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House Painter Gets an Eyefully tir _

. . Ws No :Fun to (Crack Down Daily ©". On: the Policies of. a President Who ls at Heart a Thoroughbred.

ASHINGTON, April. 21. —Believe it or not, I get sicker even than any of my customers of cracking down, day after day, on each new Presidential policy. . © : It isn’t merely affection for an old and once very close friend. It is that I know so well the terrifio pressure of that awful office. I use the adjective in its accuracy and not everyday sense. It should be spelled “awe-full” To sit in that-seat of godlike power and know that any error in daily action may send thousands or, in extreme cases, millions to pov-" erty, prison or even death—to sit there charged with’ preserving the principles and: traditions of such & nation as this—it is a proud stewardship; but it is ordeal by torture. be In the democratic process, no man can use this’ veritable mantle of martyrdom to shield himself from criticism of every action. While the President has: winced at some shafts, he has never tried that. I doubt if any column has been more poignantly critical than this one, and yet he once said to me: ais “I not only don’t object, but I agree with about 70 per cent of what you say. For various reasons of responsibility and compromise in this office; I cannot dictate my own course of action. ,To move forward I must accommodate myself to more opinion than one.* : x 0%. rT Aged I> pretty hard-boiled but that one brought. a lump in my throat—and it wasn’t in the least intended as a self-dramatization of a “pale martyr in his shirt of fire” It was a statement of a simple fact of statesmanship. I got a ‘panning only for overemphasis and exaggeration—which is a matter of judgment in the zeal.of advocacy. Similarly, a worried capitalist in radio made a tentative inquisitive remark about my: critical broadcasts. He got an immediate response that there was no objection except overemphasis and an observation that enemieesgot cracked just as hard. The constantly repeated rumor that the White House had me “taken off the air” is sheer imagination. © T confidently believe the Administration has gone plumb loco in policy and that it is the duty of ‘a, commentator to say what he believes. But it. is the reverse of pleasant to keep hammering at a man so sorely beset under such overwhelming duties and responsibilities. :

Fair Enough

£ A Vanass | BY Westbrook Pegler i Price in, Marlon Coun= 1 Your Columnist, Like Ownie Bush, ty, 3 cod a OV AMET lent Going fo Protest, buf, He * Just Wants to. Win His Argument.

ered by carrier; 12 cents | a week, : : it EW YORK, April 21.—When I was writing baseball we had in the American League an umpire ‘named Bill Guthrie, who had a bulldog jaw, whom the athletes called Dogface Guthrie. Mr. Guthrie loved controversy, but he had a deep, personal admiration for Mickey Cochrané, then catching for Connie Mack

in Philadelphia. * ' ; One day late in one of those seasons when Connie was winning his last batch of pennants the White Sox limped into ‘Philadelphia, dragging. themselves around the league for the last ’time in a contest for eighth place. The weather was terribly hof, and Mr. Cochrane was weary and sluggish. Mr. Guthrie not only felt sorry for Mike, but wanted to spare him needless exercise so that he could be as fresh as possible for the impending World Series. With these feelings in his heart, he erred on the side of generosity when the Philadelphia pitcher, in the ninth inning, threw one right through Mike's listless hands which rolled about 10 yards and stopped. Mr. Guthrie flipped a fresh ball out of his pocket ‘and said, “Let it go, Mike, Here's a clean one.” The White Sox had a runner on first, but were about eight runs behind with two men out. In these circumstances, Mr. Guthrie was startled by a shriek from the third base coacher’s box. It was Mr. Ownie Bush, the manager of the White Sox, yelling to his _ runner to go down to second. » » 8

M~ GUTHRIE waved the runner back, but the man proceeded, nevertheless, and when he had doubtfully rounded the bag, Mr. Bush commanded him to continue. The runner rounded third and Mr. Bush sent him charging home, where Mr. Cochrane tagged him with the fresh one. “Now he’s out,” said Mr. Guthrie. ° “He ain't out,”. Mr. Bush bawled. “He scores.” At this point the other two umpires, George Moriarty and Big Shot McGowan, strolled in to confer with Mr. Guthrie. «Bgill,” Mr. Moriarty whispered to his colleague, “that ball ain’t dead. We have got to do something.” “Oh,” said Mr. Guthrie, “it’s too hot for ‘Mike to go chasing that ball, just before the World Series. What's the difference, anyway? Put the mug back on base and leave us get through.” “Yes,” said Mr. McGowan, “but what base are we going to put him on?” “Oh, cut it in half and put him on second,” said Mr. Guthrie, And this was done, with Mr. Bush of the White Sox vowing to protest the game. 8 8 ”

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Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way

THURSDAY, APRIL 31, 1038

TAXES—AND THE RELIEF: PROBLEM FTER hearing witnesses and reading reports of investigators for eight months, the Senate Committee on Unemployment and Relief came forth yesterday with a list of recommendations. go Topping the list was the advice that Congress do one thing that can be done speedily, and that should result in returning thousands of jobless people to private employment —namely, repeal the undistributed profits tax and modify the capital gains tax. Said the report: hh “The committee is of the opinion that enactment of revenue legislation along the lines contained in the Senate bill will be exceedingly helpful at this time.” In this opinion the committee is ‘backed by the practically unanimous, testimony of economists and businessmen, big and little. Sy Other recommendations relate. to the handling of; the Federal Government's share of the burden of unemployment and relief. Many of them are sound. All of them deserve the thoughtful consideration of Congress and the ‘Administration. =a : : The committee opposes any sweeping revision of relief policies at this time. That is understandable. With at least 14 per cent of the American people now dependent on public relief in one ferm or another; with 12,000,000 persons "totally unemployed and other millions only part-time employed; with “the army of the unemployed daily receiving recruits, drastic changes in the existing relief machinery would involve great difficulties, much confusion and possibly much suffering.” But the committee promises to continue its work and to propose, later on, what may be the basis for a long-range Federal relief policy. Such a policy, of course, is essential, and we hope this promise will be kept without long delay. If the WPA form of work relief is to be continued, instead of Federal grants to supplement state relief funds,

NE repeated assertion that the President is now, O “desperate” hirts me in the neck. He once said to me: : - : ; “I try as hard as I can and t6 the very limit of my ability to do what seems best to me. That is all I can do and when I:am done for the day, I turn the page and close my mind to worry.” 2 Make no mistake about that. It is no crocheted motto. It is a basic principle of the man’s character. He neither is nor ever has been or will be either . desperate or downhearted. If it were otherwise, he would not be ‘ative today, Many people are growing weary of the well-known charm, the golden voice and the permanent smile. To

he Hoosier Forum 1 wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it—Voltaire.

I: ended a few minutes later in the customary de- i I feat. of the White Sox. Mr. Bush, somewhat calmer by now, met Dogface under the stand. ‘ : ‘“Bill,” he said, “I am not going to protest the game. But right is right, and I want you to admit you kicked one. Just let me win the argument.” Mr. Guthrie shook his head. “That ball,” he said, “was dead.” In 2 more recent controversy I share the position and emotions of Mr. Bush.

ABOLITION OF HIDDEN TAXES 1S URGED By Voice in the Crowd

(Times readers are invited to express their views in. these columns, religious cons

CAMPAIGN URGED AGAINST LIQUOR AND GAMBLING : By Y-60 !

everything possible should be done to correct the faults of WPA. Recognizing this, the committee makes some good proposals. i : ; 2 88 Sea Ee Wra workers should be required to file each pay day, a statement of their earnings from outside employment, and such earnings should be taken into account in rotating ‘WPA jobs among all eligible workers. At present, large numbers of WPA workers take private jobs in. their spare Lime, underbidding other unemployed persons, lowering wage standards in private industry -and causing great injustice to people who can get neither WPA ‘jobs nor private jobs. : ai eo ; Local contributions to the cost of WPA projects should be equalized. The committee would limit to $5. a month per WPA worker the Federal contribution to purchase of supplies and materials. The Federal Government would pay all wages ‘and administration costs, as at present, but all local sponsors would be put on an approximately equal basis of cost-sharing. : Putting the employment service under control of the Social Security Board and tying it in with the administration of unemployment insurance would be an intelligent step. The employment service, now controlled by the Labor ‘Department, obviously is not fully serving its purpose.

Training CCC boys—and other unemployed persons,

I claim that it is unethical for sons of a President of the United States to have profitable dealings with - corporations which -are beholden to whimsical po-

litical bureaus of the Government for valuable rights and favors, and still more unethical for a President to confer great personal influence on a young man whose sense of propriety is such as that. © I am not going to protest or try to start impeachment proceedings. Like Ownije Bush, I just want to win my argument. Fa

Business By John T. Flynn -

Inflation Broiight by. Desterilizing

Gold Won't Be Either Fast or Swift.

ASHINGTON, April 21.—While the President proposes to. increase Government spending by something more than three billion dollars in his second recovery program, he assures thes country that this will involve only one more billion dollars of borrowing. This is because he plans to desterilize gold. Here is how this works: The Treasury has been buying gold at the enhanced price of $35 an ounce under the gold purchase and devaluation plan. Up to December, 1936, the Government bought this gold by ‘merely issuing gold certificates for it. In December, 1936. it abandoned this method of buying and began to “sterilize” gold, as the financial authorities put it. That is, while it continued to buy the gold, it paid for it in a different way. : Always the Treasury paid for the gold by handing the seller a check as any other purchaser ‘would

+ If our good ‘church and social groups want to do something worthy for Indianapolis, a campaign against the present tavern way of selling liquors, and also the

gambling enterprises would be in|

order. The old saloon would: be better today than the tavern where women are allowed. It was disgusting in the old days to see a woman drink, and it still is today. Wherever there is liquor and women there is that emotional stress that will eventually cause a fight. ; “The gambling den is all right, too, until the money rolls the wrong way. A least little word out of the way can inspire the wrath of a man whose business is to live off of someone else's money. He is too lazy to work, and a lot of hungry mouths are made by this kind of a man. The county has to step in then to feed and clothe a family when a father feels lucky, takes a chance, and is “taken for a cleaning” by an undesirable kind so that he may live without working. Down with the present tavern conditions! And down with the gambling dens! ” 2 ” SAYS PUBLIC WILL PAY FOR

RAILROAD CONSOLIDATION

‘dation is the first step toward Gov-

troversies excluded. Make your letter short, so all can’ have a chance. Letters must be signed, but names will be withheld on request.)

will lessen the amount of transfer crews by 25 per cent to 50 per cent. Interchange of cars will be limited to Hawthorne, LaSalle St. and Van yards of the Pennsylvania Railroad and the Brightwood, Hill and-West Side yards of the Big Four Railroad. : i With the lessened traffic on Belt lines, consolidation of stations will be next, for the officials have found that one man will do the work of two, when it is a case of eat or starve. The merger of offices and clerical positions will be undertaken as soon as the consolidation is in effect. - Due to eventual abandonment of yards and other taxables the railroads will be contributing only a portion of what they now do in taxes. This discrepancy will be shifted until it rests upon those who are less able to assume if, namely John Q. Public. " Last, but not least, the consoli-

ernment ownership of the railroads. Without competition where is your

W. 8. in his expression of a method to reduce prices and thereby

me these are the least pleasing items of the President’s personality. Far more important, and aside

induce purchasing brings out a

point and then loses it. It is this gentleman’s point to repeal taxes that originate in the distribution of motor cars and accessories, to make attractive selling prices. With more cars, accessories and gasoline sold, a resultant prosperity, would ' provide greater income that could pro

froin sleazy political antics, he is at heart a thor=

oughbred.

It Seems to Me

By Heywood Broun

vide ‘the repealed revenue.

One of the jokers in the tax system is that it doesn’t make any difference when you pay them or how you pay them, the taxes eat into purchasing power. It makes no difference how you pay taxes, whether on each purchase of goods or by the You pay them out of your income—that is all you have to pay them with. Therefore, it is only good sense that all hidden or little-known taxes be dispensed with and a broad base income tax-

day, week or meal,

ing system be evolved.

At the present time the state tax per every man, woman and child in Indiana is something over $50 a year, and above this the tax on every man, woman and child is close to $60 a year in Federal taxes, or approximately $110 per capita, or about $440 for each family of four.| This is more than can be raised and part of it is accumulating as ‘pub-

lic debt—our debt. :

The high cost of government may

Britons Give Fascism Blank Check, Hoping It Won't Be Drawn on Them.

° . EW YORK, April 21—Many. American . coms, mentators’ have expressed the opinion - that Neville Chamberlain has preserved the peace of Europe by putting through the Anglo-Italian pact. I dissent. : : Let us consider the arrangement upon the assumption that the terms of the" treaty will remain: inviolate forever and a day. What has England won and what has England surrendered? Where does democracy stand now in the troubled world? 1 do not see how anybody can deny that fascism has won & great diplomatic victory. ~All the nonFascist nations of Europe have been isolated by the English decision. France. will have to climb on the pband-wagon or face the threat of joint Italian and German aggression. Spain, of courses, has been thrown over utterly to the Fascist forces. . It will be said by some that the Germans and the Ttalians are so close to victory in that country that Chamberlain is merely being realistic in facing facts, The British Prime Minister is complimented iw many quarters as a practical politician. ~The argu=

‘we might add—for skilled: jobs in private industry would be tonstructive. - Moving up the date for payment of old-age pensions, now scheduled to begin in 1942, would take many older workers off the labor market. . All these proposals, however, will take time to work out. The committee was wise in putting first things first and giving chief emphasis to the one recommendation that - deals with the immediate problem of encouraging private ‘business to lift part of the load off the Government. That recommendation—for tax revision along the lines of the bill that has passed the Senate—can be carried: out at once if the President will remove the pressure now deadlocking this legislation in a conference committee of

business? Don't let propaganda fool | glready be in the area of diminishing returns, and it is high time that 30 million American families start to think about how much they can pay in taxes, and then put men in office who have a decent amount of respect for the old-fashioned family pocketbook. ” » ”

SAYS IT’S EASY TO SEE WHO RETARDS EMPLOYMENT By T. L. I see by reading in your Hoosier Forum all sorts of ideas—the talk that is going on about Roosevelt: People were mighty glad for him to take this country over. Open your

vy ak Snginslly the Treaty covered that check |py R. R. Employee y depositing gold’ certificates in the banks. In De- : Y . ou. for 34 men eliminated will grow cember it began covering its checks by borrowing Woisinriaha® Bias nl ud until possibly 300 to 400 men will be money from the banks. The difference in these two th 1 of the 1 > per year, outside, looking in. methods was important. - Under the first method, the |’ 8 E08 OF ~°%, ocal railroad con- dibs more gold the Treasury bought the more gold it 50 un, on oo) yards, YOUR SMILE poured into the banks. For while the gold was kept | io" g a ° . us, W exXpe-~ by the Treasury, gold certificates, which are the same |S ovement of trains and save By VIRGINIA POTTER You say you love a smile, my friend, Especially one from me— =

thing to banks, went into the banks. expenses. | But when the Treasury bought the gold, paid for That consolidation is coming is a Well, I'll confess, without your smile, ‘My day would lonely be.

ment runs that the setup achieved at Versailles was actually a cynical dismemberment of Europe glossed over with idealistic phrases. : :

Cynicism Confused With Realism’

But it is a mistake to confuse cynicism with reals jsm. Visionaries often. overshoot the mark, but they err less than the practical men who are too prone to dispose of birthrights for a half portion of pottage. And I firmly believe that history will ~ eventually set down Neville Chamberlain as one of the least prace tical of all British statesmen, because he and his countrymen will find as a result of their truckling to the Fascists that the pottage isn’t what it ‘used to be and that the service is terrible. v : It is my impression that the British Government . hag issued » blank Chsck Jo the Fushred and he Duce eyes, ears, clear the feeble hope they will draw it against eyes feel Boar J Re A other accounts and leave. England out of the reckon thoughts and clean speech. If yow| IN& , mn : : are not blind you can see who is ‘Hitler need not wait long in Austria before sweep= holding up employment. Si ing to the east. Neither France nor England ‘will As for beer taverns, people can| be in a ‘position any longer to say as much as “Tutt either drink or leave it alone. A Tut!” The very most that Chamberlain can claim drink is not condemning. It is folks in accounting to the voters is to tell them that with wagging tongues that judge. | through his great diplomatic skill the aggressive We are not to judge one for an-| nations have promised not to include English other. A man can go to a tavern | democracy as an hors d’oevre, but ‘to wait until it with his wife and no harm is done, | comes time for the demitasse. ni

EXPLORE YOUR MIND | Walching Your Health By DE 4LEERT EDWARD Woman By Dr. Morris Fishbein -

. “ 5 ; i i | ‘A AOST people have wrong ideas about the. extent to which they can control all sorts of diseases and conditions by moving to a different climate. It is now recognized that climate may be of ‘value as one factor in the treatment of disease, but it is .only one factor. There are many other: factors that are of much more importance. ; : : . It used to be thought that people with tuberculosis had to go to a high and dry climate in order to be relieved of their condition. It has been suggested that people with rheumatism will invariably do better in a hot, dry climate. Certainly it is well established that some patients with gay fever get along better in certain parts of the country than in, others; especially at certain seasons of the year. - The whole story of the relationship of climate to disease is a large one and it is not possible to tell the whole story even in the compass of a reasons ably small book, 8 de We now know that tuberculosis can 'be sucoess= fully treated in any climate and that the attention of

it by check and then borrowed money from the banks, fact, but there also remains to conthe result was different. The gold remained in the sider the following: : Treasury and the banks got no gold certificates. At Pennsylvania Hawthorne

: : yards: When business is normal Issues Gold Certificates

the facilities for handling PennsylNow the President unsterilizes $1,400,000,000 of this

vania Railroad business alone are sterilized gold. How does he do this? He has bought hardly more than adequate. More | How can I help but pattern mine this gold and borrowed $1,400,000,000 from the banks

delays to traffic are incurred in this| From yours; it's so worth while! to the

3 yard than any other. to pay for it. He now issues gold certificates Hi é g 5 Congress. extent of 91.400,000 0% and deposits tem in the — Big Joy ou 2 pig . DAILY THOUGHT SEs anks. And he w able now to use this amount |more able to handle foreign traffic When Jesus heard it, He saith SELF-LIQUIDATING : of gold, to pay Government bills. than any other yard, but there is| unto them, They that are — Slowly, by easy stages, we slip from one dangerous have no need of the physician,

: \ doubt that they will operate as effiQPEAKING, as we were the other day, about how mem- form of public Avie is another. Beyond there can | ciently when business becomes nor- | but they that are sick: I came not. | bers of Congress get 20 cents a mile for traveling to MONS ee stion. That will presently be to call the righteous, but sinners

‘mal. 3 rE 5 DS : the only way out. But the public should be warned. The India: « TIni di : and from Washington, whereas ordinary citizens can and | This doesn't mean some vast orgy of inflation. And ; disnspolis Union Railway | to repentance Mark 2:17. do travel for less than 5 cents a mile

Co.'s Belt division: This is where _it does not mean swift inflation. Let the stock mar- |the catch is. The merger as planned | IL who seeks repentance for the ii ; ket play its own games with this situation. The wise The taxpayers should be happy to know that another form of Congressional transportation may soon be made

will save the operating department 1 man will keep away from it. a er more pleasant. ol

past, should woo the angel thousands of dollars annually. This | virtue for the future—Bulwer. At present, Representatives walk almost two blocks LET'S from their offices to the: Capitol, through a subway, while Senators ride on little electric cars. Now it is proposed Sra. to build a $175;000 “moving sidewalk,” which will save the House members a minute ea¢h way. = i The Average Congressman makes that round trip 200 times a year. We don’t know what the average Congressman’s time is worth, but say it’s a dollar an hour, which many citizens will consider liberal. se : At that rate, the moving sidewalk will pay for itself in 60 years 4 months and 6 days—not, of coursep,counting the interest on the $175,000 that will have to be borrowed to build it. !

THE POWER OF THE PRESS J ORD ROTHERMORE, arriving from London, severely criticized the American press for publishing “war talk.” Said he:

. “It spreads all over Europe and is doing harm.” © We should really be more careful. The first thing we know there'll be a war in Spain, Germany may annex Austria, Italy: may invade Ethiopia, Japan may attack China and the nations of Europe may even begin to arm. { The power of the press is an awesome thing. We on this side of the Atlantic should remember our responsibilities and learn to weigh our words. May it never be said any careless phrase of ours became the cause of ill-

in that now serénely happy family of nations called

I pass you daily on the street, You always speak and smile,

> A ‘Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson’

1= popular film actor, Ramon: Navarro, turns to the Yogi philosophies and announces his intention fo forsake the movies so he may seek tranquillity. It’s a pity his fans don’t go on some such treasure hunt, for everybody, and especially women, would profit ‘from more. peage and meditation. The serene woman is so, rare ith days she’s an anachronism. When she does appear in our midst she’s so different ; we imagine her to be suffering from a complex. . | i et some other amount of existence— Modern women have lost the art of composure; : am TN” and that is all that measurement 13 we're a set of flatterbudgets, addicted to the bad ; 7 a [WF : or ever can be. Some people have habit of going and doing beyond our strength. : more imaging than others; Self-confession being good for the soul, I may as therefore, the amounts of their im well admit that I'm one of the worst. Saving the aging can be red, an world is my ailment. Annually I make the same the ones ha the most or least resolution, This year I swear I'm not going to be involved in any civic project or take part in community drives or belong to organizations that are uplifting humanity. Instead, I shall take life easy, doing only those things which pleasure me. I shall play more bridge, have more tea parties for my intimates, visit my relatives, spend more time with .the family, read and ‘sleep, or digiin the garden & bit. In short I shall aifvais my soul and give myself up to leisure and.

“Somehow I never keep those resolutions. To make bad matters worse, I am no good as an organizer, a salesman or a savior. My capacity for promotion is very limited, Nature really intended me to be fat, sit in a rocking chair, read and munch chocolates. I love people who!dp all these things. Fat folk, it seems“to' me, are usually more pleasant, genial and charming than skinny ones, although every female on earth is fighting: extra poundage ‘to the death while running her legs:off after excitement. : Maybe a little Yogi philasophy would be good for . ‘us all, At least!the way I feel this minute I'm for that ‘promote tranquillity among the

ought to look the least “collegiate.” I agree, Don. « PEE

: a» Wi 3 AS E. L. THORNDIKE, psy4 chologist, says, you can measure anything that exists because, if it

exists, it exists in some amount, Therefore, you can compare it with

UNREAL THING ICH AIRY = MAG INATION?

or average can be picked out. Psychologists have devised several excellent methods for measuring im-

27 MAG) agination

I'VE PRESENTED so much] scientific evidence that people ( do not look their parts, except that | k highly intelligent people average | somewhat better looking than very

taught to read the edi- Nevertheless, there is . which represent PL Con= | NE | grea °e ; though comes | Climate itself

that ; out of

feeling

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