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- op RILEY 5551 s: Nd Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way - Ys “UP FROM THE RANKS TL | - N INETEEN years ago when the first Indianapolis Com- : munity Fund drive was conducted one of the young men “beating the pavements” was Perry W. Lesh. ; © YEvery year since then Perry Lesh has been doing his bit. He became a team captain, then the chairman of the * large industrial division, later co-chairman of the drive ~sjtself. It has just been announced that Mr. Lesh will serve "this year as general chairman of the fund-raising campaign. Jt goes without saying that the campaign will be in
THURSDAY, AUGUST 3, 1939
“expert hands. :
UPTO BUSINESS aba “XA7HEN Congress tossed the big spend-lend bill out the ~~ window, it flung a major challenge to private business .. enterprise. Or perhaps it would be more accurate to say “that Congress accepted a challenge which business has re- " peatedly tendered. ; ¥; Again and again, as the New Deal formula of pump°7 priming-for-prosperity “has been tried—and as often has +~ failed—business spokesmen have contended that private __industry could not return to normal functioning until it had . some evidence that the policy was abating. To 3 Give us, said the captains of industry and finance and '. their Chambers of Commerce and manufacturers’ associa‘tions, some assurance that the Government has abandoned “the fallacy of deficits-for-recovery! Give us, they said, some proof positive that those in power at Washington have “resolutely turned their backs on the spending philosophy, rand have started on the hard road toward a balanced '. budget! | Do that, said these business spokesmen, and then we'll ¥ demonstrate how the driying force of private investment can take hold and create real jobs at real wages. : We believe business now has the assurance for which it has waited. Congress has spoken decisively and em““phatically. And Congress is once more the power in Washington. It dramatically refused the spend-lend scheme that the President said would give jobs to 500,000 men, because it believed that it thereby would encourage private investors and enterpreneurs to use idle money to create better jobs for a great many more hundreds of thousands of _ idle men. Congress will return in January and ask how business is delivering on its promise.
STUBBORN—AT YOUR EXPENSE *~TOUR stubborn Senators are blocking action that would save American wage-earners and employers from a. “wholly ‘unnecessary tax burden of $275,000,000 in 1940. * The increase of that amount in. payroll taxes for old“age insurance, now scheduled for Jan. 1, should be post--~poned. The Social Security Board, the Treasury, the Senate and the House have all agreed on that. They also have agreed that more liberal social security benefits should be extended to hundreds of thousands of persons in the present program, and that a million-odd more workers now excluded should be covered. : But, with Congress on the edge of adjournment, amendments to write these desirable changes into law are bottled up_jn a Senate-House Conference Committee because four of the seven Senate members of that committee. insist on another change to which the House members do __not, and should not, agree. This is Senator Connally’s amendment to alter the _ system by which the states and the Federal Government ““now share 50-50 in the cost of old-age pensions. It would make the Federal contribution $2 for each $1 provided by "a state up to a pension of $15 a month, with equal matching above that amount. It would cost the Federal Treasury “at least $80,000,000 a year, and it would encourage the * dangerous tendency of the states to shift their burdens ~+onto Uncle Sam’s overloaded shoulders. : > The Senators on the conference committee are Harri- '- son of Missisippi, Connally of Texas, George of Georgia, La Follette of Wisconsin, Walsh of Massachusetts, King of | Utah and Capper of Kansas. The last three voted against the Connally amendment when the Senate passed it, 43 to 35. You'll have to make your own guess as to which four are now standing firmly for that amendment.
| IT’S THE HATCH ACT NOW > THE Hatch Bill is now law. It was a long, uphill fight, the success of which reflects great credit on many men in Washington. : 3 President Roosevelt claimed the legislation as his own <= baby, saying its genesis was in his message of last Jan. 30 5 urging Congressional action to penalize improper political i. practices. Actually, its origin lay further back—even back beyond Thomas L. Stokes’ dispatches revealing WPA election scandals in Kentucky. The President’s part in the ac- + complishment is also marred by the fact that some of his « followers tried to anesthetize the bill in Congress. But the fact remains that he did sign the bill, despite his distrust of some of its provisions. History will record . that thi§ great reform was achieved in his Agministration. 3. There is plenty of credit to go around. "The greatest “credit, however, goes to that small band of lawmakers led Ji’by Senator Hatch and Rep. Dempsey, who fought valiantly “to lift democracy out of the muck, with no apparent thought “7 of what party happened to be in power or might be coming into power. We can’t omit mention of Senators Austin and {--Sheppard, who helped draft the bill—especially the latter
:* for his courageous campaign investigation of 1938—and s*:Genator Norris and Rep, Joe Martin. Ty er “* But the part of the President’s sthtement that most inpiterests us is that which asks: Where do we go from here? “Pointing out that “the bill does not in any way gover "the multitude of state and local employees who greatly out- { number Federal employees,” he suggests that Congress study additional legislation to restrict the participation of i such persons in Federal elections. : 1 Senator Hatch says he will undertake this assignment next year: “It is to be hoped that meanwhile state legisla:
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Fair Enough . By Westbrook Pegler
U. S. Action in Louisiana Justified
But lt Again Bares Ineptness of |. : "States to Enforce Their Own Laws.|.
YEW YORK, Aug. 3—The Federal Government's
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Orleans corruption jobs may be approved .only with Er 2
reservations and regrets, because it must be observed
that the thieves are snared by trick Federal laws and |
that the state governments, which have the real duty of prosecuting them, don’t. : In Louisiana, it is true, the some indictments, and it may > 18 serious intention to go down the line with them, but that is hard to believe. The state government itself, through important members of its personnel, has been an accessory to their crimes, and there is reason to suspect that these actions against individuals who were powerful in state politics are intended only to beat the Federals to the punch. : The state government is so corrupt that it cannot be trusted to do a thorough job. Evidence can disappear, witnesses can forget, go away or change their stories under threats of reprisal through taxes or even blackjacks sad, of course, the Louisiana courts are no better than the machine of which they are a part, which is awful. ss a = HAT almost puts it up to the Pederal .Government, as receiver, to prosecute these people under any laws which can be stretched. or twisted to cover their crimes. But that kind of doing doesn’t increase the popular respect for law or for the ‘Federal Government. : The income tax law was intended to serve a stated purpose, but it wasn't intended to punish men for grafting or embezzlement. There are state laws for that purpose, but in Missouri the state government passed up its responsibility, and the Federals went in and got Tom Pendergast for failure to schedule money which he had received illegally. In a fine sense he actually was punished for violation of the income tax law, but everybody knows that he, like Al Capone, which were the state’s own business, and that the state of Missouri, like the state of Illinois, was Content to let the Department of Justice do a task which was properly local. : ; In Louisiana, technically, certain defendants may have been guilty of using the mails to defraud, but the fraud itself, rather than the incidental use of the mails in one small detail of the transaction, was the important offense. > ” 2 2
HE public isn’t allowed to know much about the proceedings in the Federal investigation in Louisiana just now, and it must be hoped that those Federal authorities, who are themselves members of a political group with interests at stake, have noble motives for the-imposition of a censorship. If the states—and this makes three of them up to now, Missouri, Illinois and Louisiana—are too corrupt or flabby to apply their own laws to crime in their local affairs, that not only means that they are fixing to toss back their charters and lean their helpless weight on the Federal Government, but that they are willing to stand for anything until the Government can rig up a technical case of illegal
parking by a Federal letterbox to catch a man who
has been violating every law on the books. It means that they are morally bankrupt and want to become wards of a Federal Government which, after all, has its weak and human moments itself.
Business . By John T. Flynn
U. S. Taxpayers Work Many Days For Government but Don't Realize It.
EW YORK, Aug. 3.—Gen. Franco has adopted a neat little trick of levying upon every citizen or subject or victim, whatever you wish to call the people of Spain, two weeks’ work each year. That is, the citizen must knock off from his ordinary occupation and devote two weeks’ work in the service of the Government. He can, however, buy these two weeks back from the Government by paying to it the sum he earns in those two weeks. A worker earning $10 a week could either go into the service of the Government or hand over to it $20 and stick at his job. . There is in this incident a subject of thought for the American. Suppose that here the Government gave us all the privilege, instead of paying taxes, of leaving our jobs and working for the Government, how many days would we have to work ? The answer to that will astonish the American who is sympathizing today with the people of Spain. The Twentieth Century Fund reports that the average American workman who earns a thousand dollars a year pays out in taxes $123.30 to the Federal, State and local Governments. That makes 12.3 per cent. Assuming there are 255 working days in the year—which would certainly not be below the average—this means that the thousand-dollar a year man is working 28 working days in the year for the Government. There are cases where a salaried worker pays as high as 18 per cent of his earnings to the Government, which means he works 50 days for the Government—50 working days. A Disagreeable Topic If we had a law in which the total contribution of a citizen to Government costs were estimated in terms of so many days’ earnings, the Government would have a little difficulty squeezing so much out of him. "If he started in on Jan. 1, and then, on Feb. 1, realized that he had not yet earned anything for himself, but that all of his earnings of that month
belonged to the Government and that he would have"
to work from another week to a month more before he began to have anything for himself, he would be a very scrutinizing taxpayer instead of the flabby, compliant soul he is now. This subject of taxes is a very cisagreeable one to certain liberals now in power. Only the rich are supposed to kick about taxes. A bleat about taxes is supposed to be made only in thes interest of the economic royalists. But if the public will remember that the great bulk of the taxes are paid by working people and that taxes are their burden, we would begin to make some sense out of this tax problem.
A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson
HE one thing men cannot forgive in a woman is strength. This is only a- little less true today than it was when maidens were the seduced, instead of the seducers. Long before women’s rights had been heard of, the smart girl knew that the male’s chief glory was his strength and, even though the clinging vine often held up her sturdy oak, you can bet your bottom dollar the oak didn’t think so. Once more this topic is apropos, for next to warmonging, the most disturbing comments we now read are those which insist that if women become independent, men will grow correspondingly weak and incompetent. That seems to me a very unflattering thing to say about men, yet it must be partially true or we would not hear it so often. : And, if it is true, doesn’t it strike you that some Srastie changes should be mdde in masculine educaon Why in the name of common sense should men batten on women’s weakness? Why, in a world where male and female have always shared equally in the responsibility of family support, should modern man be expected to bear the whole economic burden of his household? And what rules of biological logic do we follow when we insist that feminine nitwits can bear and rear smart, husky male children? If men are so weak they cannot endure marriage with wives of intelligence and talent, then it’s the men who ought to be made over—not the women. Strength has always been a necessary human trait, and it looks now as if we could use additional brain
power. Does it really matter whether these qualities
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‘THURSDAY, AUG. 3, 1939
Gen. Johnson
‘Labor Board Must Shere Blame ° For Cleveland Riots in Failure To Act on G. M.'s Petition,
ASHING'TON, Aug. 3—The. rioting in Cleveland ¥ is not the result of &n industrial dispute. What we have here is an outgrowth of a labor dis - pute. The employer, the General Motors Corp. long ago bowed to the requirements of the Wagner Labor Relations Act. ' It made a contract with the United Automobile Workers which the union accepted. The union seemed ‘satisfied with General Motors. But it soon: became apparent that it was not satisfied with itself. fn us wal 0 ert Its, president, Homer Martin, with one group of ,. began leaning toward Mr. Green’s z F of L. Another element among the workers preferred
Mr. Lewis’ C. I. O. On Jan. 8; 1939, the president of the latter faction, E. J. Thomas, who himself had
signed the resolutions of the union of Sept. 16, 1837, which were the basis of a settlement, presented himself as the authorized agent of the union to conduct negotiations for a new agreement. At the same time Homer Martin made a similar demand. . 5 [ ; FE 3 F it was not clear then, it has become certain since that each of these leaders represented very subse stantial groups of workers. Each insisted on exclusive representation of all workers. The company had no guide as to how to comply with the law as to any
| particular plant or group of plants. It is forbidden | to favor any union or any group. There is only one
way in which that question can be peacefully settled, That way is, for the National Labor Relations Board,
| either with or without an election, to decide which is - | the exclusive bargaining agency in any plants in || which there is a dispute on that point. :
Accordingly, on July 1, 1939, the corporation peti
| tioned the board to investigate and make such a des
cision. Earlier in the year it could not have done that because, in defiance of the terms of the law of its creation, the board had decided that it would func
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. : : ° The Hoosier Forum I wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.
AGREES WITH DEFINITION OF COMMUNISM By M. H. Having followed the battle of wits in your Hoosier Forum for some time, I think one Mr. H. W. Shea should be given a big hand for having directed those interested Lo the dictionary for the definition of “communism.” : - As I understand its meaning, 1 find we have such a system already in operation within our own city. I am patiently awaiting Mr. Maddox's answer to Mr. Shea’s latest article. It seemed to deserve a good one, as Mr. Shea gave Mr. Maddox plenty of material to think on.
2 & 8 EXPLAINS DEPARTMENT'S ATTITUDE ON ORPHANS
By Mrs. Thelma Jackson, Marion County Child Welfare Division Worker Every child needs his own home. He needs the security which his own home can give him. He needs the feeling of belonging. The Marjon County Department of Public Welfare believes that every child has the right to grow up in a family with an adequate standard of living and the security of a stable income as a safeguard against crime and delinquency. It was found that many children living in the Colored Orphans Home had parents or other relatives with whom they could live. Whenever possible these children were returned to their own home or to the home of relatives. Some of ‘the
children should never have been in an orphanage. No child should be removed from his own home because of poverty alone — where needed assistance is being given for these children in their own home or in the home of relatives.
It is true that some of these. homes are not modern. The children, however, are,continuing under supervision of the Marion County Department of Public Welfare and it is hoped that with financial assistance, encouragement and guidance, they will grow up into useful citizens. We believe that something is gained in preserving family ties and in securing for every child a home and that love and
(Times readers: are invited to express their views in these columns, religious controversies excluded. Make your letter short, so ail can have a chance. Letters must be signed, -but names will be withheld on request.)
h : \ security which a home provides. Foster home care has been provided for those children who need care outside their own ‘home or immediate family group. The Marion County Department of Public Welfare has been placing children in foster homes for more than two years with satisfactory results. It is our aim to meet the. needs of every child and every facility will be provided for the children under the care of our department. ” 2 8 LINKS WORKERS’ ALLIANCE TO THE COMMUNISTS By An Awake Citizen of U. S. Mr. Charles E. Black admits in his defense of the Workers’ Alliance that he is a member of this organization. Assuming that he does not know it, I wish to inform him and others who are uninformed that the Workers’ Alliance is Communism’s favorite child. Eleven members of the national board of the Workers’ Alliance are Communist Party members in standing. Herbert Benjamin, an admitted Communist, is “the boss” of the Workers’ Alliance. Quoting Mr. Benjamin in the April, 1936,
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issue of the Communist, the party magazine, we read: ; “We state to all workers that the National Government, the city and state governments, are their enemies. . . . Line up in the battle against the enemy class. . . . When you strike a blow, make the enemy stagger.” : Any man who belongs to the Workers’ Alliance and knows its aim ig a “rotter” and should be excluded. from all relief of any shape or form. These individuals do not deserve the liberty and protection of our form of government. It is time that the good American citizens who indirectly support the Workers’ Alliance by taxes awake. and see the “cancer of liberty” that they are supporting. . ” ” ” CHUCK HOLES CALLED BIG AS WASHTUBS By a Daily Reader : Please see if anything can b done about the chuck holes in Talbott St. between 16th and 22d Sts. Some of the holes are large as a washtub. Also, why are trackless trolleys allowed to stand in the middle of the intersection at -22d and Pennsylvania Sts.?
Editor's Note—City Engineer M.
good | G. Johnson reports that his office’
is conducting an investigation of this complaint and that a report
will be made to the Safety Board at its meeting next Tuesday.
New Books at the Library
PprEIEY and the inspired flame of genius which creates it are beautifully analyzed and interpreted through the words of poets themselves, in “The Poet’s Work” (Oxford University Press). John Holmes, the compiler, believes firmly in this book and its power to ‘“exhilarate the creative mind, to lift and enlarge the vision.” 3
To the reader who loves poetry for its lyrical expression of imagination
J
Side Glances—By Galbraith
and emotions, and to the young poet “who is smart enough to wish to live to be a great poet,” this slender volume should be a gold mine of retsplendent thoughts, exquisitely presented in rhythm and prose, by enduring poets of centuries ago and today. / Eo The poet’s difficulties, apart from the difficult art of writing, are many; ’ frequently misunderstood by the public, poorly paid, he must be, as one poet observed, “physically and temperamentally tough to succeed.” “Power to express the passion of the individual heart” through the pace and color of words is the poet’s sublime achievement; he learns, as John Donne said, “to batter the heart . . . to storm the imagination ... . with the surf, the rising gale and the stormy sky of language.” Here are brief quotgtions from Kipling, Sterne, Chaucer, Robert Frost, Coleridge, Shakespeare, Virginia Wolf, John Keats, D. H. Law-
“|rence and others, about the poet's
needs, his nature, knowledge and compensations. He who matches his love of poetry with a thorough understanding of it and the white magic which gives it birth, will, the compiler says, enrich his life “with the materials, eternal and yet fleeting, of the art of being alive upon the earth.”
TIME IS LON By KEN HUGHES
Life is a lusty song With golden heart— Bach must synchronize A singing part.
To find the heart's arid lyric’s dominant : : Beyond the
years, Seek where time beats out The melody of tears!
DAILY THOUGHT And the Lord said unto Moses, They shall offer their offering, each prince on his day, for the of the altar. —Numbers
| dedicating
tion only at the request of workers and never at the
| petition of an employer. That arbitrary, illegal and
unfair ruling raised such a howl of protest that tha board amended its self-declared law and decided that it would receive employer petitions—thereby convict ing itself of an earlier perversion of the act. I
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T= Board has taken no action and the strikes and riotings are on—a battle to a knockout—not primarily between the company and its employees, but between two rival unions. Why don’t the unions seek a peaceful settlement by an impartial election? Because, just like the company, neither is sure which side has a majority. If either were certain, naturally it would ask for an election instantly. The. aggressor group, in this case the = I. O, prefers to use force to intimidate its rivals. reid _ Why doesn’t the Labor Board perform the- duty to fairness and the public which was laid upon it by Congress? Isn't it fair to suspect that it does not do so because it approves and encourages such tactics or would prefer to suffer them rather than risk the disfavor of either group of labor—regardless of justice and impartiality? : This Board is to be investigated by a committee of Congress. It doesn’t rieed much investigation. It has so smeared itself with stuff like this that it-has lost the confidence of the country.
Aviation By Maj. Al Williams .
Politicians Hampering Task of Hard-Working Civil Air Authority.
ASHINGTON, Aug. 3.-—In the very early days of aviation, you could fly any kind of crate you liked, any way you liked. - A few able air leaders, noticeably not politicos,” ° stand out in the long succession of years since the Government first tried to regulate the use of the air for traffic. The present Civil Air Authority has had a hard time since. It’s never allowed to hope that its trial season is over. Just about the time it gets set, along comes another horde of poiitical barbarians, riding hard, spears held low and still dripping, who will, if they can, junk the CAA and turn the wreck back into the Department of Commerce. a The total personnel of the CAA is only 3282 em ployees. The airlines alone employ 13,500. With that small force of 3282 people, here’s what the CAA has to do. It regulates some 20 to 25 airlines, and will soon have about 15 more on its hands. It regulates the operations of 1527 charter and fixed-base airplane operators, whose total business in passengers and freight carried equals the total business of the aire ‘lines. : : :
‘Regulates Air Schools
It also supervises and regulates 153 certificated airplane and engine repair bases, 33 certificated aviae tion schools and about 100 aircraft manufacturers, and it holds in line the standards 6f some 1700 addi tional firms which manufacture aviation equipment. There are 10,724 licensed civil aircraft and an addi-
tional 1047 unlicensed planes whose airworthiness
must be constantly checked. Then, too, there’s a batch of glider planes and pilots for which the CAA is responsible, The licensing and regulation of 62,328 pilots in this country, plus the 15,000 to be trained une der the air expansion plan, all come under the CAA. There are also 10,005 licensed aviation mechanics and 1021 parachute riggers, ground - instructors, traffio control tower operators and dispatchers who can be examined and licensed only by the CAA. The CAA is charged with the responsibility cf ° maintaining, 24 hours a day, 24,249 miles of lighted, radio-controlled airways. In addition, it is responsible for the maintenance of 34,334 miles of teletype= writer service, with 333 ground stations, 1803 revolving beacon lights, and 273 lighted emergency flelds.
(Heywood Broun Is on Vacation.)
Watching Your Health
By Jane Stafford
REET scientific investigations suggest that the warming time of an individual is an index “of his resistance to infectious or germ disease. If it is short, he is probably in good shape to withstand germ invasion. od vi Chal It has been recognized for a long time that after a plunge into very cold water some people come out with a warm glow, while others come out feeling chilly and do not warm up again so quickly. - 2 : The scientific investigations which Dr. Arthur Locke of Pittsburgh has been making on warming i time show its relation to resistance. He has determined a rabbit’s fitness, so far as resistance to germs goes, by measuring the number of minutes it ‘takes for the animal’s body temperature to make a three-degree rise after chilling. Rabbits that warmed slowly after the chilling, he found, had a low-grade resistance ‘o
| virulent Type I pneumonia germs, as compared -to
normal rabbits. $e Fitness as measured this way, Dr. Locke believes, is .a factor of resistance to the extent that it reflects an adequate capacity for sustaining circulation of the blood. Commenting on Dr. Locke's work, the editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association says that “at least one of the factors in the increased resistance of physically well persons fo infection lies in the capacity to maintain an improved circulation.” Exercise has long been recommended for improving and maintaining good circulation of the blood. The force of the heart beat is the main factor in the move- +» ment of blood through the body, but other muscular ‘movements aid more or less in maintaining it. Most important of the muscular movements in this respect are those made in breathing and those in which muscles of legs, arms and intérnal organs are contracted. The breathing movements force blood from
me large veins of abdomen ‘and neck into the