Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 March 1938 — Page 10

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CONGRA ULATIONS FE AL Ind. ana congratulates ‘South Side of Ft. Wayne, Indians’ s 1938 high school basketball champion. 2 The F. Wayne team came through’ a difficult tourna‘ment schec/le to defeat Hammond in a thrilling final game at Butler cows Saturday night. For tie first time the State's basketball supremacy s passes to s~northern Indiana city and for the first time in the 27 yee: "8 i of tournament play to a city of more than 40, 000 por, slation. : It we: a cleanly played tourney, 15,000 fans saw an excallent “nal contest, and Hammond's won the bh: zhly prized Gimbel award.

So it would seem there was glory" enough for all con-.

cerned.

: ASYLU I

VERY American should be. ssoud. that Secretary Hull nos

appe-led to 29 other nations to join with the United ‘States ir offering asylum to political refugees from Austria

“andr Ger nany, Eve v American should be glad that President Roose-

velt has axplained that the State Department’s appeal is

.inte nded also to aid minorities in ‘Russia, Spain and Italy. | It vas fitting that the United States should take the lead in‘ }is co-operative endeavor. It was in keeping with an Ame ican tradition much. older than the United States

.Governrent itself. For three centuries and more this new

.world hs been a haven for the oppressed of the old world. The fou: “ders of our republic intended that it should always welcom- the victims of persecution in other lands. The great Carl Schurz escaped from Germany in another time of turmoil, 90 years ago, and became as useful ‘a citizen as/ America ever had. The parents of Louis Dem‘bitz B “ndeis, best loved member of the Supreme Court, were 2 mong those who came then seeking freedom. Our i ‘rom the presence of political refugees and their descendants would be impossible to estimate. It is not proposed to throw open the doors of this or any oer country to an unmanagable flood of Immigrants. The, present quotas would be observed. Dor.is it proposed. to aid exclusively the members of any 1oce or the adherents of any faith, Jews who are persecited and Christians who find ‘it “impossible to submit tg Nazi rule would be helped alike. So with oppressed ~ groups in Italy, Spain and Russia. What is proposed is that nations which still believe in freel¢m shall welcome the refugees in such numbers as their present laws permit, and shall ‘unite in asking the + dictatorships to let these people £0. : + (reat Britain, it is said, will agree to detreinry Hull's

‘We hope that the response from other pations

ror osal. No time should be lost in

:will be prompt and favorable.

i star ing the great work which the suggested international

1 : com mittee can, do. ‘DA NGER: GO SLOW

: iE : TS ~~ g. Senate votes today, is a hodgepodge measure. T majority. of the members of the Senate obviously wa t to send the bill back to committee for further study fan public 'hedrings, sq. that a less dangerous and more aodiivey constructive measure may be perfected. A The country, in our opinion, will be greatly relieved if a fority of the Senators vote in line with their personal ~3es and convictions: fs

) But for reasons hard to comprehend the Administra-

“tio” is employing unusual political pressure to force passage fof e bill in its present form. Doubtful Senators are being Zen ced with promises of patronage. Those up for re-election : Tthi* year are being threatened with Administration opposi-

Hic in their home. states. States are being warned that

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‘tho may lose WPA projects unless the Senators support ithe bill -Senators- ‘especially. interested in certain Govern‘ment bureaus are being promised that ‘these. particular 2aus will not be reorganized if they support the bill. These threats and promises are being used in an effort jailroad through Congress a bill surrendering powers of gress.” How the Pifident intends to use those powers he has not said, and the bill provides no adequate restraints. ‘ What's the rush? Where's the fire? len ergency to justify such a vast surrender of Congressional po wer. Sponsors of the bill admit thaf it will not reduce

cost of Government. Their one plea is that it will

din srease efficiency... But wouldn't it “be wiser to send the

“pill back to committee and have its sponsors let the country |

in on the secret about how efficiency will be achieved? The only present emergency in this country is a busi1°88 emergency, and it is due primarily to the fact that

jvate capital is not going into productive enterprises in.

e volume needed. The Senate is working out a tax bill signed to correct past errors and, to encourage private vestment. 3

The good effects of that prospective tax revision might :

1sily be wiped out by the uncertainties which passage of lie reorganization bill would inspire. The Administration en win no lasting victory when it has to resort to intimigation and political bribes. For the good of the country and 3 dong-range good of the s New Del, the bill should be sent

Persons who have not voted previously in Marion

Bobby Mygrants

‘Government Reorganization Bill, upon which the

“There is no

Far Encush : By Westbrook Pegler

Dave Beck s Co-operation’ With the |

California Truckers May Result in Banishing Farmers From the Roads.

~AN FRANCISCO March 28; —It will: come under

the heading of new business to consider labor organization as a menifestation of the Fascist spirit, for the alarmist accusation ‘commanly points the finger in the opposite direction, But under fascism the unions are supposed to be patriotic organizations with a mission to repel the revolutionary left by cooperating with business under the discipline of the

state and we are beginning to find right-wing labor,

bosses here who have mixed purposes. Mr. Dave Beck, the head man of the Teamsters’ Union on the Pacific Coast, is a unioneer of the patriotic type. He had two years of high school and went to the war as an aviation mechanic. He hates angi baits Communists, and proclaims his purpose to cooperate .with business so that.

‘capital may make a dollar, too, :

So far all right, but up in Seattle, where Mr. Beck formerly was LRRLY. absolute boss, this co-operation Mr. Pegler took an unexpected turn. He cooperated ‘with capital, and’ business suddenly began to co-operate back with “the result that businessmen

“became union organizers, compelling their men to

join unions lest ‘their stores and plants be embargosd for maintaining the open shop.

2 2 ® : 4 Bali brought unions and businessmen into a very cozy relationship under the Government of a city administration which was elected and controlled by Mr. Beck. Not all business, of course, but enough of business to run things in co-operation with Mr. Beck, pressed the advantage to regulate competition and maintain prices at a high level through a method amounting to an informal licensing system. A businessman who plays liall with a union under a dictatorship naturally expects the union to play ball with him. Mr. Beck did not do these things officially. They were done by businessmen who, by yielding to the demands of labor, had become fair-haired

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and junior partners in power.

. Too much conpetition meant close pricing and

price cutting, and the unions held a regulatory author-

ity in| their power to boycott and picket any business which intruded on the zone or undercut the prices of a . in good standing. ] 8.8 =u M* ‘BECK is as frank as a child in his assertion land exercise pf the right. and power to “crucify” any business. “Crucify” is his .own word for the operation. Sometimes he finds it necessary to do this to an industry which is trying hard to co-operate but can’t. for reasons beyond its control.’ ] Now, if California Mr, Beck is eager to co-operate with the trucking firms. ‘His primary purpose is to make jobs for teamsters, but the effect of his ultimatum against the California farmers would be to

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banish them from their own roads in their own state.

Mr. Beck has decreed that no farmer may haul store goods back from the city to-the rural districts for his neighbor or anyone except himself. The neighbor

or other person must pay a trucking company to do

this hauling even though many farm trucks ride back empty from the market. The trucking firm will hire teamsters and will be very co-operative with Mr. Beck.in return for the chance to make a dollar.

By John

ys of the regime |.

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Joosier Forum : ; 1 wholly | disagree with what you say, but will hh . . defend. to the death your right to say ite—Voltaire,

SAYS COMMISSION TO BLAME IF UTILITY RATES ARE HIGH

By Yoice in the Crowd : . In my comments in the Forum

tric current. Why should I?’

are paying an unjust price for current in Indianapolis no one is to blame except the people’s commis-

plant to get justice, when you should get it for practically nothing from the Public Service Commission.

does not serve, it is just one more point against political operation of enterprise. Thé blame certainly should not fall on the erican principles of private enterprise. | I do make i. a point that in comparing rates of publicly owned with privately owned utilities, these comparisons are entirely unjust if the tax item is not a factor in the-com-parison. For instance, if we pay a private corporation one dollar, and the corporation returns 30 cents into our tax fund for taxes in all of the brackets, we are better off than if we paid 70 cents to a municipally owned plant and had to make up further tax deficits out of our pockets. Why should a community assume the obligations of capital enterprise? Political management: just isn’t as economical as private management,

and if all the factors are considered’

the fact stands out, When you buy from a private corporation you know what you are paying and you pay at one window, Buy from a municipal corporation and you may not know the cost and you might pay at ‘two windows without realizing it. So far as the profits that leave /the city and state are concerned, I claim that it makes no difference. Thousands of people are living in Indianapolis because our meat produets, canned goods, radios, pills, chains, road machinery, saws and what

and the profits return here. Profits go where they belong.. For instance, if you buy a gallon of gasoline in Indianapolis the gross profits are scattered Texas. We get our share—Texas gets its.

yore lew CITES IMPROVEMENTS INDIANAPOLIS NEEDS By C. W.

several dozen improvements Indianapolis must make in order to be classed as anything but an overgrown country town. First, of course, is the smoke problem. It appears that the death rate from respiratory diseases will be the greatest in the country; the sun blotted out completely;

1. Flynn

opposing municipal ‘ownership of utilities, I have only tried to/defend four _ greatest Rational asset—indi- | vidual initiative. I have never tried to defend the rates charged for elec-

The people of Indiana have a Commission whose duty it is to see that first the people are served at a

just cost, second to see that private enterprise gets a fair return. If we

sion. You don’t have to buy a light

If the Public Service Commission

have you, are shipped all over the |: |counfry and the world,

Offhand there seem to be only

and the| populace groping around needee

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(Times readers are invited’ to. express their views in. these’ columns, religious cons’ teoversies excluded. : Make, your letter short, so all: ‘can have a chance, Letters. must. be signed, but names will be’ 5 withheld on request)

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in Soot with, handkerchiefs over their noses before factories, offices, stores and apartments will be com-

| pelled to install smoke-consuming If this were accomplished

devices. (and it will be when the public refuses to put up with the situation any longer), the streets and sidewalks kept decently clean all the year, adequate sewers furnished for the North Side, pedestrians forced to cross only with the lights, and policemen trained to be civil, Ingdianapolis might become more habitable. The street railway system is very good, the public libraries and schools are adequate, and some fegtures: of - public. life here are comparable to other centers of population, but that does not excuse the glaring neglect of other features mentioned above, which are in some respects more important. Lees LIQUOR AND PRIMARY REFORMS URGED By R. G. L. - .

I should like to see two sadly

‘needed reforms effected: The aboli-

tion of the port-of-entry system and the subjecting of senatorial and gubernatorial candidates to the primaries. Unless

cipation in State and National Government will be ag farcical as elections of ‘ism’ governments in Europe. - The administration bosses sare said to be taking no chances. Consequently, now is the time to get something done. For unless there is a general hue and cry, the status

quo will continue, because it guar-

antees victory in State and Nagional elections. &lenators are chosen by delegates at a convention. That's a cus left; over from horse-and-buggy and corduroy road days. We elect delegales at primaries in most in-

stances because they will suppdrt a | to various communities from here to |.

"ONCE I THOUGHT— By DANIEL FRANCIS Ciavoe

I am no more a poet—

Though on earth I'll live my time,

The greatest bliss there is, - The bliss. of writing rhyme, I nevermore shall know. I must travel the shaded ways The rest of my sarshly days.

DAILY THOUGHT |

Ye are bought with a price: be :

not ye the servants of men.--I Corinthians 723.»

O’man is free who i$ not master of himself. —Epictetus.

Congress Should Study the Effects of the RebinsonPatman and | | .

Miller-Tydings Acts to See if They Have Aided Small Business.

cents. Small stores didn’t like this. They. said the big | ° retailers could sell this article at three for 10 cents ‘and take a loss in order to bring people into the store. As a matter of fact, this company did not take a loss on this article but made a moderate profit selling it three for 10 cents. This was possible because it got a discount from the manufacturers. did not buy in such large quantities and hence got | no discount. But they were A to sell at three

EW YORK, March 28. —There are two acts on the statute books passed by the last Congress

which ought to be dispassionately studied. One of

them js the Robingon-Patman act and the other is

the Miller-Tydings act. Both aré founded on the philosophy of businessmen now so popular, that the way to prosperity is to: hold ‘prices up, and on the

other philosophy, that the Government must contin-

ually interfere to help businessmen.

“The Robinson-Fatman act Drevents quantity dis

ller-Tydings act

counts to large distributors, The Mil put a

enables’ producers and manufacturers to

price on their products and compel distributors. to

sell only at that price. Both are-adopted to prevent retailers from selling their products at lower prices. ‘the protection of the businessman and against the consuming public. But the laws having now been in effect for sometime, Congress ought to make a study

to see whether or not they are really protecting busi- |

nessmen and whether or not they are protecting the little businessmen or big ones.

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~HIS is 5 oupeiod by a fact which has Vit come | to my attenijon. A very large chain store sys- | . which handles some 10 or 15 thousand items of merchandise, has been looking over its business to see how it is being affected by the Robinson-Patman Act. |: It discovers that marked effect has been Toticeshle.

mom one article of ve hed he an article, Voli ws we.nee large concern sells at t thres

Both are for |

for 10 because the large.

the etinsom Batis ad was: Soesiad : Thereafter the big chain: id nob wet its. former

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Small dealers

‘LIQUOR

these ‘are brought about, elections and parti-:

certain

does nob necessarily follow. The chairman or some other local boss

"| contrels those votes,

. The selling of votes for favors 1s)

“| nota new thing, of course. It's con-

sidered good old American politics. |"

| The injection of liquor into.Indiana | | politics just makes it a little more |:

evil and sinister.’ Senator. VanNuys, Yucking. the | machine, looks fairly: promising but we can’t expect him ‘to remedy the evil, Afterrall, its really our’ Job; : | 2 SAYS MONEY SPENT FOR [S WASTED +

By Lewis E. Frazeur _

The standard of living is based on |

income. Craftsmen organize and engage in industrial warfare to maintain and’ improve their standard. The agricultural problem involves

safeguarding and bettering the farmers’ standard. Efforts to curb

high prices and prevent all forms |. of profiteering are designed to pro-

tect the standard of living. Organized society is spending thousands to maintain a {frugal standard for its millions on relief: Taxation, a just and proper function of society, whether direct or indirect, affects the standard of living |

. |in the proportion that public exigencies disturb private interests.

Living conditions, culture, recreation, competency—everything huma life needs to realize its highest expression, if money can purchase or promote it, comes within the scope of standard of living.

All wastefulness, public or private, tends to lower the standard. Waste of tax money and wastefulness of private funds alike lower it, Income makes possible a specific standard, but actual living conditions are determined by the expendi-

ture of the income. All intoxicating |

liquor drunk is that much wealth: wasted. The drain on the standard of living of our State caused hy the. drink habit, may be partially realized by the following comparison: In 1937, the total salaries and office expenses of all Indiana State Departments and Commissions was %. 898,978.17. Indiana’s liquor bill was $90,000,000 in cold hard cash to the drinker during the same year or enough to pay the above salaries and office expenses for 15 consecu-: tive years, : la # * ; o BELIEVES FASCISM LIVES ONLY BY PERSECUTION By Z K

Fascism marches on, killing thousands of men, women and children.

| Hitler has taken Austria—but he

had. to kill people to capture it, and he will have to kill more to keep it. That is the only way fascism can

live—by killing, by beating, and by

doing away with. trade unions, progressive organizations and democratic institutions. = The British working class has its

| Tories and we here inp America have |

our Tories who are ready to trade Semocracy for fascism.

‘ candidate—bit ‘the dete- ? gate’s voting for him in convention |,

Gen. Johnson Ser

A Demonstration of Your Courage In the. -Reorganization ‘Bill Vote?

; . CINCINNATI, 0. ‘March 28. ! SENATOR. RUMER THOMAS, Oklahoma. Dear Elmer—Although I am one of your tonstit~ ube, ‘I-have never asked for a favor or ‘suggested a “vote by you.’ But against this terrible reofganization

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your: old: ‘Oklahoma, ‘Senatorial colleague and friend, ‘my fashér, to record your pioneer Americanism. Re-

i commit this: gross grab. of the reorganization bill for

executive: power to the degradation of representative government. +1 you do this I won't come home and lick you for Senator—honest.

Tennessee, _* Dear Gt tier] assume the _genuineness | what you -have always’ A me is your forthright Americanism. Therefore, I know that you could ‘not fail to

ary reorganization bill and ever look me or ur mirror in the face 3 (egal. : 22 = 5 oy : "SENATOR BONE, ‘Washi ston. . Bugh Johnson . Dear Homer—Your traditional courage and independence will never permit you to vote for ‘a bill that says-on its face that you and “other Senators have not: ‘the: courage and independence to have your Sonstimtionsl say in the. Teorganization of ‘government, . x a Ea

SENATOR ROBERT WAGNER, “New York.

and you are too much a ¢onfidant of your’ own conscience ever to permit you not to vote for recommital of the reorganization bill. = : -# 8 8 SENATOR SMITH, South Carolina, ® Dear Cotton Ed—Don’t let ‘em bulldoze you into “mot, voting to recommit the revolutionary reorganization bill, If there are any reprisals, I would undertake to make a national and state issue of them. The Gainesville feudalist speech will kill Johnson. Stand up for the South. They are ‘out ‘to get you anyway and you won’t kiss them off ‘by this: I shrewdly ‘suspect that Jimmy Byrnes loves this mess in heart as little as you da and won't let you down Tor opposing him here. Fo i wow SENATOR BYRNES, “South Carolina. : v Dear Jimmy—I would never do anything to hurt you. But getting. licked. here won't hurt. you... en .’ ! Frans

SENATOR MINTON, Indians.’ © CC Dear Sherman—I am. doing, everything ¥ can to defeat the reorganization: bill~wiring Senators, - making speeches and writing columns advising others’ to

1 the same course.

Sorry there is not time for you to call me before your committee to show:that I am doing all this as

a stooge. for the feudalists. You can even have all

my correspondence files-in which you will find much that you won't like. It would be‘a lot of fun—but ‘not: for ‘you. - If you have a nice hoosegow or in--quisatorial chamber, I am a candidate for them too. Honestly Sherman—why don’t you. kick your slipper over the moon on this one and give a demonstra~

others, - Jove: you—a ‘courage and conscience of your

own? 2 a ® ir sop

To al senators, fajiniully Sd JeSersonially yours, HUGH 8. JOHNSON, _

According to Heywood Brotn—. %

It Is Not Visionary to Maintain ‘Moral Force’ Is still a ‘Weapon; Organized Groups Can Be Influential i in, Keeping Peace if They Speak.

: ORK, March 28.—There ought. to be a.conference between Srekeamen for the cause of “cocurity” a say they favor “i50= |

and those who fell

ollowers which ebilrely ry £ FE comes ou 9 a e > with sufficient nicety, :

| | the brogdest front possible. | moan in dying agony are the workers, °

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claws of the Generalissimo. + And there are other ‘organized grou ps which ‘can carry weight by raising their voices even De tar they present no bayonets, Labor should be heard, and on “When machine guns aw “down. the front rank of the advance the men who x ‘Why shoyld "they be silent now? The men who make guns and bear them can win peace without war if only they will a Vane with their, ‘comrades in, all su the nations of

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{HE bugles and the fifes now an ihe ears s stevie “4, living person. The sound is persuasive. -

et ; cantiot be shut out by any policy of closing the ie | ‘dows and boarding up. The tree which falls in the

forest may make/no-sound. Not 56 the man ho is shattered by the, shrapnel. ot

Senator Minton, Why Don't You Give |

bill, 1 know. that you will move as fearlessly as would

* SENATOR ToEoRGE BERRY,

Dear Bob—Your name adorns too much legislation

tion of the qualities for which I, with so many.

may quite possibly: serve to. clip’ something from. the

SERRE a,