Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 August 1938 — Page 8

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MONDAY, AUGUST 22, 1938

MAY THE LEAST DUMB WIN TALF the fun of watching politics is keeping score on the “boners.” Witness the campaign in Georgia. The New Deal crowd cracks down en the opposition by firing Edgar Dunlap, regional head of the RFC, because of Mr. Dunldp’s activities in behalf of Senator George. This was supposed to be a “shrewd” political move to teach Georgia politicians a lesson. Our reporter, Thomas L. Stokes, writing from Macon, Ga., chronicles the reaction: «Presto—Senator George had the issue for which he has waited to strike back at the President and the New Deal ‘purgers.” A martyr to feed the voters, thousands of whom were already mad to the eyeballs.” But a merciful providence, nonpartisan in the bestowing of political obtuseness, does not leave the New Dealers to extricate themselves. Rescue comes from none other than James W. Arnold, Republican National Committeeman from Georgia, who with elephantine grace steps forward to appeal to the Republicans of Georgia to enter the Democratic primary and vote for Senator George, and thereby help to “split the national convention of the Democratic Party in 1940.” The effect is to lend color to the New Dealers’ charges that Senator George is hand-in-glove with the Republicans, which does no good for the Senator in a state where Republicans poll only about 10 per cent of the votes. Well, it’s a merry contest of blunders—and probably will be won by the side whose strategists are least active in outsmarting themselves. 2 8 B » 8 2 E can’t conclude without remarking the unusual letter which Chairman Jesse Jones sent out to all RFC agency managers. The letter, publicized as the justification for the firing of Mr. Dunlap, deposes that “the RFC is a bipartisan Governmental agency,” and warns that “its employees are requested to take no active part, aside from voting their convictions, either in the primaries or the fall elections.” It probably has not occurred to Jesse to send a copy of that letter to Tommy Corcoran, who is attached to the RFC legal staff for pay and office quarters but finds much more excitement as generalissimo of the purge.

JUGGLING THE VOTERS HE Republican effort to redistrict New York State in such a way as to make one farmer’s vote carry as much weight as two city-dwellers’ votes is in the worst jradifion of gerrymandering and rotten boroughs. It is the same sort of trick as the one tried by Governor Browning of Tennessee recently, when he sought to introduce a county-unit voting system in order to reduce the influence of Memphis voters and their boss, Ed Crump. The Tennessee trick failed, as we hope the New York one will. Millions of Americans are disentranchised; or partly ~ so, through various such arrangements. Look at some of the state maps showing the boundaries of Congressional districts—Illinois' for instance— and you will think a madman, or at the very least a surrealist, charted those lines. But of course it was only the politicians scheming to make one vote do the work of two by geographical sleight-of<hand. We have been used to this sort of thing for a hy time, but that is scarcely a justification.

WHY? carry first-class freight from Knoxville, Tenn., to Columbus, O., (393 miles) —$1.41 per 100 pounds. To carry first-class freight from Baltimore, Md., to Warren, O., (393 miles)—94 cents per 100 pounds. To carry first-class freight from El Paso, Tex. to Springfield, Ill., (1236 miles) —$3.30 per 100 pounds. To carry first-class freight from Springfield, 1l., to Lewiston, Me., (1216 miles)—$1.73 per 100 pounds. 2 ® 8 ” 2 8 HY this heavy discrimination against the South, under “any circumstance? Why, especially, in view of the National Emergency Council's “report on the economic conditions of. the South,” which says: “Two chief reasons for higher freight rates have disappeared. One was the greater expense of railroading in the South, due to physical difficulties. This has been minimized by modern engineering. Another was the comparative lack of traffic that prevented the spreading of the cost. - This no longer is the case, since many important Southern roads have as great a traffic density as those above the Ohio River. The operating costs of Southern lines today are lower than those in the Eastern territory.”

THE BEST POLICY

VIDENCE to support the theory that honesty is increasing may not be too plentiful, but it can be found by diligent search. Reading 10 newspapers, we discovered the following items: George M. Rentschler of Springfield, Ill, -asked the State to take back $1500 which he estimated he didn’t earn as an investigator for the State Treasurer's office. Employed years ago at $76 a month, he was never called upon to do "any actual work, and since then has been saving money to make the refund. Judge William P. Woolls of the Corporation Court at Alexandria, Va., told the City Council he doesn't want a $500 salary increase to which he ig legally entitled this year. He gets $6900 a year now, and thinks that is enough. And an unidentified man dropped $29 in nickles, dimes, quarters and half-dollars in the lobby of a Chicago bank. Dozens of persons scrambled for the coins on the marble

floor—and restored every single one of them to their

Business Manager

Fair Enough

{ By Westbrook Pegler

Writer Holds Least of Offenses of SE 2

Racing Occur on Track or in Barns;

What About Meade Phone Tapping? | €

EW YORK, Aug. 22.—Don Meade, a jockey who once rode ‘a Kentucky Derby winner has been |

reinstated for duty on the Florida tracks after a long suspension on the basis of information which was obtained by wiretapping as he communicated with his

bookmaker. ‘Even assuming that he bet against his | «

own horse and then lost his race to win his wager,

Mr. Meade would establish no marked moral inferior-

ity to many of those who have the honor of the game ;

in their keeping.

Mr. Meade was riding by authority of & law which | was shush-funded through a cheap Florida Legisla-~ ture. He knew, if he had been at all observant, that.

no tests of character or honor are assumed by those who operate race tracks. He doubtless. had seen horses owned by underworld characters running in the colors of dummy stables, and he must have seen some of the ‘most august of the racing industry

sweating over the gambling tables in the evening in | 3 In short, Mr. Meade .would have been justified in hoping that a Hite I ; ‘of larceny would be interpreted as the sincerest fla

Joints operated by criminals.

tery of many of the influential elders of the game. Thus it must have shocked the boy to hear that he was suspended that time, the more so when it came out that his phone had been tapped, an offense itself no less criminal than that of one’s lap. » ® 8

ACING is such a bizarre mixture of fancy man-

ners, high pretense, bribery and ‘lop-eared

racketeering that, far from affecting a righteous frown at the discovery of a little funny business, the governors should whoop with proud surprise whenever they discover evidence tending to show that a race has been run on the level. Theirs is a sport which lives by the permission of cash-and-carry political bosses and state legislators. It is, in the main, a gambling concession of which the horses and the little monkeys who stride them are only the gadgets. The motive is percentage, and the same effect could be observed if the same legislatures should issue a similar number of exclusive licenses to the same operators to conduct gigantic roulette wheels, seven or eight whirls a day. It is not a noble institution, and its occasional blurts of indignation against the more clumsy offenders only emphasize the paltriness of their nickel and dime swindles by

‘comparison with the major coups of some of the

distinguished leaders, including financiers. - 8 2

T has always been my sordid contention that the public, even including the bettors, is no worse off for a fake, and no better off for an honest race, because fakery should be reckoned as one of the possibilities. And if a horse be pulled by the jockey and another, and quite unworthy, horse win the ~gce, that merely means that certain other persons profit’

and rejoice instead of those no more worthy individ-

uals who bet the favorite. This, however, is just a mischievous thought of one individual which has nothing to do with the fact that the least of the moral offenses of racing occur on the track and in the barns. Those who tapped Mr. Meade’s telephone, for example, or bribed public officials, probably did not even give a thought to the possibility that there could be something criminal in that.

Business By John T. Flynn

Our Job Is to Wrestle With Own Economic Instability, Not World's.

EW YQRK, Aug. 22.—Mr. Cordell Hull has with great solemnity offered a program for solving the world’s troubles, No one can doubt the sincerity and deep earnestness of Mr. Hull in the cause of peace, but his cure sounds a good deal like the cure of the man who was dying from malnutrition. He was told that his hope lay in eating more and better food. This left him with the question of getting more and better food still unanswered. Mr. Hull diagnoses the world’s ills as economic instability, excessive armament, the rise of the war spirit and the flouting of international treaties. The cure for all this, he tells us; is to improve the world’s economic position, to reduce armaments, to quit hostile invasions and to introduce international order. But how? That question, which is the only one to be answered, he leaves gloriously untouched. Mr. Hull describes the current drift to war, the invasion of territories, interference in the internal affairs of neighbors, disregard of the principles of international morality, violation of treaties, as some new, modern manifestation which has just made its appearance in the world and which, therefore, threatens our civilization itself. No one will defend these vile social diseases, but they are not new. They did not begin to threaten civilization with the invasion of China or Ethiopia or Austria or Spain. They are old diseases against which Mr. Hull's cures "of disarmament and treaty agreements have proved utterly futile.

World Pacts Won't Solve Problem He speaks of the many invasions of neighbor

provinces as the cause of the present world dilemma.

Of course this is not a realistic view. The invasions, the armaments, the undeclared wars are part of the world’s dilemma, not the cause of it. They are effects. With this the world cannot deal by international agreements. Each country must deal with its economic system itself. There is no way of reforming the nation's economic system save by its own internal action.

We can make reciprocal treaties and that’s a good

thing, but it is silly to pretend that it is important or in any way dealing with the world’s actual woes. There is one thing we can do. We can deal with the economic instability in our own nation. A good way to slow that process up is to divert our people’s attention from it to solving the woes of the world. A sure way to prevent our own economic reorganization is to get our people all steamed up about helping other counties to reorganize their economic systems.

A Women's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson we I get hot and cross and tired, I go out

and look at the zinnias. What remarkable flowers they are, so sturdy, so dignified, so friendly. Even in the most scorching heat they lift proud heads to the searing sun, and the hotter it is the more upright they stand. As other vegetation around them droops, they seem to gain fresh life from their wilted companions. Defiant—that’s what the zinnias are. Refusing to

bow to the sun’s devouring heat, or to bend their

heads before the threat of a brazen sky, they symbolize some stanchness pf soul that is good for people to think about. Every morning, with the dew fresh on their petals, they offer themselves for our plucking--little, big and middle-sized zinnias, in every shade of bronze, yellow and carmine. And though we fill our vases daily and are cheered by their pert, bright faces, next morning

there are always new anes to take the piace of those |. =

we, gathered the day before. They are prodigal with their favors, lavishing their sweetness and hidden strength upon us during the most blistering month of the year—August.

In Oklahoma's August most flowers must be tena | and mulched.

ed diligently, watered, sprayed, trimmed and The delicate ones, such as the naturtiums, die with the first heat waves. Others appear only Sool ol spring weather or in well-kept gardens. But the

Sion most and they ask very little of us.

There are zinnia people too. One meets them every day, smiling in spite of the heat and humidity, merry as crickets, brightening the corners where they live and work. We do not appreciate them hay snougn, Instead we take them for granted as

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

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SAYS NATION NEEDED HULL'S APPEAL By E, B. Our very able Secretary of State,

ternational importance on Aug. 16, over a national network.

rhetorical flourish, riousness which these perilous times

to all the civilized world to take

.| steps of co-operation as are im-

peratively needed to prevent the threatened collapse of our civilization in another war. “Angther world war threatens and impends; and the co-operation for international peace alone can prevent the collapse of our civilization,” he said. : This was the burden of his appeal, the most serious and important that it was ever my privilege to hear. Our own people needed this appeal and rebuke from Mr. Hull. as much as the belligerent nations, for whose benefit it was intended. Heretofore, our President and Mr. Hull have received little support in their efforts for Pan-American trade relations. Our businessmen generally are still too steeped in medieval fallacies of self-sufficiency, and a belief in tariff barriers to catch even a glimpse of the great advantages from free and friendly trade relations, and their ultimate value for peace and civilization.

# f J 2 EDITORIAL URGING BALANCED BUDGET 18 CITED By Voice in the Crowd

Please reprint the following from the Iron Age: There is something to be said for the old method of “working out” taxes. One good thing about it was that er was no hocus-pocus or concealment. The farmer knew exac labor Government. And it was at most only a few days per year. That was in the “good old days” of 25 years ago, when our national debt was little more than one hillion dollars. Today, things are different. Our national debt was jumped by the World War, to over 20. hillion dollars. The unbalanced hudget for the last seven years will make it 40 billion dollars by this time next

year. Now debt means taxes. And taxes must be paid, as President Franklin D. Roosevelt has said, “by the sweat of every man who labors.” That is absolutely true. Labor must and will assume the lion’s share of paying not only the pres-

-how many days of “free”

Mr. Hull, delivered a speech of inIn the purest English, without. and with a se-

demand, Mr. Hull made an appeal.

e was supposed to give the}

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

ent taxes, not only the deficit now and for six previous years, but also must pay off most of the national debt. Forty billion dollars. There is no other source from which to get the money. Government cah’t take it from the incomes of the rich, because they are now being taxed up to 70 per cent. If Government took the whole 100 per cent, it would hardly be a drop in the bucket. Careful studies have revealed that the average wage earmer, even though exempt from income taxes, is now handling from 20 to 25 per cent of his income to the Government through concealed taxes. When this fact becomes generally known to American labor we are going to have an overwhelming demand for economy, & balanced budget and the abolition from public life of politicians who bait their vote hooks from the Federal pork barrel. aes PROTESTS GIVING DOGS AS PRIZES By Mrs. R. F. F.

There should be a law against

giving a dog as a prize. Not so long ago a dog was offered for a door

LOST—A DREAM

By ALBERTA DUNCAN STIER

Lost—a dream that we would go Hand in hand adown a winding lane; E And going, "learn to know The worthiness of pain.

logan: dream that Heaven would

be mine, Lost—-a vision of you so Year; Lost—a love once so divin Lost—my aim of living; be are 3 not here.

DAILY THOUGHT

O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!—Romans 11:33.

ELIGION is the best armor in the world, but the worst cloak.

—John Newton.

prize, ‘snd’ the people ‘who drew him

didn’t want :him, and he has been’ kept chained in the yard since. 1 think this is a cruel thing to do —if people. want a dog they know how to get one, and nine times out. of 10 somebody who doesn’t really want the dog: draws him, and causes him to be mistreated or thrown out.

It seems to me this ‘is a place

act. : homie PRESIDENT'S ACTIONS VIEWED WITH DISFAVOR

By A. J C.

Thoughtful folk, of all shades of political opinion, must view with

disfavor the antics of Mr. Roosevelt in the course of his trip through the West and South. The egotism that constitutes so large part of our President’s personality - was never so prominently exposed. Conferring his “blessing” on his favorites and damning all who dared to differ with ‘him, he showed, unmistakably, his contempt for the intelligence of the voters of these states, whose decisions he tried to influence with his impudent interference.

It is very evident to all but the most blind partisans that man who does his own thinking not wanted in Washington. The “yes man” and the “me too” individual are the only ones that can hope for the royal favor; any man, no matter how intelligent he is, no matter how honorable he is, let him be the foremost citizen of his state, learned, patriotic, humane, let him be all of these but if he don’t see eye to eye with F. D. R, let’ him be anathema.

It seems that the American people should wake up to the danger that lies in supporting such antics as these and should realize that the only representative government that the people can hope for is. that government which was established by the founders of the republic, a government of three independent parts, each interdependent on the other, and each responsible, solely, to the electorate to whose suffrages they owe their powers. ®» 8 ”

MAILING OF WPA CHECKS . ON SATURDAY SOUGHT By a WPA Worker

I would like to know if something can't be done in regard to the WPA payday. Quite often payday comes on Sunday or Monday now. Since the checks are dated several days ahead, why can’t they be mailed on Saturday, when the stores have sales on groceries?

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LET'S EXPLORE YOUR MIND

By DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM-—

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communism or fascism does now.

| | Darwin suggested that some giraffes

were naturally born with longer necks than others, no matter what their ancestors did, and that in times of food scarcity those with the Jongest necks could eat the leaves on the higher branches. The result, as Herbert Spencer put it, was “the survival of the fittest” or as we put

‘it now, the “survival of the best. adapted.”

This all through living nature is now. held by competent students to have been a major factor in the evo:ution of plants and animals.

3 J » 2 NOTHING delights me moré than to be able to base an opin-

mented on this problem by organ-

izing three groups ‘of school chil-

“citizens” under three

* under a ‘dictator hated coun | thirty times more strongly- than did those of the “democratic

‘| ‘Woodrow Wilson, seemed absolutely innocent. - | President, not even Andy Jackson, could hold a sandle to F. D. R:in this sprightly science.

; His. id Political ‘Magic Outside The Borders’ of the United States.

AKESIDE, o, Aug. 22—One of the President's greatest prides is that he knows how to “get things done politically.” It is an art of which some Presidents like’ Mr. Hoover and, toward the end, No

~ He is supposed to have said that if he had been

: -| charged with Mr. Wilson’s job of putting us in the

‘League of Nations, he could have done it and I believes

‘| he could. ‘He was turned back on the Court bill and ‘the ‘extreme form in which reorganization was | presented, yi you can bet that he is far from ‘through.

If-his purges all succeed, he will be back with them and more—and he will get away with it. -

Like a .good chess player, he makes very few moves which are not merely preliminary to what he wants 10. mo ahead. A vast Government hydro electric Shenoy province in the St. Lawrence water -shed has beeni his hobby for many years. It can’t be done without Canadisp consent and co-operation,

AJ EEORETIOALLY, - date water channel through the Great Lakes with enlarged locks and harbors ‘would - enable great ocean-going vessels to dock at Duluth and Chicago. Practically, for reasons already stated here, its use and economic advantage to the

’ interior states would be trifling. That statement is

contested, but at least it is fair to say that the Great Lakes seaway has been ruthlessly oversold to the lake and interior states. But it is politically necessary to have their support for the hydro-electric development in the St. Lawrence. Furthermore, the Federal Government 1s supposed to have no legal power to develop hydro-electric proj ects, except as an incident to its power to develop waterways for navigation. For both reasons, while

| Mr. Roosevelt isn’t the author of the St. Lawrence seaway plan, he is a far better foster father than any

of its natural parents. That is “getting things i polisieally. » » » 2

OME critics may say that F. D. is getting to be - pretty much of a fuehrer in assuming to assure & foreign country of military assistance in case of ate tack: and warning it against permitting water power -development by American interests, It would be pretty hard: to attack the truth of what he actually said on ‘the latter point and, while what he said on the former seems s , it filters out to be nothing more ‘than the statement of a simple fact. . The’ St. Lawrence route is, and from the bee ginning has been, the path of exploration, conques§ -and colenization to the very heart of this nation, It is an arc of waterways and’ easy gradients from Quebec to New Orleans including some of our great est. cities and industrial areas. We could no more permit an attack on Canada than we oould fail to resist -one on New York or San Francisco. What the President said on that subject was no more startling: than the thrilling fact that two and two make four. But, boy, with the Canadian water-

- ways treaty coming up again, what scintillatingly

where the Humane Society should : hrilliank use She oli boy was making of 3,

It Seems to Me

By Heywood Broun Headline Words Can Easily Cloud

The Fundamental Political Issues.

EW YORK, Aug. 22.—Much has been heard lately .about rubber stamps and the danger that they constitute to Congress. My own feeling is that the patent leather heels in that august body represent a greater threat to democracy. And it is worth noting that the phrase “rubber stamp” is itself a “rubber stamp” by this time, No human activity in America tortures words so cruelly as politics.

As an old, old copy reader I appreciate the demand

and even the necessity for short words which will fit

into a one-column head. Even though I quit pulling a feeble dar in the galleys several years ago, I still have an aversion to “m” and to “w” because they rate a count of one and a half and may thwart the possi bility of a terse and telling large type streamer. One of the barriers to progressive action lies in the simple fact that “red” contains only three letters and becomes inevitably the first and last resort of every newspaper man who sits on a desk. And likewise it is a pity that “purge” counts only five. A truly fundamental issue between progress and reaction is raised in the coming primary battles, and it will be a pity if its significance is swept away by a willingness to translate the problem into the lazy terms of a label. : The radio address of John J. O'Connor, representative of Tammany Hall and chairman of the House Rules Committee, seemed to me somewhat less than masterful. When John J. began by thanking the radio chain for “this opportunity to briefly reply to the at« tack on me” I knew by the laggard promptings of a belated grammar school training that it just would not be very good.

What's Wrong With “Pickle”?

John J. seems curiously sensitive to the shock of words. A man who has come HD Unoush the the wards in the New York machine ought to be made of sterner stuff. “It is difficult.” said John J. O'Connor, “to believe the President would himself speak the same language as that editorial including the word ‘pickle.’” Buf what is wrong with “pickle”? Why should lusty John, from a constituency which includes both pent and gas house, bridle over such a simple and accepted symbel? The President used the homely verb to ine dicate the process, well known in O'Connor's Rules Committee, of taking progressive measures and puts ting them away in brine before shelving them in the pantry. Indeed, I think that John J. has thal particular practice very much in mind when he presents as one who would "prisarvy?

democracy.

Watching Your Health

By Dr. Morris Fishbein

the coming of the fall, more and more people will be concerned with the fall type | hay fever. The fall type is usually due to the Tag weed. -of- our states are relatively free from rage wey ot example, Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, Idaho and Nevada do not have much ragweed, and people who are sensitive to this plant may get relief in these states. There are, however, in these states as well as in most other states, other forms of plant life to which the same people may be sensitive. There are very few pacple who are sensitive only

to a single form of plan} California, Oregon and Washington are reported to be relatively favorable. as places of residence for sufferers from the fall type of hay fever. However, plant life is exceedingly abundant in these three states, particularly in the Hore wes), 3 and the person with hay fever may be sensitive to some of the

‘other plants.

The investigators who have studied the distribue tion of plants in relationship to hay fever t out that Wisconsin and Minnesota are not favorable states for those suffering with. hay ToViE ESL 8 certain portions. ,

The cousline, from Ashland, Wis. to :

country.” . Furthermore ihe} Just Maine