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SATURDAY, JULY 10, 1937

ELOQUENT FIGURES WO days ago Municipal Judge Karabell declared that traffic safety is the responsibility of the courts. The laws, he said, “are more than adequate.” Figures summarizing the June traffic record in Municipal Court bear him out. Twelve persons were killed and 217 injured in 432 accidents investigated by police last month. Of 889 drivers arrested for speeding, drunken driving and other serious violations, only 51 were assessed court costs by the five judges who heard the cases. Convicted motorists paid fines averaging only $2.72. Speeding, one of the most flagrant causes of accidents, brought fines averaging $6.60 to 106 offenders. Most significant figures, however, are those showing that more than one-third of all convicted violators escaped punishment. Judgment was withheld in cases of 136; fines were suspended for more than 200 others. In other words, the high percentage of traffic convietions is meaningless. This supposedly fine record turns out to be just another cover-up for the real facts about the city’s shameful automobile death list. When 54 reckless drivers pay fines totaling only $116, when only three fines totaling $11 are meted out among the 165 persons who ran red lights and disobeyed signals, and when more than a third of all offenders convicted during the month escape punishment, the enforcement of traffic laws in Indianapolis becomes a joke. Perhaps there are reasons for this collapse of enforcement. Is the evidence insufficient? Are cases poorly prepared? Is the public out of sympathy with the effort toa save 150 lives and thousands of injuries yearly in Indianapolis? Are the laws inadequate? We have seen no excuses offered. Until violators get swift and certain punishment—and by that we do not mean unreasonable fines and sentences that would make enforcement impossible—the slaughter on the streets of Indianapolis will continue.

WAGES, HOURS, BUREAUCRACY, LINGO ECTION FIVE in the Wages-and-Hours Bill has been modified by the Senate Labor Committee. That was the section which would have given the Labor Standards Board wage-fixing power beyond the minimum specified in the bill. It would have set up a Federal bureaucracy to invade every business of whatever sort that was operating on a wage scale higher than the minimum and under $1200 a year. It carried a weight of complications which threatened to be heavy enough to swamp the whole simple pur-

pose of the original idea—establishment of minimum wages, |

maximum hours and the abolition of child labor. It is well that such power is taken from the picture. And we hope, as we have said before, that much further simplification will be accomplished as the measure proceeds through Congress. For the bill in its original form was a spectacular example of what law writers can do to a simple objective that can be stated in 100 words of layman language but which when it comes out of the hopper contains, as did this bill, words numbering about 11,000, includes the kitchen sink and the water bucket, and specifies as did this one that “the singular includes the plural and the plural includes the singular,” with further highfalutin’ bar-association language such as “ ‘to a substantial extent’ means not casually, sporadically, or accidentally but as a settled or recurrent characteristic of the matter or occupation described, or of a portion thereof, which need not be a large or preponderant portion thereof.” Or, as the saying goes, “I’'se here to take the place of the Elder Johnson who, owin’ to a slight fluctuation among the asteroids, announces that he cain’t tantalize tonight and that unless man that is born of woman be pure of heart, he can in no wise enter the caucus.” Anyway, the Senate Committee revision gives hope that we may have a direly needed minimum-wage, maxi-mum-hour and child-labor law that won’t be adorned with so many legalistic paper panties that it can’t be recognized.

STILL ALL WRONG EVERAL months late, President Roosevelt sent for Senator Wheeler as formal debate on the court-packing bill was getting under way at the Capitol. They put their cards on the table. The President said the court bill must be passed. “If 1 were your worst enemy, Mr. President, I'd help you get it through,” Senator Wheeler replied. “But I'm your friend and this will kill your popularity. It is the difference between you coming out as a great President or a bad one. 1 don’t want to see that happen to you.”

But apparently this straight-from-the-shoulder talk made little impression on Mr. Roosevelt, and indications are he will press on for a personal victory over the Supreme Court. The bill now on his “must” list differs from his original proposal. Instead of permitting the President to pack six judges onto the Supreme Bench, all at one time, it would authorize him to pack on one judge a year for four years. Numerically it is just four-sixths as bad as the first plan. But since the principle involved is the same, the “compromise,” no less than the original, is all wrong.

WILL THE GENTLEMAN YIELD? SAID the A. F. of L.’s William Green: “No hostile employer of labor in America has done the cause of organized labor more harm than those who formulated, executed and administered the policies of the Committee for Industrial Organization during the last 18 months.” Replied the C. I. Os John L. Lewis: “I consider it merely the droolings from the pallid lips of a traitor.” And here, all along, we had been under the delusion that when it came to denouncing labor leaders, Tom Girdler had a copyright on all the really purple

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‘Washington

By Raymond Clapper

American Support of Economic Aid To Europe Is Seen, Provided Sincere Efforts to Secure Peace Are Made.

VV ASHINGTON, July 10.—It is significant that three times this week high Government officials have expressed concern over the tense situation in Europe. President Roosevelt has alluded to it twice and Sumner Welles, Undersecretary of State, discussed it at length in an address. These utterances were not for home consumption but for foreign consumption. What this Government does appear to be concerned about is not so much that Americans shall become stirred over the danger of a war in Europe but that European peoples can be persuaded to sit down and weigh the consequences before it is too late. In Fourth of July remarks, President Roosevelt said that he wished we could pass some of our national poise to other nations, and give them some of the fundamentals of our democracy. In a message to the University of Virginia Institute of Public Affairs, the President said the problem was how to avert this threatened disaster and establish conditions which would relieve existing tension, divert armament expenditures to more useful human purposes and assure economic and political peace. Welles elaborated upon this,

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” n UR own position is that while we cannot enter into political settlements we do stand ready to contribute our economic co-operation, particularly in reducing trade barriers and thus easing economic pressures upon other nations. Beyond that we stand ready to join in co-operative effort to limit and eventually reduce armaments. But the real effort, it is clear, must come from European leaders. While it is natural that American officials should have more sympathy for the democratic governments than for the dictatorships, they do emphasize that Europe’s present troubles grow out of a vicious circle

arising from injustices and maladjustments hanging over from the World War. They hope and urge that statesmen of the countries concerned will undertake collective bargaining among themselves, with a mutual willingness to make concessions that will spare them all from joint disaster. With such a spirit evidenced in Europe, it is safe to say that the American Government would be strongly supported by the American public in cooperating in economic efforts that might “elp to preserve peace.

PEGLER WINS AWARD

(Westbrook Pegler is on vacation. His daily column will be resumed upon his return.)

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Times Special EW YORK, July 10.—Westbrook Pegler's series of articles on income tax evasions, which appeared in his daily column in The Times, have won him this year’s award by The Headliners Club for the most outstanding work of general public ‘interest by a columnist. . Earl Johnson, club's award committee chairman, made the announcement this week on the eve of the organization's convention in Atlantic City, N. J. The climax of this will be a banquet at the Hotel Shelburne tonight, when Pegler will receive a gold plaque as a token of the club’s tribute. The ceremonies will be broadcast over the Columbia Broadcasting System at 7:30 p. m. (Indianapolis Time) and the story of award-winners’ achievements dramatized by the “March of Time” cast.

ASHINGTON, July 10.—The Rev. Dr. Stanley High—who got the sack as the official Scheherezade for selling one of his 1001 Arabian Nights en-

ministration memorandum—is in again. This new entertainment is liltingly entitled, “Win It Be Wallace?” It puts up a persuasive argument that the Secretary of ee Will be the Presidential candidate on the Demoeratic ticket for 1940. The case is persuasive in ts assertion that ry has used the vast treasure he has distributed to to build up a pro-Wallace farm organiactically every township in the country; organization of departmental chiefs ; unanimous in the thought of euchring their chief in the White House.

” " ” IF says that Wallace has in Julian Friant a great political manager who has handled his swollen patronage with Congress in such a way as to suit the politicians and that Wallace has kept himself cone stantly on the radio in the Administration's “Farm and Home Hour.” 4 All this is largely true. Tt is also true that, ‘ . Roosevelt did have to name a successor Ra a

The Hoosier Forum

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

WRITES TRIBUTE TO FAMILY PET By Mrs. Mont Newby

This is for dog lovers, and haters can read it too and perhaps be a little more concerned about their dogs. I'm writing this as a memorial to our beautiful shepherd collie, Prince, who died recently. He was our pal for almost 12 years and never in all those years left our premises unless accompanied by his master or myself. He never had a whipping. God created dogs to be friends of man, and so much is said about persons being bitten. Does it ever occur to parents to teach their children to be kind to dogs? Most children are so cruel with their pets. They kick them and beat them, and I saw a little boy take his dog's jaws and pry them so hard the dog tried to protect itself, but no, the boy held it. No wonder dogs want to bite. I would too if I were treated as some dogs are. I would suggest people put out an

dogs. The city wouldn't need so large a budget for rabies treatment if it put out troughs filled with water for dogs. This compulsory act now in effect is all nonsense. | If people kept their dogs at home, { they would be better off —the dogs, too.

My sympathy is for the dogs and |

{ not the owners of dogs. Many dogs | become ill and crave water. So In- | dianapolis would do well to urge | people 10 keep a pail of water handy tor a thirsty dog. It scoffers don't believe in human kindness toward dogs, a Visit to the pet cemetery out on E. 21st St. would convince them, when they read the inscriptions on the graves of the love man has for his dog. ” »

FAVORS TAX ON BICYCLES By a Taxpayer

I am one who is in favor of the boys paying taxes on bicycles, They are a menace to the street and sidewalk. I saw a woman who was struck by a boy on the sidewalk, and she was a complete wreck. Her clothes were all torn and ruined. I talked to the boy and he said he didn’t care. They don’t care who they run over. Let them pay a tax. They spend money for cigarets, shows and many other things they don’t need. If Disgusted has three boys who can afford wheels, let them or their parents pay for them, I have seen boys from my porch ride along in the middle of the street and dare the motorists to run over them. You are not safe on the sidewalk or street. Now, Disgusted, when you were a boy you had to work in the garden, but nowadays parents think all their children ought to do is to ride around and have a good time or bother someone else. It’s too bad you Republicans get so disgusted with the good things the Democrats are doing. » » IRWIN'S FAME RIDICULED By Daniel Francis Clancy, Logansport Three thousand egg-eyed citizens await appearance of Slayer of

Three, many equipped to snap their own pictures. Irwin responds to

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Stanley High's Latest Entertainment Presenting Wallace as Potential Presidential Candidate Is Cause for Considering Influence of Tugwell.

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shouts of photographers by climbing out of plane and posing. The top of the ladder—renown—the people's choice—fame! It must cause the ambitious, fame-thirsty young Americans some worry—trying to puzzle out which is the higher ranking: Slayer of Three, Slugger of One (Champion Prize Fighter), politiclan, jazz orchestra leader, or the fellow-who-won-with-a-home - run-in-the-last-of the-ninth. .

In Russia you're Comrade Smith, in France you're Citizen Smith—and in America you're Taxpayer Smith! . +. “C. I. O. Leaders Un-American, is A. F. of L. Charge”—headline. They're many things, the C. I. O.—but the one thing they are not is un-American! . . . Headline; “North Pole Has Milk Route.” Maybe so—it may have a | milkman, but I'll wager that it'll be |a long time before it has an ice | man.

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HOLDS PRESIDENT NEEDS TO BE DICTATOR

By Bull-Mooser, Crawfordsville

President Roosevelt has been accused of trying to be a dictator. In one sense of the word we expect our President to be a dictator.

Under our governmental and po= litical systems the President is the head of his party. He is the one that accepts the platform and he is the one responsible for seeing that platform carried out. We expect him to use the “big stick,” to be a dictator in seeing that the party promise to the people is carried out. The trouble with this nation for the last half century has been that our Presidents were not dictators enough in forcing elected represen-

SUCCESS

By JAMES D. ROTH

Let no failure frown Upon a future deed. in time you'll gain renown, And profit if you heed.

Failure is as a ladder long With broken rungs below. But at the top they are firm and strong. Have courage as you go.

So have faith and be of stout heart. All obstacles vanish in time. Then of success you'll win a part. I hope it will be thine.

DAILY THOUGHT

For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged; and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. Matthew 7:2.

HE seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong

if we do not feel right.—Haazlitt.

tatives to carry out their promise to the people. We have had too many Presidents like McKinley and Taft who ran on a platform for the people and after they were elected performed on a platform for big business.

Representative government can be nothing less than a failure if the President is not a dictator in seeing that the promise to the people is carried out. That is his most important duty.

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HITS TIMES FOR ‘RED HUNT EDITORIAL By E. FP. Maddox After reading the nice report of the mass meeting at Cadle Tabernacle the other evening, I am surprised to find in The Times of June 30 an editorial entitled “Red Hunt” stating: “The hair-raising speeches at the mass meeting sponsored here this week by the United Squadrons, Inc., indicate that a new

‘Red Hunt’ may be under way in Indiana.”

I happened to be at that mass meeting and my hair failed to rise at any of the aforesaid speeches. I call them good, but tame. In fact, I thought the Rev. Aschanhort's speech was rather pacifistic and was far less “hair-raising” than articles published in your own paper and in many books published by friends of Russia, and I think the whole speech would have passed the Russian censor. Please be fair.

So don't be alarmed. These men— Mr. Chaillaux and the Rev. Aschanhort—only gave a few facts con= cerning the menace of communism as every informed American already understands it. It is going to take some real “hair-raising” speeches to wake up the smug, self-satisfied American people to the fact that we are already in the midst of a real revolutionary movement. You say: “If ever we needed the approach of free discussion of all sides of public issues, and of give~ and-take instead of intolerance in settling controversies, this is the time.” All right, the speakers at the aforesaid mass meeting only exercised their constitutional right of free speech to denounce and expose what they consider a menace to our Government and our liberties. Tt looks like you are the intolerant party to this controversy.

” ” SAYS SPANISH FIGHTING TO GIVE AWAY MINES By D. K.

It appears now that the Spanish are fighting to see whether England or Germany will get their iron mines. . . . A 100 per cent American is a fellow who has been called both Fascist and Communist. , . Coin= cidence: The free-spending Roosevelt and thrifty du Pont clans join. E. I. du Pont de Nemours, Inc, float a new $50,000,000 preferred stock issue. Labor-economics problem: If unions had to incorporate, would C. I. O. be a holding company? . . . The Treasury should make exceptions for tax-saving personal holding companies when a wife is out for the “best-dressed woman in the world” title.

It Seems to Me

| By Heywood Broun

Maverick May Run Risk by Violating Congress’ Taboo on Humor, Writer Thinks, but Texan May Laugh Last,

VW ASHINGTON, July 10.—There are two ways in which a conservative may assail a progressive. Ie may attack him as a man who is trying to make a revolution or as a clown who is trying to make a joke. Maury

Maverick is so valuable a defender of the New Deal that his foes are using both methods of attack, sometimes in rapid alternation and occaw sionally both together out of the mouth of a blunw

derbus. As a matter of fact, Maverick is neither a revolution» ist nor a clown. He is a prog» ressive and a humorist. The gentleman from Texas drew some harsh criticism from sonie of the Washington correspondents Lefore the last election. The newspaper men of the Capital tend to be traditionalists. Maury broke an established rule. As a first-term member of the House he was not willing to sit back in silence and wear a freshman cap with a green button. He took vigorous part in many debates. But Maverick is now a sophomore, and ine is uot to be kidded out of the picture, for his following In the House is large, nascent and on the increase. Yet even now he is running a risk in challenging another congressional custom. It is a familiar belief in Washington that no man can get far in politics if he displays a sense of humor. Of course, he may crack jokes in the cloakroom or even josh a little with reporters, but in speaking to his fellow mem-« bers in the House or the Senate he must be deadly serious on all occasions. »

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» » T is generally conceded that John Sharp Williams was among the most brilliant men who ever came from the deep South to the halls of Congress, and yet even today, five years after his death, observers will sadly shake their heads and say that Senator Williams would have been a much greater power if he had only been able to resist the temptation of making an occasional satiric address. Congressmen don’t understand satire, and so they think it muss be either “bolshevism” or undignified levity. In spite of the risk I think that Maury Maverick is wise in bringing his keen humor along with him to Washington. Fortunately, his skill in the use of words need not rest wholly on newspaper stories,

sional Record, which will never attain any consid« erable circulation until it uses more illustrations and hits upon a snappier cover, ” ” ” AURY has written his autobiography under the title of “A Maverick American.” To me ib seems one of the most engrossing books ever to coma from a public figure. It has the zest of being hot off the press, since the author is up to his neck in the most vital legisiative battles of the day. He is, for instance, the House sponsor for the President's Supreme Court proposals. But in addition to immedi« acy the book has background. There is lovely stuff in

it about a boyhood in the Southwest, It is just as deeply rooted in the earth of this country as anything ever written by Ed Howe, and it is animated by a much more alert social conscience than the sage of Potato Hill ever possessed. The man is a good reporter because he is alive all over and observant. He has made it his business to keep in touch with things at first hand. He is a good laugher. Indeed, I would put him among the

best, for I feel certain that it will be his privilege to laugh last.

The Washington Merry-Go-Round

Senator McNary Receives Credit as Brains Behind Court Plan Opposition; Quiet Man From Oregon Drafted Strategy While Colleagues Shouted.

tertainments to the “Saturday Evening Post” instead of keeping it in the form of confidential Ad- |

One great trouble with a Democratic nomination for Mr. Wallace is that he doesn’t happen to be a Democrat—at least it only happened last November. That handicap might be overcome—but it is not a help.

:around whose flicker all pink intelligentsia of Georgetown have fluttered since 1933. He was oozed into the Cabinet on the urging of Rex Tugwell who was highpriest of the “bloodless revolution.” 2 s ” : EX sold Henry so completely to his associates that Wallace still remains their idol and hope. If any man stands as a symbol of the astonishing change of method on the New Deal, evidenced by the revolutionary proposals since January, that man is Mr. Wallace. Mr. Wallace looks and talks like a sturdy Midwest farmer. No casual acquaintance would credit his rugged mien with harboring Tugwellian heresy. Yet the Tugwell crew have used him for four years with rfect ease. If the boys who work behind the New 1 scenes can put Mr. Wallace in the Whité House, it ‘will be just like electing the whole Tugwell program and personnel. To the President, these people are just one hatch

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By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen ASHINGTON, July 10.-~The voice of the Senate opposition to the Supreme Court reform bill is the strident snd raucous bellow of Wheeler, Vandenberg, Burke, et al. But the brains of the opposition rests with a slender, self-effacing gentleman who, as far as the public knows, is as remote from the scene of battle as the North Pole. He is Charles L. McNary, senior Senator from Oregon and floor leader of the Republican forces in the Senate. Throughout the five Hoth of Havering 5nd mit tussling over the Supreme Court. McNary oy ne has EE aod in the forefront, Yet behind the scenes he has been the master mind of the fight against the President. » The antis never have made a major move without consulting him, and Senator Wheeler. their titular generalissimo, holds on to MecNary’s coat-tails like a child to its mother’s i

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T was MeNary who conceived the strategy ot keeping the Republicans in the background and letting the Democrats attack Roosevelt. It was McNary who conceived the motion to refer the Logan Come promise Bill back to committee, thus giving wobbly Democrats .a chance to vote against the President and yet have an alibi to J

And it was McNary who has been telling the lime= light-sesking antis in blunt, single-syllable terms what fools they are to play into Roosevelt's hands by threatening a filibuster, Even Administrationites ruefully admit that the greatest asset of the opposition in its protracted duel with the President has been the counsel and leader« ship of the Senator from Oregon. They also concede that he isthe biggest asset the Republican Party has on Capitol Hill. s 8 s TRANGELY enough, G. O. P. die-hards sometimes indulge in behind-the-hand muttering against McNary because he doesn’t rant and rave against the New Deal. They can’t forgive him for keeping his skirts clear of the Landon-Knox ticket and tending his own knitting. But what they forget is that in an election that saw Republicans bowled over like tenpins, Charley McNary defeated a powerful Demo cratic opponent and returned to Washington to cone tinue as leader of his party's ranks in Congress. In appearance and manner there is nothing of the politician about Charley McNary. He rarely makes a speech, never indulges hn forensics, has no calluses from breast-thumping. He ~ is one of the most approachable, even-tempered and best-liked men in Washington. The President and Administration leaders regard his judgment so hig and trust him so c ely that on occasion

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