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TUESDAY, JAN. 4, 1938

THE. ROOSEVELT MESSAGE

¢ STRON G and at the same time temperate, completely free : of Ickesian shrillness and bluster, and thereby carrying

a thousand times as mich force, was President Roosevelt's verbal message to Congress. The nation today has much occasion for thankfulness that he did not at this time of crisis act as an accelerator of the “cut and slash,” of bitterness, class-consciousness and demagoguery, but instead sounded the statesmanlike note of co-operation and national unity, - ’ The address will come as a pleasant surprise to all those who have felt that a free-for-all was in the making while the house was on fire, but not much as a surprise to those

who really know him and fully appreciate his ability to

rise to an emergency. Never was a capacity for leadership more strikingly demonstrated and never in the thick volume of official documents will there appear a clearer or more concise expression of policies and purposes. \ At no time did he hit below the belt. Yet at no time did he pull his punch. He stated clearly how he ‘intends the New Deal shall “carry on.”

® # » ; = J 8 # For Agriculturée—

The Government will co-operate through legislation enabling the farmers, by majority rule, to regulate the size of their crops, to insure fair prices for themselves and adequate supplies for consumers. Thus is purchasing power to be increased and stabilized for the one-third of our citis zens dependent on agriculture. Thus are ample raw materials to be eliminated to feed and clothe our whole population. Thus is the soil to be conserved for future generations.

In return, the President asked only the epsoperation of the representatives of the farmers in keeping the cost of the program within budget estimates.

» 8 8 For Industry and Finance—

The Government will co-opératé by recognizing that capital i is entitled to reasonable earnings; that honest business enterprise is entitled to: be freed from tax provisions “where they are proven to work a definite hardship,” and that the budget should be balanced not by increasing tax burdens but by building up the national income. In return, the President asked that industry and finance co-operate by ending abuses of the past. He asked that changes in the tax laws subtract nothing from total revenues and that no part of the burden be shifted to those less able to pay. He asked that wealth assume public responsibility commensurate with its power. He asked for “the help of busiest in the efforts of Government to help business.”

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8 8 = : : f bk a For Labor— The Government will co-operate by legislation “t6 end wages and intolerable hours,” to establish “a floor below which industrial wages shall not fall, and a ceiling beyond which the hours of industrial labor shall not rise.” It will co-operate by Continging to uphold collective. bargaining. In return, he pointed it that disputés “relating to jurisdiction among workers themselves have retarded production,” and declared that with labor leadership, no less than with business leadership, “power and responsibility must go hand in hand.” # 2 8 For Persons on Relief— The Government will co-opérate by continuing its “policy of not permitting any needy Americans who can and is willing to work to starve because the Federal Goveriimeit does not provide the work. In return he asked that Congress cosparate | in budgetary economies in other fields, by eliminating, curtailing or postponing all Government activities that can be eliminated, curtailed or postponed. : . 8 8 2 2 8 2

TES latter promise is one concegning which we are fearful of the New Dedl’s ability to make good. Whereas the recent Gensus indicates between 7,000,000 and 11,000, 000 unemployed, the Government is providing work relief fot only a few more than 2,000,000—and sufficient funds to prévide jobs for others are not in sight. The siiccess of this—as well 4s most other parts of the President's restated New Deal—deéperids upon building up national income—the importance of which the President stressed repeatedly, in his remarks on farm prices, wages, employment, profits, and the balanéing of the budget. And that means A greater tid 8 still greater volume of business.

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0 1 tov unity i in ending mistakes of the past and feet-

; ing the necessities of today.”

No government, * he said, “cait conscript

tion”. >

“No government,” he said, “can hélp the destinies of ness ahead of seer] weal:

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PRESIDEN ris

MESSAGE

Washington By Raymond Clapper

Congressmen Have Dreams of Being Statesmen, but They Sacrifice Them To Satisfy the Voters Back Home.

VV ASHIN GTON, Jan. 4.~In defense of Senators and Representatives who are resuming work it should be said that their chief fault is that they strive to please you who sent them here.

they are today and most of them, secretly, are not proud of the result. I6 is the Congressman’s

of which he has more than is senerally supposed, toward dealing objectively with national proolems. But every Congressman knows that the fastest way to the polit-

ical graveyard is to turn states-

man. When a Congressman fakes his nationzl legislative duties seriously the voters are told that he i§ negleciing his constituents. Congressmen must eat—or they

| think they must—and you are

their meal ticket. So they give up their dreams of being states- ; ‘meh ahd become messenger boys Mr. Clapper for you and panhandle a job with the Government for your Uncle Willié or hound thé Secretary of War into insisting upon pumping ahother $10,000,000 into some useless army post ‘which was put theréryears ago to fight off the Indians. eh Rep. Albert Thomas of Texas brags to his constituents that he was smart enough to get $200,000 for the Goose Créek schoolhouse, he is hopifig that this will so please the voters that they will rewaid him in the coming election. No doubt Rep. Thomas would like to be a great statesman. But if he knows what is goed for him, he will go after an appropriation to dredge out the old bayou once more. Senator Hale, an éld-fashiofied Maine Republican who believés in sound Government and all that sort of thing, was right up en the mourners’ beneh with the Democratic politicians of his state who were trying to ell Roosevelt the Passafiiaquoddy tide: hafisegsifg ‘project. #8 =» ENATORS and Representatives chase all over J Washington running errdnds for constituents. most of them ste ashamed to have to do this tincup work. But théy do it for vou. They figure you are soméwhat dumb and that you like cheap politics because you don't know any béfter. So they give you cheap ‘polisics. You can do” something about all of this: There is 4 remedy, but bécause it doesn’t require ‘another law dnd is so simple and easy, you probably won't want to bother with it. os # #

NIRST, purchasé a supply -of ifiéxpénsive writing paper or some postal. cards. Second. inform yourseH dbout questions pénding in Washingtori. Think atiout them, and what you would do if you were in Congress. Third. write fo your Senators and, Representative and tell them that they héve got you wrong, that all you want i8 for them to use their Braifis

you will overlook & mistaiie iow and them.

You made them what

heré and explain their reasons seriously to you. Tell them that

The Hoosier Forum 1 wholly disagree with what yok say, but will defend to the death your right to say it. — Voltaire.

TRUSTEES ARE OUTMODED, READER DECLARES By Norman Glenn, Fraikfort. The march of time goés on and on and everything marches with it. Youthful America must change its garb and habits, even with a fight. But here and there we find those who for selfish er conservative reasons oppose this natural change. The archaic system of tiustées is a vain attempt to hold back he march of time. The trustee served a usefil purpost when poor transportation, etc. demanded a smaller administrative unit than the County. We have now outgrown that situation. The trustee has been relieved of so many of his duties that it was necessary to give him the assessing job. Generally education is his major task, for he must furnish and maintain a school plant and place qualified teachers within it. <The legal requirements of the teacher administrator are four to five yedrs of speeial preparation but for the director tee none. He might have little conception of a good educa~ tional institution or be inclined toward the spoils system. Thé trustee maintain his posi< tioni lafgély through the .conservatism of the rural districts. He talks mich about the right of loéal Sélf government, which appedls to the home folks. But in time efficieney and economy will prevail.

d 8 8 # READER SA¥S CAPITALISM NEEDS MAJOR OPERATION By L. S. Farmer, Anélerson: In 1929, when fhe nation’s income ranged between 70 and 80 bilHon dollars, it weds conservatively

claimed that it would have required ‘more than one-half of that income

fo pay interest upoh debts; public |W

and private. Of course 1980 was a banner year for interest mengers, but it is a computable fact that a low inter-

{est chargé upon hormal cuirsfcy

credits and abnormal curréricy deposits Wo culation of curréricy and moré than: offset all expense of Govérnment, minus intérsst charges tipon government bonds. Hence the suggestioh that Unde, Sam becomé the nation's operaté the barking busthéss upon a cost of Government basis and eliminateé ali other forms of taxation. Speraten of nt banks would Hardly incféase Government since the costly process of taxing would be eliminated A low interest charge upébn abnormal deposits would net only hélp {finance Government, but woul also

General Hugh Johrson: Sa yg

ald assufé continuous eir- |

(Times readers are ifivited to express their views in these columns, réligious éen: : cluded. Make your letter short, so all ean have a chance. Lettaré must be signed, but names will be withheld on request.)

induéé people to invest abnormal eurrency deposits in tax sxempt improveraents and property amd in tif provide more and better hoines for the people, improved equipment, more eongenial places of employment, new busihess, and néeded vitality in the capitalist society. Uncle Sam eouid eceasé paying interest upon Government bonds recall those bonds, issue eufrency éredit within Government banks in éx6hange, afid thus elirhinaté onethird of prevailing Government costs which new go to pay interest upon ponds: ‘The bondholders would be paid off with their own coin. Uncle Sam would also place in the hands of former Federal bendholders some 30 billiens of idle crédit-dellars, démanding immediate profitable investraent. Such an ifivestment wetild abserb-the unemployed, start Business moying, and head the nation toward prosperity.

Uiicle Sam would rather séoure

Government costs from a large volufne of business than a small

| volume; therefore all could secure

feasonable ciirrency credits upon

: Ieieatiable security at a low inter-

charge. ot ar thé Govérnmént sees that it is forcing its patrons into bankfuptey, it will caficel A faif portion of all debts and reduce interest whi oh rather than kill the geese lay its golden eggs— some:

LETTERS By VIRGINIA POTTER It’s funny what, a letter Jrom _someohe dear can do; 1f you feel the least 5it lonely, it will eheér you through through!

Today I got a letter It was a sweet surorise. ] Cen’t you sénd someune a lettér To brighten up his skies?

DAILY THOUGHT aE the way of all the earth; hou &trong therefore, and 12 thyself a man —I Kings 2:2. E still prepared for. death: and death or life shall thereby be the Sweeter r~Shakespeare.

F. D. R's Message Was an Excellent Plea y the Proposals for Which ‘

The Administration Was Elected, but It Was a Speech. of Generalities. Woon Jan. 4=The Presidents message |.

was one of the most comp deliv ed. It said little that wis new bub Vas a fhostion or much that has yn ios ¥ warning S1 armainens gram ngsts farted. budget ie at 7 pation, 11 tiiere is t0 be a balance to be through rising national incoms returning mote | fevenue at existing tax ratés—and income is “Changes in undistributed 1 profits and & tat ans fo he made to cobfect I. businessmen. (Something mi

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thing a shrewd financier would rarely de. Capitalisih héeds nét adminis trative palliatives but a majof épers ation. With Uncle 8am as the nation's bafiker, thé Government will be toreéd to co-operate with busifiess and busihiéss with Government. All the people will enjoy a redsonable share of prosperity.

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TRUCKERS RESPONSIBLE I'OR

‘TAX LAWS, READER SAYS By A. M. 8: I am replying to a letter in the

Forum by “Indignant Truck Owner, Lawrence.” He clases his lettér asking the follewitig: “What is behifid these new truck laws? Legislation prompted by the railreads” He is partially right. Thé new law referred to, which took effect Jan, 1, was brougtit about die to the trueking industry starting into highway transportation biisiness some few years ago on a cut-throat basis. The rail lines nd intefurs ban lines wére cub out of a fair return on their investment, which eventually led to the abandonment of considerable shoit lines of the railroads and practically pui many interurban lines out of business. When this took place; the small communities were left. without any source’ of revenue from taxation, with the exception of local property taxes, which could not bsgin to carry thé 16a8. To offset this loss in revenue it beeameé the duty of the State to cnact tax laws to help overcome this l6ss. - The only logical placé to assess this new tax was on he successors to the lines that were driven 6ut of: bisifiess. x Again referring to the above quotation, do net think it took much prompting from ‘railroad lobbyists to have this law enacted; as oir State législaters can see very d | plainly ‘what is taking plaee in their a | respective localities and ara beginaing to act accordingly. oS sw SEES ANTISMOKE DRIVE BECOMING RACKET By Clyde W. Wéavés. _ The shioke prevention riovement Has takén on thé unfiistakable

dens o being a racket.

kind of coal to durn and { where to buy it is mé of the many angles that have developed. of which is going to make it very nice for somebody. ‘

Merry-Go-Round By Pearson & Allen ora

New Deal Takes: % Radio to Push Aims, Renewing Antiprass Drive; Plan Afoot to Make Lehman Senator :

| VW ASHINGTON, Jan. 4.—It is no accident that a battery of typewriters is now pounding out the greatest deluge of New

| Deal speeches since the campaign of 1986.

It is all a part of the Roosevelt policy of assuming the offensive. If you don’t believe this cast your eye down the following list of radio addresses (the first four ale ready delivered) which form a part of this barrage. Every one of thém, it is important to note, are natiofial radio hook- : ups: Dec. 23_Senator Rhode Island.

‘Dec. 26—Robert Jackson, Assistant Attorney General. De. 30—Secretdary Ickes one of his hottest). Jan. 3—Roosevelt’s Message to Congress. - Jan. 8 — Roosevelt's Day dinner speech. Jan. 10—Maury Maveriek, fighting Congressman from Texas,

Jan. 13-—Senator Bob La Fol lette.

Jan, 30—Marriner | Beetles, Chairman Federal Reserve ‘Board. . . In addition to the above, New Deal strategists are planning &n averagé of two radio speeches every week durihg the duration of . Congress. : It is no accident, furthermore, that this campaign is built entirely «. around radio. Furthermore, it was no accident that Roosevelt recént‘ly+unloesed his blast against a large pereentage of the press. Whether wise or not; this is all’ part of thé néw and deliberate pelicy to. slam the newspapers. It has been laid down as the rule in the inner couneil that no impertant New Deal Sheen is to be made except over the widest possible network.

Note—One reasen behind the edict | that no ime portant, speeches shall be made unless broadcast was ech By Matrifier Eccles in Chicago last fall. In it és pooh-poohéd the idea of extensive tax révision. Eccles claims that the papers pickéd up one small item from his speech critical ot Jaen Javed this up and let his entire discourse on tax €8 80

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Jackson

Robert Allen

] unnoticed.

8 8» 2 Wa New York one of the pivotal political spots 3 the country and the best springboard to the Presidency, some of thé inner council boys have been urging Roosevelt to announice himself regatding & New Dédl eandidate for Governor. 1 Part of their urging is ihspited by th e réport ‘from

relatives of Governor Herbert Lehman at he has a yearning eye upon the U.8 S. Senate. ;

= so

According to Heywood Broun—

Main Drive of Secretary lekes' Speech Was Fundamentally Shund: Columtist Resents Tale That Industry Has Been Eager to Co-operate.

of Becretify Iekes. It. was a

tls time, I ho learned that whenever it A out going to get a sock

he ‘Sdoretary or Mr, Jack- ; véry phrasé I would it I think th néntally so £3 hte on Gio tb airiains hut y to - sriubbed oth the President profter of a Poisened olive

mé farcical for big businéss to Whisper that

os résentmeént. And yét when

with the purposes of the New Deal, but only on thé basis that thé New: Deal should sufréndes , | one of ity objectives. 1h such a situation it $8éms to

She boys in Washington aré using rude words. Secretary Ickés took Férdinand Lundberg’s Book, “America’s 60 Families,” as nis text. Hz argued tht the control of America’s ecoriomic resourées lies in the hands of a small group: This has already aroused James Gérard made Up a lst of the a.

4 304 plead With

| Pomme Jathes Henle. it t af the guard Press, which published Lungberg's Bo