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_ TUESDAY MAY 9 1933. PUBLIC WORKS ’IT|7'ITH the federal budget nearing a bal- ’ * ance, the ways are being cleared in Washington for launching a big public works program. This launching is long overdue. Normally we spend on federal, state, and local public works some $3,000,000,000 a year, or a quarter the amount spent on all construction. Last year this should have been doubled. Instead, It was slashed by a third. In framing the belated project, the administration would be guided by three principles. First, the program should be large enough to prime the pump of private industry. As Senator Wagner says, you can’t prime a pump ■with an eye-dropper. President Roosevelt has warned that his plans will fall short of the huge spending bee demanded by labor and many economists. Probably it will total no more than $3,000,000,000, including R. F. C. loans, under the Wagner bill, to localities for tax-liquidating projects and a federal bond issue. If this much money is quickly and wisely spent, labor need not be alarmed. Contrasted with a year ago, there are other unemployment remedies at work or in the making—inflation, Muscle Shoals, forestation, domestic and international economic agreements. Next, such practicable works should be chosen as will employ the greatest numbers of men at the earliest moment. Millions of Americans can not be asked to subsist on meager doles when it is in the power of the government to give them jobs. Finally, public, as well as private spending should be carried on with a view to the nation’s changing economy. Slum abatement, for instance, stands first as a social mandate. But when we wipe out those blighted areas of America, w r e should recognize the trend of industry away from cities to the suburban and semi-rural regions. Instead of erecting model tenements on the costly sites of the old “lung blocks,’’ we should build workingmen’s homes in the open spaces, with a bit of land around each of them. Where the slums now stand we could create parks, or, perhaps, parking spaces for automobiles and landing fields for planes. Similarly, highways, canals, bridges, and grade crossing works should be built with a view to the railroad problem and the future of our traffic needs. Duplicating of unnecessary public buildings, roads and pork barrel construction should be avoided. Post -depression America will be a far different land from pre-depression America. We can plan our public works to help make it a fairer one. THE PROHIBITION AMENDMENT NEXT to President Roosevelt’s concerted attack upon the depression, the most important event in American public life in the next several months will be the fate of the joint resolution repealing the eighteenth amendment. There are a number of interesting facts and lessons bearing upon repeal which can be drawn from a study of the manner in which the amendment was adopted. This was brought out clearly in an article by M. B. Hamilton on ‘‘Lest We Forget,” in the American Mercury of May, 1923. If we wish to repeal the eighteenth amendment we shall do well to study the methods of the drys in putting it over on the country. War needs then were exploited to the uttermost. President Faunce of Brown university well stated this characteristic appeal when he said that “so long as we continue to pour hundreds of millions of bushels of grain annually into the breweries, it would be hypocritical to talk about patriotism.” General Leonard Wood climbed on the bandwagon by declaring that Kansas had produced “the finest, the cleanest, the healthiest and the most vigorous soldiers in point of endurance that we ever have known. We attribute this to Kansas prohibition. Kansas boys were brought up in clean atmosphere. They started right.” Mr. Hoover, then a great war hero, also Joined the prohibition procession and warmly advocated prohibition as an indispensable aid in worsting the kaiser. The resolution submitting the eighteenth amendment to the states was introduced June, 1917, by Senator Shepard of Texas, one of the drys who never has flopped. It was Jammed through the senate rapidly, with only thirteen hours’ consideration, most of which was devoted solely to a discussion of technicalities. It was passed by a vote of 65 to 20. It went through the house even more rapidly. It Vf&s introduced by Congressman Webb of North Carolina on Dec. 17, at 11 o’clock in the morning and was passed by a vote of 262 to 128 at 6 o'clock that afternoon. Congressman Kelly of Pennsylvania made a typical speech in its behalf, alleging that “it would strike the mightiest blow possible at the Prussian idea.”

The ratification went through speedily. Mississippi ratified it on Jan. 5, 1918, almost immediately after its submission to the states. Nebraska, the thirty-sixth state, ratified it a year later, on Jan. 10, 1912. By March, 1922, every state had ratified it except Connecticut. and Rhode Island. The drys retained their stranglehold on congress down through 1929. when even such hard-boiled war horses as Reed of Pennsylvania, Moses of New Hampshire and Edge of New Jersey voted for the notorious “five-and-ten” act. This was the high water mark of the dry ascendancy. From this time prohibition became first a retreat and then a rout. A crucial item in the disintegration of the dry crusade was the death of Wayne B. Wheeler some years before. No other leader

showed his astuteness or his power to weld the dry crusade into umty. His. successors got to fighting one another, and some helped to discredit the movement. The Wickersham report, despite Mr. Hoover's misinterpretation of its import, was a blow to prohibition among thinking people. Hoover prominently had identified himself with prohibition and his waning prestige helped,to discredit the dry cause. Finally, the depression created a psychology which undermined prohibition in the same way that the psychology of the war period had worked in its behalf. , Even great dry industrialists and financiers deserted the ship and the jig was up. By December, 1932, even the old dry congress had shifted so as to produce a definitely wet majority, and in February, 1933, the real resolution was put through easily. It was adopted in as perftfnctory and matter-of-course a fashion as the resolution to ratify the amendment had been in 1917. The main danger lying ahead of repeal is that the wets will regard their victory as won and fail to follow up their congressional victory by a strenuous campaign for repeal in the several states. Here they -may take a leaf out of the book of the drys and emulate the tactics of the latter during the year 1918. The drys worked to the limit all the opportunities that the war psychology and its slogans afforded them. The wets have been provided with the background for just as es- • fective slogans as the World war heaped upon the drys. “Old Man Depression” has supplanted the kaiser. If the wets are wise, they wall exploit this “break” to the utmost. If they,lie down on the job until prosperity returns, their excellent chances of putting the repeal resolution through the several states will be impaired gravely. AN ARGUMENT FOR INFLATION 'T'HOSE who are converted to inflation and currency depreciation as a major remedy for the depression will get additional assurance from a booklet by Ambrose W. Benkert and Earl Harding on “How to Restore Values,” in which the authors contend that most of the current remedies for the depression will prove inadequate because the economic decline broke upon us: “While the federal budget not only was in balance, but excess revenue was being applied to debt reduction: “While there was no concern as to maintenance of government credit: “While there was no thought as to the ‘soundness’ of our money; “While there was no lack of public confidence: “While there was no shortage of bank credit; “While these were no abnormal bank or business failures paralyzing economic life; “While labor was receiving high wages and there was no general demand to increase laoor’s buying power through higher wages; “While there was no mention of fear undermining business initiative.” In the opinion of Benkert and Harding, the major reason for the depression lies in the disparity between the prices of commodities and raw materials and the price level of essential services, expressed in taxes, interest and maturing debts, rents, transportation costs, and utility rates. The price level of commodities and raw materials is determined primarily by the laws of supply and demand and has dropped to an extremely low point. The price level of many types of goods and of the above essential services, however, which depend upon habit, contract of governmental fixation, still remain at a very high level. The result of this disparity is a complete dislocation of our economic order. The man who produces commodities and raw materials, after meeting the cost of essential services and fixed charges, has no ’surplus to exchange for manufactured goods and other services. Therefore, he has no incentive or capacity to keep his factories going. They drift into idleness, unemployment piles up, trade falls off, and the depression rolls up like a snowball. ,

FIGHTING RACKETEERS Attorney-general homer cumMINGS is reported to be studying the possibility of getting additional legislation under which the department of justice could set to work to abolish racketeering in American cities. Under present laws, about the only way in which federal authorities can bother the racketeers is to prosecute them for failing to pay their income taxes or for interferihg with interstate commerce. It is to be hoped that some code can be devised whereby a straight-out offensive can be undertaken; and it is likewise to be hoped that such offensive will be determined and energetic. In all too many instances, state and city authorities have demonstrated that they either will not or can not make any sort of fight against racketeers. If Uncle Sam can find some way of getting into the fight, more power to his elbow.! EXPERIMENTS IN GOVERNMENT /"'VNE more nation seems to have decided that the rights of the individual count for nothing in the highly organized society of the industrial era. Germany, under a Fascist dictatorship, takes a leaf from Stalin's book and mobilizes labor, takes over labor unions, and prepares to control all the big industries from top to bottom. This scheme, which is nothing less than astounding in its scope, may mark the beginning of anew chapter in the history of human society. The combined parallel and contrast between Fascist Germany and Communist Russia is one of the most interesting sights the world ever has been permitted to watch. Russia, acting by and for the man at the bottom of the ladder, turns an entire nation into one vast productive machine. Germany, whose government seems to represent chiefly the man at the top, does precisely the same thing. Seeking widely divergent goals, these two countries have adopted almost identical vehicles. The development, begun when James Watt put his steam engine on the market, has carried mankind a long way, has brought it

through some curious scenery, and now. at last, seems to have brought it to a great fork in the road. Russia has gone one way, Germany is starting down the other; and the most important question before the race today is whether these are the only two paths available. Must we all follow either Germany or Russia? Must an industrial society, in the very nature of things, crush the last trace of individual freedom and choose between hardboiled Communism or ruthless Fascism? Or is there, by good luck, a third road? The answer depends largely on our own United States. We have started, amid social changes that we hardly have begun to understand, along a tfiird road. We cling to the notion that it is possible to maintain an intricate industrial society without discarding the old ideals of liberty and individual initiative. Our “new deal,” if it is to mean anything, must mean that we now are beginning a stupendous effort to prove that the notion is justified. WASTED EDUCATION ' I "'HAT delegation of college graduates in cap and gown who visited Washington to call attention to the plight of the student who gets a diploma and then finds that there isn’t the shadow of a job for him emphasizes one of the most tragic aspects of the whole depression. All through these difficult years our colleges industriously have been training young men and women for leadership; and whatever the colleges’ shortcomings, they have in the main done a good job and they have had fine material to work with. But these trained and ambitious youngsters have, for the most part, found no chance to exercise their talents. Equipped for leadership, they can’t even be followers. Not least among the wastes caused by the depression is this waste of brain power. FLASKS OR STEINS TN Amherst, Palo Alto, Berkeley, and other college towns, controversies rage over the entrance qualification of Three Point Two. Faculty liberals, jolly sophomores, and others of the Gown make common cause with the Bonifaces of inns and hamburger joints of the town in urging the new brew’s right to matriculate. The drys still cling to the superstition that local option or the mile limit line will keep students sober. ‘ Surely it can’t be argued that the mildmannered little pint bottle of the New Deal is more dangerous to student morals than the hectic hip flask of the late Volstead era. Eighty years ago we had the “Know Nothings. ’ Now we have the “Buy nothing, sell nothing, do nothings.” Two thousand years ago they had a proverb: “From nothing, nothing comes.” Writer says Hitler never has been known to say anything funny in a public speech. Don t know. That business about Germany not being really licked in the war sounds kind of funny to us. Now that the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions has accepted Mrs. Pearl Buck’s .resignation, it is probably just as well. They couldn't very well pass the buck, could they? Most of the money being lost right now is being lost in the minds of people who wish they had socked some into the stock market two weeks ago. Hop shortage threatens, says a news dispatch. Doesn’t seem possible with so many people talking as if they were full of it.

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WHEN the hall had been darkened, Professor Huntress poured certain chemicals into a large glass jar. A bluish white glow was the immediate result. This glow gradually increased until it attained a brightness easily discernible after the lights were turned on. A piece of ice floated in the jar all the while. Thus was a method of producing “cold light" demonstrated by its discoverer, Professor Ernest H. Huntress of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology before members of the northeastern section on the American Chemical Society. Not a man present, Professor Huntress included, knows whether he witnessed just another “interesting experiment,” or was present at the birth of a revolutionary innovation. For a long time scientists have looked upon the advent of “cold light” as inevitable, simply because it is hard to believe that fish, fireflies,and rotten wood can do what men can not. For science the advent of “cold light” would be a triumph, but for the electrical business it would be something else. u a tt TODAY we look upon the nation-wide hookup of wires, dynamos, and lamps as constituting a great social and economic problem. Tomorrow, who knows? Forty years ago the railroads seemed to threaten us with invisible government through their power to control trade channels, agricultural development, and industrial growth. Now we are trying to find ways and means of keeping them from going bankrupt. Who could have foreseen such a change when the first clumsy auto appeared, or tne first oil well blew in About all that we can be sure of is that w r e stand on the threshold of even more remarkable discoveries than yet have been made, and that life would not be half so interesting as it is if we did not. Change is the basis not only of progress, but of hope. If we are here for anything, it is to learn, conquer, and achieve, not to lord it over one another, but to break through the barriers of human ignorance. tt tt tt THE one solid excuse for liberty is that it encourages men to think and experiment. But for that, dictatorship would be a better form of government. j Disciplined action, however, involves suppression of those very faculties which seek new ideas, new forms and new methods. You can't have free science without free speech and a free press. The god of efficiency brooks no rivals. Economic and industrial control eventually would become as cold toward mechanical innovations as toward political opposition and for precisely the same reason. While looking with favor on detailed improvements, efficiency could not and would not stand for discoveries and inventions of a revolutionary character. If this country owned all the electric plants and depended on them for a large share of its revenue, what would its attitude be toward the possibility of “cold light”.?

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(Times renders are invited to express their views in these columns. Make your Utters short, so all can have a chance. Limit them to 250 words or less.) By John E. Bayless This depression? When did it begin and when will it end? It began when time began and flourishes when conditions are favorable to its growth or its promoters can stack the cards, thereby making its growth more rapid at times than at other times. Capitalism is the disease that has been the downfall of every nation of which we have any account. Where are Babylon, Egypt, Carthage, Greece, Rome? Even Palestine went down like all the rest. It is no wonder that Lincoln should make use of the expression, “I see a cloud arising that gives me greater anxiety for the safety of my country than I had in the time of war. Capitalism will seek to assert its reign until the liberties of the people dre well nigh lost.” Capitalism is to the body politic what disease is to the physical body, for both within them the germs of their own destruction if conditions are such that they can develop. So it is very essential that we pay strict attention to the disease with which we are afflicted. Shakespeare well said, “You take my house when you take the prop that sustains it. You take my life when you take the means by which I live.” In 1849, when gold was discovered in California, the standard of money was the silver dollar, weighing 312% grains, but gold was made use of as money in a certain relation to the standard. Capitalism tried to get gold demonetized for fear it would be unable to control the country’s money. In 1862, while the Civil war was being waged, Lincoln directed his treasurer to procure a loan for military expenses. The money trust, when approached, answered, “Every one who is doing anything for the government is getting paid. Even the men in the service are getting

THE best way to prevent summer complaint is to have mothers nurse their babes. If, however, this is impossible the baby must be artificially fed. Artificial feeding can be made perfectly safe if a formula is used suited to the baby, containing the proper proportions of milk and sugar and prepared under proper conditions. The cows’ milk must be pure. It should come from a reliable dairy. Dr. W. McKim Marriott points out that it is better to use the mixed milk from a herd of cows than the milk from a single cow. In making up the feedings all utensils, including pans, spoons, funnels and bottles, should be boiled and allowed to dry without being wiped. A clean ironed towel or cloth should then be placed on the table and the utensils placed on this. The bottles when filled should be

“TF women are going to play X politics,” says an editorial, “they must play in the way of men, the old and general way.” Political systems being what they are, this probably is true, but that we should so accept it is a great pity. For it seems to me that if women can’t bring something different to politics, they may as well not play at all. If they can not instill into their public service what this editor calls their emotionalism and their disposition to partisanship, why not go right on with their knitting? For to * accept his theory is equivalent to saying that our old setup is perfect in arrangement and result. And certainly we have suffered enough from such smugness. Asa whole, men are extreme conservatives. They detest and fear change. No matter how badly their plans may be working, they abhor the idea of disarrangement. It takes a revolution to persuade them

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A Challenge By Lucky. T HAVE heard it said many times that every one has suffered from the depression. I do not agree with that statement. Most people have felt its sting, but I, for one, have not felt it in the least, for which I am very thankful. J[ would like to say a word to Mr. Taxpayer who has had so many comments on his views of the depression. To prove to him that I am not prejddiced, I want him to know I have worked steady for the last eight years and at the present time am drawing a larger pay check than I did in our most prosperous years. I have some real estate, a fine car, and some cash and can have anything my heart desires. I, like so many others, do not agree with you and think that if we get acquainted we might get together and understand you better. And since you are such a brave man, come out from behind the name Taxpayer and sign your name and address and I’ll assure you I will sign mine and we probably can have a good time together. All right, Times readers, let’s see how brave he really is.

sl3 a month and we will have to cnarge some interest.” 1 When asked what interest they wanted they replied “36 per cent.” Lincoln informed them that the interest was too much and that the Constitution gave congress the power to make money and set the value, whereupon Lincoln advised congress to pass an act to make money. The act was passed Feb. 12, 1862, signed by the President, and $60,000 was struck, but in ten days the money trust got a bill through congress. This bill was good for all debts, both public and private, except duties on imports and interest

BY DR, MORRIS FISHBEIN : Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hvgeia. the Health Magazine. covered with rubber caps or stoppered with clean cotton and should be kept in a refrigerator until ready for use. In his article in Hygeia, Dr. Marriott mentioned specifically the usefulness of canned evaporated milk, and of pow r dered dried milk in preparing formulas for babies. Evaporated milk is free from hermful germs, because it has been heated in the process of evaporation. It is only necessary to boil the water to which the evaporated milk is added. However, when the baby’s feeding is being prepared, the evaporated milk should not be taken from a can which has been opened and allowed to stand. A fresh can should be opened for

A Woman’s Viewpoint BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

to alter their business, political, or economic systems. * * a YET the last two months have proved that drastic changes sometimes are necessary. Suppose, for example, that President Roosebelt had continued to abide by the pseudo-sacred conventions of the

Questions and Answers Q —Why did the Confederate flag have thirteen stars when only eleven states seceded from the Union? A—Missouri and Kentucky w r ere represented in the Confederate congress and were claimed by the confederacy although they did not actually secede from the union.

on the public debt, which must be paid in gold. When the bill was presented to the President, he said, “I can not fight two wars at one time,” and signed the bill and it is on all that kind of bills put out by the government since that time. The above act included the provision that this money was to be taken up and bonds given in return, drawing 7.3 per cent interest. As soon as this money with restriction came out; it began to depreciate and one time it required $2.65 to get a gold dollar and the gold was in the hands of the money power. At the close of the Civil war in 1865, Lincoln, in his message to congress, at the beginning of his second term, advisfcd congressmen to let this money circulate until conditions quieted down, but Shylock wanted his pound of flesh.

So They Say

Care for man is the greatest happiness of the German women. But they are more intellectual, even more disputatious than the women of either England or America, and they will gain their ends.—Frau Katherina von Oheim-Kardorff, German feminist leader. It is time that from official quarters our people were awakened to the rapidity with which our national defenses are crumbling.— Louis Johnson, national commander of the American Legion. This is not a perfect life or a perfect church, but we come to you with the perfect ideal and we must press forward toward it.—Bishop Edwin L. Lee of Singapore and Manila. The modem tendency of some women to copy the man pattern in style of clothes and habit is a subject for ridicule.—Mae West, actress.

preparing each new supply of food for the baby. It is important that all water given to babies should be boiled, cooled, and kept in clean receptacles. It is necessary for small babies to have added Vitamin C from orange juice or tomato juice, and added Vitamin D from cod liver oil or from irradiated milk. Among other hot weather hints it is well to remember that the baby should be fed regularly, that it should not be forced to eat when it is not hungry. Babies should not be overclothed. If a baby develops summer complaint, it first is necessary to diminish at once the amount of feeding. Some physicians discontinue feeding entirely for at least half a day and give the baby boiled water before nursing, so that it will take less milk.

Democratic and Republican parties —the old ways of government. Our world now might be in ruins. Be assured also of this: We are as. far today from the political fetishes of the last decade as we are from the feudal system. The old ways would not work in March, 1933. So we found anew way. It is true that women should not take their sex with them into political fields. But I venture this assertion—they always will fail when they leave their feminism at home. We have a great deal to give to politics, to our country, to the world, and, whatever it is, it derives from that quality of our natures that made us feminine instead of masculine. It has its source in the latent motherhood that is our heritage. And unless we diffuse our spirits into any work we may do, poltical or domestic, that work will be done to no purpose whatever.

JMAY 9. 1933

It Seems to Me

BY lIEYWOOD BROUN ==• i YORK. May 9.-Walter Lippmann. in a recent column, wrote a letter to an old lady. 1 do not mean the old lady celebrated in the New Yorker who could not get along without orange juice and Mr. Lippmann s essay in the morning. This correspondent sent a challenge rather than a commendation. She wanted to know why. In brief, she explained that she had worked ever since the age of 14 and at 50 found herself with savings amounting to some $31,000. Although she lost her job, she felt that, with her money earning 4 per cent she might live comfortably for the rest of her life. Becoming disturbed over the financial condition of the country, she withdrew her nest-egg from a savings bank and converted it into gold. At the call of the government she returned the gold and took federal reserve notes. Her complaint lies in the fact that in all probability the dollar will be stabilized at a lower gold value, which will deprive her of part of the value of her property. OSS Might Have Said More MR. LIPPMANN answers the old lady sagely enough, but insufficiently, it seems to me. He holds that the government ought to provide her with “a dollar which in terms of purchasing power lies between these two extremes of inflation and deflation, and it ought to provide her with banks where she can keep her dollars with perfect safety.” That is a somewhat more radical answer than may appear on the surface, since it suggests, without, explicitly saying so. that Mr. Lippmann believes in government guarantee of bank deposits. It also suggests a sound dollar in the sense of a coinage based upon commodity prices rather than a basis in the backing of any metal. But I think that Mr. Lippmann does not go one-third far enough. Let us assume, in the beginning, that the $31,000 represents an accumulation out of useful work over a period of thirty-seven years. We will toss away the theory that the old lady in question hit any lucky numbers or played a hot tip on a horse at Saratoga. I would like 10 guess that her job had been that of school teacher, for no one would deny the usefulness of such a profession. But that would bring us up against the ancient joke about the teacher who amassed a fortune of SIO,OOO through forty years of hard work and a bequest from her grandfather of $9,999.50. For the sake of argument, then, let’s make the old lady a trained nurse, tvhich is one of the essential and underpaid professions. a a a Quest for Security IT seems to me that Mr. Lippmann does not quite grasp the nature of her problem. At the end of thir-ty-seven years of hard work, she is willing to call it a day under the assertion that as a reward for her frugality and energy the world owes her a living. She sets this living very conservatively at an annual income of $1,200. But obviously she would be unwise, under our present economic system, to maintain herself by dipping regularly into her capital. She wants a 4 per cent and absolute safety. Where can she get it? The blunt answer is that she can not. There are high-grade bonds, including the obligations of the United States government, which might give her this approximate yield, but if controlled inflation goes to the extent of 15 or 20 per cent it will fall below the limit of the purchasing power of the income w-hich she has set for herself. If it gets out of control, she may be left in desperate circumstances. Even a government pledge of the absolute safety of bank deposits will not solve her problem. I wish the old lady would grow more radically minded and join with other old ladies in a demand that the state itself should assume the responsibility of providing her with comfortable maintenance as a return for her thirty-seven years of service to the community.

**** a Faded Blue Chips ONE of the favorite arguments against the co-operative state is that if it took over the means of production it would rob widows and orphans of the stocks and bonds which they rightfully have laid aside to provide themselves with a comfortable old age. But have stocks and bonds done this? I know another old lady who found herself with $30,000 as the reward of a long career on the stage, which is another nonparasitic occupation. She took the money to a financial institution, which shall be nameless, and for her account and risk an obliging vicepresident bought Oliver Farm Equipment preferred at 92 (now 13% bid, 14 asked), Anaconda at 120, bonds of Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific, which recently touched 4. and the stock of the National City bank. Her portfolio, as she still wistfully calls it, now represents about $1,600 and no income whatsoever. If Walter Lippmann really is intent upon the anxieties of old ladies, I hope that next time he will suggest that their security never will be assured in any community where they must put the weight of their hopes upon the honesty of an econnomic system run upon the profitmaking motive. (Coovright. 1933. bv The Time*)

Dawn Dream

BY JOHN THOMPSON I saw In the fleeting second Os a dream. The grace Os a beautiful body Sweep softly Into my soul I felt In the drifting emptiness That precedes The dawning day The touch Os a slender hand, The swift ecstasy— Os a kiss.