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Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way

TUESDAY, JULY 19, 1938

FLYING IRISHMAN AITH, and we'd never be wishing to see anybody else attempt what this wild spalpeen of a Douglas Corrigan has been after doing. Imagine the nerve of him!

Mall subscription rates |

Bennett Airport in New York, having flown from Cali- | fornia in his nine-year-old, $900 plane in time to see Howard |

Hughes start off around the world. There he still was when Hughes came back. with everybody talking about his success has been due to science and perfect planning. And then what does voung Douglas do but spend his 269.60 for 320 gallons of gas and a couple of chocolate bars, find himself a 15-foot pole to knock the ice off the wings of his old crate, pull the cabin door shut and fasten it with a piece of wire, and fly straight to Dublin? The experts are saying that they don’t know how ever he did it, he having no fancy navigating instruments, no radio, no safety equipment, no permission to fly out of this country, no passport to land anywhere else. know that ’twas the Irish heart of him that guided him, like a homing pigeon, to the ould sod. We'd like to have seen him, with the gleam in his eye, when he told that tale about thinking, all the time, that he was flying west toward Los Angeles. Sure, the Californians do enjoy some strange adventures, for we remember the lady in that state who dived into the Pacific Ocean and came up in the desert of Arizona.

about that. Well, it's glad we are that he made it, and it's proud we'll be to welcome him home again. We're hoping that when he flies back across Atlantic he'll do it on a good,

safe steamship, for the strain of another waiting spell, |

not knowing whether to expect word from him in Borneo or Kamchatka, Australia, Palestine or Tierra del Fuego, would be too much entirely.

OFF COCOS ISLAND

“PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT is fishing in the Pacific for |

the wahoo and the rooster fish.”"—News item.

» = »

» 4 ” Qnid the rooster fish to the wild wahoo: “Here comes that man after me and you! We've heard how, back on his native shore, he Battles with many a stubborn tory; How he takes the trail of the ‘yes—but’ men, And dares the copperheads in their den; : How the tails he twists, with his mighty wrists, Of the most economic of royalists; How the princes of privilege quake and scatter At the fearsome sound of his fireside chatter. And now he's here where the billows surge, And they say he’s out for ao deep-sea purge.” “I wish he'd stayed home—that's what I wish,” Said the wild wahoo to the rooster fish.

THE UPKEEP

HEN Interior Secretary Ickes returned from honeymoon he found he had $750,000,000 to spend on non-Federal PWA projects. So he sent out the call to

municipalities and local governmental units to bring on |

their applications. The cities, counties, irrigation districts,

ete., lost no time. It now appears that approximately $655,000,000 worth of approved projects will be left over after the $750,000,000

appropriation is exhausted. That means that a pressure |

By Rodney Dutcher

The Aryan Argument Used by the Italians and Nazis Would Carry Little Weight in Supreme Court. (Westbrook Pegler Is on Vacation)

ASHINGTON, July 19.—The Italians, following lead of German Nazis, are now declaring that

| they are of the Aryan race and that Jews are not.

But they couldn't get away with that in the U. S. Supreme Court. The Supreme Court has declared, in effect, that there's no such animal as an Aryan. That was in 1923, when lawyers for Bhagat Sing Thind, a high caste Hindu, contended he was a white person eligible for naturalization as an American citizen. Bhagat came from Punjab, in northwestern India, it was claimed, and that meant he was an Aryan. But the Court declared: “The Aryan theory as a racial basis seems to be

| discredited by most, if not all, modern writers on the There he was at Floyd |

subject of ethnology.” And it cited a string of authorities. » Ld = LLIOTT ROOSEVELT, youthful radio magnate in Ft. Worth, Tex., who indorsed Congressman Fritz Lanham for renomination after the President pointedly had failed to refer to Fritz as “my friend,” is no pet of the New Dealers who surround his father,

Not so much because of the Lanham incident as | which |!

because of Elliott's commercial broadcasts, have been reported critical of Administration policies. He was quoted as saying in his 15-minute commercial hroadcast which preceded the President's Texas radio

| speech: “In times of emergency, a liberal will try any- |

| thing once.

But we |

before he leaps.” 8 8 &

Ty huge United Automobile Workers’ Union, threatened with disintegration by long and bitter factional strife among its leaders, is suffering mostly from the fact that it has failed to produce a leader of sufficient size and ability to weld the union to-

| gether and command it.

Although the more radical political elements are backing the five U. A. W. officials whom President

| Homer Martin suspended from their jobs, other C. I.

But the Corrigan |

: : \ '0SS e knew where he was going, and no mistake | ; EO e | who after a six-hour session urged him to get all the

| boys together and make peace.

his |

| British cousins.

group will be waiting when Congress reconvenes in January. |

The cities and counties which didn’t get theirs the first time

subsidies.

So does a bureaucracy tend to perpetuate itself. So

O. officials incline to regard the internal warfare as incited by a personal battle for power between Martin and one of the ousted officials, Richard Frankensteen. Martin booted out his most formidable critics against the advice of C. I. O. Chief John L. Lewis,

Martin's action failed to increase what small affection Lewis may have had for him, but leaves the C. I. O. chief unable to find a stronger figure who might unite all factions.

A conservative always looks carefully |

C. I. O. intervention is a strong probability, al- |

though distasteful to C. I. O. leaders who like to

boast that democracy flourishes in C. I. O, as com-

pared with practices in A. F. of L. unions. " 8 = Files of the Department of Commerce are being

searched feverishly by a high-grade publicity expert |

for material which might liven up Secretary Dan Roper’s press conferences. Admittedly these conferences are dead affairs—and dreaded by all concerned, Thus far no snappy material has been located.

Business

' By John T. Flynn

Given a Little Time This Country Will Match England in Taxation.

EW YORK, July 19.—Those who groan under the weight of Federal income taxes will do well to think how well off they are compared with their And this will be a good thing to keep in mind, for if the President's four billion dollar

| deficit means anything, it means that the next Congress is going to have to settle down to some pretty

serfous tax levying.

| into effect.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

TUESDAY, JULY 19, 1938

Whatta They Mean—It Was a Solo Flight !—By Talburt

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The Hoosier Forum

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

| THERE'S NO HURRY,

READER SAYS By B. C. If you're looking forward to the withdrawal of Italian troops from the war in Spain, don't be too | nervous about going home for | lunch for fear you'll miss the fin- | ish. You'll probably have time for |

| an after-dinner cigar and a nap to |

boot. The Anglo-Italian nonintervention agreement may be about f{o begin to get ready to start to go The two warring Spanish factions are now studying the paper's terms. And

| whole thing will be called off tem- | porarily and some satisfactory ad-

Mr. Harold M. Groves, former Wisconsin tax com- |

missioner and an authority on taxation, points to some interesting facts about the income tax rates of the British and those in this country:

A married man with no dependents, with an all earned income of $3000, pays in Great Britain an in-

| come tax 30 times as high as here.

If his income is $5000, his tax will be eight times higher than in the United States. If his income is $10,000, he will pay four times as much and if it is $50,000, he will pay twice as much. On an income of $100,000 he will pay 50 per cent more than here.

These figures, of course, do not constitute the

! tion. | will take

| justments may be considered.

But suppose the agreement is accepted tomorrow. Then the matter

about a month. agreement allows 45 days after that

| for the dispatch of two counting | commissions, approval of their esti-

| volunteers, and creation of evacua- |

| 100 days. | whole thing is allowed 64 days after

mates of the number of Italian

tion areas. The evacuation process which will then begin is allowed Final

| that.

total income tax of an American in some of our states |

—New York, for instance—where there is a state income tax on some incomes as high again as the Federal income tax. While the incomes of those up to $100,000 get a far more severe combing in England than here, the actual rate on the very large incomes is smaller there.

Sahl | The actual tax, however, is not smaller. will be demanding a new appropriation and a redeal of PWA |

A man with a $10,000,000 income in the United

| States, paying his taxes in Wisconsin, would be paying | a combined Federal and state income tax of 91.5 per |

| cent.

do benefits granted become in time prerogatives demanded. |

Nor is there any apparent saturation point. The Federal

Government having established the precedent of paying |

approximately half the cost of local public improvements, there will alwavs be cities on hand with blueprints for new sewage plants, new library buildings, new schools, new waterworks systems, new city halls. The only scheme more popular with the recipients and more certain of selfperpetuation is one where the Federal Government pays a larger share, all or nearly all, of the cost—as through WPA. But there is one type of expenditure which the local

units have not yet devised a method of saddling on to the |

Federal Government. That is the cost of maintenance. New schools, auditoriums, libraries, city halls, parks and bridges are fine things to have. They are civic assets. But they are fiscal liabilities. Year after year the local budgets have to make allowances for upkeep, and such projects produce no income. This recurring yearly cost of maintenance, this continuing charge on the taxpayers, is one reason why we prefer above all other types of projects those which have to do with conservation of natural resourves. The terracing of sloping fields, the reforestation of hillsides, the resodding

windswept plains, the impounding of water in ponds and | of win hd ! 8 f | speech was scheduled to begin and 30 thousand people

lakes—these are things which stop the wastage of precious

+ City.

But in practice it does not work out this way,

Chances to Scale It Down

First of all, he deducts his state income tax from his income in computing Federal tax and he deducts the Federal tax in computing state tax. When this

has been done and all his income taxes have been |

paid he finds that he has paid 78 per cent of his income in taxes and not $1.5 per cent,

Why does England pay these vast taxes? cause in the past she has been a vast borrower.

BeAnd

{ all right—the Italian boys will t out of the trenches in time to greet |

So—maybe—if everything goes

the next Ice Age.

Or maybe even in time to cele- |

brate the Spanish armistice. ” ” SAYS TURMOIL

” TODAY

| DUE TO GREED

because she has a vast empire to protect as part of |

her imperial policy. We are slowly creeping up on England as a borrower. And we are also doing our share in the field of military expenditure. Give us time. We will catch up.

| every other man's

A Woman's Viewpoint |

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

E came; we saw; he conquered. In brief that is the story of the President's visit to Oklahoma The reporters have already done a swell job

| telling about it.

But even reporters are persons of special privilege and can't get the feeling of the crowd. No doubt it's fun to ride on a Presidential train or belong to the favored few who occupy the platforms when the

| speeches begin, but if you want a rip roaring good |

soil and water, which will contribute to the control of future |

floods, which will make ours a richer and more productive country. We'll need a great wealth-producing land to pay interest on the borrowed money, maintain our public improvements and support our governmental institutions in the style to which they are becoming accustomed.

NOTE ON DEMOCRACY

for State magazine. This proves, of course, that there is still widespread devotion to the good old American doctrine of “special

privileges for none.”

their automobiles, reports

time, you must traipse along with the people. that's what I did. We got to the grounds a full hour before the

were ahead of us. The grandstand was full and press box crammed. With merciless concentration the sun

And |

beat down. The politicians, occupying places of hdnor |

on the platform appeared parboiled. A fanfare of trumpets—confusion—shouts. All around us people stood up on the seats, craning their necks—and there he was, walking painfully across the platform. Something inside me began to cry as I

| watched. Women held up their children to see. Men | | wiped their eyes. Somehow cheers are not quite good | enough for the man with the shrivelled legs and the

valiant heart. Even his bitterest enemies must concede him admiration at such a moment. He was not a President then, but a human being who had won

; oan : iW ; more than a political battle. G° ERNORS of 20 states now get “No. 1” license tags '

Government |

In a very little while he was gone. spent such an exhilarating three hours. It's such fun to let yourself go, and be just an atom in a crowd.

| Then because there were not enough busses and taxis

after waiting around two hours, we hitch-hiked part way to town before a goodhearted candidate for constable picked us up. Altogether it was a wonderful day, I dropped all my dignity and two pounds of flesh.

Yet I've never |

By W. P. Groves There is an erroneous idea in the

| minds’ of a great many people. |

Many seem to think that it is no-

it is in today; so many thinking it is no one's business how vote. It is every man’s business how every other man votes, for man is either voting for or against interest. it is every man's honest duty to

if the terms | ! aren't acceptable to both sides, the |

wind-up of the

be |

they |

And |

(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.)

study and find out what would be the best interest for all the people. If all men had voted as the Socialists did, and then did as they wanted us to do 30 years ago, this country would not be in the condition it is in now, and everybody would have plenty, Greed and the lack of knowledge is why the world is in such | turmoil today. The remedy is so | plain and simple it looks like everybody could see it. It is possible that it is so plain and simple the people do not see it.

Many of the wealthy see it but do not want it for it would in- | terfere with their individual in- | terests, therefore they keep people blinded and make them be- | lieve it would ruin the world. As long as people vote for individualism they may expect to | have just what we have now, for greed cannot be legislated out of ; man. Men will have to be put in a position where sthey cannot use their greed and cause others to | suffer.

CLOUDY SKIES | By ALBERTA DUNCAN STIER I love to walk ’'neath cloudy skies,

Hear the gentle falling of the rain: |

To know the sun will by and by | Make nature peaceful and serene.

The earth must know the gentle rain, Ere grass and flowers grow; | Into each life must come some pain Before we see tlie skies glovr,

DAILY THOUGHT

Absalom said moreover, Oh that I were made judge in the land, that every man which hath any suit or cause might come unto me, and I would do him justice!—II Samuel 15:4.

every |

the |

WANTS ‘CEILING’ ON WEALTH By Alfred Palmer The capitalistic system must be modified. To begin with the reason for private fortunes grew out | of each man's desire to take care | of his own needs, to provide for his | family as long as he might live and also after he passed on.

preservation encouraged greed and | a lust for power until now a few | wise and shrewd people hold too | much wealth and the mass have very little. The only sane solution would be

million or so. This would still let

him live in luxury and make it |

| possible for other people to have | something. The country of India is a very i good example of what will happen | when the sky is the limit and a man’s postion will let him exercise | his greed to excess. Extremes of | wealth and poverty blighted India, | ruined Babylon, Persia, Rome and caused the French and Russian revolutions. Let us put a ceiling on this wealth-getting business. » n » SAYS PRESENT TAX SYSTEM DISCOURAGES BUSINESS By E. B. S. If people could be awakened to the basic importance of raising our public revenues from land rents exciusively, we should soon snap out of our economic difficulties, they have their origin in the stupid and archaic methods now employed for that purpose. | It was Chief Justice John Marshall who invented the dictum that | “the power to tax is the power to destroy.” It is also the power to upbuild. A horse cannot even drag i a 100-pound load if tied to its ankle, | whereas if properly adjusted on its back the same load could be carried with ease

Our present tax system operates |

Gen. Johnson Says—

The New Wage-Hour Administrator Displays the Excellence of Many Of the President's Appointees.

ETHANY BEACH, Del, July 19.—Having had a somewhat similar job hung around my neck, like the dead albatross which drove the ancient mariner dotty, my heart goes out to Elmer Andrews, who has just been appointed as administrator of the new Wages-and-Hours Law. It is a hard assignment. Every hour of his day and night will be dogged with accusations of prejudice against labor on the one hand and employers on the other. Yet, as has happened so frequently in this Administration, without sufficient acknowledgment, this was a perfect appointment. Andrews was a happy choice. He knows this problem from his actual experience better than anybody I know. He understands as well the difficulties of employers as he does the perplexities of workers. He is courageous and fair. People who had apprehensions about a new hot-eyed zealot harrying the capitalist system may calm their fears and dry their tears. The new administrator is a professional public servant of the British type, with an ample background of prace tical experience. 8 5 HILE there are blatant exceptions, many of Mr. Roosevelt's appointees display this excel lence. There is much to rail at about Harold Ickes, To call him “honest Harold” is a sort of an affront to him. But the fact remains that he guards that great repository of potential graft like a bulldog. It is too much personal power to be able to say what is a fair price for an existing privately owned public utility before you ruin it. But I have a kind of hunch that Harold is going to astonish his critics by being simply praclical and decent. We may not approve the policies Harry Hopkins was appointed to effect. I don't. Furthermore, I know from personal experience that he has perhaps the balmiest staff ever assembled in Washington. Once when a perfectly absurd policy was proposed in New York City, against the protest of everybody there, including the particularly practical Mayor, one of them blustered to me, “You must think we're all crazy down here.” The too-obvious answer was, “Think? We know it!” y 8

UT as a dispenser of more billions than any man in history, I have yet to hear a responsible charge of monkey-business. Harry's unfortunate excursion into Iowa politics was clearly amateurish innocence. His mind is keen, his judgment is generally ‘good and his heart is honest. Nobody would attempt to review the administra« tion of our foreign relations by Cordell Hull with anything but praise. The same thing is true of Jesse Jones and Jack Fahey. Looking back over our history—the terrible ineptitude of the conduct of the war among the states and the graft and patronage-ridden administrations | of Grant, McKinley and Harding compared with the civic honesty of both the Wilson and Franklin Roose= velt administrations, it is impossible not to give the devil (if you think so) his due—and concede that there has been morality in appointments and administration. Andrews’ nomination has no political significance whatever, It was solely on merit and his adminise tration will be correspondingly excellent.

It Seems to Me By Heywood Broun

But self-

| to modify the system so that each | | man may accumulate a limit of five |

for |

Our Columnist Proposes Manhattan Have a Parade Against Prejudice.

| | EW YORK, July 19.—A much traveled man once told me he thought Copenhagen the gayest of all cities, because the Danes were forever having a parade in honor of somebody. It seems to me that New York has a great capacity for enthusiasm, and I am in favor of having more demonstrations and also of broadening the entrance requirements. A good rousing parade sort of sets up a city and adds to its morale. Life looks better when the papers | brings us pictures of ticker tape showers instead of | “Xs” marking the spot where the victim's body was found. With the World's Fair just around the corner we | should go in for scrolls and speeches and lots of hoopla. | And it is the city’s good fortune that Mayor La Guardia is among the most felicitous of executive greeters. | To be sure, flestas make extra work for cops and | street cleaners, and some of the local merchants con- | tend that too much public jubilation is bad for busi- | ness. In this I believe they are mistaken. | But in any case, some portion of a park might | be designated as the avenue of triumph. Objection may be made by such skilful prestidigitators as Gro- | ver and Fiorello, But it is my notion that as yet certain fields have not yet been sufficiently explored. Aviators, visiting royalty, athletes and Channel swimmers have all had their opportunity to receive the { plaudits of New York. But how about the poets and the painters and the novelists?

| Mann Should Be Honored For instance, I think the great melic; . is of | American democracy should have put Thomas Mann on the back seat of an automobile and offered him the opportunity to receive the acclaim which is justly { due to one of the great spirits of the world. Per- | haps t is not too late even now, for such a civie | tribute would afford the public a chance to make itself articulate in answering the philosophy of the Nazis. None will deny Mr. Whalen's flair for publicity, but just the same I want to make a timid suggestion | which would be in keeping with the spirit of the | World's Fair. How about a melting pot parade? | Among the marchers could be representatives of all | the nationalities that have made us truly metropolitan. Men and women who have made their mark | in civic affairs could march side by side with refugees { from terror who have just landed. Such a demon- | stration could be an eloquent city-wide gesture against

USTICE discards party, friend- ural laws, and since ignorance is| all and every form of prejudice.

| represented as blind.—Addison.

ship, kindred, and is therefore no defense we are daily reaping the |

| penalties imposed by their violation.

LET'S EXPLORE YOUR MIND

BL TODAY Ag EVER? YES ORNO__ i

NO. It is about the most wideawake thing going on in this wide-awake time, The fact that over 200 colleges are giving courses on

love-making, mate-selectio amily

By DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM

AITA MINUTE," WILL IT HELP YOU TO 6VESS THE ORRECT TINE BY

C COUNTING WITH YOUR FINGERS.

WORLD BE BETTER OFF IF THE TYPE OF ENGINE

WHICH HAS MADE POSSIBLE THE poo, AlR-

AE BEEN INVENTED? YES ORNO—

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life and the general problems of marriage is proof of this. The magazines are full of articles on the psychology of love—most of them

pretty sound—some of jthem bosh. | human

{

, But certainly this age of science is | taking the blinders off of love—and | T think on the whole making it more | instead of less romantic. | o ” ” 2 TWO PSYCHOLOGISTS, Gil- | liland and Martin, | western University, tried this on a | number of people, and found they | were just as far wrong when they | counted or tapped with the fingers as when they did neither one. Some were better guessers than others but {on the average they missed the time | by 40 per cent.

| &

| —one that likes the old ways,

pines for the quiet yesterdays; the other that wants novelty, change and speed plus social, intellectual | and physical adventure. I hope I | belong to the latter type. Even when | I don’t precisely enjoy it, I want to be in step with the age—because I | know the world from now on will always be that kind of a world—a world of changing institutions, customs and designs of living. But I | know also that the fundamental artistic, ethical and religious urges and satisfactions will always remain the same. It takes more courage, hazard, effort to find them in a world of turmoil but we are greater beings when we do.

of North-|

THERE are two types of minds |

And to get back to my original nomination, I | think that Thomas Mann would be just the one to | lead the line of march.

Watching Your Health

| | By Dr. Morris Fishbein

T= difficulties of travel abroad at the present time has turned new attention to the healing spririgs and mineral waters of the United States.

From the very earliest times men have had the | belief that a stay at such healing springs was ex- | ceedingly beneficial to the health. When the waters of these resorts are studied chemically or with relationship to their effects on the human body, it is found that in hundreds of instances the waters are without any extraordinary physical or chemical qualities whatever. In other instances the waters possess extraordinary amounts of laxative salts; sometimes they are impregnated with various gases. Regardless of the amount of quality of the materials found, they are usually endowed with virtues far be yond anything that science can really demonstrate. ' The mineral wells, the sulphur springs, the hot wa« ter geysers, and those springs which provided waters with varying amounts of chemical ingredients have been the ones which have always attracted the most attention. One expert has pointed out that the qualities of natural water cures may be automatically arranged into three groups: (1) Those water cures which have physical effects; (2) those water cures in which certain magical virtues are accredited to the water, and (3) those springs which are endowed with certain re= ligious attributes, . The shock associated by suddenly plunging the human body into very cold water is known to have a definite effect both on the mind and on the body. In an earlier generation it was customary to pl the insane ginto very cold water with the idea that the shock might do them some good. Today we rece ognize the exceedingly sedative and quieting effects

| of long ipmersion in warm water,