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Give Light and the Peopte Will Find Their Own Way
THURSDAY, MAY 5, 1938
NOW THEY KNOW ENATOR MINTON may be glad to learn that his bill, proposing heavy fines and long prison terms for newspaper and magazine publishers who print “anything known to be false,” is getting enthusiastic praise in the Government controlled press of Nazi Germany. The Washington correspondent of the German Government news service, in a dispatch published in Berlin, says: “Every decent person will approve 100 per cent of Senator Minton's proposal. Many newspapers express their righteous indignation without even knowing what it is against which they protest.” Well, the protesting American newspapers had at least a shrewd suspicion. They suspected that the Minton bill was the kind of measure that Herr Hitler would consider ideal—that a dictator could use to keep the press from printing anything he didn't want printed. The German Government news-service dispatch ends all doubt about
that.
UNDER ONE TENT NE recommendation of the Byrnes Senate Committee on Unemployment Relief is so sensible that it is to be hoped Congress will not delay in carrying it out. This is that administration of the Federal-state employment exchanges be transferred from the Labor Department to the Social Security Board and co-ordinated with the work of the board's Unemployment Compensation Division. A dual Federal administrative system is now opcrating what amounts to one service. This service is to find the jobless man private work, and to keep him off relief rolls through payment of unemployment benefits in the meantime. In all unemployment-insurance states but Alabama this unity of function is recognized by placing the employment exchanges under the same state administrative head as unemployment-insurance benefits. But the Federal Government, which supports both services, operates its subsidies and supervision through the two departments. In no foreign country can be found such a wasteful, inefficient and costly arrangement.
THE SWEDE KNOWS HE PAYS NA Sweden, all pay some taxes,” says Axel Wenner-Gren, that nation’s wealthiest industrialist. He was speaking of income taxes. “As a resuit,” he adds, “there is a popular interest in what the money is being used for, and that is a safeguard against its being wasted.” Thus our Swedish visitor says in his own way a truth that Congress, we hope, will eventually understand. We have in this country a Federal income-tax system, supposedly gaited according to the taxpayer’s ability to pay. But because of high exemptions, millions of citizens who have incomes are not taxed. Federal income-tax payers represent only about 5 per cent of the population. The other 95 per cent, of course, pay taxes aplenty, but the taxes they pay are invisible and “painless”—not the kind that cause the payers to keep a check on the spenders.
NOW LET ’EM RUN IT HO owns the U. S. A.? Not Roosevelt, nor Mr. Ickes’ Sixty Families, nor the bondholders. It's the women. According to President William E. Weld of Wells College, American women today own, “in pocket and in prospect,” 70 per cent of the nation’s wealth; are beneficiaries f 80 per cent of all outstanding insurance policies; pay 80 per cent of the inheritance taxes. They also appear to be husbanding (could that be the right word?) their wealth better than the men. Women make up 50 per cent of the country’s stockholders and own 44 per cent of all its utilities. Dr. Weld says that, being more conservative investors, they have weathered the depression better than the men. And they aren’t just sitting back on their money bags. Whereas 50 years ago 14145 per cent of all women were gainfully employed, now 22 per cent of them work for a living. When the American Lords of Creation finally come to " sign over to the women what was once their country, they can have only one satisfaction. It gave them a swell stag party while it lasted. We only hope that there will be enough country left for the women to make over into a decent home.
DEMOCRACY BEGINS AT HOME
NOTHER of the many powerful American voices urging us to save democracy in our own land before trying to save it in Europe is that of Senator Borah. “Democracies are bleeding inwardly,” he warned recently. The healing is not to be found in excessive armaments or alliances, but “in bringing contentment, happiness and prosperity to the harried, confused and discouraged ecitizens.” Senator Borah believes in adequate defense, but not in adventures in “collective security.” “Our supreme and imperative task is here at home... “But venturing beyond that and permitting ourselves to be drawn into controversies and wars not our own, there is no depth of human misery which such a course may not entail and no calamity to our scheme of government which may not come. “Widespread poverty, want, and suicide walking with want, will in time break the morale and destroy the faith in government of any people. “These are the things which make for communism and sfascism and which today wage war ag§inst every democracy in the world.”
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Fair Enough
By Westbrook Pegler
Let's Get Together on One Thing, Namely, That the Civil Liberties Of All Persons Are Equally Sacred.
EW YORK, May 5.—I wish that all of us who are interested in the preservation of civil liberties could get together on one thing, namely, that all men's civil liberties are equally sacred. And I mean all civil liberties, not only the right to speak freely. Lately, in Tampa, Fla. there was that case of a WPA worker who was fired from his job within a few hours after a grand jury of which he was foreman brought indictments against some local politicians. He was quickly reinstated, but that was done only to stifle the squawk. The man had been thoroughly and officially fired for reasons which I deduce from the circumstances and which seem to be thoroughly rotten, the worse because an agency of the Federal Government was involved. = = » HEN the state head of the WPA was called before the succeeding grand jury, which was trying to find out whether this had been a case of intimidation, and he refused to discuss the matter on the authority of a letter from Harry Hopkins. On that precedent the WPA holds the right to punish any jurvman employed by the WPA who brings in an indictment or a verdict against any favored politician and need not reinstate him. I think this case is as bad as that of Norman Thomas, who was arrested and deported from Jersey City by Frank Hague's policemen for trying to make a speech. If there is any degree of badness in such things it is a little worse, because, after all, Frank Hague is local. I think we also have too free use of the income tax returhs as a means of harassing individuals. Now, the very fact that a man makes enough money to require a return is likely to be held against him, but it shouldn't be. He may be as good a citizen as the man without a dollar. And I see no reason to break out a man's tax return and blab it all over the country unless he is suspected of short-changing the Treasury. - = = EN don't like to have their business affairs blabbed. If you think otherwise just consider the dogged bashfulness of the President's son, James. The House committee in charge of that case refused to let an expert take Jimmy's return apart, and I indorse that refusal, but think other men should enjoy the same protection. Another type of abuse which I would like to see recognized as such along with the offenses of Frank Hague is the coercion and intimidation of men who refuse to go on strike. In the excitement and partisanship of the last few years many of us have come to feel that civil liberties and constitutional rights exist only for those who agree with us. We are always hearing that it is of the utmost importance to respect the liberties and richts of radicals, because they impose the greatest strain on our tolerance. I agree to that, but with the observation that it is equaily important to treat the most extreme reactionary the same way and for the same reason. If the extremists are protected on both wings those in the middle need not worry.
Business
By John T. Flynn
La Follette Has Right Idea in Not Trying to Unite All Malcontents.
EW YORK, May 5.—There is one point about Phil La Follette's new party which differs from most of the plans for new parties I have observed these last five years. It is a point of great importance. Several attempts at new parties have been made which have consisted largely in inviting all of the opposition and discontented groups to national conferences with a view to uniting them. This technique was founded upon the assumption that all these numerous disaffected groups represented an enormous nucleus to begin with and that their leaders could transfer them to a new movement. First of all they did not represent immense groups at all. And secondly, these groups, such as they were, were not essentially followings of their known leaders. Take the late Milo Reno and his Farm Holiday Association. Those who made up its membership were people who felt the pinch of the depression and wanted some way out. They followed Reno because he said he had a way out. There being nobody else around who had anything plausible to offer, Reno got this following. But it was not a following he could have led around into other parties. These disaffected groups had all sorts of panaceas to solve the depression—inflation, farm strikes, labor organization, the EPIC plan, old-age pensions, share-the-wealth, technocracy and so on. The maddest idea in the world would be to attempt to bring all these elements together, if it could be done, and unite all their strange and crazy panaceas. -
A New Frontier
Governor La Follette proceeds differently. It has always seemed to me that a third party would start in this country when someone appeared with a definite idea, suited to the times, adapted to its problems and holding out an appeal to intelligent people and not merely malcontents. Such a party and such a platform can capture more of the malcontent votes than the union of the malcontent leaders could. This is what the La Follettes seek to do. They want a party founded on the earnest effort to create and widen production rather than curtail it; to find, as Governor La Follette put it, a new frontier, not across any geographic border, but in the midst of our society, This is what the Governor meant when he said: “This is no popular front, no conglomeration of conflicting, opposing forces huddled together for temporary expediency. The movement that unites America, must be i¢seif united.” This is something that can be said of neither of our two major parties.
‘A Woman's Viewpoint
By Mrs. Walter Ferguson I HAVE never felt that I deserve any special honor because I am a mother. Instead motherhood seems a very special kind of privilege, and on every second Sunday in May I am moved to say to my children, “Thank you, dears, for having chosen me.” I am not conscious of ever having sacrificed much for their good. I did not give up all amusements. nor forego pleasures so they might frolic. If I did my duty by them, then it was what I wanted to do. Like most families, we went through hard times. There was struggle, weariness, disappointment and sorrow; but it never occurred to me to say to myself: “Now I am a noble person. Now I am behaving as a good mother behaves.” Like a great many others, IT have not always done well by my family, but at all times I have done as well as I could at the moment. Yet whatever I may have given them is not comparable with what they have given me. First—their babyhood. Years when the richest
emotional life flowers for a woman. No matter how tired the body may be, the heart is strangely at rest.
Next—there are the growing years, when a parent senses rather than studies the development of personalities, each so different from that of its brother or sister. The demands increase, but so does the feeling of companionship. And then in time the mature being takes form and the mother is loosed from responsibility if not from love and can rest upon her laurel.
Whatever Sate may have in store, the rewards of
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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
THURSDAY, MAY 5, 1938
Via Dolorosa —By Kirby
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The Hoosier Forum
1 wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.
READER PRAISES WORK OF CORDELL HULL By John F. White The sanest and most prophetic voice coming out of Washington these stressful days is that of Cordell Hull, Secretary of State. a national and international states-
man he is measuring up to the best |
in the world today. His clear in- |
sight into the problems with which | the nation is confronted in relation |
to its international affairs is making his leadership of outstanding consequence at this time. Seeing clearly the underlying causes of war, he labors intelligently and conscientiously for peace, while fully realizing the compelling need for national defensive preparation in a world torn with hatreds and filled with an insane lust for power. To lessen these hatreds, suspicions and abnormal antagonisms, he is endeavoring to break down adverse situations and promoting good will, in patiently and understandingly removing the barriers
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against trade, thus removing and forestalling reprisals and encour- | aging friendly intercourse in trading relations and removing the greatest of all incubators for war. Trade has not only been the forerunx»er of civilization, it is always the lifeblood of continued existence and progress. In proportion to the impediments placed in the way of useful and friendly trading, ill will and antagonism arises to disturb the natural peace of the world, retarding the higher development of civilization, aggravating the tendencies for war and war preparation, | the by-product of which is the most staggering burden imposed on civiiization. In the face of this manifest fact, the sheer insanity of fostering unfriendliness by erecting barriers against trade ought to be clear. Friendly trade has always been the chief force in promoting peace. » ” n RECOMMENDS UNIFORM TRAFFIC LAWS
By Mrs, Grundy Motorists deserve nearly all the knocks they get for disobeying traffic rules. However, they do have something coming to them.
They deserve uniform licensing laws in all states, They deserve uniform traffic signs and signals in| all states and cities. They deserve | cars with their noses low enough | that the right fender can be| glimpsed at any time, by the driver, | Of course he can see the left fen- | der, but the car has a right fender, | too. | This driving business is a great | deal like a game of blind man’s buff anyway. When we are meeting | a truck on a bridge, who of us ever | sees how near our right fender is | to the edge of the bridge? The | same thing goes for driving along a high embankment or in three or four-lane traffic. There should be more control of bicycles and children in traffic. Children should have some of the responsibility for their own safety placed on their own shoulders. They
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have no business playing ouf in the street. We don’t hear much about cars hitting them while they are playing on their own lawns or on public play grounds. That would be news. If the above mentioned adjustments were made, they would help considerably toward reducing the number of accidents. So, let the bosses “sit up and notice” some of their shortcomings while they tell us about ours. I believe in obeying traffic laws. I'm all for ‘safety first.” ” » » PENAL SYSTEM IS CRITICIZED By K. V. C, Some judges seem to have the idea that by sending men to prison for long sentences they are reducing our crime and our crime bill, when in fact they are making more educated criminals, A penitentiary or reformatory is where men learn more about the ways and tricks of crime. It also hardens men toward society in general. Crime in Indianapolis is not committed by professionals or gangsters, but by local persons that have become hard-up financially because the capitalistic profit system is failing to work for the benefit of all the people. A city's criminal court tells the conaitions of its community economically. It is also the place where miserable human beings are made more miserable. Sending one man to prison doesn’t stop others from committing a crime. If all men were treated fair there would be no incentive for a person to commit crime, Seventy-five per cent of men in
FAREWELL APRIL By EDNA JETT CROSLEY
April showers bring May flowers And some lovely sunny days; there were no darkened hours Who could bless the silver rays?
If
Lovely April, you must leave us When your sister May arrives; Farewell April—don’t forsake us—
Come back after old March dies. |
DAILY THOUGHT But Jesus turned him about, and when he saw her, he said, Daughter, be of good comfort, thy faith hath made thee whole. And the woman was made whole from that hour.—Matthew 9:22,
AITH is a certain image of eternity. All things are present in it—things past, and things to come.—Jeremy Taylor.
modern prisons have more conveniences that are considered Juxuries to them than they ever had on the outside. You cannot expect good citizens to come out of the
| slums, of which we have plenty in
America, o ” ” HOLDS FORD SHOULD MAKE HIS SPEECHES MORE CLEAR By Ruth Shelton
If Mr. Ford wishes to wield any influence over the common men and women of America, he should make his speeches as plain and simple as he makes his automobiles. We might expect a less successful man—strange as it may be to the principles of democracy—to speak in riddles for fear of being ruined socially, financially or politically. Henry Ford, however, need not be afraid of any of these things and if Americans are being sold out by some trusted leader, as he says they are, why does he not tell them bluntly the identity of both the salesman and the buyer? His statement that “all of us need to go to work,” is no new thought to the laboring class of America. If he had added, “at a living wage and under conditions that a human can endure,” his talk would have rated first page publicity because, by it, he would have influenced thousands of lesser employers to pay better wages. Underpaid millions and an army of unemployed would have hugged his speech to their hearts. As it is they shrug their shoulders when they read it and say, “The big men of the country just can’t understand the life of the little fellow and so all we can do is trail along with Roosevelt (bless him) and PWA until our industrialists wake up-—if they ever do.” ” n w IMPROVEMENTS ASKED FOR SOUTH SIDE
By Mrs. H. G. What is the matter with the Board of Works and the Democratic Administration? They spend SO much time and money on the North Side. Don’t they realize the people on the South Side pay taxes too? In proportion they pay more for what they have in the line of improvements. I have paid taxes down here 20 years, and for 16 years have tried to get our street paved. But it seems as though a few people who have their homes clean, and have a monthly
income and don’t have a worry, can |
20 to the Board of Works with a petition against the street, and can keep it from going through. The street is the only street he{ween Shelby and Madison that is not paved. During the building of the Shelby St. bridge, there was twice as much traffic as any other street, We have to keep our front doors closed during the summer, and cannot sit on the front porch. We have lived in our back yards for the last three years. What has the engineer got to report on this? Please let's pave it this year, taxpayers on Ringgold Ave.
LET'S EXPLORE YOUR MIND
WIEE ='T DON'T SEE WHY WOMEN SHOULDNT DO
EVERYTHING MEN DO. THEY INHERIT AS Mick ARiLTY | MANY PEOPLE BOAGT THEY
HOGBAND-" NO THEY HAVEN'T. AND
THEY SHOULON'T BE PEEVED ABOUT IT EITHER "
YOUR, OPINION
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YES, WOMEN inherit as much ability as the men, but develop differently, True, women can, by straining every nerve and going out of what seems their natural sere,
So @ ae can d “ex-
By DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM
He BK WrMes: "E YOU WANT TO LEARN A WOMAN'S FAULTS,
JueT Pr A |5E : HER TO ANOTHER WOMAN, WHAT DO Rv THINK oP
" LIKE A LOG," SLEEP 5 Tiever hove ARE THEY KIDDING THEMSELVES = or vou? NOUR OPINION we
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of genius in architecture, painting, literature, invention, etc. In these, hardly one woman in a thousand years equals men. Just why is not known. But, why not stick to the
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dren, co-operating with men in home-building and in promoting social righteousness and religion, and the permanent values that make life worth living at all? If they do this, they won't have time to get peeved. » » » I THINK you've got something there, Mrs. B. K,, but I don't know just what, Depends, I think, chiefly on the kind of woman you are talking to—and her relationship to the woman you are talking about. If she is the selfish, jealous type, in addition has any personal relation to the woman talked about—yes— she will verbally scratch her eyes out. On the other hand I've heard two women praising another woman a hundred times to once where 1 have heard one praising and the other criticizing. Women are pretty nice persons notwithstanding all we men do to put their nerves on edge.
~ ~ » THEY CERTAINLY are kidding themselves and everyone else, The Mellon Institute of Pittsburgh, as related by the Scientific American, rigged up an apparatus that would register every time a sleeper changed his posture. Of the 150 aT ested, only one “slept like a Ing,” without moving—and he was insane ‘Al “hy a led about
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Gen. Johnson Says—
If F. D. R. Would Short-Circuit
The Third New Dealers He Still Could Lead His Party to Victory,
5--Governor La Follette
JASHINGTON, May seems fo have pulled the trigger too snon and had the wrong kind of shot in his gun. His was no program to carry the Red left wing of the third New Deal. In the Senate, it would attract Garner, Glass and Byrnes more than Norris, Nye and Schwellen= bach, Thus far, it sounds like a dud. Dud or no dud, it certainly is a symptom. It ine dicates that the old Roosevelt magic has lost its kick, There is mutiny afoot. It is not only in the La Follette camp. In the Senate there is shaping a kind of coalition of about 35 Democratic Senators—not quite a majority of the Democrats but, with Republicans, a majority of the Senate. It is less against the President than against the radical departures of the third New Deal and the augurs and vestal virgins thereof—the Corcorans, Cohens, Jacksons, Perkins, et al. If there should arise a real Pied Piper devoted to the medicine of these extreme left wingers and able to lead them, the President would have to decide whether he wants to lead his party or to grapple with some such intruder for leadership of its camp follows= ers. It is becoming clearer daily that he can't lead both. » n n BELIEVE he could still lead his party and win L with it, but to do that he would have to shorts circuit the whole stafl of Perkinses, Cohens, Jacksons There might be a personal pang in not a political one. Most, of these people If they sank, it would be
that, but have no following whatever. without trace.
It is rumored around these whispering galleries
| that before he wearily left to go fishing, he expressed
some such conviction himself. That may be pure invention, but it is a pretty obvious conclusion, He shrinks from such decisions, but this one is so well deserved as to acquit it of disloyalty, These are the architects of all his disasters since January, 1937, On that date, as leader of his party rather than its fringes, and in co-operation with the House and Senate chieftains, there was hardly a limit to what he could have done. He could have had any reform within reason. Above all, he could have restored pros= perity. On those accomplishments, coupled with his earlier brilliant triumphs, he could have fulfilled his chief ambition—to go down in history as one of the greatest Presidents, ” ww Ww HAT these things happened in can be traced directly to his own blunders and they in turn can be traced directly to this crowd. They sure rounded him to the exclusion of his Congressional leaders. It shattered his party, frustrated him and prostrated the country. Some officials of the Administration are eagerly seeking indorsement of it from business leaders on the strength of the recent rather wilted olive branches extended by the President. Every time in the past that business was lured close enough bv olive branch waving, one of this crowd has socked it on the jaw, For this reason, business is never going to cuddle up as long as these bouncers remain in the back room. It may be a bitter pill for the President but it is better than breaking his party, breaking the country and losing his place in history.
It Seems to Me By Heywood Broun
Those Who Attack Fascism First Should Take Stand Against Hague.
EW YORK, May 5-I do not think that any man in the United States has a right te stand up and denounce the fascism of Franco, Mussolini or Hitler until he has first put himself solidly on record as opposed to the tyranny of Frank Hague, Mavor of Jersey City, U. S. A. And among those upon whom that stipulation should be placed is Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Hague is vice chairman of the Democratic National Committee, I am not altogether naive about politics. T appre= ciate the fact that men who have important and serious objectives in view must play along with the best instruments. But somewhere the line must be drawn. And if it isn't drawn in such a way as to erase the name of Frank Hague from the national picture, how can it ever be done? Indeed, if Mr. Roosevelt winks at the open insurrection of Frank Hague against the whole theory of democracy, what can he say that will carry weight? What possible point will there be in any body’s declaring that fascism must never find a resting place in the Western world unless we root it out in a city which lies just across the river from our metropolis? If Hague can take the stand that he is the law and that the Constitution does not go as far as he is concerned, all the rest of the many varied and divergent appeals for the preservation of democracy are so much shadow boxing. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, for the good of his soul and the soul of the nation, cannot afford to remain silent, Win, lose or draw, he has faced no issue which is so important. And this goes with equal force for some of his bitterest opponents.
Not From a Well Wisher
I am not writing from any personal partisanship in regard to the latest outrage. Although I respect the courage of Norman Thomas, I have been opposed to his political and economic position for several years, This is irrelevant, but I want to set it down as evidence that by sheer accident I am in a wholly objective position, If Mr. Thomas had made his speech of friendly interest in the La Follette movement and I had been present, I would probably have shouted “Boo!” The case against Mr. Hague does not rest upon the kidnaping of Norman Thomas, and I see no reason to use quotes around that participle. The conviction of Jeff Burkitt is equally in violation of all decent democratic principles. The forcible abduction of Mr. Thomas merely caps the series of attacks upon civil liberties and the Constitution of the United States.
Watching Your Health
By Dr. Morris Fishbein
OWADAYS more and more young women are extending their education into high schools and universities. It is interesting to see what educational authorie ties conceive to be the health needs of the young woman of today and of the future, The modern girl is far more advanced in her social relationships than was a girl of the same age 25 years ago, Furthermore, the demands that are made upon her by the curriculum of education or by the work which she does in her daily life are much more than the demands that used to be placed upon young women in an earlier generation, It must be remembered that the young woman is still an adolescent by age and by development, but that she must fit herself into the machine age -a period of speed, drive and intensity, For this very reason the modern young woman is likely to be more easily fatigued and to have a greater emotional intensity than was the case of a young woman in pre vious years. Notwithstanding all that has been done to educate children as to the proper posture associated with health, young women coming into our high schools and colleges are found today in large numbers with body mechanics that are not satisfactory Investigators in women's colleges report that cole lege students, even though they represent a more or less selected group, show evidences of poor physical condition, emotional instability, lack of endurance, and disorders of function of many different types. This means, of course, that these girls must be given opportunity for consultation with intelligent, sympathetic members of the faculty who will help to guide them into proper adjustment, not only in the social group with which they are involved in college, but with groups which they meet at home and
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