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MONDAY, JULY 5, 1937
LIFE, LIBERTY, HAPPINESS
” E hold these truths to be self-evident, that ail men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” This majestic sentence, penned by Jefferson and flung as a challenge to mankind by 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence 161 years ago, will ring down the ages as humanity's great aspiration. We know, as the signers knew, that equality does not even exist in nature, But we also know that our young republic has come quite a way in reaching that goal for its people, farther, perhaps, than any other nation in the same few years. » » » " » ® IFE? In colonial days a white male born in a Massachusetts town lived an average of about 35 years; today an American male may expect to live to 60. Surgery, medical science, better food and sanitation have added 25 years to an American’s life expectancy. Liberty? In this republic’s first days in all but three states only white males with property could vote. Slavery held thousands of Negroes in bondage. Piracy, witchcraft trials, imprisonment for debt in foul jails were routine, There were no such things as labor unions. Today we have a bill of rights, added to the Constitution in 1791, to guarantee personal liberty to all. We have abolished slavery, made suffrage universal, established free education for all children and written a code of laws protecting labor’s right to organize. Imperfect as it is, we have achieved political, if not economic liberty. Happiness? Well, even toward that enchanted beacon we have moved a little way. Machines have lightened the burden of back-breaking toil, reduced the hours of labor to around 40 a week, brought quick travel by land, sea and
air, given us refrigeration, radio, movies, and a thousand | other amenities, and increased the national income and per |
capita wealth many fold. ® n ® » » »
Ul how far we must yet go before we bring these “inalienable rights” within reach of all Americans! What guarantee can there be of life so long as the threat of war is ever imminent? Of liberty while race prejudice is abroad and greed rules much of our economic life? Of happiness while, ag President Roosevelt says, “one-third of our people are ill-fed, 1c clothed and ill-housed” ? The struggle to capture more of these rights for the masses is on right now with renewed vigor. The spirit of Jefferson should be cheered by our struggle and our vietories.
MRS. KATE MILNER RABB AN assignment to write an historical pageant for Spencer County, where she was born, inspired the interest in Indiana history which later made Mrs. Kate Milner Rabb an authority on Hoosier lore. Few persons have done more to make us conscious of the State's historical background. Educated at Indiana University, she taught school, married Albert Rabb, who became a leading Indianapolis attorney, reared a family and occupied a prominent role in literary and elub activities. Best known for her column in the Indianapolis Star, “A Hoosier Listening Post,” Mrs. Rabb also wrote many books, essays and historical sketches, many of them since the death of her husband in 1918, Hundreds who knew her, and more who knew her work, will share with the family its sorrow in her untimely death.
MISTAKES OF LEWIS NTIL recently we had thought John L. Lewis plenty smart when it came to sensing public sentiment, which in the final shakedown is the deciding factor in and labor dispute, But several events in the last fortnight have caused us to shake in that opinion like the well-known bowl of jelly on a frosty morning. Generally speaking, those happenings have demons strated that Lewis has overplayed his hand, taken in too much territory too quickly, and allowed his lines of comsmunication to grow thin, More specifically, we refer to two incidents. At the very time the crisis in Ohio and Pennsylvania was at its peak, when threats of wholesale bloodshed filled the air, when the nation was getting the jitters over how far the thing would spread, when martial law was being involved and Lewis-haters were scaring their children with pictures of the Lewis eyebrows, saying this was the man-on-horseback who was going to take over the Government at such a time, blessed if there didn't come the announce ment that Lewis was moving in to organize the Government ‘employees.
Not so good. Ivy Lee would never have pulled that one. And now—it is said that Harry Bridges is being considered for C. I. O. representative on the Pacific Coast. The weakest spot in C. I. 0.’s position with the public i8 communism in C. I. O. ranks. True, Lewis once was a Republican and supported Hoover. Equally true, Lewis like Green has inveighed often and loudly against coms munism. But events more swiftly these days and speeches of the recent past are soon forgotten, Now, Harry Bridges to millions in this country is coms munism personified. Whether he actually is a Communist ‘or not—and we have never geen proof that he is—is beside the point in the terms of public reaction. As the leader of the coast shipping strikes he has been tarred with that stick and the stick of alienism, since the general strike of 1934 brought him into the national limelight. For Lewis to pick him as a key man at this time, with public sentiment running as it is, just isn't smart. Instead, ‘such a choice will mean much water on the wheel of the A. F. of Li. and lend dangerous aid to that other anti-Lewis agency which is becoming so visibly and disturbingly active, ‘the vigilante movement, The worst mistakes in this world are mistakes of
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Washington
By Raymond Clapper
Labor Now ls Its Own Worst Enemy, Clapper Declares in Summarizing Causes of Anxiety for Its Progress.
ASHINGTON, July 5.—When President Roosevelt was impelled to say of the labor disorders “a plague on both your houses,” meaning the extremists on both sides, it igs a fair assumption that this was intended especially as a warning to reckless labor groups. Although labor extremists were bracketed in the President's meaning with extremists on the employer
side—presumably men like Girdler, who refuses to sit in the same room with John I. Lewis the fact that labor was included in the warning is the significant thing. Roosevelt has been friend-
ly to labor and has thrown the
weight of the Administration on its side. Obviously he is disturbed now over the possibility of bitter fruit ripening. This reflects, and very mildly at that, the anxiety felt here by many persons both in the Administration and in Congress and representing all political viewpoints. There is in Washington generally a great deal of confidence in Lewis himself. Some Senators and Congressmen make political capital out of denouncing him, But he is quite generally regarded as extremely able, astute, and so far as his own intentions are concerned anxious for peaceful collec tive bargaining and sound, responsible unionism. What is causing anxiety is the fear that forces have been set loose which Lewis cannot control, In fact things already have broken out of control at many points. The automobile strike last winter was pulled by hotheads before Lewis was ready, The eleetric power tie-up in Michigan was totally unauthorized. Nobody who knows how strongly Lewis wishes the C. I. O. to grow into the dominant recognized labor movement of the country could believe seriously that he welcomes violence and undisciplined action which ean only bring his whole movement into dis repute and ultimate chaos. ” " ” HE C. I. O. has grown faster than its organiza« tion. Employees, noting its early successes, have swamped Lewis with appeals. Lewis has taken vast groups of employess, unegs perienced in labor organization, and has tried to give them as much organization as he could. But in a time of intense feelings, particularly when strikers are as incensed as they are at Girdler, hotheads—and inevitable number of deliberate troublemakers and Communists—get into the fight and then labor becomes its own worst enemy. It is thert that labor loses public sympathy. Res strictive legislation is considered. Vigilantes organize,
Mr. Clapper
» » » N four years labor has gained a new status. The danger now is that it will overreach itself and take undue advantage of its position as some employers did when the balance was loaded in their avor. Many people think that time already has arrived. It is this which accounts for the sudden shift of sympathies, reflected for instance in the way the two pro-labor Governors, Earle of Pennsylvania and Davey of Ohio, abruptly shifted their tactics shortly after they had mobilized National Guardsmen under oire Cutiittanent that Jiped the strikers. e moment labor is its own worst enemy, i] Se damage than any antilabor ores could do it.
The Hoosier Forum
I wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.Voltaire.
1937 CORONATION PROVES TYRANNY IS GONE, VIEW By Bruce Catton
If the ghost of old King George III could come back to earth right now, he might wonder what in the world had got into the descendants of the American colonists of 1776.
Those colonists gave George III an everlastingly rough ride of it, before they finally dumped him off their backs for good.
They blasted him before all the world as a cruel and conscienceless tryant. They led his red-coated, white-gaitered troops into swamps and wildernesses and took pot-shots at them until the proudest troops in all Europe had to admit that they had been licked by a ragged bunch of backwoodsmen. ‘They stirred up trouble abroad for him, sent rowdy sailors like John Paul Jones over to burn English ships in the English Channel, got the French on his neck and wound up by depriving him of the fairest jewel in all his empire, And yet, this year, when another George took the throne of England, and was crowned in Westminster Abbey with all the medieval pomp and circumstance that a great ems pire could provide, it was these same Americans who provided the most enthusiastic audience,
As if "76 Were Dream
They lapped up every detail about the coronation as if the British king still ruled in Boston and New York. They sent some thousands of people over to have a look abt it. They listened in while the new George spoke to his empire, and got just about as big an emotional kick out of it as if the things that happened in 1776 had all been a bad dream, Verily, old George III might be pardoned for wondering if he had not blundered back into the wrong world entirely. What has all this to do with our Independence Day? Just this: the contrast between our attitude toe ward George IIT and our attitude toward George VI is no greater than the contrast between the kind of king George III was and the kind George VI is,
All Kings Were Tyrants
George ITI was a tryant, just as the signers of the Declaration of Indes pendence said; not because he was bad or unprineipled, but simply bes cause every king was a tyrant in those days. That was part of the picture. Every nation had to have a boss; no one-—except the American colonists—supposed you could get along without one, George VI is not a tyrant; not only because he doesn’t want to be one, put because his nation has no use for one. For the boss idea has gone out of style—gone out, despite its temporary revival in some of the war-shocked nations on the conti nent. Injustice, oppression and ens
General Hugh Johnson Says—
Stirring Days of World War Preparation 20 Years Ago This Month Give New Deal an Example of How Democratic Means Surpassed Dictatorial. capacity to obey devastating orders. Faithful over
ULSA, Okla, July 85—~This is a month of Inomefilgus Eh years removed-—of a great peaceful nation swinging into ti in history, wl 2 Nor Wa Pershing had come up from the Mexican bord and arrived in France. The first shipment of American troops was on the sea. The draft was vos Mo ig itusra) mobilization was a as n was a madhouse—wor New Deal in "33. 5 Wa We “ Since of this i saw and some of it I wag” seems worth one column to recall a f not, Well understood then. *W Inuaents rshing was not the senior general. Congre had authorized Teddy Roosevelt to raise a hohe corps if the President approved. Leonard Wood was wh senior to and more prominent than Black ack, and Wood shelved? ” : 8 OU have to go back almost a year for the ¥ answer. Pershing had been rushed with a makeShift amy ane Villa into Mexico. caug a. wasn't permitted. He orders to retreat regardless of its effect on his rats All this he bore without a murmur, Teddy Roose and Leonard Wood were poli against ;
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throned greed have been on the defensive ever since 1776-in England, and elsewhere, as well as in America, That is one reason why our Independence Day is s0 much worth celebrating.
” ” » PITTSBURGH PROUD OF ACCIDENT RECORD By George BE. Ourrier, National Safety Couneil The Better Traffic Committee of Pittsburgh feels good about the elty’s 18938 traffic accident death record: "A 26 per cent nation-wide increase in traffic deaths the first three months of this year is the dolesome report of the National Safety Couneil. “In the face of this rise Pittsburgh fatalities dropped 11.1 per cent, to the lowest level in 15 years, 'The drop can fairly be attributed to strengthened enforcement, as a direct result of the interest of the present administration in safety, both from the standpoints of the operation of the Bureau of Police and the Traffic Court, “The effectiveness of the Traffic Court, under the magistrate system, largely depends upon the Mayor, If good appointments are made and the personnel is told to enforce the law, the spectacle of gobd enforces ment is bound to result.”
» ” ” PREDICTS POLITICAL ACTION BY LABORING CLASS By Subreriber
Capitalism fears the awakening of class consciousness in the organized labor movement, It knows that ine dependent political action by labor is sure to follow, The privileged class knows it then will not be so easy to fool workers with pseudo talk of liberty and des mocracy, They believe in liberty
OF SHERLOCK HOLMES
By DANIEL F, CLANCY No other author shall ever beat The story Of 221 B Baker Street, Ne'er gorry--Just adventurous and amusing, Intellectual and confusing, ; DAILY THOUGHT And Ehud put forth his left hand, and took the dagger from
his right thigh, and thrust it into his belly Judges 3.21,
ELF<-MURDER, that infernal crime, which all the gods level their thunder at!-<Fane,
and democracy as long as it does not, for the safety of all the people, curb their selfish desire for profit at the expense of workers, It is stupid to allow a handful of people to own the tools of production and control the economic existence of millions of workers, Another mystery is the bourgeois individual with little or no property who yet imagines himself in the capitalist class and aligns with it, You can't fool some people all the time, because they fool themselves all the time. What we need is more people who think for themselves and less of those who repeat like a pars rot all they see in the newspaper, " ”»
. OBSERVE INCIDENTS OF DAILY ROUTINE, ADVICE Ry Robert Henry Edwards My feet are on the street while my head ig in school. That i& my predicament; question it a min= ute. Isn't it a good policy? There is something to be learned each day, providing one keeps his eyes and ears open, his brain clear, and inhales earnestly the many topies and incidents that occur in the day's routine, Observe passing issues, but never mind the effort of trying to divulge everything noticed. See, hear, think, and keep silent, No one can hear the things you think, Do this and educate your head and brains for your own good and welfare first. In the meantime, you may be able to distribute thoughts to others who are less fortunate in their intellectual eapaeity. This itself is very progressive school= ing even though one might lack an education which is more noteworthy. 1 ” » DETECTIVE MAGAZINES HELD CRIME DETERRENT Ry B. ©. It is getting so that the readers of detective story magazines constitute one of the deadliest hazards in the path of a fugitive criminal, The recent arrest of Robert Irwin is only the latest in a string of cases in which a criminal was brought to hook because someone remembered having seen his picture in a maga-
zine, All of this testifies abundantly to the thoroughness with which de= tective story fans digest the material in their favorite magazines; put it also is a revealing sidelight on the inefficiency of American police work, For the “spotting” these private citizens do is work that should be done by the polices but seldom is, It ought to be possible, without setting up a centralized police administration for the entire country, to work out some system of cooperation by which the police in different oities would become at least as familiar with the faces of wanted men-and as alert to recognize them when they see them--as are the readers of detective story magazines,
some expedient’
It Seems to Me
By Heywood Broun
Training Workouts Suggested for Senatorial League Now Lined for Court Bill's Filibustering Season.
WW ASHINGTON, July 5,~The Senatorial
teams which are about to engage in an entire season of filibustering in order to pre vent any vote on Supreme Court legislation should now be gathering at their respective
training camps, It has already been an nounced that Burke, of Nebraska, will lead the Dodg» ers, and that Bounding Bert Wheeler, of Montana, will manager the Mud Hens from the bench, But it will not be possible to follow Lig league tradition in all respects, For instance, there would be no particular point in having any of these clubs go to Florida or Texas, as Washington, D, O, is suffi eiently torrid to thaw out aging arms and shoulders, Nevertheless, it would be foolish for the boys to show up for the opening gama without some preliminary prace tice, There are veterans in this Federal League who have thrown nothing more than a couple of postoffices in several years, The league {8 weak in defense, Senator King is a rather impress sive shortstop in many respects, but he has one fatal weakness, He is expert in backing up the third base= man, for no man in the Senate is more skilled in going to his right, but the gentleman from Utah ia anchored when it comes to handling any ball batted to his left,
Mr. Broun
USH DEW HOLT, like Mel Ott, was picked up out of high school, but, unlike his more famous predecessor, he has not lived up to expectation, No= body has yet succeeded in teaching Rush an effective patting technique, He always puts one foot in the water bucket when anything comes up to him, According to the last official records, the recruit from West Virginia is hitting a great deal less than the size of his hat, And while it is true that Rush wears a much bigger derby than when he was first paptured in the West Virginia hills and sent to the Senate, his batting average has gone down inversely according to the size of his top plece, Fortunately for his constituency, one legal moves ment has been quashed. At one time it WAS Suge gested that all the voters who supported Rush Rew Holt for Congress should be indicted for impairing the morals of a minor, » » THINK it might be an excellent idea to take Rush out of right field and transform him into a third baseman, Any well hit ball is sure to go over Holt's head, but he might do better in the infield, since even his severest critics will hardly deny that he is skilled at stooping. One of the chief troubles with the Federal League of the U, 8. Senate ig that none of the clubs is pquipped with any reasonable good fast-ball pitchers, There are a dozen I could name who are expert in the use of trick deliveries, Schoolboy. Clark, “the son of the late Champ Clark,” is almost as good am old Russ Ford in the use of energy. He roughens a spot upon the ball and makes it sail ‘in the ‘most curious directions, Dusty Burke, of Nebraska, has taken a leaf out of the performances of a now-fors gotten pitcher named Finneran, His pat delivery is based upon packing mud into the seams and throwing a seeming straight ball which will wabble just as it gets up to the batter, Vandenberg relies on a change of pace, and Pat McCarran, of Nevada, is a submarine slinger after the manner of Carl Mays,
The Washington Merry-Go-Round
Supreme Court Decree in 1870 Held Tax Avoidance Legal if Law Allows It; Secret Service Gets Jump on G-Men, Nab Justice Department Thief,
Why was Pershing chosen and both Teddy |
He could have
a few things he was made master over many. He managed the latter almost perfectly, but so quietly that Nis country has never adequately acknowledged one of the greatest pieces of military administration in history. In June, 20 years ago, no one supposed we would ever send a great army to France, The Alliss wanted only our money and supplies. In planning the first draft, the writer wrote a memorandum urge ing that it call a million men. That memorandum came back disapproved over angrily inke-spluttered initials, “W. W.” with a notation to the effect that “this country will never stand for a draft of a million men.” Before it was over, by draft and en« listment we took four millions for the Army alone. Counting all services direct and auxiliary, more than six millions wore some kind of uniform in that war.
O draft had ever worked in this country though three had been tried. Why? Because all had been attempted by military “press” gangs. This time we tried it as a modified form of community volunteering-—using the machinery of local self-gove ernment without one single bayonet behind it and with no authority in Washington either to
exempt or take, All authority, was in boards of
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By Drew Pearson and Robert S, Allen
VY HINTON, July 85.~-The biggest loophole of all in the tax laws has not even been mentioned yet in the Congressional investigation, It Is a decision of the Supreme Court handed down in 1870 in the famous case of U, 8, vs, Isham, In this decree the Court, in effect, established a legal justifleation for tax avoidance by holding that any method of escaping the payment of taxes, if not specifically prohibited by law, is legally permissible, This precedent has been cited In countless instances in defence of tax avoidance devices, This was what the Court ruled 67 years ago: “If a device Is carried put by means of legal forms, it 1s subject to no legal censure, To illustrate: The Stamp Act of 1862 imposed a duty of 2 cents on bank checks of not less than $20, A careful individual,
having $20 to pay, pays the same by two checks of $10 each, He thus draws checks in payment of his debt and yet pays no stamp duty, “While his operations deprive the Government of duties it might reasonably expect to receive, it is not perceived that the practice is open to the charge of raud. He resorts Jo deviow to evade payment of duties, but they are illegal”
HE Secret Service is enjoying a hearty laugh ag the expense of J, Edgar Hoover's vaunted G-Men, They put one over on their publicized rivals, and did it right under the G-Men's noses in their own Justice
Department, : Brian McMahon, Assistant Attorney General, missed some checks from his desk, Because they were Treasury checks he summoned the Secret Service, which is a part of that department, The 8. 8.-Men responded with alacrity, eager to serve, And they did, In short order they tracked down the thief and restored the checks, amounting to $780, Five days later, several G-Men approached Mc« Mahon, said: “We understand you were robbed, Any thing we can do?” " Ld ” DVICES to the State Department report a unique business arrangement between the Spanish Loyalists and the telephone company in Spain, an American Telephone and Telegraph Co, affiliate, The agreement is particularly interesting because the Rebels charge the Loyalists are enemies of private property and capitalism, What it does is to guarantee the A, T. & T, normal profits despite heavy property damage and loss of business although the telephone building in Madrid has been a favorite target of Rebel artillery,