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Give Light and the People Will Find Their own Way
SATURDAY, APRIL 30, 1938
ELECTRIC RATE REDUCTION FTER the years of backing and forthing, it is natural that citizens of Indianapolis are disappointed by the midget size of the electric rate reduction belatedly accorded them by the Indiana Public Service Commission. It is true that the low bracket users—that is those who can least afford to pay—do not receive relief by this latest move. It is only fair to remember, however, that the overall rate reduction of almost half a million when added
to the earlier reductions total about a million and a ‘half a year, covering domestic and industrial consumers. The chief reason for the public's hostile attitude in these matters is the inordinate amount of time and red tape required to ascertain accurate evaluations of utility properties upon which any fair judgment as to rate structure must be based. That impatience is legitimate. There has been too much delay both on the part of the company and of the Commission.
STUDENT CHEMISTS PROSPECTIVE graduates here for the student meeting of the American Chemical Society’s Indiana section may have been somewhat discouraged by the remarks yesterday of Dr. Francis C. Frary, Aluminum Co. of America’s research director.
“Conditions are not so good this year for graduates to find employment,” he said. “Business generally is bad and most organizations are finding it a problem to hold on to
the staffs they now have.” But if those statements of Dr. Frary seemed a bit discouraging, he offered some sound advice to students preparing to enter the industrial field. “Naturally the better jobs go to those of better ability,” he said. “A chemical education isn’t the only requisite to a job. Industry wants men and women who combine that tool with character and ability to do something useful.”
LA FOLLETTE LIBERALISM ARK TWAIN once described irreverence as ‘disrespect for the other man’s god.” For some reason this quotation came back to us as we were reading Governor Phil La Follette’s speech announcing the formation of a new party “called the National Progressives of America. Franklin D. Roosevelt acquired what appeared to be a patent right on liberalism when he went into office in 1933. To differ with him in the slightest was irreverence, not so
much as he personally was concerned, for he is a philosopher
and has a sense of humor, but to his disciples. Liberalism
to them had been copyrighted and copper-riveted. Anyone who, in trying to do his own thinking, deviated was immediately accused of heresy.
But now, look who's here. The ta Follettes, sons of a daddy who was the greatest liberal of our time, of the one who was leading the liberal cause when to lead really hurt, and in a year when F. D. R. was making speeches for John W. Davis. And what do we see? We see the La Follettes panning the panaceas and challenging the white rabbits. We observe the progressive eyebrow raised at the idea of living indefinitely on borrowed money, and at that other idea of success through scarcity. We witness communism, fascism and socialism lambasted, in behalf of the type of Americanism that the La Follettes conceive. ” 2 » ” 2 ”
NEITHER i in tone nor in content was the speech unfriend-
ly to the Roosevelt Administration. Yet we read such lines as these: i
“We flatly oppose every form of coddling or spoonfeeding the American people, whether it be those on relief, whether it be farmers or workers, whether it be business or industry. No government on earth can successfully manage, regulate and direct the numerous details that make for healthy families or successful business.”
“American progress has come not from pulling people down the ladder of achievement, but keeping the way open for all to climb higher.” “We have spent so much time squabbling over sharing our wealth that we have lost sight of the essential fact that we cannot share wealth unless we have first produced enough wealth to share.” “During the six years of the Roosevelt Administration we transferred red ink from the books of private enterprise to the bookkeeping of our local, state and Federal governments.” “We have tried to give the farmer high prices by restricting agricultural production. We have tried to give industry high prices by restricting the production of the factory and the shop. We have tried to give labor high wages by restricting the output of the worker. “On top of all this we have even kept millions of ablebodied men and women from productive tasks by relief and various forms of made work. A little simple arithmetic gives the answer: Less from agriculture, less from industry and business, and less from labor can only equal less for all, instead of more for all.” “This well-meant but futile experiment has been expensive. Through private and public borrowing we have sought to maintain the American standard of living without producing enough real wealth to support it. We approach the point where we can not much longer borrow for that sort of enterprise. 2 “The day of reckoning may not come this year or next, but the cold, inescapable truth stands before us.” There are lots of spots in the long address where we could stop and start an argument. But the important thing about the whole piece, we think, is that the movement which the La Follettes have launched constitutes a challenge to that copyright on herelisn to which we have
have played hig
Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler "We Told You So,' Now Cry Those
Cynics Who Once Warned Against The Peril of Vast Public Spending.
EW YORK, April 30.—When Mr. Roosevelt's original program for recovery first began to roll, a few shrewd old cynics immediately set up a holler against the danger that vast amounts of public money would be used for political purposes. They were howled down as cruel and selfish die-hards.
Most of us were innocent then, and Mr. Roosevelt's spirited speeches were an inspiration not: only to the unemployed, but to millions of others who hadn't had a chance to study him or to reflect that, after all, his organization included practical politicians. It was unthinkable, in the fervor of the moment, that anyone would be so traitorous as to permit per-
sonal ambitions to influence the distribution of money.
which would be handed over to the new Government, in full confidence, to save the country. Still, the few cynics insisted that human nature and the nature of the politician had not changed and never would, and they stood their ground in the face of popular scorn, insisting, “You'll see.” 2 8 2 T= and the development of the New Deal as a political organization have vindicated their early judgment. In Washington, recently, as the Reorganization Bill went to a vote in the Senate, routine dispatches told of promises and threats to Senators by lobbyists for the New Deal. If a Senator can be intimidated by an Administration which has billions to allot, and if the allotments are governed by his attitude toward the Administration’s demands for more
‘power, any lobby to the contrary would seem too
feeble and petty to deserve more thah passing notice. Yet now the Senate Lobby Committee, dominated by the Administration, is investigating the counterlobby and ignoring charges that some unnamed Senators were offered inducements and others threatened. The President has authorized the committee to inspect the income tax returns of persons summoned before the committee, but these returns, under the present procedure, will not include those of the “White House messengers” who were reported to have lobbied for the bill. And the most significant thing about those reports out of Washington of pressure on the Senators is the fact that they were carried not as sensational and shocking news but merely as familiar routine, 8 #2 = OW the WPA in Pennsylvania is being investigated, and. Rep. Bruce Barton charges that Democratic leaders in Philadelphia have instructed their committeemen to urge WPA jobholders to vote Democratic or lose their jobs. Even that is not a sensational accusation. It is just the normal thing which the country, by a gradual sacrifice of the idealism which inspired the people in the early days of the New Deal, accepts as decent. And in Tampa a grand jury foreman who indicted local politicians was promptly canned from his WPA job and the state head of the WPA blandly refused to discuss the case with the new grand jury. The fact that the man was hurriedly reinstated does not alter the fact that the WPA flatly reserves the right to intimidate grand juries which pester politicians. We have come a long way down from the peak of
belief, trust and idealism, and we are beginning to
encounter those old cynics who greet us with taunting cries of “We told you so.”
Business By John T. Flynn i Most Schemes and Ideas to Bring
Recovery Have Been Exaggerated.
EW YORK, April 30.—One of the sour notes of the last five years has been the part played by exaggeration in everything and on all sides. As conditions get worse, the exaggerations broaden and deepen. The New Dealers have had no monopoly of this. They did indeed go farther when in the early days of 1933 and 1934 they announced that a “revolution” had been accomplished and later in 1936 when the President himself, in speeches, boasted that there would be no more depressions. But the opponents of the New Deal have been pretty bad, too. The fight on the Reorganization Bill was, in its first stages, justified. That was a thoroughly bad bill to accomplish a good purpose, but little by little the really harmful features were taken out. But the more harmless the bill became the louder and angrier became the shouts of wrath and the terrors of dictatorship. They have also exaggerated the importance of the capital gains and undistributed profits taxes. Granted that these are bad taxes—which I do not grant—the repeal of them could accomplish no such release of capital and investment as has been predicted by the advocates of repeal. This ingredient of exaggeration gets in the way of doing sound and sober things. For instance, there can be no doubt of the wisdom of a minimum wage bill. It would be a shabby thing if this Administration went out of office without putting through such a bill. However, it is a grave mistake to suppose that a minimum wage -bill ever can solve the problem of unemployment or subsistence. There is good reason to feel that for a time it may actually add to these perils. But it will not accomplish very much. It ought not be neglected because it is not a panacea, but it ought not to be pushed as if it were. :
| Social Security Overemphasized
The same thing has happened in the case of the Social Security Act. When that was passed it was hailed as a great barrier against unemployment. Of course it was no such thing. The Government failed to understand that unemployment insurance is just one part of a program of security and unless the other parts are provided this unemployment insurance will:be but a narrow trench. Looking back we can see now that all the vast ex-
aggeration of the New Deal boils down to a handful
of minor reforms and some blunders. Looking forward we see that the New Deal has not a single plan for combating the depression and the same thing is true of organized business§ Its program is (1) let business alone, (2) reduce the tax burden, (3) put labor in its place, (4) balance the budget. That's a pretty sterile and discouraging program, yet businessmen grow lyrical with exaggeration of the wonders that program will accomplish.
A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson
QuFrosE you were a girl, only 16; suppose you lived in a nice home with a loving father and mother; suppose life was a vista of green and gold for your eager feet; and then suppose somebody told you that you did not belong in that home; that your parents were not really your parents. What would you do? One girl, called upon to meet such news suddenly, killed herself. The shock shattered her world to bits;
-the sun was dimmed and the stars went out. Alone
for the first time in an alien universe, she took her life rather than face the adjustment required of her. And all because one woman could not hold her tongue and adults responsible for the child's welfare had allowed their affection to get the better of their judgment. Honesty is always the best policy where children are concerned. Candor used at the right moment saves the adopted boy or girl untold suffering in the future. The adolescent in our world walks a dangerous path at best. With a nature sensitive to every change in emotional temperature, and an imagination aflame, sometimes the slight rebuff or the casual criticisth is enough to send the youngster to the depths of despair. Teasing is a form of torture for sensitive’ children and is unfortunately a favorite sport with “most men and women. In so many ways we are cruel to ohe another. Without actually meaning to do so, we contrive to make ‘others feel uncomfortable and inferiér. Much of our modern humor is based upon that idea. There is no tragedy so great as that tvhich comes to a child when he discovers that the adulfs he trusted false. Surely we should guard ou
‘would impair the dollar.
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES Off to “Free” Another Neighbors; Rirhy
SATURDAY, APRIL 30, 19
The Hoosier Forum
1 wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.
‘M’ADOO-GLASS BILL
IS ATTACKED : By A. J. McKinnon 1 disagree with the American
Bankers Association statement that pump-priming by the Government I am in favor of honest money which cannot be accomplished by the Mc-Adoo-Glass bill. However, pump-priming had to be resorted to when the Federal Reserve System took one billion dollars from circulation in January, 1938, in order to impair our dollar and keep us in the recession. : I am against the New Deal tooth and nail. However, pump-priming even with interest must be resorted to, to keep Uncle Sam on his feet
will place Rep. Charles G. Binderup’s bill on the floor of the House. That would cure the great majority of our ills. I pay very little . attention to President Roosevelt's message of highlights because his actions on legislation in Congress are the op-
on, keep your eyes open and don’t let the McAdoo-Glass money bill go over under the fictitious name of the Holding Company bill. This bill would ruin America and give more power and control to the Federal Reserve system.
2 2 ” CAPITAL, LABOR MUST MEET AS FR NDS, READER SAYS. By EC. C. The Times mentions that there
| were 4740 strikes in the U. 8S. A. in
1937 involving 1,860,621 workers, and that those workers: lost 24,424,857
man days of work.
Now the fact is that no one really knows as far as this nation is concerned how many man days were actually lost. The amount of work to be done is Mot a static figure, but depends upon the demand for goods and services by our people. Therefore the stoppage of work in one lo-
for this particular locality—usually is compensated for by stepping up production in some other locality. This is not written in defense of strikes, since a more wholesome picture would be presented if industry and labor would more often avail themselves of the agencies that have been created for settling differences. However, until capital and labor have been educated to meet as friends and equals there cannot be any lasting peace. That is up to Roosevelt to demand of either the workers or the employers that they must settle their differences one way or the other would be to deny the parties concerned the very thing for which democratic institutions have always stood. That he may suggest that such a.policy would be in the public interest would be entirely proper: In passing may I suggest that The Times get busy and figure out how
goods and services during the 19291933 depression. I have seen sta-
until the day comes when Congress
posite to his message. The fight is |
lof the bill in its e
cality—bad as it may be temporarily pe
much this country lost in terms of
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tistics claiming that it was well over
.100 billion: dollars.
If we are really sincere in discussing these problems, we should be willing to admit phat if there is one thing this nation -or any other nation cannot afford it is idle people. Also it would be well if people were educated to understand: that money is not wealth, “but only a medium of exchange.”
- : ” ” 2 SAYS THOSE CRYING FASCISM PAVING WAY FOR DICTATOR By D. Y. The Reorganization Bill was defeated through a combination of the most vicious and Fascist-minded elements in the nation. Don’t assume for one minute that the majority of the people have been misled by the subsidized press. They realize there was nothing left FE form and the cry for dictatorship is only a blind for the evil intentions of the bill’s opponents. - The same was true of the Holding Company Bill. It must be obvious that the Supreme Court itself has recognized President Roosevelt’s honest intention that the Supreme Court be liberalized. Regarding the new effort to revive the nation’s business, I cannot see where spending which will increase industrial activity and create more wealth with which to pay taxes is any worse than to allow conditions further to deflate our economic picture and get no taxes at all. You can’t get taxes from bankrupt busi-
SS. : Big Business insisted the Govern-
MUSTY DREAMS By VIRGINIA POTTER
Too long I've lived with only dreams And know no reality; The past I now am done with, Once more I'm strong and free; I do not care for musty dreams— A fire that glows, then dies; I will not leave my fate to whims— I'm going to be more wise; I'm going to laugh at what they say, So that no matter where I go, Not one can scoff at my foolishness Or say, “I toid you so.”
DAILY THOUGHT
For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.—Job 3:25.
EAR is more e painful to coward-
ice than death to true courage. —Sidney.
ment stop spending as early as 1935 and promised it would take care of the unemployment situation. The Government did retrench and what has Big Business done ever since? Nothing. Rest assured that those who dre making the most noise about dictatorship, are the very ones who are doing their utmost to speed us toward a Fascist form of government.
” 2 2 SAYS STREETS ARE IN POOR CONDITION By Disgusted Taxpayer When Jesse James did his ‘job, he exposed his life, but under the present method of high taxation, wouid I be too critical to call it highway robbery? Political patronage is making it prohibitive for many to own their own homes—patronage making jobs for a lot of lazy po-
litical leaches. 1 Where two can do the job, four are now employed. This requires more revenues and naturally, more taxes. : When we turned over our streets
to the street railway company we|
generously made no provision to take care of the worn-out street pavements, full of holes, endangering motorists and adding to accidents. Walking on sidewalks is not: a pleasure, getting all wet and- smeared with the filth of the street by the splashing water.
Oh yes, we have a fine city but al
very inefficient group of politicians to rule us. I am not for mass re-
sentment, but something should be |
done. Central Ave. between the creek and 34th St., is dangerous to drive on and so is East 10th St. ‘We live in a marvelous city, a real city, a fast growing city for honest ‘officeholders to harvest.
"sn » PRAISES RECORD OF REP. JENCKES
By Alberta A. Eno
* As a Washington resident and an observer, entirely outside of politics, I want to congratulate your State upon sending the able, intelligent and very active Mrs. Virginia Ellis Jenckes to Congress. To those of us who keep in touch with national affairs, it is a matter of extreme satisfaction to know of her splendid fight. against communism; her activities in behalf of all veteran legislation, and the constant attention shre has given the most important problems of the housing and farm programs. You are ably represented, indeed.’
3 a ” 2 2 SULLIVAN'S ADMINISTRATION CALLED SUCCESSFUL : By J. A. B. Reginald Sullivan’ s past successful administration as Mayor in the worst depression ever known makes Sheriff Ray and his goats look silly. If Sheriff Ray should be a winner, and. that is impossible, future
politicians can use the slogan, “Gef] a vote with a goat.”
I THINK it does. We see we have undergone a gradual change—a new wrinkle or streak. of | ¢
LET'S EXPLORE YOUR MIND
By DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM
Pe WOMEN OFTEN USE THE MARRIAGE RELATION AS AN : OPPORTUNITY FOR POSING AS
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were somebody else—a different personality. » ® =» : YES. They tell their troubles to all who will listen. Husband
stays out nights; he is generous | {when others are around but nig-
gardly when they are alone. And so on world without end. Well, Marion Castle asks, in the Independent Woman, why doesn’t she leave him? My, my no. That would be too terrible to think of. Then why not keep her troubles to herself? Because she could not pose as the poor martyred wife, sacrificed to a selfish husband. In fact, she is doing just what she prefers to do—staying with him but posing as a martyr. 8 8 =
CAN YOU THINK of anything that makes you happier than to get hopping *mad, especially if you can attack something or somebody and give it or him a good sock in the jaw? It certainly is a grand and glorious feeling. Thorndike, however, is not arguing that we should get mad at people for per-
|sonal insults, but that it is “de-
sirable for human happiness” to feel
‘angry at and attack public wrongs.
From this viewpoint “royal indigtion feeling
- segments as you can.
Gen. Johnson Says—
You Can't Help the Unfortunate
- One-Third of the Country With an Attempt to Hurt the Two-Thirds,
ASHINGTON, April 30.—There is nothing come plex or difficult about Government and busi ness co-operating to end this depression. There is lite tle that business can do. All that is necessary is for Government to make it perfectly clear that people by investing their effort and their money are going to be
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permitted to make a reasonable amount of money and *
to keep a reasonable part of it. That is the only formula and it doesn’t heed any
«18 captains of industry, plus Henry Ford or any round-robiri§~gbout co-operation, to make it plain. It
is far from clear today. Nobody knows what future \g
Administration policy on this great question is going to be and until that is known, timid money and enter-
prise will continue to hide in holes.
It isn’t a question of taxation alone, or trust-buste ing alone, or labor, agricultural or industrial policy alone. It is the combination of all and especially it is an element of similarity in all, “That common thread is hostility to business and disapproval of, or at least indifference to, profits.
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I would be silly to say that the Administration wants to see bad business. Its own political life depends on good business. But its essential attitude is the effective cause of bad business. It seems to divide the community into two personalities—two dogs, let's say. The underdog is the ill-fed .third, The upper dog is the upper two-thirds. Both are sick pups just now. The underdog is, of course, the sicker. Doubtless the Administration wants to help both dogs but it seems to feel that the way to help the underdog is to whale the daylights out of the upper one.
Of course, that is an utterly wrong idea about the whole situation. The more prosperous two-thirds of this country does not live on the less fortunate onethird. The truth is just the other way around. The lower one-third lives on the upper two-thirds, The secret to prosperity is to try to help both the upper and nether segments of the country. Surely we should help most the one that needs help most. But help them both and pretty soon we won't have to help either. If we're not going to help the upper part, at least let's not try to, hurt it.
N a close-knit interdependent country like this you can’t hurt any great segment without hurting all segments. Each is a market for all the rest and the way to markets for all is to activate as many great There are at least three great pools of possible employment which are now stagnant directly due to something the Government either is or is not doing. 1. The whole railroad web—because of Federal failure to act.
2. The whole utilities system—because of too much | action. 3. The housing situation-—becaise of insufficient action. In addition to these special cases, the whole busi ness machine sputters and stalls for lack of its customary gas—new investment money flowing freely and confidently to market. Every one of these three particular segments, and a restoration of general investment, could be put in motion, by determined and cone sistent governmental action.
lt Seems to Me By Heywood Broun
Mrs. Roosevelt Outlasts Heywood ‘
- Easily on the Receiving Line.
gave out a little advice on the technique of public handshaking. Although it was an interesting item, I made no attempt to learn the rules by rote, as I had slight expectation of ever having to practice them, "It is true at the time Mrs. Roosevelt gave out her helpful hints .at- a press:conference I was under a pledge to appear ‘with. columnar colleagues at a on party in honor of the publishers’ convention. And my host -said, “We may have you columnists sitting in a sort of receiving line.” I thought he was " kidding. And so I arrived cheerfully a little lata ‘and wholly without trepidation. And there actually was a receiving line headed by Mrs. Roosevelt, with Ray Clapper next to her, and somebody said to me, “Heywood, you go over there and stand between Drew Pearson and Bob Allen.” No matter how I may have looked at other times, this was the precise moment when I felt myself to be a complete fool. The man who was running the party gave me a cigaret and a cocktail, and at the same moment he said “This is Mrs. Joe Doakes, who wants to meet you.” And there I stood on a receiving line and also in a quandary. The problem was whether I would burn her with the cigaret or moisten her with the Martini. I crunched the cigaret into the thick. and stamped out the flames at the same time d ‘stammered, “I am very glad to see you, Mrs. Doakes.” Mrs. Roosevelt was moving them along fast, and I did the best I could to keep up with her, ;
The Lady Is a Marvel
Thirty-two times without a break the same greets ing was extended, and since handshaking is just & little more strenuous than college football, I was con= stantly attempting to raise the sustaining draught to my lips. Each time I would be interruped. "Bob finally tock pity on me and sent me to the foot of the class, where there was more elbow room and where it was not necessary to.introduce the fellow to your left. But, even so, one hour had gone by and the cocktail still remained untouched. We . didnt seem to be getting anywhere, and by this time there was a long jam in the line. And so like a veteran lumberman I gave myself the hook and sneaked into the next room to drink the cocktail. And in my hiding place behind the potted palms I looked out and saw Mrs. Roosevelt still serene, smiling and gracious and giving every indication that she could fight it out on that line if it took all summer. The lady is a marvel. g
Watching Your Health
By Dr. Morris Fishbein
Mest deadly and most crippling of all of the diseases that attack children is rheumatic fever. Unlike those diseases which are visibly crippling, rheumatic fever attacks insidiously; its first ravages are frequently unnoticed. Then progressively and most
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There can be no substitution with an artificial heart as in the case of a crippled limb. There can ‘be no orthopedic surgery to reconstruct the damages tissues. Most of those affected die before they are years old. For the rest there is just the hope can be offered by proper medical care under the ‘possible conditions. On Monday evening, May 2, at 5:30 p. m. “apolis Time), some of the leading physicians of ‘United States and of England will take part 4n international broadcast about this disease. "Everyone who can do so, ought to listen, to: out more about this devastating condition
[ attacks the heart.
As I have pointed out previously in this col our greatest hope rests in early recognition of the disease, and then to provide for prolonged care during convalescence. Unfortunately there are but a few institutions this country where children with this type of he
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