Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 March 1938 — Page 20

_, _ stances free factory buildings.

PAGE

| Tb e Iadirrapolis Times

© (A SCRIPPS-HOWARD NEWSPAPER)

ROY W. HOWARD LUDWELL DENNY - President . . )

Owned and published daily (except Sunday) by The Indianapolis Times Publishinz Co. 214 W, Maryland St.

‘Member of United Press, Scripps = Howard News=-

paper Alliance, NEA Ser reau ot

Price in Marion County, 3 cents a copy; delivered by carrier, 13 cents a week.

Mail subscription rates in Indjana, $3 a year; outside of Indiana, _cents a month.

; : ; , Rlley 5651

Give Light and the People Wilt Pind Their Own Way

«nd Audit BuCirculations.

- FRIDAY, MARCH 25, 1938

DEATH TAKES NO HOLIDAY JNDIAKA APOLIS has made gratifying progress this year in reducing traffic fatalities. The 1938 death toll to date is 13, compared with 82 in the city for the same period last

year. The Marion County area outside the city continues

to be a no-maii’s-land for motorists.

Two auto deaths iin this county area yesterday show how easily any letdown in the safety drive can offset the gains macle in accident! reduction. | One (langerous factor is the marked trend toward leniency shown traffic. violators by certain judges pro tem. in Municip al Court. "| Yeste rday’ s tragedy calls for redoubled efforts by the | éourts anc all other agencies charged with traffic safety. And it is 2 reminder to motorists that safety begins with the indivic ual driver.

THE STATE ‘FINALS OMORI:OW Indianapolis plays host to the annual Indiana state high school basketball tournament. It prom- : ises to be the same spectacular show it has been in the past. Fifieen thousand excited fans will be at Butler Fieldhouse while thousands of others throughout the State will be awziting the results. Occupying the center of the stage will be four teams of high school youths, all hoping for the championship, but all a bit nervous, In the wings will be four coaches, just as hopeful and probably just as nervous. ~Three weeks ago 787 Hooster teams entered tournament play. During those three weeks basketball fans have “seen many of their favorites bow to “dark horses.” Some teams with brilliant season records were conquered, and last week Anderson, the 1937 champion, was eliminated in the local tourney. | Bedford, Column, Hammond and South Side of Ft. Wayne are the four survivors. Tomorrow night Indiana will have a new high school basketball champion, but right now it’s nearly as difficult to select the: winner fiom the four teams as some thought it was from the 7 7817. "

MO] AB OUT F. D. R.’S SPEECH | ERDAY we cheerfully praised. the statesmanlike substamea of President Roosevelt's speech at Gaines- _ ville, . We still think it was a fine speech. 'B It we notice that a great many other newspapers and people, including all that generally oppose him and some that generally support him, passed over the substance and commen’ ed exclusively on the speech’s garnish of demagogy. * Even in his best speeches Mr. Roosevelt apparently cannot resist sprinkling a few name-calling and blameplacing catch phrases—those sure-fire bids for the applause that is music to all orators. - Sometimes we wish Mr. Roosevelt would not do that— and especiall:" when he is speaking for such a fine policy as the one he expounded at Gainesville. For it is a policy that merits and needs support, and the President does not gain support when he invites recrimination. ~~ We should like for the whole country to be talking “today about tie main theme of that speech—that low wages keep down pi irchasing power and breed inefficiency; that better pay bhlds up buying power and promotes efficiency; - that industrie€ paying higher wages, and marketing their products in communities that have greater buying. power, “will win ir’ the competitive battle for business; that it is unwise for ‘the people and industries in any one section to lag behind in the march of progress. But instead, in many influential quarters that speech is remembered only for the bitter phrases in which the President referred to opponents of his program as “feudalists” and placed all blame for holding back Prosperity on the “selfishness of the few.” a . Perhaps one reason why we were attracted by| the substance rather than the forth of Mr. Roosevelt's speech is the fact that our own correspondent, Thomas L. Stokes, has written many articles documenting what the President said. - In his tours of the South, Mr. Stokes—a Georgian, by the way—has reported how certain industries have run away from higher. wages and union labor in the North and East, how th ey have been welcomed in small cities and wns of the South, how they have demanded and received exemption, free water and électricity and in some inAnd how, thus subsidized, many of these industries have paid women and girl factory workers as little as $4 and $5 and $6 a week, how these workers have proved to, be poor customers at the stores, how such industries have brought no prosperity to communities but degraded working conditions, discontent and strife, and heve worn their welcome thin, The President’s speech was a challenge to Southerners, ~ themselves, to correct conditions such as these; it was a challenge to’ Congress to iron out its differences and pass proper wage-hour ese to curb such social and ecohomie erosion.

_ DURR 'FRIEDLY

DURR FRIEDLY, an Indianapolis boy and “graduate of Shortridge Hi h School, contributed greatly to the culture of his country. At .Harvard University he studied under Denman Ross) and later, with that authority on art, went to the Orient to do research work. . He gained recognition as a portrait painter, orked at the ‘Kensington Art School in London, had studios at various times<in Paris and Rome. - : Perhaps his greatest achievement was with the Metro-

_politan Museum of Art in New York,’ where he is given |

much of the credit for developing the American wing that now houses the remarkable rooms of American art. His best-known mural probably is the one he did for the Seaman’s Institut at Newport, R. I. ' | :

MARK FERREE Business Manager }

| MeXico—By Herblock

Fair Enough

By Westbrook Pegler

Your Columnist Can't Understéhd Why the Hotel Business Insists on Preserving the Custom of Tipping.

AN FRANCISCO, March 25.—Mine host the hotelkeeper is a nice enough sort of ing cordiality belies the gnawing headaches of his trade, but I am unable to understand why a business involving such large property values, which insists upon respectable rating in the co Se unable to break itself of the offensive practice of moochery. This refers to the custom | of throwing the help in several dep riments of the hotel business on

the variable generosity of the customers. Some of our hotel men are important figures, large-scale employers and consumers. They have the tact and. firmness of diplomats; they know the laws which are applicable to “their business and many secrets of human nature which most of us are unaware of. Yet the employment policy of the entire trade in those departments where the hired hands come into contact with the customers places both employees and the patrons in an unpleasant and unfair position. The employee's pay is not fixed, and he may be and often is imposed upon by resentful or stingy guests. The guest, on his part, always is conscious that he is misused, for when hé has paid $2 for a small sheet of steak, $1:60 for half a chicken and 35 cents for a sliced orange when oranges are wholesaling at a nickel a dozen, and has paid, in addition, a service charge of 25 cents per head, he is likely to

Mr, Pegler

believe he has met his Pegs

2 2 E feels that the boss ought to pay the waiter and reflects that the hotel man would feel outraged it, on buying a suit of clothes, he were required to hand the clerk $10 and pay the delivery man $1 for bringing it to his home, Nevertheless, he pays for his food and with the best possible show of sporting game-

.ngss hands the waiter something for himself, usually

much more than the traditional 10 pen cent. Knowing nothing of hotel costs, I do not & aggue that the prices charged are high enough to enablé the

managément to. pay the: help fair wages. It may be that the hotel would have to charge even more in that

. case, but at least the waiter and guest would know

how they stood and the unequal distribution of the burden between the shorts and the liberals would be corrected. i. 8 = NIONS have heen making progress in the hotel lines, but even the or d houses still preserve the tip or handout system and no hotel of my acquaintance ever has made an effort to conduct its businéss in the . same way. that department store is run. It should be possible for the hotel man to estab. lish a rate of prices for food and lodgings sufficient to allow his own staff a fair scale and dispel the uncertainty inherent in the tipping system, I am trying to imagine with what calm generosity a hotel corporation on buying 200 dozen sheets from the wholesale house or a thousand gross of bath soap would peel off enough money to equal 10 per cent of i price and toss it over to the clerk who took the Orcaer.

a

Business—By Yohn

Economist Agrees With Rep. Ludlow That the Social Security Tax Is | A Levy on Wage Earners to Raise Sums for Paying Government Debts.

This is not possible. It is better, says the sury, for the Government, when it needs money, to it from this fund, giving the fund Government bonds like any other lender of money to the Government,

EW YORK, March 25.~Congressman Ludlow and the Treasury have been having an argument about the Government's use of the old age security fund. The Treasury collects monthly taxes from payrolls ,and from employers to pay the pensions which will one day be due under the old age pension system established in 1935. ‘The Treasury collects enormous sums e month.: The collections will increase but the amount paid out is insignificant compared With the amount collected and. this will be true for an-

other 30 years. There is now in the fund, after only {

two years of collections, $554,000,000. Congressman Ludlow charges that the Treasury collects these moneys and then spénds them on the current expenses of the Government, putting its I. 0. Us in their place.: He says the Government goes, through the motion of colleéting these moneys and then borrowing and spendijg- them. It amounts, he says, to a legal em! nt of the funds by the Government. In effect ‘it comes to this—that- the Government taxes the wage earners of America in order to raise hundreds of Iniliions of dollars to pay its bills under the pretense of Syaling an old age security fund. . 2 . ‘. »

\HE Treasury replies. that. Mr, Ludlow dosnt

know what he is talking about, that he seems |

Ys think that the Governmen Should collect these

The Hoosier Forum

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

ASKS REDUCTION IN MILK PRICES By a Housewife

An open letter to the Marion|

County Milk ' Administration: I hope the Board can reduce the price of milk to the consumer. It's about time. State is it so high. But before reducing ‘the price of milk paid by distributors to milk producers, the Board ought to inquire into the ability of distributors to stand a decrease in the price of milk without decreasing the price paid to farmers. In the past the Milk Board has seemed too often to function in favor of the disibutors alone. The difference betWeen prices paid ‘to farmers and the price we pay: per ‘quart, the difference between the rate of increase for each has .béen entirely too disproportionate. Incidentally the Milk Board ought fo permit us to buy a gallon of milk at a time at a reduction: in prices, as other commodities ate purchased. I could use a gallon a:/day for my family but-must limit myself to two

.or three quarts because of the cost.

If there is no satisfaction given us in the price of milk, it simply means we'll fight for the abolition of the Milk Board.

MILK ADMINISTRATOR MAKES REPLY

By Leon C; Coller, ! Marion County Milk Administrator '

Answering the above letter, we note the statement that nowliere else in: the State is the price of milk so high as in Indianapolis. In undisputed testimony before the Indiana Milk Control Board an March 9, 1938, evidence was introduced showing that milk prites in Indianapolis are as low or: lower than in other surrounding metro- |

poliian cities, these prices being as ollows: Springfield, Il, 13 cents; Chicago, 13 cents; St. Louis, 14 cents; Cincinnati, 13 cents; Louisville, Ky. 14 cents; Evansville, 12 cénts; South Bend, 12 cents; Gary, 13 cents, and Hammond, 13 cents.

A complete audit by competerit |;

and impartial auditors has been made of all distributors’ books, and we are in a position to kndaw exactly

what it costs to distribute milk. Un- :

less some means can be found to cheapen the cost of distribution, it |:

is not possible to reduce the gon-'

sumer’s price without reducing the, producer’s price.’ If the producer's price were reduced materially, it is probable that either the quality would suffer orf the quantity .would suffer to the extent that a sufficient

Nowhere else in the

(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, religious controversies excluded. Make your letter short, so all can have a chance. Letters must be signed, but names will bé withheld on reguest.)

would not be received by the market for the neéds of the market. The ‘cost of distribution has received more attention by those who have studied it than any other one phase of the milk industry. This high cost is brought about in a

large measure by the exacting demands of the public for special services, housé-to-house delivery, and losses and breakage of bottles outside the distributor’s plant.

Reduction Sought

There are many plans under contemplation for reducing this cost of distribution; some are attually being tested, but-until we know more about the. results it would not be possible .to . make definite recommendations. 1

The statement is made that in|

the past the Milk Board has seemeti

too often to function in favor of the

disiributers alone. The writet seems

to have overlooked the fact that the |

very last price change that was ‘made on. this market gave the producers the advantage of practically the ‘entire amount received. from the market. Concerning the matter of buying

a gallon of milk cheaper than at|

the . [quars rate, this involves . the

BLUEBELLS _ By MAUD COURTNEY, wADDRLL Oftimes In memory Bloom bluebells in the shade—: Mingling fresh smell of cool, clean i th : . :

DAILY THOUGHT Ald truly. the Son of man : goeth,| as it was determined: but woe unto that man by whom he is betrayed !—Luke ‘22:22, )

een

whose domestic treason plants the poniard within the breast that

amount of milk of proper quality trusted t4 his truth.—Lord Byron.

T. Flynn

and paying interest on the bonds.

Nu

W.| Mic

Pigs.

question of quantit; markets where quantity discounts

have been permitted, it has been| found that competition generally|

forced the price down so that those who were buying single quarts were obtaining the quantity discount. This

* | resulted in demoralized price condi-

tions: within the market and generally has resulted in a lower price to producers.

\ } If there were any way-of main-

taining quantity discounts with the assurance that it would not be used by either consumer and distributor as a means of purchasing or selling any amount at the quantity price, there might be some argument in its favor. 8 § 4 POEM WRITTEN ON NAZI-AMERICANS

®

“| By Ruth Shelton

TO A NAZI-AMERICAN

What is your honest aim, pray tell? |

Why do you live here if 80 well You love to goose-step and to yell, “Heil, Hitler!” :

You slight Old Glory flying fair, For swastika—that anywhere Means black. mustache .and drooplock hair Of Hitler,

Nazi-Americans? Untrue! A Yank is ure through and

throug “Bei, Hitler!”

=

But heils too fervid ‘may, my friend,

Make Uncle’s boot-toe swiftly send You back where you can without en

nen, Hitler!” F 2 ® 8 FARMER ATTACKS PLOWING UNDER’ By ® Farmer, Crawfordsville , The farmer wanted to plow under cotton, wheat, corn and destroy Now, here comes the auto manufacturer and wants the Gov-

~

ernment to plow under the auto-

mobile. If the farmer’s idea wouldn't,

- {work, and. we know it won't, how

will this idea work? It won’t be long till the bankers will want to plow under our money. Then we will all be plowed under. The only thing we need to plow

| under is weeds.

If the farmer would plant all his

‘corn in one field and none in { others, what kind of a crop would HERE is no ‘traitor lke in|

he get? This is the way we plant.

our money and our crop is slim. Business is spotted because we don’t :

| sow evenly over the nation.

count. In-all |

Hugh Johnson :

Gan Johnson Says—

The Morgan Controversy in TVA

Demonstrates Why the Government: Reorganization Bill Shouldn't Pass,

EW YORK, March 25—If any demonstration:

were needed that the reorganization bill now

being strong-armed through the Senate, should not pass, it will be found in the Morgan mess inh TVA, The reorganization bill in its original form gave , the President the power of a personal proprietor over: all the independent boards and commissions which are called quasi-legislative and quasi-judicial because to some extent they, like Congress, make the law and, : t like the courts, to some extent judge the law. One difference between a dictatorship and a democracy is that in the former the sam authorit; controls the making, the judging . énd the executioriof the law and “that, in the latter, the three tasks . are religiously kept in separate hands. . the reorganization bill as pro Bees by one sweeping ash, that separation was to be abolished except for Congress and the courts. Senator Byrnes rewrote the bill to except from it some of these boards and commissions; but the bill as first written expressed the intent of the third New Deal. It gave notice of a fundamental purpose to grab more power. ‘ : 2 ® 2 :

HEORETICALLY such concentration of power 1 always has been called dangerous, but maybe

that is just theory. e President himself has said.

| :something to the effect that in other hands the execu- .

tive grab of Congressional and judicial powers would be dangerous to liberty and democracy—theoretically dangerous, but with him practically safe. Well, the . Morgan case doesn’t bear that out. Defying the TVA statute that made Dr. Morgan removable only by Congress, the President fired. him. Dr. Morgan insisted that the law made him respone sible to Congress and would; not permit his case to be prejudged before a one-man - self-appointed judge whom he regarded as biased. _ The Administration’s answer to that is that it is all wet because TVA was oiice upheld in building a. dam because the court held it was built under the war powers and adds that war powers are “executive.” Passing the point that there are many more war | powers that are legislative than any that are executive and the absurdity that firing Dr. Morgan was an exercise of executive war powers, what does this ime piy? It implies that to the extent: that the reorganization bill passes any great board or co on to’ ‘executive control, it becomes automatically subjected: to such one-man dragooning and domineering as the TVA fiasco, :

P course the Fiomety ant to have power to interrogate, discipline, fire and replace any appointed executive individual. But these major come missions are not individuals. They are great govern . ments within government, If they are to be regarded as a sort of military oligarchy commanded by the Executive rathér than agencies of Congress merely administered “by the . President, that distinétion alone goes 4 great- distance ‘toward one-man rule with all its arbitrary ahd hate- | ful consequences—such as we have just sien: in the Morgan case. : That is the effect if not the purpose of the reorganization bill even as improved by Senator Byrnes.

According fo Heywood Broun—

A Debate in Which a Councilman Attempts to Show He Was an y Unwise Investor Reminds Your Columnist of His Career in the Stock Market,

YORK, March 26.—A strange debate was put;

hael Quill, Jabor leader and member. of the muMichae legislature, an unwise speculator established his case.

y in the New York City Council.

undertook to prove that he was rather than 5 shrewd one. He

> But this reply reveals that the Treasury misses the point entirely. The truth is that this episode in

taxation is one of the most grotesque instances of

taxation and public finance in our whole history, and if a Republican administration had attempted to get

away with it the Democrats would have made the

air bive with denunciasion., 8 =» =» ne : F course no intelligent man wants the Treasury to segregate these moneys in currency and coin and keep them for 20 or 40 years. If it did the taxes collected would one day amount to from 30 to 40 billion dollars. There isn't that much currency or coin in the world,

‘What intelligent critics want is to put. a stop to the collection of these taxes. The Government is charging old age an unconscionab! price for their security. = - It is not an honest tax or an honest plan, le buiievs, this. Yet it could

sub ls 1 but it

"Recently an opponent on the Tammany side of the. chamber hurled the ugly dhnres that Mr. Su was at one time a man of great Health, th, possessing 81 throygh manipulations in Wall 8 And when Michael's chance Sn to rise to a point

of personal ‘privilege he hotly insisted, and with sup-.

that he had been in. the capitalist

porting class for only three days, and then to the extent not

i

EE eam odd. Quill demon-.

‘of $500, he’

oo a ea a shoestring had ended with $92.38. mt it seemed to me that he was endeavoring io make the point that he was

Something less than the daziing of We caplialigh ove | x

4 working newspaperman. Seemingly, Quill and I

started our stock market career at approximately the | same time. It was during the Hoover gold rush which began right on the heels of Coolidge prosperity. = I was no small-time Wall Street wolf like Quill. § began with $1000 in hard earned ‘capital. And presently I had two and then five and for a few fleeting hours almost 10, Naturally, my commitments were far more Considerable than my ‘capital. They ran into big figures. During the days of the great delusion I had my gar in'oil and fron and. the Key, raironds of

the country. “als

N. those. days the sound investor Deeded to do-fio TEMES become ime owner: ‘shares, peak af the boom © was listed as the ensprenen of es. running. something a above 100 th And that meant tha T honestly bad $9,950 8m achu | spending money. But 1 was tot sulently dal

t

_