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SATURDAY, JUNE 24, 1939
NO TIME FOR QUIBBLING
NGLAND and France have been negotiating with Russia since mid-April for a defensive military alliance. They are still at it. Since those negotiations started, several things have happened, including these: 1. Adolf Hitler, in a Reichstag speech, tore up the Anglo-German naval agreement and the German-Polish nonaggression pact. 2. Germany and Italy signed a military alliance. 3. The Japanese announced that their airmen had shot down 42 planes of the Soviet-fostered “Mongolian People’s | Republic” on the Mongolia-Manchukuo border. | 4. Mysterious German troop movements were reported in Slovakia, on Poland’s southern flank. 5. Japanese troops blockaded the British Concession at Tientsin, an act described by Admiral Sir Roger Keyes as “a declaration of war against the British Empire.” 6. Propaganda Minister Goebbels of Germany in a defiant speech assured the Germans of Danzig that they would be returned to the Reich. And still the negotiations with Moscow go on. Premier Molotoff of Russia tells the Supreme Soviet that “we cons sider our tasks are in line with the interests of other nonaggressive countries.” But while both Russia and England are pushed around in the Orient, and Hitler watches for a timely moment to sandbag Poland, the hair-splitting between London and Moscow continues. If they don’t hurry, the negotiators may have to finish their job in a bombproof cellar.
STANDING PAT
AYBE it's something about the country they come | from that puts iron in the system; the desert, the | mountains, the mesa; the far sweeps not too cluttered up by human environment; where you see more of sunsets than | of sycophants. New Mexico. Anyway, a couple from that state are standing pat | against great pressure on a bill which, if finally passed, | will do more than anything in our national history to sink | the spoils system.
One is the author—Senator Carl A. Hatch. The other | is leading the support in the House—Rep. John J. Dempsey. | Both have refused the wily offers of compromise which have been peddled by Representatives from urban regions where the spaces are not so wide or so open—Emanuel Celler of New York, Arthur D. Healy of Massachusetts and Francis E. Walter of Pennsylvania.
Some issues call for compromise. But not this one. Weakening means defeat in fact, if not in name. So we desire here to commend Messrs. Hatch and Dempsey for their firmness. And also Rep. Jobbs of Alabama and others for the work they are doing in behalf of cleaner government. And Attorney General Murphy for saying, as to political activities on the part of U. S. Attorneys and U. S. Marshals who serve under him: “The more this activity is minimized the more efficient will become the work of the department. I think the less they have to do with political organization, the better the results will be for the country.” May the Hatch Bill pass!
WHO PAYS TAXES?
TO the question, “Do sou happen tc pay taxes?” 2 oy cent of the American people give the answer, “No. So says the Gallup Poll.
Despite columns and columns of editorials about hidden taxes—of which we have contributed at least our share— and despite all the eloquent speeches, including President Roosevelt's “taxes-are-paid-in-the-sweat-of-every-man-who-labors,” one out of four Americans still believes he is free of taxation,
Considering the fact that perhaps not more than one out of 20 Americans actually pay taxes directly from his own pocket into the hands of the tax collector, the Gallup Poll disclosure is not startling. If three out of four people actually realize that they are taxpayers, it seems to us an encouraging sign that the word is getting around.
And this seems a good time to reprint a table first published last October, listing the 4raceable indirect {axes paid | by the average American family living on a monthly income of $150. The table was prepared by the research experts of the Northwestern National Life Insurance Co. We recommend it to the special attention of every fourth American— |
Per Cent of Tax in Taxes in Cost Dollars
7.8 $ 339 26.1 7.83 9.5 1.52 0.7 1.07 20.3% 3.00 10.3 31 35 A8 10.9 2.92
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Item— Budget $ 4350 30.00 16.00 11.00 14.75 3.00 5.00 26.75
Shelter Clothing Fuel and light Transportation (used car) ...
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Sundries, miscellaneous . .
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Monthly total ......... § 150.00 183.5% Annual total .. $1800.00 13.5%
*Also includes license, and gas and oil taxes. Doubtless there was many a family head, with exactly $1800-a-year income, who answered “No” to the Gallup poll taker. He would have answered “Yes!” and in loud tones, if all of his $242.64 which went into the tax tills had been paid directly out of his own pocket. The “Per Cent of Taxes in Cost” on the various items in the above table are averages for the country as a whole. Any family head, regardless of income, can get a pretty good idea on the size of his own hidden tax bill, merely by dividing his own family budget into the items listed above, and computing on the basis of the listed percentages. If he will take the trouble he will most certainly not say “No,”
$ 20.22 $242.64
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| An awful lot of families were still using kerosene
| table?
| and many a Saturday afternoon in the fall we topped | $500.000 at the gate of a football game, and we ran | up a score of $4545000 for two 10-round fights be- | tween Tunney and Dempsey—bit wages were high
| a-vote floatees, when he was abolishing every guar- | antee provided by
| in one test case. Much right have they to talk to us
| from their ill-gotten position in Tientsin,
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when the Gallup Poll taker gos around to him.
Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler
His Generation Didn't Knew It Had to Give an Accounting, but It Did Pretty Well, Considering.
EW YORK, June 24 —If the members of the American generation in which I have lived were required to give an account of their stewardship most of them would have to report that they had no idea until just lately that they, personally, had some obligation to preserve the sacred heritage, improve the country and hand it over in first-class condition; complete with inventory, to the next generation. That is something that was sprung on us within the last few years. However, it is doubtful that we would have done otherwise than we did. Nobody gave us any inventory or accounting, and the country certainly was not in A-1 shape when we arrived, but we figured, if we gave the matter any thought at all, that those who had preceded us probably did the best they could. : The roads were in terrible shape, telephones were rare and automobiles were so unreliable that nobody had much faith in them and so expensive that the common people didn’t even aspire to own them. We inherited slums, and every year great numbers of children would be swept off in epidemics of smallpox, scarlet fever and diphtheria. There was plenty of typhoid, too. 2 ” s HESE plagues have been almost abolished in the time of our generation, and, although we still do have slums, I believe a comparison, if one could be | made, would show that the evil has not increased by any measuring standard. Our predecessors did not leave us muéh modern plumbing; gas light was something of a luxury; an electric light was a novelty.
lamps. As to education, it says in the book that the number of regular college students has risen from 168.000 to 1,028,000 in a little less than 40 years, and that figure, of course, bespeaks a corresponding increase in enrollments in the lower schools. The improvement in the medical service has kept pace, too, and if it still is not always possible to jab a button and find an ambulance at the door, free, to rush the patient off to a free hosiptal for a free operation, how do vou think things were when we were born— most of us at home and many of us on the kitchen
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URING part of its life my generation had a pretty good time enjoying good times. Many
and monev was loose then, Anyway, the people
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weren't studving economics. They were studying | the scores and the stock market, and a great many | of them didn’t even vote in the elections. But, after all. that crash dates back to the time we went liberal twice-running and elected Woodrow Wilson and lost our shirt in the war. |
I would like to know what the oncoming genera- |
| tion, the one which is now being talked up as youth, | is going to do with this country.
I am not overconfident, remembering that thou-
| sands of them in the University of Baton Rouge, who | hadn't the excuse of ignorance,
sold out to Huey Long for band music and free train rides, like dollar-
the United States Constitution. That is how much vouth cared for the sacred heritage |
about betrayal
Business By John T. Flynn
Democracy Certainly Not Involved In Japanese Move on Tientsin, |
EW YORK, June 24 —What is going on now in | and around Tientsin is a good example of how | the thinking of a whole people can, by a series of | easily accepted but false assumptions, get badly mixed | up. America is devoted to democracy. Therefore, what | Hitler is doing in Germany and to peoples on the | rim of the German lands excites the hatred of | Americans. The same thing is true of Italy. | In the same way what Japan is doing inh China arouses the indighation of Americans. But in the course of her campaign in China. Japan gets around to Tientsin. And there she runs into the British. But what are the British doing in Tientsin? Are | they there as purely foreign residents peacefully trading with China? Of course they are not. It is the largest commercial city of Northern China. In| 1860 and thereafter, by a series of what are euphemistically called “treaties” the Chinese conceded certain rights to various foreign natione chiefly Britain, France, Germany, Russia, Belgium, in Tientsin. These concessions were made in much the same manner as Albania recently made “concessions” to Ttaly. The foreign powers, chiefly Britain, have established themselves in China with arrogance and with no more right to be there than Japan.
Fight Between Imperialists
Now Japan seeks an excuse to oust the British Well, one may take sides in this any wav he will. But what has this quarrel between England and Japan, as to which one will remain perched upon China's property, got to do with democracy? China has hated the foreign concessions for years. They were regarded as invasions of her sovereignty long before Japan began shooting up the Chinese. This is a battle between two imperialist powers as to which one will exploit China. If one believes in imperialistn one may have his favorite imperial power and root for it when it clashes with another. But the question of democracy does not seem to be involved in such a fight. Therefore, upon whatever pretext the American State Department gets itself involved in this fight. it cannot claim to be fighting the battie of democracy.
A Woman's Viewpoint
By Mrs. Walter Ferguson
Whe the King and Queen were listening to the cheers of admiring Americans, their Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain. in spinsters marched in parade shouting for justice and pensions. Observing that government these dave ie run largely for the henefit of groups. the Old Maids of England are beginning to cast their eves toward the Royal Treasury, and who can blame them? In Great Britain a generation of unmarried women are at last aware that they have been cheated by their government of an age-long and inalienable right—the right to a hushand. They feel that when their political leaders nave deprived them of the opportunity to marry, by removing all eligibles, they are due an amende honorable, in the form of cash payments such as is made to other patriots. Therefore, if admirals and generals and veterans of every kind and rank, and if wives and mothers of admirals and generals and privates are pensioned, who dares declare that spinsters who have lost their sweethearts do not also deserve the same kind of payment? Getting closer home, we find that Selma. Ala. has already celebrated Old Maids Day and expects to make it annual. It may be that the entire United States will soon become Old Maid conscious, for these unmarried women comprise a group which gains more power as the years pass. They are now aware that the cards may be stacked against them. Until they are past 40, about 90 per cent of them would like to marry. Yet they belong to a social order which makes marriage increasingly difficult for the ambitious and intelligent woman. And that brings up another thought. If states can flout the Constitution by passing laws forbidding married women to hold jobs, as many have dons, do they not also have the power to flout it more by forbidding any man with sufficient income to to remain unmarried after 30° How | does that strike vou, sirle?
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Gen. Johnson Says—
Texas' Hill-Bily Governor and The Legislature Tangle, and OldFolks Get 'Pensions,' but No Money.
ALLAS, Tex, June 24 —The Texas Legislature just has completed its longest session. It didn't do much of anything except increase spending and lighten tax burdens, It “liberalized” old-age pension payments and then didn't provide the revenue for. the extra cut to the “old folks.” The main reason for all this was a jam it got into with the Governor. , This Governor is a curiosity well worth a word,
| If an O'Daniel can happen in Texas, a Huey Long |,
| in Louisiana and a Doc Townsend in the nation, ale , ‘can happen here.”
Texas is so overwhelmingly Democratic that it
| is almost a stain on a family's fair name for any of ~
| its members to turn Republican. was never anything but a Republican until he ran:
The Hoosier Forum
I wholly disagree with what you say,
defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.
but will
CONVENTION VISITOR COMMENTS ON CITY
(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, religious cons troversies excluded. Make your letter short, so all can have a chance. Letters must be signed, but names will be withheld on request.)
San Bernardino, Cal
. . The thing that stumps me This morning,
Townsend Convention hall. I came
running off in all directions, and] taking a coin out of my pocket I oi it to see which ete I |sentiment of the ma jority of voters should follow. Tails won, and sud- Of this state. We all know the seridenly I was back at my hotel. . . ./ous conditions our President has I am very much impressed with had to contend with. |your safety zones. The old-fash-| we cannot successfully change
|ioned hiteh racks you have for pro-| tection surely ought to slow up traf-| horses in the middle of the stream.
‘fic to the Worse and buggy days.| Roosevelt at this time is the most Anyway, I was told that, “It don't | popular, able and well-liked Presi= [count,” if you get hit in the safety dent we have ever had and his zone. I have never been hit in that | friends who are the majority will [part of my anatomy or my doctor stand by him. has failed to tell me about it. The hospitality of your merchants 'is possibly the reason for the continued growth of your city, not to mention that there are no “back| taxes” due. You can actually buy a good nickel cigar here for 5 cents jor two for 10. Anyway, the Townsendites are going to have the best time in Indianapolis they have ever had at any of teeir former national conventions. I am,
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ASSAILS TINKERING WITH ECONOMIC MACHINE By E. F. Maddox The Times editor and Gen. Johnson seem to be surprised at Stuart Chase's “semantics” and the Gener= al is waving the red lantern to warn that the Temporary Eeonomic Council is planning to fasten a “Communist-Faseist” dictatorship over private business. Well, what do you expect from
socialists and collectivists? These quack economic doctors deal only in
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risy, sabotage, puerile propaganda and malice against the patient—the capitalist system of private industry —and all the while they are dosing it with the most deadly poison to cause it to collapse. Then these revolutionary quacks expect to grind] this nation under the iron heel of an American Stalin. Wherever you find a Socialist, Communist or Fascist there you will find sedition, corruption, sabotage and revolutionary action. They don’t know anything else. According to my recollection, Stuart Chase was a prophet, priest and economic tinker in the Russian
Communist experiment, I suppose that is the reason he has been appointed to the National Resources Board and is active in the TNEC. Gen. Johnson is a forthright fel-| low, and he states plainly that the | objectives of the TNEC as outlined by Mr. Berle . . . “is exactly what
Myr, Stalin thinks a government should do. This is advanced communism and it is nothing less.” Well, it looks like John N. Garner had better stay on the job, heat or no heat. . . . ” ” ” ‘PHOOEY, IS RETORT TO GOVERNOR'S SPEECH By Another Hoosier Anent Governor Townsend's speech to the Townsend Club mem-
We note by the papers Senator
pious platitudes, semantics, hypoeVanNuys will work against a third |
hers: Phooey!
| ton and return intact for the next performance.
should run. 1 don't believe it would do but little harm if he does. Senator VanNuys was fortunate to save] his own scalp last election, Remem- |
New Books at the Library
ber how jumpy he was—tried tof thumb a ride with the other party! "FJ HIS is a story about two peowhich would not have him. | ple whom I never have known He Se Jemind He of Fl y well, namely, my daughter, Fecra a 1e ever do fo diana, besides trying to get a lynch. | cia, and myself! it's a record of ing hill passed and vote against old=- the struggle of a mother and daughage pensions? I voted for him last) ter to work out a comfortable relatime against my better judgment. |tionship with impossible demands I'm a little surprised at Louis/on both sides: the mother insisting | Ludlow’s maneuvers against the on molding her child to her mater President also. And I compliment nal ideals of what a satisfactory offMeNutt’s words of loyalty to thelspring should be; the daughter President. fighting to be entirely independent I believe I have expressed the of maternal guidance or coercion,
Side Glances—By Galbraith
and each demanding love and dutifulness from the other: neither for years able to see the other's actual sel save across a seemingly impassable abyss of utterly differing characteristics.” In order to become better acquainted with her daughter, Honore Morrow wrote “Demon Daughter: The Confessions of a Modern Girl and Her Mother” (Morrow). In this life history of her daughter she writes of the problems caused by Felicia, who in turn explains her side of the struggle. Felicia, maddening, yet intriguing, possessed of a vivid imagination and extravagant talent for getting into mischief, well deserved the title, “demon
daughter.” Yet, in spite of her wil-
"Ah, gee—do | have to kiss the bride? Isn't it enough that she oot my Brother
Dark cloudy days touch me,
to our life as men; for faith is the | of and
fulness, she was a lovable child and one could not hold a grudge against her for long. In the background of her life were two people who did most to help her. Her father, kind and patient with her waywardness, understanding and sympathetic in her struggles, watched and helped her only when necessary. The second person, Bes-
sie, the Negro nurse, understood her far better than all the others. She believed that Felicia was good— good because she wanted to be: and Bessie had faith in her and knew that, contrary to the opinions of others, “her child” would come out on top in the end and that every one would have just cause to be proud of her.
DREARY MOOD By MARY JANE
It is then that all beauty disappears, And my heart is heavy laden With all sorts of haunting fears. Then I realize it is the mood in me And there is sunshine outside That I can't see,
DAILY THOUGHT
Ye see them how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only. —James 2:24.
AITH and words are as necessary to our spiritual life =s Christians, as soul and body are
works, the
Yet Mr, O'Daniel., for Governor as a Democrat. Never was there such a running, The Governor » had a radio audience that he got in his local coma , mercial broadcast—selling flour. The main attrace : tion was a hillbilly band. Then Mr. O'Daniel began - to squeeze in wisecracks between “Nearer My God--to Thee” and “She'll Be Coming Round the Mountain. When She Comes.” ” ”
OST of these remarks were at first designed ta: sell flour. Then he began to say that the only * trouble with politics is politicians. All the country. needs is to elect businessmen or farmers who know nothing about politics. It got a big hand. Still the radio flour merchant didn’t have the ' least idea of running for Governor-~the primary came paign was already starting. Then he unwittingly ® struck pay-dirt, He announced the brilliant idea of" paying full Townsend pensions to the “old folks,” - without increasing taxes or revenue or debt. Even Dr. Townsend doesn’t propose any such miracle as that. Mr. O'Daniel lit upon any kind of sales tax as a< burden on the poor—and then it happened. Tens of thousands of letters from Texas alone proclaimed © him a Messiah, He quickly got the idea and became a candidate.
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E put on a regular Huey Long campaign with. sound trucks, radio and personal appearances... He won in a walk. Then he let it be known that, his meaning on the pensions had been misunderstood, - He really meant something less than half of what he.. had promised. Also, while a sales tax is an abomina= tion, Texas must not only have a “transaction” tax (which is exactly the same thing) but it must be put in the state constitution by amendment. There, in practice and as proposed, it would be practically a: permanent ceiling on the state's power to levy exe~ cises. This and other little jokers in the situation wera. 0. K. with big business. It, with the “old folks,™: could have carried the amendment, But it took a»
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| two-thirds majority in the Legislature to propose it...
Fifty-six members were more than one-third. They. - organized a battalion of death and resisted, through-: Austin summer heat and a record session for length, 10 separate assaults by the Governor and his legions, ,. So the old folks have their pensions, but no money. Maybe that's what the Governor meant in the first--place.
It Seems to Me
By Heywood Broun
If Tallulah's Uncles Last, Senate Faces Battle Beating WPA Theater,
EW YORK. June 24—I always thought Tallulah - could play the Maid of Orleans, and now she's gone and done it. She led the fight for the Anierican theater against those Congressmen who would curtail , and cut it, : It is no easy task for an actress plaving an exacte ing role in a Broadway smash hit to visit Washing- = I~ had the good fortune to catch Miss Bankhead on the * wing, as you might say, between the small Senators and The Little Foxes, : Tallulah admitted she was tired. “It was pretty tough,” she said, “and toward the end of my piece I broke down and began to crv, Daddy came over with me, and he was very kind but he put me off a . little, because at the beginning of my speech he’ whispered, ‘A little slower’ Of course, he's Speaker 5 of the House, but who is he to tell me how to read.. a line? “But maybe he was right, because I did break. down and weep. I don’t know why I should take Senators so seriously. Everybody in our family goes.to Congress unless he'd rather rajse cotton. But o there was I saying, ‘Yes, sir,’ and ‘No, sir,’ and almost, : any minute I was afraid I might say ‘Your Majesties.’ “But it was later I broke down, It wasn't just. . what I was saying. I began to think of the tough . times troupers have and of all that actors give and - how little comes back to them. And I knew what no--Senator could know ahout the luck of the theater. and the length of time between jobs. And I was, thinking of what he Theater Project has meant to” = Negro performers. I began to cry.
Great Lady of the Theater
“The Senators sat there looking at me very solemn,’ and not moving a muscle. They waited. I thought to myself, ‘Tallulah, you come from rebel stock, and they never did lick the Confederacy. You mustn't . carry on this way. y But it was the Senate committee which should _ have wept. Miss Bankhead is a great lady of the theater and she has memory and imagination. The.~ tears of Tallulah will be nothing compared to the‘ heaped-up sorrow and misery of thousands. of veteran.= actors if they are to set now to selling apples. These are the people who have sung and danced. - for sufferers from flood and every disaster of our" generation. And it is upon the back of those who--have given so much that the lash is about to fall, It must not. It won't, Never before has everybody... from great star down to dramatic critic stood se. solidly together. They can't lick us, those—Senators?' Not as long as Tallulah has an uncle, .
Watching Your Health -
By Dr. Morris Fishbein
8 my_child a genius, average, or dull? 1 Mothers would like that question answered the’ A day the baby is born. But an accurate answer is. - not possible in most instances until some years have = passed, The earliest signs of the development of intele ligence in the young infant are closely integrated with the acquisition of control of the muscles, and emotional behavior, Behavior, in a large part, isc. learned. The types of behavior present at birth will : ; be modified and changed by the infant's experiences, - : The human infant at birth is helpless and able to. -: perform only those functions which are necessary. .: to maintain life. He can suck, swallow, and cry ta .- gain attention, New abilities are rapidly acquired, During the first few mounths, ability to use the eyes develops rapidly. The baby will stare intently for a long time at bright objects, such as lamps, . . sunlight on the wall, or windows. During the second, month, the eyes follow moving objects. Movements'.. of the head accompany the eye movements. Tre At about the end of the second month, the’ ability": to manipulate objects begins to develop. There may be a jerky waving of objects placed in the hand. : After another month, the infant uses the hands oe and fingers for making brief exploratory movements, but association of eye and hand movement does not - develop until a little later. - By three or four months the child has learned to." connect his hand with his mouth, to co-ordinate - his eyes, to pull or push his feet and hands, and to - hold up his head without support. By the.time he is six months old, he stolid ] » hare Tumeelf over and. sud. he making efforts to. sit erect, :
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