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FRIDAY, JUNE 11, 1937

WARFARE IN STEEL HAT the Wagner act is far from a complete barrier to industrial warfare is demonstrated forcefully by the C. lL. O. strike in three big independent steel companies. In fact, the act has complicated the struggle now raging around plants of Republic Steel, Youngstown Sheet & Tube and Inland Steel. . | . To those who regarded the Labor Relations Act as a cure-all for strikes, this development is disappointing. But to (those who realize the act’s limitations it merely emphisizes the need for a companion measure, such as the allway Labor Act, to encourage the sort of mediation and arbitration procedure under which serious strike threats on the nation’s carriers have been successfully parried for more than 11 years. | The Wagner act establishes the right of collective bargaining but beyond that does little to promote a successful conclusicn to such bargaining or the settlement of disputes after agreements have been reached.

BEHIND THE PROCESSION A SUMMARY just completed by the Indiana League of Women Voters shows that at least 18 speakers at the recent National Conference of Social Work meetings here emphasized trained personnel as the foundation of honest and efficient government. | The Jn visitors who attended that important con-

ference did not come to Indianapolis to discuss,the merit

system. They were concérned with the practical working cut| of ‘the! many great ‘social problems confronting the ‘country today. | But the fact that such leaders as Edith Abbott, Governor Frank Murphy, Katherine F. Lenroot, Sanford Bates, Louis Brownlow and others stressed merit in appointments as {he key to successful administration of the public's busines: underscores one thing: Indiana cannot afford to lag behind the A in junking the costly spoils system.

a THE DEPRESSION’S ALUMNI HINGS do not look so dark for the Class of 1937 as it pours out of the campuses some 135,000 strong this June, Surveys indicate that these keen-eyed and well- , trained young alumni will find better opportunities for ready employment than the Class of 1936, and almost as good as in 1929—especially in engineering, administration, teaching and general business. Salaries will be higher by from $5 to £30 a month than last year’s. But what of the aging alumni of that bitter school, the depression, who must pound the pavements or do madework tasks as they watch fitter and younger men and women taking the jobs they lost? The fit and able recruits to their professions should consider the depression’s lost generation, and resolve to make their society more secure against such calamity. If they do not, they who are so full of hope and confidence today may become the derelicts of tomorrow.

BLESSED ARE THE MEEK THE world, fed up on the swagger and bluster of inferiors in high places, will warm to Japan’s new Premier Prince Konoye, who has both a sense off humor and humility. © “I am really not capable and not worthy to be Premier,” he told newspapermen in Tokyo. “I am a very humble person for a job that is too big for my poor qualifications. But if 1 can make old enemies bury the hatchet and become friends; if 1 can weld the whole nation into one peaceful family, with the Emperor as the father of the household, 1 shall be content.” The time is far away that Emerson dreamed of, when “none shall rule but the humble.” But Japan’s Premier shows that it wasn’t only a dream.

A JOB FOR SALESMANSHIP LIOWARD STARRET, Michigan Director of the National Re-Employment Service, said at Detroit that if given authority and sufficient funds he could place half of that State’s 57,000 WPA workers in private jobs within a year. ._ WPA, he said, spends about $4,000,000 a month in Michigan, and the Re-Employment Service only $45,000. | The Michigan WPA Administrator has taken issue with Mr. Starret’s statement, but, at least it opens an interesting field for speculation. We are spending a great deal of money to keep people on WPA. Are we putting either enough money or enough drive into efforts to get people off WPA and into private jobs? Last month the Warner & Swazey Co., Cleveland, makers, of machine tools and astronomical instruments, made a survey of industrial employment by questioning leading| manufacturers. The questions were answered by 229 firms employing 791,820 persons. ¥ Of these firms, 195 reported a shortage of skilled workers in all parts of the country. But 189 firms said “that they seldom or never hire men from WPA when they ‘need workers, skilled or unskilled. While 110 said they either have not been offered or do not accept co-operation from: Federal agencies in transferring men from relief to private employment. ‘We think this idea is wrong. Many WPA workers are thord ghly competent to hold private jobs, and many others are capable of being trained for skilled industrial work. One argument for the costly WPA form of relief is that. by giving work to employable people, it preserves their skills or teaches them new ones so that they may be ready as private jobs open up. But what becomes of that theory when industry refuses to hire people simply because they are on WPA? In that case, of course, WPA is actually making its depéndents unemployable. Industry should be “sold off” the idea that all “men on relief are no good.” Industry should be {sold on” the idea that Federal agencies are willing and able to provide satisfactory employees from the relief rolls. That will re- » quire salesmanship of the most persistent and aggressive

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Fair Enough

By Westbrook Pegler

Evasion of Taxes No Worse Crime Than Handing Out Useless Jobs to 'Political Deserving,' Is Claim.

EW YORK, June 11.—I am a little sorry to have disagreed with Mr. Roosevelt in such a pointed, personal way on the subject of tax dodging, because I admire no more than he does the financial blue-plate special in which a wealthy man divides himself into a lot of corporations to escape the payment of his honest owings. These shorts only increase the burden of the

Honest Johns who simply toss their money over the transom on doughday, and walk on by without an argument. - I do not want to appear to carry the target for such. I recognize that Mr. Rnosevelt is no tax dodger at heart, even though his official salary and allowances have been exempt from one or the other of the income taxes ever since he became Governor in 1929. However, these exemptions are unjust, resting on Supreme Court decisions which I - think flout equality, and, as one who has shown little respect for certain other verdicts of the nine old men, he might have given a few words to this subject in his holler about evasion and avoidance. Now he points out that it will take a constitutional amendment to abolish these exemptions which protect from one tax or another more than four million public servants. But he didn’t take .advantage of an inviting opportunity to propose such an amendment or indorse one already introduced by John Cochran, the Missouri Congressman.

Nor did he have anything to say about the swarm of political cooties in the seams of the taxpayer's shirt, who draw big salaries for doing nothing worth while, and thus rob the Government’s pcorbkox possibly to the same extent as the rich at whom he points the finger of scorn.

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ROLITICAL machine has no more right to dish ‘out the customers’ money to Joe Dokes, just because he turned out the votes, than a grass roots royalist has to incorporate his suburban south forty as a commercial parsley ranch, and claim losses on that account. If it is stealing from the unemployed poor to chisel $6000 off the tax, it is stealing not a dollar less from the same victims to tap the till for the same amount to take care of some politician. I should say the degree of the sin was greater, because tax dodging by an individual is just one man’s sin, and the man may sincerely resent some technical gvp practiced on him in a previous wrestle with the collectors. ru) But, when a Governmeny robs the poor, as well as the taxpayer, to take care of some political loafer in a nominal job—that’s worse, because the Government is all we have to protect us from robbers. - Nobody can. protect us from the Government.

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HILE the boys are at it, they had better abolish the arbitrary power of Government employees to grant or refuse items according to their personal whims and prejudices—a defect which permits of political and personal persecution. So I don’t think Mr. Big is a tax dodger in his great big, loving heart, but I do insist that if you and I have fried to avail ourselves of his exemptions since 1929, figuring that a Governor and a President must be. the perfect example, we would have found ourselves in the can years ago.

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

JOHN D's FORTUNE CITED AS EXAMPLE OF INEQUALITY By Warren A. Benedict Jr.

Newspaper reports tell that the elder Rockefeller left a “comparatively small” fortune of 25 million dollars (or one-eightieth of his onetime fortune of two billion), and that several rich men have left estates of as much as four or more times this “pittance.” Admittedly, $2500 a year is above the average income of the “man in the street.” Judged by the standards of his neighbor, one who gets that amount is usually dependable, intelligent and industrious, can save some for old age and give his family the necessities and a few of the luxuries of life. He is “moderately successful.”

But if this “above average” worker were gifted with perpetual life, and started work at this salary 10,000 years ago (or before the dawn of recorded history), and by a similar miraculous method had been able to hoard every cent of his earnings, he would now have just the “pittance” John D. left. Had he started at the birth of Christ, he would to date have earned less than five million.

An income of $2500 would put the average family on its feet and give them a new outlook on life. Twentyfive million dollars would give 10,000 such families (or about 40,000 people, or a population about the size of Anderson), a new joy in living.

That's what 25 million would do. Multiply that and you get a conception of what some of our richest men have been worth. Granted some people are more capable, hard-working and deserving than others, while some are shiftless and no-account, most of us feel the industrious are entitled to higher salaries and a right to a small fortune, if honestly acquired.

But no man is a thousand, or 10,-.|

000 or more times worthy than his fellow men.A pencil and paper, fourth-grade arithmetic and common horse sense, and you have your most formidable argument against such huge fortunes. May an enlightened government prevent such gross inequalities in the future!

2 # ” MOVIES FAIL TO ANSWER OPPORTUNITY, CLAIM

By Del Mundo The latest outburst of debauchery in Hollywood is additional proof that the movie colony is a cesspool of human profligacy. Many movies teach young men the technique of successful criminals, how to make a living without honest work, how to trick into marriage some woman who has more money than brains. By innuendo many movies insinuate that if a young man does not wind up by ‘being a millionaire and becoming a Prince Charming to some painted “doll-baby” who has “it” he is a complete failure. The talking movie is one of the

General Hugh Johnson Says —.

Hot Spot Developing in Atlantic Maritime Labor Situation;

Officials Must Be Alert

EW YORK. June 11.—There is a hot spot developing in the shipping-labor situation on the Atlantic coast.

The longshoremen’s and teamsters’ unions, which control the loading and unloading of ships and the transportation of their cargoes to and from the docks, are A. F. of L. afliliates. There is developing among ‘the powerful maritime unions—those which have

to do with the operation of the ships themselves, a’

strong attraction toward C. I. O.

Here is a closely related operation “controlling commerce. Any such serious civil war as might come within the ranks of labor could paralyze that commerce against the public interest. In a Michigan labor dispute electric power for a whole community was cut off. In the San Francisco general strike, streetcar service was abandoned. Stores were closed.

There was a threat to cut off both power and water |

to the city. In the Pacific coast maritime strike commerce by| water actually was strangled. 8 # |» £3 T is easy to understand reluctance of - elected officials to intervene in strikes. For years they intervened so freely on the other side

of the argument that labor n j re ! early lost its rights to

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greatest inventions of all time and it should be used for the diffusion of education and culture; for the abolition of both greed and poverty; for teaching the fact that there is only one honest way to make an honest living and that is by honest, productive work. It should teach the young women that the most noble career for any woman is being a home-loving, inspiring, husband-respecting - wife and a kind, loving and dutiful mother to a normal number of wellkept, well-housed, well-clothed, wellfed and properly taught children. The movie, if properly used, would be a great instrumentality in the abolition of war and crime by replacing them with peace and tranquility, and help to bring into operation a new social order based upon a co-operative brotherhood of mankind. n 2 ” SAYS CONFERENCE FAILED TO MEET PROBLEM By a Reader The Social Work Conference faced the problem of salvaging in-

dividuals cast adrift by the com- |

petitive economy. The social worker’s job is one of mopping up the wreckage left in the path of our

ruthless process of industry. While the social conference dealt with problems of rehabilitation of individuals who are at the bottom of our one-third of the populatiton which is ill-fed, ill-housed and illclad. the conference failed to suggest or promote means by which this unfortunate group may be raised above the level of poverty. Charity and relief are not substitutes for constructive action that

WOOD CATHEDRAL By KEN HUGHES

Come within the deep of woods Along cool corridors Where trees can arch A green dome overhead,. And give a peace Like quiet water Of a spring-fed well. Come within the deep of wood Where God is peace, | And peace is God— And man is understood.

DAILY THOUGHT

For when he dieth he shall carry nothing away; his glory shall - descend after him.—Psalms 49:17.

HE gods conceal from men the appiness of death, that they ure life.—Lucan.

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will abolish the need for charity and relief. This group at the bottom is more in need of rehabilitation psychologically. In a nation endowed with natural resources far above other nations there can be no excuse for poverty, if its people will exercise intelligence in coordinating their labor with these natural resources to produce every ‘human need. :

Relief is still the nation’s largest |.

business enterprise. The Government undertook to provide the relief victims with “income” to buy the goods produced by others, in the wealth-producing industries. = That is no substitute for employing this group in the productive channels. Sooner or later they must be employed there, unless we wish to go bankrupt as a nation. They must become self-sustaining or they will wreck us all. The social service groups are in no position to provide the leadership to organize this group into an integrated mechanism, to supply their own needs in abundance. The Government has-been denied the opportunity to proceed with their re-establishment as real wealth producers. If ever there was a need of a union, it is among the relief victims. Instead of accepting charity, doles. or made work relief, they ought to

| hire brains to organize themselves

into wealth-producing units, te compete with those who have thrown them overboard.

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PROTESTS REFERENCE TO CHRISTIAN SCIENCE

By Clair D. Robison Christian Science Committee on Publication for Indiana

A statement from a bulletin of the Associates in the Science of Society at Yale University, as reported by the United Press in one edition of The Indianapolis Times of May 26, reads as follows: “Records of miraculous cures of saints and prophets, Christian Science and Coueism, are just beginning to find scientific explanation in psychiatry and psychoanalysis.” The article then adds, in direct quotations from the bulletin: “The shaman was able to muster to his ai@ the same ill-understood mental processes and to achieve successes as striking as those of later-day faith healers.” It would appear from this statement that Christian Science is in the same class as Coueism and faith-healing, but this is not true. Christian Science is based on a demonstrable understanding of the teachings of Christ Jesus. He never

used suggestion or vain repetitions

to‘ heal the sick; he knew and

‘applied the principle of man’s re-

lation to God. Nothing is farther removed from faith-healing than Christian Science, which was discovered and founded by Mary Baker Eddy late in the 19th Century.

Miss Perkins Buck-Passes

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to Protect Public's Interests in Strikes.

tinct public reaction against that very thing was one of the reasons for the New Deal triumphs. But there must be some limit to the range and trajectory of the brickbats in these semiprivate shindys. It doesn’t greatly hurt a public service company to turn off a city's electricity or water—but ‘it strangles the city. It oppresses millions. who have had no part in the fight except usually a strong sympathy with labor at the outset. Regardless of the reluctance of political liberals, what is the point in these disputes beyond which have no choice—where the public through government must take control? What should it do when it does step in? 5 ” ” ° HE answers seem clear. Government must intervene where the pressures of the conflict spill over the area of the actual dispute and substantially pinch innocent bystanders. Officials who do not defend the public are derelict in duty through political cowardice. : What does the official do when he does step in?

If the jaw does not say specifically it ought. to.

In most cases it does say. Where the statute doesn’t, a higher law does: “Salus populi suprema lex esto.” Which is a way of saying that nothing excuses people, ;

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ASHINGTON, June 11.—The problem of bringing 500 Basque children into the United States has been causing a lot of inner Administration headaches. | Even Secretary Perkins’ 16-year-old daughter has The problem firs was at the feet of tall, astute Undersecretary of State Welles, who promptly passed the buck to the Labor Depar t. One factor which hastened his buck-passing was a storm of Catholic protests. The Administration was being deluged with| complaints that the Basque children were to be educated in “Communistic” homes, and these complaints continued even though Basque priests were to accompany them. Miss Perkins, on receiving the unwelcome gift from the State Department, first was inclined to say no. She looked at it purely from the grounds of professional child welfare. : : : ” : JOWEVER, Miss held a conference with the Committee on Basque Children. It was attended by Mary Simkhovitch, prominent social worker, and close friend of Mrs. Roosevelt; Helen Hall, head

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Washington By Raymond Clapper

La Guardia's New Deal Principles Seen Cause for Embarrassment To Democratic Organization.

VV ASHINGTON, June 11.—By being himself as much of a New Dealer as President Roosevelt is, Mayor La Guardia of New York is causing no end of embarrassment to the Administration here. :

La Guardia stands in Farley's way. New York City elects a Mayor in the fall. Farley wants to recapture the City Government from the hands of New Dealer La Guardia and restore it to the trusty

hands of the Democratic organization. - They den’t hold anything against La Guardia here because he is a New Dealer. But they do hold it against him that he isn’t an organization Democrat. He doesn’t show the proper solicitude for taking care of the faithful. Farley hopes to strengthen the Democratic Party for the State election next year when, so it is expected, he will be wanting to :run for Governor, The people may demand it and Jim wants to be in shape to make the sacrifice, : It is going to take considerable of a bump to bounce La Guardia out of a second term. He is something of a Roosevelt and the voters seem to like his administration. Farléy recognizes that the Democrats will have to put forward a firstline candidate to stand a chance of defeating La Guardia. This isn’t a job for a party hack. The Administration’s first choice is Senator Wagner. But he prefers to stay in the Senate, where his ability and ‘loyalty to Administration principles are so outstanding that you would think nothing short of an emergency would tempt the Administration political managers to try to pull him out. It may be an emergency for Farley. Anyway Senator Wagner is not interestéd in making himself a candidate against La Guardia. ;

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i » ® 2 A HAT makes this so embarrassing for Farley is that in Washington he is vowing vengeance to Democratic Senators and Representatives who have broken with the Administration on the Supreme .Court. He feels that it is time to separate the sheep from the goats. As far as he is concerned the goats can get out and forage for themselves. Yet in New York he is out to beat a Mayor who stands shoulder to shoulder with Mr. Roosevelt. When you place this New York situation side by side with the Washington situation, it is impossible to de termine whether New Deal ideas or the Democratic organization comes first. = = 2 HE Administration follows no rule. Last year it turned against the ‘Democratic candidate for the Senate in Nebraska =het supported Senator Norris, It has always been easy on the La Follettes in their Wisconsin campaigns. yet in New Mexico the Ad ministration supported a run-of-mine Democratic politician for the Senate against the late Senator Cutting, who was such a strong Roosevelt Repub= lican that he was offered a place in the Cabinet. In Missouri the New Deal is perched on the shoulders of the Pendergast machine, or such sure vivors of it as have not yet been convicted for election frauds. The President and Farley would be happier if La Guardia were a Tory of the most unregenerate stripe. Then they could move in to turn him out “because of his principles, instead of in spite of them, and there would be no need to take the pains of using a stiletto. They could swing a meat cleaver in broad daylight.

The Washington Merry-Go-Round

Basque Children to State Department; Restaurant Run by Rum-Making Bureau.

Miss Perkins brought along her young daughter, who barged into the conversation in support of her mother, “The Basque children should be kept nearer their home,” she opined sagely. Finally, Miss Perkins passed the buck back to the State Department. And on its sedate doorstep the Basque babies now rest. Ir » ” 2 8

HE several hundred delegates to the W. C. T.\U, convention had a hard time finding an acceptable place to eat, during their first day in Washington,

This was not due to a dearth of Capital restaurants, nor because they were overly busy. Difficulty was that the women drys would not patronize dining places which serve aléoholic beverages. Since most of the restaurants sell at least beer, this confronted the white ribboners with a real dilemma. vo After a frantic search, however, they finally dis covered that the restayrant of the Interior Departthan tea and coffee. angle to the Ww. C. T. U.

t. The Department is ng “Go nt House”