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WEDNESDAY, OCT. 20, 1937
AGAINST THE EBB N view of what is happening, Alfred M. Landon (R. Kas.) picked a good day to make a speech. That is, if it had been a good speech. But, since the address displayed most of the qualities which so effectively contributed to the vietory of his opponent a year ago, he may have appeared once more as a friend in need to Mr. Roosevelt, who picked a bad day to make a speech. The President's speech today is in dedication of the new Federal Reserve Board Building in the nation’s capital.
Because of events now occurring in the fiscal field it would
have been better to call the whole thing off. It's no time to eulogize when the subject of the eulogy is in a sinking spell.
All of which involves a lesson for speech-writers. Obviously Mr. Landon’s discourse had been on ice for weeks. Otherwise he would have dealt with the immediate. which pictures Mr. Roosevelt's greatest problem and greatest embarrassment.
And Mr. Roosevelt likewise, in another speech, failed to keep step with the present in the talk he made the evening preceding Mr. Landon’s. The accumulation of that
day’s happenings brought forth this combination of page- |
In Europe
Talk of returning prosperity in this late October of | 1937 is made up of words that begin to stick in the throat. For today we are reading a story and viewing a scene very | reminiscent of late October 1929. Ticker way behind, billions |
one headlines: “Deficit Put at $695,000,000;” “Stocks Off 2 to 15; Bonds Also Break;” “Returning Prosperity Means Decline in Federal Activity, Says President.”
knocked off of values, and all that.
We devoutly hope that the recession will prove tempo- | rary and trivial and that good times soon will resume. But let’s not lull ourselves with the around-the-corner narcotic | as we once did. Let's face the realities and pray that the |
President will.
= = ” = » » V JHAT Mr. Roosevelt is up against now is his first real struggle with the downswing. That is the ultimate test of a statesman. Can he change his pace? Can he apply the philosophy which he so inspiringly expressed in the early days of his first Administration—to junk the bad when it has proved itself bad and keep only the good ? Will he be able to realize that the tide of good luck may turn, that happy days may be fleeting, that many of his advisers may not after all have been wise men, and that many of his policies may have been wrong? Will he demonstrate the capacity to renovate? Can he row against the ebb? The state of mind of the nation today is low and gotting lower. Mr. Roosevelt once proved as no other man
in our time the capacity for meeting & crisis and cheering | There is nothing in the present situation to |
things up. compare in seriousness with the dark davs of 1933. But [r. Roosevelt cannot afford to rely on a momentum which is so rapidly losing its force, or to talk glibly of returning prosperity when prosperity is on the wane. The time has arrived for Mr. Roosevelt to take a fresh
look at his hole-card, and then to bring to bear that open- |
minded and keen-eyed style of play which made him what he was five years ago. Either that, or “the abundant life” will join the innumerable caravan of bywords that backfire, along with the chickens in the pot, and the forgotten man will eke out the rest of his existence in a Hoover village eating at last the grass whose growth was predicted but temporarily delayed.
WHAT PRICE LOVE?
IKE most things in this country, love, it seems, must
have its price tag. But what chaos there is in the love market! There's little Elwin Elmer Pope of Los Angeles, whose schoolteacher wife is paying him $25 a month alimony. Mrs. Pope, whom Elwin Elmer served for six vears as husband, cook and homemaker, is willing to pay that much for his absence. And nearby in Hollywood glamorous Judith Allen has sent Heiress Delphine Dodge Cromwell Baker Goode a two million dollar bill for the alienated affections of handsome
Jack Doyle, Miss Allen's ex-husband who is about to become |
Here the high cost of lov mg | management has found the intricacies of mass pro-
Mrs Goode’s fourth husband. reaches a peak.
Now, it may be true, as Mrs. Pope charges, that Elwin
Elmer did take bottles of whisky to bed with him and did | | skill,
have nightmares. And it is true that Mr. Doyle sings Irish
songs with the sweetness of a thrush, packs a mean wallop |
as a professional boxer and is a lion among the ladies. But the disparity in the price of love between minus-$25 a
month and a cool two million dollar quit-claim is confusing. |
Perhaps love should have all its price tags removed, by the abolition of civil suits for alimony, “heart balm,” and breach of promise. It doesn’t belong in the marts of commerce.
SHHH, NOT A WORD! HE Duke wishes to emphasize that the Duchess’ and his visit to the United States is of a private character, and that they do not, therefore, wish it to be subject to publicity —from a formal statement issued by Windsor through his London solicitor. Knowing the United States, the Duke and Duchess may rest assured that their request for no publicity will be religiously observed, and that they may slip into and out of this country practically unnoticed. But we're a bit puzzled by another announcement in the same statement, to
releases will be issued through that firm.” As the blushing hero said to the reporter, “Not a word about me, you understand, but here's my picture.”
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One Reason We’re Not Getting Very Far !—By Talburt
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By Raymond Clapper
Auto Plants in Russia Attempt
To Duplicate U. S. Model Autos, But Their Production Line Fails.
OSCOW, Oct. 20.—Example of Russia's industrial difficulties is found in automobile manufacturing, in which a number of removals and an airing of charges took place
" soon after I arrived in Moscow.
The two big Soviet automobile plants, here and at Gorki, were patterned after American methods. S. S. Dybets, director of the administration of the tractor-automobile industry, was removed a few days after I reached Moscow. He used to be a mechanic in America, where he is reported to have been active in the Industrial Workers of the World. Returning to Russia shortly after the revolution, he rose rapidly because of his skill. He was in charge of construction of the Gorki plant. Dybets hired most of the American engineers who assisted in the early work. The Gorki plant began manufacturing an exact copy of a 1830 American auto and in 1935 decided to change the model to that of the American car, with some modifi cations. But by that time American enginesring ussistance had been largely dispensed with and the change-over apparently was difficult, for after a year and & half production has failed to reach the pace achieved on the old model, where foreign engineers started everything going.
= ” = HE Soviets also manufacture a larger car. also a copy of an American auto. Early this year an engineering company completed installation of one million dollars’ worth of dies for this model. The equipment is adequate for production of 200.000 of these cars annually but, according to the Soviet press, only 570 have been turned out this year. With the removal of Dybets, who in the meantime had been promoted to head of the whole industry, an avalanche of criticism was turned loose on him. He
Mr. Clapper
| and various engineers in both the Moscow and Gorki
plants were accused of clogging their administrations with anarchists, Menshevists and pseudo-specialists. The newspaper Pravda says both plants are failing to meet their schedules because of “tremendous disorder.’ = = ” HE truck conveyor at the Moscow plant is idle 23 per cent of the working time, and the one at Gorki 35 per cent of the time. Subsidiary factories making parts are charged with failing to keep pace, and it is stated that until better co-ordination is achieved little headway can be expected. “Wrecking,” a term frequently used to cover inefficiency, is charged; the “wrecking” in this instance allegedly tock the form of using defective material, or parts which did not fit, or piacing the wrong material in motors and* rejecting good parts. Expert opinion here is the same as a layman woula infer from the foregoing. Namely, that Soviet
duction of automobiles somewhat too great to handle alone with success, and that it will be necessary to have foreign technical assistance to do the job right at this stage in the development of Soviet technical
1 wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.
The Hoosier Forum
| REITERATES HIS PLEA FOR RENTERS’ ASSOCIATION By Renter
When I wrote before I was rather in doubt as to the response, and it | did me good to learn that there was one, at least, who thought a Rent- | ers’ Association would be beneficial. For the future generation I feel there should be something done |
to express
troversies
(Times readers are invited their these columns, religious con. excluded. your letter short, so all can have a chance. be signed, but names will be withheld on request.)
SEEMS TO BE IRKED BY CITY'S TRAFFIC LAWS By a Hoosier, but Not hy Choice It was my good fortune to take a motor trip this summer, up through Chicago, Madison and Milwaukee. I | drove exactly 1158 miles, staying in Chicago a week, driving all around
views in Make
Letters must
| about this. | It would take time, of course.
all I want is the privilege to ask |VRders;
get it. | not get it. | popped up right away. | not only the laboring class, people that can afford to pay high | rent have their difficulties.
] : : : 3 1| which are included in this territory, | do not want something for nothing; | 8r¢ in the hands of the Italian inotherwise for a little paint on the house and | territory would have shown an inOne can ask it, but does crease in collections.
If he does the rent js|in this country, pe y I feel that | Ques are deducted from the payrolls | made me smile when I though of
but | of the workers by the employers. Other departments For in- | this report are the Labor Relations |
the business part of that city, and during the whoie trip I saw egactly six traffic policemen. All along Michigan Blvd. there are In Spain, as | traffic signs Which read “45 miles insurance per hour speed limit,” It certainly
this turbulent
social
{our signs reading 20 miles per hour, covered by |10 miles per hour, etc.
This afternoon I happened to go |
stance, any number of landlords will { not rent because of children.
{ = ® un | ‘SOCIAL SECURITY’ SEEN | WORKING IN WAR-TORN SPAIN By Agapite Rey, Bloomington
Fifteen months of bitter war | have brought to Spain untold de- | struction of life and property. Ger- | man and Italian bombers have blotted out of existence such important {towns as Guernica, Durango and | Cangas de Onis. The loss of human life runs well over a million. However, the people—confident in ultimate victory—continue the development and perfection of the in- | stitutions that the republic has | created or expanded. Spain en- | acted some social legislation as far |back as 1908 when a very modest old age pension insurance Was formulated. It was voluntary and | never made much progress. In 1921 {the first compulsory workingmen'’s | retirement insurance was made into {a law, But opposition from employers {and apathy on the part of the | workers prevented the enforcement
{
| Board showing the number of com- | ast on Washington from Senate to
plaints lodged with the Board in| New Jersey, and I had to stop at
the last five years. There are in | every intersection for the stop lights Spain 1278 co-operatives of various | t0 change. The main street through types. One thousand and five were | town. ‘in Loyalist territory when the re-| Another thing—our trackless trol{port was written. Of these co-op- | ler cars take the whole street. It's |eratives, 292 were registered in the against the law to pass them on the | first quarter of 1937. | wrong side, and when they stop at If communism were rampant in| the curb only the front end is at Loyalist Spain as the Fascist apolo- | the curb, and the rear, which is gists want to make us believe, would | nearly 10 feet wide, sticks out at an the people take such interest in in- [angle which prohibits anything from surance? Thus we see that, faced | getting around. with treason at home and foreign W. L. wondered why they wanted aggression, the Spanish people do | an expert traffic man here—I think not lose sight or hope of the future. | they should call in a bunch of cowWhen victory is theirs, Spain will | boys. again rank as one of the truly 8 #8 ®
democratic and progressive nations | ; of the world. URGES SAFETY BE TAUGHT TOTS AT HOME IN MEMORY By Mitchel E. Stewart By MRS. JAMES KERSEY I have so often heard the word Never did we see her when she | “safety” mentioned, but like many | didn’t wear a smile, others, thought it was just to curb Laughing, joking, cheering someon all the while reckless drivers, pedestrians known Yes, indeed, we'll miss her more as jaywalkers, or children who run than anyone can know, across the street going to and from school. But in trying to prevent
{of these measures. With the implantation of the republic in 1931, | these labor and social security laws were extended to include insurance for old age, disability, labor accident, unemployment, maternity and sickness. There were in March of this year 8427365 persons paying into the old age insurance fund. | Furthermore, insurance became | compulsory. The collection of the insurance payments and the disbursement of the benefits have suffered no interruption in the territory controlled by the Government despite the cruel war. I have received from Valencia the bulletin from the Department of Labor giving the ac- { tivities and balances of the various {labor and social security units under its jurisdiction. The report covers up to April 1, 1937. This report is very illuminating and interesting in | many respects. Collections are practically the same as in normal times. | Taking Catalonia as an example, we find that collections were only | two million pesetas less than in the | preceding year. This drop was due [to the fact that the Balearic Islands,
ter land,
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gospel to every 16:15.
—Luther.
General Hugh Johnson Says—
There Is No Danger to Free Speech and Free Opinions in U. S., Is There?
No Executive Would Speak
ASHINGTON, Oct. 20—There is no danger to the right of free speech, free discussion and free criticism in the United States. Is there? No man ever will be punished or prejudiced by his Government for any expressed opinion. Will he? Why should a critic's mouth be shut by any force save facts and logic? If he lies, there are laws of libel. If he tells the truth, no truly democratic official is afraid of truth. Is he? If criticisms are matters
| of opinion merely, each man is entitled to his opinion.
Isn't he? So this country understands and Congress has not in & century, except in war, passed any law “abridging
| the freedom of speech, or the press” because the Con-
stitution carefully says that Congress can't. . But nowhere does the Constitution say that the executive departments shall not use any influence of high cffice or any of the innumerable administrative powers to silence anybody who publishes or broadcasts
. : | any criticism or opinion that they do not approve. the effect that the Duke's friend, Charles Bedeaux, “has |
made a noncommercial arrangement with Arthur Kidner, | Inc., professional press representative, whereby all press |
. = LJ = HERE are almost as many ways in which this can be attempted as there are powers delegated by Congress to executive departments. It would be dangerous if ever, directly or indirectly, these powers were used to silence criticism. Wouldn't it? Control of opinion and expression is the very first thing an intending Hitler or Mussolini
“a
of Reprisals Against a Critic, Would He?
aims to seize. That controlled, the rest is easy. Our great security is that no American would submit or any executive think of attempting such a thing. Would they?
No newspaper publisher would allow his duty of free, if sometimes unwelcome, criticism to be affected in any way, by the indirect punitive use of any of these powers, or by being falsely held up to the multitude by hint and innuendo as a tax slicker or opposed to humane legislation because of its tax burden on him. Would he? He wouldn't even consider the harm of such castigation to his paper and its circulation. Would he? = » ” T= great broadcasting chains, though wholly at the mercy of an executive bureau for the very licenses of which they operate, would resist, notwithstanding the risk of great loss, or complete extinction, or interference with their paying customers through other administrative powers, or at least constant bureaucratic heckling. Why, they would fight to the death before they would comply with any executive attempt at use of any of those powers to silence or influence any critic. Wouldn't they? No American executive would think of taking anyone to task for an expressed opinion, or talk about reprisals. Would they? Oh ye-ah? I mean, Oh, no-ah?
couldnt help but make it so.
But if each and everyone could leave a memory quite so grand, This would be a much happier, bet-
She never knew a stranger, helping others all life through, A comfort and a blessing to every-
If she were here and one of us I can ‘see her now trying to cheer
So the highest tribute we could pay her as hard as it will be, Is to be brave and think of others as she would do, you see.
OD writes the Gospel ¥ the Bible alone, but on trees, and flowers, and clouds, and stars.
Her countless deeds of kindness tragedies, with the aid of the police department, and even the boy traffic police of the schools, have we
not neglected others who are dear to us—those tiny tots at home. I have, in the past two weeks, seen one little fellow just miss getting Killed by an automobile at 10ti and Alabama Sts. Two men in the car were thrown through the windshield, it stopped so suddenly. This child is still at large. Another at 9th and Pennsylvania Sts. I pulled from in front of a fast truck. She is still at large. Let's plead with the parents to help these as well as the ones they send to school. Then when we say “safety,” we mean for all.
DAILY THOUGHT ® x ow
And He said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the
IF DUCE CAN, WHY CAN'T BLACK, HE ASKS By Charles McCarthy, North Webster
If Benito Mussolini, ex-Socialist, can be trusted to “save civilization” in Italy, why can't ex-Klansman Black be trusted to do the same in America?
creature.—Mark
not in
It Seems to Me
By Heywood Broun
The Duke of Windsor May Consor¥ With Herr Hitler, but It's an Evil Foreboding to His American Tour,
NEW YORK, Oct. 20.—There must be days and days and even years and years during which David Windsor never sees or hears of this column. But his tough luck is . my good fortune. A little while ago a friendly word was said here concerning the approaching visit of the Duke and Duchess to this country. No specific date was set for him to spend a week-end in Stamford, but there was a sort of “now that ° you know the way” air about the lite tle missive. Today I want to take it all back. Indeed, Tycoon, our puppy spaniel, ! has been instructed to nip any former regal leg which he sees coming : up the driveway. I trust that this . doesn’t result in confusion, because it may be that to a dog of Tycoon's age, Kings and commoners are very much alike. Still, Ty is quick to take a hint, and he learned to bark at economic royalists even before he was housebroken. o wo» HE friendly gesture from Hunting Ridge was made before the Duke of Windsor went in so heavily in his brother act with Adolf Hitler. A - former king could be excused for buying a return trip ticket to Berlin with the privilege of a one-day stopover, but Windsor hardly could be ignorant of the political consequences of the love feast to which he committed himself. Obviously, the Nazis were ordered to cheer their heads off for him. Whether the trip was taken with the sanction, or even at the suggestion, of the British Cabinet is a matter of conjecture. The fact remains that it plays ° along with the desire of British conservative leaders to put the oil on Hitler and the heat on Mussolini. And this might seem smart strategy on the surface if it were not for the fact that it works against those European nations which are actually committed to peace. ” 5 8
USSIA stands today as the greatest barrier against war. Indeed, I think a general conflict : would now be under way but for the alliance between France and the Soviets. No good purpose can be served by taking the attitude that Hitler isn’t so bad after all. He 1s. Concessions will merely increase his arrogance and his determination to win the world to fascism by military conquest. David Windsor was once known as a salesman for the British Empire, but it would seem now that he is about to take on a side-line. Seemingly he was equipping his sample case dure ing his German jaunt. Surely we want no more Nazi propaganda in this country, even if it is dished out to us by indirection. Liberals ought to give Windsor a cool reception when he comes here. Nobody should be allowed to earn a reputation as a friend of labor by the very simple process of patting a coal miner on the back.
The Washington Merry-Go-Round
Centralization of Government Gives Roosevelt Power to Check Slump; Recession on Market Is No Worse Than Two Others During New Deal,
By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen ASHINGTON, Oct. 20.—During the early days of the New Deal, newspapermen filed into a White House press conference to find on President Roosevelt's desk a sheaf of charts showing the peaks and valleys of national prosperity and depression. Exhibiting these charts, Mr. Roosevelt explained it was his chief ambition, as President, to eliminate the peaks and valleys, to keep the United States traveling on an even economic keel, slightly upward, but at not too great a speed. . ; Then he went on to explain in detail the principle of controlled production behind the NRA and AAA. Today, the President faces the task of carrying out his 1933 ambition by checking the stock market slump,
which some barons of business fear is spreading to |
the country. ” ” ” ORTUNATELY there are two factors which should make it fairly simple for him to do this: 1. Government has become so centralized in recent years, especially under the New Deal, that it is much easier, by throwing the force of the Government into an economic breach, to check it. 2. Slight business recessions are usual when a nation is climbing back to prosperity. Two already have occurred during the New Deal, both a little worse than the present. Therefore the present recession should be checked the more easily.
The most severe slump during the New Deal term occurred in the summer of 1933, five months after Mr. Roosevelt took office. Stock values dropped onee half of what they had gained, and it took exactly four years for them to come back to the July, 1933, level. There was another drop in the summer of 1934, lasting five months, during which stocks went back to their 1833 lowest levels. Three minor business drops occurred, in addition to the above, none of them serious. In other words, climbing out of a depression is a process of fits and starts, and this was also true in previous depressions. n o » ROM the President’s point of view, there is one good thing about the present recession. It plays directly into his hands in helping to squelch revolt from within his own party. He now can say with some justice: “Congress deserted old Dr. Roosevelt just when the patient was getting well, and now you see what happened.” There is nothing like the fear of depression to whip recalcitrant Congressmen into line. And all the good old-line Democrats who were such loyal party members that they secretly sabotaged Mr, Roosevelt on the Wage-Hour Bill and the Farm Bill last session, now should come galloping home to roost. This is exactly what the President is counting on? when the special session opens Nov. 15.