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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-18
Gen. johnson Saws

CEORGETOWN. S. c., Feb. 18-I have just been
- shooting at the place of my close friend, Ber-
nard M. Baruch-a hunters paradise He let me
bring to Hobcaw another close friend who likes to
shoot quail-Col. William Keller one of the worlds
greatest surgeons.
Col. Keller, who knows little about political
Washington told as great joke how simple but
lrate anti-New Deal patient had clustered:
I'll tell you who is to blame for this whole New
Deal. It's Mr. McGoosh. The President does what
ever McGoosh advises. Why don't McGoosh go
down and tell him to stop this nonsense?"
The mystery solved-the sinister influence dis
closed-the insdious Mr.. McGooSh who works be-
hind the veil! Col Keller's joke was that by INC
Goosh' was meant Bernie Baruch whose name is
popularity mispronounced "Barooch'
DUT that wasn't the joke at which everybody else
D around the fire laughed. The real joke was
the casual conviction of the indignant patient Of
Col. Keller, obviously and earnestly and of a
good many other people in this country, that the
White House pays the slightest attention to any
counselS of this veteran Democratic wheel-horse,
who has been called upon by several Presidents but
who has never volunteered advice to any man.
AS Arthur Krock remarked concerning them:
Either his advice is lousy it isn't followed"
His advice isn't lousy. If it had been taken, at
least three major mistakes would have been avoided
for example, the horse and buggy" press confer
ence following the NRA decision, and the silver
purchase policy.
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Times Books

ITO say that John Erskines latest book will prove
l. highly unpopular in certain feminine circles is
probably a masterpiece of understatement Prof
Erskine brings forth sweeping indictment of wom-
ems organizations in "The Influence of Women and
and Its Cure" (Bobbs, Merrill indianapolis; $780,
The Columbia University educator rather in
viduals and women in the mass. 1t is the latter at
whom ne directs his fire; not always with telling
effect.
1t is Prof. Erskne's contention that the pressure
exerted by womens organizations is unntelligent and
damaging. His chief complaint is that the woman
OF influence must be woman of leisure"
THE distinguished author finds most fault with
Il the American educational system, charging wom-
ems organizations with altering a fundamentally
sound set-up.
There ought to be first-rate overhauling of
system" writes Prof Erskine which keeps boys in
their early years largely under the domination of
woman. Male teachers, outnumbered srccumb
to the fussy and enervating pedagogies which are
the breath of life to women teachers theory is the
thing not the student, not the subject In genuine
education real would lock at real boy see
what he had yet TO learn. and teach it to him.
Only few women would consent to be so practical
or so simple
The women's organizations put on trial tand con-
vcted) in Mr. Erskines book undoubtedly will make
scornful retort. But though the good professor
hasn't proved every point, he has produced a
thought provoking essay and one to which many
women probably win reply without thinking. (By
n. E. }saacsle
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Miss Noone," the seven job-hun-
tiers choruSed.
A second recruiting expedition
proved fruitful the railways
company got their men.
The natal days of WA work.
relief worked a hardship on the
trustees. N fs 5fel7
A FEW imbibing WPA work.
IN ers went on long "toots" that
ended up with pay checks spent
and irate wives wondering how
they would feed their broods.
The wives descended on WPA
Officials.
eve do not censor the morals
Of your husband or what he does
with his money after we pay him."
was the substance of the reply the
wives received.
The wives about-faced and tear
fully swooped on Mr.. Smith, Miss
Noone, and other township relief
workers.
"What'll I do for food? He drank
it al up" was the universal COM
plant with gambling" variations.
Attorney Smith pulled a foxy"
he said, We'll put you on relief
providing you go to municipal
court and swear out a warrant
charging your husband with
drunkenness or to the Marion
County Juvenile Court to obtain
a child neglect affidavit. Bring
back a note from Officials saying
you have complied with this re-
quest and We'll give you a grocery
order"
Result! Drunkenness dropped
off on WPA rolls and the giving
of supplemental grocery relief in
WPA families declined.
Child welfare is foremost in the
care of direct relief cases.
Children under 6 receive quart
of milk daily in addition to the
family's food order.
CLOTHING needs, aside from
~ garments provided from WPA
works projects, are paid for by
the trustee and the clothing al
lotted according to need by the
social service division of the In
dianapolis public schools. The
city school system pays all adj
ministrative costs for social work.
ers visiting the schools and homes
while the township trustee foots
the clothing bill.
A comparison of the clothing
gifts in the fall semester of the
1884 school year and up to Janu-
airy, 1885, shows 1852 families
aided by $1,000 clothing orders
with last fall, (1935) a decrease
to 3714 families and an increase in
the clothing recipients to 1904.
Clothing needs hove increased
sharply. In the boom year of 1929
only 1913 families or 11,753 orders
were granted while today $4,000
more clothing orders are issued in
a fall term than in the days of
fuctuating stock markets.
NEXT-The WPA Worker and
Transient Relief.
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lem confronting MSS Hannah
Noone, trustee, and Mr.. Smith.
"One fellow lived in johnson
County and then moved here. He
got on direct relief in Marion
County but committed to and from
this county to johnson County to
a WPA job. His legal residence is
in johnson, but he was receiving
a grocery order from us and
regular wage from the work relief
authorities in johnson County,"
Mr.. Smith related.
Burrowing into law books the
township attorney resu1rected
bewhiskered statute which he says
will end this DR.. Jekyll- Hyde act.
I'm going to deport them back
to johnson County or whatever
county they come FROM" he says.
LIE then explains that intra-
l. l. state deportation proceed
ings of poor relief clients can be
instituted by the filing of suits
in justice of peace courts requir-
ing the relief client to show cause
why he should not be moved to
his legal residence.
ut may cost us transportation,
but it'll stop them pulling fast
Ones" Mr.. Smith says.
The extremes to which nom
residents go to obtain the Indian
apolis brand of direct relief some
times adds to the population.
One woman, Mr.. Smith reveals,
was sent from the hills of Ken
lucky to the indianapolis City
Hospital to await a call of the
stork and at the same time place
the new member for the cradle roll
as well as herself on the town
ship relief rolls.
He blames the governments es-
Enlistment of the Federal Tran
sient Bureau, now abolished, for
bringing non-residents to Marion
County.
THE transient Jared better
here than in his home commu-
nifty. He got jobs at times, in
addition to direct relief, and so
he called in his cousins and his
aunts and they moved in on us"
AYERS Mr.. Smith.
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to invaldate the entire IVA. However, the court
narrowed the question down to one point-the
legality of the specific sale of the transmission lines
at Wilson DAM Chief Justice Hughes in the ma
jorty opinion stated that the court not passing
the constitutionality of IVA, the legality of
any other dams activities in the Tennessee Valley
A reasonable surmise is that by thus narrowing
the question and excluding the issue of TWAS con-
stitutionaty, Chief Justice Hughes was able to win
Justices VanDevanter, Sutherland and Butler to
uphcloing the specific contract made by IVA for
these particular power lines. At the time JUS
tice Hughes by siding with them in deciding to hear
the at all, opened the way whereby other stock
holders of other companies may come into court with
other test suits.
TOR practical purposes, however, New Dealers
J. see broad victory in the decision, because while
the court technically narrowed the and did not
pass on the constitutionality of IVA whole, or
its other DAMS it does appear to them that the court
has laid the foundation for directly upholdng IVA.
Possibly the court may have to make two bites of the
cherry if power companies hardy enough to bring
in another case in face of the strong general decla
rations to the governments power to dispose of its
property and byproducts to the greatest public ad
vantage.
All nine justices agreed that the government can
dispose of waterpower or electricity produced as
by-product of lawful activities. Even Justice Nc
Reynolds in his lone dissent agreed to that provided
the electricity honestly developed" in connec-
ton with permissible improvement of navgable
waters. He disSented because he thought the gov
eminent had "seized upon Wilson Danl-which was
begun during the to produce nitrates-and was
using 1t to gain control of the electrical business in
a large area and to dictate sale prices" He thinks
the whole scheme is not to develop navigation but
to set up electric power yardstick and he quotes
literally from IVA and other New Deal officials to
support his contention.
DUT the eight other justices agree that the Wilson
- Dam was built not only within national de-
Tense powers but within the powers of the Federal
government over navigation. Chief Justice Hughes
devoted much space in his opinion to emphasizing
that for years navigation the Tennessee River
had been M of national concern Therefore
New Des< egue. if Wilson Dam is a legitimate
navigs project, other dams being erected by
iva on the river also must be legitimate.
One other significant point is that while the
court didn't rule on the whole iva, it would not
have upheld contract between the Alabama Power
Co. and iva If IVA had been considered an I'M
constitutional agency
OF course, amid the rejoicing over the new
tolerance of the court to New Deal enterprise
no one would suggest that the court has taken
notice Of what Senators and Representatives have
been saying about 1t in the Congressional Record.
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EIEnouZh
BY
WESIBRO0K PEGLER

OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES, Feb. 18.-Every-
- thing is said to happen for the best, and what
ever any one may think of the propriety of TAX
ing part in the political, military and sporting
tivites here in Garmisch, Thursdays experience
should show net profit to the United States.
Such showing around the populace received
at the hands of the young strong armed squad of
Hitler bodyguards appropriately. though Ingenious
ly, named Black Guards, was never seen in the
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Il should be followed by a series of regional
ferences. talked to Senator Norris in Washington
and he was in favor of some such plan, but he said
he was too old to lead it, The Senator's age is stuff
and nonsense. He has at least another quarter of
century to give to the fight for American progress
sivism. dozen liberals in the House and Senate
have indicated their willingness to follow the leader
ship Of Norris.
William Green was out of Washington, but his
recent utterances make it plain that he is the
same side. The speech of Senator Norris in itself
constitutes CALL Now is the time to organize the
voters of America from all parties the millions of
labor and the millions of agriculture need not sit
supiney and allow themselves to be deprived of their
natural rights by vote of to 4.
Copyright, 1885,
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Washington Merry-Go-Round
BY DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S. ALIEN

sumers. Under Sec. Gid of the
AAA amendments, which the Su-
preme Court did not disturb in
its Hoosac Mills decision, only that
portion of the tax which the pro-
essors bore themselves may be
reclaimed.
Further, the law gives the gov
eminent power to examine the
books of the professors to verify
their claims. Right there is the
rub.
The big professors, and partic-
ularly the meat packers, have
violently fought proposals giving
the government authority to go
into their accounts. Such a pro-
vision was included in the AAA
amendments as originally drawn,
but under the pressure of the
professors was stricken out on
Capitol Hill.
Secretary Wallace and AAA
chiefs have long wanted to get a
peek at the meat packers books,
in the belief that such a scrutiny
would disclose an exorbitant
spread between the price paid the
cattle raiser and that charged the
consumer. A claim for tax
refund would give them this long
sought chance.
1t is fear of this audit that is
behind the wariness of the pro-
cessors in proceeding to make
claims to the $1,00O,OOo, 900 melon.
They are maneuvering behind
the scenes in the hope of seal
ing up this gaping loop-hole be-
fore they stretch out their hands.
Their eagerness for the lush
refunds is great, but their dread
of an official examination of
their cost and profit accounts is
ever greater.
Copyright, 1886, by United Featur.
Syndicate. Incl
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IVA Ruling Hailed
as Broad Victory
BY RAYMOND CLAPPER

VXTASHINGTON, Feb. 18.-Some 10000 words
w contained in the three Supreme Court opinions
the IVA boil down to about this
A minority group of preferred stockholders, own
ing about one three -hundred-fortieth of the Ala
bama Power Co.'s preferred stock, went into court
to protest the sale to IVA of some of the companys
transmission lines around Wilson Dam at Muscle
Shoals on the Tennessee River
Four justices-Brandeis Stone, Cardozo ana
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part IN defining The nature OF the
struggle. George w. Norris, the
traditional leader of American
progressiyism, did more.
In November the voter ought
to have a chance to express his
judgment as to whether necessary
remedies for our vital economic
problems can be found under the
legal philosophy of the majority
group in our present Supreme
Court.
And so the issue should be put
up squarely to the voter-Do you
think this government can func-
ton better under the Constitu-
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Issue Is Clear Cut

T BELIEVE there is very little doubt now that the
Guffey Act will be invaldated and also the Wag-
ner-Connery Act. And despite the favorable ruling
on IVA, the odds are heavily against the SEC.
In any the leading Republican candidates
stand committed to the platform that the Supreme
Court can do no wrong. Of course, there is rather
grudging admission of the peoples right to amend
the document under the process set Gown in the
document.
The standpat Republicans are playing on the pop
ular psychology that the Constitution is too sacred
and too subtle to be properly matter of discussion
by the masses. Many newspapers are supporting
this campaign by suggesting that any talk of change
is subversve
The time for pussyfooting is past. Norris has Of
fered bold leadership, and he should Immediately
60 further. He should at issue call for
ference of farm leaders, labor leaders, progressves
in the House and Senate and liberal lawyers.
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Townsend Club No. IA to Meet

Emerson Townsend Club No. IA
is to meet at 1880 tonight in the
Veterans of Foreign Wars Hall,
38721a E. Westinghouse. Officers
are Mrs. Dolly Durant, president;
A. L. Runske, vice president;
Thomas j. Dobson Jr., secretary, and
William Durant, treasurer.
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INDEX of whether those on
u direct relief would take jobs,
even temporary ones, if offered
to them is told in an incideno
today by Miss -Noone, trustee.
1t runs thus:
Subzero weather stormed the
city. The indianapolis Union Rail
ways Co. wanted 20 men, at forty
and one-half cents an hour, to
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-18
BY ARCH STEINEL

BY ARCH STEINEL
the taest and neatest in the line of persons
receiving grocery orders before an alphabetical wicket
of at the Center Township trustees office, PA n
Senate-av.
He aired has-been prosperity His size sent you to
him and the singing out you struck paydrt the ques
ton of Why the unemployable direct relief and why
in the main, he may be expected to stay there"
Shifting his sharp eyes around the room, with almost
each shift of his shufng feet in the line of relief clients
he lowered and talked
Il wouldn't take job if they gave it to now
What's the use? These socks got hanging my sell
to make my rent. bach'-alone get 81 Is worth
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RObertS-heId ChaC CheSe SCOCK-
holders had suffered no damages
and had no case in court. But
the five other justices decided
they did have a right to sue.
Beaten on this point, the four
dissenters joined with four of the
others in rendering a majority
opinion. McReynolds, although
agreeing that the court should
hear the case, disagreed with the
conclusions of the eight other
justices.
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clear their tracks. The work could
not cancel relief. Miss Noone
marshalled the 20 men in a group
and explained the job to them.
She phoned the company that she
had the 20 men and "I'll send
them right away .....
She returned to her group of
workers and found seven of the 20
men awaiting work.
ooh! the others have just gone,
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XXTASHINGTON, Feb. 18.-The
w Presidents closest advisers
are hammering hardest now on
the idea that he must eliminate
pickering within his own official
family.
Repeatedly they have told him
that he cant regiment a ma
ton when he can't regiment his
own Cabinet"
The advice comes from his very
best friends. They have pointed
out that a radical speech by Tug
well one day and a conservative
speech by Roper the next left a
bad taste in the mouth of the
public.
Even Ickes and Wallace, two of
the closest friends in the Cabinet,
sometimes take public digs at each
other.
The chief difficulty is that the
President himself is too much a
good fellow" He won't crack
down on his quarreling associates,
ana no one else IN the CABINET is
strong enough to do so.
Another basic difficulty lies
right in the White House. The
President is surrounded by two
secretaries; one of whom is &C
cused of hostility to basic New
Deal policies, while the over is
overworked.
Secretary Marvin Mcintyre has
been the cause of lot of bicker-
ing by callers subscribing to New
Deal ideas who frequently find it
next to impossible to get by him
to see the President-even when
Roosevelt requests them to call.
There have been increasing in
timations recently that the Presi-
dent is aware that Mac, acting as
q buffer, bluffs out the wrong
people.
The other day, when Roosevelt
decided to invite Senator Borah
to the widely publicized luncheon
conference, he called in Mcintyre
and told him to issue the invi-
tation.
And" he added, IT want you
to be sure TO see to it that the
Senator gets the invitation"
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II Seems hM
by
EHTW HUTn nD nm AwnY
Haywood. BR0JN

T INCOLNS BIRTHDAY ought to mark the real
- beginning Of the presidential campaign of 1886.
For the first time there was true Qualification of
the issues. In all fairness to the extreme conserva
tves OF the Republican Party it should be admitted
that Hoover vandenberg and Col Knox did their
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-18

Unlteu states, even N tne heyUey
of Jimmy Walker or Huey P. Long.
American athletes and casual
correspondents saw perfect DEM
onstration of military dictator
ship, and there we're those among
the throng who agreed that if this
is what Huey was promoting in
Louisiana they'll be glad to have
none of the same.
The dictator held 10000 people
in the grandstand of the rink
where the figure skating took
place, although he was ready to
take his leave, and before the
event they paved his way with
such idnlat rn11s cara that il made
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ton of Pierce Butler? If we assume that both
learned gentlemen utterly sincere the problem
still remains Each take the same document
and the same set of facts and render Numerically
opposite decisions.
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err, not overly imbued with the
Presidents own philosophy, but
an asset to his staff.
Of late, however, Steve has left
many of his press contacts to
corps of snippy young stenograph-
ers, with the result that White
House press relations have suf-
feued.
Steve is now serving as a clear
ing house for all Administration
speeches, especially those touching
upon the Supreme Court and the
Constitution. The order has gone
out that Cabinet members must
cease firing on these issues at
cross purposes with one another.
Shortly after this order was is
sued one Cabinet member COM
pletely ignored the edict and fired
a blast about "class pitted against
class" which kicked up consider
able furore.
Apparently the President will
have to resort to Army discipline
w SSV NAAVJ Va pO1ANy III 1lko 1lCGCl -
ogeneous family of prima donnas.
y =
Boss
THERE was no question who
Il was boss at the recent con-
vention of the United Mine Work.
ers Union.
During one exciting session a
delegate leaped to his feet and
in loud voice demanded recog-
milton.
For what purpose does the
delegate rise?" asked President
John L. Lewis.
u want togo on record"
eff the delegate wants to go on
record" broke in Lewis, "let him
write it on a piece of paper and
hand it to the secretary. Next
business!"
The 100 delegates roared with
laughter.
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Dubious WindfaII

ID EFUND of the $1,000, 100000
IN in AAA taxes, which the
meat packers and other big proc
eSsors who paid them are prepar-
ing to demand, may not be the
unmixed blessing it would be.
There is an embarrassing catch
to it.
To obtain repayment of the
taxes the professors must file a
sworn declaration that they did
not pass the charge on to con-
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difference whether any one else reached the
scene or not.
Thousands were herded this way and that in
the snow who had bought tickets or were trying to
buy tickets to see the sport and thousands were
shunted off and away from the Enclosure by long
cordo<s of officious beefy young Nazis in various
kinds of uniforms whose only duty was to flatter
and accommodate the house painter who became
the head man of the Third Reich
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SALVAGING 475,ooo HOLSTERS
They'd Rather Work, but Needy Are Grateful for

Herewith OF of
Indiana by Arch Stencil
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Two Rob Dry Goods Store

Two Negroes robbed the Taylor
Dry Goods Store, 1902 College-av, Of
women's hose valued at S41.50 yes
terday and escaped.