Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 November 1939 — Page 10

: Gen Johnson Says—

Constitutional Protection an Minorities to Face Test in Vote On Fantastic Ham-and-Eggs Plan.

EW YORK CITY, Nov. 6—We heard something not long ago about modern Lord Macaulays. That scholar thought that as long as we had free ‘| lands and . great undeveloped resources, we had nothing to fear but that, if we became industrialized and over-congested that then, under our system, any majority could vote any minority out of existence. We always recognized thesdanger that unbridled rule of any majority could be as dictatorial and tyrannical as any sultan. But we thought we had guarded against that in our Constitution. In California that safeguard is in serious question, If a majority can vote itself “thirty dollars. every Thursday,” it can vote the destruction of our whole system. If it can do :that, Lord Macauley is right and our Constitutién is “all sail end no anchor.” I think not. I believe that, no matter how the California state elections may" turn, the destructive, fantastical “ham and eggs” magic, will be declared unconstitutional by the courts.’ It provides that the State shall issue warrants for $30 a week to every person past middle age. 2 = = '

IF totals an annual burden that no community could stand. It would bankrupt any government, . | It would isolate the State of California in interstate | commerce because any merchant who accepted this -jchaff for goods sold couldn’t persuade any out-ofe state supplier to accept it for goods bought. It is clearly crazy.. But the.very essence of our federation of states is that, under our Constitution, only Congress can ’ . | coma money. This may not be technically an attempt of a state to coin money but, as a matter of fact, it is brazenly so. There is ‘another constitutional provision: “No state shall . . . coin money, emit bills of credit, make anything but gold or silver coin & tender in payment of debts. . The courts will probably konk the California hame and-egg magic even if the electorate doesn’t. The astonishing thing is the spectacle of a supposedly intelligent . community voting to destroy itself. In this case the proposed law has a Nazi dice tatorial angle which attempts to make an adminise

he do Times Fair rough : susiness Maoager| By Westbrook Pegler.

‘Possibilities. of Trouble ‘So Great]: Suspicion Exists Even Promoters of | Ham-and-Eggs Plan Fear, Victory. 0

os ANGELES, Nov. 6.— Notwithstanding the 4 frenzy of the suckers who have been seduced by promises of counterfeit money, there is reason to doubt that the promoters of the Ham-and-Eggs lunacy in | California really want to win at the polls tomorrow. Should they win, the ratkst Would pass into a new and really dangerous phase, “1° Their nominee for dictator, Roy G. Owens, author of a program of economic nihilism and late contributor of economic theories to the publications of Father Di-

PHONY MONEY EE ee legal a | wy IF the ham-and-egg scheme is voted wmoraweswhich the courts or the Governor. That is a possibility too |

California real for frivolous treatment by the worried and beGod forfend—our generation will see, in ornia, its wildered opponents of the madness, but it is also true

first actual display of how phony money operates. Under | that once Owens acquired these powers he would be

the law, acceptance of scrip would be compulsory for taxes, | in 8 Po dias of anes Begs

and in many other ways the act ‘would force ham ahd est movement contribute 1 cent a dsy, and the promoters i for h off | claim 350,000 members. Thus they probably have an | _ “currency” into circulation. The one hope eading Siaim 350, a ey probably have sn

the binge would lie in the courts, for there are constitutional poor, plus further amounts derived from special offerprovisions against any authority other than Congress issu- | ings for emergencies, such as their Liberty Bell fund.

ing money or fixing the value thereof. But if the Consti- x = =

’ aks HE Liberty Bell collection was an ‘emergency sactution didn’t stop it, the big drunk would be on if the rifice in the process of which the members were measure passes.

Idee tos Ik en DemeD Fie sem. : es : «=. | panied by contribu a ceiv em We who are now living haven't the actual experience in | co By Witle bell-shaped: brorze-pupér sickers. money inflation that we have in war. Our greatest assur- 3 The assosiales of Mx, Owens in His Nor of emanpation e one en, an Ve! man, “ance against getting into this war is that we got into one. who on Jan, 18, 1937, was fined $100 and placed on

< The memory is still fresh. The burned fingers still hurt. | probation for two years in the Federal Souet on his lea of nolo contendere to an ctmen arging The price is still visible, for we are still paying and paying pies of the malls in connection with the sale of a

and paying. hair restorer. In June of this year Mr. Allen appealed 3 fa ti to the court for permission to withdraw his plea and : Had we first gone through a printing-press inflation | so. 'Giemissal of the indictment, but was turned down.

eans, and such propositions as| Mr. Allen might prosper in the Ham-and-Eggs We. would know what it m : propa movement, but experience in the ‘racket to date has

that now before the California Voters wouldn't have a | gown that then, again, he mightn', for there have chance. But we haven't suffered.that one. So the hazard is | been many fallings-out among the astonishing and

. ever-churning company. So he and his comrades increased. have to consider that as long as Ham-and-Eggs re- = = = 5 8.8 trator superior to the courts and the whole democratic process and even take away the Figuis of labor,

mains a crusade it 2 thing of Hying beauty, but that . 5 . : : once it succeeds it pass into the ds of one man % : 2 ; Te A The best preventive against the ‘virus pay ui the who knows al about them and might not only throw |- SESE {It | NiPmszance, SRR: . SEER yn i —and if i ters in ifornia it will | them out but punish them for protes He would : SR ; ; ER OS STs Poms Bx , of a have power to do so under their own amendment. Fa : AT hi a ries ] 1= scheme will not stand sal ysis or debate on wis ~~ Spread— « % = i rr or point. . It is not only destructive of our whole - - : stem but it is self-defeating. The old Our forefathers knew about it, plenty. "The conti OREOVER, the spirit of the campaign has been soonomle, Sem but 1 is 2) fasten ne. bi

nental, which became the symbol of . worthlessness; the Shen = fo suggest | hat the Justa 9 = hi Tt won's listen to the obvious argument that it will i . . s. |S ca 0 run Cali- (| ruin their own children an e generous presen greenback, and the terrible struggle for resumption of Specie | toma, which still includes, some men and women who Hin herr. n_culdien Gn payment—they were earlier miseries™in our national life. | would be likely to resist confiscation of their property I once debated the Townsend Plan before an

. and suppression of their liberties. audience of grayheads in Boston with the ineffable Dust off the books and read about them. Or go back to In the event of a fight—and a fight is not unthink- Dr. Wunder. or won't stand debate. You can quickly,

France and the assignat. Look through the centuries and | able, even though people try to put the thought of it reduce it to an absurdity in terms anybody can undere away—they would not be leaders but would be lost in stand. That didn’t make a particle of difference, Dr,

you will find the fiscal infection recurring at rather fre- |. oon mob. The leadership doubtless then would Wunder’s argument was that, a century ago, radia

quent intervals. Ham-and-egg scrip "IS of the same origin. | pass into the hands of the Communists, who would seemed impossible. The aging audience rose at am d dri t dod welcome trouble at the outbreak of that revolution in . evangelist’s exhortation and, in tears of ecstacy, Gresham’s Law—that bad money drives ou g —i8 | which, as they hold, the capitalistic bourgeoise city of | cr.amg : a, marched under banners from the auditorium into an as immutable as the law of gravitation. It will work as| the United States may be overthrown, but without S IT'S UN-AMERICAN (Times: readers are invited |persuasion control its destiny. Most| cy night singing, “Onward Townsend Soldiers’— . Calif . . 19 4 0 . t di d . C 1 . al d h which it cannot be effectively challenged. TO TAKE TERRITORY of them, in fact, position and for- strongly enlisted in a new crusade. surely in ornia in asi in Colonial days when By W. H. Breunen

: fo Epos their Visws none gone, fled Russia in imminent] Try to get anybody to vote hat he shall not it took 5000 of Samuel Adams’ dollars to buy a pair of shoes It does look as if some of the| hese columns, religious con- | 1 ‘of losihg their lives as well, have $1560 a year out of the public tl | i and when creditors fled from debtors for fear of being paid. Bu Si ness writers suffer brainstorms, or some- avalsies Sica. Mats None ine i than, Spey. ig $ ; i thing. ‘your .ieiter short, so all. can ev. Of conve - Our trouble 15—We always have regarded a dollar as Boe try to defend Lindbergh, yet| on a chance. Letters must |ical opponents; not with | but lt Seems to Me a standard. Thirty-Thursday in our minds means 30 of the By JohnT. Flynn ever he failed to. miake sense. in. his with firing squads. © ° same dollars we are used to.

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Give Light and the People Wik Find Thetr Own way

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1939

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

be signed, but names will be withheld on. request.)

: War for U. S. Would f urge to go out for more territory. A great many people in ‘this By Heywood Broun Had we gone through what Germany did, for example, ar for U. S. Would Mean Loss of | Not many nations seem able to run, country hate Mr. Roosevelt and all wheh one could not carry enough marks fo buy a loaf of

. bread, we wouldn’t be enticed into trying any such repeti- . tion of the same old sad experiment that now lures so many Californians. Next to war and pestilence, phony money is mankind’s greatest curse. Inherent in long continued deficit financing is the possibility of its visiting us, Federally. More immediately, the danger is right now knocking at the gates of California.

RUSSIA AT BAY

Liberties as It Has in England.

EW YORK, Nov. 6—Americans who aré uneasy lest involvement in war may bring a serious curtailment of their liberties may he interested in the manner in which Englishmen are squirming under their own regulations. They are already pretty tight in England but the military bureaucrats want to make them tighter and Englishmen are asking if, while they are fighting for liberty of other peoples in other lands, hey may not be already in the way of ‘losing

By Te altations upon discussion, already severe, do not satisfy the war managers in England. Now it is proposed to prevent political propagandists from

| protect and defend what they have,

so it’s more than foolish for us to talk about taking more land unless urged to do so by the powers controlling it, because we are almost being drawn into war against this very thing. It’s un-American. The newspapers give poor service when they give space to foolish letters at this time, but perhaps it does sell papers. Even fo build up a fortune .seems at times risky when it is often taken by nations almost overnight. . Letters regarding taking territory are about the worst a newspaper

to accept such rot from anyone for

banker, tq exchange places for

can accept and they do not have

loween is the time for such a chance, whether it be for. beggar or

night,

If cities like New Orleans; Mem-

phis, New York and San Francisco can allow the mixing of the “classes” for one night of Mardi Gras, then we Hoosiers may take it that we do not ape the hinterland, but must allow ourselves to rémain our own Midwestern natural selves.

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his works. Now let us suppose, for the sake of illustration, that they feared and-hated him so much that they couldn't stand it any longer

aland decided to migrate to Canada,

where, naturally, they would settle in colonies close to the border. Then let us suppose that Mr. Roosevelt amassed great armies along the Canadian border and hurled defiance and insults at Ottawa, threatening immediate war unless Canada ceded these colonies to the U. 8. A. offering the bland excuse that he wanted all Americans to share the delights and orivileges of living in his Administration!

_ Danger Is Seen in Loose Speeches; Denies 'Furor' Over Flint Incident,

EW YORK, Nov. 6.—~Walter Lippmann argues, . and reasonably, I think, that Stalin has given up whatever earlier idea he may have had of destroye ing Hitler and is now intent. upon converting him, Or, if I may make a suggestion, he wants Der Fuehrer red and alive. Certainly a circumstantial case can be made out for this theory. Soviet spokesmen treat the’ Nagi ideology far more tenderly than 12 months ago, while the democracies and the democratic leaders now bear the full brunt of Communist contempt. The blame for the world’s tragic state is placed upon the head of Chamberlain, and already the left wing has put a kettle on the fire in which the reputation of Roosevelt will presently be scalded.

disseminating opinions. In other words, th : : ing op other words, there wil) Br Claude Beaddick. Kokomo Imagine that, if you can, and| : Browder is going around the bend, and he and his

T happens every time. It follows the Mark Twain formula for war build-up—“next the statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame on the nation that is attacked.”

attempting to influence public opinion either in England or elsewhere. This does not mean that public

be no political propaganda in Britain save that of the publication. government.

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Also the ministers want to prevent anyone from | DEFENDS HALLOWEEN

FETE ON CIRCLE By Pappy Gridley

Russia’s dictator, Josef Stalin, taking his cue from Hitler, attempts to justify his cowardly invasion of

you'll have something near the situation that existed this autumn when Josef Stalin extended his benevolent arm about the “white”

followers draw closer to the camp of the isolationists,

The New Masses hasn't even said & good word for

Thomas Jefferson in more than a month. As far as domestic politics go, this may make for classification, for Roosevelt never was & radical in any nice sense

Said Mussolini: “The bellicose and aggressive spirit de- | opinion in England and other countries shall not be eastern Poland by pointing to the| Russians of Poland.

veloped in Abyssinia . . . constitutes an immediate and Efluenced; bus that this shall be done only by the : Despiis He yalisht Sores 5 2 fact that most of the people living] Lew. : mm € ave hearts, saw e 0S : : direct menace to the Italian troops.” So with Austria, | The censorship on all publ ation: 1s sald not 10] of Halloween ride away the ae ut an sen. IN “LOVE NOTES" : : e sufficiently tight and so a more complete censors | ~. Te on ’ me : - Czechoslovakia, Poland. They were all about to jump down ship is sought. To cap all there is a demand | City of Indianapalis. It wasn’t the These, remember, are “White” Rus-|gy Liberal Worker. The fact that German newspapers are quot:

[3 ’ + o 2 chilling wind of the season, but 7 : ing Gen. Johnson on the front page: does npt:make : Hitler’s throat and he just had to act. for curfew laws. rather it was the chilling of a city sians; not Red ones. No doubt they| Russia made the mistake of ng in the slightest way subject to being called ‘pros

‘And now Finland is picking on Russia—according to a lave been shacked st the propos that was once noted for its friend- go love | Rissia} but 1t is squally ger-| whiting lave notes. io. the United Nazi. ‘Russia. If the break happens, Finland will be guilty of | event we become involved. There willbe curtailment liness and warmth of feeling. . . . ey want no part of it|Sfates last April. Any young suitor| = But I do think that, like Hitler, he has erred. iy on . P : z ppens, y of opinion, censorship, regulation of business, regula~' On a Street car I overheard, Jtwo| while sg hos 2437 Biers, sould have told Ye | v RS 8; R. that| micinterpreting certain sound |prciices in Americar itting Russia’s fist with Finland's eye ? i » * | cosmopolitans of the cinema ’in-|or whilé ‘men o s political | such missives ar : unce. | journalism. Now, the Gen: not precisely'a newse g 8 eye, gouging Finland’s | tion of labor and so on to ‘the last degree of regi Tens remark HOw ills oon to ; i ; pursalien Now, tie G 1s) of pasion En

groin into Russia’s knee, jabbing its fingers between Rys- | mentation. And Americans do not like this any |oine “ohviously dressed in costumes and when he wrote about the excitement which’

of the word. And some of the publicists who have been ‘most : bitter about fellow-travelers are now eJ which sound very similar to the editorials in the Daily

sia’s teeth and pulling Russia down on top of Finland’; all Tore than, Englishmen 40. preparatory to beating the tar out of Russia. Or as the Japs said— “Having landed on China’s soil we were met with aggression,” We can’{_refrain from re-telling the story of the two _ medical students who decided to play a joke on the bar-

A Little Foresight Necded

g0 to war.

avoid being a dictatorship for the period of the war are fooling themselves. We must win in a war and wikning a war means that all of the energies of the nation that make for w

they had spent many happy hours

in preparing, going downtown to indulge in such a childish practice

But the time to consider such things. is before we | a5 Halloween. A man sitting in the

seat behind me remarked to a com-

Americans who think we can go to war and yet | panion that he hoped this was the

last year of such gatherings on the nument cle. A remark sug-} perhaps by sour eminent] ‘must be mobilized and | Chief of Police, who gave one of the all the energies which inte ere with winning must be | same tenor to the press for pubI lication.

New Books at the Library

HE author:of “Children of God” (Harper), winner of the Harper prize novel award for 1939, is

the descendant of men and women of the Mormon faith. Vardis Fisher

For years he has been collecting the material for this book, which is the epic of the heroic, tragic, and occasionally amusing struggle of the Mormons to win the right to live unmolested in their own faith.

being kicked up over the case of the City of Flint I think a fair rejoiner might have been, “What excites

ment?” Ex Curiosity, Not Excitement , I am not aware that the American Government

‘made any official protest about the capture of the

Flint. The diplomatic problem was the right of Rus« sia, as a technically neutral country, to harbor the prize. The State Department’s sole con seemed tal lie in a pardonable curiosity as to the fate of the crew, As far as the general public goes, I think Johnson

tender. They dressed up a corpse and between them guided was born during ‘the period when| "geoinning with the visions of 14-

it down the street and into the bar. Ordering three drinks |~ we cannot have armies fightin oF ‘ . g on the field and | Every man and woman, no mat-|the Mormon h, after the speaking onal - they drank theirs and pointed to their “friend,” who was people 54 Boine out, the wey, Say Should ter a the age and if he or she|death of De ar Tone was ‘rap- yestola, Jaceph Seib this Sy i# wholly Ilias min that the es ublle is: apparently very drunk, as the one to pay and walked away. | how much money should be spent. vis ie She. Beast, hss 30 any glsmieen Bling Sek the mos. tory. It Shows, the birth of fhe extremely solid and united in its opposition to our ~The bartender, observing no indication of cash forth- |, RE os cir Te a "Rms fees th the nk St Mhasion, Hale i ublic opini Stacks, and in a hen A By were PR ere. I8 real danger in the loose coming, reached ov i he | th neal Ye 9 FA Bublic opinion: many, when the rivalry belween| go ceches and ‘articles of any who profess to believe 2, over and tapped the third party on the | the almost limmediate loss of our liberties for the these “sects was bitter, and when that the President is about to send American boys to

: : riod of the war. You can scream and wring your shoulder. Getting no response he picked up a bung starter | Bands spout the Gl Ge men’s dealings with one another do tend to put ! military bureaucrats in Washington Nn ——— en die ip foreign fields. Such utterances do p ~ and lightly cracked the “customer” on the head. Whereupon | as much as you please, but that is what you must face. Side d ces By a brai : th were often outside the law and un-| orroneous and harmful ideas in the heads of Stat

struggles of this band of “Saints.” N ~ killed our chum.” great migrations of thousands of By, J an e Stafford Of one thing you ma be c oo thing y y ertain if Russia invades to form and shape, color and direct my nature to the .Utah desert, where ‘they days and it is to be hoped that the daddies Who, fault. her I owe-more .than it is possible to put into words, . lus a superb portrait of Brigham her the tularemia danger that may lurk beneath that she was and not because of anything she said or did.” through the terrible sufferings of pride, that this country’s maternal and infant mortality | lite story, “Flowing Stream,” and I think they describe showing as it does the mixture of | germ, called the bacterium tularense. Pht got 1 ah £2 and earthy “horse sense” is an epi-| limited to that region. {a decline of 23 per cent in maternity deaths since 1937. And | life's insistent demands seem to carry us away from of tury ‘American democracy. ‘wild animals have been found infected with the tula= ~ alive were doomed to die before they were a year old, that | God's sunshine and the perfume of flowers and other ‘By DANIEL FRANCIS CLANCY humans by way of an insect This is progress in the best sense. Would that it had | We hurry forward into full maturity we are likely to “The wind | from sniutale als to. mans by he h : RX { ; ’ 1 ; 1 SB 4 i : : sons who influenced our lives for good. i : : : air | : + GORDON SELFRIDGE, British department- - » p store mag- | before been incomprehensible. And so, for the first | or caught than healthy ones, but hunters who are takes half the income and a surtax the other half ?” In many cases this feeling comes long after they * wisdom, and the man we should recognize response | ,,° ob rl te a ao of ane human heart to. the fine disinterested affection Just because you're ‘mad-at me is dn’t like. * “of another. 4 > wid . ‘ho '

The sky Reet lights a

| te red by tolerance. ~ the dead man fell flat on the barroom floor. The two stu- | “Taras FY Dations-in both warring camps. led by Joseph Smith—himself an hi | h: d our d uncertain mizture of Mdealiam and Wate ing Your Hea t Well, answered the bartender, “he pulled a knife | By Mrs. Walter Ferguson ; these persecuted families to Ohio, ~ Finland it will be a case of self-defense, and all Finland’s | 2, life, the Wisest and strongest and deepest. and found the “Promised Land, only 10 1 <u, S00 800" ne Gnd nursery rhyme, “get a: little because the influence flowed in upon me so often in| | : 4 Ae \ £ > Es f) | Young, whose ceaseless watchfulness rabbit skin.’ ~ MOTHERS AND BABIES ; : These words were written by Florence Finch Kelley, those years. ailment that kills about one out of Srey 20 ors: rates fell to new low marks in the first half of 1939. Lay Fi8, J691T/G5 1iet of 1s avs bw out a EE ir am eB wi tome of the extravagant and con-| The wild animals which most frequent] eater them. Their presence, while precious, is something remia germs. You can get the sickness by handling ET rate has fallen to 50. beautiful ‘gifts of nature. Momentarily we may be been matched with equal progress in ‘making ihis a better seem less conscious of their help and love. Now arid then : woman. The deer fly and certain kin “of ti - animal. Sweetly, subtly their influence flows about us as} The prevention of tularemia is almost It vig soundless. nate visiting his native United States, asks: “What is | time in life, we actually appreciate and love our out for food as well as sport should be on guard about have folded their hands in everlasting sleep—but it| | : : a ; ou ; Ne understanding. —Proverbs 3:3.

: ‘ Vardis Fisher - relates: the early ~ dents dashed in, leaned over and cried, “My God, you've A WwW of . .o omans Viewpoint earthly appetite; and, later, the on me.” : : : : F all the influences of environment which helped. to Missouri, to Tlinois, and finally H ate OB the. w ods ath a field these BE A yy er, lose it to their enemies. Xe SIVeS| abbit skin to wrap the baby bunting in” will remem EE os Jus tha human and indomitable spirit brought them | ™25 is disease, also known as rabbit fever, is a serfous aT lic Health Service announces, with justifiable famous newspaperwoman, in her recently published His long, rambling narrative,| who get it. The disease is, caused, by of these people, of spiritual striving | discovered by Scientists, but this germ .is by fio . Only four mothers died for every 1000 babies born alive, | In infancy they are all our world. As we grow older ; 3 tradictory nature of nineteenth cen-| from tularemia are rabbits, but many other * whereas, 15 years ago, 74 out of every 1000 .babies born | we take for granted as we accept without question EARLY W INTER / NIGHT the carcass of the infected animal or by aiisg moved with feelings of reverence and gratitude, but as It is only after we become mature ourselves that we : | world for mothers and babies to live in. - Moves the dry leaves the most common insect carriers of tularemia, | noiseless as air, and as penetrating. We remember | ee rie the most x mothers as they deserve to be loved and appreciated, it DAILY THOU GHT Fai hac are Itis _ At least this difference, if it is as bad as all that: Mr. is none the less important fo our. own. Well being that

undercooked flesh, ‘Indirectly, the disease. can appreciate the worth of those sane and noble per- Along the gusty streets most cases, people get tularemia Aifeetly from th ONE DIFFERENCE long forgotten things; we understand that which had Service points out. Sick rabbits are more fe difference between communism and a society where a | they are deserving at ail Happy is the man gettett ge under communism would not be permitted to say it for what it is; the