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RATURDAV JVLT 54. 5334 JOHNSON AND GERMANY in behalf of the preservation of a free press, General Johnson in his Waterloo <la.* speech struck at Germany. A few days ago, in Germanv,” he said, even's occurred which shocked the world. I don't know how they have affected you, but they made me sick—not figuratively, but physically and very actively sick. The idea that adult, responsible men can be taken from their hemes, .vood up against a wall, backs to the rifles, and shot to death is beyond expression. "If power of any kind can be seized there la no limit to its application. ‘For a long while I thought sincerely that the newspaper insistence on writing into their code a clause saving their constitutional rights was pure surplusage. Asa lawyer, lam very sure that constitutional rights guaranteed for the benefit of the public can not be signed away. But I now see more clearly why these gentlemen were apprehensive.’’ Germany now enters formal protest to our state department. 1 It may be that what the general did violated some inter-departmental and international amenities. That is something for the state department. General Johnson, and Germany to thresh out. But certain it is that what General Johnson said expressed the sentiment of the average American layman toward the whole bloody business of Herr Hitler. And in declaring himseii as he did. General Johnson merely was exercising another important constitutional right, the twin brother of free press—the right of free speech. From our point of view, we can't get excited about a protest that comes from a nation in which that right has been abolished.

HITLER TAKES THE STAND I AST night, in Berlin, the Nazi fuehrer ■ J Adolf Hitler took the witness stand in his own defense for the killing of seventy-seven people. In a speech literally heard around the globe, and in a voice which from beginning to end lasted and crackled like a blacksnake whip, he gave his judge and jury—world opinion—his version of the bloody week-end of June 30. If three-score and seventeen men and women had died before his firing squads, or blown out their brains, by request, it was, he said, because they were mutineers. They had plotted his overthrow. And he, personally, had given the order to "shoot the rebels." All of which was sad. he observed signifi~antly, but it also was a warning. For more than an hour and a half he shot his stinging words into the microphone and its world hook-up in what probably was the greatest effort of his career. But when he had finished, his case remained pretty much where it was at the beginning. He had contributed some dramatic details leading up to the gory events, but little or no evidence which could radically change the testimony the world had already heard. It is reported that last-minute alterations were made in the speech. It is said the German foreign office definitely warned the chancellor against accusing neighbor nations of fomenting the "revolution." If so, Hitler took the hint and thus avoided adding foreign complications to already highly explosive domestic ones. Speaking before one of the vastest audiences ever addressed by man, the Nazi leader seemed to sense that his own future and the future of Germany were somehow at stake. He began with his back to the wall. He ended with his back to the wall. What Hitler's future course will be. he gave no hint. How Germany can emerge from her present tragically desperate plight, he did not say. Its anxiety, but ltitle abated, the world can only wait and see.

THE DIE HAS BEEN C AST INDIANA'S obligation in supporting the New Deal was brought into the open last night when Postmaster-General James A. Farley demanded the defeat of Senator Arthur R. Robinson in the fall election. Mr. Farley wasted no words in telling the Democratic party and voters of Indiana that Mr. Robinson, or any others of his type, no longer are wanted in the national legislature. The part master-general pledged to his audience of more than 2.000 persons in the Claypool. that the United States of America, under the administration of President Roosevelt, will not have a congress made up of Arthur Robinsons, whether one or many. Mr. Farley told the Indiana Democrats that the Republicans are counting on a repetition of the Democratic performances in years gone when party rifts broke the firmness of the party's grip. And he told his audience that should that occur, it would be the delight of the New Deal adversaries to "make it possible for the Hoosier state to swallow Senator Robinson." He drove directly to the point of the Democratic campaign in Indiana when he said it was time for the state to complete its political housecleamng and "substitute for your time-serving, opportunist, do-nothing, senior senator, the independent able nominee of our partv —Sherman Minton." Despite his praise of the national administration. Mr. Farley warned that the huge task of rebuilding the nation is far from done. He said that the President still stands by his promise that no one in this country shall starve and that the next congress must be equipped with tha right men who will carry on. And in that category, he does not include Senator Robinson. In fact, in that classification Mr. Farley counts absolutely on working without the services of Senator Robinson. It appears that the national administration

is interested vitally in whether Indiana will be smart or dumb politically. And. if Mr. Farley and thousands of voters in Indiana have their way, no doubt Indiana will be smart. From this, it appears that Indiana's political die has been cast. MR. WILSON DEPARTS TT is unfortunate that Herbert E. Wilson, Marion county prosecutor, has seen fit to absent himself from the city at this time. Following indictment by the county grand jury on a charge of embezzlement, three former officers of the defunct Meyer-Kiser bank face trial in criminal court and one of them is already on trial. The defense has an impressive corps of attorneys prepared to smash the state's contentions. The prosecutor, supposedly the state's ace legal mind, is basking on Miami <Fla.) sands following a year of intense waiting for something to do. It is unique that much of Indianapolis’ money was invested in this same Florida city by the men who now’ are under indictment. Mr. Wilson, it appears, chose a vacation site close to home in the hearts of many local residents. Mr. Wilson had, in fact still has, an opportunity to make a name for himself, to silence once and for all whispered rumors that he is terrified by political shadows on the courthouse walls. To grasp this opportunity he must desert the outmoded Jimmy Walker school of politics and return home. He must forget golden sands, drooping palms and warm blue water until his obvious work is done. Floyd J. Mattice, the prosecutor's chief deputy, is conducting the state’s attack against the banker-defendants. Call for Mr. Wilson’s return is not criticism of Mr. Mattice, who, so far, has shown himself fully capable of handling the situation. Mr. Wilson’s presence in Indianapolis is his duty and obligation—it is not a necessity. HOW TOURISTS PAY r "T'HE value of what are called "invisible exA ports’’ in a nation's economy is clearly illustrated by recent figures showing just what the tourist trade is worth to France. During 1933, for instance, American tourists spent about 1.500,000,000 francs in France. In that year, French exports to the United States were a little more than half that value —B6B 000.000 francs, to be exact. In other words, as far as the United States is concerned, the tourist business is worth twice as much to France as is foreign trade. There’s one other interesting little thing about it. French authorities have tabulated the way in which the American tourist’s money is spent in France; and they have found that just 7 per cent of it goes for what might be called wine, women and song. That, considering the popular tradition about the American tourist's way of amusing himself in Paris, seems surprisingly low. AN EFFECT OF REPEAL? T'VETROIT city authorities are reported to A-' be perturbed by a sharp rise in automobile traffic accidents this year. Between Jan. 1 and July 9, 1934, Detroit’s traffic killed 215 people—the highest traffic death rate in Detroit's history—while 6,684 persons have been injured. Asa result, the traffic patrol force is being doubled and a campaign is on to enforce the traffic code very strictly. Detroit is not the only city that has had a rise in the traffic toll this year; and it is hard to keep from wondering if repeal does not have some connection with this rise. Is the legal sale of intoxicating liquors putting more drunken drivers on the highways, to menace themselves and others? It is time that a detailed and unprejudiced survey was made, on a nation-wide scale. DECLINING BIRTHS IF the American birth rate continues to decline in the next fifty years at the rate recorded in the last decade, the country is in for some very difficult times. This is the warning of Dr. Oliver M. Baker, senior economist of the department of agriculture. in a speech in Cleveland recently. We have almost reached a stationary population, and Dr. Baker remarks that this may be a very good thing—if it only remains stationary. But a continued fall in the birth rate would eventually bring us to a declining population; and under such condition, he says, economic reactions would be severe. The demand for farm and industrial products would progressively dwindle; rents and interest returns would slide steadily downward. with catastrophic effect on the whole spirit of private enterprise. It is a gloomy picture. But it Ls possible to wonder if the declining birth rate recently has not been, at least in part, a reflection of the confused condition of society as a whole. Let that confusion be straightened out, and it is possible that the birth rate would begin to rise once more. ON TO BETTER DAYS TEMPORARY headquarters for the executives who have the new’ housing program under their wings has been opened in Washington, and Administrator James A. Moffett has begun to assemble a staff for a highspeed campaign. No one who hopes to see recovery accelerated can fail to wish Mr. Moffett and his co-workers the best of luck in their plan to get at least a half-billion dollars’ worth of housing construction and modernization projects under way by fall. The great construction industry is one of the key pieces in the national economy. For several years it has been languishing badly; and until it recovers, national recovery as a whole can not make decent speed. The more success attends this housing program, the better off all of us will be. Midwestern millionaire, refusing to answer questions regarding huge loans he “can't pay,” has been cited for contempt of court. That's unfair. He merely had contempt of the public. The umpire behind the plate makes about 200 decisions during a baseball game, it is estimated, thus giving the fans 200 reasons for calling him a big bum. The reason New T York has censored Mae West's new film, “It Ain’t No Sin,” was be- 1 cause, grammatically, she done it wror.g.

Liberal Viewpoint —BI DR. HARRY ELMER BARNES’”

THE destiny of the New- Deal well may turn about its ultimate attitude toward Clause 7A of the NRA, which supposedly confers upon organized labor the right of collective bargaining. While it is too early to accuse the government of having walked out from under its labor union commitments, it certainly has gone far enough in this direction to make the company union issue one of large current importance. Hence, it will be worth while to know just what these are. The late Professor R. F. Hoxis. one of our leading authorities on American trade unionism, concisely and accurately defined company unions as "unions instigated and practically dominated by the employers, organized and conducted for the purpose of combating or displacing independent unionism.” The company union movement first started in Europe at the close of the ninetenth century, particularly in Germany and Great Britain. But the strength of the social democratic movement in Germany and the Labor party in Great Britain prevented this development from gaining any considerable headway. The company union movement in the United States dates almost exclusively from the period since the World war. During the w’ar the w - ar labor board estab- ' lished shop committees for collective bargaining in more than 200 plants. At this time the American Federation of Labor w r as represented on the war labor board and fully intended that the shop committees would be dominated by trade unions.

THIS was exactly what the employers were determined to prevent. Taking advantage of the economic slump after the World war and of the decreased power of organized labor, they threw out these unionized committees and replaced them with company unions. How far these original company unions were from representing the wishes, policies or initiative of the employes is to be seen in the fact that the plans for them were, in most cases, drawn up by the employers and handed to the workers to be signed on the dotted line. Os late years, there has been a growing tendency to allow employes to vote upon whether or not they wish a company union, but this does not really make the union any stronger or more representative of the workers. The inherent weaknesses of the company union as representative of organized labor are transparently clear to any one at all familiar with the labor problem. In order to negotiate effectively with an employer labor must control a large portion of the labor market in any industry. A company union at best controls only the laborers in a given factory. It is only one step better than the solitary individual in dealing with the corporate employer.

THE latter can bring in outsiders without number to take place of striking employes. Workers in company unions in other plants are in no position to co-operate in restricting the free flow of strike-breakers. The company union is devastatingly open to the possibilities of espionage and coercion by employers. The union meetings are almost invariably held in the plant and permit of easy spying by the employers or their stool pigeons. Employes at all aggressive in th*e attempt to build up an effective company union are identified quickly and speedily weeded out under one pretext or another. Other weaknesses are inherent in company unions. Limited by the perspective and resources of a single plant, they can formulate no such broad labor policies as can a national trade union. Nor can they produce trained and specialized negotiators capable of coping with adroit employers, their attorneys or both. These elementary facts will indicate the farcical character of any vote on such issue as the recent strike policy in the plants of the United States Steel Corporation. That the company unions are rarely, if ever, preferred by workers to broader trade unions is to be discerned in the fact that company unions have almost invariably developed only in industries where labor unionism has been effectively blocked. "Yet workers even prefer this shadowy form of organization to nothing. This is attested by the fact that when Mr. Roosevelt came into office some form of company union existed in about one thousand plants involving around one million five hundred thousand workers. The company union, then, is a very droit "front” exploited by employers in their battle against genuine trade unionism. Just to the degree that the federal government surrenders to the company union travesty, just that far will it lose the respect of realistic and informed students of labor problems and economic conditions.

Capital Capers BY GEORGE ABELL

SECRETARIES of congressmen stranded in Washington during the summer solstice are finding themselves considerably embarrassed by anew ruling of the government printing office. This ruling is to the effect that in future all members of congress who wish their speeches reprinted will have to pay in advance. Hitherto, :hese political effusions have been reprinted on credit. It has been found that congressmen in the past ordered vast numbers of their speeches reprinted, and then —after they had been defeated for re-election or for other reasons—neglected to pay the nominal sum of S2OO or S3OO required. One man ordered 175,000 copies of a speech and then forgot to settle his bill. It is not uncommon to have hundreds of thousands of the addresses reprinted by various congressmen. Just now is the time when these speeches are much in demand. Congressmen are wiring and long distancing their secretaries in the capital to send them more political fodder for their campaigns. Incidentally, both Republicans and Democrats are demanding reprints of the type of speech which might be headed “How I Supported Roosevelt." But the embarrassed secretaries are forced to tell their chiefs that they can't obtain the reprints without ready cash. There's the rub. The shoe is beginning to pinch and both congressmen and secretaries are wondering what to do about it. tt tt tt BUOYANT Joe Kennedy of Boston, friend of President Roosevelt and newly appointed head of the securities and exchange commission, has taken a country estate outside of Washington for the summer months. Mr. Kennedy arrived here on the Fourth of July and began looking for houses. He visited the real estate firm of Sandoz, Inc., and found the elder Sandoz sitting at his desk. "Good lord!” said Kennedy, "I didn’t know any one worked on the Fourth of July!" Ten minutes later the two men were motoring out of town and several hours later Mr. Kennedy had signed a lease for the H. K. Martin estate, a magnificent property on the outskirts of Washington. The estate comprises about two hundred acres fronting on the Potomac. The house itself is an imposing structure with thirty bedrooms and twenty baths, billiard rooms, an auditorium which can he used as a moving picture theater, and numerous suites. What intrigued Kennedy more than anything else was the large swimming pool. "The children will love it," he grinned. The Kennedys have nine children and all of them will come to Washington except William, who is in Europe. Legs and wings of house flies are being used to provide a pattern in anew kind of paper. Nevertheless, the sticky kind of fly paper is best. Twenty-five of President Roosevelt's fortynine advisers, says the famous editor, Gene Howe, are "yes" men. Still, he won’t deny that they’re all "know” men.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns. Male your letters short, so all can have a chance. Limit them to 250 words or less.) a tt tt DECLARES PLIGHT OF FARMER SERIOUS B.v W. H. Brennen. The press looks on while the poor farmers read silly prattle in your editorial columns. You know the food and milk trust is bound to destroy the country if prices are not adjusted. To uphold the AAA when you know it is bound to be our ruin, is poor newspaper stuff You, of course, get paid by big firms for advertisements, but you go to the poor to sell your paper. Will you turn from the poor, if it comes to a real showdown? This time may be close at hand, since most all the real farmers cry out against prices. You know prices, or if you do not, you are in a position to find out. What good does it do an editor to make it appear that prices are all right, when so many farmers cry out at the injustice heaped upon them? If you are a friend of the people, it would seem now is the time to prove it. When a friend sees a friend in distress, he helps his friend. You can’t ignore the farmer who writes often about the knocks he is getting, and still pretend you are for him. There is deep trouble ahead for the dairy farmer. Go to his aid. Use your editorial page as you did when you were pinched. Don’t wait for a strike. Get your staff writer on the firing line row. st n a TWO-LEGGED PESTS CAUSE TROUBLE. By Pestyred. I read articles in your paper about dogs and cats doing damage in gardens and flower beds. My experience with dogs has been favorable. All I need do is tell them to stay out and just pretend once or twice to throw rocks at them, but my misery is caused by two-legged pests. They pull up my flowers or pinch off tops of vegetables, or put salt on other plants such as flowers or tomatoes or spots on lawn. At night my lawn may be all right, but by morning there are blotches as large as a foot or more. I noticed white places, so I tasted the ground and found it salty. I know four-legged animals did not do it. Neither would a dog or cat pull a whole row of flowers. a tt tt PROTESTS FAILURE TO OBTAIN WHOLESALE DATA By Henry J. Wohead. Under a heading of "Your Commission Block,” you state the price of different varieties of vegetables. In your statement beans were quoted at 51.75 a bushel. I have taken a load down there and the best offer that was given me was 85 cents. Why do you advertise a price like that when they don’t pay it, and why don't you give the price that is being paid to farmers and gardeners like you do in eggs and chickens. The way you advertise the vegetable market there isn't a producer but who thinks that that is the price being paid for the vegetables, and he is lured into the city with the product and the consequence is he must give it away or take it back home, as they don’t give onehalf of what you had quoted in your paper. So I would like to know why you don’t publish the price the producer receives and also the whole-

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WHAT’S THE USE?

Beer Regulation and Musicians' Plight

By a Reader. If you care to print the following in your paper, I will appreciate it. In regard to the ordinance presented to the city council governing hours for places selling intoxicating beverages and especially the second part of the ordinance about music in such places. I ask: What is the matter with the public? Has it become so narrowminded that it can't appreciate music any more? I know of at least fifty persons who are entertaining in restaurants where beer is sold, and my business has been substantially benefited by sales of sheet music to those persons.

sale price. In that way people wouldn’t be apt to make long, expensive trips to the city—to practically give away their foodstuffs. The vegetable growers have had enough trouble as it is. I quit another paper and took yours because yours has the vegetable market in it. I am losing money by it because you stated that stringless greenpods were $1.75 a bushel. The price was one-half of what you quoted. Editor's Note—Wholesale prices are not obtainable in Indianapolis. tt a tt DOUBTS ACCURACY OF ROBINSON’S PREDICTION Bv H. Rurd I read that Arthur Robinson said that Indiana will go Republican this fall, and that he is armed with weapons to take care of President Roosevelt and the New Deal. I want to remind Arthur of the time he came out to West Tenth street and White river one Saturday afternoon, and called on about 1,500 men who were pushing wheelbarrows and shovels for $3 a day, trying to recover from the depression, caused by a Republican administration. If he would say one word against the New Deal and Roosevelt. I will guarantee the senator a reception that he probably would deserve. Wait until the votes are counted In November, then come out and make a speech. Just because we use long-handled shovels and hook up between the two handles of a wheel barrow, he need not think we are all dumb.

EXPLAINS FLAG OF SALVATION ARMY By a Subscriber. Upon reading the Message Center I noticed a request for information explaining the significance of the red flag of the Socialist and Communist parties and the Salvation Army. I am not able to fully explain the former, but am glad to give an explanation for the Salvation Army. The organization is first, last and always religious. Its yellow, red and blue blag signifies: Yellow for the fire of the Holy Spirit: red for the blood of Christ and blue for purity of the human heart after the blood of Christ and the refining fire of the Holy Spirit has been applied. a a a EXPLAINS FLAG OF SALVATION ARMY By Mr. F. J. Harvey. I wish to give Enid Fountain the information she has asked for regarding the flag of the Salvation Army. It is not a red flag. When William Booth founded the Salvation Army he felt that there were enough churches, and that an army

[1 wholly disapprove of ivhat you say and will defend to the death your right to say it. — Voltaire. J

Haven’t the musicians had a bad enough break because of the use of mechanical music in theaters? After all, their work is their trade, and just is as honest and honorable as any of the other crafts whereby persons make a living? Musicians pay rent, buy groceries, clothing and live just like other persons if they can find work. The closing hours and regulations of sales to minors and any other ordinances to keep places running right is all well and L°od, but give the musician a break. He really needs it.

would appeal to the people he wished to reach. It was organized on a military basis, with uniforms, ranks and commissions, similar to the standing armies of the world. It was to be first and foremost a soul-saving organization, and it is this characteristic which has made it world-wide. ! Every army has a flag or banner. The Israelites had banners which were set up in their camps. So it was decided that the Salvation Army should have a banner. The colors chosen were yellow, red and blue. The flag has a red ground, with blue border, and yellow star in the center of the red, with the words "Blood and Fire” on it. The red stands for the blood of Jesus, which was shed to wash away the sins of the world. The blue stands for purity and holiness, and the yellow for the fire of the Holy Ghost. This flag is an emblem of the doctrines and teachings of the organization. It is flying toj day in eighty-six different counI tries and colonies. In the United States, when used on a parade, the Blood and Fire flag is carried always to the left of the Stars and Stripes, and in our citadels and halls it is placed to the left of the platform, while the Stars and Stripes is on the right.

SELF-PRESERVATION AND ECONOMICS Bv Charles Burton. The law of self-preservation Is ever the same, but whether its salvation is for a part of the people by competition, capitalistic salvation, or for the whole people by cooperation socialist salvation, depends upon whether this law rides or is ridden. So long as the law of self-preser-vation was supposed to be the will of a conscious personal God whose earthly representatives were kings and priests or presidents and preachers, the law did the riding within the large domain of animal competition. In the domain of capitalism war is a normal, indeed necessary evil, and hence the world must have wars so long as it remains within it, and it will remain there so long as it has celestial divinities with terrestrial representatives in states and churches for its governors. Now that the law is known to be a matter of necessity and not a divine decree, the time will be hoped for when the people will do the riding within the small domain of human co-operation. Peace is the normal, indeed necessary, factor in this domain, and hence the world must cease to have war when it enters it and is governed by itself instead of by a God and the powers of state and church alleged to have been ordained by Kim.

JULY rt, 1931

OPPOSES GOVERNMENT AS BIRTH ARBITER By Leo MrKinsey. Paul Wysong advocates birth control regulation by state statute. Frequently, one Hiram Lackey harps upon this subject. But I hardly think they will see the day when governments will have the temerity to try to thwart the instinct of reproduction. There are enough neurotics now. It is a recognized fact that the yellow race outnumbers the white by a large margin and no doubt will continue to do so. If we could educate along the lines Mr. Wysong suggests, it would be fine, but, when governments can not agree on a simple matter of armaments, how can they lie expected to agree on a matter involving the limitation of

offspring? In numbers there is strength, and until that remote day arrives when | our yellow brethren begin the practice of birth control, I for one go !on record as favoring the age old J instinct of reproduction. I hardly think that we already have an overabundant crop, or the very best that can be reproduced in geniuses, inventors and statesmen, and who knows but that another Edison may see the first light of day in 1940. I insist that the boy or girl born in 1934 has a much better chance in life than the progeny of the 1700s. I have a great admiration for Thomas Jefferson and his ideals, yet I must admit Franklin D. Roosevelt represents an improvement. Although I have never had the privilege of meeting a seventh son of a seventh son. I have heard they possess unbelievable psychic powers,, so here is another point for Paul Wysong and Hiram Lackey to meditate on before they start a crusade for less progeny. WELLS ADVOCATED TO COMBAT UTILITY Bv F. R. Walker. Drilling of a well through the sidewalk in front of the Railroad Building and Loan Company building on Virginia avenue is a real example of how r the public can whip some of the utilities back into reason. The Times could never have a more welcome piece of news than this. lease photograph it, and please take notice that the cost of this well will pay for itself, principal and interest, in ten years. If the proper emphasis will be brought out, more citizens would dig wells and bring the water company down to earth. If E. A. B. hereafter will sign his full name and correct address his letters probably would b published.

Contentment

BY NELL MACE WOLFGANG A hpppy person has something to do As he idles no time away— But counts each second, each min* ute and hour Happily, at the close of day. For time is precious and time is short When we count the good all the way— The verv best plan one ever can find, Keep busy—contentment will stay. So give me no time to idle away No hours that I can't account to Happiness will come when my work is done If I can always have something to do.