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FRIDAY. JULY 13. 1934 NO WHEAT SHORTAGE JOSEPH sold the idea to Pliaraoh, and for ** seven fat years (train was stored in goveminent granaries. Then for seven lean years the stored surplus was doled out to the people of Eg;, pt. • Drought in the western wheat belt has made this a lean year in America and there is talk of our adopting Josephs plan some day. But the surplus wheat stored in private granaries will be more than enough to offset Ihis year's crop shortage. There even will be some wheat for export and a substantial surplus to carry over into the next year. Statistical experts who fed figures into the grain gambling pits have raised quite a hullabaloo by their predictions that the United States will have to import wheat this year. It is not the first time statistics have been used to add to the fe\cr of speculation. Government wheat experts say that imports this year will be limited as in past years to certain types of wheat used by millers for blending and not grown in sufficient quantity in this country. Total wheat imports probably will be, as usual, less than total exports, but it would be interesting to see this picture re’vcrsed once. For the first time American wheat farmers might get some benefit from their 42-cent tariff. Opponents of the New Deal farm program j see the drought as nature’s rebuke to the j production control policy. They are playing | upon emotions and using scare words like I “famine." There is no shortage of wheat in | this country, and even if there were, plenty of wheat could be had from Canada and the Argentine. For decades the United States has sold wheat to the world. Who would be hurt if the United States should now buy a little wheat from the world? Certainly not the American wheat farmer, who has suffered for years under the pnee-drpressing surplus. TIME TO CALL A HALT INDIANAPOLIS and the remainder of the state. Times readers learned yesterday afternoon, is the battle ground of a beer war in which a rebate system is being used in the interests of the various individual brands of beer. Indianapolis and Indiana want no beer wars. Price cutting fights between breweries all too often in the past have led to violence, j It is up to th n regional board for the brewer code enforcement to put a stop to the beer chiseling racket immediately. The board must act—NOW! NEED FOR SPEED THE health board has announced it no longer can a fiord to support indigent tubercular persons—patients who arc suffering from advanced cases of the dread white plague. There is no haven for these persons and the board has done a commendable work in supporting these patients, teaching and helping them to avoid spreading the disease to children and neighbors. The board is to confer with state relief authorities with an eye to obtaining federal relief funds. State officials should do everything in their power to alleviate a menacing situation. These persons must not be allowed to wander without check. There must be some means to support them so that there will be no spread of the disease. • Quick action is vital. HOW DO YOU DO, MR. FARLEY? JAMES ALOYSIUS FARLEY, postmastergeneral in the New Deal cabinet of President Roosevelt, arrives in Indianapolis this afternoon. Tonight he will make an address here, in which he is expected to 'tear into" Senator Arthur R. Robinson, Indiana's senior j senator. Whatever Mr. Farley may have to say about Senator Robinson probably will not be strong Ajaough. What Mr. Farley has to say about “Li'l Arthur” everybody in Indiana knows by now or should know. But Mr. Farley can clear up one thing while he us m Indianapolis. A year ago President Roosevelt asked the postmaster-general to draft a sweeping civil service law. Mr. Farley managed to "forget" it during the last session * of the congress. What, Mr. Farley, do you intend to do about that bill? Indiana is glad to have you. Mr. Farley. You have been attacked from one end of the country to the other tor “playing politics.” ; We realize your problems and we sympathize with you. At least, some ot your predecessors were not even good politicians. There was one gentleman who purchased I anew rutomobile on government money because he couldn't wcjir his silk topper in the old automobile. At least, you, Mr. Farley, have remained “Genial Jim” to ail the country. How do you do. Mr. Farley? Indiana welcomes you. CONSERVATION PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT, like that other famous Roosevelt in the White House, wants to substitute conservation for conversation. He urged passage of and signed the Taylor grazing act. and now Oscar Chapman, assistant secretary of the interior, is going west to make surveys looking toward putting it into effect. . The new act is historic, for it puts under federal control, for the first time, a vast por- * tion of the public domain, limits herds to the “ange<\ teedms: capacity, protects the plains

from over-grazing and consequent erosion. Taken with ‘the lumber code's conservation pledges and the new erosion-control program, this measure will help check the alarming inroads into America's natural wealth by forest and grass fires, timber, grazing and farm malpractices. floods and general soU depletion. The new Taylor act is not perfect. It gives the secretary of interior powers of regulation over only about 80,000.000 out of the total of 173.000,01)0 acres of the public domain. Last minute amendments forced by certain western senators raise the question of the government's prior right over states in grazing control. Critics have warned that big stockmen may benefit over smaller ones. These questions should be clarified by amendments at next congress. The victory lies in the fact that a thirty-year fight for federal control of public grazing lands has been won. The new federal reservation of grazing lands now takes its place under the government's protecting Wing with the splendidly administered 150,000.000 acres of national forests. ' Stern enforcement is more important than rules or laws. This country is well on the road to ruin, so far as its once-wooded and grassy hills and plains are Concerned. The fate of China is more than an academic lesson to the United States. Listen to this warning, as told to William Philip Simms, by a Tientsin scholar the other day: “These droughts, dust-storms and famines are just what you Americans are in for unless you wake up in time. I can understand them in China because the damage was done centuries, even thousands of years ago, before people knew w'hat deforestation and bad iarming could do to a nation. But I can not understand a country like the United States allowing such a thing to happen.” NOW FOR ACTION r T''HE stage has been set for city's park j *- board to act> on proposals for a playground for north side children. Now' it’s up to the park board to act. A delegation of five representatives from the North Side Federation of Clubs appeared before the board yesterday, pointed out that property between Illinois and Meridian streets and extending from Thirty-eighth street to Fortieth street might be obtained for playground use through conferences with the owners of the land. One of the owners is known as a gentleman of intense civic pride and who often has lent support to civic undertakings. A playground is needed badly on the north side. What's the park board going to do now? AMERICANS AT PLAY ' | ''HE big NRA down at Washington is interested in how Americans work. A smaller NRA i National Recreation Association) keeps taO on Americans at play, a function that also is important. In its report on public recreational facilities in 1.036 cities in the United States and Canada this NRA found that organized recreation is a big and growing industry. In spite of pinched local budgets, all publicly supported play facilities were increased in 1933 over 1932. Last year there were 7.434 outdoor playgrounds compared with 6.990 in 1932. Baseball diamonds increased from 4.161 to 4,224, and playground diamonds from 4,759 to 5.572, Bathing beaches increased from 472 to 530, tennis courts, 8.267 to 9.921, ice-skating rinks from 1.659 to 1,740. Nearly $6,000,000 in federal funds were spent on play in 1933, a total for recreational facilities of $27,000,000. As hours of labor shrink more and more public dollars will be spent on recreation. Laborsaving machines are making us over mentally and physically. We are finding that playing sometimes is as virtuous as working. TEACHERS ARE LEARNING A FREE and robust spirit that bodes well *■ for American democracy permeated the resolutions of the National Education Association's annual convention in Washington. The great mass of classroom teachers dominated the important meeting. They asserted the teachers’ right to freedom of speech, press and assembly and “the right to support actively organized movements which they consider to be in their own and the public interest." They insisted that “the teacher's conduct outside the school should be subject only to such controls as those to which o>her responsible citizens are subjected.” They objected to “the sudden singling out of teachers to take an oath of allegiance” as a means of intimidation “which can be used to destroy the tight of academic freedom.” They asserted their right to organize and hold their positions through permanent tenure. Their social program was equally forthright. They urged unemployment insurance for all workers, including teachers; passage of the child labor amendment; scientific tax laws to spread the burden of education costs more equitably; a law prohibiting profits on the manufacture and sale of munitions. “War is the greatest menace to civilization,” they declared. “Children should be taught the truth about war and its costs in human life and ideals and in material wealth.” They asked for a direct federal grant of $500,000,000 for aid to the public schools, but insisted “this grant shall not entail any federal control of schools.” “control and the organization of education are state functions.” Public education, its plant, its curricula and its ideals, need a lot of reforming. But the rimk and file of American teachers appear to be catching up with their time. A Belgian scientist, says a kiss is just an “irregular, intermittent, pneumatic massage.” But. like most massages, it certainly makes you feel good. The well-dressed man has a dozen suits, says a fashion expert. Yes. but how he'd like to get rid of the court suits! Ohio has announced it will cut the price of liquor. That may be because the liquor can t be cut any further. A horse lay down on Broadway, New York, and tied up traffic for three hours. Must have been the one we bet on. China and Persia had no diplomatic relations for thirteen centuries, a historian tells us, and so they had no way to wage war. Senator Huey Long- intends to chop wood to keep in trim. But all the time his hngs will have a queer feeling around the neck.

Liberal Viewpoint BY DK. HARRY ELMER BARNES ‘

THE administration and the steel trust have potsponed the steel strike for a few days, ! weeks or months. This, however, is no solution at all of the fundamental issue at stake. These issues are three-fold: (1) Will industry : have the intelligence and vision to recognize that i capitalism can only be saved by increased purI chasing power and concede the principle of col- | lective bargaining as an indispensable factor in : increasing the purchasing power of the counj try, or (2) will it oppose in bull-headed fashion i the very idea of collective bargaining, or (3i will ! the government step in and force industry to submit to the principles and practices of sane and reasonable labor unionism? Neither the federal government nor American industry can for any length of time run awas from the solution of these basic issues. It is not merely the principle of labor unionism which is at stake, but the larger and more vital matter of mass purchasing power. American industry today is strong enough to reject labor unionism and collective bargaining, provided the government does not step in to support the cause of labor. But any Such suppression only can be purchased at the price of ultimately wrecking the capitalistic system. Without collective bargaining powers on the part of the laborer, there is no hope of providing the mass purchasing power necessary to a rehabilitation of the capitalistic order. And with- ! out this additional buying power, capitalism is ! foredoomed to fold up. tt a OUR past economic history affords ample proof of the fact that we can not trust the employing class of their own volition to shell out sufficiently generously to insure a just distribution of the social income and to provide enough mass purchasing power to keep capitalism in a state of health. Whatever temporary victories short-sighed employers may win in the way of suppressing labor unionism, in the long run the only alternatives are capitalism along with collective bargaining or government ownership of industry with state wages to employes. Os the two certainly the latter is the more menacing to capi-talistically-minded industrialists. The resolute determination w'ith which many American employers oppose such an elementary principle of any real New' Deal as collective bargaining and trade unionism affords a striking proof of how' far they actually are from any real change of heart. Those who still control our economic life are not yet willing to go as far in the way of readjustment as the major European states went before the beginning of the twentieth century. A sincere and thorough espousal of collective bargaining is the very least which we can expect; of any passably reformed capitalism. If American capitalists had any power of adroit strategy, they would swiftly accept the principle of labor unionism and then, from this vantage point, demand that organized labor clean house. n n u THE employers have no case when they oppose unionism as a general principle. But they have a real case in fighting the racketeering, loafing and other abuses which have crept into the old line American trade unionism. But capita] can never logically or effectively fight the specific abuses of labor unionism until it wholeheartedly accepts the broad principles of collective bargaining. Once it does the latter, it will be in a position to demand of labor that it produce unions like the Amalganpatpd Clothing Workers, which have something to offer to capital as w’ell as to labor. By its present policy of benighted conservation, capital is dragging both itself and labor dow'n to destruction. If capitalism folds up it will be followed ultimately by a radical regime in which the present American employers will have no place, but one in w'hich labor will at last come into its own. Looking at matters in long-time perspective, the present tactics of American employers are really playing into the hands of radioal labor. Also, President Roosevelt's prestige and position are at stake. -The President must stand or fall with the success of this effort to sustain capitalism. Whatever American employers do to wreck the latter helps to wreck him as well. When he returned from the south he was said to have described himself as “a tough guy.” Here is a splendid opportunity for him to give evidence of such timely and desirable qualities.

Capital Capers

BY GEORGE ABELL

THE summer mecca of Washington diplomats and residential society used to be the north shore of Massachusetts? but the tide now is definitely turned toward Hot Springs and Newport. The former Brazilian ambassador, Senhor de Lima e Silva, who affected sapphire-blue morning coats and glossy hair pomade to match, was mostly responsible for the north shore craze. He used to go annually to Magnolia, stick his toe in the frozen surf and watch his attractive wife swim gaily in fifty-six-degree ocean water. Senor de Lima passed last year to Brussels, and with his excellency gone, smart young diplomats turned their eyes to the polished Argentine Ambassador Felipe Espil. Felipe has just announced that—for him— Hot Springs is the place. Hence, a lot of other envoys are following his lead and packing their golf togs, riding breeches and swim suits. MR. CHARALAMBOS SIMOPOULOS, the Greek minister, once hit a 'telegraph pole near New Haven while motoring to Newport. Some liquor was spilled and handsome Charalambo* was bruised. This may account for his sudden switching this year from Newport to Hot Springs. The former undersecretary of state Mr. William R. Castle Jr. cud not go to visit the pineapple fields of Hawaii this year, and chose Hot Springs instead. Bill Castle, incidentally, has just found anew diversion for tired Washingtonians who try the Virginia resort. He has taught an attendant at one ( of the pools how? to float mint juleps on a tray to thirsty bathers. The refreshing raft ripples to the center of the pool and you put out your hand a grasp a julep, using the tray as a table. Jonkheer van Haersma de With, the new Dutch Minister, spent a week in Newport and intended spending another, but the sudden death of Prince Henry of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, contort of her majesty, Queen Wilhclmina, brought him back to Washington post-haste. MASSIVE-HEADED, able Freitas Valle, the new charge d'affaires of Brazil, is pursuing anew diplomatic policy here for his embassy. He works. The energetic Freitas actually gets to his office at 9 in the morning and answers telephones until members of his staff drift in at 11. Also, he stays on the job mntil 6 o'clock and threatens to remain here most of the summer. Brazilian diplomats during the regigie of Senhor de Lima e Silva rarely, showed up at their desks before 3 o'clock. They don’t care much for the new hours, but Freitas is insistent. He usually braces himself at luncheon with a stearamg cud of Brazilian coffee and urges his subordinates to do likewise. Freitas is a friend of tall, elegant Summer Welles, assistant secretary of state, whom he knew in Argentina and Undersecretary of State Bill Phillips, whom he knew ip Brussels. Being trapped for three hours in a school of 200 whales is bad enough, but what makes the story official is that they all got away—that is, the captain and his passengers did. When Camera gets back to Italy, he can tell Mussolini, “Is that man Baer a funny boxer? Why, he nearly slew me!” It took eight years to compile the latest Webster's dictionary, but it won t take a year before it of date.

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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 200 -words or less.) a a a RED FLAG TRACED BACK TO CALVARY By Paul VVysons:. Relative to Enid Fountain’s inquiry concerning the red flag, may I have the space to present this argument in behalf of my belief in the matter of its origin and significance? Time was w?hen the flag that waves so majesticaly over an economcally free and happy Communistic Russia was white in color. It was so when it appeared before Pontius Pilate, for the defense, in the case of oppressive fanaticism against the Nazerene,- Jesus Christ. Immaculate, since the first day it was raised aloft by the hands of downtrodden peoples, its mute urge prompted the judicial observation. “I find no fault with this just man.” Drooping mournfully, it followed tragedy’s march to Golgotha and there, as a horrified witness to the death on Calvary, it first was splotched with red—the blood of Him who is the Christ. Christianized, by its scarlet stain, it floated down the centuries, wiping the bleeding wounds of white man, black man, red man, yellow man, brown man, and always w ; ere its accumulated stains of red. Caught in the crimson flood of the World war, it was submerged through drenching years, almost to its utter loss. Waterloo’s squares long since are forgotten. The crumbling grave stones of Civil war days bear almost illegible markings. In Flanders fields the dead are dust and the tears of bereaved mothers now flow where once flowed the blood of their sons. But the flag is still here. Made wholly and unalterably red by the blood of various huea and polyglot peoples, it is sacred in its color and proud of its significance. As we are brothers in blood, so should we be brothers in spirit; brothers in deed; brothers in interest; brothers in fact. As there is a brotherhood of man, so is there a brotherhood with Christ Jesus. This truth is written in the veins and arteries of the human race—written in red. a a a URGES INDIANA JOBS FOR HOOSIERS ONLY By a Down Hearted Citizen. I read your Message Center every night, but this is the first time I have written. My plan is this—Why not have all the employers in Indiana hire only Hoosiers. I work at the biggest manufacturing plant in the city and I will say 90 per cent of its employes are from outside the state. It is this way all over Indianapolis. Indianapolis has the biggest bunch of chumps in the state. Ninety per cent of the population does not pay any kind of taxes, and keeps the morale of the city down. Outsiders can get help from the city more quickly than a taxpaying citizen. Let outsiders go back to their home states and live. a a a DEAF-MUTE NEEDS EMPLOYMENT. By Taylor C. Parker. My attention has just been called to a 21-year-old man who is a deafmute and who, through no fault of his own, is without a home. He has considerable training in electricity, mechanics, photography and shoe repairing. He has an excellent appearence, a sunny jovial disposi-

. POISON SQUAD

Religion Must Be Molded to Life

Bv the Scribbler. In reply to the Girl Evangelist and Frank Cummings: Religion—the source of so much controversy, may be taken in varying degrees ranging from fanaticism through evangelism to pragmatism with a veritable host of other isms intervening. The Marxian adage of the “opium of the people” is founded upon a fallacious analogy and can not be practically applied either pro or con. In this modem w’orld, where transitions occur so rapidly, religion must be molded, forged in the smithy of one’s own life. It must be suited to the individual, applied so as to take into account the personality, the behaviorism, in fact, the complete philosophical outlook of the individual. “If the shoe fits, wear it” is the single practical application of religion in the twentieth century. If one chooses pragmatism as the basis of his philosophy, I am sure one will find pure interest and intellectual entertainment in the perusal of the address by the late Albert Beveridge, “The Bible as Good Reading.” One must realize that the prophets of the Old Testament were not the necromancers for which w'e often mistake them. In the truest sense they were practical, level-headed citizens who knew that the tiny kingdom could not exist long in the mad rush of prosperity w'hich carried such an anti-social force. They were not inspired divinely;

tion, and a keen alert mind with an efficiency that is almost uncanny. He is thoroughly competent to drive and take care of an automobile as well as to care for lawns, shrubbery and gardens, and would serve some wealthy family exceptionally well as a general all-round house man. The writer trusts that among your readers there may be someone who has need for just such a \oung man whose services can be obtained at practically the cost of a little kindness and understanding. | nan PROPOSES “CRAWFISH TO LABEL ROBINSON J. L. Nichols. Since Huey of Louisiana is known as the Kingfish, and is about as much recognized among regular Democrats as is ‘'Li'l Arthur” of Indiana among regular Republicans, I suggest we regard Arthur as the Crawfish of Indiana. There is a promise that the Kingfish is coming to help our Crawfish. I trust that while both are bait for suckers, they will find the Indiana voters not biting during their fishing trip. a an LALDS INSTRUCTION IN SWIMMING By a Nature Lover. With characteristic attention to the needs of the community, The Times has selected an appropriate time for opening its annual free swimming course at the Broad Ripple pool. Following Mr. Steinel’s articles on stream pollution in Indiana, it is encouraging for parents to realize that there still is opportunity to learn to swim and enjoy the benefits of summer bathing in a safe \ place. While the delights '<f swimming j in rustic swimming holes can not ; be replaced altogether by commer- 1 cial pools, the public must realise f

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

they merely heard the rush of the turbulent waters ahead and warned against certain destruction just as did many men prior to our ow'n collapse after the abnormalities of t he past decade. The evangelist has reasoned incorrectly when she contends that abjuration of religion would leave us “torn, starving, bleeding” like “Russia, India, China.” The pitiful case of the latter is in no w'ay traceable to a lack or renunciation of religion; for hers is one of the oldest and most venerable of all. The vexations of China are lack of arable soil, immense population, the tyranny of the war lords, ravages of flood and famine, and the incessant oppression from her neighbors. Almost the same is true of India; no lack of religion here. Hinduism claims more followers than Christianity and there exists now'here a more devout and pious fellow than the passive, immobile Hindu. India's problems resemble China’s; moreover she is bound down by a “nation of shopkeepers” with the vastest domain in the world. Lastly, let us consider Russia. Certainly her progress under the Marxian teachings has excelled any made in the preceding centuries of czarist absolutism. The Russia of today stands in a firm position to become the greatest power in the world; her trade already excels that of other nations. She is not “torn, starving or bleeding.” Without recourse to religion she has cast off the fetters-‘Of an almost irremedjal politico-sociai and economic dilemma.

that safety is an all-important detail in indulging in summer pastimes. The Times and Broad Ripple pool are to be congratulated on offering a free swimming course to Indianapolis citizens. Perhaps wijen these novices have learned to swim at the Broad Ripple pool, public opinion will have forced a general clean-up of the streams and rivers in Indiana so they can practice with safety in natural pools throughout the state. a a a WILL 11. HAYS’ PAY DRAWS CRITICISM Bv G. J. K. 1 note that Will H. Hays, motion picture “czar” gets a salary of $150,000 a year which he has had during the administrations of Harding, Coolidge, Hoover and one year of Roosevelt. Surely a sw?eet job and a sw?eet salary! More than the chief executive of our great republic gets and without any of his great responsibilities, unjust criticisms, heartaches, danger of assassination, and with a term indefinite in length. Will any one tell me why Will H. Hayes is worth more money to America than Franklin Roosevelt, any cabinet member, any member of the supreme court, any more than one of a hundred others connected with the federal government? Whose is the cry to keep the government out of business? No wonder “rugged individualism” wants the government kept out. Whose are the howls against bureaucracy and the salaries paid by the government? I am just as much opposed as any one to the appointing of inefficient ignoramuses to government positions, as w?ell as to the waste of public money in any way. But does it take a salary of $150,000 a year to get first-dass ability? Do you know of any one refusing the presidency because of the salary? The vice-presidency?

JULY 13, 1931

1 A cabinet position? A supreme court judgeship? A United States senatorship? In 1922 Will H. Hays would have taken the United States senatorship for SIO,OOO a year. So w’hv pay him or any one $150,000 a year? Only one income in the United States should be as high as SIOO.000 a year and that should be the salary of the President of the United States. When salaries of all of our ‘‘rugged individualists” are put on a par w'ith government salaries, when the merit system is universally adopted and when waste is eliminated from both public and private undertakings, then will the government be able to pay its debts without taxing the people into poverty and without allowing the unemployed to starve during a depression. ana CHAMBER OF COMMERCE POLICY ATTACKED By I nemployed Citizen Where are all of our factories? They are about all gone. Why? Because of the Chamber of Commerce. If the factories would work like they should, we would all be working. * I worked at one place eleven years. It is now working six hours a day and four shifts, but a man docs about eighteen hours work. Why? Because the company has some efficiency men who are college figure-heads and do not know how much a man should do. They can not do a day’s work themselves; if they could, it would take six men to do what they figure one man can do now in six hours. The experts want to do all work w?ith machinery and put men out of work and when they do that they are cutting production, for the laborer is the man who buys manufactured products. When the working man does not work, he can not buy, so why not divide up the time and put everybody to work? Then times will get better. The NRA is trying to help, but as long as the factories cut hours and raise wages, but not so a man can make more, it will not get anywhere. The factories are cutting hours and not taking any more help as they are supposed to. This town will not do anything until the Chamber of Commerce looks at the workers’ side in a different manner.

Daily Thought

Turn you to the stronghold, ye prisoners of hope; even today'do I declare that I will render double unto thee.—Zachariah, 9:12. HOPE is a pleasant acquaintance but an unsafe friend. Hppe is not the man for your banker, though he may do for a traveling companion.—Haliburton.

ONE SPRING

BY J. DUKE MATLEY One spring, the sky was, oh, so blue, The days were wildly bright, The flowers were unearthly sweet. And heaven filled each night. I have not known another spring So sparkling or so gay, Which set a tune upon my lips To sing the livelong day. And now that all is memory, I wonder if it's true That the luster and the sparkle Was my great love for you.