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TUUESDAY, JUNE 12, 1934. TAKE OFF THOSE WHISKERS SOMETHING should be done about suppressed senators who turn committee hearings into personal loud speakers. At the Tugwell hearing yesterday it was almost embarrassing. The crowd was there to see the professor put on the spot, but Senators Smith and Byrd tried to steal the show. Os course it was all a flop because nobody wanted to listen—not even their fellow-members who said right out in the meeting tha the two vocalists were trying to knife the President through Tugwell. Tile other senators should be more considerate today when the question comes up on the senate floor. Smith and Byrd should be allowed to stand up and reveal just how little they have to say. But, apparently, the senate and the country have lost the opportunity of seeing Tugwell under attack. That’s a pity. For the President’s aid, if prodded sufficiently, might have stated the issue frankly. The issue is the new deal versus the Democratic old guard, who never have had and probably never will have much sympathy for economic planning and brains in government. Senators Smith and Byrd and the others who have been manufacturing the myth know better than any one else that Tugwell is not a red. They also know that he did not write the AAA amendments to which they object; no more did he write the so-called Tugwell pure food and drug bill. They know he is not running the President as they insinuate. They know the President is President. And they don't like it. That is their right. We hope they say so on the senate floor today—and take off their false whiskers. ENOUGH SILVER TI7E had to “do something for silver,” said ’ ’ the silver-tongtied orators from the states where silver is plentiful. Well, it ia done. Both houses of congress have passed the silver bill. In a few days the President will sign it and it will become law. And the American people can be glad. . . . Not because it will make our troubles any fighter, but because it probably will not make them any heavier. . . . Not because the President will do these things that the bill empowers him to do, but because he probably will not do those things. The President has experimented just enough with monetary manipulation theories to know their limitations; he probably can be depended upon not to misuse this new silver inflationary power any more than he has misused his vast credit inflationary powers. . . . Not because the silver bill soon will become law, but because it no longer takes up the time of congress. We can be grateful because we probably shall not hear any more of silver until the next session, and during the few days that remain of this session congress can get down to work on legislation that is fundamental to recovery. Maybe with the long silver orations out of the way we can get action on an adequate labor disputes bill in time to stave off the threatened epidemic of strikes. Maybe now we can get action on the housing bill to provide jobs for workers in many industries weary of idleness and relief doles. RARE JUDGMENT STUDENTS of the Indiana State Teachers’ College at Terre Haute have exercised rare and unique judgment. Called upon to select the “most outstanding girl” in the senior class of the college, the students found themselves stumped. In the class were the Davidson twins, Martha and Mary. Apparently one of the girls was as “outstanding” as the other. The students then chose both. L It’s no wonder the students took this ac--tion. The girls’ scholastic records are the same; they are serving as joint president of Pi Gamma Mu, they majored in the same subjects and they take part in the same school activities. If those students who cast their ballots for the girls show the same traits later in life they never will be accused of narrowmindedness or inability to see both sides of the many stories which will confront them day after day. ANOTHER NEW DEAL XT'EARS ago when many of us received diplomas from high schools and colleges, commencement speakers left the impression that we could defeat the world and occupy a niche of fame if we were honest, hard-working and intelligent. How things have changed. Today the commencement speaker is dealing with national problems and the graduate is looked upon as one of the future satellites of anew deal in national and world affairs. The graduate is told that he will figure in a general revision of business, diplomatic and social politics. Changes in the nation’s social structure were foreseen by three commencement speakers yesterday. Dr. Frank A. Fetter, professor emeritus of Princeton university, told the seniors at Indiana university: “There are many signs that if the capitalistic system breaks down it is destined to be replaced, not by democratic socialism, whether mild or radical, but by an autocratic oligarchy of big: business.” "Dr. Ward C. Allee of the University of Chicago, told Earlham college gradutaes that: “Regardless of the fact that we feel . . . that democracy is the best form of government yet evolved, we are today headed fairly toward some sort of dictatorship and unless we exr

ercise all possible care, there is where we shall bring up.” De Pauw university seniors heard Dr. Ernest F. Tittle, Evanston (111.) minister, say: “Two beliefs are gaining credence with many—that an unregulated pursuit of private gain must give way to some kind of social control, and there is no escape from economic disaster save in a more widespread distribution of purchasing power.” COMMON COURTESY TNDIANAPOLIS Street Railways urges its patrons to report any acts of discourtesy on the part of its employes. Unfortunately the three men who witnessed this incident at Twenty-sixth and Illinois streets this morning were automobile passengers, but they expressed dissatisfaction over the occurrence. Five men were preparing to board a southbound Illinois street car. As the fourth one entered the car, the fifth stood back waiting on a woman who was running toward the car line. He had his hand on the door and was preparing to board the street car immediately after the woman who, by that time, was only a few yards from the street. Suddenly the man found himself jerked along the car tracks. The car was moving forward. He looked back over his shoulder to see if there was any chance for the woman to catch the car. There wasn’t and he abandoned his chivalry in his mad dash to catch the car and get to work on time. The woman stopped running at the curb and turned her back in disgust. The car wept on. No doubt many passengers on the street car, as well as the three men in the auto, saw this incident. There is no excuse for patrons being treated in this manner. Officials of the street car company should see that it never happens again. VACATION PROBLEMS of the schools for the summer again brings up the perennial problem of what to do to keep the children busy. Unfortunately, the matter of keening the youngsters interested in various form., of play during their ten weeks of vacation implies also the thought of relief from the persistency children have to bother their parents whilethere is nothing in particular to do. This is unfortunate because it is unnecessary. There is no reason why fathers and mothers should not take primary interest in the activities of their children over the day, and at least to help the little ones plan their play, if they can’t direct it or even participate in it. The well-organized school systems of the country, nowadays, pay as much attention to the physical activities of the pupils as to their mental development. One has been found to have just as profound an effect on the growth of boys and girls as the other. This organized activity which the children have learned to accept as part of their school curriculum, and for the direction of which they are dependent on their teachers, however, breaks off suddenly about the middle of June. And so it is left to the parents to take up for the summer what the schools have done the rest of the year. It is no light demand to make upon the older people, to be sure, but It is one that must be met. And it must be met along the same fines to which the children have been accustomed—that of organized activity, directed by someone older than themselves. In other words, the father or the mother, or both, must assume the responsibility of directing the physical development of their boy and girl, a responsibility which they had placed on the shoulders of school teachers for the preceding ten months. * When youngsters traipse in and out of the house almost incessantly, asking for this or demanding that, it is a sign that father and mother are negligent in their obligations toward their children. When the children are nervous and unrestrained, it is a sign that they need sane and sensible direction in their play. And while school is out, there is no one else to guide the young ones except the parents. It is a duty that must be attended to. FREEDOM TO SWAP TTIGH tariff advocates consumed a lot of time and a lot of space in the record (political medicine for the days to come), but ffiully the senate has passed the reciprocity tariff bill. It will become the law in a few days and then, before many months have elapsed, we shall learn whether we have the ability to swap our way back into a fair share of the world’s trade. Because other nations embraced our shortsighted Smoot-Hawley philosophy, world commerce is now so throttled down that the bargaining method offers the only practicable approach. In every quarter of the globe nations groan under their own unmarketable surpluses. The reciprocity bill wisely confers upon the President the power to participate in the bargaining that other nations already have started. It means that if world trade is revived we shall not have to sit helpless amid our own surpluses and watch it pass us by. Unfortunately many of our tariffs are so high that the President’s 50 per cent reduction lever will not be sufficient to bring relief to our own consumers. For example, our ridiculous prohibition liquor tariffs, even if cut in half, will still be too high to permit any serious threat against our “bootleggers’ paradise.” Senator Gore of Okahoma has a definition for trade which may be useful to our foreign trade bargainers when they sit down across the table from the bargainers of other nations. Said the senator: "Trade is a process by which two men get what each man wants, both parting with what neither needs, and both profiting by what neither loses.” That applies to the disastrous surpluses, here and abroad. A MERITED TRIBUTE A PHILOSOPHER has said, “He whom one age stones, another enthrones.” While it may be exaggeration to apply that maxim to the case in mind, it warms the hearts of that generation which stole with trepidation into the attic to revel in the dime novel exploits of Deadwood Dick to learn that recognition has come at last to the favorite author of their youth. A bronze-plated cobblestone monument will

be reared at Deadwood, S. D., to the memory of Deadwood Dick Clark, Indian scout, frontiersman, and hero of dime novels. The Deadwood Dick thrillers were not literature, it is true. There may have been justice in the parental threat to apply the rod to the luckless youngsters caught reading them. But memory of them comes back for a moment like a fresh, clean breeze as one turns in disgust from the mass of drivel and worse that masquerades today as literature among our more “advanced” readers. And Deadwood Dick fans of another day silently cheer those who have remembered across the years to pay tribute to the hero who thrilled them as he triumphed over his foes. ANIMALS DUMB? NO! / T'HE average man or woman who likes animals and is convinced that his or her pet understands a half dozen familiar commands may be surprised to learn that several "animal dictionaries” have been written. Gabriele D'Annunzio, the Italian poet, has announced that he will include a complete glossary of the canine language in his new book, “Lives of Illustrious Dogs.” The book is to be modeled after Plutarch’s “Lives.” Other animals whose vocabularies have been recorded are the monkey, the horse, and the cat. An American woman, Miss Blanch W. Learned, was responsible for classifying thirtytwo terms of the chimpanzee, together with the meaning of each. Other scientists have tabulated twelve “words” of the marmoset language and fourteen of the gibbon’s. The horse is said to speak with “six words and three kinds of neighing.” Cats produce fifteen sounds, according to the experts, each with its distinct interpretation. There are twelve “words” in the hen’s vocabulary and five in the rooster's. I'rom all this it seems that it is high time that the phrase, “our dumb friends,” went into discard. It was always a libel. THAT INSANITY PLEA T> Y demanding radical reforms in legal procedure in murder trials, the American Psychiatric Association has moved to end one of the most glaring deficiencies of America's criminal law. A report on the “insanity defense” was submitted to the nineteenth annual convention of the association recently, and it proposed several important changes. It would eliminate most of the abstruse technical evidence which nowadays is submitted to a confused jury when a defendant asserts his own insanity, and it would provide that any man submitting such a plea be confined in an asylum for an indefinite period, whether he be found guilty or acquitted. That the court’s way of handling the insanity defense needs thorough overhauling is too obvious to need argument. The psychiatrists, who have good reason to know how completely this kind of defense is abused under present practice, are to be commended for their effort to bring about a reform. King Prajadhipok of Siam went to England for another operation on his eye. Perhaps he feared America’s new eye opener. Republicans are calling for a “square deal” now—let the Democrats try getting around that. No one could have done better keeping those Canadian quintuplets alive than old Dr. Dafoe, says his brother specialist. Turning down that $50,000 world fair contract was a heroic deed in itself. Conditions are getting so bad out west that many farmers are beginning to doubt there ever was a flood, even in Biblical times.

Capital Capers BY GEORGE ABELL

ÜBIQUITOUS Charles Taussig, adviser to President Roosevelt on the Virgin Islands and original “brain truster,” has just satisfied a life-long ambition to be a stowaway. Charles arrived here the other day by plane from an unexpected trip to Haiti. It happened like this: Charles, his charming wife, Ruth Taussig, and their daughter, Jean, were guests on board the Colombian Line steamer Colombia, watching the review of the fleet off New York. They brought a tugboat along to take them ashore later. The Colombia was then to start a West Indies cruise. At luncheon someone “dared” Charles to stay on board. “All right, I'll stay!” replied Taussig. “So will I,” said his wife, who thought he was joking. “And I,” said Jean. “Me, too,” piped up Charles Pearsall, general manager of the Colombian Line. ‘So they sent back the tugboat and away they sailed for Haiti—stowaways de luxe in the royal suite. Taussig dispatched two wires to New York. n n n ONE caused a plane laden with tropical clothing to set off for Port-au-Prince. The other canceled a projected radio address under the auspices of the Inter-Collegiate Council. While 150 miles south of Cape Matters, Stowaway Taussig heard his address delivered over the ether by a substitute who announced “Mr. Taussig has suddenly been taken ill and is confined to his bed.” (Actually, he was lying on the sun-deck under a tropical sun.) In Port-au-Prince Stowaway Taussig was introduced to President Vincent of Haiti, was wined and dined by Minister Norman Armour and gave his opinion about Haitian rum. He has brought back a few casks, but announces: “Wait ’till you taste the old St. Croix rum of the Virgin Islands. Um-mm! Yum-mm! You’d become a stowaway, too!” n n n NOTE—Stowaway Charles will remain in Washington several days, rested from his tour and no longer wearing the pale hue of one who is overworked. • nun TWO foreign envoys—Minister Alfaro of Ecuador and Minister Alfaro of Panamaare doing their part to make graduation day a success. The only Ecuadorean student in Washington was feted by jovial, enthusiastic Minister Colon Elov Alfaro of Ecuador at a champagne supper at the Mayflower. Timoteo C. Suescum is the student’s name. He was graduated in medicine from George Washington university. “Bring every one you want!” insisted Envoy Alfaro. “Bring your professors and your schoolmates.” They all came and enjoyed caviar and champagne, except Dr. Cloyd Marvin, president of George Washington, who telephoned at midnight that he had guests and couldn’t get there in time. Dignified, studious-minded Minister Ricardo J. Alfaro of Panama was host at a cocktail party for graduating Panamanian students. The affair was a huge success. I ..

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(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns. Make your letters short, so all car, have a chance. Limit them to 250 words or lessJ n n n DECRIES BALLYHOO OF PATRIOTISM By Emily S. Barber. “Veteran’s Wife” seems to have learned very little from the "need and suffering of veterans and their dependents,” and incidentally all the rest of the common people, if her idea of patriotism is still the outgrown one of whooping it up for our “glorious republic” and doffing our hats to the flag. She already is talking of the “next conflict” when—God help us —we have not paid for the last one, and probably can not for generations to come. It is this distorted idea of patriotism, this ballyhoo about our glorious traditions, this teaching of our youth that our country is always nobly right, but “right or wrong, our country,” that makes young men believe it their sacred privilege to go out and to be murdered, or their high-minded duty to murder others who are, quite possibly, as sincere in iheir convictions and their love of their country, as are we. If “Veteran’s Wife” would read a little, she would learn that about 80 per cent of the "blood money” goes to the armament makers who know no country, no patriotism, and we, poor fools, worry about who shall “carry the colors” in the next war. n n n RELIEF RECIPIENT COMPLAINS By Relief Worker. We poor people in Martinsville are just getting enough relief work a week to keep us from starving; no money to pay rent; no money for clothes. We may have to join the nudists. About all we get a week is twelve hours at 40 cents an hour, which means $4.80. I have five in my family and don’t know how I will pay rent or buy anything we need. There seems to be a few official jobs at good salaries. How do they do it? The poor people are getting nothing. We poor people want enough to let us live and a place to live. Most all poor people pay rent, and how can we if we have no work? n n n CHRISTIANITY AND ECONOMICS SYSTEM By G. H. A. The chiseler must go. Every one declares war on the chiseler. What is a chiseler? Is it some one who is different from all the rest of us? No, he is the product and ultimate aim of our highly competitive system, the competitor who has competition down to perfection. Now that he is perfect we turn on him. What now is to be the aim of the perfect competitive system? Is it to be the regulation of competition? If so, for whose advantage? To make profits for the minority in business at the expense of the majority who are the producers and consumers? We have tried private control, and it has failed. We have tried government control and it has failed. Are we going ahead to government ownership or are we going to continue going backwards. America is no longer at the crossroads. We are headed backwards. .Why all tte opposition to govern-

LITTLE MAN, WHAT NOW?

This Bank Stockholder Says He Paid

By A. Subscriber. Your Message Center carried a letter on June 6, Loser Wants Action, by “Another Victim” which was not entirely in fine with the facts. The last paragraph of his complaint states that the stockholders have not had to pay, even though it is the law, and asks, “Why—?” And my comment is, “oh, yeah!” A few years ago the writer bought twenty shares of stock of the bank in question at SIOO a ment ownership? is ours not a government of, by and for the people? Perhaps those who oppose government ownership realize that they are no longer a part of the government. Perhaps the opposition comes from a group in whose eyes the future of America is obscured by the dollar sign. On Sunday these groups attend church and profess to believe in Christ and helping their fellowman. The other six days of the week they believe in helping themselves by taking advantage of their fe'lowman. How close can we approach Christianity with our present system? tt tt URGES TOLERANCE TOWARD RELIGION By W. F. The public is sick and tired of politicians trying to stir up religious prejudice in order to be elected. It worked a few years ago, but now people have had lots of time on their hands, with nothing to do but think and study. Consequently, they have become a more enlightened people, making it harder to cram the old K. K. K. gags down their throats. I was born and reared a Protestant, so this is not the complaint of a Catholic who has had his toes stepped on. I will be strictly in favor of keeping Catholics out of public office when, and only when, our city, county, state and federal governments exempt them from all taxation. Until then I will be opposed to permitting a man’s or woman’s religion to operate for or against his or her electior:, or appointment to any office. Let us hope that in the future our Protestant people will be wiser and more broad-minded than they have in the past. tt tt n CRITIC OF LUDLOW RECEIVES REPLY By J J. H. This is a reply to the man who wanted to know what Louis Ludlow did in the years he mentioned. Why doesn’t this man go to the headquarters of the Democratic party? I am sure that Louis Ludlow has done more good for unfortunate people than any other congressman from the state of Indiana. I wish to ask the inquirer just where he was during the years of 1917, ’lB and ’l9. I am a World war veteran and 100 per cent for Mr. Ludlow. tt tt tt WORD PICTURE OF PLAIN PEOPLE By Fredrick O. Rusher. Isn’t life a wonderful thing? All the beauty of God is unfc ad before our eyes. Day'after day we

share. Several years later the board of directors cut the number of shares in half, making the $2,000 investment worth only SI,OOO. In addition, when the bank closed, there was SI,OOO on deposit in the savings department. Last fall the writer turned over to the receiver SI,OOO representing his stockholder’s liability. I incurred a total loss of $4,000. And then “Another Victim” says the stockholders have not had to pay. He had better be sure of his facts before he makes a statement. partake of it, but how many of us really appreciate it? We poor people, who are plain people, understand life better than the wealthy. Why? Because we have worries that the wealthy don’t have. We humble ourselves to plain living, we sacrifice to help our less fortunate fellow-men. Their struggles are our struggles. There is a class of plain people who have no ideals, no pride, and know nothing of the better things in life. These people are to be pitied. Some of them are highly educated, but have not cultivated their training. To know and understand life is to believe in God. You must follow in His footsteps to understand and realize the greater things in life. If you have knowledge of higher ideals, He gave it to you. Cultivate those ideals, and His blessings will be bestowed on you. What we need among poor people today is more encouragement. Always encourage a fellow-man who is down and out. Give him something to think about besides his worries. Perhaps you are in a position that your worries are far less. We don’t have the same social standing we used to have. Our standard of living has been lowered. We had good jobs, good incomes. But today we are struggling and still happy. We can still take it on the chin and smile, and that means something. We are not rich, wealthy, ignorant or dumb. We are plain, God-loving people, used to things we no longer can have. tt tt tt COMMUNISM BOOS ALL TRAPPINGS OF WAR By Paul Wysong. “One lone Civil war veteran marched in Memorial day parade in the city of Cleveland—one old man in blue coat, white-haired and stooped, valiantly stepping along to honor his departed comrades. And a little group of Communists, standing on the curb, booed him as he marched.” The above is the opening paragraph of an editorial appearing in The Times of June 5. The editor, probably, with the fingers of the grieving Moore strumming the sad and mournful notes of “The Last Rose of Summer” on the editorial heartstrings, laments this “abysmally ignorant” attitude of Communists. Communism does not deal with personalities. Its thought is for the mass. Always it has and always it will “boo” capital’s wars, be their trappings of blue or the color of gray; the cross of Christ or the sword of Mohammed. Communism did not. boo that lone marcher of a once blue legion that fought and freed an enslaved people that they might be available for future soup lines. It booed the indefensible cause of our civil yar—

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greed, profit, wealth accumulated by the few from the enforced labor of the many. I can sympathize with the editor. I, too, experience his emotions. When old glory majestically mounts the flag pole my eyes dampen and my heart swells. I see an embryo republic, Bunker Hill, Washington, Patrick Henry, Yorktown, the incomparable Jefferson, Lincoln—the picture fades. “Them days are gone forever.” n n n WEAKNESS CITED IN COMMUNISM By Hiram Lackey. The editorial in The Times of June 5, relative to the poor psychology which American Communists practice, is worthy of the Communists’ most serious consideration. Asa friend of the truth and justice in Communism, I wish to express my thanks for this editorial favor. But there still is a more fundamental weakness in Communism. The basic defect in American Communism lies not in its uncompromising radicalism, as this is a Christian virtue. In dealing with questions of major importance, Christ w is the most uncompromising of all reasonable radicals. Measure His ultimate influence and compare it with that of your ideal “conforming reformer.” The weakness of those radicals whom we associate with Communism lies in the fact that they are mistaken in their thinking and feeling relative to questions such as religion and certain aspects of personal liberty. They fail to recognize the fact that intellectual persons without spiritual development are no more prepared to judge the value of religion than a 6-year-old child of normal mental development is prepared to judge the value of algebra. For, spiritual development is as much above intellectual development as intellectual development is above physical development. As do ministers, so do Communists miss the mark when they talk about things of which they have no understanding. Let us pray that American Communists will find the wisdom to build on the secure foundations laid by our Master, the original and greatest of all Communists. Let us bear in mind that personal liberty is a thought to be cherished. But the idea of its surrender to and for the public good is forever inseparable from, “Greater love hath no man.”

Daily Thought

All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do; but do not ye after their works; for they say, and do not.—St. Matthew, 23:3. WE live in an age that hath more need of good example than precepts.—George Herbert. WISH BY HARRIETT SCOTT OLINICK I wish that I could see your soul. I know it would be beautiful. It would be savage, dark and grim. It would be gleaming, never dull. And if I could but see it once, I would be tolerant and wise; Knowing all things, holding the key To all that hides within your eyes.