Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 June 1937 — Page 14
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TUESDAY, JUNE 15, 1937
ACT BEFORE THE CRISIS
HE stage is set at Youngstown and other steel centers -
for the greatest industrial war in our history. An incident may touch it off at any minute. There is nothing to be gained by denying the gravity of the situation. One of ‘the most dangerous conflicts in our history is now raging between opponents who are bitterly hostile
although separated only by one question of technical nature.
: Were there some big, fundamental difference—such as union recognition, rates of pay, hours and conditions of employment——it would be easier to understand such a gigantic conflict. If the resisting companies were not even willing to deal with a union—as has happened so often in the past—the fight would at least have normal aspects. But here the companies say they will meet the union and will bargain collectively as required by law—but they just won’t put in writing the conclusions growing out of such bargaining. The difference is too slight, the point too technical, to justify what is now happening. : Mistakes and misdeeds of the past, on both sides, cannot justify this peli-mell rush toward bloodshed. Blind stubbornness cannot be permitted to retard recovery and plunge great sections of the country into costly conflict. We believe the tire has come when President Roosevelt will have to throw the tremendous weight of his office behind peace efforts. Apparently nothing else can avert the violence which apparently is approaching. Therefore we urge him to do so before the worst has come.
THE JUDICIARY REPORT
HE report of the Senate Judiciary Committee on the President’s Supreme Couft proposal is a document which we wish every citizen would read in full. A copy can be obtained by writing to your Congressman. Not merely because of the way the proposal is blistered —as “needless, futile and utterly dangerous” —is the report one which will rank among the great state papers of all time. But rather, in terms of the long haul, because of the background it gives—its presentation ‘of what our three-branch form of government is all about. The point of it, in its larger and far-reaching sense, is the danger of unbalance, the peril to our very national existence of reposing power in a manner to make subservient
any one,of the supposedly equal and co-ordinate divigions
-through which our democracy functions. “Today,” says the report, “it may be: the Court which is charged with forgetting its constitutional duties. Tomorrow 1t may be the Congress. The next day it may be the executive. If we yield to temptation now to lay the lash upon the Court, we are only cole when others how lo apply 1t to ourselves and to the people when the occasion seems to warrant . .. “1f this bill be supported by the toilers of this cade y upon the ground that they want a court which will sustain legislation limiting hours and providing minimum wages, they must remember that the procedure employed in the bill could be used in another Administration to lengthen hours and decrease wages. . “The courts are not pertect, nor are the judges. The Congress 1s not perfect, nor are Senators and Representatives. ‘The executive is not perfect. These branches of government and the offices under them are filled by human beings who for the most part strive to live up to the dignity and idealism of a system that was designed to achieve the greatest possible measure of justice and freedom for all the people. We shall destroy the system when we reduce it to the imperfect standards of the men who operate it. “Personal government, or government by any individual, means autocratic dominanee, hy whatever name it may be designated. Autocratic dominance was the very thing against which the Colonies revolted and to prevent which the Constitution was in every particular formed . . . “If interference with the judgment of an independent judiciary is to be countenanced in any degree, then it is permitted and sanctioned in all degrees. There is no con-
stituted power to say where the degree ends or begins, and |
the political administration of the hour may apply the essential ‘concepts of justice’ by equipping the courts with
one strain of ‘new blood,” while the political administration
of another day may use a different light and a different blood test. Thus would influence run riot.” : ‘The particular issues of today, vital though they are, that brought on the President’s ill-starred. proposal will pass and sometime be forgotten in the rush of other events, but the philosophy as expressed in the judiciary report will live as long as our form of government endures.
LET'S GO FISHING! UR fisherman friends tell us there'll be a big midnight ~ celebration in many northern Indiana fishing regions tonight, with fireworks, clanging of bells and general commotion remindful of New Year’s,.as anglers await lomorrow’s opening of the season. The State Conservation Department reports fishing conditions are good. The fe¢ remains at $1. Organized - sportsmen ‘have helped greatly in improving streams and developing the sport. And looking toward future seasons, the State has planted more than twenty million wall-eye pike fry in Hoosier lakes and streams during recent weeks.
INFLUENZA HE great-laboratory fight against influenza that has been waged sincef-the 1918 epidemic killed 400,000 Americans is described graphically by David Dietz, Times Science Editor, in this issue. Dr. W. M. Stanley, Rockefeller Institute scientist whose work Mr. Dietz says may produce the key to the problem, is a 32-year-old Hoosier, native of Ridgevilie, Ind. His achievements form just one important phase of science’s battle against disease as described in “Soldiers of Humanity,” beginning today on
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Town Citizens Reported Up in Arms After That Government Man Drops In to Insist on Farm-to-Market Road.
JPOUNDRIDGE, N. Y,, June 15.—That man from the Government has been around again in our neighborhood, away from it all up the country, insisting that we need a farm-to-market road, and our citizens are up
in arms about the matter. He was around a couple of years ago, and we chased him off, but he curled his lip in a sinister leer as he went and said: “Thou haven't heard the last of this, my fine
Nobody can defy the United States Government.” We all thought the matter had just been allowed to drop, but apparently someone has been going ovei®some old papers in Washington and that man is here again. We haven't got any farms up here away from it all, and the grocery store at the center buys
| its tomatoes and parsley and such | things from the big market in
New York, but the man claims we have got to have a farm-to-
market road, even if he has to Mr. Pegler
build a market himself.
The neighbors don't want the road, because it would draw traffic to their seclusion, which is what they came to the community for, and the supervisors are playing the chill for the proposition, because the town would have to pay for the land, which would run up the taxes and get them in wrong with the voters. Some of the neighbors knowing that I go down to Washington pretty often have called around to ask if I can’t use a little pull to get that man called off and sent to South Dakota with his farm-to-market road, but you can just imagine what drag I have after needling Mr. Big about his income tax exemptions and Jim Farley about the political jobholders stuck away in soft jobs. I used to get that occasional friendly letter from Harold Ickes, but the last time 1 saw him at the Gridiron dinner he pulled a sour puss on me and walked away, so I guess he must be sore, too. So, probably, if I should go around trying-to get them to call off that man and drop his farm-to-market, road into some state that has a farm and a market
"they would call a huddle and build another Golden
Gate bridge in front of my place. - ” ” - HIS farm-to-market road is going to cost $100,000 or so, as near as we can figure, and we are fixing to build a new school ‘which would cost just that, so I said to one of the boys on the Town Board, “Wny don’t you ask the guy to skip the road and build the school instead?” But he said, “No, I asked him about that, but he says it has got to be a road, and it has got to have a farm at one end and a market at the other. So I told him we didn't have any farm or any market, and he said, ‘One radish is a farm, if it comes to that, and one roadside stand is a market, if it buys the radish, so don’t be trying to evade the law with technicalities having the color of legality. That is the way with you rich all the time. You haven't got the first instinct of good citizenship, Irving to sabotage our beloved President.’ ” . ” ” 2 E found several places where they were growing a tomato or a corn and claimed these were all farms, but our people got a lawyer and made affidavits [that these were pets, and there was a ruling of the Supreme Court that amateur vegetables do not
constitute farming in the meaning of the law.
Citizenship. and government are getting terribly complicated anyway. About tliat school, the way I
understand it, we were going to build a nice school for $40,000, but somebody discovered- that the State won't share the burden unless you spend at least $50,000 for the school. So I suppose we are going to build a. $100,000 school instcad of the $40,000 one and load the poor kids down with two and a half times as much education as they need, and probably give them brain fever. It’s always something, isn’t it?
The Hoosier Forum
1 wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.— Voltaire.
DECLARES ‘BOOZE” IS REAL CAUSE OF AUTO TOLL By H. S. Bonsib
On the safety question, I agree with Judge Weir when he says in the Hoosier Forum: ‘““As a mere sug-
gestion, why could not every or-|
ganized club, civic body or even church, interested in the cost of government, and the saving of life, appoint a committee of one to meet with others so appointed, the whole to constitute a federated body charged with the duty to devise and present to the public remedial methods, and to put them into execution.” | All this is good as far as it goes, but it does not go far enough—the Legislature and Congress should also act on this matter and shut off the real cause—‘booze”’—which blurs the vision and affects the nerves and is responsible for many of the automobile, accidents and “death tolls, and which unfits a man in every way-—ruins the body, damns the soul, and corrupts politics. Is it not high time to realize the bad bargain we have been let in for, and set out to right this terrible wrong? Elect a° government that will put beverage alcohol in the category with opium, cocaine, and morphine and adopt the same drastic means to repress its manufacture and sale. | It is high time the church bestir herself—cry aloud and spare not. I stand ready to do my bit, to make free speeches. If we dc not have some . action and have it soon, we will have a lot of reaction—increased wrecks and deaths.
| ” ” ” APPROVES DISCUSSION OF COUNTY CONSOLIDATION By Virginia M. Mannon I wish to commend the Indianapolis Times for the article entitled “County Consolidation Proposals in Indana Bring No Action,” which appeared June 9. It is quite true that township and county consolidation proposals in Indiana have never “got beyond the discussion stage,” but more discussion and more information concerning the economies effected by such consolidations in other states may be the means of bringing to the attention of the taxpayers the wisdom of such governmental reforms. The Indiana State Committee on Governmental Economy recommended “limiting the number of townships in a county to five.” May we hear more of what other states have accomplished along these progressive lines?
8s = ” REP. LUDLOW ADDRESSED IN OPEN LETTER By Bull Mooser, Crawfordsville
This is an open letter to Rep. Ludlow: I am no mere fault-finder. On several occasions I have defended your stand on national problems. Hence, I feel I have the right to demand a frank answer from you concerning your purpose in starting on a crusade to “keep the Government out of business.” Are you attacking TVA, flood-control, ' or what? Just how far would you go with this principle? It is so easy for one to advocate keeping Government out of business. The point is, what are you doing to make it possible for the Government to stay out of business? What legislation are you proposing to force the 20 billions of dollars of idle capital in this nation back into
(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.)
production so as to make work for the unemployed and thus make it unnecessary for the Government to go into business? We of the New Deal hate to see the Government go into business. But when even the big business propagandists admit that the present capitalistic system of financing and promoting business and industry will never be able to fulfill the responsibility of providing employment for all, what else is there to do but to ask the Government to step in and bear that portion of responsibility which private enterprise is unable to bear? Certainly you will admit that American capital has failed miserably in its responsibility to labor. Certainly, you will not attempt to justify this situation by holding that the principle of private enterprise is more sacred than the rights of the millions doomed to unemployment. Then, if you do not believe in the Government going into business, what reforms are you proposing for the present system of capitalism so as to, make that system capable of meeting the responsibility of providing employment for all?
” ” 2 TWO COMMAS CAUSE DISPUTE OVER COURT By W. i. Ba'lard, Syracuse, Ind. President Roosevelt and his courtplan opponents accuse each other of destroying Americanism. I wonder whether they are co-operating in such a destructive function, based on the following facts: Last Feb. 15, a Chicago newspaper printed a leading editorial opposing the court plan, quoting the “doctrine of the case” from a Supreme Court decision, Pierce vs. Society, decided in 1925, in the following unpunctuated sentence from Justice McReynolds’ opinion: : “The fundamental theory of liberty on which all governments in this Union repose excludes the pow-
er of the State to standardize its children by forcing them to accept
CONTEMPLATION
By K. HUGHES Never pause to feel— ° Never hold life real; Dreams may drift Like fragile cloud Or fall in cooling shrouds - Of rain upon the earth. Ever live in God, Ever common sod, If you would live!
DAILY THOUGHT
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchers, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men’s bones, and of all uncleanness.— Matthew 23:27.
OW little do they see what is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems.— Southey.
instruction + from public teachers only.”
Two Commas Added
9 But the editorial admittedly changed the language of the Court hy adding two, commas, as follows: “The fundamental theory of liberry, ernments in this Union repose, (comma) excludes” -etc.
The newspaper’s editorial department claims the use of the commas was an “inadvertence,” even when confronted with specific, typewritten opinions by authorities on English and on law from great universities; and they decline publiciy to mention the subject again or to correct the “error.”
Meanwhile, I sent a letter to James Roosevelt, White House, Washington, detailing the whole matter. In reply I received, a month ago, only a colorless little acknowledgement, indicating my letter went into the waste hasket. The Court could not introduce
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out destroying the Constitution, which sets up a strictly “limited democracy” called “The Republic,” analogous to “limited monarchy.” The Court thereby had to and did admit that the “fundamental theory of liberty” is a compound thing embracing various “theories of liberty” only one of which is set up in the Constitution, to wit: The “limited”
Republican democracy — democracy
in Government. Sense of Opinion Altered
But the newspaper court-plan opponent, while professing to defend the Court, the Constitution and Americanism; blithely introduced the commas into the text of the Supreme Court opinion, destroying the Constitution itself and misrepresenting the Court, to enhance the paper's own extra-legal “ism.” Then the White House, with full knowledge, did nothing to avail itself of, or to broadcast, this index to its court-plan’ opponents’ mental complex. Ergo, do they not work together for a common destructive end?
#.80 mn ENGLISH PRETENDER ADVISED ON DIET
By Daniel Francis Clancy. Logansport The Tudor pretender to the English throne,” a former Californian and ex-policeman, was taken ill on Coronation Day because of too much rhubarb .and cream. Like the Republicans who ‘hope to come into their own, His Future Majesty King Anthony I hopes to come into his throne in 1940. With H. F. M.’s permission, I should like to aavise nim: That rhubarb and cream for the royal hunger and thirst Had best be avoided. Why, any one versed In the effects of foods will tell you they've found It will make e’en the commonest heads go round. So lay off it, my boy, for it'll get you down— And you gotta keep your ‘ealth if yer wanna get the crown!
#2 8 =» SEES NEED FOR SAFETY ZONE
By H. L. J. 3 I am in favor of a safety zone at the corner of Carrollton and Massachusetts Aves. the only car stop without a safety zone between 10th St. and downtown. There has been many a close call as people get off busses and the traffic moves by just as if there were a safety zone there.
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Washington
By Raymond Clapper
ASHINGTON, June 15.—It isn’t quite clear who is supposed to speak for the. Republican Party——whether Hoover, who is its last or at least most recent President; or Landon, who is its most recent candidate; or
dued; or House Republican Leacer Snell, whose £ttempts to be heard are drowned out by the noisier
lican Governors who are leit after. thee successive Democratic hurricanes. Anyway, one of the Republican Governors has stepped in to break the silence, Mr. George Aiken- of good old safe and sane Vermont.
must do to come back. It must, he said in al speech a few cays ago, begin to represent the coms= mon people again. He sounded » . Clanper only Vermont but the Republican Party back into ithe Union. “We must,” he said, “get it out of the heads of the voters that we are the official organization of the holding companies and the speculators.
000,000 campaign fund is going to do us one bit: of - good in 1940. If the Republican Party does not appeal” to the millions of loyal but nonpartisan citizens of’ our country then there will be no recourse for those citizens except to organize a new party. It is high time for the Republican Party to discale the tall hat and get itself a blue shirt.”
Governor Aiken said some of the party leadership never can represent the ordinary [fellow because they don’t know and never will know how he thinks. Leaders of the new Republicans, he said, must take orders from no one but the American people.
He believes that thousands of voters are tired of experimentation to stop for a while, want to salvage
ernment. ‘ ‘iv *I believe,” he added, “that the Republican Party can put itself in a position to merit the confidence of these voters—or it can take its place on Page 319 of the schoolboys history book.”
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Union, many students of political trends question,
whether it is not too late. A considerable amount of opinion here sees the possibility of a realignment which will break up the unhealthy overgrowth of the Democratic Party. Where the pieces would fall, and into what patterns, nobody has much idea. It is idle to speculate, for in such matters events. have their own way of making history in total dis~_ regard of the most careful prophecies. Rare is the:
edly from behind. | All that can be seen now is a strong reach by conservative Democratic politicians to seize control. of. the Democratic Party when Roosevelt retires and on the other side an equally intense determination by - labor and left-wingers to develop a powerful national organization. ” ” ” E OST menacing to the Republican Party's longsrange future is the young voter, reaching ballot age at the rate of about 1,000,000 a year. Dr. George Gallup, of the American Institute of Public Opinion, says these young voters assay 53 per cent Democraticand only 26 per cent Republican. Three per cent are Socialist’ and 18 per cent independent. Right now they run, he says, pretty much for the New Deal program. Maybe they are young and inexperienced and are foolishly throwing away their birthright of liberty and all of that, but they want what they want and that isn’t the Grand Old Party. “It looks as if the G. O. P. is going to run out of. voters if it lives long enough. Right now it hasn't. many more voters than the Democratic Party ‘has’
candidates for the nomination in 1940.
General Hugh Johnson Says —
He Is Not Guilty of Charge That the Column Absolving President From Recent Legislative Moves Was Written With His Tongue in His Cheek.
EW YORK, June 15.—This column is accused of writing “with its tongue in its cheek” when, in deducing from the whole combination of recent legislative proposals an intent to wreck our form of government, it absolved the President. It pleads not guilty. ’ Mr. Roosevelt came into office on a pledge to restore balance in our economic structure. He proposed to do that by sharing up the depressed segments and leveling off the exaggerated peaks. Agriculture, deliberately prejudiced by our tariff policy, was one low point. The organization ef labor had lagged far be-,
hind the astonishing recent organization of industry.
This was another low spot. Abuses in banking, securities and public utilities fields were obviously’ re= sponsible for much of the 1929 catastrophe. Big business had for decades sat in the principal places at the (White House council table.
to recognize that ours is a Government of all the people. In the statement of these purposes, this writer had some part, and for their brilliant accomplishment by the President, this column has had nothing but praise. Throughout this whole development up to the beginning of the current year, there was never disSioted any poisonous resentment of the profit, capital democratic system as such. There never. was revealed any impatience with constitutional restraints
” ¥ = 4 oO" this very quesgjon of the Wages-and- Hours Bill, the Pre nt’s own draft was said to be an honest, str forward two-page simplicity. This
The Washington Merry-Go-Round
Peace Advocates Would Make June 15 National 'Keep-Out-of-War' Day;
International Angle Is Seen
( Mr. Roosevelt was |. elected to raise those valleys, reduce those peaks and
writer wouldn't know about that, except that, from intense experience, he knows Mr. Roosevelt's utter abhorrence of subtleties in statutes. His almost reckless frankness in speeches should be proof enough of that. But in the labyrinthine maze of Washington, there has always been a junta of self-styled intelligentsia. This crowd originally centered on a sprinkling of scintillating young radicals planted by. Dr. Felix Frankfurter at various strategic points throughout the Administration. Like many another crop of dragon's teeth, or incubation of unknown eggs, they have at last out happy-hot-dogged even Felix Frankfurter, who is said now to be standing on the brink of the
Washington -pool in as much astonished and ag--
grieved amaze at his offspring, as the perturbed hen who hatched the alligator’s eggs.
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S this column has previously remarked, there is always some Scheherezade dispensing her Arabian nights entertainment, for 1001, or more or fewer, nights as the fair-haired favorite in the Dolivies) harem of Bagdad on the Potomac. Elevation of the latest political hour is exactly coincident with the adroit presentation of the Court plan, the concealed revolution in the Governmentreorganization memorandum, the brilliant obscurities of the. Black-Connery proposal, the Norris bill’s “death sentence” of the states and the red-herring tax évasion message. The cleverness of this crowd is putting over its ideas at both ends of Pennsgvania Ave. This country its greatest loss in °
e death of Louis Howe.
By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen ASHINGTON, June 15.—If a group of sincere peace advocates on Capitol Hill have their way, June 15 may become a national holiday. It would be caileg “Keep-Out-of-War-Day.” The significance of June 15 being that on this day the European nations defaulted on their war debts. These debts, in the opinion of several Senators, are more valuable as a reminder of the futility of war than they are in gold. They can become a national monument, to impress upon the American public every June 15 that wars never can be paid for, never lead to any national advantage, and only lead to other wars. At present undercover suggestions are being made from Europe for the refunding of the war debts for about 5 to 10 cents on the dollar, these amounts to be paid in goods. The sole purpose of these suggestions is to circumvent the Johnson act and borrow more money from the United States, thus rolling up an even greater sum impossible ever to pay off. In 1915 and 1916 it was the fact that the United States had lent large amounts of money to. France and Great Britain through J. P. Morgan which influenced the State Department toward war. The revelations ot the Senate Munitions Committee irrefutably showed this. z ” J 2. T= was a carefully guarded international angle in ‘the President’s sudden recommendation to Congress that it appropriate $10,000,000 to enable the Maritime Commission to begin immediate construction of a modern merchant fleet.
What the: Prefident did not reveal was the fact
Behind Roosevelt Request for Shipbuilding.
that Australia and New Zealand are trying to drive: U. S. ships from their waters. The purpose of his threat to build new vessels was to make them pull in their horns.
Several years ago the Matson Line put two new ships on its Far Eastern route, and .in a short time they. took most of the passenger trade away from their antiquated British rivals. Naturally this didn't sit well with the English. But instead of building modern ships, they resorted to other tactics.
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1.== October they put a law through the New Zealand legislature which, in effect, prohibited American ships from carrying passengers between New Zealand and Australia. The act requires the approval of the Governor Genéral and so far he has not signed it.
Meanwhile a similar bill has been introduced in the Australian legislature. ‘ American authorities have good reason to believe; that as soon as it is passed both laws will be made effective.
The State Department strenuously protusted these moves, both to the two Dominions and London, but was able to obtain no satisfaction. Then, suddenly, Sir Edward Beatty, president of the Canadian Pacific Railway, announced plans for the construction of two new liners for the Antipodes trade. The President) and the Maritime Commission cons sidered this statement a notice that the British
intend RF° through with Sep war on U. S. merchagt
Move for 'Popular’ G. O. P. Lauded As Noble Endeavor, but Observers Question Whether It Is Too Late:
Senate Republican Leader McNary, whose - New Dealward inclinations keep him somewhat sube
Ham Fish; or the seven Repube,
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waste and extravagance, fear overcentralization, want-
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ITH all due admiration for Governor Aiken’sheroic effort to goad his party back into the"
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