Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 June 1938 — Page 14

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Give Licht and the People Will Find Thetr Dion Way

FRIDAY, JUNE 17, 1938 THE 10-CENT POOL FEE TE fully agree with Jackiel W. Joseph; City Park Board president, that the Board must have revenue to carry on its program. But we also feel that there are various wavs of collecting these funds without taxing children 10 cents for swimming in municipal pools after 2:30 p. m. For many children the City’s pools offer almost the only relief from hot weather. But many children are having ts forego their dips because they or their parents lack

the 10-cent fee. We believe City officials would do well to reconsider.

ON OUR WAY! RESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S veto of the bill to continue reduced interest rates on Government farm loans was

cottrageons, richt—and utterly futile. As the President pointed out, the typical farmer who refinanced a private loan with a Federal Land Bank in 1933 gained a material reduction in interest then. Congress has given him further reductions since. Without this bill, he still would have paid 20 per cent less interest next year than he promised to pay. To extend an arrahgement which already involves a cost of £160,000,000 to the Treasury, adding 249,000,000 to that cost, was certainly unjustified. it the Congress that adjourned last night, after appropriating more than £12,000,000,000 in less than six months, was in no mood to listen to such arguments. Fortynine million more? Aven't we going to spend our way back ? This is no time to pinch pennies, Sp the veto was overridden. Then, in another burst of generosity to the farmers, the $212,000,000 for crop parity pavments was skidded through without the new taxes which the President had warned must be provided. My. Roosevelt took the brakes off spending. We don’t know whether he's disturbed to find that the brakes don’t work, any more, even when he only wants to slow down for a minor chuck-hole. Maybe there's no need to be disturbed. Maybe we're in another new era, Just 30 years ago we had the first billion-dollar session of Now we've had a 12-billion-dollar session. We've traveling fast, Why spoil the pleasiire of the ride

wondering where?

to prosperity

Congress,

by

POLITICAL PRISONER J EFF BURKITT moved from Mississippi to Jersey City 10 vears found business glow because real estate taxes were 80 He dug into the subject of high taxes, and decided

He high. that Mayor Hague's administration was to blame. So My. Burkitt got into politics, fighting the Hague machine, and in one campaigh he almost succeeded in beatAfter that things began to happen to Mr. He lost customers, They were afraid to do busiThen he was indicted on what he insisted

ing the Mayor. Burkitt. ness with him. was a trumped-up charge of fraud. He fought unsuccessfully for many months to be put on trial, so that he could fight the charge. Once a judge sent him to jail for contempt because he talked out in a court room, demanding a trial. After that the charge was dropped. But My. He left New Jersey, went to Washington and other cities, and made his living

Burkitt was broke,

selling magazines. Last April, with the free-speech issue being raised Jersey City, My. Burkitt couldn't resist the urge to go and get into that battle. He applied for a permit to wae refused, tried to speak anyarrested him and a Jersey City

in ha k treed

speak oh a corner,

wav, Mavor Hagtie's police

judge sentenced him to six months in the Hudson County | on a charge of using abusive language to the | a dozen withesses testified that his |

Penitentiary policemen. This afte language had hot been abusive,

Now Mpg,

Jersey City prison. She said guards have him repeatedly, and that hig condition ig now such that she ie refused permission to vigit him. Warden Michael Gill, denying this, says that whatever hag been done wag necessary because Jeff Burkitt is an obstreperoug prigoner, Obstreperous? We shouldn't wonder. The evidence is strong that Jeff Burkitt ig a political prigoner, jailed and kept in jail because a public official hates him and hag the power to put him There have been many such prisoners in Russia, Italy, Germany, There have not, God, been many such in America—yet. citizen has made a political prigoner we can understand that he might be inclined to be a little obstreperous, Mig, Burkitt's appeal wag gent to the White House, The White House referred it to the Attorney General. The Attorney General referred it to the Justice Department's eriminal division, That division, under the same law it hag invoked in Harlan County, Kentucky, ean go into Jersey City and find whether Jeff Burkitt ig being eruelly and unusually punished and otherwige deprived of hig congtitutional rights,

9

there.

who courage is

Unless, of courge, Mayor Hague, Democratic National Committee makes him

enemy in politics,

QUITE THE CONTRARY

T does not seem to me to be reasonable to require that administrative officials of the WPA be . political eunuehs.”— From report by WPA Investigator Howard O. Hunter on WPA political activity, in Kentucky,

MARK FERREE |

or go ago and became a real estate salesman. |

| of the economic Burkitt hag appealed to the Federal Govern- | ment to protect her husband from rough treatment in the | kicked and beaten |

thank | When an American |

it ig thought wiger not to offend | ht \ whose position ag a vice chairman of the |

dangerous | | attractiveness,

Fair Enough

By Westbrook Pegler

Columnist Would Have Had F. D. R. Openly Seek the People's Assent To Whittle Dewn States’ Rights.

EW YORK, June 17.—The New Deal would have fared better up to now if President Roosevelt and those who speak for him had had the candor to «say in the beginning and to repeat from time to time that the states had forfeited their rights in proportion to their refusal of responsibility and their inability to meet their obligations to their people. Instead the procedure has been to undermine or crash through their rights and pretend that they are unimpaired. The end of this wotld be the end of the states hy a process of crumbling, whereas it would be better if the people were to face the fact that they are citizens of a nation and _not of their respective states and prepare their minds for the abolition of the states. Not many people were state-conscious when Mr. Roosevelt took office, and comparatively few are

now, Ht & 1

HE reservation of the fiction of states’ rights has been the worst handicap to the effort to design national legislation intended to improve the condition of the nation and the whole people. As was said in

the case of the NRA, there is a chiseling percentage

which can ball up any program which rests on the honor system. Men and corporations in highly competitive business who have to reckon costs in cents and mills, hot because they are greedy but in order to meet their rivals’ prices, can be overblamed for deserting one region to settle in another to save money. The pretense of good will ahd great respect for the states while the Roosevelt Administrations have persistently deimnanded laws giving the National Government financial and political mortgages on the states’ authority gives rise to a suspicion that the New Deal is tryvihg to put something over, even a dictatorship. The attitude of the President's favorite political sluggers has increased the alarm, although it must be admitted that many localities have local strong-arm statesmen ns do the same. » » OCALLY such conduct is just the working of democracy, but nationally it is called dictatorship. But it does not follow that a mere reorganization of the country into departments, would lead to a dictatorship. The departments or whatever, could still retain all the authority they were fit to use as sections of a nation while waiving obstructive and in some cases parasitic rights for the good of all. And certainly there would be no loss of effectiveness, because some states, with their political machines, are inharmonious, inefficient and in Mahy responsibilities of the

their rights as states.

states are in default now ahd never will be met again, | but the |

and some rights have been whittled away, method has been ohne of stealth or deceit, ahd those who have clamored about it have received small thanks beause the people are so little state-conscious. If Mr. Roosevelt had put the proposition to them they would have indicated a degree of assent which would have made it easier to put through measires for national recovery and reform. But he didn't put it to them. Instead he has tried to put it over on them,

Business By John T. Flynn

Whe Will Pay the Bills if U. S. Continues Buying Surplus Geeds?

EW YORK, Juhe 17.—My. Sidney Hillman's union has a plan to help the emplovers in his industty and of course, indirectly, the emplovees, He proposes that the union buy Wp from the emplovers the clothing left oh their hands which they eannot

| sell,

The tihioh is to buy the clothes, but proposes to get the money from the U. 8. Government. This will help the employers to keep the price of clothes up to the public. The clothes purchased by the union will be given to the poor. Why not? The Commodity Surplus Corp. is ranging over the country buying up the siirplus crops of all sorts of farmers. The Agricultural Department is planning similar action with reference to major crops. My, Hanes of the SEC and now named as adviser to the Treasury, has a plah {0 have the Government lend money to all producers and merchants to enable them to hold oh to the goods they cannot sell and thus keep prices up. The National Bituminous Coal Commission has a plan to enable the coal producers to fix prices at a figure which they think will give them the proper profit and keep everyone in business. If it is all right for the farmers and coal producers, for the merchants and the manufacturers generally, why isn't it all right for the garment uhion ahd why should it not get the money from the Governtient as most of the others do? Biit we have to go one step further. If it iz all right for the garment iinion, why is it not all right for the steel unions ahd the auto tinions and the textile unions and all other uhiohs?

Termed Sad Blunder

The only trouble is this, Where is the Government going to get the money to buy all this surplus? How lohg will the Government be able to keep this up? And what will happen to the economic system if this price wngidity is introduced into it and who is going to fix all the prices at which producers may hold on to their goods until the Governinent salvages

Ahem?

The whole question resolves itself into this—that those groups which ean put on sufficient pressure will be able to force the Government to buy their tihsalable products and the remaining groups will have to pay the bills. To all this there can be bit ohe end—the collapse system under which we live. Now, this ig all right if vou favor the collapse of the system ahd have one ready to take its place. But if the idea is to make the present system work better, it is a sad blunder and it ean have but one end, namely, to make the system stop working altogether.

We. the Women

By Ruth Millett

HEY are a gallant lot=—the young women who |

ergwd city busses and streetcars every week-day morning and evening of the vear Gallant, because they make so mich of so little small salaries for most of them—yet they manage to have the outline of chie. They wear dark clothes becatge their employers require them to and beeause dark clothes are practical. But the darkness isn't drab. There ig altvaye a bright flower on a lapel, a clip at the neck of a dress, a gay searf or spic and span white gloves, to give the practical elothes an air, In epite of the hurry of getting off to work on time, their lipstick is on gtraight—and there is plenty of it. Enough to give them spirit to meet the day. Their hair it soft and waved and thelr fingernails are bright with color. Somewhere they find the time that good grooming requires. All that they have lost of femininity in the struggle to be self-supporting ig its uselessness and futtery nongenge, You sugpect the most of them are still too essentially feminine to flaunt their job, or to asstime that any woman can get by without personal charm and

And that they aren't naive enough to think that for a woman, a job ean be an end in itself. Where there isn't a man in such a woman's life, there is an admitted need for one. They are workers—and for the most part look like capable ones, but, more important, they are real women trying te be as attractive as possible and to get as mueh out of life as energy and ambition ean procure,

many | respects uhable to meet the obligations which parallel |

| ple would be at work. | tibh machine has never produced all

| need.”

| out of a job and penniless. la job for myself and never went on | relief. | most people do not do their best. 1

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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Curfew Sal Not Ring!_By1 Talburt

The Hoosier Forum

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

SAYS POLITICAL MACHINE ONLY ONE HURTING U § By Voice in the Crowd After reading Mr. Van Cleve's comments I still maintain that the only machine that is hurting Amer= ican life is the political machine. 1f the political machine was pot so costly, wage earners would buy the products of labor and mote peoThe produe=

that the people could consume. There ig ho theoty in my com ments that “hard work is what we I comment entirely from practical experience. In 1833 I was I made

I work hard and know that

wish they would, as that is all that can save 1s. I have found my greatest hindrance ih the growing load of taxes, which represents the cost of present day political govern= ment. I khow that a family of four people is taxed $700 per annum as ah average. If you don't pay that mich yourself, your prospective em= ployers ate paying it, and cannot hire you because the money that would put people to work is going into taxes, Taxes are destroying consumer buying power, There is no end to capitalism as that is the only way that economic life ean function. The only question is: Bhall eapitalism be pri= vate as of the people, or shall it be public as of the politicians? Are the politicians more pure in the handling of capital than are private individuals? Certainly not, according to the newspapers. We are not operating under the American system. When Congress votes yea to the whims of a small group, they are not representatives of the people. Neither Mr. Robse= velt nor any man can solve 130 million problems. Bvery man miuist solve his own, ahd we won't gel anywhere finding fault with each other. We come here empty handed and earry nothing out when we leave, Men that ean lead and make smploviment for others are not the stiemies of the people, vet they are damned when they employ labor, and they are damned when they can’t, Keep vot eve on the politiciane that take all they can and return ag little ag possible,

(Times readers are invited to express their these columns, religious eons

excluded. Make

your letter short, so all can

views if

troversies have a chance. Letters must

be sighed, but names will be with held on Feques st.) GEN. JOHNRON RCORED FOR CRITICIZING CORCORAN By E. OC. Gen

Carlson Johnson ih one of his recent columns pleads with Tommy OCorcoran to quit the Administration before this great liberal party whieh has fot its principal pride, its liberalism—to quote the Generals own words—is entirely destroyed. Apparently My, Corcoran's greatest sins—and here again I am quoting Mr. Johnhson—is his geal, brilliance, loyalty and ability. It seems that this yoting man whom the former NRA administras for 50 thoroughly dislikes, has com= mitted the eardinal sin of letting it be known that he did not think it very honorable for a Senator ot a Representative to campaigh on a “stipport Roosevelt” platform, thus implying to his constituents that he would support the National Administrations’ program, only to khife and sabotage that very pto= gram as soon as elected to office. The thought that thousands of other voters resent this as much as Myr. Corcoran but are wholly ads verse to expressing themselves, ap= parently never occurred to the General, In regards to the use of WPA re= lief money for political purposes, it is interesting to note that these charges come from exactly the same sources as the opposition to the Government Reorganization Bill, which would have es tablished a De=

sana BE

TREASURE HUNT

By KEN HUGHES I found the silver of vour smiies, [ The gold of vour deeds; [T knew the worth of little things Others classified as "weeds!"

DAIL Y THOU G HT

And there was no mote war unto the five and thirtieth year of the reign of Asia.—1I Chronicles 15:18.

EACH rules “the day, where reas gon rules the mind. =-Collins,

partment of Public Welfare under a Civil Service system. Senator Tyds= ings of Maryland, whom certainly none ean accuse of being a "New Dealer,” voted against barring relief administrators from “mixing in polities,” These same people also are for returning relief to the states to be administered by the local pos litical machine, No politics there, Oh, no! It seems that My. Johnson exceeds ingly regrets the loyalty and devo= tion that some of Mf. Roosevell's supporters have shown, and in pars ticular the few intelligent men and women in Washington who, regatrdless of party labels, do believe that Government should be used as an instrumentality for the restriction of individual anarchy in an interdes pendent, complex society, in order that the common welfare of the people may eventually be the better served. # N » SAYER FEDERAL FUNDS NOT ‘PENNIES 'ROM HEAVEN’ By M. P. Before the Philadelphia City Couneil is a proposal, sponsored by Mayor Wilson, for a city-wide im-= provement program to be paid for with $100,000,000 of Federal funds. Councilman Arthur P. Keegan has been inspired to remark: “The chance to get $45,000,000 as a gift from the Government and $55 - 000,000 as a loan at tiie rate of 2 per cent=which comes to about 1 per cent on the entire $100,000,000, as contrasted with the 4, 5 and 65's pet cent the city customarily pays on its bonds—is like getting pennies from Heaven.” So a great many people seem to believe, ‘There is, however, one slight difference between getting pennies from Heaven and getting millions from Washington--a differ= ence that will dawn more and more clearly on the people of Philadelphia and other cities a little later, when the Government has to stop borrows ing money to give away and start levying heavier taxes to rescue the Treasury. CI NO JUSTIFICATION SEEN FOR ACTION AGAINST THOMAS ny OD. FO,

BE. FP. M, writing on Mayor Hague, says that the Constitution guarans tees only peaceable assembly, Even granting that that ig" true, it does not justify such actions as the prevention of Norman Thomas' speaks ing in Newark,

LET'S EXPLORE YOUR MIND

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BHAE €8 DAD I8 RIGHT, but why are the children so different in gelfcontrol, reared in the same environ. ment? Dr. Charles B. Davenport, of the Carnegie Institution, studied the family trees of 165 wayward girls

in state institutions, He found that where one parent had high temper tantrums, about half the children had it whereas the other half were

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DESCENDA MS g efi Fecnlk on more self-controlled. If both parents had high tempers all the children

had them, While it is hard to be-

lieve that the trait is inherited in simple fashion like blue or brown eyes, the study leaves a strong ims pression that some persons and

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have more training in self-control and learn also to wateh themselves, Nn » » if a real change has come. As related by the Petsonnel Jotirnal, a certain boy left college with high ideals and got a job with an oll company where he found the chief pride of the employees was in short changing customers and filling their machines with old oil. He quit in disgust and went with a Wall Street firm which employed low ethical practices. He is now a Communist—and will likely always be one. His attitude toward all industry is changed and now he wants to change all industry be catise every new experience bolsters up his changed attitude. "nw 3 BY THE FARMERS, unquestionably. As Fritts and Gwinn show in thelr most significant book, “Fifth Ave. to Farm,” the cities of the United States would be d out at the rate of one-fifth of their population every eration if they did not constantly bring in bo and girls from the Yay to Hinks w e defleit. Farm per cent more children thie. SUDIUS rEDIAOS ThE OVINE % 88 ulation of the cities. These a

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families are by heredity “feebly ine |sents

hibited,” as Davenport expresses it, and easily fly off the handle. means that such persons

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. FRIDAY, JUNE 17, 1038 Gen. Johnson Says—

Your Correspondent Can't Say Much

For the Legislative Performance Of This Congress Now Departing.

EW YORK, June 17-=There may have heen legislative performances on a lower average level than that of the departing Congress, but they do not spring readily to mind. This is not nearly so apparent on the face of the record as it is in come paring the conversations and well-known convictions of many of the members with their recorded votes, Bills were passed by large majorities of which compes= tent observers said: “There are not 10 Senators or 100 Representatives who favor this measure.” That kind of thing is not provable but tHere are few close observers who do not know that it has been literally true. As has been frequently remarked here before, Congress sold its birthright when, by lump sum appropriations, it delivered the power of the purse to the President. It was not only the power of political pap to influence the votes of members of Congress thems selves on proposed Presidential measures: it was the power to say to the people of every state and Cone gressional district who they should elect as their representatives. y 4 » HIS coerced not only the Congress but the elecs torate and set up one-man government hy pets sonal decree in fact, if not in outright seeming It did something more. The moment it wag done the first time, the very fact of its effectiveness to eon « trol Congress tended to make it permanent if not perpetual, ‘This was made abundantly clear in the closing days of this session when Congress, by refiis= ing to decree any limitations on the tise of relief money for political purposes, actually voted for a cone tintuation of its own political bondage. It is one of the most astonishing and politically degrading happenings of our times, Knowing well and admiring affectionately some of the leaders who have been thus kicked inte this stultifying corner, what they have done seems to me unbelievable, ¥ ¥ » UT there is a ready answer and defense, “If 1 stand up against it, the power of this money ia so great that T am sure to be knocked down, If I am knocked down, the candidate the Administration will support with this money against me is pledged in advance not otily to vote these guarded, controlled and deviotis meastires, but much worse proposals—in fact, any proposal. My sacrifice would be in vain and the result of it much more revolutionary than my qualified compliance.” What is the answer to that one? T confess that 1 do not know. It looks as though the fundamental error had already been made, For a while it seemed that our defense against a ciirious mixture of fascism and communism Was in a courageotis Congress, That now is unlikely, Of cotirse, the answer is where it always is in any democracy—=in the people themselves, They also are in a strait<jacket under this sys tem. But it is not nearly go strong and straight and stiff as the one which has imprisoned Congress,

Washington

By Raymond Clapper

Coming Inquiry Likely to Revise Many Traditional Monopoly Ideas.

ASHINGTON, June 17=CGovernment participa tion in industrial price control is almost cers fain to be one of the major policies which the Admins stration will seek to advance through the coming antimonopoly investigation, This would mean an at tempt, in another way, to do one of the things that NRA sought to do, Most Government officials who have studied the monopoly problem at all now recognize that the dream of compelling free competition, especially free price competition, by law is hopeless, We have been work « ing at it under the Sherman Antitrust Law for half a century and still the trend grows stronger the other way. Mote than 40 states have passed laws permitting mantifacturers to fix retail prices on their products, and Congress has enacted legislation to exempt such legalized state price-fixing from the antitrust laws. Officials in the Government also recognize that in certain industries, such as steel, private price cone trol has developed because of peculiar economic cire cumstances that are more powerful than any mane made law, and that instead of futile butting against these conditions the intelligent course is to rec ognize them and try to shape them in the public interest. Ag a result of the coming investigation many of our traditional ideas about monopoly and competition are likely to be revised, One official who has given much study to this question and who will have much to do with antie monopoly investigation is Thurman Arnold, Assistant Attorney General,

Outlines His Attitude in Speech He alteady has given an index of hig attitude in a carefully prepared speech this week, He says that “we are going through a period in which most of our industrial pressures are in the direction of maintaining prices which there i& ne purchasing power to support, and then cutting down production, and creating unemployment,” b The power to fix prices without public responsibili« ty cannot exist in the long run, Arnold says, without Governmental interferences and regulation Here is the core of the policy which thie antitrust official has adopted: “No Governmental group that I know of desires either to break up efficient mass production, or to Justify combinations going beyond efficient mass produetion, which are instruments arbitrarily assessing inflexible prices . . . If an industry has gone so far on the path of monopoly control that competition can hever be restored, Government regulation is necess sary.’

Watching Your Health

By Dr. Morris Fishbein

MONG the peculiar conditions which affect hile man beings, one of the most extraordinary is that commonly called spider fingers, and known to the doctors as arachnodactylin (which means the same thing). Although such conditions may have existed for many years, they did not have scientific recognition until some doctor realized their nature and described them in the scientific medical literature. Thus in 1806 for the first time this condition was recognized as one in which the fingers and toes are abnormally long and gracile. The amount of fat under the skin 1s less than usual. The muscles are undere developed and the ligaments, which move the bones and muscles, are relaxed, In addition there are associated in at least halt of the cases disturbances of the pupil of the eye, of the lens of the eye, prominent ears, a high arched palate, and a tendency toward lack of development. In the past 40 years several hundreds of cases of this type have been described, The condition is most commonly seen in children and, of course, can be ized almost at a glance, sually the arms and legs are Jong 4 in proportion to the height of the patient. The hands and feet long gud ow, There are,

act cause of this condition, beyond heredity,

known. “i doveiom the condition is associated in t in the period before the child is born, oy are particular] Scape tp ys ® : and diseases af. ve