Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 246, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 February 1934 — Page 6

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CONSCRIPTION ADVOCATED AT BUTLER FORUM Draft of Wealth, Industry, Men in War, Asked by Legion Speakers. A battery of American Legion speakers advocating universal conscription of wealth, labor and industry and soldiers for war gained the approval of a lone Socialist last night in an open forum at Butler university. The legion program on What Is the Matter With the American Legion? was in answfr to attacks by Samuel S. Wyer, Columbus <Oi consulting engineer, on a forum program recently. Socialist F. S. Rogers agreed with universal conscription of policies laid down by V. M. Armstrong. Indiana department legion commander. Other speakers were Harold L Plummer, assistant national adjutant; Russell Cook, legion national Americanism director; Dr David M. Edwards. Indiana council on international relations secretary; Dean Albert E Bailey, Butler extension division, and Mr. Rogers. The legion speakers accused Mr. Wver of distorting facts concerning veterans’ compensations. Mr. Wyer had said that the legion was responsible for tremendous expenditures for non-service connected disabilities. The legion’s part in obtaining compensation for soldiers who never saw active service was disclaimed by Mr. Plummer, who blamed an interpretation of the attorney-general on the emergency retirement act for officers. Mr. Plummer said in conclusion; “Not one out of 100 can talk intelligently on cost of legion programs for veterans. No conclusions ever have been drawn more hastily by the public than those concerning the legion's program. Much of this was based upon assertions made by persons unfamiliar with the tacts of distorting them. We do not, of course, blame the public for things said by persons who were not properly informed.” NORWEGIAN TO LECTURE Irvington Church to Hear Noted Sociologist Tonight. The Criminal and the Community” will be the subject of an address by Dr. Gunnar Dybwad. Norwegian sociologist, tonight at the Irvington Presbyterian church. A dinner at 6:30 will precede the meeting. CELEBRATE Wafthinirton Itirihilay tonight at CHINATOWN C.Tmi E. Washington St. SHERRY WATSON ANO HIS CABALLEROS For Itcwcra nt ion lr. (XHW

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America Must Choose Agriculture Gains Little Benefits From Tariffs Failure to Adopt Nationally Approved Plan Disastrous to Major Producing Groups.

This * thr fourth of a aerie* of articles written for the Foreign Policy Association and the World Peace Foundation. BY HENRY A. WALLACE Secretary of Aerieulture AGRICULTURE PLAYS ESAU THE problem of statesmanship is to mold a policy leading toward a higher state for humanity, and to stick by that policy and make it seem desirable to the people in spite of short-time pressure to the contrary. True statesmanship and true religion have much, in common. Both are beset by those who. professing to be able politicians and hardheaded men of affairs, are actually so exclusively interested in the events of the immediate future or the welfare of a small class that from the broader, long-time point of view they are thoroughly impractical and theoretical.

Ever since the war we have blundered along refusing to reconcile our professions with the realities. Under cover of enormous foreign loans, we seemed to be acting on some international plan; but in reality there was no plan. The failure to adopt any nationally approved plan during the post-war years has of course been disastrous for all of our major producing groups, but it has been most disastrous in its effect on agriculture. The less of billions of dollars of agricultural income can be charged directly to this cause. The foreign loans we made to sustain our expanded productive capacity after the war, merely concealed the true nature of our situation. When the loans ended —as they were sure to, since we refused to accept sufficient goods in payment—our artificial market for the surplus disappeared overnight. a a a IN hurriedly making adjustments to a changed, chaotic world, we have been forced rapidly in the same nationalist direction which other nations have been taking more gradually and deliberately since the war. Os course, there are a few’ of our manufacturing industries which would require readjustments if w r e continue to follow’ the national plan exclusively, but for the most part the burden of the adjustments will fall on agriculture. International planning, on the other hand, would throw’ the greater burden of adjustment on factories rather than on farms. American agriculture has not benefited by tariffs, except spottily and for short periods of time. Despite that fact, both Republican and Democratic representatives of our agricultural regions have done their best to put up agricultural tariffs every time industrial tariffs were put up. Unfortunately for agriculture, most of the tariffs given to it are either immediately or in the long run worthless paper tariffs. In tariff matters agriculture has played Esau to the industrial Jacob. Cotton, wheat and lard obviously can never benefit from a tariff as long as we ex-

port half our cotton, one-fifth of our w’heat, and one-third of our lard. Such products as butter, beef cattle, wool and flaxseed may be helped by the tariff for a number of years but, as the cotton, wheat and hog men shift their attention to the protected products. it is rapidly discovered that the tariff benefits, even on these products of which we do not have any exportable surplus, is a temporary thing. a tt TWO or more years ago, a number of observers, myself among them, w’ere warning American beef cattlemen and the dairymen to look out for overproduction of milk and beef in three or four years. We said that the tariff, which has been somewhat effective on dairy and beef products during the greater part of the last five or six years, was certain to be almost completely ineffective when our production passed a certain point. The artificial barriers set up around our milk sheds were like little tariff walls. Note what happened under surplus pressure. The forces set at work by a local protectionist policy, by sanitary provisions, shipping restrictions, price agreements, etc., w’orked up a devil’s brew’ so rapidly that the mess predicted a year or so from now’ came sooner. Gangsters crept in to limit competition for their own profit. Strikes and disorders assumed in places the proportions of minor guerilla warfare. Before the end of 1933 w’e w’ere forced to step in and apply stabilization patchw’ork to our butter markets, and to consider the further proposal of farm leaders that we apply 200 million dollars more to tiding over our dairy and beef cattle situation until we could get on into programs of production control. u a a TN November of 1933 the President was urged by five Governors of northwestern states to put into effect compulsory marketing control for every farm product of the country. I thought of the dairy situation and of farmers w’ith hogs to sell, and I shuddered.

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ANTI-LYNCHING PROBERS STUDY VAN NUTS BILL Maryland Mob Leaders May

Be Subpenaed by Senate Committee. BY WALKER STONE Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON. Feb. 22.—How far it should inquire into the lynching of a Negro on the eastern shore of Maryland as a clinic case bearing on the necessity of pending federal anti-iynching legislation is being pondered by a judiciary subcommittee of the senate. The names of nine men alleged to have participated in the lynching of George Armwood at Princess Anne last October, against whom a grand jury composed of neighbors refused to return indictments, were I given to the committee yesterday by W. Preston Lane, attorney-general of Maryland. Mr. Lane also turned over to the committee affidavits of eye-witnesses of the lynching, which were ignored by the grand jury. Chairman Frederick Van Nuys of Indiana said he had not determined whether subpenas would be issued for the nine men. He said, however, that they either would be subpenaed or invited to appear before the committee voluntarily. However, it is believed certain that a subpena will be issued for Prosecutor Robins of Somerset i county, w’ho presented the case to | the grand jury and who w T as classed by every witness testifying on the eastern shore mob murder as one whose sympathies w’ere with the lynchers. The proponents’ case in the antilynch bill hearings was concluded last night after two full days of testimony wherein the details of practically every lynching since the turn of the century were retold. Attorney-General Lane’s testimony—a factual recital of how the inflamed mob overpowered Maryland state troopers to seize the prisoner and hang him and burn him—developed the tragic failure of state authorities to sustain the law in the face of hostile public opinion on the Eastern Shore. Without saying he favored federal antilynching legislation, Mr. Lane gave the committee the most convincing evidence it received on the need of such legislation.

I thought of the racketeering that would grow up at once if hogs were placed at $9 a hundred next week and different groups of farmers, aided by the racketeering elements of the city, began to fight as to whose hogs should get the preferred price. I though of working out the price differentials for every town and city in the United States and of working out base and surplus plans week by week and month by month for each farmer in the United States. I thought of the way in which the dairy people heretofore have relied as far as possible on compusory control of marketing without any thought of control of production, and what this situation has finally brought to them. And I knew it would be necessary to go to congress to get a very large appropriation so as to have a police force of half a million men to keep down the racketeering. I thought of prohibition and the way in which this police force would be open to the bribery which always exists when compulsion is being exerted in defiance of economic fact and emotional tendency. Tomorrow—The Cost of Isolation. JUNIOR C. OF C. HEARS ADDRESS BY GOVERNOR Economic Aid to Citizens State’s Chief Concern, Says McNutt. Governor Paul V. McNutt, speaking before the members of the Junior Chamber of Commerce in the Indianapolis Athletic Club yesterday, said that the government is in a constant state of change and is now most interested in the economic rehabilitation of citizens. Care of wards in the state institutons and the education of children also were stressed as of vital importance to the state, at this time. ARMY MAN PROMOTED H. T. Morgan, Fort Officer, Moved Up to Captaincy. Lieutenant Harvey T. Morgan, post personnel adjutant at Ft. Benjamin Harrison, has been promoted to the rank of captain. The personnel officer has been stationed at the fort since July 12, 1929. His home is in Cincinnati.

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Discovered Columbus Had Freckles, Old Book Says.

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