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_ THURSDAY, DEC. 9, 1937

“IN THE CONCRETE” AVING stirred up a hornets nest of opposition in and out of Congress by his proposal to slash Federal-aid funds for highways, President Roosevelt is reported to be

planning a deep economy cut into one of his own pet New |.

Deal agencies, the Civilian Conservation Corps.

The closing of 300 CCC camps and the digmissal of :

75,000 enrollees also would draw opposition. ' Fhe ccC is widely popular. But the President probably could put that through with no such fight as he will have to make if he succeeds in reducing Federal highway aid. By CCC retrenchment, however, Mr. Roosevelt could prove that he is in dead earnest about budget-balancing.

And he could show up the Congressmen who advocate.

economy but yell bloody murder whenever a specific ‘at-

tempt to economize affects their interests or their districts."

Every economy will be unpopular with some group, or with many groups. But without economy the budget can not be balanced. Congress needs to realize that, and to act accordingly. Senator Vandenberg-of Michigan pdt it clearly in a letter to the highway commissioner of: his own state, who had urged him to fight for more rather than less

Federal-aid highway money to benefit Michigan’s automo-

bile industry and Michigan’s tourist trade. Being a Republican, Senator Vandenberg has opposed the President on many issues. But, he said, he intends to support the proposal to reduce highway funds. Having criticized the President for prodigal spending, he feels it his duty to follow the President in saving money. Important as highways are to Michigan, ‘even more important to these Michigan interests is the restoration: of a sound national eonomy under which there will be a widespread purchasing power to buy our cars and to visit our vacation lands.” And, Senator Vandenberg added: ~ “1 cannot put myself in the equivocal position of advocating economy. in the abstract and deserting it in the: “concrete.” .

MR. CRAWFORD’S SIGNAL BUSINESS FAR CRAWFORD'S connection with a. new company organized to sell safety signals to truck operators—who are required to buy them under a 1937 State law-—raises a question of morals in government, not of legality. What the State Highway Commission chairman i is doing is within the law. But it is not within the bounds of propriety for a State

official to capitalize perso ally on a State, safety measure

when his public position may be misinterpreted by some as a suggestion to patrdnize concern.: While: signal devices of 10 other firms also have been approved by the State, the “distributing eompany headed by Chairman Crawford i is the ‘only Indiana corporation in the group. i : The public, as well as/ truck operators, will resent. the inference of pressure. i oy :

ROBOT CHEF | A MAN from Oregon n: ed Scharsch has taken out a : patent on a “machine cooker,” which he brazenly

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claims will eliminate “the necessity for employing skilled . _cooks.” It.is all rigged up (with conveyor belts. and thermo-

stats that cook different foods at different temperatires, .and is supposed to deliver|the meal piping hot, tender ‘and deliciously flavored. | A scallion to such devices! Could a machine step into ‘the boots of an Henri Charpentier, an Oscar of the Waldorf or an August Souchon of ‘the Indianapolis. Athletic Club?

Science, to be sure, hat its place, but it must not invade:

the sanctuaries of art. As well try to fabricate a mechanical landscape painter or a robot violinist. Let such inven-. tive upstarts as Mr. Scharsch read the lines of Owen Meredith fd “We may live without gociry, music or art;

“We may live without conscience and live without heart; :

“We may live without friends; we may live without books; “But civilized man cannot live without cooks.”

“RE ACHING FOR THE STARS” Eras FIRST use of the 200-inch telescope now being prepared for Mt. Palomar, California, will be the biggest event in the intellectual history of our generation, many scientists predict. - This giant “eye” is being built at a cost of six million dollars. It will show what the moon would look like if it were only 25 miles away. It is expected to answer the ques-

tion whether there is life on Venus and what the canals are

on Mars.

“Reaching for the Stars,” a series of articles’ by. David |

|General Hugh Johnson Says— i

Dietz explaining this telescope and what it will do; beging! today in The Times on Page 17.

‘WAGES-AND-HOURS BILL PACKERS of the Wages-and-Hours Bill have won their’ fight to.petition it out for House action at the special ‘gession of Congress.

> The bill will come on Dec. 13 to the House floor for

‘debate and amendment. Between now and then we hope ‘Congress will. give serious consideration to’ the suggestion “we have made frequently—that Congress itself fix the wage ‘and hour standards, and eliminate from the bill all provi-

‘sions delegating that legislative power to executive de-

partment bureaucrats. : : Hd HIS FEATHERED FRIENDS

permitting rural mail carriers to scatter grain for birds é when the ground is covered with snow,

And this proves that those who pictte: Mr. Farley. as

‘a politician who thinks of everything in terms of votes are wrong. Or does it? Birds don’t vote. But people who like

‘birds do. Anyway, the Postmaster General has had a kindly « thought, and we hope that it will encourage many people | this winter to do wast ie order permits the rural mail |

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creasing or decreasing the debt.

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‘By ‘Westbrook Pegler

Were Elected President? Problem Creates Big Diplomatic Headache.

EW YORK, Dec. 9.—This is not my regular day for instructing tle people on matters. of foreign policy; but the talk of

IB Would Nazis Do if La Guardia

Fiorello La Guardia for President next time

around forces my hand.

A few months ago, in a speech preliminary to his campaign for Mayor, Mr. La Guardia said Adolf Hitler was too low to rate the honor of satisfaction in/ a duel—which is about the dirtiest

crack that could have been made at a man who has kidded himself and a lot of Germans into the belief that he|is everybody's boss. And, as if that weren't enough, Mr. La Guardia added that Adolf belonged 1n a chamber of horrofs. The whole crew of professional wild men in Fermany went crazy Th ley ‘not only took socks at Mr. La Guardia, but they

dirty stuff about the whole Amer- A people. 4 Mr. Pegler These included a general de-. : : scription of Americans as a race who wear their

:hats indoors, put their feet on the tables and spit | They also threatened to take an in- | terest: in our domestic affairs which: would cause us { inconvenience, and the “effort to fulfill this threat ‘may be seen lin the establishment of Nazi military

camps 1n rural regions and anti-American bunds in the big cities, | led by agents who took out American citizenship in| order, to cover their activities with the privileges fherstor} :

2» | is mot easy to: become alarmed ‘about this activity,

because the Americans in the ‘neighborhood, far

from being seduced, got sore instead at the effrontery

| and°rudness of a group which takes liberties with our

hospitality. ou These camps and bunds preterid. to be unconnected with the Nazi) Government, but like the. Russian Com-

munists in the days’ before they realized ‘that they had

taken in too much territo; , ‘the Nazis do much funny business abroad on the 'n 450 that it will be impossible to prove up. ' They wouldu't exist if ‘the Nazi Governnient didn’t want them. ~~ Well, then, suppose the dice fell tn such a way that La Guardia became the néxt President of the U. S. A. Our head man is'then a man who called their head. man a-maniac, and they are very self-conscious about thelr Adolf’s dizzy utterances, which were crazy even to them: until they finally. decided that the really normal staté of mind is. the érazy state and that sane peaple are nuts. ia ‘ a a o “THAT will they d6 then? Wouldn't they consider it a deliberately unfriendly act on- the part of

this ‘nation to elect a President who had said their

head man belonged in a chamber of horrors? : ‘Over in England, Winston Cl.urchill wrote a maga-

zine piece a few years ago, calling Hitler a lot of

names that La Guardia, with all his languages, never

has put tongue to. That makes Churchill unavailable

for any important position even though the British should want him, because the British are trying ‘to kid the Nazis along until they can get their dander

up... In that sense the Nazis i are interfering in’ British ih

affairs. We may not want La Guardia for President for reasons of our own. But if we should want him would we have to ask some other country’s permission? :

Cushman Coyle Urges Spending Extravaganza to Assure Prosperity: . He and Secretary Wallace Prompt New Prayer, ‘Save Us From Crackpots.’,

ASHINGTON, Dec. 9.—There is a new theory of Government to be found in the works of Mr. Cushman Coyle. Da you know. Mr. Coyle? Perhaps not. He never governed anything. But he is one of the leading New Deal Governmental kibitzers. Debts to him are credits. He has a chapter on that. We should run up our national debt. That inflates credit and makes business. The debt is as nothing so far. So long as we force the banks to take it and transfer the people’s savings to pay the expenses of Government, we can turn prosperity on or off by inThus we can run the national income up to 100 billions a year—if ‘we only spend enough of what we haven’t got. With 100 billions of national income, at present tax

| rates, we can have enough revenue to balance our

budget. It wouldn't be so very importart if Mr: Coyle

pUsTuasTer GENERAL FARLEY Has issued an order’ A ER ST on vas

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R. HENRY WALLACE, who has proposed a control of agriculture which has been characterized in the U. 8. Senate as surpassing Mussolini, told us

that if we got our national income up 40 per cent,

i. e., to about 100 billions, then, and by. only then, Wwe can begin balancing the budget

cation payAccording to both him and Mr. Coyle, the undivided profits tax is sound in: principle, little business is all right, bus big business Wants to escape taxes and

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MILK PRICE-FIXING iSOUND ‘By H. S. Shepard The remarks made by Henry A. Wallace, Secretary of Agriculture, to 3500 farmers in Tomlinson ‘Hall, warning against price-fixing should reach the attention of every user of milk within the State of Indiana. He said, “When you start fixing prices you.create a monopoly. We have had experience in setting prices of milk in’ various markets. Whenever this is done, someone must say ‘who can produce and who cannot produce. I wonder if the farmers want to establish themselves as a public utility, for that is what price fixing would bring about. “Certain persons would be permitted to produce and othets who desired to enter the field would be denied the right. Price-fixing would get into serious complications that arise from monopolies. “You want to do a lot of thinking before you embark upon a program of that kind.”

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Well, the State of Indiana did embark upon a program of that kind when they passed a milk= control law, and exactly the very

4 things - happened that Secretary

Wallace has said :would happen. Only a favored group can enter the Indianapolis market. There is no conipetition. Prices are fixed and a monopoly exists. The milk

| business, as far as Indianapolis is

concerned, has become a utility Vi ‘we pay for milk with a stated cent. of butterfat. Part of the no fat is taken from the milk and sold for other purposes. This is just one of the evils of monopolies. If prices were not fixed and competition permitted, the producer very often would have the inspiration to give the consumer the highest qual=ity that his herd could prodiice. He would build trade volume, not extract t of the ‘butterfat but sell high quality, better milk than that sold at present and at as low a price as business Wansgemen) would permit. “There is plenty of ‘milk sold in small towns in this state of a higher percentage of butterfat and at a

mitted to come into this market. We have had wonderful pastures all summer and late into the fall and prices could have been much Jower. More peaple would ‘buy milk ‘and those who do buy would use a larger quantity, but this group would rather sell less’ milk at higher profit ‘and-continue the monopoly. : Isn't it time for the consu act, and until this pernicious milk control law: is repealed, buy as little milk as possible?

Mr. Shepard's letter by Leon C. Coller, milk administrator for Marion County, will appear in the Hoosier tomorr

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doesn’t step out and restore prosperity, the Government will have to “step into the breach.” He wants industry and labor to do what he pro-.

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

(Times readers are invited: to express their views in these columns, religious ¢ontroversies excluded. Make your letter short, “so dll can have a chance. Letters must be signed, but names will be withheld on request.)

WALLACE'S PROGRAM LIKENED .TO DICTATOR'S By Alden R. Vangorden, Flat Rack Secretary Wallace’s plan to regiment the farmers is meeting with the right sort of opposition in Congress. I have Iong associated Mr. Wallace with Russian ideas, similar to a dictator’s. Mr. Wallace said ‘at Indianapolis recently that for the tarmers to

succeed they would have to submit

to far greater regulation and compulsory degrees than they have ever yet dreamed of. in return he promised them richer rewards and an equalization k with other industries. Those who read will remember that this .same line was handed out to

-the: people of Gefmany, Russia, and Italy.

+ Look at them today. The people of three great nations who thought themselves downtrodden are now thoroughly shackled by compulsory laws that regulate them like serfs. The people are not alléwed to keep what they produce; their property is given to others. Heavy fines, imprisonment and even the firing

those who fail to co-operate. Why should the American farmer submit to decrees that will place him on a lower plan than orgafiized labor? Labor, joining’ with union bosses, ‘Has nothing to lose. Farm-

LOWBROW' YEARNING By R. M. L. i. Wat i this vague and’ nameless

That burns within my troubled breast And keeps 'me ‘begged on tenterhooks? * Do dreams of glory spol my_ rest,

Or lust for powet, swank, and pomp, , romance, a ~ moonlit

Not so; if you must know the truth, - I'm simply spoiling for a‘fight.

DAILY THOUGHT And nation was destroyed of « nation and city. of city: for God did vex ‘them: with all- adversity. ‘11 Chronicles. 15: 6."

UNISHMENT. is justice for the unjust Augustine.

| sheriff and his jolly contribution to squad are sometimes the fate ng i the science of criminology.

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EW YORK, Dec. 9 have held a vict

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poses for agriculture, and that i§ submit to control. Agriculture is all ready, he says, to do its part by the “ever-normal granary.” Management and labor had better come along with an ever-normal something-or-other, or Government will keep right on spending our Nay out of this mess. ‘and also “ something” about m. . The hands are the hands of "Honiy, but the voice; is the voice of Cushman. There ig as yet no “evernormal granary” in agriculture, and if there ever is one, under the cock-eyed monstrosity now before Congress, the economy of this country will be tied up in the worst mess it has. ever. known. :!

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2 x & 5 ! HE i1-considered and indefensible proposals now. before this Congress in both the Wages-and-Hours Bill and the Wallace “ever-normal” insanity

Mr. Wallace is not satisfied to ask to be PT with the entire fate of American agricultural enter-. prise, the southern half of which already he has ap-' “parently injured permanently. He insists that these. | dreamy ‘themes, untried and unproved in any economy, “be extended (Bruith to Government Baal: poliey, industry and to labor.

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of the International Setf orfes to me, for once I' At of Shanghai. Its political and eeonomic problems are | not within the scope of my r was 1011, and I was on a leavi ) the copy desk of :the New York 8

was rumbling m the north,

barricades upon the wall of it did not seem to me that | Shanghai. I have never been im a city in w was so easy to find people to sit Up all night A couple of United States M ; 0

ers, joining with Secretary Wallace's plan, have ‘everything to lose and but little to gain. The cost of the ever-normal-granary plan will backfire 80 ‘per cent on agriculture, and |» in addition the farmer; will: lose the | right to run his own business. Organized labor, fought for ‘over ‘100 years to run its own affairs. Now some of the farmers seem willing to turn theirs over for promises.

x » 8 8 - SEES LESSON IN ; “HUMAN FOX” HUNT - . By Hoosier It was a. delightful affair, that| “human fox hunt” arranged by

Sheriff John Miller ‘of Cofitra: Costa’ | -

County, Califor , for the pleasure of his friends’and thé promotion of his campaign for re-election. Prisoner Lloyd Hosington, 21, was let out of the county jail and told

to hide in the hills. Then a party |

of 95 men and 35.women, all on horgeback, set; forth : to, frack ‘him down + “Fox” > Hosington i remained in a thicket until he tired of soli-

tude, then started walking back to}. jail: He met threé members’of the |

hunting party on the road and submitted gracefully to being lassoed by Mrs. Juanita Shaw, who was mounted on a'pinto pony. The “fox” was paid $10 for-his part in the gay proceedings, and he and the hunters sai down together to a barbecue dinner, cooked by prisoners, while a cowboy band played ballads of the rarges. The big idea, according to Sheriff Miller, was to prove that a mounted posse can track a. fugitive without the aid of bloodhounds. of Contra Costa County proud indeed of their: resourceful

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NEW FOR, READER: By Edward E. Otthoft ~~ + I read that thousands of -dolirs are to be asked for thé abatement of ‘the smoke: nuisance. : Do: you think that during the DroSperous era | there was not just as much smoke or more?- Yet I never heard of this “smog” then, and now when ‘many factories are closed we have too much, smoke. Blame it on the elements: we have cold winters. ‘Business places always can hire window and huilding cleaners. It’s a wonder the City wouldn't wake up and do something, such as create a city manager.

ie a ow ANSWERS PROTEST ON DOG POUND GRANT

By Mrs. E. B. I wonder what kind of a heart your reader had who protested the fund for the dog pound. A Who ever saw a boy. who did not want t6 own a dog, and what betier companion could a child have? .I wonder if birds, too, irk those who don't want the dog pound fund?

news ‘that the, Ja de ‘through the brings pack old memsfamiliar with the City

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‘English, bu they all thought of the hands. It turned out that

DID not see a ¢ city. It smelled: to 1 tomer for fade or: study the gambling situa loose and pleasant

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By Pearson & Allen

Treasury Department Blamed or Failure to Collect Windfall Tax; Garner in Pique at Big Business.

YW ASHINGION, Dec. 9 9.—The President stirred up a hornet’s nest ‘recently

while reviewing the 1938 ‘budget when he

Aoeording to oped Br un-—

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asked Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau why his revenue estimates continued to be out of line with actual receipts.

“One reason,”. replied Morgenthau, “is the wind - fall tax. Secretary Wallace said we would get 100 mil-

~ lion dollars from this source, but , 1

so far we have got only a dribble.” . What Secretary Morgenthau ‘referred to was the ‘Unjust en- ~~ richment” or “windfall” tax passed by Congress in June, :1936, to ree cover the processing taxes turned over: to manufacturers by the a courts when the Supreme Court threw out the AAA. These returned taxes totaled 200 million dollars and so far the Treasury has collected only the PE driblet of - $7,500,000 from the | » windfall” tax. Drew Pearson ° ghortly after this conversation, . Becretary Wallace heard about it and immediately wrote to Mr. Morgenthau. “The money is thete, - =all you have to do is go after it, ‘ Why not get busy?” ‘. The job of collecting this tax belongs to Secretary Morgenthau’s Internal Revenue Bureau, and part of the blame for its failure rests ‘at the door of Morrison Shafroth, "wealthy Denver socialite, who quit ‘as the Bureau’s Chief Counsel last summer when he objected to the oo ER SNESS. Senate tax-dodging investigation. Robert Allen” Internal Revenue officials say * that Shafroth, contrary to court decrees, fuled that manufacturers could pay whole salers a portion of the recovered processing taxes. This order, they assert, vastly complicated an already complex collection Job.”

They also admit Very. frankly that the Bureau lacks

| competent personnel to deal with the problem.

3 ” £3 ®. USINESS clamor for ‘immediate revision of the capital gains’ and ‘undistributed profits taxes is making a red- hot Ney Dealer of Vice President Gara ner. Not that ne 8 a eft Winger: far from it. But the bushy-browed: Texan views big business with a deeply ingrained hostility and “when it gels. belligerent he goes on the warpath, The list of “peace concessions" proposed by Wendell L. Willkie, head of the Commonse wealth & Southern Corp., to induce utilities to spend, particularly outraged Mr. Garner, To Senate cronies ‘he ‘growled like a ariazly: : “Those fellows have got another think coming,” he rumbled. “The country is still being run from Washe ifgton, and not Wall Street. If they don’t know it, they'll soon find’ out. “The people won't stand for any Wall Street mone key-shines. And they won't stand for any surrender to. ‘big’ business-and- tricky dealing on the taxes. of course, some changes have got to be made, but they aren't ‘going - to, be. made - in a hurry and there n't going to be any funny business, either.”

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