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THURSDAY, MAY 12, 1938

FOR A SMOKELESS SUMMER APARTMENT house owners and operators are warned by J. W. Clinehens, City Combustion Engineer, that burning anything but smokeless fuel this summer in hot water heaters will be a direct violation of the City Smoke Ordinance. Many apartment buildings are equipped with coal burning heaters and have been consistent violators of the ordinance in the past, according to Mr. Clinehens. The warnings are to be repeated after completion of a survey to determine the number of violations. Such action, however, will have little effect unless the City makes it clear that those disregarding notices will be prosecuted. That, of course, not only to apartment buildings, but to all violators of the smoke ordinance,

THIRD-TERM STUFF?

ME ROOSEVELT kisses off the Iague issue as a local affair. Asked regarding the Jersey City Mayor's powerful position in the Democratic National Committee, he referred his questioners to Postmaster General James A. Farley, chairman of that committee. Those high in national politics develop great agility in making local issues national and national issues local according to the dictates of convenience. But we wonder if Mr. Roosevelt in this case was especially impelled by those words in that recent letter from Hague to the 25 Congressmen: “I will look forward to meeting you at the 1940 convention, when we will have plenty in common.”

WHY THE DISINTEREST? E'D like to start another roll of honor—the members of Congress who will actually take steps to make their own salaries subject to state income taxation. All of them, we presume, are “theoretically” in favor of the principle of tax equality. Yet it was on April 25 that President Roosevelt asked Congress to pass a “short and simple statute” making Federal salaries subject to state income taxes and making state and local government salaries subject to Federal income taxation—on the same basis that private citizens with large enough incomes are doubly taxed. At the same time he asked for an end to the issuance of tax-exempt securities. And to date Congress has done not one thing toward carrying out the President's suggestion.

“I WILL NOT TAKE IT”

S predicted here recently, Congress has risen above principle and voted money to pay its members 20 cents a mile for traveling to and from Washington for the current session. Senator Borah made a good but hopeless fight to eliminate the Senate's share of this appropriation. He pointed out that mileage was voted for the special session last winter; that the present session followed the brief special session so closely that many members did not return to their homes, and that 20 cents a mile is far more than the actual cost of travel. Senator Norris and others sought to limit mileage payments to members who actually did go home between sessions. But that proposal also was turned down, after ponderous arguments that it would violate the rules and that Congress should obey the law which fixes the 20-cent mileage rate. That law, incidentally, was passed in 1866, when the cost of travel was three or four times what it is now. Well, of course we don’t want Congressmen to break the law. And if anyone can show us a law saying that Congressmen must collect mileage for trips they didn't make, at rates far in excess of what they would have spent if they had made these trips, we'll say no more about the matter, There is no such law. Senator Norris was entirely safe in saving that, since he did not return to Nebraska between sessions, “I will not take the money.” More than that, he was entirely right. There are other members, in both houses of Congress, who will take the same stand, and there ought to be a special roll of honor for their names.

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SPEEDING UP PENSIONS HERE is logic to the Byrnes Unemployment Committee recommendation that the Government begin paying oldage insurance benefits earlier than the statutory date of 1942. And we are glad that the President has asked the Social Security Board to make a study of the possibilities. Under the Social Security Act, pension payments do not begin until 1942, although the collection of taxes on payrolls and wages began last year. This five-year accumulation period is longer than in most countries with similar systems. Suppose we begin paying two years earlier, or in January, 1940. From 300,000 to 600,000 persons of 65 years of age or more would be eligible for pensions. The pensions would be small because of the short accumulation period— an average of around $15 a month. It isn't much, but it would help many of these older people to keep off relief and ease the general taxpayers’ burdens. It might even be possible to start payments in the middle of next year. The drain on the reserve fund under such a plan would not be great. By 1940 that fund will have more than a billion dollars, and the annual cost of pension payments in 1940 would be under $50,000,000. But the beneficial results right now would be considerable. Earlier payments would take these thousands of older workers off the labor market, making way for younger men. When the older workers retire they would have a steady flow of purchasing power accumulated from their own earnings.

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Washington By Raymond Clapper

Laxity of State Corporation Laws May Bring Federal Provision in Any Future Antitrust Legislation.

C TASHINGTON, May 12.—It is increasingly likely that when revision of the antitrust laws is undertaken, some kind of Federal incorporation provision will be sought by the Administration. This method of corporation control, embodied in the pending Borah-O'Mahoney bill, has received the indorsement of the Securities and Exchange Commission in a report just made to Congress. SEC finds that state corporation laws have tended

to become looser in recent years. It observes that concerns desiring to juggle their financial setups are able to jump around from one state to another, shopping about for state laws that are lax enough to permit them to do what they want to do. In practice, investors have little protection against this sort of thing, sometimes finding that a corporation into which they have put their money is able to move into another state and gut their investment.

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EC has an example of this in a machinery concern which set itself up as a Virginia corporation. Desiring to reorganize in a way not possible under Virginia restrictions, the corporation sold itself to a Delaware corporation which its officers organized. Under the Delaware laws it was able to revise its charter and put through the plan of recapitalization which it could not put through under the stricter Virginia laws. SEC found the case significant in showing how a company can shift from one state of incorporation to another to avoid strict requirements in one state, or to take advantage of a lax law in another. The places in which a company actually does business have no relation to the state in which it is incorporated. You can go into the du Pont office building in Wilmington, Del, and find many square yards of wall space devoted to a listing of corporations which technically have their home offices in Delaware, the home office consisting of the company name in the building directory and some nominal arrangement with an agent. Adolf A. Berle Jr. studied the Delaware corporation law revisions of 1927 and 1929. He reports that these revisions were drafted by a committee of New York lawyers and were promptly adopted by the Delaware Legislature, substantially without debate or change. That perhaps was natural, for the lawyers represented New York concerns which had their technical homes in Delaware. The functions of the State of Delaware are principally those of granting a charter and collecting an annual franchise tax, Beyond that it does not care much what its corporations do in their New York offices, and only strives to please.

” ” » THER states, envious of the corporation charter fees which Delaware rakes in, have sometimes yielded to the temptation to loosen up their laws in order to hold their corporations or to attract new ones. This scramble for corporation fees re-

sults, SEC says, in “an orgy of competition” among “charter-mongering states” or in what Justice Brandeis describes as ‘competition in laxity.” Jerome Frank, member of SEC, says that you have a Gresham's law at work in this field, in which the bad corporation laws tend to drive out the good ones, just as bad money drives good money out of circulation, He and a good many others think it is necessary to apply Federal protective standards, either through licensing under a Federal incorporation law or through punitive Federal taxation die rected against undesirable corporate practices.

Business

By John T. Flynn

Burdened With Debt, Italy Needs a Rich Neighbor and Chooses England.

N= YORK, May 12.—If the accounts of Italy's great naval display for the benefit of Adolf Hitler were composed by a publicity man for the big navy groups they could not have been better. Actually the newspaper accounts were the normal reaction of spectators to the great show put on by Mussolini in the Bay of Naples. A great water circus with 190 ships and 150 airplanes maneuvering around is bound to be an inspiring spectacle. But one effect of the show and the accounts has been to create an impression of Ttaly's might on the sea out of all proportion to the facts. A comparison between Ttaly's and England's sea power strikingly reveals Italy's immense inferiority. Italy has seven heavy cruisers and England has 17. Italy has 12 light cruisers and Britain 40. Italy has 60 destroyers, large and small; England has 158. Italy has 6 battleships; England has 17 and 3 more on the way. When the construction now going on is completed in two years, England's superiority will be even greater. On the sea what chance would Italy's Navy have against the might of England? It is in submarines alone that Italy excels. She has only one-third as many large submarines as Great Britain but she has twice as many small ones, She has no aircraft carriers and England has six. If France's vessels are added to England’s, it will be seen how little these two powers have to fear from Italy in the Mediterranean. Germany, of course, has a navy. But it is really a small affair despite all the talk that has been heard.

Italians Alone Have Suffered

The tremendous demonstration of naval power by Italy for the edification of Hitler need not therefore play any part in the calculations of Americans who are being subjected to frequent scares about the growing might of the dictators in order to stimulate armament building in this country. But here is a matter of the greatest importance. That Italian Navy has thus far delivered a blow to no one save Italy herself. The building of it, along with the building of her armaments has exhausted her. To do it she has loaded the country with debt—debt far beyond her power to support. She has crushed her people under taxes. And she has no financial resources to enable her to continue that armament industry much longer. It is this condition of approaching exhaustion which now makes Mussolini lukewarm in his substantial relations with Germany and more ready to play along with his powerful and rich neighbor, England.

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

T may be necessary, as the experts say, for Great Britain to pour more billions into armaments, although the wisdom of preparedness is not the only lesson in the news for Americans. Great Britain is reaping the fruits of imperialism, and always and forever such fruit grows bitter upon the national tongue. Why does England have to spend such vast sums for arms when smaller, more

pertecl, democracies—such as Sweden—spend almost nothing? That is a silly question, of course, for do we not know that the sun never sets upon the British Empire? Future historians may record, however, that this era saw the setting of the British Empire's sun. England must arm and rearm and arm again, mortgaging her security for generations to come because, a good many years ago, her statesmen had a dream of possessing the earth. “To save the Empire,” writes William Philip Simms, our foreign correspondent, “Britain must increase her war machinery yet more, for security against aggression depends not upon peace machinery, but upon each nation's ability to defend itself.” In the saving of the British Empire, if it can be saved, what does man stand to lose? Something priceless, I believe, A racial fineness, courage that has become symbolic, a high sense of justice and a kind of SRuity and emotional balance that is rare upon earth. Kipling was the prophet, sounding his warning to Empire builders: “Far called, our navies melt away— on dune and headland sinks the fire. Lo, all ‘our pomp of Vesely is one with Nineveh and Tyre.”

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

SAYS STEAM LOCOMOTIVE STILL MOST EFFICIENT By Railroad Fan The new Twentieth Century Limited on a trial run made 120 miles per hour average for 134 miles or 67 minutes. A few years back people thought the steam locomotive was on iis way out, but it was not true. Twenty years ago electrification was going to put it out. Then back in 19034 the new fangled Diesel (featherweight contraption) was going to put it out, and still today the steam engine is better and more efficient than its builders ever dreamed it would be. The Diesel engine brought about new improvements in the steam engine. It woke the railroads up and they went to work and made improvements that should have been made 15 years ago. There is no piece of machinery more beautiful than a Pacific or Hudson type locomotive in action. As long as we have railroads steam power will be supreme. As

an Eastern railroad president said, | “There is lots of life in the old gal |

yet,” meaning the old Iron Horse. > Ww Ww CRITICIZES TIMES' STAND ON BARTON BILL By Hiram Lackey The Times is advocating a law, Bruce Barton's hill, which seeks to imprison WPA officials who influ-

ence WPA workers regarding their | the same |

right of franchise. At time, The Times abuses Senator Minton for seeking to curb the license to lie. The difference between the fight of Mr. Minton and The Times is the difference between liberty and license, truth and a lie. The ‘Times looks at this WPA problem from one narrow angle. Of course if anyone were to discuss the subject from a different angle, the subject would be “too controversial” to publish. The WPA worker who votes for such reactionaries as ex-Senator Watson is voting to throw his brother worker out of a job. WPA officials, as far as I can learn, give as many WPA jobs to Republicans as they do to Democrats. Side by side with Hopkins and Jennings, I fight to protect the Republican WPA-er, but not in the name of justice. Justice declares that the Republican WPA-er who votes to destroy his brother's job is not worthy of a WPA job. But mercy is higher than justice, » ” ” AGREES WITH READER ON D. A. R. By D. F. Clancy Recently in the Forum, “W. T.” called our attention to the “indignation” of the Daughters of the American Revolution after President

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| Roosevelt had reminded them that | they are “descended from immigrants and revolutionists.” “Great-great-grandfather Hesekiah,” says W. T., “may be a hero and patriarch from here, but to the British he was merely a rag-tag troublemaker, ripe for the gallows.” Bravo! The D. A. R. has always seemed as nonsensical to me as a Daughters of the Bolshevik Revolution would seem to all of us. Nev« ertheless, some day the Russian men will exchange their pajama tops for white shirts and ties, start smoking cigars and nonsense or not-—their wives will get together, blow a few hours about the “Boys of 17” and Stalin's crossing of the Volga and the D. B. R.

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WAR HELD CAUSE OF FRANCE'S TROUBLES By HL. 8,

{ hope that this is the last devalua- | tion of the French currency will prove a futile one. The insurmountable obstacle in the way for French recovery is the price which France has paid and still is paying for her part in the World War. The crushing debt overhanging

financing the war on credit, the ghastly destruction of life and property due to the war on French ter- ( ritory and the resulting inflation of prices which has destroyed French competition in international trade, are more potent factors in

MORNING MUSIC By RUTH SHELTON Robin chirrups from the elm free. Redbird calls from down the vale; Wee, brown, loved wren warbles sweetly; From the commons calls the quail; Somewhere in the sky a winging Lark is sprinkling sweet notes down . Little music-makers bringing Country to the edge of town!

DAILY THOUGHT And if he smite him vith an instrument of iron, so that he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.— Numbers 35:16,

OR cell, nor chain, nor dungeon speaks to the murderer like | the voice of solitude.—Maturin,

striped | ; | nancial, | ment problems,

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the French people as a result of | By Jean B,

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the present crisis than the effort of labor to maintain the standard of living in France, along with a ges« ture of a Popular Front Governs ment which ignores causes for the distress, and merely tinkers with efforts to preserve democracy. France in the treaty of Vers sailles did herself a thousand times more harm than she did to the cefeated Central Powers, even though these were bankrupted and crushed by the burdens of the war. The worst that France did was to elim=inate the Central Powers as customers for goods which the French might have produced for consumption across the borders. They lost this trade and their friendship as well which was more important for

| French security and prosperity.

They dug a ditch for the Central Powers, but they are in that ditch themselves now, with only their nose still above water. The tragedy which is France, has drawn into it the other Allies, all of them floundering in the morass of serious fiindustrial and employ-

The immutable law of the universe is that man must be his

[| neighbor's keeper, not his master,

good will is a thousand times more profitable than the slightest {ll will France is paying and paying, and will continue to pay, until it collapses or destroys the Versailles treaty. Her collapse will have serious repercussions all over the world, A new international peace conference would produce more real se curity than the combined armaments of the world.

y % Ww IMPRESSED BY YOUTH'S ATTITUDE

A little 99-year-old boy, hands cold, nose cold, poorly clad coming down 19th St. with an armful of groceries, loudly ringing The StarSuch gratitude for our feeble attempts to relieve suffering and at least spare the children should be food for thought to those higher ups who refuse to co-operate, "ow SUNDAY CIRCUS BAN TERMED UNFAIR By A. A. D,

I don't believe the ministers in our city are quite fair in regard to the Sunday circus ban. This resolution for the c¢oordination of the activities in the “character building of youth” may be all right for a certain age of boys and girls but we are not all at that age. There were just as many mothers who would like to have seen the circus as there were that wanted to go to church, I think there are enough people in this city to stop such restrictions if they would just let it be known,

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LET'S EXPLORE YOUR MIND

By DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM

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Ross does not entirely discourage voung women but urges that it takes women who can face downs as well as ups and who can take it on the chin. There is a place for the right candidates, she says, but by all means they must have college training. They must also have strong bodies and stout hearts, tact and judgment and a certain thing that Eleanor Patterson, editor of the Washington Herald, calls “flash” for

news, ” » »

OF COURSE it is not sure to end in disaster, but the Institute of Family Relations of Los Angeles has found from extensive records that divorce is considerably more frequent in such cases. Why not wait a little longer and get better acquainted?

by. ¥ w AS RELATED by Lelia Bascom in Mid-Monthly Survey, some prisoners recently decided to make a break and picked ‘“‘Shorty’-—a lifetermer—to aid them. ‘“‘Shorty” gave

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education and what he had gained by it in person as a correspondent student of Wisconsin University

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Gen. Johnson Says—

Roosevelt's Third New Deal Treats

The South Just as the Republican Party Used to Treat the Midwest.

HARLOTTE, N, C, May 12.<Tor almost 70 years after the Civil War, the agricultural Midwest was black Republican, Sometimes it flared up in a Greenback or Populist revolt but it never amounted to much, Before the war it had been a partner in economic and political interest in the party that Andy Jackson put together, But the emotional issue of slavery finally tore them apart and the far greater emotional memory of blood and prison camps widened the breach bes yond healing. 8o in 15 elections, that great breads basket area voted for high tariffs and the whole ine dustrial and reactionary program of the G, O. P, Sometimes it wavered but all that was necessary for the old guard orators to do was to holst the bloody shirt to the ton of the pole and begin talking about the war, the Constitution, and the flag, and the sturdy burghers voted against every political and economie interest of that region until it ruined them After 1021, the stepchild treatment they received from Presidents Harding, Coolidge and Hoover was just too raw, Al Smith could have taken them but he booted the ball in talking about their problem bes fore he could be wised up; and Bill Borah, who sins cerely believed that he had a promise from Mr, Hoos ver in their behalf, made Al look like a corn doctor prescribing for heart disease, Mr, Roosevelt, advised by those great agricultural experts, Henry Morgens thau and Rex Tugwell, knew even less about the Mid= west problem than Mr. Smith, ” » ” E would have been booted even worse than Al if the dirt farmers hadn't gotten to him as soon as they did, Al's original idea was a “chain of farms.” Mr, Roosevelt's and Mr, Morgenthau's origs inal prescription was a great forestation program on those high, dry plains where there was no water table high enough to support a tree in any eircums« stances, It had been tried over and over again with Arbor Days and such-like primitive movements, but without result, At that time, the present Secretary, Mr. Wallace, hadn't yet been able to make up his mind whether he still belonged to the old bloody shirt, brigade, or whether he was a real liberal of the Rex Tugwell prescription, Finally George Peck and other farm crusaders got te Mr, Roosevelt in time and gave him the Middla West, Andy Jackson was at last brought back te life. His union of the South and the West had again been made possible, y Ww w TX trouble today--and it is a real one-Is that Mr. Roosevelt's carpet-bag advisers are now treating the Democratic South with the same indif« ference that the GG, O. P. for so long treated the Republican Middle West, The South has been kicked in the face by the abolition of the two-thirds rule in Democratic conventions, It has been slapped by the antilynching bill, Tt has been threatened by the Wages and Hours Bill without differentials, It has been called feudalistic by the President and accused of not wearing shoes by the Secretary of Labor, Yet here is the center of Democratic strength, Here, as formerly the Republican Midwest, is the political sine qua non. Oan the third New Deal's Communistic pink tail wag this Southern Democratio dog forever? TI think not, The solution of our political and economic probs lem lies in an assertion of the old Southern democs racy of its rights, That seems clearly on the way,

li Seems to Me By Heywood Broun

How Long Will Roosevelt Refrain From Speaking Out Against Haque?

EW YORK, May 12.-<0Of course, it wouldn't be feasible or constitutional or popular, but I wish there was a law providing that nobody could carry an

American flag without a permit, And before an applicant received permission he should be required to show a rudimentary knowledge of what the flag sym= bolizes, Mavor Hague has no more right to distribute the Star-Spangled Banner to his dupes and henchmen than he has to supply them with machine guns, Tt goes deeper than mere {rony that these men with flags should assemble to throttle the most essential of democratic rights The crowd which was regimented inte Journal Square in Jersey City constituted a dangerous Nazi demonstration, I think there is smail doubt that there would have been bloodshed if Representatives O'Connell and Barnard had attempted to hold their meeting. Naturally, the officeholders were out and their friends and their friends’ friends, Fortunately, Hague can hardly afford to win ans other such victory, Members of the system which made and preserved him are beginning to feel that perhaps he has gone just a shade too far, At the eleventh hour some of the most reactionary coms mentators are beginning to shake a warning finger at the boss and say, “Have a heart, Frankie.” A light should always he left in the window for the wayfarer, but some of the very people who now condemn the excesses of Hague laid the psychological groundwork for his campaign against ‘the Communistie.”

Dragon's Teeth Yield No Lilacs

You ean't sow dragon's teeth and then complain because you get no lilacs, And what has happened in one society can happen in five or 10 and in time sweep across a nation, It has probably been a miss take for foes of fascism to concentrate so much ate tention on the personality of Hague himself, Who pulls the strings to make Hague strut? And will associations of industrial leaders ever declare against him at their conventions? But most pertinent of all is the question as to just how long the President ‘of the United States is going to refrain from declaring for freedom and against the bully who holds a high post in the Demo cratic organization, Under such leadership it would be possible to rouse free men and women all over America, And the shout could be loud enough to pierce the hide of Hague, America must speak out and speak out soon, The nation should say, “You, Frank Hague, lurking over there, take your hands off our flag.”

Watching Your Health

By Dr. Morris Fishbein

EW people realize the fundamental effects of ex citement on the functioning of various internal organs of the human body. The human being in a state of severe pain, fear or anger gets pale because the blood vessels on the surs face of the body contract, His skin feels cold and clammy because of the presence of a cold sweat. His mouth gets dry because the saliva stops flowing and his tongue sticks to the roof of his mouth, His heart beats rapidly and sometimes so strongly that the pulsation can be seen in the blood vessels of the neck, At the same time that these manifestations occur on the exterior of the body other changes will be going on in the interior. These may seriously affect the health of the person given too often to overwhelming seizures by various emotions, Consider, for example, what happens to the various portions of the gastro-intestinal tract. Everyone knows that in times of extreme fright it is possible to lose complete voluntary control over the actions o[ these organs. There are also changes, however, that go on automatically at such times, These facts have been established by studies on animals as well as by direct observation of human beings. The man or woman who quarrels before dinner may find that it interferes seriously not only with his desire for food, but also with his ability to digest the food if he takes it anyway. The spoiled child that has a tantrum before dinner may get up and leave the table because his anger makes him lose his desire for food. Then when the parents make him eat anyway, interior untae may follow,

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