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TUESDAY, MAY 17, 1938

DUCKING TAXES HE Government has sold another of its weekly offerings of $50,000,000 worth of 90-day Treasury bills—this time at an average rate of 29-100ths of 1 per cent. Last week something new in the way of a record was set when some buyers bought Treasury bills at par—in other words, lent the Government money for 90 days at no charge whatever. This week a still more astounding record was set when one buyer paid $10,001 for a $10,000 Treasury bill—in other words, paid the Government $1 for the privilege of lending the Government $10,000 for 90 days. : If you want to know why, ask your banker to show vou one of these bills, or a note or a bond or any other type of public security, and you will find written on the face of the instrument a guarantee of tax exemption. The buyer who paid $10,001 for a $10,000 Treasury bill won't derive any income therefrom, for which he can claim tax exemption. Ie'll probably make money out of the deal, however. The chances are that he lives in some city or state where bank deposits are taxed. In transferring $10,000 from his bank account to a loan to the Treasury, he probably will save in his tax bill a lot more than the $1 premium he paid. This incident should serve to remind everybody that on April 25 President Roosevelt asked Congress to pass “a short and simple statute” ending the issuance of tax-exempt public securities and the payment of tax-exempt public salaries. But Congress has not budged one inch toward carrying out the President’s suggestion. Can it be that the Congressmen are going to refuse to make their own salaries subject to state income taxes, and then go home and ask for re-election at the hands of voters, who—if their salaries are large enough to be taxed—have to pay both state and Federal income taxes? It must take a lot of gall to ask to be chosen for a 810,000-a-year job, and then insist on special-privilege immunity from the ordinary obligations of citizenship which more humble constituents are required to meet.

WELCOME, COMPATRIOT! “HIS country is going to have a brand-new citizen of heroic stature and world fame, and his fellow-citizens-to-be can honor themselves by bidding him welcome, Thomas Mann is his name. He is one of the greatest of novelists, a master of German prose, an incorruptible soul. For five years he has been a man without a country. When Hitler came to power Dr. Mann happened to be in France. He never returned home. “If to be more German means to be less human,” he said, “I can make only one

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choice. No question of “Aryanism” could be raised concerning him, and he might have enjoyed every comfort. But he simply would not stand for the Nazi philosophy. And so his German citizenship has been revoked. Now he is renouncing it and is about to be naturalized as an American, exchanging what he calls the ‘contemporary mistake” of fascism for the “timelessly human” qualities of democracy. Thousands of other German exiles, representatives of freedom and enlightenment, have come here during the last century. Dr. Mann hopes, perhaps, to be able to go back to Germany during his lifetime, for he has faith that the country will become free again. At any rate, the United States is receiving something fine—if only as a loan —1is enriching its atmosphere by the presence of his spirit here.

BEG PARDON WERE sorry, Mr. President, if we messed things up. We know—at least, we suspect—that you'd be tickled pink if the morning mail brought in a nice letter of resignation from the Secretary of Commerce. Of course you'd turn out a fine complimentary letter to “Dear Dan,” and be mighty regretful, but very few people would be taken in by that. So we're sorry about that scoop of ours. If we hadn't printed the story that the usually placid Mr. Roper was red in the face about a secret scheme to shift his pet bureau to the State Department, maybe he would have stayed mad long enough to quit. But we printed it, and Steve Early got excited and began denying that the bureau was to be sold down the river to Cordell Tull, and everybody denied there was to be a resignation, and now we suppose Uncle Dan's feelings have been soothed and the whole thing will be smoothed over and you won't get a new Secretary of Commerce with a little more git-up-and-go. Next time we get a scoop like that we'll be tempted to hide it and let events take their course.

TO KEEP MEN AT WORK HE U. S. Housing Authority and the Building Trades Department of the A. F. of L. got together in Washington with the result that the department's executive council adopted a resolution, providing— 1. That in case of jurisdictional disputes on any lowrent housing project there will be no stoppage of work until all parties affected have had full opportunity to adjust the differences between the trades, and 2. That wage rates in effect at the time work is commenced on any project shall remain in effect until completion. Local building-trades councils over the country have been asked to adopt similar resolutions—and many already have done so. Here is enlightened self-interest. Jobs are scarce in the building trades. If the slum-clearance, low-cost-hous-ing program succeeds, many good jobs will be provided for building craftsmen. And organized building workers, in seeking to adjust jurisdictional disputes and minimize wage squabbles, are taking steps to contribute to the program’s Success.

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Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

And I'm Telling You, Mrs. Dorsey, It Was a Mighty Fearless Speech That Rep. O'Connell Didn't Give.

EW YORK, May 17.—Good morning, Mrs, Dorsey, and did yez read the fearless speech that brave, bold Congressman Jerry O'Connell of Montana didn’t deliver in Journal Square in Jersey City? No, he didn’t make the speech, Mrs. Dorsey. He was going to make it and he gave out advance copies of it like, you know, the way they do in Congress when they speak three minutes and then print 5000 words of patriotism, wit, humor and philosophy in the Congressional Record, It seems, Mrs. Dorsey, that there was a crowd hanging around Journal Square so Congressman Jerry O'Connell didn't make the speech. Most statesmen like crowds to hear their speeches, but Jerry is bashful, so when he heard this crowd was there he went back to Washington instead and the papers printed the speech. “Our forefathers,” he was going to say, “were willing to lay down their lives that liberty and democracy might live, They accomplished their vision by setting up a form of government and a nation which is today the mightiest and greatest under God's Heaven,

W HAT form of government,” he didn't say, Mis. Dorsey, “has been preserved because men have been willing to sacrifice even their lives. Tonight I am awfully happy and proud,” he was going to continue, Mrs. Dorsey, “to come to Jersey City and raise my voice in protest against the most despicable and disgraceful dictatorship that exists within this nation of ours.” I dunno, Mrs. Dorsey, maybe it was the night air in Jersey City that caused him to keep a still tongue in his head. They were saying that a lot of hoodlums were waiting with rubber hoses in Journal Square, but that couldn't have been the reason Jerry didn't deliver his speech, because you can see right here where he was going to say, “I am happy and proud that, despite all threats against me, I have come here to speak against a man who, instead of holding high office, should be confined in the penitentiary at hard labor.” That was telling them, Mrs. Dorsey. was writing them a letter, anyway.

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" ND I say here tonight,” he was going to add, Mrs. Dorsey, “to the Kellys and Brophys and all of that ilk"—ilk he was going to call them, Mrs. Dorsey—"ilk who dance like little puppets when their lord and master pulls the strings, I say to them that you can bring on your two-foot rubber hoses, your thugs and your gunmen, but if I can bring democracy to Jersey City, if I can bring this city of yours back into the American Union and destroy an administration so corrupt, so un-American, so undemo= cratic, the worst that ever blackened the reputation of a decent and self-respecting people, I assure you that I am willing to pay the price.” So you can see, Mrs. Dorsey, Jerry O'Connell was ready for anything. It was a very daring, defiant challenge that he was going to fling right into the very maw-—you know, mush, Mrs. Dorsey—of the specter of dictatorship. It was the defiantest speech that you and I never heard in many a long day, Mrs. Dorsey,

Business By John T. Flynn

Business Has Succeeded in Scaring The President — and Itself as Well.

EW YORK, May 17.—If there is one thing evident now it is that the present Federal Government has no intention of doing anything to business which can seriously be looked upon as a restraint. If business has within its structure any powers of recuperation, now is the time to reveal them. First of all, Congress is through. subject on its mind and that is home and the hustings and the badly sagging fences. When it adjourns it will be gone for six months and its power far good or evil will be adjourned. As for the President, it is also perfectly obvious that he has no further fight in him. Here and there to save his face he may make a brave stand on some minor inconsequential matter. But that is all If business has any fears for the balance of this year about the hostility of the Government, they will be of its own making. That being so this is the time to show what it can do. The summer is here. This is the time to revive building of all kinds. If it be true that industry and the utilities need so much in the way of replacements, now is the time to act. Money can be had. The 'United States Steel Corp. could get a hundred million. If business does not exhibit recuperative power between now and next January, it will not have a leg to stand on when Congress comes back with its pockets bulging with new schemes to bring back recovery.

There's No Time to Lose

But there is no time to he lost. There are no signs visible now of any activities in business which justify a prediction of recovery. Private financing is at a new low. Rank loans remain low. There is a rising flow of investment funds into United States securities. The summer comes with the usual industrial pause without the necessary compensating force of the construction industry. Apparently the Government is preparing to draw a line around its TVA activities. The tax bill is passed. Business knows what it is going to have to pay. And it is a much softer bill than business had a right to expect. Will business see it thus? Will it use its opportunity? Can it do anything? It is difficult to be hopeful about this. The strange thing is that business and the President both seemed to be whipped. Business, in trying to scare Roosevelt, has succeeded —and also has scared itself to death. My guess is that if there is any upturn by fall it will come from Government spending.

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A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

T last I am in complete agreement with a veteran . patriot, and the feeling is delightful. When Gen. Johnson Hagood, with two pages of military titles pannering after his name, says we ought to put the Army into overalls I'm ready to salute good sense. It's a perfectly swell idea. And not only as an economic and time-saying measure, for is it not the one sure way we could hit upon for putting patriotism to the acid test? Any popinjay is willing to don a uniform; only the bravest of the brave would show up if it were overalls Uncle Sain handed out.

A good many of us already have a sneaking suspicion that the lure of peacock plumage keeps Army ranks full. And when you consider how drab and ugly the dress of the average male is you can’t blame the poor men for wanting to get into something more suitable for strutting. The urge for gaudy garments is one easily understood, and far be it from me, a female prodded by fashion, to deride it. Just the same, nothing would please me more than to see a military display such as we enjoy on Armistice or Memorial Day with the generals dressed like farm hands, ready for trench work rather than tea parties. Certain other military authorities contend that such a move would utterly destroy the spirit of West Point,” that it is a subversive idea threatening the Constitution, the Republic and democracy. They forget evidently that the Colonial soldiers at Bunker Hill were a shabby bunch, and that nobody at Valley Forge worried about grooming, and that the “embattled farmers at Concord, who fired the shot heard round the world,” wore plain blue jeans. Their aim was none the less perfect because of that, and it would be difficult to question their patriotism. Indeed the thought has frequently occurred that perhaps some soldiers love the uniform more than they do their country, I'm certain many women Ao,

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

LAUDS DR. CONGER FOR WORK AT CITY DOG POUND

By Bertha E. Huetter One of the most distressing, outrageous actions I have ever heard of is that of the present City Administration in its treatment of Dr. Elizabeth Conger and our stray dogs of the city—which are not always stray dogs, but often beloved pets. The fact that Dr. Conger started this wonderful work of caring for homeless, helpless dogs and her past 17 years of faithful, eflicient service at the City Pound is reason that she and she alone should be retained as superintendent of the pound in full and complete charge without any interference whatsoever. The present city ordinance calling for the destruction of our pets and stray dogs is unfair and uncalled for and should be repealed. I it surthermore, th nethod of | Would admit. er the oe I under | the misuse of “the safeguards of

Police Chief Morrissey and Theo- | democracy” to the attention of the ig at She 3 y 1 | people our junior Senator has acted dore Dammeyer, the Safety Board | PB Be public interest and the present city officials is a ; i dha disgrace to the city of Indianapolis. 2 % > % » URGES REFORM IN COUNTY, WANTS DR. CONGER RETAINED | TOWNSHIP GOVERNMENT AT CITY DOG POUND By Reformer By B. C. W. If the township and county govThe people of Indianapolis who | ernment reform advocated by Wilare interested in the humane treat- [liam P. Cosgrove, chief examiner of ment of animals, and who know how | state Accounts, is found under caremerciful and unselfish has been the attitude of Dr. Elizabeth Conger t0 [should be put into effect. her work at the Municipal Dog| In another seciion of the state

(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.)

now have many great news organs representing one economic class in | society, small in number perhaps when judged in comparison to the whole, but articulate to the extreme in presenting its side'of the controversy. That a bill such as Senator Minton proposed would be practical in so far as enforcement of the act is concerned no informed person

Pound will, I am sure, expect that | adjustments will be made which will permit her to continue that work. |

» 3 BELIEVES MINTON HAS ACTED IN PUBLIC INTEREST

By E. C. C. By GENEVIEVE MITCHELL

I have read with interest the|r have a castle made of dreams, comments on Senator Minton's bill | Where I retire when sorrows press, to punish editors who wiliully| And dark despair and shattered print falsehoods, when the editor | hopes knows he is thus distorting the | Of glorious visions facts. breast. It is undoubtedly true that most | There in the peaceful halls no voice people never did believe that “The Of strident malice greets my ear; Freedom of the Press” meant that, | No ridicule nor stinging word | because someone has the worldly Descends to draw the burning goods to start a newspaper of some tear. sort and can get a subsidy from | There peace descends, and I take the Government to help him pay for heart. mailing, he then immediately be- | No longer do my failures seem comes immune and not subject to | Beyond repair. I venture forth what the rest of us in the business From out my castle made of | world call “fair play.” dreams.

Nor do many individuals believe | a —— DAILY THOUGHT

that democracy would perish in this country of ours, should we insist And Rehoboam slept with his that an agency which is so tre-| fathers, and was buried in the | mendously important to the preser- | oity of David: and Abijah his son vation of the very thing we call| pejgned in his stead.—II Chrondemocracy be denied the right to | jeles 12:18. lie to its readers. There was a time | when the local newspaper was proud in actually representing pub- tionably the greatest evil, and lic opinion, but apparently those | vet no man knows that it may not days are gone forever. Instead we be the greatest good.—W. Mitford.

to be no more than incidental, I know of at least two concrete in‘stances for the dire need of this

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reform. The office of township trustee which serves no important function that cannot be better handled in another way, enables the incumbent to continue himself in office by his control of relief moneys, mixing politics with relief. Strangely, too, for all the charge that governing officials are underpaid, this one has made unusual personal economic progress during his term. A county commissioner up-state continued himself in office four times (incompetent and in some proven cases actually dishonest) because of the number of his appointees and supporters in other county offices, his control over allocation of work and the ordering of supplies. By the papers I note the story can be told of other townships and counties. The fault is partly ours for not taking more interest in the character | and ability of the men we elect— ior not taking our jobs as voters more seriously, Newspapers are culpable, too, in giving precedence to State and Federal news; local officials work in comparative secrecy, thus giving them the opportunity for irregularities. The administration of such officials is more expensive to the taxpayer than the cost of Federal Government about which we complain so feelingly; but until we bring about reform such as suggested, we'll probably just have to grin, bear it —and pay.

” ” o BELIEVES CIRCUS SUITABLE SUNDAY ENTERTAINMENT By Night Watchman

I agree with A, A. D. that the Sunday circus ban is hardly fair, There is more clean amusement in a circus than in most of the picture shows. Is it right for some ministers to ban Sunday circuses and yet allow church members to run lotteries and card parties to make money for the church? I do not think so. ” o ” CO-OPERATION WITH POLICE URGED BY READER By F. A. I have been reading the Forum letters attacking Chief Morrissey and our police. The public expects too much of our City Police. They are expected to deliver hospital calls, also babies, They didn't qualify for doctors but are obliged as humanitarians to fill in. Each call is given prompt and quick attention. Our police and detectives are most efficient. Co-operation would aid them and if you can’t boost, don't knock. Let our officers defend themselves and I am sure Chief Morrissey will give the matter his attention as he has in many cases before, He is a man.

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ABOUT every six months I feel obliged to discuss the question because, despite my answers, nearly every mail brings the same question again. The answer is no. A man's truest self is the man whose reactions and behavior are organized and under the control of his will— that is, his system of normal habits. He reveals an untrue self when all these reactions are knocked helter skelter by alcohol; and his habit systems—that is, his will—are disorganized, " ww w DECIDEDLY, for two reasons. First, when a smooth-shaved man grows a beard, it changes his own personality picture of himself— the picture he imagines others have of him. One element in this picture is the image he sees of himself in the mirror and a beard changes this image more than any other disguise, He knows, therefore, he does not look the same to others and this reacts on his entire personality and conduct. Second, when we speak of a strong or weak personality, we mean both the actual traits a per=Son possesses and also the effect those traits have on us and a beard changes a man's entire face and

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TUESDAY, MAY 17, 1938

Gen. Johnson Says—

The Long-Suffering Public Just Now Needs Neither Controversy

Nor Partisanship, but Just Facts,

ASHINGTON, May 17.—<What this country needs in its present dizzy cyclone of swirling and political economic dust, assertions, assaults, ora tory, charts, bunk and sincerity is not more plans, panaceas, and dogmatic diagnoses. It is facts. Take this whole utility=TVA row. Is it true that the utilities are fudging upward the real value of their properties for rate-making purposes? Is it true that the Government is fudging its values downward? If 80, in either case, how much? You can't enter this discussion or form an intelli gent judgment for either side without knowing the answer to these questions. Both sides make their own assertions, but they are so hotly partisan and palpably self-serving as to make them suspect as obviously false. Now the truth here is ascertainable and the practicability and justice of a great Governmental policy depends exclusively on that truth. ” ” ” - T will never he learned in any other way than by an impartial fact-finding commission, The Cone gressional investigation of TVA will not be that. It is a mixed commission of pro-TVA and anti-TVA poli= ticians heavily weighted for the pros. No such adver= sary group is any good either in investigation or administration, Each pro cancels out one con and what is left makes the judgment. In this case what is left is pro. This is general rule that applies to every such situation every time. A quasi-judicial body of one representing labor, one representing management and one representing the public is two-thirds not even quasijudicial. The labor representative cancels out the management representative and it might better have been a one-man tribunal in the beginning. That's what it is in the end. In the name of elementary justice this long-suffer= ing public needs neither controversy nor partisanship just now on its greatest problems, but just facts. n ” ” UITE apart from TVA, on the whole question of hydroelectric power, is it true that steam genera tion is generally very mueh cheaper and gives ems ployment to 10 times as many people? If it is true, the foundation drops out from under another policy of ponderous effect. Here also the truth is ascertaine able. Matters of the greatest moment depend on learning the truth. Only an impartial and expert fact finding body can find the truth. What caused this depression? Mr. Leon Henderson tells the President and the President tells the publie that hiking prices and unwieldy inventories caused fit.

| People with large inventories say that they were no

more than normal for the rate of business when they were accumulated and that they were large merely because business suddenly and unexpectedly became small. Mr. Henderson may be no impartial economist, Ha may be a statistical advocate of the Government charge that business caused the depression, These contrary business assertions about inventories may be statistical advocacy blaming the Government. The truth here is of vital importance to the long-suffering public. Here also it is fairly ascertainable, but not from the self-serving of statistical advceacy,

li Seems to Me By Heywood Broun

Pessimists' Society ls Among the Country's Most Democratic Groups.

N° YORK, May 17.—There may be a silver lining even in a bronchial affliction, for if I had not been confined I would never have come across a curious little book called “Meet Me on the Barricades,” by Charles Villanova Harrison. Mr, Harrison runs a notion shop in negations. Here one may buy jagged stones for a wailing wall, steins for the sorrowful and the pungent incense of renunciation. As a side line the shopkeeper does a little business in taxidermy and stuffs and mounts lost causes. All day long the proprietor sits cross legged at the back of the room and plays a plaintive hymn to the setting sun upon the oboe. And the mes« sage of this minstrel is that all men are fools, ale though they may be divided into two camps. There are those fools who do not know the world is out of joint, But still sillier are their compatriots who try to do something about it. And so Charles Villanova Harrison purposes to go on sitting and sounding sour notes upon his oboe. And yet it would be a mistake to picture Mr. Harrison as an unhappy man. A mug of gall with a dash of worme wood suits his palate perfectly. Nero had no social conscience, and so he fiddled while Rome burned. Charles Villanova Harrison is made of more sensitive stuff, Quite often he looks down from his tower at the conflagration and dis« courages the firefighters. Before he takes up his oboe he pays his duty to society by remarking, “Isn't it awful and isn't it hopeless?” And then he toots again,

They're All Welcome

The society of American pessimists is one of the most democratic organizations in this country, It bars neither members of the extreme right nor the extreme left. You can get in by saying that the revolution is upon us and that nothing can be done about it. But you will be equally welcome in the club rooms if your slogan is that the barricades are being sabotaged by the builders and that no recourse is possible, The common bond which makes buddies of "diverse elements is a mutual belief in the futility of all human endeavor. In certain quarters there is a growing tendency to label this faith in eternal frustration as realism. To my mind, a far more realistic attitude was manifested by the man of whom Bert Wililams used to talk. 1 refer to the fellow who was chased by a ghost as he was passing the cemetery. They ran 10 to 13 miles, and then the man lay down panting and ex« hausted. The ghost sat close beside him and ree marked, “That was quite a run we had.” To which the man replied, “Yes, and as soon as I get my breath we're going to have another.”

Watching Your Health

By Dr. Morris Fishbein

HYSICIANS everywhere are beginning to see ine creasing numbers of cases of people who have developed trichinosis after eating pork. Recently an outbreak occurred in Vermont in which 64 people were attacked by this condition. The doctors first realized that there was an outbreak when a soldier came to an army camp suffering with heads ache, chills, and a general feeling of illness. An examination of the blood revealed the presence of a greatly increased number of white blood cells with an especially large increase of one variety known as easinophiles. Within a period of a week, seven more patients were found with this condition, The doctors then began making a careful study of the diets of these patients for a period of two weeks previous to the time when the first patient appeared. It was found that many of them had eaten sausages for breakfast, salt pork at supper, bacon at breakfast, pork chops for supper, or roast loin of pork for dinner at various times, Notwithstanding the fact that all of the meat had been inspected by a veterinary officer and by the Bureau of Animal Industry, it was obvious that all of the people infected who were in the army camp had at some time eaten infected pork. The one meal at which every one who had ine fected was present was an evening meal at which roast loin of pork was served. Many of the patients said that this pork had not been well cooked at the center. Obviously official meat inspection is not always sufficient to eliminate the possibility of infection with trichinae. . Properly cooked pork is as safe a food as one would wish to eat. Nevertheless it is to eraphasize the fact that in safe bo jt until it has