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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-27
Outside the RdBpdrtS

ITO be sure it was not hundred per cent victory.
i When the slain and captured we're counted it
was discovered that Dr. Writ, william Randolph
Hearst and Walter Lippmann still remained outside
the rampartS This trio still blows loudly upon the
rams horn and waits with eagerness for the walls
to come tumbling down.
Mr. Lippmann, like many critics who are too
distant from the Washington scene, makes the mis-
take of aScribing to Tugwel administration plans
and devices concerning which he has played but
small part or none at all. The institution of NRA
in particular is probably no creation of Tugwells
and there are things in his declared economic
philosophy which might mark him one in oppoSi-
ton to the scheme. Probably there are many things
in the new deal not dreamed of in the Tugwellian
philosophy.
OF course, Mr. Lippmann does not go the whole
wav INTO the bog OF mSconceptiOn with those who
ha e seriously asserted that President Roosevelt is
a puppet under the domination of Henry Wallace
Rex Tugwell and Felix Frankfurter. Nevertheless
the famous pundit has played just around the
edges. In his To-day and Tomorrow column land
1 insist it is a lovely title for an author who
sometimes likes to face beth ways Mr.. Lippmann
asaIled NTA because by the blanket code and MIRA,
the cost of production has been raised before in
duStry had increased its volume enough to carry
these COSTS.
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A TUice-TOId Tale

ITO me this seems strange position, although 1t
i is not unfamiliar Mr.. Hearst has urged it on
many occasions, even before he had the support of
Mr.. Lippmann. The theory. 1 understand it. is
that business should be burdened with response
bilty for raising wages shortening hours until
the head men have had opportunity of slowing
away profits. After time it is expected that
more or less voluntarily they will invite the employees
in for crackers and milk
1t seems to me that there two answers to
this contention The first is that NRA has been so
mild IN reducing hours and raising wages that few
industries have been compelled to take on any con-
siderable extra costs. And the second and more i'm
portant reply is that the workers longer of
mind TO sit by patiently in the hope of beated in
vitationS to a midnight lunch They want to come in
with the olives and stay through to the dem-taSSe.
They Just can lot attain the cool detachment of
Hearst or a Lppmann and say-"Let us wait little
while longer" Alter all it is the workers toe on
which our economic system has fallen. And it was
a sore toe at that.
Copyright. 1884. by The Timesl
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mon, and the power to choke off
the siphoning of the peoples credit
into speculative channels. The
government should not attempt
to tell an investor how he can in
vest his money. This country was
built up by men who were willing
to take chances"
DETTENGILL now is hard at
Il work on a bill of mammoth
proportions, proposed long
range substitute for the NRA.
Pettengill's proposal would use
the taxing power of the federal
government. which he describes
as an ancient weapon, unques-
tionably constitutional ito force
private industry to increase wages.
His proposal, which incidentally
he has submitted to United States
Supreme Court Justice Brandeis
for criticism, calls for graduated
tax on the excess profits of cor
porationS, a tax law with a loop
hole in it through which a cor
poration might escape payment of
the high levies by the simple pro-
cess of increasing wages. Pay roll
increases are to be considered as
tax deductions. Also money laid
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But he also received a shower of
protests from war veterans back
in his district, and caused Frank
Eby, Elkhart farmer and paper
money advocate, to enter the race
against Pettengill for the Demo-
cratic nomination for congress.
Pettengill belongs to the sound
money group in congress, but he
does think that some good might
be accomplished in the monetary
field by more extensive coinage of
silver.
DoWN through the ages" said
- Petttengill, 1.-The people have
had faith in metals. Theoret-
ically, all of the currency might as
we'll be paper. But people have
more faith in metals than men"
Pettengill is an active, hard
working member of the committee
on interstate and foreign COM
merce, the house committee that
is now handling most of the i'm
portant economic social legisla-
ton.
This committee handles all leg
lSlation dealing with railroads.
and the Hoosier representative is
the author of a bill now before
the committee which would amend
Section 4 of the interstate COM
merce act, the clause dealing with
long and Short-haul freight rates.
The Pettengill bill would amend
this section to provide for lower
long-haIl rates, to enable the
manufacturers of the midwest to
ship their products by rail to the
populouS centerS on the Seaboard,
at rates that will enable the mid
west factories to compete with
coast factories.
To illustrate: Under present
freight rates, it is cheaper for the
Studebaker plant in South Bend
to ship its cars, consigned for
Portland, Ore, by rail to Philadel-
phia and by water to Portland,
via the Panama canal. than it is
to ship direct by rail from South
Bend to Portland. The rail-water
haul to Portland requires weeks,
whereas an all-rail direct ship
ment from South Bend to Port
land would require but few days.
MINE of the eleven members
~ of the interstate commerce
commission have Endorsed the
Pettengill bill, including Railroad
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this condition could theoretically
be cured. One way would be the
suspension of the gold standard in
all countries, and the refusal of
central banks to buy any more
gold.
The value of gold would COL
lapse and world prices would al
most certainly rise. This will not
happen, however, for the peoples
of the world are more attached to
gold than ever and will not stop
accommodating it if they can.
1t is here that the silver advo-
Gates make their strongest case.
They say: Gold acquires its chief
value from the fact that it is law
full money; make silver lawful
money in some ratio to gold, fixed
or f1uctuating as seems eXpedient,
and silver, having become inter
changeable with gold, will become
an equivalent for the gold. The
monetiza tion of silver would have
the same result as great new dis
coverieS of gold. That is to say it
would raise world prices.
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the Democratic party. 1t is quite strange to hear
that at some of the jefferson day dinners which are
held by the dead statemans admirers there IS often
bitter talk about PROFESSIONAL intelligence. Indeed
am told that the wish has been expressed for the
shedding of all the ntellectuals and their replace
ment by practical politicians.
But jefferson. in spite of his book learning, was
no mean politician on his own account. He had
bit the better of it in his dealings with Hamilton,
and he was able to thwart the persuasive plots OF
Aaron Burr the finest lobbyist of his day. And one
of JefersOns lined descendants IN type though not
in stature mas but recently proved that modern
member of the brain trust need not be helpless
infant under the fire of political criticism.
Professor TugweH in his speech before the Amer
lean newspaper editors talked to such good purpose
as to still entirely the whispering campaign which
came to a head in the pagan revels of DR.. Writ The
journalists came to scott but went away all but per-
Suaded.
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aside by the corporation for I'M
employment insurance reserves
and old-age pension reserves
would be deductible from the tax
Corporations have reserves out
of which they pay dividends in
times of depression" said Petten-
gil. Why shouldn't they also
have reserves to take care of their
workers"
To support his bill, Pettengill
quotes figures to show what hap
pened to industrial United States
in the ten years from 1919 to 1929:
Industrial production increased 48
per cent, number of men employed
by industry decreased 6 per cent,
total wages paid to industrial
workers increased 5 per cent, and
profits of industry increased 134
per cent.
If profits had been kept down
to reason, and a fair share of the
earnings of industry had been
plowed back into higher wages,
there would have been no such
slump in purchasing power" he
declared.
1T is the economy of high wages
that 1 advocate. My proposal is
not radical. 1t is conservative.
NRA is directed toward increasing
purchasing power, but my plan
would accomplish the same end
much quicker and without regi-
mentation and government inter-
ference with industry
GAM PETTENGILL was born
- in Oregon. and reared on his
uncle'S farm in Vermont-land
worth 81 an acre. He started
shifting for himself at the age of
IA. He worked his way through
an academy, through Middlebury
college in Vermont, through the
law school at Yale university.
After graduating from Yale in
1911, he moved to South Bend and
hung out his shingle. His fees
and retainerS for the first year
totaled 500, and the second year
$500.
For four years he went deeper
into debt. But his practice grew,
and he was considered highly
successful lawyer when in 1880 he
opened his first campaign for con-
gresS as an advocate for outright
repeal of national prohibition.
Pettengill is one congressman
who has never apologized for his
vote for the economy law.
One time last summer, he spoke
to crowd of war veterans from
the same platform with Senator
Arthur Robinson. Robinson de-
nounced the economy law as "the
most indefensible act ever passed
by a cowardly congress" Petten-
gill stood his ground, declared
that the economy law had been
absolutely necessary to save the
nation from bankruptcy The
veterans gave Pettengill more ap-
plause than they had given to
LII Arthur"
Sans friends have been trying
to get him to enter the senatorial
race against LII Arthur.
I'm satisfied with my present
job says Sam.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-27
Fair EM2u6h
WESTbROOK PEG[ER

ONE hardly can blame the modern young Of
- the United States Department of Agriculture
for obJectng to the mural decoration done by Gilbert
White under a commission which he received from
the Hoover administration. Things have changed so
much since Mr. Hoovers time in Washington that
the figure representing the rich yield of the earth.
which the artist may have thought very poetic, is
just glazing bad taste at this time.
OF course Mr.. Wallace and Mr.. Tugwel are
liberals but there is no type of person
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-27

~. S. A stands for United
States of America and also for
United States army. Both hold
the love of the American people.
Of course, there could be no
United States army without a
United States of America, but per-
haps also there would be no
United States of America today if
there had been no United States
army"
IT is not always the really sig
L nificant events tranSpiring on
Capitol hill that get the head
lines.
Not very much has been printed
about the recently enacted Bank
head cotton control bill, but his
torically it is likely to be the most
momentous legislation passed this
session.
The insiders realize this. Par
ticularly Secretary Wallace and
his AAA staff.
It will be up TO them to adj
minister the act. They would
have preferred a far more extern
sive public discussion of the rev.
dictionary step before it was
written on the statute books.
For a revolutionary step it most
certainly it.
In blunt language what the act
does is to end definitely tradition
al American laissez-faireism as far
as the production Of cotton is con-
cerned.
Henceforth, individual initiative
and enterprise are taboo. The
farmer, big and small. will grow
only that amount Of cotton the
government tells him he may.
THERE is nothing voluntary
Il about it. 1t is compulsory,
and the grower who exceeds his
government-fixed allotment can be
penalized by a heavy tax on every
pound Of excess production.
What is particularly interesting
and significant about the pro-
gram is the fact that its origina-
tors and sponsors are among the
most conservative Democratic
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-27
DAILY WASHINGTON
MERRY-GO-ROUND
= By Dre10 Pearson and Robert S. Allen :

WASHINGTON April 2The
w to be aired by the
excitement than those
The committees agents have of
gaSps Here of the charges
That certain official of shipping line heavily subsidized
drew 100000 salary expenses
consisting of
Iht another subsidized
me oant scheme of charging his $780,
600
this of
this from the
to the government payment
That third which
and lavish loans the shipping profit
$700OO00
by line obta
single government.
But this relatively
mee agents that grabbed off by the holding
subsidized
he netted 100000 salary bonuses.
NOOD old
~ asng learned erudte The following paragraph
his latest speechs the
his 1dt
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But when all this has been said,
it is still necessary to recognize
that we are in the early stages of
monetary reconstruction after the
greatest monetary debacle in mod
ern history, and that the congress
Sional sentiment for imitation is
based on that fact.
The methods put forward at the
moment may be bad ones; the
mandatory procedure may be very
bad, but the impulse arises from
the real needs of the people and
calls for positive satisfaction.
THERE are two directions in
u which constructive measures
have still to be taken. The first
of these is to make effective,
under careful control. the effects
of the gold devaluation. BY that
measure We have made possible a
very great expansion of the supply
of money. But the expansion has
been inconsiderable and ought to
be greatly increased. 1t can not
safely be accomplished by govern
ment spending alone. 1t can only
be accomplished in substantial
amount by loans from banks to
producers and by the sale of mort
cages and securities.
To this expansion, to this credit
imitation or eflation-whatever
may be the proper name for it
there are certain obstacles. There
is the securities act as it now
stands. There are certain features
of the banking act which disrupt
the mechanism for underwriting
securities.
There may be some aspects of
the stock exchange bill even in its
amended form. though that is less
clear. There are those policies of
NRA which raise construction
costs and therefore discourage
new enterprise. And then there
is a state of mind, always latent
in the federal reserve system and
in the treasury. which diSpoSes
those who manage our money to
shut down on expansionist poll
cieS when they are beginning to
take effect.
This happened two or three
times since 1880. and there are
some slight indications that it
might happen again.
In any event a bold, consistent
policy of credit expansion is
needed to make effective what the
gold devaluation made possible.
Such policy calls for the amend
ment of those laws which OBJ
Stuct il and then a reSolute use
OF the whole mechanism of credit
expansion. We must not let the
theoretical possibilities of too
much credit imitation obscure the
actual dangers and miseries of
the deflation which still exists.
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Pettengill is a Roosevelt-type
Democrat, who believes in a
strong national government to
protect the people in their right
to work and enjoy the fruits of
their work.
Only twice has he bolted the
administration program: Once
when he lent a friendly hand to
Representative Louis Ludlow in
the latter's fight to prevent con-
struction of poStoff1ce equipment
and furniture factory at the
ReedSville, w. Va, subsistence
homesteads colony: and again
when he voted to override PreSi-
dent RooSevelt's veto of the indie
pendent Offices Appropriations
bill
The vote against the ReedSville
factory was down Pettengill'S
alley He served as a member of
the Shannon committee, which
investigated government competi-
ton with private enterprise. That
investigation resulted in a bill,
which will eventually become law,
requiring that governmental en-
terprises be operated on bust
ness basis, with a system of cost
accounting that will take into
consideration such charges as
amortization, taxes and other
charges that privately-owned
business enterprise must meet.
DETTENGILL, however, is no
l. Bourbon on the question of
the government in business. He
voted for the bill creating the
Tennessee Valley Authority to
manufacture power at Muscle
Shoals and sell it on a basis of fair
competition with private enter
prise.
The South Bend congressman
vote to override the Presidents
veto of the independent offices
bill was one of his few actions
That revealed that he is not al
ways defiant of organized minor
tiles. Although he has the cour-
age to vote against organized mi
noritieS when he thinks it neces-
Sary, Pettengill is not obvious to
the political necessity of keeping
the voters in line.
His vote on the veto came only
a few days after his vote against
cash payment of the veterans
bonus. For his vote against the
bonus, Pettengill received warm
commendatory letter from Presi-
dent Roosevelt.
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opinionated and less able to take
it than the liberal. If they per-
NIT this painting to remain in
the department of agriculture
without taking any steps to
change it to conform to their
own notions, that will prove
that they never really were
liberals at heart. A true liberal
can not tolerate another mans
opinion.
Mr.. White, the artist, still may
think of the rich yield of the
earth as a boon to humanity,
but it has been more than a
year since that was so. The rich
yield of the earth and the great
American ideal of efficiency were
responsible for the depression.
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BY WALKER STONE

VXTASHINGTON, April 27-Samue Petengil Indiana
w monthly pay
check the most important perquisie of office
The South Bend Democrat who the Third
of being able play the DEAL
There other Indiana who
Of them the working
stunts who want something of the That
the Peteng He
Peengi
legislation opportun
whole
sonal district legisIates for the generation.
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=
THIS is the immediate task be-
l. fore us, and it can promote a
very considerable revival. But it
is not likely to bring full recov-
cry. For, since large sections of
the country are dependent upon
the sale of goods that go into
world markets, since the country
as whole is dependent upon the
prosperity of all its parts, the
Level of world pricele.is a matter
of great concern to us.
That level is not rising much,
and it can not, be made to rise
by the expansion of our own
credit.
There are several ways in which
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-27
Long Before TugIUeH
THOMAS JEFFERSON "

THOMAS JEFFERSON was
Il As when he assumed that
pos. He was only few years
older than our own Guy Rexford
Tugwen. But in spite of youth,
radicahsm. bOoklishneSs and
theories, jefferson sailed through
to serve two terms as President
and hecOn1e the DatrOn saint of
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-27
TO-DAY AND TOMORROW
By Walter Lippmann

IN resisting the silver movement in pity for
the President to give out the regards further
sion has been conveyed in the dispatches.
excellent
silver proposals Technically they the
dcSSed
which compulsory
oty lay down fixed such uncertain
then
dent trusted silver
polcy
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-27
HJeemC TONE
b.
Haywood BROUN

IN all the discussions for and against the brain trust
- do not remember having seen any mention of
that great American who was assuredly the first of
the species. 1t seems to me that when he was
appointed secretary of state BY George Washington
in 1879 Thomas jefferson became the first of the
brain trusters. jefferson was, of course inteec-
tual radical with strong educational interests He
was in fact, the founder of the University Of Viz
gna.
An aSsiduOus reader of Rousseau, Jefferson was
decidedly theorist and experimentalist. In his
frequent conflicts with Alexander Hamilton haven't
a doubt that many people suggested that Jefferson
should go back to his books and interfere with
the practical wisdom Of a big business man WASH
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-27
AUTO HITS PEDESTRIAN
Victim Sent to Hospital With Head
Injuries.

Everett Pierce, Sc, of 237 North
Gray street, suffered head injuries
late last night, when he was
knocked down by an automobile
driven by Forrest Carroll 81, r. R.
II, Box % L, at Washington street
and Bradley avenue. Mr.. Pierce
was sent to city hospital.
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ington himself pobably was the
richest man in America and he,
too. undoubtedly looked askance
AT some Of the dreams and
visions OF his young secretary of
state.
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with more food and goods than the people could use
for years to come. The result that people were
laid off and went hungry because they couldn't buy
the rich yield of the earth which kept storing up
food and went cold because they couldn't buy
clothes, while efficiency stored up and more
country.
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Are Artists DUMB

A ND now, just Mr.. Wallace begins to conquer
4 the sinister specter of the earthS bounty and
the southern planter at last begins fog it into the
dumb, thick hide of his mule that he is to tread on
the cotton and pillow it under along comes an artist
with picture clarifying the rich yield of the earth
Do you suppose artists never read the newspapers
at all, never listen to the radio and never meet any,
body?
l suppose If the same man had been commissioned
to do something for the department of labor he
would have turned out a picture of a steam shovel
operated by one man, doing the work of hundreds
of men.
There seems to me to be no excuse for an artists
failure to get around among people and to keep in
formed to what it is all about at any given time
If Mr.. White had done he might have learned
what hard time those superior creatures the
farmers, had last year breaking their field mules
of stupid habit of treading off the cotton
For generations the mules had been taught that
the worst thing mule could do in this life was to
tread on the planS-out mules, like artists are SLOW
to sense change in the world
1t was hard to convince them that that which
always had been such great ofense was now good
conduct
People are quicker. One day it was a crime
against the United States Constitution to traffic
in alcoholic beverages. The next day it was pa
triotic service.
Amerikai Magyar hirlap = American Magyar journal. [volume] (Youngstown, Ohio) 1911-1942, 1934-12-06
AMIG ICY MINDEN

oldalon, minden erdekcsoport
a congressus ulesere keszilodik,
ket felfogas kozti ellentet min
den fronton osszeutkozik egy-
Nasal es bar aranylag fegyver7
sziinet van az. orszagban, az uj
deal egyes reszletei fontos don
IIteseknek vannak kiteve.
A kormany es congressus al
tai felallitott kulonboz6 boardok
el6tt rendesen az vi deal iigye
nyer, hiszen ezeket a boardokat
az vi deal csinalta, de bir6sa-
gok el6tt mersekeltebb szeren-
cseje van a kormanynak.
Alabama szovetsegi birosaga
peldau1 ugy dontott, hogy a
IVA hatalmas aranyu villany-
gyartasahoz nincs joga 'kor-
manynak es ait csak ugy adhat-
ia a piacra, ha mint a fOlyam-
szabalyozas egyik mellekterme-
nye, kis mennyisegben lesz elo-
allitva.
Termmeszetes, hogy ez mem a..
utolso $40 a dologban, inert ait
a a Supreme Couft fogja kimon-
dam, de lninden esetre rnegegye-
xix dontes Baker es hozza
hasonlo konzervativ demokratak
|el3bb hangoztatott velemenye-
val