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PICKING POCKETS HE Federal Tax Revision Bill was hustled through the Senate Finance Committee in five hours. Efforts will be made to pass it in the Senate this week, without any major amendments, Administration Senators don't want even to discuss the merits of eliminating some of the sales and nuisance taxes, and broadening the base of individual income taxation as an alternative method of raising revenue. Apparently the idea is that it is politically bad medicine to let the voter find out that he is being taxed. A married couple with a $2500 income pays no income tax under the present law. Under the base-broadening proposal which Senator La Follette has sponsored for several years, dropping the exemption to $2000, would mean that couple would pay a tax of about $10. But while refusing to consider assessing a direct tax of $10, the Senators are hurrying to passage, with as little debate as possible, a bill continuing a number of sales and nuisance taxes that bear more heavily on that man and wife and millions of others with still smaller incomes. If that couple, for instance, was to buy a new automobile, say, on which the manufacturer's price is $500, the 3 per cent sales tax would pick $15 out of their pockets. And there are several other hidden taxes being re-enacted by this bill — — — all of them preying upon people with small incomes.

THE NEED IS HERE HERE now are 229 public housing authorities operating | in American cities. Indeed, most of the cities over | 200,000 population now support these agencies to promote improved housing for lower income families. Ninety-eight of these authorities have contracted for $377,876,000 in loans from the U. S. Housing Authority to build 181 housing developments. Unfortunately Indianapolis is not yet one of these cities. The need is here but indifference to the plight of our low income families has prevented any action.

GRACE ABBOTT f DEATH has cut short the brilliantly useful career of Miss Grace Abbott. To call her one of America’s greatest women is an inadequate tribute. For 14 years, under four Presidents, she was chief of the United States Children's Bureau. Tens of thousands of citizens owe their lives to her fight against infant and maternal mortality. That and her struggles to eurb child labor and juvenile delinquency made her internationally famous. She dared President Hoover's displeasure when she battled to preserve the independent children’s bureau, and thus probably sacrificed an opportunity to become

Secretary of Labor and the first woman Cabinet member. Since her resignation, in 1934, she had been professor of | public welfare administration at the University of Chicago, managing editor of the Social Service Review and author | of some invaluable books. The one most fitting memorial—the one Grace Abbott would most have desired—would be ratification of the Child | Labor Amendment. She was a leader of that cause for | years, she lived to see the Supreme Court declare the amend- | ment still vital, and she died in the hope that a few more state would soon ratify it and so make it part of the Federal Constitution.

THE PHONY FARMER LOBBY “THE Wage and Hour Act is in peril,” says Administrator Elmer Andrews. And he puts the blame on such lobbyists as Ivan G. McDaniel, counsel to the “Agricultural Producers’ Labor Committee.” Mr. Andrews ought te find a way to persuade every Congressman to read John Steinbeck's great novel, “The Grapes of Wrath.” They might then be less vulnerable to

the blandishments of Mr. McDaniel and his like. For Mr.

Stei ¢ has wri | 's i i Steinbeck has written an epic of man’s inhumanity to man | all times and intend to check their weather reports

—the story of what happens to those pitiful people who flock to California and seek jobs in corporation-owned orchards, canneries and fruit packing plants. The Agricultural Producers’ Labor Committee, says Mr. Andrews, “is a legislative ‘front’ for the Associated Farmers of California, a notorious labor-busting outfit.” Arguing that farmers should be exempted from paying the $11-a-week minimum wage of the Wage-Hour Act, this lobby for organized employers is seeking to deny that law's benefits to hundreds of thousands of workers in industrialized packing, canning and processing plants, Mr. Andrews charges. And, he asserts, most of those whom the committee represents are not farmers at all, in the usual sense. They “participate in the operation pf packing or canning plants for which their vegetable ranches or fruit orchards. .. are feeders. They've got their operations on a production line like an automobile factory, and just as thoroughly indus-

trialized. and instead of employing an occasional hired man | | remembered trees are gone:

they employ, off and on, hundreds of thousands of people, many of them Mexicans, Filipinos and refugees from the dust bowl whom they can hire for a few cents a day, and they often house them in unsanitary tent colonies or in dilapidated shacks.” In short, these workers from whom the Agricultural Producers’ Labor Committee would remove the protection of the Wage-Hour Act are the very ones who most need such protection. If their organized employers, masquerading as farmers, get what they are trying to get, we think it would be a good idea for every stooge of Ivan McDaniel in Congress not only to read “The Grapes of Wrath” but to

eat it. :

A STROKE OF GENIUS NEW YORK CITY plans to use the “Wait” and “Walk” pedestrian lights along with its traffic control system after studying Peoria’s experiments. After sidestepping and sideslipping across some of our six-cornered Indianapolis intersections we're almost tempted to hail the thing as a stroke of genius,

Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

Much of Their: Majesties’ Work On U. S. Tour Feared Undone by Sad Defeat of Mr. Wooderson.

EW YORK, June 21.-It is too early to attempt to estimate how much paint was seraped off the newly decorated friendship between the British and the United States in the unfortunate collision, or hubscrape, between a British and an American runner at Princeton University Saturday afternoon. But, even though no structural damage was done, it is plain that some of the recent sufferings of their Britannle Majesties were endured in vain. A certain number of hot dogs were eaten for naught, certain pains in the royal feet from standing around the garden party were suffered needlessly he cause a British miler named Sidney Wooderson was nudged, accidentally or otherwise, on the last curve of a contest which had been arranged as good clean fun between representatives of the two nations. Mr. Wooderson's personal British press had seemed to take it for granted that he could not lose legitie mately and that if he were heaten, then it would follow that he had been fouled, And when Wooderson faltered and ran last in a field of five the British press reported the calamity gs another dirty Yankee trick.

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F an American war vessel had brushed a British man-of-war the result would have been less grievous, for the officers’ code is such that signals of “oop, sorry!” and “don't give it a thought, old chap!” would have been exchanged at once. But international sports, even afloat between yachts, is always undertaken at the risk of the sudden undoing of more or less elegant diplomatic banquet work. The last race for the America’s cup will be remembered by anyone who is so ill-natured as to bring up the subject at all as an incident whieh set AngloAmerican relations back almost to 1912. And the shocking injustice suffered by Fainting Phil Scott, the London fireman, in his contest with Jack Sharkey in Florida is mentioned only with great reluctance, because it instinctively provokes mention of the attempt to foul the American Johnny Hayes out of his victory in the marathon race in the London Olympics, back before the war. The reproach to British and Americans is greater than to the Italians and Germans of the present day, at least, because Italy and Germany make no pretense of sportsmanship but regard their international ists as state gladiators and stake that which they have the drollery to call their national honor on victory. tJ ” 2

UT the British and Americans like to think that

they are above such conduct, as, indeed, they are |

in a way, because their governments never take part

in the squabbles of little boys, of any age, arising in

the course of their play at games. The French, too, are above taking official notice, even though the crowds take part, as happened once when an American rugby team licked the French in the Paris Olympics and the spectators joined in the rioting with eries of “Down with la Dette!” This rudeness was compensated a few years later when their Eugene Criqui was booed by the Americans for persistently getting off the floor every time Johnny Dundee knocked him down. Mr. Wooderson indicates that he will run no more in this country. That is a good idea, because two or three more defeats might compel Their Majesties to head back and go through the whole ordeal again to patch up the damage.

Aviation By Maj. Al Williams Wonders Why European Air Lines

Are Slow to Provide Wing De-icers. |

ASHINGTON, June 21.—TIt is difficult to understand why European airlines are so slow in fitting their ships with wing de-icers. A recent bad crackup on the Air France Line of

| the Dewoitine D-388 resulted from ice accumulating

on the wings. There were no de-icers. The ocean

| crackup of the Imperial Airways Cavalier, on the run

betwen New York and Bermuda, is another example —it hadn't sufficient hot air facilities to prevent for-

| mation of ice in the carburetors.

Even though the outside air temperature may be five or 10 degrees above freezing, ice can form in the average carburetor just ahove where the atomized gasoline is sprayed into the inrushing air. Years ago, our engine designers took steps to equip engines with heated air from around exhaust pipes. The British failed to attend to this problem.

An Excellent Appointment

The appointment of new directors to the Board of Pan-American Airways is significant. Thomas A. Morgan, president of the Sperry Gyroscope Co. is one of them. In my opinion, his presence on the Pan-American Board swings the soundest and most progressive mind in American aviation to the support of that outfit.

The other appointments are Mark T. McKee. presi- |

dent of the Wisconsin & Michigan Steamship Co., and John M. Franklin, president of the Mercantile Marine Co. and the United States Lines. The addition of these steamship line presidents to the Pan-American Board is significant because of the entry of the American Export Steamship Lines into trans-Atlantic airline operation. American Export Lines have numerous steamships on the Atlantic at

at hourly intervals, = ® 5 The Civil Aeronautics Authority report on the world's aviation exports is of great interest. It estimates that, in 1937, all the world's aviation exports amounted to approximately 80 million dollars. In 1938, this total was boosted to approximately 150 million dollars, an increase of more than 70 per cent. The CAA report also discloses that, in 1038. Germany exported approximately a million dollars’ worth of aviation products in excess of England's total. This is a reversal of the previous year, when British aviation exports led by about 3!: million dollars

A Woman's Viewpoint

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

O you ever go back to the place where you were born? Or to the spot where your childhood was

| spent? Not so long ago I did, and what an experience

it was! Saddening, of course, and yet somehow thrilling and glorious.

The village which is still part of my very being, |

and always will be, is no more. The loved and well

the little shops, the cotton gin, the houses twined with honeysuckle have vanished with them; only the old well that marked the center of the town square is left, a lone reminder of other days.

A whole new world has been created, since 1]

walked there in cihldhood—a world filled. with miracles and menaces. For in the Nineties, in that village, deep in the heart of the Indian Territory, there were no electric lights, no gas gadgets, no telephones, no radios. no automobiles, no airplanes. Yet one who grew up there has seen the coming of all those marvels. What more could any being ask of God? As I stood silent where I once had raced and dreamed, it came to me suddenly that I belonged to a fortunate clan—a clan privileged to live in two different ages, the Age of the Pioneer and the Age of the Machine. ' The contrast between present and past, between the ways and habits of yesterday and today, moved me to a new resolution. For how wicked it is for us to let go all those simple, humble things that made life so satisfying in a bygone generation, and how equally wrong it would be if we failed to appreciate the miracles science has given us for our use today. Looking backward is a bad habit, some people say. It seems a very good one to me. For how can we tell how far we've come from our beginnings, if we never take time to turn around and see what has been left behind? =

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I wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

CLAIMS SUB CREWS NOT | TRAINED AS DIVERS ‘By W. R. Hollingsworth, San Diego, Cal. Being a former resident of Indianapolis and now a subscriber to

your paper June 1. The picture of a diver in a bell using a special tool was not taken at the submarine base at New London, Conn, but at the deep sea div-

ing school at Washington, D. C. This diver is in the divers’ training tank and is using a hack saw. The saw is used during the diver's decompression stops as the exercise helps to free his body of the oxygen that is forced into it during the dive. Submarine crews are not trained as divers. They are given a pressure of 50 pounds at the start of their training to see if pressure will affect them in their duties in the submarine and not to train them in underwater work. In 12 years in the Navy (three years of which I have been a first class diver qualified to 300 feet) I have seen only one or two sub-men who were divers. The reason for [this is that they quit diving to go | to subs. | The hose and fittings in the pic|ture are used to train the diver to {make quick connection with air hose {to the sub if needed. I believe in 'giving credit where credit is due, {but when you print an article stat-

divers, it makes me mad. When you

wy 4 # INSISTS G. 0. P. MAKES ONLY PROMISES

By An Ameriean

The pratings of the Republican high command in the personages of

|ilton and Homer Capehart, have gone completely haywire about the New Deal.

Oct. 31, 1936, when Herbert Hoover in Denver, broadcast a speech from radio station KOA in which he said “Next Tuesday in the election we will elect Mr. Alfred M. Landon and a solid Republican Congress which will be the beginning of the

|New Deal laws.” | Mr. Hoover and his followers (would have all of the American {born and others believe we are on

|the road to absolute ruin as a de-|

mocracy. Mr. Hoover and others think the great majority of the peo-

your paper I am writing to you to| correct an article on submarines in

ing that sub crews are trained as)

print a story on divers, “see a diver.”

Herbert Hoover, John D. M. Ham- |

Well do I remember the night of |

end of the New Deal and all of the |

(Times 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.)

ple have forgotten those dark days of the Republican Party misrule and all the sufferings of the millions of unfortunate citizens who lost all, hoping for a better day before the end of their suffering for the want | of proper food, clothing and shel-

ter. . . Banks were closing every day— people's life savings gone. Farm mortgages were foreclosed, city homes, repossessed—all because of Republican Party misrule and the cry of prosperity just around the corner which was used to fool the people of a distressed nation. Remember this: The policy of the Republican Party leaders is to make | fantastic statements and promises [for the sole purpose of winning the |elections and if victorious forget ali promises made except those

| made to the favored few, This same (outfit is the sole cause of business] not being as good as it should be. | They call themselves 100 per cent Americans. If they are, then we who are New Dealers are super 100 |per cent Americans,

us » LAUDS REP. SWEENEY FOR DUNNING KING

By George Maxwell Rep. Sweeney of Ohio deserves the people's gratitude for sending a teljegram to King George reminding

|him of their five-billion-dollar debt

to this country. Of course, it was meant to imply that England had ample means to send them here in royal splendor without regard to costs, but when it came to paying her just debts she didn't have the wherewithal.

It ought to be pleasing to the common people of this country to

think that they have one Representative in Congress who thinks more of their interest than he does of royalty. It wouldn't be amiss if some Representative would send President Roosevelt a message reminding him that he has lavishly used this country’'s means to entertain their Royal Highnesses even while want and misery are stalking through this land. Only the other day it came to light that families in this city were living in such rodent and vermin infested homes as would bring disgrace on any civilization. And yet these same poor, ill-housed wretches would, in case of war, be forced to fight to perpetuate such a civilization.

” ~ ® COMMENTS ON JAILING OF IRISH LEADER By Daniel Francis Clancy, Logansport, Ind. “I see that they put a head of the Irish Republican Army in jail,” commented my Irish friend, Edward, the day before the recent visit of Britain's sovereigns to the United States.

“Yes,” said I, “and they should, with the King and Queen around.” “I don’t see why,” said he, “It's a free country, isn’t it?” “Well, yes, argued I, “but . , .” “What they should do,” interrupted my friend, “is put the King and Queen in jail while the Irishman is in the country.”

‘New Books at

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FUND of information to help in understanding the Euro-

pean debacle, a supply of pat and workable phrases to insert into al- | most any discussion of the situation and a reassurance of the security of our refuge here in America is offered to anxious citizens in “The New Western Front” (Harcourt) by Stuart Chase, in collab- | oration with Marian Tyler.

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“Suppose,” says the author “the United States were like Europe?” The story of how we are different —and, granted we use even ordinary perspicacity, always will be—is told with charts, maps, a lot of good, hard sense, and a vigorous style interlaced with a bit of hardboiled humor. One puts the book down with an imposing array of facts in his mind and a fervent hope that the pres-ent-day arbiters of our national destiny may hew to the line laid down by Thomas Jefferson, who in 1823 wrote the words which preface this book: “I have ever deemed it fundamental for the United States never to take an active part in the quarrels of Europe. Their political interests are entirely distinct from ours. Their mutual jealousies, their balance of power, their complicated alliances, their forms and principles of government, are all foreign to us. They are nations of eternal wale ««

“SUNSET” By ROBERT O. LEVELL The Lord with beauty filled the sky With all His love and care, When sunset light had gone so high To shine so bright and fair;

My eyes were thrilled to see so clear The picture there for me, So far away and yet so near That God had made for me;

While looking at the silver way, God made the sky so light, My heart enjoyed the shining ray The sun had made so bright;

In yonder space above the land, The sky revealed the sun, . A joy His power had made so grand When all the day was done.

DAILY THOUGHT

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.—I John 4:8.

EE ———— \ OVE is an image of God, and not a lifeless image, but the living essence of the divine nature goodness.—

Gen. Johnson Says—

WPA Needed an Investigation, But New Bill Is a Big Advance; Three-Man Board Held Essential.

ST LOUIS, Mo, June 21.—The overwhelming vote in the House of Representatives passing the bill to reform WPA, is a reflection of the kind of opinion I hear expressed wherever I travel. Few people know enough about the whole picture of WPA to say exactly what ought to be done about it. But nearly everybody I talked to felt that it needed first a thorough airing and then a trip not only te the laundry but also to the delousing station. Perhaps the biggest political blunder of the President's loyal opposition made was not to insist on a thorough public investigation of WPA. Surely it needed that at least as badly as business needed the going over it is getting from Senator O’'Mae honey’s “monopoly” committee, Surely it would have revealed much worse abuses. The Administration's maneuvers to avoid the ine vestigation were clever, The constant turmoil of war-scares and the neutrality debate switched pube lic attention. The master-move was to, ease Uncle Danny Roper out of the Department of Commerce and Harry Hopkins out of WPA and into the Cabinet, In the public mind, WPA and Hopkins were one and the same thing, ” » ”

r prevented disclosures that could have rocked this Administration, but it didn’t take the stench off WPA The House hill will not completely disinfect it either, But it is about as good a bill as could have been written on the information available, It at least strikes at the principal threat of WPA to our institutions—lump sum appropriations of vire tually unlimited amounts to be expended in the come plete discretion of one political appointee. It includes many other reforms but this one is basic. When Cone gress abdicated its powers to say how public money should be spent, it gave up much of the principal check in our constitutional system of the legislature on the executive—the power of the purse, The new bill puts WPA under a three-man “bie partisan” commission instead of a single administrator, It lays down rules governing the spending of these billions. There is no space here to discuss these rules, but the three-man commission has been proved to be absolutely necessary.

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NAnauy the Administration will fight this change which would go further to check the playing of politics with relief billions than any more statutory prohibitions. The opposition is based on the statement that a three-man commission is not “ef= ficient.” If anything could be less “efficient” than the past administration of WPA, its annals are nowhere recorded. It is true that, for a purely executive job, a single administrator is better than a board. Buf WPA is much more than an executive job. It is policy forming and that is a legislative job. That requires, in so vast an organization and spending—not a little dictator, but a deliberative body. In view of the political situation, it also requires representation of more than the party in power. Such a commission should organize itself with one member as executive—all three to decide policy and check execution—precisely as all our highly efficient business organizations are set up with a board of directors and a general manager. The claim of “inefficiency” against this bill isn't an argument. It is just an epithet.

lt Seems to Me

By Heywood Broun

Artists and Actors Should March on Capitol to Fight for WPA Theater.

N= YORK, June 21.—By a large vote the House of Representatives of the United States has voted to end all the Federal Theater projects immediately and to apply the same harsh treatment to the other art projects within a few weeks. When the British burned part of the Capitol in 1812, it was called by us an act of vandalism, and if some foreigner in the future rained bombs upon our museums and libraries we would again cry out that this was a war on culture, But, seemingly, men elected and supposedly responsible to the people of the United States are willing to go on record as being cruelly contemptuous of the aspirations of unrecognized talent in this country. Any Congressman can move his colleagues to tears by talking of the slaughter of little pigs under the New Deal, but all eyes were dry as the vote rolled through to let the undiscovered writers, actors, playwrights and painters starve quietly and make no fuss about it. Politicians will fawn on successful authors and players and encumber them with compliments, but not until they have swum the rapids and clam= bered safely on the shore. That point of view may be the product of nothing more than the traditional stupidity of the peanut vendors who get themselves sent to Washington.

Dissent From Mr. Woodrum

But it is sheer prevarication for Rep. Woodrum of Virginia, the same State which sired Jefferson, to maintain that professional people themselves have looked upon the Government’s experiments with coolness and suspicion. Practically all the book publishers have gone on record as expressing their admiration of the results achieved by the writers’ projects. The newspaper dramatic critics are almost a unit in their praise for both the intentions and the achievements of the Federal Theater. And allied with the reviewers are many managers, such as Lee Shubert, Sam H, Harris and George Abbott. Equity protests against this cut. Famous names of radio, screen and stage like those of Helen Hayes and Eddie Cantor join in. Now is the time for the men and women of the amusement world to come to the aid of their cause. In every crisis of America they are called upon to contribute their services. They should be heard now. No more vicious and deceptive and underhand campaign of destruction has been staged in our national legislature. It has been camouflaged as a drive on communism in spite of the fact that possibly the most successful of all the Federal projects was Prologue to Glory, an excellent chronicle about the life of young Lincoln.

Watching Your Health

By Dr. Morris Fishbein

HE amount of fat eaten by various people differs according to their tastes and desires. It is com monly believed that the Eskimos eat large quantities of oils and fats. Those who know say, however, tha} they eat a great deal of protein, not very much fat, and hardly any carbohydrate. Fat is expensive. Poor people tend to eat less fat. than others who have plenty of money to spend on food. Everyone is familiar with the fact that there is said to be a shortage of fats in central Europe. Ine deed, whenever a nation as a whole begins to econo mize, reduction in fats in the diet is one of the earliest steps. Fats are digested in the small bowel by the material which comes from the pancreas into the bowel, The bile aids by emulsifying the fats. Butter, which has a low melting point, is easily digested. Lard also has a low melting point, but beef fat and mutton fat have high melting points and are not, therefore, easily digested. Fats are digested most slowly of all foods. The long time required for their digestion is responsible for the fact that hunger does not follow soon after a meal containing a good deal of fat. It is not wise, therefore, to have too much fat in a meal. The presence of a lot of fat will delay the digestion of the proteins through decreasing the gastric juice which may come in contact with the proteins. For this reason fat meats, such as those from pork and from the goose, are nct considered easily digestie ble. The eating of a certain amount of carbohydrate food with the fats helps their digestion. This is prob-

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