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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20, 1938

FOR AN AUDITORIUM : AFFROVAL by the Public Works Administration of the = proposed $2,000,000 civic auditorium for Indianapolis ~ brings this project closer to reality than at any time in "the last two years. : Passage of the President's pump-priming program would assure the city of an outright grant by the Federal * Government of 45 per cent of the estimated total expenditure for the building. The remaining 55 per cent would have to be provided locally.

A natural convention city because of its .central loca- -

tion, Indianapolis fails to get many of the bigger conventions because of inadequate facilities. The Indianapolis Convention and Publicity Bureau, one of the supporters of the project, estimates that lack of accommodations prevented the city from drawing conventions that would have spent $13,000,000 in 1937. : The community also needs a large civic auditorium for lectures, operas, political rallies, religious ‘meetings and other events which the more modern auditoriums are equipped to accommodate. : ] Aside from the many intangible civic and cultural benefits, many cities have made their auditoriums selfsupporting through careful planning and efficient management. : We hope the Convention Bureau, the Junior Chamber ‘of Commerce and other groups are encouraged toscarry their campaign to a finish. Indianapolis can’t afford to pass up this opportunity to get a much-needed improvement at virtually half price. .

DEADLOCKING RECOVERY HE House tax-revision bill is a big improvement over ~ existing tax laws. The Senate tax-revision bill is an even greater improvement. - The principal differences are these: The Senate bill prescribes a more simple, direct method of taxing the incomes of corporations and the, capital gains of individuals, and would raise more revenue. The House bill, using a complex formula for taxing the undistributed profits of corporations and an involved sliding scale for taxing capital gains, would perpetuate “in principle” two methods of taxation now. thoroughly discredited. Under it many businesses

would pay a smaller tax but probably would pay out more

than they saved to tax lawyers and accountants, not only to make out complicated returns but also to advise them on day-by-day management decisions in which these taxes would be a factor. 2 Enactment of the Senate bill, or something close to it, would in our opinion be the best possible thing that could happen to encourage business to pull itself out of the depression. But even the House bill would be a help to business. So would any possible compromise between the two. The bills ‘have been in conference seven days. Day after day the conferees have met, stared at each other across the table, and adjourned. The House group, backed by the President, insists that the House version must prevai]. The Senate group, justifiably resenting- Presidential interference, refuses to surrender. : : If the President had not interfered a compromise probably would have been reached, and by now enacted. But because he interfered, the whole tax-revision program, “on which business has waited throygh the long months of the depression, is deadlocked. There is a regular legislative procedure for breaking this deadlock. That is for the two groups of conferees to ask their respective chambers for instructions.

The Senate membership had an opportunity to approve |

the House bill, but overwhelmingly rejected it. But the House membership has never been given a chance to vote on the Senate bill. The House conferees, therefore, should voluntarily return to their chamber and ask for instructions. If they persist in their stubborn refusal to do so, then the logical next step is for the House membership to command their return. : Each day spent in the present futile, unnecessary stalemate delays that much longer the wise and proper stimulation to business and employment which both branches of Congress have shown clearly that they want to give.

20 CENTS A MILE . | IY these times of change, one thing changes not. Congress remains firm in its devotion to the great principle that its members should collect 20 cents a mile for travel ing to and from Washington. ; We R . It is true that now and then a Congressional voice is raised against the mileage racket. Senator Borah for instance has just spoken out, ~Congress, he argues, should not collect mileage for the present session, since many members who collected for the special session last winter did not return to their homes during the brief adjournment that followed it. - And the 20-cents-a-mile allowance, he adds accurately, is excessive, But a bill appropriating $220,000 to pay mileage for the present session, and $220,000 more to pay mileage for next winter's session, has passed the House with only a handful of votes in ‘opposition. And doubtless it will pass the Senate. ;

MAKE IT SIR FRANK : ~HOMAS J. PENDERGAST, Democratic boss of Kansas City, has been awarded the title of “Commendator,

Knight of the Order, of the Crown of Italy.” Allesandro-

Savorgnan, Italian vice consul, remarked as he hung the insignia about the neck of Sir Thomas: “The Italians know their friends and how to show their gratitude.” : How about a similar honor from Italy, or perhaps

Nazi Germany, for Mayor Frank Hague, Democratic boss

of Jersey City? «Surely this country’s mast conspicuous practitioner of

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. duction to which the President refers.

one-man government deserves. recognition

Washington By Raymond Clapper

Congressmen Awaiting Word From Home Before Making Up Their Minds

On Roosevelt's Spending Program, | ASHINGTON, April 20—Sentiment in Congress .

toward President Roosevelt’s new. spending program is hesitant and apparently will not jell for some time. There's a whiff of trouble in the air. Some people in Congress have principles. But. they aren't sure whether it will be necessary to rise above them, because they haven't heard from home. Until the people speak, it will be difficult for a number of members to make up their minds as to what is best

for the country. ; ; Thus far neither the telegraph business nor the Postoffice Department is making much profit out of the spending controversy. The trouble is you can write about this program only on an adding machine. One Representative, whose district is among the most

populous in the country, has had only half a dozen

letters, about evenly divided. Several members reported no reaction. Others have only scattered mail. Already it is evident that President Roosevelt's message to Congress and his radio fireside talk last week have failed to bring the huge quantities of fan mail as of yore. Time was when Senators and Representatives didn’t even wait for the mail from home. They could feel it coming, and they would leap into line at least two jumps ahead of it. But times have changed. : » 5 = y O they are waiting now. Considering what the opposition did with the Reorganization Bill, when it had little tangible stuff to sink its teeth into, it is possible that a terrific fight can be kicked up over the spending program. However, John Hamilton, chairman of the Republican National Committee, says the Roosevelt pump-priming program is really a pollpriming program. If he can convinge enough Democrats of that, they may rally to save the program. Over the week-end the attack seemed to be shap= ing chiefly toward the heavy-public-works end of the program—what_ Mr. Roosevelt described as the “third round of ammunition.” On the weork-relief and CCC side of the program there seemed little chance of serious opposition. : However, Mr. Roosevelt said that was not enough. He said definite additions to purchasing power must be made by providing new work through PWA—the Ickes heavy-works program. He asked for $300,000,000 more for housing, to be used for slum clearance largely. For heavy public works he asked, first, expenditure of $450,000,000, and second the granting of authority to lend up to $1,000,000,000 to states and subdivisions for public improvements which could be undertaken before snow flies. * 2 » HAT, Roosevelt said, was the third round of ammunition—the two others being work relief under Hopkins and the expansion of credit which he has undertaken by administrative action. He said the country could not afford to go into battle against depression with only two rounds of ammunition where three were necessary. Objection is made that the heavy PWA program of Mr. Ickes would, as before, be too slow to provide immediate stimulation. PWA experts reply that a large number of projects have been approved and were held up only when funds were cut off. Mr. Ickes has his ammunition assembled and the

only question is whether it will go off with Ickeg

behind it or on it.

Business

By. John. Flynn

Whatever the Causes of Depression, They Have Been at Work 25 Years.

x TASHINGTON, ‘April 20—~If the critics of the President's proposal to spend more money succeed in blocking him in any considerable degree they will learn quickly enough of their mistake. Taking into consideration all the factors in the situation, there is nothing else the Government can do now. But the situation presents a solemn lesson. : Four years of what is called recovery have ended in the return of the depression. . Despite all the agitation, the laws, the programs and plans, and despite the vast sums expended by the Government, the economic system has behaved as it has always behaved and, after a’ brief interval, returned to depression. : There was a depression in 1913-15. The war inflation ended it—spending of borrowed money by this and other Governments—and when that. stopped four or five years later the depression returned. After twa or three years of recession another boom appeared— caused in the same way, the vast spending of borrowed funds by private business and local govemnments—and then the depression came back and roosted on Hoover's doersfep. Then in 1934, as the Roosevelt spending of borrowed funds began to spark, another brief recovery made its entry and in four years it has collapsed like: the others. Every President with a depression on his hands has come forward with his explanation—always one whieh exculpated him.

Spending Can Check Any Slump

But isn’t it: clear that, whatever the cause of these depressions, these causes have been at work regularly during the last 25 years and that- the Administration has utterly failed to put its hand on the real cause. Now there is not the slightest doubt that a Gov= ernment, if it will borrow enough and spend enough, can check any depression and actually start a rise in activity. But the question haunts us—how long can a Government keep that up? And, in the presence of its own feebleness to cope with the monster any other way, is it net time for Government and business to confess their ignorance? This depression was not caused by the overpro- : It was caused by the President's eompliance with the demands of business that he taper off spending and berrowing. He may revive activity by reviving borrowing and spending. When he quits that or slows up again the hie will erack up again. And what will he do after

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

CCORDING te news reports, the President’s wife selected two complete spring outfits — dresses, hats, purses and glaves—in less than 50 minutes. Now that's something to shout about. : It’s true that these who have money may walk into a shop and say “I'll take this” without worry about when the bills are to be sent or where the

| money is coming from. A lean purse makes a careful

buyer, and a poor woman is therefore obliged to give more theught and time te her selections than somebody like Mrs. Roosevelt. : : Just the same, many women spend so much time shopping they are bad shoppers. ybe that sounds paradoxical, but let’s follow a bar heund on a spree. Generally it is dresses in the first stores we enter. Also their price may be right; they might even be exactly what we

‘want. That, however, makes no impression on our

particular type of buyer. Why? Because she seea in imagination those rows and rows ef other dresses hanging in all the other stores and won't be satisfied

‘until she has tried on all of them in her size.

The salesgirls stagger in with piles of garments. The array is dazgling, and the shopper, losing all sense of judgment, gets drunk on dresses, just as her hus-

‘band may get drunk on hard-liquor when the bills

come in. She slips into one and then into another, finally ending up with the inevitable phrase: “Yes,

this is lovely. I like it. It's really a sweet little number

but I believe I'll just look around a little more. I want to be perfectly satisfied, you know.” Only she never is. The looking around degenerates

into an orgy. Having seen. every dress in town, the

customer is so wearied : loses zest for the enterprise the selection she finally habits, the First Lady sets

sated with cuts, colors and trimming, trying ih cu up her mind, that she and almost never likes

ible to find one or two suitable |

makes. In‘ Takes Rid shopping (ing

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CITES KIND OF ANTHEM TINPAN ALLEY MIGHT WRITE By D. F. C. Lawrence Tibbett, Henry Goddard Leach, editor of Forum; Padraic Colum, poet, and Jascha Heifetz, violinist, are agitat-

ing for a new national anthem to replace the “Star-Spangled Banner.”

patriots—feeding the fires of amor patriae, you might say—with 1000 greenbacks in prizes.) These four gentlemen argue that the present theme song of the Republic is defective because—(a) the tune is of foreign origin, (b) it isn’t singable, (¢) it arouses militant emotions. Not, mind you, that the _| replacement shouldn't be militant—

that our democracy, liberty and sacred rights be preserved and perpetuated. A nice line if you can

and militancy. While the “Star-Spangled Banner” is inadequate—lacking the

talgia, pomposity and nobleness

Tinpan Alley. And some merning | we !serious-minded citizens will

.| presented with a national anthem ‘the first verse of which’ll run semething like— > America, I'm in love with you; You've got me nuts and flinging woo. From Main to Cal, - From Wash. to Fila. You're my gal Night and day. 2 2 8

SEES RED DICTATORSHIP IF LOYALISTS WIN : By Mrs. A. Dailey ! :

So Agapito Rey decries the bomb ing of Spanish cities as brutal.

crees being dictated by the hierarchy for Franco. Now he complains that the protest issued by the Vatican aghinst further bombings |by Franco is laeking in force and sincerity. Inconsistent! Fle goes on to say the people “have been fighting heroically to save their country from the ravages of German and Ifalian invaders.” For what? The ravages

everywhere in November gave accounts of “Loyalist” Spain's week of homage to the Seviet Union: “Madrid, celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Russian revolution, suddenly blossomed with huge por-

baritone;|

(Dr. Leach is also poking up the

oh, yes, but only militant to the end

draw| it—this one between militancy

qualities of splendor, stability, nos-

which it should have—eon the other hand, if were not careful the task of alteration is likely to fall into the hands of a council of Knights of

.awaken to find that we have been

Recently Mr. Rey resented de- |

of Communistic Russia! Newspapers |

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

traits of Russian leaders, Communistic slogans, red stars, pledges of homage to and solidarity ‘with the Soviet Union. Pictures of Joseph Stalin. appeared in many newspapers with eulogistic articles.” Does Mr. Rey want to keep the Spanish people “sate” : atrocities to be committed under a Red dictatorship even as they are in Russia? a ® » ¥ ‘OPPOSES CHANGING SYRACUSE TO WAWASEE By W. L. Ballard, Syracuse. : The plan to change the name of century-old Syracuse, Ind., (population 1170) to Wawasee, - because Syracuse business interests covet the lake’s wide reputation, has now achieved some legal status by a petition filed with the Town Board signed by hundreds of townspeople, many “just to he a good spart.” But what do ‘absent summer. lake dwellers and friends of Wawasee think? They could not vole even if present. ' Will they mail postcard “votes,” giving their views, opinion and lake address to the SyracuseWawasee Journal, or to me? The plan will pessibly go through unless they speak up. The lake has 100,000

SUNSHINE STREET - By JAMES D. ROTH

Where's the way to sunshine ~ street? ; The fairest in the land; Where friends and neighbors stop to greet You warmly where you stand.

Each street may be a brighter way, Each home a haven fair; Each word may be a sunny ray, It's Sunshine Street! You're there.

DAILY THOUGHT

1 am the good shepherd: The ‘good shepherd giveth his life for ‘his sheep.—John 10:11. . IFE is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and | complete a character —Goethe.

for the;

friends in Indiana and others elsewhere, wha can know of it only in this way. \ The name, Wawasee is unique. It is not used by any town in the United States. But shall a nome worn with pride and honor for

| a century be gobbled up by neigh-

poring business interests just because they covet the name? Must the lake, though unincorpo-

‘| rated, change its community name, its postoffice |

its railroad name, name because Syracuse, whose leaders have been unable to achieve a pig name on merit, wish to attain one by such adoption? nd y » » SAYS PEOPLE WILL DANCE IF THEY HAVE CAUSE By M. 8. Gather ‘round, ye mopesters, snivelers, crepe-hangers and Job’s comforters, and hear the newest, gayest plan for chasing gloom from our land. 5 : President Donald Grant of the Dancing Teachers’ Business Association and danseuse Ruth St. Denis have it all worked out that the Government should set up a hational dance academy “near some cultural center,” modeled after Annapolis and West Point, where 2500 students seleeted by Congressional districts would be trained in the dance. The most proficient would be selected as members of the U. 8S. Corps de Ballet, to per-

form in each state capital “at least |

once a year. ; Scoffers will call this movement just another of Fancy’s children, or charge it to the madness of the April winds: But I can think of sillier things both done and doing in recovery’s name. Hitler and Mussolini know that Satan finds mischief for idle feet; hence the inartistic goose-step. Qver here thousands of feet, otherwise unemployed, gyrate in the “Big Apple,” the “Susy Q.” the “Shag” and other dizzy numbérs that use up endless time and calories with-

out adding much to the book of art. |-

Teo many feet in rundown heels are making lost motions. Even our Congress, like . the Congress of Vienna, might better danee than cut up some of its present capers. But the trouble with this formula

lis that it gets the cart before the

horse. We must have something to dance about, as we had on Armistice Day. And if we were ready to celebrate a victory for .eeenomiec reeevery we wouldn't need.a ballet or other pageantry. We would just rope off the streets and let our feet g0. * . : A

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LET'S EXPLORE YOUR MIND

__ By DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM —.

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duced the new color or size or odor or flavor ar other feature which we see later in the body ef the plant or animal, j

2 MUCH MORE so because—

whether justified or not—a tall man is s to be: superior— better looking, ~more attractive, more heroic—than. men of law stature. As described in Readers’ Digest, one New York man has built up a large business making that make men look from ene to

| five inches taller. Most of his cus-

tomers are men—especially men in love with taller women, and grooms who feel their wedding picture will mot a hf, Ge posh mber of the family. One payehologist elaims that small men buy bigger automobiles than big men. 2 & = i. A CERTAINLY he weuld and, J usually, the more he is o] /

| to it. the better he would like to do

I think gambling destroys

it. thin | human character, especially one's

sense of the value of money and when one’s character is gone he

tries to make money without wark- :

ing for it. Neverthéless, man is ‘a he evolved by risking

test chance; and

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squandering : = ‘wherever it-would hurt most. :

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And Instead Gets a Boa Constrictor And Rocks From the Administration.

WASHINGTON, April 20.—According to St. Mat-

* thew, when a son asks any wholly human father for & fish; he will not give him a serpent, or if he asks for bread, he will not hand him out a stone. Business asked for an abolition of the capital gains And undistributed profits taxes. The Senate wants to give them this fish, but the Administration eggs on its better-controlled House of Representatives. to wrap around their necks a.boa constrictor which retains the principal evils of both these taxes. + Business asked for bread to prevent inflation and the uncertainties that go with it—some cessation of

phony financing and ‘funny bookkeeping to pay for _: What they got were socks with rocks

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: A CIRCUS is abqut to start. Ring one—Prejudiced

Federal Communications Commission report on

: ‘the American Telephone & Telegraph ‘Co. Next, we

are to have a business-baiting canyow (Igorote head hunters’ dance) on “monopoly in motion pletures.” This is to be by a “subcommittee” of the Federal Communications Commission. This “subcommittee” is to consist of all the Commission’s members except those who are handpicked—a perversion of the law that commission action will represent diverse views, Just pack the Commission by naming a “subcommittee” minus opposition—members of a Commission about te investigate themselves. The added investigator is witch-finder McNinch. third ring, of course, will be the TVA investi=gation. Also an adventure which nobody ever had the nerve to try, not even in the tragic era of 1870. This is a demonstration against Happy Chandler in favor of Alben Barkley in Harlan County, Kentucky. In reconsiruction days, when the Republican purpose was to force unlimited Negro suffrage on the South, it was made a Federal felony for citizens of any state jo “conspire” to deny any ‘citizen any right guaranteed under Federal law. The full force of the Department of Justice is about to be used to apply this dead-letter and discredited statute to a labor dispute to send some employers to -penitentiaries.

IF spite of all Mr. Roosevelt's advice to stop baiting the American business dog, new tin cans are to be tied to its tail—ameng others, antimonopoly laws along the.line of the Ickes and Jackson speeches and new theories of taxation. fz The political purpose of the whole summer program plainly is to keep business frying in all the juice of ‘popular prejudice that can be stewed out by this kind of heat. ~The purpose is to crucify it in popular esteem—an election purpose—to intensify rather than to relieve class hatred. It: is the theory of the Cave of Adullam strategy within the Administration left wing to mobilize all American discontents—plus an effort to buy the 1938 elections -by an unprecedented outpouring of nonexistent Federal funds. In the opinion of this writer, it is the most insincere, demagegic and despicable political effort that has been made in this. country during his lifetime. .

It Seems to Me By Heywood Broun We Should Leave Behind These Who . Say, 'lsn't Everything Terrible?’ NTEW YORK, April 20.—“And they said among

themselves, ‘Wha shall roll us away the stone from the door of the sepuichre?'” To me the most

"vivid account of Easter morning- is ‘in the 16th

chapter of St. Mark. " “And very early in the morning, the first day of the week, they came unto the sepulchre at the rising of the sun.” I am not thinking of the strictly theological significdnce of the Gospel account, but of other connotations. The Easter story is the story of the fundamental fight between life and death, ‘between hope and. despair. I think it is fair to note that those who came to the rising of the sun did

stone was very great, but the guery, “Wha shall rell us away ‘the stone” was no mere rhetorical question. It was ‘in the minds of these devoted believers that the. task could be accomplished. ; Lr They sought a means and a method, “and whén they looked they saw that the stone was rolled away.” But I like to think that if the Angel of the Lord had not intervened that the women themselves would have set their hands against the stone which barred "their way. rls : ; - Of course, they knew that the tomb was sealed, “but their faith was: lively that a way could be found - to break through that wall of death. They talked it - over among themselves. Their very nermal instinct

was to co-operate in solving the problem. - Days of the Pioneers :

Mark names tHose ‘who came to the tomb at the rising of the sun as “Mary Magdalene, and Mary, the mether of Jesus, and Salome.” It might have seemed utterly impractical for three women to bear spices to a tomb which was guarded by a huge and heavy stone. And probably there were those, among the

info nothing more than loud lamentations. : To some, history itself is a sort of hard rock. What has. beeri must forever endure. If man has always turned to battle, so it must be until the end of time. Poverty has heen set as the lasting lot of humankind. There were days in America when we had pioneers. They were not crippled by precedent. They went out and created it. It is true that we no longer possess unlimited forests to be cut dawn or rich land to be taken over by the hardy and the adventurous. We must pioneer along new lines of endeavor. * To’ pioneer is to experiment. Let us leave by the roadside those who simply sit and say, “Isn't everything terrible?” and here and now at the rising of the sun it is for us to answer it. : :

Watching Your Health By Dr. Morris Fishbein Eee

Fox YEARS medical schools have emphasized to A’ their students, teachers have emphasized to practicing doctors, articles in newspapers, in magazines and over the radia have proclaimed the warning: Never prescribe a cathartic when there is acute ‘abe

dominal pain. ~~ The results have begun to show themselves in a lessened number of oases of people with a ruptured appendix now being brought to the hospitals. it

‘for children in Chicago, it was found ) 2 Sillaen brought to the hospital wi po

bs 40 per cent e appendix ady ruptured were children whese parents beli hat all stamachache was due to something that the child had eaten and who treated giving a strong cathartic medicine. = . . The figures seem to show that few children have appendicitis in the first or second year of life. However, the first four years of life show a high record of ruptured appendices because a child is unable to indicate its symptoms aceurately. For that very reae .son the disease is mast deadly during the first four years of life. YA The doctor diagnoses the presence of appendicitis by the Satire of the pain : 5 ] urs, by the r ¥. by a study of So: (0 ; Also in such cases there .is nausea and vomiting in the majority of s and sometimes a diarrhea ‘as well. The doctor, however, dees not

"Business Asks for Fish and Bread

not, come in the spirit of surrender. They knew the

disciples who turned: their love of the crucified leader .

~ -In the records recently studied in a large hospital

the condition by ~

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