Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 February 1939 — Page 18

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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1939

"POPE PIUS XI T was Feb. 6,1922. For Rome it was a chilly day. Nevertheless, outside St. Peter’s a vast throng stood waiting, silently, patiently and with great respect. Suddenly someone pointed. Everybody looked in the direction indicated. Above the Vatican rose a thin wisp of white smoke, the signal for which everybody had been watching. A successor to Pope Benedict Xv had been chosen. Presently a figure in scarlet appeared on a Baldony. ~It was Cardinal Bisleti, whose name had been mentioned for the high office. Said he: hye : “I announce to you great joy. We have a new Pontiff, Cardinal Achille Ratti, Archbishop of Milan, who assumes the name of Pope Pius XI.” ” » » 8 8 TopAY Pope Pius lies dead. His Holiness, Bishop of e and Vicar of Jesus Christ; successor of St. Peter, . Prince of the Apostles; Supreme Pontiff of the Universal Church; Patriarch of the West; Primate of Italy; Archbishop and Metropolitan of the Roman province; sovereign of the state of the Vatican City—to enumerate the rest of his titles—has joined the long line of his predecessors. Born May 31, 1857, His Holiness attained the age of 81. He was already in his middle 60s when the massive, manyjewscled Papal tiara was placed upon his head. Yet few of the wearers of that crown ever were called upon to endure greater trials of the soul. His very election was attended by political strife. Italy’s Premier Bonomo fell largely because he wanted to extend the olive branch to the church following the death of Pope Benedict, and because he ordered flags flown at half-staff from the public buildings. From the moment of his elevation Pius XI had to face .the Fascist struggle for power. For it was the autumn ‘of that same year that saw Benito Mussolini, who had little ‘use for the church, become dictator of Italy. Conflict between Il Duce and the Vatican continued for years, the new concordat not being signed until 1929. Meantime the blow to religion dealt by Soviet Basis and the tragic quarrel in Mexico between church and state -deepéned the aging Pontiff’s worries. Came the world depression, unemployment among the masses, Italy’s war against Christian Ethiopia, Spain’s civil strife with its mass murder of civilians, Nazi Germany’s persecution of Catholics and Jews. And through it all, since the World War, ‘had run the discordant motif of a strangely beset mankind which seemed to be losing its hold on things spiritual. ' materialistic ‘world seemed bent upon destroying itself in an Sngodiys mixture of: pleasure and war.

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2 ” EW Pontiffs oo took their tasks moe to heart. Pope Pius was keenly conscious that half the Christian world were members of his own flock. He was well aware that 220,000,000 followers of the Roman faith were in Europe alone; that another hundred million inhabit the Americas, with more millions scattered elsewhere. Upon these, as upon others, he yearned with all his heart and soul to wield an influence both for good and for peace.

FOUR PLAIN WORDS

HE formidable array of state and local legal and tax authorities gathered at Washington to fight the proposal to remove tax exemption from government bond issues insures exhaustive discussion of the matter from every legal and constitutional point of view.: Unfortunately for the defenders of present exemption, however, they are up against the actual, existing, 26-year-old Sixteenth Amendment to the Federal Constitution itself, which says, as plainly as words can say it: ; “The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several states, and without Te_gard to any census or enumeration.” The four words “from whatever source derived” still stand there, plain as day, despite all the habits, customs, - reciprocal agreements, accommodating interpretations, etc., that have heretofore been invoked to explain why Congress shouldn’t exercise the full power given it by the Constitu~ tion in clear, unmistakable, unchallengeable English. . If the time has come to take these words for all they mean in the interest of fair and equitable bearing of tax burdens, no pleas of temporary inconvenience, loss or necessity of adjustment should, we think, block the way. Nor is a considerable period of easygoing departure from the precise terms of the Constitution any valid reason for not getting back to them when need presses. They are still there.

HOMES FOR RECOVERY

ERE’S hoping the lumber industry will have groat success with its new plan, to bring ownership .of good ‘houses within reach of: the thousands of citizens whose ‘ability to pay for homes is limited to 50 cents or a dollar a ‘day. The ‘national associations of lumber manufacturers . and retail lumber dealers are joint sponsors of the plan. ‘They have been promised co-operation from manufacturers _ of other building materials and equipment, from architects, home economists and others. They say it will be possible

~ for one-story and two-story dwellings, varying in design,

to be built at a cost of $2000 to $2500 each.

door to a new era in low-cost housing as a reply to the charge that private industry can’t provide adequate shelter for the low-income group: and that Government Subsidies | are necessary. x If the lumber industry can and will do what is promised by this plan, it will be one of) the finest things that

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king real jobs at real wages for many who, are now de-.

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by Westbrook Pegler

Mr. Farley: Has a Nerve Honoring Baseball as National Game When Palm Should Go to 'Craps Shooting!"

EW YORK, Feb. 10—TIt isn’t too late for all fair-

Farley a. protest against his decision to honor baseball as the American national game in ahother of his gala issues of postage ‘stamps. This is a gross misrepresentation and a brutal injustice to the true national game-of the country and the: preference of the vast majority. The true American national game is not played with any sort of ball, whether stuffed with

though in some ‘versions, under formal conditions, a sort of rake is used which is called a stick. The name game of thé U. S. A. is played with two small cubes, each bearing on its sides from one ‘to six dots. It is played by Americans of both sexes and all

outnumber the ball players and baseball spectators by at least 100 to 1. Indeed, it. may be ‘assumed that because they are Americans all ballplayers and spectators also play occasionally the game of craps, which was so far the favorite of the American Expeditionary

upon as mere peculiarities. of -& few. eccentrics. Ea #

acreage, plant nor large teams, but may be and is played on Army blankets, on little bare patches of ground in alleys, on tables and on the floors of mansions and penthouses: It has been played ‘in the very White House itself, and «under the; ;dome of the national Capitol.

with their mothers and grandmothers. Its rules, terms, protocol and probabilities are familiar to more per-. sons than their constitutional rights, ‘and it contains no infield fly rule.

not been overstated, the game of craps presents marvels of subtlety and skill when played by experts, wherein the hand ‘is quicker than the eye and the sand-lot sucker has-no more chance than a second-

Yankees. 3 3 ® a 2 ECESSARILY, of course—for the true national games of the United States is, ironically, illegal— the great stars of this sport have been denied their due fame, but if Mr. Farley will agree to do the right thing I will poll the historians of Atlantic City, Sara- | toga and other centers for the names of, say, a halfdozen of the best. From these he might: select one Yor the honor of being pictured on the stamp’ which he proposes.. Baseball’s virtues are here conceded, but it must be: said that this game. is largely a business, governed’ by. soulless coporations. ‘They ‘make its rules and regulate the friskiness of the standard ball for revenue sometimes, with intent to swindle, as in cases where minor leagues have used an oversize ‘golf ball to swell the marks of their hitters and sell them high to the majors, It is played by only a few thousand professionals and perhaps an equal or slightly: larger num‘ber of amateurs—and played rather badly by, the latter group, at that. ‘It is a real nice game and famous and beloved | among us, but on the basis of participation, familiarity, fascination and democratic feeling the sport which Mr. Farley must honor as. the national game of the | United States is craps. - Baseball may be second, but even so it is not even close.’

Business By John T. Flynn

Insurance Payas-YoukGo System,

. A, Fact Too Often Overlooked.

out by the Monopoly. Investigating Committee’s study of insurance. companies reveals a fact about insurance overlooked by most policyholders and, also, |; of late, by most Congressnien. . This fact is that. year afer year, over a long career, the insurance companies have found their premiums each year sufficient to pay. their benefits. In other words, while.the insurance companies have had vast reserves. and while they have grown:enor- | mously, it has not been necessary for-the companies [! to dip into these reserves. Then why the big reserves? Because ‘the life |. insurance companies are private companies. If ‘3 | time should come when they are tinable’ fo -collect

their obligations save out of their savings. = In other words insurance is a PAY-85-yOU-g0 proposition. The man who has a thousand-dollar life insurance policy pays a yearly premium. The contract with the company. is not that:it will save and invest all this money and have jt’ for him when he dies. On: the contrary it is: well understood: that the com=-:

small part for ifs reserve.: the’ company put these premiums: aside, erated them and let them -|saccumulate over a . period of years ° ithe operation would be merely a saving plan,

The Fundamental Pringiple.

The theory behind the %usurance.is this: Out of: every thousand persons in: ‘any given year a given ‘number will die. «Year after year, this will average up in such a way that it 4s possible to calculate the number definitely. ‘When those persons die their families: suffer the loss of their income and the loss is complete. : ‘The blow falls: only on those among the thousand who actually die. “Now the idea behind insurance is to soften that blow so far as its financial consequences are .concérned . by. distributing the loss over many persons. The fundamental : principle is that all of the insured pay in each year a sum sufficient to take care of the benefits which accrue in that year. It is fundamentally a pay-as-you-go. ‘system. ‘This is important to remember in our old-age in-

| surance system. That too must be’ .& pay-as-you-go

system. And there is no need of a'reserve, since in that system it is the Government, and not a private company which runs the business. Hence it. does not need the reserve of many biliols with Which the Government has saddled it. :

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A Woman’ S Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

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than Josephine Lawrence to the troubles’ which: lurk beneath the placid surface of our ‘domestic existence. It is with matters of home be is most concerned. In her latest book she tackles the: toughest, of ther

Good Home With Nice Peaple” (Little, Brown & Co. J is heavy with ironic implications Miss Lawrence’s people are’ never really fice, Wing way of thinking. No matter what she writes abot. she manages to introduce types instead of humans, and it’s hard to work up sympathy for them. 2 However, this latest book deserves: the. attention of American women because it paints our: gravest

servant question. will never be settled until the house-'

She deplores the fact that the maid is family food a matter of great importance, we Took:

sirable than the task of writing our husband’s business letters. It seems to me. the argument is sound. Why should we make such a wide social difference between office workers and houseworkets? Why should we speak of mp = filling a position and of the: other as hoiding a jo If you can answer these. questions without casting, slurs at the Wife and Mother Tribe, you're a genius at fencewalking. As a matter of fac merit slurs, Hypocrisy is at the bottom of our attitude at this ) protest our devotion to domestic ars Ya

minded, right-thinking Americans*to wire James |:

kangaroo fuzz or wind, not with any bat, either, al-. [ races, and it is no exaggeration to say that its devotees |

Force that baseball, football and boxing weré looked |

HIS is a sport ‘which “requires neither youth,

It is a game which Americans can and do play

No less than baseball, whose famous finesse has |’

string high" school pltelier sgaingt the New York

| vast amount ‘1 to his home

of t \| pysmmamon, Feb, 102-The frit figures given | pa¥tm

enough premiums, they have no means of ‘meeting | >

pany will promptly pay: out Be money, saving a |*

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: ¥ Pprozaciy no rovelist of our time is more. alert 5

all—the problem of mistress and maid. Its title, “A |

faults in brilliant colors. Miss Lawrence contends— | and surely we can all agree at this point—that the | ©

wives regard it as their problem and. are willing to: do oh K | something about it. : eir spokesmen assert that the penir g generally Dp y are © ng the, ‘regarded as a menial; that although we consider - the

down our noses at those who prepare it; and/that: the | 'at¥/ | task of caring for our children is regarded as'less de- |

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Skirmish in Larger War Between:

F. D. R. and Independent Congress.

FASHINGTON, Feb. 10. ~The President's letter to ~ Judge. Roberts, and’ much editorial comment : sels up the Senate’s refusal to confirm Mr. Roosevelt's nomination ef a disttict judge in Virginia as a petty row over Senatorial patronage in the case #0f a. single. Federal appointment, Ray Considered alone it might Seem S0. But ‘it cannot be considered alone. Tt is a small battle in the big ‘war between the Fourth New. Dealers and. the ‘Cone gress to determine whether. we shall have, at least in. part, a one-man.government on a modified European model or: the: “admirable. system of checks and bale ances” provided by the Constitution, The legal and political issues involved are hair’

| splitting technicalities too complex and dreary to cover

» ; Soa ie ; ‘The Hoosier Forum I wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

PROTESTS "ATTACK ON "INDIANA “ASSET” By R, Ww. Weber :

self as a “hardheaded, practical individual” has made an exceedingly unfair attack on Don Lash in a letter to The Fortin. I know not ing of Mr. ash except what I ‘see in the papers and magazines. Far from being a liability, it seems to me he is one of

Indiana’s asse .A great r ney, he has brought a of favorable publicity state.’ I wish we had a few more [Lashes hereabouts to advertise our [state as effectively in other ways as he does in his. If there is| any move to curtail

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gE wag i large quantities at a reduction of [10 per cent and hand {that to the customer. The chain i is about the same as {the independents’. I was in the gyocery, fruit and produce business for 40° years and ‘I know whereof I |speak..

% 8 =» LINCOLN'S REMARKS HELD UNPOPULAR Now By Milton W. Schowe, Columbus, Ind, Boy, page the Dies Committee.

statements made by one of the greatest Americans, Abraham Lincoln. These beliefs of Lincoln will not be mentioned by Lincoln Day speakers. “If we except the light and air of Heaven, no good thing has been or can be enjoyed by us without having first cost labor. And inasmuch as most good things are pro-

such things of right belong to those whose labor has produced them. But it has so happened, in all ages of the world, that some have labored, and others have without labor, enjoyed a 33 lage proportion of the fruits. wrong, and should not continue. To secure each laborer the whole product of his

Some gentleman Whe would prob- ;

| PRESS HOSTILE TO U.S.

Here are some very “un-American”|

Tin mes: 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.)

worthy object of any good govern-

‘ment. .

“This country with its institutions belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall. grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their Ceonstitutional right of amending, or their revolutionary right to dismemberor overthrow it.” . : 2 8 = -|CLAIMS SPANISH REBEL

By Agapito Rey, Bloomington Gen. Franco should be grateful to.

{the United States for we have con-

tributed in no small degree to the

defeat of democracy in Spain. Not only have we maintained an arms embargo against the legal republican government, but we-even sent direct nid to the Rebels. This we have been doing by furnishing war materials to Italy and Germany. In addition to this direct aid we sent them airplanes through a fake Turkish Government contract (London Times, Jan. 9). Furthermore, Portugal, another invader of Spain, ob-

land, which buys them from us.’

WINDOW PHILOSOPHY . By M. .E. W., Sunnyside From my window I've a view of : the grandest of homes, - Quiet enough for peace, noisy eno for life; ; And in: this happy home dwells a genteel Mr. and his good wife. Happy and carefree all day long. Never too busy for a burst of song, Mr. and. Mrs, two ‘happy birds in a tree. This stand } home is a nest on. a

lim Why folks can’t live like this, I'm sure I don’t know. For truly Our Creator would have them so. ;

duced by labor, it follows that all]

DAILY THOUGHT

The trespass money and sin money was not brought into the house of the Lord; it was the priests’ —II Kings 12:16.

Mex is not required to buy

labor, or as nearly as possible, is a|T

. one necessity of - the soul.—

Thoreau.

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of st. “Sebastian, Dec. 12, 1938, we {find “While. Muscovite barbarily

tains guns and planes from Eng-. Gen. France and his supporters.

{could do wonders for the people of

are aware of this aid but they cannot show their appreciation without incurring the wrath of their foreign masters. The press in Rebel Spain is nothing but a sounding board for Nazi and Fascist propaThe newspapers in Rebel} Spain echo all the attacks on America that appesr in the German and Italian press. And as the newspapers can only print what is handed over to thern by the Ministry of Propaganda, all published statements may be considered ‘official, or at least to have official approval. The most violent attacks came on the occasion of the’ Lima conference. The Correo Espanol of Bilboa, Dec. 15, 1938, says “The Department of State is trying to extend the Yankee military overlordship to the fields of culture -and commerce.” The Diario ‘Vasco, Dec.

gigantic attack of North American plu .” In thie Voz de Espana

attacks our own existence on the Peninsula, Yankee imperialism tries to supplant our spiritual influence in the Hispanic world.” This diatribe came after a vigorous defense of Germany's aims in Latin America. This anti-American campaign: is not limited to the press; but it is found also in serious works. 'Jose| Pemartin, national director of uni-| versity and secondary . education in rebel Spain has brought out recently what may be called a handbook for the “New State,” as the Rebels designate their government. This bulky volume entitled “Que es lo Nuevo?”™ (what is. the New Spirit?). deals ‘among other things with the foreign policy of the New State. * America. is grouped with

|those ‘countries “still. suffering from | mot the opium of democratic: parlia- on ‘He says the United| =

mentarism.” States is suffering “under the moral

later.” (Page 33.) While the: republican

tions assembled in Lima the. Rebels|

indulged in all sorts of coarse abuse |,

against the United States. | These

ish people but from German propaganda gents who have Sained con= : Ca i = y! FAVORS si CAE TAX, a HIGHER GASOLINE LEVY Sh By Frank Walton, Campbellsburg i The Governor and. ‘Legislature

Indiana by charging only $1 for license plates ‘and: driver's’ license

much to me anc ‘thousands ers. It would work wonders 8 Ambre

poor people ° gv’ ‘them “tha much, CE ARAL

family that she | ©

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IT WOULD make them ‘more attractive providing they 'did

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EO Superior intelligence.

Te (GENCE fe | Ago RN oo NaDID iE I MAKE THEMN DEM LESS. rig

LET S EXPLORE YOUR MIND |

By DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM

Nema pit colN 3 SAVE NO PROMISE ORNOUTH OF H

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not neglect their looks and did not|..

> | tant mind. a Nor a perticle, except in the" |advantage of the methods of scien2 ped within 6 5 last 30 years. Thess

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NO. He was noted among his playmates and neighbors : as| “unusually bright and witty.” Es-| pecially his ex; raordinary memory| was notable, often astonishing his friends as a boy by repeating long passages from: books he had read. His biographers say that as a child “he read, wrote and’ ciphered incessantly—doing his ciphering on the back of a shovel as paper was too precious.” “His stepmother, Sally Bush, felt he would become a distin guished aan. was known as the champion speller and also debater of the neighborhood—and dekating ability is one of the chief Indications of a bril-

2 #8 8 few cases where one can take

ticle psycholcgy that have devel-

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attacks do not. come from’ the Span- |,

combined, and putting 1 cent more] mM tax on gasoline. - It would: mean so} “of oth-| 1

By Dr. Moris Fishbein

As a boy he|

in a short column-—exeept to say this. ‘The Constitution says: “The President .”.- . shall‘nominate and by and with the advice and’ consent of the Senate shall appoint-, . . officers of the United States . . . established by law. ” “This was'‘a ‘compromise.’ One set. of the delegates in the constitutional convention: insisted : that the Senate should have the final and absolute power of appointment of Federal officers, These were our early opponents of one-man: rule and advocates of decentralization of. power.: Another crowd dis trusted democracy. They wanted a king—or as near : to monarchy as they could get. They insisted that

| complete and absolute ‘power of appointment should

be in the President. a

HE compromise was one of several that made the Constitution possible. In barnyard language it - says: “The President has absolute power to suggest any name he desires, ‘The Senate has absolute power

When the President says that the Senate’s power

| to turn it down. Neither needs give any. reasons.” :

is restricted to “rejecting or confirming solely on the:

ground of the fitness of the nominee” he is come: pletely ignoring the reason and history of the clause, the history of its application and the plain language of its provisions: ‘The: Senate’ has a right to reject for .any cause—including the nominee’s : ‘political be= liefs and affiliations-regardless of fitness: . If Judge Roberts and:the Governor of Virginia, ‘who named him, were not Fourth New Dealers, Judge Roberts would not have been named. If Senators Glass and Byrd were not practical liberal Democrats opposed to the Fourth New Dea), this teapot tempest would not have occurred.

8 2 2 T= Senate. rejection was partly a show of respec

for the veteran Virginian Carter Glass, but it was in even larger part resistance to attempted exec-’ utive muscling-in on the Constitutional powers of

Congress.

The contemptuous overriding’ of ‘Senatorial suge-

gestions in violation of an almost invariable Federal practice was part of the “purge” to put the President

in control of both the Courts.and Congress. Naturally i

it was rejected. : One thing is being overlaoked. Congress, Af it wished, and by a simple majority vote, could completely remove the President from any power of either

‘nomination or appointment of Federal District Judges :

and place it power in the Supreme Court or even. perhaps in a completely new court of law, which it has

the power to create. The same clause i above

gives Congress that power

It Seems io Me

By Heywood Brotin

Tries Skill Finds: He'd karn-2-Cénts ‘an’ Hour:;

in Pecan Plant sid

Sax ANTONIO, Tex., Feb. 10—In this city and} throughout the Sduthwest both WPA ‘and the}

Wage and Hour Law | farmers and. some. of ‘wage - scale brough ruinous to their in shelling factories tae a week.

e e businessmen say that thel a WE such slation

i tance, in the

burning issues. The large’

or a tised 10. e250 ;

The occupation was Soop but, of course, itd

e ighildren toi 2 omy even!

‘Was. pi “contribute though they, were ib - -full ® cents. Some yol ‘babies to the work Toomey But’ it ‘all added up 50 (which would<be five or: $2.50 a week, which is $10:a

lg. for the old folk and to

to ‘rate a® 8! bring. their}

hereabouts) received 3 ‘or approximately#

month; a combined anhual income: of f $10, By pressure of §

‘Federal legislation this has be average of ths Many emplé money fon ‘Mexich)

depression of the: defeat which Ja- | day: an pan will inflict on them, sooner or | craz C0.

thorities RL were. cabling greetings ‘tothe na-}{

ence you could Aside i

‘more than a twas a; : an workel oUng ‘Womat. nam pes 27 1 was @ whizz-bang ight the strike inti=

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trio oR : na of’ c therapy, you you il wif bop some’ ‘patients ‘benches doing carpen and using plage,

drivers, saws ang hgnamets. You will:f tients doing metal work. Some will be weaving wil be making toy® v0 wi “Others will be-leirmitrig book binding; tery, wrought drow, willow ‘or cement’ work all of it is work! Frequently, is liards will accomplish the accomplished 'b ork al

The persom dvd tional therapy t but a psychologist’

the former io of: pa type of SE x

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help in | the phys se help’ in eiving}the physicla

biéms, but ‘few people

ods or afford to employ a psychol- » ‘sired

OSist 40 Sid Sem with their — fears, - inferiori : compre, ote. We ‘hope in time

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