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. SATURDAY, FEB. 26, 1938 REGISTER NOW! hk HIRTEEN different operations are necessary. to register a Marion County voter and 16 are needed to correct the listing of voters who transfer, according to County registration officials.. The enormity of this task becomes more apparent when one considers that the names of 15,000 new voters are expected tobe added to the lists before the primaries, |= Fae pe a Those required to register to be eligible to vote in the May 3 primaries are— . ar Persons who have not voted previously in Marion County. - : Voters who have moved since the last election. . Registration deadline is April 4, but in view of the expected rush it is important that those intending to register do so as soon as possible. Ee

WE’D ALL TUNE IN | THE American Federation of Labor is: starting a year-

_ going out tonight from a Washington station, will include. "a dramatic re-enactment of the A. F. of L. expulsion of the _ “rebel” C. I. O. unions.” It and subsequent sketches will be ~ repeated later from other stations in various cities. Professional actors will play the parts of William Green and | . others. . * We offer a suggestion: i ; Let -there be an early program, presenting William ~ Green and John L. Lewis in person in a dramatic enactment of the signing of a peace treaty between the A. F. of L. and the C. I. O. Fadi so 2% ss That would be something:worth hearing.

~THE WAGE-HOUR MESS © YT would be hard to imagine any piece of legislation get- . ~ ting into a worse. tangle than the wage-hour bill is in i today. | | | Yet it all started out as a simple step toward simple objectives. The Roosevelt Administration had promised to ~ put a floor under wages land a ceiling on the hours-of labor "in the manufacture of goods sold in interstate commerce. ‘ And apparently public sentiment strongly approved this plan to improve working conditions, living standards and purchasing power of the “lower one-third,” and thereby ~ to-outlaw the type of cutthroat competition which thrives : on.sweated labor. ; 0p EI. Ha a ‘Unfortunately, those simple objectives were all but. - forgotten in the’ original legislative draft.” The ‘emphasis | ~ was not on a Wage floor and an hour ceiling; but upon extending bureaucraey’s clammy hand into the intimate de- _ tails of private business. It proposed a Federal board with ' power to fix standards ranging up through the varying. skills and crafts, power [to prescribe bookkeeping methods, . power to subpena records, power to make exceptions and ex-. * emptigns. is tod OF : Loartd : Before it had finished with the legislation, the Senate " had whittled away a lot of the more objectionable grants of ‘authority. But by then the measure’s momentum had been - dissipated and the opposition had gathered strength. The - two big factions of organized labor divided on the bill.” All of this enabled a handful of House members, who - oppose any wage-hour legislation, to keep. the measure > locked up in the Rules Committee for several months. When finally the bill reached the House floor it had few friends * left. So it was sent back to the Labor Committee to be re-

_ written. And there is rests today, now and then prodded j

again into life by desultory attempts at compromise, And who has profited by the unseemly scramble for bureaucratic power? Wage-chiseling employers against | whom the legislation was directed? a Ha

And who have been the victims? Employees who lack {- - a A h in a deDre ' 4a . FT HERE were some :who. said they always turned

"4 30 his column first ‘and didn’t care what else there might be in the paper and were sad to hear

‘the economic strength, in a depressed labor. market, to get --fair wage-hour standards for themselves, and employers who try to pay decent wages but who cannot meet the competition of chiselers—in short, the very people for whose protection the legislation was sponsored,

ALCATRAZ Jota es Lor a : A GOOD deal is being said about what a terrible place Alcatraz Prison is. Ghost-written stories by. former prisoners have appeared in magazines and newspapers, and while these stories differ rather curiously as to some details, ‘they agree. that Alcatraz deserves to be called “the Amerjcan Devil's Island.” nls : There is an argument about why Al Capone has" gone ‘more or less crazy. The Justice Department says Capone's ‘mental state “grows out of conditions. originating prior to

his incarceration”—meaning, we suppose, that he has |

But at least one of the ex-convict authors insists

paresis. must be

that his treatment at Alcatraz, not any disease, what has driven Capone insane. : We don’t know about that, but we have no doubt that - peing locked up’in that island prison in San Francisco Bay . is a tough experience. Some of the complaints printed— _ that the prisoners aren't allowed to read newspapers and "detective magazines, have radios, receive uncensored let- ‘ ters or buy the kind of cigarets they prefer—seem' pretty trivial. But the rigid discipline, the unchanging “routine, the hopelessness of clemency must be hard indeed to bear: Alcatraz, however, was intended to be a prison for hard men—the Capones and Alvin Karpises and Machine ‘Gun Kellys, the gangster killers and kidnapers and other public enemies, And nothing these individuals have- to take in Alcatraz ‘can be worse than what they were willing to give their victims when they were at liberty. ~~ = It is said some men in Alcatraz are not wild, desperate and confirmed criminals, If so, they should not be there. ‘But most of those who are there are types. that cahnot

safely be treated with anything less than the strictest dis: |

_ cipline. It seems to us that, in a world so full of injustices

to the innocent, there are: many things better worth worry- Ai

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| ‘But Maybe a Bear Trap Is N ceded—By Talburt a

Fair Enough.

‘Galesburg and Kansas City Folk

Feel a Sense of Great: Personal Loss in ©. O.. Mcintyre's Death.

J ANeas corr, Peb. 26.—This wants to be a piece |

L32- about the late O. O. McIntyre, but it. may ‘turn out to be a terrible omelette, because I never met him

| and laid eyes on him only once in almost 20 years in

the newspaper business around New York.” ; However, I do know many of his friends, and I learned several years ago that this strange, timid man who hid from crowds, but wrote as if he were out rejoicing- at cocktail-sbrawls- and hot shots all the

time, had a bigger - audience or public than anyone ‘else in the: column . business, except Will Rogers, who wasn’t exactly -a columnist in his newspaper practice, but a paragraph man. Mr. Rogers undoubtedly topped him in customer appeal, but after he was killed McIntyre stood alotie, | ‘seeming to inherit much: of “'the. personal affection "that ‘had ‘be16nged to Will. - As his own capital . in this resp: as considerable, he enjoyed in =tast years a popu-. larity that probably was warmer and ' wider than he realized, al- : though his fan mail must have given him some idea. It was outside New York that MelIntyre weighed ‘most, and as far back as 10 years ago New: York news= papermen on’ the road were observing that people didn't inquire whether-they knew Al Smith or Franklin D. Roosevelt or Jimmy Walker or Tunney, personally, half as often as they would say, “I suppose ‘you must know O. O. McIntyre.” : sir . igi nw ; HERE were many in the trade who have never encountered him in any of the places of which

Mr. Pegler

he wrote with a familiarity that was largely harmless

make-believe, and his ‘Told on his public was due not so much to the little fictions in his copy as to his style of doing, which became an act. tio, It isn’t quite correct to say that he pioneered the field in which he became the greatest operator, for Herbert Corey was there before him, but gave it up ‘to cover the war and never resumed, and Ray Carroll, of the Curtis outfit of Philadelphia, ran a similar show for .a while after the. war. . a : _ But McIntyre’s customers wanted him,-and I have been meeting people in Galesburg, Ill, and Kansas City this last week who.read him for years ‘and, felt a sense of great personal loss when they read of 2 .

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something which his copy had never given them any reason to suspect—that he had been a sick man for a long time, turning out his pieces under- the handicap of immurement which compelled him to'use his imagination for much of his material. .. Rah I have been telling people out this way that:they have more rough-house and more obvious vice than we have in New York, but they know their Odd McIntyre and won’t have it any other way than his. way, and he was always seeing shocking and sordid things in New York, right in his workroom. > The last line is always a problem:in this business, ‘and McIntyre’s greatest was uttered with his’ dying breath when he said to his wife, who sat alone with him, “Turn your face this way so I can see you.”

Business—By John

Railroads, as a Whole, Must Be Considered as a Public Function; They Are Needed by Our Economic Society in a Healthy Condition.

In ‘this Administration 19 roads have gone in ptcy for reorganization and not one has reorganized. What is more they are no nearer reorganization than when they started. The reason for this is that the law under which these reorganization proceedings are being pressed is worthless

YORK, Feb. 26.—Commissioner Jerome

"Prank, of the SEC, has a plan to deal with the |

ever-pressing railroad problem. =. © It is time that both the political tinkerers and the banker-promoter tinkerers. were crowded out of the

railroad problem. Railroads’ are, of course, a subject _of private property. That is, the individual railroad |

is... But railroads, as a whole, considered .as ‘a function—a transportation function--are not private property. They are a public function. And our’ economic society not only needs them but needs them in a state of health. : 5" It is time, after five years. of playing with. this grave problem; that railroad men and Government looked honestly and realistically at the problem. The railroads are traveling not merely toward bankruptcy,’ but toward disintegration. The story of the railroads can be tpld in the maintenance accounts. And these accounts reveal: that the roads are slowly going ; 2 8.2

OTHING has been done because the control of

the roads is in the hands of groups who of to: hold on to them for a variety of reasons de-

spite the fact that ds to p

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whether:the guilty thugs in Alcatraz like |

~~ The Hoosier Forum {hal 1 wholly disagree. with what you say, but will ‘defend to the death your right to say it—"Voltaire.

TOWNSEND PLAN ADVOCATED . By sn American Citizen, Crawfordsville

American businessman wants doesn’t, know it. sf : ; Suppose you were to lose half of your. business tomorrow, Would you be willing to pay 2 per cent -on the dollar to get back that business? If you were to. pay that and it increased your business one-third more, wouldn't the one-third pay all the 2 per cent transaction tax on your- present business and the new business? If Dr. Townsend had ‘come out with the = statement, “Down with national recovery and -down with business,” you might talk about jailing him. ‘But he is for national re-

and

| covery.. ‘He is for business.

. Dr. Townsend and all of his loyal workers are for America, for ‘we are Amerivans.” We ure not selling you the Townsend Plan; we are giving it to our countrymen. My grandfather fought in the Civil War with

‘| the Union. : I want that Union pro-

tected. And ‘so does Dr. Townsend. : . ® ® TRUSTEE SYSTEM IN EDUCATION SCORED’ By a Parent, Frankfort ws .] ‘Education is the key to the advancement ‘of human welfare and the bulwark of democracy. There-

fore, everyone should know what produces a good educational sys-

tem. a ; : Emphatically the trustee system is not the method, for the trustee is not a schoolman or an educator

great ~ institution. The business world would not: tolerate such an idea. The trustee is more likely to be & spoilsman or a well-mean-

‘Our educational system is weaker

control may be democratic, but is not efficient. Aside from our oities, our teachers show very little professional spirit~—a spiritless, submissive group when faced by a ruthless trustee. or petty school board.

|" What does the teaching vocation |- offer to the high school graduate? |

He and his: parent should know. Study the case of young John Doe of Butler who had lofty ideas. He first faces four long years of preparation, with-a near $3000 expenditure before he receives a cent in return. He seeks a job in an overcrawded field and secures a county

1 job at $1000 salary.

After four years he finds himself

looking for a new job, for: the trustee’s- nephew “just graduated from Normal—or is it.the daughter of a political worker? Regretfully, he cannot build a home, for he may be ‘moving next year. By skimping he

Dr. Townsend may have what the|

and is not ‘qualified to lead this}

ing fellow with provincial ideas. | than most people know. ‘Local unit |

with a family, a $1250 income, a | flood ‘of - bills and, above all, he is] .

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to. express their views in these columns, religious con+troversies ‘excluded. . Make your letter short, so all can have a chance. Letters must be signed, but names will be withheld on request.)

that ‘typical, plaintive teacher "appearance, -The future :makes him desperate, so he now sells magazines and fruit trees—a jack of all trades and master of none. Th And then comes that sinking realization that without any savings, he is nearing middle age and will not he wanted in the schoolroom." What an end—but haven't you seen it? If he had spent the same time and money in preparation for law, medicine, dentistry or business administration, what would be his position at 50? Are we honest when we encourage young cen to put their time and money into a vocation that will not provide security or a decent living? : The tenure law was a well meant ‘effort to: solve this problem of insecurity by checking the powers of the trustee, but the law was inadequate. Repeal of tenure will not solve it. We need to abolish the system that brought about tenure, and to establish ‘a new educational system- that will provide teacher security and make teaching a profession instead of a part-time job. Move ow wt 8: fT ENCOURAGED BY PATMAN’S PROTEST By E. E., Washington “le ol - Among the interesting privileges enjoyed by the members of Congress is the privilege of revising and extending their remarks in the Congressional. Record. This makes it possible for a member to put into the printed account of proceedings things neyer actually said in debate,

CHANGING TREES - By MAUD COURTNEY WADDELL Through golden summer, spring and fall, sits ly Trees stand adorned as for a ball.

In Winter ‘trees wait straight and Like armies braving war's stern call.

- ‘DAILY THOUGHT I will arise and go to my father and will say: unto him, Father, 1 .have sinned against heaven, antl before thee.—Luke 15:18. :

UMILITY, that low sweet root,

lives, saves nothing and acquires T. Flynn i

FRANK now proposes a new law and a new

from which all heavenly virtues shoot.—Moore. - ;

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‘peace. which seeks to

And so

or to take out things said that might not look so good in print. Recently. The Times quoted from the Congressional Record of Feb. 3 the following report of an exchange between Rep. Wright Patman (D. Tex.) and Rep. Albert J. Engel (R. Mich.), who had asserted that the Government ought to cut down spending: : Mr. Patman: “Which appropria-

tion would the gentleman stop}

first?” Mr. Engel: “The first thing I would do would be to -stop this

sending of about 3,000,000,000 pieces |"

of mail through the Postoffice free from the various departments of the Government, which cost the Government $220,000,000 during the last four years.” Mr. Patman: chicken feed.” _ Now Mr. Patman points out that the phrase, “which cost’ the Gov-

“Oh, that is merely

ernment $220,000,000 during the last

four years,” was not spoken by Mr. Engel in debate, but was added by him to the account as published in the Record. So, on Feb. 14, Mr.

Patman asked and obtained the|

unanimous consent of the House to withdraw his- own statement about chicken feed. Isn’t it encouraging that Mr. Patman should object to being recorded for terity as believing that $220,000,000 “is merely chicken feed?”

s 2 8 REALISM IN EXHIBIT OF PAINTINGS ASKED

By a Regular Visitor : . It would be- pleasing to the majority of regular art visitors to the 31st Annual Exhibition of Works by Indiana Artists and Craftsmen, at the John Herron Art Institute, to find this year a worthwhile exhibit of paintings wherein the expression of realism is more dominating than individual artists’ conceptions. In so far as the latter may be considered a work of art, the majority of the general public doesn’t under-

stand it. Besides, a reproduction of | what the eye sees and not what the |

mind thinks is more understandable and realistic. Modernizing the de-

sign of constructional work is prog-.

ress, but to streamline the beauty of nature is merely an effort to cripple it. So 1et us hope that this year good and logical judgment will make this exhibition a real success. :

WANTS TO SEE END OF CITY 'POLITICAL MACHINE ‘| By a Democrat ’ :

I would like to see the City of Indianapolis and Marion County get away from fhe political machine. Many of those who want to get ex-Mayor Sullivan back again are same old gang that has always been in. © We want men who have nothing to do with the machine.

On a Special Planet to

3 * : N= YORK, Feb. 26—Many sincere men and . women in all the countries of the world are ‘committed to the belief that no price is too high for They may be right. But surely the nation

at a. c g

‘has a right to demand that it should receive the | ‘genuine article as the result of the bargain, : . I say that “peace” which is procured by agreeing to bend the knee to the fascism of Hitler,

Mm He wants to set up a court which will have full powers and to implement it with the necessary staff and funds and authority actually to bring about reorganization. : : ae ; It it is possible the law should provide for & complete divesting of all parties of the physical properties

‘of the roads during reorganization, the operation by

the court itself, not through one of the fraditional

legal receiverships, but through a commission staffed

to operate the road pending reorganization. Then the road should be :recapitalized on some sound basis ‘anda fixed sum set-up in payment. of all the ‘old stock ahd bond claims. Tas sum, either In bonds ar stocks

This or both, should

various classes of Sroditors and |

spective rights of the holders. But in the

Mussolini and Japan's Son of Heaven is not worth the sacrifices which have been made. Indeed the article handed: over the counter to the abject buyer is not truly peace. Fascism is a form of war. : a : is the triumph of death over life, and PEngland has hardly saved itself from horrors by granting to the Duce and the Fuehrer right to confirm or veto a member of the British Cabinet. ; ‘ 8 8 = - “A ND yet no criticism of Mr. Chamberlain's sur-. 3 render comes with good grace from any American commentator. After all, the generous paper“hanger did permit Neville to keep his sword, and 1 suppose that every true-born Englishman will be allowed to retain two mules to cultivate his own | garden as ‘which are his.

seemly for American publicists who insist that Ameris Jocated on a.

Tut!”

‘veins of many of our

8 long as he renders unto Hitler the things | -\ ‘These are the fruits of isolation. But it is hardly |

go Gen. Johnson Says—

Administration's Greatest Fault

Is lts Desire + ture Business

On Problems It Doesn't Understand, “

OBCAW, 8S. C, Jasnhe President with a pointer and a. American business i good business _judgm through a press conference, with Associate Professors

Henry the Morgue and Henry the Fowler—I mean

Parmer—sitting owlishly by, is only outdistanced in

e by Adolf Hitlef’s lecture to the

sheer impertin ting the silliest

world. These threds were unde economic nonsense yet advanced. | With the will disagree. It is true that it is not high prices or low prices that make distress. It is un‘balanced prices. ! But to compare the “sensitive” price group with the more stable price group, call the latter monopolists, and berate its pro

‘of iron and steel, for example, to the level of farm prices, for instance, is abysmal ignorance,

ih thesis, nobody

Factors controlling price in *

no two groups are the same. ere the major element of cost ere factory overhead is high and 1 costs are a relatively small eleces are more stable because ine creased volume, due to lower costs, does not compensate for profitless prices. - This is especially true in the iron and steel industry.

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~HE simplest’ industry to manage is automobiles. :

There, increased production is -so great a factor in reducing costs that prices, per pound of ‘product, are incredibly low. That rule applies with only frac tional effect in “agricultural implements where an immense diversity of product so restricts the advantages of mass-production that you cannot measure the two industries by the same yardstick. . ~The labor cost in a package of cigarets is ridiculously low—as I recall, about one mill. In such an industry there is no excuse at all for cutting wages to lower price. But in other industries where the labor element of cost runs as most of the remaining cost is a fixed investment, it is simply impossible to lower price without cutting wages. ’ cL | , ® x's a : 71 HERE are some industries where increased pro=

“There are others where it is impossible nonsense, »

x by lowering prices is the way to profits,

The President asked for lower prices without cutting wages. John Lewis started out by being a labor ‘economist. He knows his onions better. In fact, he knows much more about the bituminous coal ine dustry than many of its managers, that I used to feel sorry for them in some joint conferences. In his industries he protested against both price-slashing and wage-slashing because he knew that in those in< dustries the two are inseparable. ~~ = ~~ hs That is the greatest trouble with this well-intene tioned Administration.- It works on charts prepared by theoreticians under the direction of men like the two Henrys whose only experience with the actual

problems of the intricate and diverse pattern of busi~

ness merely proves that they don’t know enough about “business to live in it. That goes equally for our: be loved President. And yet, they presume to lecture

ng to Heywood Broun—

It Is Hardly Seemly for Publicists Whe Insist America Is Located it

Criticize the British Cabinet's Decision.

is a kind of hunting license to the Nazi chief to pursue his persecutions and to bear down upon such races as he dislikes and upon such working groups as he despises. It is a pogrom peace, which means tha ‘it is no peace at all. = = oF ama : Ce. 3 ; PR Rt 3 is if well to say that this is no concern of ours. Here in our land the forces of fascism are alive and rampant, and they. take courage the success of the sweep of Nazi power across the r of the world. I hear it said that we should t back and make’ our ‘own: world include me North and South American continents. But is said by those who cheerfully ignore the fact that tk Fascist poison already has been injected into neighbors. = The answer to fae thrust against us is

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special planet, to be severe sbout | and not . Cabinet to let the rest of | Roosevelt

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