Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 March 1938 — Page 10
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Give Light and the Pedple amg Find Their Own Woy WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, 1938
; A HOOSIER ASKS EQUALITY T may not be popular with his colleagues and other piv leged jobholders, but Rep. John W. Boehne Jt, of Evansville should make a hit with his constituents by his proposal that public officials be taxed like ordinary citizens. The Hoosier Congressman introduced a resolution: for a Constitutional amendment to abolish the present unfair practice of exempting Federal employees from state income taxes and State employees from Federal income taxes. The measure is aimed at the Supreme Court's legalistic . theory that Federal and State Governments can’t tax salaries of each other's employees, but that both Governments can tax the incomes of private citizens. If successful, the move would not only make Rep. Bochne and our other $10,000-a-year Representatives in Congress subject to the State Gross Income Tax; it would meke thousands of State and Federal employees help equally with other citizens in the support of governraent.
USED CAR WEEK
N addition to the obvious commercial sales aspect of National Used Car Exchange Week there are two wider considerations. One is the fact that more men can be put back to work in the key automotive industry if the current campaign to move used cars is a success. The other factor is one of public safety. Too seldom in the many-sided traffic problem is it realized that the number of antiquated cars wobbling down the highways is. one of the chief menaces to driving—or walking. Virtually all traffic studies show a large percentage of these old cars not only have defective brakes and lights but also weakened steering apparatus. So whatever else may be the advantages of a successful sed Car Week, it would be worthwhile solely as a traffic safety measure.
CONGRESS SHOULD PROBE TVA J NEMIES of TVA are trying to engineer a smearing expedition against that whole vast enterprise and the Administration which sponsored it and are spreading the word that they intend to show up TVA as “A New Deal Teapot Dome.” .‘ There is one way, and only one, to disarm these enemies and dispose completely of the suspicions which they are turning to advantage. That is to have an investigation of TVA, welcomed and supported by its friends, but conducted
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so fairly and openly that the public can have absolute con |
fidence in it.
It is proper for President Roosevelt to call in the three TVA directors, as he has done for day after tomorrow, and. to demand from them all the facts upon which they base their serious charges against each other. But the President, we think, would do himself injustice by attempting to dispose of those charges now, simply because too. many citizens would feel that he had tried to sidetrack an open investigation.
Like Senator Norris, we do not want an investigation
controlled by men who hate TVA. But we believe that re- |
~ sponsibility for making the investigation belongs to Con. gress and should be accepted by Congress. And we believe Congress can select an investigating committee, represent. ing all viewpoints, that the public will regard as impartial and fair.
THE FOLLOW-THROUGH ON SMOKE
V/ASHINGTON approval of a $9054 WPA smoke abatement: grant assures continuance of the Indianapolis smoke survey. The Federal sum, augmented by City funds taling $2594, will employ about 20 men for six months. *. The survey work was started last September and monthly reports were made on the amount of sootfall in a dozen mile-square sections of the city. Perhaps the most portant result thus far has been to draw public attention to the proportions of this menace. The continued survey a produce a fairly complete picture of the situation in Indianapolis. But however complete the project is, it will have little * value unless followed’ by definite steps to curb this costly nuisance.
“THE SUN. IS SHINING” A MERICA’S wonder and admiration for that incredible “ corner of its real estate known as- southern California =~ will increase by bounds as it reads of the spirit that greets what other communities would call a calamity, We should have thought that a series of cloudbursts which sent surging floods over a hundred cities and towns, tool: scores of lives, marooned a great metropolitan area and destroyed millions of dollars’ worth of property would hava entitled the sufferers to a bit of self-pity. Surely such. a visitation could be classed as one of the least of that
“We have suffered nothing which could rightly be called a catastrophe,” broadcasts Mayor Frank L. Shaw of Tos Angeles. “This area has witnesesd the most serious flood condition in many years. However, all danger is past nc the sun is shining over southern California.”
Noah. was a defeatist and Job a cry-baby when stacked | Ep against such robust Simin. Nattire Bia as well |
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PIREASURY BewARE TAE
Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler f Political s Caused Dissension Among
The reen_ Writers of Hollywood.
oS ANGELES, \Maren 9.-The ink-stained + wretches who drew from $200 to $2000 a week for
Fost.
writing moving picture plays have ruined many old
friendships in the interests of compulsory harmony. Although it is no libel to call a man a Liberty Leaguer in this country, or even a Republican, it is, rather oddly a serious offense to call a Communist -a
Communist. Communists, for sonie reason, resent being called Communists, and the most that : may be sald prudently is that they reveal communistic sympa-
thies. This is the most that-may be ‘said of a number of diligent individuals whose membership in the Screen Writers’ Guild of the Authors’ League has driven a band of other writers, including some former guilders, into a rival or defensive union and a number of others into a no-man’s land between the two camps. ‘The dissenters may have been unhecessarily alarmed, n overestimating their influence, but, in any case, it was to prevent regimentation and the political discipline
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Mr. Pegler
of ideas that they formed the Screen Playwrights’ As- :
sociation, which is now called a house yon, ” 8 » AMES K. M'GUINNESS, who wrote sports for $90 a week on the old Evening Telegram in New York: and now gets $1500 a week for writing dramas in Hollywood, was one of the organizers of the Screen Yi nen Guild. He broke away and joined the Screen yWT
liarities of the constitution. Dudley Nichols, also an
old reporter, is now president of the Screen Play-
wrights and is himself no radical, but only a liberal. However, when asked whether there are Commu« nists in the Guild Mr. Nichols sunerringly calls the roll of the very ones who are commonly khown as writers of communistic sympathies. He insists, undoubtedly with truth, that he does not know bls or that one’s politics and is not interested. - /
SIDE from their aversion to unity with:active, un= tiring radicals and their suspicion of everything: they do in union matters, the rebellious writers absolutely refuse to consider a closed shop or even that - : _ They also cite an article in the constitution which : provides that any member whom ‘the executive board *
modern subterfuge, the guild shop.
deems guilty of conduct prejudicial to the welfare of the league or the guild may be expelled—a death sentence under closed or guild shop. Under certain conditions, not beyond imsagining, if tha Communists or the Fascists should obtain a closed shop or guild shop, and a working majority, conduct prejudicial to the league or guild might consist of a politically offensive scenario. True, means of appeal are provided, but the delay of vindication conceivably could cost the de-
fendant member much at $1500 or $3000 & week. And,’
in any case, a majority is empowered to silence the greatest living writer who ‘might: be. right though a minority of one against all the rest.” Of course; the same applies to the ‘worst living: writer.
Business—By John
NEV, JORK, Mach 9.—It =I inoretty. dlesr that She problem of making the talist system go at this time a problem of starting up new investment.
| And this is becoming increasingly: 5} on to great num-.
| bers of people, event though they. 40 not see clearly why itis so. We may therefore set it down. as: settled that what “ever will stimulate new capital investment will help the system function and whatever ‘will hinder
BENMAS from. the American Automobile Algor n
ciation. tells us that a committee has been named to] 2, nea
Jy ways and means of solving the parking problem, hi is referred to as “the nation’s greatest dilemma,”
We can testify from experience that the fellow who |
t find a place to park needs help, and we hope the’
: S wittes will provide it. But isn’t it going a bit strong = bd
all this dilemma the greatest? : He w about the dilemma of the fellow who can’t find a
Discipline of |
{booms ‘and acts as a cushion in a | falling market has repeatedly proven
‘lare going to let bushiess get
stopped. And they are going to. be
ts in resentment. against, the authority of ‘the Authors’ League of New.York and certain pecu-
: ot orders % factories and mills. Re-
WAY You WONT BE BT ey
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Bes GOLD. IS THEN DIVIDED INTO TWO THE FIRST PART IS POUNDED INTO . FINE DUST AND IS DISTRIBUTED THROUGH 3 AL BANKS. TO 6E USED IN PUTTING ; Tu GILT EPCING ON GILT-EDGE SECURITIES. H This is SAiLep ) “eRapiT.
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Td HUGE VATS, WHERE (T
IS WASHED, SCRUBBED AND POLISHED UNTIL (T SHINES LIKE GOLD. IT IS THEN WRAPPED IN CELLOPHANE, MARKED "DO NOT OPEN TILL CHRISTMAS," AND DEPOSITED IN A COOL, DRY VAULT. TH Is 1s CALLED STERILIZATION.
Trese PROCESSES CONTINUE UNTIL ALL THE GOLD IN THE WORLD IS INTHE | HANDS OF THE U.S. GOVERNMENT, WHERE» UPON THE PRESIDENT (OR DEALER) MUST RABE HIS HAND AND SHOUT, "BINGOI" AT “THIS POINT ALL PLAY CEBASES ANDTHE. F HEADS OF FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS MUST STOP WHATEVER THEY ARE DOING AAD COME 10 WASHINGTON, WHERE ALL THE GOLD IN THE WORLD HAS BEEN € BENEFIT OF NEWSPAPER PHOTOG
FLATION.®
L THE GOLD (CRED(T" AND STERILIZED) IS THEN MADE INTO BEADS. THESE ARE PASSED OFF ON UNSUSPECTING INDIANS IN EXCHANGE FOR BEARSKINS AND CLAMSHELLS, WHICH BECOME THE NEW MEDIUMS OF EX= CHANGE AND ARE REALLY MUCH EASIER TO
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- I wholly disagree with what you say, but will ¢ defend to the death your right fo say it—Voltaire.
URGES PROHIBITION OF SHORT SELLING By Warren A. Benedict Jr. 3 It seems high time that short
selling on ‘the stock exchanges be |.
prohibited, once and for all. That old wheeze that it tends to prevent
false and has little support from economists. Better business and more employment mean a loss to the gambler who has gone short on the market, while slumps, unemployment and general fear mean his profit. Is it natural to believe a group who have gone-:short -several million - dollars-|
if they can help it? It wouldn't be human nature, Mismanaging corporations, spreading fear and keeping prices so high things won’t: move might be bad for the nation, but it means cold cash to some known in business parlance as bears. A stock at 125 may mean to the nation at large good business, at 50 a slump and at:25 a depression, unemployment "and general panic. But to a bear who has gone short at a high figure, the lower it goes the more profit it means to
go it silly letting people bet on, hope for and work for worse. times? Some day the people. generally are going to demand ‘this evil : be
supported, not by radicals, but by | farmers, ake, 3 and Pusifiess en erally. a SUGGESTS TYPE or AD FOR BUSINESS By Observer, Connersville 2 , Our country is {ll<seriously, yes; dangerously, no. The popular ‘opinjon on diagnosis: of the ailment would be “uncertainty. in-business.” Industry is the ‘life of our country. It . creates employment which in turn gives. life. to. the. people of our country. A quick remedy. is’ needed. Give ep oyment at “once; replace une ty with “confidence in busiIn. order to do this there must be created a plan that will benefit all—not just a few. In order to give employment factories must have orders for their goods; retailers must give orders to factories—but retailers have no market for their goods, due to thems ployment. Let each retailér borrow from the Government—say - $2000 for one year at 3 per cent interest. ‘This ‘money must not be used for paying back bills but to ‘buy merchandise to restore depleted stocks |, of goods.
~Overnight there would. be a rush |.
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Economic Statesman Attempting to Make Capitalist System Work Shouldn't Seek a 'Revival,' With Its High Prices, Wages and: Profits.
ers too do not look farther than what they call Hpg= vival’-sthat is, 8 starting up of business somehow. This 18 a short-sighted view to which the promoter may yield but which no sound statesman can harbor.
First of all, this popular idea of
confused conception. Revival means higher prices, | “high wages, bigger profits to the average businessman. But the economist is apt to think that it is im-
e because the trouble, came in the fall of is.
8. ” gr gull, 1a that exidiag pekees
: inflationary foundation. Ee Sano be forced / Nghe without increasing the e to increase the. inflation. esportcnsd
the eotiapse wit, 8 Sheed ‘of the infla —
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employment at once. Industry revived at once. Confidence restored at once. How would this money beé loaned As a : suggestion:
«: petailers? better, as. the postoffices, thereby cut
ting down cost of issuing it. Every postoffice in a county seat town has ample room to do this.
The 3 per cent interest would cover
any losses accruing from bad loans. If money is loaned intelligently, losses would be at a minimum. The President has called on small businessmen; for suggestions. I am one, I operate a business employing
18 to 20° persons, supporting 60 -to:
40 dependents. Businesses of this size represent the backbone of our economic existence. » » » : 7 BELIEVES ONE PEACE HERO WORTH 100 WAR HEROES
By Againat War
Doesnt this country have any-
‘body who_is strong enough to ore ganize a: solid front against war? If all tions would combine,
| they: could do it and it would be far
more; ‘important than what they are
"| doing. I realize I'm not important .| enough to do it, but one good peace
hero is worth 100 war heroes, Certain ones are barking it on. Send the barkers to do the fighting. It is cowardly for them to line up the boys in front while they squa down and hide behind them. Are the mothers going to take an--
IDES OF MARCH
By MARY P. DENNY Winds at play _ All the day; Grasses green; Wayside clean; Blue birds sing. All are glad today In the shining way of spring. A etter cnet ttt
DAILY THOUGHT
girl fl hich, an 4 e 0; Lord his God. IT Chicaieles 14 2,
TO: man has a, rig a. right: to-do as he pleases, ‘except - when he Blesses to. do: O:zight —~0, Simmans,
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revival is a very 1 |
ate based on an tion. And it is
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other beating without a ‘whimper? Why don’t they come to the front with influence and votes against any officeholder who sanctions war? I have a volte against any war parker. If my neighbors have a fight, I don’t stick my nose in and I don’t expect them to protect my dollars for me. We are not a peace loving country if wé send sons, ammunition and money to carry on war. If Americans want to live and own things abroad, they belong, there and it isn’t our business. Let them stay there and take the conse« quences. They are not good Americans anyway if they do things to help draw their own country into war. They put aliens and money ahead of American men. Neither is worth
giving our own men for, They may |.
deserve money and prayers but we can’t afford to trade American men for dead foreigners—=or live omnes, either. > 8 8 B
SEEKS MOTIVES BEHIND POLITICAL MOVES.
By 8 Mere Voter
In order to avoid being politically humbugged, we ‘who, are merely voters and not politicians ought to either employ a Sherlock Holmes to figure out for us what is really back of most, it not all, political moves, or we ought to’ turn detective for ‘our own protection. If it must be the latter, we might well borrow and slightly modify - the French
slogan of “Cherchez la femme.” To
make. it applicable to politics it
-{ ought, of course, to be modified to
“look for the personal motive.” Let's try it on Governor Townsend’s recent political move, excomrnunication of Senator V&nNuys
as evidenced by the Washington |
and French Lick edicts. - The answers I get are: (1) That the Governor was making & bid for: the
{ President’s second to Farley's preconvention nomination of Townsend | - been banished .by the selection of Prof. Arnold. Those who believe religiously that the one way out of this depression is sufficiently to restore confidence thai : the vast idle pools of frightened private capital will -
for Vice President; (2) He was making a bid for a job as a Hollywoot build-up artist; ‘or (3) This case is an exception to the rule. If it was the first, it now appears to be a wash-out and he.is trying to find a place oh the McNutt band-
| wagon, If x was the second, he ‘qualifications * be~ |
yond doubt, BS ol he can claim building up Senator VanNuys to 1938" stardom, If it was the third, then we have the answer to the question as to who supplied the brains ‘in’: the McNutt administration. -
UNDERSTAND. | FOR FURTHER REFERENCES, SEE Pore wie Gonp Buc P HENRY JAMES® “THE GOLDEN BOWL, ‘Coup Diggers OF ‘38.
Gen. Johnson Says—
President Roosevelt's Appointees Are Brilliant and Engaging Men, But Their Ideas Hold Up Recovery. ASHINGTON, March 9.—Senator Norris has ‘nominated Mr. Robert Jackson for President. Mr. Jackson is a business-baiter. The Senator also
hates business and especially the utility business. He is the father of the great TVA plan to create a
Federal controlled province out of the pieces and .. powers of several states and to have the Federal Gov-
ernment go into business there. He wants to start similar proceedings in six other provinces comprising all the states. - That there are a good many “mistakes in the TVA accounting on the yardstick theory is becoming quite apparent plus -also
a mess within the authority it= . It at.least calls for in-.
self. vestigation but Senator Norris doesn’t want an investigation. He wants the Administration. controlled antibusiness Federal Trade Commission to whitewash . the TVA and shellac its critics. -
Mr. Jackson goes onward and.
upward from job as chief
Hugh Jo : official business
place is promptly taken by a far more rabid enemy -
of business and the profits and capitalist :system— Prof. Thurman W. rao, The professor is briflians
and candid. . ‘8 »
is 8 little difficult to know exactly what he pro : He appears to want all corporations to. They . -aren’t to have any stich property rights as individuals, - The old idea that what made this country economi. :”
poses, become “an integral part of Government.”
cally was the profit-motive among increasing millions
_ of Americans, is just misguided mumbo-jumbo of the
capitalist system. He says it engagingly, indefinitely and amusingly, but it’s all the stuff of which the third New Dea} was made—no balanced budget, antibusiness, anti«
profits, share-our-wealth, production for use and not - for profits, and a personalized Government of most . of our economic as well as our political empire from . ‘Washington, | i
mE ideas’ and-these men remain in the saddle, Any encouragement. that business may have.
thought it saw in recent developments should have
dare to go to work, feel thet this appointment, of ite
self, is a new setback among many similar influences -
that are pressing the country back into the new wale low of the nine-year depression. :
“This is not because of the men themselves. Senator
Norris is regarded with affection by all who know him,
Mr. Jackson is obviously a brilliant and engaging man,
I have never met Prof. Arnold, but it is plain from ° reading His book that he is a real somebody... But it is
these ideas, now exclusively on top in the President's , which- are almost singly and directly responsible for the present stagnation of investment,
oJecording to Heywood Broun—
Washington Taxi Drivers ‘Are the Smartest Hackmen in ‘America;
This Particular One Has, Reason Enough for Liking Senator Lewis.
‘| make much money in Washington on account of the zoning law, but I have found that Backing | here is a
liberal education. You meet so many in people.”
tif= | once myself. “No,” said the driver,
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