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SATURDAY, APRIL 8 1933. AN IMPORTANT UNDERTAKING TANARUS) RESIDENT ROOSEVELTS preparations A for attack on our foreign problems are necessary to support his partial victories on the domestic front. No amount of artificial emergency farm relief, unemployment relief, railroad relief and business relief long will sustain our economic structure unless our foreign markets can be revived. Our entire productive machine is geared to produce a surplus. Unless we can dispose of that surplus abroad it will pile up and smother as—just as it did in the beginning of this depression. The alternatives are to scrap much of our productive machinery or co-operate with other nations for restoration of world trade. We are dealing not only with an American depression, but with a world depression, and we shall not climb very far unless oher nations go with us. This is the hard reality which necessitates the series of pensonal conferences which the President now is arranging with the heads of other foreign governments or their special representatives. Following Mr. Roosevelt's conversations in Washington with Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald of Great Britain, the latter part of this month, he will confer separately w ith spokesmen of France, Italy, Germany and other countries. The range of problems for discussion includes political, military, trade and monetary questions, along with war debts. Though a reconciliation of the political and territorial friction, which Prime Minister MacDonald explored on his recent visits to Rome and Paris, is in a sense basic to any general economic accord, there is very little that the United States can or should do with the distinctly foreign political problems. The President can do little more than encourage the foreign governments to make their own political adjustments, meanwhile making clear that the United States will not participate in any so-called security pacts for Europe. But on the other questions, the President doubtless will assume the leadership which is inherent in America's position as the world’s largest commercial and largest creditor. That there must be a virtual cancellation of war debts, however sugar-coated the process, generally is admitted. But it would be absurd to attempt world rehabilitation through lifting the debt burden, without at the same time lifting the niUch larger burdens of armament waste and of tariff and other trade barriers. All these depressive factors are part of an interrelated world situation, and therefore must be dealt with together—actually, if not formally. No job undertaken by the President during his administration will be more important than his efTort, to bring international order and co-operation out of the present chaos of competitive tariffs and armaments. GIVE HIM A MEDAL cp'HE President has been asked to cut army expense. The appeal is not from a pacifist. It comes from Major-General Johnson Hagood. commander of the Eighth corps area. He is not only one of the highest ranking officers in the army, but one of the most respected. In charging the army with extravagance, the general says: ••It needs close trimming to make it fit the pocketbook of the man without a job. It takes $300,000,000 to run the army under its present organization. We can get a better organization for less. . . . “So far as the army is concerned, we have too many bureaus and we could spare six or eight of them, with advantage to the national defense and to the joy of the taxpayer. “There is no duplication between army and navy. But there is duplication within the army, and it is to be hoped that the President, with his extraordinary power, will be able to accomplish consolidation and simplification within the army itself that could not have been accomplished with the complicated machinery set up by congress. . . . “I have twice as many staff officers, clerks and orderlies as I need, but I can not get rid of them under the existing set-up.’’ General Hagood is a brave officer, indeed. For a soldier to attack the army's inefficiency, or to propose smaller expenditures instead of larger, requires more courage than storming an enemy stronghold. We hope he is not shot for treason to the bureaucracy. The general's demand is from a military expert. The civilian budget experts can add to the general's indictment of army expenses by showing that the army gets more than its share of the total federal budget and that it has not taken us fair share of economy cuts. The army and the navy each get about 8 per cent of the total federal expenditure, compared with the agriculture department's 3.15 per cent, interior department 1.54 per cent, justice department 1.19 per cent, commerce department 1 per cent, labor department .35 per cent and state department .34 per cent. In the federal personnel and salary reductions for the period 1932-34. the cut in total military pay rolls was only $9,257,829. or 4 per cent, compared with a decrease in the civilian services of $53,379,087. or 10 per cent; in personnel the military cut was 1.247. or .4 per cent, compared with the civilian decrease of 83.223. or 17 per cent. Every person familiar with the federal budget knows that, while many small economies are possible, only two large cuts can be made. One is the veteran appropriation—which President Roosevelt with great political i and wisdom is reducing by $400,000,-

000. The other is the military-naval expenditure. With the federal government during the last two and one-half years running a deficit of nearly five billion dollars, with the government now in debt more than twenty billion dollars, and many more billions of necessary bond issues in the offing, the groaning taxpayer will welcome the President's anticipated army expense cut in the name of economy and efficiency. A HISTORIC MONTH (From the Monthly Survey of Business of the American Federation of Labor) A T times in a nation's history, years of progress are collapsed in a few months. The present is such a time. Our people have been rudely brought to face realities in the last month and have seen that fundamental changes are needed. Lasting progress can be made. The President's forceful leadership gives opportunity to accomplish much. Emergency measures came first, but more basic adjustments are now beginning. The bank crisis was a severe shock to business. It increased unemployment, reduced buying power, brought business to new low levels. Even three weeks after the crisis, dominating forces still are deflationary. Reliable business forecasters state that business still is on a downward trend, with no immediate improvement in sight. This downward trend is our worst enemy. Government examination has re-established confidence in the 13,000 banks that are open, but unless we check deflation at once they soon will be threatened again with shrinking assets. Stock prices have declined 10 per cent in the last two weeks (to March 29). The only way we can reverse the downtrend is to get back to work producing goods and employing men. If we act at once, while 70 per cent of our banks are still sound and railroads and insurance companies still can be saved, we can pull out of depression. Time is an essential factor. It is not an exaggeration to say that every day lost makes the task of reconstruction harder, for every day more mortgages and debts are defaulting, more men are thrown out of work, national income declines still further. After the banks, the railroads and insurance companies are threatened, and even the tax resources of the government dry up when income is cut away. Those who believe that affairs can be left to take their natural course dare not forget that the “natural course’’ now Is the course of destruction. This can be reversed only by direct government action to start' production of wealth again. To pay off debts, we must have income; to raise prices, we must have income and buying power; to pay taxes to the government, we must have income. Yet for three years the government has followed a policy of giving out relief, and taking no measures to start the production which alone can create new funds and get men back to work. It Is time now to use government credit for direct stimulation of our industries by loans or underwriting on a large scale. WHAT CHILDREN DREAM ABOUT VyHAT do children dream about? * * A Columbia university psychologist, Dr. Arthur T. Jersild, decided not long ago to find out. So he interviewed some 400 youngsters, asking them about their hopes, their wishes, their dreams and their fears—and he learned some rather surprising things. To begin with, the bulk of childhood's dreams are not happy or pleasant ones. Children reported more unpleasant than pleasant dreams,’’ he says. “Fewer than half, when questioned, expressed a desire to continue to dream.” Furthermore, fear plays a big part in these dreams; and this fear usually ignores such actual dangers as accidents, illness, and the like, and deals with ghosts, corpses, murders, and eerie, darksome places where nameless terrors lie in wait. • The realm of childhood is a queer sort of place; and although all of us have been through it, we nevertheless have a way of misinterpreting it, and our memories of it are not always very accurate. We like to tell ourselves that it is an idyllic and enchanted place. We use such expressions as “carefree as a child” as superlatives; we like to talk of "a child's happy laughter,” and few of us are free from periodic desires to go back to childhood and shed our troubles. Part of the time, of course, childhood really is like that. But there is another side to it, and few people but children realize the fact. For a child is facing a world which is utterly unknown: a world which may contain bright miracles, but which also holds plenty of shadowy corners where practically anything can happen. There is much in it that a child can not hope to understand; it is a world to be explored distrustfully, lest it disclose hurtful things unexpectedly. As we pass out of childhood, we forget about the hobgoblins and remember only the sunny places; we forget that every enchanted land has its ogres as well as its fair princesses. But children know; and we might remember that almost every child wants, very badly, to grow up. THE SUPREME POWER OF SOCIETY IT7E are assuming for the purpose of this * ’ story that you are a holder of fourth Liberty loan bonds in the amount of SIO,OOO. the date of issue being Oct. 24. 1918. We also are assuming that it is your intention, on May 2, 1933. to appear at the treasury in Washington and collect the first half year's interest of $212.50. which becomes due on April 15. The language of the bond reads: “The principal and interest hereof are payable in United States gold coin of the present standard of value.” On May 2, therefore, you show up at the treasury and ask for gold. We are going to assume further that you get it. But if you take it, the same government which issued the bonds and promised to pay you in gold will prosecute you, and you will be subject to imprisonment for ten years and a fine of SIO,OOO, or both. That, under a presidential order just issued, becoming effective May 1. When a city is on fire and it is deemed

necessary to dynamite a building to check the fire, the building is dynamited. For that is an emergency, and therefore the "police power” supersedes all other power. All constitutional limitations about taking property without due process of law are off. When President Roosevelt entered office, an economic emergency was raging. So a long unused law book was dusted off and out came Section 58 of the Act of 1917. Under that act, and without further legislation, it now is made a crime to possess more than SIOO in gold. All this is merely a lesson that citizens have to learn on occasion, in times of stress and danger, that the power of society to act in Its own protection is, in the final analysis, unlimited. ENDING A RACKET A NEW YORK legislator has introduced a bill which would abolish suits to collect damages for breach of promise to marry. It provides that “no court shall entertain any suit with respect to a contract entered into by virtue of mutual promise to marry”; and it would seem that every state in the Union profitably could copy this proposed law. As things stand now, mast breach of promise suits are little better than a legal kind of blackmail. To be sure, the man who promises to marry a girl and then changes his mind inflicts a grave psychic wound; but it is not a wound which money can assuage. The deeper the hurt, the less likely is the person who has been hurt to take the affair into court. That, mo6t of the time, is left for the racketeer. Society as a whole would be better off if this racket were abolished. FORSAKING AN EARLDOM r 1 ''HE eleventh earl of Egmont, who holds •*- one of the most distinguished titles in Great Britain, has decided that being an earl isn’t nearly as much fun as being a Canadian rancher. So the ancestral estates of Egmont are up for sale, and the above-mentioned earl is back on a ranch at Pridis, in the province of Alberta, where he wants to be. The earl was brought up on the ranch, in the days before his father had succeeded to the title. When he was taken to England, on his father's accession to the earldom, he found that being a member of England's nobility wasn’t all that it had been cracked up to be. He wanted to get back to western Canada, to his ranch and the open country; and when his father died, and he himself became the earl, he promptly did so, marrying a Canadian girl who had been working as a dentist's assistant in Calgary. And most of us, no doubt, will feel that the young man has been eminently sensible. Between an English earldom and a ranch in Canada’s northwest—who would hesitate in making his choice? Magazine runs a story on “How to Lay Out a Baseball Diamond.” Most fans are more interested, however, in how to lay out an umpire. Burglars broke into a department store, but stole nothing but a dummy from a window. Probably just trying to make up a fourth at bridge. Judge complains that many modern novels are an incentive to violent crime. Maybe that’s ‘ why so many of our novelists live abroad. Remember the old days when a public relations counsel was just a press agent, and a tonsorlal expert was just a barber? And a conservator was just a receiver? A share of stock in hand is worth two in a holding corporation.

M.E.TracySays:

BUSINESS can not be said to have improved much thus far, but there are signs. The most reliable of all these signs is anew note of confidence. For the first time since 1929, people believe that times are going to be better, and they believe this to such extent that they are willing to take a chance. A few effective measures recommended by President Roosevelt and passed by congress have served to turn the psychological tide. The idea that this country could no nothing for itself until or unless the whole world had been salvaged gradually is giving place to one of selfconfidence. Faith in American ability and American resources to provide for American needs is reasserting itself. This does not mean a narrow or intolerant outlook, but merely the abandonment of that profoundly stupid notion that the United States could make progress only by hollering for other people to pull It out of the mud. when most of them were bogged down worse than we were. Each government, our own included, must put its own house in order before anything worthwhile can be accomplished toward putting the world in order. n n n THE endless parade of international conferences by which statesmen have tried to solve domestic problems has been a handicap rather than a help, and nothing would do more good than to call it off for a while. The world is in much the same condition as a community struck by a cyclone. That community could not put itself in shape to do business as long as it frittered its time away holding conferences, with each citizen neglecting his own affairs. Ever since the war, and especially since the crash four years ago, governments have shown a tendency to lean on each other and to look for recovery through plans and efforts which put the burden on somebody else. It was all a part of the dumb dream that if society only could be made to do the right thing, no one would have to work or worry. u n n THE good work done by the Roosevelt administration thus far hinges largely on the fact that it has minded its own business from an international standpoint and concentrated on purely domestic problems. It could do no better than go right on with that policy. When our house is in order, and when some other governments have shown some capacity for putting their houses in order, it will be time enough to resume palavering. The Hoover administration failed to right conditions at home because it devoted too much of its time and energy to righting them for the whole world. That simply was too big a contract for any one government to assume, or for all governments to assume, unless they began with the idea of attending to their own affairs first. Foreign trade can not be stimulated except through improvement of domestic trade. It is ridiculous to imagine that the people of a country can do an increased business abroad on decreased buying at home. Such a conception belongs to the category of pitch medicines.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

(Times readers are invited to express their views in these, columns. Make your letters short, so all can have a chance. Limit them to 250 words or less.) By Times Subscriber. News from Germany should stir every church member, no matter of what denomination, to protest and action. The proposal of Dictator Hitler to make the Lutheran church a political organization is one of the most nefarious moves of modern times. There seems to be no limit to the audacious insanity of this fanatic. The campaign is bound to fail, however, for the simple reason that Hitler already is headed for disaster and oblivion. Even the suggestion shows how utterly unfit for rule is Hitler, and the German people will not be long in awakening. By R. C. D. Riotous demonstrations on the occasion of the return of beer will not help the cause of prohibition repeal. The brewers seem to be the only ones able to keep their heads, in the general rejoicing, when they deplore excesses to greet the new brew. Indianapolis seemed to be more moderate than many other cities in welcoming the return of beer and in general it does not seem that the dry.s accumulated much ammunition here, in arguing against the bad effects of legalized beer. The rate at w’hich the beer was sold out in downtown cases shows what the people want. Let there be moderation and the whole pernicious prohibition structure will fall, never to be rebuilt. ... By Traffic Jam. Asa badly badgered motorist, I want to raise my voice in protest against the epidemic of stop and go signs that are being installed by the city. Trying to get across town with one of these lamps blinking at you every other block is a very discouraging process. Several such trips a day, as I make in my business, soon wear out brake linings and causes

Blood Pressure Isn’t Disease, It’s Condition

BLOOD pressure is a condition and not a disease. Every one has some blood pressure, exactly as every one has some temperature—however, not every one has a fever; also, not every one has either high or low blood pressure. It is only when the blood pressure is approximately high in relationship to the general condition of the person concerned, or abnormally low, that it requires medical attention. There are numerous devices for recording the blood pressure accurately. and any competent physician can make measurements.

It used to be thought that a blood pressure of 100 plus the age of the person concerned could be considered a normal blood pressure.

FROM the New York state department of labor comes a terrible indictment of the housewife. “She is,” says the report, “the most unfair employer in the city of New York. Some of these women work their maids nine hours a day. six days a week, paying $25 a month. “They ask 15-year-old girls to take complete charge of a sevenroom apartment and to do the cooking. washing, ironing and cleaning.” This charge, damning though it may be. undoubtedly is based upon truth. The American housewife, whether in New* York City or Podunk. is the world's worst employer. She is concerned with getting her work done for nothing, if possible. But to be fair to ourselves we must seek a reason for such behavior. And the average housewufe in this land has worked for her own room and board at some time, if she still does not do so. The majority of our home women, even in this century, get nothing for their labor except a few clothes and the food they eat. The American farmer’s wife has been known toitoil for twelve hours a day Unoug’ilbe four seasons lor

Is He Coming Out of His Hole at Last?

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Still Intolerant Bv Moderation. The refusal of the W. C. T. U. to co-operate in a temperance movement with the women’s organization opposed to prohibition shows how intolerant the white ribboners have become. Temperance is a misnomer as applied to their group. They are passing up a great opportunity for good and should take heed of the example of England, where real temperance is being achieved, without any attempt by law to mold the morals of the people. Let the W. C. T. U. awaken or change its name. any conscientious motorist to have the jitters. Take Sixteenth street. It looks like a forest of stop and go signals.

Questions and Answers

Q—Describe the grayfish. Have they any commercial value? A—The grayfish. or pollack, also called “coal fish” or “green cod,” is about three feet long, weighs about twenty-five pounds and is distinguished by its greenish brown color and projecting jaw. It has commercial value, not only for its flesh, but for the oil in its liver. Q—What is the highest salary ever paid to a professional baseball player? A—Eighty thousand dollars a year, paid to Babe Ruth by the New York Wankees’ for the seasons of 1930-1931. Q—Name the composer of the old waltz “Over the Waves” and state how much he received for it. A—Juvenita Rosas, a Mexican, was the composer and he dedicated it to the woman with

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hveeia, the Health Maeazine. It is coming to be thought that a more accurate standard will be 100 plue one-half the age for the systolic pressure, and 75 plus one-fourth of the age for the diastolic pressure. These figures are, of course, somewhat low, whereas the former standards were probably somewhat high. In general, it is thought that a variation of 15 above or below these figures is within reasonable limits for the systolic pressure and 10 above or below for the diastolic pressure. Now Dr. Maurice Campbell points out that variatioas of 15 per cent in weight, height or intellectual capacity are not extraordinary.

BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

a sum as small as $5 annually for pocket money and that she spent on her children. n n n YOU cant expect brilliant economic reasoning from a class that has never shared in

So They Say

Calling an act of aggression selfdefense does not make it so.—Dr. George H. Blakeslee of Clark university. For three long years the federal government has been on the road toward bankruptcy. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Italy’s industry has found tranquility in discipline that is indispensable for productive activity.— Senator Giovanni Agnelli of Italy. A business improvement would change overnight the problem of the government deficit.—Dr. Sumner H. Slicixter of Harvard.

The heavy traffic traveling north and south must halt for long periods to give way to the east and west traffic, which usually is very little, if any. It is proverbial that the smaller the town, the more stop and go signs according to population. Indianapolis should grow up. By N. B. What has become of our estimable police chief’s proposed ordinance to prevent all-night parking, by prohibiting parking in the residential section longer than four hours at any one time? Could it be that one of his own flatfeet has tipped him off that such an ordinance, limiting parking to six hours, already is on the statute books and has been for many years? This ordinance, if properly enforced, which it never has been and probably never will be, would take care of the situation of which Chief Morrissey complains.

whom he was in love. It was first written in Spanish under the title “Sobre Las Olas.” Rosas received less than SSO for it. Q—How many banks suspended in 1932? A—Complete figures are not yet available, but preliminary totals give the number as 1,453. Q —What is fiat money, and is it issued in the United States? A—lt is paper money which is made legal tender without gold or silver or any security, except the credit of the nation back of it. The United States treasury has no authority to issue fiat money under existing laws. Q —Name the Italian minister of finance who immediately preceded Mussolini in 1922? A—Signor Giambattista Bertone of the Popular party.

Incidentally, a series of determinations of blood pressure showed the lowest average figures in a series of prisoners in an American prison. Presumably they lead a life without strain or tension, and this is reflected in their blood pressure. In fact, the blood pressure of the wardens and guards was on an average above that of the prisoners. When the systolic pressure is low compared with the diastolic, the likelihood of heart failure is more probable. A gradual increase in blood pressure is more important at the ages of 40 to 49 than at other periods of life, and certainly much more serious than arises in older persons.

economic profits. Most of these women were reared in the tradition that the wife, the mother, the home maker, the person who cleans and dusts and cooks and washes and irons and scrubs and sews, and is supposed to raise an excellent family between whiles, shall receive for all this no regular stipulated wage. A good many of them, after years of arduous toil, end their lives in charitable institutions or depend upon the generosity of their children. They have not received a square deal at the hands of the state. Quite literally they 4 too, have worked for nothing. And as they have received, so they give. No woman, I long have contended. should be considered fit to run a home until she has had some experience in the business world, until she has earned money and knot's the value of labor. Otherwise, she never will develop a social sense. There is one credit for the cruel housewives, however. They may be living off unpaid labor, but they are piling up profits from that source like certain sweatshop owners.

-APRIL 8, 1933

It Seems to Me = BY JOE WILLIAMS = (Ratting for Hevwood Broun)

NEW YORK, April B.—Speed is one thing. Safety another. In these Garganuan sky-liners, it. seems, you never can be sure of either. This being so. you are disposed to inquire, “Why keep on building them?” Not so many hours ago the "safest airship ever built" snapped like a dry twig, plunged into the sea. and carried seventy-three men to a watery tomb. You are told such sacrifices of life are necessary to progress, ’hat even the birth of the horse car was not completely free from tragedy, that exploration and the black angel ride tandem mast of the way. Even so. when the empress of the ether, by all accounts the most substantial lighter-than-air ship ever conceived, is reduced to the helplessness of a flimsy toy in what appears to have been a rather common electrical storm, it mav not be altogether irrational to ask. “What price progress?" There doesn't seem to be any 4>gical reason for pressing the development of the dirigible. At. best, they do not generate a much greater speed than our top notch railroad trains, and people who fly, do so mainly because they want to change miles to squares and hours to minutes. nun Air-Stuffed Dinosaurs T‘HE gallant Rear Admiral Moffett who went down with the Akron was rapturous in his optimism that these moving vans of the clouds would in time enable America to establish new commercial contacts in hitherto inaccessible countries. The admiral's optimism was genuine and so was his sincerity, but the picture he painted was too vsionary to provoke any immediate excitement, and besides there was always the Russian market, a robust reality, beckoning the American merchant. An old-fashioned sea barge was all you needed to get there with, too. Os all modern miracles, I think the dirigible has interested the average citizen the least. The prospect of carrying tons of freight through the skies always has been too remote for his consideration—as if there were any such things as tons of freight to carry these days, anyhow. n tt tt It's Sure to Come NO doubt the Graf Zeppelin in its more than 250 flights has contributed a great deal that is worth while and important to aviational science, but I regret to admit that in many parlor circles I find Its chief claim to distinction lies in the fact that it produced a new species of stamp for the collectors. Os course, aviation is going forward, surely and steadily. Perhaps in another generation it will be the accepted mode of world-wide transportation. The question is, what form will it ultimately take? I have ridden in dirigibles and in airplanes. I greatly prefer the latter because of their superior speed and in addition they seem to be safe enough. According to statistics compiled by the aeronautics branch of the de-* partment of commerce only one death occurs every 224,909 miles flown. It seems to me that this is less hazardous than trying to crash the Bronx express at 5:30 p. m. And it’s much more pleasant. an tt Tenement and Sin A LONG stretch of old tenements °n the east side are to be torn down. They are to be replaced by trim, modern apartments, inexpensively tariffed. “This is a fine thing for New York,” the earnest sociologists say. “The new deal in hous- * ing will help eliminate disease and crime.” It is elemental that foul buildings, poor ventilation and assorted filth add little to longevity, but the belief that ignoble surroundings invariably breed immorality and desperate characters is sheer fiction. But the sidewalks of New York's tenement districts are going to remain pretty much the same in the matter of human beings. They will be the same sidewalks that produced A1 Smith, greatest liberal of his time, one of our finest statesmen and an esteemed candidate for the presidency of the United States Irving Berlin, penniless youngster with an emotional soul who blazed anew trail in popular music and married into one of America’s aristocratic families Gene Tunney of the docks, flatchested Irisher who came on to demolish the most popular fighter of modern times and win the heavyweight championship of the world, an intimate of Shaw, a Shakespearean addict, a millionaire And these same sidewalks probably will go on spawning their inevitable quota of Gyp the Bloods, Leftie Louies. Kid Droppers, and Monk Eastmans. The Smiths, the Berlins, and the Tunneys will continue to flourish. So will their less saintly neighbors. But the southern exposure and the modern plumbing of the new apartments won t have much to do with the final score. It takes more than an architect’s blueprint to mold a life in New York or Ashtabula. (CopvrlEht. 1933. by The Times)

The Crabman

BY ADA B. CROZIER Up from the wharf, Out of the fog, Came the lagging beat, Os shuffling feet; Came the droning drawl, Os the darkey’s call—- " Crabs today, crabs today. Fresh young crabs, From Chesapeake Bay.” Up from the wharf. And through the fog—- “ Get back you debil! Get in dat tray! Leggo my ear 1 Leggo I say— Crabs today, Crabs today.” Down the street Into the fog. Went the lagging beat, Os shuffling feet. Went the droning drawl, Os a darkey's call—- “ Hard shell crabs, Soft shell crabs"—