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7 THURSDAY, JUNE 3, 1037
I NEW HARV STER PLANT NTERNATIONAL HARV ESTER C0O.’S announcement that it will build a new $4,000,000 plant here is another landmark in the industrial growth of Indianapolis. Only last December, Chevrolet dedicated its new commercial ‘body factory at Henry St. and White River Parkway, with an employment capacity of 1600. Officials say the new Harvester plant will employ 3000 local workmen, producing the full line of International truck motors. Concentration of this industry here makes Indiana second in International's operations, and places the state still higher in automotive manufacturing. Wo The building program should help conti the contraseasonal trend of increased employment. "lhe Indiana State Employment Service today reported that manufacturing employment “reached a new high for tHe past seven years” last month. Indianapolis ‘is proud to welcome the new Harvester plant—another demonstration’ of confidence in the city’s industrial future and in its stability as a community.
CRICKET—AND THE WEDDING HE English are fond of the expression “It wasn’t cricket” to describe the thing that “isn’t done.” As we review the events beginning with the December day when Edward abdicated, we can’t escape the conclusion that in the language of cricket he played the game and that the same cannot be said. of those who handed him his
hat. T hat farewell kick from the Archbishop of Gontovinivy. for example, two days following the departure; the petty stuff, like t announcing the engagement in the Court bE fuss over forbidding a Church of England ceremony; Government activity in barring members. of the royal family from attendance; pressure on newsreel compames to exclude the wedding pictures from the Empire. All that and more of the same to hound the exile and to make needlessly rocky the rpad of the one who had once been King. It is fitting and proper we believe on sid the wedding day to point the contrast by simply repeating from the words with which he bowed himself out. For if anything was ever cricket that farewell was it— “At long last, 1 am able to say a few words of my own. I have never wanted to withhold anything, but until now it has not been constitutionally possible for me to speak.
“A few hours ago, I discharged my last] duty as King
and Emperor, and now that I have been ‘succeeded by my"
brother, the Duke of York, my first words must ‘be to declare my allegiance to him. This I do with all my heart. “You all know the reasons which have impelled me to renounce the throne. But 1 want you to understand that in making up my mind, 1 did not forget the country or the empire which as Prince of Wales, and lately as King, 1 have for 25 years tried to serve. “But you must be lieve me when I tell you that I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility and to discharge my duties as King as 1 would wish to do without the help and support of the woman 1 love. And I want you to know that the decision 1 have made has been mine, and mine alone. ' “This decision has been made less difficult to me by the sure knowledge that my brother, with his long training in the public affairs of this country, and with his fine qualities, will be able to take my place forthwith without interruption or injury to the life and progress of the Empire. And he has one matchless blessing, enjoyed by so many of you and not bestowed on me—a happy home with his wife and children. “During these hard days, I have heen comforted by Her Majesty my mother, and by my family. . The ministers of the Crown, and in particular Mr. Baldwin, the Prime - Minister, have always treated me with full consideration. “Ever since 1 was Prince of Wales, and later on when I occupied the throne, I have been treated with the greatest kindness by all classes of the people, wherever 1 have lived or journeyed throughout the Empire. For that 1 am very grateful. Tae “] now quit altogether public affairs, and 1 lay down my burden. It may be some time before 1 return to my native land, but 1 shall always follow the fortunes of the British race and Empire with profound interest and if at any time in the future I.can be found of service to His Majesty in a private station, I shall not fail. “And now, we have a new King. I wish him and you, his people, happiness and prosperity with all my heart. _. “God bless you all! God save the King!” We can only wish him who thus retired all happiness with the woman he loves.
NOT A COMPROMISE
O give the President authority to appoint two stand of six justices is one form of compromise, so-called, on ‘the court issue. It.has not been accepted by the Administration. We don’t believe it will be. For inherent in it are the same weaknesses that made the six-judge proposal so vulnerable. smart to invite the same attack twice. As Senator Johnson says: “The opponents of the (original) scheme by acceptance of the ‘compromise’ would he absolutely forgetful of the fundamental principle involved.” \ The question of principle is: Should an overbalance of power in favor of the judicial be corrected by the executive branch packing the Court, thereby bringing an unbalance jn behalf of the executive—in a form of government whose ideal is three equal and co-ordinate branches? Or to put it another way, do two wrongs make a right? We think 1 not.
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And They Lived Happily Ever After—By Talburt
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Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler
If Labor Is to Receive Protection Under Law, Labor Should Be Made Responsible for Acts and Contracts.
EW YORK, June 3.—From most accounts it seems that John L. Lewis is a fighting altruist whose beetling brows mask the compassion in his eyes and, for the ‘sake of argument, that may be conceded. It doesn’t impair the fact that he is, on his record, something of a dictator, nor the further fact that, with the growth of his power, he has escaped a corresponding responsibility. He may believe in democracy, but, if so, he gives a curious expression to that belief, because he has shown little patience with minorities. Otherwise we might have heard some remonstrance from ‘him against those peaceful pickets who go to the line carrying ball bats, wagon spokes and gearshift levers with which to argue the Constitutional right of ®ther Americans to work for a living. That is a rather important Constitutional right, and one for which Mr. Lewis has contended with some vigor ‘for many years, and it is no more lightly to be arrogated by a labor leader and a mob than by a soulless corporation and a force of subsidized deputy sheriffs. x _ Still conceding that Mr. Lewis is an al 1truist, with a “heart full of pity for all that faction of the oppressed who accept his leadership, the law is careless and dangerous in failing to take precautions against reckless conduct on his part or by some successor come to equal power who might have less noble motives. : : Mere professions of altruism and the light in an individual's eyes are not sufficient guarantee against the damage that can be wrought by a man with so much might, and, anyway, if labor is to receive protection under the laws, labor should be compelled to assume responsibility for its acts and for the fulfillment of formal contracts. 3 » -N S matters stand, a contract with a labor union is worth no more.than the word of the leaders who sign it, and labor leaders, on the average, are no better than the employers with whom they have dealings.
Mr. Pegler
It is not uncommon in labor troubles for one or"
more unions to violate or sabotage signed contracts to compel an employer to sign another with an allied union, although what earthly good any contraet can be, under such conditions, nobody yet has discovered. The fact is that the labor leader occasionally is a dictator maintaining his power by union politics at the expense of democratic procedure. 2 2 NION finances are big business involving enormous totals in legitimate dues and assessments as well as tributes levied by the leaders on American citizens, for permission to work at their occupation. These accounts now are matters of public interest, but though employers must open their books to the Government, and may be punished for certain activities revealed by their accounts, the labor leader may follow a policy of treat ’em rough and tell ’em nothing.
A contract is no contract unless it is binding on |
both sides, and it can’t be binding on labor until labor, like every other party to an agreement, stands to lose something for violation.
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I wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.— Voltaire.
CHARGES CITY TAXES HIGH,
SALARIES LOW By V. L. 8. . During Mayor Sullivan's administration the custodians of our various City parks received salaries of $125 a month; their assistants, $90 per month. Today the cystodians’ salaries are $90 a month. Their assistants are WPA men whose salaries are paid with Federal money.
The same thing exists in all other City departments, with the City employees’ wages having been cut one-half, making them the lowest paid wage-earners of any city of this size in the country. This includes police and firemen.
City taxes are higher than ever before, which makes us wonder where this extra money goes. All we taxpayers know is that it puts on the disappearing act.
City officials boast of an economical administration, but their ideas of economy conflict with the ideas of a great many of us who have to practice economy to ‘exist.
MAYOR REPLIES TO LETTER ON SALARIES By Mayor John Ww. Kern
[In 1934, the last year of Mayor Sullivan's administration, the budget adopted provided for the payment of custodians of parks sums ranging from $541.50 per year for those on duty from April 1 to Sept. 30, up to $1641.60 for the custodian of the Taggart Riverside Park. The last budget adopted by this administration in 1936, for the year 1937, provides for salaries to custodians of parks ranging from $582.10 for those custodians serving from April 16 to Sept. 1, up to $1500 for the custodian of Taggart Riverside Park. Most of the regular park custodians under the last Sullivan budget were paid $1083 per year. The same general group. under the budget this year, are paid $1164.22. All custodians of parks, 18 in number, for wliom appropriations were made in 1934, received small increases in salaries with the exception of two: The custodian of Taggart Riverside Park and the custodian of Fall Creek and Burdsal Boulevards. The total:appropriation to custodians of parks in 1934 was $16,634.96, while in 1936 it was $18,322.44. Cites Depression | ‘Changes
It should be noted that in “1934 there was a custodian for Warfleigh Boulevard, and another custodian: for Holliday Park. This year the custodianships were consolidated, and there is only one custodian ior both. It should also be noted that a new custodianship was created for Eagle Creek Park on the West Side. The budget for neither: year indicates any such office as assistant custodians. There is nol such position as assistant custodian which could be filled by WPA men. During the depression a grea many City employees were laid off completely, and those who remained
in the employ of the! City had their
General Hugh Johnson Says—
Reserve Officers With the CCC Who Are Refusing to Obey Orders Are Committing a Capital Offense and Should Be Court-Martialed.
ASHINGTON, June 3.—There is a putrescent mess in the CCC. Some reserve officers of the U. S. Army who command some CCC companies and camps are on what, in labor disputes, we call a sitdown strike and what, in the Army, we call disobedience of orders and mutiny. These, in military law, are capital offenses. The World War upset two old beliefs. One was that it takes more than one year’s intensive training to make. a civilian into a soldier. The other was that an intelligent nation can afford to entrust the lives and health of bodies of men in modern war to officers who have no more training than the men themselves. "The war deminsirated that with scientific, properly planned training, a recruit can become an acceptable soldier in a few months, but that the training of officers requires a much more thorough education. To provide for this, Congress authorized a great, corps of reserve officers—civilians who by mili tary education in colleges and training camps have fitted themselves to command.
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FTER examination, they are given commissions on an inactive list—subject, however, to be called to active duty. Until that happens they are civilians. When it happens they are soldiers in military service, entitled to all the benefits and subject to. all the
‘wages reduced as much as 20 per
is difficult to effect a complete res-
.. Can unravel every kink?
(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.)
cent, not one-half. It has been and
toration of this salary cut, but some progress was made in the last budget, and I hope that a substantial increase can be worked out in the next budget, particularly ‘with regard to the low-wage group employed in the Park Department an an the City Hospital. I agree with wg writer of the letter that in actically every department of City governmen| , the City employees are
underpaid, in comparison with employees of other citi
Stresses
City taxes are not higher than ever before. The City taxes for this year are $1.14 on every $100 of taxable property. In 1934, -the tax rate was $1.15, in 1933, it was $131, and in 1932 it was $1.26, while in the year 1923 the tax rate was $1.87. Prior to 1932, the tax rate itself was somewhat lower, but that was because in 1931 the township assessor, Mr. John McCloskey, made a complete revaluation of taxable property in Center Township, which resulted in 'a tremendous ‘decrease of the evaluation of taxable property, caused by the depression. of 1929. i A more accurate check on the real economy of administration is a comparison of the money actually spent.” In 1927, the amount of money actually spent by the City Administration was $8,538,428.18; in 1932, the amount actually spent was $7,918,202.63; in 1935, the amount actually spent was $6,526,098.09. It will be seen that the taxpayers were saved over two million dollars in 1935, as compared to 1927.
conomy
THE BITTER WITH THE SWEET
By ANNA E. YOUNG
Did you ever stop to ponder, Did you ever stop to think, That your own dead God—up yonder,
That you have to take the sour Right alongside of the sweet That for every darkened hour, You shall surely gladness meet?
DAILY THOUGHT
Cursed be he that setteth light by his father or his mother. And “all the people shall say, Amen.— Deuteronomy 27:16.
EXT io God, | thy JDarenisPenn.
LAUDS SUGGESTION OF
JAMESON HOME MEMORIAL By Nellie G. Owens
The recent suggestion of Miss Lola Blount Conner that the State preserve the home of the late Mus! Ovid Butler Jameson will interest many people. It will also mee} “with their hearty approval.
+ There are few homes othe State that stand as the background of more illustrious names on Indiana’s honor roll than does this stately old house on Pennsylvania St. Once you have crossed’ its pillared portals you sense the interest, beauty and art it contains, and the pervading atmosphey of culture and refinement, leep and genuine. As Nliss Conner states. Mrs. Jamesons death closed an era of culture. An era of what might be called the
dr“old school,” but to preserve her
home as it now stands would be to preserve much of that culture for our enjoyment, as well as a most gracious thing to do in the memory of one who stood for the higher, finer things of life.
7 82 PREDICTS INCREASE IN “LOWER THIRD”
By H. L. With the introduction of the new minimum wage and hour limitation law in Congress, we come to the high point of folly in the national comedy of errors—‘“regulating” the production of new wealth to death. Commanding the producers to ‘cut down on the hours of labor and fixing the price to consumers at higher levels, while one-third of the American people are ill-clad, ill-fed and ill-housed, is adding fury to the storm which has leveled one-third of the population to below decent standards of living. The new program will bring another third into this classification. Instead of creating greater supvlies of real wealth so that the onethird at the bottom can get more for less, we now propose to put another third in their class: by curtailing
production and raising prices.
” 2 iin U. S. AGENCY UNABLE TO PLACE HEFTY COOKS
By Epicurean |
. In Baltimore, the National Reemployment Service confesses failure in its effort to find jobs for two cooks. and good cooks are in great demand in Baltimore, but these two are a drug on the labor market simply because one weighs 4315 pounds and the other 328. Modern kitchens are not designed for such fat cooks, the NRS comments sadly. This is sad news, and the tragedy is more than personal to the two Baltimore cooks. It marks, I fear, the passing of an era of good eating, a happy period when prodigies of culinary skill were performed by fooks whose generous proportions testified to their generous natures. Baltimore's reputation as a center of epicurean art was never established, depend upon it, by streamlined rooks in streamlined kitchens.
They are good cooks,
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It Seems to Me
By Heywood Broun
Omission of John L. Lewis From Reference Book Brings Plea for " Educators to Study Current Events.
EW YORK, June 3.—Upon the all toa rare occasions when erudition crops ou in this column it does not come from my head but from the Columbia Encyclopedia—t complete in one volume. This enterprise of the Columbia University Press seems to me excellent in its coverage, and yet there are some blind spots. . Scholars in all the colleges remain
curiously detached from certain important factors in the current scheme. The edi-~ tors of this particular referenc book have made a brave effort t .overcome this failing, and they have noted, although too briefly, . the existence of such national heroes as Jack Dempsey and Babe ‘Ruth. The Columbia pundits have -recognized the fact that Jadk Dempsey deserves reeognition as |a national figure, but they are unwilling to give him much more than a passing nod. It is a somewhat meager picture, neglecting, as it does, the saga of the long count and the great epic of the first round with Firpo. Still, Dempsey is in, and that is something. To my surprise and] immense gratification I am also mentioned as “Broun, Haywood Campbell (Broon), 1888. . .'. A champion of the under dog.” That; although vague, is|flattering enough. Indeed, I myself would hardly classify Broun (Broon) as one of the champions, but would feel that he had received more than his deserts if he were listed merely among the many contenders.
But after finding that the cloistered ency clopedists of Columbia had not failed to note the fluttering |of swallows I carried my researches | into the questibn of just what consideration they g ve to certain cyr= Tens eagles. ~ 2% 8
TURNED to find what kind of biogronts was pub cut concerning the American who is, in my judgment, the second most .important figure in the land. today. There are 11 Lewises in the book, counting including Sinclair, the husband of Dorothy Thompson; Gilbert, who has made a special study of thermodynamics: Isaac, the gupmaker, and Ida, the keeper of a lighthouse. But John L. is nowhere in this list. To be sure, the book was written in 1935, or nis ym but, even so, 1
Mr. Broun
think that such an omission is symptomatic of the fact that American universities do not realize as yet that economies is a living science and not’ a dead art.
While I cannot pretend to have made a survey of the entire field, I am under the| distinct impression that there are few college textbooks or college| courses in which the student can get any very intimate knowlHe { will ba*
edge of the American labor movement. under compulsion to do his own research, | #2 = =| | HE colleges really ought to.catch up with current events. The Columbia Encyclopedia rather une derlines its ignorance of the €xistence of John | L. Lewis by devoting a brief note to| William Green. ‘As president of the American Federation of Labor,” it says, “he was critieized for lack of aggression.. | Ha was quick, however, to take advantage of NRA provisions concerning labor and greatly strengthened the Federation as a result.” The learned gentleman who wrote that will have to go to the foot of the class, because Bill Green never has been numbered among the quick, and the increase in the Federation membership under NRA consisted:
- very largely of the recruits whom Lewis took into the
United Mine Workers. Higher education in America ought to swoop down low enough to make itself aware of those things which happen day by day upon the surface of the earth and
"in the tunnels under the earth.
The Washington Merry-Go-Round
Government Reorganization Bill Snagged as Joint Committee Splits; Power Lion and Public Lamb Lie Down Together With Wall Street's Aid.
burdens of regulér Army officers, Among, the latter
is subjection to military law, the first principle of which is obedience to orders. On this principle the whole defensive system of the nation rests. When CCC came along there was a demand for military administrators in camps who had been taught how to take care of the lives and health and discipline of single men in barracks. Thousands of reserve officers were’ called to active duty to take care of CCC companies. But there were nowhere near enough jobs to give all reserve officers a crack at this training. So the War Department, after careful study, made an order to rotate the jobs and give every reserve officer who wanted it an 18-months’ tour of duty. The incumbents say they won't be rotated. They are sitting on the jobs refusing either to budge or to obey orders. Their association is strong in Congress and they are demanding their own wholesale incorporation into the Army as permanent regulars.
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IVILIAN liberty is one thing, but when the soldiers of a nation begin to say, “I won't,” and each for himself begins to decide which order he will and which he will not honor with his obedience, something very dangerous to the public peace has happened. Ruthless and hard as it may seem, for the sake of the integrity of the U. S. Army, the leaders of this mutiny should be cour-martialed,
By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen ASHINGTON, June 3.—If the President has been wondering why nothing has been done about ‘his ambitious Government Reorganization Bill, he can get a pretty good idea of the reason from what happened behind the closed doors of the last joint Senate and House Committee meeting. This group, named specially to consider the measure, dawdled around for more than three months doing nothing. Finally, under White House prodding, it met to decide on some course of action. An agreement was reached—to disagree. The House members insisted that the President’s plan be chopped up into four separate bills and submitted to the chambers in that form. They contended this would expedite consideration. The Senators opposed this, demanding that the legislation be concentrated in one measure as proposed by the President. “Splitting this up into four bills,” remarked Senate Leader Joe Robinson, head of the Senate committee,. “will only further delay action. Of course, it probably doesn’t matter, for I doubt if-any reorganization legislation will get through this session. And that won't be a public calamity.” With these spirited words spurring them on, the two committees decided to part company and each go dts owl iL Way, ;
TRANGE things are happening in the strife-ridden power industry. In widely separated sections of the country, private and public power interests are peacefully getting to= gether in mutually acceptable deals—a development almost as miraculous as the parable of the lion and
- the lamb. These are the transactions:
In Nebraska, negotiations have been completed un= der which three federally financed state power proj ects will take over virtually all the private utilities in the state, at a cost of between $75,000,000 and $100,» 000,000. : In Ponce, Puerto Rico, second largest city onthe island, the municipal plant has bought out the competing private company. And in Seattle, the municipal power and light plant, managed by SEC Commissioner ¥. D. Ross [and one of the most successful of its kind, has acquired its private rival at a cost of $37,000,000. | 88 . Il HESE absorptions are history-making, but even more astounding is the fact that the Nebraska and Seattle purchases are being financed by Wail Street. The citadel of big business is lending the overnments of Nebraska and Seattle the money to buy out private utility interests. . Government power; executives are not acclaiming these events as the millenium, but they do regard them as significant straws in the wind of future power de«
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