Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 October 1937 — Page 14

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WEDNESDAY, OCT. 27,

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MR. HOOVER SPEAKS SOME SENSE 10 say that Herbert Hoover made a better speech last night than Alfred M. Landon made a week ago last night is faint praise. It was a very much better speech. And the best parts of it were those in which Mr. Hoover recognized what is wrong with the Republican Party. Viewing the New Deal with alarm is old stuff, whether it is Mr. Hoover talking about “creeping collectivism,” or Mr. Landon about ‘one-man government.” What the country wants to know is whether the Republicans can acknowledge and correct their own faults. Mr. Hoover, in addition to disclaiming personal ambition for another nomination, expounded a doctrine his party needs to hear. “If the Republican Party has not learned the lesson that it must produce principles and program, besides being ‘against,’ and joyriding on mistakes,” he said, “it has not read history.” And he added that Republican principles and program must meet the “yearnings of the people today for a way out and forward.” Correct! Unless the Republican Party offers a way forward it will remain the feeble and ineffective thing it has been since 1932. With the Republican Party, or without it, the people are going forward. They are determined to reach the objectives promised by the New Deal. It may be true, as Mr. Hoover says, that the New Deal's road toward those objectives “badly needs repaving with prac-

tical methods.” But the people are not likely to hire a Re- | publican paving crew without most definite assurance that

its intention is to bend the road, not detour traffic back into the old reactionary mud-hole. So it’s a case for proving. But we will say this: If the ideals Mr. Hoover sets forth should be achieved by a revived and renovated Republican Party, nothing could be better for the country. For this is a two-party Government, and a powerful opposition is vital to its successful operation.

NOT ENOUGH PREVENTION NDER great public pressure, the responsible City officials have gone forward with a safety program that shows results in accident reduction. There have been 14 fewer traffic deaths in Indianapolis this year than at the same time in 1936. The joker is that the present campaign is not built apon a lasting foundation. Let public vigilance relax and we could quickly slip back into the old rut of spasmodic enforcement and alibis. Proof of this is the fact that traffic enforcement activities were virtually abandoned during a recent period of tension in a labor dispute because police were occupied with other duties. The Accident Prevention Bureau recently set up is a forward step, but it doesn’t have the manpower or equipment to rank with the 16 scientific accident prevention bureaus established over the country since Evanston, Ill, installed the first one a few years ago. The International Association of Chiefs of Police, which helped establish these bureaus under direction of Lieut. F. M. Kreml, says these 16 cities are achieving concrete results in reduced fatalities and increased convictions of crash-causing drivers.

The 16 cities have cut their death rate 19 per cent in | 1937 as compared to the average for the previous three |

years. Compared to the same eight months of 1937, they reduced auto fatalities 13.8 per cent, while the national average for cities went up 12.3 per cent. Twelve of the 16 cities showed a 26 per cent death-rate reduction compared to the previous three years, and a 21.8 per cent ut compared to 1936. All 16 cities showed a high percentage of violators arrested and convicted. Indianapolis should join Evanston, Louisville, South Bend, Cincinnati, Waterbury, Detroit and other communities in a rounded, long-range program for reducing accidents.

NAVY DAY

THE other day President Roosevelt observed that, with-

out declaration of war and without warning, outlaw | nations are suddenly pouncing upon weaker nations and | 2 YS*©

murdering noncombatants, including women and children. It ought to be inconceivable, he said, that such things could happen. But happen they do. ¥ Gangsterism has replaced whatever law and order there was in international affairs. Despite her 450 million population, big, rich China is being invaded and dismembered by a much smaller but more powerfully armed neighbor. We should do well to ponder these things not only today, which happens to be Navy Day, but every day. We are far richer than China. We are the richest nation on earth. Despite our many imperfections, we are a fortunate people. But if we value our good fortune we had better keep our burglary insurance going—in other words, our sea power.

THE BEST POLITICS . C. SALLEE, City Park Superintendent, told the Indiana Municipal League meeting at Bloomington how the ten-million-dollar Indianapolis park system has become one of the City’s greatest assets for community building. He concluded with an intelligent statement that applies with equal force to other branches of public service: “Men and women should be appointed to park and recreation jobs on the basis of ability, training and experience. “The American attitude toward government is changing. Public opinion has demanded and is securing higher standards in the administration of its affairs through the merit system. After all, the best service is the best politics. “The ‘right man or woman for the job’—that’s the thing today.”

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By Westbrook Pegler

Americans Are Good Customers of Irish Sweep, Illegally Spending And Sending Out of U. S. 7 Millions.

EW YORK, Oct. 27.—The United States last week successfully defended her dubious honor as champion of the Irish Hospitals Sweep, contributing seven million dollars, more than half of the Cesarewitch

pool, which fell just a little short of $13,-

500,000. The investment undoubtedly was much greater, because, invariably, a number of phony issues are sold to our gullibles and because, invariably, a

portion of the genuine tickets retailed here are duds whose owners do not get a run for their money. That happens when the agent decides to keep the purchase price of $2.50 for himself instead of remitting it to Dublin. The agent is under a strong temptation to do this, because the victim, even if he is of a mind to have the law on the agent, cannot come into court with clean hands, being involved in an illegal transaction himself. Up to 18 months ago the Irish Hospitals Fund had reached 46 million dollars, a little more than $15 for public hospitalization for every man, woman and child in the Irish Free State. The money was then accumulating in such bulk that the Free State Government decided to cut itself a neat slice of cake out of the hospitals’ share. The fund receives onefourth of the gross, so the Government helped itself to one-fourth of this one-fourth. There have been six pools since then, so, even allowing for the Government's kitty, there must be a per capita fund of about $17 or $18 for the very good health of the Irish, " 5 ” HE Honorable Edward A. Kenny, member of Congress from New Jersey, has been active in the agitation to legalize a Federal lottery here. He deplores the drift of American money to foreign lotteries. The German, French, Italian and Cuban lotteries receive small play from this country, but the Germans, French and Italians on their part, send practically nothing to Dublin. The Germans and Italians are not allowed to send money out of their countries, and the French just don't. Mr. Kenny once startled his colleagues in Congress with the assertion that New York City alone had bought 16 million dollars worth of tickets on a single pool of the Irish Sweep and brought them up with their ears funneling when he declared that by his reckoning the U. S. Treasury could clear a billion dollars a year with a Federal lottery. He may exaggerate the American capacity to absorb lottery tickets.

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T was his plan to take down 40 per cent of the gross for the Government, which would mean that the people would have to buy $2,500,000,000 worth That would come to about 48,000,000 dollars a week—not too high a figure of itself. But, considering the competition of the slot machines, the horse tracks, the numbers racket and the inevitable rival, minor league lotteries which would be started by the states, counties and municipalities, Mr. Kenny had better not promise to stand on his head until the Federal kitty hits that billion should his bill become law. Mr. Kenny certainly dreams a pretty dream, though, and far be it from these dispatches to roll a man over when he is tossing billions around in his mind. He told his colleagues that in 35 years his lottery would pay off the whole national debt.

The Hoosier Forum

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

| DISPUTES WORTH OF BIG INCOMES By Warren A. Benedict Jr. Mr. Man-in-the-Street, the Re- | publican elephant and the Demo- | cratic donkey are all gleeful at the increasing number.of million-a-year income men, according to Herblock’s cartoon titled “With All Their | Faults We Love Them,” in The]

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| the direct cause of the wars now | raging in Spain and China. Mr. | Maddox is either ignorant of or in- | different to the fact that in all {ages of the world every great | change in the relations of human | | beings for their betterment has met | with opposition.

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Of course, cartoons are not to be Possibly it ought to be reconsidered [ein seriously, and the men in this to make it fair in relation to the income group are still quite few, but | cost of living today; but raising it I believe your cartoonist struck a | to compete with the salaries of our | sour note in that cartoon. Mr. Man- most successful businessmen (finan- | in-the-Street remembers that the cially) will not assure the city of | largest number of such incomes was | an efficient administration.

| NEW YORK, Oct.

| in 1929,—and it wasn't exactly better | times that followed. The G. O. P.! { fully realizes it nceds votes, not | campaign contributions, to regain power. And the Democratic party | is aware that tax returns from such | incomes are more than offset by re- | lief costs following such unequal distributions of wealth,

The job of Mayor needs a man especially trained in the work of civic administration, who can build

| of production and distribution wealth under the capitalist system.

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up an organization and keep it go- |

ing as long as he gives good service. |

Changing personnel every four years, half of those years practically devoted to campaigning for re-elec-

| tion, certainly does not make for

Low salaries

Just a few days ago when a very wealthy head of a corporation was | told that the income fax should | take from him half his net income, |

Million-a-year incomes can only efficiency or economy. monopolistic | for employees surely ought to be privileges, paid for by the masses in | raised, some of them being disgracethe form of high prices and lack of | fully low; but I notice the salaries opportunity for the many. You can of elective officials are pretty generous in comparison to the average

come from great

more clearly realize this when you | stop to consider such an income | income. would pay for 40 $25,000-a-year |

topnotch go-getters you want at this

No, Mr. Herblock, I'm afraid you | got off on the wrong track when | you sketched that cartoon. ” ” ” MAYOR'S JOB CALLED

TOO COMPLICATED

By Plugger for City Manager Plan “You can build up an efficient city government only slowly,” says Mayor Boetcher in a news item.

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DENIES COMMUNISM IS CAUSE OF WAR By James H. Job, Reelsville | way to the advent of capitalism,

I saw an article in the Hoosier : : . Edward F. Maddox in System necessarily have to give way

which he affirms that communism is

Indianapolis needs city manage- | y : i H f executives (and you can get all the | ment, Snap with each i Tp contrary most of it will be stored lower fi | | With the mayoralty field open with OWE Eure no takers (for how long, I wonder) now is a very good time to begin to put such a system into efTect.

‘away and remain idle. The work- | ers are thereby deprived of just! that amount of their earnings which | they should have to spend. ul | This condition is the sole cause { of depressions, Just as the old | wornout feudal system had to give | just so will the present capitalist

and make room for a new social] | order. .

“You can't force it on your subordinates.” The Mayor, surely, is well qualified to speak. Nor can you expect any newlyelected official, entirely unfamiliar with the functions of the Mayor's | office (outside of laying cornerstones and appearing at conventions with & canned speech) to step in and produce a good administration. The office for a city the size of Indianapolis is too complex for an amateur. The Mayor says that a “business man would be ideal for the position.” A business man of large caliber. And he went on to say that such could not be drafted because of the low salary of the office. While I do not wish to take issue with one of the Mayor's stature, still IT beg leave to point out that because a man is successful in running a business he has worked at all his life, it does not follow that he is therefore capable of running the mayor's office, a job often worlds apart from his own experience. A man may be a Don Lash on the track, but that does not mean he can beat a Johnny Weismuller at swimming without experience or training. A “top” businessman would be first to realize that. The salary may be too low, and

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LAMP OF ALADDIN By EDNA JETT CROSLEY

| Bright yellow moon aglow at night, | Sweeping the earth with your mel- | opposition to the change are atl

Turning all darkness into day.

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If you should fail your lamp to fill, ww Lost would be love, on Cupid's Hill.

Turn up your wick, trim it with | APT, D. K. THINKS care, Light us the way, to God's Golden

Lamp of Aladdin, I wish to say, Bring me your blessing, as you pass

DAILY THOUGHT Visitors How Taxes Are Spent”

Hold up my goings in thy paths, footsteps

OD should be the object of all our desires, the end of all our the principle of all affections, and the governing power of our whole souls.—Massillon.

The change that must come if | civilization is to survive is not to [be blamed for the war of opposi- | tion, but those who make war in|

fault, The wars now being waged

Softening the roughened edges of in Spain and China by Italy and |

| Japan are the last and final struggle [to perpetuate the capitalist system. | If they are successful we will find

What would love do without moon- ourselves on the downward path to

| the return to the dark ages which in | means “keep your mouth shut and do as you are told.”

SENATOR CLARK'S TOPIC

By D. K, Senator Clark of Missouri is on a lecture tour discussing “National Problems.” Some New Dealers consider him a national problem child. “Uncle Sam to Show Fair

says a headline, Nobody is better qualified, either. ., , . Another definition of the “old days” is a time when every local election wasn't called a “New Deal Test.” , . . It’s easy to spot a Pennsylvania Democratic leader. He is a fellow who can afford a $100 dinner.

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By Heywood Broun

Despite Best of Intentions, His Support of Sagging Wall Street Turned Out to Be the Moral Kind.

—When the stock market was at its worst it was my in tention to support it. But as things have turned out the only help from me has been moral support, which doesn’t count for much in Wall Street, Naturally, an explanation should be given to the investing public. Many factors served to keep me on the bench and out of the actual goal line stand. ' In the first place, just as I was ready to rush in with aid and die for Dear Old Dividends, the mars ket began to help itself In the beginning, Connie seemed to agree enthusiastically with the notion that we should support the market. But when it got down to dollars and cents I was disap= pointed to find that she had no ine tention of making it the kind of support to which Wall Street has been accustomed Hundreds of key issues had begun to bounce up from the bottom, and there was I reaching for the blue book and ready to shoot the works. But Connie wanted something which you could get with a moneye back guarantee, Indeed, I found that she wasn’t reale ly ready to put our hard-earned savings on the nose of any issue. She wanted a stock which you could

play for show, 1 suggested a flyer in one of the companies ine volved in the manufacture of potable alcohol, Connie misconstrued my intentions. We discussed at great length the technical position of the various motion picture companies, and the potentialities of rayon in the event of a world boycott of Japanese silk. That involved us in a rather acrimonious dee bate about Mussolini, and before 1 had won it, stocks had advanced on a wide front from 1 to 13 points, I suggested that we must take time by the foree lock and get ourselves a railroad, but Connie thought it would be better for me to consult first with Joe and Herbert and the waiter at Empire City who gives such good tips on the races. One of the difficulties of becoming an investor is that you have to get up

so early, nor do I think that the machinery of Wall Street is anything like as efficient as that of other games of chance,

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” u = F is easier to get down a bel on the sixth ak Rockingham than to buy 10 shares of U. S. Steel, Nevertheless, I rose with the dawn for three succes sive mornings and went into consultation with vari= ous customers’ men. I approached the whole market problem from a broad point of view, I talked about diversification and my desire not to lay all my eggs in one basket. Everybody was cordial. Indeea, one broker asked me what interests XY represented. Finally a stock was selected. “Give me that blue book,” I said. Connie clutched it, and instead, handed me a small wad of bills all in the lower denominations. “Go and buy two shares,” she said. I haven't the heart. It would hurt my pride too much. I don't want to give any of those friendly

brokers such an order. I want them to go on be~ lieving I'm an investment trust.

General Hugh Johnson Says—

Release of Private Money Into Investment Channels Is Nation's Need: What's Stopping It? Federal Tax Policy Which Discourages Enterprise.

ASHINGTON Oct 27.—Economists say the recent slump in business is due to a cessation of Government spending and that the stock market crash was due to that slump. They say private money seeking investment is not coming out to replace public money spent for so-called capital or heavy goods. Nearly all economists agree that you can't have

prosperity which is more than a flash in the pan if it is built merely on increased use, production and sale of consumer’s goods alone. What does all that add up to mean? That private money must get busy and invest itself in the kind of work on which employment so heavily depends, or that public spending by billions must go on, or that we are reaching the brink of another depression. ” » ”

i= latter two of those alternatives are impossible. : We have spent so much already and the debt is so large that the President has said that deficits and further debt must stop. We can't afford a new depression. We weathered the last one without political upheaval because we had not hit the present stone wall limit on public spending. What could we now do about new millions of unemployed? It is Hobson's choice.

Private money must go to work.

It isn't working when it is tied wp in Gov-

ernment bonds. It is only working when it is out in industry, commerce, mining and agriculture producing things. There is plenty of private money. It is dammed up in idleness by the billions. Why doesn't it go to work? The Government won't let it. tributed profits tax prevents a man from building up a new business out of profits. He must distribute all he makes to his stockholders, or pay a prohibitive tax.

” ” ” HE income tax does the same thing on another front. Money is only risked in industry in the hope of gain. Money in such large blocks as would make substantial employment returns large profits. The percentage may be small, but the amount is

large. If the capital is risked and lost, the owner is through. If it is risked and gains any large amount, even though the percentage of profit be, say 3 per cent, Federal taxes take 60 per cent, 70 per cent and sometimes as much as 100 per cent of the whole profits. Why should the owner risk it? It is cheaper and safer to leave it idle, and much cheaper to keep it in Government tax-exempt securities. This is the most important single fact of this moment. The Federal tax policy has stopped progress and re-employment. It could return larger revenue in another way. If it is not changed, it will bring a

| new depression with as much suffering as the last.

The Federal undis- |

The Washington Merry-Go-Round

Serious Democratic Split May Come in Dispute Over Crop Control Bill; Aligned Against Roosevelt Is Garner, Who Wants Subsidy for Cotton,

By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen |

ASHINGTON, Oct. 27.—The behind-the-scenes situation on the highly touted new agricultural legislation that the President is demanding of Congress is like the Ancient Mariner adrift in the ocean: | ‘Water, water, everywhere, nor any drop to drink.” | All hands are for a farm bill, including the President, Secretary of Agriculture Wallace, Congress and the farmers. But on the vital question of what kind of bill is wanted, there is wide difference of opinion. Also, the makings of another major Democratic blowup. Mr. Roosevelt wants a bill in which the emphasis is on crop control. Mr. Wallace, deeply bitten by the Presidential bug, is on both sides of the fence. He is for crop regulation, but not too much regulation. He favors a plan that includes crop control, but only as a reserve measure.

N Capitol Hill, the Democratic moguls in com=mand of the agriculture committees are cold to crop control. They want a bill that puts no curb on production but gives the farmer a guaranteed price. Under this plan the Government guarantees a “parity” price on that part of a crop required for normal domestic consumption. The surplus is “dumped” abroad at the best price that can be had | for it, or stored in warehouses. The Treasury bears the cost of the difference between the “parity” price and the world price. (

Chairman of the House and Senate agriculture committees are Rep. Marvin Jones, a Texan, and Senator “Cotton Ed” Smith, a South Carolinian, The fact that these two Southerners, through the operation of the rule of seniority, head their respective committees is of the utmost importance because cotton is the explosive element in the farm bill fight, ® » =» T this point enters “Cactus” Jack Garner, grizzled Vice President of the United States and highly talented at giving the White House headaches. His interest is cotton. Mr. Garner is opposed to crop control. He wants unlimited production and Government-guaranteed prices. Moreover, he has great influence not only with Mr. Jones and Mr. Smith but also with powerful sections of the Democratic membership in both houses of Congress. Still further, Mr. Garner is a leader of the group that is bent on wresting control of the Democratic Party from the President in order to nominate a “safe” candidate in 1940. Under cover there is bad blood between Mr. Roose velt and the wily Texan. And the farm issue is not going to improve relations between them. The issue may prove to be the detonator that will blow the lid off the boiling Democratic cauldron and precipitate the long threatened wide-open split.