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MONDAY. MAY 14. 1934

AN IMPRESSIVE ACHIEVEMENT T> Y passing the stock market bill, the senate placed the “rose leaf on the brimming bumper” of American financial reforms. It is an impressive record: The GlassSteagall law, reforming the federal reserve and requiring banks to divorce investment affiliates; the guaranty of bank deposits up to $2,500; the truth-in-securities act, and now a stock market control law. In the legislative mill are the municipal bankruptcy bill, the corporate reorganization bill and the measure to extend government loans to industry. An awakened public opinion has been the driving force behind this legislative program. In the chaos of the first few months of the Roosevelt administration, the people and the congress followed without question the lead of the man in the White House. But that has not been true of the stock market legislation. The people and congress have followed the President with eyes wide open, and piercing the propaganda of Wall Street. Leader Snell led the house Republicans in opposition to the bill. A few days later, leader McNary led senate Republicans in support of the bill. The explanation of that lies not only in McNary’s greater social vision, but also In his superior political judgment. Passage of the stock market bill demonstrates that the people /o not want to go back to the uncontrollable speculation of the Coolidge era. that the people intend the prosperity of the future shall not be a mythical and collapsible prosperity. A few differences between the house and senate bill remain to be adjusted. The house bill's specific margin requirements and definite pronouncement of policy may be preferable to those of the senate bill. Also, the house bill's delegation of administrative power to the tried and proved federal trade commission may be better than the senate bill's creation of a new exchange commission. On the other hand, the senate bill’s listing requirements may furnish investors with more adequate information and protection. But these are details. The important thing is that strong bills have been passed by both houses, and out of the two measures will come a law giving to the government the power to prevent the siphoning of the nation's credit into channels of speculation as well as to protect investors from stock market rigging and manipulation. SPOILING A STORY A STORY which long has been relished by tourists visiting the east, Tennessee mountain is that of the farmer who broke his neck. "How did it happen?" you are supposed to ask. He was plowing his corn patch and fell out.” It is the purpose of the Tennessee Valley Authority to spoil this story. Not to show that the incident could not have happened, for they find many slopes of an angle up to 75 per cent under cultivation and one slope of 88 per cent planted in corn. They are going to spoil the story to keep a great dam from being spoiled. The people of the United States are spending about $38,000,000 to build the Norris dam. The best of engineering brains, hired without regard to politics, are building as fine a structure as human genius can produce. Yet, unless something is done, that dam will be about 1 per cent less efficient one year after It is completed. That is a rough estimate of the depreciation suffered by the average hydroelectric dam from the deposit of silt in the lake behind it. That silt is washed down into the lake from plowed hillside fields which should never have been farmed. So the TV A proposes to reforest a half million acres in the watershed above Norris dam. Before man cut the trees and allowed the soil to wash away those streams were clear; they can be made clear again. Not only will this new forest protect the investment in the dam; it will also protect the soil; it will take out of cultivation farm land, of which we have too much, and add to our forest area, of which we do not have enough. * There will be anew story to be told in the east Tennessee hills. In fact it already has been told by a farmer, commenting on the effect of dams erected on his hillside farm to check soil erosion. He said to Gus Lentz, planting chief of the TV A, as Mr. Lentz tells in American Forests: “Yes, sir! The water used to run off and now hit walks off!” Which suggests that a thief runs, and the last running water which washes away the hillsides is a thief which runs away with our precious, irreplaceable soil. UNBALANCED DEBT A YOUNG man named Abe Faber went into court at Dedham, Mass., the other day to stand trial on a charge of murder, and when he got on the witness stand some question or other led him to express a singular philosophy of life. He said that he felt he owed his parents nothing at all for the way they had worked to give him the advantages of life. “Thpy brought me into the world.” he said, “and it was up to them to provide for me. I would have done it if I had had children.” Now a man who is standing trial for murder i a not, perhaps, in the best possible position to discuss the general question of childrenli debt* to their parents; still, the point this chap raised has occurred to other young men before this, and people probably will be ■discussing it until the eve of the And in the main it would seem to be a

thoughtful person that there is altogether too much talk about what their children owe them, and about what they owe their children, until you would almost think that a formal bill had been drawn up by lawyers, with interest running at so much a year and with a host of qualifying clauses designed to balance the debts equally. For while these debts are very real, they never are the kind that can be reduced to black and white; indeed, they are likely to vanish altogether if you try to examine them too closely. What does a young man owe to his parents? Why. nothing at all—if he doesn't feel the reality of his debt in his own heart. They brought him into the world without asking him about it—true enough; it's up to them to feed him and shelter him and care for him generally until he's able to go it alone. But you can't skeletonize it like that. For parents have a way of giving gospel measure in such things. They add a brimming cup of loye and kindness and forbearance that is not nominated in the bond and that can never be paid back. They don't have to do that; they do it because the human race is, after all, a little higher and finer than the beasts of the field. A flip young man can say that he owes his parents nothing, and in a way he will be telling the truth. But that only skims the surface. Beneath there is a debt that no set of books devised can ever balance. THE PROFIT IN MILK "IT WITNESSES before a senate agriculture ’ committee meeting recently revealed conditions that make imperative a thorough investigation of the milk situation in the United States. V William E. O'Donnell, speaking for the New York emergency conference of consumer organizations, said that dairymen of the Empire state get from 1.5 to 4 cents a quart for their milk, consumers pay 12 to 16 cents. A distribution cost of 200 per cent is average. Dairyman Felix Piseck said New York farmers are taking a 60-cent lavs on every 100 pounds of milk, are 40 per cent overproduced, face extermination. Others told of a combine of five big procevsing and distributing concerns called “the milk trust,” of control of city distribution by means of ownership of pasteurization plants, of the experience of Chicago, where farmers have set up their own plants and are selling milk to consumers at from 6.5 to 8 cents a quart. We must have cheaper milk. There are said to be 7,500,000 children of school and preschool age now suffering from malnutrition. Milk consumption goes up when milk prices go down, and vice versa. On the other hand, the 4,500,000 farmers for whom milk is their only cash crop can not be made to produce at a loss. Apparently too much is going to the middlemen. Why should New' Yorkers pay 13 cents a quart for milk, Chicagoans 6.5 cents? There are two resolutions pending in congress calling for a nation-wide study of milk distribution. One is the McCarran resolution for a senate investigation; the other the Kippelman resolution, calling for a probe by the federal trade commission. In spite of opposition from the distributors one of these resolutions should be voted. REAL GIFT TO MOTHERS ONE of the tragic things about Mother’s day is that we usually are content to let it go by without paying more than a formal tribute. We send flowers or candy or some other form of greeting, but we ignore the way in which we could really make the day significant. Mrs. Shepherd Krech. president of the Maternity Center Association of New York, points out that 10.000 women who could be saved by adequate maternity care die in childbirth each year in the United States; and she suggests that a spirited campaign to end these deaths would make an admirable Mother's day observance. Practicing what she preaches, Mrs. Krech this year induced many American Legion posts. Rotary, Kiwanis and Lions Clubs to co-operate in such a campaign. It's a firstrate idea; Mother's day would be far more significant if it could be followed up, year after year, in a conscientious manner. BREASTING THE WAVES ENGLAND'S income from her shipping exceeds that from any visible exports—steel, textiles, coal or other goods. The kingdom has $1,500,000,000 invested in the trade; before the war British tonnage was 41 per cent of total world tonnage. Now, however, things have changed. British tonnage is only 27 per cent of the world total; such foreign nations as the United States. France and Japan have used subsidies lavishly to develop their own shipping, and in that fact is one of the major explanations for Britain's protracted industrial slump. Yet it probably would be premature to sing a swan song for England's maritime pre-emi-nence. The English have had centuries of experience on deep water. Building and using ships is, by new, almost second nature to them. British shipping may be in a decline just now; in the long run it is very likely to maintain its proud and lucrative position. The English get into slumps, but they have an uncanny knack for holding on tight and coming out of them stronger than ever before. A man in London started laughing sixteen months ago and can't stop. We knew it took an Englishman a long time to get a joke, but we never realized it took him so long to get over one. Mrs. Jean Piccard is right about going up in a stratosphere balloon with her husband this summer. She won't have him look down upon her. Business has improved so that many firms have been able to repay their RFC loans, and now are free to criticise the government for holding up prosperity. Anew cult in Germany believes our ancestors sprang from trees. Well, at least they swang from trees. A midwestern newspaper frankly listed cemeteries in its classified columns under sorts"—last resorts! . '

Liberal Viewpoint “By DR. HARRY ELMER BARNES “

ONCE we have assured ourselves of the ability to eat and cover our backs, we have to face the broader problem of mastering social life as a whole. The following group of books contribute notably in one way or another to the clarification of the major social issues of today. Professor Henry Pratt Fairchild is best known as one of the leading authorities on immigration and is an unusually penetrating and courageous writer on the crisis of modem capitalism. He now has written a comprehensive manual on the more expansive topic of social life as a whole (“General Sociology.” By Henry Pratt Fairchild. John Wiley, Inc. $3.75). The book is very lucidly written and departs widely from the conventional subject matter of general textbooks in the field of sociology. As might be expected from the author's preparation and interests, it is particularly strong in the sections dealing with biological and economic problems. ana HT'HE question of whether heredity or environment is most influential in determining the character of human personality has been bitterly and extensively debated for more tnan a century. Miss Schwesinger has written one of the most complete works on this controversial subject. It examines the issue carefully from every point of view and reviews thoroughly the previous literature in the field (“Heredity and Environment: Studies in the Genesis of Psychological Characteristics.” By Gladys C. Schwesinger. Edited by Frederick Osborn. Macmillan. $4). The author comes to the sensible conclusion that the facts do not support the extreme viewpoint of either environmenalists or hereditaria ns, and that the question can be settled for any given individual only through a very close study of the particular case. One of the most notorious examples of cultural lag in our modern civilization is to be found in the content and administration of our criminal law. Much of it is as far removed from modern scientific knowledge in the field of criminology as Is astrology or witchcraft. ana PROFESSOR WAITE has given us our first dependable and readable introduction to the operation of the American criminal law, covering all problems from the nature of the criminal code to the reaction of the public to notable criminal cases (“Criminal Law in Action.” By John Barker Waite.' Sears Publishing Cos. S3). The fact that he sets forth his material in calm and dispassionate fashion makes his survey all the more challenging to the conventional criminal law' of our country. The information and point of view of those in charge of penal institutions in our country have been notably improved in the last generation. This fact is amply demonstrated by the proceedings of the American Prison Association, w'hich held a congress at Atlantic City last October. The collection of papers there delivered and just published is, for the most part, an illuminating survey of the more scientific and civilized attitude toward criminals (“Proceedings of the Sixty-Third Annual Congress of the American Prison Association.” Central Office, 135 East Fifteenth Street, New York. $2). But there are still lamentable examples of archaic vindictiveness, for example, Mr. Justin Miller s paper on the place of probation in our correctional system. Among the most notable phases of progress in social science and education are the advances that have been made in the presentation of sexual problems in candid and accurate fashion. The book by Dr. Thesing is unsurpassed as a lucid and scientific introduction to the biology, psychology and sociology of sex and the love emotions (“Genealogy of Sex." By Curt Thesing, M. D. Emerson Books, Inc. $5). As an introductory descriptive manual it can be warmly recommended.

Capital Capers RY GEORGE ABELL==

ELEGANT, dressed in anew morning coat and slightly redolent of Paris eau-de-cologne. Minister Charles Davila of Rumania entertained at a champagne deluge in honor of Rumanian independence. Never had the most blase guest seen so much champagne! If the empty bottles w'ere stretched end to end they w'ould have reached at least to Bucharest. Toasts W'ere drained in rapid succession by a horde of guests who threw themselves without reserve upon Mumms extra dry. It was dry, sparkling and deliciously iced. One ecstatic visitor hailed Minister Davila as “the Grand Voyvod of Washington!” Another chanted: “Drink to me only with thy wine and I w'ill pledge my w'atch!” Grand Voyvod Davila smiled distantly at the sound of the tumult (he was at the far doorw'ay), kissed the tips of a lady’s signers and bowed low to his important guests. Note: The Russians and the Turks didn’t come. Some little difficulty about Bessarabia, nonrecognition, and the fact that they don t like the color of Davila’s ash-blond hair. Furthermore, no self-respecting Turk would drain a toast to Rumania yesterday, when that country celebrated its independence from Turkish ruie (1877) during the Russo-Turkish war. a a a SPEAKER RAINEY, who is fond both of Rumanians and champagne, marched up the stone stairway, adjusting his artistic Windsor tie. “Oh, Mr. Speaker,” gushed one lady. “I want you to meet . . And she presented a bashful young w'riter to the silver-haired Speaker. “Ump-phh!” grunted Rainey, quickly turning away. “I see someone over there I want to speak to.” He waddled off. The lady was puzzled because she didn't know that the young writer had on the previous day unleashed a terrific article against him. a a a CHROME yellow' forsythia, white carnations, starched shirts inside the legation, and the blue, yellow and red tricolor of Rumania flapping outside, lent a grandiose aspect to the party. The champagne helped, too. Nearly all the ambassadors and ministers of foreign countries were on hand with the usual compliments. Ambassador Rosso of Italy darted in for a minute and then rushed aw'ay to give a tea party of his own. Minister Peter of Switzerland was there. Mme. Peter looking very charming as she stood among the clatter of tea cups. (She eschewed the turbulence of the champagne crowd.) Ambassador Cardenas of Spain says he is standing up fairly well under the flood of farewell parties which would make a wreck of many a man. Mme. Andrei Popovici, wife of the Rumanian diplomat (he has written a book on Bessarabia), looked unusually attractive in a black hat and black and white taffeta dress. Mrs. Swanson, wife of the secretary of the navy, was appropriately gowned in navy blue with hat to match. Miss Perkins, the energetic secretary of labor, who looks in on quite a few diplomatic fiestas, wore a brand new black straw hat. Mrs. Rainey, the Speaker's wife, talked not a little above the noise of popping corks and Envoy Davila's suave compliments. Biond, radiant Mme. Djalal, wife of the Persian minister, looked enchanting. The youthful Mrs. Forbes Morgan gave some of the more formally dressed diplomats a shock by appearing in most informal attire —gray tweeds and a bright scarf around her neck. According to the modern code, Mrs. Morgan was correct and the others wrong. She eclipsed many other lovely ladies.

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(Tithes rentiers are incited 1n express their vines in these columns. Make your letters short, so all can hare a chance. Limit them to 250 words or less.) a a a SERIAL STORY WINS NEW SUBSCRIBER By a New Subscriber. I subscribed to your paper when the story. “The Amateur Gentleman,” was started. I wonder if the rest of your readers enjoy this delightful story as much as I? Whose excellent idea was it to make a serial story of this better class of literature? For years I have been reading the first chapter of every serial in the hope of getting a good story and ignoring the rest as mere trash. In “The Amateur Gentlemen” the reader, whether of the working class, or of the higher intelligentsia, has a bit of romance, a bit of adventure, and a bit of history rolled into a patty-cake called a novel, to be enjoyed by all. The idea must have been concocted by one with much foresight. A toast to the clever individual, or individuaLs. whose idea it was to put “The Amateur Gentleman” into print. a a a TWO STRIKERS—AND PROUD OF IT By a Looper. Here is a word to the seamer who gives herself the status of a gold digger. If you would go to a meeting of the strikers you would learn something. No one expects the knitters will make SIOO a week, although it has been done in other plants. They will be able to support a home that any woman should be proud to live in. It might be well to remember no self-respecting union man wants “a scab” or a golddigger for a wife, so you may as well take that out of the ring. I have been a looper for seven years and I married a knitter who never made anything near SIOO a week. We are both strikers and proud of it. a a a PRAISES THE TIMES FOR STRIKE POLICY. By Fair Flay. Tlie working people look in vain in the other Indianapolis papers for light on the strikers’ side in the hosiery mill dispute, but they are getting some of the real dope in The Times’ Message Center. Why don't we see letters like these in the other papers? Won't they print them? The mills and other employers are able to pay for big ads in the papers to tell their side, but we have to look in the Message Center for the strikers’ side. The working people do not appreciate The Times as they should, or it would have by far the largest circulation, and they would bring it the advertising, as the merchants want the working people's support and money. a a a HE REPEATS, “MONEY IS ROOT OF ALL EVIL” By a Reader. Money is the root of all evil. What causes murders, kidnapings and notorious outlaws, and all crooked dealings? Money usually is the root. I was an employe at Real Silk for a long time and I could never understand why 50 cents per month was taken out of our checks for the E. M. B. A. They explained it was to make you more sure of your job and I thought if an employe wasn’t eligible to be in, he shouldn't be an employe. It is too bad there isn’t competition in the hosiery industry here and union competition at that.

UNDER TWO FLAGS

Economic Change or Ruin Predicted

By M. E. I never have written to The Message Center before and I am not going to dare you to print this, for I don’t think it is necessary. Your fair deal to every one is one of the reasons why I’ve taken The Times for about fifteen years. In answer to Mrs. Randi Aamot's letter of May 3, I am with her 100 per cent. I wish there were about one hundred million more like her. Mr. Davis talks about freedom, liberty, justice and human rights. I wonder if he ever stood in the relief lines begging for help for five half-fed, half-naked children. Os course not. Every time a working man goes to the polls to vote for such a system as we have under capitalism it only proves that he is dumber than a dumb animal. The animals have had their living supplied and they live. God in his great love has supplied every need of the human family. He put his own image far above any animal. Yet we prove to be dumber than they for we starve and suffer amid plenty. Why? Because we keep on voting for a bunch of political thieves who represent the grab and hold concerns, privately owned, which steal the fruit of your labor and call you idiots in return. They are not missing it far, either. It is worse than idiotic. They're a bunch of parasites, slowly sucking the life’s blood out of you and TWO MORE DEFEND JOHN DILLINGER By L. R. and I. C. We are writing this in response to J. B.'s letter in this column. We agree with Mrs. Burkert inasmuch as we think there are many ! white collar and tie men, probably j J. B. is one of them, that are do- j ing more wrong things and robbing | more from the people of our state than John Dillinger has. Every-: thing that has been done lately is blamed on Dillinger. Maybe J. B. does want him to be caught, but I am one who doesn’t. I wonder how | J. B. knows so much? We wonder if this hunted man were J. B.’s son, if he would think the way he does. Yet, he is somebody's son. a a a BOOK ON LIFE OF DILLINGER LAUDED. By L. V. Marks. I gather from The Times front pages that Red Gallagher of your staff is the author of the book I bought recently in a shop on the i life of Dillinger—a darned good book. I would like to make a suggestion. , All of those persons who have ideas about Dillinger should read this book; it would be of interest to them. This might add variety to the Message Center—at least, we ; might hear more varied —maybe something about his childhood, and j his life as a boy in a small town. ana DR. GOUTHEY PRAISED FOR PULPIT ABILITY Bt E. M. R. I want to write a few words in, the Message Center about this lov- ! ing man of God now speaking at the Cadle Tabernacle. Someone made the remark that he isn't so hot. What that really means, I don’t know, but if the party means in other words that Dr. Gouthey is not a great preacher, he don’t know a good man when he sees him. II it takes a grea , preacher ol ■

' your children and you give your consent freely. When will you ever wake up? Talk about cultural refinement and Christian religion! Read the fifth chapter of James if you want a better picture of them. And they call John Dillinger a rat. Thank the Lord. J. D. will get an honest judgment some day. They say that socialism is antiChristian. Then what is Christianity? Is the capitalistic system of high profits, vast fortunes, low wages and high cast of living, which in turn causes bank robberies, murders, broken families and homes, starvation and, worse yet, bitterness, hatred, envy, strife and malice, the way to live? God help up to see differently. Christian fellowship, brotherly love, sharing each other's burdens, and making the other fellow’s life brighter have never yet produced conditions like these we now have, and never will. We’ll have to get back to honesty with each other and seek leadership from a higher power than man. The capitalistic system won't allow it. The right to live will help to destroy the desire to steal, and we'll have fewer Dillingers. Relief lines will be done, shack towns will disappear and helpless hungry will be fed. Let's all fight legally for the right to life. Many persons will laugh at this, but unless the system is soon changed America, the most wonderful land on earth, is doomed. the Bible and the truth and not only preaches it, but lives it, in your way of saying it, I would say he is red hot. This city needs more men of his kind. I don’t think the preachers of our city really like to hear the truth, or they wouldn't be telling their members to stay away from the tabernacle, and if they were the preachers they should be. they would welcome this man to our city instead of knocking him. I am just one of the many he has led out of the darkness into the light. CHARTER MEMBER*OF E. M. B. A. LAUDS GROUP By E. M. Marlin. There is a lot being said about Real Silk and the E. M. B. A. Being a charter member of this association I feel I should raise a voice against statements which are being put before the public. We have an association which has kept us working in peace and harmony for twelve years, with all the advantages and none of the disadvantages, such as high dues and strikes as in a labor union. I consider this strike a case of poor sportsmanship on the part of the participants. After a fair election last fall if those on strike had have been good sports they would have abided by the wishes of the majority. No one can say truthfully any question, large or small, which has’ been brought before the E. M. B. A., but what has had fair trial and settlement. The greater number of those who are wearing out shoe leather in picketing do not really know what what it is all about. Union influence has done more to bring them into the union ranks than any desire for a union. The company has given -steady work through the years of the depression even when it could ill afford to keep the mills running steadily and now that the skies are a little brighter the union would have us bite the hand that has s*en feeding us through the lean years.

MAY 14, 1934

KENTUCKIAN WRITES ABOUT HOSIERY STRIKE Bv a Ken'ueky Real •‘Silker." Yes, strikers, we Kentuckians are ignorant and know that you boys should have taken better care of your Kentucky striker. Maybe he wouldn’t have been arrested. Poor fellow, he didn't know he should not be too tough, and the police got him. Your boarding room girl sure knows her stuff. She is out with you; she needs more money; sl2 a week isn’t enough for her. It is known that she has made as high as 90 cents an hour. I don’t know what she wants. Kentucky should be proud of her. Come on, strikers. Give your wives a break. Get them out of the mill while you are striking after all the rotten breaks you knitters got in there. I think you would be afraid for your wives to work there. Don't let the girl strikers get them. If you can't live without your wife's support, you had better let the union keep you and when you get your SIOO a week jobs, your wives won't have to work. a a a BIBLE AND STRIKE DISCUSSED. By a Looper. In regard to Mr. Friedman’s letter challenging Mr. Goodman on the Scriptures I wonder if Mr. Friedman ever read the passage, “Do violence to no man: neither accuse any falsely, and be content with your wages.” I can't understand how any one professing to be so religious would uphold strikers. As one who is remaining on the job, I don’t feel in bondage to any man, but have enough sense to know that this is one of the best mills in the country in which to work. , a a a UNION VETERANSTATES VIEWS By Twenty Tears a Vnion Man. Some years ago during the labor trouble with the railroads we had a switchmen's strike, and if memory serves our present chief of police took a very active part as one of the strikers. However, times have changed and it seems also to have changed the viewpoint of “Comrade” Morrissey, since he is no longer dependent upon the railroad, and he sits securely in the good graces of his former enemies, he now sees nothing at all good about strikes or strikers. , He can sit by and put out the old line about the public must be protected and turn his “blundering bobbies” lose on women, passersby and school children; in fact, any one who can't fight back so that they, the policemen, may have a chance to get some “mob experience” at no risk to themselves. I read some place that a recent test revealed that the average policeman has the mentality of a 12-year-old boy, but I don’t Delieve it, for I know most 12-year-old boys are smarter than most 4u-year-old policemen, and as ;he intelligent quotient goes up, the harder it will be to find “stooges” to walk the streets carrying clubs. DANDELIONS BY ARCHER SHIRLEY A shining yellow mass Os fairy casks that nod to me A welcome as I pass. A golden blanket could not be More beautiful than they; A leap of foam from out the sea Would not be half so gay. Gold on green, they stand in grass That meets each sunny head; My heart is saddened when they pass— When dandelions are dead.

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