Evening Star Newspaper, June 8, 1937, Page 11

THE EVEN Hint Scandal In Democrats’ Book Sales President Autographed Sold to Corporations. Volumes BY DAVID LAWRENCE. HE breath of scandal—the first to be charged in more than four years of its official career —has come to the Roosevelt administration. The scandal touches the possible violation of the Federal corrupt prac- tices act through the sale to cor- § porations of po- litical handbooks autographed by President Roose- velt, the proceeds being used to re- tire the Demo- : cratic National Committee's defi- & cit. Maybe what the § Democratic Na- has done is legal & and is only an avoidance of the “spirit of the law,” as the phrase was | used last week by the President when he sent a special message to Congress denouncing lawyers and taxpayers who think up “clever little schemes” to get around the law. But whether the device used to cir-| cumvent the Federal corrupt practices | act is or is not legal is something for | the courts to determine. Representa- | tive Snell, minority leader, has begun an inquiry to determine whether & | congressional investigation should be authorized by the House, but if the facts are as set forth in the evidence possessed by Mr. Snell, then the ques- tion is one for a grand jury and not | congressional committee. | Confronted by a somewhat similar problem in connection with the Teapot Dome scandal, President Coolidge did not intrust the subject to the Depart- ment of Justice, but appointed two special prosecutors, a Republican and a Democrat, Owen Roberts—now a Supreme Court justice—and former Senator Altee Pomerene of Ohio, and gave them word to go ahead and sift | the matter to the bottom whether it led to criminal or civil prosecutions. Four Books Sold for $1,000. Here are the facts and also a para- | graph from the law so the average | person can determine for himself whether, to use the President's own language in discussing law avoidance, “the decency of American morals is involved.” First, there is a letter written on the stationery of the Democratic National Committee and signed by one of its representatives, which letter was writ- ten in the year 1937 and addressed to | & certain corporation: “I took great pleasure in reporting | my telephone conversation with you today to Mr. Farley and I want to assure you that all of us here will deeply appreciate your help at this time in clearing up our deficit. “I am inclosing the contract for four books and would appreciate your signing and forwarding it with your David Lawrence. Bill for Honest-to-Goodness Pensions Born in Lobby as Insurance Veto Is Overridden. BY H. R. BAUKHAGE. HERE was a startling echo to that laugh which rose when Congress stampeded to override the President’s veto of the bill extending the conversion period on veterans’ insurance. The echo was the healthy birth cry of & new bill. In & very private Washington lobby, an event took place which has not yet been registeced with any bureau of vital statistics—the birtn of that long- prophesied, but only half-believed-in measure, an honest-to-goodness pension for World War veterans. Not a bonus to end bonuses; not adjusted compensation, but a good old-fashioned regular pay check for every man and woman who wore the uniform at least 90 days and got an honorable discharge. * ox ok X The American Legion hasn't indorsed it, nor the other organizations— yet. They haven't even seen the youngster, for it's still pinned snug in its blankets, held tight in its nurse's arms. But they know exactly how it looks, for all its lineaments have long 0 been written in the doomsday book SOUND: of the taxpayer. uob'fi.‘r?r'i?{:" Before we go any further, a8 word of solemn assurance to Congress. There'll be no pension bill this session. After the way both Houses joined in retrieving the insurance bill from the White House veto basket, their training is con- sidered complete. They can lie ;. doggo for awhile. When the whistle finally blows, the insiders express not the slightest doubt that the votes will come to heel. * x K % Launching the pension drive doesn’t mean that the World War veterans have been entirely neglected. Eddy Lewis, former Legion legislative committeeman, who knows all the soldiers’ numbers, con- cedes some $11,800,000,000 appropriated to the cause as of 1938, when the alumni of Chateau Thierry and the Argonne and lesser institu- tions will celebrate their twenticth reunion since “graduation’™ in 1918. Civil War pensions have run to some $8.000,000,000. And there were only half as many who wore the blue as wore the olive drab (not forgetting the Navy and the Yeomanettes). World Warriors add up to four millions or so. * ok K % Pensions, in fact, it is pointed out, if they are due at all, are overdue. Civil and Spanish War pensioners began to cash their checks when their average age was 43. The World War average age is more nearly 45. Advocates of the measure have another reason for feeling that the time is propitious. They have seized upon a New Deal apron string and wrapped it firmly around their charge. The godfathers of the new legislation quote from Mr. Justice Cardozo on the old-age pension act: ‘“The plight of men and women at 50 low an age as 40 is hard, almost hopeless, when they are driven to seek for re-empioyment.” This quotation is followed quickly with this impelling inquiry from the pensioners: “If industry refuses to employ World War veterans who are willing and able to work, what is to become of them? Certainly no veteran who served his country honorably in time of war should become an object of charity. If he is considered too old to hold down a job, he must be cared for by the Government to which he offered his life.” * ok ok x The force that operates the huge Department of the Interior gets on the job at 8 am. (and astarts home an hour earlier in the afternoon, thus helping to cut traffic jams). But there is always & double line of cars around the building before 8 in the morning. e-parkers were waiting for cars along the curb to be moved. And they are, just as soon as the char- women who own them knock off. * Kk % x Apparently, there is no censorship at the State Department, On sale at one of the newsstands in that austere institution has been a lurid publication bearing a yellow crown, a Gothic “R” and a caption, “Roosevelt for King.” It contains prose, doggerel and cartoons which might G STAR, WASHINGTON, D. ¢, T What’s Back of It All EDITOR’S NOTE—This is the ninth of a series of articles exposing vicious rackets being practiced in the name of charity on innocent victims in Washington. The way in which these crooks operate and the scemes and devices they employ are explained in these articles, which reveal in detail actual cases make a partisan laugh, or squirm, according to his politics, and if his I. Q. clicked to the “mag’s” literary level. The proprietor of the stand is a * x blind man, * x At 3 am. of a hot morning recently, Washington's parkways were filled with cyclists peddling to keep cool. (Copyright. 1 by the North American Newspaper Alliance. Inc.) check for $1,000 in the inclosed en- velope. | “We are using this book &s & means | of clearing up the deficit and the| President has made his conmbuuon" by individually autographing each of the volumes. “The sale of the book enables us to legally accept corporation checks and this is the way all of the companics who are assisting us are handling these expenditures.” Contribugions Forbidden. Many corporations have bought the books, which are merely the same book that was issued at the last Demo- eratic National Convention but with | & de luxe binding and with the auto- | graph of the President on them. | The foregoing provision made it possible to sell the same books more than once and thus get in more | money. Now the books themselves | are clearly articles of some value, and | Yet corporations are forbidden to give 1 contributions and political committees | are prohibited from receiving con- tributions. Here is the way section 241 of the Federal corrupt practices act reads under the heading “Defini- tions": “The term ‘contribution’ includes a | gift, subscription, loan, advance, or | deposit, of money, or anything of value, and includes a contract, prom- ise, or agreement, whether or not legally enforceable to make & con- tribution.” Then there is another part of the Federal corrupt practices act, namely, section 251, which says: “It is unlawful for any national bank, or any corporation organized by authority of any law of Congress, to make a contribution in connection with any election to any political of- fice, or for any corporation whatever to make a contribution in connection with any election at which presiden- tial and vice presidential electors or & Senator or Representative in, or a Delegate or Resident Commissioner to, Congress are to be voted for, or for any candidate, political committee, or other person to accept or receive any contributions prohibited by this sec- tion. Penalties Set Forth. “Every corporation which makes any contribution in violation of this section shall be fined not more than $5,000; and every officer or director of any corporation who consents to any contribution by the corporation in violation of this section shall be fined not more than $1,000 or im- prisoned nob more than one year, or both.” The penalties for persons other than corporation officers, namely, members of political committees, are set forth in section 252 as follows: “Any person who violates any of the foregoing provisions of this chap- ter, except those for which a specific penalty is imposed by section 208 of title 18, and section 251 of this title, shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned for not more than one year, or both.” Now it may well be that the corpo- rations themselves in all cases did not buy the books, but that individ- uals did. On the records of the clerk of the House of Representatives, along with other receipts listed by the Democratic National Committee since last election, are the names of sev- eral corporations and the amounts they paid for the books in question. There is another possible evasion or avoidance that possibly will be brought’ forward, namely, that the money was not given for the purpose of electing a President or Vice President or mem- bers of Congress since the contribu- tions were actually made after the election occurred. But if it isn't an iltegal step, it cer- Sainly comes under the head ol avoid- | hard to explain to the many liberals ance and there seems no doubt either | that the President of the United | States was well aware of the general | nature of the scheme because he| helped to autograph the books. Also | the names of the corporations to| which the books were sold have been made a matter of public record. Just how Mr. Roosevelt justifies his | frequent attacks on “economic royal- | ists” and then permits the Demo- cratic National Committee, over | which & member of his cabinet pre- sides, to sell the book to the big corpo- rations is something which will be who have felt that in the New Deal at last they had an administration which was free from the kind of thing the Old Dealers used to practice. In his message to Congress last week the president said about avoidance and evasion of Federal tax laws: ““We hear too often from lawyers, as well as from their lients, the senti- ment: ‘It is all right to do it if you | can get away with it ” Unfortunately that's what most law evaders and law avoiders think, and the spectacle of an administration permitting the Federal corrupt prac- tices act to be avoided by a device such as the sale of campaign books | is just the kind which makes so many Ty 1l ¢ of the | 5 A [EaALysaD FIVST fonubieleasy iron 3 | using this phrase in one sense, General men in the business world consider that all they have to do at Washing- ton is to pull the strings through lobbyists and almost any of their troubles can be adjusted. i President Roosevelt said to Congress ' st week: “Clever little schemes are not admirable when they undermine the foundations of society.” President Roosevelt said on Jan- | Capitol to the listening Nation: “I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the office of Presi- dent of the United States, and will to the best of my ability preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.” Under Section 3 of Article II the | Constitution outlines the duties of a President of the United States and | says: “He shall take care that the | laws be faithfully executed.” ‘The Federal corrupt practices act 1s one of the laws of the United States | and the charges by the minority | leader of the House of Representa- tives certainly raise the question of whether all the facts should not be put before a Federal grand jury to determine whether indictments should or should not be rendered with re- spect to all persons who participated ! in the transactions. of charity racketeering here. Government Neutrality Administration Is Held Guilty of Using Force and Taking Sides in Strike Incidents. BY MARK SULLIVAN. N THE strike area in Ohio the Post Office Department has de- clined to deliver to factories pack- ages of certain «inds. Inside the factories are workers who fear to go out because the fgctories are sur- rounded by strikers, nembers of C. I. O, armed in va- rious ways. To the beleaguered £ workers, persons outside have mailed packages of focd, medi- cine, clothing, newspapers and the like. These packages the? Post Office De- partment refuses to accept or de- liver. The de- partment says it will deliver “nor- mal” mail, but not the mail which it considers ab- normal. Apparently, from some news= paper dispatches, the decision between what is normal mail and abnormal is made by agents of the strikers of the C. 1. O. About the whole strike the only information available is that which comes from newspaper dis- patches necessarily written hurriedly. But this detall—whether or not the censorship of mail is conducted or assisted by agents of C. I. O.—is im- material. It is just possible the Post Office Department could make out & case to sustain its present attitude. It is just possible the department is fol- lowing some long-established rule, that it has déne the same thing on previous occasions when some kind of emergency has given rise to an ab- normal quantity and kind of mail. If this is so, the department ought to hurry to make it clear. ‘The Post Office Department is de- scribed as giving a reason for its re- fusal to deliver packages to be= leaguered workers. The reported rea- son is that the Post Office Depart- ment does not h to take sides. Is Using Force. Take sides! That is exactly what the Post Office is doing. If it is de- | parting from its normal course, its action has the effect of helping the | C. 1. O. to win the strike. The Post Office Department is taking sides and, | whether the department realizes this | or not, it is using force. C. 1. O. is using force as an army | uses force, to isclate what it calls| the enemy. In this exertion of force, | Mark Sullivan. [ C. I. O. is assisted by the Post Office, | that is, by the Federal Government. | Much lack of clear thinking, tragic in its results, arises from failure to | understand what force is, and to real- | ize that there are different kinds of | force. In Michigan during the General Motors strike at Flint, Gov. Murphy made just this mistake. General-Mo- tors had procured from the courts an order directing the sheriff to remove | the sit-downers. Since the sheriff | could not alone arrest and remove several hundred sit-downers, he asked Gov. Murphy for help. Gov. Murphy did not give it. Throughout the strike Mr. Murphy took the position that there must be no use of “force and violence.” But there was “force and violence.” While Gov. Murphy was Motors was using it in another. Gen- eral Motors, in their application to the court for the removal of the sit- downers, said the sit-downers were occupying General Motors’ factory by “force and violence.” Statio and Active Force. True, there is a distinguishable dif- ference between the force and vio- lence used by sit-downers and the force and violence that would come into existence in an effort to remove the sit-downers. The distinction 1s | between what may be called static force and active force. Sit-downers occupying a factory and preventing the owners and non-striking workers from entering may be said, by a stretch of imagination, to use a merely static force. But once one kind of force is used by one side of & strug- gle, the only kind open to the other ide is active force. KELVINATOR eroves mese 2 ract CAN HELP YOU SAVE MONEY EVERY DAY TWICE THE COOLING CAPACITY! 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DlIstrict 2701 If the struggle is to be kept subject to law, the active force can only come from the agencies of law, from the sheriff, the police, the state or the nation. And when the officials of government fail to come forward with legal force, there is breakdown of law. Thereupon the next step is illegal force, that is, force exercised by pri- vate individuals. This latter course may come from the party to the con- troversy that is deprived of legal aid and its legal rights. It may come from the owners of the property or, in the case of a sit-down strike, from workers who are not engaged in the sit-down and wish to go back to work. Or the informal force may come from the public in the form of something like a vigilance committee. This is what happened at Hershey, Pa. Sit-down strikers occupied the Hershey chocolate factory, denied ac- cess to the owners, to the non-striking workers, and to the farmers who sup- plied the factory with milk. The farmers, seeing what had happened under Gov. Murphy of Michigan, took the law into their own hands. Adopt- ing active force, they went into the Hershey factories and overcame the static force of the sit-downers. Something of the same kind oc- curred in connection with a picketing strike of workers on a relief project in New York. A responsible observer saw the picketers on relief “spitting and calling vile names at policemen; I saw that happen and an officer said to me, ‘And we have to take it."” Sign of Weak Government. Now “spitting and cailing vile names” may be looked upon as only & mild form of force. A blob of sputum does not ordinarily do physi- cal damage. But it is force all the same. The point is that the agencies of law, the police, are apparently under instructions not to take the legal action which they would take as a matter of course against an ordi- nary violator of law. ‘What the whole condition means, the separate incidents emerging throughout the country, is that illegal force is now in widespread use. It is increasing, of course; any kind of violence, when unchecked, always in- creases and leads to new kinds of violence. In the transition through which America is being taken, the| stage of violence has arrived. What is to be done about it by the victims of the violence, or by the order-loving | portion of the people, will presently emerge. The attitude of government every where is the same. Government tries to say its attitude is non-intervention They may honestly but mistakenly and fatuously think it is non-inter- vention. But failure of the agencies of law to enforce the law is decidedly something different from non-inter- vention. It is the sign, among other thihgs, of a weak government. Be- cause the Federal administration at Washington reaches out constantly|cycle racer and auto mechanic in for more powers, some may think of | Texas, Miss Virginia Carabin, 23, of | it as an administration acquiring | Port Arthur, has driven 500,000 miles | that way of by motor cycle. more strength. But A D2 SSSSSSUESRSRRES S5 » & ‘:'» 5 o 2 PETS! DY S SN 2R L& N S SRS NISSERAS NS &L & SRS 2 £ L« SRS Established 1875 | thinking makes a sad failure to dis-| | ernment in the interruption of the| We, the PeoPIe . Supreme Court Gives Roosevelt Power Program Three Swift Kicks in the Teeth. BY JAY FRANKLIN. Tfls power trust's best friend is the Supreme Court, according to the New Dealers. ‘The Supreme Court finished its last term by giving three swift kicks in the teeth to the Roosevelt power program. While this s the first “break” the President has had since he launched his judiciary reform bill, it 18 a curious example of how our judges can stop a great public pro- gran for five or six years. ? ‘The constitutionality of P. W. A. loans to municipalities which wish to build power plants had been affirmed in five Federal Circuit Courts of Appeal, 30 the Government asked the court to reject the writ requested by the private power companies seeking to defeat this emergency program. The court, instead, decided to review the case—thereby delaying part of the Federal power program for another year. Both the Government and Electric Bond & Bhare requested the court to rule on the public utility holding company act (the “death-sentence” clause goes into effect next January), skipping the Court of Appeals. The Supreme Court refused this, thereby delaying settlement of this issue for at least another year. The court likewise refused to expedite final clarification of the right of the Tennessee Valley Authority to expand its activities. Since delay is in every case a victory for the vested interests, the court—so the New Dealers alleged—is showing its true bias, despite the recent liberal 5-to-4 decisions. Since the essence of the New Deal is socialization of the power conferred to private profiteers by monopoly grants from pubdlic authorities, this power fight is moving to the center of the stage. * 2% President Roosevelt is preparing his counter offensive. Until the Senate Judiciary Committee reports on his court bill there will be no further administration move in this field. There will be moves in the field of Fed- eral power development. Plans to dispose of the power generated at Bonneville have been delayed temporarily by the efforts of Senator McNary (Republican) of Oregon to have the project run by the United States Army Engineers. The Army is instinctively on the side of the biggest bank accounts, and Army men don't like to be bothered with social or economic details. If the engineers run Bonneville, its power will be turned over to a handful of Portland industrialists, instead of being spread out to benefit the people of the Northwest. The administration plans call for linking Bonneville and Grand Coulee power with the Skagit power project near Seattle, to supply electricity to the entire Northwest as far South as S8an Prancisco. At the same time, Senator Norris of Nebraska is introducing his bill to set up seven additional “T. V. A.'s” for the unified power, navigation, drought and flood control development of the principal river basins of the country for the benefit of the people. The identity of these rivers has been a jealously guarded secret, but I am in a position to state that the following developments are proposed: One river on the Atlantic Seaboard, upper Ohio and Great Lakes, Tennessee and Cumberland Rivers, Missouri River and Red River of the North, the Arkansas, Red and Rio Grande Rivers, Colo- rado River and Pacific Coast south of the California-Oregon line and the Columbia River basin. Then, too, there is the St. Lawrence-Great Lakes treaty with Canada, still to go before the Senate. x X x x In the meantime, the joint hearings on tax dodging de luxe will put the magnates on a very tough spot and will weaken the force of their agita- tion against the Roosevelt reforms. All in all, it promises to be a hot Summer in Washington. (Copyright, 1937.) CAPT. HARRY M. DODD DIES IN SAVANNAH tinguish between size and strength, between a centralized government, which is one thing, and a strong government, which is quite a different thing. The attitude of government in all N three of the cases, the Federal Goy-| B¢T of Theatrical Interests in South. mails in Ohio, the State government | Native of Washington Was Mana- | in the automobile strike and the mu- | nicipal government in the case of | | the relief spitters—the attitude of | | government in all the cases is one of | | weakness. | native of Washington and manager Capt. Harry Melville Dodd, 48, a of the Lucas-Jenkins theatrical inter- ests in Savannah, Ga., died Sunday in Savannah, according to the Asso- An American You Should Know John R. Mohler Directs Work of Protecting Meat-Eating Public. BY DELIA PYNCHON. IFTY-THREE years ago the Government started worrying about the eradication of animal diseases. The Bureau of Animal Industry was formed. In 1906 “Teddy” Roosevelt cast an eye over meate packing abuses, and regulatory re- sponsibility for the health of a mea ” o eating public was L ‘" added to the ~, bureau’s duties. / In the Depart- the third and present chief of the bureau, "John Robbins ' Mohler, and a portant research and regulatory functions on the Nation'scattle, sheep, hogs, goats, poultry. Since Dr. Mohler's appointment as chief in 1917, new activities have been added. They include breeding, feeding, management and care of live stock. Humane handling to market has been im- proved. Mohler is the viking type. Gen- erously proportioned, with Anglo= Saxon blue eyes, retreating gray hair, clipped mustache, restrained goatee, he presents a commanding figure. His Government experience has covered many years of hard work. Born in Philadelphia in 1875, he graduated in 1896 from the Veterinary School, Universary of Pennsylvania. He en- tered the bureau immediately after graduation. He has worked up through the various divisions. The bureau’s animal research has uncovered much significant data. At the National Agricultural Research Center, located at Beltsville, Md, studies in breeding and feeding are | providing much vital new knowledge. It was in 1884 that cattle ticks were discovered to be carriers of the fatal cattle tick fever. This led to the “discovery that many other diseases, including yellow fever, malaria, Rocky Mountain fever was carried through an intermediate host,” Mohler says. Bovine tuberculosis eradication began 20 years ago in co-operation with the States. Two hundred million tests have been applied since. Two hundred thousand cattle are slaughtered an- nually. Indemnities are paid to the owners. To get rid of diseased cattle and surplus cattle kills two birds with one stone, Mohler says. The tuber- culosis campaign has greatly reduced the disease in humans The bureau's meat inspection covers John R. 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