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FRIDAY, APRIL 15, 1938
ON TROUBLED WATERS HE details of the spending program dealt with by the President in his message to Congress yesterday and his fireside talk last night are naturally subjects for debate as to the wisdom or lack thereof. That debate, one of economic policy not of emotion; can come later. Without going into the controversy now, we believe that certain of the President's utterances are undebatable in so far as they may affect benignly a nation sore distressed. What he said, for example, about the need for a anited national will. Pertinent that, as contrasted with the internal warfare that has characterized our country’s affairs since November, 1936—the Supreme Court struggle, the revival of sectional bittesness in the w ages-and-hours and the antilynching bills, the devastating rash of strikes that followed labor's new-found freedom, and the civil war within labor itself, the wild emotionalism generated 1 in such battles as that over the reor ganization measure, the ever-growing
tendency to make of Washington an arena where political:
gladiators might perform while the back-country went to the dogs. So such words as these fall with sane and soothing sound: “There is placed on all of us the duty of self-restraint. . . . Every citizen must say that immoderate statement, appeals to prejudice, the creation of unkindness, are offenses not against an individual or individuals, but offenses against the whole population of the United States.
“Bitterness is never a useful instrument in public af-
fairs. There can be no dicatorship by an individual or by a group in this nation, save through division fostered by hate. “We need to’ recognize that the demands of no ‘group, however just, can be satisfied unless that group is prepared to share in finding a way to produce the income from which they and all other groups can be paid. “Amid the voices which now seek to divide group from group, section from section, thinking Americans must insist
on common effort in a common endeavor and a common. Let every businessman set out to use
faith in each other. his strength: of mind and heart and his confidence in his fellow men and his country. Let every labor leader find not how work can be stopped but how it can be made to proceed smoothly, continuously and fairly.” Such words strike a-new and happy harmony after a long season of costly discord, They are a long cry from the ‘hissing of Ickes and: from “I welcome their hatred” of Madison Square Garden, Oct. 81, 1936. : We do not share the President’ s hope that the country can borrow and spend its way to permanent recovery. But we see a great deal of hope in the new spirit of tolerance so apparent in the President’s message and speech. Even despite unwise spending, we see a prospect of better days ahead if this spirit is actually to be applied from here on.
THE UPKEEP OF LIBERTY R. ROOSEVELT’S other speech yesterday—the PanAmerican Day broadcast—was brief, but it packed an iinirtont message for both hemispheres. The 21 American republics, he said, have learned what community of interest really means. with one another, and they intend to remain at peace by being good neighbors. That being the case, the other half of the world would be wise to leave us alone. We will not - permit aggressor nations to come over here and endanger our peace. On that all of the Americas are agreed. Thus, without mentioning it, Mr. Roosevelt restated
the Monroe Doctrine, not as a unilateral affair for Uncle
Sam alone but as the doctrine of the whole American family of nations. ~~ We of the American hemisphere must preserve the high standards of international law and morality, which are not the restraints of weaklings but the sign of serene strength and the basis of the common effort through which “we safeguard in this new world the great rights of our liberties and build our civilization for the advancement -of humanity throughout the world.”" \
ALL ABOARD!
UST as we had begun to fear that all was lost for the railroads, along came Gen. John J. Pelley with his annual summons to the Kentucky colonels to assemble in: Louisville on Derby Day eve for a $6-a-plate dinner. The General, in addition to commanding the Honorable - Order of Kentucky Colonels, i is ‘president of the Association of American Railroads§
We seem to recall that the Laffoon era produced al-
most as many Kentucky colonels as there are privates in the U. 8; Army. If Gen. Pelley can induce Cols. Jim Farley, Mae West, Tom Girdler, Eddie Cantor, Marvin MecIntyre and all the rest to ride his trains to Louisville, the railroads will get a good start toward that increased traffic which Col. Jesse Jones says they need more han Govern“ment loans.
OTHER PEOPLE'S MON EY
™v Washington dwell some of America’s biggest and best spenders of public money—and a Government official
named John Carson.
John; ‘consumers’ counsel for the Bituminous. Coal Com-
‘sion, is unique. He believes that “a Government employee should be even more scrupulous about Spending public ‘money than about spending his own.’ = His appropriation of $300,000 for the year was about one-fifth of what some thought was necessary, but on June 80 he will turn back $50,000 of that. bd Now, there’ s nothing heroic about John Carson’s ideas
They are simply fundamental to successful,
John Be is not only trying to make! cial. cheaper 1 8, but he is making Jovernment cheaper: for |
ered by eéarrier, 12 cents |
They are at peace
invests it in securities and mo:
Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler
Following Hitler's Theory Bandits Would ‘Rescue’ a Bank's Money and Vote 'Ja' on Whether to Keep It.
EW YORK, April 15.—The Gétmans have made many important contributions, but none more fascinating than the principle behind Hitler's recent plebiscite on the seizure of Austria. This oné should be a great comfort to all criminals, for it holds that aftér a pickpocket has stolen a watch he may call the operation a rescue, vote himself title to the watch and prosecute the owner for having possessed it. American prisons aré erowded with réscuers who will welcome the day when the Hitler concept is
adopted here, and no doubt if they are polled on the Sublect they, too, would vote as the German nation did
The arrest of Chancellor Schuschnigg for treason to Germany in refusing té surrender Austria until he was forced to do so is consistent with the Hitler policy. He may face a firing squad for this, because if the German reasoning is correct he certainly "s guilty of a very grave offense.
COORDING to the old ‘and perhaps erroneous standard, Chancellor Schuschnigg was a rather stanch patriot. His attitude was that which the world has learned to expect of patriots and had the’ support of many precedents. previously considered honorable. If the Germans had won the war to make the world safe for democracy and had rescued the United States our people would have expected that Woodrow Wilson would be treated with the honors of war and not as a fraitor to ‘Germany.
Like Schuschnigg, he had no feeling that he owed |
allegiance to Germany. Yet by the present argument Mr. Wilson was a traitor to the Fatherland, and, moreover, any head of any nation which 1s defeated by: Germany in a future war may expect to be punished for treason.
- This goes back to and indorses the “hang-the- =
Kaiser!” slogan which was. heard from the more. angry patriots on the Allied ‘side bétween 1914 and 1918, but which was repudiated by' the yictors for various reasons. Yet if Germany now imprisons or executes Schuschnigg for opposing the rescue of his country, that forbearance of the Allies will have been wasted and a great popular thrill will have been ‘sacrificed for nothing. ® = = I= may be remembered that the Americans, at least, engaged in rescue work long before Hitler's Germans. The Americans wanted rio loot beyond a few souvenirs, and their mission in fhe war was to rescue the German people from the Kaiser. In the end the Allies merely chased him off, however. There seems to be no usé of our trying to understand the Hitler theory, for we are steeped in the tradition that the thief or murdérer in a given crime is the one who is guilty of wrong and that the victim
is the offended party. Obviously, either the Germans or we are crazy when they, as a whole nation,
solemnly march to the polls and vote that Hitler was right in stealing an old-established and highly civilized country and just as solemnly write themsselves a clear title to the stolen property. If we are a normal people the Germans think upside down. According to their mentality, a report of a bank robbery would say, “Three armed rescuers held up the First National Bank, executed the cashier and two clerks for resisting destiny and rescued $150,000. They-then held a plebiscite and unanimously voted ‘Ja’ on the proposition ‘Shall we keep the money?’ ”
Business By John T. Flynn | . 4 Taxes Will Be Needed to Convert
Social Security Reserve Into Cash.
ASHINGTON, April 18 ~Taxes always find their way to those who have not learned how
| to howl about them. Business has staged a violent at-
tack upon some taxes it doesn’t like and has made some notable headway. But the working people who
are subject to one of the most onerous faxes in our
history bear the burden complacently, but actually seem to like it: } This tax is the payroll tax which is levied ostensibly for old-age insurance, but is chiefly for another purpose. Like gll subjects of taxation it is not always easy to make these matters clear. : The Government has established a big insurance business. One part of it is to provide people with pensions—old-age benefits—when they attain the age of 65. A tax is levied against pdyrolls and a similar amount is imposed on the employer. The workers and employers should pay for this. But everyone will admit that they ought not to be charged more than the .system will cost. In the next 40 or 50 years the Government will collect enough money from these taxes to pay all old-age pensions during that time. But it will also collect an additional
. 47 billion dollars. This 47 billion dollars it proposes to
‘use during the coming years to pay the general expenses of the Government. Apply this to an insurance company. It charges
‘its policyholders, who are also its stockholders, a
yearly premium. This is set so as to enablé the company to pay its death benefits, to meet its operating
‘charges and leave a: small amount over which is
called the reserve.
Funds Are Gone The company does not’ keep this in cash. It 'e notes. ‘But suppose the company, instead of investing the money, just spent it—for various objectives which it thought worthy. Suppose, in order to conceal this, it put the money in a “Reserve Fund” and then “borrowed” it from the fund, giving the fund its I. O. U.s. The fund would have “investments” but they would be the promises to pay of the insurance company. The “Reserve” would be gone. "This is what is happening with old-age pension funds. The Government is borrowing the money and spending it, not investing it. It is gone. ‘There will be nothing the Government can use to convert the Reserve into- cash save by imposing more taxes. The old-age pension tax should be reduced and the preposterous Reserve Fund i
A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson =
HE fiendish murder of two California women traveling through Texas calls attention once more 0 the deplorable mental condition ql a portion of our population. . Perhaps it’s because we have so many facilities for dispensing information that we seem: slays to be
deluged with tales of horror. Perversions, feéblemindedness, drug aid alcohol habits, traits that go along with subnormal intelligence, lead to these crimes, we are told. Should we not also include filthy literature on the list?
Groups of individuals in various communities have | organized to clean up this obscenity which is as
dangerous to their children’s minds as garbage poured into city streets would be to their bodies. It is a foregone conclusion that in some cities many women will be charged with wanting to bridle free speech, that they will be called meddlesome busybodies, and that the cry of censorship will be raised. I hope such peering will not swerve them from their course, for it is beyond all the bounds of sound sense ‘to say that these trashy magazines and books are not partly responsible for a vast number of sex crimes in the country “Censorship” is a asetul red herring, and a profit-
_able one it has proved for the creatures who make
money by ruining the morals of the young. Honest thinkers will not be alarmed by the shouting. Editors, radio managers. and publishers of re-
_putable magdzines exercise a certain amount of cen-
sorship over the public mind, and American mothers should ‘be allowed to do the same, A censorship Palnmined to. ocates believ
). suppress. re or any opinions Wien
SHUCKS— ALL YOU NEED } 1S A QUICK | PICK- ME=
The Hoosier Forum 1 wholly disagree with what you say, but will dojend to the death your right to say. it,—Voltaire.
SEES UNUSUAL CHANGES IN COURTROOM GARB By B. C. Well, times certainly change. A
man in Florida convicted of burglarizing a store won a new trial on
the ground that his appearance in|
court in a convict suit might have prejudiced the’ jurors. It makes the mind go pack a couple of years. The memory considers the epidemic of trials on such charges as embezzlement, falsification of records, misapplication of bank funds. The fashion among defendants then was to dress up for court appearances in raiment 1 ing as much like hand-me-downs or sack-cloth and ashes as possible. There was nothing like a tailormade suit with a gold watch chain hanging across the vest to guarantee a man a good, long term in the penitentiary.” If the news about the Florida man has filtered into the corrective institutions” yet, there are probably a lot of men who were refused new tridls now kicking themselves around for not having appeared in court looking like an oldfashioned cartoon of “The Trusts, o » 8 SAYS OPPORTUNITIES FEW FOR WOMEN PAST 30 By ‘Beyond the Age Limit’ A certain club in taken up the subject, “What is to be done about the woman of 30 or beyond who finds herself out of kilter with her chosen vocation?” That is just what I and thousands of women today are wondering. Women I know who have served faithfully and efficiently for many years find they are no more useful to their employers, many of them having been with them 25 and 30 bY Men these days, and some of our own sex, I am sorry to say, think when a woman has reached the age of 30, she is not up to date in the modern ways of handling the public and business. It isn’t only the professional woman, but the clerk, factory work-
the city has
ér and domestic who suffer this|
injustice. I worked for one firm 15 years. I was forced to hand in my resignation. The firm did not say I was too old—that would have been poor policy. They simply made things so
unpleasant I could not stand it|
longer and so I resigned. I was very efficient and handled my work with tact. Many times I was told this by my employer, but I was past the age limit and must go. My employer gave me a good recommendation,
‘but I was unable to secure another
position. Firms where I had called the next day hired girls who were not beyond the age limit.
t is ‘to “become of the woman
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who is forced to make her own living? Must she commit suicide or live off charity? Something must be done and at once. Club women everywhere, get busy and correct this evil. We only ask equal rights with those under the age limit, ® 8 8 : MANY CHRISTIAN REFUGEES | FROM GERMANY, Is CLAIM 1 By The Ametican ‘Committee: for Chistian German Refugees, 787 Fourth Aye., New York City. : There has developed in this country a {feeling that the problems growing out of Nazi persecution in Germany have been largely and peculiarly Jewish. Now that Naziism
has spread to Austria, a similar feeling is growing up about the
Austrian refugee. To many persons | the term
“Christian refugee” is strangely unfamiliar. This should not be, for actually there are many Christian refugees from German as there undoubtedly will be from Austria. As the agency charged with caring for Christian refugees from Nazi persecution, the American Committee for. Christian German Refugees. has found that this prevalent misconception among Americans has handicapped its work. The pre-Hitler Jewish population of Germany was 550,000, thus setting a high for the total possible German-Jewish refugees. Against this, there are in Germany hundreds of thousands of so-called “non-Aryan” Christians who are potential refugees. This number in-
SOUNDS ' By KEN HUGHES
I would remember: ‘Wind in tall trees, Bird songs before the dawn, . A whistling boy, A laughing girl; The country sounding The depths of my heart!
. DAILY THOUGHT The ‘foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.—I Corinthians 1:25. :
UCH wisdom often goes with few Words—Sophotles
cludes liberals, Socialists and Christians of Jewish ancestry—that is, persons or families who have lived as Christians for many years but who have been technically declared Jews by the Nazi race laws.
Laws Are Anti-Jewish
It is, of course, readily understandable how -the misconception grew that the problems of Nazi persecution were largely Jewish. The Nazi. race-laws are anti-Jewish and the most dramatic and most obvious results of their discriminatory practice have been leveled at Jews. Secondly, Jewry, though never suspect-
distressed European Jewry through such permanent relief organizations as the Joint Distribution ‘Commit. tee. Tak The American Committee for Christian German Refugees, 287 Fourth ‘Ave., New York City, has worked side by side with the Joint Distribution Committee. There has heen no competition between us, the problem being much larger than anything either or both our otganizations could handle. The American Committee was created by a: group nf American churchmen so that American Christians could show their Christianity to their fellowmen of Germany, and now of Aus-
Y | tria. It is not our desire to over-
dramatize the plight of the refugee, but we do want to present the picture of the Christian refugee in its proper perspective so that those desirous of doing their part in helping these unfortunates may know of their plight and act accordingly. The work of the American Committee for Christian German Refugees is purely humanitarian. We are not seeking in any way to influence the political situation in Germany. : s x 8 EX-MAYOR SULLIVAN'S RECORD PRAISED By H. H. Sheriff Ray talks of machine rule while trying to build up a political machine, but his dreams of becoming Mayor are far from realized. He has served four years in one of the best paying offices in Marion County. Fx-Mayor Sullivan, one of his worthy opponents, left a past record as Mayor second to none. Paying off the City’s debts left by his predecessors, he shows his honesty and ability in the handling of the people's money. Al Smith resorted to mud slinging
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himself denounced by the Democrats and not wanted by the Re-
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‘More Pump-Priming May Bring Spurt In Business, but It Will End in - AWorse Headache Than We Have.
FASHINGTON, April 15 —'There. is a big differs ence between spending for pump-priming and spending to be sure that “hobody is going to starve in this country.” About the latter purpose there can be no argument. A country of such wealth and resources 4s this, in which the political and economio machine is working so poorly that 10 to 12 million bread-winners cannot find a way to make a living for their dependents, must provide for the victims of
that incompetence. But part of this incompeténce is its heedless, head.
long experiments with its own money and credit and
among them pump-priming—which is another word for copious Government spending for various kinds of activity on the theory that this sort of spending stim ulates business and makes employment. : - The argument now is that reduced pump-priming in 1937 brought the business depréssion. The follow=ing table shows in millions of dollars, the pumpe priming by years and increase in national income paid out for each year— which is thé measure of ine
~ Increase In Income © 609% ~ 3641 8411 5411
. Pump"Priming . 4502 4348
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1934 seo nese
HATEVER else those figures may show, except for 1936 when the bulk of the bonus was paid, they don’t show any very great variation in real pump-priming and they show little if any rélation between “variations of pump- priming and increase in national income. For eéxample; we spent more in 1937 than 1 1934 but the increase in income was less. We very little less in 1935 than in 1934 but the in Pere in income was 2.5 billions less. We are now. spending at about the rate in 1934, 1935 and 1937. The cone
- clusion seems to be fair that it was neither decrease
nor increase in pump-priming that brought: either the fluctuating rise in income beginning in 1 34 hot the decline in 1937 and 1938. To the extent that governmental action brought this depression, it was not by changes in spending. It was by a deliberate Treasury, Federal Reserve and executive assault on the early 1937 boom.
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S this column has said before, it is pot, a lag of three ‘or four billions in yearly national iricome and spending power that continues depression and “unemployment. It is a lag of 40 billions. The only thing that more squandering can do to increase business is to create such fear of the value of money and credit of the United States that people in a panic to keep their savings may rush to buy common stocks and commodities. That would make a decided spurt—perhaps a runaway boom. That and that alone is “inflation.” It might make things look better for a time. : : But it is a desperate gamble. It is ani economia debauch that must shortly end in a worse headachq than we have now. .
It Seems to Me By Heywood Broun
Kennedy Has Lived Up. to the Best ~ Traditions With His Debutante Ban.
EW YORK, April 15.—Joseph Kennedy, our Ame bassador to the Court of St. James, is to be coms mended for his sense of. timing ‘in ‘tossing out the debutantes. I am assuming, of course, that the man from Massachusetts had no desire to do this deed
- quietly and in secret.
Generally speaking, diplomatic posts, even the big ones, constitute cubbyholes into which ‘public servants are put to be forgotten. As a rule, the American Ambassador in London: is restricted to pleasant words about the Pilgrims and the amity between English-speaking® peoples. Joe Kens nedy has managed to break through all that by furs nishing a story which has been hot news all along the American press front and Is particularly pertinent “in the city of Boston. From #4 political point of view the story is & honey. I have read that young Henry Oabot Lodge was actually a collaborator in the scheme. But as the news came out, it seémed as if the Boston Brahman had stiick out his chin to be smacked by an Irish American. In New England the quaint notion seems to prevail that our envoy has also slapped at the reigning family of the British Empire. There is noth= ing in this, Probably the King and Queen have met plenty of American debutantes already. When you've met one debbie you have met them all. At least that is true of those who are encountered in the night clubs. There seems to be something in the philosophy of finishing schools which holds that a properly trained young lady should always keep the conversation alive, or, to put it more precisely, keep on talking whether the words add up or remain scrambled, :
Some Opposition Expected Bt
Joseph Kennedy has helped politically, because he is pictured in the papers as the homespun American diplomat who has lived up to the best “traditions as established by Benjamin nklin. However, he will find himself in a certain gmount of hot. water... The opposition to his action will come from curious quar= ters. Patriotic pressure groups are ely te put: the bee on him. gi Of course, the monarchy still has stanch supporters in its own land. time to time labor members have urged th abolition. of the throne, but it has never become a major, : . And even the English radicals approach the sube ject without much rancor. The British in recent years have learned to take‘the monarch in their stride. No
.précise statistics are available, but I venture the guess ‘that American radio fans wept many more gallons:
tears over the abdication of David of aa shan were evér shed in ii nited Kingdon. yi 5
{ Watching Your Health
By Dr. Morris Fishbein
ANY of the publichtions devoted 6 exercise and M+ physical culture put considerable stress on the importance of plenty of exercise in order to develop the muscles. However, exercise must always be taken in relationship to the general physical condition of the person concerned. It is generally recognized that a reasonable amount of exercise is beneficial simply because it makes peo - ple feel better. It is also ‘well established, however, that violent exercise is dangerous for most people and that with some people even moderate exercise may. be beyond their capacity. The average man today does ‘pot. require big
People who are built like Sandow used to. live for their uscles alone. There is not’ the slightest evidence that peeple with big muscles live longer or even that they Shey gre 3 more healthful than those with muscles or
Sa wi of springs, dumbbells, bars and ‘rubber des de are offered to those: who think it is en merely by the possession of such a piece of Jmadhinery to get big muscles and thereafter health. of the
| purchasers realize how long it takes to butld a muscle
into 4 visikle lump even by the consistent use of this kind of machinery: The best form of exercise for any man or boy,
“woman or girl, is some form of play. :
which keeps them out in the open. air compatible with the amount and work that they have to;