Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 170, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 November 1932 — Page 13

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Here is a picture of Richard Boleslavski, co-author with Helen Woodward of ‘ Lances Down,” recently published by Bobbs-Merrill. This is the second book of the series which was started with "Way of the Lancer” by the same two writers. "Lances Down” is repaying, a. Jpfc.of, 808 BV WALTER D. HICKMAN it seems that every" lN body is selecting the ten best this and ten best that. NdW we 'have Burton Rascoe, wellknown American critic, selecting his “100 best novelists.’ • This is done in “Titans of Literature: Prom Homer to the Present,” published by G. P. Putnam’s Sons. Rascoe admits that “to make an arbitrary list of the 100 best novels is a presumption beyond my capacity to presume,” but adds: "However, I have often toyed with the idea of making a select list of 100 best novelists, with one particularly fine example for each of the novelist’s art.” The critic explains that “several books of the Old Testament might properly be called short novels, concise and dramatic, but I have omitted these for the double reason that the authors are anonymous and that these ‘novels’ are not long sustained narratives." That statement is interesting, especially these days when students of literature more and more are considering the Bible as a source of fine style of writing. I am tremendously interested m Rascoe’s list because several times I have been taken seriously to task for favoring several of the writers who appear on this list as “one hundred best novelists.” And the list from that standpoint becomes more interesting to me because the “one particularly fine example” of the novelist is the work that caused me so much grief because I prized them. I am glad that Rascoe’s list includes Petronius for “The Satyricon,” Dresier for "Sister Carrie,” Dostoievsky for "The Brothers Karamazov” and Cabell for "Jurgen.’ b n b In this reveation of what he considers the one hundred best novelists, Rascoe is on safe and common ground when he includes Cervantes for "Don Quixote,” Voltaire for “Candide,” De Foe for "Moll Flanders,” Fielding for "Tom Jones,” Swift for “Gulliver's Travels,” Austen for “Pride and Prejudice,” Hugo for “Les Miserables,” Thack- * ery for "Vanity Fair,” Melville for “Moby Dick,” Carroll for "Alice in Wonderland,” Twain for "Huckleberry Finn,” Stevenson for “Treasure Lsland,” Kipling for "Kim,” Conrad for "Nostromo,” Bennett for “Old Wives’ Tale,” Galsworthy for “The Forsyte Saga,” Wharton for “Ethan Frome," Chesterton for “The Man Who Was Thursday” and others. You will be bound to recognize Ford Matoc for the Tietjens series, Ring Lardner for "Gullible's Travels,” Hemingway for "A Farewell to Arms” and Faulkner for “Soldier’s Pay.” B b a Have just received a copy of “Funday” by 1110 Orleans and it is rated by the publisher, Claude Kendall, as "one of the swellest books for children published this year.” And that opinion is shared bv such notables as Angelo Patri. Eddie Cantor. Elizabeth Morrow, Hendrik Van Loon. John Erskine and Marie Dressier and many others. a a k Brentaro's of New York are of the opilion that "what more and more people ask about books, nowadays. is not wnich to read, but which are being read by the most people this week.” The fiction list this week lists: “Flowering Wilderness "by Galsworthy; "The Narrow Corner,” by Somerset Maugham, "Invitation to the Waltz," by Rosamond Lehmann, •Family History.” by V. SackvilleWest,” Peter Ashley, "by Du Bose Heyward, and, "Sons,” by Pearl Buck. a a a Well, now I am interested. The Macmillian Company informs me that “The Reverend Doctor John Trusler was an eighteenth century authority on gentlemanly manners and deportment at the table. In ‘The Art of Carving’ ($1) he gives instructions on how to carve the various joints that appear on the table of a gentleman, how to seat the guests, offer wine, etc." a a a

The Business Branch Library announces that the following interesting modern books have been ♦dded. "A New Deal” by Stuart Chase, in which the author advocates evolution of our present system by drastic amendment in the direction of collectivism, such a* economic planning, public works, stiff income and inheritance taxes; “Credit Cheaters,” a manual on skip tracing technique and procedure, by Luftig; "The Story of Uncle Sam's Money.” bv Woods, and "The Bubble That Broke the World,” by Garrett. the story of America s lo6t credit.

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BEER LAW BY ! JANUARY 11S! GARNER HOPE Passage Before New Year by House Is Forecast by Speaker. DRAW SKELETON BILL Brief Hearings, Then Report by Committee by Dec. 12 Is Program. BY LYLE C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Nov. 25.—Passage of a beer bill by the house before Jan. 1 was forecast today by Speaker John N. Garner. “I am hopeful that such prompt action will be possible,” said the Vice-President-elect. From other Democratic leaders it was learned that a “skeleton” beer bill was in the process of being drawn, with the view to hastening prompt committee action immediately after congress convenes. The hope is to have the house ways and means committee report out such a bill about Dec. 12, after brief hearings. This would permit a vote in the house possibly before Christmas. Under reported plans of the leadership, the ways •and means committee would ask the judiciary committee for a report on what per cent beer would ! be legal constitutionally. However, if the judiciary committee delays submission of such report, it was considered likely that the ways and means committee would go ahead on the basis of its own conclusions as to legal content. Drys Face Double Attack BY LEO R. SACK Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Nov. 25.—Prohibition problems are concerning Democratic congressional leaders since President-Elect Franklin D. Roosevelt clearly has indicated to them his desire to repeal the dry laws as quickly as possible. Two congressional drives are planned, one to modify the Volstead law and authorize beer, the other for straight repeal of prohibition. President Herbert Hoover's attitude also is important. Democrats are not certain whether he will sign a beer bill, nor do they know what attitude he will take on straight repeal. On constitutional amendments, howevef, the President’s signature is not required. Legislators feel that the financial aspects of both propositions, when considered in the face of the treasury deficit and the certainty of decreased income tax collections next spring, may cause Hoove# to modify his past views. Mills Favors Taxes Treasury Secretary Ogden Mills is unlikely to recommend a beer and alcoholic beverage tax in his annual report to the President, which in turn is passed along to congress, unless he specifically is requested to do so by Mr. Hoover. But Mills, it is understood, favors such taxes. Treasury experts have assembled data pertaining to taxes on beer and whiskies collected by other countries as well as estimates of revenues. On Dec. 7, the house ways and means committee will begin hearings on a beer taxation measure. The three big questions before the committee will be, first, whether the proposed legal beer shall be of 2.75 or 4 per cent alcoholic content by volume; second, the amount of tax; and, third, how beer wil l be distributed. Opinions in Conflict Each of these constitutes a problem upon which there is much difference of opinion. Congress is being told that 2.75 per cent beer will not satisfy demands and will be regarded by beer drinkers as "slop” and that as a result it will fail as a revenue producer—and the opposite. Advocates of the historic "nickel” schooner are urging that the tax be kept small enough to make its return possible, to increase demand, and that under no circumstances should a bottled pint be taxed to sell at more than 15 cents. California wine growers are preparing to insist that the light wine industry be rehabilitated along with the breweries and they are preparing to prove to congress how increased taxes can be obtained. BURIAL RITES ARE FIXED Funeral Services for Auto Victim to Be Held on Saturday, Funeral services for Jerome William Martz, 63, of 1502 North Illinois street, auto accident victim, will be held at 10 Saturday in the Lucas funeral home, 3034 North Illinois street. Mr. Martz was one of two men killed Tuesday night when they stepped into the path of an automobile at Fourteenth street and Capitol avenue. Thomas Byrne, 50, of 15 North Highland avenue, was with Mr. Martz. Driver of the car was Gamewell Page, soldier of Ft. Benjamin Harrison. He was not held. Mr. Martz was a number of the Mulberry Zion Evangelical Lutheran church. He was an employe of the Continental Optical Manufacturing Company. Burial will be in the Mulberry i cemetery.

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TERRY DARES 7,000 MILES OF ‘JUNGLES’

Job Hunter Travels Weary Trail of Hitch Hiker and Moocher

Th:> for:..- ’fPr, jt“ VA'.iUovrfi '• he c:ri-'inu /. ' fw : . " MU ]- ha< rr-.u-fl n 1 *>’ iKnosruf. vk!;;U-cr,i:a r Nen Yorker. berarr.r a SMHHP**' Li.- , h " 'i th breadth of the hTHTTI WMl'l 1 ft I'f'l'lllliT'nW ’ v-V <. ce n : s -with -'ark lark of r'.nhrnhirr. ,#C" - ' k ' - • tiu sos r sene.-, o' armies r. adventure', JP &■ BY TERRY DONOGIU7E Coovr.ci’.t. 1032 bv the Nr* York World-Telegram Corporationi ; 1 Im TERRY DONOGHUE. .stood on the edge of the . /• ■- Albany Post road, and signaled to passing wSL motorists. w ' * alUm 'aslPIf you asked one of my friends who Terry Donoghue , was he'd probably say: '' v He about 30. married, and lives in a small apart- A. merit, on the east side. He has a literary turn and has a, mml ? tW'WNjfP sold seme stuff. He's had other jobs—selling and in / I Wall Street. He's red-headed about 5 foot 7 and m. I He talks a lot —you know, the Irish type—always Iplk got something big just about to happen. His wife's gill 4HBy .M , M ti;e level-iu;;deri one. The last I saw of him he W%' f was looking for a job.” MSgmm ' jtoH .• t . When the wife had said we might have to accept OHBp. ‘y . emergency relief I had answered: ’ i|St ‘ JnW/fc Jk ' t 'f.< " "Nothing doing! If I can t get a job here 111 go to jPf|||p * \ \ ‘' Jm Chicago and r :i to mak" that trade paper connection m “ \ Ml \ sue- w again. If I can't. 11l find something (..se." / .moB V ®r My wife raised a dozen doubts. - /' • * X'MsS A 3 s '. s * “An able-bodied man always can get by." I said # ijf' MxA . confidently. "I 11 start with a dollar. The little money -df 1 we have will keep you until I find something." Tt rr>( And so I stood on the edge of the road, thumb ex- % iJBsPm Donoufiue tended The skies clouded: the wind chilled. Streams j I ■ ... ' m „., of cars, warm and comfortable, passed bv. The sun A 4?' • ■> was sinking before a green roadster hissed to a stop M hnrr stra and tlie drived called. Climb in, bud." * 'him nt , E started, he said that he was employed by | the New York Telephone Company and it was =--■

The depression has thrust thousands unon thousands of Americans out of their homes: it has thrown them upon the streets and highways of the nation: it has made them into a class, almost a caste. This new class, formed out of stable citizenry, completely has swallowed the old-time hobo class; It has adopted some of its wavs: it has created new ones. Terry Donoghue, white-collar New Yorker, became a member of this class. He traveled the breadth of the continent living in what its residents—-w ith stark lack of euphemism—call the Jungles. This is the first of a series of articles on his adventures. BY TERRY DONOGHUE (Copyright. 1932. by the New York World-Telegram Corporation) I TERRY DONOGHUE, stood on the edge of the , Albany Post road, and signaled to passing motorists. If you asked one of my friends who Terry Donoghue was he'd probably say: "He’s about 30, married, and lives in a small apartment on the east side. He has a literary turn and has sold some stuff. He’s had other jobs—selling and in Wall Street. He’s red-headed, about 5 foot 7 and getting fat. ‘‘He talks a lot—you know, the Irish type—always got something big just about to happen. His wife's the level-headed one. The last I saw of him he was looking for a job.” When the wife had said we might have to accept emergency relief I had answered: “Nothing doing! If I can’t get a job here I’ll go to Chicago and try to make that trade paper connection again. If I can’t, I’ll find something eise.’’ My wife raised a dozen doubts. “An able-bodied man always can get by,” I said confidently. “I'll start with a dollar. The little money we have will keep you until I find something.” And so I stood on the edge of the road, thumb extended. The skies clouded; the wind chilled. Streams of cars, warm and comfortable, passed by. The sun was sinking before a green roadster hissed to a stop and the drived called, “Climb in, bud!” nun ONCE started, he said that he was employed by the New York Telephone Company and it was acrainst. thp rnlpc fn i

against the rules to pick up anybody on .the road. “It's going to rain,” he explained. “I couldn’t leave you out there.” / He went as far as Hastings. Rides came easier after that. Six hours after leaving New York my eighth host let me out in Albany. I stood under an awning and smoked a cigaret, while I thought about the dollar bill in my pocket. Should I buy something to eat and sit up all night or should I get a cheap room and sleep, dry if hungry? “Pardon me, buddy, can you help a fellow get the price of a bed? I turned and looked into watery eyes that peered from bluish pouches. “Friend,” I said, “I just hitchhiked into town and I’m wondering where I am going to sleep.” “That’s different, Red! I didn’t know you were on the bum. I’m trying to ding enough to get a bottle of smoke, but I’ll show you where to get a flop.” The man leaned closer and held my lapel. A day before I would have hurried away from him. Under the awning I felt we had a common bond. “Yer listenin’. Red? Four blocks down and you’ll see a sign. The guy there is Ted Shrinkey. Tell him you dinged a guy with a cane and he told you about him. He’ll fix you up with a flop.” “You mean he’ll give me a bed?” “Red, I never gave a bum a bum steer in my life. G’wan down and make it.” I thanked him and hurried across the street. a a a THE City Mission looked like an empty store from the outside. Ted Shrinkey, a small, gray man with a grinning face, heard my story. He got up from a rocker and led me to a high-ceilinged dormitory in the rear. A clock ticked from a blank wall. Shrinkey pointed to a cot covered with a dark blanket and left me. I looked around. About forty

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MINISTERS FIGHT CUT IN CITY SCHOOL YEAR Alliance “Unalterably Opposed” to Shortening of Term. The Interdenominational Ministerial Alliance is “unalterably opposed” to shortening the term of Indianapolis schools, it is declared today in a resolution adopted by the organization. “We believe that the care and nurture of our children is one ol the primary commissions of the church,” the resolution reads. Proposed action of the board of school commissioners to shorten the term nine weeks will release children from “much needed supervision and instruction, lowering the standards of education, thus removing our high schools from the accredited list,” the resolution continues. Juvenile Theft Ring Broken By United Brest FT. WAYNE, Ind., Nov. 25.—A juvenile theft ring was believed broken up today with the arrest of seven boys and recovery of a large number of stolen bicycles.

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cots were set out in rows of ten. Heads lifted up from them to look at me. Men coughed. Muttering came from the darkest end of the hall. An old face looking at me from a bed next to mine. The rain drummed on a skylight. As I sat on the edge of the cot tugging at wet knots of shoelaces, old men in long white underwear, like scarecrows in undress, got up and walked to and from the open washroom. Before I slipped beneath the blanket I placed my damp coat and trousers under my pillow. My limbs relaxed and I felt the giddiness of sudden muscular looseness. I thought of the little apartment on the east side and I wondered what my wife was thinking. As I dozed my skin began to shrink; my scalp tightened. Over my legs, across my chest, my face, my hair, I felt vermin crawling with sickening familiarity. I sprang out of bed and struck matches. The pillow was alive with moving blots, I shuddered and sat on the edge of the bed, I looked down the rows of cots. Bodies shifted and men coughed. I realized I had little choice. I could stay or I could go out in the rain. I lighted matches and killed all the insects I could see and crawled under the blanket. The old man in the bed next to me still stared in my face with half-closed eyes. * a a I SLEPT for short periods, turned over and wearily sank back into sleep again. Dawn was a sickly light through the skylight. I was awakened by a babble of talk about lottery tickets, dishwashing jobs, berry picking and good places to eat. My companions of the night were taking turns at the sinks at one end of the room. One brushed silver hair with a soft white hand. Next to him, splattering water, was a dark-skinned man with a twisted nose. Two of the men were old; one leaned a cane against a sink. One stood part from the rest, cut-

Chancellor Post Refused Fascist Chief; Reichstag Call Issued. BERLIN, Nov. 25.—The new Reichstag today was summoned to meet Dec. 6 by Speaker Hermann Goering while Adolf Hitler accused associates of President von Hindenburg of intrigue and called on his Nazis to fight the present system of parliamentary government. Formation of a presidential cabinet appeared inevitable today, after Von Hindenburg declined to offer the chancellorship to Hitler, leader of German Fascists. Politicians expected that several more days would be necessary to solve the political crisis. Dr. Ludwig Kaas, leader of the Centrists, conferred with political leaders, but was not believed able to find a parliamentary majority. The president replied to Hitler’s counter proposals that “continuation of negotiations, either by letter or verbally, is pointless.” He is seeking a chancellor to succeed Franz von Papen, resigned.

ting vagrant threads from a frayed cuff. His suit long ago had been expensive. The skin of his face was soft but deeply lined. His eyes had a look of wonderment as if still puzzled over something that had happened far in the past. Then it came to me with a jerk. I was one of them—part of the curious mixture of humanity washing itself at the sinks. I dressed. My coat and trousers were a jumble of sharply dented wrinkles. My shoes were sodden lumps of leather. “It’s suie a bum day for the stem,” a short old man in overalls said to my nearest neighbor. “Do you fellows know how to get out to the Syracuse highway?” I asked. They looked at me as if I had thrown a fit. “You can’t make the highway today,” the short old man said. “This rain is gonna keep us all day.” “Well, I’m going to try it,” I said. I left thinking of the timidity of age. a a a I STOOD in the rain again for an hour. At last a salesman picked me up. In short rides I went through Herkimer, Schenectady, Utica, Amsterdam. One young fellow insisted that I take a quarter for a meal. One salesman stopped on a side street of a town to tell me of an illicit love affair he had. He sought my advice. An artificial limb salesman said his business was good. He asked me to feel his legs. They were both made of light metal. “I don’t sit still and whine, like a lot of them,” he said, “I go out and get mine. Any man can.” I nodded my head in agreement. At 9 o’clock that night I had reached Syracuse. I went to the Rescue Mission home. A young, sandy-haired clerk noted the dampness of my clothing and gave me a warm double bed for the night. Less forlorn guests slept on cots. Another attendant gave me a thick slice of currant bread and a cup of black, bitter coffee in the morning. Once again I turned to the highway, thumb up.

HONOR STATE YOUTH West Point Boy Winner in 4-H Club Project. By United Press LAFAYETTE. Ind., Nov. 25. Floyd Weaver, 19, 4-H Club member from West Point, Tippecanoe county, will attend the international livestock exposition at Chicago with all expenses paid. The trip is furnished as a reward for his winning the meat animal livestock project in the central region, comprising 4-H clubs in middle western states. He will compete Monday with three others for national honors. HOLIDAY THIEVES BUSY Numerous Homes Entered by Burglars Over Thanksgiving. Theft of jewelry valued at nearly S2OO and $75 in cash from his home while the family was absent Thursday was reported to police today by Charles E. Alwes, 3533 Watson road. Other thefts were reported by Clarence Estjick, 1808 Ashland avenue, $75; Carter Stephenson, 3005 Park avenue, S3O; Charles Haase, 620 East Washington street, S3B; and W. E. Green of Champaign, 111., SSO.

Rding became faster. My first benefactor of, the day brought me to Palmyra. My second —one Kaplan, salesman—went to Erie for the night. What was more, he said, as he bought me a hamburger steak, if I’d meet him in the morning he'd take me all the way to Chicago! a a a 1 TRIED the Salvation Army home in Erie. When I asked for a bed the pug-nosed clerk shook his head. As I was about to walk out he called: “I just threw a drunk out. Go down to the polce station and get a ticket and you can have his bed.” I found the station at the corner of a square. “You're out of luck,” I was told. “We just sent a man up for that .bed.” Just then the phone rang. The sergeant answered. "It’s the Salvation Army,” he said. “They’ve got another drunk up there. He’s raising hell and they want the wagon.” "There’s your bed,” the captain said. “Go outside and climb in the wagon. They’ll ride you up.” A gray-haired cop motioned to me. "C’mon,” he said. “Your taxi's waiting.” When we arrived the clerk said: “You’re too late, officer. He beat it.” He led me upstairs to a small room and indicated a cot. There were two others like it in the room. In one of them a man snored; the other one was occupied by a husky man of about 35* “Did they arrest that old drunk?” I shook my head. "That’s good. He was a pretty good scout. But a man’s a damn fool to get stewed when he’s getting charity. They’ll never let him in again.” # # a He lighted a cigaret and asked me if I just got in. I told him I was on my way to Chicago. I asked him where he came from. "Oh, me and my partner,” he pointed to the sleeping man, “left Bakersfield to join the Bonus

Chinese Charge Japanese With Massacre of 2,700

Peasants Mowed Down With Machine Guns, Legation Officials Allege. By United Press LONDON, Nov. 25.—The Chinese legation charged today that Japanese soldiers in Manchuria had massacred 2,700 Chinese peasants, including women and children, mowing the victims down with machine guns or stabbing them to death. A statement issued at the CV* nese legation said that three farming villages, at which the massacre is alleged to have occurred, “subsequently were razed by fire as a result of an act of revenge taken by Japanese troops against Chinese volunteers (who opposed the Manchukuo government, supported by the Japanese) in Manchuria.” The statement charged that Japanese soldiers, investigating the alleged complicity of the peasants in sheltering Chinese volunteers, ordered the villagers of Ping Ting

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Entered ns Second CliM Mitter at I’ostofflce, Indianapolia

Terry Donoghue as you may have seen him on the road.

Army, but we were too late. We have been here a month. "This is a good town. We've been eating, at the Legion and doing a little stemming. In fact, I ate five times today. Twice at the backdoors, once at the Legion and I mooched enough for two meals.” “Isn’t the city feeding the unemployed?” “Oh, they got a join’ next to the station house, Mulligan hall, but lay off that if you are going to stay in town, Red. The chuck is lousy. Hit the back doors here. They feed swell.” • “What's the idea of sticking around town so long?” "Well, the buddy and I don’t know what to do. This is the first time we were ever on the bum and it's beginning to agree with us. We might stick around here until the winter and then go on to Washngton again. Or we might go on to New York.” a a a THE light was on when I fell asleep. The bonuseer was reading a detective magazine. At 5 the clerk shook me awake. I dressed hurriedly. The bonuseer looked up from his pillow: “You can get hot cakes and coffee for a nickel at a little restaurant at Fourteenth and Peach. Lots of luck.” An hour later I had fortified myself with hot cakes and coffee, met Kaplan and started for Chicago. The miles flowed by. Kaplan told me of fighting with the British in South Africa: I told him of my hopes for a job. We lapsed into long spells of silence. Telephone poles, hitch-hikers, hamlets and cities passed by: I thought of Chicago, drawing constantly nearer. I had been there three years before. Vulgar, boastful and dirty, but a city where a stranger was accepted quickly. I'd made money there before and I’d make money there again! “I looked down at my rainwarped clothes. The wrinkles did not seem nearly so noticeable. I’d show them! Next—Terry Donoghue tackles Chicago.

Shan, Litzukon and Chien Chin Pao to gather at an open field. The statement said the villagers were then ordered to kneel down and continued: “Some of them sensed what was coming and started to flee. The Japanese turned machine guns mercilessly ahd indiscriminately on the crowd of 3,000. Only 130 escaped alive. More than seventy died of wounds received while fleeing. The rest were killed, either by machine guns or by being stabbed to death.” BOY HUNTER KILLED Crown Point Youth Victim of Gun Accident. By United Press CROWN POINT, Ind., Nov. 25. Edward Cramer, 15, Crown Point, a member of the high school basketball team, accidentally killed himself while hunting. His rifle fired while he was dragging it under a fence.

BRITAIN CAN’T PAY, CRY OF NEWSPAPERS Two Powerful English Press Groups Unite in Stand. REVIVE ‘SHYLOCK’ VIEW Forecast Note to U. S. With Reasons for Need of Dec. 15 Delay. BY HERBERT MOORE United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, Nov. 25.—Two of the most important British newspaper groups, controlled by Lord Beaverbrook and Lord Rothermere, united today to declare it impossible. for Great Britain to pay her $95,000,000 debt installment, due the United States Dec. 15. At the same time, it was believed in many reliable quarters that the present British strategy has as its major purpose the procuring of the most generous terms possible, if and when readjustment of war debts eventually is considered. Although American rejection of the plea for postponement brought general disappointment, it was considered reasonable that the British government privately had not anticipated this rejection at the very time the postponement was requested. ‘Uncle Shylock’ Again At any rate, the American reply to the postponement request was, it was considered here, to emphasize the weight of Britain's burden compared with that of France and Italy. Although there were a few references to “Uncle Shylock,” the most influential newspapers warned that the present situation was liable to force Britain to the heaviest sacrifices, considered equivalent to an increase of the income tax of 2*i per cent. The Star, Liberal afternoon newspaper, offered one of the first instances of the Liberal press turning to the “Shylock idea” regarding war debt. The Star had a twocolumn cartoon on the front page depicting Shylock in a skull cap, pointing to a scowling Uncle Sam covetuosly clutching a huge bag of war debts. Debts, Arms Link Periled BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Scripps-Howard Foreign Editor WASHINGTON, Nov. 25.—Unless world events force President-Elect Franklin D. Roosevelt to change his mind within the next few months, all hope of directly linking up war debts with disarmament and world economic reform is doomed. The disarmament conference begins its last desperate attempt to get somewhere in about sixty days. The world economic conference is expected to begin sitting about the same time. But, under the Roosevelt plan of dealing with war debts, it is feared, many months must pass before there can be appreciable headway. The Roosevelt method, of course, does not preclude a certain connection between the three problems mentioned. The United States can lay down the broad principle that without arms reduction, trade and other economic benefits to this country there will be no war debts reduction, but the connection necessarily will be far less immediate than under the Hoover proposals. Three Essential Features The Roosevelt plan, it is pointed out, contains three essential features: 1. Separate negotiations with each nation. 2. Through the ordinary diplomatic channels. 3. Capacity of the debtor nations to pay. Thus, should British and American diplomats in Washington and London, after long-drawn out discussions, decide that Britain’s capacity to pay make it imperative to reduce her debt by one-half, it is asked, would the United States then tell Britain to trim her navy by one-half or one-third in order to get the reduction? ’ This, it is urged, not only would be illogical but dictatorial. If Britain can only pay one-half she can only pay one-half. If she spent less on her navy she obviously might pay more to the United States. Only Congress Can Change Deal But, she would argue, she can not and will not reduce her navy, unless the whole world agrees to arms reduction. And that requires long and tedious international consultation. The President and the state department, as Roosevelt observes, have full authority to negotiate with foreign powers. But only congress can alter the dotting of a single “j” or the crossing of a single “t” of the existing war debts agreement. Thus, by the time anew war debts deal was concluded, and the new deal had been submitted to congress and keyed, the disarmament parley and the world economic conference would have folded up and departed or else gone on the rocks. France in Doubt By United Press PARIS, Nov. 25.—Whether France will meet Dec. 15 debt payment to Washington was in doubt today. Contrary to Washington rumors that France had decided to pay. Premier Edouard Herriot told the United Press the decision will not be made until early next week.