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Give Light ind the People Will Find Their Own Way

MONDAY, MAY, 31, 1937

SPEEDWAY AND SAFETY PEEDWAY rac>rs drove faster in the qualifying trials this year tha) ever before. Jimmy Snyder took his

_car around the 21 ;-mile brick track at more than 130 miles

an hotir—the fastest lap in 23 years of Speedway history. A new record for the 500-mile race is predicted. *! ma year wien there is so much talk about safety, it may seem tha; these men have thrown all caution to the wind to go ih for dangerous driving, especially after the tragic fatal accidentsilast week. But wait— © No reckless /driver ever won the Indianapolis race.

Sure they go fast. That is their business.

ut they

take few chances compared with the wild speed drivers on the highways. Their cars are built for tremendous speed. They have to undergo rigid physical and| driving

tests which many motorists could not pass. they keep their cars. under control.

i dl all,

If you're a Speedway fan, watch how these racers pass one another. Taere is no skin-of-the-teeth passing. They go around on tne right side, with room to spare, and not

unless the track is clear ahead. Do you scmetimes drive on an unsafe tire?

Do you

neglect your brakes? Do you let mechanical trouble go unrepaired, hoping to get by a few more weeks? Then learn a lesson from the race drivers. A tiny streak on a * tire or the first sign of trouble and they come in for

repairs. ; When ssi travel around the track at speeds

of more tha1!100 miles an hour there is no guarantee against craclups and serious accidents. Oil on the track, the breaking of an important mechanism or any of a dozen reasons may cause an accident. :

But not carelessness. : : These drivers have their eyes on the road, their cars under control—good rules for driving anywhere!

DRAGON TEETH

OME Ariericans, pausing to strew flowers over the

. graves of the soldier dead, may look across the oceans and think bout the story of Cadmus. This riythical Greek hero, you will remember, slew adragon thet guarded the well of Ares and then sowed the dead dragii’s teeth in the earth. From those teeth there sprang a parvest of armed men who forthwith set to and fought ea¢h other unt#l all but five were-slain. 2 In Europe the war-makers, with the scars of history’s most infernal war still unhealed and its costs still unpaid,

"have been! busy again sowing dragon teeth. Dragon teeth of rivalries, hates, intrigues’ and ambitions for personal

| “glory.” Their harvest to date has been a bumper one—

55,000,000 men under arms today in all of 48 so-called

“civilized” nations. Our own crop «is relatively small, less

than a half million regulars and reserves.

among the powers. Russia, with its 19,500,000 soldiers, is

first. |

How soon will these armies begin their work of slaughter? How soon will the engines of modern warfare begin mowing down these millions of young men? How soon will these alert and life-loving humans be turned into casualties, their remains to be marked, if at all, by such little white . crosses as strew the green hillsides of Arlington?

“The next world war”

vention lies less in the lap ¢f the gods than in the hands of a

few mortals in the chancelleries of the powers.

Will a mad

and ruthless few plunge the world into another carnage? Or will the Anthony Edens, Leon Blums, Cordell Hulls and

other statesmen of reason

and good-will prevail ?*

These are the questions in every American’s mind today as he listens to the requiems and the eulogies, the bravos

and the sounding of taps

land.

PUBLIC HEALTH HE Public Health Nddsing Association of Indianapolis

over the military graves of the

NURSING

joins with 20,000 public health nurses in all parts of the country this week in [celebration of their national organization’s silver jubilee year. op : The -local association——an organized non-profit service by' graduate nurses to the individual, family and com1) ~was founded in 1913 by tHe late Mrs. Abbie Hunt Bryce! The Marion County Nurses’ Association and the Woman's Department Club were active in the project. Ir addition to its long career of eommunity service, the association is finding increased responsibility with the “expansion of public health work under the social security program. Public health nursing is an important force in - this renewed attack upon disease and suffering. >

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NORTHWEST TERRITORY CELEBRATION NDIANA, along with four other states formed from the Northwest Territory, is to celebrate this summer the passing of the Ordinance of 1787 which gave the Territory its first government. J | The ordinance was historically important, for it provided a most satisfactory model for national expansion. It - outlawed slavery. It set up basic principles of religious freedom and universal education. Bo Nationally, the celebration is to feature a caravan _traveling the route of the first representatives of the Ohio Company. In Indiana a spectacular celebration at the State

Fair is planned; together with Speeches and the distribution of historical material. ¢ The pride of state which Hoosiers [feel should be exemplified by hearty participation in these [es commemorat- : Qe the beginnings of Indiana. |

SIMILARITY nf )RESIDENT CAMPBELL of the

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hase National Bank

returns from Europe and reports:

“Although there is a great deal

of talk abroad about

gold, nobody seems to have a very clear idea/what to do about the problem.” | | Mark Twain once ventured a similar size-up of the

eather problem.

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nto. THE INDIANAPOLIS + A Time for Rededicatio

THE IDEAL OF LASTING PEACE

Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler Drive on Income Tax Evaders Won't

Reach Exempt Public Employees,

Unions and Religious Institutions.

EW YORK, May 31.—Resenting evasions of the income tax law, both legal nd illegal, Mr. Roosevelt will ask Congress to take steps, but it is very doubtful that the inquiry will result in the application of the law. to all incomes from whatever source derive The millions of public employees will continue to enjoy their immunities; labor unions’ will suffer no

- such ‘prying inquiry as employers

must endure, and religious organizations which frankly engage in propaganda, and otherwise attempt to influence legislation and thus the Government, will remain above a law which Congress passed but nobody in Washington has the". temerity to enforce. As a Federal employee at $75,000 a year,” the President, though a citizen of New 'York State, is exempt from a state income tax, which applies to his fellow-citizens of the state earning as little as $100 a month. Likewise exempt ; are all Senators, Congressmen. Federal’ judges, collectors, commissioners, marshals and miscellaneous high-salaried patriots in the national service who live in the 32 states having income taxes. This exemption and the reciprocal immunity of state, county and municipal employees from the Federal income tax, rests upon decisions of the Supreme Court,. which seem to thwart the intention of the laws. But, while the New Deal is in a mood to destroy the judgment of the nine old men on certain matters, the Administration has been - strangely acquiescent in this curious interpretation, " 2 ” ABOR unions present a problem which would ‘fascinate the Treasury, and bring the catch-polls on the run with handcuffs clanking at their belts | if the same income fell to other recipients. They keep their own secrets, however, : The dictators of organized Jabor long have plundered the forgotten man who, in some cases, inquires into union matters only at the risk of his livelihood. But a labor dictator is a leader in a great, altrustic revolution, and it would be unwise to frisk him in the same way that the agents go through the utterly bad: American citizen whose ownership of a tax-pay-ing business is convincing proof of bad character and criminal intent.

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N demanding more severe treatment of the taxevader Mr. Roosevelt probably will not call special attention to labor union income ngr to that of institutions which, accumulate enormous wealth, but give no assurance that the same is applied to religious purposes, and openly ‘flout the clause against interference with the legislative function. Labor, including the articulate members of the rank and file, but not the sacred, and docile members, would accuse the President of turning against

the toiler, although such an inquiry would be plainly in their benefit. And, in: religion, he would be denounced for a bigot, although it might interest him to know that some members of the clergy nowadays are recalling the course of events in France and Spain, and doubting that it is wise, after all, for religious institutions to grow too rich and withdraw too much wealth and property from the tax ros, thus throwing the burden on the ordinary people of the community. ih

Mr. Pegler

MONDAY, MAY 31, 1937

QUOTES MURPHY ON

! MERIT SYSTEM | By Virginia Moorhead Mannon I should like to supplement the.

statement on the merit system made

Michigan and printed in The Indianapolis Times May 28. I inter-

.i lack of continuity

ference. Governor Murphy said: “I give my unqualified support to the merit system and I believe it is time that the political leaders realized the importance of it and accepted its principles. I do not hesitate to make these statements. “Under the merit system a better relationship exists between the chief executive and the Legislature. Proper administration heeds no political organization. The party system will better prevail under the merit system. Too much, time is wasted under the spoils system. Turnover and in office are wasteful. The spoils system devitalizes the concentration of employees and ‘executives. The sooner it is abolished the better. Universal civil service is a certainty in the future. We cannot afford the waste of a complete turnover in governmental personnel every four years, which is the average for this country at the moment.” Recalling his experiences as Mayor of Detroit, Governor Murphy cited the example of the Detroit Street Railway System, which, when it placed its employees under the merit; system, wiped out a monthly loss of a quarter million dollars. |

passage by the Michigan Legislature this year of a state-wide merit system act. The act now before the Michigan Assembly is virtually the same as the one introduced on the initiative of the Indiana League of Women Voters in the last session of the Indiana Legislature.

ATTACKS GOVERNOR FOR MERIT STAND By G. M. Showalter

tion. We had frequently heard how politicians interfered with the working of the merit system but the more unusual point of view, how the merit system interferes with the working of politicians, was brought to our attention until the brilliant expose was made by Governor Townsend in his speech before the State Public Welfare Department at the Indianapolis Athletic Club. We have had in our midst during the past week some of the foremost welfare workers .in the United States, whose reputations and training force us to believe in the truth and accuracy of their statements. When they tell us that Indiana is among the more backward states in

hooves us to believe and blush. But not so our politically-minded Governor. He is made of sterner stuff. He will “just tell them” that

General Hugh Johnson Says—

Mark Sullivan's Solution for Wages and Hours Legislation—States To. Set Own Standards Protected by U. S. Law—Is Most Practical Yet.

ASHINGTON, May 31.—Mark Sullivan has found the germ of a solution of the seemingly impossible problem of national wages and hotrs legislation. His argument is: Leave it to every state to set its own standards of wages and hours. Then enact a Federal law prohibiting the shipment into any state of any article produced on standards of wages and hours less favorable than those of the state of import. : | Imagine for each industry, all the states numbered from.1 to 48 in the orcer of their less or more favorable labor standards for that industry. Thus state No. 1 has the lowest labor standards, state No. 24 the intermediate, and state No. 48 the highest. State No. 1 can keep its standard low if it wants to, but it can’t ship the products of its sweated labor outside its own borders to degrade labor standards in other states. State No. 48, with the highest standard, can ship into any state in the Union, state No. 3 can ship only to states 1 and 2. State *No. 24 can ship into all 23 states of lower standards but not into the other 24 states of higher standards. And so forth.

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TE idea is to reverse the constant pull of degraded labor conditions in one state to degrade labor conditions in all states and the local tendency to depress labor conditions for the sake of wider markets.

pressing its labor standards, a state must elevate them the edual of the competing state of the highest

standards. The i a’ great contribution

by Governor Frank Murphy of

viewed Governor Murphy on this particular subject at his press con-i

The Governor said he anticipated

There are two sides to every ques-

not:

the Union in welfare work, it be-

' But it does not

(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.) :

‘op Indiana will get the job “completed.” In what manner Indiana will do this and at what financial and humanitarian cost he refrains from ‘just telling.” Perhaps he doesn’t know. But this he does know, and Knows well, that “an official who does not carry out his campaign promises cannot be re-elected.”

‘Promises to Whom?’ | Promises to . whom, -we wonder. Can it be‘that here our. Governor is referring to’ the promise made to the people of Indiana by the

Democratic Party when it was seek-

ing their votes by including the merit plank in its party platform? We are sadly forced to believe that that promise was either forgotten or never read by Mr. Townsend and that the only promises he considers binding are those made to faith-

ful party workers; those who, in his

own (words, will not “hamper” him by ‘refusing to co-operate” with him. | 1 Co-operate in what? In efficient care of our less fortunate citizens, or in dividing’ up the spoils of political victory? . He leaves us a bit foggy on the point, and to add to our bewilderment, follows up this affirmation of practical politics by a practical politician by suddenly ending in a burst of pure nobility to the effect’ that

caring for our unfortunates is too

sacred a trust for any brand of politics* to be permitted.” Such an about face leaves us gasping and nonplused. How are our unfortunates to be" cared for without bene-

BOY MEETS GIRL By KEN HUGHES

In her face there’ was not a wrinkle, And her eyes held more than twinkle. - No As 1 passed ‘her very slow. . slow... . >

N Forgot the traffic light flashed “G 3) y

Well, she could never lose this pose: Her gallant mouth and her tilted nose! Yet sighing I drove down the street, Tomorrow, signboard girl—we’ll meet!

DAILY THOUGHT

Whosoever cometh to me, and heareth my sayings, and doeth them, I will shew you to whom he is like: He is like a man which built a house, and digged deep, -and laid the foundation on a rock: and when the flood arose, the stream beat vehemently upon that house, and could not shake it, for it was founded upon a rock —Luke 6:47, 48.

THE practical effect of a belief ‘is the real test of its soundness.— Froude. ’ : ’

if necessary.”

T fit either of the merit system or of any brand of politics? Will you please tell us that, Mr. Townsend ? \ " # n CLAIMS VANNUYS VOTES OWN: VIEWS ON COURT By Bull Mooser, Crawfordsville “Representative governnient” can mean so many things. The political solons call it one thing when they are talking about Germany and Spain and they call it something entirely different when they are talking about the Supreme Court and American politics. But to Governor Townsend, representative government seems to have only one meaning—the ® meaning which the two words imply. He made this clear in his statement on the VanNuys case.

Senator VanNuys, said the Gov--

ernor, has a right to vote according to his views, but in the stand he has

taken (on the Court issue, etc.), he |

certainly does not represent the sentiment of the Democratic Party in Indiana as I hear it expressed on all sides. I do not think there is any question about his being opposed for renomination. . How could one make himself more clear on the principle of representative government? He couldn't have said it better if he had been a Bull Mooser. . ¥ oon» \ PROTESTS PLACING F. D. R. IN CLASS WITH IL DUCE f

By a Subscriber I am opposed to capitalism and

| the two old parties, but I cannot

see why E. F. Maddox should class President Roosevelt with Hitler or Mussolini. ! I would be ashamed to place our

President on a low level with men

who cry “guns before butter” or “more babies, even out of wedlock

When the President proposes some economic reform or small concession to labor our. royalists have spasms of fear for their so-called

‘rights to exploit the workers and

this country for the sake of the selfish profit motive. If you wish to know why Senator Edward Burke tries to show connection between the Court Reform Bill and Communist Browder’s proposal, or why Premier Hepburn of Canada attempts to connect. the C. 1. O. and communism, just find out their economic determinism and you will have |the answer.‘ Premier Hepburn is short on statesmanship and only succeeded in making a laughing stock of himself, Capitalism is a failure ahd has only created economic and social confusion. It should be abolished and replaced with social and industrial democragy to produce for use and not for profit. Only by the organized land co-operative efforts of the workers can this be achieved.

The Situation as We Go to Press!—By Talburt

By Heywood Broun | Columnist Lives Only 30 Miles ~" /From New York, but Publications And Sayings of City Puzzle Him. NEW YORK, May 51.—1f I were a crow and could fly in the straight line errone-

| ously attributed to that bird New York City

would lie only;about 30 miles from the farm. And yet when I get into town the people and the publications seem to say such curious things. dodo ! 2 ' The first paper I got after stepping off the train at Grand Central recommended a Mr. Griflin for Mayor on the ground that he believes in colfecting the war debts from foreign nations. To be sure, that is a somewhat more constructive attitude than Mayor Thompson's famous offer to punch ‘King George V in the snoot if he dared to invade the Loop, and yet I wonder just how Mr. Griffin purposes to do it. Possibly he intends to send a squad of ,police and seize ;the chorus of the French Casino and hold the girls as hostages until the . last franc has been paid. . Or, | - again, it may be that he will wait afi thé Worlds Fair rolls around and commandeer jit chianti that flows in the Italian village.

Mr. Broun

n fact, I am even puzzled when Senators, who have rather more to do with European affairs than the) Mayor of New York, arise to thunder the deend that Europe must pay. Hastily I add that I am not defending the action of foreign powers who are in ‘default. I think it would ‘be very nice (if they would pay. I haven't any objection to the being wheedled or urged to do so, but when I hear that America must collect each ‘last penny I am (a little terrified as to whether the intent is to send over an expeditionary force to act as collectors. _ Again it startles me to read in another editorial in still another paper that “the raid” of John L. Lewi forces upon Mr. Ford's plant at River Rouge has bee gallantly repulsed. This interpretation of the fracas

‘in Dearborn is still more puzzling, since the ‘sa

paper which carried the editorial also printed

" picture in which half a dozen members of the For

forces were jumping up and down on a prostrate fo 2 2 a2 #5 . N less serious vein there is the bristling controvers about the National Indian Association and th resignation of Mrs. Roosevelt. x I understand is part of a dispute between a lady who lives in Oving: ‘ton Ave., Brooklyn, and some Apaches in. Arizona. i ‘seems that the Apaches (and I wqauldn’t be sure if. [wasn’t the Navajos) put on tribal {i which Mrs, ‘Heingke regards as improper. | . There were also some other braves in Nevada who drank antifreeze mixture out of the automobiles, but I doubt that this should fairly be counted as an old tribal custom.

| #® ‘n= IDOSSIBLY, like most country folk, I am too much } of a compromiser. I think that Mrs. Heingke has every right to demand painted Piutes should not invade her back yard even to dance the more formal measures of the polka. But how can she really bee ‘come exercised about tribal dances west: of the Mise ‘sissippi? After all, what if they do kick up their Jeels? You're only an Indian once. { | I think that union organizers should quit attack ling Ford employees by running their own eyes into the fists of the henchmen of the Dearborn pacifist, and I hold that no Mayor of New York should attempt to make Commissioner Valentine responsible for the {collection of the war debf. It would take too many ‘men off fixed posts and tie up Fifth Ave. traffic.

The Washington Merry-Go-Round

President | Took Lesson From Fiasco’ of ‘Supreme Court Fight And Changed Tactics When He Introduced Wages-and-Hours Bill.

By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen ASHINGTON, May 31.—The President is wise enough to take a lesson from the fiasco of his Supreme Court reform fight.

Result of that was

Mr. Sullivan means to create a condition where to get either national or regional markets, instead of de-

consider the states which have no such industry, and hence no such standards, but are the markets for competing industrial states. This is an universal condition. Mr. Sullivan could meet) that by prohibiting shipments into any state of goods made under labor standards less favorable than that of the competing state of the highest standards.

2 8 = : HE plan, if thus amended, preserves local self-

government and state sovereignty without im- |

pairing national economic welfare. It solves the baffling question of “regional wage differentials to preserve existing economic local patterns.” It avoids the necessity for a bureaucratic juggernaut and un-

manageable concentration of economic and political |

power. It is far simpler, more workable and more nearly consistent with all our institutions than any

| suggestion yet put forward.

It does not put any arbitrary floor under all wages and a ceiling over all hours. That and the child labor feature could be added by prohibiting shipments out of a state of products of child labor or labor paid less than a stated national minimum wage or worked longer than stated national maximum hours—say. not less than 30 cents an hour for a 40hour week, . ¢ : 5

complete change of tactics in sending his Wage-and-Hour Bill to Congress. ; Only the insiders who consulted: with him knew about it, but he was very careful to avoid the mistakes of the Supreme Court message. That time he had consulted no one on Capitol

Hill before sending the message to Congress. When ‘Congress is a pretty good barometer of his popularity,

one of his friends suggested that he get the advance advieeiof a few Senators, the President replied: “Oh, “if they object, I'll send for them. Ill call them in.” ; Not only did Roosevelt decline ‘advance consultation, but he made the further mistake of tying his Supreme Court message up with the Court bill simultaneously introduced. : : Congress is very jealous of its legislative prerogatives. | Receiving a Presidential message recommending certain legislation is-one thing, But drafting a bill with every “t” crossed and every “i” dotted, and nothing left to be written in save the signature of Congress, is something else again. It riles the boys on Capitol Hill to the core. a x O with his labor bill, Roosevelt reversed tactics. He consulted with leaders, showed them both the message and the proposed measure, Then he asked

cally rema ‘age of 21 hi

for advice on how to handle the bill. They gave it readily. “Don’t make any specific reference in your message to your bill,” they cautioned. “Talk in general terms and then introduce it afterwards.” Roosevelt did, and it worked like a charm. Joint hearings’ are to be held by Senate and House Labor Si (the House has not yet held hearings on the Supreme Court bill) and the act probably will pass in record time. | Note—The tactics used by any President toward

When the Court bill was submitted last February Roosevelt was cocky and confident. Since then, how= ever, he has done a little slipping. !

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EVER since the new Lindbergh baby was born the State Department has been receiving queries as to whether he is an American or British citizen. Apparently a lot of people are wondering if Col. Lindbergh’s resentment against the United States goes to the extent of letting his latest-born become a British citizen. - Foreign-born children of American parents should be registered at an American consulate, though it is not obligatory. So far the State Department hag no record of the Lindbergh's doing this. Actual fact is that his newly born son automatian American citizen unless, after the “wants to relinquish it for Britain.