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FRIDAY, MAY 26, 1939
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SHAMEFUL INDIFFERENCE
ARLIER in the year we protested the proposed plan of | Mayor Sullivan to appoint summer employees in the Park Department on a patronage rather than a merit basis. We protested because wholly unfit and incompetent | people had been named for these jobs in the past. We protested because, as a result of this indifference to park supervision, it literally became unsafe for women and children to be in some of our public parks after dusk. We protested because we thought that the new chief executive might act quickly to correct the shameful situation that | had existed in previous years. In that hope we have been largely disappointed. The Park Board is now carrying out Mayor Sullivan's policy of manning park jobs with “competent” people from party ranks. And almost at once it begins paying the price of that course, for it was compelled yesterday to discipline | one of its emplovees for alleged improper handling of a girl | motorist’s case. That was precisely the sort of thing about which | numerous citizens were indignant last year. The situation | was a disgrace to the city of Indianapolis, and it starts | out again the same way this year. Nothing would bring the Mayor greater credit than if he scrapped this picayunish system of patronage, threw out the recommendations of the ward leaders, and selected | people on the basis of their ability. And we predict that | nothing will bring him greater discredit if he fails to take this step.
MR. MORGENTHAU’'S PATIENCE FTER conferences with Congressional tax leaders at the White House, Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau announces that the road has been cleared for business tax revision at this session. the last couple of the last couple of
“More progress has been made in davs,” he says, “than was made in months.” And what is responsible for this? “Good will all around,” says Mr. Morgenthau. The sad thing is that so many months of bitterness | preceded this ‘good will.” Early this year, Mr. Morgenthau and Commerce Secretary Hopking headed a drive for rapprochement between Government and business. Left-wing extremists did their best to block the effort. And a bunch of Wall Street brokers, mistaking their cue, moved on Washington with demands which would have meant virtually taking all controls off the stock markets. The olive branch was withdrawn. Then, last month, just as the Treasury Department was on a fair way to perfecting a tax revision program, the U. S, Chamber of Commerce met and denounced the New Deal from pillar to post. The peace pipe was yekurned to the Presidential rack. Now there is another spell of harmony and good will | —and it seems likely to produce results. For this no credit is due the extremists of either the New Deal or of business. Some credit goes to those legislative plodders, Rep. Doughton and Senator Harrison. But most of all it is a triumph for the patience, loyalty and steady purpose of Secretary Morgenthau, whose difficult task it is to collect and borrow all the billions the New Deal spends. Appreciating the necessity for collecting more and borrowing less, and realizing that greater revenues can come only from greater business volume, Mr. Morgenthau stood firm for his program of tax reform for recovery. Despite the obstacles heedlessly erected, he seems at last to have won the support of his chief, and the co-operation of Con- | gress conservatives,
POSTMASTER LOBBYIST
ESTERDAY we said something about the need of enacting the Hatch Bill to take politics out of relief and to force other Federal officials—including postmasters—to devote more time to their jobs and less to electioneering. Today a news item out of Washington tells how one postmaster has been spending his spare time. He is Whiting Faulkner, who draws a salary of 83500 a year for handling the mails at Martinsburg, W. Va. But apparently his official chores leave him plenty of leisure. According to testimony | before a House Committee, Mr. Faulkner has been in Wash- | ington trying to hire himself out as a lobbyist, at a fee of £1000, to the Marviand-Virginia Milk Producers’ Association. in connection with an investigation of milk sold in the District of Columbia. One charge ig that Mr. Faukner promised to “deliver” the vote of his own Congressman, who happens to be chairman on the District of Columbia Com- | mittee. Mr. Faulkner denies that, but admits offering his services as a lobbyist. It's going to be interesting to see how long the Postoffice Department takes to separate Mr. Faulkner from the | pay check, which he apparently doesn’t regard very highly, | Meanwhile, let's not forget about the Hatch Bill, which the politicians have bottled up in Congress. This post: master is not the only person on the Federal payroll who | has acted ag if he thinks his official position gives him a | license to play politics for selfish purposes.
BACKFIRE IN! March the Gallup Poll reported that 427% of Democratic voters favored John N. Garner for the Presidency if Mr. Roosevelt didn’t seek a third term. The runners-up | were Jim Farley and Cordell Hull, each favored by 10%. | Since March the Vice President has been made the butt of extensive criticism, especially by columnists of 100% New Deal hue. They called him a black reactionary, a doddering has-been, a traitor to the President, and so on. Now comes the Gallup Poll again, with a new crossAnd this time Cactus Jack, in the face of all the criticism, ig favored by an even 50°: of the test vote, against 137% for Mr. Hull and 97% for Mr. Farley. There must be some wisdom in the old remark: “1 don’t care whgt you call me, so long agryou mention my name.”
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By Westbrook Pegler
Anti-Semitic Group Is Offering Nothing Except Hatred and Seo It's Unlikely It Will Go Very Far.
N= YORK, May 26 —The jumbled hatreds of the anti-Semitic groups which are now taking their turn over the barrel before the Dies Committee may result in some painful persecutions, but it seems unlikely that they will develop into a real Fascist movement. The promoters have forgotten to promise the American people material benefits, such as land and a large, guaranteed cash income from the Government, and they permit themselves to be closely asso-
ciated in the public imagination with the two nations, Germany and Italy, which currently hate this nation most. They are all comfortable men, too, with no contact with the masses, and Americans who are asked to purge the country of alien influences will be sure to look with suspicion on Nazis, speaking English with a
| strong accent, who turn out in foreign uniforms to | assist in this work of Americanism,
Even the Franco Spaniards, in a time of great emergency, were aloof and rather inhospitable to their German and Italian comrades-in-arms, and the humiliating advance to the rear executed by the invincible Black Shirts in the face of the contemptible loyalists rabble at Guadalajara appears to have been enjoved by the Rebels as much as by the Loyalist side. = os ” OREOVER, the Spaniards were constantly aware that after the war there would be a probiem
| of getting the Germans and Italians out of their
country and their islands. In this country the alien Fascists are mostly Germans of recent arrival who have declared loudly that this is an inferior and mongrel people, and it cannot be forgotten that the last inferior and mongrel nation which permitted them to march in uniforms and heil Hitler is now a slave nation under German deputy dictators. Moreover, when a native American attempts to lead an alien movement and substitute here the Nazi form of government he is in no better position than those other Americans, led by Comrade Barl Browder, who is also a native of an old Virginia family, who are trying to establish the rival “ism” of Moscow. Anti-Semitism and nothing else is not a Fascist or Nazi program. It was not even a part of the Fascist program in Italy, and in Germany it was only a come-on displayed on the platform outside the tent while the spieler promised great material marvels in the main display inside, gs & 4 HE American anti-Semitic leaders, by contrast, offer nothing but hatred and are strongly de-
| eclared against the one man who has the authority, the
organization and the means to feed them pie, That would be Mr. Roosevelt. As a matter of fact, there are ingredients of both Nazi-fascism and communism in the New Deal proand the reason why Nazi-Fascist measures for the extension of government power into business and the lives of the people are heartily indorsed by the Communists is that actually the two “isms” are only superficially unlike. Incidentally, has it been noted that the Commus« nists, who were so savagely aroused by the outrage and absurdity of the Dies investigation when communism was under the glass, have seen no such offensive« ness in the Nazi-Fascist phase of the job?
Business
By John T. Flynn
Washington Eyes 1940 Election as New Spending Policy Is Indicated.
EW YORK, May 26. —As rumors fly thick and fast in Washington about the possibility of a “new” Administration plan for a lending-spending | program, here are a few facts and figures to keep in | mind First of all, it must be remembered that the lend-ing-spending weapon has been the only one always brought forward by the New Deal at every point in the last six vears when it began to be worried about | the declining business index. Now any proposal for further spending involves two questions: What purpose does the Administration hope to accomplish by it? take to accomplish that purpose? The public debt, when the New Deal power, stood at about 20 billion dollars more than 40 billions. spent in this period more than 20 billion dollars Now of course there is no doubt that the expendi ture of this much money had its effect on business. Indeed, tion of business would have been without this spends ing. But the purpose of this spending was to prime the pump—to get business started and get business Yet
came into Today it is
today. six vears later. the business index of York Times stands at a point a little below the high point reached in this same month in 1934,
New Taxes Doubted Another question involved in any such proposal is the whole fiscal policy of the Government itself Where is the money to come from? Will the Adminjstration tax to get the monev? Internal revenue collections for the month of April were $22469.000
less than in April of last vear, and collections from |
the beginning of the fiscal vear showed a decrease of 8355 813.106 from the same period in 1938. And with 1040 in the offing, it is hardly likely that
| ticians will be in any mood to impose heavy new taxes
As for further borrowing, it now looks as if this | fiscal vear will end with a greater deficit than ever, The Government was spending pretty heavily last | but on May 15 19038, the deficit stood This vear, on the same day, was $3.040.488.702, or and the fiscal vear with more than a month to run, It begins to look as though the chief Administra« tion chicken-—the spending chicken—was coming home to roost. And one of the chief difficulties in the whole problem is the fact that the thinking about it the standpoint of 1940 and not from the standpoint of the grave economic factors involved
A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson
ET us add our O. K. to the statement of Dr. David Seabury, who recently told a group of New York “a job is the best possible training for home making.” The reasons are obvious. Mutual understanding is the rock upon which successful marriage must be built. Girls who have had some experience in busi« ness have a better conception of what it means to
[ support a family and maintain a good home, because
they have learned the value of money and how hard it is to get. Moreover, they will have trained themselves to live on a budget, to be impersonal in their attitudes toward associates and to put their best foot forward wherever they happen to be The sheltered woman-—once such an admired being—no Jonger commands universal respect. Ine stead, she is regarded with pity, for it is realired that her life is restricted to small, personal affalrs
a handicap. The great difficulty, as I businesswoman to domestic life,
sce it, is to adjust the How are we to keep
| her satisfied with the petty routines of modern house=
work after she has had the adventure of beginning a career, which she quits long before she suffers most of the disillusions of the career life? It's all very well to extoll the time-honored privileges of wifehood and motherhood. At this point
we usually fall back on platitudes to prove our point |
and they prove nothing. Unless hushands themselves understand the situation I'm afraid we shall flounder on in our present bog of indecision and despair. There is no harder job these days than that which faces the highestrung, ambitious girl who has served an apprenticeship in business and who has then married and gitempts to fit herseif into the domestic picture, \
in Washington is being approached from |
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INSISTS COLUMNISTS MUST HAVE FREE REIN Bry A. Keves I cannot agree with Mr criticism of columnists Seripps-Howard papers If columnists must always agree! with the Administration and all of its policies then this country cannot |
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| withheld on request.) truly be called a democracy or the ———— —— - Palestine should be returned to the Jews without further delay. The Arabs took it by force and, while they should be shown every ject of these writers is to promote Possible consideration, still it is the | controversy and it should be re. Plain duty of England and other membered that they seldom agree nations to return Palestine to the| with each other, Jews, Miss Anderson was unknown to! This is a time of great persecution ithe public in general until the D for the Jews and it is imperative to |A. R. affair (although not to people furnish them a place of refuge well informed about musie, of| The only safe haven is a nation |of their own and the only nation So let's let the columnists criticize they are promised is Palestine, It Mr. Ickes and he in turn slap back should be done without further deat them for that is what makes| lay. America the best country in the! world to live in »
Mr. Taylor should know that no American newspaper considers itself responsible for the opinions of its] {oolumnists. In fact, the very ob
” ” » CRITICIZES NORRIS FOR LUDLOW STAND By C. E D. Always I have admired Senator Norris, the Nebraskan, for his vote against war in 1017. He stuck to
GIFT OF THE GODS By ELEEZA HADIAN
It descends Ag sunshine—Softly, without It ascends From the earth-—-Breath of the soil; It rests in motion On the breast of ocean, It pours With the rain In sweet refrain; Lays its course To the breeze, it whispers in the trees Peace, peace, peace,
DAILY THOUGHT
But God said unto me, Thou shalt not build an house for my name, because thou hast been a man of war, and hast shed blood. «I Chronicles 28:3.
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I am out every dav--talk to these standholders and know it to be a
fact that each of them is physically toil;
These people are ‘not physically ters without a little protection What is objectionable to a stool to sit on and a little fire to warm their
Instead of sneering at these people
they are not sitting idly at (home in a warm room accepting | Gov ernment doles as are many ablebodied citizens today.
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PALESTINE TO JEWS | By Edward F. Maddox One of the great tragedies of his tory was the expulsion of the Jews) from Palestine. Every believer of| dier go a changeful wanderthe Bible recognizes Jerusalem and er, and can warm himself at no
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his principles even though the vociferous portion of the populace called for his scalp. But I think Senator Norris is “off base” today when he announces his opposition to the proposal to amend the Constitution to provide for a referendum before America could join a foreign war, on the ground that it was the people and not the Congress which forced America He says he knows of Congressmen who wanted to vote against war but capitulated to sen-
|timent of their constituents, Even assuming the Senator's] [premise to be true, and it was true | in 1017, his argument has the effect | of setting Congress up on a higher | intellectual level than the electorate. In other words, Senator Norris is| against the Ludlow resolution because, in 1017, the people wanted war more than Congressmen, and therefore we shouldn't give the electorate the right to decide directly whether or not it wants to fight. ” ny ” CITES LACK OF JOBS FOR OUR OWN YOUNG PEOPLE By Mrs. W. A, Collins Just why does Maria Burkett want these young Germans brought to our shores? Does she realize that seven or eight thousand citizens will graduate from high schools this next month and have no idea what part they will or can play in business? These boys and girls will walk off a few pairs of shoes listening to the same old story, “We can't use you without experience.” All| right, where are they going to get the experience? This is just one] city, our city, What about the rest of the country? These fresh young hopefuls from abroad would take up the jobs that our citizens need . x We loaned these foreign nations our money and the Hnest flowers of our nation, our young sons; we tried to make the world safe for democracy, only to find Germany loose again, preying on small nations, Do these so-called Americans who would be responsible for those German children ever think we have a great many here they could help? They never think of them, but only of the publicity given refugees. I certainly would start a movement among the mothers of the nation to keep those children in Germany and make the great Germans responsible for their own mistakes.
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NO. That is the very thing they its own decisions, because run in the same channels. By its channels with others the world has very nature and vitality a great|/been blessed with Plato, Aristotle, mind tends to be original, unique, Leonardo, Shakespeare, Cregory
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EXPLORE YOUR MIND
By DR. ALBERT EDWARD WI1GGAM
think its own thoughts make Lincoln—and all the men and
women who have guided and inspired humanity down through the ages. ¥ ao 8 YES. That is the main cause of a large part of our troubles in| running society, especially democ- | racy. Suppose every citizen kept in| peace time the same energy, courage, | and spirit in solving the problems of the nation that inspired the soldiers of the American Revolution, What a wonderful country we would have! Suppose the women Kept up the same militant spirit about voting that they had in fighting for the vote! But alas, vast numbers of both men and women don't even go to the polls and if they do don't know what they go for, What we need, even to prevent war, is a more war-like spirit in making peace effective,
A SNOB always has an inferiority complex. In fact all snobbish and egotistical assumptions of superiority are merely the reverse side of the inferiority complex—the efforts persons make who feel inferior to compensate for their feeling of unimportance by trying to convince you of their importance. The ostentatious use of wealth—excessive jewelry, vast useless houses and estates and the like—are By efforts to convince the world importance and power of the
Gen. Johnson Says—
Their Taxing Power Invaded, Local
Governments Seem Doomed Under The Existing Public Works Policy.
ASHINGTON, May 26 The President is right when he tells the White House visitor who protests extravagance, that the pressure for Publio Works spending comes from the visitor's own home town—{rom every separate locality in the United States. Sure. It has to. “We planned it that way.” It is the strongest political lever “we” have. Time was when the revenue raising power of the various states was large enough to enable them to build their own high schools and hospitals or whatever other facilities they needed. If they needed them enough and were willing to go into debt for them, they just issued bonds, sold them to the public and went ahead. That is what used to be called the institution of local self-government, That institution was supposed to be of the very essence of the English and American form of democracy. It enabled one nation to rule a country as big as a continent no matter how diverse the conditions or the race, religion or politics of the people. It enabled the British Empire to exist in all parts of the globe. ” ” ” UT local self-government the present trend of public finance. The Federal taxing power has so far invaded the revenue pro-ducing-ability of the states and cities and taken so much of their money to Washington, that there is hardly a state or city able to stand entirely on its own feet in financing its own public works and services. From a single state, news dispatches report 50 bankrupt cities—bankrupt through unpaid and uncollectable taxes, Each community has to go to Washington hat in hand to get back for the needs of its own people their own money which Washington took away from them, It is given back, not as a matter of right, but as a matter of favor, The suppliant must say aceceptable things and, if supreme authority so decides (as it frequently does), he must be acceptable politically. It not only does all this, but it automatically forces the very kind of headlong extravagance that the White House visitor was protesting. ” n ” AM the Governor of a state or the mayor of a city from which the Federal Government is syphoning away our revenue-—producing capacity-—our taxability. I see it flow into the great pork-barrel-pool in Washington and I have not and cannot get enough revenue to discharge my duties. I see our revenue being parceled out to other states and cities. What must I do? I wouldn't be doing my duty if I didn't cook enough nice “projects” (whether we needed them or not) to work as a ladle to dip into the Federal pot and get just as much as I possibly can—all that it took away from us and more if possible. This absolutely reverses the old political influence for prudence and economy in public spending. In the days of local self-government the local spender was responsible for the local tax rate, If it rose too high, he didn't get re-elected. No local officer is responsible for Federal taxes. The more he gets and spends of Federal funds—which are state funds once removed-—the greater his political chances. The whole system is destructive of the fundamental principles of American Government in both finances and constitutional theory.
It Seems to Me
By Heywood Broun
Common Men of All Nations Could Bring Enduring Peace if Allowed,
EW YORK, May 26.—Although I was a good deal less than an inspired correspondent, I make the well-considered assertion that there was never a time during the World War in which a satisfactory peace might not have been achieved in 20 minutes or, at the most, half an hour. It could have been arranged by the simple device of sending six enlisted men from the Allied forces to sit down with an equal number of common soldiers in the ranks of the Central Powers, And even more than an immediate cessation of hostilities those plain people would have fixed a treaty which would have been more enduring than the document forced by Allied leaders at Versailles or by the German bigwigs at Brest-Litovsk. I am not dealing in theory but in facts. On numerous occasions I was along the front in a quiet sector, Whenever I had my choice I will admit that I selected those areas where not too much metal was flying through the air, I saw the First Division of the American Army when it originally went into the line near Bar-le-Duc. This was not contentious territory, and months had gone by without any particular push from either side. The First Division later went on to participate in some of the fiercest fights in the conflict. It suffered heavy losses and acquitted itself extremely well, by any military standard. But the efficiency of this highly mixed group of Americans did not depend upon the fact that all the men in the ranks were cone firmed haters of the enemy who constantly exclaimed, “Let me at 'em!”
Fraternity Natural Instinct
On the contrary, the high command, which was conditioned to another theory, had great difficulty in discouraging fraternization, The normal impulse of the doughboy was to wander out of the trench into some neutral point in No Man's Land and exchange chocolate for tobacco, or vice versa, with the enemy. Fraternity is the natural instinct of man, and he fights only when urged on by the higher-ups. And I am for fraternity now among the peoples of the world. It can't be a cubbyhole brotherhood, The enlisted men of the world will and can make the peace of the world, and they must thrust aside the brass hats of prejudice and fascism and reaction in all countries. And when you sing some such song as Irving Bere lin's eloquent composition, “God Bless America,” I think it may not be a bad idea to add, “And this goes for all the other nations.” We must discover No Man's Land and make it our common heritage.
Watching Your Health
By Dr. Morris Fishbein
LTHOUGH ulcer of the stomach has been repeate" edly discussed in these columns, a reader from Alabama requests an article on ulcers of the stomach and duodenum. In one of our largest clinics one-half the men past 40 years of age who complained of indigestion and dyspepsia were found to have ulcers of the stomach or duodenum, disease of the gallbladder, and in a few instances even cancer, Women who suffered with dys« pepsia or indigestion were found to be suffering in two instances out of every five either with disease of the gallbladder, ulcer of the stomach, or in some instances
cancer, The exact cause of ulcers of the stomach is not
known. There seems to be some evidence to tne effect
that they are sometimes associated with infections at the roots of the teeth or with infections in the tonsils or the sinuses. Sometimes an ulcer of the stomach: is associated with a disturbance of the appendix or of the gallbladder. One of the most common conditions associated withulcers is an excess amount of acid coming into the stomach with the gastric juice. Because of this people frequently have burning sensations. Sometimes sour material passes up from the stomach into the throat, causing a sour taste and burning sensation. These, are the people who like to take large amounts of bake: ing soda in order to overcome the acidity. They should realize, however, that taking baking soda for symptoms of this type is like pouring water’ on a fire bell when the fire is two blocks down the: street. The eructation of acid material from the. stomach is a sign that something is wrong. The per-, son who has such symptoms ought to see a doctor* and find what is wrong and thus obtain treatment for the bance rather than for the symptom.
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