Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 March 1938 — Page 12

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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23, 1938

PRESIDENT WELLS . A FTER interviewing educators throughout the country Indiana University trustees yesterday elevated to the presidency Dean Herman B. Wells, who has served as acting hezd of the university since Dr. William Lowe Bryan's “retirement last June. :

De an Wells was appointed unsntiiously by the trus-'

tees, Who praised the 35-year-old candidate for his “practi- * cal wisdom, admirable temperament and high ideals.” Already President Wells has demonstrated a keen sense of educational leadership and progressiveness. He succeeded Dr. Bryan at a time when many faculty members of long service had reached the retirement age. A vast “building program was underway, and enrollment was in- .. creasing each semester. : _ Under his direction most of the construction program has been seeking capable successors for the retiring faculty members - and derartment heads. Recently President Wells has appointed a faculty committee to analyze the university's administrative and academic status with a view to recom- “ mending changes to promote efficiency. : President Wells’ experience in the educational and * business fields has given him a well-rounded background. - We congratulate him and wish him every success.

~ DELAY HURTS TVA : HE last of the great dams planned by the ‘Tennessee Valley Authority, and one of the most vital to the . whole program of flood control, navigation and power development, is proposed for Gilbertsville, Ky., near the mouth of the Tennessee River. Yesterday the House defeated, 186 to 157 , an-appropri-ation of $2,600,000 to start work on the Gilbertsville Dam. If Congress and the public had confidence that TVA

. . was being managed properly, it would be impossible for

TVA’s enemies to block an essential part of the program. President Roosevelt has not restored confidence by ordering Chairman Morgan's removal. Congress can restore confidence, by an investigation which will expose anything that may be wrong and clear the way to set everything right. Every friend of TVA, everyone who wants the program carried through, should be demanding that investigation without further delay.

UNCOISCIOUS HUMORISTS EXICO grabs the properties of foreign oil companies— and sends a self-righteous note to the League of Nations, declaring Germany’s grab of Austria “illegal” and therefore “inadmissible.” The Nazis, trampling ruthlessly over minorities in Austria 2nd elsewhere, fire an ultimatum that Germany just will not tolerate suppression of the German minority in Brazil. The reply of Brazil's Foreign Minister Aranha, an eloquent shrug, is understandable. He has not forgotten, though zpparefitly the Nazis have, that the North and South Atlantic Oceans roll between Germany and Brazil. And as a prize touch of irony, the Nazi chief censor proposes that other nations negotiate “press nonaggression pacts” with Germany, under which they would censor all public: expressions of opinion about German affairs. That gives us, for example, a chance to get on good terms with Hitler. All we have to do is abolish our bill of rights.

THE YOUNG AND THE OLD

BOUT one-fifth of the human beings in this country are more than 15 and less than 25 years old. Many of them are schoolchildren and young people not ready to go to work. But that one-fifth of the population accounts for nearly one-third of the unemployment in America. \ Anott ier one-fifth of the human beings in this country . are more than 45 and less than 65. Many of them are housewives; or retired people, or people too infirm to work. And that one-fifth of the population accounts for about one-fourth of the unemployment. These are the conclusions to be drawn from the unemployment. census figures made public yesterday, The figures, to'be sure, were for only 16 states, but complete returns:are not likely to be widely different. : Amonz our people of working years, who need work and want work, the curse of unemployment falls heaviest on those under 25 and those over 45. And, as President Roosevelt said yesterday, each of these groups feels that its problem is paramount. But so long as there aren’t jobs enough to go around it seenis inevitable that this condition will continue. Those in their prime will continue to hold an advantage, and the young and the elderly will compete with each other. It is: 2 dark prospect, of youth denied opportunity to begin work and of age denied opportunity to continue work. To fmd a way of avoiding that is the greatest challenge faced by American government and American industry.

THE AN. NUAL WAGE . \NE answer to ‘the problem of seasonal unemp.vjiuent was given Jn a Senate committee hearing by Jay C. Hormel, a Minnesota meat packer, who told of his experiment. with the. annual wage in his big plant. : The FE ormel plant adopted the annual, or “straight time,” wag: in 1931 to iron out the peaks and valleys of employmen’, common to the packing industry. Instead of working it= men by the hour this firm budgets its labor costs and o° 4put over the year. Each worker gets a yearly _ contract which assures him of 52 equal pay checks.. Hormel workers average $29.23 a week, or $1. 79 above the ins dustry’ s average, Yet they put in an average of only 35, 6 hours a weck, or 4.9 hours below the average. i, pl: 1 does not pay its way in dollars and cents set

MARK FERREE

ered by carrier, 12 cents

completed. He has spent much of the past year

sters’ Union, and he will fight an allied union

‘union boycotts and embargoes and commerce both suffer privation at’ tthe warlike . Mr. Lewis apparently gest} know

Fair Enough

By Westbrook Pegler

Lewis, in Scoring Government and Industry, -Apparently Is Unaware Of the Union vs. Union Struggles.

AN FRANCISCO, March 23.—In a radio broadcast to Great Britain last week John L. Lewis blamed industry and the American Government for the failure of this country to meet the problems of the new dgpression and rebuked the statesmen for squabbling and reviling in a terribly critical time.

Mr. Lewis was either uninformed or ‘purposely eva-

sive regarding the breakdown of commerce and a large degree of the unemployment on the Pacific

Coast, where most of the labor troubles arise from jurisdictional fights between unions of his own C.-I. O. and William Green's A. F. of L. and from rivalries between component unions within the two big parent organizations. Dave Beck, senior Pacific Coast : vice president of the Teamsters” Union and late boss of Seattle, has sworn to fight Harry Bridges, West: Coast director of the C. I: O., to a. knockout. He also has sworn to’ fight the Brewery. Workers” Union of his own ‘American Federation; of Labor to the sammie conclusion."

In the course of these and other Eraser for power, ing

dues and large blocks of members, industry and the rank and file workmen ave caught in the middle. Commerce halts and the men lose wages. * “But,” says Mr. Beck, “you can’t fight a war without hurting noncombatants, and I will make only one prediction—things are going to get a lot worse before they get any, better.” ” & Rod ME: BECK long ruled as ‘politico-labor boss of the Northwest, where the unions governed by strongarm ‘methods and businessmen were drawn into restrictive groups to regulate prices and curtail competition. ‘Seattle is his stronghold, but his power there appears to have been diminished by the recent defeat

of his radical mayor, John F. Dore.

Dore was beaten for re-election by Arthur B. Langlie, but Beck now claims ‘to own a piece of Langlie, having thrown ‘his support to him after Dore was eliminated in the primary. However, Langlie did not ask for this support and has acknowledged .no obligation. The C. I. O. supported Vietor Myers, who lost to’ Langlie and therefore is definitely on the losing side. Beck is a naraiion. professional labor leader. He is 43 years old, about 5: feet 10, chunky, blue-eyed, red of face and red-haired, with more than a start toward baldness. He has “thick “hands, no longer calloused, and thick, stout wrists. As he talks he bangs his fingers of his right ‘hand on the palm of his left. He speaks grammatically, but his voice: roars ag he warms to his fights with Bridges and the brewery workers.

. Beck claims to have no interest but the Seam-, ihe

A. PF. of L. as furiously as he fights Bridges to tain or extend. his lines. -

# ” ” * BEX doesn’: even pretend that the employers are at fault in these fights beyond suspecting that

they hope the strife will crack labor’s front. In the fight to possess the brewery drivers h$. Blames only:

the rival A. F. of L. union. Beck's other great fight .is a countersoferisive to

drive Harry Bridges back from his “inland ‘march”

from the waterfront. The A. F. of L. was caught

asleep and lost the longshoremen and warehousemen #

to Bridges and the revolutionary wing. Beck is frying to recapture the warehousemen. These cases are mere samples. The condition is general.

So union strikes against union, union plekets union;

whim of leaders. what goes on.

Business—By ohn

It Is a Grave Mistake. for: Congress to Put a Tax on Small Incomes | ‘Without Abolishing the Numerous Hidden Levies on Commodities. |

The income tax base should be broadened, buf it should not be broadened unless a corresponding

NTEW YORK, March 23—The demand for a broad1 N ened base of the income tax is coming in for a curious kind of approval, Senator La Follette and’ others have insisted upon the wide use of the income | tax as a means of national revenue: has gotten nowhere until now. But riow the Government finds itself seemingly short of revenue in its 1939 estimates. Knowing nowhere else to turn, it begins to look with some favor on Senator La Follette's proposals for income taxes upon smaller incomes.

But the whole idea of income taxes upon all incomes, large and small, must-go hand in hand with another idea—namely, the abolition of various kinds of commodity taxes which the Government imposes. At present the great burden of taxes is borne by people of moderate incomes. They pay these taxes not on their'incomes but on all sorts of hidden levies. The advocates of the income tax insist that these hidden levies are a grave injustice to the poor and to those with small incomes, because they are hidden

and people Dey Shem th prices a: sores 5d 26 1,

tax collectors. i

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BUT mo sopuren Congress is toying vith the

And workmen

* The Hoosier F orum

1 wholly disagree ‘with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

SAYS CITY IS NOT MAKING GARBAGE COLLECTIONS By W. R. Folger We have been in for two or three years to get ‘garbage taken away from the point where I live. I carry my garbage pail out ‘every Monday morning and back every

Monday. night—as do my neighbors

—and it has not been collected for 13.weeks. Next to me are two vacant lots . . garbage, ashes, tin cans, are strewn over the lots . . . in ‘summer it will be unbearable. : : I have telephoned . the Health Board with no success. I have gone

{in person and have been told an in-

spector would be sent; but, although 1 stayed home for two days no inspector appeared. The ‘Health Board advised me to. call a Mr. Wilson at the reduction plant at Raymond and Harding Sts. When I did this, I was told they knew of no Mr. Wilson—and advised me to go to the Board of

Health.

.. I.read:in The Times about two fie to make war on garbage thieves: My invitation to the thieves is still out, since the City trucks pass our corner every week but never stop to pick up our garbage.

EDITOR'S NOTE—City, sanitation officials ‘said they would give the complaint their immediate attention. . # # =» G. 0. P. MUST TAKE STAND ON PENSIONS, READER SAYS

By R. R. Bulgin

I was interested in two letters appearing recently in the Forum. One of them protested the act of Congress in granting a $5000 petision to the widow of President Harrison. The other letter was from a Mrs. Bennett whose pension had just been cut from $20 to $15: a month. Mrs. Bennett had reared a large family, none of whom was able to care for her.. How many children did Mrs. Harrison rear? In .a conversation with ‘a couple of Republicans concerning Mrs. Bennett’ they remarked, “That's the way the Democrats do.” Then I reminded them that three of the five members of the Welfare Board are Republicans and that the chairman | of the Board is Judge Miller, a Republican. My impression is that as elections approach the Republicans must tell the aged and their friends what they propose to do in the matter of State pensions. 1 am informed that Club 93 of the All Americans of Indiana is draft-

ing a bill, to be presented. to the |

next Legislature, making it manda-

tory to pay all those oi 65 years or

more a monthly pension, o $35 and providing the privilege of earning

$15 aboye that. sn

SOCIALISM "SEEN AS ‘WAY ouT OF SLUMP

By Jasper Douglas

“Under the present insane capital- ’

istic, monopolistic, profit-grabbing ‘system, taxation is indeed a prob-

‘| lem. Tt is all right to say. that the

‘heaviest tax should be levied on those who are most able to pay; | but "it is impossible to put the bur-

That demand |

“den on the rich and make it stick. i Whatever tax the eapitalist ‘has

I: Flynn

duction Is made in ty taxes ‘There has been an immense.

amount of talked Shout Rot VEIng taxes to achieve tof sgnsonse | impose tases without producing

It is impossible to

Tax a poor Sohe Purchasing mowes out Of the market. “Tax a rich “man and you take investing power out

8.8 x

w | ago that thie-police were:gge Hor 8 Starving families behind them

A joy through time.

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to pay is added to his cost and passed on in price to the consumer. In this way, he crawls out from under and throws the burden on the great buying masses. With a sales tax, the poor have to pay the tax on every cent of their income, for they have to spend it all; while the rich, spending perhaps 5 per cent of their income, pay the sales tax on that small part only. Processing taxes paid by producers are always handed on to the ultimate buyer. . . .

Then there is the problem of the unemployed who have to be kept for: starving men’

are a dangerous mob and can only be kept from rioting by feeding them. With the prevailing idea that these people need work, money is borrowed from the rich so that the ‘Government can make work to supply this need. Materials for that work are bought from the capitalists with: plenty ‘of profit. Then taxes have to be tacked onto everything possible to meet the Bones at maturity. {

Profit System Cannot Work

The truth is, and people are finding it out at last, that the profit system is not and never will again ‘work .smoothly. It is nonsense to ‘talk of industry ever absorbing the unemployed; for, with machinery now producing a hundred times ‘wha? could be produced by human hands, never again will all the men and women who live ' by labor be needed in the production field. There is but one way out of the recession (which is only chapter two of the same old depression with more to follow); and that is that the nation must own the industries; employ every man and woman who wants a job, sell products at cost without profit to idle owners. Then we will have no more depressions, no more unemployment problem and no taxes of any kind-other than the addition of a few cents to the price of some of the manufactured

"MARCH MAGIC

By MARY P. DENNY March glories .shine In skies of blue, And in the gold Of sunsets after rain One glory strain, ‘That out of winter cold - © Proclaims all life anew,

DAILY THOUGHT

Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, . 0 God, thou God of my salvation; and my tongue shall sing aloud thy righteousness. —Psalms 51

HE narrow soul knows not the

godlike glory of stargiving— Rowe.

re=

man and you | made by the feet

And the cry of a

of the ‘market. - A

articles to meet Government need for extra money. Will that be socialism? Undoubtedly; but a rose loses none of its sweetness-by calling it a skunk cabbage. Whatever name we call it,. it

| will be the co-operative common-

wealth, with equal opportunity for

.|all and poverty for none.

: # 8 = ATTACKS PRESS PACTS OF DER FUEHRER By B. C. :

One of the most childish things Europe’s problem boy has attempted is his plan to get the newspapers of other nations to stop saying mean things about him. Denouncing “journalistic ' panic mongering” as one of the greatest threats to world peace, Herr Hitler asks inclusion’ of so-called nonsettlement of Europe’s problems. .- In plainer words, the Great Man can’t take it.

There exists what the boys refer to as “a sneaking suspicion” that Der :Fuehrer has the press of the United States particularly in mind. The difficulty in that case is, of course, ‘that the U. S. Government can’t put the ‘silencer on the American press as the Government is able to do in Germany. -And the greater difficulty is that the Amer-

ican people don’t want their Gov-

ernment ever to get in a position where it can do: so. Herr Hitler's on is pretty ridiculous, but he has the habit of getting ridiculous things done. Since the Reich already has concluded nonaggression- press pacts with Italy, Poland and Hungary and is attempting to negotiate one with France, it is perhaps not too soon to start carping about Herr Hitler's complaint that he is being eritized, ” n 2 DEFENDS WHIPPING OF WIFE-BEATER By’ J. Ww. W. I disagree with the mene” “of Interested Reader in the Forum recently concerning the wife-beater who fainted at the end of 20 lashes. I wish Indiana and all other states: had public whipping posts

such as Delaware has. It would be a.

cure-all for men who beat their wives, who fail to support them, who run around with other women, who won't work and who lie around drunk. This would be a better place to lve and a wife would be more protected. I am not hard-hearted but I feel this Husband got what was coming to him. Interested Reader surely must not have very ‘much respect for women. ’ J ” » 2 DRGES ABOLITION OF BUSINESS DUPLICATION

By H. L. 8S.

- Since the President is proposing a |

National Planning Council to ‘“‘regulate”: competition. in a capitalist economy, he also should establish a

‘| national board for abolishing all the

useless duplication of small business

wise the useless grocery, drug store, dry cleaner, milk truck, bakery, laundry, coal and ice service.

4. { Half of the population is em-

ployed at jobs that add-nething in consumer profits. That goes as well for business as for our litical organizations. “t

N= YORK, March 23 Francisco. Franco, Gen- | eralissimo, how do you sleep of you ate not sensitive to sounds. Bits scream can be distracting. - Even a moan may murder sleep. To some | there is a nightmare quality in the surlous hth &

ws nok Tear’ to

nights? Possibly

of hundreds running for their lives: SHA in anguish seamy, polgnARE

"And. so, Francisco Franco, your lob .rib a

- serve as a front yard for a doghouse. |enterprise that gives us five filling | stations where one would do; like-

T the present: time there is no trouble with the - purchasing activities of the poor man. He spends ‘to the limit of his powers. You cannot

would spend and paying it out te someone else who will spend it. But you may take from a rich man money which he will not invest and which therefore will Top be spent and’ ‘Pay. it out to’ people who will

1” Tk ae thing 1s Sletals Its 8 grave mistake to the spending powe

any more burdens on mass of small spenders. It is impossible thelr tax burden now: It is fhtelligent. by making it v

r of ine "i

ibly in-. crease purchasing power by taking money which he.

diy of your. d

one, You must live on until the ringing in may discover: that it is

with this savage Even a Generalissimo | sible to stay the thing he has begun. in the night may set up a ‘pebbles tossed into a pond.‘ Franco; more issue an effective order for a ar nln Be ~Unose mi ‘children make when e.

Soup ea x "Bombs Ch

Gen. Johnson

Says—

The Potential Death-Teap af the Aerial Front Door of Washington Is a Matter of National Concerns

ASHINGTON, March 23—Here is something from a letter written to me by a distinguished and public spirited aviator about the situation in the BAC. BAC means “Bureau of Air Commerce.” My fan letter was about a. column I wrote panning the Bureau for too much bureaucracy and not enough common sense in supervising the construction of aire

planes. This is a crack from another angle: “And while you are about it, please very much say something about that frightful Washington airport mess. Every time I fly over it I'm thankful I'm a military pilct and may land at Bolling in stead of risking my life at the other place. But I also wonder that our democracy doesn’t stand on its hind legs and for pride’s sake do something about it. It is things like that from which dictators get their arguments. - “And, of. course, it all goes back to the BAC, If that organe ization were headed up by execue tives and doers instead of parlor politicos and lawyers, a real plan would have been put to Congress long years ago, and pushed and pushed and pushed by the BAC until something was done. But the whole job has been left apathetically in the lap of Congress, and that body being made up entirely of Congressmen and not airnien, is still ‘making surveys,’ accord= ing to latest dispatches, over 12 long years. after the problem was first recognized.” * 8 = HE Washington airport is. wrong every Way=too small, badly located and designed, intersected by an arterial highway, treacherous and, above all, dangerous. I think the very hazard of takeoffs aiid land ings there has something to do with the fact that there have not heen more accidents. Greater precautions have to be taken than at a. ‘decent field and the fact that there is more danger keeps everyone alert. But that is no proper consideration for maine taining a potential death-trap at the aerial front door

‘Hugh Johnson

-of ‘our capital city. It is a matter of national and

not merely local pride and concern. What the letter says is right. There are vat least two other excellent sites. Everybody admits and no‘body: challenges these criticisms of the present tere minal. Politicos and private interest keep the move for change stopped. - It is an: official lethargy tha} will probably only be broken by some frightful ‘disaster. When that comes there will be no place to put the blame except on the shoulders of the .people response sible for pot Femoving ! a Tigh recognized by everybody,

pRarFc at this ot . rere heavy for its focilities. It ‘will increase as Federal functions increase. Some of it is official and necessitous—men flying in public-service, not because they want to but because they must. This isn’t to say that there is any more reason to care for their safety than of that of the flying public everywhere and all the time —but certainly there is no less reason. ~ Finally, a good point in the letter is that there ought to be some element of pride in providing aire port facilities at the national capital at least fit to

"No airport in the country is entirely satisfactory. Aircraft are developing in size and speed faster than the development of Hels 2Azale for het Jepeption. But of all the im airpo n—an I think I have iin all—the ‘Washington, airport is by long odds the worst. - ‘That consideration alone should be enough to get something. done about this dangerous and i gendition-

According to Heywood Broun

There Is No ‘Ope. on Earth Who Could. Say, ‘Francisco Franco, You

May Walk Forty Into the Sunlight a Man Pure of Heart and Stainless."

pliment. “you. Poking about among the ruins; he ‘seems to say “Neat work, old fellow.” 3

I say that the Atlantic Monthly is neither broad 1 nor:

BY {docp enoupnto wns aff sie swaps.