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THURSDAY. JULY 5. 1934. A MARTYR DIES THE world might well pause in its scheming and intriguing to pay tribute to Mme. Curie, mr.'t famous woman scientist of all time, who died in Pans at 66. a martyr. This devoted little body succumbed to pernicious anemia brought on and aggravated through yean bj her lifelong work with radium and its penetrating gamma radiation. When she and her late husband discovered radium in 1393 none know the dangers ors working with the rav-producing element. Now workers with radium are protected by-lead-lined aprons, gloves and shields. For nearly thirty years Mme. Curie had been suffering from the effects of this element, at once so healing and so destructive. Blood transfusions kept her going, but with resistance worn down from work in her little Pans laboratory’ she no longer could fight her affliction. Mme. Curie had known fame in her life. In 1903 the Curies won the Nobel prize in phvsics. When in 1929 she came to the United States she was honored as no woman scientist before her. and Americans in gratitude for her labors presented her with a gram of radium, worth $50,000. Never, however, did she relax in her toil, and always she was the same silent, shy little persons as she was when she came as a girl from Poland to study in France. The work begun by this famous pair will go forward. It is being carried on by her daughter and son-in-law’ in France and in scores of laboratories in every civilized land. And some day the mysterious element, now a remedy, mav become a rurc for the great killer, cancer. Like Prometheus, they have seized fire from the gods for the benefit of mankind, and they have etched their names in history.

ARMS EMBARGO PROGRESS ENCOURAGING is news from Geneva telling of approval by a special disarmament conference committee of the American proposal for international regulation of the traffic in arms. Japan and Italy, the two same powers that refused to enter into an agreement to withhold arms shipments to the Chaco war belligerents. decline also to accept this plan. But approving it are Great Britain, France, the United S;ates. Czechoslovakia and fourteen lesser nations. The proposed treaty provides for the registration of private and public armament plants and the filing of data on arms orders, exports and imports with a central organization, presumable- at Geneva. It is a much stronger proposal than the 1925 convention, just ratified by your congress. Delay In setting up some effectual international control of arms shipments is inexcusable folly. The insane duel between Paraguay and Bolivia over a strip of fever-infested jungle has lasted two years and cost the lives of 30.000 men. The League of Nations Chaco commission reported that the weapons used In this senseless slaughter "are supplied to the belligerents by American and European countries." The unholy traffic in lethal weapons must stop, and the only way to stop it is through the co-operation of nations. "Some suitable international organization must' and will take action." said President Roosevelt recently. "The peoples of many countries are being taxed to the point of poverty and starvation in order to enable governments to engage in the mad race in armament which, if permitted to continue, may well result in war. This grave menace to the peace of the world is due in no small measure to the uncontrolled activities of the manufacturers and merchants of engines of destruction. and it must be met bv the concerted action of the people of all nations.” ON WITH THE CHASE T'ARLY Wednesday hastily recruited squads of r:ty police, working in co-operation with A1 Feeney, state safety director, staged another unsuccessful search for the wandering runt—John Diilinger—and his pals in crime. On the surface another Marion county search for the Mooresville sensation seems like one cf those ho-hum stories that have been written lately about drives to nab the criminal. However, it is not a drab story and the tacts show the methods with which the police work In conjunction wit if other law enforcement acents in their attempts to nab the bad man. While two squads of officers guarded the apartment where it was rumored Diilinger and his pals had taken up a hasty residence, others were conducting their search in the southwestern section of the county. At no time during the long wait for the searchers to join them, did the police at the apartment relax their vigiL It would have been impossible for any one to leave the apartment without being seen and if such a departure would have been attempted certainly the police officers would have been in command of the situation. The work of the officers gave a dull sound to the many rumors that various branches of the law enforcement divisions are unable to work together in the hunt for the outlaw. As long as the police maintain their watchfulness and heed every tip that comes to them, it appears that Indianapolis will become the city Diilinger will avoid in his future wanderings. SOONER THE BETTER RUNNING on the slogan "Bring the New Deal to Oklahoma,’’ Congressman E. W. Maryland, former multimillionaire oil man. paced the field in Oklahoma Democratic gubernatorial primary. His eventual election to the governorship is taken for granted. • The principal plank in Mr. Maryland’s plat'

form was sponsorship of a back-to-the-land movement, a program to provide subsistence homesteads for 50,000 Oklahoma families now on unemployed relief rolls in cities and towns and restore farm tenants to the status of farm owners. If Mr. Maryland carries out his platform pledge Oklahoma will be converted into a vast laboratory for one of the finest experiments advocated by the Roosevelt administrationdecentralization of population and industry. It will become a state with a planned economy, a commonwealth of freeholders. It was land hunger that settled Oklahoma, but today more than 61 per cent of the state’s farmers do not own the land they till. The rest of the nation will watch with interest and hope this attempt of Oklahoma to make all her citizens self-supporting. ON THE CONTRARY A RECENT article in the Wall Street Journal reveals that prices of seats in the New’ York Stock Exchange are going up again. The last recorded sale was made on May 23, at a price of $96;000; since then, the Journal says, •’asking prices are ‘way up in the air,’ ” and the range of seat prices this year has gone as high as $190,000. Now all this, to an outside observer, would seem to be a pretty good answer to Wall Street's complain that the new stock exchange legislation and 'the truth-in-securities bill are going to ruin everything. People dpn’t buy seats on the Stock Exchange unless they figure that they are going to get their money back through profits made in trading. If the new legislation were going to cripple the security markets half as much as some of Wall Street’s anguished cries would make one believe, these seats would be selling today at a dime a dozen. ANOTHER GOOD SIGN SUPERINTENDENT ROGER W. TOLL of Yellowstone National Park is one manw’ho looks forward to extremely good business this summer. So far this year upward of 20,000 visitors have passed through the park—which compares with fewer than 7,000 for the same period last year. Toll believes that fully 200,000 people will visit the park before 1934 is over, and he also believes there is a chance that the all-time record of 260,000 visitors — made in the boom year of 1929—may be broken. All this, it seems to us, is a pretty good indication of returning prosperity. Yellowstone Park, after all. is quite a distance from the great centers of population. If tourists are going there in record-break-ing numbers, there mast have been a pretty substantial improvement in the financial status of a lot of people. STRIKING FACTS IT is customary, these days, to say that we are having an "epidemic'’ of strikes. Historians talk learnedly about how r labor troubles always accompany a business revival, and economists compute the losses suffered by employers, workers, and the public through such disturbances; but w’hat we all fail to realize is that the whole troubled labor picture is giving us a first-rate object lesson. For a strike, when you stop to think about it. is nothing more or less than an outbreak of this “individualism” we have been hearing so much about lately. It stands, that is to say, for the utter lack of any kind of public control over the parties or the industries involved. To be a little more accurate, it indicates the complete absence of any kind of planning in the particular economy where the strike takes place. It is a sign that the industry is drifting along with the stream; that both sides are thinking of their problem in the terms of immediate personal advantage and not in terms of long-run public interest. One must hasten to add that it is only natural that they should do so. The industrialist must rivet his attention on his profit-and-loss figures; the worker has to think first of all of his pay envelope. To expect them voluntarily to do anything else would be to anticipate the millennium. But the point is that the strike, with all the waste that it involves, is simply the price we pay for the rule of individualism in our economic life. One of the things that makes us loath to realize this is the fact that when you start talking about the alternatives to industrial individualism you begin to get into deep waters. The people of America see no very good reason why thpy should copy either the Italian or the Russian method of handling such things. Costly as strikes may be, most of us would prefer to put up with them rather than to get rid of them via either Communism or Fascism. But that needn't prevent us from facing the facts. Nor need it prevent us from continuing bur effort to discover whether there isn't seme way of so modifying the rule of Individualism that its benefits can be retained while its costly drawbacks can be discarded.

BANKRUPT FARMERS IT is in method, rather than principle, that the Frazier-Lemke-McKeown farm bankruptcy law differs from the so-called corporate reorganization law. Yet the same financial interests that acclaimed the corporate measure now decry the Presidents approval of the farm measure. Eight and one-half billion dollars of debt bear down upon America’s farm population. Thousands cf farms are mortgaged for more than they are worth, for more than the debtor farmers can hope to pay off in a lifetime, for more than the creditors have any reason to believe they will ever collect. Many cf these debts were contracted at a time when farm prices were higher than they probably will be again in this generation. This new law sets up an orderly process by which the more burdensome debts may be composed in court on a basis which accepts as a reality the farmer’s capacity to pay. But it does not allow a farmer to evade any obligations that he can honestly meet. Insurance companies t and banks, which once enjoyed a steady yield from gilt-edge farm paper, are through defaults and foreclosures becoming landlords over vast areas of farmlands. Already more than 60 per cent of the farms in the south are tenants. It is an alarming trend, and to stop it very real sacrifices are justified. g

Liberal Viewpoint —BY DR. HARRY ELMER BARNES

Thi* is the last of a series of articles on the New Deal. YESTERDAY I paid a tribute to the unique character of the accomplishments of Mr. Roosevelt during the sixteen months of his administration. But any assessment of his administration which will comand respect or accord with the facts mast be something more than a honey-pouring rite. There are some vital points in which the New Deal does not measure up to the reasonable expectations of even highly sympathetic observers. To these we now must pass in the final article of this series. To many, the one insuperable obstacle to the rehabilitation of American capitalism is the dominion of finance captitalism, by failing to nationalize the banks last year, Mr. Roosevelt lost his unique opportunity to wipe out this menace with a single broad stroke. Many and informed commentators believe that this critical mistake foredoomed the rest of his program to failure and that all his lesser expedients are like manicuring as a remedy for a cancer left in the body politic. a a a LIKEWISE, even though the government appropriations to increase purchasing power have reached an impressive total, this tothl is not anywhere near enough. Moreover, the money has been appropriated too slowly and spent in such small dribbles as to fail to provide the one great boost necessary to get us out of the ditch of the depression. The efforts which Mr. Roosevelt has made to bring about a planned economy through the NRA and the AAA both adopt very' frankly the principles of the old scarcity economy. The outlook wholly is out of harmony with the character of the modern technological era in the United States and with the richness of our natural resources. It is, moreover, completely out of step with Mr. Roosevelt’s own basic declaration that the new era of capitalism must be an age of consumers’ capitalism. The producer rather than the consumer has, from first to last, been favored under the New Deal. Then there are not a few striking contradictions in the New Deal itself. While General Johnson, with tears in his voice, urges industries to keep their prices down, Professor Warren w’orks for a monetary policy designed to raise prices. Through the AAA we pay farmers to withdraw arable land from cultivation, while through the CCC and the TV A we reclaim more land for cultivation. a a a THROUGH the Pecora investigation we discredited our great financial leaders and then sent them back to control the American economic order. While exhorting private employers to be generous and pay high wages the government itself is unprecedentedly niggarly in paying its own employes. Long having shown signs of nervousness as to the possible attitude of the supreme court toward the New Deal, the administration now fails to take advantage of evident and unexpected liberalism on the part of the court. While Mr. Roosevelt certainly had saved us from something far worse than the bank holiday and the Hooverian chaos, it must in candor be admitted that no decisive turning of the corner can yet be recorded. An increase of 9.7 per cent in wage payments in the first year of his administration was eaten up by a 9.3 per cent increase in living costs. The usual answer to this made by Mr. Roosevelt’s “thick-and-thin” supporters is that Rome wasn’t built in a day. To which the obvious answer is that the Romans had 700 years to build the Roman city and Mr. Roosevelt won’t have much more than 700 days in which to prove that he is going to make good his promises to produce anew era of American well-being.

Capital Capers BY GEORGE ABELL IT may be the summer heat, but ambassadorial subtlety is at low ebb there at the present time. Before leaving for Hot Springs the other day, sleek, pomaded Ambassador Espil of Argentina, who is regarded here not only as a social lion but as one of the ablest foreign envoys in town, went to see Sumner Welles, assistant secretary of state. As he came out of Sumners office, a newsman inquired: “May I ask what the nature of your conversation with Mr. Welles?’’ Blandly, Felipe replied: “We talked about Hot Springs. I’m leaving tomorrow for Hot Springs and I wanted Mr. Welles to telephone me if anything happens.” ‘‘And did you not mention the international wheat conference at all?” “Oh no,” said Felipe. “We never mentioned wheat. We just talked about telephoning to Hot Springs.” “Well,” remarked the skeptical newsman, “you were in the office more than thirty minutes talking over that little detail!” “Yes, yes,” said Felipe. “These matters take a bit of time, you know.” Barely three seconds had elapsed a. ter Ambassador Espil’s departure when Mordecai Ezekiel, wheat expert of the agriculture department, walked into Secretary Welle’s office to discuss the wheat reply which had arrived from Argentine and which subtle Envoy Espil had just delivered. NOTE—-Sumner Welles already knew Espil's plans for going to Hot Springs and this subject was hardly touched upon during their forty-minute conference, nan IRISH MINISTER MICHAEL MAC WHITE gave a big luncheon for Eddie Dowling, Broadway producer and playwright, who has been in town for a few days. "Eddie.” said Envoy Mac White “we will have a lot of famous Irishmen at the luncheon, shall we?” “O. K„” replied euphemistic Eddie. So they had the luncheon and here are some of the famous Irishmen who attended: Marvin Mclntyre, presidential secretary, and a famous ’‘lrishman” from Kentucky, to whom Irish mint juleps arid Irish colonels are both familiar. Harrv Hopkins, federal emergency relief administrator, a famous “Irishman” from New York. Jesse Jones, chairmafi of the board of directors of the RFC, a famous “Irishman," who can hum “My’Wild Irish Rose” better than Senator Copeland of New York. Frank Walker, a famous “Irishman,” who has a finger in many administration pies. Colonel Arthur O'Brien, whose name is a sufficient indication of his Irish origin. He owns one of the best swimming pools in town and his home is the mecca of visiting sons of Erin during the hot months. Four unemployed men struck a rich gold claim in Colorado. Now they can enjoy being jobless. Bootleggers have turned to counterfeiting, says the chief of the United States secret service. Well, if they can't make money one way, they’ll make it another. A Pittsburgh dentist has reported killing germs in teeth with radio waves. Advertisers of antiseptics over the air will object to that. A 15-vear-old father of three children, at Oshkosh, Wis., got a divorce frem his 17-year-old wife, so now he can go back to complete his own childhood. We're well on our way to becoming hairless. toothless and toeless, says a New York scientist, and when man gets that way he'll look back at the people of today and be sure Darwin was right. Thirteen other cities have been found to have higher winds than Chicago, but without stockyards they hardly can be as strong.

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(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns. Make your letters short, so all can have a chance, limit them to 250 words or less.) ana LESS NOISE IN EARLY HOURS IS HIS PLEA. By Light Sleeper. Can’t The Times do something to relieve the light sleepers in this city? It seems to me Indianapolis has more daybreak noises than any city I ever was in. The Sunday morning squawking of leatherlunged newsies used to be my pet peeve, but now Chief Morrissey has fixed that. My latest peeve is the noise made by these new-fangled trucks the milk companies use. To reduce gasoline consumption (for which no one can blame them) the companies equip these trucks with small motors which are geared low to provide power. When the milk truck drivers get back in their trucks to drive a couple of doors farther on, they drive in low gear with the highspeed motors roaring away and annoying slumbers of any one within a block. Surely, the few seconds saved in these short bursts of speed don’t help much, and if the annoyance were called to the drivers’ attention, they would quit it. nan PHILOSOPHIZES ABOUT BUSINESS By Fredrick O. Rusher. Many business men have achieved success through their own efforts. Others have reached it through scheming. Nevertheless, they are there, just the same. If none of us looked into the future and was satisfied with a common living, this would be a funny world. A business isn’t accomplished in a few weeks. It takes months and sometimes years to build it up. Intakes careful planning and patience. Many business men have had hard knocks. Many have gone bankrupt. Then by some power they have sprung up again. The little man sometimes outsmarts the big man. He starts with small capital and uses just enough to live. Then he invests in another small place and soon has a chain. n n n BEER DRINKERS SEEK NEW DEAL AT BARS By A. B. C. Perhaps I’ll be ruled out of order but it seems to me my cause is just in registering a small complaint. We are being chiseled on by the beer retailers of our city. Look at the numerous signs sprouting up in front of beer establishments all over town. They loudly proclaim “16 ounces, 10 cents," “17 ounces, 10 cents,” “18 ounces. 10 cents,” but don't believe them. The sign should read that this is the glass size only. The prospective customer walks up to the bar with a heavy thirst, thinking of a regular he-man’s size stein of beer. He sees the bartender pick up a hefty mug and notes with an inward smile that the glass is capable of holding a goodly* amount of the foaming beverage. But there’s the joker. As the glass comes sliding toward the anxious drinker the first thing that strikes the eye is a magnificent white collar of From a quar-

A REMEDY THAT FAILED

Workman Brands Police as Stubborn

By George Maxwell. I often have heard that most of the men on the Indianapolis police force are hardboiled and unreasonable. From an experience that I had the other day with some of the police, I feel that there is good ground for the charge. Last Wednesday evening I bargained with S. Cohn & Son, 130 West Vermont street, to wreck an automobile parked in a lot across the street from the firm's place of business. Wishing to take advantage of the cool of the early morning. I started to work about 5:30 Thursday. I had been working but a short time when a squad of officers came hurrying into the lot. In a menacing manner and with great show of bravado, they de-

ter to a half of the glass is occupied solely by a mixture of air and bubbles. Is it fair? nun NEW ORDER IS DEMAND OF NEW SOCIAL ERA. By a Times Reader. We sincerely hope that the President's committee on economic security, composed of Morgenthau, Wallace, Perkins, Cummings and Hopkins, will recognize that drastic changes will be necessary in our social order, to insure us against the frightful consequences of irresponsible selfish control of our in- 1 dustrial mechanism. The new program must not be paternalistic. It must recognize the contribution of each person to the whole social order as worthy of reward and entitled to a “social dividend” on the collective effort. Charity is not a substitute for social justice. Democracy in industry must replace the self-anointed "lords of finance.” Production and distribution must reach the need of every citizen. Just more patches on the old order won’t do. Anew order must be evolved. nun NATION IS GRIPPED BY MORAL DEPRESSION. By a Times Reader. We are as much or more in a moral depression as we are in economic doldrums. The moral breakdown preceded the economic collapse. Moral standards that permitted the creation of slums, mining town barracks, cotton tenant shacks, shameful waste of out natural resources, political corruption, cut-throat competition, starvation wages, sweat shops, child labor exploitation, public work contract skulldruggery, the manipulations to secure public office —all these are but samples of the moral decay. Stock gambling only kicked off the lid. Law enforcement for a price, or lack of it for part of the swag of bootleggers and gamblers was known throughout the nation. We need anew moral perspective to reach sound economic health. REPLIES TO* ATTACK ON CHRISTIANITY Bj F. Harvey Recently a contributor to your column attacked about everything that is sacred to the Christian, and so far, no believer has answered him. People seem to Jae as much

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manded to know what I was doing. I told them as politely as I could that I was hired by Mr. Cohn to wreck the automobile. But they would have nothing of the kind. They swore I was there for burglary. They accused me of every brand of larceny from petty to grand. They refused to listen to reason, though there wasn’t the least ground for suspicion of wrong doing. They denounced me in unreasonable terms, and it was not until they had taken me for a ride and obtained proof that I was a bona-fide workman that they allowed me to go back to work. I believe that I speak the sentiment of all fair-minded persons when I say such men should not be on a police force.

alarmed over this man attacking Christianity as they would if a flea attacked an elephant. When a man’s mind becomes as shallow as a dishpan that has been run over by a steamroller, it is hard for him' to grasp facts. This man said there’s no proof that the patriarchs ever lived. Imagine a man standing at the Mississippi delta, where millions of gallons of water are flowing out to sea, and then ignorantly saying that no one can prove that the Mississippi has a source. The Jewish people are proof that j the patriarchs lived. The writer said there is no proof of a God. Does he possess an auto, and ignorantly deny the existence of its manufacture? Every creation is proof of a creator. This man said that the Bible is a myth, produced in the' dark ages. An old dog bayed at the moon. The dog died, the moon will shine tonight. Poor skeptic! The Bible will be cherished by millions after you are in your tomb. You are barking up the wrong tree if you hope to win converts to socialism by attacking the foundation of civilization. Tne stream of Christianity may be somewhat polluted, but it takes as much concrete to dam a polluted stream, as it does a clear one. The thing that matters most, is whether a body of water is a stream or a stagnant freg pond n n n UPHOLDS MINISTERIAL PEACE ADVOCATES By Hiirara Lackey On Monday morning, July 2, I read an editorial in an Indianapolis newspaper in which such ministers as Harry Emerson Fosdick were condemned for preaching atr .ist war from their pulpits. These pacifists have given the editor an overdose of the truth. He condemns the ministers for preaching the gospel of Christ and advovates the teachings of patriotic nationalism —the avc- c d enemy of Christianity, instead of God’s word. Editorials such as these do more injury to the cause of Christianity than a thousand ministers can repair in a decade. I am sending the editor a letter. He should know the truth. I am sending this to The Times because the people deserve the warning If American youth had industrial citizenship, such as exists in* Russia, and if the body politic had the good sense to read only those newspapers which make our po.l^\al

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citizenship of value, youth, then, would have something worth bleeding for—from a materialistic point of view. nun HOPES DILLINGER’S LIBERTY LASTS By a Martinsville Mother I see in the papers that people wonder why the officers can’t catch John Diilinger and I thought I would tell you why our officers here in Martinsville haven’t time to worry about John. My boy who is 15, and another boy got in trouble the other day for taking a poc-ketbook which did not belong to them, and believe me, the officers left no grass growing under their feet then. They came to my house twice the first day and the next day my boy came home and I took him down to jail as soon as he came. At 11:30 that night here came the three brave policemen of our city with flashlights and of course, their guns strapped on, hunting my boy who is small for his age. Brave men indeed when it comes to a job like that. But when they are told John Diilinger is in the neighborhood they have other business. No wonder the praying people are praying for John never to get caught. nan URGES KINDNESS FOR OOGS AND CATS Bv a Dog's Friend I have been reading about all these mad dogs and persons being bitten. Some persons like a dog; some do not. Most of these dogs acting strangely are hungry and thirsty. Their food should be clean and they should have plenty of cool water. I think every one should keep water out for stray dogs and cats. There wouldn't be so many mad dogs if persons were more kind. Many persons have dogs but do not take care of them as they should. I also think it is outlandish to put babies out in the burning hot sun. I have raised four dogs. The children came first, but the dogs were not neglected or mistreated. n n n HE FIGURES DILLINGER IS FILLED WITH LEAD By a Tilmes Reader. How much would a person get for the lead in Diilinger? If he has been shot as many times as has been reported, he should be worth $25,000 for the lead he has in him. VALE DREAM BY LIDA STANLEY MOON I know a vale of quietude So like the Vale of Dream; i ’Tis there the wilding roses bloom Beside a woodland stream. Tis there the wood bird’s-note I hear Afar in leafy aisles; His evening song, or gay or sas. Ever my heart beguiles. There Is a spirit haunts the spot— Spirit so like a sigh— It breathes of unforgotten hours, As the soft wind moves by. % These make the vale of quietude So like the Vale of Dream— The roses, and the thrush’s song, And the bright, murmuring stream.