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WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 1, 1937

A STRONGER CONGRESS ONLY in theory do we have a Federal Government of balanced powers, always evenly distributed among the executive, legislative and judicial branches. Actually supremacy is ever shifting from one to the other, depending upon events, personalities and the changing popular will. Since March, 1933, we have seen two supremacies—Tfirst that of the executive, next that of the judiciary. Now, it appears, dominance is shifting to Congress.

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In crises the American people have always endowed |

their executive with great authority. War Presidents Lincoln and Wilson wielded kingly power. So did Franklin Roosevelt, as he led us out of a depression almost as perilous as war.

At other times the Federal courts have asserted mas- | tery—under Marshall for a short period in Jefferson's | time; in the 1890’s, when the Supreme Court threw out the |

income tax and lorded it over the states in utility rates and controls; in 1935 and 1936, when another reactionary majority cut the heart out of the New Deal program. In normal times, however, Congress has been cock-of-the-walk. Sometimes—as under Speakers Reed and Cannon, and during Wilson's tragic fight for the League—it assumed unusual powers; at other times it worked harmoniously with the President, as the Constitution intended it should.

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JF VERY evidence today points to a returning sense of power in Congress.

In the session just closed Congress beat the President |

outright in his Court-packing plan, and killed off by neglect and parliamentary strategy his reorganization, wage-hour, crop-control and regional planning measures. his policies on sugar control, neutrality, civil service, and economy. It gave him only a fraction of his program—the farm-tenancy, CCC, slum-abatement, work-relief, tax-loop-hole and Guffey coal measures. But it was largely a “no” Congress. While it was led by able and liberal leaders, it failed to write a positive bill of achievements. The next session should see the 75th Congress in a more constructive role. Senator Wheeler, who led the Democratic

Party opposition to the President's Court bill, voices a gen- | eral belief that the decks are cleared for “constructive, pro- | He does not feel that the recent court | : ., | it the owl's love-call 1 times, fight has left permanent scars on his party or changed its | TE

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gressive legislation.

high purposes. In authorizing committee investigations of

relief, judicial reforms, farm needs, and civil liberties, ConKaiser, gentlemen of the old Gar- . : : | den days who could pull the InCongress, we believe, will return next session eager to | | floor 10 or a dozen or even 20 | times.

gress indicates that it also seeks to write good laws.

do its part. By persuasive leadership, President Roosevelt should be able to accomplish even greater reforms than he has in the past.

HIGHWAY HORRORS

HE horror of traffic deaths was indelibly impressed on

Hoosier readers yesterday. The promising career of a young Indianapolis businessman, William Coleman Atkins, was cut short by an Illinois highway tragedy which also seriously injured his wife and Mrs. Atkins’ mother.

transcontinental bus and overturned it. killed, 27 injured. In Indianapolis, traffic hazards are so serious that the Board of Safety is asking postponement of the opening of school until after the State Fair, because of inadequate police protection.

The safety campaign is only getting under way and |

the goal is far off. Success will require the intelligent cooperation of every official agency and, more than that, of the public. We are glad to see the pledge of co-operation from officials responsible for bus and trolley operations, for

they have been severely criticized in recent weeks by a

safety-conscious public. Less-hopeful is the alibi that the “nonflexible” traffic sticker system collapsed because of a shortage of clerks. If true, why wasn’t this dragged into the open months ago and remedied instead of permitting 6000 offenders to scuttle the system secretly? Day after day, evidence increases that a rounded scientific program—such as now is promised Indianapolis with the impending return of Lieut. Kreml, traffic expert—will be the only solution.

WAY OF ALL FLESH

LAS for “the greatest romance of our time!” The Duke of Windsor is getting fat. His tailor, we read in the papers, has been called upon to unreef the ducal pants and vest at the girth-line and in general make room inside for more of the Duke. Meanwhile Wallis, like every young matron who sadly watches the honeymoon turn into the carpet-slipper age, is chiding her husband for his sins of the table. Apparently the Duke is what Artemus Ward would call a “dreadfully married” man. Now, we've always been a great fan for adventure and romance, but we're right glad the Duke is settling down. A man can’t go on being a Romeo all his life, or even keep on tumbling off horses forever. When he gets himself good and married he should act normal, like the rest of us solid yokemates. He should relax, eat plenty of food with his meals, stretch out on an easy chair after dinner with a paper and pipe and generally woo contentment. If a bit of heft begins to show itself around the midriff, well, that’s only natural. Who wouldn’t rather have Sir John Falstaff's “increasing belly” than yon Cassius’ lean and hungry look? We're stire going to show this clipping about the Duke and Wallis to the Missus, and maybe she’ll quit nagging about getting middle-aged. Romance ? Sure, but how about ; Suother slab of roast beef?

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By Westbrook Pegler

Joe Louis’ Hand Injury to Delay His Title Fight With Schmeling Until Next Income Tax Period.

NEW YORK, Sept. 1.—Wait a minute! Let us get this straight about the raw, | red, flaming courage of Tommy Farr, who lost a decision to Joe Louis, who fought a shrinking fight, hit him only ene right-hand punch in 15 rounds, missed him with more

| lefts than he landed, and was, by many expert ac-

counts of the scuffle, afraid to lead to a notorious nonpuncher lest he draw a counter. The testimony on this fight is the most confusing that your correspondent has ever read—or written. The action was so bashful on the part of Joe Louis that the customers gave

but in standing up to a left jab and nothing else worth mentioning Farr has earned the reputation of a Jimmy Hanlon or a Fay

dian rope trick to come off the

They would come up as often Mr. Pegler

as they were knocked down except toward the end of their careers, when they developed a tendency to linger on the canvas. But they were pulpy by then. ou EJ » OMMY FARR, on the other hand, was not hit hard enough to be knocked off his feet once, and thus didn’t have to come off the boards, and it is given out now that he was fighting a one-hander from the third round on because Louis broke his right in that one. This, also, is confusing, because it is in the record that the only real smash which Farr was asked to endure in proving a bravery under

punishment that puts to shame the insensate rage of

| Battling Nelson was a right-hander delivered in the At Goshen, a Heavy sedan ran a stop sign, struck a | Five persons were |

fifth, two rounds after the accident which made Joe's right useless. Of course, your correspondent does not doubt the

brokenness and uselessness of Louis’ right after the

| third. Champions often come up with broken bones

which require months to heal when they are confronted with professional and economic problems. They even come up with X-ray pictures of the fractures to prove the damage, and only a cynic, of which your correspondent happily is not one, would suspect that the X-ray pictures ever had been just lifted out of some hospital file at random as a means of deceiving the press and the readers. Louis’ earnings for the tax year are such that a fight with Max Schmeling this fall, with the big, ad-

ditional income, might run his brackets way up, so a ;

delay until the next tax year would be very profitable.

" on x OREOVER, the man whom Farr so fearlessly hustled around the ring, oblivious to left jabs in the features, is such a mediocre fighter, with so little versatility, that Schmeling is now said to be a sure thing to knock him out again and take his title. So, from the professional and economic standpoints, Louis is lucky that he did break his hand, an injury which doubtless will prevent his fighting Schmeling this fall. Well, so Farr was one of the gamest of them all in refusing to fall unconscious before a left jab delivered in fear and hesitancy, and Louis is injured, and Schmeling, by an ill chance, will find himself postponed until 1938, by which time, unless he violates precedent by risking his prestige in an interim fight, he will have been idle two years.

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The Hoosier Forum

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

PEGLER’S COLUMN JUST

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the next Governor and was then |

DOESN'T SUIT HIM By Pat Hogan, Columbus, Ind. Westbrook Pegler, America’s un- | necessary noise No. 1, who has been attempting for 20 years to | be a journalist, vainly trying to | ape Walter Lippmann and Mark | Sullivan (both of whom rank but |

to express

troversies

their these columns, religious conexcluded. your letter short, so all can have a chance. Letters must be signed, but names will be withheld on request.)

VIEWS 10 | tioned for President.

Then comes ga long, dreary, dis Make

| thing, some very seriously wrong.

| riod, the administrations of McNutt

{ mal line of Governors, who if they | | did anything at all, did the wrong |

{ Senator and was prominently men-

{| Coming on the heels of that pe- |

| and Townsend are as refreshing as |

a single notch higher) in my opinion has not yet written single article which pleased anyone except maybe his mother. He has just made the remarkable discovery that President

Roosevelt is in the same class as | Huey Long, despite the fact that | The Times, in an editorial along- |

| who has ideas and the courage to |}. | ticket.

side his carping column, stated Mr. Roosevelt's New Deal philosophy in 100 words.

Everyone knows it is the mark | | of the weakling to attract atten-

tion by barking at some great person. This painfully conscious awareness of his own mediocrity nourishes his jealousy and mires him deeper in the bog of pessimism. Naturally one so afflicted with a swollen ego never stumbles over an original idea, but keeps eyes open for crumbs which others drop and forthwith warms them up into a hash that no one wants. Why any self-respecting newspaper, otherwise perfect, should tolerate such cynical views on its editorial page is beyond comprehension. Why not put Pegler's stuff alongside the liver pills in the advertising pages? ” ” » PRAISES WORK OF M'NUTT AND TOWNSEND By J. E., Morgantown I'm just a plain citizen down here in Morgan County, and therefore I like justice and want to see credit given where and when it is due. Some contributors to Hoosier Forum and some others to whom I have talked personally think Governor Townsend is inclined to be autocratic,

things without sufficient justification and authority. They said the same things about former Governor McNutt. First, I should like to say it is the business of an executive to do the things which belong to his office. Some of these things he can attend to personally, but most

1of them must be done by others,

and it is the business of an executive to tell somebody to do this and to see that it is done in the vroper way. He is sure to cross the path of somebody. Many of our best executives were not very popular at the time. Washington was very unpopular during part of his administration and was bitterly censured and roundly denounced. So was Lincoln. But we have long since forgotten the unpopularity of

General Hugh Johnson Says—

ETHANY BEACH, Del., Sept. 1.—I have just waded through the 500,000 words the Brookings Institution wrote for Senator Byrd's committee on reorganization of the executive department of the Government.

The descriptive part is good. The vast puzzling maze of bureaus, commissions, departments and administrations which has grown up in Washington is so complex that it takes 500,000 words to try to describe it. At that, the report only hits the high spots. But as it goes on to try to say what ought to be done, I think it flops. Why shouldn’t it? Here is a vast governmental complex arising out of the stresses and strains of a century and a half of the most remarkably headlong national growth in history. It is too much to expect a small flock of soaring doctors and professors to hover over it for a few months and all of a sudden swoop down to earth with blue prints for a perfect form of organization.

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Y= the idea that this is the way to do it seems

to be rampant in Washington today. As soon as Senator Byrd began to draw to his hand for a Senatorial investigation of the Governmental mystic maze, the Administration went his Brookings Institution bet one better with a “Brownlow Committee.”

There is a good deal more than pride of author-

ship in this contest in reorienting our political uni-

500,000-Word Brookings Report Only Hits High Spots on Reorganization, But Institution's Conclusions Differ From Those of Brownlow Group.

There is this difference between the two efforts. The Brownlow report proposes something very much more than mere shifting and rearrangement

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of Governmental bureaus.

Study reveals no question about the purpose and trend of that report. It is sharply away from checks

that he assumes dic-| tatorial attitudes, and that he does |

| them for the really great things | they did. This will be the case | with Roosevelt and Townsend and | McNutt. Public Appreciates Courage

As a rule the public likes a man

express them. It also likes a man

| an oasis in some broad desert,

| | 2 | these two men, and we remember |

” ” » WARNS DEMOCRATS AGAINST G. 0. P. ADVICE By W. Scott Taylor “Forgive and forget,” say the big-

| hearted Republicans to the trusting |

| who possesses qualities of leader- |

{who does things. It has

send and former Governor McNutt did some things I would not have done, but I like them just the same

total of which meant progress. As a { result of their administrations, Indiana occupies a more honorable and enviable position among the 48 states than it did during a few of the administrations immediately preceding theirs. How do Townsend and McNutt compare with some of the other men who have been Governors of Indiana? Morton was Governor longer than any other one man and afterward became a United States Senator and died in that position. Thomas A. Hendricks served a term as Governor, then Senator, then as Vice President. Imposing statues have been erected to the memory of both of these men. Isaac P. Gray served one term and part of another as Governor and was then sent by President Cleveland as Ministér to Mexico. Thomas R. Marshall was Governor from 1909 to 1913, and then was twice elected Vice President. Sam Ralston was

SUNSET By MARY P. DENNY

Sunset and life beyond the star Reaching away in vision far Unto the gates of paradise, That rise above the earthly way; Unto the tones of golden day That gleam beyond the sunset bar. And evermore in glory shine, Through gate ajar of way divine.

DAILY THOUGHT

The wages of sin is death.— Romans 6, 23.

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LL advantages are attended with disadvantages. A univer= sal compensation prevails in all conditions of being and Hume.

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| ship. It will almost idolize a man | little | i , and rightly so, with the |. . 3 SR is Just OE to fill q | Sitions upon the President's coat- |

position. Now both Governor Town- |

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because they did things the sum |

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existence.— | senger, except when willful miscon-

Democrats, as they dump the used | statesmen back upon the Democratic

“We will!” say the proud Democrats, as the great nonpartisans slide off the backs of cheering Republicans to take their usual po-

tails. “And thanks for them safe and sound” Democrats, “and thanks decorations!” Thus is explained why, as history ows, that the Democrats never stay long in the office-holding trenches. |

returning | say the for the

Without party loyalty there is no |

leadership. Without leadership nothing can be done. To forgive one rebellion is to encourage more rebellion. With more rebellion the Democrats can kiss their jobs and offices a long goodby. The Republicans are as free with their forgiveness as they are with their decorations. And why not-they want to get back in power, How long do the Democrats think they can stay in office with statesmen who can never be convinced that the voters knew what they were

voting for until the verdict of public elections has been properly interpreted by “public opinion” privately expressed by Republican-owned newspapers, Republican letterwriters and telegram senders who, on one momentous occasion, used names from the telephone book? “Forgive and forget” — pretty words from one political boss to another interested in sweat-shop wages, and well calculated to appeal to those who take the advice of their enemies and not of their

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” 15 STATES TAKE “THUMBERS”

FOR LEGISLATIVE RIDES By Safety Driver The thumb-wagging, “gimme-a-ride” boys have waggled their way into legislative disfavor in almost one-third of the states. Fifteen states and the District of Columbia have legal provisions which prohibit roadside solicitation of rides in motor vehicles. In addition, 24 states have laws which release the operator or owner of a car from financial liability for injuries sustained by a guest pas-

duct or intent to injure is involved.

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By Heywood Broun

Rest Is Prescribed After Strain Of "Last Chance" Stand Around Saratoga Gaming Tables at Dawn,

ARATOGA, Sept. 1.1 am going back to the farm to take the waters of Stamford, Some rest period seems indicated as neces sary for most persons who live through get-

away day and desperation night at Saratoga. | That last bleak dawn comes all too fast for

This is their last chance, It is a

the devoted army of losers. They fight against both time and fortune,

| race in which the legion of the doomed attempt to

get, their chips down before (he £un is up. To them that rosy orb is about as bad as single O. Young and old are found among those who ficht the rear guard action on desperation night. Strangely enough even the croupiers, better known as dealers in America, are inclined to take a fling after their night's work is done, The man who stands and spins a wheel for hours cannot resist the temptation of playing a little while from the wrong side of the table, But mostly the dealer on a bus« man’s holiday takes his fling at faro. I myself ran into a friend from the gambling fraternity, and we went into a modest joint account. The arrangement was that my friend, the dealer, would do the playing while my only privilege was to watch and make no audible comment, Faro as I understand it is one of the simplest of all gambling games, and the one in which the house has the smallest in its favor. Nevertheless, I have never learned the details of the pastime, and so I left my friend to his own devices while I sought some simpler way in which to lose my money. But after a bit I wandered back to the faro bank and there sat my friend, the dealer, with a stack of pink chips all the way up to his eyebrows,

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HAT they represented in cash I will never know, for an hour later I had the agonizing pleasure of seeing my friend toss away his two remaining chips, He took our defeat philosophically. “All gone, Hey« wood,” he said. My own disposition was somewhat more sullen. “Where do you get the Heywood stuff?” I asked. “I'll have you understand my name is Mr. B., and what's more, you've been dealing roulette and other games go long you ought to know enough to quit when we're ahead” But, of course, my friend might well have made the sound defense that this is a lesson never to be learned by anyone this side of Paradise. Men and horses come into moods where they take the bit in

Mr. Broun

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ND this is not said in any ecaptious spirit of criticism. Who am I to throw the first blue chip? When the sun became so palpable that play slackened and died I was right on the firing line trying to crowd my luck. Getaway day was over and despera« tion night was done. And so was I. And, yet, when another year rolls around I trust that I may stand again in the seifsame spot. Of course, all play is bad for everybody. Recreation belongs only to those who have done their share of honest toil. And so it is my intention to begin mv labors with both speed and persistence, so that once more I shall have the privilege of saying, “Please put a chip on No. 11.”

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Federal Social Security Board Views Summer's Strike With Misgivings; It Will Be Called Upon Next Year to Rule on Unemployment Benefits,

By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen |

ASHINGTON, Sept. Board has been watching the summer strike melee with considerable misgivings. single year, it will be mixed in the labor fight up to

1—-The Social Security For within a

and balances and toward one-man government. is silently, but powerfully revolutionary. The Brookings report reveals no such unspoken purpose. It is concerned with changes looking toward more direct responsibility and authority in the Federal organization, cutting out duplications and overlaps and toward economy of effort and expense. x " ” HAT it doesn’t do this very well is the fault of this closeted and collegiate way of trying to do it, rather than to any shortcomings of its authors, They are something less than gods, yet they have been commissioned to remake our political heaven and earth on a drawing board in a few months in a race against other men. Almost every single one of our recent legislative experiences with bum’s-rush planning or revolutionary changes in our system and policy seem to shout the same lesson. These things need exhaustive public hearings before impartial commissions of the most experienced and distinguished authorities available in this country, ending in specific recommendations that can go before

its chin.

It, will be called upon to decide the moot question: When is a worker entitled to unemployment benefits? There is only one state paying such benefits now —Wisconsin—but 29 others will initiate this phase of the social security program Jan, 1, After that, thousands of disputed cases will come before state boards. Under the act, work“ers are disqualified from compensation when their unemployment is the result of a labor dispute, discharge for misconduct, or refusing “suitable employment.” Each one of these is a prospective battleground. The board must lay down an administrative definition of “misconduct.” It must determine the exact meaning of “suitable employment.” If a worker refuses a wage cut and is fired, the Board must pass on the question of whether the proffered wage is “suitable.” In the case of strikers applying for unemployment benefits, the Board will have to determine whether or not the labor dispute is “in active

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Appeal boards will handle the cases in their ree spective states, but determination of major policy will rest with the Board in Washington, which ean enforce its wiil by granting or withholding adminis trative funds in each state.

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HEN Mrs. Roosevelt has to have her hair done, she does just as any other woman would do, She doesn’t call a hairdresser, but goes to an estabe lishment in a department store two blocks from the White House. There she has no more privacy than the other customers. Her attendant is a man, “Paul,” who takes great pride in serving his distinguished customer. He is so short that he scarcely stands higher than Mrs, Roosevelt when she is seated. Swathed in aprons and towels, with a helmet fastened on her head, Mrs. Roosevelt sits in the neighborly group, smiling and nodding and knitting all the time. The machines make too much noise for conversation. One day a customer took a seat in the circle and glanced around at the group. Then she remarked to a companion, “See that woman with the ‘steamer’ on her head? She's a dead ringer for Mrs. Roosevelt, I wonder what the First Lady would look like in a

beauty parié.”