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TUESDAY, APRIL 26, 1938 Coe Y UNANIMOUS ACH of the seven candidates for Mayor, in answer to a ". Smoke Abatement League questionnaire, has pledged himself, if elected, to sponsor an adequate program to rid the city of soot. It is significant that all of the mayoralty candidates, without argument, recognize the seriousness of this menace and the need for correction. As several of the candidates explained, the smoke nuisance in Indianapolis is an acnte “health and economic problem demanding immediate and effective official action. : . "i The League plans to send similar questionnaires this week to candidates for the City Council. We hope they, too, pledge unanimous support to such a program.

A MATTER OF PRINCIPLE “THE ending of ‘tax exemption, be it of Government securities or of Government salaries, is a matter, not of politics, but of principle.” Eel Thus President Roosevelt concluded yesterday’s message to Congress. Asking that all incomes of all citizens be placed on a basis of tax equality. And he was right. " President Coolidge advocated the same reform. So did ‘President Hoover. So did their Secretaries of the Treasury, Andrew Mellon and Ogden Mills. : But Mr. Roosevelt and Secretary Morgenthau are in a stronger position to go forward. Until this year the Supreme Court held firmly to a line of decisions interpreting the Constitution as forbidding Federal taxation of state, county and city salaries and the interest on their bonds, and also forbidding state taxation of Federal salaries and ‘the interest on Federal bonds. Since January, however, the Supreme Court has evolved a much more realistic and equitable doctrine. There is excellent reason to suppose that Mr. Roosevelt is correct in his belief that the Court will now uphold the law he proposes. And we are glad he has brought the issue forward <n time for action at this session of Congress. : His proposal, fundamentally, is simply this: That a person who draws salary from the public payroll or interest on public bonds should pay the same taxes on his income that another person must pay on the same income from private employment or private securities. ‘We have yet to hear a valid argument against that essentially fair proposition.

ADAM COALDIGGER WRITES

(OSCAR AMERINGER is an old-line Socialist who runs ; a labor newspaper in Oklahoma and writes for it a column which he signs “By Adam Coaldigger.” Since Oscar is a radical, his ideas are supposed to.be cockeyed by all orthodox standards of appraisal. But we like to read his column. He is one radical who writes in words we can understand. Anyway, here's a parable that he printed the other day: : “And I saw a naked man coming through the snowstorm, pushing a wheelbarrow loaded with fur coats. And when I asked him why he wore naught but blue pimples and gooseflesh and his teeth chattered like loose nails in a dislocated tin roof, he replied: ‘I’ve got more fur coats than I can wear.’ “And then I saw a living skeleton sitting on a great

pile of hamburgers whimpering he had not eaten for many.

weeks. And when I asked him why he had fasted so long, he pointed to the pile of hamburgers and whispered hoarsely: ‘It’s more than I can eat.’ “And then I saw famished men burying smoked hams, shoulders and succulent pork chops. why, they answered: ‘For many moons it has rained hams, shoulders and pork chops until the multitudes famished for the lack of them, wherefore our good king, praised be his name, has ordered us to bury these hams, shoulders and pork chops that we may earn the shekels wherewith to purchase pigs’ feet.’ “And seeing and hearing all that, I said, verily this is a topsy-turvy country, and I fastened a millstone around my neck and beef bladders to my feet and jumped in a nearby lake, for where things are upside down they only can be rightfully seen from downside up. And it was even so, for presently great hordes of fish and turtles swarmed * around me, waving their tails and flippers and shouting in great glee: ‘C'mon everybody! Prosperity has turned the corner. This fathead from above is more than all of us can eat.”

“BLUEPRINT OF DICTATORSHIP”

AN impressive list of more than 500 prominent Americans, representing labor, religious, educational and business interests, made public the other day an open letter to President Roosevelt and Congress opposing passage of the pending May war-power bill. “This proposed legislation,” say these Americans, “is described ‘as a measure to ‘prevent profiteering in time of war and to equalize the burdens of war and thus provide for the national defense and to promote peace.’ : “We respectfully submit that the May bill does none of these things. On the contrary, the proposed legislation, under guise of taking the profits out of war, would authorize the President in time of war to conscript all men between the ages of 21 and 31 and to exercise dictatorial control over labor, industry and the public services. The bill, in our judgment, is not consonant with the principles of democracy. It is, in fact a blueprint of dictatorship.”

Whether patriotically conceived or not, it is one of the .

most deceptive and dangerous bills that a peacetime Con- . gress has been lobbied into considering. We hope it re-

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" An’ Investigation Should Be Made oe

_ Of the Lobby for the Shakeup, Bill | As Well as the Lobby Against It.

EW YORK, April 26.—There is no reason why :

the Senate should mot investigate the recent

telegraphic lobby against the Reorganization Bill, but. | certainly the boys should not be permitted to-call it a day after they have finished with the National Committee to Uphold Constitutional Government.

The case cannot be regarded as closed until the statesmen have made an equally thorough inquiry into the basis, if any, for certain reports which were carried out of Washington on the day of the vote. These reports were much more grave than the mere news that Senators were being swamped with telegrams. It was reported on that day that White House messengers were busy on the Hill and Jimmy Roosevelt was mentioned as one of those who lobbied for the bill. The others were not mentioned by name. But the committee, with all its powers and its talent for revealing facts, could easily identify them and drag from them the details of their conversations with the statesmen regarding their position on that bill.

A Washington as the bill went to a vote would have it that Senators were being offered something mighty like promises to vote for the bill and threatened with reprisals by the Administration should they vote wrong. All right, who were the messengers and precisely what did they say to what Senators? What promises did they make?

If the investigation is to be thorough, the Senators

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should now look into the lobbying in favor of the bill. . Their inquiry should bring to the stand every member

of the Senate and every messenger who approached any Senator that day or any other day during the contest, to tell under oath exactly what was said and what ‘assurances were exchanged.

The committee has powers that newspaper reporters have not. Yet reporters on the Hill observed or were told of the operations of a lobby, which, if it had been working in the same way for the other side of the question, would now be laid over a barrel. If the newspapermen could learn about this with their limited privileges, then the Senators must have heard of it, and if the reports are true then some members of the Senate are guilty of° withholding information which they ought to volunteer. se 8 = HE fact that the organization which lobbied against the bill included an “ex-convict” is much less evil that it sounds when it is understood that the “ex-convict” was convicted under a wartime act and was pardoned later. : So on that score, the National Committee to Uphold Constitutional Government need feel only the most nominal embarrassment. Here is a case in which the committee is ignoring reports, apparently based on information available to every Senator. The reports amount to charges that Senators were tempted with inducements or threatened with political punishment. Those Senators and the agents of the lobby are all at hand for questioning any time the lobby committee wants to get at the truth. :

Business

By John T. Flynn

Contrary to Beliefs This Country Has Been Leading the Naval Race.

EW YORK, April 26.—The proponents of the bignavy program have created the impression which is widespread among Americans that this country has only just suddenly awakened—awakened because of the mad shipbuilding race of other countries; that because Japan and other countries have set off on such

-a. wild naval expansion we must do the same or fall ‘hopelessly behind in the race.

Whatever the merits or defects of the naval program, this impression is absolutely false. The truth is the reverse. The United States has been the leader in naval construction. This is not a point upon which there need be any doubt. The figures are available. The following figures were supplied to me by the Navy Department itself. ” At the beginning of last year, before all this frantic activity got under way, here is the way matters stood in the matter of warship building. The following table gives the number of ships and their aggregate tonnage being built by the leading countries of the world: Number of Ships Tonnage 276,265 248,195 232,866 109,870 180,608 87,194 at the bottom of

United States $0000 0000°0 000 Great Britain Seer eeesssenrees Germany ...

By this we see that Japan was the list and we were at the top. We were not only building more ships than Japan —three times as many—but we were building more ships than Great Britain. We were building more ships than Italy and Germany put together and as many as Great Britain and Italy put together.

Ahead in Appropriations Yet everything has been done to make the Amer-

ican people believe that the great peaceful United States was being driven into a naval race by these

war-mangering countries of the Old World. We have been setting the pace and leading the world. : In addition to the building program—ships actually

under construction—we had appropriations for an

additional 74,000 tons; Japan for 3000 tons. We had appropriations for more additional tonnage than France, Germany, Italy and Japan all combined. Little by little, without any of the reasons for armament which beset other nations, we have actually been leading the world in the naval armament race. When these figures were made ‘up we led Japan this much in spite of the fact that we had a Navy 33 per cent larger than Japan's. We had 15 capital ships to her nine. We exceeded her not only in total tonnage but in under-age tonnage.

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

TATISTICS are tiresome. The only kind that make much of an impression are those you gather for yourself. It’s an exciting pastime, too, giving zest as well as information to the observer.

Several women in our community, interested in |

promoting peace in the nation, have set themselves the task of studying the newsreels in local theaters. They have found out for themselves that shots showing military activity predominate. While we know too well that nations of Europe and Asia are busy with preparations for war, even with the actual making of war, we ought not to be asked to swallow the idea that this is all they are doing. Certainly life must go on there in serener pursuits. Not all the people can be engaged in marching and saluting. A few surely are busy with planting and reaping, are active in the trades and professions and are building for peaceful / causes. Our cameramen seem not to be interested in those affairs. : And now we get information that official sanction has been given to produce “Wings Over the Navy.” This is a right-about-face movement from the stand taken some weeks ago, when we learned from official sources that the U. S. was so anxious to guard its military secrets it had withdrawn all co-operation from Hollywood. = Ee Weary tax slaves will be happy to hear this. It’s nice to know that some of the money for excessive armaments will be used to entertain the people who pay for them. : . 3 Anyway, try taking your notebook to the movies and jotting down the amount of military stuff you see in the newsreels. You'll have a clearer idea

BROAD interpretation of the news wired out of

T » ’ : . The Hoosier Forum : I wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it—Voltaire.

J. BURDETTE LITTLE INDORSES HENRY . , , NOT WOLFF By J. Burdette Little It appears that Indianapolis newspaper stories have named me as one of the supporters of Herman C. Wolff for the Republican nomination as Mayor. I do not recall having met Mr. Wolff and have not indorsed his candidacy or united with any group supporting it. Such announcement was wholly without authority from me. I have naught to say about him personally or his personal qualifications and have intended to avoid any public announcement of preference for such office. May we assume, from this sort of procedure,

fostered by elements in our party whose tactics have heretofore brought defeat? I have been long a supporter of such reorganization of our G. O. P. in Marion County as would reinstate that public confidence to which its inherent policies are entitled and trust that may now be accomplished. I know George A. Henry, as an attorney and a member of my post of the American Legion and now unqualifiedly indorse his candidacy. ” » 2 CLAIMS SPAIN DESERVES OTHER NATIONS’ AID - By J. A. Scott : May I reply to those misguided people who defend the invasion of Spain? We are good Americans and we are an independent nation. But our national independence is the heritage of our forefathers’ struggle, known in history as the American Revolution. How would we like it had other monarchic nations invaded our land to prevent our forefathers setting up a democratic America, which we now are privileged to enjoy? That is just what is happening in Spain. Just as we naturally appreciate the help America received from certain foreign countries, just so do the Spanish people appreciate the help they receive from other countries. Anyway, if the postwar Government of Spain should happen to imitate the Soviet Union Government, being aided some by that nation, that would be much better than for it to imitate the Governments of Hitler and Mussolini.

8 8 2 TRAFFIC FINE IS PROTESTED By G. Janney Why should one person accused of a traffic violation be fined when ‘another one is dismissed because he carried a rabbit's foot for luck? I am a nurse and was coming

that Mr. Wolff's candidacy is being

(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.)

home from Crawfordsville when I was arrested for speeding. I was falsely accused and also had a witness. When I appeared in court I was fined $11. oh The next day the same judge that fined me let a man go without making him pay his fine just because he twirled a rabbit’s foot in his hand in the court room. And how about all the fines suspended by this same judge on April 18, to. the amount of $251?

” ” ” CRITICIZES COMMENTATORS’ STATEMENTS ON GOLD By J. Me. K. There ought to be some action taken by the general public against

radio news commentators who con-

tinually unroll a wad of propaganda from Washington. We object to recent statements supposed to be from Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau on the hot gold from Europe. The fact of the matter is this spot announcement was given to cover up President Roosevelt's change of mind from issuing real money against the billion dollar gold deposit -at Pt. Knox, to the bond issue with interest to the bankers. Well, time will tell'whether or not this was a double-cross of the American people. We cannot borrow ourselves out of this depression by paying interest to bankers. That makes millionaires out of one class and paupers out of the balance.

© TODAY By EDNA JETT CROSLEY

Place no crown upon my head Nor praise my good deeds when I'm dead If you have not the heart to give Toye. and sympathy while yet I live.

No need to cry or apologize And praise my virtues te the skies; What. good are roses, what avail When 3, have passed peyond the pale? :

"Tis now I need your tender smile, Today, my love, not after while.

DAILY THOUGHT

For every Pouse is builded by some man; but He that built all things is God.—Hebrews 3:4.

FOE to God was never a {rue friend to man.—Young.

THOMAS JEFFERSON'S THEORIES CITED By L E, Maybe Thomas Jefferson, if he could revisit us today, would regard serenely the spending and lending

recent years and the current plans to spend and lend at an increased rate. *I don’t know. But Senator Barkley of Kentucky, the Administration’s leader in the Senate, professes to be .sure of it.

Senator Barkley points with pride to a table which he has printed in the Congressional Record, showing the following amounts of Federal funds lent and spent from new and emergency appropriations between March 4, 1933, and Dec. 31, 1937:

Spending for relief, work ree lief, farm relief, highways, public buildings, etc $17,153,297,008 Lending by various Government agencies Loans insured by Government agencies 1,406,714,259

Grand Total $31,981,328,170

This, says Senator Barkley, illustrates “how the present Administration has carried out the principle of Thomas Jefferson that we should ‘unite in common efforts for the common good.’ ” President Jefferson probably would have found it difficult even to imagine such a sum as $31,981,328,170. That would have been enough to run the whole Government for more than 3000 years, at the rate of spending while he was President. But he did have some definite ideas about how to promote the common good. He is the man | who said: “Taxation follows public debt, and in its train wretchedness and oppression. . . . If we can prevent the Government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them, they must be happy. . . . We are endeavoring to reduce #he Government to the practice of a rigorous

people and arming the magistrate with a patronage of money which might be used to corrupt and undermine the principles of our Government.” 2 = = THIEVES WELCOME, POET DECLARES By Daniel Francis Clancy In Orlando Fla. there Is a gallery, reports the United Press, wherein are about $5000 worth of paintings.

the pictures it is considered a compliment by the artist. Now, I can understand that—in + fact if I thought someone was hanging around on yon corner awaiting a chance to purloin a volume of my verse I'd leave all the windows open.

TOR Ghie WE EOL Foun RS READIN, RITIN, AND

‘4 ALREADY several universities A are doing this very thing. At Vassar, under Dr. S. K. Folsom, it i one of the most largely attended courses. It is a serious course with

or wife, the

LET'S EXPLORE YOUR MIND

By DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM

FLAGH-"THINK' QUES p THY [HOSS 2 *DICTAT \ WEAKER AS GROW ¢

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of love, how to keep the romance in love, how to get along with husband responsibilities, values

and joys of

IF I understand Miss Thompson,

grasps more power, he makes more and more enemies. Always he tries to control the army, but, in doing so, he must block all originality, initiative, courage and co-operative lead-

Thus, as he climbs to the top of his building, its. foundations begin to crumble. As Miss Thompson says, the German and Russian armies are

.| riddled with: enemies of Hitler and -| Stalin and they must either cut the

throats of their unruly officers or get their own throats cut. So dictatorships soon become a case of dog eat-dog and by and by they eat each other, I think that is bound to happen in all dictator countries—and before long. ‘ : ¢ 8 ” nw

MR. HUGHES is always worth

: LI g ¥ ” in part and disagree in part. While women have fought liberty, yet from Susan B. Anthony down, most of the actual achievements of women’s emancipation have been ‘won by organized women—o

aby

done by the Federal Government in

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economy, to avoid‘ burthening the |

Without an attendant it remains} open; and if a thief steals one of

she means that a dictator, to be. | successful, must constantly assume more and more power. But, as he

ership among his subordinates.

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_ TUESDAY, APRIL 26, 1 Gen. Johnson

If There Is a tack of Confidence, Mountains of Cheap Credit Are as Useful as More lce for the Arctic.

ASHINGTON,; April 26—How much good is going to be done by Government loans. to business through RFC ani. PWA? The prospect is not bright. Commercial banks are bursting with money to lend. _ Of course, no bank will loan on what seems to be a ‘doubt that the money will ever be repaid. But neither

should the Government do that—and as long as Jesse

Jones is sitting on any part of the lid, it won't. I doubt if Harold Ickes will make any soft loans either, Business prospects are §o poorly. defined that people are not inclined to borrow any more than to lend. That is the whole trouble with the credit-inflation idea. Its theory is that all you have to do to activate business is to provide an abundance of credit at very low rates of interest. We have had that for years. It needs one other element to make it work—confidence in the future. But if there isn’t confidence, moun=tains of cheap credit are just about as useful as more ice for the Arctic. =~ a there were that confidence now, the Government wouldn’t have to loan any money because there are plenty of banks with an abundance of money to

| do that.

There is an exception to all this in one particular field. It is not the function of banks to lend money that can only be repaid in from 3 to 5 years. The

Government can fill a need in that field if it can find any borrowers.

.. If you were financing a big new manufacturing business tomorrow and things were as they used to be, you would expect to get your money in possibly all of four ways. 4

For your factory buildings, which can take years to pay for themselves, you would get a part (say 60 per cent) by selling long-term mortgage bonds. For your machinery you would get a part either by shorte term debentures—3 to 5 years of preferred stock. For your inventories of materials and supplies, and the credits you grant customers, you would count on bank loans to carry their peak loads. For all ‘the rest of the money you would sell common stock. : ® 8 » ; HIS is the traditional and proved way to get a business started. Just now, due to too much fear and caution, three of these approaches are practically out. The only open financial door is bank

credits. The Government's action may add some credits in the intermediate field for three to five

| years and provide for some installation of machinery

and equipment. But this surely will not do the trick of recovery. Only one thing will do that—a restoration of cone fidence to recreate active financing in all four of the fields just discussed. That seems less likely every day. The rumor around this town is that for this campaign, the President is going to abandon his long held position “slightly left of center” and ride toward the ruddy left. No restored confidence lies in that direction. It looks like a bloody war and & sickly season, : :

It Seems to Me By Heywood Broun

rs

To the Broun Inferiority Complex.

EW YORK, April 26.—Franklin D. Roosevelt is extremely skilful in impromptu remarks, and I think that he has seldom been more felicitous than in his brief discourse to the Daughters. of the Amer= ican Revolution. I hope the text he furnished is graven in the heart of every lady who heard him. “Remember always that all of us, and you and I especially,” said the President, “are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.” iA It was well put, but one may doubt that the Daughters will remember. The organization has spent a great many years in teaching its members te forget their radical and ‘humble forebears. By now they seem to believe that there were plush carpets at Valley Forge, and that the embattled farmers of Concord rose to protest against the New Deal. I have always had a great interest in the D. A. R,, because as a manly lad of 9 or 10 I used to sit outside the door and eavesdrop on the discussions of the New York Chapter. The Daughters met at our house once a year. Practically everybody met at our house. And so the great .day at home was the annual gathering of the Daughters to elect local officers. My mother invariably ran for first vice president, but unfortunately she never made it. Progressively she put more effort into her campaign and for the two

days before the conclave all of us children had to help Kate, the cook, squeeze oranges and lemons.

‘An Amateur Reporter Snoops

I do not think the Daughters had anything pere sonal ‘against my mother. As an amateur reporter I snooped around and never unearthed any whisper ing campaign. The trouble was with the ancestor through whom we qualified for admission. There seems to be no’ doubt that he was a wrong guy, ale though a general. . It seems that Gen. Stirling, whose proud blood courses, or rather ambles, through my veins, led the most famous retreat in American history. He was on a horse and had every six-furlong record shattered when he ran into George Washington, who bawled him out good and proper. That incident has led to what is known to psychiatrists as the Broun ine feriority complex. ; Poin But my mother took her defeats in good part. She may have been down but she was never out. Ads dressing herself to the successful rival, she would ask sweetly, “Will you have cream or lemon, dear?” An whatever the newly elected vice president said, she got a good strong shot of lemon. .

Watching Your Health By Dr. Morris Fishbein pT

PFYAHE scientific name for inflammation affecting the “4 mouth is stomatitis. Doctors distinguish many’ varieties, depending on the cause, the nature of the infection if there is one, and the extent of the dis= turbance. :

This condition occurs in children who are under nourished or in grownups who suffer from. chronie constitutional diseases. One 6f the most’ frequent forms of soreness of the mouth is the canker sore. This begins as a small inflamed spot on the gums, or under the tongue, or on the inner surface of the lips or cheeks. After the blister forms, it bursts, and there may be a secon - ulcer due to secondary ine fection. : There are probably many different causes of canker sore. Sometimes these sores are associated with anemia; sometimes they occur due to sensitivity to certain food substances; sometimes they are associated with chronic diseases of the skin, and in other instances they are associated with abnormal condi= tions of the blood. ; Es en Finally, there are cases of sore mouth due to ine

fection with different kinds of germs, and also due to .

poisoning by certain metals, bl

bismuth. 3 : : In the treatment of canker sores, it is, of course, Hevgisary to have an investigation by a doctor. Ab the s time, it is useful to make sure that the mouth is clean by proper attention to the teeth and by the use of mouthwashes which are actually an septic, rather than the inefficient antiseptic mouth washes that are usually sold and widely used. ; treat the canker : pA

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