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--SDAY. JULY S. 1934 FORLORN GERMANY A DICTATORSHIP, in this modem world. is an effect rather than a cause. Therefore, the news that the seamless fabric of Hitlerism is developing a split right down the middle, and that German monarchists are looking forward hopefully to a Hohenzollern restoration, is important for the light that it throws on the past rather than for what it may foretell of the future. For while we can not tell what a Hohenzollern restoration would do to Germany—any more than we can chart the future of the nation under Hitlerism, if the Nazis remain in power—the mere fact that monarchist sentiment is reviving tells a lot about the said things that have happened in Germany since the war. Go back, for a moment, to the fall of 1918, and remember what took place. Germany had lost the war. Her allies had crumpled up her armies had been pushed back, her resources were gone, the endurance of her people was at an end. It was too plain for any one to miss that a gigantic series of blunders on the part of the government had. first, got the nation into the war, and secondly had made winning of the war Impossible. Then, to cap the climax, Wilhelm II skipped out, flitting across the borders by night and leaving subordinates to face the music. The monarchy had discredited itself, by revealing its own incompetence and weakness. about as thoroughly as was humanly possible. So Germany turned to democracy, or to a semblance of it, and tried to get along. The venture wasn't very successful. The heritage of the war was a crushing burden even for the victorious countries to carry; for a nation which had lost everything, it became absolutely intolerable. Ruhr invasions, inflation, industrial crises, flights of capital followed one another in dreary succession. At last the democratic government, like its monarchist predecessor, proved its inability to rope with things, and Germany turned to Hitler. Today Hitler is having his troubles. It is reported from Berlin that the days of the Nazis are about numbered; a military dictatorship which would eventually bring a Hohenzollrrn back to Berlin is confidently predicted. How dreadful must Germany's lot have been, if a regime as completely discredited as the one which took to flight in 1918 can look, now. like a savior! INDEPENDENCE THEN the revolutionary fathers boldly * * signed their John Hancocks to this country's mast famous state paper lf*B years ago tomorrow, they were prepared to fight as rugged farmers and merchants for what were then largely political rights. They wanted to be left unmolested in their new world homes to wm the blessings of life, liberty and happiness for and by themselves. The bloodless revolution emng on today aims to make these rights secure in the greatest and most complex industrial slate in the world. Its attack is economic and social and. hence, a much less simple affair than throwing off the yoke of a distant king. American independence today means the restoration of millions of jobless workers to steady work at dreent wages and hours. It means taking millions of persons off the dole and effacing for them the imminent fear of economic disaster. It means the right of labor to bargain by groups, of farmers to the fruits of their toil. It means the protection of the small and weak against the big and strong in industry, in agriculture, m commerce and in finance. It means the abolition of city and rural slums. It means insurance against the hazards of old age. unemployment and sickness. It means no more child labor and no more child hoboes. It means the conservation of the nation's natural wealth against waste and stupid exploitation. It means, in short, a social plan so directed by a people's government that there will be no economic orphans barred from the table of the earth's richest republic. Thes°. largely, are the goals of what has come to be called the New Deal. There are plenty of powerful Tories who refuse to go along, just as there were in colonial days, men who prefer to see the very system wrecked before giving up a bit of their power or wealth. The old Tories could not block ultimate victory for Washington's army. Will their spiritual descendants be able to nullify the new revolution now? VERY GOOD READING A MERICAS great unseen audience all hooked-up to hear National Chairman Henry P Fletcher view with alarm last night missed the best part of his speech and we propose to give it here. Havmg explained that the salvation of democracy depends on the election of a Republican congress that will oppose the New Deal. Mr. Fletcher said: “My friends, let us revive the old American custom of reading the Declaration of Independence !" All right, let's: ' We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are crea’ed equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and th* pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men. deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, that whenever any form of gr,\ernment becomes destructive of these ends it is the right of the people to alter or aboteh it, and to institute new government.

laving its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form as to them shall seem mast likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prurience, indeed, will dictate that governments lone established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, to to provide new guards for their future security. Omitting those paragraphs which recite the colonies’ grievances against his royal British majesty, George 111, that is the document Mr. Fletcher would have you read. Just why is a mystery, for nowhere could you find a more concise justification for the overthrow of the Old Deal and the setting up of the new. BE CAREFUL TOMORROW a legal holiday will send thousands on a one-day vacation to be marked with the pleasure and noise that annually attends the nation s birthday. Thursday, regrettable as it seems, newspapers will carry stories of the toll of life taken by holiday events. A program for the Fourth of July, and for the summer, for that matter, has been issued by the Indiana State Medical Association. It will be well to considei the proposals for the safety of yourself, your family and your neighbors. For the Fourth the bulletin says: Don't hold firecrackers, even the smallest, in your hands; don't throw firecrackers at any one; don't shoot them off under bottles; don't carry them in your pockets; let firearms alone; don't play with or carry dynamite caps, and avoid gunpowder and toy pistols. To that may be added the warning not to try any foolish stunts with fireworks used in night displays. Some of these are the most dangerous of festival products. Anri, for those of you who won't stop long enough to shoot off a firecracker, remrmber that when you're driving your car tomorrow you're not the only one on thp road. The association says that gentlemanly conduct at the wheel of vour car will save trouble in the lone run. Remember, too, that if you can't swim, keep out of the water, unless you only want to go in anklp deep. Don t try any stunts you can't finish when you get on the diving board. And there are a score of other warnings to be givrn, but these should be sufficient to cuarant.ee some degree of safety for most of us. For a change, observe some of the sane pastimes of the holiday, rather than looking for trouble. HE PAYS AND PAYS AND PAYS THE automobile owner is getting tired of paying so much taxes, according to the American Automobile Association. His taxed automobile, says the association, is propelled by taxed gasoline, lubricated by taxed oil, rolls on taxed tires and is fitted with taxed accessories. He is, says the association, the goat of the law makers who frame the taxes for his local, county, state and federal governments. The association demands that, beginning with the next fiscal year, the federal government abolish all of the multitude of discriminatory taxes that it now’ levies against the man behind the steering wheel. It also recommends that state governments cease diverting motorists’ taxes for purposes other than highways. The average automobile in operation last year, the association asserts, was worth only $160.94, and it cost the average motorist $51.29 in taxes. Incidentally, if this average motorist also happened to be an average cigaret smoker, consuming a pack a day, he also paid the federal government $21.90 in cigaret taxes, not to mention taxes for the matches he used to light the cigarets. The present high tobacco taxes were levied back in 1919 to provide revenue that the government was losipg by the advent of prohibition. But tobacco taxes were not reduced when prohibition was repealed and liquor taxes returned. Instead, congress abolished the tax on corporation dividends. Federal taxes on gasoline, oil, automobiles and auto accessories and tires, and most other such excises, were levied in 1932 as part of the Hoover-Mills balance-the-budget drive. But the budget never was balanced. Since then congress has gone through two sessions without removing the nuisance taxes. Instead, it enlarged the nuisance list and reduced taxes on all incomes up to $30,000 a year. Thus it nearly always happens that sales taxes, fastened upon the people in an emergency, remain to plague the people long after more equitable taxes have been abolished or reduced. Americans, other countries say, “don't know what it is to be taxed." That is true in respect to taxes on income and inheritances. But it us not true in respect to the ordinary commodities of trade, which the poor as well as the rich must have. To restore fairness to our taxing system, congress should wipe- out or curtail the socalled •painless" nuisance levies and enact laws that will raise whatever revenue the government needs on the principle of ability to pay. Fortunately, a congressional subcommittee now is at work on that problem. BLIND SELFISHNESS A MOKE complete misunderstanding of the essentials of modem urban life has seldom been seen than that displayed by the New York woman who sued for an injunction to prevent use of a public school playground, adjacent to her home, except at such time as school actually was in session. In her bill this lady charged that prolonged use of the playground by children was a “nuisance and a menace to public health." Someone who knows all about the facts of life ought to take this lady on a little trip some time. She should be shown how children have to play in the streets, when public playgrounds aren't available; and she should be shown the way in which the street breeds crime, degeneracy, and general all-around trouble for the community which forces children to play in it. Then, maybe, she'd see a light, and realize that a constantly used playground is a lifesaver and not a menace.

Liberal Viewpoint Editor'* Note—This ! th* third of five *rtlrl* hr Harrr Elmor Barn. Ph. D.. on the achievement! and outlook of the New Deal after a year of operatlnn. nun THE much discussed brain trust was Mr. Roa c evelt's logical answer to the discrepancy between our material culture and our political thinking. Franklin D. Roosevelt was the first President who gave extended evidence of any conviction that government demands any specialized intelligence. The brain trust is nothing more than Mr. Roosevelt s determination to have future operations on our body politic executed by political surgeons rather than by party butchers who have hacked and sawed in the past. In meeting the menace of predatory finance, Mr. Roosevelt was less happy and forthright than in summoning the brain trust. Rejecting the advice of his ablest consultant in the brain trust, he muffled his almost God-given chance to assure the speedy success of his whole propram and refused to nationalize the banks and the credit system in March and April, 1933. Failing in this, he has had to content himselt with a number of minor acts, all of which are good in themselves but leave the common enemy of a sane and safe economic order still in the control of American economic society. nan THE emergency banking act opened the banks and gave better supervision over our credit system. The Glass-Steagall bill divorced speculative affiliates from national banks, permitted branch banking and provided for limited guarantees of bank deposits. The security act of 1933 especially through its registration statement, exposed loaded dice. The Fletcher-Rfri - burn bili endeavored to make operations on the New York Stock Exchange at least as honest and safe as the goings-on at Monte Carlo or Tia Juana. It no longer can operate a pure shellgame. .... , , . The Roosevelt administration departed markedly from the Hoover procedure relative to purchasing power. Through his RFC, Hoover showered bounties on the rich in the hope that a little might spill over and fall into the laps of the poor. The Roosevelt administration put billions directly into the hands of the farmers and workers. At the present time, our national expenditures average about $500,000,000 a month, no less than $150,000,000 more than it cost to build the Fanama Canal. t , . . . The agricultural adjustment administration has disbursed about $1,200,000,000. Some $3,300,000.000 has been appropriated for public works, most of it allocated and some of it spent Through the CCC and TV A about $200.000.000 has been spent on forestry, reclamation and power sites. . The emergency appropriations also have been enormous. The CWA disbursed about $1,100,000 000 The Wagner-Lewis relief bill appropriated $500,000,000. The surplus relief corporation, which mops up after the rest and feeds the stragglers not otherwise supported, has spent shout $100,000,000. Added to these are the special drought relief appropriations passed near the close of the last congiess. a a a THE national industry recovery act is related more directly to the issue of industrial anarchy than to purchasing power, but Genera Johnson contends that it put 3,000.000 additional workers back into the factories and increased national purchasing power by $3,000,000,000, It is to be doubted, however, whether more than half of the results claimed in either case can be supported by authentic figures. The utility problem has been attacked through the TVA. the prospect of government competition with private power production, and the securities bill of last year which will make it more difficult to build and float paper pyramids in the future. In regard to the debt problem, the most that has been done is to postpone the evil day of reckoning by refinancing about $850,000,000 of farm mortgages and $400,000,000 of village and city mortgages. The depreciation of the dollar to 59 cents in gold content also was designed to ease the debt burden through making money more cheap. But the rapid and extensive price rises necessary to make this a reality have not as yet taken place.

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BY GEORGE ABELL KINDLY Josephus Daniels, American ambassador to Mexico, has left town to resume his post below the Rio Grande, with one more generous act to his credit. Daniels —unassuming and unselfish —made no mention of his good deed. He ambled through corridors, dressed in a wrinkled gray suit, Windsor tie and Panama hat, saying good-by to friends, and nothing else. But the story of what he did should be told. Many members of the cabinet of President Wilson.-in which Daniels served as secretary of the navy, are dead. Last to die was the former secretary of labor, William B. Wilson. He and Daniels were close friends and the ambassador was one of the principal mourners at the funeral. Deeply grieved at the loss of his colleague, Daniels learned that Wilson had left eight children and that one of them was without a job. The young man, unwilling to solicit a position through personal pull, had tried unsuccessfully to obtain work. Daniels talked to him, was impressed with his sincerity, determined to assist him. He put on his Panama hat and went to the White House, where he laid the case directly before President Roosevelt. Asa result of that interview, the late Secretary Wilson's son has a job. Only one proviso did the young Wilson make. He declined positively to accept a place in the labor department, feeling that in this case he might be given a privileged status. a a a SECRETARY ICKES is finding considerable difficulty in sending out allotments for public work projects. Everybody in the United States apparently wants an allotment of some kind. “It's gotten so bad.’’ said Ickes, “that I can’t step outside of my office without someone coming up to me and asking for $10,000,000 or $15,000,000.” The harassed secretary can't even escape the allotment seekers when he goes to the White House. He went there the other day and Presidential Secretary Marvin Mclntyre came beaming up to him. “I want to present Mr. So-and-So,” he exclaimed. “He's looking for an allotment for Alabama.” Ickes fled. a a a A N amusing thing about the interior departvY ment and PWA offices is that there are three types of air-cooling systems installed there —and only one works. On the hottest days, the air-cooling device in Ickes’ office gets tangled up and the secretary is forced to sit. persipiring (to put it mildly) and fuming, until it’s fixed. Yesterday, the air-cooling device in the office of Harry Slattery, personal assistant to the secretary, overflowed. Much commotion ensued. The device in the office of Nathan Margold, interior department solicitor, hardly ever works. Only in the peaceful sanctum of Ebert K. Burlew. administration assistant and budget officer. does the air hold a delicious frostiness. Mr. Burlew is able to keep his coat on and sit in cool aloofness figuring out the budget for aircooling systems. Any light but white will make a person nervous, say New York university scientists—red especially, if it stays on too long. A young archeologist has left for the Arctic to look for traces of Eskimo civilization. Perhaps he's given up hope of finding any signs of civilization around here.

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(Times readers are invited to express tlicir views in these columns. Make your letters short, so all can have a chance, limit them to 250 words or less.) ana ROOSEVELT REGIME DECLARED FUTILE By a Thinker. Your editorial captioned “The President Reports” is just a lot of ballyhoo and an insult to the American people. The questions propounded by the President to the American people can s e answered truthfully as follows: The American people are not any better off at this time than they W'ere before Mr. Roosevelt took office and surrounded himself with dozens of useless committees, commissions and “brain trusters.” Unemployment is on the increase. Millions of impoverished farmers and their families have felt the mighty claw's of the New' Deal just as keenly and sharply as the middle class, such as doctors, lawyers and workers in general. For the vast majority of the farmers the Roosevelt administration has brought foreclosures, rising costs of manufactured goods, extortionate taxes, and the insanity of the Wallace acreage reduction program, while millions of men and women are hungry. The American wage-earner has suffered tremendously under the Roosevelt New Deal and the NRA codes. These codes actually cost the American wmrking class about 20 per cent of its w'eekly w'ages through the simple expedient of fixing wages at a low level, and increasing prices on food and other essential commodities. The truth is that the President knows he can not cope w'ith the situation, and, furthermore, he does not care much, so long as he preserves the dying capitalist system and enriches the owners and stockholders of the large monopoly controlled industries. The fact is that the present administration controlled by “brain trusters” is a menace to the whole nation, and. for the welfare of the majority of the population, the profit system must go. and it will go, and a new’ system of society, anew form of government in the interests of all the people must be set up in its place. Mr. Roosevelt could remain in office the rest of his life and at the end he would have nothing to show' for his efforts. It would be just a waste of time and energy. a a a UPHOLDS BIBLE AS AUTHENTIC By F. W. In answer to Frank Cummings: Asa young person of today, I have tried to give this letter, written. I presume by a man of normal mind, thought and consideration. But looking around me and delving into the thoughts of unbelievers, and those who have carried heavy burdens through these unsettled, troublesome times, I find there are very few persons of even moderate circumstances who have fallen to such low estate as to believe that man is all, and God is nothing. Evidently this man never has visited a public library, and doesn't know that history tells of Jesus Christ living upon the earth. He possibly doesn't realize that the Bible is the best seller, and most-read book of all the ages. He doesn t know that the Bible never has been destroyed completely even though it has been

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MAKING IT HARD FOR HIMSELF!

Milk Distribution Setup Assailed

By Jess Tauter, Roy L. Scott and William D. Barker. For several days we have noticed articles in papers with refence to the Greenwood Dairy Farms, Inc., and wherein it has been proposed by the department of agriculture in Washington to revoke the license of said company to distribute milk in the Indianapolis area. As producers and sellers of milk for some twelve or fifteen years in the region about Greenwood, we think we are in position to give some of the concrete facts which have developed into the present controversy. Two years ago the farmers of the so-called Indianapolis milk shed were organized into two producers’ groups, one known as the pool, and the other as the Indianapolis Dairy Producers Council. These organizations pledged they would obtain for them an increased price for their milk, and identical standards and certified tests of its quality. However, the farmers’ price for milk fell to 5 and 6 cents a gallon, w-hile the distributors in Indianapolis were selling the same milk for from 40 to 50 cents a gallon. The persons interested in Greenwood Dairy Farms, Inc., felt they had been imposed upon by being forced into contracts which gave them a price of only 5 to 6 cents a gallon for their milk, which price was so low as to entail a serious loss, they decided to ouild a creamery on a corner of their farm in Greenwood, to pasteurize their own milk and to sell it in competition with the distributors in Indianapolis. The first announcement of the Greenwood Dairy Farms, Inc., to the producing farmers of the Greenwood neighborhood was that it would pay 12 cents a gallon for 4 per cent milk, and that it could afford to sell its product in the Indianapolis area to the consuming public at a price from 1 to 2 cents a quart under the prices charged by the distributors in the Indianapolis area. As soon as this enterprise was under way, a representative of the Greenwood Dairy Farms, Inc., was called to a certain lawyer’s

burned, water soaked and cut to pieces, it still stands today! I do not know the age of Frank Cummings, but I do know, barring nothing, that he has not experienced the real depth of happiness, the greatest thrill a person can have, and he hasn't taken upon him to do what a real man or woman would say who has had the experience of which I am speaking, would be the bigest thing a person could do. and that is, to humble himself, mere man that he is, and ask God s forgiveness and accept Him as his Saviour. Then he will know there is a God. He will know that Christ lives. He is coming again because He said He would. He already has fulfilled other promises so why doubt this one? Here's hoping you will come face to face with this Christ you so publicly deny, before it is too late. Take a dare and try Him out! You can’t lose! a a a HORRORS OF NEXT WAR PICTURED Bt Jut !*• With war clouds hovering over Europe which will probably develop into another world _ conflict more deadly and devasu&Ai than the

[I wholly disapprove of what you say and will defend to the death your right to say it. — Voltaire.

office in Indianapolis and told that if they were going to sell milk in the Indianapolis area, they would have to sign two contracts—one to take their supply of milk, aside from their own production, from the council or the pool at prices less than 50 per cent of what they were propasing to pay, and, secondly, sign a contract with the Indianapolis distributors to sell milk at the prices and upon the classifications and standards agreed upon by said distributors’ association. The Greenwood Dairy Farms, Inc., told these men at the lawyer's office that it had no desire to buy the farmers’ milk at 5 to 6 cents a gallon, that it had no desire to sell its milk in the Indianapolis area at from 40 to 50 cents a gallon; that it felt this was a free country, and that it had a right to pursue its own methods within the limits and restrictions of the laws of the state of Indiana. A group of men representing the producers’ organizations went to Washington, with what series of representations we are unable to imagine, and induced the secretary of agriculture to attempt to set up in this area a milk administrator, whose duty it would be to organize, regulate, penalize and, last but not least, tax the industry to pay the expenses and salaries of a bunch of political interlopers, who knew little or nothing about the milk business. A Mr. Wallace was sent out here, as a special investigator, who frankly admitted he knew nothing about milk. But we milk-producing farmers of Indiana now are being called upon by the secretary of agriculture to pay the expense and compensation of such a fellow. We just can't take it! The present administration has labeled itself the New Deal and has claimed the support of the public on the ground that it was functioning in the interest of the forgotten man, and we are writing this letter to let the public know in a concrete case, the method, the manner, and the object of its administration of the milk business in Indianapolis.

last, I can’t help but think of the horrors o£ such a war. The time has passed when Americans can say, “Let Europe have her wars; we should worry.” Continents have been brought too near by means of transportation for our country not to be involved in a great foreign war. The problem of overproduction will be solved for some time in case of such a war. Airplanes will dart over enemy lines into densely populated territories and with high explosives and gases exterminate entire sections in a short time. The one advantage of such a war, that I see. is that the wartime profiteers will suffer the same as others. It would be impossible for the enemy to spare the home and life of Mr. Multi-Millionaire, a mulition manufacturer and one of the local sponsors of the war, even if they cared to.

Daily Thought

Who will render to every man according to his deeds.—Romans, 2:6. Heaven never helps the man who will not helfi himself.—Sophocles.

_.TTLT 3, 1934

OIL COMPANY WORKER MAKES COMPLAINT Bv an Old Times Reader. Why are some of the major oil companies so insistent that we service station attendants buy stock in the companies? I own stock in one, and last year received approximately S3O in dividend payments. To get that S3O a year I lose all claims to any salary raise, vacation with pay, gas shrinkage and allowance on laundry payment, and am supposed to feel elated at being a stockholder. a a a URGES QUICKER WORK BY STREET COMMISSIONER Bv W. C. H. I wonder if the street commissioner believes that by leaving dead dogs, cats and other animals laying in the streets that he can grow grass there? That is one reason we have so many mad dogs running around now. If all dead animals were removed the same day the call was received, and not two months later, there would be fewer poisoned animals on the streets today. tS ft tt KINDNESS URGED TO BETTER WORLD By Mrs. Eld ridge. I have been reading the Message Center for several years, and the one subject that struck me is that of the mail carrier’s experience of wanting a drink and not getting one. The least one could do is to give him a cool drink. I take from my own feelings when any one helps me or gives me a drink, that they have a heart. Every one who wants a drink of water who comes to my house gets one, and food, too, when I have it. That is the trouble with this world —we do not have enough good feeling toward our fellow men. To give a drink of water is a small task for any one. A kindness goes a long way, at least that is my view of life. If any one is by my door and wants a drink he gets it. Why can’t every one be that way? It would make a better world if every one would co-operate and be kind and generous whenever they could. Here is for a better and a more generous country than we have.

ULYSSES

BY POLLY LOIS NORTON Tied to the towering mast, My ship’s fast sailing past, Though songs remind me; Men of the wax-bound ears, Calm fears, and heed my tears, Come, then, unbind me! Sweetly the sirens call To all—and you are all— They will not heed me; Calmly they hois, more sails, Unhearing wails, O gales, Help me and speed me! I know what danger lurks In smirks and siien’s works Yet must I fight here To loose the hempen strand, Understand this, my band, And tie me tight here! Gods, why in life do we, Born free, captivity Court by our daring? Why not be satisfied When tried, with bona fide Laurels were sharing? But humans are not so. They go, much to their woe, New vict’ries seeking; Theirs must be all the fame, Proud name—and who will blamt All e&uaUi' reekutt?