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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-08
GUIDING THE NEW DEAL

IN our Government Of three separate and
4 coordinate branches, the judicial branch
often has been accused of usurping the powers
of the legislative branch. Yesterday the Su-
preme Court protected Congress from itself
by prohibiting Congress from blindly giving
away its powers to the President.
In an 8-to-1 decision the court held that
Congress can not constitutionally delegate its
authority to the executive branch WITHOUT fix
ing the policy and rules under which it shall
act. Therefore the court invalidated the oil
section of the National Industrial Recovery
Act.
This does not mean-as some have so
hastily sssumed-that the NRA codes as such
are unconstitutional The court did not pass
either on the general codes or the oil code, but
solely on the section of the law which gave the
President blanket powers to stop interstate
shipment of oil in excess of the production or
Withdrawals authorized in the various states.
The decision does not mean that the court
is ditching the New Deal. On the contrary it
can mean that the court is a friend of the New
Deal. Just as the traffic officer who raises
a warning hand to the corner-cutting motorist
is the protector both of the driver and of the
public.
At the moment when the executive is about
to recommend. and the Congress is about to
consider, permanent legislation to take the
place of the expiring MIRA, the court in effect
tells them how it can be done constitutionally.
This action by the court is a constructive
service of the highest order for two reasons;
First, it checks the Observation-Disclosures
They have been piling up in such conflict
ing ard mountainous tumble as to prevent
clear observance by the citizen, effective en-
forcement by the executive. or intelligent re-
view by the judiciary.
Secondly, the court is preserving the Amer
lean system of governmental checks and bal
ances which is inevitably endangered in time of
national crisis whether in war or peace.
Throughout our history, first one and then an
other of the three branches has become strong
at the expense of the other two. During emer-
gency it is always the executive, because then
speed is the essence of the national interest and
he can act more quickly than a deIberative
body.
So in this period when many nations turn
to dictators, or otherwise shortcut the cum
bersome method Of democratic government,
the Supreme Court reaSserts the constitutional
limits to American shortcuts. 1t says to Con-
greSs, you can delegate the President to act
for you only provided you clearly chart his
course and rules.
That is American. That is reasonable. That
is a safeguard which may save the New Deal
from death by bureaucracy.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-08
SUGGESTS SCHEME FOR
VETERANS PAYMENTS
BY a Veteran.

By veteran.
I notice in a recent statement by
our newly elected member to the
Senate, Mr.. Minton, that he would
vote only for payment Of the bonus
to the needy veterans. Who would
be able to determine the needs of
the man, and how are they going
to do it Justly? If attempted at all,
it would take an army of employees,
the pay roll Of which would equal
that of the bonus to all veterans.
AS for the scheme Of paying the
bonus in full, and moving the date
of the certificates to 1918, ETC., as
was suggested by another member
of Congress, why should any man
be penalized for holding on to his
certificate while the others were
borrowing on theirs to the full so
per cent, for wouldn't the man who
kept his certificate intact and did
not borrow on it, lose at least 20
per cent on the face value Of It?
Let me suggest this scheme for
the payment Of this bonus in full.
Let the Government open up the
loan value Of the remaining so per
cent of the certificates. and let those
who need 10, &c or 80 per cent or
the remaining so per cent go to the
nearest Federal Reserve Bank and
present it for payment, or loan, the
bank taking in the certificate as
collateral, and il order to avoid
any expense of additional Federal
Employees administering this service,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-08
WAYS OF LIVING

THE outstanding feature of present-day
- America seems to be the earnest effort
that people are making to understand the
society in which they are living.
Because the last few years taught us so
forcibly that the present is the child Of the
past, we are also beginning to discover that
the future will be the child Of today. We
make certain decisions and adopt certain So
eiaI habits now-and a decade hence, or two
decades. these decisions and habits will have
consequences at which we hardly so much as
guess.
DR.. O. E. Baker. senior economist Of the
Department Of Agriculture. pointed out re-
Gently in a story in The indianapolis Times
that we are about to undergo very profound
changes in the matter Of population growth.
For about IS years to come, he says. We
will live in a kind Of national middle age;
then our population will begin to decline. the
decline will be progressive-and We shall
suddenly find ourselves an old nation. facing
al the problems which old age brings to any
living organism.
Now ali this seems to be mixed UP. in -
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-08

very peculiar fashion, with our. habits Of life.
For some reason. the birth raSe in the cities
is lower than the birth rate in rural areas.
On the farms and in the small towns. there
are more than enough births to maintain the
population level; in the cities, however. the
reverse is true, and in our larger cities the
births even now lack 30 per cent Of being
sufficient to maintain the population perma-
nently.
The implication. as DR.. Baker points out.
is that a civilization based primarily on an
industrial and commercial system in which
the individual is the economic unit is very
likely to develop a declining population.
To be permanent, it must be based on agri-
culture, or on some other system in which the
family is the economic unit.
This is very puzzling. and we probably
shall need to know great deal more than
we know now about the laws of heredity and
of human fertility generally before We can
fully understand it.
But it is a hint that our primary con-
Germ, in the long run, must be not simply to
devise a smoothly working economic system,
but to fashion way Of life that will bring
a broader and fuller life to the masses of
people.
When We crowd ourselves into cities and
compel millions Of people to live cramped and
narrow lives, we invite Nature to take her
revenge-and Nature accepts the invitation.
We don't live by bread alone, after all.
Those little tables of population growth
are a silent warning that, Unless we make
our society less artificial, ard bring it back
to closer contact with the old realities of the
living earth, we shall pay very bitter pen
atty generation or two later.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-08
NEW START FOR AGRICULTURE

THE farmer is a good deal better off
- economically than he was a year ago.
Agriculture Department figures show that
farm income last year rose by fully $1,000
1000, with farm purchasing power rising to
80 per cent Of the pre-war level, as compared
with 50 per cent in 1888.
Benefit payments by the AAA ran to
little more than s37OOOO,OOO for the year.
This indicates that the cumbersome and
occasionally irritating AAA scheme worked
out rather better than some of us expected.
In fact, it leads one to suspect that this pro-
gram has done about all that it can do, and
that further advances for the farmer must
come from a revival of industrial activity and
a recovery of our foreign markets.
Agriculture, in other words, has been
abundantly stimulated; it must take its pace,
now, from the national revival as a whole.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-08
ENGLAND TAKES A HAND

THE sensations incident to the Senate's
- munitions investigation seem to have
had their effect on the far side of the Allan
tic. England is preparing to name a royal
commission to investigate the arms traffic in
Great Britain.
1t is noteworthy that this step was forced
upon a reluctant government by public opin-
ion. When the American investigation start
ed to make headlines, British oficialdom in
timated that such scandalous methods were
all very we'll for Yankees, but that England
could get along quite nicely without copying
them.
Before long. however, the subject was
raised in the House of Commons, and the
debate there indicated that the masses of
people in England had the same sort of
healthy curiosity about the arms traffic as the
masses of Americans had.
So now England, like America, is going to
look into the doings of the merchants of death.
If the investigation is half as fruitful as the
one in Washington, the world will be a good
deal wiser when it is finished
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-08
LIES KNOWLEDGE is
STILL NECESSARY

By J. P. Voorhees,.
When Thomas A. Edison, among
other boons his life has bestowed
upon society, in the courage Of his
convictions concerning the contin-
uing life of the spirit, demonstrated
his belief, thus setting example and
encouraging others in the pursuit of
spirit revelation, he opened field
hitherto prejudiced and barred.
Ridicule and fear of conventional
opposition, of being termed queer or
crazy, have rendered so far SEEM
ingly hopeless any practical at
tempt to disclose the spirit as purely
a part of the natural universe. 1t
was Maeterlinck, the Belgian phil
osopher, it will be recalled, who said
nothing gets out of the universe.
That which animates life visioned
on an earthly plane, call it spirit,
released from material Enclosure,
still animates speculation concern
ing it's existence and processes Of
destination. The courage of an Ed
ison faces further exploration.
Neither dogma, conventional in
terdiction, nor complacent accept
ance of assumed authority, in an
emancipated intelligence, justified
any abandonment of quest that
concerns our life's right of knowl-
edge and satisfaction; a provision
of the natural possibilities of a mi
raculous and swiftly developing flu
ture-the radio, its mystery and I'M
revealed limit in universal acting
and reacting forces or foci, human
fight and the beginning of tele-
pathy. In the even Of a hopeful
solution of the Edison problem, in
fluences felt in the action and re-
action of spirit relatively are as
sumed of last Importance in uni
versal destiny, both in bearing upon
the material earthly plane and
relating to the further processes Of
being. Doubtless offering a final
and satisfactory explanation Of con-
tinuing and mutually helpful opera
tons of life and being.
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THE Presidents "double-budget" Will be
L sharply and quickly challenged. 1t will be
called phoney. The challenge viii come from
those who have been loudest in saying
balance the budget and leave recovery to in
dustry."
But the President has put the proposition
IN a way that will give the Objectors wide
open stage on which to show their stuff.
Dividing the budget into regular and
emergency classifications. he says, in effect:
Take care Of the employment load by using
that private initiative, that individual in
genuity. of which you talk so much. and the
budget is already balanced. All normal and
current expenditures will then be covered by
current receipts"
That, Of course, is somewhat like saying, if
there IS a case of pneumonia in the house. with
doctors and nurses and medicine required, that
the family budget would be balanced if it we're
not for the illness.
So long as private industry doesn't revive,
and rise to the job Of meeting work relief with
private work, billions must come from the tax
payers.
But a great money-making opportunity is
made graphic by this double-budget method
of presentation. 1t should be inspiring to all
who are eager to get action on their private
initiative. 1t means simply this For every
dollar, or million, or billion dollars by which
private employment is increased. by that pre-
else amount will the eventual tax bill be re-
duced.
Want to make four billion dollars or any
part thereof?
That is what the doutle-budget puts up
to the industry.
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OhoHy disapprove of aOhat yom sag and will
defend to the death your right to sag i-V0Itaire.

taking advantage Of your column as
the only medium I know of, in
which to air my grievances. This
letter is purely political and con-
Germs the patronage system em-
ployed by the ward chairman in the
Nineteenth Ward.
The Nineteenth Ward is the larg-
est in the city and is fundamentally
Democratic. In the Sullivan election
it carried the city ticket over and
in the last election it counted more
Democratic votes than any other
ward. ~
In spite of this fact there we're
no major appointments allotted to
the Nineteenth Ward under the
Sullivan administration and to date,
there have been no big jobs passed
out to the boys on the West Side.
We have no members on the Board
of Safety, the Board of Works, or
other boards.
We have no police captains, and
only one or two lieutenants, and
no big jobs on the fire department.
1t is true that one Of the boys out
here is third assistant street COM
missioner, and that Mr.. Leaps, the
ward chairman, has a fair job at
the Courthouse, but that's all. We
have lot of street cleaners and
janitors and sewage disposal work.
ers and are to be satisfied with it..
Whenever a man from this ward is
appointed to the fire department or
police force, the appointment always
comes from downtown and invaria-
bly, the person appointed is not a
member Of the ward organization.
The precinct committeeman out
here are, with one or two eXcep-
lions, unusually intelligent, but when
the election is over just let them
try to get a favor.
I am not a committeeman but
I know all the boys out here and
know that they are getting a raw
deal and can not understand why
the city chairman allows it. If any
body is able to answer this question
I would like to hear it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-08
SCHOOLS FOR GROWN-UPS

THE most valuable, yet the cheapest, thing
Il in the United States today is education.
Still according to DR.. L. R. Alderman of
the Relief Administration in Washington,
there are probably II million illiterate adults
in this country and millions more who would
enjoy pursuing some branch Of learning"
Here is abundant raw material for great
and inspiring industry, the making of literate
and cultured Americans. We have the fac
tories, some 256,OO0 school buildings now used
only one-third of the time, libraries, play
grounds, churches, clubs. We have the work.
ers tens of thousands of idle teachers, thou
sands of others who would be glad to act as
discussion leaders.
Until now this country has been unique
among civilized nations in the almost total
lack of an adult education movement.
Thanks to FERA Administrator Hopkins,
DR.. Alderman and other New Dealers, such
movement appears to have been launched.
FERA is employing some 10000 jobless
teachers in this work Of teaching the idle
grown-upS what they want to know. In Los
Angeles. where middle-aged jobleSs swarm like
bees in a hive the grown-up school has
reached its biggest proportions. DR.. Alderman
says that if this movement were general we
could make America literate in year, that "a
man of 10 learns as fast as a boy of TO-"
The depression has taught America many
things. If it teaches that we must feed minds
as well as hungry bodies it will have helped
build new civilization upon the wreckage it
wrought.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-08
So They Say

The trend is toward more whole
some and less morbid literature
Carl H. Milan, secretary, American
Library Assn.
There's no sound argument for
paying the bonus to fellows like me.
Senator Sherman Minton Of In
diana.
For some reason or other, the
public would rather watch % men
play football than listen to six men
debate.-Father John F. OHaras
president Of Notre Dame.
BY changing a mans health, we
can change his whole viewpoint
Charles F. Kettering, automotiye
engineer.
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SUGGESTS MR.. COOK LIVE
ON BASKET RELIEF

By ]. Carter.
In regard to w. w. Cooks letter
Of Jan. /, on old-age pension, he
must be living on $50 a month or
he wouldn't know so much about
living expenses and I bet anything
he hasn't any bristles either. He
should be careful. He will be old
some day, if not now. AS the old
saying goes, Every one has his day"
Yours may be next.
There are men working now get
ting from $3.50 to SITS week and
also their wives working making sc
to $40 week. OF csurse, nothing
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-08

let the bank charge a nominal fee
for such service, the same as they
do now on cashing an outside bank
check the amount to be fixed by
agreement between the two agencies.
Let me hear what other veterans
think of this scheme.
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FOR NANCY
BY HARRIET SCOTT oLINICK

BY HARRIET SCOTT OLINICK
Nancy. hang the mistletoe
In the pale hair OF the moon.
Hang it carefully, and slow. ).
Do not run too soon. a
Mistletoe, mistletoe
Will it bring you him2 =
That strong and handsome cavalier
To love you on a whim?
Make a wish and make a bow;
Then shut your eyelids tight.
Here comes first love
Oh, close your eyes! I
He must not see their Light
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By Einstein Jr.
Well, I have been waiting in
vain for some of the disciples of
Mahatma Townsend to refute my
figures that the sales tax neces-
sary to raise the 5000 month
pension would eat up the money
in circulation. And while I was
waiting I saw by the papers that
Brother Townsend was at Wash
ington telling Congress that all
it would take to run the thing
would be a mere $24,0OO,0O0,00O
a year. Just "a with nine zeros
after it.
A small trifle, when you stop to
consider that person could buy
all the property in Marion Coun-
ty, including all the real estate
and the banks and autos and both
sides of Westinghouse and all
the farms with just one tiny bill
lion dollars. Now "a billion dol
lars represents the interest or in
come, clear, from 600 billion dol
lars, figured at 4 per cent. So
you see, if we wanted to pay the
5000 month pension for elderly
persons out Of income instead of
thin air imagination, it would
take 600 communities like Marion
county all earning 4 per cent
clear to raise the dough.
Figuring that the entire state
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PATRONAGE DEAL
Daily Thought

Depart from me, all We workers
of iniquity; for the Lord hath heard
the voice Of my weeping.-Psalms
vi, 8.
IF thou sustain injustice, console
l. myself; the true unhappiness is
in doing it.-Democritus.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-08

is said about this. At that, Mr..
Cook ought to live on basket for
four years. Maybe he would change
his opinion on old-age pension.
Some people don't like the truth
to be printed. SO please let me see
this in print.
=
PROTESTS PATRONAGE DEAL
by a Disguised Democrat.
This letter is probably foreign to
the general run of topics discussed
in the Message Center, but I am
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-08
The Message Center

(Times readers are inUited to cypress
their Uietos in these columns. Make your
letters short, so all can hare chance.
Limit them to ESQ 40ords or leSs.)
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Chile is having a home building boom,
having learned from Florida the Importance Of
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-08
Pro and Com ON Pensions

5000 a month at the peak of my
earning capacities.
In quoting part of Pegler's COL
ume: The Townsend plan would
present the spectacle of many
thousands of lifelong winners
and veteran sufferers from chronic
fatigue tooling over the country
in luxury at the expense of young
err people who would be working
hard for less money. Every one
has seen certain individuals
reach the age of 60 who never
did care much for steady work
and whose present character is no
more admirable than it was be-
fore. Under this plan a diligent
shirker with living father and
mother, both so years old or more,
would be able to retire perman-
emily and support his rising brood
of Government guests on the
monthly income Of his old parents
which would amount to 500 a
week"
And in conclusion I wonder
just where j. L. Forster came
under the delusion that the 5000
a month would be paid from
national retail sales tax of 2 per
cent. The 2 per cent will be from
the salary of every working man
Or woman in the nation; not from
retail taxes.
Of Indiana and the personal prop
erty on it is valued at $10,000,00O,-
900 (Which is about correct, it
would take the entire income at
4 per cent from 60 states like
Indiana to pay this pension. That
is, if it were artually to be paid
out Of income. However, under
the Townsend plan, it is to be
raised by sales tax. Consider
ing that per cent sales tax
in Indiana, faithfully admins
tered by the best Democratic Off
Gals who could be elected and
about fifty travelling gangs Of
QUN44GO4O WO1 h4A45 OAAOCA b44CAAAS
only raised some IL to IS mil
lion shameful word, it stands
for so little) dollars, I won't say
the Townsend plan won't work.
If 10 million people over go who
get 5000 a month and spend it
all will restore prosperity, why
not give everybody 5000 a month
and have more prosperity. Then
none of us will have to work. We
will be like that famous Utopia
where every one lived by taking
in each others washing. At least,
the latter plan is one that nobody
has thought up to relieve unem-
ploynent and restore that famous
prosperity under which I worked
fourteen hours a day for a dollar,
20 years ago.
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WANT TO MAKE $1,000. OOO. 900?

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BY Joseph L. Watt, Bloomington.
have noticed several COM
munications in your paper critics.
ing w. W. Cook for Directing to
proposed 5000 pension plan. 1
admit Mr.. Cook was too far
fetched in stating that the sums
of $25 or $50 a month would be
sufficient, but, the sum of 5000 a
month to every old person over
60 years old is ridiculous.
One hundred dollars would be
more within reason. I wonder if
the writer's of these letters read
the column Fair Enough" by
Westbrook Pegler in the Jan. is
sue of The Times. If they would
read that article they would, no
doubt, change their opinions.
What would a married couple Of
so year do with a monthly in
come of $500 when they were re-
quired to spend that within
period of month.
How on earth is a person over
go going to find ways and means
of spending that much a month
without eXtravagant and WastefUl
spending. Quite a few of them
would probably shorten their lives
by drinking themselves to death.
I have a good job and two de-
pendents yet I would consider
myself immensely lucky if made