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FRIDAY, AUG. 6, 1937

OUR “GIT HUNG” CONGRESS sOME random observations on the Washington scene— and observations can only be random under the circumstances, because the whole show is random. The wind-up of Congress is dominated by the “go | ahead and git hung” psychology. Walled up behind a single | issue (the Court) from January to late July, a flood of legislation is now sweeping over the Senate and the Hofise, with all the so-called statesmen grasping for a log, a spar, or a piece of an outhouse, in hope that the current will carry them home. Wages and hours, housing, two of the most complex problems ever, being decided in two or three weeks; whether 12 cents should be loaned on a product now selling for about 10 cents, said issue not being even on the calendar; a tax question as complicated in its languages as Greek, Latin or calculus; court reform; sugar quotas; all being settled in a state of mind of “come on boys, we've got to catch a train.” As the general manager of the movie company said in “Once in a Lifetime,” “we'll show em we can get things done without wasting a lot of time thinking.” The best we the people can get out of all this is a halfhaked menu, and indigestion of the populace. And we the people are supposed to rule. That's the ironic part of it. We are the ones who, under the democratic ideal, are supposed to pass in our general elections on the wisdom of the acts of our representatives. And how many of *‘we” have even had a chance to read the housing measure, for example, which spends 20 millions a year for 60 years and tosses in a 700-million credit to boot. How many of the Senators and Congressmen have read it, for that matter? How many have read the original Wages-and-Hours Bill, and have followed the labyrinth through the Senate, and the flock of changes in the House Committee—a measure involving a policy as complicated as NRA, and introduced for first consideration only in the last week of May? On this, how many of us are in the know? How many, who want to see the idea work, but who realize that an idea is one thing and its successful execution another? Have we had time to digest? You answer. But we are the ones who pay. We are the ones who will wake up a year from now, or five or 10 and say—""When did it all happen?” Well, let us make a note of this. Tt happened in the summer of 1937. Our Congress met in the first month of that vear. It engaged in a battle that began in Feb. ruary. That didn't end until six months later. Then our lawmakers started making a stew. They threw in the carrots, the potatoes, the beans, the garlic, the raw beef, the this and the that. They lit the fire. But it never came to a boil. It hardly got warm. But, nevertheless, we eat. And, let it be remembered—these cooks are hired by

the year. EDITOR'S NOTE—If there seem to be a few mixed metaphors and an occasional scrambled allusion in the above, please recall that we said “random.”

DR. AMOS W. BUTLER

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W. But! front rank of states in social welfare.

For more than 30 years he was active in national and | international groups dealing with welfare, charity and crim- | These, plus his deep intarest in natural science, |

nology. caused him to travel extensively attending conferences as delegate or adviser. Born in Brookville 76 vears ago, Dr. Butler came here in 1898 as secretary and executive officer of the Board of State Charities. president of the State Truancy Board. He then was secretary of the Board until 1921. Dr. Butler ‘was president of the National Conference

of Charities and Corrections in 1906 and 1907, a member of | the White House Children’s Conference in 1909, chairman |

of the Committee on the International Prison Conference in 1910, secretary of the American Prison Association, 19051907, and president, 1909-1910. later president of the Indiana Society for Mental Hygiene. The list of his other similar activities is lengthy. Author of important welfare legislation, prominent as an ornithologist, a worker in civic affairs, Dr. Butler con-

tinued his keen interest in public welfare after his retire- |

ment a few years ago. Indiana loses an outstanding citizen in his death.

SUGAR-COATING PREFERRED

FRANCIS X. COYNE, a Massachusetts legislator, proposes |

to make stage and screen performers, wrestlers and boxers stop “fooling the public with sugar-coated names.” His measure would impose a $1000 fine or a three-month

jail term on any public entertainer who appears under an |

assumed name. Mr. Coyne’s big idea is to let the public know whether it is being entertained by aliens. But how? Mighty few names are indigenous to America, except those of the Red Indians, and there may be some doubt about them. ‘Gladys Smith was born in Canada, but it certainly wasn't to conceal that fact that she became Mary Pickford. On the stage and screen and in the arena there's more in a name than Mr. Shakespeare seemed to think. The people of Massachusetts may not be grateful if forced to depend for entertainment on actors, actresses and athletes with names like Cyrus J. Pennypacker, Joseph B. Doakes, Lizzie Jenks, Mehitabel Simpson, Willie Perkins and Andrew Jackson Hicks—gcod domestic names, surely, but not calculated to appeal to the popular imagination in quite the same way as Lionel Buckingham, Gloria ‘Gorgeous or One-Round Battling Wildeat Corbett Junior.

Indianapolis, which boasts of being the largest city in the world without water transportation, has a mew naval armory.

| breakers scabs,

ent that some may have forgotten, Dr. Amos | ler was instrumental in putting Indiana in the |

He also served from then until 1912 as |

He was a founder and |

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Fair Enough

By Westbrook Pegler

Application of Author's Ideas, as Seen Expressed in Book on Lewis, Would Bring Slaughter, Is Belief.

NEW YORK, Aug. 6.—In a biography of John L. Lewis, written by Cecil Carnes, there are two pages dealing with the Herrin massacre of 1922, in which 21 strikebreakers were slain by union men. Mr. Lewis him-

self formally deplored the butchery on be-

half of his United Mine Workers. The strikebreakers were members of a union, but that union was in bad standing with the American Federation of Labor, just as is Mr. Lewis’ 'C. 1. O. This, in the opinion of Mr. Carnes, placed them outside the law. Mr. Carnes

| does not go that far, but by the | same reasoning it would seem ex-

cusable of the members of the A. F. of L. to make such war ‘on

| ‘the ‘'C. 1. 'O. today.

calls the strikebut ‘the 'C. 1. 'O. people would be scabs, too, in the eyes of the ‘A. F. ‘of 'L. if, ih ‘a jurisdictional fight between the two bodies, the C. I. O. should attempt to man the jobs. “Strikebreaking,” savs he, “was a risky as well as a despicable business, and that is why higher wages were paid. The very fact that

Mr. Carnes

| operators could go on at these inflated pay schedules

indicated to the miners that all their economic troubles could be obviated if the operators were less greedy and there were no short-sighted laborers to cut the collective throat of regular workers.

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CPP UT, just as silicosis and tuberculosis were occupational diseases among the miners, lead poisoning, a very sudden attack with sound effects. was that of the strikebreaker. It has been human weak-

ness, even in lawful society, to fight murder with |

murder, and, in a strict sense, strikebreakers in the coal fields were murderers. If you help in the slaying you are in on it, and strikebreaking is, per se, evidence.” So strikebreaking is murder, punishable by murder, and a strikebreaker, under the conditions used by Mr. Carnes in the Herrin case, is anvone who works on a struck job, even though he belongs to a union hostile to the union claiming jurisdiction in the plant. This seems a dangerous belief to apply to the labor field generally in this day, with many disputes in progress between two organizations each claiming 3,000.000 members. ”n wh HERE were casualties on both sides,” says Mr. Carnes, “and when the strikers finally captured some of the scabs they hanged them. It was very primitive murder, rot as neat as, say, the executions of women in New York State's electric chair. But it was done just as finally. Coal mining, like starving, is primitive business.” Aside from the demure understatement contained in the phrase, “there were casualties,” Mr. Carnes seems to indicate a belief which, extended to the recent little steel strike of the C. I. O., would have resulted in the worst slaughter this country has seen since the Civil War. Indeed, Mr. Lewis’ leaders in Youngstown intimated to President Roosevelt that any afttemnt operate the plant would cause violence and it would appear that they must have expected the C. I. O. to take the offensive, because the nonunion workers. who were regular employees and not imported strike - breakers, obviously had no intention to come outside and start it. On the contrary, they were the o:es who wanted protection.

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: t the White House—By Herblock

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FRIDAY, AUG. 6, 1037

DO YOU SUPPOSE HE'S THINKING ABOUT THE

COURT APPOINTMENT

The Hoosier Forum

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

CLAIMS F. D. R. IS “OF AND FOR PEOPLE” Faithful Observer What was the matter with Paul Surely he has for-

(Times teaders are invited to ‘express their views in these columns, religious con-

troversies excluded. Make

| Then—saying

| that Mr. Roosevelt favored such an | unconscionable plan. “‘N6 Senator can | change his mind quicker than 1"— | he took the bill as his own, attached its

your letter short, so all can

| his name to it, became chief

The Great Benefactor—By Kirby

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It Seems to Me

By Heywood Broun

‘| Agree in Principle, but=' This Comment Makes Broun See Red; He Finds Example of It in Wage Bill,

NEW YORK, Aug. 6.—Whenever anvhody says, “1 agree with you in principle,

| neglect

| without

| another,

gotten the results created by the of the Senate to pass or approve of Article 10 of the League of Nations fostered by President Wilson. Italy moved in on Abyssinia and stole Selassie’s kingdom provocation. Japan annexed Manchuria and just can’t be satisfied with one slice of stolen melon but at this time is stealing while Mother England's

hands are tied because of internal

| strife. | invaded by none other than Mus- [ solini and Hitler at the expense of

The Spanish battlefields are

Spain. Were I one who disapproved of Article 10 back in Wilson's Administration, I just couldn't be

have a chance. Letters must be signed, but | be withheld on request.)

names will

committee at $10.000 per year to {ry to navigate our President out of the tangle he has gotten into.

It seems to me that J. E. should stop and think, when we have to place six men to help our President at $10,000 a year, when the Government is taking in one dollar for every two dollars spent, and when Congress voted Sol Bloom of New York $360,000 to produce a hook on the Constitution. You may secure one of these coprighted books from

sponsor.

Declaiming that “I may be shaken from my convictions, but IT will not be shaken from my Senate seat,” he

| presided with gracious firmness over

the Judiciary Committee hearings, declaring all the while, “No compromise! Six judges or none! We must have knees of unwedgeable oak!” Then he was one of the first accept the four-judge compromise, Consistent in his inconsistency to the end, when the packing plan collapsed he voted to send the bill back to committee, saving: “My head is bowed but unbloody.” “I wish someday 1 could have a victory,” he added, “50 1 could prove

to |

proud of that fact after surveying the results of the Senate's failure. To speak of the present, it might be well to point out the dictator bugaboo. I can’t help thinking of the famous 5-to-4 decisions with the Chief Justice in the middle to ap- | prove or nullify laws passed by a Congress and Senate composed of hundreds of able men and women as well as the Chief Executive who was elected by far a larger vote of confidence than any other President, because he plainly stated prior to the election that he had just be[gun to fight. We al} know in the future there will be other Presidents elected to dence.” | fill Mr. Roosevelt's place, but in my I would (time I can proudly say F. D. R was the first President of and for { the people in these United States [as far back as I can remember. It might be well to give the gentlemen a tip on Senator VanNuys. Be you Demodat or Republican, pro or anti-New Deal, VanNuys stays at | home in 1938. | They tacked the title of dictator (on Paul V. McNutt, not only one of Indiana's most distinguished |‘ Governors, but one respected for honor and efficiency throughout 48 states, placing Indiana first as compared to its 1931 distinction of being the laughing stock of the na- | tion. | » ” u | VANNUYS DEFENDED AS COURT PROTECTOR | By A, J. McKinnon | Mr. J. E. of Morgantown, it seems, did a very noble act five vears ago | when he voted for Senator VanNuvs | T tee] that Senator VanNuvs thought | that under Roosevelt the sun would | surely shine on America. When a man like J. E, stands up | today for Roosevelt and even states | the Supreme Court is to blame, then | we are sorry for that man. I am | sure that J. E. would vote to do [away with the Court and establish a makeshift government with no authority to decide what is or is not ‘constitutional. I also feel that Mr. J. E. cannot produce proof that the Court was wrong in its findings in the last five | vears. The fact is, there is nothing | | wrong with the Court. Senator | VanNuys knows that, but there is | something wrong with the President.

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any Representative from Indiana, as cach member of Congress is to disBut make sure that you have the Constitution handy to refer to when vou read it. Mr. J of politics aside, and not The best

to news, that next the Court is broadcast to the people on “Confi-

advise your radio spiked to the floor, as it is liable to turn over contain peal on the unconstitutional money No, our country and going the same route as Europe since his Court plan nas failed. He that Democratic plank in the last elec“The Court be changed to suit me.”

» ENJOYED ASHURST'S CONSISTENT INCONSISTENCY

the Court propacking Senator | Henry Fountain Ashurst. A few days before the President proposed the bill, the Arizona Senator indignantly denoun®d rumors

THE QUILTER | By JAMES D. ROTH

Master of patient art, A noble soul and true. Sitting from world apart, As she fashions a quilt for you. |

Oh, no, you must but look Upon this honored gift, Then store in mystic nook. Of fond and treasured drift.

DAILY THOUGHT that the Lord

great, and that our Lord is above all gods. —Psalms 135:5.

F God did not exist it would We | necessary to invent him.—Vol- | democratic ‘principles, fascism can |

that T am just as gracious in victory as in defeat.” hb % Ww LABOR MUST KEEP POWER, NEW DEAL FOES TOLD By One of the Masses Let those who attack the judiciary | reform bill as being unconstitutional indicate for once just exactly what unconstitutional about it. They The number more

BE. it ‘pays times, lay get sold on of them may

the

lie and know they lie. [of justises has been altered than once and may he again. The masses, who consist of lahorers, farmers and small middle men, have as good a right as the economic royalists to control the Supreme Court. At least turn about should be fair play. Labor produces the wealth of the country. Let labor take a break for once. The over-rich defy the Constitution and evervthing else to | continue their way. Why must they always have power? If the great | masses want to take power, why not? Whatever the great decide to do, will not that be democracy? What a few multimillionaire economic royalists may do, | what is that? To be sure, plutocracy, and ‘nothing else, Certainly | | nobody shall acquire a headache [thinking that out, 80, if we, the masses, shall retain our power to have our NLRBs and our civil liberties committees it means simply that we, the great masses, are taking a break for once and some democracy. Let us not only retain but enhance the same. | » ” » | |

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| DECLARES NAZIS HAVE [CAMPS IN U. S. | By Subscriber | | Why don't our “Bunker Hill Patriots” hunt as zealously for fascism | | as for a Red bugaboo? There are 21 Nazi American-Ger- | man Bund training camps in the |U. 8 and their orders come from Hitler. From some mysterious source | they receive large sums to carry on | their antidemocracy campaign. Fascism and capitalism work together, and democracy eannot occupy the same house with either for | long. If vou are lazy and inconsist- | ent, fascism will overcome you, but | if vou are consistent and believe in |

be defeated. |

| The House has voted a siXx-man

General Hugh Johnson Says—

Assertion That Government Can Soak the Rich and Turn

To the Poor Is a Fraud, for

ASHINGTON, Aug. 6. The worst fraud on the American people is the assertion that | they don't have to pay for the blind and boundless | extravagance of Government, that the rich pay for ‘it, that a wise and popular government ean take money away from those who have it, to give to those who have not and thus spread purchasing power, put everybody back to work and abolish poverty and low living conditions. Two books by the Twentieth Century Fund-—one on taxes and one on public debt—ought to be read by everybody. But they won't be. We howl about taxes but we won't stir our stumps to learn anything about them. We just go on being bled like a ‘bunch of blind suckers, cheering for the politicians who tell us that we are the beneficiaries, rather than the boobs, of a policy that causes every man who works and produces things to carry on his back almost one-third the weight of another man who for one reason or another. doesn't. : The Twentieth Century Fund book on debt shows that in 1936 government spent an amount equal to 28'. per cent of the national income (production) of all of us. Tts book on taxes shows that of this total spending only 70 per cent was paid by taxes— 30 per cent is borrowed and will have to be paid by somebody some ‘day. By whom?

Money Over Taxes Are Paid by Every Man Who Labors.

HE President once said: “Taxes are paid in the sweat of every man who labors.” No truer word

was ever spoken.

cent, per cent of your income and mine—8'z per cent on tick and 20 per cent out of taxes—paid as we go. Now we believe that this 20 per cent is mostly paid by the wealthy. We forget that every time we buy & pack ‘of cigarets we pay 6 to 8 cents in taxes—more than four times what the farmer gets for bacco; ‘many, many times more than labor gets for making the package—frequently half of the whole price.

isn't. The tax is hidden in the price. Almost every time we move we pay a tax—2 to 8 cents a gallon on gasoline, an undetermined but tremendous amount on the cost of railroad transporta-

tioh. We pay a tax every time we draw our pay, and |

soon there will be a sales tax on all food and clothing for the poor to pay to farmers to curtail their produc-

tion and boost their price. It would be easter to say when we are not taxed

without knowing it than when we are, because human | ingenuity has about exhausted itself inventing these | has been |

“clever little schemes.” The whole field about covered. There are few ways left to bleed the poor under cover of the slogan, “Soak the rich!”

| and Senate Democratic Floor Leader Barkley.

the to- | | President remarked.

The single example should be shoc¢king—but it |

The Washington Merry-Go-Round

| wage is practically a bonus to a happy and contented

but”—that is the time to punch him in the nose, Crusaders will find that their most dangerous adversaries are thosa who seem to make an offer for a halfway difference is

for causes

meeting. The suggestion that the only

one of detail quite frequently marks the most hide bound sort of opposition. Naturally ing that the means bv whirh ah objective can be attained should not be subject to full and free din cussion, That is as axiomatic “as saying that an expertly drawn bill is better than a careless one | But I honestly believe ARE ? most of those who pretend their only disaffection in gard to method are actually cl ter members of the Jam ‘I« row Club, You may rem¢ that Alice of Wonderland that she could alwavs hat vesterday and jam tomorroy never jam today. It is bett day. Specifically T have in mine Wage and Hours Bill. Tt is said by a number (hat no person of decent principles could possibly opp 0 A measure to end child labor and to assure living wollos for all workers throughout America. And vet they de oppose the present bill even in its vastly curtailed form. The approach is wrong, they will assure von. Make this test upon any one of these opponent: Resporid with a cheerful voice, “All right, since vou agree that these goals are desirable, will vou please state the manner in which they may be best accomplished ?* A’ this point I think you will run inte a very considerable amount of hemming. Not forgetting at least a minimum of hawing. For instance. it seems to .me to be palpable now that the cheap lahor states definitely do not want any Federal action which would . end their advantage ‘in undercutting those other American communities where higher living standards have been established. Senator Lodge, of Mhassa= chusetts, was logical in supporting the Wages and Hours Bill, although he was one of only (wo Republicans to go along. After all, there has been gen eral political agreement in recent vears that American workers should have tariff protection against ‘the pauper labor abroad.” It is, then, reasonable that there should be legis lation to preserve living standards in the more progressive states against our own communities wherna $10 to $11 a week is considered a sufficient stipend for a mill hand. Cotton Fd Smith, of South Carsliha, has declared on the Senate floor that in the Ssuthland the gifts of God are so bhounteous that any kind of

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O, it is best to try to herd vour apponents in sieh a way that the forces which are to be fought are all in front of you. Marfe Antoinette expressed the amiable but ineffective wish that the underprivileged of France should eat cake. 1 imagine that made her a Liberal. Boake Carter, of sur own day, is far more sterh. He thinks the working classes are grossly overpaid, and, indeed, he recently wrote concerning the Amer fcan toilsr: “He has been encouraged to live a life where these material luxuries are taken for granted He has ceased to appreciate how much better his lot is over the workingman in the rest of the world. Tt has developed in America a situation mighty close ta a false standard of living." By the way, Boake, how is pay right now for radia commentators and cigaret indorsers? What fs tHeir standard of living? 1 say fervently that I hape it fa not toe high, ve

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President Receives a Lecture From One of His Congressional Aids: Mrs. Robinson's Brother Booms Widow for Arkansas Senate Seah.

By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen |

ASHINGTON, Aug. 6.—There was some un- | usually plain talking when the President called

Seventy per cent of 281% per cent is about 20 per | in his Congressional leaders to discuss the Congres- |

Tn other words, Government is spending 28% |

sional program. Present at the conference were Speaker Bankhead, House Democratic Floor Leader Sam Rayburn, The President said he wanted the leaders to crack the whip and put through his entire legislative program, including a crop control bill. They retorted that this | could not be done. “I don't see why a hill can't be framed now,” the “Congress doesn't have to rush | home. I{ has been in session seven months and hasn't done a thing yet.” “You know, Mr. President,” one of the leaders ad- |

| monished, “there is no use of your getting into a |

| them.

ness, then went on to other things.

fight with Congress. That isn't going to do you, the | party, or anyone else any good—except perhaps the Republicans. “If you don't like the conduct of certain Senators or Congressmen, that is a matter between you and But because you resent what they have done or are doing is no reason to get involved in a battle-

| roval with the whole Congress. You can't do that

without gravely injuring the re-election chances of a | lot of members who are innocent bystanders in this row.” The President listened with thoughtful attentive- |

FHIND the sputtér of undercover repoits thal Mrs. Joseph T. Robinson, widow of the Tne Senator, is considering running for her hugbangf seat, against Governor Bailey, fs her brother. Grady Miller, A gentle, intelligent woman, Mrs. Robinson. per. sonally, has no desire to enter politics. But her brother fs very keen to have her assume office For many years he was a beneficiary ‘of Robinson's powerful position, is now holding simultaneously fwa

| lucrative fobs, one as receiver of the Southeast Ar-

kansas Levee District at $500 a month, the other an an officer of the Southwest Joint Stock Land Bank, also at a good salary. * ww MMEDIATELY following the announcement that the Tammany district Isaders had elected Rep. Christopher D. Sullivan as boss of New York's famous Tammany Hall, a New York press service wired sits Washington correspondent: “Rush 250 words on Swe livans Congressional record.” x The newsman shot back: “Impossible, Sulliygn has no ‘Congressionnl record.” 7, Although he has held a seat in the House ¢#ntinuously wince 1917, Sullivan probably is the most do-nothing member in Oohgress. He comes th Waghe ington only occasionally. Following a visit té his Capital Hill oMice. ore af his own clerks inquired, “Who was that man who

| butted around here so familiarly?”