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Hint Scandal
In Democrats’
Book Sales
President Autographed
Volumes Sold to
Corporations.
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.
THE breath of scandal—the first
to be charged in more than
four years of its official career
—has come to the Roosevelt
administration.
1 The scandal touches the possible
violation of the Federal corrupt prac
vices aci inrougn
the sale to cor
porations of po
litical handbooks
autographed b y
President Roose
velt, the proceeds
being used to re
tire the Demo
cratic National
Committee's defi
cit.
Maybe what the
Democratic Na
tional Committee
has done is legal
and is only an
avoidance of the
David Lawrence.
.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 a
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
a 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
a 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
check for $1,000 in the inclosed en
velope.
“We are using this book as a means
of clearing up the deficit and the
President has made his contribution
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 companies
who are assisting us are handling
these expenditures.”
Contributions Forbidden.
Many corporations have bought the
books, which are merely the same book
that was issued at the last Demo
cratic National 'Convention but with
a 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
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 a con
tribution.”
Then there is another part of the
Federal corrupt practices act, namely,
eection 251, which says:
"It is unlawful for any national
bank, or any corporation organized
by authority of any law of Congress,
tn 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
a 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
•ection 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
eet 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 illegal step, it cer
tainly comes under the head of avoid
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What’s Back of It All
Bill for Honest-to-Goodness Pensions Born in Lobby
as Insurance Veto Is Overridden.
BY H. R. BAUKHAGE.
THERE 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 a new bill. In a very
private Washington lobby, an event took place which has not yet been
registered with any bureau of vital statistics—the birth 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 ivoman who
wore the uniform at least 90 days and got an honorable discharge,
* * * *
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 it*
blankets, held tight in its nurse's arms. But they know exactly how it looks,
ior an its lineaments have long
been written in the doomsday book
of the taxpayer.
Before we go any further,
a 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
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uuggo lor awnne. wnen tne wmstie nnauy blow's, the insiders express not
the slightest doubt that the votes will come to heel.
* * * *
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 twentieth 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.
* * * *
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 w omen at so low an age as 40 is hard, almost
hopeless, when they are driven to seek for re-employment."
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
cnarity. If he la considered too
old to hold down a job, he must be
cared for by the Government to
which he offered his life.”
* * * *
The force that operate* the
huge Department of the Interior
gets on the job at 8 a m. (and
starts home an hour earlier in the
afternoon, thus helping to cut
traffic jams). But there is always
a double line of cars around the
building before 8 in the morning.
inquiry revealed that the double-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.
* * * *
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
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 blind man.
* * * *
At 3 a m. of a hot morning recently, Washington's parkways were
filled with cyclists peddling to keep cool.
_^Copyright. 1SI37, by the North American Newspaper Alliance. Inch
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 a member of his cabinet pre
sides, to sell the book to the big corpo
rations is something which will be
hard to explain to the many liberals
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 mast 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
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.
President Roosevelt said to Congress
last week: “Clever little schemes are
not admirable when they undermine
the foundations of society.”
President Roosevelt said on Jan
uary 20, 1937, on the east front of the
Capitol to the listening Nation:
“I do solemnly swear that I will
faithfully execute the office of Presi
dent of the United State*, and will
to the best of my ability preserve,
protect and defend the Constitution
of the United States.”
Under Section 3 of Article n the
Constitution outlines the duties of a
President of the United States and
says: “He shall take care that the
law* be faithfully executed.”
The Federal corrupt practices act
Is 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.
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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
of charity racketeering here.
Government Neutrality
Administration Is Held Guilty of Using Force and
Taking Sides in Strike Incidents.
BY MARK SULLIVAN.
IN THE strike area in Ohio the
Post Office Department has de
clined to deliver to factories pack
ages of certain kinds. Inside the
factories are workers who fear to go
out because the factories are sur
rounded by strikers, nembers of C. I.
O., armed In va- „
rlous wary*. To|
the beleaguered Ij
workers, persons 1
outside have I
mailed packages I
of food, medl- 1
cine, clothing, !
newspapers and §
the like. These §
packages the j!
Post Office De- |j
partment refuses I
to accept or de- p
liver. The de- §
partment says it I
will deliver “nor- *
mal" mail, but
Mark Sullivan.
not the mail which it considers ao
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. I. O. About the whole strike the
only information available is that
which comes from newspaper dis
patches necessarily written hurriedly.
But this detail—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 a case
to sustain its present attitude. It is
Just possible the department is fol
lowing some long-established rule,
that it has ddne 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 wish 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. I. 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. I. O. is using force as an army
uses force, to isolate what it calls
the enemy. In this exertion of force,
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 Micmgan during tne 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 lor 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
using this phrase in one sense. General
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.”
Static 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 Is
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 aaid, by a
stretch of imagination, to use a merely
static force. But once one kind of
force is used by one side of a strug
gle, the only kind open to the other
side is active force.
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 calling vile
name*" may be looked upon as only
a mild form of force. A blob of
sputum does not ordinarily do physi
cal damage. But It is force all the
same. The point la 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- I
creases and leads to new kinds of I
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 Us 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
thlhgs, of a weak government. Be
cause the Federal administration at
Washington reaches out constantly
for more powers, some may think of :
it as an administration acquiring ;
more strength. But that way of
We, the People
/
Supreme Court Gives Roosevelt Power Program
Three Swift Kicks in the Teeth.
BY JAY FRANKLIN.
HB power trust'* belt 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 is the
first “break’’ the President has had since he launched his Judiciary reform
bill, it Is a curious example of how our judges can stop a great public pro
gram 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, so 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 it Share 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 S-to-i decisions. Since the essence of the New
Deal is socialization of the power conferred to private profiteers by
monopoly grants from public authorities, this power fight is moving
to the center of the stage.
a a a *
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 San Francisco.
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
Riuer 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. Laurence-Great Lakes treaty with
Canada, still to go before the Senate.
* * * *
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.
tCopyrleht, 31)37.)
thinking makes a sad failure to dis
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
three of the cases, the Federal Gov
ernment In the interruption of the
malls in Ohio, the State government
in the automobile strike and the mu
nicipal government in the case of
the relief spitters—the attitude of
government in ail the cases is one of
weakness. And what happens to a
country which, in a time of stress,
has a weak government, is a thing
we shall presently see.
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Woman Cycle Racer.
Believed the only woman motor
cycle racer and auto mechanic in
Texas. Miss Virginia Carabin. 23. of
Port Arthur, hsa driven 500.000 miles
by motor cycle.
CAPT. HARRY M. DODD
DIES IN SAVANNAH
Native of Washington Was Mana
ger of Theatrical Interest*
in South.
Capt. Harry Melville Dodd. 48, a
native of Washington and manager
of the Lucas-Jenkins theatrical inter
ests in Savannah, Ga„ died Sunday
in Savannah, according to the Asso
ciated Press.
Capt. Dodd, a World War veteran,
some years ago was aports editor of
the Savannah Morning News.
His lllnes* followed the recent death
of his eldest daughter, Joan Dodd, a
student at Armstrong Junior College,
who was killed In an automobile ar
i cldent. He never recovered from the
; shock of her death.
Survivors include hi* widow and
I four daughter*.
An American
You Should
i
Know
John R. Mohler Directs
Work of Protecting
Meat-Eating Public.
ni iim.is rinuiun,
Fifty-three years ago tha
Government started worrying
about the eradication of animal
diseases. The Bureau of Animal
Industry was formed. In 1906 “Teddy”
Roosevelt cast an eye over meat
packing abuses, and regulatory re
sponsibility for the health of a meat
John E. Mohler.
5 cauug puuub wm
Udded to t he
; bureau's duties.
\ In the Depart
\ ment of Agricul
!'■ ture the third
and present chief
of the bureau,
;.;John Robbins
Mohler, and a
personnel of 4,000
perform these im
portant research
and r e g u latory
functions on the
Nation's cattle,
sheep, hogs, goats,
poultry. 8ince Dr.
AVAUlliCI o O i 11 t II 1C 1 1 L CU’S ClUCi U1 131 I,
new activities have been added. They
include breeding, feeding, management
and care of live stock Humana
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. Bom in
Philadelphia In 1875, he graduated
in 1896 from the Veterinary School,
Unlversary 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 hast,” Mohler says.
Bovine tuberculosis eradication began
■ 20 years ago in co-op-ration 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
725 establishments in about 250 cities,
with veterinary supervision of from
60 to 70 million animals slaughtered
annually.
Income Tax Revenue* Le*».
I Although the United States has a
population almost three times as large
as Great Britain, our Income tax
; brings In about *150,000.000 less an
1 nually.
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• YOU TAKE NO CHANCES of dam
age, in the process of cleaning, or loss
in any way . . . Our Knowledge is Your
Guarantee, backed up by Hinkel’s
Known RESPONSIBILITY AND RE
LIABILITY.
• VISITORS ARE WELCOME . . . we ll
be pleased ’to show you through our
plant any day between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m.
We take pride in the cleanliness and
sanitary conditions of our plant. You
will be interested in seeing WHERE and
HOW your floor coverings are treated
when sent to Hinkel for CLEANING,
REPAIRING and STORAGE.
• FREE SPECIAL SERVICES: All Do
mestic Rugs Shampooed by Us Are Glue
Sized. All Rugs and Carpets are IN
SURED FOR FULL VALUE against Are,
theft or damage, while in our care.
• OUR PRICES: Are the lowest for
first-class work. Estimates furnished on
request... Phone Potomac 1172.
ORIENTAL RUGS REPAIRED By Our EXPERT WEAVERS
For a number of years we have specialised in Oriental Rug Repairing . . . maintaining
a force of experienced weavers and guarantee satisfactory work, at reasonable cost.
E. P. HINKEL & COMPANY
Eslfsl;ti Rug and Carpet Cleaning . . . Fine Floor Covering* Ett^sshtd
600 Rhode Island Avenue N.E. Phone: POtomac 1172