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SATURDAY, JUNE 5, 1937

A UTOMOBILES have killed three children on todinalins streets the last few days. The city’s record traffic becomes more and more a community disgrace.Despite the shameful record of 67 killed here already this year, the promised safety survey by experts has not been started, no adequate accident prevention machinery has been ¢evised, enforcement and education is enthusiastic and spasmiodic rather than effective. Indianapolis still is not organized for safety. Accident reduction methods are no secret. There is no mystery about the problem. Lieut. Franklin M. Kreml of Evanston and of the Purdue Safeth Institute has produced safety results in Evanston, Syracuse and other cities with an amazingly simple and sensible technique. His four chief planks, as reported in Collier's today, are: : : “First: Get the facts. “Second: Intelligent enforcement of traffic laws, bearing down particularly hard on violators who ‘cause accidents. | : “Third: Education, to secure and hold the co-operation of car owners, drivers and the general public. “And finally, as far as practicable, engineering to improve road conditions and remove specific sources of danger.” || : When do we start?

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LET IT REST ROM Senate Leader Joe Robinson and President Roosevelt comes word that reports of the death of the court reorganization issue ar exaggerated. Senator Joe admits there will be amendments, in fact he might (propose one thimself. The President says he’s going through, but on|the matter of compromise he’s as silent as Bier Rabbit. Which | inclines us to the belief—and the hope—that the Supreme Court “packing” part of the measure now may be left to rest in its present home in the cold, cold ground. Ameri ing out that highly controversial section should not kill the whole program—the speeding up of justice, Government participation in lower court suits involving. constitutional questions, direct appeal to the Supreme Court in such cases, more lower Federal judges. The |Supreme Court -has adjourned until October. Whatever caused its majority to change heart, the fact is that itl closed its term with a fair record of decisions favorable/lto the New. Deal's great social reconstruction

Hence, we do not believe the President will insist on “packing’{|a court that today has a liberal and realistic approach to yard modern problems. In his long running battle with a ofie-time obstructionist majority he has won the substance of victory. We hope he will not risk damage to his great Ihrestige and party unity by insisting on the trap-

pings of victory.

HE house trailer, an acute housing and health problem in mary cities, is becoming so commonplace in Indianapolis that Mayor Kern is asking. \ n ordinance to regulate the parking and sanitary conditigns of these homes-on-

Regulation will be a complex job, but a necessary one. Thousands of trailers are on the highways this year. A mail order house lists trailers in its catalog. Fortune magagine predicts a 1937 production of nearly 100,000 new

Cities are beginning to realize that if trailers become

ing, health and other regulations will be needed. One big problem is how to tax the trailer owner for governmental services while he is using a trailer camp. The usual property value basis is obviously impracticable. And an American Municipal Association survey suggests that “most cities will undoubtedly hesitate to assess the seasonal trailerite for lhis-full share of governmental costs, inasmuch as he constitutes tourist trade.” The survey concludes that ‘workable plan is to collect the tax directly from the person who runs the trailer camp, and let him pass it {ype of trailer Lrrpity created is another problem. Sonie camps are privately operated, some municipally. Most trailers now are privately owned, but use of trailers as year-round dwellings may increase “to-rent” trailers, on a basis similar to low-rent apartment houses or tenements.

Regulations adopted will determine largely the type of trailer “community within a community” that will spring up here. || Summing up the problem in Public Management, Herbert (. Ogden of the Municipal Association writes: “Assuming that trailers may be zoned to special areas within communities, that sensible regulations will be devised for the conduct of the trailer citizens, and that these tatter will pay for public services through the camp operator on a basi$ of services made available, it is evident that the camp operator becomes a person of great social importance. “He will not only be responsible for the business manthe community, a sizeable task in itself, but for ection, policing, fire prevention, welfare and taxation as frell. Whether it is wise to farm out governmental Ror siRtlitios in this manner remains to be seen. If not, then th |publicly operated trailer community is the only solution 0 the problem.”

NOTE ON COURT PACKING

favor| of New Deal laws is Mr. Justice Cardozo, appointee di Herbert Hoover. The Judge who has voted most often against New Deal laws is Mr. Justice McReynolds, appointee of Woodrow

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By Westbrook Pegler

Frick's Ruling on Dean Indicates National League President Does Not Keep Up With the Labor News.

NEW YORK, June 5.—Baseball men generally do not keep abreast of affairs outside their own business, but it is hard to believe that anyone in the United States lives so deep in the past as Ford Frick, the presi-

dent of the National League. He was judge, jury and complaining witness in one, and his verdict was that Dizzy Dean must sign a humiliating apology dictated by Frick himself or

turn in: his’ suit. Refusing to sign, Dean was ruled out, and he lost pay until Mr. Frick decided that he should be reinstated today. - This occurs in a business which calls itself the American national game and directs its appeal to a public which has pretty generally indorsed collective bargaining and condemned autocratic and brutal treatment of employees by employers. Of course, these baseball cases are trivial, and a ‘man who gets $25,000 a year for playing a game does not make a very tragic inartyr even when he is imposed upon. And Dean is even

less pathetic, because he recently was accused of throwing his hard one dead at the skulls of the hitters in a game between the Cardinals and the Giants. A few days later, in the other major league, Mickey Cochrane was beaned accidentally and taken to a hospital with a: broken head, and the resentment against Dean increased. : : However, Mr, Frick did not punish Dizzy for conduct which might have beén fatal. The suspension was based on reports that Dizzy publicly described Mr. Prick as a crook. ) Now, if Mr, Frick can prove that Dizzy called him a crook and prove that he is not a crook, which shouldn’t be.difficult, he could have found his remedy in the regular courts. j ‘But, instead, he took the old-fashioned baseball short cut and -tried the case himself. The. result is a much worse affront to justice and public sentiment than Dizzy offered when he threw his hard one at the Giants—if he did. ” ” ” S to character, Dizzy has his virtues and his faults. Obstreperous he is, to be sure, boastful, erratic and a poor sportsman in some matters, but he is or has been a great pitcher; he has personally earned vast amounts of money for his employers; he has worked overtime at the risk of killing his arm and losing his livelihood, and he once was knocked flat by a thrown ball while serving as pinch-runner in a world series. In this role he was a volunteer, and the service in which he was hurt was above and beyond the call of la pitcher's duty. ) Taking him as he is, Dizzy is more deserving of public sympathy than his employers, who have been kncwn to blacklist men for strictly temperamental reasons and drive them out of their profession by silent agreement. 3 He works under a system of employment which not only denies the right of collective bargaining but, once a man has signed his first papers, thereafter allows him no right to bargain at all. : He is subject to house rules and regulations controlling his conduct in his leisure time. ”n n n HE terms of employment in professional baseball

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are such that you would think Mr. Frick, as head’

of the National League, would be afraid to flout public sentiment as he has done in this case. But perhaps being a baseball man, Mr. Frick: doesn’t realize what goes on in labor and industry these days. For purposes of propaganda, organized baseball presents a tempting opportunity to organized labor. A players’ union died at birth some years ago, but today a players’ union could enlist the support of organized labor and astonish Mr. Frick and the chain store proprietors with picket lines and a terrible boycott.

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

EXPERT ECONOMISTS ALWAYS WRONG, HE SAYS By del Mundo The Government makes a mistake by employing so-called economists as expert advisors on economic matters. These gentlemen, orthodox economists, know little or nothing of true economies. They are consistent in only one thing and that is that they are always wrong. They are the outriggers of their greedy masters, the international money changers. I cannot offer much proof in this limited space. Suffice to say, results speak for themselves. The trouble with the pretentious economists is that the study they pursue is not economics at all It is-a study of prices, the relationship of prices and how to manipulate purchasing power of the monetary unit, thereby fluctuating prices in order to make profit. The dollar is not a product of nature and therefore has no natural value. It is an invention of the human mind and has ouly such value

as is given to it by human law.

The price of products and commodities produced from the raw materials of nature may change, and do change from time to time because of the changing value of the monetary unit brought about mostly by manipulation by the money changers. True economics is a study of values and the relationship of values. The true economic value of a product or commodity is determined by its degree of utility as food, clothing, shelter or comfort. This value is fixed by nature and cannot be changed by man-made law. The price has nothing to do with the value. True economics is one of nature’s masterpieces of simplicity, as anyone of sound mind should be able to understand. If those who occupy high positions in the capitalistic, democratic governments of the world cannot or ‘will not understand and apply the true economic principles of nature to the production and distribution of products and commodities, they may as well prepare epitaphs for their governments. In a few years such governments will pass into the limbo of abolished institutions, along with slavery, divine rights of kings, serfdom and feudalism. : ” n 2 CANCILLA MOTIONS CALLED AMUSING By a Times Fan It is highly amusing to me to watch the many dilatory motions filed by Cancilla and Baker. The Criminal Court always is so prone to criticize anyone whom they even suspect is trying to delay a trial. If my memory serves me right, Joel Baker, when first arrested, clamored for an early trial, justice and what have you, but now he

I hope Wayne Coy can return to help prosecute these men. Yours for speedy justice. : 2 n zn PRAISES HENRY GEORGE ON TAX THEORY

By E. B. Swinney, 238 S. Lorraine Blvd., Los Angeles If the annual rent of land were paid into the public treasury instead of into private pockets, tv.o important things would happen. It would inaugurate a scientific method of public revenue so that we

could immediately abandon the confiscation of private property to

General Hugh Johnson Says—

Wages-and-Hours Bill Is 'Too Slick’ and Its Presentation to the Committee Under a Label of Being Unlike NRA Is Not Exactly Frank.

ASHINGTON, June 5.—The Wages-and-Hours Bill plus its high pressure presentation to the Black-Connery Committee is like the document that presented the court-reorganization bill to Congress —“slick, too slick.” Its label, “not an NRA or anything like an NRA” pays scant respect to the intelligence of the committee. The bill sets up a board, empowers it to hold hearings, to take advice from advisory committees of labor, industry-and the public and then, regardless of hearings or advice, to fix wages and hours for the whole or any part of any industry in the United States, and to prescribe a label signifying compliance. If that isn’t “anything like NRA” what is it ‘like? The impression is given that the bill does not affect local or intrastate industries—“any state may use—sweated labor for products of home consumption.” There is not a word in the bill exempting any local industry—not even agriculture.

” ” = 2 N the contrary, Section 8 provides that whenever an intrastate local producer, or industry, sells goods in its own state in competition with goods produced in another state on higher labor standards and shipped in, “The board shall make an order” to the particular local employer or to the whole intrastate industry to cease paying lower wages or working longer hours. That raises. the principal intrastate headaches of NRA—Ilocal saw-mills, abattoirs, canneries, etc. The South had better wake up to this pronto or it will find

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itself sold down the river to a renewal of some of its

problems of Reconstruction days.

Sales point No. 3 is: “This bill does not plunge the

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wants to delay or retard that justice.

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which we now resort for that purpose, . Second, it would release the valuable natural resources now bottled up by land’ speculators for exorbitant prices, for it would be unprofitable to hold it idle and pay its full rent to the state. The selling price of the land is the net rent capitalized. We now take a small per cent by taxation, but by taking it all there would be nothing left to capitalize, and that greatest curse of modern civilization would be eliminated. . or It was the nation-wide orgy of land speculation that brought on the recent depression, and the memory of the terrific losses sustained is still vivid. i The land value tax is sufficient for all public needs, and by abolishing all taxes on labor and its products, an enormous stimulus would be given to ‘all branches of industry and business. Henry George had the right idea and his plan ‘eventually will prevail because it is one of the best yet devised.

# 8 DECLARES G. O. P. EDITORS WRITE ONLY OF MONEY .

. I challenge Mabel German to show me a Republican speech or a Republican editorial about anyv-: thing except money. I think it would be very appropriate to change the elephant to the dollar sign.

2 un =n WANTS U. 8. TO KEEP OUT

OF EUROPE’'S TROUBLES By E. F. Maddox

The person who was ashamed to sign his name to his letter, protesting because I said that when the President writes legislation and forces it through Congress and has it declared legal by a packed Supreme Court, he would be a dictator, ought to come out in the open and quit dealing in dialectical materialism. Well, in case you don’t know what that is, it means materialism given in a_ dialect that nobody can uncerstand. For Forum readers who don’t know what “economic determinism” means, the explanation is the attitude you take toward individual liberty and private property. If you believe in thesé things you are a capitalist bourgeois; if not, you are a good Socialist. : As far as crying ‘guns before but-

IN THE DARK

By 0. C. WEATHERBY Uninformed through life we wind Because the truth is hard to find. With a guess we're cursed instead Because we will not use our heads.

DAILY THOUGHT Heaven is my throne, and earth is my footstool: what house will ye build me? saith the Lord: or what is the place of my rest?— Acts 7:49. |

HERE is a land where everlasting suns shed everlasting brightness, where the soul drinks from the living streams of love that rol] by God's high throne.—Bowring.

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ter” is concerned, I have heatd and read that the Socialist fatherland let its own people go hungry while it sold wheat and butter to buy guns and war materials. And don't fool yourself, Mr. “Sub-

scriber,” “a dictator always uses the old bread and butter bait to catch the ignorant and unwary in his net. If the Fascists of Europe elect to meet communism on its own level and fight it to a finish, that is their business and the United States has no reason to interfere. We are supposed to be neutral. Certainly the missions of these alien systems will try to draw 4s in and use our men, money and material to their own advantage, but oncé was enough for all sensible Americans to stick their nose in the European political cauldron. A burnt child dreads the fire. Anyhow I am not in favor of drafting our boys and shipping them

like cattle 3000 miles across the

ocean to die for either fascism or communism. Are you? - ”n un ” BELIEVES M’NUTT EDICT IS UNFORTUNATE By B. C. Paul V. McNutt, U. 8. high commissioner to the Philippine Commonwealth, is an able man. Like most able men, he is ambitious. It is commonly reported that he would like to run for the presidency of the United States, come 1940. If that is correct, Commissioner McNutt has made an unfortunate beginning on his new job. For the cables tell how he is insisting that at public functions in Manila, he, High Commissioner McNutt, must be toasted jmmediately after the President of the United States and before the president of the Philippine Commonwealth, Manuel Quezon. Just why he | should insist on his pre-eminence at a time when: the American Government is formally getting out of the islands is not clear. Nor is it clear how such tactics /will help. to persuade the American democracy that the former Hoosier Governor is proper presidential timber. : i

£3 n ” CRITICIZES TOWNSEND ON WELFARE By). A. M. Governor Townsend, in his pitiful speech before the Indiana Welfare dinner last week, said: “If some Society for the Uplift of Something or Another, or perhaps some Amalgamated Association of Perennial Job Holders, presumes to blast us in the press or otherwise with criticisms

that we have failed to adopt their |:

code of ethics, just tell them that Indiana will get the job completed.” Now, I am not a member Qf any

of the societies in the above categories and I have no doubt that Indiana will get the job completed— it usually does. But what Hoosiers want is to get the job completed in the most efficient: way, in the way that state after state is accepting, in the way that the taxpayers will get the most service for their money. This seems to be accomplished by doing away with the accepted Indiana brand of spoils appointments and substituting a modern system of public personnel management. The Governor says welfare administration *is “outside the realm of political issue.” Why limit it to welfare administration? The social workers’ conference has set. us all to thinking. What's the matter with having qualified people doing the rest of the Government jobs?

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Cabinet Members Are in Move to Strengthen Relations With Russia

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It Seems to Me

By Heywood Broun Citizens Whe Cheat Government

By Evading U. S. Income Tax Are Snatching Bread From Hungry:

EW YORK, June 5.—One of the flaws in our democracy is the fact that a national election is treated too much in the spirit of a tennis match. The winner does not truly receive a mandate, but gets only one leg on the trophy. After a 15-minute rest he has to

come out on the courts again and fight the whole tong over, Or, to vary the metaphor, Mr. Roosevel{ has received not a blank check but a rubber one, There is rebellion in the Senate and the House. For the most part the Democrats who are seeking to sabotage the New Deal explain their treachery on the ground that they do not like the plan to liberalize the courts. They assert that this issue did not come up in the election. > This contention is something less than accurate, for though the precise details of the: plan were not put forward until after election, Mr. Roosevelt certainly had given broad intimation that ; he intended to attack the Sue preme Court oligarchy by legislative methods. I have always felt, and I feel now, that the court plan constitutes an excellent yardstick by which one may separate the liberals from the Lippmanns and - the progressives from the Pinchots. The men who are fighting democracy on the bench are opposed to it in. all the other branches of th Government. To be sure, in the case of certain aie

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tors, particularly those from the “Rotten Boroughs,’ the assertion is made that they supported other Ne Deal proposals and merely wilted under the last straw of the plan to unpack the Court. But these are camels whose backs were never strong at. best, and one may. vote and vote and yet continue to keep his fingers crossed. I think it is significant that many of the bitterest foes of judicial reform are to be found in the bloe¢ ° which would “broaden the base of the income tax.} This is a proposal which suggests that those wh lie prostrate might very well get on their feet again i only they would take a hard tug at their own boot straps. : ? ? ” » ”

Nz ‘of a House committee have recently - shown | grave concern for the delicate feelings of those who may be called upon to testify as to tax evasion. After all, this is not an election year. Cera tain- gentlemen in Washington are living in a fool's paradise and trying to console themselves with the . thought that 1938 is a long way off. A lobbyist is always at a legislator’s elbow, while the voters are well around the corner. Of late I find even in high places support for the doctrine that rich men have a right to dodge their

- responsibilities by seeking loopholes. The argument

goes that the Government is at fault for not having been smart enough to note the crevices. But just let the Government attempt legislation to block the rat holes, and you-will find these same men in violent conflict” against the measures. 1 There are many patriots who profess a willingness to lay down their lives for their country, but they have a great reluctance to put a dollar on the line,

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People cheat the Government and salve their con= science by thinking that they have withheld just due from some vague TR I # 8 =» 1 S a matter of fact, |ih reality they are taking men and women off relief rolls. They are snatching bread from the hungry and clothes fro the tattered. Indeed, the evaders are no higher = the moral scale than those who rob a poor box. i I think the income tax is by far the most just of all levies and that it ought to be based on capacit; to pay. For all their weeping and wailing the well to-do have never made adequate contributions. . -I don’t expect anybody to toss his| cap in the aig over -the privilege of paying an income tax. June 15 will find my hat on my head, but just the same I think it is fantastic that one should find more grumse

bling around some far from barren table in a back room than was ever heard in a front-line trench.

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Because U. S. Is Losing Profitable Soviet Trade and Political Help.

By'Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen ASHINGTON, June 5.—Keep your eyes open for

nation headlong into a rigid and widespread policy of regulating wages and hours.” But the board is given unlimited discretion to fix, by regulatory fiat, maxi= mum hours and minimum wages for every industry in the United States and it is charged to “extend (the bill’s provisions) to all employments . , . as rapidly as possible.” The implied alibi for that is “Oh, Congress, in the act itself, sets maxima and minima.” Oh yeah!— “except in so far as another maximum (minimum) is established for such employment by regulation or order of the board.” s ” ” HE board sets its own limits. The so-called “rule” is—no minimum wage so high as to curtail employment nor above what gives a “minimum standard of living necessary for health and efficiency” and no work-week shortened beyond what is necessary for “health, efficiency] and well-being” or beyond what will curtail earning power. :

Of course, that is no rule at all. It says only,

“don’t change the limits fixed by yourself to such an

extent as, in your opinion, will curtail employment or

. earnings.”

It pains this writer to pan a measure advancing a principle to which he gave the extreme effort of his life, but it would pain him more to see that principle go ahead to grotesque failure. - Also, slicker law-draft-ing pains him at least as much,

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a new move to strengthen relations with Soviet Russia. : One or two Cabinet members have got restive over the narrow policy of the State Department in giving Russia the cold shoulder merely because of $178,000,-

000 in unsettled debts. ; The ex-Allies owe this country about 11 billions, these officials point out, compared to which the Russian indebtedness is mere chicken-feed. Meanwhile the United States is cutting off its nose to spite its. face by losing tremendous amounts of profitable trade, also Russian political support in the Far East. Note—Present State Department policy is to put Russia on the No. 3 or worst list in setting tariff rates, and to refuse all |dealings with her through the Ex-port-Import Bank, Meanwhile the bank gives credits

to Fascist Italy. | un ” EJ

HE State Department has been under terrific undercover (ED by Catholic groups to prevent

the admission of 500 Basque chiidren, whom American sympathizers plan to place with American families as a result of the siege of Bilbao. Catholic leaders claimed that the children were to be placed in the homes of American Communists. However, the State Department stood .its ground. In the first place, Basque Catholic priests are to ac-

company the children and make sure that they are properly cared for. In the second place, a secret precedent already existed for the admission of refugee children, when 250 German-Jewish children came here during the Nazi urge. ¢ 9 Fe uentally, applications for Basque children ale

-ready have been received from 2700 American families,

Since: there are only 500 to go around, the committee plans to be very choosy about the foster-parents.

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HE new U., S. Maritime Commission can testify that “it never rains but it pours.” { Working day and night to pass on shipping routes involving millions of dollars, which must be disposed of by June 30, the Commissioners suddenly have been conironted by a flank raid on Capitol Hill. . Railway lobbyists, operating behind the scenes, have engineered bills transferring regulatory authority over inland, coastwise and foreign shipping lines to the - Interstate Commerce Commission. This would deflate the Maritime Commission. like a pricked balloon. » » »

HE next fireworks Senator Bob La Follette is planning to spring in his investigation of civil liberties will be in the Ford organization. Senator La Follette has had his investigators in and around the Ford motor plants for some weeks,

| and soon will be ready to begin hearings,