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firing squad is Senator VanNuys. | He must go, the organization says. | Senator VanNuys, while he has not “played ball” at all times with | the leadership, has his friends. The | sentiment for him probably canhot | be mustered into delegate strength | at a convention, but it can register | that strength at the polls in No- | vember, And there is always ah | inherent sentiment in the American | electorate for the underdog. | Behind this picture, it is true, | there is a background of excellent | governmental service ih the State | House, | But isn't it time to take stock and change the oourse of the political ‘machine? The organiza- | tion probably could go through this next election with the same ruth- | less disregard and discipline and | win. But in so doing it is the be | lief that the party ‘would be split | wide open, rendering it futile for | future winnings for years to come. | J The next election is anh off-year | 3 election. The party only ‘won the off-year senatorial election in 193¢ | by some 50,000 votes. Does anyone | believe that VanNuys, runhing as ah independent, could muster 25.000 votes off the Democratic side of the register? ‘The writer believes he | could. If he does it ‘would likely mean defeat of the Democratic) nomin»e and election of & Republic | an.

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There is one man who oould | prevent such & party catastrophe. That man is R. Earl Peters, former | | State Chairman, one of the plank | walkers. Peters has not sulked in his tent. He has a state-wide organization | through his present position as di- | rector of the Federal Housing Ad- | ministration. He has made odunt- | less friends. Despite the deal he | received in the 1934 State Conven- | tion, which he led for twd ballots, | he took the stump for the nominee of that convention. He worked for| the election of the present state of | ficial. He deserved the homination | In 193¢, and if VanNuyvs is to be|

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working out of a condition of “nd monopoly.” The businessman ‘who Tents = store ih the center of Indiahapolis fools himself if he does not recognize the share-cropper as his brother in bondage! This land question Is wt the bottom of all ‘wars, revolutions, panics and depressions, and all our New Deal efforts are ahd will eon tihue to be futile unless ‘we recoghize the right of all men to the use of the earth, If this subject interests vou, Yead George's “Progress and Poverty.”

ousted in 1938, Petars is the only man who can do it. He deserves] the nomination in 1938 as he did in 1934 His name at the head of the | ticket would mean security for the | sounty tickets, and county leaders

“kept not their first estate but left | their own habitation” and waged | For this he |

beam and make a safe landing in 1938 and stay in the saddle. » » »

RECALLS WASHINGTON'S REBUKES OF SWEARING By

lis done, either through inefficiency | of some officials or purposeful eves | sion by the taxpayers. | Visible taxes irk just & little but do not stop the spending. The por] relief tax is a sample. So long as it | 4 came from bonds, there was no | Tt is said of George Washington | syuawking on th» local tax rate. | that he was one of the handsomest | Now the piper must be paid. Nothand most dignified of men, a gentle | ing oan be done abou it. If we would | man by birth and by education. He | employ those on poor relief at labor | Was emphatically opposed to swear | that would be profitable to the poor ing, and while he was Commander as well as to the employer, we would in-Chief of America in August, 1778, | have no poor relief tax problem. he issued at New York the following | order to the troops: ins “The General is sorry to be in- | EXPLAINS SPANISH formed that the foolish and pro- LAND PROBLEMS hie grim i g Wk [By Agavito Rey, Bloomington g (& vie ittle known in America) is growing in fashion. | The most Superficial study of reHe hopes that the officers will, by [°ont Spanish history Will reveal | SRAmpl as x ell as by influence en- | that the maldistribution of land | 8avor to check it and that doth | sti \ | they and the men will reflect that Route n Ti, Sarvs proplem we have little hope of the blessing | TOF Spain. This problem had two | of Heaven on our armies if we in- aspects. In the densely populated | Sult it by our impiety and folly. Add provinces in the north, property

to this—it is a vice so mean and low. | without any temptation, that anv WHS Qavided Unth Noch ial pets

man of sense and character doetests | that the farmers could not make a and despises it. Profanity must be living, Furthermore, these small very displeasing to God or it would | tracts were burdened with Foros or not have been so prohibited in those | leaseholds dating from many cen. | commandments which God issued | turies, for the regulation of the conduct of | On the other hand, in the southmen in all ages. And yet it is our | ern hall of Spain, property was national vice. How many are there [concentrated in a few owners, In Who have no God to pray to: only | 1931 we find in this half portion of & God to swear by.” Spain that 1 per cent of the active While speaking on this subject, | agricultural population owned 51.5 Which is very important, it may be | per cent of the land; 25 per cent Well and proper to recite an anec- | owned 2.2 per cent of the land, and dote of Washington which was re- (40 per cent of the agricultural poplated to John S$. B. Abbott, author | ylation owned absolutely nothing. of "The Life of Washington,” by an |Contrasted with this there were 65

officer in Washington's Army. | ersons who held aggregate hold Washington had invited the mem- | Dore of 15 million eB :

bers of his staff to dine with him in New York. As they were sitting at Cites Land Distribution the table, all engaged in that quiet y conversation which the presence of 3 —-] HE AWGN Washington invariably inspired. Spain, of 56 million acres registered, one of the guests very distinctly 31 million acres were in estates ol Hyeerad an oath. Washington then over 625 acres each: T7228 owners Nn & chlm deliberate tone, whose | » i solemnity was blended with sadness, | held ver 43 million wares. In oon said, ‘I thought that I invited gen- | tast We find in ¢his territory tlemen only to dine with me.” [1 Tn farmers owning one acre Tt is needless to add no more | °2ch, and two million farm laborers oaths were heard at thet table, | COmpletely destitute. Facing this Would it nou be well to emulate x | there were 50,000 large land owners man who rebuked & man for taking | WhO held 57 per cent of the land. and using God's name in vain and | Such an unjust land distribution said, “Stop that, I don’t allow any- | WAS most detrimental to the naone to insult my Friend's name.” Is | tonal welfare. In a country prenot there such & law on our statute | dominantly agricultural, where 70 books? If not, there should be one | Per cent of the people lived from and it should be enforced. the products of the soil, such a ra Situation was dangerous. Radical

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agitators found a fertile soil in CRITICIZES KEEPING these famished peasants. Riots resulting in destruction of property and bloodshed were all too free quent. The Republic could not tem-

porize with such social injustice.

Purpose of Law

In 1932 a law was enacted creating an Institute of Agrarian Reform with an initial credit of 50 million pesetas to acquire land in which to settle small farmers. Similar laws had been discussed in 187¢ and 1920, but had failed to pass. The main purpose of the law was to force the large landholders to put their land under cultivation and thus increase employment and national wealth. The Government was to expropriate only idle land. The revolution has altered the situation as the lands of those who took arms against the Government in 1936 were confisoaled for the state. y March of this year the Agrarian Institute had asocguired seven million acres which were given to the municipalities to distribute.

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OF TAXES HIDDEN By Charles L. Blume Jr,

A Democrat who is a political commentator has held the platform of the first and second ward Republican Club up to ridicule. Not that we mind in the least, for the ridicule of opposition doesn't bother us, but he stated that platform said we advocated ‘the removal of hidden taxes.” It did that, with these added words, “from the necessities of life.” I ask you, what is so ridiculous about that? Why should anyone misconstrue it? Wouldn't people be more alert and keep an eagle-eye on their representatives if, when they went to the grocery to buy bread, milk, meat, etc, they would find printed on wrapper in plain sight something like this—bread, 4 cents, Government tax, 3 cents, total’ 97 cents, Then above the meat stand they would see a list of prices with a plus Government tax and the amount. Wouldn't that jerk certain people out of their indifferent attitude? Wouldn't Congress and others be more careful in the handling of public funds? This hidden tax stuff is the thing that those who are weaklings in pifice thrive on. We say make it blic! Let us see what we are paying every day! This is the people's Government and we want to kebp it that way. ® = ®

WISIBLE TAXATION P DRAWS REPLY By H. L. Seeger we T. Flynn to wipe out

urges visible taxa‘waste in spending |

[to those new farmers to give them unto the Consumers’ co-operatives | day.” Beelzebud was the rst of | | the

a start, have also been organized to help these farmers. » » » SUNATICS SUGGESTED AS POSSIBLE NAME By D. A, Sommer Inasmuch &s & lunatic was one who was supposed to be affected by the moon (Juha), and since soiontists now tell us that sunspots affect our climate and even us, I suppose we are sunaties., Anyway, even without scientists, that most of us are ill-starrad, . . . Doctors tell us that two-thirds of the American people dig their graves with their teeth, and we ourselves know that many dig other people's graves with their tongues, Someone says the turkey should be our national emblem instead of the eagle. Happy thought; for are not turkeys to be “et” and didn't Europe devour about three billion English “pounds” of our flesh? .. . A long time apd, according to an

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old book, & prince who had much,

judgment of the great |

“have-nots,” the first Fascist. Will his followers have the same fate? » » » RENTERS LINKED WITH SHARE-CROPPERS By E. B, > For years an expose of the awful serfdom state of the Southern share-croppers has been neaded, The share-cropper is not the only victim of the rapacity of some land owners who live and prosper on the labor of landless men, who must accept any terms enforced for the privilege of working for a mere existence!

It might surprise a majority of your readers to know that this | system or practice of share-cropping is universal. About 80 per cent of | Americans are landless, and to work | and live they must make terms with | the 20 per cent who are owners for | permission to work, or even to stay on the land at all. The sharecropper (what a significant word) is but the extreme example of the

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TESS TEGAL VERBIAGE By B. ©

I have hoticed your editorial eam. paigh chiding Congress and legisatures for the confusing and complicated language they write into our laws, They often make it difftcult for the courts to understand What they mean and they leave most laymen completely at sea. I'd lke to add that lawyers who object to public oritiotsm of the way their profession does its job might profitably give wn little thought to the heed for stripping away the n= volved verbiage of Tegal forms, For example: In Louisiana Ye-

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cently two men ‘were indicted for murder, They are escaping trial, not because the state failed to prove that they were guilty, but simply becaiise the ‘mah who drew up the fhdfotment made ah uhimportant little mistake in English, The indictment, naming the twd men for the murder, said that they “did feloniously, ‘wilfully, unhlawfully and of his malice aforethought murder” the deceased gentleman. It should, of course, have sald “of their malice aforethought”; because it was “his” instead, the State Supreme Court quashed the indictment. What under the shining Suh a piffling mistake like that could have to do with the maih question at fssue<<whether the twd men did in fact murder a fellow citizeh=is something no layman ean hope to figure out,

RADIO CRIME THRIVUERS CRITICIZED BY OFFICIAL Ry Reader Credree H. Payne, member of the Federal Communications Oommission, declares that radio programs are overdue for reform in the mate ter of the fare they offer children, “I have had many communications condemning them,” says Mr, Payne, “I had a man ih here the

other day who said, ‘My child had

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» hightmare thinking he ‘was being kidnaped and tortured after he had listened to one of those programs’. ‘Most parents probably agree with Mr, Payne whole-heartedly, After all, he does hot heed to be wn expert psychologist to realize that nerve-racking, fear-creating thrillers eah be wah overstimulating emotional diet for a youngster,

® Ww Ww TERMS ATTITUDE ON VURPLUS SPENDING FANTASTIC By B.B, Culler, Tatavette Suppose you owh stock paying you $1000 yearly, for 10 years, 5 per cent oh your investment, but that the net “book earnings” of the concern have been 10 per cent, and during the 10 years ft has throwh 5 per cent, a total of $10,000, into surplus nceount, Was your ihvestment of $20,000 fhitfally of value to the ooneérn? Does the surplus reserve of $10,000 belong to you or somebody else? If it belongs to you, are you not justly entitled to collect it, and put it back in ag concern or not just as you

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