Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 January 1939 — Page 15

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: THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 1939 — , a GREE, THEN FIGHT | | : EAL friends of the city manager plan, by their inability * to agree on a sound,plan of legislative procedure, are playing directly into tie hands{of Indiana legislators who are opposed to such a reform. Yao | : What has happened, of course, is -that city manager | advocates are involved in the old argument over Ww, ether a city manager bill or a constitutional a is the ore desirable route of achieving their goal. "The answer is that neither avenue will be opened until those sincerely interested in the plan agree on one or the other. There can be little doubt that the constitutional amendment route is the sounder approach, though e longer; that any bill no matter how expertly drawn, "will be attacked on technical grounds in the courts, and that the legislative route does open the way for repeal by a hostile legislature. | / But those obj ections are less important, at the moment, than the division among manager adherents which prevents them from acting on a solid front. [ , When the Junior Chamber of Commerce; the League “of Women Voters, the City Manager League and other interested groups agree on procedure and are prepared to fight for their idea, we will begin getting/somewhere.

COSTIGAN OF COLORADO =~ [2 DWARD P. COSTIGAN literally wore himself out in the service of the American péople. His whole career was "a battle for the general welfare, fought with those: finest of weapons—intelligence and courage. | =~ There was nothing of the opportunist in him. He _ supported .causes because he believed them to be right, “even when he knew them to be unpopular. 7 As a lawyer he defended the coal mine strikers of Ludlow when that meant the enmity of the most powerful influences in Colorado. He followed Theodore Roosevelt into the Progressive Party and labored against hopeless odds to keep that party alive after the defeat of 1912. He ‘enlisted to promote Woodrow Wilson's tariff ideals and remained a minority member of the Tariff Commission through the Harding-Coolidge Administrations to resist the sabotage of those ideals. He was elected to the Senate two ‘years before the New Deal, but the liberal policies which he ~ supported, and in large measure inspired, represented the convictions of a lifetime. fo | We felt it as a great tragedy when Senator Costigan’s 5 health broke under the strain of ceaseless, selfless work and he found it impossible to be a candidate for re-election in 1936. He was not one who could be content in idleness. ‘ears of inaction when there is so much to be done, so many disadvantaged people needing help, could have brought him little but unhappiness. We think of his death as a merciful release to rest well earned by one of the ~ most gallant men we have known in| public life.

; a NOT SOMETHING FOR NOTHING PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S report to Congress on how * WPA and 63 other Government agencies have spent : $9,632,271,228 of emergency relief funds in four years fills a book 13 inches long, 9 inches wide, 11 inches thick and weighing 4 pounds 11 ounces. We admire the vast and intricate job of Federal book- ~ keeping which was necessary to produce this report. We appreciate the thoughtfulness of the National Emergency Council in helping Washington BH A to analyze the figures, so that newspapers all lover the country might print the exact amounts of thei states’ shares in the spending, as the report says, of— | ; $2,503,719,922 for highways, roads and streets. $746,146,668 for public buildings. $735,003,177 for public recreational facilities. - $1,045,653,278 for conservation, work. And so on, and on, and on. | ° We believe there are a couple of things that citizens would do well to remember as they read about how much of this ntoney from Washington was spent in their states: ~ . 1. This money was not a free gift from a beneficent National Government. It was money that the National ‘Government hiad borrowed, and which the citizens eventually will have ta repay. 2. Most of this money may have been spent on good © projects. In addition to providing relief jobs for their = unemployed, much of this money has provided the states and communities with desirable public improvements. Byt it does not follow that all these improvements can be considered profitable financial investments. For instance, when WPA builds a fine new park, or zoo, or auditorium, or swimming pool the people of a community acquire something shat may mean much pleasure to them. But they also acquire something that ~ has to be operated and maintained down through the years. And so, to the extent that operation and /mainte- ~ nance have to be paid for at public expense through higher taxes, they have acquired a financial liability rather than a financial asset. : | = | . This is no argument against parks, zoos, auditoriums or swimming pools. Nor is it an argument against Govern-

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spending means taxes which the people will have to pay— in other words, that Washington has not invented a method . of giving the people something for nothing.

BEWARE THE VODER!

rT HE news about the machine that talks is not quite as " dreadful as the headlines indicate. The “yoder,” as the Bell Telephone Laboratories call it, oves to be a device that imitates human speech as well as many other noises—but only when a highly skilled human operator is at its keyboard. Thus far it is little more than ‘a scientific novelty. ° But we can well imagine a time when batteries of ‘woders—Frankenstein monsters equipped with vocal cords— ed to the precise speed and volume best calculated to duce mass hypnosis, will harangue humanity ceaselessly. 1d where talk is already one of the chea

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Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

Fascist and Communist Methods The Same and Equally: Abhorrent;

Communists, on the one hand, and the Nazi-Fascists, on the other, that they are at war on any other

issue than a greedy rivalry for power. Lr In methods and in their scorn of principle and honest dealing the dictatorships of Berlin and Rome are exactly like their mominal enemies of Moscow. The Communists, for example, receive their yolitical direction from Moscow and, though they may hold citizenship in the United States and swear to uphold the Constitution, are relentless enemies of the American form of Government and the freedom and peace of the people. ‘The Nazis and Fascists, who condemn and pretend to hate this deceit, nevertheless follow the same course in this and other lands. The Nazi laws permit and encourage tested Nazis in foreign countries to” become-citizens, but require them to remain Germai nevertheless and to extend themselves in the interests of Naziism to the injury of their adopted Jands. ‘This cannot be done without descent to the very same mental reservation and perjury which Nazi agents in this country profess to loathe in thé Communists and vice versa.

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T Communists worm their way into normally American groups and by disciplined effort under foreign

manipulate the unsuspecting remainder, imposing on their honest hatred of Nazi-Fascism, the same method

and outwardly innocent group of Americans who think they are serving some decent cause in an organization nominally devoted to Americanism and democ- ' racy, but are actually being used by Moscow, there is at least one similar group serving Hitler or Mussolini in the same way. ! The. sameness is evident again in the loud and angry enthusiasm of the Communists and their

which have the aim of instituting here government controls which they pretend to detest in Berlin and Rome but indorse in Moscow. The Nazi-Fascist groups also have their “fellow-travelers” who disguise themselves as constitutional Americans and, like the Communists, look’ to a day when they may rise to power and change the Constitution to suit their ends.

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r their dealings with this and other countries Germany and Italy have been guilty of the same thefts that they profess to resent in Moscow ‘and which they describe as the cunning and contemptible inventions of the Communist. For it makes little difference whether foreign property be confiscated outright by revolution or first detained and gradually stolen by the invention of new laws. To the victim there is only a question of whether he prefers to be robbed with a blackjack or a gun, and to the slight credit of the Communists it: must be allowed they went straight to the point and said, “This is a stickup.” In the matter of persecution abroad no Communist anywhere has any right to complain of anything that Hitler or Mussolini has done, and the Nazis and Fascists are equally at a loss. But in our own midst it is always true that no Communist or Fascist or any “fellow-traveler” of either side ever has any kind intention, and anyone who finds himself unwilling to oppose both sides with equal fervor must be suspected of approving the evils common to both..

Business By John T. Flynn A | arm Policy Doomed, Hi Calling For '2-Price System Is Proposed.

EW YORK, . Jan. 19.—Whoever has moved around this country in the last year has known definitely that the. farm program of the Administration is marked for the scrap heap. It has also been apparent that it would be succeeded by an adventure in price maintenance for farm products through the application of the two-price system. . Now a group of Senators representing both parties and, indeed, both wings of both parties, comes forward with ainew farm plan in a new farm bill which will be pressed upon Congress and this bill embodies the two-price idea. During the last political campaign, when discontent raged high in states like Kansas, Senator Vandenberg went to Kansas and preached the doctrines of “An American Price on the Homestead of the Free.” The new plan proposes to get rid of the immense amount of red tape and hard conditions which the AAA imposes on its beneficiaries. This is a plan ‘to pass out the money without forcing the farmer to do very much. : The plan is to divide the crop into two parts. One part represents the part of the crop which the farmer sells on the domestic market. The other is the part which will be sold abroad. . On the domestic part of the crop the farmer will be guaranteed a price covering cost of production and this price will be insured ‘to him by compelling dealers who buy it from him to pay the cost of pro-

by the Secrefary of Agriculture. Dumpingt Is the Correct Name

The part'of the crop to be sold abroad, will go into warehouses and the warehouse receipts will be made available to the Government. The Government will sell it abroad for anything it can get and account to the farmer. This, to call it by its correct name, is plain dumping. * The soil conservation plan of the present- farm program will be retained alone with the Commodity Surplus Corp., a scheme to buy up surplus parts of all sorts of crops to kegp the price up. There seems fo be’ample evidence that something like this is to be the next phase of farm legislation. The only thing that can be said for it compared with the AAA program is that it does not attempt the morally and socially unjustified plan of subsidizing crop reduction. It is not a new plan. It has been tried in various countries in various ways. It always breaks down. :

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

“ OW I feel I am a good mother; our home is happy for the first time.” The woman who spoke those words hugged her 3-year-old baby closer and smiled at the four other children of stair-step sizes who were grouped around her. Their faces, too, shone with soap and happiness. ; She had come to the Birth Control Clinic to report and express her gratitude and once again I was reminded that the greatest handicap to happiness is fear, and that fear of pregnancy.is the most dreadful of terrors to poor women. | I remember so well the pitiful creatures who used to crowd into my father’s little office and hdw, as a child, I shrunk from the stark fright in their faces, which I recognized but could never understand. : Sick, weak, hungry, bedraggled, afraid, perpetually forced to push themselves beyond their strength— they have haunted nie ever since. Theirs, I honestly believe, are the hands that have written all the-boosts for birth control under my name. I thank God I have lived to see the sparkle come back to the eyes of their kind. . No frightened woman is a good mother or a good wife. With nerves on edge, heavy heart, household tasks screaming for attention and crying, neglected children around her, the thought of another childbirth is enough to strike coldly through all her being. Misery 1s the law of her household, for children

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EW, YORK, Jan. 10—The most offensive and | /& obvious fraud on earth is the pretense by the

direction convert some Americans fo their beliefs and’

is used by the Nazis and Fascists. For every detached

“fellow-travelers” for proposals made in Washington-

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duction. The cost of production will be determined.

find no joy when their parents live in constant alarm.

The Hoosier Forum

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

CLEVELAND ‘GETS RID OF THE JALOPPIES By Motorist

If offered the choice of a stiff fine, a workhouse sentence, or losing u dilapidated automobile, most peo‘ple would take the latter alternative. Traffic violators in Cleveland are being given that selection, providing they have been piloting a jaloppy. ‘The idea belongs to Judge Joe Ackerman who sends the car off to the junkpile instead of sending the driver to a cell. That’s okay, too. Machines themselves are sometimes more responsible for accidents than their owners. faulty brakes, a balky motor, worn tires, loose steering apparatus, and lack of good lighting can bring about some terrible catastrophes. In the junkyard, the relics are of soms %ood, at least. On the streets In the interest of traffic safety we could use a few

man. 3 ! At least, drivers could look forward to the day when they wouldn't have to swallow the exhaust of these old cars in a traffic jam.

2 8 8} TERMS TOWNSEND PLAN ONLY SOLUTION By L. W. Heagy

Your informative story about Carl P. Herbert of St. Paul and the relief problem was very timely. Our Legislators now are in session and thie matter is strictly in their laps if any constructive changes are to be made. / A greater threat than any war in history has for nine years rested on

ments as to Marion County’s debt condition are no doubt true, but ‘money debts can be paid by future generations. Our greatest threat is the degradation of the masses. Another is the greed of those who profit from human misery. Money debts may be liquidated, but I question if two generations will overcome and liquidate the evil caused to any of our human derelicts of the last decade. Mr. Herbert says a “pay-as-you-go-plan” should be formulated, and that the Nation has no real plan of action. Quite true—but if the gentleman is not yet aware of the Townsend National Recovery Plan, we would be pleased to enlighten him. . We have discussed for nearly five years right here in Indianapolis ‘a “pay-as-you-go-plan,” an equitable tax plan, that thus far no critic of standing has refuted—in

cover national economic stability and. retain it. : A resolution already has been introduced in the present Legislature that asks our Congress to call a convention so as to propose amendments to our National Constitution. The fundamental principl e

more ideas like that of Judge Acker-

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(Times readers are invited fo 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.)

Townsend Plan are embodied in one

of the amendments. I thoroughly

agree with Mr. Herbert on the need of immediate . constructive action, but, aside from the Townsend Plan, have yet to hear of a sound and workable plan being proposed. We

‘have had nine years of porous

plasters, soothing oils, etc., but very little as a whole which is of permanent importance. :

2 8 8 NATIONAL SPENDING AND NATIONAL PRODUCTION! By H. C. Thoss ;

After the President’s address to Congress I would like to discuss this

question: | How is the national in-|

come increased from 60 billion to 80 billion dollars by Government investment? Money, for Government investment comes from two sources

. | —from loans, on which interest must

be paid, and from taxes. Unless the loans are productively invested, and the national inicome is increased by merely spending the loans, the country must realize it is living off its capital. And the interest on the rising national debt must be paid out of repeated “relatively small tax increases.” Under these circumstances, the actual income from productive work is not increased, it is still 60 billion. The road which is followed forms a vicious circle, A rising proportion of the hard-earned national income is taken, from those who worked to finance Government. . investment. Higher taxation brings about a cut in the actual buying po of those who produced, creating a. poorer market for all goods. And these goods must be sold to pay wages The national debt

IRIDESCENT ICE By ROSE MARIE CRUZAN 0, when the sun emerged it made The weeping willow shed real tears, Of pearly pink and gold and jade. Beads, opalescent fell from tiers, whien made the silver branches ade..

DAILY THOUGHT And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake; but he

that endureth to the end shall be saved.—St, Matthew 10:22.

'A LL I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.—Emerson.

owing. To pay Government expenses, the man who worked can no. more spend the money he earned his own way. What is his incentive to continue work, to invest his savings, called idle capital, in productive enterprise? Surely not the outlook on seeing his earnings spent on experiments and political campaigns. Productive. investment is the only way to increase the national income without raising its debt. The stimulus to new productive work will only rise when everyone can see the Government really wants to cut its unproductive expenses. It wants the people to spend the money they earned their own way. It is an old truth that “you can’t eat the cake and have it.” If you liked it you will produce another one. o likes the cake we are swallowing now? The Government is taking an increasing slice, and yet, the cake is no bigger. 2 s2 8 THEY FOUND IT PAYS TO HAVE A HOBBY By Optimist _ : In these days of mass unemployment maybe it would be a good idea to dig out that old hobby and give it a bit of polishing. Two stories in the recent news bring two examples: Leonard Murton of Cleveland pensioned as a steel worker at the age of 71. He turned to his hobby, crocheting, and now spécializes in making bedspreads of intricate designs. For 35 years J. E. Stamps of Ft. Worth made violins for contem-. porary concert stars. Then he found that violin making was a profitable business, so he resigned his job as a railway mail clerk, If a hobby would bring money if followed as a profession—and most of them would — it makes a nice backstop when your pay check stops or your company closes its doors.. Particularly if you're somewhat of an expert at the pastime,

\ = = COMMENDS JURIST ' FOR DIVORCE STAND

I commend Judge Goett of Superior C : quick Reno“divorces. Even if there are no children and a couple has been married 10 or 12 years the case should be investigated just the same. : Some husbands try get rid of their wives just to escape responsibility of supporting them. ouples who have been married 10 years or more ‘can get along harmoniously

means business. I wish ‘Judge Goett success and 1 sincerely hope all the other courtrooms will follow his suggestion.

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measurement but romantic descrip~ tion. Other investigators are unable to agree with Kretchmer’s findings. Numerous other efforts to fit tem-

of body build have been pathetic failures. : ® 8 8 : ~ IN A SENSE he is more guilty, because he is the voter who permits the grafter and racketeer to develop. If every citizen were half as active as the incompetent, unscrupulous politicians and were not, frequently, secretly willing to a little on what “Honest Kelly — Tammany ‘Leader in the Seventies—called, “honest graft,” we would soon realize Plato’s Ideal Republic, = 2.8 » IT WILL destroy it. And something close to that seems to be Lhappening right now in both ‘the

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cess in business, teaching, law, medicine, and in the skilled trades is any indication of intelligence and

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without exception, these classes are dying out. A slight decline in average infelligence produces a staggering decline in the number of leaders at the top of the intelligen

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President "Assumes Defensive as Congress Asserts Independence And Business Quits Doghouse. EW YORK CITY, Jan. 19.—This is a critical pes

- V riod in the world. It is just as critical at home, It is apparent that Congress is reasserting its Con-

E: stitutional powers and its normal relations toward ' |the executive. While there is no sign whatéver that . [the Third New Deal will accept this, there are only * |a few signs-that it is going to fight back.

There are rumors on fair authority that the Presi dent now believes that he was badly advised in his

headlong course beginning in January, 1937. This. grapevine story goes on to say that, while he won't admit this and will cover any coming retreat by

{Third New Dealish rearguard actions, there will be

a change of pace and policy more i . line with changed opinion in the country as reflected in Cort=

gress. The authors or peddlers of this story say that the recent appointments of Mr. Hopkins and Mr, Murphy, was one of these rearguard actions to cover an intended “strategic retreat.” They claim that these men are fanatical yessers anyway and would be ‘just as strong for their boss in any move to the right as they have been for his cavalry charge in the opposite direction. We can take this story as just another of those things and set it aside to cool and perhaps prove itself. : o 2 8 = ; S7 ET it is becoming daily more apparent that the outcome of this critical period depends far more directly on what Congress may do or business may do than on anything the White House may do. There is even some evidence that exactly this is the policy of the President just now. -That boilsy down to th®: “You have been kicking about the way I ran this show, now let’s see you run it and watch what happens.” Or, less charitably, “yes, I got the country into this mess and now it’s up to you to get it out, and if you can’t and don’t, God help us.” Any way we choose to look at it, the buck has been passed by the people and perhaps the President back to Congress and to business. el That is where the critical element of this period enters. There is every reason to believe that sube stantial recovery is pressed back like a steel spring, ready and “raring” to go. Up to ‘the time of the radical appointments, the budget message and the Jackson Day .speech, it was. on its way. Then it faltered. The House vote on relief and the report of the Byrnes Unemployment Committee tend to release it again. i y ” o »

Y\/HETHER it will go rapidly ahead or not des pends now, I believe, altogether on the business attitude toward Washington and the action of political opponents of the Third New Deal. If the latter begin to play cocky politics on the retreat of the Adminis. tration toward the defensive, there are almost sure to be some more aggressive radical rearguard actions. Some politics there will surely be. Business jitters have tended to become at least a mild case of chronic St. Vitus. But the very apparent and une

‘|questionable swing of the country and the Congress

back to their ancient moorings ought to be enough to convince both business and political conservatives that the American system for prosperity is at last out of the doghouse. Any action to delay or impede or postpone recovery now because of either politics or jitters would be almost the unforgivable sin.

lt Seems to Me By Heywood Broun we

~ Aiken Defies Rivers as Canute Did The Tides and With Same Futility.

EW YORK, Jan, 19.—Aldous Huxley once wrote a book which surprised his admirers by its ine eptitude. :It consisted of a sophomoric satire of ‘a co-operative community, and it was called “Brave New World.” 2 ; The hero of the fantasy was an American Indian who, in his gallant and savage way, resented: the benefits which the Government would confer upon him. In a loud and rebellious way he declared that he was a free man and that he would fight for the privilege of being cold and hungry, contracting disease and starving to death. ; 2 A “In a rough way it seems to me that Vermont, through its spokesman, Governor Aiken, is somewhat the same position. ° The New England fight ranges around the right of the Federal Government to manage the business of flood control, It is quite true that neither Mr. Aiken nor any other New England leader has said candidly that he would rather have the muddy waters of swol= len rivers flow above his head than take orders from the U. S. Army engineers. And yet it does get down to that in actual practice. The practical difficulties of leaving so much aue thority to local sovereignty and so much to the na= tional experts unquestionably makes the task of unie fied control difficult if not. impossible. i

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oN It is true that the Founding Fathers acted .in & wholly necessary way in making compromises to fit the fears and suspicions of various communities. But, though the Founding Fathers were wise in their own generation and even for centuries to come, I think there is a higher wisdom. The rivers and valleys and watersheds were created long before there was a free State of Vermont. And I do not see how local pride should operate until Governor Aiken is powerful enough to say to a raging flood, “Mark you well, oh, waters, this is Vermont and .over there is New Hampshire. Remember, flood, we were Republican even in 1936, and so I issue:on behalf of the sacred doctrine of States’ rights the command, ‘River, stay away from my door!’” : 3 It is my notion that the smallest brooks may ged a mood where they will be just as disrespectful Governor as the tides were in defying King And so I think it would be better all around to keep the floads out and let the Federals in. :

Watching Your Health By Dr. Morris Fishbein :

REQUENTLY the person with hay fever or F asthma feels better when he changes climate.

Sometimes relief is obtained because the new sure roundings do not contain irritating factors. : In the winter season many patients go to Florida because its subtropical character makes its climate

different. © = Recently a Florida physician has given special ate : tention to the uses of Florida climate for patients with

hay fever and asthma, CR a He points out that frequently when patients have: found relief in Florida, careful study of the condition. has revealed the irritating ingredients. : It is then found that this could just as easily have been removed from the patient’s environment at home as by travel to some distant place. vo When patients are sensitive to pollens of ‘various, types they should realize that certain pollens are also: frequently found in Florida. In Florida ragweed is. just about as common as in any part of the country. Many factors enter into the time ‘when ‘the ragweed pollenates and: also into the concentration of pollens present in the air. This depends, of course, on the nature of the winds that prevail. id Dr. Frank C. Metzger points out that ragweed pollen granules are found frequently in the atmosphere in Miami and that a far higher concentration has been found in Coral Gables due to the east winds. In some parts of the State the pollens; appear earlier in the year than in others. In Tampa, Fla. ragweed attains its height about May 20, but the ' pollen is found most concentrated in August

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