Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 December 1937 — Page 12

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WEDNESDAY, DEC. 29, 1937

SECURITY SPREADS I» asking Congress for only six “noncontroversial’ amendments to the Social Security Act, President Roosevelt

avoids opening a box of wrangles over a subject that few

politicians are equipped to discuss intelligently. - The proposed amendments have to do with administration, except that they would broaden old-age benefits to cover about 1,300,000 wage and salary workers not now embraced in the act--some 100,000 seamen, 200,000 employees of national and Federal Reserve banks, and about 1,000,000 men and women past 60 who ‘would be permitted to continue accumulating reserve through 1941 instead of taking small lump-sum payments as now. + =~ Many changes eventually must be made in this Federal act. For instance, its old-age benefits some day should cover the 27 millions of farm hands, house servants, casuals and other exempted groups, as well as the 35 millions now covered. Retirement payments, are too small, especially during aa ually years the reserve fund is accumulating. Labor is urging that provisions be added to give protection against the hazards of ill-health. We should reconsider the sale of low-cost Government annuity insurance for the selfemployed and others of the middle class. However, in changing this system we should make haste slowly. It is only two years old. The perfectionists, would do well to be patient lest in their zeal they break down the vehicle. In the meantime there is comfort in the fact ‘that America is gradually changing its approach from one based on need tests and doles to the thrift ideal of earned security.

BRAINS AND GLANDS

ROBLEMS of abnormal human behavior are among the most serious and pressing facing the nation today.

More hospital beds are devoted to the care of .the mentally

ill than to that of the physically ill. Insanity costs the nation millions of dollars. Another great source of loss, both human and economic, is juvenile delinquency. It is good news, therefore, that science can offer new - approaches to these problems. Speaking today before the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Dr. Halowell Davis, Harvard expert on brain waves, described new experiments which indicate that certain types of insanity may be due to a part of the brain falling asleep. He finds that the brain wave rhythms of ‘certain insanities

resemble those of the half-awake period when a person

is just drifting off to sleep. : - It seems reasonable to Believe that this discovery may constitute a new and fruitful approach to the problems of insanity. i At yesterday’s meeting of the Association, Dr. Louis A. Lurie of Cincinnati pointed out the connection between juvenile delinquency and glandular disorders. Thyroid and pituitary deficiencies often are to blame and proper medication under expert medical care restores dull, restless and destructive children to normal infellectual and emotional states. g. Modern medical science is demonstrating increasingly that human behavior is controlled by the nervous system and the ductless glands. As brain wave studies and biochemical researches increase our knowledge of these two subjects there is increasing hope for the future health and happiness of mankind.

THE LABOR SPY ; THE report of the La Follette Senate Civil Liberties Com- ; mittee indicating widespread use of labor spies by employers is humiliating to a nation that by this time should have attained adulthood in its management-labor relationships. : < That 2500 firms have spent upwards of ten million dollars in the last three years employing men to spy on their own workers is not only silly. It is downright dangerous, for it tends to destroy those very things that employers ave preaching about to labor—responsibility, honor, co-opera-tion. : The use of labor spies stimulates class psychology and foments radicalism. It vitiates morale by creating an air of suspicion and insecurity about the plant. It corrupts union leadership. ‘The Pinkerton detective firm, says the La Follette report, employed 100 union officials, many of them higher-ups in their organizations. ; And it kindles disorder, not only indirectly but directly. “In the councils of the union,” says the report, “the spy often assumes the role of agent provocateur. He incites to violence, preaches strikes, inflames the hot-headed and leads the union to disaster. Spies attempt to call abortive and premature strikes which will result in crushing " the union before it has grown to any strength.” Unionism is here to stay. The next need is to help labor build up responsible and statesmanlike leadership. The spying habit does just the opposite. : The La Follette Committee says it is preparing appropriate legislation to stamp out labor spying. It is difficult

to see how more laws can cure this evil thing. But employers can cure it overnight by simply refusing to stoop to

such folly. That should be one of their New Year's resolutions. = : :

TO THE VICTOR THE SPOILS anid JAPAN, Her spokesmen bewail in voices moist with tears, "is very much niisunderstood. She is not out for conquest. No, indeed. All she wants is the love and affection of China. She wants China to be her trusted friend. . That is what the Japanese are saying. What they are doing is a horse of another color. .

If the democracies, plus Soviet Russia, were of a mind

$0 do it, they could compel Japan and the other gangster tions to pull in their horns. But they are not of a mind. Until that time com: 8 the law of the jungle ‘will re-

main the supreme law of the tional community. To

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-changes all the rules and makes a

Fair Enough

By Westbrook Pegler

“Columnist Echoes Sigh of Relief Over Panay Incident Settlement; But Why Was the Ship Over There?

"NEW YORK, Dec. 20.—A lot of us have

been talking about the weather since the Japanese sank the Panay in recognition of the fact that the President has stood up to one of the most reckless governments in

the world and said, in not much different words, “One more move out of you and somebody is going to the hospital.” Everybody was reaching for a chair leg or a half-brick just in case, and everybody

will be relieved now to see that he has made the Japanese back away. - The President's Chicago speech about the dictators and the idea of a quarantine around the crazy countries was a different matter. In that case he was just sounding off. His remarks didn’t commit the nation, and he soon discovered that he had ‘overspoken himself, for public opinion didn’t go along with him. ; : But when the President puts a direct ehallenge in writing the sit- Soe uation becomes grim, and in his affair with the Japanese he was 50 Mr. Pegler dead right and the Japanese were so dead wrong that it would have been a serious disservice to give the Japanese ambassador any ground for reporting back to Tokyo that\he was speaking only for himself, or at least for a country which wouldn't back him up.

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B% now that that is over, how about examining the conditions which led to the trouble? How come we 0 have a naval station and warships and soldiers and marines in a country which is supposed to be a competent nation and friendly to us? Would we permit the British and Germans, the Japanese, Italians and Chinese to divide up New York into little outposts of their respective nations, each with a garrison, and to keep naval vessels in the Hudson River to protect their interests? And if we did, wouldn't that be an admission that we weren't sovereign in our own country? :

It isn’t nice of Japan to steal other countries, but that is what she is doing, and we know it, and when we read of a land whose people for centuries have been unable to raise enough food to avert periodic famines and whose government is considered band-

ay 3 we have to recognize the temptation to the Jap-

Pin has allowed her franchise to lapse, and the Japanese obviously think that once they get beyond the war phase and move in they will be able to establish government and exploit the people in the same way that the British exploit their colonial subJects. There need be no nonsense about any intention on their part to improve the condition of the Chinese for the sake of the Chinese, but any government at all would be an improvement on the chaos which we read about as characteristic of China. :

Meanwhile, the Japanese are going right ahead with the intention, once they have consolidated their position, of having their Chinese Charlie McCarthy advise us that a stable, able and responsible Chinese Government now exists, and will we be good enough to

| get out of their country with our warships, soldiers

and merines unless we want to back them u with the full military strength of the U. 8. A. »

" : o ® a : : The Hoosier Forum I wholly disagree with what you say, but will . defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

SAYS DEMOCRATS PUT SELVES IN HOLE By E. A. E.

A Republican member of Congress, Rep. Bacon of New York, has introduced a bill to carry out one of President Roosevelt’s proposals—the

aid highway appropriations in the interest of economy.

That seems unusual until you remember that, although the Presidential message making this proposal was sent to Congress weeks ago, the Democratic leadership has done nothing about it. Democrats on the House Roads Committee refused to act on it. And failure to act before the special session adjourned means that the economy which the President says is necessary cannot become effective next year. pit , -. As Mr. Bacon says, rejection of his bill would be a signal to the country that the Democrats in Congress repudiate the President in his demand for economy, and that the President himself is without power to enforce the balanced budget he has so often promised. In short, Mr. Bacon has put the Democrats in a hole. And it should be added that the Democrats dug the hole. 3 : # 8 # RECESSION BLAMED ON LABOR UNCERTAINTY By E. L. ; John L. Lewis, addressing the Pittsburgh convention ot the Steel: Workers’ Organizing Committee, denounced the Roosevelt Administration for “doing nothing” about the threat of another depression. The Administration, which has done more than any other to pro- . motq labor’s right to organize, might

doing about the threat of another depression?” Uncertainty over the labor situation—and particularly over the bitter jurisdictional war between John L. Lewis’ C. I. O. and’ William Green's A. PF. of L.—is one of the important factors contributing to the recession. Settlement of that war would make the country feel better and safer. Anything that tends to obstruct settlement tends to make recession worse. ; : Blame Each Other Yet Mr. Lewis, at Pittsburgh, sneered at Mr. Green; “His stomach is just like his mind--a little weak.”

Philip Murray, called Mr. Green “a

was, from Mr. Lewis, much warlike talk indicating that so far as he is concerned, peace with the A. P'. of L. is out. Stein ; If the labor pedce negotiations

one urging a reduction of Federal- |

| records compiled in the

well ask Mr. Lewis: “What are you | .

Mr. Lewis’ chief lieutenant in steel, |

blithering blatherskite.” And there| - together, and edify one another,

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determine which side is most to blame. But this much 1s certain: Men. confident of their own rightness do not usually find it necessary to abuse their opponents. Men genuinely concerned about a bad situation, and sincerely eager to make it, better, do not usually talk as Mr, Lewis talked at Pittsburgh. As a critic of the Administration, it seems to me Mr. Lewis might be ‘very much: more effective if he would control his temper and his tongue — if he would do more to make labor peace possible, or at least do less to make it impossible.

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GIVES DATA ON1937 LYNCHINGS

{By F. D. Patterson, President Tuskegee

Normal and Industria: Institute, Alabama

I send you the following information concerning lynchings for the year 1937. I find, according to the Department of Records and Research of the Tuskegee Institute, that there were eight persons lynched in 1937. This is the same number as for 1936;

COMPENSATION By R. M. L.

A poet said, “Tis folly to be wise.” Indeed it must be 80, to my surprise, For words of sages, who shoul really know 3 In literary syllogism show That knowledge actually is lunacy And wisdom a state of idiocy. “All knowledge faith is,” Santayana wrote; - Sow From Russian Leo Tolstoi let me quote— ago v That “faith is just 'a kind of lunacy.” Ergo, all knowledge equals idiocy, Unless Aristotelian logic’s wrong; Thus wise men to the class of loons belong. ; So though it really hurts my ‘ego some, Perhups its just as well that I am dumb.

DAILY THOUGHT Wherefore comfort yourselves:

even as also

ye do.—I Thessaloni« ans 5:11. . ;

break down it may be difficult to

MSE. of our comforis grow up AVA between our crosses—Young.

12 less than the number 20 for 1935; and seven less than the numbsr 15 for 1934. All of the persons lynched were in the hands of the law; three were taken from jails, and five from officers of the law outside. of jails. Two of the victims were tortured with a blow torch: then one was shot to death and the other was burned to death. ; . There were 56 instances in which officers of the law prevented lynchings. Five of these were in Morthern states and 51:in Southern states. In 51 of the instances the prisoners were removed or the guards augmented: or other precautions taken. In the five other instances, armed force was used to repel the would-be lynchers, A total of 77 perscris, five white men and 172 Negroes, two

{from death at the hands of niobs. Of the eight persons lynched, all were Negroes. . The offenses :harged were rape, one; crime against nature and robbery, one; murder, four; wounding officer of the law, two. The states in which lynchings occurred and the number in each state are as follows: Alabama, ore; Florida, three; Georgia, one; Niississippi, two; Tennessee, one. : 2 ” » . "LIKENS CAPITAL, LABOF; TOsPAIR OF BULLDOGS By William Lemon

When capital and labor tere ill, they accepted the advice arc financial assistance of Dr. Rootevelt. Then when they reached the convalescent stage still staggering, they cried hands off, we can meke it, we are on our own. ; Like two strange bulldog; chained to old egotistic ideas, thay still want to fight it out with)it Government interference. : Then Green and Lewis started labor's family row, paid fo: by cap-ital-a “great old world.” r 8 ” 2 SUGGESTS DRIVER'S PHOTO MIGHT ADORN TITLE CARRIER

By Morris R. Jervis, Marion When I got:my automobils license I also contributed 25 cert: to the

I would suggest that the next Legislature pass'a bill for everyone

his photo alongside of the title and charge 60 cents for it as that would add, $600,000 more to the fund. My understanding was Lhat some

to furnish the title holders free to all motorists in order tc advertise their products, but the Siz te turned

get to force $300,000 out of us fellows that are fortunate enough to own cars as we hardly pay enough

taxes -on gasoline, oil, tires, etc. that we buy. ;

women and 70 men, were thus saved ||

Democratic campaign fun .I pur-| | chased a title holder.

to buy a gold embossed frame for|

oil and gasoline companis wanted |

the idea down because they wouldn't |

: Barkley,-they complained, had no fight in him,

Merry-Go-Round By Pearson & Allen ish Secretary Hull's Effort to Solve” Haitian-Dominican Dispute Balked As American Minister Is A. W. O. L:. VV ASHINGTON, Dec. 29.—What patient = Cordell Hull is up against in the conduct

of his foreign relations is illustrated by a ‘secret situation in the Dominican-Haitian

-crisis. Inside fact is that the Secretary of

State simply cannot rely upon his career: men. The Dominican-Haitian dispute is one of the most serious threats to Pan-American peace. Abqut 8000 Haitians were massacred in cold blood, some of. ; them - driven into trenches alive,. drenched with gasoline and burned. to death. Some were driven infp. the sea, some hacked to pieces by machetes. . |

Yen

Some contend this was done at

‘a given signal from Presidenk “Trujillo of the Dominican Repub lic, most iron-fisted dictator south’ of the Rio Grande. HH 5 _ Bince the massacre (in early’ October) President Trujillo has’ snubbed the overtures of Presis: dent Roosevelt, the Presidents: ol Cuba and Mexico, plus the Ammbassadors of Argentina, Peru and Minister of Guatemala to eoncile "fate the dispute. Ihe ... During all .the trouble se, United States has been represented; in the Dominican Republic . by: Raymond Henry Norweb, -American Minister. Mr. Norweb is. a very correct young man; has ths Harvard degree, pronounces tomato with the broad “a,” and has been a career man all his life. Mr. Norweb’s family-in-law also owns a large interest in the Cleveland Plain Dealer, which has supported Mr. Roosevelt. When thé . 1936 election began to look - het, Jim Farley thought it would be a fine thing if Mr. Norweb should receive promotion. He was made Min= ister to Bolivia, then to the Dominican Republic. ‘°- Tg 2 -8 » Ti oR RY A> Just after the Haitian massacres in October; ‘Minister Norweb insisted on going to Havana as .

pa

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Robert Allen :

,& delegate to & radio conference. The State Depart= i ment: was worried about the threat of trouble at that . time, but Mr. Norweb seemed so unhappy about miss« 'ing"his radio confab that he was permitted to go for a

short time. : : He stayed so long, however, that the State Departs

ment sent him a curt notice to get back on the job. . The Btate Department was so irate that it tele ' graphed Pan-American Airways to meet the itinerant

minister and tell him it had his reservation ready on the next plane back to the Dominican Republic. . ~ Mr. Norweb backtracketl next morning. ; #8 » Grp ate Senate Democratic Leader Barkley came in of some very severe g during the private session between the Président and the eight liberal Senators last week. ea Some of the eight were particularly peeved at Sen. ator Barkley because of the way he let Stnators Byrd of Virginia, Connally of Texas and Bailey of North. Carolina get away with their anti-Administration tactics .without cracking down on them. Senator.

CAs.

General Hugh Johnson Says—

Predicting the Future of Business Is Like Playing a Poker, Game: Make a Flush Look Like a Pair of Deuces. ~ He controls the volume of bank credit by his influ

Trouble Is the House Can

VV4smeron, Dec. 29—From now on until after -

the first of the year, the public prints full of forecasts for 1938. Tre H is I be that could be done if it didn’t attempt to talk about more than six months in the future and it it cushioned itself oh a lot of carefully prepared alibis to take care of the difficult problem of timing which nobody has ever solved in calling economic trends. - But. those days seem gone forever, When busi-

“ness futures were pretty well controlled by the state

of inventories, prices,

it wasn’t too hard to guess. : The difference now is that, while it is game, the rules are subject to change by the. without notice After the deal, the draw and | bets, you may have sprung on you'a Pw

ok : : a of ¢ i outrank a royal flush. lr Yr) 1 : a trouble now is that Government has

control of most of the important influences over busiriess, and given them to one man and you can

never be sure of what he is going ‘to do from one day

“to the next—or even hetween morning and evening. Take the question of money. He controls its value

ence on Federal reserve policy—and other ‘way of saying he controls

poker game. : He controls the rate at which pumps or doesn’t pu which to buy things.

counters or chips which the boys can use in their

pump billions out to the people with

that is just an.the amount of

the Government

By Rodney Dutcher XX 7ASHINGTON, Dec. 20—Opinion ppears to: vary as to how much of the potential 16 bil~lion dollar housing ‘boom suggested by President | ‘Roosevelt actually can be realiged. The problem of reducing building ma‘erial and labo: costs, which the President will tackic in prony-

| write it:

To a very large extent he has been given the power . to make economic war—for example, to cut off a large

| percentage of our cotton exports tomorrow, if he so

desires. Most important of all, hé controls-—or did

| until recently—what Congress is going to do.

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clearly ds ar as Ambassador to England. ¥ there was no hope for him after t ther liquidated or ed.

ised conferences with industry, labor and {iiance, and which he says must be met if the proposec. boom is to succeed, is very far from solved. i : he effectiveness of proposed changes in the Federal Housing Administration law, although calculated ‘to make housing investment slightly mote attractive, also is questioned. The Administration hasn't yet

"| mate up its mind whether to seek to use :npital gains : of income from tax

tax exemptions, and taxation

‘ing an average of ‘about $5000.)

Behind the Capital Scenes— + | a Housing Boom Mey Be Short of Expectations as Problems Are Unsolved; Administration Stil Appears Undecided on Methods to Finance Market;

'. can afford to.pay. After the President's message #igpeared, the National Housing Committee decided ¥o postpone publication of its Teport on the -svailafls - market for dwellings, A The report will show that the number of which can afford to pay $60 a month for rent is about a third;as large as the number in 1920, w, it was figured at about seven million nonfarm ilies, (Roughly, an income of $50 a week can

feally pay rent of about $50 a month on a house e

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The report will show that 83 per cent of all dw ing units builf in the period of 1930-37, when prigs

\ practically no shortage in houses costing

| more, no conxiderable shortage in the. range rentf n | ‘between $30 and $50 a month, but a great shortag | © Aaltrough these figures may offer no

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