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THURSDAY, AUG. 19, 1937

GREETINGS, YOUNG DEMOCRATS! JNDIANAPOLIS welcomes the chance to be host at your third biennial national convention. Accustomed as we are to conventions—something more than 300 a year—we feel particularly honored that your organization of young political leaders has chosen the Hoosier capital for this meeting. And it is our job to see that you have a good time. But the delegates and members of the Young Democratic Clubs of America also are here for more serious business. The fact that the convention brings here Chairman Farley of the National Democratic Committee, the wife and a son of President Roosevelt, Secretary of Agriculture Wallace and other notables, indicates the significance of the occasion. It is no platitude to say that you will help shape the nation’s future course. The unsolved problems of today—machine-age unemsplovment, child labor, wages and hours, better housing, relief and conservation of resources, to name only a few— are problems of the new industrial era into which you were born, and which you know intimately. These issues cry for solution and your generation must face them. The ideals and fundamentally sound objectives of the New Deal cannot be achieved without your help.

“ _AND MORE DEMOCRACY” RESIDENT ROOSEVELT, in his speech yesterday at "Roanoke Island, did well to thunder forth his own and his country’s faith in “democracy—and more democracy.” In@® world where whole nations have let dictators and their gangs usurp their right of self-rule and wreck their parliaments this challenge will echo far and wide. He took for his text a letter written 80 years ago by Lord Macaulay, in which. the British historian criticized our Constitution as “all sail and no anchor,” prophesied that the American Government would never “be able to restrain a distressed and discontented majority” and eventually would either be seized by “a strong hand” or see its land “laid waste by barbarians.” To Lord Macaulay and his anti-democratic successors on the American scene the President said: “Mine is a different anchor. They do not believe in democracy—I do. My anchor is democracy—and more democracy. And, my friends, I am of the firm belief that the nation, by an overwhelming majority, supports my opposition to the vesting of supreme power in the hands of any class...

“I seek no change in the form of American Govern- |

ment. Majority rule must be preserved as the safeguard of both liberty and civilization. Under it property can be secure; under it abuses can end; under it order can be maintained—and all for the simple, cogent reason that to the average of our citizenship can be brought a life of greater opportunity, of greater security, of greater happiness.” Devoutly we hope that neither President Roosevelt nor any succeeding American President ever swerves from that faith. For it is eternally true that the only lasting way to “restrain a distressed and discontented majority” is to provide it with economic security and political freedom. We hope that President Roosevelt continues to press his program for more security for the masses. And we hope also that in the fufure he shows more faith in the democratic processes under the Constitution than he did when he sought a short-cut to judicial reform by “packing” the Supreme Court, instead of submitting some plan to the people in a constitutional amendment. The ways of democracy are slower than the ways of autocracy, but they are, as the President says, safer. Patience is a cardinal virtue in a democratic statesman.

NEW BUTLER BUSINESS SCHOOL HE new College of Business Administration to be opened at Butler University next month should fill an important need in the Indianapolis business community. A frequent complaint of business executives is that most of the young men and women who come out of American business schools and colleges have only a theoretical training and that too long a period must be devoted to practical training after they are employed before they begin to “fit in.” The new Butler college is expected to tackle this problem by using Indianapolis business concerns as laboratories for students. This idea of teaching the practical along with the theoretical seems especially sound. Additional opportunities are afforded by locating such a school in a metropolitan area and capital city. The new school—Butler’s fourth college—marks another significant advance in the progress of a growing institution, and one that Indianapolis welcomes and wishes

success.

ANOTHER MONTH IN THE RED

PPROPRIATIONS to run the Federal Government for the current fiscal year exceed estimated receipts by approximately $400,000,000. Congress approved that unbalanced budget after President Roosevelt and Secretary Morgenthau had promised that the executive departments would spend $400,000,000 less than the amount appropriated, and thereby balance outgo with income. But the Treasury’s statement of receipts and expenditures at the close of business July 81, the end of the first month of the fiscal year, gives these totals for the month: This Year Last Year $409,160,636 $293,886,769 658,545,042 417,108,643 vy 249,384,405 123,221,873 Apparently some of the departmental heads didn’t think the President meant it when he directed them to cut fown 10 per cent. Maybe Mr. Roosevelt should start a

“must” list of executive orders.

Receipts Expenditures ..cececceecreccaceecns

EMOCRACY is a form of government under which those who always have to pay for mistakes get a chance to make them.

‘Finishing’ Up the Dishes!

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By Westbrook Pegler

Jimmy Walker's Return to Public Payroll Great Boon, Says Writer, Recalling His Service—By Night.

NEW YORK, Aug. 19.—It is a fine thing that the New York Transit Commission has done in appointing Jimmy Walker assistant counsel at $12,000 a year, with the probability that in a short time he will receive from a grateful public a pension of from $12,000 to $16,000 a year exempt from the Federal income tax, Mr, Walker served his people faithfully day and night, but mostly at night, for many years, and it may be remembered his resignation, under fire, was prompted not by any sense of guilt nor fear of any revelation that might have developed in a complete investigation, but by honest indignation over the denial of a defendant's rights in a hearing. By coincident, it was Mr. Walker's own rights which seemed to him to be denied, but onlv an enemy of uncommonly sordid mind would think that a man of Mr, Walker's high character would put his own rights above those of any other defendant. It was his defense of the rights of all defendants, for which he had contended tirelessly for many years, particularly in the Central Park Casino after midnight, that Mr. Walker gave up his $40,000-a-year job as Mayor of New York, and went away to spend five years grieving over injustices. His return to the public service will be a matter of great joy to all who remember the fine zeal for official duty.

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Mr. Pegler

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I will revive memories of the fine Tammany jurists who sat upon the bench in his time, particularly of the judge who also resigned in some disgust over the denial of a defendant's rights, to-wit, his own, and who later was restored to duty in another department so that he, too, might qualify for a pension. It will bring back memories of Tammany sheriffs and clerks so frugal they were able to save out of their comparatively modest pay, or to borrow without notes or other evidence of indebtedness. enormous sums of money which they sometimes kept in tin boxes. Mr. Walker's return to office at $12.000. and his eventual receipt of a tax-exempt pension of from

$12,000 to $16,000 a vear, will inspire all citizens with |

a new faith in the public service, and varticularly in Tammany Hall standards of honesty in office. : It seems almost enough to guarantee the election of Doc Royal S. Copeland, the Tammany Senator who has so often and so worthily been called the yardstick of mediocrity as Mayor of New York City.

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Wik. it is a thankless task, the public service. and all a man gets out of it after years of service is a paltry $12,000 to $16.000 a year, exempt from the income tax, as long as he lives. Mr. Walker should get double the pension, considering he did so much of his work at night around the Central Park Casino and in Florida and California and in suburban mansions where a man could really concentrate on public affairs. It is a lucky thing Mr. Walker is available now for the $12,000-year legal job with the Transit Commission, because, as everyone knows, there are practically no good lawyers to be had these days to perform the duties of his new position.

General Hugh John

The Hoosier Forum

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| forceful language? IL.ooks as though | it’s going to take something like | that to wake up these fond parents |

| Mr. Clancy, all of the Forum con- |

pared to the mania of a miser or | tributors mentioned by Prof Middle- |

| ton have consistently written in op-

| the cunning of a corporation.

position to alienisms and have tried |

China crost the Bay!

he Liberal View By Dr. Harry Elmer Barnes

Japan Learned Imperialist Ways And Means by Observing Example Of Western World, Writer Claims.

ASHINGTON, Aug. 19.--If

anybody who would like to see China

there is

| or Russia hand Japan a good licking I am

that person. The Island Empire seems to have run wild with a militaristic and ims perialistic complex. Yet we should be honest enough to place the responsibility for Japan's conduct

of ours.

It's ridiculous to us, their children, the way they cling to their false modesty and evade questions about the deep, dark secret of sex. What's so improper about it, and why either treat it in such a manner that it be- | somes something forbidden {fore interesting and exciting) or hush! hush! us about it until we are | thoroughly convinced it is some[thing positively filthy? The truth is that have experienced a few pitfalls | themselves, but instead of a “word | from the wise” to their offspring,

[they let them go their own ignorant |

ways and make the same mistakes

| their elders did. Heartbreaks, badly |

| damaged nervous systems, distorted | minds, wrecked bodies, crimes, mur- | ders—unlovely pictures all, but {nevertheless definitely realistic.

There is a new tendency in the

(there- |

most parents |

Who can say how much is too | much to pay a public official such | as Abraham Lincoln or Franklin D. | | Roosevelt or any other man that is | a real man—something that money will not buy? Plato was right when he sought to help public officials to overcome the temptation of selling them- | selves. He advocated making them financially independent for life.

subversive radical schemes now being carried on in this country,

spirit of intolerance which lies at the root of all alienisms, , ,

” ”n ” SLUM CLEARANCE CALLED REAL ESTATE ‘RACKET’ By S. H. L. | The Wagner Housing Bill was | supposed to create decent housing for that third of the population which is ill housed. Even with the or $1000 per

| so T ean recall our acquaintance. Every person who has taken a

| to defy alien mercenaries worhip the hammer and sickle and the red star of world communism, ” ”

to uncover some of the treacherous | The professor has exhibited that |

| low to these modern parents who are [on t

| inflated values in slum areas, where [the slum property is to be bought |

This is real hijacking. The big | that [real estate operators in cities like | # complaint by a certain Logansport |

ti : s ‘wil , | New York are to unload their junk | gentleman about Senator Barkley. | Hy NY he of us will bow he taxpayer. Let rats Re the ot about his deeds or misdeeds, |

| taking care that their children shall | slums, while we build new homes [mind you, but about the color of his |

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+ |at prices far beyond their real in- | TO BARKLEY DRESS

{ By M. Kelley, Beech Grove In the Forum, Aug. 9, I noticed

| have full knowledge and gain the | Out Where land is cheaper and more | coat and the way he wore it.

{right perspective at home, rather [in keeping with

|than from poorly informed sources Paying ability of the slum dwellers, history, he will find that one of the

by practical experience. We'll thank Heaven for the new | [trend and continue regretting that | [it didn’t come sooner that we, too, { might have benefited from it.

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| A letter desighed to defend the pet | fallacy of a reactionary, Peglerized |

| Times, from a writer hiding behind | Darling, IT am lonely Thinking dear of you. see the love-light beaming In your eyes of blue. Then I hear you whisper, “I'll be true to you.” Why should | Darling, I am lonely Thinking dear of you.

DAILY THOUGHT

The Lord trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul

| initials, asks the question: | “Mr. Lackey argues at cross pur-|y pose when he states that officehold- | | ers are underpaid and in the next | sentence that they would be ‘re= | turning to poverty.’ the public official be ‘in fear of returning to poverty’ if the man really had some stuff in him to earn a living privately.” The quoted writer was referring to men of character, but men who sprang from poverty—statesmen such as Abraham Lincoln who | scarcely made a living in private | life. May I assure the gentleman | OW can a that the devotion of such a states-| man to justice is not to be com-!Sieyes.

son Says—

Psalms 11, 5.

Closet Planning and Bill-Drafting Cause of Congress Session Fiasco:

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ASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 19.—The cause of the | fruitless flasco of this session of Congress was |

closet planning and bill-drafting. It is silly to say that the President didn't have a direct mandate in his emphatic election. His orders were to carry on in the direction he had been going. He proposed to try to maintain the purchasing power of farm prices, to continue necessary relief, to try to put some floor under wages and some ceiling over working hours, to support collective bargaining through agencies independent of employers, to or-" ganize the Executive Departments for economy and simplicity, to perfect a permanent plan for unemployment and old-age pensions, and several lesser but similar efforts. There can be no question that the election said overwhelmingly: “Do these things,” because both candidates promised to do them. The only question left was, “how are they to be done?”

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0 this question there was no mandate because there was no proposal. Why was there no proposal? Perhaps because it was thought that the country would not approve of the methods which, in secret, had been planned. Take such a proposal as the Browniow plan for™ reorganizing this Government. A silent committee of four academic theorists was quietly convened. Tt retired into cloistered thought. Suddenly, with no chance for public information. no open hearing, no debate, it burst forgh with a plan to concentrate all

ed Is for Unbiased Study of U. S. Problems.

quasi-legislative and quasi-judicial power in the Ex-

ecutive, It was not a plan for aconomy or for simplicity. It was a plan to change our Government form in several essentials. In exactly similar fashion, the schemes to remake the Supreme Court and the Wages-and-Hours Bill were concocted and launched. A complete farm measure, far more drastic than AAA, was similarly prepared. But before it could be launched, bumsrush legislation had been snagged on the Court plan, the whole ambitious program had bogged down, and the seven bickering months of the session had come to

little or nothing. » » »

T= greatest fault in our system is shown to be the lack of some such device as the British parliamentary commissions to hold open hearings on every major change in policy and thoroughly sift, explore and prepare revolutionary legislation before it is put up for passage. We try to do it through Congressional committee hearings. Tt just doesn’t work. They are not fitted or manned for such work and are under constant interior political pressures from executive officials. During the recess of Congress can't unbiased, reSpectable, representative commissions, such as Maury Muverick proposed, openly and thoroughly explore not only relief, but also reorganization, wages and hours and farm legislation? It is the greatest need of the moments. . "

LONELY

By WANDA MITCHELL { Darling, IT am lonely Thinking of the days of vore, { In my dreams I linger By the old cabin door, And the pine trees keep sighing | So gently in the breeze, And I hear you softly calling Down the trail of memories.

people be free that | has not lear

the necessity and! If the gentleman will look up past best men that ever entered the White House came with homely fea-

upon his boots. Dear old Abe! So I'm at a loss to know if the gentleman wants us to cheer or become indignant, ” » ” | LIMIT ON LETTERS [FINDS FAVOR By L. ¥. Blacketor In reply to an admirer of the author Jane Austin, Mark Twain bitingly remarked: “A good way to | start a library is to leave her out!” | No doubt Prof. W, C. Middleton, [along with many other readers of The Times, feels about the same | way respecting the | graphomaniacs” who clutter up Forum space with so much erudite i chatter, Through kind sufferance, ever, the professor would be content with less drastic measures to put a damper on writing proeclivi- | ties; he would limit their eontribu-

hateth,—

| tions to one letter every six months. 1 think the professor |

| Capital idea! | has something there. ned to be just?— could only make the thing retroactive!

tures and the smell of horse stables |

“unfortunate |

hows |

Now if we |

today just where it belongs, namely, on the Western nations.

There is no denying that Japan fs the bright boy wonder of its teachers—Western capitalism, nationalism and imperialism. The Japs are the smartest pupils of the Western land-grabbers, As late as 18563 Japan was na sleepy old feudal community, Tt G7 had no use for foreigners, Tts cul« J Te ture had changed little for a mils Iennium. Tt was politically divided, Its economy was archaic and selfs sufficing. The country was no more dangerous to world peace than a stage coach stored in a farmer's barn would be to autos mobile traffic today Then along came our Comm. Matthew C. Perry. He scented possible profit if Japan could be stirred He succeeded in

Dr. Barnes

| from her drowsiness and touchiness | getting some small concessions for American coms= merce. But the Japanese were suspicious and once more took steps to throw out the foreigners, European and American fleets then shelled the still medieval Japanese forts and proved the Christiah supremacy in the arts of war, This awakened the Japs for good and all. » ”

HE Japanese rubbed their eyes, smarting from the smoke of foreign gunfire. They saw that if they wished to preserve their independence they would have to take over the cannon and bombs of the West= ern Christians But these big new Christian guns eost much | money. Japan was not rich. She would have to imi | tate Western industrial methods. So she rapidly ins dustrialized herself. Science, medicine and material prosperity did startling things to the Japanese population. The death-rate was lowered and the birth-rate increased. Soon 65,000,000 Japanese found themselves living in a territory having an area of some 150.000 square miles, This is about the size of the State of Montana, which has a population of 450,000,

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O the Japanese began to think about Eastern Asia lay right off their shores. For 75 years the European states had been slicing juicy, | steaks off the flank of China. Why should not Japan | have her helping? She tried to get it in 1804, but had her wrists slapped by the moralizing Westerners, who then pros | ceeded to pocket the Japanese spoils. By 1005 Japan | was strong enough to boot the Russian giant unaided, Meanwhile, Japan was studying Western phils | osophy, morality and international conduct. Everys where she observed fierce nationalism, lauding tha homeland, right or wrong. She beheld the Western nations struggling for colonies, markets and raw mas terials, proclaiming the destiny of the strong to rules over the weak--glossing it over by the fiction of the “white man’s burden.” Japan may be a menace to world peace today, but if so it is only because it has been too apt a pupil ofg Western imperialism and diplomatic duplieity.

expansion,

The Washington Merry-Go-Round ;

Borah and Roosevelt Speeches on Constitution to Be Forensic Duel; | Senator to Defend Court Bill Opposition; President May Reopen Fight,

| By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen ASHINGTON, Aug. 19.—President Roosevelt and Senator Borah are to cross swords next month | in a debate over the Constitution, The veteran Idahoan, a leader in the fight against

report, is to speak on the night of Sept. 16. The President is to foltow him on the air the next night. Both speeches nominally will be in commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the sighing of the Constitution, andl on the surface will have no relation to each other. Senator Borah plans to devote much of his address to a defense of his opposition to the defeated Court bill. The President's speech will be in the nature of a reply to the attacks on the bill. Also, he may serve notice that he intends to return to the fight at an opportune moment,

HE President definitely Court fight next session. will take has not been decided, but some attempt to revive his far-reaching scheme is certain.

the Masons. to have the President and a member of the Supreme Court talk on the same program. Mr, Roosevelt de-

the Supreme Court reorganization plan and one of the | authors of the Senate Judiciary Committee's scalding |

expects to renew the | What form his move |

Senator Borah is to speak under the auspices of | The organization's original plan was |

1 elined on the ground that he was already dated up, and no justice would accept the invitation, The President's speech will be under the joint auspices of the U. 8. Constitution Sesquicentennial Commission and the Good Neighbor League which campaigned for him last year,

” » » HAT angry White House statemen., denying that the President is meddling in the turbulent New York mayoralty election, unquestionably is true, Nevertheless, newsmen who reported that backers of Judge Jeremiah T. Mahoney, anti-Tammany Demo= crat, were seeking Roosevelt's support, had plenty of authority for their stories. Their source of information was none other than Edward J. Flynn, Bronx boss and chief Mahoney sponsor, Emerging from his conference with the President at Hyde Park, Flynn intimated to correspondents, with a knowing smile, that Mr, Roosevelt was in his man's corner in the battle-royal among Mayor La Guardia, Senator Copeland, and Judge Mahoney, Thr newsmen, naturally, did not hesitate to “shoot th works” with a story coming from such an authoritas tive quarter. Their reports in next morning's papers infuriated | the President. He summoned them and read them a caustic lecture on “gossip mongering” and spreading “false rumors.” Later, under the name of the White | House Secretary, Marvin McIntyre, the President issued a pen of the President's neutrality,