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SATURDAY, NOV. 27, 1937

WHY “NOW” IS VITAL RESIDENT ROOSEVELT says he wants Congress to revise taxes as soon as it is ready.

As we see it, that means now. Congress is ready.

After a long and painstaking study, the House Tax Revision | Subcommittee has agreed to recommend certain changes | And the proposal has been |

in the undistributed-profits tax. widely cheered by other members of Congress. There is a world of difference in whether Congress revises the tax this session or postpones action until next. There is some talk about revision next year, but to be made “yretroactive” for 1937. That could not possibly accomplish immediate good—and the situation calls desperately for im-

mediate results. The reason is inherent in the present law

itself. Corporations are now preparing to close their books

for 1937. In so doing they must decide what portion of the vear’s profits shall be distributed in dividends and what plowed back into their businesses. The undistributed-profits tax has a vital influence on their decisions between now and the first of the year. If "the present tax is continued, the pressure will be to pay out the maximum of dividends. Such was the purpose of “the tax. That will. mean a minimum of plant expansion and improvements. But if the tax is revised now the pressure will be removed. Boards of directors thereby will be encouraged to use the profits in their businesses. nothing is more needed at this time than just this type of private corporate spending—spending that will create new jobs, produce new wealth, help take up the slack of the _ recession. But if Congress waits until next year, that will be too late. The profits will already be dissipated in dividends. A big opportunity for private pump priming will be gone.

THE FLY IN THE PUDDING HEN Edward VII was King of England, recounts Dr. Chengting T. Wang, China's shrewd ambassador to this country, one of his grandsons attempted to speak to him at table. But the lad was frowned down. Again and again he tried to talk, but without success. “Now,” said the King, as they left the dining room, “what was it you wanted to say?’ “I wanted,” replied the Prince, “to tell you about the fly in your pudding. But now it’s too late.” “And so,” says the ambassador, pointing his moral, “unless world war is prevented it will be too late to save our civilization from ruin , and the only way to prevent world war is through collective security pacts.” The Chinese envoy is right, of course. But what is wrong is not that the world is lacking in pacts, but that when one group of nations refuses to respect the pacts, the others do nothing at all about it. To sum it all up bluntly, Japan is now saying to the rest of the world: “Get out of here! We want China for ourselves.” And what, if anything, will be done about it? Resort to war? We certainly hope not. Nobody wants war. : Then what? Surely there are ways of meeting the Japanese chal. lenge other than by war or by running away. A new world war, as Dr. Wang indicates, might smash Japan, but it also would smash civilization. But running away certainly will not settle anything either. That would only be taken for cowardice by the Japanese militarists who would then reach

out for more. But all that is negative. Meantime, this world of ours

is racing toward the hour when it must decide whether to return to barbarism, with its law of survival of the strongest, or to stiffen its opposition to international outlayry. What the specific answer is we do not pretend to know. But this we do know: The interested powers had better begin to think up one, and soon. For there is a pretty big fly in this world’s pudding. .

“THE NOBEL PRIZE

N° one will question the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to Viscount Cecil of Chelwood. This elderly British statesman shared with Woodrow Wilson and General Smuts the task of writing the League of Nations covenant, fought for armament limitations to the point of resigning from the British Cabinet, and helped keep burning the flickering hope of international co-operation for peace with justice. However, had we been given a choice, we would have bestowed the award upon a man of a less visionary and more realistic school of peacemakers; our own Cordell Hull, whose name: was urged by several Spanish-American _ republics. - : We say this not because the League, which Lord Cecil personalizes, appears for the time to be a broken lance. Eventually we will have a united states of the world “and an international police force to punish the lawhreakers. But Secretary of State Hull is waging peace with more crealistic weapons. With his reciprocal trade treaties he is trying to rebuild the shattered commerce between the "nations, and thereby help remove one of the chief causes - of war—economic nationalism.

INVITING ALARIC

: THAN KS to science, milady now may flaunt a new allurei ment when she blossoms out in evening hues—a sporting cigaret that gives off smoke in colors to match her . gown, her cheeks, lips and fingernails. : Otto L. Miller, Memphis, has been granted a patent by . the Government for his invention of colored cigaret smoke. .-Not only will it add to madame’s charm, but it will give her ; new enjoyment, says Mr, Miller, since half her smoking i pleasure comes from watching the wreaths of smoke she i blows from her lips. His invention meets her every whim,

: since smoke can be produced of any color. 1 Perhaps we need a satirist like the-Roman Petronius to fdicule our excesses. Or maybe another Alaric, the Goth.

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SATURDAY, NOV. 27, 1937

‘You Mean—QOut?’—By Herblock

Fair Enough

By Westbrook Pegler

Miami Revels in Vice and Graft While Newspaper Describes How Policemen Terrorize Negro Boy.

NEW YORK, Nov. 27.—As a commentary on the character of the place in which a band of Klansmen recently took it upon themselves to wreck a night club, the following item from Page 1 of the Miami (Fla.)

Herald is submitted: “Police Trail Little Willie Just to See Him Run. “Little Willie is breathing normally. “Willie is the 12-year-old son of a Negro woman

with whom he lives at the Miami Beach home of which she is caretaker. “Last Saturday Willie boarded a streetcar in Miami Beach to visit his aunt in the Miami Negro section. “He left the trolley at N. E. First Ave. and Eighth Ave. and began walking to his aunt’s home. “Then a police patrol drove alongside. “‘Boy,’ said one of the two policemen, ‘how fast can you get to Niggertown?’ ~ “ ‘Pretty fast, I guess,’ stuttered Willie. “‘Get going,’ was the next order. “Willie began to run, while the police car and guffawing policemen trailed him all the way.” For about 10 years Miami and Miami Beach and Hialeah, adjoining Miami, have extended a welcome to the more prosperous and notorious racketeers of the big northern cities. There have been seasons when, owing to disagreement between rival political groups, gambling house operators and slot machine magnates have either been suppressed or compelled to do business on the sneak. o ” ”n OWEVER, there has never been an hour's play in any gambling house in the region which was not licensed, through the graft system, by some local authority and with the tolerance of public opinion, lest the heavy spenders be diverted to Cuba or other places. After the Ku-Klux Klan had kicked in the night club, the sheriff was quoted as saying that the place was a menace, but was not quoted as explaining why, in that case, he did not close it himself by legal

means. The fact is, of course, that the gambling, slot machine and night club industries have been tied together by a natural community of interest and that the whole group of them were tied to successive local government bodies by a practical understanding and other considerations.

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» ” ” MN oruovEE, the newspapers, in their zeal to promote spending and local business, condoned this system except in moments of political frenzy. The practice of covering the social and theatrical phase of night life and ignoring the known corrupt and criminal background was nowhere more apparent than in Miami. Not only in Miami, but in most sizable cities, a new phase of journalism ballyhoos the excitement, music, entertainment and the personalities found in night clubs operated or frequented by the underworld, but omits mention of other knowledge which any good police reporter would place on top. Some diarists of the night side have been known to write the most sentimental tributes to men whom they knew to be criminal racketeers. There is something pathetic about a community in which vigilantes, wearing the mask of the burglar to onceal their identity, kick in a joint while “guffawing cops” in a patrol car chase a terrified 12-year-old Negro child through the streets.

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The Hoosier Forum

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

U. S. DESTINY SEEN LINKED TO WORLD'S WELFARE

By E. J. Unruh, Director, Mid-West Council on International Relations, Inc. Following, in part, is a summary of a study of the prosperity and security of the United States. Three | years ago I began a serious study of this subject, because that seemed to be then, as it is now, the question of first concern to every American. Having barely scratched the sur- | face of our domestic conditions— | the economic and financial chaos, | unemployment, distressingly low | living conditions and political contentions—I discovered that the] causes of those conditions were as much international as national in character. | To get at the roots of the causes of our difficulties I found it necessary to go abroad to analyze the economic, financial, political and so- | cial conditions there. In pursuance of my studies, I, therefore, spent three | months during 1935 in European countries. Upon my return to the United States, I compared my notes with those I had gathered in studying our domestic situation. Still I could not get a complete picture. So in 1936 I spent thes three summer months in the Orient studying con- | ditions as I had done in Europe the |

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have produced still greater maladjustments within each nation. 5. The improvement of the economic, financial and social condi-

| tions of the nations requires the | the people of our country so that | ment of those conditions throughout our government may have their re- |

more or less simultaneous improve-

the world.

6. The fundamental cause of the | more active part in restoring and | present world chaos lies in the loss of mutual confidence between na- | tions and their unwarrantedly com- |

economic policies.

7. Progress toward the restoration | nations need peace. We must help

of international confidence and the

| amelioration of foreign economic

policies is retarded by the present conflict of political ideologies—par-

| ticularly democratic versus dicta-

torial. National Problems Involved Obviously, we do not wish to bur-

struction. The present trend toward more complete isolation and self-sufficiency is contrary to sound economic principles and will bring to every people continuous poverty, chaos, and another war.

Our Stake Is Large

Economically we have more at stake in the life of the world than any other single country because we are the world's creditor nation, the richest in natural and commercial resources, with present facilities which can affect one-half of the world’s total production of commercial goods and services. These facts must be known by

| assurance and support in taking a

improving international co-opera-tion for the reconstruction of the

| We need peace as much as the other

in the restoration of peace to the world to gain our peace. ” ” o

| CHARGES MORRISSEY | ARRESTED ‘PANHANDLER’ By D. E. S. One recent cold night on a down-

year before. Back home that au- | den ourselves with world problems | town street corner, Police Chief

tumn, I began piecing together all the facts gathered.

Visits Europe Again

This picture told a story which the average citizen of our country accepts somewhat reluctantly. I

{ myself hesitated accepting the basic

when we still have such serious national problems to solve as are facing us today. My study, however, indicated that our fundamental national problems cannot be solved unless similar problems be first solved on an international scale. Strikingly, I found that the solution of those international

national problems or greatly simplify them. ... My study has definitely driven me to the conclusion that the international economic relations of the world must be reconstructed to restore a healthy and much freer exchange of ideas, goods and services, which condition, once existing, brings prosperity, security and better living conditions to all peoples.

( problems | would wipe out many of our basic |

| Morrissey was approached by a | youth to the tune of “Brother, can f you spare a dime?” The Chief found

lit necessary to have the youth | hauled to jail. He gave as his rea- | son that Indianapolis was to be | made safe against panhandling. To my mind it is a much to be | regretted incident. Those of us | many public spirited citizens who really know what “down and out” means, will condemn such actions. | Those of us who continue to give |our time to all worthwhile civic needs, such as Community Fund [and Red Cross, know altogether too | well that there is a setup out of the | 38 agencies of the Community Fund | —the Wheeler City Mission—a place

YEE rap ] economic relations of the nations | petitive and discriminatory foreign | ang political peace among them. | ‘|

become economically interdepend- Tl ent. Not one of them can hope to| © long period of time unless they ail | enjoy reasonable prosperity.

interdependence

enjoy economic prosperity over a | must again be acknowledged and national policies must be shaped to |

allow its growth rather than de-

| where one can be given lodging and | food for one night and then is per- | mitted to go his way the next day. The proper thought in that direction would have been a suggestion

of nations

2. The financial systems of the nations, and their currencies, cannot be stabilized on a satisfactory basis | unless they are properly related to |

world-wide basis. Nations Interdependent [Tall nude trees, sway

tions of the people of any of the play.

only as those conditions are im- | pray, higher level throughout the world. 4. The settlement of the World War, the economic, financial and | | social maladjustments resulting | | from the war and the absence of |

| of and co-operation with each other have driven the nations to policies of isolation, intolerance in an inter- { dependent world, which, in

Ington—

Restoring Confidence Pictured as Biggest Task of Administration; Roosevelt Can Check Recession by "Allaying Fears of Businessmen.

By Raymond Clapper ASHINGTON, Nov. 27.—President Roosevelt's problem is almost entirely one of recapturing confidence. If he can establish confidence we can easily and quickly come out of this recession. Utilities are ready to spend a billion dollars a year —once they can get up the nerve to spend it. Railroads want to spend millions in new equipment, in Diesel engines and modernized rolling stock—once they can get up the nerve to spend it.. Some two million new homes are needed right now and more than 10 million in the next decade. But people cannot buy homes unless they are reasonably certain of employment. Farmers sold bumper crops for good prices. Most of them have more to spend. But you don’t catch your Kansas farmer spending his money if he feels that hard times are just around the corner. The only thing missing is confidence. Confidence is as real as money. In fact it is-money. It is credit. It is orders. It is jobs. It is the thing which President Roosevelt has squandered needlessly.

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ROBABLY the majority of plain people still have confidence in Mr. Roosevelt. But while Mr. Roosevelt has been busy winning the confidence of this majority of people, he has neglected to gain the confidence of a smaller but powerful group. In fact, he has repeatedly invited its hatred. These “economic royalists,” as Mr. Roosevelt has termed them, don’t cast many votes, but they will have great power,

And now the chickens are coming home to roost. The businessman's jitters may have no real justification. The Roosevelt bark may be worse than the bite. But businessmen are scared and that is the important fact. It may all be psychological but a state of mind is a very real thing. And when a businessman gets into a state of mind which causes him to think that a Roosevelt policy—such as the undistributed-profits’ tax—is ruining business, he will hold off orders. And the result of that is that some manufacturer, losing that order, has to lay off his men. Then the grocer can't collect his bills and so on. If enough businessen get into that state of mind, you have trouble though the country may be rolling in ready cash,

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TIT: is what has happened and we are already some way into the vicious circle. During the last few years Washington has assumed responsibility for good times. It has undertaken to produce prosperity. Business crashed in 1929 and could not blame the Government. But this time the Government is in up to its neck.

It is no use arguing whether business ought to be scared or not. It is scared, and to a degree that demands prompt and thorough attention if the whole Roosevelt effort is not to go down in a heap. He has done many necessary things, and he has restored to Government a sense of its obligation to promote the general welfare. But he can’t promote the general welfare while at the same time allowing the business Jong to remain in a state of pfralyzed fear toward

WINTER THOUGHTS By MAUD COURTNEY WADDELL |

each other and stabilized on a |Day after day skies’ changeless | Shuts winter's sun and cheer away. | for it.

3. The social and living condi-| While children running laugh

major nations can be improved ma- Soon darkness ends another day terially and enjoy greater stability | And mankind silenced pauses

proved and stabilized on a much Lifting his soul above mere clay.

DAILY THOUGHT

The wise shall inherit glory, but shame shall be the promotion of ! a mutual concern for the well-being | fools—Proverbs 3:35.

a— OF all men he's in wisdom wit) that nothing cares who has the turn, | world in hand.—Chaucer.

for a kind pat on the back and sent there. No doubt then the youth would have been given a better outlook on life and the Chief of Police gray | would have been much happier noiseless S | CHIEF DENIES MAKING In | SUCH ARREST IN 2 YEARS By Chief Morrissey I have not made an arrest of this nature for two years. More than two years ago a man accosted me on Capitol Ave. asking for something to eat. I took this man to where he could buy something to eat. An hour later the same man accosted me again with the same i plea. This time I put him under arrest, and he was found to be in possession of both food and money, | and was half drunk. He was fined in court.

lonely,

Merry-Go-Round

By Pearson & Allen

Did Elephant's Sore Tooth Prompt Roosevelt to Save Big WPA Jumbo? Clamor for Spending Grows Again.

ASHINGTON, Nov. 27.—President Roosevelt was a very uncomfortable man at the height of his recent illness. One day he had fever of 103 degrees. His sickness and pain were caused by an ulcerated lower molar which had been troubling him for several years. When finally it went on a rampage, Mr. Roosevelt's jaw and face swelled like a balloon and the poison from the pus sac brought on

high fever. Because of the sensitive= ness of his jaw, he could not eat and was on a liquid diet for a week. Afterward Mr. Roosevelt laughingly remarked that thanks to his illness he | had undergone a much-needed reduc- | ing course. : One reason for the delay in his recovery was the inflammation of his jaw which prevented immediate extraction of the trouble-making tooth. His doctors had to treat the inflammation before the molar could be vanked. Afterward the abcess required draining and dressing several times a day. After Mr. Roosevelt had been in bed several days, Washington newsmen be=gan to be bombarded with wild, out-of town stories regarding his condition. 2 __ Most of the rumors emanated from | Robert Allen Wall Street. One, widely circulated in brokerage offices, claimed the President | had suffered a paralytic stroke. | Whether or not it was because they both had recent toothaches, the President has just ruled in favor of Japino, the big elephant of the WPA circus. Japino is to stay as a part of the WPA’s “World's Greatest Circus,” and its performances also, will con= tinue. Organized to put unemployed clowns, animal trainers and acrobats to work, the WPA circus featured Sapte as “The largest and oldest elephant in capivity.”

Drew Pearson

” » ” APINO did pretty well as a WPA worker. She did not lean on her shovel as much as some of them, and attracted large juvenile crowds. But eventually there were cries of “balance the budget,” and Japino was paraded through the streets of New York with a placard warning she was headed for the glue factory. New York children immediately petitioned the President, and in the end Japino was spared.

Note—Japino recently suffered from a decayed toorh which was drilled and filled with less commotion than the hullabaloo over the President's aching jaw,

= ” = HE most significant behind-the-scenes develope ment in Washington today is the rising tide of sentiment for another shot of large-scale Government spending. So far this is still in the shush-shush stage. None of the big-shots as yet dares air his views publicly. But when they let their hair down, they admit that the orily immediate remedy for the business slump is another “pump-priming” program. Root of this change, of course, is the growing fear of the deepening economic reversal. Much as they might like to spend, the politicos would shy off if there wasn't public pressure for such action. But this pressure exists.

So impressive is this clamor that Senate leaders seriously are considering a plan to bring it into the open.

According to Heywood Broun—

Autographed Manuscripts

Seen at Morgan Library Give Broun Idea:

Hand Him a Typewritten Page and He'll Read Your Character Quirks.

EW YORK, Nov. 27.—The Morgan Library has just opened to the public its collection of autograph manuscripts, and this is a show I recommend. It is a good many years since I've seen these treasures, but I still remember that I felt much like “Scout. Cortez” when there was spread before me the Keats manuscript of “On First Looking at Chapman’s Homer.” There are first editions as well as manuscripts, but the books mean nothing to me, or, at any rate, very much less than the sight of Dickens’ own name on the original pages of “A Christmas Carol.” And near at hand is “Ivanhoe,” just as

it came from the pen of Walter Scott, and Thackeray's “Vanity Fair.” And the swaggering script of Byron. Thackeray may have written long novels, but he was parsimonious with paper, and his hand is that of a watch repairer. , I have no great faith in those who undertake to read character by handwriting. This may be based in part upon the feeling that my own caligraphy suggests the frightened efforts of a backward moron. And such an interpretation would be a slight exaggeration. Still one cannot look at the pages where Byron’s pen went by without getting the distinct impression that here was a young man disposed to shock the prim and puritanical. And in the later manuscript of Scott there is almost visual evidence of the points at which he sat down wearily and saidy to himself, “I must write to lift the mortgage.” =

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S far as the reading of character goes I'd much rather take a shot at guessing the personality of a man from his typed sheets than from his penmanship. After all, there is such a thing as touch. People who compose on the machine are much as pianists in their technique. And the keys very distinctly register their moods. The expert's eye can readily detect the days on which the man in question was bearing down and giving his stint all the strength of his soul and shoulders, and the passages which were set down simply to hold the franchise are equally apparent. Much more than in the case of handwriting it is possible to tell which parts of a typewritten manuscript were flung out in rapid fury and those portions pecked out slowly under a lagging inspiration.

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HAVE no intention of setting up as a super Sherlock Holmes in the business of type detecting, but I will wager that if a total stranger will bat out for me, “Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their party,” I can tell with small margin of error whether he beats his wife and is mean to waiters. And I also will undertake to predict whether or not he is happily married. This is entirely apart from the problem of whether or not he beats his wife, hecxuse that occasionally makes for tranquillity in the ome. Like Conan, Doyles] hero, 1 have no desire to make a mystery o m 5) looking at a typewritten manuscript now. This mai ndoubtedly his wife, or at least ough obviously he |

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