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SATURDAY, AUG. 14, 1937

1937 CARS—1920 MODEL ROADS HE other day we pointed to a beit highway around Indianapolis as one of the city's chief future traffic needs. Today we would like to take a look into the future at the gigantic task facing engineers and governmental authorities in handling the traffic problem of years to come. Charles F. Kettering, research engineer, told a group of civil engineers in Detroit the other day that 37,000,000 motor cars—a 50 per cent increase over present registration — will be using United States traffic arteries by 1960. He <aid 50.000 to 60.000 miles of “super-highways,” criss-cross-ing the nation in all directions, will be needed to handle this volume safely. This followed the suggestion by Dr. Miller McClintock, traffic research expert of Harvard University, that motoring safety of the future may involve scrapping and rebuilding, at a cost of $57,000,000,000, the million-odd miles of “surfaced” roads which now serve the nation. This seems fantastic. Certainly no lump-sum spending of such proportions will be undertaken in the near future. Yet “superhighways” already are making their appearance. “Through speedways” already girdle Manhattan Island. U. S. Highway 52 leading out of Indianapolis is a four-lane high-speed road. Massachusetts and Illinois are seriously considering “super” trans-state speedways. And the records of the 75th Congress disclose at least six proposals for glorified transcontinental roadways following the general Kettering and McClintock patterns.

These are dreams now, but by 1960 they may be acThe Chicago | Regional Planning Association was not dreaming when it |

complished with hard-boiled practicality.

projected recently a plan for a 633-mile system of modern, |

interlocking highways for safe and fast traffic between Chicago and points in Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin. right-of-way will be 200-feet wide, and about 127 miles of it already has been acquired.

interstate co-operation. Mr. Kettering is no sensationalist. Most persons will

accept his estimates as reasonable.

more vehicles are added to the traffic stream? aghast today at the toll of auto deaths, what will be the slaughter total when this great increase comes?

Clearly there is a job to do, and we cannot get ready | for it by stop-gap methods or by shunting trucks from one | We are now using 1920-model streets |

street to another. and highways for the motor industry’s 1937 products. Plans must be made now to bring these facilities into line with the revolution in transportation that is under way.

COUNTING IS NOT ENOUGH FIVE MILLION dollars of Federal relief money—enough to pay WPA wages to 8000 men for a year—would be spent on a national census of unemployment under a bill passed by the U. S. Senate and now before the House. The census would be taken by temporary employees, hired without regard to civil service, by next April 1. Note that date. It might have unfortunate significance. For the country, if lulled into belief that merely counting the unemployed will solve any problem, is going to find itself victimized by an April fool that will be no less cruel because it results from a good intention. Of course it is absurdly wrong, that, after more than seven years of big-scale unemployment, we don’t know how many people are unemployed. We ought to know. We ought to have an accurate running record.

But the census method, aside from its possible diver- |

* relief rev to politically appointed census-takers, | iY ; sion of relief mone Dp all: ap] > | class citizens most of them may be, but if their char-

It registers only once, while one |

is a poor thermometer. of the few things we do know about unemployment is that

it changes constantly. Census figures gathered through

weeks or months up to April 1 would be out of date before | And the same criticism applies to |

thev could be analyzed. Gen. Hugh Johnson's plan for a one-day registration of the unemployed, conducted like the wartime draft registration. It would give us a snapshot, when we need a moving picture. The free Federal-State employment exchanges, if adequately supported and properly staffed, could obtain and maintain authentic up-to-date data on unemployment in every state, in addition to helping the jobless to find jobs. But we need to know a great deal more than just the number of persons unemployed. We should find out all we can about why there are unemployed, how many of them are in fact employable, what has been right or wrong with past spending of billicns for unemployment relief, and what policies should be adopted or changed to get better results. We need, in short, a comprehensive study of the whole problem of unemployment and relief—a problem in which the number of unemployed is only one of many factors.

PURE, OR OTHERWISE

T might have been pure coincidence—well, anyway, coincidence—that brought the Democratic National Com mittee’s book peddlers around to the office of Robert R. Young when he was expecting a Senate Committee to start investigating his holding-company plan for reorganization of the Van Sweringen railroad empire. However that may be, Mr. Young evidently felt that he needed books. - He bought 40 copies of the 1938 Democratic National Convention souvenir book, complete with the President's autograph, at $250 each. And then, because the salesmen “still weren’t satisfied,” he bought 20 more. And, as he adds now, he “would have taken soap-wrappers if they had been offered to me.” Well, that's an idea for the Democratic National Committee. Reports that the committee is starting solicitors out with a nice line of soap-wrappers are said, however, to be premature. The committee still has plenty of books. ®

The |

The plan will take an esti- |

mated 20 vears for completion and will call for intensive | : : : . | cution, and to give everyone a square deal in

| possibly stoop to immoral or un- | ethical practices.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES Thev Say Meat Prices Are Pretty High—By Herblock

HERE'S A RATHER NICE LITTLE THING

MADAME MIGHT FANCY

Fair Enough

By Westbrook Pegler

Revenue Agents’ Orders to Refrain |

From Persecution Declared Proof That the Bureau Has Been Arrogant.

has a dispatch out of Washington rehas been instructed to refrain from perse-

mopping up the cases against persons ac-

3 | cused of employing “clever little schemes” to avoid So 1f our streets are |

congested today, what will be the situation when 11,000,000 | parthent If we stand |

| been made and all

income taxes. These instructions come from the Treasury Deand they prove better speeches that have the protests that have been written, the arro-

than <All

| gance of a powerful Government

Department in its dealings with private citizens. Mr. Roosevelt in his message on the subject of tax avoidance and evasion took the position that only the taxpayers or avoiders could

A oh ;

Mr. Pegler

Nevertheless, Treasury officials have virtually said that their own reviewing agents have discretionary powers in certain income tax . matters to approve or disallow deductions, according to their personal judgment. This authority is such it is possible for a politician in charge of a revenue district to give an agent private and confidential instructions to harass a

quiriés into matters which are none of the Government’s business, to pry deep into his personal affairs and, finally, to turn in an arbitrary and vindictive ruling on discretionary items which might just as reasonably be decided the other way. In short, it is a power to persecute. The instructions to the Buredu doubtless were prompted by criticism of the notion that the Bureau agents are men to be feared and placated. n " ” OT only could agents put a man to great expense and trouble in the course of the review, but if they were so inclined they might put him to the necessity of defending himself against purely spiteful criminal charges. And always there is the opportunity for a crook in the service to compromise a claim in the discre-

frankly recognized by the Treasury, but minimized on the ground that the men are high-class citizens and themselves subject to departmental espionage. High-

acter is the taxpayers’ protection against unjust treatment, then it is strange that the Treasury now should

| have to give the Bureau a special admonition to refrain from persecution.

"n n n Very likely in these cases the Bureau will make a special effort to be fair, but, inasmuch as Mr. Roose-

velt and the Treasury Department took the attitude

that the defendants were guilty of immoral and unethical practice, even before the Congressional hearings were started, it is tmprobable that any decisions will be given in favor of the accused, unless they want to go through expensive court proceedings. I believe this is the first time that a Government department has found it necessary to give its men special instructions not to persecute citizens. Yet, if they are the type of people who need extraordinary orders on this point, and the law is such that persecution may be legally inflicted, there is something much more rotten on the Government's side than anvthing that was brought out against the defendants in the hearings.

SATURDAY, AUG. 14, 1937

Other Crops to Put the Control Bee On!—By Tabu

CHESTNUT CROP ISALSD

GETTING OUT OF anti Wim a0

HAND

The Hoosier Forum

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

EXPRESSES HER THANKS

FOR CITY'S CARE OF NEEDY

By NEW YORK, Aug. 14.—The United Press |

| T have had several reasons the last

“Grateful” I am glad I live in Indianapolis.

; | few vears to appreciate how well our porting that the Bureau of Internal Revenue | P

| |

city cares for its needy and sick, Being a victim of unavoidable cir-

cumstances during the depression, 1 was forced to become acquainted with the various relief and social service agencies. I am a widow with dependent children, and my heart overflows with deep gratitude for the kindness shown me by the Center Townsl ip Trustee Office over a period of several months. When my financial condition became a little better, I asked to be taken off the relief roll. I found I could not quite make all expenses, so the Family Welfare kindly aided me. Illness prevented me from working, and for several months I had | been under the care of the clinic at the City Hospital, getting the serv- | ices of the best doctors. Finally I | was forced to enter the City Hospital for a major operation. I was a | patient in one of the large surgical | wards and never nave I seen a bet- | ter managed department. The graduate supervisor in charge, Miss | Barrett, was most efficient and firm, | yet she never hesitated to give a | cheery word where due. The food |

i | was excellent. political or commercial rival with meddlesome in- |

There were eight lovely new beds |

| at the front of the ward, which I | | understood were being supplied by |

{and while there did seem to be | shortage of nurses,

If the ladies could know how comfortable the | beds were to the new operative There were 28 beds in that ward, | a | I know that every order given by a doctor was |

carried out and all necessary treat-

| ments were given.

unjust and |

When I was able to return home,

| a funeral home sent an ambulance | | and took me to my home without |

| tionary zone for a personal cash bribe, a fact which is |

anv charge. While T was 111. Miss Steers of | the Marion County Welfare came | to see me, and I may get a mothers’ | aid pension. |

| sonified;

| equally

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

pose of giving the opposition a black eye. Probably few of the good citizens who tremble at the very mention of the Communist boecevman know the principles of the Communist Party. It is simply sufficient to tag it as a decidedly un-American doctrine against which we must be up in arms. To these patriots, the Red Menace lies behind anything which suggests change. Hence

Roosevelt is termed a Stalin; John |

L. Lewis is the Red Devil per-

ete. ‘Fascism’ Also Bandied the other side are those, mistaken, who attach the stigma of fascism to anyone who

| owns a yacht. Here, too, is a ten- |

dency to jump to conclusions. Just

| as our saintly protectors of institu-

tions misconstrue communism and see it where it isn’t, so do zealous reformers view a mirage when they

see fascism as a design of plutocrats. |

Fascism is based primarily upon middle-class nationalism and con-

| the Marion County Women's Dem- | S¢rvatism. It presupposes a blatant

[ocratic Club. | only

| demagog who can combine hatred

of left wingers with an appeal to the prejudices of the masses. Thus

| cases they would feel amply repaid. |1t is as vehement in its enmity to

the millionaires as to the radicals. The late Huey Long possessed this quality. U. S. Lacks Demagog

A few others possess it in a

smaller sphere. But at, present there

UNFAITHFUL By VIRGINIA KIDWELL

How cruel you are, rebellious, too, When you refurn to me untrue; You criticize and hur: me through Because your conscience tortures you.

i other

“Red Sails in the Sun- | set” is a Russian propaganda song, |

(is no powerful demagog upon the | | American political front. | | In spite of all the fuss being made | (by the Sons and Daughters of the | Constitutional Legion of Many Wars {and the Exalted Order of Great | American Ostriches, there is slight danger of our individualistic para- | dise becoming a Red playground. [ And in spite of oppression and viglilantes, which after all have always

| been with us, there is little imme-

diate danger of fascism—if (and it is a large “if') we can avoid angreat depression or another war,

n on ”

SUGGESTS ANOTHER LONG ONE FOR FILMS By R. M. L. Some random notes: Since Hollywood movie producers take each other's box-office cures, we can’t imagine how rivals of the producers of “Anthony Adverse” and “Gone With the Wind” have | overlooked filming “Kristin Lav- | ransdatter.” Kristin even goes | them several hundred pages better, having 1096 in all. Research work for “Gone With,” ete. is taking so long, it is said that

part of Rhett Butler. Not bad, but | Kristin could do better. Research |

makeup. . . . Mrs. Warren Delano Robbins, one of the Presidential cousins (who, like those of Joseph Porter, K. C. B,, he can “reckon by the dozens”) has | been appointed interior decorator for lall American embassies. {so cynical as to suppose the

Freddie Bartholomew will play the |

on that would give Shirley Temple | the opportunity to play the part of | Kristin at the age of 60 without |

| |

We are not | fact |

| that the lady had to be provided for |

tion of the job or the appointment. No, indeed. Maybe she really did know something about decorating.

in her And

taste home. need it,

furniture to suit her former ambassadorial maybe the embassies Now is her chance embassy in the great Georgia look like a “Arabian Nights,” or is pense account limited?

country page that

|. T hear you say “That lady must | have had a pull” No, not a bit [of it. T was a stranger to everyone | {who has aided me. My case has | been investigated very thoroughly | {and decided on its merits alone. | So. TI am thankful for a wonder- | ful city like ours.

Confess!

try

n TW W SEES ABUSE OF TERMS ‘RED’ and 'FASCIST’ | By Alden R. Bracewell, Newcastle

For

I understand and quietly I wait until you miserably When I forgive as 1 Do always—then how ‘hard you

[ To make me happy, spoiling me With true devotion, tenderly, | Till I almost forget how you | Will surely be again—untrue!

DAILY THOUGHT

pense account could take care of some expert help. But who mentioned nepotism, anyway? This is just the effect Westbrook Pegler has on me. To paraphrase a certain Hollywood reporter, don't get me wrong; I love the New Deal. » ” n SAYS MAYOR IS SILENT ON LAW ENFORCEMENT By C. 8, Reading Mayor Kern's article in your paper, I noticed he failed to

answer on law enforcement. He is | responsible for law enforcement as

| much as our Chief of Police. Every-

E are never beneath hope, | body knows gambling is wide open while above hell; nor above | here. Dice games, poker games, race | beneath heaven, — | horse joints and baseball tickets are

iout in the open,

General Hug

Administration Betting on

h Johnson Says—

Bobtail Flush With Crop-Control Demand:

Farm Prices Are Going to Be Kept Up Until November, 1938, at Least.

ETHANY BEACH, Del, Aug. 14.—The Administration’s ultimatum—“no cotton loans without crop control”—is a fine “high jack high” move to force the hand of Congress. It sounds reasonable because it is just what any lender would do in an effort to make the proposed security good collateral for the proposed loan. On the face of things, it is both businesslike and logical.

The President is also right in saying that no mere

promise of crop-control legislation by party leaders,

or even by party caucus; is neither can commit Congress. This Administration move puts both those who who request the loans and those Congressmen who demand them in the wrong, and the President in the right. This squeeze play, coming just in the press of and Congressional rush toward the exits, is good showmanship of the lion-tamer variety. It may bring some results. It will certainly bring a new crop of soreheads in the Democratic Party, " un ” UT what is all this—is it ¢ real impasse, or is it Just a gigantic bluff in a political poker game, with the stakes in billions? Would the same rule hold to prevent price-stabilizing loans on wheat and corn? Would the rule be observed while 1938 farm prices ¢ollapsed in both the Middle West and South? There is just one certain fact that keeps. this Administration in overwhelming power—high farm prices

good enough, because

in the traditionally Republican states and the knowl-

cuge there that the New Deal must, on its life, maintain them at any cost. The Administration might conceivably knock the South's ears down on cotton, because the South is Democratic anyway. But the quickest way for it to commit hara-kiri would be to knock its own props from under it “out where the West begins.”

Why didn’t Mr. Wallace mobilize his minions to support his embattled chief in the recent part of the Supreme Court fight? Because it is out there that the Constitution and the Supreme Court are en shrined in the same niche with Bible, mother, home and flag. Henry knows his agricultural products— including agriculturists, ” »

O does Mr. Roosevelt. No more than Mr. Wallace would he permit grain and hog prices to collapse in the election year of 1938, just for the sake of a temporary little victory over Congress--not if it took every cent in the Federal Treasury in loans to sustain them. Yes, there is a good deal of high-power poker in this tense and recent round of roodles. But this time the Administration is sitting with its back to a mirror and, if homesick Congressmen on the other side of the

can look up and see therein that the Administration is betting on a bobtail flush. Farm prices aren't going to be allowed to collapse in 1938—&at least not before

November,

‘table want to do such an unsportsmanlike thing, they

had anything to do with the crea- |

interior | Very likely the butler and footmen often had to rearrange |

too. | to make the | of | {from | ex- | At any rate, | she could not do a bad job; the ex- |

| WONDER (F JIM FARLEY WOULD MIND SENDING OVER ANCTHER LOAD OF FERTILIZER

By Heywood Broun

Senate's Dr. Copeland Is Understood To Have Ordered Quiet for Patient Roosevelt in Mayoralty Operation,

NEW YORK, Aug. 14.—Tammany’s tonsil snatcher, old Doc Copeland, seems to me to be in a most peculiar political position, If I understand his speeches and statements, he purposes to run for Mayor of New York on the issue that President was very wrong in his Supreme Court proposals, Indeed, he hopes to sweep through Manhattan, Kings, the Bronx and Queens proclaiming that the New Deal in Washington is the paramount issue in the coming municipal election in New York. Royal S. Copeland his well-considered medical opins fon that the New Deal is rather worse than a violent cold He hopes to win a first term as Mayor in order to do away with any dim possibility that Franklin Delano Roosevelt may have a third term as President. He plans to march down from Capitol Hill with his Senatorial toga neatly tucked bes hind his ears, and in an absent= minded way he may cut short some of his speeches around our local hustings and merely ask leave to print with the additional privilege of adding “Laughter” and “Ap=plause” to the pages of the Congressional Record, His chief and mentor, Christy Sullivan, has de clared in an interview that Woodrow Wilson was a flop and that Franklin Roosevelt is another slipping Democrat. Royal 8. Copeland is put forward as a bucketful of ashes to keep the party on its feet and in the proud position that it occupied during the days of McKinley, Col. Roosevelt, Taft, Harding, Coolidge and Herbert Hoover,

Yoosevell

gives it as

Mr. Broun

” ” ”

HE only blown-in-the-bottle Democratic purity resides in Tammany Hall and the contributions it has made to national leadership. Mr. Sullivan even harks back with bitterness to the fact that Franklin Roosevelt worked against the nomination of Blue Eyed Bill Sheehan as U. 8. Senator. It is a little too late to do anything about that now, but Dr. Copeland seems dedicated to bringing back to New York City Democracy, the glory that was Croker's. And while Devery is dead, it is quite POS sible that Christy and Dr. Copeland in collaboration. can find some police chief just as good Upon that line the Senator purposes to fight if it takes him all autumn. Nevertheless, Roval 8. Copes= land contends that it will be monstrous if President Roosevelt does not favor this municipal campaign to . discredit him, or at the very least remain neutral in thought, word and deed, and absolutely quiet while

the good doctor proceeds to dissect him. 1 R. COPELAND wants to live in a glass house and # still reserve the right to throw stones. Me never equivocates, does Dr. Copeland. Tt is his hope to lead a united front of Republicans, Democrats and Independents all banded together in common opposition to the New Deal, mumps, measles, chicken pox and the common cold. The campaign slogan will be, “See vour Mavor twice a year, avoid starches and stimulants and keep out of drafts.” Pull the levers for Dr. Copeland and the voters will get not only a Tammany Mayor, but a basal metabolism, and electrocardiograph and a complete X-ray picture of his teeth. There will be one execep= tion—Royal 8S. Copeland has no intention of looking a gift tiger in the mouth.

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The Washington Merry-Go-Round =

Garner-Roosevelt Rift Widens Over Who Shall Name 1940 Nominee: Naval Aid to Latin America Would Reciprocate Aid Given by Brazil,

By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen

ASHINGTON, Aug. 14.=-Probably the most fundamental difference between Vice President Garner and President Roosevelt is over the future control of the Democratic Party. The President is determined he shall play an important part in naming the candidate for 1940, if he does not actually choose the man himself. And Mr. Garner is equally determined he shall not.

vate ‘conversations. He says he is going to see that the candidate is “no New Dealer.”

First instance was during the Spanish-American War. Brazil had just taken delivery on two new cruisers, built in British shipyards, and immediately turned them over to the United States. They were manned by American crews, and one of them, res christened U. 8. 8. Buffalo, played an important paré in the war against Spain. Again during the World War, Brazil sent twbd cruisers and four destroyers to serve under the Amers

| jean naval command off Gilbraltar,

The Vice President is very blunt about it in pri- | | now plans to lend Brazil is six.

Mr. Roosevelt believes that out of the old Demo- | cratic Party may be formed a new and rejuvenated |

organization including labor, the farmers, and pro-

| gressive Republican elements.

Some have been wondering if he would defy tra-

The number of destroyers which the United States

» ”

WO surprise opinions regarding the National Las bor Relations Board were expressed the other

| day. both by Republicans, but of diametrically opposite

dition and become the candidate of such a party. But | those closest to him say he will not, and his sole mo- |

tive in not repeating his third-term declination is to keep the party organization in his own and out of Mr, Garner's hands. WY .

HE proposal to lend overaged U. 8. destroyers to Latin American countries has an interesting behind-the-scenes history. It was initiated chiefly for the benefit of Brazil, because that country twice had placed its naval forces at the disposal of the United States,

effect. One came from Judge Curtis D. Wilbur, who was Coolidge’s Secretary of the Navy and is a brother of Hoover's Secretary of the Interior, Ray Lyman Wil bur. Judge Wilbur upheld the Labor Board. The other statement came from Senator Nye (R, N. D.) hitherto a consistent progressive. Senator Nve was against it. Following Senator Nye's attack on the board on the ground it is biased against employers, he received a wire from Harlan County, Kentucky, miners inviting him to attend the hearings in 30 cases of terrorism and violence they filed against coal operators,