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THURSDAY. APRIL 19. 1934. THROUGH DUST p’T'HE best news of a week marked by lockouts and strikes on the labor front is President Roosevelt’s determination to get congress to act on the Wagner bill for a permanent national labor board. Today the President meets with Senator Wagner, Labor Secretary Perkins and NRA leaders to work out a plan which will carry out the bill's principle to equalize bargaining power between employes and employers. He sees the need for this clearly, through the great cloud of dust raised by misrepresentation and false propaganda. Employers and workers are misinformed if they believe Senator Wagner or President Roosevelt intends to turn over the whole labor organization of the country to an all-inclusive American Federation of Labor or any other type of union leadership. They do not. Both have emphasized that workers are entitled to the kind of union organization they want; even more, that minority groups are entitled to representation in collective bargaining. In other words, they want to help workers to develop democracy in organization and power to take care of their own interests. That aim* is an absolute necessity in the widespread organization of industry set up under the recovery act, if workers ever are to get enough of the wealth they produce to maintain purchasing power for prosperity. BREAKING FAITH 'ITTHEN organized minorities get busy on ’ ’ Capitol Hill, it is hard to find enough brave men who will stand up and be counted on the side of decency in government. This explains why a handful of lobbyists, posing as spokesmen for the farmers, were able by adept use of political pressure to insert in the revenue bill a tax on cocoanut and other vegetable oils produced outside continental United States. Aimed primarily at cocoanut oil produced In the Philippines, this tax, if it becomes law, will rise to smite the American farmer. It will seriously curtail the purchasing power of Filipino people who now buy large quantities of our cotton goods, meat and dairy products. Trade does not travel on a one-way street. We must not go back on our solemn pledge to a subject people within a month after passage of a law setting out an orderly process by which the Philippines may achieve independence. It would be all the more indefensible because the Philippines can not strike back. It now is apparently too late to take oils tax out of the revenue bill. The only solution is a joint resolution of congress reaffirming the tax-free cocoanut oil quota established in the Philippine independence law. President Roosevelt is said to favor such a resolution. He might well refuse to sign the revenue bill until congress adopts the resolution.

HAWAII AND SUGAR ‘P'FFORTS of the President to deal with the difficult sugar stabilization problem through the pending bill deserve support. Granting that the various classes of producers and their conflicting claims can not all be satisfied and that compromise by all is necessary, there nevertheless remains a strong argument made by the people of Hawaii. They do not challenge their temporary quota. But they do ask that it be fixed rather than subject to future change. In support of this appeal they point out that under the terms of annexation Hawaii is as much a part of the United States as any state, and therefore should receive the same type of sugar quota treatment as mainland beets and cane. Since two years are required for each crop in Hawaii, there seems to be little doubt that a fluctuating quota would add to the chaos in the industry which the Roosevelt program aims to cure. That would injure Hawaii, which is so important in our Pacific affairs, and in turn would strike at the important mainland trade with Hawaii. OUR TEACHERS 'T'HE big worry of most school boards these A days is the question of when and how they are going to be able to pay their teachers. There is an older worry, though, which has exercised a good many school boards in the past: and Dr. John Carr Duff of New York university called attention to it the other day by taking time off to denounce “outmoded, Puritanical traditions” that require school teachers to be goody-goodies. This older worry has to do with the way the schoolma'am shall behave when she is not in the classroom. In many localities, as Dr. Duff points out, teachers “have to live up to a moral standard that would put a strain on a thirty-second degree saint.” Dr. Duff cites a pledge required of all teachers in a certain North Carolina town: “I promise not to fall in love, to become engaged, or secretly married.” In another case applicants for teaching positions had to sign such promises as these: “I promise to abstain from all dancing, immodest dressing, and any other conduct unbecoming a teacher and a lady.” “I promise not to go out with any young man' except in so far as it may be necessary to stimulate Sunday school work. Attempts to regulate the private lives of school teachers in this way are not exactly uncommon In the United States. These are towns where prim and priggish behavior seems to be valued even more highly than teaching ability. And it hardly is surprising if educators

like Dr. Duff demand that a halt be called. The request that a school teacher lead a model life arises naturally enough, of course. If parents want to be sure that their children are Intrusted only to young women of high moral character, that is easily understood. The point is that in many cases the school board does not stop there. It goes on and erects standards of conduct which, as Dr. Duff complains, turn the teacher either into a hypocrite or a goody-goody. Compared with the issues of the day, all this Is a minor matter of course. But our school system as a whole will be a lot sounder when we give up some of this unwarranted meddling'with the private lives of our schoolma’ams.

SYMBOL OF THE HOUR in' VERY age has its symbols, and one of the most revealing things about the present moment in human affairs seems to be the fact that the symbol of the hour is the good Dr. Wirt. The doctor could not have been taken seriously at any other time than the present. The mere fact that he was able to get as much public attention as he did get’speaks volumes on the state of the public mind. When the laughable aspects of this dinnertable gossip about radicalism in high places are cleared away, it remains pretty evident that the whole business managed to touch a responsive chord in the electorate simply because the electorate as a whole had already been doing a good deal of cogitating along the same general lines. We have, in other words, come gradually to the realization that something big and far-reaching has been happening to us in the last year, and we have been trying to figure out just what it is. We have set to work to re-examine the fundamentals of our national philosophy as we have not done since the Civil war. Hardly any of the things that have been done at Washington since March 4, 1933, are lacking in significance. We loosen our monetary policy and find that we have lined the haves and the have-nots up for a struggle; we tackle our farm problem and discover that our new policy may carry us far into uncharted waters; we set to work to revive industry and find ourselves engaged in an experiment which has no precedent in all American history. The natural result of all this—undertaken, as it was, in a hurry, without formulation of a definite underlying philosophy—is that we have at last reached the point where we want, very greatly, to know just what is ahead of us. Maybe we’ll be afraid of it and maybe we won’t; the point is, we want to know. At this psychological moment, then, comes the Hoosier schoolmaster, with his horrendous tales of communism among the mighty. The important thing about it was not what he had to say, but the way we listened to him. In that fact—in the eager way we waited for some new information about the course that is being charted for us—lies the real significance of the whole business.

THE HERNDON CASE 'T'HE state of Georgia seems to have lost its •*- head and much of its dignity over a 19-year-old Negro coal miner. In July, 1932, a young Communist named Angelo Herndon led a peaceful demonstration to the Atlanta courthouse demanding hunger relief. He was arrested and lodged in jail without a charge. When a writ of habeas corpus forced the state to act, it filed complaint under a penal statute passed before the Civil war, and amended in 1866. This law, originally passed to prevent treason and insurrection among Negroes and white abolitionists, was amended to prevent conspiracies between whites and freed slaves. Under this forgotten act Herndon was sentenced to eighteen years in the chain gang for “attempting to incite insurrection” and “distributing insurrectionary literature.” Although the Communist party is legally on the Georgia ballot and its literature available in public libraries. Prosecutor Hudson said he was trying Communism as well as the Negro. “As fast as Communists come here we shall indict them,” he said, “and I shall demand the death penalty in every case.” Now the national committee for the defense of political prisoners charges that he has been underfed, shackled, beaten and subjected to the foulest types of maltreatment in prison. The courts lr>ve held up an appeal for more than a year. It is not a pretty picture. Georgia should know that by denying civil rights and justice to the lowliest of its citizens it is playing into the hands of the very radicalism it fears. MORE MILK MRS. ROOSEVELT wants higher prices for milk to farmers, lower prices to consumers and greater consumption of dairy products. So do we all. The question is: How to attain these ends? The agricultural adjustment administration has proposed a way, a campaign of milk control, that pounds intelligent. And yet, from within the dairy industry, the plan is meeting vigorous resistance. There are those who question the motives of some of the opponents of the plan; but we would like to believe that the organized industry also seeks the same aims as Mrs. Roosevelt and triple A. The whole question of milk control has been discussed in a series of regional conferences. Those who went from Washington to attend them are back in the capital now. studying the pros and cons. Out of this must come some milk plan, for this industry can no longer hobble along without government aid. It may well be that the original plan will have to be amended. Perhaps some greater control over milk distributors’ profits will be needed. In any event, it should have for its purposes the three Mrs. Roosevelt pointed out. Otherwise it will fail. Every woman’s husband is glad to learn that business is picking up, until he hears also that department stores have enjoyed a wonderful trade. Socialists hurled eggs at Chancellor Dollfuss of Austria, but they must have been duck eggs, because he missed them all,

Liberal Viewpoint ="By DR. HARRY ELMER BARNES’^

/'ANE of the most intelligent ways in which to approach the new deal is to back away and get a proper historical perspective. This need not lead to any foolish worship of the Fathers. Dean Brown has brought together some interesting biographical studies dealing with important Americans in various walks of life from Benjamin Franklin to David Starr Jordan (They Were Giants. By Charles Reynolds Brown. MacMillan. $2.00). Many of these men were giants indeed, but there is no reason to doubt that they easily could be matched among Americans today. Professor Carman’s book is the second in a three volume study of American social and economic history 'Social and Economic History of the United States, Vol. 11. By Harry J. Carman. D. C. Heath. $4). When finished, certainly it will rival the very popular Work by Professor and Mrs Beard, and it contains far more information on American social evolution than the Beard volumes. Few works on American history so well combine the intelligent selection of many important facts with an engaging manner of presentation. t a a PROFESSOR LUCCOCK of the Yale Divinity school’s very broad minded attitude toward literature, indicating the belief that the latter affords more insight into the religious trends of an age than much of our forma] religious writing (Contemporary American Literature and Religion. By Halford E. Luccock; Willett, Clark & Cos., $2). While definitely inclined to find as much sympathy with religion as possible in our current literature, he does not fail to point out many evidences of growing antagonism on the part of the intelligentsia. The culmination of American history is, of course, the new deal of President Roosevelt. Professor Patterson has edited an extremly interesting anthology of current attitudes on the efforts of the Roosevelt administration to head us back toward prosperity. (The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. Vol 172. sl.) There are few places where one can discover such a diversity of authoritative opinion, running all the way from the chairman of the Weirton Steel Company to Mr. Sidney Hillman of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers. * n n 'T'HE new dealers were bound to come in for J- their turn at appraisal in anew Washington Merry-Go-Round. The book now has appeared and there is much conjecture as to the author (The New Dealers. By Unofficial Observer. Simon and Schuster. $2.75). It maintains the high level of journalism achieved in the “Mirrors of Washington” and in the two volumes of the Merry-Go-Round.” While letting the chips fall where they may, the well-informed author is obviously sympathetic with the general aspirations of the new deal. The book by Messrs. Will and Walling, with a foreword by William Green, represents a semiofficial statement of the current philosophy of conservative American labor (Our Next Step— A National Economic Policy. By Matthew Woll and William Walling. Harper. $2). It shows that even this section of American opinion has received at least a temporary “shot in the arm” and has caught something of the spirit of the new deal. Os American socialists to date, it is probable that Morris HiJlquit ranks next to Eugene Debs in the esteem of the party and of the country at large. The present book is a sort of a posthumous autobiography which comes down through the La Follette campaign of 1924 (Loose Leaves From a Busy Life. By Morris Hillquiti MacMillan. $2.50). It throws light not only upon a distinguished American socialist but on the history of American radicalism as well. Norman Thomas is the outstanding socialist m this country today. In his latest book, he analyzes the prospects of a world faced with’ the alternative of communism, constitutional socialism, the new deal and Fascism. (The Choice Before Us, Mankind at the Crossroads. By Norman Thomas. Macmillan. $2.00.) Mr. Thomas, quite naturally, argues for the superiority of constitutional Socialism which he presents in the guise of “The Co-Operative Commonwealth.”

Capital Capers BY GEORGE ABELL— -

T>LOND, blue-eyed Signora Margherita Sarcolumnist and co-founder of Mussolini s official newspaper, Popolo d’ltalia. was the honor guest this week at a reception of the ItalyAmerica Society in the Sulgrave Club in Washington. Dressed in brown velvet with gold brocaded sleeves, Signora Sarfatti was mobbed by admirers. *,T your book, Dux. the biography of Mussolini,” beamed one visitor. , “Yes,” replied Signora Sarfatti, in perfect mglish. ‘lt now is published in America.” Italian Ambassador Rosso, hair neatly glossed white collar shining, kissed Signora Sarfatti’s graceful fingers. “All. Signora!” he smiled. “May I sit down with you?” Miss Meta Evans, dressed in scarlet silk, hovered solicitously about the celebrity. “May I present General Dion Williams?” she asked. The gallant marine bowed low. Signora Sarfatti was swamped with attentions. Occasionally, one glimpsed her sorsage of roses and sweet peas, her tiny brown velvet hat bobbing up and down. On political matters the Italian visitor remained discreetly silent. “Tell me what is going on here?” she begged a correspondent. “ oh > you must tell me your impressions,” he insisted. “ No — 1 come here to learn, not to inform ” replied Signora Sarfatti. Later, the Italian newswoman lectured on Italian art, dazzled her audience with an amazing vocabulary. Once she referred to the 19th Century as “the age of cerebralism,” a neat twist which left her auditors gasping. This week Newswoman Sarfatti departs for Mexico and Cuba after some informal entertainments at the Italian Embassy. tt tt tt at the Italy-America Society recepMiss Bera Bloom, daughter of New York’s Representative Sol Bloom wearing the Italian colors in gay white, red and green silk. Vera has been referred to by the Poet-Patriot d’Annunzio as “Goddaughter of Fiume.” Miss Janet Richards, speaker on current events, wore a blue spring coat trimmed with tan fur, indulged in a mutually eulogistic conversation with Signora Sarfatti. Lovely Signora Magda Sbernadori. wife of Italy's air attache, looked ravishing as she sat at the tea table surveying the crowd. The coffee served at the party was excellent—which possibly explained the crush about the buffet table. Mrs. James Francis Sullivan, Philadelphia grande dame, arrived with her hostess, Mrs. Walter Tuckerman. wearing diamond bracelets which one could scarce view without an eyeshade. Taking a tip from Vera Bloom’s dress (or vice versa), officials of the Italy-America Society placed red, white and green candles on the tea able. Daffodils and pink sweet peas were used as decoration. tt tt tt WHEN President Stenio Vincent of Haiti stepped off the train in union station yesterday, the first thing he saw was the uniforms of American marines—which Haiti has been striving to get away from for years. Marine bayonets glistened, a marine captain barked orders, marines saluted. President Vincent blinked, a slight smile curled his lips as he replied to the greeting of polite, silk-hatted Secretary of State Hull. “He must think he's back in Haiti,” said one of the diplomats in an aside, as he noticed Vincent walking between the squad of marines.

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(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns. Make pour letters short, so all can have a chance. Limit them to 250 words or less.) tt tt tt NOT A BAD IDEA, WE’D SAY, A. D. By A. D. What is wrong with the Message Center? There seems to be just four subjects of interest—Dillinger, birth control, Cadle tabernacle and Real Silk. Come on, the rest of you readers who have something to say. Let us have a little variety. My education is quite complete on the four subjects mentioned above. tt tt a THE DEPRESSION WILL END IN SIX YEARS By J. A. Schmidt The world today and the people in it are in such a turmoil that it is not easy to tell whether we are going or coming. When it’s all over (in about six years from now) we will look back with astonishment to our own ignorance. A Christ who failed nearly 2,000 years ago could not speed the time one hour, so let’s be patient for a while and soon all will come out better. In due season we shall reap what we have sown. tt a IT LOOKS AS THOUGH COMMENDING IS A HABIT By Cozy O'Neil I notice an article in The Times commending Walter Pritchard and Captain Coffin and written by Arthur G. Gresham. He says some disgruntled Democrat must have written a previous article condemning Pritchard and Coffin. He also states that he personally recommends these two worthies and says that he knows them both to be gentlemen. Who is this Gresham, that he should recommend anybody? Who is going to recommend him? tt o tt KNITTER’S JOB IS WORTH SIOO ANY WEEK. By a Knitter on Strike I have been at Real Silk eight years and I still have the day to see when the E. M. B. A. gives a square deal. Thirty-five dollars is a fair wage, but did A. G. Houghland ever knit? That job is worth SIOO a week. We are out to get a good wage and to keep it. We don't want to get cut anything. A. G. Houghland ought to get a litte more education and line up with the President. tt tt tt DISEASE PREVENTION PRESENTS PROBLEM IN CITY By a Reader Is it a wonder the city is not swept by epidemic, if each case is handled to be treated as the following was. I live in the 1600 block, New Jersey street, and there is a family in which there are scarlet fever and measles at the same time, The father is permitted to go to work as street car operator where he comes in contact with the public. None of the family is quarantined. It seems as if they could be more strict in these cases. Every one should join in a city-wide campaign to check such epidemics. What does the public think? tt a tt LIVING WAGES NOT PAID AT HOSIERY MILLS, CHARGE By a Striker Will you please print this so a certain Mr. Hougland can know the meaning of living wages? I work! in the full fashion knitting department and I know that a knitter has to work very hard to make his s3s]

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Unfair Deal Bv a Real Silk Seamer. I have been a seamer and a member of the Real Silk E. M. B. A. for seven years. We certainly have not had a square deal. We have insurance at 60 per cent for each SI,OOO, without sick benefits, and a credit union without any dividends. The E. M. B. A. gives no protection, and a penalty of from $3 to $5 a week is assessed for bad work, which the operator can not avoid. The E. M. B. A. gives you no consideration whatever. It sends you with your troubles to three or four persons and by the time you

a week. Real Silk is paying about. 30 per cent below the union scale. Is Mr. Hougland a person who thinks only of himself? How about the young boys learning to transfer? They make the huge sum of $8 a week. Is that a living wage? tt tt tt FERGUSON ARTICLES ARE ON SOCIETY PAGE By Melvin Osborne May I ask- “What has become of the articles by Mrs. Ferguson?” I, for one, considered them good and miss seeing them on your editorial page. Also I wonder why The Times does not refuse to publish unsigned letters. It seems to me that the writer of a letter should have enough faith in his letter to sign his name. If he does not have how can readers be expected to place any confidence in the contents of such letters. tt tt tt “COME UP AND SEE OUR PICKET LINES” By H. E. Franklin I am a striker at Fulton hosierymills in this city. I want to hand it to The Times for being the only paper in this city to print facts on the side of the laboring class. Long live The Times. I am sure if we win this strike at the hosiery mills, every factory in the city will follow suit, as every laborer is watching this strike.. We are going to win with your encouragement and sympathy. Come up and see our picket lines some time. tt tt tt PROTESTS POLICIES OF LEGION’S “BIG SHOTS” By Floyd Garner Not long ago a friend of mine asked me why every ex-service man did not belong to the American Legion. Here is the answer I gave him. When the legion has a national convention a bunch of “big shots” always will be there two weeks in advance. They always decide who the national commnader will be for the following year and what the yearly business will be. • Any resolutions which the rank and file would like to have put over are pigeon-holed at once. The legion claims a million members, but I have my doubts if their membership will exceed 600,000 paid up as there were about four million in the World war which would mean about one seventh were members. n tt tt REAL SILK POLICE GUARD NOT LIKED BY LABOR. By Fred Hoffmark. Allow me to express my appreciation for the wonderful response that you made in behalf of the youth of our city. Again The Indianapolis Times leads the way in exposing frivolities and abuses on the part of public officials. I personally deem it a great abuse of public trust when the lives

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

Is Charged are through, you are advised to go back to work and do the best you can. If the department head doesn’t like you he will frame you some way and you are discharged.. The seamer wiio upheld the E. M. B. A. in your Message Center happened to be one of those that liked to cry on a department head's shoulder and she saw to it that she had everything she desired. Between the department head, and the E. M. B. A. we certainly get an unfair deal.

of children are jeopardized in order to protect property of corporations which has not even been threatened. I feel that the rank and file of labor generally bitterly resents the shifting of policemen from school zones to strike zones. Simply because workers are bargaining and negotiating for their just rights is by no means indicative of an existing emergency such as would warrant the sacrifice of helpless children. The men and women now on strike in the hosiery mills are, as a whole, upright, respectable and permanent citizens of Indianapolis. They have the welfare of Indianapolis as much at heart as some of our police officials, if not more, and there is no civic reason why they should be harassed constantly and confronted with riot clubs. I believe, however, the public now sees the inside of that whole affair and for that The Indianapolis Times is to be commended. tt a tt LAUNDRIES FAIL TO AID VETERAN WORKERS Bv An Ex-Slave. Lincoln freed the Negro, now we should have someone to free the white industrial slaves which we have in Indianapolis. I am an ex-laundry worker and have worked in several of Indianapolis laundries. State and city governments, along with industries of Indianapolis, respect and try to take care of their old employes. They either retire them on pension or find some lighter task for them to perform after they have servede twenty-five to fifty years. Not so with the laundries. Old employes are worked for all they can get out of them and then make things bad for them to try to make them quit. I know personally several customers laundries have lost because of their treatment to employes. It seems as though they would take care of those w T ho have given the best part of their lives. tt tt tt BIRTH CONTROL ADVOCATED AS DEPRESSION CURE. Bv E. N. Dorsett. Three cheers for Mrs. Walter Ferguson, the lady Portia, or Solomon, in regard to her ideas on birth control, which has been needed in the United States since 1920. This country only has forty-eight states, so room is limited. One machine operated by five men takes the place of 100 men, so why should the poor breed like rabbits? If there is any credit to be given, hand it out to the rabbits. More rabbits and fewer babies mean prosperity and three meals a day to those that are on earth. As far back as 1895 the wise men of America said, “The United States only can support 100,000,000 people at best. If there are more it means jails and poor farms to take care of the poor and higher taxes for the prosperous to keep the poor on soup and bread.” In 1934 you can look from Maine to California and sea the plain

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truth of the prophecy. Twelve million people are- living on bread, water, fresh air and sunshine. They have no hope for the future as the sun rises each day. It takes the NRA and the CWA to put shoes on the feet of 12,000,000 recruits for Hoovervilles. During 1910 there was money and plenty for every one who was willing to work. A man who didn't work was looked on as being lazy or a parasite. The police would say to any loafer, "Go to work, or I will run you in. In i934, if you can live without toil, you are rated as being smart (for standing aside with money in your pocket) and let some unfortunate with twenty-three kids use the pick and shovel to keep starvation from the door. If the country is piling up a national debt that runs into millionsS in 1934 to take care of an excess population, what will happen in 1950?

WAR TROUBLES MAY BREAK IN ASIA, HE SAYS By A. J. Kinnear. Russia, Japan and China, what a combination! Who can measure its strength? Ever and always a voice has called out, “Beware of the Yelcw Peril.” Hendrik Van Loon says, “Russia never is quite sure whether she is of Europe or Asia.” “Violent. upheavals are nothing new,” says Van Loon. Charles of England and Louis of France both lost their heads a long time before Lenin was born. Russia is potential in natural resources; has a world of man power. Japan is keyed to a high pitch of military skill and ambition. China could furnish so much man power it might wear the western world out to just shoot them down, if they merely came striding on in endless volume. Russia is. broadly speaking, Caucasian. If we snub her too persistently, she may look for a means of attack via the Pacific. Practically all students now believe the oncoming great world movements are to be on and about the Pacific ocean. In the early turmoils of mankind the Mediterranean was the sea around and across which men’s struggles for conquest occurred. Then came the Atlantic after Co-> lumbus “paddled his canoe.” Now we have Japan, Australia and all minor Pacific isles coming into view as future possibilities. Think what a factor Russia and the two Americas could be in a world commotion! Consider our mutual natural resources. Where on earth can the like be found? Let us back up and take a serious look at our whole national problem. In the light of all modern conditions, it is indeed a time for planning for the good of us all, instead of the interests of a few.

On Me

BY HAROLD FRENCH This is my fate, to live and be Another count for mortality, To breathe the breath of eras gone And add my eyes to the light of dawn. This is my creed, to live and do Good and a little evil, too, And love my fellows ana the power That gave to me my natal hour. V, This my belief, that I shall live On bread that other centuries give, And rise each death from an outgrown grave— A thwarted dungeon, a freed slave.