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Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own. Way

SATURDAY, APRIL 9, 1938

LET'S GO FROM HERE Hedy LAST night's defeat of the Government ‘Reorganization “ Bill was the best thing that could have happened for the country. ~~ Teh i It ended a bitter fight that had gone on far too long. More than that, it cleared the way for what can be and what should be a resumption of progress toward recovery, . with each branch of Government—Ilegislative, executive and judicial—playing the equal and co-ordinate part it has al‘ways been inténded to play. The Reorganization Bill had become a symbol of executive encroachment on the legislative branch, just as the court plan last year became a symbol of executive encroachment on the judicial branch. As a symbol, it was doomed when. the House of Representatives, closer to the people than the Senate and so more sensitive to public opinion, began to hear from the folks back home. _ - Prepagandists had a part in starting the great flood of letters and telegrams to Washington in protest against the bill. But the vast majority of the citizens who wrote or wired to their Congressmen, exercising. their right of petition, were inspired by a deep, instinctive and truly American desire to preserve the balance that is essential to our payticular form of government. : Congress knew that. It will be well for the President to recognize that. For if further proposals for fancy experiments are to come from the White House, if more cleverly drafted bills are to be sprung suddenly on Congress in the spirit of “let’s change everything quick,” the President’s troubles are only beginning. Sh

Congress, also, will do well to remember why the people

having reasserted its authority, now gets to feeling its oats

place, Congress is in for trouble. as quickly, as sharply, to

The people will object a threat of overbalance on the

The country wants no more Donnybrook Fair battles over whether the President or the Congress or the courts shall dominate, with the American people & the unhappy

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role of injured bystanders. \

\ *. What the country does want is that all branches of Government shall recognize that the national welfare is suffering from grave economic illness, and that allbbranches of Government shall work together to do what must be done tq cure that illness. ;

The Reorganization Bill is dead, and happily so. Let's forget it. And let's 20 from here.

U. S. AND THE PHILIPPINES

RESIDENTS ROOSEVELT and. Quezon have agreed to postpone the economic separation of the United States

and the Philippines. until 1960. Congress will be asked tobass upon the proposal next year.

The decision, we believe, is wise. As matters stand, the islands are due to have full independence, political and economic, on July 4, 1946. But such is the state of the world, from every point of view, that Filipino leaders are beginning to have misgivings, and their feelings have met

with sympathetic consideration on this side of the Pacific.

Whether political ties will be severed completely in 1946 remains to be seen. It is clear, however, that leaders in the Philippines are increasingly inclined to doubt the wisdom of proceeding according to the plan. = Beginning in 1941, in line with the Independence Act, an export tax amounting to 5 per cent of existing duties 1s to be collected on Philippine products shipped to this country, which are now duty-free. This tax is to increase 5 per cent/annually until it reaches 25 per eent. Taxes £o “collected go to the islands. But beginning in 1946 the

United States is to collect the full 100 per cent duty and retain it.

_ The Roosevelt-Quezon proposal is that, beginning in 1948, the United States levy only 25 per cent of its regular tariff and add 5 per cent a year until it reaches the full 100 per cent. Aside from certain selfish interests, few in this country will oppose some such compromise. The Filipinos did not ask us to take them over. In fact, they revolted against it. We not only took the islands by force of arms, against the will of the inhabitants, but for a generation proceeded to shape their destiny, economic and otherwise, in the American mold. The result has been to make them almost entirely dependent upon American trade. Suddenly to cut them adrift now would be both dangerous and unjust. Like it or not, and whether it hurts us or not, it is our duty, when the day of separation comes, to make it as harmless as possible. 2 2

WHITHER FRANCE?

AFTER less than four weeks in power the Government ~ of Premier Blum has collapsed, leaving France once more to face a highly dangerous situation in Europe without a Cabinet. : Ye To make the outlook all the more disquieting, the chances are against any Popular Front Government remaining long in office. And a Government of National Union, which conditions in central Europe, Spain and the Mediterranean seem to require, will be difficult to form so long as the Front Populaire remains intact. oR Only a new national election can bring any lasting

‘waged political campaign would bring to France might provide Herr Hitler with precisely the opportunity he Seeks to

out his designs’ against Czechoslovakia. ; The present position of France is tragic. For 15 years

She was widely courted as an ally, Today, beset trife, social unrest and and eco

MARK FERREE Business Manager

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| out a word of explanation. This year the Govern-

. rehabilitation and progress, for is there ever progress

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Washington By Raymond Clapper

x 7ASHINGTON, April 9—Primaries in Illinois campaign in which voters will pass their midterm

cumstances which few of us anticipal a half ago. : ®

ing that the Roosevelt Administration is going to get

: the time he has spent in the breadlines. Thanks to

best to put the Republicans back on their feet.

members of C. I. O. They reported much grumbling among their fellow workers, dissatisfaction with Mr. Roosevelt, resentment at tactics of C. I. O. leaders. Wives of labor men, Mr. Hamilton reports, are weary

MORE solid ground for hope is. the revolt nside the Democratic Party. In Pennsylvania no ‘two

are doing their best to hand the governorship over to Gifford Pinchot, the probable Republican candidate, and the chances of bouncing James Davis, Republican, out of the Senate, grow less daily. William Green. head of the A. F. of L., has been in Pennsylvania hacking at the political organization which the C. I. 0. has thrown into the Democratic fight. Mr. Hamilton figures a sure gain of 50, seats in the House this year, and probably more. In 52 districts, Republican candidates for Congress in 1936 were within 5 per cent of enough votes to win. In 61 dis{ricts they were within 10 per cent of winning. So it doesn’t take much of a turnover to tip those districts. In fact the Democrats themselves have done enough damage t6 the Administration to cause that much of a switch, it would seem. The revolt on the Reorganization Bill has sent loyal Administration Democrats running to cover and has had a demoralizing effect back in the districts.

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Ax of this, plus the political effect of the recession, causes John Hamilton now to whistle while he works. But you can go just so far hitchhiking. Mr. Hamilton lacks the organization to take full advantage of the shift in the current. Democrats have practically stamped out the Republican organization in a number of large cities. Mr. Hamilton himself said recently that unless the Republicans begin to "win some victories soon, the party would disappear. Organizations cannot live forever without political jobs. While the Democrats were out of office nationally for a long stretch, they had local organizations in power and these, plus the South, kept them in position to move in when Mr. Hoover was laid low by his depression. © Republicans still are: in fairly good shape in rural sections and smaller communities. ! : : But more extensive organization than that will be necessary to win a national election,.even with as much help as the Democrats are giving the Republicans. ’

Business By John T. Flynn

Slump Partly Caused by Change in ‘Way Government Is Getting Funds.

EW YORK, April 9.—Since Government spending is on the agenda of the nation again, let us see how we have been faring thus far in the fiscal year. It began July 1. Here’s how things stood up to April 4. First, here are the total expenditures compared with last year: 1936-37 esse Poss es scccnssnsssios oe $5,585,000,000 1937-38 5,711,000,000 Thus we see that «in this fiscal year the Government has been spending as much as last. year. The big difference, however, is in the spending of money for recovery and relief, as distinguished from ‘the regular, ordinary budget. Here is the comparison with last year: 3 : i:

1036-37 veveeessasnsssscsassassnses $2,400,000,000 1937-38 esssssessssesessssssssssasnee 1,545,000,000

This cutting down of expenditures without making those adjustments in the economic system which ought to accompany a decrease in expenditures is, - of course, the chief factor in last year’s economic collapse. But this is not the whole of the story. The collapse resulted also from the change in the manner in which the funds for expenditure were obtained. This brings us to the deficit. .This year a greater proportion of the money spent by the Government has "been obtained from taxes. Last year the Government still depended heavily on borrowing: Here is the comparison between the deficit for last year and that for this year:

1936-37 eerste ronan eee $1,844,000,000 1937-38 ©000000000000000000000000000 880,000,000

‘Precipitated Deflation

‘In other words the deficit last year was nearly a billion dollars greater than this year. Thai means , that the Government had to borrow a billion dollars more last year than this year. \ This was a vital factor in the collapse. Borrowing is inflationary. Taxation is deflationary. To the extent that the Government borrowed last year it influenced inflation. To the extent that it substituted taxes for borrowing this year it precipitated deflation. However, the figures cannot be understood with-

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ment has had a deficit of $880,000,000. But it has not obtained this money by Lan, from the banks as it did last year. It has gotten more than half of it by borrowing from the Social Security Fund. And this fund was raised by taxes. The actual economic effect is the same as if the money was obtained by the

Government directly by taxes. A Woman's Viewpoin

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~~" Even With the ‘Help the Democrats i ans Are Giving, the Republicans Need:| * Better ‘Organization for Vietory.| = VV next Tuesday inaugurate the 1838. political.

judgment on the Roosevelt Administration underecir- | : ‘a year and

It is a little previous for Republicans to be predict--what, Mr. Hoover did. But surely no one will begrudge |

John Hamilton, Republican national chairman, his | fond dreams of apple pie with cheese on it. Not after

‘the anti-Administration Democrats, and to Mr. Roose--velt’s own mistakes, the Democratic Party is doing its

. Chairman Hamilton is even dreaming of getting | labor votes. In Detroit the other day a delegation of eight labor men called on him, six of whom were

of strikes which throw their husbands out of work. | f

Democratic leaders are speaking to each other. They |

‘dissolve the relief setup’ and would

‘| TOWNSEND PLAN WOULD AID

‘| the banks have a way of sucking all

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SUBSIDIES PROPOSED FOR EMPLOYERS

By Samuel Lak: Cohn

Most of the difficulties our nation is confronted with can be taken care of within a short time. My suggestion is: ; ; Let the Government distribute to 12% million employers of the nation $200 each. That would be about 2% billion dollars, nearly as much as the Government spends each year for relief. Every employer receiving $200 would hire an un-, employed person. This would take care of the entire unemployment problem. The Government would

not have to borrow billions of dollars for relief purposes any more.

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BUSINESS, READER CLAIMS Uncle Sam, Crawfordsville

There are a lot of people who are opposed to the Townsend Plan, but

the money out of business. Well, has not business just as much right to have a way to suck it back out? It looks as/if we should have a twoway pump, or something. a Business should get tired of feeding a dry cow some day. It doesn’t pay. If you businessmen would feed the Townsend plan you would. et some milk. And it wouldn’t be a milk, either; it will have cream on it,

1 : i » 8 ® SAYS WAGES ARE LOW ON ARCHIVES PROJECT - By W. A. 8. The survey of Federal Archives, a

‘nation-wide WPA Federal project,|

was organized two years ago to conduct a survey of Federal records,

* | outside the District of Columbia.|.

Several projects were set up points, the largest at Indianapolis. Through the co-operation of Fed-

eral records. After the field work was completed, all projects were terminated, except. the one in Indianapolis in the Farm Security Administration Building, and all reports were forwarded to it. Though the Indianapolis project terminated last June 30th under Federal sponsorship, the work is being continued under a Sixth District WPA project sponsored by Indiana University. The present functional activities of the project’ are compiling the findings of this survey into descrip-

throughout ' Indiana at strategic

eral officials, field workers made a| detailed analysis of all types of Fed- |

(Times readers are invited ) 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.)

to the major departments of the Federal Government, and compiling statistical reports relative to conditions of storage, fire hagards, accessibility, etc., as related to Federal records. . This is a professional project, yet the -statisticiams, editors, proof readers and typists are working for $65 per month. The editor-in-chief (who is also assistant. to the project supervisor) with two years’ experience in archival service, is receiving ‘$85 per month. Interviews have been held with local officials concerning this matter, but nothing has been done. «il aa ASKS REINSTATEMENT ON WPA ROLLS By (Grover C. Fulks

I don’t see why I can’t get work on the WPA. 1 was notified regard-

FREEDOM ‘By CHRISTINE GRANT CURLESS

| Men fought and bled and died. Men

fought again For freedom; yet how long will ; men be free? 7 ; Are they ‘all to have bled and died in vain : To let our world be ruled by two or three?

Are we to sit here, idly . .. let them stir : Our youth into relinquishing its oo right To just a few . . . & few men who

prefer To put this world in some uncertain flight? :

Or shall we stand united 5 . you +. andI ; - Against this autocratic tendency, And keepin trust for sons of ours

to ery: : “America 29

; . . the homeland of the . ~ free?” : Eo

DAILY THOUGHT

For his Grod doth instruct him to discretion, and doth teach him. ‘—Isaiah 28:26. :

ISCRETION in speech is more

tive inventqries arranged according

than eloquence.—Bacon.

‘| er; he still must stick his neck out

ing work six weeks ago. I worked at Vallonia Camp and was laid off Jan. 15. I worked there for one year, 172 hours a month, for $24. I can't live forever on that. I have lived here 30 years, had a family and now have grandchildren. I can help them if I get work again. Look how long some of the young girls have worked in the office at good wages, and young-men, too. I was born. and raised in this state. oo. 8 8 By ASKS INSURANCE FOR COMMERCIAL BUILDERS By a Reader > The Federal Housing Administration expects the new housing act of Feb. 3 to revive residential construction. The act provides for insur-

loss of loans made under terms of the act. Now, lenders never have produced - our residential construc-

tion. The operative .commercial builder has always produced the major volume of new homes. The act does not insure: the build-

to. have the rope pulled when he finds no market for the new house. Of course, he could go broke and often does. But that is no concern of FHA. ; ; How can we get new home econstruction volume under this act? The builder starts it only if the market warrants, but he is not protected like the lenders. Why not insure the commercial builders?

2 8 = ATTORNEY COMMENDED FOR ACTION AGAINST STANDING By B. C. - > Writers and artists are not the only men who serve as emotional safety valves for the rest of humankind. Take a man of action who

has never attracted any attention at all, and . . . say . . . make him stand in a crowded train all the way from Albany to New York. Philip Davis, a young attorney, did that one hot July two years ago. It made his feet sore, and it made his blood boil. Davis took his peeve to court. Now, at last, he has won. Davis has won damages of only $45, but he has also won the gratitude of newspaper readers all over the country. For Davis, who ‘did what most of us only go home and talk about doing, has attracted national attention. Standers-in-queues, standers-in-streetcars, ' standers - in - busses, standers - in - all - kinds-of-indoor-

better now. =~

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

A VISIT to a regional PWA office is an educa- | tional experience. The one I saw had enough women stenographers to turn out tons of typed material every week. As I discovered later, however, they suffer no mental hazards in the process because

working their brains along with their fingers. = | For example: No stenographer is assigned a full task, no matter how insignificant it might be. None has a regular employer but instead is kept on call, taking ‘her turn at fragmentary dictation, or is given odd sheets from different documents to copy. She doesn’t possess the little dignity permitted the average worker who assembles parts in an auto factory; no | feeling of responsibility for completing a job is allowed her. She isn’t even a cog in a mac , because ‘would imply her importance to the w let us say, she is a random hack worker, denied the of watching on form and substance. n= ee I am told there are some corporations and private businesses using the same method, and I must say it seems to me quite the deadliest on record. How can human imagination, enthusiasm or ambition survive such slow destruction? = he It is astonishing and sad to realize that the Government should pursue this policy in the name of

their male bosses presumably are opposed fo their | 4:

to the whole. Rather, |

when the worker takes no pride in his task Nothing devised by slave drivers could be

EXPLORE YOUR MIND

- By DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM

+ 2 Ey : WHICH LD YO VE oa Doh ARB.

AN EXTENSIVE study of the 371 most eminent inventors of the United States by Dr. Sanford Winston, of N. C. University, in the American Sociological Review, shows that in such general characteristics. as age of marriage, number. of ren, degree of education, Oteupa tions ms of their fathers,

erty—and average |

length of life, inventors are more like the average citizen than are ent scholars and scientists.

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| Group Health Insurance Seems the | | Best Approach to the Problem. of

| INJEW YORK, April 9.—The tow-row in the Amer-

; = Amer. 3 | #V ican Medical Association is no place for an ama- : | teur to stick out his neck. But there are a few facts that even the least learned know to be frue.. ;

| mitted that a few free clinics- are available for "4

ance of the “money lenders” against |

“for the Senate chamber.

and - outdoor - gatherings, all feel |

ing just Where the arch of the foot

0 oY Medical ‘Aid for he. Middle-Clas.

diagnosis. Also, by far the majority of doctors do not make money a condition to their service to the poor. ~*~ No class has been harder hit by the depression inability or unwillingness of the ailing to pay their doc

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tor bills. But is all this medical humanity and sacrifice either fair or sufficient? = rad *Furthermore, it is not merely the professional serve

ice of the doctor that costs. It is also medicine, pro-

fessional nursing and hospitalization.

® 8 = Ema T= country doctor and the general practitioner in the city best maintain the ancient traditions of 3 this noblest of professions. But this is becoming a calling of great specialization and among some of the specialists there is appearing something that in less rarefied atmosphere wuld be bluntly called a racket, v

Dr. A. can only give an opinion on livers, Dr. B. on lights, and good Dr.’C. only on lungs. If you strike one of the three, he is likely to need the opinion -of the other two before he can really say what is the matter with you. ; That is not meant to scoff at the modern clinical “general survey” such as you get at the great Mayo Clinic and in many other highly organized hospitals, On the contrary, these general surveys are the greate est advance in modern medicine. My only point is that where they are conducted on the haphazafd bounce-to-bounce methods of individual private prac tice, their cost- becomes prohibitive to all but the wealthy. : In this short space a full statement of this great problem is impossible. It raises the great bogie of the American Medical Association—socialized medicine—regimentation of the greatest, most devoted of &

all professions. I FREELY admit that it is a danger but, between that danger and the growing perils and difficulties on the other side of the argument, there must be some middle ground. I think the way has been shown in some communities by a plan of group health. ingurance. Individuals pay a small premium each month during health into a fund. When they become ill

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they collect—like accident insurance—complete med ical and hospital service until recovery. The attending doctors are assured of a minimum fixed annual income and such other practice as they can serve; Is that socialization and regimentation ‘of the medical profession—paralyzing progress .and initiative? If it is the great Rockefeller Institution and the Mayo clinics are partly so and the Army and Navy Medical Corps are wholly so. I don’t know .at first hand about the two first mentioned, but I do about the latter two. : . They rid our race of typhoid and yellow fever under leadership of men like Walter Reed, They ( # produced such surgeons and internists as William Keller and such hygienists’ as William Gorgas and Cary Grayson. The medical profession can advance no superiors—anywhere on earth. Not one of them ever received a fee in his whole active service.

With Boxing Bouts in the Senate?

EW YORK, April 9—The news from Washington about the lightweight battle which was all but staged upon the floor of the Senate is horrifying. According to the account which I read, “Senator McKellar moved toward Senator Copeland shouting epithets. He then made a lunge at the New Yorker and was about to hit him when several Senators moved between the two. Other legislators seized Mr. McKellar’s arm. The matter went no further.” There ought to be an investigation. Why did the matter go no further? The voters of America have ‘a right to know the names of those Senators who prevented the gentleman from Tennessee taking a poke at Mr. Copeland. so a The prospective ‘contestants were evenly matchéd, 1 believe that Senator Copeland is a little older, but he ought to be in excellent condition. After all, he has been writing health hints for 20 years. It is my suggestion that a Paul Revere Cavalcade be organized to ride to Washington in order to make a protest and rebuke the recalcitrants Who. stopped the fight, : 3 . If one hundred lovers of good clean sport will join the expedition I will agree to ride at the head of the squadron on g charger. In recent months the Senate has brought great grief to the country. And now these same solons step in and spoil our fun.

Diplomats Might Want Passes

Much has been said about balancing the budget, and the recent incident suggests a manner in which revenue could be raised without imposing extra burdens on the taxpayer. My suggestion is that the Paul Revere Cavalcade be empowered to take over the bout. First of all, we would put a stipulation on the meddling peacemakers to mind their own business. Then we would arrange a scale of prices

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There is little doubt that all the galleries could be sold out at a $10 top. But probably the diplomats would insist on coming in free, as usual, So it might be a good idea to have boxes selling for as much as $1000. Gl : In order to give the crowd a run for its money it might be necessary to provide a few preliminaries. . & For instance, Rush Holt, of West Virginia, could be thrown in against almost any competitor in defense of his crown as flyweight champion of the. United States Senate. : Lh, © If the first big Senate bout is a sutcess there is ~~ no reason why boxing programs should not be put on every Friday night. : :

Watching Your Health A By Dr. Morris Fishbein ™ 2k

: § MONG the greatest annoyances for most human beings are such simple conditions as painful feet, sweating feet, and itching feet. The extent. of the # annoyance is really an indication as to how much we depend upon our feet for the. carrying on of our lives.

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‘people are born with deformed feet. Some have féxtra toes. Such things tend to run in fam-. ilies. | Most of the deformities do not require any ent, since they are not easily visible. In some instances, however, surgical operation relieves. an’ abnormal appearance or condition that may bring about : wat common disturbance of the feet is flat- : feet. Everybody knows what flat-feet are and what § they look like, but scientifically the diagnosis depends on a study of X-ray pictures with a view to determin-