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JoE's TRIBUTE TO MANN ERHEIM 5 QTALIN'S: new demands are said to-include removs] of "Baron Mannerheim from the: leadership of the Finnish army. On a’ iD of overt and. flagrant competence, 1 no doubt. : ; ;

POLITENESS. IN THE CENSUS _ “HE one-man census rebellion at Kenosha, Wis., is ended. James Rosselli; the cobbler who was threatened with Brostain for refusing to answer the business questionnaire, has: yielded. Mr. Rosselli says that the first census taker who came to his shop was discourteous. Now he has been visited by the ‘area census director, who had no difficulty in getting the information ‘desired because, in Mr. Rosselli’s words,

“he’s a polite gentleman.” Here is a lesson for all census takers—one’ especially

needed in view of the efforts of certain people in Washing- ~ ton to stir up a nation-wide census rebellion. Most. citizens, we think, will answer the questions readily if only they're asked politely. :

GOOD EXAMPLE ‘HE Republican Party will issue no 1940 convention book, announces Chairman Hamilton. The National Committee has reached this decision, he says, in a desire to obey the spirit as well. as the letter of the Yoder Corrupt Practices Law. Both parties published huge and handsome souvenir volumes in 1936, and both party treasuries profited thereby. But the Democrats profited most. They got $385, 525 for advertising: space, most of it from corporations, and they got $554,620 more by selling the books, largely to corporations. The advertising space wasn’t worth the prices charged,- ‘and neither were the books—not even the ones that, as a special inducement, included President Roosevelt's autograph. The whole enterprise was, as Mr. Hamilton says, a ‘subterfuge to:get money out of corporations which are forbidden By. the’ Corrupt Pragtices Act to contribute to national: political committees. ‘By- refusing. 0 use: this subterfuge this year the Republicans pat ‘themselyes’ ih a better position to criticize the Demoerats if. the latter use it. The Democrats, of course, can ayoid that criticism by simply not issuing a con‘vention:beok. : Ineidentally, they can improve the atmosphere of. the*new. horal climate,” which got pretty thick as a result of some, .of the blackjack methods used in connection with their 1936 edition. i

YES; THIS 1s ELECTION YEAR ‘HE ‘Hatch lean- politics bill is being filibustered aside. ‘This is happening because a number of Democrats in the U. S. Senate are convinced that the bill would not make votes for themselves or their party. Their theory is that citizens do not appreciate legislation to promote better government, ~ So, this being election year, the Seriators turn to something regarded as a“ sure-fire vote-getter—subsidies from the Federal Treasury. They are taking up the Agricultural Appropriation Bill and the proposal to add thereto $212,000,000 in parity payments’ to farmers and $85,000,000 for disposal of surplus farm commodities. ” ” ” ” ” Today, therefore, it seems appropriate to chart again “the “progress” of the so-called economy drive in Congress. - .'Let’s start at the beginning. * In January, President Roosevelt sent to Congress a budget calculated: to raise the public debt to a point just barely inside the. 45-billion-dollar legal limit. To prevent going beyond ‘that limit, the President asked Congress to levy $460,000, 000. in new: taxes. Senator Pat; Harrison proposed, and the :Senate approved, a resolution creating a joint committee of Representatives and Senators to lay down a program of taxing and spending. ‘The resolution was pigeonholed in the House —because, said‘ thé :loud talkers in Congress, it wasn’t necessary. - Congress was going to economize. Congress was going to slice $460,000,000 off the President's estimates, they said, and therefore wouldn’t have to impose new tases, on the voters this year. At that time we observed that Congress was starting sus as it did last year, and the year before, and the year! ‘before—by promising to, spend less than the President asked. ‘And we ventured the prophecy that Congress would end as Bfusl-shy ¥pending. more,

» ” » Well, what Has happened ? ~The House of Representatives has passed 10 appropriation bills! "In every one it has voted less than the President asked. To date the House has achieved paper economies totaling $321,467,405, - The Senate has acted on five appropriation bills. has stricken a few items and added more, with the net a that it has whittled away $26, 327,180 of the House's econ- ; omies. ° - So today the net: paper savings of the two Houses stang ‘at $295,140,225. ‘But now what is-about to happen? The Senate is about'to add $297,000,000 in subsidies to the farm bill. And when that has been done—and surely it will be: done, for Senators think votes are made that way —all the paper economies will be ‘erased, and instead Congress will be about $2, 000,000" ‘ahead of the President's spending budget. .. . ~ Then-the bars will be down, other pressure groups will * stampede to get their shares, Congress will wear itself out talking econoniies and‘voting appropriations, and at the fag

end of the session there will be another effort to pass an-|

' other half-baked tax. bill, or the lawmakers will give up wrestling with fiscal problems and hurry home hoping to get re-elected before the Govérnment actually spends beyond the legal debt limit. “Yes, this is election “Jour, and Congress is following.

the seugeld pattern. Yoo

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"has a sign about “Vitamin ‘OD Whikky. .

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r ASHINGTON, March 1 While most Americans |

are hot over Russian aggression in Finland, Ger-

man rape of Poland; Japanese. Slaughter of China,and |. British oppression of India. and. Palestine, there is. a | conterence here on ouf own, Imperialism down Puerto : ‘Rico way. i 1 - The idea seems to: be’ that “before setting out to| | make Europe. and. Asia’ safe. for" democracy, we might,

practice up on our Caribbean stepchild—or what's left | . : i 3

of her after years of Yankee ‘misrule. Latin America i

thinks that 1s the test of our Good. Neighbor policy| H- =.

Puerto Rico is in political and economic bondage, |

the poverty-ravished victim: of American laws and sugar capitalists, .& backward ~ native ‘church. and

inadequate home politicos. That is the. indictment by

various speakers at the institute conducted here by the Women’s International: League for Peace and Freedom. A New Deal answer: ‘in part to such ‘charges will

%, be made in about two weeks in the inter-departmental | . : - | ‘commission report on Puerto Rieo. : officials admit the seriousness of the island. problems. |

But Government

\HE Administration’s case was put to the confer- |

ence by Harry M. Shooshan, executive assistant, Interior Department. - After praising Administration efforts. to improve economic and . social conditions, he appealed to

Puerto Ricans “to keep the populdtion side of the |

equation down to somewhere near a point of balance with her limited resources,” But birth control has made little headway in that Catholic country, which has 1375 inhabitants per square mile-of crop land.

Here. are . .typical criticisms voiced by other

speakers: Rep. Marcantonio of New York— ‘Our great democracy has done nothing to investigate the incarceration of Puerto Rican political prisoners at Atlanta. All Latin American eyes are on Puerto Rico... .” Earl P. Hanson, former executive board member,

Puerto Rico Reconstruction Administration—"Puerto |

Rico's apparent freedom of speech and press is meaningless, due to the threat. of: economic terrorism, appalling unemployment and widespread distress. . Dr. Paul -T. Homan, Cornell University—"Sugar companies and lobbyists, with their. complete blindness to the island’s basic need, must be exposed in their misdirection of Congressional thinking. Puerto Ricu 1s not designed by God to Insure large profits for sugar companies.” -

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R. BAILEY W. Diffie, author of “Puerto. Rico, a

Broken Pledge”—"Our Presidents ‘for 42 years||

have ‘made such. poor. selections’ of governors that the Puerto Ricans could do no worse, and should be allowed to elect their own. The church has a respon-

sibility - tor its moral ban on birth control on the|

island. .

"Dr. Rafael Pico, Catholic University, of Americge “Three problems are affecting agriculture: Limitation of market by U. S.. quota restrictions. Expensive and deficient sea shipping monopoly. Only 17 per cent of farmers own their land; four mainland-owned corporations ' control one-third 0 one-half of : the sugar industry.” Senior . ‘Albefto Rembao, editor of “La Neuva Democracia” —"Puefto Ricans are slaves, a part of the United States against their will. Set them free! They can then apply for ‘membership, if. they prefer to remain Americans. Let ‘them: work out their own salvation; that is their affair. non

(Westbrook Pegler is on vacation)

Inside Indianapolis:

~ Nothing Like .a. Little Self-Criticism: And How Giipping Discussions May Be

~HERE was a story in The Times the other day about the County Treasurer's: “office “undergoing a face lifting.” The story, among other things, said tables, desks and chairs - were being removed to help “streamline” the system. Well, we've just received a letter with a clipping. of the story attached. The letter starts out by saying we're all wet. It goes on to say: the Treasurer's office looks like: “a Pinny Pinny Roppy -Show; all they need is a barker at the door to get people coming in.” The letter goes on to say a-lot more unkinder things about the - scene. Funny part is that although the letter was unsigned it came in an envelope from: “Treasurer, Marion County. D. T. Department.” - ” ” (| ; A WELL-KNOWN BUTLER professor was on his way to Bloomington last Thursday to attend a meeting. . Midway, he came across six priests pushing an automobile. . . . Halting to lend aid, the Butler prof discovered it was the entire department of Philosophy from Notre Dame, also en route to.the meeting. They explained that they had gotten into such a gripping discussion they'd forgotten to look at the gas gauge. . The Red Cab driver who. holds the company’s safe driving record of nine years with not even a- scratched fender bought himself an automobile recently. ..The third day he had ‘it he smashed in the front end. North Side family reports that the maid has gone

“to Florida for a two and a half week vacation. . . .

Only reason ‘they don’t, go, too,’ ‘Says. he head of the family, is they: can’t afferd it. a, 8 . » 8 . ALL ABOUT THE TOWN are placards dveitising “George” Steinbeck’s “Grapes of: Wrath. » . Wonder what. John thinks: about that, a One liquor store ..''. What is Vitamin D? . ~. . Spring Note: ‘Hundreds of tourists idling through North and- East Side streets yesterday. . . House-hunting. . . . A couple of hardy “winter| golfers” went out bright and early yesterday morning | for a nice round. . . . The course was so crowded they had to quit after nine holes. -

A Woman's Viewpoint

By, Mrs. Walter Ferguson

F 1 only nad a dollar for every boy Ive helped through college! All soft-hearted housewives prob-

aply feel the same. The magazine. subscription racket |- is so widespread that the sight of a good-looking.

youth at the front door makes me boil inside.

- Outside, of course, I remain the perfect lady. In|.

| spite of all vows to the contrary I find myself asking

the rascal in although I swear that nothing he has |*

to sell could induce me to buy. The next thing— youve guessed’ it—I'm signing on the dotted line for another magazine I haven’t time to read. ‘The methods employed by these yeyng halesmian

. have often struck me as questionable. One introduces |

| war materials used by Japan against

~The Hoosier Forum.

1 wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire, ~*~

THINKS EMBARGO AGAINST JAPAN JUSTIFIED By Earl G.' Haupt

Gen. Johnson, think chal You had better take a little poll of your

.own.and don’t just talk to your immediate friends and you will soon

find out that maybe more of the rank and file of American citizens are for complete embargo of any and all :goods to ‘Japan until they stop the undeclared war on China. I just finished reading an article by Laurence Stallings in which he gays more than 75 per cent of the

China come from the U. S. If Japan could not fight China without our materials, they also could not fight us for the same reason,

:80 if ‘ this is. true, would it not be}. ‘better if we -did without their trade for a while, even if we had to have

an increase. in unemployment in this country? It would be : worth it - from a humanitarian point of view. co» ” : DRAWS ‘DISTINCTION IN PROPERTY OWNERSHIP By H. ‘L. 8 ; 3 Voice in the Crowd says that “If it ‘were not for the freedom of acquiring something that we can own outright so long as we shall live, we should have no cause to love America or cherish it.” There are two kinds of property.

First is the kind that is personal—'

our clothes, toothbrush and many items intended only for personal use. Everyone should have such property and own it outright. The other kind of property is that which is useful to society or the genera! public. It has many functions to perform to make possible the things we want to use personally as well as socially. Our postoffice is one example of such property. ‘I do not feel grieved about not owning a postoffice of my|. own. All I want of it is service just as every other person wants it. In

the same class are the schools, roads,

streets, bridges, parks, libraries, public owned utility systems and many

others of like nature. . One|

All socially useful property is charged ‘with a public interest.

There is no more reason for my . wahting to own ‘a railroad than a . | concrete road. Both are socially - useful :- and necessary. Just why

the highway should be publicly owned and the railroad privately owned is still a mystery. Both serve a public need. If my ownership of a railroad gives me power to exercise control over the lives

(Times readers are invited to express. their views in these columns, “religious controversies excluded. Make your letters short, so all can . have a chance. . Letters must be signed, buf names will be withheld on request.)

and well-being of my fellowmen,

I exercise too much power. . ‘Ownership of socially useful prop-

1erty does give tremendous: power

to the owner; power exercised without regard to the welfare of others. That makes it ‘dangerous to hold such. power. It is the hoiding of .this type of. property that gives men a feeling of security, as it becomes the means to enrich one’s self by the labor of others; it springs from a selfish desire. But it is the ignorant man who seeks his own ends at, the expense of the greater whole. The selfish man is therefore the. ignorant man. The {ruly wise- man. is never selfish. He seeks nothing for himself that he would not equally seek for all

mankind: Selfishness plants . the].

seeds. of its own destruction. a nw SEEKS DISCHARGE OF OLD-AGE PENSION BILL By Jack Dolan, Shelbyville, Ind. An open letter to our Indiana Congressmen: We read and hear much both pro

and con on New Deal policies and various questions of state on which it may be considered highly impudent for a member of the 20 million ill-housed (more especially an old guy who has long since heen dis-

“| a question,

carded from industry) to even raise But one point sticks out very conspicuously: Everybody disagrees with: the other fellow on

‘| every question except one—that one

is old age pensions. . They all agree they must come, they are on their way, they are inevitable. : - You are no doubt aware the General Welfare -Federation, Inc., has a bill pending which is now tied up in the Ways and Means Committee.

.| The hest tax experts in the country

pronounce the tax. base sound, which ‘is a fwo. per cent gross income: tax. on added values. There is now a discharge petition, No. 15, on ‘the Speaker's desk and your signature will bring it out on the floor for discussion and action, if you are really interested in the welfare of the old folks. I feel it is your duty to give this bill your serious’ consideration and if you have any ‘reasonable objections please state .those cbjections publicly so

those of us who have been so anx-|

iously: waiting ‘for so long will at ‘least’ know what to. expect. . . . BEL ve aa

FINDS THIRD TERM

"PUZZLE AMUSING

By Constant Reader oe . Everyone has a yésonahly clear idea (that is, if they know how even to look at the pictures in a good newspaper) just how irked, irked, irked a certain group of men are because they just haven't been able to find out what Mr. Roosevelt's inten‘tions are for the coming four years. ‘This is a serious matter, of course; but, honestly, I can’t help laughing. sometimes. Do you suppose ‘the fellow who broke out with ‘“‘Nah, nah, nah,’ said the little fox,” might have yearned to add, “To the: Press, From F. D. R,” (with best regards, of course). :

New Books at the Library

INCE it is the art of man which endures, it is strange that ifs creators are so .infrequently honored and their need for recognition so rarely understood. What happened to a great and; sincere artist who literally had no encouragement is the theme of William Schack’s impressive “And He Sat Amang the Ashes” (American Artists Group). In this biography of Louis Eilshemius, one of the most pathetic figures of the art world of today,

Side Glances—By Galbraith |

himself as a former newspaper “carrier, and I amt {- 1 filled with. embarrassment" to-have forgotten Such a| Jaf

pleasant-spoken: person. Another is thé nephew of al neighbor. The third has been sent to me from the|

classroom of a tavorite college protessor.- And the fourth stuttered—would 1. please contributes so- he could get into a school which guarantees to: eure

him? Still another hankers to join his classmates{ | in a South American research journey. And so on.| |: ‘Most of these tales are fabrication. The boys are l |. trained by district managers ‘who teach them new| | lines when the old ones are worn au. The head | | .ch--and BO) §..

smart guy thinks up a different a ve have another invasion of old- ool ‘chums and what not.:

when 1 say were fed up.

more of it among their subscription peddlers. At first the “helping a deserving boy

and some of us are wondering. whether some. of the

I believe 1 speak for the housewives of America| | Publishers ‘who speak] ought to insist on|

if college” idea seemed attractive. Now it is only Ee 1;

fast talkers aren’t headed for the penitentiary instead| ,.:,

ainly they are not bu business,

’ y eres ha 7k — J

| | Foot-poundings and .of

the author traces the disintegration of the mind and body of a man who “had every .reason to expect a long and successful career. Born

in 1864 of wealthy parents; brought | up “in ‘beautiful: surroundings and educated in America and Europe,|

he early showed: signs -of . talent. He was endowed: with an ability to paint and draw, :a

position. And when two of his paintings were accepted by the Academy. in 1888, his hopes were high. : ine But this; as Mr. Schack points out, ‘was the‘end for him, not the inning. - From then : on, none

| | beg -|of his paintings was accepted, his

numerous attempts at writing were demolished by -the reviewers, and his’ piano - compositions and songs were - ignored. Feeling an increasing sense of loneliness and neglect,

he fled for a time to Samoa and]

later to Rome; and upon his return he was able to produce the most lyrical painting of his career. The continued indifference, how-

{:| ever, of the critics and the public| + drove*him once more to seek escape

—but this time it was a mental one

3’ | from which’ there - is “no return. 2} And, : a

ironically, when at last. he began to receive the long hoped for recognition, it came only when.

‘| broken mentally and physically, Eil- “| shentius ‘the man was incapable of

enjoying “er even knowing the success of ‘Eilshemius the aris.

© PROGRESS. By VERNE 8. MOORE

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facility for writ-| ing, and-a love for music and com- |

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Lowered Private Debt a: Eo oa Enlarging the Public Debt Means Distributing Poverty, Not Wealth

TASHINGTON, March 11.—Suppose it were true, as this Administration says, that, as all governs mental debt has gone up by an indefinite amount above 20 billions—private. debt has gone down. by an equal amount. It isn’t true, but if it were. true, what? Would that mean the well-known “more abundant life” the “sharing of our wealth,” “taking away from the ‘haves’“to give to the ‘have-nots’” or a “more equal distribution of benefits?” It means just the reverse of all that. It means a more equal distribution of poverty, a sharing of our

| debits rather. than: our credits; a greater burden on

the have-nots and a restriction of abundance in-every-body’s life. ‘The whole nation, rich and poor alike, is

| responsible for the public debt—every wage, income,

pension and piece of property of any kind 1s in hock for it. It can be retired only by taxes or default, The former is a burden on every family budget in.the nation—inc¢luding the unfortunates on relief or on the dole. ‘disaster on the Whole population.

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: T= poisonous doctrine that only the rich pay has

been exposed over. and over again, The poorest income in the United States is atleast 20 per cent less large than it would be without the evil breed of hidden taxes that are: carried on the average, in the

" cost of all articles consumed

Private debt is contracted by individuals of their own free will and presumably always for some benefit received—usually for some purchase of property which is held and is of value more or less in excess of the debt. To the extent that this is so, it more than can-

| cels out the debt so far as the wealth of the debtor is

concerned. But the public debt is the reverse of this at every point. The individual is not consulted about incurring it. Politicians do that for him. He gets for it

-| in return nothing that he can call his own. While

he frequently receives some social benefit for it, it is nothing that he can use to offset or repay his share of the debt. It is a mortgage on his future, on every. thing he has, or expects to earn. : .

” ” ”

N view of these inescapable facts, a Government which announces as an aim the distrtbutiqn of happiness does ill to boast that it has replaced private debt with public debt. That isn’t distributing happiness, it is distributing misery. : The bulk of business is done not for cash, but for credits. . As. others have pointed out, incréasing prie vate debt is a certain index of increasing business ace tivity, prosperity and employment. Sharp reduction of private debt screams aloud that business and eme ployment are declining, Much of our recent reduction has been through bankrutpcy, to the. benent of nobody. _On the other hand, increasing public debt, espocial ly in such great amounts as we have recently seen, is an index of declining prosperity and. employment. Tt is really worse than that, It indicates not only a lack of good government, but it advertises so complete a lack of knowledge of what good government is that the most certain, sure-fire symptoms of bad gov< ernment are paraded as proof of SEMEN. If that isn’t wacky, what is? - die :

3d Term Hurdle

By Bruce Catton

Party Feud in California May Bort F. D. R. and Throw State to: G: O..P.

VW AsumoTon, March 11.—A political situation extremely. unfavorable to the! President's ‘third term hopes—if he really ‘has any—is developing in California. A Democratic factional fight there is rapidly shaping up which, in the opinion of ‘party leaders in

'{'Washington; will badly embarrass him in getting the

state's convention delegates, may: throw those delegates to some other candidate and dims his chance of carrying the state next fall if he does get the ~nomi-

| nation.

Importance of this last point lies in. the fact that California has heretofore been rated a fairly safe Democratic state, and is considered one of the states the Democratic nominee must carry if. he:is to be elected. “To begin with, two Roosevelt slates of ‘delegates are in the making. One is headed by Governor«Culbert L. Olson; the other will shortly be formed by the McAdoo-Creel wing of the California Democracy, Under California’s law, a local committee can enter a slate pledged to any candidate, and the consent of the candidate is not necessary; to keép such a slate off the ballot he must formally disavow it, in writing. Governor Olson at the moment is in exceptionally hot" water. Recall petitions are in circulation, with enough signatures to force an election virtually ase sured. Recall election date is expected to be set for some time just before the Democratic convention; ‘recent advices say that the Governor’s recall is almost a certainly. (Olson is in bad with both right and left wingers in his state; also, he has been hurt by recent charges that race-track owners: were shaken down.)

Two Slates of Delegates

* Thus there will be two delegate slates. Let: them both go on the ballot and they will be likely to split the vote and let a third slate through. -Preparation of such a slate, nominally pledged: to a faverite son and prepared to throw its vote. either to Wheeler,

. Farley or Hull, is reliably reported; one California

politician here flatly predicts that it will win if it opposes two F. D. R. slates; Yet the President can hardly disavow either of the two Roosevelt slates without, by Inference, coming out in the open as a formal ca Lastly, California’s Senator "Sheridan Downey is ready for battle. He is keeping Sledr of ge: primary fight—has turned down requests that he be.a fy son candidate—but he is grimly opposed 10" term, and has quietly let it be known that's : is nominated, he—Downey—will spend: the ; months of the campaign stumping California. ‘to him. : a Downey holds the Townsend vote in: a firm 3 and that vote is very strong in California.

Watch Your Health

By Jane Stafford

'OAT’S milk has been. put trotigh si higorous testing by scientists of the U. S. Bureau of Animal Industry to see whether the claims often made for it of special properties of Seniciencies are justified. Results just reported by Di. K. Besley

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‘to the American Public Health, Asmociadion give the

goat's milk a good health rating. ~~ : Milk from purebred and high grade Foggenburg and Saanen breeds of goats, which the most numerous in this country, was compared with, milk from pedigreed Holstein cows. Chemically fae milk and Holstein milk are very much have about the same content of. water, 'n fat, minerals and vitamins. Goat's. -milk ‘ha more albumen than either cow’s milk or § Goat's milk has a “high potency of vital vitamin needed for healthy nervous tains only a little anti-s measurable amount of the. ge preven which was somewhat, bg since the: 14

milk is white, while SurpvISInE jie as e| the yellow color ‘associated with this vi

When the milk was fed to babies or’ ect. proportion to to a consumed.

Bacteriological tests shiowed that goa Ses ‘milk exceptionally low in numbers germs, and goats are considered vey free from Tere > means that goat's :

The latter is catastrophe bearing with ag a