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Milford chronicle., 1936-04-03

A committee recently reported t
the President, that SIS per cent o.
some 1900 industrial establishments
were voluntarily sticking by the
standards established by the NRA
The fact that so many concerns have
slipped away from these standards
will be felt by many to indicate that
the industries will never run right
until they are regulated by some
authority with the power of law be-
hind it.
Perhaps that is so. And yet when
the government attempts to regulate
anything, II meets with a resistance
that seems to grow as time passes.
National prohibition for instance
was felt by many to have been a sue
cess, Yet the people just wouldn't
have it. There is a limit to the
amount of regulating they will stand,
even when the regulation is accom-
plishing good.
Milford chronicle., 1936-04-03
PALM SUNDAY

The Sunday before Easter is cele-
brated as Palm Sunday, the day
when Jesus Christ rode into Jeru-
salem in triumph. The multitude
threw palm branches before him, to
make a carpet on which so marvel
lOus a Savior could ride. They
shouted "Hosannah to the son of
David" 1t seemed as if the nation
were ready to accept the Christian
ideals. and go on to a better life.
1t was one of the most dramatic
changes in history. that only a few
days later these same crowds were
calling to have him crucified HUI
man nature is tickle. 1t veers with
the wind like the weathervane.
1t is the same today. People get
notion that they want to lead better
lives. When the old temptations
come again, they usually fall be-
fore them in the same old way. HUI
man nature still needs some sta
bility.
Milford chronicle., 1936-04-03
WA WISE

The loading Of Works Progress Adj
ministration pay-rolls with persons
having access to some private means
of support promises TO become one
OF the main issues in the campaign.
The recent showing that 5000 per-
sons got on the easy money" list IN
New York by paying an average of
80 each for forged work cards was
not Of course. unexpected. The coun-
" expects graft in New York, and
has seen, in the Tammany distribu-
ton of Federal relief funds, that the
grafters do not hesitate to prey on
hungry, cold and hopeless people.
From general reports, including
some in Indiana, many who could
qualify for these jobs and need the
work are rejected in favor of poll
ticians who can not qualify. do not
need the work. and in some instances
make little effort 10 pretend 10 work.
The situation is approaching the
point where, in the interest of those
really in need, and out of Difference
to the rights Of taxpayers. Washing
ton will have to order another house
acknowledgements News.
Milford chronicle., 1936-04-03
MAsTERs oR sUBIEcTs
BY Representative James w.
WadaWorth Of New YORK


When Mr.. Roosevelt and his lieu.
tenants came 20 Washington in the
Spring Of 1888, they brought with
them the belief that our form Of gov
eminent, which has stood for one
hundred and fifty years. is outworn
and should be changed most radi-
cally. To be more specific, they be-
lieYed that there should be center
ed at Washington power sufficient
to regulate. down to the smallest
details, all indusIry, agriculture,
commerce, credit, investments,
transportation, and, In fact, the very
lives of our citizens as they attempt
to earn their living. To accomplish
such a transformation and to make
Il effective, they insisted that the
Congress should turn over to the
President the right to issue regula-
tions which, automatically, would
assume the force Of law; in other
words, to confer the law-making
power upon the Executive.
In accordance with this program
and at the behest of the President,
the Congress passed a series Of
measures setting up a huge bureau
cratic machine under the dOmina-
ton of the President and clothed
with power to do all the things
which the President insisted must
be done. From the very beginning Of
this program It was apparent to
every thoughtful person, and l in
clude many Democrats in that cate |
CORY, that under our Constitution |
the President cannot become the |
law-maker; only the Congress may |
perform such a function, and, that /
being the case, the Congress has no /
right whatsoever to delegate its 1
power to the Executive or any group
of administrative officials.
Recurring deficits and a mounting
national debt do not disturb these
people one little bit. They are still
intent upon their program of plan
ned economy, which involves neees-
sarily the Capitalization Of immense
power in the Washington bureau
cracy. In spite of the decisions of
the Supreme Court, the effort still
goes on, which means, in turn, that
The fight against this sort of thing
must still go on. Boiled down to its !
the question present
ed is just this: Are the American
people to remain the masters Of (
heir Government, or are they to be-
come its subjects?
Milford chronicle., 1936-04-03
What Democratic Editors Are Saying
WPA'S OHIO MESS
Politics comes first.

Politics comes first.
Such is the only possible interpre-
tation to be put upon the admitted
| intention of DR.. Carl Watson to Gust
Waldo F. Walker as WPA head Of
this country.
Martin L. Sweeney. demagOgic
Congressman from the Twentieth Dis
trict, set out to get Walkers scalp.
~ Now he has II, thanks 10 the con-
niVance Of politicians in Columbus
and Washington who are apparently
satisfied. if not eager, to put politi-
cal expediency ahead of efficiently in
the administration of WPA.
The episode arms the critics of
WPA and of the Roosevelt admins
tratiOn at a time when both are in
need of friends. 1t flies in the face
of assurances by the President and
Harry Hopkins, federal relief adj
ministratOr. that WPA is being kept
free from political interference.
IL is no secret that Walker has dis
pleased Sweeney and other poll
ticians because he did not make
enough patronage out of WPA to
satisfy them.
II Hopkins would prove his claim
that WPA is not in politics he should
clean up this Cuyahoga mess. And
in that task he should have the
hearty support of the President
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Milford chronicle., 1936-04-03
STREAM POLLUTION

AS the fishing season comes
around, protests are heard against
the pollution of streams. The Amer
lean people inherited a magnificent
system of rivers, all or most of them
fit homes for fish. When the old In
dams were asked if there were fish
in the streams of some territory,
they would sometimes point to the
stars in the sky to indicate their
numbers.
Our modern cities and towns have
turned their sewage and other re-
fuse into the rivers, and then they
complain if the fish won't live there.
Such disposition of waste is a cheap
way to get rid of it. But that waste
might have enough value to pay for
of it in other ways. so that
the rivers could again become homes
in which fish life can thrive.
Milford chronicle., 1936-04-03
LAND OF THE FREE!
ASKS SENATOR GLASS PAPER

Men and women are worrying
worrying for fear that their private
kilograms, supposedly protected by
law, will be scrutinized by govern
ment officials and made public. And
it is in the United States, in the land
whose founders wrote into the SUI
preme law of the nation for the pro-
lection of free people a prohibition
against unlawful search and seizure
and against government meddling
with their private correspondence
except on warrant obtained in a pre-
scribed manner! No. it isn't in Rus
STA, the land of tyranny. 1t isn't in
Germany, the land of tyranny. 1t
isn't in Italy, the land of tyranny.
II is in the United States, facetiOusly
called the land of the free.
Warrants are not issued. Discrimi-
nation is not shown. Legal rights
are disregarded. An agency of the
government that regulates the COM
munications companies is pressed
into service to intimidate the COM
panies to give up kilograms commit
ted to them in confidence. And there's
not even the excuse that a crime has
been committed. Nobody is charged
with any crime.
The possibility that by violating
inherent and constitutional rights |
and the right of privacy every de-
cent man respects something may be |
uncovered that will serve political |
causes, or will tarnish the reputation
of political opponents, or that the
public should know, or that is against
public policy and should be exposed
is presented in justification of a fish
ing expedition, and the private af-
fairs of countless individuals are ex-
posed TO the eyes of government fer
rets and may be exposed to the eyes
If the whole public-Lynchburg, Va,
News.
Milford chronicle., 1936-04-03
The Spending Craze


Manchester. N. H., Union
The mood that exists in Congress
on the question Of spending could
not better be exhibited than in the
passage by the Senate Of the indie.
pendent Offices bill. This bill involv.
ed an appropriation of upward Of
three billion dollars and yet It was
passed in the brief space Of half an
hour without scarcely a word OF
comment or debate. Only one voice,
that of Senator King, Of Utah, was
raised In protest.
One would suppose that II is the
part Of Congress to consider where
all this money is corning from. On
this point the reply Of Senator
Byrnes, a member OF the Appropri-
ations Committee, TO the inquiry Of
Senator King whether his committee
had given any consideration to the
question Of the source from which
the funds were to be obtained, was
particularly significant. 1.-THE Sena-
tor knows" replied Mr.. Byrnes,
that the Appropriations Committee
does not consider the question of f.
nance. / see no reason for the APP
Committee considering
the question as to how the funds
could be raised"
In other words, reliance upon bOr-
has become so habitual that
appropriates billions with
put any thought Of where il is COM
ing from.
Milford chronicle., 1936-04-03
THE HOD CARRIER

In everyday conversations. we usa
the phrase 'hOd carrier TO deseribe
a man who does the heav ywOrk. In
view OF the present attitude in some
political circles, it's interesting to
hnd out who is the governments
bod carrier.
In 1885, the federal government
got more than 80 per cent of rs
tax revenue from business. Conse-
quently, since the government must
depend so heavily upon business for
revenue it should not do anything
that would tend u reduce the cap
ital that produces the business.
There are suggestions that indus
try must put the unemployed TO
work. Golfers magazine describes
as obviously absurd" the argument
that industry must provide work
for eight or nine millions unem-
ployed.
Industry means manufacturing"
Golfers says. During the first ten
months of 1929, Wage-earner EN-
plOyment in manufacturing indus
tries was about S,839,O0O according
to figures of the Bureau of Labor
Statistics. During the first ten
months of 1885. the number was es-
timated by the same Bureau to be
6,s4O,0OO. Thus approximately O.
100000 fewer workers were employ
ed by the manufacturers in 1885
than in 1929.
1.-TWO million is not eight or nine
million, however. The sooner we
stop making loose general state
ments about employment and unem-
plOyment the sooner we shall arrive
at practicable solutions of our re-
difficulties.
How many jobs manufacturers
can provide depends on many fac
tors outside the control of indus
The policy of the govern
nent toward industry is one impOr-
ant factor.
1T is good politics TO talk as
hOugh industrial corporations
Gould actually be expected to absorb
he loan of unemployment. because
don't vote Yet nobody
n politics or elsewhere would think
# asking a farmer to provide jobs
or more people than he needed to
10 his work. II
Milford chronicle., 1936-04-03
A SENATOR GOES BERSERK

Senator Black of Alabama ought
to cool down. He has made an angry
speech, and, therefore, a foolish one
1t was in connection with ? subpoena
the Lobby Investigating Committee
had issued, requiring the Western
Union Telegraph Co. to furnish copies
of all kilograms of the law firm OF
Winston, Strawn & Shaw of Chicago,
covering a specified period The, law
I firm has sought to prevent cOmpli-
ance with the demand. Senator
I Black, as chairman of the Lobby In
vestigating Committee, speaking on
the floor of the Senate. declared, that
IF any judge ever issues an injunc-
ton to prevent the delivery of pap
ers summoned by this body, the Con-
gress should Immediately enact legis-
lation taking that jurisdiction from
the courts"
II happens that this has been done.
Congress cannot by legislative acts
deprive the courts of such jurisdic-
ton as Senator Black proposes as
long as the fourth amendment to the
Constitution is a part Of our supreme
law.
1t is not with the individuals in
vOlved in this proceeding that pub
lie opinion is, or should be, concern
ed. II is with the principle of I'M
reasonable search and seizure that
public opinion is vitality concerned
and with the apparent determination
of Senator Black TO empower Con-
gress to go into any citizens Office
or home at any hour. Congressional
is too valuable an in |
stitutiOn to be abused. to be made |
80 tyrannical as to become hateful |
10 public sentiment. and so to destroy |
It's great established usefulness.
Anyhow. Senator Black has run |
lead-On into the Constitution, which
IS still a pretty staunch stone wall.
st. Louis POst-Dispatch.
Milford chronicle., 1936-04-03

TO THE TRUE BASEBALL fan,
there is no sweeter music than the
ringing sound when the batsman
gives the little sphere a powerful
Whaok. 1t is not exactly a joyful
sound when the opposing team
makes that mighty clout. But even
that triumph for the other side only
adds to the thrill. No true fan
wants any one-sided game. He would
rather see it nip and tuck, even if
the other team eventually wins.
They may talk about other sports,
tennis and golf. for instance, obtain
ing host of flowers. They Of course
become constantly more popular.
Baseball is a kind of natural heri-
tage of all American boys. Very few
of them ever comes up without some
knowledge of this game and its fine
points, and some practice at it. Every
neighborhood has its little scrub
game, or would have if there was
any room for it.
The opening of the season of the
more important baseball leagues is
a time of dramatic interest. These
young Titans of the ball field handle |
the little pill" with the skill of a |
across the diamond like shafts of
magician. Their quick wits flash
light. It is a wonderful spectacle
to see them put their skill in prac-
lice, and slip that ball around the
bases as easily as a sleight-of-hand
performer pulls the white rabbit out
Of his sleeve.
The worker in shop or Office may
EEL sore and disgruntled with the
roubles of life. If he gets out on
hose bleachers, the troubles of the
lay fall away and are forgotten. All
lis yelling may seem futile to the
ross grained philosopher, but it
'arries off a tremendous lot of i'll
lumOr.
So good fortune go with the ball
layers. May they have all the luck
heir skill entities them to, with
rowds and plenty of backing from
he home rooters.
Milford chronicle., 1936-04-03
IN DEFENSE OF RELIEF

Senator Joe Robinson, of Arkansas,
has risen in defense of the WPA. But
he has chosen a very narrow issue
upon which TO make that defense.
| Instead Of seeking to reply to any
OF the more serious charges that have
been brought against the wOrk-re-
lief program and its administration,
he elected to answer. only those crit
les who have accused the WPA of
wasting money on bOOndOggling prof.
ects.
Nor is it sufficient answer for Sen
atOr Robinson or anyone else to sug-
gest that the critics of the WPA are
determined only Ito ridicule and
drive back into the soup lines the
great number Of unemployed men
and women who are simply asking
an opportunity TO earn a living for
themselves and their families in the
Old-fashioned and respectable Amer
lean way" While there may be a
few tories left who take this view Of
unemployment relief. this view is
certainly not held by the great ma
jOFity of persons who have been find |
ing fault with the WPA.
In this latter group may be includ-
ed the social workers Of the country, |
who are as ardently opposed to soup /
lines as anyone in the Roosevelt Ad- /
They recently met in /
national convention in Washington
and frankly discussed the major
faults Of the WPA, for which they
are sharply Tebuked by a WPA ex-
ecutiYe, who accused them Of play
ing the Liberty Leagues game" Then
too, there are any number Of bust
ness men and other citizens who
thoroughly disagree with the un-
sound. unecOnomic and often down
right wasteful methods OF the WPA.
And since he emphasized politics
IN connection with relief, one won
iers why Senator Robinson confined
himself to the charges Of the anti
and did not go into the
numerous charges that New Deal
have been using the WPA
IN West Virginia. Penn
iylvania. New Hampshire. Illinois,
Missouri and other states 10 serve
heir own political ends. Baltimore
sun.
Milford chronicle., 1936-04-03
HOW THE WORKERS
ARE SMEATED

II
Every dollar spent by the ROose-
welt administration in the last fiseal
year was thus derived:
From personal income taxes, seven
cents.
From corporation income taxes
eight cents.
From liquor atXes, six cents.
From tobacco taxes, six cents.
From processing taxes. seven
cents.
From excise taxes, five cents.
From custom duties, five cents.
From estate and gift taxes, three
cents.
From all other taxes. fees and so
forth, four cents.
From borrowing, fOrty-nine cents.
Corporation income taxes are
passed on" to buyers, or consumers,
Of course. In great part, individual
income taxes are passed on"
They talk about soaking the rich, :"
but the Roosevelt administration is
in fact soaking the laborer, soaking
the poor.
OF every dollar that is now being
spent for relief, for theatres, for
American guidebOoks, for dams.
roads, Office-holders' salaries, you,
the workers, are contributing at least
forty cents Of every dollar spent, and
you are borrowing forty-nine cents.
If you like it, all right 1t is your
affair. Expenses of government, fed
eral and state, have come to be the
chief cause of the poverty of the
workers in the United States and the
greatest Of Affections from which
the people Charleston, s. c.,
News and Courier.
Milford chronicle., 1936-04-03
TOO MANY CLAIMS SPOIL
THE MEDICINE MANS GAME

Although not nearly so common
as they used TO be, there are still
occasional quack medicine vendors
who stick to the old and illegal la
bells that claim for their nostrums
curative powers over at least a good
part Of the ills and ailments that af-
feet mankind.
Recently, for example, drug inspec
tors picked up samples Of what were
labeled "DevOnshlre's Earth Salts"
marketed by F. s. Powers e Co,
Crystal Lake, III. These were Of
fered as a treatment for the follow
ing assortment Of diseases and con-
ditions: Pneumonia. cancer, diph-
iberia, typhoid fever, kidney and
bowl trouble, appendicitis, intestinal
worms and tape worms. locOmotor
ataxia, nervous disease, rheumatism
stomach trouble, skin diseases, ma
Milford chronicle., 1936-04-03
SOMETHING FOR ALL TO DO

To produce a progressive and ad-
vancing town, there is some work
for everybody. A community is like
an army. if one soldier in that army
neglects his duty, the morale of the
whole force is lowered and some un-
fortunate result may happen.
The first thing for everybody to do,
is to put in his best ticks on his own
job. If the makers and distributors
of goods, the wage-earners, those
who give professional or personal
service, do their best, things will go
better in that community. Then
there are the public efforts that must
be carried on. Churches, societies,
clubs, business organizations, etc.
are all necessary to an advancing
town. We must all work to carry
them on and make them successful
and attractive.
Milford chronicle., 1936-04-03
HOW THE TOSSING HABIT GROWS


The legendary feat of George
I Washington in throwing a silver dol
lar across the Rappahannock River
is being eclipsed every day in the
week.
For instance, how is one TO COM
pare the tossing Of a mere dollar
across a relatively narrow stream
TO tossing S265.OO0.00O from Wash
ingtOn to Tennessee?
And if this doesn't make the dol
lar incident look like smalI-tOwn
stuff, consider the tossing of $780,
100000 from Washington to Central
Valley, in California.
Other sums that are being tossed
long distances, all designed to be
poured into water projects, include
S10S, $50, 600 for Boulder Canyon in
Arizona and California: $4,000, 600
for Fort Peck, Montana; $4,000, 900
for Grand Coulee, Washington; $685.
0OO, 900 for Bonneville, Oregon; $780,
100000 for PassamaquOddy. Maine;
$22,7O0.OO0 for Casper-Alcova, Wy
oming: S12.942.OOO for Blue Stone
Reservoir, West Virginia; $l17.OOO,-
for various other state and district
projects, along with S140,00O,0OO for
and REA projects.
These sums, based upon the esti-
mated cost Of the various projects,
total $1,073. 100000, and it would be
today to know what the
Of George Washington
would have been had he realized what
a precedent he was setting when he
tossed a single dollar a few hundred
feet.-Rome, Ca, News-Tribune.
Milford chronicle., 1936-04-03
Broadening The Tax Base
New York Herald.TrIbune

New York Herald Tribune
The New Dealers have been par
ticularly eager to camoulage the
source of the money which they
have been throwing around.
Senator Byrd put the whole mat
ter simply when he said on Friday:
Il am in favor of a billion-dollaF tax
bill because / want to make the
people tax-conscious. They must be
made to realize that they, the people,
will have to pay for all the Govern
ment expenditures"
The Government is still spending
two dollars for every dollar which it
receives. II the expenditures cannot
be drastically reduced there is no
alternative to increasing taxes.
Once the pressure of increased tax
alton is consciously felt by a large
number of individuals. the move
ment to curtail Government expen-
ses will gain Roadway. This is es-
sential to the national welfare
though disastrous to the welfare of
the New Deal.
Milford chronicle., 1936-04-03

made to blacken the character and
reputation Of the individual and
but scant regard is paid to his
rights or to legal procedure.
The men whose papers have
been seized or examined are not
charged with any crime. They
have done nothing illegal. Their
Offense lies in having exercised
what all Americans prior to the
New Deal regarded as their in
alienable privilege ~ saying what
they thought of the Administra-
ton plainly, bluntly, politically.
Little did they know that under
the resolution of the Black Com
mittee this plain speaking has be-
come a high offense, and that "ef-
forts to influence or suppress or
fOment public sentiment" Ito use
the words of the Senate resOlu-
toni may now be prosecuted by
that committee.
What does this mean in plain
English? That any individual
who expresses himself in such a
manner as to arouse public senti-
ment against the Administration
may be hailed before the Black
InquisitiOn, and if he fails to
tell all he knows" may be pun
ished by Imprisonment for con-
tempt of the Senate.
Gone is the old freedom of
speech. Gone is the American
tradition of fearless criticism,
honestly spoken.
HencefOrth we must whisper
when we disapprOVe Of the New
Deal. Each time we send a tele-
gram we must realize that a Sen
atorial Committee may wish to
read il in secret and use it against ]
us. Even the mails may no long
er be secure.
This brutal attack on American |
liberties is bad enough by itself. |
But what is even worse is that
the American people apparently /
are willing to take It lying down.
They will put me in jail" one /
OF the critics of the Administra-
ton. whose papers have been in
vestigated, said the other day.
They have copied my private cor
respOndence with leading Repub-
licans. If they call me / am
Obliged to testify. even as to pri-
vate conversations. Otherwise
they can break me-"
This is the way blOOdless reVO-
buttons are successfully made.
Minor rights are first whitfield
down and the citizens are fright
ened into silence. Then, as ter i