Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 August 1937 — Page 12

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WEDNESDAY, AUG. 4, 1937

LESSON IN LIFE-SAVING N May of thig year Municipal Court was lenient with traffic law violators. Eleven persons were Killed in Marion County traffic that month. During June the courts were even more lax and the automobile death list for the period totaled 12, After this record wag exposed and the courts began cracking down on offenders, traflic convictions during July almost doubled the May figure and fatalities dropped to six. If figures mean anything, a continuation of real en-

forcement should save at least 30 lives during the re-

mainder of 1937.

EXCEPTIONS TO DECENCY “T WOULD abolish a wage scale below a decent standard of living just as | would abolish slavery. If it disturbed business, it would be the price we must pay for good citizens. —Senator Borah. Isn't that fair enough? If so, then why all this discretionary stull in the \WageHour Bill? Why a bureaucracy to make exceptions, to gu from Washington into every crossroads and hamlet of the country, and deal with the poor-mouth industries who will contend that a decent wage would bring ruin? Why not write a decent wage in the law itself and by that process cut out the bureaucracy and the discretion? Make allowances, realistically, for differentials as between North and South-——taking into account weather, heating bills, freight rates, and those other things which are pertinent—but cover the problem by statute, not by a Board with a carpetbag full of authority to exempt, world without end. Chis, it seems to us, is a matter for lawmaking, not buck-passing. And it is one of the most important in this generation. Since the question is still before the House, and since

a craving for adjournment is evident, we desire to remind

Congressmen that they are hired by the year.

LABOR RESPONSIBILITY I ABOR, the newspaper of the standard railroad broth- “ erhoods, angrily answers charges about the “irresponsibility” of labor by declaring: “The regular labor movement is about the most responsible institution in this country. Take the 21 standard railroad labor organizations as an example, Some of them have been doing business with the carriers for between * 80 and 60 years. “In all that time not one of them has violated an agreement entered into with their employers, and not one of them has been convicted of violating a State or Federal law. “Can any considerable group in the business world equal that record?” We are glad to veprint these statements from Labor, because they ave true. It is well to remember that the conditions revealed hy sit-down strikes, sympathetic strikes, jurisdictional strikes and contract violations do not apply to all organized labor. But, just as an irresponsible or dishonest minority in business has been a tremendous embarrassment to the honest majority of businessmen, so extremists in labor are today menacing the entire union movement. And those businessmen most willing to deal with organized labor have the least complaint about “irresponsibility.”

HE NEEDS YOUR HELP

PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT needs the help of rank-and- |

| charge or insinuate that Elliott Roosevelt has made

file citizens. Unless he gets it, pressure groups at work on Congress are apt to make hash of his efforts to balance the budget.

overridden in the House and Senate, setting a precedent for raids on the Treasury that threaten to cost the taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars. The bill is typical of a new crop of pressure legislation which organized minorities are trying to harvest at the public expense. The Senate voted 71 to 19 to kill the veto, concurring with the House in its topheavy vote to override.

Minton voting for the veto and VanNuys to reject it. In 1933, to check an epidemic of foreclosures and permit farmers to stay on their farms, the Government moved in with a liberal lending policy, taking over billions of dollars worth of sour mortgages at low rates and on easy terms.

As the President pointed out in his veto message, the bill which Congress passed in response to pressure, continu- |

General Hugh Johnson Says—

ducing others, would require a Treasury subsidy of $30,000, |

ing some of the emergency low-interest rates and even re-

000 in the next fiscal year alone. I'here 1s no justification ‘for it. cannot stand the strain.

in the depth of the depression, some Tories declared | that the Government should not lend money to citizens in |

distress, that in a democracy the lender-horrower relationghip between the Government and citizens was unworkable. Unless the majority of citizens stand behind the President

in his fight, the pressure minorities will surely prove that

the Tories were right.

THIS HELPS A LITTLE

ERE is a bit of good news for income-tax payers: Not

that taxes will be lower, but that the process of paying them may be made a trifle easier next year. The U. S. Sen-

ate has passed a measure by Senator Walsh of Massachu- |

setts providing that returns may be mad vithout the formality of an oath. The present requirement that each individual filing a return must swear to its correctness means that he must go to the trouble and expense of having a notary public attest his statement—needless trouble and expense, because a taxpaver who knowingly makes a false return can be prosecuted just the same if he doesn’t make it under oath as

if he does.

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By Westbrook Pegler

Administration Is Called Upon for Definition of Public Morals in Light Of Some Examples Set by New Deal. |

| NEW YORK, Aug. 4.—As one who desires | to live in a state of grace, | wish some- |

"one in the Administration would straighten |

me out on some matters of doubt, Mr, | Roosevelt spoke quite sharply about the | civic morals of certain prominent citizens a short time back and I wonder if we are supposed to | lock to the White House and the Government for | our example. To be quite frank, that example has | seemed rather gummy in some cases, There was the case of the souvenir postage stamps that Mr, Farley said he wasn't aware that these stamps possessed any extraordinary value, and he may be believed. However, philatelists estimated the value of these gifts as high as $100,000. Mr Roosevelt hime self is a stamp collector who does know the difference between a rarity and an ordinary stamp. These sheets became -his personal property, and the fact that a wrong had been done seemingly was acknowledged when, after a clamor from eight | million stamp collectors scattered about the country, the sheets were duplicated and made available at | {ace value. ® » » HEN we had the indictments of the Huey Long | gang on income tax charges prepared by the | Treasury Department at a time when Huey was causing great inconvenience for the deserving Demo- | erate in Louisiana. Then Huey was killed, and his | gang surrendered to Mr. Farley in a political reconciliation. Shortly after, those defendants who had not already been tried, were absolved of uniawful intent in a little statement observing that there had been a change of atmosphere in Louisiana. Among the patriots thus whitened was Mr. Seymour Weiss, Huev's collector and treasurer, who went fishing with Mr. Farley last winter and subsequently lent his presence to a social occasion in Mr. Roose-

velt's honor in New Orleans.

Then we had Mr. Roosevelt's son, Elliott, working

| for William Randolph Hearst in the radio department | of the versatile magnate's varied activities.

Radio is | a peculiar trade which is beholden to a Federal Commission for operating licenses. Distinctly I do not

illegal use of his relationship. But here is the son cof a President who criticizes other men's morals working for an interest which can gain or suffer according

Already his veto of the Farm Loan Bill has been to the disposition of a political commission.

EXT we have the recent outburst of moral indignation against numerous private citizens who, by the Treasury Department's own admission, | had complied with the income tax laws but had op- | posed Mr. Roosevelt. How do you like those for civic | morals, in view of the fact that when Congressman | Ham Fish, a Republican, wanted to ask a few ques- | tions about the President's own income tax the Committee in charge wouldn't let him open his mouth |

: wn y ; | until he agreed to say nothing about Mr. Roosevelt's | In this economy issue Indiana's Senators’ votes were split, 5 : Y

returns? Now we have old Charlie Mike, the genius of the Democratic Party and a familiar figure around the | White House, accepting a job with another radio | company which must do business with the Radio

| Commission, and we also have the President signing | | his autograph on a lot of souvenir programs for sale | | to suckers at $250 each.

If so, a lot of us will |

Is all this civic morality? want to readjust our handicaps.

THE INDIANAPOLIS

smiled at a traffic cop this morning, | LOrs.

! Rooseveltian Democrats of further | hypocrisy, it might be well for it | That life had tired him so.

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LAUDS RESULTS OF SAFETY CAMPAIGN

By Reformed Thanks to the current safety campaign which The Times has inspired, it is getting to be a pleasure to drive home at night, Traffic has slowed | up, people are driving along with better tempers, and it seems that we might be on the way to learns ing how to live. I do think I owe you thanks. You've taught me, through experience, that I can get to 38th St. just |

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| Supreme Court, remember that it

as swiftly at 25 miles an hour as | for Governor Townsend to expel its I used to do at 45. And mv nerves | Propaganda from the diseased minds : of Indiana voters. but I even | quires an enormous force of educa- |

are a lot better.

It may be treason, In order to

| of a group of educ ®t [to complete this LARGE NUMBER FOUND UNFIT TO DRIVE By B. C.

Through scientific tests being | made among automobile drivers, | many new hapards and means of | correcting them are being revealed lo educate One of the most startling items in this line comes from the last Mil waukee automobile show. Of 5000 visitors tested there for sight, 48 per cent were found to have defective vision, and 240 of those examined used only one eve. | " The supposition is that those 5000 HAILS DEFEAT individuals, having taken the trou- | ¢coURT BILL ble to attend the show, were dri- | vers or potential drivers. But near | BY Otto N. Moore ly half of them were found physically unfitted to meet the require- | ments of absolutely safe driving. | cal entity and the It is staggering, then, to think of | how many of the millions of others | now driving in America are similarly handicapped. Until these defects are located and remedied, everyone who ventures on the street, aloot or in & car, faces a stiff trading session with death—sight unseen,

tensely that they and hungry if th their

the merit system gether practical,

it over the Supre

courageous states

oo THINKS MERIT PLAN SOMEWHAT IDEALISTIC | By Hiram Lackey Calling Governor Townsend lo attention, The Times accuses Indiana | New Deal Democrats of inconsistency and party disloyalty | He had not mean through failure to put the merit] Know, plank of the Democratic platform | Until one day he into operation, where quiet Before The Times accuses Indiana | And then they s truth

By MAIDA S

Yearned for places . . He always smiled

to indulge in a little thinking designed to enable it to understand | They saw his life those whom it criticizes. We are | Helping them giving The Times credit for being while his soul sincere, lonely, Christians believe in the Golden | Ang none took Rule, but it is too expensive; they | ——— can't afford to carry it to its logical | conclusion. { Since The Times, along with other | idealists, so obviously feels that it | must combine the practical with its | idealism, it scarcely is in a position | to criticize Governor Townsend for not wishing to turn the political power of this state over to the ene- | mics of the masses whom he loves. Again, we have not read a single | Indiana newspaper that has been [the feel of me fair with Mr. Minton and Mr. Town- | Wordsworth.

him that hath shall spare the and shall save

Action to Get at the Real Problem of Relief and Check Up on Federal Spending Long Needed, and Rep. Maverick's Proposals Fill the Order.

EW YORK, Aug. 4 —Maury Maverick has introduced in the House a cluster of proposals which boil down to an attempt to find out just what and

| where the problem of relief of unemployment is and | just how and where the billions that have gone to | solve it have been spent.

The spending has gohe on for four years to a point that threatens the continued credit of the United States and yet this is the first vigorous move ever made to find out what it is all about, Now that apparent indifference seems incredible. There is no precedent for such a thing in our history.

| We shall look back on it some day as a freak tem-

porary abdication of the responsibility and power of Congress. It can't go on unless we have in fact changed our form of Government to a beneficient despotism. » ” » HE principal check of the people's elected representatives against seizure of arbitrary power by

| the Executive is the power of the purse. Congress is | supposed to say in considerable detail just how public

money shall be spent. Rarely before has Congress

| appropriated vast sums to an individual to spend in | his unlimited discretion. Even in war, appropriations | to the Executive for special and undefined purposes

have been grudgingly given and relatively small in

lace has had a similar power and now is asking for its great extension over both taxation and spending. To take the money contributed in 48 states and redistribute in such states and localities and in such amounts as the Executive may desire, is a power to

reward and punish—a political lever of greater effec- |

tiveness than any ever granted an individual in this country. Mr. Maverick is at pains to show that he is speaking in no condemnation of Harry Hopkins, but only in favor of a prudent review of the greatest trusteeship ever imposed on one man. 8 » ”

HAT is just—so far as it goes. I doubt if any official ever conducted any vast spending program with fewer indications of graft, favor or self-seeking and certainly no single individual ever spent 1-100th as much money. Harry Hopkins is one of the ablest, cleanest and most unselfish of public servants. But Harry makes no bones about his idea of what he is there for and it is not just relief of suffering for the jobless. He is the leading prophet of the Huey Long plan to “share-our-wealth” as a permanent principle of government. He wants Washington to take it away from the “haves” by taxation and give it to the “have-nots” as an act of bounty. That also is a political lever of infinite force. That too is the power to reward and punish and to do it ultimate a amie aoe to J. ence : bluntly, power s and ibe votes—no matter in what

(Times readers are invited

vour letter short, have a chance.

be withheld on request.)

Governor Townsend must have some reward to hold aloft,

True, we have men in Indiana who hate injustice and deceptions so in- |

their number is not large. do develop more men of their kind, jor decrease newspaper propaganda the sort that lauds Mr, VanNuys— | a

For five months the Senate been struggling to regain its politi-

insisting not only on retaining his power over Congress but extending

The people of this country should | never cease to be grateful for the

Senators who thwarted this igno-

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They had not known his soul had strange

beloved faces.

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DAILY THOUGHT | For he shall deliver the needy | when he crieth; the poor also, and

needy. —Psalms 72:12, 13.

Te charities that soothe, and | heal, and bless, lie scattered at |

heir views in religious conluded., Make so all can Letters must

ut names will

ally, . If the President has other reforms

gf ’ st | The Times mus to offer, let him offer them in their

is no small task

tively. Let him abandon secretiveness, subversiveness, indirection, coercion and usurpation, They are the methods of Stalin, Hitler and Mussolini. They have no place In America,

This task resecure the services ators large enough

measureless task rr

| SAFETY EDUCATION IS URGED By George E. Currier, National Safety would go ragged Council at were necessary fellowmen. But | Until we

Street and Highway Safety in Con- | necticut considered a survey of motor vehicle speed upon the state highways, The survey was mace by member of the Commission,

will not be alto- | Charles J. Tilden, Strathcona pro-

fessor of engineering mechanics at

Yale University, wesults: The average speed of 01,044 vehicles observed and chgcked { under varying conditions on differ=- | ent road surfaces was 38.9 miles an hour. James R. Angell, president, Yale | University, in a statement on the work of the Connecticut Department of Motor Vehicles, record, in part, as follows: “I have the deep conviction that no amount of legal regulations can wholly cure the (traffic accident) difficulties from which we now suf- _ | fer. Only if we succeed in making [our automobile driving public viyidly conscious of the obligations of | care and courtesy on the roads, and | united to detect and punish those | who are heedless of the safety and | the rights of others, shall we apso fondly on their | proach a reasonable solution of our | troubles.”

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spad | Sibert ior m8.

With the Court bill defeated, the members of Congress retain their greatest alibi. They can go on passing legislation and beat their a sacrament, manly chests before their conin their need stitutents, calling on the record of starved, and [ their own votes on all types of legislation, and then blame the Court for invalidation, - The Court bill was an anti-alibi bill in fact. gress responsible for its acts. But | P. T. Barnum was right, What if | the acts of Congress, combined with

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time to heed.

no helper. He poor and needy,

\ the souls of the | duce a collapse of our economic

| system? Regulating the system is (only a gesture anyway. It really lacks co-ordination which is the product of intelligence. The court like flowers.— | of last resort to determine sound-

n ness of law is public buying power.

has been a war to prevent | from within in high places. | saved us from dictatorship. |

“| It 1s so rapidly returning economic- | send in their fight to unpack the |

{ entirety, not piecemeal and secre- |

The Governor's Commission on |

went on |

It really made Con- |

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‘By Heywood Broun

Competing With Thunderstorm in Cleveland Speech, Broun Is Loser

—Not Even a Statue Would Listen,

HICAGO, Aug. 4.—There used to be a drinking song which began, “Cut off from the land that bore us, betrayed by the land we find.” It ended with the admonition, “Stand, stand to your glasses steady and | drink to your sweetheart's eyes.” Meaning no offense to the people of this fair city, that is precisely how I feel when I get more than

40 miles from New York. I am not parochial to the extent of thinking that the road is dull, On the contrary, Cleveland, Toledo and Detroit have Kept me up far later than the rigorously set

| deadline which I | for myself in Manhattan, \ a In Cleveland it wasn't the peo=

ple so much as the climate. For the first time in my ilfe I had the opportunity of trying to make a speech in competition with a raging thunderstorm. I defiled the N lightning. When the official re[a . sults were posted they ran, Storm | first, Ajax second, Broun trailing. Still IT might have done better if Tom Johnson had not betrayed me. He's dead, of course, but the meeting was held at the base of the statue which Cleveland has erected in his honor. When the proceedings began the sky was pretty dark. The first man on the program talked for half an hour and then turned the meeting over to me. At that point things looked blacker. I don’t like the thunder and I hate lightning and be= sides the crowd of five or six thousand had come primarily to hear Homer Martin.

Mr. Broun

nu u T was not only my wish but my pleasure to be brief because the bolts were shooting this way and that way across the public square. As usual I attempted to take in too much territory. Pointing to the sullen and threatening sky I cried out: "This storm is typical of reaction. It looks dark, It will make a lot of noise and racket and the whole thing will be over in half an hour.” The moment I finished that statement the rain began to come down not in drops, but buckets. By this time the amplifier had blown out. I tried cupping my hands and shouting, I was reminded of a humore

ous anecdote about the Irishman, but people still cone tinued to leave the meeting in droves.

” A T the end of one minute and 35 seconds it dawned on me that Tom Johnson and I were alone. All the other speakers had sought shelter across the street, The crowd had done likewise. But since I had under« taken to minimize the Cleveland cyclone I had a | strong desire to stay and ride out the whirlwind. In- | deed, I turned and began all over again adressing my | remarks to the statute of Tom Johnson. He manie fested no signs of approval. I used gestures. I shook my fist in his face demanding some sign as to which side he favored. The statue of Tom Johnson remained immobile, In a burst of adolescent petulance I took my sodden straw hat and jammed it down about his ears. “All right old frozen face,” I cried, “you won't talk, but my hat is in the ring and you see that it stays there.” It was so dark by now that I could not see my hand in [ front of my face but it seemed to me that the bronzes Tom Johnson winked as if to say, “Done and done.” Some day I'm going back to Cleveland to find out what he's done with my straw hat.

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The Washington Merry-Go-Round

Minton Was Only Senator Strike When White House

By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen ASHINGTON, Aug. 4.—Definite indication of how irked President Roosevelt has been | lately at his biggest campaign contributor, the C. I. O., can be gained from the secret reaction of the White | House to the C. I. O.'s recent blast against the Adminfstration, The C. I. O. issued a statement charging that the Administration had completely ignored the protection of labor's life and rights during the steel strike; following which White House's Marvin McIntyre telephoned several Senators asking them to answer the C. 1. O. and defend the President. Mr. McIntyre made it quite clear that he was speaking for the President. How many Senators he talked to is not known, but two of them, Schwellenbach of Washington and La Follette of Wisconsin, turned him down. They are ardent supporters of the President, but they both have a high regard for John L. Lewis, and also feel that probably the C. I. O. was right. Finally Mr. McIntyre found one Senator, Minton of Indiana, who agreed to come to the President's rescue, Subsequently Mr, Minton made a mild defense of the Administration's policy. ” - ” HEAT is not the only product that is Kansas these days. Politics also has © boil Sve: Republican scouts re that des RA 4 's ~ La ne : a

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Willing to Defend Roosevelt Stand on Steel Aid Called for Replies to C. |. O. Charges.

| Present development is a move to groom Clyde M, | Reed as the Republican nominee to oust Kansas’ lone | Democratic Senator, George McGill. Alf Landon was Mr. Reed's campaign manager when the latter was elected Governor in 1929. But the two quarreled later, and Clyde maintained a disrespectful neutrality when Alf aspired to the Presidency last year. Mr. Reed is of the same piece of goods as George Norris. He is strong with the farmers and with ore ganized labor. Because Mr. McGill has gone down the line for Mr. Roosevelt 100 per cent, the Democratic saviours of the Constitution are grooming Randolph Carpenter as his opponent. Mr. Carpenter was a Democratic Congressman who retired from the lists because of his dislike for the New Deal. With this possible split in Democratic ranks, it is not at all unlikely that Kansas will return to the Re= publican column. & ¥ 8

rumors that he had returned to Russia lo face a firing squad, authentic reports state that Alexander Antonovich Troyanovsky, popular Soviet Ambassador, will return to his Washington post early in , Ambassador Troyanovsky accompanied the first : inspolar fliers back to Moscow. Gossip

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