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FRIDAY, MARCH 29, 1940

THE SENATE VOTES SUMNER WELLES is back in Washington after his canvass of the belligerent capitals. He has told his story

to the President and to Secretary Hull 1 Few believe he brought good news, in the sense of news that peace is just around the corner. But he may quite well have brought: some constructive ideas about ‘the problems that will arise when peace does come, as it must

eventually. 0 * That those problems will concern the United States

_ and the other neutrals, as well as the now warring powers,

goes without saying.. | In Washington late this afternoon, Jack Garner will -crack his gavel in the Senate Chamber and the roll will be called on the Pittman amendment to the Trade Agreements Act. Under that amendment, any future agreement negotiated under the Hull reciprocal trade program would require Senate ratification, under a two-thirds vote. | ' The amendment would, in truth, kill the Hull program. It would turn back the making of tariffs to the logrollers. It would breathe the breath of life into the unmourned corpse of Smoot-Hawleyism. And worse, [it would foreclose, utterly, the best opportunity this country has for pointing the way—after the war—to the sort of international economic relations that might prevent, or at least long delay, the start of a third world war. | =1 | ' That is why the vote this afternoon is of fateful importance, not only to America but to the world.

RELIEF, RELIEF! : | ENATOR VANNUYS, we note by the dispatches out of Washington, has adopted Vice President Garner's system of retiring every night at 9. | There ought to be some way of making that compulsory for all political candidates.

«AND TOMBED THEM ONE BY ONE”

SOME weeks ago the House of Representatives, full of

New Year's resolutions and a high sense of fiscal responsibility, was pitching into appropriation bills with a cleaver. oe | But economy is a short-lived passion, in this Congress as in others. First the Senate, with one ear to the electoral ‘ground and the other cotton-stuffed against the dirges of the budget-balancers, spurned the cleaver for a ladle and began dishing out unbudgeted millions for the farmers.

For the CCC, $50,000,000 extra. For the NYA, $17,450,000 extra. To be sure, the House upheld its committee in shaving the budgeted funds of the wage-hour division and the Labor Board, but less for economy’s sake than

for “disciplining” two [troublesome agencies. - | |

The situation was sized up honestly by Rep. Woodrum (D. Va.), who told the House after the CCC vote: | “If we are now going to go ahead, pell-mell, and ap-

propriate above the budget, then I submit to you that it is

only legislatively honest to decide how you are going to

pay the bill. fe : | “Are you going to have a tax bill or are you going to raise the debt limit and borrow the money? | = | “You know as well as I know that the Congress has no idea of doing either one of those things at this session. “J feel this afternoon very much like the poet who said: “I was at the funeral of all my hopes| = And tombed them one by one; Not a word was said, not a tear was shed, When the mournfultask was done.

THE SOLUTION SOLVED ; erica/is not a nickel cigar—but a complete edition of all the writings of that great genius of mankind; the teacher and leader of the world revolutionary movement, ‘Comrade Stalin.*—From article by R. B. Hudson, Daily Worker. |

fi i BAIT FOR CONGRESSMEN «lo ONGRESS will do ell to take a long look at the U. S. Housing Authori¢ 's new |strictly rural program, just announced. bt - | ; el | "| President Rosy t has approved $2,522,000 in USHA loans to provide Louses for 1300 farm tenants, sharecroppers and other low-income in x states. Costs will range from $2600 per dwelling in an Indiana county to $1985 in a Georgia county. Rents will not

exceed $50 a year, a usually will be less. Local housing authorities will be

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ected to put up 10 per cent of the construction costs, and the plan is to amortize the Govern‘ment loans over a 60-year period. L ; ' As to the vast need for better rural housing there can be no argument, and we should like to believe that in this

program USHA’s administrator, ‘Nathan Straus, has the

| fi ; | But suspicion is aroused by the announcement that $200,000,000 for similar rural projects all over the country will be available if Congress grants Mr. Straus’ request for

Hf an $800,000,000 increase in his agency's authority to lend.

Last year Congress turned down this request, after

| bitter criticism of the lending and use of USHA’s first $800,

000,000. ' The opposition was led by representatives ‘from

rural districts. They contended that the urban housing

projects, to which USHA has. confined itself thus far, are absurd and impractical. They pointed out that low rents in these projects are made possible only beeause of huge Federal subsidies. They charged that the lending of $1,600,000,000 would require Federal subsidies of $73,000,000 a year for 60 years, a total of $4,380,000,000. And they demanded that the program be made sensible and workable before it is expanded. I al But if the program is impractical as a solution for the urban housing problem, it is impractical as a solution for the rural problem, If $2000 farm homes are rented for $50 a year ‘or less, there will have to be Federal subsidies.

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Relief Dilemma By Ludwell Denny Peet

Roosevelt

kicked aside By the President in the hope that it would take care of itself, has caught’up with him again in worse shape than ever. BX ; Unable to postpone action much longer, the President finally has started the confidential conferences with his experts out of which he will make his fateful policy decision. Fateful is not too strong a word, for whatever he decides will produce tremendous repercussions both economically and politically. . The choice of evils is to let hundreds of thousands

of his spending cuts and increase the deficit. It is not a pleasant choice, especially in an economy campaign

year. 3 : The truth is that Mr. Roosevelt took a very big gamble some months ago, and lost—at least so far. He bet on a war boom bringing recovery. To get the wherewithal for that gamble, he cut relief estimates and put that money into the largest peacetime military program of our history.

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‘HE figured that the huge Government spending . program for preparedness, plus large Allied war

make it gush. That would wash away much of the unemployment, and greatly reduce the need for Federal relief. It hasn't worked out that way—as several of his

economic advisers warned him last autumn it would not. : . In the first place the Allied war orders.except in aviation and machine industries, have not materialized. Indeed, the net of Allied war business has been that other industries have suffered and had to pay for aviation gains. In the second place, American preparedness expenditures have not spread either business or jobs widely. In fact, war business not only has failed to produce the anticipated general business upturn, it has made basic conditions worse in at least two ways. It has thrown the relation between industry and agriculture even farther out of balance, contracting instead of expanding the consumer market for the coming year. And it has dislocated some non-war industries by creating shortages in a few highly skilled labor trades and in some materials, without takipg care of the unemployed, most of whom are semi-skilled or unskilled. x = 2 ” ; OW, with unemployment between eight .and 10 million despite war business, WEA under its curtailed appropriations must drop 800,000 more before July and another 600,000 soon thereafter. The U. S. Conference of Mayors is pleading for an immediate deficiency appropriation and a minimum for the next fiscal year of at least a billion and a half. That is almost twice the amount now considered by the Congressional Appropriations Committees. The mayors point out that it is impossible for the localities and states, already beyond their depth, to care for the unemployed 1,400,000 thrown out by WPA. Under the circumstances, if the President stands firm on his policy of cutting relief while increasing military expenses, Congress probably will vote more relief anyway. But that is another story, with more political complications.

(Westbrook Pegler is on vacation)

Inside Indianapolis

The P.-T. A. and the Musicians’ Union; And the Mayor's Sales Resistance.

| HERE won't be anymore said about it probably, but the P.-T. A. and the musicians’ union have

just gone through a brief skirmish. The women were talking for a while about taking their annual state conventions out of Indianapolis, but that, too, probably has now resolved itself. The P.-T. A. has been in the habit of putting cer-

tain of its member musical groups on parts of the convention program, partly to give them representation, partly because they like it. Well, this year the P.-T. A. booked a school orchestra for its banquet. Ouch, said the musicians’ union, you can’t do it. And why not, the P.-T. A. wanted to know. It’s this way, said the anion, it's all right for you to have amateur musicians on your programs but when you start bringing in your own music for banquets, where does the thing stop and how do we eat? ‘Well, anyway, there was a session of conferences and the thing, we hear, has finally been all straightened out to everybody's satisfaction. There still is liable to be an effort made tQ mdve the convention for future years. A lot of out-of-the-city delegates have been looking for an excuse for years. jit 5 = 2 ~ HIZZONER, THE MAYOR, is approached by more salesmen, perhaps, than any other person in town. These salesmen come in all sizes and shapes. They

seek to sell the City anything from pretzels to a public utility. The approach and variety of their products is exceeded only by their vocal accomplishments. The only thing in common about the propositions is that each and evety one is absolutely, positively and unconditionally guaranteed to make money and please everybody. The Mayor disclosed the secret of his sales resistance yesterday in a single sentence: “The propositions are all fine, but the City hasn’t got any money.” } #2 #8 = : A SITUATION IS DEVELOPING at the State WPA headquarters at 1200 Kentucky Ave. that has all sorts of eerie possibilities. The WPA has just completed a photographic laboratory inside a huge two-story vault unused since the Marmon Motor Car Co. moved out of the building. WPA publicity men Daily and Welling are now a bit afraid one of them might get locked in while developing prints "after hours. It occurred to them when Mr. Daily tried to call Mr. Welling, who was inside developing films, to the telephone the other day. They discovered the vault was completely soundproof.

A Woman's Viewpoint

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

A NEW YORK judge, aking before 250 highschool pupils, confesses himself stumped on the question of “choosing a career.” We could do with more of this sort o from men and women instead of so

what I've done” attitude. [Fg J] Most of such talk is pure, holm, and the fellow who spouts it recognizes it as such even though hig generation may have accepted jt as philosophy. When it comes to careers for young people and th advice we must give them on the subject, we are at the place where we should back-track a little, There’s been far too much emphasis on the materia part of the question and not half enough said abou the individual's fitness for a particular job or about our modern tendency to confuse publicity with success. The person who enjoys his work,

make huge sums of money or be written up b Broadway gossip columnists, but if we interpret the

an outstanding example far young people. Anything that is done for love is done with pleas ure. Yet today too much of our work is not done fcr love—but only for the wage it brings us. |

And have you ever considered that our success or

think of us, and how our possessions measure up with theirs? It is terrible to think of how much stark niisery derives from envy, :

true success—that is to say, contentment of spirit ar heart’s ease—yet we throw them away to chase after the. fraudulent standards set us by the .ubiqui

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War Boom Not Apparent So Far,| Faces Prospect of| Restoring Big Slash in WPA Fund. | ASHINGTON, March 29.—The relief problem,|

of unemployed go hungry next year or to restore some NN

orders, would not only prime the business pump but|

frankness ch tall talk about “push” and “imagination” and’ the “look at

d does it as, well as he possibly can, is successful. He may ncb+

word in terms of simple contentment, he can still be|

lack of it is too often based only on what the Jonesis|

So many of us, both young and mature, have| within our reach all the materials for the making of |

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CRITICIZES GOVERNOR ON PRINTING STAND By IKthel- Webster I just wonder if the Council of the State Bureau of Public Printing expjcts to get any place with M. Clifford Townsend. They can rest assured he has not done anything about rescinding the move

legillizing out of State contracts. Liidn't he null a two-year State cortract with the - Co. last spring six months before date of exffiration, throwing men out of work? Indiana is the hand that feeds him. Why bite it? . .. 4 almost ashamed to admit I am a Democrat. Why can’t we agiiin have a Governor like Samuel Ralston? Why use our perfectly gond time voting politicians in to tajte bread out of our mouths and cl¢ithes off our backs? . . . : ‘Good luck to the Bureau of Public| Printing and the Republicans.

f » # s FAVORS LIMITED TYPE or PUBLIC OWNERSHIP By! L. B. Hetrick, Elwood.

.do not know of any person or irstitution that teaches the doctrine of public ownership of everytliing, but only those Thstitutions oi} things used for exploitation and where competition has virtually cased to exist. “There is plenty of competition in the newspaper business and their advertisements are about all that

Fave much to contend with, such as powerful monopolies that own ¢r control the means of physical xistence and finance. All we eat ¢nd wear is under such control. | We are not forced throygh economic necessity to buy a newspaper, a magazine or any other reading matter however much we should recuperate our knowledge ‘and wisdom. Yet however ignorant pr léarned, we must eat, wear lothing, live in a ‘house or some ind of shelter and use fuel or perish. | Of course the big monopolies have a power over all institutions affecting their interests in the commercial world. Yet I can in same ‘way manage to do without a news[paper but I could not long survive {without food, clothing and sheltdr. ‘Monopolies in such physical necesIsities should be publicly owned and the surplus go back to the producer and consumer in increased | purchasing power. | Mr. Ford advocated this to avoid

keeps them alive and besides they:

(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, but names will be withheld on request.)

the depression, but no one would take. his advice. . . . wy have plenty of trouble buying things we need "with our purchasing power, notwithstanding government appropriation for parity prices and to employ millions of /the unemployed on further indebtedness which puts all monies back into concentration from where if started. ... / 8 » 2 FEARS U. S. EVENTUALLY WILL GET INTO WAR By Curious, Bloomington. To Bull Mooser, Ind.: I do not want to appear pessimistic but I am putting all my eggs in one basket when I say that regardless of the next President of the U. 8. A, we are already in the continuation of the World War. The reason being momentum of our con-

Crawfordsville,

ventional system of economics and

folklore of capitalism. An English Communist wrote to me over two years ago and said that intellectual curiosity is the true basis

of culture. I af not a Communist, have never séen one to my knowledge, and robably will never be one—but /some of my friends are king ne if I am. That is what I get for being curious and spending a lot of time in the library reading BA figuring. My aim is to find the ¢ause of war and to keep out of it. * But I am losing friends and making a nuisance of myself by it. | » 2 ” BARRING COMMUNIST TALKS TERMED ERROR By An American The clubwomen who hoot down Communist apologists are making. a serious error. They are swallowing a form of propaganda every bit as vile as that, which the Communists preach. : This is the land of liberty and free speech. Our one way to pro-

tect our| own .private liberty is to allow others to speak their pieces, even though we disagree. If they preach treason they may be imprisoned. I abhor both Communism and Fascism. I want Americanism. But Americanism means free speech. The clubwomen forget that once they succeed in barring a | Communist, they are driving the first wedge home that enables somebody else to

is only a step from banishment for political or ideological reasons to banishment for religious and personal reasons. You don’t have to ask the Jews of Germany. Ask the Catholics and

Protestants.

New Books at the Library

F any good citizen of the U. S. A. is of the opinion that the prob-

lems of dictatorship belong necessarily to Europe and Asia or that

the Good Neighbor Policy toward |

Latin America, being heralded, reported, and tucked away in the archives, is “in the bag,” let him pick up T. R. Ybarra’s “America Faces South” (Dodd) and’ inform himself more fully on South American conditions to realize definitely that we have in this group of 20 so-called Republicans an amazingly varied and complicated situation. Nor is it to be inferred: that much

good feeling and many excellent

Side Glances—By Galbraith

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achievements of good neighborliness have not been accomplished, through, among others, the herculean efforts of Mr. Cordell Hull and Mr. Sumner Welles. Mr. Ybarra, son of a New England mother and a dictator-ban-ished Latin-American father, is able, through his understanding of the problems of our neighbors to the South, combined with his North American attitudes of thought, to present to us in this remarkably inclusive book a pretty complete picture of these 20 totally different countries. Mixing tolerance and humor, common sense and understanding, a love of the natural beauties of these nations, and a respect and affection for their peoples, he takes in turn the Republics, giving us something of their histories, their social and economic conditions, their very complicated and significant attitudes toward us as a nation snd toward the totalitarian countries, Germany and Japan, whose efforts toward infiltration

thinkers than our author. “ “Your book about Latin America is just hodgepodge,’ ” we quote the preface, “will be the low growl leveled at me by 100 per cent politicos and economicos and romanticos and historicos. But I'll come right back at them with: ‘So is Latin America!’ ”

SWEET AFTERWHILE By JAMES D. ROTH Wouldst thou have sweet peace of mind, : And always joy and comfort find? Then heed your Saviour’s guiding

voice, : ~ |And let His teachings be your

choice.

There's faith and hope entwined with love, Fy : Bidding us to dwell above

{Well know no pain within His

realm, With Jesus standing at the helm. «DAILY THOUGHT And He said, Verily I say unto own country.—St. Luke 4:24. HE THAT doth

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Says— Letter From Observing Californian , Indicates Mr. lckes Fell Far Short . Of Restoring Harmony on Coast.

X 7ASHINGTON, March 29.—Several letters have come in asking: “How about reports of Mr, Ickes’ highly successful peace mission in California?” I didn’t know. It seemed a marvel to me, but I have no leg-man who legs that far and later press reports have been scant and inconclusive. However, a volunteer scout has just air-mailed me the following which is better than I could do—so I quote it almost verbatim: : “Your sparring partner ‘Donald Duck’ rh had a little luck in playing the pigeon of peace the Democratic dovecote in California. In fact, California doves are about to go into court on the

Hotel ther, the everyone's | ddling one and the cone together like stand | together * boss for a third

thing. . .. ' : +“High in the fog, at the Mark Hop on Nob Hill, he gathered the lads Olsonites and the McAdoodles, Much surprise—it was announced t the had been successful, that the liberal servatives had agreed to lie do Isaiah’s lamb and lion—they'd. on a ticket rledged to Mr. Ic

» 8 | . T= departed. The fog lifted. The fun began, LL Feathers began to fall’ from discontented doves, Manchester Boddy, Los Angeles publisher, wis the first to have himself He uded out. .. . J. Frank Burke, California radio station owner and political commene tator, who was thé Governor's campaign manager, was the next to/go. C. I. O. and Workers Alliance

members next prevailed upon Califoriia’s Lieutenant Governor Elli’ E. Patterson to get off the ‘harmony cket.’ ? | “Popular Patterson is now heading a slate of his own and/ the ticket could not have been redder if the names were illuminated with crimson neon. . . . “The self-elimination of McAdoo from the OlsonMcAdoo slate now leaves the ticket headed by Gove ernor Olson and Olson is headed for political oblivion at with a recall staring h in the face: . More than 200,000 signatures of the necessary 300,000 have - been secured on recall petitions demanding a hew gubernatorial election. With leading Democrats and Republicans secretly backing the movement, the elec tion will be coming along—about July -1. # 8 2 |

“ A S if that were not enough, two million Ham and Eggers, seeing a chance for more nation-wide attention, have entered their own Democratic nomination. | “When Horrendous Harold first came to California,

| there was a possibility of only two slates, the Garner

delegation and the proposed Roosevelt ticket. Now there are four: Garner, Olson, Patterson and Ham and Eggs. And Garner, under the guidance of astute Sam Small and Zach Cobb ‘is well out in front; Harmonious Harold! ...” . | Considering this report, we can only await with deep misgivings the news of Mr. Ickes’ similar pile

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Business By John T. Flynn :

Stamp Plan Just| Another Subsidy In List of Economic ‘Remedies.’

HICAGO, March 29.—The remedy for every weake ness in our economic systém now is a subsidy. If a ‘man is out of work we give him relief money. This is defensible. Bewildered gs to howto create work, we cannot let men and families starve. But we do not stop there. We give subsidies to everybody or almost everybody who is having any sort of business troubles—to banks, to railroads, to mortgage come panies, to insurance companies, to farmers, to processors, to mine owners, even to Mexico. , Many of these subsidies would be difficult to defend if we handed out the subsidies openly and frankly. So we have all sorts of devices, subterfuges for giving them. One of them is the stamp plan. This is a device to pay a processing tax to producers. But on the surface it looks like| a plan to feed the hungry. It started with a plan in the Surplus Commodities Corp. It was supplied with Government money to go around the country buying up crops which all sorts of farmers could not dispose of. The avowed purpose was to hold up the prices of these crops—sweet potatoes in Virginia, applesauce in Montana, and so on. Having bought these undisposable surpluses of everything under the sun, the Government then decided that a good use to make of it would be to distribute it among the people who needed something to eat. And so this was done for several years. All the publicity about this had to do with distributing the foods to the needy. It never mentioned that the prime object was to keep up the prices of foodstuffs to millions of other people who had very little to buy with and were the sufferers from these higher prices —people whose taxes were being used to raise prices on the food they bought: : /

Cotton Next on List

But then somebody had another bright dea. The grocery stores and vegetable stores complained that the Government ought not to distribute food to the. needy. It should give them money so that they would go to the store and buy what they needed so badly, They wanted to make a profit on this. distribution of food to the needy. So the Government invented a scheme to do this. It was not a scheme to distribute food to the poor, bechuse that was already being done. It was a scheme to enable grocers to. get a cut on this’ distribution. - / Instead of giving the poor food, they were given stamps which tney could take to the grocery and exe change for. the food bought by the Surplus Come modities Corp. But all the publicity has to do with the beautiful plan to distribute food to the poor; nothing about including the grocer in the subsidy. Now the Secretary of Agriculture wants to extend this subsidy. He wants to give a processing tax to the cotton farmers. Congress doesn’t like the idea. So it will be disguised under a stamp plan which ‘will be a subsidy not only to the cotton farmer but to the seller of cotton goods as well Can’t somebody t of some scheme to make this system work without paying out Government

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Watching Your By Jane Stafford |

NEXT time you buy a pair of shoes, and especially if you are getting shoes for a child whose feet have not yet been forced out of shape by poorly fitting shoes, you might consider the shoe specifications re ‘cently given- in the Canadian Medical Association Journal. tay Draw a straight line, imaginary or-with the shoe Salesman’s measure, from the center of the heel to the toe of the shoe, running along the middle of the waist or narrow part of the shoe. In the normal foot this line passes between the second and the middle toes. The shape of many shoes, however, is such that this ling passes too obliquely on one side or the other. As | a result there is a forcible strain on the joints of the front part of the foot, swinging it away from the side that has the pressure. . Round-iged Shoe may offend in this respect just as much as pointy- oes, | The degree of poin of the shoe ter, so long as the inner side does not b toward: the point until the front of the reached. The foot ids in sti or advice about length hoes /: and one-half sizes 1 i when sitting. Another hs lowed for socks or stockings. Women are gene y accused but it is sta would be more comfortable if one-quarter inches : perhaps as imports

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