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MONDAY, APRIL 8, 1940 fem—— ; ; ‘DANGEROUS ILLUSION " "A'S April began, 499 American cities and towns were AX onder the city manager plan and, with five more pre‘paring to vote on manager charters, the total seems likely to pass 500 this month. : This is encouraging, but the fact is that the manager “plan has had no such growth as its advocates expected 10 years ago. Between 1912 and 1930 it was extended from ‘two or three cities to more than 400. Since 1930 its met gain has been less than 100. About a third of the towns ‘now under it are in the “below-5000" population group; fewer than 20 are in the “ahove-100,000” class. Cleveland, the largest city that ever tried it, has abandoned it. Yet the manager plan itself, in our opinion, has not failed. It is no automatic safeguard against bad government, as in Kansas City, but it can be an instrument of ‘excellent government, as in Cincinnati. It can work as well in large cities as in towns and villages. And in’ general it has worked well wherever enough citizens have shown enough interest in municipal affairs to campaign actively for adoption of the plan and to support it intelligently after its installation. | | : The comparatively slow extension of the manager plan ~ since 1930, we think, indicates that many citizens have been less militantly interested in the efficiency and economy of local government than they were in the 1920’s.. That, if true, is a matter for great regret, but one explanation

seems fairly obvious. |

The 1930’s have seen the Federal Government doing for |

the cities a great many things that it never thought of doing before—and doing them, for the most part, with borrowed money. That much of what the Federal Government has done was necessary can’t be denied. But the Sllusion it has helped to create—that a rich uncle in Washington can forever save the cities and their people from the ‘consequences of inefficient local government—is one of the ‘most dangerous things in American life.

BACK TO BABASU } N that.day in June, 1930, when Congress took final 7 action on the Smoot-Hawley tariff, Republican Leader Jim Watson stood on the Senate floor and flapped his arms in the best Hoosier oratorical style. Said he: © «We are in the midst of a financial depression . . . ut I here and now predict . . . that if this bill is passed this

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nation will be on the upgrade financially, economically and and that within a fgeafrom |

commercially within 30 days, year this time we shall have regained the peak of présperity.” It seems pertinent, 10 years later, to recall this .particular Republican prophecy and prophet. - For today other Republican spokesmen—having just been routed in their efforts to destroy the Hull trade program—are uttering a comparable nonsense. They are hopefully declaring that their legislative defeat will victory, come November. | "The Republicans in 1940 are not without issues which can be turned into votes. But if they neglect the real issues,

“and offer the people another phoney bill. of goods on the.

tariff, they may discover on the morning after the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November that alarums over imports of cheddar cheese and babasu nuts are still good politics—in Maine and Vermont. -*

THE SOCIALISTS NOMINATE NJORMAN THOMAS, who for the fourth time is the © Socialist Party’s nominee for President of the United Btates, will not be elected. If he gets one-thirtieth of the

votes next November, that will be more than he got in 1928 or 1932 or 1936.

: Neither Mr. Thomas nor his running-mate, "Prof. Maynard C. Krueger, nor any member of the convention which nominated them in Washington yesterday, expects a vicfory at the polls. In that respect, they are leaders of a hopeless cause—but by no means a foreign one. Indeed, the very fact that they know they won’t win gives them one great advantage over the Democrats and the Repubcans. - . :« They don’t need to compromise with their principles. They can say what they believe, without pussyfooting or hokum. The enthusiasm of their supporters is based on no éxpectation of sharing the spoils of office. They don’t have to kid the voters or themselves. |

: They are honest liberals, seeking thoroughly demodératic methods to produce peaceful evolutionary change. ‘They hate one war as much as another. They have less faith in Russian communism than they have in American ¢apitalism, and they have never been hooked to the Stalin party line. The Socialists don’t try to bore from within. Their attack against what they consider wrong in the presén system is open and direct, and its effectiveness is not to be measured by election returns. The “radical” ideas of the Socialists as to soeial and economic reforms have a way éf turning up, after a few years, as planks in the major party platforms and as laws on the statute books.

: For the next seven months candidates Thomas and

Krueger will go about the country} igning vigo: : : g £20 y9 campaigning vigorously.’ lions of women? Only one thing. It meant the right

Then they will accept their inevitable defeat, gracefully and even happily, having kept their self-respect and having won the respect of millions of Americans who wouldn't think of voting for them. gh | ‘STATESMAN OF THE WEE | 'AYS a United Press dispatch from Monongah, W. Va.: ~ “Senator Neely, West Virginia New Deal Democrat, aid that if he were President he would name John L. Lewis ecretary| of the Navy and Joe Louis, heavyweight chamion boxe the American flag and they'd regget it,

r, as Secretary of War, ‘Then let any bewhiskered hioed gentleman like Stalin or Hitler.look cockeyed he said.”

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Fair By Westbrook Pegler Kansas . City and Louisiana Cited In Picking Flaws in Mr. Green's Comparison of A. F.of L.to U.S.

WEW YORK, April 8—William Green says that the

relation of the American Federation of Labor to its component unions is like that of our national Government to the several states. “The A. F. of L.” he says, “has no pulsion over these unions.”

Well, it may have escaped Mr. Green’s notice, but the relation of the Federal Government to the several States has changed considerably. When the state

government, of Louisiana went into a Spin the Federal Government established a sort of receivership and when the rotten Pendergast machine in Kansas City nullified the citizens’ constitutional right to vote the national Government sent a whole gang of the criminals to prison. If the state of Minnesota were: to make war against Canada, or if the state of Maine should attempt to seize New Hampshire's Polish corridor to the sea by force of arms, the Federal Government would intervene at once. Now, Mr. Green and all rank and filers in the A. F. of L. know there are many situations in certain of the component unions which parallel the Louisiana and Kansas City situations. Elections are rigged or dispensed with altogether, and Mr. Green himself recently indorsed the regime of a criminal who became international president of an A. F. of L. union without any vote whatever. And unions within the Federation frequently make war on the public, as in the building trades cases now in process in the Department of Justice. : i ’ » 8 2 ND, to round out the comparison, Mr. Green’s unions often open war on one another, and such border raids and invasions go unrebuked by the Federation. } Po What, then, are the

power to com-

powers and duties of the Fed-

eration? Mr. Green is so emphatic and petulant on|

the subject of what they say what they are.: - He tells us that the rank and file guard their autohomy and withhold police powers from the Federation because they fear. dictatorship, but the truth is that many of these autonomous unions are themselves dictatorships which could be broken up by the Federation authority but cannot be overthrown by their own members. Some of these dictators are very bad men, and rank and file members are afraid that they will be killed or badly injured or, at least, expelled and deprived of their right to work if they utter a peep of protest in meeting. (© ‘2 8 =

UT when Mr. Green and John L. Lewis, too, speak in fear of Government regulations of labor unions, I wonder how they can have risen so high in the labor movement. Because both of them have indorsed the Wagner Act when the fact is that it contains the works of Government regulation. This act compels workers to join unions and pay the fees, dues and assessments, but the Government, in creating this

ire not that he neglects to

| compulsion, has created for itself a corresponding re-

sponsibility. Put it this way: Le When my Government compels me to join an organization .and pay taxes to the same it owes me an obligation to guarantees honest elections within that organization and honest handling of that money. And how can the Government guarantee the honesty of those elections and of the administration of the union treasury? Only one way—by government regulation

1 and supervision of labor unions through the Labor

Relations Board. Mr. Green and Mr. Lewis ought to get out their specs and read the fine print in labor’s magna charta.

Inside Indianapolis

About the Trials and Tribulations of Folks Who Have to Tour the State

HREE state officials drove to Rochester, Ind., last week at high speed so that they might arrive

on time for an unemployment committee meeting of

a national business club. One of thie three gentlemen was Mr. George Smith of the State Unemployment Service. "

The meeting was scheduled for the Fairview Hotel on Lake Manitou. | They stopped to ask a filling

station man where the hotel was located and he

looked at them bewildered. “Am I crazy?” said the gas attendant. “This is the eighth car that’s stopped for that question. The Fairview burned down two years ago!” The meeting was finally held, an hour late, in another hotel. Well, just a couple of nights later, Mr. Smith and some other gentlemen drove up into Hamilton County for a Grange meeting. The affair was to be held in a lodge hall and when the Smith party arrived, there was a large crowd standing around outside. It turned out the secretary of the lodge had the only key and he’d gone to Indianapoiis. So the meeting wasn’t held. Mr. Smith is now all for telephoning before he starts on any more trips.

2 8 8 ONE PERFORMER WITH the circus now showing

at the Coliseum just barely managed to escape death yesterday when a net into which he took a 100-foot

. dive gave way. Chuck Verrell, the aerialist, escaped

with a wrenched leg when he plunged into the saw-

dust. A little while later, Chrales Chillingsworth, 40, the trainer of the rattlesnakes exhibited in the sideshow, had to take a hurry-up trip to City Hospital. He had been bitten on the finger by one of his rattlers. Then early today, Pietro Christian, manager of an acrobatic act in| the circus, was taken to Methodist Hospital. He was injured when he was struck by an automobile on N. Delaware St. : That's why show folks are so superstitious about things happening in threes. | 8 8 8

A GROUP OF HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS was standing arguing on the Circle about trying to induce one of them to go to a dance. . . . Finally, the rebel spoke up: “All right, I'll'go, but if you get a jitterbug you've] got to swap with me.” . . . William E. Abel, 210 N. Mount St., saw a Western movie at the Belmont Theater Saturday night: . . . Sunday noon he went into a W. Washington St.:restaurant for dinner and six men came in. . . . M®¥ Abel blinked. . . . He recognized the faces of several as the cowboys he had seen in the movie. . . . He asked them and they said yes, they had played in the movie and that they were on their yey back to California by auto. . . . Small world, sn’t it?

e ’ 5 ® ° A Woman's Viewpoint. By Mrs. Walter Ferguson’

N. any long glance at the modern woman one is | struck by the fact that she is always eager to imitate man. These so-called conflicts between the sexes seem to resolve themselves into this foolish striving. ¥ " How much we have harmed ourselves by parroting masculine opinion can hardly De estimated. For the chief desire of the average girl is an eagerness to

make herself over into some likeness of the male. She| is dead set on thinking, behaving and carousing like|-

a man. . J What has the word freedom actually meant to mil-

to live as a man lives. That included possession of a

+ latchkey, the chance to drink and smoke in public, to

work in offices and to have loyers if lovers were desired. Now all these advantages may be pleasant to the

individual but they do not guarantee freedom, as we|

are fast finding out. ; In my opinion one damns with faint praise when one tells a woman she has a man’s mind. Who wants a man’s mind? It may be a very good one, but so are our minds good, if we hold fast to those mental traits

which cause our thinking to differ from men’s on|

certain issues. If we don’t do that, of course, we shall beco:ne only poor imitations of the other sex, shorn of our power and influence. God created two sexes. The fine balance of the life iB preserved only so long as they remain different. Feminine convictions and opinions; those deep seated “instincts” which are ours alone, are quite a:

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The Hoosier Forum 1 wholly disagree with- what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

URGES REAL OBSERVANCE OF BIRD DAY, APRIL 12

By William Lewis : The Liberty Bell Bird Club, spon-

sored by one of our leading farm|

magazines, has set aside Friday, April 12, as Bird Day. And on that day we should consider the birds and the good they do in destroying insects. Insect life is most abundant and

the total economic loss caused by!

insects is enormous. Insect damage to farm crops alone amounts to nearly a million dollars each year. And this is only part, for insects inflict losses on farms, fruits and forests—all three. : But if he had enough birds, man could check this damage. -Birds are a great controlling factor in limiting

the development of insect life. Each|.

bird devours an incredible number of insects; and there are several types of birds for the several types of insects. So we should, ‘by all means, cease taking our birds for granted. It is good and fine that we do nothing to harm them. But it is better still that we did something to help them. We can supply them with homes and water, make their surroundings congenial and protect them from their enemies. £ = 2 8 CITES JEFFERSON ON CURRENCY CONTROL

By R. Sprunger “If the American people ever

allow private banks to control the

issue of their currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive

the people of all property until}

their children will wake up homeless on a continent their fathers conquered.”—Thomas Jefferson. Although this is happening, don’t believe it because the “sages” who have no program but to hide in the “prush” and snipe at progressive people, say it isn’t so and would be un-American to do: anything about it if it were. : Above all don’t use organized power to improve the condition of the whole human race as that would be bad for the capitalist powers that be. Don’t you know that organized power is the “special property” of the organized capitalistic monopalies and the common people “right” to it? Be a “rugged individualist” and let the “buzzards” pick your “bones” clean. Last but not least, claim you are a Christian but do your neighbor before he does you.

Side Glances—By Galbraith

(Timés readers are invited to express their views in these columns, religious con‘troversies excluded. Make your lettérs short, so all can have a chance. Letters must be signed, but names will be withheld on request.)

SAYS SOVIET GOVERNS BY “CONFESSION” By Amused ; In England they govern by tradition. In France, by emotion. In Germany, by intimidation. In the United States. by investigation. ‘In Russia, by confession. -- = | | There must be something in Communist doctrine and teaching, rather than in the much-touted Russian soul, that brings the culprit caught on the wrong side of some political fence to grovel in abject confession of his error. : Nicholas Dozenberg, the Red Army spy who,was for years prominent in U. S. Communist ranks, wound. up by abjectly renouncing the ideals for which he had worked, and fever-

ishly embracing those of democracy.

A copy of Dozenberg’s disavowals might be sent to the Kremlin. for filing alongside those of Bukharin, Rykov, and the other purge victims. Poor Dozenberg thought that even in renouncing the Communist movenfent he had to follow its technique. 2 ® » » SEES SPIRITUAL BONDAGE IN WAGNER LABOR ACT By Subscriber ; ¢ Taking into question the National Labor Relations Act and the Closed Shop contract or agreement; Congress shall make no law establish-

ing rights of any religion (nor prohibit the free exercise thereof). Obey your employer—be content with your wages—man does not live by bread alone. : When conscientious persons attempt to keep these statutes or precepts he finds himself in a spiritual ‘bondage prescribed by these Acts of Congress above. (Whenever a manmade law causes a conflict between the letter of the law..and the spirit of the law there is something wrong with that man-made law). . For instance, the monopoly of lands started by labor groups through loan associations 50 and 60 years ago as well as all other methods of projective acts and collusion agreements,

8 8 = WANTS RIGHT TO MAKE ALCOHOL ON FARM By Chas, Blankenship

It has been prohibitory for 59 years in our country and our people have striven for victory over the alcohol powers which we now have. At the present time our drink is costing our people at the rate of $5 to $10 a bushel for corn which is of no valuation to us for a living and if we had the right of liberty to manufacture our own products of pure fermented alcohol, of which we would have a pure drink, by self-supporting labor. At the rate of revenue of 25 per cent to 50 ‘per cent on the gallon we could make, and’ derive a benefit for all concerned, as grain produces two gallons of alcohol per bushel at 90 proof, and I believe that is sufficient to pay revenue and satisfy all. Let’s look forward to our primaries next month and our national affairs next November. - Liberty

and rights of our people foremost.

New Books at the Library

IGGER THOMAS, the fearful, tortured figure who moves with such breathless and black fury

through the pages of “Native Son”|

(Harper), was doomed from the time he killed the well-intentioned, flighty daughter of the rich Mr. Dalton—was doomed from the first pages of this book—was doomed perhaps from the time he was born. Driven by a hate and a fear and frustration which he himself could understand but dimly, he fought the

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world blindly, trying in this way to find - an integrity of personality which he could not find otherwise. Richard Wright's story of this young Negro boy is compelling and horrible. : riers from the normal life of a young American, rebelling: against the way in which inferiority is constantly thrust upon him, aware always of the danger from a potentially ‘hostile white world, he finds release only in defiance of this world in which he lives but in

- | which he has no part.

‘When he accidentally kills Mary Dalton, he is. terrified; for what chance is there that white people will ‘believe that he, a black boy, has not meant to kill her? From this point begins the suspense of flight and pursuit, of the ruthlessness that comes of despair,-of his moments of clear-sighted horror of his own acts—a suspense at times almost unbearable. Tragic as are the events of the narrative—the murder, the flight, the trial—the real tragedy lies in the boy Bigger, who realizes himself only when with the killing of Mary Dalton he breaks through the bonds which stifle him and experiences at last, even though a hunted creature, the human privilege of freedom of choice. ot : This is the tragedy which Richard Wright so powerfully. portrays.

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AFTER THE APRIL RAIN

By RUTH KISSEL Into the blue skies, Whose depth s into space, The storm-cleaned majestic building Raises its sparkling face. At its feet the scrubbed black earth Glows green with growing grass, But the bough above drips a last lone drop 1 That catches me as I“pass.

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Watching Your Health

| Loga Bil to| Regulate Boards One of Most | Important Before Congress But Faces Hard Fight.

Vy 2smNaroy, April 8+No bill before this Cone

gress is more important than the Logan-Wal-ter Bill to “regulate the regulators.” We must have administrative commissions which violate a fundamental principle of, our sys to the extent that. the; make the law (regulations), judge the law and execut the law. Liberty depends on: keeping these thre functions in different hands as far as possible. Othere- | wise these boards and adm trations may become little tyrants. : =f That by no means always happens, but there are many odorous exceptions. If could not happen if the | Logan-Walter Bill becomes law. That bill has the | support of substantial majorities in Congress and | most of the bar. It doesn’t in the least threaten the | efficiency of these agencies nor limit their authority except in the single case that they abuse it. It is / opposed mainly by a minority composed of some of’ those agencies and notably by the White House janis< sariat, who have plugged for personalized and centralized government. ni Fond 2 8 |=

HE only danger of it not passing is that they may try to keep it from coming up. Aft their stance, the President is believed to have given orders to Senator Barkley and Speaker Bankhead not to let it come up, but the House Steering Committee is determined to do so. | The President says that he has not read the bil and has no idea whether the points he proceeded to make against certain proposals on this subject applied to this bill. Senator Logan|took the bill to him and explained it, but perhaps he, has forgotten. Since the points he made do not apply, perhaps he favors it. He doesn’t want the formal court rules-of judicial procedure to apply in these agencies. The bill does not even mention. those rules, . It leaves procedure as informal as it now is. It does require that all that happens at a hearing-be recorded. This is aimed at abuses by prejudiced examiners of some boards in permitting to go into the record only what suits their

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HE bill requires written findings of fact. This is. to prevent the abuse of findings of fact not at all supported by evidence and to permit courts of review to see whether there is substantial evidence to support findings. No reasonable man could object to that. | a The President said he doesn’t want any judicial rules applied to these agencies which might give litigants. ofportunity to slow up procedure and give to the richest litigant the better chance. As the Presi dent suggested, anybody would agr ith this, But, instead of slowing up action, this bill greatly speeds it, and reduces expenses. £4 It would do more than anything yet suggested to speed up action, end ab and spread a sense of jus= tice to wipe out the growing suspicion and resentment of arbitrary administrative Federal procedure,

Business By John T. Flynn |

Suggests Business ‘Should Study Some of Its Self-Imposed Shackles.

Coan, April 8—The National Association of Manufacturers has summoned its members as warriors to save the s ‘of free enterprise. This is not the first time in history that the leaders of the existing system have or zed to save their system.

| Back in the 14th and 15th Centuries the princes and

the lords and guildsmen were tremendously troubled at the attacks on their system—the feudal system and its strange twin in the towns, the guild system. There was no doubt that something was destroying both these systems. In the towns great merchants were attaining immense power and wealth against all the principles and interests of the guildsmen. In the ‘nation the powers of government were being slowly absorbed by the king. The feudal lords were losing their power. :’ . Sel Conferences were called of the princes and the holders of estates. The guilds convoked confer ences, too. Orators went about discussing the subse ject. The church issued| rules and regulations designed to deal with the great problem. All sorts .of cures were proposed. But the strangest thing of all about this era of crumbling, which lasted [for several hundred years, was that in all these discussions, in all these plans, the real force which was killing the old system ‘was never mentioned. The princes blamed the king and even the church. The guil ) and the merchants and often the king for his monop-~ olies. But none of them blamed the real cause. The real cause was money. The institution of money had introduced a new method of exchange which was so far superior to the old method that the old method was falling apart before it. And as it did, everyone who conferred and concerted to save the system rivaled each other in their desire for money. And they did this without resistance from anyone. Always the saviors of the existing system were fighting the wreng enemy,

Something to Think About

Now the businessmen are summoned to save the system of free enterprise. They will blame all sorts of things. They will never blame the real culprit. The culprit that is destroying free en : is busi. ness itself: 31] x : For 70 years businessmen huve. been fabricating all sorts of instruments to drive the freedom out of business. They have: invented corporations and then expanded them to create vast enterprises in order that those enterprises may be strong enough to check what are considered the enemies of business. They have formed associations to make rules, regulations, laws to control production, competition, credit, prices, employment. Jat And each time one business group makes such a combination some other group affected by it has formed a defensive combination. =~ : All this has proceeded until the whole system has gotten itself tied up in knots so it cannot move. Business holds meetings a feudalists did. It blames the Government, makers, the Reds, labor. But it never gets the real cause. Iristead, while it calls on ment to end certain checks, it advocates many checks by itself. ; I commend this thought to the men who to arm to save free enterprise in America.

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By Jane Stafford .

ARM families have the best diets, scientists of the U. S. Bureau of Home Economics have dis~

covered from a survey of what foods ‘people in

various parts of the country eat. In every region of the country families living on farms, they report, tend to rank first inthe propor« tion that have good diets. The reason, of course, iis that people living on farms are better supplied with the protective foods—milk, butter, fresh vegetables, ‘eggs ‘and fruits. Nutritionists call these protective foods ‘because they are rich sources of the vitamins and minerals essential for life and health and which | protect against such diseases as: pellagra| beriberi and scurvy. A ly Families living in large and middle-sized cities fare pretty well, their diet ranking next to that of farm families in nutritional goodness. The families who «= live in villages are worse off with regard to diet. This is because they do not produce much food at home, as the farm families do, and because village | markets do not have the assortment of foods that can be found in the large city markets. : hk The excellence of the family diet does not neces« | sarily depend on the size of the family income. It de-

‘pends to a very large extent on the skill and ingenuity

of the housewife who buys and the Even with unlimited money to spend for food, mems<

of the family may not eat e of such as vitamins and ALL