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TUESDAY, MARCH 11, 1941

SINE DIE

'OBODY will lament the passing of this session of the Indiana General Assembly. It will be remembered

chiefly for reorganizing the state government on a pattern.

reminiscent of the “Gay Nineties,” for passing a merit system bill covering 3000 employees, for ignoring a large number of important problems, and for not doing as much mischief as it might have. It left, as you might gather, a completely undistinguished record. Perhaps as atonement for spending three- - quarters of its time setting up a system of government to give Republicans as many jobs as possible, it passed some meritorious bills, including: Raising the old-age assistance maximum from $30 to $40 a month. Remedying the injustice done Indiana retailers under the gross income law. Eliminating the fee-grabbing system in Marion County offices. Requiring township trustees to budget relief expenditures on a sound basis. Extending the auto license deadline to March 1. Setting up a gasoline tax distribution system permitting Indianapolis a bigger. share. On the debit side should be listed the fact that it did virtually nothing for labor, ignored the badly needed overhauling of election laws, killed the direct primary proposal, killed bills for the non-partisan election of judges, dodged the reassessment problem and, perhaps most important of all, postponed the inevitable day of reckoning on taxes.

It boasts of heavy budget reductions but the plain truth is no one can be certain at the present time whether the |

cuts are actual or, as many suspect, merely paper cuts. The full financial story of this session is yet to be written.

Meanwhile, the State can look forward to an unprece- | dented amount of litigation over the Republican reorganiza- |

tion program unless, of course, some sort of working agreement is reached with Governor Scheicker. Happy days

_are not ahead—yet.’

BEST LINE OF THE WEEK

ICKED up from Chicago University Round Table discus- |

‘Business

sion: © “Mussolini is giving Hitler all war short of aid.”

A TRIUMPH FOR THE HATCH ACT Qu much emphasis has been put on the ineffectiveness of the Hatch Act in limiting campaign expenditures last year that the very real success of other features of the act has been largely overlooked. The prime purpose of the original Hatch Act of 1939 was to prevent a repetition of the abuses of the prev ious year, in which the votes of WPA workers had been ‘“‘delivered” in a number of states through various scandalous devices of coercion and intimidation. That purpose, it now appears, was brilliantly achieved in the 1940 elections. For Senator Gillette, who headed a committee investigating campaign expenditures, says the "committee received virtually no complaints that the votes of Federal employees had been coerced. That is a real victory for democratic government. It is true that the Hatch Act amendments of 1940, limiting the expenditures of political committees to $3,000,000, and limiting individual political gifts to $5000, were evaded in a big way. But the pattern of these evasions is now perfectly clear, and Congress will be offered an opportunity to adopt further amendments that will give sub-

stance to its intent.

HOW NOT TO EXPEDITE DEFENSE WEST POINT had better be thinking about a naw course for cadets, to be called, say, “How to Behave on the

Witness Stand,” with possibly a companion course on “How

to Find Time for Defending the Country While Defending - Yourself at Congressional Hearings.” Gen. Marshall, the Chief of Staff, remarked the other morning to a Congressional committee that this was his third hearing of the day. It is easy to see why the General starts his day at 5:30 a. m. General Marshall and numerous of his subordinates must testify before.the Military Affairs Committee of each house whenever a bill authorizing further expansion of the Army is being considered. They must then appear before the Appropriations Committee of each house when bills to finance these expansions are being weighed. All that takes time—especially nowadays when the Administration is sending up new defense bills at an unprecedented rate—but still not enough time to suit Congress, apparently. A Senate Committee to investigate National Defense has just been appointed, under the chairmanship of Senator Truman. of Missouri. And the House Rules Committee has appoved the Cox resolution. for a House investigation of defense—over strenuous objections from members of the standing committees in charge of defense matters. If the Cox resolution carries, then Gen. Marshall and his subordinates will have an even half-dozen regular ports of call at the Capitol—the two Militaty Affairs Committees, the two. Appropriations Committees, and the two defense committees. Admiral Stark and other high naval officers will be similarly situated. They'll need roller-skates. As we have suggested before, while a continuing Congressional scrutiny of the defense effort is desirable, it is distinctly undesirable that the men in charge of our defense should be required to recite the same testimony before a multiplicity of rival committees. A single inquiry, conducted jointly by members of the House and Senate, seems the logical procedure. But the intramural jealousies of Congress being what they are,

that’s out. We can only hope that the House will at least |

turn down the Cox resolution, and rely on its standing com- ; mittees, plus the new Truman committee of the Senate, to do a proper job of double-checking on defense.

es [Tyranny By Ralph Millett

Is Put in Jail Over a Dog License!

NE doesn't have to be a king to be a tyrant. One doesn’t have to have millions to cry out, “The public be damned!” All he has to do is erowd his britches against the cushion of some official chair and proceed to tell the people who pay his salary to go jump in the river. He doesn’t even have to hag a high office in order to indulge in high-handed. practices. A dog catcher or a justice of the peace can commit acts that will shock the sensibilities and arouse the indignation of folks hundreds of miles away. On an Ohio farm live Mrs. Mike Korunych, her husband and their 13-year-old daughter. The Korunychs have five sons—one with the Y. M. C. A. in Cleveland and four in the U. S. military service all the way from Paris Island to Hawaii. When Mike Jr. went to Hawaii with the Marines he left a puppy at home and asked his mother to take care of it. The dog license was due Jan. 20. Ten days later Mrs. K. sent a dollar to County Auditor E. E. Taylor for the license. The auditor kept the dollar and notified Mrs. K. that “according to law a penalty of $1 is attached 'to the license fee after Jan. 20.”

» td ” . 5 RS. K. sat down and somewhat laboriously penned

this letter: “Dear Sir: I am sorry, sir, didn't send the money

| on time because my money grows slow on the farm.

My man don’t work anywhere. I ship two cans of cream a month and our check came late and that is the reason I sent the money late.” County Dog Catcher James Neitzelt then dispatched the following to Mrs. K.: “Dear Sir: My department received a very smart answer to their letter about your money growing on your farm. Now just to say if you want to keep a dog, buy your license and you owe another dollar or vou can pay more to a justice of the peace. So send at once. This must be in by the 18th of the month.” But before the 18th arrived Mrs. K. had been

| arrested and had served four days and Rights behind jail bars.

She had been taken before Justice ‘Cornelius Phillips at Fairpoint and fined $5 and costs—a total of $14.70. When the agents of the little tyrants came for Mrs. K. her husband was feeding his cattle. He didn’t

| know that his wife had been taken to jail until

neighbors told him. ” ” o

T was awful being locked up in jail. The jail people treated me all right but it was the thought)

i of being behind the bars. Friday night the fire siren!

went off and I didn’t ‘know whether or not I was going to be burned up. I fainted. When I came to

| one of the other women prisoners told me the fire | was at Maynard.

“Another night one of the women (an epileptic) had a spell. I almost fainted again. Every time I

| would think of my boys away in the Army and what | they would think of me I would get sick. I can't

seem to stand so much as I used to.” While she was in jail Mrs. K.’s condition was such that two doctors attended her. How much is a dollar? Just the difference between home and jail—when the tyrants get their grip on you. While we're voicing our defiance of Hitler et al,

| maybe should pause a, moment—

Pause and take time to deliver a well placed kick

| in the seats of the pants of a few home-grown tyrants.

By John T. Flynn

Rayburn Urges a Pay-as-You-Go Policy but His Tax Is Too Low

EW YORK, March 11.—Sam Rayburn has been telling the bankers and brokers in Wall Street some things about business. Mr. Rayburn is the speaker of the House of Representatives and one of the half dozen gnen in the Administration who may he said to wield the power of Government. He cannot be called an enemy of that Administration. Speaker Rayburn told the members of the New York Bond Club that unless we carry through a pay-as-you-go policy on the defense program we will see uncontrolled inflation. : Critics of the Administration have said this. But now Mr. Rayburn says it. Then he told the financiers that the defense effort to date provided for $28.000,000,000 expenditures and that they wculd probably be $35,° 000,000,000 before we are done. I might add that if we go to war they might add up to anywhere between 50 and 100 billions. Then Mr. Rayburn proposed that we adopt a new fax bill that would bring in about $1,500,000,000 of new revenues. And at this point the question bobs up: | Is this Mr. Rayburn’s idea of paying for the defense program ‘as we go.” Up to now the Administration has adopted an ensirely different attitude. It has declared that we should have two budgets--one an ordinary budget and one covering defense needs. The ordinary budget, % has decrared, should be balanced. That lezves the defense budget out on a limb, 100 per cent unbalanced.

” 2 o N the last war we paid for one-third of the war outlays with taxes. thirds of it. This time, thus far, we have planned 70 go into hock for all of it. Now Mr. Rayburn talks about pay-as-we-go. But does he think raising $1,500,000,000 extra taxes this vear and perhaps the same next year is “paying-as-vou-go”’—when we are going to spend from $28,000,000,00 to $35,000,000,000 on defense in these years? Of course we are playing with this very dangerous subject because the us ye part of it more powerful than Mr. Rayburn—believes, if it does not say so openly, that the more of the defense costs i$ faises by borrowing the bigger the defense boom will be. Now for one more quieting note. Mr. Rayburn predicts that, unless we pay as we go, which his proposed tax most certainly will not do, we will have uncontrolled inflation. We will have inflation, but I do not think it will get utterly out of hand. . It will be enough to ruin a lot of investors, but it will not be the kind tha Germany had; unless our rulers have lost their minds.

So They Say—

. I THANK God and America for the right to live and raise my family under the flag of tolerance, democracy and freedom.—Walt Disney, animated cartoon producer, ’ > . * ONE OF THE greatest elements of strength in our rational life is the fact that no one can buy an American newspaperman.—William C. Bullitt, former amhassador to France. * . * : \ AMERICA’S youth today is more fit to serve the country than in any other previous generation.—Dr. Delbert Oberteulfer, Ohio State physical education department. * * * THE WHOLE natidn ought to be drafted. For example, I think Senator Wheeler ‘should be drafted to keep quiet.—Sidney Kingsley, playwright, on being himself drafted. * * . . THE SPLIT BETWEEN rights and duties is democracy’s greatest weakness; if you please, its worst enemy.—Dr. Kimball Young, Queens College. » *® *®

NO ONE HAS the right to call the Creator his Father if he refused to be brother to all God's other children. —Premier Benes of Czechoslovakia. * » *

THE BOARD OF a museum is not a House of Lords, nor yet an exclusive social club.—Park Commissioner Modes of New York.

We Assail Hitler, and Yet in our : = Own Land the Mother of 4 Soldiers ;

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We went into hock for two--

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TUESDAY, MARCH 11, 1041,

The Hoosier Forum

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

A WORD OF ADVICE TO THE TOWNSENDITES By Claude Braddick, Kokomo, Ind. As long as the Townsendites lean on the empty promises of tin-horn politicians, and follow a false, bombastic and stupid leadership, their cause will be steadily retarded instead of advanced. They must accept the fundamental fact that a solid dollar will go much farther in a grocery store than any number of glittering promises, and learn to distinguish between their true friends and those who merely wish to use their bent backs as a vehicle into office . . . .

” ” » SOME KIND WORDS FOR SENATOR WHEELER By Paul B. Sallee, R. R. 2, Holton, Ind. If there is any man of our day in this republic who has consistently spoken out in defense of our democratic institutions and the rights of the people it is Senator Burton K. Wheeler.

Before Roosevelt had left his mother’s table, it was Wheeler and

‘Hiram Johnson who spoke up, and

used their official power in support of a living wage and union labor. When the Elk Hill and Teapot Dome oil fields were being leased to conserve the naval oil reserve, the F. B. I. hounded Wheeler, sleuthing his personal and private life in an. attempt to smear and break him for his opposition to that steal. After the Army almost wrecked its aviation trying to carry the mail for Jim Farley and after domestic aviation had sunk to low depths because of New Deal interference, it was Senator Wheeler who supported a bill that gave aviation 17 months of no accidents under successful self-management. Now look what is happening under New Deal control. When the Supreme Court packing bill was submitted so as to nullify the opposition to the political bureaus of the New Deal, it was Wheeler who led the figh* that temporarily saved the péople from legal tyranny. Now that the Lend, Lease and Give Bill is being laid open by Senator Wheeler so that the people can see what is going to happen to their

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freedom, their liberty and democracy, he again is being attacked as a traitor because he believes the interests of the people and the democratic institutions of our country come first, before a war to save the British Empire. 8 ” s OFFERING SOME HINTS ON TRAFFIC SAFETY By Earl D. Beckhorn, 1323 Brookside Ave. I wish to express my views regarding these auto accidents. I have a family. I have fwo school girls so, too, therefore I feel very sorry for those parents who have raised their boys and girls up to an age where they can cross the street in safety under normal conditions, but when one of those reckless speed demons who call themselves a driver comes along it's mighty hard for an adult to get across the street, let alone some child who thinks the person behind the wheel knows what they are doing. I suggest the following—that the traffic court broadcast over the radios all these so-called eccidents. And another good -thing I believe is to get back to the brake test again, about one-fourth of the cars now in operation cannot s‘p within 15 feet going 30 m. . h. at a 8 Split second’s notice.

I own and have operated an auto|-

fcr about 15 years and I am not boasting (knocking on wood). I still hold the record like hundreds do in our city, or not injuring anyone while I am behind the wheel. Why? Because when I get behind the wheel I am thinking of others "besides myself and I am sure if every-

body feels like I do and drive like-

Side Glances—By Galbraith

"Sorry, we don't need any grandmas today—we're looking for i Li of 2 hors for six bucks!" y

someone who will

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wise the accidents will be cut down to almost zero. Please remember the little stickers you put on your windshields which read: “Lose a Minute—Save a Life!” : 2 o » URGES FEDERAL AID IN TUBERCULOSIS FIGHT

Samuel Bushwick, President American Passeciation for the Tuberculous, New ork.

Recently statements have appeared in the public press to the effect that there are hopes that tuberculosis will be brought under control by 1960. At the present time tuberculosis is the chief killer

of young persons between 15 and 35 years of age. It has long been recognized that almost every case of

‘| tuberculosis arises from infection

from another case, and if tuberculosis is to be brought under control every tuberculosis person needing hospitalization must be provided | with the same. As a result of a shortage of hospital beds active ,cases are forced to remain at home, where they do not receive the treatment they need and are a danger of infection to others. Because of the pressure for beds, many patients are discharged prematurely. Steps are being taken to enlist the United States Government in the fight -against tuberculosis. The Murray Bill, 8S. 195, has been introduced in the United States Senate and referred to the Committee on Finance. This bill, which has the approval of United States Surgeon General Thomas Parran, calls for appropriations for assisting states, counties, etc., to establish measures for the treatment and control of tuberculosis. including provisions for facilities for sanatoriums and other care of persons with tuberculosis. We earnestly urge your readers to write post cards and letters to the Committee on Finance in support of this bill. » ” 8 ASKS IF ENGLAND WOULD FIGHT FOR US By John J. Kobe

Supposing, for example, ‘the United States was at war with the four totalitarian powers—Germany, Italy, Japan and Russia—and Great Britain was neutrai. Supposing, again, that the United States . was waging a losing battle. Do you believe that the British government would go to war on our side in order to save our democracy? ” ” » HELP SOUGHT FOR JOBLESS OVER 40 By Morris Polansky There .are quite a number of unemployed persons who have some money, are over 40 years of age, are office workers and cannot find jobs Private industry seeks young people. In this category are stenographers. typists, clerks, bookkeepers., The U. S. Government might be able to create projects to give employment to these worthy people before they become paupers and are obliged to seek relief.

WE THREE By JOSEPHINE DUKE MOTLEY

Where is the ship that sailed So gallantly to sea, Loaded with a cargo Of dreams and buoyant me?

Lost is the ship and cargo. I'm all that’s leit of the three; » Trudging blindly onward, Nomadic refugee.

DAILY THOUGHT

~ Por. whoever shall commit any of these. abominations, even the souls that commit them shall be cut off frdm among their people. —Leviticus 18:29.

THERE 18 no greater punishment of wickedness than that it

dissatisfied with itself and its a

Gen. Johnson Says—

War Council for Shaping Policies Is O. K., but Strikes Show That the Production Setup Is Very Weak

ASHINGTON, March 11.—The outlines of the new top-side overhead for production for defense are not very clear. The so-called “War Cabfe: net,” consisting of Hull, Morgenthau, Stimson, Knox and Wickard of Agriculture sometimes—with Harry Hopkins as a kind of executive secretary—is all right for some purposes but if anybody thinks it will in any way speed production he is indulging Gen. Homer Lea's old idea of the valor of ignorance. It is all right for discussion of broad general policy—for example, about how much American Army and Navy armament to turn over to Britain. There are strong men in that council. For the first time in many years the War Department has a Secretary who can't be pushed around where the interests of the Army are concerned and so has the Navy. Stimson and Knox are Republicans who have clearly shown that they are taking on partisan advantage of their posie tion and would even lean over backward to avoid that, But anybody who has known these men for years knows that they think for themselves, think Amer« ican, will speak and defend their opinions, and would depart from office rather. than compromise them. This is also clearly true of Mr. Hull.

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HETHER or not you approve of Harry Hopkins® views, make no mistake about the fact that he has a very quick mind of great ability. He is as devoted to the President's policies as was the late Louis Howe. It is a very strong combination—a good “come posite” brain on general policy. But for the intricate daily detail of production management it will be so plainly worse than useless that perhaps most commentators have misread the in= tent of it as being for any such purpose. Full-time heads of such great Departments as State, Treasury, War and Navy have no leeway to know enough about the production effort to horn in on it without doing more harm than good. The real intent is probably to decide such broader and vital questions as “How much equipment can we spare and to whom?” with a net result of maximum national defense. In the meantime, the actual day-to-day management of the productfon program is going from bad to worse. : The effect of strikes at bottlenecks of production - is approaching the proportions of scandal. The Wright - Field strike is preventing necessary testing of the new superpower 2000 and 2500-horsepower engines and is so holding up the principal part of the aircraft program. ey

» ” ” HE ALLIS-CHALMERS strike stdnds athwart of not only the destroyer but the powder program, The Universal Cyclops strike involves only 1100 men but it has stopped about one-third of the Army fuse program. Shells without fuses are duds. There is hardly any element of essential defense production that has not been delayed in the past or that is not now threatened by these bottleneck strikes. On top of all this and many more key-point obe structions are the much wider threats of impending trouble in the whole coal industry, a large part of ° the steel industry, the vast Ford facilities and per- 3 haps the woolen industry. ; The perfectly absurd Knudsen-Hillman two-headed-boy control of industrial mobilization passeth understanding—especially the aspect of Sidney Hills man, able and patriotic as he is, operating in that dummvirate and also remaining head of a great union from which he draws his pay and as prime force in C. I. O. in the Hation-wide jurisdictional fight with A. F. of L. If Mr. Hillman stepped out of that impossible service of two masters, he might very well become a second B, M. Baruch. He has the stuff-— but not enough to carry water on both. shoulders, No man has. Mr. Roosevelt once said that he could think up a far better attack on him than the Republicans made in the last campaign—to-wit: Incapable administrae tion. Ain't it the truth? . But this is no time to cone tinue it.

A Woman's Viewpoint

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

ASCULINE ego dies hard—but it dies. Last week, on the very day I read that the Harvard Club ‘of New York City had voted to allow ladies to enter its

sacred portals, I was escorted to a stately’ Minneap= -

olis men’s club and regaled with a grand luncheon, Following a quaint old custom, however, it was forbidden me to mount the front steps and go in the main doorway. That was ree served, and always had been ree served, for gentlemen only. Later, I learned that for years no feme inine foot had sullied the place. As the pressure of modern life increased, however, it was voted to invite the ladies in, but through the back door. A rule of the preprohibition saloon was invoked. and the gals snuck in, so to speak, i by way of the alley, and were supposed to be grateful for the favor. They were, The most curious aspect of the episode was the - realization which finally percolated into miy ~ brain that the male members delighted in patronizing’ their wives, sisters and daughters. The irony of the situa= tion left them unmoved. The famous sense of humor was never apparent, and as they led their petticoated guests to the rear entrance one and all seemed overs come by their generosity and gallantry. The ladies themselves were also inured to the cus« tom, for not a tress of hair uncurled at the insulting implication of the rigid ruling. They were thankful and pleased and beaming at being noticed at all. So was I. vox The incident was really poignantly pathetic, found myself wishing that the men had held oS against us. It is my undying conviction that they owe themselves something—that they should keep intact . certain strongholds of masculinity, to which they might flee when domesticity becomes too dull and - their world is over-clouded with feminine vapors. : Altogether it was a day of disillusionment. News that the Harvard Club has succumbed to modernity seems to me a significant, even an evil, portent. For the ladies have no tact about such concessions. Give them an inch and they'll take a mile. Let them in the back door and they'll soon infest the place. I felt saddened for a full 30 minutes as I thought of this.

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