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MONDAY, AUG. 23, 1937

THE NEW DEAL GOES ON (CONGRESS has quit after seven and a half months of confusion, bitterness and disappeintment. Few sessions have begun with brighter prospects. have ended with so many hopes frustrated. We are glad it's over. And we hope future events will prove this session to have been only an unhappy interlude between two great phases of the New Deal.

® = 2 = = ” NCE, responding to a Canadian newspaper correspondent, President Roosevelt defined the New Deal's social objectives in these words: : “... To do what any honest government of any country . would do; to try to increase the security and the happiness of a larger number of people in all occupations of life and in all parts of the country; to give them more of the good things of life; lo give them a greater distribution not only of wealth in the narrow terms but of wealth in the wider terms; to give them places to go in the summertime— recreation; io give them assurance that they are not going to starve in their old age; to give honest business a chance to go ahead and make a reasonable profit. And to give everyone a chance to earn a living.” In those few simple words the President expressed not only his philosophy but our philosophy—the concept for which the Secripps-Howard Newspapers have fought through their life of nearly 60 years. Our Government should strive toward the objectives he stated, for economic as well as for humanitarian reasons. The ability of the American people to buy and enjoy the good things of life must keep pace with our capacity to produce. Thus can we attain sure prosperity, an everincreasing production and distribution of wealth, security and happiness.

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UT we started on our way during the New Deal's first phase. That phase demanded emergency action and bold leadership—to conquer the depression, to banish despair, to restore confidence, to make economic recovery possible. The President provided that action, that leadership. The second phase, essential if the New Deal is to be an enduring institution and not merely a passing incident in American life, will call for a different technique. Time and care must be taken to correct the unavoidable errors of haste, to strengthen the foundations laid and build on them a lasting structure of law, to hold the gains we have and make further advances possible. That, too, will demand leadership from the President— but co-operative rather than dictatorial leadership. No less important, it also will demand from Congress a renewed sense of its co-ordinate responsibility. The New Deal cannot go forward if the President resorts to reprisals against Congressmen of independent thought. For that reason we hope and trust Senator Guffey’s vindictive speech does not reflect the President’s attitude.

2 un 2 » ” n HE Seripps-Howard Newspapers, through much of this last session, found themselves in the unfamiliar role of opposition to President Roosevelt. We fought the Court-packing plan, believing it a menace to the future of the New Deal and of the country, and if we helped to beat it we are proud of that. ° We opposed the Administration's version of wagehours legislation, urging instead enactment of a simpler bill to establish decent standards by law rather than through a bureaucracy’s discretion. We criticized loose spending and failure to balance the budget, warning against that pitfall for liberal governments—an unsound fiscal policy. We criticized bum’s-rush tinkering with a tax system that needs thorough overhauling. And, in the future as in the past, we shall criticize and oppose those things which seem to us to endanger the New Deal’s true objectives. That, we deem to be our duty as

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SOME of our friends have asked us whether we are still for the New Deal. The answer is: We are. Some have asked us whether we expect to support the President through the remainder of his Administration. We believe Mr. Roosevelt's finest opportunities are still before him. We believe in his ability to overcome mistakes. Having seen his great achievements in the past, we believe he can achieve greater things in the future. And so, believing those things, the answer is: We do.

A “DEAD” MAN TELLS

UTHORITIES of Indiana and other states that have adopted the electric chair as an instant and humane way of killing eriminals should listen to the testimony of A. B. Rose of Winston-Salem, N. C. Mr. Rose, an electrical engineer, was “elect®ocuted” when a lightning bolt surged through his body from a grounded wire he was holding. He got 2300 volts—about the same current used in an electric chair. He was “dead” for 15 minutes, before he was revived, and he described his “death” as three minutes of “the most frightful pain imaginable.” “I died,” he said. “And I knew when it happened. Every bone in my body seemed to be breaking, every tendon snapping. A hundred-million red-hot needles stabbed me. For three minutes it was like that . . . I knew I was dying ... and I didn’t want to die. Then all pain ceased. That's when I knew I was gone. A moment later I passed into eternity . ..” Perhaps capital punishment by electrocution is more humane than by dismembering, garroting, burning, hanging or other crude routines practiced by our unscientific and uncivilized ancestors, But we can’t be too sure that it’s . painless. : ¢

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By Westbrook Pegler

Rating Given Ellender, Former Aid Of Huey Long, by Roosevelt Is Held Tip to Latter's Idea on Democracy.

EW YORK, Aug. 23.—Among the progressive statesmen of the new South mentioned high in the list of those who share Mr. Roosevelt's idea of democracy, is Allen Ellender, of Louisiana. Time was when Mr. Ellender wanted no part of Mr. Roosevelt or his program. That was Lkefore the bargain by which the remnants of Huey Long's following came over with their arms and political power under a flag of truce to join the New Deal for am-

nesty for certain members of their group indicted for alleged violation of the income tax laws. After the surrender the outstanding indictments were dismissed and Mr. Ellender, who had been one of Huey’s most useful lieutenants as Speaker of the Louisiana House of Rcpresentatives, was sent to the U. S. Senate as a New Dealer. / As a follower andsservaht of the Kingfish he fully subscribed to all that Huey said against Mr. Roosevelt, and gave diligent cooperation in Huey’s establishment of his dictatorship. He was not one of the income tax defendants, but each citizen may draw his own conclusions as to whether the whole reconciliation was conditional upon the exoneration of those who were defendants.

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1 important thing about this new relationship between Mr. Roosevelt and Senator Ellender is not that the latter has changed sides, but that Mr. Roosevelt has found himself sympathetic with a man who recently took such an aggressive part in the creation of a dictatorship through methods somewhat similar to the President's. To refresh your memory as to what Huey Long did in Louisiana, and indicate the type of democracy which Mr. Roosevelt found acceptable in a progressive statesman of the new South, here is a quotation from a report by Ray Daniell, of the New York Times, written at the height of Huey’s career when Mr. Ellender was Speaker:

“Louisiana’s 2,101,000 citizens now are the more or less willing guinea pigs in the first American experiment with the authoritarian state as conceived by Mussolini, Hitler and Stalin. “One pair of hands holds all the reins of government. One man makes its laws and interprets and enforces them. Swiftly and steadily Long hes been increasing his grin until today the checks and balances provided by the U. S. Constitution are virtually nonexistent. The Legislature and Governor have been subservient. Through them he has been able to make over the laws of the State, to create a cheka to spy out his political enemies and crush incipient rebellions with military force.

: T the last election he gained control of the Supreme Court, which now stands four to three for any law he might conceivably cause the Legislature to adopt. “His State Civil Service Commission has the right to pass on the fitness of all municipal police and fire department employees. Even the school teachers are subject to his control.” All this was accomplished with the active assistance of Senator Ellender, the progressive statesman of the new South, whose notion of democracy is now found to be compatible with Mr. Roosevelt's.

Mr. Pegler

The Hoosier Forum

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

READER PUZZLED BY

(Times readers are invited

it really isn't a “pathological passion

newspapers statements by the Chief of Police that the Police Department | is unable to ‘properly patrol the! streets of Indianapolis because of a | shortage of motorcycles and police- | men.

“SHORTAGE” OF POLICE to express their views in for appearing in print.” (Don’t you By a Law Observer these columns, reiigious con- love the alliteration, though?) I have read repeatedly in the troversies excluded. Make Printer’s ink has nothing to do with

your letter short, so all can have a chance. be signed, but names will be withheld on request.)

it, except as a medium, for, in truth, our most hopefully written pieces often look silliest in type. The disease is a common one in Indiana, affecting most of the pop-

Letters must

During the convention of the | Young Democrats I was given food | for thought. Several times during the day and night of the Roosevelts’ and Mr. Farley's visit, I saw half a dozen

LAUDS ATTACK ON ‘GRAPHOMANIACS’ By Oral H. Jones, Shelbyville I heartily concur in all that Prof.

ulation; the victims, being toughminded Hoosiers, have something to say and want an audience to hear it. If the affected ones can’t talk from a political platform, they'll do

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' By Heywood Broun

Huston, 'America's Brightest Boy, Receives Salute for His Declared Ambition to Be a "Human Engineer."

EW YORK, Aug. 23.—Wilbur B. Huston, “the brightest boy in America,” has forsaken applied science and joined the Oxford movement. It is his ambition now to be a “human engineer.” All this is interesting and as far as I'm concerned, heartening. Of the Oxford movement I know little, but certainly it is a good thing when

the young men of America find, as Mr. Huston did that “there is something lacking”

motorcycle officers sirening their way through the streets with a limousine right with them.

I know it goes over swell with the visiting firemen, but the people of Indianapolis pay taxes. These motorcycle escorts might be used for traffic protection, too, don’t you think? There were about nine policemen with Mr. Farley's car. It's the first time I ever saw nine motorcycle cops in all the years I've lived here.

8 4 REPLIES TO PROFESSOR'S CHARGES

By Daniel Francis Clancy, Logansport

My dear Prof. Middleton, there are a few things I'd like to talk over with you. In breaking your dignified reticence to bound in and inveigh against myself and other “graphomaniacs” who charm the readers of the Hoosier Forum with our profound knowledge, ybu say that we appear to have a mania for authorship. Well, I for one, admit it—for as Mencken says: “It is the pressing yearning of every man who has ideas in him to empty them upon the world, to hammer them into ingratiating shapes, to compel the attention and respect of his equals, to lord it over his inferiors.” And again, speaking of “these literary - behemoths of Indiana,” (I like that!) you say that we set ourselves up as miracles of learning. Sir, you have found just the word —miracle, that's it! Yes, sir, you can’t imagine how astounded I often am at the pre-eminent power and penetration of that mind which I have the pleasure to own. Oh, yes, and you ask, “What can we do to help these graphomaniacs?” Well, I'll tell you, it's like this—we'd appreciate it most awfully if you could arrange it so that we could have about twice as many letters published. But, let it be understood that I didn’t disapprove of your letter— on the contrary, I like it (having, as you said, a nose for publicity). But, sir, I'm afraid that you've let yourself in for something—in fact, I see a great wind of retribution rolling down upon you from the horizon, and my parting advice is “Hold on to your mortarboard, Pro-

fessor!”

General Hugh Johnson Says—

Guffey's Thunder as Congress Adjourned Was Only Minor Party Fracas, But Did Carry a Real Warning That the New Deal Itself Is in Danger.

praly BEACH, Del, Aug. 23.—The thunder on the left which Senator Guffey et al. muttered over the adjournment of Congress doesn't indicate a hepeless split in the Democratic Party. It was mostly just a minor rough-house on its extreme pink fringe.

But the row had another significance. Senator Guffey’s radio speech was nicely timed with John Lewis’ outburst against the Democrats for not being able to get together sufficiently to pass a wages-and-hours measure. Both incidents go together to suggest a threat of a third party. That is also boloney. If it were a real threat to anybody, it would be to farmers and to labor. The minute you split the coalition of old-line Democrats and dissatisfied farmers and workers that made the New Deal possible, the 16,000,000 stand-pat Republican votes will elect a Cons gress and a President—and Democrats, farmers, work= ers and the New Deal will all go into the ash can together. 4 HERE is little real probability of a third party. You can no more reconcile the diverse economic interests of farmers and workers than you can mix oil and water, That was clear in NRA. It was clear in the lineup of the Black-Connery Bill. Apart from this transparent threat and the Guffe byplay, Mr. Lewis’ blast at the New Deal is Justified, There can be no denying that it was overwhelmingly

Middleton said and suggested in his article in The Hoosier Forum concerning the graphomaniacs. Their names are becoming eyesores. Their articles contain nothing original or instructive, just a rehash of what they have read and heard, mostly abuse. A few years ago one of these graphomaniacs engaged in a controversy at quite a length over socialism. It amounted to nothing— just a lot of nonsense. ’

The readers of the Forum raised a protest and The Times stopped the disgusting palaver. It is again time for The Times to curb these graphomaniacs. Let people who have the ability to write articles that are entertaining, instructive and sensible have the space in the Forum.

stories, novels or letters to The Times. Indiana atmosphere;

professor notices

of writers as well as tomatoes and corn. The professor himself isn't free from it. I wouldn't be surprised if even now he were writing a book for use in his classrooms, and if it isn't a-borning, I'll bet the ambition to author one burns a hole in his dreams. us graphomaniacs write as much and often as we please, if we have something to say, and let the edi-

the efforts are worthy of running or not.

In order to avoid entering the category of those he criticizes, the

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3 again. But he will. He does it too COMES TO DEFENSE OF easily and too well not to. ‘GRAPHOMANIACS’ 7

By R. M. L. Since no one seems to be rising to the defense of those whom Prof. Middleton calls “graphomaniacs,” permit me to utter words on the subject. I don't guarantee that they'll be either few or well chosen, but they'll be in defense. Graphomania is what ails us, then! Thanks for the five-dollar word, professor. But it really isn’t confined to BE. PF. Maddox et al. and

CONTRAST

By MAUD C. WADDELL

The day is weary long When hope is crushed or gone; All work is filled with weariness When eventide holds emptiness.

DENOUNCES DRIVERS WHO LEAVE HEADLIGHTS ON

By Estella Reed Dodson, Bloomington Much vituperation is heaped upon the heads of various offenders who break various traffic rules and regulations, but no one seems to notice the selfish individual who parks his car, sometimes for rather long periods of time and leaves his headlights glaring. This is not only a waste of the power of his battery, for which I do not care at all, since he prefers to have it so, but it is a positive menace to anyone else trying to drive toward the car. I very nearly drove into a ditch just the other evening because the headlights of a parked car blinded me so that I could not see. A moving car will eventually pass, but a parked car just stands and

The day is never long When love is true and strong; And work is filled with strange de-

light glares. If one asked a person in a When love awaits you home at | parked car to dim his lights or turn night. them off, he would be considered a

crank. With the cat-eye reflectors most cars now have on the tail light, there is no excuse for leaving the lights burning for the sake of the tail light. No one may pay any attention to me, but I still think that parked cars do not need headlights burning full force.

DAILY THOUGHT

Trust in the Lord with all thine heart and lean not unto thine own understanding. —Proverbs 3, 5.

OD is a circle whose center is everywhere, and its circumfer= ence nowhere.—Empedocles.

Mts. Black, as a Wartime

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tors of The Times decide whether

in the world. To be sure the title of “the brightest boy in America” was conferred upon young Mr. Huston by the press. What he actually did was to win the 1929 Edison Scholarship and then go on to M. I. T. Up to the time he ran into religion in England &nd the Netherlands, Mr. Huston's chief concern was with his job as a consulting engineer. He is cor= rect, I believe, in thinking that science is not enough. And art isn’t, either, I am told. And upon the faces of successful business= men I see a look which is not precisely that of joy and contentment.

Mr. Broun

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F I had the obligation of bringing up a small boy I would say to him again and again, “Be ‘a fanatic, my son; you'll find no peace unless you burn with a passion for some sort of brotherhood.” Of course, it might be very foolish to speak to this mythical child in so precise a formula lest he grow up in the reverse way and join the Liberty League, Moreover, no outsider can be successful in picking the precise fanaticism for another. I have seen men and women get themselves into quite a considerable glow about projects which seemed to me both tawdry and trivial. Still it is better to glow even dimly than to stand among those who shiver and shake. Much has been said about the impracticality of those who fight against war. Protagonists of peace are called dreamers. I can scarcely deny that war is with the world. The whole crust of the globe is shaken by the marching feet of men. But what is the price of glory, and for what do they fight? When a worker of Japan has killed a worker of China I wonder what practical advantage he has gained for himself,

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FTNHERF will come men and forces to cry out, “Put down your guns!” and they will be obeyed. It may be that young Mr. Huston has something or, at any rate, the edge of something. Religion is very likely to play an important role in the readjustment of the world. Surely the Bible is among the revolutionary hand« books of the world. In it I have read of a certain rich man who went away sorrowful, His decision to have and to hold was a tragic one. I doubt that he had much fun in later life. The thought kept coming back to him that he should have heeded the advice which he once sought from a famous Teacher. And the error of the rich young man was not of the heart but of the head. Somewhere or other he had learned to be worldly. And it never was the better part. And so I salute the young man who was once known as “the brightest boy in America.” Even now it may turn out that he has been wise in giving

elected on a specific pledge to put a floor under wages and a celling over hours—and that it has not done 50.

I doubt if Mr. Lewis shed any real tears over the failure of the original Black-Connery Bill. It was impossible and he was never consulted in its prepara= tion. The monstrous hodgepodge of hasty amendments to which it finally failed in the House was no better and never brought any applause from Mr. Lewis. He is really railing not about the failure of a particular bill, but about the failure of leadership and follower= ship in the Congress to produce some reasonable legislation to carry out the New Deal pledge and platform.

IS talk of split is intended as a threat to force the New Deal together, not as a blast to tear it apart. In that, there is a real warning, If Vice President Garner, Senator Barkley and Congressmen Bankhead and Rayburn want to qualify as legislative leaders, they won't wait through the adjournment for another ready-made Administration wages and hours proposal. They will have a bill prepared in Congress itself which will appreach this problem in political realism. The salvation of the New Deal is now up to Congress. The head-on jam that ruined this session was caused by the refusal of Congress to abdicate its powers to the Executive. It wouldn't let the President do its work. But neither did it do that work itself. If a New Deal Congress will neither do a New Deal Job Bor let anybody elee do 1, the New Deal is on the Lid

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By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen ASHINGTON, Aug. 23.—~The President wielded a lohg overdue broom when he swept Commissioner Vincent Miles from the Social Security Board, also when he appointed Frank Mc¢Ninch chairman of the Federal Communications Commission and Comm. T. A. M. Craven a member. A former Arkansas lawyer, Mr. Miles was named to the Social Security Board at the behest of the late Senator Robinson, On the Board, Mr. Miles warred almost continuously with his fellow members. The chief bone of con= tention was patronage. The Board has been adamant in opposing the politicalizing of its staff and has insisted on selecting its personnel strictly on merit. Mr. Miles wanted to play ball with the job-grabbers. Friends of former Chairman John Winant attribute the able New Hampshire Republican's refusal to accept reappointment to his difficulties with Mr. Miles, who also aroused the hostility of labor by lobbying against the Guffey Coal Bill. Miss Molly Dewson, Mr, Miles’ successor, is a distinct improvement. Although in politics for the last few years as chief of the Women's Division of the Democratic National Committee, she has had extensive experience in welfare administration and pre pared the economic brief for the defense of the Dislaw in 1922,

up modern business for modern brotherhood.

The Washington Merry-Go-Round

Removal of Miles From Social Security Board Ends Patronage War,

'Yeomanet' Made 'Man's Navy' All Upset.

NE of the proudest boasts of Josephine Foster Black, handsome, 38-year-old wife of the new Supreme Court Justice, is that she once served in the U. 8. Navy. It was during the World War. She enlisted as a “veomanet,’ She received $41 a month pay and $60 subsistence. In addition she was furnished a full set of uniforms. Mrs. Black's favorite story of her Navy service is about an amusing mishap. She enlisted in New York, and was sent to the Naval Hospital in Brooklyn for a physical examination. When it was over, she re= lates, she discovered that her clothes had disappeared.

“YT was an extremely embarrassing moment. All T had on was a sheet. Finally I remembered that I had put my clothes on top of a bookcase. I hurried there and found they had fallen down behind. I struggled with the top section of the bookcase, but couldn't budge it. “I had to have some help, so I mustered up my courage, went to the door and called timidly. No one heard me, so I called louder. It seemed hours before my cries attracted any attention, “When at last my clothes were recovered, there was & perspiring wilted group of men. They had to remove hundreds of heavy books and take the sections down before they could move the case. “As Jileft, I heard one of the men groan, ‘Oh Lord, keep this a man’s Navy.”

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