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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1930

ON CONGRATULATING HITLER ~ FIVE nights and a day have passed since the beer-hall ~ blowup and no word has gone out from our State Department felicitating Hitler on the fact that he wasn't bumped off. And it’s so late now that any message could be nothing more than awkward. « ] This is being viewed in certain centers friendly to Der Fuehrer as a rude ripping of the diplomatic plush. The Fascist editor of La Tribuna in Rome, for example, expresses himaelf as being overcome with “a sense of acute stupor” at the negligence. For it seems that custom insists on applause by all “friendly” governments, regardless, when the head of any other sovereignty is lucky enough to'score ‘a NArrow escape. . : A very nice question is involved. How far should formality go as between nations or individuals, notwithstanding what said nations and individuals really feel and “think? As a general proposition, convention demands that one should always speak well of the dead and congratulate the quick, no matter how much you have to twist your tongue into your cheek in order to do it. \ ; But, at the risk of being a bit unconventional ourselves, we must confess that we find a definitely refreshing quality in the rugged though perhaps uncouth honesty of the State Department's silence. :

HOW’S HE DOING NOW, STEVE? TWO weeks ago Henry Wallace made a pro-third-term statement at San Francisco. He was promptly ‘and publicly bawled out by White House Secretary Early, who said the statement “could have been better timed, if it had ’ to be timed at all.” That was during the neutrality debate and the “adjournment of politics,” so there was something in what Mr. Early said. : But now, undismayed by Mr. Early’s strictures, Mr. Wallace has said he is still of the same mind. And this time thé neutrality debate is over—save for the unexpected _ post mortem forced by that too clever ship trick—and it is fairly obvious that politics is no longer in recess. ~The Secretary of Agriculture, and other New Dealers “who hae wi’ Wallace bled,” must be eager to learn what’ Mr. Early thinks now about his timing.

VICTORY

THE lowly pedestrian has won at least a moral victory in the ruling of a New York appellate court that one who starts across a street with the green signal in his favor - has the right-of-way until he reachés the other side, even though the traffic lights change in the meantime. Any victory for the pedestrian, these days, is unusual and welcome. Yet those who travel on foot might do well not to place too much reliance in this decision. True,. if some impetuous driver steps on the, gas and knocks you off in mid-passage you are entitled to sue him for damages, as the court holds. But having the right-of-way is one Shine, while getting safely across the street is quite another. It was, as we recall, Pédestrian Peter Jay who died de- ~ fending his right-of-way; who, though he was right as he walked along, is now just as dead as if he'd been wrong. As a matter of fact, our theory is that the pedestrian should always have priority over other traffic. We base it on the simple proposition that legs were made before wheels. The trouble with that theory, we've concluded after several narrow escapes, is that our legs weren't.

‘ECCLES, TAXES AND DEFENSE (OQ VERWHELMING sentiment for building up the Army, the Navy and the Air Force, revealed by the Gallup Poll and other tests of opinion, will bring action in the coming Congress . How to pay for increased defenses is the ques-. tion. We are glad to hear Chairman Marriner Eccles of the Federal Reserve Board contending that they should be financed not by borrowing but by increased revenues. He proposes to broaden the income tax base, raise middlebracket rates, take a share of any war profits and at the same time reduce the hidden consumer taxes. . Mr. Eccles’ prominence in the Administration gives his proposal significance, But, true to his famous spending theory, Mr. Eccles rejects the idea of economies elsewhere in the Government, especially in farm relief and work relief. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, on the other hand, advocating a longrange tax program to encourage increased business activity as “the only dependable, permanent source of increased revenue,” bears down on the need for reducing expenditures " but says nothing as to broadening the income-tax base. The country certainly wants adequate defenses, but itdoes not want hog-wild spending even for that purpose. It is encouraging, therefore, to find the President's budget _ director, Harold D. Smith, appealing for “common sense” in resisting extravagant defense expenditures. And, as Senator George W. Norris says, proposed defense appropriations should be éxamined minutely by Congress, to make certain that hasty plans do not involve waste. To Indeed, this is the time for minute examination of - évery proposed appropriation, for whatever purpose. The objective should be to pay for expanded defense without increasing the total of Government spending. And one great “merit of the Eccles proposals is that, if adopted, they would automatically increase public demand for economies throughout the Government. | Only about 5 per cent of the voters pay income taxes now. But if the invisible taxes which bear heavily on all voters were reduced or repealed, and if instead the pocket

nerves of many more citizens were touched directly by in- |

come lévies, there would be an immediate upsurge of terest in reducing Gavernment spending. Then at last there might be real progress toward putting Government finances on that sound basis which, after § as essential as battleships and planes. to real nati

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J \URTHER to dispel the impression of Mr.

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By Westbrook Pegler

Treasury Not Above Chiseling on Taxpayer, He Finds in Odd Demand

Made on-Gene Fowler and His Son. | 3

Lo ANGELES, Nov. 13—When President Roosevelt, a few years ago, denounced the employment of clever little schemes, having the cblor of legality, by which men loath to pay their taxes, ensuing discussion revealed that the Treasury itself had nothing to learn from any individual or corporation of the arts and tricks of tax manipulation. On the contrary, it came out that for every squalid, if legal, cheat against the Government the Bureau of Internal Revenue had been guilty of an equal imposition on a citizen. With this for my text I introduce an individual case which, as related to me, would seem to merit the notice of Elmer Irey, whose zeal against evaders is famous but who, as far as my knowledge goes, never has pounced on one of his ‘own agents for bending the law out of shape to the detriment of a taxpayer. : My subject is Gene Fowler, who writes novels and movies in Hollywood and recently was called on to pay a large tax on a modest income earned by his son, Gene Jr., on the contention that, because the son was not then 21 years old, the income was not properly his but his father’s. Gene Jr. duly reported his earnings and paid a tax of $26. . #2 = = rs La was surprised and slightly wounded

R. FOWLER to learn that his son's income had been added to his own and that by this process the young man’s earnings were taxable in -a much higher bracket. Instead of $26 the youth was taxed $280, which in proportion to his actual salary was an exorbitant charge, but it was paid, nevertheless. : Mr. Fowler, I may say, is not at ease in the role of indignant taxpayer and is less indignant than disgusted, being by naturd a man of sentiment and

known to his neighbors as Booker, because for some |

time he delighted to parade before his home in Hollywood pushing in a baby carriage a Negro child named Mavis. Mavis was to have been named in his honor, but: when she was born the nate of Gene séemed inappropriate to her sex. He did propose enie, but Agnes Fowler and the mother agreed that this somehow was not apposite, so she was named for a soft drink widely advertised in Los Angeles. Tv 8 Ta Fowler as a complaining citizen, I might introduce thé fact that his other son, Bill, who, fortunately, has no income as yet to burden his old man down, is the only man who ever bit Sergt. Mike Donaldeon, late of the 69th, or Fighting Irish, regiment of the New York National Guard, and escaped serious injury. Sergt. Donaldson, who holds the Congressional Medal of Honor among other rewards of astounding valor in France, once was a rough and tumble fighter of renown. ry Other men have bitten him, but not with impunity, and Bill Fowler escaped only because of his extreme youth. He was 6 months old at the time, and Sergt. Donaldson, spending a few days at the Fowler place at Forest Hills, was walking the floor. with him to quiet him. It was a very hot summer day, and the sergeant—never a lean man’ and now grown somewhat flabby—was attired onily in his shorts when Bill, with a mistaken gleam in his young” eyes nor any thought of mayhem, stretched out his neck and

nipped the gallant soldier good. ; This ought to end on a somber note, about taxes,

but the subject seems to have slipped away,

Business

By John T. Flynn

Tsar of Liquor Industry Runs Into . A Snag on ‘Question of 'Self-Rule.’

EW YORK, Nov. 13.—The old lawless liquor industry is talking about making laws for itself. It has a dictator—one of those modern indusirial tsars so popular in America. He is Wesley A. Sturgis, a professor in Yale Law School. The liquor industry hired Sturgis to rule them and he seems to have taken them at their word. What he has proposed offers an excellent opportunity to grasp what business means by what it calls “gself-rule” in industry. This is a term often used. It is one of those things which sound plausible until you look at them closely. What could be more democratic than selfrule. But examined closely this so-called “self-rule” has two sides to it. One side has: to do with making rules to protect the public. The other consists in making rules to enable the industry to pluck the

public. : One set of rulés has to do with good morals or ethics, decent human behavior to guard against dis-

honesty, trickery, chicaneéry, false advertising, dom-

mercial bribery, selling deléterious goods. All this is to the good. It is in the interest alike of public and producer. . : But the other set of rules is designed to enable the producers to get together to keép pricés up, to limit production, to prevent others from starting in business, to monopolize the business for thosé already in it, etc. These are bad for the consumer, for society and for the producer in the long run.

Not What They Expected

Now Mr. Sturgis has proposed a set of rules to protect the public—the first kind. Hé wants to put an end to the political activities and lobbying of the liquor companies. He wants fo clean up advertising. He wants all kinds of commercial bribery stopped. He wants various other abuses in the industry checked. But this is not the kind of self-rule that industry likes. It is not thé kind it has in mind when it is talking about self-rule. It jis generally interested in schemes to raise prices, limit or kill competition and get around laws. So Mr. Sturgis’ plan has kicked up a row in the industry. He is campaigning to put his program over. It will be interesting to see how long he remains as

tsar of the liquor industry.

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Fergusen T

N° ume interests me moré these days than the light in the eyes of young women. And what a shining there was in those of Miss Marjorie Fiske, newly appointed field worker for the Business and Professional Woman's Clubs, whilé on her first trip to the “west of Hudson” country. : Her job is to study the trend of opinion in regard to the married woman worker, as the present major project for the Business and Professional Woman's

group is the destruction of discrimination against |

such workers. Under the direction of Dr. Ruth Shallcross the organization is engaged upon a very important bit of research, designed to test the effects on purchasing power if married women are forbidden by law or public opinion to earn money.: Gai Here, of course, is the core of this etonomic prob lem. Nothing we can say about the question will matter unless we can find out the faets. At present working wives are charged with taking the bread out of hungry mouths in order that théy may buy socalled luxuries for themselves. To be sure figures disprove this theory, since statistics téll us a majority

of married women work because they have to and. not because they. like it. Nevertheless, suppose we |

let the charges stand. What is likely to happen in the United States when women buy only the neces--sities? Our standards of living will undoubtedly be lowered, for part of the life blood of industry comes from the purchase of articles which we. could exist , jewelry; furs, Sesmeties, elec-

that quite as many won eou be changed, she believes, when hér group finishes its investigations. Anyway i to find ye. young.

is only skin deep, dnd destined to be grou

ideas on the question. General thinking about it |

a Job on Your Hands! ~~

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

CONCRETE MIXER DISPUTE 1S DENIED BY TOBIN

By Daniel J. Tobin, General President, International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Stablemen and Helpers of America. : :

Wednesday evening, Nov. 8, an edi< torial appeared dealing with the settlement of a jurisdictional dispute between the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and the International Union of Operating Engineers. The following statement appeared in the editorial: oy . “The general public has little interest in which union’s treasury,

for example, shall collect dues

from the men who drive motorized concrete mixers.” I will ‘not go into the merits or demerits of the jurisdictional dispute except to say to you that your editorial gives the impression that the question at issue was who should drive the concrete mixers. For your information, lét me say that ihe driving of concrete mixers was not under discussion nor was the driving of trucks under discussion. The question of the driving of concrete mixers was decided by the National

Arbitrator of the National Building

Trades Department, Dr. Lapp, in January, 1938, and thé American Federation of Labor séttled that question in February, 1938, at its Executive Council meeting; when it said: . * #In order to prevent any future doubt as to the jurisdiction of the trucks, vehicles or motor. conveyances, hauling the ma_terials, wet or dry, composing ready made concrete, or ready mixed concrete, it is hereby decided by the Executive Council that such hauling and unloading comes under the jurisdiction of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters; Chauffers, Stablémen and Helpers of America.” A disputé has existed for, several years as to the driving of certain machines like tractors on large public works. -These rhachines have taken the place of trucks and do considerable hauling. Thé General President of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters requested that the Executive Council of the National Building Trades Department appoint a committee from within its own membership, to arbi-.

In The Indianapglis Times of]

- (Times readers -are invited to express their views in these columns, religious controversies excluded. Make your letter shost, so all can have a chance. Letters must be signed, but names wil be withheld on request.) :

trate the matter. The committee

‘made its decision, which has not yet

been explainéd or clarified and is not. in effect until the committee

‘| makes . further explanation and

clarifications of the decision. The misinformation contained in your editorial, undoubtedly emanating from Washington, will cause considerable argument and disagreement among those involved because of its reference to concrete mixers, which were not under discussion’ in any way, shapé or manner, I trust you will endeavor to make correction in accordance with the

facts. 2 2 8

FORESEES REVIVAL OF PENSION SCHEMES By Claude Braddick, Kokomo, Ind. ; Fantastic pensions plans in California and Ohio were decisively beaten by a belatedly alarmed eléec~

|toraté. And this was fo be expect-

ed, The people's sound judgment can usually be rélied upon—if you can only get that judgment recordéd at the polls. Far t60 many opponents are apt to dismiss such schemés with a smug “It can’t happen here”; while every man-jack of the scheme's trué believers will make his mark on a ballot. Try and keep him away! vid The current defeats, however, will

not mean that the plans in question

are dead. Utopian pension plans, will continue to flower as long as dimes and quarters enough can be milked from deluded people to make it a paying racket. It’s an ill wind, though, that blows nobody good! We can thank Dr. Townsend et al, for quickening our social conscience; and one thing at least seems certain.. No longer will indigent grandpa and grandma be trundled forlorn and unhappy off to the County Poor

8 8 =» FAVORS RECALL OF UNSATISFACTORY OFFICERS

By E. 8. Barber. ey It shows how much negded in this man’s town is the recall of unsatisfactory officers when an important official, admittedly recreant to his duties, is allowed to continue drawing his salary on the promise ‘of doing better, and making a futile play to get someone to straighten out his muddle. As an elderly widow, paying high taxes in Center Township, I protest. Is there no law for impeachment covering the case? : ”n = 2 SEES INCONSISTENCY IN M'NUTT'S SPEECHES By Citizen : Candidate Paul V. McNutt’s présidential © platform certainly can stretch. In his Bloomington speech he declared “the attempt to build a wall around the New World means an upheaval in the United States almost as great as a war itself.” Speaking in Washington recently he said, “I do believe that the United States occupies such -a strategic position that it can assure its people that never again will it be drawn into another country’s war unless its own security is menaced.”

So what?

New: Books

TINE new children’s books have just been issued by the Albert Whitman & Co., ranging from little volumes for the very' young to ones for older boys and girls. The books: “It happened in England,” by

Side Glances—By

Galbraith

‘| James L. Lockhart. ‘| the piece is an Arkansas razorback.

Marion King, The story of two English children and the coronation. + “Red Tassels for Huki,” by Ahna Andrews Barris. About a young Peruvian llama that does not want to grow up and his search’ for freedom. dd “Rhamon,” by Heluiz Chandler Washburne., The tale of the little

lame boy Rhamon in Kashmir,

northwest India. . ’ “Timmy Rides the China Clipper,” by Carol Nay. The thrills and adventures of young Timmy on one of the world’s great airliners. ~ “Blackfellow- Bundi,” by Leila and Kilroy Harris. All about a native

1 Australian lad. :

“Porky,” an illustrated story by The hero of

The three other-books were prepared by the WPA Federal Writers’ ‘Project in Pennsylvania and are

‘| elementary science -readers. The

titles are: “Snow, Glaciers and Icebérgs,” “The Book of Stones,” and “The Ladder of Clouds.” . ~*~ . SECRETS By VONNEDA BAILEY

| Man, being endowed with a creative | 4. phenomenal gift surely not. un-|. "| Applies material substances which | I he'fines To appropriate needs of |But the mysteries of ‘life ‘stin| }oo% Hidden secrets unrevealed to this

DAILY THOUGHT {n

| an armistice—or was it? , . =

various

The : Armistice Just One of Many In’ War-Ridden Europe, Each Planting the Seed of New Conflicts.

ASHINGTON, Nov. 13~The irony of celebrate ing it as “Armistice” Day was always apparent, It wasn't stressed because it wasn't strictly an armistice at all. It was a complete capitulation. "An armisticé is a “temporary lull in hostilities by mutual agreement.” The Allied texms to. the Germany in those early November days of 1918 disarmed them —made them unable to fight any longer. So it wasn't

Today, while not all of the same enemies are fight« ing, the principal ones are and every month's develop-

ments seers to indicate that if the war continues long . |

enough, the opposing line-ups will be largely the same —a cloudy Communist Russia threatening from the

sidelines—Britain, France and Italy against Germany

and Austria—America supporting them at’ least morally. The question marks, as at the outset of ‘the World War, are Japan, Bulgaria, Rumania and Turkey, It was an armistice all right—depending on how you define “temporary.” If that means 21 years, the definition is accurate and complete. “In the affairs of nations, 100 years are but. a day.” In that sense in European affairs it was just one of many armistices— a succession stretching back to the dawn of. recorded history and forward until only heaven knows when,

B | Britons, Latins, Teutons, Slavs and sometimes Mongo- “| lian and Semitic tribes—they hdve baitled over the

same fields for a time through which. the memory of man runs not to the contrary. . : "= 2 a2. - be pus: have ganged up on each other in different | combinations, but the paths and objects of cons quest ‘have been the same—the great strategic highway, of the Danube, the passes of the Alps, the flank routes through the lowlands of what are now Belgium and Holland, the barrier of the Pyrenees, the fortress of. Gibraltar, the basin of the Mediterranean, the stronghold of Verdun, the terrain of the Black Forest—it is all just an immemorial checkerboard on which various leaders Have played with more or less skill the bloody chess of war. ‘ It never gets anywhere. It is unending war. The, intervals are just “armistices” in an unending conflict which you will study in vain to find any aim to ade. vance general human welfare or any other discernible. thing except: the greed, jealousy, ambition or hatred of men and peoples that seem never to change except to becomé more vicious. i : ors 8 8. {in TEE only escape théy have found for it came with the discovery of the Western Hemisphere. The institution of war followed them here—but not ‘this interminable and senseless war. ‘We were foolishly: sucked back into this welter of animal sgvagery 22 years ago. We gained nothing. We lost ch. If is now apparent that nothing we had to offer of either intellect or brute force could alter it, : oe Have we anything to offer to alter it now? = There i§ hardly an element of change in this renewal of war. —same enemies, same high sounding slogans—same lack of permanent aims and attainable principles. It is as certain as sunrise that any peace will be the same kind of “armistice’ of conquest and subjugation—a sowing of the certain seeds of new and deadlier war. We escaped this persistent pestilence for 128 years

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by emigrating 3000 miles from the area of plague. Let's. « * &

stay here this time. ; A : It Seems to Me By Heywood Broun ~~. One of Those Who 'Have,' He Urges’

NR TEW YORK, Nov, 13—May a columnist talk about’ himself for a moment even in the middle of a’ world crisis? * Since nobody got up quickly to say, ‘No!’ No!” I will proceed as usual. Even man who writes must match his public decla-. rations with his personal performances. That leaves ‘me out on a mb, I think we ought to make a world in which both poverty and wealth are abolished. Un-"

fortunately I am rich, and so readers have a right to

doubt my sincerity. : * Through no fault of my own I happened fo have. been born with a genius for business. Newspapermen

with far more ability than I could possibly command‘ J

have lived in moderate circumstances ard died in> penury. My case is different. a Lo I am now sitting pretty and living on my coupons.’

But I am afraid that this economic position has de stroyed my utility as a news commentator. As one of

the Royalists I sometimes find it difficult to be fair to:

the spending plans of President Roosevelt. Although '

1 try hard to be neutral, I cannot avoid the tug which comes personally in regard to any new piece of progres=, sive. legislation—public. problem becomes translated into the personal perturbation of, “How much will this ‘cost me in my next income-tax return?” - Tries to Do His Best If there are any readers who trust me no more than, “I try to do my best.” On the many: occasions when I espouse the conservative position inregard to some liberal measure I think my opinions should be thrown in the alley along with those of Mr.. Morgan and Mr. Rockefeller. What can you expect’ from us? We have a stake in the world as it is today,

I can say.

And yet without authorization from J. P. or J, D,- ¢

I surmise that all three of us agree that the world is: not what it ought to be. Again, although I speak on” my own, I think my colleagues might agree that we. have made too much while the making was good. Mor=~ gan, Rockeféller and Broun might well gq into a com=pact by which each one of us would cheerfully con= | sent to cut our present income by one-half and let the rest go into a fund for general betterment. Cad Even if any one of us has to give up his yacht I think the sacrifice would be a part of wisdom. . Although I hold no proxies for any of my crowd, I hope" hey will support me. My declaration would be to allthe discontented: “Stay away from those barricades. 11 meet you half ‘way in that pleasagt | public square where we can talk things over. The drinks aré on me. We boys must stick together.”

Bar on the. *

Watching Your Health :

By Jane Stafford Hy

OU. probably have read that heart disease is the - X greatest cause of death today and you may. have been alarmed by reports ef the way heart disease is increasing, killing more and more ‘people each year, While this is true, there is nevertheless a cheerful side to the picture. = Le Fi - Sarhe heart disease can be prevented. If you had

‘your children protected against diphtheria by toxoid -

or toxin-antitoxin injections, you were also helping: to protect them ‘against heart disease. ‘If. you aredoing your share of the anti-syphilis fighting, you are.

helping to prevent heart disease in yourself and gthers,

~The heart's worst assailants are rheumatic fever,

syphilis, and, occasionally certain acute infections such -

as diphtheria, scarlet

fever, tonsilitis, pneumonia and gonorrhea, writes Dr. Herrman

-L. Blumgart of Har-

And he that killeth any man | has

shall surely Leviticus 24:

be put to dsath— | u

& Si or SO