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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1939
‘A POWERFUL WEAPON, SHERIFF
hs 'GQHERIFF FEENEY
has indicated he will invoke Indiana’s
old “padlock law” in his drive to close up gambling houses, vice resorts and other places used for illegal ‘activities in Marion County. We know of no surer. way of ridding the city of undesirable resorts than to proceed against the owners
of these properties.
‘he mere threat of exposure would
be enough to make many landlords close their buildings at
once to such renters.
f, in addition, they faced the threat
of arrests and fines and indefinite padlocking of their prop‘erties, we are certain there would be a great rush to find
more desirable, if less
| profitable, tenants.
It is the fact of these juicy rentals, of course, that makes otherwise respectable citizens and renting institu‘tions close their eyes a very shabby source of income, We hope Sheriff Feeney loses no [time in using this powerful weapon. It is one, incidentally, that is as available
to Chief Morrissey, as to the Sheriff. | : ) |
THEY NEED NOT DIE
T may be that the cumulative effect of months and years bf safety work has begun to take hold in Indianapolis. Or it may be just sheer good fortune. Whatever the explanation, a comparison of traffic fatality records shows:
City ..... County
| Jan., 1938
“10 15
Jan., 1939 % Reduction 3 70 5 | 67
That is an extre: ely fine showing for the first month
of the new year. If the same
percentage of reduction could
be maintained through the remaining months of 1939, it would mean that the lives of 80 men, women and children would be spared in Marion County. One hundred and twenty
were killed in Marion Are not the lives
County traffic last year. of 80 persons worth fighting for?
: | TIME FOR UTILITY PEACE | : HIS would be a good time for the utility industry to call off its lawyers and give up the idea of litigating the Tennesseee Valley Authority out of business. The Supreme Court has decided another major lawsuit in favor of TVA. The Congressional investigation has re- - vealed no basis for belief that future legal attacks would ‘be more successful than past attacks. We think the utility industry should accept TVA as something that’s here to stay—should stop wasting energy in the courts and give - more attention to adapting itself to Government policies. That would justify the Government in adapting its policy to help the private utilities solve their problems— chief of which is how to get money to modernize and expand the industry. The country needs successful, growing private utilities. It also needs Government policies to prevent abuses by the
utilities.
It can have both if reasonable men in the indus-
try and in Government will make up their minds to get
together,
THE MANTON CASE PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT has accepted the resignation of Martin T. Manton of New York, senior judge of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals. - : The need remains to bring out the whole truth about the business deals and borrowings in which Judge Manton was involved while on the bench, some of them indicating connection, through business associates or lawyers, with
court cases in which he sat.
Very much to the point is
Attorney General Murphy's assurance that this resignation “will facilitate the thorough investigation of charges against the jurist and protect the administration of justice by keeping the courts completely above suspicion.” When a judge resigns under fire, the public is entitled
to much more than his denial of wrongdoing. It is entitled |
to know every fact about the charges. Only so can. faith in the integrity of courts be preserved. A former Governor of New York, now President of the United States, went so far as to declare in 1931: “It is repugnant to our sense of the proper administration of justice that judges should be permitted to engage
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mits of state.” |
This principle ad-
no doubt and should be applied throughout the
If to state and local judges, then assuredly to Federal
judges.
t is a principle which should be made to prevail
henceforth—if necessary by plain Federal statute.
IT WOULD BE ONLY FAIR
who| earns $5000 a year from a private corporation,
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is required to pay two taxes on his income—one to
the State and one to the Federal Government.
B, for the.
is next-door neighbor, who gets $5000 working ‘ederal Government, is required to pay only one
tax—th Federal tax. The State can’t touch his income. C, another neighbor, who is on the state government's payroll at $5000, may have to pay a state income tax. But
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the Federal Government can’t touch his income.
wha invests his savings in private business, is required
’ ta pay taxes -both to the Federal Government and e on his income from those securities. ‘ho invests in Federal bonds, enjoys the income m free of taxation.
C,
ho invests in state and municipal bonds, likewise
: . i . . ops enjoys tax-free income for his securities.
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. ” 8 ” a committee of Congress has started con-
sideration of a simple proposal which would place all salaries and all income from investments on tax equality. It would not tax, retroactively, exempt salaries already paid or exempt bonds already outstanding. But, henceforth,
it would make A and B and C pay the same taxes on the
same income; regardless of from what source derived. We
‘have never yet heard
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a reasonable argument why this
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By Westbrook Pegler Ss
Radical Writers of Both Left and”
Right Intolerant of Artistic Work That Flouts Their Political Beliefs.
EW YORK, Feb. 1.—Sidney Whipple, The World- ; Telegram’s play reviewer, complains that most columnists, being, so he says, special pleaders, don’t dare step out of character and review a play objectively, but carry prejudice into the theater and judge the plays of which they write by political rather than artistic standards. On using the term “most columnists” he has blown himself a smoke ring and is trying to do tricks on it, because “most columnists” seldom write about current shows. But if he will put it that radicals of both extremes, left and right, are alike in their intolerance and brattish nastiness when crossed, I will go along with him. The temper of which he speaks is apparent not only in comments on plays, but in reviews of books and discussions of political persons and events, and it takes very little reading in the Communist press to discover that there is Goebbels blood in all bigots.
The Nazi Minister of Public Enlightenment would forbid a play offensive to his principles on the ground of untruth and his conception of the national interest. And we have groups in this country who would do the same, although there are no writers of any prominence who speak for the extreme right. But we do have writers on the far left in both the Communist and standard American press who share the Nazi belief that the first test should be whether the play, book, or speech conforms to the party line at whatever damage to art, truth or freedom.
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IDNEY should have remembered the reactions of the Communists and their fellow-travelers to the early operations of the Dies Committee. This committee showed great promise at first when it was poking around in the affairs of world Naziism, but as soon as it turned to similar operations by the Communist conspiracy it was denounced as an enemy of American liberty and a tool of the Fascists. It goes without saying that neither a Communist nor a Fascist would enjoy or approve a play or book dealing pleasantly with the familiar and cherished mstinions, memories and habits of the American nation. *
The radical press of both extremes has no patience with those who believe in the American form of government, and any work which indicates an acceptance of that form is condemned in advance for reasons having nothing to do with fidelity to the scene or the merits -of the writing. » ” ”
UT any work depicting the United States as a land of squalor ahd the home of the exploited would be given respectful, probably very sympathetic, lreatment, and the most praiseworthy note in the play
. “Abraham Lincoln in Illinois” in the ears of the Com-
munists is that in which Lincoln observes that the people have the right to change their form of government at-any time. Thus Lincoln is discovered as an advocate of violent revolution, directed from Moscow, firing squads, the deportation of the American farmer to some American Siberia at the order of the commissar in Washington, and the massacre of those who own their homes or wish they could. All Communist and Nazi-Fascist reviews of books, plays, legislative proposals and speeches are determined in advance, like the verdicts of Russia, German and Italian courts, but I think Sidney will allow that few commentators in the standard American press are devoted to either extreme.
Business By John T. Flynn
Politics in Relief Will Happen Again; Drastic Civil Service Is Only Cure.
EW YORK, Feb. 1.—In the somewhat bitter con- ~ troversy that went on in Washington over the confirmation of Secretary of Commerce Hopkins, one aspect of that case was lost sight of. One man, at least, did insist on noticing it. The charge against Mr. Hopkins was that he had used the WPA rolls for political purposes. Among these charges was the complaint, not only that workers had been coerced to vote for the Administration candidates, but that WPA workers were compelled to contribute to campaign funds in places. The point made by Senator Norris he illustrated with a brief story. He said that two years ago when he was running for the Senate, a woman visited the offices of his campaign manager. She said to the manager: “Here is $10, my contribution to the Senator’s campaign.” The manager asked her her name and what her husband did. She replied that her husband was dead. | “Have you any children?” he asked. “Yes sir, two.” i “What are you doing?” “I am on the WPA.” “Who told you to come here?” “Nobody.” i. “Then why did you come?” “Well, is it not expected of all workers? Is not that expected of anybody who has a job? I don’t know anything about politics, but I expected in a general way that anybody who has a job is expected to pay somebody.”
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The woman was very much surprised when told she did not have to pay anybody. But the serious point to this story is, as Senator Norris put it, that the ordinary person has lived so long under a system like this that he takes it for granted. That is the way things are done in politics, It was always bad when Government was handing out a few millions to jobholders getting good salaries. But it is a little different when the Government is handing out billions in small sums to poor people on relief. : : a . It Is silly to blame Harry Hopkins or the politicians in the states or counties. The blame must be placed upon the shoulders of the man who, knowing all this, nevertheless permitted, indeed ordained, that the Weadhould be used according to that .pattern. . This will happen again and again and nothing will ever bring it to an end until relief and the WPA and all Government agencies concerned with regulation of business and distribution of money are put under a drastic civil service system.
A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson
HERE seems to be a tendency on the part of young women to confuse the meaning of, the words “work” and “career.” Although we seldom speak of it, there is a difference and a vast one. \ ; Hundreds, yes millions, of men do not have careers; instead, they spend their lives in toil that is as poorly paid and quite as thankless as any housewife’s job—
which we concede is just about the most unappreciated on record,
When the sweet girl graduate surveys the modern scene, hoping to find a place where her particular talents can be put to permanent use, she must feel discouraged hecause in each field there are at least three or more applicants for every situation. Her anes for becoming famous or getting rich are not This being true, many of her kind accept marriage with half-hearted enthusiasm and go po Te throughout their lives that they are career women wasted in some man’s kitchen. Nine times out of 10, they are mistaken. The 10th one, of course, merits our pity, for talented women do occasionally find themselves caught in the domestic trap, forced to go through the monotonous gestures of cooking, cleaning or scrubbing when they might have done a splendid, even a noble task, in some other field. It will always be true that genius sometimes comes wearing a feminine form. But what we also have to remember is that, whether it be masculine or feminine, genius is rare. Most of us are destined and equipped to do only medivere work. It is therefore nonsense to suppose that no one can fill our shoes. oii ; The largest part of women’s J drud te
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: : a . The Hoosier Forum I wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.
REFUGEE REVEALS PLIGHT OF EXILES
By Dr. Heinz Dallmann, Bloomington
I read in The Times of Jan. 27 the letter by M. J. B. on German refugees in the Hoosier Forum. I am a refugee myself. The writer is not likely to know what it means to leave behind one’s family, relatives, friends and country; what it is like to start again from the bottom in a foreign country, with a foreign language, customs and habits. Unfortunately, I have not read Mr, Scherrer’s article; but the data stated by M. J. B. are sufficient to orient me. The case of the refugee mentioned who obtained a good (?) job after a short time is a very exceptional one. That man was unusually lucky as anyone may sometimes be. = Generally the situation is quite different. The refugees are struggling very hard to get jobs, especially in the big cities. The time when one could always obtain some kind of job ‘such as washing dishes or selling papers is over, and if and when they find employment they have to work bitterly hard for such a small amount as not one American in a hundred would work for. The compensation of those on relief is usually higher than the earnings of refugees. You should never draw conclusions from one particular case to apply to a whole group of people. ’ 2 I am convinced that the writer’s attitude is explained by the fact] that he never was a refugee and cannot know what that means. Very few people know that. My plea for that refugee does not even consider the sufferings and difficulties which he might have experienced before entering this magnificent country of freedom. Generally the lot of the refugees is recognized as being very bad. I cannot leave irrefuted an apparently false conception which might cause your readers to believe that the refugees are in a. better condition than the Americans. 2 8 THINK AMERICAN,
READER URGES By E. R. N.
Two letters in the Friday, Jan. 27, Forum interested me because the writers seem to be not well versed in American ways of thinking. Surely Alfonso Franco does not expect us to accept his statement that Franco owes not one peseta to Italy or to Germany, not when we can hear Il
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ments in Spain, Why should M. J. B. be spiteful about the German refugee? Did not your ancestors immigrate and enjoy the right to work and schooling in this country? I know mine did, though they immigrated before this government was founded. They were
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glad to be free of the religious and political persecutions of . England and France. They handed down to their descendants a sense of gratitude, loyalty and faith in this country and sympathy for other immigrants. For pity’s sake, think American in this tragic time. We've no place for bigotry, racial hatreds, ignorant conclusions. The ice is thin and justice and reason may go down.
” s ” DOUBTS’ CENTRALIZED RULE 1S ECONOMICAL By Voice in the Crowd +4
Now and then a person is inclined to agree with the viewpoint of “Taxpayer” in the Forum of Jan. 28, in favor of abandoning the smaller subdivisions of government. Such a move would be in the direction of centralized government and away from the wisdom of our fathers. ‘There is no proof that expense would be saved by obviating the smaller divisions as townships and counties, and if the smallest division that the governed could appeal to would be the State, who would listen to the plea of a common man? The divisions of government as originally planned are entirely for the protection of the governed and
A THOUGHT
By WANDA MITCHELL Some day when I am very old, Perhaps my mind will wander fo the past, . And find among the many memories The hopes of youth which did not last.
As for today, no fear shall fill my
heart The skies will still be bright and blue, And in my eyes, no tears will start to flow : I will believe that all my dreams . come true. :
DAILY THOUGHT
Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen.—Matthew 28:20.
HOROUGHLY to each another is the best way to learn for yqurself.—Tryon Edwards.
to guarantee their freedom as individuals in a government by representation. If you wish to save tax money, don’t do it by destroying the subdivisions of government, but by destroying the boards and commissions and the bureaus that really eat money and cause their like to multiply, : : That centralization of government does not, save money is already in evidence as a result of the power that has been delegated to the ¥ederal Government by the representatives of the States. Taxes are ruining the opportunity: of prosperity, but it is not State taxes| that are doing it. It is tha’ giant Federal machine which is starving the States and disallowing the rights of the States. There is where your duplication comes in; there is where the high cost of government
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boards and bureaus and | crackpots and seekers of special ‘privileges. In Washington are the cash registers that have & million dollar mark on the smallest key and a bell that never stops ringing.
The tax money that you pay at home may hurt a bit, but you can at least see where it goes and also derive some benefit from it, and you know what officials to change on election day. If you want to save money don’t fire your neighbor who is township trustee, but take the matter up with the men on Capitol Hill. They are the men who are spending your money.
2 = OPPOSES WEISS’ MANAGER BILL
By James M. Gates Being a resident for half a century and residing at my present location for 48 years, I wish to go on record as opposed to the City Manager plan by Jacob Weiss. He, no doubt, is a New Dealer, and his plan will bankrupt the city. The city cannot now meef its obligations. The City Hall bonds that came due had to be refunced. Proposing a $25,000 yearly salary for a manager is so preposterous I don't see how anyone could sponsor such a bill. A City Manager is not needed. A watchdog for the freasury would fill a long felt want to give the taxpayers relief, reduce many excessive salaries and abolish many useless offices. : 8 2 BELIEVES FRANCO FORGOT OATH By E. F. S.
Spain elected g legal government representing the majority of the people. But Gen. Franco, witn Italians and Germans, decided to exterminate the l.oyalists. He seems
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EXPLORE YOUR MIND |
By DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM
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RIES “T= bagoUNID OF MINERAL pene son CLA! * OF OTHER COUNTRIES? YES OR NO me
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PARTLY TRUE, partly false.
More women than men tend to take arguments :
some training in art and literature— usually look at things objectively the same as mé2n and, with such women, argument has the same effect as with men. > #2 in = . YES—more than that; until the nations of tiie whole world become willing to allocate their minerals—the haves to allow easy trade arrangements with the have nots— we shall have wars; and all the peace societies and pious resolutions on earth canno; stop them. This does not mean that a country rich in minerals shall give away its resources, but it does mean it is under
moral obligatior to make mutual}
trade agreements. NEVER. “Tae purposes of all parties, crowds and groups are . pure and right130s ate slways
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Gen. Johnson
Says— Ba Def nse Policy Ought fo Be One ~~ That Would Guarantee Our Safety ~~ And Not Involve Us in Europe.
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TEW YORK; Feb. 1.--The argument of those who’ would urge our step-by-step intrusion into the affairs of Europe is: “Of course, we will never engage
| in another foreign %ar. But with Italy and Germany
threatening us eventually, why should we not support and encourage those whom they must attack before they can eventually attack us? As between the dice -tatorships and the democracies, why should we, who are a democracy and not a dictatorship, do anything, to give aid and comfort to the latter? Why should. we not rather give aid and comfort fo our own? By. strengthening them we may defeat our potential fu--ture enemies and never have to fire a shot.” hn It seems to me that there is a sufficient answer to:
There is a smell about it, such as the stench which Munich.
such countries as Czechoslovakia, which were created. and encouraged to surround and threaten Germany with a ring of steel—were based on the implied prom=- - ise on the part of the British and an express promise. -
against German attack. When the time came to deiver, they welched. . # 8 = ;
ment in Europe without creating a "similar moral and implied promise if not an actual one. We have never weiched on anything yet, except Indian treaties. Suppose we thrust the whiskers of Uncle Sam into this revolving wringer now. Won't it" be almost impossible to get them out without losing” his whole face, if when war comes we should be" obliged to say: “You were suckers to rely on us. Go: fight your own fight. It isn’t ours.” Fa If it is ours now to the extent of secretly supporteing them in risking military measures, it will be ours with stronger reason if, relying on that support, they start a war.
two hours and 20 minutes. My German is a kind of missing word contest—only enough to know that the radio translations were atrocious and the radio editorial comment necessarily premature. 2s 8 8 »
T seemed to me that Herr Hitler produced an ads. vocate’s brief and, as a lawyer, I would say a resmarkably good one. It was very little like the mad-_ dog barking in the Czechoslovakian crisis which . scared Britain out of its shirt. In other words, while _ saving face to the uttermost, it seemed to me to say. that Mr. Hitler is willing to talk it out rather than’ fight it out. : aie Advocates here of putting on a braver show may say that this was because of the stiffening of the democracies and especially of the United States. Maybe ‘it was and I am in favor of all the stiffening that is. necessary—so far as the United States is concerned in its own bailiwick. ; 3 But there is a clear choice of policy here—stiffen-
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the Western Hemisphiere and stiffening in partnership with European powers to join in any kind of ate ~ tack or military defense either in Europe or in Asia.
Aviation By Maj. Al Williams
De-icers Are a Boon to Safety,” But Danger Is Not Yet Conquered,
(Pinch-Hitting for Heywood Broun) 3 ECAUSE our domestic air lines realize there is,
conditions, they've adopted the plan of refusing to fly when the air is loaded with ice. : ar The rubber de-icers on the leading edge of the. wings have proved so far to be satisfactory when ice - conditions are mild, or to tide the air-liner captfainover until he can make the nearest port. But.those. de-icers do not constitute a license to go in search; of ice, . hot
than we had in the past, it is refreshing to learn that the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics is still battling away at the problem in itslaboratories at Langley Field, Virginia. 3 For example, the N. A. C. A. engineers have con=< ducted preliminary tests in their refrigerated windtunnel on the use of exhaust heat as a means of’ preventing ice formation on the leading edge of a wing. The possibility of using steam generated by: the exhaust heat to prevent ice formation is alsobeing investigated, : Ie In these latter tests, the exhaust from one cylin" der of a nine-cylinder engine is used to generate: steam that is conducted to a condenser covering a” portion of the leading edge of the wing. From the results of the tests, both in the refrigerated wind: tunnel and in flight, it appears that merely heating - the leading edge of the wing is insufficient. So the“ next step is to investigate means of distributing heat’ over the entire width, or chord, of the wing. 5
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One beneficial result has come out of the come mittee’s work to date, although negative in character.” Flight tests were made to determine the usefulness of preparations that decrease the adhesion of ice to the wing—stuff that is sometimes referred to as. “political paste.” ; 3 “Preparations containing soluble materials have : thus far been founcl to be practically worthless,” says r the committee’s report. “Other tests conducted with. a mercury-amalgarmated surface showed that, even: though the adhesion of ice to the wing was reduced" to a very small arnount, the ice would continue to
untreaied surface.” : One day a clever promoter turned up in a Gov=" ernment office with a bucket of goo that looked like: cold consomme. In his pocket he held a contract from the inventor. The goo was so good, he said, that all you had to do was paint it on the wing of an air liner and for the next 10 hours you need not worry about ice. o Well, the goo was sent to the N. A. C. A. for test.. I heard no more about it until now. Those engineers’ at Langley can’t be stampeded by anybody into ape. proving anything, . : ai .
Watching Your Health :
By Dr. Morris Fishbein oo *
1= campaign ‘against the spread of venereal dis< ease, particularly syphilis, is steadily taking form.: The United States Public Health Service has proposed a program to prevent the spread of such diseases. among industrial employees. If such a plan is adopted as routine by industrial plants with large; numbers of employees, the effect on the rates of such. diseases is bound to be apparent. . hy The first step involves routine blood tests for all. applicants at the {ime they are employed. Blood tests are already a requirement in many industries and such procedure would not meet with much resistance,- The procedure simply involves the taking of a small speci-, men. of blood and the submission of .this blood to either a Wassermann or a Kahn test. i The next procedure is the use of a similar test, once each year at a time when employees in many industries are re-cxamined. Lo : The third procedure is the development of an edu-
cational program in various industries. + This would
involve routine education of employees as to hazard of venereal disease and the manner in which suc
d be the extension of the educational to the prevention of such diseases. This ve education as to the use of various pro. ociated ‘with cleanliness and sanitation
responsibility is the determination that ponsibly to the determination -
bly lower the incidence of venereal dis:
arises from the French and British backdown ag,”
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