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| SATURDAY, JANUARY 21, 1939

THE SCHACHT OUSTER ~~ |

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deck for action.

N the heels of reports that all is not well inside Germany

comes news that Dr. Hjalmar Schacht has been ousted from his job as president of the all-important Reichsbank, and Economics Minister Walther Funk elevated to that post.

is development may be of the utmost importance. ight in line with Herr Hitler's way of clearing the

Before his coups in the Rhineland, in

‘Austria and in Czechoslovakia he purged his general staff

‘of the conservative officers who objected to such dangerous

‘tactics and put in others more amenable to his orders.

The substitution of Herr Funk for the daring but more

orthodox Dr./ Schacht may be the forerunner of new eco-

momic and financial adventures to come. not a Nazi. Herr Funk is

Dr. Schacht is

a hundred percenter. Dr.

Schacht has pulled many a financial rabbit out of the Nazi hat but nobody has ever yet accused him of fooling himself. He knew all (the time, and was very careful so to warn the Fuehrer, | that it ‘was sheer legerdemain and that no ‘government could pay its way forever with such rabbits. Herr Funk may believe in bunnies.

Anyway |

Herr Funk has been put in charge of the

great financial «institution with orders to transform it “into

a German bank of issue unconditionally subjected to the ‘Sovereignty of the state in conformity with national socialist

principles.” In other words, “unconditionally subjected to™

the will and plans of Herr Hitler, Field Marshal Hermann ! Goering and the Nazi clique about them.

Judging by the signs, the months ahead are likely to

be exceedingly hectic ones for Germany and for Europe. Herr Hitler is said to be preparing for a push to the East, into the Ukraine, perhaps against the Soviet Union. That ‘sould explain the firing of Dr. Schacht and the hiring of -Herr Funk, believer in whatever financial and economic miracles Herr Hitler may want performed.

DANGER AHEAD

NDER the Eccles theory that deficit spending is a virtue and that fear of debt is just old-fashioned, this

great nation of ours probably can go quite a ways yet and _get by with it.

But as sure as the sun gives heat there will come a

time when doubt of the Government’s credit will set in. And if that time is allowed to arrive the economic troubles . we have seen! in the last 10 years will seem like happy day “by comparison. :

The thing to do is to halt that philosophy before the

time of trouble comes. It can be halted by two processes, one direct, the other indirect. The first is up to Congress. \ It controls appropriations. It doesn’t have to spend just because Mr. Eccles thinks the way he does. The possi-

bilities for savings in every department of Government are tremendous, as every Congressman knows. And that doesn’t mean letting] anyone starve, either. : The other approach is to stimulate business; to do everything possible to assure all legitimate business, small and big, in this nation that the Government is its friend, not its enemy. Only through the growth of business volume can private employment and tax receipts be increased, ‘and the cost of public employment be decreased.

, FINE MEMORIAL Po THIS year

is the 50th anniversary of the inauguration

of Benjamin Harrison as’ President. And no more . fitting way of honoring the man and the occasion could have been suggested, it-geems to us, than the proposal to establish a Benjamin Harrison Memorial Park. Such a park, to be located north of the White River “between College Ave. and the Monon tracks, would be carried out as part of the flood control project on ~Williams Creek. Therefore it would confer a double boon “on that far North Side section. 3

No less

important to the South Side is another

proposal to use for a playground public lahd near the City , asphalt plant at West St. No sound objections can be raised to money spent in keeping children off the streets, - particularly in this area where it is so badly needed.

MUSE IN| THE MANSION

: ! "THE new Governor of Texas—you remember, W. Lee

= O’Daniel,

the flour salesman who campaigned with a

hill-billy band—has written a 10-stanza poem about his rise to fame. Three stanzas will be plenty to convey the _ idea of his masterpiece:

"Way back in Nineteen Twenty-Five In old Kt. Worth there did arrive A man and wife, one girl, two boys,

To make

Born. in| Ohiq, then moved to Kan.

a living and make a noise.

On to Missouri and Louisian’; Then headed West toward the setting sun

In quest

of happiness, friends—and fun.

: From the washer-woman’s hovel to the Mansion

Not a 3

Plain Go

tate, : : eam nor a fable nor a trick turn of Fate. d-fearing people—sixz million strong,

Just proving that RIGHT shall prevail against wrong.

Well,

anyway, proving, as El Paso Herald-Post ob-

serves editorially, that the people of Texas have reason to

hope devoutly that their new Governor will be a better

E chief executi € than he is a poet. UNDEBATABLE

QAYS news item: “Rep. Schulte, a member of the House

District |Committee, . . . said he favors the income tax

provision of| the (District of Columbia) program, but believes it should be lowered to include incomes in excess of $10,000, rather than $15,000. : “ “That would be just above the salaries of members of Congress,” le explained. ‘Of course we could never put through an income tax that would hit the salaries of

mbers.’

By Bruce Catton Maybe You Don't Know What Makes | The Wheels Go 'Round in Capitol But It's Fun to Watch Them. (Batting for Westbrook Pegler)

ASHINGTON, Jan. 21.—You may not know what makes the wheels go ‘round on Capitol Hill, but it’s always interesting to watch them spin. There are plenty of good spots to watch from. Things go on in all sort of places, and all of them are worth looking at. Let's take a sample tour. First, the chamber of -the House of Representa. tives. : The members’ benches form a huge semicircle, facing a builtup bank of desks where sit the clerks, recorders and what-not. This bank culminates in a solitary pinnacle where sits the Speaker in lone grandeur. Down in the center, between members’ benches and clerks’ is a little open space containing a table and two wooden reading racks. Here is where the speaking goes on. : Some of it is going on as you enter. Rep. Treadway of Massachusetts is discussing the trade treaties. Most of the Republicans are present, but the Democratic benches are almost: empty. Practically everybody is talking in a not-too-subdued undertone. From time

is merely remarking that these are playthings made

Security Act.

IN I First Lady writes:

| thoughts of Tom Mooney as he reflects upon Justice

to time the Speaker taps with his gavel for order, and fails to get it. The Congressman talks on, unworried. : ! : 8 8 =»

OMEONE rises to ask a question. “Will the gentleman yield?” The gentleman does. The questioner rises in his place, and the official reporter scurries across to take down what he says. It goes on and on. Rep. Treadway is making a good speech, and it seems a pity he isn’t getting more attention. Doesn’t Congress every pay attention? . 3 It does, sometinies. Later on Rep. Hoffman of | Michigan takes the floor to denounce Attorney General Murphy. He brings with him a suitcase; dramatically he opens it and reveals a choice collection of knives, blackjacks, knuckle-dusters and other weapons. He flourishes thgse at the awakening Democrats; it looks as if he were offering battle, but he

by the Michigan sit-down strikers during Mr. Mur- |- 1 phy’s regime as Governor. : He draws fire. Half a dozen Democrats rise and clamor for attention. From the Republican side come cries of encouragement: : “Don’t yield! Don’t yield!”

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Mr. Hoffman does not yield, and presently the Democrats subside. . ’ 2 8 = . TT the Supreme Court next. Here, by all odds, is the most impressive sight of all. The chamber is immense, with four double marble pillars on each side and huge red velvet drapes back of them. Four more pillars rise back of the judges’ bench. The

. : ; The Hoosier Forum 1 wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

ceiling seems miles away. Lawyers and spectators, sitting in their places and waiting for the court to come in, don’t even whisper to each other. Standing behind the vacant judges’ chairs are four small boys—pages, whose job it is to fetch and carry for the judges. They look delightfully out of place. There is a heavy rap with a gavel and everybody rises. The robed justices appear and take their places. Everyone sits down again, and a lawyer advances to the lectern which faces the bench. So far not a word has been said. The lawyer bows slightly, opens his manuscript, and begins: “May it please the court—" : And he begins to talk about 25 cent moving picture tickets in Texas.

Business

By John T. Flynn

Congress Must Recast Security Act, And This Time Should Heed Experts.

NEV YORK, Jan. 21.—Congress is now faced with the duty of reforming and recasting the Secial

DISGUSTED, BUT STILL HOPING By Indignant I always have been for the city manager plan for Indianapolis and voted for it when it was proposed

some years back. I must say, though, that I'm getting pretty disgusted. Your editorial insisting that organizations favoring the plan decide on a definite policy of procedure hit the nail on the head. What I can’t understand is why this wasn’t done long ago. Certainly if these various organizations were as devoted to this reform as they would have us believe they could have been prepared to lay,something definite before the Legislature. As it is the politicians are laughing up their collective sleeves. But it isn’t too late yet. These well meaning people still might have the last laugh if they only get busy and make up their minds. Meanwhile I hope The Times doesn’t become disgusted and throw up the sponge. ” ” 2

EXPLAINS CONTENTS OF BAR ADMISSION BILL By Ralph Crum, Law Graduates Association

Throughout the state there are a number of law school graduates who have been recommended by their respective local bar associations, and have appeared before a character and fitness board, but repeatedly have failed to pass the present bar examinations by a very narrow margin. These graduates have formed the Law Graduates Association which is sponsoring House Bill No. 46 introduced by Rep. Markland. This bill is an amendment to the present law regarding the admittance of attorneys to practice law in the State of Indiana and this amendment does not remove any of the powers now exercised by the Supreme Court. The purpose of this amendment is to admit persons who have obtained L. L. B. degrees or any such persons who shall hereafter graduate from any accredited law school of this state (or any accredited law school of any other state providing they have been a resident of the State of Indiana five years prior to their graduation). The amendment further provides that the Supreme Court shall have sole jurisdiction and shall prescribe an examination or regulate the admission in any manner it sees fit for such persons who are not law school graduates. This amendment will not lower the standards of the law profession and it is not the intention of this association to admit

The act is so generally bad that the wise course would be to begin at the beginning and make it over. But unfortunately, when so vast an enterprise is started wrong, it is difficult to go back. The tragic feature of all this is that the maladjustments and mistakes in the Social Security Act are not weaknesses which could not be foreseen. There is a disposition to say that this business of unemployment insurance and old-age pensions is something new and that inevitably much had to be learned before it could be made right. But unemployment insurance and old-age pensions are not new. England, Germany and many other countries have been operating them for a number of years. An immense body of knowledge was accumulated in 1934 when the Government sat down to the job of forming a plan for America. Moreover, there were in the country a number of men who had spent their lives studying the subject. Old-age pension laws had been adopted in several states and other forms of social security were in‘ existence, Moreover, insurance is not a new subject. The business of insurance finance is a study which claims a large number of experts,

Let's Undo the Damage

One of the strange episodes of these years is that a8 group of statesmen would undertake to set up a Soplal Securiiy Plan and Qeliberaiely exclude from rations nearly a knew about the subject. Hie men Who Tenlly Those who knew had to be content to remain on the outside and point out the mistakes that were being made. And now, singularly, every prediction they made of trouble has been abundantly fulfilled. A few experts on insurance finance were called in. But the recommendations they made were thrown mo Ye waste bask: -in favor of proposals which me irom men who had never thou security in their lives, E04; Shout, Social But this is done. The thing to do now is to undo what has been done as far as possible and recast the system. That is a job for Congress. Congress should now do what the President refused to do. It should refuse to be stampeded into hasty, ill-considered and uninformed action on this act. It should call in the ablest authorities on social security and unemployment and old-age financing and, at least, learn what these men have taken a lifetime to learn,

(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.)

persons who are not duly qualified. The members of this association feel that their respective law schools had the utmost confidence in their ability and truly believed they would make competent attorneys or they would never have conferred upon them their Bachelor of Law degrees. tJ n 2

OFFERS SUGGESTION ON ECONOMIC ILLS

By Jasper Douglas What is the matter with this world? It is pure insanity that millions should starve because we produce too much. With the use of machinery, man’s capacity for production has outstripped his power to consume and so we will have to send

our boys to some foreign land or|

take the lives of other boys as good

RUFUS AND RACHEL By ANNA E. YOUNG

Out in my yard are two jolly good souls Who never complain of ills such as colds Yet he wears no trousers, no coat, no vest ‘Though I do see a scarf on his manly chest. ;

She doesn’t go in for one feminine frill (If we dressed as she does, we'd surely be ill.) Just a wee little shawl draped over her arms “Exposing to view all her maidenly charms. : ' .

Rufus and Rachel, contented of mind

Faces all smiley and two hearts entwined; Side by side through this life they

go, Happy to be—just made of snow!

DAILY THOUGHT

Let the enemy persecute my soul, and ‘take it; yea, let him tread down my life upon the earth, and lay mine honour in the dust. Selah.—Psalms 7:5, :

ERSECUTION is not wrong because it is cruel, but cruel because it is wrong.—Whately.

as they, just to open a market for the surplus which they could consume if their wages would buy as much as they produce. The abolition of the profit system would settle the matter for all time. But for a temporary relief, lasting perhaps 50 years, remove the constitutional hindrance and amend it so that Congress shall have power to make any law that shall be deemed best for the general welfare of the whole country without interference by any state. Then have Congress pass a rigid law fixing minimum wages at $50 a week for all skilled labor and a maximum of 30 hours a week, with heavy penalties for violation. ? > C8 » ” WANTS JOBS LIMITED TOg ONE IN FAMILY OF FOUR By a Times Reader Let us pass a law-to divide up work to one in a family of four. It's the man’s place to be the provider, if he is able. Let his wife ‘stay at home where she belongs, and raise the children and keep them off the streets. That is the way it was 50 years ago. And there was work for every one. There was no need of relief. There are many families where two. and four in a family are working and hogging up the money and

_|cheating neighbors out of work.

Then they growl about high taxes. They should pay still more taxes. On the other hand we have men who are wealthy—they earn some thousands and some millions of dollars in one year—out of our country. But they don’t want to pull our country out when it’s stuck with its load. They like to crack the whip, but don’t want to help pull. *

8 8 = HE’D OMIT BIBLE ON THAT DESERT ISLAND By Ralph Weber

Reading Dr. George Gallup the other day, I noticed that the Bible still was listed as the favorite book of a majority of Americans. It may be the favorite book, but I suspect it is more revered than read. began to speculate on what five books I would take along if I were to be cast away on a lonely island for an indefinite period of time. I came to the conclusion that the Bible would not be on my list, which would include: The abridged Oxford English dictionary. The World Almanac. Shakespeare (in one volume), Melville (in .one volume), Wells’ Outline of History. If you know a better list, I'd like to see it. And I bar funny cracks like taking along “How to Make Friends and

Influence People.”

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson /

commenting upon the release of Tom Mooney, the

“It must be a curious feeling enforced confinement to walk again a free man, able to make personal decisions without consulting other people.” . It must, indeed! In fact, it seems to me that curious” is too weak a word. The feelings which assail Tom Mooney are surely something like those which tore the soul of Lucifer asunder when he railed against his high and once beloved God. : Opinions as to Mooney's guilt have always differed, of course. For 22 years he has been the bone over which the forces of Capital and Labor have growled and contended. A simple man, marked by fate to play a strange role in American affairs, he has symbolized & cause and worn a martyr’s halo for a very long time to a large group of our citizens, If he were to be freed at all, it is regrettable that the leniency was not granted a decade ago. And if he is innocent, it is interesting to speculate upon the

after so many years of

in his native land. Frequently all of us are forced to entertain such reflections and sometimes they are unpleasant. _ For example, we read, that has been sentenced to life imprisonment for stealing a red wagon from in front of a hardware store during the pre-Christmas season, while the son of an official in the same state draws 25 years for the murder of a young companion. : . We learn, also, that in the sovereign State of Colorado death in the lethal chamber is visited upon a 16-year-old lad, whose mentality is below 6 years and who; when told he must get, ready to leave his prison cell, shouted like a gleeful child about to enjoy his first train trip, “Is it time for me to go to Heaven?” Men,

a young Negro boy

NO, it is easier. Dr. Knower, psychologist, had 1300 men and women college students listen to the

same speeches and arguments, de[livered by the same teachers, on a

with the. mentality of adults said, “Yes,” and 1 to his death. o el ho

LET'S EXPLORE YOUR MIND

By DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM leit HARDER TO CHANGE AWOMAN'S MIND | i

AN AMAN'S P YES ORNO ee

015 IT TRUE THAT IN THE END

VIRTUE avs

REWARDED? YES OR NO

Ie] RAE RA ’ 2 J3. YOUR OPINION —. highly controversial public question. Their opinions were scientifically ascertained before and after the

arguments. The . women had changed their opinions considerably

more than the men and there was no evidence that they “remained o. the same opinion still.” . 8 2 f J NOT in this world unless one finds his reward in the feeling of having been virtuous. This is a great reward but, often, when one meets ingratitude for generosity, public criticism, for having fought

-] for social improvements, he experi-

ences a bitter feeling of failure rather than an inner glow of personal satisfaction. Criminals constantly “get away with it,” not only temporarily but permanently, innocent persons -are sometimes jailed and even hanged. But, with all this, virtue pays vastly bigger rewards than unrighteousness of any kind. ss x = IF THERE is, for heaven's sake, ‘J ‘let me know about it. Of course there are two kinds of stupidity— inherited and acquired. Most stupidity is the latter kind. For inherited stupidity there is no cure at present, although science already has gleams of hope that a cure will some day be found. For acquired stupidity, the complete cure is to “quityurkickin’,” laziness, worrying, feeling sorry for yourself, lack of self-confidence, jealousies, and general cussedness, and learn some-. thing about something, especially about how to overcome your fears, |

| & few members of Congress. Why?

| Says—

Not Only Members of Congress, But All of Us Should Be Advised Of Our National Defense Needs.

EW YORK, Jan. 21.—The New York Times report of the testimony of Gen. Arnold of the air de fense program says: “Rep. Short of Missouri asked Gen. Arnold what specific danger of attack the general staff had in mind in building up the air force and the General replied that ‘I don’t think I ought to answer.’ Afterward: Mr. Short said Gen. Craig had agreed t® answer the question later to the committee.” Much of this testimony is being given in “executive

sessions,” which means that nobody hears it except The stock answer is, of course: “It is a military secret.” Tommyrot! . : : A few months ago the War Department made its recommendations on this and on all matters of defense. It included no such tremendous upping ‘of expenditure, : 2 2 2

I~ the meantime, following Munich, one of the

greatest ballyhoo campaigns of the most expert ballyhooers who ever sat in Washington came out of this Administration. It started with perfectly fantastical suggestions hy the “tax-spend-elect” wing of the Third New Deal, Freedom of the press punctured most of those trial balloons and actual final proposals were much more nearly on the rails of sanity. Our excellent general staff undoubtedly aided this realism; But the general staff is not exactly a free agent. It has to take orders. But the members of the: general staff still think: They have the best information available on this ime portant problem. The only authori y outside of the executive who has authority to ask them what they really think is Congress. That is a plain constitue tional mandate. It is the duty of Congress to provide, maintain, raise and support armies and navies. That is a planning and providing function and it is exclue« sively the duty of Congress. Command of those forces is a duty of the executive, But we are not now talke ing about command, : The country is entitled to know the answer to pree ‘cisely the question which Mr, Short asked Gens Arnold. It will not know it by any “hush-hush” dise closures in “executive session.” I do not say or even intimate that there is not a perfectly good answer to it, but let’s have it. ; # » ”» - E are again at a cross-roads. It looks as though we are at least taking a first step on the road to becoming a militarized people on the German theory ‘of the “nation in arms.” With that goes’ a loss of most of the essential principles of democracy. It may be necessary. If it is, we'll do it rather than be bulldozed or conquered. But let’s know precise ly what the necessity is before we get Uncle Sam’s whiskers clearly caught in the wringer which turns only one way and once started can’t be stopped.

To dub as “military secrets,” conjectures as to Just who may attack us, when, where, how and with what strength is pure hokum. The dictatorships may have military secrets of importance, although even that is doubtful. Buf you can’t keep secret broad aspects of military plans and policy in a democracy, As in the disputed project for fortifying Guam, ape parently trivial or routine steps at this moment may, mean war at a later moment. Let’s have the facts.

It Seems to Me = By Heywood Broun 1

Fears Relief Cut Will Yield Only’ Rich Crop of Misery and Discontent,

NEV YORK, Jan. 21.—During the primary battles. between liberal and conservative Democrats; somebody took up the word “purge” and pinned it on’ the President. As & satirical use of that term it was. legitimate enough and it proved highly effective. politically. = And yet some damage is done to clear. thinking when words are twisted out of their usual meaning. When a true call comes for them they have: been strained to such an extent that they have lost their savor. ¥ For instance, at this very moment many hundreds

tof thousands of Americans are literally in danger of

being purged. In their case “purge” is not just a con-: venience for headline writers but a threat as grim as a summons to stand before a firing squad. To he sure, the punishment which Congress purposes to mete; out to them is slower than that contained in a rattleof musketry, but for that very reason, more cruel. The slash of $150,000,000 by the House in the relief deficiency bill is supported by its proponents as a drive

for economy. They say it is a first step toward a bale §

anced budget. But in a sense the cut-is a purchase, rather than a deposit. The conservatives in both’ camps are minded to take a flier in human misery.

LaGuardia Should Know

Balance is to be achieved by throwing into one side of the scales the body and bones and blood of jobless men and women. It would be foolish to deny that the investment will produce dividends. Indeed, winter is” good growing weather for the crop which assuredly” will be reaped. There will be a rich yield in privas ’ tion, want and discontent. : Even the most bitter foes of Fiorello LaGuardia should admit that he is an expert witness on the: affairs ‘of the City of New York. And the Mayor hasgone to Washington to say, without qualification, that . the cut will mean complete havoc in the life of the - metropolis. Indeed, he added, “There is not a Mayor in the country who knows what he is going to do if this appropriation is cut below the President’s estiemate.” “ The same House of Representatives which hasindicated a willingness to throw as many as a million men and women into the streets also seems intent upon voting $150,000 to Martin Dies to investigate. subversive activities. In other words, they seem to be. saying, “We will furnish the stimulation for sube versive activities and then we will give you the. money to go out and investigate them.” ;

Watching Your Health

By Dr. Morris Fishbein 1.28 I. DUBLIN, in charge of statistics for one

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of the largest life insurance companies in the” .

United States, reports that 1938 gave the United States its bést health record in history. Si His statement is based on the death rates among those insured by his company, which was 7 per cent" below the previous minimum, and on individual res ports from the health officers of 39 states. Every ; state reported improved mortality rates for 1938 ascompared with 1937. di lids Particularly interesting was the fact that there” were lower mortality rates for tuberculosis, influenza and pneumonia (which are among the leaders in the causes of death) and also for automobile accidents. The tuberculosis rate is reacting toward the great - campaign for its control. The presence of only 50 deaths for every 100,000 of the population means that _ the number of tuberculars who may possibly come in - contact with young children, chief source for the spread of this disease, has been greatly diminished. Development of new methods of treating pneu. monia has been helpful in preventing any widespread prevalence of this disease, Yet mass contact of hu man beings gives increased opportunity for the of diseases affecting the nose, throat hangs.

800,000 lives were saved as a result of the publ paign. \ < 3 Less than 1700 eases of infantile paralysis :

Doctors congratulate the public particularly fe great decline in motor accident deaths. Ap Only disturbing feature of our present ‘tab! statistics is the rise in the number of cancer d corded in the entire country and no real the disease took place, i To

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