Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 September 1937 — Page 14

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WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 22, 1937

SOCIAL REBUILDING

] | Aone of plans for the annual Community

Fund drive Oct. 8 to 20 is a reminder that local welfare activities face a greater responsibility than ever. . The public welfare agencies grouped under the Fund fol- . lowed the pioneering efforts of private organizations in the field of social welfare. During depression years the Federal Government had to step in and take over a big ‘share of the burden. With returning prosperity, and with increased secu-

rity through social legislation, the Federal Government

now is turning back more of the direct relief load to local communities. Thus our own obligation is heightened, not lessened. And because we are better able than in recent! years

to carry on this “mobilization for human needs,” we should - be more ready to assume the responsibility. The intangi'ble losses from disease and delinquency, disrupted family

life and despair, call for social rebuilding. Indianapolis has not failed before in this battle dgainsi human misery. It will not fail this time.

NORTHWEST PASSAGE HEN President Roosevelt sets out today for the Northwest his trip will be something like a home-

coming. This is because the liberalism he has breathed

into his party is as native to that region as the very pines and spruce of its mountains. That region will want to hear about all the New Deal has done to realize its ideals of economic reform and political democracy. And there will be plenty to tell. Even more eagerly it will want to hear about Mr. Roosevelt’s new plans regarding tax revision, economies and reorganization to prevent the costs of these Federal projects from becoming an unbearable burden, about regional TVAs, the Wage-Hour Bill, farm legislation. The Northwest, in common with the great bulk of the people of .the country, will want to be reassured, as Mr. Roosevelt has been reassuring them, that he and the New Deal will carry on. | If, as has been intimated, the President should use this western trip for the purpose of strafing those of his. party who opposed his court plan, we believe he would make a great blunder. Some of the Western Senators who fought this plan have been leaders in their states for years. They were leaders because, regardless of their party, they were

- liberals. And they will be leaders in the future, we believe,

as long as they remain liberals, no matter what they do on any particular controversial issue. On Oct. 25, 1918, Woodrow Wilson made such a blunder when he appealed to “my fellow countrymen” in these

‘words: “If you have approved of my leadership and wish

me to continue to be your unembarrassed spokesman in affairs at home and abroad, I earnestly beg that you will express yourself unmistakably to that effect by returning a Democratic majority to both the Senate and the House of Representatives.” With the country at war, the voters so resented that appeal to partisanship that they turned a loyal coalition Congress into a Republican one. Should Mr. Roosevelt take on a fight with the Western liberals who opposed his court bill and thereby antagonize even a portion of the West, he would stand to lose more than votes in Congress. The New Deal would lose just that much of its soul. : a :

NOT BY BREAD ALONE ‘A MIDST news of wars and other troubles, it is a pleasure to be able to report that Indianapolis is about to enjoy one of its most brilliant seasons of theater, music and lectures. Spotlighting the entertainment list are the Indianapolis Symphony and the Civic Theater, both with new directors this year. To Fabien Sevitzky, new Symphony conductor, and to Alfred Etcheverry, new Civic director, we extend a cordial welcome and wishes for a mogt suc-

2 scesstul season.

\ | Amgng local music groups which will be heard this [Season are the Indianapolis Symphonic Choir, which wil! appear with the orchestra in several concerts, and the Maennerchor Society. | “Tovarich,” opening tomorrow night at English’s, inaugurates the professional theatrical season. Other plays booked for the same theater include “Richard II” with Maurice Evans; “Victoria Regina” with Helen Hayes, and “Antony and Cleopatra” with Tallulah Bankhead. Several hit comedies and musicals also are scheduled. ‘The list of noted musicians whe will be brought here

by the Symphony, the Town Hall series or Martens’ Con- -

certs, Inc., is too long to be reprinted here, but among them are Albert Spalding, Jascha Heifetz, Emmanuel Feuermann, The Martens series also will present the St. Louis Symphony and the Joos Ballet. ‘Town Hall speakers will include Mai Mai Sze, daughter of the Chinese Ambassador to the United States: Robert H. Berkov, of the United Press Shanghai hureau; J. B. Priestley, British novelist, and Mary Agnes Hamilton, British politician and a governor of the British Broadcasting

Corp. FE | With all this and more in store, Indianapolis citizens may look forward to a stimulating and entertaining winter.

TIT GO!

QOMEWHERE off the. Florida coast the U. S. Government lost a hurricane. Storm signals were out and

everything, but the dern thing slipped away and when last seen was heading off over the ocean. If the Weather Bureau has any idea of getting up a earch party, we say: Skip it. We'd like to lose some ore things—a couple of nearby wars, a bunch of dictators, 3 public debt, some labor rows, radio crooners, the neighbor who insists on showing you amateur movies of his vacation, books on how to. grow bald and like it, a lot of other pests.

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Fair Enough

By Westbrook Pegler

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Administration Airing of Income Tax Cases Proves a Boomerang, Striking President's Son, James.

NEW YORK, Sept. 22.—Morrison Shaffroth, chief counsel of the Bureau of Internal Revenue, and Russell J. Ryan of Indianapolis, his assistant, have quit their jobs because they refused to identify individuals

in the recent Congressional investigation of income tax avoidance and evasion. When President Roosevelt introduced the subject he impugned the morals and ethics of all those whose

returns were to be taken up as horrible examples, but the examination showed that a number of those persons who happened to be opposed to Mr. Roosevelt in various matters were innocent of either avoidance or evasion and had fully complied with the law. In fact, some of them had been guided by the advice of the Bureau of Internal Revenue, itself, but the injury was personal nevertheless and even those who fully vindicated themselves were left under a cloud. Mr. Shaffroth and Mr. Ryan apparently wanted to run the investigation strictly as an. attempt to improve ihe tax law, but were overruled and quit. However, the Administration chose to personalize the inquiry and therefore will face in the next session of Congress a demand for a full statement of the amount and sources of the income of the President’s son and secretary, Jimmy, the prosperous young Massachusetts insurance man and politician.

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T is no secret that although the President takes pleasure in naming names and personalizing issues with other men, even to the extent of challenging their morals and ethics, he resents similar treatment of members of his family. Congressman Treadway of Massachusetts, a Republican, who said he asked Jimmy some questions but. was choked off, stated in the record that he had reports from trustworthy sources that Jimmy had a large income from the sale of various Kinds

Ms. Pegler

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S matters stand the son and secretary of the President has received the same sort of challenge that Mr. Roosevelt presented to other individuals, but has received special protection from the committee in its refusal to permit expert analysis of his returns. If it were true that he made large profits from business with companies whose officers were anxious to be in the good graces of the Administration the impropriety of appointing the same young man to a confidential and strongiy influential job in the White House would be just as obvious. The matter of evasion or avoidance is unimportant in this case as it was in certain other cases to which great publicity was given. In certain other cases there was neither avoidance nor evasion and the whole

effect and apparently the sole purpose was to dis-. ‘close other men’s affairs and place them under false

suspicion. Unless it is insisted that the Presidential family has a right to special privileges Jimmy's business records deserve the same publicity.

EW YORK, Sept. 22.—How many people in this country want to change our form of Government? If Mr. Roosevelt or any other candidate should go to the people on a platform that contained

nothing but a proposal to reform the Supreme Court:

by making it answerable to the executive, to take away some of the principal powers of Congress and give them to the executive and to take important powers of the states and put them in the President—how many votes would that get? There simply isn’t any American demand to do any

such revolutionary ‘thing. There is a demand for 3

farm Pies stability, for the rights of labor, for detency in banking and stock brokerage, for. permitting big business to have the dominating voice in government and for the relief of human suffering— but there is no demand for changing ours to a oneman government. And yet the last session of Congress made very little advance toward the things for which there is a demand and for which it was elected. It took up practically all its time wrangling over these changes in form of government for which there is no demand.

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HE President is saying that if he can’t have this

revolutionan change toward ohgman govern-

The Hoosier Forum

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

SHANGHAI VETERAN'S TIP BRINGS A LAUGH

By W. Williams, Columbus

I laughed when I picked up the paper a few days ago and read where Mr. Moody, a 20-year veteran in the foreign settlement at Shanghai, one time of Lansing, Mich,, had gently hinted to the President to get off his yacht, get on his feet and get some courage. It must have sounded impertinent coming from a man who has not voted in America since the second election of Woodrow Wilson and who, for all we know, in all these years has not paid enough taxes in the Federal Treasury to buy a brass button for the armed forces of the U. S. A. .

But at least, the man says, he's *

not a quitter. So here’s hoping he stays in Shanghai along with the hundreds of embattled former Americans fighting for his share of American prestige, honor and investments while the rest of us keep the home fires burning, feed eight or 10 million unemployed and prevent some six million farm families from going down the third time, to say nothing about trying to pay the cost of collecting bankers’ bad debts over there. All we got out of the war in 1917 was 300,000 dead and permanently disabled American boys, prohibition, the flu, 3-cent postage stamps, an island and finally the sales tax. Anyone who advocates the expenditure

|of a nickel or risking the scratch-

ing of a nose for the benefit of Americans who prefer the Orient— Well, you can make your own decision. r = ”

{ CRITICIZES PAMPHLETS ON

SPANISH DEMOCRACY

By A. H,, St. Meinrad Seminary, St. Meinrad During the course of the present Indiana State Fair, pamphlets on the subject of the Spanish Catholic attitude toward the Civil War were distributed. The pamphlets bear as the name of their publishers the “North American Committee to Aid

Spanish Democracy.” Their alleged |

purpose is to demonstrate that “many influential and representative Catholic personalities, as well as masses of Catholic workers, are giving moral and other support: to the democratic forces.” In’ passing, it must be confessed that “democratic forces” appeal to one as being a rather quaint description of that particular form of Asiatic bolshevism now rampant in Spain. The statements of the “world famous Catholic leaders” contained in the pamphlets are much too numerous to be referred to in detail. Their general value is very difficult to determine. Accepting them, however, at their face value, they still remain altogether inconclusive.

General Hugh Johnson Says—

What Has Become of the Reforms for Which This Nation Vofed i in 19362 President Is Holding Out for Own Plank Changing Form of Government.

Who says we can’t have the reforms we voted for

(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, religious con- . troversies excluded. Make your letter short, so all can have a chance. Letters must be signed, but names will be withheld on request.)

The Catholics in Spain have only one genuine set of representatives and spokesmen, viz, the Spanish Hierarchy. From this source has recently come ‘a lengthy and precise statement of the. attitude of the Spanish Catholics toward the Civil War, Pastoral Letter . The statement is in the form of a pastoral letter signed by 46 Spanish bishops and two cardinals. It is significant that the first name among the signers is that of Isidoro, Cardinal Goma y Tomas, the official representative of the Vatican in Spain. The principal contention of the letter is that the revolt led by Gen. Franco is a legitimate one; a fact strenuously denied by the ‘North American Committee. Under five heads, the bishops point out the intolerable state of affairs preceding the outbreak of hostilities, the machinations of the Communist Internationale in Spain and the fraudulent character of the elections which brought the present Loyalist regime into power. In view of these incontestable statements on the part of the hierarchy it would appear as though

TODAY AND TOMORROW

By VIRGINIA POTTER Today you'd throw away three keys, “Love, Faith and Truth” by name, For wealth in form of silver, For just the glamour of fame!

You'd leave friends dear who love you, And go to a far off place— But who will be there to greet you, Will you see a familiar face?

Tomorrow, perhaps, will be different, Youll measure the cost and the

gain, And just be patient, nearer home,

For Dame Fortune is fickle and.

vain

DAILY THOUGHT

In Christ are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.— Colossians 2:3...

GNORANCE is the curse of God; knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.—Shakespeare.

the subject of the attitude of Catholic Spain as a whole toward the revolution is rather closed. The North American Committee for the Aid of Spanish Democracy will have to find another more practicable point of attack if it wishes to continue Sugeessiully in its, agitation.

”» 3 » CITY AUDITORIUM IS URGED IN LETTER TO MAYOR By Leon Frank Following is a letter to Mayor Boetcher: We would like to express our opinion on the project of putting up a civic auditorium which is now receiving consideration. We believe ‘that anyone would agree that conventions held in any city are always beneficial to the residents of that city, both financially and socially, and no doubt any resident with civic pride wants to see his home city keep pace with others. There is no doubt that today Indianapolis is lagging behind, and one one of the main reasons is that we do not have the accommodations to properly handle the larger conventions which are going to other cities that can take care of them. These other cities are reaping the benefits from the gatherings, and Indianapolis certainly should get its share. It is our belief that an auditorium built for this purpose is becoming a necessity to this city, because unless we have it, there is no doubt that more and more conventions will

go to other cities that do have the

proper facilities to accommodate them. We sincerely hope this project will be favorably voted on in the very near future. ” 2 2

BIGGEST HICK TOWN IN U. S. APT TITLE, NATIVE STATES By C. W. These recent cool days and the resulting fires have again filled the air with smoke and soot. Engineers have proved that Indianapolis is a much dirtier city as far as smoke is concerned than Pittsburgh, once

famed for its pollufed air. Pittsburgh has, by enforcing smoke ordinances, remedied the situation, while Indianapolis, negligent and backward as usual, doesn’t go to the trouble. Along with the permitting -of newlyweds to disrupt traffic downtown, the infantile and ludicrous bicycle tax, and other things of a nature most naive, Indianapolis certainly deserves the title, Biggest Hick Town in the country, and the laughs of other cities. I've lived here all my life.

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It Seems to Me

By Heywood Broun

Miss America's Decision fo Keep Title Comes as Disappointment; Statistics Point to Unhappiness.

NEW YORK, Sept. 22.—I am disappointed to hear that Miss Bette Cooper of Hackettstown, N. J., has: decided not to decline the crown. When first she won the title of Miss America in the Atlantic City Beauty

Contest she chose to purse her pretty lips and snort, or make some other derisive sound, and then walked out, leaving the glamour and the emoluments behind her.

Now she has thought worse of thet decision. I say worse because statistics seem to show that happiness seldom follows in the foot steps of any Miss America. According to’ the actuaries, the odds are almost four to one against any holder of the crown making a successful marriage, although almost 100 per cent of the winners at least have the opportunity of being the solace and comfort of some good man. The mathematical experts estimate that the average Miss America —if this is not a contradiction in terms—can expect no more than 3.9456 years of bliss. The trouble seems to occur a little before the fourth anniversary, This is about the time when the husband of the bathing beauty looks across the breakfast table and says, “Let me see. It was only three years ago that you were voted the prettiest girl in America. Huh!” One of the difficulties may be that Tew of them can cook.

LTHOUGH never "appointed to the Atlantic City High Bench, my conscience has always troubled me, because I once served with two associates as judge of a bathing beauty contest. It was just a local affair. As I remember, we were empowered to ‘do no more than choose a Miss Jersey City, or if may have been Palisades Amusement Park. . If memory serves me the queen we crowned never made the big leagues or figured later in the public prints in any way. I wonder whatever became of her and whether we ruined her life very much. The only solace which I have when remorse as-

Mr. Broun

- sails me is that she was not particularly good-looking

in the first place. That was why we all voted for her. Although the contest was limited in scope, some two dozen young ladies competed. Aside from the lucky one who was chosen they all looked alike. Each was attired in a yellow bathing suit. At least I think so. One carried a folded tabloid newspaper, so I couldn’t be sure about her, but all except the blessed damozel smiled as she passed the reviewing stand.

» » ” WENTY or 30 or 50 smiles like that became actually terrifying. All of them had large white teeth which gleamed in the noonday stn. The effect was predatory. I can’t speak for the two other judges, but my thoughts began to turn to the wolf who ate up the grandmother of Little Red Riding Hood. Indeed, I was strongly tempted to throw one of my associates down from the high platform where we stood and let the glamour girls scramble for him while I whipped up the horses and made my escape. And then, like an oasis in the desert, there came a miss with sulky face and reluctant tread. She gave us one of the dirtiest looks I have ever seen in all my life, and on the instant we brought in a verdict of “Not guilty” and crowned her.

The Washington Merry-Go-Round,

Expose of Justice Black's Klan Affiliations Shrouded With Mystery: Difficulty in Writing-in ‘Fiorello’ Makes La Guardia’s Vote a Tribute,

By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen

in 1936 without this silent revolution? Does Congress say it? Congress was elected to enact those reforms. Does the Court say it? In the NRA and state minimum wage cases, the Court followed some reactionary precedents but those precedents already stand re-

versed. The cold unpleasant truth is that this Administration is withholding what it was elected to do in order to fenagle through something it was not elected to do and couldn’t have been elected to do.

2 2 ” . HO wants this change to one-man Govern‘ment? It never was proposed to the people. Not one member of Congress in ten truly wants it, and those who say they do, don’t dare say otherwise for fear of Presidential reprisal. The fact is that nobody sincerely wants this change except a small group of theoretical and radical extremists who surround the President. And yet, the President is nearly as popular as ever. Why? Because he is still the sole symbol of the reforms he and others fought for and the people -so earnestly desire, it has not become. 5 lear that he is not 1

ASHINGTON, Sept. 22.—Few recent political YY incidents have been surrounded with more mystery than the expose of Justice Black’s Ku-Klux Klan affiliations. There is, first of all, the mystery of how R. P. Day, the Klansman who supplied some of the affidavits exposing Mr. Black, should have fallen under a train just after the expose was published. Second, there is the mystery of who went to the trouble to dig up the details regarding Mr. Black. The first mystery is being investigated by Alabama authorities. Whether Mr. Day died an accidental .death or was pushed under the train may never be

“cleared up.

The second mystery seems to have been partly solved by Administration sleuths, who say that a private detective of New York took the intiative in investigating Mr. Black and turned the results over to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Who paid him to expose Mr. Black is not known definitely. He has been employed recently by a steel company, according to Administration sleuths, to dig into the private life of John L. Lewis, C. I. O. chief, * x =

IE down with a poe ; pencil and Loy to spel

his name on the Democratic primary ballot. (He was listed only on the Republican ballot.> Furthermore, in New York State it is necessary to write the full name. The last name is not enough. The 57,000 Democrats spelled it 155 different ways, by actual count, but they wrote it in. Mr. La Guardia’s first $ame means “Little Flower,” and once the"Mayor, sighing over life, said: “Why did my parents have to call me; of all names, Fiorello? I figure it cost me 200,000 votes in every election.” Note—Even the Vice President of the United States, Jack Garner, who has known Fiorello for 10 years, still calls him “Florio.”

i. 8 8 : = are some significant signs indicating the way official minds are: running on the Far East and the danger of war:

"1. Mr. Roosevelt has just appointed as his naval

aid, Capt. Walter B. Woodson, recently returned from the Asiatic Fleet and up-to-date on latest developments there, Since Mr. Roosevelt sees more of his naval and military aids than previous Presidents, this is a most important assignment. 2. The President has just asked the War Department for a secret and special survey of all landing

fields in the United States, including those built ‘with

WPA and Pa funds.