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_ TUESDAY, , JANUARY 17, 1030 Tn

ms, 000, 000 FOR WPA oes

SOME Senators advocate a further cut, but we ; believe: tHe ~ new five-month WPA appropriation should stand where 3 he House placed it, at $725,000,000. : . Once more-—and, we hope, for the last time—Congress is voting relief funds in haste, under pressure of emergency. It is important not to vote too much. A fair and orderly reduction of WPA rolls is desirable. The House bill provides $150,000, 00 less than the President asked, and this evidence Congressional determination to move. toward spending control will encourage industry to create more private employment But it is even more important, not to vote so little as to enforce an unfair and disorderly reduction of WPA rolls, cause suffering among the ‘unemployed ‘and produce public reaction against efforts to economizg. So we think the Senate should accept the $725,000,000 figure. And then Congress should pitch in to.the task of perfecting a comprehensive plan to deal intelligently with

the whole problem. The report of Senator Byrnes’ Com- |

| mittee and the President's message on social security point’ to the outlines of such a plan. That accomplished, Congress can pass on relief appro4 priations for the next fiscal year, and for future years, with . more certainty as to how far economy can be. carried safely and justly. ;

“ALL MUST BE PROTECTED”

EW Americans will feel that it was necessary for Felix Frankfurter, to comment on charges that he is a Communist or a sy ipathizer- with communism: The whole srecord of his carger is the complete refutation of such: ‘gharges. + Yet we are glad that he appeared before the Senate committee considering . his nomination to the Supreme Court. For what he said there was a thing that can i. ever be. said too often or too conspicuously: “Civil liberty means eivil liberty for those we do not 1 ike as well as those we do like.” * Yes, Mr. Frankfurter said, he joined the American Civil Liberties Union “to lend my moral support to enforcement of the Bill of Rights” Yes, he approved when the nion defended free speech and free assembly for Com‘munists. But he approved equally when the Union defenda ted free speech and free assembly for Ku-Klux Klansmen. “He would approve of defending the rights of Nazis, no less

iithan anti-Nazis, Al must. -be protected, whether you agree.

: “spread false and silly charges on a Senate committee's record, even those who attempted to arouse prejudice against 5 “this man—even they will be more secure in their liberties iibecause. Mr, Justice Frankfurter sits upon the bench of the Supreme Court, or :

| ‘TRE TEST OF POPE La

HERE is: some tendency. to allude to the designation of |T James P. Pope, former Senator from Idaho, to the TVA * Board, as a lame duck appointment. : There is no reason to regard it with suspicion. Mr. Pope's defeat in Idaho was not to his discredit. A former member of Congress should not be debarred from Federal _sappointment. He may be the best fitted man for a particu- .- lar post. The question i is only whether he has been appointed because of his: fitness or to take care, of him. It is hard “to believe that dear as the TVA is to President Roosevelt he “would entrust its destinies to any except the man he deemed “the best available. ~~ - ‘The question of’ Mr. Pope now is not of his past but . of his future. If Mr. Toe is to succeed as a director of "TVA he must get entirely\out of politics and become com- : pletely the statesman. : The TVA Act provides: “In the appointment of employees for said corporation, and in the promotion of any such employees or officials, no political test or qualification - shall be permitted or given consideration, but all such ap- : pointments and promotions shall be given and made on: the ~ basis of merit and efficiency. cee ~~ This provision is the cornerstone of TVA. The Amer“ican people will not continue to make appropriations for TVA if it becomes political.

OMES ON THE HIGHWAYS

HE Government spends nearly a billion dollars a year pegging farm prices and putting money into farmers’ ands through benefit payments for soil conservation, crop urtailment, etc. Yet we read such stories as the one from New Madrid, fo.—of ‘a thousand men, women and children camping ng the highways—tenant families evicted .from their omes by landowners who have decided to abandon the harecropping system of operation. - The disquieting thing is that this development appears be not in spite of, but because of, the Goverpment’s

In the old days when cash. was scarce in farming, downers seemed to prefer the sharecropping system. It sn’t ‘necessary to pay croppers cash wages; they could paid in shares of what ‘they produced. But commodity redit arrangements now provide the means of turning: Jarvests into ready cash at pegged prices, Still more cash: s provided through the AAA benefit checks. But the law and the Agriculture Departnient rules uire that landowners share the benefit payments with _crappers. So many landowners have figured that they “make more money by discontinuing the cropper plan id; instead, hiring day laborers who will, have no claim these benefit checks. jot a very heartening twist to the “more abundant But ofttimes such is the way of reform —greater s are created than are abolished. © ‘et that billion dollars of tax money. was voted for

yeliet of farmerse-not: merely for the Toke of land.

ered by carrier; 12 cents - :

in Indiana, $3 8 year: |

| selection administered by labor organizations, -

— oh Rave exercised their right to: N:

to start an economy drive, ‘of what the: consequence.

if the full $875,000,000 is vo

about,

filed dissenting ‘opinions; on the recent. proposal

5 “that employers and : politicians ‘with appointive jobs

avoid hiring women whose husbands are employed,

posed. SS aploger lect (their employees

tually we may have a sort of civil: service method of

under Government supervision, But in lines in which workers are selected singly or in small numbers the

‘boss still can pick his employee, and it may be : that 3

already some companies give preference to unmarried .women or to married women who are supporting

families. ; ® = 8

T= boss may--and one hears that he sometimes

may turn down a superior: individual and hire a mediocrity merely because the lucky humber has been sent by a big customer witha letter of recommendation, wrapped around a section of lead pipe.

has a job plainly would not be the victim of any new injustice. If it is unjust to permit the employer to

give the job to a needier individual, that certainly does not come under the head of new business. True, |

that makes him the. judge of need, but that is the

woman whose husband has a job has a right to work

can get the.job. But if she can’t get the job, has she been wronged, and, it no, whom should she sue about that? 2 8

Ure the closed shop an: disguised closed shop agreements both men and women employees, re-

gardless of qualifications, a ability and need, may be

Blacklisted by unions which: thus. possess "authority

to issue or withhold ‘licenses to- work. This method creates job trusts in certain crafts. ‘which. limit apprenticeships and close their rolls to new members,

number. It 1s also possible to compel a reactionary Republican, for example, to join and pay dues to an organization which supports the New Deal and even to

fee, to a radical movement. Such are restrictions and ifnposttions already in practice, affecting both men and women, married and single, in harsh disregard for their rights and neces sities of individuals who like to believe themselves free citizens. Thus the married woman whose husband has an adequate job may be disqualified for employment and denied her precious right to buy

Juxuries or save money merely because she refuses to

contribute part of her earnings to a political move-

the peace and stability of the. gation.

Business By John T. Flynn 0 | ar Should Be Aware of iif Relief Is Cut.

1 ress is now in a state Pi gn! ‘fhe proposed relief approriations and will DP ronatly enforce a cut. It will do well to ponder the potentialities of this situation. Mr. Roosevelt asked for $875,000,000. That is $290,000,000 a month for three months. Perhaps that much ought not to be ie ‘Maybe Congress ought

Congress

It is ’ anfortunate th

necessary. And it is difficult to see how the present the Government spends at least as mich as it has been doing in the last three months. If the payments for recovery and relief are cut the inevitable result will be a drop in business activity. Indeed there is some ground for supposing that even if the relief expenditures ‘are maintained there may be op. Now if Congress forces the cut against Mr. Roosevelt’s demand and this should be followed by a recesdent with about the only haa he can. .use. Whereas ed and a slump ensues he will have no defense. ‘The chief point of all this is to repeat the ‘warning I offered in this column when public expenditures

warning is that while, perhaps, public expenditures

ought to be reduced, the Congress cannot do merely

that. If must accompany its action by other measures.

Price Decline Possible

The normal support of our economic system is investment. If outright spending is stopped, then we must have a resumption of either private or public investment. Congress must address itself to the problem of stimulating private investment in the first place and public investment to the extent that private. investment refuses to become active. It must;be prepared to see a decline in prices and in wage scales. And it must recognize that this is the inevitable effect of Government economy Without private investment. . There is no doubt that politics is playing a strong hand in all this. That is natural. But the. politicians

against the President must now determine. whether ‘| they are to so manage the situation that they, in-. stead of the President, ‘are to take the responsibility

for what happens after a ‘cut has been made. The President himself ‘clearly assumed responsibility for the spending cut in 1936. But ow Congress ‘proposes to do the cutting. Can it ‘be maneuvered into this position? It is Worth

A Warmers Viewpoint I By: Mrs. Walter Ferguson a,

I ADMIRE -V. F. Calverton for nis “excellent prose; aa but wouldn't offer 2 cents for - his. opinions on.

marriage. In fact hey seem to me Sngirely, worth

less.

to'be mixed. Favoring a good substantial butter-and-

romantic notions and to use their heads instead of their hearts when they go husband hunting.

gons or something? Don’t they know it's hard enough to get along with one of them when you're in love with him? If you're not—well, matrimony is as flat as dead champagne and no girl with any sense wants it on these terms.

There's only one thing that makes I en-

‘durable for either men or women—Ilove—that unex- || plainable something which causes a girl to feel woozy [|

and weak-kneed in the presence of one particular were so many trees walking around.

dowing her with supreme loveliness in his eyes : And how do we know, really, but what the “vision

and lovers, only, see clearly.

sensations that : love conf marriage isn’t really worth bothering about and, 1

oo Would Have * Rae “Proving Any Discrimination.

EW YORK, Jan. 11. Many emphatic ladies have |

The suggestion is. treated as radical, even Hitleresque, in careless disregard of ‘the fact that it ‘would add . nothing to the conditions of hire which already exist. J x ‘| In fact there. are existing ‘conditions of eligibility im-| posed by some unions which are much more serious. : impairments of individual rights than the one pro- | in most lines already’ possess the ight] oa and to glscminae RIO EL any obligation, to explain matters ppointed cane} soy ob S his right is being whittled down and even- | -

does—turn away applicants for reason of ‘re-| ligion, personal appearance or ‘personal disfavor. He |

. This being so—the married woman whose husband |

way it is, nevertheless, and the way it has been always. | True, as a strict matter of justice, the married

for luxuries or merely to accumulate savings if she |

thus monopolizing the available .work for a select |

ment which in her patriotic opinion is a threat against

it ought to be aware

kif economy is Sted filling their places from certified 4

pernment. spending is |

at G necessary to keep business afloat. But it has. been PDO io ry

rate of industrial activity can be maintained unless

sion, the inevitable effect will be to furnish the Presi

were being tapered off in 1936 and early 1937. ‘That-

Congréss- has been inking

egg type, he advises the girls to fling away their |

What do these men think they are, anyway? Para. :

man, and to: regard the rest of his sex as if they :

Docking Jo Appeasement Doesn't a ~ Seem to Be Working Well Abroad Nh Or Within the Ranks of Democrats.

pk YORK orTY, Jan. 17~The doctrine of appeasement doesn’t seem to be working very well

At it means that you can give a little here, take a | little there, . satisfy an opponent and all go home in

| peace, Judging from Mr. Chamberlain's experiences

3 | with Herr Hitler at Munich and Mussolini at Rome,

| you appease a dictator by giving ‘him whatever he | wants if he has a gun in your

‘| nothing at all if he hasn't. ‘are two ways to deal with a stickup man who wants

‘or by giving him other words, there One is to appease

your wallet, watch and chain.

| him with a double-barreled shotgun and the other

| 4s by giving him your jewelry.

4 — within the Fourth New Deal.

peasement, doesn’t seem to be getting ahead any After the at-

) ‘| tempted 1938 autumn purge and its failure, many of

OPPOSES REDUCTION

contribute money, through his dues, or work license IN RELIEF FUNDS

By C. E ‘Black : According to the figures of the national office of the Workers Alliance of America, the proposed cut to $725,000,000 in the deficiency appropriation bill, in which Council of Mayors $915,000,000, Alliance $1,050,000,000, will necessi‘tate the laying off of 1,600,000 work-

ers. “These have direct dependents of

| approximately 12,000,000 with mil-

lions of others dependent upon the money spent by WPA workers.

bad situation. The Workers Alliance has made an extensive study of the employment situation and the needs of the unemployed. It is, therefore, in position to make accurate recommendations for a $1,050,000,000 appropriation for the continuance of WPA. If the bill calling for the Smaller appropriation of - $725,000,000 passed and layoffs are necessary, 1 believe that it would only be justifiable to make these cuts at the top

taking first the noncertified: who

have: other. sources of income and

relief persons. This fight for the. cutting of the}

President is very bad. It means suffering and hunger for millions Sirenty undérnourished and ill clad.

® o ” THINKS ‘WAGNER ACT SHOULD ‘BE CHANGED By Voice 1 the Crowd In the Forum of Jan. 10, one, Oscar Houston of Ellettsville, in defending the Wagner Act made comments that should receive some no= tice. ; Ye In the last paragraph of his writ-

ing in reference to the Wagner Act| “If it is allowed to be

he states, amended - to ‘death, what chance would union labor have to hold the high standard of wages and shorter hours that they enjoy today, against an army of surplus labor Seeking; work?" Does he assume that ,ho one is entitled to a job and wages unless he belongs to the C. I. O.2 Does this| ‘man assume that the payment of a dollar per month fer union dues determines the right of the. people to jobs and wages? This “army of surplus labor” that Mr. Houston wants to be defended from is also ‘human and they are Americans, and

or no unien. If wage earners cannot

‘develop technique or efficiency, or

some teristics that make them nece “and secure in their jobs, then they are just on the competi-

tive side of the market and the|.

Wagner Act or no pactistjas union

the; President asked for $875,000,000,

C. I. O. $1,000,000,000 and Workers.

‘This I would say creates a very

they too are entitled to jobs, union i

(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.)

is going to hold their: Jobe. for them for long. : The Wagner Act ‘does not protect labor, but it does protect labor racketeers. The A. F. of L. knows that the Wagner Act does not protect labor and that it destroys. good employer and employee relationships, and the A. F. of L. is wise from long experience. Anyone that understands the absolute dependence on each other

‘of the employee and the employer in

our. economic life, knows that there is much wrong with the Wagner Act. and that it is based on politics and not on economics. The Wagner Act

is unsound, it is unnecessary and it

is un-American. If it is not changed it will, after a lot of heartache, be Fpeaied, by a reviving RESENTS ‘PEGLER'S VIEWS ON ‘MOONEY By Alexander: Summers ‘The topsy-turvy, —ig-zag, corkscrew logic of Westhrook Pegler’s column on Tom Mooney’s release is a masterpiece of obscuratism and vituperating nonsense. : To attempt to answer it would. make it necessary for the answerer to stand on his head and look backward, cockeyed. : I really shouldn’t be writing this. Long ago I ceased -$aking Pegler seriously.

IF YOU WERE MINE By CONOWAY BROWN

If you were mine, I'd make the moon put on a show ‘each evening after dark. I'd make the stars ‘hang low and twinkle like an astral park. I'd ask the sun to glow - upon. your features fair. I'd ask the breeze to ripple gently , through your hair I'd ask the nightingale to sing an aria from nature’s scene And herald you the ‘world’s fairest ‘queen, rd pray to Him, to make divine An endless love, if you were mine.

DAILY THOUGHT But many that are first shall be last; and the last first.—Mark 10:31, Ba ol E wise; soar not too high to fall, but Sloop Bs rise. —Mas-

singer.

The Hoosier Forum

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

DEMOCRACY BEGINS AT HOME, LIKE CHARITY By A. B. C. ; Every day this conviction is gaining strength in America: the way to fight dictatorship is to make democracy: work. Not by making faces at Hitler, not by berating Mussolini, not by deploring Japan will this victory. be won. The real battle is at home; the fight to get the cockroaches out from under democracy’s sink and make the house so spick-and-span|

that nobody will want to -hire a

Fascist housekeeper. Democracy will triumph in the long run only because it is demonstrably better. Like the weather, democracy is a thing people talk about a great deal, but few people do anything about.

Totalitarian countries are deluged|

constantly with propaganda per-

suading (the “people. that they are

lucky to 'be so well off. That is not wanted here. ‘But nevertheless it will do no harm for all of us to brush up on our de-

mocracy a little bit, and remind|.

ourselves just what it is all about, It too often. happens that a newly-| naturalized citizen, fresh from a little cramming for his citizenship examination, knows more about what ‘democracy means and how it works. than : ‘native-born citizens. School “civics” classes, for a country which depends on general knowledge of the technique of democratic government, have sometimes. been rather perfunctory. Without danger of being too much propagandized, we can stand a good! deal of reviewing on fundamentals of popular government ourselves,

That is why the new plan of the

New York City Board of Education sounds worthy of study. The board is promoting both school assemblies and instruction in racial and religious tolerance and understanding. New York is not assuming that its young citizens, exposed to plenty of foreign propaganda for racial

discrimination and intolerance, will}

somehow draw from the air the essence of American principles of freedom and decency. It is going about a program of specific | instruction in those principles. '

The Office of Education in Wash-| ington, too, is launching on a proj.

ect for a series of nationbroadcasts to be called “Americans All--Immigrants All.” The pr will {ell how America, by maki of the talents and abilities zens of many races, cree lands, is forming: a rich and distinctive culture of its'own:. These programs will be recorded and made available to schools through ‘the Office of Education. - - Thus America strikes for freedom and democracy with the best weapon of all—the determination. fo make life under democratic forms so superior to any other that no spurious}

claims of other forms can ever uns|

dermine it.

‘He advances. the ‘notion. that Jove. - ‘one: thing boi 4 and marriage another and that the two ought never.

"It's the sweet thrilling ecstacy which invades a lb man's being at the sight of a ‘particular. ‘Woman, ‘en- | Y

LETS EXPLORE YOUR MIND

By DR, ALBERT EDWARD WiGGAM

y the life cell from’ ehich. they were |

~|blondes and.

ages Sat couee

born. “That is all for now” about |. either blonds and brunets . or| brunettes. 1° ‘prefer them both. -. : . NL NO. The trend is in o Sppoaith ¢ direction, partly

fine bodies and men with bodies like those pictured

a |by cartoonists either die before they| [eet to college or are too’ frail to : Sms the callpms pan.

* chines, where men and women work

y {14, even 18, hours a day for a bare/ sto ~ |subsistence! ' Machines first. made

§. .[10; and now the

gay poss “eight-hour day is] ¢ in operation for countless thousands.

~+ [Soon it will be a seven, even a na Qe. NV |sides this it has lightened the work |of the farmer immeasurably. I drove|, NO— he first St plow

hour day and a five-day week.

t came into

| most without trace.

use Court was gracious and replied,

because there| -|is a slight tendency for people with .|fine minds to have {partly because the brilliant young

i the faithful in the Democratic Party thought there

was going to be some real appeasement, just as they an era of good feeling after, the famous

4 expected N: victory of 1036.

1t is becoming more and more clear that the only ways to gppeasement here, as in Europe, are either by the shotgun route or by the path o complete sur-

render. ; F all the tow-row about the recent Cabinet appointe ments not much has been said about the fact at what we have here is really a partial purge of! the

Fi ‘

1 President's privy council.

Uncle Danny Roper was more of an adroit political trimmer than a crusader—but he was not a radical Third New Dealer, - Attorney General Cummings was no political trimmer but he was a good soldier—and neither was he a radical Third New Dealer. Regarde less of method and circumstance, the fact remains Ahat they are both now “appeased”—gone—sunk ale Warming their erstwhile com- . fortless chairs are two of the hottest radical seats of pants in the whole Third New Deal-—Mr. Hopkins and Mr. Murphy. The President can thus “appease” his Cabinet. But can he “appease” his party? Though spoken in softer words than some of his pre-election “purge” speeches, his Jackson Day offering was in exactly the same vein,

| And it produced much of the same result in his fol-

lowing—especially in Congress. . The great question of the outcome from now on to 1940, is whether he really has any shotgun, or at least whether it is loaded, 8 8 VIDENTLY some, perhaps even a majority, of Congress doubt it. You can’t appease in this way with Hitleresque Shoroughpess if there is any doubt at all about that. There is more in the report of the Byrnes Come mittee advocating reorganization and reform in relief, than meets the eye. If the recommendations of that report go into law—now or later—~most of the load in. the Presidential ‘appeasement shotgun will be drawn. The greatest political power the President had over Congress was lump-sum appropriations and unlimited discretion in saying when, where and how billions should be spent. Harry Hopkins’ hottest moments and’ . weakest answers on the witness stand were about WPA spending in Kentucky and Pennsylvania. A little further Senatorial probing might have deposited that on the very footsteps of the great white throne. a = looks More and re as though, if there is any semen e mocratio Party, done with a shotgun, Flt willomos be

It Seems to Me

By Heywood Broun

Even Learned Justices Are Human; Brandeis Anecdote Case in Point.

TEW YORK, Jan. 17 ~Men on the Supreme Court . : Nine > swaiiing confirmation are mortals. It rule that public heari the fase of each nominee, nee should, be Bel In ut when a Senatorial committee gets d cases it is not too ‘much to ask that gots fows to should be along pertinent and intelligent lines. .Spe- - cifically, it seems to me that it was farcical to summon Felix Frankfurtér from Boston-in order to have him officially interrogated upon the question, “Are you or are you mots Communist?” Such crackpot Queries might well be left to the Dillings of this world. But I want to switch suddenly to an anecdote ‘about another great jurist. In Washington I ran into a newspaperman who told me that he once interviewed Justice Brandeis. Mr. Brandeis consented to see him in his summer home at Chatham, Mass. The discussion was almost finished when luncheon was announced. At the end of the meal Mrs. Brandeis drew the reporter aside and said, “You could, if you will, do me a favor. It has long been the custom of ‘Mr. Brandeis to take a nap after lunch. And I read to him for five or 10 minutes so that he may relax. Today I want to go into the village to shop. Would you be kind enough to ‘take over the assignment? : Pick any book at all—history, biography or fiction. I think Jou es find that your task: will consume only a few u

He Was Doing All Right

The reporter consented readily enough, and took a book down from the shelf. “I read aloud,” he said, “for about a quarter of an hour, and then I turned Io Sas We Thu mer my distinguished host give se umber. open ond wide evake. He was still ~eyed “ us Brandes, ” T said, h Ido clumsily. It may be that you % “perhaps 1 to his sound. of my voice and that I am a nuisance rather than a help.” The learned member of the Supreme “You are Going excellently, young man. Please continue.” a

“But at the end of half an hour,” my 1

4} friend confided, “I found that he was still awake Sara

so I looked toward him to see if he wanted me to drop the enterprise. He smiled and waved a hand to indicate that he would like to pave me go oh. And so for a solid two hours I read aloud to him from the book, and during: all the ti nap. When I got to the end I tiptoed Justice Brandeis got no nap that day.” hi “And w were you ‘Was it biography or economics or Philosophy “No,” said my friend, “the small book

selected by chance happened to be ntitieg

men Prefer Blonds'.”

Watching Your He He .

J By Dr. Morris. Fishbein

HERE are all sorts of reasons. for Usually it this symptom is preceded by which is called nausea or s 5 of th

"| During sickness of the stomach there

creased amount of saliva and mucus ‘mouth and throat but all the way Usually the heart begins to beat There may be a sensation of dizziness The accumulation of symptoms may sudden explosive emptying of the stor

mown. po out. = Nomiting is ca stomach, sometimes b; taken