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THURSDAY, AUG. 26, 1937

APPROVE THE SAFETY BUDGET ITY Councilmen who indicate they may kill the budget request for an effective Accident Prevention Bureau may be taking upon themselves a tragic responsibility. Except for Oakland, Cal, more persons have been killed in Indianapolis traffic this year than in any American city, in the 250,000-500,000 population class. The refusal

last year to appropriate funds for traffic enforcement is |

partly responsible for this shameful record. list so far is greater than last year’s all-time high.

The death

It is a fallacious argument that the present enforce-

ment drive 1s doing all that is necessary. Accident prevention equipment and manpower are inadequate. The present drive was stimulated by and is kept alive by the sheer force of public opinion. And there are still plenty of loopholes, inciuding the common gossip that the city’s famed “nonfixable stickers” no longer are fix-proof.

The people of Indianapolis do not want another sabotag- |

ing of enforcement machinery.

WE LOSE M’GRADY ADIO CORPORATION OF AMERICA showed enlight-

enment by employing Edward F. McGrady, Assistant |

Secretary of Labor, as its labor-relations man. The Government showed the opposite by letting R. C. A. take him away. We hate to think what might have happened in some of the recent labor crises if Mr. McGrady had not been on the job. In the absence of a Federal mediation system worthy the name, he became a one-man service for the whole country. From the beginning to the end the workers trusted him; im time employers came to regard him as a friend in need.

KEEP YOUR SHIRT)

ON — IT LOOKS LIKE THE BOSS MIGHT WANT ANOTHER HELPING!

THURSDAY, AUG. 2, 1037

Somebody Should Write a Book Like This—By Herblock A

Fair Enough

By Westbrook Pegler

Copeland Is Vote-Getter Despite Tammany Label, Says Columnist, Deploring Nazi Issue in Election.

NEW YORK, Aug. 26.—Never let it be |

said that your correspondent put in a

' good word for Doc Copeland hecause the Doc

The President might well have made Mr. McGrady the | . for the job of Mayor of New York an attempt

Secretary of Labor, for he proved himself a labor statesman as well as a labor diplomat.

Certainly he should have been | given honors and pay sufficient to keep him at his post. The | date. and that is dirty pool.

Government has lost some of its best men lately because it

offered them uncertain jobs instead of honored careers.

EXIT PACKING—WE HOPE

OME news accounts of President Roosevelt's remarks on

the new judicial reform law interpret his statement to |

mean that he still insists on pressing for enactment of his court-packing plan. We hope that interpretation is wrong. For if that repudiated scheme is revived at Congress’ next session, the consequences to the New Deal will be disastrous. -As was the case in the last session, there will be no chance of accomplishing anything constructive so long as such a controversy divides the Democratic and liberal forces in Congress and the country. We lean to the opposite interpretation of Mr. Roosevelt’s statement. We prefer to believe it significant that he placed all his emphasis on his objectives of making the

judiciary more efficient and more attuned to the needs of

the times. Concerning those objectives liberals have never divided. It was only his original short-cut methnd—a perversion of those objectives—which started trouble.

TOO HOT TO FIGHT ADIOCASTING from Sevilie, Gen. Gonzalo Queipo de

is a Tammany Senator. But in the scuffle

is being made to label him the Nazi candiCheap as he has been in some of his publicity gags, and he once made ballyhoo for himself by conducting a reducing class for fat women, he has never done anything to justify

the charge he has anvthing in common with Adolf Hitler. The old Doc is pure American in all aspects, his record on dictatorship is a lot better, if it comes to a showdown, than that of Jerry Mahoney, wh. professes to string along with Roosevelt. As far as sound conservatism is concerned, he is a steadier man than either Mahoney or Fiorello LaGuardia and, before this campaign is over, a lot of old-line reactionary Republicans will find themselves voting for the Doc. Of course, he also represents Tammany, but the conservatives will be in the predicament of the miner who played the only wheel in town, even though it did have a gimmick on it. The Nazis’ indorsement was a foul blow to the Doc, and typical of the dumb, square-headedness | which only a few months ago in the Nazi papers threatened to take an unpleasant interest in our

internal affairs.

Mr. Pegier

n n =” HE local Nazis couldn't go for LaGuardia because he said Hitler belonged in a chamber of horrors, and they were off Mahoney because he tried

| to prevent the participation of the American team

Llano of the Spanish Rebel Army has expressed the | hope that the Loyalists will be “considerate enough not to |

attack” while the weather is as warm as it is just now in Spain. “We are carrying on according to the laws of the hot season, and all is tranquil,” he said. “Next month, with cooler weather, we may see them (the Loyalists) again.”

in the Nazi Olympics. But Copeland just happened not to have said anything, so they indorsed him, which was equivalent to patting him on the head with an ax, because for every vote they can give him they will drive six votes away. However, in the interest of a fair deal. even for a Tammany politician, it is time to point out that Hit-

| ler isn't running in this campaign, and is just as

phony an issue as King George V was in the cam-

| paign of Big Bil! Thompson in Chicago.

We believe Gen. Gonzalo Queipo de Llano has got some- | thing there. It would put a lot of pleasure into any war if |

both sides could agree to suspend hostilities whenever the weather became uncomfortable, and even peace might be improved if, in July and August, we could all carry on “according to the laws of the hot season.”

WHAT DOES JAPAN WANT? QECRETARY OF STATE HULL has appealed to China and Japan to settle their differences in accordance with the principles which they, along with the rest of the world, have agreed should govern in international relationships.

It 1s not an unreasonable request. In fact it would be more to the point if the United States, Great Britain, France, Italy, Belgium, Holland and Portugal, signatories to the Nine Power Treaty to safeguard China, should ask Japan and China, the other signers, what the shooting is all about. Says Article VII of that treaty:

“. .. whenever a situation arises which in the opinion of any one of them (the parties thereto) involves ‘he application of the stipulations of the . . . treaty, and renders desirable discussion of such application, there shall be full and frank communication between the . . . powers concerned.” Since Japan pledged herself to respect China's territorial and political integrity, she has seized four of that

country’s richest provinces and all but done so to five others.

Today her Army and Navy are at work apparently intent on finishing the job. Why is Japan warring inside China? If she is not the aggressor, who is? She says the Chinese refuse to be friendly and to co-operate. Co-operate in what? Her own dismemberment? What are Japan's real objectives? How far does she intend to push her invasion? It has become the duty of the Nine Power Treaty powers to sound out both China and Japan. If they don’t they need not be surprised if Nippon interprets their silence as consent . . . or cowardice.

Flattery from Farley: In his Indianapolis speech to the Young Democrats the Postmaster fleneral said the Repub- > i "in'G as are “politici 9 <a

The local Nazi organization includes only a faction of local Americans of German descent, and there are many such who detest Hitler as heartily as any Jew, Catholic or Mason. u = on NY aoNey has plenty to explain in the appointment of Jimmy Walker to an artificial job in order to qualify him for a pension which will cost the town at least $120,000 if he lives 10 years.

Jimmy is playing on Jerry's team, and the ap- |

pointment is said to have been influenced by Washington where we heard some recent complaint about the diversion of money from the relief of the ill-kept third of the population. In bis first speech of the campaign for mayor, Mr. Mahoney spoke in Yiddish. This is a pretty low form of political kidding, | because Jerry will do the Jews no good to segre- | gate them from the rest of the people and, even if elected, will be unable to give them any benefits comparable to the prejudice which he will arouse by seeking high office by orations in a foreign tongue.

The Hoosier Forum

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

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URGES U. S. NEUTRALITY IN FAR EAST WAR By Kenneth W. Slifer

| ple to intervene in the Japan- | China controversy. Yes,

(demand that the United States

| withdraw all Army and Navy men | | from any place around that terri- | If these American nationais!

| this time. She has interests all over |

| the world. If she can't get someone [to do her fighting, she backs out. | Well, we are not going to do any-

| body's fighting. Don't forget the last |

| war—men crippled, killed, billions of dollars lost. I say that we demand that the [Government withdraw all troops from that area immediately. If bio | money causes the United States to

[get into it, big money is going to |

[do its own fighting. We lost enough lives and money in the last war.

This is an appeal to the Church | | Legion and all real American organizations to |

| Federation, American

demand that we keep clear of ali | foreign troubles. We have our own | here. Take it from me, 90 per cent of

the people are against any connec- | pions with war. Enlistments would | |

be few. So go easy, big money, or you will be forced to get a gun your- | self. We are not suckers any more. | We demand that [placed on both warring nations. We

It is time for the American peo- |

we must

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citizens of the United States, | urge you to reassert the sovereignty | of your state and thus to solve your problems economic, social and political. I am convinced that my friend | Henry Wallace does not want this. | Why? Because under a valid system of state sovereignty Secretary Wallace could not tell us farmers what | to do. Rather he would have to convince us what to do. The same with

the labor problem. Instead of send- |

ing the contracts by airplane from Washington, D. C., the Federal Government would have to follow our Governor, because he can settle a [ labor problem in this state when Washington can not. That's what we want to do, is it not? Settle our own problems, vight here at home in our own state. Such a program calls

| for leadership on the part of Fed- | eral officials, not fiat, and 1t is the |

best medicine I know for dictatorship and the eager rapting of the | totalitarian mind. If the Republican Party will re- | dedicate itself to the preservation of | the liberty of the individual and the sovereignty of the states, we will be { having quite a few conferences of | Federal President and his appoingees with the Governors of the states, with the labor commissioners

industrial recovery, of agricultural | | adjustment, of labor advancement, | [our own Indiana plan of stabilized | | economic and social progress? I do not mean to disregard the national problem, but I say that the national | problems will best be solved when | we have a national leadership which | will induce the states to function. May I suggest, too, that if the Republican Party right here at | ‘home in the State of Indiana would adopt such a policy it would speed | our Hoosier Commonwealth forward (to a place of leadership in the na- | | tional procession to which our | | brains, resources, geographical posi- | | tion and the will of our people en- | title us. |

| y Ww Ww REPORTS DAVIDSON ST. | TRAFFIC TIEUP

| By a Bus Driver I wish to say a few words on one |

| traffic violation which occurs eyo 'day at E. Market and Davidson Sts. | This is the location ot a taxicab | garage. Every afternoon, around 3 |or 4 o'clock, these cabs block not ! {only Davidson St., but also park on [the turn out of Market St.’ into | Davidson St. I wonder why they are | | allowed to park in such a manner. | | We were given a book on the city [traffic rules. Why not enforce the | ‘rules at this corner and help cvery- | one who must travel these streets? | We have to go through Davidson St. | both ways on our route and it surely | [is a pain at times to get through. | | Also watch the unlawful parking on

| the east side of the street. | —

| EDITOR'S NOTE-—Company of|ficials report that the taxicab |

an embargo be |

of the states, with the directors of | drivers check in and out every day agriculture of the states, with the | between 3 and 5 p. m. and that, |

demand that all troops are with- | chosen leaders of the farmers, wage | “necessarily, since there is a large |

drawn. We demand that Ludlow's earners and businessmen. Look then, under such a system |

| referendum be passed. Let's hear |

[number of cabs, congestion occurs.” | Cabs park on the west side of |

(from all you people, and let them could not we in Indiana manage to | Davidson St. in one line next to|

' OF STATES even,

you | formulate our own Indiana plan of | private cars which are parked along | BARRIERS By GRACE M. COOK

hope there are no roofs in Heaven, | hicles to pass through. but trucks | no doors, no windows, and busses have difficulty. If neces-

————= | the curb. Parking is not allowad on ! the east side of Davidson St.

“It is possible for ordinary ve- |

| sary, cabs do park on the turn from

No hedges high to shut things out— | Davidson into Market Sts. Conges

; IT os : | By Samuel R. Guard, Spencer (J want a Heaven where I can shout. | tion is minimized as much as pos- |

. The

lis original Party thought

Republican | J want a Heaven where I can swing | sible,” ¢tompany officials said. that the Supreme |My arms and not hit anything.

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Court made a mistake in the Dred |J've walked sedately, been demure

Scott decision.

coln did not attempt to pack the But when I get to Heaven, I hope | Court in order to get a majority | My pent-up soul will find more scope Rather, | In which to live, to laugh, to love; And may there be no roof above, | No floor beneath, but cool. green sod, | No barriers but the arms of God.

DAILY THOUGHT The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations |

and to reserve the unjust unto the | Day of Judgment to be punished.

to see things as he did. | he corrected the Constitution by { submitting the "13th Amendment, | after you folks of Indiana had | backed him up with 206,367 march- | {ing men and untold sacrifice in | [tears and blood and treasure. Tom Paine, who had so much to do with the shaping of the public | | opinion that gave birth to our Re- | ; public, tells = “In republics such | 11 Peter 2, 9.

But Abraham Lin- | And tried earth's barriers to endure; FAVORS NATIONAL

PROHIBITION. By Henry S. Bonsih What are the politicians and the old parties going to do about this | American liquor bill which, since | repeal, has jumped to the astound[ing sum of 11 billion dollars. To li- | | cense it only gives it protection— land the higher the license the more | bootleggers we have (and there are | | now more bootleggers by far than | { under the old arrangement).

I believe the only remedy is ha- |

| as there are established in Amer- WHATEVER diference may ap- | tional prohibition with an adninis-

|ica the sovereign power, or the | power over which there is no conremains where Nature placed it— | which makes in the people.” People of Indiana, | Rochefoucauld.

General Hugh Johnson Says—

ETHANY BEACH, Del, Aug. 26.—The farm cropcontrol bill is intended to raise food and clothing prices. If it does wage and salary workers will get less in necessaries of life for their money. What the farmer gets comes in part out of the worker's hide. In partial offset we will have a wages and hours bill, both to spread the work so that each worker will produce less—just as each farmer produces less—and also to raise all wages. This will raise the cost of every manufactured necessary which the farmer buys. What the worker gets comes in part out of the farmer's hide. .

We select out of the whole United States the Ten-

few poor families out of thousands of families just as badly off. We put one out of every 10 boys who are In exactly the same circumstances, in a CCC camp, or give a WPA job to one out of about five jobless.

”n o " =e is a fall-guy among all these pressure groups. He is the forgotten man who is neither a farmer, nor a wage worker, nor jobless, nor yet a Tennessean. He is Casper Milquetoast, Joe Zilch, and Bill Spivins—doctor, lawyer, merchant, chief— the great intermediate bulk of Americans. Being unorganized and voiceless they “don’t get nothin’ from nobody no tind,” But they pay for it to the precise

nessee Valley to make a garden spot. We “resettle” a !

We Help Farmer, Worker and Even Tennessean by Special Legislation; But Mr. Average American Is Fall-Guy for All These Pressure Groups.

This great silent majority stands for it because

they have been ballyhooed into believing that, not | they, but the “rich” pay for it. The rich pay for part |

and know it. These poor boobs pay and don’t know it.

We are taking 20 per cent of all national income In all taxes from state and local. The “rich” may

ay 85 per illion income, 55 to 60 per cent py poy cent furs m Pe | hours of the recent session when Vice President Gar- |

for $100,000; 35 to 37 per cent for $20,000, and about 20 per cent for $5000. But the poor worker earning $1000 to $2000 pays 16 to 19 per cent. The farmer pays 8 to 15 per cent. " u ” VERY study of this subject shows you can’t get a much greater percentage out of any income class without reducing the net total return, and even the maximum possible net total return isn't enough at the present rate of extravagance to pay debts out of taxes at all.

standing is the idea the rich can pay for it—or anybody else pay for it except the whole American people, rich and poor alike—in labor, sweat and deprivation. It ts the ghastliest deception of our time. All this isn’t to say that farm and labor legisla~ tion ‘i5-mot necessary, but only that not one cent of

pear in the fortunes of manKind, there is, nevertheless, a certrol and which controls all others, tain compensation of good and evil them

class benefit should ‘be paigy that is not absolutely

Washington

By Raymond Clapper

Data on Government Employees And Public Debt Are Brought Out In Riddle of ‘Prosperity’ Spending.

(Heywood Broun Is on Vacation)

WW ASHINGTON, Aug. 26.-—Two big little statistics almost got lost in the shuffle. Statistic 1: There were 841,661 civilian employees on the Government payroll on June 30. That is just 76,000 fewer than on Armistice Day, 1918, the all-time peak. But there's still hope. The figure rises slowly. The June total was 1505 more than May. By now it may be still more. They'll reach the war-time peak again or bust Statistic 2: The public debt reached a new all-time high on Aug. 20 at $36961,188,248. They hope to hit $37,000,000,000 any day now. That's the gross debt and we're supposed to get some of the money back. Even so, the gross total becomes grosser every day. The depression may be only a memory but its reminders livicer still, Business activity is far above normal in many lines. In some it is near the 1029 peak if not above it. Business activity has been good for the last two years, ”n n ” Ny ia the Government payroll stays up in face of that, it is obvious that the expense is not going to decline very much. Certainly some of the Administration advisers who have given much study to the matter do not expect the budget to be reduced materially. New regulatory activities, the social se curity program, and the growth of the country make it unlikely that there can he any reduction without abandoning some fields of Government activity, Even in advocating his Government reorganization plan, President Roosevelt held out no hope of material reduction in costs through ft. It might make the Government more efficient but no cheaper, There is also the disposition of Congress to cone fine its desire for economy chiefly to talk. Over Mr. Roosevelt’s veto it voted to eontinue the low-rate interest subsidy to farmers. It clubbed Mr. Roosevelt into agreeing to price-pegging cotton loans and it will be a miracle if that doesn't cost us money, So about all that the Administration can say to comfort the complaining taxpayer is that il governe ment costs more now, il is worth more, y

Mr. Clapper

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S$ LL while having no hope of reducing the budget materially, there is hope here that before long something can be done to curtail the debt. This hova rests chiefly upon the expectation of increased reve enues. There isn't any large amount of enthusiasm for raising taxes, not with a Congressional election coming on next year and the Administration headed for a hot vindication fight, One calculation is that it will be possible within five years to be knocking off as much as a billion and a hall a year from the debt. But even:if we have the money. it is by no means certain that we can use it io pay off these old bills. There will be so many more interesting things to spend it on. But hoping for the best, let's assume that Cone gress sternly resists these temptations of the flesh and is piling away a neat billion and a half on that debt, like a good little man by 1942. That's just when Sece retary Wallace figures we ought to be diving into ane other depression. And then we'll have to begin spending--shucks, let's call the whole thing off

The Washington Merry-Go-Round

Adjournment Chaos Masked Rebirth of Lobby Probing Committes; Indiana's Senator Minton Now Chairman of Its Fight-Loving Personnel,

By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen

ASHINGTON, Aug. 26.—Only a few Administration insiders are aware of it, but former Senator Hugo Black's hard-riding Lobby Investigating Committee has taken to the inquisitorial trail again.

The new manhunt was launched in the closing

ner, on the recommendation of Floor Leader Barkley, named Rhode Island's Senator Theodore Green to the vacancy on the Committee left by Mr. Black's elevation. In the confusion of the adjournment the appointment went unnoticed. In fact, few Senators were even aware that the Committee still existed. But | Administration master minds knew it, and also that | the Committee has unspent funds with which to function. So under the screen of the confusion of adjourning they moved quietly to bring its personnel up

| to full strength, in preparation for a new head-hunt. In all this fantasy, the most dangerous misunder- |

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IG game may be bagged if their plans bear fruit. | The Committee is gunning for the forces that played such a powerful behind-the-scenes role in defeating the President's Supreme Court Bill and stymying the wage-hour measure in the House Rules Committee. . ~ Bvidence about the

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activities of the opposition Administrationites con-

| with his famous fake telegram expose.

| of the Lobby Investigating Committee.

| for a good fight.

The

of the two measures. That was what happened two

| years ago during the Holding Company Bill fight.

That measure was hanging limply on the ropes when Mr. Black opened a withering counter-attack

the measure became a law.

Administration strategists hope to have similar luck this time. If they don't it won't be the fault It is the toughest aggregation on Capitol Hill,

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S JOOREUING Mr. Black as chairman is Indiana's hard-hitting Senator Minton. He lacks the Alas. baman'’s experience as a cross-examiner, but he amply makes up for that in forecefullness and. crusading fervor. Young, dynamic, and an overseas veteran, Senator Minton combines ability with a natural ove During the last session he forged | to the front as the Administration's No. 1 Senatortal

| shock trooper.

Second in command is Senator Schwellenbach ‘of’ Washington. He is quite leftish and ote of the fest

| forthright men in Congress.

A month late. |

Senator Green is a Rhode Island blue-blood, and *

like Mr. Schwellenbach not given to fireworks. But he is a tenacious scrapper and a dyed-in-the-wool New Dealer.

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