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WEDNESDAY. JUNE 21, 1933

ACTING PRESIDENT BARUCH "ITTITH Mr. Roosevelt away on a well- ’ * earned vacation, the acting President seems to be Mr. Baruch. And who is Mr. Baruch? He holds neither an elective office, such ar- President or Vice-President, nor'an appointive office, such as a cabinet member. He is a party angel who has helped to pay tor the campaign. That is not all, of course. He also is a personal friend of the President. He is to sit in the office of Assistant Secretary of State Raymond Moley, who has gone to London, and is to pass upon acts and policies of Secretary of State Cordell Hull and the American delegation at the world monetary economic conference. To that extent he outranks the secretary of the treasury. The contact of the secretary of state with the President will be through Mr. Baruch. But Mr Baruch has other and even larger powers. He is the sponsor for General Johnson and Mr. Peek, who hold offices carrying more dictatorial power than ever before granted by congress in peace time. General Johnson is industrial recovery administrator and Mr. Peek is farm relief administrator. Both Johnson and Peek defer to Mr. Baruch, who not only got their powerful jobs for them, but who helped to frame the laws under which they operate. All of which explains in part why in Washington Mr. Baruch is called “the mystery man." Certainly the President is within his rights In choosing as a trusted adviser any citizen he desires. Mr. Baruch is no less within his rights in declining the sundry cabinet and other official posts said to have been offered him. And yet the growing uneasiness in Washington over Mr. Baruch's role is understandable. Under the American tradition of government, power is joined with responsibility—and both aVe supposed to be out In the open. Mr. Baruch has power without responsibility, and most of his power has been exercised under cover. In the case of the London conference, Mr. Baruch has the power, while the secretaries of state and treasury, not to mention the official delegates, have the responsibility. Assuming that Mr. Baruch is all-wise and all-good, the way he Is permitted to function is disturbing. It is a bad precedent. Those who control public should be subject to public control. THE NEW DEAL—WHERE TO? NOW that the smoke has cleared away at Washington, it is pretty evident that the acts of the last three months have started us off at one of the most rapid clips we ever attained. But it isn't yet at all clear in what direction we are going. Maybe we are heading toward Socialism; maybe we are swinging off for state capitalism of a kind that will make Signor Mussolini's Fascism look watery. Nobody can tell, today, and so far nobody seems to care very’ much. The important thing is that we are on our way. We can figure out the goal later. That, in fact, is one of the most interesting things about the new program. We have passed one great fork in the road—we have swung away from the free individualism of the past, and it doesn't look as if we ever should go back to it—but the main fork still is ahead of us. We still have plenty of time to decide whether we are to go on to outright Socialism or whether we can build our next century of progress on a controlled, carefully regulated capitalism. Lump together all those amazing recovery measures—industrial control, farm relief. Muscle Shoals, inflation, mortgage relief, and all the rest—and you find that we haven’t committed ourselves definitely. Capitalism gets its chance to prove that it can lay down and follow out a plan in which the interest of the average citizen will be protected fully. The great fields of manufacturing, transportation. finance, agriculture, and distribution still are held by their original owners. If they can produce a satisfactory crop during the next few years, well and good. On the other hand, we are going to get a pretty good idea of what the federal government can do on its own hook. Ls it capable of running a large, publicly-owned industry, of overseeing every sort of commercial and financial activity, of maintaining decent wage levels and stabilizing money and prices? We shall have pretty good answers to those questions in a very few years. Meanwhile, we still are free to make our choice. We are not, at the moment, trying to go toward anything; we are trying to get away from something—the depression, low wages, unemployment, hunger, chaos, misery’. Where we may fetch up, in the end, is something for the seventh son of a seventh son. Meanwhile, we are on our way. TRUE DOCTOR OF LAWS THE purpose of a university is to encourage and develop the arts and sciences. In a democracy there are few more Important sciences or more useful arts than that of explaining to the people the principles of self-government and making current issues so clear to them that they can intelligently apply those principles when they vote. In this field of both science and art the United States has produced no greater master than Alfred E. Smith, former Governor of New York, whose only college was his own industry and observation in public life, but whose ability to simplify political problems for his fellow-citizens long has been unrivaled. Therefore. In conferring the honorary degree of doctor of laws upon A1 Smith Thurs-

day, Harvard university will at the same time honor its own discernment of what constitutes great liberal capacity and achievement reached without academic aid. We doubt that Harvard ever made a man doctor of laws who was more simply, truly, and literally just that. In his power to show millions of voters how to understand and deal with laws. Dublin university and Columbia have given him the same degree. But the whole country will be glad to hear that conservative, careful Harvard is proud to have him at her commencement and to make it three times "Al, LL. D.” THE WORKERS’ CHANCE 'T'ODAY American wage-earners have an opportunity to achieve through organization the decent living conditions for which they have fought so long. The Norris-La Guardia anti-injunction law rivets labor’s right to organize afld bargain without interference of injunction judges, yellow dog contracts, or other obstacles. Section 7 of the new recovery act says, "employes shall have the right to organize and bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing, and shall be free from the interference, restraint, or coercion of employers of labor, or their agents, in the designation of such representatives or in self-organization or in other concerted activities for the purpose of collective bargaining or other mutual aid of protection." The Roosevelt administration is friendly, its labor department an open ally of unionism, the public, including enlightened employers, eager to see the workers attain the maximum buying power and security passible under the New Deal. The new act, of course, will stimulate the growth of union membership as at no time since the war period. There is room for growth, as shown by the fact that out of 20,000,000 American wage-earners, only some 3,500,000 are organized. The new growth, too, will be along lines conforming to modern industry. Under the act, employers will speak through large industrial groups; labor, too, should ignore the old caste lines that stirred endless jurisdictional disputes and shut the unskilled out of unions. Due also is a more militant leadership. The intent and wording of the new’ act grants labor equality with capital in organization. But powerful employer groups are out to nullify the act. Hosiery mill owners in North Carolina, Alabama and Pennsylvania even now are discharging men for union activities. Steel and other groups plan to dominate labor through company unions. Others will offer grudging doles in place of short hours. “The industrial recovery’ act,” says Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins, "makes a demand on the highest ability of labor to proceed in statesmanlike and co-operative way with the problems confronting both management and labor.” Union labor can lead or be led as It chooses. Its power to choose never was greater than today. INCOME TAX PUBLICITY thing to be remembered in the mass of new legislation passed at Washington is the fact that the President is empowered to give publicity to Income tax returns. A good many citizens are likely to hope that he takes advantage of this power. The disclosures about income tax evasions in the Morgan investigation would not have been news at all if w’e had had publicity for income tax returns during the last few years. And with those disclosures in mind, it is a little hard to sympathize with those who oppose such publicity on the ground that it is an unwarranted intrusion upon the private affairs of individual citizens. It took a senate committee to show us that Morgan and his partners had found ways of getting along without paying income taxes. Under the new law the President himself, by a turn of the hand, could make such information automatically available from day to day. THE WRONG REMEDY TT is not likely that the railroads’ announce- *- ment of their intention to reduce basic wage rates by approximately 22 per cent will win any very large amount of public approval. It can be granted, of course, that the railroads are pretty hard pushed financially. A great many of them need some sort of relief. Not as many of them have come out of the red during the current revival as we might like. But this time, of all times, is a poor time for wage reductions. The nation is bending every effort today to get wages back up, to stop deflation and increase the country’s purchasing power. For one of the nation’s largest industries to go ahead with a far-reaching wage reduction would be little less than a catastrophe. The public will be almost unanimous in insisting that some other form of relief for the carriers be found. FORD, INDIVIDUALIST TTENRY FORD, declaring in a recent interview that there are no radical or drastic cures for economic ills, seems to reveal the psychology of one great individualistic manufacturer who does not recognize the emergence of a new’ era. Mr. Ford thinks that- when people try to fix the world they only wind up by having the world fix them. He is so saturated with the philosophy of ‘‘every’ man for himself” that he does not seem to recognize the vast social implications of the industrial recovery bill. He said: I see nothing in the program that has not been in our own program for years, with the exception of a few minor points. How the government agents are to improve the quality of the thousands of kinds of goods manufactured. lower the cost of their production, and so get these goods to the people at less cost, I do not know. . . . However, there is no ground for saying much as yet. . . . Each of us has a job to do. The theory of the recovery act seems to be that while each concern has a job to do, It faces a common problem which Involves cooperation and anew type of governmental guidance and control which seems alien to the thinking of Mr. Ford. However, Mr. Ford is a practical man of great common sense. He has dealt with machines all his life. He thinks ma/hin

When he realizes that the nation’s Industry has become, in a sense, one vast machine whose parts must be mutually co-ordinated for the survival of the people, he automatically may acquiesce. How many powerful industrialists yet hold to the strict individualistic views to which Mr. Ford still adheres? KANSAS CITY MASSACRE IX ANSAS CITY seems to be well out in front for the world's title as the toughest city. Saturday's massacre was one of the boldest acts of law defiance in the history of a nation which surpasses all others in violent crime. Kansas City has been a tough city, and a politically corrupt city, for a long time. But. even with the kidnaping of the daughter of the city's chief magistrate and this massacre to its credit, the margin by which crime in Kansas City exceeds in boldness that of other cities is too slight for any of the others to start feeling righteous. Supremacy in these things can shift quickly. The pow’er of the gang is felt in every state, .in every city. The fight against the gang must go forward on all fronts all the time. ON THE WAY OUT TT w’ould be extremely foolish to suppose that the‘current business revival has solved all troubles which the depression brought us. Nevertheless, a nation which has suffered from hard times for three long years can be pardoned for letting itself gloat a bit over the increasing signs of a solid and substantial pick-up. Colonel Leonard P. Ayres, one of the most respected business diagnosticians in the country, told the Ohio Bankers’ association the other day that "business recovery is going forward in the United States with a vigor never before equaled.” Not in 144 years, he said, had American business recorded as great a monthly advance as was shown this year from March to April. Furthermore, he predicted that the improvement from March thiough June will prove to be the greatest ever recorded in any three months of American history. Our troubles aren’t over ... but isn’t the end of them in plain sight, at last? We don't know what w r edding march was played when that Irish broker married Ruth Kresge, daughter of the rich chain store magnate, but perhaps an appropriate tune would have been "I Found a Million-Dollar Baby in a Five-and-Ten-Cent Store!” Government is reported to be planning new drive to collect thousands in delinquent income taxes from Hollywood movie stars. We now can expect their next pictures to register genuine anguish. Alabama doctor at American Medical Association convention announced discovery of anew disease in which the patient is hungry all the time. Shucks! Every family with a small boy has known that disease all along. Despite the heroic efforts of statesmen to bring about peace in the world, the number of June marriages this year is just as large as ever. V? - ‘‘Boost Wages, Rooseveit Tells Industry”— headline. Apparently the President, too, believes the laborer is worthy of his higher. University of Chicago graduate, says an editorial, set anew world record by skipping the rope 2,010 times, which leads one to suspect that he got his training by skipping classes.

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THE war debts were supposed to be taboo at the economic conference now in session at London, but they appear to constitute the chief topic of discussion. A virtual default on payments which came due right after the conference was opened makes the discussion inevitable. One finds it hard not to suspect that this was foreseen by European statesmen, if not deliberately rigged. At any rate, American delegates find themselves squarely up against an issue which they hoped to avoid. Instead of payments, we get tokens—tokens which smack of a determined effort to force debt reduction at a time when it was supposed to be shelved. Furthermore, there seems to be an element of well-considered strategy and a concert of action among debtor nations which hardly can be dismissed as accidental. In gang parlance, we have been put on the spot. Worst of all, we can’t do anything about it. van THE war debt situation has been shaping for a climax ever since the war ended, and that climax has been visualized by allied statesmen as virtual cancellation. Almost at the very outset, they made up their minds that if they could not collect from Germany, they would collect from us. What is more, they will, because, when, if, and as, the showdown comes, we are not going to fight for $11,000,000,000. The best we can do is to keep the record straight and write this denouement into history for what it is—default. While we are about it, we might as well write off most of the other aims in the same way. Outside of the recollections that we pulled France and England out of a tight place, we have little to show for the dead in France, the care of veterans, and the oppressive taxes under which we labor. Among other things, the war was supposed to have been fought for “the sanctity of treaties.” but it doubtful whether any period of fifteen years in human history has seen so many treaties scrapped, evaded, or ignored as that since the armistice was signed. nun JUST before the economic conference opened, England. France. Germany and Italy initialed a four-power pact to keep peace in Europe for ten years, and that, too, in spite of the Kellogg pact, by which all nations agreed to outlaw war, the League of Nations, the world court and several other agreements by which general peace was supposed to be assured. The point of such an anomalous situation is perfectly clear. Statesmen and diplomats have little faith in their own solemn engagements. Back of the smoke screen of peace talk, there is such a snarl of intrigue to promote venal interests as this old world seldom has seen. We are not dealing with open covenants openly arrived at. but with publicly advertised pretensions which mean little, except as they serve to conceal the real purpose. From what has occurred at London during the last few days, it is perfectly obvious that representatives of debtor nations are seeking nothing but a settlement by which the United States will be forced to pay a greater portion of the war bill. Though willing to discuss tariffs and currency stabilization, debt reduction is their real objective.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

(Times readers are invited to express their vietes in these columns. Make your letters short, so all can have a chance. Limit them to 250 words or less.) By John F. White. In the Indianapolis Water Company rate hearing case before Master in Chancery Ward of the federal court are some interesting features, notwithstanding the tedious detail of procedure, not the least of which will be the near quarter million dollar bill of expense to be handed the rate payers "later on. Passing over the highly inflated land values which the company is trying to write into its rate structure, there are two other items of valuation so utterly devoid of anything of a tangible quality that common sense and a decent regard for ordinary morality can find no grounds to justify the claim that such presumptive values can br< made a part of a rate base structure. These two Items of questionable validity, particularly as belonging to a privately owned utility, are the much discussed water rights and going values. In valuation to water rights, the ingenious engineers and accountants, carefully led by equally ingenious lawyers, are endeavoring to build up a value foi the company of more than a million dollars, as a “judgment” figure. Os course, it could be nothing else but a theoretical “judgment” figure, since there is notwhere anything of a tangible nature on which to base such judgment and, therefore, of necessity it must be picked out of the air, without any basis whatsoever in substance or equity. Water is a natural resource, and in a running stream does not come within the category of private property. There is no evidence of a purchase price paid to any one, neither are there any constructive costs involved in its creation. Whatever it possesses in the nature of “property” is entirely public in character, and any endeavor to convert it into a private asset is fundamentally immoral, is a deliberate attempt to get something for nothing, and in so far as such attempt succeeds it does get something for nothing. No confidence man ever performed a more reprehensible act. In addition to the broad public nature of water as a natural resource in a running stream, account

IN a joint report on the sanitation of bathing places made by a committee of the American Public Health Institute and the Conference of State Sanitary Engineers, there are outlined certain minimum requirements which should be borne in mind by every one interested in conducting or using swimming pools or bathing beaches. It is well established that It is possible to make bathing places sanitary by chlorinization, as this will destroy the germs most frequently found in contaminated water. Recent developments indicate the use of ammonia and chlorine for disinfecting swimming pools produces more permanent disinfection. One of the chief difficulties in sanitation of bathing beaches and swim-

'T'ODAY I boldly announce myself as a radical and a Red. I am joining the rebellion organized by M. E. Foster, editor of the Houston Press—the Rebellion of Grandparents. Although I have not yet reached the fortunate state of being one, all my sympathies go out to thll downtrodden and oppressed group—these men and women who are harassed by scientists and doctors, mingled by child-bearing authorities, slandered by columnists, and persecuted by parents. I believe that Grandpa and Grandma are people and should be treated as such. Much as they have done for the good of us all, they now are regarded with suspicion, if not disdain. And for what? Because

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must be taken of the fact that “water rights” grow out of the further fact resting on the existence of a population of human beings living in the confines of a city, to whom water is a necessity. Otherwise there could arise no such claim for water rights, which in itself is conclusive proof of its public nature as against the fallacious and wicked idea that it can be commandeered by private interests for private gain. Still more unwarranted, if possible, is the two and a half millions of dollars of presumptive value resting in a so-called “going value,” which the water company seeks to write into its rate base. Whatever there may be of any substantial quality in the theory of “going value,” as related to a public utility, depends, not upon any acts of the company, either in building its plant or in developing its business, but rests wholly in the privilege granted by the city to serve its people. The company acquires private property for portions of its operating plant, but practically all its dis-

Questions and Answers

Q—How many Chinese males and females are there in the United States? A—The 1930 census enumerated 59,802 males and 15,152 females. Q —How many daily newspapers are published in the United States, and what is the estimated aggregate net paid circulations of English dailies in the United States and Canada? A—There are 2,008 daily newspapers in the United States. The estimated net paid circulations of all English dailies in the United States and Canada is 38,862,000. Q—Was Henry Ford ever a candidate for United States senator? A.—He was the Demorcatic candidate in Michigan in 1918. Q—When did the first train enter the new Union Station in Washington, D. C.? A—On Oct. 27. 1907, over the Baltimore and Ohio.

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ming pools is the spread of ringworm infection of the feet. To control such infections, the floors, walks and springboards should be cleansed thoroughly with a disinfectant solution, such as one containing one-half of 1 per cent of available chlorine. Sodium hypochlorite solutions and also solutions of sodium thiosulphate have been found valuable. Outdoor bathing places are likely to be contaminated, either directly from the water si pply, from contaminated materials washed into the water from beaches, or directly by the bathers. Harmful contamination may come also from sewage which gets into

they like to snatch a kirs from the baby every now and then. Because their arms ache for cuddling ard they are anxious to .share in the care and affection of their children’s children. n a a IS that, I ask you. a major crime? You might think so when you see the way a good many of them cringe, when somebody holds forth on how to bring up babies. In certain benighted places, such as heathen China, grandparents are held in high repute, but we have gone to the opposite extreme of looking upon them as nonentities and nuisances. They are as much traduced as the American mother-in-law, who remains the greatest modern martyr. And sometimes I’m not so sure

tribution system occupies public property. It pays nothing whatsoever for this privilege, and likewise has a monopolized market handed to it on a silver platter without cost. It is thoroughly indefensible that these values should be diverted to the purposes of private gain. To do so is but to divert and merge the people’s own property into the capital structure of a privately owned enterprise, and then have the astounding spectacle of the people paying adidtional rates by reason of this private absorption of public property. It is probably impossible to evoke the new utility law for the valuation of public utility property in the present hearing before the master in chancery, but the public service commission should seize the earliest possible opportunity to make a utility property appraisement under this law. This- would prompt an early interpretation by the courts, in case of appeal, and would be an aggressive effort to reduce public utility properties to tangible property values as their only rightful asset.

Q —Who was the featured pleyer in Our Gang comedy, “Choo Choo?” What is his nge? A—George Robert Phillips McFarland, known on the stage as “Spanky.” He is 3 years old. Q—How much did the United States pay to Spain for the Philippines, Porto Rico and Guam? A—520,000,000. Q—Name the three highest buildings in New York. A—Empire State building, 1,248 feet; Chrysler building, 1,046 feet, and Cities Service building. 950 feet. Q—Name the president and the minister of foreign affairs of China. A—Lin Sen is president and chairman of the executive council, and Eugene Chen is minister of foreign affairs. Q —ls Bobby Jones a professional golfer? A—Yes, he now is.

the water from boats, from factories, and from dumping of refuse. All of these sources of pollution must be controlled if water in bathing places Ls to be considered safe. In addition to skin disease infections, such as ringworm, there also is passibility of. eye, ear, nose, and throat infections which may be partially due to chilling, softening of the tissues by remaining long in the water, and inhalation of contaminated water. There seems to be no question but that persons with active infections of the nose and throat should be barred from swimming pools. The sanitation of bathing and wading pools is so important that those in charge should make certain that they have had the advice of a competent consultant before opening the pools for widespread use.

that Grandpa and Grandma are half as dangerous for the baby as these erratic dietitians and infant experimentalists, who forever are changing their formulas and their advice, and whose sole concern is to keep one jump ahead of everybody else in the invention of rules and regulations for bringing up children. After all, a generation of men and women that brought up pretty fine families on very little, who created the best homes America ever has had, and who came through marriage with decency and dignity, are probably not menaces to the modem infant. Let us also consider the feelings of the babies themselves in this matter—but that's material for an- , other column.

JUNE 21, 1933

It Seems to Me “ BY HEYIVOOD BROUN

NEW YORK, June 21—Loyalty is a quality generally rated high i among the virtues, i think it would I be foolish to deny that it is adj mirable to fight hard for those i things in which you believe. But loyalty as it generally is interpreted usually means more than that. There is at least the suggestion that the loyal man will 'continue to cling even to those notions I for which he no longer has any respect. Ido not see why conduct oi this sort should be regarded as virtuous. And there are other objections to loyalty in some of its more fervent forms. There is an ailment known as galloping loyalty. Victims of this disease start in mildly enough in school, with the traditional devotion to the Constitution, the flag and the football team. Presently, Lincoln, Washington and the principal are added to the list. And sometimes that’s the end of it. I even have heard of heretics who omitted the principal. Unfortunately, certain apt pupils become loyalty addicts and then, there is no stopping them. They grow into adults who stand up every time the band plays "Dixie.” “Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean." or “When It’s Darkness on the Delta.” And if anybody discovers and proves that the current mayor of their own municipality is a crook and a grafter, they assail the reformer by asking in .shocked tones how he has the audacity to attack the fair name of the city. o a a Galloping Loyalty THE most conspicuous case of galloping loyalty which I have observed recently is the personal property of Dr. Frederick B. Robinson, president of the College of the City of New York. Tn the beginning. the only compulsory reverence in the curriculum was a requirement that every’ graduate should have faith in Dr. Robinson. That still is the first and great commandment. But other stipulations have been added. It now is essential to reveal the officers’ training corps and the national officers of the D. A. R. And in a speech just the other night, Dr. Robinson impulsively included' the Rotary Club. Education's big umbrella man was talking about radicalism in American colleges and his own philosophy of ‘ remaining liberal, yet insisting on discipline.” He asserted that all the commotion in his college was caused by professional agitators who either were Communistic or Socialistic. and to cap the climax of the iniquities instilled into youth by these malcontents he mentioned the fact that “Your own organization, the Rotary Club, and your very good fellowship have been held up to scorn by them.” a st a Rotary and Reverence IN other words. Dr. Robinson~believes that it is revolutionary for an undergraduate to make jokes about the Rotary Club. He seems to have a vague notion that the organization is mentioned somewhere in the creed or the Constitution. I think that the head of New York's largest public institution of higher learning should be called to task by the taxpayers for gross favoritism. Os course, people sometimes get carried away at banquets, and, as Dr. Robinson stood on the dais bearing across his chest a badge inscribed “Call me Fred,” he hardly can be blamed for entering into the spirit of the festivities. Still, I want to know how he stands on the Moose and the Odd Fellows. If it is evidence of Communism to take Rotary lightly, what should be said of those dangerous syndicalists who fail to respect the Elks or the Woodmen of the World? And if any students at City college lack proper reverence for the Knights of- Pythias, I want to know why they don’t go back where they came from? It should be a thrilling sight next November, when Dr. Fred B. Robinson stands in the great Gothic chapel and, lifting his umbrella on high, calls on the assembled undergraduates to rise in token of their loyalty to “Country, college and Kiwanis.” tt St First and Last Things 1 THINK the whole episode is a tragic illustration of the consequences of galloping loyalty. The man who tries to be loyal to too many things at the same time spreads himself thin. And in the process the original loyalties get lost in the welter. Thus Frederick B. Robinson, who was appointed to train the youth of a great metropolis in the way of learning and of understanding, completely has forgotten his fundamental obligation. The shepherd of the flock has become the herder of a hundred sacred cows. (CoDvrissht. 1933. bv The Times)

The Old Order

BY JOHN THOMPSON Water pours over the dam. Mossy, rotting old dam, Away in the distance sometimes I hear Plaintive, the cry of a lamb. The sun sinks down in the west, Emblazened, brilliant old west, Away in the distance comes softly clear, The call of a bird in her nest. Twilight dims into night. Patient, brooding old night. Away in the shadows, .oud with fear. Things call and cry in their flight.

So They Say

The man who keeps everything not worth remembering often attians the university degree.—George Bernard Shaw. The inertia of the intelligent is a more immediate and serious menace than the violence of the mob.—Rev. Ralph W. Sockman, New York. I venture the statement that the lamentable things happening in Germany today have their seeds in unfortunate clauses in the Treaty of Versailles.—Owen D. Young, author of the reparations payment plan. _