit of compromise I opted ladies

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hen in sa=. decides to is—or, at

should make certain concessions when |they .come through portals previously barred against them.” I am not one to say that no lady should ever be allowed to put her foot on a brass rail and say, * , rye, Jake, with a seidel of dark beer’as | I am aware that feminism is at flood t de and that the women of the world eagerly press forw to all those advantages which once were denied to them. I would not have it otherwise, but mildly I make the plea, “A little easy with the whip, adits, » og n= Sexo HE trouble with women, if I may be so bold as to mention just one weakness, is that if you permit them one foot on the brass rail they -will presently be actually standing upon it. If men must take their hats off in saloons I think there ought to be an ordinance against those young misses Who use the brass rail as a stepping stone and cry out roguishly, “O-oh, look at me! Look how tall I a And let me add one point beyond which comprémise s d not go. Strategy seems ta indicate the necessity of a retreat upon the part of the pales to: previously prepared positions. Yet when we reach the citadel let us put up in large and flaming letters the slogan, “They shall not pass!” What I have in mind is that we should sell our lives dearly rather than permit chivalry ever to rear its vgly head again in dffice elevators. | : "=... = * . LONG fight was required before public opinion decided that a man was not a r if he refrained from ‘taking off his straw hat while passing the 57th floor during the rush hour and sticking the sharp brim into some lady’s eye in order to prove that he had a respect for womanhood. Now we must take off our hats in saloons and say, “Lady, take my stool. Don’t mention it. I've been drinking all day.” This is the decision of a court, and to cavil against it would tend to Be our form of

government into disrespect. But I suggest that there ishould be a period of apprenticeship for girls who are approaching the brass rail for the ret time.

General Hugh Johnson Says—

Having Read Complete Report on Taxation of Twentieth Century Fund, This Column Views It as Distinct Contribution to Vexing Problem.

Of course this takes the sting out of my animad-

ASHINGTON, May 3.—This column recognizes its responsibility to be fair. It frequently gets protests that it isn’t. It was pretty extreme in asserting that Senator Black was holding up confirmation of the Maritime Commission to insure his own candidates. since learned that this assertion wasn’t accurate. It regards as a great evil tHe pretensions of what are practically privately financed pressure bureaus, like the Brookings Institute and the National Industrial Conference Board. In this opinion, it took a terrific crack at the Twentieth Century Fund's study on taxation. That was based on an excerpt of the whole study which was sent to me by the fund for review. It seemed to me incomplete. and in many respects erroneous. Mr. Filene, who was a principal financier of the fund, publicized an answer which didn't in the least impress this writer with a sense of error. I regarded it as wholly insufficient, but Thomas Parkinson, who I think, and tried to make clear that I thought, has one of the best minds and abilities on this and similar subjects, has sent me a copy of the complete study, which is many times as thorough as the original publication.

n ”n ” ANDOR compels me to say that I read this with

the avidity I sometimes devote to a good detec-

tive story and I have little hesitancy in ying it is a distinct contribution to the Yeas: Sa at

“Problem We are confronting,

versions on their research stafl..

One of the charges which Mr. Filene pressed | against this column was that, although it paid tribute

The Washingion Merry-Go-Round

Roosevelt to Introduce New Labor Measure Regulating Wages and : Hours and Banning Child Labor Before Congress Acts on Court Plan,

By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen

ASHINGTON, May 3.—The Administrations new labor legislation will be uncorked before the court bill has been disposed of—in fact, it will

It has,

to the signatories of the committee in other fields, and to Mr. Roswell Magill in the Treasury, it did not seem to know that he had been a member before it rendered its report and had resigned to go with the Treasury. How was this column to know that Mr. Magill had the responsibilities of a signatory when he didn’t sign? It's a fine thing if he really knows about and approves this whole study, because it pretty thoroughly condemns the present tax structure and he is now undersecretary and a principal adviser to Henry Morgenthau. ; ; ” ” 2 Y only other confession on this subject of columnar errors is that Uncle Danny in the

Commerce Department writes me that I am “grossly misinformed” and that his department is as open as the day and as guiltless as the angels in giving pitiless publicity to all causes of airplane disaster.

Dear Uncle Dan: I know more about that than per- |

haps I should, and the answer is the old Siouxan word translatéd and described in a previous. column. . The word is “bohee,” meaning bull. I neither modify nor, withdraw a word I have said on these atrocious for which bureaucratic incompetence is at responsible

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be .sent to Congress soon after the President returns from his fishing junket. Drafted directly under the President's own supervision, the measure consists of minimum wage and hour regulations plus a ban on child labor. Neither labor nor business was consulted in the writing of the bill. Neither were Secretaries Perkins and Roper, nor the one-time NRA bosses, Gen. Johnson and Donald Richberg. Richberg, who had a hand

in the writing of .the Supreme Court message, tried

to horn into the picture but was shooed off. The decision to shoot the new labor legislation before Congress acted on the court plan was reached before the President departed. The strategy had been debated by the inner council for weeks. At first it was considered better policy to hold off until the court fight was finished. But recent developments on Capitol Hill reversed this.

{ 4 8 = HREE reasons prompted the shift in strategy:

(1) Discovery of an undercover scheme in the Senate to rush adjournment of Congress as soon as the court bill was voted on. Opposition leaders are ‘behind this maneuver, although Jack Garner, who

‘is standing with the President on the court issue, also

"has a hand in it. Although the Vice President doesn’t 2k the judiomrs ‘he is reported

to*be against any new labor ‘legislation this session— especially since it would interfere with his fishing. 2) Speeding up introduction of £ labor bill will demonstrate to labor and the progressives that their valuable support. is appreciated and that they need have no doubts about their rewa . (3) Putting the heat on. wavering mocrats and dissident liberals in the court fight. e bill will pe so liberal that it would have small chance of” getting . by the present Court. By pushing the labor bill into the court fight, therefore, the Administration can claim that a vote against the court bill is a vote. against the labor bill. With a number of the waverers coming up for election next yeaf, an Argument like that is apt to carry weight. o \ 2 2 = Ee

RZ CHARLES L. GIFFORD, Mas seria Republican, was chiding his colleag es for making “silly” statements in debate. .° “Some of the remarks made here n the House,” he said, “remind of the story of ; husband gave her a check to cash at the bank. She

went to the bank, where the teller told her, ‘You mugs

indorse it.’ “ ‘What do you-mean?’ she asked. “ ‘Put your name on it, so your husk vou used the check.’ * “On the back of the check she wrote: T am ‘na at the bank getting the r kigges, J Jenn ee

nd will ton + noney. Lots "ot