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THURSDAY, JUNE 7, 1934. TWO PARTIES SO all the talk about liberalizing the Republican party was just talk. In picking anew national chairman they could not have found a man closer to Wall Street than Henry Fletcher of Pennsylvania. He is a 100 per cent Mellonite. In addition to representing the old crowd, he has a record as an able diplomat of the imperialist school. Wasn’t it somewhat naive for the farm liberals from the west to suppose that they could capture the entrenched G. O. P. machine? They never had a chance. We are not so sure that this is a bad thing. f : There is room in this country for a tory gjjparty, provided—- : • l. It is intelligent toryism; l 2. It is opposed by a vigorous liberal party. '~V But there is the difficulty. Judging from the past the Fletcher group can not even offer •pnlightened toryism—say of the British cal--iljer. Maybe, however, they will grow unexpected brains. ?; Also it is too early to know whether this teryism will be opposed by an aggressive liberal party. That, of course, is the Roosevelt role. But the President does not yet control jiis party—far from it. Some of the Democratic congressional leaders, some of the cabinet officers and some of the Farley patronage have little more fundamental sympathy with the new deal than has Republican .Chairman Fletcher. v - The fact that Mr. Roosevelt sits in the House has not yet altered the control nf the Democratic party by a few eastern city rings and solid south sectionalists. ' 1 They bide their time. If Mr. Roosevelt’s unprecedented public popularity begins to wane—as in the course of human events it may some day—then his real fight with the conservative Democratic politicians will be no •.one-handed affair. ’ Despite the talk of liberalizing the Republican party, most citizens have understood for some time that the prospect for liberalism—if Spy—was in the Democratic party. And if the President is not permitted to lead his party on the liberal road, those who still demand the new deal probably will turn to the new La Follette Progressive party or the Socialists. A NEW LOW ACTION of the Republican house minority in beating the Lozier bill to finance an unemployment census this fall is as cynical a bit of pettifogging politics as the country has suffered this season. Quite frankly house Republican leaders said they were voting the measure down because the census would employ 105,000 deserving Democrats! But the Democrats themselves share the blame. Had certain not sought to debase the CWA, PWA, HOLC and other emergency services by their porcine patron- • age forays, the Republicans would not have dared such tactics. As it was, the majority party could not defend itself with any degree of conviction. 1 The county—the jobless particularly—will suffer. Unfortunately when politicians fall out, just men do not always get their due. IT’S WORKING TJRESTDENT ROOSEVELT is anxious for a ?*• vote on the Costigan-Wagner anti-lynch-ing bill. The rather far-fetched question of its constitutionality can be left to the courts which must pass upon it in any event. Its workability as a mob deterrent appears to have been proved even before its passage. | This measure, which would subject counties and their peace officers to civil and criminal liability for lynchings, was introduced last January. In 1933 there were twenty-eight ; lynchings in the United States. Since January there only have been two. Senator Cosvtigan thinks that at least a half-score have ; 3>een prevented this year by agitation for the "anti-lynching bill. 5; The campaign for the Dyer bill in 1922 had* the same sobering effect on mobs and mobdominated officials. * . The Costigan-Wagner bill should be made into law. And it ought to be restored to .its original form with federal penalties in--voked against lynchers whether they seize their victims from peace officers or not. i Sentiment both in congress and in the •states seems clearly to favor its enactment. J3ut some of the Democratic leaders are tryto rob congress of the right to vote on 'this bill. \JJ ~ ' HONESTY AND YOUTH . • • ■ •/tr'HE commencement speaker is abroad in ;!r the land again these days, and if his task ' : i$ a- little easier this year than it has been for some time, it is still the kind of job that might :make a strong man quail. • ' In the old days it was fairly simple. The speaker had only to get up and begin telling the youngsters about the innumerable oppor;tunities that were ahead of them, and how •hard work and honesty would bring their in- ■ 'evitable reward. ;;: Then, when he saw the younger members J x# the class getting restless, he could cut it off ; I and sit down, contented. ;; ' But of late years it has been different. Opportunities for young graduates have ’ been anything but innumerable during the last three or four years. There are plenty of young men in America today who got their diplomas : .four years ago who haven’t been able to get ; ' jobs since then—although many of them ; needed jobs very badly, since their fathers were out of work. Nor have hard work and honesty carried • 'their usual premiums. It’s all very well to talk about them, but when a depression forces your employer out of business and your joto

dissolves beneath you, you’re left holding the sack just as if you had been a time-server and a conniver. Os course, things are better now. There is reason, to hope that they will be even better a year from now. But the commencement speaker is still on the spot. Pernaps his best course would simply be to go honest and say something like this: I have a lot of crust, addre ing you youngsters, because you can’t help seeing that my generation just doesn’t know how to run the country decently. “Some of you will find iobs, if you’re lucky; the rest will sit around the house and wonder what it’s all about. I don’t mind telling you that I’ve been wondering the same thing for several years. “While you’re wondering, you might stop to think that this country is able to raise so much food that everybody could have all he wants to eat. It’s able to make enough clothing for everybody, enough shoes, enough vacuum cleaners, enough automobiles, enough houses, enough of everything you can think of. “There isn’t really much excuse for us to have unemployment and poverty and want, except our own stupidity. “If you youngsters can figure out a way to get the wheels turning full speed, the country will be very grateful to you—if it doesn’t put you in jail. At any rate, I wish you lots of luck.” WATER AND LAND POLICY TT is disappointing, but not surprising, that -*• President Roosevelt has to ask congress for more time to prepare a “comprehensive plan for the improvement and development of the rivers of the United States.” It was too big an order for any administration to fill in four months, especially this very busy one. Any plan for wise utilization of our great rivers must, as the President says, reach out into the broader problem of land use also. This embraces such matters as soil erosion, reforestration, forest fire prevention, the use of marginal lands. It even touches problems of stranded communities, resettlement, the adjustment of industries, taxes, education, home building and other related subjects. The forthcoming plan should not be a half-baked one. We have wobbled through 150 years of waste. Any new plan should express the collective experience and wisdom of the government’s best minds, and it should look far forward over the years. Fortunately President Roosevelt needs no prodding. With him conservation is a major policy, almost a passion. Through his leadership we have advanced the beginnings of the conservation movement in the CCC, Muscle Shoals and Columbia Basin, the attack on soil erosion, the subsistence farms project. He can be counted on to have ready for action by the next session of congress his promised “rounded policy of national scope.” LOOKING BACK /"\NE of the strangest things about modern America is the fondness everybody seems to have developed for looking back at the past. You get samples of this everywhere. It ranges all the way from the collection of antiques to the desire to look at photographs of the pre-Spanish war era. In one city there was held recently a grand reunion of people who had been public schoolmates half a century ago. Thousands of them turned out for an elaborate picnic and sat about talking over old times. And they seemed to be just about unanimous in the belief that “people had more fun” in the old days. They talked about sleigh rides in the winters, about oyster stew suppers at farm homes, about children who bummed free rides on horse cars, about spelling bees and Sunday school picnics and the other diversions of the .youth of fifty years ago. They felt rather sorry for their children and grandchildren, who have to grow up in the modern world and miss all those little pleasures that used to be. Now this attitude, to repeat, is an extremely common one nowadays; and it testifies, not so much to an idyllic quality in American life in the past as to a deep and fundamental dissatisfaction with the American life of today. We wouldn’t keep locking back over our shoulders so much if we found the life about us all that it ought to be. It is the comparison that makes the past look so attracthe. Somehow the present hasn’t lived up to our expectations; and this is not solely the fault of the depression, because we had very bad depressions in those good old days. To understand it, you have to look at the whole development of American life in this century; the nation’s emergence as a world power, the spectacular growth of great cities and great industries, the arrival of the automobile age, and the World war. All these things held out great promise; and in no case has the reality been quite as nice as what we had expected. Life has grown more eventful, perhaps, but hardly richer. Somehow we must readjust our society so that greater emphasis will be put on purely human values. We shall be a lot happier when we po longer feel the urge to look wistfully back at the day before yesterday. HOME, SWEET HOME TpMINENT Washingtonians recently placed garlands on the almost forgotten grave John Howard Payne, who fifty years ago composed “Home, Sweet Home.” About the same day appeared a report from the department of commerce revealing how wretchedly humble are many of the homes in this land today. The commerce report covers a survey of the homes in twenty-five of the smaller cities. The partial survey shows that: About 27 per cent of the homes have neither bath tubs nor showers, and nearly 20 per cent have no sanitary toilet facilities; About 42 per cent are not equipped with gas or electricity for cooking, and 8.5 per cent have neither gas nor electricity for lighting; in five cities more than a quarter of the homes are lighted by lamps; About 60 per cent have no furnaces or other central heating, the proportion running almost as hijjh in the cold northern cities as in the south; About 75 per cent have no running hot water facilities. The administration is trying to persuade congress to pass the housing bill. It would make home mortgages cheaper, easier and more secure and open the way to a national renovating and rebuilding movement. Such action would be a more fitting memorial than floral wreaths to the author of “Home, fhveet Home.”

Liberal Viewpoint —BY DR. HARRY ELMER BARNES

'T'HE classic example of cowardice and inX justice long has been considered that of ‘taking candy from a baby.” Our educational system since the depression has resorted to an even more contemptible ruse in keeping decent and useable textbooks from ;he school children of the nation. The amazing and reprehensible facts are set forth in an excellent article by Stuart Chase in the New York Herald-Tribune Magazine. ' It will be conceded by almost any person at >ll acquainted with education that textbooks rank next to teachers in their indispensable contribution to the learning process. In some subjects, indeed, it probably is true that a poor teacher with the very best textbooks in the field can produce better results than the best of teachers handicapped by the use of one of the poorest textbooks available for the subject. While textbook writing has enormously improved in the last generation, the best and latest textbooks are none too good. It is commonly believed that in normal times textbook costs make up a very large part of educational expenses. Any such impression is wide of the facts. Even in normal times the amount which is spent on textbooks is only 2 per cent of total educational costs in the American school system. Since the depression hit us there has been a notorious economy drive in the schools which has affectea adversely every form of educational service. One might suppose that textbooks, which make up only 2 per cent of the budget’ would have escaped the knife. * tt tt NEW YORK CITY cut its textbook budget 28 per cent in the year 1932-33; Detroit no less than 64 per cent, and Syracuse, under Mayor Marvin, some 81 per cent. Taking the country as a whole, the appropriation for textbooks was cut by about 40 per cent for 1932-33. There were some honorable exceptions among thirty-three American cities which actually increased their textbook purchases in 1932-33. Os these, Nashville, Tenn., had the best record. Quite apparently, Tennessee education can not be judged by the Scopes trial alone. Last autumn a prominent newspaper man expressed some concern to me lest the students would not get textbooks on history this year that would tell them about the doings of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Actually, there are tens of thousands of American school children whose textbooks on American history do not even have information about Theodore Roosevelt—not even his doings as a rough rider, to say nothing of his presidency Even in the “Keystone State” of Pennsylvania a teacher wrote Mr. Chase that the American history text used in her school was printed in 1896. No historian needs to be told that the events which have happened since 1896 are more important in explaining our daily life in 1934 than all the events .which took place before that time. nan HISTORY books are not the only ones to suffer. Thirty-year-old texts in physiology and zoology are not uncommon. These barely get in the doctrine of evolution and nothing about genetics or the all-important glands of internal secretion. Baltimore has revived text books which were discarded fifteen or twenty years ago as obsolete. Mr. Chase concludes not unreasonably that ‘the insides of many school textbooks—at best none too close to reality—are hardly within hailing distance of the world we live in today.” Bad as these outgrown books are from the educational standpoint, their physical and hygienic condition is even more deplorable. Subjected to long usage and rough handling, many of the books are falling apart and pages are misplaced or missing altogether. They often are so dirty as to be repulsive to open and look at - and not infrequently carry enough germs to start epidemics. A French pathologist found that there are as many as 3,350 bacteria per hundred square centimeters on the pages of a public library novel. The condition of our much worn school texts must be much worse than this. At least one smallpox epidemic has been traced definitely to the use of infected school books. Mr. Wells has written much about the race between education and catastrophe. There will not be much doubt of the outcome if education itself is to be made into a near-catastrophe through the use of tattered and absurdly out-of-date text books. Our whole current practice in this matter is a glaring example of being penny wise and pound foolish.

Capital Capers BY GEORGE ABELL

JAPAN’S policy of encouraging her distinguished personalities to visit the United States in order to foster friendly relations, is noted in connection with the arrival this week of Prince Fumimaro Konoye, president of the house of peers. Less than three months ago, rotund, benevolent Prince Tokugawa, former president of the house oi peers (whom Konoye succeeds), came to Washington on a visit of good-will, and was wined and dined. He has many friends in the capital, and made many more during his last tour. Diplomatic Prince Konoye has stated that the reason he is coining here is to see his son graduated from Lawrenceville (Princeton preparatory school). Those on the inside of the picture find additional reasons. Prince Konoye also will have a talk with President Roosevelt, test public sentiment toward Japan and be guest of honor at some parties given by Japanese Ambassador Saito. The visitor arrives in town Thursday He will be met at the station by Envoy Saito and will be feted at a formal dinner that evening. A second dinner will be given the following evening, possibly followed by a reception. Prince Konoye is remaining here until June 15. Some time ago, astute Koki Hirota, Japanese minister of foreign affairs, inaugurated the policy of sending distinguished persons to the United States. He even talked of organizing a “good-will mission,” but this idea was more or less frowned upon and finally abandoned. What lends additional importance to Prince Konoye’s visit is the fact that he has beon mentioned as the next Premier of Japan and is necessarily the possessor of much official prestige on account of his position. Senators and other officials make no secret of their interest in Konoye’s visit. Their tongues are almost literally hanging out (in several instances) so anxious are they to be invited to the Japanese embassy and give his highness the American equivalent of a Nipponese “look-see.” * * * 'T'HE summer exodus has begun. As soon as A congress adjourns the rout will be complete. Every one who can do it, is getting out of town. Here are some who scurried away for the week-end, or longer: Senator John G. Townsend Jr., strawberry king of Delaware, put on a slouch hat and boarded the Matapeake ferry from Annapolis, en route to Selbyville to visit his family. * * * Ambassador Hans, Luther of Germany returned last night (very hot and wilted—as to the collar) from a hard session in St. Louis. His speeches and dinners are wearing him out. * * * The Danish minister, cheery Mr. Wadsted, spent the week-end in New York, where he attended a garden festival at the Danish Home for the Aged. Mr. Wadsted never complains of the heat—but suffers like a gallant Dane. * * * Ambassador Andre de Laboulaye of France tried to scurry away, but was detained by official business. His French excellency, however, announced: “Je pars pour Paris dans la quinzains,” which, freely translated, means that he will deprive Washington of his presence about June 15 by going to Paris. * * * The governor of the federal reserve board, Eugene Black, and the governor of the federal reserve bank of New York, George Harrison, went yachting.

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(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns. Hake pour letters short, so all can have a chance. Limit them to 250 words or less.) nun EXPLAINING ABOUT JOHN REED By M. J. Who is this John Reed we hear so much about? John Reed, a Harvard graduate, became identified with Communist!} after his graduation from college. He was known as a social light during his undergraduate days and his friends were surprised when he embraced the radical movement. After residence in New York, where he wrote books and articles, he went to Russia. When he died there his body was buried in the wall of the Kremlin. tt tt tt LACKING WATER, DOGS GO MAD By A Subscriber. Dogs that are famished for water become crazed and frenzied and go violently mad. * The increased number of mad dogs under the present day drought conditions proves the assertion. Ordinary pools are dried up and pet animals do not stray far enough to find a river. When a dog famishing for water goes mad, he thereafter at the sight of water goes into convulsions. If vessels filled with water were placed in every back yard in every city and in all the. country as well, there would be no danger of hydrophobia, which starts first with the thirst-crazed dog. The word hydro (water) phobia (suffering) explains the real meaning of the term. tt tt tt EXPORT BUSINESS DUBBED BALONEY By a Reader. Business, like charity, should begin at home. If a factory can not sell its product in its home city of half a million persons, by what magic does it hope to sell to other half millions weary miles away? Export business is mostly baloney. By the time I box my product and spend money to guard against the ravages of sea water, salt air, tropical dampness and stevedore handling, I have gone broke, and have forgotten to show my wares to the near neighbors. My customer across the briny deep is so apt to forget to pay for the favor. Then we will have a war to keep the seas safe for shipping. It all makes not even good baloney. Never mind the tariff, sing high, sing low. If Miss Opulent wants Chinese silk in preference to American rayon, I care not a hoot what the cost. Let us mind our own business in our own home town, then expand and leave out the skip-stjp stuff. If a foreign manufacturer sells too cheaply to suit somebody in America, let the tariff rise. See if I care. We can raise our own right here in Yankeeland—shoes, ships, sealing wax, cabbaggs, and kings—even heck now and then. n n tt DOGS AND GARDENS NEVER DID MIX By G. R. R. I’m getting tired of these dog lovers letting their yelping hyenas run over my garden. Dogs should be put in dog houses and properly chained so that they can’t ruin crops of onions, potatoes, and corn. It’s hard enough these torrid days to raise a few sheafs of lettuce and a couple of runty opions that would give an old maid heartburn. And where's the dog catcher these

THE MAJESTY OF THE LAW!

Doubts Ludlow Is Real Democrat

By An Honest, Home Spun Democrat. When did Louis Ludlow become a Democrat? Read what he says: Louis Ludlow is the author of “Cornfield to Press Gallery,” published by W. F. Roberts Company, Inc., Washington, D. C., in 1924. In Chapter 34 Mr. Ludlow wrote: “Many times a year I am asked to what political party I belong and I am obliged to answer, ‘Now you’ve got me.’ Not being a candidate for office nor expecting ever to be one, I run no risk in being perfectly frank and outspoken in respect to the difficulties which beset me when I at- . tempt to classify myself politically.” Also read in the same book Mr. Ludlow’s criticism of Woodrow Wilson and his praise of Warren

days when the mongrels are running in and out of alleys biting children and causing fear on the part of parents? You never see him in our neighborhood. Does the city of Indianapolis still have a dog catcher? tt t SOCIALISM DECLARED ONLY REMEDY By G. R. Under the heading “Decision Needed” on the editorial page of The Times, you make your comment on the Darrow report. You say we want a smoother and more efficient industrial life. You offer the remedy for it. You say we want more jobs, higher wages, and better profits and less uncertainty. Would you care to take the trouble to explain how you can bring that about? For when better profits are made, more uncertainty is also made. Better profits are the cause of the world being in the condition it is now. Competition must and will wind up in a monopoly if allowed to run its course, and the new deal with the same old deck won’t stop industrial evolution. If we are ever to get out of this rness, competition must give way to co-operation, which is called in all the civilized world Socialism. tt a tt URGES CHANGE IN MESSAGE CENTER By AV. H. M. Your Message Center could be one luminating spots in the entire paper. Instead, it has degenerated into giving an ear to every wail. Why not cut down on much of the trash that you carry in the message column every day and concentrate upon publishing a few of the, choice letters? v Once an argument is started in the column, it goes on day after day. All possible angles are exhausted after the first couple of days, but your readers continue to flood the column with a rehash of the argument, until an intelligent reader verges on stark insanity. Classic examples of such stupidity can be found in the manner that you allowed some of the recent arguments to prolong. The Real Silk strike was fought so much in your Message Center that not a single thread in the entire mills was left untorn by your correspondents. The discussion over the relative merits of Kentucky and Indiana housewives reached the zenith of assininity. The points advanced by some of your readers who tried to explain Socialism and Communism to their yawning "public” made me wish to go out and tear my hair. The rest of your editorial page, in fact, your whole paper, is splendid.

G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge. Did Mr. Ludlow vote from 1901 to 1928? In 1901 Mr. Ludlow moved to Washington, D. C., where he and his family have since continuously resided. In 1928 Mr. Ludlow became a candidate for congress on the Democratic ticket from Marion county. Prior to that time he never assisted the Democrats of Marion county in any campaign and was in Washington twelve months each year. The question arises, “Did he vote from 1901 to 1928?” When you meet Mr. Ludlow, ask him when and where he voted during that time. The Democratic party needs a Democrat and not a mugwump as as its candidate for senator.

But for heaven’s sake, edit that Message Center more carefully and delete the tripe. Why not set a three-day limit for the termination of all arguments? n n n HE’S NOT BOTHERED BY MOTORBOATS By Observer. I, too, am a River Heights citizen, and it is true that occasionally there are one or two rather noisy motorboats on the river, but only for an hour or two during the afternoon on Sundays, when everybody is “whooping it up” and having a little recreation. I’ll wager it is the pleasure those persons are having at their sport of outboard motoring that annoys River Heights Citizen who recently complained through the Message Center, and not the so-called abominable noises. Have a good time, boys. You’ll find at ’least one “squawker” in every community. an a DEPLORES VIOLENCE DURING STRIKES By F. M. S. The horror of strikes! The pity of it that strikes can not be won by quiet withdrawal of the strikers to their homes to remain until the strike is won. Are strike breakers and soldiers the worst enemies of union labor? Ohio, the strikes are a blot upon your record. an a UPHOLDS DURAY IN RACE PROTEST By a Racine Fan. I am a Hoosier and for all the native sons, but native son or whoever, let’s be good sports. I am referring to the 500-mile race held May 30, and think Mr. Duray’s protest should be respected by all true sportsmen. I counted six cars that our Wild Bill Cummings passed during the time the yellow flag was displayed on the track and during the time, in accordance with rules, each driver was supposed to hold his own position, but Bill went on, and I have heard that seven drivers signed statements that Bill passed them during the time the yellow flag was on the track. If this is true, Mr. Rose should

Daily Thought \

Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob.—Psalms, 114:7. I KNOW of nothing sublime which is not some modification of power.—Burke.

.JUNE 7, 1934

have won the race and The Times should keep up its good record by digging out these facts and telling the people as it does in all other things of public interest. I haven’t missed a single race since 1912, but this is my last one if such sportsmanship is allowed by the A. A. A. And I am not the only one. You should have been in Day- * ton yesterday at the opening of a new track when Rose and Bill were * introduced. Sucl} lack of sportsmanship will kill one of the best things that Indianapolis has left in the way of advertisement.

So They Say

The depression has demonstrated that jacks-of-all-trades not only have a place in the sun, but that they are very lucky persons.—Professor Mary A. May of Yale. We have kept the faith with, and in, oui traditional political institutions.—President Roosevelt, in his new book, “On Our Way.” The mere fact that a man wore a uniform doesn't entitle him to raid the treasury.—United States Senator Carter Glass. The woman of 1934 simply hasn’t time to be happy.—Professor John H. Stokes, University of Pennsylvania dermatologist. Our peaceful country needs a peaceful national anthem, like “America the Beautiful.” —Professor David Muzzey, Columbia University. ■ x We do not need investigators snooping around to determine what is good and what is bad for the public mind. It is not possible to make people good by law.—Representative William Connery, of Mass. Right now I’m just the mama of a baby that I hope will be a swell brat. —Elsie Janis. How many boys and girls 1 have? Oh, about 20. I no count them any more., I like babies.—Kavili, Eskimo mother. The craze for contract has done away with the art of conversation. —Octavus Roy Cohen, famous short story writer. The spirit of true comradeship that permeated German World war forces, the spirit of sacrifice and loyalty, has risen again to become a living force among our people.— General-Werner von Blomberg, German defense minister.

Last Goodbye

BY VIRGINIA KIDWELL I have said good-by to you before. Have waved my hand and called it smilingly, My heart was light—l knew a few hours more. Would see you coming safely back to me. And I have said good-by to you with pain, Have sobbed it in your arms so tender, strong; Believing you’d return to me again, Yet grieving when you had to leave me long. Today, again I said good-by to you. A hopeless, quiet word, more breathed than spoken; No wave, no smile, no answer now from you, For you are dead. Good-by I said, heartbroken.