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Wise Economy With plans perfected for financing federal relief without dipping Into the federal treasury, with the last of the annual appropriation bills out of the way In the house of representatives, and with the senate making substantial progress toward further reducing the amount of the appropriation bills, a balanced operating budget is in sight at last. Tariffs alone block the way, and make It uncertain whether the vitally necessary tax bill shall be passed within two weeks, or much later. When that problem is disposed of, only agreement by congress upon specific items of the revenue bill and the federal economy and appropriation bills will stand between the people and She assurance they seek of the country’s financial stability. And those should present no great difficulties. Savings already accomplished almost equal the amount needed, together with the tax bill, to balance the budget. The house has cut $150,000,000 from the annual supply bills. The senate already has cut another $17,471,000. The minimum amount to be saved under the house economy bill is $30,000,000. These add to a total of approximately $200,000,000, and the treasury department asked for economies of only •241,000,000 to balance the budget. In addition, the senate now has under consideration a plan to take all public works proposed for 1933 out of the annual supply bills, and to finance them by means of bonds. This proposal, if it is enacted, will cut current expenses about $250,000,000; and if the senate also continues with its 10 per cent cuts on all supply bills, the saving in the annual budget of the government will mount to something like threequarters of a billion dollars. Probably the most important point still at issue concerns the kind of economies to be made. The house failed to cut the military services to the extent the civil services have been cut, capping this disappointing performance by insisting that summer camps shall be conducted for college R. O. T. C. boys and C. M. T. C. boys, even though essential services of the government are crippled to make these possible. The senate should enforce upon the miltary the same hardships that civilian branches of the government arc being called on to bear. For the army to escape with a cut of 10 per cent under 1932 expenditures while the interior department is cut 34 per cent is ridiculous and unsound. Neither branch of congress has given sufficient attention to effecting economies in the $50,000,000 set aside in the budget for choking prohibition down the throats of the people. A small cut in the prohibition bureau allotment is being protested. Nothing has been done to cut the millions spent by the coast guard, the border patrol, the bureau of industrial alcohol in futile attempts to enforce dry laws. Subsidies paid to steamship companies and airplane companies, under the guise of mail contracts, should be among the first items to fall before the economy ax. It is indefensible at a time like this to collect from burdened taxpayers more than •50,000,000 for the administration to pass out to these lines of business. The President is trying to block consolidation of the war and navy departments, which would not cripple defense, but would save upward of a hundred million dollars, by eliminating overhead charges and overlapping functions and by mass purchase of supplies. The economy program will not be complete until this is done. If the economy pruning knife is applied wisely, the structure of the federal government need not be damaged. It may be improved definitely.

“Money Is Like Muck” While American* generally remain sympathetic and tolerant toward hungry and rebellious demonstrators, a few, unfortunately, allow fear and fury to drive them along the old paths of repression. In Minneapolis, police break up a meeting of jobless. In Los Angeles, a grand jury refuses to punish the mobbeis of James Lacey, radical suspect, and its foreman issues veiled threats of violence against Lacey’s lawyer. In a Chicago suburb, police turn machine guns on a mass meeting of unemployed, wounding six. In Michigan, Attorney-General Paul Voorhies rules that all Communism is “an abuse of free speech.” In Washington, Matthew Woll charges American “reds” with a long list of property crimes which the American Civil Liberties Union says are in no manner political. . Representative Hamilton Fish presses bills to reestablish the motorious wartime spy system. Secretary of Labor Doak whips to new tempo his drive to deport aliens. These nervous little men should reread the words of one much wiser, Lord Francis Bacon, back in the sixteenth century, but still true. “The surest way to prevent sedition,’’ wrote Bacon, “is to take away the matter for them; for if there be fuel prepared, it is hard to tell whence the spark shall come that shall set it on Are. “The matter of seditions is of two kinds, much poverty and much discontentment ~. and if this poverty and broken estate in the better sort be joined with a want and necessity in the mean people, the danger is imminent and great—for rebellions of the belly are the worst. “Above all things, good policy is to be used that the treasuries and moneys in a state shall not be gathered together in a few hands, for otherwise a state may have a great stock and yet starve. “Money is like muck, not good except it be spread.”

Reasonable Censorship One of the most flagrant examples of bureaucracy In a democratic state is our federal postofflce censorship. The solicitor of the postofflce department makes his decision as to the mailability of material on the basis of vast power, residing in vague laws against obscenity, defamation and fraud. The courts will not interfere to give protection unless it can be proved that the postofflce officials have been "clearly wrong" in a given case, something which it is very difficult to convince a court. The material specifically denied mailing privileges under legislation accumulated since 1865 falls under the following heads: 1. All ‘obscene, lewd or lascivious or filthy books, pamphlets, pictures, papers, letters,'* etc., or other publications of an “indecent character." (1865). 2. All articles and information “concerning the prevention of conception or the producing of an abortion.” (1873.) 3. All mail matter "containing any filthy, vile or indecent thing." (1873.) 4. All matter “of a character tending to incite to arson, murder, or assassination." (1907.) 5. Ail matter advocating ‘treason, iasurjcUon or

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forcible resistance to any law of the United States.” (Espionage act, 1917.) 6. All envelopes, wrappers or postal cards containing ‘indecent, libelous, scurillous, defamatory, or threatening” language. (IMS-1902.1 7. All matter advertising lotteries or fraudulent promotion schemes. U868.> If a prospective mailer of material is In doubt about legality of his material, he can not get an advance opinion from the postoffice. He must mail and take his chances. After material is mailed, the postmaster may issue a simple exclusion order on his own discretion without any court trial, or the department may bring criminal charges against the sender, or thera may be both exclusion and a criminal trial. , There is also the fraud order under which the postoffice may hold up all mail addressed to a given individual or firm believed by the department to deal in fraudulent, obscene, or seditious matter. Such mail is returned to the senders. The general objectives of this postoffice censorship may be conceded to be sound. The unnecessary uncertainty and arbitrariness constitute the main abuses. If the mailer could get an advance opinion or could obtain specific explanations from the postoffice after exclusion, there would be less cause for complaint. The postoffice often has been arbitrary, ridiculous, or both, in it* censorship policy. Such books as Veblen’s ‘‘lmperial Germany and the Industrial Revolution” and Mary Ware’s “The Sex Side of Life,” such periodicals as the American Mercury, the Birth Control Review, and the Daily Worker; and pamphlets dealing with the Mooney-Billings case and our marines in Nicaragua have been held up. Carlo Tresca was punished by sentence to Atlanta for his anti-Fascist journalism under cover of a twoline advertisement of a birth control book which was carried by other papers without being molested by the postoffice authorities. Vagueness of the meaning and legal interpretations of obscenity give the department vast range for arbitrary and unpredictable action. The national committee on freedom from censorship proposes a way out which will secure all advantages of the present law without perpetuating abuses. The postmaster would be required to send all material he believes violative of the law to the United States district attorney. The latter then must institute libel proceedings, so a jury shall determine whether the matter is legal for mailing. Records of these decisions shall be kept available and open to the public for future guidance. This follows the reform introduced into the procedure of the customs bureau nearly two years ago In handling the reception of foreign publications. Originally the customs officials could act arbitrarily, but now there must be a jury trial. The innovation has worked well. If extended to the postoffice procedure, it would offer a real court test, would eliminate arbitrary and heavy penalties for first offenses, and would make future decisions expeditious.

Every vote cast in the average municipal election costs the taxpayers sl, says a political science expert. That’s nothing to what they cost the candidates. The king of England works harder than many of his subjects, a cable from London says. And, it might have added, he gets better pay. Hard work is the way to end the depression, Charlie Schwab says. But he didn’t say where to find" it. That 3-cent letter rate is going to co6t our creditors a lot of money in a year. Maybe the reason we can’t collect our money is that the world has quit thinking about war debts and started thinking about war. Berlin audiences booed Mussolini’s play, but that was to be expected. Berlin isn’t in Italy. If it’s news when a man bites a dog, what would you call it when a chorus girl socks Primo Camera? One writer says the way to increase the number of consumers, while another says the remedy is to decrease the number of producers. Why not go all the way and have lots of consumers and no producers? China and Japan finally signed a truce. Somebody ought to show that to Sharkey and Schmeling.

Just Every Day Sense BY MBS. WALTER FERGUSON

ONE who has been a Daughter of the American I Revolution for sixteen years would like me to explain my critical attitude toward that order. I hasten to say that as an organization that provides loan funds, teaches the correct use of the flag, puts up markers, plants trees and indulges in genealogical research, I find no fault with the Daughters. I was one of them for years. It is as a working force in society and a propaganda spreader that this ex-Daughter's criticism begins and ends. I do not like their propaganda. In a leaflet compiled lately and entitled "What the Daughters Do,” we find this under the heading of "National Defense:” “The work of this committee has multiplied a thousand-fold in intensity this year. Study programs have been arranged to inform the membership concerning the theories and tactics of pacifism, atheism, Socialism and Communism.” • mm I WOULD battle the juxtaposition of these terms In the minds of the women of th# country. I insist, and I know that I speak the truth, that hundreds of them now paying dues to the D. A. R. are pacifists. They do not believe in the power of armed force to prevent war. They think people can be trained to peace, just as they heretofore have been trained to slaughter. What is more, a large number of these women are working members of other organisations that openly oppose D. A. R. principles. It is with these members who have allied themselves to two opposite causes that I would remonstrate. To the militant Daughter whp honestly think* that the way to American people and prosperity lies in the upkeep of a bigger army and navy than we ever have had before, I have nothing to say. She is entitled to hgr opinion. But how can a woman be honest with herself or her organization and associate her self as a working member of the Y. W. C. A., the General Federation of Women's clubs, or the American Association of University Women, and the D. A. R. at the same time? If she can justify this inconsistency, it may be said of her that she believes in nothing, for she expends her energy and cash into divergent channels. In the morning she goes to the A. A. U. W. meeting and shouts for pacifism, in the afternoon to D. A. R tea and hears it trounced. She I* senator to both causes,

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

M. E. Tracy Says:

Our Political Structure, as Represented by the Two Old Parties, Is Without a Soul. BOSTON, May 21.—Nicholas Murray Butler is right. The two old parties have outlived their usefulness. Neither represents a vehicle of popular expression, whether from the liberal or conservative standpoint. Liberal ideas are not failing because of robust antagonism, but from mental atrophy. Our parties merely have deteriorated into two gigantic organizations with little purpose in life except to obtain power and distribute patronage. To pilt it bluntly, our political structure, as represented by the two old parties, is without a soul. m m m Just Mental Laziness THE standpatism from which we suffer in this country is negative. It lacks honest convictions and intelligent ideas. The chief reason we fail to adopt needed measures is not sincere or uncompromising opposition, but intellectual laziness. By and large, each party refuses to take a radical or distinctive stand on any Important question, for fear that it will lose votes. By and large, political action in the United States has shriveled to a counting process. *

No Real Reform THIS government has not adopted one outstanding measure of reform or constructive progress since the war. Even after three years of depression, it is experiencing great difficulty in meeting the obvious needs of distressed people. If you will go through the plans that have been offered for relief, you will find a basic similarity in them. Any one of them could have been adopted long ere this and would have been adopted but for the scramble over credit. Ninety per cent of the oratory and delay at Washington is campaign strategy. What the leaders of each party have been working for is to impress people with the idea that their crowd is making most of the noise, and all of it goes back to the number of votes that might be alienated or attracted, not on principle, but because of some specific act which politicians can point out to them.

Proportion Sense Lost POLITICAL action in this country has become largely a matter of log rolling. Our politial leaders spend vastly more time thinking how they can get some congressman to vote for this or that measure in exchange for special favors than they do in trying to determine whether the measure is sound in principle. The greatest republic on earth has become inarticulate with ward politics, has lost its sense of proportion, and is just drifting with the tide. No one can review the spineless, unprogressive policy this government has pursued since Woodrow Wilson ceased to be President, the manifest inability to see emergencies coming, much less to meet them, the indifference to crime, corruption and distress, without realizing how desperately we need a virile, wideawake political party.

Questions and Answers

What proportion of gainfully occupied persons in the United States are members of labor unions? The aggregate of union workers affiliated with the American Federation of Labor and otherwise is approximately 4.330,000. The total number of persons 10 years of age or over engaged In gainful occupations in the United States, according to the 1930 census was 48,832,589. What percentage of the church members In New York state are Roman Catholics and Jews? The 1926 census of religious bodies reports 6,799,146 church members in New York state, of whom 3,115,524 are Roman Catholics and 1,899,5£7 are Jews. Where do moonstones come from, and what is their approximate value? Nearly all of them come from Ceylon, principally from the Dumbara district, and they retail for about $3.00 per carat. How many paper mills are there in the United States, and what Is the value of their product? In 1929, there were 2,243 mills having an annual output valued at $686,157,000.

Daily Thought

Behold, the eyes of the Lord God are upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the face of the earth; saying that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob, "saKh the Lord.—Amos 9:8. MM* / Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.— Socrates.

M TODAY 40 Sy* ISTHt sw ' WORLD WAR \ ANNIVERSARY

PARIS BOMBED May 21

ON the night of May 21, 1918, German aviators made an air raid on Paris. Bombs were dropped in all parts of the city, causing thirteen deaths and millions in property damage. Railroads north and northeast of Paris also were attacked, but the bombs dropped did slight damage.. Russia was experiencing the horrors of war. On this day cholera broke out in Astrakhan and in the Caspian sea region. This plague, although stopped alter a short period. took a large toll of lives. The war department received reports that the first of the United States field armies had been organised and was in service in France. Total strength of this army was about 200,000 men.

BELIEVE IT or NOT

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Following is the explanation of Ripley’s “Believe It or Not,” which appeared in Friday’s Times: The Bell of the Maiden This bell was cast in the days of Emperor Young Lo, but the artisan failed in his mission, as the metal refused to flow. On the third attempt, the beautiful daughter of the bellmaker darted forward to the brink of the roaring crucible and hurled herself among the bronze and gold, which at that moment began to flow. Her fiance, who tried to check her, barely suc-

DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Children Need Health Instruction

BY OR. MORRIS FISHBEIN, Editor Journal of the American Medical Association, and of Hrrela, the Health Macaxine. According to statistics of the United States department of the interior, out of 1,000 children entering school, 610 reach the high school. Os these, 438 will reach the second year; 321 the third year; 268 the fourth year, and 260 will finally graduate. Os 160 students who enter college, fifty will be graduated. Every year some 4,250,000 students are listed in the high schools of the United States. In an address before the American Public Health Association, Dr. lago Galdston considered the special health problems that concern the high school students. By the time the child reaches high school, it really should have some knowledge of personal hygiene. It ought to know enough to bathe regularly, wash the teeth

IT SEEMS TO ME "IST’

IT has been held that motion pictures, newspaper headlines, crook plays, and a thousand other things encourage crime and the rule of the gangster. It seems to me that these factors are trivial. In the field of purely psychological causation, I would identify only one item actually as contributing to the growth and power of organized outlawry. And that is the written and spoken sentiment of those who say: “Things are terrible. The forces of respectability have broken down.” In the light of cold fact, It is a gross exaggeration to declare, that we are powerless victims in the hands of the mobsters. I would not deny that A1 Capone, for instance, created a very considerable machine in his own interest within Chicago and that, on a much smaller scale, underworld emperors are known in New York City. But, after all, this represents a comparatively small proportion if the United States. For that matter, in our own city the average individual has every right and mathematical expectation of waking in the morning without having been robbed or murdered in his bed. * m It Still Is Exceptional ONE startling, poignant, and dramatic crime has warped the perspective of most of us. In spite of the tragic Lindbergh case, the suffering which all parents undergo in regard to their children is not warranted by the incidence of kidnaping at the present time. It is not unreasonable for us to band together and say, "Such a thing must never happen again." but it is just a little silly for us to assume that episodes of that sort have become the regular incidents of our daily life. Crime is on the increase, and it should be checked and cured, but many who never felt a wound are acting as if a highwayman lurked on every doorstep. A resolute inclination to seek out causes and remove them is a good thing, but there is no health in a communal panic wnich runs all the way from the advocacy of lynching to the espousal of increased capital punishment, or even, as I observed In one letter to the editor, burning at the stake for slayers of small cM’ Iren. In all tnjth. we have lficicat law. It seems to me that we ought

On request, sent with stamped addressed envelope, Mr. Ripley will furnish proof of anything depicted by him.

ceeded in grabbing her slipper. To this day, when the great bell has been struck and its booming harmonies die away, there rises an after wail, which is a perfect echo of the Chinese word "hsie” (slipper), and men know that Kuan Yu’s daugher, whose virgin soul is dwelling in the metal of the bell, is calling for her lost shoe. Japan's Emotional Safety Valve —The Japanese language was singularly free of expletives until 1904. In that year the Russo-

regularly, and to take proper care of the fingernails and hair. By the time the child reaches high school, however, it is also In the period of adolescence, and in that period it is of the greatest importance that it learn something definite about the mechanics of the human body and the relationship of physical health to a satisfactory life. It Is for this reason that leading high schools have established courses in domestic economy for both boys and girls. In which they are taught the elementary facts about foods. Moreover, it is rather useless to teach children about food until they have learned something about the physiology of the digestive tract. It is simple to trace food from the time It enters the mouth until it is broken up into all essential constituents that are carried by the blood to different parts of the body

to catch more malefactors than is usual at the moment, but the nature of the punishment to be visited upon them is a trifle academic as long as they roam at large. And even under the most pessimistic outlook, no gang leader actually is half as powerful as he seems in the eyes of the imaginative and in the full-page spreads of the Sunday papers. mum We Protest Too Much WE are doing ourselves harm both at home and abroad by gross exaggerations concerning the 1 conditions under which we live. After all, a great many of us do venture out on the streets at night in large cities and arrive home safely without being called upon to stand and deliver. I would be not only content, but rapturously happy, If it were true that America actually was aroused to the point of giving serious consideration to the problem of the criminal. I do not regard an “Isn’t > this awful!” as the pathway to profundity. Nor am I convinced that a heightening of penalties has anything in particular to do with the problem which we face. Moreover, although I am an ardent and even fanatical supporter of the move for prohibition repeal, I can not join the belief of those who i feel that the crime wave has no ! other root aside from the convenient sinews bestowed upon the underworld through the profits of bootlegging. v Repeal would help, but it is still a cut above the true roots of our ! difficulty. To put it bluntly, I do not think that we will get very far in the abolition of crime until we have begun to work upon the cure of misery and want and destitution. I think it is only fair to admit that even in the Utopia of my dream or of yours we will not be rid of those offenses whiclf arise out of passion and insanity. The complete eradication of lust and jealousy and disordered intellects is some centuries beyond us. m m m A Not Impossible Cure BUT the curtailment of the bulk of crime is distinctly possible. Unfortunately, the cure requires

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Japanese war caused the Japanese to feel this want very keenly. To provide an emotional safety valve for the people, a committee of scientists met at the solicitation of the government and created the word "Banzai" (ten thousand years). The word is an equivalent of our “hurry" and the only Japanese swear word at the same time. Monday: The Island of the Sad Day.

and there help to build tissue and to repair broken parts. In classes In civics and in government, far too little stress is placed in most instances on the work of health departments. Children should learn something about the way a community safeguards its health through health departments. The girl should know something about motherhood and the importance of prenatal care. Even history can be utilized to teach health. It can be shown how great governments In the past were destroyed through improper attention to sanitation. It Is probably not important that children be taught in high school all essential facts regarding tuberculosis, venereal disease, Bright’s disease and similar troubles to which the human flesh is heir, but teaching of community hygiene will take into consideration the causes of all diseases that are controlled on a community basis.

Ideals and •pinion* eipreaaed in tbit column are (hose of on# of America's most interesting writers and art presented wlthoat regard to their agreement or dlaarreement with tile editorial attitude el this paper.—The Editer.

pedestrian Investigation and a large amount of education. Before we can change the psychology of the anti-social we must change society itself. Very possibly you and I observe with a fair degree of fidelity every law, except possibly the Volstead act. And yet we are part and partners in the crime wave, in spite of our impeccable respectability. We not only have participated in, but supported, an economic system which is cruel and competitive. I do not mean that every man who steals or slugs is actually in need of a loaf of bread, but if we are willing to countenance a way of life based on continuous and exterminating struggle, we have no right to be surprised if some hit below the belt or butt In the clinches. In other words, we will have a chance to make respect for law and order a persuasive thing only when that law and that order are attuned •to a fuller social justice. (CoDvriKht 1832. bv The Timesi

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.MAY 21,

SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ

Good Teaching Exists Only 1% Kindergarten and Uuiver*> sity Seminar, Says Educator. GOOD teaching In America exists only at the two extremes of the school, according to John Jay Chapman, lawyer and author. It exists, he says, in the kindergarten and in the university seminar. The seminar, as a rule, is restricted to juniors, seniors and postgraduates. The lowly freshman, and even the sophomore as a rule Is considered too young to partake of the seminar in which students and professor meet at a “round table” and exchange views as man to man. It is interesting to note that both the kindergarten and the university seminar have a spirit of informality in common. They also lack the regimentation which comes with desks set in orderly rows. Criticism of the schools is nothing new. Just as the average citizen feels he could run a newspaper, so he usually believes he knows just what is wrong with the schools. The schools, however, are much given over to criticising themselves, and Chapman’s views are set forth in a book called “New Horizons in American Life,” which has been published by the Columbia University Press. Chapman, incidentally, is himself a graduate of Harvard university.

Twenty Pounds of Books CHAPMAN is most outspoken in his criticism of the American educational system. “If you glance out of the window at any passing child or youth, with his twenty pounds of books in a satchel, you will see the disease that is ravaging our young people,” he says. “The American mind pictures education as a succession of long lanes with hurdles in them which the scholar must leap over. The hurdles are books. The teacher is as much harnessed by regulations as the student. The whole system is designed to shackle personal influence. Every point in this system—which ought to distribute spiritual energy—is furnished with a non-conductor. “That education is not baggage, but power, is a very simple truth, which to the American mind seems incomprehensible. “Our marking system—the grading of everything by percentages—has been borrowed from business life and fantastically developed into a kind of amateur psychology. Your American believes that,you can express anything whatever by figures.

The Oxford Dons THE American system of grading I scholars is not a universal one, according to Chapman. “The dons at Oxford who received the Rhodes scholars were somewhat puzzled by the decimal fractions as to merit with which the Americans had documented the applicants, especially by the points for ‘leadership,’ so-called, which appeared in some of the certificates,” he says. “The dons waited to find out by experience what these points for leadership might mean, and one of them is said to have written to the American shippers: ‘Please do not send us any more “leaders.” ’ ” Chapman calls the present era a “science-mad era.” He believes, however, that a reaction against It is setting in. He believes that an esthetic revival Is going to set in and that it will receive its inspiration from archeology. “It would indeed be a normal reaction in any era that has been mad for science." he says, “If it shouki be followed by a revival of the fine arts. “The smoldering embers of arch** ology always have been the sourof from which the fine arts were fired.*’

People’s Voice

Editor Times—The situation of § great many families is becoming desperate, particularly in connection with their inability to pay rent. The family Welfare Society hM done splendid work, but it* fund* available for rental payments are exhausted. I suggest that the city of Indianapolis erect a “tent camp” laid out in an orderly fashion, in one of the city parks, and make its facilities available to those unable to pay rent. At very little cost and trouble, temporary water mains, and light facilities could be installed and a camp with regular streets, sanitary regulations, and admittance rules established. If some step of this sort is not taken, we will be faced with the spectacle of many families without habitation. The tent camp would be habitable until the coming of cold weather next fall and we all hope that by that time more prosperous days will be on the way. HOWARD H BATES. 1403 Fletcher Trust Bldg. Where in the Bible Is the promise that there will never be another world wide flood? Genesis 9:13-15.