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MONDAY, MARCH 25, 1040

OF DRYS LAUDS GARNER

| 1 Oo" every year in the United States Senate Morris 1] Sheppard, senior Senator from Texas, speaks in tribute to that |lost cause] which is Prohibition. No exponent of total abstinence has been more eloquent, or more sincere. Acgordingly it is of more than casual significance that it should be Sheppard who in a radio address formally ‘offers John| Nance: Garner for the Presidency. Many will be inclined to accept Senator Sheppard's appraisal of his Ftiow Texan over that of John L. Lewis on the matter of what constitutes a whisky-drinking, pokerplaying evil old man. - ‘We have always had a hunch that Lewis was jealous of Garter s eyebr ws.

SLOW—TROUBLE AHEAD

THERE is much discussion among thoughtful persons ‘about how rapidly the United States is becoming *“Bal-

kanized” so far as business and commerce are concerned.

Studies of ‘the Tax Policy League show that more than 1000 complex legislative ‘trade barriers interfere with the flow of trade between states. We in Indiana have become increasingly aware, of this situation as our “wars” with | other states have gone on. : A new facet of this state of affairs has sprung up within the last few years. It is state advertising. All except one state—Delaware—are now competing for tourists, mar-| kets, investors and new industries. The Council of State Governments reports that 39 of these states are spending this year a total of #, 400, 000. -Indiana’s allotment is 25,00 | 3 Ir ad ertise its citrus industry, Florida vive the bill by pu ting! a tax of 1 cent a box on oranges, 3 ents on grapef lit and cents on tangerines. Maine advertises its potato S by taxing that product. To attract new ing ustries, 21 states are now granting tax concessions; Ne Jersey goes so [far as to provide financial assistance for new industri s, and| some other states are offering plang acilities or cas houites ) | |

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| Some of jour - Southern states which went overboard on programs such as these are feeling a little sorry about the matter. Empty plants built by communities stand as silent reminders to jobless people of what an attractive appearing program failed to produce. | | | The Council of State Governments has just issued a warning about state advertising programs, saying that “such a situation may develop extreme competition among the states and lead to the encouragement 6f undue tax conleessions, exemptions and exploitation of wage differentials.” Eg In the light of the Council's warning, India a should stap, look: and listen before it goes overboard with a similar ‘competitive program. . |

TO TRADE OR NOT TO TRADE HE magazine Fortune, out to ay, reports the result of _ one of its round tables, this time on the matter of foreign trade. The 17 participants included industrial, economic, educational, manufacturing, banking, farm and labor /leaders. Three of them advanced criticisms. against the Trade Agreements Act. But the great majority favored renewal of the act, for three main reasons: | | “First, it constitutes an instrdment by which the State . Department can quickly negotiate a settlement of difficulties arising out of war trade. | “Second, we. know of no satisfactory sifu to the Hull trade program. “#Third, the renewal of the Trade’ Agreements Act will serve notice on the world that the U, S. clings to the idea ' of free enterprise and’ will, when the proper time comes, Iq d its: great influence to a plan for world reconstruction ed at the revival of private enterprise. | - “To abandon or emasculate this program, we fear,

ight strengthen the world-wide forces of totalitarianism.” i 1

THAT TERRIBLE CENSUS QUERY |

'E can think of few more alert and jealous defenders ! . of personal rights than the American Civil Liberties | When the Undon remains perfectly calm and unmoved current denunciation of certain Government census que tions as alleged invasion of citizens’ privacy, a lot of excited people ought to pipe down and keep their shirts on, 2 | | “Ex amination of the questionnaires used in previous den uses shows that only one essentially new question has ) added to the 1940 census, namely, the famount of mo ey {wages and salaries received” The rules provide ; if [the amount is under $5000 it should be tated, if

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| No_ issue of the invasion of the, civil rights of ens. can be successfully raised on the basis of this

vilized enough to gras b the nature, purpose and necessity ly impersonal basis on Which ‘the

sched information is treated. |

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applicable to anyone who has a job, is given by Daniel Tobin, president, International Brotherhood o: Teamsters, jauffeurs, Stablemen and Helpers of America. “Whatever else, you ‘may be guilty.of, don’t be guilty of

mbibing any Kind of stimulants or infoxicatin liquor dur-

inp your hours.of work,” Mr, Tobin says. “T | de nable sin , ...” As: for drinking after. hot

nember to keep yourself § it or your job pe next day,

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| prominent restaurant in’ Guayagtil, Ecuador; a

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DME good advice, directed | toward his own unionists, but

Latin America

By John Thompson

“Refugees From. "Wat-Tomn Europe © Present a Promise as Well as a

‘(Fourth of a Series)

TASHINGTON, March: 25. —A young * woman, blond and ‘unmistakably German, plays the plano’ ‘in a notel in Colombia; a European with the German manner is caterer at s.swank function in Quito, Ecusdor; another * is maitre dhotel at a

man professor is reported to run one of the outstanding X-ray tabarataries’ and Rospitals in the Western Hemisphere, | at Guatemala City. Men and women with German accents and manners aie met with in all parts of establish their broken ljves in strange and at times unfriendly surroundings.

Latin America is yel to he. written, but one runs across many phases of .it. even .in a hasty trip Thousands ‘of men, women and children have been torn by their roots out winds of oy over all of Latin America. ~ 28 ” :

HILE it is as yet impossible to Sppraise, accurately the value of these immigrants’ into Latin America, one is convinced that by and large the American countries will ultimately. gain from this influx. ©ne is reminded of the forced hegira of the French Huguenots at the time of Catherine. The Huguenots flooded Holland, Belgium and Britain and were later instrumental in establishing the supremacies of these countries in world affairs. Will history repeat itself? To what extent will these new immigrants bring medical, artistic, financial and business advantages to their new homelands? * Some South American countries are deliberately planning to force the immigrants into channels of activity where they would not compete with native occupations, such as small merchandising, etc. There

migrants go into such businesses as the exporting of raw materials—the thought being that most of these people have valuable connections abroad which could. be exploited to enhance the exports of the Latin countries. Other sections of Latin America are weighing the potentialities of using the refugees to establish small industries on the German model. Many of the German refugees are former industrialists, and some of these smart Latins are wondering whether they couldn't benefit Indusirially by the experience of these men. : 2 8 : ? UT Latin America is still somewhat bewildered by the influx of Central European vefugess and plans are still in the formative stage. The refugees who have most readily become acclimated are the Spaniards who have come to Mexico. Not- only did the Mexican Government pave the way for them through all kinds of co-operation, but

Mexico has also proved to be fruitful soil for the Spaniard’s racial, cultural and ideological background. There has been no language differences. In addition, the Spaniards brought with: th a lot of cash, and a number of , their own leaders are still directing them. There is every prosper of thesé Spaniards becoming a very important factor in the life of the ‘Mexican Republic. . ; Curiously, many of the Spaniards ‘vided into political groups such as Moderate Republicans, extreme Communists, Negrinistas, etc. It will be some time before these men become Mexicans.

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side Indiana The Latest in the Pigeon Problem; And How to Make a Good Trade

aE it gets down to business’ tomorrow, the Works Board is going to be face to" face with a request for a special permit to trap a goodly portion of our local pigeons. The pigeon problem, as you know, is quite a moot point around here and you have to be very careful until you find out if

the stranger you're talking to is a pro or a con. Personally, we're a benevolent neutral. But to get on with this trapping business. It seems that there are a few concerns outside In-’

-diana which would like to buy as many of our local

pigeons which are in good health as they can. They've got to be” good fliers and have no squab in ‘em. Otherwise all bets are off. We suppose that if a chap wants a live target he wants it (good and lively. We're certainly glad were not | servir ng on the Works Board. Tomorrow may certainly be a headache, because the Humane Society has been wondering what they wanted the pigeons for. J ® = = i v : ‘A TRANSIENT CIRCUS MAN going through town the other day found himself in need of a new car to pull his trailer... . So he traded in his own car for another used one and tossed in a monkey in a miniature circus wagon.', , . The used car lot has the monkey on exhibit. . . . There are at least two persons in town who {should have a minimum of difficulty with their phone numbers. . . . One is Walker W. Winslow of 3834 N. Delaware whose phone number is HU-3834 and the other is Dr. J. H. Kemper of 4456 N. Meridian, whose phone number is HU-4458. . . . Mr. Tony Hinkle of Butler has been

| in demand lately for speeches:to high school basket-

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ball bantuets. One night last week he told Mrs. Hinkle he was off to ‘Worthington. . . . On the way, he reminded himself it was Winchester he wanted. . « «. When he got to Winchester he learned it was at Lynn, nine miles away. « « «+ He made it.

A Woman's Viewpoint

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson -

~O my way of thinking the attitude that children shquld get married when they are in the throes of that form of insanity known as \young love, is one of the greatest fallacies of American life, disrupting

of the world. 3

ending symphony made up of moonlight and roses.

ony until both are Ep t a correspondent, id dtience with some of our notions. His ar n full, but being one of those foolish souls who think e would ‘roses, and that modern marriage could do with niore of both, that is impossible. ‘Our ‘sophomoric attitude—what 1s it? Only an-

of the average § would not appear so dangerous.

I should hate to believe that the star-shine one sees in-the eyes of young lovers isn't a reflection of some

things of earth are made his—because he takes them

and uses them for his own good. And In Spite mandate of statistics which tell that a Sue

..| very: often fail," I am convinced ti life is ygur. ‘own, says the union Jeader, ‘but ye ou had. better

Problem to Our Good Neighbors.

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South America, toiling to re-|

The story of Europe's unfortunate refugees in|

of their homelands in Europe, and scattered by the 3 ;

is considerable talk for instance of making the im-|

domestic relations and making us the: laughing stock

| “For the sake of society and ourselves I am con-|'f e should ‘undertake matri- 1"

No it isn’t-the on woran ‘sounding off’ this] 5 asculine gender, who has|

sounds so sensible I'm sorry not to be able to agree!

[4 Strictly ‘speaking, marriage is: a social contract—| but'is that really all it is? ° I should hate to think 80.4 §

glory which belongs to man, just as surely as hard). 3

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The Te Forum

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'DEPLORES SENDING BOY

OF 12 TO REFORMATORY By the Rev. W. R. Cady Re your article on first page of the second section of The Times, Friday, March 8, “Robert Goes to Pendleton to Help Brother,” calls for a reply. from me. Has the City of Indianapolis and the State of Indiana no other place for a wayward boy, 12 years of age, than the Reformatory? Isn't there a school for boys under 16 years of age at Plainfield? For those acquainted with the Reformatory at Pendleton to read that a 12-year-old ‘boy has been sent there, not for punishment, but for a place in which to find himself, ‘will cause a loud haw, haw. If the Reformatory has become such a fine place for “reformation,” it has changed greatly since I was connected with it a few years ago. Shame on the Welfare Board and on all citizens of Indiana if that is the best we can do for our wayward youngsters.

2 # 8 8 ; URGES PLACE ON BALLOT FOR COMMUNISTS By Imogene Poston

I was greatly surprised when the Seventh District Federation of Women’s Clubs, at a meeting March

15, refused me the right to speak one word in favor of permitting

people to vote the. Communist ticket after having had a speaker on their program who gave all the reasons

that the National Manufacturers’)

Association advances for denying the Communists a place on the ballot. For a number of years I have been glad to see women taking a greater interest in politics and the way in which our government is run. Fascism menaces this very opportunity for women, and Fascist

- methods, whether in so-called de-

mocracies or in outright Fascist countries is brought about by curtailing democracy, and the first step has always been an attack on the Communists. Today, with the threat of war hanging over us, is certainly not a time to forget our constitutional liberties; instead they should be utilized more than ever to bring out the fullest expression of the people, My forefather fought for this very principle, and I am sure that some of the worhen present also had ancestors who participated in the American Revolution to guarantee

[Ttmes 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, but names will be withheld on request.)

our country freedom of speech, freedom of press, and the right to the ballot. This is the basis of real democracy and real Americanism. The Communist Party stands for peace and democracy; it has the right to place this program before the people. i » ” » TERMS "ROOSEVELT NATURAL BORN LEADER By Edward Allen In my time and according to my views I have seen but two natural born gi as Presidents of the U. S. All the rest of the Presidents

have been what I call followers. President Teddy Roosevelt was natural born leader, ‘but Rar to my views, he led for what he loved or what he hated with much prejudice. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, according to -my ‘views, is a natural born leader. He has led for the love and respect of humanity and his country and his office. Being President is a big job and lots of responsibility. My views are, if he accepts the nomination for this coming third term, that he will carry every state in ‘the Union. "That includes Vermont and Maine.

defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltarire.

The aged people do not think much of Mr. ‘McNutt's Social Security plan. There is inevitably an Old Age Pension plan coming that will be better and more what the old age needs and wants, I was taught to homnor and respect old age and any -man that does not honor and respect the old people I always put down as a coward: My views of reducing taxes is not to reduce the poor relief allow-

get, but reduce the salaries of all city employees and reducing the salaries of the school teachers would reduce taxes. #2. 8 = SAYS PEOPLE CREATE BUT DO NOT SHARE WZALTH ‘By Curious, Bloomington, Ind. | ~ We people do not own the wealth of America and we have no voice in how it will be saved or spent-under our present economic system. We, all of us and our forefathers, created all the financial wealth that is in America, but it is not ours to use. More than nine-tenths of it is a| concentrated in the hands of less than 100 American families. The wealth of America is not ours because it is individually owned by a small class. of people called super plutocrats. - - Because of private ownership, they can loan it to- Europe and let us starve, because it is theirs and we have no right to say how they shall make more money with it. It is not the question in America,

“Where is my surplus needed?” is, “Where can I make more re

with it?”

New Books at the Library

HZ does it feel to live in an iron lung; of what value is the Nobel-prizeq discovery of heavy water; and why is pneumonia really Public Enemy No. 4? These questions sample the many absorbing ‘phases of medical progress which , “Modern Miracle Men” (Dodd) are making, FN Notwithstanding this war, the army which affords us Americans the greatest protection is that comparatively small squad of medical tough boys; the United

Side Glances—By Galbraith

“The young American is given. a false set of ideas 2 from infancy and trained to the belief that’ marriage,| § instead of being a social contract between two ma-| § 3 ture, thinking people, must be a breathless never-|

intolerable without some moonlight and | | {{}

time of

! States Public Health Service. J. D. Ratcliff points out that it is their vigilance which keeps foreign scourges from reaching our shores; their

the elusiveness of ' cancer are mighty weapons in defense of the people.| It is the present chief who put the word syphilis into the vocabulary of polite society. \ Right along with the medical men in this business of remarkable.developments' are the engineers and chemists... Take food, for instance; The engineers have developed refrigeration to the degree that -they take it to the truck garden to meet the ripening peas, berries, or what-have-you, so! that 300 minutés after picking is begun, those [peas are on their way to market in frozen packages. | The chemist is accomplishing similar wonders in hydroponics, which means that water, plus the right chemicals, plus seed, can‘ produce tomato: plants 25 ‘feet high. What's going on in the world? Here's the answer, not only | fo medicine, but for science and research, and for the industrial applications of these findings, which

1 | will undoubtedly change tomorrow’s mode “of living.

Fascinating isn’t a big enough word to encompass these tales,

35 Notre. By VERNE S. MOORE

| A listless night in summer .

Potent with mystery and heat, Soft breezes, perfume laden, Make its magic spell Sopsie;

| Convincing, promising, fulfilling,

Creating an uige over Pi ‘To yoice its neeturnal emotion In one call.

ecstatic. i from the. soul of night eird, transcendent, pulsate, Trills the siren cry of a toad To his amphibious mate.

DAILY | THOUGHT

As saith the proverb of the ancients, Wickedness proceedeth from the wicked; but mine hand shall not uel; 24: 13.

‘| estimated life, t ya, rate of cost for its

to be laid off in that factory.

ance as they really need all they |

roadcasting of medical in- |

ir I rch “into |. | formation and hoi Jeses ‘the borrower should maintain in

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oO Mah ney May Be on Night Track: Tax on Pay Rolls to Finance All aws, Needs Re-examination. ASHINGTON, March 25.—Senator O’Mahoney’s proposal® to tax machines has had a panning from every editorial that I Tead—ang I have to. read ' a good many.

1 can't recomm rid the Senator’s bill. In the first : place, although I have studied it, I don’t understand

it. I have a dim idea that it taxes the producer who

makes more than average use of machines and from the avails, subsidizes the producer who uses less than the average ma e rower. aed hence employs mors manpower, I can't go for that. It is not taxing for revenue. It is using the power to tax as a power to punish one group and reward another in proportion to their degree of departure from or compliance with a Government rule as to how they should run their business. .

IN » » » " r NEVER TeL SS, there is something very valuable in part of what the Senator has at the back of his thought. We ought fo re-examine this | {des of financing all social legislation by taxes on ‘pay rolls or give more th ugnt to taxes on machines or ma-

chine hours. The rush to ard machine {production and away from employmen: isn’t altogether caused by advances in science and invention. Every time a manufac-

turer installs a new machine operation displacing la-

bor. he makes a certain calculation. Put the present labor cost of that operation in one column. Then calculate the total cost of installation of the new Huse e. From that, figure a rate of interest on that investment. Then compute from its replacement. Estimate the cost of repairs and upkeep. A Add these all up and compare the total ‘with your labor ‘cost. Considdr that, in slack season, men ‘be laid off and machines can’t. Their cost is fixed and continuous. Unless theré is no distinct cost advantage in installing the machine operation no la r is going

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HEN this | calculation is made becau § great labor saving invention, Gove:

of some ent ought

1 not to interfere. Labor leaders are th rors and

loudest in saying that. . ; But the exact reverse of that is truel when the lesser cost of machine. operation is caused not by invention, but solely by governmental action increasing labor cost by a tax on pay rolls. That literally lashes the employer away from taxed labor and toward un= taxed labor-saving devices to keep his costs even, - I would like to see somebody kick a argument. In the name of common se principal national problem is unemplo ‘ation) to increase unemployment when, 3 revenue and nop greater burden on any be used with double effect to reduce it?

Business By John T. Flynn Shop He Defends SEC ‘Again Bankers In Dispute Over Utility Financing. |

EW YORK, March 25.—The A have chosen this moment ‘SEC. 1It is all a matter of strate are right in their timing. The d t eve the right, and in places quite rapidly. but it is so. And the investment bank feel that this is the hour for ther ‘the Securities and Exchange Com n. The commission has told utilities tha they should shop around [for their money. ' Utilities in the past . have“tied themselves up to special banking interests, and in That cases have been their own. bankers through their own separately owned subsidiaries. The SEC believes that the utilities haven't always gotten a good break from these bankers. It wants to free

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-the utilities from banker control.

But the investment bankers have revolted. They demand an investigation of the SEC and they insist that this competitive shopping about for money would injure the utilities, the bankers and the ‘public.’ The bankers may be making a mistake about the timing of their attack, for all that. The Securities and Exchange Commission and the Truth-in- Securities Act remain the most generally approved ‘of- all the Roosevelt en rprises. What is more, the’ SEC, in spite of all the carping of the bankers, has been one of the most lenient of the Bobueweté, commissions, considering its large powers. - It has used but few of those powers and then with so much tenderness that real security -market regulation - have criticized the commission. The publi¢ has not forgotten what happened to the billions it put intp utility issues of all sorts. And t| they have not; forgotten the par played by banker ’ management in this great disaster. . The SEC is not the only authority which believes that utilities would be immeasurably better off if they were managed and dominated by utility men rather than by bankers, by men primarily concerned the service phase of ‘the business rather than money phase. | -

Just Like Buying Coal. | i"

Utilities must have money to operate, just as. they : must have “coal and steel and copper. There is no reason why they cannot go into the market and get money from the lowest bidder! dust as they buy their

coal that way. The bankers had established an assumption that ate relations with the banker who supplies the money, even to the ex-: tent of having him on the of directors. The

man who sells coal to the utility ought not to be on *

the board and the man who hires ot it money to it ought not be on the board. That is what the SEC means when it says that the utility corporation as one unit ought to deal with the money-renting corporation as another and separate unit—at arm’s length. ‘This looks like a pretty good piece of horse sense. Of course, this. might work a har, dship on some bankers and cause others to lose profits. But that is what happens when any corporatior is forced to cut away from favored groups who make money out of supplying coal, steel or anything else to it. The SEC is merely enforcing now a principle of business action which many businessmen follow in their own affairs ang bes lieve in for the utilities.

By Jane afford

+ N the old-fashioned novels, th ¢ maiden or youth

who suffered from unr love always 10 ib appetite, refused to eat and gf happiness and worry does | appetite for food ‘and may 1}

person lose weight. Accordin

weight or ybesity. This m wih a little 1

and tubby figures. The e overweight, accor its outlet in “the satisfactio probaply the most primary | te,” says Dr. Eat

on g a idea proves to t

er studies will,