Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 April 1938 — Page 10

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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13, 1938

THE CONSUMER SPEAKS UP (CONSUMERS spokesmen claiming to represent upward of 10,000,000 American housewives, labor unionists, clubwomen, farmers and social workers visited Washington to tell their story to President Roosevelt and. Congress. They wanted to know why, with 18 million bales of cotton on hand, so many Americans are poorly clad? Why food prices don’t come down in proportion to the prices of farm products? Why, in brief, our industries aren't working better in behalf of the customers? : The consumers—that means all of us—are getting ‘some publicity. But can we ever become a great force in shaping governmental policies? Business is organized for higher prices. Labor is organized for higher wages. The farmers are organized to get more for what they produce. : The consumers embrace all of these groups. And if this new activity is proof that consumers are organizing to get more for their money, then it should be welcomed. For this is one form of class-consciousness in which all Americans belong to the same class.

REFUGE FROM TAXES THE other day it was reported that experts of the Roosevelt Administration were working on a plan to end the issuance of tax-exempt public securities. Yet when such a plan was proposed on the final day of the tax-bill debate in the Senate, Administration leaders opposed it. They succeeded in defeating Senator Clark's amendment, subjecting to taxation the interest on all future issues of Governmental securities, Federal, state and local. But they were unable to defeat Senator Borah’s amendment, which applied only to future Federal bond issues. — "That amendment is now in the hands of the conference committee, where representatives of the Senate and the House are working on a final draft of the tax bill. We hope Mr. Roosevelt urges retention. For, because of the practice of tax-exemption, a large amount of in- . come is escaping taxation. Most of the tax-exempt bonds now outstanding are in the hands of banks, insurance companies and wealthy individuals. They are especially attractive investments for wealthy individuals. As we have shown previously, our Federal and state income surtaxes are so high that a man who has a taxable income of ~ $100,000 from other sources is better off when he invests in a 3 per cent tax exempt than when he risks his money on a private business enterprise that promises to pay 10 per cent. The obvious fact is that private enterprise can’t compete for capital on this basis. The Borah amendment shoud be adopted. Our Government should stop enlarging this sanctuary of tax-avoidance. ! : :

DOWN FROM RICHES WHEN Richard Whitney entered Sing Sing he wrote the last chapter of a story that upsets our favorite

dogmas. : Here is the tale of a Horatio Alger hero—in reverse. Unlike the traditional American boy who fought his way up to affluence and power, Whitney began at the top and worked. his way down. He had what the probation officer called “a privileged childhood” in a family of wealth, breeding and tradition. He was born a Brahman and schooled in the code of his caste. Sociologists insist that crime is bred of two evil parents—low environment and tainted heredity. What they say of this man who had the very opposite of both? As he joins the dismal brotherhood in Sing Sing he will be found to fit into none of the accepted pigeonholes of criminology. * He is a subject for the psychologists. We don’t know the ‘moral to the story of Richard Whitney. Unless it is this: That after all our centuries of studying men, we still understand very little about them.

TRIUMPH OF THE LOWBROW NONE of the brutalities of the Nazi regime reveals its weakness more graphically than the extent of its warfare on German scholarship, as shown by studies conducted at the University of Chicago. ' Before Hitler came to power the great University of © * Berlin was one of the world’s centers of knowledge and culture. Today that university is headed by a rector whose scholarship is measured by a 37-year career as a veterinarian in a slaughterhouse.

The Nazis have dismissed 1684 professors, of whom 396 were let out for being Jewish, Catholic or “politically :

unreliable.” Among the dismissed schelars were five Nobel - Prize winners, including the greatest mathematician of our day, Dr. Albert Einstein. . It is conceivable that a nation can survive in this scientific age without the guidance of free-thinking scientists and scholars. But free-thinking men have inherited the earth from all great creatures with little brains, from dinosaurs to saber-toothed tigers. of evolution are all wrong, they will do it again.

HE ISN'T VANISHING : 1 THE Red Man, for years the victim of the white in- ~~ 7 vaders’ conquests, wars, oppressions, whisky, vices and - diseases, is refusing to live up to his advertised role of the © “Vanishing American.” i Indian Office officials record a remarkable growth in the Indian population. Commissioner John Collier esti-

‘mates that the present Indian population now is 337,366

- compared with 266,000 at the turn of the century. ¢' = Heres a problem we had believed was taken care of.

e thought civilization had done everything possible to. age Indians from bringing more papooses into the .

id. But apparently they refuse to be discouraged. What

Re

ce back their country and let us move on to

And unless the lessons.

his depression. continues, we might ask the

Washington ~ By Raymond Clapper Vice President -Garner Has Gone

Around the Cycle and Now Stands Close to Where Hoover Did in '32.

ASHINGTON, April 13.—TIt doesn’t matter much whether Vice President Garner told President Roosevelt that he “ought to turn the cattle out in the grass and get them a little fatter.” Mr, Roosevelt denies this and likewise denies that Mr. Garner differs from the White House. on pump-priming. These denials are accepted by Washington as somewhat Pickwickian. Mr. Garner's intimates regard him as differing from Mr. Roosevelt on the de-

sirability of heavy spending. Among newspaper correspondents it is quite generally accepted that Mr. Garner did speak up during the White House conference on relief this week and that he did advise against attempting an elaborate pump-priming program now. Mr. Garner has step

bottom role th Democrats who want to slow Mr. Roosevelt down.

-| Always a popular and powerful figure in the House,

Mr. Garner still has a large personal following there. In the Senate he also has a personal following among influential Democrats. : # = 8 > OW Mr. arpens influence is directed at pulling the Administration program. over into the track that Mr. Hoover followed in the last depression, which is a notable shift of position on Mr. Garner's part. In 1032 Mr. Gatner was a particular target of Mr. Hoover because of the spending program which he, in the House, was trying to push through. The so-called ,Garner Bill, carrying some $2,300,000,000, contained ~ provisions which Mr, Hoover denounced as pork-bar-rel stuff. o Mr. Hoover also was denouncing Mr. Garner’s proposal to publish the names of all RFC borrowers, and at the time it was said that the public listing of banks and other institutions which had been compelled to go to the RFC for help was & contributing factor to the bank collapse. : : : In other words, Mr. Garner then was the man who wore horns. Now he has become as safe as Mr. Hoover and is the figure upon whom opponents of Mr. Roosevelt are depending. Such are the changes that the years work in politics. Mr. Garner has gone around the cycle and is now standing close to where Mr. Hoover stood in 1932. 7 8 2 » ATE reference which I made to the applause for Mr. Hoover which has occurred in movie houses here has brought letters from scattered sec- - tions of the United States reporting similar spontaneous outbursts for Mr. Hoover. I don’t know exactly what it means and I have found no one who has a convincing analysis of it. ” It is doubtful if this—as yet at least—is a Hoover-for-President manifestation. Perhaps it is partly a rebound away from Roosevelt. Perhaps it represents a feeling that Mr. Hoover wasn’t so much worse than Mr. Roosevelt after all. Presidents in office get credit for good times and the blame for hard times. Then later we look back and conclude that they were perhaps either beneficiaries or victims of the economic conditions of their time. Mr. Roosevelt is taking it on the nose now. Perhaps the day will come when people will say that if we had the disastrous collapse of 1932-33 after 12 years of Republican rule in which business got everything it wanted, and when there was no New Deal, and then the same thing occurred under Mr. Roosevelt, there may be some other causes at work which had nothing to do with either Mr. Hoover or Mr.

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Business

By John T. Flynn

Spending, Easy Way to Recovery, Is a Thoroughly Unwholesome Way.

ASHINGTON, April 13.—Moving around among members of the Senate suddenly confronted with the new giant proposals for a resumption of spending by the Government, I found them a little stunned and bewildered. They have not yet gotten their gauges set on this. . But there is a frantic eagerness among the members to get home—for primary campaigns are opening—and they do not want to go back home with nothing done to stem the tide of the depression. So there seems little doubt that the spending program-— or some spending program—will go through. But should it go through? There is a feeling that there is nothing else in sight for recovery purposes. But this brings up the question—what is meant by recovery? Do we want to get the patient out of bed, on his feet for a little while for a brief sojourn away from the hospital and a quick return to it, collapsed again? Or do we mean by recovery the return of the patient to sound health, or at least relatively sound health? That is the question which some men asked in 1933 when all sorts of ill-considered legislative experiments were in the hopper. One of these plans—the spending of money and the obtaining of that money through borrowed funds—did have the effect of flooding a vast volume of spending power into the stream of business. This produced what was accepted as recovery.

Hard Way Aims at Health

It was obvious that recovery would end when this spending and borrowing ended. And this is what has happened. Now the President is confronted with the same problem all over again. What kind of recovery does he wish to produce? Reform of the economic system so that it will function soundly? Or just another monetary escape from the hospital? That choice being clear, the answer seems equally clear. The statesman, concerned with his country’s redemption and looking for his verdict from histor’, would choose the hard road. And the hard road is the recovery which aims at health. It means drastic adjustments, laws and reforms which will weigh heavily on the people for awhile. There is only one easy way—to spend money again and to borrow that money. It isa thoroughly -unwholesome way. - And one day the nation will have to pay the bills in suffering. But unfortunately it is the only way with . purely political leadership and, for that matter, a business leadership which is blind. - 3 ]

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

TT dogwood is blooming again in the Ozarks. A. leisurely drive through the haunts of the redbud and its shyer sister-flower is good medicine for what ails you. : The delicate mantle of new grass lies as lightly as" e silken coverlet over the earth. Down through the: ‘verdant hollows the road meanders and at every turn the graceful snow-white dogwood, which flowers before it leafs, curtseys a Welcome. Against the checkered hills its fragile splendor stops your pulses. r Just being in those cuplike hills of Arkansas is balm to tried spirits. It seems a pity that we can take such pilgrimages so seldom, for the vales where the dogwood tree is herald for May one loses sntirely the sense that things are sll wrong with the world. : : _ Does Hitler exist? Are women and children being slaughtered in Spain? Can it be true that freedom lies dying across the sea? Here where Nature smiles so sweetly it is not to be credited. To be Sure, Nature is not always kind; sometimes she is ruthless and cruel. Yet behind her bluster there is a softer side, such a side as she turns to us when she festoons our hill with dogwood in the spring. Is not the same true of human nature? the most terrible of animals, yet although we are sure of the fact we are also sure that the people we know “best, our friends and neighbors, even the strangers we ‘meet, are not always hard or unkind. Indeed each possesses unlimited possibilities for good, mercy and compassion.

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GOVERNMENT SHAKEUP CALLED DIRE NEED By E. C. Carlson The defeat of the Government Reorganization Bill was a victory for the small but powerful minority, who believe and rightfully so, that their rights and privileges are best preserved by an obsolete and inefficient Federal Government. The dire need for reorganization of the multiple and overlapping bureaus in the Federal Government has been recognized and urged upon Congress by leading students of government for the past 30 years. Every recent President while in office has advocated such reorganization, while political expediency dictates his disavowal of such a plan when retired from public servjce—why? We demand a business administration in Government affairs, but our elected Representatives «decline to support what ought, to become a public issue of primar importance. Once the country becomes aware of the effort of powerful interests trying to discredit government by the people, by defeating every effort toward improvement in administrative efficiency, not even a coalition of so-called “Republicans® and “Call Me Democrats” will long thwart the people's desires. It may be well to remember that dictatorship comes from failure of democracy to meet the needs of the times and from failure of the upper classes to co-operate with the less fortunate in society, but dictatorship is not the solution—after the dictator civil war is. inevitable. . ” » ”

READER SAYS COUNTRY ALREADY HAS DICTATOR

By a Reader Why all this talk about a dicta-

by the telegrams which went into

Oak, Mich. To me he seems an agitator. He tried to destroy the Hoover Administration. Now he tries the same thing on. the Roosevelt Administration. The two greatest presidents we have ever had, Mr. Hoover and Mr. Roosevelt, never have needed an assistant. One wonders who is back of his roaring and stampeding.

: # = = SAYS ROOSEVELT AS POPULAR NOW AS HE WAS IN 1936 By H. 8. °° . The voters of Indiana member the names of the five ‘members of the House of Repre‘sentatives from Indiana who voted against the Reorganization Bill. I have always voted for Louis Ludlow, but never again. t

tor? We already have one, judging.

Washington last week. He is no. other than the individual at Royal

should re-|.

Long-time planning: is absolutely

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necessary and the reorganization of the Administration would have simplified the steps toward such planning. It was silly to charge the President with planning a dictator ship. In fact, the reorganization would have taken some of the President’s rights away from him. But because it would also reduce the Representatives’ political patronage, they voted it down. But don’t forget, the President is just as populat joday as he was in Novem- | And The Indianapolis Times also fighting Roosevelt! How proud The Times must be to find itself in the camp of Gannett, Rand and

Coughlin! x = =

SAYS AMERICA’S INTELLIGENCE KILLED SHAKEUP BILL

By Mable German

Again the people have spoken through their Representatives and once more have given Roosevelt and his dupes to understand this will remain a Government not only “for,” but “by” the people. The intelligence of America has killed the Roosevelt Reorganization Bill in spite of such political machine

_| bosses as Townsend, Minton and’

Jim Farley. Very soon we shall see labor, business and industry go hand in hand to bring about the recovery which could come in no other way, the recovery which the Roosevelt. Administration has retarded and shackled for five years, When we stray from the fundamental prin-

‘THE FAVOR By VIRGINIA POTTER I see you now as I should have— Right from the very start; I once thought you were wonderful, And I'd never want to part; I see how great a favor You've really done me now: For you're so inconsistent— I'd have grown tired, anyhow!

DAILY THOUGHT We have thought of thy loving

kindness, O God, in the midst of thy temple.—Psalms 48:9. 5

INDNESS is wisdom; there is none in life but needs it, and

may learn.—Bailey.

| ceived a raw

ciples of our tried and true American constitutional Government, we go back much farther than the ridiculed “horse and buggy” days. We go back to tyranny. x Mr. Herbert Hoover explains the

| political and economic situation in

foreign countries and points out the necessity . and importance of adhering strictly to our American form of government by “experience” and not “experiment” if we would remain a free people. * 8 = SEEKS MORE INFORMATION ON INDIANA BEER By E. M. B. : Wonderful! $40,000,000 in taxes paid to the Federal Government since 1933, $11,136,921.16 to the State by Indiana beer! Fifty thousand persons gain their livelihood directly or indirectly from this prosperous business! These are large figures, beyond. question. : Now won't some statisticallyminded person give us further in-

peer? How many dollars were taken from homes and wasted on senseless indulgence? How many little children went unclothed and unfed because of beer? How many families were neglected by one or both parents? How many homes broken? How many tears and heartaches? How many young girls and boys led astray by the bright lights, raucous music and hilarious welcome of the peer tavern? How many lives lost and how many bodies crippled and broken by automobile accidents caused by drunken drivers? There are a lot of statistics iconnected with the beer business} not presented, which if placed beside those already publisned, would make those vast figures dwindle to nothingness. Let's do something about it! EL ” ” » 2

BRADSHAW BACKED FOR: JUVENILE JUDGE

By M. H. A, : ¥ This is for the benefit of the taxpayers who are going to vote, especially the men who have redeal in the Juvenile Don’t vote for Geckler or Nugent. Let's put a man in there who will listen to the man’s side of the story as well as the woman’s. I'm speaking of Judge Bradshaw. Also how about: Judge Williams of Court 2? He's a friend of all car owners. Sen Another is ‘ Barl Cox—the only thing I can say about him is that “he knows his stuff.” And why. not elect ~Chalmer Schlosser Judge of Superior Court 3? He is a family. man and a homeowner who knows the meaning of taxes. This man has never held office in his 35 years working for the Democratic Party.

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LET'S

EXPLORE YOUR MIND

By DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM

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home where he can sing in his own bath tub, yell in his backyard and even keep a barking coon dog witharrested by the family in the next beehive. o:

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| young ‘people by. then will be reared {by such scientific methods, worked

er building—something we know almost - nothing about now—that y need rules. David Starr

Jordan probably Joresaw this when, g hecoming g presi of Indiana Un ty, he said the only rule |

‘all-controlling power—the power of the purse.

formaton on the subject of Indiana

should now go back to the country..

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Gen. Johnson Says— ;

ah One-Man Government Can't Exist If the Legislature of a Country Controls the Power of the Purse.

X 7ASHINGTON, April 13—In Kipling’s “Puck of : Pooks Hill” series is a story about an old Jewish ’

‘patriarch who came by a great treasure of gold which

had been hidden in a well in the castle at Pevensy by one of the conqueror’s lords. It was during the

revolt of the barons against John Lackland. If the

King had gotten the gold there would have been no Runnymede—no Magna Charta. The old Jewish seer was aware of that. The charter of English liberty, which was also the well-spring of our Constitution, was forced out of King John because he couldn't

‘govern “despotically without money and the barons

controlled that” English parliamentary control, which is democracy; began with a seizure by subjects of an As long as that remains in popular legislative control there never can: be one-man government. Charles I of England tried the dictatorship stunt, Speaking on the scaffold, of the liberty of the people, he said: “But I must tell you that their liberty consists in having government. It is not in their having a share in the government; that is nothing appertaining unto them.” .

8 8 8 THE English people did not think so. They stopped the King in a struggle lasting 24 years which at last gave England her democracy by putting the: Parliament in control of the Crown. How? By exactly the same device that got Magna Charta—the power of the purse. This Congressional power of the purse is the very heart and center of our constitutional system of divided powers. v * During the “emergency” of the first New Deal, our Congress temporarily largely abdicated this power, It adopted the strange device of “lump sum” appropri=ations. The Constitution provides “no money shall be drawn from the Treasury but in consequence of appropriations made by law.” Up to recently, Congress

has appropriated item by item for all expenditures.

On April 5, 1935, it appropriated the staggering sum of 4.8 billions with little mote itemization than that ‘it should be spent as the President desires “for re= covery and relief.” 8 » 5 w= Congress specifies the spending, the only power of the executive over individual Congressmen is his own prestige and the patronage of a few trifling offices. But when Congress turns over a treasure so vast as this to unlimited executive discretion, it grants a very considerable power to make or break any member of Congress who doesn’t vote as ordered. : : . States, cities, counties, Governors and Mayors, as well as Senators and Representatives, must come hat in hand to an executive officer and not, as the Con-

stitution intended, to Congress, to get back even their

just share of what is taken away from their own peo= ple in taxes. It violates the spirit, if not the letter, of the Constitution. It broadly undermines both the authority and prestige of Congress. It concentrates in one man not only a tremendous power to benefit or burden one part of the country relative to others, but also strongly to influence the votes in Congress on

-all other matters and, above all, to influence elec-

tions, even in purely local affairs, in every community in the country. The quicker Congress retakes its cone stitutional power: in this regard, the better. :

It Seems to Me

By Heywood Broun Your Writer Hopes F. D. R. Will Say He Is Seeking a Third Term in '40,

N= YORK, April 13—Let’s get down to cases. ; The New Deal has taken a smashing defeat in

Congress. Obviously the lineup on the Reorganiza-

tion Bill had very little. to do with that particular piece of legislation. In its final amended form it meant next to nothing one way or another. The

‘ members of the House were voting for or against

Franklin Delano Roosevelt. : They knew that, he knows it, and the nation ought to realize it. Shige . Under the English system there would be a general election in which the President would submit his case to the people. And even though that is not a part of our constitutional setup Mr. Roosevelt

Any suggestion that he ought to take the rebuke smiling and then. proceed is preposterous. . Unless President Roosevelt can stem the tide he will finish his term as an impotent leader. = : Frankly I am disappointed in the vote which killed the reorganization measure. 1 want to see the New Deal win, and I hope that it will get even newer, Unless I am much mistaken Franklin Delano Roosevelt has just begun to fight. : His foes cannot fairly be denied their moment of triumph. At the instant the "progressive tide has been turned back. Conservatives are within their rights when they dance in the streets. But 1 firmly believe that their victory may be short lived. I still believe in democracy as opposed to telocracy, or, in other words, government by night letter.

Time to Write, Not Wire

There will be another day. Under the stipulations of our Constitution a time is set when the plain people of America may write instead of telegraph. I remain hopeful that when the national decision comes down to the business of marking “Xs” with a pencil instead of filling out blanks the defeat of the New Deal will be revered. That is up to the electorate and up to Franklin Delano Roosevelt. '. The zero hour has arrived. Now is the time for him to go in and slug. His adversaries have a lead on points. He needs a knockout. ; Specifically, I think that Mr. Roosevelt should ! make a plain and immediate declaration of his intentions in regard to 1940. I hope he will tell the country that he is not only a receptive but an aggressive candidate for a third term. And in saying that I trust he will announce himself as a candidate for the Progressives of the country regardless of the

party label. ; . Health

By Dr. Morris Fishbein , *

AS 4 part of the tendency to rheumatic conditions. in children, there appears, the , condition called rheumatic heart disease. It is responsible ‘today for the permanent crippling of many young children and not infrequently it cates death. ; It seems to affect particularly the children of the

poor and those who have suffered for a long time

with chronic infections ‘of ‘the: nose and throat, yet

it is also found among the well-to-do. Apparently exposure to damp is a factor of considerable .impor‘tance. Some cases occur in children who do not

seem to have any other symptoms of rheumatic character, but these are the exception. i In this condition the responsible agent apparently enters the blood stream, perhaps from the nese and . throat; and then attacks the muscles, the lining and the first sign is a sudden disturbance and fever; during such an nditions is sital