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Gif* Light and the People Will find Their Own Wag

MONDAY, MAY 31 1931 DARROW DISAGREES '■T'HE Darrow board report is disappointing. Most of its sound criticisms have been antiupited by NR A, and remedial action started, particularly in the temporary steel code. Records of business failures show that the codes in genera! have aided rather than harmed the little fellows. But the National Recovery Review boards report is a tremendously important document, despite its weaknes es. It sums up the attacks on NR A—contradictory as they are—and winds up with Clarence Darrows own sincere diagnosis of the ultimate fate of our industrial civilization. Mr. Darrow says our choice is between “monopoly . tr ained by government" and ‘ a planned pronony. which demands socialized owne: hip and control." General Johnson says these aliened alternatives really are "Fascism and Communism.'' NRA from the beginning has been designed as a "half-way house” between these two, which could be fitted to Democratic political government and a Democratic people. It also is -I Iran ; k m v.-ha h a future plannedeconomy is possible. Mr. Harrow's conclusion therefore attacks the fundamental aim of NRA. He says in effect that public supervision without ' ownership and control” can not cure us of monopoly and other business evils. Maybe not. but the experiment is still in process and it is too early for dogmatic predictions The recovery art in effect, is a blueprint of a plan for industrial democracy. Under it. nr something better along similar lines, stand nur hope and chance for a happier, more abundant- and efficient industrial life. It has had less than a year's trial and NRA is trying hard to improve the structure it has built. The Darrow board's finding of monopoly tendencies under rode operations is more to the point. Analysis, however, shows that mononly practices have prevailed in business for many years. NRA embodies some of these accepted practices in codes and sought to regularize them, to avoid business crookedness. The report makes the charge that big business dominates the rode authorities, and that business has its own men in NRA. This is a trend deserving serious consideration. It is one of NRA’s weak spots, where a break might do irreparable damage to NRA’s fundamental aim and principles. The answers by Johnson and General Counsel Donald R. Richborg, as sharp in tone as Mr. narrow's complaint, might well have been more temperate. Mr. Richberg’s separate reply concerning the steel code is an able defense. admitting shortcomings due to the mad code-making scramble of last fall and outlining plans for more safeguards. It is unfortunate that the Darrow criticism is not better based: there is plenty of room for improvement in NRA and its codes. But it will be equally unfortunate for NRA's enemies if they try to use the board's findings as a basis for political attack on the recovery act; NRA's defense is more than adequate. BULGARIAN DICTATORS NOW that parliamentary government in Bulgaria has fallen to a military Fascist dictatorship, we mav expect anew crop of shudders in this country on the collapse of democracy. Such fears are out of place. Whether democracy is to prosper or perish in the United States and elsewhere, the latest putsch in Sofia is of little significance. Democracy can not die where it has never lived. A small band of politicians in league with the military has long ruled Bulgaria. Parliamentary institutions there were a screen for autocracy. The people never ruled. The fact that the transfer from the old to the new tvpc of Fascist state was virtually unchallenged indicates how little the people had to lose in going from one dictatorship to another. The chief immediate difference seems to be that the terror against socialists and liberals is to be more open than in the past. In the slow evolution of popular government the real test is not in the backward political countries. It is in such nations as Britain, France and the United States, where the people accustomed to liberty and power will not sacrifice democracy without a death struggle. JUNE ROBLES "i w THEN you begin to get discouraged about ■ * * your country, to think that it can produce such utter scoundrels as the men who chained little June Robles in an underground box m the desert, you can get comfort from the reflection that the same country also produced June herself—which helps to balance the account. Nobody seems to be quite clear about the exact length of time this youngster remained in that grave-like dungeon; but ten minutes would be plenty long enough, and the fact that this youngster stood it as long as she did and came out of it with her spirit so unbroken, indicates that she is about as staunch and sturdy a child as you could find anywhere. i Indeed, the whole story would have made unbearably painful reading if the little girl had not been such a trump. No man can read of that hot. dark, and filthy prison, buried in the desert sands, under conditions guaranteed to make it uncomfortable to the greatest possible degree, without feeling heartsick. But June's own actions on being rescued reritea the story. Her uncomplaining bravery In Itself, is amazing for a child of that age. or of any age. Her pathetic eagerness to recover her school report card is the sort of thing to make anybody's eyes a trifle damp. And her immediate wistful plea. “I want mv mama.” and the final reunion between mother

and daughter, bring the narrative to an uncommonly moving conclusion. An experience of this kind is a terrible thing for a child to have to live through. Such a thing can leave spiritual scars worse than any harm that could befall the body. But somehow, reading about this little soldier and the wav she stood up under treatment that might have reduced a grown man to nervous prostration, one suspects that she has come out of it with as little damage as was humanly possible. Nobody can tell what's ahead of her in this life, any more than the future can be predicted for any child. But it seems safe to bet that whatever happens to her, she will always ride out any storms she meets. A little girl who can go through what she went through as heroically as she did is the sort of stuff out of which brave and successful adult lives are made. ROOSEVELT AND LA FOLLETTE OUT in Wisconsin Saturday a couple of young fellows and their followers made a difficult decision. They decided that the political idf'as they represent shall be presented to the voters of the state this summer and fall under the label of anew political party. This is interesting because their ideas come pretty close to being exactly what we call the new deal. The philosophy of the new deal is not new to the young men in question. They have been working for it, and pretty successfully, ever since their teens. And their father before them had worked for it. likewise very successfully on the whole, all of his notable life. Their efforts to further this new deal were of a practical kind. Two years ago it took the form of campaigning for the citizen who had given this new name to their father’s program. Since Roosevelt took office they have supported him whole-heartedly and effectively. One of them, Robert M. Jr., has probably done as much as any other single member of the United States senate to help the President keep his personal and platform pledges. Yet Saturday the young senator was forced to decide to campaign this fall against the candidates of the President’s party. The decision was forced by the President. Os course it will be said that it was forced by Jim Farley, Democratic national chairman (and postmaster general); but nobody is so innocent as to believe that Farley is No. 1 man in his party and the President only No. 2. The very fact that the Democratic candidate was running in 1932 on what the people of Wisconsin recognized as a La Follette platform not only gave that state to Roosevelt, but brought into being something that had not existed—a state Democratic party. The situation whereby progressives of both the old parties could register their views bv electing La Follette candidates ended. Phil La Follette accepted defeat through this new three-cornered set-up. but continued to support the Roosevelt program. A purely political-minded Democratic party had been fastened on the state. Witnessing what had happened to Phil La Follette. progressives throughout the country expected that the national Democratic organization would throw' its influence to Bob La Follette this year. Even after the Democratic national chairman had tried to defeat Roosevelt's able friend, La Guardia in New York, the notion remained that in Wisconsin the course of the national party leadership would not be marked by unintelligence and ingratitude. But the Democratic organization is out to fight the La Follettes, as the old guard Republican organization has fought them for years. The fighting sons of Fighting Bob had no choice but to accept the battle forced on them. They’ll make a good fight and, we believe, a winning one. The new deal needs aLa Folletle in the United States senate. AMERICAN CITIZENS adequate fund of tax money is being allotted for drought relief in the parched areas of Wisconsin and the Dakotas. This money will not only provide food for the victims, but will also restore them to a self-sup-porting status. Where pasturage is ruined, the government is to buy up surplus cattle to be processed for relief distribution. Feed is to be provided, so that the farmers may keep a few cattle and rebuild their herds after the ’ drought has lifted. Seed is to be provided for new forage crops. Wells will be sunk to increase the water supply. Railroad rates are to be reduced on feed shipped in and cattle shipped out. The victims of the drought are treated not as charity patients, but as American citizens, helped back on their feet by a government alive to their needs and appreciative of their work. MORE THAN ELECTRICITY TT is too early to judge the operations of the A Tennessee Valley Authority on this first anniversary. But. this much is sure: It has started at Muscle Shoals the business by which the federal government will be able to measure private power costs; it has provided work for thousands; it has reduced electric rates; it has started a program of social development that radiates hope and vitality; it is making low-cost high-quality electrical appliances available to consumers. As important as is the power development of TV A, we believe that in the long run a collateral project will prove more important: That of providing means toward the "more abundant life" of which President Roosevelt has spoken. In seeking its aims, TV A. fortunately, is guided by a threesome—Arthur E. Morgan, David Lilienthal. Harcourt Morgan—who have demonstrated that they have hearts arid minds. Their first year’s work is good. May their next be even better. Lncle Sam is out to collect more than a quarter billion dollars in income taxes from pre-repeal bootleggers, but he'll find it tough going now that their liquid assets are depleted. The North sea area holds the world's best climate, says a Yale professor, who must have been caught in the Florida boom or a California earthquake. Movie players, says Joan Crawford, should not marry. Trouble is they don’t realize this until after the third or fourth trial. ,

THE PRESIDENT S PLEDGE SINCE the debacle of 1929. a majority of the people have been convinced that strict government control of stock markets is essential to future stability. The public has shown extraordinary patience through the long months that congress has wrestled with stock market investigation and legislation. While the public not presume to understand the many complications surrounding governmental control over the nerve centers of finance, the public does know that after extensive hearings and at least three rewritings of the legislation to meet a multitude of objections, the house and the senate have passed two sepai ate measures that are the same in most important features. There is now no valid reason for further delay in the adjustment of differences between the house and senate bills. Despite all the protests from Wall Street that the legislation will slow up business, it seems clear that recovery upon a solid foundation can not be achieved without establishing general confidence that efforts toward recovery will not be destroyed overnight by the manipulation of market speculators. That public confidence should grow from the day stock markets are brought under the firm rule of a federal agency. President Roosevelt, who initiated the stock market legislation to redeem his pledge to the people, has given his opinion as to how the tw-o secondary differences between the house and senate bills on margins and organization should be settled. The public is willing to accept the Fhesident’s judgment. THE PEACEFUL IRISH Great Britain’s troubles piling up in many parts of the world, including the near and far east, she may be somewhat more receptive than usual to the latest Irish peace gesture. Economic conflict between those neighbors may seem a patriotic duty to the short-sighted and insular minded, but those on both sides who pay the bill know' that it is .senseless and costly. President De Valera said to the great mass meeting at Cork this week: “We do not want to be at enmity with Britain and if Britain should give preference to our agricultural produce we would be prepared to give Britain the preference in such capital equipment as we may need.” That is an Intelligent general policy. It would profit both the Free State and Britain. At first glance it might seem to be injurious to American trade for Ireland and Britain to reach such agreements, in competition with our products. But in the long run any natural exchange of goods between those two countries, which breaks riowm destructive nationalism, will make those countries healthier and stronger economically. And that, in turn, would make them better American markets.

Liberal Viewpoint

By DR. HARRY ELMER BARNES / "J' V HE most characteristic and pivotal institutions of our age have been capitalism, nationalism and democracy. All of them find themselves today in a critical condition and some of them already are showing profound modifications. Professor Gilbert Slater has rewritten completely his excellent book on the “Making of Modern England’’ and has issued the new edition under a slightly different title (“The Growth of Modern England.” By Gilbert Slater. Houghton Mifflin. s4>. In its present form it is probably the most satisfactory single volume on the evolution of English civilization and institutions since the industrial revolution. There are few books in which one may obtain so intelligent an introduction to the genesis of capitalism, nationalism and democracy. In spite of all the extensive literature which has appeared upon Russia, we have lacked a satisfactory work on the very important experiments and innovations which the Russians have introduced in the field of government, many of which any reorganized democracy in the west will be compelled to reckon with. This gap in our literature has been very satisfactorily filled by Professor Maxwell’s book ("The Soviet State.” By Bertram W. Maxwell. Steves & Wayburn. $3). It clearly describes the organization and operation of the Soviet government and also has several excellent chapters on the relation of the Russian government to social welfare. a b u MR. ELMHIRST has written an extremely entertaining diary of a trip to Russia in I the autumn of 1932 (“Trip to Russia.” By Leonard K. Elmhurst. New Republic. SI). It Is eminently concrete and descriptive and is very well suited to the American layman who wishes a graphic picture of what is going on in various aspects of Russian life today. Few. if any, books on Russia give in the same brief space so colorful an impression of contemporary Russia. The same snappy and impressionistic method is carried by Mr. Dos Passos into his colorful commentary upon recent social trends in Russia, Spain. Mexico and the United States (“In All Countries.” By John Dos Passos. Harcourt Brace. $2.50). While his work is predominantly a vivid description of scenes and situations, the author makes no effort to conceal his disdain of American conservatism and his enthusiasm for more radical developments outside our country. It is an exceedingly interesting. informing and diverting book. Professor Rogers has performed a useful educational service in preparing a clear introduction to the political innovations of our time ("Crisis Government.” By Linsay Rogers. W. W. Norton. $1.75). It should prove immensely helpful to the intelligent citizens of the United States who wish to orient themselves with respect to what is going on in the field of political evolution both at home and abroad. If the politicians of the world have made lamentably slow progress in reducing the armaments of modern states, some of our more intelligent and courageous publicists have been making heavy inroads upon the prestige and integrity of the armament industry. It is rare that two books of such high merit have appeared simultaneously on a single subject as those by Messrs. Engelbrecht and Hanighen ("Merchants of Death.” By H. C. Engelbrecht and F. C. Hanighen. Dodd. Mead. $3), and Seldes ("Iron. Blood and Profits.” By George Seldes. Harper. $2.50), which exposes relentlessly “the international traffic in arms” and “the world-wide munitions racket.” a a it BOTH of these books are to be commended highly. The volume by Engelbrecht and Hanighen is more carefully written, but that by Seldes is more colorful and dramatic. The authors of the former are inclined to hold that behind the munitions makers stand the war makers, while Mr. Seldes is rather more disposed to blame the munitions makers not only for armaments, but also for wars. We have not only the casualties of military wars but the more tragic casualties of the battles to make a living. Messrs. Clague, Couper and Bakke present an excellent clinical study of the way in which the shutdown of factories affects the life of industrial, workers and their families (“After the Shutdown.” By Ewan Clague. Walter J. Couper and E. Wight Bakke. Yale University Press. $2). It is an important monographic contribution to the literature of industrial depression. __ __ ,

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

(Times renders are inirtted to express their views in these columns. Make your letters short, so all can have a chance. Limit them to 250 words or less.) BUB ATTACHES IMPORTANCE TO HOSIERY STRIKE Bv Milo 1,. Curtis. Organized labor of the entire state is watching closely the struggle with the Real Silk mills and Associated Business Builders and other bourbons of Indianapolis. We realize you strikers have a tremendous fight on your hands and wish you the success your courage deserves. Such concerns as Real Silk are willing to spend any sum of money to keep the recovery plan from being put into effect in their plants. It is an old trick of the employer to try to build public sympathy against organized labor. We well remember the dynamiting of a scab's dining car that took place in Bloomington during the railroad strike a few years ago. It gave the newspapers excuse for scare headlines, but when they learned that the deed was done when no one was in the car they realized that the purpose was other than one of terrorizing the nonunion workers. We also remember reading in Labor, the railroad men’s paper, a story carried some few years ago concerning Real Silk and its labor attitude, in which Mr. Goodman was quoted as saying that the only way a union would ever be established in his plant would be by calling out the militia with fixed bayonets. We give him credit for being consistent in his attitude, at least. It might be well to remind the Governor of that statement, in case he should ever find it necessary to assist in making the administration’s recovery program a success m Indiana. nun THIS READS LIKE SARCASM By s Union Attendant. Some members of Filling Station Employes Union No. 1890 still enjoy the Associated Business Builders’ articles and still ask—who are they? Are they ashamed of themselves? With all the money apparently at their disposal they should have no fear. They should be proud to declare themselves writers of such splendid articles. 808 COMPANY UNIONS AND PATERNALISM By The Observer. The Real Silk company union can only be paternalistic. To make it fraternal, the voice of the workers ought to speak as authoritatively as that of the owners. If the workers in industry were allowed to have equal representation on the board of directors with the stockholders, then the workers who are the producers, would hr.ve real industrial democracy. Without the contribution of labor’s daily addition to the physical assets of the company, the value of the stockholders’ interest would be zero. The voice of the workers on the board of directors, would produce a sense of that boasted partnership of capital and labor, which does not J exist where the one partner, capital, \ dictates all the policies, the quantity, quality, the type of product and the distribution of the total value of the product as capital sees fit. After the wages and cost of ma- i terial have been met, the profit on the goods is as much the concern of labor as of capital, and the division should be equal between capital and labor. Such a get together program creates employe interest in production If the striking men at the mills had contributed the pay they have sacrificed to a pool of funds to buy a building and hosiery ma-

THERE IS A DESTINY THAT SHAPES QUR ENDS

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More About Education in Civilization

By John G. C. Shop. Fritz Krull’s thesis on the absurdities of education seems to evolve from healthy observation. Mr. Krull wisely notes the “tin pan alley histrionics of our beloved bandits and the laissez fa ire conduct of our school fathers. Both are excellent material for oft-punned luncheon affairs. I argue with Mr. Krull, who is brave enough to question the present system of ballyhoos relative to deals of this sort and that sort, when the child in school today is innocently struggling for "that” position in life which is obtainable by only a few. His excitation anent the conduct of our evolutionary schemes is worthy of our reflection He says that civilization has to be learned, hence taught! That is something that most of our social workers know, but are too tame or dumb to teach! I mean that our school system is just another “one of those things.” Our schools swallow Dr. Wirt’s and other pedagogics and adopt the cafeteria style of teaching, urging the student to keep moving in rapid stride in the hope that it will inoculate him with the "modern tempo” of doing things. The student gains a smattering of arithmetic, art, music and some of the sciences and the political setups of the major parties, but he fails to glean the true urge of human mankind. Civilization is with us, but how r many feel its presence? Civilization has not advanced very far because of the selfishness of the few. The few have been successful in painting a dream picture of am-

chinerv, their losses of the past four weeks would have oought a $150,000 mill clear of debt; and then if they put in the same energy for themselves they would not only get wages, but all of the profits. Dollars and cents or dollars and horse sense on labor's side, could create an economic revolution and a high standard of living instead of the sub-standard now endured. nun HEYWOOD BROUN AND HIS TRAVELS By T. M. S—. It is all right for Heywood Broun to go to Hollywood if he learns how to act right; still I have grave misgivings about Utah. He will tell on those good preachers out there and I would not do that. Why, those preachers are stricter than any preachers, and nobody gives them any credit for it. Do you know what they are going to do—make every one keep the same old wives in heaven. Everybody gets the wrong impression of Utah. I think it is I who needs the promoting; he is overeducated now’ and lam not. I have written “the whole United States.’ as seen by Cosmo Broun, but I w r on’t let a soul see it unless they pay me the money first. If they once see it, they won't pay me a thing. Anyway, I understand why the valet has no difficulty finding anew position. He is different, he dresses the inside up and the outside down. If he can make me look like Heywood Broun, I will engage him at once to dress me up.This reborn stuff —I have had just about enough of it, I lose two teeth every time. a a tt ASSAILS ANONYMITY OF BUSINESS BUILDERS By M. D. After reading the big paid advertisement of the Business Associated Builders, I can not refrain from asking a few questions. Just who are they? Are they afraid to let the public know who they are '%

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

bition which involves the accomplishment of a trade or profession. Machinery in the meantime has rendered this painting a worthless fabric. The schools have only kept step in the speeding up of their curricula. Thousands of graduates leave the portals of their alma mater, filled with the appreciation of this and that, but empty" insofar as their ability to exercise their talents is concerned. Civilized life is conducted today by means of switches and valves and our poor graduates are bewildered since they know very little of civilized life. Most any species of animal life, without any schooling, learns to shift for itself. God’s blessings, the five senses, seem to awake in the animal at the day of birth. Man is different. Man must be taught to exercise those five senses with w'hich God endowed him. That is the definition of civilization. We should maintain the fine institution of civilization and nurse it to greater ambitions through our schools by properly teaching civilization, or humanity, to our youngsters and especially to our grandfathers. Evolution is a pretty safe word. Revolution is yet something to trifle with. I do not bother much about either one as far as definitions define. Let us have a taste of “convolution,” that is, all things rolled up together into the one big thought that we civilized folk can just as easily wither up as the flower in the garden unattended, as rise to spurted bloom as the well fertilized plant in the greenhouse.

I think the group has a lot of nerve to say the city is too big to be run by the agitator and his thugs. Who brought the thugs to the city? It also is charged the agitator is causing the heads of industries to look for other communities where they can locate. Was it the labor agitator who caused some of our largest industries to leave the city before? I am not connected with the Real Silk trouble, but I hope the strikers will stay out until they get justice. nan RAPS BANNING OF TENNIS SHORTS Bv L. H. R. My name would mean nothing in connection with the protest which lam sure is a general one, as I saw one man and one girl ordered off the Riverside courts for impropcr apparel. The girl was only aobut 14. She wore shorts and was ruled indecent. The man refused to put on his shirt, and insisted on playing in his undershirt. Perhaps you will be able to get some action on repairing the courts; if not one, the silly clothes rules. ana UNION VIEWPOINT ON HOSIERY MILL STRIKE By a Union Man. To you who haven't enough getup about you to fight for your rights after the President of the United States has given you the privilege —would you still be satisfied with your starvation jobs after the unions have fought and won a better wage and working conditions? Would you go to your employer and say: “Here, we did not ask for such good things. We did not fight for such good wages and we want you to cut our wages and ride us like you used to. We want you to tell us that if we don’t like it around here to get out.” Os course, you w T ould not do anything like that because you want^Xo enjoy s£. of the advantages of any

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job. Well, why don’t you stand up for yourselves and get them? If all of the workers at Real Silk would have stuck together there wouldn’t have been any strike. It would have been won the next day. But no, there are always enough narrow-minded persons to keep on working and you will find that as a rule they are from Kentucky. I iived in a Kentucky settlement in West Indianapolis. The only thing that I can give them credit for is for leaving Kentucky, but they should not come up here and take our jobs and tell us how dumb we are and how smart they are. If Kentucky is so wonderful why don’t they go back there and stay, not bite the hand that is feeding them? Now’, if anybody can show' me one case where a hard working man. ever had anything I will show' him 10,000 who haven’t a thing. How is anybody going to provide for their old age on S2O or S3O a week? tt tt a MOVIES BRANDED AS “ROTTEN TO CORE” By Charles Hooper. Like a good American “seeing Paris” I took in the movies on a recent vacation. I am ashamed to be seen at them in my own town. I found them rotten to the core; a succession of scenes of women smoking, drinking, painting themselves. and doing worse; scenes of fast life and criminal Jjfe; eyeblinding glare, deafening noise, hectic excitement; men and women in a mad whirl like a dance of atoms or dervishes; coarse, slangy, vulgar language full of double meanings; gross materialism without a trace of spiritually or refinement: and frequent scenes, or obscenes, of nearly nude women and lewd gestures. And I saw what grieved me to my heart—children, unchaperoned, laughing at nasty scenes and words. tt tt tt BEFUDDLED VOTER RECEIVES REPLY By a Beech Grove Reader. A befuddled voter wants to know why candidates’ religion and color are not published along with their names. Now this voter surely states the truth when he admits he is befuddled. I assert that Catholics and Negroes have the privilege of breathing the air that our God gives us. as well as the rights of citizenship, which rights can not be taken away from us by any faction. a a a MERELY ANOTHER DILLINGER TALE By a Reader. I Heard Walter Winchell on the radio tell about John Dillinger dying in Wisconsin of bullet wounds. I have been watching the papers for an account. Would like to know w'hich story is correct. Has the press been muzzled so the public will not know the straight of the matter? I read The Times every day.

Boy and Man

BY LAWRENCE E. SCOTT Often, when I was a boy, Remember well, I can. How many times I vainly wished, Instead, I were a man. To have his stature, Know his strength, To mould, to build, to plan. What boy has not In youthful dreams Oft wished he were a man? But much too soon My wish came true, I've spent my childhood joy. And now that I'm a man, fullgrown, I wish I were a boyi