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BREAD AND CIRCUSES

THE Senate of the United Sfates last night gave the green light to politics in relief. It voted indorsement of the epigram that you can’t beat four billion dollars. The act was performed when by a close ballot an amendment, mild indeed, much too mild, was defeated. The amendment expressed disapproval of political activity by relief officials, in their official capacities. It then turned around and proclaimed their full right to engage in politics, personally. Had it passed it would have meant almost exactly nothing. For no penalty was prescribed, except being fired if caught—as an official—not as a person. No fine, no prison threat such as have been so carefully written into most of the “more abundant” legislation. Just a proposed flick on the wrist; an anemic statement of policy. But even that was turned down. In face of a campaign year, and with November coming on apace, the Senators yielded. That is, 40 did. In fairness to the 37 who didn’t we urge you to check the list. 8 ¥ » » » » ; HE result—to every political henchman down the line, to every straw boss on every “project,” to all those who actually hire and fire, goes the word that the lawmakers back in Washington do not even give lip service against parcelling out the billions where they will do the most good —for those in power. Bread and circuses! The spoils system streamlined! Nice work if you can get it, and while it lasts. But we hope to live to see the day when such shameless cynicism will be punished at the polls by the long-suffering and tax-ridden people who pay the bill. ? = » " The Roll-Call on the Amendment Against (40) Democrats (40)—Adams, Andrews, Bankhead, Barkley, Bilbo, Bone, Brown (Mich.), Brown (N. H.), Bulow, Byrnes, Caraway, Chavez, Dieterich, Ellender, Green, Guffey, Harrison, Herring, Hill, Hitchcock, Hughes, Johnson (Colo.), Lee, Lewis, McAdoo, McGill, McKellar, Minton, Neely, Overton, Pepper, Pittman, Radcliffe, Schwartz, Schwellenbach, Sheppard, Smathers, Truman, Tydings. For (37) Democrats (22) —Bailey, Berry, Bulkley, Byrd, Connally, Copeland, George, Gerry, Hatch, Holt, King, Lonergan, Maloney, McCarran, Miller, O'Mahoney, Pope, Russell, Thomas (Utah), VanNuys, Wagner, Wheeler. Republicans (12) —Austin, Borah, Capper, Frazier, Gibson, Hale, Johnson (Cal.), Lodge, McNary, Townsend, Vandenberg, White. Farmer-Labor (1)—Shipstead. Progressive (1)—La Follette. Independent Republican (1) —Norris.

RELATIVITY OF JEOPARDY

A GREAT number of our citizens have tragically ‘gone broke’ as a result of the depression. Yet few of our governmental units are insolvent. This is in the face of governmental inefficiency, waste and often extravagance— long, but wrongly, accepted as a necessary evil. . ..

“We should, however, frankly admit that one reason for this condition in governmental finance is that the power of compulsion is in the hands of Government. It can raise taxes. It can create the obligation with the emergency. It can take the law into its own hands because it is the law itself.

“History repeats over and over again that government has so acted right up to the point of overthrow and revolution. Nothing of this sort will happen in the United States if we are constantly vigilant to maintain our margin of credit safety. ' “But we place ourselves in jeopardy every time we fail to balance a governmental budget.” The above was written in 1932 by a distinguished American who was then Governor of the State of New York. He is now President of the United States, still with a lively sense of the power of government to create obligation in emergency—but with somewhat modified ideas of jeopardy,

TOURISTS IN SPAIN

ROM Burgos, in Spain, comes word that Insurgent authorities are hiring guide-interpreters to show sightseers the civil war fronts. planned, and they will be conducted over the old battle lines from Oviedo to Irun at $5 a day each.

Here is enterprise, surely. But the tide of conflict has long passed beyond Irun and Oviedo. Weeds grow in the little ruined villages, and the bodies of the women and children have been buried. The tourists, for their $5 a day, ‘will see little of real war. What some see may be even more depressing—the side of human nature that can turn so soon from the fighting and killing to the attempt to mak money by exhibiting war’s horrors. :

A BREAK

NE of Senator Minton’s complaints against newspapers is that they criticize the New Deal in the editorials and never give it a break in the news headlines. But in a Pennsylvania newspaper we find an editorial opposing the Administration’s spending-lending bill and, on another page, this headline: “19 POSTOFFICES MAY BE BUILT” The story under it names 19 towns in the territory served by the newspaper where the Treasury proposes to build postoffices costing from $70,000 to $100,000 each— if the spending-lending bill passes. Never gets a break in the headlines? Well, if we were the New Deal, and trying to win public support for the spending-lending bill, we'd rather have the power to give out statements over which the newspapers would print headlines like that one, than the power to censor every

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Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

What's All This? Is the. Treasury Going to Have a Change of Heart In Dealing With State Employees?

EW YORK, June 3.—Senator Green of Rhode Island, is alarmed by the prospect that millions of state, county and municipal employees, hitherto exempt from the Federal income tax, may now be asked to pay not only their current taxes, but arrears, with interest. The Supreme Court split a hair last week, holding that the employees of the New York port authority must pay the tax. The United Press says the Treasury interprets

this to mean that all state employees are thus brought within the great big happy family of taxpayers. This interpretation doubtless includes county and municipal help as well, Senator Green apparently favors some sort of

* amnesty as to arrears and interest, and it is reported

that the Treasury does not intend to be harsh, That is nice of the Treasury, but habitual taxpayers will naturally wonder when this feeling of sweetness first came over the catchpolls and whether it will benefit other classes. ” » »

TT recipients of this proposed grace are mainly politicians. They include, of course, great numbers of fairly diligent, obscure employees who receive low salaries and would suffer much to scratch up the money for back taxes. But they include also thousands of judges, commissioners, mayors, sheriffs and some strictly parasitic functionaries who draw big salaries and could pay if pursued with no worse hardship than other citizens suffer, The amnesty would amount to a sizable cash gift to thousands of well-to-do officials and former officials of the states and their subdivisions, including too many who never did a lick of work to earn their public pay. It is touching to read of Senator Green's solicitude for the mental peace and economic security of the political officeholder and to hear that the Treasury does not intend to be harsh.

T seems impossible that this can be the same Treasury which slaps jeopardy assessments on private citizens admittedly in excess of any legitimate tax to guarantee the payment of disputed items which may be decided in the taxpayer's favor after legal proceedings more costly than the claims themselves. And it almost defies belief that this humane bureau, with the gentle sympathy for politicians, can be the same which forbids a distressed widow to dispose of her late husband's old shoes, hats and golf sticks until an official second-hand dealer can appraise them as high as the law allows in an effort to throw the estate into higher brackets and collect on these valueless relics more than they cost new. It is said the Treasury shrinks from detailed accountancy and litigation in these cases, including those of well-to-do politicians. But taxpayers in other classes have lived under the rule that the Treasury will spend 75 cents for accountancy to get back $1 in taxes, and many surrender, even to injustice, rather than fight. The same rule would yield at least 25 per cent for the politicians’ dues as profit and, more important, would put them in the habit of making returns—an experience which would be good for their citizenship,

Washington By Raymond Clapper

Congressman Who Would Be Perfect New Dealer Faces Difficult Task.

ASHINGTON, June 3.—~What does a man have to do to be an acceptable New Dealer and to keep from having his throat cut when he wants to be renominated? You can see for yourself in the Iowa Democratic primary. The two principal candidates there for the Democratic Senatorial nomination are Gus Gillette, the incumbent, who is denied the Administration blessing, and Rep. Otha Wearin, a young Congressman who has been certified as 100 per cent pure New Dealer ands more worthy to take the seat now held by Senator Gillette. Both of these men rode into Congress in 1932 on Roosevelt's coattails. They served four years together in the House. They voted alike on practically every important measure. Both voted against NRA and AAA—but as Administration friends explain now, those are dead horses and don’t count. Wearin, recently sanctified as a real New Dealer, voted to override Roosevelt's 1684 veto of a bill repealing parts of the 1933 economy act, while Gillette, who now is not trusted, ducked the vote. On a score of major roll calls Gillette voted with the Administration 13 times and Wearin 14 times. Gillette voted against the Administration four times and Wearin five times. Then Gillette went to the Senate. He was elected in 1936. A few days later he issued a statement saying he was not going to follow Roosevelt blindly and warning against dictatorship. That aroused suspicions. When Roosevelt sent his court-enlargement plan to Congress, Gillette issued a statement that very night saying his conscience would not permit him to support the bill. He voted against the bill. True, Gillette supported the Black nomination for the Supreme Court. But that was not enough to absolve him for opposing the court plan.

Classed as a Reactionary

Gillette voted for the Reorganization Bill. But that was not destined to be recorded in the good book of the Administration because Gillette had favored some restrictive amendments, Furthermore he had opposed the Wages-and-Hours Bill. It was plain the man was a hopeless reactionary. So out with him.

Meantime Rep. Wearin was voting in the House to override the Roosevelt veto of the farm interestrate bill and against an income tax for Congressmen. But he was for wages-and-hours legislation. All of this may be as confusing to you as it is to me. But when Administration spokesmen add up the results, they say that Gillette in the last two years has shown a lack of sympathy with Roosevelt, while Wearin has gone along 100 per cent. It isn't so easy any more to become a certified

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A Woman's Viewpoint

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

N New York, Donald Carroll has been acquitted of the murder of his sweetheart, Charlotte Matthiesen. The case was unusual. It involved an adolescent love affair and suicide pact, but more important still, it proved that wronged people are capable of reason ing even in the face of tragedy. It was a triumph of civilization over barbarism, For the parents of the dead girl begged for the freedom of the boy who had loved and killed her. According to his confession, in the horror of watching her die he forgot their suicide pact and rushed out to get help. Although the counsel for the prosecution brought out the usual arguments, calling upon all the most evil instincts of the human heart to doom the killer, those who had suffered most from the affair, the girl's father and mother, were noble enough to ask that he be granted mercy. They could so easily have been vengeful and hard, but behaved instead with astone ishing charity. The case is outstanding because it proves that men and women who have been wronged may still conduct themselves as civilized beings. The theory of a life for a life is barbaric and senseless. The Matthiesens behaved with sanity. And although they will bear their sorrow to the grave, they will not bear the heavier burden—the consciousness

that they encouraged the death of another, even though the other was a weakling. » They have not judged, but have exercised that most e of all human attri ercy. And for that,

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The Hoosier Forum

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

POET UNDISTURBED BY MISTAKE By Daniel Francis Clancy

Poetry Week is now o'er. . . . Alas! Alas!

Usually these seven days set aside for the promotion of poetry pass peaceably, but this year the sedentary blissfulness of the Rising Rileys was disturbed. They were horror-stricken by the faux pas of a radio editor who erroneously listed a broadcast of verse readings in his schedule as the “Indiana Poultry Society.” This, in the dreamy eyes of the poets, was an outrage. The lady who was to have read the poems on the broadcast became “indignant” and stayed home. The current conclusion is that a materialistic punster, in earthy ignorance, has scoffed at poetry. Personally, although a published poet, these recent events have left my ire dormant—in fact, “I'm very amused by the vision of hundreds of poulterers before their wireless sets, leaning forward in their rocking chairs expecting to hear a program of interest to chicken fans —and being surprised and bewildered by a batch of homespun descriptions of babbling brooks. Nevertheless, mindful of my duty to my art, I offer the following stirring lines for the use of the chairman of the committee (which shall probably be organized) for the Prevention of Punning on Poetry: Poets, mount!—ride and spread the alarm Through every Hoosier village and farm For the protectors of poetry to be up and arm!

. o » READER IMPRESSED BY STORY OF REFORMER By Constant Reader

The other day I picked up a little book in the public library. It is called “Philosopher and Reformer,” by John C. Rose. It tells the story of Francis W. Maguire, a reformer who lived up to his ideals.

“Philosopher and Reformer” is a small volume, to be sure, but one that expresses much in a very small compass. In fact, its brevity and compactness are features of style that suggest a new venture in biography. Would that more books were written in the style of “Philosopher and Reformer.”

on = PRICE LEVELS MUST DROP, IS OPINION OF READER By S. H. L.

President Roosevelt let the new tax bill become law by default. He voiced his protest before the gradu-

(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, religious controversies excluded. Make your letter short, so all tan have a chance. Letters must be signed, but names will be withheld on request.)

ates, on the new bill dropping the principal of taxing according to ability to pay. Business hails it as a savior. Roosevelt's policies have all been directed toward saving the capital and debt structure of American business. He cannot save it. Business is in for a great disillusionment for it thinks it can get another chance to pick profits without getting down to the price levels consumers can pay. Regardless of the tax bill we are going to have a debt liquidation on a grand scale, so we can get prices low enough to permit large-scale production, which will employ every able-bodied person. :

DEPLORES VIOLATIONS OF TRAFFIC SIGNALS By W. A. C. Sunday evening, 7:20 o'clock to be exact, I began to count the cars that ran through the traffic signals at E. New York and Oriental Sts, and to my amazement in 10 minutes nine cars ran through the stop signal.

THE MYSTERY

By VIRGINIA POTTER

There are doll clothes scattered on the floor, And a table set for tea; Some bread and jelly here and there, But where can the children be? I've called and called for Sonny, And Beth is missing too, They've gone and left their scrap-

ks, And Rover’s spilt the glue; Then I hear a clang and engines

pass There's a fire just down the street, So that is why the absence Of two tiny pair of feet.

DAILY THOUGHT

And immediately he received his sight, and followed him, glori= fying God: and all the people, when they saw it, gave praise unto God.—Luke 18:43,

MIRACLE is a work exceeding the power of any created agent, consequently being an effect of the divine omnipotence.—South.

Not one of those cars had an out-of-town license. We train our school children to stop, look and listen and not to leave the curb until the green light shows; but how can you save lives of small children, who have faith in those signals, when crazy drivers ignore them? I'll admit traffic was unusually heavy Sunday, but not too heavy for strangers to stop. Our sane Hoosiers set them a fine example. These religious men who want {o stop gambling have a real serious problem if they stop motorists from gambling with life, ” » » CALLS COMMUNISTS’

PROGRAM ASTOUNDING By .S. I. M. The most amazing political phenomenon of our times is communism as it is practiced, and as it is not practiced, in its various habitats. The Communist Party of America, meeting in New York, has just adopted a new constitution. Its preamble binds members to “defend the Constitution of the United States,” and to “carry forward the traditions of Jefferson, Jackson

and Lincoln.”

The United States is, par excellence, the modern flower of all capitalistic states. Its Constitution was designed not only to make capitalism work, but to perpetuate it. Communism’s chief aim is to

dcetroy capitalism, root and branch, The American Constitution guarantees security of private property and forbids even the Government to lay hand on it unless with full compensation. Communism would simply seize it all—cottages, mansions, farms, factories—and nationalize it. The American Constitution guarantees to all citizens security of their homes, persons, papers and effects, trial by jury, freedom of speech, press, assembly, conscience, religion—all of which are notoriously denied in Russia, mother of present-day communism, Earl Browder, ieader ol the Communists over here, has appealed to the Catholics to join his party, saying they should all work together, Yet scarcely a church is left standing in the Soviet Union. The American Communist Party, in New York, declared its program “can and must be carried out within the framework of the capitalist society if democracy is to be safeguarded.” Than which, considering the source, a more astounding statement would be difficult to find.

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MOTHER SMITH'S explanation is too simple. As shown by an authority, Popenoe, the Negroes and Italians in the United States have much better teeth than the Nordics and Irish, yet they all eat cooked foods. Skulls of ancient American Indians found in caves etc, show few decayed teeth and some of the Zulu races are famous for their sound teeth. I'm no authority on this subject but one of the leading dentists of the world sald to me the other day, “We just don't know why teeth decay.” Heredity certainly plays its part since, in some families, decay sets in almost from childhood and, in others, appears much later,

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Gen. Johnson Says—

Your Correspondent Issues a Call

For Protests to Congress Against Bill for Dam in Yellowstone Park.

ASHINGTON, June 3.~There is a bill in Congress to reverse the flow of water to Yellowstone Lake. It proposes a dam to raise the lake level and throw the water away from the Yellowstone and into the Snake River to provide irrigation, and per

haps power, in Idaho. The peculiar pride of this country is the unspoiled beauty of the great national parks. They don't belong to any state. They are owned by the Federal Government and dedicated to “the benefit and enjoy« ment” of the whole people. The’ idea was to reserve a few spots in this vast country in the sublimity, beauty and grandeur in which it lay silent for thousands of years. Since this first National Park of Yellowstone was dedicated, it has been one constant fight to preserve all of them from spoilation by local interests, I was once superintendent of Sequoia and executive officer at Yosemite,

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HERE is nothing more beautiful in mountain scenery than northern Yosemite—the country above the magnificent gorge of the valley. Many tourists content themselves with a visit to that glacial chasm. But there is—or rather was—a similar one, in some respects more beautiful—the Hetch Hetchy Valley out of which flows the Tuolumne, Again, against national protest led by John Muir, who was patron saint of the park, the City of San Francisco built a dam and tunnel at Hetch Hetchy and changed the natural gorge into an artificial lake. Sequoia Park contains the bulk of the few re~ maining giant redwoods—not the Sequoia semper virens (a smaller tree), but the Sequoia gigantea, the largest and oldest of living things, The life of some goes back beyond recorded history. Sequoia Park was created because a communal sect had gone in there and begun to cut that timber, Great and strong as they are, those trees are as brittle as slate pencils, When felled they break into pieces and render only shingles and panels, » » » HEN I first saw that place it was years after the last great tree had been cut, but those mammoth stumps were still oozing and the ground was black with their blood. I never took anybody to that spot who wasn't shocked into indignation by that sight. Guarding Yosemite was a constant war with sheep herders and people who wanted to cut timber or install power projects or more idealistic meddlers who thought it would be a good thing to divert the Tuolumne into Yosemite Creek and so keep the magnificent falls artificially constant throughout the year, They dry up in summer, Millions of people now visit the parks. Hundreds of thousands go to Yellowstone every year thus enriching all surrounding states——including Idaho. It is bunk to say that damming a gorge, like the Yel lowstone or Hetch Hetchy doesn’t interfere with its natural beauty. The proposed bill has a fair chance of passing. It, or one like it, has been urged for many years, If ever there was a measure in respect of which it is fair to say, “Write to your Congressmen and Senators and tell them to kill this cabal against decency so dead that it never will revive”—this is that measure. It is a conspiracy against a common heritage of the whole people,

It Seems to Me

By Heywood Broun

Vandenberg Shouldn't Have Tried To Match Sentences With Lincoln,

EW YORK, June 3.—Gettysburg was consecrated by a conflict and dedicated anew by what is probably the finest speech in the English language. And so there might well be a sound tradition that these acres should not again be exposed to war or oratory. Senator Vandenberg is no viole, but I think that Arthur was audacious when he stood in Lincoln's spot on Monday and attempted to match his phrases with those of the Emancipator. The Michigander's effort to interpret the Geltysburg address as a defense of reaction was presumptuous, But the Senator’s willingness to chal=lenge comparison with the prose pace of Abraham Lincoln puts him into the class of the foolhardy. In a place where words have been set to marchjng, no man should be permitted to make them parade in limping lines. Vandenberg mentioned the fact that Lincoln had his say in “272 vivid words.” But then he arrogated to himself the right to stay no longer. Keep in your mind the compact quality of the enduring address and then compare it with such a slack-wire sentence as this from Arthur H.:.—“Our deadliest foe will be our own complaisance-~our own individual self-centered inclination to take the easiest way—if, as and when the plea of some emergency invites us to the first relatively inoffensive steps which turn our feet away from the paths of which

Lincoln spoke.” Proposes an Antilynch Law

That is not English prose; that is Choctaw. There ought to be an antilynching bill to protect our native language. Men in public life should not be permitted to leave clauses hanging. , And I think there ought to be a literacy test for Presidents. The job makes it necessary for our Chief Executive to be articulate, and to set down words which cannot be drained off down the sluice pipe. And in this respect, it seems to me, that America has been extremely fortunate. In spite of the fact that Mr. Harding was technically a newspaper editor 1 would say that only five of our Presidents were men trained specifically in the art of writing, Possibly I am being unfair to the Adamses, but my list would include Madison, Wilson, both Roosevelts and Jefferson. And yet Cleveland, who wrote awkwardly, left some telling phrases behind him. The Coolidge legend had the solid foundation of a few good cracks. Wash ington, the first businessman in the White House, coined noble phrases.

Watching Your Health

By Dr. Morris Fishbein

N extraordinary condition that affects children A particularly is known as glandular fever or infectious mononucleosis, Although this condition has been well recognized for 50 years, its exact cause has not yet been determined. It is known, however, to be an infection which involves the blood, the spleen, the liver, and the lymph glands. In recent. years it seems to have been more frequent than it was some time ago, but this may be due to the fact that it is easier to recognize the disease on account of our modern methods of studying the blood. . While the exact cause of the disease is not known, it is now generally believed to be not a germ that can be seen under the microscope, but one of the type known as filtrable viruses, which are small enough to go through the pores of the clay filter. Such viruses cannot be seen under the microscope. Glandular fever or infectious mononucleosis is seldom fatal. When death does occur, it is usually due to some secondary complication. It is now recognized that there are several dif. ferent types of white blood cells. In this condition, the white blood cells with a single nucleus, or the socalled monouclear cells, which ordinarily represent but a small percentage of the total white blood cells, will range from 40 to 80 per cent of the total white blood cells. * Such an examination of the blood can be made physician or someone trained in this work, as the patient is concerned, he suffers from