Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 December 1937 — Page 16
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FRIDAY, DEC. 10, 1937
MILE-OF-DIMES OPENS DES started lining the sidewalk today to aid The Times 47 (Clothe-A-Child fund. This annual Mile-of-Dimes event opened. this morning on Washington St. in front of L. S. "Ayres & Co. and Kresge’s. This charifable enterprise has been supported enthusiastically in the past. Each year about $3000 in dimes is contributed to help clothe needy children. With the arrival of severe cold weather, the need now is great. Attendants will be at the line day and’ ‘night to make change. On Christmas eve the coins in the 100-foot lines will be scooped up and added to the Clothe-A-Child fund. This sidewalk*Santa offers a chance for all, regardless of income, to contribute. It requires no card signing, no payment plan, no large donation, and little sacrifice. And yet you can watch the combined gifts of many lengthen into dollars. . You'will enjoy Christmas more if you help make it a happy event for needy children.
180 MILLION MILES WITH NO ACCIDENTS THE impressive safety parade in downtown Indianapolis last night gave truck drivers recognition they have signally earned in Indiana. The parade, aided by City, County and State Police and other organizations, marked the opening of the Indiana Motor Traffic Association’s annual conference, stressing accident-reduction. For the third consecutive year, the Hoosier association
has won the American Trucking Association award for con-
ducting the best safety campaign in the United States. More than 2000 truck drivers enrolled in the Indiana cam‘paign rolled up a total of 180 million miles without an accident in the three-year period to win permanent possession ‘of the trophy. .There can be no losers in such a contest. Everybody wins. The trucking industry is one of the leaders in recognizing that safety pays dividends in lower insurance and maintenance costs, as well as in good will and in saving lives. ;
‘THE EXCUSE
JERSEY CITY, N. J.—Organizers for the C. IL: O. are arrested and sleported from the city when they hold a meeting and distribute union literature. ST, MARY'S, Pa.—A newspaper editor is required by the National Labor Relations Board to tell how and why an article unfavorable to the C. 1. O. was obtained, printed and circulated.
WO violations of civil liberties—one against C. 1. O. | organizers, one against a C. 1. O. opponent, but with thid in common, that each was committed by an agency of
: ‘government inthe name of law enforcement.
Invasions ‘of the liberties guaranteed by the Bill of Rights are not a new thing in our history. ~The Federalist party rode to its death on the notorious Sedition Law, designed to crush the opposition by making it a crime to criticize the Government. For two years it conducted a reign of terror. During ‘Reconstruction days civil liberties were $0 flagrantly violated in the South that even northern senti‘ment ultimately rebelled. ‘During prohibition the rights of individuals were shamelessly violated, in the name of enforcement, and that created much of the public reaction which brought repeal. Law enforcement is always the excuse, under the old
A argument that the end justifies the means. It was the
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| - other case against an opponent of the union. = against others it can be used against us.
excuse pleaded by the Federalists, by the carpetbaggers, by the prohibitionists. It is the excuse given now by the Labor Board and by mayors who want to prevent distribution of union literature. Every use of this excuse for violating the civil liberties -of individuals should be challenged sharply. That is true whether the excuse is used by a Federal
bureau, or by a governor, or by a mayor, or by any other |
- agent of government. It can be used in one case against a union and in anIf it is used
OUT OF THE DEPTHS gjNIo the White House and the offices of Unemployment Census Administrator John D. Biggers are pouring thou“sands of letters from jobless Americans pleading ‘for work “out of the depths of their want, agony and hope deferred. “These “short and simple annals of the poor,” often misspelled and illegible as they are, surpass in eloquence any“thing President Roosevelt ever has said about the one-third “who ‘are “Sli-fed, ill-housed, ill-clothed.” They are more “moving than all the statistics Mr. Biggers will gather. Culled by reporter Al Friendly of the Washington News, these appeals pose Amerjga’s greatest and. most heartbreaking problem, a problem we have hardly begun - to solve. Listen— ¢
- “Dear Father of Our Country: 1 am going to ask you
"a favor. ‘I am only 16 and the mother of a son and I would - yery much’ like to earn my own living and bring ‘up my baby with my own sweat.” : From a woman whose husband was 1aid off by WPA * with a hurt shoulder: “We are expecting the stork. Febru- * ary or March. ‘We are almost helpless.” 14 ; A woman tells the President: “I am writing you. per_sonally for work. If I could have had work two months ago * my darling baby would never have been taken from me. It . preaks my soul to be away from her...” © A daughter pleads for “my dad,” two girls for their - sweethearts, an alien for a square deal, a 57-year-old elec- * trician for a chance against the machine, and so on and on ~ through an almost endless. tale that must make the angels “weep. = = Here is a priceless folio, Femninding us of the great
f urgency of our ‘duty. And it discloses that with all ‘their
desperate need the depression’s victims are not embittered. °° These hapless Americans know that their cause is not Efriendless in Washington. To justify their faith, the New
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Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler
Colleges’ Pleas to Escape U. S. Tax On Grid Tickets Smacks of Racket; Writer Cites Abuses of Immunity.
NEW YORK; Dec. 10.—I understand that four state universities—Iowa, Minne- }
sota, West Virginia and Georgia—deny the right of the Federal Government to collect the amusement tax on their football tickets
and are suing for the refund of $119,000, claiming that because they are state institutions their
football: teams are agencies of ‘their respective state .
government. This is a new one.
ness is a\branch of the amusement business, as is the baseball business, Which does pay taxes, or the movie business or the prize fight business. Everything about it, from the recruiting of replacements to the sale of tickets is conducted in a professional manner.” ‘:: The football revenue already is exempt from the income tax. As educational institutions the colleges all are excused from kicking in with a legitimate share of their profits on the strength of a Supreme Court ruling of a few years ago, which holds that no matter how much income is made it is tax-exempt if it belongs to a religious, charitable or educational institution. One religious institution was given immunity from the income tax on a commercial business in chocolate. The ‘precedent is such that anyone may organize a religion, take out articles of incorporation, open a church house in an office or ex-grocery and then start an automobile factory or a department stoge as a side-line, the profits of which would be fré€ of income tax. Many institutions which enjoy this exemption operate a eommercial business in competition with private dealers.
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QTATE universities with profitable football teams are doubly exempt from the income tax on their gate receipts—first under their classification as educational institutions, and again as agencies of their respective state governments. A coach getting $15,-
The football busi-
Mr. Pegler
000 a year (incidentally, few of them do get that |
much, buf it is a nice figure for purposes of illustration) may also claim that he is an agent of the state government and beg to be excused. That same section of the Revenue Act exempts labor organizations, and that goes for organizations which themselves collect an income tax on the earnings of members who were exempted from the Federal tax, because the Government didn’t have the heart to take anything from people in brackets that low. It goes for some labor organizations which conspire among themselves to keep men out of certain lines of work by prohibitive initiation fees.
Pe (=METERY chifiaiies Which. claim that they 3 are not operated for profit also are exempt. But go shopping for an eight-by-four patch of earth and then wonder: ‘how come such prices if there isvno
profit. Foot frontage on the best street in town often °
comes No higher than socially exclusive sites in a place where all men are supposed to be equal. Joel. Sayre had a good idea in his travesty on football and the underworld rackets. In his daffy little aberration a lot of hoodlums bought an old brewery, started a college and went into the football business. But Sayre didn’t know they could have started a theater, a chain-store system, a- hotel, a factory and a fight club-all under the income tax immunity of Bn educational institution. :
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1 wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say, it. —Voltaire.
MILK ADMINISTRATOR EXPLAINS STATE LAW
By Leon Coller Min Administrator fo "Marion ¢ County Area sale mt
~ Yesterday's article by H. 8. Shep-
‘ard refers to certain statements ac-
credited to Secretary Wallace re-
garding the dangers of price-fixing. |
Undoubtedly Secretary Wallace re-
ferred to the fixing of consumer}
prices, and we agree that this practice is dangerous and borders on public utility control. This type of control has no place in the milk
industry because it cannot control
the source of supply. Cows produce varying amounts of milk throughout ‘the year. Public utility control would necessitate such control disposing of all surplus milk that was not needed for fluid milk markets. This is practically impossible. This surplus is sold in competition with he butter and condensed milk pros ucing areas; which in turn are}
governed by prices at which foreign |
importations can be sold. Prices for payments to farmers can only be fixed to the extent that all farmers producing the same grade of milk will be paid the same price. This price must be high enough to bring into fluid milk markets just enough milk to mect the needs. If the price is too high, more milk will come in than is needed for fluid purposes. The surplus would have to be sold at low prices, resulting in ultimate lower prices to the farmer. Higher Prices May Mean Surplus Futhermore, higher prices at the farm mean higher consumer prices, less consumption of fluid milk, and even greater surplus. On the other hand, too low prices for milk at the farm would result in a deficiency in the milk supply and depreciating quality. Consumer prices are set under the Indiana Milk Control Act only as minimum prices. And then only in such cases where it is temporarily necessary in order to stabilize markets and protect a paying price to farmers that will insure a sufficient supply of the proper quality of milk. Fluid milk is always in competition with other food products. The most impartant competitor is evaporated milk and canned cream. If the re-
tail price .of bottle milk and cream’
gets too far out of line with competitive food products, sales decline. Under the Indiana Milk Control ‘Law there can be no permanent
price fixing. The law. of supply and
démand still prevails.
‘The Indiana Milk Control Act in-|-
sures the consumer a supply of the correct -quality of milk, and protects|
against the possibility of consumers. * | receiving 3.5 per cent butterfat con-
tent when they pay for 4 per cent. Prices at the farm for milk: are based on 4 per cent milk. Therefore,
apolis area are gauged on 4 per ce milk. It is hard te believe any sumer could expect to secure 5 per
bottle milk ‘prices in the er cof
cent milk at the farmers’. expense;
General Hugh Johnson Says—
* West Point's Adoption of: Three-Year Football Rule Is Not Justif ed; | Stiff Curriculum and Lack of Professionalism Warranted Old System. la :
ASHINGTON, Dec. 10—From the beginnings ofWest Point, any boy who could get by the stiff exams could play football, or any other game if he was good enough. He could play the full four years if he could stick them out.. He could play regardless ‘of the fact that he had played at another college before he came to West Point, When other: colleges adopted a rule permitting no men to play more’ than three Years in intercollegiate competition, West Point stuck to her ancient tradition although she did follow the flock in prohibiting a plebe from playing on" ‘the varsity team. . “She came in for a storm of criticism. Navy changed her rules and because Army didn’t, Navy canceled a contract, Army stood pat and Navy finally relented. ‘Both. the three-year rule and the freshman rule hau a reason. It was to prevent professionalism and football proselyting that attend the migration of footbail adepts from soft berths in one college to another. te ®.8 #1: EST POINT is no soft. berth. The entrance V exams are rigid. “Beast Barracks” is a two months’ period of modified torturé—mental and physJcal—ingeniously devised over 136 years by the cadets themselves. Not as a college —~—{0 gio sass fresh.
men—but to shuck out nonmilitary materia : The two
reason for the three-year rule has little application to
this situation.
‘to have the prices they may receive
(Times readers are dnvited to express their views in “theses columns, religious controversies excluded. Make your letter short, so all can have a chance. Letters must be signed, but names will be withheld on request.) .
without paying for that extra but-
terfat, which costs the farmer at|.
least 35 cents a pound to supply. Feed Costs High
Mr. Shepard states that pastures have been wonderful this past summer and fall. This is true, but wonderful pastures supply milk only} a very short time and produce anf extra supply at a time when it is not ‘needed. Cows. must be fed: to .be satisfactory sources of supply “for fluid milk mar which are iy uniform from month to month. Feed costs, until very recently, have heen the highest in 12 years, and are still comparatively high. In fact, this is so true that difficulty has been experienced within the’ last 30 days. in’ supplying the consumer needs. There is the complaint that only’ a favored group of producers or farmers can enter the Indianapolis! market. This is true; and the favored group are those who by experience and farm equipment are able to produce milk of a quality satisfactory for bottle purposes. These farmers, who are thus equipped by experience and the expenditure of real dollars, have a protected market. It ig hardly fair to these farmers
anc their investment jeopardized through the admission of large volumes of milk produced by others-
CHRISTMAS MORN By MARY P. DENNY
A ray of light, -Joy. and good will; A glory tone O’er plain and hill; A line of peace . From. zone to zone; Joys that increase; Dawn evermore; Light in its flight From Heaven's height. .
DAILY THOUGHT And his mouth was opehed immediately, and his tongue loosed, and he Spake, and” praised’ God. - —Luke 1:64
MIRACLE I tak I take to be a sensible operation, which being above - the comprehension of the spectator, and in his opinion contrary ‘to the established course: of nature, is taken by him to 18 di-vine.-+-Locke.
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ets, the needs of |
‘who, are not so equipped. The other farmers still have # market for their product through the channels they have always had, namely, condenseries, butter plants, and ¢ream stations. | "Milk Prices Compared From both the consumer and producer standpoint, ‘the Indiana Milk Control Act may not be perfect; but it comes closer to protecting both than any program discovered Lin 48 states... The proof of this Ties in the facet that the Indianapolis consumer prices are lower than other metro-
politan centers, such as Cincinnati, Louisville, Chicago, Detroit, Columbus, Ohio; and St. Louis, Mo. It is also true’ that farmers in the In‘dianapolis area are receiving more,
[in” Yelation. to sales, for their milk
‘than those supplying the areas. of these other cities. Most of this added ‘arm revenue finds its way, back into Indianapolis. Increased: farmer-purchasing-power spells increased city employment. The problem in'small towns re-. ferred to‘hy Mr. Shepard is much different. | An adequate milk supply is; usually located within a few miles of such towns, and it can be distributed directly by the farmer. The lowered cost of distribution because of location, added to .the lowered cost due to fewer requirements of health authorities, lowered bottle costs, taxes and labor, all
contribute to make it possible for milk to be distributed in small cen- | ters cheaper than in metropolitan centers where milk is brought in'
from thotisands of farmers located from 40 to 60 miles from the mar-
tet. ” n 4
VISITOR FINDS PEDESTRIANS HAVE HARD TIME HERE |By C. A. EK. Will yeu advise me if your traffic policemen work on a percentage basis with the local undertakers? I have been in town a few days and I am: greatly impressed by the solicitous: ‘regard “your traffic cops who operate the hand signals have
* ‘| for the trucks, ‘busses; autos and!’
taxis. Evidently a mere pedestrian has no right to be alive, or to cross the street: without taking his life in his hands. I have” had occasions to cross street intérsections dozens of times
Tat at least 10 different corners and
‘never once has a traffic cop seen i{‘a poor pedestrian. All I've seen them do is to throw their sign from one position to another, just as fast as traffic cleared. I am g salesman, traveling from coast to coast, and never have 'I seen such absolute blindness toa pedestrian at street crossings. Has
Merry- Co Round
By Pearson & Allen
Growing Japanese Threat in China Spurred F. D. R.'s Return From South; Hague Seeks C. I. O. Compromise.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 10. —-Inner White House advisers admit there was a lot more to Mr. Roosevelt’s sudden return from Gulf waters to Washington than a sore jaw. Disconcerting reports were sent to him in Florida regarding the situation in the Far East. They gave confidential details of increasing Japanese high-handedness and penetration into southern China. But the principal réason for Mr.
Roosevelt’s worry is that it lobks as if Chiang Kai-shek 'is collapsing. If he folds up, there is the historical fear that China will sell out to Japan. Simultaneously in London, French and British diplomats have come near a plan of joint action in - the Fary Esst.. The British finally have agreed to send additional ships to Far Eastern waters, while the French already have sent six fast cruisers and have proms ised to send 20 submarines. , The importance of this can be realized only if contrasted with last summer’s conversatio - tween the British and Mr. Hull +. In August the Secretary of State did everything in his power to persuade the British to send a squadron to Singapore. He argued that this, together with the dispatch of the United States fleet to Hawaii, would bz sufficient to stop the Japanese. The Japanese would immediately back-track. Naval strategists agreed with. Mr. Hull. However, the British would not i ‘budge. They said the menace of Robert Allen Mussolini in the Mediterranean was too great. Present change of policy results from three things: 1. British rearmament, especially along naval lines, has made progress. 2, The British and French, united by a siroriper agreement; feel there is a better chance for security in Europe. This will permit them to transfer ships from European waters.
3. Important British interests in Shanghai and along the Yangtze have been seized by the Japanese "or seriously jeopardized. The British now have reached the conclusion that Nippon plans to squeeze out all other foreigners.
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\EERE have been indications that Mayor Frank Hague of Jersey City, Democratic boss of northern New Jersey, is ready to call quits in his fight against the C. I. O. Mayor Hague has been throwing organizers off the ferries and subways, sending them to Manhattan, even though some were permanent residents of Jersey City. : Incensed, the C. I. O. hired Morris Ernst, crusading New York attorney and close friend of the Roosevelt Adininistration, to challenge Mayor Hague in the courts. Then several Democratic politicians from New Jersey suggested Mayor Hague was ready to compromise. What sticks in Mayor Hague’s craw is an impending probe of his tactics by the La Follette Civil Liberties Committee. Also, he has been nursing ambitions to become a United States Senator. A vacancy ow exists. But should he run, labor votes would not be
Drew Pearson
‘a, Dedestrian absolutely no right at all?
Self-Interviewing on One’
enthusiastic.
Asserding to’ Heywood Broun—
s Birthday Interferes With Celebration;
. Let's Have Another Punch and I'll Tell You How | Made My Big Success.
Corn, Dec. 10. — “How ad you pass. your birthday?” asked; 8 representative of the
and | adopted the rere rule—with grim- . | about. the reason. If its stand was right before, why
But there is a stronger reason against it. A cadetship is not a scholarship. It’s a job—a grade in the Army supported by pay and allowances. The system, of advancement is ‘as fiercely competitive as any. Every step in an Army career to the day of retirement —40 years away—depends on what a kid does at the academy. Therefore, it has become a sort of religion that from the minute a “beast” sheds his “cits” and puts on a “plebe-skin” he is. on a basis of rigid. equality. with neither favor nor prejudice. tir ® 8 =» x pereicat accomplishment has a distinct y siting’ competition for class standing. It seenis no more justifiable to handicap a boy because he has had football experience than it would be if he had prepared by taking the whole academic course. It is a shame to break down that equality.’
It gives some advantage. I think it is more than offset by other iron-bound Army rigidities—~no profes-
sional coach, no light duties to give time for practice, |
and a curriculum during the season so stiff that the wonder is that any player can stand it. . Now, Army has a oned its 5 3and. and and -
nt EN Teg I think the . is - pediency a e expense of DP
of Hunting him I held out ane Baud 19 indiosts
press. “Well,” I told him, “it Hobs at breakfast with a
Hunting Ridge milk punch, “Naturally ‘you will want the recipe. Take three
‘parts ‘brandy; two parts Scotch, one pait Italian red
wine, add gin for taste and then half an egg ahd a
‘heaping teaspoon of milk. Shake and repeat. If you “want to you can put a little nutmeg on top.
“Of course, in the old days the whole thing was topped off with-a tumbler of absinthe, but I began leaving that out on my 45th birthday when I adopted
| the glogan ‘Moderation in all things.’ ”™
“And you have held to this reform for 20 years?” he wanted to know. “How old do you think IT am?” He smiled in an ingratiating way and replied, “Really, you don’t look
it. If you don’t mind compliments I would say you
don’t seem a day over B89. Eying him with a certain severity. 1 answered,
- in the year of the great blizzard—1888.” - There remains the fairness of this to other colleges. “I was born y he gr
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fingers, and I rade :an estimate.
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4 festivities, and so I took away "wrote the rest of the interview myself.
| ute it?” I answered, “To will power and to my wife in equal portions.” © “How about adding a little nutmeg?” suggested the reporter, '‘who was now geiting into the spirit of the . is pad and pencil and
“I'm glad ‘you asked me that. Eow do I influence friends and win people? It must be a gift, because I have never given:it a thought. You tell me that your city editor thinks that any autobiographical material would be of inténse in to your readers, You are indeed fortunate in having so intelligent a city editor. = 8
E were speaking of wil TOWEL. I didn’t alias have it. As a boy I was far from robust. In school and college IT was frail. This went on for years. Although an accomplished linguist, I could not say ‘No’ in any language. “Finally connie asked me one day, ‘Do you intend to be & loafer all your life?” At first I thought it was some kind of trick question. While I was mulling it over and trying to think up the answer she broke in LE said, I 1 Jou answer “Yes” I'm going to thisfnp nt
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