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I 1 ¥ TUESDAY, APRIL 9, 1940

INCH AT A TIME 2 GENATOR ADAMS of Colorado proposes a way out of the Congressional dilemma on the legal debt limit. In fact the Senator has two proposals: 1. That each time Congress votes for an appropriation which would extend the public debt beyond the legal limit of $45,000,000,000, it should also ve te a specific tax to provide the additional revenue needed; or | 2. In lieu of a new tax, it should vote specific authorization to borrow the exact amount needed to finance each new appropriation deficit. | This being an election .year, Congress will see little merit in

it is safe to predict that at first proposal. But

the second suggestion may appeal to lawmakers whose |

thoughts are on November. They may consider that to inch the public debt limit up a few million dollars at a time would be politically less dangerous than to meet the “issue headon by one blanket increase of five or 10 billions. Even that would be better than begging the issue, voting the appropriations and. going hore leaving the Treasury to get the money by illegal means after it had exhausted both the revenues and its legal authority .to borrow. If it be cynical to predict that Congress will do whatever requires the least political courrage—well, we can only plead that we are judging by experience. Year after year Congress has. convened in a flurry of talk about big economies. And year after year it has adjourned in a flood of big spending. gh | : About the only economy Congress has favored in the last few weeks affects an air base in Alagka—and the people

of Alaska don’t vote. |

UNEMPLOYED DOLLARS HE Chase National Bank of New York reports ‘that its | deposits on March 30 were $3,060,768,704—a new world’s record for a commercial bank. It is not, unfortunately, a record to be viewed with satisfaction. “The reports from banks in many cities, showing deposits at higher levels than ever before, are more exact -than the estimates of men unemployed, but hardly | less disturbing. For a large proportion of these dollars are unemployed dollars. | The Chase, for instance, had a “cash position” of - $1,522,549,671, indicating a situation common to all large banks—that deposits are increasing much more rapidly than they can be loaned and put to work. It had nearly another billion in Government, state and local securities. But it had

| out, in loans and discounts, only a little more than one-

fifth of its total deposits. - That is super-liquidity, making - for great safety but not for business activity. The unemployment of men and the unemployment of

dollars are twin problems, and every needless obstacle to the

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THE MUDDOM AND IRONPANTS

: FTER Gen. Hugh Johnson delivered an oratorical broad-

side against the New Deal, according to a dispatch from New York, he was scolded by Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins. And then, the General is quoted as saying: “I asked her to kiss me. She did.” : Ah, spring!—when even an Ironpants’ fancy lightly turns from opprobrium to osculation.

CIGARETS FROM JERSEY

AST November a young woman bought 160 packages of cigarets in Jersey City, had them wrapped in’ two, bundles, and carried them across the Hudson River to New York, her home. | : She was followed all the way by an agent of the New York finance department, who called a policeman and had her arrested in a restaurant where she had placed the bundles on a table. Taken to the Municipal Building for questioning, she insisted she had bought the cigarets for the personal use of herself and her brother. The city produced no evidence to the contrary. But a magistrate fined her $25 on a charge of violating the city law against trafficking in untaxed cigarets and, to avoid going to jail for 10 days, she paid the fine. 13 Now three judges of a higher court have reversed her conviction. They held that cigarets bought outside the city for personal use, not for resale, do not require New York tax stamps. ras | Obviously, this is a sensible decision. Visitors to New York City, and residents returning from other states or towns, will be relieved to know that the city has no legal ‘right to track them down, : for bringing in a supply of smokes. j ‘But the incident throws an interesting light on a subject much discussed of late—the subject of trade barriers between states. Many states, and even many cities, have erected such barriers, to raise revenue, to protect “home” industries or for other purposes. It is a dangerous tendency, andjnot the least of its dangers is this—that it tempts officials, zealous to enforce their tariff laws,to subject citizens to the annoyance and expense of defending themselves against charges of smuggling, not frome foreign countries but from neighboringcities and states. f

80,000 MORE READERS A CURRENT best-seller is entitled “How to Read a Book.” Being in the newspaper business, we are more attracted to a new CCC booklet with which the average illiterate boy. “can learn to read a newspaper in about three months.” | The GCC’s good work is not confined to conservation of forests and soil. “To date,” says its director of camp education, “nearly 80,000 young men have been taught to read and write while enrolled in the camps.” It will surprise some to learn that the CCC could turn up that many (illiterates in this supposedly super-educated country. Certainly it is a blessing that the opportunity they

missed in childhood is knocking a second time.

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Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

FBI Chief Critical ‘of Regular Newspapers, but Is Chummy With

Journalist; of Rumor School Type.

EW YORK, april 9.—The recent flurry of pub. licity regarding J. Edgar Hoover’s sojourn in the Miamis was due {in part to his participation in the

‘game of log-rolling, also known as back-scratching,

which is one of the favorite sports of members of the New Deal Administration. In this game, a department or bureau head, enters an understanding ith one or more journalists whereby he receives favorable publicity in return for petty news breaks and gossip or background on official matters.

The ethical impropriety of such dealing is obvious |

to real newspaper reporters, but nowadays we have a hybrid type performing on the air as well as in print whose studio rating and pay are measured by their ability to deliver little blurts of exclusive news or prediction, not necessarily accurate or even true, and not necessarily important. la =» = : ALN time ago, when the public almost unanimously hated prohibition and inferentially, at least, admired bootleggers and racketeers, the hoodlum received a fine press and the gangster fiction and movies and even gangsters news glamorized the criminal and low-rated the police and Federal agents. But when the kidnapings began, after repeal, there was an abrupt, deliberate change, and J. Edgar Hoover and his department, up/to that time almost unknown to the public, were heroized and the criminals correctly were depicted as vermin. : Hoover's press apparently went to his head, and a quiet, efficient bossreop became a celebrity and fightnight type. Cheap publicity began to appear about him. Publicity of ja romantic kind which any man can put a stop to if he is determined to do so.

About the same time that Mr. Hoover began to be identified with a type of off journalism, which is the foulest development in the trade since the days of James Gordon Bennett, he also began to reproach the bulk of the American press for meddling in the investigations of important crimes. There were regrettable offenses in which reporters using oldfashioned methods accidentally tipped off criminals. But in no case, was there any suggestion that any reporter, however uncouth his methods, was in league with the crooks. || | | ‘8 2 2 & I: seems odd that Mr. Hoover, who was criticizing the press generally for bad ethics should nevertheless associate his prestige and the reputation of his bureau

with a type of journalism which has been a source

of shame and embarrassment to all legitimate members of the craft. | A man may cl loose his friends, and that privilege goes for J. Edgar Hoover. but the reason now given on ‘positive authority why Mr. Hoover. permitted his own official prestige and that of his bureau to be so exploited will noi endear him to Congress.

It is explained that Mr. Hoover permitted this exploitation and touting as an act of gratitude for services rendered. What were those services? Mr. Hoover is naive enough to believe that a log-rolling or propaganda campaign| waged on his behalf by a rumor school journalist compelled Congress to raise the appropriation for his bureau some years ago. Congress will not like to be told that a bureau chief resorted to such means to influence legislation and that, in payment for this coercion he had permited the commercial exploitation of the FBI.

Inside Indianapolis

Hizzoner, the Mayor Discovers a City Board That's Operated for 21 Years.

| Riek the mayor is recovering today from a violent case of surprise following his discovery yesterday of a City Board manned by prominent citizens whose existence Hizzoner never even suspected. | : The mayor made the discovery about 4:01 yesterday as he was running through his mail. The rain was dribbling down the window pane, but there were no loud claps of thunder, lightning bolts or other phenomena to mark the event. The Board is called the Department of Community Welfare. It was created by the Legislature in 1919 and it has 14 members. Hizzoner sat back and read the letter from the Board. It advised him that four of the members whose terms have expired were reappointed for fouryear terms beginning May 1 and asked official ap-

‘proval of the SEDO ment, ;

The reappointments are of Felix M. McWhirter, Edgar A. Perkins, Mrs. Irene A. Walker and Hugh McK. Landon. William Fortune is president and other members are Mrs. Grace H. Giveny, William H. Thompson, Louis J. Borinstein, Samuel Mueller, C. D. Alexander, Leroy. J. Keach, Mrs. Laura B. Elder, Elmer W. Stout and George S. Olive, William H. Book is executive secretary. Asked what the Board did, the Mayor said: “I don’t know. What is it?” An investigation followed. It revealed that the Board has not only been in existence these 21 years but has held regular meetings. The Board's function is to serve as trustee for gifts or bequests made to the City for which no particular use is specified. The Mayor said he guessed one of the reasons he hadn't heard of the Board was that bequests like that are few and far between. Anyway, he made the appointments. : ” ” ” A REVOLUTION HAS BROKEN OUT among the ‘City golf courses. Two. of them, Pleasant Run and South Grove, opened up two week-ends. ago without official sanction, it has been learned at the office of Parks Superintendent A. C. Sallee. Mr. Sallee is not perturbed, He accepts the situation on the theory that when a golf course wants to open, there is little he can do about it. Coffin course will be ready by Saturday and Sarah Shank by Monday sure. The only reason they've been spared premature opening is because city workers have been digging in them. Riverside is being reconstructed and won't be ready| before June 1, but Douglas is opening this week. ig Mr. Sallee’s special agent discovered people playing on the rebel courses a month ago, so the Superintendent sent ticket takers down to keep free admissions at the minimum. Now, the courses are going full swing. The only difference it's going to make is that there will be no formal opening ceremonies, with the Mayor teeing off the first shot. It will save embarrassing Hizzoner. ) z

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

HE director of the Child Study Association for | New York, Mrs. Sidonie Gruenberg, advises mothers to “enjoy their children.” Shall we not shout a loud amen to that? In the last two decades so much emphasis has been put on the responsibilities of parenthood that we've lost sight of the fun there is in it. The maternity wards are surrounded by Jeremiahs of damnation and doom, from the doctors who warn against germs to the psychologists who scare us with complexes. And yet babies themselves are such happy, warm,

cuddly things, go alien to all this gloomy philosophy. : ‘her workaday experience Mrs. Gruen-|.

Probably. in berg has found that thousands of mothers would rather keep a clean house than make a happy home. Most of us are so eager to bring up nice little social conformists that we do everything we can to erush infant individuality. :

Actually, I wonder how many women think about :

what their children think about them—how do we stack up to our families as plain human beings? In after years the mother’s image evoke memories of a person t under apprehensions, constantly admonishing, perpetually finding fault? . If we could only laugh more with our babies a romp a bit with our little sons and daughters instead of trying so hard to be good watchdogs and kitchen sweeps and dietitians! As far as that goes, it's a pity we do not bring more of the fun-loving spirit to the whole of the marriage relationship. A good companion is (a Detter asset, in the household than

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By George Maxwell

For his exposure of the rottenness of William Green's administration of the A. F. of L. and his ridicule of Green’s pitiful attempt at self-de-fense Westbrook Pegler deserves high commendation. | Bravo, Peg-

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LAYS OUR TROUBLES TO PRIVATE MONOPOLY By L. B. Hetrick, Elwood I think that Voice in the Crowd has been answered in part in other articles. No, I don’t think that politicians are more honest or dishonest than the average business man. Both are motivated to a more or less extent by their environment. : : But if all were intelligent and at

the same time conscious of the imminent - danger crouched in the capitalist system which presupposes of wealth, debts, trade barriers, wars, death and destruction, depressions, overwork, and no work, overproduction and want, a never ending conflict and contradictions, they would: for the sake of peace, comfort and happi-

ance, : That route is universal co-opera-tion instead of private monopoly or class co-operation for the purpose of exploitation of the masses. Monopoly is an evil system having within ‘itself a fertile field for dishonesty both in politics and all kinds of business.

no classes of honesty or dishonesty in the ‘social body." All are about equal in that, but the power of wealth in the hands of financial and industrial lords controls the

and thereby enables them to get favors from the Government. . . . This system doesn’t give the masses an even chance in purchasing power . .. private, financial and industrial monopoly which owns the Government has power to exploit the whole social body and use the Government as a collecting agency besides. That is the reason why the people of the United States have a public debt of billions of dollars hanging like a millstone around their necks. This condition furnishes politi-

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clans, both honest and dishonest, a job standing between the powerful monetary and commercial interests and the exploited masses. That is why our law making institutions are at times such noisy places trying to do impossibilities and again so silent when they discover their error most of them run away from the job. | Under existing economic conditions I feel sorry for any honest jolitician or businessman or anydy that is honest. He becomes

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'LAIMS LABOR SOURCE F ALL VALUES y Voice from Labor | Voice in the crowd persists in flouting the potential power and apacity of labor. Significantly, here is a growing conviction among labor that there is an abundance or all and that labor shall finally nd for all time cease to be the oppressed and the pauperized. | That is to say, labor shall con-

rol productive forces including the vernment, a perfectly legitimate

objective by virtue of the fact that labor is the source of all value. Voice in the crowd asked a number of questions about how labor would administer production. If you accept the hypothesis that labor shall hold ‘power, doesn’t it necessarily follow that labor shall administer as she pleases? Anyway, my answer is that labor unions will do that job through very good American democratic processes. In the face of the daily demonstrated incapacity of the capitalists to administer production, < the whole question seems indeed impertinent. So inept have the capitalists become that, as a ruling class, they are no longer fit to impose their conditions upon society. The fall of such glaringly inept capitalistic misrule is inevitable and the rise of labor to the power to control the productive forces and have the

is certain. Only witness the spectacle: The capitalists are not able to give the workers work, but must feed them instead of being fed by them. Even the blind ,see the - inevitable outcome of the struggles between capital and labor. » » » DOUBTS HIS KNOWLEDGE OF U. S. COMMUNISM By Ralph Banes In the April 4 edition, E. F. Maddox slaps himself on the back for being a persecutor of the Communists, when in reality he is showing his ignorance of the subject and what the American Communists advocate. | $ ¢

{ all the beauty of the Ozarks,

there is no hint, no warning of what lies beyond. Then one enters the [ining country where the low hills f chat—tailings from the lead ines—dominate a landscape that fis incredibly ugly. The villages are mere huddles| of miserable, home- | ade shacks, where whole families lof discouraged, underfed men, women and children make an attempt at the business of living. L. S. Davidson, daughter of a

Side Glances—By Galbre

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mining engineer, returns to the scenes of her childhood home and draws a vivid picture of the forgotten people of the chat. “South of Joplin” (Norton) tells of the typical mining people as credulous, ignorant, indifferent, whose monotonous lives are varied a little by their fiddle dances, their revivals that are orgies of shouting and weeping and confessions, their baptisings, where only the promise of tasty food gave the terrified children courage to survive three immersions in icy water. Klan gatherings, clashes between company men and non-company men, union and non-union, the C. I. 0. and A. F. of L.—all these contribute to the eternal strife that is taken as a matter of course. The children are wise beyond their years as far as the struggle for life is concerned, and pitifully ignorant of

| “book larnin’.”

Their parents are completely absorbed in the mines and what they do or do not bring to them, probably too tired or ill to .dream of anything better. The men, sooner or later victims of silicosis, walk al-

‘| ways in the shadow of tragedy.

This book, the result of careful observation, tells in plain words of life at its ugliest, meanest, and most

"| depressing—"a : terrible document, |but ‘an engrossing and brilliant

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THE MIGHT OF RIGHT By ROBERT O. LEVELL May gun and sword forever rust

As far as ever meant to kill, In God’s. own power put-there our co trusé | And abide by all His precious will. Let Eternal Peace forever be

shore;

Make every soul so glad and free

And end all war forever more. ——————————————————

DAILY THOUGHT

And he said unte them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.—Mark -16:15.. : :

18 in vain in history to find te. sudilar to Jesus Christ, or

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Government in its own strong hands

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|Gen. Johhson

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Assembling Some Potent Reasons Why It Seems Pretty Logical That * Mr. Roosevelt Will Be Nominated. EW YORK, April Whether he likes it or not, the Democrats are almdst certain to nominate Mr. Roosevelt. To me, this seems so plain as scarcely» to need argument. But since other observers have ad- | vanced reasons to the contrary, perhaps I had better state mine. is yn Wray - The party has no other candidate who could pull so many votes, perhaps none who has a Chinaman’s | chance. Mr. Roosevelt has something considerably | more than that—especially if the Republicans, as now seems probable, repeat all the blunders of 1936. In--that event, Mr. Roosevelt is a sure shot, but no other -. Democrat is. Thus in party strategy, as distinguished from the Fourth New Deal strategy, there is just about the only reason politicians understand—he is, . by all odds, the best bet. | | ‘When we come to Fourth New Deal reasons, apart | from party reasons, the case is many times stronger. | With that influential crew, it is Roosevelt or nothing A —more than nothing—utter and complete oblivion, . | »

# | on powerful group in the con- | vention. They will have the strength of their | own patronage and decentralized organizations plus | all the influence that Mr.| Roosevelt can add—and that ¢ is very great. So also isthe strength of their organ-'/ izations. Henry Wallace, for example, has an official | outpost in every farm community in the country. | This all-inclusive national network is several times | repeated—the nation-wide social security pattern, the |. labor relations wardens, not to mention the WPA dragnet which is potentially the greatest #lecentralized I political system that ever existed in this country— Hatch law or no Hatch law. Taw ip Add all this together and you ‘have centering on - the Democratic convention organized political power to the nth degree, | i Lh r

88 8 = F course, there are accidents of fate to consider. I believe that the! principal reason why Calvin Coolidge did not “choose to run” was that he knew what grim visitor would come to him so sadly soon. Senator Robinson had been similarly warned but did -» not stop fighting. This jis not for a moment to hint ~ that any such warning has ever been given to Mr. Roosevelt. That poisonous whispering has been heard since 1937. On the basis of all the facts I know, I be- -- lieve it to be unfounded and maliciously untrue. I am. merely coppering my guess by suggesting that after---you have marshalled all known reasons pro and con, = there may be other hiddén reasons which upset the whole calculation and this could be one of many. +) In this general category I pass aside as worthless -*+ such surmises as that he is tired, or hates his job, or. believes in some such subtlety as stepping aside to let -- some bungler inherit the mess on the theory that he will be called in to pick up the pieces from 1944, The President so revels in his job, that, as I believe, he would be at a hopeless lass without it. * | 4 This is my case for believing that Mr. Roosevelt will run again, Maybe somebody else can find a hole in it. I can’t. i Re

Business | By John T. Flynn | Ian Chicagoans | No Longer in. Doubt; - - Say F. D. R. Definitely in Race.

~HICAGO, April 9.—The question whether Roose velt will run for a third term is regarded as a little superfluous in| this part of the ‘world. - Io asked a politician in Chicago whether -he thought ". Roosevelt would run. | He looked at me a little = amused. | : > ch Sopra | i. Well, what do you think he is doing ‘hére ih Illinois?” he asked. He is running for a third term here and he is running for a third term in ’ Wisconsin and in various other places where the » « issue has been forced.” oi plo “you do not: suppose - that the politicians in * Illinois could run you for the Presidency if you ‘did not wish it, do you?! he added. “A mere word from the President warning the Kelly-Nash machine - against it would have stopped it instantly. It is not possible for any sane man who trusts his own judgment to conclude that what is happening in this state amounted to anything else than.an actual .: candidacy by Mr. Roosevelt.” : . 3 Here Roosevelt alone seems to be running. ‘There ~~ are great billboards all pver Illinois reading: “Roosevelt and Humanity—Vote for Slattery.” Slattery is: the former Commerce Commissioner of Illinois- who - - turned up with $25,000 of power-company honds in" his vault and who explained they belonged to. his daughter—he had given them to her. ‘The cam=paign is pitched on: {Roosevelt's candidacy for the third-term nominationiand his support of the Kelly= -.. Nash machine. git | on

The Convention Drnts | |

‘The Democratic convention will be held in Chicago. The convention that nominated Roosevelt in -« 1932 was held here. [Then the machine—known as . the Cermak machine af that time—was for Al Smith, = It packed the convention galleries for Smith so that nobody else could speak save with the consent of that = unruly crowd. I ! sel a The reason for picking Chicago this time was :. to, enable the Kelly-Nash machine, which is, the spearhead of the third-term drive, to pack the convention for Roosevelt b d help carry off the stampede plan.

which is part of the : Anti-Roosevelt leaders think that the Garner vote will be an anti-third-térm Roosevelt vote strictly, and that it willl be a demonstration (hat there are 10 - per cent of the registered Democrats who will. vote against the party if Roosevelt is renominated. | | Whether this is true or not is a matter of ruin: , tion. But it| does seem that Garner will not get more’ A than 10 per cent here. Roosevelt, with the overs . whelming si of the Kelly-Nash machine, will show &."" tremendous victory, will guarantee a gallery at:the : convention’ which will be frantically for Roosevelt... That is why they say here that there is no longer a question whether Roosevelt is going to run, He is .. running already. Will he retire from a race in which * he has already started? That is the only question -- that remains. jz ; |

Watching Your Health.

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| 70U may never have noticed thé. letters U. S: P, ©” on the box of vitamin pills you kought "this : winter, but you are likely -to read a good deal about those letters within the next few weeks, however, because in May the U. S. Pharmaeopoeial Con« vention will meet in Washington. : 1 3 ization is made up of delegates from state associations of physicians and pharmacists, schools of medicine and pharmdcy, and certain Government services. The SORT, meet- = ing once every 10 years, selects a Committee of Re- '* ake desired changes in the current U. 8. - ia and to issue a new one. | . . Pharmacopoeia ‘is recognized in| State -- laws as providing standards for drugs and medicines. The law provides that if a manua title, such as tincture of iodine, which Pharmacopoeia, the product must comply dards of the Pharmacopoeia for ‘that unless the manufacturer declares his own - 5 and their difference from the U. 'S. P. Generally, minimum standards only are given but in the case of medicines that might be harmful if too strong, maximum standards are also given. . Not every remedy or medicine sold in drug stores is in the Pharmacopoeia. One of the jobs of® the Committee} of Revision is to decide which ones should be admitted. Sulfanilamide and related drugs, for example, may .be considered for the next Pharmacopoeia, though no announcement has yet been made as to whether they will be admitted. Rapid development within. the past ‘decade of new medicines such as vitamins, hormones and anti-amemia ‘prepara from liver, and -the passage of the new Federal 1g and Cosmetic Law has