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Give Light and the People Wilk Find Their Own Way
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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29, 1938
CHANCE FOR THE G. 0. P.
S minority leader in the House of Representatives, Jertrand H. Snell of New York hasn't had much to lead since the New Deal began. But, as a ranking Republican official in national life, he has had great influence on his party. It seems to us that his decision to retire from Congress may signify much more than the desire of a tired and elderly gentleman for freedom to attend to personal affairs.
Mr. Snell's political and economic philosophy must | have been well jelled when he entered Congress in 1915. |
Frankly and proudly conservative, he has seen nothing good in the New Deal, and if he realizes that plenty was had in the old deal he has been silent about it. his face turned to the dear dead days beyond recall. If the Republican Party is to get anywhere, even as a smart and effective party of opposition, it must have leaders of a different type—leaders who know that the world does move, and that the direction is forward. It's not our function to nominate Mr. Snell's successor as a minority leader. If it were, we should disregard sen-
for one who fits the need. assistant minority leader. Mr. Martin is no flaming lib-
eral. But he is comparatively young—>53. seven terms in the House—long enough to know what it's
tide of progress can’t be held back. However, it's up to the Republicans to do their own picking, and all we can hope is that they will pick wisely. This looks like the best opportunity they've had in a long
time to give their party come of the forward-looking quality |
it needs in order to catch up with the procession.
WHITEWASH?
ever it came to a real test of Senatorial inquiry into politics and relief. firmed. Let's take it
in narrative form. After a three-time
failure by the United States Senate to condemn use of WPA |
money as a super-spoils system, the Senate Committee on Campaign Expenditures was given the task looking into whatever might be queer in 1938 electioneering. It issued what read like a very aggressive statement, saying: “The Committee gives warning that all Government agencies must keep clear of all primary and election campaigns—must keep their hands off. Any other course, in
the use of Federal funds to influence votes . .. and is to be exposed, condemned, and prevented in so far as it is within the power of this Committee to do so. . .. The objective is simple and clear—the maintenance of the integrity of the elective processes, the preservation of democracy at its most vital point, the ballot box.” That sounded fine. But now the test.
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billions that go out for relief. of WPA he is a very, very big shot. A word from him means much to the 2,760,000 who are now on the rolls, to the 250,000 who will shortly be added, and to their cousins, their uncles and their aunts.
A frown from Mr. Williams, or a smile, carries impli- |
cations running to the most elemental of all human questions—when do we eat? Mr. Williams, addressing organized WPA workers in
Washington, and through them the millions of WPA work“Keep our
ers everywhere, sounded the political call: friends in power,” said he. “We've got to stick together.” “The American people have tasted blood.” About this bald appeal to all good men to come to the aid of their keepers what does the Senatorial Committee on Campaign Expenditures say? First, it characterizes the address of Mr. Williams as “unfortunate,” but accepts the explanation of Mr. Williams in which Mr. Williams denies any political implications.
Then, after seeing a transcript of Mr. Williams" address, it |
announces that it will go into the matter further. 2 » > » x = EING politicians themselves, and knowledge that it is safest to avoid altercations with those in high places, the members of the Senatorial Campaign Expenditures Committee must be strongly tempted to begin beating the bushes out in the neighborhood of
Oshkosh, scare up a precinct wheelhorse, put the heat on |
him, and thus attempt to prove themselves the demon
prosecutors which their original and glowing declaration of
purposes proclaimed. We hope, without too much confidence, that they will surprise us by considering what Mr. Williams said to the WPA workers, not what he now says he meant, and on that basis deciding whether he has “kept hands off” or whether he has struck at “the integrity of the elective processes.”
WELCOME HELP
HE allocation of $59,380 in Federal funds to Indiana for expansion of the State Health Board's campaign against venereal diseases is an encouraging note in this constantly growing fight. The enlarged program is to include epidemiological followup of active cases of syphilis; an extension of laboratory facilities to rural areas; provision for an educational campaign, and organization of a consultation service by which physicians may be advised of new methods of diagnosis and treatment. For five years the Health Board has been carrying on its program against venereal diseases. This program naturally has been curtailed because funds have been limited. Now, with this additional money, another step can be taken toward the ultimate goal of stamping out venereal diseases in the state. ! 2
outside of Indiana, 65 |
| decisions in | Administration could have asked if it had packed : the court. { servative Justices, | two pro-New
| mendations
He has kept |
| to intervene in any suit involving the constitutionality
| of legislation, { Court
! judges
It looks as if the hunch is being con- |
to President Roosevelt and Harry Hopkins | is Aubrev Williams in the exercise of power over the | As deputy administrator
Washington
| By Raymond Clapper
Administration Has Pushed Through Far-Reaching Judiciary Reforms Despite Defeat on the Court Bill.
(Westbrook Pegler Is on Vacation)
ASHINGTON, June 29 —Nine out of 10 persons, if asked offhand, probably would say that Roosevelt lost the court fight.
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES | Erosion of the Old Wailing W
Yet some of his |
advisers add yp the results and say that he has | in substance won everything he sought except the |
creation of a court proctor. Congress will be
asked to do something about this next year.
History books undoubtedly will say that Roosevelt |
sought to enlarge the Supreme Court and failed.
That was only one feature of the project, which |
| embraced a broader reorganization of the judiciary.
So far as the Supreme Court is concerned, its the last year have been all that the
Through the retirement of two cunVan Devanter and Sutherland, Deal Justices were added and the balance tipped. The results which Roosevelt sought by adding judges have come about by changing two of them—plus the more liberal attitude which Chief Justice Hughes and Justice Roberts adopted
| during the heat of the court battle,
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LMOST unnoticed, Congress last year put through the “baby court bill” which enacted four recomcontained in the Roosevelt court-en-largement program. The Government was authorized
to appeal directly to the Supreme any District Court decision invalidating an act of Congress, to provide for assignment of extra to ciean up congested district and Circuit Court dockets, and it was required that no injunction interfering with an act of Congress be granted by a District Court unless three judges participated.
This year Congress has added 20 new judges to |
Roosevelt also asked for retirement of Supreme
which already was pending, was passed during the court fight. The only other two items in the court bill were
| the addition of Supreme Court judges, which failed, He has served | and the creation of a proctor. | would be an administrative official of the Supreme : : . | Court, who would supervise traffic in the lower courts | all about. He is alert and intelligent, and he knows that the |
The court proctor
to speed up the disposition of cases. » ” ”
EANTIME, through co-operation between the
Supreme Court, the Department of Justice and | | some experts changes in court procedure are about to go into | These are aimed to eliminate delays and |
from the legal profession, radical
effect.
legal quibbling in civil suits, of which Roosevelt
| complained in his court message.
So although Roosevelt will go down as the President who was licked trying to tinker with the Su-
| pr Tourt, . 7 hi istrat i 7E had a hunch that there would be a whitewash when- | pre1é (Court, sppatently his Administration Will be
marked in legal history as one during which farreaching improvements were made in the administration of justice.
The Liberal View
By Harry Eimer Barnes
Problem of Monopoly Is Seen as
One for the Industrial Engineers.
EW YORK, June 29—It is pretty generally agreed by observers that monopolistic tendencies in business, price-rigging, wage cuts and the
; i . : : { like are the basic evils of the capitalistic system. the judgment of the Committee, would amount in reality to | | has been a sham battle.
Thus far, however, the attack upon monopoly The facts and principles involved are well presented by Walter Millis in an article on “Cross Purposes in the New Deal” in the Virginia Quarterly Review.
The dilemma which divides opinion on this sub-
ject, even within New Deal circles, is the question |
of whether it is best to bust the trusts or to regulate
| big business in the interests of society and profit from
the benefit of the efficiency of large-scale industrial activities “Was trust-busting, after all, the correct solution?
| Or must the effective cartellization of great areas of modern industry be recognized as an irreparable |
fact? . “Should the huge modern aggregations of monopolistic organization and #conomic power be shat. tered into small, competitive fragments?
| the great gifts of economical operation and mass- | produced abundance be accepted and enjoyed, with { only a mild form of regulation to eliminate their at- |
tendant ‘abuses’? How many corporations could dance upon the head of the competitive needle?” In spite of a half-century of rhetoric and legislation on the trust problem and the question of monopoly, it has been a sham battle down to date.
| We shall never get anywhere in dealing with the | monopoly problem until we face the economic reali-
ties of our age. More Than Trust-Busting
It is no longer the simple matter of trust-busting: “For the old and seemingly simple question of
| competition against combination has long since been
swallowed up in the torrential advance of the times.
| It has become nothing less than the whole problem | of price policy, wage policy, production policy and
investment policy throughout the economy as a whole, and the proper interrelation of these policies in order
| to keep that economy generally operating at a high | | level of activity. “The task, if it is to be attempted at all, is a task |
for a corps of highly expert mechanics working with a pretty clear idea of the functions which the economy
is to perform and free to use a wide variety of ad- |
Justing and controlling devices as each may be appropriate to some different part of the system.” It is high time that our industrial problems should
) fis i be handed over, more and more, to the only real exhaving politicians’ |
perts in the premises, namely, the industrial engineers who have built up modern industry and who
| alone can control it in the interest of promoting the
economy of abundance and the service of mankind.
A Woman's Viewpoint
By Mrs. Walter Ferguson
Ber time I decide I am underestimating the decency of humankind, and especially of my own
Or should | | says, have only recently come under
foreign- |
| British | shady at least.
| the lower courts, another fulfillment of the original | : { court-bill program. jority and hunt down the list of Republican Congressmen |
We might for instance. choose | Court judges at the age of 70, and the Sumners bill, N x ’ l
someone like Joseph W. Martin Jr., of Massachusetts, now |
The Hoosier Forum
I wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.
| DEFENDS ACTIONS OF CHAMBERLAIN By 8. P.
Today it is much the fashion in liberal circles to shy brickbats at Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain of Great Britain for: his efforts to stave off war. Ever since the World War peace | conference most liberals have felt | that the Treaty of Versailles was |unduly hard on Germany, and suggested revision in her favor. Now Great Britain, one of the chief benefigiaries of the treaty, has produced a leader—a tory, at that—who agrees with that view- | point, Mr. Chamberlain also is
| convinced that Germany may not |
| be entirely without grievance. Yet | the moment he suggests doing | something about it, in order to preserve the peace of Europe, a tempest is raised against him. He is | charged with truckling to the dic- | tators. Similarly, the
liheral opinion
world over has felt in the past that |
| Britain was a bit too ready to make | use of her might.
Yet today, because Mr. Chamber- | | lain doesn't order out
the British Navy to force Gen. Franco to stop the bombing of
Most
of these ships, Mr. Chamberlain Rritish registry. Mostly controlled, they are now using the British flag to help pile up monstrous profits in a business which the
Government regards as
The attitude of certain American liberals is particularly inconsistent. They insist that our own citizens and our own ships should be ordered out of all the war zones and warned that, if they disobey, they do so at their own risk. If war comes despite Chamberlain’s efforts, at least tomorrow's millions of dead can not chide him with having engaged in it lightly. f ¥ 4
IT MIGHT BE WORSE, READER SAYS | By A. R. As former President Hoover used | to say, “Let no man say it could | not have been worse.” { It could. The current depression has been cushioned by the payment up to mid-May of $120,000,000 in | unemployment benefits in 25 states. | By 1939, all states will be in_a posi- | tion to make such paymenfs.
| There can be no doubt that the
| payment of such a sum in unem-
contraband-laden | | ships flying the Union Jack, some | liberals jeer him for a sissy.
(Times readers are invited
to express their views in these columns, religious conexcluded. Make your letter short, so all can
Letters must
troversies
have a chance. be signed, but names will be withheld on request.)
{ ployment benefits has somewhat eased the strain on local relief and WPA. It is argued by some that since more than $900,000,000 has been collected for the Federal unemployment trust fund to make such payments in future to those losing their jobs, therefore far more has been withdrawn from the channels of trade than has been spent in retail channels, The exact effects of this new factor in the national economy are not vet known. But it is clear that as the years pass it will be a greater and greater factor, ” » ”
CLAIMS BUSINESS LACKING DEFENSE By Hevivn Dirck Benson Business has no defense the New Deal “barrage of dont’s” hurled at so-called leaders of industry and commerce because busi- | ness has failed to prevent the wan- | ton waste of its life blood buying | power, Business has allowed some of our | best minds to cook up some of the
STEPPING STONES By EDNA JETT CROSLEY
Why fuss and fret that you were born, You're not the only one; Just grasp the great bull by the horns Until the battle’s won.
A quitter never travels far; Though stumbling blocks be trying, They are but stepping stones—a star— A goal for souls aspiring.
DAILY THOUGHT
And the ark of God remained with the family of Obed-edom in his house three months. And the Lord blessed the house of Obededom, and all that he had. —I Chronicles 13:14.
| O man is prosperous whose immortality is forfeited. —H. W. | Beecher,
immediately |
against |
most devastating money evaporating devices ever conceived. » ” ” SEEKS ACTION ON HEALTH INSURANCE By FE. Z. K. Once more the American Medical Association has met in annual convention and timidly sidestepped the question of health insurance. long are the doctors going to keep | their eyes shut to the plea of the | great middle class of the population | for relief from the intolerable bur- | den of medical costs or the unconscionable denial of medical care due to its excessive cost?
The medical profession is the one | to correct this condition courage- | ously and unselfishly. It is disheart- | ening to see this great body of sup-
| posedly intelligent men refusing to { do anything about it except to take a dog-in-theemanger attitude to- | ward socalled “socialized medicine.” If they can't do something about health insurance pretty quickly they're going to get “socialized medicine” whether they like it or not. o » » ASKS THAT YOUTH | BE GIVEN CHANCE
By a Reader At one time the general slogan was, “What this country needs is a good 5-cent cigar.” To my mind, the slogan today { should be; “Inject youth into American politics.” Almost all our economic ills have been handed down to us as an inheritance by our ancestors, and, in like manner, the mistakes we make today will be paid for by our children. Since they will eventually foot the bills for our blunders, it is no more than fair that they be given a voice in our government. I've heard it said that youth will be served. I am interested in know ing “When?” y Fr #
MINIMUM WAGE
TERMED INSUFFICIENT By L. §. The $11-a-week minimum wage is insufficient to adequately nourish and clothe a worker at the present level of prices. The economic system permits many people to receive more than they need, while millions are living on a diet of slow starvation, The richest country, with the highest standards, should live up to | its reputation and increase the $11i a-week pittance.
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sex, some particularly sordid story comes along to
cast me into the dumps again.
Now it's the one about the woman whose lover |
drowned her husband in a nearby stream while the
wife, with two children at her side, shouted encour- |
agement to the murderer. Subsequent arrest, confessions and examinations were only so much more pleasurable excitement, if we can judge by the attitude of the accused. Apparently they were moved by no feelings of guilt or remorse. How are the courts to deal with such individuals? They are more dangerous to society than the most reckless bandits, for they are not touched by emotion. Are they subnormal in intellect, or totally without conscience! The doctors have been telling us that certain beings at birth lack the qualities of gratitude, justice, mercy, pity and imagination. Police records in every city and state will verify that statement, for periodically we are subdued and frightened by happenings that make us shudder at the depths of evil within the souls of some men and women. It seems to me there is no force on earth to punish them and that they are removed from the ma jority of their kind by an impassable gulf. We cannot shout to them across its void because it is as wide as the time which separates the amoeba from intellectual man,
But we can obey warnings of the scientists who tell
us such people should not be allowed to have children. Think of the scene! You cringe away from it, ‘of course, and no wonder. Poor babies, doomed before birth. Where is the Pollyanna willing to guarantee
their future? 2
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CERTAINLY, although it may take ga skilled psychologist to aid. Claustrophobia is a purely acquired fear—a neurosis, that is, a “func« tional disorder” of the nerves caus< ing abnormal reactions
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LET'S EXPLORE YOUR MIND
By DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM
the patient to allow himself to be partly or wholly shut up in a closet or the like until he does so voluntarily and without fear.
» ” ” NO. If the colony be undeveloped—as, for instance, Ethiopia —it will absorb population for a time but it has tii: astonishing effect of setting up a new birth re-
lease and increasing the population back home and, since the colony soon becomes filled up, it is a vicious circle. If the colony is developed, such as Australia or South Africa, the new immigrants are always of a lower economic class and reduce the birth rate rapidly among the citizens of the colonies to which they go. The thing just won't work— but no statesman on earth under stands these simple laws of population. f 8 =» OF COURSE this is largely a play on words, but differences about money are the root of a host of marriage evils, If two people start out to conserve every dollar Ea eo, py, but if on either
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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29, 1938
Gen. Johnson Says—
G. O. P. Lacks a Candidate but Has Nearly 17 Million Votes to Offer Some Middie-of-the-Road Democrat,
ETHANY BEACH, Del, June 29.—The President's fireside chat shouldn't be lightly dismissed. It let the cat out of the bag. Shucked to its essentials, it called for two new parties. One is to be the “liberal” party—a one-man party—the Franklin Roose velt party—which means one-man Roosevelt govern= ment, Its tenets are simple—anything Mr, Roosevelt proposes, The other party—the ‘“conservative’—exists only in Mr. Roosevelt's imagination. It is the HardingCoolidge party—government as in the Twenties—hide= bound reaction. This is an outright corn-doctor, snake-oil fake but that is the way the President poses it and he is the best poser in political history. ' It overlooks the possibility of a party of the mid dle-way. There was such a party once, It was the party of the Democratic platform of 1932. That was a political masterpiece—short, honest, realistic, ade= quate and truly liberal. The President swore feality to it “100 per cent"—and violated it in every principal point, » » ”
HE 1936 Democratic platform was the reverse :
generalized and equivocal, It didn't reveal one single one of the 1937 attempts to change our form of government—Court reorganization, the original form of the Wages-and-Hours Bill or of Government ree organization, the TVA's destruction of the states, or the final form of Mr. Wallace's ever-ga-ga granary,
As far as third New Dealers are concerned, political *
morality is out the window, This challenge has been made—to take this kind of corn salve or magic hair-restorer—or Hooverism. This is a challenge to the Republicans. If there {is any realism in their strategy, they will put Mr. Hamil= ton on ice. Mr. Roosevelt well knows, and is playing * the knowledge overtime, that this country, in 90 per cent of its thinking, is never going back to pre= Roosevelt, There is only one answer—for Republicans to support middle-of-the-road Democrats—in Congressional districts, in the Senate and in the Presidency. n ” ” F they had the sense they would take some man like Bill Borah, Bob La Follette or Fiorello La Guardia. They may at times have shot off at tangents, but anybody who knows any of them is certain that they are a whole lot, more responsible and de
| pendable and have a hetter conception of the Amer= | ican problem than any third New Dealer,
But it would be hard to convince the country, 12 I were running Republican strategy, I would nomi ' nate a middle-of-the-way Democrat—somebody like Jack Garner, Jimmy Byrnes or Pat Harrison. It might
| present difficulties, but in any of those cases, they would get a less dangerous President than Henry Wale
lace, Harry Hopkins or a third term for Franklin Roosevelt—and they would have a cinch to win. The old order changeth, The Republican-Landon attempt to fool the people must never be repeated. This is a middle-of-the-road country. It is now clear beyond question that there is no “middle-of-the-road” candidate in the Republican crew. But there are nearly 17.000,000 votes. A good, truly liberal candidate could split the difference of 10,000,000 third New Deal votes and be elected,
It Seems to Me By Heywood Broun
Columnist Has Chance to Observe Reactions to a Roosevelt Speech.
EW YORK, June 29.—It was my privilege to sit in a mixed group while President Roosevelt was , giving his fireside chat. The host had invited several Republicans to come in after dinner. And they were Connecticut Republicans at that, Of course, I have read many violent denunciations of the New Deal, and in both public and private places I have listened to bitter comment. On numerous occasions it was quite possible to get the idea that the person who held forth did not like “that man in Washington.” Until Friday night I had assumed that there was some little hint of overstress in the tirades. I was under the delusion that something of the spirit of good clean fun animated the exaggeration. I sat next an extremely courteous and amiable Connecticut Republican weighing about two hundred and fifty pounds, We did have an argument even be= | fore the fireside chat, but each of us kept his temper and no harsh words were exchanged. I still think Carl Hubbell is a better left-hander than Johnny Vander Meer. Just as we were about to call the debate a draw with no hard feelings on either side the words “My friends” eased into the room and conversation ceased. Before “that man in Washington” had expressed an opinion on any policy the eyes of my friend grew bloodshot, His spine stiffened. His breathing became heavy. But then I noticed that heavy breathing was coming from all over the room.
A Gentleman to the End
We had six Republicans with us and three reac tionary Democrats, And the Democrats seemed the leading candidates for apoplexy. The partisan of Van=der Meer remained a gentleman to the end. He cursed continuously, but all this was done in a low voice, The emotions of my {friend were mixed. He was wracked by more than anger. He ran the gamut ° from incredulity to hate to sheer anguish. And though he sat close to a door opening out into the night the victim of the torture seemed riveted to the spot. No, like his fellow sufferers in the room my friend drained his cup of sorrows to the last drop. Then he arose with dignity, although a shade unsteadily. I had made no move or comment during the. speech but the gentleman turned a scorching look of bitter anger at me and said, “Anybody who thinks Hubbell is a better pitcher than Vander Meer is an idiot and a cad.” With that he stalked out of the room. I guess those Republicans really mean it, Myself, IT thought the speech a shade too mild. I wish President Roosevelt had named Hague instead of dealing with him by indirection,
Watching Your Health
By Dr. Morris Fishbein
ITH the coming of the vacation season, everyone begins looking up summer resorts, motor car routes, and gets records of roadside camps. Typhoid continues to be the chief menace for those who accidentally come in contact with contaminated water or food in the course of their travels. If you are going on a long journey and plan to stop at several wayside camps, it is advisable to be vaccinated against typhoid fever. This type of vaccination is now done by three injections over a period of three weeks. It takes at least that long for the protection to establish itself. If, therefore, you are planning a trip, it will be best to go to the doctor six weeks in advance of the" time of starting your trip in order to get these injections, Of course, health officers are doing everything they can to prevent the spread of typhoid by protecting public and private water supplies from contamination. It is not safe to drink milk while you are traveling unless you are certain that it has been pasteurized. The safest procedure is to get milk only from a sealed
container, whic been pasteurized, and which states the date on which the milk was pasteurized. : The danger from carriers is difficult to avoid. If the person happens to be one who waits on table and who is careless about personal habits after attending to the body fleeds, the hands of the carrier are likely to” be soiled, so that any food or dishes handled by such a person will also be contaminated. It is well to be certain that every food handler washes the hands
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