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FRIDAY. APRIL 21. 1934. LAWMAKER DILLINGER IUPT1 UPT s the Lmdborgh kidnapers forced passage of the successful federal antikidnaping law and as the recent outbreak of lynching piled up sentiment behind the Wagner-Costigan anti-lynching bill, so is John Dillinger forcing general extension of federal police powers against criminals who seem to be beating the states. Dillinger is not just one bad man against the United States. He us. unfortunately, a symbol of crime in its latter-day aspects in America. His is crime on rubber tires, crime armed with the finest killing devices known to science. Unlike Billy the Kid, Charles Quantrell, the Jameses, Fords, Youngers and other famous outlaws of the past, this banditkiller is at large over at least five states. The laws and the police of Indiana and neighboring states seem helpless to catch and punish him. Even 5.000 men have not succeeded thus far. Eient bills, part of the administration's twelve-point crime-fighting program, have passed the senate. These include measures intended to make transportation of stolen property across interstate lines, robbing of national banks, kidnaping, flight to escape prosecution or giving of testimony, and assault of federal officers more easily detected, more swiftly and severely punished. Six of the senate bills have been ordered reported out by the house judiciary committee, none has been passed by the house. That body, however, has passed a bill providing interstate compacts to permit two or more local governments to combine to fight crime. The remaining four bills of the program, treating largely of procedural problems, have not been passed by either house. Congress should, and doubtless will, complete this legislation promptly. One can look askance at this invasion of states - rights, and sympathize with such old-fashioned Americans as Representative Hatton Sumners, who, up until notjv, has opposed their passage. If, however, congress is careful to confine the federal power to purely interstate crime we believe it will serve the ends of justice without serious inroads into local police power. Congress is walking on dangerous ground. But the alternative ol unchecked crime is even more dangerous. THE RAILWAY SETTLEMENT /COMMON sense and justice have settled the railroad wage controversy. The restoration of the 10 per cent deduction from basic pay scales, finally agreed to by the managements, is in accord not only w'ith the recovery program, but also with the railroads’ increased earnings. Labor and executives have agreed that 2’? per rent shall be restored on July 1 of this year; 2’ per rent more on Jan. 1, of next year, and the remaining 5 per cent April 1, 1935. This is very much better than the President apparently hoped for. because at the outset he told the two conflicting forces that the wage controversy must be postponed for at least six months, the 10 per cent deduction to continue for that time. He gave no direct encouragement to restoration even after that, except in case the progress of his recovery program permitted. So this is. indeed, a victory for cool-headed negotiations in which both sides made sacrifices in the interest of national recovery. It opens the way for the railroad industry, with federal help, to attack its more fundamental problems, which must be solved if it is to live as a privately-owned system. It also sets an example to all other employers everywhere that things are on the upturn, and that to keep business improving purchasing power must be bolstered by returning to workers the wage sacrifices they made during the depths of the depression.

NEVER LIVE ALONE P'OR several years now the offices of the * psychiatrists have been filled with women. They sit on the comfortable chairs and wait their turns to find out things. Important things! Just what happened between the patient and the little boy next door, when they were five, that could make the patient forever frightened at the odor of tweed and shaving cream. Just how a compulsory children's day recitation would make a woman tongue-tied forever when it came to telling the womans club about new crochet stitches in Tahiti, or whatever stitches they have in Tahiti. Psychiatry, so its devotees have believed, was new. It was a golden that could bring you whatever you wanted—a husband, a farm or anew recipe for sponge cake. But psychiatry isn't new. and there is nothing magic about it. we now learn. Irwin Edman, writing about it in the current number of the Golden Book, tells us that poets and philosophers back in the days of Aristotle, on through the Middle Ages, have always known and taught the verities that the present sect of men who deal with moods—mostly feminine moods—are advocating. Women, as you know, fill so many of the chairs in the office waiting rooms that few men get inside. No, if psychiatry depended on men to support it, it would again become something about which to read. Aristotle, Spinoza, Mathew Arnold, even Wordsworth, who lived by a lake and usually wrote poems about flowers, all knew the truths of the mind that women today pay money to be told about. They preached, long and long ago, in their various ages and fields and countries that if people familiarized themselves with their own natures and made the necessary adaptation, while life might not sin*-

along as a symphony, at least it would be a good solid church hymn or a pretty ballad. Maybe it is because women have had more time to think about themselves that they have taken up psychiatry. They would like to believe that a mental discovery would send-them away with a flag flying and a drum playing. They have pretended. Its a nice game for little girls. But grown-up ladies should read the words of another philosopher who suggested that when one becomes a man one should put away childish things. There is no fault with the psychiatrists—so long as they admit that their science is an ancient one and that people can organize themselves by using a little common sense. When Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt told senior members of New York s private schools the other night to practice co-operation and helpfulness, and make their lives richer through this aid rendered to others, she was giving advice far more important than the backward burrowing into juvenile history. We can not live to ourselves alone. When we do, that pilgrimage into our minds, that attempt to find why we do this thing, why we don’t do that thing, begins. But when we remember that our link is in the universal chain, and look forward, not backward, we will build—straight, tall, shining, toward the stars! Psychology is now a profession, Mr. Edman tells us, and professions, he continues, are filled with mediocrities, for the most part. But the chances are as many as you want to make to a row of zeroes that your great-grand-mother or your husband—or a book of poetry or an hour with a great philosopher—can help you just as much.

FOR FAIR PLAY VIEWS that President Roosevelt is standing firm for passage of the Wagner labor disputes bill at this session will please the constructive elements of both capital and* labor. They know that, lacking a permanent, statutory and fair tribunal to which management and workers may appeal there is left only the old way of strikes and lockouts, violence and class war. Details of the pending measure are being worked over by a group, including Labor Secretary Perkins, NR A Chief Counsel Donald Richberg. Relief Administrator Harry Hopkins and Senator Wagner, Their caliber gives assurance that the essentials of honest reform will not be lost. Reports are to the effect that powers of the National Labor Board are to be strengthened rather than weakened. The building of a strong appeal board is crucial at this time. In the wake of former depressions labor disputes have been violent, frequent and disruptive. Had short-sighted employers succeeded in bullying congress into shelving the Wagner bill we would face unrestrained industrial warfare. As w'ith other Roosevelt reforms, this proposal is neither new nor radical. It simply lays down fair rules of the game. When these rules are accepted by both sides the game will proceed with fewer sluggings and foul plays. BAD NEWS FOR FASCISM RECENT news cable from London asserts that the newly organized British Fascist party is now believed to have fully 500,000 ardent and disciplined members. Originally looked upon as more or less of a joke, this party not long ago won the support of the great newspaper baren, Lord Rothermere; as a result, it is beginning to cast a long shadow across British politics, and leaders in other parties are beginning to get worried. As it happens, news of this growth in British Fascism reached here at about the same time as did news that Britain is at last winning its fight with the depression. Taxes are being reduced, aid to the unemployed is being increased, the government has a sizable surplus, and prosperity, at last, seems to be just around the corner. And that, probably, will puncture this growing bubble of Fascism. For Fascism is a philosophy of desperation. Men turn to it when they are convinced that only drastic measures will avert a great smashup. Let good times return, and it is apt to drop out of sight of its own weight.

SOUND TALK £JEAN BERNARD C. GAVIT of the Indiana university law school did some mighty sound talking in a speech the other day. In fact, we think that it was so extremely sound that we are reprinting a few highlights. Here they are: To the extent that we are reluctant or unwilling to resort to judicious social experiments, to that extent we postpone social progress and perpetuate our ignorance. ‘One of the saddest facts of human existence is that the great law of inertia applies to the human mind and nothing is so hard for most people as the mental feat of accepting anew idea. But it is literally true that life is change and is not static and that social existence and governmental functions can not be based on any principle of inertia. “It is indeed surprising that there are those who would surrender to a philosophy of fatalism in government; who would concede that natural and social forces have become beyond the control of human intelligence; i hat go\ernment can not direct, but only retard and prohibit, or do nothing. L necessary we must compel ourselves to shed many of our acquired ideas in order to adequately meet a changing civilization. Exfept a man forsake his fathers and mother's ideas he can not be a disciple of democracy. He may be a good aristocrat, but he really can not accept democracy for what it is—a social attempt at orderly progress. ‘Lawyers are alarmed easily. They do not hesitate to disinter the time-worn argument of a.arm: Where does this lead us?’ The short answer is that it leads us just as far as we wish to go and no further.” Bravo, Dean Gavit, we couldn't have said it better ourselves. One-fifth of our income goes for taxes, according to a survey, and if you can't account for your fifth, don't let your congressman know it. Germans have devised a fiber wool as a substitute for real wool. It doesn't come up to the original m quality, say its inventors, but it's good enough to pull over the peoples eyes. Tammany is through with Curry-combing the Tiger. •;

Liberal Viewpoint ~By DR HARRY ELMER BARNES =

EnUowin* is the first at a series of three articles b Mr. Barne* on the new social credit idea lannehed by Major C. H. Douglas and other British economists. This theory, which has found considerable support throughout the world, is now being eipounded in this country by Major Douglas. an a \ HOWEVER much, they may differ on ways and means, all economists worth their salt agree today that the critical problems in restoring prosperity under capitalism centers in mass purchasing pow'er. Capitalism rests upon the sale of goods at an adequate profit. Goods can not be sold unless the customers have the money with which to purchase. Thus far they have not had sufficient purchasing power and, therefore, we have been subjected to recurring depressions, the last of w'hich threatens the very foundation of the capitalistic order. Monetary problems have attracted wide attention in the last couple of years. Inflation has been vigorously debated, but difficult as it may be to deal with the matter of printing money, it is still more problematical to find some manner of getting the money, once printed, out into the hands of the masses. Unless this is done, how'ever, inflation can possess no great practical value. Two proposals, for example, which have been suggested for distributing this mass purchasing pow'er are the bonus and public works. The bonus is not only a temporary plan, but also sets a bad precedent. Public works are a sounder proposition, but they, as well, are but a temporary device. Some method must be found of insuring a steady flow of purchasing power. a a a IT is for this reason that no little interest attaches to the visit of Major C. H. Douglas to New York City and other points of the United States of America. I hold no brief for the Douglas plan in particular, but it is a program which is headed in the right direction. It primarily is concerned with increasing purchasing power. It confirms itself within the framework of capitalism and democracy. It does not resort to Fascism and to the extreme regimentation of industry. Major Douglas is a Scotchman bv birth and an engineer by profession. He spent many of his earlier years in India. He developed a definite interest in public finance. During the World war. while he held a post in British industry, he became impressed with the fact that the total wages and salaries of workers did not equal the retail price of goods produced. ft ft a 'T' HIS discovery raised the fundamental quesX tion of how we can expect the masses to buy all the goods produced for home consumption if their income did not equal the cost of the commodities offered for sale. Further pondering this question he evolved his social credit idea. It is embodied in three books. Economic Democracy,” “Social Credit” and “The Monopoly of Credit,” the first of which was published in 1920. The movement he has launched has gained headway in the British Isles and Europe and has become especially popular in Australasia. Major Douglas has just returned from the latter area where lie addressed great throngs and broadcast his message to millions over the radio Several groups in the United States are devoted to his program. The social credit idea Is now sponsored bv several other important English writers, besides Major Douglas, namely Frederick Soddv P W Martin and H. M. Hattersley.

Capital Capers “ BY GEORGE ABELL--—-

'T'HE influence of lovable, high-flown Don A Quixote spread over a gathering of notable Latin American diplomats and their friends who the other day gathered at the Spanish embassy in Washington to celebrate Cervantes day. Nearly all the ambassadors and ministers of Latin America were present. About 100 members of the Instituto he las Espanas were guests of Ambassador Cardenas and sat in the greencurtained ballroom listening to violins and speeches. Every one felt like a Don Quixote, or looked like it. Spanish sherry was later served and added to the illusion of old Spain. After a second sip. one wanted to go out and find some windmills. The footmen in their striped liveries became Sancho Panzas and every car in front of the embassy was a Cordovan mule. Spanish eloquence flowed sweetly. The lettuce sandwiches tasted like mythical dishes and disappeared just as quickly down eager throats. One gentleman—who had arrived with a walking stick—was looking for a medieval lance when he left. ana HERE are some of the Quixotic acts of the various Don Quixotes at the embassy: The romantic Argentine painter, Mr. Quiroz gallantly kissed the fingers of Celeste Crosby! Warrenton belle, although the fingers of la belie Celeste were ensconced in long, black gloves. Inventive Senor Miguel Echegaray, son of the famed Spanish novelist, wore white spats as a gay gesture of defiance to modern drabness. Peruvian Ambassador Frevre sat entranced while his friendly enemy. Dr. Don Fa bio Lozano, minister of Colombia < their countries are at daggers drawn over Leticia) spun out a whimsical speech about Cervantes. Dr. Tom Healy. dean of Georgetown’s foreign service school, was so lost in reverie that he fdrgot to sip his very real drink of modern sherry. Counselor Iru.io of the Spanish embassy nobly opened the French doors of the ballroom when the audience was stifling and earned the grateful sighs of several rhapsodical ladies. Don Adolfo de Urquiza, 220-pound Argentine arbiter of elegance, nearly stabbed himself fancifully with his beautiful scarf pin as he bowed his head low greeting a late arrival. Castle-building Ramon Padilla of the Spanish embassy staff paced enthusiastically back and forth during the address on Cervantes, dreaming high dreams of—afternoon tea. The Roosevelt administration is being run from “A Little Red House in Georgetown.” says Representative Britten of Illinois. If that charge does nothing eles, it should at least give us a rollicking song title. Ohio's liquor administrator made public a j list of politicians who asked appointments and other favors from him. It would have been easier for him to name those who didn't approach him. Children's minds are fixed on a life goal bv ; the age of 3, says a famous psychology. Trouble is. so many of us don't reach that age until we're past 20. At least one-third of the world is crazy, says a Boston minister, and the other twothirds is on the way. And when we all get there, we’ll start all over again. A midwest woman tried unsuccessfully to have a judge send her to jail. Apparently she didn't have enough political pull. Nineteen states had nudist colonies last summer, but they're expected to be outstripped by others this year./ The great question is not what was said, Dut what was served at the momentous Dr. j Wirt dinner.

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(Time* reader* are invited to express their views in these columns. Make pour letters short, so all can have a chance. Limit them to ZZO word* or less.) I GOODMAN, NOT* E. M. B. A., j SETTLED DISPUTE. j By Two Real Silk Strikers. I We read an article in the Message j Center from a seamer upholding j the E. M. B. A. and telling how fair ! and square it is. Now, we'll tell you of a case that happened in the boarding department that was neither fair nor | square. Several boarding machines were | sent back here from Dalton. Ga. ! Men were operating these machines | in Georgia, but when brought here ' the company decided to put women |on them. So they took a bunch of girls off of women's hose and put them on these sock machines. Sock machine boarding is by no means a woman’s job. They told that | if they didn't like it they could go home. These girls tried it for six or eight weeks and went home every night with their hands blistered and their muscles so sore they couldn’t sleep. Then came a dispute over wages. * The girls were getting so much per | dozen. The management told the j girls they were to receive a cut, but ; it had already gone into effect a 1 week before they were notified. For two days the girls tried to ; reason with the management. They | said they -would go to the E. M. B. A. and one of the officials told them that the E. M. B. A. could not help them. So all of these girls walked out. They stayed out more than a week and in the meantime management decided that it wasn’t a job for girls and they put men in their places. After receiving a scolding from Papa Goodman and being reminded of how- nice they were being treated to be allowed to return to their former jobs, the girls went to work. That wasn’t a decision by the E. M. B. A. but by J. A. Goodman himself. Now, Seamer, if you had studied Roosevelt's recovery act and ideas on organized labor as much as Mr. Archer has, you'd be on the picket line with us. And w r e can tel! you what we are parading for, too, any time you care to ask. ana E. M. B. A. MEMBER CONDEMNS STRIKE By a Real Silk Employe Asa member of the E. M. B. A. for five years, I would like to try to make some things clear to those who are not familiar with conditions at Real Silk Hosiery Mills ; and who. perhaps, are unduly influenced by union propaganda. The E. M. B. A. has represented ! Real Silk employes for a dozen years and in that time all employes have had good wages and good working conditions. All through the years of the depression we have worked steadily, while thousands were unemployed. Can the union mills say as much? Real Silk is trying in every w ay; to live up to the NRA. The union says that President Roosevelt wants every worker to belong to a union. We were organized in an efficient, highly satisfactory union long before President Roosevelt's election, j Every one was satisfied until outside union organizers worried over the 575.000 in yearly dues which they j would like to get' from Real Silk em- | ployes and began to stir up trouble. - If the strikers would work and pay their bills, instead of expecting people to forgive them their debts—for example, one striker told his landlord he would not pay his rent this month as he had to save his money while on strike —they would j be doing more to uphold President Roosevelt and help the NRA than by listening to paid organizers who are thinking of their own profits, *

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Success and Suicide of Karl Dane

By .1. B. Adler. I note in The Times an article on “The Evil of Success” giving giving your view of same. In almost every instance your view coincides with mine, but in this case I think you have missed the most salient feature. It was not the fault of success that caused Karl Dane to commit suicide, but the fact that he was imprudent in making investments or throwing his money away like a spendthrift. If he had taken care of it properly, he could have lived in luxury for the rest of his life. It was stated in a certain paper that he had made $1,500 a week for a long period of time. If that money had been properly invested and he had lived a reasonable life he could lived for a good many years in all probability, and in luxury. In this case he evidently could not stand prosperity when he was making real money and did not know how to take care of it.

DILLINGER A HERO? ! SHE’S DISGUSTED By Myrlln Moore I have been a regular reader of j the letters printed in The Times concerning John Dillinger and have been disgusted with those written by persons who say he is a hero and a man. I wonder what their estimate of a man and a hero is? Most of us have been taught that heroes are honest men and good citizens, not against law and order, going about over the land robbing and killing. Every one knows that what he does is destructive, not constructive. Dillinger is a self-confessed thief. I can not think that any persons w'ho are mothers or fathers w’rite those maudlin letters, but are wouldbe “molls” and a class who always admire those who are tearing down and making an uproar. If the newspapers refused to print letters condoning wrongdoing, the \ounger generation and others inclined to go wrong could not read and be influenced by them. It is hard for parents to try to teach their children to be honest and good citizens with such sentiment abroad. Violation of the law should be downed, not applauded. WORLD WAR BUM*’ MAKES PROTEST By Maynard E. Monroe I am a World war veteran. I was laid off of made work on account of disabilities. The sheriff and the trustee put me in a house that isn't proper to live in—no gas to burn, no w-av to cook a meal. My investigator says I can not do anything. They say that I should take the last pay and keep my family. I declare this is scandalous. A World war veteran who risked his life for a cause is living like a bum. My wife and family both sick, and myself, a law-abiding citizen, can not get my pension. Well, I have done all i can, so may I rest in peace some day, but take care of my family, for I am a World war bum. ana URGES STRIKERS TO KEEP UP FIGHT By Otena A. Kerry United we stand, divided we falL In regard to the strike at the Real Silk. I congratulate the stand the A. F. of L. is taking. Stay with it, boys and girls, and you sure will win, and if necessary call every union man and woman in the city, state and nation in sympathy with you and make our dear old U. S. A. a place of the people, for the people instead of the fpw. Our President ha & given the

1 wholly disapprove of irhat, you say and will defend io the death your right to say it — Voltaire . _

It is only natural when a man is accustomed to having plenty of money at his command and everything that, money will buy, and loses it, an immense amount of courage is required to face the facts and bulldog tenacity to hold on for better days. If a man is making SIOO,OOO a year and spends more than he makes, he certainly is digging his own grave. There must be a day of accounting and when he finds himself on the wrong side of the ledger he should mend his ways. Therefore, in mv estimation, it is not a question of whether Karl Dane would have been happier if he had not made a success, but the primary feature is to know how to take caro of your money while the going is good. If he had done this he would not have been reduced to poverty and committed suicide. The moral is take care of your money properly after making it,.

working class a chance to organize. Take it. I am not a Real Silk worker and never was, but if I was I would have walked out with the rest, and as for the scabs who are working, they had better come out while they have a chance with the union. Later on they won’t have a chance, as the A. F. of L. wont have a scab in the union. a a a HE S STILL AGAINST GAS IN RI SES By E. C. Payne The letter published recently in your column, by “A Times Reader,” who did not care to sign his name and in answer to my own decrying the presence of exhaust gas in public places, left the point of my argument unattacked. It is. should the city of Indianapolis permit vehicles, used as public conveyances, to operate under conditions definitely detrimental to the health and comfort of its patrons? The operation of other and better conveyances does not alter this point. Citizens have a right to expect that any enterprise operating as a public utility shall prevent unnecessary hazards to its patrons. The street railway has been doing splendid public service in many ways, but this does not cover any sins. n n n ANOTHER DEFENDER OF REAL SILK Bv a Real Silker I am a worker at the Real Silk mills and have been employed there for six years. I can’t for the life of me see just what these strikers have to kick about. I know of several who have been asked just that, and the answer is, • Why. I don't know, but—.” Real Silk operated when other plants were down; true, our wages were cut, but so was everyone s pay. I have heard it said that J. A. Goodman made three or four million dollars during the depression, but I don't believe it. If it is so. I congratulate him for being the business man he is to be able to do it. In one article, I read we could get no help whatever. That is untrue, as I have been in need of help and after explaining it to the E. M. B. A., I received the help in a very short time. Money can be borrowed with the necessary comakers. As for the department heads framing one. the worker must be a very poor operator and give very little consideration to their work and surroundings. How us it if Real Silk pays such miserable wages, we are able to sport fur coats, cars and nice homes? Working at Real Silk and drawing a pay check every week

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is better than walking the streets waiting so what? While some of our poorly paid knitters are out parading, wives and children wait at home in wanting for that weekly check. Real Silk has operated all these years without the help of outside strangers. Why should we hays them to run our business now? Why | should outsiders come in and tell us pretty stories? Just what do they get out of it? Are we so foolish as to believe they are doing all this for nothing? Come on, strikers, and wake up Don’t continue to be fooled by rosy dreams. Reality is very harsh a a a CARLE BROADCAST GETS GOOD WORD By G. E. T. A suggestion for T. F. L. There is so much good in the worst of us and so much bad in the best of us. that it doesn't become part of us to talk about the rest of us. s It seems as though there must be some other station that you would enjoy listening to more than you do the one E. Howard Cadle uses, Maybe you could make some suggestions that might be of importance if you would turn to some other station when he is on the air. It probably never occurred to you that if Professor Davis would play on the $35,000 organ, as you called it in your letter, that the music might touch the heart of some of the persons who have employed the “father of the hungry child” and did not pay him what he really earned, and that the music might lead them to pay their honest debts. If every one paid their honest debts instead of criticizing others, we wouldn't have hungry children and men out of work. Daily Thought Judge not one against another brethren, lest ye be condemned; behold, the judge standeth before the door.—James, 5:9. EACH one wishes for his own advantage, rather than that of others.—Terence. TREASURES BV EFFIE L. WORKMAN a;; my life. I have wanted things. Not for vanity, which brings Heartache, when we strive for show. But. because I loved them so. Dainty dresses, hats and shoes. Dame Fashion's latest tints and hues. To me. these things were like the flowers. Making gay thus world of ours. Asa child. I dreamed, some dav Lovely things would come my wa7, I would own a hat of lace Whose drooping plume would shade my face; A silken gown, of texture fine, A velvet coat, all these were mine. And yet. no miser's wealth craved I, But beauty, which gold could not buy. Strange tricks, however, were played on me. For the beautiful things I craved to see Have not been found in ribbons and laces But were hidden away, in the strangest places. In the happy laugh of my baby at play Came a burst of joy, at the close of a day. * In the gold of her hair—little face so sweet. Lay my treasure of beauty, for me —complete.