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FRIDAY, AUG. 27, 1937

STOP THE STICKER FIXING! SIMPLE method of dodging payment or punishment under the widely ballyhooed ““fix-proof” traffic sticker system has been in operation for many months. The violator merely takes the sticker and tears it up. Under present “enforcement” it is almost certain nothing will be done. This wholesale “fixing by default” was uncovered today by a Times check on what has happened to the 20,149 stickers issued by police since Jan. 1. In about 6000, or 30 per cent, of these cases of improper parking, the offenders have ignored the stickers and nothing has been done. Others were on out-of-town cars. The 10,200 who appeared and paid $2 fines have a right to feel resentment at the discrimination. In only 338 cases have the necessary warrants been issued. No wonder the authorities are being accused of fixing stickers! It is the City Prosecutor’s duty to go after negligent offenders with warrants. In the great majority of cases this has not been done. Collapse of the system has been reflected in the high accident record. The safety drive will get nowhere if the law winks at thousands of minor violations.

ANDREW W. MELLON NOTHER of our, multimillionaires has followed the elder Rockefeller to the grave. Andrew W. Mellon of Pittsburgh differed from those other fabulous American businessmen who burst upon the scene in the 19th Century, swept aside or devoured competitors and forged great fortunes. He belonged more to the Old World than to young America. By his education, culture and love of art he more nearly resembled an English gentleman. He was an ascetic and kindly man. Doubtless because he believed that great wealth carried great responsibilities he entered the Government, serving under three Presidents as Secretary of the Treasury and finally going as ambassador to the Court of St. James. If we had a peerage he would have been one of our chief lords temporal. But, like Rockefeller, Gould, Carnegie and the rest of the pioneering capitalists, Andrew Mellon belonged to a vanishing race. America needed their directive energies to mine its minerals, harness its waterfalls and span its distances with ships and railroads, and it rewarded them with unprecedented wealth. Now that it is turning from the mere exploitation of wealth to its fairer distribution it will need and reward the energies of social engineers, economists and statesmen. Mr. Mellon, sensing somewhat this social emphasis, already had left his great art collection to the Government. Now the bulk of his great fortune will find its way back into the Treasury he once ruled, by the functioning of the estate tax. Some have called these men “the makers of America.” It would be more accurate to say that America made them, by giving them their opportunities and rewarding their exploits. Their passing will be mourned by many along with the passing of their lusty era.

JOHN BULL AND DAI NIPPON HE machine-gunning of the British Ambassador to

China, Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen, by a Japanese airman near Shanghai, is fundamentally little different from

"the incident of less than a week ago which cost the life of

an American sailor aboard the U. S. S. Augusta, anchored off the Shanghai Bund. Both, it would appear, were the result of accident rather than design. Nevertheless, British psychology being what it is, this unfortunate episode may prove a nasty shock to Downing Street, which traditionally regards British life and British rights, wherever they may be jeopardized, as just a little more sacred than those of other-nationals. = = n un n on JOR 35 years Britain has been playing ball with Nippon. The Anglo-Japanese alliance of 1902 cleared the way for Japan to defeat Russia in the Far East while Britain held off Europe in the west. And they have been pitching to each other ever since, despite the abrogation of the alliance in 1922 following the naval-limitation, Pacific and Far Eastern Peace Pacts of Washington. Even in 1931, Britain appeared in the role of complacent bystander while Japan violated international pledge after pledge and seized Manchuria and Jehol. Perhaps they were still playing ball. At least there are many today who think so, even in England. " zn = = u n HUS it may be said that the dangerous situation now fast developing in the Far East is, at least in part, of Britain's own creation. And the irony of it is that she may vet become one of its chief victims. Certainly British interests out there far exceed ours. She has billions invested in China, India, the Straits Settlement, East Indies and Australasia. And history reveals stranger things than that all these may eventually be included in the sphere of Japan's expanding ambitions. The British Cabinet, we now are told officially, “observes with satisfaction the close collaboration that has been maintained with other governments, especially the American and French, and regards it as most important that such collaboration should continue.” If the British are going to continue to follow the precedent set by their timid soul, Sir John Simon, and “observe with satisfaction” the efforts of the United States and others to pull the world’s chestnuts out of the fires of Asia, they may be in for a disappointment. It is high time that Britain, herself, should act. And we do not mean by war. On the contrary. Britain more than any other power is in a position to influence Japan. She, more than any other, might induce that country to come back within the Nine-Power Treaty devised to save China and spare the world from the devastating effects of an explosion which nobody wants in the Far East. But Britain will have to get over the negative habit of merely expecting every American to do his duty.

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By Westbrook Pegler

Cynicism Due to Events, Columnist Replies to First Lady After Taking To Heart Criticism Pointed His Way.

EW YORK, Aug. 27.—Mrs. Roosevelt, in her column, speaks of a colleague with a caustic pefi and says, “I frequently read him because it entertains me to see how things may be twisted, according to your own bias and your lack of knowledge and understanding.” “If you believed him,” she writes, ‘you would be deeply depressed about human nature, not only

in the individual whom he mentions, but in the feeling you get of general cynicism about people.” It took me some time to figure out who this was, but after a while I got it, and interviewed the man in question who said he supposed the most caustic of ais remarks in recent months had dealt with the second Louisiana Purchase. He said he had written as much in sorrow as in anger about this deal, because he nad believed in President Roosevelt. He had seen Huey’s dictatorship in action, and didn’t believe Mr. Roosevelt ever would compromise with men capable of participating in such dreadful crimes against the American form of government. . When a number of Huey’s men were indicted on ChRIges of violating the income tax law he was all for that.

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HE disillusionment came when, after Huey's death, the remaining indictments were dismissed with the explanation that there had been a change in the atmosphere. To our subject it loked as though there had been a most cynical misuse of the courts.

He reckoned that either the indictments were obtained for political purposes or dismissed for political considerations. And it wasn't he, but a Louisiana politician, who called the compromise the Second Louisiana Purchase. A New York Times correspondent was talking to this man, and asked him how the boys were getting along with the Administration. The man said, “Oh, fine, fine; havent you heard about the Second Louisiana Purchase?” ” ” ” ELL, then came that holding-company and incorporated yacht business. Our subject has no letch for millionaires, but Mr, Roosevelt personalized this matter, and then it turned out that the law had long recognized the holding company as a legitimate thing. So individuals who had done nothing wrong were smeared by a suggestion that they had done something immoral or unethical. Quite a few of these individuals happened to be politica! opponents of the President. Again it looked as if someone was trying to coerce people into line. And, our subject thought that inasmuch as the President personally had insisted on giving the public a peek at other people's affairs, he should have laid down his cards, too, and those of his boys, Jim and Elliott, for everyone to see. Why not? Our fellow said he sincerely admires Mrs. Roosevelt, and much regrets any unhappiness which he may have caused her, because he sincerely believes that she never used her position to obtain advantages to punish an enemy. But he says his cynicism is due to events. He didn’t make the events cynical.

ETHANY BEACH, Del, Aug. 27.—The weight of current comment seems to be that parts of what is called the “President’s defeat at the hands of Congress,” were the snagging of the Wages and Hours Bill in the House Rules Committee and the failure to pass a crop-control measure. It might have pleased the Administration's pride to have had them passed, but it would have ruined its performance. In its final form the Wages and Hours Bill would have had no effect to stabilize wages and hours on a national scale. The proposed board was to have taken up each industrial situation’ “trade by trade, craft by craft and locality by locality.” It would have taken months, if not years, to have produced any national effect. The bill settled none of the serious problems in this field. It merely would have passed the problems from the Congress to the board without giving the board power to settle them. 8 ‘=n ” Te farm bill was much more powerful, but no better baked. It tried to give Mr. Wallace the power to dictate the croppage on every farm in this country. In operation it would have met with a farmer resistance or evasion that must have halted it in its tracks. ' It was a blessing and not a disaster to Mr. Roosevelt that Congress took a breathing spell before attempting to handle these two political porcupines. It was also a blessing to farmers, to workers and to all

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

WRITER HITS PRESIDENT’S “DEMOCRACY” STATEMENT

By A. J. McKinnon © At Roanoke Island, President Roosevelt said: “They do not believe in democracy—I do. My anchor is democracy and more democracy, and I believe the majority of the nation is back of me in my opposition to supreme power in the hands of any class.” In my estimation this is a bold statement to try to put over on our people the belief that democracy can be handled without a supreme authority to decide the constitutionality of the acts of men. There is one thing sure in this address, and that is the fight is still on. I am in this fight against him, for I am positively sure that the President is out to deceive the American people. His anchor for democracy does not become democracy by

crying to the American people that

Congress does not believe in democracy. Democracy is proved in action. It is not democracy to be four years a President and keep the money question unconstitutional under private control of 12 Federal Reserve Banks, which control industry, farming and labor by means of price levels. Then our President has to resort to unconstitutional methods, such as plowing under cotton, wheat, corn, etc. in order to raise price levels. I have completely lost faith in our President that any good will come by his new anchor of democracy. . . .

¥ 9» DEPLORES LACK OF AID FOR BLIND, NEEDY

By James D. Cochram, Edinburg

As I am one of the blind victims, or almost blind, I feel it is my duty to answer an article in The Times by Leo Daugherty on Aug. 14. I filled out an application for blind pension under the first law that was passed. I was stalled off and promised from time to time and haven't received anything yet.

I know quite a number of old people in our county, Bartholomew, who are past the age and have nothing and are receiving nothing. ; We have asked for an investigation. Instead of coming to the party who knows the conditions, they go to someone who has a good living and who is whole soul and body against helping the needy. That is the kind our board is made up of in Bartholomew County. They show partiality and make a difference in the people who are drawing. This practice is unfair to all.

The man in charge of this office is very unkind in answering questions. He also insinuates that the people who are unfortunate enough

General Hugh Johnson Says—

New Dealers and Their Foes Err in Claims Congress Defeated Roosevelt on Pay and Crop Plans, for They Were Delayed to Be Saved.

industrial and workers’ income as a matter of national concern which can only be handled by the Federal It was a blessing because, as written,

Government.

(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.)

to go blind or get old don’t need help. To prove it, there is a petition out at present, with 50 or more names on it, for his discharge. So when Mr. Gottschalk sees the

next blind or crippled person on the |

street, let him stop and think cf what I have said, and if he doubts it, let him look me up. We are tired of just talk and writeups in newspapers; we want action. Even if we were all drawing such as it is, it wouldn't buy what we need by one-third. We don’t need to brag or boast of it, as I do not feel it is a gift, but what is justly due those who are blind or old. At any rate, if the full $30 per month were paid, quite a bit of being one-third the salary paid the directors, to say nothing of their expenses. As for the beggars, I do not feel that they are beggars. They, cor most of them, have just been

cheated out of their share of what |

God meant for them to have. I do not wish anyone to think I

am trying to criticize, only telling |

the truth, for I have letters concerning the blind dated two or more years back. If anyone doubts me, come to me. The picture shown in the paper looks good to some people, but to those who have had no attention paid them, it is not so hot. So if Mr. Gottschalk is sincere, let him come to the front for the balance of the needy or explain why.

OPAL HEIGHTS

By MARY WARD

Sometimes I think if I could hie To islands still unknown, Uncharted as a butterfly That seaward flies alone— Where untold heights of sea waves toss Their opalesceny mist; Somewhere below the Cross Of starry amethyst.

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TAKES SLAP AT ALIEN ISMS By a Subscriber Let me applaud the gentlemen whose letter in the Aug. 13 Forum set out some of the inconsistencies of communism. I would that all American citizens would wake up to these facts before it is too late. If the Communists, the Fascists, and the Nazis in this couatry, who are trying to undermine our democratic form of government, don't like our system, why don't they get out and go across the pond where they all can live under the rule of a Stalin, a Mussolini or a Hitler? We certainly do not need them here. What we do need is red-blooded Americans, politicians, if you please, who have enough backbone and integrity to stand up for democracy and the right regardless of party and regardless of the cost, and plenty of Christianity in our everyday living. ” on n

| BEAUTY OPERATOR HITS BAD WORKING CONDITIONS By a Beauty Operator All is not rosy about what you | hear about beauty business. I am | one of the many who are compelled | to work 76 hours a week for $5, and

| another operator in the same shop | who has been there for almost a year is only getting $7 and assists in doing the housework as well as in the beauty shop. I am quitting the job and joining a union of beauty operators and { wish every other operator would do the same so we could get better conditions and a living wage out of this so-called profession. Isn't there something that can be done for those girls who are exploited by unscrupulous shopowners to help us make the beauty business more human for the operator? ” » n | POLITICAL UNDERSTANDING DEVELOPING. IS BELIEF By J. Arthur Scott The American people are unmistakably rising in their level of eco-

| nomic and political understanding.

From now on, not merely a choice few, but all are to be organized. This

Sometimes this would enchantment |

be, Although, could it come true, How sad my heart, so lone and | free— Unless you could come too!

DAILY THOUGHT

Wisdom is better than strength. —Ecclesiastes 9, 16.

HE strongest symptoms of wis-| dom in man is his being sensible of his own follies—Rochefou- | cauld.

means to the masses greater control,

| more democracy.

The hurling of epithets intended to. hold them back has already

| proven ineffective. For instance, the

masses are not interested in “alienisms,” as such. Some good ideas may be derived from foreign countries. For example, there are religion, art, literature, inventions, countless material things, and our own ancestry, if you please. The merit in the thing is what counts. Tolerance can lead to no other conclusion.

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WHERE EVEN THE ACT OF SUICIDE 1S REGARDED AS A MATTER OF ETIQUETTE

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Washington

By Raymond Clapper

E. D. R's Trouble With Congress Has Counterpart in Administration Of First Roosevelt, Columnist Finds.

(Heywood Broun Is on Vacation)

ASHINGTON, Aug. 27.—If President Roosevelt finds no comfort in the way his 75 per cent Democratic majority in Congress sabotaged his program during the ses sion just ended, he may draw consolation from a strikingly similar experience of his cousin Theodore. The other Roosevelt went into his second term with what he thought was a mandate, too. He had carried every state except the Solid South, and he had 65 per cent of both houses of Congress. In the next midterm elections the House Republican majority dropped to 60 per cent, but the Senate's went up to almost 70. Yet a compilation made by Editorial Research Reports shows Theodore Roosevelt ran into the same trouble that plagues the present Roosevelt. He called him= . self a progressive. Many of his fellow-Republicans in Congress de= nounced him as a radical. T. R. declared he had a mandate to introduce social, economic and political reforms. But times were good, and cone servative Republicans—T. R. called them reaction= aries and standpatters—were not interested in reform. " on ”n

HEODORE ROOSEVELT got through Congress only three major measures—a ban on corpora tion political contributions, provisions for a more elastic currency desired by conservatives, and ems= ployers’ liability for railroad accidents. \

Congress turned him down defiantly on: Federal inccme and inheritance taxes, incorporation of inter= state business, restrictions on injunctions in labor dis putes, exemption of labor unions from the antitrust laws, regulation of stock exchanges and securities and parcels post. All of this provoked bitterness between Congress and the White House which was far more intense than that now existing. The Senate voted to refuse to receive a message from the President concerning charges he was using the Secret Service to spy on Congress. Congress refused money to provide for dise tribution of the report of the President's Conservation Commission.

Mr. Clapper

4 & & N spite of this, the first Roosevelt held his popular ity. Yet many oi the Sewnators and Congressmen who had most bitterly denounced Theodore Roosevelt were returned to Congress by the same electorate

which seemed to want still more of him. It doesn’t make sense, but it is history. And. it is history that is being repeated now. With Franklin Roosevelt the Democrats have been following a leader whose inspiration is largely at variance with the tra=ditions for which they stand. A party committed listorically to states’ rights and to the principle of the less government the better, picks a leader who favors a strong central government. There is no consistency in standing by a President and at the same time returning those who fight his policies. But possibly American voters are not cons sistent. Maybe they like—or sometimes dislike—a President, not because of his policies, but in spite of them. There is no accounting for this sort of thing. It's like love. .

The Washington Merry-Go-Round

Unnoticed Act Will Halt Legal Delays in Corporations’ Tax Payments; Firms Now Are Required to Pay Their Levies and Then Seek Rebates.

By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen ASHINGTON, Aug. lawyers have a painful surprise in store for them

27.—Big-shot corporation

those bills never could have avoided colossal fiasco and failure. Such a collapse in practice might have defeated these two progressive principles forever. But it is foclish to argue from this result of postponement to a conclusion that the President and the New Deal are stopped in either or both of these directions. = 2 = HY? Because it is clear that popular sentiment is very strong for hoth of these policies. Both parties proposed the principles of the Farm Bill in the election and the victorious party made it quite clear it had only just begun to fight for “stability” in wages and hours of labor. On these two proposals, Mr. Roosevelt has a resounding popular mandate and continuing popular support. Thus it is a mistake for anti-New Dealers to write this -delay down as any part of a castigation of the President at the hands of Congress. But it is a more cruel error for New Dealers to write down as obstructionists of the New Deal and to thirst for the heart’s blood of all those who contributed to this blessed deiay—or tried to contribute to it. This silly pride is incredible, but it is the plainest fact in Washington—a fact which almost alone threatens to split Mr. Roosevelt's following and. ruin one of the greatest chances to serve humanity that any President has ever had.

in a bill that Washington's Senator Bone slipped through Congress in the closing days of the recent session. The measure consists only of 100 words, but it carries the sock of a Big Bertha. In some respects it is a far more important reform of judicial procedure than the famous substitute for the President's scuttled Supreme Court Bill. It strikes a death blow at a favorite corporate practice of evading taxation by legal delays and red tape. Certain corporations, notably railroads and utilities, are in the habit of resisting state and county taxes by obtaining injunctions in Federal Courts against the collection of the public revenues assessed against them. By technicalities anid other legalistic stratagems, these suits frequently are dragged out for years. Pressed for funds, the states and counties usually offer to compromise, and the corporations settle for a fraction of their original tax. Senator Bone’s act means pay first and litigate afterward. It does this by barring Federal Courts to litigants seeking relief from local taxes, except in cases where they have paid and claim refunds.

un ” ” OME weeks ago courtly, 74-year-old Senator Lewis of Illinois introduced a bill to give free medical treatment to needy persons, The measure was

promptly buried and forgotten in committee, But among a large section of the doctors of the country it created a sensation, and they have fulminated angrily against it. Sunday afternoon, Senator Lewis went to his club, the fashionable Chevy Chase. He was talking to some friends when suddenly a husky young man grabbed him by the lapel and angrily yelled: “I got a good mind to smack you down.” Famed for his imperturbable poise, Senator Lewis replied quietly: “What's on your mind, my friend?" ¥ = i a doctor, see?” snarled the attacker. “And I don’t like that blankety-blank communistic bill you introduced. It will ruin us. And I don't like Reds like you, either. And when I don’t like a guy I sock ‘em,

see?” With this he pulled back his fist, but several men

in the crowd that had gathered caught the arm and forcibly led him away. ! “A very excitable young man,” Senator Lewis abe served. “His temperament does not impress me as a desirable one for a physician.” Some years ago Chevy Chase Club was the scene of another altercation between a Senator and a doc= tor. On that occasion the late Senator Robinsem knocked down a well-known Washington physician after an argument on the golf course.