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THURSDAY. MAY 4, 1933. TARIFF TRUCE A T home and abroad the Roosevelt administration is making its fight against tariffs and other trade barriers. Secretary of State Hull, whose long congressional career was a struggle against high tariffs, has carried this battle into the United States Chamber of Commerce. He warned the chamber convention this week to “fear the policy of extreme isolation as the greatest danger to world peace and as more seriously threatening the world with bankruptcy than war itself.’’ On the foreign front, the administration has proposed a tariff truce pending outcome of the world monetary and economic conference meeting next month. Unfortunately, other governments are not co-operating as thoroughly as they might. Perhaps we should not be too harsh in our Judgment of the others, since it was we who infected mast of them with the high tariff disease. Many of the foreign tariff walls were built in self-protection and retaliation against our declarations of economic war during past administrations. After making such allowances, howeyer, it still is somewhat difficult to understand British and French policies, for instance. In accepting the President’s tariff truce proposal, France has attached reservations. And Great Britain has rushed through a trade agreement with Argentina which appears to contain all kinds of jokers aimed to destroy United States trade. Under ordinary circumstances, no one would be surprised by these evidences of trade war. But they occur immediately after Prime Minister MacDonald has visited the White House to pledge co-operation in an economic peace, something is wrong somewhere. It is all very well to talk in optimistic generalities about the anticipated success of the world monetary and economic conference. But if the nations are not even willing to respect an armistice, what is the use of holding a peace conference? That applies not only to the British trade maneuvers, but also to Great Britain’s efforts to control the foreign price of the dollar at a level harmful to the United States. Too many international conferences in the past have made conditions worse rather than better, precisely because of the various governments' scramble for advantage. If the next six weeks are to be used by the governments to increase monetary chaas and to erect more trade barriers, the world monetary and economic conference will fail. Acceptance and observance of the Roosevelt truce is essential to the conference's success. WINNING TIIE PULITZER PRIZE (From the New York World-Telegram) 'T'HE World-Telegram is doubly proud of the honor that comes to it in the award of the Pulitzer prize “for the most disinterested and meritorious public service rendered by an American newspaper during the year 1932.’’ Our pride is double in the sense that we feel the fighting traditions of tw T o great newspaper groups are honored and encouraged by the award. For the merging of the Telegram with the World and the Evening World in 1931 brought together the crusading journalism of two famous newspaper founders—E. W. Scripps and Jaseph Pulitzer. Both these founders were born fighters. Both believed a newspaper should not be content with merely printing the news, but also constantly should attack injustice, expose wrongs, be a militant leader in the cause of a truly progressive democracy. Both imbued their newspapers with this active faith and purpose. So highly did the elder Joseph Pulitzer rate militant public service among the functions of a newspaper that he put this award at the top of his prize list. The World won it in 1922 for exposing the operations of the Ku-Klux Klan, and again in 1924 for the exposure of the Florida peonage evil. The Evening World won it in 1929 for its campaign to correct certain evils in the adm.nistration of justice in New York City. The Indianapolis Times, a Scripps-Howard newspaper. won it in 1928 for exposing political corruption in Indiana. The World-Telegram now wins this prize •‘for its articles on veterans’ relief, on the real estate bond evil, its campaign urging voters in the last New York municipal election to ’write in’ the name of Joseph V. McKee and its articles exposing the lottery schemes of various fraternal organizations.” “We take additional pride in the number and diversity of the services thus listed by the Columbia university trustees in the award. Just after the merger which created the World-Telegram, Roy W. Howard, in defining this newspaper's policy, said: “It is obvious that the need for independent editorial utterance and effort never was greater in the days of E. W. Scripps and Joseph Pulitzer Sr. than it is today. “Injustice, corruption, ar.d greed challenge the efficacy of our social structure as boldly today as at any other time in our history.” To carry forward its twofold journalistic heritage' and tradition was. the World-Tele-gram’s first pledge to its readers. The Columbia School of Journalism award encourages us to believe we have not' been false to that pledge and that we are on the right track for the future. We shall strive to keep up and even better the pace.

WASHINGTON OF 1933

'P’ORREST DAVIS points out that as the Revolution of 1776 shifted power from England to the colonies, so today we are in the midst of another American revolution by which power is being shifted from Wall Street to the government at Washington, bringing business, for the first time in our history, under real government control. In this revolution of 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt may play the role of a second Washington. Washington declined to follow the European tradition, but established an American one. He refused the crown. He did not exploit his military victories for the Revolution by seizing irresponsible power and royal grandeur as Napoleon later did in France. Roosevelt, genuine Democrat that he is, may create a tradition no less important than that established by Washington. As Washington set America clearly apart and ahead of Europe, so may Roosevelt. The kind of ‘ ‘dictatorship” upon which Roasevelt has embarked is not the denial, but the fulfillment, of democracy. The people are strong and powerful only as their government is strong and powerful. To fear that a people's government may be too strong is to fear that the people will be too strong—and that is just what some reactionaries, objecting to the Roosevelt “dictatorship,” do fear. With expansion of the activities and powers of government in the regulation and even operation of business and industry, free speech, free press, the right of criticism, and responsibility of the government of an effective electorate at free elections is more necessary than it ever was when government's effect on the life of its citizens was small. With these correctives, “dictatorship” can become efficient government; without them it would degenerate into inefficient bureaucracy and we would decay. Americans are superficial indeed, who, observing how dictatorship in Russia, Italy and Germany has resulted in the collapse of democracy in those countries, conclude that the strengthening of government in this country must be followed by a similar result. They fail to see that in those countries democracy never had taken deep root, much less matured, as it has in America. When the city manager movement came to give American cities effective, strong, centralized government, its reactionary critics cried that it meant the end of rule of the people. Experience has proved that, instead of the end l , it was the beginning of genuine people’s rule. So in the much larger sphere of federal government, we look to President Roosevelt to prove that the exercise of vast powers by the nation's chosen chief not only is splendid for the people, but, more truly than ever before, of them and by them. WITHOUT POORIIOUSES FOR the aged and friendless poor, there used to be only one road to take. That was the road Over the Hill to the Poorhouse. Today, thanks to an able and persistent campaign by labor and social workers, that way of sorrow is closed in half the states of the Union. A report by the American Association for Old Age Security reveals; Since January, eight states have joined the pension parade. In all, twenty-four states, covering 42 per cent of the nation’s population, have adopted pension laws. In eighteen of these states the laws are mandatory upon the counties. This month Ohio may adopt the pension system, and thus a majority of states will have built for their aged poor new and pleasanter highways toward the setting sun. Although half the states have acted, the problem of old age security, unhappily, is not half solved. Normally there are 6,000,000 Americans past 65, of whom fully 1,500,000 are dependent upon charity. If all pension states provided security for their aged poor, 65 years and over, the beneficiaries would total only 630,000. The 870,000 destitute old folks in non-pension states still must tread the thorny road. Asa matter of fact, most of the pension states provide only for those past 70. Furthermore, since it is in the less progressive states that the majority of the needy aged live, the fight in these states will be harder. Federal aid can win quick and complete pension victory. The Dill-Connery bill for government aid to states on a 50-50 basis would bring all states under the pension principle, and set a uniform age limit at 65. It would cost the government less than $50,000,000 a year. Some day the wealthy United States will guarantee economic security to all its citizens. Since old age pensions are cheaper than poorhouses. and since we long have accepted responsibility for care of the aged poor, the wisdom of the federal aid law is clear. Especially, since the progressive states have met the government halfway. DISCONTENT FINDS EXPRESSION I ’HE fight at Washington over the recovery -I- program is getting a pretty loud accompaniment back home these days. This accompaniment, which was almost too soft to be heard a short time ago, is rumbling louder now, and no one can form an intelligent opinion about the doings at Washington without taking this swelling rumble into account. For the things that are being argued at Washington—inflation, devaluation, a minimum wage law, mortgage relief, public works bond issues and all the rest—are not taking shape in a vacuum. They can not be judged in the cloistered calm of an academy. They must be outlined against their background, and if that background daily is growing darker and more ominous, it simply means that it must be one of the determining factors in the decisions that are made. Look at the background and what do you see? You see a group of lowa farmers—and lowa farmers, ordinarily, are the most peaceable and law-abiding folk in the land—coming within a hairsbreadth of hanging a judge, forcing twenty-two deputy sheriffs to kiss the American flag, and raising so much hell generally that 400 soldiers have to come out on the double-quick. "iou see a flock of deputy sheriffs hurrying through the hills of Pennsylvania to keep , other farmers from taking the law into their own hands. \ou see farmers’ representatives preparing to convene to plan for a nation-wide strike in which, to quote one of their officials, farmers

will “buy nothing, sell nothing, and pay nothing.” You see thousands of school teachers parading the streets of Chicago with such angry vehemence that police have to club them back into line—teachers who have been paid irregularly for five years and not at* all for seven months. You see 4,000 ex-service men arriving in Washington as the advance guard of what' they say will be a group of half a million men to demand a cash bonus to relieve their distress. And, lastly, you find witnesses and members of congress openly discussing before a congressional committee the possibility of revolution in the United States. That:, then, is the background for the discussions at Washington. In front of that background, nice theoretical arguments about the advisability of this or the practicability of that become futile. One fact emerges, too big and robust to be overlooked; Something must be done, It must be done very soon, and it must be something drastic, far reaching, bold, and determined. If we are not to have inflation, minimum wage laws, vast public works programs and so on, we must have something else and the men who oppose those things must offer some pretty concrete suggestions. Furthermore they must offer them quickly. “WE WANT MOONEY” TN San Francisco, Judge Ward has postponed A Tom Mooney's second trial until May 22 on the ground that pro-Mooney demonstrators in the plaza across from the Hall of Justice made a fair trial impossible. They were shouting: “We want Mooney!” Judge Ward said he would postpone the trial to give “the feelings of some persons a chance to cool off.” Doubtless the judge was right. But what about the first trial in 1916? Then virtually a whole city, whipped to fury against the defendant, was shouting: “We want Mooney!” And they got him. Two presidential commissions have commented on the air poisoned by mass hate in which Mooney first was tried. Said the Wilson commission in 1918: “An attitude of passion was stimulated by all the arts of modern journalism. It is not surprising, then, that Billings and Mooney were tried in an impregnating atmosphere of guilt.” Said the Hoover Wickersham commission in 1931: ‘lmmediately after the arrests of the defendants, there commenced a deliberate attempt to arouse public prejudice against them, by a series of almost daily interviews given to the press by prosecuting officials. “The prejudice against the defendants, stimulated by newspaper publicity, further was appealed to at the trials by unfair and intemperate arguments to the jury.” Those who mobbed justice in 1916 called for Mooneys blood. The demonstrators of last week cried for his liberation. The years at least have brought that change. News note says Buckingham palace has forty bedrooms. But somehow most of the international guests seem to go to the White House. Lady writes to a health column and protests that she can’t sleep after day breaks; has to pull the shades and cover her eyes with a towel. Another thing to do would be to get up and go to work. Huey Long won’t let Louisiana send an exhibit to the Century of Progress. Maybe he’s figuring on going himself.

M.E.TracySays:

TJUYING power is not wholly a matter of cash AJ or income. A good deal depends on individual attitude and prevailing custom. Many people are discovering that they can get along without a lot of things which they once regarded as essential. It is to be feared that some are discovering that they can get along without work. Three years of depression have made all of us a little cautious. The idea of putting something aside for the proverbial rainy day never was more popular than it is right now." Os equal if not greater importance is the growing belief that the present setup precludes the possibility that people, especially young people, can do very much by or for themselves. The time has ceased, they are told, when a young man or young woman can meet the economic problem alone. A waiting posture is the logical result, with incalculable numbers thoroughly sold on the theory that they can do little to help themselves or anybody else until the signs are right in high places. Lack of ambition to achieve on one’s own account has a direct bearing on what to buy and whether it should be bought now. a a a EVEN if work and wages of the 1928 level were restored, it probably would be a long time before the buying power of that boom period returned. There are grounds for arguing that it never would return and that we‘only would be headed for another depression if it did. which implies that a certain degree of readjustment is in order. In the first place, a saving mood or, if you prefer, a hoarding mood, has come to be quite fashionable. In the second some of our major industries have been affected permanently by introduction of substitutes. Coal, for instance, gradually is succumbing to oil. while the steel market has suffered a definite loss through the decline of railroads. The railroad decline has been brought about by the automotive vehicle, hard-surfaced highway, pipeline, water transport and superpower plant. No matter what happens, we shall not reestablish our industrial system as it was before the slump, and our buying power will not follow the same channels. a a a TF anything, we probably are due for even more revolutionary inventions and innovations. The very strain of the situation is forcing our ingenuity to seek new outlets for capital and labor, new appliances with which to open up new markets, and new enterprises with which to absorb the surplus energy. It goes without saying that work must be provided and price ana wage levels lifted. Under existing conditions, we are not able to pay our wav. much less promote new ventures. W'hether we should begin by arbitrarily cheapening the dollar, the dollar must be cheapened in comparison to labor and commodity values before we can make any real start toward recovery. The load of debt only is not driving us toward bankruptcy, but is creating a frame of mind which is ready to play safe at any cost. Such a frame of mind does not lend itself to buying power, except where the veriest necessities are concerned.

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 Tillman .1. Bough. I read with appreciation your recent editorial concerning the spirit in which the ex-service men had accepted the economy program as sponsored by our President. The writer of said editorial followed very closely the trend of thought of our legion national commander, Louis Johnson, when he pledged to the chief executive the support of the million members of the legion in carrying out his program. Commander Johnson has been criticised by many for the statement that he made, but I am sure that those who have heard him discuss the matter have no doubt as to his loyalty to the legion and his desire to co-operate and serve his country along with his million buddies, in time of peace as they did in war. In following out the recommendation of our national commander, I would like to call attention to the readers of The Times and those in authority a recent recommendation of the President, when he asked that the appropriation for the widows of Senators Howell and "Walsh be reduced from SIO,OOO to $9,000. Frankly speaking, I am unable to understand this method of economy. With all due respect to the late senators, and we do respect them as public servants, I see no reason why they are entitled to this compensation or allowance from our government. If all reports are true, Senator Walsh’s widow had been in this country only a very short time and already had a great deal of money. If economy is so all-important in the administration of our government today, and I believe it is, it does not appear to me that these

THE rise of asepsis (surgical cleanliness) and of anesthesia gave to modern surgery a tremendous impetus. It saves the sight of an eye threatened with glaucoma. It saves life in the presence of tumors of the brain and of the spinal cord, and of new growths elsewhere in the body. *lt restores tissues that have been destroyed by accidents or by warfare, or even unsightly appearances associated with the accidents of birth. In cases in which extraordinary activities of the thyroid gland threaten not only life, but also the functions of other organs, such as the heart, the removal of the thyroid gland yields new life and health. Formerly, surgery in conditions affecting the chest was well nigh inevitably fatal. Today the surgery

WITH a directness that surely must have disturbed their traditional dignity, Amelia Earhart informed the members of the D. A. R. that only those willing to bear arms should advocate armament. Much as the Daughters need this advice, I think there are a great many gentlemen who need it more. For the Daughters, after all, are much better at shaping resolutions than national destinies, whereas the men who encourage them in their belligerent attitude, are as powerfully intrenched in governmental affairs as ever. You will find that the loudest ballyhooer for war always is the fellow who is not likely to shoulder arms. It’s surprising how violently patriotic we can become with somebody else to do the dying. We cherish the sacred traditions, but we cherish them ardently when other blood than ours is spilled to defend them. Therefore, I jfistrusc all flag wav-

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Dank Neglect By Constant Reader I THINK the majority of people who read about the kidnaping of little Peggy McMath in Detroit will be impressed with the fact that there was no check back from the school she was attending as to the legitimacy of the phone call which was supposed to have been from her father. Children in school should be under the protection of the people in charge of the school and it seems to me that a call of this kind should have been questioned,

widows were entitled to any more consideration than any one else. So far as I have been able to learn, Senator Walsh did not have service-connected disability nor did he die in active service of his country. The lowly doughboy who waded the mud and mire and suffered the hardships of war and who forever must carry with him memories of the dead along the trench was forced to pay for his own protection while in service of his country through war risk insurance, for which he paid with his own blood money for the protection he was to receive in case of death. In all fairness, it would seem to me that our high-salaried representatives of our legislative bodies would be able to carry their own protection. If we are going'to practice economy in government, I appeal to every ex-service man and every honest-thinking American citizen to see to it that such expenditures are stopped immediately. DAILY THOUGHT Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding.—Proverbs 3:13. LEARNING is but an adjunct to ourselves, and where we are our learning likewise is.— Skakespeare.

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hvgeia, the Health Magazine.

of the chest has become a specialty within a specialty, one in which a society of considerable numbers, known as the Association of Intrathoracic Surgeons, makes special investigations. Operations are performed in such conditions as tuberculosis, in abscesses of the lungs, in infections of various types, in the presence of foreign bodies in the lung, and similar conditions. Indeed, it is no longer rare for a competent surgeon to open the sac in which the heart beats, to expose the heart and to perform surgical operations upon it. An operation is on record in which a constricted valve of a heart was cut. the heart restored, and the patient lived some time thereafter. In the surgery of the abdomen

BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

ings by assembled conventions, and even more the war cries that issue from editorial offices where the cannon balls somehow seldom falL a a a THE Daughters of the Revolution play their stirring martial muQuestions and Answers Q—What percentage of the games played by Notre Dame football team when Knute Rockne was coach did they win? A—They won 105, lost twelve and tied five. Q —How did Sing Sing gets its name? A —The name of the prison is the same as the previous name of the city in which it is located, which was named for John Sing Sing, a friendly Indian. The city is now called Ossining.'

to the extent of the teacher at least locating some member of the McMath household by telephone before permitting the child to leave the school. According to the news report, the telephone at the McMath residence was disconnected for only ten minutes. Had the call been authentic, any inconvenience caused the parents by a few minutes of waiting surely would have been forgiven. Due to the many kidnapings in the last few years this was rank negligence on the part of some one.

So They Say

The first obligation of the undergraduate is to think without let or hindrance and the first obligation of the professor is to make him do so.—Dean Christian ' Gauss of Princeton university. If I had $5,000 in gold I would defy the government to come and get it. —Senator Borah of Idaho. If w r e have reached the end of railroad competition, we have arrived at the necessity for immediate, complete and direct public control.—George M. Harrison of the Railway Labor Executives’ Association. The world is upside down.—Former Premier Edouard Herriot of France. We may raise the question whether there can be an important Socialist movement in this country so long as the party makes its principal impression on the highbrows and women.—Professor Edward S. Robinson of Yale. I do not think Great Britain owns Canada any more than Canada owns Great Britain.—C. H. Cahan, secretary of state for Canada.

particularly, advances have been startling. Use of the X-Ray for making early diagonses, and better preparation of patients, previous to operation greatly have reduced mortality and increased the percentage of cures of cancer of various organds lying within the abdomen. Operations have been performed for control of repeated ulcers of the stomach and of the intestines, and in many cases one-half to twothirds of the stomach may be removed with complete recovery of the patient. No one understands certainly the real and complete functions of the sijleen, yet it has been found that removal of the spleen in certain blood disorders results in functional recovery of the patient. The gallbladder, an organ possessed by a few animals in addition to man, now is removed when seriously infected or when subject to the growth of stones.

sic under direction of certain male leaders, who direct them skillfully from behind the scenes. And compared to these hidden figures, the ladies are a puny force for discord. They soon would change their tunes to peaceful pipings if the masters gave the signal. It seems to me that women never have done much effective speaking on the subject of war. Rebellious as they may have been in their hearts, they have repeated the formulas fashioned by men for thenundoing. Why, only God knows. When you think of the anguish endured by some woman every nine a child is born, you must be aghast that mpthers heretofore have been so timid about protesting man’s unthinking destruction of life. What we brought forth in supremest agony, they have blown to bits without compunction. When women attain true intellectual freedom, there will be no more wars. For we shall not tolerate them, and our sons will be taught the ethics of peace. y

31 AY 3, 1933

It Seems to Me

BY HEYWOOD BROUN =■-

NEW YORK, May 4.-I do not read with any high degree of regularity the advice of Miss Dorothy Dix to the lovelorn, although I am pretty much that way most of the time myself. I have not found that advice is helpful. In fact, I am all but resigned to the estate of being not a candidate. This was brought to my attention sharply only a few weeks ago in the city of Colon. A young representative of the United Press invited me to accompany him in a walk through what he termed "some of the interesting sections of the town.” As we passed beneath a high casement window, a romantic young woman with a markedly Spanish accent leaned out and cried to me, “Fat papa want to buy a bottle of beer?” I answered with as much dignity as I could muster, “Fat papa does not want to buy a bottle of beer,” and we continued walking. Did Juliet lean down toward Romeo to find out whether he preferred light or dark and was it for a lemon squash that Leander swam the Hellespont? It was not. Fat papa, indeed! a a a Spring in Vienna AND yet I have mulled over the salutation of the young lady in the Panama Canal Zone (just across the American line, of course l , and I have decided that her greeting was definitive. So be it. Still there are memories which, according to the words of a popular song which I can not remember, both “bless and burn.” At least a hundred times within the last month, and certainly ten, I have said to myself, “Now, Broun, don’t be bitter.” Accordingly, I was struck by-the two-column headline over the article of Miss Dix. It said simply and seductively, “Affectionate Displays.” “How jolly!” I thought to myself and turned to read the text, but before I could begin my eye encountered the subhead, which took much of the appeal out of the article. It ran, “Condemns Petting in Public as Vulgar and Says Couple do Not Realize How Ridiculous It Looks.” “Speak for yourself, Miss Dix,” I was minded to say before I tackled the essay. It was a collaboration, I gathered, since the missive was signed “The Perplexed Couples,” which still makes four in spite of some of the higher mathematics introduced by Mr. Noel Coward. a a a Perplexed Couples are two young couples still ▼ ▼ in college,” began the human document, “who have been going together for two years. We are very much in love and intend getting married as soon as our education is completed. “Our trouble is that the parents of both girls object and frown upon all evidence of affection between us, even though they realize that we intend to get married. I This is my candidate for the 1933 non sequitur prize.—Ed. note.] Is there any way of coping with parents w’ho have been married so long that they do not believe in a display of affection, whose own Jives are just a cold companionship? “Do you feel that all affection and devotion should be suppressed before marriage, or do you feel, as we do, that it only strengthens our love and holds us together more permanently?” Now, it seems to me that an answer to this sincere appeal from the heart is simple with the exception o? one difficulty. I can’t quite make out W'hether “Two Perplexed Couples,” totaling four persons in all, insist upon petting simultaneously with four pairs of perplexed parents (eight in toto) constantly in attendance. I would question the validity of the affection if the necessity of such a sizable audience seemed always indicated. My verdict would have been, “Pet all you like, but choose the top of a bus, a crowded motion picture theater or a Sunday afternoon on the beach at Coney Island, where you can be spiritually alone and attract no attention.” a a a Dorothy Grows Strict MISS DIX made no such reply. Instead, she answered sharply: “A cynic once said that there were certain things that were w'orse than immoral. They were bad taste. This is the point of view, doubtless, that is taken by the girls’ parents, as it is by all other sophisticated people, who are not so much shocked as they are disgusted at a public display of affection between engaged couples. “I never see a girl with her head pillowed on a young man’s shoulder in the movies without thinking ol how it hands the multitude a laugh or an acute sensation of nausea.” I think it is highly unpatriotic for Miss Dix to attack in this way an industry which still is in its infancy. What earthly point is there in going to the movies unless somebody's head is to rest on somebody's shoulder? • ■ Get in the mood of the hero and the heroine if you are going to enjoy the picture is my motto, although in the case of “King Kong” I did come away from the theater feeling a little frustrated. But, of course, the best advice that Dorothy Dix or anybody else could give to “Two Perplexed Couples” would be: “Don’t bother to write. It really is your business. “P- S.—Don’t mistake envy for nausea.” (Copyright. 1933, by The Times) The Sculptor BY JOHN THOMPSON I watched his curving fingers mold the clay, Watered him claw and scrape and then caress The body which he built from utter vacantness Into a shaft of honor for his day. What god-like power sometimes must flow Through his pale veins, the power of man To breathe forth breath into a plan To make a perfect body grow. He starts with clay, God starts with clay. He molds, God molds, until the things Which each has imaged, to each clings, One to live, one to decay.