Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 December 1937 — Page 10
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turned against anything which can be made to seem responsible for the slump. Three things, we believe, should
- and prejudices—which would re-establish public confidence . in the desirability and possibility of enabling workers to . organize through agencies of their own choosing, unham- . pered by pressure of either the boss or the Labor Board.
; of contract, sitdown, secondary, sympathetic and general
- strikes—which would re-establish public confidence in the -- responsibility of labor organizations.
he were quintuplets. : Joe is just the sort of man his country needs right wl
mission. He has been doing an equally able job untangling
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SATURDAY, DEC. 11, 1937
“THE THREAT TO LABOR N the theory that labor and the Goversment's labor policies are largely to blame for the industrial recession, the National Association of Manufacturers proposes a meat-ax operation to correct what it thinks i is wrong. It condemns the closed shop and the checkoff. It demands drastic penalties against those who take part in gitdowns and in secondary, sympathetic and general strikes. It wants to restore the use of court injunctions, Federal and state, in labor disputes. Among other steps to put its proposals into effect, it calls for a sweeping revision of the Wagner Labor Relations Act. This newspaper supported the Wagner. act when it was before Congress, and still thinks it is a good and desirable law. Time may reveal the necessity for clarification and amendment, but we are far from impressed with the "changes demanded by the National Association of Manufacturers. . The evils which have developed under the Wagner act; and which are causing nation-wide protest and criticism “even from such’ groups as the American Federation of Labor, are not in our opinion inherent in the law itself. They grow -out of the way the law has been administered— the apparent bias of the National Labor Relations Board, the resultant loss of public confidence and the conflict between the Board's policies and the actual wording of the act. : = ” ” ® » » 8 E do not favor any amendment which will “pull the teeth” of the Wagner act. But the fact of industrial recession gives a powerful weapon to.thdse who want to’ emasculate the Wagner act” and to promote restrictive legislation against labor. The pendulum is swinging. - Public sentiment is more easily
be done to turn aside the threat embodied in the program demanded by the National Association of Manufacturers: 1. The Wagner act should be placed in the hands of a nr of judicial mind, unswayed by preconceived notions
2. Labor, itself, should determine to prevent violations
8. ‘The division within labor should be heslode-which would remove the cause of jurisdictional strikes of labor against labor, with the public caught and punished between contending forces of rival union leaders.
HARRY GUYER LESLIE ’ HE untimely death last night of Harry Guyer Leslie, former Governor of Indiana, came as a shock to friends and associates. Having retired from politics, he was, at 59, in the midst of a business career as President of the Standard Life Insurance Co. From his first job driving a grocery wagon in his home town, ‘West Lafayette, and a career at Purdue University featured by athletic activity, Mr. Leslie climbed the political ladder through town and county offices to the speakership of the Indiana House of Representatives. In 1928 he gained the Republican nomination for ‘Governor and was. elected. It was his misfortune to serve as the State's Chief Executive when the reaction came from unsound political and economic conditions.
- YAN KEE AT KING GEORGE'S COURT
But Joseph P. Kennedy, he Hez plenty of jobs in Amertitee, (With apologies to James Russell Lowell.) HEN we read that Joseph Patrick Kennedy—banker, business executive, father of nine and Washington's successful Mr. Fixit—is about to be appointed ambassador to the Court of St. James, our first impulse is to wish that
here at home. He gets things done. He did a fine organizing job as chairman of the Securities and Exchange Com-
the merchant marine mess as chairman of the reorganized Maritime Commission. He is needed in several other places in a Government sadly undermanned with practical ideal ists. Still in what the British call his “fortunate forties,” he has proved himself an exceptional administrator both in " private and public business. And he has been a valuable “leaven for good feeling between industry and the New Deal -=in fact, about the only leaven. However, we wonder, what prompts this go-getting | _ Irishman from Boston to quit the strenuous life in order to balance teacups in London? Could it be that he thinks _ England needs a new deal in American ambassadorial legs? ~ His predecessors—Frank B. Kellogg, Charles G. Dawes, "Andrew W. Mellon and Robert W. Bingham-—have all been
distinguished. But not in shapely pediments. While Joe, | in addition to his other virtues, “hath a leg” that will stand . the harsh test of silken stockings and knee breeches. :
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and of course those Bowl games remain, but other-
Fair Enough
By Westbrook Pegler
Rigged Up Kitty Leads to Brawl In Rich Guy-Poor Guy Poker Game; And It Seems ; the House Takes All.
NEW YORK, Dec. 11. —There was a poker game—two rich guys and four other guys. The four other guys didn’t have any
money to speak of, but the rich guys. had |fa to deal them in because you can’t play two-
handed poker. | So the house said, “We are goltie to rejigger the kif¢y. If one of you rich guys wins a pot you have to kick back up to 80 per cent. Then we will use part of it to stake the poor guys when | they run out of chips. The rest of it we will use to pay for the sandwitches and beer and the porters
"and rent and the cops and all.”
The rich guys thought this was ’ fair enough. But after a while there came a terrible squawk when one of them took down a big pot. He reached for the pot, but the house sald. “Hold on a minute till we wi figure this out. Toontooz four and six-ten and eightums-eight sisty-four, plus 30 per cent surtax and how about that stack of . blifes I saw you stick into your side pocket? We will hive to charge you 80 per cent penalty for that evasion.” “Evasion!” the guy yelled. “What do you mean—
‘Mr. Pegler
"evasion? That side pocket is my holding company.
Get out the book. Show me where it says you can’t ~pit. your chips in your side pocket. It's a free country.” “Makes no never-mind,” the hoyse said. “We got to take care of these poor guys or you won't have no game. It will bust up in a fight, and you will be lucky you don’t lose your pants. You guys get as much sandwiches and beer any heat and light as anybody else.” “Sandwiches and beer ate all right,” the rich guy seid. “But how about all this caviar and c you are slopping around, and, the joint is overneated and the lights too bright. You -are wasting a lot of dough.” 8 ®_ 8 H, shut up,” one of the poor guys said, “or we'll dump you rich mugs down the dumbwaiter and ran some other kind of game.” One of the rich guys said to the house, “I'm a right gay. I'm all for your idea of staking these mugs out ee Lor yO dea of going, but here I risk a "hatful of chips and play my cards "right while these dopes are raising on the draw fo inside straights and kiobtailed flushes. and wher I win a pot you sre neh; there with -that big mitt.” The poor guys laughed out loud and called for a tiew deal. The rich guys got pretty sick of that term.
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UT the house began to notice that no matter how
much kitty the poor guys got they were always kroke. One poor guy dividing up all the Clough equally and another had some scheme to let the poor guys go shy and take down the amount, even if they lost. Then, in the hope of stimulating the game, the louse just abandoned the rules and began to deal a Jot of crazy games, seven-toed pete and high«low with fhe red sevens and the one-eyed jacks wild. “This ain’t poker,” one of the rich guys said. “This int even rummy Of easing or anything. Cash me in, I'm going to quit.” *
{an to count up. The house said, “If he wants to cash in he can. But when a rich guy cashes in we take Jown 60 or 80 per cent, according to how much he fae got. We call it the inheritance ax.”
hampagne -
The house reached for the rich guy's pile and be-
The Hoosier Forum
lI wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.
PROSPERITY PANACEAS PROVE PUZZLING : By Earl F. Stene My mind is puzzled as are those of others in these United States. ‘Now comes along a Republican,
. Mr. Greenwood wants the
produces. ‘public to pay a tax again for wilful
destruction of what God put on earth for Beast and man’s food and comfort. I wish our whole Con-
Stop and hin What will our dollar buy if this happens again? We will eventually come to the place where it will take a trunkfull of notes to buy a meal. Just another case where all the dollars we now have in the United States are not at the people’s disposal, to we in exchange for the necessities of life
Business Is Interdependent
These are only a few of the devilish excuses put to us to believe. What will be next? To my knowledge every business depends
on every other, every person de-| ‘pends on another just the same
as it takes every member of the body to make a complete man. The person who can convince all branches of business, the greedy hog as well as the wise, that this is a game of live and let live, will 20 down in history as one of the greatest statesman who ever lived. There would be no end to our prosperity if everyone would live un to the golden rule. “Whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them.” Have we become so corrupt as to fail, because we leave God's divine law out of the picture. ” 2 = : THEY DON'T EVEN WANT THIS KIND IN HADES By Thomas D. McGee
ne was a strike, a "revolt in e; No, it was not a sitdown strike. It was a standup, milling around affair, with plenty of alarms and excursions thrown in. The upheaval began in, and was restricted to, one of the lower circles of ne Cain’s unholy Seglen w 'S ogeny, the ‘murderers, are provi Dante is dead and even Dante if
General Hugh heer. Says—
You Double Crossing, Two-Timing, Backsliding Blatherskite Traitor! go But the Best of the Fan Mail Oratory I'll Leave to Your Imagination.| Nia
YORK, Dec. 11~When I started this columning' business, I laughed at the experienced Mr. 5. Paglers Allon 10 40m oT Hk, To% Soe oons. ence under the salutation “Dear Sir, You Cur.” Sy own Bal bas gow. 1 have been im“and | ity of language of h sfled customers. 3 have had the a asin ° a
wise football is on the season's skids and basketball reigns " tiege
Cr in Indiana sports. High school and collége competijon already has produced some hardwood thrillers,
Most experts agree elimination of the center jump has |
up ‘the game. ‘This of course, is welcome news to | oy Ls ‘The fame Jere suffered from lack of support. |
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with & pack-mule train of the Army. ing can compare with that.
The Army Chief Packer Daly, packmaster in the campaigns
best mulefrain in all the Indian
fore the Civil War, was rewarded by being made In.
structor in packing at West Point.
A Congressional “board of visitors” cafe down at stadustion and iad fo Be the final tést df the prise cadet old plainsman’s instruction began: how to throw any packhitch I have never ta belly-deep.
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alive could not do Justice to the scene. - "To quell the insurrection, Michael the . 1] with his | terrible sword was at last called in. But his nce instead of ‘quelling seemed to infuriate the mob all the more, in hell reverberated with the dreadful din. St. Peter heard it away upstairs and came down to look into matters. in vain did 4 Peter call on the mob to desist. In vain did he com-
> . \ Saxon civilization. Yet he cites Ger=~ many as the traditionally goose-
stepping nation despite the close |
original‘ affinity of Germanic and Anglo-Saxon institutions. Furthermore, the French ‘and Hispanic people, “Latins,” have always held ‘high the democratic, “individualistic” ideal. Mexico, a historic protesior against regimentation, belies the very example the general cites. In addition, one: of the largest ‘concepts of Latin law is local autonomy. In fact, this explains as much as anything the cohesion: of the ancient Roman world. It’s reflected in the contrasted colonial policies of the British and the French. And lastly, tribal Germanic and Anglo-Saxon law have never held large the concept of demiocracy. The very institution of kingship, as far as Western Europe goes, originates with them.
2 » = : NEW DEAL ‘CONSERVATIVES’
flery | SEEN GAINING INFLUENCE
They continued to shout:
“aPyt him out! We don’t Co that
kind down here!” Turning to a trusty, said: “Tell me, guard, who is it they want put out?” “Why,” said the guard, “its that late. arrival from Indianapolis, a hit-and-run driver.” 8 2 a | CRITICIZES GEN. JOHNSON ON DEMOCRACY THESIS By Would-Be Ristorian ; In a recent column Gen. Hugh Johnson. maintains the thesis that modern dictatorship is a develop-
St. Peter
‘ment from Latin law, while democ-
racy is| an outgrowth of Anglo-
CURDS AND WHEY "By DOROTHY TUCKER “This too will pass”; those were his
words. Cea He had derived them as the curds Taken from the whey ‘trouble Which. burst his world like. 2 bubble.
His quiet mien and demeanor Enabled him, an intervenor, To save nation from its own And change the feeling | ‘and the
“This too Will pass”; 1ét us today When we do feel ourselves at bay, Take consolation in that thought, It will bring peace that we have sought.
rr gba DAILY THOUGHT . And the fire upon the altar shall be burning in it; it shall not be put out, and the priest shall burn wood on it every morning, and lay the burnt offering in order upon it; and he shall burn thereon the fat of jhe peace Ofer. ~Leviti- : cus
R UAL will alway siways mean throwng came Se out corn or of our gods.—G. K. Cherie o
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By E. F. Madéox Indications are that the Old Guard Democrats have captured control of their party from the radical left-wingers, and that from now on Congress and the Suprenie Court will pursue their constitutional functions with less hindrance. New Deal strategy to centralize the executive, legislative and. judicial powers in the President has been responsible for the present stalemate in Congress, and the radicals still dominate the President.
The American’ people have more |
confidence in tHe Constitution, the Supreme Court. and Congress than in 1 man or any New Deal, or ame, ever concocted by the nt of radical planners. New Dealers must assume all responsibility for their own failures. They took the kit in their teeth, seized control of the legislative machinery and tried to capture control of the Constitution by the Supreme Court packing plan. Since then the Old Guard has been quietly wresting
control of the party from New Deal |
radicals. So from now on “must” legislation which rolled. out of the New Deal mill in a constart stream will not be stampeded through Congress at such high political pressure, gress has at last realized that some of the laws passed to bring security and recovery have produced just the opposite results. And the New Deal idea of centralizing all the powers of Government in the Presie dent has raised the dictator scare and also tended to pit the blame on Mr. Roosevelt for all New Deal failures. He is largely responsible, but the real culprits are the theorists and planners who concocted the schemes and ts and wrote the laws to put them into effect. Mr.
| Roosevelt got his -advice and plans hangs
from the wrong crowd. If he onto that crowd he must take the full responsibility for whatever comes. He has one more chance to ditch the radicals. .
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MerryGoRound:
By Pearson & Allen
_ Hand-shaking as Done by Roosevelt Becomes Both an Art and Science; He Clicks 'Em Off 1100 an Hour.
VV ASHINGTON, Dec. 11.—The President has his hand-shaking down to a science. At a White House reception, he can step up to the head of a receiving line at 9 o’clock, ask an aid, “How many have we got this evening?” and figure out just when his task
will be finished. He figures on the basis of 1100 an hour, allowing for Test: periods. He can go into action at 9,’ shake hands for three shifts of 15 min‘utes ‘each, with {wo breathing spells of four or five minutes each, _ and be through at 10, or. shortly after. The Roosevelt receptions range in’ size from 900 to 1100—much smaller than the Hoover receptions of 3000. ; . Aids keep the line moving with the precision of an assembly line in an auto plant. Guests approaching in couples are instruct . ed to form a single column, with “the gentleman first, please.” Aid No.2 says, “Name, please?”, then pronounces the name to the President, and if the guest is inclined to linger, the aid gives him a gentle tug at the arm. The President says, “How do you do?” or “Good evening,” as he shakes hands, but does not repeat . the name of the guest unless he is a personal acquaintance, Then he passes the guest's hand along to Mrs. Roosevelt, on his right, and she gives a clasp scarcely less hearty than her husRobert Allen ands rogress of the line i p 0 e e is somewhat less rapid with the diplomatic reception, for the foreign Signitaties can-
not” be hustled. :
. Drew Pearson
# » s If you are a youth looking for a career with a future, Aubrey Williams, head of the National Youth Administration, is your man. Through Rjs support of a project conceived by Illinois State Director William J. Campbell, the Youth Administration is building up one of the -most comprehensive snd thorough libraries of occupational guides ever compiled in the United States. In mimeo- - graphed form these reports are ‘available to anyone
who wants them. - The reports are. hard-boiled, factual arialyses of
the history, present and future prospects of a wide variety of occupations. In plain, unadorned language they ‘answer every question an: inquirer js: apt: w ask regarding a particular vocation. > oe 2x 2 jo “7 least one newly installed tenant of Resettlement’s suburban housing project of Greanbelt,
Md., is dissatisfied. When the first families moved in, they. were inet by a small army of photographers. In one’ picture, the cameramen grouped little Eddie: Ashley, aged 4, and little Lavon Bordenet, aged - 2, Tor he first
Greenbelt roman “Talk to her, Eddie,” the newsreel photographers kept shouting. “Ask her how she likes it out here.” Eddie complied, asking the ‘question of the 2-year old half a dozen times. Final the situation became too much for him and he shouted at ihe phoogsagher:
“Her says ‘no’. L =
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Even If They Don't Applaud Jressh They Ought ts to Hear Labor! s Con
| YORK, Dec. 11~The notion that all Amer- | business leaders are very dumb is grossly But the idea has gained some cufrrency. | * One, two of three businessmen may sit arcund a tone, talk common sense. Yet when they meet tions almost invariably they revert to undergays and go into a kind of football rally. facing their problems they listen to pep ~ pass swinging resolutions molded out of fulfillment. moment large scale industry is vitally. concerned with labor problems. It would seem sensible | -the assembled members of the National Assosn of Manufacturers to wile a speaks speaker re {apalle