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: 1 MONDAY, MARCH 6, 1939 THE RECORD TO DATE ON its record to date the present’ Legislature has ac complished little of benefit to Indiana. It has not reduced taxes. It has not been able to equalize unjust tax burdens. It has achieved no economies in the cost of running the State government. It has not even given ~ decent consideration to any of the merit bills that might have provided more efficient personnel in State departments. - | It has frittered away its time with sideshows until now, in its closing hours, it has still to act upon an appropriation measure that originally called for $84,801,416, nearly $3,000,000 greater than the expenditures authorized two years ago. Also among the unfinished business thrust into the confusion of the closing day “jam” is révision of the gross income tax. It would be better that no change was made than to -adopt the dangerous and possibly unconstitutional sliding scale rate that came out of the Senate. ‘Which is apparently what the administration is hoping will happen. Its maneuvering is solely to retain existing revenues. It would appear, therefore, that it hopes nothing will be done or that the sliding scale will be adopted. If the latter happens and is then declared unconstitutional, as in the case of two states trying the same experiment, the State would presumably collect under the old rates for another two years. ; ) . Meanwhile, the Administration has not made a single el toward a more economical operation. It has been playing neatly with the Republican majority in the House, "nullifying every move that might reflect credit on the

ut we wonder whether the taxpayers, two years from now, will remember this cleverness or the size of their tax

bills

THE WAY TO ECONOMY | UT of the great greenback controversy after the Civil War, seven words have burned themselves into American |history. The question was, how to bring about resumption of specie payments—how to start redeeming the Government's depreciated paper currency at its face value in hard money. ; ' And Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase, who had been Lincoln’s Secretary of the Treasury, wrote to Horace Greeley this immortal statement of the obvious: “The way to resumption is to resume.” Now, in the even more important controversy brought to a head by Senator Pat Harrison's demand for Government economy. to preserve the national credit, it should be said with equal force that: “The way to economy is to economize.” The problem is as simple as that—and as difficult, Simple because, as every Congressman knows, there are tremendous possibilities for saving money in every department of a Government now geared for spending at the rate of 10 billion dollars a year. : But difficult, alarmingly though not hopelessly— Because economizing, for an individual, a family, a business or a government, is never easy, never pleasant. Because the same citizens, the same businessmen, who cry for economy in the abstract cry louder when a concrete proposal to reduce spending threatens to hit their community, their pet project, their special interest. And because the President has discouraged Congres-

that continued Government spending of borrowed billions can increase the national income, although this theory puts

ministration is now trying belatedly to encourage into job- . making investment channels. :

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ET what Senator Harrison says is absolutely true. It was true when Franklin D. Roosevelt said it in different words: “If the nation is living within its income, its credit is good. If, in some crisis, it lives beyond its income for a year or two, it can usually borrow temporarily at reasonable rates. But if, like a spendthrift, it throws discretion “to the winds, and is willing to make no sacrifice at all in spending; if it extends its taxing to the limit of the people’s power to pay and continues to pile up deficits, then it is on the road to bankruptcy.” : : None can tell how near we are to the end of that road. It is time for Congress to put on the brakes—time to tackle the difficult, unpleasant job of economizing, of chal- _ lenging every proposed expenditure item by item, of eliminating unnecessary activities, of making a start toward a balance between income and outgo. That is the only way to avert the disaster which the President foresaw so clearly seven years ago.

SAFETY IN THE AIR

IRLINE accidents, usually spéctacular in nature, are announced in flaming headlines. A better story is the absence of accidents. Therefore, we are pleased to observe that air lines of the United States are hanging up the best winter safety record in the history

of aviation. : Through the winter months of December, January and

February, the four largest air lines in this country operated:

without the loss of a single life. The only fatal accident on any domestic air line since Dec. 1 occurred Jan. 13, when a Northwest Air Lines plane crashed in Montana, killing four. Winter flying schedules will be maintained another month, but the air lines are to be congratulated upon their achievement fo date, a striking contrast to previous winters that invariably were marked by a series of fatal crashes. : This progress is largely the result of co-operation between skilled engineers and operations experts, who work nstantly to advance the safety factor in aviation. That their efforts have been successful is attested by H psurance ‘companies, which now sell the air traveler a 00 policy for 25 cents, under the same terms that trip rance is purchased on ra

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Fair By Westbrook Pegler ~~

'Ft.Worth and Chicago and Chances

EW YORK, March! 6.—An important public issue | of the moment in New York is the question whether the impending World's Fair shall be alld%ed | to flop for lack of exhibitions by naked women, some of whom would be called dancers, while others would not pretend to dance but would just frolic about in | public with nothing on. ; It is not certain that the fair would flop without such displays, but the public interest in scientific and riechanical marvels of the age, band music and ricksha rides, on the basis of soundings to date, would seem insufficient for success. It is known, moreover, that the Chicago fair was 2 “turkey” upsto the time that a local judge peered ever his bench at a woman who had been summoned {ato court on a charge of giving an indecent perform-

ance, remarked that some people would wish to put pants on a horse and bade her go back and sin no

land the unspoken but thoroughly understood excuse, “Chicago needs the money.” : » » os HIE decision became a license for any obscenity ! short of the most particular Parisian and LatinAmerican novelties, and the fair was saved, financially and socially. But if the performances were a degree less foul than certain spectacles which are to be seen in Paris and Havana they were, however, open to the general public, whereas the dirty exhibitions of foreign

illegal. It is impossible to find in Paris or Havana a show "open to the general public as vile as those which were given in Chicago and Ft. Worth and, if the news pictures be trustworthy, the San Francisco fair is now presenting an attraction more wicked than any show to be seen in any other land on earth, Other peoples conduct such vices in private only. : Contrary to general belief, New York is much less immoral and rowdy than Chicago and Ft. Worth, and what is now current in San Francisco will be fought here, regardless of whose money is invested. Ii ” 82 8 ITIZENS of Ft. Worth, who reckon to visit the A New York fair, may as well know that any show as filthy as some they saw at their own fair would be kicked into the street by the New York cops and enjoined thereafter by the court. After all, this type of show did not come by the name of “Louse Opera” without earning it. It has been a pain and a shame to the decent element of the show business for many years. ; It was not so long ago that one of the most famois muscial comedy producers in New York went to prison and was ruined for presenting a private

stag show in which a young woman made a brief nude appearance. Perhaps today, the town being more liberal, he would get no more than 30 days for the same offense, but this still isn’t Chicago, Kansas City, Ft. Worth or San Francisco. Maybe it’s the un-American . influence of the foreigners who just won't get assimilated,

Business By John T. Flynn

N. Y. Studying Not a Sales Tax, as Many Think, but a Levy on Turnover.

TEW YORK, March 6—The homemakers and Y housekeepers of New York are up in arms over whai they ‘call a sales tax in New York State. But it is not a sales tax that New York’s Governor proposes. And as this kind of tax has already made its appearance in other states, and, in the desperate hunt for tax sources, will make its appearance else-

A sales tax is imposed on retail sales, is levied primarily against the purchaser, and as a rule is visible. The gasoline tax is a sales tax. It is added to the price of the gasoline at the filling station pump. The purchaser knows what he pays. frequently the gasoline man displays a sign indicating how much of the purchase price is a sales tax and how much is for the gasoline. The same thing is true of the sales tax in New York City. The purchaser pays it separately when he makes his purchase. He. knows what it is. In states like Missouri, Oklahoma and many others where sales taxes are in vogue they are paid, for the most part, with special kinds of tokens. A sales tax of 2 per cent, for instance, is a 2 per cent tax and never gets to be any more.

Like Townsend Proposal

But the New York tax and the same tax proposed in other places is a turnover tax or a transaction tax, such as was proposed by Dr. Townsend. It is not imposed merely on the retailer when he makes a sale, but on everybody else. Thus, the tax is imposed on the producer when he buys the wool that goes into the cloth. Then it is paid by the wholesaler who buys the cloth. Then when the wholesaler sells the cloth to the clothing manufacturer; another tax is imposed. By this time it is getting higher because it is being cumulated. As the completed suit passes to the retailer another

tax is imposed, and the retailer will have to pay another tax, and if the buyer lives in a town where there is a sales tax besides, no one can tell just how much taxes he will have to pay on his purchase. It is a very serious blow at purchasing power at the most. sensitive point in the distributing system. One may well sympathize with the Governors and legislators who are faced with the problem of raising taxes. Bus of all the ways this is the most indefensible.

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

HERE'S one great advantage to being a homebody; you enjoy traveling so much more than a seasoned gadabout. Each mile into strange territory carries you into enchanted country. Probably a good many people will think it odd that Houston, Tex. should be so labeled, but I'm that way about it. And

| if you are one who doesn’t like travel notes, skip this. I'm mighty glad I didn’t skip. Houston. The minute we neared the regions of the “Piney Woods” the motor trip took on extra glamour, and every day for a week I reveled in sea food, Texas hospitality and Southern accents. : The larger cities in the Lone Star State are like the children of a mighty sire—all stamped with the same proud look, yet each strangely different from the other. Dallas is Eastern, Ft. Worth is as Middlewestern as her Fat Stock Show, San Antonio is a languorous lady in a mantilla, and Houston belongs to the deep, fast-vanishing South. El Paso, like a wanderer from the fold, carries on the family tradition far to the West. But it is Texan to its innermost bone. Houston is one of the few objective American cities. You're never just passing through; you're bound for that destination. The San Jacinto Monument, still in the process of building, is higher than the famous Washington spire, resembles it in design and is a sight of rare beauty, whose shaft, lifting aloft its ey Lone Star, challenges one’s attention and admiration from any vantage point. The day we gazed upon its man-made majesty, all of a sudden an equally stately ship glided into view across the lush meadows. From that distance it seemed to swim slowly over a sea of grass ~—8§0 near does the celebrated Ship Channel lie te the hattleground where Sam Houston surprised ‘and

New York City Is Less Immoral Than

Are Fair Will Ban Nude Dancers. |

more. There was an implied blessing in his verdici, | :

lands, even Cairo, are private, secret and nominally

where, it is well that its true nature be understood.

be | | oe ° ~The Hoosier Forum I wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend fo the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

OUTDOOR CONCERTS IN BOWL URGED By Ken Hughes

Several weeks ago Mr. Schwitzer

announced a possible series of summer outdoor concerts in the Butler Bowl during the evenings when we are all seeking a cooler place (now it seems the warmer - spots are favored). Other cities have had these starlight concerts with excellent results, both artistic and financial. With a suitable and atmospheric place, a symphony that is ranking well, local soloists with ability (but no chance to perform), this idea could be enlarged and built into an assured project. During - a short visit in Tulsa, Okla., I was surprised to find their outdoor concerts well attended although the fee was not as low as elsewhere. Chicago and its lakeside concerts need no introduction. Los Angeles and its Bowl where the concerts are held under the stars is a tradition in the Western part of our United States. Dallas, Tex., too, copied the idea with results worth relating. : So, why not Indianapolis with a larger, population, a symphony, a public. that wants such a project for the summer?

J ” ” GEN. JOHNSON PAID TRIBUTE FOR SINCERITY

By Kokomo

Speaking of Westbrook Pegler’s air of bored detachment, compare him in this particular with Gen. Hugh S. Johnson. Gen. Johnson says everything as if- he really meant it; as if it needed saying and he was the gent to say it. One can almost see the General, bluff and soldierly, clinching each lucid statement with a pile-driver period. Disagree with’ him if you like. (I've done it often myself.) But you cannot escape the conviction that Gen. Johnson is wholly sincere, and that no ulterior motive, personal or political, could sway him a jot or tittle. All of which adds up to the fact that the General is o. k. .

Ton» AS IT IS NOW ‘IT'S A DOG’S LIFE’ By Collie Dog Laddie

I am not a mutt, a descendant of religious fanatics, nor do"I boast of red-blooded pioneer forefathers. I merely lay claim to Scot ancestry somewhat antedating that of the Stuarts, without, however, any of their egotism. I make no attempt to discuss our everyday affairs with the priests and bishops in Latin, as did James I, yet I thoroughly understand my master in English, Latin or Spanish and am quite proficient in all sign languages. His mere wish is instantly trans-

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mitted to me, and no less expeditiously executed. Of course we canine creatures are incapable of reasoning (all philosophers agree on that) but I am looking forward with hope to the new trends in psychology. : : . We (hope to be judged not by man’s) standard, but by the new yardstick “the extent to which one is able to interest and influence people.” Now, if and when we get our rights, we are all going to move to the . country—our masters, of course, going with us—and get away from all those terrible noises, obnoxious smells, antiseptic baths, prophylactic serums, and live as God intended us to live, among nature’s sweet herbs and bathe only in baliny sunshine, E

a2 = UPHOLDS PRESIDENT

|ON DEFENSE PLANS

By Disabled Veteran

In your editorial of March 2 under the heading “Handicapping Ourselves” you say that a recent proposed constitutional amendment to prohibit the United States from waging an overseas war save on the authority of a popular referendum would do more harm than good. You go on to say that “On the face of it, nothing would seem more just. Let the boys who would do the dy-

SPRING

By VELMA M. FRAME

Born of heavenly rain, Adorned with fragrant Slowly dying dusk, : With ‘a promise of sunny hours.

flowers;

Songs of mating birds, Violets hidden and shy; Trees with clusters of blossoms Lifted to the sky.

Spring, whose breath gives life, Whose beauty is supreme; It’s God’s own masterpiece Awakening love’s old dream.

DAILY THOUGHT

Trust in Him at all times, ye people, pour out your heart before Him: God is a refuge for us, Selah.—Psalm 62:8.

BE trust as we love, and where we trust we love. If we love Christ much, surely we shall

trust Him much.—T. Brooks.

‘ling have the say of declaring war.

Moreover, some of our leaders of late. have been putting chips on Uncle Sam’s shoulder and daring the world to knock them off.” Now that may be your opinion, but it is not the opinion of the majority as shown by a recent Gallup poll. IT am a veteran and know something about fighting and what preparedness will do toward averting wars. Your editorial is a slap at our President to mislead people. Our President has asked that we prepare ourselves sufficiently to be protected from the: bullies of the world. Sherman Minton was right when he suggested 2 law should be passed to keep newspapers from publishing factual lies. This tommyrot will elect a good Democratic President in 1940. You are making votes for Mr. Roosevelt and as long as he is right, I say go to it.

#2 2 8) LIVES IN HOPE OF: - ' MORE TRANQUIL TIMES By Oliver. Louder, Columbus, Ind.

I have been reading about the A. F. of L. and the €. I. O. and what: President Roosevelt has said. I think it would be a fine thing if everyone would unite and work for the common good. And after he had united the good and the bad, we might take up the G. O. P. and the Democratic Party and unite. them. Wouldn't that be wonderful? . And why shouldn't they unite? They have a lot in: common. Both are strong for private ownership and the profit system, which is 90 per cent of the cause of our trouble, | Then when we united all these people we could take up the A, F. of L. and the C. I. O, and unite them for the common good and welfare of all the people. Such things take time—but we live in hope. fo 2 8 B® | AGREES WITH PEGLER ON SIMILARITY OF ‘ISMS’ By H. J. Langhans

Westbrook Pegler is to be commended for his article dealing with the similarities of the two brands of Bolshevisms—Red and Brown. Many Americans have long since learned that communism and naziism differ only in trimmings. Their objectives are the same, namely, the complete subjection of the individual to the all-supreme State and the denial of freedom of press, speech and religious worship. | The Nazi and Reds in an attempt to draw Americans into their respective “camps” find it advisable to use famous American names and to preach “Americanism.” | The Nazi whoop it up for George Washington and prate about “true Americanism.” The Reds extol Lincoln and call communism, “Twentieth Century

Americanism.”

I SHOULD certainly be inclined to agree with this wise writer. When we husbands come home tired and irritated it is so much easier to tell a little fib that busiwas : 4 i Ly ; 3 ” :

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LET'S EXPLORE YOUR MIND

By DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM OF MARGARET AYER OST HUSBANDS PREF i E TROUBLE TO MAKE THE TRUTH AGRE

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why it went badly and ask the wife’s advice on how to make it go better. It takes so much thought to tell the disagreeable truth agree-

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WISE to forget past mistakes, provided we have accepted their lessons, wise to forget the griefs and disappointments, provided we have extracted from them a new strength and self-discipline, but unwise . to forget the happy hours and occasions of the past, for they are the memories that sweeten and strengthen us and come as the most powerful aids we ever have to our Learn the lessons from your past sins and mistakes, and cherish all that has been fine and beautiful if you wish old age to be rich, serene and mellow with “that rarest thing in the world—wisdom. ” # 840] THIS opinion was voiced by Dr. Robert Bernreuter, author of the Bernreuter Personality Test, at a recent educational conference. He

“I based ‘it on the fact that parents

who had allowed the natural consequences of their .acts to be the chief means of disciplining their children were. repaid by having children with finer, more attractive personalities, whereas those who punished in ill temper had less attractive children. Spare the rod and discipline your children with the results of their own acts if you wish them to become future lead-

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Wars Not Declared Any More, They |

Just Start and He Feels Ludlow's Amendment Would Be Handicap.

'ASHINGTON, March 6, — The Ludlow resolution is up again. It is going to keep us out of foreign wars by a congtitutional amendment of which Mr. Ludlow says: “The! only way to stay out of foreign wars is for the people to have the opportu nity to vove on whether or not they want to get in.” That is so absurd that I wouldn't have put it that way if Mr. Ludlow himself had not done so first. War is fact. Declarations of war do not make it, - They were a legal device to put some fairness into the conduct of war. That is now out. Nations don’t declare war any more. They just make it without mentioning it in advance. When they make it against us we are in it whether we vote that we are in or: not. We cannot “stay out” by refusing to declare

| war or waiting for a referendum to declare it.

If by constitutional amendment or a law we could | control the other fellow, we ought to do it at once. Of course, we can’t. And so to say that the way “to stay out of foreign wars” is for the people to vote | on Thotne or not they want to get in is like a law to amend the multiplication tables. 1 2 a8 » ; 5 should not even hint to the world: “You can ‘do anything you like to us abroad, We won't resist.” From the moment we do that we can reasonably expect our foreign commerce, property and investment to be confiscated and ourselves-to be bot= tled up in the Western Hemisphere. Of course, our people would not stand for that. They would vote

to fight.» But the amendment wouldn't keep us out of foreign war. It would be a temptation for other nations, to do something that would get us into war. ' The actual resolution, though vague, seems to ree quire a popular referendum ‘to declare war or to engage in warfare overseas” except in the ease of invasion or an “approaching” military expedition i attack on the United States or its possessions by y “non-American nation” against an the Western Hemisphere, = y Somey in That would prevent the use of the Navy to protect our commerce, or in any general war, properly declared by Congress under the amendment, to operate outside of American waters. Such restrictions would be sheer madness, ;

: 2 2 2 IF would refer technical questions of strategy to popular decision in the hysteria of war. That would be something like a vote of a fear-crazed family on just how a great surgeon should cut out an appendix, The| real purpose here is to prevent Americans from being drafted to fight in any overseas army without a referendum. Why not say so? There was fore merly some questiod whether the Constitution ine tendeq that anyway. In the selective draft cases, the Supreme Court finally decided that it did. If Mr. Ludlow's. resolution merely provided an amendment say, that men shall not, without a referendum, be cone scripted to serve in the armies of the United States in any place except its possessions and the Western Hemisp] ere, it would be both frank and defensible.

It Seems to Me

By Heywood Broun

Fascism Dealt a Severe Blow | With Election of Pacelli as Pope.

EW YORK, March|6.—It seems distinctly possible . that the sweep fascism has been definitely checked, not by some line of fortifications or airplane armada, but by the ballots. cast in the conclave of Cardinals. In its choice of a new Pope the Catholic Church |has very definitely rejected the theory of isolation. : Cardinal Pacelli functioned as a diplomat in his role as Papal Secretary of State. As Pope Pius XII it is fair to assume that he will be no ivory tower leader of his vast congregation. In a strict sense, “isolation” is not within the Catholic philosophy, since the church is international jn its membership and has welcomed into its fold men and women of all races and nationalities, . : = Pope Pius XII has traveled widely in the service of his church. He has observed both the Americas at first hand and talked with our President. There may be a great significance in his choice of the name Pius, for here, at least, is a hint that he will follow. in the footsteps of the late Pontiff in vigorously opposing the theories of racial prejudice enunciated by Hitler, 3.1 Italian dispatches, before the decision of the Cardinals, indicated that Mussolini was opposed to the election of Pacelli, and already he has been attacked by the controlled press of the Nazis.-Here are hopeful signs. ’

No Comfoft for Bullies | k

I think that the chance for peace in our own days has been [improved by the fact that the spiritual leader of more than 300,000,000 men and women on the face of ‘the earth is vigorous in mind and body. Both Catholics; and non-Catholics will pray that his talents and abilities will promote the kind of peace which can be made by curtailing the fantastic dreams and schemes of aggressor statesmen. Of course, it would be both reckless and presumptuous to attempt any detailed prediction as to the probable policies of the new Pope. But already there is palpable indication that the Catholic Church is in no mood to temporize or accept mandates, or even hints, from the bullies of our day. In its own tradi- ° tion and| structure the Catholic Church represents an eternal barrier to narrow nationalism. It is committed to the great vision of universal fellowship and fraternity brought into the world by’ Jesus. v Hitler has a plan, but it wars at every point with the plan of Christ. Not even the most ardent Catholic would say that the intentions of Jesus have been fulfilled to the hilt. But it is a way of life which has endured for centuries. It will be with us when such a word as “fascism” is forgotten. ;

Watching Your Health By Dr. Morris Fishbein k OST older people can remember when little ate tention was given to special. diets for babies, They usually were able to get along fairly well by chewing on a piece of toast or a bone, most of the diet consisting of crudely mashed vegetables or chopped meat prepared by the mother in the home, In most instances the baby was served the same food as the rest of the family, except that the amounts were smaller and the most obviously crude and rough materials were avoided. : [> As we have learned more and more about the important substances in the diet ‘and the nature of the baby’s digestive apparatus, manufacturers have developed more and more types of foods planned pare ticularly for the baby and the growing child. ; We know, for example, that highly seasoned foods may be irritating to the delicate digestive system of the infant. Therefore, soups made for infants are seasoned only with a small amount of salt. Such sea« sonings as mustard, pepper and paprika are completely avoided. | We know also that the baby’s digestive apparatus is not fitted to take care of fibrous material which is the basis of what is called roughage. Therefore, soups for babies are usually passed through a sieve to bring about a fine consistency. As the baby needs food concentrated in materials ‘necessary for growth, soups for babies are seldom thin consommes or extractives. They are preferably. thick soups with much“more food value in each teai souns is found in a cup of ordinary soup. .

"In soups prepared for babies, however, there are usually considerable amounts of liver or other meats which will| provide iron and necessary vitamins.

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