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THE HATCH BILL MOVES ON vo SHORTLY after midnight, the Hatch Bill cleared its last big hurdle in Congress. The only thing-that now could prevent it from becoming law would be some trick resort to filibuster, or a veto by the President. a The bill passed the Semate April 18-—without a dissenting vote. Last night it passed the House by an overwhelm"ing majority—242 to 133. There are some slight, though unimportant, differences between the House and Senate versions. And therein lies the danger of filibuster—either when a motion is made for the Senate to concur in the House changes, or when the bill is sent to conference or when final approval of a conference report is sought. Xet it ‘would seem that so strong is sentiment for this muchneeded reform that only a Congressional leadership blind to political realities would sabotage it at this late date. ‘The House was the place where the opponents of the Hatch. idea chose to make their stand. And there .they made it, with some 11 hours of oratory, and many voice votes, standing votes and teller votes on-many amendments, and finally with two “yea and nay” roll calls. * s & = : ea 2.8 8 NV THOSE hours of oratory there were many false state- + ments about the bill, many misrepresentations of its provisions and purposes. : : = So we think this is a good place to tell once more exactly what the Hatch Bill provides. The bill says that it shall be— : : Unlawful for any person to threaten, intimidate or coerce a voter in a Presidential or Congressional election. * Unlawful for any administrative employee to interfere in such election. ; ; $ Unlawful to promise jobs for political activity. Unlawful to deprive of work relief, or threaten to deprive, any person because he supports or opposes any candidate or party; or on account of race, creed or color. Unlawful to disclose lists of relief workers to political candidates or campaign managers. Unlawful to use relief funds or relief administrative authority to influence votes. ; Unlawful for any Federal employee (except elected offi‘cials—Representatives, Senators and the President—and their immediate assistants, including the President’s Cabine} and top men in Federal agencies who help determine national policies) to take active part in political campaigns. (For instance, postmasters, U. S. district attorneys, mar_shals, collectors of oy revenue, their assistants, and other such jobholders would be required to work at their jebs and not play politics.) : For offenses, the bill provides various penalties, including fines, imprisonment, and removal from office. : That’s about all there is in the Hatch Bill, and when and if it becomes the law of the land it will be the greatest forward step toward clean government since the original Civil Service Act. : : :

INORRIS ON NEUTRALITY E had not expected that Senator George W. Norris of Nebraska would ever find it necessary to deny he is “in favor of getting this country into the coming world war.” But that is what he has just done. ; Senator Norris voted against America’s entry into the “first World War.” He is one of three men left in Congress

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who east their nays in 1917 and who were villified therefor. |

To suggest that he could ever be a war monger is ludicrous. But he finds himself so accused. And he replies:

“I see no reason why we should get into the war, if it

comes, and I would take no step nor do any act that would draw us in. I have no sympathy with Hitler, Mussolini or ~ Japan. The conduct of these three nations is: barbarous, _ indefensible and inhuman. Anything we have a moral right to do under international law that would prohibit or retard these barbarous governments from carrying on their inhuman warfare we ought to do. There are several things we have a moral and legal right to do.” | + - He would drop the present ban on export of arms to belligerents, and require instead that all exports to warring . powers be on a cash-and-carry basis, with American mer- - chantmen prohibited from trafficking with such powers. He would forbid Americans to lend mohey to belligerents or to travel on their ships. le He concedes that such a policy “will be. inj Hitler, Mussolini and Japan,” but he says that very fact ‘will have “a tendency, I think a strong tendency, to prevent them from beginning a world war,” and hence “will keep us out of any possibility of being drawn into the war.” There is an answer, from a man who went through martyrdom in the name of peace 22 years ago, to the cries of those who think that the present Neutrality Act is a “peace law” and that the Roosevelt-Hull policy I aimed at luring us into war.

THE OLD MULE-CAR DAYS - 13 GAY what you will, it is sort of a shock to learn that the ™ McLean Place car barns are about to go out of existence. There are many among us who remember when all ~ Hlinois "Sf. streetcars bore the sign “Twenty-first St.”. It ‘was the end of the line until 1889 when the tracks were extended north to Crown Hill Cemetery. - ’ : - It has housed mules as well as streetcars. Those were romantic days when a ride on a streetcar north meant green fields and countryside. Fifty years ago the very outskirts of Indianapolis, McLean Place today is simply the nearNorth Side. tia

~ MY SAND BLASTER, BOY! ls WE GOT to looking over the cards turned in in the Wom- ¥" en's State Golf Tournament, now going on, and heré’s _ what we found: Re + . The semifinalists played 64 holes of golf yesterday. The highest score on any one hole was one 7. (After all, Sam Snead.-took an 8.) There were eight 6s. And 28 5s. Arid 21 4s. And six 3s. rhe Will you pardon us while we go out and dig up a couple hundred divots? : :

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Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler Seymour ‘Weiss’ ‘Must Be .Quite © Calm==Didn't He Once Run the U. S. Senate Out of New Orleans? YORK, July 21—Seymour Weiss, the. New Orleans politician, who has been. indicted on a

Pederal charge in connection With the. current Louisiana corruption, has enjoyed an interesting im-

income tax charges, but a settlement was accepted after the death of Huey 0 nciliation between the heirs of the Long gang and the New Deal which has become famous, or infamous, as

"| the Second Louisiana Purchase. At the time of the

compromise it was announced that there had been

| “a change of atmosphere” in Louisiana and Homer

Cummings had to take the fall. i ‘Now ; thé same department, under a new and _younger attorney general, Mr, Murphy, who has political ambitions of his own and a mission from the New : Deal to belittle Tom Dewey’s record in New York, has indicted Mr. Weiss because certain documents were sent through the mails in the perpetration of a deal which is alleged to have been fraudu-*

business of the Federal Government, but neither one involved such flagrant defiance of the United States as Mr. Weiss’ conduct in a previous affair, the investigation of the election fraud of United States Senator John W. Overton. : ”» ” 2 : ; N that investigation Mr. Weiss defled a sub-com-mittee of the United States Senate in hearings in New Orleans and Senate’s counsel, to step outside the room, the suggestion being that he would punch the generals ears off. ‘Huey Long was present, interrupting the proceedings and leading a packed gallery of political hoodlums, some of whom were armed, in disorderly demonstrations around the door. Overton was elected as a ng stooge by the ald of a system of dummy candidates and fraud in the ballot boxes. On the stand Mr. Weiss replied, “None of your business,” “Yes, I refuse to answer” and “You are ridiculous,” as the Senate’s legal counsel attempted to obtain information as to the source of campaign funds and their expenditure. . When he said, “You are ridiculous,” Huey interrupted to say, “He might invite you outside.” At this suggestion Weiss said, “No, he has much better sense than to do that.” ® = = UT Mr. Weiss’ contempt was overlooked, and in the course of time he became again an intimate political friend of James A. Farley and a toiler for the Louisiana department of the New Deal under President Roosevelt. ' His conduct and the conduct of the Long machine in the Overton election were condoned, if not indorsed, even though Senator Con-

: nally of Texas said in a report on the inquiry, “such a

device”’—meaning the dummy candidate system used by Long to elect Overton—*“is a fraud on the rights of any free people, because it is absolutely impossible for

| the public to know whether all the ballots were put

there by voters whackers, fraud.” Senator Conally dlso said that the Long system of assessment, and extortion of political funds, administered by Weiss, was “a vicious system under which helpless victims can be made the victims of extortion.” With such experiences in his past Mr. Weiss may feel little disturbed by the fluttering activities of Mr. Murphy in the .new disturbance to date.. The atmosphere of Louisiana, and particularly that of New Orleans, is subject to sharp, unpredictable changes.

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Business °

By John T. Flynn

Battle Is on Again to Curb the Power of the Banking Interests.

EW YORK, July 21.—Down in Wall Street one may see signs of an old battle which began a long time ago—when Justice Brandies was a practicing lawyer—and which is revived at intervals. It is the battle to determine who is to control other people’s money. oi Over 200 years ago a Scotchman in France—Mr. John Law of Mississippi Bubble fame—made the discovery that the savings of the people, rich and poor, had a way of gravitating toward certain large reservoirs. He saw the advantage of providing a reservoir for these streamlets of savings, reservoirs into which vast sums belonging to many people would be gathered and brought under the control of Mr. Law himself. That device has been the most potent in the develop-

ment of what is called finance capitalism and in our

own time the art of drawing these savings into these pools—savings. banks, commercial banks, insurance companies, corporate treasuries, investment trusts, Snance companies—has been developed to the highest egree. — When these sums are thus gathered together the great question is—who shall control them and for what interests. Up to now they have, by a series of devices, been more or less under the control of the investment banker. And because they have been thus controlled, the investment banker has been able to control the industries into which these funds flow— railroads, factories, etc.

The Impregnable Position

At this point, the banker, with his access to the suppliers of the funds and the users of the funds, was able to make himself almost supreme in our system. He became the “banker” of the corporation, its financial adviser, philosopher and guide. He insisted and still insists this is necessary. He must maintain his hold on the corporation to protect the interest of the lender. Thus his position has been almost impregnable. For many years financial reormers have insisted that a corporation, when it s funds, should go into the open market and compel the bankers to compete with each other for the privilege of supplying it with the funds. What they ‘want is open, competitive awards of underwriting contracts. Obviously the bankers have always resisted this. : But now a new fight is on among financial operators and promoters themselves to force competitive bidding for corporation security issues. It has not originated with the SEC but in Wall Street itself. It is one more step in the long and difficult battle to drive the banker from power in our economic system.

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

Y heart turned a complete somersault the other day to learn that the American whaling industry survives, although I am told its life is endangered by powerful lobbies that seek its destruction. rom udnt you | know it? Sonhies have no zense of ce one, so the pamphlet says, - sents such lowbrow interests pat The Pus ulti of Fajlag grease and inedible tallow—whatever that ma, . 5

At any rate, We, the People, are called upon to save the whaling industry, and you can bet — life I shall do my bit, out of sheer ‘gratitude, if not patriotism. : L : Shades of Herman Melville." ons of surging Southern seas with spouting viathans streaking through their waters ruse before my eyes, weary now with gazing at sunshine flooded landscapes. Memories of all the tall tales I read in my youth about whales and their pursuers flooded my mind. The ghost of Moby Dick crowded out eVeryday matters, and I forgot to order the dinner roast because I was drowned in dreams of whaling fleets sailing down sunset horizons, : ; ; I don’t know one thing about the merits of the case, but it' seems to me we would strike a body blow at romance if we allowed the whaling industry to be killed by people whose souls are steeped in such matters as garbage grease and inedible tallow. I belong to the generation whose infant boredom was lifted. when the Sunday school was transformed into a place of fairy tales every time the superintendent related the story of Jonah in the whales belly. Arabian Nights offered no more thrilling fare for childish imagination :

even a fabulous mamal, and those who hunt it will | ever be high spirited and amorous adventurers, ie

munity up to now. He was indicted once before on |

in a political recon- |

lent. The income tax case was much more plainly the |

taunted Gen. Ansell, the |

And so, to some of us, the whale is a fantastic, |

sil : The Hoosier Forum 1: wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

IT’S THE LIGHT COMPANY THAT INTRIGUES HIM By a Citizen There's too much talk about buying the Water Co. What do we

is the light company. Boy, there’s a gold mine! > ' NN ” A PLAN TO GIVE JOBS TO

2,500,000 ON RELIEF ! ,

By Clodhopper If the U. S. Government wants to get rid of the two and a half million relief workers, it should plant them on every farm north of the Ohio River where there’s an acreage of 200 or more, in shacks large enough for one family, and not closer than one mile apart, with four acres of ground, five chickens, a.shovel and a hoe. i Every farmer needs extra help in cleaning ditches, building fénces, harvesting, haymaking and other odd jobs. I believe by properly spacing these workers and with assistance, they can all be removed from relief. Surely the farmers want to get rid of this enormous tax burden and would be willing to co-operate. I was raised on a farm and I know this could be done if everybody would co-operate to the betterment 8 = ”» WHY LICENSE LIQUOR? HE WANTS TO KNOW By H. 8. Bonsib : If taxpayers wish to know what causes high taxes, it might be summed up in this wise: 1. Crime causes taxes, 2. The liquor traffic causes crime. 3. Corrupt politicians backed up by the Wets sponsor the liquor traffic. . . . ‘The Independent Merchants’ Association Liquor Investigating Committee’s report to the Dayton, O., Chamber of Commerce reveals these startling facts: That Dayton, a city of 300,000, has 729 restaurants and beer gar e 502 sell beer and hard liquors. The average income from each (of the 502) is $700 per week, or a total of $350,000 per week. Eight liquor stores have an income of $48,000 per week.- The total spent in Dayton for beer and liquor is $398,000 per

need it for? What we ought to buy |

of which 227 sell 3.2 beer and.

(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.)

TAKES ISSUE WITH | LABOR EDITORIAL | By Zack Kreth | In your July 10 editorial you claim that labor, which means the United Automobile Workers Union in this case, threatens to - strike 200,000 men in General Motors. You end the editorial with these words:

- | “And, be it emphasized, the battle

is not between labor and capital, or about wages, hours and working

week (and this does not include what the bootleggers.sell). Dayton has 570 groceries. The average receipts for each grocery are $500 per week, or a total for all of $285,000. It‘appears, therefore, that $113,000 more is spent each week for booze than for groceries and meats. The per capita expenditure is $1.32 per week in liquor establishments as against 95 cents for groceries. Add to that what the bootleggers-sell and you have a lot of dead expense—and what is the result? Why license liquor? Prohibition is coming back.

» » 8 TOO MUCH OF THE SAME THING, HE CONTENDS By Norman Fletcher Mr. E. F. Maddox roars, beats his breast and screams like a bald eagle when he scents an “ism.” He calls them “alien isms.” I think Mr. E. F. M. is entitled to his say. I say more power to him if he’s got something to say. But he’s said the

same darned thing so many darned times I just feel like saying: Blr-r-r-p-p. I can do a lot better personally but I think you get what I mean. :

conditions, but between labor and labor, between the C. I. O. and the A. F. of L.” As a member of Local No. 226, U. A. W. A-C. I O. and director of research, I wish to inform you that the strike in General Motors is not against the A. F. of L., but against hours, wages -and working condi-! tions. ‘At no time has the president of the U. A. W. A. threatened te call 200,000 men on strike in G. M. If you still insist the fight is between the C. I. O. and the A. F. of L., please explain to me and other readers of The Times the reason why the A. F. of L. Pattern Makers

¢| Union joined the strike in the City

of Detroit. Because they, too, work under the same conditions. » Today in General Motors there are 7000 skilled workers on strike because G. M. refuses to sign a new contract with these workers. The U. A. W. A. does not care to call 3 ‘strike unless-it is forced to. In this case it was. We believe in good relations between G. M. and our organization. = I would like to state here, as did wot appear The Times, that due to the stalling of General Motors, James F. Dewey, Government mediator, had to abandon. efforts to arrange immediate negotiations between the corporation and U. A. W.

New Books at the Library

Y thinly veneered as fiction, the bitter truth of Mary Bor-den-Turner’s new novel. “Passport For A Girl” (Harper), may well wring the stoniest hearts, as it lays bare with a surgical severity the suffering of those who are ‘living, even now, through Czechoslovakia’s dismemberment. and Awustria’s eclipse. Its pages reflect terror, bewilderment, scorn, hopelessness, and a splendid, flaring courage. Dating from Austria's tragic rout in the spring, the story presents alternate pictures of upper class social life and political thought in England—a brilliant background,

Side Glances—By Galbraith

represented by Hilary Goodchild of the British Foreign Office, his associates’ and his family—and the tragic events incident to the Nazi occupation of Vienna, as affecting the big stolid Karl Hartmann and his lovely little Jewish wife and the other occupants of their apartment in the Austrian capital. ’ Hans and April are in love. It is a beautiful love, and they have sworn that no one in this world shall harm it or separate them. But this eager, radical daughter of an aristocratic English family and the blond, handsome, half-Jewish = boy of Vienna, whose flaming patriotism for Austria had won him an unenviable place on a certain secret police list, had reckoned without a certain “little man who was the big boss”’—one Adolph Hitler. Now the wife of a member of the British Parliament, the author is an American, who spent happy days of her childhood on an Indiana farm. Living for many years in Europe,

1 | the recipient of five distinguished

service medals during the Great War, she is eminently suited to pre-

‘| sent this period of undeclared war,

its insidious nameless terrors and the horrible predicament of the “stateless people” who knock at the closed doors of the world.

LAME VICTORY

By ANNA E. YOUNG She sits contentedly, it seems Weaving a world of beautiful “Unmin god almost that she doesn’t Fh w i fe The goodness of God, the gist of her talk, :

complacent

Before. her window each day she 1s ‘ placed | ' Do her chore and never once shirk And grasp the beavtly of God and Nature at work? ! DAILY THOUGHT

What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee —Psalms 56:3, -

A curities in our iron

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The Bil fo ' Regulafe = Me _ Bureaucratic Regulators Should ~~ Be Passed by ‘the -House—Now.

x 7 ASHINGTON, July 21.—When NRA went into effect, I didn’t hear any important complaints

many things that, since its destruction, have become law in other statutes—abolition of child labor, collective bargaining, a labor relations board, maximum hours and minimum wages and 8 wider attempt such as is now being made by the Federal Trade Commission to define unfair commercial practices. = = Put all these things together and—except for matters of method and procedure—what you have are all the shattered pieces of the Blue Eagle operating under judicial blessing in separate compartments instead of one agency. ; Dalle es My point here is not to defend NRA but only that the men who labored in or with NRA were conscious of no such illegality as was later unanimously found by the Supreme Court. I discussed NRA with some. of our greatest judges. There was much argument about wisdom

‘illegality. : : : Ts #8 Lp Er Se NRA plunged ahead. It was a national upheaval. It kept Washington hotels and Washington-bound. traifis crowded for mere than a year. It caused radi-

throughout our entire economic structure. That continued for almost two years and then “wham!” The whole system went out. like a light in a single day under a court decision. . va | I am not quarreling about that either. The point here is why was that system allowed to go on to such colossal results’ for nearly two years if it was utterly: illegal? It seems a monstrous result. If it could happen in NRA 1t could happen in plenty of other instances affecting the whole nation. : The answer is easy. It is because there has been a vast growth of big or little Federal bureaucratic dic-

bine all three powers in one authority. This is con-

-|‘trary to the first and fundamental principles of de-

mocracy. But in all this slap-dash unplanned growth there has been no effective provisio > te the regulator—to guide them and to profect the people. 1 » os 2 Ti

T is one of the most dangerous faults in our system. The Judiciary Committees of both the House and - the Senate have favorably reported and the Senate has passed Senator Logan’s bill as amended by Congressman Walter's bill. It would remedy that fault. It would require public hearing before the issue of any bureaucratic rule or protested action. After such a. rule or action, any person who could show injury by reason of its alleged illegality could take it immediately and by a simple, informal and economical process to a Federal court to determine—not its wisdom or its finding-of facts—but only whether it is within the limits of the bureau’s authority under the Constitution or the law of its creation. : Who could reasonably try to delay or obstruct that? Except as to detail—but not as to principle— only those who believe in government by men rather than government by law, as Hitler and Mussolini helieve—in a word, only radical fourth New Dealers. This is a deadly serious matter. That bill should be jarred loose .and passed by the House—now,

Aviation By Maj. Al Williams

Flying: a Plane Is Very * Much Like . Driving Your ° Automobile.

EW YORK, July 21—When you get down to V brass tacks, there's not an awful lot of difference in principle between driving an automobile and. flying an airplane safely. : z In either vehicle, you must first be sure the road is open and the space you want to occupy is not already filled to overflowing by someone else. Second, thle road itself must be safe. Third, the performance of your vehicle must be equal to the job you plan. Fourth, your handling of the engine and the controls must be sensitively accurate. : In driving a car and flying a plane the same sad results flow from not having planned what you want to do or should do. Few people seem {fo understand that machinery of this age merely relieves muscular burdens and /increases mental loads. the fastest horses in a motor-driven land vehicle consumes far less physical energy than walking, but nervous and mental energy burns at an amazing pace. Likewise flying an airplane, demanding less muscular strength than can be exerted by a normal child of 14, requires nervous and mental tenseness which evidences itself in a peculiar type of fatigue. In both types of self-propelled and personally guided transportation, the self-same failure to plan ahead stands out most prominently as the real cause of accidents.

‘Plane Helpless on the Ground

The motorist who turns right from the center of the road is not one whit more dangerous than the pilot who insists upon taxiing fast while on the ground.

or moving, it is. just about as helpless as a bird. In a heavy wind, for instance, the bird retracts Its wings, while the plane’s lifting surfaces are always exposed to the buffeting wind currents. Its controls are ineffective, and using them to correct the balance of the ship, as is normal in flight, offen re‘sults plane damage. = Many times, indeed, the use of controls on the grcund are directly opposite ta flight technique. TR Fe But show me the pilot who taxies fast, depending upon brakes for correct direction and the end of a runway, and I'll show you a pilot who never was and never will be an expert airman. If he doesn’t - | come to - grief -through the failure of brakes—and they do fail at times—the slam-bang psychology of ham-handed ground management eventually catches up with ‘him in some critical flight situation. : Keep away from the pilot who taxies fast. . Hell have his ‘ship upside down sooner Or later, and crack your bones in the bargain. :

Watching Your Health By Jane Stafford AE

HE human body is comprised of many organs developed by. Nature to day needs. Consider your eyes, for: exa You know of course that any WOrKI better job if the’ conditions are good not too long. It is so with your eyes. strain. , OF orming any ta

eyes for long perl your eyes. Too little light causes too bright a light, or glare, causes The eyes of some people These ple do not have Bento and cannot

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that it was illegal or unconstitutional. It-provided

and method but I recall none about

cal and far-reaching changes of method and opinion:

- | tatorships. They are necessary and unavoidable be- . | cause of the increasing perplexities of our national 1 life. They must operate under delegated powers of: | Congress, the courts and the executive. They com-

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When a plane is on. the ground, standing still

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