Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 August 1938 — Page 14

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Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way

FRIDAY, AUGUST 19, 1938

G 0. P.—RICH MEN, POOR MEN ~XCERPTS from President Roosevelt's Social Security speech, reprinted here for the special benefit of the Republican Party: “The first to turn to Government, the first to receive protection from Government, were not the poor and the lowly—those who had no resources other than their daily earfiings—but the rich and the strong. Beginning in the. 19th Century, the United States passed protective laws designed, in the main, to give security to property owners, to industrialists, to merchants and to bankers, . . . The powerful in industry and commerce had powerful voices . . « whenever they saw their possessions threatened, they raised their voices in appeals for Government protection.” « __. workers became more articulate. . .. Strength of skill or arm or brain did not guarantee a man a job; it did not guarantee him a roof; it did not guarantee him the ability to provide for those dependent upon him or to take care of himself when he was too old to work. «. . The

millions of today want, and have a right to, the same |

security their forefathers sought—the assurance that with health and the willingness to work they will find a place for themselves in the social and economic system of the time. . . . Government must now step in and help lay the foundation stones, just as Government in the past has helped lay the foundation of business and industry. We must face the fact that in this country we have a rich man’s security and a poor man’s security and that the Government owes equal obligations to both.” t 4 2 8 2 o 8 > WHY for the special benefit of Republicans? Because those remarks illuminate and document some sound observations and advice which Republican Congressman Bruce Barton gave to his party as keynoter at the Indiana Republican convention two months ago. Commenting on Mr. Roosevelt's great mass popularity, Mr. Barton said: | “The answer is easy. Those men and women who have been most neglected in our American life believe ; they have found a friend. For the first time in the lives of many of them there is the sense of security which friendship gives. In a job, or out of a job, in funds, or on relief, they say to themselves: ‘He cares. He is trying to do something about it.’ . .. This mass feeling toward the President is the controlling political influence of our day. To ignore it is blindness; to inveigh against it is political insanity. The intelligent attitude is te:admire it; covet it, and set industriously and sincerely to work to deserve it.”

Republican leaders who cherish the heritage of the Grundys and the Smoots and the Hawleys, of course, will not be impressed. But Republicans who would make theirs once more the party of Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt “will understand that Bruce Barton is pointing the way.

THE NEW CANCER CLINIC

HE new cancer clinic presented to the City by Edwin L. Patrick is a bequest of great value. ; Modern in every respect, the clinic will provide the. best available treatment for sufferers from this disease. Facilities are to be used for research as well as diagnosis and treatment. This should result in a more successful attack on cancer. Mr. Patrick’s gift provides scientific advancement of which Indianapolis is deeply appreciative.

HARD ON PANACEAS . A. BERLE JR is one brain-truster who apparently doesn’t look upon any pet solution as something to be taken for granted. He has a disconcerting way of asking why and when and whither, and of challenging what he calls the “preconceptions” of some of his colleagues. His latest venture is in a confidential memorandum— it didn’t remain confidential long—which he wrote for members of the National Economic Committee, now conducting the so-called antimonopoly investigation. In this document he does a: good job of puncturing such presumptions as that the country’s economic problems can be cured by whittling big businesses into little ones, or by a general program of public ownership, or by Government regulation, or by any other simple- formula. . Is littleness an end in itself? What about the focal monopolies that were enjoyed by the village blacksmith, the village grocer and the village miller, who fixed prices because their tustomers were unable to take their trade elsewhere, “Nostalgic reminiscences,” says Mr. Berle. These village monopolists didn’t know the meaning of competition until the advent of mail-order houses, chain stores and - cheap automobile transportation, Does unrestricted competition provide the answer? What about the automobile manufacturers who competitively overproduced and oversold their market in 1937, and then had to stop their assembly lines and discharge workers in 19382 If by collusion they had agreed to only normal production schedules in 1937, they could have been prosecuted for restraint of trade. But wouldn't it have been economically better if the manufacturers had been permitted to combine and restrain? In some fields where unbridled competition is destructive, and where we are not prepared either for monopoly or public ownership, a formula may be found in Government regulation. But, observes Mr. Berle, “There is always the certainty that, at some stage in the history of a regu- . lative body, the regulations will be used for purposes which are either corrupt, political, or doctrinaire. Any of these ° three may produce violent and extremely unhealthy results. ‘A Harry Daugherty running the Securities and Exchange Commission, as at present constituted, or a Whitney running the Federal Reserve Bank, could create a series of - interests which would take years to dislodge.” In brief, in respect to every plan and every type of ‘business which the antimonopolists are studying, Mr. Berle

Fair Enough

By Westbrook. Pegler

Jimmy Rossavelt Says; I'm Glad

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title of hispiece is “I'm Glad You Asked Me,” the ques tion was-put.to. the little. eagle of the dynasty Just - about a year ago. It was put by Congressman Treads

way—a Republican, to be sure—in a carefully prepared |

statement delivered on the floor of the ‘House. From:

the title, “I'm Glad Yon Asked Me it might be ;

thought that the question whether the President's son. profited from dealings with firms subject to the whims ~ of the Government had been raised only yesterday | and that Jimmy's reply was a spontaneous comeback. ‘But Congressman Treadway on Aug. 14 last reported to the House that he ‘had been an attempt to compel: the t ‘committee on: avoidance to analyze the eaglet’s. returns. He. that Jimmy did appear before the committee but. when he, Treadway, him some’ Suestjons he he v choked. off. ,And, “slough ‘Jimmy's tax return offered for scrutiny, the ttee voted d Trea S7ay's Tequest that an

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‘on the Resident's charge that 1 mainly evade an their taxes: ‘ The ‘returns of accused NS EO analyzed and publicized, ‘but those of the eaglet and Henry Morgenthau were protected from such scrutiny, aithough Congressman Ham Fish, a Republican who represents Henry's home district in the Hudson River dude country, had gone before the committee and charged that Henry had availed himself of a tax loophole, a device having the color, if not, indeed, the substance, of legality, before Congress plugged the loophole. Mr. Treadway said Henry’s returns, like Jimmy's, were produced, but that it was impossible to make head or tail of them because a majority of the committee refused to permit a staff of experts to help.:

8 2 8 } NCIDENTALLY, Jimmy himself, in his first install ment under the title “I'm Glad You Asked Me,” admits that he split with his wife his interest in his insurance firm, thus reducing his Federal and state taxes—a clever little scheme that his lawyer indorsed as having not only the complexion, but the true char acter of legality, That this was detrimental to the revenue of Government seems to need no arguing, but it is a fine question whether it was an attack on the “legitimate” revenues of Government and i on the foundations of society. Alva Johnson and the Saturday Evening Post have been jabbed with the finger of scorn for putting a question which Jimmy says he is glad they asked. But,

bless you, neither Mr. Johnson nor the Post asked the |

question first, nor as pointedly as a member of the United States Congress holding a mandate from the people of Massachusetts. : I think it only goes to show that Mr. Jesse Jones of the RFC spoke the whole personal philosophy of most the official New Dealers the other day when a

| reporter asked him to reconcile. his demand for more

lending by banks with the fact that his own banks have shown a decrease in such loans. Mr. Jones replied, 1 don’t want people ¥ to do as I do but do as. I em. ”» :

Business . By John T. Flynn

Missouri Project Points ‘Way to

Solution of the Housing Problem. ATEW YORK, Aug. 19.—Believing that ‘the most important problem now is the problem of lowe

-cost housing, I have from time to’ time. -1eppried on

all efforts to deal with that problem.

One of the tragedies of the times was that in 1933 a laboratory was not set up in the Government to attack this problem. Instead, while various Gov=ernment agencies mulled around with the problem, the President brought to Washington as. his “housing co-ordinator” a representative of the greatest enemy of low-cost housing in the country. This merely by way of preface. For now here and there some attempts are being made both in and out of the Government to settle this problem. One comes to my attention from the Farm Security Administration which looks interesting. One hundred houses were built in a resettlement project at LaForge, Mo. I have seen photographs of these houses in various stages of construction. They: are good farm houses of four and five rooms. There is no basement but the house stands on concrete piers insulated by means of tin against termites. No. 1 lumber is used outside and No. 2 inside, which is adequate. They have a pleasing exterior. appearance. heating, all of which must be considered in estimating the cost. The direct cost of building 89 five-room houses was $98,369.13. This means they cost $1105.27 eac

Cost Placed Near $2000

However, there were other costs including surveys, road: and street construction, wells, fences (around large tract), barns and other out-houses. These would bring the cost—with overhead—up to a little less than $2000. This was a group project. That is, the entire hundred ‘houses were planned at once and erected as a single project. All parts were cut to size in a

: central workshop.

Perhaps an allowance must be made for the fact

that assembling in the shop was done hy unskilled

labor directed by skilled labor and the same was true on the job. Those who insist that Government moves more expensively than private builders ought. to be willing to believe that a project like this organized by a private operator could be carried forward at an even smaller ‘cost. These are the only type of low-cost. projects which have any relation to the real housing problem. The Government forays into housing construction of units that cost five and six thousand dollars apiece are a mere waste of effort.

A Women's Viewpoint

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

TT legal committee chairman of the. National Divorce -Reform League, Theodore Apstein, points out that it is possible for a man in the United

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

SAYS STAR IN CENTER OF CRESCENT MOON POSSIBLE By Daily Reader . . In.The Times Aug. 10, in “This Curious World” department, there ‘appeared a picture of a crescent moon. with a star in the center. The notation underneath stated that this could not be possihle—that the star could not be seen since it would be

This is an error, as I have witnessed this myself. One evening my mother called me to come outdoors and see something pretty. I went, and there was displayed a large,” brilliant crescent

sky was unusually clear and we ‘both

“Maybe it is a sign; perhaps it means something, like the star ‘of ‘Bethlehem.” Mother answered, “No, I have seen it before. It occurs at certain regular intervals.” - It was a beautiful sight. My older brother says he too has seen the same thing. * This erroneous statement ‘appeared once before in The es, and I watched the paper for days to see if somebody would write in and correct it. If we three have seen this phenomenon, . surely others have, ; L » 8 : 2 : LEGION’S ACTION AGAINST LA GUARDIA SCORED By C. TH 2 Certain organized. ture groups have harassed horfest public administrators and successfully tempted the shifty and unstable political opportunists all too frequently in the past for the‘ good of any democracy. Among the more aggressive and

the American Legion, which; after 20 years, still sounds the patriotic air calling all stanch citizens to mobilize ' against the many and varied invisible foes, most of which are conjured in the minds of Legion | - lenders to keep the group in an organized status. Nothing seems to

as rallying around an issue. there must not be a dearth of issues, lest members hesitate to observe the workings of their group. - I was much interested in a press dispatch which told of the refusal of Mayor La Guardia to remove from -office- Simon W. Gerson, a Communist, The Mayor courageous ly held his ‘ground, despite “the

behind the shaded part of the moon.

moon with a star in the center. The: gazed at it in wonder, I exclaimed, |

better organized of these groups is.

unify an organization quite so ‘well | But’

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

Legion, All too well does history of the past indicate what may be feared from a hopelessly prejudiced, well organized group bound together in a military fashion. as I am not’ a member. of the Communist Party nor a sympathizer with any but its mildest views. Nor do I ever expect to.be a member of the party. . But! I do consider .it most necessary for everyone who would, be an American citizen in every sense of the word to maintain a. strictly impartial, tolerant attitude toward our political economy, constantly. bearing mind the welfare of all the populace. The Mayor may lack the official approval of certain Legion groups, but there are many, many citizens of not _only New York City, but of the

| Midwest as well, who are not worried

about “fraternizing” activities. We of that thought think La Guardia is blazing the way to a new and higher standard of public administration. And we know that he will not Be too. discouraged if he fails to receive the backing of ludicrous leaders of negative acting organizations.

SERENITY By RUBY STAINBROOK BUTLER

This joy I feel in simple things; A friendly smile, a note of cheer, A drink of water, crystal clear. A dove's soft coo, in afternoon; The pale pink rose of gracious June; They're. just the sunlight in my

path, and written there—God’s autograph. a ———————

DAILY THOUGHT The Lord knoweth them that are His. And, let everyone that - | nameth the name of Christ deJost from iniquity —II Timothy :19.

ESUS CHRIST is a God to whom we can approach without pride, and before whom we may abase ourselves without despair.—Pascal

familiar pressure of the American

in | fore the Civil War. - The same stock

I think I know just what it means,

| suasion are elected, the President’s’

BELIEVES ‘PURGE’ - IS PROPER : By G.J.B. .. : The President's desire to “purge” the party ..of Senators George, Smith, Tydings, et al. is perfectly right and proper.. The desire on the part of these gentlemen not to be “purged” is also right and proper. It is to be regretted, however, that

on its merits.

Senator George voted with the New Deal when the country was on the verge ‘of going to the “bowwows”: when he and every other conservative ‘were shaking in their shoes in fear of the greatest imaginable hatlohal disaster: “At that time ‘he welcomed a strong. hand with a policy. Four years ‘later, when that same strong hand had removed all’ danger ‘of the disaster, he showed his true colors in fighting the liberal measures of that. policy. Senator George is & conscientious ‘consefvative. He is of the stock that ruled the South 'in the interests of the slaveholders be-

now rules the South in the interests of the new aristocracy. The insinuation that the President is trying to dictate to Georgia, or that he is beginning a new “march through. Georgia,” or that | he is against “states’ rights” is not | the issue. Senator George's whole experience had béen with two classes of people—the rich, educated, powerful on one hand, and the poor, ignorant, weak on the other. Senator George, as & conservative, is conscious only of the first. In |’ spite of his years in Congress, the South still remains thé No, 1 economic problem in the United States. It is this. second class that the President is «trying to help. If enough Senators of the George per-

program will: be halted. This, the reactionaries, ' the economic royalists, the George supporters know. Thus to make votes for their side. Expressions such: as “rubber . stamp” Congréssman “marching through’ Geurgia,” “dictatorship,” “States’ rights,” all have their use in befuddling the issue. Of course George will use these terms because ‘he wants to be Teelected, gnd of course reactionary speakers and newspapers. will. use ‘them because it is not to their in-| terests to have men like George

defeated and men ‘who represent ‘the common’ people elected, gran

LETS EXPLORE YOUR MIND

States to have 49° ‘wives and still: escape prosecution. dm

as a bigamist. a

That is because each state} as well as the District iL

of Columbia, has its own marital laws, Mr, -Apstein warns us that because no rash male has yet seen fit to take a wife in every state is 10 reason we should overlook such a danger. f : Sorry, Mr. Apstein, but this is another of ds menaces we shan’t worry about during dog days. It’s too hot, in the first place, and in the second place we:

do not believe there's a man living today who wants 490

wives. If such an ‘oddity did exist, the worst, thing we can wish for him is that he could have his “drughers.” 2 That would fix him plenty. We know that bigamy is 8 crime, although, from the never-ending feminine scramble for husbands, it probably won’t be long until it is classed as a lesser one than bachelorhood, I daresay, if Mr. Gallu poll, it would be found that women prefer married to the undermarried man. Actually, the National Divorce Reform League should take as a side issue ‘the encouragement of | matrimony among bachelors. This would automatically lower the bigamy rate by putting Single men into

. general circulation, and with bigamy out of the way

wa could take up the more serious matters of divorce | re At his worst, the bigamist isa thetio tio creature, who merits our sympathy instead of ot : [hong wihont sales

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By DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM.-n

~ | | these tests -indicate that love of | things a set of natural, inherited traits and

general, While far from perfect,

is to some extent ie] Bound up: considerably with abils |:

to. notice fine differences good and bad art—whether in

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E American Press wil Suffer # I¥ . Continues to Take Punches From i= New Deal Without Fighting Back. MANY BEACH Del, Aug. 19—From lime to

, thers comes out of this Administration, or cli8 echoing Yessts, al} attack on the Amer.

such as the bill introduced during’ the Reor-

E Sanisation Bil fight in the Senate, These attacks ! ‘have appeared over long enough periods of time <Rod. with: snough Sungiziency io. indicat a-polisy or

at least a conviction.

The accusation is that the great ne ih chains, the press associations, omni to ‘torial : ‘writers are, as ‘was Tocenbly Y intellectual pros

soun are con aa by malefactors of great,

i iF no. Clty are a massive - Ei ~ : Son ® a =

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: IE: a ancient axiom th b truth crushed. SPR et axiom tha i 10 earth

'Mehbeso; but the process'of first being crushed and then is sometimes Jong and painful and in the piece ical magness, o jhe, whole world, when: at last rise, it may have lost an eat, and corsiderable skin. £5, 2. That anti-New Deal newspapers have editorialized

| against it is true and is in accord with the best tra

ditions of journalism. That some few hotly partisan anti-New Deal newspapers have more prominently displayed anti-New Deal news than pro-New Deal news 18 just as true as that some pro-New Deal newspapers have suppressed it., This is closer to the line of the accusation, but it IH) far from making a true bill of the charge because these instances are rela tively rare. Finally, it is true that there are fewer: important papers which are enthusiasio for the New.

Deal than those which are not.

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we g0 “beyond that to the accusation that papers and press associations falsify the news and that columnists and commentators are crooks, it is time for the accusers to make their case with specific examples and it is more than time for the accused to do something besides sit in sanctified

| silence.

So far as my observation and experience go, it is a lie out of whole cloth. As far as my information and belief go, these are opening steps in a furtive purpose Yo Suppress or soften criticism of Governmental action. The press rises to the rank of an American insti= tution of pretty nearly first magnitude. It can ne. more suffer itself by silence to sink into such popular disrepute as would impair its constitutional guarantees, than can the Supreme Court, upon the occasion of every such attack either open or hinted. It should demand proof by page pa warren i and either admit the particular charge and t it, or bury it under disproof and ridicule. od :

It Seems to Me

By Heywood Broun

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Too Many Tears, Writer Complaiis After Seeing ‘Marie Antoinette.’

EW YORK, Aug. 10.—Maybe I Just don't like pice tures. Judging from most of the reviews of

“Marie Antoinette” which I have read, the cinema

critics found the big charade impressive, lavish, thrill ing and stupendous: © But I must admit that after the first couple of hours my own interest lagged. But certainly 1 cannot quarrel with the word “lavish.” The picture magnifen everything it touches, But I wonder whether it might not be a good idea

if movie producers were put on a diet of bread and. water. ' As things stand now, they sometimes seem 80 bereft of resources that they cannot give the baby art anything but money. The folk who framed the story for Norma Shearer hit upon the part about the French Revolution as a kind of afterthought. Possibly it might have been just as well to omit the cataclysm, because an epoch-making event seems pretty silly when it is presented merely as a nasty accident ordered for no other purpose than to gela=~ tinize the lovely cheek of Norma Shearer. Nor do I intend to suggest that Miss Shearer simply knifes into the proceedings like something of -carved ivory. Louis was correct when he remarks, “After me the deluge,” and surely the plot us haye. been conceived upon St. Swithin's Day. In t he Clogs - ing monients the star got little more than one fool. . a gallon of moist anguish. When first I Som tear glisten upon the face of the lovely lady I was moved. But when the dam Busts ‘my sympathies were swept away.

Springboard for a Field Day

“No tears, no good,” wrote Ruth McKinney in an admirable essay, but there is a law of diminishing returns, and that same brine which kindles sorrow may cool the ardor of the spectator’s emotion When: nobody remembers to turn off the tap. One cannot give as much as a working picture of the French Revolution merely in terms of the: life of the Queen. I am quite ready to admit that a "motion picture show must of necessity be a little less than’ Thomas Carlyle, but the Bastile fell in v i it is to be remembered as nothing more than § springboard for a Shearer track and field day. The film makes no suggestion that the vast earthquake was conditioned by an underlying fault; of the pre-. liminary rumbling there is no hint. In the picture. - those -days which shook the world seem little more than a palace coup. Those who get their history wholly from this pros: ; duction are to be pitied, for they will go out into the world with the firm conviction that the monarch fell. as the result of a snatch racket rather than a Tsvollie: : tion. iE :

Watching Your Health

By Dr. Morris Fishbein. a

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