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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 23, 1937

BLACK EYES AND TAXES AMES J. BRADDOCK, who three years ago was on the relief rolls, cleared an estimated $300,000 last night. But it is his last big money. He's through. Of that $360,000 the Federal Government will take approximately $160,000. Let us assume, for purpose of comparison, that Braddock trained 12 years in the arena for last night's big take, and let us ignore the fact that his manager gets a chunk of it.

And then let us contrast his experience with the Federal income-tax collector with the experience of a flabby-muscled coupon clipper who lives on unearned income—a man whose stock dividends and bond coupons net him $25,000 a year for 12 years. The latter pays each year a Federal income of $2545. In 12 years his total income is $300,000 and his total tax is 12 times $2545— $30,540. Braddock’s $300,000 lump, earned by sweat and blood and bruises and punishment is taxed $160,000. The coupon clipper’s $300,000, spread out so he never experienced the mortification of having to go on relief, is taxed $30,540. And if the latter happens to have his money invested in tax-exempt securities, instead of in private corporate enterprises, he pays no tax whatever. We probably wouldn't have thought of this, except that the question of morals and equity and taxation happens to be a very popular topic nowadays.

‘AS LITTLE CHILDREN

Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted and be-. come as little. children ye shall not enter the Kingdom of

Hecven—Matthew 18-3.

IR JAMES M. BARRIE died in London last week at the

age of 77. But he never was a grown-up, much less an; old man. He ‘saw life through the eyes of a child.” At his deathbed were middle-aged Peter and Nicholas Davies, brothers whom Barrie adopted aftdr Peter as a child in-| spired him to write his immortal play of youth, “Peter Pan.” Like a child he was full of life’s wonder. loved fun and play, although he had a rare and adult sense

of humor. Like a child he was sentimental, believing that!

“an artist without sentiment is a painter without color.”

Like a child he was adventurous, not in worldly deeds but

in that illimitable cosmos of the spirit, where only those with imagination may roam. : | Even the thought of death thrilled him. “To die,” said Peter Pan, “would be an awfully big adventure.” |

JOE ROBINSON'S MOTIVE | FTER fighting the New Deal's battles on every major issue in the last four years, Senator Joe Robinson of Arkansas now opposes the Administration on a relatively minor issue. : | He advocates requiring local communities to contribute 25 per cent of the cost of their WPA work-relief projects, if they can. | Washington, which suspects hidden political motives for everything, is wondering about Senator Robinson's motive. Maybe, it is suggested, he is deserting the New Deal. Maybe he has learned that he isn’t going to get that Supreme Court appointment. “We don’t wish to appear naive. But isn’t it possifle that Senator Robinson’s motive may be simply what he says it is; namely, to protect the Federal Government's credit=by trying to correct a system which literally invites the local governments to compete with each other in getting all they can from the Federal Treasury?

IT’S A PLOT

E view with alarm the restless activity of those Soviet scientists who are camping out at the North Pole. Now they have lowered a bucket through the 10-foot ice flow on which their tents are pitched, and have brought up a sample of greenish-gray silt from the 14,070-foot ocean depth. We suspect a red Russian conspiracy against Santa Claus. Come Christmas again, how are American parents ever going to preserve the happy legend? What child will believe in a magic toy shop and a stable of reindeer floating around on ice above 14,070 feet of cold salt water and a sea bottom of greenish-gray silt?

CENSORSHIP IN ACTION

E have heard people advocate Government censorship of newspapers “to keep them from printing things that are not true.” So we are interested in an example of how censorship actualiy operates. In Berlin the Nazi newspaper Der Angriff devoted a full page to depicting John L. Lewis as America’s “Red Napoleon.” A photograph of Mr. Lewis reclining in a chair was captioned, “A picture which United States papers are not allowed to print’—although it has been widely circulated in an American magazine. Another was captioned, “Lewis shields his colleague, the female ‘minister of labor’ of America, Perkins, from nosy photographers” —although the woman in the picture is not Secretary Perkins, but Mr. Lewis’ daughter. A third, showing Mr. Lewis seated beside Gen. Hugh Johnson, was captioned, “At an anti-Nazi meeting, the trade-union leader is seen with a high official of the Government in the front row.” Many Germans, reading Der Angriff, will get a false impression of what is happening in America. The purpose of the Nazi censors was to give them a false impression. Uncensored newspapers have been known to print things that were not true. But far move harm is done when government, to mislead the governed, suppresses truth and compels publication of untruth. And government censorship always results in that.

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Fair Enough

By Westbrook Pegler

Louis' Victory Over Braddock May Stir Diplomatic Affair With Nazis Over Schmeling, Writer Suggests

HICAGO, June 23.—With a soggy right smash to the chin, Joe Louis, the sul-phur-colored Negro boy from Detroit knocked out Jimmy ‘Braddock in the eighth round of their fight at Comiskey’s ball yard on the South Side, of Chicago. This made Louis heavyweight champion of the world with the small but very confusing exception of Max Schmeling, the official state gladiator of Nazi Germany. - Mr.

Schmeling knocked out Louis in 12 rounds a year ago and public opinion may regard him as champion, or create for him some special title to acknowledge his superior rank. The situation is not exactly new in the prize fight business as there have heen many champions in various classes who had been beaten previously by other fighters whom they preferred to ignore after winning their titles. The difference in the present case is that p< A Schmeling has been taken up offi- 8 cially by Adolf Hitler and Joe Goebbels, the State Minister of Mr. Pegler Propaganda who appreciated the battler only after he had beaten Louis in New York. Up to that time they had disowned him, for previously he had been knocked out by Max Baer. When Schmeling came over to fight Louis, the American sport | journalists, and _ Hitler, himself, thought he would ne beaten soundly, for he had shown nothing to indicate otherwise. Hitler and Goebbels wanted no part of a man who had been knocked out by a non-Aryan and who seemed pretty sure to be flattened by Louis, so they withheld recognition of Schmeling until the returns were in. Promptly thereafter they discovered he was a pure Aryan, although Herr Schmeling, pointing to his high cheek bones, narrow eyes and coarse dark hair, orice said he thought he might have an ancient Mongol strain in his make-up.

”n " ” HER and Goebbels also learned that Schmeling was a fine example for the Nazi youth, and he was taken up in a formal way by the politicians of Berlin. Now the Nazi Government even may resort to diplomatic usage to compel the American public and press to acknowledge Schmeling as champion, for the Reich is the first state in the world so hard put for honcrs as to regard the title as a valuable national asset. However, if Schmeling’s victory over Louis is to be insisted upon, a similar though somewhat less pressing argument could be made against his claim on the ground he never did revoke the knockout he suffered at the hands of Mr. Baer. It goes into involvements, and unfortunately the State Department has no A i experts on the matter of prize fight tradition. If Hitler and Goebbels insist on making an issue they will find they are up against the law of a proud American state, namely Illinois," whose official prizefight commission, having its own seal and lawful powers, decreed the title should he at stake and the winner should be champion of the world. ” ” ” RADDOCK put Louis down for an instant in the first round with a right to the chin and won the first two rounds while his strength was up. He lost every round thereafter, however, and was badly shaken several times by Louis’ right-hand shots at the face before the final one dropped him unconscious. He was so badly stunned he couldn't even struggle to get his legs under him. It has been estimated that after he has paid off his managers, handlers, lawyers and miscellaneous help and showered down .his income taxes calculated in high brackets on one iarge fiscal year he will have only $66,000.

The Hoosier Forum

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

URGES EDUCATION IN HUMAN RELATIONS By G. B. Hetrick, Elwood Since I make my own living at a very modest occupation, which also creates my environment, and since I am a member of the social body, I must go with it regardless of consequences. A newspaper article headed “Science Urged for Sociology” tells

a volume for the safety of human life. We act in conformity with evolutionary tendencies in mechanical skill, We need a like skill in scientific methods in solving human relations. Millions of dollars are spent on education to serve capitalism, but little is spent scientifically to preserve the social body. This would do away entirely with the cause of the concentration of wealth, which in turn causes lack of purchasing power which makes depression, debts, death, and destruction instead of peace, comfort and happiness, and intellectual and moral development. This can be done by education in social science instead of a knock-down-and-drag-out method of destruction—by an equal distribution of wealth according to intellectual and physical labor performed, discovered by competition in the efficiency of the individual. Even the most common useful labor now with machinery can produce the common necessaries of life far more than we all can use. Why fight and kill to get it all for a few that can’t use it?

2 ” EJ WANTS INCH TO BE REALLY AN INCH By Helpful Something must be done about the inch. I've learned from reports of the National Congress on Weights

‘and Measures that the inch is not

an inch. At least, I think that’s what I've learned, and I'm right bothered. ] Anyway, I'm sure that the American inch and the British inch don’t agree. The American inch 1s a teeny bit more than 2.54 centimeters long, and the British inch is a teeny bit less. So the American inch is about 28 millionths of a centimeter longer than the British inch. I'll tell you why some other time. Twenty-eight millionths of a centimeter isn’t much? That's what you think. It amounts (if my arithmetic is right) to more than two centimeters in 10 miles. -And if you still think that isn’t much, just imagine an Englishman buying something 10 miles long in American inches and trying to fit it into a space 10 miles long in British inches. Things like that raise Ned with international trade and cause all sorts of trouble. If we and our British cousins would forget inches and do all our measuring in centimeters, like the French, everything would . be all

General Hugh Johnson Says—

With World Waiting for Roosevelt's Chat on Spreading Out the More Abundant Life, Possible Ways of Accomplishment Are Worthy of Study.

ASHINGTON, June 23.—The world is waiting for the sunrise of the President's approaching air-cooled fireside chat. It is expected to show how we can spread the more abundant life to the onethird of us who get the least income. Presumably this is to be done by taking it away from the two-

.thirds who get the most—which is exactly Huey

Long's ‘“share-the-wealth.”

Huey proposed it but couldn't show how to do it. Maybe what Huey couldn't tell us in a million words, the President will reveal in one summer session at the fireside, but I dunno. It is a formula for which mankind has been vainly groping for a long, long time. The Great Physician said: “Ye have the poor always with you,” but that didn’t deter the Great Engineer from setting out to “abolish poverty.” It is a purpose noble in motive. The only question is “how to do it?” The “take it away from two and give it to one” idea isn’t a very good political formula. It might lose by a 2-to-1 majority, Let's consider it on another basis. : | 8 2 8 WEN national income was about 77 billions, the - lowest. 42 per cent of us got only about 10 billions of it—less than $870 a family. "The highest 58 per cent got 67 billions, or $4200 a family. To shift enough to the lower 42 per cent to make somewhere around the Third New Deal goal of $2400 a year, you would have to take from the upper 58 per cent about

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right, because a centimeter is a centimeter no matter where you find it. But, being sentimentally attached to the inch, even if it isn't quite what it ought to be, we won't give it up. So the next best thing is to pass a law to fix whatever it is that’s wrong with the that's what the National Bureau of Standards proposes. It is asking Congress to adopt a bill defining legal standards of weights and measures. The bill would compel an American inch to be exactly 2.54 centimeters long, no more, no less. Then if the British will compel their inch to be exactly 2.54 centimeters long, too—and now that they've got King George crowned and ex-King Edward married they surely can find time to attend to the inch—why, this problem will be solved, and it will be one of the few problems ever solved by passing a law. \ n 8 on MAKE UNIONS BENEFICIAL, BULL MOOSER. PLEADS

By Bull Mooser, Crawfordsville

This is the age of co-operation and large organization. Big business and big industry are here to stay. In the same manner, labor unions are here to stay. It is time that we give up fighting unionization and give our minds to the problem of making labor unions a benefit instead of a curse to our civilization. In this respect,

YELLOW STARS IN GRASS

(Dandelion Motif) By KEN HUGHES Today I held a miracle Within my hands— Hard and dirty hands toc hold Ingenuity of plans Of God. Velvet to the touch, And yellow light, As if the sun dropped Her hot stars for grass and night.

DAILY THOUGHT

Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there has been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law.—Galatians 3:21.

the American

1= a man try faithfully, manfully to be right, he will daily grow more and more right. It is at the bottom of the condition on which all men have to cultivate themselves.—Carlyle.

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press has a great responsibility. It can do a great deal, if it will, toward directing the course of labor organization in this country. The future development of labor unions will be according to what is expected of them: The press has the responsibility of pointing out the way to labor unions. Newspapers like The Times are to be commended for holding constantly before the public what good can be accomplished by such unions as the railroad unions. But' why don’t some of these newspapers discuss medical care, sickness and accident insurance, and some of the other activities which the unions better than anyone else can put into effect?

# zn = YOUNGSTERS’ IDEAS ON | SAFETY LISTED

By George E. Currier. National Safety Council

What do youngsters think about traffic accidents? Pittsburgh asked. To a questionnaire to 18,000 public high school students, these answers, reported by the Pittsburgh Betler Traffic Committee: 1. Young Pittsburghers don't believe “thumbing a ride” is begging. Nor, when driving, is fear of holdup by picked-up hitchhikers very great. 2. They would reduce accidents by making drivers safer, then highways safer, and lastly, cars safer. They appraise the modern car, well maintained, as a safe machine when operated by a careful driver over safe highways. 3. If Smoky City students were dictators, they would teach safe driving by emphasizing, in order: Knowledge of laws, attitude toward laws, ‘actual driving practice, and mechanical knowledge of the car. Autos, they say, are becoming recognized as household devices, like vacuum cleaners, and “what we want to know is how to run them, not what makes -them tick.” 4. Appreciative of the danger of nixing gasoline and alcohol, these high school students emphasized the physiological more than the psychological effects of liquor. Warping of judgment of distance and muscular co-ordination they viewed as more important than lowering the sense of social responsibility. . 2 2 ” SUGGESTS WAR BEST FOR SOVIET GENERALS By D. K. Neither side in the Spanish war has used gas. The same can't be said of U. S. strikes. ... Toward a classless world: Russia is “liquidating” her army generals. Looks as if a Russia general would be safer in a war. . . . British Conservatives probably wish the people would * forget Edward as easily as they forgot the war debt. ... Why have Father's Day on Sunday? Hardly anybody gets paid then.

It Seems to Me

By Heywood Broun

St. Louis Paper Is Praisecfjfor Its Enterprise in Discovering’ Films Showing Pelice in Action at Chicago.

NEW YORK, June 23.—The St. Louis Post-Dispatch deserves praise for its enterprise in discovering the suppressed newsreel of the Memorial Day rioting at Chicago. I hope the paper will receive in due course of time a Pulitzer award. It is quite possible that the police brutality shown by the picture marks a new record in savagery, and yet I think that some of our daily journals are a little naive in expressions of surprise. The New York Herald Tribune, ‘although 1t reprinted the Post= Dispatch story early, still professes to be bewildered. The _ editorial page prefers to call the affair a “riot” instead of a “massacre.” In seeking a way out it suggests that there may have been ‘shouting from the crowd.” Seemingly some of those who were shot down were guilty of moaning. ” 8 3

WILL admit that police fury under certain circumstances does remain a little puzzling even if one happens to have observed it many times. I am no cop baiter, and in 48 years I have only been arrested twice. One of my closest friends was a po= liceman for many years before he became a motion picture juvenile. Plenty of policemen are pleasant, mild and agree< able if you meet them singly or in groups of not mora than two or three at a time. In spite of terrorism - as flagrant as that which occurred in Chicago I still believe that the blame does not lie wholly at the door of any individual “officer of the law” or even the whole squad which evidenily went beserk. Not only in this country but pretty much all over the world, some policemen seem to be warped by the tradition which has been established. A man on the force is discouraged from having any social consciols= ness whatsoever. There have been several instances in American labor disputes of militiamen refusing to battle with strikers, hecause they ‘felt that the cause of the employees was just.

s un ” UT policemen ars rigorously required to know. nothing ‘and think nothing about economic prohe lems. His age-old mission has been to protect prope erty rights, and some superiors see to it that they do not get interested in human rights. That was why the Boston police strike caused such consternation among the conservatives. If Mr.x Coolidge had not broken it, or seemed to do so, e Boston cops by discussing their own rights would soon have come to a lively realization of the rights and problems of others in low pay occupations. ; If there is to be a fundamental approacn to ‘the police issue, and the protection of citizens against death or injury while in the pursuit of their lawful occupation, it must center in a campaign of education, At the least, policemen should be much better ine

formed as to the legal rights of citizens. The Herald Tribune thinks that the Chicago police may have been thinking all the way back to the Haymarket tragedy. That's a pretty lecng way back for a modern cop to remember. Indeed, it any shadow of defense can be found for.the police who participated in this recent affair it can be no more than the assertion that some part of the blame lies at the door of puklic men who have uttered glib phrases about there being a lot of law at the end of a night stick and similar things which tend to make ‘preservers of the peace” the cruel violence of “vigilantes.”

Mr. Broun

The Washington Merry-Go-Round

Roosevelt's Fish Fry Seen Result of Undercover Sniping in Congress, And Will Be Opportunity to Show Determination to Win Court Battle.

18 billions a year in taxes and give it to the lower bracketeers. They would then have 28 billions or a little more than $2400 per year per family. The upper 58 per cent would then have 49 billions or a little more

than $3600 a year per family. To push these figures a little further: Instead of $2 of average income in the low brackets to $3 in the high, you could make average income in both brackets equal. Just tax the families in the upper half 28 billions a year and give it to the’lower. Everybody would receive $2800 a year and what would you have? You would have communism, complete and pure. If the principle is ever adopted at all, what argument would there be for not going the whole way? If national income is to be put in a pool and divided up on any rule—what other rule could be defended except the rule of equality? " ” 3 = F course, the whole idea is absolutely ga-ga. Income is goods and services produced. The power to tax is the power to destroy. When the new two-chicken plan is disclosed, it may be very different. The above seems to be Mr. Hopkins’ philosophy, and he is now the Administration's foremost economist. But there is another and very different magic brewing in the Washington witches’ cauldron. It is known, in the ‘purple silences, as the Ezekiel Plan. We will look at that next. ° :

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By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen

ASHINGTON, June 23.—The President's goodwilling with Democratic members of Congress this week-end at Jefferson Island is important, but

not momentous. It is important first as an indication that the President finally has realized that, between an incompetent personal secretariat and an inadequate liaison with Congress, he has lost contact with his host on Capitol Hill and as a result is being subjected to a lot of needless undercover sniping. The adverse vote on his Court bill in the Senate Judiciary Committee, and the revolt in the House on the relief appropriation jerked him up short.’

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HE week-end of good-fellowing is also important as a tactical maneuver in the Supreme Court fight. The impressions and information Roosevelt gathers from his chats and conferences may determine his strategy in the impending Senate battle on the issue. At the same time he will put across the fact that he is determined on a showdown regardless of the outcome. The opposition has raised much doubt among the President's followers concerning his firmness on the Court legislation. The week-end will give him plenty of chance to make his attitude clearly known.

There has been considerable master-minding on how the get-together may determine the fate of the : Democratic Party, may show whether there will be a split or the President will succeed in wooing the dise

sidents back, to the fold. This is a lot of day-dreaming. To begin with, the differences that separate the President and his Deme= ocratic foes are too fundamental and. deep to be patched up at a few days of open-air fraternizing. Secondly, he has no desire to make peace with them. Three months ago he might have. Today a strong personal feeling bars that. If bolters want to split off from the party that is okay with him. ” » 2

OOSEVELT and his political master minds bee lieve that Bailey of North Carolina, Wheeler of Montana, VanNuys of Indiana, Burke of Nebraska and the other oppositionists do not represent either party or popular opinion in their states or the country at large, and that if it comes to a test of strength they will take the count. The President now welcomes such a test. That explains his stiff-necked attitude toward suggestions that he drop the Court fight, and his statement to intimates that if he is licked in the Senate he will renew the issue when Congress reconvenes in Janudry, and force it into next year’s congressional elections. That is the way the President feels—and the anti Administrationites know it. Which is’ why most them will have “other engagements” this week-end.

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