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AUTO PEACE IS NEGOTIATED BY ROOSEVELT President Predicts New Era in Capital and Labor Relations. HUGE STRIKE AVERTED Both Sides Are Elated; NRA Board to Be Appointed. By l nit' <1 Pri ss WASHINGTON, March 26 A peace negotiated at the White Home out of the war clouds of threatening strike and dissension reigned today in the automotive indiiM.v and was hoped by the President. to mark anew era of relations between capital and labor. By achieving the settlement, a maior industrial crisis involving the walkout oi 125,000 men and a severe setback to the President’s recovery program was averted. In the place of paralysis which it was feared would spread to other great industries, agreement was reached m the words of President Roosevelt to "a pioneer effort in human engineering on a basis never before attempted.” The terms of the settlement go beyond immediate conflict over the lights, of employes to bargain collectively and contain the nucleus of a system described by the President as "a kind of works council in industry” and inserted the human factor as‘the first to be considered in seasonal employe layoffs. New Board Created Principles of the agreement: 1. Nondiscrimination by employers in treatment of union employes. 2. Creation of a board to pass on questions of representation, discrimination and discharge. 3. Acknowledgment of labor s right of collective bargaining with representatives of their own choosing. Collective bargaining representation to be on a pro rata membership basis. 4. Beard to have access to all pay rolls and to all lists of claimed employe representation. 5. Principle cf need for work to be first consideration in reducing or increasing plant forces. Union Accepts Board , Final argument in the bitter dispute was concerned principally, it was learned, with the question of disclosure of the lists. It finally was settled when the union representatives accepted the board as a medium of future dealings with employers. The board to be set up by the NRA was expected to be named during the day, with a personnel of three. One member will represent labor, one industry, and the third, neutral. Manufacturers, before their departure for Detroit, made it clear that their representative would be a man acquainted with the industry and its problems but not connected with it. Such a choice, it was explained, was made necessary because of the companies involved. Credit for settlement of the controversy was given by both sides to President Roosevelt, who, as on previous days, “kept the door open” to treat with them. Both Sides Are Klated While the representatives of the union and manufacturers appeared elated at the outcome, both confident that they had gained a victory. General Hugh S. Johnson, recovery administrator, and mediator in the battle, tersely observed: “It was an even break for both sides.” William Green, head of the American Federation of Labor, who led the fight of the workers, saw in the outcome attainment of the objectives for which his organization strove. “We are prepared to co-operate immediately with the President and through his board upon which we are represented,” he said. “We shall proceeg to collective bargaining with cur employers. The iron hand of the President has kept things going throughout the negotiations and his personality has dominated the whole proceeding.” Manufacturers Are Silent The manufacturers, however, clung to their policy of saying nothing for publication, indicating they were content to let Mr. Roosevelt explain the situation. The President termed the settlement “one of the most encouraging incidents of the recovery program.” “It is a complete answer,” he said, “to those critics who have asserted that managers and employes can not co-operate for the public good without domination by selfish interests.” Mr. Roosevelt observed that “in the settlement there is a framework for anew structure of industrial relations—a new basis of understanding between employers and employes.’’ President Warns Labor “I would like you to know.” he added, “that in the settlement just reached we have charted anew course in social engineering in the United States." The President warned labor of its responsibilities under the recovery legislation. “This is not a one-sided statute,” he said, "and organizations of employes seeking to exercise their representative rights can not at the same time be unmindful of their responsibilities. “Industry's obligations are clearly set forth and its responsibilities are established. It is not too much to expect organizations of employes to observe the same ethical and moral responsibilities even though they are not specifically prescribed by the statute.”

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STATESMANSHIP and a a o 9 9 By Henry A. Wallace Secretary of Agriculture The First Article of America’s “New Deal” Creed—the Creed of a New America.

CHAPTER I Social Justice T HAVE never at any time underestimated the part that 1 aroused religious opinion plays in our civilization. I have sometimes wondered, however, whether religious opinion was aroused over the right things; whether, in fact, it was fully aware of our major social problems. For the last few years we have been going through an economic and social crisis probably as severe as any that our civilization has ever had to face. It has come as a result, in large part, of our failure to learn how to live with abundance. We have conquered great physical obstacles and have taken possession of vast natuial resources; we have the man-power, the machine-power to convert these resources into a much higher standard of living; yet here we are bogged down for lack of a social machine that will help us distribute, fairly, the fruits of our labor. The spirit which we employed and which we extolled throughout the expansionist era in our history was the spirit of the pioneer. A proud and rugged individualism carved a nation out of the wilderness. Probably no other spirit would have been so well adapted to the rapid growth of anew nation on anew continent. Our pioneer forefathers, confronting physical hazards and obstacles w T hich do not exist for us, had need of all the physical and moral stamina they could summon. It is not surprising that they turned so much to the Psalms of David for spiritual meat and drink. The Psalms seemed to typify the rugged individual, fearless, prepared to meet his God face to face. tt tt tt tt tt tt THE pioneers lived in a scarcity economy. The first obligation was to produce enough of the necessaries of life to go around. It meant hard work, discouraging work, often disagreeable and unpleasant work. But because it had to be done, because starvation and deprivation might result "if it were not done, men made a virtue of work. If the task was monotonous, the more reason for spurring on the

worker with the message that work was a virtue; leisure, antisocial. Likewise, it became always right to save, rarely right to spend. The harder a man worked, and the more he saved, the finer citizen he was rated. Now I do not Speak of this pioneer age and these pioneer virtues disparagingly. But I make a distinction between the pioneer era and our era; and I make a distinction between the attitudes that properly dominate one era, and the attitudes that ought properly to dominate another.

THE depth of our recent economic and social distress may furnish the impetus with which to smash the shocking paradox of surplus wheat in Nebraska and breadlines in New York City. Certainly, t at paradox displays the fact that we have created abundance, but don t know how to manage it. It becomes obvious that the conquering o external nature avails nothing unless the minds and hearts of men are right. . We are coming into a world where it is scientifically and mechanically possible to have a superabundance of the good things of life. At the present time we have an agricultural and Industrial plant which, with the labor that is lying idle, could easily produce twice what is how being produced. With the inventions which are clearly within our grasp during the next ten years, we could easily produce twice as much. The shortcomings in the selfishness of the human heart ( which still holds to the idea that there is a fundamental and essential shortage of the good things of life for which we must all scramble, and partly in our inability to work an economic system based on fundamental justice rather than superficial and legal justice. a tt tt a tt tt 'T'HE prophets of old had this idea of social justice very strongly in their hearts. Look through Micah, and read the Sermon on the Mount once more, to see how this religious message of social justice, and this vision of living with abundance, has come down through the ages. — Is our spiritual life today awake

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to the need for social justice, and have we souls rich enough to endure abundance? I do not know. I think that is the challenge of the church today. I think the church should be afire today with the keenness of its desire to bring about social justice. It is the job of government, as I see it, to devise and develop the social machinery which will work out the implications of the social message of the old prophets and of the Sermon on the Mount; but it remains the opportunity of the church to fill men’s hearts and minds with the spirit and the meaning today to an amazing degree, If only we will look about us with eyes clear of prejudice and greed. Tomorrow—The Spiritual Adventure of the Prophets. (Copyright. 1934. Round Table Press. Inc.: Distributed by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) TEMPERATURE TO DROP Rain or Snow Predicted for Tonight by Weather Bureau. Rain or snow tonight, with temperatures dropping below freezing. was forecast today by the weather bureau. Rain which started last night was expected to continue throughout today.

For now, the fifth or sixth generation beyond those old pioneers, we have come to a time of abundance, instead of penury. But because we have not learned how to live with abuhdance, men go hungry and ragged. Because our great business institutions saved too strenuously in the fat years, and accumulated huge corporate surpluses at the cost of their workers’ purchasing power, demand lagged far behind supply, depression came, and men lost their jobs.

INDIANAPOLIS, MONDAY, MARCH 26,1934

RELIGION

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Henry A. Wallace

INFANT GIRL IS BADLYBURNED Child’s Easter Basket Is Ignited by Flames From Stove. An infant's childish joy over a gaudy Easter basket caused her to be seriously burned this morning in her home. Margery Anna. Yates, 2, of 852 Buchanan street, suffered burns of her face and body, as she went too near a stove from which protecting glass was missing Flames leaped out and caught a tiny Easter basket covered with tissue paper, which the girl was holding. Frantically the child ran through the house, while her mother, Nellie Yates, stood paralyzed with fear and horror. A sister, Ruth Ellen Yates, 8, was slightly burned about the face, in a brave effort to quench the flames. A brother, Donald Yates, 5, stood helplessly watching the fire. Attracted by the mother’s screams, William Fiford, 57, grandfather of the burned child, living at 931 Leonard street around the corner from the Yates household, rushed into the yard and saw little Margery Ann standing in the doorway the flames shooting high above her. Mr. Liford quickly picked up a quilt, put it around the girl and smothered the flames. The fire department rescue squad gave first aid and Margery Ann was sent to the city hospital in an ambulance. RAIL LABOR ACT MAY SETTLE WAGE FIGHT Eastman and Union Leaders Reach No Agreement. By United Press WASHINGTON. March 26. Transportation Co-ordinator Joseph B. Eastman hinted today after a lengthy and unconclusive session with union leaders that the railway wage controversy may have to be settled under the provisions of the railway labor act.

WALKS INTO PATH OF TRAIN; KILLED City Man Stops on Track to Light Pipe. Stopping on a railroad track to light his pipe, John Reptik, 49, of 359 Addison street, was killed instantly when he was struck by a Big Four train last night at the Holmes avenue crossing. Police were notified by James Lindsay, fireman on the train, that the crossing gates were down and the train moving slowly. He said he saw Mr. Reptik walk under the gates and step on the track in the path of the locomtive. The body, badly mangled, was sent to city hospital morgue by Coroner William E. Arbuckle. NEW ORLEANS STRUCK BY TORNADO:B HURT Score of Houses in Gentilly District Damaged. B/i United Prras NEW ORLEANS, March 26.—A tornado ."truck the edge of the city early today, leveling a score of houses in the suburban Gentilly district. Eight persons were taken to Charity hospital, one, Mrs. Claire Morris, in a critical condition. U. S. Court Freees 59 By United Prras PHILADELPHIA, March 26. State Senator John J. McClure and fifty-eight co-defendants were freed today by the United States court of appeals in one of the most sensational liquor cases of the dry era. . Times Index Page Bridge 15 Broun 9 Classified 13-14 Comics 15 Crossword Puzzle 15 Curious World 15 Editorial 10 Financial 11 Good Old Days 3 Hickman—Theaters 9 Lodge News 8 Monuments of Literature 9 Radio 7 Sports 12-13 State News 16 Woman's Pages y. ....... 4-5

U. S. ‘STALIN’ MYSTERY MAN, WIRT ASSERTS

It May or It May Not Be Paul McNutt: Gary Man Is Keeping ‘Secret.’ 'CRUSADER’ IS EVASIVE And Steel’s His Boss, They Say in Some Quarters Around Gary. BY ARCH STEINEL Times Staff Writer GARY, Ind., March 26. —Gary has a Paul Revere, who. riding a “hob-by-horse”—some say of steel design —is sounding the tocsin against the B. T.’s (brain-trusters). With a metaphorical lantern in hand, he searched out for The Indianapolis Times today the man who is to be “Stalin” to President Roosevelt’s “Kerensky”—and it may or may not be Governor Paul V. McNutt. Indiana’s crier is William Wirt, superintendent of schools of Gary, and he admits that his present exposures as well as his study of economics are a "hobby.” And in almost the same breath in the parlor of his old English style in Gary he refuses to reveal his politics. “I wouldn’t quote any politics. I have kept it out of the Gary school system.” Gets 89,200 a Year Mr. Wirt admitted that he receives $9,200 yearly as head of the ! school system. Sixty per cent of | the taxes of Gary are paid by subsidiaries of the United Steel Corporation, arch foe of the NRA. Mr. Wirt’s boss, Peter Seyle, president of the board of education, is manager of the American Bridge Company, United States Steel affiliate. Mrs. Wirt also is employed in the Gary schools as director of auditoriums and during the summer season is a professor at Northwestern university. The man who has crashed many newspapers in the country with his charges of a revolution and traitorship in the ranks of President Roosevelt, talks glibly of economics. “Nobody Knows,” His Answer He is mild-mannered but evasive as he is questioned, “Did you refer to. Governor McNutt as the Stalin in your brief against the braintrusters?” “Nobody knows who it is,” was his retort. Then, agilely, he led into the secret haunts of the country’s promised “Stalin.” “He's probably very Democratic, very modest. One who says to himself as he watches, ‘l’ll follow their moves. And at the proper time I’ll capture their fancy.’ You know ‘ “Thrice did the great Caesar refuse the crown,’ ” he added as he explained what in his mind's eye the B. T’s injected in his brain as their picture of “their Stalin.” He denied the possibility that he could have talked to . a group of men in Washington "who merely were feeding him the well-known bologna with the knowledge that he was an extreme conservative.

Another Ogre for La,bor He brought out another ogre for labor to chew upon by declaring that the kind of a union the B. T.s’ seek is a "vertical union” (one of all indutsries organized individually as of industry and not of craft.) His prophets in his writing are David Lawrence and Mark Sullivan, columnists and torch bearers for the G. O. P. He gives the country but two months to decide in congress whether NRA and its alphabetical family is to be permanent or temporary. "But wouldn't the ballot box in the fall be time enough?” he was asked. "No! It must be done within the next two months,’ he says, without heat. Not an “Armed Revolt” When it was suggested that his charges, coming during the present off-election year, will be termed “politics.” he said: "I don’t think I would have opened my mouth if I had thought it would have been taken in that way.” He declared that if this construction were put upon his charges, that it would be a "smoke screen.” "Will the revolt, led by Stalin, be an armed revolt?” he was asked. "No; it will be a social revolution, although the emotional fervor of the mob must be counted upon," he said. Gary is a house divided on Mr. Wirt’s statements. The labor element is strong. "Piffle,” is their comment as they carry well-filled dinner pails, or the pertinent suggestion to questioners to "look around and see where all the smoke comes from and the type of factories.” “Steel” Heard on All Sides While others say he should be made to prove his charges afid at the same time declare Mr. Wirt is of unquestioned veracity. "Steel” is- heard on every side. Mr. Wirt's quotations of economic points were interlarded with the price of steel before the depression and during it. He is opposed to the closed shop. No political candidate, no bond issue, no public activity, can begin in Gary without the customary question: "Hew do the steel companies stand on it?” Mr. Wirt came to Gary at its first eye-washing under Judge Elbert Gary, of the United States Steel Corporation, twenty-five years ago.

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FORMER NEWS EDITOR DEAD

Louis Howland, 77, Taken at Home; Seriously 111 for Several Days. Louis Howland, 77, for many years editor of the Indianapolis News, died early this morning at his home, 1223 North Pennsylvania street. He had been seriously ill for several days. Yesterday pneumonia developed, resulting in his death at 2:30 this morning. Funeral services will be held at 3 Wednesday afternoon in the All Saints Episcopal cathedral. Mr. Howland was a member of the Cathedral congregation, and had held practically all of the offices there that a layman may hold. Mr. Howland was unmarried. He lived at 1233 North Pennsylvania street with his sister, Miss Caroline Howland, who survives him. His only other immediate relative is a brother, Hewitt Howland, for twenty years editor for the Bobbs-Mer-rill Company. Hewitt Howland left Indianapolis in 1925 to become editor of the Century magazine. He lives in New York. Born Here in 1857 He was born in Indianapolis June 13, 1857, the son of John D. and Desdemona Harrison Howland. His father came to Indiana from Baltimore, and his mother was from Tennessee, Mr. Howland was educated in a private school in Indianapolis, and took his college preparatory work in the Shattuck school, Faribault, Minn. He entered Yale in 1875, and was graduated in 1879. Following his graduation he returned to Indianapolis and took up the study of law with John T. Dye. He was one of the organizers of the Indianapolis Mugwump movement of independents, who opposed James G. Blaine. Though identified with the Democratic party, he frequently opposed the policies of the party. In the campaign of 1888 he returned to New York to work for the Reform Club, and later worked for the Forum Magazine, of which Walter H. Page was editor. In 1392 he joined the staff of the Indianapolis News as an editorial writer, remaining in this capacity until 1911 when he became editor upon the retirement of Charles R. Williams. Author of Five Books He was a member of no fraternal orders, and several years ago resigned all-club memberships except that held in the Indianapolis Literary Club. In addition to his Yale degree, he was the recipient of two honorary degrees, M. A. and Litt. D.. both from Wabash college. Mr. Howland was the author of five books, “Day Unto Day,” “A Biography of Stephen A. Douglas,” “Case and Comment,” a collection of his Saturday newspaper essays, 'Autobiography of a Cathedral,” and "The Mind of Jesus.”

Assembly Nomination Is Sough t by G. 0. P. Bloc

Pledging themselves to changes in state government operation, ten Indianapolis men and one woman today formed a bloc to gain nomination and election as representatives in the state legislature on the Republican ticket. One of the high points of the program is demand for repeal of the last act of the general assembly "which gives dictatorial powers to the Governor to appoint practically all employes in the administrative department of the state.” "Siich an act is not fair to the other elective state officials and make for gross inefficiency,” the group charges. Members of the "ticket” are: Laurens L. Henderson. 4159 Carrollton avenue, attorney; Ralph S. Whittaker, 5825 Winthrop avenue, midwestem representative of the International Trading Company; Duane J. Bellinger, 311 Wentworth apartments, insurance agency head; Miss Adele Storck, 2542 North Talbot street, attorney; Robert L. Brokenburr, 2066 Highland place, attorney; Kevin D. Brosman, 1471 North Delaware street, insurance man; Ted Emerson Barker, 1640 Pleasant street, publisher of the South Side Press; Dr. Maynard F. Poland. 920 North Tuxedo street; Albert J. Eeveridge Jr., 4146 Washington boulevard, newspaper correspondent; Forman D. McCurdy, 750 North DeQuincy street, attorney, and Ralph M. Lett, 633 North Linwood avenue, Butler university graduate. The statement of the unit set out the belief that "Indiana can put her

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TERROR MOB TRIO TO BE RUSHED TO OHIO PRISON TODAY Details of Trip From Lima to Columbus Are Guarded by Army Chief; Dillinger Reprisal Raid Feared. PIERPONT, MAKLEY TO DIE JULY 13 Clark Is Sentenced to Ohio Prison for Life in Slaying of Sheriff; Shouse to Plead Guilty, Is Report. BY BASIL GALLAGHER Times Staft Writer LIMA, 0., March 26. —Three terror mob members some time this afternoon or tonight were to be rushed to the Ohio state penitentiary at Columbus, two of them to a\Vait death in the electric chair Friday, July 13, and the third to start! a life sentence. General Harold M. Bush, in charge of the small army of national guardsmen who will accompany the prisoners, jealously guarded plans for the trip, announcing newspaper men will be notified only five minutes before the trip starts, to avoid possibility of a Dillinger gang effort to free the prisoners. Russell Clark, last of the trio to be tried, this morning heard Judge Emmit E. Everett sentence him to life im-

4 INJURED IN TRUCKWARFARE Three Carriers Damaged as Violence Is Renewed in Strike. Four men were injured, three truck motors were damaged and windshields broken on five autos today in a renewal of the warfare between alleged striking truckers and the Kibler Trucking Company. Seven men attacked three Kibler employes, Graydon Martin, 34, of 712 South Noble street, and two others in front of a grocery at Twenty-second and Talbot streets. Martin suffered a cut on the head from a piece of pipe wielded by one of his alleged assailants. The gang jerked wiring from the Kibler truck and damaged the generator. Martin told police he recognized two of the men. In front of a grocery at Thirtieth street and Central avenue, a baseball bat melee was staged this morning. and a Kibler truck, driven by Vern Barlow, 1222 North Warman avenue, damaged. Barlow was struck on the leg with a bat. He said ten men attacked him and his two helpers. They chased the helpers away and then damaged the truck. Barlow said. Later Barlow and two other men were attacked at Eleventh street and college avenue. A pitched battle with bricks ensued. The truck motor was damaged. One attempt at sabotage was made on a truck of the company this morning in the 300 block West Washington street . The windshield of a car owned by Clarence Wilson, 32, of 1726 East Washington street, a grocery employe, was broken by lead shot. It is believed the shot was aimed at the truck. Police believe the shot was fired from a sling. A former deputy sheriff was said to have been injured in another battle at Morris and Meridian streets. The former deputy is said to have knocked down Carl Kistner, 31, of 6469 Pendleton pike, employe of Kibler’ r

own house in order, but we do not believe this can be accomplished by time-worn methods.” The members said they proposed to limit, or prevent wholly, some of the expenditures of local governments by ma'king it impossible to obtain money, "even to the point of abolishing some of the local tax units.” They said taxes can be reduced if local officials are forced to economize, "and the legislature can force this economy.” They seek reduction of auto license fees and gasoline taxes and will endeavor to stop or curtail new highway construction until economic conditions improve. The state police force is another target of the group, each of them pledging to support legislation taking the department out of politics. A nonpolitical, merit system similar to civil service, is demanded for the police unit. The political spoils system in operation of state institutions is attacked and the bloc is pledged to revision of the present liquor laws, charging they now encourage tax evasion and bootlegging. “Our idea is that the state should get the entire liquor revenue, rather than a few favored politicians,” they said. "We sponsor oTher sound legislation for the protection of he public, such as measures for public health, ncnpollution of streams, measures to speed up legal procedure, the repeal of archaic and unnecessary laws now on the statute books.”

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prisonment. Ilarry Pierpont, Dillingen mob trigger man, and Charles Makley Saturday were sentenced to death for the murder of Sheriff Jess Sarber in the jail release of John Dillinger last fall. Clark shuffled into court, glowering, this morning and heard the court sentence him to life imprisonment. When the judge sentenced him to "pay the costs of the trial,” the prisoner’s scowl changed to a momentary grin. While he was in the courtroom, Clark denied grapevine rumors that Pierpont and Makley had been removed secretly to prison last night. As the trio walks through the portals of the Columbus pententiary today, "finis” formally will be written to the exploits of three of the most notorious bandits who have terrorized the country and the middle west particularly, since Jesse James. Dillinger Hunt Continues As he prepared to take the prisoners to Columbus, General Bush admitted that his “undercover” men were working in Toledo and Columbus on reports that Dillinger was scheming the liberation of his pals, from hideouts in those cities. Observers who have seen the seemingly impregnable defenses erected here to frustrate any attack, and knowing the details of the heavy police and miiltary guards arranged for the trip to Columbus, laughed at the idea of Dillinger attempting a delivery of the convicts. The concensus here is that the gangster chief has decided to let his pals “take the rap.” Pierpont Smiles Sardonically The hardened characters of Pierpont and Makley were shown Saturday as the gangsters stood before Judge Emmett E. Everett in court to be sentenced to death on Friday, July 13. Pierpont, dapper in a neat gray suit and blue shirt, stood smiling sardonically as he was sentenced to die in the electric chair. The smile broadened to a grin as Judge Everett read a list of reasons why the court had decided against anew trial for the bandit and murderer. Makley, like Pierpont, was brought into court for sentence, shackled to deputy sheriffs. He was chewing gum vigorously. While the judge solemnly pronounced sentence, the gangster chewed harder and shifted his feet impatiently. All his attempts at geniality had vanished. Now he was hard and showing it in his every gesture. Clark Gets Life Clark's heavy features did not lighten when a jury brought in a verdict of guilty, but with a recommendation for mercy. He showed no elation, even when his mother, a pathetic, wrinkled woman, kissed him fervently. When a newspapr man asked him what he thought of it, the gangster replied: “You do my thinking for me.” He lapsed into a brooding silence. Edward Shouse, former "terror mob” member now serving time in the Indiana state prison, will plead guilty to the murder of Sheriff Sarber in the Allen county court in two weeks, it was indicated today by Ernest Botkin, prosecutor. In sentencing Clark, Judge Everett denied the truth of charges that Pierpont and Makley were "on trial” during Clark's trial. He said he was amused by the alibis in the gang trials, adding that in nine out of ten cases, in his experience, alibis are fictitious. He charged that in the Clark case, defense alibi witnesses perjured themselves. “As soon as the country comes to the conclusion that people must become honest and stop thinking every one else is crooked, the better off the nation will be," he said. Bank Earnings Decrease By United Preaa WASHINGTON. March 26—Net earnings of the twelve federal reserve banks in 1933 fell to $7,957,407 from $22,314,244 in 1932, causing some of the instituitons to draw upon surplus to pay dividends, a report of the federal reserve board showed today.