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SATURDAY, MAY 15, 1937:

STILL A MESS

5 E believe the Congress and the people of the United States are entitled to know the facts regarding the present relief situation in the United States and the amount of funds required to properly, decently and humanely meet it.”—The U. 8. Conference of Mayors. Congress ‘and the people are entitled to know all the facts, and to have them so assembled and so related to each other that they make a complete picture instead of a jumbled jigsaw puzzle. The Mayors’ Conference, demanding a Federal relief appropriation of at least $1,500,000,000 as asked by President Roosevelt, says that many cities are straining their resources to the! limit to take care of their present share of the relief load. That is a fact. Administrator Harry Hopkins says that WPA will have to abandon work relief for more than a million of the people now on its rolls if the appropriation is cut to a billion dollars, and that many of these people will then have to depend on the local governments for whatever relief they get. That is a fact. Senator’ King of Utah says the Federal Government must balance its budget, must stop borrowing money for relief, if it is to preserve its credit for use in another great emergency. That is a fact. ; Others say that Federal funds would go further if the WPA work relief policy were abandoned and replaced by a frank dole. ; That is a fact. But these facts are not enough. They indicate how complicated the relief problem is, but they do not show us how to solve it. The present program is a jerry-built struc- - ture, and there are no trustworthy plans and specifications for remodeling it along better lines. The new fiscal year will be here in a little more than six weeks. Congress faces the necessity of making a quick decision. It can slash the relief appropriation, in the face of warnings from the Mayors and Mr. Hopkins that wide- J spread suffering will result. It can attempt to substitute direct relief for work relief, with the certainty of confusion and loss through a sudden change to an uncharted course. It can try to turn administration of relief back to the states, with no assurance that the states are ready or able to accept . the responsibility. Or it can forget economy and give Mr. _ Roosevelt the amount he asks, to be spent very much as he and Mr. Hopkins see fit. : Whatever choice Congress makes will be an unsatisfactory choice. But one thing Congress can do, and should do, to protect itself and the people from another such un“happy predicament. It can demand an honest examination of the relief problem—an examination that will bring out all the facts, fit each fact into its proper place, and so provide the founda"tion for a sound and satisfactory policy for the future.

STOUT FELLOWS ROGRESS in aviation can be measured by the smallness of the headline type heralding Dick Merrill's round trip across the Atlantic, compared to that which emblazoned the news of Lindbergh’s one-way trip 10-years. ago. And who can discount the probability that 10 years hence the arrivals and departures of trans-Atlantic air liners will be tabulated on the inside pages along with the comings and goings of steamships? Already the flying clippers ply the Pacific, attracting little more "attention than seagulls. Dick Merrill's trimotored monoplane resembles the Spirit: of St. Louis the way a modern streamlined automobile does the Model T. Lindy had to swerve his plane and look out a side window to get a clear view ahead, and on the dashboard were a few simple gadgets such as an air Seedomeier, a clock, an oil thermometer and a fuel gauge, Merrill's plane, as do all modern aircraft, carries complete radio, flying and navigation instruments. But spanning the unruly Atlantic is still no child's “play. Nor, fortunately for us stay-at-homes, nas it yet become a humdrum routine. We can still forgo sleep, enjoy the suspense and be thrilled by the triumphs of such stout fellows as Dick Merrill and John Lambie. :

THE DIES BILL

HE Labor Department’s long fight for a decent and > rational deportation law has won an unexpected ally in ep. Martin Dies of Texas, who hertofore has fought the Kerr-Coolidge bill to humanize deportation routine. A bill, introduced by Mr. Dies and approved by the House Immigration Committee, provides for deportation of four new classes of criminal aliens. It also gives the Secretary of Labor authority for four years to permit aliens of good moral character to stay in this country if they have lived here 10 years or if they have a parent, spouse or minor child living here. This would permit about 8000 desirable aliens to remain, their numbers being deducted from their countries’ quotas. And the bill would provide for the deportation of some 20,000 undesirable aliens. A measure which will enable us to get rid of 20,000 bad aliens and keep 8000 good ones deserves support.

HOW TO WAKE UP

ONE Richard Hess, a sound-sleeping New York college student, who found himself grown immune to alarm clocks and other forms of the daily reveille, contrived a complicated device. At 7 a. m. the alarm goes off, starts the radio and dumps a glass of cold water in his face. The contraption, a regular Rube Goldberg invention, is too intricate to describe, but it works, and now the grim and inventive Mr. Hess answers to the daily roll call with washed and shiny face as bright as any of his classmates. ~ “Now, blessings light on him that first:invented sleep,” quoth Sancho Panza. And blessings light on Mr. Hess, the inventor of a waker-up. It will be a boon to millions. And it might be an excellent thing to install in the halls of Congress right now, —

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Fair. Enough By Westbrook Pegler

Wounding of Will Corum Makes Columnist Decide to Avoid Park Ave. as Dangerous Thoroughfare

EW YORK, May 15.—Well, that settles that. Hereafter, your correspondent is going to do his pub-crawling down on the Bowery and in Chinatown, and keep away from Park Ave. and the swank bistros, as Mr. O. O. McIntyre calls them. For Maj.

Will Corum, the sport columnist for the Hearst papers, lies thrashing on a bed of pain in St. Luke’s Hospital, shot in the act of seeing a lady home from the club. And was Will shelled in some steamy stew, where the human flotsam and jetsam of life’s backwash fester in a fetid blabber, as Mr. McIntyre would say? He was not. Our Will was shoated in a

‘soignee pied a terre, if one may

borrow a bon mot from Mr. MecIntyre, at the corner of Park Ave. and 63d St., hard by some of the swankiest bistros in town. Your correspondent speaks of Mr. Corum as our Will even though he does work for Mr. Hearst, because he is practically everybody's Will Corum. Your correspondent has seen him sling his typewriter ofl a train at midnight, even in Baltimore, where the night comes dowp solid as rock at 7:30 in the evening, and light up the whole town with his presence, causing the roosters to crow and the milkmen to start out.two hours earlier. He was the youngest major in the American Army in the war, and a combat officer, at least, but it was a mistake to put a weapon in his hands, because if they had just sent him over barehanded with a

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few francs, pretty soon he would have had the Ger-

man high command ringing up telephone numbers and organizing a party in some swank bistro, if one may crib a phrase: o n ”

xX correspondent began to grow wary of Park Ave., that Champs de. Chasse of .the blase cognoscenti, way back in the days of the waiters’ strike when blows were struck and tempers ruffled in the

Waldorf in an incident described as a swirl of ugly passion. Later your correspondent personally saw a swirl, the night that Johnny Weissmuller, Tarzan of the torso, did not strike a naval officer in a swank bistro, although someone else undoubtedly did. Now, Mr. McIntyre is one of our great journalists, and, your correspondent never doubts the amazing sights he sees while strolling in the night, and only wishes that he were that observant. But, though Mr. McIntyre can hardly set. foot in Doyers St. but that someone hits him in the face with a fresh-killed Ming Toy, and often hears anguished cries from the high, barred windows of|the Tombs, framed in the light of a cold but invariably gibbous moor, your correspondent has never had‘ or seen any trouble down that way. ” " 2

YF onmaLy down the Bowery and in Doyers and in Pell, things have been very quiet, during your correspondent’s visits, and that is whefe he intends to do his pub-crawling after this. For Park, Ave. is dangerous ground. - Our Will never would have been hurt on the Bowery, although it must be admitted that he takes it all with great sang froid, as Mr. McIntyre might say. :

The Hoosier Forum

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

LOCAL WOMEN’S COUNCIL RECEIVES PRAISE By C. B. H.

As a clubwoman of Indianapolis with the opportunity of attending all meetings held by the Indianapolis Council of Women, I feel it my duty and privilege to extend my thanks and appreciation to that organization through this column.

I wonder if the public is cognizant of the many things Indianapnlis citizens enjoy because of the Indianapolis Council of Women. It is a progressive organization and tais year has been oustanding under the leadership of Mrs. B. B. McDonald.

One of the most interesting divisions stressed this year and one of vital importance to Indianapolis citizens is the Division of Public Health. . With Mrs. Daniel Wier as chairman and the co-operation of members of her committee, the council has secured such eminent speakers as Dr. Herman G. Morgan, Dr. Verne K. Harvey, Dr. Max Bahr, Dr. R. N. Harger and William P. Snethen. by these men have been carried back to clubwomen totaling many hundreds, perhaps thousands. The Public Health Division is striving to make Indianapolis health conscious through the co-operation of clubwomen and with the help of the schools and Parent-Teacher organizations. The press has been of great value in the drive for better health and the women are very appreciative for the press’ informative articles which have appeared recently regarding the ravages and treatment of social diseases.

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ROOSEVELT REPAIRING G. O. P. DAMAGE, CLAIM

By Oscar Houston, Ellettsville

The things President Roosevelt has done for the classes of our people that have always needed help which couldn't be obtained under Republican stand-pat Administrations were so popular and outstanding that 27 million voters indorsed them last fall. But Mabel German says all he has done has been to tear down our American system and put in its place communism or some other ism. Mabel. German is mistaken. Roosevelt is trying to repair the damage and destruction of 50 or 60 years of neglected duty and irresponsibility by stand-pat Administrations that refused to make any provisions for unfortunate millions. It seems that critics of Roosevelt should consider the results of the election last fall. Here is one thing Mabel German says: “We are here to testify along with 17,000,000 who have remained sane and American that it just can’t be done.” In other words, the 27 million who supported

General Hugh Johnson Says—

If Other Nations Should Adopt Principle of Neutrality Act, Shutting Off Foreign Trade in War Time, Lack of Materials Would Hamper U. S.

ASHINGTON, May 15.—If the Pittman Neutrality Act means what it is generally thought to mean, it would be a swell idea to stir our stumps

on the question of strategic .materials for defense. What the act scems to say is, “If war comes, we shut up most of our shop shutters in world trade, withdraw our delivery service, close all charge accounts and, as far as our old customers are concerned, if they want any of our wares, they will have to send Junior with his own little red wagon and the cash in his grubby fist.” Even when Junior gets here he can’t take away anything that might be construed as an implement of war—and in modern war almost anything might be so construed.’ That isn’t what the act really says. What it really says is that when war comes we won't grant

any credit and, if the President wants to, he can: embargo anything whatever by calling it an imple--‘ment of war, or prevent American ships from carry-

ing anything by deciding that it is not advisable to have them do so. ” ” n

HE act definitely decides very little. A principal contestant in a major modern war wouldn't buy much here anyway without selling or’ hocking his American securities: Also the act does not decide what can or can’t be shipped. It just says that in any war the President shall decide that. Be that as it may, the Pittman act launches a brand new idea of drawing into your shell and choking off all foreign trade that might get you into trouble.

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The instructive messages.

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the President are. neither sane nor American. : It must be evident to members of the Republican Party that they face an almost hopeless task in their efforts to re-establish themselves as cone of the major parties. But such silly statements as that above don't appeal to people who try to think sanely. In fact, it wassimilar statements made all over the country last, fall that helped swell the tide which almost swept the Republican Party into oblivion.

; 3 ” ” RUSSIAN MORALE HIGH, CONTRIBUTOR SAYS By B. M. Germany, Italy and Russia have

been carrying on an intensive cam- |\

paign directed toward increasing the birth rate. The appeal to the people has been the same in all cases, namely: Raise more soldiers for the fatherland. The response of the people to this appeal should give a pretty good picture of public morale in those nations. Here is the picture: In Germany and Italy, where the birth rate has always been exceptionally high, the rate has steadily dropped since the governments began pleading for more babies. All sorts of premiums for more babies and penalties for lack of babies have been legislated, but still the birth rate has dropped. It seems the

LOVE'S WAY

By VIRGINIA POTTER

He has a treasure in her love— She catered to his whim, But he forgot to play the game, And now when lights are dim

She tries to see him as at first— While he wooed, and won her heart, She sighs, pretending he is there— Tho’ they are miles apart.

And he; I wonder how he feels— Since weeks and months have flown, Does he recall the one who cared— And still is his alone?

DAILY THOUGHT

Sanctify them through thy truth; thy word is truth.—John 17:17.

NE of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth.—Bulwer. :

German and Italian people are not enthused over the idea of raising boys for cannon fodder. On the other hand, the birth rate | in Soviet Russia has increased by leaps and bounds until it leads the world. At present, births are adding to the population of Russia at the rate of a million and a half a year. In view of this it is pretty hard to believe Mr. Hearst and his associates when they tell us public morale is high in Germariséagd low in Russia. ” u n IMMORALITY IS BLAMED ON LAX LAW ENFORCEMENT By E. F. M.

When a nation is sick and troubled, with crime and disrespect for “law and no regard for public decency, that nation is in need of a physician to diagnose its case. No nation likes a prophet who

| uncovers its wickedness, but when | our streets are filled with drunken- { ness and immorality it is time to “lift up the voice like a trumpet.” I believe the laxity of -our law ienforcement officers is directly regsponsible for the increase in immorality and carelessness that is costing thousands of lives and billions of dollars annually and is bringing our nation into disrepute and contempt. : The time has come to call a halt to this mad march toward chaos and anarchy. The blame lies squarely on the doorstep of our law enforcement officers. If a person cannot go out: in public without. hearing vile language and seeing revolting sights on every hand, then we need a new set of officers. If laws against cursing, public indecency and immorality were enforced and fines imposed the reveny2 collected would almost balance the budget.

2 2 = HARLAN COUNTY RULE LIKENED TO FRANCO'S AIMS

By L. P. % g Gen, Franco says, “We arg not fighting an enemy but an ideal. The only way we can win is to kill all those who maintain that deal.” Isn't that exactly the same sort of philosophy that has ruled in Harlan County, Kentucky, for years? Who are we Americans to criticize bloody dictators in Europe when conditions such as those-in Harlan County exist for years without the American people knowing anything about them? It is\easy in America to hear the voices of dictators and so hard to hear complaints of peasants. We should be grateful that there are a few men like Senator La Follette, who dedicate their lives to the cause of the peasants. They are all that can save this nation from a fate like Spain's.

The Washington Merry-Go-Round

It Seems to Me By Heywood Broun

Success of Drive Against Burlesque Raises Fear Reformers May Now Open Attack on Legitimate Theater

EW YORK, May 15.—Never give a reformer an even break. Advocates of cen sorship invariably proceed upen the theory that nothing succeeds like excess, and the passage of the Dunnigan bill undoubtedly

- £ . stemmed out of the easy triumph which was scored by the moralists in puttihg burlesque out of business. : Personally I feel a sense of guilt and remorse for having remained silent while Mr. Moss, the License Commissioner, was permitted to use the strip-tease furor as cam=ouflage to cover a frontal attack upon the American theater. It was rather difficult for anybody to steam himself up into a passion of righteous indignation against the invasion of the civil rights of the burlesque magnates, “9 If there has to be a line I am prepared to admit, upen the aqvice of even casc-hardensc scouts, that the not very much lamented burlesque of recent vears went well beyond it. But there should still have been -a little greater amount of ‘agitation as to just who should draw thai line and by what duly constituted legal process. Voltairean idealism imposes a rigorous rule upon its devotees. © . The drive against the cheap and tawdry obscenity of burlesque drew into its support crusaders from both right and left. Aside from the directly inter= ested parties I have heard of only one individual who made any sort of articulate protest against the ban. The lone embattled visionary who spoke up for the stripe-tease fraternity was Roger Baldwin, of the Civil Liberties League. ; » ” ”

ME BALDWIN is not very well understood by tha world in which he functions. |For the most part . he is lambasted as a red, since most of his activities are necessarily in defense of free speech for radicals. Nevertheless, the sincerity of Baldwin's complete devotion to free speech has been sorely tried upon occasion, and he has not endeared himself much to either liberals or radicals when he has insisted that even Nazi partisans have a right| to hold meetings and speak their piece. . The true explanation of Roger Baldwin's course of conduct is the fact that he is a fanatic and the most Puritan of all Puritans.

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HAVE said that it is extremely difficult to take the position that anything at all should be allowed to go, but, on the other hand, it is not easy to be logical in saying, “This should be stopped and this should be tolerated.” :

Although I admit a certain amount of remorse in having failed to give my Puritan friend any support in his earlier fight against sweeping powers for the License Commissioner, I have no intention even now of mounting the barricades to defend burlesque. However, the real danger lies in the fact that when

sg censor gets a sop he acts as if it were a dinner of

raw meat, and proceeds to embark upon the enter prise of conquering new worlds. The American theater has come of age only in the last generation. If is by a great margin finer than it has ever been be= fore, and it should be left to its own devices.

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Jim Farley Makes No Secret of Fact He Is Looking for Job, but He Has Turned Down Several Offers and Seems to Be Seeking Insurance Firm Post

If other nations adopt that principle, we might find ourselves in trouble. Modern war is a struggle of economic systems—a battle of money and materials quite as much as a battle of men. That includes everything we produce and a whole lot we don’t produce and that we must absolutely have to maintain defense. Rubber, tea, coffee, silk, tin, platinum, nickel, chromite, manganese—to name only a few.

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ANGANESE, for example, is an absolute necessity in the manufacture of steel, especially war steel. We get substantial proportions of our entire supply from Russia, British Africa and India. If the doctrine of freedom of the seas is out and economic isolation is the rule, we are looking ‘squarely at the Achilles heel of our defensive system, for war and for peace. This is a steel age. This country with its steel production limp would be like a giant whose bones had turned to water. : Regardless of the Pittman act, the whole situation is acutely dangerous in any such threat of war as now hangs over the world. The Russian and Indian supply would certainly be cut off in any European conflagration. The gold coast sources are 4600 miles away. There is already a shortage and a soaring price due to European war preparation. Our nearest effective sources are in Cuba, where there is plenty of ore, but actual production is fa from sufficient to supply our demands. ’ If the long-range economic planners want something to stew about, here is a terribly short-range, . terribly serious, economic problem, Jy

By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen ASHINGTON, May 15.—There is a lot of speculation about the future political goal Jim Farley has his eyes on, but whatever it is, Jim is geing extremely choosey about his financial preparations for it. Jim has made no secret of the fact that his personal funds are about exhausted and that he is looking for a job. But he is not taking the first job that comes along. One of the first he vetoed was the job subsequently accepted by the late W. Forbes Morgan as czar of the liquor industry. It drew a salary of $75,000. x 2 8 9»

§ 7HAT Jim Farley seems to be looking for is a j itly an insurance company. Calvin fisurance directorship after he got out of the Whitk) Al Smith and Herbert Hoover also lent t heir names to big insurance companies. Mr. Farley wouldn't mind becoming an executive in one of the bigger companies, but he wouldn't be keen about a directorship or some chair-warming job on the side-lines. Insurance is highly respectable, and would carry no taint of liquor if and when Jim

things. not budging from the Postoffice Department.

young, only 49, and has plenty of time to go places. And those who have seen him turn from the raw

shoots at the Governorship of New York—or higher

Until the right job comes along, however, he is | Jim is |

| and hesitating speaker of 1932 into the polished, im- .

promptu wielder of after dinner banter and political . philosophy in 1936, think that he may go a long way,

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OST interesting group of registrants under the _ Social Security Act are the child and baby

-stars of Hollywood. :

The old-age: pension system applies to everyone who works, regardless of-age. So little Shirley Temple and the other starlets have a registration number and pay weekly assessments just like the oldest actor in Hollywood. They can’t begin drawing pensions until they reach the age of 65—which for Shirley will be 57 years from now. ” ” ” OST of the visitors to the Botanical Garden at the foot of Capitol Hill come to see the flowers, But Matthew A. Dunn comes to smell them and to

touch them.

Mr. Dunn is the blind Congressman from Pennsyl=vania. He tomes frequently to the flower show, led by a companion. He stops by a flower whose scent attracts him, puts his hand out to touch the blossoms, “My, that’s a beautiful flower!” says Mr. Dunn, Then he passes on until another scent arrests his attention. ; . The garden’s director, Wilmer J. Paget, observes. that Rep. Dunn seems to get more pleasure out of the flower show than those who have full use of their faculties. Note—One of the frequent visitors to the garden last year was Senator Gore of Oklahoma, also hlind,