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MONDAY, JULY 1. 1334. GENERAL STRIKES 'T'HE strike is the way of suicide for organized labor. The history of every attempted general strike proves this: In Sweden, in England where attempts were on a national scale; in Winnipeg and in Seattle, where attempts were limited to local communities. Few other attempts are of record, an argument in itself of the unwisdom of the general strike. In every case organized labor suffered a setback lasting many years. This is true, in !>art, because the basis of organized labor is the union contract and any union which engages in a sympathetic strike, ran do so only by breaking its own contract with its employers. It destroys thereby what it has obtained, in most instances, by long and painful processes. As an institution which lor more than fifty years has supported the right of labor to organize and bargain collectively, the ScrippsHoward newspapers feel free to remind organized workers of this fact in any general strike and to spell out the reason why such strikes can not sucoeed. An example of labor relationship with which we are particularly familiar is that between new\s|>apers and the typographical union. With the union the newspapers have contracts. These contracts specify certain things. They specify wages, hours, working conditions and payment for overtime. They specify that the union shall supply competent men and define such competence. The list of specifications is long and it is designed to be to the mutual advantage of employers and employes. It Is arrived at by collective bargaining. Relations are not always harmonious, differences occur, sometimes strikes and sometimes lockouts, but, yet, the typographical union wouldn't think of operating in any other manner and a vast majority of American publishers never would propose that this regular, wcll-ordcrrd system be abolished. It is all based on the idea of contract, on the idea that so long as it is lived up to bv both sides, each party is obligated to it and what goes on elsewhere can not affect it. Several million organized working men in this country are parties to such contracts. A sympathetic or a general strike runs counter to this whole system. It destroys this relationship between employe and employer and the destruction can not be repaired quickly. At the same time something else is destroyed. In the case of a strike in a single industry, part of the public is likely to be sympathetic with the strikers, part indifferent, part hostile. This depends largely on the merits of the dispute or on the public's understanding. In the case of a general strike, however, the public is certain to be wholly hostile. The public, indeed, is made a direct party to the conflict. It obeys the first law of nature. It fights to save itself. Which is why modem history' has yet to record a successful general strike. FARM LABOR A NNOUNCEMENT by Secretary Frances Perkins that the labor and agriculture departments soon will undertake a joint study of farm labor conditions is the first serious notice the government has taken of one of its most distressing economic puzzles. Farm hands are the forgotten men, even under the New Deal, They come neither under the NR A codes nor, except for a vague clause in the sugar contracts, under the AAA agreements. Working in an industry that has been struggling to maintain itself from disaster for years, they have been forced to work for a bare subsistence. Often a whole family works in the fields during harvest time and then lives on public charity in the winter. The distress of this group is beginning to break through to public notice In labor disturbances of a peculiarly bitter nature—in the Ohio onion fields, in California's fruit and vegetable valleys, in New Jersey. The greatest hardships appear to be found among the casual workers on the large industrialized farms, where harvesting is purely seasonal and often must be pushed with high speed. There Is no easy answer. A long range program looking to better conditions should include some means of tying these famv.es to home life through land-ownership. The President's subsistence homestead plan should include farm hands families as well as city unemployed. Those working on the soil are m->re likely to succeed as part-time farmers than city families, and unless this type of labor is de-casuaiized its lot can not be improved. STOP POLLUTION! THE thought of children swimming in a stream which is loaded with sulphuric acid is repulsive. The thought that this situation has been permitted to start and continue not only is repulsive but points directly to the fact that many persons in Indiana have been negligent as far as public health is concerned. The series of stones on water source pollution now appearing m The Times brings to light many facts which show the irresponsibility and inability of Indiana to handle its public problems. Unless something Is done, on a state wide basis, the pollution situation may spread to proportions which will not be capable of combat. It is time for every government unit and every citizen of the state to organize to battle this evil. To permit It to continue will place every child and adult in jeopardy of serious illness or death. It must be stopped. 0

THE OLD DAYS A CTS of a woman in hurling Steaming mash upon federal agents who sought to raid her home for alleged illicit manufacture of liquor Saturday, was an echo o* the old days. Every one In the city can recall when these altercations between the alleged distiller or bootlegger and federal agents were common occurences. In fact, in that era of prohibition shooting was not unheard of. But today the picture has changed. The federal agents who attempted to raid this woman's home are supported by an overwhelming vote by the people who wanted the unfair liquor law repeacd. Years ago the acts of that woman would have brought a wave of sympathy. Today her acts are passed by. The public has changed its sentiment. The public has liquor and knows that liquor can be bought in compliance with the law. Any one who tries to handle the situation in any other manner will find but little support from the man who, not long ago, pleaded for a revision of his rights—and got that revision. FREIGHT RATES TT would be unfortunate for the country, and, we believe, for the railroads themselves, if they were granted the 10 per cent freight rate increase they are preparing to ask of the I. C. C. It is true that the new pension act will add to the carriers’ pay rolls and that the pay cut restorations will do the same. The railroads estimate the pension act will cast them $66,000,000 annually, pay cut restorations $156,000,000, increased prices of materials 137 000,000—a total addition in operating costs of $359,000,000. But there are better ways to meet these than by the familiar formula of soaking the public. One way is to scale down debt charges, as President Roosevelt has urged. The RFC, which has loaned the carriers more than $400,000,000 at around 4 per cent, has just sold this idea to New York bankers, who have agreed to float a $50,009,000 loan to the B A: O. at a rate eight-tenths of one per cent below their original offer. Os course, a wholesale scaling down of the interest rates on the carriers’ $13,000,000,000 of bonded debt would require either general recourse to the bankruptcy courts or a taking over of this huge burden by the government. But certain financing economies can be effected. Another way is a frank meeting by the government of the problem of regulating the railroads’ competitors, the truck, bus, barge, air and pipe lines. These industries should be made to pay their share of taxes and maintain the same sort of labor standards the railroads maintain under government regulation. Next congress should see that they do. Finally, there are savings to be made by the elimination of competitive waste. What the railroads need is new business. They are geared to carry 1.250,000 cars a week. They're carrying only 650.000, although their business is increasing, except for the seasonal slump. In the first five months of 1934 the rail carrers’ income doubled over that of the same time last year. If the rehousing and other recovery plans succeed they will result in big movements of materials. The lower the freight rates the more of this business the railroads will get. If any change in rates is contemplated, it should not be upward. AID TO MEMORY SENATOR BORAH may be a very annoying man, especially to politicians, but now and then he is a very useful one. Conducting a single-handed campaign in opposition to both Democratic and Republican policies is an idea that would occur to few people but the senator from Idaho. Even fewer people, having conceived the idea, could do anything with it. But Senator Borah is in a class by himself. No one can foretell the effect of his campaign. The country may yawn and look the other way, or it may greet him with loud cheers; but, whatever happens, the senator will be useful, just as a bit of string tied about one's finger is useful. He will keep us from forgetting something that might otherwise, in the flurry of a campaign year, get overlooked. One of our biggest problems today is that while we are pretty well agreed on the goal we want to reach, we are not at all agreed on the route we want to use in getting there. Mr. Roosevelt has one route, or a blend of routes, all mapped out; Mr. Fletcher, announcing that this route leads only to destruction, is working on another. Mr. Borah's function right now seems to be to remind us that neither route will prove satisfactory unless we make dead certain that the little man—the ordinary, undistinguished citizen who works when he can get work, pays his taxes and never gets into the headlines —gets protected from the danger of falling into the cogwheels. For Mr. Borah sees one fact very clearly. Our emergence from the depression will mean very' little unless we find some way of checking the great trend toward monopoly which has been a prime development of the last generation. It may be that Mr. Borah is mistaken in his belief that the New Deal program dees not constitute an effective check on that trend. Fine words have been said to the little man by the administration, in the last year. It would be strange indeed if these fine words were not accompanied by protective action. But the decision on that point can be left to the voters. Mr. Borah's job is to remind us constantly that in one way or another such protection must be had. His forthcoming campaign may be irritating, but it ought to be very useful. You can tell a man by the way he leaves his bathtub, says a Columbia professor. If he doesn't remove the ring, he's still a boy. Onion workers are on strike in Ohio, but garlic still is being imported from Italy. The rich are beginning to spend more freely. says a news report. The difference between them and us is that we're just free to spend more. A circus advertises it has 150 clowns. Still can t match the circus we ha 1 e in Washington. John D. Rockefeller's rule for old age Is “Don't worry." But, he should add. if you have to worry, worry the other fellow.

Liberal Viewpoint —BY UR. HARRY: ELMER BARNES

WE do not know whether Nero actually fiddled while Rome was burning, but, like the astrich with his head in the sand, it is a striking and useful phrase. Nothing m recent years more perfectly exemplifies its point than the trivial and vulgar squabble between the Republicans and Democrats which lies in prospect between now and November. If we wish to retain the American system of government, it may be necessary to stick to representative institutions, and representative government means party government. But it is time to secure some party alignment, which bears at least a slight relationship to the economic, social and political realities today. The real issue before the American people this fall in a congressional election is support or disapproval of the New Deal. All else is irrelevant and incidental. Under the present setup Mr. Roosevelt inevitably must appeal to Democrats to support him and the New Deal. He will have to imply that a Democratic victory means a vindication of the New’ Deal, thus seemingly identifying the Democratic party and the New Deal. The absurdity and illogicality of any such identification is obvious to anybody but the most simple-minded partisan. The American party today does not permit the President to make a clear issue out of the New Deal. Certainly the Democratic party, as such, is not responsible for it. If its leaders could have foreseen the character of the New Deal in 1932 they certainly would have rejected Mr. Roosevelt at Chicago or defeated him in the ensuing campaign. b b tt THE Democratic congress swallowed the New Deal only because it was formally committed to it as a result of Mr. Roosevelt’s campaign speeches and his sweeping victory at the polls. Even so, there would doubtless have been a great deal of snarling and pawing if Mr. Roosevelt had not come into office in the midst of a great national emergency when opposition to progressivism could almost, be identified with treason. It is obvious that plutocratic and reactionary Democrats have no stomach whatever for the New Deal. It is far more repulsive and alarming to them than the Bourbonistic somnolence of the Hoover administration. Carter Glass has been as much an obstacle to emancipation from the money-changers’ dominion as a Republican war horse. Senators Byrd and Smith led the foolish attack upon Doctor Tugwell. Once the emergency has passed its more intense period there would have been an open revolt on the part of the reactionary Democrats had it not been for their yearning for the rich patronage at the disposal of the President. Similarly with the Republicans, there is no clean-cut alignment on the issues of the day. Norris, La Follette, La Guardia, Cutting and others were more helpful to Mr. Roosevelt in promoting the New Deal than most of the rank and file of the senators and congressmen. On the other hand, the regular Republicans in congress have far less in common with La Follette, Norris, Nve, et al., than they have with Carter Glass or even with Joe Robinson. tt tt tt CERTAINLY, the Republicans as a party have nothing constructive to offer the country in case they slaughter the New Deal. The party has not had anew idea since the days of General Grant. In wounded rage it occasionaly has been compelled to take some note of civilized suggestions made by Theodore Roosevelt and other progressives when on a rampage. But it never gave any hospitable reception to their views. The whole Democrat-Republican lineup is a product of war times and has about as much relevance to present day realities as a Civil war stagecoach has to modern transportation systems. The differences between the two parties have been relatively slight since reconstruction days. Even the two topics on which they have seemed to be most divided, the tariff and the currency, never have been clean cut issues as between the parlies. There have been plenty of high tariff and hard money Democrats, as well as numerous Republican free-traders, greenbackers and silverites. If the controversy over the New Deal could help to break up this absurd heritage from an ancient past and give some logic to the American party system, it would render an incomparable service to American politics. The present controversy between Republicans and Democrats may be compared aptly to two men standing on a railroad track in the ]Wth of the new streamline train arguing over the relative merits of a stagecoach and an ox cart.

Capital Capers BY GEORGE ABELL

YOUNG Lloyd Garrison, great-grandson of the abolitionist, William Lloyd Garrison, who helped to free the slaves, has taken over the iob of chairman of the National Labor Relations board, in an effort to free labor from certain hampering restrictions. Chairman Garrison is sincere, but cautious and anxious to avoid mistakes. At his first press conference he answered mast questions by proxy. Rather young looking, with dark spare hair and an intent, eager gaze, he sat at his desk in shirtsleeves (his office is very hot) while news- | men fired queries. Said one man: “Mr. Garrison, what is your board going to do about the San Francisco strike?’’ Mr. Garrison ruminated. ‘•I’ll have to consult counsel,” he replied finally. ‘•What will be its role in the steel situation?” “I ll have to consult counsel.” So the questions flew, with Mr. Garrison assiduously consulting counsel on each occasion. Only once did he venture to reply directly. That was in reply to a newsman who wanted to know if the boa'rd would intervene in the auto situation. * “No,” decisively answered Chairman Garrison. “That's a separate thing.” a tt it DR. LEO ROWE, world traveler and director of the Pan-American Union, is off on one of his famous cruises. This time the good doctor if off for Colombia—following the example of President Roosevelt. When President-elect Lopez was up here recently he had Dr. Rowe enthralled with accounts of the glories of his country. “You must come down some time,” he said. “I will.” replied Traveler Rowe, “and very soon, too.” The visit of Leo Rowe to Colombia will almost complete his tour of South and Central America. The Pan-American director has been to every country in Latin America with the exception of Venezuela and Columbia. Later onto complete the cycle—he will pay his respects to Venezuela, perhaps this fall. tt tt tt MME. SECRETARY OF LABOR PERKINS is bearing up well under the hot weather, and strike conditions. She receives the press with her usual cheeriness and bristly replies to the volley of questions. Miss Perkins is again wearing her tri-colored hat—as distinctive of her as a toque hat is of Queen Mary’ of England. Once she abandoned it in favor of anew type and she seemed a different person. Observers noted that the heat has caused one change in the attire of Mme. Secretary. She has abandoned her usual black dress for a flowered pattern of lighter texture and material. 808 £ MBASSADOR MAY of Belgium, as blithe as the first day of spring, arrived from Hot Springs to consult with state department officials on trade conditions. The debonair envoy, accompanied by the Prince de Ligne, his counselor, was swinging his monocle as he emerged from a state department elevator. “What is the news?.’’ he inquired innocently.

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(Times readers are invited to erpress their views in these columns. Make your letters short, so all can have a chance. TAmit them to 250 words or less.) 808 OPEN DITCH IN FRANKLIN CITED By Pauline M. Harrison. Asa reader of your paper I am deeply interested in the articles you are publishing regarding open ditches and the like. We have just such a condition in Franklin with an open ditch carrying nothing but filth running through the heart of the town. It is within a stone’s throw of the public grade school and four blocks north of the court house. I have written the state board of health regarding this ditch after making numerous appeals to the city council with absolutely no relief and I believe if you would send a representative down here you would get some good material for an article in the series you are publishing. 808 FIGHT ON POLLUTION OF WATER LAUDED By Delos A. Alig. Just a word of appreciation for the work The Times is doing in the cause of anti-stream pollution. I have been a sportsman all my life and remember the beauty and comparative purity of our streams I clear back to the 80s. I always have been an ardent conservationist and for thirty years have with each incoming administration, whether Republican or Democratic, urged the cause of anti-stream pollution, and reforestation of stream banks with no appreciable success. Officials admit these things as part of their policy (see Page 1 of July Outdoor Indiana, Nos. 5 and 9), but never do anything. Os course it is a big undertaking, but it would not seem so large if someone in authority would really work it out on a planned basis. If you see your way clear to do so, I wish you would put in a word as frequently as possible, about reforestation of stream banks as we never can have beautiful streams without trees and fish and game need forest protection. This fight The Times is making for stream improvement certainly has the support of all outdoors lovers and is very popular with every one except those who pollute streams. 808 SEES SKIDS GREASED FOR HUGH JOHNSON Br the Scribbler*. Take a tip from me, Mr. Johnson, By a very diplomatic gesture on the part of our state department it has declared to the German embassy that our nation is sorely grieved that the words of one of its officers have been “misconstrued as official.” The man in question is one Hugh Johnson and while his attack upon the Hitlerist regime was purely individual in nature it has necessitated the apology of a few men who apparently have a bit higher regard for international good will. The words, the actions, the very conduct of any official in the public service must reflect at all times a very' conscious respect for the relations which exist between nations regardless of public sentiment, even : less, personal opinion. I do not disclaim the accomplishments of Mr. Johnson as NR A administrator, nor do I defend the Nazi “purges.” The basis of my attack is the ethical implication of diplomacy, and when it is necessary for the state department to apologize for an individual it is a pretty i sound bet that the indiivdual is

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Beer and McNutt Administration

By H. K. S. Moved by your editorial captioned “Time to Call a Halt,” in which you intimate that a “beer war” is brewing, I rise to inquire whether The Times has heard the report that is current and generally believed that Governor McNutt, or at least some of his bosom henchmen, are connected closely with that Marion brewery that makes that certain brand of beer that is named in honor of a certain American patriot—he of the “give me liberty or give me death” fame? And has The Times heard the further current report that is likewise generally believed to the effect that “if they sell Patrick Henry or Cook’s it is O. K. for them to sell, more or less openly, hard liquor ‘by the ‘drink.’ ” And whether or not this is true, it seems from a casual survey on the part of the writer that the two things go together. Talk about the old-time political domination of, by and through the

putting things in great shape for a sleigh ride at his own expense. A man in public service can get so big but when he gets big enough to stick his nose clear across the Atlantic ocean—well, look out. The case is not without precedent. It was not so long ago that a pokey gentleman named Smedley Butler tried to tell Mussolini he was "all wet” or words to that effect. The state department advanced the proper apology and a short time later Smedley’s official title was ex-brigadier-general. With all due regard to ex-General Butler it might bs well to recall that Mussolini is doing very nicely. For the same reason I am inclined to believe that Mr. Hitler still will be directing Nazi “purges” long after Mr. Johnson has donned the appellation of ex-administrator. There is another significant factor. The Johnson declamation was made at Waterloo, la. Now, there -was once a very capable and doughty little soldier of no small aspirations and known to his many friends as Napoleon. Mr. Bonaparte, if I recall correctly, underwent a ; very unfortunate and humiliating i experience at Waterloo. Better read iup on it, Mr. Johnson. What's that j thev say about history repeating itself? 808 QUESTIONS BASED ON CROP SHORTAGES By Grover Pratt. Arthur Brisbane says we have shortages in the wheat, oats, barley, j flax and corn crops this year. He goes on to say that a few years ago this would have been considered a calamity, but now under the new era this is probably the greatest blessing that could have befallen the country. What kind of reasoning is this to come from the brains of the country, the highest paid editorial writer of the day, a man who must at least wear a No. 9 hat, and is put up before the reading public daily to educate us and mold our opinions? I would call that line of piffle an insult to the intelligence of a 10-year-old child. Here is a question for the 10-year-old child, but it is too deep for Brisbane or the present political administration: If the farmer raises half as much and gets double the price, how much more money will he have? If there is one-half as much on the market, causing the retail price to double, what effect will thit have on the consuming public? .Where will the consuming public

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liquor traffic and the old-time domination of the brewers and brewery owned and controlled saloons. What have we now? Reverting again to the subject of a beer war—why not? The brewei’ics have been charging the retailers entirely too much for their product, so that these retailers can not make a cent by selling a twelve-ounce glass of beer for 10 cents, after they pay all the federal and state fees. A brewery war will be welcomed by the man on the street who likes beer and who longs for that ten and twelve-ounce glass for a nickel. But, Mr. Editor, don’t lose sight of my query about the statehouse and that Marion brewery. It is something for your inquiring reporters that will keep them busy after they get through exposing the dirty, foul streams and lakes in Indiana. More power to you—it will be a good trick if you can do it.

get twice as much money to buy with? If a half crop is better thar a whole crop, would a total crop failure cure the depression and feed the nation for years to come? tt tt tt i Ayors less NEWS OF FOREIGN TROUBLES By G. t. The editorial of July 7 on Censors seems to emphasize the great value of the freedom of the press and liberty of speech. If dictatorship and censorship come, the newspapers and New Deal obstructionists are to blame. Why so many glaring headlines about foreign rumors of war and denials in small print and obscure places the next day? Why not more ol nationalistic prida and achievement of America first? Who wants to hear and read about foreign entanglements when we have to worry about our own problems? Let the war makers take a back seat. B B B CITES EXAMPLES OF NRA INEFFICIENCY By a Reader. Will you please have Mr. Johnson solve this problem? I have two close friends who are in business. One is a barber and the other operates a cleaning and pressing shop. Neither one is making a fair living. Why? Because they both are ; displaying the Blue Eagle. ! The barber has as competition a couple in his neighborhood who ; have opened a shop in their home. They are charging 20 cents for a haircut and have an enormous busi - ness, with no extra rent to pay. The j other barber has to pay high rent land charge 35 cents for a haircut just becau.se of the Blue Eagle. He is the underdog. The man in the cleaning and pressing business has almost the same trouble. The shop that displays the Blue Eagle is at a standstill, as it is compelled to charge ; 40 cents for pressing and 75 cents j ior cleaning and pressing. Where I was in a shop the other day, a man came in and asked the price of pressing and was told 40 I cents. The man walked out, saying i he could get pressing for 25 cents. The owner of the shop said this happens five or six times a day. I went past the 25-cent shop and it was very busy. What good is the Blue Eagle doing. as no attention is being paid to it?

.JULY 16, 1934

NONUNION WORKER LIKES CONDITIONS Bv a Nonunion Attendant. Some of the union workers have approached me to join the Service Station Men's union. I must be working for the minor oil company, that the “ex-forgotten man" wrote about. We have better working conditions than the major oil companies grant their attendants. Our managers are guaranteed $125 a month, plus commissons. Our senior service men get SIOO a month plus commissions. The stations are checked by meters and each man is allowed $5 a month to take care of any shortages which he might have. If we are oil a few r days, due to sickness, we receive full pay. I am in sympathy with the union men and hope that they at least get similar conditions. a a a CHURCH AND MONEY DOMINATION CHARGED * By a Reader. Mr. Hudson and Mr. Maddox lament about the opinions of Frana Cummings. The first two forget that the same God that created them also created the men and women of Mr. Cummings’ mind. It is not necessary to be an atheist to be anti-religion. A Communist does not have to be an athiest. It all depends on the way one thinks. It happens that we all get in this world by the same door, but we do not grow with the same thought. God wills and what happens? A child is born to be a genius, another to be stupid; in a birth comes Siamese twins; in another quintuplets; another child is born to be the czar and pope of one-sixth of the earth (Russia); one more to overthrow | him, his native empire, and papacy I (Lenin). In one part of the earth the prophet of God is Buddha, in an- | other it is Confucius, in another it ! is Jesus Christ, in another Mohami et, just to mention four of the main | representatives of God on this earth. I God gives intelligence to build j cities, including churches. It takes [hundreds of years to build them. He j then destroys them in two minutes; he inspires farmers to sow plenty, then comes the storm or the insects and destroys the crop. Well He created a Hoover who lost making campaign .speeches with a minister of God's sermons and prayers. He created also a Roosevelt who won without God's minister’s prayer. Again He created the father of our nation. Thomas Paine, not to mention many of the great minds of other parts of the earth —and Col. Robert Ingersoll; from our Indiana, Eugene V. Debs, and Abraham Lincoln, who knew no church. It is time that more persons go to the central library instead of to ! church. While ministers organize j anti-movie, anti-tobacco, anti-drink, jand what-not movements, none of them dares to organize against the j oppressors of the workers. ; What is the matter with the present era's people? Here we are in I thus great United States of America, where church and money rule the country, and what a mess!

A Sunset

BY RUTH PERKINS Saffron robes upon the sky flj Touched with apricot, Mm} Flames of prisms bright and hieß Flash and blind the eager eye Whose iris catch them not. I Murky velvet smoke of blue i Drapes the sky with frills r •* Suffused with light that flit through, Ancient gold that melts anew i And the hills. k