Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 November 1937 — Page 12
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WEDNESDAY, NOV. 3, 1937
KNOCKOUT FOR TAMMANY ‘HE results of New York City’s election yesterday provide reason for national rejoicing. Fiorello La Guardia, the Mayor who has given the metropolis its first experience of genuinely good government in many years, was returned to office. Thomas E. Dewey, the racket-smashing special prose-
cutor, was elected District Attorney of New York County. |
And Tammany was knocked out. Mayor La Guardia’s first election, four years ago, was a terrific blow to Tammany. Tiger. For Tammany kept its hold on some offices, including the vitally important District Attorney’s office. But the job the voters of New York City did yesterday was far more complete. The meaning of the huge majorities for La Guardia and Dewey cannot be mistaken. The Mayor wa® ordered to continue his good work— in a city which long was cynically credited with inability to retain a reform administration for more than a single term. The new District Attorney was given a mandate to go after the biggest of all the racketeers—the ones who have used the power of Tammany to protect crime, to extort tribute from business and industry and to prey on honest union labor.
The way is clear to put Tammany, itself, out of
business.
And a nation to which Tammany is a symbol of all that | is bad in politics hopes that way will be followed to the end. |
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N America’s largest city, organized labor can claim a | great share of the credit for Mayor La Guardia’s smash- | The support of the American Labor Party |
ing victory. proved highly effective. But the story in the fourth largest city, Detroit, is different.
City government, saw their candidate for mayor snowed under by a conservative backed by the business element. Here the division in labor's ranks played some part,
with the leaders of the A. F. of L. indorsing the business | members of the | Essen- |
candidate, while many rank and file federation worked and voted for the C. 1. O. ticket. tially, however, the Detroit result appears to have been a case of the people sitting down on the sitdowners. The C. I. O. candidate was beaten by the ballots of an electorate which had suffered through a long siege of illegal
strikes, sit-downs, “quickies” and ‘“skippies’—through a | long period when contracts made in good faith were broken |
in bad faith. The lesson, it seems to us, is that labor must prove its
wants the people of Detroit, or the people of America, to vote it even greater power,
TO START THE UPSWING
N a message to Congress March 10, 1933, back in the | | ican customers who hear no more after they pay their
darkest days, Franklin D. Roosevelt said:
“Too often in recent history liberal governments have | We must |
been wrecked on rocks of loose fiscal policy. avoid this danger.” Seven days later, in offering AAA, he said:
the hoped for results, 1 shall be the first to acknowledge it and advise you.” We hope and trust that those two expressions of his situation.
stopped and turned around. The President can do the job.
The undistributed-profits and capital-gains taxes have |
The opinion on that chances.
proved themselves loose fiscal policies. both within and without the Government practically is unanimous. private business should be taking up the slack caused by decreased public spending; when growing volume is obviously the only solution for the nation’s unemployment and financial problems. One of the taxes is an Administration measure. other was inherited. A word from the President could
bring action before the end of the year and generate the |
greatest single force for an upswing. Without an upswing, and a good long one, the President will not attain what he has described as his prime social and economic objec-
tive—increased purchasing power for the lower one-third. |
You can’t get that on a sag. Fair administrative trial of the tax policy has been made. It has not produced the hoped for results. We believe the President will acknowledge the fact. We believe action is on the way.
INDIANA MINE SETTLEMENT THE agreement reached this week by Indiana coal miners and operators, fixing a new wage scale for the next two years, is further proof that management and labor can work out their mutual problems to best advantage around a conference table. The negetiations continued for eight months before a settlement was reached, but the point is that the dispute was ended by mediation and not by extreme measures on either side. The miners won a $90,000 annual increase in pay. Industry and labor have much to gain by working together on common problems.
HE SAID “SEEKS”
ONE great difficulty in the way of a Repubiican come-
back, it occurs to us, is the fact that there are millions of people who could read the following sentence from the New York Times’ report of a speech by G. 0. P. Chairman
John Hamilton without realizing that the fourth word was |
a typographical error. “A liberal Republicanism socks the interest of the common man no less sincerely and far more practically than does Mr. Roosevelt.”
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MARK FERREE | Business Manager |
Price in Marion Coun- | ty, 3 cents a copy; deliv- |
But life remained in the
There the United Automobile Workers and the | C. I. O., which had made a determined effort to capture the |
oo ; : i glers who bring the tickets in by ability to use wisely and justly the power it now has if it |
“If a fair | administrative trial of it is made and it does not produce |
Each tax is freezing capital at a time when |
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WEDNESDAY, NOV. 3, 1937
Three Men on a War Horse—By Herblock
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Fair Enough
By Westbrook Pegler
Federal Government Would Be Powerless If Some State Wished To Start Public Lottery Scheme.
NEW YORK, Nov. 3.—Don’'t breathe a word lest it give them an idea, but if the Commonwealth of Nevada or Florida were to start a state lottery tomorrow the United States Government could do nothing about it
beyond attempting to prevent interstate traffic in the tickets and excluding such business from the mails. Prohibition gave an idea how ‘well the national au-
| thority could resist the demand for
a popular though illegal article,
| and the succcess of the Irish hos-
pital sweep, of which this country is the leading customer, goes to show how exclusive postal exclusion really is. True, the Irish lottery operates to some extent through smug-
hand, but the official acknowledgments from the Dublin office are sent by mail, and certainly a workable proportion of the letters get through. Possibly the Post Office Department does intercept Mr. Pegler a number of these formal receipts, and this might account for the disappointment and skepticism of Amer-
$2.50 per copy swindled.
and decide that they have been
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HERE is a popular superstition, no more nor less. that something in the Constitution forbids the operation of a lottery in this country, whereas the truth is that any state may do so and may extend the same right to political subdivisions within its borders and to private operators.
In theory, to be sure, the sale of tickets would be
| restricted to the territory of the sinful sister. but could
Nevada, for instance, help it if scofflaws bootlegged
4 . Ci . | chances over her own state line and many other state philosophy will be applied, and quickly, to the present | | the 10-gallon hats of the cowboy trollops: or would ! : | Florida be to blame if her lottery tickets found their This country is mn another slump. That slump can be |
lines concealed in the lingerie of homing divorcees or
way out to poison the morals of New York? She wasn't held responsible for her export liquor trade when Mr. Hoover was still maintaining the Antisaloon League's nobility of purpose, and a quart is equal in bulk to a thousand onion-skin lottery
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HESE two states are mentioned as the most likely pioneers in a revival of the lottery, although Louisiana, by reason of her temperament and her imnlication in the last great American swindle of the kind, deserves respectful consideration. Nevada, however, should be reckoned with first, for she has. as the late Tex Rickard fondly remarked, now laws ag'in’ anything. Florida's morals, though much the same.
tween seasons. *
Given a rolling start in the lottery business, any one of these states would drain money out of the rest of the country by the hundred million a year, and, retaining the conventional 25 per cent of the gross technically for the public treasury, could become a
| taxless paradise for many years to come. Eventually all the states would be compelled to |
run their own lotteries in self-defense, though some would be delayed by the slow process of amending their state constitutions. And the larceny, of course, would be the greatest that the world has ever known.
Gi || the conduct of my
The Hoosier Forum
I wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.
| JUVENILE JUDGE DEFENDS ACTIONS IN COURT
By John F. Geckler, Judge of the Marion County Juvenile Court.
| In connection with your editorial and news item of Oct. 30, permit | me to say that it is very easy for
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| you to write editorials about the |
| administration of justice
in the
| Juvenile Court, based only on iso- |
|lated cases and reports from your | reporters. | In the nearly seven years that I have been on the bench of the Juvenile Court, I have tried about T7000 delinquent boys and girls, and {at no time have I mistreated any (child that has ever come before me. This can be verified by at- | taches of the Court and people who have heard me decide cases. I {have always tried to be democratic and temper justice with mercy in court. Repre- | sentatives of various organizations | will verify this statement. Your reporter quoted me correct-
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(Times readers are invited their these columns, religious conMake your letter short, so all can Letters must
to express views in
troversies excluded. have a chance. be signed, but names will be withheld on request.)
happened in that court that should be spread over Page 1 for everybody to see. Why doesn't some civic organization or woman's club that is always looking for something to do get busy on a reform of our Juvenile Court?
” ” o BLAMES SPECULATORS FOR MARKET BREAK By Interested
Another stock market depression is said to threaten our national wel-
| fare and wipe out the economic
[ly and I have no fault to find with |
| that, except that I did not lock the | boy up but allowed him to go with his mother. However, you infer from an ar-
ticle that was published (in a news- |
paper other than The Indianapolis | Times) some time ago, that is abso{lutely untrue, that I am tyrannical, {unfair and unjust in deciding the | cases in this court. Let me suggest {to you that many of the boys and
girls that come into the court are | | guilty of very bad conduct, and they | |come in several times before any | {drastic action is taken by me. Their | | conduct is frequently indifferent and | | impertinent and you have to impress |
lon them the seriousness of their | conduct in order to bring about the | desired results. My only purpose was to impress {upon him the seriousness of his | conduct.
| In order to be fair in this mat- | | ter, please give this letter space in |
| your newspaper.
| difficult task of protecting the children of our community.
o 5 2 | ASKS FOR REFORM OF | JUVENILE COURT By H.W. | torial, “You Don't Shed Enough | Tears,” and the story in your Oct.
I hope every citizen read the edi- |
I feel that I am | | entitled to your co-operation in the |
30 issue telling how the Juvenile!
Court Judge ordered a 14-year-old | boy locked up because he didn't cry | enough.
As you said, only those unfa- | miliar with conditions in Juvenile | Court will be shocked, but too many | people don’t know what the condi-
| tions are.
gains we have made since 1933. So much is said about it the layman
is even more at sea than the stock |
market speculators. One fact, however,
ket operators to depress the market.
With the end to “punish the Presi- |
dent” into having repealed the restrictions on financiers and repealing the undistributed profits and capital gain and loss taxes. After reading all the “expert” opinions, including that of T. R. Benson, president of the Chicago Stock Exchange, who said, “It is a fear market, yet nobody seems to
know just what he is afraid of,” a |
layman's impression is that stock market brokers and financiers are like a bunch of sheep herding in one direction. Let something cross their path or a shadow distract
ANOTHER DAWN
By CONOWAY BROWN It seems Only yesterday That we met and lived and loved. But yesterday is forever gone. Just a memory lingers on. Thus we must live apart, Until another dawn. Our destiny It seems.
DAILY THOUGHT
Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth; therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty. —Job 5:17.
OD governs the world, and we have only to do our duty wisely, and leave the issue to Him.—
A number of things have John Jay.
, their attention, and they become | panicky and stampede all over themselves.
” 8 5 | APPROVES COMPLAINT ON MILK PRICES | By Martin Evarts
| In answer to a letter by O. E. M. {in the Hoosier Forum, recently, I |wish to say he is right. The milk {companies do not care for their customers’ convenience nor do they care to see their drivers make a liv|iug. TI believe they withheld delivery for one reason only, to throw public opinion against the men on strike
They claim that they could not de- |
liver for fear of violence. How can (we believe that when they made us pay 12-cents a quart and 11 cents after they were forced to it. A (charge of 8 cents per quart at the | dairies would have been plenty, for |they had no delivery expense. As | for raising the price, well—that’s too much.
Thousands of boys and girls can- |
not get milk. They do not know what butter tastes like because it is beyond their parents’ income.
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ASKS SUPPORT OF MILK DELIVERY MEN By Clinton Hart In answer to O. E. M., you say [you will buy your milk from the | grocery now. Well, that doesn’t hurt |the milk companies. It only hurts |a working man who depends on
is evolved that differentiates | it from the debacle of 1929—the | SEC investigators’ discovery of evi- | dence of a persistent effort by mar- |
|you for his living. Who was it that | [said no milk? The milk companies. |
The deliveryman on a milk route is fout in all kinds of weather and
|gets poor thanks for keeping you |
| supplied.
(time ago when milk was selling at {9 cents a quart? The milk companies. You must pay 11 cents per {quart or do without milk. Now you are supporting this bunch of men in preference to the -laboring man. ” n " OLD-TIME HALLOWEENS CALLED TEMPERATE By H. V. Allison
Halloween parties 50 years ago had a different attitude from thoss of today. If a farmer failed to gather in his vegetables before Halloween night, a crowd of young people would pull and bury them.
in tora treat of apples, cider and pumpkin pie and continue with games and singing far into the night. There were saloons in those days and some drunks. Minors or women
young man who drank was very un- | popular with the girls. Drinking was | considered a poor asset for a husve in those days. Today, many are willing to start off on a 50-50
| basis until the judge gives the Se
rision.
No, IT am not a milk truck driver. |
Who was it that organized some |
It was customary to call the people |
were not allowed in a saloon and a |
It Seems to Me
By Heywood Broun
Takes Issue With Individual Who Upholds Man's Right to Work, Yet Opposes Employment Guarantee.
NEW YORK, Nov. 3.—I want to address a few mild remarks to those who say | that every worker has a right to a job, and that no outside agency, whether that of capi= tal or labor, shall be allowed to stop him in his God-given privilege. This was pretty much the philosophy of rugged individualism voiced by Tom Girdler before the Senate Postoffice Committee. But'under questioning by Senator Green of Rhode Island Mr. Girdler took a good deal of it back. He professed to be puzzled when the Senator wanted to know whether uneme ployed men for whom there was no opening also possessed a God-given right to a job. Under cross-exami= nation Mr. Girdler admitted that he did not think the Government should undertake the responsibility of furnishing jobs to the jobless. So there in the philosophy of rugged individualism we may note exceps tion No. 1 in the right to work. Henry Ford is another induse trialist who is quite articulate ‘in talking about the right of the individual to have a free choice as to whether to work or not. But part of the system of Mr. Ford and other large companies | is based upon seasonal layoffs, and even the compléte shutting down of a plant when it is not economical to keen it open. And what does the employee do with his right to work when he comes to the plant and finds the gates are locked? .
Mr. Broun
" " n OME will say that he can go elsewhere and take another job until times improve. But that may be a long walk, a walk right to the edge of the world | and over. The mechanical cottonpicker is now only a few steps away from being practical. When it is put into use, more than a million men will be thrown out of employment, and all that will remain with them will be the God-given right to work. God undoubted= ly did establish such a principle, but the machine age
has snatched it away. If men laid off in factories start to march they may find the men no longer | needed in cotton fields meeting them half way. Also it is unfair when the worker who has not | lifted a finger to better the conditions in his shop re- | ceives all the gains, while the union men who forced | the benefits are thrown out on their ear.
| ¥ = =» ' ERE is a present case concerning a chain of | stores in New York. Some 400 out of 700 eme ployees organized a union and entered into collective bamgaining with the employer, the employer agreed to a wage increase, a year's contract and two weeks’ va cation with pay, but he would not grant the union shop, and so a strike was called. Thereupon the com« pany telegraphed to all its employees that in spite of
the strike the wage increase and the two weeks’ vae cation woulda be granted to all loyal workers who ree mained on the job. Accordingly, 300 men get bene fits for which they did not work. I do not think it can fairly be said that those who are willing to reap where they have not sown are truly rugged and heroic individuals. There must be some more appropriate name—parasites will do for a start.
General Hugh Johnson Says—
Underprivileged Called Real Sufferers From Undistributed Profits Tax: Roosevelt Is Accused of Unfairness in Describing Motives of Critics. ASHINGTON, Nov. 3.—The President's recent | relief or home relief.
expressions about the current newspaper discussion of Federal taxes—especially the undistributed profits and capital gains tax—must be disappointing to everybody who expected a wave of prosperity based on returning confidence through tax reform. He is reported to have said that newspaper stories and speculations about changes in the form of these taxes were all from the point of view of the “haves” and not of the “have-nots” and that none of the articles on that subject said anything about the problem of the 40 million people in the substandard income groups. . This column has .discussed these taxes repeatedly and never from any other viewpoint than that of the “have-nots” and the substandard groups. The point is that these taxes keep money from going to work to create new business and expand industry. “Men can't go back to work until money goes back to work.” ” ” n i: it is difficult or impossible to get money to work in the face of those taxes, those taxes are perpetuating unemployment. The 40 million in the substandard income groups don't want the pinchpenny starvatiop incomes of relief, whether it is work
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The Washington Merry-Go-Round
Publicity on Franklin Roosevelt Jr's. lliness Popularized Fatal Drug; Businessmen Cheered by Talk With F. D. R. on Administration Course.
They want jobs—regular selfrespecting jobs—just the same as the great bulk of the 90 million not in the substandard income classes. It is to their interest more than any other class in this country to have those enterprise-destroying unemploy-ment-making taxes revised. Most of the newspaper articles I have seen have approached this subject from this angle alone. Who feels sorry for these great idle reserves of timid private money which won't go to work because these two fool taxes won't let it make enough money to justify any risk at all? It is mostly invested in taxexempt Government securities.
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OBODY feels sorry for that money or the rich owners of it. Most writers who want those lunatic taxes revised are those who are interested only in restoration of greater business activity and higher wages and employment everywhere and who argue that these taxes are the greatest present barrier to such a restoration.
By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen
Wy Seon, Nov. 3.—Strangely, the illness of | Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. last Christmas.in- | directly was responsible for the deaths of 61 persons | within the last six weeks. It came about because the doctors used a new drug for Franklin, called sulfanilamide, to cure a streptococcic condition in his throat. Everybody read about it, and the drug suddenly became in great demand. So a manufacturer in Bristol, Tenn. conceived the idea of preparing the drug in liquid instead of powder form. He dissolved it in diethylene glycol—a | substance very much like antifreeze for automobiles. Innocentiy enough, he shipped this mew preparation of sulfanilamide to druggists and physicians in several states. Almost immediately, he heard about | it—and so did the Pure Food and Drugs Administra- |
| tion in Washington.
It was tearing the kidneys out of people whe
| swallowed it, and killing most of them. Before Food
| and Drug authorities could trace and seize ship-
| ments, deaths totaled 61.
The effect of bringing the “have-nots” and the | “haves” into the discussion is to make them think |
that, anyone who criticizes those taxes is arguing | | «J the President .during the last 10 days are giving
against the “have-nots.” But when the truth is exactly otherwise, it is too bad there isn't a referee somewhere to keep controversial punches above the
belt. »
hostile attitude, Mr. Roosevelt is now sympathetic to their complaints. Whether this unwonted friendlie ness will be translated into tangible action, the businessmen can't say.
5 u ” BY on the basis of clues they think they gathered
from Mr. Roosevelt's remarks, they are telling
| intimates that the following policies are not unlikely:
1. A vigorous insistence that Congress provide reve enue for every cent of expenditure it votes. In other words, no more piling up of the deficit. 2. The undivided-profits tax will be revised. How far these changes will go is still undecided. 3. The capital-gains tax may be loosened to the extent of encouraging the housing industry. Mr. Roosevelt is dead set against any concessions to
| “speculators,” but he is willing to moderate the tax
to further construction and “legitimate business expansion.” 4. The Securities and Exchange Commission will take steps to encourage financing, particularly in the utility field. This does not mean that the bars will
| be let down.
5. The President is against any changes in the
| Wagner Labor Disputes Act, but he wants peace be«
® » ” OME of the business leaders who conferred with |
their associates a rosy picture of his frame of mind toward business. They report that in sharp contrast to his previously
tween the A. F. of L. and the C. I. O. How this can be brought about he doesn’t know. 6. The Administration shortly will launch a big scale antimonopoly drive in an effort to force down prices. Much evidence of price-fixing already has been collegted and prosecutions will soon pop.
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