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MONDAY, JUNE 13, 1938
TOO MUCH POWER T is right that the Federal Government should avoid giving profitable contracts to violators of the Government's laws. There can be no valid objection to the Government naming convicted law-violators on a blacklist. But Congress goes dangerously far in delegation of power when it proposes to give one Government official, who ig not a judicial officer, personal authority to compile
a blacklist and to say who is and who is not a violator | | ganization are soliciting subscriptions with the old
. | blackjack. Every jobholder in the state organization Yet exactly that is proposed by an amendment to the | . g
of law.
Walsh-Healey act, which passed the Senate last week with only a few words of explanation, and which President Roosevelt hag indicated he wants the House to pass before
adjournment, The Walsh-Ilealey act specifies labor standards to be
met by private firms bidding for Government contracts. | The proposed amendment provides that the Treasury De- | partment shall distribute to all Government agencies a list | | paratively short time your struggling little paper,
of all persons whom the Secretary of Labor finds to be “in disobedience of any order that has been or may be directed to them by the National Labor Relations Board.” These persons and “any firm, corporation, partnership or association” in which they have a controlling interest
would be barred from receiving Government contracts for | The Secretary of Labor, however, could take |
three years. any name off the blacklist at any time.
Note that the proposal is to blacklist those who dis- | But rights and corporations |
obey Labor Board orders. accused of disobeying Labor Board orders have the right of appeal to the courts, and only the courts can determine finally whether they are violators of law.
This amendment, however, would give the Secretary | of Labor power to step in ahead of the courts and punish | those accused of disobeying the Labor Board, by depriving | them of opportunity to receive Government contracts, and |
further power to exempt others from such punishment.
official. If Congress, in the rush to adjourn, will not take
time to consider the proposal thoroughly and correct its |
dangerous provisions, the amendment should be killed.
HE INVESTIGATED HIMSELF
I Federal relief is being used politically in Kentucky, the |
official directly responsible is George H. Goodman, administrator of WPA in that state. Mr. Goodman, having been ordered by his superiors in Washington to investigate the many charges that Mr. Goodman's administration of relief is political, now gives Mr. Goodman a clean bill of health. He reports that he could find no proof of seven specific charges that WPA workers were being required to support Senator Barkley and that others were denied jobs for political reasons. Investigation of Mr. Goodman, by Mr. Goodman, may be highly satisfactory to Mr. Goodman. It may satisfy Federal Administrator Harry L. Hopkins and Senator Barkley and President Roosevelt. It will not satisfy those
citizens who are disturbed by the plentiful and apparently |
authentic evidence that relief has been made a political racket in Kentucky. They must feel, as we do, that when the men at the top of WPA assign a state administrator to
investigate his own administration they betray a desire to |
conceal, not to reveal, the truth. Here is an added reason why politics in relief—and political use by state officials of Federal highway and social security funds—should be investigated, as proposed, by a Senate committee. And why the personnel of the committee should be such that its work can be respected and its findings believed.
ADVICE FROM AN EXPERT [R JOSIAH STAMP—Lord Stamp of Shortlands, now, since King George elevated him to the British peerage
the other day—has just arrived for another of his many |
visits to America. He is an economist, a master of economic theory, so recognized throughout the world. businessman, chairman of England's largest railway system and director of many other British industries.
tical, Lord Stamp usually is listened to with great respect, And what he said when he landed in New York was, we suspect, something that a good many Americans might have heard with profit, He said that one reason for his trip was to obtain basis for a judgment as to the probable length of the current depression in the United States, because: “England can’t go up while you go down. And I should say that you're still bumping along the bottom. We are anxious to learn the reaction of business here toward President Roosevelt's gestures toward your business. “I think there's a good deal of ‘I won't play’ among vour businessmen, and we do hope business here gets over that attitude. For we feel and know that America tends to consider politics and economics emotionally. Even if you try to discuss Plato here, it's impossbile, because someone always brings up Roosevelt. You should remember that the personality of your President is not an argument.”
MRS. SCHEIDER
E'RE happy to know that Mrs. Malvin Scheider is recovering from the illness that overtook her at Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Mrs. Scheider, whose name you've quite likely never seen in any newspaper until the last few days, is Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt's secretary. She's the lady behind the First Lady—the quiet, clever genius who handles most of Mrs. Roosevelt's correspondence, keeps her engagements straight and goes with her on practically all of those amazing journeys here and there about the country. If, as many people think, the President's wife is the most remarkable woman in America, our idea is that Mrs. Scheider stands a close second. She has to be remarkable to keep up with Mrs. Poosevelt, and neither # of them could be spared.
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Price in Marion Coun- |
As an acknowledged expert in the two fields, theoretical and prac- | | Government may yield to a further devaluation to 50 | per cent of the old standard, which would make gold | worth about $41 an ounce and then proceed to use
Fair Enough
By Westbrook Pegler
The Commercial American Press' Worst Publisher Couldn't Compare With the One In This Situation.
EW YORK, June 13.—I could go on and on about the freedom of the press. We have had some rogue publishers in our journalism, but the very worst —and you may name your pet abomination—never
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presented in the situation I'm going to describe.
A political demagog and dictator rises to power as
the boss of a state machine and starts a little sheet
on a job press under a personalized masthead and a | slogan promising to make of every man a king or to |
give somebody $5000—or something like that. He
hammers away at his political opponents and at the |
orthodox or conventional papers without regard for the libel restrictions which handcuff the other side,
because he is, as they say in the business, libel-proof. | Hi He hasn't so much as a typewriter by way of physical |§
plant or an attachable dime of money. I don't mean that he hasn't got a dime. I mean a dime that can be attached. There is a great difference. = = . Wha for the first few weeks he throws his paper away free, but meanwhile the boys of the or-
has to pay $250 or $4, or whatever, and every one of these is required to hustle a certain number of other subscriptions, the individual quotas being based on the individual's public pay. Do you get the idea?
! If the individual employee can sell subscriptions to
his friends, all right. But if he can't he has to buy
| them himself as a tax on his job.
And, of course, all the contractors who sell concrete and office supplies, tile, prison provisions, school books, pipe organs and band instruments to the state government or to local governments controlled by the state machine buy subscriptions, too, so that in a com-
shouting the battle ery of freedom, has a swell net paid-in-advance circulation. And now, when other papers blast him, he blasts back that they are just jealous of his success in journalism and abusing
| the press prercgative to attack a business rival.
» = ” OR revenue he is doing fine. As a boss of the state in harmony with the National Administration he counts the WPA workers and employees of other Federal activities among his fold, and, of course, all the contractors and supply men doing business in these fields react the same as those who de business with the state. And there is the advertising. The contractors and
| supply men all buy space, and manufacturers and
merchants find it wise to do the same, not only in the political sense but from the practical viewpoint, because—no kidding—the sheet does have circulation Never mind how it got the circulation. It's there, paid in advance. Municipalities and counties, water districts, utility companies, even state lunatic asylums and colleges buy advertising in the dictator's paper, and the free
a ; . ah : | press privilege runs for him because you could no That is too much power to give to any administrative
more afford to suppress him than you could afford to suppress the most ethical paper in the land. When the national dictatorships develop in countries which go haywire the dictators and subdictators are the men who own the prosperous official papers. Mussolini, for instance, and Goering and Streicher. I like the commercial American press better.
Business By John T. Flynn
Economist Predicts That Farmers Will Make a Demand for Inflation.
EW YORK, June 13.—A major factor to be kept in view at this time is the situation on the farm. Farm prices have fallen weR over 20 per cent in the last year as compared with a drop of less than half that for industrial products. There huge wheat crop facing the country. in cotton is serious.
The significance of this lies in the psychology of the farm belt and the farm leaders. While farm prices have fallen more seriously than manufactured goods, the depression has not made itself felt on the farm as emphatically as in the cities. When it gets
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| around to the farm sufficiently there is going to go up a new and violent demand for money tinkering | of some sort.
It will take the form of inflation. This is merely a guess but my own feeling is that its objective will be to spend gold and, in order to provide more gold to spend, there will probably be ancther clamor for further devaluation of the dollar. Inflation may take many forms. It may take the form of Government credit which is the type used up to now upon a large scale. That inflation has collapsed. It may take the form of printing Federal Reserve currency, which would be direct currency inflation as distinguished from credit inflation. It may take the form of devaluation. In that case the Government merely cuts the gold content of the dollar. Devaluation may or may not be effective as inflation depending on how the Government follows up the devaluation. In 1934 the Government cut the gold content of the dollar from 40 to 50 per cent, leaving the actual cut up to the President.
Further Devaluation Probable But this was not effective as inflation because the
| old dollar remained held fast to a certain value : | through the sheer force of general acceptance. But he is also a big |
And this was true because while the Government cut the gold content it did not issue new dollars to correspond with the devaluation. What now seems possible, if not imminent, is that when agrarian clamor for inflation gets under way, the
that new profit plus some of the old gold profit in domestic expenditures. We would then be actually in the condition of making the devaluation effective and of doing business with 50-cent dollars, but with perhaps twice as many dollars as we have now.
A Woman's Viewpoint
By Mrs. Walter Ferguson
ISSATISFACTION has been expressed in several quarters because Mr. Jim Farley seems to be favoring the ladies in the matter of postoffice appointments. This kind of political patronage is very much disliked by both Democrats and Republicans of the male variety. Hence the howls. Since women got the vote, a number of the smaller livings have been turned over to the fair sex on one
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« Gen. Johnson
Army Engineers Could Give Cold Facts and Figures About TVA, but 'Euphonious' Reports Are Wanted. ASHINGTON, June 13.—Any hope that the TVA investigation would be a real one flies away with the choice of Francis Biddle as counsel for the Investigating committee over Samuel Seabury who ine
vestigated Jimmy Walker out of office. Mr, Biddle is an able lawyer and a good citizen but
| he is a red-hot New Dealer.
That is nothing whatever against Mr. Biddle in
: | any capacity except one—inquisitor-in-chief of a third
The Hoosier Forum
I wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.
CALLS RECESSION ‘SPITE WORK’ By E. S. Brown Answering R. C. in The Times, who deplores politics in relief. R. C. does not say that he deplores the cause of this deliberately made depression and why it was brought on. No, R. C,, the G. O. P. and its supporters do not dare to
come out and tell the plain facts. If | vou would not be wise, R. C, ask | the G. O. P. bosses and some of | their dear friends what the cause of it is. Remember also there either was never a panic, depression or re- | cession but what the Republican | wiseacres always laid it on the in{nocent, and why? Because they themselves do not want to accept the blame and never did. History proves that the business dictators are the ones responsible and the Republican Party leaders accept the job of laying the blame where it does not belong. This slump in business is spite work against the Roosevelt Administration, labor, farmer, small business and others because of their inability to do their job of dictating as before. All that is wrong | with the G. O. P. is its inability io | obtain the lion's share of the WPA land PWA funds for clear-cut political propaganda. ” ” ” | TOWA PRIMARY RESULTS | PLEASE THIS READER
By A. A M.
Out in the state where the corn grows tallest, there has been an awakening, and we have witnessed with no little degree of inward satisfaction and rejoicing, right prevails over might. We have seen a man of dignity and honor choosing to listen to that still, small voice from within rather than to take his cue from a political dictator. We rejoice in the fact that the | farmers of Iowa see at last the unmistakable handwriting on the wall, and, true to the principles which made up this national bulwark of
march boldly to the fore to declare so forcibly and clearly for those principles. | Hats off to the Iowans, and congratulations to Senator G. M. Gillette for his unswerving attitude and | unanimous victory over the base | forces inaugurated to bring about | his defeat.
» s » | WANTS SPECIAL SESSION ACTION ON LIQUOR SETUP | By Voter
The scandalous port-of-entry liquor system very well could be | eliminated in the special session of | the Legislature scheduled to be ‘called. But Administration leaders | say “no.” Can it be because to do so might loose the Administration's control of { delegates and lessen the fervor of key politicians favored by this setup? Has the fact that many of these Administration leaders are holders {of beer-import licenses raking in easy money without work anything to do with the opposition? One wonders. Democratic leaders
have been
true democracy, we have seen them |
(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.)
| quoted as saying they do not want to provide campaign material for | the Republicans out of this session. | They needn't have any qualms on | | that score. Judging from the past | few years, Republicans won't be |alert to one-fourth of the material now lying around loose. Either that | or they have deliberately kept quiet | hoping to inherit the setup when | they get into power again. The only group who would use such is the faction of Independent Democrats ‘outlawed’ by the organization—and they need not wait for
the publication of such, being already in full possession oi the damaging facts. However, it is very nice of the leaders to admit there is ma- | terial for campaign issues. ” ~ ” CRITICIZES FARMING | BUSINESSMEN | By Mrs. E. B. | The farmers in this country could be helped in several ways. By helping the farmers this would also help to care for the needy, I think farmers should be allowed to plant | their crops just as they did before the AAA came into effect. Then let each county erect ware- | houses and store the surplus and | use it for distribution among the | needy and for reserve in case of a | crop failure. | In this country there are too { many businessmen farming. “Just [a hobby,” they call it. They do] | not seem to consider that they are | hurting the farmers who depend | entirely on the farm for their living.
» »n » SCORES FATHER WHO PLAYS | WITH CHILDREN IN STREET | By T. E. L In our neighborhood is one man | who evidently never heard of the | local drive to keep school children out of the streets and to teach them safety in their own house. He
FUN WILL WIN THE DAY
By ROBERT O. LEVELL | There's a laugh to get in this old life | Through the struggle and the strife, For all along the weary way A little fun will win the day.
DAILY THOUGHT
Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full. —John 16:24.
AM prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can | ask boldly.—Lavater.
comes from a small town and possibly doesn't realize just what danger lurks in his actions. Every evening you will see him—a grown man—playing ball in the middle of the street with his 8-year-old son. This in itself wouldn't be so bad, but in a short time six or eight children have gathered and all are intent on catching the ball, batted by this grown man. I have had several close calls to keep from hitting these children and I have watched other drivers escape as closely. The children probably don’t realize it themselves,
his child to the farm. There the father at least could be kept from setting an example of indifference to safety. School is out and these same children probably will be in the street all day—thinking, “It's o. k,, dad plays here with us.”
y 2 ACCUSES REPUBLICANS
| OF BOONDOGGLING
By T. Evans The Republicans have raised cain with the Democrats for encouraging boondoggling, that being a word descriptive of activity that can lead to no useful result. Now comes evidence that all the boondoggling isn't done under New Deal auspices. Here, for instance, is a publicity release from the Republican National Committee, saying that the Republicans of Alabama are going
will travel all the way to Birmingham to make the opening address.
y % » SAYS WAGE-HOUR BILL WILL NOT WORK
By Jack Fitzhugh Just want to tell you that, no matter how laudable it sounds, the minimum-wage-maximum-hour law, if passed, will not work, and why. Effect of it will be, until wages generally go much higher, to stabilize millions of men and women in unemployment. nT Because no matter how badly a hand is needed at a task, none will be hired at a wage higher than the particular individual can earn for his employer. Why would an employer buy at 40 cents an hour the services of a person, the product of whose labor the boss could sell for only 30 cents per hour? There are just plenty of persons who are So slow and inefficient that they cannot make a living by working only 40 hours a week. There'll be scoffers at this idea. They will say, “Oh, any man’s servjces are worth 40 cents an hour; and
40 hours is enough for any person |
to work.” The fact we would like for it to be so doesn’t make it so. those who cannot turn out enough labor in an hour that will sell for 40 cents will be stricken from payrolls just as fast as the bosses, with their cost-accounting systems, find the facts, and they will be in a group. It will make permanent an army like the WPA.
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pretext or another, and as civil service became more |
popular the girls took examinations alongside the men and in many cases made better marks. According to the figures, a good number are now holding down the official position, where before they merely did the flunkeying. Jim Farley knows that women are voters too and that it's easy to satisfy a passel of them with third-class postoffices, thus saving the richer pickings for the men. Probably he feels aggrieved and wonders what the latter are yelling for, and so do I.
.In the past there's been a lot of talk about male | solidarity, but Congressmen won't show up with any,
I fancy, especially if they ever discover that post-
mistresses have an aptitude for bringing in the votes. | In almost any job, women work harder than men. |
Maybe it's because they're dumber, but the facts show that they have a kind of tenacity and patience under discouragement, These qualities enable them to inch their way into professions and trades from which they were barred only a short time ago. And, if one dared to prophesy, one might say that they'll go farther and faster in the near future because they've got something to recommend om bag she Len had Jeties watch out for: most of them as in the they It prem a terested Job as are
and. all
1 OUR CHIEF authority on this important matter is Prof. Ellsworth Huntington of Yale, famous geographer. By extensived data all parts of the world ~ history he has
LET'S EXPLORE YOUR MIND
By DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM
Po i” (5 Tue PRACTICE OF SELECTING WHO
\GNORANT OF THE hoe TO BE_TRIED
YOUR OPINION se
FRIENDS
MORE LIKELY TO AGREE THEIR OPINIONS THAN TWO MEN FRIENDS? YES OR NO cen
| shown in his book, “The Season of Birth,” that births are more nu-
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merous when the temperature is |
about 62 to 68
His data shows that such children tend to live longer, are freer from
defects, better balanced, less likely |
to become criminals, have better health through life and are more likely to rise to fame and fortune.
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IF ANYTHING in this country needs reforming it surely is the jury system. In many cases of fraud, jurors who have ever been swindled are rejected. As a leading writer points out, if one has been swindled he knows too much about how it feels to be swindled to judge correctly. If anything swindles the Goddess of Justice it is the present jury system. Jurors should be trained persons, just as lawyers and doctors are trained.
A PSYCHOLOGIST, C. N. Winslow, secured the opinions on numerous topics of 86 pairs of friends, a large percentage of whom were female-female and male-male . The men agreed much more closely than did the women friends. Curiously, new friends—those of less than 3 years standing — and old
So all of |
| New Deal institution that is under the fire of criti-
cism and suspicion, Of course, the choice of a counsel was not an easy one. It would have been just as unfair to have named any prominent corporation counsel or third New Deal critic. A passionate third New Dealer is pretty apt to whitewash TVA and skin the utilities and a passionate anti is just as apt to reverse that process. ” ” 8 A N investigator-in-chief should be a cold, impar= tial, scientific seeker after truth—no matter whom it hurts—like Mr, Seabury. An ardent advocate of a particular thing is no man to take it apart and find its rotten spots, if any there be. It doesn't lie in human nature. This is public calamity, The TVA question is highly complex. I have tried to study it and have swung from one early point of view favoring it, to another condemning it and now am in complete doubt about it. That swing back and forth came from the kind of figures available at each extremity. My pres=ent shift to the dead center of doubt comes from a final realization, after days and nights of study, that
| the whole question depends on cold, hard, impartial | facts and figures and there are none of that descrip=
tion available. Tremendous issues that will govern the future course of this country in matters most momentous depend on getting the truth of this particular controversy. That truth can be had only by a most searching, able and wholly open and impartial inquiry. It seems very unlikely now that we will get that kind of an investigation.
” ” ” ENATOR NORRIS is the patron saint of TVA and his wishes seem to be dominating the action of this committee. There is one technical group in this country on all matters concerning waters whose impartiality, ability and honesty stand proved to the satisfaction of the county and of Congress by a record of more than a century. That is the War De-
partment corps of engineers, who have long been in administrative and engineering charge of the nation’s rivers and harbors. The inner circle of the third New Deal would like to get them ont of there. Senator Norris insists that they shall be restricted in hydraulics to navigation—not flood control or power.
Why? Because they can't be pummelled or per=
: suaded to produce figures and r ts , are—w but any father with no more brains | p g and. reports thal ares.well,
| than this one man has, chould take |
call it “euphonious,” which according to the dictionary, refers to “a pleasing sound—the effect of words so combined and uttered as to please the ear.” Their surveys are so “combined and uttered” as to tell the complete, accurate and Scientific truth. That is what the nation seriously needs in this vital matter, but it is dollars-to-doughnuts that all it is going to get is “euphony.”
It Seems to Me By Heywood Broun
Columnist Has Ideas of His Own On How to Observe Father's Day.
EW YORK, June 13.—I have at hand a brochure which informs me that Father's Day falls on June 19, and the communication goes on to inquire what I am going to do about it. My intention had been to celebrate the festival quietly at home or maybe go down to the corner for a couple of hours to see a few of the boys. But along
to hold a state convention and that | with the letter comes a leaflet from the Parents Maga-~
National Chairman John Hamilton |
zine asked rather pointedly, “Are you fit to be a father?” It's pretty late in the day to be bringing that up. However, a questionnaire is submitted by which one can seek to demonstrate his eligibility. The first one ran something like this: “Your little boy, age 8, comes to you while you are reading your newspaper, He wants to know, ‘Why does a dog go bow-wow?’ Should you (a) ignore him; (b) reason with him; (¢) administer corporal punishment?” I am sure I got 100 per cent on that because not only did I indicate that “c” was the proper answer but I amplified this lucky hit by adding, “First, thump the breath out of him and then, before sending him to bed, point out that a dog doesn’t really go ‘bow-wow’ but actually goes ‘grumph-grumph.’” All the rest of the examination was just about as easy. Having duly qualified as a parent, I went on with the literature to see just what obligations that entails, I find that I shall be expected to back “Joint Resolu=tion 634—Introduced by Rep. Charles H. Leavy of Spokane, Wash.” This begins, “Whereas the service rendered the United States by American parents is a primary source of strength and inspiration , , .” and so on and so on.
Wants Flag Displayed
Mr. Leavy continues and whereases:—"“The Ameri=can father brings to the American home intellectual, material and spiritual support and thus promotes good government and the welfare of the community; There= fore, be it resolved ...” It seems to me that the last whereas covers too great an amount of territory. I think that on such occasions when a father brings back his pay envelope
| intact he should be absolved from any responsibility to
contribute spiritual and intellectual support at the same time. The thing which Mr. Leavy wants Congress to re solve is a request to the President to have the Amer= ican flag displayed on all public buildings on Father's Day. A better idea would be to designate Father's Day as the one occasion of the year on which the male parent is not expected to bring home any material, ine tellectual or spiritual support whatsoever.
Watching Your Health
By Dr. Morris Fishbein
HEN a normal child is born, he has the organs necessary to speak. However, he must still learn how to speak. This is an educational matter. In order to aid the production of speech, it is important for the adults to realize what is necessary in the speech mechanism. The child makes gestures indicating his wants even before he learns how to speak. If the parents do not definitely plan to teach the child to speak, he will learn a great deal by imitation,
The normal child will soon learn that by using a word, he can get a reaction.
Crying may be a reaction to pain, hunger, thirst, heat, cold or some other uncomfortable situation. It is now recognized that children soon learn to cry in different ways for different purposes. Eventually the infant learns to babble. This usually comes on toward the end of the second month. Immediately after babbling comes lallation which is the repetition by the infant of sounds which he hears. At last comes verbal utterance. The first words spoken by children are usually either single syllables or duplicated syllables as in “papa” or “mama.” Then come combinations of nouns and verbs such as, for example, “baby eat” or “baby walk” which many children say between the ages of 13 and 27 months, It is important for parents to realize this order peech development in the child because it win