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SATURDAY, JUNE 26, 1937

ALONG THE BRINY BEACH

QVER this week-end President Roosevelt is entertaining the male Democrats of Congress on pine-clad Jefferson Island in Chesapeake Bay. They come by boatload in three

batches, one batch to a day. But let Lewis Carroll tell

about this strange party—

“0 oysters, come and walk with us!” The walrus dig beseech. “A pleasant walk, a pleasant talk “Along the briny beach . ’ Some Democrats declined the invitation—Senators Glass of Virginia, King of Utah, “The Mon” Bilbo of Mississippi, and other old-timers. The eldest oyster looked at him, But never a word he said: The eldest oyster winked his eye, And shook his heavy head— Meaning to say he did not choose To leave the oyster-bed. Subjects up for discussion include the fate of adjournment, the Supreme Court “packing” bill, wages and hours, housing, reorganization, other Administration measures, foreign affairs, labor relations, etc., ete. “The time has come,” the walrus said, “To talk of many things: “Of shoes—and ships—and sealing war— “Of cabbages and kings— “And why the sea is boiling hot— “And whether pigs have wings.” : Some of the guests are rebellious, some skeptical and some just plain miserable. “But wait a bit,” the oysters cried, “Before we have our chat; “For some of us are out of breath. “And all of us are fat!” Postmaster General Farley is there—like the carpenter ww are more interested in patronage than in pelicies. - “It was so kind of you to come! “And you are very nice!” The carpenter said nothing but “Cut us another slice. “I wish you were not quite so deaf— “I've had to ask you twice!” More harmony between the White House and Capitol Hill is the hoped-for result. Will it be the kind of love feast that Alice saw through the looking glass? “0 oysters,” said the carpenter. “You've had a pleasant run! “Shall we be trotting home again?’ But answer came there none— And this was scarcely odd, because They'd eaten every one.

WORLD FULL OF. CRISES N Ohio’s Mahoning Valley, the empire of little steel, strikers and vigilantes and troops maneuver, and every hour brings new fears of collision. In Europe, Germany’ s warships steam into the Mediterranean, Mussolini orders the Italian fleet to stand by, Prime Minister Chamberlain cautions England to stay calm. And in far-off Manila, Indiana’s Paul McNutt, U. S. High Commissioner to the Philippines—having just established his drink-to-me first etiquet for diplomats—strikes boldly into another crisis. He decrees that newspapermen must wear tuxedos to his dinner party.

BOY SCOUT JAMBOREE HE 72 Indianapolis Boy Scouts who leave tomorrow for the national Scout jamboree in Washington are typical of the high type of youth the organization is building. Most of us take for granted the character-building influence of Scouting. But we don’t always hear of the many instances where gangs of tough, embryo mobsters, who defy the reform efforts of juvenile and social workers, have regained respectability in Boy Scout work. The movement has gaired tremendously. More than a million Cubs, Scouts and adult leaders now comprise the organization in America, with a 60,000 gain the past year. In Washington, the Indianapolis boys will mingle with 25,000 others, including representatives from about 20 foreign countries. This “world’s fair of Scouting” offers a dramatic climax to the day by day job of helping the nation’s youth. :

IT IS NECESSARY

T is necessary to differentiate between relief and public works, says President Roosevelt. So it is. A great deal of trouble, including the present revolt in Congress which inspired the President's remark, is due to confusing relief with public works. But who, more than Mr. Roosevelt, is responsible for that? His WPA does not differentiate. It is’a public works program employing relief labor. It is defective as a public works program because the necessity of employing relief labor limits the kind of projects that can be undertaken and runs up their cost.. It is defective as a relief agency because,

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without spending more money than the country can afford,-

it can’t employ all the able-bodied people who need jobs. To illustrate: 000,000 of the proposed new $1,500,000,000 relief appropriation, if spent by agencies other than WPA, would give the states and communities certain public works that they really

need but can’t get through WPA. But Mr. Roosevelt says

that $505,000,000 will provide jobs for 630,000 relief work-

ers if spent by WPA, and for only 100,000 if spent as the

(Congressmen propose. What if we actually did differentiate between relief and public works? That would mean:

Instead of WPA relief, so costly that it can be given to

only part of those who need it, a less expensive kind of relief

more fairly distributed. Instead of WPA public works, |

limited. to the kind of projects on which relief labor can be used, public works that the states and communities really

need constructed any the most efficient methods ; at the lowest. 4,

9 possible costs —

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thing which is universally demanded, can be done at Many Congressmen contend that $505,

. a chance for some industrial peace.

OVER Lu ?.

OKAYBUT IF IT TURNS QUT TO BE GUST THAT olLD PACKING CASE WE. AINT GONNA DIG IT VP!

Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

Indifference to Good Government In Chicago Declared to Blame: for Deaths In Memorial Day Rioting.

(CHICAGO, June 26.—Rotten Government: has been a joke in Chicago and in Illi-

nois at large throughout the experience of.

all men now living in the state, but the day cannot be far off when the situation must ex-

plode, for no Government can go on this way forever. In fact it is a marvel that the skeleton of Government has held together this long against thie pressure of graft, corruption, waste and unbelievable: incompetence and cynicism on the ! iE part of ignorant public officials - and small-time parasites. There have been a couple of nominally respectable mayors and a few ineffective political reformers in minor positions, but these invariably have been hooted out of office as sissies, and the respectable citizens have been as much to blame as the gang politicians and the colonized foreign: vote. It may be added that the news- TE papers, on the whole, have heen. v 2 as venal as the politicians, and 2’ row Fe that the people have been kidded Mr: Pegiér into false enthusiasms: for irresponsible candidates so .often that nowadays every motive of the newspapers falls under suspicion. It may be added, further, that labor has been one of the most violent rackets here and is no better qualified to clean up the mess. This is the background of events leading up to the slaughter of the steel workers in South Chicago on Memorial Day. It will be .declared that the pistol fire and clubbing were unprovoked, but witnesses for the defense will testify that many of the pickets car-:. ried lengths of iron pipe, bolts, clubs and bricks and; that the point-blank shooting. did not break out until--the “peaceful” marchers had let fly a rain of missiles. . hardly calculated to improve the health of the police-: men. ” o 3 Cr cs00 cops are tough cops, and the force has no nice appreciation of civil rights. They get little professional training, and they have always had an example of graft, pull, political immunity and irresponsibility . from the . dominant spirits of the town. This does not justify, but it does explain to some extent, the personal ferocity of their reprisal when they. were attacked by a ‘mob which had sent some of their comrades to the hospital in a previous riot sup-' pressed by less deadly weapons. They have about the same discipline and respect for law that the .citizens have, and the citizens’ attitude toward law and government is plainly indicated - by the character of the men whom they Aititualy, tolerate in public office. : .To prosecute a few Copy for murder in this case would do no good. un ” 2

T= case calls for a complete reform of the system which produced that type of cop. It calls for more than a mere change of administration, for one administration is as rotten as another in Chicago. What Chicago must have is a great public prosecutor and crusader, but not a demagog, who can rouse the whole town to an appreciation of the corruption and free-style robbery which most members of the present population have always secepled as the normal thing in governmént. New York and ofher big cities have gone through these shocks and received civic benefits, but in Chicago no thief, however guilty, ever goes to prison for robbing the public, and all trials of this. kind are regarded as mere political fun.

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

MOONEY BELIEVES HIGH COURT WILL FREE HIM

mittee Tom Mooney, world ‘famous la-

San Quentin Prison June 17 after a 21-month stay in the San Francisco County Jail pending determination of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus, : had the following statement to- make: “In going back to San Quentin where I have spent 18 years for a

| crime of ‘which I am. entirely inno- | cent, I'am certain. that it will not be for long. My case is now in the |’

California Supreme Court on a petition for a writ of habeas corpus. While we expect an adverse decision from this court which has consistently refused to do justice, we will appeal immediately to the United

States Supreme Court, at whose hands I firmly expect freedom and

| vindication. We are waiting for the .| decision of the California Supreme | Cotirt and hope ‘it will come very ‘| soon -so- we can prepare the case for

thé United States Supreme Court’s fall term. “I sincerely wish that the California Supreme Court would consider my case fairly and impartially, for then I would be freed by it. That would only be agreeing with Judge Franklin Griffin, who origi-

one’: of -the strongest advocates of

my pardofi’ when the perjured and: fabricated’ case against me was exposed. . It would also be agreeing |;

with the United States Government, which three times investigated the Mooney case, and three times concluded I was the victim of perjury, hysteria and was denied a fair trial. “But if we are required to, we will go to the nation’s highest court. I firmly expect the United States Supreme Court will find all of my eharges of frame-up are true, and will free me to enjoy the few years remaining to me. The labor movement is pushing forward with renewed vigor on all sides. That, if nothing “else, is the token that will mark and insure my freedom.”

: 8 2” =. CLAIMS ELECTION LAW CAN NOT REMEDY ALL By Observer

‘| .- Last fall New York City adopted {-

a fiew charter. In the charter was a ‘provision that, city elections he held under the proportional representation system.. This system is about as complicated a method of electing public officials as could be imagined, but its chief purpose is to hamstring machine politicians by giving every citizen the chance to vote for candidates in the order. of preference. If the man the voter likes best loses, or if he wins by such a wide margin that many of his votes are not needed, ballots cast for him are

choice, and so on down the line. Hall, which has fallen

Tamman ny on leah years of late, vigorously op-

posed this feature of the new char-

General High: Iohaoh Says —

Sélf-Registration' Method Only Practical Way to Count the Unemployed; Secretary Perkins Might Have to Take a Walk After Accurate Census.

EW YORK, June 26.—Senator Lodge proposed to: spend $20,000,000 of relief money to take- a door-to-door census of the unemployed. .: Democratic Senators objected that 4his absolutely: necessary:

1-10th the cost in 1-100th the time by the’ method of self-registration used to count men for the draft. Secretary Perkins supports Senator Lodge. . She says self-registration would be hopeless hodge-podge.

While she knows nothing about censuses, she is a |.

principal authority on hopeless hodge~podge. National labor relations and policy are her job. Both are.in the worst condition experienced under. any Labor. Secretary in our history. She is not solely responsible: but if she had not excluded realistic labor men from. her councils in favor of jdealistic social workers -and | pink political radicals, the country would at least had: |

Necessity for a jobless census might possibly ‘have been met by her National Re-employment Service. It was not. I don’t know about: it now, -but when WPA - was started in New York City it was absolutely worths.| less. The proof of this was: Feperied. ofcially, “Te report was suppressed. : # 2 8 . n ADAM says you can’t requis: pops to: register, How does she think you requiré people to givé. ..¢ensus information on the door-to-door” plan? You

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By Tom Mooney ‘Molders’ Defense Com- |

bor - prisoner,” on being returned to|

nally ‘sentenced me and then became.

counted for the citizen’s second ;

(Times readers are invited - to express their: views in: these columns, religious- con--troversies excluded: Make: _ your. letter short, so all can’ ‘have a chance. Letters must be ‘signed, but names will be withheld on request.) :

ter. It went to court to get it thrown : out, and the other day it met final defeat when the state court of appeals upheld proportional representation “and ~okayed the Sitputed charter. Precedent Is Cited . Now the surface conclusion’ to be drawn from all of that is that machine politics, as exemplified by Tammany, has met a crushing defeat and that political life in the metropolis will be cleaner, clearer and most wholesome hereafter.

But people who take this hopeful

view" ‘of things might well remember what happened in Cleveland some 15 years ago. Cleveland then adopted . a new charter, with proportional representation. Citizens breathed deeply in relief; this new electoral setup would

be too much-for the old-line political gangs, the bosses. would be

checkmated, good men would be elected in place of subservient: ward-

heelers. - . But something ‘happened. "The “good men” figured the city’s political life had been reformed forever and a day, and hegan thinking. about other things. The politicians, who work at politics day in and day out, knuckled down and mastered the intrieacies of proportional representation. . And the first thing anybody knew the same old gang -was back in the saddle, the great reform had misfired—and, eventually, the citizens in disgust threw out the new charter and went back to the old way of doing things. Political reforms usually fail because the reformers, and the people who support them, are so .shortwinded. Our tendency-to put on

one big push and then relax is the

SUMMER

: By MARY WARD Summer days, how ‘they drift, How fair the sky, Light coming through a Tift _ In trees nearby— ‘Emerald green the pastureland With flowers bedight— I would clasp summer's hand, Holding it tight. i

DAILY THOUGHT And the spirit of jealousy ¢ame upon- him, and he be jealous of his wife; and she be defiled: or if the spirit. of jealousy come upon him, and "he be jealous of his wife, and she not be defiled. — Numbers 5:14.

JEALOUS man always finds more than he looks for. ~Mlle. Sulgery.:

greatest safeguard the machine politician could ask for. ihe a

HERE'S ‘A SONG FOR PRESIDENT’S OUTING

By Daniel Franeis’ ‘Clancy, Logahigors

What President Roosevelt should sing at the Jackson Island outing: |

I dream. that I dwelt in Congressional halls, - With yeu as loyal serfs at my side, And of all who assembled within those walls, That I was the hope and the pride. I had. riches too. great to count— And you held buckets Tound the - fount.

But r also" dreamt that Sich of you Lov’d me still ‘the same, : .’ Lov’d me still the same, ° And how I wish that it were true. ” ” o CHINA CONDEMNED FOR ‘PICKING ON’ JAPAN By D. K. Jim. Farley will likely be on hand

to cut bait when F. D: R. stages the |

Jefferson Island party for Congressmen. . Someone explained that Jack Siiuee left Washington because he was ‘sick and tired.”. Now everyone is: wondering of what and of whom. . . . Japan explains her half-million military budget as be-

ing “to offset ‘armaments in the Soviet. Union and China.” Why

don’t those Chinese quit picking on |

the Japs? . ~-. A realist is a doctor who. admits that “the ultimate outlook is: grave. » . = ” s ; URGES EXTRA SAFETY IN DRIVING JULY 4 By Careful Patriot independence’ Day is not far off, and the problem of a safe and sane Fourth is once more up for consideration: But nowadays it is the adult, rather than the child, who needs protection and - restraint; for the holiday automobile traffic is getting to be a worse menace.than the cannon cracker -ever. was.

The newspapers of July 5 most certainly will publish a long list of Fourth of July casualties. A distressinig nuinber of them will be due to fireworks, in spite of years of safety campaigning; but a ‘large number will: be due. to aitomobiles— and will be due, also, to carelessness

oa the part of people who are old |

enough to know better. The roads will be crowdsd on July 4. If you are going ouf in your car, take alittle extra precaution— and keep your name out of the next day’s newspapers. - : * ” ® ”. MODERN PREACHING HELD IMPRACTICAL : By Y. Z., Crawfordsville

A lot of preaching today fails to

bring results because it is not brought close enough home. The modern prophets should open their eyes and see the evils that surround them: . They should not hesitate - to tell: the people of conditions- that are now menacing the social life of: their compniy,

-answered my question.”

It Seems to Me

By Heywood Broun

Tom Girdler's. Testimony at Sensty Hearing Taken as Evidence He Sees Labor & Low-Market Commodity,

ASHINGTON, June 26.—Smu'g is the word for Tom Mercer Girdler, chairman of the board of Republic Steel and squire of Greystone Farm, Mentor, O. In a burst of generosity Mr. Girdler told the Senate Postoffice Committee that he would at any time be glad to deal with any union if it were “properly organized” .and “under proper leadership.” = The phrases are verbatim. Mr. Tom Girdler reserved the

Yeni to pass upon the widom of his workers. . : I do not like Tom - Girdler, I “think I have a right to my emotion. Specifically, he: departed from the traditional Washington practice and refused to answer any question of any newspaperman. It was suggested to him that after he had time enough to rest and mend the cuts over nis eyebrows he might find it expedi= ent to set a time and a place for a press conference. Until yesterday he refused to tolerate inquiries from reporters while he was in. Washington. In fact, Tom Mercer Girdler said, “No,” which was 10% times as definite as any of his awners to the Senate committee. It did not seem to me as if Mr. Girdler was a good witness for his cause. He seemed to show a rather surprising ignorance of the details of his own business. When’ asked the number of States in which Republic Steel has plants he answered, Towels or HM: I Jwvouldn’t’' be sure.”

Mr. Broun

2 2 on , - N regard to labor relations, Tom Mercer Girdler ‘was even more indefinite. He testified that he personally never sat in at any conference with his employees, but that he had “been informed,” or “learned,” or “read in the newspapers,” that such and such was the case. And yet he identified hime self as no foe of labor but as an employer who felt that the American Federation of Labor had never been unreasonable in | its ‘demands. "Mr. Girdler. ‘apdeared before a committee which was not. too strorgly manned by experts in crossexamination. And yet one member of the board took him" apart in a way which was neat and surgically skilful, There was no needless letting of blood. Senator Green, of Rhode Island, is a Democrat and a New Dealer, although not listed among the most passionate advocates of the Roosevelt policies. He looks liké any one of 10 veteran habitues who might be found of an afternoon:in the lounge of the Union Club. He wears # banded tie, which I assume is the badge of his particular social afifistion. 2% ENATOR GREEN is a graduate of the Harvard \J Law School, and his accent suggests that his early training may have been at Groton. And yet it. was Green who, in an almost overstressed politeness, kept repeating, “Mr. Girdler, you have not And it seemed to me that Tom Mercer Girdler did not adopt the most perfect tactics when, one twa occasions, he said to Green of Harvard, “Of course. I ought to be able to answer, I graduated from Lehigh.” But what was of far greater significence was the fact that upon four occasions, by the printed record, Tom Mercer Girdler, when asked about labor relations, said, “Now, if I was buying scrap iron I would” —=Not in words but out of the depths of his une conscious mind the gentleman from Republic ine dicated that to him labor is a commodity to be bought in. the lowest market and treated as anyone would

] handle spent and rusty spare parts.

The ‘Washington Merry-Go-Round

Roosevelt, Hardest-Working President, Is Also the Most Aikotings Cost of Voyages on Navy Vessels Runs Into Several Million Dollars,

80 56 Uy waking’ a yous alisuss nol for

What's the difference whether (you require the information at their own door or at a. registration booth? ‘Answer—-$18,000, 000 in cost—179 days in time —and the difference between historical statistics six

‘months to a year old—worthless for our purposé—and -a series of instantaneous cross-sections of unemploy"ment, 90 days apart, which is necessary for any under-

| standing of. our principal problem.

The real reason for these trivial and .impatiently .arbitrary objections to a census is that any eensus would disclose hundreds of thousands of aliens—with their dependents perhaps milllons—who are illegally in’ this country either on the relief rolls or holding down ‘jobs that could be taken by legal residents now Oh. relier. i AE Se op ! ® ” n 3 2 ADAM SECRETARY'S department : is 'responsiL ble for keeping them from sneaking .in or for their deportation if they are discovered. The dis-

“closures of such a census, sanctioned by eligibility

for relief, might arouse so much eriticism—coupled

with the scarcely suppressed country-wide toar of ré- |.

_sentment over her unprecedented incompetence in “labor relations and: the present tragic: results-—that ‘Madam might have fo take a walk, ~ It’s” chivalrous -and- right to protect; a lady, but cant she be protected in Sore: "ather:. way. that wouldn'y cost. our ‘country tens if not: hunds a year? {

1% Jumeiots | js be ever, pak

Byl Drew. Pearson and Robert S. Allen

TASHINGTON, June |26,—The. ‘President's fish-

ing trip to the Gulf of. Mexico while Congress was in session, together with his implied rebuke of the Supreme Court for recessing with important work undone, has focused attention upon official vacations —especially Presidential ones. ; Frequent respites from the grind of being President of the United States. lonig have béen recognized as absolutely necessary. : That grind is so grueling and wearing that today, only ane ex-President’ is alive, although six Presidential: wives survive. : ps - Woodrow Wilson and Calvin’ Coolidge both believed in _ vacations, both enjoyed frequent -eruisesdown the Potomac. Coolidge also: invariably decamped from Washington for the summer. Warren

Harding ® was on a summer trip fo Alaska when | :

fatally stricken. Hoover was a ‘hard-working President.. He never-went away:in the summer, junked

‘the Presidential yacht Mayflower, but built his own |

sting Samp at: :Rapigsa, vigiia, ;

) QOSEVELT, is one of. & "dents ever: to sit in th White: House, and on By ‘of public i}:

a stenographer, spends most of his time dictating and going over reports. Nevertheless, the..record shows him fo be the

“most Jjunketing President in history.- And: probably

his vacations have. been more expensive than those

‘of any other Presideni—although the cost of the

construction, upkeep and guarding of Hoover's camp ran into big money. - A detail of marines was kept on

‘duty there winter and sunimer.

«1 2. = s : OOSEVELT’S junkets began shortly after .the ‘banking crisis in the spring of 1933, during which he worked night and day. It was not. untii April 24 when he took Premier Ramsay MacDonald on a cruise ‘down the Potomac, that he was able to a? any relist from this grind. "

The cost of Presidential trips :is difficult to estimate. | The cruiser Indianapolis cost $1;009.945° to operate in 1936 and $947,893 in 1935. Its expense,

‘of ‘cotirse, would have been almost the same had. the 5 President not used her; though fuel consumption was | greater. The operating cost of the cruiser Houston | was $925,000 in 1236 and $883,000 in 1935.7

/; The most expensive (trip the President’ took was > his diplomatic mission to Buenos Aires, on which his . cruiser averaged .¢ose fo 30 knofs. ‘This cost exactly times muck: as if she had been making 10 knots, to disclose “oil: «