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MONDAY. APRIL 23, 1934. THE ONLY ANSWER D EATH has overtaken several men ih the last few months as an army of law enforcement agents and private citizens have attempted to halt the activities of John Dillinger and his gang. When the gang first started its inroads into peaceful communities, its members devoted majority of the time to stealing from police stations and looting banks. Today the story has changed. Dillinger and his companions now are fleeing from the law, and no price is too high for them to pay for the freedom they have grabbed but do not deserve. More men died early today in a Wisconsin woods as federal agents sought to entrap Dillinger. Somewhere in that desolate area of lakes and pine forests, Dillinger and his companions are endeavoring to snake their way out of this trap. If past performances mean anything, Dillinger and his companions will be successful again. And if they are successful they will increase the already appalling death toll before they are captured. There is only one solution to the horrible problem now. Dillinger and his gang must be caught IMMEDIATELY. THE RAILROAD DEADLOCK 1Y AILROAD labor's threat to strike is important, but not immediately dangerous. Failure of labor and railway managements to come to an agreement on wages with Joseph Eastman, federal co-ordinator of transportation, leaves the way open for President Roosevelt to appoint the impartial, fact-finding-com-mission he proposed last Friday, evidently in expectation of the present deadlock. Labor wants its pay back; more, it want a 10 per cent increase in pay. A 20 per cent hike, altogether. Management wanted a 15 per cent cut; but under White House pressure finally agreed to a continuation of the present 10 per cent deduction from basic pay scales for another six months. With the President favoring this continuation, in order to permit his recovery program to go along unhampered for another six months, there was, in fact, little to negotiate between labor and managements. Mr. Eastman used his good offices, although he must have realized his hands were tied. Now he has withdrawn from the picture. Because railroad earnings are increasing, there is much to be said for labor’s demands for restoration of the pay cut. Whether the full 10 per cent is possible we do not know. On the other side of the picture is the railroads’ argument, also stated by the President. '•The employes are part of the railroad industry.” he WTote Mr. Eastman, "and are tied to its future. It is essential that the railroads should be able to meet effectively the severe competition by which they now’ are faced, and inability to do this will inevitably react on the men. The railroads need the next few’ months to put their houses in order for this purpose.” The President put his finger on the crux of the issue, however, when he WTote in the same letter to Mr. Eastman: “ .... I have felt that the welfare of the employes, and particularly the welfare of those at the bottom of the heap, is the vital thing to have in mind in this wage controversy.” But this controvery can not, we believe, be considered outside of the plight of the railroads as an industry. The President has proposed a cabinet committee to study whether or not railroad fixed charges can be reduced by reorganizations of their capital structures as labor and others demand. He wants to put the carriers on their own feet. Just why he picked a cabinet committee to do this job instead of Mr. Eastman is not clear. Mr. Eastman generally is credited with knowing more about the railroads than any other man in the government, and has the respect of managements, investors and labor. The report will carry more weight if the cabinet committee calls for Mr Eastman's cooperation. TWO DIFFERENT PATHS A GOOD idea of the contrasting courses open to a government which seeks to promote national recovery can be had by comparing the policies of the American NRA w’ith those recently put into effect by Mussolini in Italy. In each case the general objective is the same—to get back some sort of decent equilibrium between what the citizen gets and what he spends, between income and expenditure, between the price level and the debt level. There are two ways of doing this. Everybody is familiar with the way the NRA is trying. It is using a kind of controlled inflation—or reflation, perhaps, if you like that word better. It is trying to boost wages and prices, hoping that it will be able to send the former up faster than the latter. Mussolini is attacking the problem in the opposite way. His program, the latest details of which have just, been announced at Rome, is strongly deflationary. Salaries and wages are being cut: rents are being cut; commodity amj retail prices are being lowered. In instituting this program, Mussolini avowedly has his eye on world trade. With domestic prices and wages lowered, he believes Italy will be in a better position to bid for world markets. Now it is extremely interesting to study the contrast between the American and Italian recovery programs. The Italian government seems to be geared to the idea that the world depression is still in full force and that no very speedy risejn

world price levels or trade activities is in prospect. It represents a cutting down of national levels to meet the level produced by a world crisis. The American program follows the opposite notion; that the world depression is coming to an end, and that its end can be hastened by a rise in prices and business activity in individual nations. Instead of adjusting domestic affairs to meet a depression level, it seeks to adjust the depression level to jibe with local needs. In both cases, drastic action by the central government is required. And *t probably will be several years before we can get a definite idea which program is the more effective. EVIL OF “SUCCESS” IS it better to have a taste of success, and lose it, or never to have any of it at all? Karl Dane, the former Hollywood star, killed himself recently because the descent from stardom to poverty and obscurity was too much to bear. Dane rose to stardom after a director spotted him while he was fixing an automobile. He had been happy in obscurity; but after he had had a taste of being rich and famous, returning to that old obscurity was something too bitter for him to endure. Would the man have been happier if the director never had seen him—if he had been allowed to live out his life quietly, never getting into the limelight or knowing the thrill of “big money?” When the director saw him, Dane doubtless thought he had had a lucky break. As it turned out, it seems to have been the worst thing that could have happened. SOCIETY’S RESPONSIBILITY VTO man today can say that he is self-sus-taining, says Bishop C. H. Leßlond of St. Joseph, Mo. For that reason the social service agency has an essential part to play in any modem society. “A board of directors sitting in a little room hundreds of miles from a community,” Bishop Leßlond told an audience of Ohio charities workers, “can change the fortunes of that community by the stroke of a pen. Whole families are made destitute and the children of these families suffer.” > Hence, the bishop pointed out, society must be forever alert to preserve the stability of families which are the victims of movements that they can not control. We have passed the pioneer period, when men really could stand or fall by their own efforts. Co-operation to help those who have been caught in the complex shiftings of modern life is one of the joys society can not overlook. BOGIES ALWAYS WITH US npHOSE who don’t want federal regulation can think up more scares than Dr Wirt. When the Tennessee valley authority was about to be created the “widows and orphans” who own private power company stock in that region sent up an inspired howl. You would have thought the valley was populated with widows and orphans. Neither these nor any one else has been hurt yet by TVA. And many have been helped. When the Stock Exchange regulation bill was proposed Wall Street organized one of the greatest propaganda campaigns of recent years, and this smoke screen hasn’t quite disappeared yet, although it has been definitely pierced by the truth. Now comes the president of the Chicago Board of Trade to say that passage of the administration bill regulating the commodities markets would mean that there would be no future markets of any value operating in America when the new wheat crop comes in. Neither congress nor the administration intends to hog tie the commodities markets. But both intend, apparently, to curb violent fluctuations, caused by speculation, that are hurtful to farm prices. They should not be deterred in seeking their objective by the scares of the market managers. LABOR AND TARIFF TAATATTHEW WOLL. as head of the “wage earners’ protective council,” is attacking the administration’s reciprocal trade plan. Mr Woll seems concerned with protecting from foreign cheap labor our “present standards of life and work.” What standards? Those of 10.000.000 unemployed wage-earn-ers, whose plight is due partly to the stagnation of world trade brought on largely by our own tariff policies? Those of the 18,000,000 people on relief, some of whom are receiving doles as low as $4 a month? Or perhaps those of the 1929 workers who in the height of “prosperity” were averaging 51,400 a year, or S3OO less than the United States department of labor’s minimum standard for comfort and decency? Or those of the farmers on rural slums, whose surpluses lie rotting because there is no foreign market in the sixty-five countries that have set up tariffs against us? Agriculture Secretary Henry Wallace says there are between 2,000,000 and 8,000.000 wageearners affected by export markets who would be benefited by the reciprocal measure. Perhaps 4.000,000 or 5,000,000. he says, would be adversely affected if all tariffs were removed, a course not contemplated by the administration. And 35,000.000 other wage-earners would he benefited as consumers. We have tried the Grundy way. World foreign trade dropped from $40,000,000,000 in 1929 vo less than $12,000,000,000 last year. Our own exports fell from $6,000,000,000 to $1,150,000.000; imports from $4,300,000,000 to $1,100.000.000. When Mr. Woll worked for the Grundy bill four years ago he was challenged as spokesman for the American labor movement. He is hardly speaking for labor or in its interests now. William Philip Simms calls Chinese Turkestan “the country that God forgot.” Maybe that's where the forgotten man will be found. Anew streamline train made a record speed of 104 miles an hour, in a recent test run. But it will still arrive late, we'll bet. A Harvard professor has gone to Ireland in search of the typical Irishman. What a waste of effort, when all he had to do was go to Boston. A Chinese women’s bank in Shanghai was opened with prayer, but it isn't known whether the prayer came fj\,m the bank officials or the depositors.

Liberal Viewpoint —By DR. HARRY ELMER BARNES ==-'

THE current talk about the prospect that President Roosevelt will consciously or unconsciously prove an American Kerensky is pure nonsense. Even if every member of the brain trust wished to bring about such a development it would be quite beyond the realm of achievement. But there is a very real responsibility that without making any effort Mr. Roosevelt may prove a Giolitti or a Bruening. In the first place, any comparison between Mr. Roosevelt and Kerensky indicates a considerable lack of knowledge concerning historical facts. Kerensky, though not a Communist, was a real revolutionary. He belonged to the social revolutionary party in Russia, a group of agrariarf Socialists, whose policies would make those of Miles Reno seem almost reactionary by comparison. Even if the new deal should prove a flop and a severe economic collapse should follow upon its failure there is not a chance in the world that the country immediately would move into Communism. In the first place, the American populace, urban and rural, has not yet suffered enough to be ready for any thoroughly radical overturn. It still subscribes to the essentials of “the American dream,” born of frontier society a century ago. In the second place the American Communists possess neither the numbers nor the intelligence to make the most of a revolutionary opportunity, even if it were presented to them. It is probably true that a great majority of the best American minds under forty years of age are today, in differing degrees, sympathetic with Communism. But very few of these superior intellects are formally affiliated with the Communist party in this country. u a THERE is, however, a very real prospect that a Roosevelt debacle would be followed by a slump into reaction. Indeed, it appears that such a trend would be inevitable if the new deal collapses. There is little probability that we could muster sufficient stupidity to intrust the destinies of the country once more to that walking and stammering corpse which is the Republican party. Bipartisan Fascism, marshaling its forces behind some strong and willing figure, is far more probable. The example of Italy and Germany is particularly illuminating and instructive to Americans right now. In both countries, there was not only a considerable liberal development but a great deal of social and economic radicalism. The government of Germany after 1919 was for years a Socialist government and in Italy between the end of the World war and the coming of Mussolini the Socialists and Syndicalists were in the majority. In both countries all these advances were sacrificed because liberals and mild radicals were not sufficiently far-sighted and forceful. They proved tolerant and easy going until it was too late to save the situation even by strongarm methods. a tt a GIOLITTI might have brought Mussolini before a firing squad but his government looked on complacently until the Black-Shirt mob had seized the Italian peninsula. In Germany, Bruening insisted upon dealing through constitutional methods with a menace which was consecrated to the use of force. It is of very great importance that the United States should, if possible, be saved from Fascism. In Italy and Germany the long strides which had been made over two generations toward the goal of sooial justice were scrapped. A long Fascist interlude has been interjected. Fascism never can solve the economic and social problems of an advanced industrial civilization because it is both politically and economically wrongheaded. It is foredoomed to ultimate collapse. But it can postpone for as much as a generation honest and straightforward efforts to cope realistically with the basic economic pi'oblems of our day. And its final collapse is; very likely to bring chaos and extreme radicalism in its train. The argument that Fascism is absolutely inevitable is not very convincing. It is inevitable only where conditions are allowed to develop which make it possible or inevitable.

Capital Capers =■-■■■ ■ ■ -BY GEORGE ABELL :

Minister michael mac white of the Irish Free State departed for Memphis, Tenn., where he attended as representative of his country the funeral of American Minister McDowell, who died recently in Dublin. “While I’m in Tennessee,” he announced, “I’ll just have a look around and see if there are any Irishmen in those parts.” “Oh, you won’t find many Irish down there, Mr. Minister,” said a friend. “Why not?” queried Michael. “You know the first Governor of Tennessee was of Irish origin.” “Who was that?" “Sam Houston!” “I thought he was a Texan.” “Nbt at all,” said Mac White. “Did you know that Sam Houston became a Red Indian and married into the tribe? His wife was Tiana Rogers—possibly a collateral ancestress of Will Regers . . . Oh, Sam Houston was a remarkable man.” Envoy Michael thereupon launched into American history and continued to discuss the early history of Tennessee and the pioneers. When he had finished, his audience concluded that he will be able to teach most Tennesseeans more than they know themselves about their state. Note—Suggestion was made that a debate about Sam Houston be staged here between Minister Mac White, Secretary of State Hull, a native Tennesseean, and Representative Tom Blanton of Texas. The odds were overwhelmingly on Mac White. tt tt a FORMER Secretary of State Stimson, who has been living in- seclusion in his old Georgian mansion, Woodley, on Cathedral avenue, is again blossoming forth as a bon vivant of Washington society. The first intimation that Mr. Stimson gave of a renewed interest in diplomatic and official parties was his appearance at ?. luncheon recently given by Secretary of State Hull in the Carlton patio for the retiring ambassador of Turkey, Ahmet Muhtar. The other day, Mr. Stimson again made his bow at a formal luncheon in the British embassy. He sat beside Mrs. Herridge, wife of the Canadian minister, talked world politics with Lady Lindsay, his hostess, and cordially shook hands with the Coolidges of Boston and the undersecretary of state. The ladies found him charming and the young men sat openmouthed at his eloquence. tt tt tt AN edict of the new king of the Belgians, Leopold 11. has shortened court mourning for his father, the lamented Albert, to three months of semi-mourning—which means that Belgian diplomats in Washington will breath easier this summer. The semi-mourning period ends officially on May 17, after which time the Belgian embassy will be able to resume normal garb. At present, all the kingdom’s diplomats are forced to wear black bands on their sleeves and black ties. Younger members of the embassy staff here have regretfully been obliged to cancel social engagements and content themselves with small, informal parties—which, however, are often more interesting than large ones. Columbia university physicists find a neutron is one ten-trillionth of an inch in diameter. With their instruments they might be able to measure the size of an NRA violator. Wilbur Glenn Voliva, famous overseer of Zion, may believe the earth still is flat, but he’s bound no one will ever catch him flat, -, x . Y . - .■ , ; , ,■. ■ -

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(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns. Make your letters short, so all can have a chance. Limit them to SSO words or less.) tt tt tt CHARGES WAGES PAID UNDER CODE LEVEL By a Reader How can companies pay such small w'ages? The men who helped to wreck Block building worked under the code. The code wage is 40 cents an hour, and the men received 30 cents an hour. Should a man lose time by going to a doctor when hurt on the job? In this case I heard of several who did. I understand from some of the laborers who were employed on this job were told to hold their slips and the last pay, there w'ere no slips. Men coming into this city always fare far better than the ones whose homes are here and have been nere for sometime. Will The Times please investigate the wages and injury situation? tt tt u HIGH WAGES NEEDED FOR PROSPERITY By E. Archer Your message center is wonderful. Real Silk Seamer, I am asking you these questions. Didn’t the knitters take three cuts before the NRA, and when they protested didn’t J. A. Gpodman tell them if they didn’t like it they could quit? Is your job safe? Can’t they fire you any time they wish? Can you make a living for a family, buy a home and have a few of the luxuries of life which every worker is entitled to? Those knitters have a trade. It takes from six months to three years to learn the trade. I have made from SSO to S6O a week. Why should they be satisfied with -the wages they get? With times as they are now, workers need more wages to bring back prosperity? a tt a “INSIDERS” DISCUSS REAL SILK PAY By Two Insiders Who Know We wish to state that the seamer has been sadly misinformed as to the conditions existing in the E. M. B. A., company union, and American Federation of Hosiery Workers. The 60 cents E. M. B. A. dues pay your insurance, but it does not pay your doctor bills. The wages at Real Silk should not be compared with other concerns in Indianapolis, but with the other hosiery mills in the United States. Mr. Hoagland forgot to consider that there are a great many other departments besides full-fashion knitters who are not making half of $35 a week. Any one who is satisfied with a pittance of $35 a week has not the backbone and the ambition to better himself and should therefore keep his peace and let those who have courage and the ambition to make a decent living have a few necessities of life that they deserve. CRITICISM AIMED AT MERRY-GO-ROUNDERS By Anthony in Reverse I have enjoyed your new feature, Washing-Merry-Go-Round, very much. But the column of April 16 j gives a jolt to my confidence in its j accuracy and impartiality. The radio broadcast, “March of Time” sponsored by RemingtonRand, enacts current events of the week and has for the last three seasons been dramatized news happenings. Actors have well imitated the voices of Coolidge, Hoover, Roosevelt, Smith, Johnson, Hull and dozens of national and inter-

IS HE BEING PERSONAL?

Poverty in Indianapolis Described

By Ernest E. Owens “Citizen’s” statement in your April issue that “poverty in America does not mean an actual poverty of lack of food, clothing, and shelter,” shows’ a blissful ignorance of conditions existing in the city of Indianapolis and vicinity. According to a statement issued by the school board of Indianapolis a few weeks ago, one-third of the school children of this city are undernourished. As to clothing, witness the recent drive for cast off clothing for the benefit of those who refused to lead the “simple life.” As to shelter, walk up and down the banks of White river any day and have a look at “Hooverville” or “Rooseveltburg.” As to food, look at the contents of the baskets issued under the damnable system of relief heretofore in vogue. The writer personally knows of men with families who have worked for the sum of 20 cents a day for months; of women who worked in garment factories fifty-

national figures along with lesser fry in the week’s news. Last January, the White House secretary, Stephen Farly, confederate General Jubal Early’s grandson, requested omission of President Roosevelt’s voice simulation from future broadcasts. Reason, since he felt unable to give general permission to other broadcasters it was unfair to continue exception in favor of “March of Time.” This request was complied with and broadcast in the Jan.- 14 program and fully reported in Time, the news magazine, Jan. 22. This request was commented on by readers and radio listeners at the time. Now along come these dizzy Merry-Go-Rounders who infer something sinister or myterious behind the fact that Mr. Rand (Rem-ington-Rand) who backs Dr. Wirt, also sponsored a radio program which was refused permission to use the President’s voice. Such a fatuous statement is exceeded in silliness only by the asinine Wirt testimony. I doubt very much that these wise, smart chat columnists are entirely ignorant of the facts and must therefore add this bit to the collection as a nice example of news distortion by omission of all the facts. tt tt tt THIS WRITER DOESN’T LIKE DILLINGER By E. M. E. Mrs. T. M. J. who wrote April 10, must be very ignorant. I wish to ask her if she admires Dillinger enough to let her boy or girl, if she has any, accompany him on his trail of bloodshed and robbery? It is some one’s son or daughter who has been led into crime by him. He usually leaves one woman a widow and some child or children an orphan or orphans. The sooner they get him behind bars, the better for the whole country. tt a tt FRIEND OF DILLINGER SPEAKS HER MIND By Mr*. Betty Crawford I read your Message Center every day, but I must say-some letters cer- j tainly show ignorance. I refer to one in Wednesday’s paper by one Jerry Taylor. I don’t know this person and don’t care to know any one as narrow-minded. Something must be wrong when Mr. Taylor openly calls other persons ignorant and brainless idiots. He must be speaking of himself. As for crime—l am not in favor of it, either. Some people are born criminals and others are made that a

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

five hours a week for a weekly wage ranging from 55 cents to $1.35; of skilled wood workers employed in shops flying the Blue Eagle, working eight hours a day, under the “speed up” for a weekly wage ranging from $7 to SB. The sight of women fishing in garbage cans for a morsel of food is common. Thousands of persons are occupying houses unfit for human habitation. Some of the houses have neither windows or doors. Perhaps some of the 43,000 unemployed can give “Citizen” some pointers on the “simple life.” The present economic system, built, upon the law of the jungle, broke down almost five years ago. Anew one must be built to take its place. The new one must not be built upon the law of the jungle and the “simple life.” It must be built upon the brotherhood of man and “the life more abundant.” So long as there is a hungry child in Indianapolis, our boasted civilization and culture is a fraud.

way. Are you a father, Mr. Taylor? If you are, I don’t see how you can be so narrow minded. Dillinger comes from a nice family. He got a raw deal in minor offenses and you can’t blame him now. I would like to see you in his position. My children don’t honor Dillinger. They are taught differently. We have always had crime and that is no reason children should be influenced by it if they are taught otherwise. What do you mean, “politicians are upholding the country?” Don’t be so dense. If it weren’t for crooked politicians, Dillinger wouldn’t be out now. Personally, I don’t think Dillinger is as desperate as he is made out to be. If there was any way I could help him legally, I certainly would do it. I wish him lots of luck and may he never be captured. Now call me an idiot, Mr. Taylor. If you are supposed to be smart, I’m glad I’m ignorant. tt tt tt LAFAYETTE WOMAN LAUDS THE TIMES By Mrs. Joseph F. Chittum We should appreciate seeing something of the following printed in The Times. As you are no doubt aware, our local paper is impossible as far as printing anything that a decent and intelligent person might want to read. May I congratulate you on the success of your subscription campaign in our city. I can not recommend The Times too highly to my friends. It is refreshing to read a really liberal paper, one that gives us the news fairly and intelligently. We enjoy the syndicated articles, of course, but I should like to particularly commead the editorials which are so far above what can be read in any other paper in this vicinity that we are continually surprised that a newspaper editor could have such a liberal point of view. Believe me, that there are more persons than some imagine who want that sort of thing. tt tt a TUBERCULOSIS STALKS HOSIERY WORKERS By Real Silk Knitter I am a Real Silk knitter of eight years record. I am also a great admirer of The Times, a subscriber of two years. A knitter might earn S3B one week but the next might be 525. There are plenty of knitters who can’t make $33 and it is not their fault either. If I work for 40 per cent less, than

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the union scale and Real Silk charges as much or more for hosiery than any one else, who gets all the profit? Certainly not me, and all the girls who work from 10 to 25 per cent below the union scale, and union shops pay dividends. It is the E. M. B. A. that costs so much to operate? The issue is this: A printer makes $44. Gee, that’s a lot of money, but he gets lead poisoning so he earns it if he lives through it. Sunnyside is the reunion place for knitters. Do you want to work for S3O a week with the white plague as your constant overseer? It would - be interesting for the public to kr.ow the number of knitters, girls, too, who are taken away from their work by this dread disease every year. Then maybe you would understand why they want the same wages that 85 per cent of the industry gets. Editor’s Note: Commercial plant printers earn 544 a week for a full 44-hour week. Newspaper plant printers earn $38.33 a week for a 38-hour week. Newspaper printers voluntarily take one day a week off as a “spread-the-work” movement. tt tt tt CONSIDERS PARADE MARKS NEW ERA By Elated Two thousand orderly and optimistic Real Silk strikers paraded through the downtown section of Indianapolis Wednesday, to enthrone those who have waited so long for labor’s new deal. It was indeed an inspiring sight. We saw marching there—men and women—who have courageously and determinedly thrown off the yoke of the company union and declared themselves free American citizens. For such a parade to take place in a city as anti-union as Indianapolis, is indeed miraculous. Their action shall go down in the history of this city as the fatal blow to the company union, for such a demonstration will lend courage to others, who have been drooping under tho yoke so long. So we say, on to victory, Real Silk •strikers. Every free thinking man and wom:.n in Indianapolis is be- . hind you. y a tt tt HOUSEWIFE WANTS SERIAL STORY By a Housewife Seeing several letters lately in this column favoring a serial story in The Times. I wish to say I also would enjoy another one. Maybe you would publish one by Kathleen Norris. The Times is our T avorite aper. We have read it for thirteen years.

To April

BY MARY B. MOYXAHAN Fair are the flowers you scatter on your way— Earth hears no sweeter. But, you bade me pay A price—too great. And I shall ever see A frown behind your lovely veil—for me. And midst your dreamy sprays of N smiling green. Cling all the shadows you have left —between. And you reopen with your robin's song. The aching wounds you gave—unhealed—so long!