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EP RILEY 5551

Give I4ght and the People Will Find Their Own Way WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1940

‘WE MUST SAVE SOMEWHERE

“HE Prestident’s new rule that non-defense items in the forthcoming Federal budget must be reduced will meet, we believe, with general approval. ! * * While this country needs planes, guns, powder, ships and other implements of defense so"badly, the Government can and ghould reduce expenditures for non-defense rivers and harbors improvements, road construction, forest land acquisitions and the.like. : We sincerely hope that when the President’s budget with non-defense appropriations reduced reaches Congress, the pressure groups there will not be permitted to scuttle

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his good plan.

The country doesn’t. want the Smith River at Podunk “improved” at the expense of national defense.

PUTTING A LEASH ON BUREAUCRACY HE Walter-Logan Bill, which the Senate finally passed yesterday after much stalling and evading by the President’s men,” is full of lawyer stuff. It concerns rules and regulations and hearings and appeals. It is a bill written by lawyers outside the Government and fought. by lawyers inside the Government. The fight over it hasibeen a lawyers’ row, full of long words and Latin. But—don’t get the idea that the bill doesn’t concern the ordinary cuss, the man who may not Know a mandamus from a duckbilled platypus. | Of recent years the Federal Government has been growing at a terrific pace. New bureaus, new buildings, new thousands of employees, new laws, new regulations, new emergency powers. Congress has found jit necessary

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“to legislate in many new fields—on matters so complex that

it could not conceivably spell out every detail of the regulations necessary to fulfill its purpose. So, power was delegated to commissions and boards and administrators to write between the lines of the law—to compose the “fine print” necessary to carry out the intention of Congress.

A few years ago the Supreme Court put a curb on that

process. When NRA was knocked down, the late Justice Cardozo complained of “delegation running riot”—of “unconfined and vagrant” powers entrusted by Congress to bureaucrats. So NRA ‘was buried, to the accompaniment of an angry White House requiem. ® = = x & =» But that did not end the abuse by bureaucrats of the growing powers entrusted to them by Congress. The lawdrafters found ways of achieving similar ends without stubbing their toes on the Constitution. .s In the words of Rep. Hatton Sumners, Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee— “Contrary to all our philosophy of Government we have placed in one appointed personnel all three powers of Government. They make the rules, which have the force of law; they construe the rules; they enforce the rules.” Hence the Walter-Logan Bill. Its provisions, in essence, are really simple (although, this being pioneer legislation, there is room for much argument over details, and there

he way). The bill proposes— 1. A uniform and safeguarded system to govern “law-

will be need for future overhauling- as experience shows X

making” bureaus in their exercise of delegated power to

make rules which have the effect of laws.’ 2. A uniform and prompter system for exercise of their judge-like power to make decisions based on these rules. 3. A uniform and simplified system of Federal Court

~ review for these rules and decisions.

That is the whole story. The bill simply restores to something like normal the historic balance between the executive and legislative and judicial arms. It protects the ordinary citizen from arbitrary, peremptdry or dilatory treatment by the little Caesars of the boards and bureaus. It is said the President will veto the bill (assuming that Hbuse and Senate differences are settled, which must be done before it can reach his desk.) That is his tight. But his duty as we see it, his responsibility as the creator of a bureaucracy which has got saddle-sore and -arrogant in spots, is to accept this bill.

NICELY TREATED, THANK YOU

GET out the anti-freeze, ear muffs, galoshes, salt bucket and heat pad! : Winter's here, a little ahead of schedule, and apparently ready to stay. Last year, if memory serves, the mild weather hung on

almost until Christmas, deceptively pleasant until those

ferocious blasts of January and February. feel the chill of those das. But we have no reason to complain seriously if Winter jumps the gun a few days. Indianapolis had a pleasant, though wet spring, a really splendid summer, and’ one of the finest autumns we have seen anywhere for a long time. No, sir, when we think of all those pleasant summer and fall days, we see no reason for anything more than mild regret that we couldn't have had just a few more. oils

MR. JACKSON'S “HARGE

THE Vultee aircraft strike has been satisfactorily settled, but there is one incident connected therewith which needs to be cleared up

A couple of days ago Attorney General Jackson announced through the press that he had proof that Commu-

We can still

nists were responsible for starting and prolonging that.

strike. It was a setious charge, one often used loosely and. unfairly by men who indulge in labor-baiting. But we must

~ assume that a man of Mr. Jackson's political opinions and

responsible position would not have made such a statement without evidence to support it. We think Mr. Jackson owes

a duty to the public and especially to workers in the aircraft

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and exonerate the innocent.

Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

A. F. ofL. in Condemning Graft, Should Oust George E. Browne, But Won't Even Mention His Name

EW YORK, Nov. 27.—It appears that the rN ican Federation of Labor is now resigned to necessity of passing some general, impersonal condemnation of graft and racketeering by union officials before they start-home from their convention in New . Orleans. If they do this and fail to look one of their own number dead in the eye and denounce him personally as a detriment to the labor movement, they will put the whole nation and the entire rank and file of the A. F. of L. on warning that their reform is a fake. 2

stupid and venal and many of the rest arg so inured; to gorse E. Browne’s kind of union léadership I confidently assume that they will not even mention his name, much less tell him to get out. The ‘gangster Browne, president of the union of movie and other amusement employees, holds high office in the American Federation of Labdr, being twelfth vice president and a member of the exécutive council. Ironically, it is proposed that this same ,executive council be empowered to heave out of the MA. F. of L. persons of Browne's type. Browne's union is closely related to the Capone or Nitti mob of professional crooks. They overlap in Browne's union, and Browne himself acquired his job only after the unsolved, but not very heartily deplored

' assassination of his predecessor in the union racket

in Chicago, Mr. Tommy Maloy, a low, brutal criminal whose funeral Browne attended. : 1 ” ” ” ILLIAM GREEN, president of the A. F. of L., and Joseph Padway, it§ general counsel, are involved with Browne, both having indorsed his notorious administration, notwithstanding the fact, well known to them,*that he had named as his personal

representatives, with full powers, two criminals of the |

Capone mob in Chicago who never worked a day at any legitimate occupation and a third union racketeer in St. Louis. ! :

Padway, in his role of lawyer, collaborated, for hire,

with Willie Bioff, the boss crook of the Browne gang,

in union negotiations in California and indorsed as|

“a very splendid report” the account of his stewardship, which Browne delivered to the last national convention, although in that report Browne took occasion to defend this vicious parasite whose record by that time was well known to Padway. Green also indorsed Browne's leadership in that convention—a fact which shows where he, too, stands on racketeering in labor unions—and sided with Browne's racketeer appointee, John Nick, when rank and file of the St. Louis union Went to the public courts in desperation to get the crook off their necks. : “I worked with your president (Browne) on the St. Louis situation,” Padway said to the delegates at the convention, “and your report indicates that that was settled satisfactorily by him.” . 2 8 4

HAT sort of talk was this from a man who Is a lawyer, an ex-judge and an .officer of the court and national counsel of the American Federation of Labor, when the record showed that Browne's personal crook had racketeered and grafted and persecuted the rank and file workers of the local? If Green and Padway have any reply to these facts they have both neglected an opportunity to make that reply in circumstances, at the New Orleans convention, which would have guaranteed them national circulation of their remarks. nr Taking one consideration with another, it seems most unlikely that the A. F. of L. will take a positive stand against gangsters in the labor movement and unthinkable that they will name Browne personally. Would Mr. Green now denounce g man whom he indorsed five months ago an the same set of facts that exist today? And would Mr. Padway, who was a judge in his time in Milwaukee, now repudiate a client in whom so recently he spoke in terms of joyous praise? Browne is not the only individual who should be named, but won't be. But because of his prominence and official position and his defiant preference for criminal associates and criminal official agents his will be the test case.

Business By John T. Flynn

It's F.D.R., Not the Press, Who's Late On Finding Out About Plane Output

\TEW YORK, Nov. 27.—The President has told reporters that they have to learn that planes cannot be ordered today and turned out tomorrow; that 50 per cent of our plane production is as much as we can give to England and that all these stories-about the large numbers of planes we can give to England are quite foolish—or words to that effect. As a matter of fact, reporters have known this for a long time. What one wonders is, when did the President find it out? If the fancy figures about all the planes we are going to produce are foolish, then the question arises why did the President talk about 50,000 planes a year? And why did Lord Beaverbrook inform the British people with a flourish of trumpets’ : only a short time ago that Secretary Morgenthau had informed him that the United

States was about to authorize the delivery to Britain

of. 3000 planes a month being delivered? When the President declared for 50,000 planes a year, this column made inquiries about the possibility of doing that and the next day wrote suggesting that

in addition to those already

Jeaders cut out the column and paste it in their hats

—that was in June—and then consult it again, let it act as a tickler for the memory a year hence. I hazarded the guess-that the American Government would not get 10,000 planes in that time. . I later found that even 10,000 planes was an exaggerated estimate. Yet in spite of that fact the President's finance minister and confidant talked about giving the English 3000 planes a month in addition to those already being delivered and all those being ordered by our Government. .

EF =RYRODY asked in bewilderment how the President could expect to do such things. And now the President steps forward to warn us against such fantastic predictions and offerings—made by himself. How many planes have been delivered to the Brit-

-ish? How many have been delivered since June, 1940?

How many have been delivered to the American Army? How many planes are being produced per week or per month? Nobody knows. The facts are being kept a profound secret. Under the pretense that this is a military secret, the facts about our production are being kept from the people and from Congress. There is only one way to find.out and that is for Congress to demand the facts. The fear of curiosity developing about the progress of all sorts of preparaticn efforts is one of the reasons why the Government wants Congress to pack its bags and “git” out of Washington. There is no need to keep from Americans the number of men we have in our Army or the number of guns these men have or the number of ships in our Navy or the number of planes in our air fleets or the number we are sending abroad. The only reason, of course, is to conceal from the people the inevitable discrepancy between promise and performance,

So They Say—

WE MUST be ruthlessly selfish to assure the guarantee of continuance of American freedom. —Wheeler

McMillan, editor of the Farm Journal, speaking to |

the National Grange. : * ® * :

GREECE HAS remained true to the same ideals that inspired her heroic defense 2500 years ago.— Harold S. Vanderbilt, accepting honorary chairmanship of Greek War Relief Association in America. : » * »

I HAVE the impression that France has been re-

born.—Chief of State Marshal Henri Petain.

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

A DIG AT THE POLICE FOR GAMBLING SITUATION By Tom Bradley Now that dear Mr. Morrissey has found out that there is such a thing as gambling I wonder what he and his co-dictator, Leroy Keach, will

do. It would be improper to think that perhaps there might be payoffs going on to the so-called officers of the law about a place which everyone knows has been a common gambling joint for years. It is surprisirig also just how dumb our raiding officers are. It seems they always manage to fix their raids so that evidence cannot be accepted by law and therefore gamblers remain unpunished. Some months ago the people of the city were refused the right to play bingo in the local theaters. A chance which was given them in addition to the show they paid for. The stakes were never high and the game was advertised all over the town yet all of a sudden our protectors of the city, Mr. Morrissey and Leroy Keach, decided that theater bingo was bad for Indianapolis. Everywhere else in the state bingo was played yet in Indianapolis it was taboo. All this time, however, our protectors did nothing about all the weekly pool ticket takes over the city or the common gambling places throughout the town. Then bingo came back with a bang, only the admission prices are high and they are playing very quietly. I'd like to know what smells so rotten in the city government.

‘ 8. 8 & BAFFLED BY CLAIMS OF SPENDING THEORISTS

By Claude Braddick

I am completely bewildered by the theory of certain New Dealers that deficit spending is a desirable end in itself, and a ‘perpetual guarantee against economic depression. When money collects in “stagnant pools,” say these hothouse economists, the Government must borrow it (at interest, of course) and restore it to circulation, So far, so good. But what's to prevent its returning, atfer one spending or two, to its old stagnant pool, to be borrowed ‘again by the Government, and again and again, until taxes levied to pay the accumulated interest have reached the point of diminishing returns? (Even a

(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.)

pseudo-economist must admit there is such a point). What then? Perhaps the answer lies in another direction. A great group in this country believes the Congtitution means what it says when it gives Congress the power “to coin money and regulate the value thereof.” They believe Government should own all the money, and lend to its citizens for use without interest—that interest, in short, (which to them is always “usury”) is an unmitigated evil and sh6uld be abolished altogether. Absurd? That's for you to decide. But I'll bet all the tea in China it is no more so than the borrow-spend-tax routine that is now getting a play. a = A LOUD CHEER FOR THE DIES COMMITTEE By Edward F. Maddox . I saw a large sign which said: “Americans will not be divided by Alien isms. . . .” On the same day I read in The Times that that gallant American, Martin Dies, had ordered seizure of records of Communists, Nazis, Fascists and Japanese organizations. _ I have taken an active interest in the drive to expose and outlaw all alien isms and am glad that pub-

lic opinion is becoming aroused and

awake to the dangers to the general welfare, our peace and safety, our unity as a mation and the real menace to our national defense program by the disruptions and disafections caused by the subversive forces of alien ism organizations. The Dies Committee is our first line of defense against espionage, sabotage and treason by our enemies from within. Fifth Column activities in our nation will be aimed to slow down our national defense program by strikes, sabotage and disunity. We must be on guard! Americans have already been fed too much alien ism poison. They may not be seriously divided but

they are sadly confused and dis-

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gusted and skeptical now, when they ought to be firmly and solidly united for defense and national security. The first effective and necessary step to curb alien ism treachery is to outlaw the whole bunch. is is no time to give legal protection to Fifth Columnists. «&t- borders on treason! Let's show our Americanism by suporting the Dies Committee. 2 a =»

TOSSING SOME QUESTIONS AT THE NEW DEA S

By Inquisitive

I am deeply indebted to the several contributors to the Hoosier Forum fqr their enlightenment on so many important questions of the hour over past months. I never miss reading them, but I didn’t feel like contributing because I wasn’t sufficiently informed. But we have been so enlightened by the articles of Daniel Frances Clancy, Clyde P. Millertand a few others, that we began to feel sorry for ourselves and decided to study up so we could think and not put too much strain on these already overtaxed minds. Too bad those 22 million didn’t know about them before election. Now you see those 22 million all went wrong on that account. Mr. Clancy would give those millions the privilege of being drafted first.

mean we can all be captains too, Daniel?

for the rantings of you New Dealers,

that Mr. Hoover was still running.| §

Did ycu boys find that out before election too? And do you know about the bills Mr. Hoover tried to pass while President that had an odor to them and smelled so good when Mr. Roosevelt passed them? ” 8 SPEAKS HIS MIND FOR

THE WILLKIE CRITICS

By M. Muenchen I read in the Wed. nights times forum that M R 8 of Indianapolis is hurt and tuchy because some of us call Willkie, Windy. This person also sayes he dose not understand our Presidents perfect Inlish. What a dope, for a.child in the 4th Grade in school .can understand him ahd dose not need a dictionare neither perhaps he like Mr. Windy Willkie’s speech much better and wounder if he heard the one I listened to over the Rado when he said “To Hell with Chicago” and later on that day he was talking to a crowd of working men he held up his hands and bellow’d Thies Hands did as much hard work as any “Dam” one of you. Well I don’t think this person will have to look in the dictionare for that one the person go on saying willkie talk’s in his own plain language how true. and he would of keeped on talking his plain language but his Bosses khew better and stopped him right quick. ' I do agree with the man who adviced Mr. Willkie to go back to Rushville and learn to farm and train his voicey to call hogs and Oh how the mighty have fallen. Be wise dicth him.

PEACE By ANNA E. YOUNG Looking out on God's beautiful

wor We see wonders that never shall cease And a prayer for all of His people With a Nation complete with Peace

Thankful for all His blessings Numbering many so rich and so

rare : From he depth of each heart and. sou Comes a sacred Thanksgiving prayer.

DAILY THOUGHT And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.—Genesis 1:11.

NATURE IS’ too thin a screen;

‘And we were so misled we nearly | & passed up Mr. Willkie’s thinking,| &

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: #4 : Debate on Resolution of Sympathy

For Britain by Congress Would Serve to Clarify Our Stand on War

ASHINGTON, Nov. 27.—William Allen White, who is chairman of the committge to aid Brite ain, thinks Congress should pass some kind of a resolution announcing which side we are on in the present world conflict—not a declaration of war. There isn’t much déubt which side we are on in our hearts. Ace tions speak much louder than words. By our -hctiois, (as: tne

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Britain all the aid we can just '_ now—unless we decide to’ nnance her war, Short of a.declaration of war such a declaration of sym=pathy seems unnecessary and, at first glance, not very. importang, On the other hand, many peoe ple in this country fear. the direc. tion in which we are headed as a path leading straight to war, They are for aid to Britain—with two important qualifications. First that we do not weaken our own defensive preparations; second, that we do not do such things as will make war inevitable. | : Mr. White’s people may or may not believe in those two qualifications. Certainly they do not stress them. They seem to think that their committee represents a great mass of American opinion. Pere haps it does, but this column doesn’t believe it. . 8 88 - crx

J this state of affairs and uncertainty about publie A opinion and in this fog of misinformation or’ no information about just what is involved in this’ quese

‘ tion, I doubt if Mr. White's idea about a Congrese

sional resolution is as unimportant as it seems. There - is yet «time and there is not any such hysteria as

would prevent a full and fairly free debate.

No such atmosphere 'will attend an actual -declara« tion of war. No declaration is ever submitted to Conw gress until irritating or inflaming incidents have whipped up such storms of popular emotion that

| the voice of caution and reason is branded as the

voice of treason. It will be too late then to ‘talk, Every day that passes and every bid of Jurtiler progress down our present path invite just such ihe flaming incidents. re : ph So far as I can recall, any such resolution would be without precedent. . There is éven some question, at least, as to whether it would be within the powers of Congress. Only Congress can declare war, but the formation of foreign policy short of“-war.is a function of the executive and. not the legislative branch. But precedents do” not mean as much as once they did, and on this kind of. questipn, Cone gress itself is the court of final- appeal.on its cone stitutional power. - : : yield

ONGRESS is closer to the sentiment of this coune try than any sampling poll or any dthér branch of government can possibly be. If our present course of conduct and the purposes of Mr. White's people, are, in fact, leading unnecessarily toward war, the debate on such a resolution would reveal both that, fact and the popular judgment on-it. ~~ | . | | For all these reasons, while this column doesn't agree with what it thinks Mr. White's .committee;, stands for, it does agree with his recent suggestion that Congress be consulted in the way he describes, and that it be done before the philosophy of ‘his committee has carried us so close to war that there can be no turning back with honor or without humiliation. : Mr. White's committee has. been described in a good deal of editorial writing as a pilot for Admins istration trial balloons. I don’t know whether itis or not, but it is a frank and, forthright propagandist for a course considerably more extreme than any the Administration has yet taken. right and no’ subject for reproach, but the best way: to test any trial balloon—whether of the Administra tion or of that commitee— is in some forum. where it can be thoroughly debated. And Congress is the ‘best forum there is for that. ; if

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson i

“ HAT did the women do in the last election’ except double the vote, the noise and the confusion?” 1 g Feminine Foe No. 1, the Man Next Door, tossed out the question in his best fighting manner, ' Since he considers my attitude toward wom } «+ en foolishly optimistic, it was ‘ne use thinking up a quick answer; he wouldn't have listened. You know how men are—they like todo the talking. It's a good question just the same. Maybe we ought to examine it with an open mind. . Being human, women can ale ways be counted .on to behave. like humans. In that ‘respect they closely resemble the great male sex, During our recent unpleasant« ness they managed to spread around a lot of intemperate language; some first-class intolerance, and some second-class eggs. Emotional frenzies were all the rage. And ‘some of our outstand« ing feminine intellectuals were among the worst offenders. yee | It’s true then that women did add to the noise ahd confusion during those tumultuous weeks before Nov. 5; But they did a great deal more than that. They worked like beavers for the political principles in ‘which they! believed. They studied campaign issues as never fore, They slaved to get out the vote. For the time in the lives of many, an election was more im portant than a social function or putting out. the Mone day wash. A new awareness of power was born in them. At last they began faintly to understand the meaning behind those words, “the sacred: privilege of the vote.” gr These facts, it seems to me, are far more imp: tant than the bad behavior of a few’ bigoted a thoughtless individuals, : The American Lady of the Ballot Box will not, afb tain her majority until next year. In point of age shp is just turning 21, so.considering her youth and ine experience isn't she making a good showing? .. ,j

Watching Your: By Jane Stafford”

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Shelton Watkins of Louisville, Ky, at the me there of the Southern Medical ation, The extent of the problem may be gauged from various estj= mates showing that about 10 per cent of schoql dren have some defect in hearing and that 3,000,000 of the nation’s children are, 3 1p re or handicapped by moderate deafness. . = .. .° - % this which leads’ Dr, Watkins to hope for early: ime provement in the situation. = =. G4 Ls About 60 per cent of deafness ) | the child is born wi ari , and ing 40 per cent is acquired after birth, fective means of preventing tal d

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