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WEDNESDAY. MAY I*. 1034 THE WAR CHEST TJRESIDENT ROOSEVELT’S budget mes- ■*- sage to congress yesterday was an inventory of the war chest against depression. Appropriately, he holds to the determination announced in January of bringing the federal government's operations out of the red, if possible, by the end of the fiscal year 1936. The good credit of the government is the comer stone of confidence so necessary for recovery. Fortunately the President has not closed the door against emergency appropriations in excess of the requested $1,322,000,000 if they become necessary, but merely has pointed out that higher taxes must go hand-in-hand with a larger appropriation if the budget is to be balanced in 1936. Congress failed, when it had the tax bill under consideration, to take precautions against the possibility of unexpected demands upon the treasury. Having so failed, the only course that congress can now pursue is to follow the President's program. Relief expenditures by the federal government must be continued. There should be no controversy in congress on this point. Federal relief was forced, after too long a delay, by uncompromising necessity trailing in the wake of collapsed private charity and bankrupt states and municipalities. Four and one-half million families still are dependent upon federal relief, and relief funds are being expended at the rate of $90,000,000 a month. y The administration’s effort, whenever possible, to provide jobs instead of doles follows the best American traditions. But playing politics with the taxpayers’ money and the unemployed man’s need is not in keeping with either good traditions or good government. Director Hopk ns has been frank enough to admit the existence of politics in the relief machinery, intelligent enough to recognize it as a real menace to the relief program, and bold enough to do all in his power to crush it. Fights will be waged in congress on two points—on the adequacy of the appropriation and on attempts to earmark for pet projects portions of the $560,000,000 lump sum for public works and nrlief. The President wisely has asked that the sum be restricted. No one knows now whether the appropriation, together with the nearly two billion dollars already appropriated and as yet unspent. Will prove adequate. That can be answered only by business conditions and weather conditions that can not now be forecast. The President, however, seems confident that the fund will be sufficient at least until congress reconvenes in January. If events that he has guessed wrong, it will be up to him to call a special session. It Is this very uncertainty of what the fall and winter months will bring that should impel congress to give the President the free hand that he has asked divert savings from other appropriations for relief purposes. We are trying to carry on with a very narrow margin. A strait-jacket appropriation bill might make it an impossible task for the President.

“A FREAK MEASURE” RICH, a rich woolen mill man of Woolrich. Pa., has stirred resentment among the backers of the child labor amendment by introducing an anti-child labor bill. Trouble comes not from any danger of the bill winning approval of congress or the courts, but because its provisions and punishments are so drastic that enemies of the child labor amendment are saying: I told you so; this is the kind of legislation congress will pass if the amendment carries. The Rich bill forbids the regular employment of all children 18 years old or under and sets a universal minimum wage of 28 cents an hour. Labor Secretary Frances Perkins calls it "a freak measure.” The national child labor committee says it could not have been better designed to their ends if the foes of the child labor amendment had framed it themselves. NOT ABOVE SUSPICION COLONEL WILLIAM NEBLETT, special investigator named by a senate judiciary subcommittee to examine the record of Federal Judge Frank H. Norcross, nominee for the United States circuit court of appeals bench in the far west, makes serious charges. Under oath the committee counsel says that this judge 1 not unknowingly” last year allowed himself to be party to an illegal • conspiracy” to use his court to defraud preferred stockholders and creditors in partially liquidating a Pacific coast chain drug concern. Common stockholders, he said, had used Norcross' court as a wringer by which a $8,700,000 company had been squeezed out of $6,000,000 worth of debts, leases and preferred shareholders’ claims. A holding concern of Its original owners bought the assets for $1,550,000, and continued to run the firm under a slightly changed name, it is charged. The record shows that Norcross named as receiver a Reno bank. One of the attorneys for that bank was William Woodburn, whom president Roosevelt has nominated to take Norcross' place on the Nevada district bench If he is promoted. Colonel Neblett also charged that Judge Norcross caused the government to lose $9,000,000 by his decision in a suit to recover thre parcels of thq famous Elk Hills naval oil reserve Although Norcross had before him the United States supreme court decision on this lease, he held the evidence insufficient to prov* fraud. His opinion was reversed by the circuit appeals court upon which he aspires to sit. The decision, Neblett said, “illustrates ho'f use ns l-

tive the mind of the court was to the fraud of a public official.’* Federal judges sit for life and wield great power. They must be, like Caesar's wife, above suspicion. Colonel Neblett's report seems to indicate that President Roosevelt has been misled by thotw recommending promotion of Norcross. The chief reason for the senate confirmation machinery is to prevent just such mistakes. THE SUPREME ANT HILL DILATORY judges of the land should contemplate the zeal of the nine elderly men of the United States supreme court, as revealed to the American Law Institute by Chief Justice Hughes. The high court's work for the closing term breaks all records for the disposal of causes, and discloses the most august tribunal of America as a veritable ant hill of diligent and competent work. Last term, Justice Hughes said, the supreme court disposed of 756 cases on the appellate docket. This term it will better that record by 100 cases. Mr. Justice Hughes also dispelled the illusion that the justices loaf during the summer, by reminding the bar that they take care of home work in the shape of applications for certiorari, a total of 300 of which must be studied and passed upon during the coming vacation time. And, besides studying and ruling on cases, the court has been charged with the duty of prescribing rules for proceedings in criminal cases in federal courts after verdict. The reformers who cry for more courts, more judges and more tinkering with procedure should jot down on their cuffs the truism that delayed justice can best be cured by better and harder-working judges. “It always must be borne in mind,” said Justice Hughes, no system can be better than its administration, and no rules of practice can take the place of alert and competent Judges.” GREATNESS AT HOME IT is rather strange, when you stop to think about it, that more attention was not paid to the passage of the Philippine independence bill. This measure, recently accepted in Manila, does more than bind the United States to give its island wards the freedom it promised them so long ago. It marks the close of an epoch—the final abandonment of a dream that was lifted high against the western sky a generation ago. Who can remember that turbulent and excited Spanish war era now? It seems very remote, almost as far away lrom us as the Civil war period. It was the signal of our coming of age, the violent and erratic announcement by a giant that he had attained his growth and meant to do great things in the world. Doing great things in the world meant, in those days, becoming an empire, planting the flag overseas, taking up the white man’s burden. and all that sort of thing; it meant looking with pride at new spots on the map, and learning strange names like Mindanao and the Sulu sea, and meditating on the pride and glory of a great nation. So we took over the Philippines, not knowing precisely what we wanted of them, but sure that taking them w r as a good thing. Now, a generation later, we turn them loose again, giving them the independence they wanted in the first place; and in the time between something has happened to our dream, something has taken our conception of greatness and turned it inside out. The truth of the matter probably is that we have learned that we have problems enough at home. We have become great and strong, just as we told ourselves we should, back in ’9B. But we have begun to realize that greatness and strength don't rest on lonely garrisons in faroff seas, or on grim squadrons at anchor in tropical bays; they need as a foundation prosperity and happiness and freedom among the people at home, and if they lack those things they lack everything. Our outposts of empire no longer are places like Luzon and Cavite; they are the breadlines in our own cities, the farms that drain the blood from the men who work them, the slum areas that need to be rebuilt, the industries that profit neither seller nor buyer, the injustices that await settlement. No longer will we prove our greatness by sending khaki-clad patrols into steaming jungles to die far from home. We have bigger jobs, closer home. We are giving up our island empire because we have found a.new one in our own front yard.

HIGH COST OF ‘JUNK’ A N odd little footnote to the automobile age was furnished at Woburn, Mass., the other day. when a man bought a used car for $5. drove it out on the highway, and a few hours later got into a traffic accident that did SIOO worth of damage. The incident emphasizes our need of some kind of strict regulation to cover the use of aged and decrepit machines. You can doubtless imagine the kind of car that can be bought for $5; not much thought is needed to convince one that such a car must be inherently unsafe, to its driver and to others. Why shouldn’t we get busy and rule all such wrecks off the road? The highways are dangerous enough even when all cars are well equipped and in perfect condition. To permit $5 cars from the junkyard to operate is sheer folly. FUTILITY OF ARMAMENT T~'RENCH newspapers are worried now by reports that Germany is constructing a chain of rocket bases along the frontier, ready to shower a vast number of explosive rockets all over France. One newspaper says projectiles capable of traveling 125 miles have been developed, and it is estimated that ■with a large chain of rocket bases Germany could dump 50.000 tons of high explosives on French soil in one night. The French frontier forts may be invulnerable, but what, asks a Paris paper, is the use of that, if all of France may lie dead and burned behind them? The question is a puzzler. Indeed, one might go farther. What is the use of preparing for war at all, if weapons against which there is no defense can be used against you? Or. for that matter, why try to keep civilization alive, if we are all set to blow it out of existence us enught? *

Liberal Viewpoint =By DR. HARRY ELMER BARNES =

LIBERALISM is decidedly under fire at the i present time. By comparison, reactionaries, fascists and communists are becoming almost respectable. Liberals are attacked from all sides and liberalism has come very much into the position of "when a feller needs a friend. To the defense of liberalism now comes Dr. Everett Dean Martin, than whom no other American is more capable of discussing the whole issue of liberalism. In an article on “Is Liberalism Out of Date?” in the “Journal of Adult Education" he frankly considers the weaknesses of contemporary liberalism and offers suggestions as to how it may be brought up to date and adapted to present conditions: “Liberalism is on the defensive. It is attacked by radicals and conservatives alike. It is attacked in every field where for a century and more it has been applied with what seemed to be increasing success. “Liberalism in religion has made great headway, but in recent years it stands challenged by a Catholic revival abroad, and we are witnessing certain manifestations of this revival in America. The theology and philosophy of Thomas Aquinas make increasing appeal to youthful students; his rigorous logic seems to stand out in- sharp contrast to what are.held to be the loose thinking and humanitarian sentimentality of pragmatism and liberal Protestantism. u # “T IBERALISM as a theory of government, tojL/ gether with the liberal party in many nations, is regarded with increasing impatience. The liberal is said to be a ‘middle of the road’ man; a man of half measures and cheap compromise, seeking to evade issues which our age must fight through. “It is significant that in the recent riots in Paris, the liberal Republican government of France was attacked by mobs made up of royalists and communists fighting side by side. To many minds the liberal party in England has been discredited; so also has that of Austria. The liberal government of Germany is condemned like that of Kerensky in Russia for its weakness and its vacillation in the face of the threat of dictatorship. “In education also there is a movement away from liberalism. It is said that liberal educators today are lacking in conviction; that they have no clear-cut philosophy of living to impart to their students; that their discipline is bad; that they are responsible for the confusion and faddism which characterize much progressive education. “In general liberalism is accused of futility when confronted with the stern realities of twentieth century life. The suspicion is growing that it is nothing other than a confused Bourgeois ideology, the philosophy of a passing capitalist industrial system, condemned along with the system itself.” tt tt u BUT Dr. Martin insists that it is not liberalism itself but our contemporary liberals who are confused and out of date: “The average liberal today does not know whether he is an individualist or a socialist. He does not know whether he believes in the free spirit or in a planned economy. He has not decided whether he wishes to retain parliamentary government, or concentrate authority in the hands of the executive; whether he wishes more law or less law He never has solved the dilemma of the conflict between the Rousseauist ‘return to nature’ and the progress of the machine age. He tried to be both a mechanist and a romanticist. On Tuesday he is a Voltairian rationalist and on Wednesday a Bergsonian institutionalist.” In the current belittling of democracy we tend to overlook the fact that most of those things associated with decency and civilization in our culture have been the product of the liberalism of the past. It is liberalism which spells the difference between the United States on the one hand and Germany and Italy on the other. What liberalism needs to do today fe to divorce itself resolutely from the century-old individualism of Adam Smith and Herbert Spencer which has been used as the theoretical defense of irresponsible capitalism, and from the crude democratic doctrine of the desirability of mass action, which today is everywhere leading to fascism or some other form of dictatorship. What liberalism may subscribe to today is extensive social control by government under the leadership of trained and superior leaders, even if tempered by democratic forms.

Capital Capers ='- -BY GEORGE ABELL

THE arrival in Washington of Colonel Fitzmaurice, the Irish flier, to buy American airplanes, is being heralded by a luncheon today at which Irish Minister Michael Mac White will be the host. British officials have announced unofficially that Colonel Fitzmaurice ‘‘hasn't got a bean and the Irish Free State hasn’t got a bean, so how can he buy airplanes?” Mac White’s reply to this is a twinkle of the eye and the cryptic comment: ‘‘Not a bean, eh? Wait and see?” tt n tt SENATOR ARTHUR CAPPER of Kansas has definitely become the barometer of diplomatic parties in the capital. If you see him at a party, it's good. The legislator shows much more restraint about diplomatic parties than some of his colleagues. He only goes to the best—but he never misses a good one. One finds a motley group of senators at some of the inferior teas and cocktail parties, but Capper usually blazes forth at night in all the splendor of ivory-white tie and glistening pumps. During the days he works. Where the music is gayest and the guests merriest, there is Arthur. At the Spanish embassy party. Capper twirled delightedly to the Castilian waltzes and even accomplished some dance that looked like a mazurka. tt tt tt IT is a coincidence that assistant secretaries of state in charge of Latin American affairs invariably get something wrong with their throats, The lamented Francis White, who became minister to Czechoslovakia ('but later declined to look at life through rose-tinted Czechoslovakian glasses) had a terrible experience. One morning his secretary called to say that Mr. Whitfe couldn't report for work. "He swallowed a shad bone and it stuck in his throat,” he informed the alarmed state department. The shad bone persisted for three days, despite medical diagnosis and research. Finally, it was skillfully removed, and Francis appeared again on the Latin American horizon, with a beautiful lapis-lazuli muffler around his throat. This time the victim is the present assistant secretary of state for Latin America. Mr. Sumner Welles. He is suffering from an infected palate—but whether a shad bone is responsible no one knows, a semi-official bulletin has informed the faithful about Mr. Welles’ trouble, but with no mention of particulars. On Saturday, the tall, distinguished diplomat reported at his desk as usual—but he did not discuss shad bones. Five greyhounds, in Texas, dropped dead chasing a rabbit and they couldn't even come back home to boast how the big fellow got away from them. George Hobson of Blockow, Mo., can tell the weight of a hog by Its squeal, except when the squeal comes from a motor horn. A doctor reports he has been able to keep keep dogs alive without their stomachs for as long as ten years. He couldn't do that with children, who are all stomach.

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(Time* readers are invited to erpress their views in these columns. Make your letters short, so all can have a chance. Limit them to 250 words or less.) WRITES “EXIT”*FOR CAPITALISM Bv C. S. G. The capitalistic press did not carry anything concerning the red-hot resolution adopted by Labor's Economic Conference held in Chicago, April 29, and attended by 3.000 delegates, representing some 500,000 organized workers, members of the American Federation of Labor and the Chicago and Illinois federations of labor. The resolution denounced the Chicago Tribune, Chicago Daily News, the Hearst publications and yarious magazines for attacks on President Roosevelt and the NRA. A gigantic drive to defeat the aims and purposes of the recovery law is under way led by the above named newspapers, aided by a bunch of politicians and special privilege seekers who are on the outside wanting in, it was charged. The forces arrayed against the act do not wish it repealed; in fact, they are taking all it offers in the way of better business and improved conditions, but the fly in the ointment is the fact that they do not want organized labor to become a real power and have a voice in the conduct of industry in respect to working hours, wages and conditions. The union-busters are making a supreme effort to ‘‘put labor in its place”—and that “place’ 1 is merely as a pawn in the big cut-throat game of getting business and special handouts from the politicians. .Well, this crowd will find it has the biggest fight on hand it ever had in trying to put the yoke on labor, now that it is free. The resolution adopted at Chicago calls on all organized and unorganized labor to rally against this movement tiesigned to “make it behave” and take what the feudal lords offer. After the November election just watch what happens. No matter who wins, or loses. Capitalism, as it is now known, is on its way out. tt e tt URGES TEACHING OF CIVILIZATION By Frit* Krull. Your columns quote Kenneth L. Ogle, chairman of a newly formed state-wide committee to combat lawlessness, as saying that the raiding of a police station by criminals ! “is an absurdity.” It is. Here is i another: It is an absurdity that the most flagrant crime condition in all history, 0 ripping an entire nation, should parallel the most extensive, most heavily subsidized, school system of all times. Which of the two is the most absurd. School men say, “We do not teach crime.” That is hardly the point. Doctors do not spread disease, either. They combat it and organize prevention. We'd like to turn the crime situation over to the doctors. Are the schools combatting crime? Crime is a lapse from civilization. Civilization is not native to humanity; w ; e come into the world unclothed and uncivilized. Civilization has to be learned, hence taught. Are the school men teaching it? We choose to take it they sincerely believe they are. But their elaborate curricula reveals nothing more in this direction than a handful of civilization's by-prod-ucts arithmetic, geography, art, etc. By-products never yield bases. Arithmetic, civics and music do not yield civilization. Civilization has made its way, has been left to its way, vicarious-

COME THROUGH!

Squared Circles and Doubled Cubes

By I-. E. Blaeketor. Last week I attended a series of lectures given by a certain Dr. Gouthey in connection with a revival campaign he is conducting at Cadle tabernacle. The subject was "The Great Pyramid,” and for the benefit of those who could not attend I'd like to call attention to some of the more outstanding features of the edifice as presented by Dr. Gouthey. Co'ntrary to the encyclopedia Britannica and other reference books, and historians and archeologists of no little eminence, who believe the great pyramid to be of Egyptian origin, Dr. Gouthey states as his firm conviction that this ancient structure was built by Shem. the son of Noah. It seems that Shem had in his stupendous construction project the use of precision instruments of such marvelous accuracy that those of our modern scientists are, in comparison, but crude imitations. And that in the building of this great structure he squared the circle no less than twelve times! And doubled the cube! Now I submit this is nothing short of astounding. However, if one is inclined to doubt in these matters, he should remember that we have it on the authority of Dr. Gouthey, himself, who, though not mentioning ever having seen the great pyramid, nevertheless, has, in his extensive readying, made a very comprehensive study of the subject. It appears that Mr. Shem and associate engineers chiseled the foundation stones of the pyramid to the precise curvature of the earth, and this precaution, together with stone shock absorbers sunk into the bed rock at the four

ly, hit -or - miss, trial -and - error, through darkness, pestilence, war and crime, depression. But why continue to let it? Why not give it as much of a hand as our royallyendowed schools give to stenography, dressmaking, elocution, interior decorating and the like? There is not a public school in the land, not a single public school room, that has civilization in its curriculum. That's an absurdity, too; one several million times more glaring than that of criminals raiding a police station. tt tt tt DOESN’T APPROVE OF STRIKE ATTITUDE By a Reader. Until recently I have been one great admirer of your paper, as one that in good faith and when called for hits straight from the shoulder. But now I. and practically all the persons I have talked to, have been disgusted with the sloppy shedding of tears attitude that The Times has taken with regard to the Real Silk strike situation, in upholding the rights of the “poor, down trodden slave” against the “powerful rich corporation.” Any strike, to be successful, should have public opinion with it. Believe me, public sympathy is not with 2,000 employed men who are receiving NRA wages, striking, when there are still 10,000.000 unemployed men in the United States. The Times loudly protests about the armed hirelings of the mills. Who started the rough stuff, anyway, the workers or the strikers? I am unemp’Dyed, have a wife and two children, and am a member of the American Legion. I wish I could get a job at the mills. There are about 10,000 more men in Indianapolis who think the same way I do. V s -

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

corners protected in a devastating earthquake. But what appears to me to be its most amazing feature is the fact that thus great pyramid stands at the exact center, "to the very pinpoint,” of the habitable land of the earth, and this, mind you, notwithstanding the continuous spreading of the Mississippi delta! No mention was made of subsidence of fertile islands, and the constant erosion of coast lines, all partly habitable land. Dr. Gouthey severely took to task some of the more prominent skeptics of our day, including Clareme Darrow who,.with his all too-inquiring mind, questions the standing still of the sun at the command of Joshua when, according to Mr. Gouthey, the sun did so stand still at his command, and as proof of the fact, adduces the following testimony. Some years ago a Mr. I didn’t quite catch the name, “the world's greatest living chronologist,” thoroughly investigated the matter. In his tracing of time backward to the first day of creation and then forward again, he found that there is one whole day missing. And if that isn’t proof enough for these scoffing skeptics, the following additional evidence should clinch the matter for all time. This day that is mussing in the ages-long calendar of years is missing at the very time when Joshua commanded the sun to stand still! We have all this on the word of Mr. Gouthey. himself, w'ho, of course, is quoting “the world’s greatest living chronologist.”

HOSIERY PRICE RAISE BRINGS QUESTION By a Knitter. Mr. Goodman has made the statement that he could buy hose from other mills cheaper than can be knit on his machines. Do not be misled. Real Silk substandards, which the Ayres store offers in the basement, carry three lines of “firsts” in the main floor hosiery department namely "Aimee,” “Ayresheer” and “Sheercountess.” These three numbers come from the Real Silk and National mills. The National’s production has been cut off completely and Real Silk's is very low. It is to be supposed then that at least part of the stock is being supplied by factories outside of Indianapolis. Incidentally the price has raised 10 cents a pair on these three numbers since the strike started. Is there any necessity of raising the price if the hose can be shipped here for less? a BETTER CARE OF STREETS URGED By Gcorre Sohult*. We should have someone in the city to look after streets that are not fit to drive over and some that are imposs.ble to use—LeGrande avenue from State to Keystone avenues, always is full of weeds, and Calhoun s'reet is the same way. Shade trees i.nd sidewalks, but the street can not be used because of its condition. The firemen recently had Raymond street blocked both directions with their apparatus and the nearest detour was south back to Keystone to Troy avenue or north to Minnesota street. Raymond street is one of the through streets on the south side. Os course, some streets &

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sparsely settled, but they should not be entirely neglected. a a a MORRISSEY’S ACTION BRANDED UNFAIR By M. W. D. You probably would be interested to know that W'hile police officers have been taken away from schools to guard the Real Silk mills, which Chief Morrissey claims is necessary, he does assign an officer to guard the children of the Catholic school at Fourteenth and Pennsylvania streets. It is a shame that other children must take the penalty for this unfairness.

So They Say

Life is a mixture of shadows and light, and the straight mood of despair can not include the whole range of experience.—John Erskme, author. Money we all desire, but are ashamed to own it.—Dean Inge. The hardest thing I ever had to do was reduce wages. Now I am mighty glad that wages are climbing again.—Henry Ford. The whole tone of many people's praying is, “Oh, God, get me what I want.”—Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick of New York. ' Some say environment, some say heredity, some say economic reasons create the criminal. I think it is something deeper, something that medical science alone can cure. —Captain John Stego. former Chicago chief of detectives. To abolish the gold standard because there are money troubles is as foolish as to abolish police because there is crime.—Dr. Melchior Palyi, economist. Neither Europe nor Asia will start another war, unless they have gone mad. And if they have, my advice to our country is to keep our sanity and stay out of it. —World Court Justice Frank B. Kellogg.

Daily Thought

For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward; but if against my will, a dispensation of the gospel is committed unto me.—l Corinthians. 9:17. HE who is firm in will molds the world unto himself—Goethe.

ADVICE

BY POLLY LOIS NORTON If you would be a rover And sail the seven seas, Just mull this message over, If you would be a rover, Then do just as you please. If you would be a rover. There’s just one thing to do, Don’t be a treasure-trover, If you would be a rover. Keep your possessions few. If you would be a rover, And wander foreign lands; Just think this advice over, If you would be a rover, Beware domestic bands. If you would be a rover, This one thing I can say, Throw home-hoardings over, If you would be a rover. Or youll never get awayl