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WEDNESDAY, MAY 3, 1939

INVESTMENTS, JOBS, DEMOCRACY OME stirrings of late within the Administration at Washington indicate a possibility that something may be done by this Congress to revamp the tax system. The purpose, it is said, is to stimulate investment in private enterprise. How greatly such stimulation is needed is indicated by some statistics of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce: An average of $8600 investment in plant, tools and equipment is required to give one man a job in private industry; . And, whereas 33} billion dollars of new capital flowed into private business each year in the 1920s, less than onefifth that amount has been flowing since 1930. These are important statistics in a country where more than 10 million employable men and women are unable to find jobs, and where there is deep concern for the preservation of democracy. : To anyone interested in learning how the ideals © democracy fade before the specter of insecurity, we commend an article by Dr. Albert Einstein in last Sunday’s New York Herald-Tribune. We quote a few sentences: “I had the opportunity of observing this (Fascist) epidemic develop in Germany. No one likes to give up his liberty and his rights voluntarily. Yet, whenever the situation becomes intolerable for a large part of the people, they Jose their sound judgment and tend to be led astray by false prophets. Such a situation prevailed in Germany. Its chief characteristic was widespread unemployment— and perhaps even more, the dread of unemployment. “Constant economic insecurity creates a state of tension which people cannot forever withstand . .. “Anyone interested in safeguarding civil liberty in this country must be prepared to tackle the problem of unemployment and to make the necessary sacrifices for its solution.” More investments mean more jobs, and more jobs mean a sturdier democracy. But there is still more to this chain of cause and effect. Again we quote pertinent statistics from C. of C. sources: In 1913, the Federal Government had 469,000 civil employees, and in 1939 the number was 863,000—214 times as many; In 1913, the carrying charge on the public debt was $22.900,000, and in 1938, $926,200,000—40 times as much ; In 1913, the total expenditure of the Federal Government was $724,500,000, and in 1938, $7,700,000,000—an increase of 961 per cent. The only way we can provide for this pyramiding cost of Government is out of the annual wealth the people produce. The present rates of our multiple and complex Federal taxes, on the whole, are the highest in history. Yet for nine years running they have failed to produce enough revenue to balance expenditures. The only out is to pyramid the national income. Larger investments, more jobs, sturdier democracy, a rising national income, greater revenues. To get started on this road to prosperity, employment, security and solvency, it is proposed that Congress modify certain taxes which admittedly are deterring business enterprise. We hope the report that the Administration is starting in that direction is not just another rumor.

THE PARTY LINE AND WPA

HE familiar charge that many employees of WPA “cul- | tural” projects are preoccupied with the Communist | Party line is again being pressed by witnesses before a House committee.

But whereas the Dies Committee confined its inquiry | to “un-American” aspects of these projects, the House Ap- | propriations Committee is now producing evidence that | waste of Federal funds seems to go hand in hand with an | excess of radicalism. The new inquiry is told that membership in the Com- | munist Party or the Workers Alliance is almost an open | sesame to a job on the writers project. It is also told that under this pleasant arrangement jobs as “writers” are given to former truck drivers, “fish peddlers” and “sixthgrade Communist pamphleteers.” These and other allegations, if not disproved, may help explain why it cost the Government $51.90 per 1000 words to turn out the New York Guidebook (exclusive of overhead | costs). They also may afford a partial explanation of the fact that the WPA theater project has spent as much as a | quarter of a million dollars in producing a single play. The law rightly forbids WPA to give or withhold a job because the applicant is a member of any political party. | And the Communist Party is a legal political entity in the | United States. But certainly Congress and the country wouldn't be red-baiting if they objected to Commanies muscling in on the management of WPA projects, especially if the result is waste, strife and tax-financed propaganda. It seems undeniable that the Communists have made the mistake of getting too big for their pants. It begins to look as if their “success” in the New York writers project may backfire and cause an exasperatea Congress to abandon ot curtail all cultural projects.

FRANK P. WALSH ANOTHER giant is gone from the ranks of those lawyers whose championship of the common man has spanned the last half century. Frank P. Walsh is off to share a corner in Valhalla with such men as Clarence Darrow. At least Mr. Walsh liyed to see the release of Tom Mooney, in whose cause he fought so skilfully for so many years. He lived to see his ideals of cheap power realized in TVA and elsewhere, though his particular goal of a great Government power project on the St. Lawrence River is still far from achievement. He lived to see his pioneering work as a member of the wartime labor boards bear fruit in the Wagner act. His 74 years were full of service, as attorney, as arbitrator, as publisher, as state and Federal official, as trustee

Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

He's Washed Up on All Other Great Love Stories After Reading an Ad Telling Sally Clark's Romance.

EW YORK, May 3.—You can talk about beauti-

ful love stories like Romeo and Juliet or Gable and Lombard, but, to my taste, the sweetest story ever told is contained in a magazine advertisement written by Cholly Knickerbocker, the society columnist. from the true life romance of George X. MecLanahan, a Yale man, and the former Miss Sally Clark, the glamorous society belle of the Boston four hundred, whose sister married young Johnny Roosevelt. The story is illustrated with photographs by Jerome Zerbe, the society photographer, Boy, ch, boy! Gee whiz! It certainly does make you wish you had the acquaintance of a glamorous and refined belle of exclusive Boston society, although maybe it is just a matter of the individual and not Yale. I mean probably Mr. McLanahan just happens to be the one man in all this world, and it might have been the same if he had gone to Penn State or Colorado School of Mines. Although, somehow, Yale seems more appropriate. The advertisement is called “the inside story of a front page romance, and the first picture shows the carefree young couple sitting by a tennis court. “Spring in Nassau,” says the text under the picture. “Sally was on a visit with friends. George on his spring holiday from Yale. They met at the British Colonial Courts. He asked her to dance that night at the Bahamian Club.”

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T= next picture shows the glamorous Miss Clark, as she was then, flashing the radiance of her smile and holding a cake of soap in one hand. She has just washed her refined young face, and, man, it is something to make your pulses pound in your veins. “Five o'clock,” says the writing under this picture. “No time for elaborate toilette. . . . Facial cocktail, just the thing. Her complexion, so weary a while before, is radiant again.” In the next scene they are dancing in an exclusive society haunt, and the writing says: “Something clicked. His eyes devour the smooth curve of her cheek, the velvety cream of her skin. But what, he wonders, is her feeling for him?” Mr. Knickerbocker just about drives you crazy, making you feel almost as though you were Mu. McIanahan himself, and Mr. McLanahan is generous enough to assist by posing in the photograph. Hold ‘er, Yale! ss = 8 Won the next picture shows them back in New York, and she is singing in an ultra-exclusive society haunt. Miss Clark spent some time singing in high-class resorts, and the writing says Mr. McLanaiy “even goes to rehearsals, never to lose sight of er.” The next picture shows the wedding. Love has brought the glamorous little dove fluttering to his side, wounded by Cupid’s dart, and the scenario says: “Hers is the beauty that is fresh, natural, real.” Finally they are shown in a shower of rose petals, and Mr. Knickerbocker writes: “When was there a bride more romantic, with skin so glamorously lovely?” Gee Whiz! It makes you feel that, even though you couldn't go to Yale yourself, you are willing to make any sacrifice so your son can go to Old Eli and perhaps marry a glamorous society belle of Boston who sings in high-class cafes and washes the velvety cream of her smooth, curved cheek with soap instead of taking an elaborate toilette.

Business By John T. Flynn

American Businessmen Certain War Will Not Bring Boom as Last One Did.

NEL YORK, May 3.—It is beginning to dawn upon American businessmen that modern war if it should come will not be what the last one was in America—a business boom. Every day the corrosive effects upon the economic situation in ether countries becomes apparent. England has not gone to war. But already the frightful burden approaches the point of being intolerable. The immense exertions of the last two years have brought England to an income tax of 25 per cent upon the lowest income brackets. But now new sacrifices are asked. The papers have emphasized the conscription of manpower in Britain. But the Prime Minister told the Commons that “wealth and the resources of individuals must be considered as held for the common good.” That statement was made, not by 2 Socialist visionary, but by a hard-headed businessman from Birmingham who is looked upon as the leader of the reactionary elements of Britain. How far this has gone in Europe is evident from the news from Germany. Even the browbeaten German taxpayer has turned and forced a cut in some of the recent schemes to raise money for Germany's war effort. .

Even Germans Balk

Germany has been issuing what are called taxprepayment certificates which can be used as money. They work this way. Mr. Schmidt will have to pay, let us say. 100 marks in taxes next vear. Next year when he pays the 100 marks the Government will

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spend the 100 marks. But that’s next year—and the Government needs the 100 marks now. Therefore it issues a tax receipt in the sum of 100 marks now. It is just issued in blank. Then, having printed this receipt, it calls it money. It uses it to pay its bills for everything save wages and salaries. In other words, next year Germany will be collecting her taxes not in money but in tax receipts which will be canceled the moment the Government gets them. Hence she will be collecting taxes in worthless paper. This frightened businessmen. They grumbled. They said it was inflation. The Government, to quiet them, assured them the receipts would be issued sparingly. But then came the real kick. As the Gov-

| ernment will suffer in its tax collections next year, it

adopted a new tax to make up for the taxes which might be Jost by this tax-receipt scheme. That hroke the camel’s back. The protest even in dictator-ridden Germany was so great that the Governmeny haa wo reduce this tax.

Woman's Viewpoint

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

Erna Ajd for Homely Women. That's the proposal made by glamorous Loretta Young, who claims that studio experts have made her what she is today. (And surely she’s satisfied.) If the Government wants to spend billions for relief, says the movie star, put it to constructive use by improving unfair femmes, She believes a Bureau of Public Beauty would make business hum and increase the sum of human happiness, besides insuring the election of any candidate who sponsors it. What a honey of a platform that would be, boys! With the fervor of a Hollywood economist, Miss Young argues that the millions used to give every woman beauty treatments would be counter-balanced by the millions saved in divorce court proceedings. We would need fewer bailiffs, lawyers, clerks and judges. With charming naivete, sweet Loretta thus expresses her faith in the power of pulchritude to hold a husband. Dear little Snow White might have rea= soned the same way. So long as the lady is lovely to look at, how can man be unfaithful or discontented? Now it's sad to explode this pretty bubble, but if Miss Young could see beyond her own cute nose she might observe how thriving the divorce business is in her city. although glamorous ladies are as plentiful as grasshoppers on a Kansas prairie. Strangely enough— and this seems: to be true in most places—the more beauteous the dame the more likely she'll be to carry several divorce notches on her lipstick. This column wishes to point out the screwiness of Miss Young's idea. For the sake of the glamour girls

of St. Patrick's Cathedral and in many other capacities. It is to see him go. od :

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CITES RECENT GAINS BY MERIT SYSTEM By W. T. Already in 1039 four states have established the merit system for creation of a systematic civil service personnel plan. The Civil Service Assembly reports Minnesota, Alabama, Rhode Island and New Mexico as adopting merit systems in March. There are now 17 states operating under merit system laws, and the number has doubled within the last two

years. Similar legislation is pending in at least five more states.

Thus the Counter is being shortened year by year, and the principle that to the political victor belongs the spoils is being whittled away. Administrative and policy-making positions must always be the spoil of politics under a political system. It is probably so, for when the voters have registered a wish for a change in policy, those must be put in key positions who favor the new policies. But the vast bulk of routine and technical employees are gradually being given the protection from the winds of politics that they need and deserve. = 2 2

UPHOLDS ROOSEVELT'S STAND ON DICTATORS

By Gene Payton, Martinsville

When talking about our President being unfair to the dictators, who could be more unfair to the people of the world than the dictators themselves? Just listen to the whine of the guillotine, the whack of the headsman's ax and the boom of the firing squad. This is what the dictators have to offer their people. If you give them one inch they will take a mile, ” ” ”

PROUD THAT U. 8, HAS BIGGEST LIBRARY By Patriot

It used to be a common erack in Eurove that Americans were always bragging about how the United States always had the biggest of everything. ‘They used to tell about the tourist who glanced at Rome’s Colosseum and sniffed “Huh! Not near as big as the Yale Bowl!” Of course all such pride in mere size is obnoxious. But it would seem that we may have reason for a little glow of pride in our latest “largest.” We haven't the largest Army, nor even the largest Navy, But we have the largest library. Less than 100 years ago the Li-

|prary of Congress was negligible.

Today, having just opened its new

Great American Pie

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nex has shelf room for 10 million books, twice as many as the main library now contains. Thus the United States is pre-

pared to gather together in even greater completeness, the things

the past. Such glory as this distinguishes man from the brute world, will live on here, and not in the “achievements” in which he made himself one with the tiger and the hyena. 8 ” 2 NOTES ENCOURAGING GAIN FOR 4-H CLUBS By F. P, H. The country has reason to congratulate itself that enrollment in the Department of Agriculture's 4H Clubs reached a new high in 1938 of 1,286,029. This is a “Youth Movement” in the true American style which {touches more than 40 per cent of ‘all rural young boys and girls be[tween 10 and 21. It is voluntary, |yet it is so attractive that farm 'boys and girls are drawn to it in lany community where the work is offered. The key to the success of the 4-H

MAKING FRIENDS

By JAMES A. SPRAGUE To make a multitude of friends Who will about you throng: Just start right in and whistle And sing a merry song.

To drive away the friends you have And keep them on the go; Just start right in and grumble And sing a song of woe. —————————

DAILY THOUGHT

He answereth and saith unto them, He that hath two coats, let him impart to him that hath none; and he that hath meat, let him do likewise —Luke 3:11.

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Clubs is in “learning by doing.” Each member attempts a project of his own—to raise a pig or calf, to |tend a garden, to learn sewing or

some other useful farm skill. And about three quarters of the projects are carried through. The constantly-rising standard of rural living in the United States is due in no small part to what mil- | lions of farm youths have learned lin the 25 years the clubs have been functioning. | More power to the 4-H's, the | Head, Hands, Heart and Health of these enterprising and modern | American farm youngsters!

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RESENTS ATTACKS |ON MAJ. DYER By James R. Meitzler, Attica Several contributors to the Forum scathingly criticised Maj. Dyer’s suggestion to euthanise aged paupers. Maj. Dyer sacrificed his opportunities of making money to serve his country. His attackers, and the paupers they defend, did neither. Maj. Dyer earned his pension, What the pauper gets from the taxpayer is charity. The persons who deserved the censure hurled at the Major were those who, careless of religious laws and without natural affections, | abandoned their aged parents to the 0 of the taxpayer.

The taxpayer, a person of flesh ‘and blood, as good as the pauper, (earned his money by the sweat of | his brow, kept himself, cared for his parents and now finds his earnings | taken from him and given to the | parents of those who have shirked their duty. Let those who love paupers SO well publicly state how many of these aged parasites they will support before throwing any more stones at Maj. Dyer,

yn THINKS F. D. R. FOREIGN POLICY DANGEROUS By Arnold Eitelberg If President Roosevelt does not cease his provocative blasts on the European situation the United States may find itself involved in a war even sooner than Great Britain and France. ” ” ” MUSSOLINI AND HITLER ON SPOT, 1S CLAIM By M. Nelson

It looks as if the President has put Hitler and Mussolini on the spot in revealing their true inten‘tions. They don’t want peace; they want pieces!

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XPLORE YOUR MIND

By DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM

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read by women, particularly the love stories of a glamorous, sensational type. So I have a strong im- | pression the prize on this occasion | goes to the female sex. ” ONB large

” ” 2 research has shown that two-thirds of the high school freshmen examined believed in ouija boards; 58 per cent believed mothers could birthmark their children by fright or muke them musical by playing and singing before their birth; 20 per cent believed in taking “spring tonics” to “thin the blood”; and one believed in witches and that they should be shot with silver bullets! Since these children were reared in a very cultivated community it is certainly a discouraging sample. o » » HAPPINESS is a curious thing. It is always the result of the “fulfillment of function”—the satisfaction of the natural and acquired desires and functions of our bodies and minds. Now this fulfillment can only come from some kind of activity, fulfilling some inner trend of our natures. But the highest trend we have is doing something for others—making them happy, giving them a larger life. Many other activities make us happy, but this is the one that - the

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Gallup Poll Favors Republicans But It Reckons Without Magia Of Roosevelt or G. O. P. Blunders

EW YORK, May 3.—Dr. Gallup's poll says that 52 per cent of those polled expect the Repub=

licans to win the national elections in 1940. Of thé \. \

Republicans polled 83 per cent expect that—of the Democrats 33 per cent. About all that such a poll surely proves is that the wish is father to the thought, Since we don’t know how many of each party were polled, it doesn't even indicate a possible election

result. But Dr. Gallup argues that it is not the absolute figure that counts but the trends indicated. Two years ago only 10 per cent of the Democrats: “expected” the Republicans to win in 1940 and only 63 per cent of the G. O. P. indulged in this rosy hope, In the Congressional elections of 1938 the total popu« lar vote was almost equally divided. There is no doubt that just now there is a great ground-swell surging away from the New Deal. Buf there is little either in this kind of a poll or a poll on possible candidates to justify anybody getting intq any winter betting books on the result. i

» » » Es are two large and looming unknown quane tities in this equation. One is what the Repube lican platform and candidate are going to look like, The other is what may happen in the next year and a half—or rather what the super-showman in the White House may do. In the early part of 1936, the Democratic Party was no bargain. I had been in 44 states that winter and spring conducting question and answer forums which indicate opinion. You could smell New Deal disaster everywhere. When the Republicans started that campaign they had more money than they could use, but Mr. Farley's till was almost empty. A good many professional ob= servers thought the Republicans could win and one noted commentator thought they could do it with a Chinaman. . Came the Cleveland convention, its two-way plat« form—and its candidate. It was the dawn of a new day for the New Deal. Again traveling widely, I could feel favorable sentiment rising like a tide. As the Re~ publicans made more and more mistakes it hecame 4 flood. Suddenly the Republicans couldn’t get campaign money and the Democrats were rich. This column came within two states of being as accurate ag Mr. Farley. It required no magic.

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DD to this Republican uncertainty the P. Th Barnum showmanship of the unpredictable Mr. Roosevelt. It was the great Russian Pro-Consul Potemkin who could take his able Empress through a great province where he had done a godawful job of government and yet, by putting on a constant pageant on the side of the road away from the evidence, convince her that he had turned the province into a paradise. Potemkin was just a poor piker compared to the President. think that the present patty-cake party with Hitler was invented to take our eyes off the worst mess in which the New Deal and the Democratic Party has ever floundered. But the timing and circumstance were perfect and it has worked. If will take mora than Gallup polls to predict what that master-magi« cian can do—or how the Republicans may blunder, |

lt Seems to Me

By Heywood Broun

F. D. R. Never More Eloquent Than in Telk Envisioning Tomorrow's World.

EW YORK, May 3.—I have yet to see the New York World's Fair, but I heard the Fair opened. To my delight it was done with simple dignity and loving eloquence. Possibly these old ears deceived me, but I thought one of the broadcasters who came on just after the President of the United States be= trayed a somewhat choked-up quality of voice indica= tive of emotion. . I will confess that I did a little silent weeping here at home as Franklin Roosevelt anew pledged faith in the bright days which can be brought by the World of Tomorrow. I am not a tough audience, but if I cried it was because I believed every word he said. These have not been easy days for the President. That sharp disagreement with his plans and policies can be expressed even here at home is very right and proper. shocks me. Here is a man of flesh and blood. Some who love him are no doubt too idolatrous. But I think it is a lesser error than that committed by those who believe, or pretend to believe, that our leader is actu= ated by motives altogether base, dishonorable and ine human. If the charge is leveled that Franklin Delano

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The Three Wise Remembered

But the mortals who have done best in predicting the shape of things to come have been poets. Gone is the Alexander who was called the Great, and every Hannibal comes at last to some mountain which defies his army and his elephants. Three kings of the Orient once followed a star, and they are still remembered by us as the wise men. dures. : Ours has been a world of blood and terror. Yet not forever will humankind live under the spell of tha serpent. The old order changeth. It seemed to me that into the tired voice of Roosevelt there came a new note when he said that America still hitched its wagon to a star, There was something electric in his expression of hope for the days to come, of his belief! in the large vision rather than the small. His words rang out. And so should ours. Let each of us lift up his voice. Let each lift up his head. ®

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By Dr. Morris Fishbein

HE Massachusetts Department of Public Healtls has issued instructions what tc do when persons are bitten by dogs. This is a case in which intelli gence is of the utmost importance in preventing disease and death. The instructions: 1. Do not kill the dog. See that the dog is tied up until your local animal inspector has pronounced it safe to be released. He will keep it under observation for wo weeks to make sure that it is not developing rabies. 2. After learning the identity of the dog, go a% once to your family physician. He will cauterize the wound to help prevent the development of rabies in case the dog proves to be rabid. - 3. If you have been bitten about the face, head: or neck, or have received many severe lacerations, you should begin antirabic treatment immediately. : 4. If it is impossible to locate the dog which did the biting, you will never know whether it was rabid. In this case the only safe course to follow is to take antirabic treatment. 5. If the dog is located, it must be kept under ob= servation. Should it become sick, the animal inspece tor will arrange to have its head examined in the State Laboratory. 6. If it is necessary to shoot an animal for the protection of others, it should not be shot through the head, since this may interfere with the laboratory examination of the brain. 3 7. If the biting animal has been killed without be« ing held for observation and without subsequent laboratory examination of the head, you will never know whether the animal had rabies. The safest procedure then is to take the preventive inoculations,

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