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THURSDAY FEB 22 1334. WASHINGTON’S CHARACTER the depression has stripped our society bare of its false fronts and shown up so many of its business and political leaders, the selfless character of George Washington stand* out in even bolder relief. The great American, born 202 years ago, faced post-war tasks in many ways similar to ours. Domestic and foreign debts lay heavily on the young republic's shoulders. Inflation had reached a point where things of no value were declared to be “not worth a continental." Veterans clamored for money. The continental congress wrangled on. The states were strong, but lacked unity. Foreign trade was disrupted and a network of thirteen tariff walls blocked commerce at home. The times called for strong leadership: many were urging Washington to assume the role of dictator. One Colonel Nicole wrote suggesting that he need not shy “the title of king.” Washington's reply, viewing the idea “with abhorrence,” is a classic in righteous political wrath. He accepted extraordinary powers from the people's congress, but always he returned them intact. “There have been greater generals in the field and statesmen in the cabinet in our own and other nations,” writes James Truslow Adams. “There has been no greater character.” We have yet to find a substitute for character in public and private affairs. The new America we are seeking to build may be ever so fine a mansion. But unless its corner stone is integrity, it, too. will fall. SHARP EDGE OF RIDICULE ißpprint from the South Bend News-Times* HA. Monkey State!” And a nation gibed at Tennessee for legislating evolution from its text books. It will take a generation, maybe two, for that commonwealth to wear off the derision it won. Ridicule is the most powerful of all weapons. The man who raid: ‘‘Give a dog a bad name and you kill him," did not confine his meaning to canines. He was wrapping age-old wisdom in a pointed maxim. In 1931. the country laughed at Virginia for planning to celebrate Vorktowns anni\ersary without the surrender of Cornwallis. Decadent citizenry of the old dominion feared to offend the British lion, but sensed its humiliating position in time to include the crowning glory of the revolution in the program. And thus escaped a nation's taunts. It is unhealthy for a state to attract ridicule. which is easy to amass, but, oh. so hard to lose. The good old Hoosier state, glorious in tradition and history, is skating on the thin ice of the ludicrous. Its misfortune is personified in Senator Arthur Robinson. Republican, the senate’s magnet for mirth, the clown of the upper house, the butt of his colleagues, but still, “the senator from Indiana.” Were the ridicule personal to him, the state might join in the jeers at his discomfiture. But it is not. The merciless gibes of nis fellows apparently pass beyond, through, over him and fall upon a commonwealth that has become embarrassed by his gaucheries and keenly sensitive oi the ridicule he has brought upon Indiana. For Robinson is in again! On Jan. 8. the “gentleman from Indiana” qualified as the senate's best joke oi 1934. He bitterly upbraided Treasury Secretarv Henry Morgenthau for hiring Earl Bailie, former employe of J. Seligman of New York, all unconscious that Bailie had resigned two days before his speech. And the senate rocked with glee at the miscue. On Thursday, the senator from Indiana locked horns with Senator Robinson of Arkansas. Democratic leader The Hoosier bitterly attacked our President for the growing burden of national expenditure connected wito the new deal. Tire man from Arkansas laughed off the charge of the Indiana senator ihat the President has attempted to gag him. but when the Hoosier abused Mr. Roosevelt, the Democratic leader turned nis scorn upon him. “The senator from Indiana.” he said, “has made more bad speeches than all the other senators of the United States combined.” And once again the staid halls rocked with mirth at a senator from Indiana. Twice in six weeks. Robinson of Indiana had bid for the gilded medal of rhe senate's buffoon. Louisiana would do well to rid itself of Huey Long. And Indiana can ill afford to compete with it as the laughing stock of the nation. Remember “Monkey State.”

VICTORY. AFTER NINE YEARS 'T'HE federal water power act stands. The New river case, in which the act was attacked by the Appalachian Electric Power Company, ends after nine years with the United States supreme court finding that lower federal courts lacked jurisdiction. And so the federal power commission retains the right to perform real service for the American people, to guard their water power resources on smaller streams as well as on the large ones, to recapture licensed projects after fifty years' time and to make sure that power projects are not loaded down with unreasonable charges. The New river case wound in and out of public affairs during the last decade as the river itself winds in and out of the Virginia and West Virginia hills. A by-gone federal power commission tried to give away the government's rights. A former attorney-general gave his President an opinion favoring this courts and himself questioned the validity of the water power act. When the case got into the court* fn

answer filed by government attorneys citing data obtained by the federal trade commission as to bookkeeping practices of the power company was "borrowed” by a power company attorney and successfully kept out of the record. Utility companies doubtless will find ways of renewing the attack on federal regulation. But victory for the public in the New river case is an important milestone on the road to the sort of regulation which is the only alternative to public ownership. FLETCHER’S CHALLENGE A N unusually large amount of propaganda against the Stock Exchange regulation bill has been flooding the country from Wall Street. That is all right. Wall Street has a right to be heard. And the bill, if it is as good as we think it is. should be able to stand up against honest criticism. But most of the criticism to date has been of the bugaboo variety. That will not get anywhere. Facts regarding the failure of the Stock Exchange to regulate itself so as to maintain a fair, free and open market have been revealed by the efficient Pecora investigation. Those facts are well known to the public, which has had its fingers burned so often. Those facts can not be answered by generalizations from opponents of the bill or by vague promises of self-reform. Facts can be answered only by facts. Specifically, the public wants to know why, if the stock market learned its lesson after the 1929 debauch, there have been repetitions of unfair practices since. If self-regulation by the Stock Exchange will work in the future, as opponents of government regulation assert, then why have not those self-imposed and much publicized reforms worked during the last few months? Why did they not work last summer when speculators produced the disastrous boomlet followed by the inevitable tumble which set back national recovery again? These questions have just been asked by Chairman Fletcher of the senate committee investigating the Stock Exchange. They are fair questions. They go to the root of the argument over the need for enactment of the Fletcher-Rayburn bill, the kind of legislation requested by President Roosevelt in his recent special message to congress. President Whitney of the New York Stock Exchange is to take the stand today at the house hearing on the bill. There he will have a chance to answer this challenge by Senator Fletcher. “The exchange, convicted by its own laxity and negligence or impotence and by the improper activities of many of its members, now come forward and says that it has reformed. But on the very day last week that its reforms were made public the senate committee heard testimony of recent activities on the New York Stock Exchange which those reforms would not be adequate to eliminate. . . . “They were not successful in preventing the manipulations and market rigging of 1933 after they claimed to have turned over anew leaf and achieved complete reform. Indeed, when the senate committee last summer asked the Stock Exchange to investigate the collapse of 1933, the Stock Exchange authorities, according to their own statement, learned of the gross improprieties, gambling, manipulation, rigging which took place in 1933, and which our own agents were able to uncover without the aid of and against the assurances to the contrary by the Stock Exchange authorities. “If their excuses are to be given credence, it would appear that the authorities of the exchange are a group of naive, trusting and gullible men ready to buy the first gold brick offered to them. But they paid for these gold bricks with the money of investors, not with their own.”

ABOUT A GREAT GUY \\l ALTER DURANTY is becoming a legend. ’ * Well, why not? He is easily the best foreign correspondent in the business. And if now they give dinners for him, toast him as an unofficial ambassador, quote his dispatches as gospel, and otherwise treat him as one of the stuffed shirts he finds so amusing, it really has not changed this very humble and human reporter. Perhaps humble is not the right word; perhaps it is his sense of humor. At any rate, he has the knack of being objective about himself as well as about government officials and others who parade in the news. All of this is by way of introducing the book. “Duranty Reports Russia,” just published by the Viking Press. Gustavus Tuckernlan Jr. of New York university has selected and arranged the twelve-year sheaf of Duranty’s Moscow cables to the New York Times. And Alexander Woollcott has contributed a personal note to prove that this reporter is even more interesting as a person than his stories. Os books on Russia there are many, too many indeed of the three months' tourist variety. There are several good books. But we know of none which gives the buildup like Duranty's. The secret of Russia is change, growth. And here in the old day-by-day dispatches one gets that sense of an unfolding film, a vast and many-sided experiment in motion. That these news stories, written to catch the cables and beat a deadline, stand up as history and as literature is a great feat. It is the highest tribute to Walter Duranty—who is a poet, a prize fiction writer, an expert in night clubs, a great treveler. one of the finest companions in the world, but first and last a working reporter. INDIAN CULTURE WHILE the government, through its public works, is trying to stimulate anew folk art in our cities and towns, the Indian burea'u is out to halt the slow, ruthless ruin of the only old culture of America. This is encouraging. In a peremptory order that leaves no doubt as to its meaning, Indian Commissioner John Collier has instructed the sendee's superintendents that the administration will insist on respect for the Indian’s culture. Henceforth the white guardians' of the red man are to honor his religious dances and other ceremonials, his arts and crafts, nis "vital, beautiful and efficient native languages.” It was an arrogant thing to have tried through generations to “Americanize" these first Americans into rustic Babbitts. It also was a foolish thing. Among this young country's most picturesque and valuable cultural assets are the bits of unspoiled native Indian life that have survived the ages.

EUROPE’S PERIL A THOUGHTFUL man, who surveyed the state of Europe to* ay, almost might be pardoned if he began to believe that the end of all things was at hand. It is a long time since the sky has been as dark as it is today, and it is hard to see how it could be very much darker. Remembering what the last war did to civilization, it is not easy to contemplate the approach of anew one without the most profound misgivings. And yet—although this is the most hackneyed remark in the world—it is just possible that things are not quite as bad as they seem; possible, that is, that what we are looking at now is not the eve of general dissolution, but that very dark hour which, according to tradition, comes just before the dawn. For if there is left in mankind any sanity at all, the present troubles in Europe ought to be convincing evidence that the policies of the post-war era have been disastrously impractical. The frenzied tangle of repression, competitive armament, blind nationalism, disregard of economic law and exaltation of strongarmed dictatorship is giving all the world a complete demonstration of its ruinous futility. It is enough to show the blindest, in other words, that the nations of the world can not go much farther along the road thej’ have been following without tumbling, all together, into the pit. And there ought to be enough common sense in European capitals to pave the way for some sort of new deal. Today’s situation is not like that of 1914. In that day the world not yet had had its frightful demonstration of the catastrophe which war brings to victor and vanquished alike; nor was the imminence of war a matter of general knowledge, except among a relatively small group of statesmen. Now every one, down to the most ignorant Peasant, knows that war is near, knows that if it comes it will mean complete disaster for every one involved. Is one being a blind optimist in supposing that this general awareness may create a pressure on the rulers of Europe that will lead to the adoption of more sane policies? In 1914 the world did not realize its own peril. Today it can not help realizing it. And the disorder, the bloodshed, the menaces which recent weeks have brought may, just possibly, bring the statesmen of Europe to their senses. Colonel L. H. Brittin, sentenced for destroying air mail files, has been made file clerk in the District of Columbia jail. That's making the punishment fit the crime. The neutron, smallest particle of matter, is said to weigh 1.646 billion-billion-billionths of a gram. Mighty heavy figures for so light a weight!

Liberal Viewpoint By DR. HARRY ELMER BARNES==

OF all the danger spots to world peace in the contemporary world, the most menacing are the Polish corridor and Manchuria. Japanese activity in the latter area threatens the selfinterest of Soviet Russia. It also challenges the pseudo-idealism of the United States as the custodian of the open-door policy and the guardian of the sanctity of treaties. The recent recognition of Russia by the United States may serve to give pause to Japanese enthusiasm in defying world opinion by her far eastern policy. The great majority of the books which appear on the Far East are decidedly sympathetic with the Chinese point of view. Many urge the United States to intefvene to protect our interests and those of China. Therefore, it is especially desirable that readers in the United States should have available a forceful and intelligent statement of the case for Japan by a non-Japanese. Such a book we have in Mr. Eldridge’s brief and penetrating volume (“Dangerous Thoughts on the Orient.” By F. R. Eldrige. D. Appleton Century Company; $2.50). He defends the assertion that Japan is urged on in her Manchurian policy by the sheer struggle for existence. He also has some excellent chapters debunking the mythical assumption of so many in the United States that China is a land inhabited by some 400.000,000 stoical idealists and cultivated altruists. My own sympathies still remain with China, but any honest man will welcome so courageous and straightforward a presentation of a relatively unpopular point of view. n u tt MRS. HOBART gives us in the form of a novel a keen study of the penetration of American imperialism in China and of the grueling struggle for bare existence which prevails in most of China (“Oil for the Lambs of China,” By Alice Tisdale Hobart. The BoobsMerrill Company; $2.50). One will obtain more of cogent information relative to contemporary Chinese life from this novel than can be secured from many a solemn volume on the history of contemporary’ China. China, being much weaker in a military and naval sense than militaristic Japan, has been compelled to resort to the boycott as a means of protecting herself and resisting Japanese aggression. Professor Remer has written a reliable and highly convenient historical summary of the origins and utilization of the economic boycott in China. (“A Study of Chinese Boycotts,” with special reference to their economic effectiveness. By C. F. Remer, assisted by William B. Palmer. The John Hopkins Press; $2.75.) He goes beyond the specific question of Chinese boycotts to consider the possible utility of the boycott as an instrument in the international relations of the future. He makes it clear that the boycott, when employed by a group of powerful nations, likely is to be much more effective than when utilized by China alone. He believes that if war actually is renounced the economic boycott may become one of the leading substitues for the warfare of the past. tt n tt COMMUNIST RUSSIA theoretically is devoted to the cause of internationalism. It is true, moreover, that Russia has worked for disarmament and world peace more consistently than any other nation since 1918. Yet, it would be strange if the vigorous nationalism of the old Russia had been dissipated entirely in less than two decades. Mr. Kohn presents a concise summary of the state of nationalism in contemporary Russia, including a consideration of patriotism among’ national minorities and a discussion of the attitude of the Bolshevik government toward nationalism '“Nationalism in the Soviet Union.” By Hans Kohn, Columbia University Press; $2.50). Russia nationalism is not likely to provoke a war, but if a war is forced upon Russia her peoples can be relied upon to rally more enthusiastically behind her armies than they ever did in the old czarist era. Conferences and formulae alone will not suffice to terminate war. but only through conferences which face realities with candor can world peace ever be assured. Mr. Walser provides us with a very’ useful discussion of the technique and organization of conferences, of both a local and an international type (‘"The Art of Conference." By Frank Walser. Harper & Brothers’ Publishers; $3.00). It is a volume which could very appropriately be put in the hands, not only of diplomats, but also of those who will have the responsibility for enforcing the new deal in the United States.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIME^

‘IN THE SPRING A YOUNG MAN’S FANCY-’

The Message Center

(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.) tt a tt ] RELIEF SYSTEM BRANDED AS GREED CREATOR j By "Dnem." During the panic of 1907, Presi- ! dent Theodore Roosevelt said, “All other questions sink into in- ! significance when the stability of j the family is at stake.” In 1933, President Franklin D. | Roosevelt tells us the same thing, only in more high-flowered language. In the era from 1904 to 1934 the Republicans and Democrats both have had the opportunity to answer this question, and both have failed. For the elderly man who has a family, a head of gray hair is no longer a crown of honor, but an industrial handicap. Sometimes, howj ever, they will hire his children at S starvation wages which keeps them from having homes of their own. The burden of keeping the old folks is getting heavier and heavier on the children. The young man who is starting out in life for himself is forced through economic necessity, to apply 1 for admittance to a CCC camp. There he is to be convinced that S3O a month is big money, and that the training is worth something. During all of their schooling they were | taught that man was self-support-ing; and, upon graduation, they found this right denied them. No j wonder some of the younger generation are inclined to radicalism. How long can the government j continue the spending of money on i PWR, CWA, CCC and the XYZ's,. which basically are nonproductive? J One of the causes of the breakdown of the present system is that the actual producer is carrying too j many nonproducers on his back, j Now, the government is adding j more The competitive profit system is doomed, and the die-hard con- j servative parties do not realize it. If it were proposed to invent some j social system in which greed would, be fostered deliberately and intensi- j fled in human nature, what system could be devised which would excel j our own for this purpose? tt tt tt NEWS ATTACKED FOR POWER COMPANY STAND By a Times Reader. For the reason that the News edi- j torial staff will not and never has j inserted in its “Voice of the People” j section any communication contrary i to its own ideas, and can not, by j any means, be regarded as sportsmen, I ask you to give me the opportunity to reply to an editorial appearing Jan. 8 and also a news article on page 1 and continued on ! page 4 headed "Light Cut Pales Before Earnings.” Regarding the editorial, the News states “that the commission can be lured into speaking of an 8 per cent reduction when, in fact, it is nothing of the kind, but varies from less than 3 per cent to about 8.3 per cent.” From this statement I assume that the total estimated reduction of $525,000 should be spread equally over the rate schedule for power, commercial and domestic users of current. I believe I am correct in assuming that the domestic patrons will get 8.3 per cent, and the large commercial and power customers will receive reductions down to 3 per cent, according to their consumption. The articles appearing in the News, relative to public utility law and the method adopted by com- j mission in asking the utility to show j cause why their rates should not I be reduced, were absolutely right; but, if legal procedure had been followed, consumers would have had no reduction for a year, at least, unless the company had come in and volunteered a miserable reduction

Broun and the NRA

By Ernest Greenwell. Heywoocl Broun’s recent article appeals to me in more than one way. I have been employed in the restaurant industry since 1907. I have heard many arguments on the subject, but never in all my life have I heard the situation explained as Broun has explained it. The tipping has made panhandlers out of all of us. Some of the houses in Indianapolis have made thieves out of us. There are places in the city that pay waiters no salary, and. I truthfully can say that tips are few and far between. And some houses even make the employes split their tips. Broun says the restaurant association refers to the union as a “left wing.” I know that there are as many proprietors who complain about the association as about the union. There are several houses in Indianapolis that

of- 1 i cent in order to quash the proposed rate proceedings. In 1932, I believe, there was an agitation started to get reduced rates, which, by the way, the News supported. However, the consumers were sold out. (Libel deleted). The officers and attorneys of the company advanced the plea that an investigation into their values and certain other matters would do the company and its investors a great injury. Did the News make any remonstrance? Not that I ever saw. The News also says in its editorial: “It (the utility) knew that no audit had been made by the commission (and I may say that no audit of accounts of this company has been made since the utility law came into force in 1913) or anything else that could not have been prepared from public record by a reasonably active bookkeeper with a few weeks at his disposal.” Well, all I can say is that I am not a bookkeeper and never have kept books of any sort, not even for a peanut stand, though I did take a few weeks’ course in high school more than thirty years ago The News won't agree with “smaller cuts to large consumers.” The utility earned a grass income approximately of 12 per cent on the value of its property, instead of 6 per cent at most. It does not require a bookkeeper or a so-called expert writer on util-

A Woman’s Viewpoint

By MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

THIS may be heresay, but for the life of me I can't see why a man who may have been hard at work all day should leap across the room to light the cigaret of a woman who has perhaps done nothing more arduous than primp before her mirror or pass in a bridge game. NRA might give some attention to the social codes. As they stand they are decidedly passe and belong to a regime that has departed forever. They coincide awkwardly with present-day behavior and thought. If we ever looked squarely at their ridiculous inconsistencies w r e might have sense enough to change them. It seems somewhat silly for a generation which sneers so broadly at Victorianism to ape the mannerisms of a period when we relentlessly ridicule its moralities. The boy who dashes up in his roadster and honks for his sweetie to join him is told that he must stand in a public restaurant if another man comes up to exchange the time of day with her. ana AND men who think nothing at all of knocking down .half

1 wholly disapprove of what you say and will defend to the death your right to say it — Voltaire. J

• are 100 per cent union. Go and order a minute steak in one of these places and see if it takes you half an hour to get it. Why? Because the houses pay a living wage, and the employe does not have to panhandle the patrons for his livelihood. There are some restaurant men in Indianapolis who say they can not operate a union house because they belong to the restaurant association. If any one deserves a radical union forced upon them, they sure do. for they are forcing radical injustices upon the employes. There are waitresses working for as low as $4.75 a week. If this won’t make a panhandler out of them, I’ll treat. ✓ I am for Hey wood Broun. I wish he was on the NRA with General Johnson. I think he would be of some help to the “panhandlers.”

ity matters to figure this out. I.et me suggest that the News staff take a course in sportsmanship, also training in the use of brains with which the Almighty supplied them. I am afraid, however, that the Deity passed them by. I heard a rumor on the street today that a petition has been filed with the P. S. C. for a reduction of rates, so I called the News several times; but. up to late this afternoon <3:45 p. m.), the editorial office states they know nothing about it. Then, at 4 p. m. they informed me a petition was filed Wednesday. I later confirmed it in the Star morning edition of Jan. 8. I guess they think this is not a matter of public interest, unless they can beat the other papers to it. Another thing, the writer of the editorial evidently judges the ability of a bookkeeper by his prowess as an athlete. an tx FATHER SEEKS TO PROTECT OTHERS By Roger S. Lawson. Last week you had an article in your newspaper regarding the deauh of my son from electric shock in a bathtub, details of which, however were not given. Since that time I have had a number of people ask how this possibly could have happened. The fact is that an electric heater fell into the tub while he

a dozen women while getting In the subway refuse to precede them out of private elevators no matter how much confusion the fashion may cause. I am told by girls who know what they are talking about that they often have to resort to fisticuffs to preserve their persons from the armorous advances of their swains, yet these same young men, who obviously have small respect for women, are taught by the code never to remain covered in their presence. When it comes to company manners we are hybrids, neither all-round modernists nor fullfledged romanticists. Our standards of behavior consist of a smattering of Victorian rules, set amid the glaring rudenesses of a generation of wise-cracking sophisticates. Lord Chesterfield once said, “Good sense must determine good breeding,” and this definition, I believe, explains why our modern manners seem to emphasize our deficiencies instead of our decencies. So few of them are based on .good sensei "*

.FEB. 22,1931

rwas taking a bath and he was killed almost instantly. It was rather surprising to me to know how few people realize the danger of blectrical apparatus in bath rooms and it occurs to me that if more people were made acquainted with a few simple rules regarding this danger, it might save considerable trouble. The three most important things to remember I would class as follows: 1. Never under any circumstances, while in a tub or shower, reach out to turn off or on an electric switch or in any way touch any electric apparatus. 2. It is advisable to have all switch plates and receptacles in a bath room made of a non-conductive material, and avoid having metal chain pull sockets over lavatory. 3. If electric heaters, sun fans or any other electric appliance* must be taken into the bath room, be positive that they are located securely and far enough removed from the tub so that they could not possibly fall into the tub. The falling of any of these electric appliances into the tub most assuredly would cause death. I am writing this with the thought that perhaps you may find space in your paper to print it and it may be the means of saving some other family the terrible tragedy that we have had. TIMES IS COMPLIMENTED FOR ITS PROGRESS Bv Miss Hilda Meimbre. Hats off to your paper for scoring another victory in the Power and Light Company expose! Thank heaven we have one in this city which makes it its business to keep the public informed as to what it’s all about and why. Have always admired The Times for the fearless way it tackles subjects of vital interest. Aside from this, ycur paper with its many novel features stands in a class by itself. Your “We Make Your Newspaper ’ series is a grand idea—just jike shaking hands with each of your staff. If you did nothing now after your last “Clothe a Child” campaign, you still would have people asking blessings on your heads for months to come. That “Dime-on-a-line” was the talk cf the town. When our family recently was faced with the question, “Why three daily newspapers for three people in these days of retrenchment,” you can bet it wasn't The Times that was checked off the list. I could use much more ink io tell you why your paper’s O. K., but what’s the use? You're alive, you're up-and-at-’em, and your whole Siaff is “swell”! - V The Ultimate BY EUGENIE RICHART This is what life consists of: the sharp, swift, pain Born of the union of lips, of the touch of hands. Do you demand of the moon that it shall not wane? After tonight it will shine on other lands. This one brief hour Is absolute, it is complete. Do not say that our love will last beyond This night that goes on such relentless feet. When I am dead, I never can respond To any kiss of yours, or any touch. This moon will die, as even we two must. And you. I think, will not remember much Os these proud lips you took, wheii the lips are dust. I do not want love after his depthless eyes Learn the tired patience of the old .and wise.