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FRIDAY, NOV. 12, 1937

STEWART-WARNER NE major industrial plant after another has come to Indianapolis during the last two years. Chevrolet, RCA and International Harvester are among the biggest of these developments. They mean millions of dollars of new capital investment and employment for thousands of workers. And now the Stewart-Warner Corp. of Chicago announces plans to open a new plant here, employing 2000 and with an estimated annual payroll of $3,000,000. This steady industrial expansion, the most extensive Indianapolis has seen since the World War, is not fostered by subsidies, tax exemptions or other artificial means. It is built on confidence in the city’s industrial future, and on faith in its civic and governmental stability. Also gratifying are the expansion programs carried out by many existing industries. such as Allison Engineering and others. Qtewart-Warner plans to purchase Marmon Plant 2, 99 acres of land and buildings having 539,000 square

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with foot of floor space, for establishment of its refrigerator plant. Operations are expected to begin March 1, 1938. Indianapolis is proud to welcome this important new

industry. CHEAP GOVERNMENT? OW taxes and cheap government do not necessarily Often they mean costly,

mean good government. shortsighted policy. third-rate public employees too often result. We have made this point before in advocating adequate funds for safety, schools, law enforcement and other urgent needs. In other words, we believe that taxpayer groups which make a blunderbuss attack on all budget items, hop-

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FRIDAY, NOV. 12, 1937

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The Voice of Experience—By Kirby

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BRONK CHEER.

Lawyer of Year

By Marshall McNeil

Low standards, few services and

| VW ASHINGTON, Nov

ine for some overall reduction, do taxpayers and the com- |

munity a disservice. They would do better to insist on certain improvements, concentrating their negative attack on less needed expenditures. The fallacy of this blanket opposition is made clear

William Donovan Defending Oil Companies While Preparing Case Against Charge of "Cement Trust.’

. 12.—The lawyer of the Year might well be William J. (Wild Bill) Donovan, formerly of Buffalo, now of 2 Wall Street, New York. For upon his shoulders lies the burden of

the defense against the Government's two greatest antitrust suits—involving the so-called “Oil

Trust” and “Cement Trust.”

by “Middletown in Transition,” profound sociological study | of a typical medium-sized, Midwestern city. The authors |

say the following culture pattern curtails the possibility of “forthright civic social change” in the typical city “almost to the vanishing point”: A tradition of approaching and stating probiems negatively rather than positively. . . . The outward slogans of Middletown's municipal leaders are “Economy,” “We will reduce taxes,” “We will give the city a cheap administration”; and the animus of civic administration is: Do as little as is necessary to keep people reasonably satisfied and to get by

Don’t start anything you can’t finish or that will subject vou to criticism from kickers. You can’t satisfy everybody, so keep in the middle of the road, keep vour neck m, and move only when you are sure of your backing by the right people. . . .

The slogans are familiar, but in most respects the criticism cannot be applied justly to Indianapolis. In the case of smoke control, however, the indictment hits us with embarrassing accuracy. problem has been negative. The City Council has the alibi of the “reduce taxes’ refusing to provide enforcement of smoke regulations. This refusal now threatens a shutdown of the City's limited smoke-abatement activities because ‘of insufficient funds. A relatively small outlay could make this program effective. This is one instance where cheap government means bad government.

SHANGHAI HE Japanese victory at Shanghai is not necessarily a fatal, or even a major, Chinese ‘defeat. China has 450 million people. Japan has 70 million. China's area is as great as that of the United States. Chinese can retreat up the Yangtze until they lose Nanking and Hankow, or outlast Japan. Japan can win all the battles, and China can still win the war—if she only keeps plugging along. Nevertheless, China's peril is growing.

fears eventual Russian intervention, and she is financially and economically pressed. So she may vet declare war in

order to make her blockade legally applicable to foreign ships | She will do her utmost to |

bringing materials to China. eliminate Gen. Chiang Kai-shek, whom she regards as the soul of China's struggle. . If she does these two things, she may bring the war to a comparatively early comclusion—unless Soviet Russia decides to intervene, which is doubtful,

JOB FOR MR. BARTON

RUCE BARTON, topnotch advertising man, has been elected to Congress from a New York City district on a platform of repealing Federal laws. That will be like trying to sweep back the Atlantic's waves with a whisk-broom. laws and resolutions at the rate of about 1000 a vear. More

than 50,000 pieces of legislation have been enacted in the |

150 years since Congress started grinding them out. But Mr. Barton, with his advertising genius for putting sales messages into plain, simple, intelligible words, might do another highly useful job in Congress. He might sit in with the lawyers and bill-drafting experts and help them to write some of the new laws in the American language. This country needs less legalistic jargon in its statute books, and more laws that ordinary people can understand.

SO THAT'S SETTLED

ARTICIPATING in his first decision as a member of the Supreme Court, Mr. Justice Black voted against the Government and joined in a unanimous opinion that jig saw puzzles are not a game. So the Government loses its

five-year fight to collect a game-tax from a Boston manua- | uation that RA encountered when 1t first Struck the

facturer of the puzzles. Here is at least one opinion in which we concur. But nobody—except the Government's tax-collectors— ever thought they were a game,

At present Mr. Donovan is in Madison, Wis., de-

fending almost every major oil company against a Federal indictment charging that they have violated the antitrust laws by fixing prices, ete. Because he was thus occupied, the Federal Trade Commission has put off until Dec. 1 the taking of testimony in its complaint against the Cement Institute and scores of associated companies. After letters had failed to win this delay, the law firm of Donovan, Leisure, Newton & Lumbard asked the FTC for the right to argue the motion for postponement. (The Commission had scheduled taking of testimony to begin next Tuesday.) This week, in a makeshift hearing room at the Commission's temporary quarters in an old apart-

Mr. McNeil

| ment house here, George Leisure, tall and immacu-

The approach to the |

pressure for its costly mistake of

lately dressed, came to tell why the “Cement Trust” couldn't possibly be ready by next week. ” Ww Ww EASON 1 was that his partner “Wild Bill” Donovan was the attorney for the Cement Institute but was marshaling the oil companies’ defense at Madison. He couldn't be in two places at once. FTC attorneys poon-poohed this, but the Com-

| mssioners went into a huddle and granted the delay.

The “Cement Trust” case is a trial balloon. If the Government wins in this case—in which it

| charges violation of the antitrust laws, price fixing,

a conspiracy, and use of the multiple basing-point system=-it will be prepared to move in on Steel. There was discussion sometime back of making

| the FTC case against the cast-iron pipe companies

The |

southward until they lose Canton, and still |

the test. But because this is a smaller industry than cement, because the Commission didn’t want to be accused of “picking on the little fellow,” and

because it was ready, it decided to move first in the |

cement case, * wr w

EARINGS are now scheduled to begin next month Thereafter the case will be argued and briefed,

| and sometime next year the FTO will decide whether | to issue-a cease-and-desist order. If it does. the case

Japan knows | hat she must win soon, or face serious complications. She |

will reach the courts, headed for a final decision by the U. S. Supreme Court in 1939 or 1940, The case has one phase of particular interest to

New Dealers who are concerned about the paralysis | of the capital markets.

They believe that if the housing industry were operating normally there'd be no recession; and

| some of them believe that if housing and public

| munism!” and the playrights’

atilities were spending normally, toward a new era of prosperity. The FTC has charged that the actions of the

we'd be headed

| “Cement Trust” serve to “lessen the demand for ce-

ment and the volume of public and brivate cone struction in which cement is used,” and that. core respondingly, this lessens “the opportunity for em-

ployment both in the cement industry and in the | construction industry.”

‘General Hugh Johnson Says—

A modern Congress passes | : Action by Disorganized Coal Commission Would Help Stop Recession;

Administrative Groups Need Leadership or They Tum Into Morgues.

EW YORK, Nov. 12.—~In marked contrast with the Maritime Commission, which has just hand-

| ed in a report on the sick shipping industry-—a report

rarely equalled for courage, frankness

and i —is the National Bituminous Seactunuy

Don] Cumtmissiun, is not really a It was set up to restore another sick industry Le

| but tens of thousands of miners to work at union

wages. There is no labor dispute there. With few exceptions the operators regard their contract with John Lewis’ United Mine 8S an asset. Nobody is more firm in his conviction than Mr. Lewis that when, at union wages, coal costs $1.39 at the pit mouth, operators can’t keep miners at work if railroads and great corporations take advantage of the demoralization of the industry and insist on buying their coal at 70 to 80 cents. They are now taking coal away from both miners and operators without paying what it is worth. The public gets little benefit. They don't buy their coal at 80 cents a ton. The President understands the situation thoroughly because he came from a family of coal operators. It is precisely the same sit-

desolated bituminous coal industry.

= = " r ATER one futile attempt in the NRA, Congress gave the industry what it needed in the Guffey Act, Instead of leaving it to ‘act provided a Got

tor, that

The Hoosier Forum

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

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| UNEMPLOYED URGED TO AID IN CENSUS | By Charles E. Black, Chairman, | Marion County Workers Alliance | In view of the fact that the timc" for the Government unemployment | | census is growing hear, I feel that it have ‘a chants. [Is my duty as Chairman of the Mar- ; Nb [ion County Workers Alliance to as- be sighed, but names will be [sist in this job by making the fol(lowing statement: Although the Workers

(Times readers are invited their these columns, religious con troversies excluded. Make your letter short, so all can

fo express views in

Letters must

| withheld on request.)

Alliance | coes not wholly approve the method {by which this census is being con- | ducted, we will do everything in our | power to make it successful. We!

therefore urge that every person receiving a census form who is eligi- | ble to be counted by this census, fill out this form immediately and return it, that they answer each question fully and that they do not just | '® put it up on the shelf and say, “I'll | ality. answer it later,” thereby forgetling about it until it is too late. We also would like to point out | why this unemploved census is necessary. The Workers Alliance maintains that the present relief budget is far too low and should be en- | | larged so as to provide a more sub- | Tt is too bad about that labor | stantial portion to those now on | ganization, Since when are they | relief and to the many thousands who are in need of it but cannot | get it because of the present low | appropriation. We know that re- | gardless of the fact that business has | surpassed the 1929 level in regards to profits, it has made but a very | little dent in ranks of the un-| employed. Therefore it is necessary, | | as was pointed out by the last sese | sion of Congress, to know exactly | the humber of unemployed so that | the appropriations may be made

» ” » large enough to provide for all who | SESW v lare in need of assistance. ES iy M1 NURIA

cency to accept her. I suppose, as

because they are her own

America has started out

[a herd of hogs.

| cannot visit our industrial

{ Duchess of Windsor who wanted I think that

that

to make life interesting. . . .

king from under the nose of several supposedly wise old fogies who have [not the common sense and the de-

natural with most women, she wants to bring her husband home to her own people and takes it for granted, pecple,

they will treat him with the ecourtesy due his station and his person-

show about as much intelligence as

There are some people who would like to see these people treated decently, Charles Bedaux was trying, least, to help them with something that will make their life interesting. or-

position to tell any citizen that they plants. | That is a nice headline to greet the

In the autumn beauty of last Sunafternoon, my wife, two sons

| ducted but a house-to-house can- |and I visited the World War Me-

vass which we feel would have been | morial in Indianapolis. | much more effective and not nearly SO expensive as the present postcard type. But regardless of our | views, we feel that the census can | | be made an overwhelming success | [if every citizen co-operates. We | | pledge that the Workers Alliance | | will do its utmost to bring about | success, and we urge that every citi[zen do likewise.

bowed at the shrine; by

| Climbing the steps caused a bil

[of merriment as regards oldster’s knees, but at the first glimpse of the | interior this feeling was replaced by awe as we gazed at the grandeur {and immensity of the stately col umns,; by deep prayerfulness as we exalting | patriotism as we stood at attention | | before that large and beautiful flag; |

NEFENDS WINDSORS FROM NOVEMBER

By VIRGINIA POTTER

The harvest now is gathered, And frost is on the ground,

| “NEWSPAPER SLURS” By a Nauseated Reader Why do you have to print such | putrid stuff as that labor business The attic’s filled with pumpkins,

| | |

about the Duke and Duchess of Red apples, too, are found.

Windsor? America couldn't possibly { be decent about them, could it? 1 | mean the American | American newspaper correspondents | |are more of a menace to the peace | . | of the people than some thugs. They | DAILY, THOUGHT make life more unbearable. I can- Talk ho [not see by what right you insinuate | proudly; about people who happen to be \ | before the public. { I imagine that the Duchess of | Windsor is about like any other in- | | tensely human woman. She has, aft | ler all, won about the most eligible | his master's man in the world today and takena | Shakespeare,

| [November is a glorious month,

more So

undoing,

It has been appointed. Tt has been on the job more months than NRA worked days before it produced the coal code. The Commission has done precisely nothing. Employers and employees in the industry are equally disgusted. The Commission squabbles over picayune patronage, concerns itself with prima donna preferences, fumes, fiddles and quarrels over office furniture and which commissioner shall have precisely what style of brass goboon in his office—while the whole industry and tens of thou-

sands of miners and hundreds of thousands miners’ dependents are living on little or nothing.

F ever there was an administrative situation that needed a swift Kick in the pants from supreme authority, this is it. The difference between action and paralysis lies in leadership, such as Joe Kennedy gave the Maritime Commission, or Jim Landis following Joe gave the SEC, Without that, a Commission is a morgue—such as the Federal Trade Commission. This outfit isn’t even a morgue where the corpses are still on view--it's a graveyard, The disorganization here is another minor cause for the present business recession, With winter coming on, unemployment and lack of buying power in the sub nerged third increas is one spot

nose-dive,

remarked:

With wind and changing skies newspapers. [A month of priceless days for all And hours each one can prize,

exceeding let not arrogancy come out of your mouth; for the Lord is a God of knowledge, and by Him actions are weighed.—I Sam. 2:3.

ANY a man’s tongue shakes out

a leading role.

| reading

| gone since as a result of service; and

by respect as we stood at parade rest before the life-like portraits of our allied leaders, We were filled | with pride as we looked at the flags | of our allies and battle flags; with | comradeship as we traversed both | Stairs of Hoosier Heroes, reading |

| the names of former buddies, of |

whom some “went west” in iS some were wounded, and many have |

with a feeling of calm and from the lovely organ music. | The thought came to me while | the plaques dedicated to

peace

| peace, that the three would-be great

| [

war lords should be locked in the Memorial for such a time as it] would take them to grow as tired, | hungry, thirsty and cold (as a sol- | dier in a winter trench, tired, hun- | gry, thirsty, cold, muddy, wet, sick, lousy, filthy, homesick, fearing his misery couldn't end even in death). | If all the time the confined men | would listen to the muted strains of | the peaceful and soul-satisfying | music, with time to think long and deeply, their emergence might mark | the end to their thirst for power, blood and a chance to wreak personal and petty vengeance, They would heartily and honestly |

| say, “Good will toward all men and

| come back home for her first Christ | mas with a husband who has giv up his own home to be with her. Not will down either of them. I hope she may have the health and the courage to help the | Duke find himself with something

ASHINGTON, Nov. Exchange Commission is quietly priming its guns for a blast that will rock some of the biggest names in Wall Street. Basis of the forthcoming barrage is a sensational report made by SEC investigators on short selling during the recent stock market crash. is not the one made by the New York Stock Exchange on transactions in five “blue chip” stocks, but a secret probe made by the SEC’s own experts into all phases of the stock market before and during the

It shows “bear raiding” on a large scale, with prominent business figures and brokerage firms taking The SEC salvo is expected to be a hot rejoiner to the recent outbursts of Charles Gay, head of the New York Stock Exchange, and Winthrop Aldrich, president of the Chase National Bank, who attacked the agency on the charge that it was stifling market operations.

EVERAL weeks of conferences with department and bureau heads on their 1938 budget requirements proved very discouraging to the President, Dis cussing it with acting Budget Director Daniel Bell, he

“Dan, as far as I can see there is only one man ’ >

Sot tha

{ should buy homes,

may God let me do everything to keep peace and friendship with all men.” We should take pride in our me- | morial to our Hoosier World War | Veterans, and a lasting symbol of | our prayers for peace. | No resident of Indianapolis or of | all Indiana can appreciate it till | they visit it, It is worth your time, and may the good effect of your | visit be lasting. ® Ww Ww GOVERNMENT AID IN HOUSING SCOUTED i By Suburb Renter | I note that Renter states we need | a renters’ association or club, A few days later J. W. states that we J. W. must be- | long to the organized landlords and real estate owners, It is just as constitutional for the renters to organize, To buy a home on the payment plan under these hard times, one must look out for the small payment down and the high monthly rate, When conditions become normal or below=]look out! Eight out of 10 do not make the grade and the poor devils lose all. At the present time some real estate men are kicking the renters out to force such transactions, and we need an organization to promote legislation to curb unjust action. I would like to see a law passed whereby a property owner could only charge a rent of 1 per cent a month of his tax duplicate valuation and 2 per cent a year for taxes and insurance. As to the Federal Government assisting in the housing problem-=for= get it, Look at Lockefield Gardens, Study it and see what its purpose fis, the cost per unit and what the same amount of money would do outside or near a city. It has about three purposes how-=political, investment for some and a plum tree for others.

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It Seems to Me

By Meywood Broun

Red Baiting Melps Fascist Cause: Dictators Must Be Pleased When La Guardia Is Called Communist.

EW YORK, Nov, 1 Red baiting is service in the cause of fascism. And this goes even for those people who profess to take the attitude of “A plague o’ both

your houses!” Neither Herr Hitler nor Sig,

Cin

| Mussolini need be bothered much by attacks

about the administration of affairs in Germany Italy if only the writer or the speaker goes make the assertion that the Soviet Republic ing to upset every other government in the world, And if the orator of the evening also includes of the rigamarole about communism and the Committee for Tndustrial Organization, the Duce the Fuehrer owe him a decoration It must be evident that the paeét ' signed by the aggressor nations is less than a candid document, THe drive against communism is only a cloak. Tn reality Germany, Italy and Japan ‘are frying tip the black spot to all the democratic na= tions of the earth. I am not says ing that Russia is a democrac in spite of some movement in that direction, but of late there has been a decided campaign in the United States to label all progressive movements as munistic.” The three=power pact rests upon a false and fabulous premise, but lip service is rendered to the legend created by the Fascist countries whenever any Amers jean publicist begins to see revolutionary spooks behind the New Deal, is well fo remember

T I New York that Mayor La Guardia had been a buddy of Lenin. No member of the Nazi propaganda machine could have thought up a wilder one than that, And when liberals and even some mild conservatives are hailed as Reds by American reactionaries, Herr Hitler and Sig. Mussolini ean afford to rub their hands in glee and say, “We told vou so, The Reds are everywhere, That is the justification for our pact with Japan.” The imperial designs of the International Fascist League are how palpable. Nor is the bandit without much warm support in the United States. I am not thinking of the beery legions of Yorkville or any of the more preposterous vigilante organizations, They can be used to ill effect, but the real leaders of a turn to the right here in our own land are hardly as crude in their methods as the Tin Pot strutters, The men to be feared are those who insinuate slyly that while Franklin D. Roosevelt isn't actually a Communist, there is a decided left wing tinge to the fringes of the New Deal, " on HE point is expressed satirically at the very opens ing of “I'd Rather Be Right.” Two pentlemen are walking across the park, and one complains that under the present system of taxation about the most he ean expect to retain of his income, even in a good vear, is $100,000. “Sure,” says his companion, “coms« munism!” and the playwrights’ jibe is not really a very great exaggeration of the attitude of some of our financial leaders. And readjustment of the national income seems to them actually revolutionary, And there are many places in New York where, after the second or third cocktail, men of prominence are prone to declare ¢hat ‘‘there’s a good deal in what that fellow Mussolini says.” If you are looking for subversive activities Union Square is hot your spot, Prowl along Park Ave, This is the breeding ground of revolution. Here the Red bogeyman desighed to affright the middle classes is manufactured. Here the stories about “Moscow gold” are put into the kettle, The wedge is forged to keep the democratic nations apart from one another and suspicious of a natural ally,

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The Washington Merry-Go-Round

Private SEC Probe of Short-Selling May Hit Big Wall Street Names: Jesse Jones Breaks Two Big News Stories for Purpose of Publicity,

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“A rather obscure person by the name of Franklin Delano Roosevelt,” » Ww YW

PC CHAIRMAN JESSE JONES, quietly being shelved by the White House, is making a despers ate last-ditch fight to keep himself in the public eve, Jesse has a burning ambition to be Democratic Vice Presidential candidate in 1940, Twice in recent months he has Jumped the gun on important Government news releases in order to grab personal publicity for himself. The first was the announcement of the 9-cent cots ton loan. This was scheduled to come from the AAA, but an hour before it was given out, Jesse issued his own news release, thereby getting his name promis nently in the story, The second oee the ofher day when the corn loan ‘was a ng an agreement hes

tween the Commodity Credit Corporation, an RFC.

controlled agency, oy the AAA on oan Fa was Guided tha "the Torme, ont o” oe wou made at ‘a press conference by Secretary Hehty Wallnoe, : nd ut an hour before ¥ Met Mr. Jones ! press bureau called | up and ? wn, it the story. The result ‘Was | e first stor Sra :