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THURSDAY, JUNE 17, 1937

INDIANA POLICE CHIEFS THE range of subjects covered by the Indiana Association of Police Chiefs’ convention is indicative of the widespread movement to improve police administration and technique. There is frank recognition among intelligent police officials that old procedures must be revised to keep pace with increasingly complex problems. Probably the outstanding advance has been in the field of police training, with university courses, short-course schools and departmental training schools. But despite specialized traffic training programs, traffic safety continues to be the greatest unsolved problem facing police administrators. Accident reduction falls in "the class of police preventive work, which is receiving increased emphasis in improved methods of combating crime. Indiana police chiefs, with this broader view of police responsibilities, can help get better results in the

future:

UNCLE SAM’S PRESS AGENTS HE new WPA administrator for Indiana, John K. Jeni : " nings, recently dismissed 27 persons who had been ‘employ ed under his predecessor in an information service —in other words, in getting various forms of publicity for WPA. | Indiana probably had a much larger WPA information service than most other states. But this single example is in to make it clear that the Brookings Institution is conservative in its estimate that the Government is spendi more than a million dollars a year for publicity. In Vashington alone, the Brookings report states, Governent agencies, not including WPA, employed more than | 00 persons in publicity work last year and paid them more

Joes $500,000. |

In three months of 1936 this Washington publicity lcorps produced 7,139,457 copies of 4794 articles and dis[tributed them to 2,280,000 persons on 3000 mailing lists. i The supplying of facts is, as the Brookings Institution says, a proper duty of the Government. 3 But obviously many Government agencies have gone far beyond the field of providing information when and as tasked for. b The Brookings Institution suggests, rather mildly, that “if possible, some controlling mechanism should be set up.” i And we agree. With this Brookings report as a guide, it | would be a fairly simple matter for President Roosevelt to ‘order Government agencies to hold their publicity output

[Frithin reasonable bounds.

LITERATURE | | HAT is said, the significance thereof, first catches | public attention, and it is only after time has mellowed the issue that the literary quality gets consideration. | So it was with “when in the course of human events,” “fourscore and seven years ago,’ and “at long last.” The [Declaration of Independence, the Gettysburg address, the | King’s abdication, live in the language long after-the tumult ‘and the shouting which called forth the expressions have ‘died and been forgotten. | Not frequently do we have a nomination to the literary ‘hall of fame. But here is one. We are told it was written ‘in council, not by one individual. Yet for conciseness, for “unity, coherence and mass,” as the English professors say, for all-round punch in arriving at what it set out to say, we think that the summary by the Senate Judiciary Committee on the Supreme Court proposal belongs with those other great documents we have mentioned. Regardless of your opinion on the Supreme Court question (and personally we believe that body learned a great lesson in a from the President’s “flank attack,” modernizing just in time to save its skin), we sumbit that summary as a job of writing which will always rank well toward the top among the masiaspledsd of the English language: “We recommend the rejection of this bill as a needless, futile, and utterly dangerous abandonment of constitutional principle. “It would not banish age from the bench nor abolish divided decisions. “It would not affect the power of any court to hold laws unconstitutional nor withdraw from kd judge the authority to issue injunctions. “It would not reduce the expense of Htigetion nor speed the decision of cases. “It is a proposal without precedent and without J ustification. “It would subjugate the courts to the will of Congress and the President and thereby destroy the independence of the judiciary, the only certain shield of individual rights. “It contains the germ of a system of centralized administration of law that would enable an executive so minded to send his judges into every judicial district in the land to sit in judgment on controversies between the Government and the citizen. “It points the way to the evasion of the Constitution and establishes the method whereby the people may be deprived of their right to pass upon all amendments of the fundamental law. ~ “It stands now before the country, acknowledged by its proponents as a plan to force judicial interpretation of

the Constitution, a proposal that violates every sacred

tradition of American democracy. “Under the form of the Constitution it seeks to do that which is unconstitutional. “Its ultimate operation would be to make this Government one of men rather than one of law, and its practical operation would be to make the Constitution what the executive or legislative branches of the Government choose to say it is—an interpretation to be changed with each change of Administration. “It is a measure which should be so emphatically ~rejected that its parallel will never ggain be presented to the free representatives of the free people of America.”

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Thinking of Cutting Inr—By Herblock

THURSDAY, JUNE 17, 1937 One Picket Line That Must Hold !—By Talburt :

Fair Enough

By Westbrook Pegler

Why Did Congressmen Who Are to Probe Tax Evasions Defeat Levy On Own Salaries? Columnist Says.

ASHINGTON, June 17.—As a preliminary to the Congressional investigation of moral and civil delinquency on the part of persons who pay no more than their legal dues under the income tax, the House

of Representatives has turned down ‘a bill which would have imposed a local income tax on the

boys themselves. The District of Columbia faces a deficit of six

_ million dollars for the coming

fiscal year, and a small income tax was proposed, among other measures, to meet the problem. This bill would have taxed the Congressmen and their secretaries, clerks and political appointees residing in Washington. Indignant cries rang through the historic

~ halls on Capitol Hill.

Incidentally, the secretaries and clerks in some cases are more or less needy relatives or political liabilities of the statesmen, who might otherwise require whole or partial support out of the members’. own pay of $10,000 a year, plus mileage and perquisites. The statesmen get an allowance of 20 cents a mile for their travel, but it is earnestly suggested that no moral or civil delinquent among the tax-paying class charges that mush in computing his costs of calling on the customers.

Mr. Pegler

” » 2 HE department also would look askance at any return which named the wife, no-good cousin or indigent brother-in-law. of the taxpayer as his secretary or clerk. Members of Congress, however, are

not required to prove that their travel costs 20 cents a mile. And all the Congressmen and their office employees, including relatives, as well as their political liabilities holding Government jobs, are exempt from state income taxes. However, Mr. Dies, a sterling statesman from Texas, issued a patriotic statement for the record that gladly would he lay down his state income tax if he were not unfortunately forbidden to do so by several rulings of the Federal Supreme Court. Mr. Dies’ heart bled openly in anguish over his constitutional incapacity to share the income tax burden of his home state of Texas, which has no state income tax anyway. Nevertheless, on principle, he declared he ‘was not willing to submit to a local income tax to save from bankruptcy the District of Cdélumbia, in which he spends much of his time enjoying the benefits of the police, the fire department and the street-cleaning services.

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NOTHER patriot who resented the proposed outrage was Congressman O'Connor of New York. Congressman O'Connor pays no salary income tax to New York State, being debarred from this spiritual joy of citizenship by the same deplorable aberrations of the Supreme Court that exempt all other Federal employees from the income ‘taxes of 32 states. But. Mr. O'Connor is eligible for a New York State pension on account of his Federal Service under a law which was enacted very, quietl§ in Albany several years ago, and so are his secretaries and his Congressional clerks.

So the statesmen of the House of Representatives sounded the moral keyncte of the inquiry into the iniquitous evasion and | avoidance of income taxes.

EW YORK, June 17. —What about this recovery business? Department of Commerce ‘“guesstimates” of 1936 national income are 64 billion dollars. That is an increase of 16 per cent over 1933. But it is still below 1929, and these figures don’t consider increase in. population. When you consider that and ask how much we produced per person, we are 20 per cent below 1920. Twenty per cent less for each person to enjoy, and much heavier taxes. Moreover, when compared with British figures, especially in heavy goods where our greatest pools of unemployment are, we are not half as far advanced. Everybody fears an inflationary boom, but these statistics don’t look much like a boom. There is a good deal of talk around the ‘pink-pur-

| lieus of the Third New Deal intelligentsia that recov-

ery should be “retarded” for two reasons: . ” » ” IRST, “social legislation comes easier when times are hard and many are unemployed and suffering than when business is good and people are earning their own livings. We are not yet through with our program of social legislation. Therefore, we‘ must retard recovery.” Second, “If there is too much recovery now the ordinary forces of business ups-and-downs would probably bring a quick peak in business and then a greater or less slump, which would strike us smack in the elections ofg1940. We should retard recovery RE. nouh to 3 it to its peak in the autumn of

> ; ® ; : The Hoosier Forum 1 wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.— Voltaire.

LISTENER DISAPPOINTED BY CORONATION HOAX

By Radio Fan

Disturbing news come from South Africa. On the day of King George's. coronation in ‘London a great “round the world” radio broadcast was . arranged to illustrate the British! Empire's homage to the new ruler.

South Africa's part of the program included expressions of loyalty from a “Rand gold miner” and a “Natal sugar planter.” As a final impressive touch listeners were told they would hear the roaring of wild lions in the jungle. But now a Cape Town newspaper has exposed the program as a hoax. The South African Broadcasting Corp. ‘has been compelled to admit that the “Rand gold miner” was, in fact, a Cape Town moving picture manager, the “Natal Sugar planter” ag sports writer, and the roars heard round the world were those of a tame Zoo lion on a phonograph record. The broadcasting corporation, of course, contends that the deception was innocent and harmless. But I'm not so sure. We who listen to radio programs must, in the realist sense, take what we get “sight unseen.” We can not know, we can only have faith, that what we hear is actually what it purports to be, and to destroy that faith may be a pretty serious thing.

If the coronation broadcast was phony, how are we to know that there wasn’t something phony about the cororiation? If the Empire’s expressions of loyalty were faked, how can we bé& sure that the loyalty is genuine? And, finding that we've been fooled by a “canned lion,” aren't we likely to develop doubts about the roaring of the British lion himself?

” 2 ” NOTES STORM SIGNAL IN WAR RISK INSURANCE By Taxpayer

President Roosevelt vetoed a bill to extend for five more years the Government “term” insurance still carried by 23,000 veterans of the Worid War. The President argued that terminsurance premiums don’t cover the actual cost of the protection, and that extra losses on term policies are paid from money really belonging to the much larger number of

veterans who have converted their

insurance into other forms. Congress passed the bill over the veto. Congress arguéd that the veterans who have converted insurance aren't objecting to giving up part of their money. They aren’t Pbjecting—ver. But a cloud no bigger than a man’s hand may be a storm signal. Senator George and Representative Rankin, leaders of the fight to override the veto, both said that

some later Congress Foon

General Hugh Johnson Says—

~ National Income Increase Fails to Indicate Dreaded Boom Is Danger * While Profits Tax Stands as Blow at Re-employment of Factory Workers.

That kind of talk is enough to give a poor strug-

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would vote money from the Treasury to reimburse holders of converted insurance for any losses due to extension of term insurance. There's the small cloud. Whether it’s a signal or an ‘invitation, it may be depended upon to grow into a storm. The holders of converted insurance will want their money back/ Senator George and Represent@itive Rankin have told them how to get it—just ask Congress for it. The taxpayers ought to be interested in watching this storm develop during the next five or 10 years. We'll have to pay for it. |

” ” 2 BELIEVES DOCTOR RIGHT IN°- MATERNITY DIAGNOSIS. By del Mundo “Sudden death of mothers in childbirth due to mistakes in judgment and errors in technique on the

part of physicians has doubled,” Dr. Thaddeus L. Montgomery of Phila-

THE STORM By OTTO KRAMER A flash! A roar! And silence reigns, But the sky a darker hue atttains. "Tis the brewing of a raging storm And windswept clouds begin to form.

Soon thunder and lightning both increase Though winds from their ravages now cease. It is the lull before the break And man and.beast for cover make.

The rain comes down in sheets of

ay, Freak winds with trees and shrubs at play; Soon streets are drenched by dashing rain;. And puddles are forming in every lane.

The sun appears! ceased! And winds, with shrieking noise > decreased, Are griving storm-clouds across the SKY, And peace and calmness reign on high.

DAILY THOUGHT

And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be.—Revelation 22:12.

H*® who wishes to : to secure the good of others has already secured his own.—Confucius.

The storm has

delphia charges in the Journal of the American Medical Association. He says, “This is the price being paid for the lessening of the pangs of childbirth—the deep amnesia and deep analgesia of current obstetrical practice. Women can be given a moderate degree of analgesia safely, but a Philadelphia survey shows that if labor Becomes a blank chapter in the mother’s life she is likely to die.” : Not being a physician, I am unable to speak with authority on this subject. But, being a student of the laws of nature, I am of the opinion that Dr. Montgomery has rendered a real service to the motherhood of America by his statement. If Dr. Montgomery will check up on the death rate of mothers at childbirth with reference to family {ncome, I think that he will find the death rate is at least double in those families having an income of $800 or less compared with families having an income of $5000 or more. This condition is due to overwork, improper food, inadequate clothing and housing conditions and inadequate professional care and attention during pregnancy.

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EDUCATION HELD BASIS

OF LABOR’'S ADVANCE By John Henry, Alexander The question asked by many men in the labor movement today is, will labor, by a democratic method, adopt a policy? If one studies the labor movement, it is difficult to determine which of two factors has been most detrimental to labor’s advancement, 2 leadership floundering in an economic mire or the employer's quixotic presumption of mine, never thine! And if we ever emerge from the mire of this struggle, to a sense of higher values, it will be due to education. For we find men in all walks of life human, “human,” all too human.” The Greens and Lewises may come and go, so may the Fords and others, but it remains for necessity and mass education to bring change. . Mr. Green and his crafts would not suffer by making common cause with the “herd.” Mr. Lewis’ C. I. O. should ever remain open to the thinker, for it was through education it came into existence. 2 2 ” NEWSPAPER LISTS “AGES OF MAN” | From the Trenton Republican-Times Evolution of a man’s ambition: To be a circus clown. To be like dad. To be a fireman. To do something noble. To get wealthy. To make ends meet. To get the old-age pension.

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It Seems to Me

By Heywood Lois

Writer, Back From Vacation, Says Travel Broadening, but Punishing; St. Louis, However, Was Hospitable.

STAMFORD, Conn., June 17.—They say

that travel broadens a person, but I find that this stretching process is also somewhat punishing. Whenever I go on any extended trip away from the farm I generally return with a notion that 10 years have been taken from my life. St. Louis, the resort which I chose for my last vacation, proved no exception to the rule save in one respect. It was a friendly place, decidedly hospitable, aithough not exactly the spot which I would select again for a complete rest. Still if I feel—and I do feel—as if I had been run over by a fleet of “heavy trucks, the fault is possibly my own. Most of the’ hardships were self-imposed. The climate of Sti Louis has been much maligned, It is salubrious. The beer is excellent, and I am told that the season of summer opera is magnificent. And yet I am still awakened by a recurrent dream in which I am trying to make a speech only to find that I have lost my voice. Undoubtedly, my unconscious .is trying tol/say in as friendly a way as possible, “You talk tog much.” Onels unconscious can't be wrong, and I am reminded that after I had made an argument in| St. Louis for three-minute speeches as opposed to five, an admirer told me, “That was an instructive lecture which you gave, and you may be interested to know that it took you only| 13 minutes.” '

Mr. Broun

n n # OWEVER, St. Louis has a habit of giving as well as taking away. Before I left the Missouri metropolis nine and a half years of the 10-year toll were restored to me. Coming out of the hotel late at night, weary of arguments and bent upon a bottle of milk and some apricots, I happened to pass by an automobile parked close to the curb. In the silent street I most distinctly heard a voice from the solitary occupant of the car

_call lout, “Hello, Sugar!” I still was bent on milk and. :

apricots and did not slacken my pace. Indeed, I did not even incline my head to discover whether the. friendly young lady:was some society girl out for a lark, nor. did I seek to ascertain whether the car was a limousine or one more humble. | 8 ” 2 N fact, I cannot tell you whether the automobile came from a union shop. My preference was to jot down the romance in my memory hook and let it go that way without further investigation. Cynics may inferm me that even ancient professions must keep up with the times and become mechanized. And it is. true that I have heard that in Miami and several . other cities those who once walked now ply their trade. by motor. I choose no such crass ditplintionl I shall always remember the fair and friendly city of St. Louis as a place where some unidentified Juliet hailed a very tired man as “Sugar,” and by that single word revived him to such an-:extent that he was able to go to a meeting early the next morning and make 10 more speeches. Naturally I am not stressing the fact that it was always the same speech. But for that matter maybe the young lady. in question was equipped with. just the one of “Hello, Sugar!” aii St. Louis is a friendly city. :

The Washington Merry-Go-Round

Wall Street Reported Boosting George C. Mathews for SEC Top. Berth; Mcintyre Inspired Letters Urging Robinson for High Court Vacancy.

gling little fellow in business or a man looking for a job the fan-tods. There is another, hard-boiled political reason for not wanting to see the recovery machine move too fast. Next year comes the midterm Congressional elections. It is invariable American history that the party which wins those elections also wins the next Presidential contest. As long as recovery lags, the [lions being poured out in relief means votes by milions

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N spite of these motives and the rather shuddersome gossip that goes the rounds, it is incredible that anybody would deliberately take one single positive action designed to block the return of prosperity.

This column doesn’t believe that. But it does believe that in this-state of mind, there might be some lassitude about taking positive action to advance it. The application of the undistributed profits tax to any small business which is either in debt, or trying to finance expansion out of earnings, isn’t just a hindrance to recovery. It is a cold stoppage of recovery on one very important front. This is the principal field for the replacement of workers displaced by machines, and this law fences it off -like a penitentiary. Payroll taxes force the replacement of men by machines. But these lawsycan’t be amended this year—later, perhaps. That r it least is deliberate.

recovery, and that |

By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen ASHINGTON, June 17.—One of the most significant undercover battles now being waged in the nation’s capital is the Wall Street drive to put across George C. Mathews as chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission. The drive is as intensive and bitter as it is secret. It is aimed primarily against William O. Douglas, adamant foe of Wall Street and the only man, in addition to Commissioner Robert E.” Healy, who has had the nerve to buck the brokers during these days of “don’t-rock-the-boat” prosperity. Mathews, Wall Street knows, is safe. He has proved it many times. He favored the adulteration of SEC registration forms. He sided with the New York Curb Exchange in its fight against the small exchanges. He always has been .found on the reactionary side during any split of the commission.

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F the President has been wondering why Pennsylvania Congressmen should write him urging the appointment of Senator. Joe: Robinson to the Supretie Court vacancy, he can find the answer right in his personal staff.

White House Secretary Marvin McIntyre secretly the 27 Penn

inspired. the levers, He sent word to

was not indicated. It is not known whether it means that Robinson is not the sure-fire bet for the place that he thinks he is, and that McIntyre is secretly.: trying to help him by putting ‘pressure on hy, President. ; ? #8 : ICHARD E. DWIGHT, prominent New York core . . poration “lawyer and former partner of Chief Justice Hughes, is a ‘principal in one of the cases brought before the Congressional Tax-Evasion Invese tigating Committee by the Treasury. : The present Hughes in the partnership is the Chief Justice's son, Charles Evans Jr, who was Solicitor General under Hoover until his fatheg.-

ascended the bench. The Government claims Dwight bought a large insurance policy from a foreign insurance corporation ~ set up in the West Indies for the express purpose of’ circumventing the tax laws. That he then borrowed a large sum of money from this company with which to pay the premiums on his policy, and deducted interest on this loan from his income tax. The Government, after an extended investigation, disallowed the deduction and assessed Dwight ap- . Droximately $250,000 in deficiency taxes. Dwight has.” off to pay this assessment in full, but the, / been aa 50 Penalties for tax