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Give Light ond the People Will Find Their Own Way

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1938

THAT LAST THIRD THIS has been the progress of the Indianapolis Community Fund to date: : On the first day, $225,329 was reported. On the second day, $134,503. On the third day, $38,299. On the fourth day, $43,939. : In other words, the fine showing of the 1939 ‘campaign so far is due in large measure to the prompt and very generous response of a comparatively small number of individuals and firms. gone! That is as it should be. It does not alter the fact, however, that the hardest part of the job still lies ahead— the task of obtaining the thousands of small but important contributions necessary if the campaign is to be successful. ; The remaining third of the goal depends on gifts of this size. This means, of course, a vast amount-of door-bell ringing by the 3000 men and women who are giving unselfishly of their time and energy to insure the success of the campaign. You can help by being. ready with your contribution when they call. And you’ can be sure that your gift will be welcomed with equal enthusiasm whether ‘it be $1 or $100.

WHAT BEGINS AT 40? ELMER F. ANDREWS, administrator of the new national Wage Hour Law, reports: “One concern wrote us informally asking for an exemption for all its workers 40 years of age or over, on the theory that they were handicapped persons. Applications for exemptions such as this will, of course, be promptly

denied.” Well, we should hope so!

TWO REPUBLICAN SPEECHES

ALF M. LANDON, lately the Republican candidate for President, said yesterday at Vienna, Ill.: “Once more we are in a great depression. . . . Business in practically every line is ill and despondent. . . . Industrial production is making a record low. . . . It is a political depression brought on by . .. the national Administration.” : John D. M. Hamilton, the Republican National Chairman, said last night at Dayton, 0.: “I rejoice with you on seeing again smoke coming from the factory chimneys. . . . Already the prospects of a Republican victory in November are giving new heart and courage to business to go ahead.” As a rule, Mr. Landon makes better speechés than Mr. Hamilton does. But this time Mr. Hamilton, at least, seems to have been paying enough attention to current news to realize that business is going ahead again, that smoke is coming from factory chimneys once more. If he wants to give the credit to prospects of a Republican victory, that’s his privilege. : We think most people don’t care so much about why business and industry are on the up-grade. What they do care about is the fact of improvement. They want it to continue. And it seems to us that speeches like Mr. Landon’s, calculated to spread gloom, to create thoughts of business “ill and despondent” and to make things appear worse than they are, help neither the country nor the Republican cause. To

CIGARET PAPERS, BAH! HE political boys, including Raymond E. Willis, have started beating the tom-toms against Secretary Hull's reciprocal trade program. It is impossible to nail all of these false arguments. But, at least, we can stop now and then to knock one in the head as it passes by. We'll take today a statement of an organization which calls itself America’s Wage Earners’ Protective Tariff Conference, the pet lobby of Matthew Woll. Says the A. W. E. P. T. C.: “Czechoslovakian shoes are delivered into New York, Philadelphia and Chicago markets at 59 per cent less than the cost of production of comparable American-made shoes.” B-r-r-r-h-h! Isn't it awful? The truth is that, under our trade agreement with Czechoslovakia, the slight concession we granted in the tariff on shoes is effective only so long as our imports of shoes do not exceed 1.25 per cent of the shoes produced by American manufacturers. And here is the year 1938 almost gone, and American manufacturers not only are selling the 98.75 per cent of the American shoe market reserved for them, but in addition are doing such a good job of competing with the Czechoslovakian and other allegedly “low wage” shoe makers that the latter haven't been able to supply their small quota of 1.25 per cent. Of course, Mr. Woll’s organization couldn’t be expected to mention it, but it is a fact in exchange for a chance at that small bite at our shoe market, Czechoslovakia granted important tariff reductions on many American commodities, notably farm products. «American cigaret concerns import their paper chiefly from France, which amounted to $1,800,122 in 1935.” What of it? In that same year, we sold abroad $143,000,000 worth of leaf and manufactured tobaccos—and France was one of our leading customers. : We couldn’t have exports if we didn’t have imports. And our exports provide a lot of employment for a lot of American wage earners, in whose interest Mr. Woll’s lobby

does not speak. IT WON'T BE

NEV DEALERS believe, according to a Washington NV oolumnist, that the lesson to be learned from the handling of Federal finances during the last two years “is that the budget should not be brought into balance too abruptly.” - This being the ninth year.of Governm pt red ink, we

Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler Westbrook Wonders if the British

Imported Fox Hunters' Government.

EW YORK, Oct. 20.—Now and again we in this country feel a little impatient with ‘ourselves for submitting to the constant criticismgby visiting British

‘be annoyed, but what do you suppose are the feelings of the poor English people toward us, considering that their government has just about been taken over now by a clique of purse-proud snobs exported from the United States—the Astors and the Nancy Langhorne that was? : The Astors struck it rich in the United States and

then, finding the fox, hunting wasn’t so good in this country, and finding the lower classes a little too ready

for England. In time, they bought themselves aristocratic rank, and now they run the good old Times of London, which, in the recent embarrassment with Adolf Hitler, laid down the course to be followed by the British Government. They are the so-called Cliveden set, and Nancy obviously possesses, or pretends to, more in-

now believg will not serve our chil

fluence than the Queen herself. ~~ 8 8 8 ANCY'S idea of democracy is to bandy rough and ready repartee with the lower orders of society in political meetings and, although there have been moments when the simple navvies or ditchdiggers of England have hollored ‘good old Nancy!” there is none of that nonsense about the simple fraternity of human beings in the Cliveden set. You wouldn't be finding much of that simple fraternity business among the Astors anywhere, and if it does come to a question of democracy the most democratic experience that has befallen the family occurred in the American branch when the current John Jacob Astor incurred as a stepfather a secondrate Italian fighter named Enzo Fiermonte. The intricacies of the family are such that it would be difficult to decide offhand the actual relationship between Enzo Fiermonte, known as Enzo the Ginzo, and Maj. John Jacob Astor, the Mr. Big of the London Times and British foreign policy. Maj. John Jacob Astor and the Cliveden set probably have no desire to establish the relationship, for not only was Enzo the Ginzo a prize fighter, but he was once ruled out of a proposed match with Slapsie Maxie Rosenbloom for the light heavyweight championship of the world on the ground that he wasn’t a good enough prize fighter, but persons of democratic mind around New York booed the decision as class discrimination. People around here just thought that a stepfather of a John Jacob Astor was as good as Slapsie Maxie Rosenbloom any day, as long as he behaved himself. # 8 Ld T= British Astors and Col. Charles Lindbergh have been chumming it of late in Great Britain, and after the word came out of Cliveden that the British Prime Minister would please be good enough to do thus-and-so it developed that the American Lindbergh had dipped his bill into the councils which had led up to this super-royal decree. All this Government policy may eve been good policy, and it may be that the apostate Americans of Cliveden in council with Col. Lindbergh, the absentee American, give the poor British a better Government than they could give themselves. But anyone who knows the British will understand that they must have a stuffy sense of fed-upness with this imported Government, and we in this country will have to admit that our problems with the British lecturers is nothing compared to that of the Britisn people under our expatriate fox hunters.

Business By John T. Flynn

The ©. O. P. Is Molding a Farm Issue Which Disturbs Democrats.

OPEKA, Kas., Oct. 20.—There is a campaign on out here for the Governorship and for U. S. Senator McGill's seat. You ‘can hear almost anything you wish to hear about what the outcome will be. It seems important to me, however, chiefly as it gives form and direction to the eternal farm ‘issue as it will appear in the 1940 Presidential campaign. The farmers in Kansas have been getting 45 and 50 cents for their wheat and of course they don’t like that. They are grumbling very much in earnest against the AAA and Henry Wallace. And a crew of Republican mouthpieces, headed by Arthur Vandenberg, has been moving over the state whipping the farmers up to what looks like the farm issue of the next national battle. Henry Wallace has been standing on his evernormal granary plus the soil conservation benefits. But the farmers here are yelling for either a fixed price on wheat or the domestic allotment plan. .At Wichita, Senator Vandenberg made a strong speech for this plan and, looking it all over, it appears the G. O. P. gradually is molding a farm issue with which to match the Roosevelt strategy. The strength of the Republican position, looked at purely in its political elements, may be seen from the following points: Up to now, Mr. Roosevelt has been offering the farmers money—subsidies under the old AAA, money payments (28 cents a bushel) under the soil conservation plan, loans under the ever-normal granary plan. The Republicans now are offering money, too— a high price for domestically consumed wheat.

A Phrase That Clicks

But they have this advantage in their bid. The Administration has persisted in demanding curtailment of production. The Republicans now offer money without any acreage reduction. Besides, the Repuhlicans have a grand phrase for this medicine. They call it the “American price for the American market.” In other words, on all wheat sold in the American market there will be a price fixed to include cost of production and a profit— perhaps around $1.25 a bushel—and this the Government will guarantee. All other wheat which the farmer wishes to take a chance on raising for the foreign market will be dumped in the foreign market at the “world price.” This is making so great an appeal to the farmers here that it looks to be shaping up as the issue on which the Republicans will go to the country in 1940. And it has the Democrats here and in Washington deeply disturbed.

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

DON'T know how it is elsewhere, but my 15-year-old high school sophomore has “The Americanization of Edward Bok” on his required reading list. As often happens, we read together, and thus it was that I became amused, then concerned and finally alarmed over the assignment. I remember so well when the book first made its appearance. It was an overnight success. Mr. Bok was, at that time, one of our greatest Americans. All the ambitious little boys were urged to study it. It seems a good many of our amibitious little boys are told the same thing today, which is almost positive proof that those who make out high school literature courses are unacquainted with the modern child. My young hopeful punctuated the story with whoops of glee, in which I joined. Of all the pompous, egotistical, sanctimonious tomes! Get your copy out and read it again, if you think this is a mistaken or prejudiced report. Even the anecdotes Mr. Bok tells, about the great and near great with whom he came in contact, lack point according to our ideas of humor. To Mr. Bok—as any child can see—success meant, first and always, the attainment of business power, which led to the making of more money, In that respect, of course, our aims have not greatly changed, although in our higher literary moments we try to put less emphasis upon the fact. Unescapable, however, is the implication that in Mr. Bek’s day Americanization meant complete mastery of materialistic’ philosophy—and this, we must

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New. Deal's - Taxing Policy 1 an Enticing 'Mess of Molasses’ That Threatens to Ruin. This Country.

ASHINGTON, Oct. 20.—Here, paraphrased in a few words, is the argument of the third New Deal: “Our wealth and income are concentrated in a few hands. We propose to take it away and re distribute it. “Redistribution requires centralization of political

- | power to use taxation, not merely for revenue, but

for redistribution ‘df wealth. ‘Therefore, to the people we promise, through taxation, to seize present wealth spending, to redistribute it to those who have it not.” ro wy As political sucker-lure, it is the most attractive “mess of molasses” ever set before flies. = But the “power to tax invoves the power to destroy.” .- What is proposed here is to destroy the instruments. of production in the U. 8. and to substitute nothing. ..- Our present estate tax laws will effectively dissipate any uridue accumulations of wealth on the death of

| the guy who put them together.

S for vast private incomes, the crookedest publie "A document in my ken was the report of the Na= tional Resources Committee saying that the lower 12,400,000 families and individuals had an income of 5.7 billions while the top 178,000 families had an ‘income of 5.8 billions, and omitted to state that: the latter class pays almost all the direct taxes and that if incomes, net after taxes, had been considered—and they are the only incomes that count—evety implica tion of the whole report was a lying’ piece of demagogy. : i Ey. The destructive

element in this official deceit is

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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.

PLEASED WITH HIS CHOICE OF THE G. O. P. By John O. Henry : Last night I heard a man talking on the radio for the Democratic Party. I gathered from his talk that the Republican Party was made up of persons who were not politicians and did not know a poll book when they had seen one. They did ‘not have a machine. 1 was very glad to get this information. As a working man I am more than pleased with my choice of party this fall, for this statement proved to me that I have made a good choice. I know from personal investigation that the Republican Party has the best candidates for office this fall that any party ever presented to the public and that they are true American citizens for American wages and American living conditions. They are not machine made and controlled with a dollar sign before their nose. 2 tJ EJ

WANTS AMERICA TO EAT THE FARM SURPLUS

By W. H. B. To go to Senator Borah for a solution of farm ailments after sll these years of farm remedies may be of little value. Farm remedies will all fail if the “horse and buggy” methods continue. To take the failures out of farm remedies there must be a more modern eating house set up. First there must be larger and better run eating houses, built out of high rent and high value zones with parking space, and customers will flock to these. Thus the farmer will not have to look to such foreign markets as writers continue to tell us about. Too much goes for rent to allow a small eating house to give a customer a run for his money. This plan got a little look-in years ago, but was not examined closely enough because Mr. Tugwell favored the AAA plan which was better for

trade. Of course this modernized eating house plan does not fit in with big politics—but what does? Let real businessmen see the real meaning of the modern eating house and the remedy will soon come. Not through the Government, but through the real American business way. The farmer will not be the

run by real businessmen. 8 8 TOWNSEND MOVEMENT NOT DEAD, SHE SAYS By Rosa M. Reynolds, a Townsendite The Townsend plan is not dead as many people think it is. should have been up to the Tomlinson Hall where this great convention was held, Oct. 8 and 9. More than 4009 Townsendites were there representing the whole State of Indiana.

foreign markets than for domestic}

man to remedy his poor markets—| it must be more of a syndicate plan, |

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There were speakers from the Townsend National Office and from Washington that were there. And Robert Townsend, Dr. Francis E. Townsend's son, was also here and gave us a splendid address. This recovery plan, H. R. 4199, that is now in Congress waiting to be brought out of the pigeon hole, will be brought out and will be’ passed, for we, the people, are going to send congressmen down there who will do something for the people back home. . ® #

RIGHT TO EAT PREFERRED

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By Thomas D. McGee The New Deal must be dethroned,

cried William O. Nelson, Republican Congressional nominee in the llth

District, at the Republican meeting,

held in Murat Temple last Saturday night. The New Deal dethroned, what then? The answer is obvious. There is but one alternative to the New Deal, and that is the laissez-faire philosophy with its ruthless individualism, which well nigh wrecked this country and destroyed our civlization. : The New Deal has its faults and imperfections. But at least its impulses and objectives are right. In its last analysis it is the exponent of human rights as against property tights. And it stands fundamentally

DE ‘CHICKEN TREE’

By F. F. MacDONALD

Bless mah soul—Wha's dis I see? A sho-nuff live, white chicken-

tree!" : Dose birds done flew. up dar to roost— Se I kin climb dat tree wid'out no

boost; It sholy wouldn't b& no harm Wiv no sign of a house or poultry farm; Lawsy-livin’ you all watch nie— I'se sho’ gwine to pick dat chickentree! ;

DAILY THOUGHT Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble ‘spring out of the ground —~Job 5:6.

EN are born to trouble at first, and are exercised in it. all their,

days.—There is a cry at the beginning of life, and a groan at the end of it.—Arnot.

They have shown their hand.

and eternally opposed to the pernicious and inhuman Hamiltonian philosophy ‘which exalts property rights, and makes them paramount to the rights of men. : : The protagonists of the New Deal have learned what everyone conversant with our economic history of the last 50. years has learned, viz: that political freedom means little (if anything at all) to men despoiled of all property; that constitutional; liberty means nothing to millions of men who, ‘by reason of social forces beyond their control, are the victims of involuntary and technological unemployment, with its attendant destitution ‘and poverty. Stuart Chase recently propounded

the interrogatory: What is an eco-| nomic system for? And he answers|-

it by saying that it is an instrument or means for providing food and shelter to all the members of our society. Thus, it is obvious that oui economic system ‘is mot, by any means, an untouchable .or sanctified’ institution. ‘Rightly regarded, it is not an inviolable thing. And, if it fails in its purpose to produce food and shelter for all of us, then it should be modified and changed so

as to fulfill its function. To adjust our economic system: (set up in an| -

era of scarcity) to meet the needs of an era of plenteous production, this is the objective of the New Deal. The right to ‘vote -is a ‘precious right, but not as precious as the right to eat. Political liberty without economic. security and opportunity is a kind of mockery, 2 2 8 “LIBERALS” ARE CALLED MAKERS OF WAR By E. F. Maddox Heywood Broun and his “fellow travelers” are still griping because Mr. Chamberlain refused to plunge the whole British Empire into war to help the Czechs keep control of parts of ‘their population which did not wish to remain under their rule. Czechoslovakia ‘was a spite state created of - parts of Poland, Austria and Hungary after the World War. The object was to punish Germany, Austria and Hungary. “r - Could England and France deliberately plunge into another great war to compel the minorities to remain with the Czechs? Certainly not. The Czechs had no right to seize part of Poland and so when the test came they did the wise thing to return Polish territory. There is a thing called discretion. . Three times there have been deliberate attempts. to start another World War—in Spain, China and Czechoslovakia. All three have failed. The so-called “liberals” have soured because England and France vefused to fall for their propaganda. It is the “Tories” who make peace possible among nations. The. “liberals” are, the real war makers.

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LR RL TWO ‘PSYCHOLOGISTS’ gave * an examination to three groups of college: students. To one they

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underprivileged class depends on revenue, that revenue : tan be paid gnly out of taxes on production and that axes on production are so. heavy as to itu the whole structure fails. y : ty 5 P I have given in this column several specific ine stances of the effect of taxation to prevent or destroy

-| new small enterprises. Here is another:

8 8 & NEW service company was formed with the exe _pectancy of $250,000 profit. It was almost ime possible to finance it through private investors able to take the risk, because excessive private taxation threatened to.take most of whatever profit they made. Finally this was done. It had to qualify and do busie

| ness in every state. The laws required of it 936 tax

returns and 260 separate taxes. Here is what happened to its profits. State and other taxes took $56,= 203.41. Federal income taxes $47,500.00. Total tax $103,703.41—or 41 per cent of its profits. Suppose, as didn’t happen to be exactly the case here, this capital had been put up by one of Mr. Ickes’ 60 plutocrats in the state of New York. Of the remaining $146,000, according to the Twentieth Cen tury Fund tax study, taxes would take from 83.6 per cent to 109.1 per cent—say 96 per cent—leaving the proprietor out of $250,000 profit, $5840—taxes 97.7 per cent and remaining income 2.3_per cent. If that isn’t ‘the communistic “production for use and not for profit,” what is it? And if that isn't an utter block to new business, what is it? This Administration threatens to destroy this country through taxes,

It Seems to Me By Heywood Broun

Lincoln Drama Should Earn "Author "A Summons From Dies Committee.

EW YORK, Oct. 20.—"Abe Lincoln;in Illinois” is the finest piece of propaganda ever to come into | our theater. Bob Sherwood did not write to lay. a wreath at the tomb of the mighty dead. This is the tale of days which have gone, but also of days which are to come. And if we are brought face to face: with current headlines I have little doubt that this was within the dramatist’s intention. But, for that matter, history so ordered it. : f= Time is a patternmaker. And Sherwood has not pulled his analogies out of Lincoln’s hat. Abe Line coln of Illinois was not always wise and firm and filled with foresight. He tried to stem raging tides with dikes of straw and words of compromise. . Lincoln, before he attained his height, did and thought many things along the lines laid down :by those who believe in fixed-post government set precisely in the middle of the road. His greatness lay in his quickening recognition of the impelling force of economic currents and mass pressure. = i

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He was not a happy warrior, and he began to fight

| only because he knew that he ¢ould do no other. - It ‘| was after his physical fires had diminished that Abe

Lincoln took up the fearful assignment which destiny had placed upon him. Se To me the most exciting episode is the scene in which a sluggish and somewhat legalistic Lincoln is assailed for his position on slavery by a young antebellum radical named Herndon. The stripling, sue perbly played by Wendell K, Phillips, is pictured as a little tipsy, but even more inflamed by his passion for a short cut to salvation. He is of the lunatic fringe, and Lincoln is able to say much in logical rebuttal.

Worried by the Abolitionists

Lincoln has seen slavery, and he hates it, but he is ‘also worried by the Abolitionists, Herndon was drunk and overzealous. But the years proved that fundamentally he was right. Lincoln lived and died 3 Ysa ver that no compact of submission could solve e issue. : The play, by designed emphasis and historical justification, is topical. When Abe Lincoln splits a platform with Stephen A. Douglas the speeches stg gest a debate between a New Dealer and a Liberty Leaguer. : a “Abe Lincoln in Illinois” marks an epoch in the theater. It is also a political event of the first magnitude. I believe the play will become an American classic. But, even more than that, if there is any jus tice in the world it should earn Robert E. Sherwood a summons to appear before the Dies committee, "To the satisfied and the smug and the sanctified it will seem subversive to its very core. And they will be right, The play is thrilling and heart , and 1t is also disturbing. It sounds a trumpet note. It is the very battle cry of freedom. :

Watching Your Health

By Dr. Morris Fishbein

9 EPEATEDLY people write me to find out whether or not dust storms have done immense damage to health. oe * There are said to be two new diseases called dust pneurnonia. and dust on the intestines It has been said that the dust interferes with childbirth, and that ‘the children when born die young. - . = Now Dr. J. A. Blue, who is director of the Pane Handle Dis of the Oklahoma State Health Depart ment, has reported the results of his investigations of health in the bow. area. 7? A Fifty-six people who lived in the dust bowl:area were carefully examined. All of them said that: the dust storms caused a type of mental depression and

worry. : Inn Fourteen per cent of the people stated that they had no symptoms whatever during the dusty season; per cent felt that the dust. exaggerated their usual 5 cent had diseases of which vertain to be due to the dust; 62 per;cent